The duo had been playing Goldenpony for the last few hours and it was now midnight. After Dash had won the first round Twilight had declared a rematch in which she won using the golden gun. The two soon began to battle it out long after nightfall.
“ARRRG MOTHER-BUCKER” Rainbow Dash yelled as she died again.
“Rainbow Dash! Don’t swear, Spike’s just upstairs” Twilight scolded her friend. Rainbow Dash let out a frustrated sigh as she respawned but quickly found Twilight and blew her away with a grenade launcher round.
“Oh horse apples” Twilight swore and Dash snickered. “What’s so funny?” Twilight asked but soon realized that she had just sworn right after she had told her friend not to. She looked up to her room where Spike slept to see that he wasn’t watching. He was probably asleep.
As Twilight wasn’t watching Dash killed her again. “Hey! I wasn’t even playing Dash. That’s not fair” Twilight whined. Dash chuckled.
“Well you snooze you lose” Dash told her. Twilight immediately found her rival and blew her away with a KF7 Soviet assault rifle. “Hey!” Dash exclaimed and Twilight snickered.
“Snooze you lose right?” Twilight giggled.
The duo continued playing for another few minutes before Twilight started to yawn and found it hard to keep her eyes open. Dash on the other hand err hoof, was hooked and unstoppable.
Twilight yawned, “Well Dash… I’m gonna go to bed… feel free to keep playing if you want but keep the volume down” Twilight told her friend then trotted exhaustedly up the stairs and flopped onto her bed.
She didn’t even have enough energy to tuck herself in and simply passed out. Her sleep was undisturbed and peaceful but the small dragon just feet from her bed had troubled dreams.
* * *
Twilight’s dream:
James lept through a window with Natalya, escaping the Russians. James and Natalya ran around a corner, Natalya going first. As James turned the corner he found himself looking down the barrel of Natalya’s custom revolver.
“Natalya… how could you!?” Pony asked and Natalya laughed hysterically.
“Oh Pony, you can never see the big picture” Natalya laughed. She cocked back the hammer but just as she went to pull the trigger Twilight crashed into her, knocking the gun away.
“Uhg…oomph” Natalya grunted as Twilight pinned her body against the cold hard cement. “Stupid princess” Natalya hissed and head-butted Twilight, knocking her backwards then Twilight toppled onto her own back.
Natalya lept over and slammed her body overtop of Twilight’s then pulled out a knife. “I bet you didn’t expect this to happen, eh princess?” Natalya sneered but then suddenly a lone gunshot went off and a perfectly placed bullet went straight through her heart.
“Close, but no cigar… I always knew that she was heartless” Pony quoted. Twilight pushed Natalya’s dead body off her own and Pony helped her up. “Thank you my dear. You may have saved my life Mrs. …” Pony trailed off.
“Sparkle, Twilight Sparkle. And it’s Ms.” she replied. Pony raised an eyebrow.
“How is it that some-pony as cute as yourself is not married?” Pony asked charmingly as he stepped forwards. Twilight took another step forwards, this was the moment she had been waiting for. The kiss with James Pony.
“I just haven’t found my… special some-pony” Twilight whispered then they both leaned forwards and locked their lips together. James wrapped his hooves around her back and very gently leaned her body onto the soft sand of the beach.
‘Hey wait a minute, weren’t we just on the streets of Stalliongrad?’ Twilight thought to herself but her thoughts were soon cut off as she felt James’ tongue trail into her mouth.
* * *
Spike’s dream:
Spike was having a horrid dream. In his hands was a devastating revolver. Applejack burst from around a corner with one of those sub-machineguns that was really powerful.
“Applejack! What’s going on?” Spike asked fearfully, not knowing what was happening. Applejack turned to him, with a look of death in her eyes then leveled the sub-machinegun on the small dragon and fired.
Spike’s eyes went wide as he lept for cover but a round clipped him in the side of his ribcage, making him scream out in pain. He began to crawl along the ground but suddenly Applejack kicked him, rolling his body over.
She held the sub-machinegun in one hoof as she pointed it at the dragon’s face. “Goodbye Spike, it was nice knowing you” she told him in a devilish voice. Spike had no other choice.
He quickly snapped up the revolver and fired a round into the pony’s chest, fatally wounding her. She fell back with blood oozing from her chest wound. Applejack began to cough and blood came up.
“Applejack… why?” Spike asked as tears came to his eyes. A smile came across her face but she passed away before she could speak. Spike slammed his fist into the floor then suddenly a large chunk of the floor tiles was blasted away by a load of buckshot.
Spike lept back to see Pinkie Pie with a combat shotgun. “Bye-bye Spike” she told him and pulled the trigger but the gun clicked, indicating that it was out of ammo. Spike once again had no other choice and quickly snapped off a round into Pinkie Pie but it missed his intended shot and clipped her jugular.
Pinkie fell to the ground and thrashed violently as blood began to fill her lungs. Spike screamed out in horror. “WHYYYY!?” he screamed in absolute terror but was cut off by a small caliber riflel round that slammed him in the shoulder, knocking him forwards.
“Sorry Spike…but I have to kill you… if you don’t mind” said a very timid voice as Fluttershy trotted up with her AR33 assault rifle. Spike grimaced in anger and fear as he was forced to once again fatally shoot yet another of his close friends. What the hell had become of them?
Spike got up and staggered away. He spotted a flack of body armour and picked it up. He felt a little better for some reason but suddenly he was kicked off his feet by a blast from a shotgun.
His body skidded along the tile floors until he was stopped by a wall. Rainbow Dash casually trotted up with a combat shotgun, sporting a pair of dark tinted sunglasses. “Only one of us can come out on top” she said as she went to finish off the baby dragon.
Suddenly a lone shot went off and Dash’s face became expressionless. She fell to the ground in a lifeless clump and Spike saw Twilight standing behind her now dead pegasi friend. “Hasta la vista… Dashie” Twilight said in a heartless voice.
Spike staggered to his hooves. “Twilight… damn you killed her” Spike muttered as he looked at Dash, a puddle of blood now pooling around her body. Twilight smirked as she blew the smoke away from her gun.
“Oops… must’ve slipped” Twilight chuckled but then suddenly another gunshot went off and Twilight gasped then fell down to the ground with a bullet hole in the back of her head.
Rarity stood there with a silenced PP7. “Ladies always finish last” Rarity said in her pristine voice. Spike’s jaw dropped.
“Ra…Rarity… you… you shot Twilight” he gasped but then Rarity swung her silenced pistol towards the dragon.
“Sorry Spikey Wikey… but business is business… and you’re a competitor that I must take out of action” she told him.
“No I’m not! I’m just a dragon for Celestia’s sake!” Spike yelled but her mind wouldn’t be changed. ‘I can’t shoot her… can I?’ Spike thought. Rarity shot Spike six times, each shot was stopped by the body armour. He was knocked back until he was staggering just to stand.
“Spike… fall down already… or I’ll put you down like the rabid animal you are” Rarity said. Spike grimaced to himself. This wasn’t the Rarity he knew and loved. With a painful squint of his eyes he pulled the revolver up and pointed it at Rarity.
Rarity pulled the trigger on her pistol and it clicked. “Oh drat… these bloody things are always running low on ammo at the worst possible times” she muttered then realized Spike had a perfect shot on her.
She gasped. “My little Spikey. You wouldn’t shoot me, you love me” Rarity cooed. Spike had enough of her games and pulled the trigger back. The magnum thundered but this time the world seemed to slow down.
The gun recoiled at an extremely slow pace and the muzzle flash was blindingly bright. Spike could see the bullet fly through the air and slam into Rarity’s forehead, splattering her head and knocking her body back from the force. It was a painfully emotional thing for Spike, all his friends were dead and he was to blame.
Rarity’s body collapsed and Spike collapsed to the ground, weeping from the death and travesty that he had caused. Suddenly the world around him sat still.
A lone alicorn floated forwards, it looked like Nightmare Moon. Spike quickly leveled the revolver on the alicorn in preparation to fire.
“DO NOT FIRE!” boomed the alicorn and Spike waited hesitantly. Luna gracefully landed a few feet in front of Spike who gasped as he dropped his revolver.
“Spike, you probably know why I am here. I must help you face you inner fears” Luna told him and Spike looked around. Inner fear? This wasn’t a fear of his. This was beyond fear, this was absolute horror.
“What… what is my fear exactly?” Spike asked and Luna shrugged.
“That is for you to know and me to help you with” Luna told him and Spike thought to himself. He wasn’t afraid of killing his friends, in fact that thought had never ever even crossed his mind.
“I don’t know” Spike replied.
“Then why are your dreams troubled?” Luna asked and Spike thought about it for a moment. He hadn’t had nightmares like this until...
“Goldenpony” Spike told her. Luna scrunched her nose in confusion. She had heard of the movie before but she never really expected that particular movie to give anyone bad dreams.
“Spike, movies aren’t real” she told him in a relaxing and soothing voice. Spike sighed.
“I know that… but the videogame is… violent and… disturbing” Spike replied and Luna raised an eyebrow from the comment.
“The videogame?” she asked and Spike nodded. “And this videogame gives you bad dreams?” she asked and Spike once again nodded. “Well if the videogame is what disturbs you than perhaps you should not play it” Luna suggested.
“I don’t. Twilight plays it… all the time” Spike informed the night princess. Luna rubbed her chin in deep thought.
“Then perhaps you should confront her about your fears” Luna told the young dragon. Suddenly the world around them
started to shake. The ground felt as if it was splitting apart.
* * *
Spike finally awoke, realizing it was all just a horrid dream. He let out a sigh of relief but then some-pony’s angered yell of frustration alarmed him.
“GAH! Angel… don’t be the midget!” Dash yelled. Spike groaned as he rubbed his eyes and slowly stumbled downstairs to see what was happening.