Fluttershy's eyes widened and she squirmed in her telekinectic grip. What war was the rainbow-maned pony talking about?
"We will lead the new revolution, the new era!" Rainbow Blitz continued. Unicorns and earth ponies alike cheered wildly.
"An era free of the winged crusaders that corrupt our fragile lives!" She crowed. The writhing mass of ponies voiced their opinions as well, mostly yells of justice and hope for the ponies that were forced to walk the Earth instead of fly with their head in the clouds. The young Fluttershy trembled and shook with every word her magical holder said. She didn't know what the enchantress' charming words meant. But her voice was strangly lulling, and against her will the filly felt herself slowly nodding off. But then she thought of Rainbow Dash, her best friend from Flight School, and her eyes snapped open and she willed herself to stay awake. For Dashie.
Rainbow Blitz's eyes were extremely dilated and she was even beginning to foam at the mouth. It was a gruesome, awful sight to behold. She whipped the purple and blue strands of hair from her face and set them back by their friends at the other end of the color spectrum, basking in the cruel glory that was a war promise. Ponies chanted her name and her words over and over until it became a hurricane of sound, each word blending with the end of the one next to it and that one blending with the beginning of one a few sentences away. A young and bolsterous unicorn of a few months, not even having a cutie mark yet, roared his war cry and reared onto his back hooves with victory before thrusting them down violently, the ground shaking at his touch. Although she didn't understand why they would do such a thing, Fluttershy couldn't help but thinking what a move like that could do to an enemy pegasus. Like her.
Her heartbeat thump-thumped against her chest and begged to be free. What would they do with her? She just hoped whatever it was that it would all be over soon and she could go back to her normal lifestyle.
The supreme unicorn tightened her magical grip a little, mostly around Fluttershy's neck. Her windpipe began to collapse on itself, and she tried to cry out but nothing came out from her forced-shut mouth.
"Now, to start the war we've all been waiting for!" Rainbow Blitz announced. She smiled a toothy, snarky smile and her stick began to not only glow, but sparkle as if a box of glitter was dropped on her head. She winced slightly, but regained her sadistic smile again and watched her magic take its course. Suddenly there was a clap of thunder and from the clear sky came a funnel of pitch-black storm clouds with lightning licking the edges. Once the mistly tendrils met at the center of the sky a strong gust of wind picked up and whipped everyponys mane. A flower of lightning bloomed at the very center and curled its way out and into the clouds, where it erupted with a sharp crack and sparked. Everypony gasped at this display and eagerly asked questions about it, saying "Only pegasi can control the weather!"
"That's what you thought, citizens of Ponyville!" Rainbow Blitz fired a magenta spark from her stick and the clouds began to twist and twirl in endless spirals. "With a little help you too can control the weather when you wish!"
Her stick sparkled again and a cloud of glowing matter the same color of her crazy eyes appeared under her hooves. She rode it up to where she was keeping Fluttershy hostage and stroked her chin with a telekinectic finger. "With a little help... And encouragement."
The grip tightened around Fluttershy's throat again and she struggled to breath. "P-please, m-m-miss Rainbow B-b-b-b-li-" A wave of energy washed over her and she stopped abruptly to gasp and whimper. "Blitz... I'm sure with a l-l-ittle love and t-t-olerance we can all get a-"
Rainbow Blitz pulled at her wings and gently caressed them with her mind. Unlike her previous actions, the unicorn was actually very gentle with the procedure.
Then she cawed and pulled Fluttershy's hooves towards the ground and her wings upwards towards the sky. She was slowly being torn apart at the mercy (or lack of) of Rainbow Blitz. She didn't try to fight- it wasn't in her kind nature. The filly simply hung her head, pink curls falling upon her shoulders, and wept.
The audience hissed. They wanted more action, more will to survive. And Rainbow Blitz would not disappoint.
She yanked Fluttershy's wings outward and her head backwards. Her tail was forced down with her hooves, and soon all parts of her body were being held at different directions and pulled mercilessly. The smallest drop of blood fell from a wound in the fold of her front leg and splattered onstage. The small unicorn desperate to prove himself raced to the tiny puddle and smashed his face into it. A red blob stained his groomed white fur and the crowd praised his actions with cheering. At this Rainbow Blitz got a surge of pride and pulled harder.
"STOP!"
Rainbow Blitz froze and her eyes momentarly resumed their normal size. She watched with frustration as a line of ponies in the audience were jostled and moved about by something too small to see even from her aerial view. After a while the offending pony emerged- but it was not a stallion, nor a mare. It was a small pink filly, with frizzy pink hair that bounced as she walked. Her blue eyes were huge and narrowed as she spread her hooves apart and snorted angrily at the much larger unicorn. "You're not gonna put your smelly hoof on her, meanie pants." She yelled up at her. Rainbow Blitz winced and folded her ears down. For such a young filly, this one had a squeaky voice that stang the ears.
She tisk-tisk and lowed herself from her magical cloud, stepping off and lowering her head to the filly. "And how to you plan to stop me, little one?" She cooed. Her telekinectic grip still held taut to Fluttershy far above her.
The pink pony snorted again and her tail twitched slightly. "Like this, you big old pony hurter!" She leaped with suprising height high above Rainbow Blitz's head and reached Fluttershy's spot in no time. The unicorn smiled. There wasn't any way that she could release her magic on the pegasus filly.
Suddenly the pinky pony touched the other filly and the magic faded into nothingness. "Wha-" She grabbed Fluttershy by a front hoof and sailed downwards, landing square on Rainbow Blitz's head. The unicorn looked fazed, but didn't give up. She gasped as the pink pony bucked her in the chest, and Rainbow Blitz doubled over in noticable pain.
The pink filly stood over the pegasus filly now, eyes wild and snorting like a mad cow. "Don't mess with Pinkie's friends!" She growled.
Pinkie turned to Fluttershy, still laying on the ground with her wings splayed to the side. "Hey. You. Are you okay?" She prodded her until a single emerald eye opened and fluttered slightly before settling on the earth pony. "Wha- who are you?" She asked, exausted.
"I'm Pinkie Pie. My pa calls me Pinkamina Diane Pie, but I think that's a silly name." She smiled down at Fluttershy. "Now, what do you want for breakfast?"
Fluttershy snapped awake and blinked in confusion. "Why would I want breakfast?" She asked.
Pinkie Pie snorted and blinked her huge eyelashes that were far too big for her eyes. "Because its breakfast, silly! Do you want pancakes, or waffles?"
"Why in Celestia's name would I want breakfast at a time like this?"
"Oh, maybe you want muffins. Everypony likes muffins, especially that mail-mare down the street. She always runs into our mailbox. So, muffins or pancakes or waffles? Your choice, I don't care as long as it's tasty!"
"What?"
Fluttershy awoke to see a full-sized Pinkie Pie glowering at her by the bedside. She had a silver pan in her mouth and was trying to balance a bag of flower on her head. "So pancakes or waffles or muffins?" She asked again.
Fluttershy kicked off the sheet and blushed. "Oh, Pinkie, I've been wanting some-"
There was a crash and a thump and an explosion of white, grainy powder. Fluttershy coughed and gasped, shaking the particles off her as best as she could. When the dust cleared she saw White Pie standing in front of her, blinking hyoperactively.
"What a nice Suprise." Fluttershy murmured, and Pinkie Pie smiled. The pegasus wrapped her hooves around her pink partners neck and pulled her into the bed, where the two lay basking in the sunlight until the hunger of lunch creeped in.