Chapter 2: Angel
"WEEEEEE!!!! Oh my gosh, this is SOO GREAT!! Ahahaha!"
It's the ultimate paradise of all paradises there could be of all paradises, and every time she jumps the view just gets better! Everything around her - candy and sweets! Candy canes towering like trees branching huge mosses of cotton candy with chocolate balls hanging onto like fruits from every corner, CUPCAKES the size of bushes from every side, strawberry candy wrapped everywhere around - oh my!
Her eyes sparkling like crystals and her drool... uh.. drooling, Pinkie Pie is at a loss for words - STUNNED from the beauty of the place to even begin her desire to eat everything in sight! Inner desires gradually becoming harder to contain, she leaps to a shrubbery of blue moss nearby, taking a not-so-generous bite.
Blueberry! Prepared delectably ripe from its season - the taste heavenly divine. The moss sweetly melting in her mouth, her palate begs for MORE. She take a bite on the candy cane tree beside her, savoring the sweet sensation that tingles in her mouth - the pleasure hypnotizing her as she take two large bites at the base, toppling it to the floor.
Her insides screaming with delight, begging for more. Nibbling at the mass of cotton candy, she gulps a few chocolate balls - melting them in her mouth. Bliss.
What could ever compare to THIS? She feels like exploding, but she feels like eating too so she picked the more attractive option.
Not able to stop and not wanting to, instantly she see herself beside a HUGE cupcake - big as herself! Grinning, Pinkie Pie leap mouth first on its top helping herself, digging with her jaws lapping up the cake in her mouth.
Cupcakes, candy canes, cotton candy! Everything taste as good as they look! She pause, taking a moment to appreciate the beauty of the land. The fluffy cerulean cotton candy clouds float high above and over the pink squishy spongy ground as if... it was made of CAKE!
She scoops up the ground and bring it with a purpose towards her begging tongue. She's right! The taste brings back sweet SWEET nostalgia of Marzipan-Meringue-Madness -- MMM!!!
"MMMMM!!!! Everything is sooo great! ha ha ha!!" She lie, giggling gleefully out of her senses as she surrender consciousness to pure absolute happiness...
This is it. This is what life should be.
Suddenly she feel a cold shiver all over, springing from her hooves, crawling and skittering its way to her back, her neck. Her rear hooves whip by themselves, her body sinking through the floor, darkness circling all around. Falling...
"AAHHH!!"
Pinkie scream to nopony in the evening bedroom. The shock made her sit up, looking around in a panic throughout her room. Curtains closed, the door locked, she spy upon Gummy her pet crocodile still soundly asleep in his little basket
"Huh... what was that all about?" looking down, she notice her covers at the floor like she kicked them out of the bed.
"... did.. did I had a pinkie sense?"
He has to warn Fluttershy.
Fleeing from the forest, a little white rabbit is hopping as fast as he could to Fluttershy's cottage.
What should've been a medicine visit has turned into this. Hiding in a bush, he heard Zecora screaming and begging somepony... following the voice he saw it drew a blade at her side, his eyes magnified when he saw the horror being done. As it slice away Zecora's... he couldn't take it anymore, he just fled.
Death has never been easy for him and Fluttershy, but it's a part of life. But this?... Zecora killed by some animal he has never seen before but all he knows is that he has to warn Fluttershy.
Hopping as fast as he could, he finally reach the cottage. With every animal in their pens fast asleep he leaps to the open window - the same way he sneaked out. They've always felt safe near Ponyville, but after today he swears he's going to tell Fluttershy to lock everything.
Silently leaping upstairs he reach Fluttershy soundlessly asleep on her bed, the covers wrapping protectively around her. Peaceful, her long pink mane and tail carelessly cover her pillow and bed. Angel doesn't want to disturb her, but he has to.
Hopping on her, Angel quickly tap his left foot in a panic - repeatedly wake her up.
She exhales a tired whimper. Light headed, Fluttershy slowly open her eyes to the sight of her Angel tapping furiously. The utter terror plain as day on his face, sunken eyes, and breathing heavily from exhaustion.
"... Angel honey?... What's the matter? Is everything alright?"
"GOD DAMN IT! FUCK FUCK FUCK!"
It has been 5 minutes. As Deadpool continue walking around the forest, he thought to himself that maybe he should have asked that talking zebra for directions first. It's bad enough that there's not enough light and the trees look all the same in the forest but what really ticks him off is stumbling onto the zebra he killed earlier again, several times already. 3 times so far.
"I swear, the trees around me are practically cloned. Like reused background in a Hanna-Barbera chase scene. Whoever designed this forest is pretty fucking lazy, GOD DAMN IT, THERE'S THAT ZEBRA AGAIN"
Walking non-stop, he stumbled upon the corpse of his earlier kill again. Still fresh although it’s no longer leaking out blood like a Cannibal Corpse album. Why do they call it 'clean cuts' when it ends up like this? He turned his attention to the severed head two feet away. His hands on his hips.
"Are you trying to haunt my dreams or something? I'll have you know the position for the evil-vengeful-voice-inside-a-psychopathic-yet-awesome-and-super-sexy-mercenary-named-Wade-Wilson's-head... <inhales>... has already been taken, but come again after three months and I might consider your application"
One eye open and one half-closed it didn't so much as give a nod or bow its head in acceptance... pretty bad ass. He'll have to think of it once there's an opening for the position of haunting-image-that-appears-in-Deadpool's-nightmares
"I really need to stop talking to corpses, they might answer back" with a huff he squatted near the body, observing the stripes layered on it. Looking at it closely they're not like the zebra's he sees on National Geographic when he sometimes gloss over the channels on the TV, slouching at his couch at his apartment... No... come to think of it, he doesn't remember zebras having a spiral... mark or something on their thighs.
Looking back at the detached head, Deadpool picked it up with one hand by the base facing him with its lifeless eyes. This sure is a special looking zebra, sporting a Mohawk, and with the earrings still dangling on the ears it kinda looks like a generic rock star. Looking back on before, this thing was running to somewhere...
"Where were you running off to, huh?"
No response.
Sure that's okay, with its head being detached and all. Deadpool was decapitated a lot of times in his lifetime, he understands... hmmph. What a jerk.
He let go, looking over it as it topple over the body then to the ground. This was getting boring. With no lead and no entertaining conversations going on he sure hoped he'd just get out of this forest right now. His only comfort right now is to exploit the lack of censorship and shamelessly curse once in a while.
Crap. He can't believe he's lost. FUCK. FUCKING ASS FUCKING ZEBRA FUCKING --
In the distance he can see a very dim light. It's almost invisible, had he not stared into nothing while cussing he wouldn't have noticed it. He stood up, walking to its direction. The path to the light was covered by trees and shrubbery but it's still noticeable, only barely. Pushing aside the damn plants out of the way, the light slowly becomes more vivid with every step, pushing one more stray branch out of the way he finally reached it.
"This... just defines tree house right here"
It's not even a tree house... more like a... house inside a tree, not a house on a tree so uh... tree house then? It had a huge wooden door with two open windows giving off the light he saw earlier, there were a bunch of lanterns hanging on the branches of the tree, there's even a voodoo mask or whatever it’s called placed on the side, very... welcoming of whoever lives here.
It looks like someone asked a tribesman to make a tree house with no context.
Unsheathing his right sword with his right hand in case of self-defense, he approached the door, pushing inside with his other hand. Entering, he see that nobody is home then sadly whimpers to himself like a puppy expecting a treat but not getting any from his asshole owner.
There's a single round table in the center probably intended for tea parties, a cauldron at the corner which is obviously for voodoo curse stuffs, several cabinets around the corners stocked with potions to replenish their mana, more voodoo masks hanging from the ceiling for... actually he doesn't know what they're for, and lastly a single unimpressive looking single-bed at the farthest corner beside a window. And there's a map hanging on the wall in front of it... wait, MAP?
Deadpool took the map plastered on the wall. It looked very old and torn but it doesn't look like it's missing anything. On the header of the map, there was a single world: Equestria
Fluttershy takes a seat back from everything Angel said, too shocked for any other reaction.
Zecora killed? oh my... oh my, oh my, oh my... this is not good. Zecora has lived in the Everfree Forest for so long she never thought Zecora would be in any danger there. It seems the forest IS more dangerous than she really thought before, but what does she do?
She was too out of focus to notice Angel sulking at a corner near the bed. He too is frantic and doesn't know what to do. She doesn't want to think of what happened in the forest... she can only imagine it's too much for him to take.
"A-Angel... we have to warn everypony..."
Angel turn to his beloved owner, he never seen her this shocked before. Her face stiffening and her eyes wavering, he knew she was about to cry and she did.
Quiet sobs accents the flowing tears from her eyes. She's always been quiet. Whether shouting in anger or laughing out loud, she's always been barely audible but somehow looking at her cry now, he's never seen anypony look worst.
She can't stand it. She wanted to mourn right there and then. Zecora's always been good to everypony, especially when her animals needed help. She always felt bad about being scared of her when she didn't understand her like everypony did. She always wanted to apologize to her but now that day will never come.
Angel just watched her cry. she's been crying for a while now mourning for Zecora. She didn't even bother to cover her face. He sat slumped, staring at her release her soft whimpers and overflowing tears.
Amidst all this, in the back of his mind Angel feels... unsafe... he can't explain it but he feels that they should leave now and ask for help, he wants to drag Fluttershy outside now but he doesn't want to disturb her in her sorry condition.
There are several knocks on the door downstairs.
They raise their head as soon as they heard the knock. Angel faced downstairs, puzzled as Fluttershy is.
"Hello?... Hellllooo?.... Hey I know it's kind of late but would you happen to have time and would like to learn about the church of Galactus and latter-day Silver apprentices?"
".... what?..." Fluttershy tries to make sense of the voice.
Angel's flight instinct kicked in, he's heard that voice.
"I said..." the voice is accompanied by the sound of the door blasted open.
"DO YOU HA-- oh" After kicking door, Deadpool noticed that the top half of the door is still closed "Nice... two doors in one huh?" Deadpool pushed open the top half of the door, entering with swords in both hands "HAVE YOU FOUND SILVER SURFER?!"
The intruder woke up the birds and squirrels sleeping below, followed a barrage of bird and squirrel cries all over the cottage. Fluttershy dart her eyes, scanning the room for a place to hide. Angel leaped out to the open window beside the bed.
"Angel!" Fluttershy screamed silently as she can as he escape... the window!
She lift her wings, carrying her from the floor, but the pounding below grounded her back, the terror taking away her strength.
She can't fly! With all the shock she suffered, she's too weak to even lift her wings. Her teeth clatter and her shoulders can't stop shaking by themselves. The panic, clear from the sound the birds and squirrels making downstairs.
Before he could smell the bird feed, Deadpool scoured the room. The house is a goddamn compact zoo. Bird houses everywhere with birds of different colors, all the chirping he feels like he's in an audition for the cast of the next Angry Birds game.
"Any of you animals can speak? Give me a head's up if you can so I know which to kill... haha! head's up... I crack me up..."
He got here hoping for another lead. The map he had from the Tree House before had labels all over but the nearest of them all was labeled 'Fluttershy's Cottage'. How convenient that he would stumble upon a map this great! It practically spoon-fed him the way with several landmarks
But still... sheesh, really? a place called Ponyville? He better not be in a Zynga game, otherwise he might end up buying energy to kill talking animals for 0.99$! Staring at the clutter of animals doing nothing but animal things in the room, our hero Deadpool decided that the animals here are too stupid to even talk, pfft... stupid animals, looking at his right there's a staircase leading to the floor above
"Heellllooooo? Anyone up there? I'm a representative from PETA and I’m here to relieve you of all your neglected animals. Oh, and your life"
"Keep quiet Fluttershy, and whoever that pony is, they'll never notice you here" she whispered to herself while as she huddle out of sight.
Heavy footsteps ascending to her room getting louder, Fluttershy tried her best to be silent. She covered her mouth with her hooves so nopony can hear her. The uneasiness gradually increasing with every step she hear.
Her ears perk up... those doesn't sound like hoof steps...
As if the pony isn't walking on all of its four hooves. With the sound of her room door opening, she closed her eyes hoping that she won't be seen.
Deadpool pushed aside the door to a room that was more tolerable and showed signs of intelligent life. There are no bird houses or squirrel holes that surround the vicinity. There's a normal cabinet, a normal looking window, and a normal looking bed that happens to have a... pink pony tail lying on the floor right beside the bed in full view as if there's something hiding under it.
Nevermind. No sign of intelligent life.
He push the bed, placing his foot on it's side, sliding it away to reveal a trembling yellow pony with pink mane and tail.
"Well, this is really convenient" he said with the tone a grade school teacher always reserve for the class dunce.
He waited for a moment for the pony to react. Its eyes were closed, its face covered with its hooves as it tremble like the cur that it is. He waited for another few seconds.
"Uh.. Hello"
The little pony couldn't hear him, it's either too busy trembling or pretending to be dead... huh... playing dead huh? Good pony -- but too soon!
"Ah, fuck it" Deadpool raised his right sword as he towers over the oblivious pony. This feels very Friday the 13th, except instead of horny teenagers he's dealing with this shit.
The room was instantly greeted by an angry mob of birds entering from the open window of the room. It was so fast, there wasn't even enough time to hear the birds angrily approach the room, without even so much a blink of an eye Deadpool was surrounded by birds everywhere around his person
"HUH?! WHAT THE FU-- AAH!! AHH!!" he wasn't even able to finish his sentence as the birds angrily peck at him all over.
The birds bit the monster at every surface they can get their beaks on, they bit at his fingers, his arms, his thighs, his neck, the gap between his legs, everything. "HEY! AAGH! ARE YOU SERIO-- AAH! -- TWO CHAPTERS OF DICK JO-- OOH! -- JOKES?! AAAAAGH!!" the creature unintelligibly screamed as he tries to shoo all the birds around him but to no avail. At this point, Fluttershy finally looked up and saw the mob of her avian friends surround the screaming monster. Something about the intruder seems off to her
"... that... that's not a pony..."
Suddenly a roar entered the scene from the open door of her room, standing on it was a scowling brown bear standing on its hind legs - Her friend, Mr. Brown Bear!
The bear lunged itself toward the screaming intruder, dragging it across the room sending themselves outside punching through the room's wall. Landing on the hen house, the bear recovered almost instantly and pawed away at the creature threatening his friend. The birds followed suit from the room through the hole made by the bear and continued to attack the monster below.
What is going on?! There are so many things happening all of a sudden! She approached the large hole in her room and look over, checking her friends below.
It is... AMAZING! Every one is attacking the creature! She never thought her animals are capable of doing this... even her hens and rooster are joining in the fight pecking on places the birds aren't, the squirrels biting at everywhere else the other animals aren't attacking, the creature is barely even visible now!
"THAT'S IT! NO MORE MISTER NICE MURDERER!" with a swift move he laid his two swords across his chest hacking a crisscross cut across the torso of the bear on top of him, deafening him in a roar of pain. In the exchange he reared his swords and pointed it at the creature - lifting up the blade he gut the beast all the way extending through its back.
As the roaring bear stand up to back away from the pain, Deadpool pushed the impaled bear forward with a kick on its shin sending the animal lying on its back. Tightening his grip on the hilts he withdrew the swords from the beast, poised against the rest of the animals.
"YOU WANT ME?! BRING IT!!" he swings the two blades, hacking the birds in one motion, taunting the animals interrupting his kill. He kicked away a furious rooster and a few squirrels nibbling at his legs, slicing away several more birds around him, losing wings, cutting bodies in half. The speed guaranteeing seamless slices
"NO!!" Fluttershy screamed to the top of her lungs as she see the horror happening below. Raw. Guttural. She didn't even know she has this voice "NO!! NO! NONONONO!!"
She wants to stop all this but her mind turn blank. She watch as the monster hack away her birds... stomping on her squirrels "NOOO!!" she broke down on the spot as her hooves lose their strength, wailing as she see it BITE off one of the squirrel's tail in anger... how could anypony be capable of this?!
Amidst the horror, she feel a tug from her side. With tears still rushing she turn to Angel motioning her to go, ignoring the screeching of dying animals below. Angel begs her to leave, warn everypony of this monster.
"W-We can't leave the animals! We lost Zecora, and we can't let this happen!"
Angel begins to cry, telling her to leave now. Telling her that the animals sacrificed themselves to save her, the animals loved her so much that they would gladly die for a chance to save her.
"HHHHRUUUUUAAAAA!!!!!--" A loud roar was silenced by a swift blade to the throat of the bear. The monster retreated and swung the swords together towards its neck - beheading the furred beast.
It stand breathing heavily before the carcasses of birds, squirrels, chickens, and butterflies she didn't notice before. Some animals are wounded, still alive, crying for help among the carcass, and burst stomachs. The forest is afraid of it. She has seen its true face.
The pen and the garden are extended with blood and the monster stand in the thick, staring above into hell. Staring down, it seem to reflect the vivid fear from her own eyes.
She needs to run now. It's Angel tugging her at that point that set her back to reality. Quickly, she grabs him and dash downstairs away from the cottage as soon as possible.
She can't fly! She tries to lift her wings but she can't! Zecora dead, her friends dead, and now she's about to be killed by the same killer! She cup Angel with her wings and run towards Ponyville. The pain bites into her hooves, trying not to lose Angel on her back.
"COME BACK HEERE!!!!!"
His voice was raw. Inflamed with bloodlust, he can taste it chasing after the pony with rising speed. The anger working on his body making him faster... flowing with precision. He feels it again... feeling like himself when he first started his mission. He did became weak, he knows that now... now he won't let it happen again.
{{Glad to see you finally understand}}
You're right. You've always been right. I should've listened to you.
She's running as fast as she could, but she can hear the monster's hoof steps closer and closer! "NO! PLEASE! DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!" somepony save her now!
Suddenly she can feel Angel hugging her from behind... His tears drop on her coat as he hug her closer.
"Angel?... you... you love me?"
In an instant, the little white rabbit leapt towards Deadpool's face face blinding and biting him all over.
"WHAT THE--?!" He tried to grab hold of the rabbit but it then kicked his right eye in its socket "AH!" he lose his balance, tripping in the confusion and on his side.
"ANGEL!" She scream but she doesn't stop running, wanting to grab Angel right there and then but her hooves won't let her. With the distance rapidly increasing, she watch hopelessly as he fight the creature...
"Angel I love you too... I love you too Angel..."
Scurrying on the creature's head he fought for his life, he's not going to let this thing harm Fluttershy! as he nibble and stomp on the creature's face he felt a strong grip on his tiny body pulling him away from the monster. It stare him down with an horrendous scowl. He scowl back against its rotting face. He was not going to show this monster he's scared of it, he was not letting this monster harm Fluttershy!
"You little shit... This is all YOUR fault isn't it?"
He growl back. He won't let this thing scare him... he won't!
"It's your fault, I know it.... he told me it was your fault..."
It's putrid breath attacks him as it lean closer, the gust flowing and escaping through his fur.
He felt the grip tighten on his body. The air escape from his lungs as he bite in retaliation. He twitch even more as another claw tighten even more, squeezing him to death!
Deadpool's hands started to tremble as he crush the tiny rabbit to death, watching it choke and scream. This thing doesn't deserve a quick death, that's what the voice told him, this thing deserve to die slowly and painfully. He continued for what seemed like forever as he watch it simultaneously gasp for air and cry... for a moment, it even started to look funny.
Finally he can feel the crack of little bones crushing inside the little creature, screaming as its skeleton pierce its vital organs - the hysteria on the little shit's face, conscious of all this happening. The creature puke its innards and blood all over his hands, bringing a smile on Deadpool's face. He watched as the little creature gag in its own waste and slowly cease to move, its eyes bloodshot, the body finally go limp on his grip...
"Hah... well... I feel all better now"
Pinkie Pie exits Sugar-cube Corner through the front door, roused from her sleep. A feeling, tugging at the bottom of her chest compels her to get out. Make sense of the night around her.
The night is beautiful. Nopony in sight, as everypony is fast asleep. The sky shines a beautiful luster as the stars blanketing the horizon spark with a lithe grace. The moon's brilliance embrace the sky, drawing in the casual on-looker.
"Hmm... I'm unusually perceptive tonight"
Yet the tranquility of the evening fades at the sight of a pony running. "Huh?" She's not sure what but she think it is a bit late to start jogging. Or too early.
The silhouette becomes larger as it appears to be running towards her. Perhaps they are having trouble sleeping tonight as well? As the pony come closer it seem to look like.. Fluttershy! Oh it's Fluttershy! She didn't know Fluttershy jogs late at night. or too early in the morning.
"Hey! Fluttershy! I didn't know you jog late at night! or.. too early in the morning!"
She waves her down as Flutteryshy continue running.
"Fluttershy! HEY! Fluttershy! Flutt--" She stop at the sight of her weeping, almost stumbling over her steps "Fluttershy, what happened?"
Between tears she catch her breath from the chase, trying to tell her what happened "Pinkie...<sobs>... Monster... <sobs>... Zecora..."
"What's wrong?" she hug her and pat her back, resting her hooves on her back "Don't worry, it's alright, tell me anything"
"Pinkie... Zecora's dead"
Pinkie's eyes lit up. Then the realization dawns onto her.
"And my animals... they're..." Fluttershy's voice break even more"they're... they're gone!"
This was Pinkie sense.
"... And... my little Angel is dead, Pinkie..."