Never The Same

by Secondhand Brony


Scared

APRIL 13TH, 2014 CENTRAL CANDERLOT POLICE STATION (BEDROOM, JOLLY'S NIGHTMARE) 3:39 A.M.

"STOP THEM!" Celestia hollered to her remaining guards, while checking for blood on her punctured muzzle, as Applejack punched her attempting to make rescuing me easier.

"Come on we've got to go." Applejack alerted, cutting me from the ropes that suspended my hoofs, soon grabbing my right hoof and running straight, with her determined face.

"Why?" I asked as she pulled me still sprinting relentlessly.

"I rigged this place with explosives, in case anything went wrong." Applejack answered, as Applejack and I panted from fatigue.

As Applejack and I neared the end of the castle, then without any regrets, we jumped off. But, Applejack seemed to not make it to the designated pegasi. I fortunately end up landed on the pegasi escort, but as I spin my hoof signaling to go. I spot that my wife is being held by the neck by Celestia. I see her squeezing Applejack's neck, no mercy as A.J. squeals for breath. Celestia tosses her in the center of the hall, a I look back, her body is lifeless, as if she were dead or paralyzed. I knew she knew there was a bomb, as the alarm sirens went of, Celestia started to lift her wings, taking flight, awfully close to me. Soon I know she's not trying to flee, as she hits me with her left wing causing me to lose my balance and take a free fall. As I fall, I feel relieved, to die, to get out of this unforgiving world. Then I see the castle implode, All I can think is what Applejack thought, before her gruesome death. Probably things like; he didn't love me he just left me to die, not even attempting to save me. I notice I start to near ground, unfortunately there's no trees to break my free fall to death. So I just close my eyes, hoping for the best.

Soon my head pops up as I take 3 slow pants, soon I indicate by the quietness, everpony has fallen asleep. The room is dark all lights off, no glimpse of light can be seen. Soon fear strikes my heart as I hear a whistle through the wind. I can soon figure there is somepony or something trying to take me before the deadly competition. Then I find Rainbow Dash on top of me, then she threatens me using the words,"You're a dead colt tomorrow, you took A.J. away from me, I loved her we were actually bonding, then you swooped in and married her. I guess I my brain slipped out of proportion as I these words slipped my mouth,"It's not my fault I'm not a filly fooler, you had your chance." Out of anger the rainbow-maned pegasus starts bringing her right hoof up and down on my muzzle, giving it no chance of recovery, so I only have one choice, scream, so I did. Soon Sgt. Stinger bust through the door as every other pony while scowling saying,"Rainbow stop that crap and come down from there." Rainbow grins as she climbs down from bed, trying to hide her chuckle.

"Get a doctor." Stinger demanded, checking by muzzle. Everypony just stood there as if they never heard, Stinger.

"Don't just stand there, get a doctor!" Stinger screamed, while noticing my muzzle is oozing blood wildly. Soon I see Junebug ran out the door to grab Nurse Redheart and guide her into the bedroom of 10.

APRIL 13TH, 2014 CENTRAL CANDERLOT POLICE STATION (MEDICAL STATION) 3:48 A.M.

"Alright, your free to go, it seems the upper part of the muzzle was just fractured, so I wrapped some linen around to keep it in place." Nurse Redheart stated, walking me back to the bedroom full of ruckus.

"Rainbow you pull some stuff like this again, and you'll end up in hell." Stinger threatened, looking fired up as if Rainbow and her had a heated argument. "Now if you ponies don't lay the hell down and sleep, I will choke you half to death." Soon everypony with the exception of me, falls asleep, I duck under the cover trembling with fear, but as you all know, fear soon turns in to sadness, so I end up crying myself to sleep.

APRIL 13TH, 2014 SWEET APPLE ACRES (APPLEJACK'S AND JOLLY'S BEDROOM) 7:15 A.M

"A.J." FlutterShy whispered, intending to wake the unattended mare up.

"Huh." Applejack responded, just prying her eyes open. "What in tarnation, how did you get in here and what do ya want?"

"We climbed through the window and we just found out something you would want to hear." Toxic answered, standing next to FlutterShy.

"What is it?" Applejack asked, as Fluttershy led her to her family room, and turn the TV on.

"Dang, this is all over Equestria." Toxic stated. "This ain't good, Jolly is out of control with a lot of attention."

"What are you getting at?" Applejack questioned as she clinched her hooves.

"I'm just saying, I knew him for a long period of time, his actions are outrageous under so much attention." Toxic said, while Fluttershy tried to comfort the deranged earth pony.

"Wait, you hear that?" Applejack asked as her ears perked up. "Turn the TV up."

The news reported stated "Finally we've got info on who the last contestant is for this so called game." Here's a description: This pony is a colt unicorn, he is scarlet, with a lime green ascot around his neck, pink eyes, teal hair that covers his left eye; weighs about 145 pounds."

"That's him, no doubt." Toxic stated, slowly and cautiously back away from Applejack.

"I can't." Applejack quickly said, flopping to the floor, soon sobbing and crying.

"You can't do what?" Fluttershy asked, coming to Applejack's aid, slowly and gently rubbing her back.

"I can't let another family member die, every close family member's death is my fault." Applejack said, still crying, but only one tear is trickling this time.

"Listen A.J. this is not your fault." Fluttershy said, intending to relieve her friend.

"Oh really, if I would've payed some attention to AppleBloom she wouldn't have ended up on death row. Applejack said, not wanting to bring it up." "Plus if I would have came with Jolly, I would've calmed him down."

"Anyway we've got sleep, this game starts early, so catch some sleep." Toxic stressed yawning in the process.

"Yeah, I could really use some sleep." Fluttershy agreed, grabbing a blanket and crawling under it, closing her eyes.

Soon Applejack trotted up the stairs, grabbing her foals, soon to tend to fall asleep, having thoughts about Jolly and AppleBloom.