//------------------------------// // [FIXED] Episode 6: Video Games! Why Have You Betrayed ME!?!!? // Story: The Life of a Wanted Changeling Season 2: Debt to a Doctor (Comment Driven Story) // by Down with Chrysalis //------------------------------// Theme: "If you do anything weird, I'll obliterate you." She hisses. You back up nervously. "What would be considered weird?" She huffs. "Just... Try to act like a normal pony..." You get an idea. You change into a random pony. "Okay fine. Let's all act like ponies. Look at me, boy I'm sweaty. Let's convert grass and leaves into energy and excrete them later and kill changelings." You run right into Twilight with an "oof" when she suddenly stops. You look at her confused when she suddenly turns and hisses at you, "If you do anything weird, I'll obliterate you." You look at her shocked that she was suddenly all hostile, before you ask, "What would be considered weird?" She huffs in annoyance before she says, "Just... Try to act like a normal pony..." You then get an wonderfully trollish idea. You put your hood down and change into a random pony that looks like this and think of the most criticizing voice that you can think of as you say, "Okay fine, let's all act like ponies. Look at me, boy I'm sweaty. Let's convert grass and leaves into energy and excrete them later and kill changelings. Oh, then I'll go ahead and say how peaceful our species is yet we have hot-headed fillyfoolers, a psychotic pink menace, and a fashion crazy mare running around without straitjackets on!" Twilight just gets red in the face at your outburst, and she just snorts in anger as she turns and begins to walk though the maze. You chuckle at your success at annoying Twilight and transform back to your old buggy self as you put your hood up and begin to walk behind Twilight. But now you're surrounded by awkward and tense silence. After a couple minutes of walking in awkward silence, you decide to strike up a conversation with Twilight. Well since you're alone with Twilight, try to clear the air between you, maybe...just maybe you can put aside the bad blood you have between you. As you and Twilight continue to walk though the maze in awkward and tense silence, you begin to think about your predicament. This has got to be the most awkward moment in my life. It's even more awkward then that time I caught grandbuggy hugging and petting a wooden blank that had drawn on eyes and smile (he kept calling him 'Plank') with a insane look in his eyes. Yeahhhhh...that was a weird day. But still, there's gotta be something I can do to get rid of all this tension and awkwardness. Maybe I could- *ding* I got it, I'l just strike up a conversation with her! If I'm lucky enough, then she'll talk back. If we could get to know each other, I could explain all the misunderstandings that has happen to me! Maybe... maybe we could become friends. You smile turns into a huge grin that threatens to snap your face in half. You look over at Twilight and say the first generic conversation starter you can think of, "So... nice weather today huh?" Twilight glares at you with a side glance before she says in a sarcastic tone, "Oh sure, the weather is just perfect. If you consider the sky being pink and clouds made of cotton candy raining chocolate milk GOOD WEATHER, THEN YES THE WEATHER IS JUST STINKING FANTASTIC!" She yells the last part as she looks at you in anger. You whimper a little bit (not very stallionly, but in your defense that mare is scary when she's mad) when you notice something. You look at Twilight strangely as you think, That anger in her eyes looks...forced? What in the... Before you can finish that thought, Twilight huffs in annoyance before she continues to walk further into the maze. You shake your head as you run to catch up to her. *Simpson family lost in a corn maze* Homer: "To hell with maze etiquette! I'm walking straight outta here!" *Tries to walk through maze only to run into an electric fence with a sign that reads "Electrified for your enjoyment"* Homer: "Damn it!" *Tries to punch sign only to get shocked and sees another sign that says "Signs also electrified"* Homer: "How come things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me?" After walking through the maze some more, you get annoyed and declare, "You know what? Buck maze etiquette! I'm walking straight outta here!" You then try to walk into the maze wall- *ZAP* Only to get zapped down. When you come to, you see an electric fence beneath the bush with a sign that reads "Electrified for your enjoyment" "Gah!" you yell as you punch the sign in frustration- *ZAP* Only to get electrocuted again as you see another sign that says "Signs also electrified". You then moan, "Oh... how come things that happen to stupid bugs keep happening to me?" You swore you heard Twilight laughing at your misfortune, but when you turn she's already walking away. Deciding to put that 'forced anger' thing aside for now, you continue your efforts to strike a conversation as you say... So who was that guy anyway?" You ask Twilight out of the blue. "Discord, the embodiment of chaos and disharmony. He's an ancient being that once ruled Equestria in a state of perpetual chaos before the Princesses stopped him." she recited as if from an essay "And now he's back from his one-thousand year imprisonment to do it all again! That's why we have to retrieve the Emements and stop him!" then she adds in a bitter tone "AND the reason I'm too busy to deal with you." "Bwuh?! You're the one who dragged me into this maze in the first place! You don't get to complain." "Like heck I don't! You've been nothing but trouble for us!" "Except the times I saved your lives, and fought a dragon, and saved your lives, and intercepted a war, and saved your lives, and saved your lives... again." You list off smugly. "Whatever, I still don't trust you." "So who was that guy anyway?" You ask Twilight with curiosity. Twilight stops walking as she gives an annoyed sigh as she says, "Discord, the embodiment of chaos and disharmony. He's an ancient being that once ruled Equestria in a state of perpetual chaos before the Princesses stopped him." she recited it as if it was from an essay "And now he's back from his one-thousand year imprisonment to do it all again! That's why we have to retrieve the Elements and stop him!" then she adds in a bitter tone "AND the reason I'm too busy to deal with you." You look at Twilight in shock as you blurt out in annoyance, "Bwuh?! You're the one who dragged me into this maze in the first place! You don't get to complain." Twilight looks shocked for a moment, before she points an accusing hoof at you and replies in an annoyed tone, "Like heck I don't! You've been nothing but trouble for us!" Your eye twitch in annoyance as you say, "Except the times I saved your lives, and fought a dragon, and saved your lives, and intercepted a war, did I mention I saved your lives? Well I saved your stinking lives!" You list off smugly. Twilight's eye twitches in annoyance, and you swear you see her smile a little bit, before she turns around with a huff as she says, "Whatever, I still don't trust you." With that, she continues to walk though the maze while you grumble, "Don't trust me she says, still evil she says..." You know, when you know you're not about to be mauled by present party, you started to take notice of... certain subtle things. You could literally feel the hostility from her, including the fear growing that's on the verge of tearing your chest. You're afraid, but not panicking at least. Doesn't make the experience of awkward silence any better, though. It may had been a bad idea to sleep through biology class over the arrogant assumption that everything taught there was bloody obvious. You failed the test the day after. Still, you realized that you never truly understood the extent of a Changeling's capabilities when emotions are involved. Hmmm, if love equals power (basing it off of your ex-Queen's resulted increase in power levels thanks to love absorption) what does that make you when I comes to your relationship with your daughter? Do you have the ability to sense what others feel? Is it the reason why you suddenly feel a sense of dread just right now? No seriously, you could SMELL it in the distance. A... disturbance of some sorts. And then, an instinctive muscle tug in your forelegs occurred, a tightness. Danger. Before your could contemplate the ominous meaning, Twilight spoke. "Look, as much as I want answers from you, and those Sherclop first edition books," Wait, wha— "I already have enough on my plate. So, I want you to keep out of trouble and don't mess it up for me— no, for Equestria! The fate of the world is in our hooves!" "Ours?" you commented. "My friends and me." "What, I don't count?" She only gave a blank stare. "Hey! I'm capable enough to try and save the world." "You could've fooled me. Everywhere you go you somehow ended up wrecking parts of it." "Okay, what's your problem?! Haven't I suffered enough of your abuse all those months ago?" "My problem? Spike admires you, Fluttershy likes you, and Cadance for some reason forgives you! When all of what you've done was cause chaos and havoc. You're gilded as hero by some ponies, but still don't know that you're hiding the REAL you!" "Are you kidding me? You mean saving ponies from a collapsed ceiling doesn't count as much to my profile? Doesn't that speak enough about my intentions?" You'd thought that she'd take a bite out of you when you talked back at her. Geez, you feel like talking to your hardcore, and dead, parents. And you're a parent yourself. The irony. "At least be a little grateful that I helped you with that dragon a long time ago." Twilight growled in frustration. "Intentions? No pony truly know what you even want! One moment you're antagonizing town folks, and then all nice to a few ponies the next! Do you know how much you drove us up the wall with all your antics, always being afraid of what you'll do next, wether it's good or bad? I barely had the time nor inspiration to write a friendship report when you're involved," she hissed. "But there's one thing I know: You're a changeling. You feed on love. You're deceitful by nature. And your kind starved my sister-in-law and left her in a cave and got away with it months before the wedding day! I'm on to you, whatever you're planning." "If we are gauging good or bad with intentions and motives, then you're not all in the right either! I've been pummeled and beaten to an inch of my life several times now. And it's all by you! All of you five! Do you know how many nightmares I had about you? With all the killing intent you've shown me thus far, I'm pretty sure you've TRAUMATIZED someone!" She winced at your accidental Royal Capslocks. And you still have it switched on. "NOT TO MENTION THAT YOU'RE PRINCESSES INTENDED TO EXECUTE MY DAUGHTER!" Silence. "Is she really your daughter?" she asked, ignoring all the things before it was relevant. What? you thought bitterly, afraid of what's about to come next. "I know your tricks. You needed some way to sustain yourself, food to keep you going." No, she can't be implying...! "As far as I know, you just don't get a changeling filly out of the blue, separated from any other relatable species, no. But you've got to have gotten her from somewhere," she gave you a furious glare that's as hot as the sun. "You have the mind control and you have the disguises. Who wouldn't think that you took her away from her real parents? Speaking of, where is she now?" You hear dark whispers, and you don't know where, but it sounded familiar. You tried to ignore it, but... it gets louder as you soon understood that your already chaotic life might turn much bleaker already. "How dare you... " "Since we had this talk, I now have half a mind to end you right here, right now!" But then you hear your sweet saving grace. Coming from the Inventory yawning was your beautiful daughter Nightshade. "It's getting loud out here. Did somepony call me?" Instantly, Twilight did a scanning spell onto her. "Nothing. What?" she said, bewildered. You merely ignored her and walked ahead, soothing your daughter to go back into the inventory. Further response was inturrupted as you see the familiar sight of one of the Mane 6. Also add onto when Nightshade pops out, tell Twilight "Excuse me while I comfort MY Daughter whom I LOVE Unconditionally away from Speciest Eyes" and give her a sour look, the bitch. 28 MINUTES LATER As you and Twilight continue to walk in silence (you having given up trying to start a conversation with her a long time ago) you begin to think... Intelligently for once. When you know you're not about to be mauled by present party, you started to take notice of... certain subtle things. You could literally feel the hostility from her, including the fear growing that's on the verge of tearing your chest. You're afraid, but not panicking at least. Doesn't make the experience of awkward silence any better, though. It may had been a bad idea to sleep through biology class over the arrogant assumption that everything taught there was bloody obvious. You failed the test the day after. Although since I failed the test, grandbuggy did give me my first duct tape and WD-40 lesson... and by lesson I mean endless hours in the hot blazing sun going over the lesson till it was stuck in my head for good, so it wan't too bad. Still, you realized that you never truly understood the extent of a Changeling's capabilities when emotions are involved. Hmmm, if love equals power (basing it off of your ex-Queen's resulted increase in power levels thanks to love absorption) what does that make me when it comes to my relationship with my daughter? I can't even 'eat' love anymore, much less need it for survival now for some reason. Do I have the ability to sense what others feel now because of that? Is it the reason why you suddenly feel a sense of dread just right now? No seriously, you could SMELL it in the distance. A... disturbance of some sorts. And then, an instinctive muscle tug in your forelegs occurred, a tightness. Danger. Before your could contemplate the ominous meaning, Twilight spoke. "Look, as much as I want answers from you, and those Sherclop first edition books," Wait, wha- "I already have enough on my plate. So, I want you to keep out of trouble and don't mess it up for me- no, for Equestria! The fate of the world is in our hooves!" "Ours?" you question in confusion. Not that I mind helping stop this lunatic of course. Twilight gives you a look before saying, "My friends and I." You look at her dumbfounded as you say, "What, I don't count?" She only gave a blank stare in response. "Hey! I'm capable enough to try and save the world. I did save your life a billion times remember?" Twilight, ignoring your comment, says in a sarcastic tone, "You could've fooled me. Everywhere you go you somehow ended up wrecking parts of it." You finally have enough of her attitude and say to her in a annoyed tone, "Okay, what's your problem?! Haven't I suffered enough of your abuse all those months ago?" Twilight's eye begins to twitch in annoyance as she says, "My problem? Spike admires you and won't listen to me when I tell him that you're evil, Fluttershy likes you and she wouldn't come out of her home for months after your death, and Cadance for some reason forgives you and keeps claiming that you're 'the nicest and sweetest changeling she ever met' when all that you've done was cause chaos and havoc. You're gilded as hero by some ponies, but they still don't know that you're hiding the REAL changeling you!" You look at her confused as you think, Wait... Spike admires me? What does she mean Fluttershy likes me... But what about-oh yeah, arguing right now, think about the rest later. After your done thinking, you tell Twilight in a annoyed tone, "You're kidding right? You mean saving ponies from a collapsed ceiling doesn't count as much to my profile? Doesn't that speak enough about my intentions?" You'd thought that she'd take a bite out of you when you talked back at her as you continue, "At least be a little grateful that I helped you with that dragon a long time ago." Twilight growls in frustration, "Intentions? Nopony truly know what you even want! One moment you're antagonizing townsfolk, and then you're all nice to a few ponies the next! Do you know how much you drove us up the wall with all your antics, always being afraid of what you'll do next, whether it's good or bad? I barely had the time or inspiration to write a friendship report when you're involved," she hissed. "But there's one thing I know: You're a changeling. You feed on love. You're deceitful by nature. And your kind starved my sister-in-law and left her in a cave and got away with it months before the wedding day! I'm on to you, whatever you're planning." Your eye twitches in annoyance as you think angrily, I did not leave her starving! According to Cadance, I actually fed her and took a hit from my ex-queen to save her. I wish I could tell Twilight that, but she'll probably think I'm lying. But if where going with good and bad motives... You then say angrily, "If we're gauging good or bad intentions and motives, then you're not all in the right either! I've been pummeled and beaten to an inch of my life several times now by you! All of you five! Do you know how many nightmares I had about you? The first few nights I slept in my new home I woke up screaming! With all the killing intent you've shown me thus far, I'm pretty sure you've TRAUMATIZED someling!" *snap* She winced at your accidental Royal Capslocks and you still have it switched on as you scream in anger, orange glowing eyes blazing, "NOT TO MENTION THAT ONE OF YOUR PRINCESSES INTENDED TO EXECUTE MY DAUGHTER!" As you start to breath heavily after getting all of that off your shoulder, you only notice on thing... Silence. Just as you think that Twilight has dropped the subject. She asks a question that makes your blood boil... "Is she really your daughter?" she asked, ignoring all the things before it was relevant. What...? you thought bitterly, afraid of what's about to come next. "I know your tricks. You needed some way to sustain yourself, food to keep you going." No, she can't be implying...! "As far as I know, you don't just get a changeling filly out of the blue, separated from any other relatable species, no. But you have to have acquired her from somewhere," She gave you a furious glare that's as hot as the sun as she continues, "You have the mind control and you have the disguises. Who wouldn't think that you took her away from her real parents? Speaking of, where is she now?" You swore you hear dark whispers just then. You don't know where, but it sounded familiar. You tried to ignore it, but... it gets louder as you soon understood that your already chaotic life might turn much bleaker already. "How dare you... how dare you...SUGGEST I DO SOMETHING SO EVIL AS TAKE A FOAL AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILY!" Twilight is taken aback by your outburst, but she soon regains her composer as she says angrily, "Since we had this talk, I now have half a mind to end you right here, right now!" With the Nightmare Cloak beginning to form you scream, "Is that right? Well for a so-called bookworm you sure are one stupid dumbflank as, in case you don't remember, I curb-stomped you, your friends, your princess, the royal guard commander, his stallions, and even the bucking Wonderbolts back at the gala so I could and should just SLAUGHTER YOU WHERE YOU STAND!!!" Before things could escalate, you hear your sweet saving grace. Coming from the Inventory yawning was your beautiful daughter Nightshade. "It's getting loud out here. Did somepony call me?" Instantly, Twilight's horn lit's up, and you can only guess that she's doing a scanning spell on Nightshade. "Nothing. What?" she said, bewildered. You just walked ahead and passed Twilight as you calm down and say in a low whisper so Nightshade won't hear "Excuse me while I comfort MY Daughter whom I LOVE Unconditionally away from ignorant species-ist eyes." With that you continue to walk away, not noticing the guilty look on Twilight's face as you begin to sooth your daughter to go back into the inventory. You are currently the only one with any abilities, thanks to a secret weapon known as Kung Fu for Dummies. Attempt to Psycho Crusher through a wall. The hole in the maze fixes itself behind you and you're left separated again. Looking around, you see a grotto with a large pool. As you approach it, the pool shimmers as Discord rises out of it. He then shows you all the times the Deadly 5 have attacked you via the pool and tries to get you to join him as the official "Most Chaotic Friend Ever." Discord tries to corrupt you, but the DFV repels his discording attempt. Seeing as you don't want to be around Twilight at the moment, you yell, "Psycho Crusher!" and spin through a surprisingly un-electrified maze wall. The hole in the maze fixes itself separating you from Twilight as you continue on until you run into... a giant flat box with a screen attached to a console that looks like a Nintendo 64 and an XBOX 360 had a baby? The rational part of your brain tries to warn you to move on, but it's overwhelmed by the gamer in you who is FAMISHED since you haven't even seen a video game since that failed invasion of Canterlot (you were either on the run or living in remote, low-tech, always-gets-news-late Appleloosa) and you dash over, grab the controller, and start playing. Your first surprise is how lifelike the graphics of the game look. The second surprise is that the game is titled The Hooded Offender: Playground of Mayhem which is apparently a wide-open sandbox that takes place in an island city that looks like a mish-mash of Manehattan, Canterlot, and a dash of Ponyville and you're playing as the Hooded Offender. Normally you try to make the Hooded Offender in real life into a hero, but since this is a video game and you still have some stress from that argument with Twilight you do what any player would do in free roam when the tutorial is over... Tear the city a new flankhole. You gleefully experiment with the abilities and powers of the playable Hooded Offender as you have him running over ponies with carriages, Falcon Punching non-Pegasus ponies out of 10th stories windows, Psycho Crusher through airships, jaywalking, and any other chaotically destructive things that come to mind as you rampage through the virtual city while real you scarfs down bowls of nacho-flavored corn chips and chug large cans of this yellow-green soda labeled "Mountain Dew" (you would have questioned where they came from, but you were busy making virtual you beat a barbershop quartet of mimes to death with a clown). As you're Izuna Dropping a traveling stage magician from the roof of a skyscraper, you hear a disembodied male voice say, Isn't all this destruction just loads of fun? Not even looking away from the screen you say, "Buck yeah it is! The graphics, the gameplay, the violence, the gameplay, the sounds, the gameplay! This is the best game ever!" you say as you have virtual you tear off a lawyer's front limbs with your Nightmare Tails, dunk his rear limbs in liquid nitrogen before shattering them against the ground, incinerate his torso with a fire spell, buck his charred screaming body into a refrigerator, and Shoryuken the fridge into the sky before obliterating it in midair with a rocket. ... That was REALLY excessively violent... AWESOME!!! But getting back on topic, Oh... But why should it merely be a game? "Huh *crunch gulp chug*?" I mean, you try to do good... On cue, you're suddenly given the objective to "Get the Cat out of the Tree" which you do and give the cat to a filly with a pink ribbon who looks suspiciously familiar... But all they do is hate you... The filly suddenly throws the cat back in your face which proceeds to wrap your head in a comic smoke of violence, taking off a large chunk of your health. And abuse you... Suddenly a crowd of ponies appear with signs that read "Squash the Bug" and "Hoods are No Good" and throw rotten fruit at you knocking off more of your health. And chase you. You suddenly have squads of Royal Guard after you as you run away cause your health is too low to fight. But that shouldn't matter because you have more than enough power to get those pesky ponies out of your way. You suddenly see the message "Meteor Impact unlocked" which you then proceed to use to level a building and cause it to collapse onto the angry mob and the Royal Guardponies. But then there are those mares who are always trying to spoil your fun... On cue, a boss battle starts when the 6 Mares arrive. The "hick"... Applejack kills you with a move that involves hanging you with her lasso before bucking you in the chest with enough force to activate an x-ray mode showing the destruction of your ribs and internal organs forcing you to restart the battle. The "fillyfooler"... You have to restart again when you're obliterated by a Sonic Rainboom as soon as you respawn. The "psycho"... Pinkie knocks you out with her party cannon and you're greeted with a Game Over screen of you strapped to a table as a sadistically giggling Pinkie closes in with a knife (That's gonna give you nightmares for a while...). Celestia's pet bookworm... Twilight obliterates you in a glowing-eyed field of energy. The fashionista... Rarity crushes you with a corset causing your hooded head to explode in a shower of green "blood". Even sweet Fluttershy... Fluttershy immobilizes you with "The Stare" and in spite of your attempts to quick-time event out of it, you're killed by another Sonic Rainboom. But you don't have to deal with them alone... You suddenly see a summon available which you use causing Discord to pop up on the screen. He looks around at the mares while wiggling his finger in a "nuh-uh-uh" way before he chuckles madly as he snaps his fingers causing a giant water balloon to appear above the mares. Of course this water balloon just so happened to be filled with acidic lava full of robo-piranha so... yeah, it was messy and screamy to say the least. Cue victory screen of you a Discord holding your hooves up in victory with the message "A WINNER IS YOU!!!" Why settle for a mere game? If you play for my team, we can make this reality! Discord then appears and puts a friendly arm around your shoulder as you're too focused on your controller trying to get the game to restart. What you didn't know was that the whole time you were playing, you slowly began to lose your color and become grey, Now that Discord has his hand over your shoulder, you are almost completely gray. "So what do say H.O. buddy? Ready to turn Equestria into one giant game of Grand Theft Carriage?" Discord moves his hand and pokes your forehead with his finger with intent to brainwash, but the DFV suddenly shouts screams, THIS BUG BELONGS TO ME!!! AND THE ONLY FRIEND HE WILL HAVE IS ME!!! Discord is thrown back by this outburst as you shake your head to try and reorient your ears and brain. Discord then says, "What in the name of chaos is this?" He then proceeds to pull out a pair of novelty "x-ray" goggles and looks at you intently, before he raises his eyebrows in surprise and says, "Well, well, well... Isn't this a gem of a development. I got a feeling you're just gonna be bananas of fun later, but for now I got some ponies I need to tend to. Auf Wiedersehen H.O." He then disappears as you demand, "Get back here! What were you trying to do to me!? What do you mean I'm gonna be bananas of fun?! Is 'Ow Wiener-son' even a real word?!" Suddenly Discord's head appears (wearing a grey hat for some reason) and says, "It's Auf Wiedersehen and it means 'until we meet again'." before disappearing just as quickly. You could only stare at were Discord was just at in complete confusion. Finally, you just sigh as you walk away towards another part of the maze. Also, when you come across the others in the maze something seems off about them. They all seem grayer and acting funny. Applejack keeps hugging you and claiming you are her most favorite person ever. When she says this, she puckers her lips and keeps looking around shiftily. Pinkie Pie is just snapping at you and yelling not to smile or laugh and even you admit that you miss the annoying happiness she usually has. Fluttershy is being really mean to you, it actually breaks your heart since your only friend out of them is putting you down and throwing things at you and just being unnecessarily cruel. Fluttershy: "Oh Boo Hoo, your freak of a daughter almost got killed, get over it you overgrown Cockroach!" You tear up a bit Fluttershy: "Oh you gonna cwy now? Come on Cwy! Cwy widdle baby! Ha ha ha!" Rarity is carrying around a Boulder and she at one point snags your satchel and starts taking the things out of them, including Night Shade, and yelling "MINE!!!" You then start trying to gather your satchel and daughter but they play keep away, and Fluttershy is making fun of Night Shade except Twilight who seems to be taking your side. Twilight: Fluttershy! Rarity! What's the matter with you girls? Stop It! That's Cruel! Nopony deserves this, not even him! AJ: I'm helping Twi! I'm doing all I can (sitting on the edge looking around shiftily) Pinkie: This satchel is stupid! Fluttershy: Bugs don't deserve nice things! Rarity: MINE!!!! You can't take it anymore, you snap at all of them. You: All you can just go to Tartarus! You...you...(Look at Fluttershy) JERKS!!!! Your eyes glow orange, and tears leaking out as you take back your daughter and belongings and your satchel and just start burning a hole through the maze as you run away. You hear Fluttershy as you run away: "Yeesh, what a Crybaby!" *snap* Your eyes glow orange as the mares play keep away with The Inventory, as you suddenly get flashbacks back to your foalhood in the Hive when you were bullied for your orange hair. The combined stress of the flashbacks, fear for your daughter, putting up with the discorded mares, and what's happening now causes you to snap and brutally curb-stomp the discorded mares with the "Nightmare Cloak" to Twilight's horror as the DFV eggs you on, but Twilight and/or Spike blasts/attacks you before you do anything you'd regret causing you to snap out of it and run away in horror/regret with the Inventory After walking around for a few minutes, all the maze walls suddenly get sucked into the ground! You jump back in shock as you look around to find Fluttershy and the Deadly 5 (excluding Rainbow who was nowhere in site for some reason) apparently talking to Discord. When you finally reach them Discord pulls out a umbrella, folds it upside down, and then poofs away. When the group finally notices you, you realize something is different about them. For one everyling besides Twilight is gray. Two, as soon as Applejack saw you, she ran at you, hugged you, and said that you were her most favorite bug in the world. When she says this, she puckers her lips and keeps looking around shiftily. Three, Pinkie Pie is just snapping at you and yelling not to smile or laugh and even you admit that you miss the annoying happiness she usually has. Four, Fluttershy is being really mean to you, it actually breaks your heart since your only friend out of them is putting you down and throwing things at you and just being unnecessarily cruel as she says things like "Oh Boo Hoo, your freak of a daughter almost got killed, get over it you overgrown Cockroach!" and "Oh you gonna cwy now? Come on Cwy! Cwy widdle baby! Ha ha ha!" And finally, Rarity was hugging and kissing a giant rock, calling it Tom and saying that it's a diamond and tries to karate kick you when you get too close to it. She's also constantly yelling "Mine!" When you asked Twilight what the hay happen. She just shook her head and snapped, "Not now." After that she asked you (reluctantly) to help get the mares onto a train to Ponyville, and you being you helped, even if it was one of your worse enemies. You managed to help Twilight herd/force the mares onto the train (the less said about that thoroughly unpleasant, annoying, and chaotic train ride back, the better). After you literally dragged the three flipped personality mares back to Twilight's house (the fourth carried "Tom" on her back the whole way through). However as soon as you got there, Rarity garbed The Inventory off of you while screaming "MINE!" and began to run away. *snap* Your eyes glow orange as you chased her yelling, "Give that back!" As Rarity ran, she started to rummage through the Inventory. Finally she took out Nightshade's still asleep form and began to run away with her, dropping The Inventory. You quickly picked up The Inventory and put it on as you continued giving chase. But Fluttershy, Pinkie, Applejack, and Rarity begin to play keep away with her. "Girls! What's the matter with you girls? Stop It! That's Cruel! Nopony deserves this, not even him! And especially not that filly!" Twilight yells in disbelief and horror. "I'm helping Twi! I'm doing all I can." Applejack says as she tosses Nightshade above your head to Pinkie. "Foals... I hate foals!" Pinkie yells bouncing Nightshade off her back. "Bugs don't deserve nice things!" Fluttershy cruelly taunts as she roughly throws Nightshade at Rarity. "MINE!!!" Rarity screams. You suddenly get flashbacks back to your foalhood in the Hive when you were bullied for your orange hair. Ha ha ha haha! Keep away from orange-skull! The flashbacks, your fear for your daughter, putting up with the discorded mares. You can't take it anymore! The Nightmare Cloak bursts out in a yell causing the mares to all stop and look at you in horror as you attack. First you scream, "Falcon Punch" and your flame-encased hoof slams into Pinkie's face and sends her smashing through the door and into a fruit stand (which suddenly transformed into a taco stand just before impact). Next, you jump towards Applejack and yell "No Shadow Kick" before pummeling the farmpony with a barrage of kicks before knocking her onto and breaking the table with the last kick. You then dash over to Rarity and cry out "Shoryuken!" and uppercut the fashionista so she smashes into the ceiling before roughly crashing onto the boulder. Unbelievably, she ignores her obvious injuries and starts fussing over her boulder, "You savage brute! You could've tarnished Tom! Don't worry you Diamond hunk! Mama Rarity will make you shine like new." You turn your glowing eyes on Fluttershy and you swore you saw a look of pure fear on her face, but you're too enraged to care as you lash out with the nightmare tail and grab her before violently slamming her into a bookcase as the DFV whispers, Yes... Crush the life out of her once sweet little throat... Deja vu much? Giving in to the whispers, you move your tail to her throat and squeeze, but you're suddenly knocked on your side by a blast of magic as Fluttershy starts gasping for air. You get up ready to tear apart the first living thing you see, but Twilight levitates a (somehow still sleeping) Nightshade towards you as she yells, "Here's your daughter! She's fine! Just take her and get away from my friends!" Snapping out of it, you saw the damaged mares and realized what you were about to do. You quickly grab Nightshade, put her in The Inventory, and ran away with tears of regret and sorrow in your eyes. As you're running away, you don't notice the mare running towards you due to the tears in your eyes and since lady luck hates you, you both crashed into each other head on. You hold your head in pain as you curse lady luck. As you're about to mumble a sorry to the pony you hit, you hear her say, "Oh... my..." You look up to see a grey mare earth pony with a dark gray mane and tail and grayish mulberry eyes looking at you in shock, and you are about to ask her what's wrong, when she says, "Your'e... the... Hooded Offender!" You are about to scram when she said that, thinking she was going to attack you or something. When you notice something... Why is she blushing so hard? Does she have a fever or something? Outro: What do you do?