It's just a normal and unimportant day in Ponyville. Birds are singing, Maud is super excited about rocks and Pinkie Pie is being monotone about a party... wait what?
Rainbow stumbling across Pinkie drinking went a lot better than Pinkie could have hoped, what she didn't know is what would come from it. She thought she was the only one of her friends that was miserable and wearing a mask, she was wrong.
One mare can only take so much. Even if she is an alicorn, something has to give sooner or later, and when it does, something terrible and all-consuming will be unleashed. Twilight has reached the breaking point and arcane retribution is imminent.
Chrysalis was living a quiet life in the middle of the forest, slowly losing her mind in peace. At least, until Discord started visiting her from time to time, annoying her to no end. But today, he has an offer for her
A mare and her closest and only friend await their grim fate at the hooves of the one she once called mentor. Did she deserve such an end? Yes she did. Was it worth all the pain, heartache, and despair? No, it wasn't.... or maybe it was.
"...thus was horror of the blackest depths and madness of the highest order born deep within the bowels of that old manor... horror and madness enough to send me screaming back into the putrid swamplands with what little remained of my own sanity..."
Problems are something everyone in Equestria has to deal with, big or small. Some problems have obvious answers, some don't. And sometimes, a pony chooses to deal with their problems on their own, no matter how much help they really want.