Sweet Little Apple
The conference room of Canterlot Castle was dead silent, despite the fact that eight ponies sat inside. The remaining five Ghosts had been called back to the castle after the death of Epsilon, and after making sure that the remaining members of Blossom's family in hiding were secure, they went to Canterlot at all speed. Now seven pairs of eyes, the Ghosts, Luna, and Shining Armor's, were all staring directly at Celestia, waiting for her to start the meeting. Princess Celestia was staring down at a manila folder that held the report of the deaths of Epsilon and Blossom's grandparents.
"Is there anything in these reports that I have missed?" she asked. "Have any of you found new information during your travels here?"
"Blossom hit Fillydelphia last night," Alpha replied. "She killed a store owner."
"Is that all?" Celestia questioned.
Delta shook his head. "No. In fact..." Delta hesitated and scratched the back of his neck. "It's strange. A mare reported that she came across The Nightmare and The Nightmare held her and her foals hostage for a few minutes. Blossom didn't hurt them, she merely hugged one of the fillies, then let the family go."
"No harm befell neither the mare nor her foals?" Luna asked.
Beta shook her head. "She just hugged one of the foals. According to the mare, Blossom was almost crying."
"She was wearing a dress, too," said Zeta. "Based on how the mare described it, it sounds like the dress that The Ponyville Butcher wore to The Grand Galloping Gala."
Celestia's gaze snapped up and she glared at Zeta. "Rarity never went to The Grand Galloping Gala!" she snarled.
Luna matched Celestia's glare. "Tia, such denials will get us nowhere! If they say that Joyous Blossom was wearing the dress that Rarity wore to The Gala, then she was!"
Celestia shot a quick glance in Luna's direction, but did not respond to her sister. She turned her attention towards the rest of the group. "Mares and gentlecolts, I feel that now is the time to discuss more unorthodox methods of capturing Joyous Blossom. If Blossom has left Fillydelphia, then she has not killed three ponies in that city. She may be losing her nerve, or is slipping up somehow. If not, she will strike twice more."
"There's something more," said Delta. "Fillydelphia was where we hid the Element of Laughter and her adoptive family. Given that The Nightmare has killed her entire biological family save for her father and sister, it is likely she knows they're there."
"If she does, would you six like to explain how she found out?" Celestia snapped. "Even if she doesn't know where they are, can you explain how she found her grandparents, a debacle that doubtlessly led to her finding out about the Ghosts?!"
"I don't know, Princess," said Beta quietly. "I..." Beta closed her eyes and sighed. "Look, I think we've all long since found out the hard way that it's next to impossible to capture a mare who can change her appearance at will. It's possible she recognized one of us from the train station the day after she killed the Manehattan mayor and used that information to find her grandparents."
Princess Celestia silently closed the folder and nodded. "Very well. In that case, I suggest that we move her families somewhere else. If need be we can move them to the castle."
"Which has the risk of dramatically increasing the chances of Blossom knowing where they are at all times," Shining Armor pointed out. "The Elements of Harmony and The New Nightmare's paternal family all moved to the castle? If one pony in the press finds out, and it wouldn't be difficult, then Blossom knows where they are."
"The castle is probably the single safest place in all of Equestria," Gamma retorted. "Even if she did know, how would she get them?"
"Look at her track record! She hunted down her in-hiding grandparents and killed one of you guys!" Shining Armor groaned and put his head in his hooves. "I just think that it would be more dangerous for them if she knew where they were."
"Equestria is a big place," said Luna. "Should the palace prove a great risk for them, simply move them someplace else in one of the larger cities."
"Even if we do move them, it is a temporary solution to the problem!" Celestia retorted. "I want to hear any and all ideas: how are we going to stop her? Almost fifty of my subjects have died at her hooves, and another hundred more shall perish if we don't think of something!"
Alpha nervously cleared his throat and scratched the back of his head. "Well... there was Order Forty Two. It's the best one if--"
Celestia slammed her hoof on the table. "I said no! I don't care what we do as long as we do not become the monster that she is!"
"Princess Celestia, you asked for my opinion and I gave it to you!" Alpha replied. "My team and I are spending every waking moment trying to find a way to catch this mare, but she's slipping past our nets!" Alpha stood up from his seat and balanced on his hind legs, using his forelegs on the table for balance. "How can two thousand guards and five thousand cops find one pony out of forty million when that one pony can change to whoever she likes?!"
It was at this point that Shining Armor stood up from his seat. "You can't talk to the Princess like that!" he snarled.
"Oh I'm so sorry," Alpha snapped back. "Forgive me for being a little disheartened that we have an almost impossible task before us!" Alpha roughly pulled a group of maps out from his saddlebag and slammed them on the table. "I have spent more time pouring over these maps trying to find a pattern than I have sleeping! My crew and I have all put more effort into catching this mare than I thought possible from any of us!" Alpha shoved the maps towards Shining Armor. "You try it, Captain. You try doing half the things that we do! I'd look forward to seeing you collapse from exhaustion."
Shining Armor swept his hoof across the table, sending the group of maps flying. "You are way out of line, soldier! I would shut up right now if I were you!"
"Cease this incessant bickering at once!" Luna shouted. "We shall not catch Joyous Blossom by arguing like we are!" Alpha and Shining Armor shut their mouths, but did not stop their glares. Luna shook her head and let out a weak chuckle. "This is madness," she whispered.
"No kidding," Beta mumbled.
"How close are we to catching Joyous Blossom?" Luna questioned.
Alpha's glare slowly faded, and he slid down to the floor. "Not at all. We're as close to catching her as we are to resurrecting Rarity so she can go fight her niece." Alpha let out a small chuckle of his own, but it was mired by a half-sob, something that didn't escape Celestia's attention.
"Alpha?" She reached forward and gently put a hoof on his shoulder. "Is something else wrong? Something you have not shared with us?"
"She found and killed Epsilon," Alpha whispered. "I don't know how..." Alpha exhaled and leaned his head on the table. "If she can hunt us down at will, who's to say that she can't find all of us whenever she wants? Who's to say that she can't find my family?" Alpha took a deep breath. "Again."
"What do you mean 'again'?" Shining Armor asked.
"In Fillydelphia..." Alpha shakily reached up and ran a hoof through his mane. "The mare and the two fillies she spared were my wife and daughters." Alpha's shoulders began shaking as a heaving sob vibrated through his body. "That evil mare held my daughter! Sh-she took my daughter out of my wife's forelegs and hugged her and nuzzled her and..." The unicorn wiped his eyes with a hoof and took a deep breath. "If she had known who they were she would have killed them. It's a miracle that she didn't kill them anyway. What happens if she wants to go back and kill them to finish the job?"
"We can put them in hiding if you feel that is a real danger," Celestia offered.
Alpha scoffed and looked up at her. "Because that worked really well for Blossom's grandparents." Alpha shook his head and pushed himself to his hooves. "I don't know if hiding will work, I really don't. If you ask me, the only way to make sure my family is safe is to kill The New Nightmare. The only way to kill The New Nightmare, is to put in motion the plan that I am asking."
"I'm sorry, Alpha, but I cannot authorize that kind of action," Celestia replied. "I will not sink to Blossom's level."
Alpha slowly looked up at Princess Celestia. His face hardened into a glare. "Then you have doomed even more ponies to death."
* * * *
Blossom stepped out of her Trottingham safe house and began walking towards the city. They were here. She was sure of it. The city proper was only a few minutes walk from where she was, and she was inside the city in a short time. This would be where she found them. Her informants should be able to point her in the right direction. She was getting close.
A few minutes into the city, she saw a group of four foals playing hop-scotch on the city side-walk. They were young, carefree, and best of all, unsupervised. Perfect.
With a smile, Blossom walked over to the group disguised as a pony close in color to Miss Twilight. They all stopped when she came over, and she flashed them a big smile. "Hello, girls," she greeted. "I was wondering if you could help me."
All four of them immediately stopped playing and began backing away. "W-we're not supposed to talk to strangers!" said the largest one. "Mommy says that it's dangerous!"
"And your mommy is absolutely right. However..." Blossom reached into her saddlebag and pulled out an I.D. card that she had taken off of a dead police officer and changed so that it matched her. "It is okay to talk to police officers, isn't it?"
The foals stared intently at her I.D. as if trying to determine if it was fake. Their eyes flickered between the card and Blossom, but finally the lead filly nodded. "Yeah. Mommy says that it's good to help police officers."
"Your mother sounds like a very wise mare," said Blossom as she put the card away. "So, can I trust you girls to help me with a case I'm working on? It's very, very important." The fillies nodded and Blossom smiled. "Good." Blossom reached into her saddlebag once more and pulled out a photograph. "This mare is a dangerous criminal. Because of her, a lot of ponies have been hurt. I need to know if you have seen her around here."
The four fillies eagerly flocked around the photograph, chattering amongst each other as they examined it.
"I think we have," said the lead one finally.
Blossom's face split into a wide grin. "You have?"
"Yeah, I've seen her with a few other mares and a really big stallion. I think she's staying in a house on Crystal Street," said the smallest of the fillies.
Blossom nodded and pulled out a notepad, jotting down the name of the street. "Okay, Crystal Street. Where is that exactly?"
"It's just a few blocks away from city hall. There should be a map of the city next to city hall if you're really stuck."
Blossom jotted down the details. She put her notebook back in her saddlebag and flashed the fillies a wide smile. "Thank you very much! I appreciate your help." She patted the smallest filly on the head. "You girls have done Equestria a great service."
All four fillies beamed at the praise. Blossom thanked them one more time before walking towards city hall.
* * * *
Apple Seed shifted in her bed and pulled the covers tighter over her. The constant city noises filled her ears, preventing her from drifting off to sleep for the third time this week. "Land sakes," she muttered. "Doesn't anypony in this city ever sleep?"
Sighing, Apple Seed threw the covers off of herself and hopped out of bed, plopping her Stetson on her head as she did. "If nopony in this city is gonna quiet down, Ah might as well get a walk in."
Apple Seed tip-hooved out of her room in the small duplex that her mother, aunt, and uncle shared. She had to be careful to not wake up her aunt, who was sleeping on the couch in the main room, but she navigated past without disturbing her. She pushed the door of the duplex open and walked out into the night.
The cool Trottingham air swept over Apple Seed as her hooves clacked on the cobblestone streets. She took a deep breath and rotated her neck to ease some of the stiffness out of it. She trotted past a duplex near her own that was blaring music of some sort. She shook her head. "Too noisy."
"You can say that again. I never really liked dubstep."
Apple Seed's ears perked, and she swiveled her head in the direction of the voice. Her gaze landed on a pink unicorn mare who was pulling a cart full of blankets. Apple Seed flashed the mare a smile. "Good evenin' to ya."
The mare inclined her head in a nod. "Good evening to you too. Just going for a walk, I take it?"
Apple Seed nodded. "Yeah, Ah can't rightly sleep 'round here with all of this noise."
"I know what you mean. I'm not a city mare myself."
"Izzat so?" Apple Seed questioned. "Where are y'all from then?"
The mare chuckled and unhitched herself from the cart. She took a few steps towards Apple Seed. "Ponyville. I was born and raised in Ponyville."
Apple Seed frowned and cocked her head. "Ah'll grant that Ah ain't as good as Pinkie Pie at rememberin' everypony who lives in Ponyville, but Ah'm from there too and Ah don't rightly recall who ya are."
The mare chuckled again. "Oh come on, Apple Seed, I thought you would have at least remembered what I sound like."
Apple Seed's frown deepened. "No, Ah don't..."
The mare scoffed and fired up her horn. The blankets in the cart shifted and a wooden two-by-four flew out. "Well, you'll remember soon enough, won't you?"
Apple Seed's eyes widened as the realization of who she was talking to settled into her brain. "Blossom?"
Before Apple Seed could do anything, Blossom swung the plank directly at Apple Seed's head. The wood connected with the side of her face, Apple Seed fell to the ground with a shriek that was drowned out by the loud music coming from the duplex in front of them. She brought her hoof up to her face in an attempt to dull the pain of her now broken cheekbone.
Blossom giggled and skipped over to her honorary sister. "You would not believe how long I have been waiting for you to come out alone." She raised the plank into the air again. "But the city noise got to you eventually, didn't it?"
Apple Seed raised a foreleg defensively. "Blossom, please don't do this!"
Blossom scoffed but didn't respond otherwise. She merely swung the plank down again onto Apple Seed's foreleg. The young mare pulled it back as pain shot through it, allowing Blossom to smash the plank onto Apple Seed's face once more. The final blow left the mare unconscious.
Blossom smiled and tossed the plank aside. She really could not have asked for better circumstances. Apple Seed coming out alone at night and her attack being drowned out by the music? It was perfect is what it was. She fired up her horn and lifted Apple Seed into the cart. With one more burst, she pulled the blankets over her.
"You and I have a few things to talk about, Apple Seed."
* * * *
With a gasp, Apple Seed's eyes snapped open. She squeezed her eyes shut as her head throbbed with the pain of being hit.
Blossom.
Blossom had attacked her.
She groaned and weakly opened her eyes. She was strapped to a table too small for her, and the lower half of her legs were dangling over the edge. "Blossom?" she called out. "Blossom, where are you?"
"Right here."
Apple Seed's head turned in the direction of the voice, and she saw Blossom sitting on the floor with her back turned to her. "Blossom, what's goin' on? Why am Ah here?"
"You're here because you and I have some things to talk about." Blossom turned her head and looked into Apple Seed's eyes. "I assure you that they're most important."
Apple Seed's lower jaw quivered, and she tried to pull one of her forelegs out of the straps. "Blossom, you don't halfta do this! Ah'm yer sister!"
Blossom let out a humorless chuckle. "Apple Seed, surely you've been keeping up with current events. I'm a serial killer. Hurting ponies is just what I do."
Apple Seed whimpered and a pair of tears streaked down her face. "Blossom--"
"Shut up, Apple Seed." Blossom pushed herself to her hooves and levitated a canvas bag over to her. "You and I are going to have a little chat. How much pain you go through and whether or not you survive tonight is going to depend entirely on how much you cooperate with me." Blossom ignited her horn and levitated a large butcher knife out of it. She trotted over to Apple Seed and ran the flat of the blade against her forehead. "And just so you don't get any ideas, we're out in the outskirts of Trottingham. We're in the basement of a recently deceased mare who rented out one of the rooms in her home to me. Nopony is going to hear us, so I suggest you save your breath and not scream. You're going to need it for our chat."
Apple Seed let out a sob and turned her head away from Blossom. Blossom frowned and jerked Apple Seed's head back over to her. "You don't get to get out of our talk that easily! If you don't want to talk to me, I'm going to break one of your legs, is that clear?!"
Apple Seed whimpered, but slowly nodded. "Yeah."
"Good." Blossom fired up her horn again and lifted a large hammer out of the bag. "Just so you know I'm not kidding about breaking your legs." Blossom put the hammer down on a nearby table. "Now. Let's talk about blame."
"What... what do ya mean?"
Blossom took a deep breath and tapped the knife on the table. "So, I think we can both agree that what I'm doing is bad, right?" Apple Seed squeezed her eyes shut and flinched away. Blossom rolled her eyes and spun her hoof. "Okay, at the very least the public at large seems to believe that. So, we're going to talk about who's to blame for what I'm doing."
"Blossom, please don't do this," Apple Seed whimpered. "You can just let me go, and mah mom'll thank you for it! S-she'd know that you're not all bad!"
"Well, you've clearly been ignoring what I've been up to," Blossom retorted. "But I'm asking you who is to blame for what I've done!" Blossom lifted the hammer in the air and tapped Apple Seed's left foreleg. "So, I need you to tell me who you think is to blame for all of this."
"Please just let me go!" Apple Seed wailed. "You don't have to do this!"
"Apple Seed, if you don't answer my question in five seconds I'll shatter your leg." She tapped Apple Seed's leg with the hammer again. "One... two..."
"NO! NO! DON'T!" Apple Seed screamed. "It's yer fault!"
Blossom cocked her head and frowned. "What, um... what makes you say that?"
"Y-you have ta take responsibility fer yer actions, Blossom! Ah know you ain't a bad mare, but you've done a lot of bad things!"
"Do you think that I'm the only pony responsible for what I do?"
Apple Seed sniffled and nodded. "Nopony else killed anypony!"
Blossom scoffed and rolled her eyes. "You know, I think you're aware that there's somepony else that shares at least some of the blame." Blossom put her hoof on Apple Seed's forehead and pushed her head back. "Why else would you be strapped to my table?"
Apple Seed's eyes snapped open. "Me?! W-what did Ah do?!"
"Well, let's think about it. What was the domino that led us where we are? My first genuine murders were when I was in prison." Blossom tapped the hammer a little harder on Apple Seed's hoof. "And who was the pony who pushed me to turn myself in?"
"Ah... Ah..."
"You." Blossom's face twisted into a snarl and she raised the hammer high. "IF YOU HADN'T TOLD ME TO TURN MYSELF IN, NEITHER OF US WOULD BE HERE RIGHT NOW!"
Before Apple Seed could do so much as scream, Blossom swung the hammer down with all of her might. A resounding crack echoed throughout the basement as the bones in Apple Seed's left foreleg shattered. Apple Seed's shrieks of pain echoed through the basement. She struggled to pull her right foreleg out of the strap trapping it as Blossom moved down to Apple Seed's left hind leg.
"If you don't stop screaming, I'll break this now. If you scream too much we can't talk." She tapped Apple Seed's leg again. "Shut. Up."
Apple Seed began hyperventilating, but she stopped screaming. "Blossom... p-please stop!"
"Well, that's up to you. Now, why might you be at fault for this?"
"Ah don't know!" Apple Seed wailed. "Ah... Ah don't see why this is mah fault!"
Blossom's eyes narrowed and she slammed the hammer on Apple Seed's hind leg, once again shattering the bones. "BECAUSE IT CAN'T BE ALL MY FAULT!!!" Blossom swung the hammer down and broke Apple Seed's other hind leg. "I KILLED A PREGNANT MARE! I MURDERED MY MOTHER AND GRANDPARENTS! I CANNOT BE THE ONLY PONY RESPONSIBLE!"
"Please stop!" Apple Seed screamed. " Ah'm sorry!"
"Sorry doesn't cut it! Sorry doesn't bring them all back!" Blossom moved over to Apple Seed's remaining leg. "I accept that I'm an evil, evil mare! I know I'm going to burn in Tartarus with my aunt! It can't be all my fault! It can't be all on me that I killed those ponies!"
"Ah'm sorry!" Apple Seed began loudly sobbing. "Ah don't wanna die!"
"If you hadn't forced me to turn myself in, I would have gotten help from Dr. Mind and I'd be happy! My mom would still be alive! Everypony I've ever killed would be safe at home! I killed them, I know that, but if you hadn't told me to turn myself in, Aunt Rarity wouldn't have convinced me to kill!"
"Ah don't want to die!" Apple Seed sobbed. "Ah... Ah wanna go home!"
Blossom raised the hammer high. "Speaking of that, I've heard that Princess Celestia hired a few farmhooves to work on your farm while you're away. I think I know who to go after when I'm in Ponyville next." Blossom smirked at the broken pony on the table. "One more to go, Apple Seed, then we'll find other ways to play."
Blossom put her hoof on Apple Seed's remaining leg, steadying it as she aimed her hammer right at the knee joint. Just as she was about to swing it down, she heard Apple Seed squeak out two weak words.
"A-Apple Blossom..."
Blossom's grip on the hammer faltered, and she lowered it a half of an inch. She lifted her hoof off of Apple Seed's leg and slowly turned her head to her sobbing friend. Tears streamed down Apple Seed's face, and her mouth weakly twitched a she fought to spit out words."Y-y-yer r-right. I-it's all mah fault!"
Blossom raised her eyebrow and slowly lowered her hammer. "What did you say?"
"It's mah fault! Ah sh-shouldn'ta told you to turn yerself in. Yer right. I-it's all mah fault."
Blossom stared at Apple Seed for a few seconds, then exhaled deeply and dropped the hammer on the floor. She backed up until she hit the wall, then slid onto her haunches. "It's not all my fault," she whispered. She chuckled slightly, and a small smile crossed her face. "It's not my fault. I'm not that bad of a mare."
"Apple Blossom... Ah wanna go home," Apple Seed squeaked. "It h-hurts."
"I know," said Blossom softly. She took a deep breath and pushed herself to her hooves. "It's good that you're taking responsibility, Apple Seed." Blossom fired up her horn and summoned her knife. "It's not all your fault. I share some of the blame too."
"It's mah fault!" Apple Seed moaned. "Ah'm sorry that Ah betrayed you like that, Apple Blossom."
Blossom smiled fondly at Apple Seed and raised the knife high. "I know you are." She began gently stroking Apple Seed's mane. "I forgive you."
* * * *
A few hours later, the three elder members of the Apple family burst into the emergency room. "Where is she?!" Apple Bloom wailed. "Where is mah daughter?!"
The mare at the front desk widened her eyes and shot to her hooves. "Are you Apple Seed's family?"
"Yes!" Apple Bloom sobbed. "Where is she?!"
"A few EMTs found her on the sidewalk. Three of her legs had been broken and she suffered a deep stab wound. She was lying in a pool of her own blood. The wound seemed to have been hastily closed, but it came back open when she hit the sidewalk."
"Is she gonna make it?" Applejack questioned.
The receptionist sighed and shrugged. "I don't know. I'm not a doctor. I saw her when they brought her in and if you ask me, she was lucky to have survived as long as she did."
The double doors behind the receptionist opened, and a doctor walked into the waiting room. "Are you Apple Seed's family?"
"Tell me she's gonna be okay, doc!" Apple Bloom wailed. "P-please tell me she's alive!"
The doctor took a deep breath, but slowly nodded. "Yes. She's alive and she's going to survive her wounds. I won't sugar coat it, though. It may be years before she fully recovers."
"Ah know Ah don't wanna ask, doc, but what did Blossom do to her?" asked Applejack.
The doctor grimaced and looked down at his chart. "As I'm sure you've been told, The New Nightmare stabbed her in the gut. It caused significant damage, but we managed to stop the bleeding and get her a blood transfusion. All of her legs save for her right foreleg were not only broken, they were shattered. She's in surgery now and we're doing our best to re-construct them."
"Is... is she ever gonna walk again?" Apple Bloom whispered.
"I..." The doctor closed his eyes and lowered his head. "If she's lucky, then she can begin trying to walk again at some point in the future. My guess is that it will be at least a year before that can happen, though."
Apple Bloom whimpered and collapsed onto her haunches. Applejack sat next to her and wrapped her forelegs around her sister's shoulders. "Shh," she soothed. "It's gonna be okay. Apple Seed is alive and she's gonna be okay. She's alive."
"You can go see her once she's out of surgery." He motioned over to the chairs littering the room. "You may wait here. If I understand correctly, Princess Celestia is sending an entire platoon of guards over. This hospital is going to be one of the most secure places in Equestria." The doctor put a comforting hoof on Apple Bloom's shoulder. "She's going to be okay. I will do everything in my power to make sure that she recovers."
* * * *
Nine hours later, the doctor came out of the double doors again. He wordlessly beckoned the Apples through the doors flanked by six royal guards. The doctor led the Apples to a small room where Apple Seed was lying on the bed.
"No!" Apple Bloom moaned.
Apple Seed was hooked up to a machine that measured her faint heart rate. An oxygen mask was fixed over her muzzle. A pair of IVs were in her forelegs, one with blood and the other a hydrating agent. To complete the picture, half of her face was wrapped up in bloody bandages, and three of her legs were wrapped up in large casts.
Apple Bloom ran over to her daughter and gently placed a hoof on her fore head. "Ah'm so sorry," she whimpered. "Ah'm sorry."
Apple Seed's eyes cracked open, and she locked eyes with her mother. "M... momma?"
"Ah'm here, Apple Seed. Momma's here, Momma's got you. Uncle Big Mac and Aunt Applejack are here too."
"Momma..." Apple Seed croaked. "Ah'm sorry. Ah was dumb."
"No, Apple Seed. You weren’t dumb," Applejack insisted.
"I did something really bad, Momma," Apple Seed whispered.
"No you didn't," Apple Bloom assured her. "You did nothin' wrong."
"Everythin' that happened with Blossom, everythin' that she did. I... it's mah fault, Momma. It's mah fault."
"Don't say that, Apple Seed," Apple Bloom sobbed. "What Blossom did ain't yer fault!"
"She wanted help, but Ah told her to turn herself in. She killed a pregnant mare. She killed her ma and her grandparents." Tears began streaking down her face and she squeezed her eyes shut. "That's mah fault, Momma. It's mah fault! Ah was so mean to her!"
Apple Seed's heart rate monitor began beeping more rapidly, and the doctor shot over to her. "Nurse! Nurse get in here with a sedative! Her heart rate is at a dangerous level!"
"It's all my fault!" Apple Seed screamed. "Everypony who died has me ta blame! Momma, Ah'm sorry! Blossom's right; it's mah fault!"
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Well, Apple Seed's broken
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Ima go read some comedy now to get rid of Nightmares. Thanks
I think Blossom broke Apple Seed.
I forgot that didn't happen in your universe...
Something struck me as a bit strange in this chapter: why would Celestia hide RD and Scootaloo (both wonderbolts ergo great flying pegasie) in a city other than Cloudsdale or Las pegasus wich are the only cities that were almost sure Blossom can't reach?
Poor Blossom...
Is this? Could it be? I must read this immediately! Clearly, since he said Apple, the entire Apple family is about to be murdered, twice! Mwahahaha!
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2734702 Yes it did. Remember, the original story left canon in Season 2, long after the Gala, which was during the period of time when Rarity was supposedly 'cleansed' be the Elements.
2734842 Fair point. I'll change it to Pinkie and the Cakes.
Wow, ok. I'm guessing this was the chapter you hinted at the other day, and you're right is was a brilliant read, much more akin to the classic Rarity days, well done sire well done!
M should by My
I think "in" shouldn't have a comma.
By the way great chapter, we finally got a torture scene and it was a well executed one too.
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I'm a tad surprised though. She's definitely to blame for convincing her to turn herself in, but what about for sparing her? For convincing her to live? I think that was far more damaging. The Apple's convinced her not to give up, and to fight Rarity. Then they left, leaving her alone with a doctor and a couple prison guards to a miserable life.
So, is she saving that guilt trip for when she kidnaps Apple Bloom or something? The whole apple family is almost as much to blame as Apple Seed.
It was still awesome though. I'm going to imagine Apple Seed having her legs shattered. I bet Blossom was a real jerk too, and shattered them at the joints, to make sure she never walked again. I was dissappointed she didn't straight up kill her. Then, the way you had her laying in a hospital bed with three legs shattered beyond repair on iv fluids & casts.... awesome. A fate worse than death. She blames herself, and is a cripple.
Blossom is a good pony. She left Apple Seed one unbroken arm to wipe herself with. Hopefully, we get to see more of Blossom's good side. Maybe she can maim Comet's mother / her step-mother, because that mare was a meany pants.
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And I bet that order 42 Celestia doesn't want them to enact is this: Celestia orders the execution of Comet unless Blossom turns herself in. Celestia would start by publicly executing her step-mother, then father, then Comet. Blossom would have no choice but to turn herself in. I suppose Celestia isn't there... yet.... but I have high hopes that this will get a lot bloodier.
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Wrong. And Apple Seed is not responsible for what that bitch Blossom is doing. I hope Celestia will approve Alpha's plan
2735547 Of course she isn't, but that doesn't mean that Blossom isn't going to torture her until she says otherwise.
2735481 Fixed.
... heh... executed.
2735537 The Apples didn't just leave her alone, Blossom refused to see anypony because she didn't want them to see her degraded like she was.
So you're the medic. Would shattering them at the joints mean that she doesn't walk again?
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She'd need a titanium joint, or magic. That's how most people end up with cool bionic limbs. Usually the hip or shoulder ball and socket joint gets smashed, and they get titanium bits screwed in...
It's up to you, though, how bad they were shattered and where. I imagine she hit her equivalent of tibia & fibula and that they did their best to line them up, like this:
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But if it's something like total annhilation (this is the best I could find) then she's gonna need super cool titanium limbs.
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Here's what her awesome new 'elbow' would look like (if she had a human elbow. Horses have elbows, just not like ours.)
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And if she got one of these:
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she gets one of these:
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And they jam the spike into her femur equivalent, and build her faster... stronger.... metalic-er...
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Seriously, considering she actually let a pony live for a change you could have so much fun with Apple Seed's physical, psychological, and emotional torment. With determination, metal bits to either help heal or replace broken bones, and time, she'll surely walk again.
Either that, or Blossom will come back and kill her because we all know when a horse breaks a leg, it's the right thing to do.
p.s. can you tell I love looking at xrays?
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What on earth did they stick up there?
p.p.s. How could would it be if Seed tries to kill herself, but fails because she has only one good arm?
2735724 The first x-ray is pretty much how I imagined it, yes. She does get metal bits to repair it (and magic, of course).
Let's be honest here; Apple Seed almost-blackmailing Blossom into confessing was a really bad idea in the long run.
2735806 As she seems to have just found out.
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And then when Blossom was begging for a death to escape a life of torment and suffering... Apple Seed convinced her to live.
I think Blossom let her off easy, though she seemed to be more relieved just to hear an admission that the murders, especially the unborn foal, weren't her burden to bear alone.
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Woohoo! I love it when a pony gets metal rods, screws, magical surgeries, and casts to put their bones back together. It's much more realistic than "Suddenly, Celestia healed it." Also, I like watching ponies suffer.
"Now Apple Seed, this isn't your fault -"
"YES IT IS! I EMOTIONALLY BLACKMAILED AN EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE BLOSSOM INTO CONFESSING WHICH MADE THE PAST 20 YEARS OF HER MOTHER'S LIFE MEANINGLESS AND THEN WHEN SHE WANTED TO BE EXECUTED BECAUSE SHE KNEW SHE'D KILL SOMEPONY ELSE I TALKED HER OUT OF IT!"
"...Well shit, this really is your fault."
Hey BronyWriter i love this stories you wrote i only wants to say thank you for the good stories and i hope you wrote more
>Dat title
Hold me
Edit: Oh goodie, that was intense.
Ah, Celestia in Denial. How predictable.
About that "Order Forty Two"- I have a couple ideas about it's nature, and I'm sure we'll see it authorized pretty soon.
Now that would be interesting.
Other than that, the interaction between Seed and Blossom was predictable as hell, but man... You're truly a wonderfull writer, BronyWri...
What's up with that name, anyway?
Back on topic- I knew how this chapter will end and everything, but still...
...
Ugh, I can't even say that properly. I hope you get what I want to say.
Anyway, poor Seed, poor Blossom.
...and that's all I have to say right now.
Post scriptum
You don't know that, silly.
We don't even know if Rarity got there.
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That's like, your opinion, man.
Oh, and Alpha's plan probably involves something like kidnapping Comet and threatening they'll kill her if Blossom doesn't give up, soooo... no.
2735855 Well, you gotta remember that Apple Seed is a member of the Apple Family, a family that places... well, family above all else. To somepony who was raised with those values, betraying the mare who gave birth to you like that would be the highest sin she could imagine, particularly when the crime was murder. I don't think that Apple Seed was trying to be cruel, it's just the values she was raised with coming out.
Bloody Hell BW, you weren't kidding! This chapter is awesome! I like how the mare and foals were Alpha's family. Gives the Ghosts even more of a personal connection to the case. If Blossom had killed them, I imagine Alpha would be taken off the case, due to him being to close to the victims and the case. But I gotta say, it was actually nice to see Blossom not kill somepony. Not because I'm tired of the death and torture, mostly because it shows that even during times where she seems calm and collected, her mental state is still broken.
Personally I look forward to Apple Seed's recovery, and how the rest of the Apple family and surviving Elements take the news of her attacking somepony so close, AND somepony that is supposed to have been in protective care. Something tells me Apple Bloom and Applejack are going to fly off the deep end. That, and with Scoots and Dash being pegasi, I wan't to see how she could get to one of them, or any other pegasus in Cloudsdale or somepony's cloud home.
2735816 I myself wonder why we never see something where the limb gets infected and needs to be removed. I think, in total, I can name only two stories where a pony gets a prosthetic limb, and one of them was a futuristic crossover where one gets some highly advanced bionic limb, where it was nigh pointless to mention she lost the limb at all, since the bionic leg was better than the original.
Madness...?
THIS
IS
AAAAAAAAAAAAPALOOSAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
(I'm so sorry)
My bet would be that Apple seed got so traumatized that when she heals up a bit she'll kill Applejack or Apple bloom out of guilt and so she can make it up to Blossom...
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And I thought my constant pleas to kill Twilight (for her memory alterations, and failure with the elements) was awesome. Your idea, my friend, is the best idea BronyWriter will ever get from a fan.
Apple Seed must murder Apple Bloom and AJ at once, to make up for her duplicity! All three of them helped Blossom get pardoned. I'm thinking double murder/suicide.
Oh, then Blossom kills the elements while they're under protective custody, just to prove she can. Ha, take that Celestia!
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Is that your breaking point? I thought it was earlier.
2737662 Nope. Rarity was caught and executed right after the Iron Will episode which is about halfway through season 2.
2737672 Right, right, I just figured you stopped paying attention to canon about halfway through season one, then just added in an episode when you felt like it.
Would you consider doing a killer vs killer fic?
2737752 Nope. The way I see it, it's all canon until her capture.
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Gotcha.
Do you have a fan club yet?
2737786 I do not. I'm not the type of guy who starts his own fan club. I would not stop you from doing it, though.
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Yay!
I love you.
i dont even have time anymore to react to all your rapid fire awesomeness
I was about to get really pissed off if Blossom got caught by those guards. She needs to at least beat rarity's kill count first.
Fantastic, as always. Kinda surprised that she let Apple Seed live.
By the way, i bought the shirt with Rarity's bloody list, and it's awesome.
2755903 I will never confirm or deny that Rarity got into paradise. The whole point of the ending was redemption. Blossom was redeeming herself for Rarity's and her actions by sacrificing herself to protect her family. There are certainly still tragic elements to the ending. Look at Sweetie Belle. Her daughter was just executed. That's pretty tragic.
Having said that, I do really love this ending too and if you want to see it as canon, I won't stop you.
2756339 This is true, though, like I said, the heaven thing still really lessons the impact of those tragic points. You just know that, in the end, everything will turn out OK. I just would have liked it if that scene didn't happen. Like I said it takes the fun out of it. For instance, its fun wondering what the outcome was for Rarity. That's my two bits anyway. Its not like I'm demanding to remove it or anything (yes I am)
but I just didn't care for it much. Just call it a personal pet peeve.
2757996 Well, either way you still have this story.
2758018True, which I am quite enjoying by the way. I love the SCP feel of the first few chapters. Also I missed the grimdark of the first story.
I'm surprised that you made a sequel to the non cannon ending. Usually its the other way around...
Moar Killer-rarity! Yay!
Last chapter's end was... heart-wrenching, to say the least. I found it odd Rarity didn't appear whatsoever in this chapter, but I didn't mind. Her angle is rather odd. I like the idea 2735537 had about 42. That'd be pretty exciting♥ Anyhoof, keep writing!
2763754 Rarity didn't appear because that torture scene was a private moment between the two of them.