Fluttershy walked out of Sugercube Cornor, and began her walk home. After Princess Twilight left them, the table was covered in an uncomfortable silence that she just couldn't take anymore.
As she walked past the window where her friends were seated, she gave them a weak smile and a wave. Pinkie gave a wave goodbye, Rarity simply smiled, Rainbow Dash was looking down at her phone, and Applejack was... not there.
She felt a hand on her shoulder, and saw Applejack behind her in the reflection of the window. "Oh... What s it?" she asked nervously.
"Just thought Ah might as well walk with you," Applejack replied, "This ain't the time to be on our own."
"I guess not," Fluttershy replied. The two girls removed their gaze from the glass window, and began walking down the snow covered street together.
"What the hell happened this last week?" Applejack asked. Fluttershy didn't reply, "Why'd I do it?" she asked glumly.
"It wasn't just you AJ," Fluttershy replied, "we all... misjudged her, an-"
"Then why'd WE do it?" Applejack interrupted, "Ah mean, sure, maybe some of the other students still held something against her, but we didn't, we were her friends! So why the hell did we do it!" AJ asked, "Why didn't we believe her?"
"...Applejack..." Fluttershy began. Strangely, she sounded quite, freightened, of all things.
"Flutters, ya alright?" Applejack asked.
"...Can I... Ask you something..." Fluttershy asked.
"Uh... Acourse. What is it?" Applejack replied.
"Well... Promise you'll tell me the truth."
"What kind of promise is that? You know I ain't no lier!" AJ replied. She had to admit, she felt a bit insulted by that.
"Well, ok..." Fluttershy came to a stop, and took a deep breath, then another, then another.
"Yall sure you're alright, Shy?" AJ asked, stopping just ahead of her.
"Did you... Did you really believe it was her?" Fluttershy asked nervously.
"What..?" Applejack asked.
"Well, I mean, did you really think it was Sunset that was doing this?" Fluttershy asked, "Because I..."
"You what?"
"Well, did you?" Fluttershy asked for a third time.
"I..." Applejack sighed, "Ah did, I don't know why, but I did think it was her."
"That's what I was afraid you'd say..." Fluttershy mumbled.
"Well, actually, Ah think I do know why," AJ continued. "It's just like Twilight said, we've all known her as a manipulative bully who always gets her way for about three years, and a friend for a few months." she sighed, "And probably cus it was easier to blame her than it was help her."
"wlididbelevhr..." Fluttershy mumbled weakly.
"What was that?"
"I'll tell you, but... Well actually it doesn't really matter right now so there's no point in..." Fluttershy blurted out at a much faster pace.
"Fluttershy!" The girl stopped her rambling. "Just calm down, and tell me." Applejack put her hand on her friends shoulder reasuringly, "This is about earlier, ain't it?"
"Um..."
"When we were reading Rainbow's text, you said something about what you'd done, didn't you?" AJ asked.
"You... Heard that?" Fluttershy asked nervously.
Applejack nodded. "I ain't gonna judge you or nothing, Ah'm not proud of what I've done either, but keeping it to yourself ain't gonna help nobody." She gave a smile, in a attempt to make Fluttershy feel more comfortable. "So, is there anything you wanna say?"
"Well... Okay," Fluttershy replied nervously, before taking a deep breath. "I believed Sunset was innocent!!!" Shy said.
Applejack removed her hand from Fluttershy's shoulder, as her face twisted in confusion as she processed what her friend had said. "Huh..? You... You knew she was... Why didn't... What!?!?"
"Well, not at first. I mean, initially, yeah, I thought Sunset was to blame, but, after... I, I just knew it wasn't her."
"You knew she was innocent?" Applejack realized what Fluttershy had said.
"Well, like I said, it wasn't until I-"
"How did you? W...How???" Applejack asked.
Fluttershy walked over to a nearby shop wall, and sat down, resting her back on the wall. "It was, um..."
"Yeah," AJ walked over and sat next to Fluttershy, "How did you figure it out?" she asked.
"It was," Fluttershy began, "it was when Anon... those three girls I guess would be more appropriate now we know who it was, put out that thing about me, two days ago..."
"You mean about you and Angel Bun-"
"Yeah, that," Fluttershy interrupted, a slight blush of embarrassment appeared on her face, "Well, when that was let out, I... I snapped at her..."
"Yeah, Ah heard about that, how 'Fluttershy stood up to Sunset'," AJ replied.
"It's something I'll never forgive myself for..." Fluttershy mumbled as she recalled the events, and told AJ what had happened.
Two days ago.
Fluttershy stood in front of her open locker, with an embarrassing blush on her face. Sunset was stood behind her, trying to talk to her. "Fluttershy, I'd never do this, you know that, right?"
"Go, away, Sunset..." Fluttershy mumbled, "Haven't you done enough to me by now?"
"But It's not me! I swear!" Sunset replied.
The most recent Anon-A-Miss post had been about Fluttershy, and it was quite a personal one.
Did you know Fluttershy showers with her pet rabbit, Angel Bunny? I mean, I know she's an animal lover and all that, but if you ask me, that's a little to far on the creepy side of things.
Classes had just ended, and people were now flooding out of their classroom, and a couple of people decided to pass a quick comment as they rummaged through their own locker right next to Fluttershy.
"Isn't that the girl who showers with her bunny?"
"She does what?!"
"Yep. Haven't you seen the most recent Anon-A-Miss post?"
"She showers with her pet rabbit? Oh come on, that one can't be real!"
"Well, every single one of her posts so far have been true, and do you see the look on her face?"
"Don't say that, she'll look over at us."
"Good point."
Fluttershy began quietly sobbing in her locker. "Why would you do this?"
"Fluttershy, I'm not doing this, please just hear me out!"
"I thought our friendship meant something to you Sunset..." she sobbed. "Was this all you wanted? To find out personal things about us and spread them around, all just for laughs?"
"Of course your friendship is important to me!" Sunset begged. "You five girls are all I have..."
"Then why are you doing this?!" Fluttershy asked.
"But I'm no-"
"Well I didn't tell anyone else about... You know... So of course it was you!" Fluttershy yelled into her locker.
"We were in the cafeteria when you told me that! Someone on a nearby table must have overheard you..." Sunset said.
"Someone from the nearest table?" Fluttershy replied, "So you're saying it was one of the younger students? Like Button Mash, or Applebloom?!"
"Fluttershy, listen to me!" Sunset cried.
I'm not really sure why, but when she said that, I lost it with her...
"Listen to you?!" Fluttershy began. her hand started shaking angrily. "You want me to just listen you!? Well I have!!!" she slammed her locker shut, angrily, "For three whole years I listened to you, I did whatever you wanted me to Sunset, without question!" she yelled.
"F...Flutter...Shy..?" Sunset stepped away nervously. Fluttershy's yelling had attracted the attention of the entire hallway, even the teachers popped their heads out of their classrooms.
"For three years, I was your own little bullying bag. You hurt me, assaulted me, and downright humiliated me for the last three years, AND I'M NOT TAKING IT ANYMORE!"
"Is that really Fluttershy?" one person asked.
"You go girl!" another said.
"And even after all this time..." Fluttershy continued, as her trembling hand slowly clinched into a fist, "THIS is your idea of revenge? This is PATHETIC!" Fluttershy spun around and grabbed Sunset's shirt, "YOU'RE PATHETIC SUNSET SHIMMER!!! WE ALL KNOW IT'S YOU SO WHY DON'T YOU JUST DISAPPEAR, AND... Never... come... back...."
Fluttershy froze on the spot.
The girl in front of her was trembling and crying with nothing but fear. Sunset was actually... afraid of Fluttershy, just like she was before. Everytime Sunset would demand something from Fluttershy, or would pick on her for whatever reason, Fluttershy would look just like Sunset did now. Truely, and utterly terrified.
It was right there. That was the exact moment I knew this wasn't her doing... but it was to late.
"Sun...Set..?"
Fluttershy's grip on Sunset's shirt weakend, quickly followed by Sunset who threw Fluttershy's hand off her shirt. "Fine, have it your way," Sunset cried before bolting down the hall as fast as she could.
"So you see, Applejack? I'm the reason she ran away, I know it!" Fluttershy cried.
"That's nonsense," AppleJack replied uneasily, "It's not your fault she ran away, it's all of our fault..."
Fluttershy got up off the ground, "But I told her that she should just disappear! If I didn't say that, maybe she would have been in school yesterday..." she took a deep breath, "Please don't tell the others about this, Applejack. Please!"
Before Applejack could reply, Fluttershy broke out into an immediate sprint down the street. "Wait, hold up!!!" she shouted, but Fluttershy had already turned a corner, and was out of sight.
Applejack however, still had an unanswered question in her head. One that had been there since Fluttershy said she believed that Sunset was innocent. Why didn't she try to convince her friends that Sunset was innocent?
Well, that was a major bomb-drop.
Not that I think it really matters at this point. Sunset is done with all of them (even Twilight), so I don't see any way that any of them can get her back and be friends again.
But then again, I'm not the one writing this, so we'll see.
If we're keeping score, that's Rainbow cursing her out via text, Twilight ignoring her own Lesson Zero (taking a worried friend more seriously), and Fluttershy telling her to disappear. Did I miss anything?
If her own friends could do that to her, I'm wondering how much she really trusts the Dazzlings right now. Sure, the there-in-her-time-of-need factor might paint them pretty brightly in her eyes, but wasn't she in a similar boat after the Fall Formal? I'm not hoping for more disaster and drama, mind, but it wouldn't be much of a shock at this point.
I smell more moments...
Fluttershy reeks of untold secrets...
The body of friendship is decaying...the cloying scent of death...
Nice to See an Update. What Will Happen Next?
Strike One From Rainbow Dash: For Calling Sunset a She-Demon.
Strike Two From Twilight: For Not Responding to Her Message, Letting Sunset Suffer for the Whole Week While She Was Having Fun, and Appearing Late After "Anon a Miss" Confessed.
Strike Three From Fluttershy: For Calling Her Pathetic and Telling Her She Should Just Disappear. Even The Kindest Person Can Be The Cruelest's One of Them All.
I See No Redemption in any of Them For Sunset's Suffering. If Anything Sunset Should Just Abandoned Them, Just as They Did to Her. The CMC Should Also Receive Retribution Since They are The Ones Who Ruined Sunset's Life. (I Don't Care If They Did It as a Joke or Sheer Jealousy)
But Like Whitewolf_Stormrunner's Comment: "I'm not the one writing this, so we'll see."
Yes...We'll See What Happens Next...
I hope the CMC get punish for everything they did
7116354 One strike from Trixie, who said that she immediately blamed Sunset as soon as this began, and was pretty much the ringleader. Unless you just mean the humane 5 and Twi.
Okay...this just keeps getting worse! Wow...to even have Fluttershy hit rock bottom there...ouch. Great chapter, can't wait for more!!!
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I did just mean her friends, but no reason we can't make it comprehensive. Though, I think that would mean extending it to the entire school, since apparently no one at all stood up for her. Come to think of it, the board is probably going to read 'Poor Sunset' no matter what the tally is by the end of this. Even if it all ends Sunshine and Rainbows, this is definitely leaving scars, and on more than Sunset at that.
Oh it's just getting worse and worse...
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In one story, they actually got expelled.
So, are we going back to Sunset and the sirens soon? Or any of the other students at CHS?
Jeez...I don't know which is worse,
Rainbow calling Sunset a She-Demon through text, Twilight not responding to Sunset's messages or Fluttershy calling Sunset pathetic and telling her to disappear?
Probably the last one because it's more painful in person then through text, but then again, they're all bad.
I never understood how that IDW story even worked. I mean, seriously it was a plot point of the movie that Sunset broke them apart with just a couple SMSs. The humane five then basically destroyed their own friendship by jumping to conclusions and being to stubborn to talk to each other afterwards. You'd think that they had learned something from that, but nooooo....
These girls are horrible friends.
Good story though, keep up the drama
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Ok, I know I read this story, but do you remember which one it was? I've read way too many of these stories
7116696 This one
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Hey that entire comic was a stupid poorly thought out idiot plot. And they took an important issue and completely mangled it; Cyberbullying is not an issue that can be dealt with lightly. If they were going to do this, they should have had it as a two or four course issue, not a Holiday Special!
I take cyberbullying very personally; I had a cousin who tried to kill himself when these three guys spread false and horrible rumors about him on Twitter. Fortunately, they managed to get my cuz to the hospital in time, and those %#&$$& got expelled and served time in juvenile hall. But needless to say, when I read the comic, it opened up a lot of old wounds.
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What's that story called?
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thnx
Well, that was sad...
So,
Twi didn't respond
Dash cussed her out in text messaging
And...now Flutters, the usually quietest one, told, no, yelled at her to disappear...
Yeah, I would trust the Dazzlings at this point too, Sunset.
7116787 I totally agree mate, this is not the kind of subject you fuck around with.
Just a bad as the Tantabus episode, really. Self harm is also something, you don't fuck around with and fuck around they did.
7116620 It doesn't matter which one is worse. The point is: as of now; except for the Dazzlings, everyone (or everyhuman if you wanna go by that) just bought themselves a ticket on the Guilt Express. And; call me heartless if you want to, but I for one hope they enjoy it.
Fluttershy, how could you?
......... fluttershy you bitch!
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Thanks for agreeing. That comic made me give up on the IDW MLP comics in general; they always mess the stories up, and they've gotten worse over time. I mean, seriously, they need to clean up their act before nobody's interested in them anymore.
7116787 Here's the link
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Thanks dude
Fluttershy really screwed up, and i hope the others hear what she did and said.
They all failed her as friends and hurt her so much.
Fluttershy really screwed up, i thought Dash did the worst but flutters just took the top spot.
Not just what she said but for what she failed to say, tell everyone she felt Sunset was innocent but instead she became a true coward.
damn. for someone so kind, never thought Fluttershy would be so cruel.
So Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Twilight failed to be a good friend to Sunset. Bravo you idiots maybe this will teach to think more. Are you gonna do the next few chapters on how Rarity and Pinkie Pie messed up with Sunset? If not then this is just a suggestion. You know I'm very excited to see how the student body would react on how much they messed up. They think that saying sorry and throwing a party would fix this then you are bigger idiots then I thought. This will take more then a simple apoligy and party to fix this.
Who woo update!
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It's what happens when someone who gives their all, who cares selflessly for everyone around them, is pushed past the breaking point. All the tension they have bottled up, all the anger and pain they soothed for others... it comes pouring out, magnified a hundred fold by their own intended needs and pains. It is a terrible thing to witness, and when a caring person is pushed that far, it can break them completely... to the point that they are never quite themselves again
7116348 Given time for emotions to cool, she may be willing to give them a second chance. After all, she didn't honestly deserve one either, but it was still offered.
Also...
Excellent question, Applejack. Hopefully the answer is equally as good.
7128191 Hmmm, very good points there.
And indeed, in all counts.
I've got my fingers crossed for a reconciliation between Sunset and all the girls (and maybe them gaining a friendship with the Dazzlings).
But we'll see.
7128248 That would be my ideal outcome also, but we'll have to wait and see.
As to Fluttershy, to be honest, the explanation for why she kept quiet had best be a good one.
7128555 Yup.
As to this:
My thoughts exactly.
7128191 Considering how quickly the others turned on Sunset, and how it's been shown that Fluttershy doesn't really have her input taken seriously (see Rainbow Rocks), my guess is that she didn't say anything because
A. She thought they'd just blow her off.
B. She thought they turn on her for "siding" with Sunset
C. Both
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The answer is C. All of the above.
Wowee.
And that my dear Applejack would be the million-dollar question though I'm sure a lot of people had a lot of speculations on why she wouldn't
I'm like... the rabbit goes into the shower while she's showering... How is that a big deal? Lots of pets do that and people think it's cute. That is, short of she uses the rabbit to wash herself?