Equestria Girls: Secrets Beyond the Stars

by GoldenGoomba900

Fluttershy Mans Up

Swinging around, the girls gasped in horror, coming face-to-face with Inapan's laser pistol. "I invited myself in, I needed to make get even, and get a few things back. Those two girls at front tried to stop me... or maybe they were going to run past me. But it doesn't matter, they're just some green sludge now." The group put their hands up, shaking. "Now, I suppose you're wondering why I'm here... I assume it's the same reason those three are." She points to Dash, Rarity, and Applejack. "But that doesn't matter. What does matter is that I can kill all of you right now, then bring you back, then kill you again, and repeat the process until I feel content."

She smiled and motioned the group out of the room, out into the front lawn. They walked past the two puddles of green slime Inapan had talked about, the only thing left of Lemon and Indigo being the headphones she'd worn. Sweetie Belle was crying again, this time joined by Apple Bloom.

"On your knees." Inapan coldly demanded, the girls following orders. "It's amazing how easy this is now that I have a handgun. It's like you earthlings never considered the fact I might use this again! You built no counters, you had no plans, you just pretended it never happened!"

She took a deep breath and laughed, heartily. "I am going to enjoy this, Equestria Girls. But I suppose, if anything, I should do this in order of how much it will break you." She looked at the girls, lined up, and smiled. "Now, first is-" she fired at Rainbow, turning her into a puddle of slime. The girls shouted in horror at how sudden she chose, mortified. Inapan went to the puddle and let her laser pistol suck up the remains, Scootaloo finally crying as she shouted "no" over and over again.

"J-just relax, she said she could bring us back!" Sweetie Belle said, trying to reassure Scootaloo. Another blast, the crusaders turned to see Rarity a pile of ooze.

"What do we do?" Apple Bloom asked AJ, who said nothing and kept her head down. Inapan hummed, moving to Applejack.

"Any last words?" She took off the cowgirl's hat to look her in the eyes. In Applejack's face was a look of defiance, a look of anger and bitterness, and a look of no surrender.

"Just one request." She announced. "Look behind you." Inapan's iris' shrunk to pin-pricks and she turned around, expecting to see something coming behind her. Someone with a weapon, or a dangerous vehicle coming careening towards her. Instead Applejack lunged, forcing the alien to drop her laser pistol and fight mano-a-mano. Well, cowgirl-a-princess, but that's just semantics.

"Run!" Applejack shouted, holding onto Inapan as the alien tried to remove her. The crusaders did not need to be told twice, dashing into the mansion for safety.

Inapan tossed Applejack to the ground, the cowgirl wishing she'd grabbed her mask back at camp. The alien girl ran towards her ray pistol, Applejack coming from behind and shoulder-bashing her to the ground. Grabbing the pistol, Inapan turned and Applejack lept onto her, holding the pistol into the air, both of the girls struggling to push it to one-another. Laserblasts fired wildly into the air, the girls groaning and shouting as the pistol stood straight up.

Inside, the crusaders panicked and began barricading the front door. Being that they were three 12 year old girls, the barricade was constructed of a single couch, a few chairs, a moderately-sized table, and a vase with a flower in it.

"We need to call the police!" Sweetie shouted to her friends, taking out her phone.

"What the hay will the police do? We need the fire department!" Apple Bloom asked, grabbing her phone.

"We need those ghost hunting guys, they'll do something!" Scootaloo shouted and pulled out her phone. Before the girls could call their saviors, they heard one last laserblast from outside, then silence.

An obnoxious ringtone came, the girls looking at their phones, then at one-another before spotting Lemon's phone on the floor. Scootaloo picked it up while the other girls cautiously looked to the window to see what had happened outside.

"Hello?"

"Scootaloo?" Sunset asked, confused. "What's going on there?"

"Oh thank god!" Scoots shouted. "Get over here, that alien lady showed up, she has a gun, and she's shot a bunch of people!"

"What?! Oh dear Celestia, we'll be right over!"

"Hurry! We don't know what happened to Applejack!"

Sunset turned to look at Twilight, both of them trying to get up, but their injuries stopping them. They moaned in agony, but between Sunset's third degree burns and Twilight's cracked ribs, they both knew they'd not not get very far.

"Fluttershy!" Twilight called out to the quiet girl, who'd begun making lunch a short while ago.

"Twilight? Is something wrong?" She asked, turning around. "I'm sorry, but I was making this veggie stew and I got distracted by that rare woodpecker in the trees..."

"Nevermind the woodpecker!" Sunset shouted. "The girls are in trouble, Inapan's found them and she has a gun!"

"Oh dear, I-I'll get the police and-"

"There's no time, we can hardly walk and they're panicked. Take your mask and go to Lemon's mansion!"

"But the soup?"

"We can handle the soup, just go!" Fluttershy grabbed her mask and ran to the city, trying her best not to hurt any unwary animals on her path.

Meanwhile, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle looked around the front yard, trying to see what happened. The puddles of slime that were once Indigo and Lemon had began to slowly flow down the pavement, but nothing else. "I don't see anyone... did they just leave o-"

"Look out!" Sweetie shouted, pushing Apple Bloom out of the way as Applejack crashed through the window, landing in a heap.

"Oh no..." Apple Bloom said, approaching her sister. "Applejack, are you OK? Please, please answer me! Say something! Anything! Come on!" Before she could check for a pulse, Inapan's cruel laugh came from the window as she climbed in, the crusaders scattering.

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Minutes passed as Fluttershy approached the manor, Inapan's laser pistol lay behind the gate, with two large puddles of slime nearby. Cautiously entering, Fluttershy picked up the laser pistol, unaware her two friends were inside. Scratching her head, she looked at the dials on the gun.

"HELP!" Scootaloo shouted, spotting Fluttershy from a bedroom window.

"Scootaloo!" She gasped, tossing the pistol aside, it firing the laser at the puddles as she ran inside through the garage.

Passing between Lemon's family limo, Fluttershy opened the garage door, into the mess that was once Lemon's nice home. The floor were broken picture frames, tables, sofas. The walls were dented and some even had holes punched clean through them. Fluttershy put on her mask, breathing deeply to try and stay calm, and to be ready to attack in case any-"Fluttershy!"

Fluttershy screamed and turned around, the mask accentuating her voice to that of a death metal concert. Fluttershy opened her eyes to see that her attacker was gone, and on the ground was Apple Bloom, clutching her ears.

"Oh my lord, I think I'm deaf!" She shouted, Fluttershy realizing the mistake and going to comfort her. Taking off her mask, Fluttershy helped the little girl to her feet, where she lost her balance anyways.

"Oh, no, relax, it's just Tinnitus. D-don't worry, it'll go away in a little while, but you need to get out of here."

"WHAT?"

"Get out, go find somewhere safe."

"Why do we need to open Lemon's safe!?"

"No, that's not-" She snapped her fingers and began telling Applebloom to leave using sign language.

"What are you doing!?"

"Sign langua- oh." She sighed, grabbed a pen and paper and wrote out the instructions.

"Oh! Why didn't you just say so?!" Apple Bloom did as ordered, Fluttershy getting back to searching.

Upstairs, Inapan had Sweetie Belle cornered, up until Fluttershy's screech came from downstairs. Inapan stopped cold and began clutching her ears. Sweetie took this chance, plugging hers as well. Shaking her head, the alien took a deep breath and turned towards the staircase. She couldn't hear anything, but she knew by process of elimination the only source could have come from a third party. The alien carefully descended the staircase, seeing Fluttershy looking for he girls. She shouted for them, but Princess's blown out ears couldn't hear her. Fortunately, as Fluttershy turned to look in the kitchen, it would appear they both were on even ground. Taking off her power limiter, Inapan's wings sprung forth, letting her take to the air and silently stalk her opponent from above.

"Girls?" Fluttershy asked, looking under the kitchen sink. "Girls, I-it's just me... I'm not here to hurt you! But I'm sorry if I did! I didn't mean too!" She continued to the basement door, opening it and making a soft squeak noise at the darkness. She tried the lightswitch, finding it had no effect when she heard a loud thump from behind her. Turning carefully, she shook in worry, hoping that her gut feeling was wrong, and that she was in no danger at all. Inapan's pointed smile was all she saw before Princess shoved her down the staircase.

Holding out her hands, flailing hopelessly, she felt not as if she was falling, the inky blackness covering her senses, she felt instead that the world was moving around her at a greater speed, and she was floating helplessly.

Finally, she hit the bottom, her mask falling out of her pocket as the alien descended the stairwell. Inapan's translucent wings shone through the blackness, cascading an aura of malevolence while the front of her face remained indistinguishable, all except for the pointed corners of her crooked, evil smile. Fluttershy tried moving, pain wracking through her body as she turned to her front, scrambling to find her mask before Inapan could go for the killing blow. With the her vision gone, she could only use her hearing to attempt to determine how close Inapan was to finding her. Step. Step. Step. Panting and hearing the footsteps grow ever more closer, Fluttershy crawled through the basement, searching for her mask and maneuvering through stacks of boxes and old Hearths Warming decorations.

"I am not a difficult woman." Inapan began, her descent continuing. "I ask for simple things: a man to love, a source of energy to use, and creatures to follow my word, even just a little bit. I would have been FINE with being ignored, at least then I would try other things, and make new ideas. I would have been very, very happy if everything went to plan. Your stupid planet would still be here and you may very well be on it." Fluttershy felt something on the floor and put it on, breathing heavily and waiting for the last moment to turn the tables on her, effectively deafening the alien. "Yet you did neither of those. You didn't leave me be, you didn't follow orders, you did as much as you possibly could to make me mad. Now you will die. You will die like your best friends did: on their knees, begging." Fluttershy's eyes opened wide as Inapan's words entered her mind.

"I blasted them into puddles of thin gruel, Fluttershy. They felt NOTHING but a single bolt of pain. But you and Applejack, oh, if Applejack's still alive she will be joining you in a far more horrifying experience than being torn from the afterlife and sent back repeatedly like the white and blue ones will." Inapan bragged as she knocked aside boxes, growing closer to Fluttershy's location. "What you two will feel is the pain of mind control. I recently learned that, if exposed too long, the human mind will eventually deteriorate into nothing. What I plan to do is expose you to the minimum amount of our radiation so that over the course of weeks you feel your minds fall apart piece by piece, until you're a slug laying in a puddle of your own fluids, unable to move, see, speak, or hear. But you will be very much alive."

"Leave Applejack alone!" Fluttershy finally shouted, carefully getting up.

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