A Prank Gone Terribly Wrong

by 21latenighter

The beginning of a nightmare

Rainbow Dash smiled as she stirred up her latest batter of Prank cookies. Her Prank cookies were going to be flawless, as they would make all the ponies turn rainbow colored. She had acquired her special recipe from a shop in Cloudsdale called pranks and flanks, a shop dedicated to pranks and other various jokes. The teller had warned her about something like side effects of candy rotting teeth and maybe a slight amnesia.

She pulled out a pan of the cookies and marveled at her masterpieces. They steamed with the smell of chocolaty deliciousness. She smiled as she placed the cookies on a rack to cool. Over the past day and a half Rainbow Dash had made over two thousand of her special cookies. She had been in partnership with her prank buddie Pinkie Pie, but Pinkie had backed out because of the last prank she had done. They had pranked Spike again, giving him a thousand scrolls that said bananas that he sent to Celestia. She had been furious, and threatened to send the two ponies to the moon for a year.

She sighed as she placed the last batch of cookies on the cooling rack. The first part of her prank was done. She looked at her giant prank check list, make your special rainbow cookies. Second was to pack the cookies into boxes to give to the ponies of ponyville. Third was to watch and wait as the ponies walked out with rainbow stripes.

She groaned as she began to pack the prank cookies into the boxes. She would of had Pinkie to help her pack, but se had said that Dash had been taking it too far again. A few hours later she looked at the boxes of cookies she had just packed, Enough to place at every doorstep in ponyville. She sat down to take a break before she began to file the boxes in accordance to what part of Ponyville they were going to, one pile for the north side and Sweet Apple Acres, another pile for the west side and the market district. She made another pile for the east side and Ponyville boutique, and her last pile would go to the last pile would go to the south and the orphanage where Scootaloo was, and she would meet up with the young filly and laugh at the hilarious prank.

Rainbow began carrying boxes out and flying them to the various homes of Ponyville, dropping them on the doorstep before ringing the doorbell and flying away to the next house and doing the same. As she passed the castle, she seen what appeared to be a stink eye from Spike, who had said if she tried to prank them again that he would have Twilight turn her into a banana and send her to Celestia. She made sure to drop two boxes off at the castle, smiling at the thought of herself looking like a banana. Once she had delivered all of the boxes, she would rest at the orphanage for an hour or so before flying out and yelling out to the ponies that she was the pony that turned them into rainbow ponies for the day.

As she flew over to the orphanage however, something just didn't seem right. The town seemed quiet, too quiet. She flew over to one of the houses that she had delivered to earlier and looked through the window. There were cookies scattered across the floor and a couple glasses of milk on the table, they looked like they had been spilt, an obvious reaction to turning rainbow.

She caught a glimpse of carrot top, or what was supposed to be carrot top in the corner of her eye. She was walking slow and almost drunk, wobbling back and forth and groaning. Rainbow decided to fly inside and see how the cookies had tasted, having not trying them herself before delivering them.

She opened the door slowly and stepped inside, looking inside for the pony she had seen from the window. She heard a grunt coming from the room to her left, and walked slowly to the doorway and seen what she could only describe as a nightmare. Carrot Top was standing over what looked to be daisy, and Daisy looked to have bite marks in her neck, and chunks of flesh missing from her side. What truly terrified Rainbow however was the fact that Carrot Top had blood dripping from her mouth and had a look of pure hunger upon her face.

"Carrot Top?" Rainbow Dash asked slowly, looking at the pony standing in front of her.

The pony heard the voice and turned around and looked to Rainbow Dash. She began to groan as she wobbled toward Rainbow, her eyes wide, almost with fright, but her facial expression was only of hunger, hunger that could only be quenched by that of pony flesh. Rainbow backed up slowly, trying to avoid the walls, keeping her eyes fixed on Carrot Top, who only began to draw closer to the rainbow maned Pegasus. Rainbow backed out of the door way, and before the pony was able to reach the same doorway, rainbow slammed the door and locked it. The door then pounded from the other side, as the pony beat on the door, trying to get through the obstacle that was now it it's way.

"What happened here, why is she acting like this?" Rainbow said out loud, before remembering that they had a huge prank on her last time, and began to laugh softly. "He he, alright Carrot Top, Daisy, good one, you got me," Rainbow laughed, but the pony on the other side didn't respond with words, but with another groan, and pounding on the door. Rainbow began to worry now, maybe it wasn't a prank on her after all. "Come on girls, this isn't funny anymore," Rainbow screamed, but again, there was only a groaning answer from the pony on the other side.

Rainbow screamed as she flew out of the house, this was terrible. "Twilight will know what to do, after she is done lecturing me about my pranking, in which I will totally listen to, I never want this to happen again" Rainbow thought as she began to fly towards the castle. As she approached, she caught a glimpse of Twilight on the edge of Sugar Cube Corner, and flew as fast as she could to the purple alicorn. She was standing by a pink pony, looking to be Pinkie Pie, and Dash landed to see what had happened. The purple alicorn was standing over her, her snout pressed into the side of Pinkie, tearing out a piece of flesh.

"No, not you Twilight, not you," Rainbow screamed as Twilight raised her head and turned to see the Pegasus.

She groaned as she began to stumble towards her newest prey. Rainbow screamed as she flew away from the scene with tears in her eyes. She flew towards Sweet apple acres, but was stopped dead in her tracks when she seen nurse Red Heart, the earth pony trying to keep a group of ponies at bay, all of them zombie ponies. She flew towards the nurse, her body situated to knock the zombie ponies out of the way and save the nurse. She narrowed on the last pony, and brought her hoof crashing into the pony's side, and sent the pony flying into the others. She stood up as she hit the ground, knocking the ponies into a nearby wall, where they groaned and rose back to their hooves.

"Thank you ever so much Rainbow Dash, but what are we going to do now?" Nurse Red Heart said as she eyed the ponies beginning to hobble back to where they were.

"Come on, follow me," Rainbow said as she began to run down the street, now looking for more survivors, and a clue to what could of happened.....

Comments

[Bronyz4ever90]

I actually had an idea on a fic for this episode, I doubt i'll ever go through with it. You may be heading in the same direction, so props to you :

[21latenighter]

7597547 thanks, and I hope that you do one day write your story, another take on a great episode.