Fluttershy having a dark and dangerous past no one knows about.
Fluttershy was always the shy pony in Ponyville. Though her friends never knew the real reaon she was so shy: because of her dark past. She became how she is now because of that... But what happens when her friends want to find out more about her past and un-cover something they wish they hadn't... They will face the deadly trials and traps in store for the long forgotten past buried for years under Fluttershy's house. The only thing that stops them from freedom and truth is their dearest and what seemed to be nice, shy and kinds friend... Fluttershy.
It starts off slightly boring but upcoming chapters will definately be more sad, tragic and will (hopefully) leave you on the edge of your seat...
Twilight sparkle was wandering around her library. Something was bugging her and she didn’t know what it was. It was almost like something was pulling her and scratching at the back of her mind. So she decided the answer to her odd feeling would be in a book somewhere.
“Spike, can you get me a book on ‘Weird Feelings’ please” she said looking around for Spike. He came round the corner rubbing his eyes and yawning. Nodding at her he walked away and up his ladder before scanning the books and grabbing one. He came back to her and she lifted it from him with her magic and put it down on her reading stand.
“Ok, ok… the feeling to do something important” said Twilight Sparkle as she skimmed the index. Finally she found it and opened the page she needed.
“If you have an odd feeling like something needs to be done or doesn’t feel right it had probably come from gut instinct. To get rid of this feeling go to where you feel yo need to go, once you have found where you need to be look for anything that might spike your memory” Twilight sighed in irritation but closed the book. She asked Spike if there were any other books on what she needed. He looked one more time before shaking his head. So following the books advice Twilight walked out of her house and followed the odd feeling.
On her way to trying to find the place she needed to go she ran into Pinkie Pie,
“Hey Pinkie where are you off to??” Twilight asked her, she should be at her job but instead she was walking around like she had lost something. Pinkie smiled at Twilight before saying in her normal hyper self. “Well I was at my job, but then I felt like I needed to do something important so I went outside, and here I am!!” she says and grins at Twilight. Nodding to her friend Twilight suggested they look together because she also has a weird feeling. So with Pinkie hopping alongside Twilight they walked down the road to somewhere that may help them gets rid of their feeling.
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“Hey Fluttershy” Pinkie said as they walked past Fluttershy with a trail of ducks behind her. Fluttershy smiled to them before replying with a quiet hi and carrying on with her business. Though what those two didn’t see was Fluttershy giving them a very suspicious glare of some sorts.
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Finally they reached an area that made them feel like they were at the right spot.
“But Twilight this is Fluttershy’s back garden” Pinkie says confused and tilts her head to the side.
“I know but…” Twilight says before she activates something like Rarity’s diamond finding spell. She scanned the ground and felt something deep under the soil buried away.
“Pinkie do you think you could dig here please??” Twilight asks her, Pinkie grins before saying it will be a breeze. She spins around and digs down like a machine. For a while Twilight stare down at the deep hole Pinkie has made, but after a while she comes back covered in dirt.
“Hey I found this book!!” she says and throws up an old and dusty book. Twilight takes it away from the hole as Pinkie fills it back up. She opens the pages and finds out that it seems to be something like a diary:
Help! I don’t know how much longer I have in this town. She has gone crazy and won’t stop until we have all gone. I need to find somewhere to hide this… but no doubt she will easily find it. I bet that girl won’t stop until every piece of her existence has been destroyed or hidden. Hopefully if someone finds this then they can maybe prevent the same fate as my village… Soon it will be all over ~Soaring Cloud
Twilight closed the book with fear and Pinkie finished filling the hole up,
“Oh hey Fluttershy” Pinkie says and smiles, Twilight slowly turn around and quickly replaces her face of fear with happiness. Without Fluttershy seeing her, Twilight quickly teleports the book back to her library.
“Hello Pinkie and Twilight, what are you doing here??” Fluttershy asks with her eyes narrowing ever so slightly. Pinkie was about to say something when Twilight interrupted her.
“We wanted to see if we could try and make friends with the animals like you could” Twilight says before trotting up to a chicken. It instantly clucks at her before running away and Twilight sighs before walking back to them. Fluttershy laughs quietly before asking them if they could leave.
“It’s not like I don’t want you to be here, oh no. but I have a lot to do right now” Fluttershy says almost pushing them away from her house. Both of the ponies try asking her what she’s doing but she has already flown away back to her house.
“Twilight why did you cut me off??” Pinkie asks when they get far enough away. Twilight looks to her before saying,
“Pinkie you need to promise me that you won’t tell Fluttershy that we have that book” she says almost desperately. Pinkie could see the worry in her voice before laughing and going,
“I promise, cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye” she states doing the actions that go along with it. Twilight smiles before nodding to Pinkie and running home to try and make out the rest of that diary.
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“Twilight what is this book you sent back here??” Spike asked her and she ran into the library.
“I don’t know Spike, but all I know is that this book is trying to warn me of something weird to do with Fluttershy” Twilight says before opening the book. She was about to read it when someone knocked at her door. So she closed the book and hid it under her bed before trotting to the door and opening it.
“H-hi Twilight, I was wondering if you could do me a huge favour” Fluttershy says looking down timid like she always does. Twilight looks at her for a few more seconds,
“Sure, what is it that you need??” she asks putting on a fake smile. Twilight was still suspicious of Fluttershy, of course she was her friend but something about her seemed to be changing.
“Well I need you to look after my house… I'm going away for a day and a bit to visit an old friend” she says with a shy smile. Twilight gives her a side looks before trotting back to her books.
“Where’s your friend live, you sound like it’s far away” she says opening a book of the world. Fluttershy walks up behind her quietly,
“U-um, it’s not on the map… she lives on her own” the suddenness of Fluttershy appearing right behind her made Twilight jump. She didn’t know Fluttershy could be that quiet; this made her even more paranoid of her and turned around instantly.
“Oh I get it, of course Fluttershy, I’ll look after your house” Twilight says before using her magic to open the exit.
“I'm sorry but I am very busy with my studies, would it be ok if you go, I'll be by yours later??” Twilight asks trying her best not to be pushy. Fluttershy nods quickly before hearing a bird in distress and flying out of the room.
When she’s gone Twilight closes the door and breathes a sigh of relief. Spike walks up next to her before asking if he should come with her too. Twilight shakes her head and tells him to promise her not to let anyone in while she’s gone… even if they need a book just to slide it under the door. Spike scratches the back of his head confused before nodding. Twilight nods to herself one more time before leaving the house and trotting all the way to Fluttershy’s house.
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Knocking quietly three times on the door she waits for Fluttershy to open the door. There is no answer so Twilight crouches down and creeps her way to one of her windows.
“Shh, Angel I need you to keep it down, now Twilight will be here soon can you please keep a close eye on her while I'm gone…??” Fluttershy whispers close to Angel. Angel looks up at her before nodding and hopping away out of sight. Twilight didn’t know where he was so she hurried back to the front door and knocked louder this time. Fluttershy answered it almost instantly.
“O-oh hi Twilight, please come in and make yourself comfortable… I’ll be home as soon as possible” Fluttershy whispers before throwing her bag over her back with her mouth and galloping away. Twilight watched her from the doorway before closing the door and looking at the place.
Everything seemed normal, there wasn’t anything out of place and the animals seemed content. That was until Angel came out of hiding, she looked Twilight up and down cautiously before doing the action ‘I got my eye on you’ and hopping away again. Twilight sighed; she was never going to find anything out if she has something on her 24/7. So walking to the kitchen she makes herself a daisy sandwich she sits on a chair and munches on it slowly for a while. Suddenly, an idea hit her as she looked at the sky; it was already getting dark so she should sleep soon. That also meant all of the other animals will be sleeping. But what she was going to wait for was morning…
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Birds chirped happily and in tune with one another as beams of warm sunlight shined in through the curtains. Twilight groaned and flipped over to facing away from the sun, though when the memory of yesterday came flooding in she bolted out of her sleeping position and to where the food was.
They were exactly where she wanted them as she went to find rabbit food. It was easy enough; the bag she needed had a picture of a rabbit on it. Twilight slung it over her back and trotted into the kitchen, in there as well was a special bowl for Angel. She poured some food in there before seeking a special herb in Fluttershy’s garden. It was easy enough to find and she grabbed the stem of one before yanking it off and cantering into the house. She grinded the plant in a bowl before adding it to Angel’s food; being happy with her work she put it on the floor and continued to feed the other animals.
While she was doing that, Angel stood at the top of the staircase half asleep. Normally Fluttershy would wake her up and send her to wait for her breakfast. Since Fluttershy was somewhere unknown to her –Fluttershy didn’t even tell her pet- she waited for the sound of her food bowl on the floor.
Angel was about to go back to sleep when she heard the too familiar sound of her bowl on the floor. Quickly she sprung down the stairs; her stomach was almost the one pulling her there as she ducked her face into the pile of delicious heaven. Content with Twilight’s work on the food Angel hopped around trying to find her, though a wave of sleepiness washed over her as she staggered to the wall for support. Something odd was happening to her, she tried again to hop onwards but her eyes drooped closed and wouldn’t open. Angel yawned as sleepiness took over her and fell asleep in the middle of the floor.
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Twilight had just finished feeding the animal and trotted into the house only to see a sleeping white rabbit. Smiling smugly to her Twilight lifted the rabbit and placed it on its bed. When she was sure it was asleep Twilight went to the place secret information was probably kept. Under a bed.
~~Hours of searching later~~
Twilight was almost in a rush, for one thing she had wreaked Fluttershy’s room and she had to clean it up before Angel woke up. Everywhere she had looked didn’t find anything of importance. She was pacing back and forth across the room when suddenly her ears picked up something she had never thought of… only one specific area of the room creaked. She trotted around the room and found that spot. Her horn glowed as the floorboard flew into the air and to the side.
“I knew it” Twilight whispered quietly as she found a pile of documents bound together with a piece of string. Immediately she teleported it to her house and cleaned the room as fast as she could.
Slowly her magic faded away as twilight sighed in relief, everything was cleaned and back in its place and with that Angel came hopping up the stairs. She eyed Twilight before shrugging and going about her business.
“Ugh, I’ll need some help… how does Fluttershy look after all of these animals so easily?!?!” Twilight says flopping onto the couch and curling up. She fell asleep but was rudely awakened by someone knocking on the door.
“Twilight, Twilight!! It’s Spike, I need to talk to you” he says behind the door. Twilight sighed before getting up and opening the door slowly, she narrowed her eyes in the hazy night sky and sees Spike holding the pile of documents she had hidden. The animals are all sleeping, I should be able to go for a short time, Twilight thought as she threw Spike onto her back and galloped home.
“What is it Spike??” Twilight asks him as they are on their way home,
“I’m sorry but I couldn’t help with my curiosity… I read one of the files.” Twilight almost jutted to a stop and Spike clung tightly to her neck so he wouldn’t fall off. Shaking the fact Spike read something she wanted secret off she carried on her way home…
Slowly Twilight went to a trot and opened the door with her horn. It opened smoothly and they entered, Twilight took one last look to the outside before she closed the door.
“Ok Spike what was so important it made you get me??” Twilight asked impatiently, she was slightly nervous that Angel had realised she wasn’t home and would tell Fluttershy about it when she got back.
“Read this Twilight” Spike said open one of the files and handing it to her:
Subject 5142, Age - 11, Date – 13th June It has come to my attention that someone has been leaking this experiment information of the outside world. She has got the assumption that people have nicknamed her ‘Fluttershy’ when in real fact everyone thought she was dead years ago. 5142’s real name is ‘Poison Rose’ we have all agreed not to call her that or she would snap and go crazy like she did with the past times it had happened. Anyway, back with the analysis: 5142 seems to be showing less erratic behaviour than she normally does. She seems to have made a connection with the lab rats that we bring to compare blood tests. Though my suspicions are acting up, the rats are acting odd whenever we release them for exercise… as well as that they never return. The only good thing I can review from these experiments is that we have successfully and forcefully changed a pony’s cutie mark. Previously and originally 5142’s mark was a rose with one single blood sliding down the stem… Celestia knows what her ‘special talent’ was. From that mark we have so far changed it 3 times.
“Spike… do you think Fluttershy is this… subject 5142…??” Twilight asks, Spikes sighs before pointing at the beginning ‘nicknamed her Fluttershy’ Twilight gasps before flipping the page to the next date.
Subject 5142, Age - 13, Date – 21st May Her cutie mark has changed now so that something that resembles teeth is on it. When we go to inject the serum to change it she back away into a corner and bares her teeth at us. Though this was my workers telling’s. I’m about to go in and check… … It was worse than I thought, they had said she only backed in a corner. I think she knew who I was, she lashed out at me and bit my front left leg. It’s started swelling and I don’t feel comfortable when people come near me. I tihnk I know why she was first called Poison Rose… This is Pen Pusher here, it seems as though Director has collapsed, he is convulsing and nothing can pin him down. I write this as it is happening… this will probably be the last entry.
With that Twilight stops reading and puts it down.
“This is worse than I thought Spike!! We need to find out where this place was and fast… also I think it would be best if we tell the rest of our friends but not Fluttershy.” Twilight says pacing back and forth. While she does that Spike had opened the previous documents.
“Twilight!! It seems as though someone did carry on this ‘Director’s’ work… but we should read this another time because someone’s coming to the door” Twilight snaps her body around and Spike runs out of the room to hide the book. In comes Rarity with a large umbrella on,
“Oh Twilight, I was just about to come and get you. It’s raining outside and I have run out of room for some of my designs, I was wondering if I could keep some at yours… and I know its late but pleeeeeease” Rarity whines. Twilight nods before she if covered in a pile of things Rarity probably didn’t want.
“O-oh Rarity!!” Twilight says under the pile of cloth. Rarity looks down at her before smiling. Twilight shakes her head not even going to bother asking her the question she had in mind and with her magic got the cloth off of her.
“Well before I go, our pet play date is tomorrow… shame Fluttershy won’t be here” she says before leaving. This was the best time according to Twilight to address her thoughts about Fluttershy to them.
(Yeah this one wasn’t that good… the next few chapters will be shocking trust me)
Being in her bed when the sun cast its normal good morning rays across her peaceful face always made Twilight feel happy and content. She yawned and stretched in her bed and flopped out of bed slowly taking in her surroundings. She got herself ready; brushing her mane, teeth and tail before making sure Spike had some gems for breakfast. Then she grabbed a mouthful of oats and trotted up the hill to Fluttershy’s house.
Everything seemed perfectly fine. Nothing was out of place and the animals were happily socialising with each other. Twilight smiled to Angel who seemed to glare at her. Well she was glaring at Twilight until she fed her. Then instantly she warmed to her again but still kept her distance and a close eye on everything she did. Doing the chores was normal business for any pony: wake up, clean, feed a pet –it they had one- etc. but for Fluttershy it seemed that her work was that times 3. Due to the large amount of animals and pets she cared for there was an endless feeding time followed by pet houses needing to be cleaned out. Twilight would have forgotten about off of it if she didn’t see Fluttershy’s safety sticky notes everywhere and Angel constantly poking her to remind her of everything.
Finally when she was done she realised she only had 5 minutes until she met her friends. So with one spur of the moment gallop she got home in no time.
“Owlowiscious” Twilight called out, her bird companion flew down to her and softly perched on her back. Twilight smiled and looked in the mirror one more time, her hair was slightly messy so using her magic she picked a brush up and neatened it. Finished with her work she smiled before trotting to meet her friends in the park.
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“Ah, ’s good ta see you made it Twilight, Hun” AppleJack said as Twilight appeared on the top of the hill. Twilight smiled to them before trotting down to them and letting her owl fly. All of the ponies took a seat on the picnic table AppleJack had brought and the normal casual chatter went through the air.
“Guys would it be ok if I tell you something” Twilight says getting onto her legs and seriously looking at them. Pinkie grins to her before nodding like crazy.
“But before I do, promise me you won’t tell any other living thing alive??” this got their attention but they nodded/shrugged before all doing the Pinkie promise. Satisfied with their response Twilight started to tell them everything that had started to spark her interest in Fluttershy in the first place. To the other ponies it was almost like a story and when Twilight had actually finished to the point of her meeting them here they actually laughed at her.
“I'm sorry dear, but for me to believe that I would need evidence” Rarity said wiping stray tears away with her pale hoof. Twilight huffed before walking away. Her friends watched her, when Twilight got to the top of the hill she looked down at the rest of them.
“Coming??” Twilight asked as all of their brows furrowed before RainbowDash shrugged and announced that there was nothing better to do. So all of them got up and trotted after her before they all went to her library to go and see what all of the fuss about Fluttershy was about.
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“Ok, I haven’t read this file before, it’s the first one so I’ll be as shocked as you when I read it” Twilight says picking it up with her magic and letting it hover in front of her while she reads.
Subject 5142, Age -11, Date – 1st December A new specimen came in today, she’s nine and kinda of creepy. Director is talking to her right now but I doubt he’ll get anything out of Poison Rose; she seemed pretty content to keep to herself. ~ Director had just talked to me, he was pretty annoyed and handed me a red bloody bag I opened it and saw two eyes. Here’s exactly what he said to me: “That girl will snap if I take away her sight, when she finally gives up I’ll use my magic and put them back in… though I'm guessing she’ll be scared of things appearing in case they take her eyes” Isn’t that guy a weirdo?? I don’t know whether I should feel sorry for the girl or scared for myself… an old point quit today, I know it doesn’t sound strange but he lives next to me and never came home. Then… the even scarier thing is that a new subject came in the day he quit. I'm not allowed to see the new subject. Anyway, this is a file for 5142. ~ I just went into talk to her, she was shy and quiet. I got a perfect name for her and started calling her Fluttershy. She seemed ok with it telling me she couldn’t remember her name. I'm guessing she would be really cute if she had her eyes…
Twilight closed the file with eyes open wide. She looked at her friends, Pinkie had her hoofs in front of her face in fear and shock, AppleJack stood with mouth agape shaking her head like it wasn’t true. While Rarity and RainbowDash showed no emotion at all though it was obvious they were also shocked.
“Th-that can’t be the right Fluttershy… she would have told us about this… we’re her friends!!” Pinkie says grinning; Twilight shakes her head before pulling the diary out from where she had hidden it. She re-read the part of Fluttershy going crazy and killing everyone.
“I'm sorry Twilight for not believing you” Rarity said looking down upset with the news. Pinkie still wouldn’t believe it until RainbowDash snapped at her
“If you really want to make sure, hows about we go and look for the place then?!” she says annoyed. Everyone goes quiet before Twilight speaks up again.
“That’s a great idea RainbowDash, if we find it there may be more information on this ‘Poison Rose’” so everyone nods before packing their belongings.
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“I know it’s sudden, but can you please look after Fluttershy’s place Spike, we’ll close the library until I'm back” Spike looks down annoyed before nodding,
“Ok, now take a note:” “Dear princess Celestia, I know this is very sudden, but I have to go on an urgent journey with my friends, I will fill you out on the details later. For now Spike will keep you informed, I will give him instructions to contact you for help in one week if I do not return. Please do not worry about me; I have the power of friendship to protect me and my friends. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.”
Spike looks up asking why she didn’t tell him about him sending a letter in a week, Twilight looks down to him and pats his head,
“It’s just precaution Spike, don’t worry about it” she says before slinging her supplies over her back and trotting out to meet the rest of her friends.
Everyone was already waiting for Twilight when she left her library to meet them. Each one of them had their bags over filled with things they may need, but being them they brought silly little things,
“I brought my sewing kit, in case my umbrella breaks, which I also brought” Rarity said as she poked the bags flap open to check it was still there.
“I brought my party cannon, which knows… those people, may need a laugh when we meet them” Pinkie said for some reason thinking that there would still be people in that ‘testing lab’. RainbowDash and AppleJack actually brought something that may help them, RainbowDash brought rope and AppleJack brought food that will last them a week. Twilight brought the documents and a map of Equestria.
“Ok, before we leave let’s check the diary and find the small village first” Twilight said opening it up and filling through the pages for something legible. She found something and smiled to herself before reading it aloud to the rest of the ponies.
“Guys, this one was before the massacre:
"It has come to my attention that Fluttershy is not what she seems, I don’t know whether to walk through the horrible mountain terrain to get to Canterlot. Though this would take a day and I don’t want it to be for nothing. She is scaring me slightly but that is no need to worry, our small village is a day and a bit away from Canterlot, or I could run through Whitetail wood… either way out village is in between the two but surrounded by high mountains making it hard for anyone to go and come. If anything happens I can always run there, ~Soaring Cloud”
Nodding to everyone Twilight put the diary back in her bag and they all trotted together out of town.
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The weather that morning wasn’t that bad, so none of them thought of brining anything to hide them from the Pegasus’ wrath. Only Rarity was the only one to bring an umbrella, and she only did that in case her hair got messed up. But what they weren’t expecting was that as soon as they started climbing the steeps mountains the weather changed dramatically.
“Twilight hun, I think ‘s time we bunker down fur the night” AppleJack shouted over the sound of the heavy hail. Twilight glanced back at her momentarily for a second before nodding and squinting –not that she wasn’t already- through the dense hail and spotted the gloom of a cave. She illuminated the front of herself with her horn and showed the others the way.
Once inside Rarity brought out a few blanket and draped them over the backs of the shivering ponies.
“How could anything live out in this weather?!?!” RainbowDash says annoyed and sneezes a bit. Everyone goes quiet as they think about that question, but were shocked to realise something,
“Where’s Pinkie??” Twilight asks looking around the place; she made her horn glow slightly to illuminate rocks and area around the ponies. They all seemed to have a mini heart attack getting the same thought at once: what is she was still caught in the storm?? At once they all rushed to the mouth of the cave, but alas they could see nothing through the hail. Not even the glow from Rarity’s and Twilight’s horns could get past that much of the destructive weather. They went to go and walk back into their base for the night when they heard something like struggling coming towards the mouth of the cave. Together they ran back and saw a horrific sight. Each pony covered the others ponies’ eyes. For what they saw was Pinkie Pie, but not as normally she was. She was dragging herself with her fore hooves towards them grunting at the effort. But that was definitely not the thing that made their stomachs churn. Pinkie’s eyes.
“Wh-where are they??” Rarity gasped as she got over most of the shock. Pinkie’s eyes were missing; all that was left behind were black endless holes and blood spilling out of them. They looked deeply hurt and Pinkie was crying; her tears mixed in with the blood. They were going to ask Pinkie what happened when they saw another sight,
“Her cutie mark’s gone!!” RainbowDash wailed as she flew back away in the cave with fear, instead of her normal three balloons as a cutie mark what was there instead were two lacerations. They were horribly cut and formed an ‘X’ across the cutie mark. Twilight held the urge to puke and walked up close to Pinkie. When the sound of her hooves echoed towards Pinkie she scrambled to her feet and frantically moved her head side to side. The blood from her eyes splattered over Twilight’s face.
“P-Pinkie, it’s Twilight, wh-what happened??” Twilight asked trying her best not to get too close in case anything else was on Pinkie.
“I was hopping along the way with everyone when I spotted Fluttershy in the distance; while you guys went off somewhere I followed her… she tied me up and removed my eyes while repeating ‘I don’t want you to see me like this’ and then when they were gone too I heard something sharp being pulled from somewhere and her stabbing my rear twice” Pinkie managed to say before she collapsed back to the ground, covered her face with two front hooves and wept her sorrows. No one made a sound and watched as the poor filly cried her eyes out.
“Pinkie-” Twilight was going to say something but she suddenly stood up,
“I hate feeling this sad” she screams before grinning and running into any direction. This was out into the slightly calmer weather. All of them (except RainbowDash because she went too far in the cave) followed Pinkie shouting for her to slow down. But then the worst of things happened…
Pinkie had run into the direction of a cliff edge, if she had her eyes she would have used her own special jump to get over it. Sadly though she didn’t have her eyes and went tumbling off of the cliff edge, all they saw was a ball of pink and screams of hysterical laughter as her head hit the ground with a sickening crunch.
There were no words to describe what had just happened and the rest of the group just looked down at the white abyss their closest and happiest friend had just fallen down to.
“Somepony get RainbowDash!!” Rarity screamed running back into the cave. Though in the back of her mind she knew it was too late she still needed to try.
Rarity ran farther and farther into the cave trying to find out how deep RainbowDash had gone. She galloped as fast as she could, then saw a small spark f fire and she used the last of her energy to get there. She was so close she could hear RainbowDash… talking to somepony?? Rarity slowly trotted closer trying her best not to do anything that will make RainbowDash and the unknown pony stop talking. The walk seemed to take forever, there was no end to how far RainbowDash has gone into the cave and Rarity was just going on because her curiosity was taking the better of her.
She felt as though every step closer she took her body was weighed down some more. It was almost like her own instincts knew that whatever was at the end of her short journey she wouldn’t like it. A chill in the air became more prominent the further in the cavern she went and it was slightly starting to scare her. The closer she got she was finally able to make out what they were saying,
“Are you sure about this RainbowDash” what seemed to sound like Fluttershy say. Rarity stopped dead in her tracks and carried on listening,
“I’m sure Fluttershy now don’t forget to cheer!!” RainbowDash said and the sound of flying could be heard. Rarity got closer wondering why she could see RainbowDash flying already. When she got into sight of the small opening she instantly regretted not following her instincts. For what she saw there was a voice recording, this was the time RainbowDash was attempting a sonic rain-boom. Rarity backed away from the recording and saw a small fire had been lit here. Whoever was here had planted it. So turning around Rarity got ready to run when something was right behind her,
“Shush!! Or she’ll hear you” RainbowDash whispered loudly and put a hoof in front of Rarity’s mouth. Rarity moved her hand out of the way and asked RainbowDash what she was doing behind her.
“When I flew back inside I saw a fire and saw Fluttershy setting that up, so I hid in the top of the cave and waited for her prey to come so I could stop them… you” RainbowDash said before going to push Rarity back to where they came from. However, this was exactly what Fluttershy wanted. The wall in front of the fell down sealing them off, and the small embers from the set up fire went out leaving the two ponies in utter darkness.
“RainbowDash what do we do now?!?!” Rarity said lighting up her horn. RainbowDash looked at her through the gloom before squinting around and seeing something in the corner of the light.
“There’s a way through there, let’s go and investigate!!” RainbowDash said while flying over to it. But being her calm natured self, Rarity slowly walked up to it making no effort in rushing. RainbowDash sighed in annoyance before dropping to the ground the walk with Rarity. She was going to get no-where without Rarity’s light.
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Twilight and the others walked back into the cave feeling depressed. No one spoke a word to anyone else and they all sat in silence. Taking this as an opportunity to read a passage of the diary Twilight called her friends around her as she pulled the book out. Her fellow ponies crowded around, this was the only thing to do to get their mind off mourning their dead friend.
No more. I can’t take it anymore I have to ask Fluttershy where she’s from. We’ve gotten pretty close recently and all she’s told me is that Fluttershy is not her real name. My mind tells me not to dwell deeper in the matter, but how can I not?! Fluttershy was just asking for me to find out more… I regret even thinking about that. I had just spoken to Fluttershy about it, she asked me to keep it down and we walked to an area that no pony normally goes to. When we got there she slowly approached me and my hind quarters hit the wall with a mild thud. While I was in a state of fear Fluttershy edged her mouth to my ear and whispered these exact words: “Stay out of my business or no sight shall come from your point of view” I'm still wondering what she meant by that?? It must have something to do with my eyes… but what… ~Soaring Cloud
Twilight put the book down. If only she had read the before Pinkie had gone off to see Fluttershy. Twilight walked over to a wall and started hitting her forehead hard against it imagining what would and could have been if she read the book a little bit earlier.
“Pinkie probably wouldn’t be dead” she whispered to herself. AppleJack walked up to her and put a hoof on Twilight’s shoulder,
“Dun worry hun, we’ll all get through this here pickle” AppleJack said putting on a reassuring face. Twilight nodded to her comforting words and faced the interior of the cave. She glanced over every nook and cranny hoping to find something that would help her through this awful place she put herself. The cogs in her brain were just slowly starting to turn when everything froze in her mind.
“Wh-where’s Rarity and RainbowDash…??” Twilight said looking frantically around trying her best to wish that they would just appear like they were hiding as a joke. AppleJack walked up next to her and squinted into the darker parts of the cave before they both looked to each other and ran into the deeper areas of the cave. Both were at full gallop, but AppleJack being the more athletic pony she sped in front of Twilight without a moment’s hesitation. Twilight tried keeping up with her friend but since she was more of a book worm than speedy crow she fell behind. With her horn to light the way Twilight trotted at a nice pace, her minds panic had calmed down slightly so she was able to think through her thoughts in a more logical way.
AppleJack on the other hand was running through the darkness in a blind fear of what could have happened to her friends. She was close to all of them and her mind was starting to piece together that it was her fault that Pinkie had died. If she had used her calm and down to earth nature Pinkie might have calmed down enough to not run off in hysterics. So straining her legs to the fastest gallop she could muster AppleJack went further into the abyss of never ending torture.
To Fluttershy they were just messing with business that was not meant to be messed with. Of course as soon as she saw Pinkie and Twilight in her garden she was instantly suspicious of her. Twilight was always the one to investigate things when she had inkling in the back of her mind. Though, she didn’t think it would go as far as having to hurt Pinkie.
“I’m not that person anymore…” she whispered in her shy calm voice, though she knew Poison Rose would disagree with that. So Fluttershy decided to talk to her sister about it, she walked up to what she thought was a mirror but was a frozen puddle. She loomed over it and squinted her eyes into the reflection of herself. Then as soon as she started looking she found what she was looking for. Her sister.
“It’s good to see you again… Poison Rose…” Fluttershy said looking away awkwardly. Her sister grinned at her, a grin that would have broken a ponies mouth it was so wide. Fluttershy looked back up to Poison Rose and finally took in what had wanted her not to talk to her sister again. For what she saw was the sparkling eyes of Pinkie Pie. Only her sparkling eyes, in her reflection she saw what looked like herself, before she had sacrificed Pinkie she would see past self. The self that had her eyes ripped out leaving nothing but those endless black orbs you could lose yourself in and the ever changing cutie mark that shimmered in and out of existence changing every time is shimmered.
Though this time when she saw her now grinning sister Pinkie’s eyes seemed to be forcefully pushed into her empty socket leaving Pinkie’s died blood coating the rim of Poison Rose’s once empty sockets.
“Do not be afraid of me dear, I am you after all” Poison Rose seemed to coo. Fluttershy gasped and shook her head frantically as one of her flashbacks came back:
It was another warm day outside and Fluttershy could hear filly’s playing outside, running around at their full speed gallop. Though where she was there was no warmth, no sunshine. The only thing that even remotely near light was the dim light of an uncovered bulb losing its light and flickering on and off… Fluttershy didn’t know what the bulb looked like, or how much light it was giving up. She had her eyes pulled out a while ago, so far back she can’t remember why they did that to her. Though today would be the day she finally gets them back. She sat in the cold dark huddled to the wall listening to the room next to hers conversation.
“I’m sorry sir, it seems as though your regenerating serum didn’t work after all” said somepony. A banging noise came as Director slammed his hooves on the table making Fluttershy gasp in fear. No, she reminded herself that fear would just be used against her in here so she put a straight face on and carried on listening.
“That’s it; get me that pony that survived my eyeball removal… Poison Rose is I'm not mistaken” Director said plainly. Fluttershy gasped, this time her fear showed on her face and she curled in a ball against the wall. She thought she would be getting eyes for good behaviour but it turns out that they will be using her again. She waited for them to arrive, and in a matter of fact they did. She stood up and waited for them to escort her to her doom.
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The room she walked in clicked and tapped against her hooves meaning that it was probably some smooth and shiny surface. The heat from so many lamp touched Fluttershy’s fur making her smile slightly to herself. The two ponies on either side of her stopped her and moved her slowly and specifically so that she wouldn’t fall. They moved her into the position of lying down. The thing they had placed her down on was cold against her touch but something else was on the cold table that made her feel extremely uneasy.
Trying to move her hoof she managed to pick up a small bit of liquid that was on the table. Before they strapped her down she brought her hoof to her face and took a small sniff of the slimy liquid on her. The smell revolted her and she instantly regretted that thing she had just touched. It smelt like dried blood but had the texture of goo, was this blood mixed with that serum they were talking about? Fluttershy didn’t know and she didn’t want to know. Sometimes they did nice passive experiments on her that were just her cutie mark changing but this was just too far for her. She started thrashing about and screaming, the guards by the door ran to her and put restraints on her. As well as that the ‘doctors’ didn’t want to listen to her in case one of them wanted to stop the experiment so director ordered that she be gagged.
Fluttershy felt tears well up around the brim of her empty holes and felt them roll back into her skull sending a cold chill through her skull. It sounded like a pony was walking up to her and she was trying to mumble words to leave her alone. The pony whispered a small apology before injecting a large needle deep into Fluttershy’s main artery in her neck. Squealing and screaming Fluttershy thrashed as hard as she could, but the needle was in so deeply that she couldn’t get it out of her. The pain of that one needle was like being stung thousands of time in the same spot, they must have put something on the needle itself to make it go smoother into her tattered unwashed fur. Slowly Fluttershy’s attempts to escape were cut short when she felt some lumpy objects mixed with a sort of burning liquid enter her system. Those lumpy objects stayed the ways they were foe a few seconds before they too dissolved into the blood stream of the scared and whimpering pony.
“She’s not convulsing yet!!” a female pony with a strong Germaney accent spoke up, it sounded as though she was moving forwards to examine Fluttershy. “Her stats are also normal…” she exclaimed in disbelief. But their hopes for the serum slowly faded as Fluttershy suddenly felt her entire top layer of skin and fur burn with the desire of being scratched. She jerked and twitched, she wasn’t able to satisfy her needs of scratching herself because she was tied down so the ponies around her watched in curiosity at her odd movements.
That annoying scratching feeling soon got more severe causing Fluttershy’s movements to increase in ferocity as she almost started to spasm.
“She’s acting like the last one!!” somepony panicked but another shushed her and they carried on watching. Fluttershy’s head tilted sideways and her back arched off of the table. She screamed as if they were torturing her slowly and painfully.
Though what was happening to Fluttershy was a lot more painful.
‘I can feel each cell being ripped apart’ she screamed in her head.
From the other ponies point of view they saw something and knew they shouldn’t have tried to alter pony beings. For what they saw was Fluttershy’s skin slowly peeling off and landing in chunks on the floor. They left her skin piece by piece and clumped together on the cold metallic floor. Ponies that couldn’t keep their food down rushed out of the room as Fluttershy’s muscle was clearly in view. Even when that was in sight it as well started to slowly dissipate and fall like leaves floating to the ground and becoming one with the rest of Fluttershy’s now gone skin.
Fluttershy felt as though she was being burned all over. Not the normal kind of singe either, she felt as though she was in the centre of a blue sun while explosions were going inside her body. Every little being of her stung and screamed; Fluttershy wished they could just kill her and it would all be over. Of course every pony was too disgusted to come anywhere near her. For now even her muscle was gone and she looked like someone was controlling a fake skeleton in the middle of the room with strings. They knew that it wasn’t even if they wished it was.
Even now her bones was starting to dissolve into dust and Fluttershy was starting to numb, her screaming subsided as the nerves disappeared and she just lay there completely silent. Something bad must have happened to her.
“Sir-” said the guard walking up to Fluttershy. Director hushed him before dodging the piles of flesh and making his way to Fluttershy. He examined her and before he could look any further into what had just happened every piece of Fluttershy started pulsing a sickly green. Director backed away with the rest of his fellow ponies and they watched in anticipation at what was happening. Every piece glowed and pulsed at they floated in the air. The dust that was once Fluttershy’s bone fitted back together and made out her body shape again. Her muscle and organs started forming together in the air and went to fit back into place where they should be in her body.
Slowly, piece by piece she started coming back together, and when the time came that she was back to her normal self before she fell apart something amazing happened to herself. Something white bubbled in her sockets; it hissed and looked more like many blisters were forming in the depths of her eye rather than a bubbling wrath of stew that would soon form something.
‘What is this feeling…?’ Fluttershy though as she slowly groaned and rolled off the table to stand as she normally would. Something that felt like a warm liquid… something like warm milk felt as though it was growing in her empty eyes. She blinked not even know what that would do and carried on waiting for something to happen. The liquid in her sockets started to go into a more solid shape and when she thought it was all over, one in each socket something sharp stabbed into her brain. Wincing and screaming in pain she fell backwards and squeezed her eye lids shut.
Though when she opened them everything was blurry, and after some time… she could see again.
“Wh-what’s going on…?” she asked quietly, no one said a word. The Director on the other hand grinned at Fluttershy and walked out of the room muttering something happily to him. It sounded like ‘it worked… it actually worked!!’
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They took Fluttershy back to her cage and locked her in there until the Director got over his overly happy stage.
“How can I see??” Fluttershy said a loud to herself.
“Because I died and you came back” something in the back of her mind whispered. It was very quiet and almost inaudible; Fluttershy instantly stopped talking to herself and spun around.
“Wh…who’s there…?” Fluttershy asked timidly as she glanced behind herself and started edging against the wall.
“There’s no use trying to run… I'm inside you” the voice whispered, it didn’t sound like a normal whisper when you lower your voice to a hushed tone. No, this one sounded like wisps in the wind. It sounded as though they were there and then at the same time they aren’t. Fluttershy listened as the thing inside her started to explain.
“I was the original you. I am the you with a changing cutie mark and ripped out eyes. I am the one who was tortured and the one who went through the transformation… but to make it simple, why don’t you just call me sister or Poison Rose.” Fluttershy nodded and the two of them started talking. Later on they realised that Poison Rose couldn’t be with Fluttershy all the time and they both agreed on meeting when the reflections meet… e.g. a mirror.
Fluttershy came out of her long déjà vu moment and clutched her head under her hooves for ages whimpering. The only thing she hated in this world, truly hated and despised that no one… not even her sister knew about was that she hated being the number two: the clone of Poison Rose the one that follows orders from her superior.
For once in her life Fluttershy started thinking about committing suicide herself.
RainbowDash and Rarity walked by the lone light of her horn, which was their only excuse for the countless amounts of times they got rocks stuck on their hooves.
“This is not the way I was expecting my week to go” Rarity hissed through her teeth while dodging yet another rock that was in her way. Luckily for RainbowDash she had given up walking next to Rarity and was hovering above her as they got back a rocky part of the cave-way. RainbowDash had gotten used to these negative comments and just accepted the fact that Rarity was annoyed.
“Look Rarity the faster you hurry up the faster we’ll get out of here” RainbowDash said resting her head on one hoof and watching Rarity awkwardly climb around rocks trying her best not to mess anything to do with her beauty up. Rarity looked up at RainbowDash before smirking and her horn suddenly went out.
“Ow!!” RainbowDash said as she flew face first into a stalactite. Rarity chuckled in triumph and lit her horn up again. She looked up ready to see an angry RainbowDash but what she saw was nothing.
“RainbowDash??” Rarity asked as she turned around thinking that RainbowDash was going to jump out at her. RainbowDash was nowhere to be seen and Rarity’s panic slowly started to grow. Most ponies know her for most of the time keeping a cool composure but now, in the dark with a murderer lurking in the shadows who wouldn’t panic? ‘I could die at any time’ Rarity started thinking as a variety of ways Fluttershy could kill her suddenly flashed through her mind. Her face cringed at the imagined pain and she made her horn glow as bright as it could. She snapped her head around and around so much she was almost dizzy and then screamed as something grabbed her hind legs and dragged him into a small hole in the wall.
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RainbowDash had run into a wall after Rarity had made the glow from her horn dissipate.
“Ow!!” RainbowDash said falling to the ground. But instead of landing near Rarity she kept falling down and down. She would have used her wings to fly back up but one had been scraped against the wall and wouldn’t move unless RainbowDash wanted a searing pain to shoot through her spine.
Endlessly she kept on falling to somewhere she wished was outside. Right now outside would be so much better than being where she was right now. To just open her wings and fly around free without any restrictions. RainbowDash closed her eyes and started to imagine herself doing her sonic rain-boom instead of falling downwards in a spiral to god-knows-where. When RainbowDash opened her eyes what she saw was falling head first down the narrow tube like save structure and what she saw below made her spin 180. She saw a light at the end and what looked like netting below her before she touched the proper ground. She had good intuition because if she hadn’t turned around she would have surely broken her neck. But maybe she should have broken her neck for what was in turn for her later.
“What the hell” RainbowDash said as she landed in a net; it closed around the top so she was now in a rope netted bag. Around her torches were lit; Fluttershy was also standing at the other side of the room looking into a mirror like object. “F-Fluttershy…” RainbowDash asked; her oldest friend slowly turned around her face concealed all emotions. Though there was one that RainbowDash could spot: sadness.
“He-hello RainbowDash” Fluttershy said softly, but behind her soft speech it sounded as though an echo was behind her voice, this one was filled with malice and hatred. Fluttershy grabbed her head and moved out of the way. RainbowDash gasped as her saw what looked like Fluttershy in the reflection but had Pinkie’s eyes and a crooked grin that was wider than Pinkie’s. If she looked closer she could see that this one had the wings on her back slowly starting to fall away.
“So it has begun” the reflection mused.
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It was a few weeks after the incident with the resurrecting serum and Director hadn’t left his study for days. With him in his room was Fluttershy.
“Wh-why am I here…??” she asked awkwardly looking over him. He was a well-built stallion, probably in the royal guard before he came here with a white horn to match his coat. A creased and messy doctors shirt draped over his frame and a stethoscope half hung out of a pocket on his shirt. As well as this he had a choppy black haircut that went in every direction. A thin pair of glasses hung on the end of his nose and a satchel containing clip boards and other notes roughly stuffed in the bag was clinging to his neck. The seams of the satchel were almost gone and its death was coming soon.
“I called you here so I could study you personally, I also don’t trust my co-workers” he said, his left eye twitched. Fluttershy had heard from the other doctors that he had developed that ever since he started working on Fluttershy. She was snapped out of her trance about what she did to director to make him act like this when he suddenly stood up.
“Follow me” he said before trotting into a room connected to his. Fluttershy followed awkwardly behind and jumped as it suddenly slammed shut behind her. This room was completely pitching dark and she found it hard to see the silhouettes of anything in the darkness.
Suddenly lights turned on and as she looked around the place she saw a white table permanently stained red and a variety of equipment hanging on every wall except the wall the door was on.
“Lie down for me” he said standing by a wall with what only had hand held saw like objects. Fluttershy was going to turn around run but a greyish glow came from his horn and what sounded like 10 locks closed off in front of her on the other side of the door. Fluttershy looked back; her pupils constricted as he forcefully lifted her up with his magic and put her on the table. Tight straps entwined around Fluttershy. Director walked up to Fluttershy and his horn glowed one more time as her wings were yanked out from under her. They were now spread out by her sides. Director smiled down at her, his smile was crooked and wide… it almost reminded her of Poison Rose’s.
He walked away from her and looked at the wall of ‘instruments’ before nodding to him and pulling out the hand saw at the top. This was looked like it was rusty, but he tapped it with his hoof and the flakes fell away showing under it a bright and sharp interior the gleamed with happiness as it was finally used again.
Coming back he smiled one more time before a serious face came back and he moved to one side of Fluttershy to her wings.
And thus he started sawing through the roots of her wings until bloody bony stubs were left on both wings. All the time Fluttershy was screaming in pain.
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RainbowDash kept looking at the reflection until all of each wing fell away and blood freely flowed from the stubs that were left. Though the reflection didn’t seem to notice as her eyes almost seemed to pop out of her head and she through her head back, a cackle escaped her lips.
“All of my memories. They’re coming back to me, and every time they return I’ll need someone to fix me up again. Then I will finally be complete again!!” she said as Fluttershy started walking up to RainbowDash in her small bag. Fluttershy bit the top of the bag and dragged RainbowDash down a dark hall.
“I’m sorry” Fluttershy whispered as they both slowly disappeared into a dark hallway.
