> Doctor Horrible is Adorable
>  by Scarlett Haze
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> Act 1, Scene 1
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QUICK FIX PRESENTS

FLUTTERSHY

GILDA

RAINBOW DASH in

DR. HORRIBLE IS ADORABLE


"Ahh, ha, ha, ha, ha!" I was getting better, I could feel it. In fact, I no longer needed a vocal coach for exuberating my evil laughter anymore. I had minions, power, and the influence that came from being a member of the Evil League of Evil.

I still took comfort with my camera attached to the computer however, you know the old saying: Old habits die hard.

"Hello again, followers," I expressed with ease and cockiness, letting the fear settle in with those that watched me. "I have decided that today will not be a day for hostile takeover of Australia. In fact, today is a day of retribution! Behold!" I lifted a ziplock bag of watery gold, a prize of mine that I, in the past, took great pride in. However, looking at it now only served to make me cringe slightly, looking back at the camera, I figured an explanation was needed.

"B-because, this was from the bank that I robbed, couple of months ago, with a transmatter ray, seventy-five percent..." my voice petered out, another bad habit that I had when I was forced to explain myself. I managed to get my volume back up again in time however, "That is why, I have reworked the ray so that it is at a full ONE hundred percent, so that I can make this-" I pointed at the bag that smelled like cumin and then lifted up a gold bar from another heist to finish the example, "-to this."

I set the bag carefully down and went away from the camera to get the transmatter ray, I was no longer a failure, I was Dr. Horrible, villian, mastermind, and heartless. As I went back to the watchers with the transmatter raygun, I paused at the picture I still had of Penny... I stood still, my heart still beating for the love I had for her, and the regret that it was I that killed her in a fight with Captain Hammer. I shook off the feeling by ripping the picture down and stuffing it into my science coat.

"Ta-da." I lifted the ray from below the camera, still hiding, so that I too would rise up and go back to my chair. "This is it, this is the one. I figured out that all I needed to do was give it settings," I leaned into the camera and shifted the view of the ray so that they could see, "Gas, Liquid, Solid, and even Plasma, because no one seems to care about the ionization of gas just as much as I do."

Taking the bag, I moved a table into the view of the camera and set it down, trying to make the bag stand up before I took aim. Going over to the other side, I began warming up the transmatter ray, waiting for it to give me the confirming sound of clicking to let me know it was finished, "Now! In front of your very eyes! I am going to make this liquid gold into actual, solid, gold!" I yelled out over the sound of the device, hearing the clicking, I pressed the trigger and felt the recoil fling me back, but not into a wall, if anything it just sent me propelling into... what I had figured then, hell.


***


"I can't die!" I yelled out, "The Evil League of Evil would reincarnate my corpse, laugh at me, and then kill me again!" It was then I found myself on the floor. A wooden floor in comparison to my cement floor of the basement. The walls were also exceptionally bare of any of the little liquids and mechanisms I had strewn about normally. Even the sound of my voice was more girly than I had before. The transmatter ray must've really took everything around me for a ride, because everything felt out of place for me.

"Fluttershy! Come upstairs for dinner!" I heard a voice call down the stairs and then shut the door. When I had realized I was shaking in fear underneath my lab coat, I started trying to put things together, for both the good of science and for evil. For starters, the hair, it was pink, long, and kept getting over one of my eyes, perhaps the pigmentation took a heavy beating and the length of hair was only caused by rapidly decaying cells that also were able to restore themselves rather well. Next, my height. As I lay there, I could tell that by stretching out my legs, it wasn't enough to poke out of the coat, which led to the next discovery, I had small fur that lined my body, all of it yellow. And finally the last piece of investigation let me see hooves, so taking this all into consideration, I was a small horse or pony that sounded girly, had long pink hair and yellow fur.

I began hyperventilating and shot back into the lab coat that I now called home. This wasn't good, I would've rather died and be mocked by the Evil League of Evil rather than this. I was the equivalent to an imaginative horse that a little girl would fawn over, and when you were previously a man like I was, it killed a lot of pride. I could even recall the voice of Captain Hammer as he would look down at me from his therapy bed, "So, the powerful Doctor Horrible became his own undoing, that just shows that when you're evil, you become some little cute puffy pony in the end, and a good guy gets all of the ladies."

"Fluttershy!" The female voice called down again, "It's time to stop playing and come to dinner right now, little filly!" I poked my head out enough just to let whoever was out there see my lips.

"Okay, mommy, I'll be there in a second." I tried to call back, finding my voice was really cut back in volume and couldn't get higher than a breathy tone. Pulling back underneath the coat, I began debating against why I called that voice 'Mommy' and who this 'Fluttershy' was that she was talking about. That's when the coat came flying off and I was staring up at a darker yellow pegasus with a pink-purple mane that was looking down at me with concern.

"Oh no, Fluttershy, you hit your head?!" She scooped me up and started staring at what I could now tell was a nasty knot on my head, it must've been from when I got hit by the recoil of the transmatter ray, but how could I explain that to this mare that I was believing to be my mother?

I know about my mother, she left me when I was becoming twelve, she died in a car accident as I watched her pull out of the driveway, and she was an only mother! But there I was, snuggling against the chest of this mare that my head was telling me was my mother as she took me up the stairs to dinner.


***


After some awkward eating situations that involved me having to learn how to use forks again with hooves, I went back down to the basement, back to the lab coat that had came with me. I had to figure out something, anything to get out. I was not a filly, I was not a pegasus, I was a man! I mean, I am a man... right?

I began scanning the basement, I needed to set up operations for a way back, something to do with dimension hopping, or perhaps I could make another transmatter ray the same way I did back home and could get ricocheted back, or into another place I was unfamiliar with. Then, I had managed to find the pair of goggles I kept close to my head and picked it up, it was badly damaged, much like my head was at that time.

Something else survived the jump, it was the computer and camera I had used constantly to make my blogs, and it seemed to still work fine, despite the fact that there was no power source for it to run off of. I figured, the best I could do was at least finish the video that was still running. Sweeping the now oversized coat and goggles on me, I tried reaching up to the camera by moving a few crates that were around and plopped myself in front of the camera, giving out a nervous chuckle before I frowned in panic. "Help me."


***


I didn't get sleep. My mind was racing too much. I had become a small filly that was named Fluttershy, who was apparently the daughter of Bunny Angel, also a single mother, but one of the nicest creatures I could've ever been with. I was in a house in the town of Cloudsdale, a place completely made out of clouds that I could actually walk on. Everything seemed out of place, out of reason, out of the question. Not only that, but there was a hanging calendar that told me that tomorrow I was going to Summer Flight Camp.

I did manage to close my eyes at some point and then got awoken by the sun coming up. I didn't want to get up, not like this, not to some summer camp for flight, I could barely walk right now.

"Fluttershy, are you ready to go? The bus is here to pick you up!" Bunny Angel called from downstairs, forcing me to get up and take a shaky breath, maybe I was taking this the wrong way. In fact, it may work out, if I could find at least one minion to help in my plan to get back to Earth, the embarrassment, the humiliation, all of it would become worth it. Packing the coat, goggles and even the camera into a suitcase I came down the stairs and approached what would be the ride to my tormentous journey.


Click me!


"Love you much," Bunny Angel kissed me on the forehead and led me into the horse driven bus and I was forced to take a seat. I couldn't control myself from singing a little bit.

Summer Camp. See you there.
With my hooves. Twid-dl-ing.
Wanna say "Like your mane."
Here I go (mmmrrhhrr) mum-b-ling.

With my freeze ray I could stop - the bus.

With my freeze ray I would find the time to find the parts to

Make machines. Get back home.
Go to bed. Ignore this craze.

I'm no foal. Kinda sick.
Wanna cry. Anyways.

With my freeze ray I will stop - them all

It's no death ray or an ice beam that is made of snow

I just think they need time to know
That I'm a guy and I am real
These feelings I don't wanna feel
I won't bend down to their will
If only time would stay sti - ll

Have no plan. She looks cool.
She and I. Any time.
Love your mane

The rainbow-maned pegasus beside me gave me a tired look as if she had just woken up. "What?" I felt the need to backtrack right away.

"No, I- I- I hope it won't rain." I gave a small laugh and the pegasus turned her head away again.

Anyway.

With my freeze ray I would stop-

The bus came to an immediate halt and I bonked my head into the seat in front of me. A gray pegasus with skewed eyes in front of me popped her head out to look at me. "You okay?"

I couldn't speak a word, it was too shameful. Here I was, singing a song about trying to go back home and thinking back on the freeze ray. I hoped they didn't hear a word of it, but it seemed that thanks to the sound of the bus in comparison to my now soft voice, nopony seemed to pay attention to me. That's when I looked around and got to see a griffin in the back, seemingly careless to the ponies that were around her. She had a letter in her claws and had been opening it slowly, the two deliverers being a dark brown pony with nearly white mane covering his eyes and a caramel colored pony with a brown mane surrounding both sides of his ears.

The griffin pulled the letter out and began reading it when...


Another song? So soon?


Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse.

We ride across the nation, We're Thoroughbreds of Cool.
We got the application that you - just - sent - in.
It needs evaluation, so let the games begin.

A heinous prank, a show of force,
A leader would be nice of course!

Bad Horse, Bad Horse, Bad Horse, We're Bad!

The Counselors are watching closely so beware.
The grade that you receive will be your last we swear!

So make the Bad Horse gleeful, or we'll make you our mare.

You're saddled up. There's no recourse. It's Hi-Ho Silver!

Signed Bad Horse.

That tune made me shake in fear, Bad Horse was the greatest villain that ever lived, and some of these kids made a group that used his name? However the sky blue pegasus beside me squealed in happiness. "This is going to be so awesome! That means I'll have another member of my gang!"

"Um, your gang?" I questioned, doing my best to recapture the attention of my seating buddy. She looked over at me with a smile on her face before pulling me in closely.

"It needs some work, so far it's only me, but I've been able to sniff coolness a mile away, and that griffin has tons of it," She then gave a once over at me and then poked me away. "You don't have an ounce of it in you."

This was going to be high school all over again...
> Act 1, Scene 2
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	Exiting the bus, I got to see the campgrounds. It was kind of like an airfield, with runways, hoops made out of clouds that were suspended in air, and columns that kept other segments of clouds up. I would question as to why gas would need to be held up by pillars, but I had no time to do so.

We were being led out to what had to be the audience hall, we were all given a seat as we entered and stared at an empty stage. With this many ponies, I could find a minion easily, all I needed to do was a little recruitment.


Quick! Sound pathetic!


Will you lend a helping hoof?
To help me home, I need it
Only have to say my name
Don’t even have to praise it
Would you help… No? How about you?

They weren't paying attention, instead the talking had gone silent as a rather beefy, white stallion crossed the stage and placed his hooves on the podium. He looked completely crazy as he flexed on a constant basis as he talked. "YYEEEAAHH! ARE YOU ALL EXCITED TO BE IN SUMMER FLIGHT SCHOOL?!" I shrunk down in my seat, this guy's voice made Bad Horse's death whinny sound like pleasant laughter. "IF YOU AREN'T EXCITED TO BE HERE, THEN STEP UP HERE AND SAY IT TO MY FACE!" The griffon that was riding on the bus with me stood up and started walking towards the stage, answering the challenge as she looked the stallion in the eye.

"I'm not excited," she coolly remarked, making the stallion flinch back and then start laughing. "What's so funny, big guy? You mad that I shown you up?"

"MAD?!" The stallion yelled, making me lean forward in anticipation as to what he was going to say next. "I'M ACTUALLY GLAD THAT ONE OF YOU DECIDED TO STAND UP AND BE A WILLING VOLUNTEER TO BE A CABIN LEADER!" The crowd started murmuring, and I decided that I had to stand up as well. If I could be a cabin leader, then I could gain followers, minions, and eventually get back on track to getting out of here. I started up, getting to the aisle and slowly making my way to the front as well. "WELL LOOK THERE! ANOTHER ONE READY TO COME UP AND SAY SOMETHING TO ME!"

I kept going, resisting every urge to just run, go back to my seat, or curl up in a ball and die. Soon I was next to the griffin and looking up at the muscular wall of a pegasus and started gasping out what I needed to say. "I... I... I'm not... happy to... be here." The stallion shot an ear out to me and placed a hoof next to it.

"WHATCHA SAY? CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

"N-n... not happy... to be here..."

"SPEAK UP FILLY! I DON'T HAVE SUPER HEARING!"

"...not happy..."

I could hear the audience laughing at me, something that made me regret about making the decision to step up.

"I'm not happy either, sir!" I looked over to see that the rainbow maned pony I was sitting next to was standing beside me, giving me a sideways comforting smile. "So that means you'll have to make us all Cabin Leaders!" The stallion shot out a look to the crowd and then to us three and gave a confirming nod.

"ALRIGHT, LEADERS, THEN YOU'RE GONNA GET FAMILIAR WITH YOUR CABINS, THEY EACH HAVE A NAME AND YOU'LL BE KNOWN AS THE CAPTAIN OF THAT CABIN AND ITS NAME." His hoof went to the griffon, "YOU HAVE CABIN CLAMOR!" His hoof went over to the sky-blue pegasus, "YOU HAVE CABIN UPROAR!" He then pointed to my shivering body that lay on the stage, trying to hide behind my pink mane, "YOU HAVE CABIN CHEER!" From behind the wall of hair, I gave a little 'woo hoo' and was picked up by the rainbow maned pegasus.

"INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO YOUR CABIN MATES, CAPTAINS!" A microphone shoved into each of our faces.

"Gilda," the griffon flatly spoke.

"Rainbow Dash," the sky blue and rainbow maned pegasus boldly proclaimed, she was the only one I could consider as my only saving grace by this point. Finally the microphone came to me, gulping in nervousness, I hoped not to embarrass myself further.

"Fluttershy," I gasped, the microphone just barely picking up my voice and giving a squeal of feedback. Seemingly satisfied, the white stallion flexed again and put the microphone back on the podium.

"ALRIGHT, NOW THAT WE HAVE OUR CABIN LEADERS, WE'RE GONNA SPLIT THE REST OF YOU UP TO EACH OF THEM! THEY HAVE A BIG RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT NOTHING BAD HAPPENS IN THIS CAMP, ANY PRANKS, FIGHTING, OR ANYTHING BEYOND THE RULE BOUNDARIES ARE GOING TO BE HANDLED BY THEM!" My eyes didn't want to shut, they almost wanted to pop out in fear and roll away. I couldn't be that terrified of responsibility, I had robbed banks, I had captured and ransomed prisoners, why was I now shaking at the prospect of being a leader of a group of pegasi?


***


"I didn't think you had it in you," Rainbow Dash told me as we came out of the audience hall. "You're still not cool enough for Bad Horse, but you at least got a little bit of attention from me."

I blushed, I enjoyed that complement, but I had to remain strong. I'm not going to become soft hearted, I had to keep myself from falling into a sense of calmness, that's what this world wanted me to do. "This is only temporary, Billy. You've made the first step towards gaining somepony that can help you gather what you need and then you can get out of this predicament," I thought aloud, and by aloud, I meant that no pony even paid attention to my voice as we split to our designated cabins.

Cabin Cheer was a large, rectangular building. A single floor that seemed to split into three rooms from what I could tell by looking at it from the outside. Stepping inside, I remarked that I was completely right, the room I had entered was a mix between a kitchen and dining room. To the left was a blue sign with a pegasus rearing up, signifying the room was the boys dorm, to the right a pink sign with a pegasus just standing, signifying the room was the girls dorm. Waiting inside was a mare, no doubt the 'cabin mother' that would keep things in check over myself and every other pony that would reside here.

"Hello there, you must be Fluttershy." I shrunk back, watching the white coated mare approach me, her shining golden mane flowing down behind her neck and nearly touching the tips of her eyes, on her flank looked to be a picture of a movie reel. "You wanted to be a cabin captain, is that correct?" Her voice was very relaxed and calm, I felt a little better knowing now she wasn't going to scream and yell like the other muscle bound pegasus did.

"Y-yes," I kept kicking myself for not being able to speak with confidence anymore, it was becoming infuriating that I just couldn't say half of what was really on my mind. "Are you the cabin mother?"

The white coated pegasus gave a smile to me, "I am, my name is Sunset Boulevard, you may not have known this, but I was actually a movie star." I felt myself getting excited over this news, even though I had no interest in celebrity gossip, news, or even meeting with the ilk back on Earth, here I was, heart going crazy and my eyes wide in wonder about meeting a pony that was in the movies. She gave a forlorn sigh however, making me wonder if there was something else that she didn't want to tell me.

"Well, let's get ready to introduce ourselves to our cabin friends for the next two weeks, you can stay by the door and welcome everypony that comes in and direct them to their dormitories so they can unpack." She then gave me an odd stare and looked around me, "Did you not bring anything with you?"

I thought for a moment, I was sure that I left with a suitcase. I retraced steps until I remembered I left it on the bus. "Oh, no! It's all on the bus," I squeaked. Sunset gave a sigh of relief at my panic before leading me out the door again.

"It's fine, the drivers always know that there are packs left behind sometimes." She pointed out to a rather big building in the camp, "Go to the main office, they'll let you go through the lost-and-found where I'm sure your things are." I gave a look at her, trying to let her know I wasn't comfortable going alone, but instead she just shut the door and left me out in front of the cabin.


Uh oh, here comes another song...


"She left me here, she left me here alone!" I tried not to shiver too much and went to re-enter the cabin until I stopped myself, that was this odd piece of my mind, and I wouldn't let it control me. Not now, not ever.

A mare’s gotta do what a mare’s gotta do
Don’t plan the plan if you can’t follow through
All that matters: taking matters into your own hooves
Soon I will gain back my life, my plan will be complete.

I turned to go straight to the main office and watched an entire parade of ponies being led by that self-centered griffon.

Stand back everypony, nothing here to see
Just imminent danger, in the middle of it, me
Yes, Captain Clamor’s here, feathers blowing in the breeze
This cabin needs my special expertise

As she said this, a copious amount of paintballs shot from nowhere, covering the entire front of my cabin and myself, leaving me in shock.

A mare’s gotta do what a mare’s gotta do
Seems destiny ends with me pranking you
The only doom that’s looming is me gaining your respect
So I’ll give you a sec to catch your breath

I gaped in awe as Rainbow Dash came flying in and trotting next to Gilda.

Thank you Gilda, chick, I don’t think I can
Explain how impressive it was that you pranked their team
She's now all splattered, covered entirely in cream
Thank you much for joining me

Now things get complicated with this here, so bear with me.

A mare’s gotta do what a mare’s gotta do
You came from above
Are you kidding?

Seems destiny ends with her all in paint
How cruel are you really?
I wonder what you're thinking of

Stop cheering her like that
When you’re the best, you can’t rest, what’s the use
Do you notice that she's breaking every rule here?
There's coolness flowing through your veins

There’s flanks needs kicking, some little bomb to go plant
I'm not at wrong, those paintballs really hurt
Must be, must be in shock

The only doom that’s looming is me gaining your respect
Assuming I’m not giving you respect
WHATEVER!

Both of them kept walking away, now leaving me in the middle of the sea of oncoming ponies ready to enter Cabin Cheer.

So we'll give you a sec, to catch your breath.

The crowd bowled me over as they all rushed in at the same time and trampled all over me. As I got up I got hit in the head by two incoming rubber balls, only prompting me to utter the last words I would say before passing out in shock.

Balls.
> Act 1, Scene 3
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	When I had woke up from the unfortunate act of being run over by near hundreds of excited filly pegesi and rubber balls to the face, I found myself placed in what had to be the medical area. The nurse that was looking over at me seemed relieved that I wasn't dead, at least. For the longest time I was fighting with my mind to get up from the covers and continue to my suitcase, or just throw them over my head and keep down. I had finally forced myself from the bed and stood up, doing a mental check on what on my body hurt.

"Feeling better, Fluttershy?" The nurse kept her eyes on me, my own shifted from her to a stack of papers on the desk she was at. "We've got the notices that your mother sent to us about your condition, so don't worry about us not being able to care for you."

Fearing the worst, I tried to get closer to the papers, hoping to figure out what conditions she was talking about. I could distinctively note keywords that gave me a hint as to what it was she was referring to. 'DID' and 'social isolation' struck a chord, they had diagnosed... me... with Dissociative Identity Disorder. I couldn't believe the nerve of these ponies! I was me... just as a pony... that had problems trying to control my sense of judgement.

My mouth remained shut, but my own fear spoke volumes, perhaps I wasn't real? NO! Of course I was... AM! I leaned a hoof against my head, the sudden outburst of thought and panic made it hurt to think straight. "I need my suitcase," I spoke out clearly, the first time I had done so in this body. The nurse nodded her head and pointed to my suitcase that was set up in a corner of the room. "When Sunset informed us that you hadn't returned, she took the liberty to get your suitcase for you after she found you lying at the door of Cabin Cheer."

I only gave her a look and went to the suitcase, just wanting to get my things and leave. Taking the suitcase I left the room, now frightened at what had happened. I needed to get out, now more than ever. It explained everything, the irrational shyness, the immediate need to apologize to everything, I was not the only... thing in this body that was trying to do what I wanted to do. I was locking horns and thoughts with the real Fluttershy, and I knew I couldn't lose out to her.

"Get a hold of yourself, Billy," I told myself, my eyes shutting out everything as I left the building. "You're not thinking rationally, you are you, not some pegasus! You just need to get this entire thing taken care of, and the only way to do that is to find the right parts I need to make the transmatter ray again." My eyes went open and scanned the entirety of the cloud camp and groaned, "All of the parts I need are all metal, plastic, and requires a soldering iron. This place doesn't have any of it!" I stamped a hoof in frustration and found myself sunk into the fluffy expanse, the sound of laughter caught my attention.

"Look at that, Hoops," the brown pegasus pointed at me, "Looks like Fluttershy is actually a Klut-ershy!" I recognized him as one of the two fillies that gave Gilda the envelope on the bus. As much as I wanted to give him a piece of my mind, I found myself actually shoving my face into the cloud and crying. I couldn't believe this, there I was, one hoof jammed in a cloud that I couldn't pull out, and no hope of escaping this humiliation. I don't know how long it was until I heard the sound of my rescuer.

"Come on now, both of you go back to your cabins, we have yet to perform our opening ceremonies." I looked up to see Sunset Boulevard shooing away the two bullies and looking down at me, my guardian angel. She lifted me up from the cloud and gave me a concerned look. "They didn't do anything bad to you, Fluttershy?" I could only shake my head, my lips now pressed so tightly that no sound could escape. "You don't have to be a cabin leader, if you don't want to Fluttershy." The feelings of both despair and relief hit me hard, only making the tears that were already building up begin to fall faster down my face.

"I-I-I c-c-can't do that," I stuttered out, feeling like a small child again. "W-w-wanna go h-h-home." I couldn't believe how pathetic I had become, to go from being the fastest uprising villain of all time, to a shivering, fearful, and over emotional filly that couldn't fly. Sunset just stayed with me as I had latched onto her leg and let out all of my tears of frustration and sadness run down it. When I had no more tears to cry, she set me off of her leg and stared at me with a comforting smile, letting my overbearing emotion reach an end.

"Then let's go to the cabin, there are a lot of little fillies and colts that would love to meet you."


***


I had managed to find a room that was rarely used to go ahead and set up my camera. After all of this experience for just one day in a flight camp, I needed to let it out somewhere. To the only people... or perhaps ponies at this point, that I could be open towards. I had managed to try and make the coat that I wore a little shorter so it didn't look like it enveloped me like a giant monster, and the goggles that I had were able to be repaired, somewhat. I had found out that the goggles were needed to be made into a more rectangular shape in order to fit comfortably on my head.

After some much needed scavenging in the late night, I had only managed to come back with a small spring and glass that I had to carefully try to cut. I also managed to steal a HAM radio that I managed to finally take apart and use what little I could forcefully fit into the goggles, hopefully I could come up with a reasonable excuse if for some reason investigation was led to me. Getting everything together, I gave a sigh and activated the camera.

"Hello again, ponies of Equestria... and people of Earth..." So many terms and knowledge had started to infiltrate my own, no doubt thanks to whatever this 'Fluttershy' had managed to accrue before I had the unfortunate experience to be brought here.

"So, I have some updates I need to tell you all. I'm now cabin leader and captain of Cabin Cheer, in Summer Flight Camp." I pointed to my new, and slightly improved goggles, giving off a slight smirk. "Heh, these are my goggles, after the trip they were pretty damaged, so I made it a bit more durable... hopefully." I then looked down at my coat, still oversized, but more fitting the now small structure I had. "I've got the coat down to something more manageable, so if I decide to walk around with it, I won't accidentally trip or something."


Just somber background music...


That's when the picture of Penny stuck out, I had forgotten that I had it lodged in one of the pockets. I felt my heart already racing as I reached and pulled the picture out, it was exceptionally wrinkled, but there she was. My hooves shook along with the rest of my body as I looked at her. The picture I had taken during one of the many times I watched her in the shadows, this one of her looking up from an old science-fiction novel, her eyes looking off to the left of where I was. I could already feel myself getting ready to break down and forced myself to slam the picture onto the floor.

"I- I am fine. Just... give me a second," I turned my back to the camera, these emotions were bringing me to a new level of madness. Everything that I had ever wanted was stripped from me again, first Penny, and then my life as a villain. I had nothing. I was just a delusional man that had became a pony with no self control of her own feelings. Could I even consider myself a man anymore? Could I even be able to go back to who I really was? The questions kept going through my head.

"Perhaps if you were more kind to other ponies, they could help you."

My eyes looked around, I knew I heard a voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel bad."

"No! Stop it! Stop trying to be nice to me! I'm a bad guy! I'm a villain! A monster!" I turned quickly and shut off the camera, not wanting anypony else to see how insane I had become. My head kept ringing, it felt as if both myself and Fluttershy were now fighting over who needed to be in control.

"It's really late, you should go to bed."

The tears I had already started crying were still going as I felt myself drawn to the bunk I had chosen in order to sleep. My head finally hitting the pillow face first as I bawled the rest of the night, being given comforting words from the creature that my mind was conjuring up for me. The caring visage of Penny kept going through my mind, it began to make me want to go back, to when I first met her, not as Billy, but as Doctor Horrible, showing her everything I really was, rather than living a lie.

It was only my second day as a pony, and I already felt myself slowly caving in.
> Act 1, Scene 1.5
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	A few moments ago, back at home, the henchmen of Doctor Horrible's secret lair had begun to notice something... missing...

"Does anyone else think that Doctor Horrible has been real quiet?" Was the question and topic most discussed by the workers. Never had there been a single laugh from his lips that echoed the halls, no response to sudden potential and explosive failure by his personal group of scientists to work on his next big heist or terrorist ploy, not a peep against how much he hated the Henchmen's Union.

And what's worst of all, it all now fell on the shoulder's of his second-in-command and his only friend, Moist. 


***


"No, I don't know where he keeps his file filled with evil plans," Moist tried to explain to a group of workers that were needing to look again at Horrible's blueprint for the 'Mass Fingerprint Eraser', the machine to end all fingerprint scanners effectively.

"Well, then we won't be able to figure out where to put the Solar Collector in order for it to work!"

Moist looked up at the machine and then back down at the dumbfounded henchmen. "You can't just put it on the top of it?"

The group paused for a moment before they went into a huddle and then came out. "Yeah, I think we can... work that out..." With that they left and Moist was left to a wet hand in his face. Some days his own coworkers were just outright stupid and other times they'd ask him the most complicated junk that he couldn't figure out. He needed to get Dr. Horrible out of that basement, he had been down there for too long.

Moist started on his way, still eying the activity around him. The amount of funding that the Evil League of Evil had given Dr. Horrible was almost criminal! Scientists, all surrounded by glass tubes and multicolored liquids as they worked. Henchmen, doing tons of remedial work with lifting heavy objects and discussing ideas of how to improve the area in the break room. There was even a Chik-fil-A that had taken residence inside the large compound to the sheer joy of everyone.

Dr. Horrible had whispered to Moist that the restaurant actually served beef disguised as chicken in an attempt to see how well it could fool the normal populace, and the results were both delicious and successful.

Getting a 4-piece 'Chick-n-Strips' meal, Moist managed to both hold on to the bag of fried goodness and get to the door that was the entry way of Dr. Horrible's most secretive piece of comfort away from the workplace. Leaning over, he let his eye get scanned, a hair pulled from his head, and a microphone lifted to his mouth. "Moist is Choice," he groaned out, hating the catchphrase that Dr. Horrible had made him take in order for him to get in.

He pulled away from the door and watched it split in half, pulling into the walls to signal his entrance was cleared. Shoving a few waffle fries in his mouth he descended down the stairs, still hearing nothing of Dr. Horrible, which made him curious as to what was going on. He did hear something else down there that made him almost stop moving.

"Help me," the small girly voice had managed to reach him. His speed slowed down and then he began going down the stairs faster. Did Dr. Horrible capture a small child? He didn't do that! Murder and Kidnapping were two of his biggest pet peeves! Moist ran down the stairs and stopped, well, slid, into Dr. Horrible's personal lab. No one was in here, no girl that he heard, and no Dr. Horrible. He started looking around when he noticed Dr. Horrible's computer monitor was on.

On the screen was a cartoon filly with pink hair, wearing the coat and goggles of Dr. Horrible. Moist kept moving his head around, this had to be a joke. "Ha, ha, ha," Moist chuckled weakly. "V-Very funny, Dr. Horrible. You got me."

The cartoon pony's eyes seemed to widen as she watched him try and find a hidden door or secret compartment that Dr. Horrible was hiding in. "Moist? Moist! It's me!"

Moist paused, his eyes now looking back at the computer screen. He had no choice but to let the prank run its course, however it irked him, Horrible was not the joking type. "It's who?"

The filly tried to move the pink hair that got in her way only for it to fall back down, "Dr. Adorable!" Both the filly and Moist were confused about what she just said. "H- Hold on! I didn't mean to say adorable! It was H-. Horrrr-. Eeeee-. Buuullll."

Moist's eyes shot open in shock, "Dr. Horrible?!"

The little pony nodded her head and Moist again looked around him, seeing if anyone else was around before going back to the colorful representation of his former friend. "How'd you get in there?! Why are you a pony?!"

The now represented version of Dr. Horrible tried to shrug and nearly fell off her boxes in order for her to look through the camera. "I don't know why I'm a pegasus, or a filly. I can tell you it involved the Transmatter Ray and now I'm suddenly here!"

A voice that sounded more mature and similar to the now frightened Doctor was heard through the speakers, "Fluttershy, dear. It's time for you to stop playing and go to bed!"

The filly turned away from the camera and pleaded back, "A few more minutes, mommy?"

Moist would've laughed, but he knew it would both irritate Dr. Horrible and it wouldn't have made him look any better. "D- Doc. A lot of the guys are wondering where you are, sh- should I even-?"

"No! Don't!" The filly managed to latch onto the camera and pull her face in, allowing Moist to see the fear in her eyes. "It's bad enough that I'm stuck here until I find a way back, but if the Evil League of Evil figures out what happened here, I'd be mocked for the rest of my natural born life!"

"Then what exactly should we do about this?" Moist asked, hoping to get a plan, a scheme, something that could tell him what needed to be done.

The filly let go of the camera, "Alright, I need you to activate a little thing I had planned in the event that I was gone. It'll be... the fifth brick away from the window that you'll need to push.

Moist went straight to the window and counted bricks, "I'm at the fifth row! Which one is it?"

"Third from the ceiling, hurry it up, Moist, I need this matter taken care of before my bedtime!"

Moist counted bricks to the third and pressed it, he looked out the window, seeing that it was still daytime. So why would Dr. Horrible be worried about bedtime? From the other end of the room came the sound of vacuumed air escaping, Moist then turned to see a metallic version of Dr. Horrible waiting behind the wall that had opened.

"Bring the Robo-Horrible over here, I need to properly activate it." The filly was now trying to move something behind the camera, perhaps removing a few wires as the feed seemed to cut in and out as she did so.

Moist went to grip Robo-Horrible's hand and pull when it just slipped out, he tried again and failed. "I can't get him to move!"

The filly gave an angry huff, "Really? Alright, let me... just... get... this-!" The feed to the monitor had gone, but the speakers now sounded much louder than what Dr. Horrible had been speaking before. "Robo-Horrible! Protocol Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Eight, Four, Voice Override Code! Seven, Harry, Queen, Snake, Three, Seven, Two, Charlie! Respond!"

From the black goggles came red eyes that faded away as the Robo-Horrible began walking, it moved rather synthetically and natural for a robot. Moist could almost feel the fear flow out of him at what else the Doctor had hidden inside this place. The Robo-Horrible took a seat at the computer desk and looked into the monitor.

"Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha," It forced out laughs that sounded similar to Dr. Horrible.

"Excellent, it's at least got the basic functions working." The monitor was now showing that the blog was not giving out anymore video feed for the blog, so Moist was sure that any of the other viewers were just as confused as to what was happening as they watched the feed jump back and forth between complete darkness to a cartoon pegasus wearing an oversized coat and goggles.

"Alright, Robo-Horrible, you will need to reactivate the blog and explain as to what has happened. Make it assumed that this was an attempted blog hacking, also inform them that the Transmatter Ray has disintegrated. Afterwards, proceed with the daily chores, minimal progress so that I won't be too lost as to what has happened if I return. Moist, you're going to watch the video playback and get some of the boys that you can trust to try and replicate what had happened. If I can't get out on my end, you can enter on the other."

Moist felt the pressure of responsibility latched onto him, and no amount of wet sweat was going to let it off. "You expect us to go to where YOU are?!"

"I don't know what I want, this is something that I would've never considered a viable option during my entire life's work." The voice of the filly Dr. Horrible stopped and the feed returned again, Moist could see some tears forming on his friend's face. "I just need some help..." Both of them kept their eyes on each other until the camera finally shut off and the feed to the blog returned to Robo-Horrible.

"I would like to apologize for the childish attempt to interrupt my blog with cartoon ponies, it turns out my personal server drones have failed incredibly against this hacker, and as such I will punish them and said hacker," The Robo-Horrible began his speech as Moist pulled away, he had a job to do, and he had to try and keep this incident quiet from a lot of important people. Moist heard a phone ring and instinctively answered it.

"Hello?" Moist asked, before realizing how much of a mistake it was to answer Dr. Horrible's personal phone to the Evil League of Evil.

"I'm looking to hear from Dr. Horrible, would you mind terribly putting him on the phone?"

Moist's hand wrapped tighter on the phone making it jump into the air, making him try to recapture it, he had just heard the voice of one of the higher-ups of the League, Professor Normal.

Moist put the phone to his chest, "Phone for you, Horrible!" He squeaked, seeing Robo-Horrible stop the blog feed and rotate his head around 180 degrees to look at him. The robot then stood up and approached Moist, still backwards and ripped the phone from Moist's hand. His face was blank of expression, and that made Moist even more nervous.

"We regret to inform you that Doctor Horrible is busy working on a project, if you wish to leave a message please do so at the beep." The Robo-Horrible then crushed the phone in his hand and started up the stairs to do the Doctor's work. Moist stood in the basement for a moment and tried to stop shaking, so much had happened and now he had to try and fix it. He pulled out his own phone and leaned next to the window so the signal could be strong enough as he started making calls.

"Hey, Pink, I'm going to need a favor and some time to tell you about what just happened to me today..."
> Act 2, Scene 1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	I woke up, not of my own accord. My eyes greeted by the pillow I had rammed my face into last night after a struggle of wills between myself and her. I didn't know who she was, Fluttershy herself, a ghost, something else that wanted me to act differently, I didn't know. This whole world had changed everything I had believed in. I could walk on clouds. I had the potential to fly. At every turn I felt a new cut at my heart and a pony to help me with it, unlike back at home. On earth, when I was bullied, no one cared. That was the biggest part that killed me.

I pushed off the pillow, the dried tears I had made had latched the fabric of the pillow against my fur and I let my own force pull it off. The girls were already running off doing their own business, some I had noticed were slightly wet from water and had towels wrapped around their flanks. I did think a shower or bath of some kind could help me. To wake up as one excuse, and two, to straighten out a plan of attack to get out of camp. I was not going to get anywhere while I was stuck here, and I had to learn that the difficult way after just one day.

I had walked towards and then pulled away from the door of the washroom, inside were other ponies getting showered and cleaned. I tried to remain calm, act natural, and for the love of Celestia, not act like a coward! I hung my head down and made sure not to make any eye contact with any of the girls as I went into the furthest stall away and pushed the button in front of me. Just then a rumble rose above me, prompting my head to look up.

"Of course, it's a cloud," I whimpered and felt the full force of rain go down on me. The occasional light thunderclap escaping it, making me stop myself from continuing my wash for a moment before I attempted to continue. So far the listing of my checklist was looking bare. Sure, I got to establish connection back home at least once, but I had no effective assistance that I could trust, I didn't have any of the necessary parts needed to make a Transmatter Ray, and the one thing, I needed now more than ever, is to get my head to stop this nonsense involving love, or kindness, or sparkles and rainbows

"Fifteen minutes before aerial flight lessons begin!" I heard the sound of Sunset Boulevard call. Could I trust her? She was technically older than I was, and she did know about Fluttershy's condition, so I only shook off the thought like the water that clung to my wings. Thankfully, none of the girls in the dorm wanted to talk to me, which was fine by me, but they did like to whisper a lot.

"I think she's got something cookoo with her head," I overheard one say.

"-and can you imagine? Her father's in prison and awaiting the banishment sentence," another hushed out.

Worthless garbage, those words. It made me think back to when rumors were spread as I was young and in school that I was a recluse homosexual. I wasn't mad because it was wrong, per se, I was just mad because none of them bothered to actually speak to me or even bother to see if it was true.

"Hi!"

My thoughts were jarred from my brooding as I saw two golden eyes, one looking at me and the other eyeballing one of the whispering ponies. First reaction? Jump under the nearest cover, being the underside of the bunk bed. If I wasn't going to be called weird or out of place now, I was going to be.

"Huh? Where'd she go?" The grey pegasus with the eye disorder asked, she looked extremely shocked at my land speed for finding immediate cover.

I sincerely hoped that flying as a pegasus was going to be just as easy as running. Perhaps it was just an instinctual thing, and the camps were just as simple as a summer camp that just had dumb little games and junk.


***


"Uh... my flight needs work..."

I was back in front of the camera, hidden in the unused room from... well, everypony.

"I may also need to be more careful with what I do, apparently the members of Bad Horse and Captain Clamor were observing my movements. They were waiting for me during the flight lesson across the bridge and I was only starting to warm up and I wasn't..." I tried to swallow some saliva to make my throat less dry.

"Captain Clamor threw an ice ball at my head." I was so mad and disappointed, Sunset was not there to see such a crime and it only served to put more fuel in my fire for escaping this camp and world.

"Not to worry, though, because-" I was interrupted from the click of the door and in a panic, threw a cover over the camera and hid in the corner, hoping to not be noticed. My lips slammed shut and breathing had become optional as I watched the intruder begin to step inside and scan the room with each eye looking different ways. IT WAS THE GREY PEGASUS, AGAIN!!

"Hello? Are you in here, Fluttershy?" She called out to me, didn't look like there was malicious intent around her, but I refused to come out. "I saw what Gilda did, and it was really mean, but I know you're in here." She was being sympathetic, I could feel it all around me and it only served to make myself feel worse.

Silence. She stood there in the dead silence as both her eyes scanned the room and went to the camera covered blanket and looked ready to step on it! With no second thought, I tackled the clumsy filly before she could destroy the last piece that kept me from becoming a shivering wreck. I had her pinned for a moment before I ran back into the shadowy corner and started shaking badly. She only got up and slowly went to the door.

"I just want to talk to you," she mumbled.

"Please," I stopped her leaving as I came from the dark, the nasty black eye from the hard ball of water was now clearly visible. "Just talk."


***


I had learned a lot more about the camp and what we were all here for. This camp was not a summer camp, but a summer school for young pegasi that had difficulty flying or were exceptionally misbehaving. Rainbow Dash was a pony that followed rules, but was often lazy and only cared about her own personal affairs. Ditzy (as I had been able to learn her name), informed me that Dash was not really a bad pony, she just was with a bad crowd.

Now, Gilda was apparently an interesting case. Transfer student, an athletic beast(I know, go figure, right?), and most importantly, very spiteful to ponies that she wouldn't be able to control or use to her advantage. This griffin was, as both of us agreed, the worst kind of individual that Rainbow Dash could be around.

The rest of the day was a blur, my eye being looked at, Sunset Boulevard once again asking if I wanted to be a cabin captain, the discussion I had with the muscle-bound madpony that called himself Snowflake about the 'prank', all of it was gone in an instant as I again found myself in front of the camera again.

I just looked ahead, silently looking at it as it ran. What could I say?

I was worried for Rainbow Dash, a pegasus that I didn't even talk to, let alone know?

I felt relieved that I had another friend to talk to about how I wanted to get out of this torture?

I wanted to do... more?


Did you miss me?


I didn't care if it was after hours, I had to walk.

Any colt with half a brain
Can see my pony mind has gone insane
To the point where I don’t know
If I’m upset, I do not show
If I think of evil it begins to strain

Listen close to my own very heart
And hear that beating sound
Love and kindness, tearing me apart
I'm crashing to the ground

I will not believe my eyes
That this world slowly breaks this guise
But it’s plain to see
There's good inside of me
That's on the rise

From my stupor, I heard a familiar voice. None other than the one I was feeling concern for, Rainbow Dash.

Look around
We’re hanging with the awesome crowd
Just when you feel to turn around
Another prank of yours, profound

And you believe
There’s cool in everypony’s heart
Know it will abound
With hope, we can do our part
To turn this dump around

I will not believe my eyes
That this place we can help revise
‘Cause it seems to me
Some kind of prank you see
That's on the rise

I finally managed to find the source of the voice and also the 'base' of Bad Horse. None other than a hole in the clouds that could easily be hidden by a flap. She was looking over at Gilda, almost looking longingly at her. If I didn't know, I'd have believed that she was actually in love with her.

Any colt with half a brain
Time to grow
Could spend their whole life going down a drain
She looks at me and seems to know
‘Cause the light is everywhere
The things that I’m afraid to show
And Dashie doesn’t seem to care
And suddenly I feel this glow
That soon the dark in me will leave me like a stain

And I believe
Listen close to my own very heart
There’s cool in everypony’s heart
And hear that beating sound
Know it will abound
Love and kindness, tearing me apart
With hope, we can do our part
I'm crashing to the ground
To turn this dump around

I will not believe my eyes
I will not believe my eyes
That this world slowly breaks this guise
That this place we can help revise
But it’s plain to see
Cause it seems to me
There's good inside of me
Some kind of prank you see
That's on the rise


***


The days started melting together, time felt as if it passed at a faster rate. I could see myself being able to fly momentarily, having words with Sunset Boulevard about Gilda and what my concerns were. But, everything seemed to halt when I was face to face with Rainbow Dash, with no Gilda in tow.

"Hello, Rainbow Dash," I softly murmered. My head tilted slightly away to get some sort of protection, and only got the agile and athletic pegasus to face me again.

"Heya Fluttershy, I've been meaning to talk to you, ya know, about Gilda's ice ball." She rubbed the back of her head, "I didn't think she'd do that, hurting other ponies just isn't cool."

I gave a small smile, this was it, the moment to warn her, to say that Gilda was a horrible animal and she deserved to have better friends than her. What came out was not my own words. "It's fine, really, she can't go back in the past to stop the problem, and I don't even know her or how griffons play. She could've been throwing a baseball and it would've been the same difference then."

Those words made Rainbow Dash feel more at ease, but served to make me tense up. Another rebellion against what needed to be done, and as hard as I tried, I couldn't say a single mean spirited thing about Gilda or her actions that were screaming out in my mind.

"If its not nice to say, then its better to not say anything at all."

The voice again, I couldn't stay with Rainbow Dash, I had to get away.

The top of a building was a nice start...
> Act 2, Scene 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Time seemed to continually jump forward at random intervals. What could be causing such a thing? I know certainly that being an additional presence in the universe, it could make it unstable, but I was inhabiting a body that was acceptable to said universe.

I would have attempted to think of a reason as to why, but I kept feeling more depressed as the days continued until I had my head so far down it dragged on the floor as I walked.

"Let's look at the Junior Speedsters scoreboard for this week," Sunset Boulevard said, snapping me out of my thoughts as she pointed to a representation of a race between three pegasi, each of them having a name on their sides. "I'd like to say, well done for our cabin, Cheer is in the lead with fifty more points than Uproar!"

Everypony in the room cheered and I just kept my head low. I knew I had no input into that score. My flight was terrible, no power behind the flaps, the ability to tilt the wings so that I could bank to the left or right was either too much or too little, and even when I could actually have control of flying, Bad Horse members were waiting to pelt me with cloud balls, distract me, or just tackle me mid-air and claim it as a mistake.

I had, at one point, managed to thwart one prank in particular by sending an anonymous letter to Snowflake about both the hidden base and what they had planned for the cake that was going to be served during lunch.

It was a small victory before I had later found a letter on my bunk bed. Here's how it went.


BAD HORSE! BAD HORSE! BAD HORSE! BAD HORSE!


You've seen the operation we tried to pull today
And our humiliation means we will say “neigh”
And now we need to break you it's just the only way
There will be tears, now show your fears
You've found trouble
Signed: Bad Horse

In my fear, I had thrown the letter away. The more I tried to fight against them and tried to focus on something that could help me get out, the more tangled into the mess I had become.

I had resolved to make sure that I would do nothing to draw attention anymore. Something that myself and the voice inside me could agree on. However, I kept finding myself more and more depressed over having no control over most of my words or actions. I had continuously tried to contact Moist again in an attempt to try and reestablish myself and get some words of encouragement, but all I would be greeted with was a black screen that reflected my own face.

"Can I see you for a moment, Fluttershy?"

My eyes met with Sunset Boulevard, her eyes looking at me warmly like they always have. I only nodded and went with her outside near the front door of our cabin. Once she had left, her face went from her usual happy demeanor to a more solemn expression of concern as she looked at me.

"Why are you so glum all of the time? I've never seen another camper act this way before, and I'm sure its not related to your... well, disorder."

Well, I had to give it to her, she was blunt when she needed to be.

"I just keep getting picked on, and picked on because of how badly I fly. Not only that, but those mean bullies are everywhere and I want to say some of the meanest, nastiest things to them back." I mumbled out in a decibel that could actually be considered close to a normal talking range. I got tense, angry, I was practically showing Sunset what was being bottled up because of what was happening, but soon I again slumped and my mane covered my face again.

"I just can't say it though. I'm too kind, and I wish I wasn't..."

A quiet passed between the both of us for a moment, my eyes wet with tears building up as I looked at the floor.

"Remember when I told you that I was an actress, Fluttershy?" Sunset finally spoke, prompting me to look up to her.

"I was raised up in a rich family, gained everything that I wanted, had so many movie rolls, but I wasn't happy..."


Oh no! Not the feels!


Here’s a story of a girl
Who grew up fast and happy
Thinking love was meant for her
And trouble wouldn't ever find me

Even in the spotlight
Every shadow can be found
And every day a tear
Brings empty nothings
To ponies watching all around

Dreams replaced within me
A stallion loved completely
Had to give up all I received
Turned away from who I would be

Anytime you’re hurt there’s one
Who has it worse around
Don't turn from who you are
I'll say your growing
Kindness for everypony in town

So keep your head up little filly

She stopped her song as she put a hoof underneath my chin and lifted it up to look at her.

"No pony wants to be hurt, but if it means making those around you happy, sometimes it is worth the bits of suffering that may come with it." She remarked, finally dropping her hoof away from my chin and giving her smile to me. She stepped back inside and I sat myself at the front of the cabin steps, looking out at the camp.

From afar I could see Gilda causing large columns of clouds to shoot up underneath ponies that were trying to fly, causing them to spiral in mid-air. What could I even do? I kept asking that question, over and over. Finally, I found an answer, something that never occurred to me before.


Somethings gonna go down!


This started as a moral dilemma ‘cause at first
It was weird though I swore to eliminate the worst
Of the plague that devoured my sanity it’s true
I was vague on the “how” - so how can it be that you
Have shown me the light

I stood up, greeting the sun from my shadowed cover and passing the laughing griffin as she regrouped with the other Bad Horse members.

It's a brand new day
And the sun is high
All the birds are singing
That I've got to try
How I hesitated
Now I wonder why
It’s a brand new day

With new found fervor, I had got a rolling cart and began ripping away everything I could find in different buildings in a very sneaky manner.

All the times that I tried to accumulate, here's a part
All the crimes incomplete - here, another in the bin
Mrs. Cool, Mrs. Wrong, Mrs. Know-It-All is through
Now the future's so bright and I owe it all to you
Who showed me the light

As the rest of the day continued, I had went back into my hidden 'base' with Ditzy in tow. I had considered her a minion, but part of me also considered her a friend.

It's a brand new me
I will show remorse
Now the water's rising
And I know the course

I'm gonna shock this world
Gonna show Bad Horse
It's a brand new day

And Dashie will see the good in me
I'm a joke, I'm a dork, I'm a failure
And I will cry but my tears will dry
When I look at her eyes and hear the words 'I'm sorry.'

My mind began to wonder, an imaginative world at my hoof tips. I was standing in front of a giant Gilda and beside me was a laser of sorts.

It's a brand new day
Yeah the sun is high
All the angels sing
That I've got to try
Go ahead and laugh
I was a funny guy

Tell everyone goodbye…

It's a brand new day!

The laser fired in the realm as the giant griffon seemed ready to crush me, and I came back to reality. If Fluttershy wanted to show kindness to others, then what better way than to show the ultimate kindness by exposing Gilda's actions and getting Bad Horse disbanded?


***


"People have been so enraptured by the yellow cartoon pony that you've neglected to show fear about anything that I have done recently," an enraged Robo-Horrible spoke out. "It seems that I'll have to take further matters into my gloved hands, and find who was responsible for interrupting my transmission online. Only then will I stop idiots like Johnny Snow from making comments such as-" Robo-Horrible lifted a sheet of paper up and read it aloud.

"-that pony is so cute and cuddly, it's actually worth seeing Doctor Horrible get butthurt over it."

Robo-Horrible lowered the paper and gave an angry stare to the camera for a moment before he threw the paper away and grit his teeth.

"And I'll broadcast the total destruction of whoever this is LIVE in front of this camera so that you can all witness what happens to those that DARE interfere with me and my plans!" He shouted before forcibly shutting the camera off and preparing his ascent to the main lab and conduct his meeting with his minions.

As Robo-Horrible left the room, Moist went back to the basement to continue his attempts to contact Doctor Horrible. He had talked with the Pink Pummeler, Conflict Diamond, and finally Bait... or was it Switch? Only they knew about Horrible's sudden issue and because they weren't part of the Evil League of Evil, they were the only ones that Moist could trust. As he set about his normal routine, his cellphone rang and he picked up.

"Yeah?" Moist answered.

"Hourglass here, listen, I don't normally mess with time, but this is big, GET. OUT. OF. THE ROOM."

Moist's eyes went big, Hourglass had to have seen something major and he needed to go. As he hung up his cell, he turned to see Robo-Horrible at the staircase.

"I've been seeing what's going on Moist, and I'm not happy."

Moist watched as the robotic duplicate of his best friend begin to approach him, clearly in a threatening manner.

Moist made a break for the door by managing to dodge the crushing grip of Robo-Horrible's arms and began to rush up the stairs. His heart pounded as he heard the doppelganger followed from behind as he got to the door and opened it.

Moist then saw he was surrounded by multitudes of minions blocking his path and a slowly approaching Robo-Horrible.

"Come on, FRIEND, I'd like to test something on you..."
> Act 3, Scene 1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

		Moist pushed himself from the ground and stood up. Gosh, everything looked SO much taller! In fact, he thought that it all looked... pastel-ish... Heh. The way it looked was a... lot... like...

Oh god, no.

Moist made an attempt to stretch up, there is NO WAY he could be SO short that the grass could reach his waist! His... white... furry... waist... After patting himself down, Moist came to both an amazing and horrifying conclusion. He was a bunny rabbit. Robo-Horrible has gone too far! Forcibly transporting him into this world and NOW turning him into an animal?

He had to do something, and the only thing he knew was that he needed to get in contact with Dr. Horrible to sort the mess out!

Moist looked up to the sky and remembered his last contact with Doctor Horrible. He was now here, but where was he? Or she?


***



So They Say...what?


Sunset Boulevard walked into Snowflake's office, his large body being in stark contrast with the desk he sat at, making him hunch over.

"So they say Captain Clamor’s become a crusader
A Radical – She’s tearing up the camp"

Snowflake's eyes shot up from his paperwork.

"WHAT'S THAT!?"

In another part of the camp, Dumb Bell, Hoops, and Score were huddled together with a mysterious package.

So they say that it’s real change

So amazing!

Hoops looked at the postal sticker and gave a cheeky smile.

She signed this.

At Bad Horse's secret location, Rainbow Dash had been fiddling with some paperwork and was overseeing the large containers of red dye that were around her.


So they say we’ll have a big speech
We can do it all by Monday
Thanks to you

Gilda gave a confident chuckle as she kicked back, looking at the ceiling.

Thanks to me

The trio of bullies pushed the package to the cafeteria area.

It’s the perfect crime scene

So they say

A prankster leading the way

Clamor’s call to glory

Let’s all do our best

Come on, let's play!

As they opened the package in the empty kitchen, each of them set to work on finding what food was going to be served today.

So they say she saved her life

They say she works with the uncool
And doesn’t eat meat

We have no problem with her

This is her feather.

Gilda looked through a listing of ponies and found Fluttershy's name on it.

This is so nice
Just might prank the same pony twice
They say it’s better the second time
They say you get to do the cool stuff

From nowhere, the trio came into the room, each joyously bumping hooves with each other.

We do the cool stuff!

Robo-Horrible sat at his blog desk, his fists clenched as a gate was set behind him.

This is perfect for me
So I say
This day will be mine today
After days of angry
Typing have I finally found a way?

As Horrible was trying to push himself with his wings to get through one hoop, Rainbow began to have doubts about the actions that she was doing with Gilda.

There’s A happy ending
So they say

But for me it's today

Should I stop pretending

Or is this a brand new day?
Take the chance to build a brand new day!

Score pulled Hoops and Dumb Bell aside and opened a piece of paper.

This is her dry cleaning bill

Four sweater vests?


***



I've tried my best to get this body up in the air, with little success. This was the last week for the camp teams to garner points for each other and I am fully determined to at least get a small amount of my own added.

"Think this through for a moment, this shouldn't be difficult," I muttered, although it wouldn't matter if I did say it aloud anyway. "Going through a hoop is a single point, nowhere does it say where I have to be in order to get through it..."

I looked around for the closest hoop to a building and found one rather close to a hanger's roof. Using a ladder I climbed to the roof and focused my intent on the hoop before me. This was it. This was the one. Right after these two...

With a few flaps, I only got a few inches off the ground.

"Alright, Horrible. Just need to get through it. Just flap REALLY hard this time!" I thought, getting two good pushes up to the hoop.

I was halfway through and a large smile was on my face. Success couldn't have felt sweeter, especially when I saw Sunset Boulevard looking in my direction; a witness to my actions.

In my carelessness in taking in my pride, I neglected to keep my wings going and found myself hurling toward impending doom. It's okay though, despite the fact that I slid down a hill, flung into the air, and managed to take out one of the camp flags in one motion, I was in one piece. Though saying that, my mental state was FAR from manageable.

"No pony saw that, PLEASE let no pony have seen THAT!"

"Nice going Klut-ershy!"

I raised my head from the flag and saw the two bullies again. Who were they called? One of them had basketballs as his cutie mark... that's really I can remember right now...

"They ought to ground you, PERMANENTLY," Dumb Bell told me. (THAT WAS HIS NAME! That makes much more sense now...)

"Ha! My baby brother can fly better than you," Hoops added.

I could help but feel the humiliation run deep into my core, but something caught my eye beyond the two who were staring down at me, a streak of rainbow colors.

Before we all realized it, Rainbow Dash was right there. Staring down the two colts that had been laughing at me.

"Leave her alone," she yelled.

For a moment, I thought I was dreaming. Rainbow Dash, the leader of Bad Horse, the head of the pranking team and causer of many humiliations, was standing up for me.

"Ooh! And what are you going to do? Rainbow CRASH?" Hoops responded, shocking me once again. Was there a fallout between Rainbow and these two? Was Rainbow thrown out of her own club? Perhaps those two were? Maybe this was an elaborate prank in order to catch me off guard?

"Keep making fun of her, and find out," Dash threatened.

"You think you're such a big shot?" Dumb Bell asked, slightly hinting that perhaps the theory of the two being thrown out was correct. "Why don't you prove it?"

"What do you have in mind?" Rainbow asked.

"Nothing special, how about a race around the big track? Fastest one wins," Dumb Bell stated.

"You're on! You can say good-bye to Clamor's points, because after I win, it'll be all Uproar!" Rainbow Dash yelled, prompting a few cheers to her side.

After the two left, Rainbow Dash gave a slightly forgiving smile.

"Hey, about what happened, you know, with Gilda's paintballs? I've been thinking about it and it wasn't really a good prank," she said, a hoof rubbing the back of her neck.

"It wasn't so bad..." I mumbled, trying to recuperate whatever pride I had left off the cloud floor.

Rainbow Dash kept her eyes on me as I rubbed my leg and looked around awkwardly.

"Look, I need to admit that ever since I first met you, you've been sticking to the back of my mind. I've also heard more about you recently, with all the hardships you've been through and that stuff..." Dash seemed to want to say something but didn't know how to say it.

"Would you like to be friends?" I spoke, almost out of nowhere. The two of us went quiet as the sound of the other pegasi flying around and laughing went on.

"Yeah, totally!" Dash said, her eyes lighting up as she spat in her hoof.

"What are you-?" I started.

"Spit on your hoof!"

"But-"

"Come on! It's a friend making thing!"

"Okay..."

I spat in my hoof and we both held them out, making them clack together. Part of me felt disgusted about the fact that we had basically shared spit with each other, but the other part of me was glad that I had a new friend to count on when things were difficult.


***


News on the race was widespread, fillies and colts made amateur grandstands with little flags and seats as a starting position was determined. With what little I could do, I felt out of place. I was a helper, not a pedestrian. I leaned down and got the checkered flag in front of me.

"We got our flag waver! Tell the three racers that it's ready!" Somepony called out as I was left on a cloud staring straight down the starting line.

"You're going down," Hoops taunted at Rainbow.

"In history, maybe," she responded. "See you boys at the finish line!"

I gave a kind look to Dash, hoping that she got to see that I was really happy that she was now a friend of mine. With a wave of my flag, the race began... with me getting spun out by all three racers.

I realized after a few more spins that I was falling, and my wings were locked up and not going anywhere. In desperation I tried waving my hooves frantically, hoping to get ANYPONY'S attention. But sadly, all of them were focused on the race instead of my inevitable freefalling death.

I kept screaming, yelling, doing all I could to at least try to gain vertical velocity. The ground became close and I closed my eyes, not wanting to see my body broken apart.

With a slight FLUP, I landed on something. My eyes opened up on instinct and was greeted by MILLIONS of butterflies. They carried me around the land, and what should have been the most commonplace of areas that I had known was now an entirely new world to my eyes. I had thought that it was purely from Fluttershy's perspective, after all, when you're raised in the clouds, I'm sure you stay up there until it comes time to go to the ground.


(Don't worry, the lyrics are on the video)


With a loud BOOM, an arc of rainbow colors shot across the sky, scaring all of the animals around me. Natural instinct kicked in as I went around attempting to calm all of the nervous beasts around me. I was a Doctor Dolittle... in the sense that I was good with animals and talking with them, even if they couldn't quite talk back to me.

I felt at peace like this, with all of the animals around me. I looked back to see a white rabbit next to me who eyed me curiously for a moment.

"What do you need little-?"

I was cut off as the bunny hugged close to me and didn't seem to let go. He then pulled away and started chittering at me.

"Are you hungry?"

The bunny shook his head and started thinking for a moment before it seemed to have an idea. It held out a paw.

"Um... one word?"

The bunny nodded feverishly as it started to look for something. It jumped into the water and then presented itself.

"Wet."

The bunny rolled his arm, signifying I was close.

"D-damp. Soggy? Soaked. Drenched. Moist."

The bunny nodded with conviction as it pointed to itself. For a moment I was confused, why would it point to himself after a game of charades where the answer was-

"Moist!"

I hugged the bunny close to me, my best friend had come to my rescue! I was going to be free! I could go home, reevaluate my villianistic lifestyle to a more loosely based evil, take that vacation time that Bad Horse had been wanting me to use ever since Christmas, I could do it all!

My hug was pushed away as Moist began trying to explain something to me.

"Moist, Moist! I don't understand your chittering! Stop running-. Moist, please will you-?"

"WE FOUND HER!" A loud yell came, scaring off many of the animals. Holding Moist close to me, I was met with Snowflake, who also had Hoops, Dumb Bell, and Rainbow Dash near him. "ALRIGHT, LITTLE LADY, WE'RE ALL HEADED TO MY OFFICE TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER PERSONALLY!"
> Act 3, Scene 2
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	"SO THIS IS WHAT WE RESORT TO? TRYING TO CHEAT THE SCORE SYSTEM? ATTEMPTING TO GET RID OF SOME COMPETITION?"

All four of us sat in front of the bulging biceps of Snowflake, I kept Moist, codename Angel for the moment, close to me as Snowflake bore down into us.

"I TRY TO RUN A GOOD, CLEAN, HONEST SYSTEM OF FUN, EXCITEMENT, AND SAFETY. AND WHAT'S WORSE, IT'S NOT FROM TROUBLEMAKERS, IT'S FROM TEAM CAPTAINS!"

Each of us kept our eyes down and away from Snowflake, mostly to avoid getting spit in our eyes. For me, it was the worst feeling I could think of. I didn't do anything wrong, and here I was being roped with two bullies and a friend who stood up for me.

"YOUR TEAMS HAVE BEEN PENALIZED POINTS FOR BOTH OF YOUR ACTIONS, FLUTTERSHY AND RAINBOW DASH. AS OF NOW, TEAM CLAMOR IS IN THE LEAD AND WILL BE ACCEPTING THE CAMP PRIZE."

"What?!" Rainbow Dash yelled out. "Come on! That's not even close to fair! These two bozos are on Gilda's team anyway! If anything, Team Clamor should be in last!"

Snowflake slammed the desk and pushed his face close to Rainbow Dash's. "YOU ARE MEANT TO BE A LEADER, WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, THE WHOLE TEAM IS IN THE WRONG! CLAMOR LOST POINTS, BUT IT IS BECAUSE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP STATUS THAT MADE BOTH CHEER AND UPROAR LOSE EVEN MORE!"

I didn't say a word, I just let judgement come down as Snowflake dismissed us. Moist hung onto my mane as I trot back to Cabin Cheer. I knew it wouldn't matter in a few more moments though, the Transmatter Ray I had managed to concoct was nearly completed anyway. I kept away from everypony and stayed in my hidden closet with the ray, my coat, and Moist.

"We're nearly there, little buddy," I whispered.


***


Robo-Horrible watched as one of his disposable henchmen was dragged toward the spinning wheel of energy and light, kicking and screaming as he was dragged closer to the device that crossed into the unknown. No emotion was shown as the henchman was thrown in, a scream of intense pain turned into an animalistic howl.

"Results," Robo-Horrible ordered his handlers of the transdimensional transmitter.

"He's gone, sir," came the response. "He must have been broken apart when we attempted to maintain his proper form, just like Moist."

Robo-Horrible lifted the responder and bore into his eyes. "Then, fix it! Everything I had told you and your stupid compatriots to make this is flawless! There should be no reason why it should not work!"

As Robo-Horrible kept the henchman held up, a jarring set of beeping came from a console. With a swipe of his arms, the henchman was flung across the room and turned his attention to the monitor display.

"So, Moist," Robo-Horrible hummed in happy malice. "You have made it. Not like the bipedal homo sapian that you once were, but this is nothing that concerns me."

Robo-Horrible watched as the bunny kept close to his target and let his calculations run in his mind. As more of his calculations came running through his eyes, a chuckle of confidence surged up in him. He was going to annihilate the annoyance and in turn gain access to another world and its resources. He would expand his influence beyond Earth and become bigger and badder than Bad Horse. He twisted a knob and hit a few buttons before looking to his destiny.


***


I kept at the machine as Moist went back to chittering. I kept trying to focus, but his constant yammering made things difficult for me to concentrate.

I finally went to turn to Moist and yell at him when I heard his voice for the first time in months.

"-AND HE'S GOING TO DESTROY THE CAMP!"

I froze, looking at the panting rabbit that was my friend and trying desperately to fool myself into believing I didn't hear him.

"You can't talk," I hurriedly let out, trying to block out his voice.

"Now you acknowledge me," Moist said, exasperated in his attempts finally reaching out to his friend. "Were you listening this whole time just to screw with me?!"

"♪La La La La La♪ Not listening!" I yelled, trying to overload my ears with sound to end the new psychosis that came up.

"Don't give me that!" Moist continued as I tried stomping around and clanking wrenches together. "You need to take care of Robo-Horrible before he comes here!"

I stopped clanking things together and went quiet.

Looking over at Moist, I could see in his eyes that even as a bunny he wouldn't be able to lie to me. If Robo-Horrible was to really come to Summer Flight Camp alongside the henchmen that I had accumulated, not even flying ponies would stop him.

"Stare."

I blinked. It was the young filly voice again. She sounded fearful, not wanting to face something unknown.

Moving the goggles over my eyes, I picked up Moist and debated on leaving for home or readying for a fight.


***


"Fillies and Gentlecolts, the captain of the winning cabin is willing to make a speech," Sunset solumnly announced.

Every member of Cabin Clammer applauded as Gilda came up to the podium on stage. Many of the other campers had only politely clopped hooves, despite their hatred of Gilda and what she had been able to get away with.

Sunset Boulevard set herself beside Snowflake and whispered to him, "Was it really a good idea to let her have a speech?"

"TRADITION WILL BE UPHELD IN MY CAMP!" Snowflake authoritatively grunted back. "JUST LIKE THE RULES THAT WERE MADE IN THE CAMP'S INAUGURATION."

Gilda set her front claws on the podium and leaned forward into it, staring down at the audience of dweebs and suckers.

"I hate losing," she began. "No doubt, so do all of you. But the fact is, I'm up here, and you're not."

"When I first met Rainbow Dash at the campsite, she turned me to this whole 'Loser' problem from the get-go," Gilda continued, letting a smirk go along her face as many of the fillies and colts squirmed angrily in their seats, unable to do anything. "That's when I realized that I'm the only winner in this place."


Every pone's a Loser


It may not feel too easy, begging just to win,
But you know who does that? Not me!
And I always give the beat!
So you wonder what your part is, ‘cause you're stupid, and so dumb.
But your mind is where the head is, so your a big airhead!

Every pone's a loser in their own way!
Every pone's got problems they must face!
You're not as cool as me, but folks you know it's fine to know your place!

Every pone's a loser in their own way!
In their own not-a-winner way!

So I thank my gal pal, Dashie!
(Yeah, she handed me the win!)
She showed there are so many dweebs that I can crush!
There's the jocks of compensation, there's the cheerleaders (Fine!),
I'm not content to bash in heads, I've got to bash in minds!

Every pone's a loser in their own way!
Every pone's got somethin' they can do!
Get up, go out, and fly - especially that guy! He smells like po - o!
Every pone's a loser in their own way!
You, and you, but not me! - And you!

I'm the cool new sheriff. And I'm bringing on the pain.
A winner doesn't care if you're a bunch of failing good for nothing bums!

(Everybody!)

The crowd remained silent, each filly angrily staring daggers at Gilda as she continued to revel in her glory; the trophy slowly being brought before her.

Every pone's a loser in their own way!
Every pone can travel the walk of shame!
Don't worry if it's hard, if you're not a friggin' ‘tard
You will preva - il!
Every pone's a loser in their own way!
Every pone's a loser in thei -

A loud rumble and multiple crashes rang around the building, making the crowd of fillies cry out in fear. The adults attempted to keep the fillies from rushing off in a panic. The doors were kicked through as multiple ponies of every variety flew through, each wearing jetpacks and donning intimidating black garb.

They all eventually hung in the air above the little ponies as a lengthy shadow stretched from the doorway into the building.

"Where is the pony you call, Fluttershy?"


***


At the Canterlot Castle, panic had spread. The obvious noise that had blown out rang all around Equestria, causing many ponies to look in the direction of Canterlot.

Celestia's own eyes rested on the cloud city and remained stoic, knowing who to contact. Her eyes shut as a silent call was made.


***


Each step that was taken by Robo-Horrible, echoed in the hall. His height terrifying every creature in the room.


No one is safe...


Look at these creatures, amazing how they all
Show up for the slaughter!
Each one condemning, you lined up like targets,
You leapt up in terror!

Why can't you be what I see?
Why can't they close their eyes?
Maybe the fee's too pricey for them to realize
Her disguise is slipping!

His face moved in close to a colt, his lengthy shadow suddenly becoming wide.

I think you're slipping!

He pulled back, still trying to find his target.

Now that your voice is still as the grave you
Cower before me!
Like cavemen fear thunder, I still have to wonder,
Can you really hear me?

I bring you pain, the kind you can't suffer quietly!
Fire up your brain, remind you inside your tiring
Society is slipping!
Everything's slipping away, so -

A beam of red light from Robo-Horrible began firing, tearing holes into the building and floor as he continued to approach the stage. The hench poines that had lined the walls now covered the only exit as the chaos commenced.

Go ahead! Run away! Say it was Horrible!
Spread the word! Tell a friend! Tell them the tale!
Get a pic! Do a blog! Heroes are over with!
Look at you! All Uproar! Clamor and Wail!

Yes, I win! Then I get everything I ever -
All the cash! All the fame! - And social change!
Anarchy! That I run! It's Dr. Horrible's turn!
You ponies all have to learn! This world is going to burn!
Burn!

In his fervor, Robo-Horrible notices one filly frantically writing in a pad as he craned over to check her spelling.

Yeah, it's 2 "r's," "h-o-r-r"
Burn!

Even on the stage, no sign could be found of the yellow creature his original intent wanted to destroy. Oh well, at least he can conquer an entire dimension instead.

No sign of filly - oh, I would give 
Anything just to have her see.
It's gonna be bloody, heads up every pony,
There's no time for mercy.
Here goes no mercy!

At the entrance way, the hench ponies guarding the way were suddenly flung forward. The bright light of the outside blinded Robo-Horrible and anyone that turned to see who it was that was coming in to stop this madness.

"Back away from them, right now, Robo-Horrible!"
> Act 3, Scene 3
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	"No turning back," I thought to myself, ready to look up and see the clone of myself. As my eyes rose, the visage of my own human form was not looking back at me.

"Robo... Horrible..." the creature standing in front of me chuckled. It was similar to the pegasus form I had already seen multiple times, but it didn't just have wings. "Perhaps you don't understand who I am?" The sharpened bone that protruded from his head shone in a deadly flash, conjuring images of unicorns.

The doors shut again as the hench ponies surrounded me, each flexing and giving threatening looks to my small form.

"I, am DOCTOR Horrible." His voice authoritatively snapped, his teeth also as sharp as the horn that he had. "I am... was the man that killed Captain Hammer."

Each of the ponies that surrounded me leapt up to trap me, making me frantically move out of the way, just barely missing being sacked by them.

"I, am the brightest and most dangerous monster that you will EVER face!" He yelled, chest puffed out as his wings opened wide, shadowing over me. "I, am your new god!"

As his words finished, his horn pointed to me and blasted a red ray that nearly hit me. The ground that the blast hit smoked with the intense heat that it caused. "All thanks to you, by the way."

A whimper of confusion went across the crowd, every eye now pressed on me, making my breath short as I shook in panic.

"If you hadn't shown your lovely little face on my blog, then maybe this series of events would not be unfolding before you now," Robo-Horrible continued. "How did you do it? It wasn't by simple means, I've tried to follow the signal back manually but it was almost... beyond comprehension."

The hench ponies that tried to jump me had started to gather from behind before a raised hoof of Robo-Horrible let them stop in their place. "Before I fry you in front of everyone here, tell me how you did it."

The squeaks and squirms that I gave stopped. For once, I was in total control. No voices. No phobias. No fear. My eyes looked up at this abomination with determination, a spark in my eyes as I spoke.

"It all started in a place like this," I began. "A braggart had an entire city in his hand, believing every word he said. Meanwhile, I was given a choice, eliminate this pompous fool or be eliminated myself."

The past came back to me, freezing Captain Hammer in place, causing panic in the auditorium, pointing a death ray at the prone body that was in mid-note. Now, I had a chance to change history, but in a different way. "That was when I made the choice to focus on myself, no one else around me. Instead of killing the one I wanted to eliminate, I destroyed the one person that cared about me, not as the face that I wore every time I donned the coat and goggles, but as me. As Billy."

The confusion in the room seemed to continue on, and the last words I had said shook Robo-Horrible from his confident stance.

"You would know that same feeling, right? After all... I made you. You have the memories that I put into your head."

The alicorn reared up and angrily whinnied as I felt an energy surround me and sent me across the room, bashing into a wall.

"Kill her!" Robo-Horrible screamed at his hench ponies as they fumbled for their own weapons.

"No!"

On my side, I could only watch as Rainbow Dash took a swipe at Robo-Horrible, her speed combined with her punch nearly rocking the alicorn. Another roar of anger came from Robo-Horrible as more of the red blasts came from his horn.

"Dashie, get away!" I yelled out.

Despite Robo-Horrible having wings, he wasn't using them, instead standing where he was as he pointed his horn in every direction towards the blur of rainbow colors.

"Why- can't- you- stand- still?!" Robo-Horrible punctuated with every blast he made. The auditorium kept getting weaker with each blast, soon groaning under the strain that the burned pillars were trying to hold up.

"Everypony out!" Sunset Boulevard screamed as parts of the ceiling began to crack.

Though the doors were blocked, the stampede of little fillies were no match for the hench ponies as they were overrun and stomped on.

Moist tried to help me up, despite being so small.

"Warm up the transmatter ray," I coughed. "Set it to liquid."

The battle seemed to go for a while until Robo-Horrible stopped, not seeing the blur of color in the air. "Where did you go, you little twerp?!" 

A hench pony approached Robo-Horrible as a small piece of the ceiling fell. "We've got to get out of here, Doctor!"

Robo-Horrible focused his energy into the hench pony and lifted him up. "Not until I destroy her!"

The hench pony continued to argue, "She's just a little filly, what could she do anyway? You have the power to do anything!"

Robo-Horrible brought the hench pony close to him, "If you want to run, fine! I'll do it myself! I don't need anyone!"

By this time, I had managed to stand up and notice that Dash, Robo-Horrible, and myself remained. Bringing the transmatter ray that I had cobbled together up, I took aim at Robo-Horrible and (in my mind) crossed my fingers.

With a resounding pulse, the transmatter ray fired and struck Robo-Horrible, causing him to flinch in surprise, dropping the hench pony as he rushed out the door. His eyes looked to me as he began laughing.

"Is that a transmatter ray?" He howled, still laughing at what had happened. "Did you just try to liquify me? You ignorant little creature, transmatter rays only work on inanimate objects!"

As he continued laughing, a smirk of my own began to form. What would synthetic skin fall under in the category of animate or inanimate objects?

His laughter soon stopped as skin began to droop over one of his eyes. He touched the skin and felt the weight of it as it continued to fall, causing him to panic. The skin and fur slowly oozed off, showing the metallic frame of bone and circuits that was hidden inside.

"No, no, no, no!" Robo-Horrible continually repeated. "I'm not a robot! I'm Doctor Horrible! I'm Doctor Horrible!" The robotic alicorn's glowing eyes turned to me, half enraged and half confused. "What have you done to me?!"

My own eyes locked onto those lights and felt a powerful rush of focus as I peered into it. "I told you before, I made you. You were never Doctor Horrible, just another one of his creations. But, I'm not Doctor Horrible, I'm better." I began stepping forward towards the bot as it began sparking, processors slowly overloading from the intensity that was being transferred to it only by the eye contact. "I got to see the other side, the better side. The side that shows that focusing only on yourself may get you what you want, but it will make you lose everything else."

Robo-Horrible began twitching, more sparks flying from it as it tried to fight against looking at me. "Wh- Wh- Wh- What- t- t- t- are y- y- y- you?"

Our faces were so close, I had barely noticed that I had used my wings to meet the alicorn eye-to-eye. "I am the only pony with a Ph.D. in Adorableness!"

As the ceiling finally began to fall, my face pushed into Robo-Horrible's with the last words that it would ever hear.

"I am, Doctor Adorable!"


***


Outside of the auditorium, the camp watched the auditorium collapse, causing cloud dust to kick up and spread before it settled again.

"Fluttershy was still in there!" One filly screamed out.

"So was Dashie!" Another yelled.

Sunset Boulevard, Snowflake, and the rest of the camp counselors began uprooting as much as they could of the ruined auditorium, hoping to find any sight of Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash.

"Everypony, stop where you are!" An authoritative voice yelled out.

Multiple ponies in black suits and sunglasses filled the camp in seconds as they assessed the situation.

"Getting readings of recent tears in the universe borders!" One pony yelled out as he held an odd box device that had a radar spinning rapidly.

"We got some of the jumpers!" Another yelled out, dragging the hench ponies that had came with Robo-Horrible.

The activity halted as an alicorn stepped forward, black cap and sunglasses donning her head. "Begin a Level 4 containment and rebuild on the campers here, we don't need them to remember what just happened."

The unicorns in the group nodded as they began to build magical stalls that surrounded the large group.

The alicorn approached the destroyed auditorium and knelt down, using her own horn to detect something. When she felt a pull, she stopped the spell and used her magic to lift up a piece of the auditorium. Underneath the broken piece was the destroyed Robo-Horrible, a small yellow pegasus wearing a lab coat and goggles, and a cyan pegasus with rainbow mane, trying to reach for the yellow pegasus.

"Found the troublemaker," the alicorn yelled back before turning her attention to the fillies. "Also need some of the medical crew to fix up these little ones, we don't need to have to make these kids remember that somepony died."

Her horn continued to react as it pulled to the yellow filly.


***


When I awoke, the first thing I saw was the black-suited alicorn. Her stern expression made my eyes shut, not wanting to confront her.

"Who are you?"

I cautiously peeked out from an eyelid, not seeing her expression change.

"You aren't really from Equestria, or at least part of you isn't."

My eyes finished opening, forcing myself to talk with this creature. "And you would be right."

The alicorn nodded, still no change in her expression. "Makes sense, choosing a filly that has a history of mental disorders due to the stress of losing a father. No one would question the minor alterations in her personality."

I straightened up, feeling defensive. "But I didn't really change personalities at all! If anything, I couldn't act like myself if I had tried!" My hooves went to my mouth, hoping to stop the words before they escaped.

The alicorn kept looking at me, almost trying to understand something. "I've never seen or worked on something like this before," she murmured. "Almost one hundred years since I began this organization, since the first dimension hopper, I have never encountered something this fascinating."

She got up and briefly paced before continuing. "You were... a human known under the alias of Doctor Horrible. You accidentally killed the one person in your life that had feelings for you and you for her and then proceeded to throw away any concept of love, hope, or even care." Her pacing stopped at that as she turned to me again, "Until now."

I only nodded, allowing her to continue.

"One accident. An accident that should not have happened, but did. You and Fluttershy became one. At first, it was a struggle for the both of you; Fluttershy, not wanting to do anything remotely dangerous or harmful in any way, and Doctor Horrible, so used to having power, so used to being feared, now lost in a world that centers around the things he had thrown away."

"Who is this alicorn?" I wondered, still transfixed on how she was piecing things together.

"Both of you fought and fought, until something that you could connect with was revealed." She lifted the picture of Penny, making me quickly pat my pockets in a panic and attempted to reach for it. She pulled the photo back, "In a moment, still working things through..."

She scrunched her face, still attempting to piece things together. "That filly, Rainbow Dash, why did you feel a connection with her?"

I was surprised, this alicorn was hitting all of the right areas to talk about, only adding more of a mystery around her. "I... liked her mane," I quietly explained. The answer didn't seem to resonate with her so I continued thinking about it. "She was somepony that seemed to be the opposite of me. Me, being so timid and mild, I couldn't even be able to look at others directly without having to shift away after a few seconds."

The alicorn then smiled, the first sign that she was capable of emotion. "Like Penny was to Doctor Horrible. Doctor Horrible only thought for himself and his work, but Penny was his equalizer. She was kind, giving, not wanting anything for herself.

"Right," I unconsciously agreed.

"The events... that took place before Doctor Horrible's turn... they're similar to what happened here," she lightly thought, turning away from me as she continued to think.

"I think... I understand what happened..." she finally said before turning back. "I don't do this, really I don't, but, I just need to check something."

The alicorn removed her glasses and hat, allowing her mane out that was lightly colored in its own rainbow and blew by an unseen wind. My eyes grew wide as stories of a princess that rose and lowered the sun and moon filled my mind, making my heart leap close to my throat.

"Celestia," I breathed out, trying to collect myself.

The princess stamped once and gave another smile, much wider than before. "Bingo, exactly like I thought." She placed her cap and glasses back on, again hiding her identity. "Your mind, Billy, has been integrated with Fluttershy's. In other circumstances where I've met situations like these, the minds are entirely separate, easily taken out and capable of being able to be sent back to where they were." She rose a hoof at this, "But you, you've done something else, you've accepted Fluttershy as a part of you, and she the same with you."

A silence followed as I tried to think of this revelation. "Does that mean that going back to Earth is impossible?"

Celestia gave a hiss as she breathed in with her teeth closed. "Not really, but it could tear up both you and her much worse than before. I'll send you back, no memory of what happened here, and you'll go back to what you've been doing. The only problem is, you'll always have a regret hanging with you." Celestia placed the photo of Penny beside me, "Or another one..."

"And Fluttershy?" I quietly asked, carefully picking up Penny's photo.

"She'll still be quiet, timid, and afraid, but because of what has happened here, she'll no doubt be a recluse. She'll never leave her home again."

The words cut deep, making me feel worse about the situation that now faced me.

"The other way," Celestia continued. "Is that I finish stitching up what's already happened in your mind."

My eyes rose up to meet hers as she continued, "You will live as Fluttershy, and Fluttershy will live as you. No thought confusion, no fights over what needs or doesn't need to be done, just Fluttershy living a life all her own. I would need to make some other alterations to your mind to insure that none of this-" she waved a hoof around herself and the tent. "-will be remembered. Not even the attack that the robot made will exist."

It felt like the right decision, but that small piece of me still looked back at the accomplishments of evil I had done. Could I really let them go?

"I won't influence your choice, but I will need to know in a few minutes. We can open a portal back to where you were and none of this will have ever affected you." Celestia said, opening the flap and stepping through.

With the flap shut, I was left with my thoughts...

Our thoughts.


The final song!


Here lies everything, the world I've wanted
At my hooves! My jo-urney's complete!
But which one will sting? (Chorus: Everything you ever..)
Arise and si - ng!

I left the bed, approaching the flap to the outside.

I'll leave it behind, but right here I have a voice,
and now to make a choi - ce,
Which world is mine? (Chorus: Everything you ever..)
Will I be fine?

Exiting the door, I got to see the camp all out there, watching me as I watched them. I took a deep breath and stepped forward.
Each step led me through another year. More animals to care, more friends that I met, more in tune with what I felt was the right decision.

Now the nightmare's left! Now Dr. Horrible is gone!
So don't you quake with fe - ar,
We're done with this ordeal! (Chorus: Everything you ever..)
And I will feel...

Now older, I wore a much longer and more versatile lab coat than before, still wearing the box-like goggles that I had scrounged together all those years ago.

Loved.
> Epilogue
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	"So... that's it." I said into the camera. "I told Celestia that I was willing to stay here, as me." The background of my home was much better in comparison to the basement I had in the past, at least, I think so. "She did a spell and then... well, it was fuzzy, but I think I remember holding on to the camp cup? It was rather odd, because I thought that Cabin Cheer lost. Turns out, the counselors found out about every act that Gilda did in the camp, so when she stood up to accept the award, she was actually called out for what she did."

I nodded for a moment. "Didn't see her for awhile... except for just recently, I was helping ducks cross the street when she yelled at me. I knew that deep down I wanted to stand up for myself, but I was so upset that I ran crying." I paused for another moment, "I wonder if she even recognized me? I shouldn't be surprised if she didn't, I do tend to keep quiet and not interfere with much."

I gave a scratch at my chin when Angel poked his head up into the camera. "Oh, right! Moist went back home, turns out he didn't want to live his life as a widdle fuffy rabbit." I hugged Angel close as he initially tried to push away before reluctantly accepting his fate. "He still calls though, from time to time. Turns out that he's running the Henchman's Union! I'm really proud of him, even if he didn't really leave his life of henchman villiany, but at least its the closest to a government job."

I clicked my tongue and thought for a moment. "Right! Dashie! She's still one of the closest friends I've ever made, and thanks to her, I've made a few other friends in the town I live in! Well, I mean, I live on the edge of the town and its somewhat secluded by the Everfree Forest, but still, small steps."

I glanced around me for a moment before gripping the camera and moving it with me to a secluded area. The sound of descending steps could be heard for a moment and some readjustment to the camera as I reset it. I was downstairs in the basement of my home, a table set out with some vials of colored liquid and a window that cautiously peeked outside to the animal pen.

"The only issue is... well... old habits die hard..."