Twilight is haunted by puppets created by her past actions. Maybe she won't escape this one alive. But, what did she do?
Twilight Sparkle wakes up in the middle of the night with a huge migrane and no memories from the afternoon, she tries to remember the events as she walks of what it seems like a bloody corridor, but as she remembers the events before the night, something around her gets really mad at her and starts to follow her...
Where is she? What happened? Why is she in that bloody place? And what are those things around her?
Dive in and find out!
Warnings: 1- In this universe, Twilight isn't an alicorn, and, by logic, she doesn't have a castle. 2- If you don't like blood and/or gore, then you can click away now. 3- Contains a slight part of shipping between Spike and three certain fillies, you have been warned. 4- Yes, this is like a 123 SMS crossover, but there's no tag to put it in.
Twilight Sparkle woke up, and she had a huge migrane, every single part of her body hurt, but the strange thing about this is that she didn't remember why her body hurt, whatever it was, it really was something special. The unicorn looked at her surroundings, it looked like an empty, small room with a door in front of her, the walls were clearly built brick by brick, and all the bricks were grey, giving the area a very spooky place, on the ceiling was a littlelight that helped her get up and observe the situation she was in with a little more detail.
"Wha-? What happened? Where am I? What is this place? And why am I covered in ketchup?" Asked Twilight to herself, she was covered in ketchup in the majority of her body, or at least that's how her mind was processing it. "Well, time to get out of here, I'm not going to find out what happened just by sitting around and doing nothing." Said Twilight, afterwards, she composed herself and walked through the door.
The little sinner had crossed the line, now the follower will break her tiny mind.
Twilight found herself in some sort of corridor, it had a bunch of little corners through it, probably leading to some other rooms, but what got the attention of Twilight was the door at the end of the hallway, it had a symbol that said 'exit' just above the door, but it was too dark to see where she was going.
This really didn't comfort Twilight, lucky for her, she still had a little bit of her magic left, and with it, she light her horn, but it took a lot of effort, and it didn't stay on for a long time. Anyway, Twilight started walking towards the exit door, but she did this at a slow pace, after all, the place could give anyone the creeps, the walls were just like the ones of the previous room, but they had a lot of ketchup over them, the ceiling had light bulbs, but they weren't bright at all, the corridor had a weird illumination that just allowed Twilight to see beyond her muzzle, and the worst of all, there was trash everywhere, all sorts of trash, big bags, small papers, and weird decorations of Nightmare night, there were heads and disembodied pony parts everywhere, but they must be fake, right?
When Twilight was starting to trot, she tripped with something, she looked to see what it was, and it was a recording tape, she might as well listen to it and maybe that will help her remember something about this place, right? With care, Twilight pressed the 'play' button on the tape:
"Okay... This is me... Twilight Sparkle... I don't know how much time I've spent here, maybe hours, maybe weeks, I'm starting to think that time doesn't matter here... and I also have a sensation that I've been here before, but I don't know how, everytime he catches me I feel like I die, and everytime I wake up with no memory of what happened... right now I had a flashback of this floor, so I am recording this for myself, if by any case this tape is still here, then I will put it in a place that should get my attention... Anyway, right now I'm on the third floor of the building of the Rich family in Manehattan... Don't ask me why because I don't know... and it seems that I'm not alone, there is this... Weird freak that seems like a really messed up version of Spike, and he keeps catching me and killing me! ... Okay, maybe what I need to do is flash him in the face with the light of my horn, because I've tried everything else, if I get past him I will record something else at the next floor, I hope that someday I get out of here... but I wonder what happened with everypony here..."
Twilight couldn't believe what she just heard, she is not alone? She is in Manehattan? Why is she on the building of the Rich family? Maybe all of this could wait, if she is not alone, then she should have more caution, if she hasn't encountered the 'weird freak' she talked about in the tape, then everything should be fine, ri-.
Then she heard a growl behind her, she turned around and she saw a huge creature ready to attack, Twilight remembered her own advice and she light up her horn, it seemed to work because the creature was starting to back up. During the lasting moments of Twilight's light, she could see the creature in detail, the recording tape seemed to have told the truth, the creature was a bipedal creature, it looked like a dragon and it had Spike's colors, but its spikes were extremely large and pointy, its arms were larger than its legs, even though it was covering its eyes, Twilight could see that the creature had the same reptile eyes as Spike, but they had some kind of shade around them that gave the creature a frightening look, and it also had a really large mouth with lots of teeth, each one was sharp as a knife, one bite out of that thing and you could be dead, also, mentioning the large horns at the sides of its head wouldn't hurt.
Twilight's light began to lose power, and the creature was composing itself, when she saw it, Twilight started to freak out, she had no other idea than a run for it, so she did just that, she started to run as fast as her pony legs could carry her, and the creature followed suit, Twilight turned around and saw that the creature was gaining on her, so she turned around entirely and shot another beam of light to the creature, which worked, the creature covered its eyes and slowed down, the creature was getting ready to jump for it, but when it had composed itself entirely, Twilight was already crossing the exit door.
Twilight sighed at the other side of the door, maybe this wouldn't be easy, that thing could've hurt her, or even killed her. She tried not to think about it, and that's when she noticed the sight in front of her: the door led to some stairs that went up or down, she decided to go down since she wanted to get out of that Celestia-forsaken place.
The way down wasn't long, only a couple of meters down and she saw another door with a photo on the floor, it was a photo of herself and her friends, the photo seemed to have an effect on her, she had another migrane when she saw the photo, and it became worse when she saw Spike, then, she remembered something:
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It was such a sweet day in Ponyville, most ponies were heading home by now, and Twilight was in the Golden Oaks library reading one of her favourite books, everything was fine and quiet until someone entered the library. Judging by the giggling voice that came from downstairs it was Spike. Twilight stopped reading for a minute to greet her friend.
"Hi, Spike, how was your day? Did you have fun with the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" Asked Twilight, happily.
"Yes, Twilight, and you won't believe what happened! We were trying to get their cutie marks by painting me, and suddenly, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon showed up, they wanted to harm the crusaders, but I defended them like a brave dragon would!" Said Spike, proudly.
"What? What happened? Is everypony alright?" Asked Twilight, worried for the CMC, and slightly less worried by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
"Oh, of course, Twilight, everypony is alright, I just blew a little flame that burnt Tiara's mane, nopony was really hurt, but I don't want anything to happen to my best friends in Ponyville, they mean a lot to me, specially because they are closer to my age and they love me for who I am, not for how I look." Replied Spike in an unamused tone at first, but his tone became soft in that last part, he really cared for them.
"You know, even if nopony got hurt, it's still dangerous to become their enemy, they have some influences around ponies." Replied Twilight.
"And what was I supposed to do? Just sit and watch them harm my new possible crushes?" Spike blurted out before he realised what he just said, when he did, he covered his mouth with both of his claws.
"Wait, did I hear what I think I heard?" Asked Twilight in a curious tone.
Spike just sighed and decided to trust Twilight with his most recent secret. "W-well yeah, one day I was walking outside the Boutique and I heard Rarity talking and kissing her coltfriend, after that, I understood that my dreams were just too good to become real, so I decided to start searching fillies of my age, and the CMC got everything: Scootaloo is the most awesome of them, I bet she could be Equestria's most talented scooter, Sweetie Belle is the prettiest of them and she could be Equestria's most epic singer, and Apple Bloom is the cuter one, besides, she understands me like nopony else, after all, we are hard working ponies... er... dragons... whatever, and she could be Equestria's most talented carpenter or forging pony." Spike said, imagining the fillies in their adult ages, doing their things in the future.
"Okay, Spike, now, returning to the matter, did Diamond or Silver say anything after the incident?" Said Twilight, she wanted to change the subject they were getting into because she knew that there would be a point where Spike wouldn't be comfortable talking about this.
"Oh, yeah, they said something about getting revenge on me and on them, whatever she meant by that; but I am a little bit worried, she was more angry than usual, scarier, more assertive, she gave more fear than ever before, even Silver Spoon was scared of her, I don't know what's gotten into her." Said Spike, remembering the incident with the spoiled brat.
"Well, I suggest that you stay safe, who knows what she'll do?" Said Twilight, she knew that Diamond Tiara wasn't the type of pony that was reasonable, maybe Diamond Tiara could end up doing something she'll regret.
"Yes, Twilight, I will be safe, now, can I go to bed now? I'm really tired." Said Spike with a yawn after his sentence.
"Ugh, fine, just take care of yourself tomorrow, Spike, you're more important to me than you'd think." Said Twilight before retuning her gaze at her book.
"Don't worry Twi, I will, I will, see ya tomorrow!" And with that, Spike went to his basket to sleep.
Twiligh was confused now more than ever before, why did she remember that? what did that memory had to do with anything? everything was so confusing, but she couldn't just stay there to find out, she needed to move on in order to escape this nightmare, maybe that way she can remember what happened and why did she remember that.
Twilight snapped out of her thoughts when she heard strange noises around her, and decided that moving on would be best, maybe she wasn't safe in the staircase either, so, with a lot of fear inside her heart, Twilight crossed the door in front of her.
And then, there were two, the old follower and someone new.
When Twilight crossed the line, she saw that this corridor was really similar to the previous one, the grey walls, the low light, the disembodied pony parts, but the corridor had some differences, first, the floor was longer than the first one, second, there were more corridors and hallways to the right and the left, and third, the floor was scarier than the first one, there was more blood on the walls, there were more parts from ponies, the low lights in the ceiling were even lower now and the ambient was more silent and spooky.
She didn't want to think about this, Twilight began searching for the recording tape she had promised to leave for herself, and Twilight found it on the floor, just like the first one, with curiosity, Twilight pressed the button to play it:
Okay, this is myself again, I managed to stay alive long enough to figure out this floor, this is even harder now, the weird version of Spike keeps following me... But there's someone new in here, and it looks like a weird, really distorted version of Apple Bloom, she is not like Spike, she doesn't follow me, she just appears in multiple passages at the same time somehow, and whenever I pass by her side she kills me instantly!... I tried everything to avoid her, I tried running, avoiding her, disappearing, but none of those worked, the only thing that seemed to work was when I flashed her in the face when I was about to pass her, she didn't seem to like the light, maybe none of them like it, but that's good for me, I'll just go ahead and try to pass the floor, who knows what'll happen after this one?
Twilight took a moment to process the information she had received, now there are two of them, this won't be easy, but the other Twilight left a hint behind, maybe that's the key to beat this whole thing, maybe she needed to trust... herself to pass this nightmare.
But there was something else that bothered Twilight, why herself? was it really true? was she really the one leaving the hints? if that were true, how can she be dying and coming back? this had no sense at all, but maybe she can figure it out later, there was something fishy about this, that's for sure, but right now she had to escape this place, she wouldn't want to be kille-
There was a strange noise behind her, this had scared her, she turned around and saw the follower, getting ready to jump on top of her, she wasted no time and flashed it with her horn, the creature screamed in pain, Twilight just made another run for it, but she had to slow down when she reached the first passage, she remembered her own advice warning her about the othercreature, and she decided to wait for a little bit before passing by the passage.
Nothing happened.
The follower was already starting to run after her, Twilight turned around and flashed the creature, the creature screamed again, and it backed off, Twilight passed the first passage and saw that nothing was in it, when she got near the second passage, she saw that something wasn't right, maybe she needed to light her horn here, and when she did, she knew that she was right, he heard a creature scream in pain again, but there was something different about this scream, the voice sounded awfully familiar to a filly friend of hers; after the scream, Twilight looked at the passage and saw it...
The creature was backing off, and it sure looked like a pony, but it was grotesque, it had yellow fur, red mane and a pink bow on her head, just like the leader of the crusaders, but it had really dark eyes, it almost looked like it had no eyes, its coat was really messy and covered in dust, her mane was really messy too, and its bow was ripped in some parts, but the true horror came from its face and legs, besides from the dark eyes, it had a mouth similar to the follower's, it was a long mouth that had lots and lots of teeth, sharp as the ones from a shark, the creature had two horns coming out of her ears, and its legs? its hooves were replaced by sharp claws that rivaled the claws of a dragon in the mode of the sharpness, its claws could make you a ton of piled meat with just one slice.
Twilight's thoughts were interrupted when she heard the follower behind her, it was getting angrier, Twilight flashed her light to the creature, which backed off again, Twilight ran until the next passage, luckily, it was the last one, she flashed her horn to see nothing on the other side, she wasted no time and crossed the exit door before the follower could reach her.
Twilight got down the stairs and sighed, this was going to be a long night, when she reached the ext door, she saw another photo of herself and her friends, this time, the photo had Spike and the CMC in it, but something happened to the photo, Spike and the CMC were crossed out, like somepony wanted them to disappear.
Then, out of nowhere, Twilight had another migrane, she looked at the photo and saw her friends, then, she remembered:
It was tuesday aftenoon, Twilight was reading a book, as usual, and she heard a knock on the door, she got down and opened it, on the other side was Spike, with a very worried expression on his face.
"Spike? What happened? Why are you so worried?" Asked Twiight.
"I'm worried for Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, first, we heard that Scootaloo had disappeared, her parents were looking for her, so, Sweetes, Bloomie and me started crusading on our own, we were walking on the village, and we split up because we were playing hide and seek, sweetie was the seeker, but when Apple Bloom and I hid, Sweetie didn't come looking for us, we approached the place where Sweetie Belle was supposed to be counting, but she wasn't there, Apple Bloom and I were scared for our lifes, so, she went galloping towards Sweet Apple Acres and I ran all the way here, I hope nothing happened to them." Said Spike, almost tearing up, by the looks of it, Spike was right, if he wasn't almost crying, Twilight would've believed that it was a lie or a prank.
"Okay, Spike, and Rarity and Rainbow Dash know about this?" Asked Twilight.
"Uh, I don't think so, why?" Replied Spike.
"Well, for one, Rarity is Sweetie Belle's sister, and while RD isn't Scootaloo's sister, she also cares deeply for her, and second, they are ponies with a great influence on ponie, I bet Rarity could get every stallion to look after her sister, and Rainbow Dash could get the pegasi to cover the skies to search for Scootaloo." Said Twilight, confident in her friends.
"Hmm, I think you're right." Said Spike, he got down and started going towards the door, Twilight teleported down and stopped Spike.
"Hey, where are you going, mister? you know it's dangerous out there, don't you?" Said Twilight, glaring at Spike.
"Yes, I know, but I was on my way to get Rarity, maybe she could get RD, and if things get too dangerous out there, then I can stay in her place for the night." Said Spike.
Twilight thought about it for a moment. "Ugh, fine, but be careful! I don't want anything to happen to you!" Said Twilight.
"Don't worry, Twi, I will." With that, Spike gave Twilight a little kiss on the cheek and got out the door towards Rarity's.
"I hope nothing happens to him." Said Twilight to herself.
Twilight snapped out of her trance, maybe something horrible must have happened to Spike and Apple Bloom, something that made her do something awful, but what? everything was so confusing at this point, at that moment, Twilight heard noises in the floor upstairs, they are getting ready for the third round.
And then, there were three, now she won't ever be free.
When Twilight was about to cross the door to the first floor, she saw another recording tape in the floor. That was strange, in the last two floors the tapes were at the start of the corridor, why would it be here? Twilight pressed the play button to get her answer.
"This is ridiculous... no, this is downright impossible! now I can manage to get to this floor easily, but now is harder than ever before! There is a third one now! This one must be Diamond Tiara! I got down her attitude, but with the other two are making it harder, Tiara just waits in multiple rooms of the corridor, and when I past by her side without noticing it, she appears in front of me without giving me a chance to escape! As with the other two, light is the key, I have to flash her when I hear growls next to a hallway, if I turn away without doing it, I will be bare bones..."
"Why is this happening to me?! What did I do to deserve this?! I pray to Celestia for my safety, but I want to know what happened more than anything! I just want answers! But all they do is kill me, not only that, but they are getting angrier, smarter, faster, and sometimes they try to talk to me, maybe I should listen to them..."
"By the way, I'm leaving this tape in the other side of the door because when I cross it the follower starts running, so I will be putting it at the foot of the door, I hope I get out of here."
How long can hope keep her in her seat? they follow, they greet, they wait and repeat.
Twilight sighed, she knew that this was it, if she doesn't pass this now, maybe she never will, with the little courage she still had, she crossed the door, the corridor looked grotesque, now the walls were completely covered in blood, there were pony parts everywhere, the light was red colored, the exit door was really far and the air was getting hot., it was almost suffocating.
Twilight looked back, as the tape said, the follower appeared behind her and started to run, but Twilight stopped him in the act with a brief but effective light beam, she looked at the creature, it was scarier than before, his eyes were glowing red, and the creature had blood coming out of its mouth, Twilight started to run, but she slowed down in the alternate hallway, she was about to pass, but she decided to see what was in the room, when she light up her horn, she froze, the greeter was right in front of her, and was about to kill her, but her light made the creature run into the darkness of the room, the greeter was different too, it had blood on its eyes and its coat, but she didn't care about that.
Twilight turned around, the follower was starting to run, Twilight acted in reflection, but the follower wasn't falling for it this time, because it covered its eyes to not be affected by her lights, Twilight outsmarted the follower by turning around a second before turning back again, the follower wasn't expecting that, and it wasn't expecting the beam of light that came afterwards, Twilight began running again.
When she reached the second hallway, she passed by its side, and she flashed her horn to see if the waiter was there, surprisingly, it was, Twilight looked at the creature that was shaking, covering its eyes and sliding back into the darkness of the hallway, it looked like Diamond Tiara, it had her Tiara in her head, a pink coat and a mixed mane color, but it had a massive mouth, even bigger than the follower's, and she had blood on her body too, with large horns coming out of its ears and something that seemed like wings at its sides, but its wings were completely hideous, instead of feathers, they had nothing, just bones of a really dark red color.
Twilight sped up after that, the follower was already catching up to her, but Twilight stopped it in its tracks, then she flashed her horn before passing another corridor, the greeter was actually scared and it went right back to the darkness. When Twilight was passing the corridor, she heard a voice in her head.
Hey, why don't yOu waNttOcOMeWitHUS,DEArfrIEnd?
"What? Who said that?" Said Twilight
WhY,USdEArFRieND.
Twilight ignored it, she just wanted everything to end, after a few flaws with the follower, she successfully escaped her friends and crossed the door, there was just one floor left, the ground floor, and after that, she would be free. The voice in her head returned, but this time, the voice was clear, the voice was normal and calmed, but it speaked with a hint of anger and/or hate.
You... I Know What You did. I hear your thoughts. I can see clear in your past. I lead the creatures that have followed you around this place. I'm the one that betrays even the most powerful being in this world. And you're not an exception.
"Who are you? Why is this happening to me? Why are you doing this?!" Screamed Twilight, she just wanted answers from whoever this was.
How dare you speak to me like that?! Can't you see that you'll die alone? And, you are overlooking something, you ended up in here for a reason, you despicable criminal scum!
Those sentences seemed to trigger something inside Twilight, something that made her remember something:
Twilight was worried, Spike said that he would spend the night with Rarity, but now it was Wednesday afternoon, and Spike hasn't showed up, something was going on in here. Twilight heard a knocking in the floor, and she ran to see who it was; it wasn't Spike, but her friends were there.
"Twilight, ah think that somethin' happened ta Apple Bloom, she hasn't come home since yesterday." Said Applejack.
"And Sweetie Belle hasn't shown up either, oh dear, I hope that nothing bad happens to her, if something happens to my dear Sweetie Belle, I don't know what I would do!" Said Rarity with tears in her eyes.
"I've been looking everywhere for Scootaloo, but her neither I or her parents can find her! I'm seriously worried for the little squirt." Said Rainbow Dash, even if she was trying to sound cool, she was clearly worried for Scootaloo.
"We came here because you probably know what to do, right, Twilight?" The mane five looked at Twilight.
"To be sincere, I don't know, Spike's been missing too, I thought that he was going to spend the night with Rarity!" Said Twilight.
"Twilight, my dear, yesterday I was in my Boutique all day, and I can assure you that Spike and Sweetie Belle never came home! I thought that maybe Sweetie spent the night with you and Spike." Replied Rarity.
"Well, he hasn't come home, and if he wasn't with you, I don't know where else-" Said Twilight before a letter appeared in front of her face. It had came from a green flame, so, that must mean that Spike sent it, right?
"Oh my, what does it say Twilight?" Said Fluttershy.
Twilight couldn't believe it, when she opened the letter, it had small photos of Spike and the CMC, but they were horrible, Apple Bloom was hanging dead on the ceiling, her eyes were on the floor, and her coat and mane had bruises and dust, like somepony had kicked her body roughly, she was crying tears made of blood. Sweetie Belle was dead and chained to the ground, her throat was bleeding, somepony had cut her throat, and she had several stab signals through her whole body, she was crying too. Scootaloo was chained to a table made of metal, her intestines were out of her body and her wings were cut off, obviously she was dead too, and she was crying too. And Spike was on the floor, in a position that looked like he wanted the camera holder to stop his suffering, he had no scales, he looked like a cat with no fur, he had several bruises and cuts through his body, somepony had broken all of his bones, leaving him defenseless, even though he was alive, he was also painful to look at. Also, there was something written in the letter:
"Hey there, it's Diamond Tiara, and yes, I did every last thing here, and why? because I wanted revenge, all this time in Ponyville I've seen those blank flanks get all the glory, and I never get anything, and when I found out that they had a dragon by her side? I exploded, so I decided to get my personal body guards to hunt them down and bring them to me, it wasn't difficult to get them, the silly fillies split up, that's what made it easy for my body guards to capture them; when I had them all in my special place, the fun began with the chicken because she was the most defiant one, when I was done with her, the little marshmallow tried to scream, so I cut her throat because I always hated her beautiful voice, the yellow blank flank was crying at this point, so I took her eyes, and I kicked her very hard, she was the first one to defy me, and the leader of that silly club of Blank Flanks, I hated her the most, when I finished with her, I went for Spike, who was in another room, I wanted him alone because I wanted my personal revenge on him, when I was almost done, I asked him to send a letter to a friend of his, maybe that way everypony will understand that I rule and nopony will stand up to me again. I hope all of you have learned a lesson today: Never mess with Diamond Tiara."
Seeing Spike, Twilight's oldest and dearest friend like that, and three innocent fillies in those conditions made something inside Twilight snap, something that was keeping her sane broke.
"Well, are you just going to keep the note for yourself or what?" Said Rainbow Dash.
"Here! Serve yourselves!" And with that, Twilight threw the letter right in Rainbow's face, after that, Rainbow read it aloud to everypony there, Fluttershy cried and crie, Pinkie's mane deflated and her eye started twitching, Applejack hit the floor angrily with her hat as tears started to form in her eyes, Rarity cried before fainting as she heard what happened to her little sister, RD didn't want to read the rest of the letter after the part of Scoots, and Twilight was no longer there, she was running towards the center of Ponyville.
When she arrived, she started asking some ponies the location of DT, which they said that she was at the schoolhouse of Ponyville, Twilight ran towards the school; the fillies and colts were heading home, but Twilight WAITED for a specific pony to come out of the schoolhouse, and when Tiara came out, Twilight FOLLOWED her towards her home, but Twilight made sure that she got there first, when Tiara opened the door, Twilight GREETED the little brat:
"Why hello there, Diamond Tiara, haven't seen you in a while." Said Twilight that would make even King Sombra cry for his mother.
"Oh, yes, hello miss Twilight." Said Diamond Tiara, while feeling like running away.
"Hey, what is going on here?" Said a familiar voice, Twilight turned around to see Filthy Rich with a confused expression on his face.
"Oh, just who I wanted to see, look mister, your daughter here is a SADISTIC MURDERER!" Shouted Twilight at the top of her lungs.
"What?! Daddy, you wouldn't believe the word of some random pony, right?" Said Tiara while pouting, Filthy Rich looked at Twilight with a curious face.
"You SHUT UP THIS INSTANT!!!" Said Twilight, she levitated a lamp nearby and threw it towards Tiara, but her dad protected her by standing in front of her, the impact left Filthy Rich bleeding on the floor, just waiting for his blood to get out of his body.
"Daughter, take this bits, run towards the train station and go to our family building in Manehattan, I'll try to hold her." Whispered the stallion. Tiara grabbed the bits and got out of her house before Twilight could process what was going on.
"Hey! Get back here! I'm not done with you!" Shouted Twilight, after shouting, Twilight began chasing Tiara through Ponyville, if she looked back she would've seen Filthy Rich calling the Royal Guard from his house.
Twilight almost had Tiara, but she stopped because Rainbow Dash stood in front of her. "Twilight! What do you think you're doing? I know you want revenge, so do I, but we should really just let the guards or the police punish her." Said RD.
"Oh, I'm more than upset, Rainbow, and I want more than revenge, I want to kill her! She can manipulate the guards or the police, just let me pass and everything will be okay." Replied Twilight, trying to pass Rainbow Dash.
"Twilight, RD is right, ya can jus' go to Manehattan an' kill 'er, yer just going to get yerself in trouble." Said Applejack from behind Twilight.
"Oh, please don't tell me you agree with her." Whined Twilight.
"We all do, darling, you should really just conceed." Said Rarity, coming along with Pinkie and Fluttershy.
Twilight was furious, then, out of nowhere, Twilight released her magic in such a way that she sent her friends flying through Ponyville, everypony was out of her way. Twilight didn't care, she needed to catch that brat and kill her.
By the time she arrived at the train station, Tiara was riding the train towards Manehattan. "I'll see you soon, don't get too comfy, I'll get you what you deserve." Whispered Twilight as she watched the train go.
Now it was Thursday's afternoon in Manehattan, and Twilight was still furious at Diamond Tiara, killing her best friend, killing three innocent fillies, and she even has to gloat about it! That was it, that was the last and final straw, Twilight was going to get that little scum some portion of what she truly deserved.
Twilight looked at the building in front of her, it was a tall building that had Filthy Rich's cutie mark at the top, it was, at least, five floors tall, and a smaller building of three floors and a ground floor was at the side of it, knowing the Rich family, they owned it too, and knowing Diamond Tiara, she probably ran to the highest floor of the tallest building, such bravery coming from a little murderer.
Even if reaching the top could be dangerous, Twilight needed to get her revenge on the little brat. With courage, she sneaked through the back door, and made her way to the second floor, but then, she was noticed by two guards, who charged right to Twilight, but she didn't care, Twilight levitated them from the ground, keeping them in mid-air, and suddenly, Twilight mad them explode from the inside, their intestines were on the ground, their organs were everywhere, but she didn't care.
When she reached the third floor, she encountered multiple ponies doing their respective jobs, but a pair of mares screamed in horror when they saw Twilight covered in blood, the three security guards that were nearby instantly jumped at her, but Twilight levitated one of the guards towards the other two, ending in an impact that took the first one out.
The second one jumped at Twilight when he recovered, but Twilight was faster than him, she found a pistol in the body of the sleeping stallion, then, she fired when the guard was just some centimeters away from her, the bullet made a hole in his chest, and he fell to the ground, dead.
The remaining stallion wanted to run away, get backup, but Twilight wasn't going to allow it, she shot the gun, and the bullet went right through his brain, at this point, there was blood everywhere, and the ponies started to scream in fear, but Twilight was too far gone to care at this point, she fired without a care, all kinds of ponies were dead or agonizing, earth ponies, pegasi, unicorns, mares, stallions, and even foals were hurt in the rain of bullets, until Twilight was out of ammo, that is.
Then, Twilight reached the fourth floor, somehow, somepony managed to call backup in time to stop Twilight, or that's what they thought, there were at least ten ponies with guns waiting for her in the fourth floor, but Twilight was prepared, when she crossed the door, she instantly activated a magic shield that stopped the bullets that were fired towards her, the bullets even were fired back to the ponies, some of them died for the backfired bullets, but the ones that survived were attacked by Twilight's magic, burning their coat and their skin when it touched them, those were the unlucky ones.
Finally, Twilight reached the final floor, there was a corridor that led to Diamond Tiara's room, she was certain about it, apparently, nopony else was brave enough to stop her at this point, most of the ponies in the highest floor ran away, and the ones that stayed were hiding, they didn't want to cross Twilight, she was, somehow, stronger than a normal unicorn, and it seemed that her anger was making her magic more powerful.
Twilight crossed the door that led to Diamond Tiara, and as expected, she was there, looking utterly horrified for her life.
"Hi, I told you we would see each other in the future, Tiara." Said Twilight with her right eye twitching.
"Look, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have done that! I was just really jealous of them! They had awesome friends, caring families and love from everypony they knew! and I don't have any of that!" Said Diamond Tiara, begging.
"Gee, I don't see why. Besides, you can't beg your way out of this, did you listen to their pleads? did you free them when they begged you to? are they still alive?" Replied Twilight in a calmed voice, but she was getting angrier by the second.
"... Maybe not, but I promise that I will change! I will choose a different path from now on! Just please, forgive me!" Pleaded Tiara, with tears in her eyes.
"If you can revive them in the next three seconds, then you will be forgiven, otherwise, you'll see what's coming to you."
Twilight was done, she finally got her revenge on the spoiled brat, after slaughtering her body, violating her corpse, taking her skin off, wearing it as a dress, and tearing apart her body limb by limb, Twilight was done.
But something outside seemed to get her attention, Diamond Tiara's room had no walls, instead, it had windows , but there was a really bright light that was pointed towards the room from outside. Twilight looked outside the window, and she saw her friends from Ponyville behind police tape, apparently, they had called the police, they also had really worried and sad expressions on their faces. The police was entering the building, and they were doing everything they could to reach the top.
Twilight began thinking, was this really worth it? she travelled to Manehattan to kill a filly, but was it worth it losing herself in the process? the ponies in the building, Goodness! There were innocent ponies there! but she didn't care, she just killed them like they were nothing but ants, at least, the insects were the only kind of creature that didn't got burned to death or shot by her, besides, she travelled here to take revenge on the filly because she was a murderer, but in the process, she had become a killer herself! This was awful.
Twilight didn't know what to do, she needed to get out and explain everything to her friends, and most importantly, apologise, but the police was getting closer and she was out of magic, which left one solution: She had to make a jump for it towards the smaller building and hope for the best. With no other choice, she ran towards the window, and she shot a beam of magic with the little strength she had left, but she missed a small detail: time, she couldn't shoot the beam in time, so she still crashed with the window, getting knocked out instantly as she fell towards the other building while everypony in the streets, including the police and her friends, watched with horror.
And that's how everything happened. You thought you were the avenger of your friends. But now you see that you're only a criminal with no redemption.
"Wha-? Did I really do that? Please, whoever you are, take away your friends, let me get out! I promise that I will make everything right!" Yelled Twilight. There was no response. "Hello? Are you still there?"
Twilight decided to move on, if the creature wasn't going to let her out, then she will just get out by herself, there was only one corridor left, and the tapes really helped, but if they were right, then Twilight never came this far, maybe everything will work out in the end. Twilight crossed the door with trust in herself.
But the confidence she had in herself banished when she saw the floor, it was burning, literally, everything was on fire, Twilight couldn't see a thing beyond the fire, but she noticed three figures ahead, and they were getting closer, as they became clearer to see, Twilight saw that they were her 'friends': The follower, the greeter and the waiter, but they were getting awfully close to her, they were just some inches away from her when she realized it. Twilight was about to light up the place, but she stopped when the follower spoke:
You know who we are, you just don't want to recognize us.
"What?! All I wanted to know is why were you after me! I don't even know who you are!" Said Twilight. The greeter spoke:
We are puppets created by your own madness, you really feel guilty, but you still are proud of your acts.
"No! I regret killing all of them! I didn't mean to... I wasn't thinking straight!" Said Twilight, the waiter spoke:
But, if you were after me, why did you kill all of them? Don't you see? We are your inner self, we are the representations of the ones you feel most strongly for, the follower has been following you his entire life, ever since you gave him life at your entry exam, you two were practically friends since the first day, the greeter welcomed you to Ponyville, she convinced you to stay for brunch, but you couldn't save her, that's why you feel sad, and I waited for my death when you were after me, I was the one that you hated the most.
"Even if that's true, who is leading you? the voice I heard in my head said that he/she was the one leading you, who is it?" Asked Twilight. The follower spoke next:
You're far more dumb than I expected if you haven't figured it out, of course it's you, you were the one the killed everypony, you were the one that felt guilty afterwards, you are the one that knows what you did, and you are the one that hasn't forgiven you.
The follower came closer to Twilight, she wanted to light up her horn, but she couldn't, she wanted to scream, but she couldn't, she wanted to do something, anything, but she couldn't, the follower touched Twilight's head with one of its claws, and everything became dark.
That's it, the final floor, the last straw. If you can't handle the truth, then you shouldn't be alive to see tomorrow. There is no tomorrow for you. Now rest in peace, sinner, we shall decide your fate now.
Every sign of Twilight being alive stopped, her heart beating, her mental activity, everything stopped at once. Five ponies and a doctor were surprised by this.
"Wait, what happened?! did any of you do anything?!" Asked Rainbow Dash.
"What?! No! We didn't do anythin' to Twi, why in the hay would you think that?!" Replied AJ.
"Because we are still deciding if Twilight deserved this or not, now, Rainbow Dash, could you be a darling and SIT DOWN?!" Said Rarity, yelling the last part.
"Oh, doctor, what happened?" Aked Fluttershy to the stallion.
"Well, I don't know, ever since she was in coma, she has been having nightmares, but I can't figure out what is she dreaming about, but every amount of time, she seemed to have a heart attack and calm down after a few moments, it's like she was living a nightmare over and over again, but now it seems that this time her nightmare was just too much for her heart to handle. Anyways, maybe it's the best, because if she was still alive, then she would be arrested once she woke up." Replied the stallion, looking at Twilight's body.
"Well, from my point of view, she totally deserved it! I mean, we all wanted revenge on Diamond Tiara, but we didn't go to Manehattan to kill her! and much less a lot of ponies!" Said Rainbow Dash.
"Yeah, that meanie deserved it fair and square!" Replied Pinkie, still with her mane and tail deflated.
"Ah reckon maybe yer' right, I just hope our sisters are at peace now." Said Applejack.
"Darling, they were absolute angels when they were among us, of course they are somewhere better, but I wouldn't mind my sister, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo and my dear Spikey-Wikey being alive." Said Rarity, with sadness in her voice.
"You know what? I'm out of here, Twilight got what she deserved! if somepony cares to join me, I will be outside!" And with that, Rainbow Dash flew out of the hospital through the window. Everypony followed her, nopony looked back at Twilight's body,because in the end...
