the passion of the Scootaloo
The Passion of the Scootaloo
PariaH
It was a slow day in ponyville, nothing to do nothing but watch the clouds go by, listen to the sound of the few ponies walking the streets, the wind, and think about nothing at all. It is always a nice day in ponyville though, ponies going about their lives, being themselves, and being appreciated for it. Every little aspect of their personalities made Equestria a nice place to live, for ponies and Pegasus alike.
Scootaloo had been at home most of the day, contemplating on how she should decorate her scooter, she sat on the grass in her back yard, she had a small paintbrush in her mouth and moving her jaw around, she could make the brush bob up and down, move it side to side, and twirl it around, as she stared at her scooter.
She had set out an hour ago to paint something on her scooter, but now she had the dreaded ‘artist’s block’ the buckets of blue black and yellow paint sat nearby her, a layer of dried paint had formed at the top and she only sat, wondering about what to draw…
“I wonder if I can make a rainbow with these colors.” Just then, she felt her body lift up, a hoof at her waist, she gasped, taking a breath in, she felt a rag on her mouth, and then everything went black…
Unconscious, she heard the sound of metal, clanging on metal, with each ringing sound that seemed to echo in the silence of her mind, she could feel a dull pain, the sound and pain ceased for a second. The clang returned, and it didn’t seem as distant as before, the stinging was bringing her to awareness, and the world around her was beginning to take form, the clang was as constant and steady as the growing pain, she looked down, almost terrified at the sight before her, her legs were crossed, and an inch above the hoof, the area was swollen, blood-soaked, and at the center of it all, a long thin nail, foolishly, she tried to separate her legs, with a splintering crackling sound, a spurt of blood erupted from the base of the nail as she screamed.
She looked at her swollen bloody legs, and her thoughts began to go at a million miles per hour, “No, no, this can’t be happening to me, this isn’t real, I’m not going to die!” shaking her head as her eyes filled with tears, her body was beginning to become aware.
“She’s awake, good; make sure she doesn’t ever forget this.” Scootaloo looked about the room, anything beyond a foot of her general area was a blur, dark grey and black seemed to swirl around, slowly taking form, there were three dark shapes, and one of them was slowly coming into perspective…
She tried to move again, nothing beyond her neckline was responding, when she felt a cold hoof lift her front left leg up, Scootaloo mumbled out some incoherent garble and realized she couldn’t even talk, but she was thinking quite clearly “OH, no, no they can’t do this to me?!” She looked at her front leg, spread outward from her body; it hurt because her front legs couldn’t bend like that.
Then the clang came, this time, she could say something- “AAAGH!!!” She looked at her front leg; there were no nails this time, just a searing hot rivet. She continued on screaming as she saw it embedded in her flesh and bone, the flesh around it was blistering and bubbling as it retreated from her fore-hoof, the glowing rivet sat in her bone, she tugged, but the pain was horrible now, sending a burning hot shock all the way up her arm and to her haunches, she gasped and wailed like a banshee at the pain.
Tears had developed in her eyes, and she gritted her teeth hard enough it felt like they would either shatter, or be crushed back into her gums. She looked at the wound as her flesh sizzled.
Thoughts racing, “it hurts, it hurt so bad why are they-” Her train of thought was cut short when she felt the cold hooves on her other leg, she turned her head in terror, fear and sadness filled her heart. “NO, NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STOP IT PLEASE I WON’T TELL I WON’T TE-” it was cut short by a loud clang, and she saw the rivet enter her soft fleshy arm.
Her fore-leg felt like it was going to snap off, pinned to, whatever it was she was on, she howled with pain and tears ran down her face, “PLEASE! I DON’T WANT TO DIE, DON’T DO THIS TO ME!”
She looked into the dark again, things were looking a little clearer now, and she could just barely make out the form in front of her, she squinted, and her heart sank as she realized not who, but what it was. It was a wonderbolt member, he had a tool on one of his legs, the one used for the rivets, and Scootaloo filled with sudden fear, “What… What do you want from me? “Scootaloo tugged forward, but the pain in her lower-hooves ignited again and now wouldn’t go away, and the burning in her fore-legs was so intense, she gasped and whimpered as she tried to get back into position, but all the effort was only making the pain worse.
Her squirming and whimpering only intensified as she tried to lessen the pain, she began breathing hard, the breathing hard turned to sobs, and the sobs turned to bawling. “IT HURTS LET ME GO PLEASE!” her back legs held in with one nail, she could feel splintering, the bruise was hurting and blood was pouring from the nail. “No, AUGH, PLEASE SOMEPONY HELP ME HELP IT HURTS PLEASE!!!”
The clanging came again, this time Scootaloo paused, she could hear a soft whine, after the first clang, she listened intently, the second clang, on and on it went, and then silence, she couldn’t see much, everything was clearer, but the darkness still made everything obscure.
She heard a soft mumble, a bit of whining, but couldn’t see the source. Exerting all of her strength, she turned her head to the side, her legs were aflame with pain, and she took as much care as possible to not move, turning her head slowly and with much effort, she gasped and breathed heavily at the suddenly monumental task of merely turning her head to the left, and her eyes widened.
“F-f-Fluttershy… OH FLUTTERSHY NO!!!” She screamed, losing her composure, she moved and the pain ignited in her fore-legs, it only added to her lamenting pain. Fluttershy was in a similar position, and Scootaloo could see what she was pinned to, a large wheel, and Scootaloo filled with terror as she saw Fluttershy’s panic-filled tear streaked eyes turn towards her, she was gagged, that was why she couldn’t speak, then the wonderbolt picked up Fluttershy’s hoof, and slammed it hard against the wooden wheel, causing Fluttershy’s body to writhe with pain, her muffled screams and sobbing could barely be heard.
The wonderbolt only slammed her hoof harder against the wood, this time the force of the slam drew blood. “LEAVE HER ALONE SHE HASN’T DONE ANYHTING WRONG!” Scootaloo cried as she flapped her wings and tried to fight the agonizing pain in all four limbs. The wonderbolt only carried on as if he didn’t even hear her.
Raising the hoof with the rivet gun up to Fluttershy’s bleeding ankle, Fluttershy panicked and desperately shook her head and her tears flowed from her big beautiful eyes like waterfalls, her muffled cries could be heard, growing louder, and higher in pitch as the gun positioned itself right over her leg, Fluttershy’s fear-filled eyes turned to Scootaloo, as she screamed through the gag, “Don’t look, Scootaloo Don’t watch!” Scootaloo couldn’t look away though.
The Clang came as a small piston like instrument in the back of the gun kicked out a hot fresh rivet into Fluttershy’s ankle, the force of industrial steel going at full steam into Fluttershy was a horrible sight, the entire point of impact flattened onto the side of the large wheel, and then came a loud and distinctive sizzle,
Fluttershy’s high-pitched scream followed, though she was effectively gagged, her pain-filled cry could still be heard. The wonderbolt heard it as well, and he looked displeased, turning around fast, he kicked with his back hooves right into Fluttershy’s soft abdomen, knocking the air out of her, and to the sound of snapping ribs, and her bladder emptying onto the ground, Fluttershy’s upper body lurched.
Fluttershy stopped and her body settled, she looked embarrassedly through her sad eyes at the warm piss trailing down her legs, and at the feeling of some of it in her butt, the wonderbolt, wasn’t satisfied however, he kicked again, Fluttershy’s eyes filled with the same shock as before, no broken ribs this time, the result was much more… Rewarding…
She sprayed bile and blood from out of her gag, vomiting “You filthy monster!!!” Scootaloo screamed through her tears. Fluttershy felt as if she would drown, but choking and coughing forced it out of her nose, the feeling of her last meal coming up was so intense that it felt like it was actually seeping from her eyes.
Scootaloo was furious now, what was going on? Why were the wonderbolts hurting them like this? Fluttershy simply hung her head and succumbed to the wonderbolt, if she could lessen the torture a little bit, the spew oozed from tiny cracks between her mouth and the gag, dripping onto her chest in sludgy chunks and oozing into her crotch, she tensed her legs but then gave up, it wasn’t like she could stop it from going there anyways…
Scootaloo watched as Fluttershy, moved her body uncomfortably, the pain of the nail in both her legs hindering her movements, Scootaloo began to cry again, “Why the heck are they doing this to us?!” Fluttershy shuddered at the feeling as the puke rubbed her in a sickening way the fact it was puke was enough to make her dry heave.
This time she only looked up to the sky, mumbling something really fast, Scootaloo turned her head this time, Fluttershy now knew better than to even try to put up a fight, she was singing a small song to herself, she used to sing the song when she would feel uncomfortable, and it would make her feel better… When she came to the startled realization, through the gag she began repeating, slowly descending into panic, trying to move from the wonderbolt, trying to flap her wings, she repeated, “It’s not working, it’s not working, IT’S NOT WORKING!!! WHY?! WHY IS IT NOT WORKING” the mumbling was cut short by a clang, and a piercing scream of pain.
Displeased, the wonderbolt stood facing Fluttershy, the large rivet gun still attached to his hoof, he lifted her head, turned her face to the side, and then smashed her in the face, Scootaloo closed her eyes, she could hear grunts of pain, but couldn’t bear to watch, Fluttershy’s teeth cracked, and finally began to shatter on the ball gag, two of them fell to the ground, others were fragmented, and bits and pieces came out instead.
After the tenth blow, the strap of the gag broke and it fell to the ground, it looked like one big bloody ball as it fell to the puddle of puke below.
Scootaloo’s clenched eyes squeezed out a couple tears, she felt as if surely, she had not a single tear left to cry by now… “Why… Why are they doing this to us…?” Scootaloo was brought back by Fluttershy’s sob-ridden cooing; she turned, happy, hopeful and terribly sad to see Fluttershy still alive. “Oh Fluttershy, I’m so sorry this had to happen to you!”
Fluttershy turned, blood dripping from her chin, she couldn’t even smile, because of the pain in her teeth, sobbing softly, the shuddering that came from her sobs reignited the pain in her broken ribs…
With a cough Fluttershy sprayed blood from her mouth. Scootaloo filled with worry “Fluttershy!!!”
She stopped clenching her teeth and tried hard to even her breaths so it wouldn’t hurt as bad and moved her head back into the forward position, “It isn’t your fault Scootaloo, none of this is our fault…”
Scootaloo felt warm tears running down her face and she began crying, Fluttershy looked sympathetically at Scootaloo, her big eyes once filled with youthful hope and enthusiasm were now dulled by pain and sorrow. She tried to take a deep breath, but it felt like an entire rack of her ribs were broken and breathing in and out was enough to take her breath away…
Fluttershy hurt, but mustered up the strength to hum a tune, she couldn’t sing now, she was in such pain, things were settling down a bit and it wasn’t like the wonderbolts were trying to kill her now.
Scootaloo heard the tune and closed her eyes; she couldn’t even bear to hear Fluttershy’s soft voice without crying even more, especially after what she had just seen. She looked at the three wonderbolts and felt such shame and anger… “Why are they doing this?”
The torment of anticipation continued on for an hour, neither one of them knew what this torture was about. And they dared not speak to the wonderbolts, lest they beat them…
Scootaloo could see things better by now, there was a large crate-like cage device in the middle of the area, and nearby that was more strange devices, and around all that, a huge, line of fabric, blocking out everything. They were definitely outside, the sky was still dark, and everything seemed grim and intimidating…
Fluttershy now hung her head, just watching the blood drip from her nose and her mouth, disgusted and appalled, yet almost fascinated by the mixture of bile within each drop of her life’s blood as it fell from her chin and upper lip into the collective puddle below.
The sky was starting to look like early morning… Scootaloo only gritted her teeth, wondering exactly what was going on…
For what felt like hours all that could be heard was the mild drip drop of blood into a puddle the sun was raising, and the sky, it looked much different from the day before, it seemed cloudy.
“What’s going on? There should be some Pegasus ponies up there by now…” Scootaloo whispered, “Yes, exactly!” Came a voice, Scootaloo looked forward, and jolted in shock, Luna stood before her, “Luna!? What are you doing here- oh never mind, please! You gotta get us out of here now!”
“Oh, but you’ve only just arrived, we were all so excited for you two to come home.” Scootaloo looked at the pony before her, filled with misunderstanding and anger, “Home?! No! This isn’t home, this is torture!” Luna paused, as if preparing to offer up more words of persuasion… But instead sent one powerful hoof flying into Scootaloo’s mouth, Scootaloo’s head hit against the wood and she felt some teeth jumble and clatter down into her throat.
The feeling of her teeth going down her throat was as unexpected and shocking as swallowing ice cubes whole. “What are you doing to her—agh!?!” Fluttershy screamed from the side, before the pain cut her sentence short. Luna only looked at the helpless Pegasus ponies, “I’m only doing what is best for all of Equestria, Cloudsdale and Ponyville alike!” Infuriated, she ran over and kicked Fluttershy’s bruised broken ribs and with another sick crack, Fluttershy gasped and began coughing.
The pain that her ribs were causing was enough to take Fluttershy’s breath away, and she looked up to the tormenter before her, “w-why are you doing this? What are you even t-t-trying t-to accomplish?” Luna turned her back to the Pegasus ponies and with an evil smile, turned around,
“All ponies, NEED TO LEARN THEIR PLACE Pegasus ponies fly, earth ponies crawl! Magic ponies train in magical arts!” Luna fumed and began pacing rapidly, the intensity of her words almost gave Scootaloo the sense that she was actually trying to physically pound this philosophy into their brains. “You have been disgraces to Cloudsdale, you have the most potential, and you squander it on the ground with the maggots!”
Scootaloo was too afraid to even think as she heard what was being said, Fluttershy could see Scootaloo’s fear, and tried to summon the courage to stand up against the pony before her, “I-it’s our choice, not yours… We’re still free, and once Celestia hears of this…”
Luna only turned and with unnatural speed, appeared before Fluttershy, “Fool, she ordered me to do this…” Fluttershy’s heart sank, at these words, “No, you’re lying; Celestia would never let something like this-” “Happen?” came a sweet voice, all ponies turned to see Celestia walking towards the two captive ponies, Scootaloo gasped “YOU MONSTER!!!” Luna started towards Scootaloo, but Celestia stopped her immediately, “I ordered you to execute the plan, not execute them. You will remember your place in this!” Luna glanced spitefully at Scootaloo then turned and walked to the center of the curtained area,
“Why would you let them do this?!” Scootaloo cried out,
Turning to face the two distraught ponies, Celestia sighed, and with a reaffirming glare, “For years, we have wondered why so many Pegasus ponies restrained themselves to the ground, you know where you belong, but nopony understands why you would forsake that for a life in the squalor of the ground.”
With a moment of pause and clearing her throat, Celestia continued, “Your talents go to waste on those with none of your talents, abilities or responsibilities.” Unfolding a note from out of nowhere, Celestia held it before Scootaloo and Fluttershy, Scootaloo who couldn’t believe her eyes, tried to say something, but the terror of the note, caused her throat to suddenly and involuntarily squeak. Fluttershy only stared at it and replied, “I love my life on the ground, and I wouldn’t give it up for anything!”
“So what, you would give up the life you so rightfully deserve, the responsibilities that are yours and your divine heritage?” Fluttershy gave the princess a cold stare, shaking her head and trembling “Even if this is the price I have to pay, you can take my wings, but you can’t take away who I am!”
While Fluttershy declared her defiance, Scootaloo’s eyes were intently focused on the note, the address was to her own parents: Cloudsdale is being tainted by those who refuse to accept their purpose, those who would run away from their heritage, and spit upon the grace bestowed upon them by fate, too long have they continued, learn your place! Any Pegasus ponies who do not abandon their foolish endeavors for life on the ground will be shown no mercy. –Celestia and all of Cloudsdale.
Scootaloo’s mind flashed back to something that had happened earlier that week, she arrived home from school with her friends.
Scootaloo barged into the door, followed closely by Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. Intent on getting up to her room, she was halted by her mom, who called her to the kitchen; the words now hit Scootaloo like a ton of bricks. “How would you like to live in Cloudsdale?” “No mom, I don’t wanna go up there!”
Scootaloo’s eyes filled with tears… “If we were to go up there you could learn to fly, you could-” “Mom, let me make it clear to you, I don’t want to go up there and I never will, sure I might when I get old, like you, but I am going to come right back to Ponyville!”
She began to shake her head, the feeling was sinking in and it made each cut and wound intensify, “Scootaloo, we could-” And Scootaloo remembered walking away. The feeling was bad enough that her mother knew and didn’t tell her, but worse still, because it was now all her fault!
Celestia turned to Scootaloo, “I am truly sorry, but we all must learn out place. But do not worry; your final departure will be in good company…” She turned, nodding to the wonderbolts, and they swiftly flew around the large curtain surrounding the arena, and it fell to the ground, revealing a large stadium, the banners around it showed the arena seating covered in Cloudsdale banners, and the seats were filled.
Scootaloo’s eyes filled with fear, and Fluttershy’s eyes filled with anger, “YOU MULE!!!” She cried out as the Pegasus ponies in the stands cheered. “I am truly sorry, but I already explained to you, Cloudsdale will have nothing to do with ponyville, we are not earth ponies, and we are Pegasus ponies. You three were unwilling to give up your lifestyle and for that-”
“Wait! ‘Three’ what do you mean three?!” Celestia lost her look of professionalism in the eye, and sighed, “I had hoped you would die before this, but know, every single ounce of pain you experience is all because of yourself…” She walked to a box in the middle of the ring… And with a sigh, pulled the lever, the crate unfolded and revealed Rainbow Dash, tied down to a rock with a chains,
Scootaloo gasped as she saw the chains, each link had inch long thick spikes that were cutting into Dash’s skin… Dash herself looked winded, her body barely moving up and down with each ragged breath, she jerked her head to the sound of the cheering and light, her head was now positioned so she could see Scootaloo, Squinting her eyes, “Kid?” Scootaloo screamed at Celestia “NO!!! TAKE ME INSTEAD YOU LEAVE HER ALONE!!!”
Celestia turned, “What do you mean?” Fluttershy’s granite stare broke back into her typical worry-filled eyes, “Scootaloo what are you doing?”
“Celestia please don’t kill them!” Celestia only shook her head, “Rainbow Dash may live in Cloudsdale, but she refuses to cut ties with the earth ponies. And you two refuse to-”
“LET HER GO!” Scootaloo cried like a foal as she screamed at Celestia, “I’ll take their punishment just let them live!” Celestia stood for a moment, “Scootaloo NO!!!” Fluttershy screamed as she winced from the pain of her ribs and secured limbs, “LEAVE HER THE HAY ALONE YOU CREEP!” Dash cried from her rock, Luna, had just overheard the conversation and walked forward, “You know, she may have something there…”
Celestia turned, “How?” Luna smiled, she continued speaking through Fluttershy’s and Dash’s protests, she could hear the concern in Dash’s and Fluttershy’s voices as Scootaloo presented this plan, “Think about it, we use her as an example, once she is done, then the other two will be much more… Complacent in Cloudsdale…” Celestia didn’t like the idea, as she looked at Scootaloo she felt some mercy, and more than a little regret for even authorizing this plan in the first place.
“Once she has suffered for them, if she lives, she will never again leave Cloudsdale, if she dies, then dash and the other will never leave Cloudsdale!” Scootaloo only cast a defiant glare, it was fake courage, but courage nonetheless, and Fluttershy strained herself and through immense pain tried to speak to Scootaloo to persuade her to not go through with it. “No, Scootaloo! I won’t let you do it I won’t!” Dash was too far away, but seeing her two best friends the way they were, was enough to make her panic. “LET EM GO! IT’S ME YOU WANT YOU FILLY-BUCKERS!”
Scootaloo felt so scared, but held back her tears, and ground her teeth to keep from showing just how much pain she was in. Celestia turned to Luna, and said, “I want no part of this! It’s your sick and twisted show, you run it!!!” In a burst of green flame, a basin of water appeared. “I’m washing my hooves of this! Of all of you! ALL OF YOU!” Dipping her hooves, she turned and walked away…
Scootaloo only felt fear now, as Luna turned to her… “I like your plan” she whispered in Scootaloo’s ear… ”I like it a lot…”
She turned and called out to the audience, “EVERYPONY! THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN THE SCHEDULE TODAY!” Fluttershy shook her head and her eyes shimmered with tears, “No Scootaloo, don’t hurt me like this…”
Dash called out from behind Luna, “YEAH THAT’S RIGHT! YOU BETTER LET HER GO!” Luna disregarded the remark and continued on, “ALL PEGASUS PONIES NEED TO LEARN THEIR PLACE, AND THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS THROUGH EXAMPLE!” The rivets popped from Fluttershy’s leg like a pringles lid and she cried the wonderbolts swiftly and smoothly pulled the nail from her legs.
“YOU EITHER LEAD OR YOU FOLLOW!” Dash had her wings bound, before the chains were removed, as soon as she felt enough freedom to do so, she jumped, but with the jump came an intense stinging in her legs and she fell to the ground in a heap, “AGH! You creep!” She felt rope around her neck and it went from a loose rope to a taut line, it pulled her, and she limped along, “YEAH YOU BETTER BE LETTIN US G-” She stopped and saw a terribly sad, crying Scootaloo still pinned to the wheel. “Hey, what are you doing? NO! No you can’t do that to her, she’s just a kid!!!”
“Yeah… She’s just a kid.” Came Fluttershy’s soft voice, she was limping along nearby dash.
Dash felt her eyes fill with tears as she realized exactly what was happening. She shook her head slowly at first, just repeating “No… No…” then she started shaking harder, and repeating the word ‘no’ faster and faster.
She tugged against the rope, her legs were a ruined mess, but she mustered the strength from reservoirs of love and hate, love for Scootaloo, hate for what was happening “NO SCOOTALOO DON’T DO THIS TO ME KID!!!” Scootaloo could hear their cries and she shut her eyes as tight as possible…
Then Luna’s final words seemed to rise above all the noise, seemed to resonate, most of her speech wasn’t heeded during all of the confusion, but these final words came and hit Scootaloo with all the force of the world. “I WANT YOU TO SUFFER!!!”
Scootaloo raised her head, and could see Fluttershy and Dash had their heads held in a device that restricted all their movements, they were making them watch! They were going to make them watch!!! For a second Scootaloo pondered on if she had even truly saved them, when four large Pegasus Stallions came into view, hooded, and just plain diabolical. The audience cheered, Luna watched and Scootaloo…Wept…
They wasted no time, they crowded around her and began kicking her as she screamed, and it didn’t take long until blood began to fly from the malicious tormentors. Scootaloo’s screams began to sound more horrible, the sound of blood heaving from her mouth, her screams rising to a horrible grinding high pitched wail for mercy and now ten seconds into it, accompanied by several large snapping sounds.
Fluttershy and dash tried to look away, but Wonderbolts held their faces towards the display. The screams were so horrible, “GOOD! She’s ready!” Came the call from a loudspeaker, and the Executioners backed away, Scootaloo’s body was covered in bruises, her wings drooped, and each bruise poured thick clots of red blood, her legs looked like they were going to simply fall off at the spot where she had been secured to the wheel…
Blood poured from her nose as she tried weakly to lift her head… The pain was agonizing, all over her body, she felt worse because the executioners had literally, ‘beaten the crap out of her’ Brown oozed to the ground and bits clung to her tail, she raised her head and coughed.
“NOW THEN, TIME FOR THE NEXT PART!” The crowd cheered and their jubilant cries filled Rainbow Dash with emotion, she cursed and yelled, screaming through her big tears and bloodshot eyes for all the Pegasus ponies to “Shut the Buck up!”
“OH, OH! SCOOTALOO SHOULD KNOW, IF SHE DIES, WE WILL HAVE TO FINISH OFF WITH HER TWO EARTH-DWELLING TRAITORS!” Luna called out, at the thought of that; Scootaloo lifted her head swiftly “SCREW YOU LUNA YOU PRI-” She hacked as she realized that an executioner grabbed her tongue,
Dash cried “NO!” Luna stood glaring down at Scootaloo, “LYING TONGUES HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXIST!” She shrieked, and then came another executioner, the crowd roared, and she saw a long, white-hot metal rod, she shook her head, and tried to retract her tongue, but the pliers just tightened it felt as if the tip of her tongue was going to be torn off and, for the first time she heard an executioner speak, “This is going to hurt little pony… This is going to hurt…” It was a horrible gritty dark and cold voice.
“YOU COWARDS LET HER GO!!!” Scootaloo could feel the heat getting closer and closer to her tongue, she tugged against the metal pliers holding it out, but it tugged back, stretching her tongue out for the prod.
Scootaloo knew it was going to be the most intense feeling ever, and she only closed her eyes tight and thought about her dreams from, what felt like ages ago… “Weather control with Rainbow Dash, Equestria-renowned flyer: Scootaloo, maybe meet a nice stallion and get busy-“it was cut short, she felt her tongue get something pushed against it, and she clenched her eyes harder, “Wonderbolts, weather control, family!” then came the stinging, her world erupted into pain and she squealed and tried moving her head away from the burning.
Her piercing cry filled everypony in the arena with sadness, if only for a moment, they went back to cheering. She tried hard to tug away, but the flesh of her tongue was melting to the burner, and it had almost gone all the way through, an executioner felt some satisfaction seeing the tip coming through the upper surface of her tongue, with blood oozing from the highest point.
Finally it burst open, with a sizzle and a wet pop, and the diabolical tool was all the way through her tongue, burnt blistering and bubbling flesh around the entire afflicted area added to the unique moment, Scootaloo’s piercing cry also set the mood.
Fluttershy cried and cursed herself for letting this happen, but she knew even if she had decided to take on Scootaloo’s painstaking task, Luna wouldn’t have let her, Foal torture was almost unheard of, and she clearly wanted to make a statement… The executioner pulled the metal tool out of Scootaloo’s tongue swiftly, and a long gooey pink strand remained on the white hot tip. Scootaloo gasped and screamed again and again, her tongue still held tight by the metal pliers…
She screamed until the one holding her tongue gave it a swift yank, the flesh tore a little bit and Scootaloo wailed in pain but refocused her thoughts, “They would’ve done this to Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy!” She gasped and coughed, then realized the prod was being inserted again!
This time it was going into her mouth, she braced for the stinging, her tongue was already in such pain, that she thought nothing could make it worse, then the burning came from under her tongue, right at the base, and her eyes widened, as she screamed, and writhed.
Her body was a mass of pain right now, and the pain in her mouth was worse, “I’m so sorry!!!” she cried, and then the burning reached a peak as she felt it stinging and tugging on a single strand nearby the back of her jaw. And with a swift yank like a tooth being tied to a door, the small strand ignited into a long sharp pain that went from that one spot to her stomach and into the back of her head.
The executioner held the tongue in his horseshoe with the plier attachment and looked it over amid Scootaloo’s wail of pain. Then threw it towards Fluttershy and Dash, it landed with a puff of dirt in front of them, long, burned blistered, oozing blood, and twitching every now and again…
“K-kid…?” Dash whispered, hearing Scootaloo’s horrible screams, looking at the pink tongue, with black, and dark red colors around the hole, and at the area it had been burned away…
Dash began crying… “I’m so sorry kid” dash paused, sniffling as tears fell to the large puddle of tears forming below her head “DARN IT WHY COULDN’T YOU JUST TAKE ME?!” She shrieked as tears ran down her face in great rushing torrents.
Scootaloo shuddered, she had heard dash’s words, her mouth too much of a mess to respond, she felt herself fading… “Because I love you dash” she responded in her heart.
“OK! GET HER OFF THERE!” Came Luna’s cry, and Scootaloo felt her torture was all but over, until she felt a long metal pole sliding between her back and the large wooden wheel… She braced herself, just before she felt her body be cast forward, accompanied by the sound of four dry tree branches creaking and snapping, she slammed flat on the ground, the hard earth bringing back her pain, she screamed, and tried to stand, she couldn’t balance and her legs felt horrible,
One terrified heartbeat later she saw why, the splintered, jutting bones of her fore-legs were pressed against the ground oozing blood and some cooked marrow from the hot rivet, she rolled onto her back as soon as she was on her back she felt pain course along her spine and she gasped as she saw the damage.
All four hooves remained on the cross shape she had been pinned to inside of the wheel, her back legs, held by one long brutal nail, looked like the hands of a broken watch, dripping blood from the large welt in the shin area. Her fore hooves were splintered and didn’t move at all, Scootaloo screamed as she realized the executioners were picking her up, taking her to something new… She rolled onto her front and began flapping her wings desperately, trying to get away from the inevitable, one swift stomp to her broken ribs later, she just succumbed. There was no way she could truly escape from this intact.
She had lost a lot of her will, and the screaming had made her feel faint. But she remained awake; any movement in her mouth would hurt her tongue beyond measure, so she would do that if she had to.
“Scootaloo, you didn’t have to do this…” She recognized the voice, but couldn’t place the name, and then she fell to the ground. Coughing at the sudden feeling of being plopped to the ground like that… She turned her head…
Dash wanted to reach out, pick up the young Pegasus pony and never let her go, but she was effectively restrained, and she recognized that it was Luna’s plan to torture her like that.
Scootaloo couldn’t even remember their names, she tried moving a little closer, when came a loud whoosh, and a pain in one side of her face as she fell back to the ground, and turned.
It felt as if it had ruptured her eardrum as intense stinging coursed through her ear, accompanied by a ringing; it almost felt like the description of shellshock. “Stupid little… I TOLD YOU TO HOLD STILL!!!” An executioner began beating Scootaloo furiously with a crowbar, the hook connected into Scootaloo’s side causing her to move some more, she screamed, and the executioner began to beat her more, the whoosh rose in sound for a moment and then abruptly stopped with a loud whack, usually accompanied by a cracking sound,
Scootaloo moved around erratically, trying to remember how she was laying but the blows persisted “STOP IT STOP IT!!!” Dash screamed, her voice cracking from the undue strain.
Scootaloo moved her head, trying to figure out how to hold still, each blow was like a-
Her train of thought was cut short as the crowbar’s hook lodged deeply in her eye, white fluid, a splash of blood and thick ooze landed on the faces of her two friends, her movements stopped, and she settled.
“Scootaloo?” her eyelashes fluttered as her eye slowly closed… With a quick twist, the executioner pulled the crowbar from her eye, more chunks hit the ground, and blood pooled up in her socket, some of it drizzling out the side.
Her two friends stared on in horror, breaking the silence, the executioner smacked the side of Scootaloo’s head with the crowbar, blood splashed out of her socket, onto her face, and into the dust below.
Fluttershy didn’t say a thing. She had completely disconnected, and only stared at Scootaloo’s corpse.
Dash lost it and began screaming and yelling at the executioner, he paid her no heed, and simply turned around calling out to Luna “SHE’S DEAD!” Luna felt a bit of satisfaction… First she got rid of that Pegasus, and now she can get rid of the other traitors.
“VERY WELL, NOW AS I HAD SAID, PREVIOUSLY, IF SHE FAILED TO SUFFER FOR THE OTHERS, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO DIE TOO! BRING THE OTHER TWO FORWARD!!!” The crowd cheered, not as loud as before, but they all cheered,
Fluttershy looked at Scootaloo’s lifeless body… “I’ll be up there in a minute kid” Dash whispered through tears… The executioners came forward, and ready to torture the other ones too, they were excited, Luna had called them in to torture three rogues Pegasus, but instead they had to share one small, smart-mouthed Pegasus… This would be fun…
The audience was ready to see the traitors to the pride of Cloudsdale, finally dealt with, but a small number looked at Scootaloo, feeling some sorrow. Other Pegasus ponies couldn’t help but start feeling doubt about what was going on being right…
The executioners were closer now, each one harbored a secret desire for both Fluttershy and Dash, and they planned on fulfilling each one… But then, something happened, Scootaloo turned her head towards them, her hollow eye like a black void, they stopped, the audience fell silent, and Luna stood, too shocked to speak.
Scootaloo began to move to her splintered stubs, trying to stand was excruciatingly painful… her leg shrunk five inches in a second as her splintered bones spread apart with a crunch. Fluttershy and Dash both begged for her to stop
“You don’t need to do this for us,” Dash whispered,
“Please Scootaloo, I don’t want them to hurt you anymore…” Fluttershy sobbed… Scootaloo walked forward, standing defiant before the executioners… She garbled out, clearly enough for all to hear, “I’M STILL ALIVE! ARE YOU GONNA FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED OR WHAT?!” Luna felt some fear all of a sudden, Scootaloo had no tongue but the words came so clearly.
The audience was hushed… Luna felt rage welling up inside of her now, smothering out her initial fear; she stood and screamed, “THE STONE THE STONE!!!” The Pegasus in the audience cheered, but now their loss of enthusiasm was more noticeable… The executioners grabbed Scootaloo; they picked up on Luna’s rage and used it to blot out their consciences, taking her to the rock Rainbow Dash was tied to earlier…
They threw Scootaloo onto it, one executioner stood nearby Scootaloo’s face on the large rock, and he paused, as he noticed her good eye… A mix of emotions, she looked sad, but also, happy… He couldn’t help but question her… Leaning in closer as his comrades rushed off to get the chains, “Hey, why the hay are you doing this huh? You’re gonna die, for what, for them?!” Scootaloo turned to him, smiling weakly, she spoke, and somehow, when she spoke, she said her words clearly, as if her tongue were never taken out.
Scootaloo coughed and blood trailed down the rock, “I don’t blame anyone, not even you… You’re just following your orders, right? Think of it like this, I’m not dying because of them…” Scootaloo gasped as the heavy spiked chains crisscrossed her back. And she laid her head back down upon the large rock, “You’re not dying because of them then what?! You’re dying for them?!” Scootaloo smiled a weak “you-got-it” smile…
Scootaloo looked at rainbow dash and Fluttershy sobbing in their devices… “Just don’t forget about me…” The sharp chains tightened, and dug into her flesh, Scootaloo began to breathe heavy… All the appendages of her body were now held down and spread out along the surface of the rock…
The executioners surrounded her, holding clubs that were reinforced with a steel binding around the ends.
“COMMENCE!!!” Luna yelled, and the executioners ran forward, beating Scootaloo senseless against the rock, with their clubs… The one Scootaloo had spoken to previously began to feel pain as he beat her legs, when he realized he was tearing, he only stopped, stepped back, and looked around the carnage filled arena, the wheel had blood all over it, then his eyes turned to the Pegasus ponies she was trying to save, and saw the tongue and a mess of blood before them. Looking down he could see a growing puddle of blood, made larger by the splatters, and the top of the rock was now shimmering with dark red blood… He only turned and ran off through the area he had come from…
Luna and the audience noticed this, and then returned to the action at hand. Scootaloo was screaming now, she hadn’t made a sound before, trying to keep as much dignity as possible; she could feel her bones breaking. It went on for two minutes, endless beating, and the executioners slowly being drenched in blood… She opened her bruised eye, only in time to see a club connect with her head.
Her vision exploded with blood as she gasped; now she couldn’t breathe anymore… It hurt too much to breathe anyways.
One blow popped her stomach open like a zit, a chunk of an unidentifiable organ flew out, and the other clubs beating her body caused her intestines to almost jump out through the ragged exit wound.
Finally they backed away… All Pegasus in the arena got a look at Scootaloo, her eyes were closed, and one of her back legs had been beaten so badly that about mid-flank it was dangling by shattered bone and a scrap of muscle… the blow that had popped a hole in her belly had grown into a huge tear her liver was hanging out and clearly visible among her intestines, it looked like spaghetti and her broken bones had ripped through flesh and were now drizzling blood.
Some Pegasus in the audience turned away, others were staring intently, earlier in the proceedings they had wanted to see Scootaloo beaten to a bloody mess, but now, they were trying to convince themselves again that this was right…
Scootaloo’s eyes opened, her skull was cracked and everything was a blood red haze, a blur, voices echoed in her mind, she felt as if her memories were oozing out of her skull with her brain… She lifted her head… Luna looked at this display…
Silent for a moment, her face contorted in anger and she cried! “NOW!!! THIS PONY HAS SPIT UPON THE BLESSING BESTOWED TO HER TO BE A PEGASUS PONY IS AN HONOR AN HONOR SO FEW ARE WORTHY TO BEAR!!!” The executioners knew what was next… They went back to the chains and with a pull of a lever on a small winch, the chains retracted, the long spikes lacerating Scootaloo’s skin, or pulling out chunks, leaving bloody gashes.
One spike ripped open a large welt on Scootaloo’s flank nearby her tail, and her whole body lurched in pain, she had been so badly broken up that she was peeing blood now. Purple black and blue fluid oozed from the gash and blood mixed in with it as it rolled off the rock and onto the ground…
Drenched in blood, scars, bruises, gashes, exposed bone, dripping blood from everywhere… “IT’S AN HONOR TO BE A PEGASUS AND YOU ACT AS THOUGH YOU DON’T NEED IT!!!”
The executioners tied heavy sharp bladed chains to Scootaloo’s body… And Scootaloo gasped as the steel entered her sides again, the blades were fatter this time. Two executioners had the chains connected to their sides, and they flew up into the air, Scootaloo just dangled, gasping, the chains were getting tighter, her broken bones with all this undue pressure and strain, the cutting… She gasped in terror as she felt a chain tighten just enough on her dangling organs that it severed the thin sinews of flesh that were keeping them connected to her body.
She watched her liver and some length of intestine hit the ground.
Dash looked up at Scootaloo… “Why… Why did it have to be you…? You were just a kid.”
“IT’S AN HONOR AND YOU TREAT IT LIKE DIRT BY LIVING ON THE DIRT!!!” Luna bellowed her own eyes had tears in them… Scootaloo could see the whole arena now; it was dead center of Cloudsdale… “It is an honor…” She whispered…
“IT’S ALWAYS BEEN YOUR DREAM TO FLY, BUT YOU’LL NEVER BE ONE OF US!” Luna bellowed with a click Scootaloo’s chain covered body fell…
Scootaloo looked up as she fell, the two executioner ponies still hovering in the air, she could see a magnificent rainbow to her left… Whatever blood came off of her body seemed to float forever up in the sky; it made the clouds look like cupcake frosting with sprinkles… Reminding her how much she wanted to be home again…
The whole arena was silent, watching this young pony who had endured so much, just so two ponies wouldn’t have to suffer the same fate, fall from the sky… Nopony, not even Dash Fluttershy, or even Luna knew what to think anymore… She wasn’t even trying to flap her wings and fight it.
What she went through was the most painful, and the last thing she would ever have to endure. And for a moment, she felt like she was flying.
With an explosive crunch Scootaloo’s body hit the arena floor, the blood sounded like rushing waters and cascaded from her body like a wave of fruit punch the added weight and cutting power of the chains obliterated her body. The executioner who left walked back into the arena, unmasked, and made his way over to Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, unlocking them from their devices. They walked forward…
Nopony made a sound… Luna was at a loss, and high above Cloudsdale, in the palace, Celestia wept for letting this happen, it was a good idea while it lasted… But now she had seen the error of her ways… Fluttershy turned away but Dash continued on in disbelief of her own eyes, she walked into the blood and approached the center of it, where the chains lay a tangled clutter of twisted metal and strewn out mutilated organs… Scootaloo’s wings still stuck out, petrified as if they were still flying through the sky, the only thing to show that the bloody scraps were once a young Pegasus pony…
“S-she’s gone Fluttershy…” Dash whispered… “She’s gone…” Nopony in the stadium was happy any longer… Their cheers and cries for the bad blood to be taken from their presence were replaced with tears and regret, but also gratitude, one suffered so that others might see, one died so that others wouldn’t have to… All this pain, all this love brought about by one pony’s passion… By the Passion of the Scootaloo
THE END…