Confronted

Chapter 3: Cupcakes

  As Twilight was reading a new book her parents had gotten her, she heard the flapping of wings. It was Rainbow Dash. "Hey, Rainbow Dash. What's up? You look scared. Is something wrong?" "It's Pinkie. I think she was about to try and kill me again after last time. She never got me cause of you, so she wants to finish me off. She just took me to her..." Rainbow Dash began crying from the thought of that horror again. "She took me to her house, Twilight. I'm scared, because I don't know what I'm gonna do about her. I don't want to say anything to Celestia because that might somehow make me look delusional, or insane, and wind up getting sent off to a mental hospital or something! You've..." She balled some more. "You've gotta help me, please!" She threw herself on Twilight, and hugged her to feel safe. Twilight... the pony who saved her. Some months before, Pinkie had lured Rainbow Dash to her house by claim of helping to make some cupcakes, and Dash found out what Pinkie made them with... parts of the bodies from ponies past killed by Pinkie. And worst yet, some of the pony's past kills were even babies. Yes, young ones. Talk about their "numbers being next" or some likes of that, but Rainbow Dash couldn't understand the crazed killer that had been her friend. Even worse was... Dash's "number" was next.

       Pinkie had began with Dash's wings, cutting them off. Dash screamed and jerked around to get free, but she was locked in place. The pain of the wings ripping off burned like never before, as Pinkie had hacked through the bone like nothing. They had always been Dash's pride and joy, next to her friends and home town, Cloudsdale. That's what hurt the most, knowing she would never be able to fly again. Next, Pinkie had begun to make inscissions on Dash's skin, wanting her rainbow mark on the sides of her back legs. So Pinkie cut those off, and was beginning to cut into the poor pony's hips. All the while Rainbow Dash just kept screaming. When the screaming had occured, Twilight busted down the door to the room in the middle of an  inscission being made. She screamed "Pinkie, what are you doing? Drop the knife!" Barely conscious, Dash whispered "Twilight, is that you?" Twilight lashed out, holding out her back left hoof for a kick into Pinkie's face. Pinkie screamed "What was that for, Twilight? We're just playing!" Too late, for Twilight had already freed Rainbow Dash and led her out of the torture room. Pinkie mumbled "Aww... I wasn't done playing with her. Oh well!"

        Ever since that day, Rainbow Dash had been afraid of almost all the others. That is, except for Celestia and Twilight. She still trusted them.

        She asked Twilight "Why didn't you report Pinkie when I was in the hospital? Why didn't you?" Twilight closed her eyes, and began to remember her own past. "For time's sake, I wasn't an angel either, Dash. I'm actually much older than you think. These people I live with, they actually work for me. I was actually much worse than her at one point, believe it or not." "Huh? What are you talking about?" "Like I said, I was much worse than Pinkie at one point. I did more than her, honsetly. But one day, I got shown what I'd been doing for years to people. I really did. I was sent, eventually, to a mental hospital myself. That's when I really went insane. My family busted me out, but only if I promised to take my medication you've me seen carry around. They also wanted me to leave the village. I asked them why, but didn't get an answer. They just kept saying leave. I came here and got a job at what is now the village's biggest grocer, all in all. And the ponies that live here with me are my workers, my assistants." Twilight sighed. She said "But all that money, and freedom, made me bored. So I had some of the workers got find a great nemesis of ours, named Discord. At the time, he wasn't evil, just lonely. My people brought him to me, and I told him that I wanted to start over in life. He cast a spell on me, and I became a baby myself, but the spell let me remember everything I had done up to that point in time. But, in that hospital, they drugged me so badly that I wanted to die. I figured it was close enough to what happened when I killed someone the way I did. So, I restarted my life, but must live with what I did long before. And I trust that you won't tell the others in the village. I count on you, Rainbow Dash. I really do."

         "Thanks Twilight. I'm just unsure what to do about Pink. Can you please help me with that? Please?" The tone in Dash's voice still showed some terror caused by Pinkie from before. Twilight replied "I'll see what I can do. Don't you worry, Dash." And with that, Twilight left her friend to go speak with Princess Luna.