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"Can You Feel Ze Schadenfreude?"

by Lab Matt

Chapter 3: Part 3: "I Am Ze Übermensch"

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Fluttershy woke up on the infirmary's floor. The left side of her body ached. She looked around and sighed.

"I failed..."

She got up with difficult. It was hard to control her left side, as if it wasn't responding to her commands or, at least, being stubborn. Fluttershy walked with difficult toward the sink, where she washed her face. She looked up at her reflection on the mirror and screamed.

Her right eye was normal, still the usual moderate cyan, but the left eyes was not. Every part of it was a different tone of red; the sclera, the iris and the pupil.

"Oh, dear!"

"Fluttershy, are you alright?" asked Rarity, knocking on the door.

"Um... I... I-I... Yes! Yes, I am!"

"Are you sure? I heard you scream."

"I... Um... Fell?"

"Are you hurt?"

"N-No."

"Good. If you need anything, just ask."

"R-Right."

"What do I do?" she thought.

* * *

Fluttershy unlocked the door and left the infirmary, her mane covering the left side of her face.

"Loved the new style, Fluttershy!" said Pinkie Pie, bouncing beside her.

Fluttershy took a step back. "Tha-Thank you, Pinkie."

"Wish I could comb my mane like that."

"Yes. Maybe if you stop diving your face in candies your mane wouldn't be all sticky and hard to comb. And you would lose a few pounds."

Pinkie Pie tilted her head, confused. "What was that?"

Fluttershy's eyes widened upon realizing what she just said.

"O-Oh my! I'm sorry, Pinkie. I-I didn't meant to... Sorry!" she galloped away as fast as she could.

"Am I fat? Oh, well." she then bounced away smiling and humming one of her songs.

Not paying attention on where she was going, Fluttershy ended up hitting Spike and landing on her flank.

"I'm sorry, Spike."

The Pyro dragon mumbled something, waving his arms apologetically.

"Next time you see me running toward you, move. You're a mute Schweinehund, not a blind Dumm--" she covered her mouth with her hooves. "I-I-I'm so sorry, Spike. I-It wasn't..."

She galloped away again, leaving behind a confused Spike.

"Nice seeing you again, soldier." Derpy said, waving.

"With which eye, cross-eyed freak? I-I'm sorry, Derpy." she apologized while running.

"Wh-What did she called me?" Derpy said, tears appearing on the corner of her eyes.

Fluttershy entered her room and bucked the door close before jumping on her bed. A white pigeon landed on her nightstand, looking at her.

"What's wrong with me, Archimedes? You stupid winged rat." she covered her head with a pillow and started sobbing. "I-I'm so-so-sorry!"

"There's nothing wrong with you."

"Wh-Who said that?" she looked around and then at the bird, cocking an eyebrow. "Was it you, Archimedes?"

"Birds don't talk, dummkopf."

"Wh-Who are you? Where are you?"

"Inside your head. And I'm you. Vell, ze you you've repressed zis whole time."

"Wh-What do you mean?"

"Are you a hypocrite medik with no empathy for ze hurt ponies and an insatiable desire for hurting, who feels pleasure upon seing blood?"

"N-N-No!"

"Exactly. Because zat's me. I'm ze one supposed to be out there, hurting those dummkopfs, not you. I'm a real doktor, you're just ze sexy caring nurse who assists ze real doktor."

Fluttershy blushed, both of shame and flattery.

"Fluttershy, are you there?" Rarity asked, knocking on the door again. "The others told me you're acting... Differently."

"Oh, it's ze sneaky snake."

"She's not that. She's my friend."

"Your friend and a coward who can't fight anypony face-to-face."

"Stop calling her names!"

"Is anypony in there with you, darling?"

"N-No."

"Anyway, I don't know what made you say those things, but you should apologize. Even though Pinkie doesn't seem to mind and Spike... Well, I'm not sure about him, but Derpy was crying, you really hurt her feelings."

"C-C-Crying? Did ze Fräulein have her Mittelschmerz? SH-SHUT UP!"

"Are you sure you're ok, darling?"

"Yes. Please, leave me alone. I-I need some space. A space without you dummkopfs in it. P-Please just go away, Rarity."

"A-As you wish, darling."

Rarity pretended to walk away and approached her ear to the door.

"Why are you doing this?" Fluttershy said. "Yes, you said that. Still no excuse. S-S-Sorry! Yes. Yes, I know."

"There's something wrong with Fluttershy." she thought.

* * *

"Are you joining us today, Fluttershy?" Pinkie asked.

Fluttershy nodded. "I also want to apologize. I'm sorry, Pinkie. Spike and specially Derpy too. Sorry about yesterday. I wasn't... Myself."

"It's okay, silly!" Pinkie said, smiling.

Spike mumbled something and patted her back.

Derpy faced Fluttershy, her helmet covering her eyes. "You promise it won't happen again?"

"I do!"

"I don't."

"Quiet." she whispered to herself.

Derpy took off her helmet, revealing her eyes. She smiled and hugged Fluttershy.

"Then I forgive you."

"Mission begins in 30 seconds."

"Sound off if you're ready." Derpy said, wearing her helmet again.

"I'm ready!" Pinkie said, reloading her Frontier Justice.

Spike grabbed his Axtinguisher and mumbled something.

"I cannot vait, hah!"

They all looked at Fluttershy, puzzled.

"I-I mean... Ready."

"Five. Four. Three. Two. One."

The gates were open and Derpy, Spike and Pinkie left. Fluttershy looked at Rarity.

"After you." the Spy mare said, smiling before cloaking herself.

Fluttershy nodded, tightened the grip on her Medi-Gun and followed her teammates.

"I'll keep an eye on you, Fluttershy." Rarity thought. "There's something wrong with you, I can feel it."

* * *

"I'm not going." Rainbow Dash said, crossing her forelegs. "You guys can handle this without me."

"Please, Rainbow Dash." Twilight begged.

"Just leave her, Twi." Applejack said. "Her pride would probably get on our way. Let's go, Big Mac."

"да." the Heavy Weapons Pony said before both left the room.

"Rainbow Dash..."

"Just go, Twilight. You want to win that round, don't ya?"

"Not without you. You're my friend and part of the team. The whole team goes or I'm not going."

"Look, a book."

"Where?" she turned around and Rainbow Dash pushed her out of the room, closing the door.

"Just go." she said, sitting on the floor.

* * *

Derpy was hiding in a corner while Fluttershy healed her. She watched carefully as Spike blasted Big Macintosh away from the Point with his Compression Blast.

Fluttershy eeped as she felt her Medi-Gun vibrate. She never felt it before, but the Medic explained it very well, so she knew what it was.

"I am fully charged." she whispered.

"Go go go! Charge!" she said as Big Macintosh killed Spike with his Natascha. "You will help me capture my Point." she ran toward the Point, Fluttershy following her.

"Ready for that charge, Doc!" Derpy shouted.

Fluttershy gulped and activated her Übercharge. Both Fluttershy and Derpy turned glowing blue with eyes glowing yellow. Big Macintosh tried shooting at them, but the bullets were all deflected by the invulnerable protection. Derpy shot a rocket, blowing Big Macintosh up, his pieces flying all over the Control Point. The Übercharge discherged the moment they stepped on the Point.

"You were good, son. Real good." Derpy said, placing a forehoof on Fluttershy's soldier. "Maybe even the be--"

She never finished the sentence, as her head flew away.

"I'll notify yer next o' kin... that ya sucked!" Applejack said, sounding completely drunk. She looked at Fluttershy as she cleaned her Eyelander. "How's that 'doing no harm' workin' out for ya?"

Fluttershy looked at the headless body lying in front of her, terrified. She looked up at the Demomare. Her left eye's iris turned red and she smirked as she grabbed her Übersaw.

"I'm going to saw zrough your bones!" she shouted before burying the saw on Applejack's chest.

"We have captured the Control Point."

"Forward!" she shouted, pointing her Übersaw at the next Point's direction and running toward it.

Pinkie Pie, who had just built a Sentry, nodded and packed up her Sentry.

"Heavy load coming through." the Engineer mare said as she followed Fluttershy.

* * *

She woke up in the spawnroom with the worst headache of her life. Even though she already respawned, she could still feel the pain in her chest.

"Ah'm never drinkin' again." she said, getting up and grabbing her Scottish Resistance.

"You say that every time." Rainbow Dash said, lying on the spawnroom's bench.

"But Ah'm serious this time. Ah was so drunk Ah could've sworn by my pa's hat that it was Fluttershy who killed me."

"Hah! Fluttershy? You really should stop drinking, AJ. Fluttershy would never do something like that. She's too kind and coward for that. Now get out of here, drunkard."

"Whatever."

Applejack left the spawnroom, leaving Rainbow Dash alone with her baseball.

"Hope you die again." she tightened the grip on her ball. "Hope you die so many times that the respawn device will malfunction and you never respawn again."

* * *

Applejack was standing on the first RED Point, drinking from her bottle of cider.

"Hahahah! Oktoberfest!"

She looked at the source of the cheer and saw Fluttershy running toward her, holding her Übersaw.

"Here she comes." Applejack smiled and waved before detonating the Stickybombs buried on the dirt right in front of her attacker.

"Ya appear to have trodden on a mine." she teased. Her smiled disappeared as the dust settled and she saw Fluttershy standing there, a single step away from the explosion's range.

"Try again." she said, then ran toward the defender.

Applejack dodged the attack and smashed the bottle on Fluttershy's head.

"Mah cider!" she said, regretting her reckless move.

Fluttershy shook her head, snapping out of her dizziness.

"Vhat was zat for, you drunk hillbilly?" she tried attacking with her Übersaw, but Applejack dodged again.

"You are making me very cross." Applejack was going to hit fluttershy with her broken bottle, but slipped on the cider and fell.

Fluttershy laughed evilly and pointed her Syringe Gun at the Demomare's face.

"Auf wiedersehen, Schweinehund!"

"Stop speakin' fancy."

* * *

Rainbow Dash heard the sound of somepony respawning and looked at the pony, smiling once she saw it was Applejack.

"Died again, chucklehead?"

"Ah was sober this time. It was Fluttershy. Ah swear it was her!"

"I doubt it."

"Believe me, RD. Would Ah ever lie to you? Would Ah ever lie to anypony?"

"Well... Still hard to believe, though."

"We have lost the Control Point."

"AW CRIPE!" Applejack shouted before running.

* * *

"Alert! Our final Control Point is being captured."

"Bloody hay!" Applejack said as she arrived at the Point and saw Fluttershy standing on it, holding her Medi-Gun. She launched a pipe bomb at her.

The grenade was inches away from Fluttershy's face when she activated her Übercharge. The pipe bomb exploded, but the Medic mare suffered no damage. Fluttershy laughed and Applejack slowly walked toward her.

"Having fun, ya great lactating wet nurse? That charge of yours will be over in a few seconds and Ah'll be the one lau--" she heard a whistle and looked right. There was a Sentry on the corner and Pinkie was standing on top of it, holding her Wrangler.

"This thing ain't on auto-pilot, son!" she said, then pushed the Wrangler's joystick forward.

Applejack screamed in pain as the bullets trespassed her body, blood splashing in Fluttershy's face.

"Hahah! Vhat a bloodbasz!"

"We have captured the Control Point."

"Victory."

Fluttershy dropped her Medi-Gun and bowed. Rarity was looking at her from the distance, cleaning her bloody Big Earner on dead Twilight's shirt.

Next Chapter: Part 4: "My Skill Is Vasted On Zis Team" Estimated time remaining: 27 Minutes
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