Mistress Do Well: Fractured Elements
by milesprower06

Expatriation

“I’ll. . . She’s going to pay for this! I’m getting you out of here, Dash.” Twilight used her magic to rip open the door to the cage and toss it aside.

“No.”

“What?”

“No, Mistress. This is another test. I. . .I w-won’t go.”

Twilight slowly came to. Her senses returned one by one, before she became fully alert. She was in the basement of Golden Oaks Library. She clumsily got to her hooves, taking a look around, as the past 12 hours came rushing back to her.

"Dash, this isn't a test. You hear me? I'm getting you out of here."

"I c-can't. She'll take it out on Fluttershy."

"Rainbow, listen to me! Fluttershy is here, she's right here, and she's coming with us! I'm getting both of you out of here together."

Twilight immediately made for the winding staircase leading up to the library, as more of tonight's events came back to her. She didn't want to waste precious energy teleporting them here, because she felt that she was going to need all of it for a healing spell for the two of them. They had successfully sneaked out of Rarity's house on foot, as dusk began to overtake the sky.

"Come on you two, just a little bit further. That's it."

As she began to ascend the stairs to the main floor, she recalled getting Rainbow and Fluttershy through town without too much attention. Things had spiraled wildly out of control, and she was the only one who had realized it.

"Spike, go to Fluttershy's. Keep an eye on her animals."
"What in Equestria happened to the two of them?"
"Spike, just GO! Don't worry, I've got this under control."

Coming up out of the basement to the main library, she saw that it was dark out. She looked at the clock on the wall.

4:14 am

That should've been more than enough time for the spell to have finished...

"Don't worry, I'm gonna fix this. Oh Gods, why didn't I act sooner...? Alright, now this healing spell is the most powerful one I have. It should mend everything, but it's gonna put you into a deep trance for a few hours. It'll be like a heavy sleep."

She remembered the spell. It was a doozy. She had never had to use one so powerful before. Indeed, it had knocked the both of them out. Using the little energy she had left, she levitated them upstairs to the guest bed, to make them as comfortable as possible.

"How could I have let this happen? I love you, Dash...I love you, and I let her do this to you..."

She was so exhausted from her magical expenditure that she had gone back down to the basement to get a potion that would keep her on her hooves. She had to keep an eye on them while they were out. But she had barely made it down the steps before she passed out from exhaustion.

Twilight quickly made her way around the next staircase going up the inside wall up to her bedroom. She approached the guest bed. Fluttershy was there, still sleeping soundly, looking perfectly healed.

But Rainbow was nowhere to be found.

She looked around frantically but quietly, not wanting to disturb her other recovering guest.

"Rainbow...Rainbow where are you?" she called in a whisper. She glanced downstairs, making sure she didn't miss anything, and then went out to the balcony on the far side of her room...

...and found a folded letter next to Rainbow's golden Necklace of Loyalty, laying in the middle of the balcony.

Rarity bolted up in bed, certain she had just heard the sound of a window shattering downstairs. Tossing the red velvet sheets off of herself, she got out of bed and quietly made her way down the hall, hearing hoofsteps from downstairs over the sounds of the rain pelting the roof. To be honest, she wasn't sure if someone was breaking in, or if one of her friends had lost their spine, and had helped her captive downstairs break out. The hoofsteps ceased as she descended the stairs.

Indeed, her front window had been shattered, and the object used was in the middle of the floor. Upon inspection, she discovered it to be a rock, with a piece of paper folded around it. Using her magic, she unfurled the parchment from the crude stone, and read the note.

To my five former friends,

It has come to this. There is nothing I can do to change what you did to me. Did you seriously believe that it was the best choice? You think that it's okay to take a specific kink that Rarity and Fluttershy share in their relationship and force it onto one of your friends?

Yeah, so I messed up. I was juggling way too many commitments and making promises I couldn't keep. You could have been direct, talking to me as a group, or more subtle, refusing my promised help. But no, for some reason, you listened to Rarity in her fucking sadistic dominating mindset, and had sex on your brains when you all actually went along with her idea. Yeah, you all succeeded in taking away my ego, but you also took my dignity, pride, and worst of all, my dream. How fucking dare you...each one of you.

After this, you will never hear from me again. I am leaving my life in Ponyville behind. I haven't told a single pony where I am going. I am severing all connections and starting anew, all because of the five of you. I sincerely hope none of you never make a mistake again, otherwise that bitch will generously have the others turn on you, convincing them it will make you a better mare. So I'm off to start over. Don't even think about trying to find me. If you do, I swear to Celestia, you will regret it. Especially you, Rarity, you condescending whore. If I ever lay eyes on you again, I will put every ounce of my being into permanently paralyzing you from the neck down.

All of you changed who I am. Not all change is good, but I am determined to make the best of it. It seems because of my efforts to make my life mean something, that I am no longer worthy of the Necklace of Loyalty. Twilight will find it on her balcony. As much as I thought it would pain me to part with it, it wasn't, as none of you are no longer worthy of my loyalty.

To Scootaloo, all I can say is I'm sorry for neglecting you. That's all there is to it. I can't say anything else, because the actions of my former friends have made me indifferent to the other ponies I have wronged. Part of me is happy about that, that perhaps they will think more carefully about offering their help when it is not wanted, in the most ineffective and disgusting way imaginable.

Well I guess that's it. Can't say I'll miss any of you...not after what happened and the way you all decided to destroy my future. Some friends you turned out to be. Friendship may be magic, but it turned out that with you, it was all smoke and mirrors. Fuck all of you.

-RD

Rainbow's hooves became more muddy as she trotted on the dirt path headed out of Ponyville. Not that it caked on; the downpour of the very early morning helped in keeping them soaked but clean. Her eyes were red, her tear ducts sore and dry after hours of sobbing. And yet, despite the added weight of her heavy saddlebags, she felt a weight lift from her as she crossed the west bridge leading out of town.

Getting to the Wonderbolts in Cloudsdale was now the farthest thing from her mind, even if it was possible, which it currently wasn't. Twilight's healing trance hadn't mended her clipped primaries. Molting came naturally, and it was a process that the trance evidently could not accelerate, meaning she would be grounded for several months. She didn't know what she'd say anyway. 'My friends kidnapped me and tried to condition me into a sex slave'? If she didn't feel so angry, betrayed, and scared right now, she'd almost laugh at the ludicrousness of using that excuse, no matter how shocking it was. But being honest with herself, she didn't care right now. She just had to get as far away from here as she could.

In her saddlebags were her most precious possessions, and every last bit from her bank account. She never planned on returning. She wasn't sure she could keep herself from killing any of her friends if she ever laid eyes on them again. Every step farther away from Ponyville she took, she felt just a little bit better.

It was an hour before the downpour finally let up, and the early morning sky turned orange behind her. She noticed a pond off to the left, secluded by the surrounding trees. She came up to the water's edge, and set her saddlebags down. She unrolled her map and checked her progress. It looked like she had come about three miles.

She took a tin cup from her pack and dipped it in the crystal clear pond. As she slowly gulped down her drink, she heard the sound of approaching wagon wheels. Sure enough, half a minute later, a stallion pulling a medium-sized display wagon came into the clearing.

"Greetings, young mare. Beautiful start to the day, is it not?"

When Rainbow offered nothing in the form of an answer, the new arrival took a more careful look.

"Are you alright, miss?"

"No." Rainbow Dash replied, emotionless, as she put her cup back into her bags, and strapped them over her back, preparing to depart.

"Is...there anything I-"

"No, there isn't."
"Well, I'm a travelling trader, miss. I travel these roads often. Quite a few hills ahead. If you're not quite prepared, you could see what I have. Or...those saddlebags look heavy. If there's anything unnecessary weighing you down, I'd see if I could buy them from you."

"No, I'm-" Rainbow began, but as she was about to turn his offer away and continue on her way, a gleam caught her eye from his wagon. She looked it over. It was all manner of trinkets and goods. The shimmering came from a jewelry display case in the right corner.

"You buy and sell jewels?"

"Yes ma'am. If you've got anything, I can study it for a second, make sure it's genuine, and then make you a reasonable offer on the spot."

Rainbow once again took off her saddlebags, and opened the right pouch. After a bit of rummaging, she came up and put a gold-set necklace on his counter.

"By Luna's moon...!" he exclaimed.

At the center of the necklace, was a brilliant red, heart-shaped fire ruby. He took out a monocle magnifier, and made a closer inspection of the gem.

"This is the real deal, alright. I've never seen one this big before. This is extraordinary!"

He put away the monocle, and went down behind the cart, into the interior shelves. Rainbow heard a case opening.

"Young mare, I'd hate to make your bags any heavier but..." he began, coming back up, and setting two whole gold ingots on the counter next to the necklace.

"...would the extra weight be worth 20,000 bits?"

The trader was a bit...worried, when Rainbow didn't widen her eyes in the slightest at the small fortune in front of her.

Rainbow knew that as a haggler, this was his low offer, but she really didn't care.

"You've got a deal."

The trader took the necklace, and slid the ingots towards her. As he carefully hung the necklace in the display case, Rainbow took the ingots and put them into her saddlebags, tucking them securely next to the video tape in the back corner of the right sack.

"Well, thanks" Rainbow said, closing the pouch and fastening her bags on again. She began to trot out of the clearing.

"Miss?" the trader called after her. Rainbow stopped, and turned her head to him.

"Are you going to be alright?" he asked. Rainbow stared at him for a few moments.

"I don't know," was her only reply, and she continued along the road west.

When Spike returned to the library after 12 hours of animal babysitting, he didn't think he could be any more confused at what had transpired so far through the night. Then, he came through the front door, and saw Twilight crying over a letter between her forelegs.

"Twilight, do you want to explain to me what exactly is going on here? I mean, Dash is missing for days, and then you show up with her out of the blue, and she definitely looked like she's seen better days, and now I come back, and you're like this. What's wrong-"

"I thought I'd find you here." a new voice said, directly behind Spike, startling him. He turned around, and there stood Rarity in the doorway, and she did not look happy.

Twilight sniffled, and stood up, her horn glowed, and a purple glowing shield materialized in front of her bedroom, preventing any access.

"Get out of here, Rarity." Twilight said, standing defiantly between the white unicorn and the stairway up.

"I should never have trusted you. You never had the will to see it through. And now, she's made off with the tape from the basement, and now we're all at risk of being judged by those who don't understand what we were trying to do."

Rarity threw her fire ruby necklace down on the floor.

"I'll have you know that I just bought that from a trader who had just come into Ponyville. He wouldn't take a bit less than 40,000. So in addition to that, I do believe you have something that belongs to me, and I would like it back."

"She isn't going anywhere with you. This plan of yours got way out of control, and I'm disgusted that I didn't realize it sooner. She doesn't want to be with you any more. Your sick practices haven't just cost you your marefriend, but mine as well, so I'm giving you one last chance to turn around and get out!"

Rarity leered at her.

"If you want that 'marefriend' of yours to stay a lying, selfish, egotistical thief, then so be it. But I am taking what is mine!"

With fresh tears, came a wave of hatred. The glow of Twilight's horn intensified tenfold, and this caused even Spike to back away in fear.

"You fucking psychopath!" Twilight screamed, and Rarity didn't notice the brass bust fly at her from the left side of the room. It hit the right side of her body, but she maintained her balance, and fired a burst of energy from her horn at Twilight, which was expertly dodged.

"You care more about exerting your will on others than you do about the well-being of your friends, you bitch!" Twilight yelled. She fired a blast of energy at Rarity, but this one was successfully deflected right back at her, knocking her off balance. Rarity took this opportunity to tackle Twilight and pin her.

"You'll make an excellent second pet!" she threatened.

Twilight seethed with anger. Her eyes became a fiery white, Rarity found herself magically clenched by the throat, and was flung back with such force that the wooden support of the far wall and bookshelf splintered when she slammed against it. Twilight repeated this move, sending Rarity into three other shelves, sending books toppling from all ends of the library. She crumpled to a heap on the floor.

"She let you mutilate her because you threatened to do the same to Fluttershy, and you dare to question her loyalty?!? She's disappeared and you don't even care!!!" Twilight screamed, charging at her. Using the surge of magic, Twilight willed the gold band of the fire ruby necklace to her hoof, and she began whipping the jewel down on Rarity's head, who tried pathetically to shield herself with her forelegs as she screamed.

"You! Monster! You! Fucking! Monster!"

Twilight was so far gone that she didn't hear Rarity stop screaming. She didn't notice her fall limp. She didn't notice the jewel become bloody, nor did she hear the blows become wetter with each hit.

Giving out a final, blood curdling scream, the last swing caught the unconscious Rarity directly on the horn, and it hit so hard that the jewel began to crack into two, and it rebounded and slammed into Twilight's horn, interrupting the flow of magic, and sending it and Twilight flying across the room as her magical overload finally dissipated.

The two halves of the heart-shaped ruby came to rest next to the teardrop-stained letter on the library floor, as both Rarity and Twilight laid motionless on the floor.

Dear Twilight,

I don't even know what to say to you. If you think that a quick healing spell is supposed to fix everything, then you're still just as lost as the rest of them. Pulling me out of that hell was supposed to make me love you? When you participated in all of it? Make no mistake, I don't want your love. Not after this.

I sincerely worry about your next significant other, if there's one at all. Not that I'd suggest that it be your highest priority. No doubt you have my Element in your hooves right now. You'll want to find somepony for that. As a matter of fact, go and find six new ponies, because all of you have become the most disgusting insult to the Elements of Harmony.

Don't you ever try to find me, Twilight. I promise, you will regret it if you do. Just move on with your life while I start a new one. If you have any soul or conscience left, keep that fucking psycho away from Fluttershy.

-Rainbow Dash

Author's Notes:

This chapter has been read on YouTube by The Mysterious Fluttershy Fan!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZjIc9sLJrc