Fluttershy scares me now. Let's see how much worse this chapter will make it.

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Pinkie, Pinkie in a pit,

Shall we wonder who you've hit?

Your friends are dying by your hoof

Yet your attitude remains aloof.

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Fluttershy opened her eyes slowly. Her limbs ached and she could feel every puncture caused by the needles. Each tiny hole felt on fire. The rest of her body was still completely numb. She could see blood around her shattered hind leg and it looked like someone had run a cheese-grater over her stomach and chest.

Fluttershy drew in a deep breath, calming herself and forcing her body to ignore both the pain and the feeling of oblivion from the tranquilizers. She'd gotten a lot of practice ignoring both when she had to treat injured snakes and porcupines. She suddenly narrowed her eyes and loud out a huge scream. She pushed upwards with all her might and felt the chains lock together. They began bending, but wouldn't break. Fluttershy quit pushing the links, they stayed locked together several inches above where they started, not enough for her to slide out, but enough to where she could see her injuries.

Her leg appeared mangled from where Pinkie had destroyed the bone. 'Good thing I can fly,' she thought, wincing at the damage. Half of the straps holding her were now ripped or stretched to where they were paper thin. She was about to begin snapping the last of these when an enormous hoof was placed on her head.

Fluttershy craned her neck and looked up; she saw an enormous shadowy version of Pinkie. "Peace, small one," it said. Its voice was deep and grated like falling rocks. The room shook at the sheer power of the shadows voice. "You have put up an admirable fight, but you know how this must end."

"Don't you dare talk to me you filthy monster," Fluttershy spat. She suddenly jerked her head and caught the shadowy creature's hoof in her mouth. She bit down hard, expecting it to shatter but instead her teeth slid along it, unable to find purchase. It was like trying to force two magnets together.

Pinkamena watched Fluttershy try and bite the hoof. After a few seconds of Fluttershy grinding her teeth and glaring, Pinkamena pulled its hoof out of Fluttershy's mouth. Fluttershy's teeth clamped together and a few cracked audibly. "I caved your head in earlier." Fluttershy said, remembering her fight outside, "why aren't you dead?"

"Oh dear Fluttershy," the creature let out a slow laugh, "But of course, you don't know. We've only ever told Applejack and she isn't with us anymore." Fluttershy looked at where the creature was pointing. It looked as though Applejack had been completely crushed and then cut open. As Fluttershy stared in horror the creature continued, "I'm not actually Pinkie Pie. Well, I am, but she doesn't think so and thus we've been separated. I am, what you might call, her darker side. We usual work together but lately her work is becoming too stressful. As for our head, it's much harder to kill one with our blessing than that."

"What?"

"Oh, we were blessed by the moon goddess years ago. We've been working together ever since."

"But enough chitchat. We had enough to do with Applejack and I'd really rather finish with you. You seem to smell the tastiest so far and it has been a while since we baked anything." Pinkamena placed a hoof on the misshapen chains and pressed down. They gave a squeal and bent downwards, pinning Fluttershy fully to the table. Pinkamena approached a cart by the wall and wheeled it over. It pulled the covering off with a flourish revealing an odd assortment of tools and utensils.

Pinkamena leaned in with a scalpel and a threaded needle. "Normally pinkie would take a few practice cuts to ensure quality and proper technique, but I'm much better than she is." It placed the cold blade of the scalpel against Fluttershy's jaw. She could feel it, a cold pressure against her back molars. The tiny wedge of freezing metal began to slide slowly along, pulling at the skin before it managed to catch. As it cut, Fluttershy felt a white hot burning sensation travel along her cheek; she felt the sting of the tainted air of the slaughter room press against her raw flesh.

The scalpel worked its way slowly to Fluttershy's mouth. She could feel the intense pain in every nerve the blade split. As the blade passed between her lips, she stuck her head out and caught the edge in her teeth. It continued to slide for a second; Fluttershy jammed her teeth down even harder. As the blade stopped, it cut a large gash in her tongue but Fluttershy ignored it. She twisted her head, pulling the scalpel out of Pinkamena's grasp and managed to turn it around. She stabbed it into the lock holding the chains tight and began to work it up and down.

Pinkamena tried to grab the scalpel back but each time Fluttershy snapped at its hoof with enough ferocity to scare even the shadow. After a few wiggles, Fluttershy snapped the lock open and began thrusting the chains upwards. They creaked, but began moving and soon started to slide off the yellow pegasus.

Pinkamena sighed. She held out a hoof and it began to lose form. Soon it was just an elongated black blob of glowing slime. Pinkamena pressed the distorted limb against Fluttershy's face. As the shadows enveloped her, she continued to fight. With each struggle, she drew in more of the poisonous shadow until her face darkened. Every vein stood out, a black line inscribed on her usually flawless face.

Fluttershy lay on the table, staring at the ceiling. Her breathing was harsh and ragged, every now and then it would catch in her throat and she'd cough for a few seconds until she hacked up a glob of bile. Pinkamena stood off to the side, panting a little. "Now I can see how you gave Pinkie so much trouble. Even now my poison should have either made you my thrall or killed you outright, yet you continue to fight it."

Pinkamena stood up, its full size revealed. Even standing on all fours Pinkamena was a good thirty hooves from hoof to head. "It seems such a shame to kill so worthy an opponent. Maybe I can give you a chance." It thought it over for a second, 'Applejack made things quite interesting, but I sense this pony could do so much more than that if given a chance. She might even make it outside.' The prospect of fighting outdoors once more thrilled the evil being.

The darkness in Fluttershy's veins was on the verge of subduing her when Pinkamena reached down and drew it all back down. "You have twenty four hours. Use them as you will." There was a whirlwind of shadows and Pinkie was alone.

Fluttershy struggled to lift her head, weariness shook her from head to tail and her head fell back onto the table with a loud thud. Her cheek and tongue bled profusely and she knew she would die soon if she didn't stop it. She saw a needle on the floor nearby and knew what she had to do. 'It'll be just like stitching up the animals after they fall into the hunters' traps,' she though, steeling herself for the coming test.

Fluttershy forced the chains up, crying out in pain as the strength given to her by fear left now that she was alone. Link by link the chains unbent and began to fall off, the lock holding them hadn't been put back on after Fluttershy broke it. Soon she could slide out from under the mass of chains. Fluttershy flopped onto the floor and saw stars as her head struck; the multiple puncture wounds robbed her of enough strength to even hold up her head.

Fluttershy blinked her eyes, clearing away the stars. The needle lay by her hoof and she picked it up. A long spool of fishing string was connected to one end. Fluttershy braced herself and poke the needle through her cheek, just above the gash. She wasn't prepared for the pain. As much as the cut itself hurt, each stab of the needle seemed only to magnify the agony. Fluttershy pushed on, her vision beginning to go. The needle flashed as she sewed, in and out, weaving the two hanging flaps back together.

Fluttershy caught herself as she was about to continue sewing along her lips. She broke the string, her vision now veiled behind a gray field. The gash in her tongue still led, a constant stream of warm coppery blood poured down her throat. Fluttershy was about to try and sew that up as well when she saw a packet of matches lying on the bottom shelf of the cart.

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"It's okay little guy," Fluttershy said, "let me see it." The rabbit moved its paws and revealed that its hind leg was pierced most of the way through by the toot of the bear trap some careless pony had left up. "Oh my," Fluttershy nearly fainted at all the blood. "I don't know if I can do anything to save it," she felt extremely sorry for the bunny, without its legs it could never go any faster than a slow hobble. It couldn't escape predators and it couldn't gather food. The rabbit knew and its eyes filled with a sad resignation. Fluttershy suddenly remembered something she had learned back when she attended medical seminars to be sure she could help anypony. Flesh can be seared closed, it hurt more than the wound itself did, but it left the flesh usable once the burn healed.

She flew home and grabbed a small lighter she kept. She freed the rabbit from the trap and explained what she was going to do. The rabbit nodded and stuck a large piece of bark in its mouth. It bit down and nodded at Fluttershy. She seared the wound closed, having to hold the rabbit down to finish. "I'm so sorry Angel," she said as she let the rabbit up. He hobbled around for a few steps, testing the leg. Fluttershy could tell he needed time for the leg to fully heal. She took him home and he ended up staying with her, to serve as her guardian in payment of Fluttershy having saved his life.

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"I can do this," she began pulling herself along, not wanting to make her rear leg any worse. She grabbed the matchbook and struck one against the rough surface on the front. It flared up on the first try and she stuck out her tongue, plunging it into the flame. The pain was immediate, pulling away at her senses. She nearly pushed the match into her mouth as she flinched away from it.

A few seconds was enough to sear the skin of her tongue closed again. There were several burns on her chin and nose, but they were minor. "Now if only I could do something with this leg." A chair of bones sat nearby. Fluttershy looked around and noticed that there was much more to the room than she had seen yet. She took the room in slowly, too shocked to really react to it. She just put it up to one more reason Pinkie and Pinkamena needed to be destroyed. She pulled two of the legs of the chair she had seen and began wrapping the cloth from the cart around her leg, making a quick splint out of the bones.

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The blood is streaked and spattered here

Your shadow speaks within the mirror.

Cupcakes baked, the ponies devoured

Sorrow grows with every hour.

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"Is she finished already?" Pinkie asked. She hadn't expected Fluttershy to last long. But then she fought like a pony possessed. That made Pinkie think that Fluttershy may just last longer than anypony before, even with Pinkamena personally overseeing things.

"No, she even resisted my poison," Pinkie knew how potent that gel was. Pinkamena had once used it to slaughter a troop of griffins almost instantly, they had come around looking for Gilda and it wouldn't do to let anypony know she had vanished. It later caused strained relations between Equestria and the neighboring Griffin tribes, but that was easily soothed over by a mystified Celestia who could find no sign of the bodies. "She is a worthy opponent as you know and I decided to give her a chance, much like you did with Applejack. I think I may just get to fight outside again."

"You did what?" Pinkie was terrified, "you saw what she did to me! Now she knows what we're doing and she knows she can escape us easily."

"Calm yourself." Pinkie felt her shade pull away her fear, leaving her a blank husk before her usual energetic self shone through. "You've been letting emotions sweep you away, if you're not careful, anger will take control and we will be lost."

"You're right, like always," Pinkie frowned at the floor.

"Not always, just lately."

"So you really think she can make it?"

"Your friend Applejack did and she didn't fight nearly as much as Fluttershy. Nor could she fly."

"Did you start on her?" Pinkie was morbidly curious on how Fluttershy had taken the pain, it hadn't seemed to faze her when Pinkie crushed her hind leg.

"Watch." Pinkie saw a large black shape expand to cover her vision. Then it began pulsing with colors until an image of Fluttershy tied to a table filled it. Pinkie watched as Fluttershy snatched away the scalpel with her teeth and managed to fight off Pinkamena almost long enough to get up.

"She's not too bad," Pinkie was impressed, she knew how hard it was to make Pinkamena nervous and to keep her from intervening for that long meant Fluttershy should easily make it through the funhouse. 'Now if we can just keep her from escaping,' Pinkie thought, still not entirely happy with her copy's decisions.

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Inkie Pie, your first success,

Shortly after, your matroness.

Your family dies to fill your need

Of satisfying evil's greed.

To Ponyville you came,

Deeds recorded, life never the same.

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Fluttershy stood up, her leg was in a makeshift splint and her more serious inures were treated. She had fallen asleep for a little while after treating herself but woke up feeling much better. She knew by her natural clock that she had been asleep for seven hours. Added to the time it took to treat herself, she had a little less than seventeen hours to escape from Pinkie. It seemed like a lot, but Fluttershy knew it would probably take much longer than that.

She looked around and quickly found a staircase. She flew to the top and slowly pushed the door open, watching for traps. As it opened, lights suddenly shot on, illuminating her in a harsh white light. She looked over and saw Rainbow Dash. Her eyes had been replaced with light bulbs and handle bars were sticking out of her head. Wheels protruded from her feet and a strange pony sat on her back, hidden from view by the glaring lights.

Pinkie began pushing buttons on her keyboard and Twilight revved the engine stuck deep within Rainbow Dash's chest. The Rainbow-Bike shot forward faster than Rainbow could have hoped to go. A bright rainbow trail was left behind and Fluttershy just barely managed to pull away before she was hit. She flew up to the ceiling and looked around. She was in some kind of giant meat locker. Ponies hung everywhere and there were even a large number of buffalos, griffins and other creatures, preserved until needed in this chamber of horrors.

Fluttershy looked down and saw that Twilight was sitting on the desecrated Rainbow Dash. A metal box was stuck to her back and an antenna poked out; several batteries were attached to the box. Small lights under the antenna flashed and Twilight turned to look at Fluttershy. Cameras were mounted in her eye sockets and they appeared to zoom in on the hovering pegasus.

"What in the name of Celestia?" Twilight suddenly turned the Rainbow-Bike and pushed in a button by her head. Dashie's wings began pumping up and down, faster and faster until she took off at lightning speed heading straight for Fluttershy.

She sucked her wings into her sides and began to drop quickly. Rainbow's wheels hit her full in the face and she flew backwards into a wall.

Fluttershy stood up shakily, Twilight was looking at her, sitting perfectly still on Rainbow Dash. As Fluttershy began to take a step, Twilight spun the bike towards her once more. Fluttershy turned around and pulled a hoof back. She quickly shot it out as she heard the engine rev.

Her hoof connected with Rainbow Dash's head, snapping it off. It flew back and hit Twilight where it stuck, the metal implants caught on a series of thick black stitches that were holding Twilight together. The bike swerved and crashed into the wall, grazing Fluttershy with the handles. She grabbed her side with her hooves as Twilight emerged from the wreck, Rainbow Dash's head bouncing against her neck.

Fluttershy's hooves came away dripping with blood. The cut from the handle bars wasn't deep but it led obscenely. She quickly grabbed one of the ponies hanging nearby and, whispering and apology, slid the skin off. She tied it around her torso as Twilight advanced in slow jerky steps.

Pinkie sat in another room, watching through cameras hidden in strategic places as Fluttershy caused Twilight to ruin Rainbow Dash. She groaned, "that'll take weeks to fix."

Pinkamena looked at her. "Then stop letting your friends play with your toys. Especially when you know they're going to break them."

Pinkie continued watching as Fluttershy dodged. She had just made Twilight dive at her, the ruined stump of her horn had been replaced by a metal spike that was twisted into a cruel spiral. It was set to plunge into Fluttershy's heart but she lashed out with her wing and managed to move Twilight's head enough to catch the horn in a nearby corpse.

Fluttershy jumped to the side as Twilight dove at her. The metal spiral on Twilight's head was forced deep into the meaty tissue of a butchered buffalo. As Twilight began yanking on the corpse, trying to regain movement, Fluttershy lashed out with her hooves. The first few blows sunk deep into Twilight's body. The skin split and Fluttershy saw that she was filled with a strange flesh-like gel. There were wires crisscrossing each other and Fluttershy thought she had an idea as to what they were for.

She had found out long ago that small shocks could make muscles clench and unclench. She approached Twilight about it and the mare set about testing it and found that the brain controlled the body with little electric signals. The wires here could only move Twilight's body if used with exact timing and strength. Only somepony with an intimate knowledge of a pony's body could use this; somepony like Pinkie Pie.

Fluttershy realized that simply hitting Twilight would do no good. She directed her attacks at Twilight's cameras, hoping to blind both her and Pinkie. However, after shattering them, Twilight still resisted her as if she knew where Fluttershy was. Fluttershy then began kicking at the box on Twilight's back.

As Pinkie managed to get the horn to loosen, Fluttershy smashed the cameras she'd installed in Twilight. Now she had to assume full control of the programs powering her friend. She made Twilight kick Fluttershy away and began yanking at the horn in a way she knew would cause it to slide right out. Suddenly Fluttershy kicked at the control panel causing it to short out momentarily.

Her hoof connected with the metal box and Twilight froze. After a second or two, she began pulling at the makeshift horn again, somehow seeming urgent even as her face remained stoic. Fluttershy began kicked at the box as rapidly as she could. Soon, dents began to form and it popped open, revealing a mass of wires and switches. Fluttershy braced herself and bit down on a clump of blue wires. She yanked them out, the ends hissing with electricity until they connected with Fluttershy. She fell to the ground, writhing as the current poured into her. It soon stopped as the wires shorted out; Twilight's left side quit moving. Fluttershy repeated her actions on a clump of red wires, though nothing seemed to happen. She continued tearing out various clumps of circuitry until Twilight sat still.

"Good one Fluttershy," Pinkie's giggle echoed through the room, "and you didn't ruin her like Applejack did. Good thing, 'cuz then I'd have to give you to Gummi before I killed you. He's such an energetic boy, if you know what I mean."

"Where are you Pinkie," Fluttershy yelled, pushed far beyond her limits, "I found a chicken in the Everfree Forest, I can find you in here!"

A deep voice resounded from behind Fluttershy, "you'll see that there's a big difference between there and here little one."

Fluttershy whirled around and found herself face to face with both Pinkie and Pinkamena. She screamed and charged forward but was caught by Pinkamena. Fluttershy was completely enveloped by the enormous hoof. It slowly turned transparent, allowing Fluttershy to watch as the two Pinkies began cleaning the mess her fight had made.

As she collected pieces of Twilight, Pinkie spoke, "you'll soon wish you were in the forest Fluttershy. It's so much safer there, even with such… excitable… dragons running around." She laughed as Fluttershy winced at the traumatic memory. It was the reason she was so terrified of dragons and one of the main reason she stopped dating the local stallions.

Pinkie finished piling up the pieces. "Remember, Pinkamena gave you another sixteen hours. Let's see if you can get out of here by then."

The two ponies vanished leaving Fluttershy alone in the enormous corpse filled room. She looked around, seeing how terrible her situation was. She was mangled, there was no way even magic could properly fix her at this point, and she was still deep within Pinkie's hideout, lost and alone, just another toy for the psychotic pony. Fluttershy broke down and began crying. There was nothing else she knew to do. She curled into a ball, tears flowing from her clenched eyes. She sobbed, holding her various injuries in turn.

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Pinkie, Pinkie with a knife

Put an end to all this strife.

Nightmare Moon commands no more

Forever shut lies that door.

Your actions now are yours alone

Your evil takes the devils throne.

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Fluttershy stood up and began walking. Her eyes felt very swollen from her crying and she knew it was a bad idea to waste so much time on something so pointless, but she just couldn't hold it in anymore. She didn't know how long she had been lying there, but she knew it had been too long.

After a few minutes she came to the end of the huge room. A door sat open there. It led into a short, but twisted, hallway made up of boards filled with cobwebs and tiny staring eyes. Fluttershy ran through as fast as she could. She felt a breeze several times as something grabbed at her back but missed… barely.

Fluttershy emerged from the hallway in a twisted, dreamlike version of Pinkie's bedroom at the Sugarcube Corner. Everything was bent into fantastic proportions and weird angles had been added onto everything. A sense of unease filled the air and Fluttershy felt a shiver roll down her back.

She began to leave the room when she saw hoof prints going around the walls and ceiling, The pattern from the shoes seemed familiar, but Fluttershy hurried on her way.

Fluttershy had been wandering the halls for hours. Every turn led to four more and every dead end seemed to follow her along as she retraced her steps. Howling echoed through the twisted pathways and Fluttershy became completely terrified. Her wigs were locked against her sides and she shivered constantly, waiting for strong teeth to clamp around her neck.

Fluttershy soon found a small pattern in the hallways, however, every other turn the pattern changed completely and she was soon more confused than before. By sheer luck more than anything, Fluttershy found herself in a mockery of the foyer at the Sugarcube Corner. She hurried to the massive double doors and managed to slide one open.

As the door began to move, Pinkie stepped out from behind the counters, her steps were heavy and she seemed in no hurry. Fluttershy began frantically driving at the door. She wished she hadn't. It flew open to reveal Pinkamena filling the doorway.

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We fear your coming every night

And with each dawn comes new fright.

We know you now for what you are

Yet vengeance still, for us, lies far.

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"So good to see you again dear Fluttershy," Pinkamena held a hoof out to the ide and bowed deeply. "and with an hour and a half to spare. You're quite the skilled pony aren't you?"

Pinkie had somehow climbed up on the ceiling and was walking along as if on the ground. "You didn't learn as much about this place as Applejack did, but she was here for a whole lot longer than you were, so I guess that's fine."

Fluttershy was about to ask how Pinkie was walking on the ceiling like that when she caught herself. It didn't matter how, it just mattered that Fluttershy couldn't fly to get away. A simple glance at the red glare of Pinkie's eyes told Fluttershy that that was the whole point behind Pinkie being on the ceiling: letting Fluttershy know just how helpless she was.

"But I'm not helpless," she said sternly to herself.

"What was that?" Pinkamena asked, leaning in close.

Fluttershy suddenly reared back and slammed her hooves into Pinkamena's eyes. "I said I'm not done yet!" Fluttershy dug her hooves in. Pinkamena straightened out almost instantly, bellowing in pain. Fluttershy used the momentum to launch herself through the doors. However, as she flew through the air, Pinkie did a flip off the ceiling and landed on Fluttershy's back.

They flew through a long tunnel that slowly sloped upwards. As they flew, Pinkie and Fluttershy were grappling for control. Both biting and kicking; they used every dirty trick they knew from hoofing somepony's eye to Fluttershy's biting more… sensitive places. Fluttershy had learned many tricks from dealing with unruly animals. Pinkie had invented just as many.

They crashed into the floor of the tunnel and slid along, leaving a long crater that covered the both of them in scratches and pebbles. A thundering tread told them that Pinkamena wasn't far behind. Fluttershy bucked Pinkie off of her and launched herself into the air. She hadn't flapped more than twice when a silvery object buried itself in her wing. As she fell, Fluttershy looked and realized that it was a jagged spatula, the kind used for cutting as well as flipping and serving. She crashed into the ground again. This time she rolled and managed to regain her feet.

Fluttershy's eyes were slits; filled with determination. Her only thought was to escape. Pinkie stood up, her weapon still buried deep within Fluttershy's wing. "Oh," she said as Pinkamena caught up and threw her onto its back, still running after the pony who had nearly gouged out its eyes, "this is going to be good." A vicious smile distorted Pinkie's face as she was carried onward by the rampaging shadow beneath her. Fluttershy had just reached the doors to the tunnel and threw them open with one swift kick. She was still far ahead, but the distance was closing rapidly.

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Pinkie, Pinkie my dear friend,

Is it time to meet our end?

Your blade descends

My life, it rends.

But still so much flesh to reap,

So little time we have to sleep.

Awaken those who serve you now

The fields of flesh your workers plow.

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Good job Fluttershy. Hope you can survive what's coming next. Another good chapter in my opinion, rather longer than usual but so what? The next chapter will probably be a little shorter than usual and may be delayed as I have practice tomorrow.

Nopony seems to be reading my other submission so I'm breaking it up and using it how it was originally planned until I thought it grew too long.

Last thing, if anypony knows how to get something on Equestria Daily, please let me know. Do they find stuff and put it on or do you submit it to them and hope they put it on or what? I wanna see if I can get this posted on the same page as Cupcakes and all its sequels/alt endings.

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