"Okay first up, let's set your memory back a few days. Now let's change location again, I'm not really feeling this whole 'cloud' aesthetic here in Cloudsdale. Hmm, how about we just stick with Canterlot."

I snapped my paw and teleported us back, after freezing the skittle pegasus in place and then blanking her mind for the next few minutes.

"There we go! Now then, let's set the stage... First we make a threat on the ground."

I snapped my paw again and constructed a dragon from the stone around the mountain.

"Then some mannequins, how about we make them of you elements?"

The yellow and pink ones looked at me in confusion as I made two more blank pony dolls and then gave them the barest resemblances to them, with barely shaped manes and cutie marks. After that I placed them below the idle stone dragon. I snapped my paw and then made another dummy in the barest shape of another pony, this one floating next to skittle head. I summoned a pair of puppeteer handles into my paws and started moving them. The dragon and ponyquinns started moving, and laid out my scene, the third ponyquinn flying in front of skittle head to unfreeze her. I applied a mental tweak like I did to Celestia. Nothing that would break her outright, but that would change her perception and make her fill in the blanks. To me it was a show I directed. To her, a random pegasus would alert her that there was a dragon attempting to eat her two friends. Skittle would rush down as fast as she could, and then at the last moment when her friends would be safe...

She would fail. Of course it would only be a pair of my pony dolls that got crushed but for her it would be the deaths of her two closest friends. The two in the glass cube behind me yelled out and pounded on their prison to tell her, and I chuckled at the fact that the cube was made to be invisible and silent to anyone but me. I watched and smiled as it all played out. At the base of the mountain, the stone dragon puppet I made moved to the side, and skittles crashed right into the pony puppets of her friends. Normally this wouldn't do any harm, but she hit the two with enough force to shatter stone. As she stumbled to her feet, her mind cloudy from the crash and from my influence, she saw what happened to her 'friends'.

"Oh my Celestia! Pinkie, Fluttershy, I'm so sorry! D-don't worry, I'll get a doctor and y-you guys'll be..."

Tears streamed down her face as she rushed to the sides of the puppets. I smiled and waved my hand at the butterball puppet to add an extra touch. The puppet spoke in her voice and looked at skittles with a hurt look.

'We trusted you..."

Skittles lost all expression tears streaming down her face. I waved my hand and whispered to the two in the box.

"We aren't done quite yet."

The next one was simple, place skittles in the office of one of the wonderbolts, add angry puppet dressed as captain, and stir until well disturbed.

"Rainbow Dash, I hereby ban you from the wonderbolts."

Little skittles was of course, shocked and confused at the fact that she was there in the span of one blink of her eyes and so had no idea what was happening.

"W-what? But I haven't even joined yet-"

"Your friends were reviewed about you joining the wonderbolts, and they told us all about you and all of the awful things that you've done. Here's a report from one Twilight Sparkle, and I quote 'Rainbow Dash murderer two of my closest friends without remorse, and even though she dodged the law she should not be allowed to become a role model to those who view the wonderbolts'. I will not allow for you to join, so leave now before I have to summon the Guard to remove you."

Dash was about to speak when I shifted the scene again, now with a parple puppet. Let's start with an evil laugh...

"Ha! You actually think I care!? Please, I know you killed them and I don't even care. This whole time I've only kept you around so that I  could use you with the elements of harmony, but now that you've ruined that I don't have any reason to keep you around then I'm just going to get rid of you..."

With another snap I plopped skittles in a small prison cell, chained to the point of being unable to even move. Tears ran down her face as I made one final change in her mind, specifically the part that registers time. A few years worth of time passing in her mind should do it. By the end of the time passing in her mind laughter echoed from the box I put her in. Yup, that did it. I plopped the butterball and the pink one on the ground.

"And unveiling, broken for the first time, Skittle head!"

The prison and chains vanished and skittles dropped to the ground, limp. The two rushed over to her side, the yellow one speaking.

"Rainbow! Rainbow are you all right?!"

Skittles shook, a large toothy grin covering her face.

"Heheh..Hehhehehe...You're dead"

She looked at butterball while being held by her and booped her nose. A maniacal laugh echoed out of her.

"PFAHAHAHAHAAAH! WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD!? DID I NOT DO IT GOOD ENOUGH THE FIRST TIME!?"

I laughed silently above them.

"Dashie none of that was real, it was all puppets!"

She turned to the pink one and lashed out, clocking her jaw with a hoof.

"I DIDN'T FORGET YOO~OOOU!"

I smiled. As I thought, all this one took was a couple of moments. After all, as far as she believed...

The skills she prided herself on killed her friends.

The loyalty she gave freely had been exploited, lied to, and finally,

Betrayed. Next Chapter: Chapter Five: Rainbow-PAUNCH! Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 19 Minutes