The yellow one flew up to me with an angry expression.

"Undo what you did to Rainbow Dash mister!"

She made her eyes bigger, giving me what I found in her mind was called 'the stare'. I grinned internally and decided to have some fun with this.

"GACH! NO! NOT-THE STAAAARE! YECH!"

I spasmed in midair, spinning my head around.

"Undo it NOW!"

She made her eyes bigger. I made my head explode. She went limp in midair with a blank expression. I didn't really explode my head mind you, I just messed with her head so he thought it did and then made my head invisible. I decided that while the pink one sobbed and ran away from skittles punching her I would deal with butterball. First of all rewrite her memory. Something about them blasting me and Dissy with the hellements and then winning with the 'magic of friend-shit!' then a scenario from Sunbutt's mind. The reformation of Discord. Yadda yadda, Discord brought over to ponyville, butterball being made to reform him, and scene! I teleported me and the three hellements to the cottage of the butterball. I summoned up a cheesecake and wrote a message telling Dis not to come near the cottage and what I was doing. I looked up and smiled as a Discord puppet with a six pack appeared in front of me, sent by Discord. I shook my head with a smile. I plopped the puppet in front of butterball after unfreezing her and then making her mind fill the blanks like the others.

"Well hello Fluttershy!"

She looked up at him with a smile, now oblivious to all the chaos around her.

"Why hello Discord!"

This one was a lot simpler to break, whip up a few events of them being friends, Discord being fully reformed, and then CRACK THE WHIP! I gave the Discord puppet a sneer and plopped a bunch of torn up and fake-blood covered animal dolls. I pulled around some magic and made a puppet of myself appear in the middle of it all. I could've actually been down there but I had to stay back to control it all, and thus Puppet Freddy. I decided to tweak her memory of me and then made the puppet me look a bit like the marionette from the actual game, just as an artistic change. I made puppet me laugh in an evil and overexaggerated manner.

"HA! You little fool!"

I made puppet me start slowly walking towards her, and puppet Discord float around her in the air.

"Did you really think Discord was your friend? Honestly? HA! Please! This whole thing was set from the beginning! We both knew you'd be the one most willing to take the risk on his behalf, and played you like a GODDAMN FIDDLE!"

Puppet me leaned in to her when she was backed against a tree.

"And you know how we're gonna reward you for being so useful?"

She tried to stutter out a fearful response while puppet me poked her chin. Puppet me's eyes glowed white and his teeth grew a tad sharper.

"IMMA KILL ALL YOUR LITTLE ANIMAL BUDDIES!"

Before she responded I expanded the illusion, making her see the entire forest rip up from the ground, and an army of little animals float towards puppet me in a line. I sealed her jaw with magic, keeping her from speaking or screaming. Puppet me crushed one of the animals.

"MM_MMH!"

Puppet me leaned towards her when she made that sound.

"Whassat Lassie? You want me kill some more? Well alrighty then!"

All of the puppet animals flew forward and crushed them all into a messy ball of puppet parts. You can figure how her mind would process this. Puppet me slammed the ball on her and leaned in as she sobbed.

"Issat better?"

She had collapsed on the ground, sobbing.

"Yay! The butterball is happy! Anyway, thanks for being so kind to Dissy while he was all weakened! We'd never have been able to do this without ya!"

Puppet me and Discord snapped their fingers and warped up to me, where I shrunk them and placed them in my chest with the other puppets. You'd be surprised how often having puppets of important people and ponies comes in handy! Anyway, the next step for butterball was a simple matter of simulating a few more years of her life under the reign of the ultra-violent Discord and Freddy represented by my puppets. I didn't actually simulate this, merely implanting the experiences in her head. After a few years she came to the conclusion in her mind that every time she showed kindness to anyone, that it always bit her and her friends in the back. It was a surprisingly easy matter to make her brain make the connections that 'kindness=complete death of all good thing in life'. After that, the final item in the recipe for butterball madness, shake well and serve. I snapped my paw, removing all of my influences from her and plopping her down with her friends. The pink one rushed to her, sobbing.

"Fluttershyhyhyhy~! Dashie's gone loco~oooo!"

Butterball looked at her with a blank expression for a moment, before her eyes flicked black and she sneered at the pink one.

"Why are you asking me to help? It's not like I'm your friend or anything! Honestly, you don't have any friends! I don't even know why we've put up with you this long!"

The pink one gained a blank expression for a second and then ran away, sobbing. She only made it a foot before skittles caught up at hyperspeed and stopped midair, delivering all of her momentum into a single blow to the pink one's face. I whistled as she went flying a few feet before hitting a tree. I cast a little magic to make a rainbow falcon appear around skittles' hoof as she hit.

I yelled out above the sobbing pink one.

"RAINBOW PAUNCH!"

The pink one stood up and started running away as she sobbed. I looked over as butterball and skittles started fighting. It seemed that the two had ended up clashing. I smiled darkly. My work was almost done.

Laughter once heard by all, now was silent.

Kindness one freely given, betrayed and exploited viciously. Next Chapter: Chapter Six: Laughter, Kindness, Loyalty Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 15 Minutes