Meanwhile, Fluttershy was trying to do whatever she could to lose Garble and the creatures that were chasing her. But they were so fast that she could barely even leave their eyesight.

"Why are you doing this? What have we done to deserve this?" Fluttershy asked with tears in her eyes.

The creatures kept chasing after her with intent to kill. She had to do something or she would be just another meal for the dragons and griffons that chased after her. She looked around for places to ditch them as she ran. But so far, they were occupied by the monsters that had overrun Canterlot. Just then, she noticed an abandoned bakery. She ran inside and hid in one of the barrels. The dragons and griffons went inside to search for her.

"Scatter! She's around somewhere. She's the nervous type." Garble shouted.

The creatures separated and started searching for Fluttershy. They searched high and low, opening every cabinet and busting every door to kill the poor, defenseless pegasus. Just then, Garble spoke.

"You know, I heard about you and your friends!"

Fluttershy stopped shaking and listened as she looked through a hole of the barrel.

"You were one of Spike's buddies. He was a nice dragon. He was super irritating and he loved ponies, but he was nice. I happen to be a dragon who admires those qualities. But then you go and do the dumbest thing anybody could every do. You threw him out of your little circle of friends." Garble jeered as he searched.

Just then, Fluttershy heard growling outside her barrel. She looked through the hole and in came three Manticores. Two were regular, but one of them was huger than the other two. Its fur was grey, had scorpion platings on its back, a pair of wyvern-dragon wings on its arms, and two stingers on its tail. It was so gigantic that it made the regular manticores look like house cats. Garble looked at the manticore and grinned as the monster roared its terrible roar.

"What do you say come out and play with our pets? I'm sure you'll get a couple kicks out of what they can do! They could even roast marshmallows if you're extra nice to them!" Garble shouted, laughing all the way as he searched.

Tears started rolling down Fluttershy's eyes as the Manticores started to search for Fluttershy. She covered her mouth to make sure she couldn't make a noise. The Manticores started sniffing around to see where Fluttershy was. Her sweat was a clear scent to tell where she was as the Manticores turned their heads. They slowly walked to where she was and started clawing at the barrel. The huge Manticore told the other two to search for any other ponies in the case that they could escape. The Manticore move the barrel around in a playful manner and started tossing it around violently. No matter how much pain she was in from being tossed around, Fluttershy did not make a sign. Soon, it started chewing away at the barrel. It bit the barrel so deep that Fluttershy could feel the fangs poke at her flesh. But just about when it was about to crush the entire barrel, it heard the other Manticores roar. The huge Manticore threw the barrel aside and ran upstairs. Fluttershy heard a roar from a cross Ponyville.

"Dammit! Oh well. We still have plenty of ponies to hunt. Let's go!" Garble shouted.

The other creatures along with the Manticores followed suit as they heard the roar. Fluttershy got out of the severely clawed, half-chew barrel filled with the trauma from nearly being eaten by the Manticore. She was bruised and slightly bleeding from the splinters piercing her body, but it wasn't anything severe. She shook them off and proceeded to exit the bakery. But before she could leave, she saw a squadron of highly evolved Changelings guarding the street. Fluttershy got into a fresh barrel and hid in it. She tiptoed around them before they could have a chance to turn around. She stood still as they looked at the barrel. They went closer to inspect it further, but then their captain said,

"Grubs, what are you doing lazing about in the street? Our king expects the streets to be cleaned of this horse meat! Move it!"

"Yessir!" the Changelings shouted.

They saluted the captain and flew away, but before the Captain could leave, he walked closer to see what was in the barrel. But before he could open it, he was kicked in the face by Rainbow Dash, knocking the Changeling out. She looked at the barrel and smiled.

"You can come out now." Rainbow Dash said.

Fluttershy was happy to see that Rainbow Dash was safe and sound.

"You okay, Fluttershy?"

Fluttershy looked all over her body and said,

"I think so. But what happened to your wings?"

Rainbow Dash looked at her wings with a pained expression and said,

"I've had worse."

"Where's Applejack?"

"Dunno. I was rushing through the town square to the castle, but this place is Carnage City! There's so many bodies everywhere that I lost count of how many casualties there were!"

"Oh my gosh! I hope Applejack is alright out there!"

"Don't worry. She's as tough as a dragon! She'll be fine. Right now though, we've gotta get to the castle before anymore of these freaks get us."

"R-Right! Lead the way, Rainbow!"

Immediately, they both ran towards the castle with nobody in sight and made it inside. Busting the doors open, it was completely quiet and dark as the doors closed after their arrival. They both treaded quietly to make sure that none of the creatures could hear them. They proceeded to move deeper into the castle and as they kept walking, they could hear rattling and growling. They were both sweating nervously as the growling grew louder and louder. Fluttershy spotted a door and asked,

"Do you think that monster's in that room?"

"Dunno, but I don't wanna be worm food out here." Rainbow Dash said.

They both opened the door and to their surprise, there were survivors inside. They spotted Fancy Pants.

"Fancy Pants?" they said in unison.

"Girls, run! It's a trap!" Fancy Pants shouted.

Just then, eyes appeared everywhere in the room and surrounded the survivors. Upon making eye-contact with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, their blood froze as its eyes slit in deadlock. It started shifting its way behind the door and took the form of a huge demonic-like dragon as it cackled. Fluttershy hid behind Rainbow Dash as the latter stood in the front.

"Glad you two could make it. Now what would you say if we play a game?" it said in its demonic voice.