Pony Royale Chapter two

A grimdark/crossover written by Filleg. Proof-reading and editing by Brollyhero93.

[WARNING. This chapter is bloodier than the first one, but there's also some comedy that I just couldn't avoid putting in there, so it level‘s out. :) There might also be some plot holes (Ha!) because there's like 4 months of space between the chapters, and there's some things in chapter one that I cannot stay true to. Or something. I don't know. Most of this was written in October or something. Enjoy!

Twilight thought back. Back to when life seemed to make sense, back when her whole world still was solid. She could hardly manage to.

"How could she do such a thing? What sort of monster has the most powerful pony become?"

She thought this to herself, whilst walking through the corridor, that's adjacent to the outside. She heard Celestia calling up Dr. Whooves. She then opened the door and saw a terrifying sight.

“S-Stand back! You heard the Princess! Only one pony can live, and I... I DON'T WANT TO DIE!” Screamed the panicked Rainbow Dash.

She was aiming a crossbow against a panicked Rarity, who in turn held a spoon.

“A SPOON? What is your problem Celestia? Do you think this is funny? Rainbow Dash is going to kill me and I get a spoon to defend myself with?”

Rarity was frantically crying, holding the spoon in the best defensive position she could manage.

“Rainbow! What are you doing? Don't you believe that we can fix this? Like how we got that Dragon to move or how we got rid of the Parasprites, or how we stopped freaking Discord!” Twilight screamed.

Rainbow Dash was rapidly altering focus from Rarity to Twilight. She was crying too.

“Shut up Twilight! Why are you so stupid? Don't you see that there's no way out?”

Rarity took her chance and ran towards Rainbow Dash, with the spoon raised and ready.

Rainbow quickly reacted and pulled the trigger. The arrow traveled through Rarity's throat. Rarity let out a muffled but yet powerful scream, before hitting the ground.

“NOOOOO! What have you done?!” Twilight screamed

“Wha-what have I done... I... NO! I wanted this! I need to kill all of you, so that I can get my life back. I want to work on the weather patrol like I always do. I want to live in my cloud home in Ponyville! I wanna... LIVE!”

Rainbow aimed the crossbow at Twilight, ready to shoot her. Twilight just closed her eyes because she knew that there wasn't any time to react.

But then she heard a shot. She opened her eyes and saw that Rainbow had blood all over her face as she fell to the ground with a tump. She then noticed Dr. Whooves. He had saved her.

While Whooves reloaded his shotgun, Rainbow Dash stood up. She was alive! She grinned at the pair like a mad-mare and threw herself into the jungle.
“That was a close one” Whooves said.

Twilight was just about to thank him for saving her life, but suddenly, they heard Rarity trying to talk

“Twi...” Rarity spoke in a soft and barely audible voice.

“Don't try to talk Rarity... You'll be fine!” Twilight bit her lip after she said that. She noticed the gaping hole in her throat that the crossbow arrow left.

“I'm not gonna make it, am I?” Rarity cried. Somehow being able to speak with her throat all tore up.

Twilight and Whooves looked at each other with concern.

“No, you won’t.” The Doctor said as he pointed his shotgun to the suffering unicorns head and pulled the trigger.

Rarity then was relieved from her pain as her beautiful white coat got colored red in her own blood.

Twilight gasped, but she quickly realized that it was best for her friend, and she's glad that Whooves did it, because she would never be able to muster it. She embraced him in a hug, sobbing against his shoulder.

“We better leave now. Who knows if any more ponies are playing the game?” Whooves said.

“No, wait.” Twilight objected as she pulled away from the hug. “We gotta bury Rarity first!” Twilight protested.

Whooves reluctantly agreed and they then proceeded to bury the white unicorn.

[2 PONIES DEAD- - -8 REMANING]

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“Alright. I am still quite in shock from all this. There's actually some of our friends who really are playing this sick game?” The purple mare asked the brown colt.

“Yes. I have been keeping an eye on Celestia for the last year. She was acting odd already, and this didn't really come as a shock. It is true that Equestria is in a financial crisis, but the normal Celestia would never do this to counter a recess. Something has corrupted her. Anyhow, what we should do now is to find out which our allies are, and which ponies are playing… I trust you Twilight, I have been keeping an eye on you as well, you are after all Celestia's protégé, but I know that you can be trusted in this. Don't ask me why I have kept an eye on you by the way..”

Twilight needed some time to process all this. She finally said:

“Uh, alright, sure. So what's the plan?”

“We'll stay stealthy and confront ponies that we see that we can trust. Remember that some of your closest friends are playing, so never assume they aren't going to kill you.”

The doctor tried to give a calming smile to Twilight, and she repaid it.

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Fluttershy was hiding under a table in an old shed. Even though she had emptied her bladder recently in the classroom, she managed to do it once again now.

She was cuddled up against the wall, holding her weapon high, it was an Uzi. She was panting frantically, wishing for home more than anything else, when suddenly, the door opened.

“Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!” Fluttershy exclaimed as silently as she could, whilst tears fell down from her cheeks. Why couldn't ponies just stay out of her shed?

She saw two pairs of legs right in front of her. The pony stood perfectly still for almost a minute until the dark figure bent down and presented its face.

“Eeeep!"

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… Derpy, is that you?”

Derpy moved closer to Fluttershy. She saw the terror and shock in the poor wall eyed mare's eyes. It was clear to Fluttershy that she was really frightened and lost.

“Don't worry Derpy! I'll help you. We'll survive this!” Fluttershy embraced her in a hug to comfort her.

The two ponies hugged for minutes, since Derpy just wouldn't let go. Fluttershy started to get a little scared by this. Unbeknownst to Fluttershy Derpy slowly moved for her saddle bag and opened it. She grabbed a shiny object out from her bag and slowly moved it behind Fluttershy's neck.

Derpy then released the hug and met Fluttershy's eyes. Derpy's lips slowly formed a smile.

Fluttershy looked really confused; she then felt a sharp object starting to drive through her neck.

She tried to scream, but the scythe had already separated her head from her neck.

A gush of blood streamed out from the yellow pegasus's neck as the body collapsed onto the ground.

Derpy got covered in it all of course, but she didn't mind. She took the Uzi that was lying under Fluttershy's body and planted it in her saddlebag. She stood up and licked her lips while exiting the shed.

[3 PONIES DEAD- - -7 REMANING]

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Bon Bon had been hiding in some shrubs as soon as she had been “excused” from the classroom. She had checked what kind of weapon she had gotten. It was a water gun. She'd have to load it with the water in the water bottle she got with her though.

She had been lying perfectly still in the bushes, in case somepony who might have a hostile attitude would walk by. She was holding a firm grip of the water gun, hoping to make any possible attacker’s believe that it's a real gun, in case of an attack.

But then she heard Lyra's voice: “Bon Bon! Where are you?”, she was sobbing with tears falling from her cheeks. Bon Bon sprinted towards Lyra and embraced her in a soothing hug.

“Heh... What do you got there, Bon?” Lyra asked.

“Oh, it's just a... water pistol... Yeah. My awesome weapon of carnage is a water gun, and it's not even loaded! Ha-Ha!”

The friends were laughing and had almost forgotten the serious pickle they were in.

“So what do you got?” Bon Bon said smiling.

“Oh right. I haven't checked it yet.”

Lyra stirred around in the saddle bag, and eventually pulled out a megaphone.

“Ha-Ha! At least we can get all the rampaging ponies who want to kill us to notice us.” Lyra said while examining the device closer.

“Wait... That's it! Lyra, you're a genius!”

“Huh? I am?”

“Yes! We could... Get all the ponies to us, and nopony would kill anypony if all are at the same place. And then we could make a plan to escape from the game!”

“I'm not sure that's a good idea Bonny, we don't know these ponies that much; we don't know if they'll turn against us. I couldn't live with myself if something happened to you...”

“Awww, honey... But trust me on this. We got to keep on believing in the goodness of other ponies. I'm sure that it will work out just perfect!” Bon Bon gave Lyra a wink.

“Alright, let's do it! But we need a good open space for everypony to meet.”

“Let's go find it the...”

Bon Bon was interrupted by a loud voice that said:

“Good day my little ponies. So glad to see that some of you like to play. Here are the deaths up until now: Applejack. Well. You all know that, but we try to stay formal here. Second is Rarity. She had a rather unpleasant death as well. And the final pony is Fluttershy. Let's just say that she's “on a roll” Ha-Ha! Anyhow. This is the current death zone: B... 3! So please, stay out of there if you don't want to be blown into tiny pieces. That was all, Celestia out!”

Lyra's and Bon Bon's eyes met.

Bon Bon quickly pulled out the map, trying to figure out if they were safe.

“It's okay hun. We're not even close to the death zone. But let's go and find a good place to rally everypony up!

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Rainbow was tired of running. She's been running more than she's used to. She had to run, because Celestia had apparently paralyzed her wing muscles, and she was grateful that she did only that, and not chop them clean off or anything. All that was on Rainbow's mind was killing. She needed to kill to get her life back. She could picture herself flying around in Ponyville, doing all sorts of amazing stunts! But none of her friends were in her vision. They had to die for it to come true.

She knew about Rarity before the announcement that was about 45 minutes ago, of course, but it was good for her to know that Fluttershy was gone too. Not that she could be much of an obstacle, but the fewer, the better.

Her head was full of thoughts, she wanted to try and keep it that way, because her face hurt like hell! The blood over her face had coagulated, and it had a strange blackish red finish to it, and Rainbow looked more like a zombie pony then a living one. She didn't care though, and the pain just fueled her lust of blood even more. She hated everything, she wanted to kill everypony.

However, Rainbow Dash had seen a grayish figure in the vast distance. It must have been Derpy!

“That feather brain will go down easy!” Rainbow whispered to herself, smiling, whilst doing so. She ran towards Derpy while being practically stealthy.

Rainbow came to a stop when she saw the door of a small house close.

“Derpy must be in there.” Rainbow thought. She readied her crossbow, aiming it at the door.

“...”

She had been on standby for several minutes. Was Derpy gonna stay inside?

“Well, it might as well be easier then.” She thought.

She slid down the hill and trotted carefully towards the structure. Carefully opening the door and stormed inside.

It was only one room and there was nopony there. Rainbow was confused. She could have sworn that Derpy was in here.

Before she could react, she could hear the door behind her closing and getting locked.

Rainbow threw herself at the door, trying to get it to open, without any results. She looked out through the small window in the door. She then saw Derpy!

The wall-eyed pony just sat there on the grass, minding her own business. She seemed to be waiting for something...

Rainbow Dash was outraged!

“Get me out of here you foal! I'll kill you!” She was hitting as hard as she could on the door, but still, no effect.

She looked back onto Derpy. She was as blood covered as Rainbow, but she didn't look hurt.

“She must have been the one who killed Fluttershy then.” Upon realizing this, Derpy just got about 20 % more hazardous in Rainbow Dash's eyes. She was wondering what she might be planning, since she's just standing there. But she didn't have to think for too long.

“Hello again my little ponies! Why do you hate me so much? It seems as if you are trying to avoid each other? How can we get any progress with that attitude? So straighten up! Let's get the killings rolling shall we? Alright. Here's the new death zone: D 4. Don't disappoint me anymore ponies... Celestia out!

Derpy coughed to get Rainbow's attention. She watched as the blond mare unrolled the map, and came closer to the window with it.

Rainbow panicked! She was in the freaking death zone!

She looked in Derpy's eyes, full of pleading. Derpy just smiled and said:

“Goodbye my muffin!” And she started to walk away.

Rainbow collapsed onto the floor, it was too much for her.

Suddenly, her horse shoes started to blink and beep. Rainbow got horrified and tried her best to get them off of her.

She bit around her hoof, trying to get the metal straps loose. Her pain was intense, but she would do anything to get out of them.

Soon enough, the beeping had doubled in speed, and Rainbow was still gnawing on her hoof frantically.

Her tears streamed out as she thought about when Big Macintosh died the same way that Rainbow was destined to.

As she gnawed, she managed to get one hoof free! However, it was severely damaged. She'd never be able to walk on that hoof ever again...

She kicked the disassembled horse shoe away as far as she could. In unimaginable pain, she started to work on another hoof, but if she'd gnaw on herself any more, she'd pass out from the pain.

Eventually, she gave up. She lay down, and then started to regret all that she had done. She wanted to un-kill Rarity somehow. She wanted to have done the loyal thing and fight with her friends.

She had a peaceful smile on her face, picturing that all of her friends had forgiven her, and everything was going to be okay.

Then finally the horse shoes exploded and all of the small windows in the building were covered in blood, guts and blue fur.

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Number/Pony

#1 Derpy Hooves [ALIVE]

#2 Fluttershy [DEAD]

#3 Bon Bon [ALIVE]

#4 Applejack [DEAD]

#5 Pinkie Pie [ALIVE]

#6 Lyra [ALIVE]

#7 Rainbow Dash [DEAD]

#8 Rarity [DEAD]

#9 Twilight Sparkle [ALIVE]

#10 Dr. Whooves [ALIVE]

This was originally part of the first intended final chapter, but I'm splitting it here so I can post something new of this story for... about 6-7 months? So expect chapter three hopefully soon.