Chapter II

Regrets


"Rainbow Dash has been flying all over Equestra for two whole days..." Twilight began.

"It's simply awful." Rarity continued.

"Where could ol' Pinkie have gone y'all?"

"Honestly, why do you even bother, she was just an annoying pony. All she wanted was fun and partying. Makes me sick."

Right then and there, Rainbow Dash, flying slowly for the first time since she was just a filly, arrived at the little garden they were all gathered in. She looked down, as was Spike and the rest of the ponies. Except Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy," Dash complained, "can't you be less... Gilda?"

"HONESTLY darling," Rarity agreed, "You should really simmer down a little. Pinkie was your friend, was she not?"

Fluttershy didn't respond.

"Fluttershy." Twilight nudged her, and she snapped.

"My name,"she stated, and continued with a mimicky tone. "is not 'Flutter' shy. It is SHUDDERshy. Why do you 4 imbecils not understand that."

"Sugar... It's just-" Applejack insisted.

"ALSO, I AM NOT SO FEEBLE AS TO BE REFERRED TO AS 'Sugar'. Why don't you idiots open your eyes and look right in front of you. What happened to Mrs. Cake? We haven't seen her since Pinkie disappeared. Yet, MR. Cake, is still up and about. If you get off your asses and go to Sugarcube corner, you would see that he has 3 of Pinkie's party cakes, and Gummy still hangs around. You really think Pinkie is gone?"

The other ponies looked at eachother. Shuddershy was right. Pinkie may have been held up in Mrs. Cake's room.

"Well shoot!" Laughed Applejack, "she's probably been playing a big game of hide 'n' seek with us!"

Rainbow Dash wouldn't accept this, "REALLY? Twilight, you're the SMART one, how come you didn't think of that BEFORE sending me to fly around Equestria. I could have been with the Wonderbolts!"

"Actually Dash," Twilight sneered, "I think you rather enjoyed it! Honestly though, flutter-"

"Shudder."

"... SHUDDERshy is probably right, let's look for Pinkie at Sugarcube Corner."

"Oh, you guys go ahead, I need to go tend to Angel."

Everypony was a loss for words. Did Shuddershy just say something generous?

"Er... Shuddershy? You feelin' okay?" Applejack pondered this for a minute. "You are still Shuddershy, right?"

"Well, I don't know how I came up with the name, but it is quite nice, I suppose. Sorry everypony, I need to go home now." Just as Fluttershy turned, Rarity called for her.

"Well are you 'Flutter'shy or 'Shudder'shy then?"

"Call me Shuddershy!" She said with a smile, then blinked, "I mean, if that's not too much trouble..." With that, Shuddershy left and everypony was left bewildered.

"What... the... hay..." Spike whined.


"Aaaaaangel" Shuddershy said with a musical tone. "I'm home! I brought your favorite."

Angel peered around the corner of the kitchen doorway, frightened. He saw the genuine smile on her face, than instantly jumped in front of Shuddershy. About time. His eyes seemed to say. She tapped her foot waiting for it. Shuddershy produced from her saddlebag Angel's favorite treat, which she presented to the little rabbit. Angel took the bagged food, and stomped with it's little paws up the stairs.

"You don't treat me well enough..." Shuddershy muttered under her own breath. Angel came storming down the stairs with a furious look. "What's the matter?" Angel's eyes got angrier as he produced a carrot.

"Those should be a rabbit's favorite" Shuddershy said winking, "I mean, they are part of your natural diet."

Furious, the little rabbit took the carrot and threw it at Shudder's face. Missing. Shuddershy just giggled and turned around, but Angel was prepared for a failed attempt, and threw another carrot, and hit her in the flank. She froze. Knowing he'd hit his mark, Angel put a satisfied look on his face. Shudder turned to look at Angel, her eye twitching. She screamed.

This was not a standard scream, not for Fluttershy, not for Shuddershy, not even for Princess Luna's Royal Voice. It was an ear shattering screech. One of pure rage and sheer terror. Shudder looked at Angel, who was now mystified, frozen in place. Shuddershy, using her wings for support, sprang at Angel, grabbed him, and thew him into the kitchen sink.

"Bath time."Shuddershy said with a chaotic grin.


"Wow amazing Dash!" Twilight said as Dash preformed one of the loudest Sonic Rainbooms ever.

"Say, Twilight you hear something?" Spike asked from atop her back.

"What, you mean like the boom?" Twilight laughed.

Applejack and Rarity laughed.

Dash came down and looked at Pinkie. Her usual, puffy hair was now straight and dropped down. She was not amused. "Dang Pinkie, not even my awesome moves can cheer you up?"

Pinkie didn't respond.

"Fine then, another!" Dash was already gone before 'then' and preformed Sonic Rainboom after Sonic Rainboom.


"Did you hear that?" Clestia asked her sister.

"I did, what do you think it was?" Luna seemed just as skeptical as her sister.

"Should we investigate?" Celestia said, but then her eyes flicked to the sky, along with Luna's. Rainbow Dash's repeated Sonic Rainbooms, had produced the most magnificent rainbow seen in Equestria for 10,000 years.

"Maybe it was Rainbow Dash fooling around."

"No, sister," Luna started, "It wasn't a bang. It was something else."

"Perhaps you're right, but I don't think we should worry about it yet."

"Nor do I, sister. If you'll excuse me, I must go raise the moon now."

"Yes, Luna. I trust you will be coming to the new Royal Guard inductions?"

"Of course, dear Celestia."

Both alicorns bowed at eachother, giving off a faint giggle, and departed. The moon began to show over the horizon.


There was fur and sope piled up on the ground in front of the sink. Shuddershy's went from having a chaotic grin to a blank expression as she strippied the rabbit of it's fur. Once she was sure the Angel was left cold, she tied him down to the faucet with a rubberband and left the house. She returned several moments later with a pair of large shears. The kind used in gardening. She realeased him, only to trap him under her hoof. She cut off one of Angel's ears. If rabbit's made loud sounds, then Angel would have. She only cut off one ear, didn't want the poor bunny dying yet.

She got a couple of tweezers and pulled out Angel's buck teeth. She set them next to the ear on one side of the sink, and the tweezers next to the shears on the other. She turned off the faucet. She tuck the shears again, and cut off the only furry part she left in tact, his cute little tail. She stopped, assessing the tail. No, this isn't right. She thought to herself. She left Angel wallowing in the sink and got a butcher's knife. Positioning it, WACK. she swiftly took off his tail. Angel's eyes started leaking blood, as if imitating the tears that rabbits don't have.

She started wondering when the little thing would actually give way. Dismissing her thoughts, she went and found her self an icecream scooper with a little lever attatched to the side for easing dropping of the wonderful food. She forced the tool through the top of his skull down behind his right eye. Pressing the lever and severing the nerve running from his eye to his brain, Shuddershy took Angel's right eye and set it next to his puffy tail. She outstreched one of her wings and inserted the tip into one of the eye sockets, tickling his brain. His other eye closed. Shuddershy was a little disappointed that it went so fast, but she didn't stop, she could feel he was still breathing. She left and came back with variously sized knives.

She started with the vital organs.
She opened his chest and cut off his blood supply, setting it next to the eyeball.
Followed by the heart came the lungs, and the stomach. She beamed a hint of anger, and left Angel as she left the house.

Shuddershy returned hours later with a small saw she 'borrowed' from Applejack. She cut open the top of his cranium, and the other nerve attached to his eye, and pulled out his skull. Using her wings for effort, she tugged and tugged until it came out along with most of his spinal cord. She sawed off most of the spine, and cut the brain in half. Shuddershy puit the brain next to the heart and lungs.

With a smaller, sharper knife, Shuddershy began working on the rest of his internal organs. Leaving only his skin and flesh. Which she then cut off and put aside, seperate from the organs, ear, tail, and teeth. She gouged out his other eye, and put it with the other. Her workd here was done.


Shuddershy was almost finished cleaning when her timid self returned once more. Unaware, of what she as doing, she kepped walking, holding the tray of meat in her mouth. Not knowing what happened, she got clusmy and tripped, landing face first in the flesh. She tasted the blood. WOW! She thought. It was the greatest thing she ever tasted, she ate it all completely raw, along with some blood on her wing. Once she realized what she ate, she let out a scream.

This scream was different from the other one. It was of fright, and identifiable by her friends and the princesses.

"WHAT HAVE I DONE?"

"Taught the shit some manners."

"STOPPIT!"

"Stop what?"

"Talking to me!"

"There's that backbone you've been lacking. But you see, I can't. I am you."