The play is now near the end to its second act, and nothing strange or unusual happen yet. Rainbow Dash and Twilight sat near the end of the theater, keeping a look-out at the audience. Twilight, of course, doesn't pass the opportunity to see how her friend Rarity performs. So far, she's been great; Twilight could sworn that someone on the audience actually weeping right now. 'So far so good,' she thought.

Outside, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy check near the rear entranced to make sure no stranger pony walked in unnoticed.

"Hey Fluttershy," Pinkie asked, "I'll go get some snack, do you want some?"

"W-Well, I'm fine. But we s-should do what Twilight told us to do."

"Ah come on, just one small break. I'm sure everything will be fine. I'll bring back some popcorn for you; everything taste better with popcorn, or is it chocolate? No matter, just wait here and I'll be right back."

With that, Pinkie hopped away to the food counter at the front entranced of the theater, leaving Fluttershy all by herself. She felt a bit creep out from the silence hallway; it's strange, she has a feeling as though someone is watching her. She slowly looked around for anything that give off that feeling to her, but that feeling just keep getting heavier each passing moment.

Meanwhile in the backstage, Applejack and Crimson looked around in silence, making sure they're not disturbing the play in progress.

"You can stop staring at me with those eyes, Applejack," Crimson whispered to her, "it's really started to creeps me out."

"Hey, ya are the one started it." She whispered back, "Remember back in Cloudsdale?"

Crimson remained silence as he looked at the backdoor of the stage.

"Look, Twilight is my friend, and she's the most generous pony I know, besides the other anyway. The point is that I care for her safety, and ever since ya started to pop out of nowhere, all kind of weird stuffs break lose. I don't know what's goin' on 'round here, but I know ya have somethin' to do with it. So I'm only gonna say this to ya once: don't you go and used her feelin' around. I can tell she looks up to ya, being her favorite author and all, so don't you go hurt her in anyway, understand?"

Crimson didn't reply; actually there aren't any hoof-step or wings flaps at all: "hey, are ya listening to me?" Applejack turned around, and only see a long dark empty backstage; no sign of Crimson anywhere.

"Oh hayseed, now where did he go?" she looked around for him, only to get a painful smack on the back of her head. She fell onto the wooden floor, seeing only stars and blurry vision of a black figure rushing right pass her.

Outside on the stage, Rarity prepared herself for the final scene. She could see Twilight and Rainbow from far away, and she knows what they're doing. But first thing first, she needs to give her last monologue of the scene, and everypony in Manehattan will know her name.

Since she's playing an earth pony queen, the gold crown on her head conceal her horn away. Even though it's made of paper, she was glad it matched her yellow dress with sparkle gold dust. She sat in the throne, move her hoof to her forehead in sorrow and deliver her line:

"Oh cruel fate, why art thou give me such vision of the future, but ripe it away after many ages go by. Why am I not happy once I found the stallion I have love for so long? Why must I suffer through all those years, only to have found him too late? I ask you why?!"

With one deep breath, Rarity tilted her head down low and complete her scene by slowly lift up a white chalice: "I've been blind, so blinded by the strange vision thou give me, vision of him in the land of Carena, so blinded by what I thought was real, blinded by my own denial. My life, as I live it, has been such a waste, ignoring my royal duty to protect this world, for my own selfish need. So hear me, oh powerful fate, take this life away, so I may start once again, reborn, anew, and finally live the life I was meant to b…"

Right at her final word, a loud thump echoed through the whole theater. Without any warning, up high where the stage lights are, a blurred thing drop until it almost touch the ground. A loud crack of bone tear through the silence, reveal a body of a mare, dress in the same costume as Rarity is but cover with blood, hanging on the rope by her neck. From her sudden stop, her intestine burst out from a long cut in her stomach and spill its content out to the stage below.

Outside, Pinkie finally returned from the food counter to the rear entrance: "Okay Fluttershy, here you…go?"

She looked around, but couldn't find her friend anywhere:

"Fluttershy, are you playing hide and seek? It's just me, Pinkie Pie." She asked, but got no reply. She was about to ask again when a loud scream from inside the theater shook her to her hoof. The scream then followed by a rumbling stampede of ponies, all color and species, ran out the street in terror. Pinkie, didn't know what to do, got dragged outside by the strong mighty flow of panic ponies. She tried to get back inside, but the force was too strong.

Inside the theater, having her face and dress all cover with the blood and stomach content, Rarity have her face twisted with disgust and horror before fainted to oblivion. As for Twilight seeing it from her seat, she can still hear the narration in her mind while her face paralyzed in shock:

And behold, after he looked around the audience, a fallen angel fell from the dark abyss above. With one sudden stop, the rope around her neck crushed her neck in one split of second. The tatters queen dress all in gold, hanging from above and cover in blood, just slowly swings along the wind as a rotting corpse; her intestine burst onto the stage, making another rope cover with her own blood.

Rainbow Dash almost threw up upon seeing the body of a faceless mare dress in tattered gold costume. She tried to control her urges and finally calm her stomach down, but that feeling inside still remains. She looked around and notice a black shadow of a pony stood on the catwalk. It's too dark to tell who it was, but she can tell he have a bag big enough for a body to fit in.

"Hey you!" she shouted. The figure heard her and flew away into the backstage.

"That's must be him!" Twilight told her. The both of them then chased after the figure into the backstage, where they found unconscious Applejack lying on the floor.

"I can get him, Twilight." Rainbow Dash then flew at her top speed to chase after the figure while Twilight tried to wake her friend. She levitated Rarity near her and tried to wake her up as well; if only she got something to wake them up from their deep slumber.

Outside, Rainbow Dash chased after the strange figure all over Manehattan. The figured tried to lose her by flying toward the gap between the glowing sign of buildings. However Rainbow Dash proven herself as a top-notch athlete by easily dodging them all.

"I got you now, murderer!" she shouted.

She chased him all the way out to the island where the Statute of Libermare is place. When the figure turned around the statute's torch, Rainbow Dash suddenly got blinded for a split of a second before she collided right into the torch of the statute. Seeing stars and blurry vision for a moment, she shook herself back to normal and looked around, but the figure was nowhere to be seen.

"Oh horse apple!" she cursed herself from letting the murderer get away.

While all of this is happening, Twilight finally got Applejack back from a big knock-out:

"Urg, my head, what happen?" Applejack rubbed her head and asked. She could feel a lump as big as an apple on the back of her head, she cringe from the pain a little when she felt it.

"You tell me; who did this to you? And where's Crimson?" Twilight asked her.

Applejack tried to remember back to what happen; she recalled talking to Crimson, and then a pain in her head, along with a blurred black figure that attacked her. Few inches away, Rarity also come to from her faint earlier:

"Girls, I have the most horrible dream," she told them, "I was in a show when a dead pony fall from the…sky" she looked up and saw the body again. She managed to let out a soft sigh before fainted all over again.

"Twilight, I don't know how to say this, but your friend Crimson…" Applejack got interrupted when Rainbow Dash walked in; her hoof on her left eyes, trying to hide the pain.

"Oh my, what happen to you?" Twilight asked.

"It's nothing. That flying bat got away when I hit the Statute of Libermare's torch." She replied while cringed a little from the pain both physically, and mentally: she just let a murderer out-fly her, the fastest Pegasus ever.

"What the heck gotten into them?" Crimson huffed when he entered the theater and saw the stage, a chaotic mess of the mare's body hanging from the ceiling "Good heaven, what happen here?"

"Take a guess, Mr. Detective…ow." Rainbow shouted to him.

"How did the murderer escape?" Twilight asked her.

"I don't know; I was chasing him just fine until something blinded me. I bet the torch's light got in my eyes."

Crimson flew closer to the body and heard everything. He carefully looked at the body: the mare's face is gone, along with all four of her limps. Her cutie mark, still remain intact, give him her identity: "No denying it; this is Bella…well, what left of her anyway." He looked at her back and saw the two Pegasus' light blue wings sew on it, evidentially came from Jetstream.

"Crimson, where were you?!" Twilight shouted, "Why did you leave Applejack all by herself?"

"Well, I was behind her when I see a shadow near the backdoor, so I follow it out to the alley outside," Crimson explained, "but when I got outside, it was only a stray cat. I tried to get back in but the door's lock, so I have to use the other door. But then the audience ran out, block me from getting inside."

"Liar," Applejack shouted, "you're the one that hit my head. I saw ya."

"Hey, don't just go accuse me like that. I wasn't even there in the first place."

"Do you expect us to believe such story? I saw you running pass me while I'm blacking out."

"Well you saw wrong. I wasn't anywhere near the stage besides now."

Before they continued their argument, Pinkie Pie rushed in, breathed heavily nonstop; her face sweat, her eyes almost bulge out of their socket, and her expression almost lifeless.

"F-Flu-Fluttershy, s-she…she's gone!" the pink pony tried to said between each breath.

A short silence, enough for a pin drop to be heard, lasted for few seconds: "Gone? What d' ya mean, gone?" Applejack slowly panic, "she's outa be 'round here somewhere. Did ya go look for her?"

"I-I-I did." Pinkie sniffed, "I look everywhere after the crowd pushed me away, but there's no sign of her anywhere!"

"Y-You don't think she's…" Rainbow remembered the figured have a big bag with him, big enough to fit a pony inside.

"Oh no, please tell me it isn't true. Tell me she's gonna be okay. We can't start a party without her." Pinkie slowly loses it; her mane slowly deflated down to her old straight as she slowly turned into a dark shade of pink.

Once Rarity woke up, again, Twilight told her everything that has happen so far, and she fainted, again.

There's no way to stop it now; soon the audience will spread the news across Equestria, not even the princesses can stop it. The secret is out, and everypony will now cower in fear of being the next victim of this craze murderer.

"This is not what I expected would happen," Princess Celestia let out a long disappointed sigh, "Everypony in Equestria will now afraid to go outside, panic will get the best of them."

Twilight looked down to her feet. This is not only embarrassing, but shameful: everything is wrong, everything is slowly decreased into madness, and it's all her fault.

"Don't worry, my student, the Royal Guard will do everything they can to find your friend. But this must end; I won't let anyone of you come to harm's way again. Twilight Sparkle, I am hereby order you to stop the investigation. You may all go home now, and please be careful."

As the girls walked out of the scene, the Royal Guard slowly clean up the stage. Crimson flew pass the clothing rack of the costumes early on; a lot of them still remain intact: the silver armor and…Crimson looked at it closer, puzzling at what he noticed about them.

"Aren't you coming?" Twilight asked him. He turned to face her and nodded his head softly; he took one last glance at the stage before follow her outside.

With that, everything is over. The five mares returned back to Ponyville, exhausted, broken and shatter. The news spread like parasprite; every cities and towns across Equestria slowly spiral down into chaos. Nothing affect the five mares like this: Pinkie Pie blamed herself for leaving Fluttershy behind, Rainbow Dash doubted herself of being an athlete, Rarity wallow in sorrow when her dream is broken, twice. As for Twilight, she just didn't know what to do. Her best friend could be in the hand of the murderer right now, and there's nothing she could do to stop them.

That's a depressing thought, but it wasn't gonna stop just there.