hi again!
Just a few things first off, the most important being my newest story! Go check it out (physics isn't magic)
Secondly, my posting will alternate between the two stories. So either you like them both or wait longer for the next chapter.
Anyway! Enough of me. Let's get onto the story.
As an after note MY MIND WENT VIOLENT ON ME SO A BIT INTO THE STORY IT GETS PRETTY KILLY-KILLY . THEN AGAIN THIS IS M SO IT SHOULD BE FINE. JUST A WARNING IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT. GO WATCH THE LOWER RATINGS OR SOMETHING
swirling patterns. Mysterious and black.
Fully conscious yet not in the real world. Not Luna... this is something different
Something dark.
The swirling shapes converge, then diverge. Like a choreographed performance. Entrancing and mesterious. Still, I can't shake this feeling of foreboding... this is bad and wrong.
"I know you fight it." The voice chilled my inner soul. But also warmed them, this thing called to the dark recesses of my mind. The voice itself is deep but raspy. Like its old and dangerous.
A strange feeling of recognition befals me. Who is this? Why do they call to me?
Most of all, why do I answer?
"Yes... even now you shirk from your true nature. You don't understand the power you possess. For all your skill... there is more."
The temptation I felt was horrifying. I don't need power. I'm content with my friends. Content with Rainbow Dash...
The things I could do... This thing was offering me a great and evil energy. I knew what it was offering. And scarier still was this temptation. My very soal was screaming for this. It wanted to be powerful.
It wanted to hurt.
I stayed resolute despite the pain. I had already nearly jeopardized my friendship with my best friends already.
The twisting shadows creeper away- dissipating from the realm I was standing in.
During all of this I had been standing still. Forced to wait and listen. I found my hooves and began to walk this new dream world. I began walking, the disappearing shadows making an unintelligible comment That chilled my blood all the same. Whatever it had planned... It wasn't good.
In place of the shadows came a light. Much like the darkness it appeared in the form of twisting shapes. Graceful and gentle.
"I know what powers you possess..." That's really getting on my nerves! I don't have powers, I don't have abilities. I'm just a normal pony with some serious evil complex going on.
Besides, who are these two? Despite my new found ability to walk. I still can't speak.
"I come to warn you of the dangers. Power corrupts and yours more than anything else. But it isn't your nature that controls you but your choices. Never forget that.
But most importantly of all, never leave your friends. My brother is seeking your power. But if you have your friends you can control your powers."
This is the most fucked up dream I've had the misfortune to experience. (Except the one I never think of).
"Sileent!"
A crooning voice fills the world I stand in. Thank God RD's here to save me.
The light vanishes and I open my eyes. The weirdest feeling is opening your eyes twice. The dream felt so real it could have been a memory. It wasn't disappearing either... It actually happened.
I am going insane.
"So Si, I woke you up" rainbow stated smugly. I had completely forgotten about that. I can't even remember if there was a forfeit or not... ah well.
However instead of naming the terms she sat at the foot of my bed like a parent would and said gently.
"Si you need your sleep."
I nearly laughed at the normal request. So many unusual occurrences had made everything else seem so irrelevant.
Seeing my face contort into scepticism her face hardened, determined. "I'm serious Si you need your wits about you and I had to wake you up! I was tempted to argue that it was due to me falling down the slippery slope to insanity and that I was actually having crazy 'nightmares'.
But then I saw sense and settled with a curt nod. Why did she care anyway?
Oh. Yeah, her whole future kind of rested on my back. No pressure.
And that certain moment in time where I would completely doom myself and RD was drawing ever closer. I gulped nervously as we headed downstairs. (RD having to practically force feed me) we set out for our last training session.
It did not go well.
Too wild, too distracted and by the end of it I had RD pulling her mane out. Literally. It made me feel worse. I can't do this. What hope did I have?
"So, you ready for your big moment?" Said a grinning and boisterous spitfire who bounded over to greet us at the rear entrance of the manehatten colosseum. It was the pinacle of grandeur and class. The white marble intricate and ornate. It did nothing to settle my nerves.
For the entirety of the train ride here I had paced. Back and forth. Eventually Rainbow Dash had threatened to sit on me. Despite my urge to continue so she'd do it I relented . I wasn't that desperate.
Yet.
As we trotted down the long impressive ( and foreboding ) corridors spitfire kept up an endless lecture of technique and tips. Rainbow chipping in from time to time which only reminded me of how I was going to fail her.
The sickness started to spread from my stomach. First to the legs so I could barely walk. Then trailing a long finger over my flesh towards my wings.
Not there. I pleaded. Not now.
Finally we reached the changing rooms and I was shoved unceremoniously into a booth. Get all dressed up for the fall. You can remember all the grandeur you once had when your in a gutter. All that came to me when I thought this though was Dash. The time when she jumped around laughing at the double rainboom. Only yesterday... or the day before that. Feels like years.
Either way the fall will be fast. Speed doesn't reduce the inevitable pain.
The costume laid out for me was fine. Silky and smooth to the touch. So light it felt like feathers. On top of this it wasn't the wonderbolts blue. It was black with red lightning.
I would be made out as something special. My breathing quickened and I found myself swaying precariously. "Si?"
I squared my shoulders and put the uniform on. Grabbed the goggles on the hanger and opened the door for Rainbow Dash. If there was one thing to stop me failing. It was my friends.
And they might just be enough.
She grinned happily. Drinking in the new look. Did I see another expression pass her features? Did I just see longing? Definitely wishful thinking on my part. Despite the sucker punch of sadness that hit me then I resolved to sort this for her... and move on.
First I had a show to perform.
My new resolve was strained to its limit as I stood in the wings of the performance entrance. The crowd was wild and excitement. I caught nearby discussions of the mysterious 'guest' who was an old friend of spitfires. Naturally this gave them more to cheer about. And more for me to worry about.
As I sat there, alone as the wonderbolts did their stuff and the crowed roared, 10'000+ strong A stage pony came over and notified me to my impending doom. "ten minutes" he said curtly. I shuddered but watched with awe as celestia stood tall and proud. And raised the sun. Twilight and her friends (including RD who had wished me luck and gone to join them) were by her side.
I felt sick as the cloud I had requested was lowered over the colosseum and filled It with darkness. There was muttering but I ignored it and spread my wings. The music started.
Just fly Si. Do it for RD. And fly I did the terror melting away and with the darkness I knew the only thing they could see was the dark red streak of my vapour trail as I sped into the cloud. They were watching with awe. I hadn't even done anything!
I began to spin, reaching new speeds with my determination. No running from this. I've run for too long and I'm facing this head on. The cloud grew denser and denser. The red trail highlighting the swirling vortex of cloud. In the dim light I noted with satisfaction it definitely looked good.
There were gasps of approval.
But something had to go wrong. Despite the determination, life doesn't give rewards. Only punishments or gives you things to be later taken away. It started with a ringing. Like if a loud noise goes off next to your head. I tried to shake it. The cloud was at its unstable point. Either it condenses into a neutron cloud... or explodes into a boiling rain.
The ringing was joined with searing pain. I couldn't hold. Now the whole crowd was in danger. I flapped wildly, Desperate for someone to help. All the while the buzzing and pain reached an agonizing crescendo. The black haze creeped across my vision. My wing beats grew feeble. And I fell.
The swirling clouds began to twitch and spark. It was unstable and soon the scolding waters would fill this place with screams. As I continued to fall the one pony in my head was Rainbow. Life had ruined me again and she would suffer for it. I heard someone shout my name. Magic wouldn't reach me.
Did I want it to anyway? Even in the edges of consciousness the defeat crushed me.
I felt the ground come to catch me. And finally knew no more.
The laughter filled the darkness. Again it called to me. It called and what was the point in resisting? "Oh. That was funny... poor you. Do you think your friends will forgive you?"
I tried to show my anger. My annoyance. But all I felt was despair. I knew they wouldn't. What was the point in being angry.
"Now with your friends betrayal- yes Silent. They left you. You won't be able to explain how you were overcome with ailment. They will leave you just like everypony else has." The darkness in me wanted to follow him. To serve him.
But deeper was defeat. Failure. I won't follow anymore. I'm not going to hurt anypony else. I'm going to do what I've done every other time
I'm going to run. And nopony is getting in my way. No pony is going to control me ever again no pony is going to reject me ever again. I'll be independent. Alone.
"Silent..." croond the voice. "You don't have to completely leave. Join me and we'll show everypony they shouldn't have used you".
Revenge.
No. I can't go destroying everything despite the ache I get of refusing him. I need something and he holds the key to it. But why listen to the darkness you've feared for your entire life?
No... this time I'm gone.
"You cannot refuse me!" The voice yelled in frustration. "I will have you yet silent night!
The soreness was uncomfortable. But no pain. It was time for me to leave and never return. I woke in a hospital (manehatten from a quick glance out of the window.) The white walls and iron door made it look like a mix between a cell and a ward room. I guess I'm in a lot of trouble. I just hope everypony is ok.
My thoughts lingered on RD.
The bright morning Sun leaking through the window informed me I had slept for a day. There must have been some pretty intense magic going on for me to be without pain.
Well... physical pain anyway. Perhaps they could forgive? But who am I kidding. The defeat was so crushing I felt pinned, unable to move from my failures. The door opened with an ominous creak. Making way to the monarchs of equestria. Celestia leading with Luna trailing behind. They closed the door behind them but the bolt securing the door did move back into place. "Hello Silent. It is unfortunate we should meet at such a time. I might add that my protege has written about you and I seem to remember my sister having previous contact with you." Luna blushed.
Had the situation been less imposing I would have done to. As it stands I don't need distractions. I need a fix to this. I'm not going to disappear without setting this right.
"Princess, about my mistake-"
"I know what happened Si. I don't know who did it but somepony caused you to fall. However I don't possess the power to set that mistake right. You can see your friends but then you'll be taken to court."
The unfairness and the wrongness of this built up a rage I had never felt before. I will ring a way if it's the last thing I do. I might be running. But. Not before RD is back on track. Not before I get revenge.
And this time I'm not going to be merciful. Whoever crosses my path will have a snapped neck.
Luna focused on me then. Searching. The rage was clear as the stars on a cloudless night. If the stars were deadly to look at that is.
Celestia (oblivious to my new found motive) took my silence as shock. She nodded sympathetically, turned and walked past my waiting friends at the door.
Luna stepped towards me, she whispered fervently into my ear "no matter how dire matters seem Silent. Never let your anger control you, for when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you. And one day you will no longer recognise the dark power you have become. And you will not be able to stop it."
With that she turned. Wise words for other ponies. This was a personal matter. Nothing more. Nothing less.
My thought train was cut short as the six ponies who were my only friends in life entered. I had eyes only for Dash. Her face set in stone. Carved by grief and tears.
"Rainbow-"
"Don't."
Just like that. Any chance I had crushed. My heart powdered in her hooves. Releasing the anger to rival a dragon. I will take what they hold dear. Until they're left like the shell they made me.
With those final words she turned. I was lost to her. I was gone but my one goal fed me. Nothing else and when this is over I would run. Forget and move on, like always.
"I will fix this Dash. Mark my words: those. Bastards. Will. Pay."
From the small section of her face I could make out, it was filled with worry. She would thank me later in her mind when she was part of the wonderbolts.
They filed out then. Twilight giving me a reassuring smile. I didn't need reassurance. I knew my objective. It started with the lawyers, come to take me to court. The guard entered first. Confused at the seemingly empty room. When the others entered I revealed myself from Behind the door. Closing it and standing there. Tall and proud. Proud to do this for my friends.
The guard stepped forwards. A smug and cocky grin on his face. I moved faster than I ever conceived possible. The rage giving me new found limits. Not power.
I don't need it.
Driving my hoof up into his muzzle I forced the soft cartilage into his skull. Killing him instantly. The blood on my hooves didn't stop me. Nothing will stop me now from completing my objective.
The cowering pony in the corner shat his suit. What a low think. So cowardly and pitiful, I felt no remorse in stepping up to him and caving his skull in. Why had I never done this? So much easier and the satisfying crunch was too good. My anger wasn't sated. Not until everypony to do my friends wrong pay.
Leaving the blood daubed cell I proceeded across the disappointingly empty corridor and through a window, out into the city of manehatten. I turned towards cloudsdale... and hesitated. I could leave now. Leave and not kill any more ponies. Was that not the moral code I live by?
Was. Until my last hope at a life vanished. Until they used innocent ponies to lite me.
Until I snapped. The faint voice argued. Until I let your anger get the better of me. But no. I am seeking revenge and won't stop until it is done, with my resolve back I flew towards cloudsdale.
Time to make an example and make the rest fear before I finally end them.
The journey left me tiring but still capable. I landed a bit away from cloudsdale, at the wonderbolts training course to be precise. The patrols of pegasi and unicorns with lights guarding the perimeter did nothing to stop me. When the they can't see you, they can't stop you. And I had no intention of being caught.
The centre building was the first and most likely location of my target. No doubt she was holed away in her office. Slipping into the foyer I stuck to the long shadows and ducked and dived under the unicorns beams. I continued to slide my way around the walls of the entrance chamber until I reached the door at the back. On the other side I heard music.
Good and bad.
Music meant celebration, most likely the team celebrating their success. I was filled with thoughts of betrayal at how they could so easily forget me. But quickly banished them from my thoughts. No ponies perfect.
It was also bad however because when I opened the door, despite the music being a few more rooms away the volume would increase and cold alert the guards to an intruder.
I needed a loud enough noise, but one that probably would happen and wouldn't raise suspicion. My eyes settled on a chair to my left. Wooden and old looking where ponies might wait for an appoinent. The leg of this one was broken.
Perfect.
I quickly swept the broken leg from under the chair before charging through the door at exactly the same time the chair hit the floor. I managed to hold the door still so that the unicorn who shone the Ray of light at the chair wouldn't see movement. As he moved closer to investigate I eased the door closed (thankful it didn't creak) and moved onto my original objective.
The music was coming from the end of the corridor. On the sign it read 'captain spitfire' I guess they were all celebrating in her office. Or the anti-chamber by the looks of it. Luck seemed to be on my side as they had strobe lighting on, blazing out from the bottom of the door. As well as conceal my entrance, when I started knocking them unconscious it would take them a while to catch on.
I opened the door quickly so the strobe would completely cover the movement. I hoped the lighting lasted for a minute longer. Inside were the wonderbolts, evident by the uniforms the still wore. I dived into the mass of limbs and quickly set about knocking heads.
I was getting very fortunate today. Almost like it was meant to be! But within a minute there were only a few standing and only two of those were catching on. The rest were still partying hard. Before they raised the alarm I dropped them both with a head knock and proceeded to give the rest of them an early hangover.
I turned the strobe off before I went completely blind and checked the ponies on the floor for spitfire. Also from the range of breathing I concluded I had at least two hours. Plenty of time to talk...
The room I stood in was indeed the anti-chamber and the door on the far side had another plak that said the same thing as other one.
I started towards it but suddenly noticed the doorknob turning. Diving into the dark corners of the room I waited as the fiery maned Spitfire entered the room, that had been full of laughter. I concluded she had become suspicious of why everypony had ceased talking.
She gasped once before starting towards the nearest prone figure. This gave me ample time to leisurely stroll behind her and gag her with my wing as the other circled her slim figure. She started and tried to buck but I lifted her off the ground. I could feel her trying to yell into my hand. Her wings pinned by mine. I whispered threateningly into her ear "now, now Fire... Plenty of time to scream later."
Her body slumped against mine as my wing encircled her nose and knocked her unconscious. My original plan had been to simply hurt. But my rage was too much to be satisfied by such a simple process. Plus I can get some information this way.
I dragged her back down the hall and through a door, Down some stairs. The door had been marked "basement" no sound would reach the ears of the guards. Not when I'd turned the music up.
No one to hear the screams.
When we reached the semi-large room it was basically perfect. A hard chair with plenty of tools on nearby racks, should it come to that.
I found some murky substance in a bucket. Should do the trick. I set Spitfire down and tied her in rope from the tool table nearby. Before pouring the mysterious contents of the bucket on her. She woke with a large audible gasp. Blinking dazily.
She seemed to finally remember her predicament as she struggled against her bonds, yelling for help that wouldn't arrive for a few hours. I stepped into her line of vision, cliche I know but the effect is the same. Her eyes widened as she realised what was to happen.
"Si, si listen I had nothing to do with the decision-"
I cut her off with a deadly calm voice "oh I know that spitfire... But I seem to remember you having everything to do with me being there in the first place." I slid closer and she flinched. It brought me a thrill I've never experienced before. I felt power. I had power.
"I told you no spitfire!" I hissed. "You promised me the threat you made would never happen."
She seemed stricken tears in her eyes and terror on her face." Silent, what's gotten into you! We can sort this out-"
"No!" I screamed into her face. She tried to curl away. It brought that feeling. "I am sorting this! I'm facing this problem! You always said to face your problems and now I'm going to kill two birds with one stone! My revenge and my friends right!"
She just cried silently. "Y-you've become a monster... where is this hate from Si?" I was genuinely enraged now I struck her. Head and wet mane snapping back, she cried in pain. I grabbed her head and turned it towards me with a burning glare on my face. She whispered as in pain and horror. "You ask where the hate is fire! I lose my friends and my chance at life AND YOU ASK WHY I'M ANGRY "
I grabbed a stencil knife from the table. I breathed a bit. No irreparable damage. Just an example and information.
"Spitfire, you tell me where and who your managers and sponsors are and I will only partially hurt you. But I will be getting the information no matter in what condition I have to put you In."
She nodded shakily, her wet mane drooping with her eyes. Defeated. I'm so glad she chose the easy option. It wouldn't have been good if I ended up killing her.
"M-my manager... cloudsdale, jet stream... please Si, don't do this..."
"ANSWER THE FUCKING QUESTION" I yelled slashing a long and shallow cut into her chest.
She whimpered in pain and dispair. It only fed my pleasure.
"We... have four main sponsors..."
She stopped. I grew tired. Slowly I lowered myself to her level. "Don't think. For a single. Fucking second I won't do this." Tears mixed with her soaked fur.
"Las Pegasus, Likety Split." I chuckled darkly at the name. Spitfire cringed But continued speaking. "Manehatten, Golden Monocle...
Trottingham, Autumn leaf,
Canterlot, big bucks... there, you got what you came for... please remember who you are Si... this isn't you!"
I bring the knife close. Caressing her chin with it. "Oh Fire... nopony knows who I am, nopony cared. Now I came for names but I also came for a personal vendetta. I think we should give a little message to those who wronged me and my friends!
With that I brought the knife onto her front hoof, spurting blood she screamed and writhed against her bonds. The sounds echoing through the cavernous depths and bringing a satisfying rush through my body. Revenge is most certainly sweet.
There is a certain art in this... the jagged cuts and the beautiful lament of the tortured. Nothing irreparable, but she didn't need to know that. As she lay there sobbing with feathers covering her and blood dripping from the numerous gashes I had one last thing to do. With a brush I found next to her prone and sobbing body I wrote in the tears of her wounds, on the nearest wall, 'to those who wronged me' .
Cheesy as hell but after that I was still feeling elated. As I saw my handy-work a rather annoying feeling overwhelmed my senses. It was gone even before I left the now bloody basement. The annoying regret was gone along with any chance of reconcile.
I shook my head angrily. If they wanted my friendship they shouldn't have played me like a foal or ruined my only stable friendship.
The anger was too much, it wasn't sated by torture. I wouldn't be sated until every pony connected to this was dead and gone! Spitfire was the middlemare. Nothing more and had once been kind to me. She lived.
I simply walked through the atrium. The dumb guards dead before the loud snaps of breaking necks echoed throughout the room.
Stepping into the night I breathed. Beautiful night would never betray me. Again my only friend in life. I soared into the the beautiful night. Back to cloudsdale for rest and my next negotiation. After that it was my revenge and then... freedom. Freedom from the users and free from the manipulation. To the Crystal empire. It came to me with such brilliance. No one would know me and I could live safely in the large expanse of allies and back roads that riddled the place.
When I finally reached cloudsdale I took refuge on a piece of cloud hidden from view by high walls of a large and foreboding building. It felt like the perfect place with the dark intentions on my mind.
Waking in RD's cloudhouse I stepped down the stairs with the sound of food cooking. I walked through the living room without a care in the world. Rainbow Dash was in the kitchen, whistling in a completely off key way. I walked over and sat at the table.
She turns with a pan in her mouth. When she saw something behind me which caused her to drop the pan and cower in fear. I turned to face the new threat to find myself. Malice and hate evident on my face. I watched- unable to move as he stepped forward and grabbed a knife off the table. By this point I was screaming at the thing that was me to stop!
But stop it didn't. Continuing to cut and carve my once true friend into an unrecognizable pulp. I cried and cried for it to stop. Rainbow still twitched in a puddle of her own blood.
Curling up into a ball I released my misery at what I'd seen.
"You disappoint me Silent..." I look up, understand and charge the pony that brought this dream to me. I stop in place, frozen in my own mind and dream.
Luna walks towards me with anger and determination radiating from her.
"You heard my warning but failed to heed it. You took the darkness within you and covered yourself in it. You smothered the good in you and used your talents in revenge! You Silent Night are going to head my final warning. You can give yourself up, be helped and find peace... or you let your darkness consume you until you can't stop your killing. You will be consumed like I once was. You will hurt and hurt until there is nothing left!
You have a choice Silent. Both of these personalities are you like nightmare moon is just as much me as Luna is. But understand only as Silent will you survive in this world because hate burns all it touches and will consume you."
I thought of all I'd done. Helped and helped. And in return? Burned again and again. No, these ponies who wronged me last will pay. But I will not fall lower than that. I will leave for the Crystal empire and life an honest life. Luna focused on me before lowering her head in sorrow.
"All that you think is revenge. Once done you will never let go. It will spread to anyone who wronged you and eventually your loved ones. I see what you have done and know you are already gone... goodbye for now Silent Night. Know that I will not let you squander your life simply because of the darkness within you."
Once I wake rage fills me as well as indignation, how dare that bitch tell me how to live my life! However I haven't got time to seethe in anger. Looks like some shits from society have found me. More lessons for me to give.
"Hey you! We don't want your kind in this place! Fucking tramp!" I guess manners are the first thing on the agenda. Facing me are three pegasi, trying to look threatening and big. Towering over somepony is really unwise.
I smile, they look taken aback for a second before their leader steps up again, although with a new stutter in his speech.
"H-hey! Quit your fucking grinning and get the fuck out of our city!" This gets really boring really quickly. I've got places to go. Moving with a speed they couldn't possibly fathom I reach up and snap the leaders wings, before slipping round when the others are distracted by his screams and doing the same to the other two. Knocking them out as they roll around on the floor in agony I drag them out of the ally- fortunately these thugs decided to get an early start on the 'terrorising' and there for there weren't any ponies around to see the spectacle unfurling.
Bringing them to the edge of the city I proceeded to throw them of into the under cloud of the city. They could be there for hours with the patrols being stretched like they were. They'd probably freeze to death. Never would have been so stretched if they hadn't chucked me out all those years ago.
Never would have come to this...
The wonderbolts administrative HQ was a rather primitive compared to the training grounds and stadiums they performed in. Then again the dingy corridors and darkened offices were perfect for the task at hand. From what I could tell nopony was alerted to my previous... 'dealings'. Which would make this all the easier.
The entrance was manned by a single Pegasus, dressed in the traditional black suit of a guard. The takeout was easy and the ally dumpster was perfect for hiding the body. Inside was a plain atrium and a bored looking Secretary, writing some sort of missive. She looked up at the sound of the door closing but didn't see me moving around behind her.
I was very grateful of the early morning. Countless booths lay in front of me and door with the plaque 'jet stream'. Stepping past the rows with the occasional bored looking pony with their rear hooves kicked up on their desks. To think I would have become this!
Reaching the door I took a precious second to prepare, and dived silently through the door-a wing beat closing it behind me.
The inside was dingy and had a certain musk that smelt boring. Ignoring further distraction however I focused on the burly Pegasus before me. Jet stream was definitely the manager of the wonderbolts; strong, well muscled and windswept he looked like the guy with experience.
Upon my arrival he looked at me with a mixture of curiosity, anger and (hidden deeply) fear.
"Who in the name of Celestia do you think you are? Coming in here like some sort of royal pony! I said I shouldn't be disturbed!" Wow this guy gets angry... and boring really quickly.
Let's change that. Stepping forward with the assistance of my wings I cleared the distance, vaulted the desk with a flip added in and ended up using his head to force him back off his chair with a resounding crash. Knowing from the one sided discussion we just had that nopony would disturb us I didn't worry about the noise.
Holding his head down with a hoof and his limbs with my wings, I had him incapacitated in seconds. Ignorant thing continued to struggle despite the fact I had him in a lock. "What the fuck are you doing!" His cursing was really boring me. "Who are you?"
This question made me surge with rage. The guy who organizes the routines doesn't recognise his previous act!
Keeping my rising temper in check (for now) I lower my head so my mouth is directly next to his ear and whisper harshly "so, you don't remember your star of your last show? Do you just throw and forget all the acts who fail you?" My anger became too much to hold I screamed into his now shocked and terrified face "DO YOU JUST RUIN THE LIFE OF EVERYPONY WHO FAILS YOU!"
Cowed by my blazing anger he attempts to curl into himself. I keep him pinned.
"L-look errm... spinning flight? I-I can do something f-for you..." he trailed off as my glare intensified.
"What, is my name jet stream? Get that and I won't use this rather blunt letter opener TO CUT YOUR EYE OUT!" By this point he was shaking like a leaf and struggling in a complete panic driven frenzy.
"Y-your name... y-your name is!" I swept the small, blunt knife off of the desk with my wing and held it to the side of his skull. So he couldn't see it but he could feel it. It would cause him more panic this way.
Sure enough he began hyperventilating. "I... c...nt...Brea-" I press the knife into his temple, enough to bruise. "Now now jet... give me my name and we can get to business." He's gasping for air now, serious heart strain here. I guess he's got a heart issue. "Silent Night..." he gasps. Collapsing from exhaustion.
I appear to cheer up. But don't remove the knife from his head. "Good! You'd do best to remember that name. And never cross it again." He nods weakly. I step off him, certain he's unable to do anything more than pant. Pathetic.
Another observation and sniff of the air confirms he's also pissed himself. Ignoring this as best I could, I continued onto what I was here for. "So! Mr Jet stream, if you don't remember my name I'm certain you won't remember the 'punishments' you put in place do you?"
He nodded wearily "if. You want... me to... lift something then... I'll... do it." Utterly defeated. I move over to the D filing cabinet and pull out the file labeled 'Rainbow Dash' as I saw the big red 'banned' my rage bubbled over. Diving to the panting stallions side I put the paper above his head and said politely "and nopony can override your word?" He shook his head "good" I purred. "Then lift the ban and re-recruit her. I will know if you ban her again or don't give a chance." He nodded wearily before taking a quill in his mouth and writing 'revoked' and his signature.
I smiled. I wouldn't be able to kill him now. But it was better to know as long as this husk lived Rainbow had a shot at her dream. "I think it's time to sleep now..." I crooned. The hilt of the letter opener made contact with his head.
In the ensuing silence I heard a commotion outside and a shout of exclamation at whatever was said. Hooves charging for the room I was situated in. Time to go.
Taking a closer look at the walls stuffed with filing cabinets I realised a curtaind skylight provided the only light in the room. Flying quickly up to it I part the curtain and slip through just as the door crashes open.
"Sir! News from the- oh sweet celestia!"
As I slipped through the panes and into the sky, I swear I heard my name escape the prone Pegasus' mouth. I smile at my success. For once in my life I've fixed a problem. The only thing between my new freedom now was revenge. I hope Rainbow is grateful.
And so, turning to face the still rising Sun I flew towards the next target.
And so it began.
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It would've been longer but I decided not to rush this development and split it.
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