STRANDED Ch.8

Twilight charged with all her might, horn first, ready to impale the first pony to stand in her way. Rarity so happened to be ahead of the group and made ready for the inevitable impact, placing her head down and prepared to defend her friends no matter what happened. As Twilight grew closer to the group, she let out scream. Mere hooves away, she jumped at them with the full force of momentum on her side and closed her eyes.

CRACK!

Twilight's horn was met with the horn of Rarity, who was knocked on her back from the shear force of the impact as the horns collided. Twilight stepped back, recovered herself, and charged again with nothing blocking her path now. She was furious and the anger drove her to run even faster than the last time. The group stood there, stunned as a insane purple unicorn charged directly at them, showing no signs of letting up. The only on that moved was Pinkie Pie and that was when she went to check on Rarity just after the initial impact.

The crazed unicorn's path was lined directly at Fluttershy, who seemed determined to let her fear best her and didn't even lift a muscle. Twilight slowly closed in. She came closer and closer. Her pace quickened. She closed her eyes. "NOOOOO!" screamed Pinkie Pie as she jumped towards the fear-stricken pegasus in hopes of saving her soft-voiced friend.

BAM! Direct hit.

Twilight opened her eyes to see who she had hit. She looked and what she saw nearly ripped her heart out as she stood there, shocked, to see that who she had impaled was neither Fluttershy nor Pinkie Pie, but the small orange body of the young filly Scootaloo...

Apple Jack was taken aback. "Wha- what do ya mean the one for Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie just sat there, pointing in the same direction. "ANSWER ME!" Apple Jack angrily roared. Pinkie didn't budge. Apple Jack was lost in confusion. "You're not gonna tell me, are ya?" Pinkie still sat, still pointed. "Fine, be that way." Apple Jack remarked as she stomped off in the direction Pinkie Pie was pointing.

She hadn't walked but maybe ten steps before she heard a loud scream. "That sounds like... TWILIGHT!" Apple Jack turned her course and headed straight for the Ponyville library in hopes to find out what had caused that horrible scream. There, in front of the library, sat the purple body of Twilight Sparkle, crying. Apple Jack slowly approached her mourning friend. "Twilight you O.K.?" she asked, keeping her distance.

"NO, STAY BACK!" Twilight lashed in a paranoid voice, hiding her face from her friend Apple Jack.

"Sugarcube, is everything alright?" persisted Apple Jack, keeping her distance.

"NO! The pressure. The pressure is too much!" Twilight screamed, still turned from her friend. "The stress, the stress, and the...the..." she paused. "The death..." Apple Jack felt a whole new feeling of guilt wash over her for some reason.

"Sugarcube, what's the matter?" Apple jack said, coming closer to the obviously distressed Twilight. Twilight saw this and reacted almost instantly by turning and revealing the crazed maniacal look of a pony that has lost every little connection to sanity she ever had...

Scootaloo looked down to see the head of Twilight up against her chest, her horn just under her right ribs. She wanted to let out a scream, a yell, even a whimper to help cope with the pain she was feeling, but the impact had left her breathless. Twilight realized what she had just done and pulled her head back slowly from the small, fragile little filly's body as it crashed on the ground with a loud thud. Motionless. Twilight suddenly teared as she stomped her hoof into the ground in frustration.

Moments passed before young Scootaloo was finally able to gasp a breath of air before she pulled her front two hooves up and held her wound tightly. She was bleeding, badly and her ribs were doubtlessly broken if not shattered, to say the least. No telling what the impact had on her lungs. As she lay there, holding the wounded area, she let out a low grunt of pain. Twilights anger slowly diminished as she started to come back to sanity.

She lifted a hoof to help the filly when, suddenly, BOOM! She was tackled to the ground by Rarity, who held her iron grip no matter how hard Twilight tried to struggle. She was slowly loosing consciousness as one of the hooves was placed at her neck, bearing down as to make her pass out. Her vision was fading. The last thing she saw before blacking out was the sight of little Scootaloo's eyes growing wider and wider as her breaths became faster and shorter...

Apple Jack stepped back as her lunatic friend slowly walked towards her, step by step. Twilight Sparkle had put up a force field around them as she slowly made her way to the orange work pony with a menacing grin across her face. The field slowly closed in closer and closer and eventually was right behind Apple Jack, pushing her towards the crazy unicorn who's beady eyes and devilish grin struck her with fear down to the bone.

The field stopped when the two ponies were within striking distance of each other. Apple Jack's blood ran cold. Minutes passed and nothing happened. Apple Jack grew uncomfortable and decided to try and take a step back.

FLASH!

Twilight appeared right next to Apple Jack as threw a punch at the work pony. Apple Jack was fast though. She quickly saw the incoming blow and jerked her head back, only taking a hoof to the side of the nose. She rolled forward in an attempt to dodge anymore attacks the crazy unicorn might throw. Apple Jack saw no way out of this other than to fight.

There she stood, her world fading to black around her, facing the crazed mind of one of her best friends, and there in the darkness, with nothing around her but the pitch black closing in, she screamed...

"Scootaloo!" Yelled Sweetie Bell as Twilight rammed into and impaled her dearest friend. Everypony watched in horror as poor Scootaloo was stricken down in one swift motion. Rarity quickly regained herself and tackled the psychotic purple unicorn to the ground and pushed her hoof to her neck. Pinkie and the others suddenly swarmed around helpless Scootaloo as her breath became faster and her gasps for air became shorter.

"SOMEPONY GET SOME LEAVES! We have to cover this wound up!" yelled the frantic pinkie Pie. Sweetie Bell was the only one to respond seeing as Fluttershy was crying over in the distance and Apple Bloom was still in shock. "Does anypony know CPR?" They fell silent.

"ANYPONY!" she screamed.

"Apple Jack knows CPR." stated young Apple Bloom.

"THEN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! GET HER!" roared the red hot angry Pinkie. Apple Bloom quickly turned and dashed off into the jungle alone.

"I... better go with her..." Sweetie Bell stated as she turned to follow her friend.

Pinkie cried as she sat there looking into the eyes of poor, little Scootaloo as she was still gasping for air to hold on to life. "Don't worry..." Pinkie softly cooed. "We may have lost Dash, but I won't be responsible for the death of a filly." Pinkie sat there with the gasping Scootaloo and held her tight in her arms as if to grip her from the cold hands of death. She teared up. "Why did I ever bring you guys..."