My little pony is, or at least WAS, a show I grew up to love, I know, a young-adult man that's about to turn 20 being a fan of a little girls show about friendship is weird, but it was something that I had a strong connection to, wait where are my manners, I'm Michael, and I'm here to share an experience with you that took away my connection to the my little pony franchise.
It was like any normal night, I would arrive at my house after work. I had a job as an animator for quite some time, but that's not important. Continuing on, I entered my home, the floor used to have a polished wooden texture, now it's just one loose floorboard after another. I heard that you couldn't even afford a house back then, I wonder how far worse it could've been for me. I would sit on my couch that would groan with the lightest weight out of it, I'm surprised it's still together in one piece.
I grabbed the remote, ready to turn on the TV and relax after a long day, until I got an unexpected call from someone. Someone I never wanted to even think about ever again. "That scumbag." I say to myself as I begrudgingly pick up the phone. "Who is this? I'm busy right now." I ask into the old telephone that has been left by the previous owners. "Michael how's it been? It's me, Jackson." I groan as I hear this. "How have I been? How have I been!? I think you know very well how I've been!" I say, almost shouting. "But that's the thing in the past now, we're still friends-" I cut Jackson off.
"Friends…? Friends? Yeah, I'm sure that friends murder another friend's girlfriend out of jealousy!" I say, coldly reminding him about the reason he was put, and was still behind bars. "She should have been mine, Sarah and I would've had a wonderful life together if you didn't decide to be in her life!" Jack would say in anger. "So killing her was your option? I wonder if we were really friends or if you were just playing along to give her a good impression. And for the last time I'm not bailing you out of that hell you sent yourself into! You can rot for all I care!" and before Jack could say anything else, I hung up on him. I knew that he lacked the ability to feel for another, so it was pointless talking to him.
I then turn on the TV, my little pony was streaming on the TV channel, the episode had the title card reading: "the magic duel" this was one of my personal favorite episodes. I was so excited to rewatch it, but little did I know how things would turn out, if I knew what I did now, I would've turned off the tv and slept in my bed, dreaming about what my life could've been, what life would be like if Sarah was still around…
The episode started with the usual beginning, Trixie obtains the alicorn amulet and proceeds to show off, but the scene where pinkie pie has her mouth deleted by Trixie, instead of reacting like how she normally does in the episode, where she gives us a sad expression, she acts as if she was suffocating as she claws at where her mouth once was. It was like she was trying to rip at her own flesh, desperate for breath.
The other characters noticed this and started to grow concerned, and I don't know if my mind was playing tricks on me or what, but I swore I heard twilight say: "not again pinkie!". Twilight and her friends tried to prevent pinkie pie from hurting herself because somehow, despite her having hooves that didn't seem to be able to grab anything, she was able to tear off most of her fur and skin. As if this sight wasn't awful and disturbing enough, Trixie was also disturbed by Pinkie's actions, despite her being influenced by the alicorn amulet.
Trixie would turn and attempt to leave only for a hatchet to be thrown at her face. Trixie collapsed to the ground, with a maroon red liquid gushing out of her wound, and onto the greenery where she lay. The five friends who were trying to help Pinkie turned to see the body of the unicorn. It was then I saw her face, pinkie looked at the screen from where she was, she had torn a smile onto her face, ripped flesh could be seen from her mouth, if you could even call it a mouth.
Then the screen went black, then it cuts back to the episode being normal, it shows the scene where twilight gets kicked out of ponyville. "What happened? Was I imagining things? I don't think I was imagining it…" my mind was wrapped around what about the moment. I then decided to brush it off and continue on with the episode. It was a stupid mistake, a mistake I will regret later on.
ㄒ乇ㄥㄥ爪乇．．．
卂尺乇ㄚㄖㄩ卄卂卩卩ㄚ？
As the episode progressed, I started to get more paranoid for some reason, like something was about to happen on screen that would catch me off guard. I imagined rainbow dash pulling off her own wings violently while laughing maniacally. If you saw what I did instead of having the luck to just imagine it, you would be as paranoid as I was.
Suddenly the screen shows apple jack talking to pinkie. "But Pinkie's mouth was removed so how would pinkie be able to…" before I could finish that thought, pinkie pie revealed her mouth that she created by tearing at her own flesh. Applejack was disturbed by the scene and started to back away, this wasn't like apple jack, usually she would just barely react to something frightening or threatening. But not here, here, she was frightened by what stood before her.
All of the sudden pinkie lunged at Apple jack, the screen turning black moments before she reached her. There was screaming, and then the sound of something being ripped off, it was later followed by a squishing sound. The screen then showed a dimly lit room, in the middle was Applejack, she was seated in a moldy wooden chair with her hat blocking my view of her eyes.
Pinkie then appears from the shadows and lifts up apple Jack's head to reveal her eyes. Her eyes…
Her eyes were gouged out, with apples in their place. "You know what they say: apples are good for your eyesight! Or was that for carrots? Oh well." Pinkie said nonchalantly. She then tossed applejack to the side and shrugged. "Remember this?" Pinkie asked in a way that seemed like she was implying something. "What did you call it…? Apple eyes!" Pinkie Pie was acting like her usual self, despite what she just did to her friend.
"Now who's next…?" Pinkie asked herself. "I'll think about it, but for now…" the screen then glitches back to the episode. I thought everything was normal again, but I couldn't have been more wrong. Whenever pinkie pie was on screen, her entire color palette was inverted, and this wasn't some glitch, every character in the episode would look at pinkie in confusion, even some background ponies would look at her and whisper to each other.
Something was wrong, obviously, I picked up the remote and tried to turn off the tv. There was an error message that said: "it's too late to stop now". I don't know why I continued watching, maybe it was from fear, or something else…
山卄ㄚᗪㄖㄚㄖㄩ乇几ﾌㄖㄚ爪ㄚ
丂ㄩ千千乇尺丨几Ꮆ？
A third into the episode the screen goes black and reveals the mangled bodies of rarity and flutter shy. Pinkie appears above the corpses, she then proceeds to pick up rarity's body "They surely wanted to give a unique TWIST…" Pinkie then twists Rarity's neck to the point it snaps off her shoulders. "Hey don't lose your head!" Pinkie Pie jokes. But this wasn't a joke, what was this?
Pinkie pie then grabs the point of view of my view on the screen, and turns it to reveal Rainbow Dash unconscious, and strapped to a table. Rainbow Dash wakes up and sees her situation. She thrashes around, trying to escape. The sound of a high pitched whine that turned into a low rumble, is heard off screen.
Pinkie Pie comes into view with a chainsaw. The back area of the chainsaw was covered in Pinkie's bare flesh, as if it was a part of her. Pinkie then proceeds to cut off Rainbow Dash's wings, and then stabs her with the chainsaw in multiple areas.
Pinkie pie continues slashing and tormenting Rainbow until her breathing stops. "Oh, dead already?" Pinkie Pie said in disappointment. She then turns and looks through the screen. "at least she'll make a great cupcake…" Pinkie said in a enthusiastic tone. And then, the screen fades back to ponyville. But… it was empty, with no pony around.
ㄒ山丨ㄥ丨Ꮆ卄ㄒҜ几乇山,
ㄒ卄乇ㄚ卂ㄥㄥ Ҝ几乇山．．．
The screen shows twilight sparkle returning to ponyville, only to find it empty. Pinkie's voice then rang out "Surprise!". Twilight turns to have her head blown off by Pinkie's party cannon."whoops, forgot to kill her off screen…" Pinkie says as she looks over at Twilight's headless corpse. The world around Pinkie turns black.
Pinkie stares through the screen. "You think I don't see you?" Pinkie says.
丨ᗪㄖ几＇ㄒ几乇乇ᗪㄒㄖ乃乇卂Ꮆㄖᗪㄒㄖ丂乇乇ㄚㄖㄩ!
Pinkie Pie then rips out her eyes and tears off half of the flesh on her face. Cobwebs are seen through one of the eye sockets and a pink glow, as what I could think of as an eye, shines in the other socket. Pinkie then continues "I am more than a self proclaimed god, I am more than some creature that forms into the deepest horrors of your mind! I am what frightens you, I am what you fear! I am the horror you all made me into! You wanted something to fear? Well look at me! Look at what I am!"
Pinkie Pie then swings her hoof at the screen. The screen cracked. She continued to repeat this motion, her hoof covered in her own blood from the broken glass. Seeing this, I instantly tried to open the door that led outside, it wouldn't budge. I tried the windows, but the windows were covered in raw flesh. I turn to see a hoof emerge from the tv screen, everything then turns black.
I woke up in my room. "Was it all a dream?"
丨ㄒ山卂丂几乇ᐯ乇尺卂ᗪ尺乇卂爪
I wonder to myself as I get ready for work. I enter the living room. My eyes widen in horror as I see my TV, with a broken screen. I never talked about the incident until now. I searched up to see if anyone else saw the live broadcast of this "episode" but nothing would come up.
I don't know what that event was about. But I do know one thing, I will never see pinkie pie, or the rest of my little pony the same way ever again…
丨爪卂ㄚﾌㄩ丂ㄒ乃乇丨几卂
丂ㄒㄖ尺ㄚ.
乃ㄩㄒ．．．
丨＇爪山乇ㄥㄥ卂山卂尺乇ㄖ千ㄚㄖㄩ尺乇乂丨丂ㄒ乇几匚乇．．．
尺乇卂ᗪ乇尺