>It’s funny, how everything can be seemingly going great with the feeling that nothing could ever go wrong.
>Then in an instant, everything you’ve loved and known about is gone or broken into a hundred pieces.
>After, Fluttershy, the little yellow pegasus that had made your life a living hells last attempt to force you into having sex with her, you’d found a place to escape to, Hollow Shades, and got a semblance of a life together over the past two months.
>It had weighed heavily on your mind about leaving your friend and crush, Twilight, back in p0nyville, but your new life and friends here in Hollow Shades had helped you ease the pain. 
>Moonlight had taken you in when you needed it most. Even though your first impression of her was less than stellar you two soon grew to be close friends.
>She had introduced you to her childhood friend, Pull Tab, and all three of you together had made you happier in two months than you had been in the years of living in P0nyville
>But now Fluttershy had followed you from p0nyville and kidnapped Moonlight.
>And you were going to get her back, no matter what.   
1/11

>Dropping the note, you ran out the door back into the snow.
>You had to find Moonlight as quickly as possible! There was no telling what Fluttershy might do to her. 
>You had bigger problems than just worrying about yourself now, and to make matters worse you had no idea where the old steel mill even was!
>But you knew someone who probably did, and she wasn’t that far away either.
>Sprinting as quickly as humanly possible, you ran into town toward a small building in the center of town.
>It had taken several minutes for you to get there, and your legs were starting to get very tired from the constant running.  
>Opening and slamming the door, you huffed and puffed while looking at the empty front desk and saw a door to your left. 
>Bursting through it quickly, you ran to the sound of two mares talking. 
>“I-I just don’t know what went w-wrong. H-he was there one minute, but then the next he was g-gone!” A familiar sounding mare sobbed from the second door on the right.
>She had to be there! You practically kicked in the door.
>Pull Tab held a clipboard with her wing, and a sobbing and confused looking Cascade Falls both looked at you. 
>“What are you doing, Ano-”
“No time! Where is the old abandoned steel mill?” You interrupted. 
>She was even more confused than before, and you didn’t have time for a long drawn out explanation.
“Fluttershycameback,kidnappedMoonlight,andtookhertotheabandonedsteelmill!”  You said, as quickly as Pinkie Pie hopped up on an energy drink.
>“What? Anon you’re not making any sense.” Pull Tab said completely lost at your absurdly fast explanation.
>You started to get angry, but that’s when Cascade flew up into your face with angry tears in her eyes.  
>“You have the nerve to come back after you left like that?!”
>Grabbing Cascade, and pulling her close. You began,
2/11

“I don’t like being hit on by random mares. I DON’T like pegging. I think you are a pretty mare, and I think you need to get over me and move on!” You almost shouted in her face.
>Dropping her, you looked back to Pull Tab who eyes were now the size of dinner plates.
>The intensity of your glare nearly had her wetting herself. 
“Where. Is. The. Steel. Mill!?” You asked, through clenched teeth to contain your fury. 
>“O-over past the mushroom mines where you work. Anon, you’re scaring me. Please tell me what’s going on.”
>Why not? You’d already wasted precious time. 
“Fluttershy kidnapped Moonlight, and took her to the steel mill.” 
>She gasped. Finally she realized how serious the entire situation was. 
>“I-I’ll go with you-”
“No, I need you to go get the local guard and the paramedics.”
>“She’s my friend too, Anon. I need to be there for-”
“You need to listen to me. I need to finish this without anyone else getting hurt.”
>“But-”
“Goddammit Pull Tab, the more time we waste talking about it the less time I have to get Moonlight from that psychopath!”
>She opened her mouth to protest, but couldn’t do anything but nod her head in acceptance. 
>As quickly as you came, you ran out the door toward work and Moonlight.
3/11

>Opening your weary eyes and looking around, you shivered. You were suspended from a rope into a freezing pool of water.
>Looking around, you saw that you were in an old ruined factory that had a rather large and deep pool of water, in the floor. 
>Wings and legs tied tightly to your chest, you could barely move your body, let alone your wings to fly and attempt to break free.
>The water was nearly up to your belly, and it was so very cold… Your teeth chattered, and extremities felt numb to the cold.   
>You had to get out of this quickly before hypothermia set in, and fast. 
>Struggling, you only managed to wiggle and splash around in the deep pool of water.
>Breathing harshly into the cold air, it burned your lungs as you rested. 
>Out from the shadows came a soft and evil hiss,
>“It’s useless.” 
>All the hair on your neck stood on end, and you twisted your body so that you could see your kidnapper. 
>A small yellow pegasus with a long pink mane walked into your field of view. 
“Please let me go!”
>“Shut up you little hussy, don’t think I don’t know that you and Anon are a couple.” She stomped over to the edge of the pool. 
>“He is MINE! And you cannot have him!”
>You couldn’t help but understand why Anon had left P0nyville now. 
“We’re not a couple you fucking lunatic!”
>But you kinda wished that you two were something…
>Fluttershy snorted, and stomped her hoof. 
>“Don’t you try and fool me you harlot! I saw you two drinking alcohol, and having a date!”
>It was getting hard not for your teeth to chatter while listening to her nonsensical ranting. 
“L-look, h-having wine with dinner d-doesn’t mean it was a d-date! You’d stuttered from the cold as it got to the point to where it was hard to stay still.
>“Stop trying to trick me into letting you go! We’re going to wait right here until Anon comes, and then he’ll fall in love with me, and your evil bat p0ny succubus spell will wear off of him.”
4/11

>It was getting hard to pay attention to her as your thoughts could barely keep up. 
“Wait ut? I’m no sugubis.”
>“Yes you are! You entranced Anon right before he left P0nyville to come live here with you, so you could seduce him further!”  
>You tried to move your hooves again, and the ropes budged a little. Maybe you could get free!
>Fluttershy continued her insane raving for a few minutes more while you slowly tried to free your hooves and wings. 
>You just had to keep her talking until you could get your wings free. 
“wen dit you meet Anon?” Your words slurred wildly from the exhaustion and cold.  
>“I met Anon when he first came through the portal. I was the first pony he ever met you know! We’ve have a special bond from that day forward!”
>Fluttershy walked around the pool talking about how much she loved Anon, and would do anything for him. 
>A small bit of rope got loose enough for your right wing to slip out unnoticed by the insane mare telling you all about how Anon and she were going to be married. 
>Fluttershy turned her back to you for just a second. It was now or never to act, Moonlight.
>Sluggishly, you flapped your wing until you lifted yourself out of the pool, but this escape attempt hadn’t gone unnoticed. 
>“HEY! WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING?”
>Fluttershy fluttered up and shot at you like a speeding butterfly. 
>Colliding with you, all the energy you had left was gone, but at least you had gotten out of the pool for just a few precious seconds.
>Defeated, she dropped you back into the pool with an icy splash.
>“Ha, thought you could escape huh?”
“I’m goin die…” You spoke, but it barely came out as nothing more than a loud whisper. 
Thump. Thump.
>“Stop trying to trick me into letting you go! I know perfectly well that bats are cold blooded, and can survive for hours in cold environments.”
Your eyes began to feel heavy, and it took all you had to just stay focused on not going to sleep.
“Please…”
Thump…Thump…
5/11

>You are Anon.
>Making your way to the stream, you tripped on several fallen branches concealed by the snow, but quickly recovered. 
>Moonlight was counting on you to save her, and you were going to do whatever it took to do just that.
>Reaching the stream, there was only one way the steel mill could have been. 
>Upstream you went, hoping it was the right direction. 
>You’d been running for over an hour on pure adrenalin, and you were starting to feel the effects.
>However you had to push on. You couldn’t slow down now.
>“No! Stop trying to beg your way out of this!”
>You knew that psychotic voice from anywhere, and for this one time you were glad to hear it so close.
>Running, jumping, and hopping over fallen trees and snow, you finally came upon what looked like an old ruined mill of some sort.
>The roof of the mill was long gone with very little walls still remaining. 
>Crouching and sneaking up to a ruined wall, you looked over and saw Moonlight tied up and waist deep in a pool of freezing water. 
>There was telling how long she had been in there, but her lips and hooves were blue. 
>You needed a plan, but you didn’t have one and Moonlight couldn’t wait any longer for you to come up with one.
>So you did the only thing you could think of at the time. 
>Standing up, you walked out and over to the two mares.
>Fluttershy’s wings shot up when she saw you. 
>“Anon!” Quickly, she flew on over to you, and hugged you around the waist.
>“I missed you so much! I thought that something awful had happened to you, but it was only this batp0ny whore that tricked you!”  
 >That WHORE was your friend…
>Knocking Fluttershy out of the way, you ran over to the suspended Moonlight.
6/11

>She was weak, too weak to stay a minute longer.
>“A-Anon?” Moonlight said faintly, as you jumped into the pool. 
>Moonlight was held over a deeper portion of the pool, but with a little reaching you were able to reach her. 
>Getting at the ropes that held her, you started trying your best to untie her.
>Fluttershy tackled you into the shallow water, splashing your entire body with freezing water that made you flinch.
>“What are you doing?!” Fluttershy asked, hysterically. You’d never seen her like this before. 
>All the other times she’d tried to get to you she’d always been calm and rational (well, as rational as she could have ever been.)
“You’re killing her you fucking idiot!” You spat into her face.
“What? No, I’m breaking her spell on you!”
>You didn’t have time for her hysterics. Pushing her off and getting up, you waded back over to Moonlight.
>“ANON!”
>What the fuck did she want now?
>Turning, you saw Fluttershy holding a knife with her wing. Things had just taken a whole new level of crazy.
>“I love you, Anon! I don’t want you to be under her spell anymore! W-we can both go back to P0nyville and live together happily!”
“No. I’m not going back. I’m never going back there, especially with you!”
>You turned and began making your way back to Moonlight, but Fluttershy had other plans.
>With tears rolling down her wet and matted yellow cheeks, Fluttershy took her knife and severed the rope holding Moonlight into the pool.
>Moonlight couldn’t swim in her state, and you weren’t close enough to grab her. She started to sink.
>Turning to Fluttershy while stripping your clothes off in order to dive for the sinking Moonlight, you shot her a look of concentrated hatred.
“You fucking bitch.”
>“I did it for US, Anon!”
>Without another wasted second, you dove into the icy waters, kicking and swimming your way to Moonlight.  
7/11

>Grabbing her and pulling her close, you swam up to the surface of the pool.
>Breaking the surface, you made sure her head was firmly above the water until you both got to the edge of the pool. 
>You rolled her out of the pool and grabbed your nearby jacket that hadn’t fallen into the pool. 
>Wrapping her into the jacket, you rubbed her cheeks, and held her tight trying to warm her up. 
“Come on, Moonlight! Talk to me!”
>No response, but her breathing was shallow. You had to get her to the hospital immediately.
>Picking her up in your arms, jacket still wrapped around her you took off into the forest.
“Don’t worry Moonlight, I’ll get you there. I’ll keep you safe. Pull Tab is going to have help there when we get out of the forest.”
>Following the stream, you got close enough to where you could see the building to the mine where you worked at. 
 “We’re almost there, Moonlight. Hold on a bit longer for me, okay?”
>You looked down, and saw her blue face and it tore at your stomach to see her in such bad shape. 
>“ANON!” Fluttershy yelled, as she collided with you at top speed.
>Moonlight slipped out of your grasp, and landed harmlessly in the white powdery snow.  
>Fluttershy stood atop of you, and looked down on you with anger in her teary eyes.
>“I love you, Anon! Why don’t you care about me? Why can’t you just accept my love? We’re made for each other.”
>Something deep inside of you strained until it sheared in two. You’d never felt so angry in your entire life.
>Not even when she’d tried to force herself upon you, not even when she bugged you about your sexual fetishes, and not even when you had to leave your home because of her, but now... 
>Balling your fist as hard as you could, you put every ounce of strength into a single punch that connected just barely below her right eye. 
>You had never hit a p0ny in anger before. She was knocked back into the snow, but you weren’t finished. 
>No, you were just getting started.
8/11  

>Stepping on one of her wings, you pinned her to the ground as she struggled and cried from the hit she’d deserved for so long.        
>You looked down upon her struggling, and you only felt contempt.
“I hate everything about you. I hate the things I’ve had to do just to avoid you. I hate everything you’ve ever done to me. I hate you, Fluttershy. I will never be ‘yours,’ and we are NOT made for each other. If I ever see you in Hollow Shades again, I’ll kill you.”
>The look of fear in her eyes provided you all the answer you needed. 
>You began to walk away, but stopped and turned back to the bruised and crying pegasus one last time.
“Tell Twilight I said, ‘hello.”
>And with that you snatched up Moonlight and left Fluttershy a mess.
>Still burning with fury from speaking to Fluttershy earlier, you held Moonlight tight as possible as you jumped over the last fallen tree and arrived at the mouth of the mine. 
>But, there was a problem. No one was waiting for you. There wasn’t a single pony, and the closest hospital was over a mile away.
>Goddammit Pull Tab… 
>You looked down to your friend barely hanging on. There was no way that she’d last that long in this weather in her condition.
>But dammit, you owed her enough to try!
>Sprinting, you were having a hard time keeping enough energy to continue at your pace, but you had to keep on running, for her.  
>“Need a lift!?” You heard a mare shout from behind you.
>Looking over your shoulder, you saw Pull Tab with a chariot pulled two guards. 
>Without a second thought you stopped and ran toward it and practically jumped over the guards into it.
“Go! Go! We have to get there now!” You yelled at the guards.
>You slid down the side of the chariot and held Moonlight close as the guard, who flew much faster than you could run, took you all to the hospital.
9/11

>Opening your eyes slowly, you found yourself in a warm and comfy bed, and heard the slow beep of a heart monitor.
>Ugh, you felt as if you’d flown a round trip around Equestria wrapped in a vest made of cold packs. 
>Rolling your head you saw Anon sitting in a chair wrapped up in a blanket fast asleep, with a bit of drool leaking from his mouth.
>Pull Tab was laid out on the couch, snoring as usual. There wasn’t any way you’d be able to sleep this way. 
>Getting up and turning off the heart monitor, you quietly snuck to the door intending to get some fresh air from the stuffy room. 
>This must have been the dead hours of the hospital because you barely saw anyone walking around, and the attendants watching the monitors were both playing games.
>Needless to say, no one saw you leave down the hall toward the snowy white outside. 
>You don’t even know why you did it, but you took off your patient’s gown, sat on it to escape the cold, and looked into the starry sky. 
>The Moon was bright this evening. It was weird.
>You had just survived being kidnapped and almost dying, but you didn’t even feel like it had happened at all.
>Disappointed was the word you’d have used.
>The sound of the sliding glass door sliding open had you turn to see who else had come out. 
>Anon stood with his arms crossed looking at you angrily…
>“You should have at least woken me before you decided to leave.”
>Blushing sheepishly, you tapped your hooves together.
“Sorry, I just can’t sleep with Pull Tab snoring like she does…”
>Anon sighed and walked over to you, 
>“Yeah, me either.”
>He sat down beside you and smiled. 
>“We’ve both had a rough day, but I have to tell you something.”
10/11

>Blinking, you wondered what he would say. 
>“Today, I realized that I’d been running away from my past and trying to forget it.” He slid his hand onto your hoof. 
>“But I should’ve accepted it and moved on to better things.” He smiled inciting a blush from you.
“What about Fluttershy?” You asked meekly.
>“I talked to her, and PERSUADED her to leave Hollow Shades and me alone.”
>You shot him a dirty look.
“You didn’t hurt her did you?”
>His smile turned into a glazed expression with a thousand yard stare.
>“No, but I wanted to. I wanted her to feel the pain and terror she had inflicted on me, but I didn’t. I couldn’t let her waste another second of my time trying to save you.”
>He smiled once again, returning to his normal self. Biting your lip, you felt this was the best chance you could get.
>Launching yourself at him, you pressed his warm lips to yours in a passionate kiss, and then broke from it several seconds later with a massive blush.
 “Thank you for saving me from her, Anon.”
>He looked a little surprised at first, but then he wrapped his arm around you and brought you closer to him.
>“Thank you for helping me face my past, Moonlight.”
>He and you rested your heads against one another looking into the sky as the moon light shone brightly and the snow fell lightly.  
The End.
 11/11