THE END: disentangle

[fuckyou_chorus]

[ All the threads are visible. You can see them choking the affected, cutting into their skin. Some of them look heavy and wet... with an equally red liquid. Uh oh.

You can cut them and end this madness. Save them and make everything normal again. But be careful - some fated couples won't like you trying to break them apart. ]

((The End. You may

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[flylittlepony]

[Off to the side in a barn, a couple ponies are lying cuddled together, amidst the tangled mess of threads and red stained hay.]

[flylittlepony]

Not really. We're fine.

[skinofapony]

Fine? Look at you! You're hurt!

... It's those threads, isn't it? They're what's been hurting you...

[coreofthematter]

[instinctively curling in closer to Fluttershy--or trying her best to, her threads are getting more knotted together the more she moves]

It don't have anything to do with that. Ya came here 'cause you're jealous, is that it?

[flylittlepony]

Applejack, it's ok, I'm sure Twilight isn't going to do anything.

[skinofapony]

The hay I'm not!

[horn lighting up. let's see if we can snap dem threads :|]

[coreofthematter]

Don't you dare.

[standing up so she's centered over Fluttershy, head down and ready to go into bucking mode]

[flylittlepony]

No, Twilight!

[skinofapony]

It's going to be all right. We'll still be together - we'll still be friends!

[TELEKINESIS IN PROGRESS. she's grabbed at the midpoint of several threads and is pulling them from the middle out, trying to break them without causing further damage to Applejack and Fluttershy]

You don't need something that hurts you to bring you closer together!

[coreofthematter]

No! Let go, Twilight!

[APPLEJACK used TAILWHIP on perceived foe TWILIGHT SPARKLE!]

[flylittlepony]

[Meanwhile desperately holding on to those threads MUST PROTECT THE BOND!!]

[skinofapony]

[it's super effective! Twilight's concentration broke!]

No! Applejack, stop moving - you're making them cut in deeper!

[trying again]

[coreofthematter]

I won't let you come between me an' Fluttershy!

[going straight in for a headbutt this time]

[flylittlepony]

[Which might work if all this motion hadn't caused this pegasus to trip onto the tangled mess, sending the two sprawling.]

[skinofapony]

[the opportunity is right there, and she has to take it.

magic will take too long, and the two of them are - for however brief a moment - immobilized.

Twilight bends down and takes a bundle of strings in her teeth. the taste of her friends' blood makes her gag, but she grits her teeth and snaps the strings with a toss of her head.]

[coreofthematter]

Stop that!

[stumbling back up to her hooves... and then right back down again, tripping over strings and damp hay, sliding slightly toward Fluttershy]