The Experiments of Twilight Sparkle (revised)

Twilight returned from the back room, carrying with her a large cloth covered cage big enough to fit Big Mac in it, and a rather large cart containing labeled containers, and several metal cases.

Her friends noticed that she was wearing a clean, sky blue apron. "Is that an apron... worn by... surgeons?" Asked Rarity. Rainbow felt uneasy again.

Pinkie Pie corrected Rarity. "Don't be a silly big filly! That's a baker's apron!"

Fluttershy spoke, "Oh, is there a beautiful animal in that cage?"

Twilight ignored her friends and lifted the cloth enough to access the door of the cage. Everyone wondered what could be inside. Twilight released what was in the cage. Everyone's curiosity suddenly changed to fear, as they all realized that they were face to face with an enormous, hairy spider, measuring five feet across!

Everyone gasped at the sight, expect for Fluttershy, who was the least unnerved, and quite intrigued. "Wow... I've never seen that type of Spider before." A smile entered Fluttershy's face. "Are you going to teach us how to take care of it?"

"You wouldn't have seen one before. I genetically engineered this beauty." Twilight replied, while petting the giant arachnid. "Would you believe that I used genes from 21 different species?!"

Applejack and Rainbow Dash calmed down a bit, while Pinkie and Rarity maintained an expression of terror.

Dash was concerned. "So, what's the experiment going-"

"AAAAHHHHHHH!" The Pegasus was interrupted by the screaming of a Pink earth pony. The eight-legged arthropod had crawled right up to Pinkie Pie. Pinkie became petrified as her face meet with the giant spider's eight, shiny, black eyes, staring right back at her.

"Twilight! I do not wish to continue!" Rarity yelled.

"Please... let... us... out!" begged the shaking party pony.

"But this is where the experiment begins. Why don't you try to... Giggle at the ghosties. Have your laughter work its magic." The Purple unicorn explain.

Rarity exclaimed, "Twilight, I must protest! This is hardly a decent way to learn about our elements of-"

"G-g-g...g-giggle at the ghostie..." Pinkie started to sing. A glowing light emanated from the container containing the element of laughter. "G-g-g-guffaw at the g-gorss... grossly."

The long fang bearing spider continued to stare.

"Crack up at the c-cree-creepy."

The Spider slowly started to lower itself from Pinkie.

"Whoop it up with the weepy." Pinkie continued, with more confidence. The monitor was picking up every bit of magical energy from Pinkie's element of laughter in action. Everyone watched in awe.

"Chortle at the kooky!"

The Spider lowered its body further. Its eyes were at the level of the lower part of Pinkie's hind legs.

"OOOOUUUUUCCCCCHHHHH!" Screamed Pinkie as two five inch long fangs dug into her right cannon. "AAAAAHHHHH! MY LEG! MY LEG!" Blood began to drip down her leg.

Everyone gasped at the sight.

"EEEEEK! PINKIE!" Fluttershy screamed.

"TWILIGHT! Release us at once!" Rarity yelled.

"Yeah! Let us go!" demanded Applejack.

Pinkie began to whimper. "Snortle at the spooky-hy-hy-hy-hhhhyyyy." The light dissipated from the necklaces in its container.

"Okay, that's enough," Twilight called to her pet spider, while writing down the maximum strength of the element of laughter. After the spider retreated back to it's cage, where Twilight closed it's door, she addressed everyone in the room. "Notice that light radiating from Pinkie's element of laughter in the container died down when she realized that the spider bit her, showing the limit of the power of her element. The machine outputted the maximum energy of her element before it dissipated. When the energy is converted into physical energy, it comes out to 16,384 joules. Neat, huh?"

"Twilight! How... how could you?!" Fluttershy said, still in a state of shock.

Twilight answered her in an annoyed tone, "It's for science. We went over this before. I thought you were okay with this."

"This is no excuse for letting Pinkie being bit by a giant spider!" Rarity said, as her horn started to glow, causing the cuffs on all the tables to rattle.

"Rarity! Stop it!" Twilight went over to the control board at the center of the room and flipped a switch. This sent a powerful electric shock throughout Rarity's body from her helmet. Her muscles instantly contracted. She shook and jerked violently, screaming out in agony from the burning heat. This left her twitching and disoriented. All the pony test subjects had never been so scared in their lives.

Turning off the power, Twilight returned to a crying Pinkie. "Wow! You're so sweaty, Pink. And.. The lower part of your right leg is swelling! I better do something about that!" Twilight brought out a bone cutting hacksaw from one of the metal cases. "It must be amputated!"

Dash, AJ, and Fluttershy watching in wide-eyed fear as the saw moved closer to their pink friend, while Rarity was still unable to think clearly.

"Twilight, what are you doing?!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"Twilight, please don't do this!... We're, we're friends." Pinkie started to panic, breathing uncontrollably fast, as her heart rate sped up.

The purple unicorn had the saw touching the pink pony's right leg, just below the hock. Pinkie turned her head away, unable to watch. The blade's teeth sunk into the skin. Then Twilight started sawing. Streams of blood began flowing down the leg as the skin and muscle ripped apart. Pinkie screamed loudly, in pain.

Her screaming rang through everyone's ears. It helped Rarity gain back the concentration that she lost. She saw with disbelief what Twilight was doing to Pinkie. Without hesitation, Rarity used her horn's magic to take hold of the bone cutter, just as it hit Pinkie's metatarsus bone. Twilight had an annoyed look on her face. And the irises in her eyes... turned red.

She tried to regain control of the hacksaw with her magic. "Rarity! Quit it! You're being immature!" They were both fighting for the saw, pulling on it like a game of tug and war. The purple pony had had enough. She again turned the same electricity inducing switch on. Rarity was in intense pain as before. But she fought against the horrible burn as best she can, more determined than ever to stop Twilight. Rarity used her magic to move the bladed instrument away from Twilight. Everyone else was watching in high hopes.

The book worm unicorn's anger grew. She turned off the electric current and had a quick sip from her glassware in frustration. The next thing Rarity knew, Twilight seemed to easily yank the sharp cutting instrument with her raging magic. "That is IT!" Twilight approached Rarity with the bone cutting hacksaw. Rarity tried to move the saw away from her with her glowing horn, but Twilight's magic was now too overpowering, as if getting her mad was making her magic stronger. Coming to Rarity with the hacksaw, she positioned the teethed blade at the base of the white unicorn's horn and started sawing.

Rarity's magic was getting weaker with each thrust of the saw through her horn. She winced as the blade cut through some skin at around the base of the horn. A small amount of blood flew down her face. After about 20 seconds, Rarity saw her blood-stained horn drop to the ground. Everyone's heart sank as they watched what seemed to be their last hope of escape fall to the ground and die. Twilight let out a warning, "Anyone else who resists will be dealt with by my magic. Now, if that's all."