"Damn it, Twilight! How the hell did you think they would take it!?"

Drops of blood rhythmically dribbled down upon the wooden floor with a sluggish tempo. Hooves on her head, Twilight Sparkle sat huddled in the center of the dreary room with little light or life. Curtains denied any light from entering the shop's main room. Eyes wide open and stained with horrific shock, scarlet matter drizzled from the tip of her horn which pooled below her. The ichor of Pinkie Pie covered Twilight's face and hooves, smeared giving her a primitive look to accompany her aghast expression. Speechless, she merely stood there, mind reeling as Rainbow Dash barked at her with impatience.

"Twilight!" Rainbow snarled with rage as she pressed her back against a large wooden door. Dirt and sweat blurred her beautiful blue fur and her mane laid bedraggled against her flesh. Repeatedly the door that she stood propped against jolted against her, apparent that something on the other side wanted in. Cries of frenzied rage and dismay could be heard from outside. Rainbow's hooves screeched along the floor as ever few seconds the door pushed her back, but each time she bit down, found her resolve, and regained her composure as the weight keeping the outside out. "I need your help!"

Twilight continued her listless staring, comatose.

"Please! I need-"

A rather violent force jarred the door open an inch. A streak of light shone in as for a moment boisterous voices of deranged fury could be heard before Rainbow rammed the door back shut with all of her being.

She cried out an frustrated curse as she glowered at Twilight, "I need your help!"

Twilight only stood there, gore still trickling into a pool of horror from the tip of her horn.

"Twilight!"

The unicorn remained catatonic.

Tears of dismay began forming in the corners of the blue pegasi's eyes as her legs began to bow and wobble against the wooden barricade. "I... I can't-! Twilight!" Her voice cracked as she howled at the top of her lungs.

With a sickening crack, the door wrenched wide open, sending Rainbow Dash sprawling onto the floor. Voices, a chorus of hysterical cries and garbled exclamation bellowed in from the other side of the threshold. The sound was overwhelming. Something snapped in Twilight as her head jerked around to face the direction of all of the commotion. Her eyes initially stayed agape with shock, but quickly shrunk as her expression turned to one of fear and realization as she came back to reality. Sunshine spilled forth, illuminating most of the dank room. Eyes blinded by the sudden bedazzlement of light Twilight barely noticed the contorted sillhouette blunder into the room.

Screaming with rage Rainbow Dash laid on the floor, reeling. Her hoof brushed against something metal in the obscured dark and she grasped at it. She plucked herself up from the floor threw herself with all of her might at the door now with a fireman's axe in hoof. Her lithe body crashed into the ajar door, slamming it shut with brute force. Several organic hooves from outside clamoring at the frame of the doorway were caught in the swinging door, causing several cries of agony to sound out before they withdrew from their grips on the building. Crying out loudly, she swung the axe with gusto at the base of the door, wedging the blade of the instrument in the narrow space between floor and door. Twilight watched as she slumped down against the door, exhausted. Relieved that she had the door wedged shut, Rainbow wiped the tears from her begrimed face and looked at Twilight with a grimace. Her eyes lit up as she noticed a look of horror plastered upon her purple friend's face, alerted to something.

"Rainbow! Look out!" The creature that had stumbled in during the momentary lull of Rainbow's defensive efforts was suddenly upon the unaware technicolor pony. Rainbow screamed in terror as the writhing mass gave a shrill cry of wrathful pleasure. That sound was harrowing enough to crawl into the deepest trenches of the skull and claw away at any intact sanity.

"SMILLLLLLLLE!"

Author's Note

Very rough...