Creepypony

"AAAAAAAHHHH!"

Star Wishes put a hoof over her mouth. Why me?, she thought. Why did I have to be the one who goes here?

She put both hooves on the floor of the bakery. This was the place of her worst nightmares. Sugarcube Corner. It was still as cold, musty, creepy yet welcoming as the day she left.

Star took a breath and mustered enough courage to open the door to the basement and enter it. She was greeted by a familiar voice, one that still sent shivers down her spine.

"Hide and seek...hide and seek...I will always find you..." Apparently Pinkie was in the middle of her maze game. Star snuck past the maze and went to the far back wall, in which she hit twice. The wall opened to reveal an assortment of knives and small torture devices. Scalpels, knives, small chainsaws, gags, needles, tubes of venom, and many more lined the shelves. As useful as all the other devices might serve her in battle, Star picked up one of her old favorites: the cat's paw. Funny, it was as bloody as the day she... Star shook her head, not wanting to remember the gory details.

After picking up the device, she closed the cabinet and entered the maze. She heard voices around a bend and stopped.

"N-no, Pinkie, I didn't mean to- Pinkie please! I'm your frien-" The male voice was cut off by the sound of his throat being ripped out. Blood began to seep under the hedges, causing Star's hooves to get messy. She recoiled, but went back to the edge.

Pinkie's voice drifted into Star's ear, making her freeze in her tracks. "Sigh...What a mess...too bad my assistant is dead, or she could've helped me...but...wait..." Hooves clopped dangerously close to Star's hiding spot. "No, nopony's there...hearing things again..." Her hooves clopped away.

When she couldn't hear the clopping of Pinkamena's hooves, Star let out a breath of relief. Man, that was close! Star almost walked out when she realized everything was silent. That wouldn't stop anypony, but Star knew all too well Pinkie was never silent... Star looked up and saw Pinkie crouching on a hedge above her, grinning. "FOUND YOU!!"

Pinkamena jumped on Star, who passed out on impact.

"My head..." Star woke to a room that was dimly lit. Pinkie was on the other end of the room, sharpening a large knife.

"You know, Star, I would have thought by now that when your enemy is in the general vicintity of you, you shouldn't let out a sign that you are there." Pinkie moved over to where Star lay rubbing her head, handing her a glass of water. She stared into Star's eyes while she drank.

"I must be getting soft. You should be tied up and on a table by now, hopped up on so many drugs that would get Celestia high, and under the mercy of my blade. But instead here I am, talking to you normally, treating you like a queen."

Star dropped the glass on the floor and took a deep breath. "Pinkie, I'll need your help. Sometime in the future, your soul is put into a story, in which Celestia reads and makes you into a portal of evil. Those portals were only supposed to be used in an emergency, so here I am. Nostalgia is failing, and I need your power to create a portal to there so I can help my friends." Star looked hopefully at Pinkie, whose face was unreadable. She sighed.

"Star, I will do this one favor for you, but when you get back, get a unicorn to stablize the portals so I can see you more often. Even for me, it gets lonely being insane and alone. It's just not the same, killing and torturing without my assistant."

Pinkie waved and a portal appeared. "Go, before I change my mind." Star hugged Pinkie and ran in the portal to the facility. The portal closed and a single tear ran down Pinkie's face.

"No, no, NO!!!" a glass mirror smashed against the wall of Vinyl's apartment. "Dammit, you were supposed to kill her!" Vinyl stomped around the room, frustrated. She stared at the glass ball around her neck and grinned. Maybe...

She took off the ball and levitated it, speaking ancient runes. The orb glowed red with power, the faded. Vinyl smiled. That should stall Star for awhile, at least until the ritual was complete.