Elements of Disharmony

                                                              Chapter 4- Insanity Is A Game Built For Two

Twilight was in the Ponyville library studying one her many spell books when Pinkie Pie burst through the door.

"HUGS!!!" she squelled as she wrapped Twilight up in an almost rib crushing embrace.

"Pinkie, can't, breath!" Twilight managed to choke out.

"Oh, sorry! I was just so happy to see you!"

Twilight gave her friend a half-hearted smile and said, "I'm happy to see you too Pinkie Pie, but I have a lot of studying to do so could you please keep this visit short?"

Pinkie Pie smiled back at Twilight and exclaimed, "Twilight, the girls wants to meet us at Sugarcube Corner right now, and they want to par-tay!"

Twilight's expression changed from half-hearted to the most sincere upon hearing this and said, "Well what are we waiting for? We shouldn't keep her waiting!"

Twilight and Pinkie left the library and began walking towards Sugarcube Corner. Pinkie was hopping beside Twilight as they approached their destination.

The two friends entered the little yet quaint bakery and Pinkie excitedly said, "Twilight! Wait here! I need you to taste the cupcakes I made for Rainbow Dash!"

Pinkie rushed into the kitchen and return to Twilight in a flash with a tray of cupcakes with rainbow icing. Twilight looked at the cupcakes and said, "The icing looks great! I think Dash will just love it!"

"Go ahead! Try one!" Pinkie said.

Twilight looked at Pinkie and said, "I'm sorry Pinkie but I've already eaten and feeling pretty stuffed."

Pinkie now had an uncharateristic frown with a small tear forming in her eye and a pouty and trembling lower lip.

Twilight gave Pinkie an unsure smile and said, "Well I guess just one cupcake couldn't hurt."

Pinkie gave an excited squeal and brought the tray closer to Twilight's face with a gigantic beaming smile. Twilight surveyed the cupcakes searching for the smallest one. Twilight found the cupcake she was searching for and picked it up, popped it in her mouth, and began to slowly chew.

Twilight swallowed the pastry and said to Pinkie, "Oh my Celestia, Pinkie these cupcakes are delicious!"

Pinkie's smile grew even wider as she said, "Just think of the fun we're going to have!"

Twilight began to feel light headed. She sat down and started rubbing her head. The room began to spin and fade away into darkness. Twilight groaned and fell to the hard, unforgiving floor. Pinkie waited a minute to make sure the cupcake had done it's job. She went over to the middle of the room and moved the rug revealing a trap door. She gleefully pulled it open and looked back at Twilight.

'Now,' she thought to herself, 'the real fun can begin!'

Twilight groaned as she opened her eyes. Her head was trobbing like crazy. She attempted to rub her head and she realized that she coundn't move her hooves. They were strapped down to the table she was laying on. She couldn't really see either for it was to dark. Her eys began to frantically dart around in the darkness looking for any shred of light. After awhile her eyes began to adjust to the darkness and she noticed a dark figure standing in front of her.

"H...Hello is anypony here?"

Suddenly she heard hoofsteps coming from her left. Fear had fully gripped Twilight's mind when the blinding light came on overhead. Then she heard a familiar giggle.

"Pinkie Pie is that you?"

"Oh Twilight you're awake! Goodie now we can play!"

Twilight's head was still throbbing and the light wasn't helping. She decided to use her magic to dim the light some, but when she tried nothing happened.

"Pinkie you have to help me out of here. My magic isn't working!"

"Of course it isn't silly filly! I cut off your horn while you were asleep!" Pinkie said as she gave Twilight an abnormally large smile.

Twilight's jaw dropped when she heard what her friend had just stated.

She started to play laugh and said, "Very funny Pinkie now help me get out of here!"

"Oh its no joke Twilight! We're going to have some real fun playing one last game together!"

Twilight's mind was now in full panic as she frantically tried again and again to use her magic to no avail. Twilight heard a click and all the lights in the room came on, and she saw what the figure standing in front of her was. It was a mannequin.

Pinkie walked over to Twinlight and placed her hoof on her shoulder.

Then Pinkie Pie said, "We want you to play."

Twilight thought to herself, 'We?'

Pinkie laughed and said, "Twilight, I was getting lonely here by myself since the Cakes moved to Canterlot, so I decided that I want all friends to stay here with me!"

She paused a moment and then she said as her eyes began to cross, "Forever!"

It was then that Twilight began to realize that her friend Pinkie was completely insane. Twilight began to look around the room she was traped in, and the things she saw made her shutter. 'Life is a Party' was writen on the wall in what appeared to be blood, she saw a tapestry of tanned pony skins on the wall, she saw multiple skulls brightly painted some of them were even wearing hats made from skin, and she looked at the mannequin pony and saw it wore a dress made of skin and cutie marks with a necklace of unicorn horns strung around its neck. On this necklace she saw something that made her heart sink, she saw her own horn.

Twilight instictivly began to sob uncontrollably. Pinkie hopped over to Twilight and said to her,

"Aw. I know what will drive away this case of the frownies."

She presented a small red cube to Twilight and said, "Open your mouth Twilight! This will make you feel better!"

Twilight no longer trusted her once friend Pinkie and tightly closed her mouth. Pinkie looked at Twilight obviously upset by her insuboardination. She walked into a doorway to Twilight's left and returned with a tray on wheels that was covered with a cloak. She removed the cloak and picked up a scapel from her vast array of freshly sharpen tools.

Pinkie walked back over to Twilight and asked, "Now Twilight are you going to open your mouth, or do I have to cut your lips off?"

Twilight hesitantly opened her mouth, and Pinkie inserted the red cube.

"Eat it silly.", Pinkie said with sparkles in her eyes.

Twilight closed her mouth and the strong coppery taste of blood and raw flesh filled her mouth. She immediatly spit it out and cried out, "Pinkie what was that?"

Pinkie  covered her mouth with her hoof and giggled.

Then she said, "That was a piece of the secret ingredient I got from Twist! You should recognize the flavor it's not like you haven't eaten my cupcakes before! Hee hee hee."

Twilight's mind broke down as Pinkie said that. Her mind kept telling her 'Its ok you didn't eat a piece of a pony. You didn't eat a piece of a pony!'

Pinkie looked into Twilight's eyes and said with a hint of finallity, "It's time to play Twilight! Don't worry I'm going to stuff you and keep you forever and ever here with us!"

"Pinkie," Twilight frightenly asked, "who's this we and us you keep talking about?"

Pinkie kept looking at Twilight when suddenly her hair changed on its own. It was no longer fluffy and fun. It was straight and covered half of Pinkie's face.

"This is us and we!" Pinkie said in a voice that was hardly reconisible as Pinkie's.

Twilight felt tears rolling down her face as she began to realize that there was no way out of this situation.

She began to scream at the top of her lungs, "Somepony, please help! Please!"

Pinkie looked into Twilight's eyes and said, "Oh come on Twilight! If no pony heard the rest of them scream," she said as she motioned to the walls, "why do you think they'd hear you?"

Pinkie moved over to Twilight's right flank and placed the scalpel about an inch above Twilight's cutie mark. Twilight felt the blade touch her skin and she instictively flinched.

Pinkie looked at Twilight and said, "Twilight you have to stay still or I might mess up!"

Twilight began to plead with Pinkie, "Please *sob* Pinkie *sob* let me go, please! I thought you were my friend?"

Pinkie looked into Twilight's eyes and she began to have a little hope, but it was destroyed when Pinkie said, "Oh but Twilight, we are friends. That's why I'm going to make you into a puppet and keep you forever!"

"Let me go Pinkie I won't tell anypony I swear. Just please let me go! I'll, I'll get help for you just please, let me go!"

"But Twilight," Pinkie gleefully explained, " I already have help!" Pinkie's hair became puffy and fun again.

Pinkie began to gleefully dance around the table. Upon hearing this Twilight's hope slowly began to vanish until, "You can't kill me, Pinkie Pie! Spike and the Princess will notice that I'm missing!"

The pink mare looked her friend in the eyes and said with a chortle, "Oh Twilight, look over at the mannequin pony's feet!", Twilight didn't want to look, but she couldn't help it.

As soon as she looked at the mannequin she realized she missed something earlier. There on the mannequin's feet were boots that were made with purple and green reptilian skin.

Pinkie then said, "Don't you worry about the Princess either I had Spike send her a letter saying you were going to study with a different mentor."

Twilight's tears began flowing again as she choked out, "You're... you're a monster! A monster!"

Twilight broke down into uncontrollable tears, but not for herself and  her fate, but rather for Spike her number one helper.

'I should have noticed how insane Pinkie was sooner.' Twilight thought to herself.

Pinkie Pie couldn't believe what she had just heard. Here she had taken time away from her busy schedule to spend some time with one of her friends only so she could be called a monster.She was sharing her deepest and best kept secret with her and she was name calling.

A tear formed in Pinkie's eye, "Take that back! Take it back right now!" she demanded.

Twilight Sparkle looked Pinkie Pie in the eye and tearfully yet firmly said, "No."

Pinkie's hair became straight again and she placed her scalpel back over Twilight's cutie mark. She began to make her insision and cut the whole way around Twilight's cutie mark. Pinkie then gingerly removed the cutie mark seperating it from Twilight's muscle. She walked over to Twilight's other flank and repeated the process.

The searing pain shot through Twilight like a lightening bolt. She couldn't help but bounce around and attempt to buck a couple of times. This caused Pinkie to accidentally cut Twilight's left thigh sending even more pain shooting through Twilight. Twilight was bordering on passing out when she felt something pricking her chest. She slowly opened her eyes to see Pinkie standing with a needle.

"What was that?!" Twilight panically inquired.

"That was adrenalin. You see Twilight I hate it when my guests fall asleep during the game, so I gave you some so you would stay awake." Pinkie stated matter of factly, "Don't fall asleep again Twilight."

Twilight began to cry again for now she knew there was no escaping this horrible situation.

Pinkie then started dancing and singing, "Giggle at the ghostie, Guffaw at the grossy, Crack up at the creepy, Whoop it up with the weepy, Chortle at the cooky, Snortle at the spooky."

Pinkie then picked another needle. Twilight's pupils began to grow from the fear and adrenalin coursing through her body.

"P...Pinkie Pie wh...whats in that?" Twilight fearfully asked.

Pinkie Pie looked back at Twilight and said, "Oh, this? Its just some pain medicine so you won't feel anything below your neck."

When Twilight heard this she knew it would soon be all over. She began to openly pray for a miracle as Pinkie injected her with the needle.After awhile Twilight couldn't feel anything below her neck as Pinkie had said. Pinkie walked over to her tray and came back with with a large mallet. She hoisted it up in the air, and brought it down hard on Twilight's sternum shattering it.

Although she couldn't feel the pain of the blow she still felt it as the force from the mallet forced the air out of her lungs.

Pinkie dropped her mallet onto the ground and said excitedly, "Now the real fun can begin!"

Pinkie picked up her scalpel again and made three horizontal cuts. The first was just above Twilight's pelvis, the second was just below the rib cage, and the third was just above Twilight's shattered sternum. Then Pinkie made her fourth and final cut straight down Twilight's ribcage starting at the third cut and ending at the first cut. Pinkie walked over to her tray and grabbed her rib cage vice. She trotted back to Twilight and pulled her rib cage open with her vice.

Upon seeing this Twilight passed out from the shear terror of what was happening to her. Pinkie noticed this and became furious. She went back to her tray and retrieved another adrenalin shot. She walked back over to her spliced friend and injected the needle directly into Twilight's heart. Twilight came to miliseconds later and saw Pinkie Pie standing over her

face with an ice cream scooper.

"What did I tell you about falling asleep Twilight?"

Twilight answered, "Not... to... do it?"

Pinkie glared into Twilight's eyes and said, "You know Twilight your eyes sparkle like rubies in the sun."

Twilight began to brace herself for what she knew was going to happen.

"I think I'll take them!"

Pinkie plunged the scooper into Twilight's left eye socket and forcefully removed the screaming mare's eye and then she repeated the process on the other eye.

Pinkie jumped off the table and said to the still screaming mare, "You don't want watch me have fun? So now I've made it so you can't see anything. Happy?"

Twilight's screams slowly dissippated as she began to realize that she would soon be dead.

'I wonder what things on the other side are like, and will Scootaloo be waiting for me?' Twilight asked herself.

Pinkie began to remove Twilight's organs one by one while humming sweetly to herself. She began to spout off the some terrible jokes as she "played her favorite game".

"You know it's hurtful that no pony laughs at these jokes. They're pure comedy gold!" Pinkie said to the now silent Twilight.

The only organs left inside Twilight by this time was her lungs and heart.

Pinkie tapped Twilight's left cheek and bubbly asked, "Are you still awake?"

Twilight was suffering from major blood loss but was able to weakly respond to her tormentor, "Yes, Pinkie I'm still awake."

"Good!" Pinkie squeeked.

Then Twilight continued, "Pinkie I've always loved you as a friend, and I deeply treasured your friendship, but Pinkie, you're no longer my friend."

"Twilight of course I'm still your friend. Thats why I'm going to stuff you and make you into a puppet, so we can be together forever!" Pinkie exclaimed with a hint of insanity in her voice.

Before Twilight could resond to this Pinkie removed her lungs. Pinkie watched as Twilight began to slowly fade away for the last time, but before she could Pinkie grabbed her friend's weakly beating heart and pulled it out. Pinkie noticed that Twilight's heart was abnormally larger than that of a normal unicorn pony.

She looked at her now dead friend and said, "I've to tell you Twilight that you always had a lot of heart."

Pinkie started snickering to herself as she began to clean up all the blood that was now on the floor. She was going to miss Twilight a little but that's why she was going to stuff her. So she could always have her friend nearby, so she wouldn't be lonely ever again. After she cleaned the floor, table, and tools she went and got everything she would need for the new game she was going to play. One that she liked almost as much as the last one.

A game she liked to call "Making a Friend".