The Equestrian Inferno

The horrors of the wars between the feuding princess ponies which I had come to learn so much about must have been nothing compared to the shocking layout of the ninth section. For once, there were clouds in the sky, though they were of a disturbingly pink complexion. From them rained a shower of large meat cleavers of assorted sizes. In addition, inverted buildings also flew around like blimps. On the ground were an assortment of strange sites, including buildings of large playing cards and long chains of mutated dancing bunnies.

The bunnies seemed to be natural inhabitants of the region and were unaffected. In addition were large beavers and distorted bears. Those souls that were there for punishment however consisted of the usual ponies along with a handful of draconequii.

These creatures constantly attempted to dodge the rain of blades, though mostly unsuccessfully. Each strike cleaved them nicely, though rarely all the way through. In any case, the wounds healed with amazing speed, though in the process they felt the condensed pain equaling all that a normal creature would feel over the long course of time such wounds usually took to close.

I watched in horror as a meat cleaver slashed through the ribs of a blue skinned human standing next to me causing his entrails to spill out. Wait, human? At this time, Galaxy and I still stood upon the bridge watching and in my haste, I nearly ran into the wicked rain, which would no doubt have been fatal to me.

"So, same thing as last time?" I asked Galaxy? Without answering, she once more set up a glowing pink force field around us as we safely walked over to the only other human I had seen.

"Oh, if only I had had refused to help Sunset Shimmer" he wailed.

"Snips, SNIPS, are you alright?" asked a second human who came running up, "Try to AAAAAUUUGGGH." He screamed as a meat cleaver fell and nearly amputated his leg.

"Are you Snails?" I asked the lean teenage boy.

"Sure am" he cried as he hugged his wounded leg, "We were sent here for breaking up Twilight's friends on Earth. It was only to avoid the wrath of Sunset Shimmer that we did it but…waaaahhhhhhhhhhh." He broke down into tears. As he lay their crying, another meat cleaver fell and nicked him on the shoulder.

"Hey" said a voice behind me. I turned around and saw that it was Snips. "If you see Ms. Cherilee, please tell her to repent lest she join us for she knew what Sunset Shimmer was doing but refused to act. By knowingly allowing another to sow discord, she'll be punished as if she had done so herself."

"Hey, are you a human?" called another human with wearing a yellow shirt.

"What do you think?" I answered.

"Oh, just asking" he said, "When you get back, can you tell Rainbow Dash I said hi and that I'm sad I can't be with her?"

"Ummmmmm, sorry but no" I answered. We left quickly since I knew where this was going.

Suddenly, a buzzing sound rang in my ears as the smell of burnt flesh filled the air. I turned around as I saw that a decapitated pony had accidently brushed against our force field. It's head, which it was desperately searching for rolled around near it.

"Uhhh, it's a little to the side of your front left hoof" I told her.

"Oh, thanks" she said when she had found it, and now carried it with her front hooves. I was shocked when I realized her head had the horn of a unicorn but her body had the wings of a pegasus. "Who are you?" I asked.

"My name's Princess Skyla" she said, "I'm a relative of Princess Cadance, whom I secretly convinced to work against Princess Luna. I cared for Cadance very much and desired her to have as much power as a sweet princes like her deserved. Unfortunately, my schemes for raising her status at the expense of Luna were discovered and as a result I am condemned here."