Wayne sat on his little cot and stared at the two guards that were watching him. They were hardly paying attention to him, instead preferring to talk with each other about God knows what. Even though he liked them, they were boring. He wanted to talk to someone, anyone! But no, he was stuck with tiny horses that spoke French, or Chinese or some shit like that.

Wayne groaned loudly, getting the attention of the guards.

The orange one said something, but Wayne had no idea what.

The white one responded with a glare at its friend.

Wayne couldn't take this anymore. He stood up and walked over to the door and gripped the bars firmly. "Let me out," he said, shaking the door in its frame.

The horses just looked at him.

He put his finger in the keyhole and twisted it. "Let me the fuck out!" he said loudly.

They seemed to understand his gesture at unlocking the door, but they didn't move.

Wayne growled in the back of his throat.

The white one leaned closer to the orange one and whispered something.

It looked like it was thinking about what the white one said for a while. Finally, it took a key ring off of its belt and walked slowly towards the cell door. The whole time it was staring up at Wayne, a look of worry mixed with fear on its face.

Wayne just looked at it as it reached his cell. He didn't want to scare it, or he would be stuck in there. It's not like he wanted to hurt them or anything; he just wanted to be able to walk around a bit.

The orange horse was at the door now, looking up at him with large eyes. It stared straight in to Wayne's eyes, almost like it was trying to read his thoughts. Then after almost a full minute of this, it lifted the keys to the lock with its mouth and inserted one. It twisted its head, and the door swung open.

Wayne stood there, just looking at the horse for a long moment as the door swung more and more away from them.

The door reached its limit with the hinges and stopped moving with a soft clank.

Wayne stepped out of the cell quickly, moving past the horse. He immediately went to the magical barrier and tried pressing his hands against it. As he touched it, ripples ran through it, making it look like a wall of deep blue water, frozen in time. He pushed against it with his weight. The points where his hands were sunk into the wall slightly. He had no idea what this was, but it was between him and freedom.

There was a cough from behind him.

He turned to see both of the horses standing before him expectantly. "What?" he asked.

They looked at each other uncertainly.

Wayne took a step towards them.

They took a step back, now tensed and ready for any kind of attack.

Wayne started walking towards them.

They kept backing up until they met with a wall. The white one jumped at the touch of cold stone against its backside. The orange one's eyes grew huge with fear. They were trapped now, and they knew it.

Wayne towered over them, more than double their height. He looked down with calm eyes, but the horses flinched from his stare. He reached down for the orange one. That one had the keys, so it might be able to let him out.

As Wayne's hand hovered only inches from it, it crouched down lower to the ground, splaying its ears back and whimpering.

Seeing this, Wayne pulled his hand back to his sides.

It looked up at him, not knowing what he wanted.

Wayne raised both hands in front of him. One hand making a circle, the other he used to stick a finger though the circle and twist it. He tried to mime a lock and keys, but he had the feeling he might have given it a different kind of message by the look on its face.

The horse looked up at him with huge eyes and a shaky lip. It looked truly terrified of him.

Wayne groaned and rolled his eyes. He didn't have time for this. He reached down and grabbed the horse by the middle, ripping the keys from its belt.

It gave a small cry of fear when he did this.

Wayne looked through the key ring. Finding the one to his cell, he ripped it of of the ring and pocketed it.

The horse blinked and looked up at him. It thought that he was going to hurt it, but he had only taken the keys. It looked to its friend, who sighed in relief and stood back at full height when he started walking towards the barrier, then back to Wayne. It stood back up right. Maybe he really was a friend.

Wayne looked through the keys on the ring. They all seemed like cell keys, but one of them had to open the water wall thing. As he looked at a fifth key, there was the sound of clopping hooves against the hard stones that made up the floor of the dungeon. Wayne looked up to see six little horses come sprinting- or was it galloping? Yeah, that sounded right- come galloping down the corridor. There was the Rainbow one from before, the purple one he had seen when he first got here, an orange one- lighter than the guard horse- a white one, a yellow one, and a pink one.

The purple one's horn started glowing bright as it ran- er, galloped. As it got closer, the light from its horn grew brighter and brighter. Until finally, just before it reached the barrier, the light from its horn shot forward and hit the barrier.

It went down instantly.

***

Celestia had gone to see her sister, Luna, to tell her about all that she had learned from the creature. She left the six young mares in a lounge room to talk amongst themselves about what the creature in the room had told them.

"I still don't get it," said Pinkie. "What kind of name is 6?"

"Maybe its some kinda military label?" Applejack wondered aloud.

"Never mind the name, Pinkie. Did you see the way he just stood there?" Rarity asked. "It was like he was a statue," she said with a shiver.

"I still can't believe he's hurt so many people," Fluttershy said with a tinge of sadness in her voice. "It's just so... horrible."

"Yeah, more than twenty million people dead because of him," Rainbow said bitterly.

"I have to agree Fluttershy; it just seems so... unreal," Twilight said. "There's not even a million ponies in all of Equestria."

"Well, maybe he's not as innocent as Ah thought, but he still should get some kinda trial," Applejack told them.

"Are you serious?!" Rainbow asked her. "After he killed more than twenty million people you still think he should get a trial?!"

"I'm sorry Applejack dear, but I have to agree with Rainbow this time. The crimes he has committed are just too severe," Rarity told Applejack with a sad note in her voice.

"What? Are ya serious?! He deserves ta at least have a trial! He's gonna be guilty anyways, but it wouldn't be right without one!" Applejack protested. It didn't matter how much she was against her friends, it was the right thing to do.

"Applejack, how can you be so stupid?! He should be punished, right now!" Rainbow yelled.

"That's not fer you ta decide, Rainbow!" Applejack countered.

"He killed all those people for Celestia knows why! How is he in any way entitled to a trial?!"

"Because that's what's right!"

"How do you know what's right?!"

"Well Ah know what's wrong! And it would be wrong to just go an' kill him without askin' why he did it!"

"Well then why don't you ask him?!"

Applejack was quiet for a second at that. She had no counter for that one. She just looked into Rainbow's eyes in anger, knowing that if she backed down now he would never get a fair trial like he deserved. Applejack thought for a moment, then she almost smiled. "Fine, Ah will ask 'im." then she trotted out of the room and down the corridors, heading for the dungeons.

The five other ponies in the room were speechless.

"Applejack, wait!" Twilight called after her friend, galloping out after her.

"Ah'm not changin' mah mind, Twi', so don't even try ta stop me," Applejack said over her shoulder.

"No, I don't want to stop you," Twilight said as she caught up with her. "I want to ask him some questions too."

Applejack smiled faintly at her friend. "Thanks Twi'."

***

The dungeons were a truly horrible place. It was dark, damp, and smelled like all of the most awful things Twilight could think of mixed together and multiplied by infinity.

Fluttershy was tensed and her eyes were darting everywhere at once. She was quite obviously terrified of this place.

Rarity was also scared. Always flinching away whenever a rat, or a cobweb came within a hoof's distance. She was scared for another reason than Fluttershy was entirely.

Even Pinkie's mane seemed one shade darker and less poofy than usual in this place.

But Twilight knew that they were right to be afraid. This was where all of Equestria's worst criminals were kept. Murderers, arsonists, kidnappers, pedophiles, rapists, and every other kind of horrible criminals were here.

They turned another corner and kept walking. The light from the few torches placed along the walls were just barely enough to show them where they were going, but nothing else. They could only just see the bars of the cells, let alone what might be in them. This fact made Twilight's skin crawl.

There was a slight rustling noise from the cell they were next to, and Twilight stopped to peer inside.

A huge griffon with only one eye and his talons sharpened to insane points slammed against the bars, rattling them. "GIVE ME YOUR FLESH!!! FOOD!!! I NEED FOOD!!!"

All six of them jumped away from the cell and hugged the wall. They walked away, almost galloping to get away from the griffon.

"LET ME SKIN YOU!!! RIP YOUR MEAT AND SUCK THE BONES!!! CLEAN THE WOUNDS WITH SALT AND TEARS!!!"

As they walked out of earshot of the insane griffon, they heard the sounds of a young foal crying.

Fluttershy rushed ahead of them.

"Fluttershy, wait!" Twilight called, but it was already too late.

Fluttershy was at the bars of a cell that contained a very small foal, a unicorn by the looks of it. "it's okay little one, you don't need to cry any more," she said soothingly.

The others walked up to the cell, wary of what might happen.

"They won't leave me alone!" the young foal cried. By its voice they could tell it was a young filly. Even younger than Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.

"Who won't leave you alone?" Fluttershy asked.

"Mommy and daddy! They won't stop yelling at me!" the foal turned around. They saw that its teeth were filed down to jagged points, blood dripped out of its mouth freely. "Even after I burned them, they won't stop yelling at me!" it cried.

They all reeled at this sight and its words.

All of them except for Twilight. She had heard of this kind of thing before, but had never seen it. Sometimes, when a unicorn is born with magic that is very strong, it causes it to go insane from the incredible pressure it puts on their young mind. It happens when the magic is strong with foals that are slower the most. But the fact that this young filly is only five or six years old and can speak this well, means that she must be immensely powerful. Even more so than herself she suspected. This made Twilight cry softly to herself for this foal. "I'm sorry," she said softly. Then she turned and kept walking.

The others followed her, not speaking. They walked past other horrible sights in the dungeons. An earth pony who was feasting on rats. A pegasus that was ripping his feathers out, only for them to grow back instantly, then ripping them out again, blood covering almost his entire body and cell. Another earth pony who was arguing with something that they couldn't see, but lost the argument when the air seemed to lash out at him and break his nose, leaving him whimpering on the ground. They even passed a young dragon wearing a straight jacket and a large metal muzzle with clamps over his wings and no eyes, but seemed to watch them as they passed, turning his head to follow them. Then finally, they rounded another corner, their sanity almost completely gone, and saw the creature. But they didn't just see the creature. They saw the creature out of its cell, standing over the two guards.

Twilight started charging her horn for the anti-spell that would bring down the barrier. They all knew what Twilight was planning as they ran forward, straight towards the barrier.

He looked up at them as they ran, not sure what to think.

Twilight put more energy into her spell, an overglow appearing. Then, when they were almost at the barrier, she released the spell.

It struck the barrier, bringing it down instantly.

Rainbow and Applejack were the first to get close to him.

"Wait, stop!" one of the guards yelled. "He wasn't hurting us!"

Twilight stopped where she was.

Pinkie, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy also stopped when they heard this.

But Rainbow either didn't hear it or didn't care. She jumped up and hit him in the chest with a flying karate kick.

He stumbled back, almost stepping on the two guards, but they moved just in time.

Rainbow slammed her hoof into his face, breaking the skin on his cheek.

He didn't move.

Rainbow hit him again, and again, and again, causing more damage every time.

He still didn't move.

She spun around and bucked him in the stomach as hard as she could.

He coughed and doubled over, losing his breath.

Rainbow flew up and slammed down on his back, causing him to hit the ground, hard.

"Stop it!" the white coated guard yelled at her, rushing forward.

Rainbow pushed the guard back and slammed her hooves into the small of his back.

"That's it!" the orange guardpony yelled, galloping over to tackle Rainbow to the ground.

With the help of the first guard, they pinned Rainbow to the ground and held her there.

The creature stood back up. He looked completely fine, albeit a few breaks in his skin.

The guards looked at him in shock.

He motioned with his strange-looking hooves for them to let her up.

They didn't at first, but when he growled at them, they moved.

Rainbow shot up, glaring at him. She was out of a hoof's reach, so she couldn't hit him again.

But she was within an arm's reach for him. He shot his arm out, grabbing her by the neck.

She gave a yelp of surprise, but she was silenced by a fist.

He pulled back his arm, then hit Rainbow in the ribs with the force of a freight train.

Rainbow cried out as her ribs shattered under the force of the blow. She had injuries like this before, so she knew that it was likely that they were all broken by his brutal attack.

He swung his fist into her stomach, his fist sinking in far too much than nature should allow. He pulled his fist back and swung at her face. He broke her jaw. He swung again, breaking her nose. He swung a third time, tearing the skin on her cheek wide open, letting the blood flow freely.

Blood was flowing out of her mouth. She could barely breathe. And her whole body ached and stung like a hundred angry bees. She knew that she was too injured to fight back. At this point, she could only hope that her friends would save her. She caught a glimpse of the thing's forehead coming at her. Then she saw nothing.

He had rammed his head into hers, knocking her out instantly. He squeezed her neck roughly, not enough to kill her, but enough to leave large bruises for the future. Then he threw her body over to her friends, her form landing on the ground hard in front of them.

He let her beat him. Then he beat her back when she was done.

He looked at the guards then. They flinched from his gaze, but he scooped them both up in his arms and started walking past the others.

He was in serious trouble now. More than ever. Both of the guards knew that he would likely be executed on the spot when the princesses heard about this. Maybe that was why he was running away now. But if he was running away, why was he bringing them with him?

Author's Note

Wow, Rainbow really the shit beat out of her, didn't she? Oh Well! She had it coming. But why did Wayne take the tiny little horses with him? Very curious indeed...