Whack your Assistant!

“Spike! Could you come up here for a minute!?” The lavender alicorn shouted from her room as she wrote the last few incantations on a scroll.

While she waited eagerly for her assistance to arrive, her mind pondered the events that were about to take place. She knew what she had in mind would be life scarring but thankfully she had all the things in place to make sure it wasn’t.

“Yah, Twilight?” the young dragon replied as he rushed into the room and noticed a large pile of scroll on the floor.

“Ah, perfect. Spike could you help me with a few small experiments?” Twilight asked as she lit up her horn and grabbed all the scrolls before lifting them up in the air. “You help me out and you get this bucket full of gems.”

At the mention of gems, Spike’s eyes went wide and as the pile of scrolls went up, hidden underneath them was a moderate size bucket, overflowing when diamonds, sapphire, rubies, and even emerald. The young dragon’s tongue flickered and his mouth watered with anticipation at the mere thought of scarfing down a gem.

“Mhmmm, anything for a gem,” Spike replied in an almost trance like state as he started to walk towards the bucket.

“Good,” Twilight replied before she dropped the spell and put the scrolls back down. “Now the experiments I’ll be performing on you with magic will be considered… questionable by many, however in the everlasting run for knowledge, along with the fact that I’ll end up making this nonexistent for you, I need to test the durability of a baby dragon.”

“Oh?” Spike replied suddenly not feeling so keen on being around her. “How do you plan to test my… durability?”

Twilight paused for a second and gave her assistant a cold stare before turning her head towards the pile of scrolls and grabbing one.

“Spike, remember when we found those time spells in the Canterlot archives?” Twilight asked as she opened the scroll and placed it on the ground.

“Yeah. What about them?”

“Well, after reading up on a few books and notes Star Swirl wrote, I’ve discovered and created a very interesting spell I’m eager to try out.”

Twilight’s horn glowed a bright purple before a bubble of magic enveloped her body and gave it a soft prismatic glow. Spike said nothing but the more Twilight spoke, the more he couldn’t shake the feeling something seriously bad was about to happen.

“I’ve discovered a way to cause and infinite time loop, putting anyone I cast it on into an endless loop in which they cannot escape from until I let them. But considering that time magic is very exhausting and very limited to use, I’ve transferred that same loop spell onto all these scrolls you see here.” Twilight said to Spike as she gave the current scroll she had a quick look over before she was fully happy with it.

“You still haven’t answer my question, Twilight. How are you going to test my durability?” Spike asked wondering why she was explaining everything to him.

“I’m not done yet!” She snapped, not happy being cut off. “Anyhow, a special property of these spells is that once cast, anyone outside the spell I cast on myself will lose their memory of the time that elapsed.”

“Ohhh… What?” Spike asked, not really sure what she was saying anymore.

“Ugh, I get straight to the point then. Spike. I’m… going to kill you.”

The young dragon’s heart sank and his jaw nearly hit the floor out of shock at her words.

“Once you die, I’ll activate a scroll that will rewind time back a few minutes and undo what was done. Any damage that was done to you will be reversed but the knowledge of what happened will stay.” Twilight turned her eyes toward her side table and grabbed a pair of razor sharp scissors with her magic before floating them in front of Spike’s eyes.

“Twi-twilight?” Spike stammered out as he slowly backed away from her.

“Now considering the mental trauma will most likely drive you insane, I’ve combined a memory wiping spell with the time reversal to make sure my number one assistant doesn’t start to hate me. I will perform this experiment a fair amount of times before I feel like I have enough notes… Ah, you stay here,” Twilight stopped her explanation as she saw Spike making a run for the door. Dropping her spell, she grabbed a hold of him, and dragged him closer to her.

“Don’t worry, Spike. Just because I’m going to kill you over and over again while you simply don’t remember it, doesn’t mean I hate you or anything, it’s just research notes that Celestia could use,” Twilight told him, giving Spike the most sincere look of concern she could.

“B-B-but you’re going to kill me you said!” Spike stammered out, unsure if it was some cruel joke she was playing or if she really meant it.

“You won’t feel a thing. Sure the moment I decide to kill you with whatever I think of will be painful, once the spell is cast it will be like nothing happened to you. By the time I’m finished my experiment, it will play out as me calling you up to my room and getting a bucket of gems for being my favorite assistant.” Twilight said as she opened the scissors and floated them right to Spike’s throat.

“T-twilight, this isn’t right!!” Spike screamed in her face.

“Oh stop worrying, besides I’m the one who’s going to remember all of this torturing while you don’t. I’m not happy about it but limits have to be pushed in the name of research,” Twilight told him calmly before she pressed the scissors to his throat and slashed it.

Spike made an attempt to speak but the only thing that happened was gurgling and blood coming up his throat and gushing out onto the floor and the alicorn who just delivered the blow. Twilight dropped the spell she was using to hold Spike up and the young dragon fell to the floor before grabbing his throat in a vain effort to stop the bleeding. His actions failed and as he looked up with complete shock at Twilight his vision went dark and he collapsed on the floor. For a few brief seconds, Twilight shuddered as a pool of blood started to form under her former assistant and her stomach nearly let go of the daisy sandwich she had for lunch. Turning to her study desk, she grabbed a blank scroll along with a feather pen dabbed in ink before she took a deep breath and started to write.

Death experiment Number 1- scissors to throat. Blade was applied directly to major artery in neck and death was almost instantaneous. While dragon skin is usually durable, there are several weak spot across the body that can be cut and fatally wound a dragon. Next item to test will be whatever I can conjure up. Side note: All manners of death will range from fast and instant, to crude and slow depending on what is used.

Twilight looked over her note and knew very well that she was going to keep it short and simple. Holding close to her body and making sure the time spell would affect it along with her, Twilight focused her attention on the scroll on the ground.

“This is going to be a very interesting learning experience,” Twilight said as she lifted her hoof and slammed it down, activating the spell. “Time reset!”