Manor of Insanity

"Spike. Spike? Are you there?" A distant voice said. Spike began to awaken from his slumber as the voice drew nearer, "Spike! Good you're still alive." Spike's eyes widened and he was wide awake to see two ponies in front of him. He scurried back in a panic when the colt said, "It's okay Spike! It's just us, Derpy and the Doctor." He finally came to realize it was them: A brown colt with spiky hair and a grey mare with crossed eyes.

"Oh thank God it's you," Spike said with relief. He looked behind them to see blood on the floor and then he started to remember. "Where is Pinkie?"

"I'm sorry," Doctor Whooves began, "She's dead."

"No. She can't be!" Spike looked again to see her body was gone not realizing before, "Then where is her body??"

"We pushed it down the hole in the floor. It was starting to make me feel sick," Derpy said.

"No."

"Spike. Who died over there?" Doctor Whooves said pointing toward the other side of the gap. Spike hesitated to answer and didn't want to either. But he eventually got it out, "Rarity..."

"Spike," Doctor Whooves began once again, "I am so, so sorry." Spike was about to cry again, but this time he got a hold of himself and stood up.

"Okay. We need to find the others" Spike said.

"Agreed. We can mourn later." Doctor Whooves said. Spike picked up his camcorder and held it to where he could see in the darkness. Doctor Whooves pulled out a flashlight so he could see in the darkness, with Derpy following behind him.

"So where exactly are we going now Doctor?" Derpy asked.

"I have no idea to be honest-" They came to a locked door and Doctor Whooves unlocked it with his sonic screwdriver,"-Anywhere that'll get us to anypony else that is sane."

"Are you that desperate Doctor?"

"I'll try ANYTHING," Doctor Wooves opened the door. They we're terrified to see what they had just found: Two almost identical mares beating a single mare with baseball bats that had nails in them. They turned to see their visitors.

"Hello there!" Doctor Whooves exclaimed, "now there are three-" He whispered quickly to Derpy, "I know I'm about to try this again... I say THREE, complicated reasons why you shouldn't kill me, and my fellow companions!" He blurted out, "One-" He was cut off short and ducked after one of the mares swung at him, "RUN!" He shouted.

"Where do we go??" Derpy panicked.

"Just follow me! To this door!" Doctor Whooves pointed with his sonic.

"We have to get out of here!" One of the insane mares said behind them. Doctor Whooves unlocked the door with his tool and they rushed in. Closing the door, Doctor Whooves then locked it. But that wasn't enough. The twins began to ram against the door. They were going to break it down.

"We have to barricade the door!" Doctor Whooves shouted.

"With what?" Spike asked in complete fright.

"I don't know!" He then looked to his left to find a bookshelf, "Help me move this bookshelf in front of the door!" Derpy and Spike did what he said and they heaved and pushed the shelf in front of the door. Once they got it into place, the banging of the door began to die down, until it was silent. Hoofsteps then moved away from the door. They had gone. With a sigh of relief all of then slowly sat down, except for Doctor Whooves.

"Who the hell was that!?" Spike said in frustration, "You never told us about those two!"

"That's because I haven't encountered them yet!" Doctor Whooves countered.

He noticed a desk: It contained a filing cabinet to the right and sitting on top of it was a computer. He walked over to look at it. He pointed his sonic and scanned the monitor.

"Damn!" He said in frustration, "The computer has been wiped clean, not to mention it's completely dead."

"Is this like an office or something?" Spike asked.

"Seems like it," Doctor Whooves said, "It's a very strange set up though." He then crouched down to where the filing cabinets were at head level, and unlocked all three of them. The top one was empty. The second one only contained ripped lined paper. But the third one hand a few files in it.

"Bingo!" He beamed.

"What is it?" Derpy asked. She and Spike got up and walked over to Doctor Whooves to see what he had found.

"Files."

"Why would files be here? Heck, why would a desk even be here?" Spike wondered.

"I don't know Spike, but we're about to find out!" Doctor Whooves lit the documents to see what he was reading. He noticed the stamps on each one. The stamps had the letters: I.A.C.C.

"IACC. IACC. IACC." Doctor Whooves kept repeating to himself, "What does it stand for? What the bloody hell does it stand for!?" Doctor Whooves had his hand, rubbing the cartilage of his nose.

"Clearly it's a company," Derpy stated.

"Yes. I know that. But what company?"

"Can i see those files Doctor?" Spike asked. Doctor Whooves gave the files to him, and Spike began too skim through the documents. There was one that caught his eye and read it aloud. It read:

Patient 07: Obsidian

Date: 06/17/2012

Height: '6 11'

Weight: 172 lb.

Description:
Pitch black fur.
Grey hair.
Yellow eyes.

Reason for serving time in I.A.C.C: Attempted genocide of all of Seaddle. She managed to kill a total forty-seven ponies and create casualties of sixty-eight. Twenty-two male, twenty-five female, dead. forty-four males, and forty-two females, injured. She was captured and taken here for containment.

Service time: The Game.

"W-.... What!?" Doctor Whooves exclaimed grabbing the documents from Spike, "Just what does that mean? What is 'The Game'?"

"I don't know, but I remember that. The Seaddle Massacre. I still can't believe somepony would do that," Derpy said.

"Obsidian. She's here," Doctor Whooves said, "She's in this building. With us."

"What!!?" The two panicked.

"Yes. The news said she was taken to prison for life, but they lied. You can never believe the tele these days. She was taken here. But why here? Unless," Doctor Whooves looked at the document again and looked at the letters I.A.C.C.

"You're on to something, aren't you Doctor?" Derpy asked

"Things are starting to click. click, click, click-" He said snapping his fingers, "This madhouse. This asylu-," Doctor Whooves paused and gripped his nose again, "-Quickly Spike! What did the ponies say they were taking Obsidian to?"

"They um... Took her to contain her?"

"Yes, exactly! To containment!"

"It's and acronym isn't it?" Derpy inquired.

"Yes! Oh my God! I know what it stands for! Insanity Asylum Containment Cooperation! Mares and Gentlecolts-" Doctor Whooves quickly turned to Spike, "-Or should I say gentledragon, We're in an insane asylum."

"But that's impossible," Spike argured, "There's now way that could be possible."

"Oh, but it is. Where are mad ponies taken to be forgotten?"

"An asylum," Derpy answered.

"Yes! And that's where we are!"

"But what about this 'game' the documents mentioned?" Spike asked.

"The only thing I can think of is the game that we are currently playing: Murder," Doctor Whooves answered.

"And that's why the twin mares said they needed to get out of here. So they could kill us and get one step closer to leaving," Derpy stated.

"Right again Derpy! You are on fire today!!" Doctor Whooves said excitedly. Derpy's face flushed a bright red. "Now Spike!" Doctor Whooves began, "Tell me what you think about how this game came to be?"

"I don't know!"

"Just think for a second!" Doctor Whooves said grabbing Spikes shoulders. Spike put his hand on his chin and said, "From what
I can tell, this place opened once the mare closed down her manor. And so this game started. And... Oh my God, this game has been going for two whole years!"

"You are brilliant Spike!" Doctor Whooves said with glee, "The owner of this place must've tricked the mare into signing for him or her to open up some innocent business of some sort, but she singed and approved that they could open up this place. This hell! Then for some reason, they decide to gather up the twisted and damned, and decide to create a game in order to grant ones freedom. But why in the bloody hell would they do such a thing? Why would the do something this deranged? Even the sick minded ponies shouldn't deserve this, and now we're trapped within this game." The sound of chains were heard outside the hallway and everypony jerked their heads to the door. Silence filled the air and then somepony began to break the door down knocking over the bookshelf.

"ALLONS-Y!" Doctor Whooves yelled.

"There's no way out!" Derpy screamed.

"We'll bust down the walls then!" Spike exclaimed, "Grab the chairs and start smashing them against the wall!"

"Or, we could do this!" Doctor Whooves pulled out his sonic and walked over to a window. He pointed at the glass and turned his sonic on. The glass began to crack and then he kicked it, shattering the glass window, and making the glass fall down like rain. "Out the window and shimmy along the next room!"

"That'll do!" Spike agreed. The door was seconds from being destroyed as they climbed out of the broken window. Spike was the last to jump and hang out from the window, when the door was broken to bits. There stood a tall midnight black furred mare, with a large chain and spear in one hand, and a machete in the other. It was Obsidian. She looked out of the broken window to find no one. She then looked to her right and then to her left to see purple dragon feet crawl in the window to the next room. Obsidian grinned and brought her head back inside the room. She stepped back and then charged breaking the wall to the next room.

***

There was rubble and debris everywhere after she crashed through. Behind her followed the two twin mares with their deadly bats.

"You stay in here. I'm going outside of the room to see if I can find them," Obsidian said. She left the room and the twins began to look around. Doctor Whooves, Derpy, and Spike were hiding: Doctor Whooves was hiding behind a chair in the corner, while Derpy and Spike where hiding under a bed.

"Oh no," Derpy whispered.

"What is it?" Spike asked.

"I have to sneeze," Derpy whimpered. Spike got scared knowing they would be found. Doctor Whooves peered over the chair to see that under the bed Derpy was about to sneeze and they would be killed. He had to do something, but it was too late. Derpy let out a high pitched tiny sneeze and the twins turned to the bed. Doctor Whooves then took action.

"Hello there mates!" Doctor Whooves sprung up from behind the chair. The twins ignored the bed and now turned to see Doctor Whooves, trying to worm out of the chair against the wall, "If you just give me a moment to get out of this chair, then you can make an attempt to kill me," Doctor Whooves jumped out of the chair and brushed himself off, "Now, where were we? Oh yes! You're going to try to kill me! Now first off, you want to kill me because I may be the only hope of getting multiple ponies out of here, well, I am the only hope of getting multiple ponies out of here, well, with the help of my friends, well... anyways! I'd suggest you'd rather try to kill me than murder my friends, becau-," A small knife was thrown at him and he ducked a few inches, with the blade cutting a few strands of his mane off, "Okay then! You have knives... In that case, I would have made my own attempt to run by now if the enemy was distracted!" Doctor Whooves yelled tilting to look at the bed, implying for Spike and Derpy to run. They scrambled out from under the bed and darted out to the door. The twins started to run for them but Doctor Whooves blocked the way.

"Like I said: I'm the one you want to kill," He pulled out his sonic, and pointed it at the window behind them. The glass once again shattered. The twins turned and were confused to what had just happened.

"You're cheating!" One of them said, "You're using magic."

"Oi! My Sonic Screwdriver is not magic! That's insulting!" He said defensively. He put it in his suit pocket and smiled, "Now, what were we doing again? Oh yes! Running!" Doctor Whooves turned away and ran out the door, with the twins following him. He looked down one end of the hall to see Derpy and Spike signaling him to come over, but the twins appeared in front of him.

"We'll meet up around the square hall! Now run!" He said as he ran away. The two understood and ran turning right.

"Why aren't the twins chasing us!?" Derpy asked. Spike looked behind them to see Obsidian.

"It's because she's trying to kill us!" Spike said turning back around, "Move!" Obsidian whipped her chain and smashed some of the floorboards behind them. Derpy jumped over a desk blocking their way, with Spike behind her parkouring his way over it. But Obsidian smashed through it like it was nothing. Doctor Whooves appeared at the end of the hall.

"This way!" He pointed. He pulled out his sonic and unlocked the door, "C'mon!" He opened the door and the three went in. Closing the door, he pointed his sonic at the door and locked it, "Now lets try barricade the doors with chairs!" They grabbed a chair and stuck it under the door knob. The door was being slammed by Obsidian, but she couldn't knock it down. She then gave up and started to speak.

"She's saying something," Doctor Whooves walked over to the door and held his ear against it.

"Be careful," Derpy said.

"I will," He then heard Obsidian and the twins talking:

"The two of you are so stupid! Letting them get away. They could have gone through a hole in the wall or broken out of another window!" Obsidian yelled in a fit of rage.

"We're sorry!" One of the twins said apologetically, "We just want to leave!"

"They're teammates," Doctor Whooves said to himself, "But... why?" He then continued to listen in.

"You have now failed me. What do you think was gonna happen when it was the three of us? You know who's superior here!"

"What are you saying?" The other twin said.

"You have no hope of escape. Looks like you lose." The sound of the chain was being brought down after what she said, and then one of the twins cried out in pain. Doctor Whooves backed away from the door and the three of them could clearly hear the the end of the two being brutally beaten by Obsidian. The sounds, just like what happened to Rarity; The shredding, ripping, crunching, beating, and the worst of all, the screams.

"Please," Spike said getting on his knees, "Make it stop," He then gripped the back of his head, "Make it stop, dammit! Make it stop!" He began to cry. Derpy got down and embraced him.

"It'll be okay. We're here for you." Derpy cooed. The brutal murder was over, and the sound of chains was being dragged as it got quieter, and quieter. Then Obsidian was gone.

"Now what Doctor?" Derpy asked nervously. He got down on his knees and petted Spike, "The only thing I can think of: We have to find the others."