Chapters An Invitation
Twilight was busy reorganizing her books and Spike was helping her tidy up her library. She was interrupted by her restocking when a knock came from the door.
"Hey, Spike. You mind getting the door for me?" Twilight asked.
"Alright." Spike said as he set down the pile of papers he was organizing. He walked over to the door to find out who was there. He opened the door to find a mailcolt.
"Letter for Princess Twilight Sparkle," He said.
"Oh okay," Spike grabbed the letter. He closed the door and walked over to Twilight, "A letter came for you."
"Who is it from?" She she inquired.
"I dunno. How about you open it and find out?"
She gave Spike a glare and proceeded to open the letter and read the following:
My Dearest Princess Twilight Sparkle,
Mind if I call you Twilight? I'm sure you don't. Anywho, my assistant Derpy Hooves and I have been called out to investigate a manor that somepony told us to look into. She said that she closed it down two years ago and she says she's feeling, rather stalked by somepony. What connections do these two things have you might ask? Her dead husband. She and her husband lived here over two years ago and she started to feel uneasy about him. Eventually she discovered he was a psychopath who then attempted to murder her. The reason she said why he wanted to do such a horrific thing was for her money. She felt like she was in a horror movie until she beat him with her wits. She had come to a dead end only to find one object that could suffice to be a weapon: an umbrella. She hid behind the door as he entered the room with a large kitchen knife. She jumped out and stuck the tip of the umbrella into the colts neck, piercing all the way through. She had become a murderer, only to kill one. Hiding his body, she quickly left the place and closed it down forever. Now she thinks his ghost has come to stalk her and eventually kill her. Why am I telling you this? Well I want you and your friends to come along of course! Bring your little dragon assistant too! If you agree to my little offer of investigating this manor of insanity, It is on the outskirts of Ponyville on a hilltop. You can't miss it, unless you're oh so incredibly oblivious. Well, I hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
Doctor Whooves
"That sounds interesting. I'll gladly take the offer!" Twilight said with excitement.
"Are you sure about this? It sounds pretty dangerous," Spike said uneasy.
"I think we've been through a lot worse than something like this. C'mon Spike. Help me gather up the girls! Also make sure you grab a camcorder and a flashlight."
"Okay, I'll go do that," Spike went upstairs to grab what Twilight wanted and they quickly headed out.
***
Six mares and a dragon were walking up to a hill in the outskirts of Ponyville to see a sketchy looking manor at the top.
"I'm so glad you girls were willing to do this," Twilight thanked them.
"Aww, It's no biggie. I'm ALWAYS up for some adventure." Rainbow Dash said rather energetically.
"And we don't really spend much time together anyways. Anything for us six to be together!" Rarity added.
"Hey! What about me?" Spike asked.
"And of course you too Spikey-Wikey!" Rarity gave him a kiss on the cheek with his face flushing into a deep red.
"Well, here we are girls!" Twilight announced.
"Uhh, Where exactly IS the Doctor?" Applejack asked.
"Oooo!!! Over there! I bet he's playing hide n' seek in his TARDIS!" Pinkie Pie bounced pointing at the blue police box. They proceeded to walk over to the TARDIS to find a note.
"It's another letter from the Doctor," Twilight said.
"What does it say?" Fluttershy asked. Twilight then proceeded to read it:
Dearest Twilight and friends,
If you are currently reading this, Derpy and I are oh so very glad you decided to come along. If you are reading this and we are currently with you, disregard this whole letter. If you are currently reading this letter and we are not here, we have already gone inside without you, because your slow. So feel free to take a look around this place and then proceed to find us. It is important that you do. So you may not hear from me until you find Derpy and I in pony. So I hope you have a successful search throughout the place.
Sincerely,
Doctor Whooves
"I guess we should go ahead and go on inside," Twilight suggested, " Got your camcorders and flashlights everypony?" Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy pulled out their flashlights, While Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Spike and Twilight pulled out their camcorders. "Okay. Lets go." Twilight said as she opened the door.
They walked into a dimly lit hall with two furnaces and a huge chandelier. The night-light creeped through the boarded up walls emitting an eerie glow.
"Kinda spooky in here," Applejack commented about the place.
"What do you expect? It's been like this for two years. Someone was murdered here y'know." Twilight added. Suddenly the entrance door closed behind them. Pinkie ran over to try to get it open, but it wouldn't budge.
"What the hay? Who closed the door?" She started to panic, "Who the hell closed the door!?" Everypony looked at each other becoming suspicion of one another.
"None of us would've done this," Fluttershy stated.
"Then who did?" Rainbow Dash questioned.
"None of us would do this!" Applejack countered.
"Then who did?" Ranbow Dash asked, "I bet it was the Doctor!"
"No. He wouldn't do this. Never," Twilight said "Girls, I fear besides the Doctor and Derpy, that we're not the only ones here."
"How do you know that?" Rarity inquired.
"I don't know...."
"Let's keep moving," Spike suggested. They all followed the dragons order as they made their way into the manor.
***
They had all been walking for quite some time now, and the couldn't help but feel uneasy about the place: broken walls, boarded up doors, shattered glass, it was quite unsettling. Twilight turned to see her friends through her night vision in her camcorder.
"Everypony okay?" She asked. They all nodded besides Fluttershy, "Fluttershy? Are you okay?" She turned her head to Twilight with a very nervous look on her face, "Umm... Yeah I-I'm fine."
"Now you can't fool me Shy. I know your scared, but we're here for you"
"I," She gulped, "I know that. T-to be honest, I didn't want to come."
"The what ever made you decide to tag along, darling?" Rarity asked.
"The lack of making my own decisions got the better of me. Twilight, you said that everypony was coming to search around the place, and I didn't want to upset you... Besides, Rarity is right. We hardly spend time together anymore, so I could't decline."
"I'm sorry Fluttershy. I should've thought about your timidness not being able to handle this," Twilight apologized.
"You're fine," Fluttershy said accepting her apology. Twilight turned back around to see a door was in front of them. She opened the door to find a body fall out of it. She and the others jumped back in a panic and the sight of the corpse. It was exactly the way thet the Doctor told them about the murder of the psychotic husband: An umbrella lodged all the way through his throat, the blood so crusty and old some of it had turned a mustard yellow mixing with the dark red, creating a deep orange color. It was all over his mouth and had created a dry trail of blood all the way down to his back and chest. His lips had been stuck together because of the stick now clotted blood seeped from his lips. Some of his skin had merged to the tile floor and had decayed.
"What the hell?" Spike stepped back in disgust. A sudden sound of a chain being dragged on the floor, was heard from down the hall. Pinkie covered her mouth, preventing her from screaming in a panic. The others stepped back in terror. The noise then stopped and they stood there in silence. Rarity shrieked as she was slammed against the wall to their left, starting to phase through the wall. Twilight and Spike tried to pull her back, but she was sucked in. Pinkie Pie was the next one to be dragged away. She was being bulled by the neck all the way down the hallway, by some sort of a shadowy object. Pinkie was dragged upward, and was slammed against the floor being sucked in. Rainbow dash ran for Pinkie, but she had disappeared through the wooden floor. She thought there might have been a trap door, but there was nothing. Applejack was the next victim. A chain wrapped around Applajack and she was pulled into an open room a few steps down the hall. The others chased after her but the door slammed after she was inside the room. They tried to open it, but it was shut up tight.
"What the hell is happening!?" Twilight yelled, demanding for an answer. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were in a state of shock and couldn't answer even if they wanted to. "Spike! Do you know what's happening??"
"How should I know!?" Spike yelled in frustration and horror. They looked back to see that Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had disappeared. It was just the two of them. They stood there in a silence and waited for something to happen. The last thing Twilight remembered was falling into what felt like an abyss, and seeing Spike reaching out for her. Then she blacked out.
***
Twilight woke up with a start to find a dim light cast down on her. It was the hole in the floor she fell into. She got up and then turned her camcorder on so she could see in the darkness. She had very little sight of where she was going, even with her night vision and the flashlight built in her camera. She looked to her left to find another note from the Doctor:
Dear Twilight,
I bet you are wondering how I know it is you who are reading this. That is simple: I am Doctor Whooves, but from the future. With that being said, you now clearly know that my assistant and I make it out alive. I cannot tell you too much, because it may cause a paradox, and paradoxes are never a good thing. Even if I wanted to tell you more, I couldn't, because of the device I am using. It is called 'The Space and Time Notes'. Not a special name but it comes in handy. It allows me to pinpoint the location through out time and space of a pony, and write a letter to that specific pony, but I am timed. In other words, I have a minute and forty-five seconds to write this to you. And all of your friends will read this same letter, but addressed to them. Some of the notes you receive from me will be from the future me, and some will be notes from your present Doctor. now before I run out of time to tell you anything else, I will tell you this: TRUST NOPONY. I REPEAT: TRUST NOPONY. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU DO NOT TRUST ANYPONY. I've run out of time to write this to you. Your objective is to find your present Doctor as soon as you can. I wish you good luck.
Sincerely,
Doctor Whooves
She looked at the note, so incredibly confused at what she had just read.
"Trust no pony?" She said to herself, "What does he mean by that?" She began to press on when she heard a sudden booming voice:
"Yoo hoo! Any pony there?" The voiced asked. Twilight turned in every direction to pinpoint the location of the voice. Then it spoke again, "Feeling confused, little filly?" It asked again.
"Who's there??" Twilight asked in a slight panic.
"To answer that question: I'm no pony special really. And stop looking around like that! You're making a fool of yourself! And I know Princess Twilight Sparkle isn't a fool."
Twilight was frozen still at the mention of her title, "How do you know who I am?"
"Oh that's easy! I am a paranormal entity, a creature. I know the names of the dead and the living, just by looking a you. And I'd prefer you not call me a ghost, because that's just too cliche. But You may still call me that after I dragged away your friends."
"So that black 'thing' was you?" Twilight inquired.
"More or Less, yeah. Now, let me tell you what I am here to tell you: You're stuck in this manor, are you not?" The voice paused waiting for Twilight's answer. She hesitated, but refused to respond. The voice continued, "Yes. You are stuck. No you may be wondering how you get out? Let me answer that question for you: If you play my little game. I call this game of mine: Murder." Twilight's eyes widened and her pupils grew small. This must be what the Doctor meant by trust no pony. "How do you play my little game? It goes something like this," The voice explained, "In order to win you must be the last one alive. If you are the only pony left, you may go free. If you do not participate in my game, there will be punishment. Now, there are three rules; Rule number one: You cannot use your magic. Rule number two: You cannot use your wings. And rule number three: If you break any of the first two rules, you will be killed. Simple, eh? I have told all of your friends this, so they will all be participating. So now, I bid you good luck and I hope that one of you makes it out safely." The hall then grew quiet as the voice left. Twilight had thoughts rushing through her head
Would my friends kill me? Is this a dream? Is this the only way out? She then snapped back into reality and pressed forward, no, She thought to herself, My friends would never do anything like that. But, what the Doctor said. Should I not trust anypony? Dammit! I'm so confused! Well, I guess I'll have to find out. Twilight put her camcorder up so she could see her way in the darkness, and she made her way into the depths of this horrific game.
Author's Note
Alright. My second attempt at a grimdark. Well, The Seven Sins wasn't exactly a grimdark, but this one is.This time I don't want so much fire and hate, so I hope you like it.
Spike had been wandering around the place for who knows how long. All he could think about is the fact that his friends might end up killing him, just so they could get out of here. He would never kill. He would never commit murder only for his benefits or anything else. Stopped to feel that he had stepped on a piece of paper. It was another letter from the Doctor:
Dear to whomever may receive this,
WE ARE NOT ALONE. How do I know this? I've seen them. More life. More ponies. But I've come to find it has lead us to even more madness. This manor is filled with horror beyond imagination. There are sadistic mares with weapons of all sorts. But there are three in general you need to look out for: The first one being a little girl. She carries meat cleaver for a weapon and she is extremely fast. The second one does not have a weapon of any sort, except for when she is torturing her victims. We walked in a room where she had somepony tied up and she was slowly cutting the mare open. We were lucky to escape. And finally a mare about six feet and seven inches tall. She doesn't look like she's built, but she is. She carries a long chain with a short spear at the end, and carries a machete in her other hand. Plus there are several others, but they don't come even close to being any threat comparing to these three. If you see any of them, DO NOT ENGAGE. YOU WILL BE KILLED UNLESS YOU RUN AND HIDE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? Now you need to find me. That is your ONLY goal. Understand? I hope to see you soon.
Sincerely,
Doctor Whooves
Spike put the note in his pocket and started to run. Only seeing green through his camcorder, he saw light green eyes string at him and turned back in a panic.
"Spike?" A soft, British voiced called out.
"Rarity?" Spike replied. He then herd hoofsteps run towards him and was embraced with a hug, "It is you!"
"Oh God Spike. I'm so scared."
"Do you know where anypony else is?" Spike asked. Rarity nodded her head, "No pony. No pony at all."
"C'mon. We have to find the Doctor."
"What's he going to do?"
"I don't know. But so far he and his assistant are the only ponies I can trust. And you too Rarity."
"Okay. Let's go find him." The two walked down a hall to find the Doctor.
***
They came to the end of the long corridor to find a staircase leading down. They both peered over to find the third set of stairs had collapsed, so they could only go down one floor. The door below them opened and they could see somepony with bright curly hair: It was Pinkie Pie.
"Pinkie Pie? Is that you?" Rarity inquired. The Pink mare looked up to see the two and excitedly replied, "Yeah! It's me! I'm so happy I found you! I thought I wasn't ever gonna find anypony!"
"So did we," Spike agreed. Rarity ran down and started to run down the stairs as Pinkie went up them. Spike noticed something at Pinkies side: It was a sharp silver kitchen knife in her hand. Spike grabbed Rarity's arm and shouted, "RUN!!"
As Pinkie was able to see them run away, she gave a wide grin and her pupils grew small. "I'm so sorry, but I have to get out of here. I promise the two of you will be missed after I kill you!" Pinkie said sadistically. Spike and Rarity ran into a room to try to find a place to hide, but there was no where to conceal themselves from the insane pink mare. Pinkie came into the room after them and began thrusting her knife at them, barely missing them. Spike noticed a small crack in the wall for them to fit through.
"This way!" Spike shouted as the two ran for their escape. Spike creeped through the hole first and then came Rarity. She was halfway through when Pinkie grabbed her by the arm and took her away from her escape. Pinkie then threw Rarity to the floor, weakening her from getting up.
"Rarity!!"
"Spike. Go now!"
"I'm not gonna let this bitch kill you!" Spike started to make his way back through, when Pinkie slashed at him. He moved back through the other side of the wall.
"Now I want you to see this." Pinkie began, "I want you to see me murder the only mare you ever loved." Pinkie got on top of Rarity and then thrust her blade down, cutting Rarity's beautiful body up into bloody scars. Rarity's screams fueled Pinkie Pie to now stab her, piercing through skin and bone. Rarity's blood was splattering on the floor and on Pinkie's body. Spike had enough and came back through the wall and charged at Pinkie. He slammed her against the wall and underneath a shelf with trophies. One of them fell on her head and she started to feel dazed. a red trail of blood began to trickle down her forehead, and dripping down the top of her lips.
"Spike. Run. Just run!" Rarity cried out in pain. Spike did what he said and he darted through the hole in the wall. Pinkie regaining her balance and consciousness, she ran after him. He ran as fast as he could and saw a pile of ruble barricading his way, so he turned left to find a hole in the floor. He looked back down the hall to she the bloody pink mare, with knife in hand, ready to strike. Spike took a few steps back and jumped over the gap in the floor and made it across. as he landed a piece of wood stuck up when he slightly brought his foot in the floor. Pinkie Pie appeared on the other side and jumped. But she jumped too short. 'SHRIP!' Pinkie couldn't breathe, because the piece of wood had completely gone through her throat. She gagged and chocked, as her blood came spewing and dripping from both her mouth and her neck. She tried to desperately grab the floor with her hands and arms as the rest of her body dangle from falling into the pit. Spike was horrified at this gruesome scene. With one last hack, Pinkie's blood splattered in front of Spike. The mare was motionless as her blood trickled down into the hole, hitting the bottom like the sound of water, dripping and hitting the bottom of the faucet. Spike stepped back in disgust as he heard the sound of hoofsteps making its way to the other side of the gap.
"Oh my God." Rarity said. There she was. Standing there. Scars and stab wounds all over her body.
"Rarity. Why? You used your magic to heal yourself... You're going to die now!" Spike yelled.
"I was dead either way!" She Argued, "I'd rather see you last before I die, rather that bleeding to death by myself."
"Rarity," Spike began to cry.
"Please, Spike. Don't weep for me." The scarred mare said. The booming voice returned:
"Uh-oh! Somepony's broken the rules! And you know what that means!" The sound of chains being dragged followed after the voice left.
"Rarity! I'm coming to get yo-"
"NO!" Rarity interrupted. "If you come back here I'll kill you." The sound of the chain came closer and closer with the sound of heavy hoofsteps. Rarity looked at Spike for one last time and reached out as she was rapped by a rusty, dull chain. Spike reached out as if he could grab her from the other side, but she disappeared into the darkness. The sound of a body was slammed down to the floor. What came next was gruesome: She started to wail in pain as the sounds of ripping could be heard. Then it became shredding and the sounds of her body being crunched. A pool of blood slowly seeped out of the darkness as the sound of beating and crunching became more brutal. Then the noises stopped. Something was thrown out of the dark and landed in the crimson pond of Rarity: A shredded, cut up, bloody arm. Spike stepped back in fright at now that the love of his life died right before him. Now both Pinkie Pie and Rarity were dead. Hoofsteps splashing and walking in the blood slowly faded as the murderer walked away. It was just Spike now. He got down on his knees and grabbed a hold of himself, crying, tears pouring down his face, slowly losing what sanity he had left. He curled up in a ball and slowly cried himself to sleep.
***
Twilight was walking down a corridor that she felt like she had been walking forever. She eventually came to the end of hall to find that one way was blocked by a pile of bed frames and mattresses, while she could only turn to her left revealing another long hallway. The took a few steps forward when the next thing she knew is that she was upside down. She still had her camcorder in her hand to try to see in the dark. She looked up at her hooves to see that one had been tightly wrapped by a rope. She looked back forward to see an somepony coming towards her: It was Applejack.
"Applejack. Is that you?" Twilight confirmed.
"Yeah. It's me. Looks like ya got stuck in one of mah rope traps," Applejack said. Twilight noticed Applejack was holding something in her hand, but she couldn't quite make out what it was even through her camcorder. All she could see was a long stick, with something at the end of it. Twilight proceeded to ask, "What is that in your hand AJ?"
"Nuthin' you need ta know," Applejack said rather harshly.
"AJ. Can you please let me down? My blood is starting to rush to my head and I might pass out."
"Good"
"What? What do you mean good??" Twilight said rather confused.
"You got the note from the Doctor. I can't trust nopony, even if I wanted to. I can only trust mahself. I'm sorry to do this to ya Twi,"
"Just let me go!" Twilight panicked.
"I will. As soon as you're out cold." Applejack lifted the object up and brought it back. Twilight realized what it was know: A sledgehammer.
"Please. Applejack! Don-" The last thing Twilight felt was a cold piece of iron, blown against the side of her head, before she was knocked out. Twilight dangled there almost lifeless, swining back and forth from the hammer, with blood trickling down the side of her head.
"I'm truly sorry Twi," Applejack loosened the rope and let her drop to the floor. Applejack then left Twilight still on the floor, and walked away from the unconscious Alicorn.
Author's Note
Sorry for the short chapter. I just feel like this is an appropriate place to stop and write the next one. Also how about that gore?
"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
"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."
Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash were making their way down a corridor, desperate to find Doctor Whooves. Twilight had a piece of cloth wrapped around her head, covering the gash where Applejack hit her.
"How's it doing?" Dash asked.
"Huh?"
"How's your sore doing?"
"Oh this?" Twilight looked up, pointing at the sore, "It's doing fine."
"I'm glad I found you when I did. I'm surprised you haven't died while you were just lying there. Not to sound morbid or anything," Rainbow Dash said defensively.
"It's fine."
"You still haven't told me how you got that."
"It's best you didn't know," Twilight quietly said.
"Did somepony do this to you? Was it one of us??" Dash kept questioning her.
"I said you don't need to worry about it," Twilight said curtly.
"Okay. I'm sorry for pushing you," Dash apologized.
"It's fine," Twilight forgave her. She looked over to the cyan blue Pegasus' side to see a thin knife about two inches long.
"Why do you have that with you?" Twilight pointed, "You could've easily used that to kill me."
"I would NEVER kill anypony. And this is only for self defense, only if somepony attacks me," Dash replied.
"Okay, I see."
"Plus, I would never let anypony hurt you Twi," Dash said shyly. They suddenly heard hoofsteps come from behind and the turned around. They saw a little girl with a meat cleaver.
"Hide!" Twilight whispered. Rainbow Dash darted around the corner with weapon in had, while twilight hid under a office desk against the wall. The little girl began to whimper as she came closer.
"Hello? Is anypony there? I need your help, to get out of here. Please, won't you help me?" The sound of hoofsteps came closer and closer to Twilight, until she could see a small child in front of her. She tried not to make a sound, but the little girl looked under the desk to find her, "I knew somepony was here," She grabbed Twilight by the arm and furiously threw her to the floor, "Now that you're here, You can help me get out!" She raised her weapon and brought down her weapon. Twilight closed her eyes and turned her head away in fear, as the sound of the blade went through flesh. But she felt no pain. She opened her eyes to see she was unharmed. But she couldn't say the same for the little girl: a knife had gone clean through her back and out her belly. Blood was slowly seeping out of her clothes and down her body. She dropped her meat cleaver as the blade withdrew from her body. As she fell over, Rainbow Dash was standing there with the bloody knife in hand. She held out her other hand for Twilight to grab. She hesitated to reach out for her.
"I told you, I won't let anypony hurt you," Dash said comfortingly. Twilight grabbed her hand and was now up on her hooves.
"Thank you," Twilight said softly. Dash responded with a light, satisfying smile. The two then ventured on into the hell.
***
"Who goes there?" A voice came from the darkness. Rainbow Dash brought her knife up and replied, "I swear, if you do anything funny, I'm not afraid to attack you, whoever you are."
"No Dash, stop. I think I know who it is. AJ? Is that you?" Twilight asked.
"Is that you Twi?" The voice replied. The pony stepped out of the darkness revealing herself to be Applejack, "Listen Twi. Ah'm surprised you're doing okay."
"Wait," Dash began, "Are you saying you knew about the gash on her head?"
"Ah was th' one who gave it to her," Applejack lifted up her sledgehammer for them to see.
"AJ. Please, I don't want anypony else to get hurt," Twilight pleaded.
"Ah'm so sorry for bashin' ya in the head. Honest!"
"Don't listen to her Twilight! She's just using her element of honesty to trick you," Dash said convincingly.
"Oh! Now we're gunna bring that up! In that case, ya might be using yer loyalty, just so yer friends can trust ya also!" Applejack countered.
"What? Bullshit! I would never betray my friends!" Dash said infuriating, "Twilight! Get away from her! She's gonna try to kill you now!"
"No! Ya get away from her, Dammit! She could easily kill ya right here and now!" Applejack yelled. Twilight was so utterly confused, with mixed emotions about to fall apart because of her friends about to possibly kill each other.
"Get away now! I'm not gonna let her hurt you!" Dash ordered.
"Don't let her loyalty get the better of ya!"
"Run Twilight!"
"Get away from here and run!"
"RUN DAMMIT, RUN!" The two said in sync. Twilight turned and disappeared into the shadows. Rainbow Dash turned around to see her opponent. Applejack glared at Dash as she prepared to strike, but she couldn't match her speed. Even with out using her wings, Dash darted for Applejack like bullet. Applejack raised her arms to block Dash's blow. Her arms began to bleed because of Dash's knife. Dash kept slashing at Applejack left and right, with her getting a few cuts here and there, lucky enough not to get any deep cuts. Dash brought her leg up and kicked Applejack in the face. All she saw was a blue blur in front of her, and then she was on the ground. She no longer had possession of the sledgehammer and Dash was instantly on top of her. She flipped her knife to where she was holding it back handed and struck down, cutting clean through her shoulder.
"Die you stupid bitch! Die!" Dash screamed as she drove the blade even deeper. Applejack wailed in pain, struggling to get back up. But the knife cutting through her flesh and bone was too much. Dash withdrew the blade as blood began to drip from Applejack's shoulder, dripping on to the floor. Dash gripped the bloody blade with both of her hands, about to strike for Applejack's forehead. But it never came down. Rainbow Dash cried out as her hair was being pulled by somepony. She was then dragged off of Applejack, and slammed against the wall with such force, she almost passed out.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," An ominous voice said. Rainbow Dash began to regain consciousness to see a green furred mare. The mare picked up Applejack's sledgehammer and whispered in her ear, "You've already been injured, so you are useless." Applejack was too terrified to move. The mare stood back up and lifted up the hammer and said softly, "Goodbye." She brought it down on Applejacks head. 'CRUNCH'. Rainbow Dash couldn't believe her eyes: Blood was splattered everywhere, and at the center of where her head used to be, was a pile of what was Applejack's head and brain. The sight was as if it was the darkest, reddest firework display on the forth of July. Blood on the walls, floors, ceiling and on the murderer's body. She turned to see Rainbow Dash and walked over with her crimson red hammer, and brought down the handle on Dash's head and knocked her out instantly.
***
Rainbow Dash slowly woke up and tried to move, but she couldn't. She was chained to a wall and was now officially terrified.
"Wh-where the hell am I??" She demanded. She saw that her jacket had been taken of and she was only wearing her sleeveless short shirt and her torn up shorts.
"In my dungeon," A voice crept up on Dash.
"Who are you?" Dash asked.
"My name is Emerald, and I welcome you to where I torture my victims."
"So you're the one who does that! are you a part of this 'game' too?"
"Why yes! How did you know?" Emerald asked sarcastically.
All Rainbow Dash did was smile.
"I hate smart asses like you. Not to mention ponies who are cocky," Emerald said angrily. A dim light came on and Dash who could now see more clearly. And she was even more scared. On the table were tools of so many sorts; from knives to cleavers, and giant scissors to saws. They were covering an entire table, neatly organized. Emerald walked over to the table and picked up a scalpel and walked over to Dash.
"Please, don't hurt me," Dash pleaded. Emerald ignored her and grabbed a hold of her hand. She examined it, gently sliding the scalpel over her fingers.
"Your hands are so soft," Emerald cooed. Dash was now feeling creeped out.
'What is she going to do to me??' She said to herself. Emerald set the scalpel down and picked up the rusty large pair of scissors. They were they size of a katana. She opened the massive pair of bronze scissors and struck both blades on each side of her body. Rainbow Dash flinched and her lip was quivering.
"I can tell you don't like to show fear, but with it being the two of us, you can let all of that fear out. I think I've decided," Emerald pulled the massive scissors out of the wall and set them back down on the table. She picked up the scalpel she had before ran it along her fingers, "I think this is the appropriate choice. Now, what would you rather have happen here: Do you want torture, or do you want pleasure?"
"What the hell does that mean?" Dash demanded.
"Would you rather have me slowly cut you up to my own ecstasy, or shall I pleasure both you and I sexually? I'll let you decide," Emerald said in a seductive tone.
"Neither! There's no fucking way I would let you do either to me!"
"Well, I let you have the option to decide, but looks like I get to make it for you," Emerald said with a sigh.
"NO! Let me out of these chains now dammit!!" Dash screamed. She struggled to rip the chains off of her, but she was only getting gashes on her wrists.
"What to do? What to do?" Emerald said to herself aloud as she paced the room, "I know! How about we do both? Ever heard of BDSM?"
"Don't you even dare, you slimy whore! I'll bash your head in!" Rainbow Dash threatened.
"We can start by cutting you down the middle. Now, shall we begin?" Emerald walked over and raised up her scalpel and pressed it up against Dash's upper belly, "Ready?" She asked. Dash was breathing heavily as Emerald slowly began push in her skin until she broke through, but not going too deep into the flesh. Dash let out a small whimper. Emerald looked up at her victim and slowly began sliding the blade down until she reached her naval.
"Now this is where the fun begins," Emerald giggled in Dash's ear. She trailed her hand over Dash's chest and reached underneath her shirt.
"P-please. Don't," Dash begged. Emerald ignored her once again and grabbed her right breast and began to massage it. Rainbow Dash began to lightly moan, and even though she didn't want to admit it, she liked it. Emerald then stuck the scalpel into her side and Dash moaned even louder, both in pain and pleasure. Emerald removed her hand from underneath Dash's shirt and moved her way down to her waist. She unzipped Dash's shorts and reached into her panties, beginning to rub her clit.
"You're already wet? You little slut," Emerald said seductively as she began to rub harder. Dash had now escaped reality and had been overcome by the pleasure she was receiving. The blood from the cut down her stomach began to bleed and trail down past her naval, and over her precum, the two now mixing together. The door had burst opened by something and the two heard heavy breathing from the source. Emerald turned around and took her hand away from Rainbow Dash, holding the mix of precum and blood. She saw a yellow mare with pink hair. Her eyes had widened and her pupils were small. She was frightened and had lost whatever sanity she used to have.
"Seems I forgot to lock my door this time," Emerald sighed in disappointment.
"Fluttershy! Get away now! Look what she's done to me!" Dash cried out beginning to sob.
"I can tell you one thing,Fluttershy -" Emerald held her fingers to her mouth and first licked, and then sucked her fingers of Dash and her blood, "-Her and her blood taste delicious."
Fluttershy snapped, and grabbed Emerald by the neck. She swung her against the wall and began to repeatedly bash her head in.
"NOPONY HURTS MY FRIENDS!" Fluttershy said in a fit of rage. She swung Emerald back around and grabbed a cleaver from the table of weapons, and swung it down at Emerald. She blocked the blow with her scalpel, but Fluttershy knocked it out of her hand with brute force. Emerald looked at Fluttershy one more time to see her bringing the weapon around her side. Fluttershy brought it back around cutting Emeralds head clean of, Her head left a trail of blood down her back as it hit the floor leaving a splatter of florescent red. Emeralds neck began to spew a small fountain of crimson blood as she fell to the floor with a thud. Fluttershy shivered at the sight she had just created then looked up to Rainbow Dash. She ran over and brought the cleaver above her head bringing it down. Dash flinched and only heard the sound of metal clashing with metal. Fluttershy was using the weapon to break the chains and she eventually broke the one holding her right arm in place. Fluttershy moved over to get rid of the second one and broke it down no problem. Rainbow Dash fell and Fluttershy caught her, dropping the bloody cleaver.
"I-I was *sob* so scared," Rainbow wept.
"I-it's okay. I'm here for you Rainbow." Fluttershy cooed.
"Promise me Fluttershy. Promise me... that you w-wont kill me," Rainbow Dash pleaded.
"I wont," Fluttershy twitched her head to the side and gritted her teeth.
"What's happening Shy?"
"I- I'm so sorry," Fluttershy stuttered.
"What are you sorry about? What is it?? Tell me Shy!"
"I c-c-can't! I can't do anything about it! I'm so sorry Dash," Fluttershy began weeping as well.
"You can tell me anything! Just please tell me! Tell me-," Dash was cut off by a piercing sensation that went through her stomach. She looked down to see what was causing that pain. To her horror she had just been stabbed by Fluttershy. She had grabbed Emeralds scalpel and impaled it into Rainbow Dash. Dash looked up to see the anger within Fluttershy's eyes,.
Dash began to cough up some blood, "But, y- *cough* you promis-," She was cut off again as Fluttershy dug the blade in deeper until it ripped all the way through her flesh, spewing blood. Fluttershy quickly withdrew the scalpel and held it up high, flipping the blade backhandedly. Fluttershy brought it down into Rainbow Dash's chest as Dash began to fall back. Her eyes began to fade as she fell to the floor with the blade driven into her breast. She coughed up a few more spews of blood before she passed. Her blood dripped from her chest and belly as it created a pool of blood on the floor. Fluttershy then came back to reality as if she were a whole new person. She saw Rainbow Dash's dead corpse knowing it was her doing. She stepped back slowly and began to panic, gripping the sides of her head, making her pink hair disheveled. She screamed in horror; for she had just killed one of her best friends. She had no clue what she should do, so she grabbed a knife from the table and rushed out of the room, leaving her dead victims their to rot in their own blood.
Author's Note
Lucas: Dear Celestia, this child has written clop, please help him.
Lewis: I had no other choice, because of the direction this was going.
Lucas: JUST PLEASE OH GOD NEVER DO THIS AGAIN.
Lewis: I WONT.
So for those of you who don't know, I promised myself NEVER to write clop at all, but I lied. So this will be the ONLY form of clop I will ever write. If I do end up writing clop in the future, you will know I have lost all of my sanity. Now enjoy the rest of my stories, YOU WANKERS.
