They called him Lime due to his very queer fondness for the things, he loved them as much as he loved magic and Hanz of course, though he knew that his blunder had marked him a dead pony when the carefully crafted catastrophe couldn't create an opportunity for him to successfully pull off his task. He understood the outcome, he knew what was to come; failure is the most thing the most offensive thing he could do. It was like spiting Hanz in the face; so as he was lead by Hanz's elite guards to the “Behavioral Adjustment Room” he did not argue or make excuses he calmly trotted along with them. As they made their way through the gray candlelit halls they came upon another group of guard who had a chained yellow Pegasus in the middle of them, Lime recognized one of the guards as “Scorching Flame” the red unicorn looked at Lime and sighed.

“Lime” was his reply Scorching's jet black mane and indigo eye's seemed indifferent to Lime's presence; “look, could you look after my Limes for a while” Lime asked looking at Scorching “I don't know when I'll be back, and they might not get watered while I'm gone.” Scorching nodded and continued trotting with the Pegasus in tow; In the “Behavioral Adjustment Room” Hanz along with Rarity and a drowsy orange pony were waiting as Lime entered; “Hello Lime” said Hanz in a cheery tone “I was wondering when you would show up you didn't get lost did you?” Hanz paused and motioned Lime to sit at a table the table had some sort of contraption on top of it as Lime looked at it he began to get a bad feeling.

Hanz continued “You know even though you failed me I still got what I wanted do you know why?” Hanz asked as if Lime fully understood the complexities of his plan; “I uh don't know sir, I've always assumed that you have a backup plan for everything.” Lime replied trying to hid his fear; Hanz looked at the mechanism at the table the orange pony trotted up to Lime “your hoof please” Lime hesitated, but a quick glance at Hanz changed his mind; the orange pony put Lime's right front hoof inside the mechanism. “You are correct Lime I do have many plans all with backups; tell me have ever been beaten, I don't mean losing a game, I mean beaten for information, beaten so much that you black out for two day's, beaten so brutally that even the slightest move or touch anywhere on your body receives agonizing pain! So beaten so harshly beaten that you start to like it that you live for it you want it need it!”

With every word Hanz's voice got closer and closer from calm and collected to manic insanity, in his mind he saw flashes of hooves hitting him pounding him breaking him all the while forging him to the stallion he is today. Lime looking terrified wondered what Hanz of getting at; calming down Hanz started to speak “when we break we either die or continue to live so what about you? What will you do when you break live or die? You like books Lime, I sure hope so you see we just strapped you to an interesting mechanism, you see how it looks like a box of gears that controls a weight that...” his voice trailed off the orange unicorn using telekinesis floated a book inside the top of the mechanism as the book fell in Lime was able to see that on his side at least was a counter that he assumed showed how much weight that was to be applied to his arm. Lime looked at the counter it read 05:00 lb; Hanz sighed “Burning Flame this is a punishment add more” at his command Burning Flame placed more books from the pile on a second table, to Lime's horror he saw the numbers rise 10 lb, 15 lb, 20 lb, his hoof started to crack and snap, at 30 lb his hoof broke Lime screamed as his hoof broke and pain shot through his whole body eventually though his body went into shock, that was until Burning injected him with adrenaline.

Lime felt the pain again tenfold; Burning, while Lime was still in pain unstrapped him from the mechanism and put his whole right front leg in and strapped him in. “This is were I take my leave, come on Rarity we have deal to negotiate” opening the door Hanz saw Rarity looking at Lime then exit the room; Hanz then said to Burning “After the arm make sure he get's to his room, no more just the leg.” Burning nodded and started to stack the books.

Author's Note

Here I introduce Lime.