Vengeance In The Everfree
"So,Soarin," Rainbow Dash asked as Soarin led her into his office, "why am I being exempt from weather duty today?"
Soarin locked the door and looked at her. "Soarin?" He asked, "I'm not Soarin!" Shadowleaf removed the costume and grinned.
"Oh no..."
*****
Rainbow Dash awoke with a start. Freezing cold water dripped down her mane. She had her legs spread apart and tied with thick rope to two wooden poles. Her neck had a leather collar around it, which was attached to a rock wall with a short chain, preventing her from turning her head too much. Around her were the walls of a cave, three coffins, and several plastic buckets. The last thing she remembered was being tricked by Shadow Leaf, and then knocked out in one blow to the head.
"Help," she cried out, "somepony help!"
More freezing cold water was dunked on her. Rainbow shivered as it poured down her face, drenching all of her fur. She yanked back to look behind herself, but it only made the collar choke her. She turned back forward, giving up.
"I bet you weren't expecting me to be alive," somepony said. Shadow Leaf walked in front of Rainbow Dash, smiling. Dash nearly vomited at the sight. Shadow Leaf had no fur left, he was completely red, charred muscle. One of his eye sockets was empty, leaving a red gaping hole on his face. The whip marks and broken bones appeared to have been dealt with, but it was still a mystery as to how he could be living.
"How..." asked Rainbow Dash, "How are you even alive?"
"Well," said Shadow Leaf, "there's this thing called a hospital." He placed his burned down hoof under Dash's chin. "They fixed me up to livable conditions, then they sent me away with some painkillers and told me to get some rest."
Dash struggled to get free, or at least away from Shadow Leaf's disgusting hoof. Shadow Leaf grabbed her chain and pulled it tightly toward him, making her neck completely immobile as she watched him in horror.
"Now," he said, "I may have killed your friends under a curse, a curse which took over my brain, but that gives you NO right to torture me."
"You son of a bitch," yelled Rainbow, "lemme go!"
Shadow Leaf slapped her, hard. "Let me finish. I did not kill all of your friends Rainbow Dash, I only killed a few. I only killed those few because I had to. This time, it is about vengeance. I am going to do what you did to me, but worse. There's only one thing more satisfying than torturing your worst enemy, Rainbow Dash. And that's torturing your worst enemy while their friends are watching."
Shadow Leaf walked over to the three coffins and opened them. He pulled out a pony from each one. Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Applejack all had looks of horror as they stared at Rainbow Dash. Each pony had rope binding their legs together and gags in their mouths so they couldn't speak. Their muffled cries and screams were still loud, but they weren't comprehensible.
"You fucking prick," yelled Dash, "I'm gonna fucking kill y-"
Shadow Leaf shoved his hoof in her mouth. "Language," he said, "that's not very nice. You really shouldn't act like that when somepony is torturing you, you probably should be begging for your life."
The pegasus walked over to a plastic bucket and removed a small, white horn. He turned to Rainbow Dash and grinned with the small amount of a face he had left and said, "You can have this back now."
Shadow Leaf jammed it into Rainbows eye as hard as he could. The cyan pegasus shrieked and squealed as blood and vitreous fluid plummeted down her right cheek. From her left eye, tears flowed freely, making the left side of her face completely wet.
The three tied up mares screamed and cried as they watched their friend get mutilated. Shadow Leaf yanked the horn back out with one big tug, making Rainbow Dash scream of agony. Red and clear fluids spurted out quickly, soaking Shadow Leaf's face and the ground. Shadow Leaf held up Rainbow Dash's chin again. She was still crying and screaming, but she looked back at him.
"Now you know how it feels," he said, "but that's not all. No, now your FRIENDS get to see what it feels like!"
"No!" Dash yelled, crying her other eye out, "you sick bastard! They're innocent!"
"So was I." Shadow Leaf took the bloody horn and very slowly inserted it into Rarity's eye. She screamed really loudly, but the gag muffled the actual words she was saying. More blood and vitreous fluids splattered about the floor, and two mares were now screaming. Shadow Leaf, rather than taking the horn out, left it in.
"She can keep it as a memory of her sister."
"What the fuck is wrong with you?" screamed Rainbow Dash, "Just kill me already!"
"No," said Shadow Leaf, "if you tortured me, I get to torture you. It's only fair."
Shadow Leaf went to a different plastic bucket. He pulled out the red bow from Apple Bloom. "Remember what you did with this?" He grinned at Rainbow Dash, who was still screaming in pain, "I'm going to do something much worse."
Shadow Leaf walked over to Rainbow Dash and grabbed one of her wings. Her pupil dilated as she frantically flapped her wings back and forth. Shadow Leaf was strong however, and managed to get the bow tied around her wing. He then proceeded to grab it in his mouth and run with it. Rainbow Dash screamed as the bow snapped in two, her wing hanging on only by a bloody tendon. The ground under Rainbow was becoming a thick red pool.
Shadow Leaf smiled and turned to Rarity. She had completely bled out through her eye socket, and she was no more. Rainbow Dash continued to shout vulgarities at him, which he ignored. He turned to Applejack, who gulped as he approached. He tied it around her neck, very tightly. Then, he dragged her over to Rainbow Dash. He tied the bow to Rainbow's chain, just barely suspending Applejack in the air by her neck. She began choking and screaming, and Rainbow felt a slight pain in her throat with all of the weight added on.
Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie cried and screamed as Applejack was hung by the chain, making coughing and hacking noises as she attempted to catch her breath. The mare's face turned red, the pain visible in her face. She spewed tears at Rainbow Dash as she slowly came to a stop, giving Rainbow Dash a lifeless corpse on her chain.
Shadow Leaf smiled. "Now," he said, "remember that satisfaction you got when I burned up?"
"No, don't, please!" Rainbow Dash begged.
"Ha, that's cute. YOU are begging for something? Normally if somepony begged, I'd let them go, but you're a tough mare."
He walked to a third bucket. There was still a fourth, so this couldn't have been the end. In the bucket was a gallon of gasoline and a match box. He took both out as he walked over to Pinkie Pie.
Pinkie Pie squealed and screamed, knowing already her fate. Rainbow Dash did the same, but her screams came from pain, agony, and sorrow.
Shadow Leaf removed the gag from Pinkie, and before she had time to talk, he dumped the gallon of gas right in her throat. She began coughing it up, splashing it onto the floor. Shadow Leaf continued to pour it in her mouth. Pinkie had already swallowed a lot of it, and he was still pouring. Finally, he was done, and he lit a match. Shadow Leaf tossed it on a small puddle of gas lying next to the pink mare which traveled up to her face.
The flame ignited, both Dash and Pinkie screaming as it began to eat the gas trail leading to Pinkie's mouth. Pinkie was soon rolling around on the ground, gurgling up more gasoline from her mouth as the flames grew around her. The mare's body was already visibly burning, and Rainbow Dash could see Pinkie's very muscle melting off of her skin. The flame had now reached Pinkie's bottom lip, and withing a few seconds, it found its way inside her throat.
Pinkie screamed really loudly this time. The flame ate Pinkie from the inside, burning her up completely. A large splatter of blood exploded from Pinkie's chest and head, and Rainbow Dash knew her last friend was dead. The body was now a burning jumble of bone, flesh, blood and organs, but there was no way to tell who the pony was, or what each part of the pony was.
Rainbow Dash screamed at Shadow Leaf. "Just kill me already," she begged him, "I just want to die!"
"Not yet," he said, "I have one last thing to do."
Shadow Leaf looked in the bucket and grabbed a small ball of wood. He reached it into the fiery corpse for a few seconds before removing it once more. It was now burning, with a flame on the top. Shadow Leaf walked up to Rainbow Dash. "Now," he said, "this is going to hurt a lot."
Shadow Leaf shoved the ball into Rainbow's bloody eye socket. Dash screamed as the fire burned the skin around the area, melting the flesh right off of her face. The flames began eating a path into her, attempting to get to her brain. The screams seemed to be getting louder as the flames made their way inside of her. When Shadow Leaf was amused enough, he picked up the bucket of water fro earlier and dumped it into her eye socket. A large amount of smoke and steam shot out of Rainbow's eye socket.
Shadow Leaf had timed it correctly, so Rainbow Dash had lived. She was still screaming and crying, which was exactly what Shadow Leaf wanted. Rainbow's face was a mess of blood, melted flesh, and vitreous fluid. Shadow Leaf then remembered something Scootaloo had done to him.
He got a bunch of the liquid on his hoof and shoved it in the mare's mouth. He then clamped her jaw shut. "Drink it up!"
Rainbow Dash made out several muffled squeals as the vile liquids rested upon her tongue. She would never drink it. As soon as she could, she would spit it all over Shadow Leaf.
Shadow Leaf had already seen what she was doing, so he explained to her, "I don't care how long it takes, I'm not letting go."
Rainbow Dash still attempted to wait him out, but the taste lingering around in her mouth was just unbearable. Eventually, the cyan pegasus gulped it all down in one go, the taste following it all the way down her throat.
Shadow Leaf smiled and said, "Finally, Dash, you listen."
Rainbow was still screaming at him, as well as struggling to get free. Shadow Leaf had finally decided it was time to end things. He reached into the first bucket he had gone to and found a taser. He lifted it up to Rainbow's steaming eye socket. "This will only hurt a lot," he said, as he clicked the button on the taser. Rainbow Dash felt the jolt of pain go straight into her brain. She screamed louder than she knew was capable. The pain was growing, and Shadow Leaf was laughing.
"Stop it!"
Shadow Leaf did stop. He turned to see where the voice had come from. It was Scootaloo, her eyes watering and her face extremely wet with tears.
"Ah," he said, "perfect. You just made my job ten times easier. If you would, please allow me to tie you up with Rainbow Dash."
"No!" Scootaloo screamed. She ran at Shadow Leaf full speed, taking him by surprise. Shadow Leaf fell to the ground, the taser dropping beside him. Scootaloo picked up the taser and began shocking the torturer.
Shadow Leaf screamed as the electrical waves surged through his body, preventing him from doing anything but roll around in pain. Scootaloo kept tasing Shadow Leaf, and he kept rolling across the ground. Eventually, the stallion had rolled into Pinkie's body, which was still burning in the extra gasoline.
Shadow Leaf screamed even more loudly as fire added to his pain. The shocking of the taser and the burning of the flames was too much for him. His face had begun to melt off, and eventually, you couldn't tell any part of him from Pinkie. Scootaloo dropped the taser, panting. A few more ponies, mainly nurses and doctors, showed up. Scootaloo explained that she had simply found the pegasus torturing the four ponies. Rainbow Dash was taken into emergency care and recovered within a few months. Neither of the pegasai were convicted of any crimes.
Although their friends were deceased, Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash continued to live happily together, and after several months, they were able to put all of this behind themselves.
