Equestria's Downfall

Chapter Sixteen:

Everypony's Worst Nightmare

“Locust! Put my personal slave on the stretcher. And don't be scared to be gentle with him,” Nightmare Moon said with an evil grin as she watched him be unlocked from his restraints.

Axe fell to the the floor and he picked himself off the floor and attempted to escape but then he was picked up into the air by Nightmare's blue mane that wrapped around him.

“Ah, ah, ah,” Nightmare Moon said. “Nopony leaves unexpectedly.”

She used her energy flowing mane and swung him against the stone wall.

“AAHHH!!!” He screamed in pain as he rubbed the back of his head.

Two Grenadiers picked him up by his two forelegs and they started dragging him to another room and Nightmare Moon followed. The Grenadiers slammed him onto a double conveyor belt that would've spun in opposite directions. When it spun in opposite directions, it would've pulled the shackles out in different directions causing him to be slowly, painfully, stretched. The Grenadiers then tied all his hoofs into the shackles on the stretcher and he was laid across the double, opposite, rotating conveyor belts.

“You are dismissed,” Nightmare said standing still waiting for Axe and her to be totally alone.

“Please Nightmare Moon!!! Don't torture ME!!!” Axe said.

“Will you be my slave and my personal servant?” Nightmare said.

“I WILL NEVER!!!” Axe replied with an angry yell.

“Then I guess I don't have to torture you after all,” Nightmare replied with a grin on her face.

“What? What do you mean?!” Axe asked frightened and stuttering over his words afraid of the black Alicorn mare.

Nightmare walked away from him towards an open door with two Palace Guards following her lead.

(I figured out that the names of the Theron Guards in elite armor are called Palace Guards. Sorry about the upcoming notice!)

“I wont have to now. My second in command is here and shall do it for me. I hope you have a good time with her!” The black mare hollered back, chuckling evilly, disappearing from sight.

The room was dark around him only showering a little light on him from a lit torch hanging on the side of the wall.

Axe started hearing hoofsteps to his left that was coming towards his direction. The brown stallion looked in the direction wondering in fear what the female creature could be. All that he saw in that location was pitch black since there was no lit torch at that side of the room.

A dark solid figure emerged in the darkness and Axe could see a little sparkle of energy at it's head.

The small sparkle of light only lasted a second and he could see for a brief moment that it was wearing a hat.

Axe then saw that another cast of light was moving up towards the pitch black wall and immediately realized that it was a flicker of fire.

“Spark?!” Axe called out to it excited and also confused if it really was her.

The flicker of fire disappeared for a millisecond and then it erupted into a bigger fire noticing that the unknown female pony lit a torch.

Axe then immediately realized that this was also not his beloved Spark, it was some other female Unicorn that he hasn't ever met and assumed that it was hostile to him.

The unknown turbaned Unicorn slowly made her way to the restrained Earth Stallion chuckling evilly.

“That should make it easier for me to see,” she said. “A new resisting slave for queen Nightmare Moon. You look weak, shouldn't be hard to break you now should it? Allow me to introduce myself. My name is the great and powerful Trixie!” She said with a grin.

There was one thing off about Trixie though, she had red colored pupils instead of her original self.

“Wait what? Your a pony like me why are you doing this? Why are you helping Nightmare Moon to dominate Equestria?”

“Well you see, the queen herself came to me wanting somepony to assist her and she knew that I wanted revenge in defeating Twilight Sparkle. She said if I join her, she would teach me magic spells that will outmatch her and can turn her to bits! I've always wanted revenge against her. The queen also said that we could rule Equestria together in an iron fist and I would have the best royal treatment, luxury, and riches! I knew that it was wrong but I just couldn't resist her and now I listen to her and I got everything I wanted and was promised!” Trixie said as she paced back and forth in front of him.

Trixie then walked next to a lever with a grin. She looked at him and then said “Ready?”

Axe had tears coming down from his eyes already and Trixie didn't even do anything to him yet. He then started sweating because he used all his reserves of strength and energy and tried pulling out of his restraints before it was too late.

“NO PLEASE!!! DON'T TORTURE ME!!! I BEG OF YOU!!!” Axe screamed realizing that the pitiful attempts of escape was useless now.

“Its too late now! You should have accepted the queen's offer and you wouldn't be in this mess. But instead you picked the long and painful way. You better hope that she has mercy on your soul because I wont!” Trixie replied as she used her magic to pull down a lever.

Long screams of pain quickly came out of the stallion as he was just being slowly pulled apart. He knew that he should have listened to Spark in the first place but if he did he wouldn't stand him any longer and he would just blow up taking out all of his held back anger at everypony that was with him. He had heard some bones crack and then felt like he couldn't feel one of his legs anymore.

Trixie enjoyed that short torture method which she let continue for about ten painful minutes for Axe.

She then turned off the torture device and unstrained him from it.

Axe slowly got up with so much pain inside him. When he got off it, Trixie said “Follow me please.”

Axe slowly nodded and did as he was told.

Trixie knew that she broke him already and was right about him being easy to break. But she wasn't done with him just yet.

“Stand here and don't move,” the light blue female Unicorn said.

Axe obeyed her and then knew that it wasn't over yet but he really wanted it to be. He then let more drops of tears come down from his face and let them drip to the floor.

Trixie liked it when her victims would obey her after one of her torture methods because then they wouldn't give much of a fight against her and she knew that she was in control over them.

Trixie tied his four legs with metal short shackles so that he could escape. Trixie saw him shaking and shivering and showed a little mercy to him by putting a rag in his mouth.

“Here, your going to need this,” Trixie said as she put the rag in his mouth and Axe accepted it but never looked at her straight in the eye.

Trixie walked behind him and grabbed his tail with her teeth. She gave three seconds for Axe to prepare himself and then she yanked a little patch of hair  off of his tail and he screamed with more tears running down his face.

Shreds of hair fell to the floor as Trixie let the ripped patch of hair fall from her mouth. She spitted out some tiny flakes of hair that was still stuck on her tongue.

One patch of hair after another and another were torn off of Axe's tail until there was nothing left but just tiny threads of it.

Trixie unshackled him and took the rag from him and was right to expect that he wouldn't go dashing away to freedom.

Axe stood there wondering what Trixie's next painful scheme was hoping that it was over. But unfortunately for him, it wasn't over.

Trixie then led him to a chair which he was then strapped on. She used her magic and picked the chair up and dropped him in a deep pool of water. Her next trick; drowning him until he nearly passes out, lift him above the water for a few breaths of air, and then repeatedly keep doing it.

The unicorn saw him struggling to break out of the chair and wanting to be able to breath again but she saw no signs of him close to passing out. She kept on watching him through many air bubbles popping on the surface of the water and when he was almost completely not resisting, she used her magic to pull him out of the water.

Axe took deep breaths but was only aloud four breaths before he was forced to be plunged into the water again. He hated her so much but he knew if he didn't listen to her, he would get a more deadly torture method. He knew that Trixie was going easy on him and that these are nothing compared to what else she has hidden in her brain.

Axe was dunked in the water about twenty times, each time worser then before. At the twentieth time, he was saved by Nightmare Moon herself.

Nightmare Moon walked in the torture chamber where Trixie was enjoying herself. She walked until she was right next to Trixie and she said “Lets see if our servant is willing to give me the right answer,”

“Oh don't worry, he wont disappoint you your highness. Because as you can see, yet again, I have not failed you,” Trixie replied hoping that Nightmare Moon would reward her with a complement.

“Oh my Trixie, you never seize to amaze me. You haven't failed me once, thats why you're my favorite,” The black Alicorn said.

“Thank you your highness,” Trixie replied.

Trixie unshackled him and Axe dropped to the floor, all wet, shivering in coldness, shaking in fear, panting heavily.

“Now pony, I hope you have came to your senses,” Nightmare Moon said as she towered over the brown earth stallion.

“I have Nightm...I mean...your...highness,” Axe said.

“And you agree to be my personal assistant until your life expires?” The black Alicorn said not changing her expression.

“Yes queen Nightmare Moon,” Axe replied still laying in the floor.

“Good,” she said with an evil grin.

“But...,” he said closing his eyes.

“But what?” Nightmare responded wondering what one thing he could request.

“Your highness I would be ever so grateful if you fix my leg. I cant feel it anymore and I am begging you to please fix it,” Axe asked looking up to her.

“Very well, a simple request for me to accomplish,” Nightmare said as she then healed Axe to normal.

Axe got up off the floor thankful to Nightmare Moon for healing him.

“Bow and show your gratefulness to queen Nightmare Moon servant!” Trixie yelled enforcing Nightmare's rule.

Axe bowed to her and extended his forelegs so that they were around  Nightmare's foreleg and he repeatedly kissed her hoof saying “Thank you your highness! I am so grateful to you and would be happy to serve you through your world domination campaign!” Axe said still repeatedly kissing her hoof.

“Nightmare smiled at him blushing a little. She raised her hoof to stop Axe from kissing it and she said “Enough pony! Trixie I want you to show him where he will be staying.”

“Yes your highness,” Trixie replied as she bowed to Nightmare before she was dismissed.

Trixie started through a hallway with Axe following her. Axe was the first pony she actually felt something positive through out of all of the other ponies she had tortured. She felt different about this pony then the other ponies. She felt like she liked this pony but she couldn't show her true feelings about for two reasons. One, if she and him did like each other, Nightmare wouldn't like it too much if she found out. Two, Axe would probably not like her after all of the things she had done to him.

Trixie kept on thinking not noticing that she had already arrived at the room where Axe was supposed to be staying.

“This is your new home. I'll show you inside,” Trixie said as she opened the door and let Axe in first.

“Its not much since you are new. If you do something really good for the queen like impress her or something then she might improve your room but all you get is this for now. If you plan on escaping in the future, Nightmare told me to tell you that you will be tortured and then killed. So think about plotting to go up against us,” Trixie said with no expression towards him.

“Don't worry, I wont ever go up against you or her,” Axe replied looking back at her.

“If the queen needs something like food, take the hall to the left, make a left, and then it would be the fourth door to your right. To get to the queen's chamber, take the hall to the right, and keep going until the end of the hallway. It should be the big doors at the end of the hall basically, you cant miss it. If you need me for anything my room is the one next to the queen's chamber on the right. You will be protected by two Palace Guards. They know the whole place around so don't be too shy to ask where you should go. Any questions before I leave?” Trixie said.

“Uhhh...I guess no,” Axe said still trying to sink in the information she gave him at high speed.

“Good. Oh and one more thing, don't ever disobey the queen, even if it is a stupid request. You always have to show that you really love her, then you wont be on her bad side,” Trixie said.

“Why are you giving me this information that can help me? I thought that you didn't like me right?” Axe asked confused at what Trixie really thought of him.

“No reason uhh I have to get back and do...things. Bye,” she said as she trotted off almost revealing her feelings toward him.

Axe closed his door and then soon realized that his own life has just smacked him upside his face. He had never been so hungry, thirsty, and tired in all of his life.

Axe ran into his kitchen and drank a gallon of water and a hole loaf of hard bread. It didn't fill him up completely but it did the job.

He then got into his small dirty bed and wrapped himself in the ugly worn out blanket tightly to keep himself warm. At first, it was kind of weird not sleeping with anypony because he was used to sleeping with Spark snuggling up to him so much. After a few minutes, whether he liked it or not, he was comfortable on the bed, alone. After a few moments of thoughts to himself, he fell instantly asleep.

(Sorry about not putting a few definitions of the description of Locusts earlier. I guess I forgot. Well I'm putting some of it out now so that it clears up your mind of what the Locusts look like)

Brumak- A dinosaur type Locust that is drove around by a Locust driver. Usually is as tall as a regular transformer. It has machine guns on it's wrists. A quadruple shooting cannon that comes from its back and extends over its head.

Corpser- A giant spider type Locust that drills the holes for the Locusts to get to the surface. No weapon at all except for it's size and smartness to attack and move underground undetected.

Boomers- 10 foot tall Locusts that are slow to move around and carry a grenade launcher called a “Boomshot” Usually say “Boom!” before they shoot you.

Grinders- 10 foot tall Locusts that are slow to move around and carry a rotated barrel heavy machine gun called the “Mulcher” Usually say “Grind!” before shooting at you.

Maulers- 10 foot tall Locusts that are slow to move around and in one hand carry an expandable sized metal shield. In the other hand they carry an explosive mace that can kill you on contact. Usually say “Crush!” before attacking you with the mace.