Chapters Sunday was rather uneventful as Lyra and Colgate spent time in town doing some long overdue sister/sister bonding and before they knew it, Monday morning had arrived. Both Lyra and Colgate were up before dawn so they could shower and eat. During breakfast Colgate asked her sister, "So Lyra, are you ready for your first day?"
Lyra replied, "You bet I am. I am ready to put my skills to the test."
This made Colgate very happy. Unlike Lemon Hearts, her last hygienist, Lyra was excited to start work. Once they got to their practice and opened for business, their first patient of the day came in. Applejack walked into their office and said, "Howdy Colgate, how are y'all doing?" She then saw Lyra standing there by Colgate and asked, "Lyra, is that you? Ah thought you were up in Canterlot going to school."
Before Colgate could say anything Lyra excitedly answered, "Not anymore Applejack! I graduated and now I am working for my sister!"
Colgate added, "Yep, she is my dental hygienist now."
Applejack replied, "Well Ah'm happy to see you two working together. Y'all seem so close, you remind me a lot of Apple Bloom and myself."
Lyra knew she better hurry and get Applejack back into the chair. She smiled and said, "Come on back Applejack, let's get this started."
Applejack followed Lyra back to the dentist's chair. Unlike a lot of other ponies, Applejack was not scared of the dentist so she did not hesitate to get in the chair. Lyra began to take a look in her mouth and did not see anything out of the ordinary, except for bright white teeth. She asked, "Wow Applejack, your teeth are really white. I take it you take good care of them?"
Applejack replied, "Eeyep, Ah take very good care of them. Ah don't want to wind up like Granny Smith so Ah make sure Ah brush three times a day."
Lyra said, "Wow. I am sure Colgate will love that. Speaking of Colgate, I will go get her to take your X-rays."
A couple minutes Colgate came over and said, "So Applejack, Lyra told me about your bright, shiny teeth. Let's take a better look."
Colgate's horn began to glow and using her magic she examined Applejack's teeth for cavities, and like always, Applejack's teeth were perfectly healthy."
Colgate smiled and said, "Well Applejack, your teeth look good but let's see how strong they are." Colgate paused for a minute as she levitated this device that measures a pony's bite force out of a drawer. Applejack knew the drill as she had done this many times before. Colgate placed the device in her mouth and Applejack bit down as hard as she could.
Colgate scowled as she read the results. Applejack got a lump in her throat and looked at the dentist in fear. She asked, "Colgate, Ah take it Ah didn't do very good."
Colgate's glare intensified as she growled, "No, you didn't do very good." Her scowl immediately changed to a beaming smile and she continued in a cheerful voice, "You did excellent. I have never seen a pony with as powerful of a bite as you!" Still smiling, Colgate finished, "And this is why you are my favorite patient. Your teeth are always perfect. It is obvious you take very good care of them."
Applejack replied, "Well Ah don't want to lose my teeth like my Granny Smith did."
Colgate said, "Yeah. It is too bad that she lost her teeth before I was able to open shop here."
Applejack agreed, "Ah know. Before you came along, we had to go up to Canterlot to see the dentist and we didn't always have the money to even pay for the train ride up there, much less see the dentist." Applejack paused and asked, "Ah have a question Colgate, do you know any spells to make a pony's teeth grow back?"
Colgate smiled and replied, "I'm sorry Applejack but I don't. I could always go see if Celestia would allow me to study in the archives."
After Colgate finished talking with Applejack, Lyra cleaned her teeth. On her way out they talked some more. Applejack asked, "So Lyra, were your parents happy to see you get your certificate?"
Both Lyra and Colgate teared up a bit. Colgate replied, "Well mom and dad died after getting struck by lightning in Fillydelphia visiting me. It was one of the hardest times in my life. I was working for a demanding boss and trying to save up money to open my own practice."
Applejack asked, "So what made you decide to open a practice here at home?"
Colgate replied, "I remember when they were on their death beds they asked me to promise to open a practice here in Ponyville so I could be here if Lyra needed me."
Lyra began to cry a little and said, "And I'm so glad she did. Colgate has always been here for me."
Colgate added, "And I always will be."
Before they knew it their next patient came in the door. Applejack said, "Well Ah better get going. Y'all have a good day."
They both wished Applejack well and got to work on their next patient. Luckily for Lyra, all their patients that day had good, healthy teeth so Colgate remained in a good mood and her first day on the job was a stress free one.
The following day started out like it would at any other dentist's office, Colgate opened the doors at eight and shortly thereafter, their first patient of the day came in. It was Bon Bon, Lyra's best friend from fillyhood. When Lyra saw her waiting in the lobby she ran up to her, hugged her and said, "Bon Bon! It is so good to see you again!"
Bon Bon replied, "Lyra, it is so good to see you too! It seems like it has been forever."
Lyra smiled and asked, "So what are you doing nowadays?"
Bon Bon replied, "Well I make chocolates that I sell to Filthy Rich. He then sells them in his store. Both of us make a lot of money off of that." She paused and continued, "So it looks like you are working for your sister now. I bet that makes life easy."
Lyra replied, "Well I am happy to be living at home with my sister but I still have to follow the same rules that other hygienists have to follow. Colgate doesn't relax the rules any for me."
Colgate heard the two talking for an extended period of time. She came out to the lobby and frowned at the two. She said, "Lyra Heartstrings, we have to stick to the schedule. I do not want us to be late taking our next patient in. You can do more bonding with Bon Bon AFTER WORK." She paused for a minute, raised her voice and said, "YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT BEING LATE."
Lyra shied back and replied, "Yes big sister, I know you hate it."
This had both Lyra and Bon Bon in a nervous mood. Lyra took her back to the chair and began to look inside of her mouth. Lyra felt like she was about to throw up as soon as Bon Bon opened it as her breath stunk. She saw that her teeth were kind of yellow and could even see a cavity with her naked eye. She whispered, "Bon Bon, I don't know how my sister will react to this but I know she will not be happy."
Bon Bon asked, "Why?"
Lyra replied, "Because it is easy to see that you don't take care of your teeth and ponies who don't take care of their teeth irritate her."
Colgate came over to the chair and said, "Lyra, I already said you two can do more bonding after work. Your job is to take a look at their teeth, come get me so I can further examine them and then clean their teeth."
Lyra was feeling really nervous because Colgate seemed to be completely different than she was yesterday when they had their in depth conversation with Applejack. Colgate ordered Bon Bon to open her mouth and was repulsed by what she saw. She then used her X-ray spell to examine things further. She was not at all pleased. Not only did she discover that Bon Bon had six cavities but also she had advanced gingivitis. She frowned and asked, "Bon Bon, how often do you brush?"
Bon Bon could see the displeasure in the dentist's eyes. She replied, "We-Well I don't brush them at all. I just never thought about it."
Colgate asked, "So, what kind of diet do you eat?" She paused and then sneered, "Oh let me guess, all you eat are sweets and nothing else?"
Bon Bon was so scared she looked like she was going to cry. She replied, "Well I mostly eat candy and the sweets from Sugarcube Corner."
Colgate sighed, "With a diet like that I'm surprised you even had enough muscle in your legs to walk over here." She then asked, "So Bon Bon, have you ever even seen a dentist before?"
Bon Bon replied, "Well no. I didn't even think about seeing a dentist until Berry Punch saw how my teeth were looking and suggested I come to you."
Colgate scowled and forced the bite force meter into Bon Bon's mouth. She growled, "Bite down as hard as you can until it becomes painful."
Bon Bon bit down on the device and quickly it became painful. She stops biting and Colgate read the results. She was not happy with what she saw. She growled, "That's it? That's all the more force you can bite with?" Colgate threw her hooves up in the air and continued, "Screw it, I'm done with you. With as bad as your teeth are, you are going to need care that I can not provide."
Bon Bon sneered, "Where do I have to go for this advanced care? I'm not wealthy you know."
Colgate smacked her for that comment. She then got a sinister grin on her face and laughed, "You'll see! Oh yes, you'll see!"
Before she could say anything Colgate gave her a powerful sedative to keep her quiet. She saw that Lyra was in the restroom so she knew this was her chance to start a new part of her practice, what she considered a special dental hospital. She was bound and determined to make sure nopony ever showed up with a cavity again, no matter what. She levitated the unconscious Bon Bon down to the basement where there was a door on her left. The door had a lock on it that only she could activate. She unlocked the door and took Bon Bon down a staircase into a dank, dimly lit room. In the room she had a dozen dentist's chairs. These were not your ordinary dentist's chairs though. Rather than having one full pad at the end for a pony to lay both it's legs on, it had two separate pads for a pony to place his or her legs on. Both the legs and arms had hoof cuffs that could easily hold a pony's appendage in place. The chairs also had mechanisms within them that allows these legs and arms to move in many directions. The chairs also had short spikes in them to inflict plenty of pain. She placed her patient in one of them and fastened the bonds around her legs. Bon Bon began to cry out in pain as the spikes entered her hide, causing blood to drip down onto the floor and drain down the drain that Colgate had placed under each chair. Her cries only angered Colgate further.
Colgate shouted "WOULD YOU SHUT UP! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NEGLECTING YOUR TEETH!" She injected some longer lasting sedative into her new patient to put her into a deeper sleep as she could not have her making any noises. Colgate realized that Lyra would probably wonder where she was so she hurried out of her new dental hospital, locked the door and headed back upstairs.
Lyra was waiting in the lobby with their next patient when she saw Colgate come rushing out from the back. Lyra asked, "Colgate, I was getting worried about you. Where were you anyway?"
Colgate snapped, "Does it matter where I was Lyra? No it does not. The hygienist does not question her boss. Now let's get this next patient in the back. I'm sure he is sick of waiting."
The patient replied, "Thank you Dr. Colgate. I'm glad to see you want to keep things on schedule."
Colgate replied, "Anytime Lucky Clover."
Lyra asked, "So what happened to Bon Bon?"
Colgate replied, "Lyra, I can't reveal that information around another patient. Come on, let's get Lucky in the back."
Colgate had seen many patients who had cavities but never before had she seen a pony with teeth in as poor health as Bon Bon's were. She began to feel like she was not doing her job in encouraging ponies to brush. Bon Bon's poor oral health made her decide that proper oral hygiene must be not only encouraged but forced, no matter what it took. Colgate hoped that she wouldn't have any more patients with cavities but deep down she wanted more bad patients to show up. Bon Bon's cries as she was being put in her chair gave Colgate a feeling of something she had never really felt before, power, and she wanted to experience a lot more of it.
The rest of the day went without a hitch as the rest of Colgate's patients had good, healthy, strong teeth. By the end of the day Colgate was in a cheerful mood, or so it seemed. Lyra saw this and was relieved. After they locked up for the day Lyra asked her older sister, "Colgate, now that we are closed for the day I'm going to go hang out with Bon Bon. Maybe her and I could go to the cafe and get some supper."
Colgate sighed, "I'm sorry little sister but Bon Bon's teeth are in such bad shape I had to send her to a dental hospital in Fillydelphia so it might be a while before you see her again."
Lyra looked dejected and replied, "Well you're the dentist so you know what ponies need the most."
Colgate patted her sister on the back and said, "Well that is just how things are. Ponies who don't take care of their teeth sometimes have to go out of the way for intensive dental care." Lyra began to say something but Colgate interrupted, "Tell you what Lyra, how about you and I go to the cafe for supper? It's on me."
Lyra's eyes brightened up as she realized that the sister she loves so much had returned to normal. She replied, "I would love that big sis!"
Instead of heading home the two headed straight to the cafe where they were greeted by Twilight and Rarity, who were also grabbing a bite to eat. Colgate saw the two were having ice cream along with a milkshake. She gave them a concerned look and asked, "Are you two sure you should be eating that? It isn't very good for your teeth."
Twilight smiled and replied, "I knew you would say that Colgate. Don't worry, both Rarity and I brush regularly."
Colgate looked at Rarity and noticed that her teeth were not as white as her coat. She was thinking to herself, "Yeah uh huh. We'll see about that Rarity."
Colgate had a malicious look in her eyes as she was examining Rarity from afar. Rarity saw this and noticed something different in the way Colgate was looking at her. She saw a look of malice in the blue unicorn's eyes. Rarity wanted to know what that was all about so she asked, "Colgate, why do you have that look in your eyes and why are you staring at me so intently?"
Colgate's visual examination stopped and her look returned to normal. She replied, "Oh I sometimes find myself staring at other ponies' teeth when they have an appointment coming up. I like to know in advance what to possibly expect."
Rarity had an unsure look in her eyes. She said, "Well ok, you were really making me nervous."
Twilight jumped in the conversation to lighten the mood. She looked at Lyra and asked, "So Lyra, are you happy to be back home from the academy?"
Lyra replied, "You bet I am! I am working for the most awesome dentist in the world."
Both Twilight and Rarity knew about Colgate firing Lemon Hearts and hiring Lyra. Twilight smiled and said, "Well I think it is wonderful that two sisters who are so close are working together. Besides Colgate, I trust Lyra a lot more to clean my teeth than I did Lemon Hearts."
Rarity added, "I heard absolutely dreadful things about her."
Colgate replied, "Yeah she wasn't exactly the most friendly hygienist in Equestria. She was good at her job but not only was she not friendly, she just acted like she was punching a time clock, she showed next to zero emotion and cared nothing about the patients."
Twilight asked, "So what is she doing these days anyway?"
Colgate replied, "Well she is working in the financial services department of the hospital. I guess they thought that hiring a total bitch would make the patients pay their bills on time."
Twilight laughed, "Yeah you're probably right. The hospital is not very friendly when it comes to demanding payments."
The two finished their sweets and they got up to leave. Twilight said, "Well we will see you next week Colgate. You and Lyra have a good one."
Not too long after Twilight and Rarity left the waiter came to take their order. Colgate said, "I would like your double cheeseburger, PLAIN WITH JUST THE CHEESE, some pretzels and a DIET POP."
The waiter smiled as he knew how Colgate's was when she ordered her food. He then looked at Lyra and asked, "May I take your order?"
Lyra replied, "Yeah, I would like a daffodil sandwich, some cranberries, a slice of cake and a glass of pop."
Colgate gagged when she heard her sister's order. The very thoughts of daffodils sickened her. She then realized what the rest of her sister's order was. She glared at her younger sister and asked, "Cake, pop? Are you sure about that little sis?"
Lyra sulked and replied, "Ok, change that cake to pretzels and make it a diet pop."
The waiter nodded and headed back to the kitchen with their order. Lyra asked, "Colgate, why did you make me change my order? You know I'll brush before I go to bed."
Colgate growled, "I know that but still, that stuff is HORRIBLE for your teeth. I don't want to wind up having to give my own hygienist fillings. That would make our practice look bad if somepony knew that you weren't taking care of your teeth."
After supper Lyra and Colgate headed home. After playing some board games and talking, they turned in for the night. While Lyra quickly went to sleep, Colgate was irritated. She felt as though she was failing the community. She decided that more than just ponies with severe oral health problems needed to be punished. She decided that all ponies who show up with even one cavity must be punished.
Colgate left her house with a loaf of bread as she knew that her patient would be hungry. Once she got in her office she immediately headed downstairs to her dental hospital. Bon Bon heard the door open and asked, "Colgate, is that you?"
Colgate stormed over immediately to her patient and shouted, "I DON'T REMEMBER TELLING YOU THAT YOU COULD TALK. SPEAK WHEN SPOKEN TO, THAT'S WHAT GOOD PATIENTS DO."
Bon Bon asked, "So is it morning already? Does Lyra know you have me imprisoned down here?"
Colgate smacked her for asking that. She growled, "What time of day it is does not matter and no, Lyra has no clue you are down here and she never will." She paused and continued, "You must be thirsty and hungry."
Bon Bon smiled and replied, "Actually yes, I am thirsty and hungry."
Colgate levitated a couple slices of bread and a glass of water above Bon Bon. She had a sadistic look on her face and asked, "So Bon Bon, do you want this?"
Bon Bon was starving so anything looked good to her. She licked her chops and replied, "Yes please!"
Colgate frowned and said, "You'll get it in a few minutes."
Colgate pulled out a very thin needle and began to ram it into Bon Bon's cavities. She was crying out in pain and kicking as the point of the needle was being rammed into her infected gums. When she was kicking she managed to break her leg free of one of the bonds and kicked Colgate in the process. This did not sit well with Colgate. She shouted, "So, you're going to be one of those types of patients? Well, we'll have to fix that!"
Colgate first refastened the bond holding Bon Bon's leg in place, then she headed over to a cabinet where she had some tools stored. She got out a drill, some bolts, nuts and a wrench. She headed back over to her terrified patient with a sadistic smile on her face. Bon Bon wanted so badly to ask what she was going to do with the tools but knew better as she had no desire to get smacked again.
Colgate asked, "Well now, where shall we begin?" Colgate began to drill a hole through the left hind leg of Bon Bon. She was screaming in pain as Colgate's sadistic laughter became louder and louder. Blood was splatting up from the hole and some got on Colgate's face as the bit began to drill through her leg. Before too long the bit began to burrow it's way through her bone, which only brought Bon Bon even more pain and Colgate more joy. She licked the blood off of her face and thought to herself, "Wow, this stuff is good! "
Soon the bit had drilled through her leg and bore a hole through the other side of the steel leg of the chair. Colgate then inserted a bolt through the hole the drill had made. She then attached a nut to the back side and began to tighten it. She tightened it as hard as she could, which increased the pressure on the white pony's leg making her cry out louder in agony.
This only fueled Colgate's rage further. She got up and smacked Bon Bon so hard it knocked one of her teeth loose. Colgate saw this and glared at her patient. She growled, "This is what happens when you don't take care of your teeth you stubborn little mule."
Bon Bon began to say, "But, but"
Colgate smacked her again and said, "Speak when spoken to, that's what good patients do."
Colgate quickly got to work on the other leg and quickly had it secured as well. She could tell that her patient was in excruciating pain and this excited her, a lot.
Bon Bon began to cry, "Please just let me eat. I'm so hungry."
Hearing Bon Bon cry out for food brought out a sadistic grin on Colgate's face. She loved the feeling that she could control the feelings of another pony. She levitated the bread down to her mouth and allowed her to eat it. After she finished eating, Colgate let her have the water to wash it down. Bon Bon also had to use the restroom. She asked, "Colgate, could I please use the restroom?"
Colgate was not amused by this question. She growled, "Oh great, how could I forget that you would need to piss and shit?"
She used her magic to create holes in the bottoms and lower backs of the chairs so her patients can rid themselves of their waste. Colgate glared at her patient and asked, "There, happy?"
Bon Bon nodded and realized that this was the best she would get so she relieved herself. She was a bit happy though since the waste would be falling into a drain instead of getting all over her.
As Colgate was getting ready to leave she suddenly remembered Bon Bon's leg breaking free when she was kicking. She knew that she had to fix the chairs and she had to do it that night so she grabbed her tools and tightened the bonds to where they would remain connected to the chair.
It was finally three in the morning when Colgate finished improving the chairs. She was very tired when she headed home and much to her displeasure, she knew that she would not be able to get much sleep as dawn was only three hours away but that didn't matter to her. Keeping order in her hospital, properly punishing unruly patients and keeping Lyra in the dark about it was all that mattered to her.
The rest of the week went by rather quickly and before they knew it, Friday afternoon had arrived. Colgate had to put another patient in her hospital and realized that simply taking them bread in the night would no longer be enough. She knew she would need to start storing food in the basement and would need to purchase a freezer for the frozen foods. She also realized that this would not be cheap and doing all this without Lyra noticing would be next to impossible.
As they were closing shop Lyra asked her sister, "Colgate, would it be ok if I were to go up to Canterlot for the weekend to visit some of my friends? I really miss them."
Colgate knew that she would have to pay for her train ticket which irritated her but at the same time she was ecstatic because she would be able to get everything she needed for the hospital without her knowing it. She smiled and replied "Of course you can Lyra!"
Lyra noticed something about her sister's smile. It just looked a bit different and her eyes seemed to be a bit darker blue than normal. It seemed almost sinister to her but she didn't say anything about it. She asked, "Colgate, I really don't have any money. I don't want to upset you but could you buy me my train ticket?"
Colgate cheerfully replied, "Of course I can!" The two headed over to the train station where Colgate bought Lyra not only a ticket to Canterlot but a return ticket as well. Lyra looked at her sister and said, "Well I should get going. The train leaves in five minutes."
Colgate smiled and replied, "Yes, you should. Now remember to be home by Sunday afternoon. I don't want you getting home late, not getting all your sleep and being tired on Monday."
Lyra waved at her sister and said, "Don't worry sis, I'll be home when you want me to!"
Colgate appeared to head home when the train left the station. She realized that the weekend would race by all too quickly for her so instead of going home, she headed to the appliance store. She walked in and was greeted by the clerk. The clerk asked her, "Dr. Colgate, it is good to see you! How may I help you today?"
Colgate was walking around and saw exactly what she wanted, a good sized chest freezer that was on sale. She pointed her hoof at the freezer and asked, "How much is that freezer?"
The clerk replied, "That freezer? It normally costs 300 bits but for today only it is on sale for 250 bits."
Colgate gave the clerk a sinister smile and said, "I'll take it."
The clerk's eyes lit up because she had not sold any appliances all week and her boss was starting to get frustrated. She asked, "Seriously, you'll take it?"
Colgate replied, "Yes, really!"
The clerk radioed the delivery pony to get the freezer ready for delivery. The clerk said, "That will be 250 bits. How do you plan on paying?"
Colgate pulled her debit card out of her saddle bag and said, "I will be paying with my debit card."
The cashier was giddy by this point as the employee's at the store get bonuses when they sell items that cost over 200 bits. Soon the delivery pony had the freezer on a cart waiting out in front of the store. The pony asked, "So doctor, where do you want this delivered to?"
Colgate replied, "I want it taken to my practice."
Once they arrived at her practice the pony asked, "Doctor, where do you want this?"
Colgate replied, "I can handle it from here." She gave the pony a tip of twenty bits, which is customary in Ponyville when a pony delivers something.
As the delivery pony headed back to the store Colgate levitated her new freezer into her office. Once she had it inside she closed her door and locked it. She took the freezer down into the basement. Given that she is a unicorn, Colgate had her freezer in the hospital in a matter of minutes. When she plugged it in it roared to life. The unfamiliar noise startled some of her patients. Moondancer, who she had just locked up earlier that afternoon shouted, "What's that noise? Colgate, is that you?"
Upon hearing this she stormed over to Moondancer and smacked her. She yelled, "I don't remember giving you permission to speak. SPEAK WHEN SPOKEN TO, THAT'S WHAT GOOD PATIENTS DO!"
Moondancer began to cry and asked, "Colgate, why are you doing this? I brush and I floss."
Colgate replied, "Yeah, but you still manage to get a cavity!"
Colgate got out the same needle she rammed into Bon Bon's cavities and began ramming it into Moondancer's cavity with more force than she ever did with her other patients, drawing quite a bit of blood. Colgate stuck her hoof in the unicorns mouth covering it in blood. She began to lick the blood off of her hoof and said, "Wow, unicorn blood is even tastier than earth pony blood!
Moondancer began to cry out in pain but nopony heard it as Colgate's laughter drowned it out. After a couple of minutes she stopped and all was quiet. All she could hear was her patients breathing and the hum of her new freezer. She smiled and said, "Now this is more like it."
She slammed the door shut as she headed back upstairs. Her next purchase would be a large amount of frozen food, the treats that her patients loved so much, but she knew that she would have to wait until tomorrow when the insides of her freezer would be nice and cold, so she headed home for the night, where she got the best night's sleep she got since Lyra got home.
When she woke up the following morning it was already 930. She wiped the sleep out of her eyes and jumped out of bed full of energy. She said to herself, "Wow, I have never felt more energetic in my whole life!"
Colgate decided to eat out that morning before going to the grocery store. After eating a nice filling breakfast at the cafe she headed to the grocery store. She grabbed a cart and began getting what she would need. She got quite a bit of ice cream along with a decent amount of ice. When she got to the checkout line, Lemon Drops gave her a stunned look. She asked, "Uh Colgate, why are you buying so much ice cream? I didn't think you would even touch that stuff with a hundred foot pole."
Colgate had a nervous look on her face. She knew she had to come up with a half-decent lie. She quickly replied, "Well Cheerilee wants me to store it at my place for her students."
Lemon Drops asked, "THIS MUCH ice cream though?"
Colgate replied, "Yes, this much." She frowned and continued, "This isn't a very good way to treat a customer if you ask me. Perhaps I should speak with your manager."
Lemon Drops dropped the issue. She realized that she had made a mistake and simply gave Colgate the treats for free. Colgate gave her a sinister smile and said, "You have a good day Lemon Drops, oh, and thanks for the treats!"
Colgate quickly rushed the frozen goods to her office and got them down into her freezer before they melted. Colgate could hear Moondancer and Bon Bon talking amongst themselves.
Moondancer asked, "So how long do you think she will keep us down here?"
Bon Bon replied, "I don't know but I don't think she will be letting us leave anytime soon. Don't tell her this but I think she is completely crazy."
Moondancer said, "Crazy? She's more than crazy! She's a total psychotic bit......."
Before Moondancer could finish her sentence she was interrupted, "WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ME?"
Moondancer saw a wrathful Colgate right in front of her. She said, "Well I, you see, I...."
Colgate smacked her over the comment. She screamed, "So you think I'm a psychotic bitch huh? Well let me tell you this you overgrown piece of shit, you haven't seen anything yet! Pretty soon you'll be begging for me to be treating you the way I have been."
Colgate saw Bon Bon's tooth that she had knocked out earlier in the week on the floor. She picked it up, handed it to Moondancer and in a stern voice she ordered, "Swallow it."
Moondancer yelled, "Eeeww! That is gross! You seriously want me to swallow Bon Bon's tooth?"
Colgate sneered, "Well no shit Sherlock! I wouldn't have ordered you to if I didn't want you to."
Moondancer again told her captor that she would not swallow the tooth. Colgate was levitating her drill and a glass of water. She had a sadistic grin on her face as she sneered, "Well it's your choice, either you swallow Bon Bon's tooth or I will drill a hole through your head." She began to laugh and continued, "Eh maybe not. There's not anything in your head to damage so why bother!"
Reluctantly Moondancer swallowed the tooth. Somehow she managed not to get it caught in her throat but what she didn't know is that soon she would have a stomach ache of epic proportions. Moondancer began to cry as she realized that chances were that the tooth would really harm her digestive system or even kill her. She cried, "Colgate, what if that tooth kills me?"
Colgate rolled her eyes and replied, "Well if it does, it does. You will have brought it upon yourself."
Her emotionless disregard for Moondancer's life angered Bon Bon. Bon Bon shouted, "Buck you Colgate! How could you be so cruel?"
Colgate stormed over to her mouthy patient and said, "My my, such language! That is something that must be corrected!"
Colgate attached a chain to the upper right arm of the chair and began to turn a crank that caused it to stretch outwards. Before too long this was really stressing the muscles and cartilage that held her leg in it's socket. Bon Bon was soon screaming in pain for Colgate to stop, so Colgate stopped turning the crank, for the moment anyway.
Colgate looked at her terrified patient and asked, "So, you want me to stop all of this? Just say the special word and I will not rip your leg out of it's socket."
Bon Bon took a deep breath and said, "Please."
Colgate gave Bon Bon a warm smile and replied, "Bon Bon, that was the....." She paused for a minute, got an evil grin on her face and sneered, "WRONG ANSWER!" She then began turning the crank quickly until Bon Bon screamed in agony as her leg was ripped out of it's socket. Colgate then turned the crank back the other way to where it was before, leaving Bon Bon's dislocated leg just laying on the arm of the chair.
Colgate saw this and started laughing, "Oh poor widdle Bon Bon, please was the right answer after all. How could I have forgotten what the special word was?"
Moondancer yelled, "You monster, how could you just do that?"
Colgate began to eye the crank on her chair and replied, "You might want to shut up if you don't want a dislocated leg along with damaged intestines."
Colgate decided because of their behavior, that she would not feed them until right before she went to bed. She began to enjoy this more and more. She had numerous ways she could punish them for disobedience. Not only did she have the power to inflict brutal pain upon them, she also had the ability to deny them food. Very soon though, she would begin to do a lot more than cause them discomfort, she would begin to drain them of their very desire to survive.
The Fashionable Patient
The following morning started out like Mondays always do, Colgate and Lyra eat breakfast and then open their practice. Ten minutes after opening their first patients of the day come in, Sweetie Belle, Rarity and Twilight. Lyra looked down at the list and said, "Sweetie Belle, you're first. Come on back."
Sweetie Belle, who is normally terrified of the dentist seemed to be calmed by Lyra's voice, which was much sweeter and soothing than Lemon Hearts' rude, deeper voice. Lyra got Sweetie Belle in the chair and began to look at her teeth. She was impressed with what she saw. She said, "Well Sweetie Belle, I have a feeling that this might be a rather quick appointment for you."
Sweetie Belle asked, "Why?"
Lyra replied, "Your teeth look good to me but let me go get Colgate. She's the one with the fancy spells to check things out extra close."
Sweetie Belle breathed a sigh of relief as Lyra went to get her sister. Colgate walked up to the filly with a smile on her face. She said, "So, Lyra has told me about your teeth. Let's take a closer look."
Sweetie Belle opened her mouth and Colgate began to take a look around. When she used her X-ray spell on the filly she saw nothing bad at all. Colgate then gave her the bite force test, which turned out much better than even Sweetie Belle thought. Colgate read the results and joked, "Sweetie Belle, are you an alligator in disguise?"
Sweetie Belle looked confused. She asked, "Why would you ask that? You know I'm not an alligator!"
Colgate laughed, "Well for a filly of your size you have a very strong bite. I'm sure your sister will be just as proud of you as I am for taking such good care of your teeth."
Sweetie Belle got a nervous smile on her face because unlike her, Rarity does not take care of her teeth all that well. After cleaning Sweetie Belle's teeth Lyra headed out to get Twilight. Twilight's appointment was rather uneventful as she also took great care of her teeth. Finally Lyra went out to get Rarity.
When Rarity sat down in the chair and opened her mouth for Lyra, it wasn't quite what the hygienist was expecting. She said, "Rarity, I'm surprised you'd let your teeth get like this."
Rarity asked, "Whatever do you mean?"
Lyra replied, "Well I'll let Colgate go more in depth with you on this."
A couple minutes later Colgate arrived and Rarity opened her mouth for her. Colgate took a closer look and discovered she had a couple of cavities along with a lot of plaque on her teeth. She stood there with a disapproving look on her face and said, "Rarity, I would think that a pony who places so much importance on her appearance would take care of her teeth." She paused and in a more stern voice continued, "Perhaps Sweetie Belle needs to get you in the habit of brushing and flossing."
Rarity replied, "Well I, you see, when you are a fashionista, you really don't have time to do such silly things."
Colgate frowned and mocked, "Well you see, when you're a snobby fashion pony you can't be bothered with your teeth. Oh my, what if I were to get a speck of toothpaste in my fur? I would just die!"
"How dare you sa........." Before Rarity could finish her sentence Colgate forced the bite force meter in her mouth and ordered, "Bite down until it hurts."
Rarity bit down until it hurt. Colgate read the results and was not impressed. She said, "Pathetic, absolutely pathetic. Sweetie Belle can bite down with more force than you." She quickly headed out to the lobby and said, "Twilight, Sweetie Belle, Rarity's teeth are in far worse shape than they look on the outside. She is going to have to be sent to a special dental hospital in Fillydelphia."
Sweetie Belle asked, "What? My sis has bad teeth?"
Colgate, with a smile on her face replied, "I'm afraid so Sweetie Belle. The infection in her gums is so bad that it could kill her if she does not get urgent care as soon as possible."
Twilight interrupted, "Can we see her before she leaves?"
Colgate replied, "I'm afraid not. She left through the back to go to the train station."
Twilight said, "Come on Sweetie Belle, let's get to the train station before she leaves. We can say good bye to her there." Sweetie Belle and Twilight rushed to the station but they were too late as the train to Fillydelphia just pulled away as they got there.
Colgate headed to the back with a sinister smile on her face. Lyra had already taken back the next patient so she was oblivious to Colgate sedating Rarity and taking her down to her hospital. She did to Rarity what she does to her other patients and like every other patient, Rarity cried out in pain as the spikes plowed into her hide, drawing blood. Also like with every other patient, Colgate smacked her for daring to make any noises.
When Rarity was coming to she looked around her surroundings. She found herself in a dimly lit room along with three other ponies. With the sedative wearing off she realized that her entire back and her legs were covered in blood. She shouted, "MY FUR! IT IS RUINED!"
Colgate walked over to her patient and laughed, "Well, well, well, it looks like little miss Rarity has awoken."
Rarity shouted, "You beast, how could you do this? How could you ruin my fur like this?"
Pinkie looked over to see her friend in the chair next to her. She asked, "Colgate, how could you do this to Rarity? She never did anything to you."
Colgate smacked Pinkie for speaking out of turn. She sneered, "Yes she did. She came into my office with cavities so she must pay the penalty!"
Rarity continued to scream and yell, very loudly. Colgate was worried that her yelling might be heard upstairs so she gave her some strong sedatives to get her back to sleep. When she saw Rarity fall back asleep she laughed, "Well this is more like it!"
Before she headed upstairs Moondancer said, "Colgate, my stomach really hurts. Could you please remove that tooth you made me swallow?"
Colgate smacked her and replied, "Do I look like a surgeon to you? I could try to remove it but I'd probably kill you in the process!"
Moondancer began to cry as Colgate headed back upstairs. After she had left the three patients that were awake began to talk amongst themselves. Moondancer asked, "Bon Bon, Pinkie, if I do die will you avenge my death? Will you make sure that she gets punished?"
Bon Bon replied, "Yeah, if we can ever get out of here ourselves."
A couple hours later Rarity was waking up again hoping that everything that had happened that day was just a nightmare but quickly realized it wasn't when she felt the spikes in her back. She looked to her left when she heard Moondancer's cries getting louder as the tooth was moving into her intestines. She asked, "Moondancer darling, whatever is wrong?"
Moondancer cried, "A couple of days ago Colgate forced me to eat Bon Bon's tooth."
Rarity was stunned. She asked, "Why?"
Moondancer replied, "Because Bon Bon and I were talking and she heard me refer to her as a psychotic bitch."
Bon Bon added, "And she ripped my leg out of it's socket for saying buck you to her."
Rarity replied, "Well, when I get out of here I will avenge all of us. I will make sure she is punished." She paused and looked at Pinkie. She asked, "Pinkie, how did you wind up in here?"
Pinkie pointed her hoof towards the meat grinder. She replied, "I caught her stealing that meat grinder from the butcher and she wanted to make sure I never told anypony she stole it."
They continued to try to comfort Moondancer as the pain moved into her lower abdomen. Her small intestine was trying to push the tooth through but at the same time it was tearing a hole in it, causing digestive acid to drip into her body. At first the effects were just stinging pain but by the time Colgate closed the office and came down to check on her patients she was screaming in agony.
Colgate stormed over to her and smacked her. She shouted, "WOULD YOU SHUT UP? I can't have you screaming like this."
Moondancer cried, "It hurts so bad. Please, I know you're not a surgeon but could you please try to remove it? I don't want to die."
Colgate got a sadistic smile on her face and replied, "Oh ok, I'll remove it."
Colgate headed over by her meat grinder and got her chainsaw. She headed back to Moondancer and saw all four of her patients with a terrified look on her face. She screamed, "You said you were going to remove it, not cut me open!"
Colgate sneered, "Hey moron, I would have to cut you open either way so I figure I may as well do it with style." She started laughing and asked, "Any last words Moondancer?"
Moondancer started trying to kick herself loose but to no avail. Colgate fired up her chainsaw and lowered it down to where it was just mere inches away from Moondancer's lower abdomen. She turned her saw off and asked, "So everypony, who will want to help me dispose of the evidence?"
Moondancer cried, "What do you mean?"
Colgate replied, "Say 'aye' if you want pony burgers."
They all screamed "no." Moondancer screamed at Colgate asking how she could be so barbaric and tried pleading with her to spare her life."
It did no good though, Colgate turned her saw back on and lowered it into Moondancer's abdomen, causing blood and guts to go flying everywhere. She turned her saw off once she had shredded her intestine. She bent down and began to eat Moondancer's intestines until she felt a hard object in her mouth. It was Bon Bon's tooth. She pulled it out of her mouth triumphantly. She looked at the remains and laughed, "There, I removed it. Happy?"
This caused her other three patients to start vomiting and crying uncontrollably. During that day they had grown close to Colgate's first victim. Colgate saw that they had blood and guts splattered all over them. She sneered, "Well it looks like it is bath time for you three!"
Colgate grabbed a hose and soaked the three remaining patients with water. She then looked at Moondancer's remains and asked, "What's that dear? You want a shower too? Sorry but you've been a very bad patient and you don't get one!"
She then unchained the unicorn's remains and took them over to her meat grinder. She began to run the corpse through it and out the other end came ground meat and tiny pieces of bones. She grabbed some of the meat and ate it. She asked, "Hey girls, you want a bite? She is delicious!"
This caused Bon Bon and Rarity to vomit again but it woke up a different side of Pinkie, a side that Colgate may find useful. While she did secretly want a bite she declined the offer because she did not want to anger her fellow patients. Soon though, Pinkie would go from being a friend of Rarity's to a foe.
As Colgate washed herself off she felt a great sense of relief. She felt like she had wiped out the first cancerous tumor of poor oral hygiene yet she also realized that she had many, many more to take care of. Yes, she was happy when patients would come in and have good teeth but she wanted more patients with bad teeth to come in so she could continue to wipe out the problem. Eventually though, it would be more than just Ponyville residents that she would target.
Colgate's New Assistant
While Colgate had headed home the negative emotions continued to flow in the hospital. Bon Bon and Rarity began to cuss Colgate while Pinkie just sat there, starting to wonder if maybe Colgate was actually in the right killing Moondancer. Rarity looked over towards Pinkie and asked, "Whatever is the matter Pinkie? You seem so emotionless."
Pinkie sat there nervously trying to think of an answer to the question. She replied, "Well I just don't understand why Colgate would do this. I just wonder what has caused her to do this to anypony."
Bon Bon angrily shouted, "It's because she wants to punish anypony who comes to her with less than perfect teeth. She thinks it is her duty to force proper oral hygiene on everypony."
Rarity added, "And I never imagined that she would be like this. She had always been so friendly."
Pinkie yawned, "Ugh I'm tired. Let's all try to get some sleep."
Pinkie's nonchalant response angered her fellow patients but they did not show it. While Pinkie quickly got to sleep, Bon Bon and Rarity just sat there crying silently. Finally morning came but something wasn't quite right with Pinkie. Her mane and tail had gone straight. Her eyes had a more sinister look about them and she gave the other two a strange, almost evil, grin. Rarity asked, "Pinkie, what is up with you? Why do you have a grin on your face?"
Pinkie began to laugh, "Oh I think I know a way out of here! I know of a way to punish those who are responsible for this!"
Rarity gasped, "Those?"
Before any of them could say anything they heard the door swing open and in came Colgate. She laughed, "It's time for breakfast, and do I have a treat for you!"
She took three tubs of ice cream, grabbed a spoon for each one and took them over to her patients. She growled, "Eat my little patients, eat!"
Rarity shouted, "Ice cream, with the cavities we have? That will hurt!"
Colgate sneered, "No shit Sherlock. Why do you think this will be your breakfast? With poor oral hygiene comes painful meals."
While Bon Bon and Rarity began to eat and cry in pain, she noticed that Pinkie was not touching hers. She stood in front of the pink pony and asked, "What's the matter Pinkie? I thought you loved sweets." She noticed the change in Pinkie and asked, "Pinkie, what the hell happened to your mane and tail?"
Pinkie growled, "My name is PINKAMENA DIANE PIE, not Pinkie."
Colgate had heard about how Pinkie could get when she is in her Pinkamena state and realized that she could use this to her advantage. She got up in Pinkamena's face, her eyes began to glow a bright white and she asked, "So Pinkamena, who are you loyal to?"
Pinkamena, in a trance like state replied, "I, Pinkamena Diane Pie, am loyal to Colgate, and no other."
Colgate asked, "What are your plans as of now?"
Again in a trance like state Pinkamena replied, "My plans are to aid Colgate in anything and everything she asks of me."
Colgate figured that she had Pinkamena under her control so her eyes stopped glowing. Pinkamena looked at her and asked, "Colgate, why am I tied in this spiked chair, I am loyal to you."
Colgate smiled upon hearing her say she is loyal in a normal situation so she got Pinkamena out of the chair and saw that her body was heavily scarred because of the spikes. She realized that she could not be seen like this in public. Her horn began to glow a bluish white and she released some energy into her now-released patient. The scars disappeared instantly, much to the delight of both Colgate and Pinkamena. Pinkamena looked over at Bon Bon and Rarity and laughed, "Well now, it's time to punish those who are responsible for this!"
Colgate interrupted, "That ice cream should be punishment enough for them, for now anyway. I still have fifty minutes before I have to open shop, let's get some real food in you."
Pinkamena happily accepted her offer. The two headed to the cafe for breakfast. The waiter was surprised to see Colgate there with Pinkamena but was even more surprised to see her with her mane and tail straight. The waiter asked, "Pinkie, what happened to your mane and tail? It's usually so puffy."
Pinkamena snapped, "My name is PINKAMENA, not Pinkie."
The waiter seemed shocked by her unpleasant demeanor. She took their order and was not surprised by Colgate's order but was shocked when Pinkamena did not want ice cream and a milkshake. The waiter asked, "Pinkamena, why the sudden change? Usually you always order something sweet."
Pinkamena growled, "Something sweet? YUCK! That stuff is nasty, not to mention it is horrible for your teeth! I'll take what Colgate is taking, eggs, bacon and toast. It's time for me to start eating real food for a change."
Colgate was ecstatic upon hearing this. She realized that her brainwashing had worked beyond her wildest dreams. While they were waiting for their meal, Colgate began to examine Pinkamena's teeth from across the table and much to Colgate's delight, her teeth were in perfect health. While this surprised her, it also relieved her as she would not have to do any work on her new assistant's teeth.
The two lost track of time and by the time they finished their meal it was already 830. Colgate looked up at the clock and said, "Oh shit, we're late Pinkamena! We're late."
The two hurried and payed for their meal and rushed over to Colgate's office. When they got there Lyra was impatiently tapping her hoof on the door and Fluttershy had a scowl on her face as she was supposed to be the first patient of the day. Colgate rushed over and said, "Sweet Celestia, I'm so sorry you two. Pinkamena and I were eating breakfast and we lost track of time."
Fluttershy saw an odd look in her friend's eyes and saw her mane and tail were straight. She asked, "Pinkie, what is wrong? Why do you have the Pinkamena look going on?"
Pinkamena rolled her eyes as she did not feel like being questioned. She replied, "What, can't a pony change the way she looks?"
Lyra asked, "Colgate, why were you eating breakfast with Pinkamena anyway?"
Colgate replied, "Oh, you don't know. She is my new receptionist. I decided we need somepony who won't slack on the job, someone who will actually show up instead of fake an illness every other day."
Fluttershy shouted, "AHEM! Can you just open up so I can get my teeth cleaned?"
Colgate knew that this was not sitting well with her patient so she opened and they got Fluttershy in the back. Pinkamena very quickly grew into her new job, which she enjoyed much more now than she would have kept doing working for the Cake family. Since she now worked for Colgate, Pinkamena also moved in with the dentist, much to Lyra's dismay. Colgate figured that by having Pinkamena move in with her, that she could accompany her during her midnight visits to the hospital.
With the late start they got that day every appointment wound up being late, which Colgate was not happy about but knew it was her fault. When the final patient for the day left they closed up shop. Lyra had been wondering all day why Colgate was so late. She asked, "Colgate, WHY were you late this morning? That is so unlike you."
Colgate snapped, "Lyra, I was late because I was treating our new receptionist to breakfast." She was starting to get irritated with her sister and what she considered disobedient behavior. She continued, "Look Lyra, this is MY practice. I will do what I want. Do not question me."
Lyra looked like she was going to cry. She asked, "But I thought you viewed this as our practice?"
"Ok, our practice," said the unicorn in a rather annoyed voice. "Listen, let's all head home and get ready for tomorrow. We have a full schedule tomorrow."
Lyra asked, "Colgate, do you think we could go to the cafe for supper?"
Colgate replied, "Not tonight. Let's just eat at home. Next week I will take you two out for supper, how does that sound?"
Pinkamena added, "Lyra, do you think Colgate is made of money?"
Lyra snapped, "Well she sure had the money to take you out for breakfast this morning."
Colgate yelled, "Lyra, would you just drop it already. I don't feel like putting up with this stress."
Lyra began to feel a bit alienated by her sister as she felt that Colgate was treating Pinkamena better than her. She was bound and determined to discover what made the new receptionist so great. That night went by rather normally and the next morning the three headed to the office early. Just as soon as they opened up shop, their next patient, Filthy Rich walked in the door.
He looked at the desk and saw Pinkamena sitting there and was a bit shocked. He asked, "Wait a minute, Pinkie, is that you?"
Pinkamena knew that she had to be nice instead of snapping at him for calling her by that name. She replied, "Mr. Rich, I go by Pinkamena now." She typed a few things into the computer and said, "Take a seat and I will let them know you're here."
Less than a minute later Lyra showed up in the lobby, just as cheerful as ever and said, "Come on back Mr. Rich! How's your day treating you?"
Filthy replied, "Wow, you guys here are considerate. Not many places have the courtesy to call me Mr. Rich."
Lyra nodded and led him to the chair. She looked into his mouth and was surprised by what she saw. She was expecting to see pearly whites but she saw teeth that were yellowed a bit and suspected he had a cavity or two. Filthy saw the stunned look on her face and had a bad feeling.
A couple minutes later Colgate showed up and said, "Mr. Rich, Lyra has told me about the yellowness of your teeth. Let's take a further look."
Colgate was looking inside his mouth and used her X-ray spell on him. While she gave Filthy a look of disapproval, deep inside she was giddy with excitement. She said, "Mr. Rich, this does not look good. You have a couple of cavities and you have a serious infection."
Filthy asked, "Seriously?"
Colgate replied, "Yes, seriously. Let's check your bite force."
Colgate put the bite force meter in his mouth and ordered him to bite down until it became painful. Filthy bit down and while he was able to bite down a bit more than some of her other 'special' patients, he knocked a tooth loose in the process. Colgate saw this and gasped, "Oh my! This is much worse than I thought Mr. Rich. I am going to have to send you to a dental hospital in Fillydelphia."
Filthy had a look of shock on his face. He asked, "Do you have to? Who will watch over the store? Who will take care of Diamond Tiara?"
Colgate frowned and replied, "Listen Mr. Rich. I don't think you understand the seriousness of this. This infection is so bad that it could KILL you. I'm sure Silver Spoon's parents could watch over your daughter and you may just have to close the store for a bit. Better you close it for a bit than have to close it permanently, RIGHT?"
Filthy hung his head in defeat and replied, "You're right."
Before Filthy could say anything else Colgate rammed a syringe of powerful sedatives into his neck and in less than a minute he was out cold. Colgate took him down the hospital secured him into a chair next to Bon Bon, the one that Moondancer had been in earlier. Rarity looked over to her left and asked, "Colgate, is that Filthy Rich?"
After Colgate got the businesspony all secured in his chair she went over and smacked Rarity. She shouted, "Speak when spoken to, that's what good patients do!"
She then headed back over to Filthy and began taking a closer look at her new patient. She began laughing as she realized she could use his tie as a tool to punish her unruly patients. She took his tie off of him and put it in her freezer. She gave him enough sedatives that he should be out for a few hours so she headed back upstairs. She headed up front and asked Pinkamena if she would go over to Silver Spoon's house and tell them about Filthy being sent to Fillydelphia for dental care and ask if they will take Diamond Tiara in then go to the school and let the rich filly know.
Pinkamena smiled and replied, "Of course." She got close to Colgate's ear and whispered, "I take it we have a new plaything?"
Colgate nodded and replied, "Yes, now go."
Pinkamena headed out the door as Lyra was going out to get their next patient. She asked, "Where is Pinkamena off to?"
Colgate replied, "She is heading over to Silver Spoon's house to see if they will take Diamond Tiara in while Filthy is in the hospital."
Lyra was starting to become a bit suspicious of her sister as she seemed to always be sending patients to dental hospitals. She asked, "Oh and what far flung place did you send him to?"
Colgate laughed, "I sent him to Fillydelphia. Given the condition his teeth are in, I figured that he would receive the best care there."
Lyra rolled her eyes and took their next patient back. Colgate noticed Lyra's strange reaction and began to wonder if perhaps she isn't going to be detrimental to her cause. Before they knew it closing time arrived and to Colgate's dismay, no other bad patients showed up that day. While Lyra headed home Pinkamena and Colgate stayed in the office to take care of some business matters. They headed down to the hospital and Colgate asked, "Who's hungry? I have food for you!"
Filthy was coming to when they got down there and was moaning in pain. He saw Colgate and Pinkamena standing in front of him and yelled, "You liar, I thought you were sending me to a special dental hospital."
Colgate gave him a warm smile and replied, "I did! It just so happens I found a special dental hospital for you a bit closer to home."
He screamed, "Let me go. You won't get away with this. They'll lock you up for life when they discover this prison of yours!"
Colgate laughed, "Yeah, uh huh. That's what they all say."
Bon Bon shouted, "So you evil bitch, how many more ponies are you going to lock up down here? How many more will suffer Moondancer's fate?"
Colgate ordered, "Pinkamena, get me a gag ball, this one talks too much."
Pinkamena got the ball and stuffed it in Bon Bon's mouth. She continued trying to yell but all she got out was muffled noises. Colgate looked at her three patients and started laughing. Pinkamena asked her what the laughing was about. Colgate replied, "Pinkamena, I think we need to give these three labels."
Pinkamena asked, "How are we going to do that?"
Colgate laughed, "Oh you'll see! I think you'll find it humorous."
Colgate went to get her drill. Rather than using a regular bit that you would use to drill holes with, she placed a bit in it that ended in a sharp, narrow point at the end of it. She first headed over to Rarity. Rarity was squirming and screaming. She yelled, "You beast! You will not get away with this!"
Colgate ordered, "Pinkamena, would you shut her up and get her to quit fidgeting. I don't want her ruining my artwork."
Pinkamena ran over to the freezer and grabbed Filthy's tie. She wrapped it around Rarity's neck and began to strangle her. After a couple of minutes Rarity quit fidgeting and Colgate ordered her assistant to remove the tie. Colgate turned her drill on and proceeded to carve the words "drama queen" into Rarity's abdomen. Despite only being semi-conscious Rarity screamed out in pain. Once she was finished she looked at Rarity and said, "I would say that I have great penmanship with a drill, wouldn't you Rarity?"
Rarity cried, "Why are you doing this? Coming to you with cavities is no reason to punish me so badly."
Colgate and Pinkamena moved over to their next patient, Filthy. Filthy showed a lot more toughness only grunting in pain as he was being marked with the word "thief." They then moved over to Bon Bon, who like Rarity, needed to have the tie wrapped around her neck. She was screaming and fidgeting so much that even the tie didn't do much good on her. While it was not as elegant as the carvings were on her other two patients, the words "whiny bitch" were legible.
Pinkamena began to laugh sadistically, "That was fun! Can I mark the next one Colgate?"
Colgate replied, "Well unless Celestia needs punishing tomorrow, yes. I doubt it though, she has been taking very good care of her teeth since I wrote that spell for her."
Pinkamena laughed, "What if she stopped and she has bad teeth?"
Colgate got an evil smile on her face and replied, "Well if that is the case, she will face my most brutal wrath." She looked up at the clock and continued, "Come on, let's feed these scum and get out of here. I want to be 100% alert tomorrow."
Pinkamena removed the gag ball from Bon Bon and they fed their patients. They slammed the door behind them as they left and Rarity asked, "Did you guys hear that? Celestia is coming tomorrow. If Colgate brings her down here, she will overpower her and free us!"
The three of them began to cheer believing that their imprisonment would soon be over and that Colgate would pay for her crimes. Knowing that caused the three of them to tolerate the pain of eating ice cream a bit more and for the first night since being imprisoned, Rarity and Bon Bon, despite the pain, still got a decent night's sleep.
The Royal Patients
The next morning arrived and just as expected, shortly after they opened their first two patients arrived. Unlike with other patients where Lyra would just take them back, Colgate herself was waiting in the lobby. Their first patients were Princess Luna and Princess Celestia. Celestia ran up to Colgate and hugged her. She said, "It is so good to see you! How is everything going?"
Colgate smiled and replied, "Things are going quite well."
Luna interrupted, "Oh, do we not get a warm welcome?"
Colgate ran up to Luna and hugged her. "Hi your Majesty, how is your day treating you?"
Luna replied, "Things are going quite alright. So who goes back first, myself or my sister?"
Pinkamena typed some things into the computer and said, "Well it looks like Princess Luna gets to go back first."
Colgate motioned for Luna to follow her to the back. Unlike with other patients, Colgate examined her before Lyra had a chance to. Colgate examined the princess's teeth and found nothing out of the ordinary. She then placed the bite meter in her mouth and said, "Bite down as hard as you can until it becomes painful."
Luna bit down hard. She bit down so hard that it broke the meter. At first Colgate had a scowl on her face. Luna had a nervous look on her face. She asked, "We're so sorry Colgate. You aren't mad at us are you?"
Colgate broke down into a joyous laugh. She replied, "Oh goodness no your Majesty. It's just that I've never seen anypony bite down so hard that she broke it."
Luna said, "Don't worry Colgate, we can get you another one."
Colgate replied, "Don't worry about it. I have a couple spares." She paused for a minute and continued, "Oh, and you have absolutely perfect teeth, probably better than mine."
Luna sighed in relief, "We are most happy, but we are worried that our sister may not get the same result."
Colgate asked, "Why do you say that?"
Luna replied, "Well she quit brushing and is eating more sweets than ever."
Colgate rolled her eyes and said, "Well come on your Majesty, let's get you checked out and get your sister back here."
Colgate headed back out to the front and got Celestia. Despite her being so happy to see the dentist she was a bit apprehensive when it came to getting in the chair. Colgate asked, "Your Majesty, you seem so nervous. You know I have that spell if you need any dental work done."
Celestia gulped, "I know."
Celestia opened her mouth and Colgate started to examine her. Colgate was not pleased with what she saw. She saw that not only did Celestia have three cavities, but that she had the worst infection in her gums that she had ever seen. She just stood there by her patient and shook her head.
Celestia asked, "Uh, I take it the results are not good?"
Colgate replied, "Your sister told me about how you quit brushing. Why did you quit brushing?"
Celestia said, "Well after a while I thought that since I am an Alicorn that I didn't need to brush anymore. I thought everything would be just fine." She began to frown and asked, "Colgate, my upper left tooth is hurting. Do you have anything to ease the pain?"
Colgate took a closer look. The one that was hurting was the one she had performed the root canal on. Even worse, it was rotting. Colgate growled, "Celestia, the tooth I performed the root canal on is rotting." She shook her head and said, "I go to all that work to perform a pain free root canal for you and then you let it rot? I am very disappointed in you." Colgate sighed and continued, "Yes I can give you something to alleviate the pain."
Colgate gave Celestia an injection of a stronger sedative that would at least make it to where she would barely be able to walk and definitely not be able to fly. She wanted to make sure that when she took her out to say goodbye to Luna that her sister could clearly see the state that she was in.
On the surface Colgate was about to explode but on the inside she was already imagining how she would punish her royal patient. She growled, "You know what Celestia? You are going to have to go to the dental hospital in Fillydelphia that handles potentially fatal infections. Let's go out to the front so you can say goodbye to your sister before you leave.
Colgate led a staggering Celestia out to the front. Luna saw this and asked, "Colgate what is wrong with our sister? What did you do to her?"
Colgate replied, "Princess Luna, she has a potentially fatal infection in her gums and she needs to be sent to a special hospital in Fillydelphia."
Celestia asked, "Could you raise and lower the sun for me until I am better little sister?"
Luna suspected something fishy was going on. She knew that Alicorns could not be killed by illnesses. She said, "Colgate, she is an Alicorn, there is no illness that could kill her."
Celestia sat down next to Luna while Colgate headed back to her office and grabbed a book, which she had altered and headed back out front. She flipped the book to the page where it described the infection that Celestia had. Luna was reading over it and was terrified by what she read. It stated that it can kill anypony, regardless of race and that it is especially brutal and fatal for Alicorns. Luna grabbed her sister and started to cry. She cried, "I will take care of it for you big sister." She looked at Colgate and asked, "I take it she can't fly there?"
Colgate replied, "Your Majesty, she could barely make it out here, much less fly anywhere. I need to take her to the back to get her ready for this trip."
Luna said, "Ok Colgate, you know what is best. I'm going to head home."
Luna left the office and headed home. She assumed that Celestia would be taken by train to Fillydelphia. Once Colgate got Celestia to the back she injected her with the most powerful sedative she had. She took the unconscious princess down to the basement and secured her in the chair between Rarity and Filthy. She used extra measures with Celestia though. She wrapped her in enchanted chains to make sure she could not teleport out of there and she placed a horn cap on her.
Her other patients saw this and shouted, "Is that Princess Celestia?"
Colgate growled, "What does it matter if it is?" She smacked Rarity and continued, "You three keep quiet or you'll wish you were never born."
They knew that the dentist would stick to her words so they decided that they had better keep quiet. Before she headed back upstairs Filthy asked, "Colgate, I'm hungry. When are you going to feed us?"
Colgate was in no mood to put up with them or their needs at the moment so she injected them all with the same powerful sedative that she gave to Celestia. She smiled and said, "Sleep tight my patients, I'll check on you after I close."
She headed back upstairs and was greeted by Lyra at the door. Lyra asked, "Colgate, why is it whenever you send a patient off to a special dental hospital you always go downstairs?"
Colgate frowned at her little sister. She replied, "Lyra, don't question what I do. Just do your job, ok?"
Lyra shrugged her shoulders and headed out to the lobby to get their next patient. Colgate was in the back and was beginning to wonder if Lyra was catching on to what she was doing. She decided that since she might become a threat to her, that Lyra would need to be put in her place.
After Colgate closed up shop for the day Lyra headed home like she always does and Colgate and Pinkamena headed downstairs to the hospital. They had the ultimate patient now, one who Colgate plans on punishing far more harshly than the others. When they headed down into the hospital all the patients were awake. The first one to say anything was Celestia.
"COLGATE, RELEASE US OR I'M SENDING YOU TO THE MOON FOREVER!"
Colgate walked over to the princess and smacked her. She laughed, "Yeah right Celestia. Once I'm through with you, you won't even be able to levitate a quill, much less banish anypony anywhere."
Celestia began thrashing about in her chair. Colgate shook her head and ordered, "Pinkamena, go get my tools, it looks like we have another unruly patient."
Pinkamena grabbed Colgate's drill, some bolts, some nuts and a wrench. With Celestia's magic disabled by the horn cap and enchanted chains, Colgate was easily able to hold her in place as she began to drill holes through her legs. Celestia was screaming out in agony as the bit began to drill through the bone in her leg. Blood was squirting out like water does from a fountain. Colgate opened her mouth and began to drink the warm liquid. She couldn't get enough of it. She said excitedly, "Wow, Alicorn blood is the best!
Celestia saw this and screamed, "You are pure evil Colgate! Pure evil!"
Colgate ordered, "Pinkamena, smack her when she speaks. I never gave her permission to speak."
Pinkamena nodded and smacked Celestia silly. Celestia began cussing Colgate as she finished bolting her hind legs to the chair and moved on to her front legs. Pinkamena followed orders and continued smacking her harder and harder. Finally Celestia began trying to force that horn cap off. Colgate could see her horn glowing and sparks flying out from the base of her horn. Colgate knew it could be disastrous if she was able to remove the cap, so she decided that she must permanently disable Celestia's magic.
Colgate ordered, "Pinkamena, do whatever you can to make her hold her head still. I have something I must do to make sure she doesn't break free."
Pinkamena did the first thing that she could think of. She grabbed a knife and held it to Celestia's throat. Celestia quickly stopped moving her head but started crying uncontrollably. She cried, "Why Colgate? Why are you doing this?"
Colgate smacked her harder than she had any other patient she had. She screamed, "Because you LIED TO ME! I write a pain free root canal spell for you, you promise me you would take care of your teeth but then you don't! Liars MUST be punished severely!"
Before Celestia could say anything else she felt a great amount of pressure on her horn as Colgate had it clamped between her teeth at the base. Colgate grabbed a hold of the back of the chair to brace herself as she began pulling her head back further and further. Finally, a powerful burst of magic came from Celestia which caused the horn cap to go flying across the room. The whole basement shook but that would be Celestia's final spell. Colgate ripped Celestia's horn straight out of her skull. Even the nerves that connected it to her brain came out with it.
The energy released from this caused every chair to go flying and it caused injuries to other patients. Pinkamena and even Colgate herself were thrown back and suffered some bruises but Colgate didn't care. She achieved her objective. She marched over in front of Celestia levitating her horn dancing and screaming in triumph. She shouted, "This is truly a great day for oral hygiene in Equestria. The leader of Equestria pays the price for thinking she is above taking care of her teeth!
Pinkamena laughed, "Yeah Celestia, now you're nothing more than an overgrown Pegasus!"
Colgate had noticed that blood was shooting out of the hole in her head so naturally she took straight to it, soaking her entire face in blood. Pinkamena asked, "Colgate, can I have some?"
Colgate realized that she needed to let her assistant in on the fun. She replied, "Of course Pinkamena! There's still plenty flowing out!"
Celestia's head was pounding in more pain than ever before as Pinkamena began to suck the blood out of the wound. Finally the blood stopped flowing and Celestia's two captors stood in front of her, their faces a deep red, taunting her in their triumph. Colgate laughed, "Well Pinkamena, shall we turn her into an overgrown earth pony now?"
Pinkamena laughed, "Of course!"
Pinkamena was easily able to hold the much weakened princess in place as Colgate grabbed her chainsaw. She fired it up and began to saw into the base of her left wing. Celestia's body began to convulse so violently that she threw Pinkamena clear across the room. While it was far from being a clean cut, Colgate was able to get her left wing sawed off. She grabbed it and stood in front of her captive and laughed, "Well, now you're only HALF A PEGASUS!"
Celestia yelled, "You'll never get away with this. My sister will kill you two for doing this to me." She tried to lunge forward but only caused her to be thrown back harder into the spiked chair. Pinkamena was finally able to get up and walked over to her boss smiling. Colgate said, "Pinkamena, since she threw you across the room how about you finish this?"
Pinkamena laughed hysterically as Colgate handed her the saw. She got to work on Celestia's other wing. Her cut was much smoother as Celestia was too weak to thrash about in her chair. It didn't take long for Pinkamena to get the wing cut off. She turned the saw off and joined her boss in front of Celestia, who was now screaming so loudly in agony that it was almost deafening. The two began to eat her wings in front of her and simply gave her an evil smile. Colgate said, "Oh, there are more things we must do."
Colgate grabbed Celestia's horn, which was very sharp. She dug it into the fallen princess's abdomen and carved the word "tyrant" into it. All that remained was one more punishment, which would be the most humiliating of them all. Colgate took a knife and began to cut her cutie marks off of her. Celestia began to cry as her very identity was being removed from her. Five minutes later Colgate had them cut off. She stood in front of the princess holding the hide from her flanks. Colgate and Pinkamena looked at their flanks and then looked at Celestia. Colgate laughed, "Hey Pinkamena, you know what this makes the princess now, don't you."
The two began to laugh, pointed their hooves at her and shouted, "BLANK FLANK!"
Colgate was hoping that this would crush Celestia's will to live but it only brought out anger from the princess. Celestia continued to scream and shout that Luna would punish the two severely. Colgate decided that she must be shut up. Colgate grabbed her drill, forced Celestia's mouth open and began to drill into the tooth that was rotting. Celestia still had enough energy to thrash about again but that didn't stop Colgate from hitting her target. She drilled her way through the tooth and destroyed her upper jaw. Colgate pulled the drill out and said, "Alright my precious princess, your punishment is over. Now we wait for you to die."
Celestia, still having her adrenaline flowing had a fiery look in her eyes and mustered up every ounce of energy she still had. She lunged forward and managed to rip her hind legs out of the chair's legs, yet her front legs remained bolted into the arms. The force from her being thrown back caused her front legs to become dislocated. As her front legs were ripped out of their sockets Celestia screamed, "Curse you Colgate, curse you!"
Colgate realized that only one thing could be done at this point. She looked at her assistant and asked, "Shall I put her out of her misery? Shall I end the pathetic wretch's life?"
Pinkamena was jumping up and down, giddy with excitement wondering what Colgate's plans were. She said, "Sure, let's finish her off!"
Colgate had finally done what she wanted, she crushed Celestia's very desire to be alive as Celestia began to sob and ask, "Colgate, would you please just kill me? I don't want to be alive anymore. You win."
Colgate shook her head and in a solemn voice she said, "Damn, you're weak Celestia. At least Moondancer was begging for her life as I lowered my saw towards her abdomen."
Celestia sobbed, "But I've been reduced from being the most powerful being alive to being nothing more than a bug under your hoof. Just kill me already."
Colgate was ecstatic upon hearing this, so she grabbed Celestia's horn, gave the weakened Celestia a smile and said, "I'm sorry Princess, but you are far too gone. I am afraid I have to do the only humane thing."
Celestia cried, "Just end it already."
Colgate's warm smile turned into a scowl as she began ramming Celestia's horn into her chest violently, again and again. As she plunged it into her heart, Celestia let out one final agonizing scream before she took her final breath. Colgate laughed, "You know something Pinkamena, I had never had so much fun before in my life! Seeing the life leave her eyes made me feel like a QUEEN!"
Pinkamena asked, "Colgate, what are we going to do with the body? I don't think it will fit through the meat grinder."
Colgate replied, "Very true Pinkamena, very true. I know what to do."
Colgate grabbed her chainsaw and began to cut the princess's remains into three pieces. Once she done this she then ran the pieces through the meat grinder. When her entire body had been ran through Pinkamena and Colgate started feasting on the sweet Alicorn meat. Colgate offered some to her patients but naturally, they had no desire to eat any. Colgate laughed, "Oh well, your loss. That leaves more for us!"
Now that Celestia was taken care of, Colgate knew of one other pony that she wanted to punish, her former boss, Doctor White Tooth who lives in Fillydelphia. She knew that capturing him and bringing him back to Ponyville would not be easy, but that it would be well worth it seeing the boss who was so demanding pleading for his life.
Abduction in Fillydelphia
Colgate slept with a smile on her face that night. She had never felt more powerful or more happy in her life. When she woke up the next morning both her and Pinkamena were in really good moods. While Lyra was in a good mood as well, she wondered what was going on with the two as they tend to be a bit more moody. She asked, "What's up with you two? Why are you in such good moods?"
Colgate realized that Lyra was on to something and that she needed ample time to take care of a couple of issues. She decided that she would simply close shop until next Monday. She said, "You know what Lyra? You know what Pinkamena? I am simply going to close up shop until next Monday."
Lyra's jaw dropped open. This was not something her sister would normally do and she intended to find out why she was closing for the rest of the week. She asked, "Colgate, why are you closing for the rest of the week? Don't you know how many patients this will inconvenience?"
Colgate knew that she had to lie. She said, "Well last night after work I got a phone call notifying me that I needed to go out of town. The dental hospital in Fillydelphia wanted me to come give them some advice on how to handle a patient I had sent there."
Pinkamena asked, "So does this mean that we don't have to show up at the office until next Monday?"
Colgate replied, "Nope, you don't." She tossed fifty bits to each of them and said, "Look, I have something to take care of at the office before I leave. Go out and have some fun. I should be back tomorrow or the next day at the latest."
Her two employees were excited to have some time away from the dentist. Lyra was thinking of having milkshakes at the cafe while Pinkamena was thinking about visiting some of her friends and perhaps going bowling. Colgate saw a chariot sitting unattended on her way to her office. She then saw Thunderlane standing not too far away. She yelled, "Hey Thunderlane, how would you like to earn some extra money?"
Thunderlane finished spraying his mane and replied, "Uh, yeah, sure. What do I have to do?"
Colgate said, "Would you be willing to fly me to Fillydelphia? I need to make a special delivery and I am going to take it there myself to make sure it gets there."
Thunderlane asked, "Why can't you just take the train?"
Colgate rolled her eyes and replied, "I just can't." She could tell that getting the Pegasus to pull the chariot was going to be tougher than she thought. She added, "Tell you what, I'll give you fifty bits AND a free teeth cleaning."
This changed his mindset completely. He replied, "Of course I can fly you there! Just let me know when you're ready."
Once she fastened Thunderlane to the chariot he began to fly east. The trip from Ponyville to Fillydelphia is no short trip so halfway between the two communities Colgate ordered Thunderlane to land. They landed by a lake that was surrounded by apple trees. Thunderlane was a bit nervous about where they were landing. He asked, "Colgate, what if this land is owned by somepony and we are trespassing? We could get into a lot of trouble."
Colgate replied, "Oh don't be such a worry wart. We landed in the absolute middle of nowhere. Chances are nopony lives within a hundred miles of here."
After three hours of resting the two continued their journey. Thunderlane asked why they rested for so long but Colgate would not give him a specific answer. A couple hours after sunset they began to fly over the city. Despite not having been there for years, Colgate still knew the city like the back of her hoof. She pointed her hoof towards a building with a large tower on the top of it. She asked, "You see that building over there with the tower on it? That is the building I need to go to."
Thunderlane replied, "Yes, I see it."
Colgate ordered, "Take me there, I have some business to take care of."
Thunderland nodded and flew her over there. He landed right in front of the main entrance to the building. Colgate looked up and saw a light on in one of the rooms on the third floor. She thought to herself, "Just like the old days, he stays late!"
She told Thunderlane that she would be back shortly as she went into the dental hospital. When she reached the entrance to his office he was slouched over his desk, looking over some medical records. She tapped on his door which caused him to look up. He growled, "Starry Nights, I told you to go home. I can't afford to pay you overtime. Go home or you're fired!"
Colgate shook her head and said, "Well Dr. White Tooth, I see you are as much of an asshole as you have always been."
He shouted, "Who's there? I'll have you arre...." He paused and realized who was there. He turned around to see a blue unicorn with a blue and white mane. He sneered, "Oh, I see it is the arrogant Colgate. What happened, you go bankrupt in Ponyville and you want your old job back? Well you're not getting it!"
Colgate replied, "Oh no doctor, I'm not here to ask for my old job back, I'm here to take you to Ponyville to show you how successful I have become!"
The doctor sensed an ominous tone of voice coming from Colgate, but kept up his normal demeanor. He growled, "Well I don't have time for you to go showing me your shitty office back home."
He had a sick feeling in his gut as Colgate's had a malicious smile on her face so he began to head towards the exit but Colgate quickly blocked it. She injected powerful sedatives straight into his neck. He quickly hit the floor. Because she had said that she sent her patients to Fillydelphia she let him fall to the floor and headed back to the records department and incinerated all the records with her magic. She then headed back to his office and dragged the unconscious doctor back to her chariot. Before leaving, she turned the light off to his office, shut the door and locked the main entrance to the hospital. Once she threw him on board she climbed in and shouted, "Thunderlane, we need to get home, now!"
Thunderlane got the chariot airborne again and headed west. While he wanted to take a short rest around midnight Colgate ordered him to keep flying as she had to get back home before dawn. It was around 3:30 in the morning when they got home. The doctor was still unconscious as she began to take him into the office. Thunderlane flew in front of the entrance and asked, "So, where is my money and what are you doing with that pony?"
Colgate knocked the Pegasus unconscious with a burst of energy. She also realized that the chariot must be disposed of. Once she got her patients inside she incinerated it entirely with her magic. She hauled the ponies down into her hospital where she got them fastened into their chairs. With Thunderlane only being knocked out with magic, he quickly came to as the spikes plowed into his hide. He screamed, "What the hay are you doing?"
This caused her other patients to wake up and start shouting, hoping that perhaps somepony would hear them but to no avail. Soon she had both patients safely fastened into their chairs. Her former boss started to come to not too much later. When he woke up he was still just semi-conscious. He had no idea where he was nor did he have any idea why he was in so much pain. He began to moan in pain as the feeling of spikes being plowed into his skin became more apparent.
A sinister voice echoed from the shadows. "Dr. White Tooth, I thought you would never wake up. I must have given you more sedatives than I thought."
Upon hearing the voice all the events from that night came flooding back to him. Being at the hospital, Colgate barging into his office, her talking about her practice and being injected with sedatives. He shouted, "You'll never get away with this! They'll lock you up for false imprisonment!"
Colgate laughed, "Oh what a naive statement. Nopony will even notice you are gone and probably celebrate your absence!"
Thunderlane tried to lunge out of his chair but could not get out. He shouted "You USED ME! You used me to carry your newest prisoner back here. When I get out of here I'm going to the cops!"
Colgate walked over to him and smacked him. She laughed, "Well then Thunderlane, since that is the case I will make sure you never leave. After all, you turning me into the authorities will not allow me to accomplish my ultimate goal."
White Tooth asked, "Oh, and what is that goal of yours Colgate?"
Colgate replied, "It is my duty, my moral obligation to make sure that nopony in this town ever shows up here with a cavity again." She pointed her hoof over at her other patients and continued, "You see these ponies doctor? They dared to show up in my office with cavities and gum diseases. I have decided that proper oral hygiene must be forced upon this town since they won't take care of their teeth willingly."
White Tooth asked, "Then why did you abduct me?"
Colgate smacked him and continued, "I abducted you because you were an asshole to work under. I can tell by the way you were talking when you thought I was your receptionist that you still are an asshole to work under." She smacked him again and continued, "I'm doing your employees a favor, I'm doing the whole city of Fillydelphia a favor!"
The older dentist knew that he was in trouble, he knew that his captor always thought ahead but then realized something. He realized that Colgate had never thought of a way to dispose of the evidence, well that he knew of anyway. He growled, "So Colgate, I see you have many prisoners and plenty of torture devices here. How are you going to dispose of the evidence?"
Colgate smiled and boasted, "Oh I've had that planned out since before I even started doing this. I ALWAYS think three or four steps ahead of everypony else."
Filthy, who had been quite for some time could no longer remain so. He shouted, "Oh and how do you plan on doing this Colgate? You know burning this place to the ground won't erase this dungeon of yours! It will only expose it for all to see!"
Colgate walked over and smacked the businesspony. She growled, "Oh you'll see!" She paused and started to laugh, "Oh wait, you'll be dead before then, so nevermind."
Rarity screamed, "Colgate, it has been what seems to be an eternity since you last fed us! Feed us or else!"
Colgate readied five syringes of powerful sedatives and injected them into her patients. Quickly they fell asleep. Since Colgate told Lyra and Pinkamena that she may not be back until the day after tomorrow, she decided she would just lay low and keep an eye on her patients, besides she wanted to get plenty of rest without any disruptions.
Colgate was sleeping on a couch in the waiting room when the sun shone in through the windows. "Ugh, I never realized how uncomfortable these couches are, they definitely weren't designed for laying on."
Colgate was wiping the sleep out of her eyes when she realized that she did not have anything to eat that morning. She did not want to go out and about to grab anything because she did not want Pinkamena or Lyra to know that she was back. While the very thoughts of it repulsed her, she realized the only thing to eat in the practice was the ice cream she fed to her patients. Luckily she would be able to brush immediately after eating.
She headed downstairs and as soon as they heard the door swing open her patients immediately began begging for food. She opened her freezer and proceeded to grab six tubs of ice cream, five for her patients and one for herself. She started gagging and put one of the tubs back. She mumbled to herself, "I will go out for lunch. I just can't bring myself to eat that nasty stuff. She walked over to her patients and gave them their breakfast. All of her patients began to eat, except one, her former boss.
White Tooth was angered over what she was serving them. He shouted, "Ice cream? You are feeding us ice cream? Let me guess, you eat ice cream too? Some dentist you are!"
Colgate smacked him over the comment. She shouted, "No, I do not eat ice cream. I got this crap for my patients because the cold would hurt them where they have their cavities."
White Tooth laughed, "Well Colgate, I don't have any cavities, so I won't feel any pain!"
Colgate laughed, "Wanna bet?"
She stormed over to her tool cabinet and grabbed her drill. She threw the doctor's ice cream on the floor and ordered him to open his mouth. He shouted that he would not open his mouth and started calling her every name in the book. Colgate found this rather amusing. She laughed, "You know doctor, every name you just called me is what EVERYPONY who worked under you called you behind your back. Nopony respected you, we all thought you were an arrogant jackass."
White Tooth screamed, "If I would have known that I would have fired all of you!"
Colgate smacked him so hard it gave him a concussion. His head fell to one side and his mouth hung open. This made Colgate's job far easier. She saw her targets, the moalers in the corners of the mouth. She got her drill in his mouth and began to drill upwards through the upper moalers. He was in so much pain he began to both cry and scream at the same time. This brought much joy to Colgate. She however was not satisfied by merely drilling into his gums. His screams got louder as the bit plowed through his upper jaw on the right side, shattering it. She did not stop there though, she kept drilling until the end of the bit plowed all the way up to his cheek and tore a hole in his face, causing blood to spew everywhere.
Colgate's laughter became louder and more sadistic. She laughed, "This is hilarious! You look so funny with that bit poking out of your cheek!"
The doctor could not do much but mutter a few words and shake in his chair as his body had begun to go into shock. Colgate saw this and was not amused. She shouted, "Don't wimp out on me now boss! I'm just getting started!"
Colgate quit drilling for a few minutes hoping that the shock her former boss had went into wouldn't kill him. Soon his agonizing screams had returned to normal and he became more coherent. Not as much as Colgate would have liked but she knew that nopony is fully alert when they have a concussion.
She decided to hurry up and finish the job on the doctor as she still had Thunderlane to deal with before lunch. She continued drilling holes all the way through into his face from the other three moalers, having to stop after each one as he continued to go into shock. Finally she finished the job, got up in her former boss's face and laughed, "Wow, for a patient who claims to not have any cavities yours are sure visible! I've never seen worse cavities in my entire life!"
White Tooth began screaming in a rage. "You dirty little bitch, out of all my employees you always were the defiant one! I should have known you'd be the one to kill patients. I hope you get the death penalty!"
Colgate decided to try something new. She rammed her horn into his chest and fired a powerful bolt of energy into him. While it threw her back it also caused his whole body to start going into violent convulsions. Given that his extremities were secured into the chair it caused him to break all his legs. He began to scream so loudly that it was hurting the other patients' ears. Filthy had enough. He shouted, "White Tooth, would you SHUT THE BUCK UP! I can't even hear myself think!"
The room went silent when Filthy yelled at a fellow patient. This brought a smile to Colgate's face. She started thinking that if she could get them all fighting, that this would be even more entertaining than it already was. Rarity shouted, "Filthy, how dare you! She has all of us locked up yet you yell at him?"
Colgate started laughing, "Oh this is too entertaining. Maybe I should just put you guys in ultimate death fights." She looked up, glared at them for a minute and continued, "Nah, I enjoy torturing you idiots too much."
White Tooth shouted, "Oh yes, the sadistic Colgate........"
Colgate interrupted, "Oh wait, I haven't marked my new patients yet!"
Colgate began jumping up and down like a schoolfilly as she grabbed her drill and took it to the doctor's abdomen. In it she drilled the word "asshole." He began to say something but she smacked him before he could get out a word. She sneered, "Speak when spoken to, that's what good patients do."
This brought a flood of horrible memories back to the doctor. When he was a colt he would always get smacked when he would speak out of turn and his parents would always say, "Speak when spoken to, that's what good colts do."
He began to cry, "Why did you have to say that? My parents would always smack me and say that to me as a colt." He continued to sob as he continued on with the horrible memories of his colthood. Soon every pony in the room was crying along with him, except one. Colgate rolled her eyes and shouted "NOPONY CARES so give it a rest already."
She then went over to Thunderlane, who she had pretty much ignored that day. He saw her giving him an evil look and asked, "Oh, so now that you've tortured your former boss now you decide to pay attention to me?"
Colgate did not like the tone of his voice as she thought it was extremely disrespectful. She leveled a heavy blow on his forehead and shouted, "Don't you sass me you little ass! If I didn't have so many fun things planned for you I'd put my long bit in and drill a hole straight through your head."
He started to struggle and shouted, "GO FOR IT! WHO'S STOPPING YOU?"
Colgate smacked him again and replied, "I'm stopping myself. That would be too boring of a way for me to end your pathetic life." She decided that his whining was unnecessary. She figured that if she made it legitimate, that she may be able to tolerate it better so she grabbed her chainsaw and got behind him. Before he could react she began to cut his right wing off. He was screaming in agony and like the doctor, began to go into convulsions as he just couldn't handle the overload of brain activity. Once she got it sawed off he fell limp in his seat.
She nudged him and asked, "Thunderlane, you awake?"
He had so much brain overload that he fainted. Colgate could tell he was still breathing which relieved her. She decided he must fit in so she took her drill and carved the words "prima donna" into his abdomen. She smiled and said, "Well children, I must be going now. It is time for lunch and you have seen how bad I am when I miss a meal. You really don't want to see how I am when I miss two meals!
As Colgate headed out of her practice and off to the cafe for lunch, she realized how much she missed torturing her patients solo. She began to wonder if keeping Pinkamena around was worth it. She realized that she is very useful in restraining patients yet she just seemed to take away her feelings of true and absolute power. While this was bothering her, it did not prevent her from enjoying her lunch.
When Colgate arrived at the cafe for lunch she saw Lyra and Roseluck sitting together eating ice cream and having a milkshake. She headed over to the the two with a scowl on her face. They were having a discussion about how Lyra felt that Colgate was giving Pinkamena preferential treatment when they were interrupted, "AHEM! Ice cream, a milkshake little sister? Have you been eating like this the whole time I was gone?"
Lyra had a nervous look on her face and replied, "Uh, well I, you see...." Roseluck interrupted, "Please don't do anything to her. She has just been really stressed out lately."
Colgate shook her head in disgust and asked, "Lyra, have you been brushing after you eat this crap."
Lyra had not but she knew that she better lie. She replied, "Of course I have! You know I brush after every meal."
Colgate could tell she was lying but was not about to make a scene in public. She asked, "Have either of you two seen Pinkamena?"
Lyra sneered, "Your precious little receptionist is over at the bowling alley. She is always laughing sadistically pretending she is killing the pins when she knocks them down."
Colgate rolled her eyes and sat at the table across from them where her order was quickly taken. Colgate was examining her sister's teeth from afar and saw plaque building up on them. She knew that she had to do something. She got a big smile on her face as she was planning a way to lure her younger sister into a terrifying, fatal trap.
Roseluck asked, "Colgate, what is the sudden smile for?"
Colgate replied, "Oh I just had a funny thought run across my mind.
After Lyra and Roseluck finished their treats Lyra did not go home. Instead she went and hid in the bushes outside of their practice. She knew how Colgate was a bit more laid back when she went to the practice on weekends. After lunch Colgate decided to go and feed her patients their lunch. As she was unlocking the door she looked to her right and saw a bluish-green ear poking out of one of the bushes. Colgate smiled when she saw this. She decided that today was going to be the day that she took her defiant sister out of the picture.
When Colgate got in her practice she purposely left the door unlocked and headed down to the basement. As she went through each door she purposely left it unlocked, even the door to the hospital was left unlocked. She began to descend into her hospital and rushed back up out of the practice and galloped home, or so that is what Lyra thought. Lyra nervously descended down into the basement hospital wondering what she would find. As her hoofsteps could be heard one of the patients called out, "Colgate, is that you? We're hungry, could you feed us?"
Lyra recognized the voice immediately. She rushed down to where the patients where being held. She ran to the far end and saw her friend. She began to cry, "Bon Bon!"
For the first time in quite a while Bon Bon had a smile on her face, yet she was crying. She asked, "Lyra, is that really you?"
Lyra rushed up to her, hugged her and replied, "Yes Bon Bon, it is me." She looked at the awful state her friend was in and saw how all of the patients were trapped. She said, "Don't any of you worry, I'm freeing all of you and then we're going to the cops. My sister will pay dearly for this!"
Suddenly the door slammed with a loud, angry fury. A sinister voice echoed from the shadows. "Oh I doubt that little sister."
Lyra shouted, "Colgate, is that you? How could you do this? How could you be so sadistic?"
Colgate stepped out of the shadows and walked up to her younger sister. She shook her head and said, "I figured you would discover this sooner or later. I know you knew something was going on with all your questioning so I decided you must discover for yourself, and now you must pay the penalty!"
Colgate looked down at Bon Bon and saw that her hind legs were becoming infected from the holes she had drilled in them. She realized this would be the perfect opportunity to crush her sister's very will to survive. She asked, "So Bon Bon, how are your legs feeling?"
Bon Bon cried, "They hurt, I think they're infected. Do you have anything to kill the infection?"
Colgate smiled and replied, "Of course I do. Anything for my number one patient!"
Lyra was unsure as to what Colgate was going to do to her friend but knew it probably wouldn't be good. Within a minute Colgate returned with her chainsaw. She figured that the best way to cure this infection was amputation. Lyra saw this and screamed, "Colgate you bitch, so you're just going to cut her legs off?"
Lyra's scream enraged Colgate. She slapped her sister so hard it knocked her into the wall. She yelled, "Lyra Heartstrings, mom and dad always taught us to respect our elders, which is something YOU obviously never learned!"
Bon Bon shouted, "You don't deserve respect Colgate! When she called you a bitch she is simply......."
Colgate smacked her and yelled, "SPEAK WHEN SPOKEN TO, THAT'S WHAT GOOD PATIENTS DO!"
Lyra was just getting up when she saw Colgate turn her saw on. Lyra charged at her sister and hit her, but this did not have the intended results. Rather than flying off to the side, it caused the saw to land on Bon Bon's stomach and cut a huge gash into her lower abdomen. Bon Bon was screaming loudly as the blood began to pour out of her. Colgate laughed, "Hey Lyra, why would you hurt your little marefriend like that?"
While it was not fatal, Lyra knew that this was her fault. Lyra rushed to her friend, turned the saw off, hugged her friend and cried, "I thought she was going to kill you. I am sorry if it was my fault the saw cut you."
Bon Bon leaned her head forwards, kissed her cheek and replied, "It's ok Lyra. I know you were trying to save me."
Lyra smacked Colgate hard and shouted, "How could you want to kill the one pony who has ALWAYS been there for me?"
When Colgate got back up she was in a more vicious rage than she had ever been in before. She lifted her hoof and smashed it so hard into Lyra's face that she broke her nose and rendered her unconscious. She was screaming at her sister and began to stomp her while she was down and out. She glared at Filthy, who was sitting next to Bon Bon and made a decision, she decided that she would make Lyra happy and put her by Bon Bon but somepony would have to die first. She shouted, "Filthy, get out of that chair or die!"
Filthy sneered, "I can't get out of it you ass, you have me strapped in."
Colgate laughed, "Well I won't have you strapped in for long."
Before Filthy could react she rammed her horn into Filthy's chest and fired a powerful bolt of energy. The bolt was so powerful that all he was able to do was let out a gasp before his heart exploded. She dragged his corpse out of the chair, threw it to the side and got Lyra secured in the chair. While Lyra laid there unconscious Colgate took her drill and carved the words "Bon Bon's bitch" into her sister's abdomen. Bon Bon screamed, "Colgate no! You can't do that to her!"
Colgate pointed the drill at her head and began firing it up. She sneered, "Oh I can do what I want. If you don't want a hole drilled into that pretty little head of yours you will shut up."
Bon Bon sat there sobbing quietly while the other patients had been watching all of this unfold in horror, far too scared to even say anything. While Colgate was hauling Filthy's corpse over to the meat grinder to be processed White Tooth asked, "Colgate, when are you going to feed us?"
After grinding Filthy up Colgate took some of his remains over to the doctor. She said, "Wow boss, you really have a tough stomach if you still want to eat after seeing that!"
He growled, "Well you haven't fed us in quite a while. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
Colgate laughed at the comment. She wasn't sure if he was being sarcastic or if he was interested in eating some of her fresh meat. She giggled, "So you're so hungry you'll eat a horse? Well here you go!"
She rammed the meat into the doctor's mouth and much to the blue unicorn's surprise, he swallowed it. He asked, "Colgate, do you think I could have some more? I'm so hungry."
Colgate smiled and asked, "Did you like it doctor?"
He replied, "You know, pony meat isn't all that bad. I could eat more of this."
The rest of the patients, except for the unconscious Lyra, began to throw up violently. Rarity shouted, "Eeeww! Are all dentists like this? Do ALL OF YOU eat other ponies?"
Colgate laughed, "You know we might! So if you don't want my former boss and I to eat you, SHUT UP!"
Out of fear, not only did Rarity become quiet, all of the other patients remained quiet. Colgate glared at her patients and asked, "So, how many more of you are hungry?"
Rarity shouted, "If you are going to force us to eat Filthy's remains, THEN NO!"
She looked at White Tooth and asked, "Have you had enough doctor?"
He replied, "For now, yes. I do hope I can have some more when you feed us again."
Colgate patted him on the shoulder and replied, "Well since none of these pansies will give it a chance, you can eat to your heart's content!"
Colgate hosed herself off and then headed home. She was happy that she finally had her sister, who she thought would eventually run to the authorities, taken care of. Now all she needed was a new hygienist. She decided that despite her not having any kind of training in the subject, that she would give Pinkamena a crash course so she could take over for the now imprisoned Lyra.
That evening Colgate and Pinkamena arrived home at the same time. Pinkamena saw that Colgate was alone and wondered where Lyra was. She asked, "Colgate, where is Lyra? I haven't seen much of her today."
Colgate replied, "I'll tell you once we are inside."
Once they were inside Colgate continued, "Alright Pinkamena, first off you must promise to me that you will tell nopony what I am about to tell you."
Pinkamena nodded and made the promise. Colgate then proceeded to tell her about how she realized that Lyra knew she was up to something and how she lured her down into the basement and the events that took place earlier that day, including the unconventional way she killed Filthy.
Pinkamena was shocked that Colgate would kill somepony that quickly. She asked, "Colgate, why did you kill him so quickly? That isn't like you, usually you like to drag out executions a bit."
Colgate replied, "Well I had to kill him quickly so I could put my sister next to her little marefriend Bon Bon before she regained consciousness."
Pinkamena gasped when she said this. She asked, "Bon Bon and Lyra are in a relationship?"
Colgate replied, "Well I'm not certain they are but they sure have acted like it ever since they were fillies in middle school. They were basically inseparable until Lyra went to the academy up in Canterlot."
Pinkamena asked, "So are we going to go over and take care of them tonight or are we going to wait until the morning?"
A nagging voice in the back of Colgate's mind told her that since she disclosed this information to Pinkamena, that the time had come to not only take her out of the picture, but to close her special dental hospital. That meant that she would have six ponies to kill that night, and chances are that Pinkamena would be by far the toughest one to take out, not just because she is not weakened by hunger, but also because she thinks in the same ways that she does.
Colgate replied, "We will after we eat supper. They may be hungry right now but taking care of them should not come at the expense of our appetites."
Pinkamena was surprisingly not that hungry so she ate a smaller meal while Colgate had a larger filling meal, not so big though that it would slow her down. The fact that Pinkamena ate a smaller meal made her happy. She knew that eventually Pinkamena would get hungry and be easier to take out.
The two ate their supper and headed over to the practice and descended down into the basement. Pinkamena's voice was unfamiliar to Thunderlane and White Tooth. Thunderlane asked, "So Colgate, you're bringing one down here awake?"
Colgate and Pinkamena walked over to Thunderlane and White Tooth with smiles on their faces. Colgate pointed her hoof at Pinkamena and said, "White Tooth, Thunderlane, I would like you to meet my new assistant, Pinkamena Diane Pie."
Thunderlane had heard rumors about how Pinkie is when she is in her Pinkamena state of mind. He had a look of pure fear in his eyes when Pinkamena began giving him a sadistic smile. The doctor was not so worried. He asked, "So Colgate, who is this? Your new hygienist?"
Colgate replied, "Not yet White Tooth. She still has to go through some training, which will begin tonight." She looked at Pinkamena and said, "Go get my drill, there is something new you must learn."
Pinkamena nodded and got the drill for her boss. Colgate forced White Tooth's mouth open and pointed the bit straight towards the roof of his mouth. She turned the drill on and began to drill straight into the roof of his mouth. He was screaming in agony and began to choke as his blood was flowing into the back of his mouth. The two mares were laughing sadistically as Colgate continued to drill further and further up into his head. His screaming continued to get louder and louder and his body convulsed harder and harder until one final scream was let forth as the drill hit his brain and his body went limp.
Colgate was nudging him and got no response. She noticed he was no longer breathing and said, "Well one down, four to go."
Colgate decided that since she would not be operating the hospital for much longer that she would just leave the patients' corpses in their chairs rather than grind them up. Pinkamena did wonder why Colgate did not immediately run her former boss's corpse through the grinder but decided not to ask as she had a feeling that doing so would not be in her best interests.
Next up was Thunderlane. While he was nervous he was showing a defiant, almost cocky look on his face. He laughed, "So you two, how are you going to kill me? Smack me to death, drill a hole in my head, cut my legs off one by one?"
Colgate laughed, "My my, aren't we the arrogant one." She looked at his legs menacingly and continued, "You know, cutting your legs off one by one does sound quite fun. What do you say Pinkamena, shall we do it that way?"
Pinkamena began eyeballing Thunderlane's legs and laughed, "Yes, let's do it that way!"
Pinkamena nodded and brought Colgate her chainsaw. Thunderlane began to kick and scream as the dentist lowered her saw and fired it up. She started by cutting his hind left leg off. He was screaming in agony as she was doing this and his screams only got louder as the saw hit his bone. Very quickly blood was squirting all over the place and he began to grow pale. Colgate laughed, "So Thunderlane, are you enjoying this?"
Despite losing a decent amount of blood, he still had enough strength to thrash about in his chair. She said, "Ok Pinkamena, we'll let the cocky one wear himself out, then we'll finish him off. Now it is time to take care of the fashionista."
Rarity shouted, "Oh no, you two aren't taking me out! I'll find a way out of here and make you two pay."
Colgate looked at her assistant and ordered, "Pinkamena, she is your friend. I'll let you take care of her, I'll just stand back and enjoy the show."
Pinkamena walked over towards her friend with a sadistic look as she walked towards her licking her chops. Rarity realized very quickly that Pinkamena was going to kill her in a much more gruesome way than Colgate would have. Rarity was struggling and shouted, "Get back you beast!"
Pinkamena pounced on Rarity and began to bite her hard, causing Rarity to cry out in pain. While at first she was just breaking skin soon she began to rip her hide off exposing the meat underneath. Pinkamena was laughing as she continued to rip the hide off of her friend's abdomen. Eventually Pinkamena decided that merely ripping her hide off was no longer enough. She began to rip the meat off of her ribcage and eat it. Rarity started crying, "Please, stop! What did I do to deserve this?"
Colgate ordered Pinkamena off of her as she did not want her to die too quickly. Colgate walked over to her, smacked her and shouted, "For the hundredth time, you deserve this because you dared come in here with cavities!"
Rarity shouted, "Well that is why ponies go to the dentist, to get cavities filled and have their dental problems taken care of!"
Again Colgate smacked her and shouted, "You know what Rarity? It is ponies like you, full grown adults who don't take care of their teeth that piss me off so much. You are setting a bad example for other ponies and especially the fillies and colts! They'll think that since an adult doesn't take care of their teeth, why should they have to."
Rarity shouted, "Well look at Sweetie Belle, her teeth are just fine so I'm not a bad influence on her!"
Colgate yelled back, "Well not all the foals are as bright as she is either. She's a hell of a lot smarter than you are, that's for sure!"
Rarity just grunted in disgust despite her wanting to scream and yell. She knew it would be best if she just remained quiet. Colgate decided Rarity had suffered enough for now. She looked back over at Thunderlane, who appeared to be regaining a bit of his strength and said, "Well, it looks like our prima donna is feeling better. Ready for round two Thunderlane?"
Thunderlane began shouting that she would not get away with this and was thrashing about in his chair. Colgate was quickly getting fed up and shouted, "Pinkamena, get me my saw, I'm amputating it all."
Pinkamena brought Colgate her saw and before Thunderlane could say anything, she fired it up and began sawing the rest of his legs off. He was screaming in agony and just like he did when his wings were cut off, he began to go into convulsions. Once she had the remaining three legs cut off, blood wasn't squirting everywhere, it was flooding everywhere. His shaking only caused the blood to flow out faster. Finally after five minutes of shaking and screaming, he breathed his last and fell limp. Colgate put her hoof off to his neck and felt no pulse. She said, "Well Pinkamena, we have one more to take care of before we can take care of my top two patients."
Pinkamena said, "Yummy, I get more unicorn meat!"
Colgate interrupted, "Well I'm joining you this time! I want to get her finished off before too long." Given that Rarity was severely weakened by her ordeal, Colgate released her from her bounds and threw her out of the chair.
Pinkamena was confused as to why she would do this. She asked, "Colgate, why did you set her free? I thought you wanted to kill her."
Colgate replied, "It will be easier to finish her off this way. Let's go."
Rarity was screaming and yelling begging for her life as she lay on the floor, but to no avail. Colgate and Pinkamena descended upon her like a pack of wolves. Rarity was screaming and crying in pain as the two began to rip her meat off of her and dug in on her organs. Pinkamena was in more of a frenzy than Colgate was. She threw Colgate off of their screaming victim and went after the first organ she saw, the stomach, which would prove to be fatal.
Pinkamena dug in and ripped the stomach out whole and began to devour it. Once it broke open she immediately began to scream out in pain. In the state she was suddenly in she swallowed the acid without even thinking. Her esophagus was burned so badly that it disintegrated and the acid began to fall into her body's cavity. It began to eat away at her stomach and her intestines. She was in so much pain that she began to shake violently. Colgate was standing there watching both Pinkamena and Rarity in their final moments. Finally excessive blood loss caused Rarity to pass and extreme shock and the acid splashing up on her heart killed Pinkamena.
Colgate breathed a sigh of relief as the pony that she thought would be the toughest to take out, died over a thoughtless mistake on her part. Now she had only two more ponies to take out before she could officially close her hospital, her sister and Bon Bon. She looked at the two and began laughing, "Well it looks like I only have two more to go!"
Bon Bon had a look of despair in her face because she knew that the chances of her and Lyra getting out of there were zero but Lyra still had hope, hope that her and Bon Bon could escape and make Colgate pay for all her crimes.
It was one in the morning on Sunday and Colgate had taken care of most of her problems, but two remained. While one would be relatively easy to wipe out, the other would prove to put up more of a fight. She stood before her remaining captives soaked in the blood of her earlier victims. She had a sadistic smile on her face as she asked her captives, "So you two, did you like the show that I have put on tonight?"
Bon Bon began to cry. She asked, "Colgate, you have always been so friendly. How could you suddenly turn so mean and want to punish everypony for cavities?"
Rather than being angry like she normally would be, she remained quite calm. She replied, "You see Bon Bon, cavities and bad oral hygiene in general are a major threat to Equestria. I know I can't cleanse the whole country of them but I do know I can eradicate them from Ponyville by taking those who teach bad habits out."
Lyra sneered, "Oh yes, you think it is your job to force your will upon this community. Just you wait, even if you do manage to get away with this at first, eventually all the deaths you are responsible for will be tied to you! Luna will likely execute you for killing Celestia."
Colgate smacked Lyra for daring to say such a thing. She stared down her sister and replied, "Oh you don't know me very well little sister. I have planned all this out perfectly. Once you and your marefriend are out of the picture, I'll finish this off and start from scratch."
Bon Bon had a feeling as to what Colgate was going to do. She asked, "Colgate, are you going to blow up your practice to destroy the evidence?"
Colgate smiled, patted Bon Bon on the head and replied, "Wow Bon Bon, you're smarter than you look."
Lyra interrupted, "Well you won't get away with it because all these spiked chairs will be discovered as will all our remains."
Colgate laughed, "Oh I doubt that. I know what I'm doing."
Colgate decided that she wanted this to be a bit more fun. While it would be easier for her to take them out with them strapped in their chairs, she decided to let them out of their chairs. When she was freeing them from their spiked prisons Lyra asked, "Wait a minute, are you letting us go? I thought you wanted to kill us."
Colgate laughed, "I will let you two go under one condition. As you can clearly see, Bon Bon is unable to walk on her own. If you can get her and carry her out of this building completely, I will allow you two to survive. I would advise you take Bon Bon to the hospital though, she is in really bad shape."
Bon Bon's eyes lit up and she asked, "Really?"
Colgate smiled, "Yeah, really!"
While this sounded easy enough to Bon Bon, Lyra knew it would be challenging. She was weakened a bit by not being able to eat much, that along with the fact that she could not easily levitate heavier things such as ponies like Colgate can. Bon Bon was unable to move any with her dislocated front leg and her infected back ones, so she was just sitting up against her chair. The weakened Lyra was laying on the floor getting up when she saw Colgate holding her chainsaw pointing it at Bon Bon. This enraged Lyra.
Lyra shouted, "You said you were going to let us go if I can get her out of here!"
Colgate smacked her sister and sneered, "I will. I'm just doing this to provide you with some ambition. It seems as though you are moving along quite slowly."
This brought out the fire in Lyra that was so important at this time. She got up on all fours, used all the energy she could to levitate Bon Bon and began to head towards the door. Colgate followed them pointing her saw at them the whole way. When Lyra got Bon Bon to the stairs she realized that this would be next to impossible. She glared at her sister and asked, "How am I supposed to get her up these stairs? You know my magic isn't as strong as yours!"
Colgate laughed, "That's your problem sis, not mine! Now chop, chop! I don't have all night."
Lyra's horn was glowing brightly and she had a grimace on her face as she was slowly but surely levitating Bon Bon up the stairs. She knew that this would be the hardest part yet the rewards would be well worth it. After thirty minutes she finally was able to get Bon Bon up the stairs. Lyra's horn began to glow to open the door but to her dismay, she couldn't get it to budge. Lyra shouted, "Colgate, how am I supposed to get us out of here if I can't open the door?"
Colgate laughed, "Oh silly sister. There is one thing you never took into account. The lock on that door can only be activated or deactivated by me!"
Lyra screamed, "But you said if I could get her out of here, that you would let us go. Now that is impossible."
Colgate, in a calm and collected voice replied, "I did say that but it looks like you'll never make it out. I'll go over in the corner while you say your final farewells to your little marefriend. I doubt she will last much longer."
Lyra scowled at Colgate and realized there was only one thing she could do. She knew that she probably wouldn't be able to blow the door off but she knew it was worth trying. Her horn began to glow so brightly it made the room as bright as if it were being illuminated by the noonday sun. She was putting so much power into this that even she began to glow herself, she fired a powerful bolt of energy at the door but instead of blasting the door open, it threw her and Bon Bon back into the main part of the hospital. Lyra landed at Colgate's feet. Colgate was laughing, "Oh Lyra, so close!" Colgate looked over to see that Bon Bon's back legs were broken when she was slammed into the wall. While Bon Bon was screaming in agony Colgate's laughter was easily drowning it out.
Lyra stood up and smacked her sister. She shouted, "You are pure evil Colgate, pure evil!"
Colgate was holding her saw, aiming it at Bon Bon when Lyra had enough. She charged at Colgate and ripped the saw from her grasp. Yet while she did this she turned the saw on and rather than getting a good hold of it, it went flying up in the air and landed on Bon Bon, leaving a deep cut on her abdomen. Lyra rushed over to her, turned the saw off and began to cry. She looked at her friend, who was bleeding badly at this point and cried, "I'm so sorry Bon Bon. I didn't mean for it to turn out like this. I was just so mad at her."
Using all her remaining strength, Bon Bon pulled Lyra close to her with her one good leg and said, "Lyra, there is something I have to admit to you. We have been great friends for years but it is just now that I realize my feelings for you are far more. I love you Lyra Heartstrings, I truly love you."
Lyra began to cry, "Really? I love you too Bon Bon. I was always so scared to tell you my true feelings. I've loved you ever since seventh grade."
The two embraced and began to kiss. This would be their one and only kiss though, as once Lyra broke the kiss her beloved Bon Bon let out one last gasp before she died. Lyra began sobbing uncontrollably as she lay next to Bon Bon's remains. Colgate had a huge smile as she believed that the death of Bon Bon would crush her sister's desire to live, but it didn't, it did the exact opposite. At that moment Lyra wanted nothing more than to kill her sister, even if she could never get out.
Colgate was laughing, "You know sis, Bon Bon's death was your fault. Did you like killing your marefriend?"
Lyra got up and charged at her sister. She knocked her backwards, pounced on top of her and began punching her. She was shouting, "You bitch, you dirty bitch! I may not be able to make it out of here but I'm going to make sure you don't either!"
Colgate kicked her off of her and shouted, "Alright you little wretch, bring it! Your magic is no match against mine! I OWN you!"
Lyra shouted, "You want a fight, fine! But we're fighting the way earth ponies do!"
Colgate shouted, "Fine, bring it!"
For a while early on, despite being weakened by malnutrition and injuries, Lyra seemed to be getting the best of her sister. Colgate was getting thrown around, kicked and easily overpowered by her younger sister. Lyra even threw Colgate in to one of her spiked chairs. Before Lyra could get her locked in it though Colgate got out and kicked her sister harder than she had ever kicked anything before. Lyra went flying into the wall with so much force it stunned her temporarily. This did not drain any of the fight from her though, she charged at Colgate and both of them continued to level hit after hit on one another.
Finally around four in the morning Colgate knew she needed to finish this once and for all. She kicked Lyra up against the wall, got in her face and shouted, "Alright sis, we've fought like earth ponies for long enough. We're fighting MY WAY now!"
Before Lyra could do anything Colgate rammed her horn into her chest and let forth a powerful bolt of energy. While the backfire from this energy threw Colgate into the opposite wall, it caused Lyra to be blown to bits. Despite being weakened by being thrown the way she was, she smiled and said to herself, "Mission accomplished. Now to destroy the evidence and I'm home free!"
Colgate laid there for about an hour before she finally had the strength to get up and hose herself off. Once she was nice and clean she headed for the exit. Before leaving though, she unplugged her freezer as it would no longer be needed. As she left her basement hospital one last time, she slammed the door shut and headed home. When she got home she collapsed onto her bed and slept for a good part of the day.
Two weeks had passed since the explosion and Colgate remained in a coma. Her best friend, Berry Punch spent each day in her room waiting for her to finally come to. Everyday she would say, "Please Colgate, wake up. Ponyville needs you, we all need you."
Doctor Hooves walked in one day when she was saying this. While he was happy that Colgate had one true friend who stayed by her side, he was also concerned that Colgate may not make it since she had yet to wake up. He said, "Berry Punch, I have a really bad feeling that she may not wake up. She should have woken up by now."
Berry began to tear up a bit and asked, "Doctor, you mean to tell me that she may simply remain asleep forever or that she might die?"
The doctor replied, "Yes Berry, the nurses and I have been monitoring her condition and it seems like each day her heartbeat is weakening more and more."
Berry asked, "But she is a unicorn, doesn't she have some sort of extra adrenaline in her, something that could just fire up at any moment and cause her to wake up?"
Doctor Hooves replied, "While it is true that unicorns have that extra adrenaline, it normally is only tapped into in the event of a sudden near death experience. Like I had said before, she should have woken up by now." He lowered his head, shed a few tears and continued, "Berry, we have in our records a do not resuscitate form that she signed a few years back. So if her heart stops, that is it."
Berry did not know much about legal forms such as that and asked, "What is a do not resuscitate form?"
The doctor replied, "It is a legal document that a pony signs when he or she does not wish to be revived if their heart stops beating. Since she signed one of those forms it would be illegal for us to try to revive her if her heart was to stop beating. We would have to respect her wishes and let her pass."
Berry buried her hooves in her face and started crying. The very thoughts of them not being able to revive Colgate saddened her greatly.
As the doctor left the room Colgate's heart beat became weaker and her blood pressure began to drop. Berry saw this and knew what was happening. She started to cry uncontrollably when the heart monitor flat lined. When the nurses heard this they rushed into her room, not to try to revive her but to comfort Berry Punch and get her out of Colgate's room so that they could take her to the morgue. Berry wouldn't easily leave though as she was kicking and screaming pleading with the nurses to revive her as they led her out of the room. The head nurse said, "Berry, you don't understand. She signed a legal document which prohibits us from trying to revive her.
Once Berry Punch had been led out of the room the nurses disconnected the heart monitor and oxygen from Colgate. They placed a bed sheet over her as they do with everypony who passes. The head nurse said, "Time of death, 1846."
While they thought Colgate was dead, something was going on in her lifeless body. The adrenaline that only unicorns have, shot into her veins with so much force that it reached her brain. As her body was being transported to the morgue, she sat up quickly and was breathing heavily. This terrified the nurses. The nurse said, "Colgate, you're alive?"
While it would seem normal that Colgate would be really groggy and disoriented upon coming to, the exact opposite was true. Unicorn adrenaline is powerful and not only revives them in cases like this, it also gives them a huge energy boost. She was looking at her surroundings and saw that she was being led towards the morgue. She asked, "May I ask why you are leading me towards the morgue?"
Doctor Hooves heard Colgate talking and rushed in her direction. When he got there he grabbed Colgate, began to cry tears of joy and said, "We thought we had lost you. You were clinically dead for a few minutes."
Colgate broke into a smile and asked, "Seriously? I was dead for a few minutes?"
Doctor Hooves replied, "Yes, you were." He motioned for the nurses to take her back to her room and said, "Alright, let's get her back to her room. I'm going to find Berry Punch before she leaves the building."
Doctor Hooves rushed to the main level of the hospital and caught Berry right as she was leaving. He said, "Berry, I need you to come with me. This is important."
Berry was crying loudly. She shouted, "No! My best friend has just passed away. The hospital is the last place I want to be right now."
Doctor Hooves told her that this was extremely important and eventually was able to persuade her to follow him. When he led her into Colgate's room, she saw Colgate sitting up in her bed, like nothing ever happened with a huge smile on her face. Berry was stunned. She looked at her friend and asked, "Colgate, is that really you? I saw you die and they said you had signed a do not resuscitate order."
Colgate replied, "Berry, there is a reason most unicorns sign do not resuscitate forms. We have something that other races of ponies don't have."
Berry asked, "Are you talking about that extra adrenaline?"
Colgate replied, "Yes, I am. Had they tried shocking me back to life, it would have prevented that adrenaline from saving me."
Doctor Hooves interrupted, "Well I am glad that your adrenaline saved you and my goodness, you look healthier than I have ever seen you." He took a closer look and gasped, "Oh my goodness Colgate, all your burns and scars are gone."
Colgate laughed, "Yeah, besides reviving the fallen one, a unicorn's adrenaline also heals said unicorn entirely." She started to tap her hoof on her bed and asked, "So doctor, when can I go home?"
Doctor Hooves smiled and replied, "I knew you were going to ask that. I am sorry but I can't let you go home for three days since you coded on us."
Colgate knew this was standard procedure and growled, "Oh ok, but once you think I'm ready to go home, I want to go home."
Berry said, "Well Colgate, I don't know how much you remember about the night you came in here but there was a massive explosion that took out your house and your practice. So right now you don't have a house to go home to."
Colgate remembered that night very well. She replied, "Yes, that is true. Well I'll just get a room at the inn until I can get my house rebuilt." She looked at the doctor and continued, "Do you have a phone I can use? I need to contact my insurance company so I can get things rolling on getting my home and office rebuilt."
Doctor Hooves laughed, "Well it is good to see that you are the same Colgate that you have always been! Most ponies, even other unicorns wouldn't be in such a hellfire hurry to get things back to normal!"
Colgate laughed, "Well I'm not your average unicorn either!"
Berry Punch kept Colgate company during the remaining days of her stay in the hospital, which seemed like an eternity to the blue unicorn. Finally when Colgate was released the very first thing she did was head over to where her office used to be. All she saw on that side of town was a big long crater, along with the ruptured gas line. She saw no evidence of the chairs, the bodies or anything else she had in her special dental hospital. She breathed a sigh of relief and said to herself, "Thank Luna, there is no sign that it ever existed at all!"
Berry heard her say this and asked, "Thank Luna what? What do you mean?"
Colgate replied, "I meant Thank Luna because I managed to survive to return to this site." She began to jump up and down and said, "Once my office is rebuilt I will be back to doing what I do best, taking care of other ponies' teeth!"
The time it took for Colgate's house and practice to be rebuilt seemed to take forever to her. Everyday she, along with every other pony who lost their homes and businesses would head over to the construction site to check the progress of the construction. She bumped into Mr. Breezy and said, "Oh hi Mr. Breezy. I see you're over here checking on the progress too."
Mr. Breezy replied, "Yeah and it seems to be taking so long. I don't know how much longer I can stand to stay at the inn. Yeah the gas company is paying for my stay but still, I want a real home to live in!"
Colgate laughed, "Yeah I hear you there! Good thing those motel rooms have kitchenettes in them, I don't think I could afford to eat out three times a day, every day!"
The two engaged in some minor chit chat as they headed back to the inn. While they were frustrated that things weren't moving along as quickly as they liked, they knew things would be done eventually. Finally though, just a couple weeks before the weather was going to turn cold, all the construction was completed. Colgate first headed to her house and was pleased with what she saw but what she was really excited about was checking out her new office.
When she headed in she was ecstatic, for the most part it was designed exactly like her old one, except that there was no basement in this one. When she noticed this she said to herself, "Oh thank goodness, I don't think I could stand to ever go into a basement here again."
Colgate realized that she was going to need new equipment and new furniture for both her practice and her home. It took her a few days to get all of that taken care of and then she realized she needed one more thing, new employees. On the first Saturday in December she headed up to the vocational academy in Canterlot to attend their graduation. She ran into Luna and said, "Oh hi your Majesty, how is everything going?"
Luna replied, "It is still tough without Celestia and it is even harder on us because we can not find White Tooth, who we believe is responsible for not just Celestia's death, but for the deaths of many ponies."
Colgate hugged the princess and replied, "I'm sorry your Majesty. I feel so bad for sending them all to Fillydelphia. Despite being a real bear to work under back so many years ago, I thought he would be the one who would take care of all their dental needs. I never imagined he would kill them."
Luna asked, "I know Lyra was your sister and Pinkamena was your receptionist, what happened to them?"
Colgate replied, "I honestly don't know. I gave them their bonuses, they went to Manehattan for some rest and relaxation but they never returned. It really bothers me, especially since I was always close with Lyra and grew close to Pinkamena but I know they would want me to move forward."
Luna hugged Colgate and said, "And that is why we think so highly of you. You lose your home, you lose your business, you go into a coma, die for a few minutes and your sister and receptionist go missing but you still persevere." She looked towards the academy and said, "We take it you are here to hire new graduates to work for you?"
Colgate replied, "Yep, you bet I am!"
Luna wished her farewell and Colgate headed to the commencement ceremony for the hygienists. She was watching all of the ponies go up and get their certificates when one particular pony caught her eye, Amethyst Star. She knew Amethyst loved Ponyville and figured that she would make a great hygienist.
After the ceremony she approached Amethyst and said, "Congratulations Amethyst, I'm happy to see a Ponyville native get her certificate."
Amethyst knew what Colgate was going to ask next and replied, "Thanks Colgate and I know what you are going to ask, and yes I would like to be your hygienist. It will be so nice to return home and to work for a pony who can persevere through anything."
Colgate smiled and said, "Wow, I can tell you're going to be amazing already! Now I need to find a pony who would be interested in being my receptionist."
Before she could walk even a few steps Sea Swirl, who had just got her clerical certificate rushed to Amethyst, who was a good friend of hers. The two began to talk a bit when Sea Swirl asked, "Amethyst, I know you have been actively searching but have you found a job yet?"
Amethyst smiled and replied, "Yep, Colgate came up here and hired me immediately after the ceremony."
Sea Swirl was happy and hugged her friend. She said, "Congratulations Amethyst, now I just need to find a job."
Amethyst tapped Colgate on the shoulder and motioned towards Sea Swirl. Colgate knew that she too is a Ponyville native and loved her hometown. She asked, "Sea Swirl, I know you love Ponyville and I am wondering if you would be interested in being my....."
Sea Swirl interrupted, "Yes I would love to be your receptionist!"
Colgate smiled and replied, "Well then, you're hired! Let's head back to Ponyville and get ready for my grand re-opening on Monday."
Her two new employees enthusiastically headed home with their new boss. After a day of rest they headed to the office early Monday morning. When the clock struck eight Colgate unlocked the door and just as the first snow of the season began to fall, in came Applejack, her first patient since reopening. Applejack said, "Howdy Colgate, how are y'all doing?"
Colgate replied, "I am doing quite well, how about you?"
Applejack replied, "Well Ah'm doing great. Ah'm glad to see you doing so much better and back in business."
Amethyst asked, "Well Applejack, shall we go in the back and get started?"
Applejack replied, "You bet!"
After Amethyst checked out Applejack's teeth Colgate headed over to take a better look at them and just like every other visit, her teeth were perfectly fine. This brought a huge smile to Colgate and she thought to herself, "Never again will I allow myself to descend into the madness I fell into. It is truly a great time to be alive!"
The sun just rose above the horizon on a calm Saturday morning in Ponyville. Colgate got up and was wiping the sleep out of her eyes. Normally Saturday's are a rather uneventful day for her but this week it was different as her little sister Lyra was graduating from the Canterlot Vocational Academy with a dental hygienist certificate. Colgate was happy because she knew that her sister would do a far better job than her previous one did.
Colgate looks at the clock and shouts, "Damn it Colgate, you overslept! No time for breakfast today, I must get to Canterlot at once!"
Colgate quickly raced out the door and got to the train station just a minute before the train to Canterlot was leaving. While she was upset about not having any breakfast, she still had a beaming smile on her face. Sitting opposite from her in the car was Dr. Hooves, who also had a beaming smile on his face. Colgate saw this and asked, "Doctor, what has you in such a good mood?"
The doctor replied, "My little sister is graduating from the Canterlot Vocational Academy with a certificate in nursing. Now I will have a competent nurse." He paused for a minute and asked, "So what has you in such a good mood?"
Colgate replied, "Pretty much the same reason as you, except my little sister earned her dental hygienist certificate. She will be so much better than the one I had to fire on Friday."
Dr. Hooves asked, "You're talking about Lemon Hearts I take it? What did she do to get fired?"
Colgate replied, "She smacked Pipsqueak when he wouldn't open his mouth so she could clean his teeth. Luckily his parents didn't press charges."
The doctor smiled and they continued to talk about how things had been going in their practices and before they knew it, they had arrived in Canterlot. Colgate hurried over to the academy where she was greeted by Lyra in her cap and gown. Colgate hugged her little sister and said, "Lyra, I'm so proud of you! You remind me so much of myself!"
Lyra replied, "Well sis, I have always looked up to you as a role model." She paused and asked, "Guess what?"
Colgate replied, "What?"
Lyra had a beaming smile on her face and replied, "I'm graduating at the top of my class! The president of the academy is so proud of me!"
Colgate was ecstatic when she heard this. She replied, "I'm even prouder of you! I know you'll make the perfect........"
Celestia walked up to the two and said, "Lyra, you better get ready for the ceremony. You will be walking up to receive your certificate first."
Lyra nodded and said good bye to her sister. Celestia smiled and asked, "So how is my favorite dentist doing?"
Colgate replied, "I am doing wonderful! Seeing my baby sister receiving her certificate makes me very happy."
Celestia asked, "I take it you're going to hire her on the spot once she goes home with you?"
Colgate replied, "Yep, who better to have work with me than my sister. Her and I are a lot alike, we put a lot of value into hard work and neither one of us have ever had a thing handed to us."
Celestia knew that Colgate was knocking Twilight becoming a princess with the 'never having had anything handed to them' statement but didn't say anything. Colgate continued, "So your Majesty, how are your teeth? Having any problems with them?"
Celestia had quit brushing and began to eat more sweets than ever. She knew Colgate would be very angry if she found out so she decided to lie. She replied, "Nope, none at all. I know I have told you this many times but again thank you for learning that pain free root canal spell but I am going to thank you again, Thank you so much."
Colgate said, "Anytime princess." She looked towards the courtyard where Lyra's ceremony would be held and continued, "Well I better get going your Majesty, I want to get a front row seat for this."
Celestia smiled and replied, "I know you do. You have a good one."
Colgate headed out to the courtyard and got a seat up in the front row, right next to the aisle where her sister would be walking. In fifteen minutes the ceremony began. The band began to play as the graduates walked up on the makeshift stage that had been set up. Colgate shed a few tears of happiness as she saw her sister receive her certificate. It was a relatively short ceremony given that it was not a fancy university graduation. Within twenty minutes the ceremony was over and Colgate and Lyra were headed to the Canterlot Cafe.
Colgate looked over at Lyra and asked, "So Lyra, do you have a job lined up yet?"
Lyra replied, "No I don't. My adviser here at the academy was talking to Dr. White Tooth in Fillydelphia but I have heard that he is a horrible boss to work under."
Colgate said, "He is a total asshole Lyra. He is the bastard I had to work under after graduating from the dental academy in Manehattan." She paused for a minute and continued, "Lyra, since you don't have a job lined up yet what would you think about working for me?"
Lyra was giddy after hearing this question. She excitedly asked, "You want me to work for you?"
Colgate smiled and replied, "Yes Lyra, I want you to work for me!"
Lyra hugged her sister and said, "Of course I'll work for you. Finally, I'll get to be with my sister again, life will be so wonderful!"
Colgate said, "Lyra, you know I'm not going to relax the rules for you since you are my sister don't you? Yes we will get along more and be closer but you will still have to follow all the health code regulations that everypony else does."
Lyra replied, "I know big sis. I'm just so happy I get to work for you."
Soon the late afternoon had arrived and the two were waiting at the train station to head home. On the way home they sat across from Doctor Hooves and his younger sister, Twinkleshine. Colgate looked over and asked, "So doctor, will Twinkleshine be working as your nurse?"
Before the doctor could say anything Twinkleshine interrupted, "Yes, I'll be working as my brother's nurse. I am so happy that I can work for him. I have always looked up to him as a role model."
Lyra added, "I am so happy I can work for my sister too. She has always been my role model and hero."
The two elder siblings smiled and realized that things were going to be perfectly fine. Before they knew it the train had arrived back in Ponyville and they headed their separate ways. Once they got home Lyra asked, "Colgate, do I still have my old room or did you turn it into a guest room?"
Colgate replied, "I haven't touched a thing in there. It is still the same as it was before."
Lyra ran into her room and plopped down on her old bed. It was just as comfortable as she remembered it being the night before she left to go to the academy. That night after her and her sister had a good filling supper. When she went to bed she had the best night's sleep she had in ages, probably because she had no more exams or papers to worry about and she was happy that she was able to get a job so easily. Little did she know that things in her sister's practice would take a strange and very unexpected twist.
Three New Acquisitions
After Colgate fed her patients late that night she began to head home. She suddenly realized that the tooth Moondancer swallowed would wind up tearing her insides up and kill her. She said to herself, "Damn it, how could I be so dumb as to not have a plan on how to handle the bodies?"
She was walking past the butcher shop and got an idea. She realized that if she could steal the meat grinder from there she could simply reduce her victims into piles of meat. She decided to go back to her office and wait until midnight, when everypony would be asleep. Finally midnight arrived and there were no lights on in town, so she headed out to acquire the equipment needed. She was sneaking around and when she got to the butcher shop, she unlocked the door and headed in. She headed to the back and saw something she did not expect to see as she had discovered that the local butcher had his own dark side. She saw a meat grinder that was much larger than the others. It was so large that cows could be ran through it alive. She became giddy with excitement and realized that she had to have that meat grinder.
"JACKPOT!" Colgate said to herself quietly. She knew that getting it back to her practice would be tough, especially because her horn gives off a great amount of light when she levitates things. After she got the grinder out of the butcher shop she quickly locked the door back and began the toughest part of her journey. She was levitating it to her practice and was so close, when suddenly a light came on in the top floor of Sugarcube Corner.
Pinkie was looking out and saw it was Colgate. She shouted "Hi Colgate! Whatchya doin'?"
Colgate knew that this would be a major problem so she decided to take care of it. She levitated Pinkie down to the ground. Pinkie was yelling, "Help, help!"
Before anypony else heard her and woke up Colgate shoved her hoof in the pink pony's mouth. She growled, "Shut up Pinkie, you're coming with me."
Pinkie was terrified by Colgate's unusual demeanor. Colgate led her to her practice as she was levitating the meat grinder. She finally got the two inside and took them down to her hospital. She set her meat grinder over in the corner as Pinkie stood at the base of the steps still terrified. Colgate then headed over to her and stared straight into her soul. She sternly asked, "So Pinkie, what are your plans for tomorrow?"
Pinkie replied, "We-well I'll have to tell my friends about how I helped you get this meat grinder."
Colgate knocked her to the ground over this statement. She hit Pinkie so hard that she was a bit woozy and unaware of her surroundings. Colgate picked her up and put her in the chair next to Moondancer where she got her secured to where she could not escape. Pinkie cried out in pain as the spikes plowed into her hide. She cried, "Colgate, what did I do to deserve this? I've never done anything to you."
Colgate got up in her face and replied, "No but you were going to and I simply can not allow that to happen."
Pinkie realized that the one thing she does the best could drive Colgate to let her go, so she started talking a lot. She started rambling on about anything and everything. Very quickly Colgate was getting sick of it. She headed to the main basement, grabbed some gauze, took it back down and stuffed it in Pinkie's mouth. "Mphff, Mphfff" said Pinkie as she could not speak much with the gauze in her mouth.
Colgate glared at her and said, "Give it a rest."
Colgate headed upstairs and slammed the door behind her. It was one in the morning when she finally got home. She was tired yet relieved. She laid down to sleep realizing that she was able to get everything she needed to take care of done as Lyra would be arriving home that evening and despite having nothing to worry about, that evening would come all too soon for Colgate.
When Colgate woke up Sunday morning a thought burst into her mind. She thought of another way to punish her unruly patients. She thought to herself, "Hmmm......perhaps if I have something to cut them with it will shut them up." She then remembered how tasty she thought Bon Bon and Moondancer's blood was and knew what she needed to do, so after breakfast she headed to the local hardware store.
When she walked in the clerk said, "Good morning Colgate! What brings you in today?"
Colgate replied, "Oh I just need to get a high quality chainsaw for some renovations I need to do in my office."
The clerk smiled and took her back to where the chainsaws were located. There were several back there but one drew her attention, the Everfree 500. She pointed her hoof at that one and said, "That is the one I would like."
The clerk looked stunned that she would want such an expensive chainsaw. He asked, "Colgate, do you really need that heavy duty of a chainsaw just to do renovations? It is twice as expensive as the others."
Colgate frowned and replied, "You're as bad as the clerk was yesterday at the grocery store. You shouldn't be questioning what your customers wish to purchase."
The clerk apologized and Colgate bought the chainsaw. She took it over to her practice and took it down to her hospital. She placed it over by her new meat grinder and one of her patients asked, "Colgate, is that you?"
Colgate ignored her patient entirely and headed back upstairs as she knew that her sister would be getting home soon and that nothing could appear to be out of the ordinary. Late afternoon arrived and Colgate was waiting at the train station when Lyra's train pulled into the station. Lyra rushed off the train and rushed into her sister's hooves. She had tears in her eyes and said, "Colgate, I'm so glad to be home."
Colgate could tell that her sister was quite distraught. She asked, "Lyra, what happened? Why are you crying?"
Lyra replied, "My friends dumped me because they believe I had my job handed to me."
Colgate asked, "Why? Because I hired you on the spot?"
Lyra continued to sob, "Yes. A couple of them still don't have jobs and they are jealous of me."
Colgate stroked her hoof through Lyra's mane and said, "Come on Lyra, let's go get a bite to eat. I know exactly what will ease the pain."
Colgate decided to be more relaxed that evening. She took Lyra to the cafe and let her get ice cream and a milkshake, as that has always been the one thing to calm her down in moments of distress. Lyra looked at her sister and said, "Thank you big sister. You're too good to me."
Colgate smiled and replied, "Don't mention it Lyra. You enjoy your snack and get some rest tonight. We have a couple of early appointments tomorrow and I need you to be at your best."
Lyra and Colgate headed home and after an evening of playing their favorite games and leisurely chit chat, the two went to bed. They had a full schedule the following day so they had to be at their best. While Lyra fell into a deep sleep Colgate laid there remembering how Rarity's teeth were at the cafe the previous week. She began to snicker realizing that Rarity, who she views as a snobby pony, would eventually be reduced to a bloody, whiny mess.
After an exhausting night in her hospital Colgate finally woke up around noon. When she got up she noticed she was covered in scars and bruises from her fight with Lyra. Luckily she knew a spell to heal herself so she cast it before going out in public. She decided to treat herself to lunch for a job well done the night before. She headed into the cafe in a much more cheerful mood than she had been in ages. Twilight was in there with Fluttershy and asked, "Wow Colgate, you're in a good mood. Why is that?"
In the past Colgate would have had a bit of a nervous look on her face but her recent experience caused her to develop nerves of steel. With an absolutely cheerful look on her face she replied, "I was going through my financial records and my profits for the second quarter were up 13% from the previous quarter."
Twilight replied, "Wow, that would cause anypony to be happy."
Fluttershy interrupted, "Hey have you heard anything from Rarity? I know you sent her to a hospital back east but I'm worried about her."
Colgate replied, "Honestly I haven't. Dr. White Tooth doesn't allow the patients there to communicate with the outside world. He runs things kind of strangely but he does get his patients back on the right track."
Twilight was wondering why Colgate was alone and decided to ask about it. She asked, "Colgate, where are Pinkamena and Lyra? Normally you three are together."
Colgate replied, "Oh I gave them their bonuses and a week off so they headed to Manehattan for a week of rest and relaxation. I figured that once they get back, they will do even better than they have been."
Twilight replied, "Yeah I imagine so." She looked up at the clock and realized that they had to get going. Twilight and Fluttershy wished her well and left. Colgate was sitting there with a huge smile on her face. She was proud of herself for handling their questions and lying so easily without even showing a bit of nervousness. After she ate her meal she headed to the hardware store to make sure that what she had heard when she was buying her chainsaw was true. She wanted to know for sure if they stored their propane tanks in the basement.
That afternoon she headed into the hardware store and saw that the owner, Drill Bit was working the counter. He waved and said, "Good afternoon Colgate, what brings you in today?"
Colgate smiled and replied, "Well I'm looking to get a propane tank for my grill. My old one is rusting out."
Drill Bit asked, "What size of one do you want?"
Colgate replied, "Couldn't you just show me your supply and let me pick one out?"
Drill Bit said, "Unfortunately no. We store our propane tanks in the basement and customers are not allowed to go down there."
Colgate replied, "I understand that completely. My grill uses a ten gallon tank so that is what I would need."
While Drill Bit headed down to the basement to get what she needed Colgate was beyond ecstatic yet she did not show it. She was thinking to herself, "Tonight all my problems will be solved!"
Drill Bit came back up stairs with a disappointed look on his face. He said, "I'm sorry, but we are out of ten gallon tanks right now." He threw his hooves up in the air and said, "I had a delivery of fifty tanks yesterday and yet I forgot to order ten gallon ones."
Colgate replied, "Oh it is no problem. It isn't the end of the world if I don't get one right away."
Drill Bit had a concerned look on his face. He asked, "You don't plan on doing any grilling anytime soon do you?"
Colgate replied, "Goodness no! I'm not grilling anything until I get a new tank. Thanks for your concern."
Colgate headed home after learning about all the tanks downstairs. She realized she had only one more thing she needed to do before she could act on her plan. She had to check the details of her insurance policies for her home and business to see what all they covered and luckily for her, her policies would cover damages from explosions. She knew that with the natural gas pipeline that serves her side of town running right under every building, including her home and office, that she would easily be able to pull this off without harming herself financially.
Colgate waited in her house patiently until midnight, when everypony in town had fallen asleep. She headed over to the hardware store without being noticed. She was happy when she saw that all Drill Bit had on his door was a basic lock. She quickly unlocked it and headed inside. Snce she was just there earlier in the day, she knew where the entrance to the basement was. She silently walked down the stairs and turned the light on. There she saw over fifty propane tanks, of which twenty were stacked over by the baseboard heater. Colgate was giddy with excitement when she saw this. She said to herself, "Wow, I never knew he was so careless."
Colgate went around the room releasing the valves of all the tanks. She saw the thermostat by the exit from the basement and cranked it up as high as it would go. She quickly rushed out of the store and relocked the door. She knew that this was going to be a doozy of an explosion and would destroy her home along with her practice but she also knew that she needed to be at home when the explosions took place. Once she got back home she said to herself, "I know I'm going to get thrown quite a ways, get hurt and burned but if I'm not at home when this takes place, I will be suspected."
Colgate waited at her door with all the lights off. Very soon the basement in the hardware was getting very hot and the tanks by the heater became incredibly hot. Then *BOOM!* a huge explosion rocked the hardware store. The force of the explosion also blasted downwards, rupturing the gas pipeline. The flames caused explosions to strike every building the pipeline went under. Just as Colgate was getting ready to leave her house, *BOOM!* her house exploded and quickly was ablaze. As Colgate was thrown from her house she had caught on fire. She was flung all the way to the doorstep of Twilight's library. Luckily for her, she landed in a puddle of water from the rainstorm that afternoon.
She was laying there in agonizing pain. She saw the other buildings explode and burn in a violent fury. Finally her practice blew up and caught fire. Blueish white flames were consuming every building along the pipeline. While she was in agonizing pain and felt like she was going to pass out, she was ecstatic that the fire was burning that hot. She knew that the Equestrian Gas Company could not get to Ponyville all that quickly to shut the gas off to that pipeline so she should be in the clear.
Twilight heard the explosion and came rushing outside. There she found Colgate, laying at her doorstep, burned, bruised and nearly unconscious. She knew that she didn't have time to wait for any medics so she took her to the emergency room herself. Doctor Hooves was on duty that night and when he saw Twilight bringing Colgate in he shouted, "This is urgent everypony! We need to get her taken care of at once."
Before Twilight could even say anything Colgate was surrounded by the doctor and nurses. In the explosion Colgate had ruptured her spleen so she was rushed into surgery immediately. While she suffered a few broken bones, a ruptured spleen and third degree burns on over half of her body, Colgate survived. After surgery she fell into a coma and was placed in the intensive care unit at Ponyville Memorial Hospital.
No other ponies were rushed to the hospital that night as the pipeline that ran under that side of town served primarily businesses. It only served two houses, Colgate's and Mr. Breezy's, who was away on business in Canterlot. It was several hours before the gas company could come to get the pipeline shut off. Once the gas was shut off and the fire was put out, investigators discovered that the massive explosion had left nothing but one big, long crater where the buildings once stood. No evidence of the chairs, stolen meat grinder or the bodies remained. Despite being critically injured, Colgate accomplished her mission, she destroyed all evidence of her dental hospital.
