Colgate's Practice 3: Nipping the Problem in the Bud

A couple of weeks had passed since Colgate wiped out the first batch of those who she considered a cancerous tumor when it came to the well being of healthy teeth. Colgate was sitting at her computer accessing the dental records of every dentist for the past week. Amethyst was looking over her shoulder and saw that there were several bad patients. She asked, "Sweetie, when are you going to send the army out to get these patients?"

Colgate replied, "I'm not." She began to laugh and sarcastically continued, "I have plans to acquire thomepony much closer to home!"

Amethyst quickly realized what Colgate's plan was. She asked, "Colgate darling, must you take out Twist? I know she is grown up but I still can't help but remember what an adorable filly she was."

Colgate growled, "Yes dear, I must. Her treats are made with high fructose corn syrup, which is worse for your teeth than real sugar."

Amethyst rolled her eyes and asked, "So Colgate, when are we going to go and capture her? You know we can't do this during the day and I don't feel like losing any sleep just so you can go capture a new victim."

Colgate snapped, "Fine. I'll go take care of it on my own tonight."

This did not please Amethyst one bit because during the nights the two always wrap themselves together when they sleep. They had been doing that for so long that Amethyst couldn't stand the thoughts of being alone in their bed. She gave Colgate puppy dog eyes and asked, "Honey, can't you just have Pearly Whites go and do this?"

Colgate replied, "Sweetie, he doesn't know where she lives, I do. I've been in her house before so I know how to get to her bedroom without making any noises." Colgate then remembered how she teleported to the library a few years back up in Canterlot. She looked up and continued, "Sweetie, tell you what. I'll just go out by her house, teleport myself into her bedroom, sedate her, teleport us back out, bring her here and get her secured in the basement to where she can't escape. That way I should only be gone for around fifteen minutes, max."

Amethyst realized that Colgate was hell bent on acquiring Twist and nothing short of death was going to stop her. Colgate called a meeting with Amethyst and Pearly that afternoon to discuss their plans. Once they arrived she began, "Amethyst, Pearly, tonight I will be going out to acquire the next cancerous tumor against healthy teeth."

Pearly was surprised by this as last time all three of them went after their targets. He asked, "I? Why are you going out alone? Won't you need any help?"

Colgate replied, "Well since I am going after just one pony and given that she lives here in town, this will be a cakewalk."

Pearly asked, "I take it you are going after Twist tonight?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, I am." She stared at her general and continued, "General, can you be waiting for me down in the dungeon? Yes she will be sedated but I figure you may as well be down there to join in on the fun of getting her fastened into her seat."

Pearly asked, "What about Amethyst?"

Amethyst interrupted, "I don't feel like losing any sleep over Colgate simply strapping her newest victim into her chair."

Colgate replied, "Well alright, it is whatever you want." Colgate's stomach began to growl loudly. She continued, "Well I don't know about you two but I am very hungry. Let's get some supper."

Supper that night wasn't quite the same as normal. While Colgate and Pearly ate the same amount as normal, Amethyst wasn't really touching her food. Pearly noticed this and asked, "Amethyst, aren't you going to eat your meal? You don't want to go to bed on an empty stomach I would assume."

Amethyst replied, "Well I just can't eat knowing who Colgate is going after tonight."

Colgate interrupted, "Amethyst dear, she is all grown up. She isn't the little filly that she used to be."

Eventually Amethyst did eat a little bit of her supper but what she left was split between Colgate and Pearly. Soon the time had come for everypony to go to bed but Colgate was not the least bit tired. As Amethyst headed upstairs to their bedroom she asked, "Colgate honey, aren't you going to come to bed?"

Normally when Amethyst uses terms of endearment like that right before they go to bed, it gets Colgate in the mood and she races her up to the bedroom but this night was different. Colgate was in no mood for intimacy as she had only one thing on her mind, acquiring Twist so that she could begin to punish her for the candy she makes. Colgate replied, "Amethyst, I'm not tired. I'll be up there once I'm good and ready."

Amethyst rolled her eyes and growled, "Fine. Go ahead and put your bloodthirsty desires ahead of me. GOOD NIGHT."

While this did irritate Colgate somewhat, she didn't let it stop her from remaining focused on the task at hand. She continued to pace back and forth in the throne room waiting for all the lights in Ponyville to go off. With every passing minute she continued to grunt and snort louder and louder. Pearly heard this and said, "Colgate, you are going to give yourself a heart attack doing this. Calm down, everypony will turn in for the night soon enough."

Colgate realized that he was right so she calmed down, a little. She still couldn't help but peak out the window and glare at the clock. Finally around 2330 everypony in town had shut off their lights but Colgate knew that she would need to wait a bit so everypony would actually be asleep. When the clock read 0000 she headed towards the door. Pearly said, "Be careful Colgate, don't get caught."

Colgate replied, "Don't worry about me general. Just get down to the dungeon and wait for me to return."

Colgate grabbed some powerful sedatives, headed out and quietly closed the door behind her. Rather than galloping straight over to Twist's house, she quietly sneaked between the buildings and bushes. Once she reached Twist's house she noticed that the living room light was on, which irritated her greatly. She growled quietly, "Damn it! The rat would have to be up now wouldn't she?"

Colgate saw her walking towards the kitchen with her back to the windows and knew this was her chance. Her horn began to shine brightly and she teleported into Twist's house. The place she teleported to was not exactly where she wanted to. Rather than teleporting right behind her, she appeared right in front of the candy making mare. She was horrified when she saw Colgate in front of her. She screamed, "Colgate, how did you get in here? Get out or I'm calling the copth!"

Colgate fired a bolt of energy from her horn causing everything to go dark. She had fried not just the phone lines in Twist's house but also the wiring. She began to laugh, "Now what was that Twist? Are you going to lie to me like Applejack did?"

Twist began to struggle and scream, "Help! Pleathe help! Thomepony help me!"

Colgate smacked her and said, "Don't worry Twist, nopony can hear you and even if they could, nopony would want to help you anyway!" She lit up her horn and took her sedatives out of her saddlebag. Twist continued to scream and yell until Colgate rammed her syringe into Twist's neck and injected the sedatives into her. Within ten seconds Twist fell silent. Colgate put her ear down to her face and could hear her breathing so she knew things were fine. She laughed, "Come now you rat, we have a full schedule ahead of us!"

Colgate's horn began to glow brightly and she teleported the two of them outside. While normally Colgate would just levitate things as heavy as another pony long distances she remembered something. She remembered how her horn was glowing so brightly when she stole the butcher's meat grinder that it woke Pinkie up. She realized that this would not be an easy task. She grabbed Twist's tail with her mouth and slowly began to drag her home. Colgate was not happy about this because it took her over an hour to get her home and even worse it left a trail from Twist's house straight to her castle so something needed to be done.

When she got Twist to the castle she immediately took her to the dungeon and much to the dentist's dismay, she was beginning to come to. She quickly sedated her again so that she could go take care of the trail. She said to her general, "Keep an eye on her. I had to drag her here and now there is a long, brown gash in the grass from me dragging her here."

Pearly replied, "Well you be careful. I don't want to see you get caught."

Colgate nodded in agreement and headed back out the door. Colgate's horn began to glow as she began to remove the brown gash, returning it back to green erasing it's existence. It took her a good thirty minutes before she got back to Twist's house. Just as she finished repairing the last of it at the doorstep, a light came on next door. Colgate thought to herself, "Oh buck, I have woke somepony up."

She was starting to gallop home when she heard somepony shout, "You there, what were you doing by Twist's house?"

The voice was eerily familiar, it was the voice of Golden Harvest, Amethyst's mom. Colgate turned around and for the first time in years, she had a bit of a stunned look on her face. She knew that she would have to lie to get home soon. She replied, "Well I woke up and I thought I saw somepony sneaking around this neighborhood so I decided to come check on things."

Golden Harvest wasn't stupid as she knew that Colgate would not be needing to use magic to check something out, especially given that there was a full moon that night. She asked, "Oh really? Why would you be using your horn AND have your head down. You act like you are up to something."

Golden's glare deepened as she had a pretty good idea that Colgate was up to no good. She never did like Colgate and only gave her blessings to Colgate and Amethyst's marriage because Colgate made Amethyst happy. Colgate nervously replied, "I'm not up to anything bad. Like I said, I saw something over this way and decided to check it out."

Golden replied, "Yeah, sure. I bet you were going to break into Twist's house for some..........."

While she was saying this Colgate began to panic. She realized that her mother in law might go to the authorities and tell them what she saw. Colgate simply could not allow that to happen. Before Golden could finish her sentence Colgate fired a powerful beam of energy at her, knocking her out cold. She then realized that Golden could not just wake up out on her doorstep as she would know something bad happened. She figured that if she could get her back up to bed and she woke up there, that she may think this was all just a dream.

Colgate realized that she had to be very quiet taking her back up to her room. Lifting her back inside and up the stairs was using a lot of energy, causing every room she went through to be illuminated by a bright whitish-blue light. When she got her up to the bedroom she heard Written Script snoring loudly. This initially made her more nervous but soon she saw that he wears a blindfold at night to keep any outside light from waking him up. She slowly got Golden back into bed, covered her up and got her tucked in. She smiled and whispered, "Sleep tight, don't let the parasprites bite."

She quietly sneaked back downstairs, turned the light off, headed out the door and locked it. She quickly galloped back home before anypony else woke up. Once she got home it was 0330. Colgate saw this and realized that this took her far longer than she had initially anticipated. While she was getting tired and wanted to go to bed, she had to get Twist secured. She headed down to the dungeon to see a nervous Pearly. Colgate asked, "General, why are you so nervous?"

Pearly replied, "I'm nervous because she is starting to come to again."

Colgate yawned, "I'm on it." She once again injected their newest captive with more sedatives. She decided that rather than putting her in a chair that she would secure her front hooves in hoof cuffs that were hanging down from the ceiling. She had changed her plans for Twist from something that would be very bad to something downright brutal. After getting her secured Colgate yawned even louder and seemed to be a bit wobbly on her legs. Pearly asked, "Colgate, it is almost four, are you going to go up to bed now?"

While Colgate wanted to, she figured that it would be a waste of time to spend so little time up there. She replied, "No, it is so late I'm just going to sleep on the floor down here and keep an eye on our little rat."

Pearly decided to stay down there as well in the event they needed to sedate Twist further as they had no plans to torture her until after breakfast. Dawn arrived too soon for the two but it was not the sun that alerted them to it's arrival, it was Amethyst. Amethyst headed down to the dungeon and saw Colgate sleeping by where Twist was hanging. She screamed, "COLGATE, WAKE UP!"

This startled Colgate causing her to fly into the ceiling and come crashing down to the floor. She continued, "Colgate, why the hay didn't you come to bed last night? You said it would only take fifteen minutes!"

Colgate snapped back, "Look, I ran into some problems. I had to drag her sorry flank back here because my horn gives off too much light when I levitate things. Then once I got her here I had to go erase the existence of the trail her body left when I dragged it here. While I was fixing it, somepony woke up and questioned me about it! Ugh, why can't ponies just mind their own business!"

Amethyst yelled, "I know my parents live next to Twist, did you wake my mom or dad up?"

Just like with Golden Harvest, Colgate would have to lie but lying to her wife would be much easier. She replied, "No, it was that dumb donkey Malenda or whatever the buck her name is and that cranky husband of her's."

Amethyst was still upset over Colgate not going to bed after getting back, so upset she was crying. She cried, "Colgate, why didn't you come back to bed once you got back? Do you know how awful it is to be in bed alone? How awful it is to not have the love of your life holding you close, how cold I was, how empty I felt?"

Colgate replied, "Sweetie, I'm sorry. I was so tired once I got Twist secured that I just passed out down here." Colgate really wanted to get out of this situation so she changed the subject, "Well honey, well Pearly, shall we get some breakfast?"

Pearly nodded his head enthusiastically while Amethyst just growled and led the way out of the dungeon. Breakfast that morning was really tense as Amethyst was in a very bad mood. She just sat there with a scowl on her face while Colgate and Pearly ate their meals and chuckled over their plans for Twist. Amethyst finally had enough and yelled, "Can we PLEASE not discuss this during breakfast?"

Colgate rolled her eyes and replied, "Yeah, we can keep this type of discussion out of meals."

While Amethyst was able to eat better after they changed subjects her anger and emotional pain over the night before still made it hard to eat. Around nine they had finished breakfast and headed down to the dungeon to discover Twist struggling and screaming. She had been awake and struggling for an hour. She had been struggling so hard trying to free herself that she had knocked her glasses off her head. She heard voices and saw a blue blob approaching her. Colgate smacked her and laughed, "Damn little rat, how long have you been struggling? You knocked your glasses off your head!"

Twist yelled, "I've been thruggling for a long time."

Colgate looked back at Amethyst and asked, "So Amethyst, should I give her glasses back to her or shall I let all the pain be a surprise for her?"

Twist interrupted, "Amethyth? You mean Amethyth Thar?"

Amethyst replied, "Yes, it is me Twist."

Without anypony's input Colgate slid Twist's glasses back onto her head and what was mostly featureless came into clear focus for her. There before her stood a white unicorn stallion, a light purple Alicorn and a blue Alicorn with blue and white mane and sadistic blue eyes. She saw Amethyst there and began to cry, "Amethyth, how could you? I thought you liked me."

Amethyst began to reply when Colgate smacked Twist and interrupted, "Look rat, I'm the one in charge here, not her." She got up in the mare's face and asked, "So Twist, what caused you to want to destroy other ponies' teeth?"

Twist cried, "It-th my spethial talent! I dithovered it when I wath a filly!"

Colgate replied, "Hmmm...I see. Well not everypony makes a living off of their special talent." She pointed her wing at her cutie mark and continued, "You see this Twist? My special talent involves manipulating time but I became interested in dentistry so I decided to become a dentist. In my case my cutie mark did not determine my career path. That is the case with many ponies, their special talent often times does not wind up being what makes them a living. You could have chose a different path BUT YOU DIDN'T!" She smacked her again and yelled, "YOU JUST HAD TO MAKE CANDY DIDN'T YOU?"

Twist began to scream and struggle and given that her bottom legs were not secured, she kicked Colgate in the face, giving her a bloody nose. When Colgate felt her own blood running down her face she went into a furious rage. She smacked Twist so hard she knocked half of her teeth out and screamed, "Oh, so you're one of those types of rats huh? Well, we'll fix that in a hurry!"

Colgate pointed her wing towards a crank on the wall and ordered Pearly to turn it counterclockwise. As he did this Twist was lowered to where she was no longer hanging in the air but was instead laying on the floor. She then ordered, "Amethyst, hold her down. She must be punished for kicking me in the face."

Amethyst began to cry, "Look Colgate, I normally don't get like this but to do this to the pony who was my neighbor when she was young, I just can't do it."

Amethyst went running out of the dungeon sobbing so loud that it could be heard in the dungeon once she got upstairs. She glared at Pearly and ordered, "Help me hold her down. I don't want her kicking anypony in the face again."

Pearly held her down as Colgate took her drill and began to drill holes into the struggling mare's legs. As the bit went through the bone and Twist screamed louder, Colgate's laugh only got more sadistic. Finally the drill went all the way through the leg and began to bore through the floor. Once Colgate had drilled far enough down she raised the drill out of her leg, took a huge nail and began to nail Twist's legs to the floor. Twist's body began to convulse as Colgate did this to the other leg but eventually stopped once she had spent most of her energy. Colgate looked down at her victim and laughed, "Well now, you won't be kicking anypony in the face now!"

Twist knew things would probably get worse but believed that maybe if she pleaded with her captor that she would stop the torture and let her go. She began to cry, "Pleathe let me go! I'll be good, I promithe! I'll thop making the thugary treath."

Colgate was staring into her eyes and sneered, "Oh Twist, you're such a bad liar. You're even worse than Applejack!" She smacked her and continued, "I know you're not going to give up what gives you an income. I wasn't born yesterday."

Twist's facial expression became more desperate and she gave Colgate puppy dog eyes begging her to let her go. Colgate simply laughed at her cries and grabbed a knife. She said, "Hmmm.......I am wondering Twist, are you a true sweetheart?"

Twist shivered in fear as she knew that whatever Colgate was mentioning would not be a good thing. She asked, "What do you mean? You know I'm a thweetheart! You know I'm nithe to everypony!"

Colgate laughed, "Oh no Twist, that is not what I meant. I am wondering if your heart is sweet?"

Pearly added, "You know Colgate, you could always just cut her and taste her blood. If it is sweet I'm sure her heart is too."

Colgate laughed, "It might be." She then began to eyeball the mare's flanks and laughed, "You know, I haven't had any sweets since I was three years old. Perhaps I should have some candy canes."

Pearly asked, "Seriously Colgate, you haven't had any sweets for that long?"

Colgate replied, "Nope, I haven't. My parents tried giving me candy when I was three years old but I found it disgusting. Hell, I find all sweets nasty which is why I have PERFECT teeth!"

Twist realized what Colgate was thinking when she wanted to have some candy canes. She started struggling and yelled, "No! You can't have my cutie markth!"

Colgate smacked her and replied, "You know Twist, you should feel honored that the first treats I am going to eat in many decades will be yours!" She started laughing and continued, "Ithint it tho ekthiting?"

Twist began screaming obscenities at Colgate as she was mocking the way she speaks. Colgate simply bent down and began to rip the hide off of the mare's right flank. Blood was squirting everywhere as Colgate ripped away the hide where Twist's cutie mark was and it wasn't long until she had it ripped off and ate it. Colgate laughed, "Wow, those candy canes are a whole lot better than the ones my parents tried to make me eat so long ago!"

Twist was screaming, "Pleathe thop! I'm begging you! I'll be good! I'll thop making them!"

Colgate smacked her and in a motherly tone of voice replied, "Now Twist, you already said that and you know I don't believe you. What would you do for a living if you give that up?"

Twist replied, "I don't know. I'll figure thomething out."

Pearly asked, "Colgate, I don't think you should overdo it on the sweets, can I have the other cutie mark?"

Colgate laughed, "Of course, go for it!"

Pearly descended upon Twist like a hungry wolf does a newborn ewe and began to rip into the other flank. As he ripped the hide off, blood began to spew everywhere, turning his normally white face red. Once he had the cutie mark ripped off he devoured it. He stood up and the two looked at their flanks and then looked at Twist. They pointed at her and shouted, "BLANK FLANK, BLANK FLANK!"

Despite being in pain, this brought out an agonizing emotional cry from Twist as well. She remembered how Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon would mock her and call her a blank flank before she earned her cutie mark. She began to cry, "No, no, pleathe not my cutie mark. I don't want to get made fun of again."

Colgate couldn't help but cackle when she did this. She replied, "Well Twist, I'm afraid it is a bit too late for your cutie marks. Pearly and I ripped them off and ate them. I guess if you want your cutie marks back you'll have to learn a new talent." She paused for a minute and continued, "Oh wait, you won't be around long enough to worry about that so why bother!"

At this point Twist knew it was too late for her cutie marks but her desire to survive endured. She cried, "Pleathe Colgate, don't kill me! I won't tell anypony what happened."

Colgate replied, "You know something Twist, I might just let you live but there is something I think you must see!" Colgate grabbed special eye drops that would numb her eye to where she could not close it. Twist saw this and began to shake her head back and forth so Colgate could not numb her eye. She ordered, "Pearly, restrain her head, this must be done."

Rather than using his hooves to restrain her head, Pearly used his magic. Colgate removed the mare's glasses and dropped a numbing agent into Twist's eye. Once again all Twist could see was a great blue blob which took up most of her vision. Colgate laughed, "Well now, this is more like it!"

Twist felt a shiver run up and down her spine as she knew that whatever Colgate's plans were, that they would not be good. What scared her even more, is that she would not be able to see what was going on. While Colgate initially planned on cutting Twist open first she realized that since she numbed the red maned mare's eye first that she would need to remove it first. She grabbed an instrument much like one that Rarity used to curl her eyelashes with back when she was alive, she began to move the instrument closer to Twist's face.

She opened the device to where it pried her eye open further and actually grabbed Twist's eye. Colgate began to work it back further and further despite Twist's body shaking and her painful screams until finally it reached the back side of the eye. She then closed the device and began to pull the instrument out and out with it came the eye, darkening half of Twist's world forever. Colgate began to laugh and held the eye so that it was facing Twist. She laughed, "So Twist, can you see yourself?"

This finally broke Twist's will to survive. She was crying tears out of one eye socket and blood out of the other. She cried, "You win Colgate, pleathe just kill me. I don't want to thurvive anymore."

Colgate smacked her and replied, "Oh come on now Twist! You can't seriously mean that! Besides, I still have so many more fun activities planned for us!"

Pearly asked, "What are those Colgate? Will I be able to take part in them?"

Colgate replied, "Of course you can!"

Like she did with Fluttershy, Colgate pounced on Twist and began to rip the hide off of her and devoured the meat. Also like with Fluttershy, she ripped the front part of the ribcage open and saw Twist's internal organs at work. With Twist though, she wanted to see how the esophagus worked. She grabbed Twist's eye and a glass of water. She pried Twist's mouth open and placed the eye in it. She poured some water into her mouth and ordered "Swallow it."

Because she was laying down, Twist quickly became choked and was coughing. Colgate was so excited seeing how her lungs were working harder. She said, "Wow and here I thought Fluttershy was fun to watch. Now this is entertainment."

Twist couldn't stand the water trying to flow into her lungs anymore so she swallowed it along with the eyeball. Colgate watched the bulge move down her esophagus and was beginning to cry tears of joy she was so taken by this. She laughed, "Now this has to be by far the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!"

Pearly stood over Twist and watched her organs at work. He added, "It is quite the sight."

Colgate saw that what was in Twist's esophagus drop down into her stomach. She asked, "So Twist, what does the inside of your stomach look like?"

While Twist had surrendered earlier she still had a bit of defiance within her. Her painful cries went to a screaming rage. She shouted, "You're bucking crazy Colgate! Luna will punith you for thith. Luna will ethecute you for thith."

Colgate's smile got bigger and bigger as she watched the diaphragm expand and contract and expand along with her heart beginning to race faster and faster as she became more angry. She laughed, "You know Twist, I have killed MANY ponies and Luna never came to save them! She even helped me kill Twilight. It was quite funny to see Luna doing my dirty work for me. I highly doubt she will do anything to me!"

Twist yelled, "I don't believe you! Luna would never kill anypony!"

Colgate began to blow cold air into Twist's body cavity, causing her whole body to shake and her organs to work harder. She was eventually shaking so hard that she shattered her hind legs that were nailed into the floor. She screamed louder than she ever had in her life, "Amethyth, help me. Pleathe, thomepony help me!"

Her screams would do no good though as nopony could hear her. Seeing this caused Colgate to fall over and laugh hysterically. One of her hooves was pounding inside of Twist's body cavity causing her great discomfort in her stomach. Twist's breathing first became harder as the air from her stomach was being forced out of her until eventually extreme shock began to take it's toll on her. Colgate got up as Twist's body functions began to shut down one by one. Finally, much to Colgate's dismay, her heart stopped. Colgate sat up and looked over the now deceased Twist. She closed her eyes and started laughing as she was giving her last rites. She laughed, "Oh little rat, I'm thure you're in a better plathe now!"

Colgate stood up and just for good measure, she kicked Twist's remains to make sure she was really dead. When she got no response she sighed, "Well general, now we are going to have to figure out what to do with the body. We just can't haul it out and dump it somewhere and I don't have anything to grind it up with."

Pearly replied, "Well I really don't know what to do. I guess this is one thing we didn't plan for."

Colgate ranted, "I know and normally I plan in advance so well." She eyed some cinder blocks in the corner and continued, "Pearly, we will sew her up, tie those cinder blocks to her and go dump her in the middle of the lake tonight....." She glared and continued, "Or should I say YOU will go dump her in the lake tonight."

While Pearly was not thrilled about him being the one to have to do this he knew better than to question his boss. He replied, "Alright, I will do that tonight around midnight."

Colgate's paranoia began to get the best of her. She wanted to make sure that Pearly did dispose of the body properly so she decided that she would go along, "Pearly, I've changed my mind. I will go with you to make sure her body will never be discovered."

This caused Pearly to breathe a sigh of relief. He replied, "Sounds good to me but won't Amethyst be mad?"

Colgate threw her hooves up in the air and sighed, "Damn it, you're right. Well she'll just have to deal with it."

Once suppertime arrived things were once again tense. Amethyst knew what the two had been up to but didn't want to know anything about it. Colgate could see the displeasure in her wife's eyes but knew she had to tell her about her plans. Colgate said, "Amethyst honey, Pearly and I have to go dispose of the body tonight so I will be late coming to bed."

Amethyst snapped, "Oh and where are you going to dispose of it?" She banged her hoof on the table and continued, "Let me guess, when you say you will be late to bed you really mean you won't be coming back to bed at all, right?"

Colgate wanted to calm Amethyst down. She replied, "No honey, I'll be back as soon as we get the body dumped in the lake." She smiled and continued, "Tell you what sweetie, tomorrow we will spend all day in bed and focus solely on one another. How does that sound?"

Amethyst did not believe her. She sighed, "Yeah, sure we will. Don't lie to me, I know what you're true plans for tomorrow are. You'll probably start making plans for who you want to kill next.

Colgate kissed Amethyst and said, "I do know who I want to acquire next but after tonight, I want to take a couple weeks off from hunting ponies down and capturing them. I want to focus solely on you."

Given everything that had been going on for the past couple days Amethyst did not believe her but hoped that it would be true. She replied, "I hope you aren't lying but I'm not going to count on you being honest when you say that."

Late that night Pearly and Colgate headed down to the dungeon, sewed Twist back up and tied the cinder blocks to her hooves. Given that his horn gives off much less light, Pearly levitated the remains to a canoe that was docked at the edge of the lake. They climbed into the canoe and Colgate laid the remains in her lap while Pearly paddled them out to the center of the lake. Once they reached the middle of the lake Colgate looked at the remains one last time before she threw them overboard. She snickered, "Sweet dreams little rat."

When she threw the remains overboard they were expecting her to simply sink right away, but she would have one final surprise for the two. When her body hit the water her remaining eye flew open and was staring right at them. While this did not bother Colgate, it caused Pearly to scream. "Aaah! She's watching us, she's gonna curse us!"

As the corpse sank out of sight Colgate sighed, "Pearly, her eye flew open because the motion of her body hitting the water caused her eyelid to fly open and you know there is no such thing as a curse."

Pearly replied, "Well just seeing that lifeless eye staring at me kind of freaked me out. I'm sorry."

Colgate grunted, "Come on, let's get home. I don't want to be out here any longer than I need to be and besides, I'm tired and I promised Amethyst I would be home before too long."

Around 0100 they got back to the castle and Colgate headed up to bed. There she found Amethyst sleeping but had no plans on letting her continue to sleep. She quietly crawled into bed but then wrapped herself around her wife. She began to kiss her ear which quickly woke Amethyst up. At first Amethyst was a bit tired and growled, "I take it you got the body disposed of?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, I did."

Colgate continued to kiss her ear and then proceeded to suck on Amethyst's horn. Normally this would really get Amethyst in the mood but tonight was different. She smacked Colgate and yelled, "Get off of me! I'm in no mood for that crap tonight."

Colgate put her leg around Amethyst and replied, "Can't we at least hold each other close?"

Amethyst threw her off and shouted, "Stay on your side of the bed. Just give me my space. I don't want your bloody hooves all over me tonight." She slammed her hoof against the wall and continued, "Good night."

Colgate laid there on the edge of her side of the bed. She realized that perhaps she should stop with the torturing but her true nature would not allow that. She was bound and determined to take out all the bakers and was not about to allow a cranky wife stop her from doing it.