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

by StormLuna

Choking Out the Chocolate Chefs

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Normally when Colgate and Amethyst stay up late having fun the morning comes way too soon. This morning was different though. After having the most erotic night of their lives, the two seemed to be rejuvenated when the sun woke them. Colgate was the first to wake up. She stretched her front legs and yawned, "Wow, what a night! We've had fun nights before but never anything like that!"

Amethyst replied, "I know! You made me feel like a goddess last night!" The two looked at each other and realized that they were covered in the other's fluids. Amethyst blushed and continued, "Well we better shower before heading down for breakfast. We certainly don't want Pearly or anypony else to see us like this!"

Colgate replied, "Agreed, let's go wash up."

While the two were showering Pearly was waiting downstairs patiently in the dining hall. The chef walked in and asked, "General, since those two still haven't arrived, do you want me to start fixing breakfast now?"

Pearly replied, "You better not, Colgate would probably kill both of us if breakfast is started before she gets down here."

The chef sighed, "Well ok, I would love to know what is keeping them."

Just as he finished saying this Colgate and Amethyst walked into the dining hall. Colgate heard the last part of what their chef said and replied, "What kept us is our own business." Before the chef could ask what she wanted him to fix for breakfast she continued, "Oh and fix us eggs, bacon, toast, oatmeal and bring in a couple pitchers of cider." She paused and then remembered she needed to request one more thing. She asked, "Oh and could you do me a favor and cook my eggs in the bacon grease?"

The chef replied, "Seriously? Do you know how unhealthy that is?"

Colgate sneered, "And do you know how unhealthy defying orders is?"

The chef nodded and headed back to the kitchen. Neither Amethyst nor Pearly had ever heard Colgate act that way towards the castle staff. Pearly asked, "What was up with that Colgate? You've never acted like that before."

Colgate slammed her hoof on the table and replied, "Well he had never questioned me either. Perhaps this will be a lesson to everypony that you do not question me. I rule the roost around here and they better remember that!"

Amethyst was stunned by what her wife said. She asked, "Honey, is something wrong? You went from being in a perfectly happy mood when we woke up to suddenly being mean and nasty."

Had it not been Amethyst who asked her this, she most likely would have smacked them but with Amethyst she calmly replied, "I'm sorry you had to see me like that dear. I just blew up without thinking about it."

While their food was cooking Pearly was curious as to what the day's plans were. He asked, "Colgate, so what are your plans for today?" He smiled at the two and continued, "With the way things were last night, are you going to continue your raunchy activities?"

Amethyst excitedly replied, "I hope......"

Colgate interrupted, "No. I need to do some research regarding food festivals. I think there is a chocolate treat convention of some sort in Marentreal on the tenth, which is just a few days from now. If so, we need to get ready to acquire our next target."

Amethyst sighed in disgust, "Honey, can't we just take a break? Can't we celebrate our accomplishment in killing the donut boy?"

Colgate replied, "Well I really want to get Mulia Mild taken care of. This contest up in Marentreal is a small, regional one which will determine who gets to take their chocolatey creation to the big contest in Canterlot next month. I think taking her out at a small, regional contest will be easier."

Pearly asked, "Wait a minute, you want us to kill Mulia Mild?"

Colgate replied, "Yes. She is notorious for making chocolate treats with the highest sugar content. It seems like wherever that mule goes, she leaves a ton of cavities in her wake."

Hearing the name Mulia Mild caused Amethyst to remember something from last year. She remembered how she lied to her mom, claiming that her treats were sugar free. She remembered how her mom ate some of her chocolate and had to be rushed to the hospital for high blood sugar. This make her blood boil. She slammed her hoof on the table and shouted, "I have an ax to grind with that bitch. She nearly killed my mom with her treats."

Colgate asked, "How did she do that?"

Amethyst replied, "Well my mom is diabetic and she had a stand set up in Canterlot when my parents were visiting me. She labeled her treats as sugar free. Well naturally mom was ecstatic. She loves chocolate but being diabetic she is rarely able to eat it because sugar free candy is hard to come by. She bought some and ate it. She got really sick and had to be hauled to the hospital because her blood sugar went up to 850.* She got ketoacidosis and went into a coma for a week. My mom could have died because of her." Amethyst slammed her hoof on the table and continued, "Alright Colgate, I am as ready as you are to kill that bitch."

Rather than eat their breakfast in at the table Colgate and Amethyst headed into the office where the computer was so they could look up the exact date for the chocolate convention. It was indeed on the tenth, just as Colgate had said. Amethyst asked, "So sweetie, when shall we leave to go and get her?"

Colgate replied, "Well I think that we should leave tomorrow. I want to get to know that city fairly well and I want to see if there is anywhere we can take her to wipe her out. It would make things much easier than having to risk getting caught bringing her back here."

Amethyst added, "And we won't even have to worry about taking a horn cap with us!"

Colgate replied, "That is right but I do want us to take some instruments of torture. I want to make sure that she suffers dearly, especially given what she did to your mom."

Amethyst cleared her throat, "Ahem, dear. She is your mother-in-law so she is technically OUR mom."

Colgate nodded and replied, "Alright, our mom."

Pearly asked, "So will you two be going alone or will I be coming with you?"

Colgate replied, "You will be coming with us. Now let's relax for the rest of the day, I want us to be well rested to catch the 0800 train to Marentreal tomorrow."

The rest of the day and the night flew by for the three as they knew their train ride was not going to be a short one. Despite going to bed much earlier than normal, morning still came much too early. Normally it was the sun that woke everypony up but this morning it was their alarm clocks. When it went off Colgate screamed like she always does and slammed her hoof down on it, breaking it. Amethyst was woken up not so much by the alarm but by the sound of Colgate's hoof breaking it. She asked, "Colgate, must you break the alarm clock every single time we set an alarm? I know it isn't often that we do but still, it seems rather wasteful."

Just like she is every other time she is woken up by an alarm, she was in a foul mood. She snapped, "Let's make sure Pearly is up. We need to eat breakfast early and get over to the station."

When they got downstairs Pearly was already there waiting. Rather than having a breakfast that takes a while to fix and eat, they each grabbed an egg, cheese and sausage croissant and rushed out the door. When they got on board, the car was mostly full which would make for a very unpleasant ride, especially if more ponies boarded at other stops along the way. Surprisingly though more ponies got off the train than boarded it since Marentreal isn't exactly a tourist destination, even with the chocolate convention going on.

Around 1600 the three arrived in Marentreal and were greeted by wind driven snow. Colgate said, "Wow, I sure didn't expect this."

Amethyst added, "Well I guess they won't have to worry about the chocolate melting."

Colgate pointed her wing towards the hotel across the street and said, "Let's get checked in. Hopefully there will be enough rooms for us to stay through the convention."

The three headed over to the hotel and were greeted with pleasant news. They discovered that there were two rooms available from the point they checked in through the duration of the convention. Pearly headed to his room and Colgate and Amethyst headed to their room. They plopped down on their bed and were amazed by how comfortable it was. Amethyst breathed a sigh of relief, "Wow, I didn't know hotel beds this comfy even existed." She winked at Colgate and continued, "This comfy bed along with the fact that it is colder here will make things all the better for lots of fun!"

Colgate snickered, "I know sweetie! For now though I think we should grab a bite to eat, I'm so hungry!" She kissed Amethyst's ear and continued, "And I know what I want for dessert!"

Amethyst laughed, "Alright sweetie, but I'm not going to be an easy meal for you!" She pointed her wing towards the door and continued, "Well let's go get Pearly and head down to supper. I'm getting hungry."

They headed to Pearly's room and told him it was time for supper. They headed down and arrived right as all the chefs were arriving for the convention. Amethyst looked over and saw their target, Mulia Mild, at the front desk. A scowl formed on Amethyst's face as she saw her. She growled, "There she is. Ugh what I wouldn't do to kill her right now."

Colgate interrupted, "Honey, calm down. We can't have anypony noticing us talking like this right now. We will get her taken care of, I promise. For now let's just eat."

Despite Mulia setting down at a table not too far away from the three, they were able to eat their meal without bringing any unwanted attention to themselves. Amethyst asked, "Colgate honey, how long does this convention last?"

Colgate replied, "It lasts four days. That will give us time to go to the library tomorrow, learn everything we need to know about the area and then act on our plan."

After supper they headed back to their rooms and while Pearly got a good night's rest, Amethyst and Colgate stayed up until midnight having fun which is normally the case unless they have other business for the night. The following morning arrived and the two woke up at 0700. Despite getting very little sleep, they were ready to go. They headed down to Pearly's room to get him for breakfast. Colgate knocked on his door and yelled, "Pearly, it's time for breakfast. We have a long day ahead of us."

Pearly answered the door and was still a bit tired. He replied, "Ugh...it is still a bit early don't you think?"

Amethyst snapped, "Pearly, we need to eat breakfast early so we can get to the library, the sooner the better."

Colgate added, "Let's go. I'm hungry anyway."

The three headed down to the restaurant and sat down for breakfast. After the waiter took their order Pearly asked, "So what all do you want us to do at the library?"

Colgate replied, "I'll let you know once we get there. All I will say here is that we need to get to know the history and geography of this area better." Colgate saw their meal coming and continued, "We better be quiet, our meal is coming."

Colgate and Amethyst devoured their breakfast while Pearly was casually eating his. Colgate saw this and rolled her eyes. She glared at her general and sighed, "Pearly, could you pick up the pace? We need to get to the library, the sooner the better."

Pearly replied, "Ok, no need to be such a grump."

After finishing their breakfast they headed to the library. Once they got there they were greeted by the librarian as she had just unlocked the doors. She asked, "Good morning! Is there anything I can help you with?"

Colgate replied, "Yeah, I am wondering if you could point us in the direction of the atlases, geography books and history books."

The librarian replied, "The atlases are off in the far right corner on the first floor, the geography books are on the third floor and the history books are on the fourth floor."

Colgate thanked the librarian and told her company that they need to split up and go get what they need and then all meet up on the top floor because it is probably the least used part of the library.

Colgate headed back to the atlases and was amazed by the immense number of them. She gasped, "Wow, I have never seen so many atlases in my life. They have more here than the library in Manehattan did!"

Amethyst headed to the third floor and grabbed several geography books regarding regional geography and one about Equestrian geography as a whole while Pearly headed to the fourth floor and grabbed a few history books. He had a feeling that he needed to grab history books regarding ancient history and history of the Everfree Forest. Once everypony grabbed what they felt they would need they headed to the sixth floor where the study rooms were.

Colgate was standing by the elevator tapping her hoof waiting on the other two. They arrived at the same time to find Colgate waiting impatiently. Colgate asked, "What took you two so long?"

Amethyst replied, "Honey, I was going through the books to make sure I grabbed the right ones." Pearly added, "Same here. I know how upset you would be if I grabbed the wrong books."

Colgate motioned for them to follow her towards the back wall. There was a row of study rooms and at the absolute back was a larger one with a couple of windows. Colgate pointed her wing towards it and said, "Ok, that one is the biggest. Since there are three of us, I want us using that one."

They headed into the study room and began to go through the books. In the history book they learned of an ancient fortress that lies roughly twenty miles away from the city in the forest. Colgate saw this and said, "Hmmm....perhaps that would be a good place to take her."

Amethyst interrupted, "But honey, you don't know anything about the layout of it. It isn't like the bunker or Luna's old castle."

Colgate replied, "Well we have several history books here, maybe there will be a diagram of the interior in one of them." She was digging through the history books that Pearly grabbed and found one that might help. She continued, "Here we go, 'History of Ancient Fortresses.'"

She began to read through the book and in it she found diagrams of many bunkers, most of which had been destroyed. She then found information regarding the fortress not too far away from Marentreal. She began to laugh, "Oh my, we will be able to have all sorts of fun in this one!"

Amethyst asked, "What do you mean? Are there a lot of torture rooms in it?"

Colgate replied, "Oh you'll see!" She continued reading and came across a map that gave directions as to what the easiest and shortest route to the fortress was. Colgate smiled and continued, "Jackpot! Finding this information was far easier than I imagined! Let's get back to the hotel. This is going to be a wonderful night, well unless you're Mulia Mild!"

Amethyst asked, "How are we going to acquire her? We don't even know what room she is staying in."

Pearly added, "And even if we did, how would we lure her into our trap?"

Colgate replied, "Leave all that to me. I know what I'm doing."

When they returned to the hotel they decided to head into the convention hall to check out the treats. Colgate believed that perhaps they would be able to track Mulia and eventually find a way to follow her up to her room. They saw a chocolate moose in the back of the room and standing right by it was Mulia. Oddly enough, next to her with a huge pile of cream filled eggs was another individual on Colgate's hit list, Gustave le Grand. Colgate began to laugh, "Hmmm...Perhaps I can kill two birds with one stone here!"

Amethyst asked, "What, are you going to try to take Gustave out here as well?"

Colgate replied, "I'm not sure if we should or not. We'll see what happens. Let's go over and check out some of the desserts over there. Maybe they will be talking about where they are staying."

They headed over to where Mulia and Gustave were and heard them talking. Gustave said, "So Mulia, we meet again."

Mulia replied, "Yes and this time there won't be anypony to destroy our desserts."

Gustave puffed his chest out and boasted, "You are right and after this, I will be known as the greatest candy maker in all of Equestria!"

Mulia in turn boasted, "No, my moose mousse will moosacre your lousy eggs and all these other treats!"

The two glared at each other and then began to laugh as they remembered the last year's competition in Canterlot. Gustave, despite being a griffon, wanted to get to know Mulia a bit better. He asked, "So Mulia, where are you staying for this competition? I was thinking we could get to know one another better, in private."

Mulia, without even thinking, replied, "Oh, I'm staying here in room 3325. Why do you ask?"

Gustave rushed off once she gave him this information. Mulia had no clue why Gustave would run off like that but was elated that someone wanted to get to know her more. She was in such a daze that she wasn't paying attention where she was walking and bumped into Colgate. She knew that she was a dentist and wondered what she was doing there. She asked, "Wait a minute, aren't you that dentist from Ponyville who hates sweets? What are you doing here?"

Colgate replied, "Oh I was passing through and I just thought I would see if there are any treats here that are low in sugar."

Mulia nodded and asked, "What, so you can recommend it to your patients?"

Colgate replied, "Perhaps. I am looking at your moose over here and it appears that it is very high in sugar." She glared at the mule and continued, "You used milk chocolate to make this, didn't you?"

Mulia did not like being questioned like this. She snapped, "It does not matter what I made it with. As long as the judges like it, that is all that matters."

Colgate replied, "That is right. Well you have a good one." She pointed her wing towards the door and continued, "Come on you two. We have things to do."

They followed her back up to their room and closed the door. Colgate whispered, "Talk about a stroke of luck! Why Gustave wanted to know what room she is staying in I don't know but I am glad he asked."

Amethyst asked, "You don't think he has plans to do something to her do you?"

Colgate laughed, "Maybe! Maybe they're going to have some inter-species fun tonight!"

Pearly gagged, "Ewww....Mule and Griffon fun? That is gross!"

Colgate sat there deep in thought with a smirk on her face. Amethyst was watching her and she could tell that the wheels were turning in her head. She asked, "Colgate honey, what are you thinking about? With that look on your face, I can tell you are up to no good."

Colgate laughed, "Oh I'm just thinking. Perhaps we need to monitor the area around Mulia's door. If we see Gustave go in there, we can then take care of both of them after all."

Amethyst asked, "Oh and what about the timing. I doubt they will stay the night together and we can't take them out too soon." She sighed and asked, "And how are we even going to get them out of the hotel?"

Colgate replied, "We are Alicorns dear. We can open the windows and levitate them out, all the way to the edge of the Everfree Forest." She began to laugh to where she was snorting, "And we can leave a few feathers behind and when the cops show up, they will think it was Gustave who did something to her!"

Pearly knew they could fly but was wondering what his role was. He asked, "Colgate, you two can fly, I can't. What am I supposed to do?"

Colgate replied, "Go over and wait just inside the forest where that path is. We will meet you there with our prisoners." She sighed and continued, "I would suggest you go now."

Pearly headed out the door and towards the west edge of town where the path that headed into the forest began. Colgate and Amethyst filled their saddlebags with what they would need, several syringes full of sedatives, surgical scissors and other sharp instruments. Around 1930 they headed to the third floor and began to monitor the area around Mulia's room. This was easier than they thought as it was a quiet area with a nearby stairwell.

Finally around 2015 Gustave headed to visit Mulia. He knocked on her door and she opened it. He said, "Mulia, it is good to see you!"

Mulia asked, "Why did you want to see me in my room?"

Gustave replied, "What?, is it a crime for a fellow baker to meet with one of his own?"

Mulia let him in and replied, "Well no."

Colgate looked at Amethyst and said, "Ok, we need to wait a few minutes and we need to check our saddlebags. We need to be sure we have everything."

The two checked and made sure they had everything. They then looked back and forth several times before Colgate unlocked the door. In the room Mulia and Gustave heard the door click. Gustave shot up and asked, "Mulia, did you hear that?"

Before Mulia could say anything Colgate and Amethyst charged into the room. They fired bolts of energy at the two to knock them out before they could even shout. Colgate closed the door and said, "Come on, we need to get them properly sedated."

They got the two sedated and sat by the window waiting until the city went mostly quiet. They had to sedate them one more time around 2330 before Colgate opened the window. Amethyst asked, "Honey, aren't we going to rip some of his feathers out?"

Colgate replied, "Oh shit. Thanks for reminding me." To make it look like there was a struggle they also ripped some of Mulia's fur out as well and scattered it throughout the room. Before leaving they inspected the room to make sure that they didn't leave any of their own fur or hair behind. Once they finished this they shut off the light and levitated their captives off to the west.

A half an hour later they landed at the edge of the forest and were greeted by Pearly. He asked, "Damn, what took you two so long? I thought you had got caught or decided not to do this."

Colgate replied, "Pearly, we had to wait for most of the activity in the city to die down so we wouldn't get spotted."

Colgate pointed her wing towards the forest and they headed in. Once they were a half a mile in they lit up their horns so they could more easily see where they were going and detect any threats, such as timberwolves. A little over an hour later they finally saw the fortress. It looked like it was in very bad shape, much worse shape than what the old castle of the pony sisters was in. Amethyst asked, "Colgate, are you sure this place is going to be safe? It looks like it is in horrible shape."

Colgate replied, "It will be fine. Just follow me and we will get down to where I want us to go just fine."

They followed Colgate down the old staircase into the lower levels of the building. Despite them being completely inside, the ponies could still see their breath. Amethyst sighed, "Ugh I wish there was some place in this building that was at least somewhat warm."

Colgate replied, "Well unless the innermost room of this place is enchanted somehow, don't count on it."

At the bottom of the staircase they ran into a door. Colgate tried opening it but it would not budge. Colgate grunted, "Oh great, this damn thing would just have to be enchanted now wouldn't it. Chances are there is some sort of spell that must be recited to open it."

Pearly asked, "I don't know if this would work or not, but what if we all fired energy at it all at once. Maybe we could just blow it open."

Colgate let her general know that it would be worth a try. The three fired a powerful bolt of energy and while it did not blow the door off, it did open the door. They took their captives in and much to their surprise, the temperature was very comfortable. Amethyst said, "Well this is more like it! I don't know how much more of that icy cold I could have taken."

They set their captives down and lit up the room with their horns. They saw plenty of devices that they could use to torture their victims. Colgate saw a chair in the center of the room that resembled others she had used and said, "Amethyst, could you get Mulia strapped into that chair while Pearly and I secure our griffon friend to the wall?"

Amethyst nodded and they got to work. Just like she did with Rainbow Dash so long ago, Colgate secured Gustave's wings with hooks hanging from the ceiling. Because of the way a griffon's legs are, she was unable to secure his legs in the hoof cuffs but that did not keep her from securing him. She did have methods she could use, similar to what they did to the Apple Family. She found a hammer and some nails in the room, ones designed to nail legs to the wall. She grabbed them and began to hammer the nails through his legs and into the wall which caused him to come to."

"AAAAAGH!" screamed the griffon as he was being secured to the wall. Gustave looked down to see what was happening to him. He shouted, "What the hell are you doing?"

Colgate smacked him and shouted, "Punishing you for your crimes!" She calmed down and continued, "Gustave, you have committed many crimes throughout your life. You have been a cavity creating cancer upon this land and now you must pay the penalty!"

Gustave began to struggle flapping his wings and shouted, "You can't do this! Luna will EXECUTE you for this!"

Colgate couldn't help but laugh hysterically, "You know Gustave, I have been getting away with killing problematic ponies for nearly two decades! I even killed Celestia and Twilight! Well in the case of Twilight, Luna helped me kill her but that is beside the point. She won't miss a baker like you, she won't even care."

Gustave's yelling and Colgate's laughter were loud enough that it eventually caused Mulia to wake up. She looked up from the chair and saw Amethyst standing over her with a scowl on her face. She asked, "What happened? Where am I? Why am I in this chair?"

Amethyst smashed her hoof into her face and yelled, "You should know why you bitch. Do you not know who I am? Do you not know how you mislabeling your chocolate put my mom in the hospital? That it nearly caused her to die?"

Mulia began to think and it hit her, that the pony who had her imprisoned was Amethyst Star, the daughter of Golden Harvest. She asked, "How could my treats have put her in the hospital? They have never harmed anypony."

Amethyst smashed her hoof so hard on Mulia's face that she broke her nose. She screamed, "My mom is diabetic you bitch! You labeled your product as sugar free. She was so happy to see that somepony had chocolate that she could eat and YOUR lie caused her to go into a diabetic coma. She almost died and now it is your turn to suffer!"

Amethyst turned her chair around to where she was facing Gustave. Amethyst continued, "And part of that suffering will be you watching your buck buddy suffer!"

Gustave shouted, "We are not buck buddies! We just wanted to talk."

Pearly who had been standing in the background decided to enter the conversation. He laughed, "Well then, if that is the case why did you go to her room? Unless you were planning a murder I don't see why you would have to go to a private room to talk."

Colgate added, "You know you two, he does make a good point." She began laughing and continued, "How the hell a mule and a griffon are going to have sex is beyond me, especially given the dramatically different anatomy."

Amethyst began to laugh, "You know you two? I am thinking maybe we should unchain you and let you go BUT first you must show us how you two get it on. It would be quite the educational experience!"

The two shouted in unison, "NO! We are not sex partners! We will not do that!"

Amethyst replied, "Well it is whatever you want."

Colgate decided that she was going to try something that would make Gustave look hilarious. She took a pair of pliers and ripped the bottom half of his beak off. She was laughing at what she had done. "Gustave, you only have half a beak! That is so hilarious!"

Mulia shouted, "You monster! How could you do that to him?"

Having half of his beak removed, Gustave was not able to speak quite as well. He shouted "Wy did vu cut my beak off?"

Colgate laughed, "To shut you up, that's why! Now I have some advice, shut up or your little girlfriend here will face a worse torture than we already have planned for her." She smacked Gustave and shouted, "Got it?"

Gustave nodded and decided to be quiet. Colgate walked over to Mulia and smiled, "Hmmm....where shall we start?"

Mulia begged, "Please don't hurt me Colgate, please. I'm begging you."

Colgate smiled and replied, "Alright Mulia, I won't harm you."

Amethyst interrupted, "But I will! You nearly killed my mom so now you must suffer dearly."

Amethyst had seen how Colgate had killed some of her prisoners but she wanted to take this to a whole new level. She had a look of pure evil as she began to shatter Mulia's legs with the hammer. She was shouting, "You'll wish you were never born you bitch! I'll drag this out and enjoy every minute of it!"

Mulia's cries were making Amethyst laugh. Colgate stood there watching Amethyst unleash her fury upon the mule with a smile on her face. Once Amethyst had turned the bones in Mulia's legs into a shattered mess, she pounced on her and began to rip her torso open with her teeth. Blood was splashing all over both of them and once she exposed the rib cage, she bit down on it and tore it open, leaving the internal organs exposed.

Amethyst grabbed the sharp object used to remove food particles between teeth and laughed, "Well now, where shall I get started." She looked down and saw the kidneys and wondered how long destroying them would take for her to die. She looked back at Colgate and asked, "Colgate dear, how long would it take for her to die if I were to rupture her kidneys?"

Colgate replied, "If you want her to suffer a long, drawn out death, puncturing the kidneys would not be the way to go. A punctured kidney can cause unconsciousness in a second and death in less than a minute. If you want something that will take a bit longer, ram that thing all the way through BOTH lungs. She should suffer for 45 minutes to an hour."

Mulia screamed, "No, please no! I'm so sorry for what happened to your mom! I promise I'll never false advertise again if you'll just let me live!"

Amethyst smacked her and replied, "No Mulia, that is not an option. You nearly killed my mom and you must be punished!"

Amethyst took the instrument and tore holes in the bottom of both lungs. Almost immediately Mulia began to gasp for breath but the process of lung collapse took much longer. The world began to swim around to Mulia as time passed but she still maintained consciousness. Colgate asked, "So Mulia, you want to see something funny?"

Mulia gasped, "No. Just let me die in peace."

Colgate laughed, "I'll take that as a yes."

Colgate took an ax she found in the room and slammed it into one of Gustave's legs, cutting it off and causing him to scream in pain. She took the severed leg and began to beat Mulia in the face with it. Both Alicorn mares and the unicorn stallion began to laugh hysterically hearing Gustave's cries and Mulia's weakening gasps. Amethyst grabbed the severed leg and using the claws, she carved the word "bitch" into Mulia's forehead. She laughed, "Well now Mulia, your corpse will describe you perfectly!" She clubbed her with the leg once again and continued, "Oh well, what does it matter? Nopony will ever find your corpse."

Mulia fell unconscious after fifty minutes and soon after she passed away. Gustave saw this and began to cry and yell, "Curse you, curse you! May you two rot in Tartarus for all eternity!"

Colgate smacked him and replied, "Hey dipshit, Amethyst and I are Alicorns, so we can't die!" She grabbed the ax and shouted, "I'm sick of you Gustave, good riddance."

Before he could scream, Colgate picked up the ax and slammed the edge of it into Gustave's neck, severing the head. She sighed, "Well now we have four more to go and then I will be satisfied. Then we can relax and our lives can return to normal."

Amethyst knew exactly what Colgate was talking about and she just thought that her plans were wrong. She asked, "Honey, must we take out the Cake family? Can't you just be satisfied with what we have already done?"

Colgate snapped, "No, I can not. They must be taken out. They have left more cavities in their wake than any of these other bakers we have wiped out. Do you not want to see all the problematic ponies taken care of?"

Pearly saw that this could turn into a nasty spousal argument if he did not intervene. He interrupted, "Uh Colgate, Amethyst, don't you two think we should be getting back to Marentreal so we can catch the train home?"

The two mares were covered in blood and Colgate knew this was not a viable option. She replied, "No Pearly. I know it is cold but we must return home a different way." She scratched her face with her wing and continued, "I think it would be best if we return home through the Everfree Forest. Besides, there are lakes along the way home that we can wash this blood off of ourselves in."

Amethyst shouted, "What? Are you kidding me? It is bad enough that you want us to walk through the forest when it is cold but to bathe in the lakes when it is cold is ridiculous!"

Colgate asked, "Well if you want to be suspected, be my guest. I will return home through the forest, with or without you two."

Pearly sighed, "Well alright, I'll return home with you but if I get sick and die, my death will be on your hooves."

Colgate had an idea. She said, "Pearly, how about you return to Marentreal and catch the train home while Amethyst and I fly home. That way you won't get sick and the two of us will be able to return to the castle without being spotted. How does that sound?"

Pearly and Amethyst both agreed that this idea would be much better than the original plan. Pearly began to walk back to the east while the two Alicorns began to fly off to the west. In the early evening Amethyst and Colgate returned home to the castle and washed themselves off while it was late in the evening when Pearly arrived home. Amethyst was glad that this mission was complete and she did hope that it would be the last one but like what Colgate said at the fortress, there was one more mission that had to be completed, and it would be much more stressful for not just Colgate, but everypony.


Author's Note

*I'm not sure what the normal blood sugar for a pony is but we will use what it is for humans, 80-120 mg/dL (milligrams per deciliter)

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