Slaughterhouse

With ten of us remaining, it was gonna get harder for sure...He had another trick up his sleeve, I knew it...Both me and the mare helped Thunder down the hall. My vision went black. "H...Hey! I can't see!" I looked around frantically.

"Me too!" The mare shouted.

"What's going on...?!" Thunder yelled. There was static and the pony began talking.

"One third of you are now dead. Mr. Tone...congrats. You've already killed two...that's the most of everyone..." He chuckled. "Who ever kills White shall be given an advantage...I will personally tell them the position of the .44 Magnum I hid around the playing field." An image of me appeared in front of me. There was a cartoony frame around it, one of those 'wanted' posters around it.

White Tone

Wanted DEAD

Reward

I was shaking a bit. I was made as a target now...the word dead was red and looked like it was dripping blood. "You may continue..." He laughed and my vision returned. I was still shaking, looking at Thunder and the mare.

"P...Please..." I looked at the mare, she was the only other one armed.

"I won't....you saved me..." I nodded.

"And you saved me," Thunder said. "I'm not gonna hurt you..." I sighed.

"Thanks...." We continued walking. It got to a medium sized hallway, about four ponies across. The mare went ahead. "We should stick as a group..."

"I know...I know..." She stopped. She turned and looked at me. "White...that Magnum...I could get to my kids easier...."

"Mare..." I backed up. She took her knife out.

"White I need that gun...!"

"We can look for it!" She took a step forward.

"OR I could be told where it is! White, I'll do it quickly! I need to get back to my kids!" I continued to back up. I felt my back left hoof sink a bit. I looked down, one of the tiles had gone down, little a pressure pad.

"Fuck...."

"Fuck is right...now give up now or I'll-" She was cut off. Something had stopped two inches away from my stomach. I looked down...Razor Wire...there were a couple drops of fluid on it...Thunder tapped my shoulder and pointed at the mare. I looked at her, her mouth was open. She slowly fell forward...or...her top half did...her torso hit the ground with a soft, wet thud. Her lower half fell to the side...she had been cut clean in half. Her internal organs were made external. Static, then the pony talking.

"9 remain..."

"Oh fuck..." I said, backing up a bit. Thunder gagged and puked. Her poor kids...I walked over to her, looking for a ring on her hoof...there was none...I fell back, sitting on the ground. I just left two kids without a mother...their father most likely wasn't around, or didn't see them at all...or maybe he was dead...fuck...I just put two foals in the orphanage...I hung my head a bit. "FUUUCK!!!" I felt a couple tears. Thunder limped over to me. "I killed her..fuck...her kids..."

"How do you know she has kids...? She could have just said that..." I looked at him. "It's fucked to think like this...but what if she just said that so she had an excuse to kill you?" I slowly got up. "I mean...I don't see a ring..."

"Yeah...you're right...I hope..." I sighed. "Let's just go..." I kept walking with Thunder. "So...who's this Sky pony you were talking about back when this fucker announced all of Equestia was watching?"

"My marefriend...I love her to death an now....I'm never gonna see her. If we make it to the end you're gonna be able to kill me easily..."

"I'll take my own life...or I'll let you kill me...I don't have a mare or anything like that...you can go on..." He stopped looking at me.

"W..White...I mean...you ca-"

"You have the mare...nopony is really gonna miss me if I'm gone..."

"T..Fuck thanks, man..." I nodded.

"No problem..." I kept walking with him. "Listen...we are gonna find that Magnum...You need a weapon. By the wound on your leg, you're not gonna last long in melee combat..." He nodded.

"Again...Thanks for not killing me back there...you have no idea how much that means to me..."

"I have somewhat of an idea..." He chuckled.

"You know, even though we are in hell right now, and everything is fucked...we are here, walking and talking like buds..."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, we are supposed to be killing each other right now, but instead...we have a bit of a friendship thing going on..."

"Huh...yeah..."

"I dunno...its just kinda funny to me."

"No, yeah. I was thinking about that not too long ago."

"Great minds think alike..." We both chuckled.

"I like ya, Thunder...just wish we met someplace else and this whole...killing thing wasn't happening."

"Yeah, same." We came to a dead end.

"Fuck...let's turn back." We turned around and kept walking.

"Why are we here...?" Thunder asked.

"I'm still trying to figure that out too..." I responded. "Maybe this pony is just fucked in the head..." Thunder nodded.

"Yeah..." We had gotten back to the mares body...something was hunched over it. Me and Thunder looked at each other. I slowly walked to it. It looked up at me, one of those things, blood all over its face. I backed up. It went back down to the mares body, grabbing what looked like her large intestine and taking a big bite out of it. I slowly walked with Thunder around it. It didn't pay attention to us, it just ate. We hurried down the hall, away from that thing. "The fuck...?! Was that thing eating her....?!"

"Yeah....I wouldn't be surprised...those things are fucked up...I shoved a blade into one of their skulls and they were still alive..."

"What the fuck...?!" There was a loud BANG BANG We both covered our ears.

"Guess sompony found the Magnum..." I said. Thunder nodded. We moved along for a bit. "No static...guess he wasted two bullets on one of those things..."

"How did you kill it...?" Thunder asked.

"Over kill...I stabbed its head a bunch, cut its head off, then stomped on it till it was nothing more then skull fragments and brain tissue..." He gagged a bit.

"F...Fuck...I don't do well with gore...I gag whenever I get a small cut and it starts to bleed...I can't stand blood...! Sky...she's into those types of movies and...fuck I have to look away and I just can't stand it...!" He was shaking a bit. "I want out, man!"

"Thunder, calm down..."

"I can't take it!! Get me out of here!!"

"Thunder!"

"FUCKIN-" I slapped him and grabbed his shoulders.

"THUNDER!!" He whimpered a bit. "Listen to me...you're getting out of here...okay?" He nodded slowly. "I'll protect you with my life until we are the only ones left...then I'll remove myself quickly and you'll be the winner..." He slowly nodded again. I kept walking with him. We came to a fork in the hall way. We took the left path, it was a bit bigger then the rest, about 9 ponies across. Thunder slipped a bit and I caught him.

"Yo...my hoof just sank a bit..." I looked down, he was standing on a pressure pad. There was a huge THUD behind up. We yelped and looked back. A little ways back the hall way had sealed itself.

"Guess we're not leaving that way..." I took a step and my hoof sank a bit. I stepped on another... There was a bunch of wurring. It was quiet. It sounded like the sound sawblades made...I had a bad feeling about this... The walls had slits on them around chest height. Out of those slits a bunch of rusty blades and saws began sticking out of them and began roaring to life. The walls slowly began to close in on us. "Fuck...RUN!!!" I ran, it was a LOT harder for Thunder. I ended up putting him on my back as we ran. The blades were getting closer and closer.  I continued to run. Just ahead was a big open room. I sprinted my flank off to it. Meanwhile the blades and saws were closing in. It was too far...we were gonna die...if the blades didn't get us the walls would crush us. I kept running. I could feel the wind of the blades and saws against my front legs. I dove for the room and fell on my face, the walls closing behind us. I panted, Thunder rolling off me.

"You saved my ass...again." He looked at me. I nodded.

"Y...Yeah..Guess I...did..." I slowly got up, looking around. There was one of those things in the center of the room, looking dead at us. "Fuck..." It stumbled over to us. I quickly grabbed my blade and readied it. Arms and legs...fucking great...It screeched at us, limping over to us. Two more came from the corners of the room, a third from the hallway at the end of the room. Soon a fourth...then fifth...shit we were dead. I gulped and backed up. My hoof sank again, some of the floor gave way, more of the things scrabbled out of the hole and the only door without those things was sealed. "Oh come on...give us a fucking break!!!" I slashed at one, getting its neck. I felt its blood spurt into my face, I closed my eyes and wiped them clean of its nasty, thick, chunky blood. It let out a mix of a scream and a gurgle, blood frothing around its mouth. Thunder was backed against the wall. I slashed at it again, missing. I lunged at me and I ducked down, turning around and slashing the tendons at the back on its knees, fucking lucky me. I pushed it down, stomping hard down on its head, yelling out. There was a sickening splat as its skull was shattered and its brain turned to mush under my hoof. I looked back...five more. One charged me I slashed and got its stomach, its large intestine was hanging out and it stumbled back. I shook my head a bit and grabbed hole of it, yanking it out, pulling it to me. I quickly spun it around and ran it into a wall, slamming its head repeatedly into the wall. I yelled out and gave one final, hard slam and splattered its head against the wall. Four...

Two of them charged at me. I dove to the side and one grabbed my back left leg. I turned to face it, slamming my blade down on his claw, cutting it off. I crawled back and pried the claw off me. I quickly got up and sliced its neck open, spraying more blood into the air and on me. I panted a bit as one jumped at me, I got down and jabbed my blade into its stomach and ran it into the wall. It grabbed at my back, clawing at me, tearing my shirt and back up. I twisted and pulled to the side, slicing half of it in half. I grabbed it, throwing it to the ground, stomping on its head repeatedly until it caved in. Three more. One of them charged at Thunder. There was static.

"8 remain."

I threw my blade at the thing, sticking it right into the back of its head. It fell over and one tackled me. I held it back best I could. It tried clawing at my stomach, but I used my bottom hooves to push it off me. I quickly backed up and got up, looking at Thunder. I had taken the blade out and cut the things head off, stomping on it.

"THUNDER! THE BLADE!!" He looked at me and slid it on the ground to me. I jumped and dove, grabbing it and rolling to my hooves. It ran full speed and I took a couple steps to it, taking its head with one swing. Its body fell to the floor, squirming around.  The last one was charging me. It got me, pinning me against the wall. I pushed it back with my leg. I grabbed my leg, dragging me with it, digging into my leg. I yelled out and kicked it in the head and pulled my leg to me, slashing its arm off. It screamed and backed up, I backed up myself, trying it get its claws out of my leg. I pulled it free, yelling in pain. It charged me again. I jumped on me, but it had my blade ready, the second it got on my, my blade pierced its stomach. I rolled so I was on top, stabbing its its skull. I stood and crushed its skull with my hoof. I panted, looking at the remaining head, its body still squirming around on the ground. I walked over, picking it up and looking at it. I walked over to the wall, placing it down and backed up. I ran at it and kicked it, pushing against the wall as my hoof and the wall sandwiched it, crushing it. I panted heavily and fell back, sitting down. My back and leg were stinging badly. Thunder limped over to me.

"W...White...you just..." I panted, swallowing.

"Yeah..."

"Damn." I jumped and looked to the hallway. There was a mare standing there. "Now THAT, was badass..." She walked over, I quickly grabbed my blade. "Relax..." She held up the .44. "That won't really work...If I wanted you dead I would have shot you from there."

"Y...You...didn't...fucking...help us...?!" I cried out, looking at her.

"I only have four bullets left, besides, you looked like you had it." She helped me up. I got a better look at her, she had blood all over the left side of her face. Her clothes were torn up as well. Her arm was wrapped up in some of her shirt she tore off, exposing her stomach. "Dumb ass colt got my weak arm....ended up wrestling him for the damn thing. Then I had to beat him to death with my fists, I'm not wasting any more shots then I have to."

"S...Smart..." I said. She nodded.

"Yep...don't mean to brag but I am. I'm Quick, and that's my name. I'm not just saying I'm fast..." She held her hoof out.

"I'm White...and this is Thunder..." Thunder waved a bit.

"Damn...both you are fucked up..." I nodded a bit, limping over to one of those things.

"What the fuck are they...?" She shrugged.

"Whatever they are, you figured out how to off them. A bit brutal Mr. Issac Clrake." She chuckled, I did as well.

"Uhh..." Thunder looked at her confused.

"Oh come on...you've never played Dead Space?!" He shook his head.

"He can't stand blood or gore..." I told her.

"Then why the fuck is he here?" She asked.

"Why are any of us here?" I asked. She shrugged. "So, Quick...your kill count...?"

"Two, the last one being that colt who fucking shot me...I'm guessing you're at three?"

"Unless activating a trap counts..."

"It does." She gave a little smirk.

"Then three...Not something I'm proud of..." I looked down. Fuck...my poor mom...she had been listening to everything and watching as well. She's been listening to how I planed to kill myself...saying I wouldn't get out alive for Thunder, and I'd let him go on. I sat back down. "Fuck...why us...?"

"I dunno, but once I get out I'm finding out...we can team up now, but once we are the final three I'm giving you all ten seconds to run." We nodded.

"More then fair..." I said.

"Come on...lets hunt down some ponies." She began walking, her hips swinging as she walked. I picked myself up, limping after her, Thunder stopped me, whispering in my ear.

"White...we have to get rid of her...She has the gun and I think she's gonna make us kill ponies so she can use the four more bullets on us..." I nodded.

"I agree with you there...I'll keep my eye on her...you should too..." I limped with Thunder, catching up to Quick. She gave me a little smile.

"Tell me, White, where're you from?"

"Manehatten..."

"Marefriend?" I shook my head. "Damn shame...I don't have a colt either."

"My whole plan was to keep Thunder alive so he could return to his mare..."

"Awwww, ain't that sweet?" She chuckled. "Nopony makes friends here, just alliances to stab in the back when they aren't expecting it. Like that dumbass colt....Thought he could get me." She chuckled. "Now, had this been outside this Lunadamn place I would be a lot more happy. In fact, I'm sorry it has to come down to us killing eachother in the end, you are a cute colt, White. Damn shame to see that face underground and not kissing some mare."

"Uhh...thanks...?" I said.

"I never kissed a colt, before, ya know. If this is the only time I will I'll take it." She laughed a bit. We kept walking for a while. Static.

"7 remain."

"Damn...we're getting close to the end..." I said.

"Yep, that we are." Quick said. We kept walking, more static.

"6 remain."

"Double kill." Quick said. "White, could you do me a favor and wait here, I gotta piss."

"Where are you gonna...."

"Listen...I've needed to ever since I got here, I'll go around that corner and be back..." She walked off.

"White...now's our chance..." I nodded, helping Thunder, we ran off quietly. "I didn't trust her what so ever...especially since she had a gun.."

"Same...she sounded fucking crazy to begin with." I said. We ran for a bit, making sure we were far away from here. There was a pony down the hall, over one of those things. They crushed its head and looked over at us. They were panting a bit. They must have known who I was, cause they began walking over. I could make out a spiked mace in their hoof. I readied my blade.

"That Magnum is mine...! Give up now...!"

"Uhh...the Magnum is already..." He swung at me. I ducked and moved back. "Yo! The Magnum has been taken already."

"Well then one less pony...or two...your buddy isn't looking too good..." He smirked. I slashed at him, he hit my weapon to the side and jabbed at me. I jumped back and readied my blade again. He swung and I dodged to the side, slashing his arm. He yelled out and backed up a bit, holding his wound. "You're gonna fucking regret that..." He ran at me. I dove to the side, slashing at him, getting his side. He grabbed it and fell to the ground. I walked over to him. I quickly swung his mace into my leg. I yelled out as it stuck. He pulled it out and got back up, holding his side. He turned and flung it at Thunder. He tried to dive out of the way, but it stuck into his side. He hit the ground, yelling out. I slashed the colt across the chest and pushed him down. I stabbed him in the stomach, looking at Thunder.

"Thunder!"

He slowly stood, holding the mace. "I...I'm good...." He pulled it out, yelping. He looked at the colt on the ground, he was trying to crawl away. Thunder limped over to him, mace in hoof. He pushed the colt over, looking at the mace and then the colt. He raised it. "I'm sorry, Sky..." He yelled out and slammed it into the colts head. He did it again and again. Static.

"Five remain." He panted, looking at the colt, mace in his skull. He pulled it out, backing up and panting. He held himself up against the wall and puked. His side was bleeding, but not too badly. He looked okay. He looked back at the colt.

"I...I killed him..."

"Y...Yeah..." I just looked at the colt. Thunder had killed him...I mean...shit. I killed three, almost four ponies but still. I limped over to Thunder. "Come on..that mare might come back..." He nodded and we limped down the hallway.