Colgate's Practice 4: Blood, Torture and Power

Friday afternoon had arrived and Colgate was closing up shop. Luckily for Amethyst they had not had any bad patients show up since Cheerilee so Colgate was in a happy mood. As they headed home Amethyst asked, "Well honey, are you happy? We haven't had any bad patients since Cheerilee."

Colgate replied, "Yeah, I'm happy. I don't know why I wouldn't be."

Amethyst gave her a sad look and continued, "I thought you would be sad because you won't have me to cuddle with for a week."

Colgate replied, "Well yeah I am sad over that but what matters to me is that you'll get to spend some quality time with your parents."

Before they knew it they arrived at the castle and Amethyst's parents were waiting outside. Amethyst rushed to them, "Mom, dad! It is so good to see you!"

Written replied, "It is good to see you too!"

Golden saw Colgate and said, "Amethyst, could you hurry up and get your stuff, I want to get going as soon as possible." She lowered her voice and continued, "Besides, I don't want to have to spend any more time around that murderer of a wife of yours."

Amethyst sighed, "Mom, she isn't like that anymore and remember, I killed ponies as well so I guess I'm a murderer too."

Golden replied, "Yes I know but she forced you do it." She pointed her hoof towards the door and ordered, "Now go and get your stuff, alright?"

Amethyst nodded and headed up to get what she had packed for the trip. As Colgate approached the door Golden gave her a glare and sighed. Colgate muttered, "It's nice to see you too."

Once Colgate headed in Amethyst hugged her. She said, "Good bye sweetie, I'm going to miss you."

Colgate kissed her and replied, "I'm going to miss you too honey."

While they were kissing Golden yelled, "Amethyst, come on. I want to get going, ALRIGHT?"

Amethyst broke the kiss and replied, "Coming mom!"

She rushed out the door and the three headed out of town. As Colgate saw this she was happy. Pearly was standing next to her and asked, "Colgate, why is there such a huge smile on your face?"

Colgate replied, "Pearly, we need to talk, in private."

Pearly followed Colgate inside and could help but wonder what was going on. The fact that Colgate would smile when her wife was leaving really bothered him. He couldn't help but remember how Colgate was the last time Amethyst left the castle for a while. While on the surface he tried to show strength, deep down he was nervous that Colgate's old ways were returning.

They headed into the castle and down into the basement. When Pearly saw where they were headed he got a sick feeling in his gut. While the place had been washed clean of guts, blood and any other pony remains long ago, he remembered what happened there. He asked, "S-so Colgate, what do yo want to talk about?"

Colgate replied, "Well now that Amethyst is out of town, I think we need to take care of a little problem."

Pearly asked, "We? A little problem?"

Colgate replied, "Yes, we have a little problem to take care of." She became agitated as she continued, "That little rat Cheerilee has quit teaching the foals about the importance of proper oral hygiene AND she showed up on Monday with seven cavities and two rotted teeth." Her agitation turned into laughter, "And now she MUST be punished!"

Pearly gasped, "But Colgate, isn't that illegal? If we were to get caught we'd get executed."

Colgate laughed, "It's only illegal if we get caught!"

He sighed, "Ok, how are we going to do it without your equipment?"

Colgate headed over to a corner that had a large stone extension to the wall, or so it seemed. Colgate used her magic and despite it being extremely heavy, she lifted it out of the way to reveal a trap door. She opened it, lit up her horn and headed down the stairs. When they got down there Pearly was shocked to see that Colgate had somehow managed to store all her old equipment with Luna never discovering it. He asked, "Colgate, how did you manage to store all of this without Luna ever finding it? I thought she took all of it away from you."

Colgate replied, "She took away what was in sight. Remember Pearly, I have always thought three or four steps ahead of everypony else so once I discovered this sub-basement, I stored plenty of equipment down here."

Pearly asked, "Does Amethyst know about this?"

Colgate replied, "No. Other than me, you are the only pony who knows about this and if you know what is good for you, it will stay that way."

Pearly knew that Colgate meant business so he swore to keep it secret. Colgate began to look around and in an almost dreamy voice she said, "Oh my chains, my whips, my sedatives, my drills, my needles, my saws and everything else! I've missed all of you so much!"

Pearly felt a bit unnerved that Colgate was talking to her torture equipment more like they were another pony but realized that the old Colgate was back and would have to deal with the turbulence that came with her. He sighed, "So where are we going to do this and how are we going to pull this off?"

Colgate replied, "Well, once all the lights are off in town we are going to sneak over to Cheerilee's where I will give her a powerful sedative." She pointed towards a body bag and continued, "We will put her in that and take her to the Castle of the Two Sisters. Once we get there, we will haul her to the bottom most bowels of that place where Amethyst and I killed Donut Joe and torture her to death." She began to become more giddy as she continued, "Then we will feast on her corpse! I can't wait! This is going to be so exciting!"

Pearly sighed, "Colgate, are you completely sure you want to do this? Remember, if we get caught we'll both get put to death."

Colgate replied, "Look Pearly, like I said before, as long as we don't get caught everything will be fine and besides, I can't let her get away with not teaching the foals about proper oral hygiene."

Pearly was really hoping that maybe, just maybe he could change his boss's mind but eventually he realized that it wasn't going to happen. All he could do was hope that they didn't get caught or cause any suspicions among the locals.