A thousand years after Twilight's ascension, the world is a different place. Equestria is a peaceful land, unchanging with time, and Twilight rules over an enlightened technocracy. Even the Crystal empire is touted as a utopia. But on the other end of the world, things aren't so nice.

Frieden has lived his whole life in the underbelly of an overcrowded earth pony city that exists at the whims of a corrupt council of unicorns. What is he to do when they put him in jail for the crime of knowledge?

He starts a countdown.

Trigger warnings: Gore. Rape. murder. Rape+gore+murder. Mind control. Sadism. Etc. It gets worse from there.

Author note: This is a prequel to something else I was writing. I'm like 30k words into the other thing, and realized that a really dark and terrible prequel might be fun. This has no happy endings and no good characters. It will literally be a string of murders, rapes, and worse.

It's also an experiment in short and unedited. Do not read.