It was Tuesday and after school, Scootaloo was lead back into her Pod's free time room. Blaire and Bailey were already there, sitting comfortably, proping their back legs up on the table.

Scootaloo joined them at the table. "Hey, I'm ready for this, aren't you guys?"

"Of course, but we have our own way of being excited," Blaire said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Scootaloo tilted her head.

"Nothing that concerns you, squirt." Bailey waved a hoof at Scootaloo for her to quiet down. "We're trying to watch this movie anyways."

Scootaloo turned around to see the screen. "What movie is it?"

"Where The Red Hay Grows," Blaire replied.

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Nurse Upbeat opened the door and walked into Jay's hospital room. He was fast asleep. The only movement in the room was the slight rise and fall of Jay's breathing.

"Jay, wake up," the unicorn shook him gently awake.

Jay rolled onto his back, even though that hurt intensely. "Hey, what do you need?"

"For right now, I need you sit down facing away from me, please." While Jay positioned himself, Upbeat checked a clipboard briefly. "I just need to change the bandages for sanitary reasons."

Upbeat suspended some scissors and aligned them with the bandages. She snipped off the wraps and tossed them in the trash. One wing had a noticeable stab wound with missing feathers and skin. The other was cut off with a painful nub in its place. She could see the skin and fur that had been delicately sliced off, leaving his muscle almost entirely exposed.

Upbeat took a moment for her mind to register what lay beneath Jay's bandages. As she took clean bandages and began wrapping them around him, she decided to start some small talk.

"Are they going to reattach the other wing?"

"I think they're going to give me a prosthetic one, actually," he replied.

Both were silent for a moment. "I was Scootaloo's nurse before-" she paused when she saw Jay flinch. "Do you know anything about psychology?"

"Yeah... why?"

"Scootaloo got in a crash with her scooter because of her bully. She was hurt pretty bad and probably won't be able to fly like a regular pegasus," Upbeat explained sympathetically.

"I know that already. It was in her case file. Obviously, something in her mind snapped, but not like that's anything new." Jay went from casual mode to "I've-seen-some-shit" mode. "It's actually pretty common for criminals to have tragic pasts- including being orphans..."

Upbeat finished wrapping Jay up and stepped back. "You can lay down again, Jay."

Jay laid down on his back as Upbeat left the room. He stared up the ceiling distantly as he thought about his "talk" with Cotton. Not my fault I'm not perfect at everything, he huffed. I'm still strong and smart- most of the time.

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"Twilight, Twilight, I need your help," Scootaloo whispered into the phone.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked, unsure about many things. For one, how was Scootaloo able to contact her? Why was Scootaloo contacting her?

"They're doing... immoral things, Twilight," Scootaloo whimpered.

"What kind of things, honey?" The questioning in her voice melted into sympathy.

"Like... hitting us and being inappropriate..." Scootaloo mumbled.

Twilight gasped with wide eyes. She abandoned her reason and logic at this moment and asked, "How can I help?"

"I need you to teleport into my cell in the middle of the night, Twilight. We can deal with this after I'm out. I'm counting on you..."

"Okay, sweetie, I'll see you later tonight." They hung up.

Twilight held her head in her hooves and stared down at her research. What kind of 'inappropriate'- Twilight cut herself off. She sharply remembered the claims Scootaloo made against that officer.

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Scootaloo laid down on her bed. Even though it was far from comfortable, she still felt peaceful. She stayed completely silent, waiting for the supervisors to finish turning off the lights before turning over to face the twins. Blaire and Bailey were staring at her intently.

Twilight appeared with a small pop and a flash of purple light. She had to change her spell to be less noticeable. The purple alicorn walked over to Scootaloo and whispered, "Come on, Scoots."

"Wait, rescue my friends too," Scootaloo pointed at twins in the other cell. "Please..."

In a series of flashes, Twilight teleported Scootaloo into the twins' cell, then teleported herself and the three fillies into her castle.

"Woah, you really are a princess!" Blaire marveled.

"ECHO!" Bailey screamed, it obviously echoed.

"Come with me into the dining room, I already prepared some nice food for Scootaloo. You have to share it, though." Twilight lead them down the long hallway into the large dining room.

There was a pitcher of hot chocolate and a few platters of breaded vegetables and hay fries. The trio sat at the table and divided the meal among themselves.

"Why are you two in juvie?" Twilight asked the twins.

"We ki-" before Bailey could finish, Blaire shoved a breaded apple into her mouth.

"HEH HEH, did you try these apples, Bai?" Blaire growled nervously through clenched teeth. "We beat up this kid pretty badly out of self-defense. He had been coming onto us for a while, but he got kinda physical."

"Yeah, we needed to put a stop to it ourselves because teachers wouldn't help us," Bailey added.

"I see... times have changed since I was a filly..."

Scootaloo shared a glance with the twins. She put on a face that said: What now?

Bailey and Blaire turned to each other and began whispering to each other. At first Scootaloo thought they were just talking fast, but they weren't. They were talking in a made up language. After a moment, Blaire stood up.

"I'm going to go get something from the kitchen, where is it?" Blaire asked.

"The room to the right of here."

"Thanks." Blaire disappeared into the hallway.

While Blaire was gone, the other three had a short chat. Silent as a mouse, Blaire crept into the dining room with a kitchen knife in her teeth. Scootaloo acted as if she didn't even see Blaire as she stepped closer to Twilight. Once she was within lunging distance, Scootaloo leaped over the table onto Twilight. Bailey joined Scootaloo in holding down the purple alicorn.

Twilight wriggled and writhed and screamed, but was silenced by Blaire plunging the knife into her mouth. Spike and Starlight Glimmer rushed into the room together but were caught off guard.

Bailey and Scootaloo launched at Starlight, knocking her head into the wall. Bailey smashed her hoof into Starlight's horn until it cracked off with a spurt of blood. Spike was shaking all over as he backed away. He was quickly stopped by a hard kick into the wall.

The two fillies rushed back over to Twilight. Blaire took the knife out and got ready to kill her, but was stopped by Scootaloo. "Have a ritual that I think you'll like a lot," Scootaloo winked and took the knife from Blair.

Scootaloo chopped off Twilight's horn with another spurt of blood. "You're lucky I won't do my worst to you," she said while she cut it off, "like those officers." Scootaloo began cutting off Twilight's wings. "Asher said Rainbow Dash wasn't my sister," she cut off one wing, "so I cut off his horn, cut out his eye, and stabbed him in the lung." She finished with the wings and began on the cutie marks. "And Jay tried to stop me and put me in Juvie," she got one mark off, "so I was going to cut off his cutie marks and wings to wear them as my own, but I was rudely interrupted." Twilight's cutie marks were now fully cut off. "I'm going to finish what I started with him, though." She plunged the knife into Twilight's heart.

Author's Note

If you're wondering why Starlight and Twilight didn't teleport away, it was because they were too shocked.
(also... am I the only one who indents?)