Author's Note

If you're here, then that means that you didn't follow my advice, then just be ready for something that I really didn't enjoy writing, but if you like this kind of stuff, you'll find it interesting.

Well then, good luck!

Chapter 3: The pink crowned waiter

Chapter 3: The waiter.

Twilight snapped out of her trance, maybe something horrible must have happened to Spike and Apple Bloom, something that made her do something awful, but what? everything was so confusing at this point, at that moment, Twilight heard noises in the floor upstairs, they are getting ready for the third round.

And then, there were three,
now she won't ever be free.

When Twilight was about to cross the door to the first floor, she saw another recording tape in the floor. That was strange, in the last two floors the tapes were at the start of the corridor, why would it be here? Twilight pressed the play button to get her answer.

"This is ridiculous... no, this is downright impossible! now I can manage to get to this floor easily, but now is harder than ever before! There is a third one now! This one must be Diamond Tiara! I got down her attitude, but with the other two are making it harder, Tiara just waits in multiple rooms of the corridor, and when I past by her side without noticing it, she appears in front of me without giving me a chance to escape! As with the other two, light is the key, I have to flash her when I hear growls next to a hallway, if I turn away without doing it, I will be bare bones..."

"Why is this happening to me?! What did I do to deserve this?! I pray to Celestia for my safety, but I want to know what happened more than anything! I just want answers! But all they do is kill me, not only that, but they are getting angrier, smarter, faster, and sometimes they try to talk to me, maybe I should listen to them..."

"By the way, I'm leaving this tape in the other side of the door because when I cross it the follower starts running, so I will be putting it at the foot of the door, I hope I get out of here."

How long can hope keep her in her seat?
they follow, they greet, they wait and repeat.

Twilight sighed, she knew that this was it, if she doesn't pass this now, maybe she never will, with the little courage she still had, she crossed the door, the corridor looked grotesque, now the walls were completely covered in blood, there were pony parts everywhere, the light was red colored, the exit door was really far and the air was getting hot., it was almost suffocating.

Twilight looked back, as the tape said, the follower appeared behind her and started to run, but Twilight stopped him in the act with a brief but effective light beam, she looked at the creature, it was scarier than before, his eyes were glowing red, and the creature had blood coming out of its mouth, Twilight started to run, but she slowed down in the alternate hallway, she was about to pass, but she decided to see what was in the room, when she light up her horn, she froze, the greeter was right in front of her, and was about to kill her, but her light made the creature run into the darkness of the room, the greeter was different too, it had blood on its eyes and its coat, but she didn't care about that.

Twilight turned around, the follower was starting to run, Twilight acted in reflection, but the follower wasn't falling for it this time, because it covered its eyes to not be affected by her lights, Twilight outsmarted the follower by turning around a second before turning back again, the follower wasn't expecting that, and it wasn't expecting the beam of light that came afterwards, Twilight began running again.

When she reached the second hallway, she passed by its side, and she flashed her horn to see if the waiter was there, surprisingly, it was, Twilight looked at the creature that was shaking, covering its eyes and sliding back into the darkness of the hallway, it looked like Diamond Tiara, it had her Tiara in her head, a pink coat and a mixed mane color, but it had a massive mouth, even bigger than the follower's, and she had blood on her body too, with large horns coming out of its ears and something that seemed like wings at its sides, but its wings were completely hideous, instead of feathers, they had nothing, just bones of a really dark red color.

Twilight sped up after that, the follower was already catching up to her, but Twilight stopped it in its tracks, then she flashed her horn before passing another corridor, the greeter was actually scared and it went right back to the darkness. When Twilight was passing the corridor, she heard a voice in her head.

Hey, why don't yOu ~~waNt~~ tO cOMe WitH US, ~~DEAr~~ frIEnd?

"What? Who said that?" Said Twilight

WhY, US dEAr FRieND.

Twilight ignored it, she just wanted everything to end, after a few flaws with the follower, she successfully escaped her friends and crossed the door, there was just one floor left, the ground floor, and after that, she would be free. The voice in her head returned, but this time, the voice was clear, the voice was normal and calmed, but it speaked with a hint of anger and/or hate.

You... I Know What You did.
I hear your thoughts.
I can see clear in your past.
I lead the creatures that have followed you around this place.
I'm the one that betrays even the most powerful being in this world.
And you're not an exception.

"Who are you? Why is this happening to me? Why are you doing this?!" Screamed Twilight, she just wanted answers from whoever this was.

How dare you speak to me like that?!
Can't you see that you'll die alone?
And, you are overlooking something,
you ended up in here for a reason,
you despicable criminal scum!

Those sentences seemed to trigger something inside Twilight, something that made her remember something:

Twilight was worried, Spike said that he would spend the night with Rarity, but now it was Wednesday afternoon, and Spike hasn't showed up, something was going on in here. Twilight heard a knocking in the floor, and she ran to see who it was; it wasn't Spike, but her friends were there.

"Twilight, ah think that somethin' happened ta Apple Bloom, she hasn't come home since yesterday." Said Applejack.

"And Sweetie Belle hasn't shown up either, oh dear, I hope that nothing bad happens to her, if something happens to my dear Sweetie Belle, I don't know what I would do!" Said Rarity with tears in her eyes.

"I've been looking everywhere for Scootaloo, but her neither I or her parents can find her! I'm seriously worried for the little squirt." Said Rainbow Dash, even if she was trying to sound cool, she was clearly worried for Scootaloo.

"We came here because you probably know what to do, right, Twilight?" The mane five looked at Twilight.

"To be sincere, I don't know, Spike's been missing too, I thought that he was going to spend the night with Rarity!" Said Twilight.

"Twilight, my dear, yesterday I was in my Boutique all day, and I can assure you that Spike and Sweetie Belle never came home! I thought that maybe Sweetie spent the night with you and Spike." Replied Rarity.

"Well, he hasn't come home, and if he wasn't with you, I don't know where else-" Said Twilight before a letter appeared in front of her face. It had came from a green flame, so, that must mean that Spike sent it, right?

"Oh my, what does it say Twilight?" Said Fluttershy.

Twilight couldn't believe it, when she opened the letter, it had small photos of Spike and the CMC, but they were horrible, Apple Bloom was hanging dead on the ceiling, her eyes were on the floor, and her coat and mane had bruises and dust, like somepony had kicked her body roughly, she was crying tears made of blood. Sweetie Belle was dead and chained to the ground, her throat was bleeding, somepony had cut her throat, and she had several stab signals through her whole body, she was crying too. Scootaloo was chained to a table made of metal, her intestines were out of her body and her wings were cut off, obviously she was dead too, and she was crying too. And Spike was on the floor, in a position that looked like he wanted the camera holder to stop his suffering, he had no scales, he looked like a cat with no fur, he had several bruises and cuts through his body, somepony had broken all of his bones, leaving him defenseless, even though he was alive, he was also painful to look at. Also, there was something written in the letter:

"Hey there, it's Diamond Tiara, and yes, I did every last thing here, and why? because I wanted revenge, all this time in Ponyville I've seen those blank flanks get all the glory, and I never get anything, and when I found out that they had a dragon by her side? I exploded, so I decided to get my personal body guards to hunt them down and bring them to me, it wasn't difficult to get them, the silly fillies split up, that's what made it easy for my body guards to capture them; when I had them all in my special place, the fun began with the chicken because she was the most defiant one, when I was done with her, the little marshmallow tried to scream, so I cut her throat because I always hated her beautiful voice, the yellow blank flank was crying at this point, so I took her eyes, and I kicked her very hard, she was the first one to defy me, and the leader of that silly club of Blank Flanks, I hated her the most, when I finished with her, I went for Spike, who was in another room, I wanted him alone because I wanted my personal revenge on him, when I was almost done, I asked him to send a letter to a friend of his, maybe that way everypony will understand that I rule and nopony will stand up to me again. I hope all of you have learned a lesson today: Never mess with Diamond Tiara."

Seeing Spike, Twilight's oldest and dearest friend like that, and three innocent fillies in those conditions made something inside Twilight snap, something that was keeping her sane broke.

"Well, are you just going to keep the note for yourself or what?" Said Rainbow Dash.

"Here! Serve yourselves!" And with that, Twilight threw the letter right in Rainbow's face, after that, Rainbow read it aloud to everypony there, Fluttershy cried and crie, Pinkie's mane deflated and her eye started twitching, Applejack hit the floor angrily with her hat as tears started to form in her eyes, Rarity cried before fainting as she heard what happened to her little sister, RD didn't want to read the rest of the letter after the part of Scoots, and Twilight was no longer there, she was running towards the center of Ponyville.

When she arrived, she started asking some ponies the location of DT, which they said that she was at the schoolhouse of Ponyville, Twilight ran towards the school; the fillies and colts were heading home, but Twilight WAITED for a specific pony to come out of the schoolhouse, and when Tiara came out, Twilight FOLLOWED her towards her home, but Twilight made sure that she got there first, when Tiara opened the door, Twilight GREETED the little brat:

"Why hello there, Diamond Tiara, haven't seen you in a while." Said Twilight that would make even King Sombra cry for his mother.

"Oh, yes, hello miss Twilight." Said Diamond Tiara, while feeling like running away.

"Hey, what is going on here?" Said a familiar voice, Twilight turned around to see Filthy Rich with a confused expression on his face.

"Oh, just who I wanted to see, look mister, your daughter here is a SADISTIC MURDERER!" Shouted Twilight at the top of her lungs.

"What?! Daddy, you wouldn't believe the word of some random pony, right?" Said Tiara while pouting, Filthy Rich looked at Twilight with a curious face.

"You SHUT UP THIS INSTANT!!!" Said Twilight, she levitated a lamp nearby and threw it towards Tiara, but her dad protected her by standing in front of her, the impact left Filthy Rich bleeding on the floor, just waiting for his blood to get out of his body.

"Daughter, take this bits, run towards the train station and go to our family building in Manehattan, I'll try to hold her." Whispered the stallion. Tiara grabbed the bits and got out of her house before Twilight could process what was going on.

"Hey! Get back here! I'm not done with you!" Shouted Twilight, after shouting, Twilight began chasing Tiara through Ponyville, if she looked back she would've seen Filthy Rich calling the Royal Guard from his house.

Twilight almost had Tiara, but she stopped because Rainbow Dash stood in front of her. "Twilight! What do you think you're doing? I know you want revenge, so do I, but we should really just let the guards or the police punish her." Said RD.

"Oh, I'm more than upset, Rainbow, and I want more than revenge, I want to kill her! She can manipulate the guards or the police, just let me pass and everything will be okay." Replied Twilight, trying to pass Rainbow Dash.

"Twilight, RD is right, ya can jus' go to Manehattan an' kill 'er, yer just going to get yerself in trouble." Said Applejack from behind Twilight.

"Oh, please don't tell me you agree with her." Whined Twilight.

"We all do, darling, you should really just conceed." Said Rarity, coming along with Pinkie and Fluttershy.

Twilight was furious, then, out of nowhere, Twilight released her magic in such a way that she sent her friends flying through Ponyville, everypony was out of her way. Twilight didn't care, she needed to catch that brat and kill her.

By the time she arrived at the train station, Tiara was riding the train towards Manehattan. "I'll see you soon, don't get too comfy, I'll get you what you deserve." Whispered Twilight as she watched the train go.