A couple hours later, they arrived at the tower and Colgate ordered, "Troops, you go over to the base." she then intensified her hold on Scootaloo and continued, "While I get this one properly detained and get some information from her."

Her soldiers did as ordered while Colgate took her prisoner into the dungeon, a dungeon that had never been used before. As Colgate carried her down there, Scootaloo began to plead with Colgate to release her but it was all for naught. Once Colgate got her down there, she placed a horn cap on Scootaloo and threw her down. She approached her and ordered, "Now tell me, why would you betray me like that?"

Scootaloo was terrified, more terrified than she had ever been in her life. She stuttered, "Well, uh-uh...."

She would be interrupted when Colgate struck her with a whip. She yelled, "Tell me you little traitor, why would you betray me like that?"

Scootaloo again stuttered, "Well-well you see, LaurFa and Celestia told me about all the Alicorn gems and how you stole them and that you wanted to take the Crystal Empire for yourself."

Colgate again whipped her and yelled, "Did I not tell you that I would let you keep the Empire? Did I not tell you that you were like a daughter to me and that I would never do that?"

The whipping was causing a great amount of pain in the orange Alicorn, causing her to cry, "Yes you did but they promised me nothing bad would happen to me!"

Colgate began to whip her violently and yelled, "No more are you like a daughter to me, you are a crybaby, a treasonous little rat!" She stopped the whipping and continued, "Now you are going to share everything with me, got it? You are going to share everything with me unless you want an even worse punishment."

Scootaloo begged, "Please stop whipping me and I will confess to everything!"

Colgate put the whip down, got in Scootaloo's face and ordered, "Speak, sing like a canary or else!"

Scootaloo began, "Ok, they paid me a visit and at first I refused to tell them anything. Then they told me about the Alicorn gems and brought up a black gem that would make you really powerful." She took a closer look at Colgate and saw not only how much larger and darker she was, but noticed that she had fused a black gem into herself. She gasped, "It's true isn't it? You took the gems and found the black one didn't you?"

Colgate again whipped her and yelled, "Look rat, do not ask me questions." She smacked her and continued, "Now continue where you were."

Scootaloo continued, "Ok, they told me about the gems, they told me about the caves, they told me about the time stopping and they told me about this prophecy book that mentioned them!"

Colgate got in her face and asked, "What else? What else did you say to betray me?"

Scootaloo stuttered, "We-well I told them about how I think you might be planning gl-global conquest. I told them how you were unhappy with them wanting to watch you."

Colgate smacked her again and ordered, "What else? What else did you say to betray your mentor?"

Scootaloo was getting frustrated with the constant smacking and wanted it to stop. She yelled, "You know what, if you don't stop this, I won't tell you anything else!"

Colgate struck her with energy and yelled, "Well then, since you refuse to tell me, you shall suffer dearly."

Colgate grabbed Scootaloo and rammed hooks at the end of chains on the wall through the bottom of each of her legs. Scootaloo was terrified as once she was put in place, the chains stretched her out to where she looked like an X. Colgate began to turn one of the cranks and began to stretch one of her legs away from her body. This brought about a great amount of pain in her and she began to cry out in pain.

Colgate stopped turning the crank and suggested, "If I were you, I would reveal everything that was shared, and I mean everything" She turned the crank further, putting more of a strain on her leg muscles and continued, "unless you want a dislocated leg."

Scootaloo began, "Ok, I told them about how I thought you wanted global conquest! I told them about how we were talking about taking them down and then planning on splitting the world among ourselves."

Colgate again whipped her and yelled, "What else?"

Scootaloo had begun to cry by this point, "And I told them about my concerns on how you might want it all."

While Colgate was satisfied that she had shared everything with her, one thing did not please her one bit, Scootaloo's crying. She grabbed some chains, began to beat her and yelled, "This is what you get for betraying me! This is what you get for being a crybaby!" She stopped beating her and returned to the cranks. She began to stretch out another leg and yelled, "Know this little rat, once I am in charge of this world, there will be no tolerance for crybabies! Crybabies will be punished severely!"

Colgate continued to turn on the crank until she had stretched her leg out to where it was almost dislocated. She then moved on to the others until she had every single leg stretched out to the point where it was about to be dislocated. When she was done, Scootaloo was crying in agony and again Colgate took the chains to her, determined to make sure she knew that what she did warranted it.

After ten minutes of beating, Colgate finally stopped. Colgate stood there before the badly beaten and bruised Scootaloo and shook her head. She sighed, "I remember back when you were a tough pony, I remember back when you were strong pony but most importantly I remember back when you were a loyal pony." She approached her, smacked her and continued, "But now you are nothing more than a disloyal, weak, pathetic tyrannical little rat."

Scootaloo whimpered, "How am I supposed to be strong in a situation like this? You've rammed hooks through my legs, you've whipped me and beaten me with chains! If this happened to you, you'd be the same way!"

Colgate grabbed her whip and again began to whip her. She yelled, "Actually no, I would not because unlike everypony else in this pathetic world, I am tough as nails." She pointed towards the black diamond fused into her and added, "And unlike all you little weaklings, Evil feels no pain, the Goddess of Terror feels no pain."

When she heard Colgate say this, she was horrified. She remembered how when Twilight had her transformation that she started calling herself a dark goddess and now here was a transformed Colgate referring to herself as something else. She asked, "Evil, Goddess of Terror?"

Colgate got up in her face and laughed, "Yes, Goddess of Terror and give it time, you will be an instrument in my goal to bring about terror and misery upon this pathetic world that will be unparalleled and you will not be alone. Others shall be abducted, slain, resurrected and corrupted to suit my needs."

Scootaloo gasped, "Slain?"

Colgate laughed, "Yes, slain. For what I plan on doing, they can not simply become what I want them to be if they are alive."

Scootaloo's eyes grew wide as she asked, "So you're going to kill me to make me what you want?"

Colgate laughed, "I might, I might not." Her voice became more cheerful as she continued, "Now let's get you off of those hooks and into a cell. I certainly can't have you dying on me this soon."

Once Scootaloo realized that death was likely in her immediate future, she began trying to blow the horn cap off but all she got was a few sparks from the base of her horn. Colgate saw this and laughed, "Don't you remember Scootaloo, enchanted horn caps can only be removed by the pony that put them on you!"

As Scootaloo was having the hooks removed from her legs, she let out a cry of pain. This was one thing that send Colgate into a rage. She threw Scootaloo to the ground, began to whip her and yelled, "Pathetic, absolutely pathetic! You should be feeling fine since I removed you, not crying like a little baby." She then picked Scootaloo up and threw her in a cell. She finished, "There, that will keep you nice and secure. Now if you will excuse me, it is time for supper and I'm not about to miss a meal because of a crybaby prisoner."

When Colgate brought up a meal, despite being in a horrible amount of pain, Scootaloo realized she was hungry. She asked, "What about me? Don't I get something to eat?"

Colgate rolled her eyes and sighed, "Yes you will, after I finish my meal."

Before Scootaloo could say anything further, Colgate left the dungeon and slammed the door behind her. This was one thing that she never thought would come to pass, having to torture a pony who was once like a daughter to her for treason. One thing she did know though was that Scootaloo would be just the beginning. She knew that she needed plenty of others and knew exactly what she wanted next, ponies that were as close as could be.

Author's Note

Colgate's Practice style torture.