The Art of Magic: Infamy of the Facility

In the Magic Facility, where they are waiting for you... For you and you alone... The disgraces of our Race... Soon enough darlings, will your suffering be over...

Masked stallions started to enter every single holding cell and they charged up their horn to restrain the ponies magic flow as they made screens of magic appear, big enough so everypony in the cell could see it.

Sweetie and Twinkle looked at it and at first there was only static but after a small time, a crystal clear image appeared on the screen, having those same three ponies wearing their hazard suits and masks.

The one in the middle spoke under a muffled voice. “Greetings Unworthy Unicorns. You might ask yourself, why you are here? Well, I can answer that question for you... The only reason you are here, is to become...magic. Let me explain this further. In person.”

All three of the ponies removed their masks only to reveal Rarity, Twilight and Trixie. Sweetie and Twinkle weren't surprised anymore as they knew their sisters were gone, too far gone to return. They could only wait of what would happen next. Their eyes were peeled to the screen as a couple of the ponies in their cell gasped at the remembrance of the mentally insane mares on the screen.

The more Sweetie and Twinkle looked at the screen, they saw the imagery was not live. For the eyes weren't as ‘corrupted’ as they had seen. “How long...have you been doing this...” Sweetie brought out in a mumbling voice. Twinkle looked a little confused to her before returning her attention to the screen.

Trixie walked up a little forward and began to speak. “Thousands of years ago the unicorn race didn't had its magic. They were just...” The blue coated mare shivered lightly in utter disgust, “earth ponies with a horn. Nothing more.” The mare kept walking in front of the other two before she finally took her position again to the left side of Rarity.

“But after many, many years of testing and trying, the unicorns found a way, to make magic. With the help of blood and tears. The First Unicorns were very specific about the recipe of magic. Everything was perfect looking for our race... But over the course of years much of the magic that had been stored, became corrupted...making ponies go crazy.” Twilight explained as she took a step forward and walked in front of the two other mares.

“We needed something else, something new. That is the soul reason the tests were made and executed. For you will be stored here, until the time is ripe.” the mare explained further. At the hearing of those words, many of the ponies shivered in pure fear as tears were shed by the dozen.

Twilight walked back to the right side of Rarity as the white unicorn stepped forward and did her story. “And all who failed, were brought to here. Well, not really but you get the point. This Facility is only one thousand years old. Build right after the banishment of princess Luna. It was her plan, for she made it... A facility to produce the magic needed for the land, a wonderful idea no? Of course, she didn't know the whole truth, the facts were changed.”

“Her banishment was perfect! For it allowed us to work was we do now! Princess Celestia does not know about this place. And we kept it that way ever after her banishment, for good reasons. Anyway, this is the only one of its kind. It is here, where the Unworthy Unicorns of today are brought to...” Twilight spoke up before taking her place again.

Rarity got a evil grin on her face and spoke in a stone cold tone. “And turned into magic.” The tone on what she spoke brought so much fear in the young mares and stallion that most of them curled up in ball, not even wanting to hear more but Rarity kept talking. “You probably wonder what that bolt of something is right?”

“That is a bolt of pure magic that leaves with every blast, going to a couple True and Half Unicorns to resupply their magic. A unicorn can call up the magic yes. But can’t make it his or her self. That is where the Facility comes in play. The Facility restores the magic of a Unicorn over night.” Trixie explained as she spoke one of the biggest lies.

Rarity walked over to a Unworthy Unicorn who was strapped in a chair as Twilight and Trixie made themselves ready by some levers. “Now look, this is a old way of making magic, a way we still use to honor the First Unicorns, but we have a way that goes faster, which you will see soon enough.” She explained as the Unicorn was crying tears for his life. “Twilight, Trixie, if you please. This is not going to need an explanation.”

The two mares both nodded as the mulberry coated mare pulled her lever, which caused the contraption of metal arms with syringes and tubes to come down. The unicorn’s eyes looked up and started to cry only more, unable to speak through its many tears. Rarity grinned at the flow of tears as she stroked the Unicorn cheek while saying. “Shh, shh...we need those tears darling.”

After the contraption came to a standstill above the unicorn, Trixie pulled her lever. The arms jammed their syringes in the poor unicorn in a violent way. Not even the tear tubes didn't stay safe as two syringes were jammed into them as well. The unicorn started to scream in pure pain, the horror it went through, his painful screams were even worse than the normal sounds of the place.

The ponies who saw it started to cry themselves as well and some even puked at the sight of the horror on the screen. Rarity turned her attention away from the Unicorn as she walked to one last lever, and pulled it with her magic, returning her attention to the Unicorn.

Horrible sounds played their turn as the sound of sucking took it all over. Slowly and painfully was the Unworthy Unicorn undone from its blood and tears which flowed into the tubes up into the ceiling. Rarity looked in pure delight as she saw the many liquids running freely through the tubs as Twilight and Trixie did the same.

Nopony wanted to look at the screens anymore, they had seen enough. More than enough. But Twilight spoke again. “Once the blood and the tears are fully taken away, we don’t need you anymore, we could let you go off course, but then you will talk about this place, so you stay here, until you pass away. Either you do it yourself, or we do it. Then we throw you in one of the boilers, only to make the Facility run faster.”

Twilight started to laugh as Trixie had one last explanation. “Then, we mix your blood, tears and something we call ‘Ci Gam’, which are the leaves of the ‘Enacra’ flower that is needed to fully fulfill the process of making magic. We then add everything in one big drum and start mixing resulting in pure magic. After that, it is blasted away to a random chosen Worthy Unicorn. Soon, you all will be used, for a greater good. The good, no, the need of the unicorns!”

After those words were spoken the screens disappeared and the stallions went away, leaving the young mares and stallions shivering in pure fear. Sweetie was one of the few ponies who kept her attention to the screen the whole time and simply couldn't believe what she just saw, her sister practically murdering a pony. Eventually she curled up herself and started sobbing, processing the horrors in her mind.

“Sweetie, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.” Twinkle said with tears in her eyes. The little mare curled up around Sweetie in an attempt to comfort her.

“No Twinkle, don’t be sorry, we did nothing wrong...” she replied through the sobs.

High up in her office Rarity looked through the window, looking at everything what was going on. Somepony knocked once again on the heavy metal door. “Come in.” was all she said and the door opened itself.

It didn't took long before Twilight came in and began to say her words. “Are you really going to do it Rarity? Process your own sister? Process my sister? Have you really gone that heartless that you do not even care about your own flesh and blood anymore? Or do I have to kill you before you stop yourself? Or did you spend too much time again around the corrupted magic?”

Rarity let go a deep sigh as she turned her attention to Twilight and said in a angry tone. “Rules are rules, Sparkle. As they were set up by Professor Cosmos himself! You know our ways Twilight. I have been running the Facility for years now, spending all my nights here, while still being able to run my boutique! And the last thing I am waiting for, is somepony questioning my manners of work. We keep it running as we always did, I can not bend the rules and you know that more than well. They have to go.”

Twilight looked outside of the window as well, starting to fear the outburst of Rarity and said under a deep sigh. “You are right Rarity, they may be our sisters, but they failed their tests, they are Unworthy.”

“Good to hear you still haven’t lost it Twilight, now go. I need to look into some files. Leave me alone for the next two hours will you.” Rarity spoke with an ice cold tone in her voice.

Twilight nodded as she made her way to leave the office and closed the door behind her, but on her way to her sleeping quarter she kept pounding her head. She just didn't feel herself right at this, that her little sister would be killed.

The mulberry mare opened the door of her quarter only to be met by a figure on her bed. “Trixie has been waiting for you... She has arranged us a wonderful night...” Twilight closed the door behind her and placed it on its lock.