The Punishment of the Villains

The throne room was quiet. All four alicorns of Equestria lay in there, defeated. Luna rubbed her skinned body pathetically, Celestia her wings, Twilight well...EVERYTHING, And Cadence her shredded back.

"We are immortal...right?" Twilight asked in a weak voice. "We can't die?"

Celestia groaned, and muttered something under the lines of; "I wish I wasn't a goddess."

"Of course your immortal, unless you receive a couple more fatal blows in various spots princesses." Chrysalis chided from her spot on Celestia's throne. "Other-wise it's virtually impossible to kill you."

Luna hissed at her, and attempted to stand.

"Lulu! Please!" Celestia pleaded. "Please rest."

Luna collapsed to the ground with a grunt, and looked at Chrysalis pathetically.

"I will KILL YOU!" She cried, her hoarse voice ringing in the Changeling's ears.

"Ya, I'm sure you will."

Tirek looked down at a small filly that had been crushed beneath a pile of rubble. He picked her up in his claws, and poked her, bringing it closer. The little corpse was cold, and devoid of life. He grunted, and tossed it over his shoulder. Earth-ponies.

A couple of elder ponies stampeded as fast as they could away from him, grunting and wheezing. It was all just white noise. An old grey stallion with a white mane, and a shrivelled body tripped over a pile of derbis, and looked up at Tirek angrily. He shouted some a word that Tirek didn't understand, and threw his cane at the demon/horse.

Tirek snarled as it smacked his fore-leg, and stomped on the old man, causing blood fly everywhere.

"Tirek." A voice called right next to him.

Tirek spooked , and turned his head to see Sombra flying next to him.

His black shadowy wings curled and puffed as he glided next to the centaur, occasionally flapping to stay aloft.

"What, your an alicorn now?" The demon/horse demanded.

"Ew no! This is just a skill I learned a while ago. I never get to use it often, but it's a nice view up here. Plus sitting clouds are very comfy, and a great way to stalk one's prey."

"So you sit on clouds and stalk ponies?"

"...Only to feed off of their fears..And maybe to abduct some appealing mares..."

He fell silent, and flapped his wings again.

Tirek and Sombra moved out of the demolished city, and into a dead looking field. A couple of helhest sentries saluted at them as they past.

"Did you think we would actually win?" Sombra asked suddenly.

"No. I was half expecting the alicorns to get angry, and destroy us back there. I was sorely surprised when they didn't."

Sombra fell silent again, and looked down at the dreary landscape.

"Well, I never thought my dear Celestia would ever fail to you two bone-heads." A quirky voice pipped up.

A bright flash of light appeared, along with a draconequus.

"Discord." Tirek greeted grimly.

Discord hovered in the air in front of the two villains. "Hello stupid." He greeted back to Tirek.

Sombra stifled a chuckle, and attempted to keep a straight face.

"If it was you that hurt my dear Celestia-" The draconequus started, his edgy voice turning grim.

"It was Queen Chrysalis who tormented that bitch." Tirek cut off. "I got the honours of Twilight."

Discord narrowed his eyes, and electricity began to spark out of his mismatched claws/paws.

"Where is Chrysalis?" He growled, looking back and forth between them.

Sombra rolled his eyes. "Do you really expect us to tell you? Take a wild guess dragon horse."

Discord locked eyes with the umbrum, and snapped his fingers, making a bright pink tutu appear on him. Sombra's eyes bulged. Discord let out a mischievous laugh, and wiped a joyful tear from his eye.

"You look priceless!" He croaked.

"HEY!" Sombra yelped, tugging on it viciously. "GET IT OFF!"

"I will only remove it if you tell me where Chrysalis is." Discord's voice fell grim again, and he crossed his arms.

"In the castle you idiot! Where else?"

Discord snapped his fingers again, and disappeared, leaving Sombra and Tirek, but not holding his promise about the dress situation.

"Help me get this abomination off!" Sombra howled, tearing a piece of the tutu with his canines.

Tirek giggled, and walked away from Sombra, leaving him to deal with it.

"Celle?" Discord called, opening the door to the throne room.

He spotted the white alicorn a couple of feet away, and rushed towards her. A green blast of magic narrowly missed his claw.

Discord looked up to see Chrysalis glaring at him. "What did you do?" he snarled.

"Oh you know, a couple of things here, a little bit of things there. Typical villain stuff."

Discord shot a beam of chaos toward the changeling. Chrysalis flew up, and blasted him back.

"You could've joined us you traitor!" She spat, circling him over head. "But instead you chose to poison yourself with the ways of friendship. You disgust me."

"Never!" Discord hissed, flying up and ramming her into a wall. "I would never join you, you abhorrent slut!"

Chrysalis let out a grunt, and fell to the ground. Discord prepared to demolish her on the spot when a beam of dark magic shot past him, and hit the wall. A small amount of debris toppled to the floor. Everyone in the room turned over to see Rabia glaring at Discord.

"Not another move dragon horse." She snarled in a threatening tone.

Discord frowned, and turned to attack her instead. Rabia sunk into the floor, and appeared again right in front of him. She shot out a blue tendril, which wrapped around his dragon talon foot. Discord let out a yelp as He was raised off the ground, and tossed into a nearby pillar.

Rabia glided towards Chrysalis, and offered a hoof to help her up. Chrysalis accepted the hoof, and stood shakily.

"Thanks?" She grumbled under her breath.

Just then Tirek and Sombra burst through the door, Sombra finally free of his dress.

"Where is your armour?" Rabia demanded. "A king should never be without his royal clothing."

"There was a slight adjustment to my attire a short while ago." He snarled, glaring daggers at Discord.

The draconequus looked up, and let out a soft chuckle. "You are such a clothes horse." He deadpanned weakly. "I figured you might like your dress."

"What shall we do with the traitor?" Tirek asked.

Rabia looked out a window. "What ever you please children of the darkness." She said, morphing into a puff of blue/black shadow, and slinking out of the room.

Chrysalis grinned, and grabbed him with her magic. "Let's play hot potato, with a dragon horse."

Discord was hurled into the air at Sombra, who caught him with his magic, tossing him over to Tirek. Tirek grabbed him carelessly with his claws, accidentally tearing open Discords belly.

The draconequus cried out as Tirek's claws dug into him some more. Then Tirek threw him back to Chrysalis, who giggled with sick delight.

"What's the matter Dissy?" She asked, jabbing a hoof into his eye. "Not enjoying yourself?"

"Please stop!" Twilight called out finally. "Your hurting him!" She crawled up to Tirek, and grabbed his massive hoof. A pleading feature caked across her face.

Tirek looked down curiously at Twilight, then raised his leg, shaking it violently to remove the mare. "Hmm..." He pondered his options.

"Use me instead!" She begged. "Please?"

Chrysalis face lit up with delight, and she dropped Discord. "Well boys?" She asked.

Tirek picked up Twilight with his fingers, and hurled her as hard as he could towards Chrysalis.

The game began again, this time a lot more rough. Twilight nearly puked as she was tossed around like a bean bag. Her head began to feel dizzy, and black dots infected her vision. Vile rose up in her throat, but she tamped down her illness, and aloud the villains to toss her about.

"Is this fun?" Sombra hissed into her ear as he caught her with his hooves.

Twilight gave him a pitiful look a fraction of a second before she was air born again. Out of instinct, her wings shot out, and she glided weakly to Tirek.

The centaur ceased the game by holding her a bit longer than usual. "I'm bored of this now." He explained.

Chrysalis and Sombra flew over to inspect Twilight, each perching on one of Tirek's beefy arms.

"Poor princess." Chrysalis jeered, moving gracefully along Tirek's muscle. "You lost. We won. And tomorrow, your friends will be tormented to death by yours truly. Any. Way. We. Want."

"We should go by their fears." Sombra suggested.

"We should hurt their loved one's right in front of them." Chrysalis added.

"We should suck them dry of their magic, then make them do stuff they are too weak to do!" Tirek exclaimed.

Twilight groaned, and her head lolled to one side, an increasing headache building up from the villains bickering.

"How about this; We kill their loved one's, suck their magic, scare them, then start the torture! Each. Day. For. A. Week. Before we kill them off finally, in the most awful way possible." Chrysalis suggested.

The other two agreed, and their bickering turned into evil laughter. Tirek gripped Twilight harder, and the mare let out a soft groan, hoping at least one of them would be merciful. Not such luck. Chrysalis grabbed her by the mane, and tore out a huge chunk of her bangs. Twilight cried out as she was squeezed harder, and beaten across the face.

Discord watched helplessly from the floor, a pool of vomit drenching his fur, along with blood that oozed out of his torn stomach. He flinched as a sudden realization came into his mind;

He wasn't going to make it.