I sat before Trixie and observed her with curiosity.

“Nhghhh!” She rotated between sobbing, gasping, choking and shaking in quick succession. At times, her eyes would roll up so that I could only see her white. At other times they were darting all over the place.

I couldn’t say that I wasn’t amused, but I needed her to pay attention to me instead of feeling sorry for herself. I placed a hoof under her neck and unsnapped the inner flow disruption necklace.

As the talisman fell on my hoof, Trixie uttered a long sigh of relief through the gag.

Next to go was the saliva encoated gag. I didn’t want to touch that. I just unsnapped the lock behind her neck and floated both the necklace and the gag with my magic to the nearest table. “Trixie, listen up...”

She just stared through me. “What you did to me...”

“Hey! Hey!” I gave her a few smacks with a hoof over her sorry face. “I need you here now. Body and soul.” I booped her on the snout.

“You don’t care one bit about me...”

“Not true. I really need you now. You see, I always wanted a test subject, but I thought that it might be morally questionable to secure one. I’m really glad you came around and volunteered, Trixie. You helped me get rid of this nasty mental barrier I had. Thank you for that, my little guinea pig. If you’ll be good I’ll even show you the results afterward.”

“I didn’t volunteer for anything!”

“Well, I guess I volunteered you. I signed you up for everything this basement has to offer. Let's see how much your body has to take before your mind’s barriers break, shall we?”

“Twilight, please. Just stop and think for a moment. Look at what you’re doing.”

“Well, I used fairly safe settings the last time when I tested Sweetie Belle for magic potential—because she wanted me to and not because I lured her into it! She did cry a little during the testing…”

“You ran hurtful tests on an innocent filly? That’s not okay! What you’re doing isn’t right. You can see it, can’t you?”

“Yes, you’re right. A grown pony like you should be capable of withstanding far more than she did.”

“No! I don’t want to do this, Twilight.”

“You being the resistor won’t impede on the capacity of this machine. Sometimes you just need to take charge despite the resistance, you know? Conduct yourself in accordance with the attraction of our current plan, I believe it holds a lot of potential. The polarity of your opinion might be the opposite of mine, but we can still gravitate toward the end state even if you decide to switch off.”

“Whaa?”

“Putting the electrode in your private parts instead of around your appendages will lower the resistance and provide more thorough results.”

“No!”

“Yes.” I telekinetically slipped the still wet gag into her mouth so she wouldn’t bite off her tongue. Then, I shoved a metallic tube in her pussy for the obvious reasons. It was as if her cavity was tailored to hold my equipment in the optimal measuring position. Her intimate area was also more conductive than any other part. All the squirming and thrashing made the trivial task quite bothersome, but after some firm persistence, I managed to implant the measurement device deep inside of her.

“Nnn!”

I turned around to the controls at the edge of the platform. All that was needed was to press the button. I slammed at it and looked up with a grin.

The machine purred like a kitty-cat. Alas, the gurgling screams drowned out the sweet crackles. I looked at the power indicators and increased the voltage to the maximum. I turned to the subject and yelled through the noise, “The higher the voltage the less interference there will be from the noise of your inner flow!”

“Hmm...” I put a hoof under my chin to help me think. Perhaps I overdid it with the amperage settings, after all. My weariness originated mostly from the smoke that engulfed the twitching body before me. It was obvious that my puppy was at its limit.

“Ugh!” I noticed a puddle under the twitching sack of misery. “Now I have to sacrifice a towel because of you…” She disrespected my puppy, but seeing her vigorously cooperate in the experiment made me a little less annoyed. I took some solace in seeing her dedication to the greater cause. The humming of the machine, the smell of ozone in the air, the gurgling sounds interrupted by desperate squeaks; it was like listening to a chorus singing ♫science♬ in a joined voice.

I stepped to the wardrobe and opened a drawer with towels. With my mouth, I took one out and turned around. Only after waving the towel left and right did the smoke clear enough for me to make my way to the panel.

My eyes squinted as I tried to make out the controls. I felt out the emergency switch and pressed it repeatedly until the sound of crackles subsided. The machine powered down, preserving the main fuse from overheating.

A body that twirled a moment ago slowed to a still. Her mouth was wide open. Saliva dripped from the gag to the floor.

That was all fine, but the brown matter I saw under her didn’t please me at all.

Author's Note

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