Rarity blinked slowly awake seeing the inside of a dark bag. All she could hear besides the sound of disturbing laughter was her own pulse in her ears. She ran the last events she could remember through her head, she remembered sewing new drapes for Celestia's room with some strange, silent ponies assisting her, the ponies never talked and only seemed to communicate with each other non-verbally. She remembered taking the drapes out of the sewing room with the help of the oddly silent ponies when several ponies wearing red body suits sprung out from behind the corner at her and the oddly quiet ponies leapt onto the red suited ponies fighting them. She remembered running before seeing a red blur, then feeling a sharp pain at the base of her skull, then blackness. Summoning the magic in her horn, she attempted to remove the sack from over her head but felt her magic fizzle as the spell was blocked. She tried to raise a hoof to remove the sack from her head but felt something cold and metallic holding it in place. To her right she heard a familiar voice groan. "Applejack? I-is that you?", she whispered.

Applejack awoke with a groan seeing the inside of the of a dark sack, there was a stinging pain above he left and she felt something wet and stick on her face. Hearing Rarity's scared voice whisper to her, she responded softly, "Yeah it's me Rares." She tried to move her hooves, but heard the soft rattle of chains and felt the metal links pinch her forelimbs.

Fluttershy sat slouched in a chair, the coppery taste of fresh blood in her mouth and the iron smell of fresh blood in her nostrils. All she could see was the inside of a blindfold. She felt the pinch of ropes being tightened as they were tightened around her barrel and wings. Whoever had taken her had hit her hard across the face when she tried to loosen the ropes with her teeth. She heard her friends whispering to each other and knew they had been taken too, she just didn't know how many of them had been taken. When she tried to wiggle her forelimbs to get them free of the restraining ropes, somepony struck her hard in the stomach. The acidic taste of bile filled her throat as she vomited. She groaned in pain as she tried to suck in air.

"Look whoever you are. I am a successful businessmare and you can have every last bit I have, just let my friends go. I'll remain your hostage, I promise I won't try to escape. Just don't hurt my friends and let them go.", Rarity pleaded out loud.

"Rares, don't give 'em th' pleasure.", Applejack replied, "They's prob'bly gon' kill us e'en after they get their money."

The response was malicious laughter.

"I can get you anything you want.", Rarity pleaded, "Money, jewels, designer clothes...,", she paused shuddering, "...you can even use my body to any desires you want, I won't resist. Just please let my friends go." Tears of fear welled in her eyes.

Rarity heard the clatter of hooves on a table as they approached. The sack was snatched off her head and she gasped in horror at the demonic smiling, skull-like face just inches in front of her face, malice and hatred burning in in those eyes.

"Ah ah ah!", The Mare Who Laughs scolded with a chuckle, "You don't want to ruin the party by being a pooper." She hopped off the table, laid a large battery on it, hooked up a dial with knife switch to it and then hooked electrodes to Rarity's face. "Too bad your other friends couldn't join the party.", she said with mock sadness, "Even after I went through all the trouble of sending out invitations and making extra party favors." She placed a party hat on Rarity's head and placed her hind hooves in a bucket of water. "No matter. I'll just have to throw a personal party for them."

As The Mare Who Laughs walked over to Applejack, Rarity took the opportunity to look around. The three of them were in a dingy basement. Her heart sunk seeing Applejack being hooked up to battery, an old gash above her eye had left drying blood on the side of her face. As her eyes drifted over to Fluttershy, her heart felt like it sank to her hips seeing fresh drops of vomit and blood dripping from her mouth. "Why are you doing this?"

The Mare Who Laughs responded as she finished hooking AJ up to the battery, "Why is the sky blue? No reason! Why is water wet? No reason!" She began cackling maliciously.

"So ya mean tuh tell us that th' only reason ya do this is b'cause you have no reason?!", Applejack indignantly shouted, "What a fuckin' retarded reason tuh do anythin'!"

Fluttershy said as she felt electrodes hooked to her face, "You disgust GUH!" Another sharp blow to her stomach cut her words off and she doubled over as bile filled her mouth again.

"Please! No more!", Rarity cried out, "Please please please! Don't hurt poor sweet Fluttershy again! SHe's never done anything to hurt anypony!"

The Mare Who Laughs pushed Fluttershy back upright in the chair and ran her tongue across her cheek eliciting a shudder of disgust from the butter colored pegasus. "Nothing like the taste of the suffering of innocence.", she cackled, Let's start by seeing how big she can smile." She turned the dial on the battery part of the way around and began laughing maniacally as she flipped the knife switch closing the circuit.

"Ngh! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!", Fluttershy screamed as her body convulsed with the current flowing through her body, the corners of her mouth turned up in an involuntary smile.

The Mare Who Laughs danced in sadistic glee as she clapped her forehooves. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahaha! Smile! Smile! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha!" She flipped the current off and Fluttershy slumped forward gasping for breath as she whimpered in pain, tears rolled down her cheeks from under the blindfold. Applejack felt her stomach heave and she doubled as bile filled her mouth. Rarity glared in anger and rage as she wriggled her forelimbs to get free. She felt a sharp edge of the metal loop holding her left hoof down, looking down at the small scratch, an idea came to her mind and she began slowly twisting her hoof in the restraint causing it to begin cutting into her.

The Mare Who Laughs walked over to Rarity and said sadistically, "Now let's see if you can smile as pretty as your friend." She twisted the knob and flipped the switch.

Rarity thrashed and screamed as the current forced an involuntary smile on her face. After several minutes that felt like an eternity, the current was shut off and she slumped forward gasping for air as she cried softly. Rarity began slowly twisting her hoof again as The Mare Who Laughs walked off.

Applejack bit at the hoof of her torturer as it reached for the knife switch, which prompted a sharp blow to her stomach. As she tried to swallow back the bile in her throat, the switch was flipped and she thrashed about as the vomit poured up from her throat and out her mouth. AJ unsuccessfully tried to keep from screaming.

Seeing Applejack thrashing about out of the corner of her eye, Rarity managed to get enough blood flowing from her hoof that she was able to slip it out of the restraint. Using her hoof, she snatch the electrodes off her face and removed the magic restraining ring off her horn. Using a combination of her magic and hoof, she quickly and quietly undid the other restraint on her other hoof, then started working on the restraints on her other hooves and body.

The Mare Who Laughs flipped the switch and Applejack slumped forward crying, "No more! No more!"

Rarity quietly slipped out of the chair, lined up her horn with the wicked mare and charged forward.

"Eh?", The Mare Who Laughs said as she felt a twitch in her tail and side stepped the charge. She grabbed a lit lantern off the wall and slammed it into the left side of Rarity's face, causing it to shatter and sending burning oil onto her face.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!", Rarity screamed as she fell to the floor rolling around trying to desperately put out the burning oil.

Applejack stared on in horror as she watched her friend's face burning. She strained hard against the chains.

Fluttershy felt something soft and fluffy climb up her lag and onto her back, it began gnawing at the ropes on her back. "Angel?", she whispered. In response she received two soft taps on her back as he continued.

As the flames on Rarity's face finally went out, The Mare Who Laughs mane went limp and she began laughing hoarsely. She picked Rarity up off the floor and plopped her hard on her right side on the table. She snatched the electrodes off Applejack's and Fluttershy's face, then attached them to the left side of Rarity's body, she then picked up the electrodes that used to be on Rarity's face and attached them to the left side of her body as well.

"No. No.", Rarity moaned weakly.

"Yes! Yes!", The Mare Who Laughs cackled hoarsely as she began one by one turning the knobs all the way full. She then flipped each switch into the on position and laughed as Rarity began thrashing about violently on the table.

"Please stop! Yer killin' her!", Applejack screamed in horror.

"Haahaahaa-heeheehee-hoohoohoo! That's the point."

Applejack stared in horror as tears blurred her vision as Rarity continued to thrash about violently, he mouth began to foam as gurgled sounds came out from it. Wisps of smoke began to curl up from her left side as her coat as the coat on that side began turning black.

Angel sucessfully gnawed through one of the ropes and Fluttershy successfully burst free. Pulling the blindfold from her face, she lunged at The Mare Who Laughs and threw a desperate bunch.

The Mare Who Laughs grabbed Fluttershy's hoof. Pulling a knife from under her mane, she shoved the blade into Fluttershy's mouth. Hatred and sadism gleaming in her eyes, she said, "Let's put a smile on your face!"

Angle ran up Fluttershy's backas fast as his fluffy little legs could, onto her head and launched himself through the air. He landed on The Mare Who Laughs head and chomped on down as hard as he could on her ear.

Yelping in pain, The Mare Who Laughs dropped the knife and snatched Angel off her ear. "Silly bunny. I'm not a cake.", she said before throwing him across the room.

Fluttershy threw her hoof forward in a hard punch and connected with the side of The Mare Who Laughs face sending her tumbling off the table and slumping onto the floor. She snatched the wires from the batteries and rolled Rarity onto her back. Placing her ear on Rarity's chest, she exclaimed, "No no no no! Don't doe yet!" She gave several chest compressions the blew hard into Rarity's mouth.

"Uh, Flutters? If'n ya get me loose, Ah c'n help ya save Rare's life.", Applejack said straining against the chains.

Fluttershy nodded and began using strength alongside AJ's to begin wiggling the back of the chair. The wood of the chair broke with a loud crack and Applejack shook off the chains. The began working on saving Rarity's life.

Doing chest compressions, Fluttershy called out, "One! Two! Three! And GLURK!"

Applejack looked up seeing Mare Who Laughs holding Fluttershy in a chokehold. She charged forward to free her friend and received a hard blow to her face, falling to the table top, the world went black.

The Mare Who Laughs threw Fluttershy hard to the floor and placed her hooves on her windpipe, strangling the life out of her. "Any last words?"

"Kch! Kch!" was all Fluttershy could squeeze out as she desperately pawed at her attacker's face. Her vision began going blurry as she felt her strength waning.

A hole exploded in the ceiling as Luna exploded through. Swinging her hoof hard, she knocked The Mare Who Laughs off of Fluttershy, sending her tumbling into the wall.

Fluttershy took in several desperate gasps of precious air as she rubbed her neck with her hoof. Rising weakly to her hooves with the help of Luna, she staggered over to the table, climbed onto it and continued giving Rarity CPR. After several minutes that felt like hours, Rarity took in a deep gasp and then began breathing shallowly on her own accord.

Luna revived Applejack with a zap of her horn.

Rising slowly to her hooves, she said, "Thank...", he eyes went with shock seeing The Mare Who Laughs rising to her feet, "No fuckin' way!"

"Ah-heeheehee-oh-heeheehee-oo-heeheehee!", The Mare Who Laughs began giggling maliciously as he mane became a pompadour, "Yes way!" She picked up a piece of broken chair and began stalking forward.

"Villain! Release your hold on Pinkie Pie's mind!", Luna commanded.

The mare who laughs scowled. For the first time since she could remember she could scowl! Her head cocked to the side as the unnaturally wide smile stretched across it. "Didn't you hear princess? Pinkie died all alone in that fire. And I was the one who saved her life." She Began cackling again.

"Nay she verily didst not!", Luna barked. Lighting the magic in her horn, she sent a dark blue beam at The Mare Who Laughs head. "Awaken Pinkie Pie, bearer of the element of harmony!"

The mare slumped to the ground onto her haunches and began crying softly. "I'm so sorry Luna!", Pinkies voice came out, "I tried so hard to escape or stop her or anything."

"Pinkie?", Applejack said, "What the Tartarus?"

"I'm so sorry everypony!", Pinkie sobbed. Her voice became a terrified gasp. "Oh no! They're coming back! Kill me before they can take me away again! Please please plea..." "Heh-heh-heh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hee-hee-hee!", nasty laughter came out of the mare's mouth, "Naughty naught Pinkie Pie! This is our body and now it is our time in the sun." The mare lifted the broken piece in her hoof and pointed the broken at her chest. "Then I'll kill us all before you all can hurt anymore ponies.", Pinkies voice came out. As the mare plunged the broken piece of wood towards her chest, her other hoof shot out and knocked the piece of wood away. "No!", The Mare Who Laughs shouted, "We won't let you or anypony stop us!" "Help me!", Pinkie screamed, "They're taking me away!" In the crowded mind the three versions of The Mare Who Laughs dragged a screaming Pinkie to the edge of a cliff and hurled her over into the darkness.

"Ah-hahahahahaha-oh-heeheeheehee-oo-hoohoohoo!", The Mare Who Laughs cackled madly, "That was a funny joke Luna! Thinking that that pink bitch could beat us." She picked up the broken piece of wood. "Time to die!", she screamed with malicious and hysterical, as murderous intent burned in her eyes.

"Sleep.", Luna said as the magic burned in her horn again. A dark blue aura played across The Mare Who Laughs forehead as she slumped to the ground unconscious, laughing in her sleep.

"How did you find us?", Fluttershy asked as she attended to Rarity.

"When you all were unconscious I was able to find your dreaming minds and tether them to my own.", Luna replied, "It is much harder to track a sleeping mind than an awake one. Thank the stars I was able to find you before anypony was killed."

"Where the hay are we?", Applejack asked.

"We're in the basement of the ruins of Golden Oaks Library.", Luna replied.

"Fuck me.", Fluttershy said demurely.

The stairs creaked as Celestia walked down them. "Applejack? Fluttershy? Rarity? Luna?", she called out, "Is everypony okay?"

"Get a physician sister!", Luna called out, "Rarity is badly hurt! Also call a constable, we have a prisoner!"

Celestia hollered back up the stairs, "They're down here! Get the paramedics and the sheriff!"

After several minutes Rarity was strapped to a gurney as he unconscious form groaned in pain and rushed to the hospital.

The Mare Who Laughs woke up as she was being carried to the paddy wagon by four beefy ponies in blue uniforms and tossed in. "Oh-hahahahaha-ah-hahahahaha! Now that's a funny joke!", she said pressing her unnaturally smiling face up to the barred window in the doors after they were closed.

The sheriff pony tapped his hoof on the side of the wagon signalling for the deputies to haul it off.

"Is it true Luna?", Celestia asked, "Is that really Pinkie?"

"Tis only Pinkie in body, sister.", Luna replied, "All that is left of the element of laughter died in her mind. It would do best to honor her memory if all of Equestria remembered Pinkie not as this monster, but as the pony that brought laughter and joy to everypony around her." Luna gave a small sniff as she wiped a tear from her eye. "Let's hope sister, that she can receive the help she needs and the real Pinkie will one day emerge."
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Luna and Celestia paced in the waiting room of the hospital in Ponyville as the shadows of the evening began growing long.

The doctor walked out with a dour look on his face.

"How are they?", Celestia asked.

"Fluttershy and Applejack are doing well. Other than some bruises and minor burns, they will make a full recovery, I still want to hold them over night for observation and I want them to attend counseling as torture can cause long term psychological trauma to a pony's mind.", he said. He then flipped through Rarity's chart as his expression soured. "Miss Rarity is in pretty bad condition. She suffered second and third degree burns to nearly half of her body and was on death's door when she was brought in. Right now she's in a medically induced coma to help her healing. Once her burns heal, we'll try some skin grafts. As for psychologically, one can only hope that after she recovers and gets serious psychological therapy, she can lead a normal life. Honestly I've never seen a case of purposeful torture and disfigurement of a pony this bad."

"Can we see them?", Luna asked.

The doctor nodded and lead them to the rooms.

Celestia gently pushed the door to Fluttershy's room open.

Fluttershy was snuggling Angel who had a cast around two of his legs. "You were very brave Angel Bunny.", she praised Angel as she gave him a nuzzle, "I'm just sorry that you got hurt." Angel twitched his ears and thumped one of his uninjured legs as he squeaked. "I know, I was scared too.", Fluttershy replied.

Celestia cleared her throat. "Fluttershy? May Luna and I come in?"

"Of course princesses!", Fluttershy said in a happy tone.

After Luna and Celestia had quietly walked in the room, Celestia asked, "How are you doing Fluttershy?"

"I'm doing well.", Fluttershy replied.

"How are you doing mentally?", Luna asked.

"Oh...um...er...well...", Fluttershy balked, "I'm doing okay."

"Are you sure?", Luna asked, "It's okay to say you're not doing okay. You're safe here and nopony is going to judge you or hurt you."

Fluttershy's eyes grew hard for a moment. "I'm just really mad right now. Nopony and I mean nopony hurts my friends and gets away with it. Even if they used to be Pinkie.", she said her voice harsh and stern, "Now I'd like to take a nap."

Celestia and Luna nodded before walking out the room and closing the door behind them softly.

As they walked towards Applejack's room, Celestia said, "She's not doing well."

"If it's that obvious to you sister, then everypony can see it.", Luna replied.

Celestia glanced at Luna sideways as they reached Applejack's room and gently opened the door.

"Were ya scared sis?", Applebloom asked.

"Eeyup.", Applejack replied.

"Fluttershy huh?", Big Mac asked.

"Yup.", Applejack replied, "She actually punched that bad pony in th' nose."

"Huh!", Big Mac said rubbing his chin.

"Ah know! It surprised th' tarnation outa me when she did.", Applejack said.

"May we come in?", Luna asked.

Applejack's head shot up and she replied in a loud voice, "Sure! Get y'allses flanks on in here!"

"Le's give 'em some privacy.", Granny smith said, "'sides Ah could sump'tin from one o' th' vendin' machines."

"How are you doing?", Celestia asked.

"Physically? Ah'm doin' fine, jus' a lil sore.", Applejack replied, "Ment'lly?" She turned her head as a tear ran down her cheek. "Ah'm all kinda tore up in here.", she tapped a hoof to her head, "Ah mean after all this time Pinkie was trapped in her own head an' hurt all those ponies. Then she nearly killed Rarity an' Fluttershy. Ah mean if'n you was in my horseshoes, you'd pro'lly feel a certain way about this. An' Ah c'n rightly say Ah'm scared outa my head. Ah put on a brave face fer Applebloom, but Mac an' Granny c'n see right through me. They knows Ah'm practically jumpin' at ev'ry shadow. I know when Ah go tuh sleep tuhnight, Ah'm gonna see that evil grinnin' face a strarin's at me laughin' at my fear an' sufferin'." She held her hooves over her face and began to weep. "If...this...is...th'...new...norm'l...Ah...hate...it.", she said between sobs.

Celestia and Luna gently wrapped their hooves around Applejack shushing her gently as she sobbed until her family came back to comfort her.

After Celestia and Luna left the room, the paused looking at each other before heading to Rarity's room. As they opened the door to Rarity's room, their breath caught in their throats at the same time. Rarity laid unconscious on the bed, bandages covered her face and body, a feeding tube down her nose, her snout was covered with a breath mask that was hooked up to an oxygen concentrator, wires lead from beeping machines attached to her body, several IV bags hung from nearby stands, dripping fluid and drugs slowly into her veins. A nurse sat by her bed monitoring the machines.

"Any change?", Celestia asked.

As the nurse shook her head, the steadily spiking and dipping line on one of the screens began leaping up and down in a jagged line as an alarm sounded. Rarity began groaning in pain as she thrashed about in her coma. The nurse quickly adjusted the levels of pain killer in dripping into Rarity and she settled down. "She in a lot of pain right now.", the nurse said after checking the machines, "Even though she's in a coma, she still feels everything. I can't even begin to speculate on what going on her head." The nurse quickly ushered them out the door.

Luna plopped hard on her haunches in the hallway. "I can feel her pain, Tia. Though she's asleep, she knows she's in pain and part of her is trying to run away from it.", she said morosely, "I'm afraid that one Rarity wakes up, she's going to be broken mentally."

"Then let's hope that she can get the help she needs.", Celestia sighed.

The two sisters lit their horns and teleported back to Canterlot.

Author's Note

This chapter is the finale to The Mare Who Laughed, now on to doing the epilogues.
Thank you all for reading.
I hope you enjoy.

I will try and take all criticisms as constructive.

Thank you all my fellow bronies and pegasisters. Much mothafuckin' my little pony love.