Canceled for good: making new fic

Uriah knew what the interrogater was doing, dragging those chunks of wood and stone underneath the stone slab Applejack was tied to. He would light a fire under there, and either cook her to death, or use this as a beginning to a needlessley gorey death. The others had gone to sleep, like Applejack. The Interrogater had stopped moving logs, but came and went regularly. But Uriah knew that it would only last for a small amount of time, and that if there was a chance to do something, he'd need to make the move. Now.

He got up, quietly as not to wake the others, and examined the lock. 'Looks like if I could fit a small enough needle in here...' His throught trailed off as he searched  for something in the cell, anything he could manipulate for the lock. He looked around, and felt a pair of eyes watching him. Who's, it was all but impossible to tell. HE tried his best to ignore it, and came to the sad realization that there was nothing he could use to open it. Back in his military base, there would have been a plethora of objects he never though he'd have a use for, but the one time... figures. He glazed his eyes over all the sleeping ponies. Or all the sleeping ponies, and the one awake pegasus, eyes fixed on the lock. He got up and moved over to Rainbow, and, too, held the lock in his gaze. "Well, the one thing I can think that would fit in that lock would be one of my feathers. Yoiu know how they are, with that cartiledge spear that keeps them in?" she whispered, looking up at him. "Yank a feather from your wing? That would be uncomfortable, would it not?" he asked, looking at her right wing, the closest to him. "Really? It's a feather-pulling. I've gone through way worse on my good days in the plains. Just give it ma good tug, they grow back... eventually." she said, lifting her left wing, which was burnt in some areas, feathers blackened and some totally bunt off. "Some gryphon bandit tried to puch me into an electric current, figured it would take me out. Thing is, he didnt see the grinder behind him... Yeah, he practicially exploded in a sodden red heap of.... shredded tweet!" she said, cackling to herself. "Ah, yeah. Well anyways, just tug one out, and see if that won't work." she told him, lifting her wing near his mouth. Uriah looked at her, and placed a long feather in his mouth, and gave it a tug. Sure enough, it came out perfectly, and he got up for the lock. "Well, lets see if the magic will happen..." she said, sitting on the right side of the door. Uriah propped himself back on the bars like last time, and carefully inserted the stiff end of the feather into the lock. There was a satisfying click, and the door was released, ready to be opened whenever he was ready to do... what, exactly? Applejack was tied up, and the interrogater came about every ten minutes. Anything he COULD do would have to be perfect and quick.

He quietly moved his way to applejack, and began work on the bindings around her hoofs. He lookeed for something, anything to cut the tight bonds free. His eues rested upon aknife, close enough. With surgical precision, he slid the cool steel blade between Applejack's leg and the rope, and slit it through. 'Only three more.' he thought to himself. Applejack was stirring, slowly awakening. "What in tarnation-" she said, looking down. "Uriah? What the hay are you doin' down there!?" she asked, vioce as quiet as it would go with the anger she had. But it wasn't anger, Uriah suspected, more surprise and worry. "I'm in the process of getting us out of thie foul place. Now, two more bonds and you're good to get down and follow the rest of us out." he said, looking up to Dash. "Would you be so kind as to wake the others?" he asked her. Rainbow nodded and darted back in the cage, approaching erach of them and getting them up. "Okay, Applejack, last one. You're gonna have to be quiet though, got it?" he asked her as he cout the last rope. "Got it, partner. Lets het the hay out." she said, finally sitting up after being forced down so long.

Twilight led them out, followed by Pinkie, Rarity, Dash, Applejack, and Uriah. "You guys go, get the tank and just go. I'll see what I can do about Fluttershy." Rainbow said. She just turned around when some demonic vioce, yet so familiar, called them out. "Oh, that won't be necessary, my freinds. You see, you're all far too late. Insanity has taken its toll, and the changelings took an advantage of that." The voice's host body stepped into the light. Her coat was a mottled gray-black. Hoofs had ritted away, and were growing back with the flesh of a changeling, as if a virus as growing into the places ripped away from the torture. her mane was a matte-black color, devoid of life. They could almost beleive it was their Fluttershy.

Almost.

But not the eyes, the gleaming yellow orbs had been obviously cut apart. Dash noticed the stitches holfing them together. Her smile wasn't natural - nor was she smiling. The corners of her mouth had been cut and swen with barbed-wire upwards, adding to her soulless appearence. She spoke again, but this time, it was the shy, tiny vioce they ha dall grown to know. "Oh, no, you guys. You have to go, now. Just go, run out!" she said, running towards them with speed to rival Dash's running speed. She pointed a hoof to a passageway. "Run through here, that takes yoiu out of here, just do NOT take me, you wont be able to-" she was cut off. Her eyes becan to glow brighter, and she reared up on her hind legs. The shreik of dry-ice pain that surged through her body was unbearable. Her nerve endings had been turned to white-how steel rods, all 7 million of them strong enough to bring Big mac to his knees. What remained of her cutie mark, the one scant reminder of who she was, began to swell up. Slowly, as if by an invisible tool, it began ripping itself away from her body. The others had all run away, all exept one. Dash couldn't bear to see Fluttershy put through this, yet as the loyal freind she was, she couldn't leave.

The jacket of fat pulled apart with sickening ease, and a stream of steaming-hot blood pooled down and around her leg. She fell to her knees, as the cutie mark finally pulled free. She didn't have much pegasus flesh left, only a patch of mottled yellow on her left ribcage. She breathed heavily, and tears flowed like the blood from her leg. The smell was horrible enough, it permeated the entire room, and made Rainbow's eyes water up, yet she looked on in dawning horrer as the patch of yellow fur began swelling up too. It ripped apart with much more force than from her flank. They could both hear the blood veins twisting and popping uner the pressure. Then, in a glorious spectacle of red, it all came free. Her insides were revaled,, and Dash could see Fluttershy's once-beating heart. But it wasn't for long, as the changeling flesh that once covered all but those patches, grew, and ate away at the open wound, covering it all back up. "F-f-fluttershy?" dash asked on unsteady legs. She took three steps towards her, and fell to her knees, andcried until it was nothing more than a dry heave, her floods of tears mixing with the blood to make a sickly green color. "In the name of Discord, what in the bloody name of oblivion happened to her!?" a voice came from behind her. Dash looked up, and evenm through the tears and sore eyes, she could recognoze Twilight. "Nothing, and i don't want to talk about this ever... okay?" she told hger, getting up and walking past her. "And if we ever, EVER see that Chrysalis bitch again, i'll be ready. I'll kill her, and it will be so painful." she said, the hatred in her vioce taking over. Twilight took one last look at the mutilated body, and noticed a faint movment in her lungs. She stepped closer, but was deterred by a growl that was un-pony like. She ran back up to the plains, and got back in her Leopard, with the others already packed in tight. She sat down in her seat, and stared at the control panel, and gave a sigh. "What happened in there?" asked a voice, but as for who it was, Dash didn't even turn around to see who it was. "Nothing, and don't ask me about it..." she said, in a stern voice. She could feel all the eyes lock onto her, and was almost forced to say somethingt ele to offset the abruptness of that. "Please... I just.... don't want that to ever come back to me..." she said.

~-Tank hangar, 3 hours later-~

They all climbed out of the tank, and mordus was waiting for them right outside. "Well, you lot managed to bring it back in one peice. I'm impressed." He said, greeting them. Twilight was just about to walk out when Dash stopped her. "Hey, Twi... Could you maybe.... erase that memory? Of Fluttershy?" she asked her. Twilight thought for a minute. "Well, i mean... I can learn a spell, but there's no way to bring it back-" Dash gave her 'the look' "Not that you'd want it. I'll see what I can do, okay?" she said. Dash hunger her head. "Okay... thanks, Twilight." she said. Twilight nuzzled her head against hers. "Don't worry. Ill have it by the end of the week." she said, and walked out, back into the armory. Dash followed her, a silent half-step behind.

PROGRESS RESUMING NEXT WEEKEND