Equestria's Corrupted Monarch

It had now been a week since the mane 6 were considered missing and terror had swept the country. Without the elements, the ponies knew that Equestria was open to attacks. Their poor princess Twilight Sparkle addressed her subjects, tears in her eyes and pain in her voice, putting their fears to rest.

The beautiful and strong alicorn told her ponies that she would keep them safe, she would trample any threat that befell them. And she would make sure the missing ponies were brought back safely. Her ponies cheered, their hearts full of pity in their princess losing her best of friends,and pride at her strength in this hard time.

Twilight concluded her speech with a wave and returned to the castle. Her guards led her back to her room, she looked tired from all the emotion. Her guards were thinking that she would learn to hide that as well as Celestia had learned to in the coming decades of her rule.

But they didn't know it was all an act, a very well done act. The guards bowed and left her to be alone in her chambers, she gave them one last tired smile as the door closed.

As soon as her noise dampening spell surrounded the room, she let out a vicious cackle. "Oh this is just too easy! Those poor saps will believe anything if someone they look up to says it to them."

She once again lit her body in red and vanished below the castle into the dungeon.

She reappeared in a dimly lit room much like the one she had destroyed Rainbow Dash in. Within it was Applejack, laying passed out on the floor. Twilight smirked at she let her magic bathe the orange pony, giving her all her memories of what she had done to her favorite blue pegasus while under mind control. She retreated to a dark corner of the room and waited.

It was about fifteen minutes until the earth pony awoke, blinking painful sleep from her eyes. As she awoke, her confused eyes grew in size as her memory returned to her. She stumbled to her hooves and started to dart her eyes around the room.

Twilight heard her start to sob quietly and saw her eyes fill with tears. She sat down hard and ran her hooves over her face, trying to wipe the bad memory from her head like it was a nightmare.

Twilight didn't move from her spot in the dark corner. "You loved her, didn't you?" She spoke simply and quietly.

Applejack's head shot in the direction of her voice, her body standing in defense. She was panting and looked like she was on the edge of a breakdown, even before Twilight had started.

"Stop. Just stop. You've done your damage, you've used me enough. Oh Celestia... I'm so sorry Rainbow..." she collapsed and started sobbing into her hooves.

Twilight slowly trotted up to the broken pony, Applejack didnt even flinch as she approached. She was wiping tears from her eyes, and each new fresh memory of what had happened to her friend caused a new sob to wrack her body.

Twilight laid a hoof on Applejack's shoulder, a signal of comfort. Applejack looked up, her eyes wet with tears and her nose leaking mucus.

"You loved her like you've never loved another pony. You wanted to be with her..." Twilight trailed off as she spoke. But to Applejack's surprise, the alicorn started to giggle. She snorted and her giggle became a full blown laugh, mocking AJ's ears and causing a fresh sob to go through her.

"I didn't even realize until now! You're a lesbian! What a turn of events. I forced you to kill your one and only love without even realizing it." The purple pony shut her eyes as they filled with amused tears to join her cacophonous laugh. To AJ, it was the sound of pure evil. "Well this isn't as fun as I thought it'd be! I was hoping it'd take more to get tears out of the strong Applejack."

AJ shoved her hooves to the ground in a loud clank, almost startling Twilight. "Why? What did we ever do to you? We have only ever loved you Twi! We haven't done anything to deserve this! Rainbow especially..." her voice quieted as the last two words we spoken.

Twilight smirked at her captive, "I've already had to say this several times and I doubt it'll stop here. I do this because I can. I am the ultimate pony, the ultimate power, and I want to see what I can do. I want to live out my fantasies. And that includes killing you girls," She approached AJ and got muzzle to muzzle with her, "in the most agonizing ways possible."

AJ simply stared at her with wide, confused eyes. She didnt even seeming scared at this point, just completely baffled. "This isn't you... this isn't you at all Twi. Wake up! You're dooming the nation, and yourself! What will you have without us? What will the ponies think?"

The real Twilight within this demon-possessed body screamed her agreement, thrashing especially hard against her bindings. She screamed and yelled as tears filled her eyes once again, trying to tell her friend that this really wasn't her, that she didn't want this, but her body stayed silent, not giving it away.

Twilight smirked, listening to both AJ's pleas and the real Twilight scream and cry, drinking in the negative emotions. "The ponies won't know. At least for now. I have a special plan to push the blame elsewhere."

Applejack stood with her mouth opened, trying to figure out what to say to save her own life. But nothing came out. It seemed like Twilight was really going to do this. The orange earth pony sat down with a thump and dust flew from under her plot.

"When... when did you start to feel like this? When did we become your toys and stop being your friends?" Applejack sounded like she didn't really want to know, but needed to for her own sanity.

Twilight ignored her question and approached a corner of the room bathed in blackness, completely invisible to the orange pony. Her red magic lit up and picked up something.

Applejack's head raised slightly in curiosity, then her jaw dropped in utter horror as she saw what the magic held. It was her sister and brother, Applebloom and Big Macintosh.

They writhed within their rope bindings and screamed around the cloth stuffed in their muzzles. Big Mac huffed angrily, showing more emotion than Twilight had ever seen. She was happy to see that the emotion he showed was pure raw anger.

Applejack's slack-jaw stare kept on her two beloved siblings as Twilight dropped them to the ground like two sacks of potatoes.

Applejack immediately raced to their side, only to be heald aloft by the powerful alicorn's magic. That didn't stop her from thrashing and fighting. "Let them go! It's me you want to hurt and you've got me. Don't you dare lay a hoof on them."

Big Mac and Applebloom stared in shocked confusion at the alicorn and earth pony before them.

Twilight smiled and brought Applejack to the far side of the room so she couldn't untie her siblings. Then used her magic to form heavy shackles that held her hooves to the ground. She made sure Applejack could see what was happening but not interfere.

"Oh but Applejack, I don't just want to hurt you. I want to break you, mentally and physically. Knowing that you helped kill Rainbow is a start-" She heard both Applebloom and Big Mac shout around their gags at the mention of Rainbow Dash's death, she ignored them for now, "-but I want more from you. I want to see you a blubbering, miserable mess."

Applejack seethed, clenching her teeth and yanking at her chains as hard as she could. "This is insanity! You wouldn't!" She kept exclaiming similar statements, much to Twilight's annoyance.

The purple pony turned towards her bound captives and undid their gags. They both immediately started screaming for help, Applebloom's high pitch voice grating Twilight's ears. She pinched both their mouths shut with magic and creased her brow, piercing them both with her eyes.

She turned towards the dark corner she had pulled the siblings from and retrieved something large and metallic. It clanged around as Twilight brought it out into the torch light.

Applejack screamed anew as she saw the instrument. It was a medieval torture device, one Twilight was surprised to come across in this long forgotten dungeon. Celestia must have gotten up to some torture of her own back in the day.

It was a full sized cast iron bull that was hollow on the inside. It had one door in, and a small hole in the mouth. Twilight placed a large amount if kindling underneath it.

Twilight raised an eyebrow at Applejack's reaction. "So you've heard of the Brazen Bull? I wonder how that information found its way to you. Even I didn't know of this thing until just recently."

Applejack continued to spew angry words and tears from her eyes. "Tartarus, Twilight! This is messed up! How could you even think of doing this to your own ponies? This is torture!"

Twilight smiled at her captive's fear and anger, lifting the two bound ponies into the air. "Choose Applejack. Applebloom or Big Macintosh?"

Applejack stared between her siblings with slight confusion, panting heavily in rage. As the realization of what Twilight was asking her hit her, she growled. "I ain't choosing one to go in there! Buck you and your sick game!"

Twilight expected that. She knew how to make the poor pony decide. "You decide who goes in the bull, and I'll make the other one suffer less. If you don't decide, they both go in one at a time and you get to hear their screams as they're boiled alive."

The floating earth ponies were sobbing violently at this point, finally realizing what the mechanism was for and hearing their princess speak of their own horrifying deaths. Neither could speak as Twilight's magic still heald their muzzles shut.

Applejack gave Twilight a long look, sweat dripping down her face. Her groans of impatience and hopelessness grew as she realized this was really happening. She shook her blonde mane back and forth, pleading Twilight to reconsider, completely out of convincing words.

Twilight only stared back at her, calm and confident. It took nearly five minutes before Applejack saw she wouldn't get through to the alicorn and knew she had to choose one of her siblings to suffer horribly for the other to get off easier. She clenched her teary eyes shut and hung her head in defeat.

"Big Mac." She spoke quietly, turning her head away. The large red stallion immediately started screaming, his shut mouth muffling it somewhat. He thrashed even harder as Applejack chose his fate.

Twilight patted Applejack on her dejected head, "very good! Alright let's have ourselves some boiled apple!"

The side of the bull swung open and the bound stallion was placed inside, Twilight let his mouth free of her magic. Applejack screamed out, "I'M SORRY MAC!" As the flap of metal shut behind him, and Twilight melded the flap shut for good measure. She knew how strong Big Mac was from experience.

Applejack sobbed anew and flopped onto the ground as she saw her brother for the last time, the fire having been lit under the bull.

For a few minutes all that filled the room was quiet sobbing, before suddenly, the sounds of panicked breathing and then yelling started to escape the narrow hole in the bulls mouth. Clanging hoof steps could be heard as the bull rocked slightly, almost falling before Twilight grabbed it in her magic and melded its brass hooves to the ground as well.

The fire grew in size below the bull, becoming the size of the entire underbelly. It crackled hungrily and the bottom of the bull started to glow red hot. The yelling turned to screaming and the clanging grew louder as the pony withing banged on the side of it desperate to escape. Applejack screamed atop her brothers scream as she heard his flesh start to sizzle, unable to take her eyes off the evil device.

Within the bull, Big mac's hooves sorted to crack and melt before they were too painful to even stand on. His legs gave flopped onto his stomach, an agonizing wail erupting as the hot metal torched his soft underbelly and clung to the skin as it charred. His stomach boiled from the inside out and his organs burst within his body, before finally his underbelly burst and his fried organs drained out to be charred on the hot metal.

His screams started to wane to pathetic wheezing and wailing as he let his head fall in exhaustion. His face clung to the metal and ripped skin from his neck and cheek, exposing the muscle underneath to the blazing heat and popping his eye with a particularly violent sizzle.

He lay there stuck to the boiling metal, panting heavily from pain, blood loss, and fear. Finally it seemed his body gave out, all of his organs too ruined to continue giving him life.

It was an agonizing fifteen minutes before Twilight could feel the life force drain from the red pony. Only the sound of Applejack's crying and the sizzling and popping of flesh could be heard as new organs burst and released their contents onto the cooking surface.

Twilight breathed in heavily, the delicious smell tempting her towards the bull. She killed the fire with her magic and then unwelded the metal door of the bull, opening it with a creak. Immediately a woosh of steam and smoke escaped the hatch and fogged up the room. The delicious smell of cooked pony filled the room, causing Applejack to heave and release the last thing she ate, which in this dungeon had been hay and daffodils.

Twilight 'mmm'ed and used her magic to rip a piece of flesh off of the dark charred pony. She held it up to her muzzle and then took a bite. The scrumptious, savory taste of pony caused the alicorn to drool.

Applejack screamed a battle call and yanked on her chains once more. "YOU'RE SICK! YOU TWISTED MONSTER! ILL KILL YOU!" but her threat was in vain as the chains didn't so much as creak at her efforts.

Twilight chewed thoughtfully as Applejack cursed her name, then shoved a piece of cooked Big Mac into her mouth and forced her mouth shut. The orange pony immediately pawed at her muzzle trying to rip it back open and expell the foul chunk.

The piece finally went down and Twilight released her muzzle. Applejack gagged and flopped back to the ground, sobbing without tears in her eyes, too dehydrated to form them.

Twilight continued to chew as she lit her horn up and made the bull disapear. Big mac's defiled corpse hit the ground with a splat, squirting blood around it. Some of it landed on the bound Applebloom who lay nearby, causing her to squeak and shut her eyes.

Applejack shut her eyes and turned her face away, not wanting to see her brother in such a state.

Twilight watched the scene for a few minutes, smiling as the two remaining apple siblings cried and struggled. Once their struggles seemed to cease, she approached the filly, causing the poor pony to scream anew and attempt to slither away. Applejack's eyes shot open at this.

Twilight lifted the filly in her magic, "Well that was fun... onto part two."