'No... Macintosh... I'm so sorry...' The gray sky above sat motionless as it always had the whole time Twilight had been trapped here. She had long since given up on trying to free herself, just sobbing and screaming as she witnessed the carnage her body wrought.

'I'm sorry... that this isn't bothering me as much as it should... I... I actually enjoyed seeing him suffer like that...' The mare shut her eyes and put her head in her shackled hooves. She didnt want this to be happening, but with each new depraved act, she found herself starting to enjoy watching.

Maybe the disgusting things she witnessed were breaking her, maybe this was how her mind decided to cope with what she saw. She thought back to when she had been talking to Rarity in that cell, back when she let Spike rape one of her best friends. A thought had flashed in her mind. 'I... I didn't completely disagree with what Marlamew said... I really have wondered what it would be like to do this...'

Part of her was excited this was happening. Excited to see one of her darkest fantasies lived out. But a much greater part of her was horrified. She knew that it was wrong, awful, and would doom her nation for a long time to come.

She wouldn't let the demon know of her partial approval of his actions though. She wouldn't give him the satisfaction. And she didn't want to admit it to herself either, so she kept the thoughts deep in her mind, hoping he couldn't hear them...
***
Beast sat in her small, dirty cell it was dark save for one dimly lit lantern. She had long since run out of tears, opting to just lay down on the cold cobblestone with her head in her hooves. The cold air stung her dry gums from where one of her cheeks was missing. The pain of her missing flesh was a dull ache at this point, reminding her of her pain but not being bad enough to make her scream.

She pricked her one ear remaining ear as a slight clanking echoed into her cell. It sounded like it was a little ways down the hall. Her heart leapt as she lifted her head. No not Twilight, please not again! She started to sob slightly at the thought of the murderous alicorn coming for her. Would she be killed this time? Or just raped again by one of her precious friends?

She shivered as her one eye dryly watched the cell door.

As the hoof steps got closer, she began to sob louder, before a familiar voice hit her ears.

"Rarity? Is that you?" It wasn't Twilight.

Rarity gasped, it came out wierdly around her drooping face, but she didnt think about her condition right now. This was a friend! Someone who could free her! She got up on her sore legs and raced to the cell door, slamming her hooves into it.

"LET ME OUT! PLEASE HELP ME!" She yelled out at the pony approaching. The hoof steps got quicker and louder at they discerned where the white unicorn was. Rarity somehow found it in her to cry again, this time from joy.

The dim chamber was just bright enough for her to make out the large shape of the former princess Celestia. What was she doing back in Canterlot? And in the long-forgotten dungeon no less? Rarity tossed aside the thoughts, much too desperate to think about that.

Celestia's eyes met hers, her magnificent pink orbs meeting Rarity's one good blue orb. Celestia looked shocked, and appalled. The latter made Rarity flinch in shame, averting her gaze to the dirty ground. Celestia soon realized her mistake and approached the cell.

"Oh Gods, Rarity what happened to you...?" Celestia's warm, worried voice sounded like music to the poor ruined alicorn.

A shivering, bloodied hoof lifted to the bars, "Twilight... she... she's gone crazy... she's hurting and killing us... please prin- Celestia. You need to stop her..." Rarity's words came out just as droopy and uneven as they had the previous times she tried to talk after being deformed. But they were full of emotion and truth.

Celestia stood there frozen for a few moments, not her eyes nor her hooves moved to show fear or shock. Even her brilliant flowing mane seemed to freeze in place. Rarity felt her blood go cold, something was wrong.

Suddenly, the pony before her lit a brilliant bright red and flashed out of existance, leaving behind the visage of her greatest fear. The corrupted, darkened figure of her former friend who had disfigured her horribly. Twilight Sparkle looked at the unicorn in unyielding annoyance and disappointment. For a moment, Rarity felt like the black charring that had burned the ends of her friends hair and horn has traveled further towards her purple body...

Twilight looked at Beast and shook her head, "tsk tsk Beast. I kept you alive because I thought you could be trusted. Do you truly want to live so badly? Even when you know that only thing keeping you alive is your obedience?"

Beast fell to her stomach again and weapt heavily into her hooves. It had been a trap. Of course no pony would find her down here! Her mind felt cold with fear at what the mighty ruler before her would do as punishment. She dared to look up into the all-mighty ponies eyes. "Please... im... I'm so sorry... please don't kill me... it won't happen again!" She sobbed, attempting to keep eye contact to show Twilight just how serious she was.

Even now, her fear of slipping into the dark unknown of death ruled over any fear she had of pain or incarceration. She was once again struck by the fear of non-existance, afterall, she didn't believe in an afterlife like most ponies did.

Twilight scrutinized her captive with piercing red eyes. Eyes that looked like they should belong to a hungry vulture. They were horrifying, so full of intelligence and power. This alicorn knew what the outcome of her test was going to be before even playing it out. She knew that Beast would try to escape, try to call for help. Her prey hadn't been properly broken yet, hadn't been show just how helpless her situation truly was.

But Twilight had wanted her to fail, not that Beast knew that. She wanted to show the useless mongrel just how alone and powerless she was compared to the Goddess before her. This would be the first of many of these types of tests Twilight ran on her slave. Each would be more convincing than the last, in the attempt to completely break her disfigured slave into believing that salvation was impossible. Afterall, she needed the unicorn for her cover-up story...
***
Applejack weapt heavy tears, her shackled hooves clanking as she lifted them to stomp the ground in anger. How could this happen?

Twilight watched the poor earth pony, completely helpless to the events that were transpiring around her. How had unicorns not taken complete control before now? It was so easy to do whatever they wanted to the lesser races...

Once Applejack's tears started to slow, a beautiful thirty minutes later, Twilight kicked her little sister over to the sobbing orange pony. She squeaked in pain as she rolled towards he big sister in the potato sack she was in. Applejack gasped and put her body in front of her sisters to keep her from hitting a wall.

Applejack ripped the tape off her sisters mouth and held her close as she wailed loudly. She pet the little yellow foal's mane as she too wept tears through clenched eyes.

Twilight watched this with a calm smile, much like one Celestia used to wear. She then lit her red magic and pulled out a large rolling cart from the darkness. The un-oiled wheels squeaked awfully over the stony, cracked floor. She let momentum take the cart over to the two siblings who attempted to comfort eachother over their brother's grotesque death, even as his body sat not ten hooves from them.

Twilight held a hoof to her mouth and cleared her throat innocently. When this did nothing to catch the attention of the broken pair, she took the cart of instruments and gently nudged it into Applejack's side, who finally looked up at the tyrant. Eyes full of hatred, rage, vengeance, and much more Twilight could only see as negative. It felt nice, she smiled at this.

Twilight sauntered over to the siblings, not within range of Applejack to get at her but close enough to get to see the action up close. "So Applejack. You did as I asked. And now here is your reward. You get to choose how your dear sister dies," Twilight lifted up a knife in her magic and examined it as if it were a new book, "and you get to deliver her fate."

Applejack nearly dropped her bound sister in her angered shock. "WHAT? OH BUCK NO. You're sick! You're Celestia damned sick! You wouldn't! I refuse!" Every word shot out of her throat with guttural force, accompanied by spit from the force. She held her sister so close, it looked like little Applebloom was being crushed by her sisters protective hooves.

Twilight sighed lustfully, "Oh Applejack. Your brazen attitude makes me want to keep you around much longer than I plan to. It's a shame really. All this strength and familial love, it brings a tear to my eyes... and a shiver to my loins." Her cheeks let a light blush show through.

Just as quickly, her expression turned to cold stoicism and she lit her horn. Applebloom was yanked from her sisters grasp, the latter of which letting out a loud sob and reaching outwards.

"Applejack this isn't a request. I've given you an opportunity. She will die no matter what. But if you cooperate, she will get to die much less agonizingly than you or your brother will." She stepped towards the orange pony, towering threateningly over her, "don't make me ask twice. I'm losing my patience, and this sweet foal is giving me terrible, terrible ideas." She stroked the face of the foal, who cringed and squealed in return.

Applejack sat there staring into space. This couldn't be happening. It just couldn't. It wasn't possible. One of her best friends. Killing the others. Using them to kill other of her best friends. Using them to kill their own siblings. It just... it couldn't be.

It seemed Twilight may have finally broken Applejack. She frowned thoughtfully. She had hoped this would come after her friend's adorable sister died by her own hoof. But just as she felt that disappointment coming on, she saw AJ lift her head. Her eyes glazed over, no expression on her face.

"Fine. Gimme her." It was a simple request. So quiet and calmly said. Twilight smirked. This was what she wanted. She floated the foal over to the earth pony, the yellow body squirming and squealing wildly.

Applejack gently grabbed her sister from the magic and held her close. She closed her eyes and undid the sack so her sister could hug back. Her sisters arms flung around her as she did so. One more hug. Her sister deserved at least that.

The hug lasted a good ten minutes, with lots of tears and soothing petting. Then Applejack pulled back from the hug and looked her sister in the eyes. Her eyes were cold and sad.

"Applebloom. I know this is scary. But this has to happen. She will do so much worse if I dont." Applebloom interrupted her sisters speech with more bawling and hugging. Applejack stared out at nothing as she pet her sisters mane. "I know, I know. Just know I love you."

Applejack got up, much to her young sisters fear, and approached the cart. She stopped, and looked up at the purple alicorn. Once her good friend. Someone who use to ask how she could help, who use to get lost in books. Who taught her sister friendship lessons.

Their eyes locked and Applejack hoped one more time to see mercy before she had to make the ultimate choice. But she just saw sick, depraved pleasure in the alicorn's eyes. She thought as much. She shot her eyes to the cart and picked up the sharpest instrument she could. An ice pic. Something she could ram through her sisters.... brain... and end her suffering quickly...

She couldn't believe these thoughts were within her own brain. She had never considered this, and likely never would have if she had been allowed to continue with her life. But regardless she grabbed the tool in her hoof and turned away from the alicorn.

She approached the scared, shaking filly, her tears renewed as she shut her eyes and shivered. Applebloom was stuck in shock as her sister approached her with a weapon. Her innocent eyes wide with confusion and fear. She knew what was coming instinctually, but her little foal brain just couldn't believe it regardless.

"S-sis... please dont..." was all she could shake out of her own voice box. It was so quiet, so sincere. Applejack let out a sob and shook her head. She approached the scared filly and pet her mane comfortingly. Then, she quickly shoved the head to the ground and stabbed the ice pic into her temple.

She did it as quick as she could, all she heard was a confused squeak as her siters head was shoved, then the grotesque sound of skull cracking and shattering, and the sound of flesh splurting out as her sisters brain was stabbed deep.

She sobbed and let go of the instrument as it stuck in the brains of her beloved sister. She gasped and shot her eyes open as a gurgling sound penetrated her ears. She looked towards her poor baby sister to see... that she was still alive. She was on her side, ice pic stuck in her head with blood pooling around it. Her body twitched and her bloodshot eyes stared straight ahead. She was hacking and gagging as her poor little brain was scrambled.

Applejack gagged and screamed, sidestepping unsteadily backwards. She covered her mouth with her hooves, then leapt forward and dislodged the ice pic and quickly stabbed it back down into the skull. Her little sister let out a weak squeak, absolutely out of instinct. She lifted and stabbed again, and again, and again.

Her shaky hooves were covered in blood, tiny flecks of gray brain matter flew out with the intensity she pulled the ice pic out each time. She panted heavily staring at her little sisters mangled, bloodied head. It had taken about five stabs to really kill her. Each time she hadn't hit vital brain tissue. Her shattered mind unconsciously thought that ice pic lobotomies made more sense to her now, even if they weren't normally performed this way...

Applejack stepped back from the body, her tears dried up and her eyes bloodshot. She couldn't look away from the mess she had made. A poor yellow filly, well now more of a red-to-yellow gradient filly, sat before her. Six dark bloody holes in the orb that was her head and skull. Brain matter and blood seaped around and down onto the floor.

Her eyes were glazed and her mouth hung open. She sat down and just stared unseeingly at the body.

Twilight approached Applejack and laid a hoof on her shoulder. She didn't flinch or make a noise. She didn't change expressions. Twilight ruffled her hair as if they were buddies making up from a fight, and then licked a bit of blood from Applejack's cheek.

She had broken the strong and harty Applejack, she felt damn proud. She worried this may not have been enough, but this pony seemed to value loyalty even more than Rainbow Dash did, so she should have know her plans would have been enough.

Twilight stoked the poor ponies bloody and disheveled mane before taking the same ice pic she had killed her sister with, and shoving it through the orange ponies skull.

Applejack didnt see it coming. She thought her death would have been so much worse than her siblings. And this only brought more shame and self-hatred into herself. So, in the moment that this one stab to the skull killed her, she could feel nothing but regret and disloyalty to her family.

Author's Note

Sorry about the wait on the new chapter! Honestly I only ever write this when I'm drunk as hell. So school and work have gotten in the way of that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ can't guarantee when new chapters will be out but I am enjoying this and plan to continue it