ꓘalvinbürma: The Afterdark Archives

Blood spurted down on Starlight's face, making it hard to see as it soaked into her mane and ran into her eyes. Good thing she didn't need sight. She could feel the doctor above her, felt his feeble attempts to pull himself off her horn, but it was no use. The length of her horn was lodged in his throat and the wound was fatal.

When he finally dropped she made sure to catch him, only one of her hooves were free, but it was all she needed. She didn't look at his face he'd been one of the nice ones. In fact it was because he was nice that she'd been able to persuade him to unlock one of her hoofcuffs as he fed her. She'd let him and the fool had dropped his guard. When he went to relock her cuff she had struck, she'd grabbed him and pulled him against her horn. It was hardly the way a unicorn's horn was supposed to be used, but desperation breeds innovation, or maybe it just unlocks the primal instinct.

Starlight shook her head, this was not the time for philosophy. She guided his body to slump across her bed and began probing for the ring of keys she knew must be there. She had to hurry, someone would notice that he was missing soon. Somepony might've already heard the scream and was rushing to her room as she struggled to free herself. Bingo! She raised her hoof in triumph, the ring of silvery keys glistening despitebeing splattered with the red liquid that seemed to be everywhere.

With a trembling hoof she found the right key and raised it to her horn and that accursed ring locked upon it. Well not for long! She fumbled as she heard screaming, someone must've called the alarm! She struggled to find the keyhole but her horn was absolutely drenched in the doctor's blood. She couldn't fail now, not when she was so close to freedom! The key sank in just as the first guard rushed into the room. He took a moment to assess the situation, and died for it.

As the guard took in the terrifying image of his prisoner, covered in blood and her most recent victim, there was a click and the inhibitor ring fell to the floor.

"Oh shi-" was all he managed to get out before Starlight hit him with a blast strong enough to disintegrate both him and the wall behind him.

More guards were peeking around the hole, too terrified to interfere as their most dangerous prisoner used her newly regained magic to casually rip apart all the cuffs and straps that had kept her tied down for years. The bed beneath her turned to splinters, splinters which were sent towards the guards who hastily took cover.

"No need to look so afraid," the unicorn chuckled at the cowering ponies. "I am very angry with you, but I think I'll be nice and let some of you live."

She let out a terrifying laugh as most of the guards turned on the spot and ran.

"After all..." Starlight smirked as she grabbed one of the slower guards in her telekinesis. He screamed as he was lifted off the ground and squeezed with the full power of one pissed off unicorn.

"I'll need somepony to..." there was a wet crunch as the guard turned to pulp and another as he was unceremoniously flung against the wall. "Tell Twilight Sparkle..."

Another guard, this one too frozen with fear to run gave a short shriek as she split him in half with a laser beam.

"That her nemesis has escaped."

Her manic laughter did not serve to drown out the screams of the rest of the doctors and guards, but she kept her word, several of them lived to tell the tale, even if they were missing a few limbs.