Waking up sucks...

All of the chapters are going to be short, so I apologize if that's a turnoff to readers. I'm doing my best given the time that I have, and apologize to those that can't get into it.

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Twilight awoke in a dark, unfamiliar, room. Sitting up, she looked around, drawing in the scenery of the small cell she had been given. There was a window open to her right, letting in a breeze that smelled of flowers. The steady "Beep... Beep..." of the box next to her pounded in her skull, each monotone note sending another spike of pain through her already throbbing head. Something she had dreamed bothered her, but she couldn't quite recall what it was.

Her thoughts were interrupted as a young white unicorn opened the door, slowly stepping in. He looked at her with slight surprise, grinning slightly when is eyes met hers. "So you're awake, are you? Good, Good. You gave your friends quite the scare, blacking out like that. When you wouldn't wake up, they brought you here to me. Good set you have there..."

She had blacked out? She tried to remember what had happened before she had fallen asleep, but that was little more than a dark haze, clouding her mind beyond use. She sat up, shifting her weight forward to avoid falling back down. She was physically exhausted, feeling as if she hadn't slept in a lifetime. She tried to lean on one hoof, recoiling at back at the sharp pain that shot through her leg. She looked down, horrified at the tattered thing that hard replaced her leg. She looked herself over, nearly throwing up at the matted and bloody grey fur that had replaced her own.

"Is everything all right Miss Sparkle", the unicorn asked, looking perplexed at the young unicorn. "My fur!" she nearly shrieked. "What happened to me?!". The young unicorn looked even more confused, blushing as he answered; "What are you talking about, Miss Sparkle? Your fur is as lovely as it always is...". He trotted to the end of the bed, checking the small clipboard. "We should be able to discharge you tomorrow morning, if that works for you...", not awaiting her response, the unicorn simply trotted out, muttering a quick "Goodnight, Miss Sparkle", as he shut the door. Twilight fell back, letting her head hit the pillow. Slowly, but surely, she slid back into sleep...

And all the horrors that came with it...

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Her eyes slowly slid open, unfocused as she stared at the blurry ceiling. The steady "Beep... Beep..." was still present, carrying on into her dream, she thought. It wasn't until her eyes focused that she got a better look at things. A cold concrete ceiling lay above her, a single light bulb bathing the room in a pale white light. She tried to look around, but was only met with the usual inability. Hearing the telltale clip-clop of hooves against the concrete, she was greeted by an all-too-familiar voice, chilling her down to her very core.

"Oh, hello there...", The tiny voice spat, almost in a mocking tone. The voice automatically registered as her close friend Fluttershy, but that couldn't be right... could it? She tried to strain her head, finding herself still unable to move. The hooves stopped somewhere to her right, shortly followed by the sound of a few metallic snapping noises. Her body started responding to her sometime shortly after, and she rose to meet her guest, horrified by what she was met with.

It was Fluttershy. At least, a pony that closely represented her. Instead of the sweet demeanor, and caring attitude, she was met with a cold glare. "Get up" she barked in a voice that would've been cute, had the malice not been thick enough to cut with a knife. Twilight complied, slowly getting off the table. She found her legs in working order, much to the satisfaction of her friend.

Friend? Not exactly. She felt a sharp pain in her side, she gasped inwards, feeling her ribs crack as her "friend" removed her hoof from her side. "Hm. Bone mass isn't increasing, but she seems to be healing at an astounding rate" Fluttershy said to herself. In a motion that was almost too fast for Twilight to catch, Fluttershy had knocked her feet out from under her, grabbing a tight hold on her mane. She slowly started walk, dragging the still-breathless Twilight along the ground.

Just when she swore that her mane was going to get ripped out, the tugging stopped. "Get up", her friend snapped at her, Kicking her side again. Twilight nearly puked blood as she rose, each breath eliciting a slight bubbling sound somewhere deep inside her chest. Fluttershy shoved her into a small room, slamming and locking the thick iron door behind her. This couldn't be her friend. She was mean, Loud, and brutal. And she was FAST. How in the world she moved like that was beyond what Twilight's throbbing head could handle.

Any thoughts that she had were slowly overwhelmed by a chuckle erupting from the other side of the room. She heard a small voice from across the room, chilling her to the bone. "They tell me that they'll let me free if I can kill you.".

What?! Kill her?!

Twilight didn't even have time to brace herself as she was violently thrown against the concrete wall. Looking up, she saw her attacker; A small blue Pegasus, as tattered and torn as Twilight was. Twilight rose, fearing for her life. This mare wanted to kill her. Not hurt, not maim. Kill. She didn't have much time to think, as she found the Pegasus charging at her again. Twilight answered in a similar fashion, rocking the pegasus in the face, using her own momentum and speed against her.

The mare flew across the room, slamming hard against the cold concrete floor. She was quick to rise to her hooves, bloodlust screaming in her eyes. Twilight was ready for her this time, shoulder checking the pegasus into the wall. The pegasus hit the wall with a sickening "crunch", screaming as her wing practically snapped in half from the impact. Twilight felt her chest throb, spitting out the small amount of blood that had collected in the back of her throat.

"Why in Celestia's name are you doing this?!" She asked, hoping that the pegasus could give her some form of answer. The pegasus had other things in mind, though, rushing out at Twilight. "YOU JUST NEED TO DIE!" the blue pegasus shouted. Twilight dodged out of the way of the haphazard assault, bringing her hoof down on the back of the pegasus. Twilight loomed over her, disgusted when the mare simply spit into her face.

This mare was practically asking Twilight to beat her senseless.

And the scary thing, Twilight realized as she lifted her hoof one last time, is that she REALLY wanted to hurt her.

She brought her hoof down with a sickening crunch, feeling the bones below her snap. She walked over to the corner, nearly collapsing. She had just killed a mare.... And loved it. That was the part that bothered her. When had she gotten like this? When did she learn to fight like that? When did she acquire a taste for beating weaker ponies to death? She didn't have much time to think, as the heavy door slowly opened, a white unicorn stepping inside.