Sweet as Cupcakesby MLPMI6ChaptersPlottingSurpriseRevenge"Fight"PlottingSighing softly Alice paced her room, tail lashing slightly as she did. Sour's birthday was coming up fast and she had no idea what to do. This had to be special, they had been together for three years, and she wanted to make sure that everything was perfect for the party pony she had fallen so deeply for. Sure Pinkie Pie, Watermelon Tourmaline, and Cheese Sandwich had the party handled; the wasn't enough of a planer to even begin to try to argue with that. That wasn't her talent, and while she could make a mean cupcake; right up there with Pinkie's and Cupcake's, that wasn't either. She was a world hopper; able to go through realities, primarily to the 'Mirror World.' The place where Marvel, and Tourmaline were from. "Alice?" Turning quickly Alice smiled as Pinkie Pie headed up to her, her bright pink main decorated with ribbons and a spoon was pushed partly into her ponytail. "What's on your mind?" "I don't know what to do for Sour. I mean it's her twenty first birthday, it has to be perfect." Alice groaned, running a hand through her lemon-lime gradient hair. "You make this looks so easy!" "Well, you know, Sowwy's been talking quite a bit about your cupcakes. Really its a wonder that wasn't your cutie marl." Pinkie let out a hearty chuckle before continuing. "She really wants to learn., perhaps you could take that into account." "You-your right Pinkie." Alice smirked, deep amber eyes glowing momentarily before she nodded. "I do know what I should do. I'll teach teach her how I make cupcakes, a super special rarity of a recipe." "That sounds superduperfantastic! Just don't be late for the party!" "We wont be Pinkie, and thanks. I don't know what I would do without you." Alice responded, pulling her hair pupils turning to slits as she smirked. "Now I need to find the right ingredient. Might take me a bit, it jumps around just as much as I do." "Well I'll let you get to it!" As Pinkie left Alice chuckled, quickly changing into a dilute pink and purple stripes cat suit, with a matching mask before smirking, clipping one dusty pink and one dusty purple ear into her hair before vanishing from her room. "Rarity! Oh, how good it is to see you." "Who's there!" The white Unicorn yelped, frantically searching for the source of the voice. Her terror was sweet to Alice as she stepped into the pale blue light that Rarity's horn was giving off. "A unicorn. I- How did you find me?" "Oh, my sweet Rarity, I can find any one. But I don't mean you any harm. I'm Sour's friend, and I know what you did was for the betterment of everyone." "Of course, Our Goddess must be reborn. you will be brought to the new world and granted access into the great afterlife of Nightmare Moon." "Of course, Now I've been thinking about her birthday, and well- Isn't this the best year to try again with her. She's mature now, and would understand. Besides, I have the perfect place for the ceremony to take place. The only issue is your the only one who has the ability to transfer Naughtshade abilities into someone, to bring out Goddess back." Alice purred, tail twitching eagerly. "I'm powerful, I can get you both to a place where no one would even think to look." "That's marvelous darling! Simply marvelous!" Rarity smiled, clapping her hands together, turning quickly. "Oh we have so much planning to do, I'll make the perfect out-" As Alice pounced rarity turned quickly her eyes widening with shock as Alice brought an needle towards her neck. "What are you doing!" "Oh, Rarity. I'm surprised you of all people didn't put it together. I know you keep up with these types of things. The missing people, the lack of bodies, the costume." "Your the one taking them, but where and for what?" Rarity growled, fear mixing with a fair amount of respect as she grappled the younger pale blue unicorn. "Who are you?" "Call me Cheshire. Your about to find out what happens to them. But you need to go to sleep so I can get you to my bakery." "Bakery!" Rarity's magic flickered, releasing the pale blue unicorn just long enough for her to push the needle into the cruel mare's neck. "What do you-" Rarity's eyes rolled into the back of her head, flickering shut as she collapsed into a feint. Alice let out a cold laugh, adding a second dosage of the tranquilizer before quickly getting to work, binging the mare's arms and legs with magic proof rope, picking her up before simply stepping through a swirling purple portal to begin on stage two. Surprise"Come on Alice, you have to at least give me a hint!" Sour playfully pouted as Alice pulled a brush through her hair. "It's my birthday, and I'm certain that the others have enough surprises in store for me today as it is." "But this is your gift. I cant tell you that, those by definition have to be a surprise. unless it's arriving late, but even them you cant know until it's revealed in some other way." Placing down her brush Alice pulled her hair into it's partial ponytail, turning to face her girlfriend. "Besides it's not quite your birthday, but this dose need to be done today." "What is this?" The two toned unicorn tilted her head. With the exception of her horn Sour was a pale yellow to her stomach, her arms and waist downward turning a warm orange. Like Pinkie Pie her hair and tail were large and impressively curled, though her pale orange horn stuck out a fair bit more than Cherry's ever did. Her curles were primarily an impressively bright pink striped with dark green. Her large round eyes having three colors to them. Red on top then blue, then green. "I can't tell you. But- I'll give you a hint, we need to go to the Mirror world for this, that's why I said to just dress simple. Clothes don't- they don't transfer between worlds, but there is nothing against being naked there since you know." Alice shrugged. She was dressed in her 'Cheshire' cat suit, and was smirking mischievously. Sour herself had simply chosen a white t-shirt and blue jeans as per her partner's request. "I just hope you like this." "it's hard to like something when you don't know what it is." She chuckled, pulling the slightly shorter unicorn into a kiss. "Let's get going, Flutter Flare and Marvel want to bring me shopping for my birthday outfit." "Alright alright, but you have to put this on." Reaching into her desk Alice pulled out a deep purple mask that matched the sun lined swirl of her cutie mark, holding that and the outlined bleeding heart in black off to the side. "While most things don't transfer this mask is one of the things that do." "Alright, alright." Sour playfully rolled her eyes, accepting the fabric and trying it around her eyes. "Now lets hurry, your starting to worry me a bit Alice." "I'm sorry Sour, but it will all be with it I promise." "Where are we? It- it smells kind of like Sugar Cube Corner." Sour muttered, following closely behind her friend as they headed into a long stairwell. "Can't I take this thing off. This suspense is killing me as it is. Why didn't you just teleport us into the room." "You know messing with you like this makes me horny." Alice purred, "And, I miss calculated. You know your Pinkie Pie affiliation throws me off a bit." "Gee, you seemed to know where you were going?" Sour teased, audibly relaxing a bit. "But I'm guessing this is hide out territory and you have certain magical things in place that it would mess with to teleport with me." "Exactly." Alice sheered, pushing open a creaky door. "Remind me to oil that. I keep meaning to, and then every time I come down here I just don't." "I'll do my best." As the door closed behind them Alice heard a light click on, following Alice's guidance before the blind fold was pulled off. her eyes quickly adjusted to the sill dim light before landing on a snow white unicorn, with all to familiar chin length two toned grape hair. Around her eyes was a 'mask' of dark blue, speckled with stars, a similar spot on her left ear tip, the back of her neck and decorating the rest of her body. She was strapped to a tilted table, and while Sour had a feeling the restraints were magic poof she couldn't help the anxiety that flooded her chest. "R-rarity!" "Don't worry Sour, she cant hurt you." "Did, did you kill her?" Sour's vision blurred as she turned to Alice, taking in the morbid scene around her. It was a fairly standard ingredients closest, decorated with ribbons and balloons. But that was far from everything. There were skills on display of varying creatures decorated the room as well. Not to mention the mannequins. They had dotted the room but Sour didn't have to get too close to see that several were dressed in, dresses. The tops were typically short sleeved, the occasional long sleeved, but some of the skirts were patchworks of leather. Colorful leather spotted with cutie marks. Not all of them remained in their base 'earth' pony state either. Some had horns of unicorns, and a Kirin or two, and others had wings of all sorts. "Did you kill her?" "No, she's still alive. I- I'm sorry. Maybe I should have given you at least something of a warning. But she's sedated for the time time being." Alice soothed, smiling as Sour relaxed slightly. "No, he best flavor is gained when the death is much slower." "Flavor?" Sour's fear was draining as she tilted her head, poking the unicorn's chest as her partner pulled out a large cart of tools. "And we couldn't do this in our world because?" "Well one, we are in the basement of Sugar Cube corner, the original as that's the only one this world has. It's the last place anyone would look for a cannibal serial killer. It's all sound proof and warded, so it would be hard to relocate, and well Tourmaline hasn't been back here in years." "And the cakes?" "My first two batches. Save Sugar and Spice; you know Pumpkin and Pound cake, look surprisingly similar enough. There absolute in on it, and they run the place, but they do not to come down here and mess with my shit. I do my thing and they do theirs" Alice explained, playfully nipping Sour's ear. "She should be waking up rather soon, I'll be teaching you what to do and well. If you enjoy it you can make use of this little hideout that we've got." Revenge"Alright Sour, put the needle to the base of her neck right by her collar bone." Alice said, watching the unicorn levitate the needle to it's mark. "That will disable her magic completely and allow us to have our, way with Rarity here." Doing as she was told Sour pushed the needle in, injecting the pale blue liquid into her creators neck before putting it in the red sharps container. Despite what the two were doing she couldn't help the excitement that came with not only getting revenge, but at the prospect of learning Alice's cupcake recipe for herself. Heading to the woman's side she happily bounced in place, Alice's tail brushing over her back as Rarity let out a small groan, blinking slowly awake. "Oh, oh, your awake!" "Pinkie?" Rarity groaned, blinking a few times to adjust to the blinding light that was aimed right in her eyes. "Where are we?" "I'm not Pinkie Pie silly! It's ne Sour!" Sour laughed softly. "You should know, you made me after all!" "Sour, release me you foul girl!" "No can do! Alice said she was going to teach me how to make her yummy-dumy cupcakes for an early birthday gift!" "Alice?" "Chesire." Alice responded stepping forward. "Rarity dear, I did tell you you would find out what I did with the people I took. You want to take a wild guess now?" "Where are we?" "Under the Sugarcube in the Mirror World. No need to worry no one can hear us, it's before store hours, and well Sugan and Spice both know about my little operation. I'm just teaching Sour here here and who better that the woman who tortured her in the name of a false deity. That went so far to try and bring back Nightmare Moon thinking she was the goddess that you wanted." "Oh! I know who the gods of the other worlds are! Alyssa Wayne, Heart Bright and Ace Winters!" "Ace isn't a god, she's only got her powers due to her being connected to the Wonderland part of the Chess board. They would probably be willing to explain, it's kinda complicated." Alice waved a hove. "Right now we have a pony to dissect." "Die-" Rarity's eyes became pinpricks as it finally hit her, a strained gasp escaping her lips. "You monsters!" "Oh, yeah undoubtably. No one is arguing that. I mean we have standards but I will accept monster." "Where do we start?" "Since we only really need one cutie mark, I'll show you how to skin a leg and let you do the other one. It you de it cleanly I'll see if I can make it into something for you in our world. Things like this, if cared for properly, like basic fabric will go through portals. It just has to be made right." "Okay!" Smiling brightly Alice levitated headed up to the table, taking a scalpel in her hoof and heading up to the now struggling unicorn. "Alright, you are going to want to use your hooves for this, so you can focus your magic on keeping the leg still a bit better, and on pealing the mark as you cut." Sour nodded as Alice's maroon magic surrounded the unicorns leg, the blue unicorn bringing the knife to her flank and resting it on the skin. "This part is a little tricky, but you want to just-" As Alice sliced into the skin Rarity screamed in agony as blood spilled down her leg. "-Get under the skin. Gripping with the blood can also be tricky, but it's good to learn so you don't stretch your magic too many ways." "It's kind of line combat magic." "Yeah, think about it kind of like combat magic." The blue unicorn nodded, ignoring their victims screams of pain and terror. "Only some ponies can do that with their horn directly, for us it's best that we just do it this way." "Okay." Sour nodded, watching as Alice slowly and methodically cut away the large patch of fur, levitating it to a rack off to the side. "I don't do my tanning. that's actually the Carpenter's job, alright, now, why don't you have a go?" "Please! Don't do this to me!" "I don't think you have the right to beg for mercy." Alice scolded, smirking coldly. "What do you think Sour?" "I think your right Alice. Besides I do want to learn how to do this! It's a bonding experience." Sour responded, pining the sniveling woman's other leg, taking the scalpel from Alice. "I will say this will probably hurt more I mean I've never done this before." Sour pulled the knife back ramming it into the pony's leg, just above where the real cut would be made. As Rarity screamed Sour twisted the knife and Alice let out a small chuckle. It was clear that Sour was taking a sick amount of pleasure in elongating the pain. After a bit she began removing the mark pulling more screams from Rarity. "Alice, she screams so loud. Can't we shut her up?" "I suppose so, but you should let me do that. You can get some practice on that on people who don't really matter. Just put that one with the other and I'll take care of it." Alice nodded, quickly levitating the scalpel and a needle and thread to the unicorn's neck. "You know, I know several ponies that would pay a premium for this pelt of yours, such a beautiful white pelt even with those blue spots. I think the Dressmaker will do mighty fine work with you." "How many ally's do you have?" "There is myself, Sugar, Spice, the Dollmaker, the Dressmaker, the Carpenter, and Blue Bell." Alice explained, carefully pushing the scalpel into the unicorn's neck. "Hopefully you as well." Sour nodded as she watched her lover make the slit, taking her time before magically stitching it back up. "There, that should be better." "I hope so. Now what do we do next?" "I'm glad you asked. Now, there really aren't any true rules for what's next to do, it mostly depends on the person." Alice responded with a nod. "I think we should move onto the horn next. they aren't to hard to deal with, though this one might be. See it's not a spiral horn, it's segmented. They tend to be a lot more phatically resilient. How we do this really depends on if you want to keep the horn or not." "I'm keeping a patch of her cutie mark so I don't really see the point." Alice shrugged. "Good. Now were in the Mirror world, that dose have some effect on horns, but not that much. Simply put those born here, have a tendency to have Spiraled segments, not too unlike dragons, and they are naturally quite a bit stronger. But in the end a horn is a horn, and an easy way to truly break them is to back conduct magic." "Back conduct?" "Yes, you send magic down the horn, and the body will desperately try and fight back. But it cant, and the inevitable happens." Alice smiled wickedly igniting her horn, and levitating them each a pare of safety goggles. "Should probably have started with these." "Probably." Sour sing-songed, pulling them on. "So how do you back conduct?" "Since I have a spiral horn I can do it directly, but that wouldn't be the best idea for you. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out an easy way of doing it, and besides, you are going to want to collect at least some for the others." "Right." "I'll teach you how to do that another time. For now let's focus on this one." Alice took a calming breath as she felt her patience dwindling. She was the one dawdling and Sower was just eager to learn. As she was she could feel her magic flickering almost angerly, body stiffening as Sour put a tentative hoof on her shoulders. "Al?" "I'm fine, I shouldn't be upset but-" Shaking her head Alice growled. "I know the fear isn't fading, I can tell she's terrified, but..." Lettings out a frustrated growl stomping a hoof, horn quickly igniting, magenta magic leaping towards Rarity's. Before it even maid contact the white unicorns hon began glowing a pale blue, crackling as her magic was forcefully called upon. As the beam of magenta hit the field of blue a sickening cracking filled the room, Alice quickly overpowering that she had called forward, the sections of Rarity's horn glowing deep purple before; with one final snap, the horn exploded in several tiny shards, slicing open the mostly white mare's face in some places as they rained to the ground. Of course that white was very quickly being streaked with deep crimson of her own blood. "Alice!" Sour yelped, vision blurring with tears as blood welled on her cheek. She was used to the occasional outburst from the mare, but this was frightening even for her. The crazed, manic smile; the sharp, shark like teeth the crazed look in her eye. "Alice! Enough!" But Alice didn't stop, her magic glowing in Rarity's eyes, and Sour knew what would happen next if she didn't try and do anything. While she had been having fun, the sudden switch in Alice's persona frightened her. "Alice please! This isn't fun anymore!" "Come now Sour I just want to see what will happen." "No! Alice you need to stop. This isn't right! I- I don't like this part!" Tears burned down Sours Cheeks and she quickly backed away as Alice's magic faded and she quickly pivoted. "I'm sorry." "No. It's fine. You're not like me Sour, I should have known you wouldn't take any fun in this." "Your slipping towards gaslighting Al, I just- I don't know. I don't mind like stabbing, but that... That brought out the worst of you and you know it. I don't know what just snapped, but I never want to see that side of you again." "Is now really the time for this love?" "The fun's gone Alice. I can learn another time." Sour sniffed, whipping her eyes. "I do appreciate this, and I mean it will be more fun another time. But-" Alice sighed softly eyes returning to normal as she did. "Sour. I know you like to pretend you don't hurt when I get like that, But I know you do. I want you to do one thing for me, and one thing only. Take all of that hurt, and take it out on her. Just feel emotions, just carful around the bowl area, we do still want to eat her That part's not to hard, I know you've done some butchering before." "I don't get you sometimes Al." Sour took a few calming breaths before pulling her girlfreind into a hug. "You need proper therapy Al, real therapy." "That I really cant get unless I guess maybe if I'm caught." Alice shrugged, turning for the stairs. "But really, take out everything you need to one her" "I don't need that Alice, I'm not like you. This is one of the many ways. I don't express my emotions through anger and violence. I'm not anti-social you know." Rolling her eyes Alice picked up a large knife in her magic and flung it towards the bound unicorn. She knew the act would bring back the terror, if it had somehow managed to fade with everything that had happened. But much to her own horror, all she gained was the sickening thud of a knife in wood. "That's bad." "Understatement." "Think she'd be stupid enough to tattle?" "I mean she managed to escape so, yeah. IU do see her being cocky enough to try and tattle." "Mmmm... Right you go upstairs and inform the twins I'll locate the others. We might be in for some incarceration." "Yeah, you know I have a questioning." Sour's concerns were long forgotten as she tapped a hoof to her chin. "Dose what your doing count as , and I quote fucking with the food?" "Ah, good question. I mean I never lied about what's in them, and no one is hurt save the victims. Nothing bad came of it, and I was clear on what did have she Special ingredient and what didn't so I think were safe." Alice said, quickly beginning to clean up. "Now get going, get the twins. You don't have to be here when everything goes down. In fact, I don't want you to be." "Alice?" "I hurt you Sour, and you really haven't done anything yet. I won't have you punished for this, so go, before the bat gets here. Cause we all know he low key is just as much of a walker as I am. Now please, you have a birthday coming up. Go and be happy." "You're an idiot Alice! I would never be happy with you behind bars without at least-" "I'm not holding myself back, if you stay your seeing her again. I have been looking forward for my go at dear Batsy for a while, so I suggest you leave before I have the twins actually kidnap you." Sound stumbled back, tears poking in her eyes once more before she let out a heavy sigh, turning tail and heading out of the room. "Fight""Alice-" Alice had never heard the Bat falter before, the sound brining a smirk to her lips as she turned to face the Dark Knight. She could see the gears turning in his mind even behind the mask as he truly put two and two together. He was an intelligent man; having his suit built to be able to go between the world's mirror. But even he likely hadn't been quite prepared for what I had been capable of. But; as much as I wanted to fight, I also knew better and as he started for me I did the only smart thing I had all day. I lowered myselt to the ground, and surendered. "What is this?" "Your here because one escaped, you know that. I know this is the definition of evil, and I'm not going to be facing just you but the entirety of the court for what I've done. But; this time, the victim isn't a victim. They weren't just randomly picked, you have to know that as well. Took you a bit longer than I expected to get here but I did some thinking." "And? What evil are you so afraid of that you're giving up something I know you wanted for a long time." "Rarity. She escaped. It was my fault, I was going to far, and Sour stooped me. Tch, look at me dropping what I said." Alice shook her head, pushing herself to her hooves. "And yeah, I'm big enough to admit it was my faut that Rarity got away. Dose part of me wish that Sour would have just let me pop her eyes, sure. Dose that mean the fact that Rarity escaped is her fault, no." Alice glared slightly then shook her head. "I used a magic trank; the only way she could have escaped is exactly that. Me drawing her tranked magic to back charge her, then not stopping. She took a piece of my magic, and now she's gone." "And you think she's going to go after Sour?" "Oh, heavens no. Not first. Sour isn't her target, I would say her first target will either be Luna or Heart Bright." "And you think I'm going to let you help?" The Bat narrowed his eyes but made no move to stop the Unicorn. "You're going to Arkham." "So you don't want me to track her?" Alice tilted her head. "Because you sure aren't arresting me." "I've worked with rouges before. You are taking me to the court, and your telling you father what you did." "Which one?" Alice quipped playfully. "But no really, who am I telling?" The bat tapped a hoof to his chin for a moment then nodded. "Crane." "Why Crane?" "Because he's the one who's going to have to deal with you. I don't doubt you'll be made one of his." The Bat let out a heavy sigh as he placed a general power dampener around her neck, before adding a magic dampener to her horn. "And it will be on them to decide if you help, them and my family." Following the Bat through his own portal, Alice's nerves were buzzing as they headed into the hideout. None of the goons made any move to attack, just whispered amongst themselves as the bat lead the only child to the Professor's study. He wasn't going to be impressed, especially considering the bat had brought along a few of the dresses as evidence. Silently the Bat slammed the door open, starteling the brown unicorn from his paperwork. "The least you could-" "Your child's a cannibal." "I'm sorry she- what?" Crane faltered, eyes widening as Alice simply chuckled and rubbed the back of her neck. "That's a thing." "That's not all her and her little gang have been up to I'm afraid. You should gather the court, turns out they are kind of horifying." "What's horrifying?" Ed asked, heading in from the back. "Alice, what did you do?" "I kidnaped people, tortured them, removed their cutie marks; let Cap, Doll, and dress have their flesh, then used their meat as my secret ingredient." The entire room was silent, and Alice's smile quickly faded as two sets of eyes trailed to the trunk that the Bat had brought with them. No one spoke as he set it down, opening it to reveal Dressmaker's creations. The two rouges didn't look long, Ed quickly rushing to get her other two fathers. "We have already brought in the Cake twins from the Mirror world for questioning, and Nightwing and Red Hood are serching for the other three, but this is rather urgent." Batman reported, nodding to the others as he pulled open a portal. "Rarity has some of her magic, she needs to be stooped before she can kill anyone elce." "One thing at a time. Gather the court, Alice; no matter what ends up happening, you're doing time." "I know." Alice nodded, "I get that." "You don't care." Crane noted, heading into the courthouse. "Why don't you care?" "What feeling would go with caring here? Really, is there something I should be fealing?" "Gult. The word your looking for is guilt."
PlottingSighing softly Alice paced her room, tail lashing slightly as she did. Sour's birthday was coming up fast and she had no idea what to do. This had to be special, they had been together for three years, and she wanted to make sure that everything was perfect for the party pony she had fallen so deeply for. Sure Pinkie Pie, Watermelon Tourmaline, and Cheese Sandwich had the party handled; the wasn't enough of a planer to even begin to try to argue with that. That wasn't her talent, and while she could make a mean cupcake; right up there with Pinkie's and Cupcake's, that wasn't either. She was a world hopper; able to go through realities, primarily to the 'Mirror World.' The place where Marvel, and Tourmaline were from. "Alice?" Turning quickly Alice smiled as Pinkie Pie headed up to her, her bright pink main decorated with ribbons and a spoon was pushed partly into her ponytail. "What's on your mind?" "I don't know what to do for Sour. I mean it's her twenty first birthday, it has to be perfect." Alice groaned, running a hand through her lemon-lime gradient hair. "You make this looks so easy!" "Well, you know, Sowwy's been talking quite a bit about your cupcakes. Really its a wonder that wasn't your cutie marl." Pinkie let out a hearty chuckle before continuing. "She really wants to learn., perhaps you could take that into account." "You-your right Pinkie." Alice smirked, deep amber eyes glowing momentarily before she nodded. "I do know what I should do. I'll teach teach her how I make cupcakes, a super special rarity of a recipe." "That sounds superduperfantastic! Just don't be late for the party!" "We wont be Pinkie, and thanks. I don't know what I would do without you." Alice responded, pulling her hair pupils turning to slits as she smirked. "Now I need to find the right ingredient. Might take me a bit, it jumps around just as much as I do." "Well I'll let you get to it!" As Pinkie left Alice chuckled, quickly changing into a dilute pink and purple stripes cat suit, with a matching mask before smirking, clipping one dusty pink and one dusty purple ear into her hair before vanishing from her room. "Rarity! Oh, how good it is to see you." "Who's there!" The white Unicorn yelped, frantically searching for the source of the voice. Her terror was sweet to Alice as she stepped into the pale blue light that Rarity's horn was giving off. "A unicorn. I- How did you find me?" "Oh, my sweet Rarity, I can find any one. But I don't mean you any harm. I'm Sour's friend, and I know what you did was for the betterment of everyone." "Of course, Our Goddess must be reborn. you will be brought to the new world and granted access into the great afterlife of Nightmare Moon." "Of course, Now I've been thinking about her birthday, and well- Isn't this the best year to try again with her. She's mature now, and would understand. Besides, I have the perfect place for the ceremony to take place. The only issue is your the only one who has the ability to transfer Naughtshade abilities into someone, to bring out Goddess back." Alice purred, tail twitching eagerly. "I'm powerful, I can get you both to a place where no one would even think to look." "That's marvelous darling! Simply marvelous!" Rarity smiled, clapping her hands together, turning quickly. "Oh we have so much planning to do, I'll make the perfect out-" As Alice pounced rarity turned quickly her eyes widening with shock as Alice brought an needle towards her neck. "What are you doing!" "Oh, Rarity. I'm surprised you of all people didn't put it together. I know you keep up with these types of things. The missing people, the lack of bodies, the costume." "Your the one taking them, but where and for what?" Rarity growled, fear mixing with a fair amount of respect as she grappled the younger pale blue unicorn. "Who are you?" "Call me Cheshire. Your about to find out what happens to them. But you need to go to sleep so I can get you to my bakery." "Bakery!" Rarity's magic flickered, releasing the pale blue unicorn just long enough for her to push the needle into the cruel mare's neck. "What do you-" Rarity's eyes rolled into the back of her head, flickering shut as she collapsed into a feint. Alice let out a cold laugh, adding a second dosage of the tranquilizer before quickly getting to work, binging the mare's arms and legs with magic proof rope, picking her up before simply stepping through a swirling purple portal to begin on stage two.
Surprise"Come on Alice, you have to at least give me a hint!" Sour playfully pouted as Alice pulled a brush through her hair. "It's my birthday, and I'm certain that the others have enough surprises in store for me today as it is." "But this is your gift. I cant tell you that, those by definition have to be a surprise. unless it's arriving late, but even them you cant know until it's revealed in some other way." Placing down her brush Alice pulled her hair into it's partial ponytail, turning to face her girlfriend. "Besides it's not quite your birthday, but this dose need to be done today." "What is this?" The two toned unicorn tilted her head. With the exception of her horn Sour was a pale yellow to her stomach, her arms and waist downward turning a warm orange. Like Pinkie Pie her hair and tail were large and impressively curled, though her pale orange horn stuck out a fair bit more than Cherry's ever did. Her curles were primarily an impressively bright pink striped with dark green. Her large round eyes having three colors to them. Red on top then blue, then green. "I can't tell you. But- I'll give you a hint, we need to go to the Mirror world for this, that's why I said to just dress simple. Clothes don't- they don't transfer between worlds, but there is nothing against being naked there since you know." Alice shrugged. She was dressed in her 'Cheshire' cat suit, and was smirking mischievously. Sour herself had simply chosen a white t-shirt and blue jeans as per her partner's request. "I just hope you like this." "it's hard to like something when you don't know what it is." She chuckled, pulling the slightly shorter unicorn into a kiss. "Let's get going, Flutter Flare and Marvel want to bring me shopping for my birthday outfit." "Alright alright, but you have to put this on." Reaching into her desk Alice pulled out a deep purple mask that matched the sun lined swirl of her cutie mark, holding that and the outlined bleeding heart in black off to the side. "While most things don't transfer this mask is one of the things that do." "Alright, alright." Sour playfully rolled her eyes, accepting the fabric and trying it around her eyes. "Now lets hurry, your starting to worry me a bit Alice." "I'm sorry Sour, but it will all be with it I promise." "Where are we? It- it smells kind of like Sugar Cube Corner." Sour muttered, following closely behind her friend as they headed into a long stairwell. "Can't I take this thing off. This suspense is killing me as it is. Why didn't you just teleport us into the room." "You know messing with you like this makes me horny." Alice purred, "And, I miss calculated. You know your Pinkie Pie affiliation throws me off a bit." "Gee, you seemed to know where you were going?" Sour teased, audibly relaxing a bit. "But I'm guessing this is hide out territory and you have certain magical things in place that it would mess with to teleport with me." "Exactly." Alice sheered, pushing open a creaky door. "Remind me to oil that. I keep meaning to, and then every time I come down here I just don't." "I'll do my best." As the door closed behind them Alice heard a light click on, following Alice's guidance before the blind fold was pulled off. her eyes quickly adjusted to the sill dim light before landing on a snow white unicorn, with all to familiar chin length two toned grape hair. Around her eyes was a 'mask' of dark blue, speckled with stars, a similar spot on her left ear tip, the back of her neck and decorating the rest of her body. She was strapped to a tilted table, and while Sour had a feeling the restraints were magic poof she couldn't help the anxiety that flooded her chest. "R-rarity!" "Don't worry Sour, she cant hurt you." "Did, did you kill her?" Sour's vision blurred as she turned to Alice, taking in the morbid scene around her. It was a fairly standard ingredients closest, decorated with ribbons and balloons. But that was far from everything. There were skills on display of varying creatures decorated the room as well. Not to mention the mannequins. They had dotted the room but Sour didn't have to get too close to see that several were dressed in, dresses. The tops were typically short sleeved, the occasional long sleeved, but some of the skirts were patchworks of leather. Colorful leather spotted with cutie marks. Not all of them remained in their base 'earth' pony state either. Some had horns of unicorns, and a Kirin or two, and others had wings of all sorts. "Did you kill her?" "No, she's still alive. I- I'm sorry. Maybe I should have given you at least something of a warning. But she's sedated for the time time being." Alice soothed, smiling as Sour relaxed slightly. "No, he best flavor is gained when the death is much slower." "Flavor?" Sour's fear was draining as she tilted her head, poking the unicorn's chest as her partner pulled out a large cart of tools. "And we couldn't do this in our world because?" "Well one, we are in the basement of Sugar Cube corner, the original as that's the only one this world has. It's the last place anyone would look for a cannibal serial killer. It's all sound proof and warded, so it would be hard to relocate, and well Tourmaline hasn't been back here in years." "And the cakes?" "My first two batches. Save Sugar and Spice; you know Pumpkin and Pound cake, look surprisingly similar enough. There absolute in on it, and they run the place, but they do not to come down here and mess with my shit. I do my thing and they do theirs" Alice explained, playfully nipping Sour's ear. "She should be waking up rather soon, I'll be teaching you what to do and well. If you enjoy it you can make use of this little hideout that we've got."
Revenge"Alright Sour, put the needle to the base of her neck right by her collar bone." Alice said, watching the unicorn levitate the needle to it's mark. "That will disable her magic completely and allow us to have our, way with Rarity here." Doing as she was told Sour pushed the needle in, injecting the pale blue liquid into her creators neck before putting it in the red sharps container. Despite what the two were doing she couldn't help the excitement that came with not only getting revenge, but at the prospect of learning Alice's cupcake recipe for herself. Heading to the woman's side she happily bounced in place, Alice's tail brushing over her back as Rarity let out a small groan, blinking slowly awake. "Oh, oh, your awake!" "Pinkie?" Rarity groaned, blinking a few times to adjust to the blinding light that was aimed right in her eyes. "Where are we?" "I'm not Pinkie Pie silly! It's ne Sour!" Sour laughed softly. "You should know, you made me after all!" "Sour, release me you foul girl!" "No can do! Alice said she was going to teach me how to make her yummy-dumy cupcakes for an early birthday gift!" "Alice?" "Chesire." Alice responded stepping forward. "Rarity dear, I did tell you you would find out what I did with the people I took. You want to take a wild guess now?" "Where are we?" "Under the Sugarcube in the Mirror World. No need to worry no one can hear us, it's before store hours, and well Sugan and Spice both know about my little operation. I'm just teaching Sour here here and who better that the woman who tortured her in the name of a false deity. That went so far to try and bring back Nightmare Moon thinking she was the goddess that you wanted." "Oh! I know who the gods of the other worlds are! Alyssa Wayne, Heart Bright and Ace Winters!" "Ace isn't a god, she's only got her powers due to her being connected to the Wonderland part of the Chess board. They would probably be willing to explain, it's kinda complicated." Alice waved a hove. "Right now we have a pony to dissect." "Die-" Rarity's eyes became pinpricks as it finally hit her, a strained gasp escaping her lips. "You monsters!" "Oh, yeah undoubtably. No one is arguing that. I mean we have standards but I will accept monster." "Where do we start?" "Since we only really need one cutie mark, I'll show you how to skin a leg and let you do the other one. It you de it cleanly I'll see if I can make it into something for you in our world. Things like this, if cared for properly, like basic fabric will go through portals. It just has to be made right." "Okay!" Smiling brightly Alice levitated headed up to the table, taking a scalpel in her hoof and heading up to the now struggling unicorn. "Alright, you are going to want to use your hooves for this, so you can focus your magic on keeping the leg still a bit better, and on pealing the mark as you cut." Sour nodded as Alice's maroon magic surrounded the unicorns leg, the blue unicorn bringing the knife to her flank and resting it on the skin. "This part is a little tricky, but you want to just-" As Alice sliced into the skin Rarity screamed in agony as blood spilled down her leg. "-Get under the skin. Gripping with the blood can also be tricky, but it's good to learn so you don't stretch your magic too many ways." "It's kind of line combat magic." "Yeah, think about it kind of like combat magic." The blue unicorn nodded, ignoring their victims screams of pain and terror. "Only some ponies can do that with their horn directly, for us it's best that we just do it this way." "Okay." Sour nodded, watching as Alice slowly and methodically cut away the large patch of fur, levitating it to a rack off to the side. "I don't do my tanning. that's actually the Carpenter's job, alright, now, why don't you have a go?" "Please! Don't do this to me!" "I don't think you have the right to beg for mercy." Alice scolded, smirking coldly. "What do you think Sour?" "I think your right Alice. Besides I do want to learn how to do this! It's a bonding experience." Sour responded, pining the sniveling woman's other leg, taking the scalpel from Alice. "I will say this will probably hurt more I mean I've never done this before." Sour pulled the knife back ramming it into the pony's leg, just above where the real cut would be made. As Rarity screamed Sour twisted the knife and Alice let out a small chuckle. It was clear that Sour was taking a sick amount of pleasure in elongating the pain. After a bit she began removing the mark pulling more screams from Rarity. "Alice, she screams so loud. Can't we shut her up?" "I suppose so, but you should let me do that. You can get some practice on that on people who don't really matter. Just put that one with the other and I'll take care of it." Alice nodded, quickly levitating the scalpel and a needle and thread to the unicorn's neck. "You know, I know several ponies that would pay a premium for this pelt of yours, such a beautiful white pelt even with those blue spots. I think the Dressmaker will do mighty fine work with you." "How many ally's do you have?" "There is myself, Sugar, Spice, the Dollmaker, the Dressmaker, the Carpenter, and Blue Bell." Alice explained, carefully pushing the scalpel into the unicorn's neck. "Hopefully you as well." Sour nodded as she watched her lover make the slit, taking her time before magically stitching it back up. "There, that should be better." "I hope so. Now what do we do next?" "I'm glad you asked. Now, there really aren't any true rules for what's next to do, it mostly depends on the person." Alice responded with a nod. "I think we should move onto the horn next. they aren't to hard to deal with, though this one might be. See it's not a spiral horn, it's segmented. They tend to be a lot more phatically resilient. How we do this really depends on if you want to keep the horn or not." "I'm keeping a patch of her cutie mark so I don't really see the point." Alice shrugged. "Good. Now were in the Mirror world, that dose have some effect on horns, but not that much. Simply put those born here, have a tendency to have Spiraled segments, not too unlike dragons, and they are naturally quite a bit stronger. But in the end a horn is a horn, and an easy way to truly break them is to back conduct magic." "Back conduct?" "Yes, you send magic down the horn, and the body will desperately try and fight back. But it cant, and the inevitable happens." Alice smiled wickedly igniting her horn, and levitating them each a pare of safety goggles. "Should probably have started with these." "Probably." Sour sing-songed, pulling them on. "So how do you back conduct?" "Since I have a spiral horn I can do it directly, but that wouldn't be the best idea for you. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out an easy way of doing it, and besides, you are going to want to collect at least some for the others." "Right." "I'll teach you how to do that another time. For now let's focus on this one." Alice took a calming breath as she felt her patience dwindling. She was the one dawdling and Sower was just eager to learn. As she was she could feel her magic flickering almost angerly, body stiffening as Sour put a tentative hoof on her shoulders. "Al?" "I'm fine, I shouldn't be upset but-" Shaking her head Alice growled. "I know the fear isn't fading, I can tell she's terrified, but..." Lettings out a frustrated growl stomping a hoof, horn quickly igniting, magenta magic leaping towards Rarity's. Before it even maid contact the white unicorns hon began glowing a pale blue, crackling as her magic was forcefully called upon. As the beam of magenta hit the field of blue a sickening cracking filled the room, Alice quickly overpowering that she had called forward, the sections of Rarity's horn glowing deep purple before; with one final snap, the horn exploded in several tiny shards, slicing open the mostly white mare's face in some places as they rained to the ground. Of course that white was very quickly being streaked with deep crimson of her own blood. "Alice!" Sour yelped, vision blurring with tears as blood welled on her cheek. She was used to the occasional outburst from the mare, but this was frightening even for her. The crazed, manic smile; the sharp, shark like teeth the crazed look in her eye. "Alice! Enough!" But Alice didn't stop, her magic glowing in Rarity's eyes, and Sour knew what would happen next if she didn't try and do anything. While she had been having fun, the sudden switch in Alice's persona frightened her. "Alice please! This isn't fun anymore!" "Come now Sour I just want to see what will happen." "No! Alice you need to stop. This isn't right! I- I don't like this part!" Tears burned down Sours Cheeks and she quickly backed away as Alice's magic faded and she quickly pivoted. "I'm sorry." "No. It's fine. You're not like me Sour, I should have known you wouldn't take any fun in this." "Your slipping towards gaslighting Al, I just- I don't know. I don't mind like stabbing, but that... That brought out the worst of you and you know it. I don't know what just snapped, but I never want to see that side of you again." "Is now really the time for this love?" "The fun's gone Alice. I can learn another time." Sour sniffed, whipping her eyes. "I do appreciate this, and I mean it will be more fun another time. But-" Alice sighed softly eyes returning to normal as she did. "Sour. I know you like to pretend you don't hurt when I get like that, But I know you do. I want you to do one thing for me, and one thing only. Take all of that hurt, and take it out on her. Just feel emotions, just carful around the bowl area, we do still want to eat her That part's not to hard, I know you've done some butchering before." "I don't get you sometimes Al." Sour took a few calming breaths before pulling her girlfreind into a hug. "You need proper therapy Al, real therapy." "That I really cant get unless I guess maybe if I'm caught." Alice shrugged, turning for the stairs. "But really, take out everything you need to one her" "I don't need that Alice, I'm not like you. This is one of the many ways. I don't express my emotions through anger and violence. I'm not anti-social you know." Rolling her eyes Alice picked up a large knife in her magic and flung it towards the bound unicorn. She knew the act would bring back the terror, if it had somehow managed to fade with everything that had happened. But much to her own horror, all she gained was the sickening thud of a knife in wood. "That's bad." "Understatement." "Think she'd be stupid enough to tattle?" "I mean she managed to escape so, yeah. IU do see her being cocky enough to try and tattle." "Mmmm... Right you go upstairs and inform the twins I'll locate the others. We might be in for some incarceration." "Yeah, you know I have a questioning." Sour's concerns were long forgotten as she tapped a hoof to her chin. "Dose what your doing count as , and I quote fucking with the food?" "Ah, good question. I mean I never lied about what's in them, and no one is hurt save the victims. Nothing bad came of it, and I was clear on what did have she Special ingredient and what didn't so I think were safe." Alice said, quickly beginning to clean up. "Now get going, get the twins. You don't have to be here when everything goes down. In fact, I don't want you to be." "Alice?" "I hurt you Sour, and you really haven't done anything yet. I won't have you punished for this, so go, before the bat gets here. Cause we all know he low key is just as much of a walker as I am. Now please, you have a birthday coming up. Go and be happy." "You're an idiot Alice! I would never be happy with you behind bars without at least-" "I'm not holding myself back, if you stay your seeing her again. I have been looking forward for my go at dear Batsy for a while, so I suggest you leave before I have the twins actually kidnap you." Sound stumbled back, tears poking in her eyes once more before she let out a heavy sigh, turning tail and heading out of the room.
"Fight""Alice-" Alice had never heard the Bat falter before, the sound brining a smirk to her lips as she turned to face the Dark Knight. She could see the gears turning in his mind even behind the mask as he truly put two and two together. He was an intelligent man; having his suit built to be able to go between the world's mirror. But even he likely hadn't been quite prepared for what I had been capable of. But; as much as I wanted to fight, I also knew better and as he started for me I did the only smart thing I had all day. I lowered myselt to the ground, and surendered. "What is this?" "Your here because one escaped, you know that. I know this is the definition of evil, and I'm not going to be facing just you but the entirety of the court for what I've done. But; this time, the victim isn't a victim. They weren't just randomly picked, you have to know that as well. Took you a bit longer than I expected to get here but I did some thinking." "And? What evil are you so afraid of that you're giving up something I know you wanted for a long time." "Rarity. She escaped. It was my fault, I was going to far, and Sour stooped me. Tch, look at me dropping what I said." Alice shook her head, pushing herself to her hooves. "And yeah, I'm big enough to admit it was my faut that Rarity got away. Dose part of me wish that Sour would have just let me pop her eyes, sure. Dose that mean the fact that Rarity escaped is her fault, no." Alice glared slightly then shook her head. "I used a magic trank; the only way she could have escaped is exactly that. Me drawing her tranked magic to back charge her, then not stopping. She took a piece of my magic, and now she's gone." "And you think she's going to go after Sour?" "Oh, heavens no. Not first. Sour isn't her target, I would say her first target will either be Luna or Heart Bright." "And you think I'm going to let you help?" The Bat narrowed his eyes but made no move to stop the Unicorn. "You're going to Arkham." "So you don't want me to track her?" Alice tilted her head. "Because you sure aren't arresting me." "I've worked with rouges before. You are taking me to the court, and your telling you father what you did." "Which one?" Alice quipped playfully. "But no really, who am I telling?" The bat tapped a hoof to his chin for a moment then nodded. "Crane." "Why Crane?" "Because he's the one who's going to have to deal with you. I don't doubt you'll be made one of his." The Bat let out a heavy sigh as he placed a general power dampener around her neck, before adding a magic dampener to her horn. "And it will be on them to decide if you help, them and my family." Following the Bat through his own portal, Alice's nerves were buzzing as they headed into the hideout. None of the goons made any move to attack, just whispered amongst themselves as the bat lead the only child to the Professor's study. He wasn't going to be impressed, especially considering the bat had brought along a few of the dresses as evidence. Silently the Bat slammed the door open, starteling the brown unicorn from his paperwork. "The least you could-" "Your child's a cannibal." "I'm sorry she- what?" Crane faltered, eyes widening as Alice simply chuckled and rubbed the back of her neck. "That's a thing." "That's not all her and her little gang have been up to I'm afraid. You should gather the court, turns out they are kind of horifying." "What's horrifying?" Ed asked, heading in from the back. "Alice, what did you do?" "I kidnaped people, tortured them, removed their cutie marks; let Cap, Doll, and dress have their flesh, then used their meat as my secret ingredient." The entire room was silent, and Alice's smile quickly faded as two sets of eyes trailed to the trunk that the Bat had brought with them. No one spoke as he set it down, opening it to reveal Dressmaker's creations. The two rouges didn't look long, Ed quickly rushing to get her other two fathers. "We have already brought in the Cake twins from the Mirror world for questioning, and Nightwing and Red Hood are serching for the other three, but this is rather urgent." Batman reported, nodding to the others as he pulled open a portal. "Rarity has some of her magic, she needs to be stooped before she can kill anyone elce." "One thing at a time. Gather the court, Alice; no matter what ends up happening, you're doing time." "I know." Alice nodded, "I get that." "You don't care." Crane noted, heading into the courthouse. "Why don't you care?" "What feeling would go with caring here? Really, is there something I should be fealing?" "Gult. The word your looking for is guilt."
