Author's Note

I don't want to sit through hours of mlp episodes so i can adapt their personalitys to the situation they're in, in this case being a Hacksaw Trap so i just decided to make them break character.

Which make sense, they're in a life threatening situation that could kill them

Pound Of Flesh (Reverse Bear Trap And Death Mask V2)/ Test 1: Pain Train & Glass Coffin/Test 2: The Dizzitron Of Death

Once The Dragon Lord woke up she found that she had this bowl with spikes on them and 2 eyeholes when she tried to turn her head the bowl moved with her. She decided to get up to remove it but this just caused a metal wire to get pulled and released from the mask causing Ember to panic and try to bend the bowl of spikes mask the device to no avail. ''AHHHHHH WHAT THE HELL!'' Ember yelled out still trying to bend the bowl.

The lights in the whole room turned on revealing she was in a room with a table with a cleaver,knife and a rope there was also jail bars spearating her and another creature from each other. When Ember looked into a small mirror in her cell she found out that the bowl had 2 sides and that there was stiches on her chest. Ember tried to breathe fire to blast herself out but nothing but smoke ended coming out.

The lights in the room woke up Thorax who had a Reverse Bear Trap on his head ''Huh what the-'' the changeling said feeling around the device on his head ''What the fuck is-'' he said slightly muffled, he was suddenly interuppted by Ember who walked up to the her jail bars gripping them ''Don't move stay put, don't lean forward'' Ember warned Thorax.

All this manage to do is make Thorax panic as he fumbled around the Reverse Bear Trap with his hooves trying to find a mechanism he eventually found one he pulled on the metal wire releasing it. ''What the hell was that?'' The changeling leader said in a panicked tone slightly muffled. He tried to transform into something small to get through his jail bars but his magic seemed to be blocked out.

The metal wire being released from both devices led to a TV between the cells to activate. When Ember and Thorax got to their jail bars gripping them Stichy wearing dragon wings and a changeling horn appeared on the screen.

''Hello....I wanna play a game the devices you have on The Death Mask And The Reverse Bear Trap are a symbolic to show how diffrent youe species really are but you both have one thing in common, flesh.'' Stichy explained voice activating a light to reveal a scale.

''All you 2 have to do this give a Pound Of Flesh but if you don't this will happen.'' Stichy said before showing footage of a mannequin head getting destroyed by the Reverse Bear Trap and the head of a mannequin falling off once The Death Mask closed

''Sacrifice a Pound Of Flesh you have 90 seconds Live Or Die it's your choice'' Stichy stated before the TV shut off

The 90 seconds timer started and Thorax ran over to his station and grabbed the knife off the table ''I'M NOT DYING TO YOU!'' he yelled slightly muffled, as he dug the knife into his left front hoof and started peeling skin from the second layer of skin and trying his best not to cut a vein despite being in pain biting down on the device in his mouth.

Ember realizing that flesh or scales in this case isn't enough she grabbed the rope and tied it around her right arm tieing a tourniquet. She then grabbed the knife and bit down on it for leverage and then grabbed cleaver and started hacking away at her arm.

After a lot a screaming in agony and slicing off flesh, Thorax grabbed the chunk of bloody flesh and stumbled over to the scale and once he put it on the scale he got the advantage. Once Ember stumbled over to the scale with the remaining energy she had and put her severed right arm on the scale it gave The Dragon Lord a huge advantage over The Ruler Of The Changelings.

Thorax looking back at the timer seeing only 30 seconds left he grabbed the cleaver with the remaining energy he had and started hacking away at his right antler and he just barely managed to loosen his right antler tearing it off with his hooves, blood flowed down the antler and when he threw it onto the scale it gave him the advantage last second.

After the timer reached 0 there was a long pause ''Huh guess the device don't-AHHHHHHHH!" Ember yelled in pain after The Death Mask closed and the nails in the mask dug into her face killing her causing blood to leak out of the mask, collapsing to the floor with The Death Mask making a loud clang noise.

Thorax fell backwards from seeing Ember's death as the Reverse Bear Trap loosened, and once he threw it off the device activated. The Ruler Of The Changelings back into a corner and broke down into tears.

Once the tape was done and Hooves was reminded of when he helped Hacksaw create his first set of games. The grey earth pony was able to break out of the box he was trapped in and fell onto the floor face first ''God fucking damm it'' Hooves mumbled.

When Hooves looked around he found himseld in a hallway with a pair of metal rails and behind the rails was a fence that prevented him from getting off the rails. When hooves touched the fence he got shocked ''A electric fence seriously'' he thought trying to figure out of way around the fence.

A TV attached to the wall turned on and Stichy came on the screen giving Hooves his first look at Stichy The Voodo Doll in a long times ''Alright Mark you gotta realize how bad the death the death of my colt Shining Blade affected me it hit me like a train like a Pain Train a train of emtional damage which trapped me in a coffin with sharp pain''.

''So for your first test you'll have to survive the Pain Train i went through and lock yourself in the same coffin with sharp pain, you can either be hit by the Pain Train or be inside the coffin with sharp pain Live or Die the choice is yours.'' Stichy explained before the TV on the wall turned off

Once the message was over Hooves heard the noise of walking hooves and when he looked he saw a lawnmower or go kart looking device with a blade infront it had a spiral in front of it. But what he also saw was a pony wearing a dollhead mask along with a hood ''HEY YOU WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!'' Hooves yelled at Dollhead

Dollhead only reponded by pulling a lever which started spinning the spiral and starting up the go kart lawnmower device ''All A board the Pain Train'' Dollhead said in the same voice as Stichy The Voodo Doll.

The Pain Train started moving slowly, Hooves started backing up a little, the Pain Train started picking up speed moving a little faster than before. Hooves realzing what's going on he thought about the other clue, the coffin of sharp pain ''Gotta locate a box'' he thought looking around before realizing the only way he can go is forward.

The Pain Train by this point had gathered a lot of speed, ''GOTTA GET GOING!'' Hooves thought before trotting away from the Pain Train. He saw a something at the end of the hallway with looked transparent since there was light shining down on it.

Once he reached the end of the hallway he found out the thing at the end of the hallway was a glass coffin with shards of glass inside it. Hooves also noticed that there was a gap above the Glass Coffin he maybe could climb over the coffin to avoid the Pain Train and sharp pian.

He didn't had much time left cause The Pain Train was pretty much at it's max speed. Realizing he wouldn't have enough time to climb over the glass coffin he jumped in the coffin getting a few cuts on his back and closed it. ''NO, NO, NO,NO,NO!'' he said as the Pain Train was getting close to The Glass Coffin.

When The Pain Train hit the Glass Coffin the blade got bent and Hooves heard the noise of the engine shutting off ''Guess this coffin is made out of bulletproof glass.'' he thought before letting out a sigh of relief. The Glass Coffin all of a sudden started being lowered down catching Hooves off guard moving a little causing him to get a few more cuts on his back.

The Coffin then went into a hole in the floor ''Thank God i never decided to climb over this coffin could've been crushed'' Hooves said to himself as the floor closed and the coffin went on a conveyor belt moving the detective onto his next test in the next room.

Cadance was still figuring out who else could be behind these Hacksaw Killer Murders. She tried looking for suspects in the Royal Database but that didn't really lead anywhere. She also tried to look through medical records if she could find any names that could have something to do with Hacksaw but once again nothing.

The Princess Of Law Enforcement by this point really didn't have anything else to go off of. So what she restorted to in the end was shady activity even remotely shady. The only real shady activity she manage to find was a suspicious car outside the station which was taking up 2 parking spot.

''Well that's something i don't see everyday'' Cadance said to herself before getting a call from Detective Ocellus saying how 5 more bodies 3 crystal ponies and 2 pegasus came in ''Oh right kill innocent ponies to lower the crime rate as much as possible'' The Princess Of Law Enforcement said ''Should've just called it lower the crime rate by any means necessary.'' she thought before heading out the door.

''Never thought my job would get this hard'' Jigsaw thought pushing carts of the 5 dead innocent ponies.

''YOU GOTTA HELP ME!'' Detective Silverstream said less energetic and bubbly from killing innocent creatures ''I wanted to try these on but now i can't my talons out'' Silver told Jigsaw showing him her talons in Chinese Finger Traps

''Isn't there a way to get it off?'' the hippogriff said her voice breaking and tears starting to flow down her cheeks

Hooves was in the Glass Coffin for a while all he could hear was the conveyor belt. Eventually the conveyor belt stopped and the floor opened up again and the glass coffin was brought up. Hooves tapped the lid it didn't opened when he tried pushing harder it still didn't budge ''Hey i passed my test!'' Hooves yelled inside the coffin still banging on the lid.

He rolled over carefully trying not to full himself on the glass shards and found a note on a wall outside the coffin saying ''The key to all of this is where you're trapped.'' Hooves took note of this clue and realized the key was somewhere in the pile of glass shards ''Here it goes'' Hooves mumbled before digging his fore hooves into the glass shards.

He got a lot of cuts on his fore hooves luckily they weren't deep cuts. Hooves tried his hardest not to get any cuts on other parts of his body like his chest or back hooves. Unfortunately Hooves got some cuts on his back hooves, after a while of digging through the glass shards he found the key and unlocked the Glass Coffin.

''There's gotta be something to help with these cuts'' Hooves thought looking around the room for something to treat his cuts before spotting a cast wrap ''This should work'' the earth pony said wrapping a cast around both fore hooves and his back.

He proceeded down a hallway with the words ''Help Me Forgive Them'' in redspray painted this made Hooves think ''Them who's them'' before finding more red spray paint ''If You Help Me Forgive Them I'll Forgive You'',

''This gotta have to do something with the death of his colt'' Hooves said before finding red spray paint pointing at a door. He unlocked the door and found himself inside a padded room. ''Knew this looked like a abandoned insane asylum'' the grey pony thought looking at the contraption in front of him.

Hooves recognized the contraption as the Dizzitron a test at Wonderbolts Academy his pegasus colleagues told him about. the Dizzitron itself was smaller than the actual thing and in it was a pegasus with a turquoise coat and blonde looking hair.

When he approached the Dizzitron and touched the pegasus it woke ''Help Me'' she said her voice broken, spotting Hooves with a key ''The Key'' she told the earth pony tears flowing down her cheek. ''The key right'' he said using the on the gear vest but it didn't seem to unlock.

Hooves spotted a door behind the Dizzitron but when he tried to unlock that door it still didn't unlock ''Wrong key'' he muttered putting the key in his saddle bag. He looked around the room and found a tape and played it

''Hello Lightning Dust i wanna play a game, right now you're strapped to The Dizzitron the spiral is suppose to represent what the death of Shiny Blade did to me led me down a downwards spiral a emotional downward spiral. To avoid your fate you must time it right and avoid getting hit by one of the sharp objects in this room Live Or Die The Choice Is Yours.''

A TV activated and Stichy appeared on the screen ''Welcome to your next test Mark, this is the pegasus that witnessed the death of Shiny Blade her name is Lightning Dust. She refuse to testify against you which led to the jury telling the judge that you should get a light sentence. The Spiral on the Dizzitron is suppose to represent the emotional downward spiral i went through.''

''The Dizzitron of Death will start spinning and each time she scrape the floor it will hurt her neck and once it reaches max speed it will decapitate her.''

''The key is somewhere in this padded room in one of the tiles which represent how i almost went insane from losing Shiny Blade and having you Hooves lightly sentence. You can either help me forgive her by saving her or seek vengence the choice is yours.'' Stichy explained before the TV shut off

A engine nearby connected to The Dizzitron Of Death started up and a lever was pulled. Hooves first action was running over to the engine and pull the lever to shut off the trap but it didn't seem budge. He also noticed that the the arrow was edging from the turtle icon to the rabbit icon and would eventually hit the skull icon.

Hooves then resorted to doing what Stichy said, he grabbed the knife and started slicing and digging through the tiles of the padded room. He was lucky that this test didn't require him to get injured. The Dizzitron of Death have reached rabbit speed and Lighting Dust went from her neck hurting to her neck cracking.

Hooves then started slicing and digging through the floor tiles and found the key. The engine of The Dizzitron Of Death was almost at the skull icon so the grey earth pony didn't have time to time it and just went for it, jumping at the trap but this resulted in him getting hit by the gear vest knocking him down.

The engine of The Dizzitron Of Death hit the skull icon, Lightning Dust decapitated her head exploding into bloody bits. Even some blood sprayed onto Hooves face, some getting on his bowtie and his red eye. All of a sudden a secret red lever behind the engine was pulled.

Releasing Lightning Dust's headless body and splatting it onto the right wall where Hooves was slicing and digging through. Leaving a huge stain of blood on that wall and her body sliding down to the floor. Hooves facehoofed ''I was to slow, i need to go faster.'' Hooves stated sadly before walking over to the door behind the Dizzitron of Death and unlocking it with the key.

Flashback

''In conclusion your honor Hooves is very sorry about what he did it was a accident'' Hooves's lawyer explained to the judge ''Alright since you cilent feels remorse about his actions that should get him a light sentence'' the judge explained

''COME ON YOU WERE THERE TESTIFY!'' Hacksaw yelled at Lighting Dust ''Saw calm down'' his lawyer told him ''NO I'M NOT CALMING DOWN SHE WAS THERE WHEN HE KILLED SHINY BLADE!'' Hacksaw yelled again lashing out with his lawyer stopping him.

''Order!'' the judge said banging the gavel ''Alright for the last time Lightining Dust did you witness the death of Hacksaw's colt Shiny Blade?

''No i didn't i wasn't there'' the pegasus explained her voice breaking as tears rolled down her cheeks. After jury discussed the situation one of the members came up and ended the case.

''As a member of the jury we sentence Mark Hooves to...6 months in prison.'' one jury member concluded ''This court is dismissed'' the judge said banging the gavel