Just as she expected, she did not have any issues getting on the train despite her having a couple large boxes with her. Once she got on board, she was able to have her own private car. As the train headed south, she began to think about everything she could do to her victims. She also began to wonder what sorts of torture methods the warlords of so long ago had but most importantly, she knew there would have to be a resurrection spell. If there wasn't, she would have to write one herself and that would take much longer.

Three hours later, the train pulled into Appaloosa and so that she would not draw any suspicion to herself, she leisurely departed the train. She waited around for a minute before heading to the northeast, into the badlands. While it was a time of year where it did not get excessively hot, she still wanted to hurry up and get to her destination before it got too light. After all, if any pegasi was to see a pony walking in the area with two boxes, there was a chance they would go and notify the authorities of what they saw.

After several hours of walking, she began to sense movement coming from inside the box that Hooves was in. She set the box down, kicked it and laughed, "Just wait Hooves, you'll get out of there soon enough!"

She then picked the box back up and continued to walk until she saw what she thought was a tiny hold in the side of the cliff. She looked at it and sure enough, it was a hole. Colgate had to make sure that it was the right one though. She inserted her horn in the hole, released energy into it and recited,

"The bunker is locked, from thy enemies it is blocked,
Crimes of the enemy must be paid for, to do this thou must unlock the door,
In we take the enemy, of which there are many
Inside we kill the bright ones, and the days of light shall be done."

The moment she recited the spell, a wall slid open and revealed a passage that headed into the rock formation. Colgate then picked up the boxes and carried them through before the wall slid back shut. One thing Colgate did notice though that there was a hole on the right side of the door, one that would allow her to get out. She did have her concerns that there may be a completely different spell to get out but figured that she could deal with that when the time came.

Once she got the two further down she saw that there were multiple doorways which led to various rooms but further down the hall was a doorway that had a dim green light shining from it, one that likely signified the presence of dark magic. When she took the two into that room, she saw that there were multiple torture devices in there. She clapped her hooves and cheered, "Yes, now I can take care of this." She saw something moving inside of Hooves' box so she figured that she would take care of him first, then mess with Cheerilee.

She set the two boxes down and began to open the box that Hooves was in. Once she got it open he immediately tried to get up and yelled, "What the hay? Where am I?"

Colgate grabbed him in her aura and laughed, "You are in what shall be your final resting place! You are about to learn what happens to those who spit in the face......"

Hooves yelled, "I did not do that. All the evidence pointed towards Twilight Sparkle and justice was served!"

Colgate grunted, "Whatever rat, now let's get you secured."

Hooves continued to struggle and Colgate knew that securing him in one of the devices would be impossible so she injected him with another dose of sedatives and almost immediately, he fell asleep again. Colgate then took him to one of the chairs and began to get him secured. She rammed hooks through his hooves with a smile on her face. He did let out grunts of pain as she did this but he did not wake up. Once she got him secured, she stood over the slumbering pony with a scowl on her face. "Ugh," she growled, "I hope he doesn't take too long to wake."

Colgate began to pace back and forth for several hours before Hooves finally began to stir. When Colgate noticed this she laughed, "Oh good, I see you're awake." He tried to say something but would quickly be cut off by Colgate, "Alright rat, the time has come to pass judgement upon you for the crimes you have committed."

Hooves yelled, "I never committed any crimes! It was that murderer Twilight Sparkle and now you have committed crimes."

Colgate sighed, "Uh-huh." She smacked him hard and demanded, "Now tell me, why was it that you think Twilight Sparkle was guilty of murder?"

He snidely replied, "Because everypony saw her kill Cheerilee, Cheerilee saw her kill them and she didn't want her turning her in, she threw water on the burning theater in an attempt to extinguish the fire, killing eight school foals! She lit the fire, her friends knew, she killed them to hide the truth!"

Colgate began to savagely beat him and yelled, "Hogwash, hogwash, hogwash!" She stopped beating him and yelled, "You actually expect anypony to believe this non-sense? I have never once heard a more poorly put together argument in my life!"

Hooves however remained defiant, "You know what, a bloodied piece of the theater floor was found in her bed....."

Colgate once again smacked him, "Yeah, uh-huh." She began to pace around the room angrily wondering what she should do when she stepped on a part of the floor and suddenly the floor opened, revealing what was a pool of sulfuric acid. She then looked up and saw hooks hanging from the ceiling and this gave her an idea. She turned to Hooves and laughed, "You know something, I'm being too nice!"

He snapped, "You're not being....."

Colgate then removed him from the chair and then levitated him up to the hooks and rammed his front hooves from them, leaving him hanging above a pool of acid. Colgate then noticed a crank that could be used to lower and raise any victim that was hanging. Colgate headed to the crank and began to lower Hooves to show him that she controlled his fate. He gasped in horror, "What, you're going to kill me with acid?"

Colgate laughed, "Maybe I will, maybe I won't." She paused before becoming more monotone, "Hooves, I am going to let you in on something. I have been monitoring what goes on with court cases up in Canterlot ever since Luna has returned from the moon and why is it that you always manage to get convictions? Certainly not every single pony who has been tried has been guilty."

Hooves snapped, "They were convicted because they were guilty!"

Colgate laughed, "Yeah, uh-huh." She then lowered Hooves a bit and continued, "Regarding a case not that long ago....one in which I attended. I remember how a stallion was accused of a bank robbery and part of your argument was that he was seen at the scene of the crime. However, the defense attorney brought up that none of the bits found in his home had serial numbers that matched those that were reported stolen. How can that be if he robbed the bank?"

Hooves was briefly rattled before regaining his composure, "That is a lie because the defense attorney....."

Colgate cut him off, "Has access to the same evidence that the prosecution does and I know Swift Justice well enough to know that he would not lie."

"But Princess Luna....."

Colgate immediately cut him off, "I'm curious about something, is Princess Luna in on all of this?"

Hooves became more belligerent and yelled, "Princess Luna would never......."

Colgate struck him with a bolt of energy before lowering him closer to the acid. Colgate raised her voice and yelled, "Tell me then, why is it she always gets a conviction?" She struck him with energy again before continuing, "I have even heard rumors that she personally accused Twilight Sparkle of not being able to handle her responsibilities down in Ponyville. Am I correct?"

Hooves froze upon hearing this. He knew that his captor likely knew much more than many would think. He nervously replied, "Well uh...."

Colgate lowered him further and stared him down, "If she did, she violated rule 7.33.8a of the Equestrian code regarding trials. Judges are supposed to be impartial and also, Princess Luna also knew Twilight personally which should have automatically disqualified her from overseeing that court case."

Hooves countered, "But she was the only one available, she....."

Colgate cut him off, "There was Judge Balanced Scales up there in Canterlot or there could have been a change of venue. That whole fiasco was nothing more than a kangaroo court. Princess Luna believed she was guilty and you believed she was guilty. A prosecutor is supposed to try and prove guilt, they don't automatically assume it!"

Hooves was finally beginning to see all the wrongs of everything he had been part of. He took a deep breath and knew that this would be taking a huge risk before replying, "Colgate, I know everything I did was wrong but would you spare me if I reveal everything involving Princess Luna, how she handles court cases and" he paused before gulping, "and the payouts she promises me if I make up lies and produce fake evidence?"

Colgate's eyes grew wide in shock as she gasped, "She did what? So basically you are bought off?" He nodded and Colgate threw in another question, "And what of Princess Celestia? Does she know about what her sister is doing?"

Hooves nodded his head which caused Colgate to become angrier and caused her to make a decision. She yelled, "You know what, forget about Cheerilee. She is nothing more than a mouse in a government full of rats, rats that must go!" She saw Hooves' eyes grow wide as she continued, "Perhaps it is time this corrupt monarchy goes. Any system that would allow such things to happen is inherently flawed." She paused before levitating him off the hooks and on to the floor and added, "And if you value your life, you will aid me in exposing them. You have benefited monetarily from this so which is it, will you aid me and live or side with the princesses and die?"

Hooves was seriously considering actually siding with Colgate but then became curious about how she wanted the monarchy to go and what she would replace it with. He asked, "Colgate, but how? How are you going to get rid of the monarchy? You know Celestia and Luna won't just step down."

Colgate grabbed him in her aura and stated, "A bloody coup must take place. We will expose the princesses, force them out and then spill their blood. The whole nation will be so mad at them that they will not care, I will be deemed as a hero who liberated them from a system that is inherently flawed." She paused before laughing, "To be honest, I could see them wanting me to take over, they will want me to be their queen and once that happens, every single rat who has committed injustices against the innocent shall be wiped out, and I mean every single rat!"

Hooves had a feeling that by Colgate bringing up every single rat, that she likely meant him too. He became angry, "So if I agree to help you you'll still wipe me out?"

Colgate grabbed him in her aura and held him over the acid and laughed, "Well of course, you are part of the system, right?" She lowered him down to where he was mere inches above the acid and added, "I already have dirt on those two, I don't need your help!"

He then let out one loud scream as Colgate dropped him into the acid. Once he sank into the pool Colgate laughed, "Well rat, you won't be making up lies anymore!"

She then went to the other box, the one which contained Cheerilee's remains and readied herself to open it. As she opened the box, a horrid stench escaped from it, a stench that caused Colgate to start vomiting. Once Colgate quit throwing up, she levitated the remains out of the box and got ready to resurrect the villain. She grasped the remains in her aura and recited,

"The fallen one's time has yet to be,
the fallen one still has many days to run free,
for potential the fallen one has a lot,
without life it would all be for not,
for life shall be renewed,
the fallen one's past decisions need not be reviewed."

Immediately the remains became encircled in a ball and levitated off the ground. Colgate could see inside and tell that a pony was beginning to form. After five minutes the ball popped and to the ground dropped Cheerilee. She looked around, very disoriented and asked, "Ugh, where am I?"

Colgate clapped her hooves and cheered, "Oh good, you're awake. Now I can properly punish you for your crimes!"

Cheerilee was clearly confused as she wearily asked, "Wait a minute, how is it that I'm alive? Twilight killed me!"

Colgate laughed, "She did but it was only because you killed her friends, you killed her assistant and you killed eight foals. She simply wanted to wipe out the rat who caused Ponyville so many problems, the one who brought about so much heartache, the one who tore families apart."

Cheerilee was becoming more coherent, "I had to wipe those weeds out but still, how is that I'm still alive?"

Colgate smacked her and laughed, "Why should you care? It isn't like you'll last that long anyway!"

Cheerilee immediately began to rush away from Colgate yelling, "Help, somepony help!"

Colgate grabbed her in her aura and laughed, "Nopony can hear you and nopony will ever come looking for you here! Everypony else has forgotten this place even exists!" She knew that getting Cheerilee handled while she would be struggling so she levitated her to herself and injected her with some sedative, causing the teacher to fall asleep.

Colgate began to look around, trying to find which device that she could inflict the most horrific torture possible upon Cheerilee. She found a gurney on the other side of the room with hooks on all four arms and also noticed that they were connected to chains, chains that were connected to cranks that she could pull her legs out to the point where she could dislocate them. She clapped her hooves and cheered, "Excellent! This will work perfectly!"

She then began to insert the hooks through Cheerilee's legs, causing her to let out brief whimpers of pain before again going silent. Like it was with Hooves, Colgate began to pace back and forth waiting for her victim to wake up. Several hours had passed and Cheerilee finally began to come to. Colgate stood over her with a glare on her face and addressed her, "Oh good, you're awake. I didn't think you were ever going to wake up."

As Cheerilee was coming to she remembered her last interaction with her captor. She looked around and yelled, "Colgate, what have you done to me? Why am I here?" She paused before adding, "If this is over the fifty bits I owe you this is outlandish. Fifty bits isn't reason enough to torture me.

Colgate smacked her and firmly began, "Cheerilee, this has nothing to do with your debt to me. Yes I am not happy but this is over so much more." She smacked her again and continued, "During your miserable life you committed crimes that were unfathomable in the nation of Equestria. You killed fourteen ponies, eight of those being your students and since the legal system didn't have a chance to wipe you out, I shall do so in their stead."

Cheerilee yelled, "I had to you fool. They were all weeds, weeds that were destroying Ponyville. Those students, ugh they nearly drove me to suicide and Twilight Sparkle's friends, they were all weeds too!" The sudden thought of Twilight caused Cheerilee's mood to change, "And Twilight, she killed me! If anypony should be punished it is her! She was the worst weed of them all!"

Colgate struck her with several bolts of magic over her comment. She yelled, "Twilight Sparkle was a model citizen of Equestria, what she did was an act of self-defense from what I understand. She was no weed Cheerilee. You however, you are a rat that must be exterminated, a rat that must be purged from this land!"

Cheerilee calmed down and took in what Colgate had just said. She asked, "What do you mean Twilight Sparkle was a model citizen?"

Colgate got down in her face and yelled, "She was accused of killing those that you killed and because she avenged their deaths, that tyrant Luna and their rat prosecutor sentenced her to death!" She began punching Cheerilee and yelled, "It is all your fault you rat! It is all your fault that Twilight is dead!" Cheerilee tried to say something before Colgate continued, "And because of that, you will suffer on levels never before imagined!"

Cheerilee gave Colgate a smirk, "Ha! I tortured all those weeds in ways you could never imagine! The horror and pain they suffered through was unimaginable!"

Colgate laughed, "Perhaps but I can do things a rat like you could never do!" She paused for a moment before smacking her again, "You will learn this, you mess with one of Celestia's students, you mess with all of us!"

Colgate then took to the cranks and began to stretch Cheerilee's legs out to their breaking point. Colgate kept a good eye on her legs because she did not want to fully dislocate her legs. It would make what she wanted to do next much easier. Once she had all of Cheerilee's legs stretched out to their breaking point the teacher began to cry out in pain, "Stop, please stop! Please show me mercy!"

Colgate smacked her so hard she knocked half her teeth out before yelling, "NO! You showed Twilight's friends no mercy, you showed Spike no mercy, you showed those foals no mercy so why in Tartarus should I show you any!"

Cheerilee continued to yell defiantly but Colgate was too busy to pay her much attention. She headed over to the box that Cheerilee was transported in and grabbed multiple objects. When she saw what Colgate had she developed a look of horror in her eyes. She had a very strong feeling as to what Colgate was going to do. She began to scream and plead with Colgate, "Please, don't kill me, don't torture me! I'll admit to everything if you spare me!"

Colgate took a whip and struck her in the face before laughing, "No Cheerilee, your crimes are too great. The only way to rid the world of rats like you is to exterminate them!"

Colgate then took a knife to her torso and began to cut her open. She began to dissect her like one would a frog. Despite being secured in a way that restricted her movement greatly, Cheerilee was still able to wobble a bit that made Colgate's cuts less than perfect. Once Colgate got her skin cut open, Colgate took to her and began to feast on her flesh. Cheerilee began to scream in agony, "Stop, please stop! I'll confess, please I will confess!"

Colgate smacked her and yelled, "Too late rat, too late!" Colgate ultimately got all the meat ripped off of her yet she did not eat it as she would need it later on. She looked down at Cheerilee's racing heart and her rapidly expanding and contracting lungs and laughed, "Oh wow, your precious little organs are pumping so fast! Too bad you couldn't see it, you could teach your students about it." She then slugged Cheerilee and snapped, "Well you could had you not killed all of them!"

Colgate the leaned down and clamped onto the teacher's rib cage and broke it open, causing Cheerilee to begin convulsing. This did not sit well with Colgate, "Not yet rat, not yet! I'm not letting you go this easily!" She then cast a spell to calm her body down, ensuring that shock would not kill her. Colgate gave Cheerilee a smirk, "Now what should I do next?" She then grabbed a syringe and laughed, "Oh I know exactly what I will do and you're going to love it!"

She then rammed the syringe into her lung, causing Cheerilee to scream loudly and the lung to begin to collapse. As Cheerilee laid there gasping for breath, Colgate began to dance around her and yelled, "You do this Cheer, you do this to any of your victims?"

Despite having trouble breathing she gasped, "I did more than you ever coul....."

Colgate smacked her and laughed, "Well I'm not done. Give me time and your antics will look like foals play!"

Colgate continued to dance around, clap her hooves and cheer as her victim laid there, having more trouble breathing. Once the lung was fully collapsed, Colgate decided the time had come. She looked in her chest cavity, saw that her heart was racing again and giggled, "My my, your pulse is way too high! How about I do something to take care of that."

When Colgate leaned her head down into her chest cavity, Cheerilee knew what was going to happen next, she came to the realization that her captor was a true sadist. Colgate looked up her and asked, "Shall I? Shall I end your miserable pathetic life?"

Cheerilee was unable to give any response except for a look of despair in her eyes. Colgate clapped her hooves and laughed, "I'll take that as a yes!"

Colgate then placed her beating heart in her mouth and watched her victim's eyes and noticed the true sense of despair in them. Colgate pulled the heart out of her mouth monetarily and snarled, "And now RAT, you must know exactly how Twilight felt when she was sentenced to death." She then ripped the heart out, causing Cheerilee to scream one final time. Colgate began to chew up the heart but did not swallow it, she instead spit it into her chest cavity. She stood over the corpse and coldly stated, "And this is what happens to the worst of the worst rats." She then flared up her horn and giggled, "And now it is time for round two!"

She grabbed the corpse in her aura and recited,

"The fallen one's time has yet to be,
the fallen one still has many days to run free,
for potential the fallen one has a lot,
without life it would all be for not,
for life shall be renewed,
the fallen one's past decisions need not be reviewed."

Immediately the corpse was encircled in a ball of light and after five minutes, Cheerilee was alive once more. While her victim had been physically restored, she was still secured as tight as she was before. Cheerilee was in a state of shock that she could die and somehow be restored, again. She gasped, "Colgate, how can you do this? How can you constantly bring me back only to kill me again?"

Colgate pointed towards her horn and stated, "Remember Cheerilee, I am a unicorn and we are the masters of magic. While you can only kill your victims once, I could continue to do this for hours or even days on end. You could experience a horrible death hundreds of times before I was to decide to haul you to Canterlot to face judgement."

Colgate clapped her hooves and cheered as she grabbed her knife and laughed, "Ready for round two Cheerilee! This is going to be so much fun, for me anyway!"

Colgate then got back to work again and enjoyed it just as much as she did the first time. After killing her victim a second time, she began to wonder how many times she should do this. Given that Cheerilee had killed fourteen ponies and was responsible for the death of another she stared at the corpse and laughed, "Sixteen times rat, you're gonna die sixteen times!"

Author's Note

The bunker is locked, from thy enemies it is blocked,
Crimes of the enemy must be paid for, to do this thou must unlock the door,
In we take the enemy, of which there are many
Inside we kill the bright ones, and the days of light shall be done.

"The enemies have paid the price, for in their torture they squealed like mice,
Now the hunt goes on, for more must disappear and be gone,
The princes of light are dying, which is most satisfying
Soon darkness will forever shroud the land and attacking us will not be in the outsiders' plan."

"The fallen one's time has yet to be,
the fallen one still has many days to run free,
for potential the fallen one has a lot,
without life it would all be for not,
for life shall be renewed,
the fallen one's past decisions need not be reviewed."