Nightmare Night Bedtime Stories

“No. You can’t make me go.” Rainbow Dash yelled. Twilight and Applejack were holding onto the thrashing pegasus. Rainbow Dash’s wings tried to break free of the rope, but it was just too strong.

They slowly moved down the streets of Ponyville, Twilight and Applejack had to push and drag the resisting pony as she struggled to break free.

“Rainbow Dash, you have to go.” Twilight said, pulling her friend with her two front hooves. Twilight had tried using her magic earlier, but Rainbow Dash broke free from the spell and took off. Luckily Applejack was there and was able to lasso the rainbow maned pegasus before she could get too far.

“No I don’t.” Rainbow Dash said. “I’ve never been before and I’m not going now.”

“That’s gross.” Twilight stated.

“Yeah.” Applejack agreed. “How’re ya suppose ta meet a nice stallion with dirty teeth?”

“I don’t want a nice stallion if it means going to the dentist.”

“Rainbow Dash, they’re just going to look at your teeth and clean them if they need it.” Twilight said and then murmured to Applejack, “And they do need it.”

Applejack nodded in agreement.

“You’re lying.” Rainbow Dash yelled. “I know what they’re gonna do. They’re gonna drill into my teeth and remove them.”

“You’ll be fine.” Applejack said.

“You don’t know that.”

“Trust us, nothin’ bad’s gonna happen.”

Rainbow Dash’s struggle stopped. Not because she believed Applejack and Twilight, nor because she felt reassured, but because she was tired.

Up the road was a building with a sign with a tooth on it. The building structure was the same style as every other building in Ponyville.

The three mares entered through the doors and were introduced to a large waiting room with many benches and in a corner there was a large bucket of toys where two foals played.

Just a few yards away from the trio was a desk and behind the desk was a brown earth pony with a red curly mane.

“Applejack, take Rainbow Dash over to one of the benches. Make sure she doesn’t run away.” Twilight ordered Applejack.

“Yes, ma’am.” the orange earth pony said and she led Rainbow Dash to a bench near the bucket of toys. Twilight walked up to the desk.

“May I help you?” said the mare behind the desk.

“Umm, yes. My friend, Rainbow Dash, has an appointment with Dr. Colgate for a check up.”

“Ah yes, Ms. Rainbow Dash.” the mare said. She began looking through some files and papers, and for the next minute or two there was silence. “Colgate is currently finishing up with another patient and should be with you and your friend shortly.”

“Thank you.” Twilight said.

“Have a nice day.”

Twilight walked over to her two friends and sat down on the bench. Rainbow Dash was now fast asleep, probably dreaming about being in the Wonderbolts or something.

There was a loud scream which awoke Rainbow Dash and caused her to fall off the bench. “What was that?” the pegasus asked instantly and in fear.

“Probably just one of the patients.” Applejack said.

A mare walked into the waiting room. She wore a white lab coat and with a smile she called, “Rainbow Dash.”

“Nope. Not going in. Buck that.” Rainbow Dash said. She galloped towards the exit as quickly as she could, but was stopped by Twilight, who was using her magic to pull Rainbow Dash towards her.

Rainbow Dash tried to fight back, but without the use of her wings, resistance was futile.

Twilight brought Rainbow Dash over to the nurse.

“Follow me, please.” the nurse said. Twilight followed the nurse, dragging Rainbow Dash behind her. Even though resisting was useless, it still didn’t stop the pegasus from trying to fight back.

The three mares went down a hallway and into a room filled with machines and cleaning utensils.

“No! Please, no! Don’t make me go in there!”

“Rainbow, you’ll be fine.” Twilight said and then tossed her into the room. The door slammed shut. Rainbow Dash attempted to get the door open, but unfortunately for her it was locked.

She turned around, pressed up against the door, and looked at the nurse with an expression of fear on her face.

“Now, Rainbow Dash, please try and relax.” the nurse said. “Why don’t you take a seat in the chair?”

The panicking pony looked at the chair the nurse was referring to. She looked back at the nurse and then spoke, “No way, you wanna drill into my teeth.”

“Rainbow Dash, I promise you we’re just going to look at your teeth.”

Rainbow Dash looked deep into the nurse’s eyes. She looked into them for a good half minute and was able to see that she was telling the truth.

She hopped into the chair and lied down on her back.

The nurse gave a smile. She handed Rainbow Dash a pair of shade. “Put these on.” she said.

Rainbow Dash did as she was told. She still felt really nervous and uneasy.

“Alright, I need you to open you mouth as wide as you can.”

The pegasus slowly and nervously opened her mouth. The nurse flipped on a bright light that hung directly over Rainbow Dash.

The nurse looked into the mare’s mouth. With a look of disgust on her face she said, “Oh, sweet Celestia.”

“What?” Rainbow Dash asked, getting worried. “What’s wrong with my teeth?”

“They’re disgusting.”

“Your teeth aren’t shining diamonds either.”

‘No, I mean they’re filthy.” The nurse looked like she was going to vomit. “How often do you brush?”

“Oh, I don’t brush.” Rainbow Dash said.

“What?”

“Well I don’t have time to brush my teeth. I’m too busy being awesome.”

“Yeah.” the nurse said sounding weird out. “Well the doctor will be with you shortly.” The nurse shut off the light.

“Alright.”

The nurse left the room and locked the door behind her.

Rainbow Dash let out a sigh of both nervousness and relief. She looked around the room. There were a number of posters relating to the topic of teeth. One poster was a yellow filly giving step by step instructions on how to brush your teeth. Another poster showed the jaw of a pony and each tooth was labeled by its proper scientific name.

The rainbow maned pegasus turned her attention to the objects on the counter. Most of the utensils appeared to be extremely sharp, but there were a few that looked to be regular cleaning tools. There was also one that looked like some kind of mirror.

There were mold models of teeth, computers, x-rays, and much more medical equipment.

There was a knock on the door and then somepony tried to open it, but the door was still locked.

“Nurse.” said a female voice just outside the door. “Why is the door locked?”

“Oh, the patient was trying to run away, so we couldn’t take any chances.” said the nurse.

There was a sound of the door unlocking and then the door opened. A blue unicorn, wearing a green lab coat, walked into the room. Her mane was a light blue with white highlights and her cutie mark, for some odd reason, was an hourglass.

“Good morning, Rainbow Dash.” said the unicorn. “I’m Dr. Colgate, and it says here that this is your first time at the orthodontist, am I correct?”

“Yeah, so?” Rainbow Dash said.

“This is very serious, Ms. Rainbow Dash. You could be at risk to tooth decay and even gingivitis.”

“Yeah, yeah, whatever.”

“Well, you obviously don’t care, so let’s just get started.” Colgate said and then she turned on the light. “Please open your mouth.”

Rainbow Dash did so.

Colgate looked into her mouth. “Mmhmm.” she said. Her horn lit up and two dental tools floated over to Rainbow Dash’s mouth One was a scraper and the other was a small mirror. “Oh my.”

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. After about five minutes Colgate turned off the light and backed away from Rainbow Dash.

“Rainbow Dash, I must ask you to wait here for a moment.” Colgate said. She opened the door with her magic and stepped out into the hall.

“Where’re you goin’, Doc?” Rainbow Dash tried to ask, but Colgate already closed the door before she could finish. She began to feel sleepy again, so she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

“Twilight Sparkle.” Colgate called.

Twilight got up off the bench. Applejack was on her back, sleeping, with her hat over her face.

The purple unicorn walked up to Colgate. “So, what’s the damage?” Twilight asked.

“Well to start, she has the unhealthiest set of teeth I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of teeth.” Colgate said.

“They can’t be that bad.”

“Every tooth was covered in plaque, she has twenty cavities, and at least two molars are suffering from tooth decay.”

Twilight gave a look of disgust. “Ok, they’re bad.”

“How she’s not in excruciating pain, I don’t know. But I suggest surgery.”

“Today?”

Colgate nodded. “I recommend you and your sleeping friend over there go home.The surgery can take hours.”

“Oh, umm, ok.” Twilight said, not sure about leaving her friend here alone.

“And don’t worry about your friend. She’s in good hooves.”

Rainbow Dash was awoken by a blinding light. She realized that her shades were gone and could already tell she wasn’t in the same room.

Her eyes began watering to the intense light beaming down on her face.

“Where am I? What’s going on?” she asked. The light was moved about a foot further away from Rainbow Dash, revealing a blue unicorn with a blue and white mane.

“Hello Ms. Rainbow Dash.” Colgate said. “Comfortable?”

The colorful maned pony tried to move but found that she couldn’t. She was strapped down to a chair, like the one she had fell asleep on before waking up here.

“What’s going on?” Rainbow Dash asked again.

“Why, your surgery of course.”

“What do you mean surgery?” the tied down pegasus could feel herself shaking in fear.

“I mean I’m going to remove your teeth.” Colgate answered.

“Why?”

“Because your teeth are repulsive. Your teeth are by far the dirtiest and most cavity infested I’ve ever seen. So, they have to come out.”

The pegasus was now beginning to sweat. Her heart was pounding heavily in her chest and her fearful shaking intensified.

“You’re gonna give me medication, right?” Rainbow Dash asked. “You know, to numb me or sedate me or something?”

“Now, why in Equestria would I do that? How can you learn if I just take the pain away?”

“Learn?”

“Wow, you ask a lot of questions.” Colgate said. “Let me explain. Nearly all my life I’ve been fascinated by teeth. I don’t know why, but the topic soon became an obsession. I went to a school in Canterlot where I got my PhD. I had studied hard and was even the first to graduate in my class. I soon moved to Ponyville and started my own business. First day of work I got my first patient. He was a nice stallion, good looks, well groomed mane. There was only one thing I despised about him. His teeth. It made me furious that somepony could care so little for their teeth. So I took my pliers and yanked all his teeth out. Now of course I couldn’t let him leave after that.”

“So you killed him?” Rainbow Dash spoke up.

“Oh, heavens, no.” Colgate said. “I’m not a murderer. I’m just a mare that believes in a world with perfect teeth.”

“What did you do with him?” Rainbow Dash asked feeling more scared than ever before.

“He works for me now.”

“But I didn’t see any stallions working here.”

“Well I can’t have a toothless pony working upstairs in public, also can’t have them so close to the exit, can I?”

“Them?” Rainbow Dash asked, though she already knew the answer.

“Oh, you think you and him are the only ones? I have a whole factory just in the other room.”

“A factory? What could you possibly be making down her?”

“While I was in school, I kept myself busy by doing research on teeth and ways to make them cleaner. I soon discovered that there was something in the teeth themselves, that when melted down and mixed in with the proper chemicals, the chemical reaction would create a type of paste that made teeth stronger, cleaner, and prevented cavities better than any other toothpaste brand.”

“Well why can’t you just clean my teeth with that paste and let me go? Please, I won’t tell anypony about all this. I just want to go home.” Rainbow Dash begged.

“I could, but I lost a worker the other day and I gotta fill that empty spot. Poor filly, died of exhaustion.”

“You’re a monster.” Rainbow Dash yelled. She was starting to cry.

“I’m not a monster.” Colgate said. “I’m the future.”

Rainbow Dash looked into the insane dentist’s eyes and saw nothing. No guilt, no remorse, no soul.

“Now, I think that’s enough chit chat. My shift is in about two hours and I haven’t been late before.” Colgate walked away into the shadows and returned to the light, pushing a tray cart covered by a white sheet.

Colgate stopped next to Rainbow Dash and then pulled the sheet off the tray. On the tray were a number of sharp objects, and a thing of metal pliers.

The unicorn’s horn lit up and the pliers lifted off the tray.

“Alright, Ms. Rainbow Dash. I must ask you to open your mouth, please.” Colgate asked nicely.

“Hell no.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Come on, Rainbow. Don’t make this more difficult than it already is.”

Rainbow Dash didn’t open her mouth. She just looked at the eyes of the mare before her.

“Have it your way.” Colgate said. Her horn glowed brighter and out of the darkness, from different direction, hurdled four hooks connected to chains. The hooks forced themselves into Rainbow Dash’s mouth and pierced the four corners of her mouth. Blood began to run down the side of the rainbow maned pony’s muzzle.

Rainbow Dash yelled out in pain.

“You brought this upon yourself.” Colgate said. Her horn got a bit brighter and the chains pulled back; forcing the pegasus to show her teeth.

Tears ran down Rainbow Dash’s face. She clenched her teeth together. She wasn’t going to just let this psychopath yank out her teeth.

Colgate saw that Rainbow Dash wasn’t going to open her jaw. The dentist smiled. Her horn grew brighter again and from the tray levitated a tool that looked like a pair of pliers, except at the end it was two flat, metal pieces pressed together.

Rainbow Dash watched as Colgate teased her by making the two metal pieces open and close.

Colgate giggled.

The metal instrument floated over to Rainbow Dash, forced itself in between the pegasus’s bite, and then forced itself open, forcing Rainbow’s mouth wide open.

“There we go.” Colgate said.

More tears flowed down from Rainbow Dash’s eyes.

The metal pair of pliers, which were still levitating in the air, moved over to the crying pegasus. The clamps opened and placed themselves tightly onto one of Rainbow Dash’s from-bottom teeth.

Rainbow Dash’s silent cry turned into whaling.

“Try and keep still.” Colgate said to Rainbow Dash. “You don’t want me to mess up.”

There was a small pause, but then Colgate spoke, “Are you ready?”

Rainbow Dash shook her head. Tears went down her face and into her open mouth.

“Then this isn’t going to be pleasant.” The pliers got a tighter grip on the tooth. Rainbow Dash could feel her heart pounding violently in her chest.

Colgate jerked her head back and the plier followed. There was a click and a bit of blood squirted from Rainbow Dash’s mouth.

The pegasus screamed. But the screams turned into a gargle as her mouth quickly filled with blood.

Colgate dropped the tooth into a cup that was on the tray. She placed the bloody pliers next to the cup and then used her magic to turn on a machine. The machine made a humming sound. Connected to the machine was a thin tube, which Colgate used her magic and place it into Rainbow Dash’s mouth.

The tube began sucking up the blood from the mare’s mouth.

“Can’t have you drowning in your own blood. You’re no good to me dead.” Colgate said. She chuckled at the cries of her victim. “Alright, let’s go again.”

Rainbow Dash didn’t hear her, she just continued to cry in horrible pain.

Colgate used her magic to lift the pliers from the tray it moved over to Rainbow Dash’s mouth and once again took hold of one of her front teeth.

Once Rainbow Dash felt the grip on her tooth she began thrashing her head around yelling something that sounded like “no”.

“Quit moving.” the dentist said. “This will only make things worse for you.”

Rainbow Dash didn’t stop. She writhed in her chair, the tube moving around in her mouth, sucking up all the moisture, drying up her mouth and throat.

“Very well, then.” Colgate jerked her head back. More blood shot from Rainbow Dash’s mouth. She screamed an ear piercing scream that made Colgate have to cover her ears with her hooves.

Colgate looked over at the pliers and saw that they only held half a tooth.

“I told you.” Colgate said. She dropped the piece of tooth into the cup with the other teeth. The pliers moved back into Rainbow Dash’s mouth and got a hold of the other half of the tooth. “Now, keep still.”

Once again, Colgate jerked her head and the pliers yanked out the other half. On the end of the tooth was a small chunk of the pony’s gums.

Blood poured into the pegasus’s mouth and was sucked up into the tube. Even though the blood was being sucked up out of her mouth, Rainbow Dash could still taste it’s very metallic taste.

Colgate put the tooth in the cup and continued the process of removing Rainbow Dash’s teeth.

She’d grip the teeth with the pliers, yank the tooth out, then put the tooth in the cup.

After the sixteenth tooth Rainbow Dash began to feel light headed. She was in so much pain and was losing a lot of blood. Right after the seventeenth tooth, Rainbow Dash passed out

“Rainbow Dash.” said a faded voice. “Rainbow Dash, wake up.”

The pegasus slowly opened her eyes. Everything looked fuzzy and blurry. She was able to make out a blue pony’s face and when things started becoming clearer she realized the one telling her to “wake up” was Colgate.

Her entire mouth felt sore. But that wasn’t the only thing that hurt. Her neck felt like it was on fire.

She felt around her mouth with her tongue and was only able to feel the ridged surface of her gums. She had no teeth. Her vision was completely restored to her and at that moment rage filled her very soul as she looked at Colgate.

“Awl keel you, you bith.” Rainbow Dash said, not used to talking without teeth.

“Nuh uh uh.” Colgate said. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”

It was then Rainbow Dash recognized two large hooks that were connected to chains, hooked into her neck.

“If you try to escape, the hooks will rip through your neck and you’ll bleed out. If you remove the hooks, even carefully, you’ll still bleed to death.”

“Wherth am I?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Why, you’re in the factory.”Colgate answered. “It’s after hours, so everypony is asleep.” She pointed a hoof at the floor. Rainbow Dash slowly lowered her head, feeling the pain of the hooks moving around in her neck. The floor was covered in sleeping ponies, all of which had hooks in their necks as well.

“Your shift starts in an hour. So you better rest up.” Colgate turned around and started to walk. She stopped after about two steps. “Oh, and if you refuse to work I’ll have no choice but to remove those hooks for somepony else to use.”

Colgate continued to walk deeper into the shadows.

“Come backth herth!” Rainbow Dash yelled. There was a light in the shadow, which Rainbow Dash knew was a door. “Come backth hereth an leth me go!” The door slammed shut, leaving Rainbow Dash in darkness.