The Facility

"Okay, that's enough! This simple inspection has become a massacre! We're leaving." Twilight ordered. The professor simply turned and faced her. His face was expressionless, as if a part of him had just died.

"You... You came in for a full inspection. You aren't leaving until it's done." He replied. AppleJack approached him.

"You're gonna let us out of here or we're forcin' our way out!" The professor laughed.

"You don't have any authority or power over me. What makes you think you can force your way out?!" AppleJack flipped her self around and prepped her legs in an attempt to buck the professor. Before she made an entire turn the professor slammed his hoof into her side. AppleJack collapsed to the floor, gasping for breath.

"If you try anything else, the next one will be lethal." The others backed off. Doctor Jekyll stood with a look of disbelief plastered on his face. Tony was just angry.

Professor Laceration left the room, the others followed. Instead of heading down another hallway, they arrived at an elevator.

"Everyone on." He ordered. The group entered the platform. The professor turned and began typing on another computer screen off to the side of the elevator's entrance. The platform began to rise.

"What you are about to see are some of the cruelest, most disturbing, monsters ever. You can't show any sympathy for any of them no matter how 'good' they act. They are not the ones you know." The elevator slowed to a stop. Everything before them was pitch black, they couldn't see much further than a few feet in front of them.

"Light's on." The professor said. Suddenly a series of lights flickered on, stretching down a very long hall way.

The group went on. No one speaking. Everypony just walking forward. The sides of the halls were completely black with a few 'caution' signs here and there. At the end of the hall sat three enormous doors. Each with a different symbol above them. The first having a music note. The second, an eye. The third was a brain.

"Welcome to the three levels of maximum security. Each of these symbols symbolize the method that the prisoners used to kill ponies. We'll start with the music." The professor tapped his hoof on the ground and a small panel opened on the wall. Inside were a strange type of ear plugs. He pulled out a pair and handed them to AppleJack. Then to Rarity. Once everyone had a pair, put them in his ears, telling the others to do the same.

He began to talk but was unheard. In fact, everything was silent to those wearing the plugs. While talking the professor motioned towards his ear plugs and flipped a switch. They glowed an eerie blue. Twilight felt her ear plugs and found a similar switch and flipped.

"-ld be able to hear me once you do. These ear plugs will protect you from anything in this room, but you'll still be able to hear me. Follow." The doors to the music symbol room opened up. Another dimly lit hallway was now visible. Many cells lining the walls on both sides. A very thick sheet of glass kept the prisoners inside. On the sides of each cell were at least two unicorns preforming a constant spell on the glass. Probably extra protection.

"We have here, inmates that would use either music or sound to kill or mutilate their victims. Octavia..." They stood in front of a cell with the famous cellist inside. Although.... It seemed that her eyes had been ripped out of her head, two black gaps took their place. She began to play her cello. After a few minutes of playing, it seemed that she was becoming angry.

"Octavia. The last one to walk in here without ear plugs was checking the locks on her cell. He killed himself. She's angry because you can't hear her." Rainbow Dash commented.

"So, if you hear the music, you kill yourself?!" The professor nodded. He skipped over a few others and stopped again at a different cell. This one had Sweetie Belle inside. She was just singing.

"Sweetie Belle. Her singing puts you in a trance in which you experience the worst torture imaginable. Most of her victims are sill alive... Just, vegetables." They continued. The group passed many more cells. A pony whistling, a pony with broken legs just screaming, one sadistically laughing.

"I think we should move on..." Fluttershy suggested. The professor shrugged and turned. They headed down the way they had came. Back at the entrance, the professor spoke again.

"Next path. The brain above this door represents mentality. These things killed ponies using either psychic abilities, weapons, or reality altering power." The doors creaked open and the group entered.

"Ah! These are the ones from earlier." In the cell before them sat the three fillies they had watched kill the guards.

"The 'Cutie Mark Killers', I presume?" Scootaloo walked up to the glass.

"I saw you behind the glass earlier. You aren't going to talk big unless you have protection, huh? You're lucky I can't touch you." The professor smiled.

"Very cute."

"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!!" She shrieked, banging on the glass as if it would break. The kept walking. Passing a cell with an alternate version of Pinkie Pie inside. Her mane had gone strait and she was playing with a scalpel. The evil looking pony gave an smile that made her appear insane.

"Pinkamena." The professor said. Another cell. Fluttershy sat inside only her hair had apparently been cut. A cleaver with a small ribbon tied to it lied in her left hoof. She jumped to her hooves when the group passed by.

"GET ME OUT!!!" She screamed, slamming her cleaver into the glass.

"Butchershy." The professor said.

He stopped again at one of the cells.

"Ohohohoho! This one's one of the worst!" A scarred Rainbow Dash sat before them. A patch of her mane ripped off of her scalp. She wore a dark cloak and her tail was dyed black.

"Rainbow Dash here ran the weather factory back in her universe. She was killing innocent fillies in order to supply Rainbows for her world." Rainbow only shook her head.

"You're not going to listen, are you?" She asked. "How many warnings do you have to be given before you actually do something?!" She seemed frustrated with the professor. He walked away from the cell without saying anything.

"What was that all about?" Pinkie asked.

"Nothing...Nothing." He brushed Pinkie off and kept walking. As the group continued, Twilight was stopped by an unsettling sound coming from around the corner. She followed the mysterious sound and found herself face to face with one of the scariest looking things she had seen. A pony dressed in a black cloak wielding a scythe sat in the center of a dark cell.

"Hello... Twilight..." It said.

"Who are you?" She asked.

"I have many names... Abaddon... The Reaper.... Death." Twilight gasped.

"How were they able to cage you?!"

"I can never be caged.... Do you know how chaotic it would be if I were ever contained?... No one ever dying... Those of life threatening diseases would endlessly suffer... The world would over populate... I only stay here to give the professor a false sense of control... But that isn't important..." Twilight stepped back.

"Twilight... You are important... You are meant for something greater than anything you have ever thought possible..."

"What do you want?" She asked. Becoming more and more unsure of herself.

"I only called you... to offer you a warning... The professor is making a mistake... It involves you and your friends... You will be made to do something of a horrible matter... And your friends will suffer if you don't..." Twilight was extremely frightened by this point.

"You must leave this place while there is still time... If you wish to avoid this calamity..." It pointed at a large digital clock on the wall. 11:40

"Twenty minutes, Twilight.... Twenty minutes."

"What's going on here?!"

"GAH!" The professor had startled her.

"Was he talking to you?!" His tone was making Twilight anxious.

"Yes, but I-"

"I was simply telling her of upcoming events... You know professor... You should learn to heed a warning..."

"You're just babbling nonsense!" His tone became darker.

"Ohh... Far from it, professor... But, just because I can't get to you... doesn't mean she can't..." Death said while pointing at Twilight.

"I thought you just said that you can't be caged."

"I can't be..." Twilight was extremely confused at this point. What was it saying? What did it mean?

Professor Laceration pushed Twilight away from the cell.

"Come along, Miss Sparkle. We still have to finish our little tour." The rest of the group came back looking for Twilight.

"Where were you guys?" Pinkie asked.

"Over near another prisoner. Twilight here got curious and wanted to know a few things..." His tone seemed to become darker with every word he spoke.

"On with the tour!" He said. Twilight stopped.

"No."

"No?" He inquired.

"We've all been through a lot today, and I know that most of us just want to leave."

"Yes, please..." Fluttershy was heard in the back.

"So, just take us to your security detail. I'll inspect it, and we'll leave." The professor shot her the darkest look of extreme hatred she had ever seen. But then smiled nonchalantly.

"Alright, then... Let's go check the security."

"Let's." She agreed.

They all left the grim essence of the prisoners and headed back towards the elevator they had just taken.

"So you own over one hundred animals?!" Doctor Jekyll asked.

"Yes." Fluttershy replied.

"And you can communicate with them?!"

"Yes."

"Extraordinary!" Fluttershy blushed. The two conversed towards the back of the group.

AppleJack approached Twilight.

"So, what was goin' on back there?" She asked.

"The professor caught me talking to one of the prisoners. He acted like he didn't want me to know anything about what he had to say."

"You think somethin's wrong?"

"I think he's hiding something."

"Well I don't trust him n-"

"We're here!" The professor shouted. He swung open the door and entered. The group following. Many computers and security systems were all over the walls. It was a high tech database.

"This is some pretty cheap equipment." Tony said. "I thought you said you were running a prison. Not an internet cafe." The professor swung his head around.

"This is the most advanced equipment of our entire planet! I suppose you have something better?" He sarcastically questioned.

"Uhh, yeah. In my coffee machine!" Tony replied, being as cocky as possible. The professor gestured toward one of the largest computers.

"Alright, Twilight. Time to inspect our security." She approached the large machine. Buttons and levers all over every side. Lights blinking, and multiple camera shots displayed on it's face. She looked through the data and all of it's memory. Then the current condition of everything in the cells. Everything seemed to be in order...

"Alright, then. You've monitored everything that goes on here.... Now get out." He was very, suspiciously, secretive now. He was so eager to get them away from whatever he was hiding. Oh, well...

"Okay, well this was just loads of fun and I hope to never do it again!" Rainbow Dash sarcastically stated as she made her way to the door.

"Sir! We have a problem!" One of the workers shouted. The professor ran up to the computer that his worker was at.

"What?"

"Info is in the visual section of the maximum security vaults!"

"What?! Why?! He was supposed to be down stairs fixing the circuitry!" Everyone's attention was directed at the computer screen. The pony who had given them their ride was currently walking down the hall. Very slowly approaching the last cell in that direction.

"Hold on. Zoom in on that cell and enhance." The worker complied and the screen displayed a more harmless looking pony. Vinyl Scratch.

"Why is he walking towards her?"

"Uh sir... Info isn't wearing eye protection and Vinyl is looking right at him."

"WHAT?!" Vinyl had her glasses suspended above her head as she gazed at Info with her dark, scarlet eyes. Everyone was panicking now.

"Wh-Why is that bad?" Rarity questioned, still trying to stay brave.

"Vinyl is in the visual section of our vaults. She has mind control through eye contact and that idiot isn't wearing his spectacles!" Info was at the end of the hallway now. He pulled a card from his saddle bag, similar to the professor's, and slid it through the computer of Vinyl's cell. Her door opened.

"OH, SHIT!!" The professor started screaming.

"I need everyone to counter anything Info does. We don't know what he's going to do." Vinyl stepped down from her cell, maintaining eye contact with Info. He turned and walked towards another computer. This one being much bigger. Vinyl was directly behind him. It seemed as if she was muttering something, a command, maybe? The colt pulled out his key card once again and slid it through the panel. Then he typed a few things and hit a final button.

Vinyl smiled, then whispered something again. The colt responded by pulling his gun out of it's holster and putting the barrel in his mouth. BANG!!

"Sir, we've just lost Info."

"Who cares about him! What did he do to the system?!?" The professor shouted back.

"It's hard to tell. It doesn't look like any major damage was done to th-"

WARNING! An alarm went off. ALL CELLS RIGGED TO OPEN IN T MINUS, FIVE MINUTES.

"WHAT?!!?!" The professor ran around the room, hitting random buttons in a sad attempt to prevent what was happening. Twilight's eyes lit up.

"But that means-!" She looked up at the clock. 11:55.