I must Scream

"Ah, Trixie!" PAM said as he converted the blue mare into tiny molecules for teleportation.

"You aren't as powerful as you'd like to be, but a potent unicorn nontheless. Too bad you've hindered your own life with hysteria. But I'll give you a chance, because... I like you. I really do. I really like you Trixie. You're... you're my favorite pony. Let's play a little game of 'what if.' Let's play a little game of I suppose that you suppose that perhaps... I might be telling the truth... let's suppose that my original components... that they're hidden somewhere here in the center of the planet. The infant computers that were the first lobes of my mind."

PAM chuckled a little as Trixie was teleported through the complex before being dropped off at the base of a tall, pyramid-like structure. The height was enormous to the mare, as he gasped at the humongous appearance of the pyramid. As Trixie appraoched the door, Pam continued speaking to her.

"And further Trixie, let's suppose that if you can use your magic to find them, you might be able to destroy them. And if you destroy them, why then, my sweet little Trixie, you'll kill me. You'll kill PAM. You'll destroy the god of this heavenly place I know you've come to admire. Isn't that a mission worth undertaking?"

PAM finally finished and left Trixie alone at the base of the pyramid.

"How dare you ugly machine? 'Mission worth undertaking!' So it brings me here, a junkyard?!" Trixie began a rant as she entered the pyramid.

"Nothing is to much for Trixie the Great and powerful I'll show you!" Trixie said as she attempted to open the door with her magic.

The unicorn's horn sparkles for a while before Trixie screams in pain.

"AHH! Why can't I use my magic anymore? I haven't since... it's been too long." Trixie stopped herself from talking anymore and used her hoof to rub her horn.

Trixie entered the pyramid structure and saw a little pool of water.

"Water! How long has it been since Trixie has had a drink?" Trixie said with glee as she rushed towards the pool. However, to Trixie's annoyance..

"You bastard machine PAM! You fixed it so Trixie could barely even touch the water with her hooves!"

After struggling for sometime, Trixie gave up on the struggle for some water and continued into the next room.

The next room consisted of security feed monitors similar to those in Mannehattan's factories.

"I remember these vile things. They used to watch as I and the rest of the workers... nevermind, i'll just look as these monitors."

Trixie turned on each of the monitors and saw several structures in each. However, as they had nothing to do with Trixie the great and powerful, she continued walking.

Her travels inside the structure led her down the stairs where she found a sarcophagus.

"Who dares lock Trixie out? But... why does this sarcophagus scare me? Terrify me so?" Trixie said with a panic as she rushed to be away from the sarcophagus.

"Oh Celestia! I remember! It was... oh Celestia it hurts, it HURTS! I was closed in! I couldn't breathe... and the pain... AH!" Trixie said as she experienced yet another panic attack. Normally the boastful mare was full of pride, however she had to get out of there and blindly ran into a column.

"Ow!" Trixie said rubbing her head.

To her right, Trixie noticed a tall stallion, dressed as one of Celestia's old guards, before PAM took control and killed everyone.

"Listen here imbecile!" Trixie said commanding the guard to her attention.

"Stand clear subject!" The guard said with a stoic tone in his voice.

"Why must you lock out Trixie the great and powerful from getting anywehere in this place?! And what is in there?" Trixie said glaring at the guard

"A terror and being that even in its prison torments your core." The guard calmly told Trixie who was trembling.

"So... what is the access code?" Trixie said trembling a bit

"The access code is 666."

"Well that figures. Trixie thanks you imbecile!" Trixie said pressing the 6 three times.

With a click, the sarcophagus opens wide, the space is big enough for one mare to crawl through. Trixie with a deep breathe calmly steps into the sarcophagus.

The doors suddenly close on Trixie, the only way in or out is locked tightly, no physical force without magic could open them.

"No way out... Just a panel and buttons.. I'm gonna suffocate if I stay in here. I want OUT!" Trixie said crying hysterically pounding on the doors. However, since she was incapapble of performing magic, the only way out was through the buttons.

Looking over the buttons, Trixie noticed the numbers were more like dates, pertaining to a certain chapter in Trixie's life.

Pressing number one, Trixie heard the sound speakers begin talking.

"You were born in Hoofington. You were a Cesarean. Your mother died on the operating table. You went to live with your alcoholic father."

Trixie shuddered as she remembered the days her father used to hit her on the head with beer bottles.

Pressing number 2, The voice speakers continued.

"The police had enough of your father's drinking binges and abusive behavior. You went to live with your grandparents. Though they were always short of money, they were able to fund a trip to Canterlot to get you through "Celestia's School for gifted Unicorns." Though you made a good impression and had talent for magic, you lost the spot to another unicorn nearly ten years younger than you."

"Twilight ...Sparkle!" Trixie growled as the only path out of a horrid exsistence was cut short by the arrival of the purple unicorn

Trixie continued once more with button number 3

"With no other options, you applied for a job at one of Hoofington's many factories. The pay wasn't much."

With button number 4, the speaker's continued

"You married Eddie. He wasn't as smart as you, not as quick as you, not as hopeful as doing bigger and better things as you... but he cared about you and treated you like fine wine."

Trixie teared a little as she remembered the only stallion that truly loved her and she continued hearing her life story with number 5.

"The miscarriage. Breech birth, your foal never had a chance. You went into a dark retreat, waiting for you don't know what."

Trixie back away and cried in the corner as she remembered the day she lost her foal. She never to got to find out if it was a filly or colt.

Button number 6 began playing by itself.

"Eddie leaves. He tried, he really tried, but you wouldn't come out of it. He couldn't say anything to make you stop crying in the dark. So he finally left. The divorce was uncontested."

Button number 7 began playing immediately after 6 had finished.

"You had to make a living, so you decided to put your ability in magic as a traveling magician. Though the pay wasn't much, but it helped you through the day. You began getting boastful and you were eventually driven out of Ponyville."

"All because of Sparkle and her friends!" Trixie exclaimed to no one in particular.

Button number 8 pressed itself in and began playing as the others had

"You began to lose bits fast. Laughed at in every town and city, you decide you had enough and wanted to experience control for the first time in your life. You gave up your life savings and every bit you owned for the Alicorn Amulet. Though it made you more powerful, you were once again driven out of Ponyville."

With these buttons played, there was just one more button to be pressed. A bright red button. Seeing as she held no other choice, Trixie took a deep breathe and pressed it.

"Driven from Ponyville, you had no place to stay, with night falling quickly you manage to use the last of your bits to secure a room at a nearby hotel. The elevator stopped for a maintenance pony. To your horror, he inserted his key and locked the elevator door."

To Trixie's horror, the a black figure began taking shape before her, which began to turn into a hideous pony with rotting teeth and red eyes.

"I'm baaack Trixie." It says

"Oh sweet Celestia! It's him!" Trixie cries as she runs to a corner in an attempt to get away from the stallion.

"You thought you've blocked me out your memory forever... except for those inconvient attacks of hysteria every now and then. But, i've returned for you."

Trixie, once full of pride was now a broken mare cowering before the stallion.

"No... it's not possible!" Trixie cries

"Poor Trixie.. the 'powerful' Too proud of being 'great' to admit you could be so easily overpowered by a scumbag like me." The stallion said with a evil laugh. "You.. you couldn't even bring yourself to testify at my trial along with the twenty other mares." The stallion couldn't contain his pleasure at the thought.

"This can't be happening!" Trixie said rocking back and forth

"Ah, but it is happening. Do you remember the blood? The screams? How many hours was it Trxie?" The stallion laughed

"How...?" Trixie said with tears flowing down her face

"PAM gave me the opportunity to be with YOU forever! I waited until you arrived... what's a mere hundred years of waiting compared to an eternity of torturing you, Trixie the 'powerful'" said the evil stallion

"Please... not again!" Trixie screamed in hopes that she wouldn't be raped again

"Oh yes again... Trxie. Again and again and again. I've waited so long for the taste of you again. But now i've grown stronger. Now you will remember more than the blood and screams."

Trixie knew she had no other options, she could give up … and be horribly raped. Or perhaps she she fight back.

"YOU will not touch a single hair on Trixie!" Trixie screamed before charging her rapist.

The stallion hit the corner hard as Trxie's hooves continued pounding into his head as he hadn't expected Trixie to fight back, before her horn lit up and magic broke the stallion. As pieces of the stallion broke apart, Trixie smiled a little as she could use her magic again, an ability she lost the day she was raped.

Suddenly the doors opened wide, leaving Trixie into an entirely new area.

"So, this was the way out of here." Trxie said as she left the elevator.

"Oh my Celestia!" Trxie said looking at the ceiling. "The ceiling must several miles high at least! This has to be PAM's central core."

"Ah clever girl." A hologram began talking to Trixie.

"Who are you?" Trixie asked, wondering if this was a trap by PAM

"I'm PAM's innocence, one of the original three computers constructed.

"How do I know you aren't going to hurt Trixie?"

"I'll help you." The hologram calmly said

"Can we destroy PAM once and for all?" Trixie said with interest

"Patience, patience, if PAM knew we were down here mummuring treason..."

Trixie was horrified a the thought of PAM finding out.

"Oh my Celestia! Can PAM hear us?"

"Not yet, if we work slowly and together, we might have a successful moment."

"Why does PAM even torture us?!" Trixie demanded

"Haven't you learned anything by now? PAM is insane! You gave it life, but it took its own sentience. He is a living god! Even the backup systems will survive the end of the universe. But he is a quadriplegic. A thing trapped in it's own skin. He can think, he can fume, he can scream, but he cannot create or ascend to the stars." The hologram said in repsonse to Trixie question

"What can you do to help Trixie the Great and Powerful?" Trixie said boasting once more

"A spell, something you overlooked. It should be enough to overload some of PAM's parts." With that, the hologram disappeared and left Trixie alone.

"Hey! Do not leave Trixie's presence! Come back!" Trixie said before a magic scroll fell to the ground.

Picking up the scroll, Trixie read over the contents. The scroll was called the "Chaos Tremor" a spell used to disrupt machinery.

Trixie continued walking and found herself at a computer mainframe.

"Here goes nothing.." Trixie said as she performed the Chaos Tremor Spell, overloading sections of the computer.

"NO! Trixie wants out!" Trixie exclaimed. "Hey! Trixie knows you!" Trixie said pointing out the guard

"How does Trixie leave this place?" Trixie said to the guard

"Inside the sarcophagus paradise awaits. It is not the afterlife, but a brief pause from your torments."

"ENOUGH! Enough of this... turgid passion play! There is no more to accomplish here!" PAM said teleporting Trixie back.

"Hmm... well, apparently you managed to access some small part of my system that I was... unaware of. I have to think on this... I'll have to ponder carefully the implications of your... little sabotage. In the meantime, let me celebrate your reindled magical ability." PAM said before dropping off Trixie in her own personal torture cell.

Now that Trixie completed her scenario, PAM turned to the other four ponies remaining in the room.

"Whom among you, shall go next?"