Beyond Her Garden
Chapter Two
Not a Sound

Berry Punch waited in the town square with the other ponies that were planning a huge ambush on Carrot Top. However, Carrot Top would not be the victim here, but rather Berry Punch. When she was kidnapping the ponies, she meant to hit Bon Bon, but she moved at the last second and Berry Punch was right in the line of fire. Carrot Top shrugged and decided that Bon Bon could wait. Lucky for her, Berry Punch was standing at the back of group, so when she was out, Carrot Top had no trouble sneaking her away.

The haul was probably the most undesirable part of the process for Carrot Top, however she was willing to endure it because it was necessary in order for her to get to favourite part.

"God Berry, what have you been eating?" Carrot Top complained.

When they reached the cottage, Berry Punch was still out cold. When she awoke, she found herself immobilized. There was also something warm and moist covering her from the waist down, but she couldn't move her head at all to look down and see what it was.

"Hello?" she called out. The room was dimly lit and smelled of decayed flesh and mold. "Anypony here...?" she said a little more worriedly.

Her question was then answered "yes" was whispered in her ear. However, since she could only look straight ahead, this scared her out of her mind. Carrot Top headed into Berry Punch's field of view holding a small grey box with a green button on it in her hoof.

"C-Carrot Top? What's going on...?"

She ignored the question and instead waved the button in the air as if to say, "let's find out." She then pressed it. The table Berry Punch was tied down to slowly folded in half, the top half folding backwards. At first, Berry Punch did not understand what was going on. But then, her spine snapped in two. She shrieked in agony as she felt intense burning in the middle of her abdomen. Soon she realised that the warm liquid was blood and Carrot Top had cut a slit there. Blood gushed out of the crevice.

Then Carrot Top pressed the button again, and the table started to close. Berry Punch burst into tears when her legs came into view. They grew closer and closer and the tears flowed out faster and faster until it was flat. A loud crack was heard, evidently the crushing of her skeleton. Then a thick flow of red fluid cascaded from in-between the two pieces of metals like a waterfall.Carrot Top giggled at the sight of it because it reminded her of actually berry punch.

It was not as long of a death scene as Carrot Top would've desired it to be, but it was actually kind of... exhilarating for her.

Up next in Carrot Top's victim roster was the blue unicorn: Colgate. Carrot Top had spent the next week after Berry Punch's death constructing new torture mechanisms, so she was overwhelmed with excitement when the time came for the unicorn's demise.

On the day of the kidnapping, she realised she would have to endure another pelting of rocks. But she decided that if it was a necessary step in the day's process, then by all means would she participate.

"There you are, Flop! We thought you might skip out on us today," Bon Bon sneered.

"And don't think today's rocking party is gonna be any less fun than any other day just because we're short a few members," Lyra added.

Oh how those two did annoy her. She wished she could off them right then and there, but she would have surely gotten arrested for it.

So the yellow mare once again sat there firmly and suffered patiently. Afterwards, when only a few ponies remained, Carrot Top stood up and instantly spotted Colgate, who has meandering around the evening streets of Ponyville.

Carrot Top was a fan of the tranquilizer gun because she could knock somepony out from a distance. She pulled hers out and shot her prey. There were not any ponies outside in this part of Ponyville, so the retrieval of Colgate's body was quite easy.

The blue unicorn opened her eyes and blinked - well tried to, anyway - because there was a bright, white light right over her head. She felt a little numb so she couldn't tell which way she was laying, vertically or horizontally, but since the light was directly above her head, she assumed it was horizontal. Colgate then realized that her mouth was open and she could not close it. Beyond her muzzle, she could see a large tube entering her mouth and realised that there were two more thinner ones entering her nostrils. She then noticed that her eyelids were being held open and there were to more tubes leading into the eye sockets, as well as more in her ears. The unicorn panicked and lifted up her head, but it was stopped by a plastic dome that surrounded her body. She noticed that the tubes were attached to the this dome. Then Carrot Top seemed to materialise out of thin air above the frightened mare.

"Why hello, Colgate," she said.

"Gahhah! Ahau!" Colgate babbled. They were the only sounds she could produce with tubes in her mouth.

Carrot Top snickered and went over to a lever and pulled it with a grunt. Four blades dropped from the ceiling and neatly took a slice off of each of her hooves. She tried to scream but the tube muffled it. When she tried to use magic to make it stop, she found herself unable to.

"Silly Colgate, your magic won't work here. I put a plastic covering on your horn." Judging by the quizzical look on her face, Carrot Top gathered that Colgate didn't understand why that mattered.
"Plastic acts with magic as rubber does with electricity, stupid. I'm not even a unicorn and I know that."

Colgate panicked and tried to use magic again but it didn't work. Carrot Top laughed for a moment and returned with a pot of something in her hooves. She smiled at Colgate grimly and poured the liquid into the tubes that led into Colgate's nasal passages. It burned, and once again, Colgate tried to scream. When the liquid drained into her lungs, blood quickly filled the tubes. Carrot Top beamed with delight. Colgate could not breath and was now choking.

"It's acid!" she said proudly. Colgate could feel her lungs dissolving from the corrosive liquid. Carrot Top retrieved another pot that seemed to be filled with a white-ish powder rather than a liquid. It was gun powder.

She poured it down every tube that entered Colgate's body, followed by a chemical that melted the tubes away as well as her internal linings. Then, a hole appeared on her midsection. From that hole emerged a flame that expanded it. Flames also dotted her face. With the tubes now gone, although the chemicals also melted her tongue, she could produce somewhat of a scream that was sort of gargly. The Unicorn slowly blackened like a chicken breast on a grill. Carrot Top waited until she cooled down to remove her from the melted case. The garden, now a war zone between weeds and flowers, was also littered with bones and reeked of decaying flesh and blood. The yellow mare took a deep breath of the air as she buried the dead Unicorn under a patch of weeds.

Author's Note

Alright. Second chapter finally complete. At first I wanted to add another death, but I'll do Cloudchaser & Flitter next chapter. Thanks for reading! ^_^