"That burns!"

"That's good for you, chief. Now, shut it!" grouled Nox, glaring at the zebra while healing his wounds. "Those cuts are not to much deep… but I'd prefer to have some medical supplies under hoof… just for being safe"

"And I'd like to be the queen of the sky" stated Smooth Heart, walking beside them. "Now, if our little doctor has finished, I will appreciate to put our lovely backup at work". The mare walked to the windows, looking in the darkness outside. "We are in the section of the jail, at the moment, precisely at the first floor". She turned around, glaring at the others: "I'll need all the help you could give us".

"I don't know what did they say to you, probably nothing, since this facility is supposed to be a secret for the rest of Equestria, so, let me explain really fast: this is a horrible, horrible place, no other way for say that. All the levels. Usually a hell only for the inmates, but now…" she spitted at the ground "well… you can imagine."

Gizmo Fidget rised an eyebraw, looking at the mare "Actually, I can't. i mean, prisons aren't supposed to be really heavily guarded? And anyway, why the prisoners would have to go nuts? A bunch of thieves and thugs should know better than running around killing ponies. I mean, it's bad for them. It's sensless"

"my dear, but we didn't have thieves and thugs heare. For them, there are the common prisons. We were in charge of guarding most dangerous ponies, mass murderes, serial killers, rapists, you know, those kind of guys" replaied the mare, shrugging. "Also, the asylum is not a common one, it's a criminal asylum. We had some of the most dangerous psychopaths ever existed, like te "doll maker" or the "black widow". Not a nice company, i have to admit. And joy of joys, we are trapped here with them."

"Whait…trapped?" The unicorn doctor stood up, looking at her "You mean that if we are going to have a medical emergency, we can't have help?"

"Eyup. The main door is shut, with the main generator down, and the elevator you used for entering was usually used for the food delivers. Allows things to enter, not to exit"

"And pray tell, were is the main generator?" asked annoyed the griffin, while cutting a chunk of meat from one of the hound's corpse and trowing it to his lizards.

"At the bottom of the facility, in the labs"

"And why the hay the main generator is in the labs? And, why the hay there are labs in a jail asylum! That's crazy!"

"Not so much, my feathered friend" murmured the unicorn in the orange suit, while continued to write on his clipboard. "Easy guinea pigs. For medicines, mostly, but also spells and a bunch of other stuff."

"Shut it prisoner!" shouted the pegasus mare. The unicorn just shrugged "I was just informing. Jeez…"

"Anyway, we have two main task heare" went on to say the pegasus, ignoring the interruption. "First thing first, recapture as most fugitives we can, both from the jail and the asylum, and as a second task, we need to open the Celestia damned gate. Is that clear? Good, that was the bad part. The horrible part is that the inferior floors are sealed, due to the loss of energy, but we should deal with it later."

The mare looked at the group in front of her, than pointed at the griffin. "You are the trapper. Could you set some booby trap, in case others hounds or violent prisoners try to attack this office?"

"Finally. I was wondering when I was going to do anything. Obviusly, at the end of this mess, i want to be paid for the traps too". The griffin stood up and moved toward the door, followed by his lizards.

"Ok, then… one of the engineers stay here, and try to fix the security cameras…you, white one!

Gear Box jumped when the mare addressed him. "Uh! Yes lady…miss! I mean, of course! That's why I'm here, to heeeeeeeelp taking off the bad guys! And if that means repair a bunch o cameras. This reminds me to that time when me and a good friend of mine were…"

"First rule: shut up and we will be really good friend" moaned the mare, rubbing her forehead. "Get to work. Now, the other engineer and the pegasus…Cobalt Rain, is it right? You two have to go to the generator on the second floor, starting the energy here, on the second floor and on the third. Little, but better than nothing. Do you have any weapon?"

Gizmo smiled happily "well more or less… I got one of my creations, and it seems this is a good occasion for testing it" exlaimed, extracting from his saddlebag a strange metallic gauntlet, with some pins and plugs mounted on it. "Behold, the Buzz-Kill 2000! My most magnificent creation!"

"Yes yes yes, yada yada yada, ok. And you pegasus?"

Cobalt rain frozen in place, than blushed a little, while looking evrywhere exept that in the mare's eyes "They told me that i got weapons here… I'm kinda without anything…"

"How could you! I mean, your description said you were a fighter, how could you be weaponless! You should get exemple from McGash!" moaned the pegasus, flapping her wings in desperation

Behind the door, arrived the voice of the griffin "Who shouldn't?"

"well… Gash, could you please lend one of your knives to this * incomprehensible murmur * of a pegasus? Of course, if you find some weapon, you cat take it and bring it heare. But probably the inmates taken the guard's weapons. Our only hope for now is the armory. Well, we will think about that later. Now, about the route for the generator…"

The second metallic door closed with a soft whistle leaving the scarlet earth pony end the pegasus in the half darkness, with the only company of the green emergency lights. The two ponies looked at each other, before starting walking in the corridor. The cells on their sides were all open, showing small, dirty rooms with dirty, little beds. There were stains of dry blood on the walls and floor, but there were no corpses to be seen.

"Well… this is kinda creepy…" murmured the red stallion, walking slowly. The pegasus just nodded, the knives ready to attack. The only sound was only the one of their Hooves on the ground.

"This seems to be safe… after all Smooth Heart sad that the other levels are locked. So, with a little bit of luck, there are going to be no problems at all".

From the lower levels, came a scream of pain and the sound of a shoot.

"Hope so.. maybe they will be to much occupied killing each other for minding us."

They passed a door on their left, entering in a shorter, much cleaner corridor. There was a faint, buzzing sound.

"That must be the generators room" pointed Gizmo, happily. "This is the small sound of a weak, automatic emergency generator! It started automatically when the first went down". The stallion opened the door, entering in a small, dirty room, where a little generator was huffing.

"See? Told you. Now, the generator must be heare somewhere…" muttered the engineer, looking around. "Not heare. Not here. Not here…oh here it is!". The earth pony glanced at the wall, were an entire section had been replaced by the control panel of the generator. On a little screen there was a little image of princess Luna, with the writing "offline" under it. Gizmo approaced, looking with caution at the panel "Ok, I should have some duct tape somewhere…" said, putting a hooves in his saddlebag.

"I don't get it. I mean, if the power just went off, it not sufficient to turn the switch on again?" asked the pegasus, while the scarlet stallion began to shovel his hooves inside the generator.

"A simple lack of energy would never have opened the cells, probably it was a malfunction… so, i can repair it"

the console emitted an irritated bip and huffed a puff of smoke in the face of the stallion.

"i hope so…" groaned Cobalt, while the stallion coffed, the muzzle black in ash.

"So…you need to fix all the generators all the way down, for at last fix the main generator and opening the mane gate?" asked the unicorn, touching the ring around his horn

"Yeah… I suppose… It's the plan…" responded Nox, looking suspiciously at him.

"Do you understand that for only six pony and a griffin, surviving in eighteen floors, with armored, bloodthirsty ponies is simply impossible?" asked the unicorn, putting away his clipboard. "Why did you decided to come in this kind of suicide mission?"

"I…uh..they said they neede a medic for a special mission, and I…"

"Not a wise choice, my friend…" stated the other unicorn, looking at Masud e Smooth Heart replacing the door that the hound had smashed. "We are not going to last, let me tell you this much. I know what we have heare, i have analized all the captives, and some of the internated in the asylum. Let me tell you this: compared to some inmates, that Nightmare Moon girl was a sweet little filly"

"I highly doubt it" groaned Nox, standing up, gathering his few medical tools. The other one just looked at him with his violet eye. "If those criminals are so dangerous, why i never heard of them?"

Twisted Soul chuckled "But obviously because the authority, the dear preincess of the sun didn't want to let know that even in her perfect, happy realm could exist some really bad, bad ponies. It is forbidden to give information outside the town where omicides and rapes happens, and when the "bad ponies" get captured they are all sent here, and everypony else have just to forgot them… willingly or not. But they are all here, allways ready to kill…"

The scream of a mare sounded somewhere under them

"Things like that, basically"