The little devil walked angrily out of his room, his slim servant following silently, heading down the obsidian stairs of his tower.

"You take me to Mephisto's level, then I'll get the thing those ponies are trying to save and bring it here." He stated blankly, skipping the steps as he descended.

"Don't you want to have me with you inside Mephistopheles' castle?" asked the faceles humanoid, sliding silently behind his master.

"You kinda stand out." hissed the little devil, as they entered into a corridor and started to follow it, moving towards the scarlet and purple door at the end of it. "And, no offense, that may be a little too much for you."

"Master.." started the Slenderman, straightening. "I was created and born in the void between worlds. In the darkness where the madness is formed, where the nightmares are crafted and where no mortal can mantain his sanity! The castle of the archdevil of wrath isn't…"

"Oh, hush you!" hissed Junior, opening the door and continuing into the next corridor. "You are born on the Internet."

"Uh…Yeah, what did I just say?" asked the faceless creature, scratching his bald head. The little devil rolled his eyes, as he continued hs run. He passed in front of his father's room without even stopping, letting out an angry hiss as the foul smell of… good things flew out of it. He dropped to all fours and continued his run, descending another couple of stairs, still followed by the other.

"And I need you to stay outside in case I get caught, to tell father about it." he hissed, before starting to run down the dungeon's stairs. With a single push from him, he opened the metallic door, entering the main room of Pumpkinhead's laboratory. The scarecrow was working on the metallic frame of the portal, and barely saw the little creature storming inside the laboratory, grabbing a scarlet bottle from a shelf, and then disappear again.

The scarecrow blinked, before returning to his work.

"Here. I'm ready." Hissed the little devil, stepping up beside his servant. "Do it." He ordered, glaring at the tall man. The faceless creature sighed from…somewhere… before lowering and grabbing the little devil.

And a second later, they weren't there anymore.

They were on the edge of an immense cliff: below them was a sea of bubbling, flowing magma, while in front of them, the Bronze Citadel was happily shining in the reflected light.

Surely, Mephisto enjoyed quite a few more centuries to transform his castle into the enormous and hulking citadel that was now. But the good thing about a citadel like that, was that there were going to be a whole lot of sewers and dirty passages where a little and sneaky demon could pass.

"Wait for me here." Junior ordered, jumping off his servant, and staring at the magma. "I'll be the quickest I can."

"You'll take at least an half an hour to find the castle. And only the chaos knows how much long will you take to find what are you searching for." Groaned the faceless creature, falling on the ground and sitting there, crossing his long legs.

"Yeah, you are right." Agreed the little devil, crouching, ready to jump off the cliff. "But look on the bright side: following the theory of the multiverse, in another dimension this is just the stupid fiction of a loser, and he will cut my boring search to another scene right now."

-oOo-

"So… how is she doing?" asked Mephistopheles, looking from above a platform at the weak body of the alicorn below him, as the skeleton examined it as well. Barely a day had passed, but the creature was just a shadow of the one he had captured in her world.

The body was quite thinner, the wings were dangling lifelessly on the metallic floor where the creature was laying, a series of syringes and tubes emerging from them. The mane and tail were scattered lifelessly over the ground, the tones of the colors dakened. She was unconscious, her mouth murmuring something.

"She's blabbering a lot about a Luna, Twilight, kingdom and other stuff." Stated the skeleton. "But anyway, we have stored some energy away, she'll be broken soon."

"Excellent… then we can move on to the corruption of the soul, and will soon have a new toy-soldier in our hands…" chuckled the scarlet devil, before exploding in thik evil laughter.

And his evil laughter lasted half an hour.

"Shall I postpone your lunch, master?" asked the skeleton after a couple of minutes.

"Thank you." Answered the archdevil between his laughter, opening the door and walking away still laughing, followed by his minion.

The room returned to silence as soon as the scarlet doors closed behind them. The only noise now came from the different beeping machines that covered the wall, as well from the tubes attached to the creature restrained to the ground.

The mare tilted her head a little, babbling something incoherent, as the pain continued to numb her senses. She didn't have any idea of where she was anymore, the last few hours had been marked only by a continuous rising of pain. She was sure she was hallucinating, her mind unable to form a straight thought, like if she was the victim of some sort of strong fever.

She barely heard the two creatures talking above her, as the machines continued to plague her body, draining her magic out and injecting some sort of… substance… into her veins. She wasn't sure about what it was, but she knew that burned like the sun inside her veins.

She was trying to resist the pain and to maintain a hold on her thoughts, so much that she didn't hear the sound of a metallic grate being torn off, nor the sound of something little dropping on the hot floor, somewhere near her. But her ears raised as she heard an angry grumbling near her.

"Damned sewer rats… it would help if they weren't big as fucking cars…" the voice was grumbling, nearing her. She tried to turn her head and open her eyes, succeeding only in one of the two actions: she opened her sore and bloodshot eyes, trying to see who had arrived.

"Let's see, let's see…" murmured the new voice, as a little creature entered into Celestia's field of view. Her first impression was that of a shrunken Noxfero. It was a quite similar creature in appearance, except for the lack of nose, bat-wing shaped ears and the frown on his face. And almost a meter and half of height difference.

The little creature examined the machine that was connected to the alicorn's wings, before cautiously taking one of the tubes and slowly extracting it. Celestia let out a scream of pain and tried to move due to the pain, but her body was so weak that she just barely raised a hoof a few inches.

"Shut up, you damned horse!" hissed the little devil, glaring at the mare as he finally extracted a two inch long needle from the alicorn's wing. He then moved to another, ignoring the wail of pain of the princess. He continued mercilessly, extracting needle after needle from Celestia's flesh, tossing them on the ground.

After a few minutes of wailing, the princess closed her eyes again, her wings two masses of pain. She heard the sound of the last needle hit the ground with a tingling noise, as the little creature studied her wings.

"Look at this… man, you're lucky that I got here in time…" he murmured casually, before walking around the alicorn and starting to extract the needles from her spine. The princess' eyes opened again as a new wave of pain hit her. She gave a quick glance tp her motionless wings, before immediately looking away, disgusted: a dense, gooey brownish substance with a strong gas smell was pouring out from the needle marks.

"Ok, and with this, we are ok." Hissed finally the little creature, after another couple of minutes, tossing to the ground the last tubes. Celestia let out a sigh of relief. Even if the pain was enormous, it was quite far from the one she had felt with all those… things attached to her body. She opened again her eyes, just to find the creature in front of her, studying her with his frowning eyes.

"Thank…you…" she murmured, placing her head on the ground, while the pain passed from acute stings to a more deep, pounding pain. The little creature tilted his head a little.

"Ok, now I'm certain you are of the same race as the six pests that have invaded my father's castle. You are naive as them." he finally declared, taking a few steps towards the mare, as he pulled out a bottle full of scarlet liquid from his little raincoat.

"Six…?" muttered the mare, trying to understand. Her head was pounding, but she was less confused than before.

"Yeah, six little naive pony-like creatures, that I understand have come from a different plane of existence to try to save your ass." stated the devil. "Quite the cracker. But at least, as soon as you are safe, they'll stop spreading nonsense around."

"Twilight… the Elements, they…" began Celestia, before the little creature forcefully pressed the bottle to her mouth, letting the scarlet liquid flow out. The alicorn immediately tried to free herself: it was a bitter, burning liquid, that pinched her esophagus like as she was drinking nettles and cactus thorns.

"Stay put, damned animal…" hissed the little devil, trying to keep Celestia's head still with his other arm, while from his back darted out a tentacle that tangled itself around Celestia's neck, beginning to massage her throat, trying to force her to swallow.

After a few seconds of struggle, Celestia finally gave up, swallowing the bitter liquid. She immediately felt her stomach go upside down, as it contracted. The little creature moved aside, keeping the alicorn's head raised, as she threw up, vomiting black ichor on the ground.

Junior waited patiently, as the alicorn expelled all the stuff that the machine had injected into her body. Her struggle lasted for a couple of minutes, that he passed watching blankly as the white alicorn threw up every bit of evil rubbish she had inside of her.

"And with that, you are clean." He declared, as the alicorn finally stopped throwing up. She panted, as she gave out another couple of empty retches. The little creature walked again towards her, avoiding the pools of black vomit on the floor, as six tentacles emerged from his back and two of them started to wrap around Celestia, lifting her. "So, you are not going to turn into a half demon along the way. I can take you to my father then." He stated. The alicorn emitted a moan of pain, as her body twitched. "Noxfero." Explained the little devil, as his last four tentacles raised him into the air, acting like legs. There were no way that his little legs could carry the floppy body of the mare.

He turned and looked at the duct where he had emerged from. He blinked a couple of times, as he tried to push the mare into a hole big a third the size of the mare.

"This may take a while…" he grunted, as another two tentacles started to tear apart the duct, enlarging the opening. Celestia opened her eyes, watching the scene.

"Why…?" she murmured.

"Why did all this happen?" asked the little devil, tearing apart a plate of metal. "Because to devils, pure souls like yours are one of the most wanted rewards." He stated, as the foul smell of the alicorn's soul arrived to him. He restrained a gag, as he pushed himself into the duct and began to run down it using his tentacles, as he held Celestia in front of him.

"Now, we just have to crawl out of here…" he muttered, as his tentacles dragged him around a turn. The duct was half full of a green slimy substance, sliding silently around the little devil. He snarled, as the foul stench suffocated his senses. He could barely sniff the horse's smell now. Not a big deal, though.

The big deal was that the horse wasn't exactly prepared for the smell, and started coughing as soon as they moved deeper into the duct.

"Hold it!" hissed Junior, continuing to move. "We are not even in the sewer system!" he added angrily, as he peeked over his shoulder at the sound of rustling behind him. "Damnit!" The mare didn't react, continuing her coughing. He increased his speed, as he heard screams and growls behind him, as a group of three black, flaming demons turned a corner and spotted him, starting to chase the little devil, hissing and baring their long sharp theet.

"Demons…?" asked the mare, one of her ears flicking, trying to turn her head a little. "Can't you ask them to stop…?" she asked. The little devil rolled his eyes. Naive.

"No I can't. They will be glad to dismember me as they'll rape and eat you alive at the same time." he answered, his tentacles moving quickly, his eyes darting around the duct, searching for the drop into the sewers. One of their chasers jumped over him, just to be grabbed by one of the tentacles: it swiftly broke its neck, turning the black devil, too a pile of ash.

"Why…? Aren't you a devil to…?" asked again the alicorn. Junior was starting to get pissed by the continue blabbering of the horse, but decided to continue to talk, just to make sure that the horse was still alive.

"I'm not entirely a devil. And now, I'm an intruder, stealing one of Mephisto's prisoners. So, they don't really have any reason to be friendly." He said, as behind him, two creatures attacked one of the tentacles he was using to move, mauling it with their fangs. His face didn't change, as he got rid of them with another tentacle. At the same time, he spotted the drop for the sewers. Without even thinking about it, he jumped down.

The drop was all but pleasant, as he landed in the pile of demonic rats he had slaughtered while leaving. He snarled and jumped out, still moving by his tentacles. The alicorn emitted a little wail of pain as she was raised again in the air, far away from the dense water stained with blood and other garbage flowing into the underground canal.

Junior growled even more when he heard, far above him, the sound of a siren. They had found out that the horse wasn't there anymore. He sped up, ignoring the chomps of the rats dragged out by the sound of him moving through the low water and the blood pouring out of the mare. His eyes narrowed, as he saw the end of the tunnel, lit by the light of the boiling magma below it.

He paled. He didn't have any problem with swimming in the magma, but he doubted that these horses were fireproof. He cursed himself, but didn't stop. He had at last three rats chewing on his tentacles, and a few feet behind, at least five lesser devils were chasing him.

"Damn you horses!" he roared, as he arrived at the end of the tunnel and jumped into the air, dragging with himself the rats attached to his tentacles and a couple of devils stupid enough to jump after him.

"Slender!" he called, as he fell. Two seconds, and he would have tested if the alicorn was fireproof. But since she was pathetically opening her wings in an effort to slow down the fall, he suspected she wasn't. He was starting to curse his stupidity, when his faceless bulear appeared in front of him, placing a hand on the little devil's head.

And then, they weren't there anymore.

They were inside one of the dark corridors of the castle. Junior panted, as he retracted the four tentacles he had used to run. He made a motion to the faceless creature, gesturing for him to stay out, and then stumbled towards Noxfero's door. He could hear sounds of laughter, the idiotic voice of Jaco and the annoying sound of those… damned horses. Fuck that.

He slammed the door open and walked in. He felt the eyes of all present on him. He didn't care. He lowered the panting body of the alicorn, retracting his tentacles inside his back, keeping his eyes on his father's.

"She's alive." He stated, coldly. Noxfero blinked, moving his scarlet eyes between the alicorn and his son, as well as all the other mares. Jaco was astonished as well, half a pizza stuck in his mouth. Sasha was the first to react: she slid to the ground and placed her hand on the alicorn's neck.

"She is." Agreed the vampire. "Master, I need a hand. Help me take her to the medical bay."

"We have a medical bay?" asked both Noxfero and Jaco. The vampire sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Yes, we do. Come on now!" she snapped. The devil immediately left Pinkie and rushed towards the vampire. He stopped a second beside Junior and scruffed the little devil's hairs.

"Well done wimp." He whispered, before grasping Celestia and lifting her, helped by a set of tendrils of shadows. Sasha opened the door, and both disappeared into the darkness of the corridor. Junior stared at the door a little, ignoring the murmuring of the mares around him, staring blankly at the door.

That went better than expected.

At least, until the purple mare snuck behind him and hugged him with her forelegs.

"Thank you Junior…" she murmured, snuggling her muzzle in the devil's cheek, ignoring the growl that he was emitting.

"Group hug!" cheered Jaco, jumping as well on Junior, followed by the other mares (Rainbow dragged Pinkie Pie). After a few seconds, the little devil found himself crushed in a rib-crushing hug, as the mares thanked him for saving "Princess Celestia".

"Whatever…" he muttered, trying to free himself, to no avail.

-oOo-

"She disappeared master!" stated the skeleton, saluting Mephistopheles, as the scarlet devil glared at the room where the alicorn had been imprisoned not more than an hour before. He shrugged.

"Doesn't matter very much. She was just a toy, after all. The… secret weapon?" he asked, turning slightly towards his companion.

"The chaos creature? Oh, we are doing good. Really close to freeing it."

"Excellent…" he chuckled. "With that, finally, my master plan will be fulfilled, and I will get my rightful place as king of Hell!" he roared before starting to laugh.

And his laughter lasted thirty seconds.

"Sir?" asked the skeleton

"Got to go to the bathroom." Called Mephisto, running away.