Day 10:
Michael was forced awake by a guard dragging him to Death Blow's office. Michael was sat down and tied to the chair.
"Are you going to talk?" Death Blow asked.
"Of course I'm not going to fucking give you what you want!" Michael answered.
"We'll see about that." Death Blow said. He stood. Michael glared at Death Blow as he took a knife and cut the ropes off of Michael. He once again dragged him to a dark and bloody room. This time there were two posts. Death Blow tied Michael's forelegs to the top and his back legs to the bottom. He tightened it so Michael was stretched to his limit. He pulled off Michael's bed sheet and instead tied it over his mouth like a mute. It was tight so Michael's couldn't spit it out. Michael tasted his blood, but he tried his best to ignore it. Death Blow took a large whip and snapped it on Michael's chest. Michael groaned. Death Blow slowly walked over to Michael's back. He forced Michael's wings open, he snapped them open so fast the some of the bones left cracked and broke. Michael tried to scream, but the sheet stopped the sound. Death Blow cracked his whip on Michael's back multiple times. The whip cracked many times on Michael's back. Tears streamed down Michael's face. Michael cried "Stop!" Through his mute. Death Blow stopped and returned to Michael's front.
"Going to talk?" Death Blow asked and took the mute off.
"Of course not." Michael forced out. Death Blow quickly set his normal whip down and then whipped another whip at Michael's face. That one had nine licks. Michael grunted and spit a mix on saliva and blood and Death Blow. Death Blow let Michael down and once again left. Michael took his sheet and inspected the tools quickly before a guard came in. Michael found a small knife which he tucked into his bed sheet. Michael was escorted back to him cell and locked up again. He longed for and food, even the rotten flowers from the prison he was locked up in.
Princess Cadence nervously looked out the carriage. Geoff sat next to her.
"Scared?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I've known Twilight since she was a foal." Cadence said. "It's a little sad that I haven't seen her since she saved the Crystal Empire, and now I am going to see her because she's sick with arcane magic poison."
"Everything will be just fine." Geoff assured.
Fluttershy felt Gavin's forehead with the back of her hoof.
"Oh dear, you're burning up." Fluttershy said.
"Michael... I don't feel so good." Gavin said. "The peanuts are at the podcast set with Gus." He said.
"Michael isn't here, remember?" Fluttershy said. "And I'm Fluttershy."
"Fluttershy, that's a funny name, your parents must be drug addicts." Gavin muttered. Fluttershy was starting to panic. She quickly remembered the lullaby that she sang to the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
"Hush now, quiet now, it's time to lay your sleepy head. Hush now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed. Drifting off to sleep the day is far behind you. Drifting off to sleep let dreamland come and find you." She sang gently. Gavin had finally relaxed and laid his head down. Fluttershy was able to check up on Twilight, who was looking much better than Gavin.
"What is a podcast?" Twilight asked quietly. Fluttershy shrugged and felt Twilight's forehead.
Michael was extremely weak and hungry. The last thing he had to eat was his own wing. The bleeding from his wing had slowed down, but every moment he made caused him more pain. A guard had entered Michael's cell. He was too tired to argue with a guard, he would rather use his energy fighting back Death Blow.
"Are you ready for your nightly torture?" He asked.
"I'd rather have a nightly meal time. Or nightly Xbox time. Can I have one of those?" Michael teased. The guard scowled at Michael and hit him on the chest with the butt of his weapon.
"Don't smart off to me. Now get moving, Master Death Blow is waiting for you." The guard said and pushed Michael forward. Stumbling, Michael inched forward. If he went the wrong direction the guard pulled him back by him already aching wings. Soon, Michael found himself in yet another torture chamber. Death Blow was standing by an odd looking contraption.
"Thank you guard, leave me be with the prisoner." Death Blow said. The gourd nodded and left. "Three choices. Choice one; answer every question I have right now and I won't injure you further. Choice two, you don't answer my questions and you come here and I will go easy on you. Final choice; you don't answer my question and you don't come here, and I will go as hard as I can on you." Death Blow explained. Michael thought for a moment. He remembered the knife in his sheet, but he also knew that he couldn't fight off any number of guards; especially since he could no longer fly and he was really weak. He realized that he needed to endure whatever would hit him. He took a deep breath and walked over to the device. He realized what it was meant to do. Break bones. Michael gulped and got himself in to save himself the pain. "As promised, one of your legs will be affected. Your choice." Death Blown said. Michael slowly removed all his legs from the slots except his front left leg. Suddenly Death Blow strapped Michael in and started to slowly crush Michael's leg. Michael howled in pain. Suddenly, he felt his leg bones shatter. Michael's eyes watered as Death Blow got Michael out. The guard came back in and took Michael back to his cell. Each movement Michael made with his leg hurt immensely. Michael laid on his cot with his broken leg dangling off the edge. Michael cried the night away.
Fluttershy was sitting right outside the door waiting for the others. She was surprised to see the carriage. She waved to them and flew up to them.
"We got broken into, the machine is partially destroyed and they took Michael. Gavin is going insane as well." Fluttershy explained.
"What!?" DH yelled. "This can't be happening...no it just can't" DH said. "If there was room for me to pace, I would be." Fluttershy landed on the roof.
"How is Twilight?" Cadence asked.
"Forget her! What about my employees!?" Geoff said angrily.
"Gavin is not good, and Twilight is about half as bad as Gavin." Fluttershy informed. The pegasi flying the carriage landed. Cadence quickly told them to go back and the others ran into DH's house. Cadence followed. Ray and Geoff and to Gavin while Cadence ran to Twilight and DH inspected the damages.
"Griffon, Burnie...good to see you." Gavin mumbled.
"Gavin, it's Geoff and Ray." Geoff said.
"Who?" Gavin questioned. "I told you Gus has the peanuts at the podcast set. Also Dave told me that she has three limes." Gavin said.
"Just go and rest." Geoff said. Gavin nodded and laid his bed back down. Geoff walked over to DH, but Ray stayed next to Gavin for a moment and whispered to him.
"Just hang in there Gav." Ray said and hurried off. Cadence and Twilight were discussing what needs to be done. Soon DH got sick of listening.
"Cadence, Fluttershy, please come here." DH said. Fluttershy flew out from the trap door with the power object. "Fluttershy, could you describe the stallion that looked like the leader." DH asked. Fluttershy nodded.
"He was a black unicorn with a dark red mane. He had bloody skull and crossbones, which were dark gray, for a cutie mark." Fluttershy said.
"Shit! This is not good. That's Death Blow. He will do anything to get the information he wants. Once he gets it he kills the victim. We need to find Michael quickly." DH explained. He then looked over to Gavin. "But we also need to fix the machine so we can save Gavin." DH said. DH began to pace.
"Doctor Hooves, you know the machine, fix it up. Fluttershy you keep close watch on Gavin and Twilight. The rest of us will do research." Cadence offered.
"Brilliant! Yes! I have files in my cellar. They should tell us where Death Blow is hiding." DH immediately started to fix the machine Fluttershy returned to helping Gavin and Twilight. The others hurried downstairs and started to research.