Chapter 7

"F…F…FL…"

"*Sinister laugh* Sorry I couldn't catch up quick enough, had to take care of the animals."

"But… HOW?"

"Oh twilight, always asking the simplest questions to the mind numbingly simplest answers." Fluttershy said with an arrogant chuckle.

"You're that mysterious mare… the one that tried to take me out before!' Twilight said while she slowly backed away from Fluttershy in shock.

"Who else would have wanted you dead, well, at least remember you. It must be so sad to rot away forgotten by those who once loved you." Fluttershy said as she brushed away the locks from her head.

"Take a good look at me twilight sparkle, and tell me this doesn't ring any familiar bells." Twilight then swallowed roughly and looked at what she wore as she focused in. she wore a black costume with a thunderbolt sitting on each side of her hip. The mask covered most of her facial details, making her impossible to see in the dark. It was made of a rubbery-type content that had some wear and tear to it, holding stretch marks and scratches. Bits of spattered blood remained on the outfit, almost looked like it was never cleaned since then.

"The Wonderbolts?" Fluttershy nodded her head twice over with a smirk running across her face.

"I got the idea when I needed more ponies to fuel my factory. I'd get more power from them and I get a free costume to fit the black skies, it's a win win!"

"First Pinkie… now you? What sick twisted trick is this?" Twilight said in a furious uproar.

"Oh no, me and pinkie 'were' much different. She murdered out of the sheer joy of it, It's completely mandatory for me so I can run this factory."

"I'm guessing you wanted me first, but pinkie got a hold of me." Fluttershy raised her eyebrow in surprise with her sinister smirk slowly fading across her right side where her eye squinted slightly.

"Smart girl. Do you know what happens next though?" Fluttershy said as she swooped upwards with a strong beat of her wings causing an unpleasant gust below her. She whipped around from her flight staring straight down at her as twilight watched her eyes transform into a red glow. The once loving stare she first noticed was now gone, and Fluttershy knew this.

"You see twilight; this is the difference between you and me." She said as she approached a mechanical control panel sitting 12 feet higher from twilight's perspective.

"It's sometimes not all about the thinking process; you also have to take action. I've thought my way through this, now it's time for me to execute it!"

"What type of demented factory is this?"

"Why don't you find out?" She yelled as she laughed away at Twilight's misery. Fluttershy reached below the control panel to a polished brass looking handle with the words "Trap" engraved into it. She yanked the lever with both arms fiercely, followed by the sound of gears and motors clanking and turning. Twilight's screams was muffled by the sounds of rotating machinery, Followed by the agonizing pain from the screeching of metal. Twilight stuffed her hooves into her ears trying to prevent the pain, but it was too unbearable.

"FLUTTERSHY YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THIS!" Twilight screamed at the top of her lungs. Fluttershy found this amusing, but couldn't understand her under the loud tones of mechanisms.

"Execute twilight, execute!" Fluttershy then grabbed a nob and turned it half way towards the right. The floors opened up from close to where twilight stood revealing 2 rotating cylinders covered in spikes and shredded guts. The mangled mess laying down there was not a fate twilight would want to face herself. The walls of the trap were painted with images of mangled flesh and bones layered with a pleasant drip of fresh blood that fell out of the marrow of the torn bones. Twilight screamed at the top of her lungs from the sheer horror of this murdering machine, only bringing Fluttershy more joy.

"Hole on a second Twilight, I'm almost finished!" Fluttershy screamed over the silver plated control panel. Twilight glanced over, but couldn't quite hear Fluttershy over the motors. She got angry that she couldn't enjoy twilight's death sooner, so she sped up the process.

"INCASE YOU CAN HEAR ME, I'M NOT WAITING ANY LONGER." She then flipped open a transparent case containing a 6 inch wide red button.

"Discord will know, I'll make sure of it!" Fluttershy Screamed over to twilight, which grabbed her attention when she heard his name. Twilight now understood all of this, these weren't her real friends, they were illusions created by discord himself.

"You sick replica of a real friend, I won't let it end like this." Twilight screamed loud enough to where Fluttershy could make up the muffled sounds.

"Then take some action!" Fluttershy screamed, proceeding to press the big red button underneath her hoof. It slammed with a concrete force that slightly penetrated the mechanical sound barrier. Front and back to Twilight, both of the walls started to move into each other. One had spikes; the other was a similar shredding machine on the opposite side of where she stood. The walls slowly moved into each other, shoving twilight forward and forward. The sounds of different metals screeching all around her drove her insane pain even worse. The walls caught up to where twilight stood and pushed against her. Inch by life ending inch she slid towards her mechanized doom.

"It's over…" Twilight said as she put her head down. She had given up all hope and accepted her fate. The walls moved forward till she sat on her last measures of tangible land. She closed her eyes and lifted her hooves to let herself fall into her own personal grave shared by unfamiliar faces. The light of the sparks flew from the friction caused between the 2 tremendously huge razors. Her life was soon to end, but then everything stopped. She didn't see any sparks from the mechanical pit, the walls halted, and no mechanisms were running in the factory… but why.

She got up from her stated position and looked in every which way to see why. Her attention shifted when she heard yelling and screaming of pain and pleasure above her. She looked up at the control panel, it was sweetiebelle and applebloom! Their fur was also strongly tinted of gray and black stripes like the other ponies, they couldn't remember twilight. They were ganging up together and beating each waking breath out of Fluttershy. Sweetiebelle held onto her hind legs while Applebloom knocked the living sense out of her.

"YOU 2, KNOCK THAT OFF RIGHT NOW!" Twilight screamed accidentally, muffling her mouth after knowing that was her reactions speaking. The 2 lost attention, which gave Fluttershy a moment to break loose of them. She tried to fly up, but Sweetiebelle tackled her off the control desk and fell flat on the floor only inches from where twilight stood. They went at it again and kept kicking and punching Fluttershy like a gym sand bag, only with more blood and pain. The 2 knocked her mostly unconscious, giving her time to speak.

"You sick twisted little runts, I knew I should have checked if the cage was closed." Twilight knew Fluttershy had animals… but she didn't know that she meant it in a sarcastic way.

"Shut your mouth you little tooth fairy, before I knock each and every one of your teeth out of ya!" Applebloom screamed. Fluttershy Spit in applebloom's eyes, having the said spit mixed with blood.

"You don't have the guts…"

"Your right, I can do much worse than that." Applebloom said with a sinister smile forming wider around her face then Fluttershy did beforehand. She picked up Fluttershy while the yellow mare was held on her back. Applebloom then walked closer to the deactivated floor trap near where they stood and held her over it. Fluttershy tried to escape, but her wings broke when she landed on her back from the tackle, she had no way of escaping Applebloom's grip. The Yellow pony experienced an extreme rush of pain through her spine being held on her broken wings.

"Owlicious, attack these beasts!"

"Oh don't worry; we took care of your little friend too." Applebloom pointed up to Sweetiebelle sitting by the control panel with owlicious dead in her hoof. The little filly turned the knob and activated the trap floor causing sparks and screeches of metal rotating the mangled flesh that lies in there. She threw the owl into the machine, which grinded up the creature in a matter of seconds. The green tinted blood spurted everywhere, but missed all the ponies except Fluttershy.

"OWLICIOUS! HOW COULD YOU?" Twilight screamed with a ferocious tone.

"Quiet mysterious mare, were not done with you yet" Applebloom said, being slightly muffled by the turning machinery. She then views towards the control panel and nodded slowly to Sweetiebelle. The knob turned all the way around, spinning the grave garbage disposal to full speed. The spiked cylinders span at such a fast rate, pieces of metal and flesh started spitting out of the machine in all directions. Fluttershy turned her head down speaking her last words to Applebloom.

"This has only begun, this ISNT OVER!"

"Have a nice trip" Applebloom then chucked the yellow pony into the rotary blades as she fell at an abnormally fast rate.

"TWILIGHTTTTtttttt….." Was all she could say before the sounds of shredding flesh and bone masked the sounds of machinery. What took owlicious seconds were mere moments for poor Fluttershy. Pieces of the rubber suit floated in shreds around the edges of the machine. Just then one of the elements flew out of the machine and ricocheted off of the ceiling, falling directly in front of Twilight's right hoof. The element was the shape of a dragon's foot and shined a light yellow aura. She picked up the slightly scratched element and read the back of it like usual.

"Element of Corruption" Twilight read aloud. The element then snapped back into place with the others, connecting like a perfect puzzle. She then switched her attention to the 2 cutie mark crusaders walking away like nobody's business. She dashed over to them and grabbed their shoulders.

"Girls stop, I need to talk to you."

"Get your filthy paws off of me you mutt!" Applebloom screamed, Sweetiebelle nodded in agreement. The 2 fillies stared at twilight with hatred and confusion.

"Girls listen to me, I need to-"

"What I need to do is leave, I've got more important things to do than talk to strangers." Sweetiebelle said before turning her flank towards Twilight. She then noticed her flank was not blank; it actually had a cutie mark! It looked like a picture of a torn heart, while Applebloom's was a bleeding apple. Guess there not crusading for cutie marks anymore.

"I need you to tell me everything you know!" Screamed twilight as it slightly echoed from the dark room.

"Or else what…?" Sweetiebelle said slightly turning her head towards twilight.

"Or else you'll never find out what happened to Scootaloo." They both paused in shock. She had information that they needed, they knew what they must do. They stopped to whisper to each other, working out a short plan.

"Alright, you've got our attention. We'll tell you what you need to know."

"Excellent" Twilight said as she menacingly grinned, her pure happiness was no longer there, replaced by a sickening sinister grin.

"What do you need to know…?" They both said slightly off sync to each other.

"Let's start basic, how did you find us?"

"Well, when discord started ruling over equestria, he changed all of your friend's personalities to their complete opposites. With fluttershy's new personality, she got the help of Rarity to steal both us and owlicious. She stuck us in cages while she experimented with your pet, at least that's what it sounded like from inside the cage. She was planning on using us as guinea pigs, but when she heard you scream about the missing D section of the library, she forgot to lock the cage rushing after you. That's when we got out and took her down." Said Applebloom, being half way cut off by Sweetiebelle who said the rest.

"How am I supposed to know this is all true?"

"You don't know, and you never will" said Applebloom following by another approval nod by Sweetiebelle.

"Now you owe us a debt, where is Scootaloo?"

"Listen girls, Scootaloo is dead. She was found murdered in Pinkie's procedure room, only a rotting skull remaining." The 2 looked at each other and shrugged in disappointment.

"Predictable" said Sweetiebelle

"Oh well, It was fun while It lasted." Said Applebloom

"Yeah we were planning on ditching her in the everfree forest anyways" Said Sweetiebelle

"Why did you ask me for her if you don't care?" Said twilight slightly tilting her head in confusion.

"We wanted to make sure the job was done right." They both said in perfect conjunction. The 2 then nodded to each other and started to walk away.

"WAIT! I need to know one more question!"
"Forget it, it's over." Said Applebloom with an assertive tone. Sweetiebelle then turned around and stood still, staring directly at twilight while Applebloom halted noticing she stopped as well.

"Let's go Belle, it's over"

"Not yet Apple, we might as well kill some more time, play it safe." Said sweetiebelle with a reassuring tone.

"Fine…" She said as she turned to stare at Twilight as well.

"What's your question then?" Said applebloom with an extremely irritated tone.

"Would you guys know where Applejack and Rarity would possibly be?"

"How should we know, and even if we did know, we would have made sure they laid dead before you were even conscious. They've been missing for days now, find them yourself." Applebloom said as they then both ran off in a hurry. Twilight then took out the elements and stared long and hard at them in deep thought. She gripped them with an iron hold, whispering a quote from Fluttershy.

"It's not over…"