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Doctor Whooves walked valiantly through the dark cave, not knowing what would come to him in the tunnel. The air was smoky, and very hard to breathe in. Doctor Whooves coughed as he thought about how he was to escape the cave. There was… some kind of way out, through the labyrinth of tunnels. He knew this to be a fact, from his experience and training for the games. He remember General Cheerilee saying something.

"Don't eat that! It's my sandwich!"

No, that wasn't it.

"Remember. There's a secret group of tunnels leading to an escape portal. The portal will be turned on, when you, Bright Darkness, and whatever amount of other ponies you decide to save come inside the cave. Hey! Are you even listening to me, soldier?"

That was much more like it. He and Cheerilee didn't exactly have the brightest relationship together. She was a ray of sunshine up until she had that accident and went insane in combat. She never liked Doctor Whooves, and she was a ray of sunshine outside of his presence as well. But nopony could ever want to see her when she was around Doctor Whooves.

Doctor Whooves walked through the tunnel, and as he was looking around, he spotted a dim light shining on a wall on the opposite side of the cave from him. He ran toward it quickly, but stopped halfway through the tunnel. The smoke was making it even harder to breathe, and running wouldn't make that any better. In fact, it would make it worse.

This reminded him of a time that he put a skunk in Cheerilee's room, and she freaked out so much that it sprayed stench everywhere. Sadly, this went way out of hand, and it sent Cheerilee to the medical ward of District 13. Thankfully, he was far too valuable to the new beginning of Equestria, that they didn't kick him out of District 13, or worse, kill him.

Doctor Whooves cleared his mind of warm memories, and continued walking, but much more slowly. When he reached the wall, he noticed that to his right and left there were small puddles of lava. He had gone the wrong direction to the portal. He started coughing and hacking even more, and there, he lay on the floor. Dead to the world.

Rainbowdash screamed in the woods. Night had fallen, and she was being chased by Cerberus, the three-headed dog! There was mist everywhere, and she could barely see five feet in front of her. She ran quickly, but she couldn't lose the mutated dog. It chased her for what felt to be hours, and she was quickly running out of energy. Right when she felt like she was going to pass out, she took the trident from her back, closed her eyes, and stabbed in the general direction of the beast. She opened her eyes to find it lying dead on the ground, with three stab wounds through its chest. She stuck her trident in the ground confidently next to the beast. With her sword, she decided to cut off some of its flesh to use as food. She took out her sword from its hilt, and tried to stab the one of the dog's heads. It went through as if the dog was made of air itself.

"What's going on?" she said curiously. Suddenly, the dog disappeared, and there was a roar from that was so close she could feel its breath. She turned around to see something horrible. A Cerberus, twice as tall, and with a fourth head, was standing behind her. "I killed you once! And I will kill you again!" Rainbowdash yelled as she sliced off the dog's extra head with her sword. "Now you're back to how you should be, with only three heads." Suddenly, flesh bubbled where the wound was caused, and two heads popped out where the old head used to be. The dog grew to an even bigger size. Rainbowdash looked for her trident and found it stuck in the ground. She ran in its direction, but with one step of his paw, Cerberus crushed her weapon. Now all she had was a sword. Which would do nothing against a beast this size.

"Rarity," Shining Armor called out, "Rarity. Where are you?" He ran through the woods, acting as if there was urgency in his voice.

"I'm over here!" Rarity called out. The mist had gone back into snow, and Rarity was lying in fetal position in the cold ice.

"Woah," Shining Armor was taken back to see her in such a position of fear, "You definitely look like a career."

"Ha, ha," Rarity said, "But if you saw what I saw, you would be here too."

"What did you see?" Shining Armor helped her up on her feet as he said this.

"I'd rather not talk about it," Rarity shivered in saying this. She looked around, trying to find something else to talk about. "Nice new armor. It's very shiny. It fits your name, as if you were meant to find it."

"Maybe I was," Shining Armor answered. He pretended to be solemn as he said this, "Sorry. I didn't find anything for you."

"No," Rarity said, "It's okay." She looked into his eyes, his voice and attitude seemed happy, but his eyes were filled with dark intentions. "You want to kill me… Don't you?"

"What?" Shining Armor laughed at the thought, "That's ridiculous!"

"You do…" Rarity answered, "I can see it in your eyes."

What she said was so profound. Shining Armor knew his actions would be wrong. He fought back tears, "That's… That's n-not true." He couldn't keep acting.

"Yes it is…" Rarity said, "But… I… I mean… In a way… I want to be killed."

"What?"

"After what I've seen," Rarity said, "I don't think I could've carried on whether you killed me or not."

"Why? You were fine up until now," Shining Armor was sincere now. He gave up trying to lure her into a trap.

"No, I wasn't," Rarity said, "I was fine up until I saw that little pony. Helpless to defend himself. Too stupid to do anything." She shuddered again, this time from the cold, and her sorrow, "And then… Rainbowdash killing him. I… I lost control of my thoughts. But I managed to keep control of myself, until now."

"That's horrible," Shining Armor answered.

"Kill me…" was all Rarity had to say. Snow started falling in the wood, and it got increasingly cold. Rarity shuddered one more time, entirely from the chill of the cold.

"But…" Shining Armor suddenly thought of saying something romantic, "Who… w-would…" He couldn't say it. Maybe he was in love with Rarity. "Who would… keep me warm?"

Rarity didn't answer. She pulled out Shining Armor's sword slowly and held it up to her neck. He didn't do anything. "Don't try to stop me…" She said, she was crying a river. Instead of saying anything, Shining Armor quickly moved his face to hers, and kissed her. But it was too late, she had already slit her throat, and was bleeding terribly. Shining Armor continued to kiss her, even after she died. When he finished, he laid next to her for many hours.

"He's alive…" Doctor Whooves heard somepony say, "The scans said he was dead. What's going on?"

"I bet it was a rebel trick," another voice answered, "It's a good thing we finished the surgery before he woke up."

"Goliad," this third voice caught his attention. He knew Goliad. But this wasn't Goliad's voice, it was female. "What do you think this did to him."

"I don't know," the first voice answered. This one was Goliad. "But at least with his new robot parts, he won't have any control of anything except for his thoughts."

What are they talking about? Doctor Whooves thought.

"Good," the third voice answered, "We'll send him back into the arena soon."

OOOOOO! What's going to happen next? Lotsa cliffhangers! If you haven't counted, there's only three ponies left in the arena now. I know Doctor Whooves' leaving isn't very clear, but he left. You'll find out why in the next chapter. REMEMBER TO REVIEW!

Until next time, Bye!