Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Scootaloo sat at the hospital now as they had finished stitching and healing what was left of Pinkie Pie's tongue and mouth.

"Hank You." Pinkie says the best she could with the painkillers, gauges, and stitches they had used on her.

"You're welcome Pinkie Pie." Nurse Redheart says as she cuts the stitch needle and puts it all way. She trots off out of the room as Dash now leaning on the door stares at her.

"Wow Pinkie, I can't believe you got out of that alive." Scootaloo says now getting back on her hooves and trots over to her.

Pinkie Pie lowers her head now smacking her lips. "I wah cared." She says looking back up to her with watery eyes.

"Well don't worry, we're all trying to figure this thing out. When we figure out who it is I'm going to pummel his nose into his skull." Rainbow Dash says now stomping her hoof in.

"Wha bout ewypoee elf." She says as she gets down gently patting her stitched up mouth with her hoof, the gauge still a little pink from the leftover blood that had come out.

"Hey, nopony else is going to die alright?" Dash says as they all three hug now.

Meanwhile with somepony dying…

Applejack immediately rushed to Fluttershy's side as she saw the little hole wounds that had been made from the chains and wires. "Sugar, please t-tell us what happened." She spoke trying to stay calm but Fluttershy couldn't even speak past her sobbing.

"I-I-I couldn't d-do anything…I t-tried…I…" And that was all she could say, trembling and curled up in a ball.

Spike held on to Twilight's hoof burying his face into her leg as she could feel his tears soaking her fur.

"Celestia, what are we-" Twilight was cut off as an echo sounded through the cave, this time of another familiar voice.

"SISTER! SISTER!? HELP!" Luna could be heard screaming as Celestia bolted out the room faster than Rainbow Dash on a bed of coal. She trotted out into the darkness of the cave now only illuminated by the glow of her horn as she soon stumbles over something long and hard. She pushes herself up as Twilight joins her, double illuminating as they see a long chain now leading to a blue hoof.

"S-SISTER!" She galloped to her but the chain on her hoof stopped her in her tracks.

"Luna…"She trots slowly to her now, tears in her royal eyes as she pulled the chain off by her magic. They galloped to one another in a warm embrace.

"I-I don't know what happened, one moment I was out guarding the night, raising the moon and next thing you know, I'm here.." Her wings lower, her hooves giving out from under her as she falls against Celestia.

"Don't worry sister, I am here, I'll never leave you." Celestia says as pretty soon Applejack, Bloom, and Fluttershy have caught up.

"Do you have the slightest idea who could be doing all of this?" Twilight asks now as Luna shakes her head.

"Not at all, it's not every day that things like this happen in Equestria." Luna says breathing softly as she nuzzles Celestia's neck. "But I did hear noises, they were coming from deeper in the cave, somewhere in there." She pointed a hoof into the darkening abyss.

"This dun' already got way too far, it's time to stop this." Applejack says, pissed off, hyped up, and already galloping her way through the cave. The rest of them behind, Twilight and Celestia lighting up the way as they rushed into the rocky depths.

"Twilight…" Spike says holding on to her neck as they ran.

"Yeah?" She says as they run, not even looking back.

"….I'm scared." He says as his cheeks were stained from his salty tears.

"I am too spike, but we have to-" And yet again she was cut off as the rocks gave away beneath them. Spike falls off on the ground but the rest slide into a cavern, Twilight hanging on to a slowly breaking rock. "Spike! Go find somepony, tell them what's happening!' She says hanging on.

"But what about…"

"JUST GO!" She yells out now as Spike immediately starts running back out the cave, Twilight and the others falling down the cavern screaming.

Meanwhile…

"I can't take this much longer." Scootaloo says as she rode her scooter around the back of the hospital. She tried to ride it indoors but the doctors pleaded with her not too. She went in circles, the events from the entire day boggling her brain.

"This is just one big cluster of madness." She says, talking to herself out loud. "Even I'm going crazy, talking to myself." She soon found herself flying through the air as her scooter hit something. She got up, rubbing her head with her hoof. She looked down to find a box protruding from the ground. She pulled it out now wiping the dust off. It was a red box with gold outlinings on it to hold it together.

"Hmmm this looks like it wasn't here that long." She realized there was no key or lock and opened it to find a letter, not dirty or touched by hooves with Scootaloo's name on it. "What the…" she rose an eyebrow and took it out the box opening it.

"Dear Scootaloo…if you are reading this then the games have already begun.."

Meanwhile…

Twilight and the others didn't really fall down a cavern but had reached a art that looked to be artificially dug. The tunnel went all the way down as crystals had formed on nthe walls and that's when she realized it.

"The crystal caves…this is where Chrysalis sent me that time…I know who's behind this!" Twilight Sparkle rushed down the hall as Applejack followed. Celestia and Luna busted into one of the cave areas only to find a surprising sight. Big Macintosh was there with a chain around his neck. Behind him were gears that were meant for pulling the chain. Applejack immediately rushed to him but hit a tripwire as a static was heard again as a speaker on the rocky walls blared.

"Hello Ponies…I want to play a game. What you are seeing now is something that I have seen before, a family broken apart by some means. Applejack, you have worked faithfully and honestly to keep your business going. But when it comes down to family matters…you neglect what help they can offer. So are you really being honest with yourself? The irony of harmony I guess. So I ask you, what will you sacrifice for family? When the timer starts Big Macintosh will be slowly pulled into the moving gears. If you can not locate the key in time to release him then he will be crushed. Can you do it without his help? We'll see. Game on."

And with that the timer started counting down on the wall and the gears moved slowly, pulling him into the metal maw of the machine.

Applejack rushed over to him and tried to pull the chain with her mouth but it was far too strong. She shoved his face, trying to wake him up but he was knocked out. "So this is what it meant…he can't even help me." A.J. pounded at the keyhole.

Celestia's horn lit up as she tried to use her magic but the magic was repelled out. "What!?'

"The chain is protected by a magic barrier, I can't break through either!" twilight yells as Big Mac gets pulled further.

Apple Bloom begins crying as she tries to pull and tug at the chain. Luna and Celestia searching the room for the key as AJ went bonkers.

"STOP IT! STOP IIIIIIIT! I'M GONNA' BUCKING KILL YOU!" She screamed out loud, thrashing at the chain as the gears showed no sign of quitting their pull. Twilight Sparkle held her head while Celestia fought her own tears of the key searching.

"This…pony…whatever it is, is just toying with us!" Luna says desperately trying to pull the chain to keep it from going inside. Big Mac's neck snapped suddenly as he was pulled partially into the gears.

"Big brother!" Apple Bloom screamed watching the gears consume him, breaking his body in half as blood dribbled down the gears, Luna pulling away as she held something in her hand from pulling it off the collar.

"Wha…what is that?" Twilight asked as AJ and Bloom held each other, eyes closed tight as to not see their brother get crumpled like a piece of paper.

Luna rose her hooves to find…the key.