Part 2: Chapter 10: The Penalty of Homosexuality

Alpha and Delta arrived with the basket floating beside them inside on one of the dueling platforms, just in case any fire that the little dragon fired wouldn't damage anything. And the dragon was spewing fire as if he turned into a volcano. Spike was hauling balls of fire and flames left and right. He was squirming around like an earthworm that was just dumped in a bucket of salt. Alpha and Charlie kept their distance close, but far enough to not get hit by the flaming balls. Eventually, (an hour), Spike calmed down and sat in his basket, staring at his perpetrators.

The Training Room was the size of the field in one the human sports: Football (not to be confused with futball, or 'soccer', in that sense). Every ten yards there would be a wall made up of metal and rock. Each "Hall" was designed as a platform, specifically designed to train a specific skill: Flying, Magic, Close Quarter Combat, and General Combat.

"Now that you have stopped fighting, let's talk." Alpha said in a friendly voice. "Let me introduce you to the group. My name is Alpha, my friend here-" He pointed to his glowing red eye. "Is Beta. Yes, the legendary Beta."

Then Charlie spoke. "Name's Charlie, Alpha's my coltfriend." He said proudly with a smile, his face slightly red. "My friend is Delta." He said, winking his glowing blue eye.

"What do you colts want? What are you going to do to me?"

"Do? We aren't going to do anything to you?" Alpha said with a chuckle and a smile.

"Don't lie to me. You are probably gonna kill me slowly, torture me with welding torches, burn my tail off with a hot rod. Gonna rape me if I survive that, the both of you gonna rape me."

Alpha stepped back sharply in distraught. "Who told you that?"

"Celestia and Twilight did. They told me if I was ever dragon-napped by you two, a death by skinning me is considered a mercy killing."

"Truth be told and in all honest," Beta began. "The last time I have ever tortured somepony was at the Rainbow Factory. I took over Alpha's body after he lost his wing, quite painfully I might add, which is ironically one of the things you are here for."

"What do you mean?"

"Alpha's welding torch. We modified it to use fire made by magic to be able to modify our wing if it gets damaged by Celestia again or another strong-magical pony."

"What do you mean 'if it gets damaged by Celestia again'?"

"We encounter Celestia at the Factory three days ago. As you may already know, Celestia is quite powerful. During the duel between myself and Beta against Celestia, Celestia damaged my wing, broken my front and back leg and kicked a couple of teeth out." Alpha explained.

"No she didn't. You did that to her." Spike replied, confused.

Alpha tilted his head to the side in complete amazement at how Celestia bended history to her liking. His grin was from utter disbelief. He opened his mouth and flicked his tongue through the hole in his teeth where his front tooth would have been. "Just because Beta healed my bones and scratches, doesn't mean I wasn't hurt or injured. And what do you mean by 'the both of you are gonna rape me?'"

"Well aren't you two gay?"

Alpha looked at Charlie before looking back at Spike and nodding. "Yeah, why?"

"And you two are coltfriend-coltfriend right?"

Both Alpha and Charlie nodded this time. Charlie moved over to Alpha and was now standing right beside him.

"So you two will not rape me?"

"Why would we rape you?" Alpha asked.

"Well isn't that what Gay couples do?"

"WHAT!?" Alpha asked in complete and utter disgust.

"Well, everypony says that's what happens. That's why if a colt or mare is found gay or lesbian, they are to be executed on the spot."

All the emotion but anger and hatred drained from Alpha's face as he processed what he was just told. "Listen here, I brought you here to teach me Fire Resistance. Now if you DO teach me, I will set you free, you can go back to the lies and the fake history your fucking Princess shoves down your throat. After that, you WILL tell me everything about Gays and Lesbians and what happens to them if they go public. Do you understand? Or shall I have Beta show you himself?"

"I'm not scared of you or dying. If you kill me you won't learn fire resistance."

"We don't really give a fuck if you die. If you do die, there are always other dragons to take your place. You were the closest dragon nearby."

"Where will I sleep?"

Delta stepped in. "You will be given your own separate bed, no guards protecting the entrance."

"Aren't you two worried I might escape?"

"Trust me, you won't be able to find your way out." Delta said with a chuckle. "Welcome to the 'Safe-Mountain. Come with me, I shall show you your room." He turned around, Spike following, dragging his basket behind him. Delta was expecting to hear another set of hooves behind him and was surprised to see Alpha still standing in place, staring at the other side of the room.

"Alpha…You coming?"

Alpha just stood there, not moving, almost as if he turned into a statue that was painted. The only thing that moved was his eyelids blinking, his underbelly expanding and contracting as he breathed.

"Delta, this is Beta. I'm currently having a hard time talking here; Alpha is for some reason not speaking to-" Beta was cut-off midsentence as if he was on the radio and somepony turned the radio off with a switch. Alpha let out a bloodcurdling, raging scream of anger. A small blue light appeared a few centimeters above his forehead as Alpha's head twitched violently to the side, trembling.

Delta turned around, leaned forward and watched closely as the blue light began to grow and grow until it was the size of Alpha's head.

Alpha's head tilted all the way back before being violently brought back down, the ball of light turning into an intense beam of blue light, destroying the rock wall at the end of the 'hall'. After 30 seconds of non-stop firing, the beam disappeared as Alpha fell unconscious to the ground. Charlie, who had taken over of Delta, ran to his side, screaming his name. Spike was beside Charlie when he looked to his right and was amazed when the dust cleared. He poked Charlie's flank with one skinny finger.

"WHAT?!" Charlie screamed at him. Spike pointed where the dust had cleared and his jaw dropped open.

The wall of rock had been drilled through as if by a huge drill. Some rock had been heated up to the point of lava and was dripping from the ceiling. Smoke was coming from within the tunnel as whatever flammable material was in there stopped burning.

"He's fine, He's fine." Beta said, finally able to take control, although he was still stuck on the ground, laying on his side.

"Was that you?" Charlie asked

"No, believe it or not. That was Alpha. To be honest with you three, I did not know that was possible."

"You yourself are a mutant, Beta." Delta exclaimed.

"No shit, but mutants find out about their ability long before they turn 13. After 13, their ability goes non-existent if they do not find out about it. Alpha did not know he was a mutant, and HE IS 18 YEARS OLD!" Beta exclaimed. "Now that I can talk without being restrained by Alpha, when were you two going to tell us what they do to gay and lesbian ponies?!"

"Because it wasn't important." Charlie replied, his tone worried.

"At least it's a quick death right? Quick and clean cut by sword to the neck or the Finem Vitae spell, right?"

Charlie and Spike slowly shook their heads.

"Whaddaya mean 'no'?"

Spike muttered something softly.

"Speak up, couldn't hear you."

"They torture them, slowly. Those who do are called 'Beta's Friends'."

"Great… Well, I'm teleporting Alpha to his bed for the night or until he wakes up again. 'Night."

Spike nodded. Charlie placed his hoof on Alpha's shoulder and tapped it twice before removing it.

"Don't worry, Charlie. If anything happens physically, I will be able to heal it."

"And if it's mentally or emotionally?"

"Then you better pray to Nebula that it doesn't."

Charlie nodded and watched as Alpha disappear in a blinding flash of light before leading Spike to his new room. Once inside his new room, Spike asked one last question before hopping onto his own bed. "This is what life is like for you ponies?"

"Pretty much, yeah." Charlie replied, tired. "Goodnight, Sleep tight-"

"And don't let the bedbugs bite. I heard that one before." Spike interrupted, already under the covers.

"I was going to say 'Don't let Celestia be a fright', but that works too." Charlie replied with a smile before extinguishing the torch and walking away.

Charlie walked into his bedroom, plopped himself up on his own bed before closing his eyes.

Luna had walked inside the training room because she smelled the smoke and heard Alpha scream to find the gaping hole at the end of one of the 'halls'.

"What the fuck happened here? Why am I never told about his kind of shit until it happens? Seriously, if you ponies need to let off this type of steam, let me know and I can give you dreams where you can torture anypony you want." She sighed angrily as she walked out of the training room talking to herself. "Fucking Nebula," She said with a face hoof. "Now I gotta fix that hole."

"What hole?" Chrysalis said behind her after hearing her talk to herself.

"The one in training room."

"You found it? How was it?" Chrysalis replied, grinning.

"What do you mean? It's fucking huge and there is dripping lava from the ceiling inside the damn thing. Wait, what hole are you talking about?"

"The hole that lets you see inside the Stallion's locker room and showers." Chrysalis said with a calm face.

"What?!" Luna said with disgust. "I was talking about the hole in one of the 'halls'."

"Oh. Well I'm begging you, PLEASE don't fill up the hole I was talking about. Those stallions are cute when they take a shower. So much cuter than in those fun-stallion magazines!"

Luna looked at her in disbelief. "What do you do when you watch them?"

"You want me to tell you? I thought you were straight."

Luna's eyes widened as she realized what she did and what she was talking about. She face hoofed herself again, this time much more pushed against her face. "For fucks sake, I need a drink." Luna turned around and walked to the bar.

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"No." She looked back at Chrysalis, her eyes wide. "Fuck no."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm sure." She said as she slowly nodded.

"He's gone! Spike's gone! They took him!" Twilight cried, tears streaming down her face as she told her Teacher.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, his basket where he sleeps was gone. It's always beside my bed!"

Celestia slowly nodded and placed a hoof on twilight's shoulder. "I'm sorry, but you are aware of what you must do if you see him again, correct?"

Twilight looked up to her with fear in her eyes. "I WILL NOT KILL MY FRIEND!"

"You must! Beta's lies cannot spread. If they do…." Celestia trailed off.

"What?!" Twilight wiped her eyes, no longer crying but in anger. "What would happen, huh? What would happen if anypony would listen to Beta?! He is a fucking bully, you told me yourself! Nopony would believe him!"

"I was wrong. I lied."

"Well I lied too. I met Alpha, Beta, Charlie, and Delta as soon as you left. They were waiting for me."

Celestia looked down at twilight, in shock. "What!? Why didn't you tell me this in the first place?"

"Because I wanted to see how you reacted."

"Your friend, if turned is now an enemy to me."

"Discord was an enemy but now he has turned good. Can't you do the same to Beta!?"

"Discord and Beta are two totally different things!"

"Why?!"

"BECAUSE BETA IS A VICTIM!" Celestia blurted out. Once she realized what she said, she covered her mouth with her hooves.

"Because he is a victim. Because he is acting on his pain...not because he liked to hurt others, but he himself was hurt…." Twilight muttered as she realized the truth. "What he said IS true…." She said with a terrifying grin. "You let him suffer, then punished him…You sick piece of shit! What Beta said is true! You bent the rules of history to make you the hero. Make Beta a bully, not a victim. He was acting on his pain and you punished him because he had no other way out! No wonder why he hates you so much."

"So, do you now hate me?"

"Hate? No. But I am no longer with you. I am still a Princess."

"That really doesn't stop me. I can fake your death as I did Sombra's." Celestia said with a dark grin on her face, no longer scared of revealing her original self to Twilight.

"But I'm an element of harmony, you kill me all harmony will be in chaos."

"YOU aren't an element of Harmony. You are a conduit of its magic. That's the only reason its magic works for you. If you die, there can always be a replacement. As for your magic in Friendship, that can be replaced as well. The younger the mares are in a five way friendship makes its magic stronger as they continue to be friends, that's all. There isn't really anything special."

Twilight looked distraught.

"What? Did you really believe you were powerful? You are just a pawn, a Princess who doesn't even know how to command an army yet."

"I defeated Tirek!"

"You defeated him with MY MAGIC, not yours."

"I used the magic of friendship."

"Come now, Sparkle, The Cutie Mark Crusaders have more power in friendship than your group of friends has. Speaking of which, I'm thinking of making Sweetie bell a student."

"But she isn't an Alicorn."

"And neither were you."

"What!? I have a horn and wings!"

"You used to have a horn only, but after you took that potion that I gave Zecora, your Zebra friend…"

"You gave that to her?"

"Every item she owns I gave her, I just gave it to another pony to give to her."

"And Spike?"

"To be honest, I found that egg on the ground of a Dragon's den. Eggs are only thrown on the ground if there is a deformity within the DNA of the Dragon within the egg. At this age, Spike should be as big as me. He's a failed dragon. Technically, he has Mental Retardation."

Twilight's eyes were full of horror. Her worst fears had just come true.

"A Dragon's main enemy from birth are ponies, it's embedded into their memory from their DNA. The only reason why he hasn't killed you is because he has Mental Retardation." She looked down at Twilight. "Oh come now, did you really think you were special?"

Twilight disappeared in a blinding flash of purple light as she teleported away. A guard galloped up to Celestia, and knelt before her.

"What do you want?"

"Shall we send the troops after her, Princess?" The guard asked,

"No, let her speak. No pony will listen to her."

"As you wish." The guard replied with a bow before leaving.

Celestia sighed as she realized what she had just done. "Great…another Beta to deal with."