"Pinkamena, Status report." Sakura said while handing a document to the pink pony.

"Thank you Sakura, you may leave now." She responded to her subordinate while taking the document in her hooves. "Oh, before you go.... run a quick test on experiment 012."

"Yes Pinkamena, shall I take the new recruit with me?" Sakura inquired.

"Hmm, yes. It could prove to be a good experience for her." the pony replied, while cracking a wickedly evil grin.

Sakura then bid Pinkamena farewell, and left the room. The pony was left to her own thoughts now, within the confines of her chamber. With curious hooves, she shuffled through the document, giving it a quick glance through, all the while she was giggling to herself. It seemed what she was reading, was all too pleasing for her. After completely skimming through it, she set the document down on a table beside the chair she was sitting on, her giggling continuing on.

"Everything is going just as I envisioned.... Soon... they all shall drown in blood.... They will all know the pain...." Pinkamena giggled to herself, while snorting a bit too.

She got up from her chair and pulled on her cloak of cutie mark patches that she had sewn herself, and then proceeded out of the room. The hallway that she had entered had flooring made of metal tiles, and the light was dimmed, making it hard to see. A loud sound could be heard, indicating that ventilation was working fine. The air had a thick scent to it, that to a normal person would be instantly find themselves gagging, but not this pony. She greeted this scent with a smile, and with nostrils flaring with jubilee to take it in. As she trotted, her hooves made soft clopping sounds. Down the hallway Pinkamena could see a scattered assortment of subordinates that she had managed to bring under her wing.

They were hustling around, wearing lab coats, and carrying clipboards, furiously writing stuff down. Pinkamena passed by many rooms with windows. Inside these rooms were different creatures, but they all had something in common, their skin resembled much the same as the shukakusha possessed. Low-lit red lights hanging above each room revealed plaquereds that had the names of each creature. None of those were unique however, each one was simply referred to as an experiment, and then given a number. When the pony passed by some of the workers, they instantly stopped what they were doing, and got on one knee, greeting her.

"Horrid day, Miss Pinkamena." They all said in unison. Not a single one of them dared to say any other variant of this greeting.

"Yes, indeedy! It is positively a horrid day!" She giggle-snorted. "Hehehehehehe....."

As Pinkamena passed each person, her memories swirled around the past. In particular, how she had managed to gain so many personnel, recently. Around her neck was the cause of such, an amulet, circular in shape. Embedded in it's center was that of a hoof mark, with a crescent moon within it. Memories inside her head depicted exactly where she found it. It was around the time she had made her escape from Equestria. Those were troubling times to say the least. It was not something she particularly enjoyed remembering, but the moment she found this little trinket, her whole life began to change.

"Oh because of this little beauty..." She stopped and softly bantered to herself, obviously she let herself be swept up by her memories.

------- Pinkamena's Memories. ---------

"Shit, Shit, Shit, I have to escape.... I knew I shouldn't have just thrown those bones out...." Pinkie cursed while rushing around in her basement, gathering what little she could carry by herself.

Recently, Equestrian guards had found the bones of a deceased colt, which gave them a clue as to why ponies were disappearing in Ponyville. An investigation had been opened up, and ponies from Canterlot had come down questioning practically everypony down there. Pinkie knew it was a matter of time before they questioned her and found out about her little secret, so she had decided to leave town. It was at night that she had began to make her slip. She had a destination in mind too. Equestrian legends told of a place in the Frozen North, where an amulet of dark powers was stored. It was further said that this amulet allowed for dimensional traveling, and other abilities that far exceeded that of normal magic. Pinkie Pie had done research on the subject before and managed to acquire some old maps pertaining to it's location.

When night had fallen in ponyville she had silently escaped the town, never to be seen again in the small village. The next few days nopony had seen or heard from Pinkie Pie, this was weird, as she was the life of the town, literally. So, Twilight made it her mission to go over and find out what she was up to. Upon knocking on the door of Pinkie Pie's house, she found the door was opened just a crack. Stepping inside the empty home, she started to look around. Finding nothing on the first floor, nor anything on the second floor. Then an aura hit her when she neared the door to the basement. Twilight didn't understand why she felt such an ominous force emanating from that door, but it made her want to check it out. Slowly she opened the door, and trotted down the stairs.

"Pinkie Pie? Are you down her----" Her voice stopped short of finishing her question when she saw what exactly was down here.

The entire basement was splashed with splotches of red dried blood. Decorations made from the organs of deceased ponies hung everywhere on the walls. Furnishing made from the bones of the deceased were also found. A trinity of pony heads lay at the center of one table, their eyes having been pulled out of their sockets, and their tongues just hanging out. In a corner was a medical table, that was also caked in blood, underneath the table was a bucket that had some sort of liquid congealing in it. Also inside that bucket were the organs of somepony. Twilight's body began to shake, and her voice quivered, trying to say something, but the scene was just too much. Her nostrils flared trying to reject the disgusting odor that heavily hung in the air of the room. Then something hit her emotions hard. Tears filled her eyes, and instantly started to roll down her cheeks. On one side of a wall, was Rainbow Dash's body, stuffed and sewn together, sitting there lifeless as well.

"No... No!.... NO!.... Rainbow Dash!!!!" She screamed in horror.... and fell to the ground. She couldn't even believe it, the cheerful Pinkie Pie, the happiest pony out of all 6 of them, committing something so atrocious and vile. "How... could you... Pinkie.... I thought we were friends.... Why???! WHY?!"

Poor Twilight was losing it. Speeding into a spiraling descent of depression. Her hooves clasped the side of her head, and as her eyes quaked with intense insanity, she started blankly at the ground. Inside her mind a dark aura was surrounding her logical side, as if ready to consume her, and just as it seemed it would, it suddenly stopped. Reality began to slowly come back to her, a sense of calm washing over her, and then she took a deep breath. Of course, she still couldn't hold back her sniffles and tears, she just discovered one of her best friends murdered another best friend of hers.

"I have to tell the others.... They have to know...." Twilight said to herself, sniffling a bit. "And then.... we will find.... Pinkie...."

Struggling to move her body, she finally stood up on all her hooves. Moppingly trotting out of the horrid scene. Her friends were worried about her as she gathered them one by one. Twilight knew she didn't have the heart to tell each one of them personally, she had to do it as a group. Once they had all been brought to Twilight's yard, she looked at all of them. A bit of a quiver still left in her body. Everypony could tell it was serious, she still had tears rolling down her cheeks. Twilight didn't notice at all, and had no intention of wiping them away right now. With a huge huff, she thought it was time to begin.

"Where's Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie?" Fluttershy inquired. "Shouldn't they... be here too?...."

"Fluttershy.... girls...." Her voice shook, she didn't even know if she could do this. "I.... I...."

Twilight Sparkle's eyes unleashed a new wave of tears. "Rainbow Dash is dead...." She sniffled, her legs once again becoming to weak to hold herself up. Instantly she fell to the ground.

".... What... did you just say?...." Applejack thought it was some sick joke. "Please tell me y'er kidding right hun?...."

"I wish I was...." She sobbed.

"No.... Rainbow Dash..." Fluttershy instantly began to cry, her heart was even more fragile than Twilight's, and this devastated her.

"W-what? How? How could Rainbow Dash be dead?.... no.. it's a lie...." Rarity was in denial, she thought Twilight was lieing.

"I found her... body stuffed... in Pinkie Pie's basement...." Twilight responded. If it wasn't bad enough that one of their friends was dead now, the next part was even harder for them to swallow. "Girls.... I think Pinkie Pie.... killed her...."

None of them could speak. It was too much, and the only thing they could do right now was huddle up to one another, and mourn the loss of their friend. While in the back of their heads, a quiet anger began to seed itself in them. Alongside this was questions. Why would Pinkie Pie do this? She was their friend and Rainbow Dash was her friend? So what sense did it make for such an act? None of them could answer any of these questions. Afterwards the group informed the investigators, and the crime scene was established. Twilight made a ardent effort to assist in the investigation, which she was swiftly granted with a little help from Princess Celestia. The only problem was that they couldn't even find a single clue as to where the accused had gone. She left without a single trace.

Somewhere in the Frozen North, Pinkie Pie trotted through a snow storm. Her vision was limited, the snow that came down was like a thick blanket covering every direction. Despite this, Pinkie eventually came across shelter, in a large cave on the side of a colossal mountain. Upon entering she felt a warm air push gently against her body. Light greeted her eyes from deep inside of the tunnel, her whole mind being enveloped in curiosity. Moving forwards she traversed deeper into the cave, entering into a larger chamber. It was very spacious, not having much of anything in it, but the things it did have were enough to keep anyponies attention for a long time. A big hieroglyphic slab was propped against one of the walls, encased in ice. On either side of this tablet, were two torches, that flickered with blue flames. A smile ran across Pinkie Pie's features, she knew exactly what she had stumbled across. Even with her maps, it had been difficult to locate this area. She had almost given up once she had encountered that snow storm, but luck seemed to be on her side after spotting this cave.

"Heh.... There it is.... nopony will be able to stop me now...." She said, looking at the foot of the tablet, and eyeing a gold chest.

Walking slowly over to it, she started to giggle. It was like an aura around the chest was drawing her in, and she didn't even care. She opened the chest and pulled out an amulet, circular in shape, with the printing of a hoof and a crescent moon inside it. At once a powerful urge made her put the necklace on. Magical energies flowed through her body, and as if to test out the amulet, she began focusing on the air in the room. In her mind she envisioned two hands pulling at the very fabric of time and space, ripping open a hole in it. Reveling in the power, she soon found herself stepping into the rift she had made, and thus, she was gone from the dimension of Equestria.

--------- Back in the Present. -----------

"Heh, Things have just gotten even more horrible ever since that day. I wonder how many of my so-called friends are even still alive?" She reminisced.

Pulling herself out of her memories, she looked away from her amulet and then remembered that the new recruit would be helping handle experiment 012 today. With a bit of a hustle in her step, she trotted down the hallway towards the cell where this experiment was contained within. She stood in front of a large containment door, and punched in a security code on to a little keypad that was on the right side of the door. A computerized voice spoke to her once she had finished inputing the code.

"Welcome, Miss Pinkamena." The voice stated, and then began opening the first door in a set of compartmentalized doors.

Stepping into the first section, she waited for the first door to close, followed by the second one opening. This process continued on to a third door, before it finally reached the actual room. Inside this chamber was another wall and door, but Pinkamena wasn't planning on going inside that door. On the wall was a window from which she could peer into the chamber without stepping inside of it. Once she trotted over to the window, she sat her rear down on a nearby chair and looked out the window. Sakura stood next to an experiment, injecting it with a liquid, and beside her another girl stood there.

The girl had long black flowing hair, and a pair of horns that were colored orange at the base and slowly changed to a yellowish hue towards the tips. Perched on the bridge of her nose was a pair of glasses, her pupils were yellow, and her left eye had a very special pattern to it. This pattern resembled a hexagonal formation of circular black dots. Her eyelids had a cerulean blue eye-liner and her skin was a pale gray color. She seemed to have fangs too, a pair of them appearing prominently when she smiled. Underneath her lab coat, she wore a black shirt with the Scorpio sign on it in the same color of her eyeliner, she also wore a pair of raggedy jeans.

Pinkamena examined her closely, and watched as she learned from Sakura, and performed what she needed to do on the experiment with excellent precision. She smiled a bit, and then giggled to herself.

"So this is our new recruit huh?" Pinkamena said softly. "She seems to learn quickly, she will prove to be a valuable asset in my plans.... hehehehehehehe....."

With a giggle-snort she departed the chamber, heading back to her own room.