Pages of Harmony, The Musical

by lazerbem

Chapters

• Planning Musically
• Fracturing Loyalty Musically
• Suffocating Laughter Musically
• Flesh and Souls
• Paranoia Musically
• Honesty and Deception Musically

Planning Musically

A/N: Listen to it with this on if you want to sing along

Twilight stepped about her library, a book in hoof, worrying over what she was about to do. The book's title was "The Nervous Systems of Ponies" and she had read it at least ten times by now, preparing for what she had to do. Even after going over the plan a dozen times she still felt unsure. She had to preserve harmony but was this the way to do it? Even after planning the whole thing out, Twilight was still having second thoughts.

Twilight paced nervously, justifying what she was going to do by remembering the attacks of Discord, Queen Chrysalis, and Nightmare Moon.

"Where did harmony go?"

She sang sadly, truly not knowing what had happened in her perfect world. The closer she looked, the more she saw the corruption everywhere, like a poison killing the tree that was Equestria.

"Am I its escape?"

Twilight questioned to the air, temporarily convincing herself that she was the vessel that harmony had chosen. The feeling broke fairly quickly and went back to depression and fear.

"All chaos I must erase"

Twilight said to her hooves, briefly wondering if she was actually the vessel for chaos instead of harmony. No, she couldn't be!

"Can harmony be saved?"

Twilight said with resentment in her veins over how chaotic Equestria had gotten. By doing this she also felt resentment for herself as she felt responsible. She was an Element of Harmony, a guardian of Equestria, yet she had let it fall into chaos. With fear and hatred roiling together, the hallucinations came back. Shadows of multiple shapes and colors, only sharing black grins and eyes that dripped blood.

"Assassin, murderer, monster"

They hissed as they surrounded Twilight, repeating the words just to make them hurt more. Twilight feebly swatted at them but her hoof just went through them, leading them into spine chilling laughter. The wraiths disappeared briefly but she knew they'd be back.

"Friends, I need you now"

Twilight sobbed, tears echoing in the empty library as the unicorn cried. In her grief she had forgotten that she had sent them away so she could do her experiment in peace. She might have regretted the decision had she been in any lucid state of mind.

"Look what I've become, the nightmare that all should fear, is the pony you left alone"

Twilight screamed, simultaneously cursing and forgiving her friends. Did they actually care or were they no more than cads. Even after she told the voices everything about her friends, they kept mocking her and whispering in her ear.

"Assassin, murderer, monster"

The revenants whispered in her ears with a touch as gentle as the breeze but words as harsh as lava. Had Twilight paid closer attention she might have heard a nicer voice calling her name but at this point Twilight barely heard the jeers never mind a soft mumbling like the nicer voice. Their voice increased in frequency and loudness before disappearing.

"Days roll by without you friends

Twilight sobbed before wiping away her tears and getting to her hooves shakily, remembering that horrible day.

"30 have come and gone"

Twilight said, remembering the fiasco at her brother's wedding when she threatened Cadence and all her friends walked away. That had been the day she realized that harmony was not everywhere and that she needed to save the world from chaos. It was the day where finally, she understood her divine purpose.

I did it with best intentions

she said, what little guilt she had left starting to disappear.

But there is something I can't tell you,

I'm lost without you here. I am only living out a lie!

Twilight screamed, sadness gone completely and replaced by a need for absolute order. She would save everyone!

"Harmony will never leave, it is my everything!"

Twilight roared madly, while punching the floor. Chaos was bad and the opposite of it, order must be good!

"Nothing can bring you back,

harmony is all I have

Twilight yelled in an attempt to make the voices around her stop saying terrible things. Third time's the charm did not apply here as the ghosts just got worse, the blood dripping from their eyes now hitting the floor

"Assassin, murderer, monster"

They cried like banshees, ignoring Twilight's pleading and slamming her with words as sharp as any sword. The glowing light that made up the nicer voice faded away and was eaten by the shadows. Finally, Twilight saw clearly. She would do what was best for Equestria and listen to her mind. Morality had no place in the world she planned. All that would matter was harmony and order.

"Days roll by without you friends"

Twilight said, slowly starting to smile like she had when she was tardy.

"30 have come and gone"

she continued, closing the book in her hooves and stretching her face into a hideous grin, causing the circling wraiths to grin even more. Finally, they were on the same wave length

"I'm doing this with the best intentions"

Twilight convinced herself while reshelving the book and picking up a different one, "The Study of Torture and its Applications". She was ready.

"The one thing I can't tell you is, I'm lost without you here, I'm only living out a lie"

she screamed, pressing a button in the wall and opening it. A stair case showed up and the unicorn trotted down the steps to her secret lab. The lab stank of decay and chemicals even at the halfway point of the stairs.

"I'm the monster"

Twilight said, her last negative feelings pouring out as she dunked her head into a a water trough to slick back her hair and put herself into her "work dress". As soon as she was done, she pulled out a schedule with everything checked out except for "Rainbow Dash".

"I'm the villain"

She sang while turning on the flouroscent lights in the lab, revealing blood stains everywhere along with assorted pony parts. Shiny machines spat out data streams in a fashion not unlike that of a horror movie. A few skeletons, not all fake, completed the eerie look.

"What perfection, what precision"

Twilight sang, while putting on a black lab coat. The mad unicorn strapped on scalpels and knives before walking to the corner. A steady hoof-or in her case magic-would be key here. She wheeled a table with a pony cuffed to it towards the light while saying

"Keen incisions, I'll deliver.

Pure Elements, I'll deliver.

Your loyalty, you'll deliver!"

Rainbow Dash woke up in the process and the sight of the horrific lab made her gag. Her rose eyes twitched about wildly before finally settling on Twilight's face. Twilight pushed their faces together until they were almost touching before finishing her song

"I am Magic, Harmony's Assassin!"

Fracturing Loyalty Musically

For those who wish to listen to the song. Beware, as the chorus is still included and so may foul up with my lyrics.

Rainbow Dash woke to see Twilight's horribly grinning face, staring at her. Rainbow resisted the urge to shriek and asked "What's up with your face Twilight? Hell, why am I in some lab?"

"You're taking this surprisingly well. Good, it'll make what's to come easier" Twilight said, noting down something on a clipboard.

"Well, this is just a prank, right?" Rainbow laughed. Her laugh disappeared the instant Twilight gave her a quizzical look. "Right?" Rainbow said, the hope in her slowly dying as she did.

"Nope. You see, I need a way to preserve the Elements for the future. After a bit of study, I found that the Elements are very likely a biological reaction. I'm just going to crack your brain open and see what's inside" Twilight said, looking through the scalpels on her lab coat until she found one that pleased her. She walked over to Rainbow, grinning madly.

"Dear Celestia, I'm so sorry

please forgive my sins"

Rainbow despaired, knowing she was going to die. Tears began to flow from her eyes but she did not struggle. It would be pointless to try. She might as well die with dignity. Twilight wasn't going to let her though.

"Not the sports pony with the hungry bowels

Hear my prognosis, will you live?

Twilight laughed while bringing the scalpel to Rainbow's head. Rainbow's look of stoic fear was replaced by confusion. Hungry bowels? What did that mean?

"Doubtful"

Twilight sang delightedly before digging the scalpel into Rainbow's head. What little composure Rainbow had dissolved as the pegasus began crying in agony. Twilight slashed through skin and flesh before stopping at the bone. The respite was brief though, as Twilight cut through the bone with little trouble, exposing Rainbow's brain. Rainbow vomited on Twilight's hooves during the trauma. Twilight frowned at the waste then picked it up with a swab and put it into a jar.

"Remember the street physicians

carving flesh sculptures"

Twilight sang cheerfully while she walked to a computer. She could now begin the next step. Rainbow managed one thought through her pain: What was Twilight talking about? She found out as Twilight blasted her brain with images of Pinkie,Twilight, Rarity, AJ, and Fluttershy all brutally attacking her like dogs. Twilight laughed as the Rainbow squirmed. The images weren't real but the pain was. That would be all she needed to create false memories.

"They painted your flank like a Rembrandt

Ha! They liked it a lot"

Twilight sang, intensifying the dosage of imagery. Now instead of attacking her, the images tortured her in all the ways possible.

You should've prayed when you saw them coming

Because tonight it's curtains

I'm the Night Surgeon!

Twilight sang, unable to resist giving herself a little praise. After all, who else could make Rainbow think of abandoning her friends? Twilight looked at the monitor and saw that Rainbow's psyche now had her chasing her friends and taking vengeance.

"I remember

I remember"

Rainbow growled, spittle dripping from her mouth. Who needed friends? They were nothing to her that was for sure. Twilight wrote down the results, the shades cheering her on while she did. Incredible, it had been so easy to break Rainbow's loyalty. That proved to Twilight that she was doing the right thing. What would have happened if Loyalty broke against Chrysalis? Of course there was still some loyalty to Cloudsdale. That needed to be remedied.

"See my knife

See it glide

See it slice"

Twilight sang, beginning a new vision. It involved Rainbow being forced to slaughter innocent fillies because Cloudsdale had a Darwinian policy. Twilight had come up with the story after reading some of Fluttershy's horror stories(who would've guessed that she was a horror writer?)

"Oh, who's the Night Surgeon"

Twilight said, patting herself on the back yet again. Her self praise stopped when she realized her results weren't going as fast as she expected. Time to crank it up again. She showed the Cloudsdale people demanding money from Rainbow Dash and killing her when she didn't.

"Hope you have their money

Or it's Bon Voyagee!"

Twilight sang, taking in the good-natured laughter from the wraiths. Ever since she had started the experiment, the ghostly creatures had been so nice and supportive. She had to do this for her own sake as well, lest the ghosts become evil again.

They did my flank like dishes

Amputations!

Rainbow roared in an attempt to stop the pain and imagery. Pegasi branding her with cutie marks, cutting of her ears, and gutting her ran through her mind in a maddening vortex. Twilight grinned almost as widely as the ghosts. Rainbow was almost done.

"I remember

I remember

I remember

I remember!"

Rainbow chanted frantically, foam flying from her jowls. Everypony would pay! They would burn in the pits of Tartarus, Hell, Irkalla, Niflhel, Narak, or whatever horrible punishment awaited them in the next world. Finally, Twilight saw the spark of Loyalty pop out and caught it with her magic. Twilight then cut Rainbow loose. It would be interesting to see her reaction.

"I remember every dying whisper,

Every desperate murmur

I remember when I gaze upon her,

She looks just like you

I remember

I remember"

Rainbow babbled deliriously, quite clearly having lost her mind. Then she looked at her cutie marks with hatred. Even she was not exempt from punishment! Everyone will burn!

"I remember marking every victim with acute precision"

Rainbow growled, now looking at the marks almost hungrily. She sunk her teeth into one savagely.

I remember every time I hold you,

My warm companion

Rainbow grunted through clenched teeth while Twilight clapped her hooves with joy. This was better than she could have ever dreamed.

"I remember, I dismember!

Rainbow roared before tearing a hunk of flesh off her on flank. She licked her lips, enjoying the taste. Her grin was filled with blood as she punched into her body again, brutally ripping it.

"No medic will give me anasthetic

Stupid marks get the teeth treatment"

Rainbow screamed in between bites. Her flank completely ravaged, she moved onto her wings. Feathers were ripped out and tossed about while the blood drunk pegasus ate. Twilight flinched back with a look of shock. She was happy about this but, woah, this was brutal!

"I'll be the horror on your street corner

make your momma mourn you"

Rainbow said, finally beginning to let up on the bites. Not out of her own volition, just because she was loosing blood. She had convinced herself that she would kill everypony in the world followed by herself. Twilight couldn't let her credit be stolen.

" I'm the Night Surgeon!

Twilight interrupted before beginning to pack up her equipment. She needed it out of the way to properly preserve Rainbow. Rainbow looked shocked as if she had just realized what she'd done.

"I remember"

Rainbow mumbled weakly while giving Twilight a look of pure hatred. Finally, she coughed up blood and fell to the ground, dead from the shock.

Suffocating Laughter Musically

Pinkie woke up in a dank and gloomy basement with a start. Before she could start babbling over how odd it looked, she was face to face with a stuffed corpse. She screeched in horror while Twilight pulled back the stuffed body of Rainbow.

"Well Pinkie, the only way to save Equestria is to give me your Element," Twilight grinned, putting on her black lab coat.

"Then will you let me go?" Pinkie stuttered, fear coursing through every vein in her body as the stuffed corpse of Rainbow swung back and forth on hooks attached to the ceiling.

"My dear Pinkie, the process is fatal. Don't worry though, I'll put it to good use," Twilight chuckled before stabbing her scalpel into Pinkie's skull and beginning the brain exposure process. "Helping the poor souls that chaos afflicts," Twilight muttered over Pinkie's cries while exposing the pink pony's brain.

"I admit that in the past I've been erratic,"

They weren't kidding when they called me, well, crazy"

Twilight sang as she then put a ruler into Pinkie's mouth to keep it open. Pinkie was an interesting subject as Laughter was a physical thing, not a mental one. It would be quite easy to break Laughter by simply crushing Pinkie's larynx but that ran the risk of killing the party pony before the extraction was complete.

"But you'll find that nowadays,

I have fixed all my ways,

Gone through therapy, cleared my head, it's no longer hazy"

Twilgiht sang, ignoring Pinkie's sobs as she plunged some tools into Pinkie's throat. After a bit of fiddling and pain from Pinkie, she finally grabbed hold of the vocal chords.

"And I fortunately know a little magic

It's a talent that I always have possessed

And dear Pinkie, please don't laugh,

I use it on behalf,

Of the miserable, the lonely, and depressed..."

Twilight said self-righteously before beginning her torture. In an almost childlike fashion, Twilight smacked the vocal chords about, changing the pitch of Pinkie's sobs from low to high and back in seconds.

"Poor unfortunate souls

In pain, in need

Some consider themselves cowards,

Some some inferior in might.

Will I help them?

Well, perhaps.

Those poor unfortunate souls,

so sad, so true!"

Twilight said insanely without a hint of logic. To an observer, Twilight was talking to nothing. In Twilight's eyes, the wraiths that had plagued her needed to be taught of her mission.

"They will come flocking to my cave

crying "teach me, Twilight, please,"

and I'll teach them,

Yes I will"

Twilight mumbled, now thinking she was a prophet sent by the Heavens to become the new teacher of the universe.

"It may happen once or twice,

Somepony will have too much vice,

and I would have to expel them from life.

I may get the odd complaint,

but on the whole I'll be a saint,

to those poor unfortunate souls!"

Twilight laughed, imagining how her star pupils would eliminate those with even the slightest trace of chaos.

"Please let me go Twilight, I won't say a word. Pinkie managed to cough out while Twilight loosened her grip on the vocal chords.

"I don't doubt it, hehe," Twilight sniggered before resuming on pulling at Pinkie's throat. Whatever else Pinkie was going to say was cut off to nothing more than grunts and squeaks.

"C'mon Pinkie, smile, ha!" Twilight mocked as Pinkie tore her vocal chords attempting to beg even more.

"Oh, there is one thing I forgot to tell you

your voice is what's causing you this pain"

Twilight said deviously, knowing that in this state the mind was easy to manipulate. After only a minute, Laughter was already surfacing. Pitiful.

"No..." Pinkie manged to cough out, more in an attempt to convince herself rather than Twilight.

"Oh come now. If it weren't for your laughter, you wouldn't be down here." Twilight mocked before savagely twisting Pinkie's throat, causing the earth pony to squawk like a rooster.

"Why?" Pinkie whimpered, not knowing these were her last words.

"Just call it luck, or maybe genetics

or perhaps it was nothing more than just a...joke, HA!"

Twilight laughed, thinking her own joke rather clever.

"My new world doesn't have room for your blabber,

Such trivial pursuits are quite a chore.

Oh, Pinkie, before you die,

Do you want to know why?

Discord admitted that laughter was his core!"

Twilight snarled upon saying Discord's name, involuntarily turning Pinkie's whines baritone as her magic twisted in response to her anger.

"Come on, no one really cares for your Laughter.

And this is necessary for my plan!

You must dote and swoon and fawn,

On science's brawn.

And face it, there's no way you could have ran"

Twilight laughed, excitement coursing through her as she began to try and speed up the process. With her free hoof she grabbed a knife and began writing "SILENCE" on Pinkie's body while grinning madly.

"Come on you poor unfortunate soul.

Go ahead!

Give your voice!"

Twilight growled, shocked that Laughter hadn't broken yet. Perhaps it was something psychological as well.

"I'm a very busy mare, you know, I haven't got all day,

It won't cost much,

There's no choice!"

Twilight screamed, frustration coursing through her as she continued slashing words onto Pinkie's body in an attempt to make Laughter uncoil itself.

"You poor unfortunate soul.

It's sad but true!

If you want to cross the bridge, my sweet,

You've got the pay the toll.

Take a gulp and take a breath,

As I now tear apart your soul!

See that, spectres, almost got her, boys,

Twilight is on a roll!

This poor unfortunate soul!"

Twilight screamed, babbling to the revenants and to Pinkie with foam dribbling from her lip. Finally, there was a satisfying beep as Laughter left its host. Unfortunately for Twilight, she had been so engrossed that Laughter threatened to leave her reach.

"Beluga sevruga

Come winds of the Caspian Sea

Larengix glaucitis

Et max laryngitis

La voce to me!"

Twilight screamed, crushing Pinkie's throat while doing so. The ploy worked as Laughter rushed back to help its host, thinking its host was the one calling it. Twilight giggled madly as she caught the Elements in her magic and stored it away.

That was too close.

Flesh and Souls

Twilight grinned happily as she hung Pinkie up by her trachea and next to Rainbow, who was hanging by her flanks. A fairly productive week if she did say so herself with two Elements collected. Twilight looked over her notes one more time before she heard a ghostly moan behind her. Twilight whipped about, attempting to find the source of the noise. Her wraiths were just as confused, looking about in mild irritation. Twilight finally saw a flash of rainbow out of the corner of her eye and decided to leave the basement. Obviously she had spent too much time among the chemicals and it had made her woozy. There were no ghosts just like there were no curses. Still, Twilight could swear she had seen one of her beakers move as she left. As soon as Twilight closed the door to her laboratory, a hideous grin of red teeth poked through the

darkness with terrifying clarity. The cyan jaws laughed before disappearing

Pinkie awoke slowly, in hopes that the experience had been a nightmare. When her eyes opened, she saw a stormy black sky with nothing on the ground save for a seemingly endless pasture. Pinkie could still feel the pain where her throat had been crushed so that ruled out the dream idea. Pinkie eventually shrugged and began munching on the grass, knowing there was nothing else to do.

"Pitiful, one who still has her marks" a voice snorted from behind her. Pinkie whipped around to see Rainbow, or what was left of her. Rainbow's wings were skeletal and her body was covered in bite-marks and slashes.

"Dashie, I forgot she got you too. Come eat with me" Pinkie rasped, painfully aware of the fact that they were going to be stuck in this world forever and that talking was painful.

"No, no, I won't trust anyone. Besides, you have to eat better stuff, like flesh" Rainbow snarled savagely. Pinkie stared in confusion before nearly vomiting through her impromptu trachaectomy as Dash took a bite out of herself.

"When I wake up, first thing I do

Flesh

Is to look around for something to chew

Exactly

Feeding myself is very, very tricky

Because you see, I'm ridiculously picky

Flesh"

Rainbow sang in a voice not unlike a Timberwolf while blood flowed from her jaws. Pinkie stared in disgust and disbelief, bile dribbling out of the hole in her neck, as Rainbow took another bite out of her flank. Pinkie began to say something, then remembered the pain of talking. Pinkie instead pantomimed.

"Excuse me, Dashie, I-" Pinkie began pantomiming before being cut off by a punch from the pegasus which sent her rolling. Pinkie got up, rubbing her jaw and noticing that the injury healed quickly. Perhaps they only kept the wounds that killed them?

"This strong pegasus

Won't settle for the thresh

I'll borrow, I'll beg, I'll even kiss you-

Rainbow began while Pinkie attempted to pull back the pegasus from killing herself. Pinkie was thrown off balance towards the end of the verse as it meant that there might be some of the old Rainbow in there.

"Kiss me?" Pinkie motioned excitedly before having her head stomped the angry mare. Rainbow snorted before finishing up the verse.

"For my dear beloved dose

of flesh"

Rainbow chuckled madly while looking at Pinkie hungrily. Pinkie could barely imagine being used as a renewable food product so she attempted to distract Rainbow further.

"Hey Rainbow, you're just hungry

You can't wait another minute

Here's a juicy little leaf

With a beautiful sticket

Can't you have a taste,

If only just to lick it?"

Pinkie grunted out in a tone that was probably more intimidating than she had intended for it to sound due to having a hole in her neck. While Rainbow gave paranoid looks, Pinkie laid prostrate and offered the leaf to the now famished pegasus.

"PINKIE!" Rainbow yelled, knocking Pinkie flat on her back and crushing the leaf. Pinkie could tell she had just aggravated Dash by the blood dripping from Dash's mouth from clenching her teeth too hard.

"What?!" Pinkie squeaked, just in case she had done something else to anger her friend. To call her friend at this point would be a stretch though and cell mate seemed more appropriate given the circumstances.

"You imbecilic eater

Cakes or grass

couldn't possibly be sweeter

than a pile of flesh"

Rainbow sang out, sounding unhinged but forgetting Pinkie. Pinkie's confidence increased slightly as Rainbow had given her advice. While it wasn't good advice, it did mean(in Pinkie's eyes) that Rainbow still cared. That confidence disappeared as Rainbow bit down to the leg bone and began to gnaw it.

"You've got to smell them, feel them

Crack them...open!

For a great, big marrow I am hoping"

Rainbow sang out while wet snaps were heard from her own leg bone. Pinkie continued gaping as Rainbow laughed and then stuffed her face into the bone marrow and sucked it up before the wound closed.

"Oh look, you're starving, you're weak

There's nothing good in your tummy

Look, the mold on that tree

is really much more yummy"

Pinkie coughed out, desperately attempting to find something for Dash to eat that wasn't herself. Even mold would be better than self-cannibalism. Rainbow thankfully didn't take offense and continued with her detail on how to eat.

"The colors and shapes

And assorted sizes

Gobble them all for appetizers

Ecstasy"

Rainbow sang proudly while ripping out internal organs. Pinkie's stomach couldn't take it any longer and vomit rushed out of the hole in the Earth Pony's neck. To make Pinkie even more revolted, Rainbow actually picked the vomit off the floor and slurped at the blood that was in it.

""Rainbow, what's the matter

With a little vegetation?"

Pinkie begged as Rainbow regenerated from her wounds. A slap to the face broke Pinkie's neck and temporarily paralyzed her while she regenerated. Rainbow walked over to Pinkie, infuriated now.

"I've had it up to here

With this aggravation!"

Rainbow screamed while lifting her wings to demonstrate her level of fury. Pinkie knew she was doomed unless she could make Dash think of her as a joke and entertainment to break the monotony of this land.

"Can't you just have

a bit of a tree?

Pinkie started up her joke before getting smacked again, much softer this time though. Rainbow was making a sound similar to laughter but without any joy as she stepped away. Dash then began a rain of insults that Pinkie hated, but decided to take for the sake of safety

"Why can't you be more like me?

You cake-loving

Chocolate-burping

Lollipop-smelling

Caramel-gorging

Plant-popping

Cupcake-tasting

Dirt-devouring beast

You've got to have flesh

Thrice a day at least"

Rainbow finally finished before beckoning Pinkie closer. Pinkie grinned happily and walked over.

"We're going to make Twilight's life suck from now on. We can't interact directly but we'll move objects around and haunt her until she kills herself" Rainbow said with a little too much joy. Pinkie shrugged before agreeing as she had nothing better to and Twilight did deserve it. Pinkie was then smacked back by a head-butt. "That was to remind you that we're not friends" Rainbow snarled before flying off.

Paranoia Musically

Lyrics

Spike awoke to the taste ammonium phosphate in his mouth and a flash-light in his face.

"Fascinating how a dragon's pupil reacts to light" a voice muttered. Spike blinked to clear his eyes and brain before snatching the flash-light away with his tongue.

"Who's there?" Spike groaned, feeling a headache pounding through him. Out of the shadows emerged Twilight, no, a cruel mockery of Twilight. "WHO ARE YOU!?" Spike screamed in fear as he saw the knife in the not-Twilight's hooves. The not-Twilight let out a chilling laugh before slapping him across the face.

"Good morning, Mister Spike

I'd like to take a little of your time

I have marvelous news

Stay there and show no dislike"

The mockery of his sister sang, causing Spike's heart to sink. Whatever this creature was, it was completely crazy. Who else sung out of nowhere? Actually a lot of ponies sang, Spike mused briefly before cruel creature continued.

"Any one will do, any one will do, let's study

Harmonious ones, harmonious ones, let's study"

The flawed copy of Twilight laughed as it pulled open a diorama. Spike vomited up his lunch and breakfast when he saw the subject matter, a flayed Rainbow leaping on top of Pinkie and tearing out her throat. The plaque beneath the diorama read "It came to me in a dream".

"I apologize for not mentioning earlier

I am Twilight

You'll have to die

So I can complete my work quicker"

The unicorn said, pulling out a peeler with a demented grin. At that moment, Spike realized this was no fake, this was some, perversion of Twilight. Twilight brought the peeler down on his hand with a scream which mirrored his own.

"Any one will do, any one will do, let's study

You'll do, you'll do, let's study"

Twilight sang as she began slicing through scales to soft tissue. If she cared, she might have heard Spike screaming but she simply slashed through more skin until she practically chopped off Spike's hand. Twilight looked at the peeler with interest at its results. Well, that was unexpected.

"I don't want you to think you're a bore

But this is just killing time for me

Till' harmony, harmony, harmony, rules once more

Twilight laughed while pulling out a shot of adrenaline. While it wouldn't help Spike keep alive, it would keep him awake for the next part of the test. Before administering it though, the ghouls mumbled something in her ear about making sure the needle was appreciated. Before Twilight could capitalize on the idea, a voice screamed in her ear. "GET ON WITH IT!" it roared, causing Twilight to go into her next verse rather abruptly.

"All the discordant in the world

I'll kill every last one

Gazing with pride

As they go to the Underworld"

Twilight sang a bit less confidently, shaken by the voice she had heard. It sounded almost like Rainbow Dash, but that was impossible, wasn't it? A flash of pink out of the corner of Twilight's eye made Twilight shiver involuntarily as she hurried along, now anxious to get this over with.

"Anyone will do, anyone will do, let's study

I can't wait, I can't wait, let's study"

Twilight smirked as she cut open Spike's stomach. Well, how interesting. It seemed there were two stomachs, one to hold food and the other to make fire. Twilight plucked out the fire-stomach and tossed it in a pan before looking at Spike. The entire time, Spike hadn't cried one bit. A fact which irritated Twilight. Why wasn't he in pain?! Had she given him some drug to numb him?! Spike simply looked at her with disappointment and sadness, before extending his throat for her to slice. How dare he patronize her?! She didn't deserve pity, she deserved adulation! Had anyone been looking from an objective viewpoint, they might have seen that Spike was actually crying in pain. Twilight's shattered mind though, comprehended the cries as mockery towards her.

"Behold the power of my magic

Such a planet as this has no reason to be"

Twilight snarled before blasting Spike with a torture spell(Twilight mentally thanked Trixie for that one). Yet somehow, Spike still looked at her with sadness for her. Then he laughed. A bone-chilling laugh that made Twilight's sound cute by comparison. Twilight frothed at the mouth as he continued mocking her. Spike was confused as to why Twilight had just gotten furious instead of being happy like before. Maybe his crying had annoyed her? He doubted it but if it had, he would keep on crying.

"How about I clear this up

I'm the master, you're a student

So don't get the wrong idea

I'm not here for a gallop"

Twilight snarled before slitting Spike's throat. Still, he kept laughing. He laughed even as the lights left his eyes. Twilight imagined Spike's laughter but the fear she felt was real. For once, she wasn't in control, a fact which terrified her.

"You'll see when harmony, harmony rules again!"

Twilight snarled to nothing in particular as Spike had long since died. Twilight looked around and saw blood dripping from the ceiling, fire blasting out of the Bunsen Burner, and small cupcakes appearing on the table. Twilight rubbed her eyes, gasping in fear and staggering over a chair at this sight. When she opened them again, she saw nothing. The ghosts laughed mockingly as Twilight left the room with her tail between her legs.

Honesty and Deception Musically

Applejack awoke to the sound of hooves wildly pacing, echoing as each hoof made contact with the ground.

"No, you're not real!" a voice barked, causing a pony in front of her to whirl madly.

"W-who's there?" Applejack questioned, feeling like she had been hit with a sledgehammer over the head. The pony in front of her didn't seem to care and kept babbling at nothing.

"I'm not crazy, you're crazy! Especially you, Spike! Who laughs while they're dying?" the pony growled before turning her head to Applejack. Applejack felt an eye ridge raise as Twilight walked over to her. Twilight didn't waste time on theatrics like with the others, there was no time, especially since Rainbow, Pinkie, and Spike were haunting her!  She turned on her extraction machine, grumbling about not being able to properly study Applejack. Meanwhile, two creatures looked at her with shock.

"Spike?" Pinkie questioned, plugging the hole in her throat. Twilight had been saying something about Spike, but he hadn't appeared in their pocket dimension. "Where is he?" Pinkie asked of the pegasus next to her.

"I doubt he's there, she's just seeing things" Rainbow scoffed, knowing that taking the words of ponies was foolish. "Then again, who knows, maybe the witch swallows souls" Rainbow spat before continuing to take a bite out of her flank.

"It waits for the day, you will let it out

To give it a reason to give it it's might"

Twilight sang, ignoring Applejack's protests as she put some cables onto the Earth Pony's tongue. Twilight then pulled down her scalper, hoping honesty would break before laughter did.

"You fear who I am becoming

You feel that you are losing the struggle within

You can no longer restrain it

Your strength, it is fading

You have to give in"

Twilight snarled as she had Applejack look at some text. The text read, "If this is an apple, nod" with an arrow pointing to a drawing of an apple. Twilight would have said it herself, but she was preoccupied making sure Applejack didn't die from shock. It had nearly happened with Pinkie, she would not let it happen here. Applejack nodded, still honest and received a shock to the tongue from the cables for her troubles.

"It's the fear

Fear of the truth

It's growing inside of you

And my dream will come to life"

Twilight laughed, pulling up a new slide, this time having an image of Applejack leaving for the fields. The text read "Are you going to play in the field?". Twilight knew well that assaulting all at once was a bad idea, Pinkie testified to that. This time she'd start off slow, make Applejack tell a white lie and slowly go on from there.  Twilight put a small needle into Applejack's back, injecting a serum that'd make her more susceptible to suggestion.

"Have to save

Save my integrity

There is no escape

Because my fate is horror and doom"

Applejack moaned before lying for the first time. She shook her head, no, she wasn't going to the fields. The very action of lying made the Earth Pony groan in pain. Twilight ignored the groan and giggled. Success! Applejack was already breaking down like glass.

"Hold down your head now

Just let me pass by

Don't feed my anger

If you don't want pain out"

Twilight snarled, pushing the button that turned on the electricity. Applejack winced, expecting pain to surge through her again. Instead, she heard Twilight's laughing as she showed the earth pony a clicker. The clicker had made a noise similar to the electric button and thus, Applejack had flinched with the expectation of pain. Twilight wrote down the reaction in her note book before changing the slide. It now showed the picture of the apple from the first slide.

"You fear who I am becoming

You feel that I'm losing all beauty within

You can no longer restrain it

Your strength, it is fading

You have to give in"

Twilight snarled as Applejack, told the truth once more. Another shock would hopefully remedy that. Zap. This time, Applejack shook her head, no, it wasn't an apple. Good, Honesty was starting to surface.

"It's the fear

Fear of the dark

It's growing inside of me

It's won, it has come to life"

A voice called, resonating in Twilight's head. Twilight's eyes widened in fear. No, no, not again! She would not get any more shadows haunting her! The mad unicorn whirled about, spittle dribbling from her jaw as she panicked. She'd have to finish up, even if it meant skipping her tests.

"Can not save

Save my integrity

There is no escape

Because my fate is horror and doom"

Applejack lamented, being terrified of everything now. She still hated lies, but she was too scared to try. Twilight slammed down on a different button, her "mind warp" machine. In an instant, Applejack's mind was being blasted to shreds. What was real and what was not? Who knew?

"Long ago, it came to me

And ever since that day

Enlightened with clarity

But you end today"

Twilight mocked as she mashed buttons randomly, creating new memories, warping old ones, and twisting the farmer's perception. Applejack finally broke, Honesty surging from her head as the earth pony broke into a stream of lies, some of which were more blatant than the ones she had told under Discord.

"It's the fear

Fear of the truth

It has grown inside of you

It's won, it will come to life"

Twilight laughed, shocking the confused pony for good measure. Time to bring the curtain down.

"Have to save

Save myself

There is no escape

Because my fate is horror and doom"

Applejack managed to mumble as Twilight caught the spark of Honesty in her magic. Twilight pushed the red button once more. ZAP! Applejack didn't breathe anymore.

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"BUCK, ANOTHER ONE!?" Rainbow roared as a hole appeared in their purgatory, dropping Applejack in front of her and Pinkie with a hard thud.