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.