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.