As I've said before, I have no idea what's going to happen in these chapters until I actually write them. All I know is that we get to see more Pinkie. I'd like to say that the chapters sort of overlap in time. For example, Twi gets captured by Pinkie in Chpt 3, everything that happens to Twi in Chpt 4 happened while Spike was out with Rarity. The day that Spike and Rarity end up sleeping through most of is the day Applejack gets captured. So this is happening during the last half of the last Chapter/ start of the chapter after this. (Though you all probably guessed this on your own.)

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Pinkie Pie time!

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When Applejack woke up she was in complete darkness. A sharp pain emanated from her right foreleg and her back felt on fire. She tried to sit up and look around but found she was held tight to a cold flat surface by soft yet surprisingly strong ropes.

"Wha- what happened?" she asked herself aloud. She tried remembering if she had maybe hit her head or, heaven forbid, gotten into the cider cellar again. "Pinkie!" she snarled, grinding her teeth as the memories of the previous hours flooded back to her.

"Alraight Pinkie!" she yelled, thrashing in her bonds, "Ah know yall are here! Show yerself!" As she continued pulling against her bonds she tried thinking of their material so she would know how best to break it. Applejack remembered the number Pinkie had enclosed in the note she found. She leaned in towards the ropes binding her legs, stretching her neck to the fullest. She breathed in deeply. She would know that smell anywhere: freshly made leather. Only one creature had colorful skin like this though. With a wave of nausea Applejack realized she was tied down with ponyleather.

"Pinkie you sick little monster!" she yelled, "where in tarnations are ya'?"

"No need to shout AJ," came Rainbow Dash's voice from the darkness above Applejack, "I'm right here."

"Rainbow," Applejack said in amazement, "you're okay ah- ah thought,"

"That Pinkie got me?"

"Yeah."

"Well you were right!" Pinkie exclaimed, shining a light into Applejack's eyes and blowing a noise maker. "See for yourself." Pinkie said, turning her light on the pedestal holding Rainbow's modified corpse.

Applejack lunged out and tried to bite Pinkie. She fell just short and cried out in pain as her leg was stretched, looking down she could see that it was in a splint.

"Careful," Pinkie said putting a hoof on Applejack's head and pushing her back down onto the table, "if you got out I'd have to kill you before we could say goodbye." She pulled her hoof back as Applejack tried again to bite her, "I SAID NO!" Pinkie yelled as she slammed her hoof into Applejack's face. There was a sickening crack and blood began pouring from Applejack's nose, but she didn't cry out, she only narrowed her eyes and continued lunging at Pinkie.

"Well fine then, I hoped we could all talk, but I guess you hafta be muzzled." Pinkie grabbed a length of barbed wire off a nearby cart and began wrapping it painfully tight around Applejack's mouth, timing it just right to avoid any bites.

Pinkie's words unfolded to Applejack and she looked at Pinkie questioningly.

"Who else is here?" Pinkie asked, seeming to read Applejack's mind, "Well there's me, you Rainbow Dash, lots of other ponies you probably don't know and Twilight."

As Pinkie spoke, lights came on seeming to illuminate those she was talking about. Applejack took in the room around her. Her face paled visibly and her head began weaving side to side. She shook her head quickly and began looking for Twilight.

Applejack spotted her quickly, the only other living pony in the room besides her and Pinkie. But, something was wrapped around Twilight's neck and flanks and the table she was on was stained with fresh blood.

"I wish we could play right now," Pinkie said, turning away from Applejack, "but I've already got an appointment and it's taking much longer than I ever hoped it could. She already broke Gilda's record of three hours by more than a day." Applejack's eyes continued to wander, taking in more and more of the grisly scene around her; she shuddered as she saw the pile of foal skulls and the punch bowl. Then she saw a shelf with what appeared to be a mass of feathers and she was sure that was what was left of the griffin.

Pinkie walked over to Twilight Sparkle who was somehow sleeping. 'She may be sleeping but something is very wrong with her,' Applejack thought as she watched Twilight thrash and moan in her sleep. Pinkie began pulling the wrappings away from Twilight's neck revealing a mass of wires sticking straight out. She walked over to a nearby cart and grabbed a pair of pliers, a keyboard and several large batteries which she dumped on the floor by Twilight.

"Wake up sleepy," Pinkie called softly as she began shaking the wires in Twilight's neck.

Twilight woke up screaming in pain and tried to move her head away from Pinkie. Applejack noticed that Twilight's horn had been shattered and that her jaw was hanging at an angle. As Twilight's eyes refocused they lingered on Applejack, seeming to beg for help.

Pinkie busied herself with the wires for several minutes while Applejack and Twilight looked at each other, trying to find some comfort in their bleak situation.

"Aaaand done," Pinkie said. She had spliced all of the wires into the keyboard and was now screwing the back of it back on. She moved down to Twilight's flanks and began unrolling more of the wire from the spools that were stuck there. Pinkie tied the wires onto the batteries and moved back to the keyboard. She pushed a button causing a huge electrical shock to shoot through Twilight.

Applejack tried to blink away the blurry afterimage and saw Pinkie unstrapping Twilight. "Don't move," she giggled as she finished, "I'll be right back."

Pinkie crossed the room and picked up two things: a long thin bone and one of the larger skulls. She took these over to Twilight and set them down on the floor.

"Are you guys ready?" she asked, a huge smile splitting her face. She began tapping rapidly at the keys causing quick burst of power to surge through the wires.

Twilight found herself standing up, though she wasn't aware of doing so. Her limbs began moving by themselves as Pinkie continued pushing buttons. Twilight began doing cartwheels and flips, though she tried desperately to stop.

"Pinkie says dance." Twilight found herself hopping over to the bones Pinkie had left on the floor. She picked up the skull and placed it on her head like a hat and then grabbed the bone. As Applejack watched, Twilight began tap dancing, the wires being pulled out slightly at each end every time Twilight moved. Soon, large red gashes showed where some of the wires had been, though a majority remained in place.

Each clack of her hooves on the floor echoed through Twilight's mind. Little was left of Twilight outside of the pain. With her last few thoughts, Twilight realized that she might as well be dead at this point. She managed to glance over at Applejack who was still trying hard to break through the bindings on her legs. She shook her head and mouthed the words "too late."

Pinkie looked at her arm as though she was wearing a watch, "Wow Twilight, you're doing really well. I've never been this late before with an appointment." Twilight began walking towards Pinkie's cart as the pink mare sat on Twilight's operating table, "too bad Applejack's already here, we could still have so much fun."

Applejack managed to catch one end of the wire around her mouth. It snagged on her fur and dug in. She began moving her head in little circles to unwrap it. Oblivious, Pinkie continued tapping away at the keyboard. As the rest of the barbed wire came undone, Applejack rotated her jaw a little, trying to ease some of the pain from clamped so tightly.

Twilight was now at Pinkie's cart; she reached down and grabbed a paring knife from a leather sheathe on the side. She slowly lifted it towards her neck. Pinkie laughed sinisterly as she continued controlling her friend.

Applejack saw what was happening and hurried up with her ad libbed plan. She began chewing through the bonds holding her leg. Each one gave way easily as she ground her teeth on it. 'Just like jerky,' Applejack thought as the last one split. She reached down and began untying the ones around her hind legs and waist. Pinkie glanced over and saw what Applejack was doing. "Hey!" she yelled, "you break it you buy it." Pinkie pressed several keys at once and Twilight suddenly began running at Applejack who managed to jump off the table just as Twilight stabbed into it with the knife. Sparks shot out as the blade screeched against the metal of the table.

Applejack tried to break the wires controlling her friend. "Oh no you don't," Pinkie yelled pushing a button. A constant stream of energy coursed through the wires. Applejack was held in place as Twilight slowly turned then swung at her throat.

"I'm sorry Applejack," she managed. The blood and tears coming from Twilight continued pouring down and soaked the wires. There was suddenly a huge flash as some of the wires momentarily shorted out. Applejack pulled away and grabbed Twilight in a headlock.

"Goodbye Twailaight," Applejack said, "I'm sorry that ah couldn't save ya, but I'll make sure Pinkie pays."

Applejack thought she heard Twilight say thank you, but then she realized it came from behind her, not in between her hooves. Applejack released Twilight who fell to the ground, no longer under control of her body, and put her legs up to block the incoming blade from Pinkie.

"Ooh, Applejack," Pinkie said as she entered a complex set of slashes and stabs that were too fast for Applejack to follow, "I knew you'd be lots of fun. That's why I didn't give you the strong ropes."

A quick flash of unease ran through Applejack at this but was cut short as Pinkie's knife entered her unbroken foreleg. Pinkie turned around and quickly bucked Applejack in the head. "Now watch," she said, pulling Applejack's head up by the mane. She had somehow retrieved the keyboard and began hitting keys again. Twilight's arm began writhing like a snake and found the knife again. It reached up and placed the knife against her throat.

"Bye Twilight," Pinkie said, actually sounding sad, "we had fun, but I'll still miss you." The knife suddenly jerked across Twilight's throat, instantly severing the blood vessels. Her heart, though now weak, forced the blood to spurt out in random waves. The first few completely splashed Pinkie and Applejack in warm, coppery blood. Each spurt grew weaker and weaker until finally it only trickled out. The entire time Twilight's arm continued its grisly work. It cut the arteries in one leg and moved on to slide across Twilight's chest. It cut a large I and then moved on to make a long slit down each of Twilight's leg and all the way around her neck.

Applejack managed to look away from the horror of her friend being brutally killed by her own limb. She quickly bucked the ground with both hind legs causing her and Pinkie to fly across most of the room. They landed on Pinkie and Applejack quickly rolled away. She jumped up and began galloping for the stairway in the corner but Pinkie jumped on her back. Applejack jumped in the air and spun around to land on her back. As she spun Pinkie climbed onto Applejack's stomach.

"What did I say would happen if you got out?" Pinkie asked as she pulled the knife out of Applejack's leg. Applejack noticed that there were several rough spots on Pinkie's chest as though her ribs had been damaged when Applejack launched them across the room. She pulled her head back and slammed it into Pinkie's ribs just as the knife was coming down.

Pinkie cried out in a mixture of surprise and pain and the knife swerved. Applejack felt a tug at her ear and something flat and orange landed on the floor by her, a small puddle of red forming around it. Heart pounding, Applejack began slamming her hooves into Pinkie's injured ribs and face, despite the pain that shot out each time. Soon Pinkie was covered in dark colored hoof marks and was bleeding from several places.

Applejack realized with a sense of terror that each time she struck Pinkie her smile grew and her mane straightened out. When Applejack finally kicked Pinkie off, her mane was perfectly straight and the color in her fur was darkening alarmingly. A deep voice emanated from Pinkie, though her mouth didn't' move and Applejack saw her shaking.

"You think you could possible win? So amusing." A blunt object smashed into Applejack's head, blood flying from where her ear had recently been. She spun around, but nothing was there other than Twilight's corpse. She turned back to pinkie and saw her shaking her head slowly. A deep snarl of a laugh poured out from her and her usual pinkness had faded to maroon. Pinkie Pies head shot up with a loud snapping noise.

"P-pinkie?" Applejack said, almost unable to breathe. Her former friend was beginning to stand up as though a puppet on strings. She seemed larger than ever and her fur was thicker than Big Mac's got during the winter.

"Call me Pinkamena," the sinister voice reverberated through the floor causing Applejack's heart to skip a few beats.

"What the hell are ya'?" Applejack began pushing herself backwards. She felt her hoof collide with something cold and hard. Glancing down, she saw it was the knife Pinkie had tried stabbing her with earlier. She picked it up and threw it end over end at Pinkie.

The blade sunk in to the handle in Pinkie's stomach. 'No, that's not Pinkie,' Applejack thought, 'that's no pony.' The huge shaggy creature before her looked down at the knife, amusement playing across its face.

"Oh Applejack," it said, "ever the fighter." It began slowly walking towards her. Applejack jumped up and began running up the stairs, stumbling a bit each time she stepped on her injured forelegs.

The creature reached towards her and she kicked out at its hoof. She made it to the door at the top. Looking down, she saw that the creature still looked like Pinkie from a distance, just much larger. It reached down and pulled the knife out. It pulled the knife back and launched it at Applejack just as she ran through the door. The knife struck the doorjamb with enough force to shatter. The shards continued on through the wall, nearly impaling Applejack. She turned quickly and slammed the door, sliding a large metal pole across the handles.

'Ah hafta get outta here,' Applejack thought to herself. She looked around and saw she was in some kind of huge underground meat locker. She could hear the creature climbing the stairs and knew that even the thick metal pole wouldn't hold long. She ran through the room, unable to find the exit she approached a skinned pony hanging from the ceiling by a large metal hook. Nearby were several other ponies and even a few buffalo.

Applejack ran to one of the buffalo and climbed into its, now empty, chest cavity. She pulled the ribs slightly more closed and sowed her breathing, hoping that the creature wouldn't find her.

Applejack could hear as the monster approached the door and, with one flick, smashed it off its hinges and caused it to fly the length of the room.

'What happened to Pinkie?' she thought frantically, 'is that actually her or did it find her?'

The behemoth prowled the room sniffing at the air. 'Good,' it thought, 'dear old Applejack isn't letting me down at all. Too bad she hid in this room. It will be difficult to smell her amongst so many goodies.'

Applejack hung in the butchered corpse of the buffalo, waiting for the monster to uncover her hiding place. She heard a deep cruel laugh resound through the room. It made her think of the time they had been trying to save the orchard from a wildfire. A tree had fallen on Uncle Appleoosa. The laugh sounded just like the crunching noise as the tree had flattened the unlucky stallion, crushing the life out of his huge form almost instantly.

"I know you're curious as to who and what I am," the creature said, listening for Applejack's thoughts. "Since we're going to be so close soon, the least I could do is tell you."

Applejack heard the creature approach her hiding place. It curled up in a typical Pinkie Pie way right up against the opening she had climbed in. She knew that it had known her location since it entered the room. She readied herself to kick through the back of the buffalo when the creature pulled down the entire corpse and held it like a teddy bear.

"You see, it all began fifteen years ago…"

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I just remembered, what happened in September.

I'm the one who killed them all. I survived after the fall…..

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Aaaaaaaaand this chapter is done. Rather than have a Spike and Rarity chapter next, I'm going to have the monster's story. I already know most of it so it shouldn't take overly long to write.

I'm actually kind of sad with this chapter. I would randomly lose connection with the part of my brain in charge of story writing and I'd be forced to struggle along without it for a few lines. It would come back just long enough to tell the rest of my brain that it shouldn't be allowed to write stories anymore, and then it would leave. Plus I had to keep stopping. I think Pinkie may have been trying to stop me from letting Applejack out. I hope so because that means the next chapters will both be very good and finished quickly so that she can get her revenge on Applejack for getting out.

I wasn't actually planning on letting Applejack out originally. But then inspiration struck and I had to, no other path seemed to flow out… I think Twilight managed a spell right before she died and she used it to try and save Applejack.

Remember people, review, review, review. I wanna see what you think and I currently have some kind of demon Pinkie Pie to back me up if you don't tell me ;P

Last little bit, the final thing in italics before the AN is an excerpt from 'September' by TheLivingTombstone (go look at his stuff, it rocks.). I wasn't sure how many people would recognize it from that random little bit.

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