*SPAAA!*

The brown leather whip struck again in her pink back, leaving another red mark among others. One day incarcerated since the kidnapping, under sessions of torture with both hands chained to the ceiling and striped from her cloths with exception of the underwear.
Topaz rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and prepared the whip for another strike on Pinkamena's legs.

*SPAAA!*

It echoed in the torture room, along with a louder scream of pain. Her cutie mark was stained red from the wounds in the sides of her torso.

"How does that feel, slut?!" Topaz yelled at her, but her only answer were moans of agony and tears. "I know who you are! Now you can feel what your victims went through!"

"Boss?" A thug interrupted.

"What did I say about interrupting my fun?" Topaz cleaned the sweat on his forehead and stretched his dark yellow wings, while finishing his cigar. "What do you want?" He asked harshly, grabbing his black suit from the chair.

"The group you sent to look for Mane Shaker returned from the city. Nothing to report besides they couldn't find him."

"Is that all? I wish to shove a crystal pole up is ass to decorate my garden..."

"Sorry, boss..."

"It's alright. You all behaved well, you brought me this pink bitch here from last night. Since then, It's been a good stress reliever." Topaz smiled while playing with the whip, winging It.

"Yeah..." The thug looked at Pinkamena's back and felt grossed by the red marks and wounds around her back and legs. "Want anything else, boss?"

"Yes. Prepare a bath for me and tell the cook to prepare my lunch. And let her stay there for a hour hanging, I want her arms and body to hurt before I execute her myself..."

"Yes, Don Topaz." The thug turned around and walked away with the list of orders.

The dark yellow pegasus walked calmly towards his victim, and stopped in front of her. Pinkamena had her head down in exhaustion and he could see her tears rolling down from her head to her chest. Topaz took the end of his lit cigar and took It to her belly, and she screamed on top of her lungs while the lit tobacco burned her stomach.

"Wakey wakey, whore..." Topaz mocked with an evil smile.

"Please... stop..." Pinkamena begged tired.

"Who told you that you have the power here." Topaz looked around the room with a gesture. "Look around you... this is your kind of place. You should be happy."

"Those days are... kind of gone..." She answered with a sad tone.

"You know... your friends seems to have forgotten you. None of my men couldn't find him or any of them anywhere."

"I would take those words back... they are coming." Pinkamena grunted.

"And we are ready for them. We have been training and creating something." Topaz showed a sassy smile.

"Create what..?"

"Have you seen the muskets? Imagine a bigger version of one, shooting a huge iron ball in full speed. Capable of destroying buildings and groups in one big impact. I call It... cannon..."

"You're no match for the cult... if we took your warehouse full of weapons, and only four of us stormed one of your bases, tell me... you think you can win this..? They are coming for you in this moment."

"Oh are they..?" Topaz firmly opened his hand and slapped Pinkamena with the back of his hand. "Let's see if they previewed my secret weapon and something else we prepared for them... And if they even get here. The mountains around the perimeter are being watched by my men. All with improved muskets."

Pinkamena took a deep breath and looked at Topaz in the eyes with a glare. "Mane is gonna fucking kill you once he sees this... you are misjudging who he is..."

"We'll see about that..."

Topaz didn't answer, only returned the same smile he did before. He grabbed a new cigar and lit It with his silver lighter, threw the whip to a corner and left the room. Pinkamena stood there with her arms chained to the ceiling, hanging around half meter away from the floor. She cried in despair and meditated on what Topaz said previously about feeling what her victims from those years went through, work of her insane self.

"I guess I deserve this..."