“Now, if you don’t know already,” Rainbow said, pacing the floor of the stage, “My pet tortoise Tank died, so I’ve been looking for a new pet!” She stopped in front of Apple Jack, who was still asleep on her chair, “But most of the pets I’ve found haven’t been very successful.”
She tapped Apple Jack’s head slightly with her hoof, and AJ’s head slid off easily and landed on the floor and off the stage. No blood flowed out of the open arteries. She had been killed a while ago. Fluttershy and Twilight screamed, their heart monitors beeping madly.
“Oh, there’s no need to scream like that!” Rainbow said, laughing, “She’s in a place full of all the apples she can eat now!” she laughed loudly again, a laugh shockingly full of mirth, “Poor mare, though. Her last words were, ‘I’ll see ya on the other side, Rainbow.’But she’s not the only one who failed to fit my criteria!”
She pointed her hoof above Twilight’s head, and, on a mantle piece, was Rarity’s head, her eyes and mouth wide open and nailed to a plaque. Fluttershy couldn’t bear to look, and Twilight was hyperventilating.
“So that’s why I brought you ponies here!” Rainbow continued, putting a paper bag over Twilight’s mouth to ease her, “You’re the only ones left, since Pinkie moved to Canterlot. Now, which one of you has what it takes to be my pet?”
“I don’t wanna be your pet!” shouted Twilight, ripping her mouth away from the bag, “I just want to go home!”
“We can’t compete there, Twi!” Rainbow said, giggling slightly, “It’s too open! We don’t want too much attention, do we? You both remember the categories, right? Speed, agility, guts, style, coolness, awesomeness, and radicalness!”
“I still think those are all the same thing...” mumbled Twilight under her breath. Rainbow didn’t hear, so she continued.
“Let’s start with speed!” she said, pulling a red tool box out from behind the stage, “Let’s see who can take pain the longest without pleaing for mercy!” she opened the box and pulled out four switchblades.
“Dashie, please,” Fluttershy was tearing, “don’t do this! We’re your friends!”
“Fluttershy, you don't need to start pleaing now!” Rainbow said, walking up to Fluttershy and switching on the blades. Fluttershy looked nervously at the blade, and Rainbow said, “I need to cripple you so you don’t run and tell the police once I’m finished.”
“What!?” screamed Fluttershy, but Rainbow had already swung both switchblades and made sure that they dug deep into Fluttershy’s kneecaps. Blood spilled every where as Fluttershy screamed in pain and agony over the sound of her kneecaps shattering, the blades still in her knees as Rainbow, covering her ears, walked to Twilight, who was and desparatly trying to escape her bonds.
“Your turn, Twi!” Rainbow said over Fluttershy’s screams, and repeated what she had did before, the blades digging right through Twilight’s kneecaps and coming out the other side of her leg. Twilight screamed louder than Fluttershy, both now making a horrible chorus of shrieks and yells that rang through the cellar.
“Fluttershy, you’re at fifteen seconds!” Rainbow shouted, looking at one of the two stop watches she had timing, “Twilight, ten!”
“Rainbow, I don’t care what time I’ve got!” Twilight shouted after vomiting off the right side of her table, “Just make it stop!”
“Ouch,” said Rainbow, stopping both stop watches, “Twilight ended phase one!” she took out two shot needles and injected the first one into Fluttershy’s leg, and then the second one into Twilight’s leg. Both their screams of pain died away almost instantly.
“Pain killer,” Rainbow said once Fluttershy and Twilight stopped screaming all together, “And a very strong one! It doesn’t numb pain or lock pain currents in the body, it’s a fluid that shuts out all feeling of pain without the wound healing! In other words, it’s like an accelerated healing process, but it doesn’t heal the wound. It just tricks the body into thinking the wound isn’t there! Pretty cool, huh?”
“Rainbow,” said Twilight softly, her breathing heavy, “what did we do to deserve this? If there’s anything we’ve done to you that we haven’t apologized for yet, I’m sorry, I really am.”
“I second that,”said Fluttershy, tears leaking out of her eyes and landing on the table, mixing with her blood.
“You guys really don’t get it, do you? Rainbow said, kicking a bone that was on the ground and sending it soaring through the air and hitting a wall. It landed on the ground with a dull thunk. “You guys haven’t done anything to me (not yet, anyway) that would make me want to kill you!”
“Then why are you doing this?” asked Twilight, looking up at Rainbow with red eyes.
“I’ve already told you!” Rainbow said, crushing another bone with her hoof, “For a straight A student, Twilight, you sure can’t listen right! Onto phase two! Agility!”