“Rainbow, we can’t move right for two reasons now,” said Twilight, “One, because we’re strapped down, and two, because we now have shattered kneecaps!”
Fluttershy looked at her legs, which were still bleeding, and still had the switchblades in them. She cried softly.
“You’re saying that as if it’s a bad thing!” Rainbow said, digging around in the tool box, “It all pays off in the aftermath! In the meantime, try to doge these little guys, they’ll be going after your wings, Fluttershy, and your horn, Twilight.”
She brought up what looked like little electronic saw blades and placed two going up Fluttershy’s side ‘til it reached her wings and one dangling above Twilight’s head.
“Now, what’s gonna happen is that I’m going to turn these little bad boys on, and you two try to dodge them before they cut off either your wings or your horn! Try not to let them do either! Go!”
Rainbow hit a trigger, and immediately the little saws started creeping toward Fluttershy’s wings, saw blades spinning rapidly. Fluttershy tried her best to tuck her wings in, but the bonds she was restrained in were too tight. She couldn’t get her wings under her! At the last second, though, Fluttershy lifted her wings up, and the saws passed directly under her wings.
Fluttershy thought it was over, so she relaxed her wings. But she was wrong. The blades were coming back, and both dug themselves directly into Fluttershy’s wings. Fluttershy screeched in pain and suprise as the blade on her right side cut through her wing as if it were a sting, spraying the right side of the table with blood that flowed out freely out of her snapped veins. But the left side one was having trouble. It tried to dig in through her wing bone, but it was jammed. It wouldn’t cut through her left wing!
“Fluttershy!” Twilight yelled, breaking her concentration of avoiding her saw, which swung and stabbed her horn, and began cutting through. Twilight screeched in pain and tried to shake the saw off, sending blood squiring in all directions, but that only helped the saw dig into her horn. So the saw cut through her horn and fell to the ground with a thud, and Twilight’s horn now lay at Rainbow’s hoofs in a pool of blood.
“Ooh,” said Rainbow, thinking hard over Fluttershy’s and Twilight’s agony, “I’m not sure who to give that too... Fluttershy still has a wing on, so I think she wins,” Rainbow walked over to Fluttershy, who was still screaming and trying to get out of her bonds, “Looks like that little blade couldn’t get through!” she said, pressing the button and causing the blades to switch off, “The bone is almost cut completely, but it’s still on there! I think I can get it off,” Rainbow grasped the wing with her hoofs and yanked as hard as she could, emitting shrieks out of Fluttershy and squirting blood out of the open veins, which covered Rainbow's hoofs. She pulled and pulled, but the wing wouldn’t snap. Finally, she gave up trying and just gave the Pain killers to them immediately after.
“It’s all right, Fluttershy,” said Rainbow as she injected her with the drug, “That wing will fall off sooner or later, if you survive the challenges.”
Fluttershy tried not to imagine what her wing looked like now, but by the reaction on Twilight’s face, and Rainbow constantly staring at it while talking, and by the warm, oozing feeling that dripped down her side, it gave her a very vivid image in her mind.
“Well, Fluttershy is ahead by two points, Twi,” Rainbow said while staring at Fluttershy’s ripped, torn, and bleeding wing, “So you’d better pick up the pulse- oops, I meant pace!”
“Just kill me now and get it over with!” cried Twilight unexpectedly,”Without a horn, I can’t do magic! Which means I’ll be useless to Princess Celestia! And then I’ll flunk all my tests and be sent back grades and-”
“Twilight, you’re in a competition and have just lost your kneecaps and horn and you’re still worried about studies?” Rainbow asked, giving Twilight a questioning look, “Nevermind, I’m not gonna let my friend back out of such a great opportunity! On to Phase 3! Guts!"
Fluttershy gulped. She had an odd feeling she knew what was coming.