Opening my eyes, I lay there looking around seeing that I was still in the cell. Standing on my hooves trying to use my horn to get out. But I couldn't sadly. Looking around to try to find a way out. I didn’t know how to find a way out. I had no one but Jonon and Dr… Wait I am sure they were killed too. I have no pony to go back to but my friends in Equestria. I lifted myself on my hind legs and with my forehooves smashed into the cell bars.

" Let me out!!! Let me out!!!" Burnout rushed out of his office I stared at him. " Get me out of here now..." Burnout blinks before looking at a cleverly place lever near my cell. What i didn’t see is the label underneath it, which said only two words. Trap door. Burnout looked back at me, a smile upon his face. “Have fun!” He said as he gave that lever a might pull with his magic.

After a long, twisty fall, I ended up landing in a ring that looked like one of those old sports ring. Looking around, I was in the middle of a cage around me prisoners cheered called for blood. I had no idea what was going to happen. . A voice spoke over a PA.

" Welcome to the Cage Battles. Since the Queen has been keeping us all here. We shall express our anger in the only way we know how. By causing as much blood and mayhem to others as we can.Welcome the hero of Legend. If anyone has the guts to beat the shit out of her. To try to prove to her fighting the queen is folly. Then let’s do it so we can get back to our normal lives.”

“First on the roster she will fight. A magic eater known as Flap Flap." I blinked. Flap Flap? These names are odd. I finally got to see what he looked like. From what I have learned he is the warrior type of magic eater. A stronger type to what I am used to taking down. He looked at me, hissing softly and showing his venom leaking from his mouth. He spoke like he was pointing at me with a loud deep voice.

"I am going to beat you Hero. Then we will load up the rocket ship with fuel! Load it with the World! When I beat you. I shall present you to the Queen and win my freedom!" He made a loud grunt noise. I just stood there looking at the stupid speaking bug. He wanted to win his freedom and take me down? I snorted and slide my hoof on the cage floor causing sparks with my hoof. They have now just pissed off the wrong dam mare!

" How about you stop talking and fight? I'm sick and tired of being in this jail for no reason. Oh yes! I am a hero. Oh no! The Queen hates me for some reason! How sweet." I say, my voice filled with rage. Flap Flap turns to look at me. He hissed deeply pointing his bug like leg at me. He is about to speak again but i grabbed his leg with my mouth, reared up onto my hind legs, and began smashing him into the ground over and over. I am not going to sit around as this stupid creature boasts like a fool and an idiot. Removing his leg from my mouth, I issued my challenge. " Shut up and fight me!"

As many could tell, i’ve had enough of the stupid fools in this jail. And unfortunately for them, but fortunate for me, they are within hoof striking range. The poor bastards.

" Let me out of here...let me back to my friends! And i promise I won’t kill all of you!" I yelled out while Flap slowly lifted himself back up. I didn't waste any time, pouncing onto the magic eater and stomping on him with all my hooves. I kept smashing him, causing the blood and guts to fly everywhere. When i stopped stomping him, i noticed that I had guts and blood all over me.

" Again if you don't let me out, I will rip part this prison till you let me out!! You hear me?!!" Growling in anger, I clenched my teeth. Stepping around the corpse, I began hearing cheers and boos all around me. I just smashed my hooves in the cage, trying to make myself look stronger than I really am. As many spectators could tell, I have had enough of this. I needed to get home. Trotting around in the cage, I closed my eyes for a moment. Then, opening them, i rushed at the cage door, trying to smash it open.

" Let me out!! You hear me?! I don't belong in here." The cage door behind me slowly opened up. After it was fully opened, a large earth pony walked in. I just glare at him. Before the cage door could even close, I rushed at it. However, i smashed into the pony hard enough to make him fly back out. But the door closed before I could get out.

I started to boast a bit myself laughing. “How can you keep me here?! I am beating the shit out of everypony you bring my way! Just open the door now and I promise I will make your death..be swift and painless.” The PA ringed again after my words.

" Well then since it seems no one can stand up to her, we shall have the all time champion face her in combat! As you all know, we have tried to kill him. But everything we do to him, he just keeps healing. Everyone clap your hooves, claws, whatever together! For SKULL CRUSHER!" I watched the gate slowly open up. As it opened, i caught sight of the largest pair of Minotaur legs i’ve ever seen. Big and filled with pure muscle. I could feel a bit of heat in my cheeks as my eyes travel upwards and studied his 12 pack of a chest. His arms were what caught my attention next. With muscles which were bigger than my entire head. A tattoo of a weird clock laid on his right arm. He placed his hands together bowing in respect.

" You honor me hero. I do hope you get out of here.” He smirked walking around the cage studying me. I noticed him checking his arm then back up at me. We circled around each other. Staring each other down. I didn't know if he would be the one to do the first strike. My hooves clicked along the metal ground. He then charged at me quickly I moved out of the way. One of his horns gored one of the poor watchers of the battle. But they didn't seem that badly hurt. He pulled his horns away from the cage and then looked back at me. He then charged at me again using my horn I tripped him with magic. He fell beside me and I tried to smash my hooves into him. But he grabbed them, tossing me into the cage. Groaning, I finally was able to see him charging at me. I quickly got out of the way. When he hit I noticed it caused the door to bend a bit. Then I looked to him pointing with my horn to the door. He looked at it seeing it.

He turned to me nodding. Then mouthed. ' Got to make it look good.' He charged at me, grabbing me, then charging into the bent door. We broke through it then he set me down. The guards charged at us with their weapons. Skull Crusher hit them back with no issue. With my magic, I picked up a sword while Skull Crusher didn't need anything. We easily fought through the swarm of guards. I tried to keep some of them alive. Burnout was the one I wanted to kill. On our way On our way through, we freed the other prisoners. They stayed behind us as we fought through knocking out most of the guards but unable to help killing some. We broke through the rest of the prison with many of the prisoners behind us. When we got to the way out, we let them go first. There were hundreds of them. We had to let them go.

We kept the guards from harming them or stopping them. I watched on the other side of a door of Burnout watching me. I wanted to kill him. But I had to save these creatures first. Most of them finally got out but a door came down blocking the rest out. Skull looked back at me.

" Go. I will rescue the rest." Skull stared at me then nodded he rushed out. I rushed to the gate holding Burnout. Kicking over and over hard enough to break it down. Then with my sword lifted, I stared at him. " Open it... Let them go. Then I won't kill you" Burnout looked to the lever he had just pulled. Then he didn't do what I asked. He had done the exact opposite. He pulled out a sword.

" I knew I should have killed you hero." Burnout said. We charged at each other our weapons smashing into each other. I felt the anger I had for Burnout. I wanted to kill him. Our weapons hit over and over. Sparks flew the papers that are in the room start to burn. I just stared at him with so much hate and anger.

" You hurt me....you broke me...You broke my will. You should have listened to me. You should have freed me. You should have let me go." Burnout has so much fear in his eyes. Then, as I was about to strike him down, I feel a sharp pain in my back. I yelled loudly and Cricket lifted me up tossing me into wall with a thud. I tried standing up groaning. Cricket walked over me staring at me. He pulled the sword out of my magic. Then tossed it aside. I tried using magic again but he lifted a large stone and smashed it into my horn. Over and Over. I screamed my horn cracked and part of it broke. Then he started using his many hands to punch me over and over. I couldn't see anymore. I started feeling my bones in my leg being broken. Then he stabbed a sword deep into my chest. I screamed in pain, falling to the ground shaking due to hom much pain i was in.

"Get her hooked up to the magic. Keep her there, destroy her life with it. Make sure she is addicted to it. Make sure she has a constant limp in one of her legs. No matter, what she will pay for what she did here." He then pulled the sword out of me then lifted me again, smashing me into the wall. The wall shattered as well as my weak body. He then tossed me again, making me bounce off the wall. I could hear Burnout getting the machine ready. Burnout was going to pick me up but Cricket wasn't done yet.

" Oh no I ain't done with her yet. I am going to to make sure she goes to the Queen so broken, that no one will ever ever look at her the same way again." He tossed me into the cage door. My body sliding to the ground. Opening my swollen eye.

" ...Please let me go..." Cricket laughs picking me up staring in my eyes.

" Oh why would I do that? Your lucky the Queen wants you alive. Ah I also found the leg that will be broken forever, little child. Even if the magic heals it, the bone will never heal fully.” He picked the back left leg and twisted it over and over.I let out a blood curdling scream from the pain. I felt the bone crack and heard it crack. The very bone broke the skin of my leg. I felt the muscle and marrow break along with the bone. Then He twisted it more. Dropping me staring down at me. All i could do was sob as blood pooled under me.

" I just wanted to leave...I wanted to get home..." Cricket stood over me and I could tell his face soften. He stroked my back and sighed.

" Listen hero. I don't like the Queen. I don't like doing this to you either. But Because of you ponies, I am what you see now. I was an unknown project. When I learned I was created by you ponies. I got very angry. But I know I shouldn't have put all the anger on you little hero. Maybe if we meet again. I doubt we will. You could kill me and end the torment of the one that did this to you."

Cricket walked out of the cell grabbing his swords along with a strange jacket he had. Looking back to me I didn’t even understand why he did this.. He had a gentle smile sighing closing his many eyes looking to Burnout.

" Her time is almost up Burnout. Keep her attached to the magic till then. The Queen wants her hurt as much as she can be. Even though I look at her now, I don't see a hero. I see a lost soul from Equestria wishing to get home. Maybe I will get to see your land child. When I do I will try to protect it from the ones like the Queen. I am hoping to get away from the Queen." He nodded slowly walking out of the Prison getting in some caravan.

I was lifted by the other guards as well as Burnout. They placed me gently on the machine. He placed tubes from the magic machine on what was left of my horn. After doing so i felt the magic turned on full blast. Even though I felt my body slowly starting to heal along with a new horn growing. I could still feel the endless throbbing pain in the horn.

" It's going to hurt every time you use it hero. So be prepared for that. For the horn to heal, it will take time." I just lay there,barely listening. My wounds slowly heal.The meat, the muscle and the bone slowly recede back into the leg. Then it starts to untwist I groaned, feeling the pain from it. The leg twisted back slowly to normal. But it was harder than most. The bone healed but it wasn't going to heal right. My leg would stay bent in a strange way. But the magic just kept filling me filling me slowly.

Burnout then turned it on fully. Making all the magic from the machine go into me slowly. But filled me with it. Gasping deeply feeling my heart beat filling my body with the magic. Knowing that sadly. I would feel so much pain in me. But after awhile Burnout let me out. Setting me back on my hooves. Slowly walking back into the cell my back leg so badly limping it hurt each time. Slowly sitting down.

Closing my eyes, I feel that all the hope I had it's fully gone. Burnout came to me easily seeing the fact that my hope is gone.

" Hero, you need to stay strong." I just stared at him. I just huffed at him, turned around as painlessly as I could and laid back down, my eyes closed and ears flat.

" I am never going to see Equestria again. I am never going to see Blaze again." I closed my eyes to rest and just let the empty world take me away.

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I watched the poor hero sleep. It made my heart break at the fact she is broken and losing hope. "Burnout." A group of ponies walked up to me as I looked at them. i didn't know what to say or what to think. But I could see anger and sadness in their eyes.

"She has lost hope my friends. We can no longer wait till we get her to the castle. We need to get her through this. But I don't know how to bring her hope back." I sighed I hated the fact that I did this. My own daughter even watched me do this evil. Then I had a thought come to my head. "We can't let her get to the castle. We need to keep skinning her and get more blood from her body. We have to make sure the Queen thinks she is dead. She will learn it too late that she is not."

"But Burnout you already said she is broken.. That her very hope is gone. How can we do that to her?"

I looked to the body of the broken hero. I could see tears streaming down her face. "You're right I can no longer do anything to her. Just look at her. I would say let's go get the others ready. I got an idea but it will be done next month. So I am just hoping she won't be too broken.

Footnote: No level

Three new perks.

Negative Perks.

Broken leg: Your leg has been broken and set wrong. You will always walk around with a limp and never be the same again. It won’t hinder anything you do just it will be harder for you to walk on it.

Prison break: Even though you didn’t make it out those you rescued will remember and fight with you at the final battle.

Shattered horn: Your horn has been severely damaged. Any magic casting will cause you agonizing amounts of pain. It will heal given time. But do you have time?