CH.5 Learning The Ropes

Pinky Pie was in Sugar Cube Corner with Nightwalker. She was talking to him about the twitches she gets when her next assistant is near. Nightwalker listened to her intently, determined to prove to her what he was made of. “When we were walking here earlier do you remember the orange pony that walked by us?” Pinky pie asked Nightwalker. “Yes I remember her” he replied back. “Well, her name is Applejack and she is going to be our next assistant because I had my twitch when I was near her” Pinky said with joy as she thought about how this would be the third friend in a row that was her assistant. “We are going to go get her tomorrow night, and when we get started I want you to watch from a distance and learn what I do, then the next time we need another helper, you will be the one to work” “Will I be meeting her as well” Nightwalker asked Pinky with interest. “Oh, don’t worry you’ll get to meet her” Pinky said smiling back to her apprentice. “Oh, one more thing, when it is your turn be sure to have fun while doing it” she said to him. “It is getting late, we need to get a good night’s rest for tomorrow, it will be a big day for you.” She said to her apprentice. Nightwalker says goodnight to Pinky Pie and walks to his bedroom. He lay on his bed and thinks about his big day tomorrow until he drifts into a peaceful deep sleep.

Nightwalker awoke with the morning sun in his eyes. Today is the day, he thought with a smile coming across his face. He brushed his mane and walked into the main room of the house where Pinky Pie was already waiting for him. Her face lit up when she saw him. “Good you’re awake, now we can get prepared for tonight’s events” she said practically glowing. “Ok, I’m ready, what do we need to do before tonight?” he asked readily. “Well, we need to sharpen all of the blades, sterilize them, and go to the doctor’s office to get adrenaline and numbing agent” she said to her apprentice. “Well I could sharpen the blades and sterilize them, I have had experience with that” Nightwalker said to Pinky Pie. Pinky glowed with Pride at how much her apprentice knew already. She had grown so fond of the grey colt that she thought of him as the younger brother that she never had. “Good, you can do that then while I make a trip to the doctor’s office.” “There is a grindstone in the workshop which is all the way down the hallo the left.” “The blades are already in there for you; see you when I get back.” Pinky Pie went out the front door and left Nightwalker to sharpen and clean the blades. “Well, better get started” he said as he walked down the hall. He goes into the workshop and finds all of the knives in a nice pile. He puts his hoof on the pedestal and starts turning the grindstone. He grabs a pair of goggles off the rack next to him and puts them on. He then grabs the first tool that needs to be sharpened off the table next to him and angles it above the grindstone. He pushes the blade against the stone sending a shower of sparks all around him. He starts smiling while he was sharpening the blades. He gets to the last tool on the table, which was a large butcher knife and grabs it. A note was under the blade, carefully folded into a star. He puts the blade back on the table and grabs the note. He carefully opens the note and reads it.

Dear Nightwalker,

You have grown on me over the time we spent together. You have become like a brother to me. Words cannot begin to express pride I feel watching you grow and learn. I know without a doubt that you will do well when it’s your turn to take the reins. I have a suit that I wear sometimes when I work, and I would like to give you the option to have you make your own to wear if you so choose. I look forward to watching you grow even more.

Sincerely, Pinky Pie
Nightwalker was filled with gratitude after reading her note. He smiles wide and grabs butcher knife and sharpens it. After he was done he put everything in the room back in their proper places. He walks over to the sink on the other side of the room. He turns the water on hot and sets the tools in the water. The soaps that are used to sterilize the tools were next to the sink. He puts some of the soaps in the water and stirred it up, making it sud up. When he was finished sterilizing the tools he walked back out into the main room. Pinky wasn’t back yet, so he decided to take up the option of making an outfit. He had fabric under his bed for if he ever needed it. “Well now is a good time as any” he said as he got the fabric out. He had a poster of the Wonderbolts on his wall. He got a design in his head after looking at the poster. He cut the fabric in the shape of his outfit, and then took it to the sewing machine in the parlor room. He sewn his outfit together and put it on. It looked like the Wonderbolt’s flying uniform, but without the headgear. I will paint it when the time is right, he thought to himself. He took the uncolored outfit in his room under his bed. He sat on his bed and looked out the window. The sun was starting to set. He heard the front door open and went to the main room. Pinky had a bag with the medical supplies. “I got the tools sharpened and sterilized for you” Nightwalker said to Pinky Pie. “Good, then we are ready for the big night, well lets go get our helper” Pinky Pie said to her apprentice as they walked out the door.

Applejack was piling hay in her barn for the winter. She was exhausted from doing this for the past four hours. She lay down on a pile of hay and dozes off into sleep. Pinky Pie and Nightwalker were already there waiting for her. They were up on the balcony above her. They climbed carefully down the ladder and up to the sleeping pony. Pinky had given the job of knocking Applejack out with a chloroform rag to Nightwalker. He walked up as close as he could to the orange pony and reached out with the rag and shoved it over her mouth. He quickly moved behind the now startled applejack and held the rag over her mouth. Applejack could not see who was doing this but could swear she saw a pink pony in front of her smiling. The chloroform was working into her system and she was starting to feel weak. Nightwalker stopped holding on as tight but kept the rag over her mouth. Applejack could see the pink pony which was now a pink blur move closer to her. “Good work Nightwalker that was a perfect display” the pink blur said. Applejack had just enough of her mouth movement to get the words out, “P-Pinky Pie…is that y-you.” Then she fell unconscious, the chloroform becoming too great for her. Pinky Pie congratulated her apprentice again and then put the unconscious pony on her back. “C’mon, let’s get our assistant back to Sugar Cube Corner so we can begin.” They left the barn and headed off toward Sugar Cube Corner with Applejack on Pinky’s back. When they got to Sugar Cube Corner they took applejack into the basement. Nightwalker had only been down here once before and that was only for a few minutes to grab some things for Pinky. Now he got to see the full extent of the room he was in. He was in shock and awe at the décor of the room. “Ok, let’s strap Applejack to this metal table” Pinky said to Nightwalker. He went over to her and helped strap the orange pony in the binds on the table. “I’m going to dim the lights and I want you to stand next to the tray with the tools on it until she wakes up” Pinky said to Nightwalker. “After tonight Nightwalker you will no longer be my apprentice, you will be no different than me in this trade, I am really proud of you, you will make a fine successor when I cannot do this anymore” Pinky said with pride. “Thank you, I won’t let you down” Nightwalker replied back gratefully. They stood in silence for about fifteen minutes before the first signs of movement came from Applejack. “Get ready for the show” Pinky said Joking to Nightwalker who laughed back to her.

When Applejack woke up she looked around but found that she could not move her legs. She looked down and found that they were in leather binds. She started struggling to move her legs but it was no use, the binds were on really tight so she couldn’t move them at all. She stopped struggling and tried to think about what happened that night. She remembers getting grabbed by somepony, who held a rag over her mouth. Then she remembered the pink blur that she thought was Pinky. “Ok, whoevers done this to me is in a mess of trouble when I get out of here.” Applejack said anger rising in her voice. Then she heard a familiar voice say “Oh, she is finally awake, now we can finally begin.” “Pinky, Pinky were you the one that did this to me?” she said to the voice. Pinky Pie came into view followed by a Pony that she never saw before. “Oh, I didn’t do this I had a lot of help from Nightwalker here, he was the one who held the rag over your mouth, he’s very strong for his age don’t you think?” “Guilty as charged” Nightwalker smiled to Applejack. “Why would you do this to your friend Pinky?” Applejack said to the now smiling pink pony in front of her. “Because I am running out of the secret ingredient for my cupcakes and I need to get more” Pinky Pie chided to the now struggling again Applejack. “What’s the ingredient?” Applejack said almost afraid to ask. Pinky’s smile grew wider “YOU! Silly, why do you think you’re in my basement?” “But why me, why choose me, I’m your best friend” Applejack said as she tried to reason with the pink pony knowing that nothing good could come out of this. “It’s really funny; when Rainbow Dash and Rarity were here they said the same thing to me” “all ponies numbers eventually come up and yours was next on the list” Pinky said joyfully. “Well I think we talked for long enough, let’s get started shall we?” Applejack was struggling in her binds, moving her body so much that it hurt, hoping that they would break so she could get away from what was about to happen to her.

Nightwalker had moved back over to the other side of the metal tray to let Pinky get started. Pinky Pie grabbed the scalpel off the tray and walked up to Applejack, who was still struggling. She walks over to her left flank, lifted up her hoof and sliced her Achilles tendon. Pain rocketed up through Applejack and she held in a scream of agony. Pinky moved over to her other flank and repeated the process. Applejack couldn’t take the pain anymore and she let out a wail of agony. “There, now you won’t be fidgeting in your binds so much” Pinky said to the now sobbing Applejack. Pinky walked back over to the tray, put the scalpel down, and grabbed some tongs. She had hot coals in a small fire pit nearby and she walked over with a pan and grabbed a few of them. She walked back with the coals over to Applejack. Pinky grabbed a coal with the tongs and lifted her bloody hoof. She pushes the coal onto the cut she made in Applejack’s heel. Applejack let out another agonizing scream as the searing hot coal burned her open wound. Smoke wisped off the wound and Pinky said “smokin” in a joking tone to the now openly crying orange country pony. She repeated the process to the other hoof and paid no attention to the screaming pony. Pinky Pie put the coals back and the tongs away. She grabbed the scalpel again and walked to Applejack’s left flank again. She puts the blade above Applejack’s cutie mark and starts making a circular incision around it. Applejack tensed with the new pain shooting up her thigh and made Pinky lose concentration, resulting in her making a larger circle than she needed to. “Oh well, no harm no foul I guess” Pinky said as she grabbed the peelers off the table. Pinky walked back over to her flank and said with a smile “Applejack, I find your cutie mark apeeling, do you mind if I use it?” “Please no” Applejack said. Pinky slid the peelers under her skin and then ripped the skin off, some of the muscle fibers still connected. Agonizing pain rocketed throughout Applejack’s body. She arched her back and her eyes rolled into the back of her head, and she felt a warm release between her legs. Applejack passed out shortly after.

Applejack awoke with a new pain in her leg. “Well it’s good that your finally awake, I thought you would be different than Rainbow Dash and Rarity, but apparently I was wrong” Pinky said scolding her. Applejack saw something pink dripping in Pinky Pie’s hoof and she quickly gulped it down. “What was that” Applejack said to her through the pain. “Well, while YOU were asleep I got a little impatient and sampled you for myself, I have to admit you’re not that bad, a little tough, but good none the less” Pinky said smiling again. “Well, are you ready for the last round, or are you going to fall asleep on me again?” Pinky said to her. She grabs the scalpel and makes a horizontal cut above her ribcage. Applejack chokes back a scream of pain. She repeats the same cut under her waist. Then Pinky makes a large vertical cut down the center of Applejacks body. Applejack didn’t even feel that incision; she was too busy thinking about the life that she will soon be taken out of. I have never done anything that made me deserve this, she thought to herself. Pinky grabbed the peelers off the tray and peeled the skin away from the chest cavity. Applejack knew that these were going to be her last moments in this world. Pinky had grabbed a syringe out of her bag and was holding it in hoof. “This is adrenaline, it will make you stay alive long enough to watch the best part” Pinky said with a huge grin that stretched from ear to ear. Applejack knew that this was it; she was going to be killed by her own friend and she could do nothing to stop it, she was broken. “Pinky, I want you to promise me something” “don’t do this to Applebloom, she does not deserve this” “do what you want with me, but leave her out of this.” “Ok Applejack” Pinky said to the mangled orange pony. Pinky then started rummaging through Applejacks insides, taking out one organ after another. “Applejack, I could make gorganzola with all of these organs” Pinky said laughing at her joke. The pain was unbearable, the organs being cut out one by one making here want to vomit. About fifteen minutes later Applejack began getting weak, he loss of blood making her pass in and out of consciousness. Pinky was still working on her insides, humming her lullaby while she worked. Applejack started crying; she wished that she would have told everyone at Sweet Apple Acres how much she loved them; but at least Pinky pie wouldn’t hurt Applebloom, she thought with tears dripping down her face. Pinky was watching Applejack’s heart beat while she was working. It was slowing down with the loss of blood. Then it stopped entirely; never to beat again. Applejack was the longest living helper that she had ever had, lasting over two hours. Pinky put the tools back on the tray and tipped the table Applejack’s corpse was on up vertical, so the fluids will drain into a pan below. She dipped her hoof in the blood and then walked over to the wall with the tally marks. She put a mark next to Rainbow Dash’s and Rarity’s. Then she walked over to Nightwalker. “C’mon, let’s let her drain” Pinky said to him. “Ok” he replied. They walked over to the door. Pinky stopped and said to Nightwalker “in the morning when you wake up you will no longer be my apprentice, you will be my equal.” “Thank you Pinky Pie, you don’t know how grateful I am, without you I would have been nothing, I will always be there for you if you need me” he replied, pride showing openly in his face. They walked out the door, both of them smiling. This was the beginning of Nightwalker’s new life, working side by side with Pinky.

END OF CH.5

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