CH.6 Side By Side

Nightwalker was walking through town looking at the shops. He had never really taken the time to go out and enjoy the day. He was too busy helping Pinky. He walked by Club Pony and thought about going inside to see what it was all about. He walked in the door and was instantly hit by a wave of strobe lights. “Wow, that was bright” he said as he walked over to a table near the corner. He sat down and looked up at the pony who was scratching beats off of his music equipment. A golden plaque hung off the front of the raised platform he was on. The plaque had DJ PON-3 etched into it. Nightwalker smiled as he listened to the beat. “Now this is the life, I have a roof over my head, someone that actually cares for me, and a job that I now get to do” he said to himself. He looked over to the door and realized that the only three friends he had from Manehatten were here. They looked in his direction and realized who it was. They walked over to him; “well, well, well, the mysterious Nightwalker, you could have said you were going to Ponyville, we were getting worried that the Manehatten police had gotten you” the first pony said. “Needed a change of venue, did we?” said the smaller skinny pony behind him. “Well the good thing is that he got away and now has a clean slate” said the third pony. Nightwalker smiled widely “You know I had to get out of there in a hurry, Brightwing, I thought you knew me better.” Nightwalker walked up to him and bumped hooves, remembering all of the fun times they had together. He walked over to the skinny colt and said as he bumped his hoof “how are you doing Swiftbeat, haven’t gotten into any trouble while I was gone have we?” “Only the usual amount that I always get myself into” Swiftbeat replied smiling. Nightwalker walked over to the last pony. “How are you doing Darkwind; have you been keeping a sharp eye on these two?” he said bumping hooves with him as well. “You know me better than that Nightwalker” Darkwind said, also smiling. “Sit down, I haven’t seen you guys in a while” Nightwalker said to them. They sat down at his table. “So what have you been doing with yourself now that you’re out here in Ponyville?” Brightwing asked curiously. Nightwalker said enthusiastically “the first day I showed up I talked to a pony named Pinky Pie and she gave me a job and a roof over my head.” “Wow, some ponies have all the luck” Swiftbeat said in a sarcastic tone. “We left our parents in Manehatten to come looking for you; we brought all of the money we had with us so we could stay with you when we did find you” Darkwind said to him, smiling. “Great, we got the crew back together again; I can talk to Pinky Pie to see if there are any places for sale around here so we can get you settled” Nightwalker got up and left the club; going to talk to Pinky about a home in Ponyville that was for sale for his friends. He almost never stopped smiling now; he has a good life; he even has his friends back; “coming here was the best thing that ever happened to me” he said as he walked down the road.

Nightwalker was walking down the street. Pinky had told him about how the secret ingredient was running out and that she wanted him to choose the assistant this time. He immediately took her up on the offer and was now searching for his first helper. Now that I am no longer Pinky’s apprentice, I can have some fun. He had become very fond of going to Club Pony to hang out and went there almost every day. He walked to the club and went inside. He went over to his usual table and sat down. He scanned the crowd looking for a worthy pony that he would use as his assistant. He looked over at a colt that was sitting all alone on the other side of the room. He recognized him from when he showed up in town. He got introduced to him when Pinky was giving him the tour, he didn’t say much more than hello to him. When he saw the maroon pony walking around town he never had anyone with him. “He must be a loner” Nightwalker said to himself. He’s the one; he will be his first helper. “Nopony will ever notice he’s missing” he said with a smile. Nightwalker got up and walked out of the club. He started walking in the direction of Sugar Cube Corner. He had to go home and report to Pinky Pie about his first find. A big grin stretched from ear to ear at the thought of him working on his first assistant. Thoughts were swimming in his head of what he could do to the pony. He never stopped smiling the rest of the way to Sugar Cube Corner. Nightwalker walked through the front door and Pinky was in the room. She smiled when she looked at him. “Well, how did it go?” she asked with pure interest in what he had to say. “I found the one that I want as my first assistant; he is the maroon colt that you introduced me to” Nightwalker said to Pinky still smiling. “Oh, you mean Robbinswing, never was really fond of him myself, never talked to anyone” Pinky said to Nightwalker. “Do you by any chance know where he lives?” Nightwalker asked the pink pony. “As a matter of fact I do; he lives about a block down the street from us” Pinky said, eager to help her friend with his first time at the trade. Nightwalker’s smile grew “good, I think I’ll pay him a visit tomorrow night then.” “You will have the place to yourself then cause I gotta go over to Twi’s house to help her with a few things” Pinky said smiling. “You better go get some rest; you have a big day ahead of you tomorrow” She said to him as she walked to her bedroom door. “Ok, see you in the morning” Nightwalker said as he walked into his bedroom. He lay down on his bed and was immediately consumed with tiredness. He drifted off into a deep sleep and did not wake up until the next morning.

When Nightwalker woke up he smiled. Today’s the day, he thought to himself happily. He had to prepare for his visitor later. He went downstairs and didn’t see Pinky anywhere. “Must’ve left already to go help Twilight” he said to himself. “Well time to get everything ready” he said aloud, pure joy filling his voice. He went down stairs to the basement and gathered up the tools. He took them upstairs to the workshop and sharpened them. He put them into the sink with hot water and left them there. “Ok, while those sanitize I’ll go over to Dr. Whoove’s office and get some adrenaline” he said as he walked out the door. He spent about an hour at the doctor’s office getting adrenaline. He took the adrenaline and a few other things he picked up along the way back to Sugar Cube Corner. He grabbed all of the tools out of the water and put them back downstairs on the metal tray along with all of his other things he had gotten while he was out. “Ok, I’m ready for tonight” he said aloud. Nightwalker looked outside, the sun was still high up in the sky, “I’ve got a few hours to spare, I’ll go get the gang and we can go to the club for a while” nightwalker said to himself. He walked out the door carrying a small bag for that night. He walked over to his friend’s house and opened the door. “Hey, wanna go to the club for a few hours?” he said to the three ponies in front of him. “Sure, I got a few hours to spare” Brightwing said to him. “You know I can’t resist DJ PON-3’s rockin beats” Swiftbeat said a little too enthusiastically. “Sure, what the hay, I’ll go, it beats sitting around here doing nothing” Darkwind said to the others. They all left and headed for the club. Swiftbeat making up beats as they walked. They walked through the door and went to their usual table. Nightwalker, Darkwind, and Brightwing sat down while Swiftbeat went out onto the dance floor and attempted to dance. “Sometimes I think there’s something wrong with that pony” Nightwalker said laughing as he watched his friend make a fool out of himself. Darkwind and Brightwing laughed looking over at him and then shaking their heads. “I really missed this” Nightwalker said to the two ponies across from him. “Yeah, so did we” Brightwing replied back. They spent the next few hours trading stories about their lives back in Manehatten. “Well guys, I gotta run, I have an errand that needs doing; I’ll get ahold of you so we can do this again sometime” Nightwalker said as he got up. “Ok, we’ll see ya around” Darkwind said to him. Nightwalker left the club and walked over to his assistant’s house. He went around to the back of the house and found an open window. He crawled in as quietly as possible. He walked around the darkened house looking in every room until he found his helper asleep in his room. Nightwalker walked up as close as he could to Robbinswing. He reached into his bag and brought out a rag that was soaked in chloroform. He crammed the rag into Robbinswing’s mouth and grabbed the back of his head and held the rag in his mouth. Robbinswing shot out of bed and started trying to get the intruder off of him. “So, you wanna do this the hard way, fine I can do the hard way” Nightwalker said to Robbinswing, still holding the rag over his mouth. Nightwalker let go of Robbinswing and swept his feet out from under him. Robbinswing fell to the floor and tried to get up, but nightwalker was too fast for him. Nightwalker jumped up into the air and came down right on Robbinswing’s ankle bone shattering it instantly. He let out a muffled scream of protest. Nightwalker lifted Robbinswing’s head up and held onto the rag again. “Now are you going to make any more attempts to escape, because that last one wasn’t very effective if you ask me” Nightwalker said smiling darkly. Robbinswing made no answer; he was starting to fade out of consciousness from the energy he used. “Good, now go to sleep like a good little boy” Nightwalker said to him still smiling. Robbinswing passed out shortly after his intruder said that. “Well, back to Sugar Cube Corner” Nightwalker said as he lifted the unconscious colt onto his back. He walked back to Sugar Cube Corner and went down into the basement. He put Robbinswing onto the table and strapped his legs into the binds. He made sure they were extra tight so they would prevent any future attempts at escaping. “Well, now I play the waiting game” Nightwalker said laughing to himself.

Robbinswing woke up and felt a sharp pain shooting up his leg from where his ankle had been shattered. He looked around, looking for any signs of his captor. “Finally your awake, I thought I might have killed you with the chloroform; what with you being out for so long” Nightwalker said to the pony on the table. “When I get out of here I’ll kill you!” Robbinswing said pure rage emanating from his voice. “Who says you’re getting out of here, I’d sure like to know, because I sure didn’t say that” Nightwalker said back to the pony Smiling widely. “You’ll never get away with it, people will find out and come looking for you” Robbinswing said still fuming with anger. “Who’s going to find out, you sure aren’t in any position to do anything on the subject” Nightwalker said back. “I’ll get out of these binds and it will be over for you, you wait and see” the maroon pony said back. “You know, I’m getting real sick of all of the cockiness coming out of your mouth; I think it’s about time we fixed that” Nightwalker said as he walked over to the fire pit. He grabbed the tongs off of a rack on the wall and grabbed a hot coal off of the pit. He brought the coal back over to his assistant and grabbed a roll of duct tape off the tray. Nightwalker pried open Robbinswing’s mouth “this will fix that up real fast” he said as he shoved the searing hot coal into his mouth. Nightwalker held his mouth shut as he got a strip of duct tape ready. “This will make sure you don’t get cocky with me again” Nightwalker said as he put the strip over Robbinswing’s mouth. The searing pain in Robbinswing’s mouth was enough to make him pass out. He could feel the flesh inside of his mouth cooking from the hot coal. He could smell the flesh burning in his mouth. “How does that feel? Not so cocky now, are we?” Nightwalker said to the struggling pony in front of him. About five minutes later Nightwalker ripped the tape off of Robbinswing’s mouth and took the coal out. “There, that should have been long enough to keep you from getting full of yourself for a while.” All Robbinswing did was scowl at Nightwalker. Nightwalker grabbed a scalpel off of the tray and got up real close to Robbinswing. “Why are you frowning at me? You know my friend Pinky Pie always said to me “Life’s a party, so you need to smile!” “But you’re not smiling; we can’t have that, now can we?” Nightwalker opened Robbinswing’s mouth again and made a smile shaped cut up both sides of his mouth. “There, now you can smile forever” Nightwalker said smiling at his work. Blood started dripping out of Robbinswing’s mouth. As the pain in his mouth started to dull he came to a realization that he wasn’t going to get out of here. “This is getting dull; I think we should ramp it up don’t you?” Nightwalker said as he walked over to the tray. He grabbed a mallet and two railroad ties off the tray and walked back over to him. He held up the Railroad ties so that Robbinswing could see them. “These are the ties that bind you know” Nightwalker said laughing. Robbinswing shook his head in fear. Nightwalker put the tip of the Railroad tie against Robbinswing’s kneecap. He swung the mallet down onto the tie and it shattered through the bone and ripped through flesh and tissue. Robbinswing let out a loud scream of pain which was cut off because of the pain in his mouth being reopened. Nightwalker just smiled and repeated the process to the other leg. Robbinswing let out another agonizing scream. Nightwalker put the mallet down and grabbed a bucket of water that was on the ground next to the table. He splashed the water over Robbinswing. He grabbed off the second tray a battery and controller. He attached the positive and negative tongs to the railroad ties in Robbinswing’s legs. “Now don’t be too shocked at me when I do this ok?” Nightwalker flipped the switch on the controller and electricity rocketed up Robbinswing’s body. He arched his back in pain and started screaming. Nightwalker flipped the switch off shortly after. Steam rose off of Robbinswing’s body as he lay limp on the table. “Just…kill…me” he said almost soft enough that Nightwalker couldn’t hear him. “What do you not like being my assistant?” Nightwalker said in disbelief that such a resilient pony wants to die. “Being dead would be better than living through any more horrors that you have planned” the maroon pony said to Nightwalker softly. “Ok, I’ll end your pain; though I must say you won’t find it much better when you’re dead.” Nightwalker grabbed the scalpel again and made an “I” shaped incision on Robbinswing’s chest. He used peelers and peeled the skin away from the chest cavity. “You want death, I’ll give you death” Nightwalker said to the barely conscious pony in front of him. Then he grabbed Robbinswing’s heart in his hoof and ripped it out of his chest cavity. Blood poured out of the arteries into the cavity. “So you wish, so you shall receive” Nightwalker said still holding his heart in his hoof. Robbinswing’s eyes closed forever; never to open again. Nightwalker tilted the table up as he watched Pinky do to let the corpse drain. He dipped his hoof in the blood of his assistant and walked over to a blank wall and slid his hoof down the wall sealing the first secret ingredient collection of his new career. “You did well, no doubt you knew more than I thought about this kind of thing” Pinky said from behind him. “Thanks Pinky, that means a lot to me hearing that from you” Nightwalker said to the pink pony. Then he did something he never did before, he hugged her. Pinky Smiled at him and hugged him back. “You will make a fine collector Nightwalker” “C’mon lets go upstairs I just finished baking a cake and we should celebrate. “Ok, let’s go” Nightwalker said as they left the basement.

END OF CH.6

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