It was dark. Black. She was unaware of anything. Asleep. Suddenly it was cold and wet. Something was dripping down her body. It woke her up just a little. Then she remembered... NO! That didn't really happen. Of course not. It could not have. It was just a false memory. A dream...

She heard a voice, "Fluttershy. Come on Flutter." The voice was accompanied by sounds of misery. She was coming to. But she was afraid to open her eyes. The stench of death was in the air. A scream suddenly rang through her ears, with a splat noise soon after. Her eyes were more tightly shut. She thought to herself. NO! It's not true. I refuse to believe it! But what she could hear suggested otherwise.

"FS, we can't start this if you are not awake." The voice sounded clearer to her now. Fluttershy slowly opened her eyes... They widened with terror as her worst fears were confirmed. Pinkie Pie was on the floor, cut open and empty, and next to a pile of her own meat fragments, with a large puddle of blood under. And there was Rainbow Dash. One of her hind legs was almost completely bone. And the other was being ripped apart by its owner's jaw. The pieces were being thrown into a pile two meters away from the sobbing cyan Pegasus. Though hornless, Rarity was otherwise untouched.

Fluttershy's shining eyes watered at the sight of her friends like this. It was too much for her to take in. Scared and confused like nothing before, Fluttershy averted her eyes down. But that made it worse when she saw Applejack's severely bent, dead body right below her. She regurgitated and was about to pass out again. "NO! Fluttershy!" Twilight dumped more cold water on Fluttershy, who reacted to it immediately. The bound Pegasus began to cry hard.

Twi tried speaking words of comfort to her dear yellow friend, "I know. I know. It's hard. But I'm here for you." Fluttershy only cried harder, not understanding why Twilight was saying this. "Hey. I know what will make you feel better. I brought a friend." Twilight had a tied up Angel hover over to them from the back room.

"*Gasp* Y-you let Angel go!" Fluttershy did her best to give the kidnapper 'the stare.' The demented Unicorn gave that same impossibly wide smile as before, in return. Flutter was taken back.

Twilight giggled, "Oh, Shy. I was just teasing. Guess who's turn it is for experimentation!"

Fluttershy's heart was pounding like a jackhammer.

"Fluttershy represents the element of kindness. Her cutie mark shows three butterflies. That is saying that she's kind to animals in the wild, tending to their needs. Do we all acknowledge this? Rainbow?"

"AAAAAA! Hu hu hu hu! I'm nearly done with my back legs. Soon I will walk!" Dash said throwing the severed leg bones into the pile.

"I'm so happy for you. Rarity?"

Rarity said not a word. She merely hung her head low, letting out constant quiet wails and whining, not sure how else to cope with the trauma from what was transpiring that night.

"Great!" The magic unicorn made a chef's knife materialize and held it with one hoof.

Fluttershy almost let panic get the best of her. But she regained enough composer to give Twilight the stare again. "Don't you hurt him! Let him go now, if you know what's good for you!"

With a sudden fast movement, Twilight held up the knife right in Fluttershy's terrified face. "I won't hurt him." Her magic baring horn set Fluttershy's right upper hoof free. She landed the blade's handle into that right hoof. "Would you hurt Angel? Just a stab in the heart will do. For me? Please?"

"Wha... ?... I could never harm another creature... Except you!" With such emotion, the yellow Pegasus threw the large kitchen knife towards Twilight. It grazed her left side. The sharp horned mare picked up the knife and gave herself a horizontal slash across the forehead, wearing a big smile.

"You're funny!" She bounded Fluttershy's right hoof. Putting the bunny aside, she took hold of the chef's knife and gently ran it across the yellow Pegasus' left cheek. "Do you know what I'm going to do to you if you don't kill your bunny friend?"

"I would rather die, than kill a poor helpless creature!"

"I know you would. That's why I'm going to keep you alive. If you won't kill him, then I shall break you until you do. That's the experiment. It will show us your breaking point. It will show us just how kind you really are."

Fluttershy saw the evil doctor prepare. Her eyes widened with fear as she saw the doctor setting up the implements of torture. Her heart nearly skipped a beat when she saw the display of sharp metal blades, syringes, basting bulbs, and a few other menacing objects, all neatly organized on the silver tray.

Twilight saw the fear in her eyes, "I know how sensitive you are. I don't expect that it will take much. All this can be avoided if you just kill Angel. Then I promise you a quick and painless demise."

Fluttershy just stared at the instruments that lay on the tray. Then she looked at a frightened Angel. "Ne... never!"

"Very well." Twilight Sparkle had a bit more of her favorite drink. Then she used her magic to turn on a record player. It played a lovely waltz tune, with a tempo of andantino. "Shall we dance?"

She grabbed a scalpel. "You know, you are aiding me in my research. That deserves its own cutie mark." She started cutting. The initial feeling of the knife cutting through Fluttershy's right flank was that of a sharp pinch.

"Ouch!"

But the pain increased as Twilight dug the scalpel deeper into her backside. Fluttershy gnashed her teeth and tried holding in her tears as Twilight carved a strange symbol into her. The warm blood flew out from her hurting flank. When the unicorn was done, she moved to the left side and carved out that same unknown symbol while whistling to the music.

Next, a basting bulb was used to squirt alcohol on both of the newly obtained cutie marks. Twi heard Fluttershy's shriek from the high stinging sensation. "You're crying already. And this is just the start. You're sensitive indeed. Would you like to stop the pain, before it gets to be too much?"

"HA! Th-this is, this is n-nothing!"

"Suit yourself." Twilight gripped an apple peeler, pressed it against the yellow left hind leg and peeled away. Her victim screamed and cried, while twitching and jerking her leg, as her skin sliced into long, curling, sticky strips, and fell to the floor. Soon, almost half her leg was a shiny dark red color, with red streams flowing down from it.

Twilight put the peeler back down on the tray. "Whenever you are ready Fluttershy, just let me know." Though Fluttershy was showing an expression of great pain, her face still held a look of determination. But that look became even harder to maintain as her hair was forcefully pulled back by magic, and her ears were steadily being cut off with a knife.

Twilight had both ears fall into her free hoof. She looked to Rainbow Dash, who was drenched in her own blood and vomit, with no hind legs, and with barely a left front leg. "HEY RAINBOW! YOU HUNGRY?" Twilight threw both ears towards the bloody Pegasus, hitting her face, then the ground.

Rainbow Dash was very weak. "...I won't... accept... your... help... you..." She said, right before collapsing to the floor.

Twilight was listening to the waltz music that was playing, "It's been awhile since I've heard this tune. I've forgotten how great it is." Twilight moved her body to the three-beats-per-measure rhythm. But when she turned around back to Fluttershy, she accidentally tripped over one of her dancing hoofs and fell onto fluttershy, stabbing her in the right eye with the knife she was holding.

Fluttershy naturally screamed from the sudden pain, when her eye split, and squirted out blood into Twilight's face. Twilight quickly pulled the knife out. "OH, NO! I'M SO SORRY FLUTTERSHY! I DIDN'T MEAN TO STAB YOU THERE! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAHH! AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

Poor Rarity tensed up more greatly, and loudly wept at hearing yet another loud expression of anguish from one of her dear friends.

"Okay. I got it this time." Twilight Sparkle applied pressure on Fluttershy's nose with the knife's sharp edge, and rapidly moved it up and down repeatedly. Blood oozed out as the nose was slowly being severed.

Twilight caught the nose before it hit the floor. "Dashie! Here girl!" She threw the body part at RD.

When it hit her, she barely gave an acknowledgment. "...uh...I..." Soon after, the torn Pegasus fell unconscious.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Twilight squirted the alcohol on Fluttershy's left leg, her right eye, and where her ears and nose use to be.

Fluttershy begged, "Please... *cry* Please, just let Angel go. Isn't there another way to do this experiment?"

Twilight was surprised, "Wow. You really are selfless. You still care about Angel more than yourself. Even when you're being tortured! This is going to be longer than I first imagined it to be." She brought the cart closer to her so she could have easier access to the hammer and flat cylinder glass bowl that was resting on it. In the glass bowl were very long nails and a horseshoe, submerged in alcohol to keep them sterile. With magic, Twilight held up the horseshoe to Fluttershy's left hind leg's hoof. She retrieved the hammer and one nail with her hooves. The nail's tip was placed in one of the holes of the horseshoe.

Fluttershy heard a whooshing noise through the air. With a loud thud, the nail budged a little into her hoof. The impact sent a painful vibration through Fluttershy's injured left hind leg. She could tell that the nail wasn't very sharp, because Twilight had to repeatedly swing the hammer with force to make any progress. The intense, rapid pounding sent violent shockwaves down Flutter's partially skinned leg. It burnt her with such unbearable torment. She sang a song of screams and wails that sounded throughout the whole cave. It worsened once the 15 centimeter nail finally hit a nerve. The nail was still wet with alcohol, which added to the pain.

After the nail was finally as deep in the leg's hoof as it could be, Fluttershy's tormentor placed another long nail into a second hole of the horseshoe, and hammered. Fluttershy lost all signs of confidence. She feared the worst for Angel. Would she give in to the torture, and kill the poor terrified rabbit to relieve her of her turmoil? Was it a matter of if she would cave in? Or was it a matter of when she would cave in? As these questions ran through her head, Twilight was ready for the third nail.

When about half of the nail was in the hoof and leg, Twilight was swaying her body back and forth to the music, until she couldn't stand it anymore. "I'm sorry, Fluttershy. But I've not heard this music in the longest time. This is my favorite part. I can't control myself any longer. I've gotta dance! I'll be right back." She put down the hammer and began to have more fun with the music. She stood on her two hind legs and pretended she was dancing with a partner. She was having fun. Perhaps too much fun. She lifted Applejack off the floor, did her best to straighten the body, and started to waltz with it.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy was left lying on the metal rack to suffer. Rarity watched in disgust as Twilight was dancing with the corpse. She looked at Rainbow Dash, who was lying on the ground, covered in red, with no leg, and who was probably on the verge of dying. She then glanced at Fluttershy, seeing her lying there on her table, helpless. Fluttershy glanced back. Rarity could see the sadness in her eyes. The pain and suffering. The trauma. How could this have happened? Rarity called out to the broken Pegasus, "Fluttershy... *sniff* I love you."

The Pegasus managed a weak smile as a sign of acknowledgement and appreciation.

Rarity continued, "Listen. I think... you should... kill Angel."

The yellow pony looked surprised.

"I know it sounds terrible. But, I don't see any of us making it out of here alive... *sob* You may as well relieve yourself of this suffering. PLEASE! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU LIKE THIS ANYMORE! Just a quick stab in the heart! Angel won't feel pain for long. Not like you are!"

Fluttershy understood what her white unicorn friend was saying. But she was still appalled by the idea of killing an innocent life.

Twilight overheard Rarity's shouting. She stopped dancing and turned off the music. "Hey! Rarity! Stop influencing Fluttershy's decision."

"How about you stop torturing Fluttershy, and just let us go! Please, we just want to leave."

"No can do. If I did, then what use would you serve in better understanding-"

"JUST LET US GO! FOR GOODNESS SAKE! YOU'RE SICK! YOU'RE SICK! Why won't you see that? This is not right what you are doing to us."

"..."

"Let us go, and we can set things right. We'll get you help. Then things can get back to the way-" Rarity choked. She knew things could never get back to the way it was before. Not after what already took place.

Twilight just stared at Rarity blankly. Then that blank stare slowly turned into a soft smile, with her eyes half shut. She slowly walked towards Rarity, still with that smile and partially closed eyes. Rarity breathed heavily as Twilight caressed her belly with that sharp horn. The horn went dull as it moved down Rarity's belly, as not to risk harming her. "I love your energetic mentality." Twilight said as her horn moved around the lips of Rarity's vulva. Rarity had a look of anger and surprise. Then it entered into the vagina. It made a back and forth motion, rubbing the vaginal walls. Rarity gasped. She was sweating as the motion picked up in pace.

"Stop it!" Rarity was getting wet. She sighed several times as she reached her climax. But she was far too shocked and miserable to find any enjoyment out of this. It, in fact, made her feel worse emotionally towards Twilight. She had already lost all respect for Twi. But this caused Rarity more confusion about Twilight's state of mind.

The filthy unicorn used a cloth to clean her horn. "Your warmth is so refreshing and nourishing... Right." She returned to Fluttershy, "Alright Flutter. Just ignore what Rarity said to you before." She picked up her hammer and continued where she left off.

After about ten long minutes of agonizing hoof and muscle penetration, the horseshoe was firmly in place. All seven, 15 centimeter long nails were completely inserted into Fluttershy's burning, throbbing leg. The pain for her was excruciating. Her crying and yelling were relentless. She felt that she could not go on.

She was considering Rarity's words. She looked and saw how scared Angel was... NO! She had to endure. There must be another way to get out of this terrible situation. She thought, perhaps Spike would walk in and discover what Twilight had done, and was doing. Then he would go get help. Then they would be rescued, and Twilight Sparkle would, to put it lightly, be brought to justice. Maybe this wouldn't happen. But she had to keep hoping. It was the only thing keeping her going, and, consequently, keeping Angel alive.

Next, the torture master brought out a medium sized beaker filled with a clear liquid. She held it over Fluttershy's untouched, right hind leg. Tilting the beaker, the liquid poured all over the leg. The Pegasus, already in such trauma inducing pain, felt something more agonizing than anything she, or anyone else in Ponyville for that matter, had ever experienced before. It was acid, and it was tearing her leg apart. She looked down at the horrible sight of her right hind leg slowly dissolving before her. It was first melting away her fur and skin, exposing the muscle. Then those leg muscles started painfully fading.

Her screams and tears surpassed those of Pinkie Pie's, when alcohol was dumped on her, stinging her bare organs. The torture victim's face contorted with expressions of such pain and fear, she got grey hairs and developed permanent wrinkles. Her leg bone finally melted into nothing. Twilight splashed water on Flutter's exposed muscle and bone, that resulted from the loss of her leg, to clean away any acid that may have been left. The winged pony sobbed and cried to the point where she could hardly breathe.

She heard her captor fiddling around with more instruments on the tray. "NO! NO MORE!" Fluttershy couldn't stand anymore of this, "PLEASE! I CAN NOT TAKE THIS! NO MORE! NO MORE!"

Twilight looked at her with intrigue. "I'm surprised you made it this far. I expected you to crack when your leg was being skinned. You're a fighter! I'm proud of you! But... we all have our breaking points. And it seems you have reached yours... you know what to do, right?" Twilight levitated the bunny to the front of the broken Pegasus, and the knife into the Pegasus' hoof of her now free right arm. Fluttershy's arm took position. Angel had a sad look on his face. But then he nodded at her with a look of understanding, knowing he had to die, for Fluttershy's sake. Fluttershy had tears in her eyes. Not for herself, but for her friend she was about to murder.

Angel braced himself for death. But it did not come. He saw his yellow friend lower the cutting instrument. He shook his head in disapproval. Fluttershy delivered an angry, soul piercing stare at the heartless unicorn. She threw the blade harder than she did the last time. Twilight lunged to the side, trying to avoid the chef's knife. But it sliced across her waist, leaving a huge, deep gash. "AAAHHU!"

She fell to the floor, putting pressure on her wound with both front hoofs. "Ha... hahaha... hahahaHhhAAa!" She laughed hysterically, "Heeheeheeheehee. HAHAHAhahaha!" The demented unicorn slowly stood up, still laughing, and with her front hooves on her side. With a slight struggle, she walked over to the cart where she last left her drink. She put the laboratory flask to her mouth and took a sloppy chug. Some of the liquid dripped down from her mouth. She looked at her attacker, "Heeheeheehee, you're a fighter! Do you love pain this much? I glad you've been having a great time! We'll continue this if you really want to. I'll even up the ante..." Fluttershy suddenly noticed extra restraints were put on her, around her neck, chest, and abdomen.

After patching up her wound with some bandages, and floating Angel to the ground and out of the way, she held up two syringes, from the silver tray, in one hoof, to her victim's face. Fluttershy could not imagine what was in store for her, after hearing Twilight's ominous words, 'up the ante.' She had already suffered pain she could never have perceived before.

Twilight explained, "The shot from this hypodermic needle will keep you alive and awake for what's to come." Fluttershy's heart was pounding so hard, it felt like it was going to burst out of her chest. She nearly had a heart attack from fear, in hearing her tormentor's promising words. Twilight was savoring every bit of fear. "Heh. This shot from the second hypodermic needle will heighten your sensitivity. You'll be hypersensitive!" Fluttershy's body was not far from going into shock, from terror. But Twilight gave her the first shot, which prevented that from happening. Then came the second shot. After the injection, Fluttershy started to feel things much more vividly. It became very painful. Her wounds became a lot more painful than they were before. In addition, she could feel the tiniest whooshing of air all around her, assaulting her injuries that were already greatly hurting worse than before the injection. And the smallest stretching from her breathing sent waves of anguish throughout the wounds of her body. All these newfound attacks on her body had her loudly yell and moan. But the movement from that, cause the suffering pony even more extreme discomfort.

Twilight gazed at her sternly, "Can you feel the pain, Shy?" She leaned her head down to the Pegasus' skinned leg. "Remember Shy. Even if you think it can't get any worse, it can." She inhaled a little, and gave a gentle breeze. The powerful infliction rocketed through her hind leg, inducing an unfailing wail. Twilight took hold of a soldering iron that was hooked up to a temperature-controlled soldering station."I'm sorry Fluttershy. But you made this personal with that performance you gave with the knife."

The steaming hot iron slowly moved closer to the hypersensitive yellow belly. Already, she was wailing from the tremendously hurting abdomen from the radiating heat alone. The Pegasus painfully sucked in her gut, trying to avoid being touched by the heated metal rod. There must have been gallons of sweat pouring down her face from anxiety, as the infernal iron approached. Her heart beat incredibly fast. Then the soldering iron finally made contact with her suffering underside.

Beyond intense pain ran through her tummy's nerves. The scorching device slowly rubbed against it's tender skin, causing it to steam. The hypersensitivity made the pain indescribable. Her thrashes were extreme, to the point that, had there not been any restraints around her abdomen, chest, and neck, she would have likely broken her spine or neck. Her screaming was unfailing. There were no pauses to even take in breaths. The overwhelming wailing was the only sound that could be heard in the basement laboratory during those moments. The horrible agony that the Pegasus was experiencing was evident in her facial expression. It was a contorted, terrifying grimace of distorted features of a screaming face that no one thought possible. She was hoping to pass out, or die. Something. Anything to make the pain go away. But, alas, the shot given to her was keeping her alive and awake.

In roughly seven minutes, Fluttershy's tummy was covered in severe blisters. Twilight finally stopped. Fluttershy developed wrinkles and grey hairs, making her look 40 years older. By now, she was willing to do anything to stop this madness. She had at last broke. Twilight waited for a response from her. Fluttershy so desperately wanted to tell Twilight that she was ready. But she was in such in a state of shock, all she could do was quiver uncontrollably.

"I can tell that this time you are willing to kill anyone, let alone Angel." Twilight spoke, "I'm sure of it." And she was correct. Fluttershy just could not go on. She released the yellow Pegasus' right front leg. The knife was planted into it. Angel was levitated up to her. She was struggling to move her quivering arm to stab Angel, considering the amount of shock she was in. But after about 44 seconds, she finally managed to deliver a fatal blow to the bunny's heart. Angel was no more. Twilight tossed the body to Rainbow Dash, who was probably long gone by now.

Twilight recorded her latest finding, "Now I suppose I owe you a swift demise..." The curious unicorn thought for a moment. "I know I promised you one. But science comes first. I am wondering how much pain you can take before going into a fatal shock, even with the chemicals I injected you with." The twisted science pony showed her test subject the next implement of torment that was to be used on her. It was something like a stun gun, with a dial signifying the voltage. "This device will send a low-ampage, high-voltage electrical discharge through whoever it touches. That way it will greatly reduce the danger of death, but still deliver quite a painful shock. So, if you die, I know it will be mostly because of the pure agony you will feel, and not from the electricity. Don't worry. It will be over soon, relatively."

And with that, the stun gun was turned on and applied to Fluttershy's worn out body. In no time at all, every muscle fiber reacted to the electric current. The electricity hit every pain receptor in the tortured animal's body, very hard. Music of utter anguish played aloud in the hellish chamber, as Fluttershy danced to its tune. And the screams. The haunting screams. They sounded like the screams of the damned. Fluttershy was in an almost literal living hell. The Pegasus should have died from hypoperfusion long ago. But the shot was doing it's job very well.

One and a half minutes passed, and Twilight decided to increase the power, and subsequently, the pain. By now, the poor creature looked nothing like her former self. Her entire coat and mane were grey. The body was as wrinkled as a crumbled paper bag. And her horrified face was undergoing a permanent contortion of unbelievably exaggerated features. It looked like she was being possessed. Ms Sparkle observed with intrigue, "Still alive, huh. I think the shot may be working too well!" She gradually increased the voltage. After about five long minutes of increasing pain (such an inadequate word at that point) the soul in anguish finally showed signs of her new level of suffering. The loud constant shrieks were putting too much stress on her vocal cords. They were shredding apart.

Meanwhile, an extremely traumatized Rarity watched in freakish horror as a fountain of blood shot out of her friend's throat. The yellow pony's vocal folds ripped out of her throat and flew out of her mouth, landing on the other side of the room, in a bloody mess. Fluttershy could no longer scream. Her screams were replaced by Rarity's. The cuffs holding down Fluttershy were bending from the tremendously forceful throbs of pain. The powerful jerks against the restraints put so much pressure on her body, that her leg bones and rib cage broke apart. Next, her spine cracked in several areas. And then, thankfully, mercifully, Fluttershy's neck twisted and snapped out of place, finally ending her suffering.