This couldn't be the end. It just couldn't be. Rainbow watched as Pinkie slowly drew closer. She looked over at her left hoof and noticed something. The bonds on her left hoof were...loosening. She couldn't believe it! Pinkie was close now. Rainbow focused all of her strength into her left hoof. She shook it violently and repeatedly. Pinkie knelt down and aimed the scalpel at Rainbow's right cutie mark. Rainbow gave one last tug and the rope broke loose.

"What?!" exclaimed a shocked Pinkie. Rainbow grabbed the loose rope and brought it down on Pinkie. The rope slashed Pinkie across the face and she dropped the scalpel onto the floor. As Pinkie tried to regain her senses, Rainbow managed to break off the other bonds. The last bond she broke was the one around her torso. She jumped down from the metal slab and ran for the exit. "Dashie! Come back!"

Rainbow didn't turn around to see if Pinkie was following her. She needed to get out of there. She ran down a hallway leading out of the room and eventually found herself running into a wooden dead end. She looked back and could see Pinkie's shadow at the end of the hallway.

"Stay away from me! You're not going to kill me!" Rainbow called. She pounded on the wooden wall and it slid to the left. Rainbow ran through the new opening to find herself in the basement of Sugar Cube Corner. She looked back and saw that the hallway leading into Pinkie's torture chamber was hidden behind a moveable bookcase. Rainbow turned away from the hallway and ran up the stairs. She burst through the doorway that lead out into the main shop. "Mr. and Mrs. Cake?! Are you here?!"

Nopony answered. Rainbow looked around. She could hear Pinkie's voice echoing from down in the basement.

"Dashie! Come back! I haven't gotten a chance to play with you yet!" she called. Rainbow quickly closed the basement door and slid a heavy table in front of it. Pinkie wasn't going to be getting out of there for a while. She needed to tell somepony. But who? Twilight. Twilight had connections to the Princess! If the Princess found out about this then Pinkie would be caught and arrested by morning! It was her best shot. Besides, it's not like Pinkie was going anywhere. Rainbow ran for the exit of the shop and ran through it.

Night had definitely fallen over Ponyville and now there were hardly any ponies outside. Rainbow ran down the road and towards Twilight's house. She tried to fly but, for some reason, she couldn't. She rounded a bend and saw Applejack walking calmly down the road. The earth pony looked up to see her pegasus friend running down the road, a look of horror on her face.

"Hey Rainbow!" she called. "What's the matter?"

"Sorry but I can't talk right now, Applejack!" Rainbow replied as tears slowly rolled down her face. Rainbow ran past Applejack and, for a second, Applejack's right hoof brushed against Rainbow's right wing. Applejack stood there, dazed and confused, as her cyan friend disappeared into the darkness.

Rainbow soon arrived at Twilight's house and began banging on the door.

"Twilight! Twilight! Let me in!" she called. The door slowly opened and Rainbow rushed inside. The pony who had opened the door stepped aside and turned on the light. "Listen, Twilight! I know this is going to sound crazy but Pinkie Pie-"

"Is a total psychopath who kills ponies and turns them into cupcakes?" responded a familiar voice. Rainbow turned around and gasped for standing by the door was not Twilight but Gilda!

"G...Gilda?"

"In the flesh."

"But...but how?! How can you be alive?! I saw your head plastered on the wall of that...that horrible room!"

"That's just it, Dash. I'm not alive. Pinkie killed me. She caught me while I was leaving Ponyville and she drugged me. Once I woke up she spent the next hour and a half tearing me apart and causing me so much pain that I was practically begging for death. Eventually...she finally killed me. You know those cupcakes that you had at your party several months ago? I was in them."

"But...but how can you be dead and standing right here?!"

"Haven't you put two and two together yet, Dash?!"

"What...what are you talking about?"

"Dash, you never escaped the basement."

"What?"

"That one rope never came loose."

"No."

"Pinkie tore your cutie marks off."

"No."

"She tore your wings off."

"No!"

"She cut you up, disemboweled you, and tore you apart like a piece of meat."

"NO! IT CAN'T BE TRUE! I'M ALIVE! I KNOW I'M ALIVE!"

"If you don't believe me...then look for yourself."

Rainbow turned around and saw that she was no longer in the library. She and Gilda were now standing in the middle of Pinkie's death chamber. The metal slab that Rainbow had been tied to was covered in a sea of blood. The tub below the slab was full to the brim with various bodily fluids. The medical bag on the table was full of fresh, bloody organs and the knives and needles on the table were covered with fresh blood. She looked over in the corner of the room to see Pinkie Pie sewing something together. She was covered in lots of blood and was still wearing her skin dress. Rainbow slowly approached the pony to see what she was sewing.

"Just a few more stitches," she said. Gilda walked up next to Rainbow and put one of her claws on one of Rainbow's hooves. "And...perfect! There you are, Dashie! Good as new!"

Rainbow screamed at the sight of what she saw. Pinkie stood up, revealing that what she had been sewing together was the mutilated corpse of Rainbow herself! The skin, eyes, and hair had been sewn back together, stuffed with teddy bear stuffing, and had been cleaned off. The dummy Rainbow Dash's face was also forced into an overly happy smile. Pinkie hugged the Rainbow dummy and kissed it on the cheek.

"Now we can be together forever, Dashie!" she cooed. Tears began rolling down Rainbow's face at the sight of her corpse-turned-taxidermy toy. Gilda turned towards Rainbow Dash and sighed.

"I'm...I'm sorry, Dash. It seems that even you weren't able to escape from Pinkie's madness," she sighed. Rainbow backed up, a river of tears flowing down her face.

"NO!" she cried. "NO! NO PINKIE NO! YOU'VE KILLED ME, PINKIE PIE! YOU'VE KILLED ME! NNNNNNOOOOOO!"

Rainbow continued to shed tears and scream in horror as she and Gilda disappeared from this world and flew off to the endless land of the dead.