Here we are:

Violet Supernova, an original OC by me! And she will be hanging around with us!

Back to the chapter! It may actually warrant me to bump up the rating, but we'll see.

Enjoy!

Violet was visibly shaking now. I genuinely feel bad for her.

"And Round 1 is...!", the Quiz Master exclaimed.

The letters on the jumbo-tron were whizzing by randomly, waiting to settle. When they did I almost laughed at my luck.

"Science!", my forte!

~Just sit back Proton. Atom's got this.~

+They may as well just ask him nothing.+

The spotlight swung around once more to the pegasus mare: Summer Breeze.

"Summer.", the Quiz Master was holding a card that must have the question, "In chemistry, what is an electrolyte?"

The clock behind the Quiz Master began to turn counting down the 15 seconds Summer had to answer. 5 gone.

"The substance that is broken down during electrolysis.", Summer said with some confidence.

A pause. "That is correct!", the mare let out the breath she'd pent up in a heavy sigh.

The spotlight moved onto the next victim. "Rubble. In terms of hydrogen atoms, what is the difference between an alkene and alkane?"

The earth pony looked dumbfounded. He didn't have a clue. 5 seconds to go. With a frantic cry he hit the "Pass" button. The spotlight slid over to Violet who was still quaking.

"Alkanes are saturated hydrocarbons and alkenes are unsaturated hydrocarbons.", when she answered her voice seemed as fragile as ice.

"That's absolutely correct!", Violet, let out a shaky breath visibly sagging with relief.

Then it was my turn.

"Atom.", this'll be easy.

+Don't be over confident.+

~It never turns out well in the movies.~

"What is the difference between ionic and covalent bonding?", done deal.

"Ionic is the gaining and losing of electrons and covalent is the sharing of electrons.", I answered without so much as a pause.

"Amazing! That's the perfect answer!"

Dark passed his question without a hitch. The next round was Equestrian History. Everypony passed through, but Violet used her "Second Chance", and Summer used her "Pass".

Round 3 was on Music.

Another of my favorites, but everypony else seemed to struggle. And Rubble got a question wrong.

The Quiz Master shook his head gently, "I'm sorry Rubble, but that's incorrect."

"Oh, fuck. Well at least I get out of these shackles.", something clicked and began to whir above him.

"Oh, nonononononono, No! When you get a question wrong you're out. And I mean out, out.", he gestured up and I blanched at the sight.

Slowly drifting down from above was a massive circular saw, timber-mill size, whirring and spinning, descending to the trapped earth pony below.

"What the fuck are you doing?!", I exclaimed.

"Now, now Atom. You're on television and it's not your turn!", he flipped the switch on his console again sending the current through my shackles, and into me, causing my muscles to contract. And not to mention the pain!

When I pulled myself back up, I dared to look over at Rubble. As soon as I did the saw descended the last few centimeters and ripped into the earth pony's back. He screeched and blood began to splatter Violet, who had turned grey, from her usual crimson.

The saw moved forward and Rubble screams raised in pitch as the saw began to cut into the back of his head. Behind him Summer turned away and threw up violently. Finally Rubble's screams stopped as the saw implanted itself in his brain. The saw jerked back and disappeared into the ceiling. Rubble's podium began to sink into the stage, taking the mutilated corpse with it.

I've seen my fair share of gore working for the Army, but fuck me that was rattling.

~Oh Celestia, that's going to haunt me...~

+Can't we erase the memory?+

~You know damn well we can't!~

I swayed slightly at the sight of the stallion's corpse, on the verge of fainting.

"And now we're left with 4!", the Quiz Master announced, still with that smile set on his face, "Let's see what we have next!"

The gold letters flew by again until they settled on "Food". Oh crap, not something I'm great at, standard, let alone being threatened with death if I'm wrong!

~It's ok. Proton's been secretly reading recipe books and cooking crap since the last time you set fire to the Cornflakes and almost the whole house.~

+Seems it comes in handy...and how did you set fire to the Cornflakes anyway? Surely there's a law of physics that prevents spontaneous combustion of cer-+

Proton was cut off and dropped to the ground moments later.

~HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE FANCY WORDS?!~

/ You know he's out cold and can't hear you right? \

~I'm venting. Sue me. I have one badass lawyer.~

/ What? You're my conscience how do you have a lawyer? \

~Well, I force him into it and he's called Proton.~

/ I see... \

"Ok! So the question goes to you Atom! Which of these vegetables has seeds? A chili or a tomato?", Violet had used her "Pass" leaving the question for me to answer.

Tomato it had to be! I've eaten enough of them. I opened my mouth to speak, but control suddenly shifted from my body and instead of forming the word "tomato" the word that left my mouth was,

"Chili."

/ CYCLONE!!!! \

~Dude, Proton wouldn't shut up about how a tomato is a fruit. It was a trick question.~

I pondered his words. Damn that was sneaky.

"Correct!"

Dark had to use his "Toss of the Coin" for his question and then we moved onto the "Maths" round. Great. Every Maths lesson I ever had was always too early and therefore I barely payed attention. [That's one of my current predicaments.]

"Summer. Divide 30 by half and add 10. What do you get?"

The mare smiled confidently.

+She's fallen for it.+

/ What are you talking about? \

+If you divide 30 by HALF, he means the fraction. There are 60 halves in 30 so the answer is 70.+

"25!", Summer said.

A long pause. The Quiz Master let out a small sigh, "I'm sorry, but that's incorrect."

Summer's face ghosted.

The Quiz Master pressed a button on the console and mechanical gears could be heard as a hatch above Summer opened.

A single drop of something landed on her. It sizzled and began to burn through her.

+Battery acid.+

/ Oh, dear Celestia! \

A rush of acid poured down on top of the unsuspecting pegasus. Her screams quickly became gargled and the liquid stopped, leaving a bare skeleton which quickly crumbled against the podium, that began to sink into the stage.

Violet's head span round, and the Quiz Master shocked her to stop her from passing out.

"And we are down to our final 3 contestants: Violet Supernova, Atomic Vortex and Dark Lightning! Here we move onto the final round. Unlucky Dip! In this round there are no lifelines what so ever! So good luck, and let's begin!"

Violet seemed to freeze as the Quiz Master pulled the question card out.

"A man rides into town on Friday. He leaves 3 days later on Friday. How?"

The unicorn mare blinked. Surely this was impossible.

The clock was going down. 10 seconds left. 5. 4. 3. 2...

"The horse's name is Friday!", I looked over at Dark. He'd spoken in Violet's place.

The Quiz Master seemed surprised. But then a scowl appeared at his face, "It's not your turn! You were correct but I cannot allow this.", he flipped the cover of a switch off.

~+NO!!!+~

The Quiz Master stabbed a hoof down on the button...

Cliffhanger because I'm a bitch!

I leave you guys to it and I'll see you next time!

See ya!