Pentagon
Security Ring 5
Love Room
Margot awoke on a cold floor that smelled like old blood and bleach. Somepony was gagging while someone else was talking.
“Oooh yes Ms. Sparkle gag and choke.”
Margot raised her head and attempted to look around. In front of her, a glowing green amorphous shape was straddling a purple alicorn with a blue striped mane and tail. The poor creature’s wings flapped weakly. Margot noticed that the alicorn’s horn was covered by some sort of greenish grey metallic cone. Finally, her mind connected what she saw with a name. Dr. Geist was choking the mess out of Princess Twilight Sparkle. Margot focused on a spell that would blast the doctor off of Twilight. A red burst of energy flew toward the doctor and knocked him into the air. He flew against a green paneled wall and lay still.
A voice filled the room. “Oooh yes, that was quite a thumping blow. If it had hit me, I would be in such pain. Oooh yes!”
Margot blinked, she was so sure she had hit Dr. Geist. The scene blurred and she saw that the wall in the background had several smoking holes.
Twilight Sparkle was still straddled by Dr. Geist then the scene blurred back to a larger room.
Dr. Geist stood up and stepped away from Twilight. “Oooh my, I have been a bit uncivil. I will fix that right away. Oooh yesss. My name is Dr. Ambrosius Geist. Oooh yess, my name might be the last name on your lips. Oooh yes!”
His voice had the sound of an uncle. Not one that Margot had, this one seemed to have malice and anger barely hidden under his seemingly friendly voice.
Jerome’s voice rang out. “Fight him, he’s in all of your heads!”
For a second, the scene blurred back to what seemed to be reality but Margot wasn’t sure.
“Oooh yes, today will be an interesting day. Sooo many enemies here. Oooh yess! Thank you, Ms. Skybreeze Cloud for the info on Empress Razorhoof. I have to say if you were planning to fight her, you are sadly outmatched. Oooh yes. You see, I was the one that taught her most of what she knows. But she is quite the resourceful type and she probably has learned some new tricks. For a rescue attempt, I must say, you’ve failed Ohhh yess!”
Margot tried to cast another spell, but she couldn’t concentrate. Her mind would just blank out. Dismay started to fill her heart, Dr. Geist had them at his mercy. She turned her head to watch the doctor walk over to Kiya who was making some sort of sculpture out of light. Curvy silver and gold objects rotated and reflected each other.
“Well now, I have to say this is aesthetically pleasing unlike the other artist thinking of clothing.”
A moment later, Rarity gave a squeak of pain.
Geist peered at the slowly turning light sculpture.
Margot was surprised when Kiya appeared out of nowhere and tried to stab Geist with a dagger.
At the last second, Geist managed to dodge the attack and twist Kiya’s left fore hoof around. The dagger hit the ground and rang like a small bell. He struck Kiya on the head and she slumped to the floor.
“Well now, I can see, um, what’s that term. Ahh yess. Shit has gotten real! Foul and deceitful changeling nag! Oooh yess, I have something for you. You know I wonder how much stress your chitin could take?” Geist lifted Kiya like she was made of feathers.
When Margot saw Geist place his glowing hands on Kiya’s stomach and neck, she felt even more dismay.
His hands started to glow a faint green color. At first, Kiya didn’t do anything, but as the hands began to glow brighter, she started to thrash around weakly.
Again, Margot tried to cast a spell, any spell but her powers of concentration would just fade away.
Kiya started groaning then her groans turned to shrieks of pain.
Margot turned her head, she knew what was going to happen next.
There was a loud CRACK and then a tearing sound. Kiya howled in pain then coughed.
Margot didn’t look back when she heard the splats of Kiya’s head and hindquarters hitting two different areas of the floor.
“Ooh yes, I can see why that cretinous horse General Trample values physical violence. It’s quite pleasurable. Don’t worry, my little pony prisoners. I will keep some of you alive. Somehow.”
Nga'Devro howled. “Nga'Devro will make sure you pay for your misdeed!”
Margot thought she heard the SHC scream something she wasn’t sure. She got up on her hooves and turned her head.
Nga'Devro was running at Geist while firing green blasts of magic.
Geist just dodged them until Nga'Devro was in melee range. Then Geist swung at Nga'Devro, but Nga'Devro dodged that attack.
“Margot, get the cellphone.”
Margot reluctantly tore her gaze from the fight to look down.
Scootaloo was crawling toward Margot just using her fore hooves. It seemed like her hind quarters weren’t working.
Scootaloo pointed to Margot’s saddlebag. “Get the cellphone now while Geist is busy.”
Margot looked in the direction that Scootaloo was pointing and saw her saddlebags. She didn’t remember taking them off. Margot walked over to her saddlebags then took a quick glance back at the fight.
What she saw made her regret taking a look. Nga'Devro got smashed in the head by Geist and lay on the floor. Margot was surprised when Nga'Devro faded away. She knew Geist was surprised too.
“Oooh yes, who was that? Ahh Jerome. Too bad, you had to place that image in my head. Ahh yess that was a great mistake for you. I probably would’ve found you a bit later. Ahh yes, my boy, you know what they say about no good deed goes unpunished.”
A wave of pain struck Margot and she collapsed to the floor. It felt like ants were swarming under her skin and biting. She thrashed her legs to get them to stop. Something touched her and the pain faded. Margot looked around and saw Scootaloo before she closed her eyes.
It took a moment before Margot remembered what she had to do. She had to get the cellphone out. Luckily, she was just a few steps away.
Jerome began to scream.
Margot reached her saddlebags and opened one. Instead of items, the inside of the bag was a yellow toothed mouth. She could smell rotten meat and worse wafting up from the bag.
Jerome screamed again, it was a pitiful fear filled sound.
Again, Margot tried to will the mouth away. She knew it was something from the doctor’s mind but the stench of the rotting meat stuck in the gnashing teeth was so real. There was no way Margot was going to stick a hoof in that. She thought she heard Apple Bloom yell something.
Now, the bag was just a bag, no teeth. With a sigh, she stuck her hoof into the bag and grabbed the cellphone. A moment later it was on the floor. The screen was cracked though, Margot wondered if it could still work.
Jerome screamed again and the bag was a mouth again. She tried to slide the cellphone across the floor to Geist but it only slid half the distance.
Suddenly green and blue magics surrounded the phone and it crossed the floor until it was next to Geist.
Margot slumped to her knees, she was so tired. While Margot watched, a black cloud streaked with silver flowed out of the phone.
Geist’s attention was on torturing Jerome, he didn’t notice the black cloud until it wrapped itself around his green glowing amorphous body. “You cretinous ponies, you brought that here! You have no idea what you have done! Oooh yess.” He started to scream and curse as the Nonliving covered him.
There was one agonized scream and they both faded from view.
The room blurred into a small room with ponies and one torn apart changeling on the floor.
Rarity and Spike got up and tottered toward Twilight Sparkle.
Margot climbed to her hooves.
Twilight tried to climb to her hooves, but then she slumped back down. Her purple eyes were unfocused.
Spike clambered on top of Twilight and reached for the cone on her horn.
Rarity tried to use her telekinesis on the cone, but it couldn’t move it. She walked up to Twilight and used her fore hooves to grab the cone and drop it on the floor. The magic-blocking cone hit the floor with a dull clunk.
Rarity crushed it with her fore hooves. “There, that foul thing won’t hurt my dear Twilight anymore. How are you now, darling?”
Margot watched as Twilight blinked a few times and wheezed.
Dismay covered Spike’s face.
Twilight faced Rarity. “Rarity? How did you get here?” Then Twilight looked around and saw Spike. “Spike? How? Wait. Are you real?”
Rarity sighed. “Yes, I’m real. I ended up on this horrible world because somepony kidnapped me.”
Spike looked at Rarity. “I was with Rarity and they took me too.”
At that moment the floor shook.
Twilight looked around and saw what was left of Kiya then she saw Nga'Devro. Her eyes narrowed. “Why are they here?”
Far stepped up to Rarity and Twilight. “Forgive me Princess but this isn’t Equestria, and a lot is different.”
Margot attempted to focus, and failed. She tried again and sensed a large vehicle filled with malice and ponies in battle armor moving toward them. “Guys, we need to prepare to fight a tank and some soldier ponies.”
Twilight faced Margot. “A water tank?”
Rarity shook her head. “No, it’s some weapon that the horrid ponies here made.”
Apple Bloom cantered to Kiya’s head.
Margot watched as a blue glow flickered on Apple Bloom’s hoof.
Apple Bloom whispered,”Please Oonte, just one more spell to cast before I sleep.” The glow steadied and she did the ritual for the two parts of Kiya.
Jerome screamed.
The floor shook harder. Bits of grey plaster fell from the ceiling. Rarity bitched about the stinking plaster messing up her mane and tail.
Margot wanted to stand up and fight the tanks and soldiers, but she was so tired.
Far looked around, other than one grey metal chair there was no cover.
Skybreeze pointed to a glowing blue portal that just appeared.
Margot looked at the gate and pulled herself to her hooves. Her legs wobbled from exhaustion.
Far looked at Twilight. “Princess, there’s our ticket home.”
Twilight looked at the glowing gate. “How do you know?”
Spike shrugged. “Anywhere gotta be better than here.”
Rarity smiled. “I agree. I for one would be glad to be free of this terrible world.”
Margot looked at Jerome. He looked back at her with brown eyes filled with panic. She managed to knock him out with a stun spell. It was the best she could do.
Skybreeze nodded and used her telekinesis to carry Jerome. She went first into the gate followed by Margot and Nga'Devro. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom limped into the gate.
Twilight and Spike entered the gate followed by Far and Rarity. Sweetie Belle took one last look before stumbling through.
By the time the battle tank blew through the wall, the room was empty except for Kiya’s mangled body.