Worried that if the hoofies fell off of his hooves he would turn into a kitten, Gold Watch tightened the laces on them. At the same time, Rumble was walking in circles.
"I can't believe we still have three rounds left and we already lost two of our friends," he said. "We also had to turn Button's mother into a cat to save Dinky and to reunite her with her son."
"A lot of lives are being ruined," Diamond said. "But we can't let the rest of us go down."
"Button's dare was to smash his mother's head with a hammer," Rumble responded. "He didn't do the dare, so he had to pay the price. He's living on the streets with his mother for the rest of his life! This game is only going to get worse."
All of a sudden, the front door ended up being carved a message done by an invisible force. It read, 'Round 3'. The fireplace then lit up, the grandfather clock chimed once, and a message above the fireplace read, 'Stand on the fire for five seconds'.
"See what I mean?!" Rumble exclaimed. "I have to get burned for five seconds and I have less than a minute to do that."
He walked to the fireplace and prepared to step into the fire. The other colts and fillies looked at him frantically. Gold Watch ran to the kitchen, pulled out a bucket that he found in one of the cabinets, and filled it up with water.
"Don't worry, Rumble," he said. "The moment you finish, I'll pour water water all over you to douse the flames.
Rumble looked up to him and smiled.
"Thanks, Gold Watch," he responded. "You're a great friend to me."
"Thanks, Rumble," Gold Watch responded.
Rumble walked into the lit fireplace. The moment his hooves touched the flames, he screamed. At the same time, the TV showed the number five and decreased by one as each second passed.
"Rumble!" Dinky called out.
Four...
"Ah, my fur!" Rumble shouted.
Three...
"My tail!"
Two...
"My mane!"
One...
"How much longer?!"
Dare complete!
The fireplace instantly shut off and Rumble ran out of it covered in flames. Gold Watch poured the bucket of water all over Rumble, instantly putting out the flames.
"Thanks," Rumble gasped. He walked to a mirror and saw that most of his mane and tail were burned off and his fur had bald spots. "Thunderlane is going to kill me when I get home!"
"No, he won't," Gold Watch said. "He'll understand. We'll take Miss Cheerilee and your article and it'll sort things out."
"O-okay..." Rumble said worriedly.
The rest of the foals made a sigh of relief. But the relief didn't last long, as the voice sounded a few seconds afterwards.
"Hit yourself in the head with a plate..." the voice hissed.
All of a sudden, a porcelain plate appeared on the coffee table.
"One minute..." the voice continued.
Diamond picked up the plate, held it above her head, and sighed.
"This is going to hurt real bad," she said.
With one quick swing, she smashed the plate onto her head, causing the plate to shatter to pieces. Diamond screamed in agony as some of the plate shards had impaled her face.
"Diamond!" Pipsqueak called out. "You're bleeding!"
"Here," Gold Watch said frantically as he pulled out a wet washcloth in the bathroom and used it to carefully remove the plate shards.
"Ow!" Diamond yelped as her brother pulled one of the shards out of her cheek.
"Sorry!" Gold Watch cried.
It took about five minutes to get all of the shards off of her and to bandage each wound.
"I'm so sorry!" Gold Watch cried.
"It's okay," Diamond groaned. "I'll be fine."
"Why do we have to do this?" Rumble asked himself. "What did we do to deserve this?!"
"I don't think we did anything wrong," Pipsqueak answered. "We walked into this haunted house and now we have to play the game to get out of it."
"But we already lost two of our friends and I don't want to lose you," Dinky cried as she hugged Pipsqueak.
"There, there," Pipsqueak responded. "We'll get out of this one way or another."
Without warning, the ceiling began to ooze moss. Within a few seconds one of the floorboards fell off. When it hit the ground, the group saw a message that read, 'Push Pipsqueak down the staircase'.
"WHAT?!" Dinky screamed. "I can't do that!"
The grandfather clock chimed twice.
"You have to," Pipsqueak said as he walked upstairs. "You only have two minutes."
Dinky stood on the floor paralyzed in fear.
"I can't do it!" she cried.
"Please, you have to do it!" Pipsqueak called out.
"But you could break your neck from falling down the stairs!" Dinky cried.
"Just push me lightly," Pipsqueak responded. "I'll only fall a few steps."
All of a sudden, something was supernaturally carved on the floorboard. Rumble picked the board up and showed it to Dinky. The message said, 'Pipsqueak must fall all the way downstairs'.
"What?!" Dinky shouted.
"Please," Pipsqueak said. "I don't want anything bad to happen to you."
"O-okay..." Dinky said nervously.
She walked upstairs and then went behind Pipsqueak.
"Hurry!" Pipsqueak cried. "You're running out of time!"
Dinky looked at Pipsqueak and then at the staircase. She took a few breaths and then approached towards Pipsqueak. Before she could push him though, she stopped.
"I won't do it," Dinky said. "I will never hurt Pipsqueak!"
"Time's up..." the voice hissed.
Dinky closed her eyes and then grabbed her chest. Within just a few seconds, she reopened her eyes and then collapsed to the ground. Pipsqueak picked her up and watched as Dinky was turning into a cat, while the rest of the foals ran upstairs to see what was happening.
"Dinky, why?" Pipsqueak cried as Dinky's ears became cat ears.
"I would never let anything happen to you," Dinky groaned as whiskers began to grow on her cheeks and her muzzle and nose reshaped into that of a cat's. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay," Pipsqueak sobbed as Dinky's nose and mouth fused together and she grew fangs. "I'll take care of you no matter what."
"Oh thanks, Pip," Dinky sobbed as her hooves turned into paws. She then screamed as her back and legs snapped and her legs reshaped into what a cat's look like.
"Dinky!" Pipsqueak screamed.
Dinky then shrank until she was the size of a kitten.
"I'll love you no matter what," she gasped. She then coughed a few times and then took a deep breath. "Meow."
"Dinky, please change back!" Pipsqueak sobbed. "I love you! NO!"
Rumble walked up to him and placed his hoof on Pipsqueak's shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Pip," he told him sadly. "I'm very, very, sorry!"
"Why, WHY?!" Pipsqueak cried. "She's my fillyfriend!"
As he was crying, Twist walked up to him and brought some device to him.
"What is it?" Pipsqueak asked as he was still sobbing.
"It's an animal-translating device," Twist responded. "It will help you understand other animals. Fluttershy gave it to me."
"Thanks, Twist," Pipsqueak said happily as he accepted the device. He then placed it near Dinky. "Dinky, can you hear me?"
"Meow, meow, meow," Dinky answered. "Meow, meow, meow!"
Pipsqueak listened to what Dinky had just told him using the device.
"Pip, don't give up," she said. "I'll always be there for you!"
Pipsqueak wiped his tears off of his face and looked at Dinky with determination.
"You're right, Dinky," he said as he handed the animal-translating device back to Twist. "I must stay strong! No, we must stay strong!"
"That's the spirit, Pip!" Rumble said excitedly.
Out of nowhere, the voice returned.
"Be pushed down the staircase..." it hissed. "One minute..."
The grandfather then chimed once.
"WHAT?!" Pipsqueak shouted. "Dinky Hooves gave up her life as a pony for nothing?!"
"Never mind that," Rumble said. "Pip, you have to do this!"
"I'm going downstairs to make sure that you make it," Gold Watch said as he ran down the staircase.
"Pip, I'm sorry, but..." Rumble began.
He then pushed Pipsqueak down the stairs, causing him to scream as he fell. When he landed at the bottom of the stairs, Gold Watch tried to help him up, only to be rewarded with a scream.
"Ow!" Pipsqueak yelp. "Don't touch my leg! It hurts!"
Gold Watch looked at Pipsqueak's foreleg and saw that it was twisted.
"Oh no," he said in horror. "You're foreleg's broken! You need to go to the hospital!"
"I'll take him," Diamond said. "My turn comes right before Pipsqueak's. I'll be back as soon as possible."
Diamond picked Pipsqueak up and placed him on his back. She then opened the front door and galloped away. The rest of the foals walked downstairs feeling very sad.
"I really want to go home!" Gold Watch cried.
"Me too!" Twist cried.
"We have to finish the game," Rumble said. "If we don't, we'll be cats for the rest of our lives. Our futures will be ruined."
"Three lives have already been ruined," Gold Watch sobbed. "Besides, you broke Pip's foreleg!"
"I didn't think that would happen," Rumble said angrily. "I was just trying to prevent him from spending the rest of his life as a cat."
"I don't know how much longer I can take this," Gold Watch said as he shivered.
"We can't just give up," Rumble responded. "You heard what Dinky told us. We can't do that!"
"I know, I know," Gold Watch responded as he breathed heavily.
As the foals made it downstairs, the chandelier fell to the ground and shattered into a million pieces. The foals jumped in shock and then looked at the shattered chandelier. A message was made by the glass that said, 'Down the laxative bottle'. The grandfather then chimed three times. Twist walked up and saw a small bottle that read, 'Laxative'.
"What?!" Twist shouted. "I have to drink all of that?!"
"No, we'll help you," Rumble said.
"We'll each drink a third of it," Gold Watch said. He took the bottle of laxatives, walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and pulled out a plastic milk bottle. He then poured the carton into three glasses and then poured a third of the laxatives in each glass. He then stirred the glasses until the laxatives looked like they were mixed in. Rumble and Twist walked into the kitchen.
"Okay, we each have to drink our glasses," Gold Watch explained. "It'll make us have to defecate, but we'll have enough time to get to the bathroom afterwards. Each foal picked up a glass. "On the count of three, ready? One...two...three!"
They all drank their glasses in just a few sips.
"There, the dare is done," Gold Watch said.
"Wow, that was too easy," Rumble proudly said. "See everypony, we can all get out of this. Just eleven more dares and we'll be--"
All of a sudden, Rumble stopped talking and grabbed in his stomach.
"Rumble, are you--" Twist began, but stopped when she felt her stomach hurting.
"Guys, it's--" Gold Watch began, but stopped when he felt his stomach hurting. "I got to get to a bathroom!"
The foals ran as fast as they could to get to a bathroom. Rumble managed to make it to the bathroom on the first floor, while Twist made it to the bathroom on the second floor. Gold Watch, on the other hand, couldn't find an open bathroom.
"Hurry, I need to--" he began, but stopped when his bowels broke out, causing him to defecate all over the floor. Some of the feces splattered onto his dress. He screamed in horror and then started crying.
"No!" he screamed. "I'm not a baby! I haven't had an accident since I was three!"
Without warning, the voice sounded.
"Eat your feces..." it hissed. "Four minutes..."
"WHAT?!" Gold Watch screamed. "THAT'S DISGUSTING! GUYS, I NEED HELP! IT'S AN EMERGENCY! I HAVE TO EAT MY OWN POOP!"
All he could hear was Rumble and Twist groaning in the bathroom. The lights in the living began to flicker.
"Oh, come on!" Gold Watch shouted. "I have to eat all of it?!"
He began sobbing and then looked at his waste.
"I'm never going to have an appetite after I eat all of this," Gold Watch said nervously and nauseously.
He then plugged his nose, scooped some of the feces using his hoof, and shoved it into his mouth. He quickly swallowed it and then gagged. After a few seconds of doing that, he continued eating the feces. The more he ate, the more pale has face became. After seven more scoops, he finished eating it and the lights stopped flickering. He gasped several times and then ran to the sink and threw up. Afterwards, Rumble opened the bathroom door and walked out. Gold Watch quickly ran into to the bathroom to get cleaned up. After closing the door, he saw another dress and saw a note on it, 'Change into this dress once you're finished cleaning up'. Gold Watch sighed in relief as he ripped off the dress, bow, and hoofies and threw them in the trash. He then wiped himself clean, flushed the toilet, washed his mouth, and then took a shower. Once he was sure that we was completely clean, he got out of the shower, dried up, and put on the dress, hoofies, and bow that he was instructed to put on afterwards. Happy that all was fixed, he walked out of the bathroom.
"I feel a lot better now," he said nauseously.
"Just two more rounds," Rumble said with encouragement. "We're getting close to finishing."
"I hope," Gold Watch said nervously as he began hyperventilating. Despite completely cleaning himself up, he was still very pale. "But right now, I'm a little bit more worried about what is happening to Diamond Tiara and Pipsqueak. What if the game gets to them first?"
"I really hope that they make it," Twist said in a concerned tone. "I don't know what I'd do without them."
"Me neither," Gold Watch responded.