Nightmare Night

by Dreadnought


Chapter 26: Sacrifice

Twilight furiously ran a hacksaw across the chain that shackled her back hoof to the pipe.

"It's not working!" cried Starlight, who was working on her own chain that bound her back hoof.

"We have to keep trying. If we don't, Jigsaw will kill our families."

The two kept at it, watching the clock on the wall count down.

"We're not going to make it," said Starlight.

"We have to keep going. Jigsaw wouldn't have given us this saw unless we could escape." The saw in her magical telekensis slowed then stopped.

"What?" asked Starlight, stopping her sawing as she looked over at the alicorn.

"There is a way to escape." Twilight levitated the saw to her hoof.

"No Twilight!" cried Starlight.

"It's the only way!" insisted Twilight. She placed the rusty blade firmly against her hoof. She took a deep breath. Taking one last look, she closed her eyes and grimaced....

"Wait!" cried Starlight.

Not opening her eyes, Twilight reiterated, "It's the only way."

"Why don't we just teleport?"

Twilight's eyes popped open. She looked over at Starlight, who stared back. Twilight felt an intense pain as her free hoof found her face.