"Wake up! WAKE UP!" A harsh voice yells out
Bucephalus slowly opened up his eyes to a dimly lit room. His whole body ached, there was a large bump on his head as well. When the griffons knocked him out, could they ever be more gentle next time? His body was chained to a metal chair, obviously meant to hold the gigantic pony's weight.
Bucephalus raised his head a bit to see the figure more closely. Standing before him was griffon looking him over.
"Ah... so we've caught ourselves some ponies. Normally we would hang you by your entrails, but perhaps you have information we need." The griffon said is a mocking tone.
Bucephalus looked behind the griffon and saw that Spike Tail was being tortured by the griffons, electrocution was a favorite torture method that griffons used to extract information... or for fun.
"Now … if you tell us what you know." The griffon said rolling out a map. "We'll make your death painless. Ha ha hehee." The griffon finished with a laugh.
Bucephalus looked down at the map and saw that it was a crude map of Stalliongrad. It appeared as though the griffons did not know every nook and cranny of the city.
"Perhaps some civilians survived the various massacres and attrocities committed by these bastards." Bucephalus thought as he looked at the map.
"Well? Where are the resistance hiding? Do not make me ask again!" The griffon yelled at Bucephalus.
"You're getting nothing out of me." Bucephalus yelled
"That's... where you're wrong … PONY!" The griffon interrogator yelled. Turning towards the other griffon in the room, the griffon merely said: "Up the voltage."
Taking that as his cue, the griffon torturer increased the electricity's voltage that was giving Spike Tail pain. "WRAGGGHH!" Spike Tail screams as the electricity hurts his body. "Don't tell them a bucking thing! ARGHHAH!" Spike Tail Screams
The griffon interrogating Bucephalus begins laughing. "Hahahaha! Stupid pony... Now, you the big one. You don not have to suffer his fate. Just tell us what we want to know and you will be spared."
Bucephalus looked back down at the crude map, and looked back at the griffon.
"BUCK! YOU! Griffon piece of shit!" Bucephalus yells in defiance of the griffon
The griffon spat in the face of Bucephalus, and grabbed his knife. "Poor choice." The griffon said before sticking the knife in Bucephalus' eye.
'WRAGGGGH!" Bucephalus screams as the sharp metal enters his eye. Bucephalus struggled and kicked as the griffon continued to dig his knife into the stallion's left eye socket. As the griffon pulls the knife out, out comes Bucephalus' eye as well.
"Not so tough now? Get this piece of shit out of my sight." The griffon says as he wipes the blood off his knife.
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"Ragggh" Bucephalus moans as the pain of losing his eye was too much to bear. Looking up, he could see he was being dragged to a jail cell.
"Is that you Bucephalus?" Dead Aim asks getting up. "Guess we're in a quite of a predicament."
Bucephalus looked over at Dead Aim who was also looking at him.
"Oh sweet Celestia!" Dead Aim yells. "Your eye! My Celestia!"
"BUCK!" Bucephalus yelled covering the empty eye socket. "It aches!"
Meanwhile, back in the Interrogation Room, the griffons are still interrogating Spike Tail. Still plugged into the machine, the griffons continued to electrocute Spike Tail.
"AGGGHH!" Spike Tail yells as the electricity continues to run through his body.
"You can end this suffering you know, pony. Tell us the positions of your friends are and you can live." The griffons were at this time very annoyed, spending hours of time interrogating these prisoners.
"Buck you! Griffon shit! Go back to your griffon whore mother!" Spike Tail yelled spitting in the griffon's face.
"RAGH!" The griffon in a rage, grabbed Spike Tail by the throat. Using his sharp eagle talon, the griffon slashes the jugular veins of Spike Tail. After being drained of every ounce of blood, Spike Tail lays dead.
"Get this piece of shit out of here!" The griffon yells before storming off.
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Back in the base across the river by Stalliongrad, several of the officers were busy getting drunk.
"I'm glad I am not one of those dirty earth ponies." Golden Hide, a unicorn officer in charge of taking back Stalliongrad laughs. "I mean, who wants to crawl through the mud and dirt all day getting shot at."
"Gentle colts, here's to birth order!" The officer says raising a glass of wine.
A messenger pony runs into the room, accidentally knocking into the standing officer, spilling his wine.
"You better have a good reason for spilling my wine all over my new uniform commoner!" the officer yells.
"Uh sir! Sir! There's a messenger from the Griffon Empire, he wishes to to speak to you." The messenger says.
"Get me a new uniform, I will see to it. The griffons have come to negotiate, perhaps we can settle a deal... of sorts. Gentle colts, I'm afraid we must call this... meeting over. Good night everyone."
The officer walks out, onto the camp site into another tent. There he saw a griffon standing before him.
"Drinking wine again, Golden Hide? Hahaha. Now then off to business." The griffon messenger says before handing Golden Hide a bag of gold.
"As per our... agreement. Now, we've captured a few ponies who refuse to talk. They simply have too much willpower and patriotism to betray their country."
"Noble ponies, but idiots I also add. Futile efforts at best. You know it, I know it, Equestria is a sinking ship." Golden Crown says while inspecting the gold's quality. "Taken straight out of Stalliongrad's bank? I like that Eagle Talon." Golden Crown says to the Griffon, Eagle Talon.
"Their refusal to give such information is quite... detrimental to our efforts, Golden Crown." Eagle Talon says while sharping his claws on a piece of armor.
"The earth ponies are an unsophisticated bunch, and lack proper breeding. Nevertheless they are as stubborn as mules. But their lacking in brains is why they die by the hundreds." Golden Crown says as he continues counting the pieces.
"And not due to you and your officer's treachery by selling them out?" Eagle Talon says with a laugh.
"Not at all my griffon friend." Golden Crown says as he puts down the bag of gold.
"Now with these bits, I might ask, what do you want me to order? Another suicide charge? Refuse reinforcements for trapped units? A patrol straight into a trap? Another boat load across the river where your cannons lay? Enough of these bits, and the road to Canterlot is yours." Golden Crown said taking a sip of wine.
The griffon merely laughed at what the corrupt pony said. "Nono, at this time the griffons are ready to ovverrun Stalliongrad, but the resistance fighters within the city are causing us problems."
Eagle Talon pulled out a crude map of the city. "As you can see Golden Crown, our intel on this grand city is quite... limited. The ponies we captured refuse to talk and listen to reason as you have."
"What will you have me do?" Golden Crown says flipping a gold coin from the bag.
"Provide us with intel on the whole city, and we can finally begin invading lower Equestria... and Canterlot." Eagle Talon said rolling up the parchment.
"That I can do my griffon friend... for the right price." Golden Crown said with a smile. "Now do you prefer red wine or white wine?"
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Back in the Griffon's prison cells, Bucephalus and Dead Aim continue to lay. The two stallions have been in the prisons for two long. However, both ponies knew they were still in Stalliongrad as the occasional sound of fighting was heard.
"Stay alive! Sargent!" Dead Aim says to Bucephalus who was growing weaker by the day.
Two griffon guards were patrolling the grounds, until they heard a noise. "Who's there? Show yourselves- AGH!" The griffon's words are cut off as a crossbow goes through his chest.
Back in the jail cell, Bucephalus and Dead Aim listened as the resistance fighters continued to kill griffons.
"WOO! Kill all of those buckers!" Dead Aim yells.
"Click" The metal bars unlock and are pulled to the side.
Dead Aim looks over to see several ponies armed with crossbows.
"We got two here!" a pony resistance fighter yells.
"He's wounded!" Dead Aim yells pointing to Bucephalus who had passed out from the pain. "The bastards took his eye! What are you standing there for GET A MEDIC!"
The ponies get Dead Aim to his hooves and picked up Bucephalus as well.
"Do not worry my friend!" A resistance pony says to the unconscious Bucephalus. "You will be all right!"
The Ponies traveled through the corridors to make it out of the Griffon's prison camp. Under the cover of night, they return to the resistance's headquarters.