//------------------------------// // How Scary Can a Hospital Basement Can Be? // Story: The Mentally Unstable Wing of Ponyville Hospital // by TwistedSkittles //------------------------------// It was nearly midnight, and everypony had gone to bed. Except for a certain pink pony. Pinkie was standing behind a tree in a ninja suit. She looked behind her back at the hospital, which had closed for the night. "I have to make sure." She whispered. She placed the mask on her head, then tiptoed over to the building. She found an open window. She crawled inside and found herself in a room with two ponies in full body casts. She tiptoed into the hallway. Using the moonlight, she saw the visit room right down the hall. She walked over to it and peeked at the signs. She spotted the strange arrow. "Right and left." She whispered. She followed the directions and found herself in front of the hospital's basement door. KEEP OUT! The sign on it said. But this was where Screw Loose was. Pinkie knew it. She tried the door handle, and found that there were four more locks on the door. All were locked tight. "I knew I'd need this some day." Pinkie said as she dug through her mane and pulled out a skeleton key. She quickly unlocked the doors and crept downstairs. She came to another door, quickly unlocked it too, and the door slowly opened. Immediately the hallway gave a whole new feeling. Fear. Pinkie could hear screams behind the doors before her. She fearfully went down the hallway and looked through the different doors. Each one had a tiny window. The first one was a normal door, which had needles, medicines and different types of pills. The second was a white door. When Pinkie peeked inside, she saw it was padded. A very miserable Derpy was chained up to a chair in the middle of the room. Then nailed down chair was surrounded by mirrors, angled so that the pegasus could see only her face. "I just don't know went wrong Doctor. I don't know anymore..." She said as tears streamed down her face. "Derpy?" Pinkie said. The mare had been missing for months. "Derpy! It's me Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie cried and tried to get her attention. But the mare did not hear her, for the door was sound proof so that one could only hear from the outside. "Oh...Derpy...." Pinkie said sadly. Pinkie hung her head and continued to the next door, which was also padded. Inside was a pink earth pony with swirly white and purple hair. Her pupils were also purple, and seemed as if she was hypnotized. She had a propeller cap on, and was floating around the padded room. A nurse was constantly dragging the pony down by the leg, so that the strange mare would land violently on the floor. It looked like it hurt, even if the room was padded. "Get down here stupid ass Screwball, I have to put in your jacket!" The nurse said angrily as she would pull down Screwball again and try to get her into the straight jacket. Screwball would only frown in worry and confusion as she would escape from the nurse's hooves. It was obvious that Screwball wanted to be free. The next room had Screw Loose in it. She whimpered as a nurse whipped her. "You stupid mutt!" The nurse shouted. "This is what you get!" She shouted with another whip. Screw Loose whimpered and tried to crawl away. Pinkie couldn't bare to watch, so she moved to the next door. To her surprise, Princess Luna was in there. The door was a dark black, and inside was the Princess chained up. A metal cage was surrounding her horn, preventing her from doing any magic, and her wings were tied down. It was a dungeon. Her eyes were glazed with fear. The two ponies's eyes met, but the princess said nothing. She merely looked away as if she was pretending Pinkie wasn't there. Pinkie herself felt like crying. "I'm sorry Luna." She whimpered, knowing the princess could not hear her. Pinkie turned her head to look at the next door. She realized the screaming was coming from inside it. The door was made out of entirely metal, yet there were dents in it. "SOMEPONY HELP ME! PLEASE! SOMEPONY! ANYPONY! PLEASE! I WANT TO GO HOME!! I'LL BE GOOD!!! I PROMISE!" The voice screamed as there was pounding from inside of the door. Whoever it was, was very strong, for there were more dents as it pounded the door. As Pinkie neared the door, the screaming stopped. Pinkie hesitated for a moment, trying to imagine the monster behind the door. Then she swallowed and slowly peered inside the window, as if she was in a horror movie. There was nothing inside the room, besides more dents on the walls. Then a pair of angry red eyes. Pinkie screamed. The pair of eyes looked angrily at her, as if wanting to kill her, then Pinkie realized that they were behind the door. The monster pounded the door again, more violently this time, and Pinkie started shrieking again. But her screaming was cut short as a hoof wrapped around her mouth.