Everything worked perfectly according to plan. John, Tyler, Billy and the rest of the group watched the live video feed of Pinkie Pie's test. John took several mental notes on how the ponies reacted to pain. He watched her try desperatlely to free herself from his deadly creation. Pity, he really hoped she would have survived. Oh well, it was nice knowing the unfourtunate mare. Before the explosives could obliterate her a purple flash erupted infront of the camera. John watched a purple aura surround the pony. John watched with awe, seeing her bleeding form lift out from her death trap.
"That purple unicorn cheated!" Billy was filled with a searing rage, he wanted so badly to see some guts fly everywhere today.
"Relax my puppet, I have a backup plan." John picked up a remote and put on a headset.
"Pinkie, are you okay?" Twilight ran up to her friend and tried to comfort her. "Quick, we have to get her to the hospital!" The new equestrian princess brought her beaten friend to her hooves.
"Twi-Twilight?"
"Yes, Pinkie?" She looked at her friend with at her with a sad smile.
"Am I a bad pony?" Twilight was quiet taken back.
"Pinkie, why would you think that? You're the nicest pony I know."
"Why did that thing take me then?"
"Because you do not see the true value of life." Both Pinkie and Twilight turned and looked around, the voice seem to come from all around them. "Tell me though, did you learn a lesson from your game?" The voice wasn't the same as the voice they heard from the puppet, this voice sounded like it came from an old stallion.
"What makes you think you can mess with my friends, huh? I'm going to find you and kick your plot!" Rainbow Dash and the four came to Pinkie's side, along with a team of nurses from the Ponyville Hospital.
"And why do you keep calling it a game? I don't know how tourturing some pony can be considered fun." The six ponies knew that if they could see the stallion's face, it would be smilling.
"When you do these for long enough, they start to get very fun to do. And since you cheated-."
"I saved her life!" Twilight lost her temper talking with a mad pony.
"Since you cheated," He continued, ignoring her ignorance. "I have to change the rules of how I normally play." With that, several explosions demolished the surrounding buildings, causing debris to fall towards the group. A few jagged pieces of rubble fell onto the doctors, turning them into bloodied corpses. Finally, Twilight and Rarity were able to from a shield, stoping the onslaught of falling rocks. Everypony standing in the magic barrier was in shock, covered in the blood of their deceased friends. Pinkie couldn't take the pain, violence, and exhaustion anymore. She leaned over and emptied the contents of her stomach onto the floor before blacking out.
Princess Luna was the first pony Pinkie saw when she woke up in the hospital bed. "I'm glad your awake, Pinkie Pie. We need to discuss what happened earlier today."
"How long have I been knocked out?" Pinkie's hooves felt very sore from all the damage performed on it.
"About ten hours. You saw a lot more then most equestrians will see in their life time, so if you need to take sometime to explain it I won't rush you."
"I'll be alright." The element of laughter still couldn't remember what happened before she woke up with with large kitchen knives in her legs.
"Do you know what took you, Pinkie?" Pinkie sighed as she tried to recount her events, all of them very hazy.
"I'm sorry princess, I just can't remember how I got there." The moon princess thought a little bit before illuminating her horn.
"If you don't mind, I will try to preform a spell to recover your memory." Pinkie reluctantly agreed, fearful that she wouldn't want to see her memories. A brilliant blue blaze filled the room as Pinkie and Luna were plunged into the pink mare's memories.
Luna watched the past version of Pinkie walk through the forest towards Ponyville. Amazement filled the Equestrian princess's mind when she saw the same robed figure she saw in her vision walk out of a vegetation thicket in front of the surprised earth pony. What differed from her last encounter with the bipedal creature was that she could see its face. She knew for some reason that it was male and an elder. As usual, Pinkie assaulted the masculine creature with random questions. Luna was startled at the speed at which the biped named Jigsaw stabbed her with a syringe. Pinkie stumbled before falling to the ground with an audible thud. Again, Luna was filled with shock as she watched the puppet referred to as Billy walk out of the forest and talked to Jigsaw (or as the puppet called him, John). A dark mist flooded the scene changing the forest into the inside of a large tent. A gaged Pinkie was restrained on a silver table surrounded by John and several pig faced bipedals. One of the surrounding bystanders removed the rag from the pony's mouth.
"Ewwww, why did you put that old thing in my mouth? I won't bite. We'll mabey if I was really hungry and you were made of cake, but that would only happen if-" Pinkie Pie was abruptly cut off by John.
"Sorry about that, I just needed you to be quiet while I worked. So, let's continue with our question, hmm?" The pink mare stared at John with curiosity before returning back to her old happy self.
"Okay Mr. Jigsaw, sooooo how did I end up in here with all these thingys?" A few people from the group snickered at the confused mare infront of them. "Do they want to PARTY?!" One of the assistances couldn't hold it in anymore. He fell to the floor, laughing at the little pony's cluelessness. Two of his comrades quickly pulled him off the ground and walked him out of the room. Pinkie watched the costumed creature being dragged out through the doors. She noticed that the mask that he was wearing was slightly different from the others. Most of the pig masked seemed to lack eyes, the thing infront of her had two luminous red eyes. "He seems very happy today."
"He's happy all the time. It is sad though, both his parents and brother are dead." John looked down at the ground shaking his head. He felt actual sympathy for the boy. Jigsaw found him surrounded in an alley at the wrong part of town. He looked ready to defend himself but John didn't want to take any chances, he put two bullets into each of the six assailants, one in the back and a second in the skull for good measure. A seventh thug wielding a baseball bat charged at the person who murdered his allies. John simply sidestepped out of the way and put his wrist blade through the attacker's spine. From the shadows, the young juvenile marveled at the display of violence. Jigsaw greeted the boy and asked for his name. After bribing some local police, he found files of what the child was capable of. The boy became one of Jigsaw's most skilled guards and he didn't even prefer a gun.
"Are you okay?" John had noticeably spaced out from the rest of the world. He quickly composed himself, and continued questioning Pinkie.
"Yes, I'm fine. Now can you tell me about your friends." A wide smile spread across the mare's face.
"Owww yay! I can't wait to tell you all about them. Let's start with Twilight..."
"No." The present Pinkie watched her former self give information on everypony she knew, which was all the inhabitants of Ponyville plus over small towns.
"... And that raps up all I know about Filthy Rich. Can I ask you something now?"
"I just have one more question for you. Tell me more about unicorn magic." The sentence was more of a command then question.
"Sorry, I don't know to much about it besides that it's really really cool."
"Hmm, do you know if something could weaken the effects of their magic?" Pinkie giggled a little bit.
"That's a weird question, but I do think that the Ponyville Hospital has some medicine that can stop them from using it. Also, other unicorns could cast a spell that prevents the use of magic. Now can I please ask you a question?" Pinkie put on her pleading face and only received a void expression back from John.
"I'm sorry, maybe later." With that, he jabbed her in the neck with a sedative needle made to cause slight memory loss. Almost instantly, the pony lost consciousness. The world around them started to blur, they could here the crystal clear voice of Jigsaw saying "It's getting dark, move her and the trap into the town square of her town." Everyone besides John and the doctor went to go move supplies to Ponyville.
A sudden blue flash signified the end of the lost memory. Luna, for the first time in a while felt completely hopeless. There was a psychotic killer possibly from another world or dimension on the loose in her kingdom, with information on everypony,(possibly other intelligent species) and armed with deadly torture devices. She could tell that Pinkie Pie won't be the only pony to be fillynapped.
"I-I..." Before Pinkie could finish her apology or before Luna could forgive her a royal guard, Twilight broke into the hospital room. He was completely exhausted with sweat running down his face.
"Princess... There was a breach at one of Canterlot's homes... Blueblood's gone!"
"Come on Pinkie, we have to go get the girls and find him." Twilight and Pinkie Pie left Luna and the guard to talk about any important evidence in the crime. Before they left, Twilight was told that Blueblood was being held somewhere in the Everfreee forest. The six friends gathered up to help find prince Blueblood.
"Alright girls, we don't know what happened to Blueblood, but we have to assume that whatever took him is probably what took Pinkie. We have to be especially careful out here." The ponies had begun searching in the forest fifteen minutes ago. They tried to retrace the path Pinkie used to walk back before she was captured. The group barely noticed that Fluttershy had stop walking a good ten feet back.
"Uhh... I don't know what animal that is." The mares turned around to see what Fluttershy was talking about. Standing behind them was the bipedal red-eyed pig guard from Pinkie's memory. The figure wore a hoodie and black pants.
"Hello, I'm Twilight Sparkle. These are my friends Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Rarity." Each pony gave an awkward smile when their name was announced. "Do you need any help finding your way out of the forest?" The biped continued to stand motionlessly in front of the ponies. Fluttershy gave a noticeable cry as the masked figure pulled a large knife out of his hoodie. The blade glimmered in Luna's moonlight.
"You ponies look so tired. I think I can help with that."