After a month or two everything went perfectly! Pinkis Cupcake and the Candy-mare delivering the cupcakes, Brutalight helping Rarity manage things, Fluttershout and Rarifruit as heads of the employees that weren't pony monsters. Even Applepills was doing an excellent job knocking out the younger ones when their numbers came up! Everything was great, until one day when Twilight had a day off. She invited the pony monsters and a few others over for a party, even Zecora came under the assumption that it was a regular party. After every normal pony left screaming in terror and the pony-monsters left to get back to work, Twilight had an interesting night. Rainbow and Pinkie saw that Twilight didn't show up to work so they sent out some guards. They never returned.
Rainbow sent one more guard to secretly set up a security camera in Twilights home, they were shocked to find Twilight simply walking around, with her smarty pants doll. They didn't know what to do, so for a few days it was left alone. Then a commotion started. Every pony looked over to see all of the ponies in the cell, dead. They couldn't use them because the machine only takes LIVE ponies. Only three ponies were allowed in the cell, Rainbine, Applepills, and Big Mac. Rainbine was also an engineer and she was working on the machine when it happened, Applepills was hugging her boxes of pills that she was given, so the only pony left was Big Mac.
Rainbow stormed into his break room, "WHAT DID YOU DO?!" She screamed "THOSE WERE ALL OF THIS MONTH'S PONIES, PINKIE CAN'T GET HER CUPCAKES IN! WE CAN'T MAKE RAINBOWS AT ALL," Rainbow Dash caught her breath, and the only other words that came out were, "you're fired...personally." Big Mac, eyes widened, shuddered. He didn't realize that doing his job meant getting fired, but Twilight told him WHO he had permission to kill! Rarity didn't know who was wanted to just be killed, nor did Brutalight! After he was put in the machine, the brightest of red came out of Big Mac's corpse, and all of the cupcakes made, were all used to treat Pinkamena and Rainbow's headaches.
"What will we do?" Pinkie said. Rainbow didn't know, she bit a cupcake, and thought. She thought back to the last time the cell was empty, before they met Rarity.
"Let's get next month's numbers instead." Rainbow sighed, Pinkie only looked up and smiled. Finishing off the cupcakes, they left.
They looked all over town, and split up to cover more ground. No pony was there. Then Pinkie turned around, she screamed in horror! Rainbow heard all the way across town, and flew back to her partner as fast as possible!
When she finally saw Pinkie, the pink mare was chained up, with two chains embedded in her back left, and front right hoof. Around her neck, was what looked like a wheel from a carriage, only metal instead of wooden, that also was embedded in her neck. The two cutie marks on her flanks were scratched out violently. Rainbow sobbed thinking the unconscious mare was dead, she wasn't. Rainbow was grabbed by the same thing that grabbed Pinkie, but before getting dragged off, she saw Pinkie open her eyes. She gasped to see...they were pitch black.
Rainbow's heart was pounding as she looked for a way out. She was fluttering her wings, but this pony was stronger than Applejack, which meant that they HAD to have been haunted or something. Rainbow eventually gave up and thought about her friend. Pinkie was gone, almost completely. Rainbow started to cry again, but then they stopped. She looked up at the pony that was trying to hurt her. She lifted a fist, but stopped mid-punch. The pony in front of her, looked almost exactly like Pinkie, only with yellow fur that was stained with red all over, and pink hair that looked almost like Pinkie's coat color, the mare's wings had no more feathers. The biggest clue as to who this used to be, was the cutie mark under the scratches, three pink butterflies. Rainbow knew she would soon look like this, as haunted and hurt as her other friends, but she didn't struggle. Why? Because she would be back in business with her partner, and best friend.