Shadow burst being a little shit, what an evil little gremlin.

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The fast stride of hooves cross through the halls of the long abandoned laboratory, yet that was just what the cruel owner wanted you to believe. Many falling into the trap of dares to enter the supposed abandoned building, only to regret finding the truth of its use. The small mare coward behind a lab table, her sides heaving as a hoof was firmly pressed against her snout to stop the heavy breaths that tried to betray her. Eyes wide as she watched the confident stride of her chaser slowly make their way past her hiding place, either playing dumb or truly blind in the dark, the attacker left the room with a sharp sneer.

The clank of their metal hooves fading down the long corridors as the frightened mare reared back to find an escape. She needed a way out, yet all windows had sensors and she wasn't about to risk learning if her attacker had the skill of teleportation for, yes she could run free if they did not but for the slim chance they did, she would be dragged in tortuous experiments against her mind and body. She'd seen what this vile thing had done to others.. bodies strewn atop tables in pairs, one missing the mark of their flank while the other had marks of other ponies sewn into the flesh of their rump.

Live beings strapped on chairs with a skull wide open exposing the delicate brain mass within, hidden temporarily behind a glass dome until she started her experiments up once more. Collections of wings and horns displayed like taxidermy animals while cutie marks of the dead hung in frames like trophies. Her hoof bumping a book in the darkness, she turned to face a large chalk board of nonsense ideas only the crooked minds could think of. It spoke of taking one cutie mark and transferring it to another pony, weather forcefully or magically.

Experiments of cross marking with very different marks being failures while the marks of closer meaning working for a while until the patient dies of blood infections and trauma induced seizures. She recognized a scribble of a mark she seen on one of the corpses she woken up by, a thick gag passing through her throat. Bowing her head to avoid reading further she scrambled out the room, heading the opposite way her attacker had gone. Sliding to a stop she spotted a shadow growing as the clank of metal steps drew closer, eyes widen she ducked into the nearest room.

Her back hoof sliding off the platform she stood upon while slipping down, her chin harshly slamming against the metal flooring as a gurgled scream left her worn out throat. The heavy smell of rot hitting her senses as she looked down to the millions of rotating saw blades threatening to snap up her being if she fell. Her front hooves scrambling to pull herself up yet unable to grasp enough to heave her rear back onto safety. Her eyes widened as the door swung open, frozen in shock as the robotic mare she feared stepped into the room of saws and death. "There you are subject 983~ Your late for you injections.."

Her sudden snarl made the mare flinch, saw blades revving up and extending as magic flowed from the attackers horn. They approached with confident strides before they'd let themselves be vulnerable by laying in front of the dangling mare. "I see you found the disposal room, quiet a magnificent room if you ask me because despite its name. Not a peice of you goes to waste! The shredded peices drain down the tilted chutes that send the peices into grinders, pressing every bit of blood, bones and fur into liquid waste before it goes into my favorite machine! Wanna know what it does?"

She asked, grinning with large teeth as the struggling mare shook her head even though she knew her opinion was invalid. "Well, i'm glad you asked! The machine drains out every drop of magic stored in the body and uses it to power this facility! Of course, that's not the only magic powering it haha~. The blood is passed into jars that i keep in large quantities in the freezer rooms. Its quite a collection i tell you, i label each and every patient. It would be sad to let them go so easily. "

Mockingly frowning, she pulled one of her hooves away as the mare attempted to use her as leverage to get up. "Such a shame, you had to be a waste and try to interrupt my current experiments. I suppose i'll have to switch you to a more....fitting procedure." The dark glare from her icy iris made the mare flinch before the crazed pony stood, raising a hoof with a grin. "Oh don't worry, you won't remember any of it." The metal hoof collided down onto the mares skull, her jaw bashing into the metal platform while loosing consciousness.

Before the forgotten mare could fall into the revved jaws of the saws, magic engulfed her body to lift her back to the scientist. "Lets see how well you do under the experimentation of the emotion receptors in the brain, i'm sure your sister will enjoy volunteering to trigger the emotion stimuli haha~" She spoke mostly to herself during the trip down the bloody halls, the mare floating in her hold just a few feet behind her before she turned into a surgical room. "But first.." Laying the pony onto the table, her one organic eye widened to watch as she collected scalpels, tweezers and saw blades within her magic. Floating towards the subject as her hooves clanked together with excitement.

"I need that cutie mark for the collection."