Later that night, Luna flew over to the forest of despair. She saw a sign reading, 'frEE hAyrIdEs' "Awesome! Haunted hayrides!" squealed the filly. "Don't look behind you, now." a voice whispered. Luna nearly gave herself whiplash spinning around to se a face of a mare with a black mane that covered her face. The filly passed out. -five minutes later- "Wha- huh?" "Don't be afraid, FILLY." a strange mare said. "Why shouldn't I?!?! The cursed mare from 'The Hoof' was there!" "You SHOULDN'T be watching that filly." The mare left. Then the cursed pony appeared. Luna started to faint. "By Celestia, it's just a mask." said the strange mare. She took off the black hair. "Uh... can I please... um go on your hayride, miss... miss..." "I'll tell you my name when you get in the cart."

"My name is Night Shadow. But you better not be passing out on my hayride. THEY'LL get you." Luna started sweating. "H-H-heh. I-I-I only p-p-passed out b-b-because I w-w-watched the m-m-movie 7 d-d-days ago..." "Sure you did." The wagon started to move, swaying side to side. "Hold your horses, Luna" whispered Night. "Miss S-S-Shadow, should this cart be soooOOOOOOAAAAA-" The filly started to faint when she saw that Night Shadow, who should be guiding the escorts in the front of the wagon, was now a blood covered skeleton. Luna fainted... for 3 seconds. She was being put in a sack by two skinny, black pony-like creatures. "AAAAAAAAA!" screamed the kidnapped. "HUSH now QUIET now TIME to LAY your SLEEPY head" whispered the kidnappers. They took a needle and injected a sleeping serum into the terrified pony. -25 minutes later- "You think she's going to want her head cut off?" "Well, she's gonna-oh, she's waking up, Macabre!" "I don't believe we've introduced ourselves, Machete. I am Macabre." "I'm Machete" "How do you talk without hea-" "SILENCCCCCCCCCCE!" "What Machete means is, WE WILL RIP OFF YOUR HEAD AND YOU WILL DO SO TO ALL OTHER PONIES WHO FAINT ON THE HELL HAYRIDE." "Or, the other option is we can brutally beat you, then let you go home. YOU MUST TELL EVERYONE TO GO ON NIGHT SHADOW'S HAYRIDE." Machete picked up a knife. And, of course Luna fainted. -5 minutes later- Luna woke up in the haywagon. "Did you faint? You were really quiet." " My side BURNS..." "I told you not to faint. They got you, right?" "YES THEY DI--" She saw Macabre behind Night Shadow with a knife. "U-u-uh no, I-I-I didn't..." Okay. Get to bed. -When Luna's asleep- Celestia said to Night Shadow, "Do you think it worked, Machete?" "Yup, Macabre."