Big Mama was just about as honest as you could get in describing the mare. She was big, the size of a Saddle Arabian, but with musculature to compete with most stallions. Some say it was genetics, some say magic, others say it was foods that she'd eaten in her southern travels, but one thing was for damned sure.

With the terrifying whir of gears during each step and the slight tremble of the earth with each connection of a hoof to the ground damn near everypony knew it too.

You never, ever, for any circumstance, in the world, ever, crossed Big Mama, the 'Mother Bucker'.

^~^~^~^

Jubilee woke up a little sore from the night's activities to find Mavis crying lightly into her bosom. Immediately worried, especially with Mavis' background, Jubilee wrapped her in a hug.

"Oh Maivs, I...I am so sorry if I'm at fault, I never should have done what I did last night."

Mavis just shook her head, smiling slightly despite the tears.
"No it isn't you. I...I don't know...I woke up and thought about what we did...and why..and I've never felt like this before. I woke up and was so happy...and then this! I'm probably the happiest I've been in years Jubilee, I just can't figure out why I'm crying about it..."

Jubilee couldn't help but giggle at the plucky alicorn's antics.
"I don't know whether to hold you close and comfort you, or hold you close and kiss you."

"You could do both." Mavis responded cheekily, her tears starting to dry up a bit.

Just then there was a knock at the door and both Mavis and Jubilee got up and headed over to see who it was. Mavis off-hoofedly remarked that it smelled like the quartet from the club, and sure as sugar they opened the door and all four ponies were there. The only difference was that the unicorn, Swinger, was in what appeared to be an armoured ball gown, the pegasi Recruit was in a chainmail vest and what appeared to be a leather and chainmail kilt, the female earth pony wore nothing but goggles and overalls, and the male earth pony had a goatee, bandana over his head, loose button up shirt and pantaloons making him look like a pirate.

Ratchet turned to Recruit with a frown.
"A'righ' here's yer twenty bits Recruit, guess you was right all 'long."

"See, I totally called that they boned! Smells the same and everything!" Recruit laughed back, much to Jubilee and Mavis' chagrin.

Suddenly Swinger got real close with a large smile plastered across her face.
"Oh my gosh, aren't you two just the cutest couple ever!"

Mavis visibly winced as the mare's voice cracked in her ears.

"Really, you two are just precious!"

Swinger was about to say something else when Jubilee sealed her mouth via magic.
"Kid, your voice cracks like a bitch, and Mavis has really sensitive ears. Also, what we do in private is our business, so unless you've got something to say, bugger off."

Swinger just shrugged and backed off with a nod to Ratchet.

"Right, so 'cordin' ta Spectrum, we're 'sposed ta take yew two to the Crystal Kingdom, so whenever ya'll're ready, we'll be in the lobby."

As soon as the door closed Mavis turned edgily.
"I swear if that unicorn talks the whole way there, I'm going to shove my hoof down her throat."

Jubilee didn't even try to stifle her laugh as they made their way to the bathroom to get cleaned up. Knowing she couldn't do it right herself, Mavis seated herself and smiled as Jubilee used her hooves to work the soap into her fur, building up a good lather. It didn't take long for the alicorn to realise she wasn't just damp from the water, especially as Jubilee's hooves worked lower. Fidgeting slightly, Mavis accidently let out a high pitched whine from her throat that drew Jubilee's attention. The alicorn's cheeks lit up when she realised Jubilee took notice, and it didn't help that she gave a giggle and moved her hooves to either cutiemark and rubbed gently on them. Despite trying to stop it another whine escaped Mavis' lips as Jubilee gave a long, sensual lick up the side of her neck.

"You know," Mavis managed breathlessly, "I thought it was terrible being fucked against your will, but not being fucked against your will..."

Jubilee listened to the words trail off into a desperate whimper for attention as another long lick went up the side of the alicorn's neck.
"Well, I guess I'll just have to amend that problem, won't I?"

Some twenty minutes later Mavis was laying comfortable in the base of the tub with Jubilee's hooves wrapped around her protectively.
"You do realise Jubilee, those four are probably waiting on us."

"And?"

"Dunno, I can't seem to care either. Not like their doing anything important anyway." Mavis shrugged and snuggled backwards into Jubilee more.

^~^~^~^

Luna growled angrily, she hated when plans got shifted last minute, and taking four ponies from their escape crew was definitely a last minute change she would have loved to skip.
"Tell me again Rainbow, where are those four? What was so important?"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and huffed.
"Making sure that two other ponies, one unicorn, one an alicorn that nopony recognises make it north safely. The alicorn came in, destroyed that one gang's leadership and then from what Wyldfyre told me before she headed up north healed every one in that city injured by the gang regardless of injury or circumstance. In short she's got the public's eye as well as power to back herself up."

"Good, because if that group is just wasting their time-"

^~^~^~^

"For the love of all that is holy, why are we just wasting our time?! There are thousands of things we should be doing right now rather than wait for the lovebirds to stop fucking each other silly. Like, I don't know, going to the Crystal Kingdom!" shouted Recruit.

"Well, I apologise that my being blind leads to longer showers. It must be such an inconvenience for you." Mavis growled as she came down from the stairs garbed in her raven feather cloak and hood.

"Yeah, well get better at being blind then, bitch." Recruit muttered angrily.

Mavis just scowled.
"I can hear just fine, punk."

"Good, then take my advice! You're slow as dirt, and if being blind is the problem, fix it!" Recruit growled.

"You know, you seem like a self entitled little shit, what makes you think you have any place to even try to tell me what to do?" Mavis roared back.

"I'm a general in the resi-"

"I'm a mother fucking pony princess! Don't even try to pull rank on me!" Mavis snapped, fully sick and tired of the new ponies already. Thankfully she'd calmed down enough that Jubilee was able to walk over and give her a quick hug, whispering about how it wasn't worth it to Mavis. Despite how much she really wanted to teach the uppity pegasus a lesson, Mavis realised that Jubilee was right, making more enemies wasn't going to help. Releasing a sigh, Mavis signaled for everypony to go so she could follow them.

^~^~^~^

The three guards looked in awe as the mare came closer. She was easily half a hoof taller than the tallest guard, and built like a workhorse. She had odd contraptions on her backs legs that whirred with each step.
"Halt, I need name, business and affiliation!"

"Applejack Apple of the Apple Clan, rescuing Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Luna as well as four other ponies, then takin' the lot of 'em to the Crystal Kingdom. Oh, and Ah'm affiliated to the resistance."

Before the stallions could say a thing the farm mare spun and bucked two of the guards, sending them flying through the air only to come crashing down some twenty odd hooves out.
"Ah advise you jest take that armour offa yerself and skedaddle."

^~^~^~^

"How are you doing back there?" questioned Jubilee as she looked back at Mavis' weary face. It both bothered and invigorated her to see the blind mare pushing herself so hard as to match the pace of the rest of them. Even when her echolocation spell failed from overuse Mavis kept going, tripping and stumbling all the way. To make matters worse was the frown that grew deeper and deeper with every snicker from the smart ass pegasus Recruit. When Mavis attempted to recover from a sudden stumble but tripped again, sending her crashing into some brambles, the pegasus burst out laughing hysterically.

Pulling her partner from the thorny branches Jubilee could see Mavis only just barely keeping her lips from quivering and that there were two damp spots growing at the bottom of the eye shroud. Angry beyond her own understanding, the unicorn spun around and whipped out her crossbow before unleashing a bolt just over an inch from Recruit's face, leaving it lodged in a tree trunk.
"I've had it up to here with your attitude kid! Course, you seem to be the kind of bitch to pick on somepony who's blind."

Anger coursing through her veins, Recruit turned around and whipped out a combat knife and lunged at Jubilee angrily.
"You want to fuck with me?!"

Only just dodging the swing Jubilee launched a second bolt that went wide and bounced off of the barding around Swinger's stomach. This seemed to enrage all four of the ponies and Jubilee found herself at a major disadvantage. Just as Recruit and Ratchet both launched themselves at Jubilee, Mavis stepped forward and formed twin batons of magic itself to block the incoming swings. Pushing the pair back, Mavis made a third baton to block a scimitar slash, but only just as her magic faltered slightly.

It was Mavis' attempt to block the fireball thrown from Swinger that made the alicorn realise just how much of her magic reserves she had used when the shield she constructed broke, exploding spectacularly and sending the mare flying backwards. It completely drained Mavis of all magic and exposed her for who she truly was as four voices rang out in shock.

"Twilight Sparkle!"

Before anypony could react Jubilee had launched two bolts at the quartet, one finding purchase in Buccaneer's chest, the second in Ratchet's side. As Recruit made to attack the two sides suddenly realised they had attracted the attention of a patrol of Equestrian soldiers. Thinking quickly, Swinger pulled out an enchanted orb and threw it at the hooves of herself and her friends, the four disappearing in a flash of magic.

Jubilee turned and ran desperately to Mavis' side, helping the now lavender mare to her hooves. Even still, they couldn't outrun the guards.

In seconds they were overtaken and Jubilee was beaten unconscious.

^~^~^~^

Applejack, Rainbow, Eepy and Luna had just met up, and Luna was about to pass Clover and Sombre to Applejack to carry, when four ponies appeared in a flash of magic. Luna immediately moved forward upon seeing that two of them were injured, and Recruit was so pissed she refused to speak, which left Swinger to relay what happened.

Once all was said and done Applejack told the four to stay with Luna and get across the border before heading off with Rainbow and Eepy in the direction of the nearest Celestia held outpost.

^~^~^~^

Mavis awoke to find her forehooves secured over her head uncomfortably. It took all of two second for Jubilee, strung up the same way, to call out to her.

"Seems we got caught, huh?"

Immediately thoughts of previous captivity tugged at Mavis' mind as she began wrenching and jerking at the chains and manacles, desperately trying to get free.

"It won't work, I tried already." Jubilee called out sadly.

Mavis gave a few more good tugs before giving up, knowing that she could do nothing. Tears began to dampen her shroud as she began to cry at the hopelessness of it all. It was also about this time a rather nasty looking stallion came in with a whip.

"The real Twilight Sparkle! Oh, Her majesty Celestia told me to keep an eye out for you. Well," the stallion secured a gag around Mavis' mouth and took a few steps back, "Shall we get started?"

^~^~^~^

I clenched the muscles in my back for the briefest of seconds before forcing them to relax. I could feel myself shaking as my teeth ground down into the bit that had been forced into my mouth. Already I was crying, and I knew it would only get worse, and all I could find myself hoping was that they would only hurt me, not Jubilee. I had myself fully readied when I heard something that I could only distinguish as a snort of derision from Jubilee.

"Please, that's your swinging stance? You look like a filly playing softball!" I heard Jubilee sneer.

I tried to warn her to shut up, but all that came out was an indecipherable muffled growl.

"Oh, a mouthy one? You didn't tell me you had such...strong willed... friend Twilight. I think I'll break her first!"

Upon hearing the stallions words I began screaming all manner of insults at him and every family member I had, but the gagged quelled any attempt I made to draw attention back to me. And then, as I heard the whip draw back in the air, time seemed to freeze for the slightest moment.
'No, no no!'

*Shhhh-CRACK*

Jubilee's scream of pain was like a red hot iron shoved into my ears. I began screaming desperately at the stallion through my gag and working my hooves furiously. It wasn't long before I felt blood running down my forelegs, but even then I didn't stop. For hours and hours it seems, I worked and worked against the gag and the manacles as Jubilee, my friend, my confidant, my lover as I saw her, was tortured next to me. And there was nothing I could do...

I could hear every scream, every cry, every whimper and every moan. Every statement to egg the stallion on when he would mention my turn. I slowly began to realise that Jubilee was trying to protect me, and the mere thought caused me to begin sobbing. She didn't need to protect me...I knew this pain, I was used to this pain. I was practically born of this pain, and in her own foolish attempts at chivalry she had subjected herself to things I would have given my life to prevent.

In that moment I felt useless and weak. I couldn't protect Spike, or my friends, or Ponyville. I couldn't protect myself, and I couldn't protect Jubilee. As my consciousness began to falter I heard a muffled crack and prayed it hadn't come from Jubilee.

Funny enough, I could swear I heard Applejack too...

^~^~^~^

Jubilee opened her eyes to find herself in Ponyville square watching her sister bounce along happily while humming. Jubilee knew this memory well, and knew that the only way to make it stop was to, as much as she hated it, go along with it, not that she was given a choice as her body moved forward on its own.

"Hey sis, do you think mommy and daddy would like this for dinner?"

Looking at the meal, Jubilee felt herself give a smile and a nod.
"I think that would be a great thing for dinner, Muffin."

Jubilee watched her sister bounce over and lightly hit her shoulder.
"Don't call me that in public, everyone will laugh at me!"

"Twilight never laughs." Jubilee countered with a smile.

Twilight was her sister's teacher and had recently taken Dinky on as her own personal student. On top of that, Twilight regularly taught Jubilee magic as well. But Jubilee knew what came next as lightning flashed through the sky and the High Priestess appeared, laughing cruelly. And like always, her younger sister Dinky stood firm to oppose her.

"Hey, you're not the real Twilight Sparkle! The real Twilight Sparkle is my teacher, and she'd never act like you!"

The High Priestess glared at the foal with hatred poorly masked. After the pair had exchanged a number of lighter spells, the Priestess suddenly turned to Jubilee and fired a new spell. Jubilee knew there was no way to dodge the attack, but before it could reach her, her sister threw herself in the way, absorbing the spell into her body. Jubilee watched as Dinky began to writhe in pain before her sister turned to face her.

Frozen, as was usual in this dream, Jubilee screamed Dinky's name as the unicorn filly enacted one final shield spell and gave her sister a sad, but loving smile.
"Tell mommy and daddy I love them, and I love you too, Sparkler..."

Jubilee screamed in anguish as the entirety of Dinky and the shield erupted into a fiery explosive inferno. As ash from the explosion fell, a single length of blonde mane drifted down to land on the horrified Jubilee's face.

"She...She...She loved you, and...you...you...you...you fucking monster!"

With a primal scream, Jubilee tore the Priestess' left hindleg from her body and began to beat the alicorn's head in until it was nothing but paste.

Then something new happened in the dream.

The Priestess turned her mangled head to face Jubilee as it's colours turned grey and it's eyes disappeared from its sockets as fangs grew out of it's mouth.
"I love you Jubilee!"
Then it lunged.

^~^~^~^

Applejack, along with Luna, Eepy, Rainbow and Rarity, stood outside the I.C.U room that held Jubilee. They had been having a lengthy conversation on many things, but right now was whether or not they should inform Twilight of Jubilee's current condition.

"Now listen ya'll, Ah'm all fer honesty, but Ah think we need to figure out what we're gonna do with tha mare before we start tellin' 'er that 'er friends half dead in a hospital room!"

At this Rainbow flew up into Applejack's face.
"Oh, so had you not been there to see the bolt in 'Blooms side we should have stayed quiet until after you were done being busy?"

"Tha's not tha same thing Ardee! Ah didn't kick four walls open jest so she could fret over another mare!"

"Oh but Applejack, I must concur that it is," countered Rarity, "Twilight is our friend, but the only pony she's had consistently since she escaped is Jubilee. We can't just hide that from her and think that she won't resent us for it later."

"Oh boo hoo hoo, Twilight might lose somepony. This is war, we don't get to waste our time like this, we don't have the time to waste!" snapped Fluttershy, "What about you love?"

Luna, as it had been for a while, had been listening to the key points of every argument keenly. The situation on how to deal with Twilight, the real Twilight, was a sensitive one to be sure. The fact of the matter came down to the fact that Luna needed Twilight to finish the research she'd started to try to defeat Celestia.
"We don't tell her anything. There are jobs that need to be done, and sadly Fluttershy is right, this is war."

"Next. Next. Next."

The group turned to look down the hall to find Twilight, in her grey guise, with an i.v stand rollling behind her while she held a doctor aloft by his mane.

"Next. Next. This one! This one right here holds Jubilee, I swear, just please don't kill me!"

The group then watched as Twilight dropped the doctor and walked inside.

^~^~^~^

Mavis moved carefully in the room, activating her magic as best as she could and watching the levels so her guise wouldn't fail. At least, it wouldn't fail like she did...

Tears were already dampening the shroud as Mavis grew nearer to the bed, and it the alicorn was practically sobbing as her echolocation showed all the machines hooked up, most of which she recognised were only ever used for patients that had undergone serious amounts of trauma. Hesitant at first, Mavis finally decided to use a thermal overlay to get a feel for Jubilee's injuries. In just moments a strangled cry ripped through Mavis' trachea as tears began to pour like waterfalls, bleeding through the shroud and running down her face.

Jubilee's fore head was above temperature, as were numerous lashings across her withers, back and haunches, but that wasn't what had horrified the alicorn. No, the worst injuries were the pair of heated 'tubes' running from the mare's pelvis up towards her stomach. Wrapping her hooves as best as she could around Jubilee's chest, Mavis leaned over and spent the next hour crying into her chest to the music of a street pianist outside.

^~^~^~^

It had been nine days since her arrival at the hospital and Mavis still had not left Jubilee's room, especially not after some strange mare had come in and claimed it was her job to clean every part of Jubilee! That had gone over just about as well as trying to make a rock float unaided in water.

Much like the past three morning Mavis meticulously worked over each hindleg, making sure that she didn't miss any spot and that she had cleaned as much of each single follicle. When she got to Jubilee's pelvis, her touch was feather soft, as the area was still inflamed and bruised, yet she made sure that every part of it was cared for and cleaned properly. She would then work her way up to the waist and chest with the damp rag. It was one of Mavis' favourite parts of the process, as she could feel every breath and heartbeat as if it were her own, and in a way it soothed her. From there she would clean down the forelegs, ending with a light kiss to each hoof as she finished.

After that a cooler, cleaner cloth would be used to lightly work over Jubilee's neck and face before Mavis would take a very soft bristled toothbrush and use her magic to help gently brush each of Jubilee's teeth properly. In fact, Mavis had become so methodical that some doctors had actually asked if they could watch, thinking they may learn something. Originally Mavis had refused, but relented on the one rule that nopony came in until she opened the door, which was after she had passed Jubilee's pelvic region and covered it with a sheet.

In fact Mavis had become so protective of Jubilee that some worried it was unhealthy. Thankfully she was still eating and sleeping, but some of the professionals were beginning to question whether or not the alicorn needed to be sedated. Still, none had put any serious thought to it after Mavis had nearly ripped a stallion nurses' leg off when she awoke to find him attempting to take a blood sample from Jubilee with out her consent.

Another thing that had become regular was Rainbow Dash visiting.

Every day Rainbow Dash would come in with lunch, dinner, and the next morning's breakfast pre packed for Mavis. It was just that simple that the hospital staff had come to accept it. That and it gave Mavis something to do other than hover over Jubilee listening for any sign of improvement.

"Hey egghead, sorry I'm late, the bakery was packed."

Mavis shrugged as if it didn't matter too much to her, which Rainbow figured it probably didn't.
"Food is food, whether it's late or not isn't that important."

Moving to Mavis' side Rainbow began to pull out different things, tomato soup, potato and leek soup, rye bread, hay fries and a couple of glasses of milk. Once she had their food out she regarded her friend cautiously, as she always did when she brought up this kind of subject.
"You need to go out and stop keeping yourself cooped up in here. I get it, you worry about her, but I can get security posted, security you can trust, and you can come in every morning and night to take care of her, but this isn't healthy for you Egghead."

Ears drooping, Mavis swallowed her mouthful of soup before frowning.
"I...can't..."

"Because this was meant for you, wasn't it?" Rainbow deadeyed, "They had no reason to do this to her, and you looked like you'd been chewing on that bit hard and you tore up your legs bad too. But I'm right, aren't I? This," Rainbow gestured to Jubilee, namely her wounds, "Was supposed to be for you, but she stopped them, didn't she?"

Mavis' lip quivered against her will as she shuddered, tears sliding down her face, as she had tied the shroud around Jubilee's right foreleg as a kind of way to say that she was always there. A sharp cry emanated from the alicorn's throat as her face turned down shamefully. Rainbow quickly scooted forward and embraced Mavis tightly while stroking her mane.
"Hey, don't cry now on me Egghead, I'm still no good with all that emotion and shit."

"I'm sorry, Rainbow, I know you aren't good at this," Mavis mumbled, "I'm just full of mistakes lately."

"Hey! I make mistakes too y'know! Like with Scootaloo, I haven't seen her in nine days... Half of me is worried sick about her, a quarter is mad at her, and another quarter is mad at myself for being mad at her. She's 'Recruit' by the way...and I kind of went a little over board tearing into her for abandoning you and Jubilee. Especially with how we found you both..." Rainbow admitted, "She ran off, called me a traitor...I don't know if she's gonna come back, and the worst part is, I don't know if I want her to, not after how she acted."

Mavis winced, then stood suddenly.
"I...I think I will go for a walk Rainbow...would you mind watching Jubilee for me? And getting that guard? Actually, could you ask Applejack or Fluttershy? I don't know if I'd trust anypony else..."

"Oh, yeah, of course. You know I never leave a pony hanging if I can help it!"

Mavis' ears fell at the added words to that once signature line as she longed for the simpler days to return. Activating her echolocation she made her way out of the hospital and onto the streets. After asking once for directions, Mavis began making her way south towards the edge of town.
'Everything's changed because you couldn't keep it together. They all trusted you, and you let them down... Twilight doesn't deserve to stay, and Mavis is just a warped copy with the same flaws...'

^~^~^~^

High Priestess Sparkle amassed her strike team, and the plan was simple. The mare that had beaten her into mush was laid up in a hospital in the Crystal Kingdom, and while she still 'needed' the revolutionaries to try to find Twilight Sparkle, she could easily slip in and cause some havoc as well as kill the insolent wretch.

With a hauntingly evil grin, the priestess led her suicide squad towards the border before adopting a new look of a grey alicorn with a byzantine mane with a silver stripe running through it...

Author's Note

This chapter existed in three forms at first. The original was 6,236 words long and involved some things that will be involved later, so I can't say too much other than that neither Jubilee nor Mavis were captured and they didn't go to the Crystal Kingdom. The second was similar to this, only instead of running, Scootaloo, Pipsqueak, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle stayed to fight. Applejack was going to come save the day and they would meet up with Luna Dash and Fluttershy, but I didn't know how to handle Fluttershy's anger at 'Twilight' in that one, so I settled with this one, which instead is able to postpone dealing with Fluttershy and also allow for some one on one time with Rainbow to show how she's changed.

This version also allowed me to reveal all of Jubilee's past and who she really is, and what happened to her sister. Feel free to hate me for that one there, but it had to be brutal enough to cause Jubilee to rip a ponies leg off.

That in turn also allowed me to again exercise the fact that the antagonist is not Celestia, nor Twilight Sparkle. Feel free to lay your accusations out below.

Please let me know of any missed mistakes or glaring errors. I've worked the three forms of this nonstop since I ended the last chapter. Your proof? Well, this page still reads 21 like and 5 dislikes with 138 views and 8 comments....