Twilight was pissed. She was almost as mad when she found out that Chrysalis was posing as Princess Cadence and planned on using her brother as a source of food. She tore through her library, searching all over but of course found nothing. Standing in the middle of the now decimated room, Twilight tried her best to contain her anger but quickly lost her patience.

"SPIKE! I told you not to run off again!" she yelled out in anger.

As if on cue, the small dragon came bursting through the front door, quickly slamming it shut and hiding under the pile of books Twilight had thrown on the floor.

"Spike! Where in Celestia's name were you? I told you not to go running off in the middle of the night! Do you have any idea how worried I was?" Twilight yelled at him, but before she could hear his excuse a loud crashing noise distracted her. She looked back at the front door just in time to see it come flying open and Cloudchaser burst into the room in a flurry of fury.

"WHERE IS HE?" she yelled out, glancing around the room with rage in her eyes.

"Where is who? What are you talking about?" Twilight asked, confused as to what was going on.

"SPIKE! Where is he? I know he ran back here! Come out and face me like a dragon!" she yelled out again.

"Cloudchaser, calm down!" Twilight pleaded. "What do want with Spike? What's going on?"

"He slept with my sister last night!" Cloudchaser growled out, clenching her teeth angrily.

"He WHAT?" Twilight gasped. Turning her attention to the pile of books that she knew Spike was hiding under. Using her magic, she grabbed a hold of him and dragged him out from his hiding spot, the desperate dragon clawing at anything to hold on to. He failed to stop Twilight from exposing him, and she hung him upside down as she glared at him. "Spike... please tell me you didn't sneak out last night to sleep with Flitter." she asked, trying to remain calm.

"I didn't! I mean, I didn't mean to! I mean... oh boy..." Spike stammered, quickly realizing that there was going to be no easy way out of of this mess.

Twilight tried a different approach to the question. "Okay, Spike. Tell me what happened."

"Um, okay..." Spike said. "Well, I couldn't sleep at all, so I thought that a walk around Ponyville would help. I didn't mean to go any farther than the next row of houses from here, but I started thinking about everything that has happened and I got distracted and wound up at Flitter's house. I tried walking somewhere else but I found myself back there. I didn't go there on purpose, I swear!"

"And then you went up to her room to have your way with her!" Cloudchaser accused him.

Spike shook his head. "N-no, I swear! She was standing in the doorway and saw me. She wanted to talk, so I said okay and we went up to her room. I just wanted to talk to her but... then..." he trailed off.

Cloudchaser didn't seem any less angry over the situation, but her look went from angry to surprised as another voice sounded off. "Stop it, Cloudchaser! It wasn't his fault!"

Cloudchaser turned back towards the door and saw her sister standing there. "Flitter! I said you're not to leave the house! Go back home now before I tie you down to the bed and lock you in your room!" she said angrily.

Flitter remained where she was in defiance. "No, stop it! It wasn't Spike's fault. I wanted him to! That's why I invited him up to my room in the first place." she said, coming to the defense of her special dragon.

Twilight gently lowered Spike back to the ground. "Cloudchaser, maybe we should hear them out. It sounds like we may be overreacting." she said even though she was still a little peeved herself.

"But he... she... they... ugh, fine." Cloudchaser sulked, still far from happy about what she had found earlier that morning.

Taking advantage of the lull in her sister's rage, Flitter rushed over to Spike and gave him a quick hug before turning to the two older mares and told them both what had happened last night. By the time she finished Twilight was much calmer while Cloudchaser, while not quite completely relaxed, lost the fury that had dominated her eyes before.

"Fine." Cloudchaser finally said. "Spike, I'm sorry for trying to kill you earlier, but... she's my sister!"

"It's okay." Spike replied. "I know what you mean, but I do love her. I would never do anything to hurt her."

"You better not." Cloudchaser growled. "Come on, Flitter, we should get back home. Twilight, sorry for barging in."

"It's okay." Twilight said. Both she and Spike saw the two pegasi out, Flitter kissing Spike goodbye as Cloudchaser turned her head away. Once they both left, Twilight shut the door and turned to Spike. "You still are in trouble for leaving last night when I told you not to." she said sternly. "I'm going to have to have to tell you to stay here and not leave until things are finally settled with Rarity."

Spike's heart began to hurt at the mention of his old crush and ex-friend. "What's going to happen to her? Is she really going to be sentenced by Princess Celestia?" he asked.

Twilight nodded gravely. "Yes. Her crimes were severe enough to warrant Princess Celestia's sole discretion on what to do, especially since she is... well, was one of the bearers of the Elements of Harmony. She was supposed to be here by now but she had to speak with Princess Luna about some things before she could come here to sentence Rarity."

"So when will we know what's going to happen to Rarity?" Spike asked.

"Tomorrow." Twilight answered. "Tomorrow we find out what will be Rarity's fate."

Author's Note

Sorry for the lack of updates... been distracted by my newest project. Next chapter will likely be the last... and we'll finally find out if Rarity will be executed, forgiven, or sent to the moon. TO THE MOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!