Written as Moon, but Red as Light

"Ciao" The figure said as he hurled the orb of energy at Fluttershy.

Fluttershy couldn't move as she was frozen with fear as the orb of energy is about to hit her. The orb collided to her and exploded. A blinding light happen and the shockwave of the blast was so strong it blew a few of the bodies away. The entire area was filled with smoke, once it was cleared, it revealed a very damage Fluttershy with burnts and cuts all over her body on the ground unconscious. The figure walked up to Fluttershy's injured body, kneeled down and whisper in her ear.

"That was only a very weak blast I used. The next time, it won't be so weak." The figure said as the entire death filled land vanished into a dark void and back into reality with the figure staring at Fluttershy's unconscious body.

The figure then looked at all 6 mares unconscious on the floor around him. They sure put up a decent fight, but not enough to meet his standards. The figure floated up in the air and levitate all 6 mares together and raised his right hand. His hand engulf into a green light and projected a light green energy onto the unconscious main 6. Their bruises, cuts, and any other injuries are healed in an instant. One of them started to stir awake and the one is Rainbow Dash.

She slowly opened her eyes and then looked around. Her eyes widen as she saw her friends knocked out on her left. She then turned her gaze and slowly, the figure was in her line of sight. It all started to come back to her, it knocked her out and must've promptly took down her friends. Rainbow's eyes then narrowed, her teeth clenched, and her mind is instantly filled with anger. Wasting no time, she flew at the figure with great speed in order to hurt him.

The figure sigh and stayed in mid air as Rainbow Dash is about to throw a powerful kick to his head. As her hoof is about to make a hit, it went right through the figures head and pass him. Rainbow Dash was surprised, but she didn't have enough time to slowed down her speed as she hit the wall with her hoof. A crunching sound was made and Rainbow Dash let a loud painful yelp and fall to the ground. She held her injured right hind leg as she fought back the pain to scream. It hurt like hell and soon tears were forming into her eyes.

'Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! BUCK! That stings like tartarus! Great, this is not going to be pretty.'

The figure then floated over to Rainbow Dash and land on the ground. His shadow loomed over Rainbow's eyes and she slowly opened them and saw him standing near her head. He raised his arms to his hood and slowly pulled it down, revealing his face. Rainbow Dash's eyes widen as he stared at her Moderate cerise eyes with his bright crimson ones with a very creepy crooked smile.

"Oh wa wa wa! What's wrong? Couldn't beat me and your crying? I guess you aren't the toughest bitch around here at all. Too bad, looks like you can't do anything at all Rainbow... Crash. He said as he turned around while looking back at Rainbow Dash on the floor with a sneer.

Anger and hatred filled Rainbow Dash's mind as the figure before her sneer. It harmed her friends and have the gall to make fun of her and called her a cryfoal. She didn't think and blindly jumped at the figure with a yell and throwing her right front hoof at its face.

'Too easy'

The figure counter her hoof by raising his left hand and grabbing Rainbow Dash's entire front leg. He then raised his free hand brought it down in the middle of her front leg, fracturing it. Rainbow Dash screamed in agonizing pain, her bone is sticking out of her flesh and blood pour out immediately on the ground. With a sadistic grin, the figure grabbed Rainbow Dash's right wing and bend it so hard and fast that it dislocated with a sickening crack. Rainbow felt even more excruciating pain and yelled out louder and fell to the ground. Yet satisfy with his work, the figure carried on and stomp on Rainbow Dash's right hind leg with his foot, fracturing it as well as her other hind leg in an instant.

Rainbow Dash kept screaming in agony as three of her limbs are fractured along with a dislocated wing as she laid on the floor. Blood poured freely from her limbs and the pain is so excruciating that Rainbow promptly swore while dealing with it.

"BUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUCK YOU! BUCK YOU! BUCK YOU! AAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Rainbow Dash swore at the figure while being in agonizing pain.

"hehehehe, my... what colorful language. Haven't your parents ever taught you not to swear such profanity Rainbow Crash"

"What! You son of bitch! You're dead! You hear me! DEAD!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she groan from the pain.

"Ooooohhh, I'm so scared!".The figure said in a fake manner. "So scared that I'm going to let that happened. I really have too much pride to get killed by some flying horse and I thought you ponies are passive."

Rainbow Dash glared at the figure with hatred and anger. If she isn't injured at the moment, she would've buck this monster into Tartarus. The figure just stared at Rainbow Dash, not caring of the glare and spoke in a grave voice.

"You know Rainbow, I could just kill you and your friends right here, right now." The figure said with a smile and stepped on the fractured wound on Rainbow's right hind leg, grinding it, making her yelp in pain. "But, I'm going to spare you and your friends for now. Like I said earlier, I only want to test your strength and abilities and frankly... I'm not impress, no not one bit."

The figure then brought his foot above Rainbow Dash's head and slam down hard enough to knock her unconscious. The door then open, letting sunlight shine in. The figure levitate all the mares and brought them outside. The train was still there as he expected. He open the train door and levitate the unconscious mares into the cart and gently place each of them on an individual seat and when he place Rainbow Dash's damaged body, he summon tons of gauze, lodged the protruding bones back into its place and bend the broken wing back into place, place some wooden folds on each limb, and wrapped it firmly with the gauze.

He then walked out of the cart and closed the door. The train started and move on. The figure watched as the train disappear in sight and turned over to the empty field that was once had an abandon shop occupying the space. He smiled as wind blew violently and he disappear without a trace.

'Soon... soon we will meet again and this time, it's war.'

(Canterlot)

Princess Celestia pace back and forth in her throne room. It's been over two hours since she sent the letter to her faithful student. Whenever she heard about something every important, Twilight would arrived to her in no less than an hour. What in the Equestria is taking her this long? Princess Celestia was starting to get worried and her train of thought was interrupted when a guard barged in. He quickly bowed and brought a grave message to the princess.

"Your highness, forgive my intrusion, but I bring upon grave news."

"What is it lieutenant?" Princess Celestia asked in a worried tone.

The guard took off his helmet and had a bit of a worried expression.

"The elements of harmony has arrived, but in a train that had nopony operating it. They seemed to be unconscious, but still breathing. Unfortunately, the element of loyalty is in a very bad state."

"How bad?"

"The doctor reported that three of her limbs, right front hoof and her two hind legs are somehow fracture. We have no knowledge on how she got that way, but something or somepony must've attacked them on the way here."

This news shocked Princess Celestia. Her student and her friends were attacked on their way here? It would mostly explained why they were running late, but she must be sure of this.

"Thank you lieutenaut, now if you please, where is my faithful student and her friends located."

"The elements are currently resting in room 300 in the North infirmary wing your highness."

The Princess nodded and her horn glowed and she disappeared from the throne room.

(North Infirmary, Room 300)

It was dark, the entire field empty with no life. Twilight look around and saw nothing. She tried to call out, but no answer. She look around some more and notice a small shine. Twilight got up on her hooves and ran towards the light. It became brighter and brighter as she got closer. It then disappear, making it dark again. Twilight made a complete stop and instantly felt something grabbed around her neck. It pull her into the air and started to choke the life out of her. She could hardly breathe and held something said as she faded into unconscious.

"One day, we will meet again. And soon, you'll be dead before you could even fight back"

Twilight then woke up in a shock. She pant and noticed that she's in a hospital bed. Twilight looked around and saw all her friends, they were unconscious, but seem fine. The only one she didn't see was Rainbow Dash, and there was a bed with curtains concealing whoever was in it. A bright flash filled the room. Once it stopped, princess Celestia was present.

"Princess Celestia, what happened?" Twilight said as she is oblivious in the situation.

"Everything is all right my student. I'm just glad all of you are safe." Princess Celestia said as she walk to Twilight and wrapped her wing around her, pulling Twilight in a hug. Twilight returned the embraced and soon broke apart to looked at her mentor. "What's going on? Why are me and my friends here?" She asked

"Unfortunately, the guard said that you and your friends were found in a train with nopony piloting it. All of you were unconscious and Rainbow Dash was... in a very bad shape." Princess said

"How bad is she?" Twilight asked

"It seems you should see for yourself young Sparkle." Princess Celestia said as she help Twilight out of her bed and towards the curtain one at the end of the room. Celestia's horn glowed and the curtains were engulf in the same color. The curtains moved and revealed a very damaged Rainbow Dash. Both the princess and Twilight was shocked, Rainbow Dash's hind legs were wrapped heavily in gauze along with her right front hoof.

"Princess... what happened to her?" Twilight said in a worried tone.

"One of the guards report to me that Rainbow Dash was found with three fractured limbs. What so perplexing about this is that she is already wearing casts when the they found you girls unconscious in a train driven on its own." Princess Celestia explained.

With that said and heard, Twilight started to remembered something. Something that happened earlier on their trip to Canterlot. It was him! That hooded creature that she doesn't seem to be familiar with had attack Rainbow Dash and shocked her into unconsciousness. He must've put Rainbow in this bad state and manage to defeat her with no effort. It would explained the summoning of a paper that slice through her beam easily and produce a massive electrical surged that even professional skilled unicorns today couldn't perform a feat like that except Starswirl the bearded or maybe the Princesses. She must tell this to Celestia.

"Princess Celestia, I just remembered something very, very important to tell you." Twilight said gravely

"What is it my student?" Celestia asked

Twilight took a deep breath and began her tale. "While we were coming to Canterlot, the train that my and friends and I were travelling in, stopped at some abandon looking shop that was on a detour because of minor repairs on the main railway. We looked inside and the door closed behind us, making it very dark to see. Soon purple mist have swarmed the area that Rarity and I were illuminating and came.... him" Twilight shutter at the last word.

"Who?" Princess Celestia said curiously

"I don't know, he was something I never seen before or studied. I assume he was male due to his voice, which means he speaks Equestrian and seems to be intelligent since he wore clothing that consists of a cloak. He also appeared to be bipedal like a minotaur with this limb that look like a claw on both arms with five stick-like appendages." Twilight explained

"Interesting, I never seen or heard a creature like that for as long as I lived. Perhaps he must be some sort of an extraterrestrial that is visiting us? This could be quite a discovery Twilight. Did you happened to see what he looked like?"

"No, his hood was obscuring his face and I don't think he has good intentions Princess. He said that he was only testing our abilities and must've manage to defeat all of us with little effort. Just look what he did to Rainbow Dash, he must've have a certain degree of strength in order to cause this much damage to her. He even took defeated me by just summoning out a piece of paper that slice through my magic and shock me through my horn. Not even the most advanced magic and skilled unicorns today could even do that with ease unless if it's Starswirl the Bearded or maybe you and Princess Luna. We must do something about this Princess Celestia." Twilight said

Princess Celestia thought for a bit of what Twilight revealed. A creature that could defeat the elements of harmony with little effort? The only beings that did manage to defeat her student and her friends for a short while were Discord and possibly Nightmare Moon. Could... could this creature be connected to what she and Luna felt in the dimensions? Regardless, she must discuss with her student and her friends, and Luna about this after the rest of Twilight's friends wake up.

"You are correct my student, something must be done about this situation we are dealing with. I will have the guards be on the look out for this creature you described. Until then, rest up Twilight. As soon as the others awake we must discuss why I require your presence." Princess Celestia said

"Yes Princess, but could I at least see my family? It's been a while since I last saw them since I moved to Ponyville." Twilight requested

"Of course my dear student, I'll sent a letter to notify them." Princess Celestia said as she led Twilight back to the bed. She then proceed to leave the room until Twilight spoke.

"Oh and Princess Celestia?"

"Yes, Twilight?"

"Be careful" she said in a worried tone.

"I will... and so should you, my student." Celestia reply

As Princess Celestia walked out the door, she closed it gently and gave a small whisper to herself.

"I glad you safe and alive Twilight, cause I think of you more than just a student. I never felt such closeness since Luna was banished."

With that said, Princess Celestia proceeded down the hall and prepare to write a letter to notify Twilight's family.

(End of Final Part)