The Fall of the Night

Disclaimer:  I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Serenity, Star Shadow, and any character from the show.  All I own is this idea and my OCs.

Chapter 10: Prison Break

Midnight opened her eyes slowly.  She began to look around the room; she was in a dark room with nothing in it, except for a bed, a washstand, and a figure lying on the floor.  What happened?  The dark blue unicorn thought to herself, I remember going into city hall, but then…  Midnight stood up and started to walk to the figure on the floor.

As she gotten closer to the unconscious pony she saw the pony had a dark red coat, a black mane, and a cutie mark of a large knife.  “Nightfire!”  She exclaimed in glee, recognizing her friend.  Nightfire began to stir at the sound of his name.  He opened his eyes and saw Midnight standing over him with a grin on her face.

“Midnight!”  Nightfire exclaimed as he quickly stood up and embraced her in a hug.

“Nightfire,” Midnight said in a more serious tone, “What happened?”  Midnight could remember getting hit by the magic blast, but nothing after that.

Nightfire broke the hug and looked at her with a serious face.  “After you were knocked unconscious Star Shadow and I fought against Night Shadow and his friends, but they were too much for us.  Star Shadow escaped, but I stayed behind to try and get you out too, but, as you can tell, I failed.”  Nightfire finished.

Midnight looked at him with a frown on her face.  “You didn’t have to stay behind with me, I would’ve been fine.”  Midnight told Nightfire with a hint of sadness in her voice.

“No, I had to at least try.  I couldn’t leave you to… them.”  Nightfire told her in a passionate voice.

Midnight looked at him and smiled.  “Thank you, Nightfire.”  She told, as she leaned in and kissed him on the cheek.  “That was very sweet of you.”  Nightfire beamed with joy.

-Hospital-

Wing Beat opened up his eyes and looked around the room.  He saw a clean hospital room with medical equipment attached to him.  Wing Beat felt a dull, aching pain in his side.  What happened?  Wing Beat asked himself, as the memories of the battle came back to him.  He looked at the place where that dark red earth pony, Nightfire, cut him at, and saw a bloody bandage around most of his torso.

Wing Beat heard talking outside of his room, and the door began to open.  In walked a white unicorn stallion with a stethoscope as a cutie mark, and Night Shadow.  Night Shadow seen that his friend has awoken, and he ran over to him, pushing the doctor out of his way.

“Wing Beat, are you okay?”  Night Shadow asked Wing Beat in a very concerned voice.

Wing Beat looked up at his friend.  “Well I’ve been better.”  Wing Beat joked, but Night Shadow wasn’t in a joking mood.  “But, seriously, my side is killing me, what happened after I blacked out?”

“Well, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie went off to get the guards while Twilight, Lightning Fast, Serenity, Rainbow Dash, you, and I stayed behind to hold off Star Shadow, and his friends.  We were able to capture two of them, but Star Shadow got away.  We have ponies searching for him right now.”  Night Shadow told his friend.

“How long has it been?”  Wing Beat asked hoping he wasn’t out for too long.

“About twelve hours.”  Night Shadow responded simply, “But nothing major has happened.”

“Okay, tell me if anything happens.”  Wing Beat told his friend, “For now I’m going to get some more sleep.”  Wing Beat began to close his eyes, and Night Shadow walked out of the room, giving his friend time to rest.

-Manehatten Dungeons-

Midnight and Nightfire had talked for hours in their prison cell, having a good time, well as best of a time they could have in a dungeon.

The door to their cell opened and in walked three of the city’s guards, two being unicorns, and one being a pegasus.  “Prisoners, come with us.”  The pegasus guard stated as he gestured for the two prisoners to follow him.  Nightfire and Midnight did what the pegasus wanted them to do, not wanting to cause any trouble, yet.  The two unicorns went after Midnight, and Nightfire making sure they didn’t try anything.

The pegasus led them into a room, it was a simple room, it had a table with four chairs around it.  “Sit.”  The pegasus guard told them again, and they listened to the guard.  A door on the other side of the room opened and in walked two unicorns, both from the battle that had happened earlier.  One being purple and the other the light brown one.

The two unicorns sat across from Nightfire and Midnight.  “Okay, we are going to ask you a series of questions, if you lie there will be consequences, and we will know when you lie as well, so don’t try to lie to us.”  The purple mare said in a calm, but commanding voice.  The two prisoners nodded.  “First question: what are your names?”

The two looked at each other, confused; Star Shadow had introduced them earlier, didn’t he.  “I’m Nightfire, and that is Midnight.”  Nightfire stated still confused at what the purple mare had asked them.

“Second question: who do you serve?”  The light brown mare then asked the two prisoners.

“We mainly serve under Star Shadow, but he serves under Nightmare Moon, so we technically serve Nightmare Moon.”  Nightfire said again without hesitation.  These ponies should know who we serve, so why are they asking us these stupid questions they already know?  Nightfire asked himself.

“Third question: what was your main goal in attacking us earlier?”  The purple mare asked.

“Our main goal was to kill Night Shadow, something Wing Beat had failed at, but we were also told to kill anypony else who got in our way.”  Nightfire said again now not really caring at what he was saying, for now the ponies were just asking stupid questions.

“Fourth question,” The light brown mare continued.  The two unicorns kept asking the ponies questions for about two hours; they were all simple questions, except for the last one.  “Final question, where is Star Shadow?”  Asked the light brown mare.

-Outside the interrogation room-

Star Shadow looked at the door to the room where Nightfire and Midnight were being interrogated, and he smiled.  He listened into the room and he heard, “Final question, where is Star Shadow?”  Star Shadow chuckled at this question, and he bucked down the door leading into the room.

“I’m right here.”  Star Shadow said pleasantly.  The two unicorns looked up at him, surprised he’d be here.  “Midnight, Nightfire, miss me?”  Star Shadow asked in a pleasant voice, the two other unicorns were still surprised at who had just came into the room.

“Stop right there, Star Shadow!”  Twilight shouted at him, recovered from her shock at the sight of him.  “You’re under arrest, for the attempted assassination of Night Shadow and other ponies!”  Twilight shouted at him, again.  Twilight had fury in her eyes, she was still angry at Star Shadow for killing her older brother, Shining Armor.  Twilight fired a beam of energy at Star Shadow, but Star Shadow simply avoided it.

“Woah now, Twilight, you don’t want to be hurting somepony with your magic, do you?”  Star Shadow laughed at Twilight, making a game out of her rage.  This made Twilight even more furious than before.

“Shut up!  You’re a monster, how could you kill Shining Armor and just laugh at what you did?”  Twilight asked him, still furious.

Star Shadow looked at Twilight with an amused look on his face, “Oh, you’re still mad at me for killing your older brother.  Well, actually, that is one of my best memories!”  Star Shadow shouted in glee.  “He was always so rude to me, and when I killed him it just felt so good!”

How could anypony be this evil?  Twilight asked herself.  She fired another beam at Star Shadow, but he sidestepped, again.  “Sorry Twilight, but I can’t play games right now; I have places to be and things to do.”  Star Shadow told Twilight, as he began to run out of the room with Nightfire and Midnight close behind him.  Twilight and Serenity began to run after him, but they eventually lost the pegasus and his two friends.

Twilight sighed.  Well they got away, again, but the time to strike is coming soon, they will soon be defeated by us.  Twilight thought to herself, still angry at Star Shadow.  And they will feel pain beyond belief, just like I did.  Twilight thought of her older brother at that last thought, and tears came to her eyes.  Soon.