Ruined Canterlot

“C’mon Tavi! We’re almost out of the city! We gotta get out of here!” Vinyl was screaming for Octavia to run faster, as they were almost out and had a swarm of changelings on their flanks.

“I’m.. I’m running.. As.. Fast as I can!” Octavia was panting between words, tired from the constant running.

“YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE!” A changeling yelled in a spitty, bug voice.

Vinyl and Octavia were a mere twenty steps from the gates. They burst forward in a final rush of adrenaline. In the rage of speed, Vinyl tripped.

“Oof!”

“Vinyl!” Octavia ran back towards her marefriend as the swarm rushed over her.

“RUN TAVI RUN! LEAVE ME!”

“I will not, and you know that!”

A group broke off from Vinyl, and attacked Octavia. Who submitted to them, not wanting to fight and hurt herself or Vinyl anymore.

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The two were thrown in a tower, where a tall changeling was speaking to the guards about their new captives. At his side was a white filly with a purple and pink mane. In chains was a familiar blue unicorn.

Before they knew it, the door was blown open and the taller changeling ran out, only to be thrust back in by blast of magic. The white filly went to work on unchaining the blue unicorn and then, when asked by the other, unchained Vinyl and Octavia.

“Thank you, we appreciate it.”

The other unicorn came forth and introduced herself. Her name was Trixie, and the filly was Sweetie Belle. Vinyl and Octavia introduced themselves, and Trixie asked to for them to follow her.

Vinyl, being the brash mare she is, spoke up about trust and treachery. Trixie proved herself a pony with reason and unusual knowledge of the changelings. After the argument, and a shocking realization about Puff, the group of four went through the tower to a room at the peak.

A purple unicorn was chained and blindfolded. She also had a magic bind on her, horn? The pony was clearly a unicorn, yet seemed to be missing what all unicorns have. A horn.

Trixie went over to her, taking the chains off of her hooves. She then walked over to the holds on the blindfold.

“NO! PLEASE!” The unicorn yelled.

Trixie spoke up then. “I’m here to help you out, and eye for an eye you see. You save me and I save you.”

When the knot came undone, everyone in the room gasped.

“Oh my Celestia.” Octavia was the first to speak.

“An eye for an eye indeed.” Said Vinyl, earning a hoof from Octavia.

Sweetie Belle merely looked away.

When the blindfold came off, everyone in the room saw what had happened to her.

She had lost her left eye.