Along came a spider

Bonolenov wrapped his bandages back over his body and began walking down the ruined city, the sphere he summoned disappearing behind him.

As he continued walking down the street, he looked at where the other Troupe members had been on a rampage, looking down upon the bodies with an apathetic glare.

He looked further and saw a lone guard guarding the entrance to a large castle. Knowing that the guard would be no match for him, he began walking closer towards the door.

"Bonolenov", someone called.

He looked towards where he heard the voice and saw Shalnark exiting from the shadows.

"Shalnark, I trust those guards were no match for you and Franklin"? he asked.

"Yeah, but there was this one like the boss and that purple one", Shalnark explained. "You know those ones with horns and wings, so Franklin decided to stay behind and fight her".

"Weak most likely, like the rest of them".

"I dunno, she had a strong aura to her".

"If you think that she's more than match for Franklin, then you're wrong", Bonolenov stated.

"What, I never even implied that she could fight Franklin", Shalnark said, his smile briefly leaving his face.

Bonolenov snorted at his comrade.

"So, do you think this is where the treasure is?" Shalnark asked, eager to change the topic before he angered his comrade.

"Well this building does look like it's the main building of the city", Bonolenov answered.

"Yeah, I guess it does have that look to it", Shalnark responded.

Bonolenov began trotting up the stairs towards the door.

"Wait, what if one those ones with horns and wings are inside"? Shalnark asked.

"What we always do" Bonolenov answered, climbing up the stairs towards the castle.

Shalnark followed Bonolenov up the stairs and for the first time in a long time a felt nervous, as if his conscious was begging him not to go inside.

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From the trees, Princess Luna and her guard looked at the numerous guard corpses that surrounded the entrance to the scrapyard.

"Princess Luna, are you sure they're in here"? one guard asked.

"We are sure they are here", Luna confirmed. "We can sense their magical energy"

'But, how come we cannot sense their captors energy, even on the day of their disappearance we could not sense the foul ponies magic', she thought to herself.

"Your highness, shall we move in"? the guard next to her asked.

"Yes, of course", Luna responded.

"NIGHT GUARD! MOVE OUT"! the guard yelled.

The night guards moved from their hiding places from the trees and began walking towards the scrapyard gates, no fears clouding their minds.

The guards soon stormed through the gates and began to spread out in search for the missing members of the Mane six and Spike.

Luna trotted ahead of her guards. From scrap pile to scrap pile, her eyes darted everywhere.

'Please be okay you four', she thought to herself.

The trotting further, she reached the main building.

'Maybe, just maybe', she thought, galloping up the stairs.

She reached the door and opened it hurriedly. Upon doing so she was greeted with the site of two guards, one with deep slash marks, the other looked as though he had been eaten.

Luna turned her head to the left and saw an opened door and inside was a staircase that led downwards to another room. Following her instincts, she went down the stairs.

The further she went down the stairs, the smell of dead bodies reached her nose.

"No", she said under her breath.

She reached the bottom of the stairs and saw the last guard's corpse and, tied to wooden Y's and with multiple gashes, was Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Spike.

Luna felt tears begin to rise and tried her best to hold them back, but to no success. She dropped on the floor and cursing.

"No, d-damn them, I w-wasn't quick e-enough", she cried, failing to notice their chests rising.

Luna's sobbing rang throughout the small room that she was in.

'I couldn't do it I failed them', she thought. 'If I was just quicker'.

A faint cough broke her off from her thoughts.

*Cough cough* "Princess Luna", a voice croaked from in front of her.

Luna looked upwards, tears still falling from her eyes, she saw Twilight Sparkle looking at her, her eyes looking as though they struggled to remain open.

"Y-you're alive", she sighed, wiping away the tears from her eyes.

The sound of hoofsteps coming down the stairs caught her attention. Looking back she saw a lunar guard racing down the stairs. When the guard reached the bottom he gasped. In all his years of service he had never seen something like this before.

"Sweet Celestia"! he gasped.

"Quick, help me get them down and get them medical supplies immediately", she ordered.

"Yes but", he paused for a moment. "The scouts have reported that the Changelings never arrived".

"What but they said that -", Luna grunted in frustration. "It doesn't matter, help me release them".

"Yes your highness", he said, walking over to Rainbow Dash and cutting her down.

Luna used her magic and wrapped it around the bonds that held Twilight in place.

'Damn it, where are you Chrysalis', she thought.

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Chrysalis buzzed towards the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters, where her leaders resided. She flew down to the entrance where two soldiers greeted her and allowed her to pass into the base.

The castle was bluish - gray color because of Luna's moon shining down upon them. Walking down the hallways and into the room where her, her allies and her superiors, would meet. Inside the meeting hall, she was greeted by two familiar faces. A black and red centaur and a blue goat.

"Grogar, Tirek, you look well", she complemented.

"Spare me your greeting, I have no use for it", Tirek spat.

"Well aren't you the unsociable one", Chrysalis taunted.

"Don't taunt me insect" Tirek growled.

"Insect", she gasped. "I'm hurt".

"ENOUGH"! a voice called.

They to the entrance and saw Sombra and their leader entering. Their leader stayed in the shadows as he always did, not allowing anyone to see what he looked like.

Sombra sat in the chair next to Chrysalis and their leader sat on a chair a bit away from the table, a chair in the shadows.

"Chrysalis, what news do you bring"? their leader asked.

"Well it appears that the ponies you had Sombra summon are causing more damage then you expected", she answered.

"Yes, this is all very interesting, but how did Sombra get them here"? Tirek asked.

"I used a spell that only I know that allows me to travel into a dimension that allows me to look into other worlds, I can return back to this world and summon other beings, however, there is no way to get into the other worlds, meaning that the Spiders, are stuck here", he explained.

"So what happens when they realize that there is no treasure, and that you made it up"? Grogar asked.

"That is when the second stage of the plan comes in", the leader answered. "The Troupe are very vengeful, they even destroyed an entire city as a requiem for a deceased member. They will go after Sombra for lying to them and then we, will destroy them".

"Hmm, you know more about them then the rest of us", Grogar said.

"Yes he does, how do you know these things"? Chrysalis asked.

Their leader chuckled.

"Perhaps it is better to show how I know".

The leader of the four got up from his chair and walked out from the shadows, exposing his light silver coat and long silver mane. As he walked forward, he revealed his priest-like clothing and a cutie mark of a twelve legged spider with the number four in the centre.

Chrysalis gasped at the sight of his cutie mark.

"Who are you"? Chrysalis asked.

"My name" he began. "Is Omokage".