Personies

Luna embraces the returning ponies. "You did it once again."

Celestia enters the room. "Am I interrupting anything?"

Luna coughs once and places herself beside her sister.

"As I can see you brought Rarity back, still I think you owe us some answers “Hunk”. I will see you all tomorrow morning in the war room. You too Luna."

Celestia walks out while mumbling to herself.

Rainbow flies closer to Luna. "I know the royal affairs aren’t my business but why is Celestia so grumpy?"

Luna sighs. "She asked me to keep it under wraps, but when I can´t trust you guys who can I trust? In the beginning as Celestia was alerted by Twilight´s letter, regarding the fog and strange behavior of the people, Celestia wrote back that Twilight and you all should come to her, but she also mentioned that she invited Shining Armor and Cadence , but the two never arrived and we haven’t heard from them either.

Now is it up to my sister to take care of the royal business in the Crystal Empire. And she cuts Twilight so much slack, despite her unusual manners, because she thinks Twilight might have found out about it. Anyway it´s already late you better get some sleep, today was a stressful day after all."

After a visit by the doctor, to get their minor injuries patched up, they go to their rooms. The rest of the night proceeds without any occurrences.

The next morning, everypony who was requested by Celestia has gathered in the war room.

She speaks loud and clear. "Thank you for coming here so early in the morning. Let us begin the session."

"Hunk is it true that you real name is Tuxedo Masquerade?"

"Yes princess it is true."

"Well then we will address you with this name from now on if that is fine with you."

"To be honest your majesty I prefer my nickname Hunk."

"Fine as you wish. Next question, what exactly did Twilight mean, as she said you are from the other world."

"I am not absolutely sure myself, I mean I know I come from the other world. I arrived here together with the fog, as he appeared the first time. Since then, all I´m trying to do is to get my memories back and find the truth."

"If you lost your memory, how comes that you were able to tell us so much about the events that took place here?"

"I don´t know. Something just drove me to you princess and everything I said about the world were merely fragments I was able to remember."

"You repeatedly mentioned a sister of yours. Who is she?"

"Her name is Diamond Secret, she and I were the only ones in the other world as far as I can remember. But above all I remember her vast power, she is much more powerful than me. I also assume that she is the one responsible for all this."

"Why do you think she is the cause of this?"

"She always was a little bit “strange” the only thing I can think of is how she yelled at me, I don´t even know why, or what that fight was about."

Hunk holds his head. "Oh what a terrible headache."

Celestia looks concerned. "Are you all right?"

"Yes I’m fine, please continue."

"Very well let us jump to some more recent events. Why is the fog and the wave of depression that comes along with it not going away since you rescued Pinkie Pie?"

"It is indeed strange, after Pinkies rescue was everything fine, but after Fluttershy had nothing changed and when I look outside the window, well saving Rarity didn´t do much either.

Quite the opposite seems to be the case. Come to think of it, Spike did some research for me and found something out about a cult. What was it called? A right adventus nihilum, I bet they have something to do with this."

"Indeed did my intelligence agency also report about this cult, so they haven´t done anything illegal for now. Ok next question. Why is it that only the elements of harmony are targeted and nopony else?"

"If I have to take a guess, I probably would say, besides their popularity, they hold a strong power, so maybe my sister needs that power for something."

Rarity raises her hoof while holding an icepack against her head with the other.

"Excuse me, but something was bothering me since we came back yesterday. Why was Spike able to see and breathe without any trouble in the other world?"

All glances face Rarity.

"Now that you mention it, you are right." Aj says

Hunk answers, "I´m fairly sure it is because he is a dragon. Dragons possess a natural immunity against magic."

"That would make sense." Rainbow seems pleased with that answer.

With a loud bang, the doors fly open and a messy looking Twilight stands in the doorway.

"I knew it you all plot against me! You are terrible imposters, but don´t worry I will find my real friends even if I have to do some evil deeds!"

Before anyone can react, Twilight is casting a spell that makes it impossible to move.

She runs over to Hunk and tears his suit off.

"HA! See “She” told me you are an alicorn! You hid it because otherwise it would have ruined your plan!"

She levitates Rainbow Dash and Spike up and runs out of the room, laughing like a lunatic, with them under her control.

Rainbow shouts, "Hey Twilight let me go!"

But Twilight ignores her and keeps on running.

As soon as Celestia is able to break free from the spell she starts chasing her, but to no avail. She is gone and so are Spike and Rainbow Dash.

The spells power lessens and everypony peaks out the door, to see a disappointed, head down, Celestia slowly walking back to them.

Luna tries to raise the spirits. "So you´re an alicorn, I mean what´s up with that? Right?" She lets out a forced laughter.

Celestia stares at her with a twitch in her eye.

She sits down, sighs and begins to speak, her voice sounds like she is about to snap. "I can´t take it any longer, I don´t care if you are an alicorn, evil, good or whatever. But please bring me my old Twilight back, I can´t lose another student. I, just…"-tears are welling up in her eyes- "leave me alone."

Luna tries to lay her hoof around Celestia.

Celestia yells at her. "No! You too. I don´t want to see anybody right now, just leave me be."

Luna withdraws her hoof and leaves her sister alone.

She catches up to the others.

"Where is our little prince?"

Everypony is shaking their head.