Who Were They?

It all felt like stage play to Twilight, as if everyone was a performer and everything that occurred was nothing but an act. That's what one part of her thought, but her more logical part knew that it was not an act, it really did happen, everything that occurred that day was real and she experienced it all.

"TAKE HIM TO THE DUNGEON! WE CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL!" ordered a guard, it sounded distant to Twilight, the former alicorn and now unicorn.

"THE PRINCESS IS DEAD!" yelled another.

"NO!" screamed a distraught Cadance. "SHE CAN'T BE DEAD!"

"I SAID TAKE HIM AWAY DAMN IT!" snarled the guard. Twilight turned to see two guards drag a black coated stallion; Kage, the pony that used to be a monster, a brutal tyrant named King Sombra, out of the room.

"TWILIGHT!" yelled Kage at a unresponsive Twilight.

She felt detached to her surroundings, not even the pain from her two broken limbs registered to her, she was in a trance.

"WHO IS THIS PONY?!" asked a guard to Cadance, referring to the corpse of a cream coated red maned alicorn with a clean whole through her body.

"I-I-I don't know...she knocked me out and dragged me...something about taking me to a place where I can be safe?" Cadance had no idea who the dead alicorn was, she just related what little she knew. "She also claimed that she heads a secret sisterhood."

Twilight turned to see the heart crushing sight of her former mentor, dead, on the floor. She looked so peaceful despite her mane and coat stained in blue colored blood. Twilight felt personally responsible for her death, maybe if she didn't side with Sombra, Celestia would still be alive.

"She was supposed to outlive me..."

"Twilight?" Twilight?" the sound of someone saying her name broke her out of her trance.

"Huh?" the unicorn turned to see Cadance in front of her, clearly concerned and worried.

"You okay?"

Twilight did not know what to say next, she felt ashamed over what happened, this all happened because Sombra manipulated her. But she did feel sorry for Kage, who had to pay for what that tyrant did, he did not deserve that. "What's going to happen to Kage?" was all she asked.

Cadance sighed, not the question she wanted. "We're going to hold him prisoner until I am absolutely certain that Sombra is gone and no longer inhabiting that poor pony."

The pink alicorn noticed that some of the unicorn's limbs were broken from her abuse from the cream alicorn earlier. "Hold still Twi." her horn glowed and Twilight suddenly felt the bones in her limbs mend themselves. Cadance's horn stopped glowing once the procedure was completed. "All better now."

Twilight, without a word, walked over to the pink alicorn on her newly healed legs and wrapped her into a hug. "It's all my fault Cadance...It's all my fault!" cried the unicorn into her sister-in-law's shoulder. "Had I told Celestia my doubts about being a princess earlier...this all wouldn't happen!"

"Oh, Twiley...this was not your fault...you were manipulated by a tyrant who did everything he could to retake the throne." assured Cadance.

But that did not make the unicorn any better. "I-I-I happily gave him my virginity...not knowing that he was Sombra all along."

Cadance was indeed disappointed by Twilight's actions, but she knew that she was seduced into the dark side by a master manipulator. "For now Twiley...let's just focus on healing...Equestria is now facing an uncertain future ahead us, a future without aunt Celestia to guide us, and I need all the help I can get to make sure the transition goes smoothly...especially since I am also pregnant."

Two guards walked in and placed a sheet over Celestia's body to cover her up. Two more guards followed with a stretcher to load the body on it.

Twilight turned her attention over to the other dead alicorn; the one formally known was Mistress Superior. "Who was she Cadance? This Mistress Superior." asked Twilight.

"A pony who created a monster and used any means to try and kill it...all I know is that she heads some kind of secret sisterhood." explained the alicorn.

"She and Celestia knew each other...they knew each other very well...at one point Celestia stated that she once saw Superior as like a mother to her." stated Twilight as she remembered the things the two said before they fought.

"There's much about Celestia's past that not even I know about, all I know was that she did things that she was not proud of but necessary for the continued survival of the kingdom." she stated.

"How many students did Celestia had before me and Sunset Shimmer?" bluntly asked the lavender unicorn.

"I am not too sure of the exact number Twiley, but I would assume many since she did live and ruled for a long time."

"By the way," continued Twilight. "where was Mistress Superior going to send you to?"

"Princess Cadance?" asked a guard that trotted into the room just as Cadance was about to answer Twilight's question.

"Yes Dewy?" the princess turned to the guard.

"It's Princess Luna ma'am...she's alive!"

"What?!" both Cadance and Twilight exclaimed.

"The crystal they were encased in broke apart and now they are free and alive." explained Dewy.

"How are Luna and Trixie?" asked the unicorn.

"They're both alive, but are now in a coma, they should wake up again once their bodies get the oxygen it needs." continued the guard. "Come along, I'll take you to medical to see them."

Both mares followed Dewy out of the room, leaving a few guards behind to take the bodies away and the mirror. On the mirror, unnoticed by the guards, was a projection of Sombra, but not the evil Sombra everyone knew, but of what appeared to be a good version of him. No green and purple smoke eyes, no red horn, no armor, nothing to signify that he's a tyrant. This was the place Mistress Superior wanted Cadance and the unborn foal to go to.

At another part of Equestria stood a vast prison, where the worst of the worst offenders get sent to. Deep underground, tucked away by Celestia herself, was a cage. In the cage was a centaur patiently mediated to pass the time of his long imprisonment, his eyes suddenly opened and an evil grin formed on his face. "The Sun Princess is dead..." he chuckled a bit. "...never thought I would live to feel the day." the grin grew larger.

"Me neither." added a new voice. The prisoner turned to see a cloaked alicorn who stood next to a knocked out Cerberus.

"How did you do that?"

"Music soothes the savage beast Tirek." explained the alicorn who pointed to a self-playing lyre that played soothing music. "Anyways...yes, it is true, Princess Celestia is dead."

"Let me guess...you came here to free me from cesspool they call a prison?" he raised an eyebrow.

"Only if you remember that it will be me who makes the deals around here."

"What do you want from me?" Tirek was about suspicious by this alicorn mare.

"You see...not only was Celestia killed...but also someone who means a lot to us as well...savagely killed by her own creation."

"Mistress Superior is dead as well?" the centaur was in disbelief.

"I see you knew her."

"She was the one that lead me and my brother to Equestria...told us about the power of the magic here."

"Then I was right to assume that you'll be perfect for this mission." grinned the alicorn.

"Just tell me what to do and I'll gladly do it." smirked Tirek.

The alicorn used her magic to open the cage. "To help us seek our vengeance against those who killed Mistress and to help us gain absolute control over the kingdom."

Tirek cautiously walked out. "What do I get in return?"

"All the magic you want."

The prisoner gave a big smile of twisted satisfaction. "You have yourself a deal." he put out his hand and shook the alicorn's foreleg. The alicorn also smiled.

"Pleasure doing business with you Tirek."