Twilight's Decision

Rainbow stares at Canterlot from atop the mountain surveying the area, the streets are empty down below. The castle is surrounded with a black shield and bursts of rainbow colored light shine through the windows at random intervals. ‘What is going on in there’ she whispers to herself. ‘Celestia is holding off Sombra’ says a voice behind her. She turns and falls on her rump. ‘Nightmare Moon’ she manages to squeak out.

‘Yes but I am not just Nightmare Moon, I am also Princess Luna’ and as she says that her body changes to look like Luna instead of her evil alter ego.

‘How….how’ stutters Rainbow Dash.

‘I gave up my Alicorn magic in this form so I now use Nightmare Moons power’ says Luna; ‘I gave the last of this forms power to Celestia so she could hold off the majority of Sombra’s forces’.

'I didn’t know Alicorn’s could do that!’ exclaims Rainbow.

‘They can’t usually but this isn’t a usual time’ says Luna as she walks up next to her, ‘I can get you in’.

‘You can!’ by now Rainbow couldn’t believe her luck.

‘Here drink this’ she is given a potion by Luna, ‘drink it fast’. Rainbow glugs it down as fast as she can and then starts to gag,

‘What is this stuff’ she coughs out.

‘A disguise potion that will allow you through the shield’ Rainbow coughs again and looks down at her body seeing her colors become a shade darker and tunes out the rest of her words.

‘Alright, alright’ she says, ‘how long does it last’.

‘About 20 minutes so hurry!’ Rainbow takes off as Princess Luna fading into shadows and out of the shadows glow green eyes.

Rainbow fly’s at her highest speed without causing a sonic rainboom. She zooms through the shield and straight through the open window right into an iron spear. The spears aim was true and it goes straight through Rainbow Dashes right eye. Rainbow falls to the ground as black appears around the edge of her vision, then a soldier appears above her, ‘I’m sorry Rainbow’ says Celestia from nearby, ‘There’s no way to fix what’s wrong with you’ Then as a tear rolls out of Rainbow’s last eye she forces her hoof down to the pocket in her saddle bag and removes the potion. Celestia quickly grabs her guards hoof and yells ‘stop’. She picks up the bottle and stares at it for a second then whispers into her guard’s ear. Rainbows last sight is the guards closing in on her.

Rarity stares out of the iron bars of her cage, ‘let me out’ she yells, ‘I refuse to be kept in this dirty cage’. ‘Oh well then’ a voice says from nearby, ‘would you rather I had left you for Sombra’. ‘Who…who’s there?’ she calls out.

‘An old friend’ states the voice calmly. Rarity passes out as an eagle’s claw appears out of the shadows.

Twilight looks up at the old castle of the sisters; ‘the castle had seen better days but there might be a spell in it that will allow me to get to Canterlot faster’ she turns and looks at the darkness in the tree line. ‘I have to hurry’. She thinks to herself.