The Two Outcasts

The Two Outcasts

By Ultraa

Prologue

Starbright awoke. But she didn’t open her eyes. She knew what she would see if she did, so she laid there for a few minutes. When she opened her eyes, she closed them immediately, and started sobbing. She was wrong. What she saw was much, much worse.

Ruin. Everything was destruction, the houses, the stores, everything. There was fire and destruction as far as the eye can see. There was the occasional moan by another pony in the distance, and the sound of breaking structures echoed across the city. The skies were clogged with smoke, and all there was to breathe was dust. The worst part of it all was the corpses. There were so many. The majority of them were unicorns equipped with Equestrian armor. The rest were changeling. The fight lasted three days, but the sad truth had to be faced.

Canterlot had fallen.

After a few minutes of sobbing, the Duke-blue colored unicorn got on her feet, and started walking. Where, Starbright did not know. But, she knew she couldn’t stay there. As she walked, she started recollecting what had happened the last few days.

Like a swarm of bloodthirsty locust, the changeling army swooped in from above, overshadowing the skies and eradicating any and everything in their path. Starbright remembered her running into her own house, and locking herself in her basement. She sheltered there for the first two days, and on the third, the building above her was destroyed. She was found in her basement by a unicorn supplied with the Equestrian armor and a damaged sword. He proceeded to help Starbright as long as possible, until he was defeated. His last word to Starbright was simply,

“Run”

And she ran, leaving a trail of tears behind her. She ran until a piece of rubble hit her from above and knocked her out.

As Starbright ran out of breath, she took cover behind half a brick wall, and caught her breath. She sat there for a minute, and the sound of a siren blared in her ears and throughout the city. It had to be some kind of voice magnification spell or something. A somewhat odd but threatening female voice started to speak.

“ Attention citizens and soldiers of Canterlot. Your army has been defeated. Princesses Celestia, Luna, and Twilight are in custody. The changeling army, my royal subjects, has taken over.”

Starbright head raspy cheers echo throughout the city, obviously belonging to the Changeling army. The demonic voice continued.

“Resistance is futile. I am asking you now to turn yourselves in to The Royal castle. Failure to do so within the next hour will result in termination.” The alarm sound blared again, and there was silence.

Starbright knew she couldn’t turn herself in. Whether she did or not, she knew would be ‘Terminated’. Starbright knew she couldn’t lose hope.

The only structure that hadn’t been destroyed was the castle. It had barely been damaged. That most likely means the library is as it was before the invasion. Starbright could use a spell. Being the advanced mage she was, she was certain she could use any advanced teleportation spell. She knew it was a long shot, but she didn’t have any other liable options at this point.

Starbright went to the left flank* of the castle. She knew the walls were protective, so she used a basic teleportation spell to get to the top. She closed her eyes, and concentrated. When she opened them again, she was at the top of the inner bialy**. She ran across the path until she was at a turret, and went downstairs from there.

Starbright had been in the castle just once. And that was many moons ago, to visit the library. As she entered a hallway, she turned the first corner, quickly thinking about where she was and where she was going to go.

She knew that she if was in the left wing, the library couldn’t be far. She took cover at a corner, and peered around it. She saw a patrol of four changelings escort a Canterlot solder behind them. When the changelings rounded the corner they saw nothing, and thus, proceeded to march on.

Starbright uncloaked from her basic invisibility spell. She took a deep breath and galloped across the corridor. She entered the first door she saw, which was a sunroom, then the next door, which was a bedroom, and the final door in that specific hall, which was indeed the library.

As she entered the door, leaving a loud slamming noise behind her, her heart skipped a beat. Starbright immediately heard fluttering and galloping at the same time; the previous sentinels were coming. Starbright panicked a little, and levitated a random bookshelf to the door, hoping it wasn’t the one she needed. She scrambled across the library, frantically searching for an extreme teleportation book. She heard a slam against the door. They almost broke though!

Starbright, in horror, knew she had to find this book NOW. She levitated book after book, not getting anything. At this point, she knew any teleportation book would be fine. So she found the first book that had the word ‘Teleport’ in it and flipped though it, finding the most extreme thing there was.

There was a sudden explosion, followed by the same demonic voice on the alarm ten minutes ago saying;

“Where are you, little one?” followed by evil laughing.

Starbright found a spell labeled ‘Marelin’s spell for Telepo--- of Inte----‘ the rest was scratched out.  She didn’t care. As Starbright heard hoofsteps come near her, she read the spell aloud.

“Breaking the laws of time and space,” Starbright’s horn started to glow, “Traveling away from this evil embrace” There was a loud flash, and the last thing Starbright saw before she left was the look of terror on Queen Chrysalis’ face.

Starbright escaped.