Dead Or Alive

"Stop! Thief!" Princess Celestia had yelled as her golden horseshoes scrapped across the marble flooring of the hallway. The screech of the gold echoed through the room as she galloped past all the stain glass windows and glared at the cloaked figure running from her with a slight pinkish glow coming from it's hood.

Celestia narrowed her eyes and begun to prepare her horn so she could blast the bandit with her magic. Her horn glowed a bright yellow but quickly faded as a beam of bright yellow light shot from her horn, aiming at the figure.

The glow coming from the hood disappeared as a orb surrounded the figure for a brief moment than disappeared as it teleported out of the beam's aim than back as soon as the beam shattered the large window in the room there were about to enter.

Celestia growled loudly as her hoof steps got louder and louder each second. She extracted her wings and flew after the figure. Fast, but as if she wasn't giving it her best effort. Celestia put her front hooves in front of her as she got closer and closer to the pony as they entered the dinning room.

As the hooded pony ducked Celestia flew over it's head than quickly looked back trying to get a glimpse of their face. She looked forwards and slowed down the closer she got to the shattered window.

"Who are you and what do you want with the Elements Of Harmony!" Celestia spoke as she detracted her wings and let her horseshoes scrap across the wooden dinning room table. She than turned towards the figure. It chuckled softly and stared at Celestia with it's glowing purple eyes.

"Why are you asking if they're just useless shards of crystals anyways? The elements of Harmony were destroyed long ago along with their leader. Princess Twilight Sparkle. Princess of  friendship. Do you still worship your former student or are you just claiming that you're too weak being the strongest alicorn out of the four to defeat all the villains that you know are coming your way?" The pony began crawling onto the opposite end of the dinning room table, staring at Celestia from under her black hood.

"The Elements Of Harmony are a precious artifact that Equestria will fall without! Give them back or suffer major consequences," Princess Celestia snarled and pointed her horn at the figure in a attack stance, looking up at the pony faintly.

"Oh please you could have blasted me long before. When I was just standing there. Yet you didn't. Some ruler you are. Haven't you learned that being the good guy gets you nowhere in life Celestia? If you where harsher on your sister you could havegotten her to bow down to you even faster without sending her to the moon. Same with your former student. You could have taken her powers away instead of letting her go on a rampage. Yet you just choose to let more and more villains leave Equestria in vital danger so you can swoop in and fix it all, giving you more admirers than you already have. Face it Celestia. You're a weakling, and Luna should be the rightful ruler of Equestria. Or perhaps, Twilight. Maybe Cadence, that way Luna would rule the crystal empire and everyone would be happy, unlike now under your foolish ruling,"

The pony chuckled softly and walked one step closer to Celestia.

"Equestria would be in complete chaos if any of them were to rule!"

"At least they would have stopped Twilight Sparkle from getting any closer to ruling the land! You're weak! You could have saved Equestria in the stomp of a hoof yet you didn't, just like you could have saved your life right now!" The hooded figure's hood glowed pink and shot out a beam of pink magic. Celestia gasped and quickly let of a beam from her horn.

The two beams of magic blasted into each other, Celestia's beam increasing in size than quickly overthrown by the figure's. Celestia groaned as the guards could be heard galloping through the hallways to meet her acquaintance.

They arrived and quickly stopped at the door looking at Celestia in agony and worry for the pink beam was mere seconds away from over throwing the princess. One guard looked up at the hooded figure and tilted her head slightly. She stepped closer than glanced over at Celestia near to being defeated. The guard flew up and tackled the hooded figure just as her beam reached Celestia's horn, causing her to loose her balance and fall backwards. The guard held the figure down tightly, lifting her hoof over it's head, but quickly stopped she looked into the pony's eyes surprised and somewhat frightened. She put her hoof on the pony's hood, pulling it down to reveal a mare smiling mischievously with a light purple coat and a dark blue and pink mane.

The guard stuttered softly, "Twi?"

"It was nice seeing you again Dashie, but I am afraid this will be our last meeting," Twilight, still smiling pushed Rainbow Dash off her chest with her front hooves. Rainbow Dash's head slammed up against one of the many dinning room chairs and watched as Twilight stood looking down at her, glaring.

A portion of the other guards dashed towards Twilight with their horns pointing towards her, as the other portion went to help Celestia. Twilight smirked and winked at Rainbow Dash just before flying upwards. The guards let of their beams of magic at the wall as Twilight Sparkle flew through the shattered window and out of sight from those in the room.

Rainbow Dash got up slowly and quickly flew out the shattered window the follow Twilight. She looked around for a brief moment before letting out a soft sigh and flew back in as Princess Luna was galloping through the doorway to greet her injured sister.

The guards around Celestia stepped back to let room for Luna to see her sister. Luna walked up to Celestia who was laying on the floor, yet her horn was burnt. Completely. Luna gasped than walked backwards to avoid seeing her sister in such pain.

"Were is she?" Luna faced Rainbow Dash and spoke with the royal voice.

Rainbow Dash looked through the shattered window for about five seconds than turned back to Luna. She cocked her head towards the window and watched as Luna looked into the night sky with fury.

"I tried going after her....but she was nowhere in sight," Rainbow Dash looked down at the ground with guilt.

"I want her, dead or alive."