Disharmony Saga

by FromTheMoon

Episode IV: Escape From Canterlot

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Princess Celestia lay on the ground in her stone form as the group of villains gathered around her. Discord moves up to her faster than the others, “I must say Celestia you do pull off the petrified stone look better than I ever did. I only wish you had kept your eyes open so I could see the look of terror on your face for eternity. But you had to be the buzz kill that you are and closed them ruining my fun.” After saying this Discord flies close enough to Celestia to give her a swift kick but as his foot hits her stone body he reels back in pain grabbing his hurt foot. “Even in stone form you still manage to bring me discomfort.” Discord moves away from the stone princess to nurse his now swollen foot. Chrysalis takes this opportunity to get in closer to Celestia, “Oh Celestia how arrogant you were as a princess and now once again I see you lying on the floor weak and defenseless. Serves you right believing that your pony kingdom was untouchable from outside forces.” Chrysalis turns away laughing very content over the princess’s current state. Trixie takes a look at Celestia but turns away without saying anything, her face showing no emotion at all. Nightmare Moon stands over Celestia’s stone body and looks at her for a long time before speaking, “What do you plan to do with her Siren? It was not in the plans to turn Celestia to stone. We were going to keep her as our prisoner for all the world to see after we eliminated Twilight Sparkle and her friends.” Siren takes some time to create a response to this question before she looks at Nightmare, “This changes only a few minor things, we still have Celestia as our prisoner and in a weaker state then she was before.” Trixie moves next to Siren intent on reminding her that one part of the pan has changed substantially, “Well what about Twilight and her friends Siren? They managed to escape from you and are probably planning a way to rescue Celestia as we speak. From experience I know that Twilight will not give up so easily and will probably begin looking for a way to free Celestia.” As Trixie finishes her sentence all the other villains stop what they are doing and look at Siren with a look of worry on their faces. Siren realizing that her plans have changed comes up with a quick solution, “Don’t worry so much Trixie, while it is true that Twilight and her friends managed to escape with Celestia’s sacrifice ill make sure they never get a chance to begin to plan to rescue Celestia.” With this Siren turns to face Zartanis who has been standing behind her watching silently, “Zartanis, do me a favor and go finish off Twilight and her friends for me. I doubt they got far with that teleportation spell seeing how weak Twilight was at the moment.” Zartanis nods his head in approval and heads towards the door. After Zartanis leaves Siren turns to face the group of villains to begin the next phase of her plan, “As for the rest of you I think it’s time we move ahead with the original plan. I will stay here in Canterlot with Zartanis to watch over things. As for the rest of you by using the Elements of Disharmony you have become even more powerful than you were before. Now head out into Equestria to claim the rest of your rewards and take your new roles as governors of those parts to heart.” With this Discord vanishes in a flash of yellow light, Chrysalis disappears in a ball of green flame, Nightmare Moon turns into a puff of purple mist and disappears into the night, and Trixie with the new power that she possesses now teleports out of Sirens view in a flash of blue light. With them gone Siren heads to the top of the highest tower in Canterlot to look over the land that she had just conquered, “At last I’m now one step closer to achieving what I could not do all those years ago before I left Equestria.” Siren takes one last look over the city before heading back down towards Canterlot’s archives.

Coming out of Twilight’s teleportation spell the six ponies fall towards the ground. It is not long before tears fill each of their eyes. Apple Jack turns to Twilight and reveals a face that Twilight does not recognize, “What do you reckon we do now Twilight? With the princess gone I’m finding it rather hard to see any good in all of this.” Rainbow Dash flies to up over her friends in a furious manner, “There’s NOTHING WE CAN DO. It’s over and we lost! Princess Celestia is gone and to top that off we’ve lost our cutie marks and to make matters even worse we’ve lost our connection to the Elements of Harmony, the one thing that might have been able to fix all this.” Droplets of water fall from Rainbow’s face to the ground. Pinkie Pie wipes her tears from her face to look at Rainbow Dash, “How can you say that Dashie? Have you really given up hope for the first time in your life? We need to stay with hope no matter how hard it is or we really will have lost.” Rarity wiping her tears on a handkerchief turns to look at Rainbow Dash too, “Pinkie is right Rainbow. We simply cannot afford to lose our hope right now. We need to stay strong for the princess’s sake.” With this Rainbow falls to the ground unable to control her tears.  Fluttershy looking at Rainbow Dash stops crying and moves over to hug Rainbow, “I know its hard Rainbow but I know in my in my heart that we will find a way to make things right again.” The rest of the girls move in and share a group hug. Twilight looks around her and realizes that they have not put that much distance between them and the villains decides to keep moving. “Come on girls, we can’t stay here or they are going to find us. It looks like we are actually only a few blocks away from the train station. We need to get on that train and head back to PonyVille, once there we can figure out what to do next.” The girls nod in agreement and they begin their run towards the train station. Once at the station the girls run into a mob of ponies trying to board the train and escape Canterlot. Twilight and her fiends push towards the train when something catches Twilights eye, a unicorn with a light and dark blue mane with a white body. Twilight changes direction and rushes over towards the unicorn calling his name, “Shining Armor! Shining Armor!” Hearing his name being called Shining Armor turns around in time to see Twilight hug him viciously. “Twilight? What are you doing here? What’s going on, all of Canterlot is in a panic.” Twilight lets go of him and points her gaze towards the train, “We need to get you and Cadence out of here now. I don’t have time to explain but you need to have all of Canterlot evacuated. Please just trust me!” Shining Armor shows a look of confusion on his face but nods in understanding. “Twilight get on the train while I give the orders to have the city evacuated. I’ll meet you on the train once I get Cadence from the house. I’m also going to prepare my troops to move out of Canterlot and into PonyVille for the time being.” With this Twilight hugs her brother one last time and heads back towards her friends. Minutes pass and the train is loaded full of ponies wanting to escape Canterlot. Eventually Shining Armor returns with Cadence at his side and boards the train as well. He gives the order for the train to begin to move. The train speeds out of the station as Shining Armor and Cadence make their way to where Twilight and her friends are seated on the train. Twilight seeing that her brother and wife are safe breaths a sigh of relief. Cadence smiles at Twilight before hugging her. Shining Armor notices Twilights friends and smiles at them before turning to face Twilight. “Now Twilight tell me what’s happened.” Cadence lets go of Twilight as she tells Shining Armor all that has happened. Some time passes as Twilight finishes telling of what she has witnessed. Cadence breaks into tears as a look of disbelief passes over Shining Armors face. The train approaches the edge of the Ever Free Forrest and begins to slow down to take a sharp turn. As the train begins to turn it is suddenly rocked violently from the outside. Ponies inside the train scream in terror, Twilight looks out to window to see what happening. She sees what appears to be a red mist hitting the side of the train cart that they are in. Twilight and her friends move to the next train cart but the red mist moves to hit that cart also. Realizing what is happening Twilight turns to her friends, “It’s after us! It’s hunting us in this train. We have to get to the caboose or else it’s going to take the whole train off the rails!” With this Twilight and her friends begin to run towards the back of the train but Twilight is stopped by her brother, “Twilight what are you doing?” Twilight turns to face her brother, “That red mist is looking for me and my friends. If we don’t move to the back then it’s going to take the whole train out.” The train continues to shake violently as Shining Armor realizes what Twilight is about to do, “I can’t let you do that Twilight! I won’t lose my little sister!” Twilight hugs Shining armor before closing her eyes and casting a stun spell on him. Shining Armor falls to the floor as tears begin to form in both his and Twilights eyes. Twilight looks away, “I’m sorry big brother but me and my friends have to do this.” Twilight runs to the caboose with her friends as the red mist follows. They reach the caboose and tell every pony there to get as far away from the back of the train as they can. The ponies leave and Twilight shuts the door behind them and locks it. Twilight turns to face her friends but only manages a glance before the caboose rocks violently back and forth. Twilight looks out the window and sees the red mist engulfing the entire caboose. In an instant the red mist rips the caboose from the rest of the train, which falls of the track and starts to move away from the attacking force, as it continues on its way to PonyVille. The red mist takes the caboose and throws it towards the Ever Free Forest. Twilight and her friends look at each in in midair flying around the inside of the caboose. The caboose slams on the ground and Twilight and her friends lose conscious as the caboose skids across the forest floor knocking over trees and demolishing rocks before it comes to a halt.

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