Disharmony Saga

Twilight and Pinkie had been traveling for two days since their departure from PonyVille. During their travels both ponies had gotten along quite well with one another  trusting the others judgment. Since Manehatten was not really far from PonyVille Twilight and Pinkie had time to rest and eat whenever either of them felt the need to. Pinkie had packed enough supplies to last them for a few more days but really since their departure the previous morning they had more than enough food and water, with a little cake thrown in for good measure, to feed themselves on their trip. Twilight looks up at the sky and notices that the sun is directly overhead, “Pinkie, it’s almost lunch time. Do you want to stop and rest or keep going?” Pinkie, who had been hopping gracefully for most of their trip, turned towards Twilight, “Ummmm, I don’t know. Are you hungry Twilight?” Twilight stops for a moment and ponders the question. She begins to concentrate and puts her head towards her stomach, listening closely for any sound. A few moments pass and no sound can be heard. Twilight lifts her head and turns her gaze towards Pinkie, “I don’t think so, besides we can’t be that far from the city. Once we get there we can probably find a place to eat.” Pinkie smiles and turns back towards the road as they continue moving. It turns out that Twilight is correct because after climbing a small hill they see Manehattens tall buildings in the not too far off distance. Coming down from the top of the hill and towards the city both seemingly stop moving as they notice something wrong with the city. Twilight squints her eyes to get a better look at what appears to be  green slime that is covering most of the buildings. Shocked at this sight Twilight turns towards Pinkie, “I know this slime, it’s the same slime that we saw a few months back at the wedding, it’s the slime that that Queen Chrysalis used to trap Celestia.” At hearing her name Pinkie jumps in the air and shows a face of surprise and anger, “You mean that phony pony that tried to ruin your brother’s wedding and attacked Princess Celestia?” Twilight nods her head, “Come on Pinkie we have to get into that city and find out what’s happening!” Twilight looks at the city ahead and after doing a few calculations figures that they are close enough for her to teleport them into the city, “Get close to me Pinkie.” Pinkie nods her head and quickly hugs Twilight. Twilight, a little stunned from the hug, closes her eyes and teleports her and Pinkie into the city. Inside the city a flash of pink light flashes and from it Twilight and Pinkie emerge. Looking around they notice that the buildings are either completely covered in green slime or have been boarded up. “What happened to this place Twilight? It looks so sad.” Twilight looks down the street looking for signs of pony life. “I don’t know Pinkie but come on, let’s see if can find any pony.” They set off down the street looking around to for any pony that can tell them what happened. An hour passes but they can’t seem to find any other pony. A loud audible rumble comes from Pinkie followed by one that comes from Twilight. “Pinkie I think we should find a safe place to…” Yelling is heard from around the street corner and Twilight along with Pinkie are caught off guard at first but rush towards the source. They quickly round the corner of the street and see a group of ponies being chased by changelings. Twilight turns to Pinkie, “Quick Pinkie, ill distract the changelings while you get the ponies to safety.” Twilight quickly teleports in front of the changelings who get started by the flash of pink light. Twilight quickly starts firing purple rays of energy from her horn at the changelings. A few of the rays find their mark and changelings fall towards the ground stunned. Taking advantage of the changeling’s confusion Pinkie whistles to the group of ponies to follow them. The group, who had stopped to look at Twilight fighting the changelings, turns towards Pinkie and follow her. Pinkie and the group disappear around the corner finding a building to hide in. A few moments later Twilight realizing that the group is safe quickly teleports away from the changelings, the flash of pink light temporarily blinding them. Pinkie who had lead the group a couple of blocks away from the fight leaves the group for a moment to look for Twilight.  Pinkie notices a flash of pink light and looks down the street to see Twilight. She quickly signals to her. Twilight joins Pinkie and the group, “Did you manage to get every pony out of their Pinkie?” Pinkie looks towards the group of ponies who are now on the ground resting, “Yea, I think I did. They look pretty tired though Twilight, I don’t think they’ve eaten in a while.” Hearing this Twilight talks to Pinkie about what to do next before turning to face the group of ponies, “Attention every pony, me and my friend here have enough food and water for all of you. Don’t get up, we’ll bring the food and water to you.” Twilight and Pinkie quickly move through the group handing out food and water.  A few minutes later Pinkie moves through the group again this time handing out cake. One pony though refuses the cake, this catches Pinkie off guard, “Are you sure you don’t  want cake? It’s pretty tasty and I know the bakers who made it.” The pony shakes her head again refusing the cake. Pinkie is put off by this. Twilight comes up to them to see what’s going on. The pony stands up seeing Twilight and moves towards her, “Hello, my name is Charm and I am the leader of this group. We are greatly thankful for what you and your friend have done for us.” Twilight and Pinkie smile at this before Twilight speaks to Charm, “It was really nothing, we just wanted to help you out. If you don’t mind me asking though what happened to this city and every other pony?” Charm looks at Twilight and gives a vague smile, “You see I was leading these ponies out of the city. We are refugees from the great Queen Chrysalis and her powerful changeling army.”  Charm looks out towards the street , “A few days ago Queen Chrysalis came to the city and began unleashing her minions on the city. The Changeling began catching ponies and taking them to the center of the city. Any pony that’s been taken hasn’t been seen again and every day the number of changelings seems to increase.” Twilight turns to Pinkie before looking back at charm, “That sounds awe full, who knows what else you’ve been through.” Charm looks at Twilights and Pinkies flanks, “Don’t you have any cutie marks?” Twilight and Pinkie blush a little before Twilight answers this, “It’s a long story but also the reason why me and my friend are here. You see we’ve come to find a way to stop Chrysalis.” At this Charm looks startled and moves towards Twilight, “How can you possibly defeat Queen Chrysalis, she’s much too powerful!” Twilight and Pinkie look at each other, “We don’t know yet, me and Pinkie have been thinking of a way to reverse what’s happened during our travels.” Seeing Twilight starting to become worried Pinkie moves up to speak, “Don’t worry Twilight, I’m sure a smart pony like you will figure out a way to fix all this.”  Twilight smiles at Pinkie and is about to say something but Charm cuts her off, “If you two want I can get you into Chrysalis’s hive, I know a secrete way in.” At this both Twilight and Pinkie are startled. “It’s no trouble really; it’s on route to the way out of the city where I am leading this group.” Twilight and Pinkie turn away from Charm and look at each other, “What do you think Pinkie? This could be the only way we’re ever going to confront Chrysalis.” Pinkie shows a face of concern, “I don’t know Twilight, something about this just doesn’t seem right about this. Charm seems a little off.” Twilight looks Pinkie straight in the eye, “Just because she didn’t want any cake doesn’t make her weird Pinkie. Besides we don’t know if we’ll ever get an opportunity like this again. We have to take her up on her offer.” Pinkie falls silent before nodding in approval. They turn back towards Charm, “Me and Pinkie will take you up on that offer.” Charm smiles, “Great but we can’t move any more today, the changelings will be looking for us. We’re going to have to wait till tomorrow to continue moving.  It’s for the best that we spend the night here and continue once the sun comes up tomorrow.” Twilight and Pinkie nod, “We understand Charm. Besides me and Pinkie are pretty tired. We’re going to go eat and then try to sleep. See you in the morning.” Charms nods and turns away making her way back towards the group of pony refugees. Twilight and Pinkie eat what they have left after sharing with the pony refugees before finding a safe spot in a building to settle down for the night. Twilight and Pinkie each take shifts staying awake during the night to ensure that they don’t get any unwanted surprises. It turns out to an uneventful night as Twilight wakes Pinkie who had ended her shift four hours ago. “Pinkie I’m going to go wake all the other ponies so that we can start moving. Why don’t you go find Charm and tell her that we’re ready to move.” Pinkie agrees and heads deeper into the building to find Charm. After a few minutes of searching Pinkie finds Charm asleep in a corner, “Hey Charm, are you awake yet? Twilight wants you to know that we’re ready to go whenever you are” Charm stirs slightly in her sleep before turning to Pinkie and opening her eyes, “Oh , I see that you’re up early. Already have your morning cake I guess?” Pinkie flashes a smile at Charm, “Nope, we ran out of cake yesterday after I finished the last slice before I went to sleep.” Charm, annoyed by this reaction begins to stand, “Very well then, tell your friend Twilight that I’ll be ready to move in a few minutes.” Pinkie nods and heads towards Twilight. She finds Twilight getting the group ready to move. “Twilight, Charm said that she’ll be ready to move in a few minutes. She was still asleep when I found her though.” Twilight turns towards Pinkie, “That’s good to hear. Now Pinkie, I know that you and Charm didn’t get off on the right hoof yesterday so I want you to try to get on her good side. Okay?” Pinkie looks a bit annoyed at this statement, “Twilight, you know that I always try to make friends with every pony that I meet. Charm seems a little different though.” Charm appears out of the corner of Twilights eye, “Good morning Charm, ready to get going?” Charm looks at Twilight and gives off a faint smile, “I sure am Twilight, just let me lead the way.” A few minutes pass and the group sets off leaving the building where they had spent the night and begins to move behind Charm. Pinkie takes this opportunity to move up right next to Charm to get some small talk in. “So Charm, how long have you lived in Manehatten?”  Charm answers Pinkie question but doesn’t look at her, “A long time I guess, since I was a filly.” Seeing her question answered Pinkie begins asking more questions, “What did you use to do before all of this happened? Did you have a job?” Again Charm answers but refuses to look at Pinkie, “ I guess I was a gardener. Working on gardens around the city, though the toughest part of my job was removing the weeds. Especially the daisies.” Pinkie becomes confused by this, “huh that’s interesting because I do a little gardening back in PonyVille and my friend Rose told me her favorite flower was the daisy.” A look of concern spreads across Charm’s face, “Well some ponies consider the daisy a weed and some consider it a flower.” Pinkie moves in front of Charm forcing her to stop, “I don’t think I ever met a pony that believed that before.” Charm annoyed now shoves Pinkie to the side and continues moving, “Look I don’t have time to debate this with a pony like you. I got to get these other ponies to safety and get you and your friend into Queen Chrysalis’s hive.” Charm moves ahead away from Pinkie. Looking behind her Pinkie sees that Twilight and all the other ponies had stopped and looked at her and Charm during the outburst. Slowly the other ponies begin moving  past Pinkie until Twilight moves beside her with a stern look on her face, “Pinkie, what did you do now? How come Charm is angry all of a sudden? I thought I told you to try and make friends with her.” Pinkie looks at Twilight with a hurt look on her face, “I did try, but I don’t know what happened. We were talking about flowers and then all of sudden she snapped at me!” Twilight begins to move and motions for Pinkie to do the same. “Listen Pinkie, what exactly did you say to her?’ Pinkie looks away from Twilight, “We were talking about gardening and she said something that didn’t make any sense to me. I told her that what she said didn’t make sense and then she got angry.” Twilight moves in front of Pinkie growing more annoyed at the situation, “Look Pinkie just leave Charm alone now okay? Don’t even talk to her.” Pinkie shows a look of confusion on her face, “But you said…” “FORGET what I said Pinkie! Just don’t talk to her okay? We need her to get into that hive.” Twilight looks away from Pinkie and moves towards the group. Pinkie with a hurt look on her face lets her gaze fall to the ground and speaks in a soft voice, “I was just trying to make friends with her.” A tear falls to the ground and Pinkie begins to move again with the group staying behind the rest. A couple of hours pass with Twilight moving next to Charm talking to her and Pinkie still behind the group not having said a word since her talk with Twilight. The group stops in front of a tunnel as Charm turns towards Twilight, “Once we go through this tunnel we are going to have part ways at the other side.” Twilight nods, “I understand.” Charm turn to the rest of the group, “Listen up every pony, our freedom is just through this tunnel so let’s hurry and get through it.” Every pony nods in agreement and they are about to move into the tunnel but Pinkie speaks out at this, “That doesn’t sound like a good idea. It’s really dark in that tunnel; we might not be able to see where we’re going.” Charm turns to face Pinkie, annoyed that she is being held up, “What? You don’t think that I can lead this group safely through the tunnel?” Twilight quickly looks at Pinkie, “Come on Pinkie! Just go through the tunnel, we need to hurry.” Pinkie is about to speak but is cut off by Charm, “Come on Twilight Sparkle, we don’t have time to waste on her. Let her stay out here by herself if she wants.” Pinkie shocked at this speaks up, “Wait! I’ll go through the tunnel with you guys.” Charm smiles at this and motions for the rest to follow her. After every pony enters the tunnel Charm asks Twilight to seal the tunnel off so they are not followed. Twilight nods and with some levitation blocks off the tunnel entrance. Seeing how dark it is Twilight produces a magic light from the tip of her horn. Charm quickly protests this, “I’m going to have to ask you to dim your light. It hurts my eyes.” Pinkie moves to speak up against this but is quickly silenced by a look from Twilight. Twilight dims the light and they continue moving through the tunnel. They come to a more open area of the tunnel. Pinkie moves to speak to Twilight but is stopped by her tail twitching. Without a seconds hesitation Pinkie pushes Twilight out of the way as a cage falls over her. Twilight shocked, doesn’t get a chance to say anything before green flame lights the tunnel and Twilight sees changelings on all the walls and ceiling. Twilight quickly turns to Charm who is looking further into the tunnel, “What’s going on Charm? Why are Chrysalis’s changelings and flames here?” Charm finally turns to look at Twilight, “You don’t get it do you? I haven’t been leading this group to safety. I’ve been leading them into this tunnel to trap them and take them back to the hive.” Twilight shocked at this revelation angrily addresses Charm, “So you’ve been working for Chrysalis this whole time? Did you make a deal with her or are you just one of her Changelings?” Charm laughs before at this, “You still don’t get it do you?” Green flame engulfs Charm as she body turns into a more sinister form. Out of the green flame Queen Chrysalis emerges, “I am Chrysalis you fool! Now that I have you and your friend here trapped  there is nothing that can stop me!” The changelings begin to attack and grab hold of the group of ponies. Twilight fights a few off before heading over to try and free Pinkie Pie from the cage. Twilight uses all the magic spells she knows to try and open the cage but nothing seems to work. The changelings now having captured all the other ponies begin to surround Twilight as they move in closer and closer. Twilight continues blasting at the cage refusing to leave her trapped friend.