Fading Rainbow

Celestia,  I need you ...

Come back please, oh ...

When you come back I'll be so happy,

I'll glow.

My back itches.  Why does my back itch?  I was sleeping on a large bed in Twilight's Castle, right?

I open my eyes.  No.  NO.  She hasn't changed.  It's been 2000 years and she hasn't changed.  Why did she become a careless snob in the first place?  She used to be the best.  Now I am.

The black iron bars are in front of me, telling me the bitter truth.  She hasn't changed ... yet.

Well, at least I should.  I apply myself a little stretch spell.  Good.  Now it's time to get the magic limitor off my neck.  My favorite's the icebeam spell, so I use that and shoot at some of the hay across me.  It freezes as the limitor plunges into it, torn off my neck by the sheer force of the blast.  I'm confused.  Usually these limitors are stronger.

"Get her!"

Some guards are running toward my cell.  Concentrate.

The wind blows across my face, and the castle is about 56 hooves away from me.  I make out the images of guards hollering at the balcony.

Three magical signatures I don't know are racing toward me.  Pegasi magic.  I turn around and see them.  They stop, take a metal spear and throw it at me, magical signatures of more ponies are embedded in them.  Following Spears.

I conjure a magical shield charged with chaos magic to overcharge the following charm on the spears and as they hit them, they shoot at the ground.  I teleport them into a lake.  Don't want them shooting innocent ponies.

The guards now race at me, eyes glittering with malice.  Gosh.  Do they want to kill me?

I shoot a levitating icebeam at their wings and they are suspended in midair.  Now I realize they don't have horns.  Maybe they got cut off.  I feel sorry for them.  I wish I could give them horns, but I really don't have time.  I need to talk with Celestia.

Throne room, throne room, there.  I teleport.

I see the figures of Celestia and Twilight talking.  Twilight notices me.  "You're back!"  Her voice is filled with relief.  Celestia, on the other hand, shouts, "GET OUT OF HERE!"

"WHY? YOU'RE GOING TO BANISH YOUR OWN SISTER!?"

"You two are sisters?"

"Of course she's my sister, Twilight.  Murderous brat though."

I feel the hate.  "YOU'RE THE MURDEROUS BRAT!  YOU TOOK LUNA, YOU KILLED MOM AND DAD, AND YOU BLAME IT ON ME!  WHERE'S THE REAL YOU?"

Twilight looks confused.  "You had parents!?"

"Of course I had parents!"  I shout.  "She" - I pointed to Celestia - "killed both of them!"

Twilight looks hurt.  With tears in her eyes, she says, "But the Princess Celestia I know wouldn't do that!  You got the wrong pony!"

"She murdered them, Twilight, and I stopped her in time from murdering Luna!"

"I didn't!"  I stepped forward and looked Celestia in the eye, lit my horn and said in a calm, serious tone: "Where is the real Celestia?"

Her eye expression flickered from loathing to a pleading sort of look as she said, "Help!  He got me, I can't, I ca -", and then it changed back to loathing, as if two souls were wrestling and one momentarily got the body but then the second took control again, as she said, from the same mouth, "Get out.  If I see you in Equestria again, I will kill you too.  Don't worry about Luna.  She's under my control and you can't do anything."

"If that's the way you think you should treat your older sister, be it."  I teleported away and changed into a pony missing a pair of wings.  The ponies here are missing wings, horn, or both, so I will blend in.  I made myself small and blue, with curly pink hair and a pair of slippers for a cutie mark.  I stepped out of the bush, walked for five minutes, and asked a purple pony with flowers for a cutie mark, 'Where's Twilight's Castle?"

"Over there down in Friendship Rd."

"Thank you, Mrs..."

"Cheerilee.  You're welcome."

I found Friendship Rd.  fifteen minuted later and knocked on the door of the castle.  A pink head popped out.  She gasped, then she closed the door.  I sighed, then I knocked again.  The same head popped out and said, "You're new!  I'm going to throw you a Welcome to Ponyville party!"  Then she closed it again.

I don't need the attention of a party.  I need to explain everything to Twilight.  When she gets back.

I teleport into my bed and hide under it and drift off to sleep.