Cutie Mark Cru-Saviours

I opened my eyes to see a large hall, made out of shining crystals. Next to me were the other crusaders, each of them tied up. That was when I realised I was tied up too. I tried moving but it only seemed to make the knots get tighter. There was a crash as some pony opened the door. Two guards walked in, followed by Princess Celestia.

"If you're gonna kill us, do it no---" said Babs as Apple Bloom covered Babs' mouth with her hoof.

"hehe She don't mean no harm," Apple Bloom hesitantly murmured.

The princess strode to the end of the hall where her thrown stood, tall and glimmering in the sunlight. She smiled and signalled to her guards, who immediately came over to us. They dragged us up to the thrown, then untied us. Up close, Celestia was a sinister figure, and we knew our place immediately. I sat, silently, in peril. Unable to even move my body. Celestia rose and then began to speak.

"Look at you, you look so scared. Equestria is doomed, and everything went according to plan... Kind of... I guess you are wondering what my plan was and is, and I'm gonna tell you, because you're three--I mean four-- dumb fillies, and I'll enlighten you before you meet your deaths."

"It started a couple of years ago, when Cadence and Shining Armour got married. I knew that I had more power than ever, I just needed to find a way to use them. I always had my magic, but I wanted to make a certain... Enemy of mine look bad. That's right, the pony you see is not Celestia. I am using her body, because everypony has to obey Celestia, and if they don't I always have my hypnosis."

"Anyway, stage one was to get Celestia, which was a lot easier than I expected, after she was gone, stage two was Luna, who somehow avoided my hypnosis. I decided to leave it, and disguise it as a power hungry rampage, then I left with all of my guards under the spell. I escaped, only to be pursued by the Elements of Harmony. I knew that if I used them, it would be way too suspicious, so I had them go to a...faraway land. Then my plan was complete, until Luna sent you three--um-- four losers under the suspicion that I was trying to do evil."

"I captured you with ease and am now ready to do the last part of my plan. I'm going to use you three-- er-- four as sacrifices for power, power that I will use to become the strongest pony ever, so strong that I will rule over the whole of Equestria AND NOPONY CAN STOP ME!!!!" She finished.

We stared at her for a while, before remembering that we were sacrifices. I finally felt my body again, and looked down, feeling a wet sensation. Where I had been sitting was a wet patch, I had wet myself. I moved backwards, trying not to make it obvious that I'd had a little accident. The three of us looked at Apple Bloom, who just sat there, looking bewildered. She shook her head, trying to hold back tears. Each of us knew that we had taken everything a step too far, and now we were going to meet our deaths. The world seemed to turn darker and darker like the brightness of hope was fading. Sweetie seemed to be the only one holding it together. She was looking up to the top of the roof, hoping and praying that this was just a bad dream. I ran over to Apple Bloom, who began crying into my shoulder. Babs glared at Celestia. We stood for a while, wondering why Celestia didn't make a move. Then she started laughing, laughing at us, four fillies who were about to die.

Suddenly there was a crash as a flash of yellow zoomed into the scene. A Pegasus was flying in circles and a tornado began to form. It sucked Celestia up, and we heard her screaming with every lap round the hurricane. The yellow Pegasus landed next to us and introduced herself as Spitfire. Celestia kept on spinning until the tornado subsided. She crashed into the wall, then stormed up to Spitfire, who was laughing hysterically. Celestia got close to Spitfire's face and then began the hypnosis. A bright red light shined from her horn as Spitfire began to standstill. Celestia laughed and then gave her order.

"Attack them, kill them for me!" She yelled.

Spitfire began to walk towards us, we screamed and ran. The yellow Pegasus turned around and kicked Celestia in the gut. Spitfire began laughing hysterically again.

"I'm not hehe under your huff spell!!" She giggled.

"How could this be, I did I right," Celestia exclaimed.

"Probably because I'm wearing these!" Spitfire said, taking her goggles off in the process of indicating to them. She realised she had taken off her protection.

"Sweet Celestia's mane, I guess it's over for me," she said, before falling to the ground, locked in a trance.

Celestia began to walk towards us. I took a step backwards, but it wouldn't help now, we were trapped. Celestia's eyes began to turn a deep red colour as her horn illuminated in the same shade. The light was so endearing, I had to look at it. Cheerilee once said something about bright colours being more attractive to the eye. My eyelids began to grow heavy, I was gonna give in to the light.

Suddenly there was a bright flash of crimson light. It began to surround me. My head felt itchy, like something was growing there. I began to levitate, like a large mass of power was flowing into-or out of- my body. I turned to look at Apple Bloom, the same was happening for her, except the light was a turquoise colour. On her head and sides a bright white light was evolving into the shapes of two wings and a horn. A crown had appeared on her head. Both Sweetie and Babs were also experiencing this, Babs' light was yellow, and Sweetie's green. The light suddenly faded and we dropped to the floor, wondering what just happened.