Banishment is Friendship

"You insufferable little. . . niece of mine!" Dèshū glared her pink eyes at Shade, who was currently chained up and laid on her side on the floor, "I love you, Shade, but I owe my life to Grey. He has been nothing but a great brudder to me and a great father to you and you do nothing but give him Hell. Well, I have had enough out of you young lady!"

Shade rolled her eyes, long since stopped listening to that gothic lolita, pink pig tailed, aunt of hers. She was in no mood to listen to her fawn about how "great of a father" that man was. If she were to be in any mood, it would be a good mood: she had finally killed that man.

Dèshū saw Shade's smug little grin, "Oh? You think Grey dead, do you? I have news for you!" She levitated a crystal ball in front of Shades face, where Grey, her uncles, and the other women were walking through the ruins of Heaven. Her eyes flared. Now it was Dèshū's turn to grin smugly, "He is alive and kicking. To be perfectly honest, I do not know how he was resurrected. All I know is: I had no hand in it."

Shade struggled to break free of the chains and she bit at the gag in her mouth.

She suddenly found herself levitated in the air, hovering in front of her smiling aunt, "I have a wondrous idea! Instead of locking you up in the Void," she grinned devilishly, "I will send you to a place much, much more Hellish."

With a flash, a white light her aunt, her throne, and the whole room disappeared and she was enveloped in darkness.

Anarchy. Complete. Anarchy. News spread like wild fire about the sudden disappearances of Equestria's sovereign sisters. When the guards rushed for the counsel of Princess Twilight Sparkle in Ponyville but found her castle void of her as well, panic ensued. Somehow, the Griffins heard the news of the vulnerable nation, and King Gallus    all too happily   occupied the throne in Canterlot, under the guise of offering his "knowledge of governing", thus electing himself Stewart Governor of Equestria. The ponies were all to relieved to have a new master to follow obediently.

Then, the Diamond Dogs began to pillage and plunder all the towns along the edges of their territory. King Gallus sent soldiers, pony and griffon alike, to immediately quell the mutts, which he did. . . for a few weeks. A new Chief led the Diamond Dogs and fed their ravenous, greedy appetites. The dragons had thought this the right time to invade Equestria as well, and soon Canterlot burned down to ashes, "Stewart Governor" nowhere in sight. Leaderless, the ponies quickly submitted to the rule of the dragons.

Princess Cadance did not want to sit idly by while all of this happened to her friends, but she was with child and had to worry about the safety of her own people. Before the dragons razed half of her army, her city was past capacity filled with pony refugees.

Shining Armor placed a hoof over his wife and pulled her close to him, nuzzling her neck, "We will get through this, you'll see."

"I hope you are right, Shiny," Cadence stared teary-eyed over her sparkling denizens, "I hope my aunties and Twilight are safe."

"Don't worry about them, they are more than capable of defending themselves," he stated confidently, "We need to come up with a plan on how to raise and lower the sun and moon, soon the sun will burn everything."

"Maybe I could be of assistance," a voice hissed behind them.

They turned to face the draconequus who conveniently popped up.

"And how would you be of assistance?" Shining gritted, stepping between Discord and Cadence.

"Out of the goodness of my heart, of course," he stated matter-of-factly, "I will lower and raise the sun and moon for all of Equestria!" He blinked out of existence and popped beside Cadence, "For a small price, that is," he grinned maliciously.

Shining Armor was about to protest but Cadance stopped him, "What is your price, Discord?"

"Why, my dear, world domination," he spoke, his eyes full of glee.

Shining Armor's ice blue eyes glared at him, he sighed and turned to his wife, "What do you think?"

"I think we have little choice," Cadance said defeated.

"Oh, goodie!" Discord chimed. A ridiculously long scroll and a quill popped into existence, "Now, if you would, please sign here, initial here, initial here, hoof print there, initial there, lick here, scratch there, initial here, kiss there, hoof print there," he took a breath, "and finally, sign here." Cadence, much to her displeasure, did all the things he asked and finally signed the dotted line at the bottom of the scroll. "Now, was that so hard?" he smirked.

Her brain pounded against her skull. What the fuck did that loli whore do to me? Shade felt grass caressing her body and a soft breeze blew over her. She whimpered uncharacteristically, wishing for the pain in her brain to go away. She brought her hand up to her forehead only to feel something hard protruding from her head and not able to feel her fingers. Opening her eyes, she saw an ivory hoof in front of an ivory snout. Panic coursed through her body. She tried to stand but failed miserably, her new legs buckled under her and did not want to cooperate. She felt her head again and felt two smaller, pointy nubs on her forehead, one on either side of her horn. She turned her head and saw that she, much to her distaste, was in fact a horse. A unicorn had one horn right, so her having three made her a. . . trinicorn? Tricorn? Whatever. She noticed her short cropped, dual colored tail and mane. I need a mirror. No. I need to get out of here.

She was surrounded by tall trees and thick shrubs. Her ears flicked and rotated to every tweet and shrill of the birds in the trees, which only aggravated her more, since she could not control her ears.

"Ugh!" she grunted. None of her new body parts wanted to cooperate and her frustration grew. Her ears focused on the sound of chuckling behind her.

"Look at the stupid pony!" a shrill voice commented.

She continued to struggle to her feet.

"Like a baby deer!" another voice mocked, this one a little deeper and not as sharp as the first.

The wind blew over her face which carried the scent of dog.

"What do you mongrels want!" she hissed.

"What's a mun-grul?" a third piped up.

"I think she's making fun of us!" the first concluded.

"How many brain cells did it take for you to figure it out?" Shade berated.

The first Diamond Dog growled and charged at her from behind. Shade bucked her back legs as hard as she could and connected with the dog's jaw with a satisfying crack. She heard the dog fall to the ground. The other two jumped at her. Shade kicked her back legs into the ground to spin her body around, and brought them up to smash the face of a large, dark gray dog. She slammed her left forehoof into the face of a tiny light gray dog. She used the momentum to jump onto her hooves and snort victoriously over the three dogs.

She went to the smaller dog, who was the least injured, and kicked him in the ribs, "Where am I?"

"Equestria!" it yelped.

Shade snorted, "No kidding?"

"No! No!" it sniveled in agony and fear.

"Where is the closest town with   'ponies'   like myself?" she interrogated him.

"T-Two days," he began to turn himself on the ground and pointed in the trees, "that way!"

"Are there any more creatures like yourself?"

"Yes!"

"How many?"

"Lots!"

"Thank you," Shade sneered before crushing its head under her hoof. She sniffed the blood on her hoof and took a curious taste at it. "Hmm, not bad," she admitted to herself after cleaning her hoof of the sanguine liquid.

She examined the first dog she hit and saw that its neck had snapped. The second dog did not fare any better: with a crushed face, the bones and force acted like a shotgun blast to his brain.

"'Two days that way', eh?" Shade spoke aloud and began her trot through the woods the opposite direction the dog had said.