A Superb Case of Evil

Several Months ago

I had just left the house to go meet my friends Colgate , Lemon Hearts, and Moondancer. We finally got her to come out of her shell and visit us here in Ponyville. We had a fun day planned for her, but that was cut short when we heard news that Pinkie Pie had been seen dragging something into the basement of Sugar Cube Corner. Turned out that it was just her party cannon. She had been told by the Cakes that she should keep it down there instead of her room where the babies might get ahold of it or something. Apparently somepony had been convinved that she was stashing dead bodies down there. But she never seemed like that type of pony. At least not to us.

Before we left i made sure my wife Bon Bon knew i'd be gone for a little while. Told her i was catching up with some old friends. She asked if i could pick a few things up at the store when i was done. I told her i would, i know how worried she gets when im out late. She's afraid ill end up with my picture on a milk carton or something. Her parents were more open to us being a couple then mine were. It's one reason i moved in the first place, but my folks came around when they saw how happy her and i were together.

"Hey, you know who we should get?," i aksed my compadres, " We should see if Twilight wants to join us, i heard she lives in Ponyville too," I knew Twilight when she used to live in Canterlot. She was kind of a shut in like MoonDancer, but we got her out of her shell too at times. I also realized that if she had come to MD's party during the Summer Sun celebration, she would of never found the elements of harmony and beaten Nightmare Moon. But that was then, most of us had forgiven her a long time ago for it. She just didn't know it until now though. MoonDancer seemed really nervouse though when we neared Twilight's Tree House. The Golden Oaks Library seemed to radiate with light sometimes when i'd pass it on the way home. Never noticed it before.

"Let's get back to where we were going," MoonDancer said to the rest of us. I could still tell she was anxious about something. I just didn't know what it would be until a few days later. That would also be the same time that ponies started to disappear around town. Me being one of them. The strange thing about it though would be that i'd survive the ordeal, just in another state of being.

Colgate seemed nervous too, and i understood why. We both woke up in the basement of the Golden Oaks Library, only this part was not what i had expected or even knew existed. It looked as if somepony had dug out a massive substructure underneath the original foundation and roots. It was almost like those old bunkers you'd hear of in war movies. We looked at each other with mutual fear and shock overcoming our systems. Colgate tried to use her magic but was knocked on her flank. That's when we both realized there was a strong anti magic field in place to prevent just that from happening. I realized that we were what looked like old style prison cells. I looked to my right to find a few other ponies i knew unconscious in adjoining cells, including MoonDancer. It looked as though there were about 30 cells altogether. Whoever did this had been building this substructure for some time without the Princesses knowledge.

"Lyra, what are we gonna do?," Colgate was almost panicking when she spoke to me. I wasn't sure what to do to be honest, but i had to do something to calm down my friend.

"I don't know Colgate, but now is not the time to panic ok?", I really did my best to reassure her to stay calm. I knew Bon Bon would call the authorities if one of us was missing for a certain amount of time. I also prayed to Celestia that she hadn't been captured and trapped down here like the rest of us.

There are some days i wish i had hands, then i'd choke whoever locked me and Colgate up in these cells. I tried to keep her calm as much as possible. I couldn't say i blamed her though, I'd be freaking out too if I wasn't always so calm in situations like this. Usually I'm super hyper, I can't recall all the times I'd beg Bon Bon for candy without laughing. She'd always scream "NO LYRA!", but I'd still steal hers anyway just for grins. When I'm with friends I'm more mellow, never understood as to why. Neither did Bon Bon, but i know she loved it.

By Celestia I hope she's alright. She's probably going out of her mind with worry. I noticed Colgate's ears perked up as she noticed a pony walking towards our cells. It.... It can't be?!

As I blacked out I could hear Colgate screaming something. It became muffled as i realized too late that both of us were being dragged somewhere by unicorn magic. I awoke to find myself strapped to an examination table, about a space over from me was Colgate, her eyes wide with fear and horror. It was then i realized who she was so wide eyed about. Standing between us was Twilight. There was nothing i could do as i watched her levitate a syringe full of anesthetic and inject it into Colgate's left calf. Within moments she was unconscious, and ready for whatever Twilight had planned next.

I could only watch as she took another syringe, this one filled with a green liquid, and inject Colgate again. My friend began to convulse violently and then went slack. Twilight had her also hooked up to a heart monitor, the kind you found in the Ponyville, or Canterlot Hospital. I could see a flat orange green line run across its screen. That's when i realized that whatever Twi had given her killed her. And then it sank in that i was her next experimental test subject. I also noticed a book lying on the medical tray she had sitting next to Colgate's now corpse. It was open to a resurrection spell, i knew this because we had all gone to the same school as friends. It was one of Starswirl's oldest spells. Both of us had been huge fans of his, so without her looking, i glanced it over and memorized the spell.

As she injected me with whatever she had planned to expose me to, i closed my eyes and recited the spell under my breath. My whole body went slack and i could feel the spell take hold. It would take some time before i was able to regain my body's form. Until then she just thought i was dead from whatever she injected me with. Little did i, or Twilight, know was that two of her friends were on their way here with the Royal Guard. Apparently Rainbow Dash had been relaying Twilight's odd behavior lately to the Princess.

Of course Twilight didn't know that once one used the Resurrection spell, It was rendered useless. So if she tries to read it, it wont work on her. The Spell is bound to the caster for the duration of its use. For now i was to be counted among the dead. It wouldn't be till later that i'd realize how lucky i was to be that skilled in magic talent. The others on Twilight's list wouldn't be so lucky.