Assaulted

Twilight casually woke up the same as every morning. Feeling a little bit of soreness that she just attributed to sleeping in an awkward position.

“That must have been a really weird dream,” Twilight laughed aloud.  It wasn’t the first time that she had woken up next to the mirror portal.  “I don’t remember coming here,” Twilight said dismissively, as though she was sleep walking after having a few too many drinks at Pinkie’s party.  Casting a spell she used her magic to fix her mane and clean her teeth:  A technique she developed to save time when she was younger.  She was about to leave when she noticed a book next to her saddle bags, vibrating.

Dear Twilight,

        I was hoping to conduct an experiment in order to determine the effects of different items during interdimensional transportation.  Also, the other girls wanted to invite you to lunch at Surgarcube Corner.  It’s been awhile since we all just got together to hang out.  Hope to hear from you soon.

-S.S.

    “They knew,”  Celestia whispered in shock, “using one of my students, to get to the other one.  Nopony would be the wiser.”  Her anger worsened the more the idea sunk in. “Why would she go after Sunset?”

    Twilight casually stepped through the mirror, still half asleep and completely oblivious that she had been missing for five days. Celestia quickly followed, not even fully aware of what was on the other side.  It had been over a millennium since she had last been there, and even if it were just a memory she was secretly ecstatic to go back. Even under the current circumstances.

    “Twilight!  I was worried that you couldn’t make it since you never replied back to my message.” Giggling, Sunset Shimmer helped Twilight stand up and get re-accustomed to walking on two legs.

    “Sorry, I’ve had a busy few days, then last night was really weird.”

    “Why?  What happened?” Sunset asked.

    “I could have sworn I went to bed in Ponyville, -It’s time- but when I woke up I was next to the mirror in Canterlot.” Twilight explained, trying to replay the night’s activities in her head.

    “Long day?”  The fiery haired girl offered, “You got all the way to the portal but stopped for a nap?” she laughed, “it looks like you could use another one.”

    “Let’s just -get rid of her get some...” Twilight paused as her eyes started to cross.

    “Hey Twilight, are you okay?”

    “Yeah.  I think I just need- her blood -  ...some coffee. Get out of my head!” Twilight started yelling, hitting the side of her head with her hand as hard as she could, bruising herself.  -Never! -

    “Twilight, stop that!” Sunset shouted as she grabbed Twilight’s arm to prevent her from hurting herself further.

• I'm Twilight now -

"Sunset, run!“  Celestia and Twilight both yelled in unison.

    Twilight’s eyes darkened into the a jet black, soon afterwards. Her body obtaining a faint gray glow, her skin paled, as has her voice darkened making her sound demonic.

“You should have ran,” Twilight  laughed as she picked Sunset Shimmer up and slammed her hard against the sidewalk, knocking the wind out of her.

    “Twilight!” Sunset croaked as oxygen rushed back into her lungs. “What happened to you?” Lifting her legs up she pushed Twilight off of her and onto the ground.

    “I’m just listening to my Queen.  It would have been a lot easier, if you didn’t try to distract me,” Twilight giggled darkly as she quickly got up and lunged forward to choke Sunset; she was jabbed by Sunset’s boot hard under her chin knocking her backwards again and effectively knocking her tooth out.

    “Sunset!”  A raspy voice echoed off the statue. Twilight, Celestia and Sunset looked in the direction of the voice.

    “Rainbow Dash, stay back!”  Sunset ordered.

    “What’s going on?”

    Seeing an opening with Rainbows distraction Twilight grabbed Sunset by the arm and wrenched it the backwards while wrapping her own free arm over Sunset’s neck and squeezed, breaking Sunset’s collarbone. “Do not avoid, lie, trick, or distract.”

Twilight laughed looking over to the girl, as if teaching the lesson to Rainbow Dash.

“Rainbow go… NOW!”

        Noticing the rainbow haired girl running towards the main building Twilight started to chase after her, only to be tackled onto her side.

“If you want a fight, you got one!” Sunset growled, picking the purple girl up in a fireman's hold, she threw Twilight through the portal. Sunset quickly followed with Celestia right behind them.  The moment they set foot in Equestria, Twilight teleported them to Everfree Forest.

“No one will distract us here. Also, how noble of you, dying on the land you were born. I wonder what Celestia would think about that.” Flying into the air, Twilight fired an electrical bolt, missing Sunset by two meters.  Twilight continued to fire, but kept missing.

“You may have her body, but definitely not her magic.” Sunset smirked, hitting one of her wings with a fire spell, knocking the mare out of the sky.

“You bucking little bitch,” Twilight growled as she attacked again, the bolt going slightly over Sunset. “Don’t try to trick me, I have all of her magic.”

Celestia hated just having to watch strike after strike as Twilight was finally able to get a few hits in. Sunset held strong though. The more it progressed though, the more she noted the injuries. Each mare had identical injuries, or as close as half a centimeter to it. “She’s mimicking Sunset.” Celestia finally stopped watching as a mother and teacher, but rather as a student in class. After almost half an hour of fighting, both mares were still standing but severely weakened, Celestia noticed Sunset horn glowed as she charged her magic, taking a new approach as she engaged in hoof to hoof combat. After a minute, she managed to get a strong blow to Twilight's horn as she turned around and bucked her back legs.

“This ends now,” Sunset growled, teleporting directly outside the prison doors.

“Very smart, Sunset, you remembered,” Celestia smiled for the first time.  “I’m happy that I taught you about the prison safeguard spell now.”

Pushing Twilight inside both mares noticed half of the little magical supply they had left being drained. “Nice attempt, but this place isn’t going to stop me from killing you.” Twilight started to laugh sending a shiver down Sunset and Celestia’s spines. “Pathetic!”  Twilight fired another bolt, hitting the wall behind Sunset.

Saving her magic, Sunset cast a barrier around herself. Pissed off Twilight had kept firing. She was having little to no success except when she had hit the door,  locking them in the prison. The area around the doors blackened.

“Now I’m truly thankful that my Twilight can at least aim.” Celestia chuckled, knowing that it wasn’t funny but this was a memory. She can’t change that, and she began getting used to it now.

Not long after it started, did Sunset notice a discernible decrease in power from Twilight’s body, as if it were being depressed more then the spell had already done..

“Twilight! I know you’re still in there! Please, you need to take control again!” Sunset screamed at the top of her lungs.

“Nice try. I’m Twilight now.”

-No you're not!-

  “Shut the hell up!”

-No! You hurt my friend. Now...GIVE ME BACK MY BODY!

“Come on Twilight! You can do it!” Sunset cheered.

  Twilight’s corneas started turning grey as she reared up onto her back legs, and held her head with her front hooves. “Sunset, quick.”

-Give it back!-

        “It’s going to take over again. I need you to knock me out!”

-It won't work!-

   “I don’t care how!”

-Nice try, Princess!-

“Now!”

    Without anymore hesitation, Sunset hit the mare under the base of her horn, successfully knocking her out and in a anti-magic cell. Worn and exhausted, Sunset didn’t realize the strength of the spell and was thrown forwards into the cell  by the force, hitting the door with a hoof, slammed into the wall behind it, before slamming itself shut. Sunset collapsed next to the lifeless body..

    “Didn’t plan on that happening. Only planned on you to be in here. Nevertheless you were there for me,  now good luck trying to get me to leave you alone.”

Both mares went still as the world went dark yet again.

“Get out!”

The elder alicorn jumped up hearing her Twilight’s voice.

“It’s you who needs to learn her place!”

Celestia looked around to see night falling in what appeared to be a desert.

“Come out, come out my little Princess. It’s time to play,” a shadowy creature whispered.  It didn’t have a form, but instead resembled a thick smoke. “I promise you Twiley, that I will defeat you and take over again. I promise you that.”

Celestia watched the creature carefully, remembering what Luna had said.

“Luna was right. This isn’t just a nightmare. It pried into Twilight's subconscious.” Noticing something out of the corner of her eye, Celestia looked up to see her sister. Right after Luna touched the dirt, a grayish aura surrounded her and pulled her into a cave. Looking over, Celestia noticed the shadow creature eying her sister. In that split moment she felt a presence very similar to Nightmare Moon. “I felt it before also. I should have looked into it. I’m such a fool!” She yelled at herself, hitting her head with the back of her hoof.

“Get out!”

Celestia ran over to the cave she had heard Twilight shouting from, and fell to her knees at the sight.

“LUNA! TWILIGHT!” Celestia finally yelled in the royal canterlot voice.

The images running through her mind of how her younger sister reacted, coming out of the dream realm, Remembering how both mares acted in the room, the two situations matching up.  Her eyes turned white as her anger grew stronger. “No one treats them like this!!”

The world around Celestia started to morph as she felt a sharp stabbing pain throughout her body. Carefully opening her eyes, the only thing she  could see were a pair of purple eyes in a field of black staring back at her.

“You’re finally awake. Now we can have some fun.”