Assaulted

Back to the present…

“Let me go!  How dare you disobey Queen Chrysalis!”  Midnight growled, as she tried to get out of the grip of two Rainbow Dashes.

The Rainbow on the left tightened her grip on Midnight. “You disappointed the queen by bringing back Nightmare Moon.”

“Now you must be punished.  What was it that she kept telling you?” The Rainbow on the right asked, pulling on the rope that they tied around Midnight’s wings to prevent her from flying.

            Midnight ground her teeth from the pain, both pinon joints feeling as if they were about to be dislocated. “I will not avoid, lie, trick, or distract.”  Midnight whispered through clenched teeth.

            “So why did you avoid your orders?”  The Rainbow on the right asked, while glancing to the other one.

            “I didn’t!  I was given orders to kill Twilight’s friends, along with the Princesses.  I was about to kill Celestia when you interrupted me!”

            “You didn’t kill Luna.  You turned her into Nightmare Moon, which is going to cause more problems for the queen!” The left Rainbow started flying faster, while Midnight let out a small yelp from the change in pressure.

            Both Rainbows looked Midnight over, admiring their work.  A rope bound her wings at the pinion joints, and around her body keeping her wings closed.  A blindfold covered Midnight’s eyes so she couldn’t see, a magic limiter had been placed over her horn so she couldn’t use magic. Lastly all four of Midnight’s hooves were tied together in a hogtie.  Each Rainbow held Midnight by her forearms, with the ends of the rope around her wings wrapped around their hoof in case she tried to escape.

            “Where are we going?” Midnight mumbled again, after almost an hour of flying. Sighing in frustration when no answer came.

            Nightmare Moon flew up behind the group, making sure to be as silent as possible so that Midnight wouldn’t know she was there.

                A couple minutes later, Midnight could feel the air change from hot to cool before hearing a door close.  Two minutes later another door closed and she was set down on a cold floor.

            Both of the Rainbows looked at each other. “Ready?”

            “Ready.”

They both turned around, and Nightmare Moon nodded, giving both Rainbows permission to untie the ropes.

Confused, Midnight took her blindfold off.  Standing up on wobbly legs she looked around the room.  Nightmare Moon walked up to Midnight, snarling.

“This is your last chance.  Give Twilight Sparkle back her body, or you’re gone.  What is it going to be?”

“I gave you back your life.  You should be thanking me.”  Midnight reached up to start taking the magic limiter off.  Noticing this, Nightmare wrapped Midnight in a barrier, preventing her from moving.

“Fool.”  Nightmare Moon glanced over to both Rainbows who  flew over next to Nightmare Moon.  A moment later the barrier fell and Midnight found herself being thrown across the room and into a familiar object.

Everything started spinning, while Midnight felt her body go numb.  After a couple seconds, Midnight let out a scream before hitting a grassy field.  A tingling sensation immediately came over her body, as the feeling started to return.

Holding her head, Midnight was attempting to regain her composure enough to sit up; but felt something roll her onto her stomach while pulling her arms behind her back.  Out of the corner of her eye, Midnight gasped as she noticed a familiar girl.

            “Sunset Shimmer?  I thought Nightmare Moon would have killed you by now.”  Midnight struggled against the new restraints, wincing as the ropes started to cause friction burns.  Elbow length purple gloves helped keep it from cutting into her, but not by much.

    Sunset kneeled down and tied some rope around Midnight’s dark purple boots so she couldn’t run away.  Sunset looked Midnight up and down.  Her skin was darker then Twilights, and the attire had changed from what Sunset was accustomed to.  It reminded Sunset of her dressed, during the fall formal incident.

            “You messed with the wrong girl.  I might be from Equestria, but I’m a part of two worlds now.” Turning around Sunset found herself shoved out of the way by Applejack.

            “How dare you hurt our friends!” Applejack yelled, wrapping her hands around Midnight’s neck and pushing her further in the grass, while Midnight struggled; unable to breath. Applejack had been using all of her restraint not to punch Midnight, but It was still Twilight’s body after all.

            “Get in position girls.” Sunset grabbed the farm girl  by her collar and pulled her off Midnight before pulling her towards the side. One of the Rainbows went and stood by the portal, while the girls formed a circle around Midnight.

            “Do you really think you can get me to surrender by surrounding me?  You’re more pathetic than your precious Princess Celestia.“  Midnight rolled over and forced herself up, and onto her knees.  Looking at the girls, Midnight’s pupils quickly shrank as she watched the six girls start floating in the air, their bodies letting off a light glow.

            “Hate to break it to you, but Celestia’s not in charge over here.”  Rainbow yelled watching Luna coming through the portal in her peripheral vision. Luna now looked exactly like her counterpart rather than Nightmare Moon.  Standing next to Rainbow Luna watched carefully, observing how the mane 6’s counterparts used the elements.

            Midnight watched as a rainbow started surrounding her, spinning itself up into a tornado.  Slowly, she could feel her power depleting, and Twilight’s spirit forcing its way back to the surface.

            “No! I worked too hard to allow you to come back!” Midnight growled, while a burning sensation overwhelmed her.  A few seconds later Midnight could no longer see the Rainbow, but rather found herself surrounded by a white light.

Midnight’s heart started speeding up, while the feeling of being turned to ash overwhelmed her.  Looking down, Midnight watched as her legs disintegrated and Twilight’s started appearing.  The magic moved from Midnight’s legs and started working its way up agonizingly slow, until Midnight filly felt it at her shoulders.

With the remainder of her strength, Midnight yelled loud enough for Twilight’s spirit to hear… “I’ll always be a part of you Twilight.  Don’t you ever forget that!”  Twilight could feel Midnight disappear and her own soul returning to her body.  Twilight’s mind was completely numb to the new but familiar sensation of having her body to herself.

Everyone watched as the rainbow vanished, leaving Twilight lying face down in the grass.  Only rushing over to check on her, after they were confident that their Twilight was back.  Sunset sat her up and supported her, while Applejack and Pinkie Pie started undoing the ropes.

            “Is she going to be alright?”  Fluttershy whispered, placing her hand on Twilight’s cheek and softly rubbing it with her thumb.

            Luna kneeled down next to Sunset, letting out a sigh of relief as the color returned to her face. “I believe so.  Physically at least.  Thank you everypony.  We never could have saved her without you.”

            Twilight started groaning, as she started to open her eyes.  Blinking her blurry eyes rapidly to clear them up, Twilight managed to start thinking clearly again and quickly realized what had happened.

            Looking around at all of her friends, Twilight started trembling before bringing her knees up to her chest.

“I’m sorry.  I’m so sorry.”  Twilight whimpered, while trying to back away from the group.  Sunset stayed next to Twilight grabbing the top of her arms while Luna placed her hand on Twilight’s back for support.  Fluttershy backed away, as Twilight started struggling some more.

Twilight started shaking her head, while her breathing increased. “Please, get away. I’m…I’m a monster.  Please, I…I don’t want to hurt you guys.”

“It’s alright, Twilight.  You’re safe now; The real monster is gone,” Sunset cooed, hugging Twilight in an attempt to comfort her, and to keep her from running away.

Twilight started heaving as tears ran down her eyes. “She’s… Midnight’s going to… I’m going to...” Luna started humming a soft lullaby to try and calm Twilight down, while softly rubbing her back.

“That big meanie is gone.  The ghosties are gone now.”  Pinkie pulled Twilight and Sunset into a hug, while Fluttershy kneeled back down and grabbed Twilight’s hand, still at a loss for words.

Applejack and both Rainbows stood off to the side, not wanting to get in the way. “She’s right sugarcube.  Ya’ll got nothing to worry bout anymore.”

           Luna and Pinkie Pie let go of Twilight, while Sunset started rocking back and forth. Twilight kept crying into Sunset’s shoulder until she passed out, from exhaustion.

“She’s gone Twilight.  It’s all over."