Revolution

“Please, sister… There's no need to lock me up. I, am…” Luna was cut off by Celestia.

Celestia's face showed a touch of insanity; her lower lip was twitching. “Yes, you are… You are a traitor, and don’t you see dear sister? That is exactly why i'm forced to lock you up, again.” Celestia said with a grin that stuck a great deal of fear into Luna. Tears began to build up in Lunas eyes. She tried to stop the tears from flowing, but to no avail.

Celestia started to walk away, quietly laughing to herself. What happened to you, dear sister? The cell in which Luna was in was damp and cold. It was quite small; only about 5 ponies could fit into it. There was a barred window on the left wall, but it only let sunlight in when it was already sunset. The shackles by which Luna was being held were enchanted. They prevented her from being able to cast any spells, and also seemed to drain her of energy.

She had only recently realized how thirsty she was becoming. She calmed herself down by thinking that somepony, Twilight, Cadence; anypony would notice her absence. She thought for a second and only one good option came to her mind. I might as well get some sleep. I have nothing better to do… WAIT, I can enter other ponies dreams still. That power is not connected to my physical magic.

Luna tried with all her willpower and determination to fall asleep, but she couldn’t. Her mind kept thinking about what was happening to her sister. Was she going insane; locking her up for no good reason. Or was it far worse, was her sister going into a state of evil, like she herself had once gone into. Eventually Luna was able to fall asleep.

She was in the world of dreams and nightmares now; all she had to do was find a pony who would understand what she had to say. Luna had hoped that Twilight would have been dreaming that night, but she couldn’t seem to find her. She did however find another pony who she could trust, Scootaloo.

Luna had appeared in her dreams before, so she was sure that Scootaloo would be willing to help her. Luna thought of Scootaloo and was teleported into her dream. Luna was standing in a field of grass. The field contained zap apple trees with nearly full grown apples on them. The sky was in a state of twilight; the sun and moon both being in the sky at the same time. Stars were scarce in the colourful sky.

As Luna observed her surroundings she noticed a streak of rainbow following a lightning fast pegasus. Rainbow Dash was in Scootaloo's dreams, Scootaloo was flying beside her idol, happy as can be. Scootaloo noticed Luna watch her from the distance and flew towards her. “Hey princess, whatcha doing in my dream?”

“I'm afraid, young pony, that my reason for being here is not a simple friendly visit. I require your assistance. I need you to give Twilight a message, may this be asked of thou?”

“Of course; what's the message?” Scootaloo paid close attention to what Luna was telling her, as she knew it was of utmost importance. Luna finished telling Scootaloo all that she would need to repeat to Twilight.

“Farwell Scootaloo. If fates will it, we shall meet again.” Luna said as she vanished from Scootaloo's dream. Her dream began to collapse in on itself. Everything was slowly being absorbed by everything else; until Scootaloo herself was being pulled into the mass of particles that had begun to form a white ball. As Scootaloo fell into it she woke up with a slight gasp. The sun was beginning to rise, and thankfully she remembered exactly what Princess Luna wanted her to tell Twilight.

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Rainbow Dash woke from a dreamless sleep, her back aching from sleeping on the old wood of one of the dilapidated houses. She slept terribly, and felt worse. Her stomach growled, but she knew she wouldn’t receive any breakfast while a whole village was starving. She was still in shock from what she saw at the village. She opened the door, which made a loud irritating creak.

It was still dark outside, but Rainbow was determined to get to Ponyville as quick as possible to give Twilight the bad news. Rainbow Dash walked towards the small river that was hidden behind a hill to the south of the village. The water was cold and fresh. She swallowed several mouthfuls, and filled her canteen. She was about to fly away when she heard yelling and screaming coming from the village.

She crawled over the hill and looked to see what was happening. What she saw made her want to cry. A unit of about 25 Equestrian soldiers were busy burning the village, and massacring its inhabitants. One of the soldiers spotted her and yelled. “We got a witness, kill her!”

When Rainbow heard that she burst up into the air and flew away as fast as she could. Several unicorns from the unit of soldiers began to fire at her. A few of their shoots nearly hit her in her wing or head, but most missed. Thanks to her speed, she was able to get out of there in time. She was now on her way to ponyville to explain all that she saw to Twilight. Rainbow Dash felt scared. What the hell is going on… Why were they starving that village, and then just massacring it?