(Main tent. Equestria side.)

Twilight awoke to loud whistle noise the made her ears hurt. She and the rest of the group went to sleep a little after Starlight and Rainbow left, so this wasn’t how she expected to get up. As she rubbed the sleep from her eyes, the tent flaps burst open as Rainbow Dash flew in at neck break speed. She was panting and a look of panic was in her eyes.

“Dash, what is going on?” Twilight said with a yawn. Her answer was being grabbed from the bunk and thrown to the ground.

“We need to move, NOW!” Rainbow Dash shouted, waking the rest of the tent up. “It’s not safe here. Scorpio is…” Before she could finish, the front of the tent burst into flames. Apple Jack jumped back, grabbing Rarity with her because the two were the one closest to the front of the tent. The flames disappear as quickly as they came, revealing the open world The group saw five ponies, two unicorns and three earth ponies, standing with several weapons drawn.

“Twilight Sparkle!” The leader of the group, a unicorn with a red tipped spear. “By order of the Eclipse Army, you and your friends are placed under arrest. If you resist, we will have to use deadly force. Do you understand?”

“I understand” Twilight said, standing in front of the group. She started charging a spell, causing the two unicorns to do the same. “I hope you understand that I will not allow you to hurt my friends.”

“I’m afraid you don’t have a choice in the matter.” The leader said, a smirk on his face.

“Actually, I do,” Twilight said. She flashed a shield spell at that moment. “Every pony run!” The group head to the back of the tent as the two Eclipse unicorn fired spells at the shield. Rarity used her cutting spell to quickly get through the tent fabric. The group quickly crawl to the other side, only to meet another group of Eclipse Soldiers on the other side.

“Twilight, a slight problem!” Apple Jack shouted as the Eclipse’s soldiers turn to face them.

“Ah, vat do ve have here?” an earth pony said, a thick accent plaguing every word. “If it isn’t the friends of Tvilight.”

“Oh, come on!” Rainbow Dash shouted as the group back into the tent. “How are we supposed to get out of here!?!”

“Every pony huddle up!” Twilight shouted. They got as close as possible to each other and as soon as they got into a group, Twilight quickly summon a teleport spell. The group disappeared in a flash, causing the leaders to swore in angry.

“Find them!” The leader shouted. “There are binding circles on this camp! They couldn’t have gone far!”

(Gemini’s Tent.)

Eli dragged Sticks into the tent and was trying to think what to do next while Judy was guarding the entrance. Eli put Sticks on the ground and sat in a sitting position. He looked to see the injuries that Sticks suffered. He saw two holes in his chest, one deeper than the other and producing a lot of blood. Judy looked at the injured Sticks and swore.

“What are we doing, Eli!?!” She shouted, kicking a nearby chest. “Why did we think this was a good idea?”

“Because we were sent to kill skittle color ponies!!!” Eli shouted, getting up. “And the really fucked up thing is, we pass all that military to have him get taken out by a bug pony. When I get out of this, I going to make that man suffer.” A loud cough caused the two to look at their injury comrade.

“Guys, something wrong.” He said before letting out a new set of coughs.

“Yeah, you have a hole in your chest, you dumbass,” Judy said, peeking out the tent to see a group of pony searching the grounds, going one tent at a time. “We got like five minutes before we get found out.”

“No.” Sticks said in a groan. “My back.” Eli pulled him a little forward to see that the creature had punch almost all the through. Eli thought that was worst until he looked to see the wound had damaged the tattoo that was supposed to protect them.

“Aw shit!” Eli shouted, causing Judy to look back.

“What!?!” She asked, sitting next to them.

“The marking is damage!” He shouted. “Whatever this place does, it going to happen.”

“When?” Judy asked, drawing her gun and aiming at the door. Before he could have responded, a commotion started outside.

“I found them!”

(Outside of Gemini’s tent.)

The group was surrounded on all sides by unicorns and earth ponies alike. Twilight was gearing for another spell while Rarity made a small shield. Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash were gearing to attack while Fluttershy seemed to watch for any movement.

“Twilight, let’s not fight.” A voice called out. Twilight looked up to see Gemini walk from behind the group. “You are surrounded. The area bound so unless you have another powerful unicorn hiding, you’re not running. Just surrender.”

“Not likely,” Twilight growled.

“How about…we find a way to persuade you?” Gemini said and with a flash of a spell, a blue light shot out and hit Fluttershy. She let out a yelp as she was dragged from the group and splayed out. Rainbow Dash dived to grab her but one of the other unicorns shot a spell at her, causing her to duck back down.

“Oh, I won’t move if I were you,” Gemini said with a wicked grin. “You see this is a very delicate spell. You see, I went through a couple of changelings before I got all the bugs,” He chuckled a bit. “out of it. There are magical rope holding her limbs and if I lose my concentration, it might just rip her apart.” He showed this by just twitching slightly, causing Fluttershy to squeal in pain.

“Alright!” Twilight said, power her spell down. “What do you want?” Gemini grinned and step forward.

“What I want? Now that an interesting question.” He said. “I have an idea. You remember when you fought Tirek? All the princesses gave you their power? How about you do the same to me?”

“You’re kidding?” Twilight said. “I don’t know how to do that!!! Besides, the power would destroy you.”

“Well, you don’t deserve it!” Gemini seemed to getting annoyed with her. “You have all that power and what do you do with it? Make friends and train traitors. Well, let’s see if you learn that how to give up after I pull off a few limbs from your friends.”

(Gemini’s Tent.)

“I beginning to like this pony,” Judy said, watching the scene. Sticks let another groan and went into a spasm. His arm smacked a chest that was nearby, causing it to start shaking. Eli looked up just in time for the chest to burst open and a purple blur to fly out.

“What the…” Eli called out.
(Outside the tent.)

“Give up your power or I’ll make sure that she’ll never fly…” Gemini started before he noticed something coming out of his tent. “Oh, buck me.” The group looked to see a blur slid to a stop in front of Gemini. What they saw was a very angry Starlight. “Starlight, I see you’re well.” He said, the magic around Fluttershy losing.

“You lock me in a chest.” She growled, her horn glowing a deep red. Gemini started to back away, as did several other ponies.

“Ture, but you won’t hurt me,” Gemini said. “I have your friend in my spell and I can promise you that I won’t be letting her go anytime soon.”

“You're good with spells.” Starlight said, stepping a little. “You know, the more powerful a spell, the shorter the range.” She looked up at Fluttershy then back at him. “Now, I can’t fly like Fluttershy but I got really good at changing gravity.” She blasted a spell that hit him and two unicorns on his side. The three felt like the earth flipped on them and threw them backward. Gemini let go of Fluttershy and cast a spell to fix his gravity pull.

This allowed Fluttershy to get grabbed by Twilight. Starlight and Twilight at the same time teleport the whole group. Gemini look where they were and started to yell in angry, illegible words.

“Sir, we found something in your tent.” An earth pony said. Gemini turned to his tent and flash a spell to see three bodies inside, alive.

“I’ll deal with this.” He said and with a flash of a spell, He dragged all three of them out.

“Let go of me, you Saturday morning special.” One of them shouted. Gemini grin like a mad pony.

“I’m going to enjoy this.” He said, eyes glimmering.

(Canterlot.)
Celestia was looking over her kingdom when a loud slamming noise from behind. She looked to see Luna rushing into the throne room.

“Sister.” She said, rushing down. “I believe we have a problem. General Scorpio is planning…” She was cut off by a large flash of light. The two saw Twilight and all her friends suddenly appeared in the court room.

“Princess Celestia,” Twilight said out of breath. “Something happened.” The group quickly explain what happened at the camp grounds. As this going on, Celestia looked back out to the sun. As Twilight finish, Celestia nodded to Luna who bowed and left the throne room.

“Where is she going?” Twilight asked.

“The last message we got from Sunspot was that only five sources could pass the portal,” Celestia said. “One of us has to stay to make sure the moon and the sun still work. Candance can’t go due to her child. We don’t have any idea what happened to Discord, so Luna is the only one available. I need you and your friends to help ensure that Scorpio doesn’t attempt to anything on either me or Candance. This revolt will be stopped”

“But why is she going alone?” Twilight asked. Celestia looked down and smiled.

“Oh, she won’t be alone.” She said.

Author's Note

Sorry for taking so long with this chapter. It was a combination of real life and loss of inspiration but I'm back, baby.