Celestia absorbs this answer, before speaking again. “Well, hope you have luck. But Twilight starts to wake up right now, so if you want to be here, come quickly.”

Celestia cuts of the connection, but Luna seem wanting to add something. “WHAT? NO TIA, DON’T…” but the rest of her answer was cut off.

Luna stood still for a moment. She couldn’t believe it. Her sister had cut her off. “What…?”, she just stares in the regal of the library.

Then after a second, which felled like an eternity, the realization came. “Dear Mother above.” She turns away from the regal and darted to the door of the library. She uses her magic and push the door open.

Because of the sheer force behind it, she didn’t simply open it… she ripped the door out of the hinges. The guards beside the door, two batponies called Vlad and Tepes, were forced to jump out of the way. They were shocked for a moment, but then their training returned. They readied their weapon and point it to the threat, just to realize that there isn’t an enemy but the startled alicorn of the moon.

“Princess, are you alright?” Vlad asks her.

Luna didn’t answer. As she had passed the remnant of the door, she had realized that she nearly wounded her own guards, so takes a moment to make sure she didn’t hurt them. “Vlad, Tepes. I’m sorry for nearly smashing you both.” She says between ragged breaths.

Tepes waves with his free hoof. “No problem. We are trained to be quick on the hooves, so if you had hit us, we would have deserved it.” This small joke on their cost, makes Luna smiling.

But only for a moment. Then she had remembered why she was in such a hurry. “With me. We must hurry to the infirmary.” Her smiling fall and was replaced by a face filled with dread.

Vlad and Tepes gulps at this sight. The wondered what could startled her, but again their training override their thoughts. Both straighten and grab their weapon. “Princess.” They both said simulate.

Better, their mouths moved, but no sound leaves their mouths. For the split of a second Luna was confused, but then she feels an enormous amount of raw magic in the air.

The magic rushes through the corridor. And everything that was touched by the magic get blown away. Artworks, Armors, bouquets in the hall were thrown by the blast. They get ripped, smashed or simply thrown through walls… And the magic wave didn’t spare the unlucky guards and the alicorn in the corridor.

Vlad and Tepes’s eyes were filled by pure terror, as the magic hit them. They both started their mute screaming, as the magic start to pull on them.

Fearing for the worst Luna quickly acts. She lungs herself to the guards. As soon as they were in her reach, she embraces herself and them in a shield. As the bubble had closed around the three sounds returned. The air in the shield was filled with the sounds of wind rushing and the two guards screaming out of their lungs. Luna did her part to the chaotic orchestra, as she joined her guards in the screaming.

They all scream until they hit a wall at the end of the corridor. The shield spell holds for a moment and so deaccelerate them that the impact didn’t kill them instantly. Still the remaining force was enough. The moment the shield broke and all three receive the force of the impact, they all black out. Luna was able to prolong the black out for a second longer than her guards and so could only think one thing. “I had failed.” Then she lost herself in the darkness.

Luna couldn’t say how long she was out, but she after a while she starts to reawaken. The hearing came before everything else. “Damned… Just wake up… “A voice said.

“Huh” was all Luna could make as sound.

That seem enough for a start, as the voice starts to speak again, clearer than before. “Good… good… Try to look into the light…Don’t fear the light.” The voice lures her.

Luna was confused. “Which light?”, she thought, but asking this question was an impossible task. Instead of words only a weak moan escapes her maw.

Suddenly the sound of a hoof hitting hard on flesh rings through the air. “DAMMED… COULD YOU ALL STOP HITTING ME. I’M NOT A ****ING PUNCHING BAG.” The voice bellows.

“Then stop waggle with the little lamp in her face.” A female voice said in a tone of clear annoyance and distrust.

The sudden outburst allowed Luna to regain her conscious more. She recognizes the female voice as the voice of Midnight. The other voice was male. So, Luna collect her power and finally managed to move a part of her body. She opens her eyes.

At first, she was dazzled, as a light shine direct into it, but only for a second before it was pointed at another point. This time outside her field of vision. The first glances were blurred. Something easy corrected by a few blinks.

They proved her right. Luna sees that there was Midnight in the corridor. The bat pony stands near a unicorn stallion and points with her hoof at him. Her face shows her clear distrust. The stallion shows the annoyance, while he rubs on hoof at his shoulder.

Luna was unsure, from where she knows the stallion. But after the next sentence, it became clear for her.

“Should have left you in my place in the cell. I can do without your violent streak.”

This sentence, along with his appearance, as a white unicorn with a yellow mane, made the recognizing clear. It was the prisoner, who had carried Twilight out of the portal.

Midnight and the stallion continues to exchange insults, in the meantime was Luna able to get on her hooves. As soon as she stands on all four, although where unstable, she coughs and catches so the attention of both.

“Your Highness.” Midnight wasted no time and rushed to her side, in trying to support her. The stallion simply looks at them. Midnight puts her body under Luna and so pushes her up.

As Luna stands on her hooves, Midnight doesn’t leave her. Luna was grateful for that, as she was still weak. “Midnight, thank you for the support.”

Midnight smiles at her. “Not worth to mention. Princess.”

Luna opens her mouth to say something, but she was interrupted by the sound of painful moaning. Midnight and her moved their heads so fast in the direction of the moans, that they both nearly causes themselves a concussion.

The Stallion stands beside the mauled bodies of Vlad and Tepes. He moves his hooves of their bodies, for what purpose Luna didn’t see.

Luckily Midnight asks him for her, but also unfortunately Midnight asks him… in a not so friendly tone. “Get your damn hooves from them… scoundrel.”

The Stallion snorts. “While you must do kiss-eyes from that big assed royal over there, I was forced to witness that and for my sake, instead of waiting for the kiss between. I have made myself useful.” He waves his hooves at both bat ponies. “Looked after them both, besides a concussion they will heal up. But I would hurry up. They only will live longer if they get a real medical treatment”

This eased Luna a bit and she finally asks the stallion herself. “How do you know that? Have you already scanned them?”

The stallion tilts his head, while showing a frown on his face. “No, but I have medical education.” He waves his hoof. “But besides that. I know what happened and before I’m forced to dig the really deep hole for the bodies, I would defuse the delicate bomb in the medical wing of this damned castle. So, it would be nice if you get your royal ass, get up and show me the damn fucking way.”

“Watch your tongue scoundrel.” Midnight raises the one hoof she could spare at him. “Don’t dare to speak in that manner to the princess.”

The stallion walks towards them, before he stops a few feet away. “First of, I won’t watch my language, I love swearing. Second, we are in a delicate situation, moments before the moment shit hits the fan. But most importantly, I’m not called scoundrel… I’m called Vet. “He puts some venom in his voice. “So, use it… batsy.” He mocks her.

Midnight leave her side and walks to him, so that their snots are nearly touching. “DON’T CALL ME BATSY.”

Luna was a bit fascinated by their bickering. She wanted to see more but more important matter where on the hoof. “Well, before you both start to murder each other.” She takes a deep breath. “To the royal infirmary it’s this way.” She starts to walk and soon both follow her.

Midnight and the Stallion followed. As soon as they had walked a bit Luna couldn’t resist to ask. “Dear … Vet is that right?” she asks, only to get a grunt from him. “Okay…” She was for a moment at loss of words before she continues. “Well you released you from your cell?”

Vet snorted. “Funny thing. The group of colorful ponies along with the big assed one where in my cell, where I was chained to the wall. We talked, and suddenly realized that my patient wasn’t with me. Then they walked away, ignoring my demands for an answer and my warnings. Batsy over there...” He pointed at Midnight, who look at him with killing intent.” … stayed for a moment. She listens to me, then started to leave, but demanded to tighten the security. But just as she was in the door out, shit had hit the fan.”

Luna looks at Midnight. She shrugged her shoulder. “Well so far had sums it up very good. Although I wouldn’t use the phrase he used to describe what happen next.”

The moon alicorn nod with her head. “But how came he out and why are both already up?”

Vet snorts, making Luna look at him again. “Well yeah… in the moment the eruption had happened the guards had open the cell door. The moment the wave hit our dear batsy, she was send flying. Good for her the cell door where already open. Bad for me, I was in her flight path. She was thrown against me and then we both get thrown against the wall. She was simply shocked. But she was the only so far able to quickly recover. I had already open my chains. Out of a moment of weakness I had taken her with me, probably to get directions to the infirmary. She was shocked for a few seconds, then she recovered and run beside me until we found you. I’m a bit impressed how she could recover so fast. “He looks at her. “Shame that the other guards are such a wimp.”

Midnight growls. “Don’t make me stab you.”

Vet simply shrugs with his shoulder. “Don’t fear you. I have worked with far freighting persons. Also, I know what will happen if my patient fully lose control. So first taking care of her… then you can come and try to stab me.”

Midnight continue to growl but only for a moment. “What do you mean your patient? And also … fully control? By the moon. What happen even in the first place?”

But another wave, this time only a small one erupted. It cuts through the air, given them all only a chill down their spine. So, Vet starts to run, instead of wasting his breath for an answer. Midnight and Luna followed in his pursuit.

Both had little problem to follow him. He may set up a fast pace, but he seems to have problems with his legs. Every time he tried to cut a corner he lost his grip and overshot into a wall… and every time he curses. The most used phrase

Was “too many damn legs”.

In what could be only a few moments, the group arrived in the corridor before the infirmary. The sight of it was a shock. All Inhabitants in the room, Princess Celestia, The Mane6 and the dragon Spike, as well as guards and medical personal lay in the hall, some are even stuck in the walls, all around them are black crystals.

The crystals had such a deep black, it remained Luna of the Eternal Night, which her dark Alter Ego wanted to unleash, or the crystals of the Fallen Unicorn King Sombra.

The crystals seem to suck out the light from their surroundings. In an interval of seconds, a purple light emitted from them, given the illusion that the crystals are alive.

Everything simply scream that they are unholy, still Luna and Midnight were relieved when they see that no was pierced on a crystal. They heard a moan and then realized that Vet walked already near the others.

He didn’t stop at the sight of the crystal and already start to check them. “Well some are totally out of the game for the next two or four days, maybe a week, but besides broken bones, few cuts and possible concussions, everybody is fine.”

Midnight seem to start another bickering round with him, but Luna did pay any energy for them as she spots the fallen form of her sister and rushes to her side.

“Sister are you alright?” She asks with worry in her voice.

“Uhh…Lulu…” came weak from the sun alicorn. “Are you that?”

Luna hug her sister. “Yes, it’s me. I’m so glad you are ok.” She put effort in the hug, and so Celestia starts to groan and so Luna only tighten her hug more.

“Not wanting to be the one who point it out… but if think if you tighten your grip, your sister need a undertaker instead a caretaker.” Vet stands beside the moon alicorn and touch her shoulder.

The sentence and his touch were enough and so Luna break out and release her sister, after she had seen that her sister starts to run blue. “Upps… Sorry.”

Celestia coughs a few times and then takes a big breath. She looks at her sister. “Luna… you are here…” she let her glance wander and spot Midnight. “Your captain is here too…” and with open mouth her head fast turn around and look at the prisoner. “You…” she points her hoof in an accusation. “How and why are you here...?”

Vet licks with his tongue over his lips, then he clicks his tongue. “Well first, good old batsy over there” he pointed at Midnight “… had stayed a little longer than you all so she gets my threats. She ordered the guards to tighten my chains, but in the moment, they opened the cell door the blast hit she was thrown into my cell. Freed myself and take her with me, then we found your sister… “He stops his tell. “So, for the second question why I’m here. Look around the entire scene…” He moves his right hoof and wave it around.

Celestia was shocked by the pure madness. How the entire corridor was filled with the unholy crystals, how the ponies are laying around, how the entire air seems to be tainted.

“Are they all dead?” she asked him, but a moan emits. Slow by steady the Mane6 and Spike start to get up, still the others seem to be out.

“No… and don’t interrupt me further.” Vet barks at her. “But to answer, no one is dead … yet.”

This seem like a shock so ever pony looks at him. “WHAT?” came as unison answer from two alicorns, the bearer, the dragon and the captain from the night guard.

Vet waited a moment. “This entire thing… I said it. Wake her up without me … THIS WOULD HAPPEN! IF YOU HAD LISTEN THIS ALL WOULDN’T HAPPENED: NO ONE WOULD BE HURT, NO DESTRUCTION…” he screams at them. He short interrupts himself to catch a new breath before he continues to scream. “… and more importantly… TWILIGHT WOULDN’T BE IN PAIN!”

“Now fellow, get your voice down and explain yourself.” Applejack was the one to ask the question, while she points her orange hoof at him. She probably wants to threaten him, but he ignores her outstretch hoof.

“Let me ask something first. She was asleep when she was in the hand, hooves, whatever… of the doctors. They spot something in her blood. They washed it out somehow and she started signs of waking up. You all happily stand at her bed as she opens eyes and then the entire thing had gone down the gutter…RIGHT?” he asks them.

They were all silent for a moment, letting the said sinking in. Then it was Rainbow Dash who answers. “Well yeah… Maybe…So, what now?”

Vet slap his hoof to his face. He let it stay there for a moment before he released a breath through his teeth’s, it sounded like grinding a stone. “Well we are short on time, so in short. The drug inside her blood was a medicine, to sleep her sleep for a long time in a dreamless sleep.” He lowers his hoof. They all see his serious face. “She was in a very worse state. I had given her some medicine to at last patch her up, side effect it puts a stroll at her body.”

He raises the hoof again, cutting a questions short. “Before you ask, yes that was dangerous, but we had to get her really fast out, because she had only three options, … definitely dying there, maybe dying on the way out, or maybe surviving until we reach her home. So, in she had get the drugs.”

He waves his hoof around to scene around. “The dangerous thing about the special cocktail she had, that if someone…” The glare he sends to every pony could have melt stones “didn’t follow the right procedure or worst case simply make a cold detoxification, like you all did…” he clicks with his tongue.

“She wakes up, but instead of her normal consciousness, it forced her inner side out. “He starts to turn around and start to walk towards the remnants of the door to infirmary.

“ And you don’t want her inner side out.” He ominous state, while casual walk.

Rapid Step was already up. “What. Stop right their prisoner. Stop your evil work.” He had been laying at the other side of the corridor, so when he had awakened he hadn’t heard anything from Vet. The guard only saw a picture straight out a nightmare and then he spots the prisoner free and walking towards to the center of the disaster. So, his training kicks in and he jumped up. He rushes towards Vet and so he walked in front of the gaping hole, which had been the door.

He screams a war cry, completely ignoring the pleas of the princesses. The prisoner looked a bit surprised and Rapid allowed himself to grin.

BANG…

Then a bang echoed and midair he blacked out.

All ponies fall back to the ground as soon as they heard it. Vet simply stood still and looked at the body of the guard to his hooves. He turns his head and bellows into the infirmary. “Nice shot. He is out.” Over his shoulder he hollers to the other. It’s better you stay back.

Then he suddenly run in.

Another BANG sounded, but instead of another body falling to the ground, a little bling sounded, as something small ricochet around.

Vet was calm, despite being shot at. “Icy. It’s me. No need to send me down.” A small beep sounded and a small construct flies towards him. It looks like a flying cube with two small cylinders at the sides with another on them. It looked like a toy but Vet know what the construct could do.

It beeped again, before flying back to its old position. Vet was relieved that Icy was still able to sense him. “Getting shot by its bullet, may only deaden someone, still it fucking hurt.” He thought to himself.

With small but steady steps, he walks on his hooves to the center. It was hard for him to see what was there. It gives him memories of the only time it happened before… something he wanted to never witness before.

“Well the universe is full with cruelty and uncaring, so why should I had thought it will fulfil my wish.” He thought with bitterness in his head.

He looked at an awful scene. A fairy tale castle in partly in ruins, the white and marvelous wall, burned and cracked, all around are the black demon crystal pulsing in the unholy, demonic heartbeat, and the center of it lays on the remains, what could have been a bed. “A real bed, with a soft mattress”.

On said bed lay the body of a pony in what he could describe as fetus position. The lavender colored pony slowly wipes herself, while she mumbles something so quietly no one couldn’t make out, but Vet had an idea what I could be. “…No more pain… please no more pain please…” he whispers.

The pony, the alicorn princess suddenly stopped her wiping. Slowly and stagnating she raised her head. Her mane was a mess, as it points in every direction possible and her eyes were in no better state. There were bloodshot and hectically jump around, as they try to look at every point in the same time.

“Vet?” she asks in a quiet shaking voice. “Are you that?”

Vet cowers at her side. “Yeah it’s me.” He starts to smile

“How… how can you look like a pony.” Her eyes start to fill with fear. “It’s a trick… It’s a trick. Vet can’t be a pony…” She starts to tremble.

Vet realize that she starts to panic. He knows what could happen if she panics. So, he talked to distract her. “Sparks, it’s me. Vet. Remember the last time we talked about. I tell which stars I could see and about the Red Moon… What he means?”

She nods with her a in stuttering motion. “Yeah. So… if you a Vet… how are you a pony? Is it a trick?”

Vet shrugs with his shoulder. “It’s not a trick… I’m a pony, because I had carried you while we had fled to your home.”

Twilight stops to tremble and stare with open mouth at him. “Home?”

“Yeah Sparks, we got you to your home.”

She gulps. “H…How…?” she asks with unsteady voice.

“They had come. Your knights had come. They had killed the staff, break through to you and I help them to get you out. We had taken you from your cell to the portal. We used it to come to your home. We get you back, you are in Equestria.”

Twilight stood still. “I’m home?” Vet nods. “Really home?” Again, Vet nods. “No test, no more examinations?” Vet nod for a third time.

She remains still for a moment longer, then she suddenly moved. She propelled herself from the bed to Vet and cling herself around him. Her hooves reach around his barrel and she buries her head in his neck and mane… then she started to cry and the tears flow in streams.

Slowly Vet lowers himself on the ground and allow her to cry on his shoulder. Meanwhile the crystal starts to crack and collapse into dust, before been blown away.

As soon as the last bit of the crystals are gone the princesses, the elements and Spike slowly start to enter the infirmary. They were shocked at the sight. With the crystals gone the infirmary didn’t look as threating as before, still the sight of Twilight awake and crying into the coat of the unknown stallion called Vet, disturbed them all.

Someone of them coughs and so Vet notice their presence. “Well… I think now I have a lot to explain.”

Author's Note

So yeah new chapter...

Hope you like it.

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