Twilight's Bizarre Adventure: Memories of the Wind

Twilight looked around the room. On her left was a large cage with two stallions inside and two stallions outside (well, a colt and a stallion). Just past them was a group of male creatures. One was very large, dark, and intimidating, with a horn resembling a tree branch, a mane that wrapped around his neck, and a leonine tail. Twilight immediately decided not to get on his bad side, like that changeling he was chewing out seemed to be.

On her right were her friends. Applejack was staring at her lasso. Pinkie was cradling Skystar's head, with Maud at her side. Fluttershy was looking around the room, shaking a bit. Rainbow was staring at a nearby medical tent. Twilight couldn't see Rarity anywhere. Observing the medical tent just past her friends, she realized that it was a special tent designed for teleporting to safety from battlefield situations.

Twilight bit her lip. "What happened?"

"A lot happened, Twilight." Rainbow looked at her. "A lot happened."

Celestia moved further into the room. "Sandbar! Report!"

The colt looked her dead on, a bit of sweat rolling down his head. "I don't have much to report, your highness. That changeling over there attacked Rainbow Dash for seemingly no reason. She held him off until I arrived, which wasn't long before one of his squadmates arrived as well and talked him down."

Celestia looked over. "Which one talked him down?"

"Ghiaccio. The white griffon."

Celestia looked at the stallion, clad in an odd-looking suit."Secco! Report!"

In contrast to Sandbar, Secco looked at her indirectly, without any visible concern. "My old partner, Cioccolata, was working at the Ponyville hospital. Rarity was his last patient. I made sure of that. Redheart is cleaning things up at the hospital, but Rarity needed to be transferred here to undo the damage and complete the original surgery."

"What are her chances of survival?"

"They haven't told us yet. She had to jury rig some work on herself. Her survival depends on how well she did that."

"Why did you not know he was there?"

Secco scratched his ear with his hind leg. "My regular meeting with Redheart was going to be tomorrow, and he was hired on after our last meeting. He was already dead from the moment you ordered it, master. It just happened sooner because he couldn't keep his bloodlust in check."

Twilight tilted her head. "Master?"

Leone leaned over. "He's weird."

Celestia looked inside the cage. "Who are these two?"

Secco looked at them. "I don't really know. They gave Applejack some trouble, but she's clammed up about it."

"Well done, Secco." Celestia tossed a number of sugar cubes into the air. Secco started grabbing them in his mouth and spitting some of them to make the others fall near him, eventually catching all of them.

Sandbar and the caged stallions barely reacted. Twilight's friends (well, the ones that saw it) raised their eyebrows. Twilight and Starlight shared a look. Luna simply smirked.

Leone sighed. "As I said, he's weird."

"NERO!"

Twilight jumped. She had almost never heard Celestia take that kind of tone with anyone.

The dark creature suddenly stiffened up. "Y-yes ma'am!"

The griffon's expression seemed frozen in anger. The hippogriff was quietly tapping on... something. The feline and portly dragon both raised an eyebrow and shared a look. The changeling had a wide look on his face. The diamond dog simply stared at Celestia's... "sun."

"One of your boys nearly killed Rainbow Dash, who I have very good reason to keep alive. Care to explain?"

The large creature bowed. "H-he hadn't found us yet, a-and someone misled him! I-I'll keep him on a t-tighter leash!"

"You better." Celestia turned to the diamond dog. "You! When did you arrive in Equestria?"

"Uh, what?"

"You heard me. When. Did. You. Arrive. In. Equestria?"