“Whoa..”, Moonlight moaned, “Wha.. what happened?”

As Moonlight’s eyes came into focus, all of the memories came flooding in.

“Wait”, she whispered, “why would daddy take me and Coco? Wait, Coco? Coco?! Where are you?!”

“Moonlight?”, somepony murmured in the dark, “Where are we?”

“Coco!”, Moonlight whisper-yelled, “Come here.”

“Ack!”, Coco groaned, “ I can’t, I am attached to the ground in some way..”

“Okay, I’ll come to you.”, Moonlight said. She slowly got up and made her way to where Coco’s voice was coming from. When she finally found her, she sat down next to her.

“So,”, Coco whispered, “where are we?”

“I don’t know”, Moonlight answered, “all I can remember is that ponies who look like my dad broke into our room and took us.”

Suddenly, they heard another voice,

“The prisoners are awake my queen.”, the voice said, with a bug like buzz on the end.

“Good, thank you General.”, another voice replied. A higher, female voice.

Then, all of the lights switched on and Moonlight saw that she and Coco were in a cage, Coco had a cuff around her neck attached to the floor with chain, and that the walls around them had holes in them.

“Well, well, well.”, the female voice said again. Coco and Moonlight looked up to see a bug like pony.

“I finally get to meet my granddaughter.”, Chrysalis droned on.

“What?!”, the foals said together.

“Take a good look at yourselves and me. Who do I look like? One of you got a few of my looks.”, she laughed.

So they did, and Moonlight was disgusted at the result.

“Nope!”, Moonlight growled, “I do not want to have a grandmother that ponynapps her own granddaughter!”

“Oh, don’t take it personally.”, she told them, “This mainly to get back at both of your fathers.”

“General Mantis!”, she barked suddenly.

“Yes, my queen?”, said General Mantis.

“Watch these two.”, she replied. Coco and Moonlight watched her leave before talking.

“Ugh, why can’t I have a normal grandmother?!”, Moonlight growled.

“Yeah, yeah.”, Coco told Moonlight, “Ugh! What is this and why can’t I get it off?!”

“It stops your powers, so you can’t use them.”, General Mantis told her, flying up to the cage. He brought the keys.

“What are you-”, Coco started, then gasped when he opened the door.

“Come on.”, he said ,rushing over to get Coco out of the cuff.

“Why are you doing this?”, Moonlight asked him.

“Because Chrysalis has hurt your family far to many times.”, Mantis answered, “ and because I have a heart.” He muttered the last part so they would not hear, but Moonlight heard him.

“Wait”, Coco stoped, “Mantis, won’t you get in trouble?”

“Most likely, yes”, he said, without hesitation.

“Then come with us!”, Moonlight told him, “I’m sure daddy will understand.”

So Mantis did go with them, and they went back home.

Author's Note

So... these are shorter than I predicted... but I hope you like it!