Moonshine shivered in fear, thinking that she got blasted by the Mean Six and their Elements of Disharmony, but... "Rockruff...!"

"R-R-Rockruff...?" Moonshine called out.

"Rockruff..!" Rockruff barked and Moonshine felt a small wet snout nuzzling her arm. Moonshine carefully opened her eyes and saw a rainbow colored shield around her, Toothless, Mudbray, Lycanroc and Rockruff! "What...?" Moonshine asked in awe. Moonshine them saw the other six Elements of Harmony floating in front of her, still glowing in their mystical way. "T-The Elements of Harmony protected us from the Elements of Disharmony...!" she realized in awe.

The Elements dropped the protective shield and Moonshine noticed the Mean Six and Midnight were gone! "Oh no... they're gone...!" Moonshine gasped, before she remembered what Midnight said just before the blast. "M-My friends and family m-must be in Tartarus... Oh no..! I-I gotta do something..." Moonshine stammered. "B-But I can't go up against the Mean Six and their Elements! I only have one Element that I can control. I need Twilight and the others to activate the other Elements.. oooh.. what am I gonna do...?"

Toothless, Mudbray, Lycanroc and Rockruff looked at each other with concern. Twilight and the Mane 5 were the only ones who could control the other six Elements of Harmony, but without them, they were useless.

Now Moonshine had to rescue her friends and family by herself with only her Element. It wouldn't be a fair fight. Seven versus four! They would get clobbered in no time!

Suddenly, the Elements of Magic, Generosity, Loyalty, Kindness, Laughter and Honesty glowed on their own once more and so did Moonshine and her four creature friends, "Uh.. what's happening..?" Moonshine whimpered in fear before the Element whisked them off to Celestia knows where.

Meanwhile, in Tartarus. Twilight and the Mane 5 along with Celestia and Luna were all locked in a cage together. Twilight, Rarity, Celestia and Luna had anti-magic rings on their horns, preventing them from using their magic while Rainbow and Fluttershy had braces on their wings, preventing them from flying as well. Celestia and Luna had the braces as well.

"Aw... why the long faces...?" Midnight smirked as he and the Mean Six appeared behind him. "I thought you'd be happy as my prisoners.."

"Yeah right." Rainbow Dash stated.

"Why are you doing this, Midnight?" Twilight growled.

"Why?" Midnight scoffed before he laughed. "You all know why! So I can get rid of that Princess Moonshine and finally rule all of Equestria!"

"You will never rule in Equestria." Celestia replied with an upset look on her face.

"Oh yes he will, your majesties.." Mean Twilight mocked. "With these Elements of Disharmony, we'll destroy all of Equestria taking it by force. Hahaha...!"

"You bullies will be sorry when Moonshine gets here and kicked your butts!" Pinkie Pie yelled in anger, jumping up and down.

"You mean the Moonshine that my girls blasted to smithereens with their Elements of Disharmony?" Midnight smirked, earning a horrified shock from everyone.

"That weak excuse for a Princess is long gone by now.." Mean Fluttershy smirked and laughed.

"No...." Celestia whispered in shock.

"Eh believe it. If those lame Elements didn't make a shield around her last second.." Mean Pinkie Pie laying on the ground, uninterested, but it caught everyone's attention.

"What was that?!" Mean Twilight snapped.

"Those lame Elements made a shield around her and her pests. No big deal." Mean Pinkie deadpanned.

"It is a big deal! You imbecile! That means she's still out there!" Mean Twilight snapped at Pinkie Pie, yanking her up to her hooves.

"Oh, don't worry about her.. without her 'friends' controlling the other Elements of Harmony, she only had one Element to use against our six Elements." Midnight smirked. "She would not be that foolish to challenge us knowing we've got the advantage."

"Ooooh! Just you wait! Moonshine will kick you butts for sure!" Rainbow exclaimed before she turned to the Mean Six. "Especially you six!"

Mean Rainbow yawned, "Wake me up when I care..." she groaned before she curled up and took a nap.

"Hahaha... even a Princess like her wouldn't be that dumb and naive to come here, knowing that it houses Equestria's most dangerous creatures and villains." Midnight smirked before he turned his back to them. "Now if you'll excuse us, we've got some conquering to do..." The Mean Six smirked before they left with their master. Mean Rainbow was dragged along by Mean Fluttershy.

"Ugh... this sucks! We're locked in here while those creeps are gonna go after Moonshine and destroy her..!" Rainbow growled, frustrated with their current situation.

"But you heard what our dopplegangers said, our Elements of Harmony protected Moonshine from their Elements of Disharmony." Twilight pointed out. "Meaning, if Moonshine can find a way to control the six of them, then she'll be evenly matched with the Mean Six."

"Let us hope you are right, my faithful student." Celestia said. "For Equestria and my daughters' sake."

Back with Moonshine, she rubbed her eyes and to clear her vision and she found herself and her friends in a cave with purple diamonds all around the walls and small pools and plants near the bottom. Moonshine turned around and she was greeted with a large crystalline tree with five branches with hole in them and the center of the tree had a star hole in the middle. The trunk of the tree had the markings of the sun and moon as well. "Woah.... what's this...?"

Suddenly, the Tree glowed and appeared a sparkling version of Twilight Sparkle. "Hello there..." she greeted in a mystical tone.

"W-Who are you...?" Moonshine questioned.

"I am the Tree of Harmony..."

"The Tree of Harmony..?" Moonshine asked, confused.

The sparkling Twilight nodded, "I sensed that you need some help.."

"Boy, do I. The Shadow Pony that I saw in my dreams created dopplegangers of my friends and they control six Elements that are the complete opposite of my friends and had very powerful dark magic in them. Now my friends and family are trapped in Tartarus and I'm the only one who can save them, but I only have control over my Element, not Twilights' or the others." Moonshine explained.

Astral Twilight nodded, "I see. I sensed a great deal of dark magic, but you don't have to worry about that because your Element can counter the Elements of Disharmony."

"H-How..?" Moonshine asked confused.

"Your Element of Harmony, The Element of Hope, is the combination of all the Elements that grew from me. Making it just as powerful as all six combined, meaning you don't need all seven Elements to unleashed great power. Using your Element of Harmony, you can counter the Mean Six's Elements of Disharmony."

Moonshine was surprised.. "So.. the Elements... came from you...?"

Astral Twilight nodded, "I grew the Elements of Harmony and I created yours, Moonshine." Moonshine was speechless, "But.. why did they protect me from the Mean Six all on their own?" she questioned.

"Since your Element of Hope is created by the six original Elements of Harmony, they are all connected and bonded to you in a way, meaning they'll act on their own to protect you from harm." Astral Twilight explained. Moonshine looked at the six floating Elements in awe.

"Now it is time for you to rescue what is rightfully yours, Moonshine. I believe in you..." Astral Twilight said before she vanished in a flash of light. When Moonshine and the others looked they saw Twilight and the others Elements of Harmony, except for Moonshine’s floated out of their necklaces and crown and magically float back into their rightful places in the Tree of Harmony.

“Wow..” Moonshine gasped in awe before a loud explosion was heard. “What?” Moonshine and the others rushed out of the cave and saw smoke rising in Ponyville. Moonshine teleported everyone there where she gasped in horror... the Golden Oak Library was destroyed! There’s was nothing left of it but a large piece of wood. All the books were either destroyed or smoking and burning from the blast.

Moonshine was horrified. The culprits revealed themselves laughing at her, “Sorry Moonshine..” Mean Twilight bragged. “Guess you’re homeless now.. hahaha...!”

Moonshine saw the six of them and snarled. “You’ll lay for this..!” she yelled and Toothless roared in agreement along with Mudbray, Lycanroc and Rockruff.

“Hahaha... is like to see you try..” Mean Twilight said before she teleported everyone to Tartarus, where Twilight and the other saw them. “Moonshine!” “Moony!” Twilight and Pinkie called.

Midnight then appeared before the Mean Six, “So you were foolish enough to bring challenge us. Just like how you were foolish enough to bring my minions to your Elements of Harmony.”

“You’ll pay for destroying Twilights’ and my home!” Moonshine yelled and Twilight gasped in horror. “Our home is... gone...”

Midnight laughed, “Did you forget about one thing..?” Midnight looked at the girls and the Mean Six got into formation and activated the Elements of Disharmony.

Moonshine snarled and her Element of Hope activated and she floated up in the air as well. The Mean Six blasted their combined beam at Moonshine and she countered with her own rainbow beam from her Element of Hope.

The two beams collided and were at a standstill one struggling to overpower the other. Moonshine concentrated hard and her eyes glowed white and her beam increased tenfold! It overpowered the Mean Six’s beam and caused a large explosion that blinded everyone.

After a couple of minutes, Moonshine floated back down into the ground and she didn’t see any sign of the Mean Six and Midnight.

She did see Twilight and the others coming to, now with the braces and anti-magic rings destroyed in the blast. “That was awesome...!” Rainbow exclaimed. “You wiped the floor with them!”

“Outstanding!” Luna added.

“That was Moontastic!” Pinkie Pie added.

“Woo-wee That Element of yours matched there’s ten fold!” Applejack added.

“It was simply gorgeous, darling.” Rarity added.

“Excellent, honey..” Princess Celestia said. The only one who didn’t praise her was Twilight who stammered to Moonshine, “Moonshine... our home...”

Moonshine’s face turned grim and she teleported everypony to the remains of the library. Everyone gasped in horror seeing the destroyed library and home of their friends. “H-How...?” Twilight gasped.

“The Mean Six... they destroyed it...” Moonshine replied grimly.

Twilight was in such despair at the loss of her home... however her face suddenly turned... to one of anger as she glared at Moonshine. “Moonshine, how could you..?!” Twilight suddenly exclaimed at her in anger. “You lead the enemies right to the Elements of Harmony and now we’ve lost our home cause of you!”

“W-Wha-?!” Moonshine stammered.

“You just can’t stop being so naive, kind and generous that you can’t even see an evil plot from a mile away!” she yelled in anger.

“B-But I-“

“You need to stop being so sweet to everypony you meet! We told you this before and you didn’t listen and now we’ve lost our home because of you and more villains are out there bent on destroying Equestria, all because of your pathetic behavior!”

“P-Pathetic..” Moonshine whispered, horrified.

“Ugh...! YES IT PATHETIC! YOU ARE JUST SO PATHETIC! NO DAUGHTER OR NIECE OF THE RULERS OF EQUESTRIA WOULD LET SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN! CELESTIA AND LUNA WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU...!” Twilight yelled in complete rage. Everyone gasped in horror at her last sentence and Moonshine felt her heart split in two...

Moonshine just stood there... froze in horror a what Twilight just said. Tears started to pour from her eyes and she just closed her eyes and yelled back, “IF THAT’S HOW YOU FEEL THAN I DON’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU! OR ANY OF YOU! IF YOU THINK THAT I’M WORTHLESS, PATHETIC AND A HORRIBLE DAUGHTER AND NIECE AND WANT ME GONE, AND OUT OF YOUR LIVES, THEN FINE!” Moonshine screamed at the top of her lungs with tears raining down from her eyes. Moonshine ran away into what was left of their home and she packed everything including her pokemon and everything from her lab, including her saddle for Toothless. Then, she just ran out with tears poring from her eyes and pushed past Twilight and the others as she ran off and out of Ponyville.

“.... Twilight! I can’t believe you would say such a horrible thing!” Applejack snapped at her, shocking Twilight.

“What we were all thinking it.” Twilight growled.

“No we weren’t! That was totally out of line. She saved our lives and all of Equestria!” Rainbow added.

“We wouldn’t need saving if she would have just acted correctly.” Twilight growled.

“Darling, you cannot blame Moonshine for losing your home. It was that ruffian Midnight and the Mean Six!” Rarity added.

“You just said the most hurtful thing to Moony!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed with her mane flattened. “I didn’t know you could go so low, Twilight.”

“You should have be thankful for Moonshine, the only friend you ever had before us but you went ahead and pointed out all her flaws and called her a mistake to Celestia and Luna!” Fluttershy yelled with surpassing anger and tears in her eyes. “How could you?! Moonshine risked everything to save us and instead of praising her you just broke her heart! You monster!”

Twilight’s friends then just walked away from Twilight, furious with her for how she treated Moonshine after saving them and all of Equestria. Celestia and Luna turned away as well. “Come on sister, let’s go find Moonshine and show her that some ponies appreciate her..” Celestia said, giving Twilight a glare.

Twilight folded her ears at her mentors’ glare. “Yeah.. us to girls... let’s go find Moonshine or as Twilight called her ‘pathetic’.” Applejack snarled as she looked at back the mare. With that, the girls and the Princesses left.

Twilight just stared at them... frozen for a moment.. before she fell on her rump.... and started to cry.... because of her anger and ignorance.. she just lost her best friend... possibly... forever...

To Be Continued....

Author's Note

Time for some friendship drama...! How will the Mane 6 recover from this friendship betrayal?