Celestia opened the vault where the Elements of Harmony were stored. Luna levitated the jeweled box holding them over and opened it. She levitated the Element of Laughter out and studied it. Luna lit her magic and the Element of Laughter briefly glinted. Celestia gasped that the Element of Laughter wasn't inert stone.

"Does this mean Pinkie isn't dead?", Celestia asked.

"Verily sister.", Luna replied, "Though I feel she is locked away somewhere we cannot find her."

Tears began to bead in Celestia's eyes. "Does this have something to do with the terrorist?"

"Indeed, though I have no real proof yet, only suspicions.", Luna replied. Tears began to swell in her eyes and drip down her cheeks. "I fear that we may never see her again." She began to give choked sobs. "Tia, I think I may have inadvertently put Twilight in danger."

"Nonsense , Lulu. Twilight and her friends are constantly in danger because they bear the Elements.", Celestia affirmed.

Luna turned her head to Celestia. "No, you don't understand, sister. When I confronted the terrorist, she was able to momentarily pierce my mental defenses and see that Twilight is a very dear friend. Her power over her mind and dreams were like no other pony I've encountered before. The terrorist has insights into the dreamscape that no mortal should."

"No Luna, the terrorist doesn't. She was playing mind games. The criminal worships death and thrives on chaos.", Celestia said reassuringly.

"Did somepony say chaos?" a familiar voice chimed in the back of Celestia's mind.

Celestia directed her thought inward, "Discord, why are here. You've lost all power after the element bearers imprisoned you."

"You should know as well your sister or I that I've never lost my powers. Though my ability to influence the world has been sealed away, my mind is free to wander where it may.", Discord said in Celestia's mind, "And before you ask, yes, I have felt the chaos this mare has caused. It was enough that I could have shattered my prison."

"So why didn't you break your prison and inflict yourself upon this world?", Celestia thought.

"Because you need me and I have decided to stay where I am until you ask me for my help. Besides you know as well as I do that my pranks never hurt anypony. Her pranks are just mean and like you said, she worships death.", Discord projected in Celestia's mind, "But before I go, I will let you know one thing. I feel one day soon she will force your hoof and you will have to choose to take matters into your own hooves or ask me to handle it for you. I think I know which you will ultimately choose. After all, we can't get those pristine white hooves dirty." With that, Discord left Celestia's mind with a laugh.
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As the weeks rolled on in Whinnyapolis, The Mare Who Laughs began spreading her influence though the city like the tendrils of some great beast. First, she spread her metaphorical tendrils into the slums, drawing the homeless, the addicts and the desperate to her. Then, she spread to the asylum, drawing in the violently mentally ill and the few criminals that had managed to dodge prison time with successful insanity pleas. She then spread to the labs, drawing the unethical alchemists and pharmacists to her. Then, she spread to the business district, entangling crooked businessponies, ensuring a flow of bits. Finally, she spread to the factories, snaking her metaphorical tendrils into their operation. Once she had gathered what she needed, she began replacing the workers of the two factories with members of her gang, preparing their owners for her hostile takeover.

The Mare Who Laughs laughed when she learned the TV stations had received her care packages and the bodies of the reporters had been found, though it did disappoint her that they refused to play her little art projects. When she learned that the TV station had mailed the tapes out, she had their destination traced. It amused her that they were first sent to Canterlot then to Ponyville. It filled her with wicked glee that her little home movies had probably traumatized the princesses, though it intrigued her that they had been sent to Ponyville. Maybe the princesses had sent them to the element bearers, though it was more likely that they had some agent or detective under their employment. She sent a couple members of her gang to gather information on exactly where the tapes had been sent.

On the day that The Mare Who Laughs decided to take control of the two factories, she had a purple zoot suit with a wide brimmed hat brought up to her makeshift office. As she made her way to the make-up factory, one of the alchemists had given her a syringe of purple substance and a modified squirt flower filled with acid. The alchemist said the syringe was filled with a modified version of her laughing toxin that would drive any pony injected with it insane and they would spend the rest of their days laughing. As she arrived at the make-up factory, her mane became a pompadour. Adjusting the squirt flower on her lapel, she approached the door. Two of her thugs ,disguised as guards, opened the door for her, after she walked in the guards walked inside and locked the door. Giving a quick nod to her thugs as she walked up the stairwell to the office, they went around locking the doors. She opened the door to the office, behind the desk sat a fat, haggard mare with a light purple coat and a grey mane pulled into a bun, frown lines etched on her face. Behind her were two massive stallion bodyguards.

"Let's get down to business. I'm a very busy mare and I have no time to waste.", the fat mare said, glowering.

The Mare Who Laughs giggled maliciously. "Ah, a mare after my own heart! Here's the deal, you're out of business, this place is now mine, gather your depressing and tacky things and leave!"

The fat mare scoffed, "You think you can just come in here and order me around? I know you’re that terrorist and I'm not impressed." She picked up a chocolate with her hoof, pinched it slightly and put it back. "Here's my counter offer. You turn around and go the fuck back to whatever rock you crawled out from under or my boys here will break your legs and feed you to the fishes."

The Mare Who laughs stepped forward cackling as murder burned in her eyes. "No, no I don't think I shall, as you so eloquently put it, 'go the fuck back to the rock I crawled from under'. You know you should smile more. It would make you so much prettier!" She walked to the massive stallion on her right. "But we are all civilized ponies here, before I leave I would ask you to please smell the flower on my lapel. I picked it out specifically for today!" She slapped the bulb to the squirt flower under the jacket of her zoot suit causing a stream of acid spray into the stallion's face.
As the stallion fell over screaming, the acid burned away the flesh of his face. Two thugs barged in and grabbed the other stallion. The Mare who Laughs stomped on the neck of the stallion who had acid squirted in his face, crushing his windpipe. She gave a flick of the hoof in a silent order and the two thugs broke the stallion's neck.

The fat mare tried to run out of the office but The Mare Who Laughs quickly caught her by her mane. She dragged the fat mare over to the first dead stallion and held her face close to the stallion's face as the acid finally etched the flesh away from his skull. "You see how much better he looks with a big smile? Can you give me a big pretty smile too?" She roughly threw the fat mare into the office chair and took the syringe of purple toxin out of her jacket.

The fat mare tried to lean away. "W-who are you?", she said with tears of fear running down her face.

"Ah-heeheehee-oh-heeheehee-oo-heeheehee! Haven't you heard? I'm the happiest pony in the world! But soon you'll be the happiest mare in the world too!" The Mare Who Laughs licked the needle before jabbing it into the fat mare's neck. She injected the toxin and the fat mare thrashed around for a moment before she began laughing uncontrollably. She fell out of the office chair in the fetal position pulling at her mane as she screamed with laughter. Tossing the syringe on the desk, The Mare Who Laughs walked over to the second dead stallion. Pulling a lipstick tube out of her pocket and smeared on his lips in a big clownish smile. "Get rid of the trash.", she said gesturing to the dead stallions, "And put her in the basement!"
As The Mare Who Laughs walked out of the make-up factory, her mane became limp as she laughed hoarsely. She gestured and one of her thugs gave her a knife which she placed under her mane. The thugs brought up a carriage and she climbed in, setting out for the candy factory.

Pulling up to the candy factory, The Mare Who Laughs stepped out of the carriage. As with the make-up factory, the disguised thugs let her in and locked all the doors. She walked into the office and an old stallion with a brown coat was sitting behind the desk. Whatever little vestiges of the mane he had had long fallen out. He was looking at a gem with a jeweler's glass.

The old stallion looked up and gasped at The Mare Who Laughs, the jeweler's glass falling from his face. "Look, whatever you want, you've got it. My money, my factory, my house, just don't hurt me!"

"Why such a polite pony, so unlike my last business meeting!", The Mare Who Laughs chuckled hoarsely, "I'm not going to hurt you, just gather your things and leave! Oh and smile!"

The old stallion nodded stunned and began to leave. "Thank you! Thank you! If you ever need anything, just ask."

The Mare Who Laughs placed a forelimb around his shoulder. "Heeheehee-hahaha-hoohoohoo! Thank you for your manners! Oh and before I forget, you forgot to smile!" She grabbed her knife and sliced his throat. As he fell to the floor, blood pouring out his mouth and throat, she leaned down to him. "See, was that so hard? Such a pretty smile!" Some thugs came in and dragged the body off. Her mane went poofy and she threw her head back laughing maniacally.
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*Monochrome's Journal: Ponyville Day 30? 45? 40?*

Dear journal,

I haven't had a decent sleep in I don't remember how long. Ever since that day when I attacked Twilight Sparkle, I haven't let myself sleep when she's around out of fear that when I wake up my mind will be back in the war and there might not be anypony to around to stop me. Now when I sleep, my nightmares are filled not only with visions of the war, but also of me strangling that young mare. In my nightmares, I feel her pulse weaken and stop as her eyes go blank. Every time I wake up I start crying. Recently I received a package from Canterlot. It contained three video tapes. On the tapes it had the terrorist and murderer giving mock interviews with three journalists before killing them, the last one was especially gruesome as she carved up the poor mare's face before killing her. When Twilight saw what was on the last tape, she fainted. When I managed to revive her, she immediately went into a three hour panic attack. Did something happen to her when she was young or is she naturally this high-strung? After I managed to get her calmed down, I sent her off to get something to eat while I hastily made transcripts of the tapes. When Twilight had returned she had with her two of her friends, a ravishing but painfully shy pegasus mare named Fluttershy and a strong but brutally honest earth pony mare named Applejack. Applejack insisted on me showing what was on the tapes. When I tried to talk her out of it, she simply stamped her hoof and demanded more earnestly to show the tapes. Twilight said she couldn't simply take it and went upstairs to her room and we all heard her having another panic attack. When I showed them the three tapes, Applejack ran to the bathroom and retched loudly, poor Fluttershy just sat trembling. Once all three mares finally calmed down and gathered together, I made them swear an oath of secrecy upon pain of imprisonment. Each mare gave their insights. Applejack's was probably the most obvious as she stated the criminal was lying. Fluttershy gave some pretty good insights; the criminal probably believes her own lies and also gets some thrill out of hurting ponies. Twilight's insights were purely analytical: she said whoever the criminal was in her former life, she suffered some kind of trauma that caused a massive change in her personality, making her lash out violently and that she probably has multiple personalities. She also pointed out that the criminal also had some kind of facial surgery. As the day wore on, the three mares seemed to recover, though the pain of what they watched still played behind their eyes. Say what you will about them, but they seem to be very resilient.

Signed, Monochrome
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Months passed as the make-up factory began making a tainted vanishing cream and the candy factory began producing poisoned taffies. The vanishing cream was labeled Smiling Pony vanishing cream and the taffy was labeled Big Smile taffy. Once enough candy and make-up were made, pallets of them were shipped across Equestria. The Mare Who Laughs laughed with a sadistic grin from her office as she watched the first of the loaded carts pull off.

Several days later in Ponyville, Twilight was walking to the beauty care shop to pick up some more mud mask she liked to use when she slept at night. Walking in the shop she saw the display for Smiling Pony vanishing cream. She read the claim on one of the little tubs "guaranteed to make your problems vanish and leave you smiling". "So what's with the new vanishing cream?", she asked walking up to the counter.

"It's a new product, apparently this batch is from Whinnyapolis", Bulk Biceps said, "So what can I get you today?"

"Just my usual night time mud mask please.". Twilight replied.

As Bulk Biceps went to get her mud mask Twilight turned to look at the counter where the free samples were. Her curiosity was piqued about the vanishing cream and she decided to try some when the mare at the counter trying some was done. Suddenly Twilight's stomach dropped when she saw the mare's face twist into an unnatural smile and start laughing uncontrollably. The mare fell to the floor clawing at her face with her hooves as she writhed on the floor in pain the whole time laughing.

Twilight sprinted over to the counter, using her magic she levitated the lid back on the tub and moved it out of the reach of any customers. She shouted, "Don't let anypony use or buy the vanishing cream! It's tainted!" She began levitating the tubs of vanishing cream off the shelves. "Get all this stuff into boxes and send it to the library! Find out everypony who has bought this stuff and get it back from them by any means necessary!" She ran out of the beauty care store and to the library. She burst through the door and shouted, "Monochrome! Monochrome! Are you in?!"

Monochrome snapped awake from his brief nap in a panic before comprehending Twilight was shouting from downstairs for him. He rushed to the top of the stairs seeing Twilight levitating several tubs of vanishing cream. "What's the matter?"

"The criminal is in Whinnyapolis! She's sent out tainted vanishing cream!", she shouted. She began hurriedly writing down a note. "Spike! Spike!"

Spike walked in from the kitchen. "Whatcha need Twi? And what's with all the vanishing cream?"

Twilight levitated the letter over to Spike. "Send this to Celestia now! There's a tainted batch of vanishing cream out of Whinnyapolis!"

Spike took the note, opened a window, and with a puff of green flame, sent it off.

Rainbow Dash came crashing through the window with her forelimbs full of taffies. She dropped the taffies on the table. When Spike reached for the taffy, she slapped his claw with a hoof. "Don't eat that! It's poisoned!", she shouted fear on her face, "Twilight, it's bad out there. A lot of ponies are being taken to the hospital. There's a bad batch of taffy that Bon Bon was selling, when ponies ate it their faces twisted up into this weird smile and fell over laughing before passing out!" She slumped against the wall crying.

Twilight hastily wrote another note and levitated it to Spike who sent it off with a puff of flame. She walked over to Rainbow to calm her down, "Breathe Rainbow! I need you to go back out there and confiscate every piece of taffy you can. I'll help Monochrome with making an antidote."

"No Twilight!", Monochrome said sharply, "You go out there and help gather all the taffy and vanishing cream you can. I'll begin the work on an antidote." He levitated the taffy and vanishing cream before hurrying down to the basement.

Rainbow flew out the window as Twilight teleported to the street.

*Monochrome's Journal: Ponyville day 150*

Dear Journal,

The criminal the press had dubbed The Mare Who Laughs has launched another attack. She sent out tainted vanishing cream and taffy. It took me a few days to make an antidote for both as she created different alchemical substances for each, but both had similar results. For the vanishing cream it wasn't lethal, it just drove them insane as they went into laughing fits, for the taffy it was much more deadly as they fell into a coma shortly collapsing from uncontrollable laughing fits. The death tolls are still coming in from all across Equestria and they look pretty grim. The stores almost immediately stopped selling the products when their customers went insane or died. Though the antidotes will save untold numbers, for too many it is too late. Many of the victims of the poisoned taffy died from complications of the comas, those were the lucky ones as the victims of the vanishing cream will have long term neurological and psychological damage. If it weren't for the quick actions of Twilight Sparkle and her friends, many more may have been lost. Out of all this terrible tragedy comes a small silver lining. I know where the criminal is operating out of now, though I wonder how she managed to escape the Royal Guard checkpoints around Manehattan. I have sent a request to Captain Shining Armor for formal inquiries into every guard to ensure his ranks have not been infiltrated. Aunts Celestia and Luna sent out official press statements to discard or turn over all the tainted products. In the morning I'm taking the express train to Whinnyapolis, though I feel that any leads will be cold. Better than nothing now. In a communique, Aunt Celestia has secretly awarded me the Medal of Valor. She also announced that in a couple of weeks, she's giving a public medal awarding ceremony for the five surviving element bearers. She will paint a massive bullseye on their backs because of that. Maybe that's her plan, dangle a bit of bait in the hopes to lure the criminal out and ensnare her. It makes me feel sick that she would use those five like that.

Sincerely, Monochrome
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Twilight, Rainbow, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity stood on a small stage that had been constructed a week ago out front of city hall. A large crowd had gathered along with several reporters and TV camera crews. Twilight and Fluttershy looked visibly uncomfortable, the latter hid behind her mane. The loud boisterous crowd went quiet as Princess Celestia took the stage.

"Mare and gentlestallions, we have gathered here today to award the five element bearers the Medal of Valor and induct them into the legion of merit.", Celestia said standing behind the podium. "These five ponies showed quick thinking and courage in stopping further loss of life by the wanted terrorist. It was because of the forward thinking of Twilight Sparkle that an antidote was found for the toxin found." She approached each of the element bearers, draping a medal around their neck and presented them with a plaque.

Cries came up from the crowd. "Speech! Speech!"

"Your adoring public awaits, my faithful student.", Celestia said, gesturing to the podium.

Twilight walked nervously up to the podium, the crowd was silent as all eyes and cameras focused on her. She cleared her throat in an attempt to dispel some butterflies. She shuffled some index cards before speaking, "First off, I want to thank Princess Celestia for awarding my friends and I with our medals. I personally think that any decent minded pony in our place would have done the same thing. I can only hope that across Equestria, the real heroes who are risking their lives to catch this criminal or are helping with the ponies hurt by the criminal's actions will be able to make it safely to their families." A small yelping sob escaped her lips as tears rolled down her cheeks. "We...we have all lost friends and loved ones. I know you are scared and hurt by this criminal's actions. I ask that you please...please don't act rashly or...or lash ou-out...I can't do this." She slumped to her haunches and began crying as she held her face in her hooves.

Celestia helped Twilight back to her hooves, shushing her gently as she led her to the back to her friends. They quickly gathered around her giving her a group hug. Twilight began weeping loudly.

Luna stepped up to the podium as the crowd murmured uncomfortably at Twilight's breakdown. With a slight raise of her chin she silenced the crowd. "I personally admire Twilight Sparkle for holding together as she did, she recently learned that one of the ponies hurt by the terrorist was an old teacher of hers. As for the end of her speech, she was calling for calmer heads to prevail as we have all lost friends and loved ones. For her sake, I ask that nopony should act rashly or lash out in anger. We are all angry and scared.", Luna said calmly. When the crowd began to murmur again, she gently raised a hoof to silence them. "I wish to address the terrorist personally. Surrender yourself now to the nearest authorities."

The Mare Who Laughs watched a TV in her office as Luna finished her speech, "Surrender yourself now to the nearest authorities." Her smile spread so wide it hurt, she narrowed her eyes as contempt burned in them. Walking forward, she kicked the TV over. Her mane became a pompadour as she giggled maliciously. "Ah-heeheehee-oh-heeheehee-oo-heeheehee! Oh princess! I warned you to not let your friend get involved in my plans! I guess you don't care about her at all! Boys, we got a party to plan at a library!"

*Three weeks later, Ponyville*

It was the middle of the day. Diamond Tiara was sitting at a table outside Sugarcube Corner feeling depressed. She occasionally ran a hoof across her cheeks, feeling the scars where she had been viciously attacked. She poked at the flaky pastry on the plate in front of her. It looked good when she bought it, but she didn't feel like eating. As Twilight walked by followed by three guards, Diamond Tiara looked up. One of the guards looked familiar, a black coated mare. Something about the guard looked familiar, but she couldn't quite put her hoof on it. She squinted to get a better look at the mare guard when she turned her head, looked straight at Diamond and smiled wickedly. Diamond's eyes rolled up in her head as she fainted.

That night, as Twilight was walking up to her room, a guard walked behind her. It made her feel uncomfortable but Celestia had insisted on having guards around to protect her and her friends. She had sent Spike to spend the night at Rarity's place which he was all too happy to oblige. When she reached the second story landing and was a few paces from her bedroom door she heard the guard behind her snicker. As she turned her head to see what the guard was snickering at, she saw the shaft of a spear coming at her face. The shaft of the spear connected hard with her cheek, causing her to rear up and stagger backwards. Twilight fell over the railing and pain blossomed across her back as she impacted a shelf with a sickening crunch. The last thing she saw before blacking out from pain and shock was the floor rushing up at her.
Twilight opened her eyes slowly. Her head hurt, the middle of her back hurt. She gasped in shock seeing a stark white face with an unnaturally wide smile and hateful eyes leering at her inches from her face.

"Wakey! Wakey!", The Mare Who Laughs cackled.

Twilight tried to stand, but her hind legs wouldn't respond. She tried to drag herself away with her forehooves, but The Mare Who Laughs pinned her in place. The front door opened and two thugs, their faces painted like clowns walked in.

"Why?", Twilight whispered, frightened as a tear rolled down her cheek.

The Mare Who Laughs cackled as she ran her tongue across Twilights face and smacked her lips like she just tasted something delicious. "Your fear and agony is delectable!", she laughed, "Oh! And to answer your question. Why is the sun yellow? No reason! Why is the sky at night dark? No reason! Why is rain wet? No reason! Why do I do this? No reason!"
Twilight tried to fire off a warning spell, but she felt her magic sputter out as The Mare Who Laughs slipped a magic restraining ring over her horn. "Ah ah ah! We can't have any uninvited guests at our little party!", The Mare Who Laughs scolded.

The Mare Who Laughs took a few steps and a thug passed her a camera. Twilight raised her head and saw her hind legs were twisted in unnatural angles. Twilight tried to drag herself away again by her forehooves, but the thugs rushed over and pinned her in place.

The Mare Who Laughs drew a smiley face on a piece of paper, walked over and taped it to Twilight's face. "There you go, a happy smile for you.", she cackled, "Okay boys, you can have your fun."
The Mare Who Laughs began snapping picture of the two thugs raping the crippled form of Twilight. Twilight cried as she feebly tried to push the two thrusting thugs off her. When the thugs had finished, The Mare Who Laughs walked over and peeled the paper off Twilight's face. She took photos of Twilight's tear stained face, her broken back, her crippled splayed hind legs, her ruined holes. The whole time the Mare Who Laughs laughed maliciously as Twilight cried.

The Mare Who Laughs skipped around the library snatching up books, ripping pages out of them and tossing the loose page like confetti. After she had finished destroying all the books she cared to, she pulled a vial of lamp oil and a match from under her mane. Pouring the oil on a nearby table, she struck the match and dropped it on the table.

Twilight's eyes became pinpricks as fire began licking across the table. She tried to drag herself across the floor, but a thug tipped a bookshelf on top of her. Quickly donning guard armor, the three stole off into the night.

On a distant mountain range a dark purple alicorn stallion was walking towards an old ruined monastery when a single sparkling speck of magenta magic floated up to him. Taking the speck in a hoof he studied it, his eyes went wide and he took to the air.

Twenty minutes later Spike and Rarity were walking down the street towards the library.

"Thanks for walking with me, Rarity.", Spike said, his eyes sparkling, "I just want to make sure Twi isn't asleep at a table again reading a book."

The two froze in horror seeing smoke pouring out the library.

"Twilight!", Spike shouted as he ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He shoulder blocked through the door, breaking it open causing more smoke to pour out.

Rarity ran to the door, the heat from the flames making her recoil. "Spike! Spike!", she shouted at the door.

Rainbow Dash quickly flew up. "Did everypony make it out?!"

"Spike's in there!", Rarity screamed.

A moment later Spike came running out, soot staining his scales. "Twilight's in there! She's trapped under a bookshelf!", he shouted

Rainbow and Rarity dashed into the burning library. Keeping low, they found the barely conscious form of Twilight. Rarity used her magic to lift the bookshelf as Rainbow pulled Twilight from under it. They barely made it out the door when a beam holding up the second floor came crashing down. They gently laid Twilight on the ground.

Rainbow quickly and gently ran her hooves over Twilight, pausing when she felt a kink in her spine. "This is bad! It looks like she has a broken back", she said grimly, "Help me get her on my back and brace her with your magic, we don't want to cause her any more damage."

They ran off to the hospital with Spike in tow as the weather team began dragging up rain clouds and stomping on them to put the fire out. As they entered the hospital, Rainbow shouted for help.

The nurse ran out from behind the desk. "What happened?"

"She was trapped in a fire at the library, we think she has a broken back!", Rainbow cried, afraid.

"Hold her still.", the nurse said. She gently prodded along Twilight's spine. The nurse ran to her desk and picked up the phone calling a trauma team.

Several seconds later a dozen nurses and orderlies ran out pushing a gurney with a back brace and a neck brace on it. They slid the back brace between Rainbow and Twilight, then secured the neck brace, then strapped her to the back brace.

A nurse counted, "One...two...three!" The orderlies gently lifted Twilight off Rainbow and placed her on the gurney. They quickly rushed her back to the emergency room.

Rarity levitated a paper and quill to Spike who quickly scribbled a note. Stepping outside he sent the note with a puff of green flame.

Several minutes later there was a bright flash of golden and dark blue light as Celestia and Luna appeared.

"Where is she?", Celestia asked her eyes wide with fear.

"They took her back nearly five minutes ago.", Rarity replied.

Hours felt like days as the four ponies paced the waiting room. Celestia's ethereal mane became bedraggled. Spike slumped in a chair sleeping fitfully. The doctor walked out putting his glasses in a white coat pocket as he stared at a chart.

Celestia ran to the doctor, "How is she?"

"She's conscious and coherent.", he looked over the chart, "She suffered minor burns and some smoke inhalation. It appears that she fell from a height when she broke her back and she was sexually assaulted."

Celestia nearly fainted from shock. "C-can I see her?"

"She asked for you. They're performing so final tests on her. You can come back if you stay out of the way.", the doctor said.

As they walked back to the emergency room, Celestia saw a doctor prodding the soft part of Twilight's hoof with a needle. "Okay Ms. Sparkle, tell me when you feel this." When Twilight didn't respond, he picked up a device that had a spiked wheel on it. "Okay Ms. Sparkle, tell me when you fell this." He rolled the spiky wheel across Twilight's leg. When Twilight didn't respond again, he shook his head, pulled out a pin and wrote on a chart. As the doctor walked away, he paused seeing Celestia walk up.

"How is she?", Celestia asked.

"The prognosis isn't promising, Princess.", the doctor said softly, "She appears to have no sensation below her midsection. She may be wheelchair bound for the rest of her life. If you want to talk to her, keep it brief as she needs her rest."

Twilight looked up at Celestia as she walked up. Tears trickled out of her eyes and pooled on the bed. "I can't feel my hind legs, Princess.", Twilight said weakly, "They won't say it, but I know I'm not going to be able to walk again." She began to sob softly.

Celestia leaned down and kissed Twilight gently on her forehead. "Let's not worry about this now.", she said gently, "Do you know who did this to you?"

Twilight's eyes became pinpricks. "Yes." she whispered afraid, "It was the terrorist. She had two stallions with her." She gave a gasping sob and her voice trembled. "She's here in Ponyville and is disguised as a guard." Twilight clenched here eyes shut as the tears began flowing freely.

A nurse laid a hoof on Celestia's shoulder. "We need to let her rest now, Princess."

Celestia nodded as tears trickled down her cheek. She laid a hoof on Twilight's chest, "You focus on getting better, I'll be back to visit you as soon as I can, Luna, Rarity, Rainbow and Spike are in the waiting room." She leaned down and kissed Twilight gently on the forehead again before leaving. As she walked down the hallway, tears streamed down her face as her eyes became hard with rage. She ground her teeth in anger.

Luna saw Celestia walk into the waiting. She went to walk up to her and froze seeing the rage on her sister's face. "Tia?"

"There terrorist is here in Ponyville.", she said through gritted teeth, "She's disguised as a guard."

Luna gasped in shock.

"Until we can confirm they aren't compromised, no guard is to be trusted. Stay here in Ponyville and gather the remaining element bearers, I'll be back as soon as I can."

Luna nodded and Celestia teleported away.

Celestia arrived in the throne room. "Inform Shining Armor, Night Light and Twilight Velvet that Twilight Sparkle has been attacked and is currently in the Ponyville hospital.", she said to a castle attendant, "I'll be in my room sending out orders if I'm needed." The attendant nodded as Celestia walked off. She walked into her room closing the door behind her, tears of grief and rage flowed down her cheeks. Stepping to the desk, she looked at the quills laid out. She roared in rage causing the walls of the castle to shake. Grasping the desk in her magic, she flung it across the room causing it to shatter. Stomping over to the bed as cracks formed under her hooves, rearing up she stamped on it until it was a destroyed wreck.

Two guards opened the door to Celestia's and froze for a second witnessing the rampage. "Nope!", one guard said before quickly closing the door.

Lifting the nightstand with her hooves, Celestia threw it across the room screaming. When her rampage had finally subsided, the room was utterly wrecked. Every piece of furniture was shattered, the curtains utterly shredded, every window was smashed out and smoldering chunks were blasted out of the walls. She sat in the center of the destruction, her chest heaving with wavering sobs as blood dripped off her hooves.

The door to her room snapped open and a dark purple alicorn stallion with a flowing black mane walked in. "I see your anger is still as destructive as ever, big sister.", he said, "Now tell me what happened to my great-granddaughter."

Author's Note

I want to thank The_Darker_Fonts for editing this story. Go chech out his page, read his stories and show him some love.