I Am NOT Twilight Sparkle!

The group of stallions were still in the forest after their ambush. They had everything planned out after they found out where their target would be, and even came up with a plan to capture her, and it involved dog piling her to restrain her and then either cast a spell to render her magic useless. Or simply snap her horn off. While the queen did say not to harm, or even spoiled, they thought that it would be fine if they brought the alicorn to their queen depilated, and unable to fight back. And their plan almost worked, if the arrival of that other mare didn’t disrupt their ambush, and gave the alicorn time to recuperate and teleport away.

“The queen is not going to be happy that we lost the target.” One of the stallions said as he paced about while the others all had inquisitive looks plastered onto their faces, as they were all trying to come up with a new plan to get their hooves on the alicorn.

“We need to capture that mare—” a unicorn stated

“Or the queen will be furious with us.” one of the pegasi of the group said as he stomped his hoof on the ground, emphasizing the importance of their mission.

“We need to find out where Zack went and—”

“I’m right here!”

All of the stallions all looked to where the sudden voice came from, and what they found was very angry looking pale purple alicorn glaring and snarling at them. Her horn was ablaze with magic, her mane and tail rustling in the flow of magic, and even sparkled and shined with ethereal energy, and the feathers of her wings ruffled and shuttered with fury and anger. All of the stallions charged at the alicorn trying to subdue her once again, but the mare just unleashed a massive wave of magic that knocked them all back, slamming into the ground and the nearby trees. As the pegasi and earth ponies were tossed away, the unicorn used their magic to teleport to different spots around the alicorn, and started to fire magical blasts at the mare, aiming for vulnerable spots. But their attempts meant nothing.

Their magical blasts collided with light constructs in the form of a forearm and fist, and then literally punching their attacks out of the air. The mare then unleashed a guttural battle cry as she fired her own magical blasts at the unicorns, taking the form of giant spiraling fists that slammed into them and sending them flying over a hundred feet through trees and other foliage. Just then the pegasi and earth pony stallions tackled the mare again, all of them trying to force her to the ground. One of the earth ponies even tried to snap her horn off, but to no avail. All of the remaining stallions were again launched from the mare by another wave of magic, but this time a faint crackle of black electricity coated the wave of magic, causing all of the stallions to cry out in utter pain as they convulse and twitch on the ground.

But as for one of the stallions, the pale green pegasus, he watched out of the corner of his eye as the enraged alicorn skulks her way over to him. her eyes continuously burning with unbridled rage. The stallion tried to scuttle away, but the black electricity still had a grasp on him, and the pian it was causing kept him from even moving. And as he watched the mare close in on him, he watched as she constructed two more pairs of arms, but with the hands were complexly wrapped in black electricity.

“Where. Is. Thorax!” the alicorn all but growled as she the stallion tries to backway from her.

“I won’t—” before the stallion could even finish what he was about to say, he was grabbed by the throat by one of the hands, and immediately felt like his neck was being set on fire while hundreds of searing hot pins were being shoved into his neck!

“Tell me, where. He. IS!” the alicorn repeated as she held him close to her, his eyes being nearly blinded by the intense light of her burning horn.

“P-please let m-me go.” The stallion gasped as he feels his throat being compressed as the hand gripped tighter and tighter.

“WHERE IS HE!” Zack screamed at the stallion before she slammed the stallion into the ground, causing ground to crack and blood to spurt from his mouth, while he feels his bone nearly break by the force.

“H-h…he’s with queen C-Chrysalis!” the stallion quickly said to stop the mare’s assault. He was then brought up to face the mare again.

“WHERE!”

“She’s in a forest somewhere in the Verdant Highlands!” And just like that, the stallion was then thrown off to the side crashing into a tree, with the sheer force of his tossed body snapping it half, while the back of his head took a serious hit causing him to slowly lose consciousness, but not before seeing Zack vanish in a flash of light.

~~~~~

Twilight and her friends were all in a current state of panic, and it all stems from the fact that not only their friend Thorax was abducted and his now being held captive by Chrysalis, but also the fact Zack had disappeared to go and ‘interrogate’ the stallions that foalnapped Thorax. After Zack and the others had returned to the castle after the ambush Zack was just as scared and panicked as the others were, but as the notion that Thorax was taken and is being held by Chrysalis, her fear and anxiety was quickly replaced by rage and anger. Seeing the pale alicorn in such a volatile state again only made the other ponies increasingly more terrified, especially for the adults of the group as they remembered the last two times that Zack went into such a rage.

“Rarity, is Zack going to be okay?” Sweetie Belle asked nervously as she stuck close to her sister. “She looked really upset and angry.”

“I’m not so sure Sweetie Belle, but I’m sure that everything will be fine.”

“I hope yer right Rarity cause Zack looked like she was out fer blood.” Applejack said as she sat in her throne, with Apple Bloom nestled between her legs.

“Twilight you don’t think that Zack would, hurt those stallions?” Spike asked worriedly.

“I—”

Before Twilight could even answer Spike’s question, a sudden loud ‘popping’ sound echoed in the throne room, and everyone saw a still very enraged Zack now standing a foot from the table. The mare looked just as enraged as she did before disappearing beforehand, but now the group noticed there were subtle changes to the mare’s appearance. Her mane and tail were partially standing on end, and looked like they were glowing and flowing like how Celestia’s and Luna’s manes and tails look. Her wings feathers were all bristled, and her scowling face looked far more intense than from before.

“Zack?” Twilight said as she looked at her double, who quickly turned to look at her. Her eyes almost burning into Twilight as she spoke.

“Where are the Verdant Highlands?” Zack said frankly as she kept her sights squared on Twilight, which caused the princess to flinch away slightly as she could almost feel the anger wafting off her look alike.

“Zack whatever your planning—”

“Don’t even try and talk me out of this Twilight. That psycho bug queen has Thorax and lord only knows what she’s got in mind for him.” Zack said as she slammed a hoof on the table.

“So to ensure that crazy bitch doesn’t get a chance to do anything to Thorax, show me where these Verdant Highlands are, and I’ll go and get Thorax back.”

Twilight saw that there was no arguing with Zack while she was in such a frantic, and rightly agitated state, especially with her being so worried about one her friends. So Twilight used her magic to activate the tables map feature, and once it was up Twilight highlighted where the Highlands were. When she turned to look at her doppelganger Twilight saw that Zack was intensely looking at the map, as if burning the image of what was being displayed into her mind. A second later and Zack turned away from the table and was about to make her way out of the castle, but before she took more than a few steps from the table Twilight teleported in front of Zack, a determined look on her face.

“Out of my way Twilight!” Zack shouted, looking like she was about to throw Twilight to the side. But the princess stood firm and simply said.

“No.”

“What did—”

“Zack. Listen to me.” Twilight said in a VERY commanding tone, which not only caused Zack to actually balk at the princess words, but her friends also looked surprised by Twilight’s forceful tone.

“I know that you’re afraid of what Chrysalis might do to Thorax, we all are, but you don’t have to do this alone.” Twilight then placed a cautious hoof onto Zack’s wither.

“We can help you Zack, we can help get not just your friend, but our friend as well.”

The group all kept their eyes on the pair of alicorns as they just kept staring at each other, Twilight keeping her determined yet calmed demeanor, while Zack still looked like she was ready to kill somepony. But it seems that the paler twin was starting to lose some of her anger, as her bristled wings started to relax, and her mane and tail started to lose some of the lustrous glow it had. However, the tension in the throne room was still bearable.

“Do you have a plan in mind?” Zack said breaking the still silence that was in the room, and was sounding a little more reeled in and less angered. As for Twilight she just gave a simple nod as her own stern appearance softened.

“Then let’s hear it.”

~~~~~

Chrysalis was pacing throughout her make-shift hut, waiting for any news from her enslaved stallions. Granted she doesn’t have much faith that normal ponies would be able to capture an alicorn. After all Chrysalis is uncertain just how powerful Zack is compared to the other alicorns, since she was imprisoned in the old Hive, and her magic was siphoned by her dark throne, so the queen has no idea just what the mare is capable of. But Chrysalis assumed that since Zack is a near perfect duplicate of Twilight, she surmises that the two mares might have similar power scaling. Or at the very least close to it.

“If those stallions aren’t enough to capture her, then I’ll just have to enslave more ponies until I garner enough to overpower her.” Chrysalis said mostly to herself.

“She won’t be captured so easily like last time.” Thorax weakly said as he laid on the floor, his carapace baring bruises and green blood drooling from his mouth.

“Silence grub!” Chrysalis says as she stomps a hoof on the side of Thorax’s head, causing the changeling to cry out in pain. “When I want your opinion I will ask for it.”

As Chrysalis was grinding her hoof on top of Thorax’s skull, deep rumbles and small quakes startled the pair. Leaving the small changeling behind in the hut the queen head outside and looked for what caused the quakes. But as the changeling queen looked around, Chrysalis didn’t see anything that appeared to cause the quake; however something did grab the queens attention. Off in the distant Chrysalis could see a swirl of emotions burning brightly among the trees, mixtures of red, blues, purples, and other colors. Along with the myriad of colors Chrysalis could also see various bursts of violet light, which were followed by another tremor that shook the ground. Then Chrysalis heard something that surprised here.

“CHRYSALIS!” the angered voice of Zack boomed throughout the forest, accompanied by the sounds of trees being ripped from the ground and being tossed about with reckless abandon.

“I KNOW YOUR OUT HERE! COME OUT AND SHOW YOURSELF!” Chrysalis actually garnered a small smile as she flexed her wings.

“So she came to me instead. This just makes it much easier. Come here!” Chrysalis all but yanked Thorax from his glued spot on the floor, and keeping him levitated a foot from her as she takes flight.

As the queen and her traitorous subject flew through the air they eventually came upon the source of light, quakes, and aura of just burning emotions, and sure enough it was indeed Zack. outrageously furious and with magic just flaring from her horn. Before she landed the Queen made sure to clamp Thorax’s muzzle shut, so he couldn’t warn the alicorn while she studied her. Chrysalis was fairly competent in her fighting skills, but if there is one thing she learned about Zack before she managed to subjugate her, is that this pony or whatever she really was, is not to be taken lightly. Especially how she was willing to kill Chrysalis right off the bat by impaling her on her horn. After a minute or so of studying the alicorn, and watching her just tear up the forest in her blind rage to find her, the Queen dove down towards the mare before landing just a dozen or so feet away from her.

“Chrysalis!” Zack growled as she glared at her, before her eyes softened as she looked over to her captive.

“Thorax! Let him go Chrysalis.”

“And why would I do that?” Chrysalis mocked as she gently twirls Thorax around in her magic as if he was just a little toy. “Having him here is part of what I have plan.”

“And what is this plan of yours? Petty revenge.”

“Oh trust me I WILL have revenge, but not just against you and this grub.” Chrysalis said with a snarl as she glared at Thorax.

“I will get my vengeance on Twilight Sparkle, Celestia, those traitorous maggots, I will get my vengeance on EVERYCREATURE that went against me or ruined my life!” Chrysalis screamed as her own rage starts to boil over

“So what are you going to do now? You just going to try and strong arm me into submission?” Zack said as she flared her wings and caused the aura around her horn to blaze brighter. “You don’t have your fancy thrown to hamper my power this time.”

“As if I need my throne in order to make you bend to my will.”

Chrysalis then unleashed a powerful energy blast that rocketed towards Zack, but the mare just stood her ground. as the blast closed in on the alicorn, Chrysalis watched as Zack conjured up something that looked like a bipedal creature, which then just punched her blast and caused it to disperse. Not faltering or hesitating the queen continued to fire multiple blasts at Zack, even throwing in some curved shots to attack the mare from other angles. And yet Zack still didn’t back down or scatter. The Alicorn just had her bipedal construct deflect the frontal blasts, while Zack used her magic to fire spiraling clenched fists at the other magical blasts, canceling them out when the attacks collided with each other. now getting even more frustrated, Chrysalis started to tear out trees from the landscape and lob them at Zack, while still pouring out various magical blasts as she tries to beat down Zack. but the alicorn just continued to counter every attack she launched.

“Is that all you got!”

“GRAH!” Chrysalis roared in anger as she created a large green fireball above her head, its emerald glow turning the area around it into an ethereal green hue.

“TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE!”

Chrysalis then lobbed the giant fireball at Zack, who sent her construct jumping at the attack to try and disperse it. But the moment that the construct came in contact with the fireball, it detonated into a massive fiery explosion that spread across the area. The green flames burned everything down to ashes from the grass and bushes, while the trees were reduced to chard sticks and fallen logs. Even the construct that collided with the fiery ball was burned away. Luckily though the queen created a shield to protect herself from her own spell, however it seemed that Zack was unaffected, as she was surrounded in her own magical barrier. Reaching higher levels of anger Chrysalis created three new fiery orbs of green fire, and was ready to lob them at Zack to not just destroy her shield and reduce the alicorn to a smoldering husk, but stopped when something else caught her attention. Another flash of violet light. Looking off to her right where Thorax was still suspended, the queen gasped when the changeling was no longer in her magical grasp.

“What! Where did—Where did that grub go!” Chrysalis growled as she glared back at the alicorn.

“What did you do?”

“I didn’t do anything. But she did.”

The alicorn then gestured behind the queen, and when Chrysalis looked behind her she spotted Twilight Sparkle and her friends with Thorax having his injuries being treated. But before the queen could even react to the fact she was surrounded, she was tackled to the ground by something slamming into her side, and that something was Rainbow Dash. The Queen was about to blast the pegasus off herself, but Chrysalis was again interrupted when again she was struck from the front, and this time the object was Zack. the queen then started to wrestle with the two mares, but was quickly overpowered when the other ponies started to pile onto the queen. Twilight and her protégé along with Zack tried to use their magic to restrain the queen, but Chrysalis wasn’t going to allow herself to be captured like this, and fueled by her ever increasing anger the queens power rose dramatically.

“ENOUGH!” Chrysalis screamed at the top of her lungs as she unleashed a powerful wave of magic, scattering all of the ponies off her.

“You think you all can take me down?! Me!”

Chrysalis then channeled her magic back into the three fireballs that have been left suspended in the air, causing the fireballs to grow in size and their bright emerald coloring changing to a darker almost blackish green coloring.

“I will show you what happens when you undermine Queen Chrysalis!”

The three fireballs were then launched at the separated ponies, while Chrysalis created another shield around herself as she waited for encroaching multi-explosions. As the fireballs were being making their way over to the scattered equines, the ponies all gathered up and clustered around each other to seek protection, one group was comprised of Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie gathering around Starlight as she prepared a shield. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Thorax were protected by Twilight who created her own shield, leaving Zack all by herself as she created her own shield. Just as all the ponies had created their shields, the three massive fireballs erupted all at once, creating one massive explosion of dark green fire that nearly caused the vision of the ponies to darken. As if they were just suddenly enveloped in darkness. But the dull green light still shown through, along with the intense heat that surrounded them.

Several minutes go by as the ponies huddled together and waited out the intense burning flames, but once the fires had died down the ponies were meet with a pure burnt landscape. The ground was blacken and chard, with smoke and ashes wafting off the ground and being blown off by gentle breezes. But what really worried the ponies was that the large quantity of smoke wafting about, as the smoke obscured their sight and prevented them from even seeing more than a few feet in front of them.

“Guys!” Zack called out after a cough escaped her as she nearly inhaled some of the smoke and ashes of the burning landscape. “Is everyone alright.”

“I think so.” Twilight called back as she looked over her friends that managed to get to her.

“Except for the fact I can’t see any pony.” Rainbow Dash said as she scanned the area, only seeing large clouds of smoke circled around them.

“Same. I can’t see anything through all this smoke.” Thorax said as he wobbled a little before being held up by Fluttershy.

“Don’t push yourself Thorax, your still injured.” Fluttershy said as she helps the changeling to stand up.

“Fluttershy is right Thorax just take it easy.” Zack said as she joined the trio by wafting through a smoke cloud, but just as exited out the smoke something else came bursting out of the smoke.

Erupting from the smoke cover, with a face of unbridled rages, Chrysalis was flying towards Zack with her horned ready to run the alicorn through, and the queen was to close for Zack to even put up a shield. Let alone use any spell to defend herself with. But as the queen was a foot or so away from impaling Zack, the pale purple was tackled out of the way at the last second. And when the alicorn looked to what tackled her, the thing she saw caused her eyes to widen with absolute horror, and that sight of Thorax being impaled by Chrysalis’s crooked horn, as green blood spurted from the exit wound and his agape mouth. While a look of utter pain was plastered on his face.

“THORAX!”