“In fact if I were you, I wouldn’t show up to the wedding at all.” That was the last thing that Shinning Armor said before leaving the room.
Her sister, Twilight Sparkle, just stared at the door closing with tears on her eyes. Her coat and eyes were purple, her mane and tail too with a pink stripe. Her cutie mark resembled a star purple star with some sparkles around it.
The mind of the poor purple unicorn was too clouded with the cruel words that his brother said to her. She was just trying to protect his brother’s future, she didn’t wanted him to marry an evil pony such as Cadence. She was Twilight’s foalsitter in the past but that kindness was replaced by a cruel witch that wants to ruin Shining Armor’s life.
Twilight turned to her friends who were looking at her the way as her brother, a look that showed nothing but pure hatred. After a minute of silence her mentor Princess Celestia walked over to her gazing at her. Her coat was as white as snow, her mane and tail were almost the same color as a rainbow and it flowed like if a breeze was blowing even though it wasn’t, her cutie mark was none other than an image of the sun, perfect for the pony who is in charge of raising and lowering the sun.
“I never expected this from you Twilight, I’m very disappointed,” She said in a cold and merciless voice still looking at her as if she had committed genocide.
Twilight looked at her friends, but unlike Celestia, their faces were of disappointment and sadness. She got up and began speak to them “Girls I-”
“What’s wrong with you?” Rainbow Dash interrupted her. Her mane and tail were of the colors of the rainbow, her coat was cyan , her eyes are of a violet color, her cutie mark was a cloud with a multicolored thunder striking down. “I thought you’d be happy that your brother is getting married!” Shouted the furious pegasus.
“Honestly darling, I thought you weren’t capable of something so horrible.” That unicorn with the high class-like accent is Rarity. Her coat was white too, her mane and tail are purple colored and styled in a glorious fashion, her cutie mark is of three diamonds.
The Pink pony who remained quiet is called Pinkie Pie. Her mane and tail were both bubbly, as if she had cotton candy in them. Her coat was Pink too and she has three balloons as a cutie mark. Her talent is partying but this wasn’t the time for them.
The yellow pegasus was looking at Twilight sadly just like Pinkie, feeling bad that she would ruin the wedding of her own brother. Her mane and tail were of a light pink color. Her coat is yellow with three butterflies for a cutie mark.
“Come on all, let’s go check on her” said the orange pony named Applejack. She has blonde mane and tail. She has a brown cowboy hat, and orange coat and three apples for a cutie mark. She left with the 4 other ponies leaving Twilight and Celestia alone.
Twilight opened her mouth to speak again but Celestia trotted past her stopping inches away from her. She muttered the words that crushed what was left of Twilight’s soul, something that hit Twilight so hard that she actually found more tears to shed.
“You have a lot to think about.” That’s what she said before trotting out of the room and closing the room with her magic, leaving Twilight alone to keep crying on the floor.
She couldn’t believe it, she was sure that Cadence was evil but that wasn’t the case after all. She was more than crushed, she lost her friends, her brother, her mentor and even her family. She didn’t care if somepony was watching, she lost everything she cared and loved because of Cadence. The bonds that she, her friends and her brothers have created have been broken just like that.
“They don’t love me,” Twilight said between sobs “They don’t love me anymore.” She stood up and looked outside the window seeing the beautiful scenery of Canterlot wiping her tears.
“They didn’t try to defend me, my friends of all ponies haven’t even bothered to defend me!” She shouted wiping more of her tears. Twilight has been crying for a long time and it could be clearly seen that her eyes are bloodshot from so much crying.
She knew that her accusations sounded like she was being overprotective but she was sure that she was right, until now. She looked at the lands that were beyond Canterlot and Ponyville. Then she had an idea, nopony loves her, nopony would miss her, it was the perfect plan even if it sounded kinda childish.
Twilight hung her head down and started to walk outside the room to the outside world, never to come back, never to be loved from those who spent all of her life bonding with.
Across the room was Princess Cadence looking at Twilight leaving the room and closing it with her magic. Cadence turned around giving a big grin while her eyes shined green for a split second and then she completely disappeared in the darkness.
After hearing from her sister about how Twilight suspected that Cadence was pure evil, Princess Luna was walking to the room were she was stating. Shining Armor’s testimony sounded kinda suspicious and she was 100% sure that there are no healing spells that makes a pony’s eyes to do that.
She could see Cadence’s room door being guarded by her sister’s guards, they stayed with their trademark look not moving a single itch and making sure that nothing goes wrong, these guards are well trained. It’s not possible that they would know if Cadence was being a jerk but it’s worth a try.
Both guards gave a salute at Princess Luna when she was approaching them “Greetings princess, how can we help you today?” The one on the left said.
“Yeah, I was wondering if the bride had shown any aggressive behavior.” She asked them in hope that she hadn’t.
“Now that you mention it, she verbally insulted us in the face for not finding cherry for her cherry sundae.” The guard on the right said giving a shudder, clearly not wanting to remember it.
“Uh huh,” Luna said nodding “And did she showed any signs of evil behavior?” She asked wanting to have a clear confirmation.
“Not as far as we kno-” The guard on the left tried to say but he was cut off by a singing voice coming from inside the room.
This day is going to be perfect
The kind of day of which I dreamed since I was small
The three ponies kept silence for a second to listen to the beautiful and enchanting singing from inside. Luna started to think that Twilight was being overprotective, maybe Cadence was a good pony after all.
Everypony will gather round
Say I look lovely in my gown
What they don't know is that I have fooled them all!
As good as a rotten apple. Their looks changed to a surprised expression, clearly not expecting that part. Before they did something Cadence started singing again, this time she sang louder.
I could care less about the dress
I won't partake in any cake
Vows, well I will be lying when I say
That through any kind of weather
I'll want us to be together
The truth is I don't care for him at all!
No I do not love the groom
In my heart there is no room
But I still want him to be all mine!
That was it, the ultimate proof that Cadence was not just evil but beyond evil and Celestia was too blind to figure it out. Twilight was right in the end, it also means that Shining Armor was in danger and that he’s about to marry an evil witch.
Then her eyes shot open when she remembered the threat that was made to Canterlot “Guards! search all of Canterlot from surface to underground for any invaders, I’ll round up all the other guards for apprehend Cadence.”
“But what about the captain?” The left guard asked.
“He’s clearly not on his right mind, so until this situation is resolved you’ll follow me and my sister’s orders, report to me after you’re done, understood?” She said while turning away from the guards.
“Yes your highness!” They both gave Luna a salute and started to carry out the orders they were giving. They wouldn’t ignore an order from their captain but an order from the princesses has more priority. Luna kept walking to her room and started thinking about how to save the wedding after the guards are done with their search.
Later that day the wedding has continued as planned, the rings has been already been traded and the wows were already made, all that’s left is that Celestia wraps up the wedding. Everypony was there except for Twilight and Luna. Her friends and mentor are still worried about not finding Twilight, they would assume that she had sealed herself in her room reading a book but her room was empty, Twilight wasn’t there.
Of course, they are still mad at her for accusing Cadence to be evil and wanting to ruin her brother’s life, Twilight can be paranoid sometimes. Wasting no more time Celestia cleared her throat and spoke up again.
“Princess Cadence and Shining Armor, it is a great pleasure to pronounce you-”
“DON’T DARE TO FINISH THAT SENTENCE!!!” A loud voice boomed through the room taking everypony by surprise. Looking at the gates they were more surprised to see Princess Luna standing in the doorway.
“Luna? what are you doing?” Celestia asked giving a confused look at her sister.
“Sister, I’m afraid that this wedding is cancelled.” Luna said giving a glare at Cadence.
Everypony was whispering and awestruck by Luna’s sudden intervention, the element beares couldn’t think of a reason other than Twilight convincing her of her ridiculous suspicions. Cadence however, was getting irritated by so many interruptions lately and gave a slight growl, luckily for her no pony, not even her, heard the annoyed growl.
Her behavior quickly returned to that innocent sweet pony that everypony thinks they know “Princess Luna, why do you want to stop our wedding?” At this point she began to tear up “Why are all these bad things happen to me?”
“Drop the act impostor! we know the truth.” Luna yelled at her while she stomped a hoof to the ground in anger.
Everypony gasped at Luna’s sudden burst, they thought that she’s being possessed by Nightmare Moon again and that she’ll try to bring the nighttime eternal again starting by ruining the wedding.
However Celestia flied towards Luna, landing in front of her giving her the same merciless look that she gave to Twilight “Just what do you think you’re doing sister?” Celestia said.
“Celestia, Twilight Sparkle was right, that Cadence is an impostor and I can prove it!” Luna said with the biggest confidence that she could muster.
Celestia raised an eyebrow and cocked her head to the side “You do?”
“She does,” A familiar voice was heard. Everypony turned their attention to the figure coming from the door, which surprisingly was another Cadence, only thine one looked like she was locked away in a dungeon for months “This is my special day, not yours!” she said.
The other Cadence’s face changed to one of full horror when she said that, she remained calm and tried to think of a way for her plan to work “You! how did you found her? how did you escape my bridesmaids?” She asked.
Luna gave a smirk and walked up to meet her face to face “You underestimate the might of the Canterlot Royal guards.”
The fake Cadence didn’t seem worried at this surprisingly. She maintained her cool and stared daggers at Luna “Clever, but it’s too late now.” She said in a calmed tone while her eyes flashed green. Her horn burn yellow-green and a ring of matching flames lances up from the floor to encircle her completely, As all recoil from the infernal glare, the shaded wings flex in a sudden convulsion and transform into a tattered, insect-like pair. Next, the pink legs turn into hole-pocked, gray-black limbs, the transformation working down toward the hooves. Finally, the horn’s exterior strips away to expose a gouged, half-decayed black one underneath.
When the flames died down She can now be seen as a gaunt, long-legged, winged unicorn mare, basically like a bug version of an alicorn, the ends of her mane and tail are as pockmarked as her legs and horn. Her back is marked with a saddle-shaped patch of green hide or exoskeleton, and a grayish band of skin encircles her belly as if it were a strap holding this in place.
After she talked about her plan to take over Canterlot so that she can get more food for her Changelings by impersonating Cadence and marrying Shining Armor, Luna and Celestia walked up to her for a confrontation that will be written in history.
“You may have Shining Armor in your control, but now that you have foolishly revealed your true self,” Celestia said walking towards the changeling queen on her left side.
“We can protect our subjects,” Luna said walking to her on the right side “From you!” Both royal sisters said at the same time as they hovered in the air and shot a magic beam to her from both sides.
The beams coming from both sides the changeling queen’s horn glowed and a green shield formed around her successfully reflecting both beams back at the royal sisters. Both of them stared in shock as the magic was bounced back at them and knocking them from the air.
Cadence stared in horror and quickly ran to Celestia’s aid, Luna has been knocked out unconscious but some guards came in and are taking care of her. Cadence turned her attention back to Celestia and see if she can do something.
“Are you okay Celestia?” She asked with concern.
The changeling queen’s shield dispersed while she laughed like crazy, obviously satisfied for her victory over the princesses.
“Shining Armor’s love is stronger than I thought” She said now hovering “It makes me stronger than both Celestia and Luna!”
“Cadence listen to me,” Celestia said winning Cadence’s attention “You must find Twilight, the elements of harmony can’t be used without her.”
“What? Twilight isn’t here?” Cadence said, her eyes going wide.
“I made a mistake and I regret it, now go! there not much time!” With this, Celestia gave a pained groan obviously injured for the blast. Cadence looked at the five remaining element bearers, giving them a nod she bolted out of the room while they threw their bridesmaids dresses and followed her behind.
Later on, Celestia and Luna were sealed in some kind of cocoon just like everypony else. The doors swung open revealing the five element bearers and Cadence being forced inside by some Changeling, the sad look on their faces showed that they couldn’t find Twilight before they were captured.
tured.
“Back so soon?” The changeling queen mocked and laughing at them “It’s funny, Twilight was the only one suspicious of my behavior all along, Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct!”
The five ponies remembered the time they left her alone in there, they started to think how she must have felt having everypony you love turned against you. Betrayed, broken, sad, and now lonely, they don’t blame Twilight, if any of them would be in her place and if it happened to any of them, wherever she is.
“Twilight where are you?” Cadence whispered as looked at the changelings roaming free in Carterlot and terrorizing everypony outside “We need you.” With that Cadence couldn’t hold back a tear knowing that the filly she used to take care of has gone missing to who-knows-where.
Shining Armor however was still in control of the queen and wasn’t aware of what was going on. The Changeling queen zoomed out in the balcony and started singing again, Cadence took this chance to go at Shining Armor’s side, she let another tear fall as she saw the state that her future husband is in. She pulled him into a hug making Cadence accidentally cast her magic that flew into Shining Armor, finally pulling him out of the queen’s control.
He instantly grabbed his head due to a headache greeting him after he was released of the trance, with a shake of his head he looked at his surroundings and noticed the big bug-like pony flying towards him.
“What’s happening?” Shining Armor asked still confused.
“I am what’s happening!” The queen said landing in front of the two ponies.
Cadence remembered the shield spell that Shining Armor told him about once, she didn’t waste any time and remember him of it “The spell my love! cast the spell!”
The queen laughed at their attempt to oppose her and started walking back to the balcony “It’s useless, my changelings already roam free, you can’t stop me.” she said, zooming out to see her handiwork again.
Lowering his head slightly, Shining Armor concentrates all his will on the single task of getting his horn to turn over. All he gets for his trouble is a feeble glow at the tip, though, and he lets his head drop in defeat.
“My power is useless now. I don’t have the strength to repel them.” He said hopelessly.
“My love will give you strength.” Cadence said while she nuzzled Shining Armor.
The queen however, laughed at their cheesiness and rolled her eyes “What a lovely but absolutely and totally ridiculous sentiment, I told you that it’s useless to stop me, why do you still bother?” She said continuing to watch her changelings destroying everything.
The severely thwarted newlyweds trade a look—grim resolve in his eyes, desperate pleading in hers—and he tries his horn again. This time, it emits a stronger glow and she brings hers close enough for an electric discharge to arc between the tips. They touch, creating a spark that glows purple and white as it steadily grows in size, and a circle of this same energy forms around the pair. Air currents circulate around them, causing Cadence’s mane to billow and sparkle as do those of Celestia and Princess Luna, and she and Shining trade a smile before concentrating again.
The spell slowly lifts them clear of the floor amid a stronger glowing aura. The five element bearers grin and avert their eyes of such beautiful brilliance. The changeling queen’s jaw drops open in total disbelief, and the hall begins to shake from the sheer amount of magical energy coursing through it. Shining and Cadence open their eyes fully, revealing them to be glowing pure white, and the power gathers into them for a moment before exploding outward as a white, heart-shaped shock wave.
The wave rockets toward the queen. She manages only a strangled yelp of surprise before getting her tongue to behave itself. She is flung outward in a crash of breaking glass. The blast clears away the changelings around all over Canterlot. Outside the city could be seen one cataclysmic burst that hurls both the screaming queen and every last one of her minions toward the distant horizon in all directions.
“I told you this was a stupid idea my queen!” One of her changelings said while they were still flying in the air.
“Oh shut up number 34!” The queen shouted at him while they kept flying towards the unknown destination that waited for them.
Back at Canterlot, Shining and Cadence float gently back down to the dais. Her mane has resumed its typical, non-billowing appearance; they share a joyous embrace, but that was short lived as they remembered to check on everypony to see if they are alright.
Celestia and Luna walked up to them assuring that they are fine along with everypony else in the hall, but Shining Armor noticed that something’s missing.
“Wait, where’s Twilight?” He asked which earns a sad look from five peculiar ponies, the royal sisters and even Cadence who pulled away from him at that moment.
“We....we couldn’t find her.” Cadence said.
“What? Why? Why would she leave all of the sudden?” Shining Armor asked, terrified that her beloved ‘Twily’ is missing on the day of his wedding. Princess Celestia walked up to him and told him everything that has happened while he was under the changeling queen’s control, his anxiety only increased when he heard the way he treated her own sister, he wanted to apologize, to say that he’s sorry for what he did.
“Then what are we doing here? We have to find her!” He said while he galloped to the door.
“Wait! What about the wedding?” Rarity screamed at him while he’s running to the door.
Shining Armor stopped on his track, turning his attention to the element bearers “I can’t get married knowing that my sister has gone missing on the day of my wedding! you five come and search too.” He said receiving a nod from them and bolting out of the hall.
Celestia walked up to Cadence, whispering to her ear “You go too” in which she nodded, ran after Shining Armor and company to join them in their search for Twilight Sparkle.
“Attention all guards,” Luna’s voice ran through all of Canterlot so that the guards can hear her “The unicorn Twilight Sparkle has gone missing! look for her in all of Equestria, find her at all costs!”
After the announcement, every single guard in Canterlot began their search while her friends, brother and former foalsitter looked for her. Their search led them to Manehattan, Dodge Function, and Las Pegasus to name a few. But no matter where they look, no many how much search units are out there searching for the purple unicorn, no matter where they go.
Twilight Sparkle was nowhere to be found.
It has been three years since Twilight’s disappearance, her friends and family looked for her across all of Equestria but the ponies claimed that they didn’t saw her. It has been like this everyday, searching for the lonely and broken purple mare, her friends felt guilty for not believing her, for making her feel unwanted, for making her run away and Shining Armor most of all, felt worse than anypony could imagine.
Although his parents were furious at their son for being harsh at his sister at first, they nonetheless contribute the search for their daughter, but to no avail. Eventually, Shining Armor and Princess Cadence got married but the wedding wasn’t the same without Twilight as the mare of honor.
One day a familiar light blue pony with a hat and a cape that had stars in them came back to ask forgiveness for what she has done in the past, it took all her willpower and pride swallowing to ask the ponies of the town to forgive her.
The ponies eventually forgave her and welcomed her back. Celestia acknowledged her magic talent after she saw her swatting away some timberwolves that were trying to make their way to Ponyville, thus Celestia decided that she would be Twilight’s replacement as Element of Magic until they find her. After hearing the news, Spike and the other element bearers obviously weren’t comfortable with this, they wanted their friend back not some showpony.
Celestia didn’t wanted this either but an element of magic was needed, the safety of her country is as important as her prized student’s. Shining Armor didn’t agreed much on this but the orders of a princess are absolute, he couldn't do anything to prevent this. Cadence was still dedicated in finding Twilight. For each passing day, her devotion grew stronger and stronger, she will not rest until she finds Twilight.
Present Day.
As time went on everypony has gotten used to Trixie being in the town, she was appointed as Celestia’s student and new element of magic which made her happy, luckily for the rest of element bearers though, she wasn’t as egocentric, boastful, and arrogant as she was in the past. Spike was glad that Trixie treats him well but he still missed Twilight dearly, and knows that Trixie can never replace Twilight.
Eventually, the remaining five fought and blamed one another for Twilight’s disappearance. Each of them called each other out during the night of her disappearance. For example: Pinkie Pie made Twilight miserable, Applejack for lying about Twilight’s well-being, Rainbow Dash for abandoning her, Fluttershy showing cruelty, and Rarity not thinking about Twilight. The last time they’ve fought was after their umpteenth failed search, they’ve met one last time in Twilight’s old library.
“It was your idea that we check on the princess!” Rarity snapped at the cowpony, “We only left her because you said so.”
“Well, you could’ve told me before we left!” Applejack defended. “Ya’ll were too selfish to thought about her!”
“Look who’s talking!” Rarity scoffed. “You said she’s going to be okay but she’s gone thanks to you!”
“How could you be so mean Fluttershy?” Pinkie Pie angrily asked. “I thought you were the Element of Kindness!”
“You’re no Element of Laughter either! You could’ve cheered her up but you left her instead.” Fluttershy said harshly before sadly declaring. “We’ve left her instead...”
“Let’s face it, we’re only friends because of Twilight, and look how we treated her!” Rainbow Dash yelled at them before breaking down to tears. “It’s all our fault, and Twilight thinks we don’t love her anymore.”
“We’re hypocrites to our elements...just...terrible hypocrites...” Agreed Rarity.
“It’s all our fault...” Applejack sniffled before wiping her tears away with her hat.
“We’re nothing more but selfish mean ponies...” said Pinkie Pie as her hair deflated.
“Twilight can never forgive us.” Rainbow Dash said. “We’re no better than Discord.”
This has brought a negative change towards the remaining element bearers, Applejack learned how to lie without sweating and she lies more frequently. Rainbow Dash is spending more time flying than to be with her friends, less loyal basically. Fluttershy is more assertive but not enough to make her a rude jerk like that one time. Rarity has become more greedy rising her prices more, she even stopped doing dresses for free to her friends. Pinkie Pie became more aggressive, she didn’t smile anymore and it was a miracle if she did a party to a new pony. In fact, Pinkie vowed that she’ll never do a party again until she can do a apology party for Twilight.
Meanwhile, in a dark room, a shadowy figure is watching the ponies of Ponyville doing their daily activities from one of its many monitors, but what caught the figure’s attention was five of the element bearers and a pink alicorn with her husband pacing back and forth.
"Looks like they're having trouble finding what they are looking for," The figure said,looking at Cadence. “Maybe I can do something to relieve her stress.” A little red dot shined in the darkness of the room while a creepy laugh filled the dark room.
“Boss, is it time?” Asked another bipedal figure that was bowing at the leader’s chair that was facing away from him.
“Indeed it is, the destruction of Equestria is near.” The leader said, one of it’s monitors focusing on the city of Canterlot.
In a balcony of one of the castle towers Celestia is gazing at the city and Ponyville in the horizon, it’s been three years since Twilight left and there were no signs of her whereabouts, there were times when some think they saw a purple unicorn around but it always ended in a dead end.
She was about to give up on many occasions but Cadence’s determination always gave her hope back, too bad that she will have to call off the search.
Luna walked up behind her sister, she’s looking at the city again. It’s obvious that she misses her faithful student, everypony does, her disappearance had a big impact on everypony. She walked to Celestia and stood up to her side, accompanying her in her sightseeing.
“Nice day, isn’t it?” Luna asked, slightly surprising Celestia.
“I guess it is.” Celestia replied.
They shared a moment of silence so they could watch their subjects doing their daily business, watching the ponies passing by reminded her of Twilight when she was a little filly. She was always eager to learn something new from her mentor, she even brought her favourite doll Smarty Pants to some of the lessons, she was so happy back then.
Luna turned to her sister that’s been shedding a couple of tears and sobbing quietly, she must be thinking about Twilight, everypony is in fact. Her disappearance has hurt everypony, specially when they forbidden her to go to the wedding. Even though they temporarily replaced her with Trixie, it was still Twilight’s friends, her family and because they didn’t trust her, she’s gone. Luna wiped the tears off Celestia’s face and gave her a sad look.
“You’re thinking about Twilight Sparkle again, are you?” Luna said with a saddened tone.
“Yes,” Celestia said crying once more “I can’t rest knowing that my faithful student is out there all alone, she must think that we no longer love her, that we hate her, and that we don’t want to see her again.”
Her sadness grew stronger every time she tried to describe how the purple unicorn felt after they left her alone that day. Finally, she embraced Luna crying as loud as she can.
“I want her back,” Celestia sobbed “Please Twilight come home, I’m sorry for not believing you. I miss your friendship letters, I miss your visits, your friends and family miss you. So please come home, please...”
Luna could do nothing more than just hug her, Celestia is one of the three ponies that took the worst since Twilight left and making one of the rulers of Equestria cry like this was no easy task. They sat there embracing each other, not caring if anyone else hears, Celestia need comfort right now.
I hope that you’re safe Twilight Sparkle, things are a mess without you.
It’s that time of the week where Rarity and Fluttershy go to the spa to relieve their stress, it’s been through ever since that day three years ago. Even though Trixie changed for the better that doesn’t make their lives any better. The two ponies were relaxing on the jacuzzi, washing away the pressure and stress from their work.
“I’m telling you, Angel is getting on my nerves,” Fluttershy said, getting furious “He think’s he’s the one who calls the shots, that evil son of a feather thinks I’m gonna put up with his attitude forever, well guess what, it’s my house and my rules!”
“I know how you feel darling,” Rarity said “Lately everypony is thinking that because I’m the Element Of Generosity I will do free dresses for them, no need to say how wrong they are.”
They’ve kept talking about their lives for the next 15 minutes, but soon they touch the topic that’s impossible not to talk about, their disappeared friend Twilight Sparkle.
“Everything was better when Twilight was around.” Fluttershy said giving a sigh and looking at the ceiling.
“I know darling, me too,” Rarity said getting closer to the yellow pegasus and putting a hoof on her shoulder “But things change, ponies change, times change, everything changes.”
“But we abandoned her too, we didn’t trust her, do you think she will forgive us? Oh, why did we do such cruel things to her?”
“I know Twilight dear, she will be back very soon, I’m certain that she will forgive us.”
Fluttershy looked up to the white unicorn giving her a reassuring smile, making her smile too. That smile, it was as if it’s saying that Twilight is still out there safe and sound. They still believe that their favorite bookworm will return one day, and when that happen they shall apologize to her and they will all be friends again.
Suddenly, a loud explosion was heard from the outside, making a short earthquake that shook the entire building. Waking up the two ponies from their relaxation. Next, the town’s siren blared throughout the surrounding area.
“Prepare to evacuate Ponyville immediately!” Mayor Mare called from the town’s loudspeaker. “This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill!”
Both Rarity and Fluttershy knew they had to cut their spa time short and got off the tub to hastily dry themselves. In normal circumstances, Rarity would like to dry her mane but their current situation wasn’t appropriate at this time.
Just after the two ponies finished drying, Aloe ran up to them with a terrified look, as if she just saw an incredible disaster.
“Miss Rarity! Thank goodness I found you, you have to get out of here!” She said really scared.
“Calm down, what’s going on?” Rarity asked, putting her towel down. “Where’s Lotus?”
“There’s no time to explain! We have to get out now!”
The pink pony grabbed them by their front hooves before the could say something else, the explosions became more frequent the closer they got to the exit. Neither of them had time to finish drying their mane, much to Rarity’s discomfort. Fluttershy looked around to see that the spa was burning, the only possibility that she can think of this happening is that some sort of war have been declared or something much worse.
Aloe opened the door to reveal what was going on, everypony was running away trying to save themselves from some kind of fire-spitting dogs with their blue colored fur covering most part of their body, they were as tall as a Diamond Dog.
There were also some weird small creatures holding a pickaxe despite of not having anything to hold them with, they have yellow construction hats with a green cross on the front, their big eyes almost cover half of their black face and they have small yellow legs, slightly smaller than a grown pony.
They wasted no time and ran to the city hall to take refuge, but three blue dogs were chasing after them shooting their explosive fireballs to them. Somehow they managed to dodge some of the dogs attacks but some had hit Rarity and Fluttershy, leaving burn marks on their coats.
Even though Rarity was complaining about how they almost burned her precious mane, they kept on determined to make it to the refuge, it was only meter away but the pickaxe creatures were busy with the houses making some parts of them fall in front of the three ponies. They barely dodged the falling debris, with the only casualty was that a brick found it’s way to Aloe’s forehead, putting her out of commission.
With their destination so close, Rarity carried on her back the unconscious spa pony and hurried on to safety. They saw a lot of ponies entering the building, some are injured, eventually they managed to get in time along with the everypony else, Fluttershy closed the dog’s snout before they would get the chance to get in.
The town hall was a complete mess, there were medics attending the ponies who weren’t so lucky as the others, some pegasi are busy barricading the windows so they wouldn’t but inside and the remaining ones were looking for any escape routes but to no avail.
“The horror, the horror!” cried Lily.
“We’re doomed!” Roseluck bemoaned.
“It’s the end of the world!” shouted Daisy.
“Where are the Royal Guards?” Mayor Mare demanded to one of her aides.
“I just got a report that Ponyville isn’t the only settlement under attack!” The aide replied. “In fact, every major city and town is under siege by the same creatures.”
The situation sounded worse than it seemed, a terrorist attack of this scale has never happened before, whoever is behind this has an incredible set of firepower and resources to conduct something like this.
“Aloe!” Lotus called them from the crowd. “I was off to get some supplies when the attack occurred, what happened to her?”
“She was knocked unconscious when she got us out of the spa,” Rarity explained. “ Please seek medical attention.”
“I’m sorry about what happened to your spa Lotus,” Fluttershy said sympathetically. “What will you do?”
“Don’t worry about the spa, because at least the Aloe is safe,” Lotus replied, although both Rarity and Fluttershy saw tears were rolling down from her cheek. Although neither of them know if it’s whether it’s from the loss of their spa or Aloe’s wellbeing,
After leaving Aloe and Lotus to the doctors a certain cyan pegasus flied to her friends.
“Thanks Celestia you’re okay,” Rainbow said flying above them “It’s madness out there! The whole town is burning and falling apart!”
“We know dear,” Rarity said looking around worried “We never faced a crisis as big as this, it’s just too much to handle.”
“So what? You’re giving up?” Another voice was heard, turning around it was coming from Trixie trotting towards her friends. “It’s our duty to protect this town, it’s what she would have wanted.”
They shared a moment of silence, knowing exactly what she was talking about, nodding their heads they formed a circle to discuss the next course of action.
“So what do we do? Those dog’s fireballs explode when they hit something.” Dash said.
“Not to mention that those pickaxe things can create shockwaves too,” Trixie said bringing a hoof to her chin “We’ve got no choice but to ambush them, it’s the best course of action.”
“Wait, what about Pinkie and Applejack?” Fluttershy asked worried.
“I’m sure that they are alright dear, trust me.” Rarity assured her.
Another earth shaking explosion filled their ears followed by a voice that they’ve never heard before.
“Listen up elements of harmony, bring your plots out here or I shall destroy your dear town until there’s nothing left of it.” His voice boomed through what seemed like a megaphone. It seems that the terrorist has finally revealed himself, he request the bearers of the elements of harmony to meet him face to face, but they are still unsure of this.
Looking at Trixie and remembering her words, they walked to the doors with a boost of courage but the other residents aren’t sure that they can make it.
“Are you insane? You’re gonna get killed!” Doctor Whooves warned
“I’ve done some crazy things in my life, but not like this.” called Berry Punch.
“You don’t stand a chance! Don’t throw your lives away!” cried Colgate.
The other ponies were concerned about losing them, but as bearers of the elements of harmony they can’t stand back, it’s their job to protect the harmony in the world, even if it means sacrificing their lives for peace.
“Let’s kick some butt Rainbow.” Fluttershy said looking at Dash.
“Heh heh, I never expected to hear that from you Fluttershy.” Dash replied
“If somepony mess with my friends, they mess with me.”
“Alright everypony, let’s go.” Trixie said bringing a hoof to the door and opens iit.
Outside of the city hall they have been greeted with a terrible scene, the buildings were burned to the ground, but oddly enough Sugarcube Corner and the library were still standing. In front of them was another weird creature with the other ones who destroyed the town behind him. He standed on only two legs, his chest was of a fan, his design looked like a fan with extremities, his eyes were yellow while his pupils were red, he had no mouth and he has a tornado symbol on his forehead.
The girls stared at him with confusion while Rainbow Dash was rolling on the ground laughing her lungs out.
“Is this some kind of joke?” Trixie thought aloud.
“What?” The creature replied “This is not a joke pony, I’m gonna kill you here and now.”
“How so? Refresh us to death?” Dash replied before she had another fit of laughter.
Annoyed at this point, he blew a gust of wind that sent the cyan pegasus through a house. Surprised by the sudden attack of the creature they turned back their attention to him.
“I am Airman, don’t underestimate me or I’ll rip you apart with my tornadoes.” Airman said.
Fluttershy flew where Rainbow Dash crash landed to check if she’s okay. In the meantime, Rarity and Trixie glared at Airman.Although they know that looks can be deceiving, but they never seen somepony or rather, something like Airman a dangerous threat.
“What do you want with us?” Trixie demanded after Airman demonstrated his power. “Or a better question, what do you have against Equestria?”
Airman gazed upon them, and if he had a mouth, he would be giving off an evil grin as he answered.
“Your lives.”
Airman’s fan began spinning summoning a gust of wind so strong that the ponies are having a hard time keeping their ground, the barricades on the town hall were being blown off by Airman’s attack. Fulttershy grabbed on what was left of a building with one hoof while grabbing an injured Rainbow Dash on the other hoof.
Trixie was formulating a plan while trying to not get blown away, she remembered that Rarity wasn’t gonna hold for long, so she pulled out her cape out of her saddlebag and held it out to her so she can grab on it.
Trixie had gone back to think for a plan now that the others are safe, he often uses wind based attacks, apparently he’s made of metal and he’s dead sent on killing the elements of harmony. That might work on their advantage.
“I got it! Fluttershy, keep that airhead busy!” Trixie yelled at Fluttershy, still holding on the building and Rainbow Dash.
“What? Are you insane?” Fluttershy screamed back.
“You have to trust Trixie! Is Rainbow Dash alright?”
“Yes, but barely!”
“Okay! Tell her to keep him busy too if she’s in condition!”
The yellow pegasus looked back at Dash, still holding on her hoof, she pulled her up and told her the plan that Trixie had in mind. The cyan pegasus nodded and she flew off along with her companion, Fluttershy had let go of the barely standing building to fight off Airman along with Dash.
“What about me?” Rarity yelled.
“If you know any freezing magic, then start casting the spell.” Trixie screamed back.
The two pegasi fought against Airman’s gale of wind before they took up out of his attack range, Airman made three small tornadoes out of his palms and launched it at the two pegasi in the sky. Rainbow dodged the tornadoes headed towards her in time, Fluttershy was nearly hit but she dodged it in time.
Meanwhile, Trixie was focusing her magic into casting the spell and Rarity was covering Trixie but she wished that she would help her other friends in distracting the strange new enemy, she had to trust in the blue unicorn’s plan for the time being.
The two pegasi finally got close to their enemy, they circled around him a couple of times before Rainbow Dash gave him a kick every now and then, sadly at the third time that she kicked Airman her legs began to hurt, she couldn’t keep this up forever. Airman took a chance at the cyan pegasus when she lowered her guard to check up on her injury to smack her so hard that she was sent back in front of Trixie.
“Annoying insects,” Airman said blasting away Fluttershy with a big tornado that he summoned “You call yourself Element Of Loyalty? And you Element Of Kindness? You’re pathetic!” Airman was getting close to Trixie and the others slowly to give them their doom.
Rainbow Dash got up despite her injuries, with Airman about to finish them off she turns to Trixie and says to her “What are you waiting for? Cast the spell!”
“I can’t,” Trixie replies, her horn shining brightly.
“Why?”
“Because it’s not done ye-” She’s cut off by the power of her horn grew even stronger, signaling that the spell it’s ready to be casted. Trixie looked at Airman with a smirk on her face “It’s done.”
Airman’s movement is starting to get slower and slower until he was unable to move, he looked at his legs to find that they were frozen, his body was freezing in fact. He tried mashing the ice as hard as he could but it was useless, the cold was going up to his waist followed by his arms.
“Wh-what the...?” Airman said, his movements getting slower and slower “H-how?”
“Blizzard spell,” Trixie said helping the injured cyan pegasus getting back on her hooves “I modified it a bit to make the air around you as cold as possible, leaving you to freeze completely.”
Airman laughed weakly, frozen up to the waist and on, it won’t be long before the spell takes over him completely. Fluttershy came along to check up on Rainbow, she was okay despite the beating she took from Airman but nothing that a first aid kit won’t fix.
“You think...this is...over?” Airman said, the freezing catching up to his fan “Y-You’re...wrong, we...are...Treble...they...will...destroy...everything...you...all...ho...ld...de...ar.” Finally Airman is completely frozen and defeated. The monsters that Airman had brought along had retreated, signaling the victory to not only Equestria, but to Harmony itself.
The ponies shared a sigh of relief and they all gave a group hug to Trixie, soon everypony else inside the town hall came out and praised their heroines for saving the town once more, the ponies kept cheering while Dash was the first to talk to Trixie.
“I gotta admit Trix, that was an awesome plan even if I got beat up a bit.” She said wrapping a hoof around her neck.
“All that’s left is to check on Pinkie and Applejack,” Trixie said. “Let’s hope those two are okay.”
The cheers died down when they heard the sound of something cracking, it was coming from Airman whose symbol detached and dropped to the ground. The cracking came from Airman’s symbol so everypony approached the symbol and they found a little piece of technology inside the symbol.
“On your guard everypony, this may be a trap.” Trixie said getting on a defensive stance.
The other element bearers did the same as the little piece that kinda looked like some sort of chip displayed a holographic screen, but all that was seen was static.
“Is that it?” Rainbow Dash asked “You could at least put some cable on this thing!”
“Rainbow, I doubt that our enemy wanted to give us a TV on it’s dying breath.” Fluttershy said.
But as the static died down, everypony gasped and their blood ran cold at what they saw on the screen. A lavander coated mare was locked up inside a futuristic-like cell crying, her mane and tail where dark purple with a pink streak on it, she definitely was a unicorn with a sparkling star cutie mark.
“TWILIGHT!!” The four ponies said at the same time in shock.
