Sombra's Newest Plaything

The crystal grate of the window was jagged and sharp in places. The dark corruption that Sombra had summoned had grown his castle and had created the very cell she was in, but it was rough and unpolished. It was actually fairly easy for Twilight to pinch her horn ring into a gap in the crystal, and with a sharp twist of her head, she bent the metal of the ring slightly. It wasn’t much, if she damaged it too badly, it would be noticed, but she could immediately feel the gap as the front base of her horn felt the cool breeze from outside. With the seal damaged, the effect of the ring was lessened. Twilight decided to test to see if it worked and coursed magic through her horn. A weak strand of purple energy crept up the front of her horn, and once directed by her, picked up a loose bit of crystal from the floor. Twilight grinned victoriously as she slowly lifted the pebble into the air. It was hard to use her magic like this, and it was far weaker than she was used to, but Twilight could now use the tool she was famous for.

The castle was massive, even larger than when she had first arrived, and Sombra was still far too powerful for her even if she had her full magic to wield. For now, she would play at helplessness. The magic she now had was going to be useful but it wasn’t as much as she was used to. As Twilight experimented with the control she had over her power, she quickly realized that trying to teleport would be far too dangerous. With a frustrated sigh, she turned her attention to the cell door. If she couldn’t teleport around the castle, that would make getting around difficult, but not impossible. Feeling out with her magic, she slowly got a sense of how the door was built. It was incredibly basic, relying on a heavy metal latch that would be operated from the other side. With the fact the door was a near-solid mass, a unicorn with no magic would have no means to open it. However, it was clearly made by Sombra or his servants quickly, since a more complex and secure prison would have been made otherwise. As it was, all it took was a little magic creeping under the door’s frame for her to grip the latch holding the door closed. With a faint whine of metal on metal, she lifted the latch and gently pushed the door open.

The eerie purple of the hallway outside was surprisingly comforting to a pony that hadn’t seen anything other than her cell without somepony around to hurt or prod her. Still, just being out wasn’t enough. As powerful as Sombra was, she would need help to escape, or better yet, to topple the arrogant tyrant. She needed to find her friends. Taking a gentle and cautious step out, Twilight used her magic to dim the hallway around herself. It took almost everything she had, but it would also make her harder to see. Using her hooves, she sealed the latch behind her. There was no telling when Sombra would summon her again, she would need to be quick. Moving as fast as she could while still being silent, she stalked the halls, mentally tracking where she had come from so she could find her way back. The last thing she needed was for Sombra to discover she knew how to get out of her cell.

Rows and rows of cells were on either side of the hall as she moved, and each had a small grate at the top that allowed the prison keepers to look in. Twilight glanced at each as she ran. There were ponies in each of them, most crystal, but not all. Sombra must have already started capturing ponies from the areas around the Crystal Empire. Twilight wasn’t sure why they weren’t being brainwashed, but she had no time to think about that yet. She was just about to give up for the cell and head back to her cell, hoping to avoid being missed, when she noticed a familiar color pattern through one of the grates. Screeching to a stop, she peered inside the cell and confirmed what she’d seen. It was Rainbow Dash. she let out an unconscious gasp of excitement.

“What? Who’s there?” Rainbow’s voice was the best sound Twilight had heard all day.

“Rainbow, it’s me,” Twilight whispered.

“Twilight!”

“Shhh! I don’t know if there are any guards nearby, and I can’t risk them finding out I got out, so we need to be quiet.”

“Right. I knew you’d get out. You always have a plan. Nothing breaks Twilight Sparkle, not even some big shot dark lord.” Rainbow whispered with a quiet laugh. Twilight shivered, her previous meeting with Sombra running through her mind. Rainbow seemed to notice something was off. “Hey, are you ok? You got quiet all of a sudden.”

“I’m fine. Do you know where the others are?” Twilight asked. Rainbow shook her head.

“No, we were all separated right as we were first led in. Does the plan involve the others?”

“Well, I don’t have a full plan just yet. I only just managed to get some of my magic back, and it will take a lot more than that to break out of here. Right now, my goal is just to find the other girls and get to where I know the castle well enough to move around safely. It might be a while until we can actually get out.” Even as she said the words, Twilight felt a clawing dread, knowing what that meant for her. “Are you going to be able to survive that? I don’t know how they’ve been treating you, and we can try and risk an early break out if we have to.”

“I’m fine,” Rainbow replied. “It isn’t exactly a vacation here, but I’ll live. You know I want to be out of here and busting heads as soon as possible, but if you feel we should prepare more, then that’s what we should do.” It almost hurt Twilight to hear how much Rainbow Dash still trusted her, even though the pegasus was only in this mess because she had failed.

“Ok. For now, I want you to pay attention to when guards pass by your cell. See if there’s a pattern. I am going to have to head back to my own cell for now. If any of Sombra’s servants see me out here, they will quickly figure out I have my magic back, and that won’t end well. I know things are horrible now, but I will be back. I will make this right.” Rainbow sat up to reply, hearing the guilt in Twilight’s voice, but the unicorn was already gone.

—

Finding her way back to her cell and closing it behind her took Twilight far less time than exploring had, and it was only a few minutes after she left Rainbow that she was back to staring at her featureless wall. Her body shook from the fear that now finally caught up with her over what she had just done. With how Sombra already treated her, she couldn’t imagine what would happen if she were to get caught. Still, she had found Rainbow. While all her friends would be useful for escaping, for this kind of situation Rainbow Dash and Applejack were the highest priority for her to find, and she had already checked one of those boxes off. Maybe she really would be able to get out of here.

It was a few hours after she had gotten back that Sombra’s servants came for her. The familiar green glow of the eye slits piercing through the dark of her cell. Twilight rose to her hooves. There was no point in offering much resistance, not yet.

“The King has summoned you to the war room.” The voice lacked any hint of emotion, giving Twilight a chill as she thought about the poor soul trapped behind that helmet.

“War room?” That was an odd place to take a concubine.

“Yes, slave. Follow me.” The servant, even more a slave than Twilight herself, turned and walked out of the cell. Twilight quickly followed, noticing two more following them from behind. This time, Twilight mapped the castle out as she was led through its darkened halls. Combined with her escapade earlier, she now had a pretty solid layout in her head of a sizable chunk of the prison level. She was led out past the throne room and towards the castle’s southern wing. A pair of large crystal doors loomed ahead but were opened by twisted purple magic. Sombra’s voice boomed from inside.

“Get her in here now!” He sounded furious at something. Twilight gulped nervously as she was pushed forward. Sombra being angry couldn’t end well for her. Just past the tall doors was a long room with a circular table at its center. The room was filled with guards and servants. A tall glass of wine sat next to where Somba was brooding. The glass was nearly empty and a servant was refilling it. The table had a map of Equestria and the surrounding regions marked out on it. There were numerous lines drawn and figures about it. Twilight had seen enough war maps in books to recognize what she was looking at. It had barely been any time at all since Sombra had returned to power, but already the black lines representing his positions were deep into Equestrian territory. Twilight felt her throat tighten as that reality sunk in for her.

“The concubine, sir.” The servant that had escorted her bowed and took a few steps back.

“Good. Now get out, all of you. Out!” He yelled, slapping one of the figures off the map. It flew across the room and shattered on the wall as the tyrant threw himself down on the only chair in the room. With Sombra and herself being two of the only people in the castle that weren’t brainwashed it made sense, but it always unnerved Twilight to see how much of the castle was built as if there was only one occupant. “Get over here.” Sombra snapped, and Twilight rushed over. Sombra slid his drink in front of her. “Drink.”

“Yes, sir.” She quickly caught herself and corrected, “Yes, Master.” Sombra glared up at her but seemed satisfied with her correction. Twilight almost lifted the glass with magic out of habit and screamed in her own head about how close she nearly came to ruining her plan so soon after coming up with it. Lifting it awkwardly with her hooves, she brought it up to her lips for a sip. The wine was some of the best Twilight had ever tasted. Good to be the king, she supposed. Sombra had stopped watching her and barely seemed to care that she was even there, his eyes glued to the map.

“That damnable Princess of yours has finally realized she’s at war. I took a good chunk of Equestria without so much as a fight, but now…. Her army might be pathetic, for now at least, but her and that Luna mare aren’t to be trifled with.” He flicked another figure over, this one probably representing one of the celestial sisters, Twilight realized. “Well, I will discover a counter to their magic. They don’t have the elements anymore it would seem, the poor fools. They can’t defeat me forever without the help of those accursed things. Your former masters will fall, and their kingdom burn.

“For now though, I need to vent. Come here.” Twilight did not like the sound of that, and hesitated for just a moment. Right as she was about to start walking closer, purple magic grabbed her by her hair and roughly yanked her. Twilight screamed in pain as she was pulled over to sit on the table in front of Sombra. “When I give you a command, I expect it to be obeyed immediately. I don’t need you to think about it, I need you to do it. Understand?” He snapped. Twilight nodded miserably, hooves to her sore head. The slight bend in the metal of her horn ring caught the light and shone in Sombra’s eye. A curious look crossed his face and he started to lean forward.

“W…What did you want me to do?” Twilight hastily asked, hoping to divert his attention. Sombra snapped his gaze to her eyes, a cruel grin on his lips. Twilight had succeeded in her goal of getting him to stop paying attention to her ring, but she suspected that she was about to hate where his mind now focused.

“Well, since your princesses are not here for me to punish, I think I will make you suffer in their stead.” He gestured to the table. “Now get in position for me.” Twilight was terrified about what the tyrant had in mind but turned around so that her butt was hanging off the table. Her body shook fearfully as Sombra brushed his hoof along her cutie mark and slowly traced it inward. She squeezed her eyes shut as she felt his hoof trace her butt. “Yes, this will do nicely.”

Dark magic drained the light from the room. Cackling green bolts of energy coursed around Sombra’s body as his rage built back up to its full strength. The energy turned solid and formed into a black cord that Sombra levitated through the aid. Twilight immediately recognized it as a whip. Panic welled up inside her, but the mare forced herself to remain still. Sombra looked enraged still, and Twilight tried to mentally prepare herself for what was about to happen to her. With a sudden motion, Sombra cracked the whip down against her cutie mark.

Twilight had thought she would be ready for it, but it hurt so much more than she was expecting. A scream tore painfully from her throat, the mare destroying her voice on the first yell. The second lash came quickly, the mare sucking in air before screaming again, her voice hoarse as the pain jolted through her body. Sombra grunted his frustration at whatever had gone wrong channeling through the whip as it came down for another blow, then another. Twilight’s eyes stung with tears, her mouth hanging open as she sobbed. Her butt was deep red, especially around her cutie mark, and a slight line of blood ran down from her abused ass and towards her leg. The whip vanished in a puff of purple smoke. Twilight’s head hung low as she cried, her relief palpable as she thought her torment was over.

“Alright, now turn around.” Sombra gestured with his hoof. Twilight listened, wincing as she put weight on her sore butt. When she was on her back, her lower body still dangling over the table, Sombra moved forward. He was stroking his cock to get it hard. As much as Twilight hated the idea of the tyrant raping her again, after the previous few minutes, it was almost a relief that he was just going to fuck her. Then his horn started glowing. The purple magic grabbed her by the throat as the stallion closed the gap between them. Twilight’s eyes grew wide as she felt the grip tighten.

“W…What are you doing!?” Twilight began to panic as she suddenly struggled to breathe. Her voice was barely a croak due to having thrown it out from screaming before.

“Don’t worry, I won't break my new concubine so soon. I’m not going to kill you, but I am also not going to make this pleasant. In fact, the goal is to do quite the opposite.” His cock pressed into Twilight, the mare trying to suck in air as the sensation overwhelmed her, but as she did his grip tightened further. As the stallion began to rock his hips into her, Twilight found she could no longer breathe.

The mare struggled against Sombra, her legs kicking out and finding nothing. The cock brought her some pleasure, but that was drowned out by Twilight’s panic as she fought to pull free. Unlike before, Sombra didn’t seem to be angered by her fighting back. Whether he was actually wanting it this time, or too focused on raping her, she couldn’t tell. Twilight’s vision was growing darker and her efforts weaker as the stallion just kept pressing into her. For a second, Twilight began to wonder if he had lied to her, and she was about to die, but just as she was about to lose consciousness, the stallion loosened his grip and pulled out of her. Twilight gasped for air as her throat loosened. She coughed as she struggled to suck as much oxygen into her lungs as she could. Sombra seemed amused.

“My my, such a reaction from so little use. You will get used to this kind of thing eventually. Now, stop your pathetic gasping and get on your knees before me.” Twilight scrambled to do as he asked. For just a second there, she had experienced what it would be like if he decided to kill her. Sombra seemed to find her entertaining, and there was a good chance that was the only thing keeping her alive. While escape was still the foremost thought in the mare’s mind, for the first time it truly terrified her to think about what would happen to her if she wasn’t careful.

“What am I to do, Master?” Twilight was now kneeling in front of him, her legs tucked under her body with her head at waist level to the tyrant. She didn’t need to ask, she knew. However, with the smile on his face, she knew she had guessed correctly about what he would want her to say.

“Such a good little concubine. You are learning so fast. No wonder Celestia thought highly enough of you to send you on such a mission. Though, she must not have treasured your company too much. Otherwise, she would not have risked you on something so foolish. Whether she regrets that mistake or not is something I will be sure to ask her, right before chaining her up alongside her sister. They can be my plaything as well. Though…,” Sombra placed a hoof against Twilight's cheek and lifted her eyes to meet his, “They lack your beauty. You will be my favorite for some time, I think.” That thought just made Twilight feel even sicker, but she kept the disgust from showing on her face.

“As for what I want you to do, I want you to open your mouth.” Sombra was stroking his cock, which was still hard from moments ago, while he stared deeply into Twilight’s shimmering eyes. The mare knew what was coming next, but did as she was asked. She squeezed her eyes closed, too scared to watch Sombra’s move towards her waiting mouth. The cock slipped in between her lips, her tongue gently brushing against it. Sombra moaned loudly and pressed in deeper. Twilight began to realize the problem fast as the cock kept moving deeper. She had hilted when she had sucked the stallion off the previous day, but that was with her in control of the situation and it had made it impossible to breathe then too. This time, Sombra was in control, and he wasn’t pulling back out unless he wanted to.

“Keep your teeth away,” Sombra growled his warning as he saw Twilight’s eyes fly jolt back open as she started to panic. The mare did as she was asked even as the cock finally got deep enough into her throat for it to block her breathing. Twilight held her panic as much in check as she could. Sombra’s earlier comments made it clear that he had no intention to kill her as long as she didn’t give him a reason. She just needed to keep her body from reacting for her as the oxygen got low.

“That’s a good concubine. Now, hold still.” Sombra brushed some of her hair away from her eyes so he could better see the suffering as he began to rock his hips. He kept the motion small, intentionally making it so he never pulled far enough out for the mare to breathe. Twilight’s eyes widened and rolled back as he began to thrust into her throat. Her lungs already ached from the need to breathe, but Twilight knew she wouldn’t be doing that for a moment. Her body quivered as she literally choked on the stallion’s cock.

Sombra was delighting in every muffled noise the mare tried to make. Watching her face slowly grow more purple as he held his dick inside her throat just made it all the better. The spasming of her throat muscles only served to make the experience even more pleasurable for him, her body’s panic massaging his cock. This was what it meant to be the emperor. His concubine was his to play with, he even decided when she got to breathe. That foolish princess and her sister had likely never experienced such incredible pleasure. If he had his way, they would choke on his cock as well before long. Maybe he would even have his current concubine train them. That would be good for a laugh.

The feeling of a soft, unwilling tongue and convulsing throat would prove too much for the tyrant. He grabbed Twilight’s head by her hair with his magic and forced her as far down as he could. For the mare, this changed nothing but adding an additional pressure to her head. Twilight’s vision was fading, and she knew she was losing consciousness. The could feel the stallion’s cock twitch in her mouth, and with the last bit of energy she could muster, she began to swallow. This both milked the stallion’s cock, driving him wild with pleasure, and kept her from choking further as she gulped down his cum. With a few more weaker thrusts, Sombra finally seemed done.

Releasing Twilight’s hair, he finally let her go. Once again, Twilight was sucking in air, her vision returning to normal. The past few moments had been some of the most frightening in Twilight’s life, her throat hurt from the abuse and her whole body shook from the lack of oxygen. The first thing Twilight did when she stopped coughing was scream. She screamed so loud that she tore her voice even more. Tears flowed onto the crystal floor as she curled up in a ball. Sombra watched all of this with little more than an amused smile.

“One of my servants will be in to escort you back to your room in a moment. Go ahead and get that out of your system until then. I, meanwhile, must get back to destroying Celestia’s pitiful excuse for a kingdom.” He stared down at the sobbing mare in amusement. “I will be back for more of your services tonight, after I have finished examining my newest…recruits that were taken in from the Equestrian fringe. See you soon.” With a quick turn and a flick of his cape, Sombra left her there. Still struggling to breath, Twilight put her legs back under her and rose.

Twilight badly wanted to go and put this miserable experience behind her. However, she knew if she didn’t do something, she would have far more days like these ahead. So, still shivering in disgust and sore from abuse, she turned her attention to the table. There were more papers scattered across its surface than she had even realized right away. Lifting one with a weak string of magic, she glanced underneath it. Twilight’s eyes went wide with delighted surprise. Just beneath the map of Equestria was another map. The mare quickly tried to memorize what she could, and scarcely believed that she was really looking at the layout of the castle.

It wasn’t all there. Sombra had added massive areas to the castle with his magic in just the short time since he had taken over, but it was a start. The door started to open behind her, and the mare quickly let her magic drop away, the paper gently falling back into place. As the masked servant stepped in through the door, the mare had to fight to hold back a grin. Sombra was beyond overconfident. Twilight had faced monsters and tyrants before, but Sombra was ergotistic in ways she hadn’t even realized were possible. The stallion had the power to back up his confidence, which is likely why he didn’t even treat Twilight as a threat, but power wasn’t everything. As the servant began to guide her back to her cell, Twilight studied the turns they made, lining them up with the layout she had seen. If she was going to use that information to her advantage, she would need to know how the old castle layout had been adjusted to make room for more crystal rooms.

—

The familiar cold purple of the prison halls was almost a comfort to Twilight. She skulked through them confidently, her ears trained for the sounds of hoofsteps. She’d had to dodge around corners a few times to avoid guards, but one nice thing about brainwashed ponies as opponents is that they weren’t the most observant. For a moment, the mare found herself getting distracted as she contemplated why that might be, maybe a result of the mental haze, but she focused her thoughts back on the moment as she realized she was getting close to her goal.

The prison areas were fully new, so none of Twilight’s memorization from before helped her now, but she had begun to notice a pattern. The prison was laid out in a triangle, with several connected halls of cells for each side. All the cells near Twilight that had occupants contained unicorns. It wasn’t hard to figure out the logic from there. It seemed Sombra and her had at least one thing in common; they liked when things were nice and organized.

The wall ahead of her curved at a sixty degree angle and she knew she had crossed over to the new section. Rainbow was the other way. So, this side had to be the earth ponies. Scanning each cell as she walked by, Twilight searched for familiar colors. The bulk were empty, and the few that were occupied had ponies that were obviously not crystal. Sombra had likely already corrupted all the crystal ponies by now. No wonder most of the cells were empty.

It didn’t take long for her to find the pony she was looking for. Inside one of the cells nearest to the corner was a yellow mare, curled up and shaking silently.

“Applejack. Over here.” The mare inside the cell instantly shot up. Twilight could tell that the farm mare could barely see any of her through the slit in the door, even as she got closer.

“Who’s there? Rainbow?” Applejack squinted to see.

“No, it's Twilight. I saw Rainbow earlier though. She’s fine, or at least alive.” Twilight whispered back.

“Twilight! Golly, I’m glad to hear your voice. Have you found the others or just Rainbow? Is she with you?” Twilight could see the light return to Applejack’s eyes. The fur around the farm mare’s eyes was matted with tears. Twilight’s heart sank as she realized how scared Applejack must have been. There was no hint of that fear in her voice however. With Twilight there, Applejack’s armor was back on.

“No, it's just me for now. You and Rainbow are the only two I’ve found so far, but I know how to find the others now.” Twilight glanced over her shoulder to make sure no pony was coming.

“Are we escaping now? I knew you’d have a plan.”

“We are escaping, but not now. This place is crawling with Sombra’s guards, and Sombra himself is very powerful. I don’t want to move until I have everything in place. That way, he won’t have time to counter us before it's too late.” Twilight whispered.

“So you do have a plan then.” Applejack sounded eager.

“Yes, but it will take time to set up. I can move around with a little bit of freedom, so let me get things set up. For now, there is something I need you to do for me.”