Locked Supermarket

As soon as they were trapped, A new voice was heard from the speakers.

"Finally, they left." A raspy deep voice was heard. Starlight and Trixie both stood close to each other, rigid with fear.

"I've been expecting you, Starlight and Trixie." the voice began. "In case you haven't noticed you have fallen into my trap."

"Yeah, we read your lovely note so we got that part down already." Trixie said bitterly.

"Ahah, yes. I am so glad that you liked it. I am not good at poetry, admittingly." the voice humbled.

"I see that you know our past as well." Starlight stood defiantly at the speaker, assuming that the voice can see her. "And you have heard about what we can do." her horn lit up threateningly.

"Your threats mean nothing to me." the voice replied. "I can still defeat you in five seconds."

"Don't expect it to be an easy fight." she spat. "Why don't you come out, if you think I'm easy to defeat?"

"That's boring. I want to play a game with the both of you instead." it said. "There is a few notes around the supermarket. And if you follow them, you will find certain things you need to escape. If you fail five times and you don't complete the challenge until sunrise, well, that's where I annihilate one of you. Maybe that blue pony."

Trixie squeaked in fear and crawled besides her friend. Starlight felt pity for her, then felt anger rise in her again at the mysterious voice. "Touch her skin and I'll make sure you never see the light of day again."

"That's a little grim, don't you think?" The mysterious yawned, dismissing Starlight's threat. "Anywho, you now know the rules of the game so I don't think I need to say anymore. So toodles!" the speaker turned off.

Just wait until you fight me. Starlight thought bitterly. And you'll know exactly who you're messing with. She then got flashbacks of when she was fighting Twilight when she was doing her time travel scheme. Starlight recalled that Twilight couldn't beat her in a magic duel, despite being an alicorn. But even though Twilight may be more powerful than her, it shows that Starlight is not an opponent that's easy to defeat.

She turned and lended Trixie a hoof for her to get back up at her hooves.

"I don't know how you could stand up to him like that." Trixie said admittedly. "You showed no fear at all."

Starlight was surprised. She was scared to the bone, but with the hint of the stranger harming Trixie, the fear quickly died away. When it comes to someone harming her friends, fear won't stop Starlight from doing serious damage to their attackers.

"So..." Trixie said. "Do we teleport or...?"

"We can try." Starlight then disappeared with a flash. Starlight found the location in her mind, and went to teleport. But then she felt a weird jolt touch her body, and it was painful. Shocked, and hurt, she appeared back at the supermarket at the same spot.

"What happened?" Trixie said, shocked. "You usually never fail at teleporting."

"I don't." Starlight groaned. "But when I tried, something painful hit me and I couldn't do it."

Trixie lowered her head. "We can try to break the windows."

Starlight shook her head. "I don't think its worth trying. He already knew we were going to escape in other ways so he probably rigged the windows too."

Trixie looked shocked. "You don't mean-"

"Yes." Starlight nodded. "We have to play the game if we're going to get out of here."

No matter the cost.