Princess Midnight Sparkle Rewritten

It's another regular afternoon in Princess Twilight Sparkle’s castle.

It's awfully quiet though. The rest of the Mane Six are busy with their day-to-day lives at the moment, hence why the otherwise lively castle feels so eerily calm.

Speaking of Twilight, she's currently walking through the castle corridors. On her way, she accidentally knocks something with her hoof. As Twilight looks down, her eyes widen and her interest is piqued.

She sees a strange, almost alien-looking device which acts as some sort of necklace. The device is round in shape, with a bright, glowing pink dot in its center and multiple luminescent cyan lines surrounding it. This amulet, whatever it is, doesn't look like it's from Equestria. The technology that the device is built with is far more advanced than what Equestria is accustomed to.

“Woah, what is this?”

Out of curiosity, she wears the amulet around her neck. As she’s about to continue walking, Starlight shows up from behind.

“Hi Twilight. How's everything going?”

“Starlight! I'm so glad you came by. Look what I found!” - Twilight takes off the amulet to show it off to her student.

“Sweet Celestia, where did you find this?”

“I don't know where it's from or how it appeared inside my castle, but I'm going to examine it later. Who knows what this could be for.” - Twilight says as she puts on the amulet around her neck again.

“Well, I hope you gain some knowledge on this. Mind if I help?”

In the midst of the two mares having their conversation, Starlight’s mood changes as she notices the amulet around Twilight's neck light up. Its hatch begins to open up instantly.

“Uh.. Twilight.. what's it doing?”

“Huh- oh!”

As it turns out, the amulet detected Starlight’s magic and started draining it. In a state of panic, Twilight gasped as she tried to close the thing shut to no avail, she kept struggling to close its hatch no matter how many attempts she made. It didn't close until it had fully absorbed the unicorn’s magic.

Then, complete silence.

The two had no idea what just happened.

Twilight rushes over to her student, worried about the current state she's in.

“Starlight, are you okay?”

“Not really..” Her whole body felt weak, she had a tired expression on her face, she almost couldn't stand up straight.

Twilight was in utter shock. She desperately tries to appear level headed so that she can assess the situation at hoof.

“Look, you can rest while I go and try to find some answers as to what this is and why it did that.”

“Make sure you're far away from the others though, we don't want this to happen again.”

“I'll try my best.”