Mean Twilight and the path ahead

It was evening when mean Twilight was prepared to attack. Why not night? Because she dared not underestimate Twilight. It makes sense that at night, protective spells would be placed. And when one would work, she would be facing real Twilight without any advantage. She overpowered Chrysalis, but she was nowhere near certain she'd overpower Twilight. On top of that, Starlight would also be sleeping somewhere there. Right now was the perfect time, with Starlight and Spike being out, while the princess of friendship probably busied herself with yet another useless task.

Mean Twilight flew down on the balcony, silently entering the castle. Right as she did it, she cast an invisibility spell on herself. Quietly, she passed through the hallway, opening door after door, looking for the purple mare. Finally, she heard a noise, and sneaked up on a bigger door, just to get smacked into a wall by it as real Twilight suddenly opened it. That instantly made our ~~hero~~ villain lose all her concentration, nullifying the invisibility spell.

Thankfully, she didn't make a noise, and real Twilight was too deep in her book to notice. Nose bleeding. Fuck it. It won't stop me. Mean Twilight charged up her beam and shot at real Twilight. The shot missed, due to either the fact she was still confused by the sudden collision with the door or the fact that real Twilight made a random stop in the middle of the hallway.

Twilight was hard to distract when she was reading a book. But a gigantic beam of magic several centimeters away from her managed to do the thing. She instantly turned around, only to be even more confused. It's not every day you see yourself. Of course, the colors were a bit off, but it was still a very believable copy. "Hello? Do you need anything?" Twilight said, assuming that maybe it's a changeling before her.

Those words destroyed mean Twilight's confidence in a second. The element of magic didn't even take her seriously. Instead of answering, she unleashed a second beam, but this time Twilight teleported away in time. "Shit," said mean Twilight. She has lost her greatest advantage. Sneak attack, with which even the weakest could beat the strongest. Still, she was a perfect match for Twilight, quite literally. At worst, it's a 50/50 now.

"Stop. I don't want to fight you. Calm down, then tell me who you are," said Twilight. Mean Twilight decided to instead start shooting out beams like crazy, so Twilight followed with the same. In seconds, the corridor turned into a battlefield. Whereas mean Twilight was mostly trying to destroy Twilight, the real one focused on defending herself, only sending out beams occasionally.

This is bad. Blocking and teleporting takes far less from her, compared to what my attacks take from me. At this rate, I'll lose in a few minutes, thought mean Twilight.

"STOP," loudly said the third pony. Both purple mares suddenly stopped, as if by reflex, to look what was interrupting them. Real Twilight's face eased, seeing Starlight, while mean Twilight looked like she's about to get executed. Still, seeing princess of friendship distracted, she unleashed another devastating beam at her. No chance she would dodge now. Light filled the way, and she channeled it for several seconds. Upon letting go, however, she was very disappointed. Starlight was there with a magical barrier, protecting her friend.

Both Starlight and Twilight looked at the clone with unhappy faces. That's when our villain realized one thing. She's about to feel all the power of friendship, and not in the good way. Luna knows, it's not a thing you'd want to feel every day. Even at her peak, mean Twilight would not manage to destroy both of them. And right now, she was exhausted. In hindsight, she realized that she should not have gone there after battling queen Chrysalis, the tree of harmony, and a chimera. But that was too late. Reality caught up to her quick, so she did the thing every self-respecting villain would do in such a situation.

Mean Twilight teleported as far as she could, which happened to be the balcony, and took off, starting to fly away as fast as she could. It didn't take much time for Starlight and Twilight to get behind her, starting to fire beams of magic at her. Instead of large, devastating shots, however, those were just small, linear ones. Problem was, they shot a lot, and they shot swiftly. Instantly, mean Twilight realized that her amateur method of attacking was nothing compared to what those 2 mares had. By pure miracle, she dodged for 10 seconds, then she started taking hits.

Still, she was no weak mare. After what pain she'd endured during the tree's attack, this was nothing. Just a sting or two. At least, that's what she was telling herself. After a dozen of such shots, there was no more power left in her. Both her magic, and her body, gave up. She fell on the ground, sliding a few meters and rolling over her sides several times. The harsh landing took a toll on her belly. Blood was spreading on the grass. Everything was hurting. Fear was slowly taking hold over her mind.

Then, the two ponies descended from above, installing more terror. I don't want to die. However short her life was, she certainly didn't want to throw it away. In this very moment, she decided that her pride wasn't worth shit, if she was a log laying on the ground. "Please don't kill me. I don't want to die," she said in a quiet, fearful manner, closing her eyes with her front hooves. The thought of death terrified her. What if I die? I'm created with dark magic. What if I will just not exist? No pony heaven, not even pony hell. Just nothing. Normally, you would think her face could not look more scared, but this thought certainly made it so.

"I wasn't going to," said the real Twilight with a confused face, landing on the ground in a far more successful way, with Starlight following her example.

"Oh, Celestia," said Starlight, seeing the wounds. "I'm so sorry I didn't me-," she started, but hearing the rest was beyond our villain. Real Twilight acted quick, applying as much healing magic as she knew, while mean Twilight closed her eyes, and let her head rest on the ground. The consciousness was slipping away from her, so much she realized.

I don't want to die, thought mean Twilight, and it echoed in her mind. The world became blurry, and she lost the ability to think shortly after, going unconscious.