Twilight looked outside through the doors of her balcony. Ponies were running all throughout the streets of Ponyville at 1am in the morning. "What in Celestia is going on?" Spike comes running into her bedroom with a letter in his claws, "It's the Hypnosian Queen, she's taken over a young pony called.... La-Lavender Rain?" The little purple dragon with green spikes along his spine, tail, head and cheeks looked with a raised eyebrow at the writing on the paper he's unfurled. Twilight spun her head to see him studying the scroll and sighed.

But just as she did, she recalled a purple Pegasus by that name that Luna had been friends with for a while now that was experimented on as a filly. "Hang on... isn't she the pony that gained magical hooves through a lab experiment gone wrong when she was a filly?" Spike put a claw to his chin and scrunched his face as he thought for a moment, staring at the ceiling, "Hm, I think so? I don't know much about her though." Twilight shook her head, "Neither do I Spike. But, if she's a friend of Luna, then she must be a good pony. So... " She stared at the baby dragon and watched as he dropped his arms and sighed heavily, ".... so we must help her...."

"Hehe, yup! Now, Spike! Gather supplies... we don't know what we're going into, so we need to prepare for anything." He stuck up an arm as he straightened his back and pointed one of his claws up, "Got it!" He rushed out and came back with a saddle bag stuffed to the brim of gear. "Alrighty. Notebook?"

"Check!" He began scrounging around in the bags. "Water, quills and ink?" She watched as he stuck out his tongue while focusing on rummaging through the gear for each item. "Check, check, and check."

"Books on Hypnosis 101, and Black Magic Volume 7?" Twilight asked as he searched and pulled both heavy books out to show her, "Check! Check!" Humming a laugh the dragon spoke up, "Don't worry Twi... you've got everything here! Let's go already!" Twilight sighed while flattening her ears in defeat, "Alright Spike... you know me. I don't like being underprepared. But, if you're sure everything's there?" She looked at him with worrying dark purple eyes. He grinned with a nod, "Yeah I'm sure!" He plodded off towards the balcony, railing and placed the saddlebags on her back just behind her wings. Twilight sighed again, "Ok... I trust you Spike. Let's go!" She became battle-ready as she prepared for launch while Spike hopped up on her back just in front of her shoulders in front of her where her wings sprout from her back.

The pair launch into the night sky to get an ariel view of what was going on. When they reached the level of sky where the lowest clouds would hang, she wasn't prepared for what she saw below her hooves. "TWILIGHT!" A familiar female voice with a country twang to it sounded from below her, "Apple Jack?" She asked out of confusion, "Where's everypony else?" Twilight questioned the palomino mare with three red apples on her flanks for a cutie mark. The countryside mare skidded to a halt, breathing heavily. "I dun no! Last I saw they were wrangling that thing on the edge of the Everfree Forest!"

"It's not a thing Apple Jack!" Twilight hollers as she swoops down to land a few hooves away from the mare in the Western hat. She stared right into the mare's green eyes, "It's a pony."

"Wait, that thing is a pony! How? It's massive!" She stared at the creature in disbelief as it continued to target ponies and watched as black spirals glowing in silver light formed over ponies heads as she took control of their minds with ease. "HAHAHAHA! THERE'S NO ESCAPING MY WRATH YOU FOOLS! YOU WILL TASTE MY SWEET REVENGE!" Her eyes glowed pure purple as they released black spirals from her eyes into the minds of her victims.

Just then, Rarity and Fluttershy came rushing up to the two ponies, "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!" Fluttershy softly screamed as she ran in fear of the creature. "Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash came in for a power landing and landed squarely on her four hooves with a thud as a rainbow trail faded just behind her. "Why are you running? You should be trying to talk to that beast." She demanded with her raspy voice as the yellow Pegasus quivered in terror as she looked back at the smoky like creature, "Mm-mm! No thank you! That's way out of my line of work! She's no beast either." The young mare shook her head, making her pastel pink mane sway from side to side. "You know she's a pony too?" Twilight asked the animal lover, "Yes, I could tell by her behavior. Though, somethings clearly wrong. She's taken over some pony else. I think..."

Twilight Sparkle nodded in agreement, "Yes, I know she has, Princess Luna gave me a letter explaining it's actually a good friend of hers that's been taken over by a corrupted soul." Rarity's ear flicked as she processed with the princess was saying, "So what are you saying?" She asked, receiving a serious look from the purple alicorn. "This is Dark Hypnosis Magic we are dealing with." The group gasped. Spike was busy counting the group of ponies, "Wait... where's Pinky Pie?" Suddenly the pink mare with bouncy curly pink hair came trotting towards the group from the darkness. "Oh thank goodness Pinky, where have you been, I- Pinky?" Apple Jack was just going to keep talking when she noticed something funny in the way the Earth pony was trotting. "Are you ok?" Fluttershy asked in a worrisome voice.

The group watched Pinky come into the light of the houses of the street they were meeting on. Then Twilight gasped, "Oh no! I was afraid of this!"

"What?" the others said in unison as they focused on Twilight. "She's been hypnotized!" The ponies looked back to see that sure enough, the pony of parties was trotting towards them with glowing white eyes that had swirling black spirals inside and a blank expression on her face. "Uhhhhhhh...... Obeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy........... Muuuuuusssssssssssssst obeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy........... Missssssstressssssssssssssss Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaack Siiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllllllveeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr.............."

"Uhh Twilight... whaaat is she doing?" Rainbow asked feeling a little nervous. But before Twilight could reply, the echo of hoofsteps filled the air as they thudded against the ground. "Ah there you all are. Thank you pink pony. You've done your task." The Hypnosian queen turned her face towards the group of 5 ponies and one dragon. She grinned an evil grin, "Now.... where to begin..."

Author's Note

Ponyville is under attack! Twilight and Spike go to investigate after receiving a letter warning about the situation. But when the new form of Lavender comes face to face with the Princess of Friendship, she may end up facing her own darkness as the soul attempts to control her mind.