A Twisted Mare Tale (Ugly Truths and Pretty Lies)

A TWISTED MARE TALE
BY THE YOUNG AND FREE DRAGON

As I rape your soul of virtue
I am god of lust and sin
Cold black, as I slay your soul of virtue
You are a slave of flesh and sin

CHAPTER TWO: RESCUED, PERHAPS

I've turned all your friends against you. They won't believe a word you say. No one is on your side. In fact, you do not have a side. You are on my side.

Rainbow Dash dove with a wing partner, Gilda, as they crashed through the streets of Ponyville, destroying what lay before them.
“Dash!” Was the only word that escaped Twilight's mouth as she charged toward the center of chaos.
Her call fell on deaf ears as the Pegasus kicked and stomped wooden structures into the dirt. Gilda used her sharp talons to shred curtains and other soft objects, such as the flesh of the ponies that were in her way. Twilight had to use all of her strength to leave the bleeding ponies around her in the snow.

Twilight levitated a large piece of wood that was cast aside in the destruction and tossed it as hard as her magic allowed at Gilda. The griffon let out an eagle shriek before falling into a pile of rubble. Rainbow Dash did not falter as she kicked an elderly stallion in the side. His old brittle rubs let out an audible crack like a large carrot snapping, and the stallion groaned as he fell into a large snow drift. Dash put her muscular back legs into a violent kick. The buck smashed into the stallion's head, burying it in the snow. As Rainbow Dash pulled her hooves out of the hole, nothing of the elder's head was visible.
“Rainbow Dash!” Twilight screamed, finding her voice.

The rainbow-maned Pegasus turned and stared at her, her eyes strangely empty as they gazed out through the holes in her visor. Twilight stared back at her friend, not sure whether their eyes were communicating anything or she was simply staring at a brick wall. As she stood almost hypnotized, the brick wall decided to prove that it was not completely devoid of thought by racing forward and grabbing Twilight up before she could even register what had happened.

Twilight opened her eyes, as she had shut them tight upon seeing Dash charging at her. She felt air rippling through her tail and mane and as she glanced around, she found that she was well above the ground, being carried by Rainbow Dash. She had no idea what to think at this point or how to react. Rainbow Dash had attacked the town with an old foe and being an obvious traitor to the ponies, but was now carrying Twilight away from danger (hopefully)? She wasn't sure whether this was an act of friendship or ill will. Suppose she dropped her?

As this thought flashed through her head, a sudden force hit Rainbow Dash hard in the side, causing her to lose her momentum and plummet toward the ground. The Pegasus and unicorn crashed through a tree, which broke their fall slightly, but added a different a layer of pain before they hit the ground.

Twilight groaned and rolled over in the dirt, opening her eyes again and coughing, her lungs feeling like they had exploded and were in capable of holding any air. Rainbow Dash had quickly recovered, but as she turned, her left side looked injured, although by what, Twilight couldn't tell. She showed no signs of pain and Twilight's eyes drifted to what she was looking at.

Five royal guards were galloping toward them, their horns glowing brightly, preparing to shoot deadly bolts of magic. Twilight sat up, wondering what royal guards were doing here, though she didn't have much time to think about it as they came within ten feet. Gilda crash landed on top of one of them, almost crushing him completely. His armor bent inward with her weight, and he lay on the ground, still, either dead or completely incapacitated.

He was the one in the middle, leading the charge, and so this gave Gilda a vantage point as she lashed out with her claws, slicing the closest guard on the right's muzzle almost cleanly into two halves. He fell to the ground and, in a swift motion, Gilda crushed his head into the snow as Rainbow Dash had done to the defenseless old stallion earlier.

Rainbow Dash charged the guard on the farthest left, pushing him into the snow and delivering two hits with her fore-hooves to his face before delivering a shattering head butt, her helmet crushing his inward and leaving a steady stream of blood dribbling out of the bottom of his visor as he fell on his back in to the snow.

One guard managed to fire one magical bolt that missed Gilda as she charged him, grabbing him by the neck and pushing him to the ground and delivering several strikes that left not moving. The other guard lay dead or defeated at Rainbow Dash's hooves by the time Twilight looked over.

Twilight was amazed by the brute efficiency of the pair. The royal guards were adept in many different types of deadly magic to protect Princess Celestia at any cost. Yet five had easily been dispatched by a Pegasus and Griffon without a scratch on them. How would they stand against the coming forces...?
“Why did you leave?” Gilda asked Rainbow Dash. “The town hall was still standing!”
“Destroying the town was the secondary objective,” Rainbow Dash replied. “Besides, the royal guards were coming!”
“So what, they were easy,” Gilda scoffed kicking one on to his stomach.
“You know Clavus doesn't want us alerting the royal guards just yet. The dragons aren't ready to take them on yet.”
“Why are we even following that scrawny dragon anyway?” Gilda spat.
“You know why,” Rainbow Dash hissed before glancing over at Twilight Sparkle.
“Clavus?” Twilight asked in confusion.
Rainbow Dash moved slowly towards Twilight until she was within touching distance.
“You of all ponies should know what that means,” She whispered before stroking Twilight hard across the head.