Chapter Five

War Zone opened his eyes after the bright flash of light. “Impressive magic. You look exactly like Red Bow,” the brown stallion complimented.

“Thanks for the compliment, but what about a dress?” the disguised alicorn questioned.

“Nein, that is not necessary since most ponies try to save up bits to pay off being killed,” the stallion explained.

“You know more about this world than I do,” the princess of the sun said.

“Da, well I think you should get in there before the speech starts.” The Saddle Arabian pony said.

The disguised alicorn nodded her head in agreement before going around and standing in the long line of ponies. She stood for what seemed like hours until she reached the front. To her surprise the guards just allowed her to walk in. She assumed they wouldn’t suspect anything suspicious since they have been ruling for seven years with little resistance.

As she walked in she was surprised at how festive the castle looked. The walls where all clear, no blood anywhere; she could barely tell that it wasn’t the gala. She was shocked inside until she looked to her left. In another section of the giant room stood her old student, her mane and hooves covered in blood.

The lavender alicorn was talking to a mare Celestia recognized as Pinkie Pie. She wandered the giant room, not paying attention to anything but the décor. After wandering behind a long table that had all the foods on it she bumped into something and fell backward.

The disguised solar princess quickly got up and saw a white unicorn with a purple mane on the floor in front her. Celestia started to get nervous; she had run into one of the four mares she didn’t want to meet.

“Dreadfully sorry darling, I wasn’t …” the white unicorn started."What? How are you here? Pinkamena killed you this morning. Who are you?” Rarity questioned before pulling out a knife from under her dress. The supposed red mare quickly opened her wings and flew around the unicorn before going into a sprint.

The mare ran as fast as she could, trying to reach the giant wooden doors to the castle. Before she could somepony tackled her. When she opened her eyes she saw a rainbow maned pony on top of her.

“Don’t move,” the unarmed cyan Pegasus spoke. Off to her left approached the pink earth pony.

“Dashie, stop going soft. Like this,” Pinkamena said before taking out her knife and shoving it though the still disguised alicorn's wing.

Celestia felt a large amount of pain at the impact. She tried moving but the knife held her in place. The pink mare smiled at Rainbow Dash before backing away.

“WHAT IS GOING ON IN HERE!?” the lavender alicorn yelled, walking through the crowed of ponies. The princess of Canterlot saw the red mare with a knife holding her down to the floor.

“What is the meaning of this?” Twilight questioned.

“Pinkamena killed this mare earlier today and now she’s here,” the scared unicorn explained.

“See? This is why you don’t leave them alive for more than seven hours!” the pink earth pony nearly shouted.

All the ponies in the room were watching the scene that had just started. The horn on the lavender coated alicorn started to glow before the same glow formed around the yellow maned Pegasus.

After a couple of seconds Twilights eyes widened as she looked up. The lavender mare then started another spell. Shortly after a bright flash of white light erupted from the injured mare,blinding every other pony in the room.

Once Twilight could see through the light, replacing the red Pegasus was her old teacher Princess Celestia. “Celestia?” the lavender mare asked, surprised.

After saying her name nearly thirty Royal Guard appeared around the white alicorn, six of them holding her hooves and wings down while another placed a steel collar around her horn.

Another guard removed the knife from the ex-princess’ wing and gave it back to the pink mare. “What do you want us to do with her Princess Sparkle?” one of the many guards asked.

“Take her to the dungeons and schedule a public execution for dawn,” the lavender mare said before several guards dragged the white alicorn off.

“Twilight, can I kill her this time?” the pink pony asked, approaching the alicorn.

“No Pinkie, I will remain the only alicorn in Equestria. Just be happy with your position,” the lavender mare said, annoyed by the question.

“Come on Twilight. You owe me for all this anyway,” the pink mare complained.

“I said no,” Twilight nearly started to yell. “I will have her publicly executed by me tomorrow.”

The pink mare held a frustrated look before whispering, “I will kill that alicorn."

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War Zone watched the alicorn disguised as Red Bow walk through the castle. He was starting to get bored sitting out there until he saw the red mare running for the door.

What the hell is going on in there? The unicorn stallion had the question in his mind. Once the pony that was Celestia was tackled to the grown he then got many ideas for the answer.

“Oh shit,” the Saddle Arabian pony whispered to himself. He sat outside watching every movement in there until guards took Celestia out of his view.

“Damn it Celestia," the stallion whispered. He sat outside for hours, thinking on what to do. “What can I do? For all I know she could be dead by now," the military pony said.

“Hello War Zone,” a voice in the distance spoke.

“Who’s there? Show yourself,” War Zone demanded, getting into a defensive position. A figure soon came into his line of sight.

“I will help you if you do something for me,” the figure said.

War Zone lowered his guard and asked: “What do you want?”

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Celestia was being dragged across the cobblestone halls in the dungeons. Her vision was blurry from a beating Rarity and Pinkamena had given her.

The guards opened a cell at the end of a hall and carelessly threw her inside. She tried to stand up but her injuries prevented her from doing so. She could barely hear a voice from inside the cell.

“Who’s there?” the blinded alicorn called out. She couldn’t hear a response but saw an orange blur run toward her. The solar princess felt the figure carry her somewhere before falling unconscious.

The white alicorn regained consciousness after an unknown amount of time. She was completely blinded in her left eye but was able to see in her right. She looked into the corner of the room and saw Applejack there, sleeping.

“Apple … jack...” the princess nearly whispered. The orange mare's head poked up as she ran over to the ex-princess.

“Princess Celestia. I’m glad you’re ok.”

“I’m glad … to see … you to,” the solar princess replied.

“Your injuries are severe. What happened? How did ya get here?” the orange farmer pony asked.

“Pinkie and … Rarity …” the solar princess could barely talk.

“They tortured ya,” Applejack finished Celestia’s sentence.
Celestia gave her a simple nod.

“Why are … you here?” the solar princess asked.

“Six years ago Fluttershy and I went to try and talk to Twilight about why she would betray you,” the orange mare started.

“She claimed that as going against Equestria, and locked me up. I’ve been here ever since,” Applejack said. “But how are ya alive? Twilight killed ya seven years ago.”

“I don’t know what happened,” the solar princess answered the best she could.

“How do ya not know what happened?” the apple farmer asked.

“I … don’t know. Can you please tell me … everything?” Celestia asked. Applejack thought for a moment, trying to remember that day seven years ago before starting.

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It was dark out; ponies wearing dresses and bowties where entering the Great Castle of Canterlot. Twilight was with Celestia and Luna in the throne room.

Her friends were out in the dining room, all of them chatting with each other. “I’m glad we get to see Twilight again after so long,” the butter yellow Pegasus saidto the pink earth pony.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy, after tonight we’ll be seeing her much more often.” the pink party pony replied with a huge smile on her face.

“…Ok.” Fluttershy said with a confused look on her face.

“Thanks for the new dresses Rarity,” the orange farmer thanked the tailor pony.

“No problem Applejack. Today is a special day after all.” The white unicorn replied.

“It sure is.”

Rainbow Dash stood in the middle of the crowd with an angered expression on her face. “What’s wrong Dashie? You look upset,” the pink earth pony approached her.

“Nothing. It’s just …” the rainbow pony was interrupted.

“Don’t tell me you don’t want to go through with it.”

“NO!” Rainbow Dash shouted. “It’s just, what if we fail?” the cyan Pegasus explained her mood.

"I know you don’t like losing Dashie but we will win this. We have no way of losing,” Pinkie Pie assured her rainbow maned friend.

“Well, if you say so.” the rainbow maned pony said. Rarity then came toward the two.

“Can we hurry this up? The makeup covering my scars is annoying me.”

Pinkie looked up at a clock on the wall. “Well you don’t have to wait much longer. We should probably get into are positions now,” Pinkie Pie announced.

All three members of the trio nodded their heads and walked off into different directions. Rarity stood outside a room where almost every guard in the castle stayed. Pinkie stood outside the throne room where Twilight and Celestia were. Rainbow Dash wandered the halls, looking for the Royal Bed Chambers.

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“I’m happy for you that all your friends were able to come this year Twilight,” the white alicorn said to her student. Twilight just gave a simple nod before turning her attention to a clock on the wall above the large oak wood doors of the throne room.

“Twilight, is something concerning you?” Celestia asked the lavender mare.

She turned her attention back to the princess of the sun and said “Oh yes, everything is fine."

Celestia nodded before turning her head. Twilight then took another glance at the clock; she had so many thoughts running through her head. “I’m I actually going to be able to do this? Celestia is my mentor and …” Twilight then thought of her friends. “What am I saying? I have to do this. Rainbow, Pinkie, and Rarity all said it’s the right thing to do. But still…”

She stopped thinking when she could feel her magic pulling out a blade from underneath her dress. She then silently approached the white alicorn, holding the steel knife high up.

As she stood behind the mare she raised the knife even further before whispering: “I’m sorry Celestia.” Twilight closed her eyes and brought the knife down using as much force as she could. She then heard the sound of something metal hitting the floor.

Celestia turned around at the sound and saw Twilight looking down at the knife. When Twilight looked up and saw the solar princess she immediately busted into tears.

“Twilight? What’s wrong?” The white alicorn walked a little closer before embracing the lavender mare in her wings.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” the lavender mare continued to cry.

“What happened Twilight?” the princess of the sun tried to comfort her.

“I just can do it. I’m so sorry I even thought of doing it,” the lavender princess continued to sob.

“Who told you to do it Twi…” the solar princess stopped. When Twilight looked up she saw Celestia fall to the floor.

“OH NO CELESTIA!” Twilight started to panic. The white alicorn had a knife in her back and when she looked behind her Pinkamena stood in the door.

“Twilight what are you doing? Why have you not killed her?”

Celestia raised her head slowly and said “Pinkie? What?”

“Come on Twilight. Kill her.” Pinkamena tossed her another knife. Twilight just stood there looking at her injured teacher. Pinkie moved closer and stared Twilight directly in her eyes saying: “Come on Twilight. For your friends.”

Twilight then said: “Your right, for friendship.”

“Twilight, don’t do this,” Celestia begged her faithful student. Twilight didn’t respond as she brought the knife down upon the white mare, killing her immediately.

To her surprise, she felt no sorrow. Instead she felt an unusual combination of happiness and anger. She got a small grin on her face after she removed the knife.

“See Twilight, that wasn’t horrible at all,” the pink mare walked closer. The sound of hoof steps caught the mares attention.

“Sister? Are you in hea …? the blue alicorn gasped and backed into the wall behind her.

Luna quickly recovered and started a sprint down the hall. “Damn it Rainbow. You were supposed to keep her distracted,” the lavender mare whispered before running after the other alicorn.

Luna ran down the hall toward the dining room. As soon as she was about to open the doors something knocked her to the ground. On top of her stood the cyan Pegasus, holding a knife in her mouth.

“Stop, Rainbow,” Twilight called from down the hall. “I will be the only one to kill her.”

“Wait, Twilight,” Pinkie called out standing beside her. “What if we let her suffer more,” the pink mare continued. “What if we send her to another thousand years on the moon?”

The lavender mare didn’t respond, instead she illuminated her horn and started up a spell. As soon as she finished, the blue alicorn disappeared. All three mares exchanged smiles as Rarity approached them.

“Well, all the guards are dead. Are Celestia and Luna?” the white mare asked.

“Yes they are,” the rainbow maned pony spoke up. "And now we own Equestria.”

Author's Note

Well thats how bad shit starts. Hope u enjoyed this chapter, да.