Twilight opened her eyes looking around. What happened? Just a second ago Sean was in front of them threatening them, then there was a flash and now they were in a sort of clearing. She looked around to see the others scattered around the clearing. They must have teleported.
“I can’t believe we escaped.” Twilight turned to see Patch Celestia smiling. “Luckily we made it out safely.”
“Made it out safely!” Twilight glared at her. “Look around!” Twilight pointed at Rainbow Dash, who was lying on the ground with foggy eyes. “Rainbow may have a concussion,” She pointed at Fluttershy. “Her nose is broken, Cadence lost her wings.” Twilight looked around to make sure she hadn’t missed anyone. Then she noticed normal Celestia sitting looking a little out of it. “And something is wrong with our princess. We didn’t make it out safely, almost half of us were harmed in some way.”
“Well I know where to get some help.” Patch Celestia said nervously.
“No! Send us home, I don’t care anymore about helping you. My friends are more important to me.” Twilight looked at her coldly.
“I can’t.”
“What do you mean you can’t?”
“I mean the portals are one way, I have no idea how to make one that leads to your world.”
“What!” Luna spoke up walking towards her. “You mean you brought us here with no way to send us home? When were you going to tell us?”
“After we beat Sean.” Patch Celestia said nervously eyeing the two ponies in front of her.
“What is wrong with you?” Luna glared slowly walking towards Patch Celestia.
“Hey, back off.” Cadence walked up standing between them.
“Get out of the way. I have a few things to say to her.” Luna glared at Cadence.
“Let’s all just calm down.” Normal Celestia said.
“Calm down? Did you hear what they said?” Twilight looked surprised.
“Yes I did.”
“Then how can you ask us to be calm?” Luna asked
“Because, our efforts would be better spent looking for a way home and helping our injured rather than fighting.”
“Fine.” Luna backed away.
“As I said I know where we can go to get medical help.” Patch Celestia said.
“Where?” Twilight asked.
“The zebras. We could easily get to their island.”
“Alright, let’s go.” Normal Celestia said levitating Rainbow Dash onto her back. “Somepony get Fluttershy and we’ll go.”
“There’s the island.” Patch Celestia pointed at the small island just ahead of them. They had had to get a chariot to carry all the ponies who couldn’t fly with the Celestias dragging it. They flew to the island and landed in the middle of the capital village. Some zebras had seen them coming and gathered around as they landed. As they ponies got out of the chariot one zebra walked through the crowd to meet them.
“Greetings ponies. What brings you to our island?”
“We need help for some injured ponies. We were hoping you could use some potions or herbs to heal them quicker.” Patch Celestia answered.
“Very well. Follow me.” The zebra turned and headed for a large building with some cauldrons in front of it. As the ponies followed normal Celestia looked around with a distant look in her eyes.
“What’s wrong sister?” Luna asked looking concerned.
“I just remember the first time I brought Sean here.”
“So let me get this straight, this island is full of black and white ponies, who are about as technologically advanced as ants, and they practice witchcraft.” Sean looked at Celestia like she was crazy. They were flying in a chariot towards the island the zebras lived on so she could introduce them to him.
“Well that’s a simple and somewhat offensive way of describing them.” Celestia told him.
“Whatever, why do I have to meet them?”
“I just felt that showing you that not all the races outside of Equestria are bad would be good.”
“Whatever.” When the chariot landed Sean and Celestia got out. The leader of the zebras came to greet them.
“Hello Princess Celestia.” He looked at Sean. “Who is your friend? I’ve never seen such a strange creature.”
“This is Sean.”
“I’m the strange looking one?” Sean said looking at the zebra. “You’re the one who looks like a prison suit.”
“Sean! You’ll have to excuse him. He’s young.” She looked at the zebra apologetically.
“I understand. The young often lack respect.”
“You wanna go stripy!” Sean glared at him walking towards the zebra. Celestia glared at him. Sean stopped. “Nevermind.”
“Ok, these potions should help your friends.” The zebra gave Patch Celestia several different colored potions in bottles each one had the name of one of the injured ponies on it. “Just have them drink a small amount every few hours for a day or two and they should be ok.”
“Thank you.” Patch Celestia thanked them.
“It is no trouble, while he has done nothing to us we would like to see the downfall of the human.”
Twilight climbed into the bunk. The zebras were letting them spend the night on their island, they had offered them a small hut with several bunks for them. Twilight lifted the blanket over her and fell asleep.
Twilight looked around. She was in some kind of white room. The walls seemed to be padded and there was a small window up high offering minimal light. On the walls there were some spots of blood, there were also many discarded bloody bandages. She looked at her body to see a strait jacket wrapped around her and two yellow hooves. Then there was a creak as the door to the cell opened. A unicorn in a white lab coat walked in smiling.
“Hello Sean.” He walked into the cell. Twilight involuntarily backed away from the unicorn. She heard a sort of whimper come from her. She tried to move but couldn’t. “What’s wrong? It’s just time for another session.”
“Just go away and leave me alone.” Twilight heard Sean’s voice say weakly.
“We can’t do that, you’re a rare specimen. We need to study you.” Twilight was then lifted and strapped to a table. The table was then wheeled through a clean white hallway. There were several other metal doors some screaming from a few could be heard. After a few minutes of wheeling they came to two large doors. When the table was pushed in she saw several unicorns waiting.
“Hello Sean.” A larger unicorn spoke, he was gray with a black mane. He in some ways looked like the stereo type creepy doctor. The table Twilight was on was moved to the middle of the room before being secured to the floor. “Shall we begin?”
“Let me go.” Sean thrashed against the bonds.
“No can do. You’re a strange creature, you are cause for study. Sadly we can’t dissect you because we want to avoid trouble with the princess.” The unicorn then levitated a needle to him. “This is the sample we took from you a few days ago, we did some tests and were able to isolate the dragon aspect.”
“What are you going to do with it?”
“We’re going to see what happens when we put more dragon into you. Perhaps your changeling DNA will react and make a dragon pony, who knows.” He used his magic and exposed part of Sean’s foreleg. He took the needle and began to lower it towards Sean’s leg.
“No! Get that away from me!” Sean began to thrash again. Then Twilight felt a prick of pain as the needle was stabbed into him. First nothing happened then Sean and Twilight screamed in pain as a horrible burning pulsed through his body. After a minute of the pain everything went black.
“Twilight! Twilight wake up!” Twilight’s eyes shot up and she sat up looking around frantically. She saw that everyone was crowded around her looking concerned.
“Hi guys.” Twilight said.
“Twilight what was going on?” Celestia asked.
“Just a nightmare.”
“It sounded terrible, you were screaming about a needle and how it burned.” Rainbow said concerned.
“It was, but I’m ok.”
“Do you want to talk about it?” Cadence asked.
“No, I’d like to just forget about it.”
“So what do we do now?” Twilight asked as they sat outside eating. The Zebra’s had said they could stay for a few more days till they had all recovered.
“What we need to do is get to ponies we’ve recruited so far.” Patch Celestia said. “We have a decent army and once we all regroup it will be time to attack.”
“Did the last few days escape you?” Normal Celestia asked. “I’m not sure we can win.”
“I’m sure we can beat him. He caught us off guard that’s all. The elements are with the ponies we have, they were able to get it before Sean did.”
“Are you sure the elements will work?” Luna looked skeptical. “We hit him point blank and all that happened was he shrank and was unconscious for a few seconds.”
“That’s true, but he was in his dragon body I’m guessing it absorbed most of the power, if we get him in his human form it will work.”
Normal Celestia and Luna were walking around the village together. Luna had decided to confront her sister about why she was acting so weird. Once they were a good distance from the group Luna spoke up.
“Sister.”
“Yes Luna.” Celestia turned to look at her. Luna could see the sadness in her eyes.
“What’s been going on with you? Ever since we were captured you’ve been acting strange.” She noticed Celestia wasn’t looking at her, she turned to see what appeared to be a school. “Celestia!”
“What?” She looked at Luna confused. “Sorry, I was just thinking about when I taught Sean.”
“Sean!” Celestia glared at him impatiently. He was leaning back in his chair partly asleep.
“What?” He looked at her.
“Pay attention.”
“Fine.”
“Now tell me, what is twelve times six.”
“I don’t know.”
“I just told you.”
“You did?”
“Weren’t you paying attention?”
“Obviously not.”
“Do you want to learn or not?”
“Not particularly.”
“Well, I guess I’ll offer that special job to another pony.” She walked towards the door to leave the room.
“Wait!”
Celestia turned to look at him. “What?”
“Fine I’ll pay attention.”
“Excellent.”
Twilight walked towards her bed. She dreaded the thought of sleep, what if she had another nightmare? Hopefully she won’t the princess had used a spell that was supposed to protect her from a bad dream. She crawled into bed and fell asleep.
Twilight opened her eyes to see she was in that padded cell again. She then realized she was rocking back and forth.
“I can’t stand this.” She heard Sean’s voice mumble. “What’s the point? I have no race, no home, and now I’m just a test subject. Maybe I can get this jacket to choke me somehow.”
What kind of whiny talk is that?
“Who said that?” Sean looked around frantically. “Leave me alone.”
We can escape. Take vengeance.
“We?”
Yes we, how dumb are you? I am in your head.
“So now I’m going crazy.”
Shut up and listen. All you need to do is follow my orders and we’ll be out of here and have our vengeance. Bring justice to the ponies.
“Can’t we just escape? I don’t want any trouble.”
You are so pathetic! You don’t want trouble? Look what they’ve done to you! The bleeding bandages in the corner alone should fill you with rage!
“I just want to get out of here.”
We will, and we’ll take down some of those ponies while we’re at it.
“You mean kill them?”
Yes I mean kill them. Now listen to me.
Twilight watched the door through Sean’s eyes. The voice had talked him into doing its will. Sean was shaking.
Stop shaking!
“I can’t help it.”
Fine. Then the click of the cell lock unlocking was heard. Alright, show time.
The door opened and the unicorn doctor walked in. “Alright human, time for your next session.”
Now!
Sean clumsily leapt at the pony. He then bit the pony on his horn.
What are you waiting for? Drain the magic!
“I’m trying.” He closed his eyes and concentrated. Then he felt the magic begin to enter him. The unicorn screamed in pain.
Perfect, drain it all!
“Won’t that kill him?”
No.
Sean continued to drain magic until the unicorn was completely drained. He looked at the unicorn and gasped in horror. The pony looked like nothing but skin and bones.
“He’s dead!”
Of course.
“You lied to me!”
So what? Now I can do what I’ve wanted to for months.
“What are you talking about?”
You are a disgrace to the human race. It’s time you were relieved from control.
“What?” Then he began to pull at the jacket until the part restricting his front legs tore and they were free. “I didn’t do that.”
No you did not. I did. Goodbye weakling.
“What do you mean?” Then Sean began to shudder and fell to the ground screaming.
What I mean is I have no need for you. Now stand aside and let the worthy Sean take over.
“It burns!” Then after a moment Sean stopped shaking. He stood up and looked himself over. “Finally free of that sad excuse for a me.” His voice had changed slightly, it lacked the fear, and it was much more confident and seemed much colder.
“Freeze!” Sean looked up to see three unicorns in armor in front of him.
“Perfect, time for your god to return.” Sean then leapt at one of the guards and bit his throat quickly draining all the magic. He then turned and bit the next on his horn and drained the magic before tearing the horn off and throwing it at the last guard who was running in fear. It stabbed through his leg and he fell over screaming. Sean slowly walked to the downed unicorn as he got closer he slowly began to transform until he was in his human form again. “Silly pony, why would I let you go?” He lifted the unicorn by the throat and drained his magic.