//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: My Little Pony; Kaiju rumble // by Snow ghost pony //------------------------------// Cadence and the others looked around the room horrified at the destruction. Wires dangled down from the ceiling, melted metal and shattered glass littered the floor, and several doctors and nurses were thrown up against the wall, all unconscious. The rest of the room was open to the elements, as it looked like the entire wall had been melted and blown apart. "What the buck happened here?" Was Rainbow Dashes oh so eloquent response, voiceing what all of them were thinking. Celestia rushed over to the doctors, quickly casting a scanning spell on them. She sighed in relief as he scan reviled that they were only unconscious, then casted another spell to wake them up. The first one to wake up stirred slowly, her eyes almost not opening. Celestia leaned down to poke her, then the nurses eyes shot open with a scream. "Monster!!" Celestia jumped at the declaration, almost believing that they were talking about her, but immediately dismissed the thought, as the obviously traumatized ponies quickly grabbed onto her while shivering as if they had just encountered Tartarus himself. The subtle prods and inquiries of the princess had no effect on them, as they just kept shaking in their horseshoes. Cadence, ever the comforter, quickly cast a couple of calming spells on the poor doctors. They calmed down enough to answer the questions that princess Celestia was asking them. After the Q&A session, they quickly met back with the others. "Princess," Rarity asked, "what do you think about this?" Princess Celestia was busy digesting the information that they had just gained. Her faithful student had become some sort of monster pony, and was apparently capable of doing even greater damage than before. "We must find Twilight, before she hurts anypony else." Celestia declared. "Auntie, I know you mean well, but wouldn't the best course of action right now be to let Twilight cool down and talk to her when she's calmer?" Cadence asked. Celestia ignored Cadence and began giving instructions to the others to find Twilight by looking in the places she would most likely be. Seeing that she was being ignored, Cadence slipped out, and headed to the nightlife district as she had a gut feeling that Twilight wouldn't want to be found, so she would avoid the normal spots. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Twilight was having the time of her life! For once, she could let loose! Not worry about opinions! And simply relax with nothing looming over her head. No test, no disasters, and most of all, no-one telling her what she had to do. "Another, please!" she called to the bartender. "Coming right up!" was followed by a fresh cider. Twilight grabbed the cider and chugged it down, relishing in the sweet appley flavor. She was tapping her hoof to the beat that the DJ was spinning, about to get down and head to the dance floor when she heard a soft, almost disbelieving "Twilight?" Twilight stiffened, and slowly turned around. No one should know about her yet, the doctors shouldn't have woken up for hours. She nearly dropped her half-full mug of cider when she saw just who had discovered her. "Cadence?" Her old foalsitter was staring at her with a mix of curiosity, worry, and a little bit of fear. Twilight carefully slid off the chair and walked over to Cadence, keeping an ear out for the others incase this was a trap. When she got over to Cadence, Twilight threw her forelegs around her old foalsitter, elated to see her after the bad day she had been having. "Cadence! How are ya doing? And how did ya find me?" Twilight shot off questions as questions as fast as a bullet, not giving Cadence a chance to respond to the rapid-fire questions coming from the younger pony's mouth. "Twilight, at least let me answer one of the questions." Cadence laughed, interrupting Twilights rapid-fire questioning. She was glad that Twilight hadn't attacked her on sight, but why hadn't she gone to her friends? "Cadence." Said alicorn looked u to see Twilight giving her an odd mixture of deadpan and angry expressions. "You really need to fix that mumbling what your thinking problem. It's gonna get you in trouble one day. As for attacking you, your not one of the ones I'm angry at." Twilight turned back to her cider, her good mood ruined by the mumbled question. So that's what Cadence was here for, she was here to find her and either take her back or stall until the others got here. She didn't blame Cadence, after all she most likely only knew their version of events, but this was making her very angry. "Cadence, it was nice talking to you again, but I gotta go." Twilight said, getting up and heading to the door. ignoring her old foalsitters pleas for her to wait. She was contemplating the best way out of Canterlot undetected when she was blindsided by two different blurs, one blue and one orange, and was sent to her knees. She shook the spots out of her vision and glared at the offenders, but when she got a good look, her rage shot through the roof. Sitting right in front of her, were two of the ponies that betrayed her, and that she had secretly nursed a soft spot for, Applejack and Rainbow dash.