The small filly fell onto her front hooves, panting, and thinking.
"Diamond Tiara. Get off."
The filly looked up, and saw Fluttershy pacing around the bed.
"Get off now, I don't want to hurt you, but we are taking Twilight with us." the yellow pegasus announced.
"No!"
"Get off. NOW." the mare said firmly.
"Please, no...." Diamond Tiara was shocked by the shy Pegasus' sudden change of nature. She circled around her, her wings flapping menacingly.
In a flash the Pegasus whipped Tiara off the bed. She fell onto the ground stunned for a moment as she watched her friend be captured by her friends.
But they weren't her friends anymore.
"No! Twilight!" the filly screamed, kicking and biting the mares who were taking her friend. They surrounded her, and she could barely see.
"Get off of me!" a familiar voice shouted. Diamond Tiara leaped when the purple unicorn sent the others flying away from her. She ran to her savior, and stood by her side.
She was kicked to the side by her friend. Startled, she flew across the floor without resistance. "Twilight?" the small filly whispered.
"I told you to watch over me." Twilight said firmly, not bothering to look at Diamond Tiara. "And somehow with such a simple task, you have alerted my friends of my presence." the words bit at Tiara, sending her body in shock and involuntary tears down her face. The whole time, Twilight watching her friends for any movement.
Diamond Tiara felt something break inside her chest. Anger, desperation, despair. It all pushed at her chest, sending the filly over the edge.
"I thought we were friends..." the small filly said, her voice cracking, despite her intentions to remain cool on the surface.
Twilight directed her attention to the filly. "Friends? I barely know you. You bullied my friends sisters relentlessly, and only degraded other more unfortunate ponies. You think just because that you were in a bad situation, I would forget that and just help you? And be yourfriend?" Twilight laughed at the filly.
Diamond Tiara shied away, her body pressed against the wall of the library. The unicorn's eyes were without highlights, and Diamond Tiara had to take her strength not to look away.
Twilight stared at the filly in disgust, her ears not picking up on the hoofsteps until it was too late. Her back leg was enveloped in something cold, and she could feel it's magic take hold. Her body jerked as she could feel the mechanism dig into her leg, reaching her nerves. She fell onto the ground on her side.
Diamond Tiara was snapped out of her focus. Her mind was hazy and she did not even see the pony behind Twilight. Somewhere inside of her she felt guilt, guilty of breaking her friend's concentration. But her sorrow was overridden by shock, and most of all, fear.
The mare screamed in pain. Her body was still, paralyzed by the contraption on her leg. Her mind was trapped, unable to move against the thing. Her mouth, so directly connected to her brain, was the only thing she could voluntarily control. It was terrible, the screams.
Diamond Tiara watched stiffly as the pony screamed motionlessly on the ground. Something dark within the pony, loved to watch her in agony. How dare she say those things to me, she thought to herself. How dare she accuse me, even when I tried my best? I even stayed with her, after she killed my best friend. Diamond's mind was ablaze with dark thoughts of the purple unicorn who saved her life. Torture? It was a small step in the horrible thoughts of once an ignorant, innocent filly.
"Ya'll are lucky we don't lock ya up with Twilight." The orange apple pony said. Once again the filly was ripped from her thoughts. She looked away from the screaming mare.
"Twilight is lucky she doesn't get personally tortured by me."
The mare stepped back in shock, but then immediately remained cool. "How so?"
"You saw how she treated me." the filly started. "She saved me, and I saved her. But even when I found out that she killed my best friend... My only friend, I still stayed by her side. And after all of that... She... She leaves me in the dust. She kicks me to the side... Even when.... I tried my best." the filly felt her voice quiver with sadness, but her tone was firm.
"Come with us. We were all once deserted by Twilight... Despite our best intentions, I mean- we will look after you." the yellow pegasus blurted.
The small filly thought. She only nodded, in fear of her voice giving away her true feelings. The filly was scared. And sad. But for them she wanted to be strong. Friends united by a common enemy.
Twilight was still screaming. Still from the pain of having her flesh dug into by a foreign device. Suddenly, she stopped, tears still streaming from her face. The nerves simply stopped sending pain. For Twilight, this was a turning point. For the rest, it was a small achievement, for the device had completely finished its programming stage. Fluttershy looked away.
The friends all gathered around, Rarity looking at a scroll, pulled out a remote from her parcel. The scroll had instructions for the device on Twilight's leg. Rarity mumbled to herself, trying to decrypt the words on the page.
With the remote, Twilight stood up. The device now acting as the brain of her body, Twilight was useless to move against it. Her front hoof slowly moving in front, sending Twilight's chin to the floor. The pony whimpered. With a thought, Twilight tried to cast a spell, any spell. The effect never came, and as a punishment, the device sent waves of sharp pain everywhere on Twilight's body. It died out quickly, but the mare cried willingly. Soon there was a shallow puddle around Twilight as Rarity messed with the remote, trying to get the pony to move in a straight line.
The group stood in a semi circle, watching the pony flail against her own control.
She scanned through the pages. Her horn eventually flipped to the last page of the manuel, where at the very bottom, it was signed. ~With love, Princess Celestia~