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// Chapter 2:  An unexpected guest 
// Story: The Elements of Nature 
// by Dashie23 
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Bolting Thunder was holding up a lantern, searching through the scrolls until he found a scroll marked Flash’s  family tree. He unrolled the scroll, and began to read. Flash’s parents appeared to be of a pure pegasi lineage. Even far back as Bolt could go, it was purely Pegasi. 

“Nothing from Flash, I’ll check mom’s.” said Bolting Thunder to himself. 

As he prepared to unfurl the Spitfire scroll, a loud bang was heard outside. 

“Twilight, somepony’s breached our perimeter! Let’s get going.”Flash yelled in the doorway. Bolting Thunder and Twilight started to run, but a blast of energy destroyed a part of the tower, revealing two ponies, both a light cyan, but one was a unicorn, and the other had wings, but their faces were concealed. The unicorn grinned at Twilight as she removed her hood.

“Well, hello Twilight Sparkle, princess of friendship.”said the unicorn.

“Trixie, what are you doing? I thought you ended our grudge when we got rid of the alicorn amulet.”said Twilight.

“I did. But then, I was shown the light, the light of Destruction.”

“Who’s the other pony? Show your face!”

The winged pony removed their cloak. Underneath lay Fleetfoot, wearing a strange mechanical device on her head.

“What have you done to Fleetfoot? She’s a wonderbolt, why would you do this?” said Twilight.

“It’s simple Twilight. I am going to create an army. I have implanted a device, allowing her to harness her Pegasi magic as unicorn magic. The Great and Powerful Trixie has made the first of her army, the faux Alicorns! And she shall soon perfect the device allowing  Unicorns to harness their magic for flying. In addition, the device has a specialized chip preventing the subjects from ever disobeying me. But Fleetfoot wanted the device implanted in her. I just made some adjustments before doing so.”said Trixie, laughing manically.

“You won’t get away with this, you bitch.”hissed Twilight as she prepared a spell. But Fleetfoot blasted her with a very strong stream of energy and held her in place as Twilight felt her magic fade away.

“And now, by collecting all of your magic, I can defeat you!”Trixie declared. Blood Burn and the other ponies rushed in. Bolting Thunder was cowering in the corner. 

“Little fillies and colts shouldn’t mess in adult affairs!” said Trixie, turning her own magic on the group. Blood Burn and Silver Night felt weakened by the draining effects. As Fleetfoot and Trixie started to drain them, a loud noise came through the hole in the roof. Flash Sentry and Rainbow Dash slammed into Trixie, causing her magic to malfunction. Trixie turned to cast a spell, but Twilight threw her across the room, slashing Trixie’s face on broken floor tiles. Fleetfoot turned to Flash, and slammed him to the ground, crushing his legs with a sickening snap. 

Rainbow Dash charged at Fleetfoot, but stopped in front of her. She had idolized Fleetfoot since she was a filly in Cloudsdale. She couldn’t even bring herself to lift a hoof to retaliate. 

Fleetfoot had no qualms however, and harshly slammed Rainbow Dash into Blood Burn. Rainbow looked at her right wing. Shattered, with a few primary feathers missing. She coughed, and blood flew from her mouth. Trixie, grabbing her damaged face with her hoof, shot a beam of magic at Fleetfoot, teleporting them. Everyone checked themselves over. Other than Rainbow’s broken wing, and Flash’s shattered legs, everyone was ok. 

“What happened to Trixie?”wondered Twilight. 
The young group was walked to the magic room with Twilight, while Rainbow and Flash went to the infirmary. 

“Alright, my little ponies. I’m afraid I must send you on a quest to stop Trixie. She must be stopped before her faux Alicorns destroy ponykind.”said Twilight gravely.

“But why don’t you do it? You are one of the former Elements of Harmony.” Silver Night pointed out.

“Because I have to attend to problems here at the castle. I can’t leave Flash and Scout alone. And besides, you may discover what you are searching for out there.”

So the epic packing montage was skipped, due to budget cuts, and the 6 young ponies began a wonderful journey. A journey into the unknown to defeat a faux Alicorn, and the Great and Powerful Trixie.