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// A Plan Revealed 
// Story: A Shimmering Dazzle 
// by isuckdotcom 
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Twilight woke up. She was sitting in a small wooden chair, her arms tied. Behind her was Sunset Shimmer, who was still snoring away. She looked around. The room was dark and looked like an unfinished basement. There was furniture on one side of the room, and you could see parts of the wall's insides.

"Hello, Twilight Sparkle." Adagio spoke.

"What are you doing with us? I thought we defeated you with our counter spell!" Twilight replied.

"Indeed, that is true. But just because you take our most important mean of protection doesn't mean are wasted away completely."

Twilight noticed something about her. She was a LOT skinnier. She looked starving and tired. She wondered to herself, "If they feed on negative energy, does that mean they eat it? Will they starve to death? Maybe defeating them wasn't a good idea after all..." She thought.

"Are you...anorexic?" Twilight asked.

Adagio paused for a bit. "No, the negative energy we feed off of was our source of natural food. Normal food doesn't fill our kind as well. I haven't eaten anything since you destroyed our gems."

Twilight felt sorry. "Well, why are we here? Can you tell us?"

Adagio laughed manically. "Ha ha, It's my plan. I knew you would eventually crack our gems. I've found a way to re-create our necklaces. We take the shards from the broken gem, replicate them, and use magic to put them together."

"Where are you gonna find magic?"

"Right here." Adagio pointed to Twilight and Sunset. 

Sunset woke up suddenly. "Huh?! What'd I miss? Why am I staring at a wall?"

"Sunset. Look this way." Twilight said.

Sunset turned around. "THE DAZZLINGS?!" She screamed in horror. She fell back asleep; she still had a dart in her arm. Adagio held out her hands, revealing handfuls of gem shards. She closed her eyes, concentrating. Twilight was filled with an awful feeling. It felt like when you go down a drop on a roller coaster, but stronger and much worse. Glittering auras of magic seeped out of her and onto the gems. The gems began to glow and lift up. More magic came out of Twilight, as tears filled her eyes. It hurt more and more with each second. Finally, after what seemed like hours-but was mere seconds-the gems formed and plopped into Adagio's cupped hands. She laughed like crazy.
"You're a maniac!" Twilight whispered with all her strength. Adagio simply smiled all evil-like. She attached the gems to necklace cords and gave one each to her fellow sirens. The Dazzlings were surrounded in their dark magic, energy filled the room. They transformed almost instantly. Extended pony-tails grew from the bottom of their hair, ears appeared above their heads, and colored evil-looking fairy wings sprouted from their backs. Adagio's eyes glowed pure red.
"You two will provide us with plenty of magic for our well being. That energy we extracted from you is only the beginning. The more power we gain, the stronger our voices become, and the more we can feed off of negative energy. And when we gain the maximum amount of power, we will divide and conquer Equestria and this world! All the civilians will become slaves and we will always get what we want."

Twilight panicked. She had nowhere else to go, nothing left to do, and no one by her side-besides an unconscious Sunset Shimmer, that didn't count-to support her in succeeding. The only thing she could do is wait. Wait for help.

And she doubted it would ever come.