Twilight scornfully fumed, "King Sombra! What are you doing here!?"
Sombra smiled mockingly at her obliviousness. Feeling angered, her horn began to glow, and it only rapidly intensified. Celestia finally caught up with Twilight. She placed her foreleg in front of her. Twilight's horn dimmed down and she stared up at her mentor confusingly. Celestia went by Sombra's side and smiled blushingly. She cleared her throat and began, "Twilight Sparkle, King Sombra is the special somepony I told you about."
Twilight sat down and gave the two a blank stare. She didn't understand. I don't get it. What is Sombra doing here? Twilight thought puzzlingly. It didn't seem to make sense to her. They got rid of Sombra months ago, so why is he still here? Why is here in Canterlot, inside the Princess's castle? She finally spoke out, "Okay. So, what is he doing here?"
"Not really the brightest pony, is she?" Sombra asked. Celestia just gave him a concerned look. She placed her hoof on Twilight's shoulder and slowly explained, "Sombra is here because I found him in the Arctic North, alone and defenseless, due to him losing a bit of his magic. I brought Sombra back to Canterlot to aid him, to regain a little bit of his power. If, he was going to stay away from the Crystal Empire then I will help him. But, that was the main intention. I guess, after a few weeks we started feeling a bond for each other. The next thing you know, after a month we fell in love. And like I said before, he became my special somepony."
She just nodded her understandingly. She replied, "Okay, I understand. But, I still don't understand one thing."
"What's that?" The Princess asked. She answered, "What is he doing-"
A ding went off in Twilight's head. She couldn't believe what she heard. Sombra and Celestia are in love! It just didn't add up. What could she see in him? Celestia asked, "Twilight, are you-"
Before she could finish her question, Twilight broke off in a full gallop. She wanted to leave the castle, she didn't know why but she just needed to leave and get back home. Celestia was about to go after her, but Sombra put his hoof in front of her. "I'll handle it." He said reassuringly. His body turned into smoke and it followed Twilight's path. Celestia sighed, "I should've told her about this earlier. I just hope Twilight doesn't do anything too risky."
Twilight kept running down the hallway. She couldn't wait to get back home and sort this all out. There's no way that Celestia could actually be in love with that villain. As she was running she accidentally ran into Luna. Luna saw her distraught expression. She reassured, "Twilight, please do not fear. My sister will be fine with Sombra, I promise."
Without thinking, Twilight shook her head and retorted, "How could you possibly promise that!?"
She got up and started galloping again. Luna was about to go get her, but she saw something black whiz past her. There was no doubt that it was Sombra, she didn't even try to stop him. She guessed the way to let Twilight deal with her problem is by facing the problem itself. Twilight bolted out the door and started making her way to the train station. She constantly had to keep apologizing to ponies; she kept either bumping into them or she blocked their path. A smile beamed across her face when she saw the train docked. The smile didn't last very long, as she saw some smoke get in front of her, especially when she saw that smoke turn into Sombra. Twilight skidded to a halt, her breath sawed in and out of her lungs. She wheezed, "Move…Sombra!"
"Not until you answer my question first." He demanded. She eyed the train for a second but then looked back at Sombra. For a response she sat down and listened. He asked, "Once you get back to your home in Ponyville, what were you planning on doing?"
"Well, I was going to go sort out how you hypnotized Celestia and then…wait! How do you know where I live?" She exclaimed, "You lived in the Crystal Empire during your reign and when you got destroyed. There's no way you could've learned where I live!"
Sombra answered, "During the past few months I've been here, Celly has been telling me about you and your friends."
Twilight gagged when he said "Celly". "Plus, what makes you think I hypnotized the Princess?" He asked suspiciously. She rolled her eyes at him, as if the answer wasn't obvious. She explained, "Well for one thing, you're evil! And I doubt many evil ponies would have that type of feeling for another pony. Also, she is a princess after all. You could've hypnotized her into thinking that you like her, thus making you closer to ruling Canterlot. And oh yeah, YOU ARE EVIL! Do I even have to mention you enslaved your own kind!?"
There was a loud whistle and a sound of an engine. Twilight looked at the train and saw it moving on to the next area. She galloped towards the moving train and shouted, "No wait! Come back!"
She groaned as she saw it going along its course. She looked over her shoulder and glared at Sombra. He gave her a confusing look. She walked over to him, got in his face, and shouted, "You made me late!"
He gave her an apathetic stare. "Can't you just teleport yourself there?" He questioned. She responded, "I could but, it takes up so much magic. So, unless you have a bright-"
She looked up and saw the black aura around Sombra's horn. The aura strengthened and shot out towards Twilight. She gasped, "No, your magic it's t-"
Before she could finish, the beam hit her and it caused her extreme pain. In a bright flash, she disappeared. Sombra looked at the scorched Twilight-less spot. He smiled in satisfaction and started trotting back to the castle. He told himself, "She'll thank me later."
Rainbow Dash and Applejack stood (well for Rainbow Dash she hovered) angrily in Twilight's house. Spike kept telling them that she was at a convention but they didn't buy it. She wouldn't just leave them without saying a word. Spike repeated, "I told you already, she's at a convention in Manehattan."
Rainbow flew in his face and shouted, "Oh yeah! If she's at a convention, what is it about?"
Applejack pulled on Rainbow's tail, so she wouldn't be scaring Spike too much. Applejack reassured, "Just tell us where she's at, sugarcube. We won't get mad." She looked at Rainbow's angered expression, "Well, at least Ah won't."
He thought for a bit and answered, "She's at a convention about…uh…Manega."
The two athletes exchanged confused looks. They didn't know Twilight liked Manega. A dark flash came from the upstairs; the three looked at the flash as it started dimming. Curiosity overcame them and they started walking up the steps. The flash came from Twilight's bedroom. Spike slowly put his claw on the doorknob, cautiously turned it, and opened the door. They gasped when they saw a burnt and smoking Twilight swaying. Rainbow asked, "Twilight, what happened to you?"
"I'm…okay." She slurred. With that, Twilight fell to the ground in pain. Rainbow and Applejack looked at Spike. He just smiled nervously at them. AJ huffed, "Ya'll got a lot of explainin' ta do."