MLP: Playing with Fire - Sneak Peek · 10:34pm Oct 14th, 2017
As he slowly entered the throne room, Casey had a bad feeling that something definitely wasn’t right. “Twilight? Spike? You two-”
My little pony, my little pony!
Suddenly, some light was shown in the darkened room, and the young pony turned his attention over to the Cutie Map table, which had a square-shaped object on top of it.
“Is that a… television?” whispered Casey, recognizing the device that Stardust had in his bedroom.
For some reason, the screen was showing only static, and playing a low-tempo version of a song that was familiar to Casey’s ears.
My little pony, my little pony!
As he walked closer to the table, the television’s static grew louder, and once Casey was in front of it, the sound went away while the grey screen morphed into a facial outline of a familiar foe.
“Having a good night’s sleep so far?”
A frown appeared on Casey’s face, and he replied, “I would if somepony that I’ve never met before wasn’t already sleeping in there.”
“Really? I wonder why that is…”
“Why don’t you tell me, Star?” said the orange Earth Pony. “And how come you’re not-”
“Trying to wreck havoc on the world that my counterpart lives in?” finished Evil Stardust, who also started to frown. “I see no point considering the fact that there’s a [BEEP]-in line of villains just waiting to kill him… not to mention that he always finds a way to just keep on coming back.”
Eh, he does have a point there, thought Casey, but there were more important things to focus on.
“Where’s Spike and Twilight?”
Instead of answering the question, Evil Stardust smirked at Casey, and replied, “You know, I’m legit surprised that my other self’s not here with you, asking me the same thing… I guess the friendship that you two have with each other isn’t as important as you previously thought.”
“Of course, it is,” exclaimed Casey. “He just… can’t come because of… well, Kronos’ ban… and I know he has other things to deal with in his own world, but he’s always made time to be with me.”
Evil Stardust looked around the darkened throne room, and he replied, “Except for when you need him the most… like when Beck pretty much assaulted your little girlfriend?”
“Stardust didn’t even know that was happening, so I can’t just-”
The dark-golden pony rolled his eyes after hearing that, and he said, “I highly doubt that his so-called special balance powers were unable to detect that another version of Twilight was in trouble… also, why is he not here again?”
“Because Kronos-”
Evil Stardust let out a sigh, and shook his head, in disappointment. “Wow, then, he’s been tamed by his friends more than I thought… or the alicorn’s finally got him on a leash.”
Frustration started to bubble inside of Casey as he said, “You don’t know anything about him.”
“Are you serious?” Evil Stardust raised an eyebrow. “I'm his counterpart, you moron... and I've seen all of the things that he’s done in the past, Casey… the risks he took while going up against Chrysalis, Sombra, Tirek, Zagreus…”
Suddenly, the sinister pony started to chuckle, and continued to do so as he said, “I think I’ve figured out why he really hasn’t come here, Casey, aside from what Old Timer Pony said… and that is he’s either too much of a [BEEP], or your friendship with him isn’t worth getting into some kind of life-or-death trouble over… guess his world’s versions of your friends here are more important, huh?”
Casey was remaining silent, much to Evil Stardust’s pleasure, and he added, “Face it, man, you two aren’t as close as you thought… even though he’s basically sleeping with the Princess of Friendship-”
“Shut the hell up,” growled a frustrated Casey, and he stomped his front-right hoof onto the ground. “Where are Twilight and Spike?”
Evil Stardust let out a laugh, and replied, “I’m not sure if you’d like to know what the answer is to that question, little pony.”
“If you’ve hurt them, Star, I swear to Celestia that I will-”
Stardust’s other self continued to laugh, as well as shaking his head several times. “What can you do, Casey? You don’t have any more of the fusion magic… hell, you don’t have any kind of magic! You’re just a regular Earth Pony that could pass for one of Applejack’s relatives… and did you forget that I nearly beat you to death myself?”
“I’m going to ask you one more time,” yelled Casey, unaware of the fact that the static noise was coming back. “Where are they?”
A grin appeared on Evil Stardust’s face, and he said, “Look up.”
BOOM!
All of a sudden, the t.v. exploded from out of nowhere, along with the darkness going away, but as Casey did what Evil Stardust said, the young Earth Pony’s face immediately became pale.
“No… no… no!”
As his heart began to beat faster, the doors to the throne room were pushed open, and Casey felt a pair of forelimbs around his body, followed by somepony trying to lead him away.
“No! Let go of me, Starlight!”
The purple unicorn shook her head, and cried, “Casey, come on, we have to-
“No! I can’t leave her like this! I need to sa-”
“It’s too late for that!”
He shook his head, and yelled, “NO! She can’t be… I have to…”
Suddenly, Casey quickly began to feel light-headed, and he found himself collapsing into Starlight’s open hooves, with everything around him turning back to darkness again.
No… Twilight...
What.. wait, what happened to Twilight and Spike?! WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!?!