Scootaloo let out a banshee like scream as Sombra collapsed to the ground, Celestia and Luna froze as they felt the darkness flare out of the mare in front of them. Shining Star galloped over to Aqua with tears in her eyes “Aqua.”
Pinkie pulled a stretcher out of her mane, she turned to with a fierce look of determination at Applejack. Applejack nodded back before smiling at the filly next to Aqua “We’ll take your friend to the hospital.” Shining Star followed the two Earth ponies sobbing.
Scootaloo was shaking her sorrow slowly turning to fury, she stood up casting a death a fearsome glare upon the two Alicorns. Celestia took a deep breath “Scootaloo, this was an accident and we will discuss this in Canterlot. I would like to discuss this with Rarity.”
Scootaloo glared at Luna for a few moments before taking a deep breath, Scootaloo was ancient and was not about to let her own fury cloud her judgement. She huffed “Fine, but we go now.”
Everypony gasped as Scootaloo and the Alicorns disappeared in the dark mist, Rarity blinked as the three appeared in the throne room as a few noble shotued “You stupid parasites should leave Equestria!”
Scootaloo frowned “Rarity, I’m a little curious why I don’t see any undisguised Changelings around.”
Rarity frowned “First off how do you know that and who are you?”
Celestia frowned “This is Scootaloo, and she is actually far older than everything around now except Discord.”
Rarity shouted “What, but how?!”
Scootaloo frowned “Rarity calm down, you can freak out about this later. First off I was the one who hid Sombra, as the creator of his species I have a responsibility to care for him.”
Celestia commanded with power behind her voice “Leave us, this is a very important matter that effects Equestria’s security!” The nobles complied, grumbling as they left.
Rarity took a deep breath trying to keep calm “So let me get this straight, Sombra was taken in by Scootaloo under our muzzles and she is the one who created his species, is older than Equestria and I just have to accept that. I need to lie down, and by Harmony I hope nothing else surprising happens today.”
Fate was not happy with what she just said, two guard pushed open the door in a hurry but before they could speak a small white spider jumped onto Rarity’s face “Sis!”
Rarity eyes rolled back into her head and collapsed, Scootaloo raised an eyebrow “Sweetie Belle, don’t remember how many times your sister had fainted when we came in covered in tree sap? Did you not consider that here?”
Sweetie Belle frowned as she turned to Scootaloo “Scootaloo that’s not…” she shotued as she saw her friend was the height of Celestia and was sporting much darker version of her normal colours “Scootaloo, what happened to you?!”
Scootaloo frowned “This is my secret, I’m a dark goddess that has been living for over three million years. I wiped out the Tyrant Alicorns who had killed my family, who had enslaved pony-kind. Almost all dark creatures in this world are linked to me in some fashion.”
Sweetie Belle blinked “Well that explains why I didn’t weird you out too much. You didn’t really care about my spiderness, even Apple Bloom was slightly freaked out.”
Celestia sighed “I was hoping that we would find Sombra and be done with this madness. It seems it’s not going to be the case.”
Scootaloo growled turning to Luna “Sombra is my responsibility as are rest of his kind, the Umbrum!”
Luna frowned “I did not intend to kill him, your were my target. I just wanted him locked away.”
Scootaloo glared at her “As if that’s any better, I do have the interests of pretty every dark creature on this planet on my mind.”
Sweetie Belle looked at the three of them with a scowl as she increased to a larger size, easily matching Celestia’s height “Enough! I just got back and I find one of my friends is causing an argument with the Princesses. We need to keep calm and assess this scenario carefully.”
Scootaloo frowned “What needs to be assessed it’s pretty self explanatory. I assume were here to discuss the political ramifications of this.”
Celestia frowned “We’ll deal with that later, Rarity will have a say as well on this matter.”
Luna raised an eyebrow at Sweetie Belle “Speaking of which, I’m curious as to where you’ve been?”
Sweetie Belle rubbed the back of her head “Well I met up with my birth mum. Her country was at war, I helped her win the war.”
Celestia and Luna raised their eyebrows “Where did you learn how to be a commander of an army.”
Sweetie Belle blushed “I take your not going to believe that I’m naturally talented.”
Scootaloo rolled her eyes “You read some of your sister’s books on war, I saw some of them at the Boutique.”
Luna’s eyes narrowed “Why would Rarity have such books?”
Scootaloo raised an eyebrow “You do know who her mother was, do you really think Chrysalis would not have taught her daughter about war? Those were likely some of the learning material that her mother gave her.”
Celestia frowned “Fair enough I suppose.”
Sweetie Belle shook her head “I want to get Rarity to a bed and then we can discuss this tomorrow. Today has been a long day.” The three ponies nod in agreement and help Rarity to one of the beds in the Castle.”