//------------------------------// // Chapter Three Gather To Rescue // Story: Daybreaker steals Twilight // by SamSwordsman123 //------------------------------// Shining Armor stood stunned for a moment as he looked at his sister’s room after she’d been foalnapped. Seriously, he was useless as a big brother right now! This was the third bad thing to happen to Twilight since she'd come back to Canterlot. “Shining? What’s going on son?” Night Light said as he walked up by his son. Sniffing the air he looked into Twilight’s room and saw the flames. “Ahh! Fire!” “Fire?” Velvet repeated as she too arrived. “Oh Sweet Celestia! Where did that come from? And… where’s Twilight?” “Daybreaker took her!” Shining told them “What? But Daybreaker turned back to Princess Celestia when she saw Twilight in the hospital!” Spike said. “Well she’s back now!” Shining told them. “And she took Twilight!” “What?” Both the parents and Spike exclaimed. “Yeah, she turned Twilight into a baby and flew out with her!” There was silence among the family. The flames crackled in Twilight’s room. Then Twilight Velvet let out a mad scream, the scream of a mother whose child had been stolen. “I’m going to get Daybreaker for this! When I get my hooves on her…” Velvet growled. “Velvet, calm down, you can’t attack Daybreaker. She’s Princess Celestia!” Night Light put a hoof on his wife’s shoulder. “I don’t care if she is Princess Celestia or not, she’s going to pay for stealing my child!” Velvet snapped. “I’ll battle the entire Royal Guard if I have to in order to get Twilight back.” She was off, galloping back down the stairs while Night Light, Shining Armor and Spike looked after her. “Looks like Momma Bear's out of her cave!” Spike noted before looking at the fire in the room. “We might want to put that out before we go rescue Twilight.” * Velvet made her way to her front door and opened it with her magic, planning to sprint all the way to the castle and rescue her daughter. She didn’t expect to see Twilight’s friends in her doorway with Applejack about to knock. “Oh, howdy Mrs. Sparkle. We were just- “Out of my way!” Velvet snapped, using her magic to levitate Twilight’s friends out of her path and resuming her run. The Mane 5 looked after Twilight’s mother. “What’s got her all riled up?” Applejack asked. “Perhaps she’s just realized she needs to get her mane redone?” Rarity suggested, as Velvet’s mane had been damaged during the changeling invasion. “It did get messed up when a changeling bit it.” “I don’t think there’s any mane stylist open at this time of night,” Rainbow Dash said. “You’re right!” Rarity said. “Velvet, do wait up darling! I can make that mane fabulous in a but a moment!” Velvet stopped and glared back at them. “Twilight has been taken! This is no time for makeovers!” “What?” the Mane 5 exclaimed. Suddenly Spike appeared in the doorway. “Daybreaker’s back! She turned Twilight into a baby and took her!” The Mane 5 all gasped. “We got to get her back,” Rainbow Dash yelled. “Twilight is getting into a lot of danger lately, and its all because of us,” Fluttershy said sadly. “Well we gotta save her just like we did when she was poisoned,” Applejack said. “Maybe saving her twice will be enough to make up for it?” “She’s still going to get ten new dresses free from my boutique though!” Rarity said. “If we live through yet another life threatening experience!” “Come on, lets got to the Castle!” Shining Armor ordered. Sprinting toward the largest structure in Canterlot, Twilight’s family and friends were met with unexpected resistance. The royal guard stood ready for them. Their eyes glowing red like Daybreaker’s. “She has them under mind control!” Shining Armor said. “Looks like we’ll have to fight our way through the royal guard!” “No problem!” Rainbow Dash said confidently. “We save Equestria way more often than these lame guards!” Shining Armor scowled at her. Noticing this she waved her hooves. “Though you guys do have cool armor! I’ll give ya that! Uh oh here they come!” The royal guards charged at them with drawn spears. * Meanwhile, up in Celestia’s (now Daybreaker’s) chamber, she tended to a little foal in the basket. Or at least attempted to. “Twilight, you and I are going to be spending a lot of time together now,” Daybreaker said with what was her version of a soft smile. “You always liked that didn’t you?” The infant Twilight Sparkle didn’t look at Daybreaker as though she liked her. She looked at her as though she were afraid of her. Then she started crying. “Quiet!” Daybreaker said. “I’m your mother now!” “I wan Celestia!” Daybreaker looked at the foal Twilight for a moment. It seemed even though Twilight was a baby she still had the memories of her previous life. She knew who Daybreaker was, and saw her not as the beloved mentor she had in Celestia but as a monsterous fire pony that had burned half of Canterlot and wanted to kill her own sister. Luna was away right now in the dream realm, but Daybreaker would deal with her when she got back. “It would seem I have to start from scratch,” Daybreaker said. “I will have to do more than turn you into a baby. Maybe I should just get rid of your memories altogether and raise you as my own from there. Well, I believe there is a spell that could achieve something like that in the archives. Let us go, shall we my dear daughter to be?” She took Twilight in her magic again and began to walk toward the door of her chamber. Soon Twilight’s memories would be purged, than her family and friends would have to be dealt with to prevent further interference from them. She was going to have Twilight to herself and nothing was going to stop her.