//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 (Harmonia Strife) // Story: The Shatter Realm // by keithsterling //------------------------------// In an abandoned part of the Crystal Palace, a five-foot-long spectrum colored, oblong energy bubble floats in mid-air. A moment later, it pops, and a beautiful light pink Alicorn mare with moderate violet, moderate rose, and pale gold streaked mane and tail drop to the tile floor with a thud. Her curvy 5ft 9in equine figure was attired in cardinal red (vivid red) slightly below the knee length gown. On her stellar pedicured, slender, gracefully rounded shaped light pink bare feet with a thin sheen of bright red toenail polish were light gold gladiator sandals with one-inch heels. Behind her horn was a gold tiara, and folded on her back were her light pink feathered bird wings. This Alicorn mare was Princess Cadence Sparkle, the cousin to the royal foals and ruling princess of the Crystal Empire and the mother to Princess Flurry Heart Sparkle and the adoptive niece of Princess Celestia Silverlight and Prince Justice Silverlight. Cadence shakes her head several times, trying to clear the cobwebs out of her mind and gape in stunned silence went five-fingered hand with a thin sheen of bright red nail polish rises toward her face. It stops a moment later went she thought to stop in her head. "It is me?" Cadence comment, a bit puzzled, but can't deny that the five-fingered hand is doing everything she tells it to do like her front hoof did. "EEP!" Cadence exclaims as she lifts her leg up, revealing stellar pedicured slender, gracefully rounded shaped light pink barefoot with a thin sheen of bright red toenail polish inside a light gold gladiator sandal with one-inch heels. 'What am I? What every am I? I am smoking hot.' Cadence thought with a little bit of pride as she looks at her new form of a two-legged pony in the highly reflected surface of the nearby Crystal wall. 'My shiny is going to love this,' Cadence thought, running her hand down her curvy figure. "Huh?" Cadence exclaims, noticing the blinking red light on her forearm through the crystal's reflective surface; she lifts her arm up and discovers a metal vambrace on her forearm. The blinking came from a small hole with a smaller curved piece of glass cover it. On instinct, she passes her hand over the piece of glass. A moment later, the magnificent head of very pale vermillion colored unicorn mare with a gradient of brilliant raspberry and moderate cobalt blue mane appears in front of her. "Mistress!" the holographic unicorn mare head said. Cadence gives the holographic unicorn head a withering stare. "Amore, what have I told you about calling me that!" Cadence said hotly as she had no idea why she replies like that toward the holographic mare's head. "Mother, the Crystal Protection protocol has been initiated, and the shield has been activated. The Crystal City is in lock-down, all military forces are mobilized." Amore explains as Cadence's eyes widen with alarm. "What!? Who initiated the Crystal Protection Protocol? Was it Shining Armor?" Cadence inquiry as Amore shakes her head no. "I have been unable to lock-in on father's system key. It was initiated by the combat computer in the throne room. As an emergency activation of me." Amore explains as Cadence gasps. "Amore! Activate all surveillance systems in the snowfields outside the city. If it was emergency activation, something is going on outside the city." Cadence orders as she makes her way to the main throne room of the Crystal Palace. "I am sorry, mother, but before receiving the emergency activation, the city experienced an electromagnetic pulse it fried all my circuits. I was able to activate the shield generators before those circuits went out." Amore explains sadly as Cadence sighs. "All right, Amore, go into your sleep mode. If your circuits are fried, that means your power core is not connected. You are running on back-up power. If that the case, all the solar generators will be feeding into the city's power grid, keeping the city running." Cadence orders as Princess Amore AI shut off to conserve power. As she emerges from the abandoned hallways of this unrepaired part of the Crystal Palace and into a large open area of the Palace. She is spotted by a Royal Palace security unit, which relays the intruder's sighting a modified mare to Internal Security. She quickly seized by the Black Opal Internal Security Unit, who stuns her with a taser. She is taking down to the Crystal Palace dungeon. Meanwhile, in the Crystal Throne room of the Palace, watching a teenage Princess Flurry Heart Sparkle pose in front of a full-length standing mirror like some kind of equine super-model was a gorgeous looking greenish-blue unicorn mare with cerulean blue mane and tail she was slightly older then Princess Flurry Heart Sparkle was. Her 5ft 10in physically fit equine figure was attired in a light gray pantsuit. On her greenish-blue bare feet were black pumps with one and one-half heels. This unicorn mare is Royal Advisor Rose Eventide, the royal advisor to Princess Flurry Heart Sparkle. "Excuse me, Lady Eventide, we captured a modified Alicorn. She somehow got into the Palace." The Black opal mare explains as Rose blinks with surprise. "Modified Alicorn? Can you describe, said Alicorn?" Rose inquiry looking at the mare in front of her. "She was curvy light pink with moderate violet/moderate rose with pale gold streaks mane and tail. I would say about 5ft 9in." The Black opal mare said as Rose gasps. "Were is that Alicorn?" Rose asked. "Unconscious in a holding cell, my lady." The Mare answers as smile forms on Rose's lips. "Please transfer the Alicorn to my special room, and as ordered, no one allowed to touch her. Till I am finished with her." Rose commanded as the mares shook their head and left the throne room. "Your highness, I have some personal business to take care of; call me if you need me," Rose said as Flurry Heart gesture her to leave. Slowly Princess Cadence Sparkle light purple eyes open. She finds herself in a dimly lit room clamped to a sturdy table in a spread eagle position. She can feel her wings being held tight together behind her back, and her magic is blocked. "So it is you, Princess Cadence Sparkle, Princess of love. That foolish teenage pony made that spell go wild. So that means those other two meddling Alicorns were pulled into this timeline as well. So the only question now went, will they awaken and where?" A mare voice said in the shadows. "How do you know my name, mare?" Cadence asks From the shadows steps a gorgeous midnight blue imperator Alicorn mare with rusty red mane and tail; soon, Cadence's eyes transfixed with horror upon seeing this mare. Her 6ft even athletic equine figure was attired in a gray space suit with knee-high boots on bare midnight blue feet and folded on her back were black bio-mechanical feathered bird wings. This imperator alicorn mare was Daimyo Harmonia Strife. "No! You're Harmonia! Please, any pony, save me from this monster! Shiny! Shiny! Where are you save me!?" Cadence screams as Harmonia walk up to the foot of the table. "Scream all you want, your highness, their silence spell on this room. So let get started." Harmonia comments as she snaps her fingers, causing Cadence's clothing to disappear, leaving her lying on the table nude. "What did you do to my clothes?" Cadence said her voice tightening as her faces turn redder than usual from the blush. "Now, your highness, how will I examine this unusual phenomenon that is your body?" Harmonia says, very curious as a chill ran down Cadence's back. "Do you know how I end up like this? Why, Harmonia?" Cadence inquiry as Harmonia just smiled. "Of course, I do your highness, and inexperience pony interfered with an Alicorn level spell," Harmonia explained as the blood drains from Cadence's face. "So let start from the top and work our way down to those stellar pedicured slenderly, gracefully rounded shaped light pink bare feet with that thin sheen of bright red toenail polish. I have a single test to try on them." Harmonia explained as the sensation of a spider crawling up Cadence's back was felt as Harmonia stared at her bare feet. With that, Harmonia set to examine her arms and hands to her shoulders. She stays for a long time on her head looks every detail of it. Out of spite, Cadence tried to bite Harmonia's hand went she got to close to her mouth and missed. Harmonia whispered into her ear, she will pay for that. Cadence didn't have long to wait for payback Harmonia roughly handled her bosom. Slapping each breast hard to cause the most pain in this sensitive part of a mare's body. As tears streaked Cadence's cheeks, Harmonia moved on, leaving red handprints on her chest from the blows. Cadence started to laugh as Harmonia ran both her hands down her hourglass-shaped equine flanks. Being a mare herself, Harmonia left Cadence's mare hood alone and move on to her leg and feet. Cadence's legs were well defined and muscular all the way down to ankles. Stress lines formed on Cadence's brow as Harmonia studied her stellar pedicured, slender, gracefully rounded shaped light pink bare feet with a thin sheen of bright red toenail polish. Cadence's skin begins to crawl; the frogs of her back hoofs went she had hoofs were sensitive but tolerable. But now, with soft flesh on the bottom of her feet, it could be ten times more sensitive than the frogs of her hoofs. Her eyes widen in alarm went she felt viscous liquid being squirted onto the soles of her light pink fleshy feet and Harmonia rubbing the viscous liquid into her flesh. "By all the mercy of my aunt's sun, don't tickle my feet!" Cadence shriek as she didn't feel the initial skittering of her fingers across her feet' oily soles. Slowly a smile begins to grows on her snout. In the next instance, Cadence's screamed with laughter as Harmonia tickles her light pink bare feet, clapped on the table with no mercy. As Cadence thought, her light pink fleshy feet' soft soles were much more ticklish than the rough texture of the frogs of her hoofs. Cadence begins to sniffle, not from the unrelenting tickle torture upon her trapped feet. But because her uncle Prince Justice Silverlight would love to tickle her light pink fleshy feet, if he was still alive. As Cadence losing consciousness, Harmonia snaps her fingers, dressing her in a shapeless dress that hit her at the top of her knees and leaves her light pink fleshy feet bare. "Poor little Princess of Love, what I did to you was just for fun. The Black Opal Internal Security and interrogation unit are much-much worse. Their no limit to the type of torture they will use on a helpless mare like you. Additionally, no part of your body is off-limits, if it can induce pain in you, they will use it." Harmonia said cruelly as another tear runs down her cheek this time of fear. As Daimyo Harmonia Strife resumed her disguise as Royal Advisor Rose Eventide, she steps out of her private room she met by two mares from the Black Opal Internal Security and interrogation unit waiting for her to finish with the Modified Alicorn mare. "All right, ladies, the modified alicorn mare is all yours, I learned nothing from her through my own interrogation. Plus, to help you, I dress her in a shapeless dress that hit her at the top of her knees, and I left her in her light pink fleshy bare feet. I know how much the Black Opal enjoys torturing the feet of a mare to make them talk." Rose said coldheartedly as she two mares went in to retrieve the unconscious Princess Cadence Sparkle, the princess of love, and transfer to Black Opal tower for the interrogation.