//------------------------------// // Twilight Gets a Puppy, The Movie, Epilogue 2 // Story: Twilight Gets a Puppy, Season 5 // by TDR //------------------------------// Twilight Gets a Puppy Season 5 by TDR Twilight Gets a Puppy, The Movie, Epilogue 2 [Storm Kings Island. 4 days after the recovery of the alicorns.] Three figures moved silently down the hall in the darkness, the only light was cast from the silvery moon far above peeking in through cracks in the foundations from the battle and the occasional window. One of the three figures moved almost instinctively to avoid these silvery patches of light and to stay in the shadows. “We don't have much time, before the patrols come back.” a younger female voice stated. “Relax. Most of them are keeping the yeti away from the castle, the few who are inside are currently scrounging a few floors above us.” Another female voice offered. “It's such a pity. He had everything he needed and he lost it all because he was too petty and sure of himself. Such a waste of time and resources.” a male voice muttered. “We didn't even make back enough of a profit to pay for this excursion nor the equipment we used.”the first voice huffed. “It's fine Diamond. We took far more than he offered and I got to see the flaws in my designs. I really didn't think they would figure out how to fix it so soon. But to do so and free Twilight Sparkle at the worst possible time. That sort of timing should only be in stories.... fitting for the goddess of books though I suppose.” “It was likely her brothers doing. I told you before he claimed to be the god of theater Solomon.” the second female snarked. “True true. I had discounted his power as irrelevant, but maybe that particular batch was too weak to deal with a god fully. It's not as if I got to study any moon dogs before they were corrupted any way.”Solomon sighed.”I do know she made them to feed on chaos some how, perhaps the plunder vine mix had too much of that still in it?” “Focus.” Adagio muttered.” I would rather not be found out by my mothers minions while they are swarming the place.” “Apologies, I am not settling into the spare as well as I thought, this one is still fresh and a bit of an ill fit. I should have let it ferment more before putting it on.”Solomon tilted his head, the black unicorn with pink hair looking much younger than he had before. “Well you will need to deal with it as it is the only spare you brought with you.”Diamond Tiara stated. “The other ones back at the lab should be grown by now, so if this one is faulty I'll have another soon enough.” Solomon sighed.” Such a waste of resources.” “Why are we even back here?”Adagio grumbled. “Well as I told you both before I'm not as much a free agent as I like.” Solomon grumbled. “ And my boss wanted very much to secure a nice isolated race and their god for his own research. With the Storm King now in possession of Equestria this place is useless to him however.” “Then why are we still here?” Diamond Tiara looked around the room they were in , even in the dark the pile of bodies was left where it lay. Even if the moon had not cast enough light through all the holes and cracks in the walls, the buzzing of flies and the stench was enough to tell all of them the room was filled with bodies of the yeti slain. Solomon trotted over to a spot, his hoof reaching out to trace over a spike of black crystal emerging from the floor. “Heh, my son's hoof work, he was always quite skilled at back stabbing. One day I will have to return the favor.” Solomon grinned then chuckled. “But revenge is the pleasure of those who have already won, and we are not quite there yet.” “That doesn't answer my question.” Diamond Tiara frowned. “Sorry, rambling again.” Solomon apologized looking down at a massive body on the ground, before he kicked it over onto its back with a hoof. “As I was saying, my boss wanted results that I can no longer deliver, but he shouldn't be too upset if we bring him a gift.” Solomon's horn flashed and several spots of light appeared around the body forming a warding circle facing inward. “Give me that scroll I've had you carry Diamond. My boss won't teach me his secrets fully so I'm still reliant on him for a few things.” Solomon sighed, taking the scroll and unrolling it.” That's fine for now, however....” The spell from the scroll was cast as the unicorn touched a bit of flame to the paper, the spell and parchment consumed with a flash of sickly green energy. A low hum filled the air as the green energy darted down, enveloping and sinking into the corpse in the circle. “... I learn more by doing than reading any way, and if the old goat won't teach me what he knows, well I'll just have to steal it from him a little bit at a time.” The was a sudden gasp as if air was being drawn in and a pair of glowing green eyes snapped open as the yeti demi god Squall sat up with a lurch. [Ponyville, Seshat, the day after the return of the alicorns to Canterlot] “Seriously?! There is actual food in the cabinets and ice box, you do not need to dig in the garbage!” “But there was half a cupcake in there, you can't let that go to waste.” “It was in there cause it was moldy!” Spike snapped. “Tempest if you are staying here tell your pet to stop digging in the garbage!” “Grubber....” Tempest sighed.” We are trying not to piss any of them off here.” “Yeah well.. old habits.” Grubber grumbled. “Ehh?”Spike questioned. “Ehh what? You honestly think I got stuff like this living with Yeti?” Grubber huffed gesturing with he half eaten moldy cupcake. “Before I met the boss this is how I ate. You'd be amazed what you can find dumpster diving.” Spike narrowed his eyes at the hedgehog. “Twilight might be dealing with your boss, but I see you need some work too.” Spike stated with a growl, pointing at what was in his hand with a claw.” First things first, this is a broom.” “I know what a broom is.” Grubber rolled his eyes only to have said broom shoved into his hands. “Good, then you can start cleaning up the mess you made. I already live with two complete slobs, I'm not dealing with another one.” Spike snapped. “Tempest, Rahs would like a word with you in the theater,.”Seshat stated. “It's the door on the left of the main entrance.” “Err yeah thank you.” Tempest stated moving out of the kitchen quickly, despite the fussing, Spike had been fairly helpful she and Grubber were staying at the tree until a place could be found for them, or they could be trusted to live any where else. Tempest was both confused and terrified, though a little hopeful. After seeing what Twilight did to the Storm King and hearing what she might be able to do, the former Storm King solider was trying to be on her best behavior. This wasn't helped by Shining Armor Sparkle sitting around in any room she was in, saying nothing, but simply staring at her as if he was hoping she would step out of line. She hadn't seen Rahs since she was brought here. Spike said he was working on his theater as he was behind on the opening production of something or another that was coming soon. Still she wondered what it was he wanted. It was not as if Twilight had been able to get away from Canterlot in the past few days. She was supposedly being forced to look for something in all the ships that came back by the Princesses and a few other gods. Tempest trotted down the hall marveling at the crystal tree as she went, all things considered she figured she had gotten damn lucky to wind up here. She had no idea why Twilight had decided to do this, but she was going to do her best not to screw this up. If the goddess of magic couldn't fix her horn she doubted any one could. Still... She was still pondering her life decisions as she made her way into the theater. Tempest had no real judge of the size of it or the meaning of anything hanging on the walls, none of the posters or names were known to her, and some were in languages she couldn't even read. The main thing Tempest took note of was how undefendable the location was, the seating was all raised so any one on the stage could easily be targeted, but there was no cover in the seating areas from attacks from the stage. Not to mention the large room was in an outer wall, thus was a structural problem in terms of fortification, though she hadn't dealt with a living crystal tree that could talk before so maybe that hardly mattered. There were a number of things clustered around the stage including a ladder and a scaffold, the small wall at the top of the stage that hid the curtain was being decorated, there was some filigree style design inter spaced with frowning masks and smiling masks across half of it and it looked like who ever was working on it had paused right in the middle as there was only a smiling mask up on the wall at the end and a pile of supplies to finish the other half of the design were sitting on the scaffolding. Tempest moved up on stage figuring Rahs was back here some where, given she didn't see him in the theater any where else. “Rahs? You wanted to see me?” Tempest called curiously, feeling very exposed up on the stage, even with the room empty.” Hello?” There was a loud click and all the lights in the room went out, before Tempest could react a number of spotlights cut on, isolating the unicorn mare in the middle of the stage in a large circle of light surrounded by darkness. “My sister has a bit of an issue....” a voice stated from some where, Tempest tensed looking around to try and figure out where it was coming from, her ears perked as she shifted, on her guard.”.... she tends to trust people she shouldn't, or at the very least she isn't as wary of them as she should be.” Tempest frowned, the voice seemed to be coming from all around her with no sure direction. “Perhaps it has something to do with her portfolio of friendship, though I'm a bit guilty of that as well given the whole Song Fishies thing, but they are my problem not hers, despite her part in them being around. “the voice continued in a smooth baritone.” So far this has worked out fairly well for us, while I am not exactly fond of some of those who are around, and I do not like her idea of what to do with one of our problems still running around, that right now isn't your concern.” Tempest swallowed and tried to charge her horn to let out some sparks for more light, only for the blue motes to vanish with the sound like the gnashing of teeth and a feeling like something had slapped the tip of her broken horn. “Black cherry, not the flavor I was expecting.”the voice continued after a pause and a noise that sounded like someone licking their lips. “In any event, despite how my sister feels about you, you used me to harm my brothers and sister, and that does not sit well with me at all.” Tempest's eyes widened feeling hot breath on her ear, she turned her head slightly looking back to the massive form that towered over her that she hadn't even sensed it until it was on her, though her vision was taken up by nothing but very sharp teeth. “You back slide a little bit into working against Equestria, you betray what little trust my sister has in you, you so much as scuff a scale on Spike, a hair of Shining, or a branch of Seshat and I will make all your legs match your horn, are we clear Fizzlepop Berrytwist?” Rahs growled. “How...?” Tempest tensed up further, she hadn't told any one her real name. “I know your hopes, I know your dreams and your nightmares, and I assure you, you fuck up, your little minion fucks up, and not only will you never be able to run from your problems again, I'll make sure every waking and slumbering moment of your life is a literal nightmare. Do you understand your position in my eyes mare?” Tempest swallowed hard, not even able to move away from the teeth that were nearly brushing her eye lashes as he spoke. “Yes.....” Tempest agreed. “Good.” The teeth receded as Rahs leaned back and stepped into the shadow just outside the spot light.”Now get off my stage.” The lights all came back up as the spot light went out, and there was no one standing any where around on the stage and she couldn't see any where he could have run off to. Tempest swallowed hard, quickly moving off the stage and heading out of the theater back to the small room she had been given. She barely noticed as she passed Shining Armor and Spike as they headed to the theater. Rahs shifted, dusting himself off as he moved back onto the scaffolding so he could finish hanging the filigree over the stage. He adjusted the comedy mask in the center of the display, he had left it a little crooked after all when Tempest came in. His ears perked at the sound of hoof steps and he looked down as Spike and Shining Armor moved up, both of them stopping to regard his work. Rahs smirked slightly looking at his brothers before reaching into his coat and pulling out a chunk of stone he had stashed there. He regarded the look of horror on the stone head's face a moment. He chuckled slightly noting the small smiles on his brothers faces as he secured the head to the wall next to the mask of Comedy. Once Rahs thought it was secure enough, he pulled out the tragedy mask and put it over the face of the Storm King, hiding it from view. He leaned back a little to regard his handiwork, before he moved on to finish the decorations.