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// Trapped 
// Story: Lost Family, Part 1 
// by FanofAwesomeness 
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	Rainbow Dash was at a loss for words. The Queen killed her parents? "You said it was a freak storm."
"It was," Nightwolf said, "guided by her. All storms have somepony directing it. When I found our parent's bodies, I went on a rampage. I destroyed everything within 10 yards of me. And I saw her face. She was leaving. It was designed to do that to me. They died because of me.
"They had heard of where I was after the event with the drug and came to see me. Chrysalis must havebeen waiting with that storm when they came by. She triggered it."
"How do you know she triggered it?" Rainbow asked.
"After calming down and almost passing out from over-use of magic, I went up to rest on a storm cloud. The storm cloud she used. I noticed prints that didn't belong to any pegasus. So I took a copy and left to go back to the village.
"All the ponies had begun to act odd. They were watching me. Following me. That day I heard the screams from the tribe, I hadn't gotten tback to a deserted area. The bodies littering the ground were fresh. I found a single dead changeling and matched the basic print. But the things hooves were too small. Then she came.
"She hovered over me for a short period of time and then moved away, turning to face me. No words were spoken. Changelings surrounded me, shifted into my parents and foster parents. They were feeding. I could feel my life force being drained, but she stopped them. After they left, i crawled over to where the Queen had been standing. The prints were a perfect match.
"Since then, I have been hunting any changelings that come across my path. I jumped on this job as soon as I heard what it was. And you six can fill in the rest," Nightwolf finished. They were all staring at him.
"Why didn't you tell us," Rainbow's voice was barely a whisper.
"Because I needed to know who the traitor was. And I might have figured it out."
"Who?" Twilight asked.
"The Queen disguised herself as-" Nightwolf was cut off by the nurse entering the room.
"It's time for Nightwolf here to get his rest," the nurse said kindly. "You can all come and visit tomorrow."
"It'll be too late!" Nightwolf screamed. "Let me out of here!" he struggled against restraints that he hadn't even noticed. "Get me out of here! She's here! She'll take Ponyville just like she took my tribe! Don't let her fool you!"
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"Maybe we shouldn't have asked," Fluttershy said. "He seemed pretty upset."
"He seemed crazy," Rainbow said. "What he said doesn't make any sense! And why would he wait until now to tell us this?"
"Maybe what he really needs is a mental hospital," Twilight put in. He really needs to get out of that hospital, she thought. What if he's right?
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I have to get out of here, Nightwolf thought. "Slā'isa," Nightwolf muttered. As the restraints were cut open by his magic, he started to move. But once her started moving, he felt a sharp pain travel up his wing. He repositioned himself so he could see the wing and realized it had been broken pretty badly.
He grabbed some bandages and began to wrap his wing, taking the pain. He heard some noise outside his door and quickly closed the cabinet and ran into his bed, moving his hooves so they were where the retraints are and acted asleep. 
The door opened and hoofsteps were heard. "His restraints are cut," a deep voice mentioned. "Were you planning on having him escape?"
"No!" the nurse said. "I would never betray her!"
"Replace his restraints and keep him here until her work is done."
"Yes sir," the nurse replied.
"And use stronger ones this time. He might have split the restraints himself."
After the hoofseps of the colt vanished, Nightwolf sprang up, grabbed the nurse and covered her mouth before she could scream. "I'm going to move my hoof now. Don't scream." He backed up and faced the nurse. "Are you one of them?"
"No!" The nurse said. "You have to get back into the bed."
"I have to get out of here," Nightwolf corrected. "But you can't be seen until hours after my escape. I won't let her hurt anypony else. You have my word."
"You can't stop her," the nurse said. "She's too strong."
"I can and I will."
"You don't even know who she really is."
"Of course I do," Nightwolf said. In one motion he pulled her towards him, twisted around and chopped he neck. After checking her vital signs, he began to leave. "Only a changeling can avoid a tracking spell."
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"I just don't think it would be safe to see him," Rainbow explained. "He probably ended up in the mental hospital anyways because of that outburst."
"It's been 10 days, Rainbow," Twilight said. "If he's there, I'll know. I'm going to find hm and talk to him about this, okay?"
"I just don't think it's the best idea. He could have gone violent."
"I won't talk to him if he's that bad."
"Fine." Twilight left, heading in the direction of the mental hospital. It was the most likely place after that outburst.
When she got there, the place was a wreck. There were papers everywhere, bits of a wall on the ground and patients running about. Quickly, she vanished before being seen.
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Nightwolf was running throught the hallway when a doctor passed by, almost finding him. "Adraśya ḍagalō." Suddenly, it looked like he was under water from behind his cloak. He was shrouded from view of anypony that looked in his direction.
Making his way silently to the door, he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. He moved toward it to take a closer look. It was a letter. Written to him.
Dear Nightwolf,
I am truly sorry for what happened to your parents. They were an obstacle that needed to be taken care of. You should know that you have only a few weeks left to prove your point. After that, I will attack. You have until 2 weeks from now to solve this and try to stop me. good luck, Balancer.
She was taunting him! Afterall that he had been through she was taunting him! Now is not the time to be worrying about that. You have two weeks. Just enough time to prove who she really is.

1 1/2 weeks later

"You are all probably wondering why I wanted to meet you here," Nightwolf said. They had met in the forest as agreed.
"That would probably help," Twilight mentioned.
"I know who the Queen is and what her plan is. In 2 days she will attack."
"And how do you know this?" Rainbow Dash put in. "You did noting but almost get us killed since you got here! Are you a spy?"
"Don't be jumping to conclusions so quickly, sis," he said. "I would have expected you to react this way. That's why I called all of you here. My sister isn't that paranoid. She can't evade tracking spells. She would have beat me to a pulp when she first saw me. She would have had me thrown into a mental hospital themoment I got to town. You are not my sister. You are not Rainbow Dash! Give up the charade Chrysalis! Your secret's out!"
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"What are you talking about?"
"You killed my parents! You killed my tribe!" Nightwolf's voice grew louder with each word. "You disguised yourself as my sister! For all I know, you killed her, too!"
"Nightwolf!" Rainbow's voice almost dipped into panic. "Get a hold of yourself! I'm not the Queen! I'm not a changeling!"
"LIAR!" he screamed as he charged. Nightwolf slammed Rainbow into a nearby tree. Stunned, she didn't see his hoof coming up to hit her. But she didn't need to. She pushed off the tree slamming him back and took off. Nioghtwolf persued.
As he came up behind her, she bucked at him. He dodged and tried to tackle her to the ground. His flight was still too impared to be useful. Using her advantage, she rocketed up into the sky and vanished into her house.
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"We need to tell everypony what's going on," Nightwolf said. "I don't know how long she's going to stay up there. She might even beworking on trapping us right now."
"What are you doing?!" Twilight screamed.
"You bafoon!" Rarity yelled at him.
"You no-good lyin' colt!" Applejack called him.
"What are you guys talking about?" Nightwolf said. "Twilight, you have to know how convincing Chrysalis can be!"
"She wasn't trying to be too different from who she really was!" Twilight yelled at him. "That was my friend! There was absolutely no change in he character!"
"That wasn't Rainbow Dash," he said finally and took off into the forest.
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The day of the Capture of Ponyville

"Nopony is going to be going anywhere!" screamed a familiar voice. "You are all trapped by my clouds. If any of you decide to try to escape, you will be electrocuted."
"Rainbow Dash?!" they all said at once. All but one.
"Nightwolf was right," Twilight said, solemnly. "He tried to warn us."
"I did," Nightwolf said from behind them. "We have to confront her. It's our only choice."
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"Come here Chrysalis!" Nightwolf screamed when they had reached the forest. "Show yourself!"
"You don't have to scream," Chrysalis said from the shadows, disguised as Rainbow Dash. "But I wouldn't recommend what you're about to do."
"I'm going to beat your face in!" Nightwolf almost screamed as he took a step towards her. "You killed my family you-" He had moved forward too much and was slammed in the face with steel bars. As th cage closed around all of them, separating them in the process, Nightwolf began to see her real plan. "You tricked us. All of us. You needed the Elements seperate. And I just led them into your trap."
"Indeed," she said. "And now nothing can stand in my way."
"But why take the town?"
"For ransom. A trade. If I get ruling power over Equestria, I give back all the Elements, unharmed."
"Do you really think Celestia would do that?" Twilight asked from her cage.
"Of course," Chrysalis responded. "She wouldn't want anything to happen to the real Element of Loyalty, would she? Then there would be no hope for Equestria and I get to take over by force. And there is noting you can do to stop me."





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