"Don't quote me."
"... and then they disappeared in the swirly, sparkly portal." Applejack had made the mistake of saying the word what aloud. Pinkie had then started giving a strange explanation which then devolved into a completely unrelated rant, before going back to the topic at hand and completely omitting the middle part.
"Like Pinkie put it Twilight and Luna are currently in a... how do I put it..." Celestia tried to explain. "In another dimension or universe, whatever suits you best." Starlight bluntly finished, which caused her to get a glare from the sun princess. "Oh dear." Fluttershy whispered. "This is quite the dilemma we're in, so what do we do?"
The main six, minus Twilight, had taken Celestia's explanation surprisingly well. "Well Starlight and I will figure out how to get her back..." Starlight scoffed slightly at that. "The problem is that that will take a lot of time, because we need to make sure that the whole being is swallowed by a portal to another universe." All the ponies in the room noded.
"But in the meantime there'll be no one to really rule Equestria, so we need you to distract everypony so we don't have a panic. Just until we can get Twilight and Luna back."
"Alright, princess. we'll take care of that. I just hope they're both alright." Applejack said confidently. "They can both handle themselves." Celestia answered confidently.
Celestia was currently reading an old tome of ancient teleportation magic in the hopes thatit would give her any ideas on getting the other princesses back. She and Starlight had been doing the research for the last five hours. Starlight was already annoyed after having been buried under books three times already. The Canterlot had millenia's worth of books and documentation. And the older they were, the less there were but also the harder to read and understand that they were. And often outdated and untrue.
But there were still times when you found gold. Like the old tome of Sortileges and curses written some twenty six centuries ago still had some very accurate and effective spells that were still true until this day.
Unfortunately they had not found any that day. She couldn't help but hope that her sister and old student were alright.
"AAAAAHHHHH...." Twilight screamed as she flew through the air after the bear had landed on a long wooden plank, after it had jumped towards the ponies, said plank then launching her violently in the sky. With her wings tied she couldn't stop herself from smashing into a tower. Fortunately the specific part of the tower that she smashed in was made out of a very soft plastic. It still hurt but better than smashing into wood.
Luna fired bolts of magic into the beast which seared the fur but did no damage. It did cause the bear's attention to fall onto Her. Having more battle experience, and experience overall, managed to fare better against the beast than her purple counterpart.
Twilight was busy thinking about which spells to use. Levitation would simply slip off the beast, lighting and bolts of magic bounced off it and all animal taming spells failed unceremoniously. So she kept trying whatever came to mind. She threw a transmutation at the beast, but again it just bounced off.
Luna managed to dodge most attacks from the two headed beast, however not only was it enormous but it was extremely fast. She failed to dodge one of its attacks but fortunately she put up a shield spell before being hit. She was sent flying into a wooden tower, but the shield protected her from the damage. The shock did leave her wobbly and confused.
Twilight, desperately thinking about what to do, spotted one tower that was held up by chains. It was illogical, but the chains looked very sturdy this gave her an idea. She shouted towards Luna. "I've got idea..." She pointed a hoof towards the tower. She also started pulling on the chains with her magic, which were sturdily bolted into the tower and ground. "...but I need some time." The night alicorn nodded and fired multiple bolts of magic into the beast, mildly angering it and more importantly getting its attention.
Twilight was busy pulling and prodding the chains from every angle possible, pulling duct tape and nails of it. She twisted some big metal bolts off and some tinier support chains. It wasn't a hard thing to do normally, but the unnatural geometry made it so much harder. Hearing Luna swear and the sounds of fighting also did not help. They were actually nerve wracking.
And then she managed to get one of the big chains off. For a second a look of relief and joy appeared as she held the big chain up. Said look then disappeared as all of the other chains snapped and the tower fell over. Directly on the bear, burying it. "You truly are a genius!" Luna congratulated. "I have to say I did not expect something this violent from you." She added with a smile of relief on her face.
Twilight wanted to explain how that was not her plain, as she held the chain in her magic, but was suddenly interrupted by a loud roar as the bear smashed out from under the rubble. Luna's smile disappeared. The bear only had a few tiny scars on its body. "We can still use my original plan." Twilight said hesitantly as she held the chain up for Luna to see.
She then moves the chain around its legs using her magic. The bear tried to dodge, but Luna managed to stop it from escaping with multiple well timed blasts. The purple alicorn then quickly attached the chains around its four legs. With help from Luna they tightened the chains almost causing the beast to fall over.
It managed to stay up, haphazardly balancing over the ground with its tied up limbs. "Well what do we do now?" Twilight asked aloud to nopony in particular. Both ponies stared at the presenter who was coiled around a tower in the far left of the field.
"You just need to beat teddy and you'll be allowed to leave." The presentator answered with an unnaturally joyful tone. "Which we just did." Luna answered with an annoyed tone. The presentator somehow smiled with its featureless smile. "You did..." The sound of chains snapping was heard, the two alicorns could feel their hearts drop. "...not."
The bear roared in rage before leaping at the two ponies. They quickly jumped out of the way before it could smash into the ground. Luna, slightly enraged, started throwing every spell she had at the beast once again. Twilight, not as angry and much more panicked, started searching for another plan. She couldn't help but wish that Fluttershy was here. She would simply use the stare to tame this bear.
While thinking about her friend, she noticed something. The ground where the bear had smashed in looked odd. She approached it to have a better view, while the night princess kept the beast at bay. There were multiple gaps into the broken floor. She looked through one and, using some lighting spell, saw that there was a very deep hole underneath. She could spot what were multiple very broken support pillars and a few seemingly intact ones.
A new plan came to mind, to break the remaining ones and then lure the bear over the weakened area. Before doing anything she went to inform Luna. Running over some rubble she quickly reached her. Twilight fired a few spells at the bear to hopefully slow it down. She explained her plan to the other alicorn as quickly as possible, which wasn't easy as the both of them were running around and dodging attacks.
"No, don't do that, instead of breaking and repairing them." Luna said after hearing that. "Because repairing would be the logical and non-chaotic thing to do." She added. The both of them then split up again. Twilight was confused by what the night alicorn had said, but decided to do as Luna had said. Logic did not seem to work in this place, so breaking or repairing the support pillar may have the opposite effect. But then again this place might also decide to use reverse psychology.
She headed back to the broken ground and shoving her head through a gap, she started repairing the broken ones using levitation and mending spells. This was done very quickly thanks to her master in architecture. You could earn a lot of degrees in Celestia's school for gifted ponies.
Once she was done she waved Luna over to her. Luna then rushed over to her, losing part of her tail as the bear swiped its claws at her. And once the bear stepped onto the "weakened" area it... collapsed onto itself dragging the bear and multiple towers into a dark abyss. Both ponies almost got dragged along.
Before they celebrated anything they both looked at the presentator. They had an extremely smug smile on their featureless smile. Any other time Twilight would have love to analyze it, to see how that was even possible.
Both ponies moved away from the hole keeping their eyes on it. A loud roaring came from it. Not the animal kind of roar, but much more... mechanical kind of roar. And then a big dark mass flew out of the hole leaving a trail of smoke behind. The mass then landed behind the two ponies. It was the two headed bear. A thick dark smoke emanating from the two cylinders on its back.
"A rocket propelled backpack." Twilight mumbled aloud. "What Luna?" Asked both confused and scared as she kept her eyes on the bear. Fortunately it seemed dazed from having flown and the smoke hindered its sight. "A jetpack, straight out of SPike's comics." Twilight answered. Loud laughter could be heard coming from the seats.
It was obviously pre recorded, as all of the plushies and cardboard cutouts could not actually laugh. All except for one. The presentator, with a frankly sadistic laugh, had slithered closer and now stood above them, coiled around a pink and metal tower.
Their laughter suddenly as a bolt of dark blue ethereal magic hit them. They instantly blew up into pieces which fell onto the ground. Twilight looked horrified for a second until she noticed that they were still alive. "Fuck." The now detached head sweared. Its arms crawled around and the tail, now into dozens of pieces, simply flailed like a fish out of water. Luna turned her attention back onto the bear which was getting back to its senses, while Twilight noticed something among the flailing body parts.
A tiny flask with a green liquid inside of it. There was something written on it. 'Throw at a problem.' So she threw it at the bear. The bear then instantly shrunk down. In the matter of seconds it had taken the size and proportions of a slightly larger than normal teddy bear.
Both ponies looked in confusion at the bear, as the binding fell off freeing their wings. The bear, who still had two heads and a jetpack, got closer and cuddled onto Twilight's leg. It purred slightly. It actually looked adorable.
"And we have a winner." The presentator, who was once again in one piece but with most of its limbs put on backwards, said before slithering away. Then a big door leading out of the stadium opened. "It see..." Luna was then interrupted by very cruel laughter coming from the now open door. A whole bunch of footsteps could be heard and eyes could be seen peering out from the darkness.