//------------------------------// // To capture a Princess // Story: My Little Pony: Friendship is Eternal // by AlphaToothless95 //------------------------------// “So she and her friends are the bearers of the elements of harmony?” Midnight asks the evil trio in front of her. If Twilight and her friends could wield the elements, then they could potentially pose a threat if they reached their full potential.. this was bad. She needed to do something. Together, the elements were unstoppable.. but alone they were useless. “Hmmm.. if the elements are useless alone.. why don’t we separate them? Better yet.. turn them against one another.” Midnight says, and the interest and curiosity in the evil trio shows clearly and Midnight smirks. She then stands up and walks past them and they follow her. She stops in front of one pit full of crystals. “Why are we stopping here?” Chrysalis asks and Midnight looks at her then back at the pit and doesn’t answer, deciding it better to show than tell. She holds her right hand out towards the pit and all the crystals glow, black mist forming around them that slowly rises out of the pit. Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy all back up, not sure what Midnight was doing but also not fully trusting her yet. The mist slowly comes towards them all until it stops and slowly forms.. King Sombra. Midnight smiles and slowly stops what she’s doing and Sombra opens his eyes to look at them all and his surroundings. “Where.. am I?” He asks in a deep, intimidating but weakened voice. He tries to stand up and falls the first time but then slowly gets it the second time. Midnight's expression doesn’t change one bit. “Hello King Sombra. Welcome to the Tomb of Alicorns. I am Midnight Starkiller,” Midnight says as she gestures to the temple then to herself. She then gestures to the Legion of Doom. “but surely you remember these three, right?” She asks and Cozy Glow gives a big smile and waves, Tirek crosses his arms and Chysalis just rolls her eyes. Sombra gives a growl in response and Midnight takes that as a yes. “Good, you’ll be working together.. under my watch of course. I mean I did bring you back, did I not?” Midnight asks and Sombra growls and holds his hands behind his back. “You did I suppose, and I think you’ll find that..” He starts before his crystal scythe appears in his hands. “To be your biggest mistake!” He says before swinging the scythe at Midnight who doesn’t move at all as it passes right through her. He looks confused but before he can try again he suddenly feels pain throughout his entire body and he can’t move. He falls to his knees and glares up at Midnight. “What.. have you.. done?” He struggles to ask and Midnight smirks down at him more. “Just as easily as I brought you back.. I can also destroy you. So it would be in your best interest to do what I say.. after all, we do all have the same goal. Besides.. don’t you all want to defeat Twilight Sparkle?” Midnight asks and all the villains perk up and Sombra sighs and Midnight removes her hold on him and he stands up. “Good.. now the first thing you all can do,” Midnight starts before she walks back a bit until she’s in front of them all and she makes a small shadow version of Twilight. “Is capture her..” she then crushes the shadow. “And break her.” Twilight was pacing back and forth in front of her own throne, Spike trying to assure her that everything would be alright and that the others would make it in time. She desperately wanted to believe him but this situation was one where every single second counted. With every second that passed, who knew what the Legion of Doom was doing out there or what they were planning. Twilight hears a knock at the door and sighs, hoping it was at least one of her friends. “Spike, get the door please..” She says and Spike nods before walking to the door. She holds her head with one hand, suddenly having a headache.. and her head was tingling for some reason. She slowly looks towards the door and notices that as Spike gets closer, the headache and the tingling gets worse.. and she immediately guesses why. “Spike, no-!” She calls out to him but it’s too late. As soon as he touches the door, an explosion knocks him away from the doors and into Twilight’s throne, sending him through it. “Spike!” Twilight yells before she growls and glares towards who caused the explosion only to see the Legion of Doom.. and Sombra. “Miss us Princess?” Cozy asks with that same infuriating evil smirk on her face. She has her magic ready along with the others. “Not even a little.” Twilight says with a bit of venom in her voice and that kind of surprises the villains. Hell, she even surprised herself with that. The villains all smirk and attack her, but she’s ready for them (or so she thinks). She dodges a blast from Chrysalis, catches a punch from Tirek and swings his fist into Cozy Glow who was jumping towards her. She then does a backflip, kicking Tirek and the process and knocking him back with magic. He lands on Chrysalis, only managing to pin her legs. Twilight hears something and just barely dodges a downward slash from Sombra’s scythe, only to roll forward and blast him when she stops, causing him to slide back a bit. She then uses her magic to make a glyph below him that launches him up into the ceiling before more form around him and start throwing him around rapidly. Twilight turns her attention back to the others but just one second too late as Cozy Glow lands a solid blow right into Twilight’s stomach and uses her magic to blast her. In that moment, Twilight’s concentration falters and Sombra is free from the glyphs that were still throwing him around. “Not so tough without your little friends huh?” Cozy Glow says to Twilight as Sombra lands and glares at her. He takes the chance to change into black mist and surround Twilight, picking her up and dragging her all around the room and straight into a lava punch from Tirek, into a magic kick from Cozy Glow, and finally into a power slam from Chrysalis. She tries to get up but before she can, the villains all proceed to attack her at once, relentlessly. “You’re lucky Midnight sees you as useful, otherwise we would dispose of you right now.” Tirek says as he and the others continue to attack her. Spike wakes up and sees this and growls, breaking free of the rubble he was trapped under. He then breathes fire at them and Sombra makes a wall of crystals that blocks it. He then steps to the others and they all disappear in a puff of black mist. Spike steps around the wall and sees they’re gone and is instantly filled with worry. “Twilight?!” He yells before looking around and running out of the castle but as soon as he gets outside, he bumps into someone and falls down, quickly being caught by the arm. He looks up to see that he bumped into Celestia. He shakes his head and double checks. “Celestia..? Celestia! You made it!” He says with excitement and he sees Luna, Starlight, and the others behind her and is relieved, until he remembers what just happened, but before he can tell everypony, Celestia interrupts him. “I just hope it wasn’t too late. So why are you in such a hurry?” She asks and Rainbow Dash goes past him a bit and looks around before looking at him and asking the question he knew was coming. “And where’s Twilight?” She asks and Spike instantly starts to explain, and he suddenly remembers what Tirek said. “One more thing, Tirek.. he mentioned someone named.. Midnight? He said she was lucky Midnight sees her as useful. Or something like that.” He says and at the mention of the name Midnight, Celestia and Luna immediately grow horrified looks on their faces and everyone notices. “Do you.. do you know her?” Spike asks and Celestia sighs and Luna frowns and looks away. “We must get Twilight back.. and once we do, Luna and I will explain everything.” Celestia says and everypony looks kinda skeptical at her and Luna but reluctantly nod. “Good, then let’s go, we haven’t got a second to lose.” She says before leading the others on the search. “Please be strong my faithful student.. we’re on our way.” She thinks.. Twilight is strong. She’ll be ok.. she has to be. Twilight groans as she slowly wakes up and feels pain throughout most of her body. She looks around and realizes she’s in an area she’s never seen before.. she also realizes she’s chained above a pit full of what she could only guess was dark magic of some sort. “Rise and shine princess.” She hears a familiar voice say and she turns to who it came from, seeing Cozy Glow standing next to the other villains with a smirk on her face. She growls and tries breaking free of the chains but with how much they have her stretched out, her movement was also very restricted. She tries using her magic and flapping her wings but those along with her horn were restrained. There was a ring on her horn that she had heard about it. It has a special gem in it that restricts the wearer’s magic. So until she gets that ring off, she’s gonna have a hard time escaping. She glares at them all for a bit before speaking. “Let me guess.. you all want revenge against me and my friends, right?” She asks, getting a nod from them all and she sighs. “When will you all learn that revenge never pays off.” She asks, more than a little frustrated at this point. Her frustration increases when the villains all start laughing. “But this time Twilight,” Tirek starts as he and the others charge up their magic and aim it at her. “It will.” Chrysalis says before they all blast her at the same time with an endless beam of magic, causing Twilight to scream in pain. They keep it up and don’t notice the dark magic moving up towards her and that Twilight’s starting to.. change. Her fur is becoming a lighter purple, the pink in her now black mane and tail becoming light green with a smaller strand of purple. Her cutie mark had changed colors as well. Her eyes becoming green with red pupils, purple mist coming out of them from the sides just like Sombra’s eyes. Her voice was also becoming slightly deeper. They stop firing but by then it’s too late for that and they realize they might’ve made a mistake. She suddenly yells as she releases a wave of magic that spreads throughout the area, knocking back and blinding all the villains and also releasing a beam of magic into the sky. Once they recover their vision, they all slowly get up and look around. The entire area is either burned, cracked or crystallized.. as if all this was a mix of all their powers. They hear something and look to see Twilight, kneeling towards them right in front of the, now covered, pit of dark magic. They slowly get up and walk towards her, having their magic ready. When they get to a certain distance, she slowly stands up, her head still down until she slowly raises it up but she has her eyes closed. The villain all look at each other confused before Chrysalis walks up to her and puts a firm hand on her shoulder to take her somewhere else.. but that turns out to be a big mistake. As soon as she touches her, Twilight opens her eyes and they’re still evil and scary looking. She grabs Chrysalis’s arm and spins her around before throwing her into a wall hard enough to make a crater. The villains look shocked before attacking her but she deflects the attacks right back them, knocking them all in separate directions. Chrysalis is the first to recover as she blasts Twilight from behind but Twilight backflips over it, landing behind her and blasting her through the next wall. When none of the villains get up she feels kind of.. disappointed before scoffing and saying to them, “Pathetic..” She then teleports throughout the tomb, trying to find a way out. Her efforts prove fruitless so she just flys through the roof, blasting a hole through it and the world seems to slow as she opens her eyes and sees.. an alicorn standing outside not far away from her that turns to look at her with a smirk. Twilight lands and glares, guessing that she’s the one behind all this. As the alicorn looks at her, still smirking evilly.. something tells Twilight that she doesn’t want to fight her.. not yet at least. So she simply just backs up and flys off as fast as she can.. which was way faster than she could before this happened. As the Legion of Doom climbs out of the mountain, Chrysalis actually flying out, they are about to go after her until Midnight stops them. “Let her go.. in due time she’ll learn her place.. and Equestria will be ours yet. Little do they know.. it’ll be because of one of their own precious so-called “protectors.” Midnight says before turning to the Legion of Doom. “Give it some time, leave the rest to me or feel free to cause a bit of chaos yourselves, and let “Twilight” do her part.. and when there’s enough chaos, you will meet me.. the real me.” Midnight says before facing the direction that “Twilight” flew off to. Yes.. her plan was already going how she expected it to.. and soon there would be no one left to stop her return. “Ugh! This is pointless! We don’t know where they took her or even if she’s still.. still..” Spike says, struggling to finish his sentence. He didn’t want to believe that Twilight was really gone but his worry and frustration had been building up ever since she was taken. Twilight had been like a mother and a sister to him and an amazing friend.. to lose someone like that when it could’ve been prevented.. He feels a hand on his shoulder and looks to see Rarity giving him a reassuring smile. Still being slightly taller than him, she turns him towards herself, looking down at him. “We’re all worried about her darling, but we can’t start thinking like that. Twilight is fine. Now say it with me and actually mean it.” Rarity says and he nods before they both say it at the same time. “Twilight is fine.” They say and Rarity smiles and pats Spike on the head and he smiles back before they all hear something and a blur goes racing past them and Rainbow Dash instantly gives chase after it. The surprising part to her is that this thing is going so fast even she can barely keep up. Finally after about twenty seconds, the thing crashes hard enough to make a giant crater and keep sliding , leaving a trail. Rainbow Dash lands and waits for the cloud of dirt and dust to disappear before going after it again only to find.. Twilight. Not the Twilight the Legion of Doom just encountered, but the same Twilight that she and the others had grown to love like family. “Twilight?” She asks before going to her and making sure she’s ok. Twilight slowly opens her eyes, looks at her and smiles. “Hey Rainbow..” She says weakly before closing her eyes again and Rainbow Dash instantly picks her up as gently but fast as possible and starts taking her back to the others. It was easier since Twilight was slightly bigger than her and the others but not even close to being as big as Celestia. “Just hang on egghead.. we’re gonna take you back home.” Rainbow says, trying to reassure Twilight that whatever she had been through is over now. “Home..” Twilight mutters before finally passing out from how exhausted she was. Rainbow Dash meets up with the others and they’re shocked and relieved to see her but also confused on how she escaped, but they could ask her about that once she recovered, right now they were just happy that she was safe. Meanwhile, the “other Twilight” was just happy the plan was working. Soon these ponies would all be destroyed.. and everyone would bow before her and Midnight.. but it would be her, Twivine Sparkle, to bring them down.. This was going to be fun.