'Who... who are you?' Rainbow Dash whispered. She looked up to see a colt, brown coat, black mane with shiny blue stripes.
He helped her to get up. 'Who I am doesn't matter now, you need to find your way out.'
'You sound like that zebra,' Dash said, and grinned.
The pony, who was about two feet taller than Dash, said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, that was an accident.'
Dash stretched her wings. 'No, seriously, whó are you?' she asked. She saw the pony was also a Pegasus, his wings were brown and with a tone of blue. Though he looked a bit intimidating, she immediately liked him .
'No, no, that is not important. C'mon, Rainbow Dash, I know a way out of here. You have to find your friends and help them defeat the Changeling Army.'
'How do you know my name?' the blue pony asked surprised.
The Pegasus smiled. 'You're famous enough for those Sonic Rainbooms.'
Dash álmost blushed. 'Alright,' she then said. 'Let's go.'
'Follow me,' the colt replied.
They ran for about fifteen minutes non-stop. Dash got a bit tired, though she didn't show it.
Suddenly, the brown pony stopped. 'Okay, here it is,' he said, and pointed at the "ceiling" of the cave.
Dash looked up. She saw a hole in the rocks, just small enough for her to get out, though the other pony won't fit through.
'It's too small for you,' she said. 'How will you get out?'
The colt shook his head. 'I will stay here, looking for the Princess and helping out other ponies that got sent here.'
'You sure?' Dash asked.
The colt only nodded. Rainbow Dash sighed and spead her wings. 'Thanks!' she yelled, as se crawled through the opening.
The other pony smiled.
'Pinkie!'
The pink pony didn't turn around. She strategically avoided the beams being fired at her by Chrysalis and the "guards", and when she got there, she literally bumped face-first into the queen.
This had, how surprising, no effect at all.
Pinkie thought.
Too bad, Chrysalis got distracted. 'What... oh, you fool!' She put her leg on Pinkie's tail so she couldn't escape and let out an evil and scaring laugh. Since she wasn't paying any attention to the other ponies anymore, Twilight saw her chance to break free. She immediately enchanted the two guards and made them change back to their "normal" changeling forms.
Pinkie, still being held by the queen, yelled and crawled on the floor in a desperate attempt to escape. Rarity, who had been in certain situations before, knew what she should do.
There were quite a lot of armoury things in the hall. Shields, maces, and swords, for example.
She carefully dragged one of the swords hanging on the wall towards her. Pinkie saw what she did and calmed down. In one move, Rarity cut Pinkie's tail off so she could escape.
The pink pony galloped to her friends AJ and Twilight, who were waiting for her.
'That was very reckless of ya', Pinkie,' Applejack said. 'But very brave as well.'
Pinkie smiled. 'Ah, what could have gone wrong?'
'Okay, girls. We can do this. There's three of us and only one billion of them...' Twiligt said.
A blue flash passed by. 'Hold on a sec',' the ponies heard, and in front of them, Rainbow Dash landed. 'Okay, we're with four now.' She looked around. 'We're gonna lose, aren't we?'
'Rainbow Dash!' the free ponies cried in unison, and hugged their friend.
'Ah, I can feel your love, little ponies,' Chrysalis suddenly shouted. The three stepped aside.
'Act like you don't love us,' Pinkie whispered.
Rainbow Dash shrugged. 'Sure. By the way, what's happened to your tail?'
Pinkie wagged her now terribly short tail and said, 'Oh, Rarity just saved my life. That's all.'
'I like it,' Dash said.
Chrysalis sighed. 'Can we pléase continue with this battle. Your dialogues always take so terribly long.'
'That's not our fault!' Pinkie yelled. 'It's the writer's!'
'Sure,' the queen replied. 'Who cares. Come on!'
Rainbow Dash lifted off and bashed into the queen. She avoided those creepy green beams and pinned Chrysalis to the ground. 'Gotcha.'
She immediately got dragged away by two óther Rainbow Dashes, and as she fought to get free, Twilight, Applejack and Pinkie ran towards the queen.
'If we can defeat hér, the army will not know what to do and vanish,' Twilight yelled.
Pinkie and AJ nodded. 'Hm.'
Chrysalis only laughed at the sight of three small ponies, two without magic and the third with magic so weak in comparison to hers, running towards her in an attempt to defeat her.
Twilight suddenly casted a teleport spell and the three ponies all appeared on different spots - AJ on Chrysalis' right, Pinkie Pie on her left and Twilight right behind her. Chrysalis, in confusion, lost sight of what was happening (Seriously, you can't even handle a student pony!? What kind of alicorn are you... *sighs*) and called for het guards.
Pinkie Pie got caught and put with the others, who were still wrestling to escape. Applejack and Twilight both avoided the changelings. Applejack kicked Chrysalis' front legs, while Twilight locked all of her limbs in some sort of magic lock.
The spell she used for that costed a lot of energy, and she looked at Rarity for help. Applejack suddenly appeared behind the guards holding the other unicorn, and she knocked both of 'em unconsious.
'Run, Rarity, run!' she yelled.
Rarity ran to Twilight and kneeled down. 'What do you want me to do?'
'Just... ugh, just give the lock some more power, will you?' Twilight replied groaning.
Rarity's horn started glowing and she beamed at the lock. The lock turned from purple to a nice shade of pink, since Rarity's magic was blue.
Twilight sighed in relief, she didn't have to use so much power anymore.
Applejack saw her chance to free Rainbow Dash as well. She asked Twilight for instructions.
'Keep on freeing everypony,' she moaned. 'We just have to defeat her... then the others will be defeated so much easier...'
'We can't do this on our own!' Pinkie said, after she was freed of the guard's grip.
Twilight shrugged. 'Just... just keep the changelings away from Rarity and me. The rest will handle itself...'
'Hey! Where does Fluttershy go?' Pinkie asked. The other ponies just saw a yellow and pink flash leaving the room through the open windows.
Rainbow Dash wanted to follow, but AJ blocked her way. 'No, Dash. We can miss her, but if you go too, the battle will be lost...'
Dash growled. 'Fine. But I have officially unfriended her.'
'Oh... I feel... a great lack of love right now...' the queen mumbled. She tried to escape once more, but the lock was too strong, and especially now Fluttershy had left.
'Yeah, who cares,' Twilight muttered and shut the queen's mouth.
With only three ponies left who were able to keep the changelings away, it got harder and harder to do.
'I... I think I cannot handle this anymore!' Dash yelled. 'There's too many of them!'
'Ah know,' Applejack said calmingly. 'But just wait for Twilight to figure out a spell that can take the "queen" down forever.'
Chrysalis, hearing this, panicked. She struggled to fond her way out of the magic locks and finally, she broke out. The shock made Twilight and Rarity fly away and Twilight hit a stone pillar, while Rarity just back-shoved the floor.
'Now I am free again, I can continue with my fairly small and simple plan to take over Equestria,' Chrysalis said.
'Oh no you won't!' Rainbow Dash bashed into the queen again, though it didn't have any effect. Almost immediately, the guards took her away.
'Give Dashie back!' Pinkie Pie shouted, and stomped on the floor. 'Chrysalis! I want Dashie back!' she whined.
'Well, too bad for you,' the queen replied. 'Guards! Take those ponies away! It seems that one pony has escaped the caves, maybe the others are able too. Guard all the entrances!'
The guards, however, most of them were just changelings now, each grabbed one of the ponies and dragged them away. They had no idea where they were going, though they were too tired to even try to escape. No, wait, that's not true. They all heard Rainbow Dash fighting to get free, punching guards and biting them. They heard a couple of changelings scream in terror, and Twilight couldn't help but smile. She wondered who "the others" were.
They all were left in a for-Canterlot-small room with only two windows and one door. The five sat together, back to back, and tried to think of a way out, not minding the guards who were standing beside the door.
'Right, girls, I know we can get out,' Twilight said.
Applejack nodded, but asked, 'How?' then.
Twilight looked up at the windows. They were glass-stained windows, with pictures of completely randomly picked ponies in it.
'Dash,' she then said. 'Do you think you can break that window?'
Dash frowned. 'Not with my bare hooves, Twilight. But maybe... if we just find something...'
'The guards,' Pinkie Pie whispered. 'They both have a sword. We could use that...'
'Pinkie, for the first time in my entire life, I consider agreeing with you,' Dash muttered back.
Pinkie smiled and jumped up. 'Twitchy tail! Twitchy tail!'
The others looked surprised, but didn't know how to respond. Pinkie hopped and danced towards the guards, who had bursted in laughter, not even thínking about making her stop.
She then suddenly kicked one sword from the guard towards her friends. 'Catch it, Dashie!' she yelled.
Dash caught the sword in mid-air and immediately lifted off, heading to the window.
With the sword, it wasn't hard to break the glass. She scraped the sharp edges out of the window frame. 'I gotta go, ladies. I'm gonna look for help.'
'I wonder how she got out of those creepy, dark caves in the first place,' Rarity whispered.
Suddenly, they heard a buzzing noise. The two guards flew through the window, trying to catch Rainbow Dash.
The four were left alone.
'Oh, do you think they will catch Rainbow Dash?' Rarity muttered.
'Nah, don't worry,' Pinkie replied. 'She's way too fast for them.'
'Where were we?' Twilight asked. 'We were planning an escape... weren't we?'
Pinkie walked out the door. 'Door's open. Stupid guards.'