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// Chapter 1 
// Story: What if? 
// by dark_wolf06 
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“Love you Twilighy”, said shinning armor as he smiled at Twilight.

“Love you to BBBFF”, said Twilight with a smile as she bowed respectfully. 

It was a great wedding and after all the cake, Pinkie’s singing and even Rainbow’s sonic rainboom a great ending. As Twilight watched the carriage pull away she suddenly felt cold and heard Queen Chrysalis’s laugh echo through her head. As the world started to turn black Twilight saw a small window of light, she ran towards it.

Twilight’s eyes suddenly flew open as she panicked taking in her surroundings; she noticed her body was cocooned in a greenish substance, her body covered in a clear fluid. As she slowly caught her breath she stared through the outer shell into the gloom, she was in the wedding hall, worse of all she was hanging from the ceiling. As she looked around some logical part of her mind noticed that the decorations and walls were torn and stained with dark stains. Twilight slowly begin to take deep breaths to try and calm herself as she realized for the first time how weak she felt, like she had just done the running of the leaves again, but longer and faster.  As she finally caught her breath she strained against her bonds, finally freeing one hoof then the other. Trying hard to concentrate she was able to cast a dim glow with her horn to see the cocoon she was in, straining with her remaining strength she was able to free her other legs from the clear wrap, when she did 

Twilight heard a snapping sound as she fell through space landing on the floor in a heap, the cocoon splitting open spilling her onto the stained carpet.

Standing shakily Twilight looked around in the gloom noticing the windows were stained with more of the undeniable substance. She slowly looked around noticing weird metal cables running to a device of some kind that glowed a sickly pale green, feeling suddenly ill she backed away into the corner of the room and stepped on something with a crunch. Turning quickly Twilight lowered her head to see a pony corpse, dried like an old husk of wheat. Biting back a scream Twilight suddenly heard wings flapping fast as she quickly hid behind a statue of Celestia. Watching the door Twilight saw two changelings enter with a cart, as she watched one pointed to the ceiling as the other flew up and carefully snapped free another cocoon and loaded it onto the cart. Suddenly Twilight heard the other one yell something and point to her cocoon, flying other the two changelings stared at the shattered cocoon as they looked around for her. The two changelings begin to look behind the wall tapestries other statues, Twilight silently prayed to Celestia that they wouldn’t find her, as the two descended on her hiding place they stopped and stared at the door as if summoned. Grabbing the cart the two flew off at a rush, stopping only to lock the door loudly behind them. 

Twilight breathed a deep sigh of relief as she saw them leave, but how could changelings be in the palace. Was she even in the palace anymore, where was her brother, where was Celestia or Luna, and most importantly where were her friends?