"What are we going to do?" Twilight panicked as she trotted back and forth.
"We don't know, Twi. We just don't Twilight." Applejack muttered.
"I mean, we don't have the Elements, we can't reach Celestia as Crystal has placed a shield over Ponyville. What can we do?"
"Twilight! Please!" Rarity begged.
Twilight whipped her head around and faced her friends.
Applejack sat on a chair with her head in her hooves, surrounded by the others.
Fluttershy hugged the apple mare.
"Applejack?"
Applejack sat up and raised her head.
Her emerald eyes glowed red, and her tears stained her bright orange coat.
Twilight walked over to her friend.
"You do really love her, don't you?"
The farm pony nodded slowly.
"Oh, darling. Why did you never tell us?"
"Ah can't. Ah mean, ah couldn't. No-pony ever likes a fillyfooler."
"Awww, AJ. Everypony has their own ways."
"Lyra and Bonbon are together. And everypony loves them."
"But wha would ma family think? Ah am tha next owner of tha apple orchard. Ah am supposed to marry one of ma cousins, and carry on tha Apple name."
"That isn't very fair."
"Ah know. Ma cousin in Manehatten tried ta set me and Braeburn up."
"But why didn't you tell Rainbow?"
"Ah didn't want ta ruin our friendship."
Pinkie hugged Applejack.
"Dashie is your friend. And she would never leave a friend."
"Ah-hem! Miss Twilight Sparkle!"
The five mares looked up to see a white pony with pink hair, wearing white nurse uniform.
"Yes, Nurse Redheart. Is she okay?"
The pony shook her head.
"We don't know. She's in an unstable condition."
Applejack burst into even more tears.
"Can we at least see her?" Rarity asked.
"Of course. This way."
The girls followed the white mare to a blue door.
On the door it read,
Critical Care Unit
Nurse Redheart knocked on the door.
"Doctor. Doctor Stable."
"Yes yes yes. I'm here, Redheart."
The door opened revealing a caramel brown unicorn wearing a white jacket.
"Doctor Stable. Is it okay that the girls see your patient?"
"Yes, of course. But Nurse Redheart?"
"Yes."
"You go in with them. I've got to tend to my other patients."
"Okay."
The mares walked into the room.
"Oh, Dashie." Pinkie gasped.
Rainbow laid on a white bed. Her eyes were shut, and bandages covered her damaged wings. A clear mask was placed upon her snout. Wires and tubes draped her delicate body. Her chest barely raising. Scars, cuts and bruises painted over her cyan blue coat.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
A heart monitor sat next to her bed.
"Poor Rainbow." Fluttershy stroked her friend's prismatic mane.
B-Beep. Beepbeep. Beepbeepbeeeeeep.
Nurse Redheart ran over to Rainbow, and the others huddled into the corner.
She attempted to fiddle with the equipment.
"Doctor!! DOCTOR STABLE!!!" Redheart yelled.
"Yes! What is it?!" Doctor Stable
"We're going to lose her. Shall I-"
"No! We can't. Her injuries are to severe. I need another unicorn." He looked towards Twilight. "Twilight, quickly. I need your help."
The purple unicorn nodded frantically.
"Redheart. Get the others out. This is very tricky."
The nurse pony pushed the girls out.
Applejack tried to fight back, but a gave up as a white hoof rested on her shoulder.
"Let them help her, Applejack." Rarity soothed.
Applejack took one final glance before the door was slammed shut.
It was at least an hour before Twilight came out.
Rarity walked up to her.
"Is she-"
"She's okay. For now."
"But."
"But, she's too weak to support herself. And the life support machine isn't enough."
"Isn't there anything we can do?"
"We need Celestia. Or Luna. Or somepony with strong enough magic."
"But what about you?"
"I can only support her for so long."
Applejack trotted over.
"Can ya at least tell me wha her conditions are? So tha I know wha she was put through." Applejack sniffed.
Twilight sighed.
"We believe she was tortured. But we don't know how. We only know her injuries."
"And they are?"
"Well, erm, both her wings are badly damaged, her left lung is punctered, her right foreleg is broken, her diaphram has collasped. And her heart has been jolted."
"Oh the poor dear."
"And she has also been...."
"Twilight?"
"She has also been...sexually....abused."
"Oh sweet mother of Celestia!"
"Dashie...was....hurt....badly...Dashie...is going to die." Pinkie, or now Pinkamena as her hair was flattened and dull, started hyperventilating.
"Aww, Pinkie. She is not going to die."
"That's what she said before. That's what she said before she was taken." Pinkie rocked back and forth.
"There was nothing you could have done to save her."
"I could have. If I didn't jump onto that table, I wouldn't have hurt her."
"Pinkie, you didn't know this would have happened."
"But I did! I felt twinges! My Pinkie sense told me something was wrong." Tears flowed freely as the usually bouncy pony yelled. "Something told me that was something wrong with her."
Applejack hugged Pinkie as they both shared their pain for the vibrant pegasus.
Then, something clicked in Twilight's head.
"Celestia may not be able to help us, but we know somepony else."
"Who?"
"Who is the guardian of the night sky?" Twilight smirked.
"But I thought you said we can't contact anypony, since that horrible bug put a shield on Ponyville."
"I said that we can't contact Celestia."
"What's the difference?"
"Luna is immune. She was locked on the moon. So the changelings haven't created a spell to repel her."
"But how can we contact her?"
"With the Elements!"
"But we...don't have...the Elements." The others said confusingly.
"Of course we do."
"What?!"
"Us!"
"What?!"
"Us! We are the Elements of Harmony! We are laughter, honesty, kindness, generousity, loyalty and magic!"
The girls began smiling along with their unicorn friend.
"But what about Dashie?"
"I'm sure we could create a beacon. Without her."
The girls began to exit the hospital.
"Don't worry Rainbow Dash. We will be back."
"Okay girls. Just think of an event of where you have acted out your element."
The mares nodded.
The rest of the Elements of Harmony stood in the middle of Ponyville. Ponies gathered round to see what the girls were going to do to release them from their prison.
Twilight's horn lit up, and so did Rarity's.
The girls began to glow furiously.
Different colours of blue, purple, orange, pink and indigo shimmered off the ponies.
The towns-ponies winced from the bright light.
"Celestia! We must do something!"
"Luna! For the last bloody time! We can't we are helpless!!"
"Please calm down."
"The changelings are destroying Equestria and we're watching it without helping!"
"I can't do anything! I can't even leave this room!"
The two royal sisters yelled at each other while their niece and her new husband tried to calm them down.
"Oh Shining. What can we do?"
"I don't know." Shining Armour just stared and smirked at the elder sisters.
"Don't even think about bringing that up!"
"What's the matter Tia?! To pink for our tastes!?!"
"Oh shut it! You and your stupid Royal Canterlot voice! Art thou loud enough!?"
Luna was about to reply when the room lit up.
The basic shape of five mares appeared in the light.
"Wait...is that?"
"Twilight?" Shining said.
"But-but the Elements were taken." Celestia stuttered as she rose from her throne.
"Luna! We need your help! Rainbow Dash is dying!"
"What...how..."
"Luna! You are immune from the changelings magic! We need you to help Rainbow! Please!"
Luna nodded sternly.
"I'm coming."
The night princess ran over to the window.
"No! Luna! Don't you even dare!"
Luna grinned before kicking the stained glass window.
"Sorry sister! Duty calls!" She spread out her wings as she jumped out.