“This isn’t going to work.” Twilight looked back at Patch Celestia. Twilight was wearing a cloak that covered her whole body except her head.
“Of course it will. Just play it cool and none of them will know the difference.” Twilight walked up to the gate of the military base. It was in the middle of a desert. One place few beings would go. She knocked on the door. It opened and a viashino head popped out.
“What!?” He then saw Twilight and his eyes widened. “Lady Twilight!” He ducked back in and the door opened all the way. “My apologies for my reaction. Please come in.”
“Um, thank you. Just watch your tone.” This felt weird to Twilight. She was not used to this kind of treatment. It was weird to even feel like she was in such control of others.
“May I take your cloak?” The lizard asked politely still with a bit of fear.
“No, it’s alright. I’m not staying for long.”
“Very well, what can I do for you?”
“I need to see the elements of harmony.”
“Why?”
“Are you questioning me lizard?” Twilight looked at him putting on her best irritated/intimidating face.
“No! Of course not.” He backed away. “I just find it strange that Lord Sean would send you here without any notice.”
“He doesn’t have to keep lowly creatures like you informed. Just take me to the elements. Or should I tell him you denied me?” She didn’t necessarily like acting this way but it seemed to be working.
“No! Please don’t. Follow me.” The viashino turned and walked towards a small building that looked like some sort of barracks. When they entered the building they headed for one of the beds. The lizard walked over to the end table next to it, he opened the drawer and pressed a button that was in it. The nearby bed tipped over to reveal a hatch that was under it. The viashino walked over and opened the door. “After you.”
“Good call.” She walked over to see a stair case. Twilight walked down she heard the lizard following her. They walked until they reached the bottom of the stairs. It had become so dark that Twilight had to use her horn for light. In front of them there was a large vault door. “Open it.”
“Yes Lady Twilight.” He walked to the door, he entered a combination and the door swung open. The room was lit and in the back the elements were in a frame on the wall.
“Thank you, Lord Sean will be pleased.” She used her magic to grab the frame and headed out the vault and back up the stairs. When they got outside she headed for the door.
“Hold it right there imposter!” Twilight looked up to see what herself floating over them. This Twilight had wings just like Evil Sean said.
“Twilight?” The viashino captain yelled in surprise. “But,” he pointed to Twilight.
“You moron, didn’t you wonder why she hadn’t just flown inside?”
“Well I I guess.” He stuttered.
“Look.” Flying Twilight shot a fire ball from her horn lighting other Twilight’s cloak on fire.
“Aagh!” Twilight tore the thing off.
“See! Last I checked I was supposed to have wings.” She glared at the lizard.
“Well I guess I better leave.” Twilight turned and ran out the gate.
“Get back here!” Winged Twilight flew after her.
“Guys help!” Twilight yelled to the group of hiding ponies and pointing towards the Twilight chasing her.
“Get down!” Celestia jumped up and shot a beam of magic at alicorn Twilight. Twilight responded with her own magic beam which easily over powered Celestia’s and sent her flying.
“Princess!” Normal Twilight glared at her counterpart. “How could you!? Why are you helping the person trying to kill your brother and race?”
“That’s easy, Lord Sean is the reason I am as powerful as I am.”
“So you turned on your family for power?”
“That’s not it, he’s also the only person who saw my magical potential and helped me harness it.”
Twilight was terrified. Some of those evil lizard guys had shown up at her house and had taken her captive. They had dragged her to the castle of Lord Sean and locked her in a cage. When she got there she saw some other children in similar cages.
Sean sat in his throne room looking on one of his screens at the element bearers in the cell block. Then he noticed the newest child that had been brought in. A purple unicorn, there was one major difference from most unicorns though. He could sense the powerful amount of magic in this one. She had potential, it would be waste to kill this one.
“Captain.” He looked at the nearby viashino in gold armor.
“Yes my lord?”
“Bring me the purple unicorn.” He pointed her out on his screen.
“Yes master.”
Twilight sat in her cage in fear. Then she heard the door open and two lizards walked in. They looked around at each cage until they saw her. Then one pointed at her.
“That’s the one. The master wants the unicorn.” Then the other one walked up to her opened the cage and grabbed her.
“Let me go.” Twilight struggled in the lizard’s grasp.
“No can do.” He then carried her to the throne room. “Master, here she is.” He then threw her on the ground in front of the throne. She grunted as the wind was knocked out of her.
“Careful lizard!” A column of fire came out of the ground and enveloped the lizard. Twilight heard him scream before he was reduced to just a lizard skeleton. “Greetings Twilight Sparkle.” Sean stood up and walked up to her.
“What do you want with me?” she looked at him in fear.
“No need to be scared child” he kneeled down in front of her. “I want to help you.”
“With what?”
“I see potential in you. You’re destined for greatness.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Twiley listen.” Shining Armor walked forward to look at her. “You remember how mom and dad died?”
“Yes, they were killed in a fire.” She eyed him.
“That’s partially true. Sean was the one behind their death though.”
Shining Armor followed his parents to the castle. His parents had contacted Sean wanting to talk about Twilight who he had taken under his wing. Sean had requested they meet outside behind the castle where they could enjoy the Jund weather and be undisturbed. He was the only one who enjoyed this weather, likely due to his dragon side. When they reached the meeting place they saw him sitting at a stone table.
“Ah, there you are. Glad you could make it.”
“Hello Lord Sean.” Shining’s mother bowed to him. They then all sat at the table.
“So, what did you want to talk about? I understand it involves Twilight.”
“Yes,” His father spoke up. “We don’t feel comfortable with Twilight living with you. We were hoping to take her back with us.”
“I see.”
“We mean no disrespect sir. We just want to do what’s best for our daughter.”
“I fail to see how living with me and reaching her full magical strength is not what’s best.” Sean leaned forward putting his elbows on the table, crossing his hands and holding them in front of his mouth.
“She just seems a bit young to leave home so suddenly it may be too drastic of a change.”
“Interesting. Well, I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this.” He let out a roar and looked up.
The ponies followed suit and looked up. Maybe a mile above them was one of Sean’s genetically engineered Balefire’s, they were fast creatures which he used to bomb battlefields with fireballs. They were long slender black dragons with gray undersides, their wings were red and resembled stain glass. Their heads were small and sharp with a large under bite resulting in the lower jaw completely surrounding the upper, they had two large horns sticking out of their heads. Their arms had blade like parts near the elbows, even from here they could see the piercing red eyes of it.
“Shining run!” his father yelled as the Balefire shot a fireball down. Shining turned and ran to take cover behind a large rock nearby. There was a loud explosion and when Shining looked out from behind his rock he almost cried out. His parents’ dead bodies were on the ground, they were so charred they didn’t even look like ponies. Across from them Sean’s cooked body lay in his chair.
Then Sean began to twitch and spark. Slowly his charred flesh returned to its somewhat pale color and his armor began to reform around his healing body. Once he was completely healed he stood up dusted himself off and walked away into the castle. Shortly after he left two minotaurs came out and grabbed his parents and carried them off.
“You see? Sean is the one who murdered our parents! He’s the embodiment of evil. Do you still support him?” Shining asked. Alicorn Twilight was standing in front of them with a look that showed she was thinking. Though it lacked any sort of emotion.
“Meh.” She finally said shrugging.
“What!?” Shining looked at her in shock. “He murdered our parents just for wanting to take you home.”
“They deserved it. They were trying to take me away from Lord Sean and prevent me from reaching my full power.”
“I see, I was hoping you’d see his evil and join us. But I guess you’re too brainwashed to do that.” He then fired a shot of magic at her.
Twilight easily dodged it flying into the air. “Wow, so dramatic. If anyone’s brainwashed it’s you. You’ve let Celestia corrupt you. Come to the winning side and I won’t have to kill you.”
“Never!” he shot another bolt.
“Shame. Bye Shiny.” She then shot her own bolt that Shining was unable to dodge and hit him point blank. She landed in front of him. “Say hi to mom and dad for me.”
“No!” Normal Twilight yelled. But she could do nothing as Shining’s head was torn off by the other Twilight. Then alicorn Twilight was hit by a rainbow blur and smashed into the wall of the base.
“Why you!” She got up charging her horn. Glaring at Rainbow Dash.
“Run!” Celestia yelled. All the ponies ran off. Twilight gave chase but Celestia managed to teleport them away.
“Ugh!” Twilight growled.
“That was close.” Patch Celestia panted. “Good thing you were able to get us out of there.” She looked at the other Celestia.
“Thank you. I question how Twilight is that powerful in this world.”
“Or how I’m an alicorn.” Twilight said.
“Her being an alicorn and being so powerful are linked. She was charged with so much magic a few years ago, she was transformed and it has made her able to hold excessive amounts of magic. Come on, we need to enter phase two of overthrowing Sean.”
“Master, I’m back.”
“Ah Twilight, how was your mission?” Sean was standing on his balcony admiring Jund. Watching as the volcanos erupted and dragons happily flew. This was far better than Equestria ever was.
“Not so good.” She knew he had watched. He just always loved hearing beings admit their failure. “They got away with the elements.”
“Excellent.” He kept his back turned to her.
“I’m sorry master it. Wait, did you say excellent?”
“Yes, I did.”
“Why is it a good thing they got away?”
“This is all going according to plan.”
“What? You have some sort of plan.” She walked onto the balcony.
“Of course I do Twilight. I anticipated them going for the elements. I sent you there anticipating failure. Bonus points for killing Shining though.”
“Why would you send me on a mission to fail?”
“Because, they now know we are onto them. That means they will begin to rush their plan.”
“Which is?”
“Prepare some Balefires.” He walked away completely ignoring her.