Twilight sparkle stumbled back in shock.
"Wait...but...your...y-your the Princesses nephew...I think...right?! Why would you..."
He rolls his eyes an as twilight continues to talk. "blah, blah blah, blah blah. That's all I'm getting. Now excuse me, I don't believe you were invited."
He slams his hoof on the armrest. The room shakes. Black vines grew out of the floor, staining the area around them. They coiled around the five. They thrashed around as soon as they realized what was happening, but it was useless. The vines acted as tight chains that securely held them in place. He laughed evilly.
Now...allow me to introduce myself..."
He got up. Rainbow Dash looked up. "Tell me he's not going to start singing..."
He slammed his hoof on the ground. The hall fell even more silent than it already was.
"If you want a picture of a Charming Prince, I take the cake..." He began to sing in a bitter exited tone. Rainbow looked up in a 'oh great' way.
"But now you find all more alarming truth, I'm Charming as a rattlesnake."
He grinned evilly, his eyes growing an even deeper shade of red.
"Taken in, by my dashing grin...
You have failed to note the pointy teeth..."
For a second, his teeth grew sharp as knives. He flashed them at the five. Soon they became normal again.
"I'm no fraud, but beneath this warm facade...
I'm prince CHARMLESS, undernieth!!!"
He shot a beam of magic at the ceiling. It spread to the back of the room, down the walls, and into the floor. It floated up and started forming ponies. They were guards in black and grey uniforms. Some guards bring in a pony in a black hood. Thy throw her against the wall. The magic laces her up, acting like a chain. They try to fight, but it's no use. There held firmly in place. He walks up to them and rips off the cloak.
Rarity looks up and gasps. She glared at him. He just smirks.
"Just look at what a perfect little royal pair, we're going to make."
She turns her head away.
"Because everyone is completely unaware, there lives are all at stake!"
He grins at the horror of the mane six.
"You've been grand, for the plots I've planned...
And my gratitude a profound and large...
Nows the time, for the world to know that I'm...
Hardly HARMLESS!"
The vines and chains tightened.
"Ill equipped or ARMLESS!"
The guards stepped foreword so they were now beside and behind him.
"No I'm Prince CHARMLESS!
And I'm in CHAAAAARGE!"
Outside, the darkness grew to the corners of Equestrian. The kingdom was silent. With the three princesses missing, Prince Blueblood WAS in control.
As the vines recoiled, they were prepared to run, to get help. But the guards ran to them faster and some teleported around them, like a barricade. They grabbed them with a fierce firm grip. They thrashed and struggled, but it was no use.
Rarity screamed. "Let them go!"
Blueblood chuckled and shook his head no. "No...a leader has to COMMAND respect if he can't earn it."
"They didn't do anything to you!" she furiously struggled with her chains. "Let. Them. Go!!"
He just ignored her struggles and grinned. "It's like you ponies aren't even trying."
Fluttershy's eyes fluttered open. Her blurry vision, streaked by blood, was starting to vaguely clear. She could see...blue. And white. There were clouds. A sky!
Her vision focused, and she tried sitting up. A sharp pain coursed through her spine. She closed her eyes tight and winced as she lay back down.
She felt something wet. She had just enough energy to turn her head to the side, slightly. She saw only red. It was...it was blood. And grey. Blood on a grey floor. Her hoof reached out and touched the grey. It was cold, and rough...stone! It was stone.
Slowly, she sits up. The pain is insane, but she toughs it out. Ones she's up, her vision is better. She's in what appears to be a stone room. There's a massive pool of blood on the floor, plus fresh blood stains dripping slowly from the walls. Fluttershy winces, with pain and fear.
The smell of blood was so strong, it was almost as if you were tasting it yourself. She finally stood up. The room seemed to spin for a second.
"Ahem."
She screamed and turned around. There was a shadow. The pony was dressed like the other guards...but he was different. he felt...human.
"W-who...are y-"
"Blueblood wanted real guards for you ponies..."
Fluttershy stumbled back. "J-just..." she looks down. tear falls from her cheek. "Just don't talk to me...I wan't to be...a-alone..."
The new guard looked at her. "I...I really wish I could help you..."
"I don't believe you."
He glared at her. "First I'm kidnapped, then I'm forced to watch my own sister be tormented and imprisoned!? And not being able to do a single thing!? Do you know how badly I wan't to kill that monster!?" He said, his deep voice filled with anger and sorrow. He didn't care if he was heard.
EARLIER THAT DAY
Big Mac walked the halls, his head held high. He was going to be let go soon, he knew it. Blueblood was insane if he thought he was getting anywhere.
He heard a scream. One of the other guards turned to him.
"Your wanted in room 106."
Big Mac nodded and raced to the room. What was on the other side? He cautiously opened it. His heart was pounding as he did so. When he saw inside, he's pretty sure his heart stopped for a second.
The orange mare was chained to the wall of the white room, blood dripping down. She struggled insanely. "Let me go!" She screamed. She looked up for a second, and gasped.
Applejack stopped struggling. "B...B...B-Big Mac...?"
"A-Applejack...I-I can...I'm not..."
"You lied to me!" She continued to struggle, now twice as much as before. "You told me you'd always be loyal to this family! You lied! Your a lying, evil, traitor! Working for Blueblood!"
"Applejack, you don't understand!" he pleaded. "I don't want to-" The guard glared at him. Then it all came crashing down on Big Mac. He couldn't tell Applejack he was kidnapped and enslaved, because if he stepped one foot out of line...well, as Blueblood said, he'd find Applejack, Applebloom, and Granny Smith's dead bodies on his bedroom floor the next morning.
"You don't want to what?!" She commanded.
"I...I don't want to talk to you." He straightened up. He wanted to scream to her that he didn't want to do this. That he was going to make sure they were all set free. That everything was going to be ok.
But he couldn't do that. And...that would be a lie, anyway.
"Then just go away!" Applejack screamed. Tears were streaming down her cheeks. Her voice was cold and commanding. "I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!"
"Fine by me." He said, and left. As soon as he closed the door, he stomped his hoof on the ground. He punched the wall in anger. The hallway shook. And as he walked away, back to the room with the pony that he was supposed to guard, he whispered to himself.
"I'll be free."
He silently hoped Applejack had somehow heard him.
BACK TO THE PRESENT TIME
Fluttershy had long fallen back asleep. Big Mac was standing tall and still. The mare slowly opened her eyes.
"How...how do you do it?"
He looked at her curiously. "Do what?" he asked.
She laid her head back against the cold stone floor and stared at the ceiling. "Stay brave. Stay strong. Stay...stay standing, at a terrible time like this...how can you do it?"
He looked down. "I..." he looked back up. "Honestly...I don't really know...but if it had to be one thing, it's the future.
"the future?" she asked, still looking up.
"Well..." he understood himself now. "you just have to think about whats going to happen, not dwell on what's happening right now. Know that someday your going to rise up, and be free. Know that someday you'll be a hero."
She smiled and closed her eyes.
Maybe there WAS hope
And maybe there was.
Somewhere.
Someplace.
Someplace that wasn't here.
Because from each end of this earth,
Each living soal to another,
Pain was being felt.
Because of the deathly wrath
Of the new Prince.
The new king.
The new ruler.
People whispered in the corners of there home,
the only place they could feel even the littest bit safe.
they called him
CHARMLESS.