Luna screamed out in agony from her spot beneath Itachi. She felt the horrible throbbing pain radiating from her forehead, her brain pulsing from the immense shock of her horn being snapped off. Shifting one of her hooves, she was able to move out to try to stand up, but Itachi quickly stepped down and locked her leg in place. The princess snarled in anger as she glared up at the pony.
"You monster! You broke my horn!" She screamed out at him.
Glancing down to his hoof, Itachi stared at the broken horn before turning back to the alicorn beneath him. "I told you that you didn't possess the skill to combat me, Princess. If you had just submitted in the beginning perhaps you could have avoided the pain you are in now."
Baring her teeth, Luna thrust her body upwards to shove his weight off. In a split second, she was able to flip her wing out from under her and swung it towards him. Jumping out of the way, Itachi settled several feet away from the princess as she scrambled to her hooves. His calm gaze never changed as he brushed his bangs out of his face, sighing before looking back to her. "You should just accept the fact that no matter what you do, it won't change the facts: you have been defeated by me and have no way of protecting yourself anymore."
Luna felt her heart race in realization to what he stated. She reached up with her hoof and touched her horn, instantly yelping out in pain as soon as she made contact. She traced along the jagged, shattered part of her horn that still remained on her forehead. Glaring, she attempted to use her magic, which in turn caused a searing amount of pain to burn through her skull. Luna staggered backwards as she lost her balance from the shock before catching herself, sweat dripping down her fur in complete disbelief to what had happened.
She had lost her ability to use magic.
'No... This can't be happening...' She shakingly said to herself. Looking back up, she felt her heart drop as Itachi slowly made his way back towards her. 'How can a pony be this strong? What is he?'
"Now princess, I suggest that you quit your attempts of trying to resist any longer and just submit." Itachi demanded as he pulled another Kunai out from his sleeve. "I require that you come with me now. I would prefer if you came quietly without anymore trouble."
Not wanting to find out what he was planning, Luna quickly spun around and sprinted as fast as her legs would carry her. Quickly unfurling her wings, she lifted off the ground and up into the sky. "I have to get back to Canterlot... I have to warn Tia of this pony." She shouted in her mind as she gained more altitude. Looking back over her shoulder, she expected to see her opponent far behind her now. To her shock however, he wasn't even there anymore. "What?"
Before she could even turn back forward, Luna was blindsided by a form smashing into her back and pinning her wings to her sides. Unable to slow herself down, she could only scream out as she watched the ground come closer and closer. Then suddenly, the force let her go and jumped off. Seeing her chance, Luna attempted to open her wings back up to slow her descent, but she was too close to the ground to completely stop. Bracing herself, she shut her eyes tight just as she collided hard into the meadow. The lunar alicorn slowly crawled up from the dirt and tried to stand back up, but a sudden Kunai against her throat froze her on the spot. She shakingly turned her gaze around to meet the bright red eyes of Itachi staring right at her.
"Don't make this more difficult than it has to be. It is the goal to keep you alive. I would rather not bring back a body... But I would suggest that you do not push what little luck has come your way."
"W-what?" Luna responded in utter confusion, "what are you-" she stopped speaking as the strange knife pressed right up against her windpipe, causing her breathing all together to stop. Itachi leaned in closer so that his muzzle was right against her ear.
"It would be wise that you not worry about anything else than what I tell you. Your powers of combat are useless now without that horn of yours, and even if you still had it, it wouldn't matter. Your talent is nothing compared to what I have. No matter how hard you try, you are not my equal."
Beneath him, Itachi noted how still and quiet Luna was now. Her head hung low towards the ground, signaling her acceptance of her defeat. Seeing how he had won, he pulled the Kunai away from her neck and slipped it back into his sleeve. Before he stepped off however, he felt her body begin to shake. Then, he heard a sound from her that he did not ever expect to hear, causing him to grow confused.
She was laughing.
Tilting his head, Itachi stepped off her back to let her move. "Do you find something amusing?"
Still laughing, Luna slowly turned around to face the Uchiha, a grin plastered across her face. "We actually believed that thou had us defeated for a moment there. Very skilled of you."
Taken aback by her odd statement, Itachi stepped back towards Luna. As he did however, a bright blue glow began to radiate from Luna's body, lighting up the entire area. The shinobi used a hoof to help block out the blinding light that was growing out from her form. "What is this?" He questioned as the glow only continued to shine brighter.
"You think that you could stop me like that, Itachi? Let me tell you you are the one mistaken." Luna stood up completely as she lifted her head up. The glow from her body was now growing out and seeming to wrap the air itself. "You cannot stop the princess... Of the night!"
In a loud crash, the entire sky seemed to shatter like glass, the bright and lit up sky was replaced by the dark night once more. Luna gasped out for air as she collapsed to the grass, her body drenched with sweat. Her mind felt like it was pulsing like a drum, sending wave after wave of numbing pain through her body. Even with the pain though, she had a grin on her face. Opening her eyes, she looked up and saw something they caused her heart to flutter.
Her horn was still there.
From his position, Itachi stumbled to the ground as well, catching himself on his elbows. His breathing was also slightly ragged, coming in deep pants as he attempted to uncover what had happened.
"That's impossible... She was able to break out of the Tsukuyomi. How coud that happen?"
Luna took a few moments before attempting to stand up. While she was aware that whatever power over her was gone, she could still feel its power lingering. Her head was still spinning in a daze, causing her vision to blur. Whatever this new power he had used on her was, it was much stronger than the ones earlier. Shutting her eyes, she took several deep breaths, Luna slowly began to clear her head and think clearly. Reopening her eyes, she focused her gaze towards Itachi, thankful for the one thing she had on her side that he could not have predicted.
The moon.
Being bonded to the moon, Luna sensed lunar waves of energy from it while it was in the sky. After she believed her horn was broken off, she was still receiving them, which meant that her horn was still there. Able to focus past the genjutsu placed over her and access her magical powers. While she was fortunate for her ability, Luna knew she was lucky; if she had been caught in that ability in the day, she wouldn't have been able to receive the moons energy, thus making it impossible to break out of that genjutsu.
Panting, Itachi looked down at his hoof beneath him. As he expected, his vision was extremely blurry to the point where he couldn't focus on the end of his own leg. Then, a sharp pain shot through his left eye making him wince out. Putting his hoof to his eye, he tried to get through the pain that was the after affects of using the Mangekyo sharingan. After another minute, The intense throbbing subsided, but the pain never truly disappeared from Itachi's eyes. 'Damn it, I can't keep using it like this. At this rate I won't have any more vision to spare.'
Across the field, The white half of Zetsu gave a questioning look to the battle before him. To his sight, both Luna and Itachi had simply been standing for sometime, and now both collapsed to the ground. "What is going on now? What happened to Itachi?"
"I can't believe it... How is that plausible?" The black half stated in disbelief. "She broke through Itachi's tsukuyomi."
"What? But that's impossible. No one can break through Itachi's ultimate genjutsu."
"Apparently this pony can..." Black Zetsu focused his gaze onto the blue alicorn. "Whatever she is, she is unlike any other creature we have seen here."
"I agree. Never would I have figured to find creatures able to counter Tsukuyomi. Even standard genjutsu itself I thought would overcome anything that lived here." The white half lifted his eyebrow as he watched both Luna and Itachi stand back up. "Oh? It seems they are ready to go at it again."
"With that last attempt, genjutsu is useless in this battle now. Now it will strictly be a battle of ninjutsu against her." The black half gave a small chuckle to himself. "Now... We will see who is truly stronger."
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The courtyard in front of Canterlot Castle was eerily silent as everypony stared at the cloud of dust where Twilight had been slammed into the street. Rarity and the other girls were frozen in terror at seeing their friend hurled to the ground. Rarity put a hoof to her mouth as tears began to form in her eyes. "Twilight..." She whimpered. Something then suddenly brushed past her side and catching her off guard, before her eyes went wide in panic. "Spike! What are you doing!?"
The young drake was snorting in anger as he charged towards Pain. Before he could continue though, Rarity's magic quickly grabbed him and pulled him back. "Hey! Let me go! I'm gonna make him pay!" Spike yelled out in anger as he thrashed about in the aura. "Look at what he did to Twilight!"
"And what in tarnation do ya think you are gonna do? That pony is strong enough to fight the princess." Applejack said as she gripped the dragon around his chest and pulled him backward.
"I don't care! I'll make him pay for that!"
Celestia could only stare in disbelief at the dust cloud in front of her. She had seen her student and friend slammed right in front of her and she wasn't able to save her. "Twilight... No." She whimpered out in fear of the worst. A gentle breeze came through the street and began to push the dust out of the way, giving Celestia sight to the impact. What she saw however made her eyes widen in shock. "What!?"
Twilight was trembling in a tight ball, her eyes clenched tight as she prepared for her impact. Realizing it wasn't coming, the young mare opened her eyes to see herself floating in the air just inches from the ground. Then she noticed the light blue shield of magic surrounding her, revealing what absorbed the collision to the ground. "Wh-what? What happened?" She asked herself in confusion. As the bubble dissipated around herself, Twilight settled her hooves to the ground as she looked around until she spotted the pony that had saved her.
"C-Cadance!?"
Princess Cadance's horn slowly faded its glow as she released Twilight from her grasp. The pink alicorn quickly galloped over towards her friend and pulled her into a tight hug. "Twilight are you alright?"
Happy to see who it was, Twilight wrapped her hooves around Cadance and pulled her close as well. "Thank you a Cadance. I thought I was done for right there."
Seeing the two ponies embracing in front of Pain did nothing to change the blank expression on his face. "You chose to intervene, fool."
Cadance's smile fell off her face as she looked up to Pain staring at her. She quickly stood back up and moved Twilight behind her. "Go over with your friends, Twilight."
"But Cadance, you can't possibly-
"I'll be fine, just go."
Before she objected, Twilight nodded and ran away towards her group of friends waiting for her and pulled her into a big group hug.
"Twilight, I'm so glad you're okay!" Rarity yelled out as she wrapped her hooves around Twilight's neck and squealed in happiness.
“WOOHOO! I knew you were always a tough cookie!” Pinkie Pie giggled as she embraced her friend.
"Oh goodness, you're not hurt are you?" Fluttershy asked when she noticed the few scratches over Twilights shoulder.
"I'm alright, thank you." Twilight then felt claws wrapping tight around her foreleg. Looking down she saw Spike clenched on to her leg, several tears falling down his face. "Spike, it's alright, I-
"Don't do that to us again Twilight!" Spike yelled out in frustration. "Don't ever do something that dangerous! I thought I was going to lose you!"
Hearing that caused Twilight's own eyes to glisten over. Reaching down, she gripped Spike and pulled him to her chest. "Don't worry Spike. I'm not going anywhere."
Celestia gave a warm smile seeing a Twilight save and with her friends now before turning over to her niece. "Thank you Cadance. I don't want to think about what would have happened if you hadn't shown up."
"I'm just glad I came in time..." Cadance quietly responded as she focused her magic once again as Pain came closer. "What worries me is this pony here."
"That is why I want you to go back with Twilight. I'll handle this on my own."
"Auntie, look at yourself, you can't even think on doing this on your own now!" Cadance snapped out. "You should be the one sitting this out.”
The white alicorn looked down to the bloody opening in her wing from where the black rod had been ripped out, making her wince from the sharp sting from it. The cracked ribs in her chest also caused discomfort, but she shook it off to focus on the problem in front of her. "I'll be alright. I don't want you getting hurt."
"You should both remove yourself from my path now..." Pain demanded as he slipped another black weapon from his sleeve. "I want the location of the creature Discord now. I am growing tired of this game."
"I don't know what your motives are pony, but whatever it is it must be something horrible!" Cadance burst out at the pale unicorn. "You come here and have attack our home when we have done nothing wrong to you, and you tried to kill Twilight just now!
"One who stands in the way for my plan for peace will feel the pain that comes with defiance."
"So you think that hurting our land, one that doesn't contain the problems your home contains, will solve this quest for peace you claim of? How can you justify reasoning like that?" Celestia demanded sternly.
"You believe that you have lived in a world of kindness, but you are only deceiving yourself. There is always hatred no matter what. There will always be one that tries to take from others, and will cause that group pain. To say otherwise is a lie."
Seeing both Celestia and Cadance facing Pain, Twilight knew they couldn't just sit there any longer. "Girls, we can't be here any more and get in their way. We have to go grab the elements of harmony."
"The elements?" Fluttershy whispered, "but how can we use them without Rainbow Dash?"
"If I know Rainbow Dash, she will be coming back any moment. She would never leave us for too long. But right now, the princesses need our help. If we are to have any chance against this pony, we have to use the elements of harmony against him. I can go retrieve them so that we can all use them to stop this from going on anymore."
"Do you think some weapon of yours is going to stop us?"
The girls all froze from the chilling voice that came from behind them. Flipping around, they were met facing Tobi staring down at them. Twilight felt like her heart was going to burst out of her chest in fear from facing another one of these strange ponies. "This... This can't be happening."
As he took a step towards them, Twilight charged her horn up and shot a bolt of magic at his head. To her utter disbelief though, the beam passed right through him like he wasn't even there. The only thing that did come out of it was a chuckle from Tobi from her shocked expression. "That was a nice try, but nothing you do can phase me." The masked stallion reached his hoof up and reached towards the group of mares. "Your plan is already foiled."
Backpedaling in fear, Twilight and the others tried to keep their distance away from the approaching Tobi. Twilight cast a force field to her front to keep the akatsuki member away , but to her shock he once again simply phased through the shield. "What... what kind of pony is he?"
"Your attacks have no affect on me young one..." Tobi answered as he came closer towards them, "And I heard you plan on retrieving some sort of weapon to use against us. Whether it would even work or not it doesn't matter. You won't be reaching them."
Before any of them could even react, Tobi swung his hoof out and struck Twilight across the face and sent her flying into the nearby wall. "Twilight, NO!" Applejack screamed out in terror of seeing her friend collapse to the ground.
Hearing the girls scream behind her sent a trail of fear up Celestia's back. Turning her head around, she felt her heart double its pace at the sight of another member of the akatsuki standing there over the limp form of Twilight. "No... not another one."
Pain lifted his head at seeing his leader having arrived now. "So you have chosen to come out now? It must be important for you then."
"Indeed it is. You no longer need to waste your time with these creatures anymore..." Tobi said with a hint of spite in his words. "I have already retrieved Discord."
"What!?" Celestia gasped out loud at hearing that.
She could not believe it. The entire time she had been trying to stop Pain from discovering the location of Discord that she was too distracted to see it was all in vain. “It can’t be. They have him now.”
Tobi only laughed at seeing the fear in the princesses face. “So you are that frightened by the thought of having this beast in our possession? Perhaps I was wrong to think it was a waste to capture him now.” Tobi then turned towards his subordinate and nodded. “Pain, we are done here, let us go.”
The pale unicorn nodded to Tobi before looking back at the princess. “It seems that our meeting has come to an end. Now that we have what we need, we shall leave.”
"Wait… After everything you have done, you just plan to disappear like this?” Celestia questioned, dumbfounded by the actions these ponies were doing now. She turned back around to Tobi and stomped her hoof in anger. “You aren’t going to simply walk away after the destruction you have caused us!”
“I have no desire to even waste time with the likes of you. I have my own needs to fulfill.” Tobi was prepared to move away, but when he saw twilight beginning to stir at his hooves he stopped himself. "So, you're still conscious after that. I'm impressed. For a girl you seem to be more durable than most of those pathetic guards I've seen here."
Shaking her head, Twilight began to focus her vision as she started crawling off the ground, coughing several times to regain her breath. When she looked up, she froze in fear as Tobi leaned down so that his mask was face level to her. "Wh-what do you want with me?"
The bright sharingan under Tobi's mask stared through the young unicorn’s soul, burning its image into her mind as he spoke."If I left you here, that means you could go and retrieve those elements you mentioned from before. And from what I heard it seems that you all must use them together." His eye opened wider as he raised his voice. "If one of you is missing, that makes it useless, correct?"
The swirling vortex appeared in front of Tobi's face and began encircling the mare beneath him. Twilight panicked as she felt her body begin to be pulled towards the mask. "What's going on!?" She tried to scrape her hooves on the ground to get away, but she was no match for the power against her. " Somepony, HELP ME!"
Spike dug his claws in the dirt as he sprinted towards his friend in trouble."Twilight , hang on!" But the drake skidded to a stop as he watched Twilight whisked into the air like a piece of parchment, spinning inside the vortex as she screamed in fear of what was coming. Then, she was gone. "Twilight, no..."
"Wh-where did she go!?" Pinkie Pie said in confusion.
Celestia's mouth quivered seeing her friend disappear in front of her. Not only had she failed to keep Discord guarded, she had failed in protecting a pony as precious to her as Twilight. "Twilight. No... Where did-" the white alicorn stopped when she saw her niece sprinting towards the new foe. "Cadance, don't!"
"No!" Cadance screamed out as she sprinted towards the masked pony. Her face became twisted with anger as her horn glowed brighter. "What have you done with her!? Let her go!"
Cadance shot a stream of magic off at Tobi, but to her disbelief the beam passed right through his chest as if he wasn't there. "What!?"
Tobi simply chuckled at seeing the perplexed look on their faces. "Your reactions amuse me, but I am done wasting my time here. Goodbye."
As the vortex appeared again to absorb Tobi into it, Celestia bared her teeth in anger and ran at him as well. "No! You aren't leaving until you have released Twilight!" She charged her magic and released a large glowing sphere at his head, but by the time it reached where Tobi was, he was completely gone. “No, Twilight!”
Celestia turned back around to face Pain, but to her shock he was already gone. All that was left in the courtyard was silence, only broken by the quiet whimpers of the young ponies.
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“What do you mean you aren’t even a pony?”
Konan closed her eyes as she took a deep breath. After explaining to Cloud Dasher of her arrival to Equestria, she came to the part of explaining how she wasn’t even a creature that lived here. “Yes. I am something that you would call a human. When we came here, we must have somehow been transformed into your race. I have no answer for how that came to be.”
“And what about those powers that you have, what is that?” Cloud demanded, “You aren’t a unicorn and yet you contain power like one.”
“The abilities you saw were that of what I had in my world. A shinobi have many different powers that they can use, mine are of paper techniques that you saw."
Cloud looked down to his spear that laid down at his hooves, still tempted to pick it up and finishing what he came here for. Even though she spared them, he had no idea if she was simply deceiving them or planning on tricking them into trusting her, but he knew he didn’t have a choice and continued. “Alright, I get that part. Now I ask once again; why have you and the group you came with attack our city?”
Konan’s ears dropped against her head in guilt of the question. “Once again, I am sorry for that. I assure you though that I have not killed anypony in the city.”
While Konan and Cloud spoke to each other, Midnight Blossom and Flash Shot sat to the side to give their captain his chance to speak. Although it was more to keep Midnight back from starting another fight. The bat bony sat with a glare as she tapped her clawed shoes on the ground. “This is ridiculous. Why are we giving this pony a chance to talk like this? Weren’t we supposed to arrest her?”
“If he had tried to subdue her, we wouldn’t be talking right now.” Flash mumbled as he lifted the helmet off his head. Shaking out the tangles in his silver mane, he set the piece of armor on the ground to his side. “She let us go after she could have taken us out. We have to respect that and have no choice but to let her speak her case.”
“Respect my flank, Flash…” Midnight hissed at him, “Her friends attacked the city and have already killed guards. And now we are just sitting here!”
Flash tilted his head up and noticed the strange silence that hovered in the air. “Wait… if they were still attacking the city, where are the explosions?”
“Huh?” Midnight flicked her pointed ears several times, attempting to pick up any sound of combat. To her surprise, it was quiet to what it was before. “It has stopped. Do you think the others from her group were stopped?”
“What!?”
Midnight and Flash turned at the sound of their captain yelling out. “Captain, what’s-
Before the could even finish their sentence, Cloud Dasher whipped the spear up into his hooves and pointed it straight at Konan. “You came here for Discord? What do plan to do with him!?”
Konan stepped back as the other trifecta members quickly galloped up to the pegasi’s side. She gritted her teeth in frustration at realizing what she said. ‘I should have figured that Discord must be the equivalent to the tailed beasts, they must be terrified by his powers.’ Holding her ground, the akatsuki member raised her hoof to her heart. “You may not believe me, but our plan involves to use Discord to return to our world. And that includes him coming with us.”
All three of the guards eyes went wide at what she said. Konan knew that if they truly did fear him, perhaps giving them a reason to let her take Discord could get the other members of the Akatsuki to leave before any more damage was necessary. “I know you may not think what I say is true, but I just want to return to my home without causing any more trouble to your home. I just-
Konan froze mid sentence and shot her eyes wide open. the three guards stepped back in confusion at her sudden change of demeanor. “What the heck is wrong with her?” Midnight whispered.
Almost coming out of a trance, Konan blinked several times before bringing a hoof up to the piercing on her lip. Almost instantly, her wings shot open to her sides as she looked back to the guards. “I no longer need to be in the city anymore. I’m leaving.”
As she turned to fly away, Midnight bared her fangs and raised her claws up, “Oh no you don’t! You aren’t going to-
“Let her go.” Cloud Dasher ordered as he turned to his comrade. “There isn’t a reason to fight her if she leaves our city.”
“But captain, we were ordered to-
“To stop her, yes. As you may have noticed though, we weren’t able to do that.”
Seeing that she could leave in peace, Konan nodded to the white pegasus as she flapped her wings and lifted off the ground. Midnight felt her eye twitch in irritation sneered as she turned away from her captain. “I still don’t understand how you can trust her. If what she said is true and how dangerous her friends are, how do we know that she isn’t deceiving us?”
Before he answered, Cloud stared down at the spear he held in his hoof. He had no idea what to expect from letting her go, but he had to trust his gut. “We just have to. There’s nothing we else we can do besides that.” He then shut his eyes and breathed in deeply, thinking back to that one night years ago. “Trust is sometimes the only thing you have.”
Before Midnight responded, she quickly shut her mouth as she realized what Cloud was referencing. Even now she couldn’t forget the darkness that enshrouded her that night, only to be pulled out by a pony she never expected. Looking over her shoulder, she saw Flash give her a warm smile, which brought a small grin to her face.
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As Konan flew through the sky, she slowly reached up with her hoof and rubbed the small piercing she had beneath her lower lip. The small piece of jewelry was actually a chakra receiver that she got from Nagato to put onto herself. They always knew that if they were separated and had to communicate, he could contact her via the piercing just like he did with the other paths of Pain. While it couldn't physically transfer conversations, the device allowed them to show each other's location.
What Konan received through the last message was the same location where they had first met at outside the city. After a few moments, sure enough, she reached the spot and saw Tobi waiting there for her. Slowing down her speed, she stretched her legs out and touched down onto the grass gently. Taking a breath, Konan straightened her face to her usual blank tone, trying to appear as she did before and looked at the Uchiha. "So have we completed the task we came here for?"
"Yes. Discord is in my possession now. With that done, we can move on. I want to know if Kisame and Sasori have completed their task as well." Tobi sighed as he looked in the direction where he saw the massive explosion earlier. "It seems that Deidara was taken down. That wasn't something I was expecting."
Konan also looked to the direction of the Everfree forest. She had also seen the explosion and knew it was Deidara's. She was surprised to know there were ponies here that could have pushed him to the point of suicide. Even though she personally was never too fond of the bomb maker, she knew To I wouldn't be happy with it. In fact, his death she realized could be used to her advantage of leaving now.
Nodding to herself, she towards Tobi and came to a stop at his side. "I know. Perhaps it would be best to leave the city then. It could be more dangerous here than we anticipated and would be a problem if we lost any more members and..." Konan stopped herself when she realized only she and Tobi were the only ones in the clearing. "Wait, where's Pain?"
Tobi was silent for a few moments before he turned his gaze towards Konan, his eye showing a hint of excitement as he whispered quietly.
"It appears these ponies do not understand the true meaning of pain. I think its time they know what it is like to live in the world we come from."
Konan tilted her head in confusion to what he meant, but then the realization hit her. "What!? You mean he..." Whipping her head back towards the city, her eyes widened in horror at the sight of the single figure high above Canterlot. "Nagato, no..."
---
Floating in the sky over the city, Pain beamed down to the capital with his cold gaze as he raised his hooves above his head. "Now you will feel the suffering that I have lived through in my life."
In his mind, he remembered back to that fateful day years ago when he was forced to kill his own friend by the shinobi that promised him friendship. He could still feel the blood dripping down his hands as one of the only two friends he had perished in his arms. Pain shut his eyes as he lowered his head down towards the ground. “I will never forget Yahiko’s pain.”
---
“Come on! we have to go look for Twilight!” Spike attempted to run off towards the exit of the city, but the girls kept grabbing him and pulling him back. “Knock it off! Let me go!”
“Spike, get a hold of yerself! We can’t just run after those crazy ponies after what we saw they did.” Applejack said as she wrapped her hoof around the dragon’s stomach and pulled. “Ah know what y’all are feelin’ but-
“If you knew what I felt then you would come with me!” Spike snapped at her.
“I want to help Twilight too, but without her or Rainbow Dash, the elements are useless.” Rarity quickly added, “We can’t do this without the help of all the princesses. We have to wait until Princess Luna returns.”
Hearing her sisters name caused Celestia to perk up suddenly. She couldn’t believe that she had forgotten about Luna during this entire time. “Where is Luna? She should have been back by now along with Shining Armor and the other guards.” The princess suddenly gasped and put a hoof to her mouth. “What if she ran into another one of these ponies!? ashe could be in trouble as well!”
Cadance beginning to panic as well, pacing back and forth as she contemplated what was happening. Being outside of the castle she now saw just how bad the situation was. These ponies were far more powerful than anything they had faced before besides Discord, and there was no knowing how many of them there were. Her husband was still missing from the castle, and now her foalhood friend Twilight was captured by this group. This only made her worry more and more.
“Oh Celestia, what are we going to do now?” Cadance mumbled as she rubbed the side of her face with her hoof. “We have to do something now!”
“I know, but we can’t be rash Cadance. I don’t know how we are going to find those ponies after they disappeared like that. Not only that, If we do anything they could hurt Twilight.” Celestia shook her head as she tried to think of a solution. “I want to go save her, but we have to first gather up the guards in the city and reorganize our protection first. If they decided to come back and…” Celestia stopped talking when she noticed a single figure high in the sky, barely silhouetted by the moon. “Is that… Pain?”
In his spot in the air, Pain opened his eyes as he prepared his act of power to Canterlot. “Now this world shall know… Pain.”
Silence then overtook Everything that instant, only disrupted by the gentle flutter of his black robe. The purple Rinnegan shined bright as his eyes never let the center of the city, getting ready to watch for the second time this technique preform. “Knowing true pain will bring you…. peace.”
That moment, everything seemed to freeze in time. The rustle of the leaves became nonexistent to any ears nearby. the chill of the night air was unnoticable to every pony that was outside staring up at the unicorn. Only one thing registered inside of their minds at that second. All it was to them were two words.
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“ALMIGHTY PUSH!”