“Twilight... how could you?” Rainbow Dash said in solemn shock. Her mane and fur were tattered and dirty. She had a deep, still healing wound on her left foreleg and a bandaged torso.
'Why is this happening?'
“Rainbow Dash please! I'm slipping! Pull me up!” Twilight said frantically, digging her hooves into the dirt. Her heart was racing and her vision was tunneling. All she could see was her only friend left in the world, staring down at something on the ground, ignoring her pleading cries.
'Do you really want to hear my pitiful story?'
“We trusted you. I trusted you...” Rainbow's eyes scanned back and forth at the object beneath her, as if hoping it would change the next time she looked it over. Tears began welling up in her eyes.
“Dashie please! I- I can't hold on much longer! I can explain I swear! Just, just help me please!” Twilight began sliding, being pulled down by her body that was limp with mortal fear. Her hind legs dangled uselessly, only serving to pull her down. She shut her eyes tight, squeezing hot drops from their corners.
'It's pathetic really... How I came to this fate. Honestly, I don't even know all the details myself. That's the pathetic part I guess.'
“Shut up! I- I can't think!” Dash put her hooves over her ears, and shook her head violently. All the while, Twilight slipped further down.
“Please Dashie..”
“Don't call me that!” She sapped, her eyes shot open, they burned with an intense anger and hurt. Tears streamed down her face.
“Rainbow, I'm slipping! I don't want to die out here, please!” The dirt under one of her hooves gave way, cascading down the perilous edge and taking her hoof with it. She struggled to bring her hoof back up, but the shift in weight only caused her remaining hoof to slide faster. Gritting her teeth, she slowly let her hoof dangle.
“You lied! To everypony! Everypony who trusted you! You lied to me! You just took advantage of my loyalty and used me!”
“No! Rainbow Dash, you have to trust me! I need you. Please, trust me.” Her hoof was now less than an inch away from the edge, she looked at Rainbow Dash with pleading eyes.
'My name is Twilight Sparkle, until recently, I was a princess. Now? Now I'm on the verge of death in a foreign wilderness.'
“Rainbow Dash. Help me!”
'This is my story. The tale of how I, Princess Twilight Sparkle, was sent into exile.'
Rainbow Dash looked frantically between the item on the forest floor and the pony whose life, was literally slipping away. She stopped and shut her eyes, looking for clarity. After and eternity long moment, a moment in which all of nature seemed to come to a stand still, she opened her eyes. She took one long, sorrow filled look into the dangling ponies eyes.
“Twilight... I'm sorry” With those words, she turned away. Finally, her last life line gave out, and she fell. Air blasted around her as she tumbled helplessly down to her end. Tears surged up her face, forced along by the winds. The earth below was fast approaching, the jagged stone seeming eager to meet her. Is this how it all ends? was her last thought before she felt the painful, sudden impact...
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'Okay, perhaps I should start at the beginning... well, not necessarily the beginning, I'm still piecing that together. Let us start at that fateful day. The day my peaceful life fell apart. The day that I was sentenced to exile.'
“Bring the prisoner forward.” Her former mentor spoke in a cold command. Bowing her head, she slowly began trotting forward. Her shackles rattled and painfully rubbed against her hooves. She was sore and tired. They were in a dark hallway, dimly lit by candle light. Coming to a stop, one of the many guards at her sides light his horn, engulfing the handles of large ornate wooden doors in a green glow. The door creaked open and a blindingly bright light shined through the growing space between the doors into her eyes. She shut them tight and looked down to the floor... It was the sunlight, shining through the glass ceiling of the court. She had been in that dark prison for days, her eyes weren’t ready for such intense light.
“I said forward!” Celestia boomed angrily. Suddenly, she felt a quick and painful tug at her collar as she was dragged by her neck towards her fate. She choked and gasped for air, but the guard had no sympathy for the lowly prisoner. She was then dropped in front of a tall, overbearing podium. Three podiums actually. The tallest of which was in the middle, and there sat the princess of the sun, Princess Celestia. To her left, in a slightly shorter podium sat Princess Luna. At her right, sat two, Princess Cadance and her husband, the captain of the royal guard and the accused own brother Shining Armor. As her eyes adjusted she saw that the courtroom was filled, it was a complete spectacle. Sitting closest to the show was her friends, the elements of harmony, though they were short on element of loyalty. Her heart began to sink at the sight of her friends. She didn't think she was capable of feeling any lower.
“The accused has been found guilty of treason, in particular, plotting a coup d'etat with enemy forces against Equestria. You have also been found guilty of plotting the murder of royalty as well as committing acts of sabotage against the crown.”
She closed her eyes, but the tears still poured forth. 'I didn't think I had any tears left. Oh Celestia why did it have to end like this?'
“Twilight Sparkle, for committing these heinous crimes there is only one fitting punishment.”
I can't believe this is happening, I wish this were all a dream. What will I do? What can I do? I- it's over..
“Twilight Sparkle, you are hereby sentenced..”
Please no, please no!
“To exile!”