//------------------------------// // Unable to Escape... // Story: Unable to Escape // by Aqua Shimmer //------------------------------// A pegasus, a dranconequus, and an alicorn stood in front of Princess Celestia, looking at the floor shamefully. "What were you thinking? You all could have hurt somepony. Much less hurt somepony who was already injured." The sun princess looked at all three of them scornfully. Rainbow and Discord had started arguing with the doctors which then lead to a fight with the security guards. Luna had followed Discord and had entered in the middle on the fight. At first she tried to stop it. Then she sided up with Rainbow and Discord when she found out why the fight had broken out. Luna looked her sister in the eyes, pleading with her "Tia, their planning on-" "I know what their going to do Luna." Her voice raised slightly in a warning. "I'm the one who gave permission to do that." Luna took a step forward. "You what?!" "They were dying painfully, Luna. I had no choice. I rather them died painlessly than die slowly." "You had plenty of choice. Did you even try to find a cure?!" "Luna-" "No, Tia! You can't just talk this down like it's nothing!! And despite how much you think you know best you really don't!! So don't even try. You would have done this before." "What are you saying?" "I'm saying that the last thousand years has clouded your judgement!!!" Rainbow and Discord winced in the background, realizing that the sisters had trended into dangerous territory. Celestia stared at her sister. "What?" "You heard me." Luna turned around angrily and looked at Rainbow and Discord. "Come on. We're leaving." "I haven't dismissed you yet. We still have t-" "We don't have to talk about anything Celestia!" Luna nodded towards the other two and they left. "You have a lot to think about, sister." Luna walked out of the room, the doors slamming shut behind her. "Luna......." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Discord kept glancing at Luna nervously as she angrily stomped out of the thrown room. The lunar princess walked right past both he and Rainbow. The pair quickly followed her, worried and confused. Once the exited the main palace doors, Luna came to a sudden halt and turned to face them. "Discord, me and you are going to visit Dark. Rainbow, you're going back to Ponyville." Discord looked at her, surprised at the calm tone her voice held. "I-" "No Rainbow." Luna looked at her sadly. "You have to go and keep track of the fillies. They can't be allowed to see the health their sisters are in." Rainbow grew quiet, understanding what Luna meant. If the fillies found out, they would have much bigger problems than they already did. Rainbow slowly nodded, looking towards the ground. "Then go. We have no time to lose." Rainbow raised her head and saluted before flying away. Discord watched the cyan and rainbow spec disappear into the distance before he turned to look at Luna. "To Dark's then?" Luna sighed and looked at him sadly. "Unfortunately, yes. Let's just hope he can help us." She sighed again and he noticed a few tears falling onto the ground. Discord walked forward and hugged her. Luna tensed before she pulled him closer, crying on his shoulders. "Why? Why would she do this to them?" Discord gently stroked her mane, eyes watery. "We'll fix it Luna. We won't let them die." He looked up to where Celestia was standing on her balcony and he narrowed his eyes as Luna cried on his shoulder. Celestia turned her head away shamefully. He looked back down at the crying mare. "I promise you Luna." He held her there until her sobbing calmed down. She pulled away and he looked down at her worried. Luna wiped her eyes and looked up at him. "Let's go." Luna lit up her horn and they both disappeared in a bright teal flash. ~~~~~~~~~~ Rainbow flew towards Ponyville, the days events playing over and over again in her mind. Tears began streaming down her cheeks, collecting on her chin before dripping onto the ground hundreds of feet below her. She started flying faster and started wiping her tears away. The more she tried, the more the tears came. She stopped and landed on a cloud, hugging it tightly. After a few minutes, her eyes cleared and the tears stopped. She lifted her head and saw Twilight's library in the distance. rainbow spread her wings and hot towards it. She landed on the balcony and tried to think of where the CMC would be and what they would drag Spike into. "Rainbow?" She turned around and saw Spike standing at the balcony doorway. He was soon joined by Sweetie Belle. "Um...hi. May I come in?" Spike smiled at how silly her question sounded. "Of course. Besides, I think I could use some help." He smiled sheepishly until a loud crash sounded from downstairs. Sweetie then ran way and Spike followed. Rainbow took a tentative step into the library before going down the stairs. The shelves lack all their books, who found a new home on the ground. Applebloom and Scootaloo smiled a forced smile as Spike freaked out on the bottom step. "How did you even manage this?!" "Well, you see," Scootaloo's eyes looked away from the dragon and landed on Rainbow. Scootaloo looked at her, concern filling her eyes as she looked at the fading rainbow mare. "Rainbow Dash? Are you okay?" She nodded, smiling at the orange pegasus filly. "I'm fine, Scoots." She hopped of the stairs and hovered above a layer of books. She laughed quietly before turning her head towards them. "We should probably start putting these away, huh?" They nodded and picked up a few books. "So, um, how did Twilight organize them this week?" Spike pointed to piece of paper on the wall. Rainbow looked at it before turning back to Spike. "That's just this week's?" He nodded. "Well... this will take quite some time." ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Discord and Luna got back right after the sun set and the moon had risen to take it's place. The both had a gloomy look on their faces but they smiled slightly as they entered the library. A fort of blankets and pillows was built in the middle of the library's main room. Shadows of several ponies and a dragon was cast from the inside of it. They were laughing loudly as Rainbow joked around, her shadow wearing what seemed to be a hat. "Darling, you must stop acting like a ruffian and act like a true lady." The fillies burst into another fit of laughter. A devious smile crossed Discord's face as he slowly made his way to the fort. He smiled then quickly opened the entrance, yelling, "What's so funny!!" The fillies and Spike screamed before laughing. Rainbow smiled at him and he saw she was wearing what seemed to be one of Rarity's hats. She took it off of her head and placed it on Sweetie Belle's.. "You're turn. I have to talk to Discord." The other three smiled at Sweetie as Rainbow walked out and looked at Discord and Luna. "What happened?" Luna and Discord exchanged looks before he looked back at the cyan pegasus. "We need to talk about this, out of their hearing range." He nodded towards the fort. "Upstairs?" They nodded and they went up to Twilight's room.