“Twilight, you’re hurting us!” The cries rang from her friends as she held them in her magic, purple mist leaking from her now green eyes. Her horn cracked, and turned red, losing the circular pattern all unicorns were born with. Twilight looked up, and her eyes filled with concern, and she tried to turn off her magic. However, not only did her magic not change, her body turned toward the sound of hooves approaching her.
“Must you play with your food?” It was Sombra, back to full power and standing tall and looking absolutely terrifying with a cloak of darkness following behind him. Twilight’s body sighed and dropped Twilight’s friends onto the ground, growling in irritation.
“I don’t tell you how to do your job, you don’t tell me how to do mine.” Twilight’s body raised her mouth, and laughed mockingly to the black sky as lightning struck the clearing. Turning toward her cowering friends, a feral smirk emerged on her face as she approached. Fluttershy forced herself to stand, and stood in front of the others, and began to glare at Twilight.
“Oh please, like that would work on me,” her body spoke, swatting Fluttershy away like a fly as she approached Rainbow Dash, and lifted her up, grabbing her wings with her two front hooves. Dash opened her eyes slowly, coming to consciousness just to see the glee on Twilight’s face.
Slowly, gripping Dash’s wings, Twilight began to open her arms wide.
“Gyaaaaaaah,” screamed Dash in immense pain, blood splattering onto Twilight’s hooves. Letting go, Twilight let Dash fall, and turned toward Rarity, licking the blood off her hooves. It wasn’t well known, but a unicorn’s horn was one of the most sensitive organs in a unicorns body. Normally protected by the hard, outer coating, no one would ever assume that.
“Please Twilight, just activate Rainbow Power and we can defeat Sombra! We can’t do this without you!” Rarity was pleading not for her life, but for Twilight to activate some stupid power. Twilight smirked, and leaned forward.
“Very well Rarity, but we both know if any one of us is...no longer on this world, it won’t work.” Twilight raised a hoof, and slowly brought it toward Rarity’s horn, seeing the pallid expression on her face. Twilight’s smile grew, and she leaned down, gripping the horn and-
“Stop,” a voice spoke, and Twilight turned, narrowing her eyes as Sombra approached, firing five bolts of black energy and silencing them all in one moment. Twilight narrowed her eyes, and glared at Sombra. How dare he take away her fun!
“The solar one is approaching. Stop playing with the baby toys.” Sombra’s condescending attitude had interrupted her fun for the last time. Twilight charged a spell and snarled fiercely at Sombra, eyes glowing brighter as she fired. Sombra barely gave her a glance, and turned, allowing his cloak of shadow to absorb the spell as if it was a leaf blowing against it.
“Good help is so hard to find these days, always trying to overthrow me,” he sighed as he left. Twilight growled and flared her wings, preparing to dive after Sombra and slit his neck, however a crash from the ceiling caught her attention. And there she was, Celestia. Twilight flapped her wings once, and fired a bolt of pure energy at Celestia. Celestia called up a shield of bright yellow energy, deflecting the blast.
Ducking and weaving, both descended into the dance of fight. Celestia looked down and saw the defeated bodies of the other elements, and her face broke out into pure unadulterated rage. Twilight smiled, and spell met spell. Light battled darkness, and light lost. Twilight landed, looming over Celestia’s body.
“Twilight, you are dreaming, wake up!” To Twilight’s confusion, Celestia began to transform into Luna, and she blinked shaking her head and turning to look at the crystal surface, catching her reflection for the first time. Twilight’s eyes widened, her face was cracked, glowing green underneath.
“Gyaaaah!” Twilight awoke screaming, falling off her bed as Rainbow Dash crashed into the room, wings flaring. Twilight was both relieved and repulsed to see Dash, and her stomach convulsed. Thankfully crystal wasn’t hard to clean vomit off of. Dash flew over and sat down, patting her on the back, concerned.
“You ok Twi?” Dash received a scathing glare in response. Of course Twilight wasn’t ok. As the wave of nausea passed, she stood up, and both left the room to escape the smell now covering the room. Closing the door, Twilight sighed and rubbed her face.
“Just a horrible nightmare, thank Celestia it’s over.” Both turned and looked in the direction of the room Sombra was locked in for the night, and shared a glance. After a moment, both began walking.
“You sure that magic thingy is blocking his magic?” Dash tilted her head, and Twilight sighed. While not a perfect fit, it should be definitely blocking his magic. The chances of it being Sombra were highly unlikely, but it didn’t hurt to double check.
“It should be Dash, now sshhh, we don’t want to wake him if he’s asleep.” Twilight slowed down, quieting her steps until she could barely hear them. Dash landed as well, crouching down as they snuck toward the door. Twilight looked at it, and saw nothing amiss.
Unlocking the door, Twilight peeked in and saw Sombra was asleep, papers on his desk covered in words. Twilight was tempted to go read them, but decided she could do so in the morning. Closing the door, it locked with a soft click, and Twilight headed for the kitchen to get some coffee.
Sombra opened his eyes and sat up, looking to his desk. With quiet steps, he walked over and pulled a few pages out of the pile on his desk. Walking over to his bed, he slipped them underneath it, where it was unlikely to be discovered. Sitting back down, he turned over to face the wall and once more closed his eyes.