Night Wing! When I put my hooves on you I’ll make you wish you never were born! Trixie galloped without resting. She could feel like if her lungs were burning but she didn’t care. She had to save Rarity. He wants me, surely Rarity’s still alive… but I know my brother very well, she won’t be fine when I arrive… The magician pony galloped faster, unaware that Spike was still behind her. Despite still being a baby, he somehow managed to keep up.
***
Rarity slowly woke up. She fully opened her eyes when she realized that she was in an unfamiliar place. She saw that she was inside some kind of cell. Behind her she found a rock wall and in front of her she could see a door. She tried to get to it, but one of her rear legs was chained to the ground. She looked around but all she could see was a poorly illuminated room. She sat and hugged herself. She was shaking and her eyes became wet. This has to be his doing… I should have taken more precautions, how could I let this happen?! Just as a tear fell to the ground, she heard hoofsteps approaching. She managed to stand up and clean her eyes just before the door opened slowly. Somepony entered the cell, closing the door behind. Two red eyes glowed in the dark, which startled Rarity.
“So...” A voice echoed the room. It sounded terrifying. “You must be the pest who my dear sister cares the most.”
“And, you must be the evil Pegasus brother of Trixie, Night Wing.” Rarity tried to sound brave, but her voice broke. The pony in the shadows chuckled darkly and slowly walked to the light. Rarity gasped when she fully saw the monster before her. His coat was dark blue and his mane dark purple. His eyes looked even more threatening now and he had an evil smile on his face. Rarity noticed that his forehead looked strange, like if he just removed something he had for a while now.
“That is correct. I’m surprised than that stupid mare told you about me. She never cared about me, nopony did. That’s why I was kept inside the house. And that’s why everypony in Unicorn Hills had to die.”
Rarity’s jaw dropped, which amused Night Wing. He grinned darkly. “Trixie was right… you ARE a monster!”
The dark Pegasus lost his smile and slapped her on the face, making her fall to the ground. “The only monsters in this Kingdom are the Unicorns and the Princesses who rule it! I plan to cleanse this Kingdom from all those abominations.”
“You’re crazy!” The fashionista was working hard to keep her sobs inside. Night Wing jumped on Rarity, with his wings unfolded and began to strangle the defenseless Unicorn with his own hooves.
“You know nothing! You don’t know what is like to be a Pegasus in a Unicorn’s family, living in a town where only Unicorns were allowed to live! Being kept all alone in the dark, being fed with leftovers! Cleaning Unicorn Hills was the first step. After I get rid of Trixie, Ponyville will be the next! It seems like my sister estimates that pathetic little town.” He released Rarity, who began to cough as he watched her with despise. He grabbed Rarity from her withers and slammed her to the rock wall behind her. The Unicorn moaned of pain and opened her eyes to find Night Wing’s face close to her. “Let’s see if Trixie still loves you after I’m done with you.” Rarity watched scared as the dark Pegasus rose one of his forelegs and moved it fast to her belly.
***
“Rarity!” Trixie stood up and faced the direction where the cave was. She was taking a short break after her lungs couldn’t resist anymore. Once again, she had the feeling that her love was in danger. “I’m coming, please, hold on!” The blue Unicorn began to gallop again. She wasn’t far from her destination and she could already descry it from the horizon. This time, Trixie didn’t stop until she finally made it to the cave. She stood still to catch her breath before walking with caution inside it. The ceiling had many torches, lighting the way to a door. Trixie looked suspiciously to it. She walked towards the door but, middle way, she heard something strange. She stood still, hearing the sound approaching when, suddenly, she was pushed aside just before a blade passed through where she just was standing. Trixie put a hoof on her forehead. “What the…?” She opened her eyes and was surprised to find Spike in front of her. He wasn’t looking at her, he was looking at the blade, which hit the wall, and reaching a hand to the fallen pony. “Spike?”
“Get up, now!” Trixie took his hand and Spike helped her to stand up. She tried to look at the baby dragon, but he still didn’t look at her.
“Umm, thanks...”
Spike sighed and looked down. “This is all my fault...”
“What do you mean?”
“I helped to kidnap Rarity, I’m sorry, I don’t know what happened to me...”
“Did you… encounter Night Wing?”
Spike nodded. “It was a week ago. I found him hidden inside some bushes. The moment he put his eyes on me I felt… weird.”
“Night Wing plays with your mind, it’s not your fault. He gets you to do whatever he wants and changes your mood. That’s why you acted so darkly lately.”
“Then, I’m not… evil?”
“No, you’re not. He used you like a puppet to get to Rarity.”
Spike closed his eyes, sniffed and hugged Trixie abruptly. “I’m so sorry, Trixie! After I yelled at you months ago, I felt terrible. I knew that I had to apologize, but...”
Trixie smiled slightly and put a foreleg around the baby dragon. “It’s okay, I forgive you, Spike.” They broke the hug and Spike looked at her. “Spike, go back to Ponyville and bring help. I don’t know how strong Night Wing is and I may need help.”
Spike nodded and ran to the entrance before stopping and looking back. “Trixie.”
“Yes?”
“You’re not a bad pony, be careful.” After saying that, he ran outside and to Ponyville. Trixie smiled and looked at the door. She took a deep breath and galloped towards it, using her magic to blast open the door.
“Night Wing!” Trixie looked around. Her brother nor Rarity were in sight. “He kept himself busy.” The Unicorn said as she walked a few steps forward. The cave was some kind of lab. It was illuminated decently and there were several test tubes with strange fluids on various tables and weird machines everywhere. She was disgusted by everything she saw. She opened a door to reach a room which had no changes whatsoever. It was just the rest of the cave. She spotted another opening besides the one she entered from, but this one was a cliff.
Suddenly, she heard something move. She looked in front of her to see that a wall was slowly turning with somepony on the floor. Trixie gasped when she saw Rarity chained to the floor. She was holding her belly and her face showed pain. She had a purple eye and she was bleeding from her forehead, right under her horn and from her lower lip. She gazed upon Trixie with sadness and her good eye wet. Trixie saw enough. She growled as she heard something behind her, turning to see a white projectile heading towards her fast. She managed to cast a magical shield just in time and blocked it.
“Show yourself!” Two red eyes glowed in the dark and slowly walked to the light. Trixie was surprised to see that Night Wing had some kind of mechanical horn on his forehead.
“Hello, Trixie. Long time no see.” He smirked at her darkly as Trixie slowly shook her head.
“You’ve completely lost yourself.”
“Who do you think you are to tell me that I’m out of my mind?!” The Pegasus was furious. As he spoke, his ‘horn’ glowed. Trixie got on guard and Night Wing attacked her once again. She counter attacked to deflect his attack. She couldn’t dodge it or else Rarity would have gotten hit. “Do you like this? I've invented it myself.”
“Why?!” They were pacing in circles, not moving their sights from each other as Rarity looked terrified at the duel before her.
“It isn’t easy to kill a Unicorn when they can stop you from a distance. I had to invent something to be able to fix that. It connects directly to my brain.”
“I won’t make it easy to you. You will pay for what you have done!”
“What? Killing Clementine, killing every Unicorn in Unicorn Hills or kidnapping your stupid fiancée?”
Trixie growled again as she attacked Night Wing with several blasts, but he deflected them all, laughing. “Don’t call her stupid! And, how did you know?!”
“I’ve been observing you. I wanted to attack you where it hurts the most like many years ago, in your heart.” Trixie screamed furiously as she charged a spell. Night Wing smiled maliciously and got ready for anything. Trixie was crying of rage. She screamed one more time as she attacked her brother, but he dodged the spell with no problems. He laughed as he faced Trixie again, but was surprised that there was another spell heading to him which he couldn’t dodge. He got hit and was sent backwards to a wall. The dark Pegasus growled and flew towards Trixie with his forelegs at the front. Trixie tried to move but Night Wing attacked her with his ‘horn’. The magician pony couldn’t do anything but to get ready for the impact. Night Wing grabbed her and threw her to the ceiling in front of the cliff, causing a fissure and breaking one of her rear legs. When Trixie managed to stand up, she raised her head only to see how Night Wing approached to her again, he grabbed her and used a ‘spell’ on Trixie’s left eye.
“Trixie!” Rarity cried as she saw how Trixie was getting beaten up and later thrown next to her. Trixie moaned in pain as she slowly stood up. She didn't step with her broken leg.
“Hmm, it seems that you didn’t get enough.” The Pegasus was walking towards them. “How can you call yourself a magician when you can’t even beat a Pegasus.”
“Leave her alone!” Rarity exclaimed as she used her magic to lift a rock behind the evil pony and threw it to the back of his head. It was a big rock so he fell to the floor.
Night Wing put one of his forelegs on the place where he was hit and saw that he was bleeding. “You, fool!” He stood up and tried to attack Rarity with a projectile, but Trixie casted a shield around Rarity and herself, blocking it.
“Don’t you dare to harm her again, garbage!”
“Watch your language, I’m older than you, remember?”
“You’re no brother of mine!” Trixie limped towards Night Wing. “Fight me!”
“Somepony’s eager to die.” The dark Pegasus smirked as his ‘horn’ started to glow again. But Trixie was faster than him, her horn glowed and a series of projectiles were casted and headed towards the Pegasus in rapid fire. Night Wing had to move fast to escape from them and he managed to dodge them all. The entire time his ‘horn’ was glowing. When the projectiles stopped, Trixie fell to the floor, exhausted. Night Wing Laughed maniacally and released the ‘spell’ on Trixie.
“No!” Rarity tried to gallop towards Trixie, but the chain caused her to fall to the floor. She tried to reach a hoof at Trixie. “Trixie...” The blue Unicorn looked how a big white light headed towards her. She couldn’t do anything to stop it. But just as the projectile was about to hit her, a barrier blocked it.
“What?!”
Trixie was as confused as Night Wing, but Rarity was smiling for something she was seeing behind them, or better said, somepony. “Twilight!” Trixie and Night Wing looked at the entrance and they saw Twilight standing on the blasted door, furiously looking at the dark Pegasus.
The lavender Unicorn teleported in front of Trixie, protecting her. “You mess with my friends, you mess with me!”
“I don’t care how many of you are, I’ll take all of you on!”
“Twilight…” Twilight’s ears raised as she heard when she heard Trixie muttering to her as she slowly stood up. “Don’t underestimate him. His mechanical horn is strong...”
“Thanks for the heads up.” In any moment did Twilight lose her sight from the Pegasus before her.
He was still smiling maliciously. “So? Are you ready for your demise?”
“Can you fight, Trixie?” Twilight eyed her best friend from the corner of her eyes as she limped next to her. Trixie gazed at Rarity and saw her scared.
The blue Unicorn frowned and looked back at her nemesis. “I can manage.” Adrenaline flowed through Trixie’s blood. She couldn’t allow Rarity to be harmed again. Just as Twilight and Trixie got ready to fight, Night Wing disappeared before their eyes.
“Where is he?!” Twilight exclaimed and she felt Trixie getting back to back with her as they heard his laughter echoing the cave.
“He’s playing with us, like a shark surrounding its prey. Don’t let your guard down!”
“If only this room wasn’t too poorly illuminated… that’s it!” Twilight turned her head a bit. “Trixie, go free Rarity.”
“What about you?”
“I’ll distract him while you get her out of here.”
“Twilight...”
“Do as I say!” Trixie didn’t need to hear that twice. She nodded and got ready to gallop towards Rarity. “Ready? Now!” Trixie rushed to where Rarity was as Twilight’s horn lit and expanded the light through the entire room. It would only work for a few seconds, so she quickly looked her surroundings. She saw Night Wing charging a ‘Spell’ which would hit Trixie, but the later had her eyes focusing on Rarity. Twilight quickly attacked him with her magic. The dark Pegasus saw the spell when it was too late and got hit, but he managed to attack anyway. “Look out!”
“Huh?” Trixie saw Night Wing’s attack heading towards Rarity. “Get down!” Rarity threw herself to the ground just in time. The attack hit the chain which was keeping her from moving, releasing her. The fancy Unicorn realized this. She smiled just as she felt Trixie hugging her tightly.
“I’m sorry for not being able to prevent your kidnapping.”
“You’re here now, Trixie-boo, that’s what matters.” They gazed at each others eyes for a brief moment.
“Hold still.” Trixie said and used her magic to break what was left of the chain, leaving Rarity’s rear leg completely free. They then turned their heads to see Twilight fighting Night Wing. The Pegasus screamed as he charged towards Twilight, but she attacked him with her magic just when he was about to hit her and jumped to dodge Night Wing’s body falling to the ground. He recovered quickly and charged his ‘horn’. “I’ll take you out of here and I’ll join Twilight once you’re safe.” The couple tried to gallop to the exit, but Night Wing smiled darkly as he abruptly aimed Trixie and attacked her.
“Trixie!” The magician pony turned her head to Twilight, who was the pony who called her, but due to her harmed eye, she couldn’t properly see a strange white ball heading towards her. It hit her and sent her off the cliff.
“Trixie, no!” Rarity watched helplessly as she watched how Trixie fell.
“How stupid you think I am? Do you think I don’t know when I’m being distracted?” Night Wing mockingly said.
Rarity’s eyes became wet as she galloped towards the edge of the cliff. She spotted Trixie spinning as she fell. “No...” Just as Rarity began to sob, a rainbow flew past her, moving her mane due to the speed and heading towards Trixie. The rainbow catched her and brought her back to the cave. Rainbow Dash gently put Trixie on the ground.
“Are you okay?” The cyan Pegasus worriedly asked to her friend.
“Rainbow Dash?” Trixie was confused at first, but she smirked soon afterwards. “You sure know how to make a good entrance.” Rainbow Dash chuckled at the comment.
“Trixie!” Rarity jumped on Trixie, hugging her tightly. Trixie returned the hug as Rarity looked at Rainbow Dash. “Thank you so much, Rainbow Dash.”
“Oh, you’re that stupid Pegasus who I defeated without any problem.” Night Wing mocked the newcomer. Rainbow Dash walked in front of her friends and unfolded her wings as she made a stance.
“It won’t be like last time. Now I know how you knocked me out and you won’t hit me this time!”
The dark Pegasus glanced between Rainbow Dash and Twilight before laughing maliciously.
“This is getting interesting. By coming here, you’re just making things easier to me. I won’t have to kill you all one by one.” He growled again as he attacked Twilight, but she blocked her projectiles. As the evil Pegasus was attacking her, Rainbow Dash charged towards him. But he was expecting that so he dodged her just in time. He fluttered his wings to watch his enemies from above. He chose Twilight as his next target; he flew towards the lavender Unicorn, but Rainbow Dash grabbed him from his rear legs, she spinned him around her axis just before throwing him to a wall. Night Wing rubbed his forehead and opened his eyes to see Trixie and Twilight in front of him, about to attack him with their magic.
The dark Pegasus flew to dodge their attacks, but Rainbow Dash was waiting for him in the air. “Going somewhere?” She said before kicking him, sending him to the ground. He coughed as he slowly stood up. He growled again and charged towards Rarity, but his idea was to stab her with his ‘horn’. Rainbow Dash tried to stop him but his fury made him more aware. He dodged the cyan Pegasus and Twilight’s various attacks. He was getting closer to Rarity, who was alone.
“Rarity!” Trixie galloped as fast as she could towards Rarity and she stood in front of her with her rear legs, ignoring her broken one. Trixie tried to attack him but he was too close. She got stabbed. The cave fell silent as Trixie fell, with her forelegs on the injury close to her stomach. Rarity catched her before she hit the ground.
“Trixie...” Rarity whispered as tears began to fall through her cheeks. Trixie looked at Rarity and put one of her forelegs on one of Rarity’s cheeks.
“She took the damage for somepony else, now that was really stupid!” Night Wing began to laugh, distracting him from his surroundings. Rainbow Dash took the advantage and kicked him once again. Twilight didn’t let him recover and attacked him with her magic several times, badly damaging one of his wings with one of the projectiles. The dark Pegasus didn’t have time to return the attacks and was being sent backwards until Rainbow Dash punched him on the face and sent him a few meters back.
“That’s enough!” His ‘horn’ glowed once again. Twilight and Rainbow Dash got ready, but they suddenly smiled. “What are you smiling about?” He was about to attack them, but somepony else kicked him on the jaw; breaking it. He was sent to the edge of the cliff and his attack hit the ceiling, making the crack bigger. Night Wing barely managed to stand up and looked at the pony who kicked him.
It was Applejack.
He tried to attack her, but the crack got even bigger and parts of the ceiling fell. He looked up only to see big rocks fall on him, causing his demise. The rocks were so heavy that they made a crack on part of the cliff and they fell to the oblivion. Applejack, Twilight and Rainbow Dash were shocked from what they just witnessed.
“At least he won’t come back...” Rainbow Dash said.
“Trixie, please, don’t leave me like this!” Everypony turned and trotted towards Rarity and a badly injured Trixie.
“I-I’m sorry, Rarity… I can’t keep my eyes opened...” The blue Unicorn didn’t stop bleeding. She smiled after coughing. "Your eyes are so beautiful..."
“N-No, Trixie...”
“I love you… you can date somepony else...”
“D-Don’t say that… we’ll get through this!” Rarity was holding Trixie’s hoof with the both of her own. Trixie kept smiling at her before her eyes closed and her hoof fell to the ground. “Trixie…? Trixie!” Rarity hugged Trixie’s body and began to cry uncontrollably as her friends looked down, silently crying too. Rarity cried until she felt something blowing her hair. She opened her eyes and looked at Trixie, surprised. She wasn’t moving. Rarity put her head closer to her nose. After some moments, she felt the blowing again. “She’s still breathing… she’s still breathing!”
“She is?!” Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
“Let me check her heartbeat.” Twilight walked to the fallen Unicorn and put her ear on her chest. Everypony fell silent and contained their breathes. Then, after some seconds, Twilight heard a heartbeat. “It’s beating! it’s weak but it's still beating! We have to take her to a hospital!”
“But the closest hospital is all the way back to Ponyville...” Rainbow Dash spoke. “I don’t think that I could fly her there without making the injury worse!”
“But I can teleport with her. I think that I can do it, but it will leave me exhausted.”
“Twilight, take me with you.” Rarity said.
“Rarity, I would but I don’t even know if I will make it alone with Trixie.”
“Please… I don’t want to leave her like this, I won't leave her side, not for a second. Do it for me, Twilight… take me with you.” The lavender Unicorn wanted to say no again, but Rarity was crying silently and sobbed as she looked at her. Besides, the more time they took, the more blood Trixie would lose and her chance of survival would lessen.
“I’ll try.” Twilight said after sighing, defeated.
“Thank you.” Rarity smiled a bit before sobbing again. Twilight walked closer to the couple and looked at her friends. “I’ll meet you girls there.” Her friends nodded and galloped away. Twilight looked back at Trixie and Rarity and closed her eyes. The fashionista didn’t even breathe while Twilight focused to not distract her. After a couple of seconds, they were surrounded by a magical aura and, moments later, a light covered them. Two seconds later they were at Ponyville’s hospital reception. Twilight sat to catch her breath.
“What the...?!” Nurse Redheart was obviously surprised. They didn’t usually receive patients out of nowhere. Luckily, there were only a few ponies around and they were all sitting.
“Help her… please!” Rarity said between sobs. The nurse galloped to the room behind her and returned with several paramedics. They put Trixie on a stretcher with wheels and took her to the emergency room. Rarity tried to follow them but two paramedics stopped her.
“You need medical attention too.” Nurse Redheart said.
“I won’t leave her!”
“This is for your own good, miss, please!”
Rarity struggled when the paramedics tried to take her. “Get your hooves off me!”
“Rarity!” Twilight called from where she was catching her breath. “They’re right, you need to go with them.”
“But Trixie needs me...”
“They will take her to where you are after she’s out of surgery, right?” Twilight finished her sentence by looking at the nurse.
“Of course.” Rarity struggles slowly stopped and let the paramedics to take her. Once Rarity was gone, nurse Redheart looked at Twilight again. “If she survives the surgery. I can’t tell if she’ll make it. Look how she left the floor.”
“I know. She’s barely breathing and her heartbeat was weak… thanks for keeping that part from her.” The nurse nodded and returned to her station while Twilight went to the sitting area to wait for her friends.