Cicada had been having a great time at the party. so far everything was working out fine. Very few ponies were still wary of her after seeing the changeling get her party on, but there were still a couple. Cicada had helped two ponies capture and escaped animal or something that looked sort of like a cross between a bunny and a pony. When the party was a little more than halfway over, the queen remembered Twilight had wanted to talk with her.
After a small bit of searching, Cicada was able to find Twilight in the crowd. “Twilight, you said you wanted to talk earlier. I’m sorry I forgot about it.”
Twilight waved her hoof. “Don’t worry, I guess it could have waited. I just wanted to ask a few more questions about where you’re from.”
Cicada started to focus all of her attention on Twilight now. “What brought this up?”
“I… found a book the other day and it made me think about some questions I wanted to ask.”
“Ah, okay. I just wanted to know.”
“First, I kind of wanted to know why you ended up here in the first place. Like, why did you end up coming here.”
Cicada gave a small laugh. “Your guess is as good as mine. I was just trying to make a portal home and it sent me here instead. My best guess i-”
Cicada cut off in the middle of her sentence. “What was that Cicada?” Twilight asked.
“Hmm, oh, never mind, just thought of something. Please continue.”
Cicada blinked as she talked to Twilight. “-s as good as… hmm?” She looked around and found herself in Twilight’s castle. In fact, she was in the room she had slept in her first night. She blinked again, but still found herself in the castle. “Oookay? This is new. Okay, did someone teleport me here? Let me guess, it’s one of those pranks I heard Pinkie mention. I should also stop talking to myself and make a portal back.”
The changeling started to summon her portal, but something didn’t seem right. “I… I should be able to do that easily. The only ways it wouldn’t work is a null stone or magic suppressor.”
She looked down, but there was no magic suppressor on her neck stopping her normal magic. The one thing that confused her was that instead of seeing black, her body was lavender. She ran to a window since there were no mirrors in the room. After a second of focusing, Cicada was able to see her reflection. “Oh no. What did she do.”
“So, you said your home was stuck in Twilight. Why’s that?”
Sparkle looked at her other version. “I can’t control my magic. At least not what I got from Selena.”
“What really happened at the battle between your two princesses? It didn’t seem like you were saying everything.”
“My Twilight got Celestia’s magic then I got Selena’s. After that, war started to break out between our races.”
“I thought you said you got Luna’s magic first. Then Sparkle took Celestia’s.”
Sparkle looked at Twilight. “Who’s Luna. I thought we were talking about Celestia and Selena.”
Twilight’s head instantly turned to look in Sparkle’s eyes. “Spar-?”
Before she could finish, the doors to the garden burst open. A mare and a filly had slammed them open and a blue blur zoomed between them. Before anypony could figure out what was happening, Sparkle sent out a magic burst towards the blur. The spell missed, and his a pony instead.
“Ha! I knew she couldn’t be trusted!”
The blur screeched and attacked Sparkle. At one point, it slowed enough for her to see what it was. “You stupid bird!”
Lila continued her scratches and peck until the mare who opened the door called her over and sent her off.
“Ha ha! Thanks you stupid pony! It was really annoying me.”
Twilight tried to stop Sparkle, but she was stopped by a spell being cast on her before she fell to the ground unconscious.
“Twilight!” Her friends called out.
“Why would you do this?” Fluttershy asked. “I thought we were friends.”
“Face it Fluttershy, I was right that she was faking being nice. We shouldn’t have trusted her.” Rainbow said with an air of pride.
Cicada pounded on the door, but it was hard to break down. Even her all-spell magic wouldn’t work because there was a supressor on her horn. Eventually she gave up and tried the window. With one solid kick, she broke the glass. She tried multiple time so make it big enough to fly out of.
After looking around for something to help her escape, she noticed shards of something away from all the broken glass. Looking again in the shattered glass, Cicada got a better look at the suppressor on her horn. there was an empty slot where a jewel had once been.
‘So that’s how she was planning to get out of this later.’ The queen thought. Moving over to the window sill, she smacked her suppressor on it and watched it fall off as everything went black.
“Queen Cicada. I thought I could trust you and let you come to this gala. But tonight you have shown your true colors and I must stop you from harming my subjects.” Celestia announced to Sparkle.
The alicorn attacked, with with Sparkle’s new changeling powers combined with the old magic of Selena, she was able to easily take down the solar ruler.
“Now there is no one to take m-” Sparkle was cut off as Luna attacked from behind. In her last glimpses of her settings, Sparkle saw Luna. “Who…”
When Cicada woke back up, she was in another new place. In the corner of her eye, she saw a pony near a doorway. “Excuse me, but how long have I been out?”
The guard laughed. “Since last night. It’s sunrise now.” He finished looking at a barred window.
As the changeling really started to look at her surroundings, she noticed she was in some sort of cell. Feeling her horn, she touched the metal ring around its base. “Oh shoot.”
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