//------------------------------// // Captured (Rewrite) (Edited) // Story: Spirits: Sunny's Displacement // by Enderdragonslayer1 //------------------------------// "Ok, next I need the purple fabric," Rarity told me. I had to get it by hoof as my horn was cracked, making it dangerous for me to use my magic. After getting the fabric, I decided I wanted to know more about her past... "Um, Rarity? How did you get you cutie mark?" I really wanted to know so I have a place to start searching for mine. Just as she is about to say how, we heard the sound of crashing near our location. "Um, what was that?" I asked, really hoping it wasn't another manticore. "I don't- " she didn't get to finish as we heard more crashing. I took a step forward in hopes to figure out what was causing the sounds. I barely left the room when I heard a shriek of pain. "Rarity!" I yelled, rushing back the way I came. I only took five steps back into the room when I felt something hard hit the back of my head, knocking me out in the process. "Why does this have to happen every time I go anywhere?" I groaned as I got up. I was in what looked like an enclosed room with only one door. I tried to move towards it, but felt something pull my neck back. "What?!" I exclaimed. I looked behind me to see a chain that was leading to.... me? Straining to look down, I finally noticed that my neck was in a cast iron collar, though my necklace was still visible. 'Why didn't they take my necklace? Don't they know I can call for help using it?!' I was about to tap my hoof on it but I hesitated. I didn't want to rely on calling for help every time I get in trouble. I then, however, realized that I was helpless as my horn was still healing, cutting me off from my magic. 'Great..." I thought sarcastically. This time, without hesitation, I tapped the necklace with a hoof, all while saying, "Mom? Can you hear me?" When I got nothing in return, I started to panic, though that quickly ended when I heard a voice. "Sunny? Why are you trying to contact me at this time of night?" A voice said angrily. "To make a long story short, me and Rarity were foal napped." She was quiet for a few seconds. "How?!" "I was hit in the back of the head with something heavy, though I don't know how they got Rarity. And before you ask, I can't use my magic because there is a crack in my horn." "How did you manage to get a crack in your horn?!" she said in a worried tone. "I risked myself to save Fluttershy from a enraged manticore. I gotten two broken legs, numerous gashes, and a pretty big crack in my horn, I was out for two days." "Ok, where are you then?" she asked, which I finally realized something. "I don't know, I'm in an enclosed room with only one door and an iron collar around my neck, and said collar is bound on the wall opposite from the door." I informed her. "Well, that is a problem, then," she got quiet for a moment, "Try to escape without the use of your magic, and find Rarity. I'll send out a squad of guards to try and find you two." And with that, the connection broke. 'Great....' I thought until I saw something that I didn't noticed before, a key? Picking it up, I felt around the collar that was on me to try and find what could be a keyhole to unlock the collar. And as luck would have it, it was on the back of the collar. After about ten minutes of trying to unlock the collar, I finally got the key in and managed to turn it. This caused the key to dissolve into nothingness, I started to get worried before I heard a faint click, which was followed by the collar falling off my neck. I just stood there is shock, not knowing what to do. That quickly changed when I heard voices getting closer to my position. As quickly and silently as I could, I hid in a blind spot next to the door. I stayed quiet. Shortly after, a unicorn was thrown into the room, with the collar magicly attaching to her neck. After the door closed, I move towards her to try and wake her up. 'This should be easy...' I thought as I nudged her side, "Rarity, wake up." Nothing happened. More forcefully, I nudged her again, "Rarity, wake up!" This seemed to do the trick as she let out a yawn before opening her eyes. "Wh- What happened?" she asked. "To make a very long story short, we were foal napped." I explained, "I already got out of the bindings because one of them were stupid enough to leave a key in hooves reach." "Bindings?" "Look at your neck." After a quick glance at her neck, she looked back at me and said, "Now, how are we going to get this off?" "I have an idea, but you might not like it," I warned her. Before she could respond, the world around me seemed to turn black and white. "Sunny! Where did you go!" Rarity exclaimed. I took a look around and noticed strange symbols coming from various sources, including the bindings. "Rarity? I think I know how to get you out." To this, I got no response, which worried me. However, I was pulled from my thoughts when I felt something strange happening to my horn. I looked up to see that it was glowing with a silver tint. A few moments later, the color returned to the world. "I think I know how to get you out of the bindings," I told her. Focusing my magic into a single spot via beam, I started to cut through the material, though slowly. It took about ten minutes before I finally got her free. But before we could celebrate, we heard yelling. "Scatter!" I whispered harshly, hiding behind a well placed desk. I heard hoofsteps in the room, closing on my position, and thankfully, away from Rarity, who was hiding under a bed on the opposite side of the room. Though once again, the world seemed to lose it's color. I tensed when one of the guards looked at me, but he didn't seem to see me. 'Am I invisible?' I wondered. Testing it out, I got out of my hiding spot and sure enough, they didn't notice me. Deciding to use this to my advantage, I went from guard to guard, knocking each one out silently while the others' backs were turned. Soon enough, all of the guards were incapacitated. The world regained its color. "H- H- How did you do that?" she questioned. "To be honest, I don't know," I admitted. If I could learn how to control this, I could really use this to my advantage in battles. But then a thought came to me. 'Could I will myself invisible?' Following the thought, the world seemed to lose it's color again, causing Rarity to gasp. "Where did you go?!" she panicked. I willed myself back into existence. "Right here," I told her, I moved from my spot while invisible, just to freak her out. After seeing her reaction, I told her we need to move, me being invisible while Rarity had to be more stealthy. Along the way, I was knocking out guards, who I realized were changelings, to make a path for Rarity to continue on. A few minutes later, we finally made it out... right under canterlot. "Let's keep this to ourselves, ok?" I ask Rarity, who just gave me a nod. As we went our separate ways, my necklace started to glow purple. I was pacing while I was waiting for my mom to get up, although I agreed not to mention this again, I just had to tell her. After what seemed like forever, the door to my old room opened. "Sunny?" my mother asked. "Over here." She made her way to my bed as she proceeded to check me for injuries. "I'm glad that you're ok," she told me while embracing me, "Though, how did you get out?" she asked curiously. "One of the guards left a key in my cell in hooves-reach," I told her, "A big mistake if you ask me." I then proceed to tell her what happened, though when I told her that the guards were changeling in origin, she paled a bit. "I'll have a dispatchment of guards look into this, but for now, just rest up," she said, worry evident in her voice. "Mom? What are changelings anyways?" I asked. "That's not for you to worry about right now." I pouted at this. "Fine." I said in a huff. After a few minutes after I lay down, I drifted into slumber. After I returned to Ponyville the next day, I got a bombardment of questions from my friends. I decided that they had to know more about my past, at least more of what I could remember. We decided to meet at Canterlot to reveal what really happened that day, while leaving out that I'm an alicorn. That's for another day. "Girls," I told them, "What you're about to hear may sound far fetched, but I swear it's the truth." After getting a nod from each of them, I took a deep breath and finally said, "Fluttershy, remember when I told you I was adopted after the incident?" Another nod from her, "Well, my foster mother is Princess Celestia." I saw the looks of shock on the other mares' faces. After a moment, Rainbow laughed. "Nice joke, Sunny!" Rainbow laughed, which immediately stopped when saw my face, which was showing no amusement. "You're joking, right?" "Mom, you can come in now," I called out. Almost immediately, the door to the room opened to reveal the Princess, causing the other mares to gasp and immediately drop into a bow. After a few more moments passed, they all came out of their bow, which led to Rainbow saying... "Princess, is what Sunny saying true?" she asked, only to get a nod in return. "So, that makes you royalty, then," I gave her a nod of my own. This caused her to immediately pale and dropped into a bow. Sighing, I said, "Rainbow, we're friends, you don't need to bow." I was never one for glory or attention, so I usually kept to myself, though being in Ponyville helped with my shyness. A few minutes later, they finally came out of their shock. After denying Rarity's request to make me a dress for my now revealed status as royalty, and convincing Pinkie not to throw a party, as I wanted to keep this a secret for as long as possible, I told them that our 'meet' was over. After returning to Ponyville, we said our goodbyes as we went our separate ways for the night. After I entered my house, I decided to turn in for the night, drifting off into slumber in just a few minutes.