Twilight was wondering what the changelings had done with Flash. No wonder he was acting strange. She recalled, the day after they had been attacked, Flash had gone out by himself. When he came back, he started acting really weird. She knew Umbra wouldn't have planned this; he was in the med tent the whole time! Now she woke up in a big metal cage. She instantly got up and fired a spell at the bars. It was resistent. Darn it, how would she get out?!
"How..." she thought to herself. What did the changelings want? Then she saw a huddled shape across the room. It was covered in chains and was stuck in a cage. Like her. Then as a shaft of light hit the shape, she instantly recognised it.
"Flash?!" she yelled at the cage. He looked up.
"Twilight!!! I am so sorry! They wanted to get you, and they used a clone of me as bait!!!" he yelled.
"But for what?! What do they want with me?!" she asked. Flash flattened his ears, looked around, then whispered it as loudly as he could to Twilight.
"They want your alicorn powers," he explained. Twilight wasn't surprised. Chrysalis had been trying to get it the whole time. But why lure her here using Flash as bait?
"Well, forget about that. How do we get out?!" she yelled.
"Let's just hope that the others find out where we are and come," said Flash. "I wish they didn't chain me unlike you."
Twilight was about to scream something at him when chains wrapped themselves around her hooves and wings. "Wha?!"
"Well, never mind," joked Flash.
"We need to get out of here," said Twilight, blasting the chains.
"Why don't you use your power up?" suggested Flash, trying to squeeze out of the chains. Twilight stared at him.
"But..what if.." Twilight stammered. Flash looked lost for words.
"You don't have to if you don't want to.." he finally said. Twilight made up her mind. Closing her eyes for a moment, she took a deep breath. Then her eyes glowed white. Twilight stamped her hooves on the ground, creating a blast of magic that shattered the chains and bars of the cage. Panting, her eyes returned back to normal. Hey, she was getting used to it. Stumbling out of the cage she ran over to Flash. Using another one of her power ups, she smashed the bars and chains. Flash grinned and shot out of the cage. Twilight opened up her wings. But before she could take off, something pulled her inside.
"What?!" she yelled as she saw the same changeling that got her and Flash. She fired a blast at it. It dodged and shot another blast at her. She ducked out of the way just in time. Flash then rammed into the changeling. Twilight shot him a grateful look. Then a cackling sound echoed across the hall. A blast of ice shot towards Twilight and Flash. Instantly they were frozen.
***
Twilight awoke to find herself attached to some kind of machine. With a sinking feeling she recognised what machine it was. She tried to break out of the chains. She knew it would be useless to use her power up now, the machine would suck it all in. Flash was stuck in a cage...again. Beside Twilight. She glanced at him helplessly. Then an icy blue changeling trotted up to them.
"At last, Princess Twilight. I have been attacking your precious Equestria just to get you out here and into my trap. But now, you won't be able to get back to Celestia to explain it!" she cackled. Twilight was about to say something when an agonizing pain shot through her body. The changeling had turned on the machine. Twilight screamed. Flash was banging against his cage in fury.
"Let her go!!!" he screamed. The changeling merely laughed.
"Well well well....what do we have here? Oh I can feel your love for her. I am feeding off it right now!!" she laughed. Flash grew even angrier.
"Just let her go!!" The changeling was about to say something when another one; strangely familiar; smashed into her side. Twilight's eyes grew wide as she recognised him.
"Umbra!!"