> To Hell and Back
>  by Vasto Lorde
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> Prologue -Escape (Edited)
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Red Alert repeat Red Alert subject P345TS has escaped repeat subject P345TS has escaped.

The guards ran into the armory and grabbed their weapons. A couple seconds later the Captain of the guard, Allen Wagner walked in." Alright people the target is not to be hurt in anyway. Make sure your rounds are tranquilizer darts and not bullets. If one of you shits hurt the subject I'll make sure to personally deal with you. Is that understood?"

"Sir yes sir" All the guards said while saluting.

"Good. Now lets MOVE OUT!"

The guards piled into the hallway and went to cover different directions. Some guards went to guard the exits. While some went to guard some different hallways. Then one group headed to the last known location of subject P345TS.

The guards stood in front of the door that lead into the area where subject P345TS was being held. The guards went to either side of the door,while the one closest to the knob looked at the Captain as he counted down as to when he should open the door. As the Captain's last finger fell the guard opened and all the guards walked through the door and rushed the nearest room they saw. They all called "CLEAR" as they checked each and every room. 

The Captain and a couple of the squad checked the room the subject was held in. As they walked in they saw the huge massacre that had occurred. There was destroyed equipment. Blood splattered on almost every room and a huge body count. Some bodies were so badly damaged that their skeletal frame was seen. " Damn this room looks like Hell on Earth." One of the guard said scanning one of the deceased scientists. 

"Sir we got a live one!" Yelled one of the guards.

Wagner went over and took a knee. On the floor layed a scientist that had suffered minor injuries. "Jack what the hell happened in here?"

" There was no stopping her." Said the young scientist that had blue eyes and brown hair with a light skin color. He was wearing medical scrubs and had a mask tied around his neck. "She was too powerful. She broke her restraints and started killing ever living soul in the room. In some ways that so horrific to even name. She killed everyone in her line of sight. From the doctors to the nurses that helped care for her wounds. She destroyed the monitors and whatever paperwork that had any information about her and how she works. Then she looked at me she ran over and stood on her hind legs and she pushed me back into this wall. She walked on her two hind legs as if she were human herself. She came over to me and thanked me for being the only one to treat her nice."

"You treated that beast nicely. Why would you do that?" 

"Well it was the third day she was here. I was late in the evening and I heard her crying. So I walked into her cell to help comfort her."

"You showed sympathy for the beast? For A FUCKING ALIEN!?" Said one of the guards that recently arrived.

" Yes I did she was a normal living creature that had emotions." Jack said as he stood up slowly.

" Do you have any idea as to where she is now?"  Asked Wagner.

" Afraid not. That event happened at least 40 minutes ago." Jack said with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Shit! We're wasting time here. Get him somewhere safe and then meet us by the armory. Got it!?" Wagner yelled as the guards saluted. They took Jack out of the room, while the few of the guards headed towards the armory.

At the Armory

The guards were firing at Twilight as she put her shield up. She laughed on the inside at how stupid the guards were acting. They clearly couldn't see that their efforts were futile. A guard was lifted in a magenta aura and then split in half. As the guards innards were spilling out on the floor both halves of the guards  body were thrown at the remaining guards. Some were able to duck or doge the body, but some weren't that lucky. As the body went towards them Twilight had made dark crystals form on the edges of the body and when they hit one of the guards their head would go flying clean off of their shoulders.

The guards continued to shoot at the shield while Twilight kept walking still standing on her hind legs. She was starting to grow tired of the sound of the darts hitting her shield. So she decided that she had enough of watching them trying to tranquillize her and so we ended them all. As Twilight walked purple flames started erupting from her eyes. Then dark crystals erupted from the ground impaling every guard in the area. Some guards were able to dodge the crystals only to have their hearts crushed by the force of Twilight's magic. She walked over the bodies and headed towards the exits. She turned the corner and then another dart hit her shield.

The guards at the door were firing nonstop to try and break her shield. As hard as they tried it was a losing battle. The guards fell one by on from Twilight's magic. She chucked at their futile efforts. “Hahahaha no matter where you hide. No matter how fast you run. I'll always catch you. Then you die." Twilight continued to say these words repeatedly in a sing song voice as she mowed down the guards. The last guard put up a valiant effort but it was futile just like the rest. As she killed the last the guard more came around the corner.

"Stop right there!" Said Wagner, with his rifle aimed at Twilight. Twilight turned around to see the tall man standing in front of the group of guards that were with him.

"Ciao." was all Twilight said as her eyes once again erupted with purple smoke and she erected a wall of dark crystal between her and the guards. " See you never again you fuckers." Said Twilight as she left the building through the exit. 

Twilght smelled the fresh outside air taking in a huge amount and then breathed out. She lifted her head to look up at the sun. It had been forever since she's been outside.The last time she had been outside was in Equestria. That memory was somthing she vaugely remembered.  She barley even remembered her home world. The only thing she didn't forget about were her friends, the Princesses, and Spike. Along with her sister in law, her niece, her brother, and her parents. They are what made her so determined. 

Twilight walked around the outside of the Outworld Organization. She was looking for a ship that she could use to get off this planet she had come to hate. A few minutes of searching later she found a ship docked on a landing pad. "Finally. I can leave this fucking planet." Twilight said. Then out of nowhere appeared soldiers all dressed in black. ‘Who the fuck are these guys?’ Twilight said mentally. "Hey excuse me but your blocking my way home. You wouldn't mind moving would you?" The soldiers readied their weapons and opened fire. Twilight still had her shield up and the darts broke against it." Huh, you guys know what? This shit is really getting on my nerves." Twilight said in a annoyed tone. Twilight used her magic to rip the ground from right under the soldiers clad in black. A few fell, while most of them recovered  from the attack very quickly. " Seems these guys know what their doing. Finally a challenge to test my skill. This is going to be FUN!" Said Twilight with a wide sinister smile. 

Twilight rushed to towards the soldiers with amazing speed. She so fast that none of the soldiers had no time to react. Twilight lit her horn and grabbed two of the soldiers guns and fired. The darts exited the gun and hit the soldiers in the chest. Of course them being tranq darts didn't do anything. Twilight then enchanted the darts and then BOOM! The soldiers body parts went flying all over the place. She laughed as one of the soldiers arms bounced of of her shield. Twilight then ran towards a group of soldiers behind some barrels that had a fire emblem on it. "I wonder what's inside?" Twilight said with another smile on her muzzle. She took a dart from the clip that was loaded in one of the guns and threw it over towards the barrels. There was a loud explosion and a soldier was flung away by the force of the building explosion. He landed on his back and skidded into a wall and his neck snapped. The next two soldiers came running towards her. Twilight jumped in the air and with a little assistance from her magic was able to float in the air. Twilight fired darts at the ground where the soldiers were standing and they blew up. One of the soldiers died while the other one lost one of his legs. He crawled over to the wall, but before he got there Twilight came down with enough speed to land on the soldiers head and kill him. The soldiers head was now chunks and and a bloody puddle."Six down twelve to go." The next four soldiers took defensive positions on the side of a bunker. Once one of the soldiers peeked around the corner Twilight threw a dart at the soldiers foot. It went through the the boot and into the skin tissue. The soldier grunted from the pain. The pain was short lived as the dart exploded killing the one soldier and the one behind him. The other two backed off in time only to run straight into a helicopter blade. Both the soldiers heads were sliced and thier carcasses fell to the ground. Two more soldiers fired at Twilight from behind some barrels. Instead of using the darts Twilight threw the blade lat the barrels.

The blade sliced through the barrels with ease. The same could be said for the humans behind the barrels. One of the soldiers crawled from behind the barrels with just his top half before he died face to the ground. The remaining six soldiers bombarded Twilight's shield. She had just about had enough of this shit! Her eyes emitted the purple smoke from her eyes that. The smoke looked like little tiny fires coming from her eyes.Twilight formed two dark crystal swords and dark crystal armor and took down her shield. Twilight took the newly formed sword in her newly formed armor's hands and gripped them with her fingers. The soldiers continued fighting after recovering from their bewilderment. The mare swung one of her swords towards on of the soldiers who didn't have time to react and was cut in half. Then fours. Then fives. Then sixes. Twilight turned her attention to a group of three soldiers. They were running towards a hanger. Twilight leaped into the air and landed on top of one of the soldiers. The impact was enough to kill him. Twilight then threw a sword towards the other two soldiers who were for some reason idiotically running right behind each other. The sword went through the first soldier and sent him flying into the other. " Looks like your the only two left." Twilight said in a calm voice. " I think I'm feeling a little bit generous now that I’ve had my fill of destroying you humans. I'll let you two leave. Now go before I change my mind." The soldiers shared a quick glance at each other.  Believing they were far enough of her hearing range, they devised a quick plan.

"Here's what we do. We take her offer and then come back with reinforcements." The other soldier nodded his head and they left towards the building. Twilight broke her crystal armor to reveal herself wearing a black and gold armor. She levitated her swords over and broke the crystal. Underneath the crystal there was a shining blade that Twilight could clearly see her reflection. The hilt of the sword was black with blue and white strips around it. The stripes had no pattern that they were following. Twilight walked over to the black and green ship that had the Outworld Organization emblem on it. 

She pushed the button on the bottom of the hatch and it opened. She walked into the cold ship. Inside the ship was dark and bland save for the couple of weapon racks and modules. Twilight walked through a door way that lead to the cockpit. She looked around the cockpit and looked for the button to close the hatch. She found it and then pushed it. She then looked around the controls and found the starting operations. She sat down in the chair and opened up the navigation controls. The controls came complete with GPS. Before Twilight had escaped she asked, well more beat the information out of one of the guards on how to set up the ship and which buttons to click also how to work the navigation systems GPS.  

She made crystal fingers form on her hooves and used them to type in the name of her home planet. After she was finished the ships engine started powering up. A couple seconds later the ship started to lift off the ground. "Finally on my way home. I hope those  fuckers like my surprise. I pretty sure they'll be blown away by it. Too bad I won't be here to hear their screams. I can't wait to get home to see my friends and Spike. It feels like an eternity sense i've saw them. I wonder how they've been. (A large explosion was heard from behind the ship.) Oh looks like they found it. Hope you made it out Jack. Good riddance Earth." Twilight then hit the hyper-drive button and she was then gone. Twilight got up from her seat and headed over to the sleeping quarters that had been set up for the travelers. She then hopped into a bed and stared at the ceiling. Man it felt so good to be in a bed again. " Guess I should get some (yawn) sleep." Twilight closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Three hours later

A loud noise awoke Twilight from her sleep."What the fuck was that?" She got out the bed and headed out the door into the hallway. She ran down the hallway towards the cockpit. As she entered it she saw the control module had a red light flashing on it.

"Attention. Attention . Alarm triggered, located in storage area. Repeat alarm triggered in storage area. Situation must be handled." Said an automated voice from the module. Twilight saw a map pop up on the the module. There was a red dot that showed where the storage area was located.

"What the hell caused this?" Twilight said in an annoyed voice. Twilight made her way out of the cockpit into one of the hallways that led to the storage area. Inside the storage area there were crates, weapons racks, and a few other things one might find in a storage area. She looked around for the breach. She walked a couple inches forward and noticed a switch. She walked over to it and looked down to see broken glass." Why the hell is there broken glass in here? Wait this means that someone else is-" Twilight was interrupted by a sharp pain in her right rear leg."Ouch. The fuck was that?" Twilight turned around to see one of the soldiers dressed in black with a piece of glass in his hand."You SON Of A BITCH!!!" Twilight yelled as she leaped towards the soldier who dogged to the side and stabbed her in the leg again. Twilight turned around to charge the soldier again but he rolled out of the way. The soldier stood up and kicked Twilight in the face. Twilight stumbled back clutching her muzzle. "Bitch!" Twilight yelled. The soldier took a fighting stance while Twilight recovered from the kick to her muzzle. In Twilight's head she was thinking of a way she could take the soldier down. She looked around the room with her eyes and back at the soldier. The soldier stood waiting for Twilight to attack. He was thinking she was gonna charge him again. Much to his surprise the mare hadn't moved since she got up.

Twilight charged him once again. The soldier jumped to the side, but he wasn't expecting Twilight to buck him. The soldier went flying backwards into one of the crates. The soldier recovered from getting the air kicked out of him and looked down. He was sitting next to a gun. He knew his mission was to bring the subject back alive. But in his situation he'd rather kill it. He grabbed the gun and started firing. Twilight ducked behind some other crates. " What the hell happened to taking me back alive huh?" Twilight yelled. The soldier continued to fire not stopping for a moment. Once he was out of bullets Twilight hopped over the crates and bucked the soldier in his gut. He dropped the gun and Twilight caught it in her magic. She grabbed on of the mags from the crate and popped the old one out the gun and then put the new one in.Twilight walked over to the guard and put a hoof on his chest."Alright fucker time to die." Before Twilight got the chance to pull the trigger the soldier took out his knife and slashed Twilight's right eye. She stepped backwards and clutched her face. The soldier got up and came into a fighting stance once again.Twilight looked at the soldier with anger. Her right eye had a scar on it. While it didn't hit her actual eye it still caused damage to her face leaving a scar. Twilight lit her horn and wrapped her magic around the guard's throat. Twilight kept adding pressure to the soldier's throat and his vision was starting to blacken. He looked around for anything that would make the subject lose focus. In the end he decided to throw his knife towards the doors control panel. It hit the panel and the storage area's door opened up. The inside of the room was filled with intense wind only instead of blowing things away this one was pulling everything towards it. Twilight lost focus and dropped the soldier. Her and the soldier went flying towards the hangar door. Twilight tried using her wings to resist the pull but it proved to be inevitable. The soldier found a rail to hold on to. He held it with a tight grip. Twilight made her crystal fingers reappear and she dug them deep into the metal. The wind was still pulling her back. She looked over at the soldier and lit her horn. The rail the soldier was holding on to started to come apart. The soldier tried to grab the one next to it, but before he could the rail broke apart from the wall. The soldier went flying through the air straight towards the storage area's hanger door. There was no way for him to escape. He went flying out the door into space. Twilight was holding on for her life. She started climbing towards the exit. Halfway to the exit Twilight saw a lever on the wall. Twilight slowly but surely made her way over to it. She reached the lever and pulled it. The hangers door started to close.

"Gravity reestablished in storage area." Said the familier computerized voice. Twilight rolled onto her back.

"Holy shit that was hard." Twilight stood up and made her way back to the cockpit. Inside she looked around the controls to see if there were any other problems around the ship. There were no other dots on the map and everything seemed to be alright.

"Hello P345TS." Said a male voice behind her. 

"Who the fuck are you!?" Twilight asked.

"The names Zander. It's nice to meet you 345."

"Oh i'm flattered." Twilight said in a sarcastic voice." What do you want?"

" I've been assigned to bring you back." Zander said looking her over.

"Uh...newsflash your entire organization went up in flames." Twilight said with a raised brow.

"Yes I know, but me and my associates can always rebuild." After Zander finished his sentence five more soldiers clad in black entered the cockpit. "Keep your weapons trained on her. If she moves tranq her." 

"Well Shit!" Twilight said as she lit her horn. Her sword appeared next her and she charged the soldiers. None the soldiers had time to react as she charged. Twilight sliced two of the soldiers in half and then spun around and cut another one of the soldiers left leg off. Twilight took the soldier in her magic and threw him at another soldier and they both fell to the ground.Twilight then put her sword through both of their hearts.The last soldier started firing. Twilight put her shield up and his darts started bouncing off of it. Twilight put her sword between the soldiers eyes and pulled it upwards.The soldier's body fell to the ground.

"Alright now where's Zander?" She said scanning the room.

"Over here 345."Twilight turned around to see Zander in the cockpits entrance holding a small round object in his left hand. Zander threw it at Twilight.

"You do know that this shield protects me from any physical damage right."Twilight asked.

"Yes I know that. Does it do the same for disorientation?" Zander said as he diced around the corner.

"Wait what?" Twilight said as the concussion grenade went off. Twilight stumbled back while Zander ran up and punched her in the face. Twilight flew backwards into the control module. “Manual override activated.” said the computerized voice from the module.
"That can't be good." Twilight said.

"Wow you recovered faster than most people do from the effects." Said Zander.

"You can thank your friends from the labs for that." Twilight said with a little anger in her voice. Zander and Twilight stared each other down. Zander was the first to move. Twilight moved to intercept him. Zander threw a right hook. Twilight blocked it with a hoof. Zander then tried to sweep her leg. She jumped and delivered a quick kick that connected with Zander's head. Zander stumbled back and fell. Twilight then grabbed her sword and ran towards Zander. She lifted the sword and went to stab Zander in the heart. Zander dodged the attack and delivered a quick punch to Twilight's jaw. Twilight stumbled back but recovered quickly. Zander charged and Twilight did the same. Twilight stood on her hind legs during the charge. Her and Zander both threw punches at the same time. Zander blocked with his right and Twilight blocked with her left. Her and Zander were almost equals. Whenever Twilight threw a punch Zander blocked and whenever Zander threw a punch Twilight blocked. Twilight tried to kick Zander, but he grabbed her leg a threw her to the side. Twilight went flying. When she came near the wall she did a turn in the air and landed on the ground with her hooves. Zander was surprised to see what the subject could do. He thought to himself ‘Those scientists really did a fine job at turning her into what we wanted.’  His thinking was cut short when Twilight gave him an uppercut and the a kick to the gut. Zander smashed into the wall behind him. Zander looked up from the ground right into Twilight's eyes. Instead of their natural purple color her eyes were burning red. As she stood over Zander she used her magic to take out his sidearm. Twilight then pointed it at Zander's head.

"Any last words?" Twilight asked.

" You fight well." Zander said in admiration.

"Thanks." Is all Twilight said as the trigger was pulled in her magic. Zander's body fell to the ground. Twilight looked over the humans body. "You fought well yourself Zander. Thanks for the workout." Just then the ship rocked. Twilight looked over at the control module. In her own words she would say that it was "screwed". Twilight ran over and looked in the pilot seat. There was now a little steering device that she could use. Twilight sat down in the seat and formed her crystal fingers again. She grabbed the steering device and looked through the window. There she saw her home planet. " I made it. I actually made it. Oh I can't wait to see how everyone's been." She said. Twilight tried to use the steering device, but it didn't move. " Come move Celestia-dammit."

“Entering the atmosphere. Please slow down.”

The steering device still wouldn't move. "For fucks sakes move dammit!" She pulled hard but it was no use. The ship entered had entered the atmosphere and was hurling downward fast. The inside of the ship started heating up. Twilight started to sweat. She kept trying to pull the device and it still wasn't working. "Shit it's no use. Better prepare for impact." Twilight said. She got out the pilot's seat and headed to the storage area. Inside the storage area she stood in the middle of the room and made a crystal shield form around her. 
Outside the ship was heading straight for Canterlot.

Inside Canterlot Castle

Luna was walking through the hallways of Canterlot Castle on her way to meet her sister. It has been her daily routine since Twilight disappeared. Her sister was so distraught. Luna could understand her sister's pain. She too missed the young alicorn. She entered her sisters room. It was a mess to say the least. Luna walked over to her sister's bed. "Tia, tis time to get up." Luna said in a soft voice. She lifted back the covers with her magic. Celestia wasn't there. "Where is she?" Luna walked over the the door that led to Celestia's balcony. She opened the door and walked out. "She's not here either." Luna looked over to Celestia's telescope and saw her sister. She walked back into Celestia's room and headed for the telescope.

Celestia looked over the town of Ponyville. Watching her little ponies working  hard and have fun filled her with joy. She looked over at Sweet Apple Acres. Then over at Sugarcube Corner. She was sure she saw Pinkie bouncing up and down in the kitchen.
" Tia we did not expect you to be up this morning."Luna said as she walked onto the platform.

"I just wanted to see how my little ponies have been." Celestia said as she nuzzled her sister.

"Is there a reason that you are particularly looking towards Ponyville?" Luna asked as she returned the nuzzle.

"No. No reason at all." Celestia said melancholy.

"We are sorry sister we did not intend to diminish your mood."

"It's ok Luna."(A loud humming noise is heard from behind Celestia.)" What is that?" Celestia asked.

"Maybe it's some type of meteor." Luna said scanning the sky.  The object flew over their heads. "Shall we go investigate sister?"

" Yes we should." Both Celestia and Luna opened their wings and took flight. They started following the flying object. The object landed just behind the castle in the maze. When Celestia and Luna got closer they saw that this was no meteor.

"Sister what is that?" Luna asked.

"I don't know Lulu. Be careful." Celesta replied. As the two sisters landed the door to the ship opened up. Out walked a injured pony.

"Shit that was painful." The pony said as she dropped to the ground unconscious.

"Is...is that Twilight?" Celestia asked.

"Sure looks like her." Said Luna. The two sisters walked over and looked at Twilight."Where did she get this armor and why was she in this thing?" Luna asked.

"I don't know Luna. I don't know.

Canterlot Hospital

Twilight sat up quickly with a gasp. " Ow my head." She said clutching her head. She  noticed she could only see with one of her eyes. She lifted her hoof and put it on her right eye. She felt bandages. She lifted the covers and saw her right leg was also bandaged. Twilight got out the bed and saw her armor on the table next to her.

"Morning Princess Twilight." Said Doctor Hooves.

"Uh good morning Doctor Hooves. How did I get here?" Twilight asked confused.

"The Princesses brung you here. I'll contact them to tell them that you're awake." Dr. Hooves said as he turned to leave the room.

"Ok. But when you come back can I get something to eat?" Twilight asked.

"Sure thing your highness." Dr. Hooves said with a nod.

"Please just call me Twilight. I'm still not use to being addressed by my title." She said sheepishly.

"Ok then Twilight." Doctor Whooves said and then left the room. Twilight went over to the window and looked towards Ponyville.

"Ah it's so good to be home."
> Meeting With Old Friends And A Bad Dream
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Celestia and Luna were enjoying a nice dinner and discussing some different things.

"So sister how was the day court?" Luna asked.

"Just the normal routine of listening to the nobles talk about what I should invest in and some other things."Celestia replied. "Isn't night court about to start soon?"

"Yes. We are not looking forward to it as we will be handling a talk that was not finished during the previous court." Luna said sullenly.

"Don't worry Lulu i'm sure you'll be able to handle it."Celestia said trying to brighten her sisters mood. Just then the dining room door opened. In came a pegasus guard who snapped into a salute." Yes,what is it Sky Strider."

"Princess Twilight Sparkle has awoken." Said Sky Strider not dropping his salute.

"Thank you Sky Stider." Celestia said as the guard turned to leave the dining room.

"Shall we go and talk with her sister?" Asked Luna.

"Indeed we shall." Celestia said as she and Luna got up from their seats and heading towards the door. Once they left the servants went to clear the table.

Canterlot Hospital  

Celestia and Luna entered the hospital and walked towards the desk that a black and white mare was sitting behind. The mare looked up from her book at the two rulers of the land.

"Good evening your highnesses." The mare said with a bow as she had got from her seat. " What brings you here this fine evening."

"We are here to see Princess Twilight." 

" Oh yes Princess Twilight had been asking us to get ahold of you. She is on the second floor,room 228. There are two Royal Guard stationed there so you should able to tell which one it is." The mare said with a smile.

"Thank you." Celestia said in a polite calm voice. Her and her sister then preceded to the second floor. Celestia and Luna reached the top of the stairs and headed down the hall. A couple seconds later they reached Twilight's room. They walked in to see Twilight staring out the window.

"Hi Twilight." Said Celestia. Twilight turned around to see Luna and Celestia standing in the doorway.

"Celestia,Luna!" Twilight screamed as she ran over to hug them causing Luna to stiffen a little. "I missed you guys so much!" Twilight said with tears flowing freely.

"We missed you as well Twilight" Said Celestia noticing  that some the tears on Twilight's right cheek were red."What happened to your eye?"

"Indeed pray tell what has happend to thou eye?" Asked Luna.

"Had an uh.... incident on the way home. Nothing i couldn't handle." Luna and Celestia had a look  of concern on their faces."I said i'm alright." Twilight said reassuring the older alicorns. The group backed away from each other.

"If your're sure." Celestia said.

"Yes I am sure." Twilight replied. "So how has everypony else been?"

" They've been very depressed. It was the worst during the first couple of months." Celestia said tearing up a little." I've sent search parties all across Equestria looking for you." Celestia cried. Normally she wouldn't act this way but since it was a private setting and this was her former personal student and now her fellow Princess she felt it was appropriate. Twilight was not use to seeing her former mentor like this. She did the only thing she could. She embraced her mentor in a hug.

"Sh sh it's alright I back now there's no need to cry. Just calm down." Twilight said in a soft reassuring voice with tears of her own falling. Luna too was in a hurt to see her sister like this but she was able to keep her tears back. She turned away from the sight.  She just couldn't bear it.  Twilight and Celestia stayed in their position for almost half an hour. " Are you alright now?" Twilight asked.

"Yes I believe I am."Celestia replied as her and Twilight stopped hugging.  Twilight looked towards Luna's direction.

"You okay Luna?"  Twilight asked.

"Yes we are fine." Luna said turning around. The three alicorns sat in silence for a few more minutes until a nurse walked in.

"Sorry to interrupt your Highnesses but it's time for Princess Twilight to get some rest." Said the nurse.

"No it's quiet alright." Said Celestia" Twilight does indeed need her rest. We'll see you soon Twilight."

"Alright." Said Twilight as she walked over to the hospital bed. After that the Two Royal Sisters and the nurse left the room. Twilight was left alone in the bed." I really hope I can sleep tonight." Twilight said as she closed her eyes and drifted to sleep. 

Twilight's Dream

The morning was nice and sunny. The birds were singing. The water in the river flowing with calmness. Twilight sat outside the old home of the Two Royal Sisters reading a book. There was a snap of a twig. Twilight closed her book and looked around.

"Hello anypony there?' Twilight asked. As she asked the question another sound emitted from the darkness of the forest. Twilight put her book in her pocket dimension and looked around. "Rainbow if this is another prank it's not funny." Twilight said in a worried voice. 

"I assure you this is no prank Princess." Said a voice from behind Twilight. She turned around to see a man  standing above her with something slung over his shoulder. The thing he carried was long. It was black and looked like it had many different parts to it.

"Who...who are you?" Twilight said.

"The name is Alex Randalf."Said the man.

"Wh...what do you want?" Twilight asked. 

"You." Was all Randalf said as eight more men stepped out from the shadows and surrounded her. They all had the strange looking sticks in their hands and they were all pointed at her.

"What are you gonna do with those?" She asked . One of the men pulled his trigger and there was a loud bang. Twilight felt a pain in her side. She looked over to see a small dart like object in her side. "What...is.....that?" Twilight asked as she swayed on her hooves.

"It's called a tranquilizer dart Princess." Randalf said. Twilight fell to the ground with her vision blackening. Her last sight was seeing one of the men walk over and pick her up.
> A Dream or A Memory
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Twilight Sparkle, Alicorn Princess,Element of Magic, former student of Celestia. A once peaceful librarian, now  laid in a hospital bed  in Canterlot. She was sleeping having a nightmare nopony would ever want to ever to experience. Only question is, is that dream or a memory.

Twilight grunted as as she opened her eyes to a blinding light. When her eyes finally adjusted she looked around the room. The room she was in had white wall and a black floor. Spread across the room were strange box shapes that were constantly beeping. Twilight tried to sit up but her attempt was blocked by something. She looked down towards her hooves. They were being held down by some kind of metal cuffs attached to a table of some sorts. She was just now feeling the cold steel she was laying on.  She had started struggle against her bonds. Her breathing was ragged and panicked. It was no use she was not getting out. She stopped struggling and started crying. She couldn't remember anything prior to her waking up here. The  sound of a door opening  was heard from behind her. 

"Hello anypony there?"

" I'm no pony i'm afraid. Hello Princess my name is Dr. Neil Frank. Welcome to the Outworld Organization science lab." The man said as he walked in front of her so she could she him. The man was short,and had short salt and pepper hair. He wore blue medical scrubs that had a strange green stain on it. The stain seemed to glow slightly. He also had a face mask tied around his neck. He had blue eyes and white skin. 

"Outworld Organization what is that?" Twilight asked. 

"It's the name of the company I work for. We explore the stars and different planets." Frank said.

"Why am I strapped down to this table? Also am I in another planet?." Twilight asked.

"Your strapped down because we will be running tests soon. Also yes this is a different planet. Welcome to Earth." Frank replied.

"Tests? What kind of tests are you going to do?" Twilight asked in a worried tone.

" Well first we will be testing how much pain you can endure, then your strength, then your magic skill, and so on and so on. After all tests are complete we will then begin phase two."

"What's phase two?" Twilight asked.

"We will turn you into the ultimate weapon. You will be a last resort for any major crisis. You will be the ultimate killing machine. With your magic and the enhancements we make to your body will make you unstoppable. You'll be our puppet." Said Frank. Twilight stared wide eyed at him. Enhancements to her body what did that mean. Also her being forced to kill others,she couldn't believe what her ears heard. 

"What enhancements are you going to make to my body?"Twilight asked. The Dr. smiled at her question.

"I glad you asked. The enhancements will improve your physical strength, endurance, intelligence,  speed, sight, and hearing. Also the enhancements will strengthen your magic beyond your comprehension. They may even help us discover the elusive skill of dark magic. We haven't been able to accomplish it with the other unicorns we've captured. Then we thought to ourselves why use a regular unicorn when there are alicorns. You were chosen. You being the element of magic and a alicorn made the decision easy." Frank explained. Twilight was starting to tear up. These were the creatures that had been ponynapping all those unicorns. Lyra, Moondancer,Rarity. "Aw, don't cry Princess."Frank said as he wiped away her tears. 

"What did you do to all those unicorns you captured?" Twilight asked.

"Well most of them didn't survive the tests. There was this one white unicron, your friend I believe. She survived the tests, unfortunately she didn't survive the enhancements though. She had just went in for her brain enhancement when her body started to spasm. We couldn't figure out what was happening. Then blood started pouring out from her ears and mouth. Her horn started glowing in black aura and it encased her entire body. Her body then exploded. As you can imagine blood everywhere. There were no body parts, or organs around though,that was odd to me. Also the blood seemed to be dissipating and after a few minutes later  there was nothing left. My guess is that her magic intertwined with the dark magic and it was too much for her to handle. She had a grotesque  death indeed." Frank said recalling the event. Twilight layed speechless on the table. One her closest friends dead. Captured by these Monsters! Twilight will get her vengeance for her friends death! These creatures needed to pay... WITH THEIR VERY OWN LIVES! 

Deep inside Twilight two fires ignited. One was bright and red with orange highlights. The other one was a deep purple with black highlights. The two fires combined to form one huge fire. The four colors swirled each other in their combined form. The fire made its way towards Twilight's brain and started swirling around it.  Twilight's head hung on her chest. Tears were falling from her eyes. Dr. Frank approached Twilight and lifted her head. She opened her eyes to reveal that her eyes were now glowing a sickly green glow and her irises were now red and small purple flames erupted from her eyes that got bigger and bigger. Dr. Frank stood confused. The ring around Twilight's horn snapped and fell to the ground in pieces. Twilight wrapped her restraints in her magic and broke them,they to fell to the ground. Twilight now stood on the ground. Suddenly her body and mane were engulfed in black, purple, red, and orange flames. Twilght now had black fur. Her cutie mark had the starburst. At each point where the starburst a points connected a purple smoke tendril poked out. Behind the starburst and the tendrils there was a orange and yellow sun. Around the main part of the cutie mark there were six tiny starbursts surrounding it. Twilght's mane now flowed like fire. Her mane was a deep purple with one orange and one red stripe running down the middle. Her wing were the same color as her body. At the tips of her wings there was a orange coloration that faded into red.Her tail looked the same as her mane as well. Her teeth were now fangs. Her horn was now curved and it was red. The further down you looked the darker it would get. At the point where it was connected to her head it was black. 

Her appearance wasn't the only thing to change she was now as tall as Celestia. Dr. Frank stood in bewilderment. Twilight looked towards him and smiled. She enjoyed the smell of fear emanating from her enemy. She spoke. "What's wrong Frankie, are you scared?" Twilight said licking her lips. Dr. Frank felt like he was staring death in the eyes. In a way he was." What happened to that calm demeanor of yours? Where'd that complete confidence in your voice go? You didn't lose it all because of my little transformation did you?" Twilight said with a smirk. Dr. Frank slowly backed away as Twilight advanced. "Cat got your tongue Doctor?" Twilight asked.

"What is this!? This isn't recorded in our records." The Doctor said nervously. 

"Records?" Twilight said with a raised eyebrow. "What kind of records do you have?"

"We have records for ever single event that has ever happened on Eqquis for the last thousand years and so on."

"So wait you all been alive for a thousand years?"

"No. On our planet it's seventy years in a thousand on yours."Dr. Frank explained as he was reaching for a red button. Twilight stopped him when he was just an inch away from it.

"What you reaching for?" Twilight asked. 

"It...it's nothing." Dr. Frank replied.

"Do you honestly think i'm stupid?  Twilight asked as she walked over to the button."Oh an emergency alarm system. Trying to call for help? You don't like my company doctor, and here I thought we were becoming closer." Twilight said as she twisted one of the doctors arms around which produced a loud scream from him."Don't  try that again or it's the other one, got it?" Twilight said.  The doctor nodded and Twilight dropped him."Now how have you been spying on my world?" 

"We've been using little tiny machines that look like flies. They record information and transmit it back to Earth from your planet. They do this by using a complicated system of technology, far beyond your comprehension." Dr. Frank said.

"Well then you better start talking, my patience is running thin." Twilight said.

"Fuck you." Dr. Frank said. "I'm telling you anything Twilight." This caused Twilight to deliver a swift backhoof to the doctors face.

"First off don't speak to me like that you maggot. Secondly my name is not Twilight. I am Dying Phoenix. Thirdly you will tell me everything that I want to know is that understood Doctor?"

"Ye...yes ma'am." The doctor replied.

"Good, now lets start with your technology,shall we?"

Outworld Organization Control Room

Dr. Author Rush and Nurse Pamela were sitting in the control room for Dr. Frank to return. 

"Where is he? The tests should be done by now." Said Nurse Pamela.

"Oh calm down Pam you know how he likes to mess around a lot with his new toys." Dr. Rush said with a chuckle. Nurse Pamela sighed. 

"Well can we at least turn on the cameras in the room? You remember what happened to the last female alien he had in there. " said the Nurse. The Dr. replied with a chuckle.

"If that will make you happy Pam, sure go ahead." Dr. Rush said. Nurse Pamela smiled and went over to the control module and pressed a button.

Cameras activated in science lab 3A. 

A screen flashed as it showed the room. What the Nurse and Dr. saw terrified them. What they saw was the new female alien standing over Dr. Frank with its hoof on his neck. The two panicked and pressed the red button that had the word alarm on it.

Back In The Lab

Twilight and Dr. Frank discussed everything that Twilight wanted to know about the planet. Then suddenly red flashing lights and alarm sounds went off. Twilight looked around and then back at the doctor who was shaking in fear. 

"What is happening?'" Asked Twilight. 

"Someone set it off. It wasn't me I swear on my life that it wasn't." Dr. Frank said. Twilight looked towards the door. "Stop they kill you on sight."

"They can try." Replied Twilight as she left the room. "Oh one more thing Dr." Twilight said as she lit her horn. Crystals came from the ground and impaled Dr. Frank's back. "That's for Rarity." Said Twilight as she left the room and closed the door behind her. As she entered the hallway she could she that these people like to keep things clean. Both the floor and wall of the building were white. Twilight trotted her way down the hall only to run into a group of guards who pulled out their weapons. One of the guards yelled for the others. Twilight counted at least 12 to 15 guards  and soon reinforcements will be on the way. Twilight thought about how she was going to take these guards down before more could show up.

"Stay right where you are. If you move or try anything we will shoot." Said one of the guards who seemed to be in charge. Twilight only stood looking at the ground. She lifted her head and grinned. The guards stood confused as to why she was grinning. Twilight teleported behind them. They turned just in time to see two small daggers flying towards them. The guards in the front were able to dodge them. The guards in the back weren't that fortunate as the two daggers cut through them with ease and moved on to the rest of the guards in the back of the group. The guards bodies fell to the ground and started staining the floor with their blood. The two small daggers cut through the eight guards in the back with ease. The daggers were now embedded into the wall. The remaining seven guards turned and looked at Twilight with fear and anger in their eyes. They knew that they couldn't play around that much with this  opponent.

Twilight then whistled and the two daggers were floating next to her in a matter of seconds. The guards stood confused. How did the daggers come over to her from just her whistling. Twilight then whistled and the two daggers combined. The result was a dagger that was lager than the original daggers. Almost twice the size. It also seemed to glisten more in the light. The guards readied their weapons, but before they could Twilight whistled and the large dagger flew towards the guards with immense speed. The guards barley dodged the blade in time. The blade flew past them and Twilight whistled once again and the blade turned around and headed for its targets. The blade went through one of the guards left eye and then into another guards chest. The blade then turned in the air again and came back down and then went through the heads of two more guards. 

"Four down three left. What are you going do? Twilight asked. The remaining guards shot at the flying dagger and managed to hit it. The dagger fell to the ground in shattered pieces. The guards then stared at their foe. Twilight stood there unphased at the way they were looking at her. The remaining guards charged at her. She side stepped as all the guards fell and then were impaled by a crystal that had shot up from the ground. Their bodies hung limply on the sharp crystal with their blood falling to the ground and creating a small pool. Twilight walked past the crystal with a big smile on her face."Idiots." She said. Twilight (who was still in the form of Dying Phoenix) galloped down the hallway and burst through a door that led outside. Waiting for her were at least a hundred and fifty soldiers wearing black armor and eighty-five guards. With the guards there were tanks and helicopters. Twilight stared at the guards and soldiers and began to think.

Then a voice came over a loudspeaker." Princess Twilight Sparkle surrender now or we will have to force you top do it." Said the male voice from the loudspeaker. The gears in Twilight's head were turning. There was no way she could defeat all of them. At least not by herself. She thought about the fifteen guards and one scientist she killed using her crystals.Those who once opposed her would now fight for her. Yes and unstoppable force that will do everything they are asked without arguing. An army that would kill anything in their sights. Twilight then smiled and lit her horn. The ground around Twilight's hooves started to crack. A black hand shot through the rock with ease. Then two more shot up from the ground and then in less than a minute there were sixteen soldiers who fought for Twilight. Their skin was black. There eyes a luminous yellow. They wore armor that was black and gold and there was red around the edges. The undead soldiers stood and awaited their orders. Twilight looked towards her opposers and yelled "CHARGE". The undead pulled their weapons from the ground and ran towards their targets with immense speed. The opposing soldier started firing their weapons. The bullets hit the undead,but they seemed to do no damage to the undead. Instead the quickened their pace. At this point the tanks and helicopters started firing. The explosive shells hit the ground and exploded causing the undead to go flying into the air. Once they landed they got and picked up their weapons and once again quickened their pace. When they rached the tanks they effortlessly cut through them. One of the undead picked up a tank and threw it at a helicopter. The tank crashed into it and the helicopter fell to the ground and exploded. The soldiers stood shocked and afraid at the undeads unparalleled strength. Another one of the undead charged into a group of soldiers and it knocked all of them into the air. A whistle was heard and then two small crystal daggers made their way into the soldiers in the air. It was like cutting butter with a knife. The small daggers went through the bodies of the soldiers with ease. There were at least twenty solders in the air. Their bodies fell to the ground and landed on some other soldiers who pushed them off. The two daggers went back over to Twilight who had a big smile on her face. 

Deep in Twilight's mind there was her. Twilight not Dying Phoenix. "Why does this feel so satisfying? Why am I so excited to be doing this?"

"Because it's fun to you." Said  a voice from behind her. Twilight turned around to see Dying Phoenix walking out from the shadows. 

"Wh...what?" stuttered Twilight.

"You enjoy killing those bastards. Don't try to say that you don't. You and me are the same. I enjoy killing them,so you enjoy killing them, it's as simple as that." Said Dying Phoenix. 

"That's horrible." Said Twilight in a terrified voice.

"And yet it is how you feel." Said Dying Phoenix. "Anyways we should keep fighting."

"Why?" Twilight asked.

"So we can get home. I thought that was gonna be the first thing on your mind."

"First of all I don't really even know what happend. After the doctor talked about Rarity's death I blacked out." Twilight explained.

"Oh that was me being born" Said Dying with a smile.

"Wait born?" Said Twilight with a confused expression.

"Yes born. When the doctor talked about Rarity, deep, deep, deep inside your mind there are your alternate personalities. Two of your personalities combined and formed me. Those two personalities were anger and evil."

"Wait evil?"

"Yes evil. For now let's just call it dark magic. This was created during your first visit to the Crystal Empire. each time you used it even if it was only for just a little you were creating an evil personality for yourself. The only reason it didn't take you over was because of your other personalities. They kept her dormant. But after what the doctor said about Rarity, anger had enough and freed her and then I was born." Dying Phoenix explained. 

Twilight stood taking in this information. Dying let her think over everything. Outside her mind the opposing soldiers were surrounding her, since her undead ones stopped attacking.  Dying was brought out of Twilight's mind and looked around to see all the opposing soldiers surrounding her. It seems that the opposing side suffered a significant decrease of soldiers. There were at least fifty to seventy-five guards left. There was still too many for her to take on by herself. She called for her soldiers that were now running towards her position. Dying saw a blue flash that came from the top of the building and hit one of her soldiers who had a big hole in its chest and fell to its knees. Dying couldn't believe her eyes. She just saw an unstoppable force be stopped. She saw what looked like an invisible figure jump down from the roof. It dropped with a large thud and the ground cracked under its weight.  The figure then dropped its cloak. What Dying saw was a tall creature that had dreads for hair, armor with netting in some places, two strange gantlets on either of its arms, two mandibles on both sides of its mouth, it had a greenish-blue skin tone with some black and brown spots here and there, it also had some strange device on its head. The device seemed to have three octopus legs painted silver. One was going down the middle of the beings forehead, while the other two were on the sides of its head. Said creature roared at her. The rest of the undead creatures charged at the creature who turned around in enough time to see a sword swing at its head. The creature ducked and a sound of a blade was heard. In a flash the undead soldiers head was on the ground. Dying was again shocked. Her jaw was hanging low.

"How the hell is this possible! It was so fast. Thi...this should be impossible." Dying said mentally. The creature fired another blue blast from a strange weapon that was on its shoulder. The rest of Dying's undead army was destroyed by the blast. Dying couldn't believe what she saw. The soldiers pointed their weapons at Dying. Said mare looked around at them. "Dammit." She said mentally. 

"Nowhere you can go, surrender!" Said a male voice in a authoritative manner. "You have till the count of five...four...three...two..."

"One!" Dying said as she burst into flames. The surrounding soldiers stepped back from the intense heat that was radiating from the mare. Smoke started coming from under her hooves. Dying grew into a giant smoke monster. Her horn was now fifteen feet long. Her body was smoky and her eyes were still green emitting the purple flames. Dying spread her wings and a blinding light surrounded the area. Her wings we on fire. They still were functional though. The soldiers started firing only to find out that their bullets had no effect on the smoke creature. Dying smiled at the taste of fear in the air. She opened her mouth to reveal two rows of sharp pointy teeth. The soldiers continued firing (their bullets still having no effect).  The other creature that had the strange device on its head pressed a sequence of buttons on its left wrist gauntlet and scanned the towering smoke creature. The creature found out that the only weak point on this monstrosity was its horn. The creature thought that this would be easy but he was surely mistaken. Dying  lifted off into the air and headed towards a city north of the Organization. The soldiers and the creature quickly made their way towards the city while also calling for backup. 

In the city Dying Phoenix was flying over head. The civilians below were in panic. Of course Dying was enjoying their fear. Down below there was a news crew that was recording everything. Dying landed a few blocks away from them a started to look around the area she landed in.

"This is James Brown of the Gazette Readers News Station reporting live on the scene of what appears to be an attack. We are not fully sure what is happening, but it looks like the cavalry has arrived." Said the reporter as the cities police and the army showed up. The police started firing as soon as they arrived. Dying looked over at the insects that were attacking her. She smiled in amusement. However as she watched those insects she missed the one insect that she should have been worried about. The creature with the device on its head got into position.  

The creature was now wearing a mask that matched the color of the rest of its armor. Three red beams made their way to Dying's horn. In the mask the creature saw the heat radiating from the smoke creatures wings, while the rest of its body generated none at all.  The creatures shoulder cannon powered up till their was a large blue orb awaiting to be released on its target.  The creature was waiting for a signal from the squad leader down below. Dying roared and the entire city shook.  The civilians once again ran in fear.  Squad leader Watson watched as the smoke creature roar. One of the soldiers came into the tent that was set up outside the city. The soldier gave a salute. " Sir subject Y167LW is waiting for your order to fire." 

"This is Squad Leader Watson. Start operation Horn Defuse." The troops acknowleged the order and began the operation.  The ground forces backed away and got into their positions. "NOW 167!" screamed the squad leader.

Dying saw the ground forces backing up. She smiled as she thought that she had one. She didn't see the big blue flash of light coming in from the side. The blue light hit Dying's horn and she screamed out in pain. Her smoke form dissipated and Dying fell to the ground and landed on her side. The ground forces slowly approched the downed Alicorn. Dying groaned and stood up on shaking legs. She opened her eyes to see she was surrounded. She opened her wings and flew in the air before any of the soldier had time to react. 167 ran towards her jumping from roof to roof. With a final leap he grabbed Dying by one of her back legs and was starting to weigh her down.

"Get off of me." Dying yelled as she crashed into one of the windows of a building. Her and 167 fell into separate office cubicles. Dying got up only to fall to the ground in pain. There was a large piece of glass stuck in her left side. There was another one stuck in her right hind leg. 167 got up and walked over to Dying. He stopped right in front of her.

"167 did you get her?" Came the voice of the squad leader from the creatures mask.

"Yes leader Watson." Said 167 using the translator in his mask. 167 picked up Dying with ease and walked over to the broken window. Dying whistled and two small crystal daggers made their way to their caller. The daggers made their way through the  window and sliced 167's arm off. He roared in pain as he dropped Dying who landed on her hooves. The daggers returned to her side . Instead of using the daggers Dying decided that she wanted this creatures strength, and its knowledge. She walked over to 167 and pushed him to the ground. 167 looked at her with a confused look behind his mask. Dying bent down  and smacked the mask off his head. She looked in his eyes and smiled.

"Don't you worry this won't hurt one bit." Dying said still keeping her smile. She lifted her hooves and slammed them down with enough force to smash in his skull. She continued to bash in the creature's head. As she did this the creatures body started to break down and swirl around Dying's body. It kept doing this for a couple of seconds until there was nothing left.  Memories from the creature made their way into Dying's head.  They now were her memories and she now had increased strength from consuming  the creature, which she now knew was called a Yautja. 

She also found out more about this Outworld Organization. She felt a sharp pain in her flank. She turned to see a small blue dart with some small feathers on it that were also blue. She swayed on her hooves as she looked at the group of soldiers enter the room. "You'll have to try harder than that." She said. The soldiers fire three more darts at her.  She broke two with her magic. The last dart hit her in her leg. She growled and picked up a desk in her magic and threw it at the group of soldiers. Most of them dodged it, those who didn't were crushed by the weight of the desk and Dying's magic. The remaining soldiers fired their guns while Dying wasn't looking. The darts hit her in the side. "OK...that.....did..........it." Dying said as she fell on the ground and turned back into Twilight. She was able to look up one more time before the butt of a gun hit her in the face.

Canterlot Castle

Luna had a nice quiet night court until the last noble came in. He annoyed her to no end. Luna walked down the hall way towards her room. She reached her room and that one of her bat pony  guards were stationed there. "Greeting Shadow Walker." Luna said politely. 

The guard turned his head and bowed as he saw Luna. " Greetings my Princess. Are planing to retire for the night?" Asked Shadow.

"Indeed we are." Luna replied. Shadow moved to the side to allow Luna to enter her room. Luna entered and Shadow closed the door for her. He was also able to catch a glimpse of Luna's plot. He mentally slapped himself for that. 

Inside Luna room she hoped on her bed. Having removed her regalia and putting them on a desk she had in her room. She pulled the sheets over herself and closed her eyes. She opened them and found herself in the dreamscape. She walked around looking for Twilight's door.  After a little bit of walking she finally reached the door. What she saw was the all to familiar flashes of a nightmare. Luna walked through the door and everything turned grey. 

Twilight slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She was back in a room that was a very dark green. She felt somthing cold against her hooves. She tried to look over at her hooves, but couldn't. She again felt the cold steel against her neck. She tried moving around, but a very painful electric shock stopped that. Twilight panted heavily. A door opened on her right side and Dr. Rush entered. The doctor walked in front of her and backhanded her. "That's for Frank, bitch." The doctor said. Twilight's head jerked to the right and their was another powerful shock. Twilight screamed in pain. The doctor smiled. 

"Having fun beating a defenseless mare? Does it make you feel big? Does it make up for the tiny little guy you got down there?" Twilight asked. The doctor punched her again and there was another shock and scream. 

"Really, is that the best insult you got?" Dr. Rush asked.

"Best I could come up with on such short notice." Twilight said and then spat some blood on the ground near the doctors feet. The doctor smiled and delivered a quick punch to her gut. Another shock and scream was heard. "You punch like Fluttershy, no offense to her of course." Twilight said with a smile with blood on the corner of her mouth.

The doctor laughed a little and then started to beat Twilight senseless. After a brutal beating he stopped. Twilight screamed loudly as a multitude of shocks took place. After an hour and a half of nonstop shocking, everything was over.

"You really think your funny don't you bitch?" Dr. Rush said.

"No, no not really. I'm just stating the facts." Twilight replied smugly.

In the corner of the room Luna stood and watched the scene unfolding in front of her. She looked in complete horror as she saw this happen. She decided that she had finally had enough and lit her horn....nothing happened. Luna stood confused. "Why can't I make this stop!" Luna said. The door opened again and five more humans in lab coats walked in. They all went over to Twilight and Dr. Rush. 

"That's enough Dr. Rush." Said an older human scientist. Dr. Rush backed away from Twilight. 

"Oh come on is that all you got?" Twilight asked. 

"Why you little..." Dr. Rush said before he was stopped by the same older scientist.

"I said enough!" Said the older scientist.

"Sorry Dr. Anderson." Dr. Rush said. 

"Now that all that is over with let us begin operation Unstoppable." Dr. Anderson said. All the doctors agreed and went to take the chains off of Twiligt's hooves. She fell to the ground with a loud thud. Two of the scientists picked her up and took her out of the room.

Luna was about to follow them, but she soon sensed it was time to lower the moon. Luna sighed and left Twilight's dream. Although Luna thought that it had to be a memory since she couldn't control it.

"Until tommorow night dear Twilight." Luna said as she left the dreamscape.

Canterlot Hospital

The morning sun hit Twillight's face. She grunted and pulled the cover over her head like a foal that had just been told it's time to get up for school. The door to her room opened and the nurse walked in.

"Rise and shine Princess Twilight." Said the nurse. Twilight lifted the cover off her head and smiled.

"Morning Nurse Careful Touch." Twilight said in a cheerful tone. 

"How did we sleep last night?" Careful Touch asked.

"Hmm, it was alright. I'm just glad i'm in bed and not a cage." Twilight said not bothering to catch herself. The nurse looked at her with a worried expression." Uh...please pretend you didn't hear that." Careful Touch nodded. "Thank you."

"No problem Princess." Careful Touch said. "I brought you some breakfast." Careful Touch said as she pulled in a tray. She pushed it over to Twilight and lifted the lid. Twilight stared at the food for a little. 

"Princess Celestia said they were your favorite. She dropped them off a couple minutes ago." The nurse said. The pancacks Celestia prepared were indeed Twilight's favorite. They had a blue berry and pinapple face, with the whip cream in the middle, and a cherry in the center of the whip cream. Twilight wasted no time and dug right in. 'So delicious.' Twilight thought as she ate. When she was finished her face was covered in whip cream and syrup. The nurse chuckled a little bit. 

"What? It's been a long time sence I had these alright." Twilight said embarrassed. 

"I understand. Let me check on your wounds real quick, if you don't mind that is?" The nurse asked. 

"Why do you have to ask it's your after all isn't?" Twilight said. The nurse chuckled and facehoofed. She went over and unwrapped the bandages from around Twiligt's eye and gasped. "What's wrong Careful Touch?"

"It's your scar it's faded already." The nurse said. "How is that possible?" 

"It's a long and uncomfortable story. Trust me when I say it's best left unsaid." Twilight said with a serious expression.  

"Oh, well ok then. Does that mean that the wound on your leg is healed as well?" Carful Touch asked.

"Most likely, yes." Twilight replied. 

"Well after the doctors come in and see that everything is fine, I guess your free to go." Careful Touch said.

"I guess so." Twilight said shrugging her shoulders. Dr. Hooves then entered the room. 

"Hello Princess, how are we feeling today." The doctor asked. 

"Ready to get up and go." Twilight replied. All three ponies laughed.

"I pretty sure you are. First let me just check those bandages." Dr. Hooves said.

"Sorry doc. Careful beat you to it." Twilight said.

"Oh." Said Dr. Hooves. "Well how's the scar and the wound doing?" He asked Careful Touch. 

"The scar is faded and the wound is healed." She replied. 

"In one night?" Hooves said. 

"One night." Careful replied. 

After their conversation Dr. Hooves went over a couple more things and they were finished. Twilight walked out the hospital made he way to the castle with the two Royal Guards behind her.

After some walking they made it to the castle gates and the guards stationed there opened them for the Princess and her escorts. Twilight turned around and gave a small nod to the guards. The guards saluted and left her be. She walked down the castle hallways towards the court room as that was where she would probably find Celestia this time of day.  As she trotted down the hallway she heard a voice she hadn't heard from for some time. 

"Oooooo are we in Canterlot?" Dying asked excitedly. 

"Yes we are. Why are you asking?" Twilight said.

"What your brainmate can't ask a simple question." Dying sighed. 

"Stop answering my questions with your own." Twilight said a little annoyed.

"I love when you get angry." Dying said.

"You know sometimes I wish you didn't exsist." Twilight said. 

"Aww that hurts. What about all the good times we had?" Dying said sadly. 

"You mean you had?" Twilight said knowing that the two of them was still connected and shared the same feelings.

"You still believe we're two different ponies?" Dying said.

"No, not anymore." Twilight said.

"YAY, she finally accepts me!" Dying said mirthfully.  

"It's good to hear that you're happy Dying." Twilight said.

"Oh my gosh she cares about me!" Dying said like she was about to cry. There was a tear that was starting to form on Twilight's left eye. 

"Stop it before somepony sees." Twilight said as she bumped into the court room door.

"Oh looks like we reached our destination." Dying said.

"You so wanted me to hit my face on the door didn't you?" Twilight said.

"Maaaybe." Dying said.

"Of course you did" Twilight said as they both laughed. Twilight laughed softly since she was infront of  the court room. Dying stopped talking and Twilight knocked on the door.

"Enter." Came Celestia's voice from the other side of the door.  Twilight entered  to find Celestia and about almost all of Canterlot's nobility. Including Blueblood. "Ah, Princess Twilight I  wasn't expecting you to drop by today."

"Yes, well here I am." Twilight said unerved by the looks the nobols were giving her. They reminded her of her unfortunate trip.

"Well what brings you here?" Celestia asked.

"Well I just wanted to ask if my friends had been informed that I have returned." Twilight replied.

"Yes they have been informed and will be arriving tomorrow." Celestia said.

"Thank You Celestia." Twilight said, but before she could walk out the door one of the nobles spoke. 

"Just where have you been for the past twenty years, Princess Twilight?" Asked Blueblood.

"That's none of your business Blueblood." Twilight said calmly.

"That may be, but everypony here deserves to know what you've been up to these last twenty years. Were you hiding from you duties? Or taking a very prolonged break? What about going somewhere to have a little fun?" Said Blueblood

Twilight chuckled a little bit."No,no, and most deafitnally no." She said. 

"Well then where were you?" Another noble asked. 

"Let's just say I had a...very unfortunate journey. One that I do not feel like taking about."Twilight said.

"Why not, did something bad happen?" Asked Blueblood.

"Yes it did and let's leave it at that. Twilight said still not turning around.

"Please elaborate. What happend in your journey?" Blueblood said smiling as he thought he was winning.

"I said let's leave it alone." Twilight said feeling her anger rise. 

"You might as well tell us now, or this will be a recurring thing." Said Blueblood. 

Twilight turned around with her eyes closed. "Blueblood your starting to turn my day sour. I'd advise you to stop now." Twilight said with a hint of anger. Inside her mind Dying was just waiting for her to burst.

"Why should I? If you just answer the question this could be all over. So please stop avoiding it." Blueblood said.

"I said no Blueblood." Twilight said through gritted teeth.

"Your just as stubborn as that commoner friend of yours who I used as a sheild at the Gala." Blueblood said. A couple other nobles also chuckled along with him.

"I think that's enough nephew." Said Celestia stepping in. 

"That mares name is Rarity. Show some respect for the dead asshole." Twilight said. The gathered ponies gasped, except for Celestia. 

"Dead. What do you mean she's dead?" Asked Celestia. 

"Dead. Gone. Finished. Exterminated. That sum it up?" Twilight said not knowing she was directing her anger at the wrong pony. 

"How dare you talk to my au..." Blueblood said before he was cut off by Twilight.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP BLUEBLOOD!" Twilight yelled now opening her eyes. The gathered ponies gasped as they saw Twilight's red and green eyes." I'LL BLAST YOUR ASS ALL THE WAY TO THE MOON IF YOU SAY ONE MORE CELESTIA-DAMMED THING!" She yelled.

Blueblood quickly shut his mouth. He looked over at Celestia who was still staring at Twilight. "MY FRIENDS SHOULD HAVE AS MUCH RESPECT AS YOU DAMN NOBLES DO! INSTEAD YOU VEIW THEM AS COMMENERS WHO JUST FILL YOUR POCKETS! ALL OF YOU ARE NOT LIKE THIS, BUT THE MAJORITY IS! I BEEN BACK ONE DAY AND ONE IF YOU ALREADY MANAGED TO MAKE ME BLOW MY FUCKING TOP! I'M SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR SNOBBISH ASSES! I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW CELESTIA CAN DEAL WITH YOU ALL!  THOSE WHO SIT AROUND ALL DAY, WATCHING THOSE WHO ARE HARD WORKERS, THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY,THOSE WHO CAN BARLEY MAKE ENDS MEET! HOPEFULLY YOUR CHILDREN AREN'T LIKE THIS, IF THEY ARE THEN I SYA EQUESTRIA'S FUTURE IS ABOUT FUCKED!" Twilight triaded. 

"Aunt surely you aren't going to let this pet of yours insult the nobility." Blueblood said before he found himself against the far wall of the court room. He looked down to see Twilight or somepony that looked like Twilight holding him against the wall. Who seemed to be at least five inches taller than Celestia. Her fur was dark purple, she had a curved red horn that became black the father you went down, a cutie mark that resembled Twilight's along with his aunt's, that also had some purple tendrils. Her mane flowed like his aunts and so did her tail. Her eyes were a red-violet with green surrounding the irises. He saw a scar on the mares face that was also on Twilight's in the same place. Her wings were also dark purple but near the edges of her wing there was an orange that faded into a light red.

"Who the fuck are you calling a pet?" Dying said.

"Who are you? Where's Princess Twilight?

"My name is Dying Phoenix. Twilight was getting tired of your shit so she called me in. I'm her bad side." Dying said as she stood on her hind legs and mad crystal fingers appear on her hooves. She let Blueblood go from her magic and the grabbed him by his collar with her crystal fingers. She gave him a wide sharp toothed smile. He almost about soiled himself." Mmmmm, haven't tasted fear like this for a while. It's feeling me right up." Dying said as she licked her lips. Celestia then stepped in. 

"Dying could you please put my nephew down?" Celestia asked. 

"Sure thing, but first he has to apologize for making Twilight angry and for disrespecting Rarity." Dying said.

"I'd do what she said dear nephew." Celestia said. 

Dying dropped him and he preceded to kiss her hooves and apologized." I am so sorry for making Twilight angry and for disrespecting her friend, Rarity." Blueblood said as if he were begging for his life ( which he was).

"Good." Dying said. "As for the rest of you make Equestria a better place. I'll be back if you don't." Dying said before she vanished and turned back into Twilight. She went back to standing on all of her hooves. The nobles in the room stared at her in horror. 

"Now that that's all handled I bid you all a good afternoon." Twilight said as she walked out the door.
> That Left A Bad Taste In My Mouth
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"I demand that she be stripped of her tiltle immediately!" Yelled Blueblood.

"Why do you say that dear nephew? Celestia questioned as she sipped on her tea.

"Well for one she insulted most of the Canterlot nobility. Secondly she threatend my life, your dear and most favorite nephew I might add." Replied Blueblood.

"If you hadn't kept pushing her maybe that wouldn't have happend." Celestia said setting her tea down.

"But we deserved to know where she has been for the last twenty years. This is isn't fair aunt. Aren't rulers supposed to be fair and trust their ponies with the knowledge they know?" Blueblood said in a slightly angry tone. 

"And aren't princes supposed to be nice to mares and instead of using them as a sheild and instead use themselves?" Celestia shot back. 

"What, are you talking about that dead peasant that that wicked mare of darkness was talking about?  I didn't want my mane to get ruined by that cake, so I used her to block me. If anything she should of been happy to help a prince such as myself." Blueblood said.

"You know what, your so full of bullshit." Said a voice from behind. Neither Celestia or Blueblood (who was shaking in his boots, figuratively of course.) to see that it was Twilight who was now standing at the door. 

"Princess Twilight, what are you doing here?" Blueblood asked inching closer to his aunt for protection.

"Your not scared are you?" Twilight asked as she enered the room and closed the door behind her. 

"Of...of course n...not." Blueblood replied. 

"So what did you say about that "dead peasant" that was my friend?" Twilight said as she saw Blueblood visibly shaking under her gaze. "Speak the truth Dying and I are very good at detecting liars, so don't try it." Twilight said seeing Blueblood gulp.

"I...I sa...id she sho...uld have been proud to p...rotect me form that cake that would have absolutely ruined my mane." Blueblood said with a little more confidence in his voice towards the end of his sentence. 

"That's what you threw my friend infront of that cake for, because it could have ruined a fucking mane no one gives two shits about!" Twilight said getting a little angry."I don't know what Rarity ever saw in you, and how you could be Celestia's favorite nephew. I rid my hooves of you, good day." Twilight said as she left the room a slammed the door very loudly.

"Just when I thought she couldn't get even angrier." Celestia said picking up her cup of tea again and taking a sip. 

In The Hallways Of Canterlot Castle

"A mane, a fucking mane! What did you see in this guy Rarity?" Then again she always was one for the stallions that had the best fashion. Huh if he was a lot nicer, maybe those two would have been great together?" Twilight said as she walked down the halls.

"Nah, Blueblood would have still found a way to fuck up." Said Dying.

"Hm, maybe your right? I mean this is Blueblood were talking about." Twilight said. 

"How are you feeling by the way?" Dying asked.

"Can't you tell?" Twilight said.

"Oh, yeah forgot about that." Dying said sheepishly. "Ugh, that asshole Blueblood made you a little bit angry again. Hmmm, oh I have an idea lets go check on the ship for anything we can salvage." 

"I guess that could work?" Twilight said as she opened the doors to the castle and took flight. A couple minutes later she landed infront of the ship. She entered and went searching for things she could take. She looked through the the crates that hadn't broken and in the ones that had. 

"Lets see we got a couple assault rifles, RPG's, magnums, couple desert eagles, thirteen cases of grenades, thirteen cases of breach charges, light machine guns, anti-air rockets and launcher, shot guns, some sticky bombs, cleaning supplies, extra armor, mines, sniper rifles, and oh hell yes, fuckin miniguns." Twilight said as she went through the crates.

"Are there any flamethrowers?" Dying asked.

"Yes there are. What is it with you and fire?" Twilight asked

"To be honest with you, I have no fucking idea." Dying said as both her an Twilight shared a little laugh"So uh, how long until I get to meet the rest of your friends?" Dying asked.

"Dying it's only the middle of the day. We'll meet them soon." Twilight said as she moved all of the weapons and other equipment into her pocket dimension.

"I'm just so excited, and anxious at the same time. I'm excianxious." Dying said.

"You sound like Pinkie Pie." Twilight said amused.

"What if they think i'm evil? What if they think I took your body over? How are we going to break the news about Rarity?" Dying said hyperventilating. 

"Don't worry about those things now, we still have the rest of the day to come up with the answers." Twilight said trying to calm down Dying.

"But what if we can't think of anything. I'll be the reason your friendship ends with them. If that happens then you'll hate me and you won't like me as your brainmate!"Dying cried.

Twilight chuckled a little. "Ok you are so much like me. You need to calm down and relax. Trust me when I say I do some crazy things when I freak out. So right now breath and do the exercise Cadence taught me." 

Dying exhaled and put her hoof to her chest and then extended it outwards. She reapeted the action for a couple of minutes. "Wow that really does work." Dying said feeling better.

"See now we can work together on what to say to them, ok?" Twilight said.

"Ok." Dying replied.

"Now let's go see what else we can salvage." Twilight said as she left the storage room.


Caterlot Castle, Blueblood's Planing Room

Blueblood sat in his planing room with at least twenty of the nobels that were present at the meeting where almost all of them were insulted. Blueblood went up to the podium that was set up on the room and began speaking."My fellow nobility, we are gathered her to discuss a matter that I'm sure most of you have been angered over." Blueblood said as the nobels shared looks with each other."This matter is the insult of the Cantrlot nobility that happend earlier this morning." Blueblood continued. The nobels all yelled in unison." I'm here to suggest a plan. This plan will involve getting rid of Princess Twilight Sparkle and that monster of her's forever." Blueblood said. The gathered nobility roared with excitement.

"What if her or Celestia find out about this plan, surely we will either be killed or banished?" One of the nobels asked. 

"Trust me they won't, my connections will ensure that we are not found out." Blueblood said. "Any other questions?" Blueblood asked. 

"Yes, how do plan to contain the Princess and her monster?" A noble asked.

"Excellent question dear chap. We will be using the best inhibitor that bits can buy, also the best chains. She will be held in an abandoned warehouse on the edge of Canterlot." Blueblood said.

"I have a question, how do you plan on catching her? Asked another noble. 

"Again my connections will be handeling that. Anymore questions?" Blueblood said looking around. There were no more." All right now that those matters are settled you are to meet back here at 9:00 am tommorow. By that time we will have her in our custody. See you all then." Blueblood said as he walked off the podium. 

Back At The Ship, The Cockpit

Twilight sat down in the pilots chair of the cockpit. She formed her crystal fingers and turned towards the now cracked screen. "Alright let's see what else this ship has onboard." Twilight said as she skimmed through the files. A few minutes later she found a file marked Alien Tech. She looked up the area where the tech was being held and left the cockpit. She headed back into the storage area and walked towards the middle of the room. She looked down and pulled the small rusted ring that was attached to a small hatch. She opened the hatch to find a dark hole with a latter attached to the side of the wall. She went down the latter and looked around, her vision already adjusting so she could see in the dark room."Thanks Dying." Twilight said as she looked around the room.

"No problem." Dying replied. Twilight lifted a tarp and squealed in excitement. "Are those plasma casters?" Dying said eyeing the contents of the crate.

"Yes they are!" Twilight said in an excited tone.  She opened the next crate to see some wrist blades. In the next crate there were a couple glaives,in the next one proximity mines, the next some consticter nets as Twilight liked to call them. In the next crate there were some ceremonial knives, the next some mauls. The next crate some smart discs."It's like an entire Yautja armory." Twilight said as she opened the next crate to find the standard Juwanga Clan mask and armor. She opened the next crate to find the Shiwana Clan mask and armor. Instead of searching through the rest of the crates, she put them in her pocket dimension. A couple minutes later she exited the ship with all the rest of her new toys, with a large smile on her face. As she walked back towards the castle she felt a large multitude of presences around her. 

"You feel them too?" Dying asked. 

"Yup." Twilight said focusing on the presences. "Twelve unicorns, five pegasi, ten earth ponies." Twilight said as she stood on her hind hooves and summoned her sword for the battle. The said twenty-seven ponies emerged from the shadows and surrounded her. 

"Afternoon fellas, can I help you with something?" Twilight asked. The group said nothing. One of the pegusus pounced and ended up on the end of Twilight's sword. Twilight pushed the pegasus body off her sword and shook it. "Who's next?" 

The remaining four pegasi flew into the air, while the earth ponies charged at her. The unicorns began charging their sleeping spells. Twilight swung her sword around in a circular motion, which in turn caused the earth ponies to stop in confusion. Once Twilight stopped she dug her hooves in the ground and then pushed off it lunging forward with enough speed and force to leave a crack in the ground and blow every thing behind her backwards and also cause a loud boom sound to emit. She was to fast for the earth ponies to see her move and in just a few second five earth pony bodies lay motionless on the ground. Twilight didn't stop running forward. She knew what kind of spell the unicorns were preparing and she didn't want want them to get it off. She reached the unicorns infront of her and she sliced six of their heads off. She stopped and turned around to face the remaining enemy. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a pegasus trying to tackle her from her right side. She ducked and then bucked the pegasus in the stomach and the mare screamed out in pain as she crashed into a tree.

Twilight then had to dodge a magical blast from one of the unicorns and then jump over one of the charging earth ponies. One of the pegasus saw an opportunity and flew straight at her. There was a loud bang and the pegasus fell to the ground dead. The remaining ponies saw Twilight holding some strange foreign object in her hooves. Twilight blew the smoke that was coming from the barrel of the gun. "You see this?" Twilight said putting the gun in the air."This is my boom stick!"Twilght yelled recalling one of the memories she now had from her time on Earth. It was the memory of a movie with some person named Ash. The gathered ponies reacted the same way the people in the movie did. Twilight had to suppress a laugh. One of the earth ponies came running behind her. Another loud bang and a dead body. "Any one else want to try and fuck with me?" Twilight asked. The three remaining pegsi flew backwards and into the clouds. The remaining earth ponies backed away from her and the unicorns teleported away. 

"Did they just...give up?"Dying said confused.

"I don't know, but we should keep our gua..." Was all Twilight said before she was tackled from behind by one of the earth ponies. She dropped her sword and her gun out of her reach.'Dammit' Twilight thought as she turned around and bucked the earth pony in to a tree. There was also a loud crack heard. Twilight got up and started running towards her sword. Before she could reach it there was a flash and she was starting to feel very, very sleepy. Twilight fell to the ground and was struggling to stay awake. She looked up to see the remaining ponies surrounding her.

An earth pony walked infront of her and delivered a quick right hook to her face. It was a strong attack but it did not have the intended effect. The pony saw this and delivered another punch, this time a uppercut.
This punch flung her a short distance, but when she landed she hit the ground hard. She was able to look up once before she passed out.

Three Hours Later, Edge Of Canterlot Abandoned Warehouse 

Twilight slowly opened her eyes and then closed them as there was a bright light shining in her face. She tried moving her hooves, but found she couldn't. She opened her eyes and looked at her hooves. They were chained to the wall. A hint of fear made its way into Twilight's mind. She tried opening her mouth but it wouldn't open. She looked down and caught a glimpse of something silver.

'Looks like Equestria invented duct tape while I was away.' Twilight thought.

"Well, we'll look who's awake?" Said a voice, that Twilight instantly realized was Blueblood. She looked up at him with anger."Look at you The Princess of Friendship all tied up, and there's nothing she can do about it." Blueblood said smiling.

'Oh, I am so kicking your ass when I get free.' Twilight thought.

"Don't you mean we?" Dying asked.

'Yes Dying we.' Twilight replied mentally.

"Anyway you must be wondering why your here?" Blueblood said. Twilight only looked at him still with rage in her eyes."Well obviously this is me and the other nobels that you insulted getting our revenge on you." Blueblood said as if he expected her to know why.

"You are so dead when I get out of here." Twilight said muffled by her gag.

"I'm sorry what was that? I couldn't hear you. That duct tape around your mouth is made from the best quality adhesive. There is no way your breaking out of that. Also those chains around your hooves are made from the finest steel, and that inhibitor ring was the best on the market. I'd like to see you try to escape, it's impossible." Blueblood said with a smile on his face. 

Twilight pushed forward, which caused Blueblood to step back.  She was pulled back towards the wall by the chains. She looked up at Blueblood still clearly showing her anger."You know your kind of cute when your angry." Blueblood said with a chuckle. 

"Hey, only I get to say she's cute when she's angry!" Dying yelled knowing that Blueblood couldn't hear her.

"Oh would you look at the time I must be getting back to the castle. I'll see you tommorow Princess, have a good night ta ta." Blueblood said as he turned and left the building. 

Twilight lowered her head in shame.'Good job Twilight. Your back for one day and you already get captured again. Shameful.' Twilight thought as the Yautja in her took control.'First you let your anger get the better of you, which got you wounded and then you take a false victory and get captured. It's disgraceful.' Twilight thought as tears threatend to fall from her eyes.

"Twilight stop all this crazy talk. This is not you talking it's the Yautja, you need to snap out of it." Dying said trying to calm Twilight down. "Everypony makes mistakes. Yours were letting your anger get the best of you and believing you won a battle. Those are your mistakes, but instead of viewing them as failures you should view them as a learning opportunities."

'I guess that makes sense, sort of.' Twilight replied. 

"You know if I was in control all the time I probably make the same mistakes you did. After all no ponies perfect. I also pretty sure that if I felt the same way you do now you would probably be trying to cheer me up to." Said Dying.

'You know your right Dying, thanks.' Twilight said feeling better.

"Now how about we make a plan to get our revenge on Blueblood and the rest of those snobbish assholes?" Dying suggested.

'Sounds good to me.' Twilight replied. 

"All right so Blueblood obviously plans to get rid of both of us. We also know that him and those other nobels that were present will be here in the morning. The'll be expecting us to be still tied to the wall. We're already gonna be out of our bounds and will be waiting for them. Ok so they fitted us with military grade steel chains, since Equestria still hasn't found anything stronger, and a inhibitor ring strong enough to hold back even the magic of Celestia." Dying explained. 

'Yes thanks for listing what they tied us up with. I already knew that.' Twilight thought. 

"Oh yeah." Dying said sheepishly. 

'Anyways how am I getting out of these bonds without my magic?'

"Duh, you have a side that was born from anger and not magic. All you need to do is get angry and that shouldn't be very hard for you I imagine." Dying said. 

'You got that right.' Twilight said as she changed into Dying Phoenix. Dying looked at the chains and efforetlessly pulled both her hooves from the wall.

"Hey how come your stronger than me?" Twilight asked.

'Cause I do all the absorbing. When we switch places your strength increases by three-hundred percent. So that's why I'm stronger. But hey at least you have that fourty percent from me and then the sixty from your enhancements.' Dying explained.

"Oh well ok then. " Twilight said. 

'Now lets get these chains off of our wrists.' Dying said as she walked over to a rail and started banging her hooves against it. A couple minutes later and the chains were on the ground.'Now for this ring.' Dying said as she tried pushing the ring off her horn. Fourty minutes later the ring fell to the ground.'I don't understand how earth ponies and pegasi do anything without magic.' Dying said.

"We can look into it when we get back at Blueblood and those other nobels." Twilight said.

'Sounds good to me. Lets get this tape off our mouth, it starting to hurt a little.' Dying said as she formed the crystal fingers and found the part where the tape was ripped and started unwrapping it from their muzzle. "Ah that's much better." Dying said with relief.

"Now I know how those hostages felt." Twilight said.

"Which ones?" Dying asked. 

"The ones during that one mission to Venezuela." Twilight replied. 

"Oh yeah, that was the one where we used a meat hook on that one guy." Dying said amused.

Twilight laughed"You remember how he tried to get and ended up falling and breaking his neck."

"That was my favorite part." Dying said and then fell backwards to start laughing."Anyways lets find us a place to hide."

"Agreed" Twilight said.

The Next Morning 9AM 

Blueblood waited outside the warehouse for the rest of the nobels to arrive. A couple minutes later all the nobles that were present at the meeting were now standing outside the warehouse. 

"Welcome my fellow nobility." Blueblood said to the gathered crowd."Are we all ready to enter?" Blueblood asked. The gathered nobility nodded in unison. One of the nobels raised his hoof."Yes?" Blueblood asked.

"Are we going to have protection in there?" The nobel asked.

"Of course we are they are already inside waiting for us to come in." Blueblood replied. The nobels nodded and Blueblood opened the the door he and the other nobles went in and then the door slammed shut. "Wh...where is she?! Blueblood said.

"Right behind you asshole." Twilight said as she dropped from the ceiling and onto the ground leaving a small crater."Surprised to see me free?"

"How did you escape?" Blueblood said clearly very scared.

"My friend." Twilight said as she turned into Dying. 

"Hi, remember me?" Dying said as she smiled showing off her sharp teeth to the gathered nobles. 

"Guards!" Blueblood yelled. 

"Their dead. I ate them." Dying said as she liked her lips. Blueblood looked like he was about to vomit. 

"Wh... What are you going to do to us?" One of the female nobels asked. 

"Well I think that i'm going to...murder and then eat all of your snobbish asses."Dying said as crystals shot from the ground and impaled all of the nobles except for Blueblood, who pissed himself. The bodies of the nobles were absorbed into the crystals and all of their strength and knowledge went to Dying. There was also a very weird taste."Eww, absorbing all those nobels left a bad taste in my mouth." Dying said. While she was rambling about the taste of the nobels, Blueblood snuck past her and left the building.

"Uh Dying Blueblood just escaped." Twilight said.

"Oh, well you up for a good old fashion asshole chase?" Dying asked.

"Always." Twilight replied."Ooo we should set the mood." 

"Agreed." Dying said."Do you mind if I use that found you found? I want to play some music."

"Go right ahead." Twilight said. Dying lit her horn and before anyone knew it the moon was up and the sun was out of site. Dying sniffed the air and got Blueblood's scent.

"Don't run Blueblood. You can't escape me." Dying said as she pushed the play button and music started to play from the phone she had in her magic. 

Blueblood ran through the streets of Canterlot without a real destination in mind. There were only two things on his mind getting away from the monster and why it was suddenly night time. He heard some distant music that was continuously saying "The nights not over yet, you can't me!" He saw a shadow fly over head and then Dying landed in front of him.

"Where are you going, the fun's just beginning." Dying said with a wide smile on her face."I wonder what color you will bleed?" Dying said as she inched closer to Blueblood. Blueblood looked at her with fear in his eyes.

"You can't kill me." Blueblood said.

"Oh yeah, why is that?" Dying asked.

"If you do then my aunt will never forgive Princess Twilight" Blueblood said and Dying stopped moving. Blueblood saw the opportunity to run but didn't get the chance. Dying spoke once again.

"Well then if I can't kill you, i'll just have to hurt you really really bad." Dying said."Sound good to you brainmate?"

"I think it's a wonderful idea." Twilight replied.

"Excellent!" Dying said as she looked at Blueblood. Blueblood back up against a wall and stared death in her eyes. Dying inched closer and closer towards Blueblood, but before she could do anything there was a voice heard from above her and she saw two shadows descending from the clouds. 

"Enough!" Yelled Celestia as she and her sister landed behind Dying and Blueblood.

"Thanks goodness. My aunts have come to rescue me." Blueblood said. He tried to move towards his aunts but he was stopped by Dying. She was standing on her hind legs and had Blueblood by the collar of his suit.

"They have only delayed your punishment." Dying said looking at Blueblood. Celestia spoke again.

"Why are you hunting my nephew?" Celestia asked. 

"Cause he tried to get rid of me and Twilight for good." Dying replied.

"Surely that is a false tale?" Luna said. 

"Is it Blueblood?" Celestia said turning her attention to her nephew.

"Why of course it is, this crazy mare is only trying to decive you." Blueblood replied.

"Oh i'm the one trying to decive the Princesses. Ok well how about I tell them about your contacts attacking and ponynapping Twilight?" Dying said.

"What?!" Celestia and Luna yelled in unison.

"Yup he had his connections come after Twilight and bring her to that abandoned warehouse on the edge of the city. He and the other nobles that were present at the meeting yesterday came up with the plan." Dying said

"Where are the other nobles?" Celestia asked. 

"That's a story for another time." Dying replied."Anyway I was just about give Blueblood his punishment."

"What dost thou hast in mind for our dear nephew?" Luna asked.

"Oh shit, we can not do what we planned at least not infront of them." Twilight said.

"Um, we acually don't have anything at the moment" Dying lied.

"Well we can find suitable punishment when we get back to the castle." Celestia said."

"Sounds good to me." Dying said."What do you think brainmate?" Dying asked. "She said that's good with her also." Dying said as Celestia and Luna shared a look. 

"One more thing Dying." Celestia said.

"Yes?" Dying replied.

"Can you please raise the sun?" Celestia said.

"Oh yeah, sorry." Dying said as she lit her horn and the sun was back in its rightful place in the sky."Lets get back to the castle."

"Agreed." Luna said as the three Princesses and the noble Prince made their way back to the castle.
> Twilight Vs Twilight
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The three Princesses and Prince made their way inside of the castle. Inside they made their way towards the throne room and once inside Celestia closed the large wooden double doors with her magic. Celestia went to sit on the throne, while Luna went to stand at her side. Twilight decided to stay on her hind legs and was standing in the middle of the room with Blueblood still in her grasp. She dropped him and walked over to a wall to lean on it, with her arms crossed. 

"So my dear nephew, what has led you to try and kill Twilight and her...uh friend?" Celestia asked. Blueblood only stood still looking at the ground.

"The Princess asked you a question asshole, I suggest you answer." Twilight said in a commanding tone.

"That is so your favorite curse word." Dying said.

"What? No it is not, just shut up alright." Twilight said.

"The amount of times you've used it proves my point." Dying said.

"No it doesn't." Twilight said.

Dying smiled."Yes it does."

"Does not."

"Does to." 

"Does not."

"Does to."

"Does not!" Twilight quietly yelled.

"Twilight could thou stop bickering like a foal with thou friend, tis giving us a headache." Luna said.

"Oh sorry." Twilight said rubbing the back of her head. 

"Yay, I win." Dying yelled and Twilight rolled her eyes. 

"Continue Blueblood." Twilight said.

"Because she insulted the nobility and threatened my life." Blueblood said.

"Which you drove me to doing." Twilight said. 

"I'd have to agree with Twilight." Said Celestia."You did pressure her into doing it."

"Like I said before my dear aunt, we deserved to know where she has been. I mean you can't tell me that you and auntie Luna don't have your own questions?" Blueblood said. 

"Tis true that we and our sister have questions, but we would ask her when the time is appropriate for all of us or when she wants to. Tis her desicion to tell everypony of her travels." Luna replied. Twilight ht smiled at her comment. 

"We're you alone when you went to kill her?" Celestia asked. Twilight immediately froze.

'Not good, soooo not good!' Twilight thought.

"Welp we're screwed." Dying said.

Blueblood smiled when he saw Twilight's reaction to the question. "No is was not. Before the plan was set in motion I met with the nobles that were present at the meeting and after the plan was set in motion we all met at the abandoned warehouse and there were also fifteen of my guards present. When me and the nobility entered she had vanished. Then she appeared out of nowhere and she was standing behind us. We turned around and then she turned into that monster of hers and then murdered the other nobles with giant crystals that shot from the ground. Then the bodies of the nobles were sucked into the crystals, and when the crystals went back into the ground that monster said that they left a bad taste in her mouth."

Celestia stared wide eyed at Blueblood and then she looked over towards Twilight. "Is this true?" Celestia asked.

Twilight just stood and stared at the ground. She knew she had to give her an answer and there was no way she could lie her way out of this because of the way she reacted when Celestia asked Blueblood the question about him being alone. What was she to do?

"Just tell her the truth, there's no point in hiding it." Dying said.

Twilight took a deep breath and spoke."Yes, yes it is true." Twilight replied. Both Celestia and Luna had looks of horror on their faces. Blueblood on the other hoof had a big smile on his face.

'Yes, this is sure to get her stripped of her title.' He thought.

Luna smiled. "Huzzah!"

Celestia turned her head towards Luna, Blueblood and Twilight also turned their attention towards Luna."Luna!" Celestia screamed.

"What? Thou too should be very overjoyed, thou court shall be shorter, and thou can get to thou's cake and bananas faster." Luna said. Blueblood and Twilight's jaw hit the floor. "Also thou shall not have to deal with all of those snobbish foals. Well most of them anyways."

"While that may be true, they were still murdered and from the sound of it...eaten." Celestia said. 

Twilight sighed and spoke."It actually more like they were absorbed." She said.

"Actually that is what that was." Dying corrected.

"Oh, that's exactly what it was, absorption." Twilight said.

"What happens when you absorb a pony?" Celestia asked.

"Well first a pony or creature must be already dead. Then the absorption process begins. The body of the victim then becomes part of the weapon they were killed with. Whether it be a sword, gun, fists, or crystals the body will be absorbed into the weapon. Well actually if you were to use a gun then you would have to walk over to the body and then absorb it. That would be the only way possible when using a gun. After the absorption the memories, strength, intelligence, endurance, and whatever else is added to the ponies own strength and other things mentioned. You can also gain certain attributes or abilities from the absorption. For example you see how I walk like a bipedal creature?" Twilight asked. The Royal Sisters nodded." I got this when Dying absorbed one of my enemies form my...trip." Twilight explained and shivered when she mentioned her trip."I also have some other abilities, but some are a little horrific."

"Ha! Your talking to two ponies that have lived for over two millennia. Anything you can do won't even scare them an inch." Blueblood said doubting Twilight skills. Twilight smiled.

"I bet you two-thousand bits that I can." Twilight said.

"Deal, but if you can't not only will you not have those bits, you'll have to be my servant for twenty-four hours." Blueblood said.

"Deal." Twilight said."Celestia, Luna are you ready?" 

"Bring it on." Luna said.

"She meant to say yes." Celestia said.

"Alrigt here we go." Twilight said as her eyes started to glow red.

Canterlot Maze, Near Twilight's Crashed Ship 

The maze in the garden was usually quiet and peaceful, with the exception of the ship that was still falling apart piece by piece slowly. 
The wind in the area started to pick up. The loose leaves and branches on the ground started swirl around in a circular motion in the middle of the circular motion a yellow rift opened and out fell an alicorn made with a heavy thud the rift closed behind her and everything quieted down. The mare looked around and saw the crashed ship.

"Why the fuck is there a ship in...the maze in Canterlot. The mare got up a dusted off her battle worn armor with her right hoof. She walked around the ship and saw a emblem on the side. A planet with the same ship leaving from it with a white streak following behind it. The ship's dark green color matched her armor. There was three girly screams heard from behind her. The mare whipped around and saw that it could only be coming from one place."The Castle!" The mare said as she spread her wings and took off towards the castle. She flew through the air and opened her pocket dimension to take out her singnature weapon. Her SMG that had runes floating around it. She burst through the window to the throne room and landed on her hooves. She switched to biped mode. She readied her weapon and aimed at her...target? Infront of her stood a tiny foal with a white coat and blue eyes. The foals mane was red and had some blue strips running through her mane. She looked around the throne room to see an unconscious Blueblood and the Royal Sisters starting wide eyed at the foal.  

"Ok what the fuck is going on here?" The mare asked.  No pony answered. The mare stared in confusion at the two sisters and then looked back at the foal. Said foal started singing a song The commander took a cautious step back.

"Slender Man, Slender Man dressed in the darkest suit and tie." The filly sung in a voice that seemed to belong to some song. The way the filly was staring was starting to unerve the commander.

"Slender loves little children. He likes to take them home with him. He likes to make them his children." The filly said as she started to shift into a tall man. Wearing the darkest suit and tie, his face pale, no noticeable mouth, nose, eyes, hair, or ears. The commander was covered by the shadow of the man. Her vision started to get fussy. Then suddenly everything was over. The commander opened her eyes and looked around. Celestia and Luna finally snapped out of their trance and looked around. They saw Twilight of somepony that looked like Twilight standing off towards the side of the throne room. 

"Wow Twilight you weren't kidding when you said horrific." Celestia said. 

"Um, excuse me?" The commander said."What the hell was going on here?" She asked. 

"You don't remember your deal with Blueblood?" Celestia said confused. 

"What deal?" The commander said.

"Me and Blueblood made a deal." Twilight said dropping down from the ceiling.

"And that deal was?" The commander said holding her SMG towards the ceiling but still had her finger on the trigger. 

"If I could scare the living shit out of the Princesses over there Blueblood would give me two-thousand bits, if I couldn't no bits and I had to be his servant for twenty-four hours, and I sure as hell made sure that wasn't happening." Twilight explained. 

"Ok, well how the hell did you do all that crap. The fuzzy vision, the transformations?" The commander asked.

"Long story short, I can do some crazy shit. And judging by your cybernetic limbs and eyes so can you." Twilight said.

"How the fuck do you know about cybernetics?" The commander asked.

"Lets just say I took a trip and came back with information and abilities that most ponies would veiw as crazy, horrific, or awesome." Twilight said. The two sisters watched as Twilight talked to Twilight.

"Nice scar." The commander said looking at her counterparts eye.

"Same to you." Twilight replied. 

"Thanks got em escaping a fed base while rescuing my commanding officer." The commander said.

"Got mine returning home and then got ambushed by some of my captors. Also got wounded on my right leg." Twilight said.

The commander looked down at her counterparts right leg she saw no wound, scar, or scab.

"There's no evidence that their ever was a wound there." The commander said. 

"I have the best healing factor in the world." Twilight replied. 

"How come you still have the scar then?" The commander asked. 

"I chose to keep it, as a reminder of my faliure to get my anger under control." Twilight said her mood diminishing a bit.

"Hey take it from a soldier, you don't want to beat yourself up over your mistakes, makes you sloppy and inefficent."  The commander said.

"Well that's what happenes when I get angry. I become sloppy and unable to think." Twilight said. 

"Or you turn into me, did you forget to mention me?" Dying said.

"Yes Dying is forgot to mention you." Twilight said aloud.

"Who the fuck is Dying?" The commander asked.

"Oh yes let me introduce..." Twilight said as smoke started coming of her body.

"Dyyyiiing Pheeeeonixxxx!" Dying said as she stood on her hind hooves and formed her crystal fingers and posed.

"What the fuck!" The commander yelled as she readied her SMG to fire.

"There will be no need for that Commander Sparkle. Of the EDF, short for the Equestrian Defense Force. Rebel soldier, Second in command to one Thomas Clancy of The People's Free Democratic Republic or PFDR for short." Dying said. The commander stared at her in confusion.

"How the hell did you know that?" The commander asked.

"Fought a fifth dimensional being, killed his ass absorbed him and then I knew pretty much everything about the multiverse." Dying explained.

"Hmmm, well that's interesting." The Commander said. "So you know everything about me? Like everything, everthing?

"Yes all the way down to your daughter to your mental problems, don't worry I can keep a secret." Dying said whispering towards the end of her sentence. 

'Great another pony who knows how crazy I am. The Commander thought. "How do I know your not lying?" 

"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Dying said as she preformed the motions and promise. 

"An pinkie promise, how do you know about that? The Commander asked clearly surprised.

"Twilight taught me everything she knew about her friends, Equestria, and those bastards that took her away from her home, and those who...who..." Dying said trying to hold back a sob.

"Who what?" Commander Sparkle asked.

"Who ponynapped and murdered...Rarity and many other unicorns." Dying said as she burst into tears. "Twilight was so distraught, so angry, she wanted revenge, she wanted blood. So I was born from her anger and dark magic and took control and we almost escaped before I let my own anger get the best of me and we got captured again. Then the torture and tests began." Dying explained, still crying her eyes out. Inside Dying's head Twilight too was shedding tears. The Commander had also froze when she heard the word 'tests' escape Dying's mouth.

"You both were experimented on?" Commander Sparkle asked.

"No, Twilight had to experience the torture and tests. But me and her are connected, so it was like I was there experiencing them with her. I try not to bring the subject up as it really hurts Twilight to talk about it, and she must be feeling so terrible right now, oh she's so..." Before Dying could finish she found her self in a tight hug from the militaristic mare.

"In all my years of traveling through the multiverse, I have never met another mare that went through the same hell I did." The Commander said showing her more emotional side. Suddenly the two mare found themselves both in the embrace of large, warm, white wings. Both mares turned their head to see Celestia with her own tears falling. Luna stayed back and went over to see if Blueblood was still alive. Thank Faust he was. Luna looked over to the three Alicorns were all sharing a group hug. 

Celestia looked over to Luna and motioned her over to them. Luna nodded and made her way over. Dying had turned back into Twilight. While Twilight she was still bigger than Commander and Luna, but still just a couple inches away from being taller than Celestia. 

There was a knock at the door and a guard entered."Princess Celestia, Princess Twilight's friends have arrived and...are requesting permission to....enter." The guard said as he stared at the scene before him. Celestia lifted her head and spoke.

"Let them in." Celestia said. The guard nodded and left the room. The three alicorns ceased the hug and stood."Are you both alright?"

"Yes i'm fine." Twilight said. 

"Yeah i'll be alright." Commander Sparkle said. Celestia nodded. The doors to the throne room were once again opened. Twilight's friends walked in. They stopped and took in the scene. 

"Two Twilight's? I knew I shouldn't have drunk all that cider before we left." Rainbow Dash said as she rubbed her eyes. 

"Uh, which ones our Twilight?" Applejack asked. 

"This one right here silly." Pinkie Pie said as she pointed her hoof at Twilight. 

"So who's the other one?" Fluttershy asked. 

"Commander Twilight Sparkle of the Equestrian Defense Force, the Princess of Friendship and the Element of Magic." Commander Sparkle said saluting. 

"What is the Equestrian Defense Force?" Rainbow asked. 

"The army used when the Royal Guard can't handle the situation. Such as a monster attack or large scale attack." Twilight said. 

"So your like the better version of the Guard?" Fluttershy asked. 

"Yes." The Commander said. 

"Cool." Rainbow said."So what do you guys do when your not saving Equestria?"

"We train, spend time with family, or sometimes in me an the majors case fill out paperwork and go to meetings with annoying nobles." Commander Sparkle replied.

"Can anypony join?" Applejack asked. 

"Yes they can. As long as their eighteen and up. And before anyone asks they can be of any nationality."

"Does that include bat ponies?" Applejack asked.

"Yes that does include bat ponies. There just ponies who were born differently and were shunned by their parents and others. Let me tell you now I am no fan of racism." The Commander explained. 

"Same here." Twilight said. 

"Oh, well I can guess that some ponies didn't like that idea, did they?"

"No, there was a group that formed and they started killing bat ponies when they were off duty or they went to burn their houses down." The Commander said sullenly. 

"That's terrible." Fluttershy said.

"Yes it is, but we took care of them. Nopony fucks with my people and get away with it." The Commander said and smiled. There was a groan heard and everypony present turned their attention to the stallion that was waking up. Twilight smiled and walked over to him. He looked up and started to back away.

"No, no, no, no,no, no, stay away from me you beast!"  Blueblood said as he back up into a wall."Don't touch me!"

"Shut the fuck up and give me my bits." Twilight said.

"I don't have them on me right now. They're back at my home."  Blueblood said. 

"Well hurry up and go get them. You have five minutes starting...now!" Twilight said as Blueblood got up and ran as fast as he could out the door.

"What was all that about?" Rainbow asked. 

"I'll tell you later, right now I have some news about Rarity."

"Really, where is she, is she hurt?!" Fluttershy, Pinke, AJ, and Rainbow all asked in unison. 

Twilight took a deep breath. "Just breath and tell them what happened." Dying said. 

"Rarity is...dead." Twilight choked out. Pinkie Pies mane instantly deflated, Fluttershy started crying, both AJ and Rainbow only stood staring wide eyed.

"Say it ain't so." AJ said.

"I'm sorry but it's true." Twilight said head hanging low. "She was taken to a place called Earth, the same place I was for twenty years. She died in a brutal fashion. The humans were doing tests on all the unicorns they had captured, none of them survived. I got their revenge though, I made sure none of those bastards survived." Twilight said she with tears falling from her eyes.

The gathered ponies sat in silence for what seemed like hours. Blueblood finally came back with a bag full of bits in his blue magical aura. "Here you go Princess." Blueblood said as he threw the bag of bits at Twilight who caught it in her magenta magical aura.

"Thanks, now get out of here." Twilight said and Blueblood bolted out the door. "Anyways lets have a race Commander."

"What, huh?" The Commander said caught off guard.

"A race." Twilight said.

"Uh,sure I guess." The Commander replied. "Where at?" 

"Your normal run route whenever your in Canterlot. Three laps." Twilight said. "And after that there are a few other things I would like to go against you in." Twilight added. 

"Well ok, meet you there in five minutes." The Commander said. 

"Gotcha." Twilight said as her and the others left the throne room leaving behind the other two Princesses of Equestria. 

Twilight and her freinds walked down the hallway that was going to lead them outside the castle.

"So Twi what was your bet with Prince  Blueblood?" Applejack asked.

"If I could scare the Princesses, Blueblood would give me two-thousand bits, if I failed no bits and I would have to be his servant for twenty-four hours. " Twilight explained. 

"So that would mean you would have to do anything he wanted you to do?" Rainbow said with a smirk. 

"Yeah, but in the end I came out victorious,'I also plan on keeping my virginity thank you very much.' Twilight said and thought as she walked down the hallway. 

"How long do you plan on keeping it?" Dying said. 

"DYING!" Twilight yelled out loud.

"What, a mare has her needs."  Dying said sadly.

"We'll talk about this later." Twilight said. 

"Uh, sugarcube who ya talking to?" Applejack asked.

'Dammit!" Twilight thought. 'See what you've done?'

"Hey it was you that formed the thought." Dying replied. 

'Whatever, hope you got your explanation ready.' Twilight thought.

"I have and I am ready." Dying said.

'Good cause your about to be on.'

"Eqquis to egghead, you there?" Rainbow asked.

"Yes I am. I would like to introduce someone else before we meet the Commander.

"Ok, where is this pony?" Pinkie Pie said as she looked around the others had joined her after a little while.

"Right here, you silly fillies." A voice called from infront of them. The four ponies turned their head to see a alicorn mare five inches taller than Celestia herself. With a scar on the right side of her face. Her coat was a dark shade of purple and her eyes were a red violet. Her wide smiled showed off her sharp fangs and some other pointy teeth she had. She had a curved red horn that became black the farther you went down, a cutie mark that resembled Twilight's, and Princess Celestia's, there were also purple tendrils that were a lighter shade that connected to the points of the main starburst, there were also mini starbursts around the main one and the orange sun. Her wings were also dark purple but near the edges of her wings there was an orange that faded into a light red.

"Who the buck are you?!" Rainbow said. 

"The names Dying Phoenix, friend of Twilight and her brainmate. In other words we are two ponies who share one brain, but we are still one pony, Twilight Sparkle." Dying explained.

"Is anypony else confused?" Applejack asked. Pinkie Pie instantly raised a hoof.

"I already told you who I am. I'm a friend of Twilight, I helped her while she was gone. I helped get her through... some rough times. She taught me everything about you guys and Equestria while she was gone. You were her drive, you all kept her going." Dying said. 

"That's sweet and all,but how do we know we can really trust you?" Rainbow asked. 

"Applejack." Dying replied. The ponies all turned their attention towards Applejack. "Am I lying?"

"Well, no I can't say that y'll are." Applejack said. 

"AJ never lies." Pinkie said.

"Fine, but i'm still keeping my eye on you." Rainbow said.

"Alright, now lets head to meet the Commander." Dying said as they all continued their walk.

A little while later they were outside waiting at the starting point for the race. 

"Alright, lets get this thing over with." The Commander said as she arrived. Twilight noticed that the Commander was still in her armor. 

"Hold on a sec Commander need to make this fair." Twilight said as she opened her pocket dimension and took out her own armor. "There we go." Twilight  said as she put on her armor. 

"You guys have the pocket dimension spell here?" The Commander asked. 

"Yes we do." Twilight replied. 

"Finally another universe with the same spell." The Commander said and smiled. 

"I knew you would say that. Anyways lets head over to the front of the gates. The Commander nodded and headed over to the gates with Twilight. 

Both the Commander and Twilight got in position and waited for Rainbow Dash to give them the signal. 

"Alright eggheads I want a good clean race, no magic or wings."Rainbow said. Both alicorns nodded in response. 

"On your marks...."

"I'll go easy on ya Commander." Twilight said. 

"You'll be eating my dust." The Commander said confidently.

"Get set..."

"We'll see about that Commander, we'll see." Twilight said as she smiled.

"GO!"

As soon as the word left Rainbow's mouth the Commander pushed off the ground and was on her way.

"Uh Twi, ya know y'll were supposed ta go right?" Applejack said. 

"I'm just giving her a head start." Twilight replied. She looked and saw the Commander a good distance away and decided it was time to go.  She pushed off the ground and was off. Her start caused a small sonic boom and the wind to blow her friends bodies and manes backwards. 

Up ahead the Commander was going at full sprint not even bothering to look behind her. Her augmented hearing caught the sound of a boom. She loooked behind her to see her counterpart right behind her almost at her side. 

"You seemed shocked Commander." Twilight said. 

"What no." the Commander said.

"It's alright Commander, you don't have to lie." Twilight said and smirked. The Commanders reaction was to increase her speed. 

They were halfway through with the first lap when Twilight overlapped the Commander.  

"Come on my fellow Sparkle, what's wrong, am I too fast?" Twilight said.

"You are so asking for me to make you eat your words." The Commander replied.

"You'll have to catch me first." Twilight said as she increased her speed a little. 

Five minutes later the two alicorns were halfway through the last lap. The Commander in the lead till Twilight once again overtook her.

"Come on Sparkle move it!" Twilight yelled in Mendezes voice. The Commander looked at her confused. "What's keeping you down, move faster you piece of shit!" Twilight said (still using Mendezes voice).

The Commander sped up once again and overtook her counterpart. A little while later the finish line came into view. The Commander was just about to pass it when her counterpart dashed past her and made it first, the Commander only a step behind her. 

"Damn." The Commander said. "How did you do it."

"What was it Mendez said?" Twilight asked as she put a hoof to her chin. "Oh yeah." She said as she cleared her throat. "The day I lose to a big eyed freak like you, is the day the sky falls." Twilight said exactly like Mendez had all those years ago and in the same voice. The two alicorns shared a small laugh together leaving the other ponies present very confused."Want to get something to eat Commander, girls?" Twilight asked. The Commander smiled.

"Sure that's fine with me, but first i'll need to change into my uniform." The Commander said.

"No problem Commander, we'll meet you in the mess hall." Twilight replied. 

"Will do." The Commander said. After that the gathered ponies went their separate directions.

After forty-five minutes the Commander was making her way down the hallway leading to the mess hall. As she entered the mess hall she saw her counterpart and her friends sitting at a table in the middle of the room. She made her way over to them. "Hello all." The Commander said and smiled.

"Hey Commander." Twilight said. "I took the liberty of setting up your lunch for you, i'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it. I actually ordered the same thing. The staffs faces would have made you laugh your ass off." Twilight said as she remembered the staffs faces when she put in her and the Commanders orders. The Commander took a seat next to Rainbow Dash and the group started talking some more about the EDF and it's history, the Commander having to use the word classified or coming up with some white lies on more than a few occasions. Their meals finally arrived and the smell of meat hit the noses of all present, two with their mouth's watering (technically three if you consider Dying), the rest recoiled in disgust. 

"Is that meat?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yes, yes it is!" Both Twilght's said excitedly and then facehoofed. "Dammit." They said in unison again. "I should have know this was bound to happen." They looked at each other and laughed leaving the others confused once again. 

"Not again. Damn that hasn't happend since I met the Princess." The Commander laughed. Their food was set down infront of them. The Commander and Twilight had some chicken with some peas, along with a side salad. The rest of the group ordered some salads. The Commander took a nice long and slow bite of the chicken, watching in satisfaction as her counterparts friends cringed at the sight. She looked over at her counter part who also started eating her chicken. She caught a glimpse of her counterparts....sharp teeth. "Why do you have sharp teeth?" The Commander asked.

"I can form them, whenever I need them I just think it and there they are." Twilight explained.

"So what do you plan on doing after we eat?" The Commander asked. 

"I was going to see if you and I could spar in the Royal Guard training room. Would you like to use weapons or just hoof to hoof, or in our cases hand to hand." Twilight said as she formed her crystal fingers.

"Well that's a thing." The Commander said examining her fingers. She herself had clawed fingers as well. "No weapons I guess. I don't think your Equestria has a sword strong enough to not be sliced in half by my hoof blades."

"Equestria might not, but I do." Twilight said. "I call her Slicshia, the hoard killer."

"Hoard, as in zombie hoard?" The Commander asked. 

"No, not zombies. Xenomorphs." Twilight replied as she started eating her peas. 

"What the fuck is a Xenomorph?" The Commander asked. 

"It's an alien species that has a hard exoskeleton, acid for blood, can climb walls, hide in dark places, a long tail withthe end of it being strong enough to break through armor as strong as what the EDF wears and stronger, and have a secondary mouth that can shoot out and go right through bone, muscle, and flesh. They have a queen who lays the eggs. The faceuggers who can impreagnate almost any living thing in existence, drone to build the hive, warriors for battle, preatorians for the queens personal guard. Also there's the chestburster, you should have a clue to why it's named that. Their a well organized killing machine, like the EDF just on the more savage side. As I heard one of the scientists say it's the perfect bio weapon, which is what some of the aliens there were for, bio weapons, the rest testing." Twilight explained."The Yautja, which are a technologically advanced race view them as one of the greatest prey to hunt. Early humans veiwed them as gods. They saw it as an honor to be impregnated by the facehuggers, as they were the hosts that would provide their gods with their prey." Twilight said.

"Sounds like something out of a nightmare." The Commander said.

"They are a nightmare. Especially if they multiply." Twilight replied."Also Commander I could show you some of the Yautja's weapons after we spar." 

"That sounds fun." The Commander said with a smile.

After they were finished eating they made their way to the Royal Guard traning room. Twilght's friends decicded that they were going to talk to the Princesses, while the Commander and Twilight made their way towards the training room. As they entered the room they found some Royal Guard that were off duty. Said Guard turned their heads to see the two alicorns. Despite being off duty the Guards did salute.

"Stand at rest." Twilight said. "This is informal and me and the Commander are just here to spar. So treat us as your equals." The Guards looked between the two alicorns and saw that one was taller than the other, and that they both were standing on their back legs, also that one had a flowing mane while the others was cut short. The Guards continued to train. Twilight and the Commander went to one of the blue rectangular training mats. "So am I taking care of the music or are you?"

"Guess you could." The Commander replied. Twilight opened her pocket dimension and pulled out the phone and put a enchantment on it that would make the sound increase by seventy-seven percent. She scrolled through the playlists that Dying somehow set up. She picked a song."So, lets begin." Twilight said as she also grabbed her armor form her pocket dimension and put it on. The Commander did the same."You first, I insist." Twilight said. The Guard in the room turned their attention to the two mares once the music had started playing. 

If the Commanders counterpart wanted her to go first who was she to to not take the offer. The Commander lunged forward and tried to connect with a right hook, but missed as Twilight side stepped her. The Commander turned and tried to sweep her legs and missed as Twilight jumped over her and rolled and got back up and brushed her armor with a hoof. The Commander noticed this as a taunt. She ran up and started throwing punches. Twilight started easily blocking the attacks with her hooves. Finally she caught the Commander hoof and smiled."My turn." Twilight said as she gave a kick to the Commanders gut. The Commander stumbled back, but recovered enough to block a punch that was aimed for her jaw. She ducked and was actually able to kick her counterparts legs from under her. The Commander turned and gave her counterpart and buck which sent her flying back, but Twilight recover digging her crystal fingers into the ground, she fell and got back up. She cracked her knuckles and started running at the Commander with an unnerving smile on her face. She jumped in the air, while using her wings to balance her she delivered a series of kicks that the Commander blocked and then dropped and connected with an uppercut."Had enough yet?"

"I'm just getting started." The  Commander replied as she lunged at her counterpart giving a punch to the ribs with her right hoof, and a punch to the gut. The Commander then delivered a quick uppercut to her counterparts chin. She then brought her left hoof hard into the mares stomach causing her to bend over and clutch her stomach. The Commander took the opportunity to head but the mare and then grab her by the neck and her fist collided with the other mares face as she had pulled her head down when she was holding onto her neck. She then brought her knee into her counterparts gut one more time hefore stepping behind her and delivering a quick elbow to the back of her head. Twilight feel face to the ground. As the next song played Twilight stood up and her hoof started tapping to the beat of the song, and then preceded to start singing along with it."Cha cha cha charisma." She said as she lunged at the Commander."Gas Mask breath bitch uhuh, shit i'm to much, too much my damn self!" She sand as she delivered a punch to the Commanders gut."The streets go hand and hand I place that paper like dance steps." She sang again as she delivered an uppercut to the Commanders jaw which sent her flying into the air."Try bitch imma teach you bout drumming and blowing trumpets, that's band camp." She said as she jumped into the air and grabbed the Commanders leg."I'm only coming to tell you sweet dreams, bitch i'm the Sandman!" She sang as she the the Commander on the ground hard enough to actually make her bounce off of it. Once the Commander got up Twilight dropped to the ground and delivered another uppercut that was significantly weaker than the last one she did. The Commander recoverd cast and drew her twin fourteen inch blades. Twilight smiled and summoned her own blade Slicshia. The two mare stared at each other until the Commander made a move aiming her left blade for the mares body. Twilight parried her blade and then ducked as the Commanders second blade came over her head. She jumped back and summoned another blade made of pure diamonds appear on her other hand. The two mares clashed again. Both meeting in the middle of the training mat.

The guards in the room watched in amazement as the two mares fought. They looked to be equally matched. One of them either parrying or attacking with their blades.

Twilight and the Commander stared at each other as they were locked in our combat. Twilight swung her crystal sword above the Commanders head as she had ducked. The Commander took the opportunity to sweep the other mares legs from under her. Twilight fell but she used her wings to push off the ground and back into combat. Both of the mare seemed to be enjoying the fight as they both had smiled on their faces. They clashed again and then the music suddenly stopped.

"Enough!" Yelled Celestia. Both Twilight and the Commander turned their attention to her."That's enough sparing you two." 

"Sure I guess." Twilight said as both her swords and armor disappeared in a flash. The Commander also put her blades away."Sorry about the uniform Commander."

"Nah, it's fine. I always carry a spare with me." The Commander replied.

"Anyways, want to see those weapons?" Twilight asked.

"Sounds good with me." The Commander replied as both the mares walked off leaving behind the stunned Guards and Princess Celestia.

"What happened to you Twilight?" Celestia whispered as she left the training room.
> Can I Have It All
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Twilight and the Commander sat at a table in Pony Joe's Donut Diner. A few hours ago her and the Commander were testing out the Yautja weapons she had with her. First Twilight showed the Commander the retractable spears, then the wrist blades, then the mauls, then the constrictor nets, and then some of the armor and masks, and for the grand finale the plasma casters. To say the Commander was excited about the guns destructive power was an understatement, and under no circumstances did she squeal like a school fully. That's what she said at least,  but Twilight will remember that day as one of her best. 

Once they were done and The Commander learned how to use them and how to clean them. She also learned about the symbols and what they meant. After that, they ended up going to Pony Joe's for a snack. They both ordered the Baltimare special, which was a regular donut with chocolate frosting and some vanilla filling inside. 

After their meal, they headed back to the Castle. On their way there they talked about some different topics, ranging from their firearm accuracy to their skills. Once they reached then Castle the Guards let them in after searching the Commander for anything they thought was dangerous.

"Hey Twilight I think you should ask her about the...thing" Dying said.

"What, no. Besides, do you really think the Commander is the best for getting relationship advice?" Twilight replied.

"I guess your right about that." Dying said. The Commander had caught their conversation with her augmented hearing. 

"You two know I can hear you, right?" The Commander said.

"Shit forgot about that." Twilight said as she blushed.

"Your right though, I'm not the best pony to get relationship advice from." The Commander said."Now if you need advice for war or fighting or your just looking for someone to get drunk with, then I'm the mare to talk to." She said with a smile.

"I don't know why, but I think that drink will be happening sometime in the near future." Twilight said as she looked at the castles ceiling. 

"Why don't you use those fifth-dimensional powers you have?" The Commander suggested. 

"Unfortunately they don't work like that. I can't use them to see into the future, the only things I can do are teleport without my horn, see a few multiverses, some stranger than others, hover without using my wings, and my magic increased, a whole lot actually." Twilight as she remembered what happened on one of her last missions on Earth. 

"Well, that's kinda cool." The Commander said as they entered the hallway to the throne room."Anyways where we headed?"

"I want to talk to Celestia about something." Twilight replied.

"About your relationship problems?" The Commander asked.

"Yeah." Twilight replied.

'Wanting to talk to Celestia, hmm.'The Commander thought.'Maybe I should keep asking questions so I can figure out who's she's in to.' She thought and smiled at the idea of once again messing with her counterpart."Soooo, how long you been into this pony, or whoever you love?"

"Umm, I guess I can say since..." Twilight paused and smiled at the Commander."Nice try Sparkle. I know your games, trying to get me to spill the beans, not gonna happen."

Great now the Commander had to find a way to get around her counterparts defenses. But, how?'I'll have to catch her off guard.' The Commander thought. 

"I have been meaning to asks this Commander." Twilight said.

"What?" The Commander asked.

"Are you and Major Chrysalis married, if not you thinking about it?" Twilight asked.

The Commander stopped completely, her vision filled with a blue screen. Her brain stopped working, guess when your brain is part computer things like this are bound to happen when something unexpected pops up. Twilight walked in front of the Commander and looked into her eyes. A blue screen with the words"Commander Sparkle.exe has still working, please reboot." Twilight had to suppress a laugh after reading that. Dying on the other hoof not so much.

"Hahahahahahaha! Look at her face, it's priceless, quick take a picture." Dying said clearly amused. One flash of a camera later and the Commander was back. 

"What the hell just happened?" The Commander asked.

"Oh nothing just asked you a question and got myself a new wallpaper." Twilight said as she showed the picture of the Commander, with a look of surprise on her face and her eyes with the blue screen."Not so fun when it happens to you is it?"

"Fuck you." The Commander said and turned her head away.

"Aww don't look like that, even sometimes the badasses of the world need a little humiliation, and if you get past the blue screen you kinda look cute." Twilight said continuing to humiliate the soldier. 

"Shut up and give me that damn phone!" The Commander shouted.

"You'll have to catch me first!" Twilight said as she started running, the Commander already on her heels. With both mares knowing the castle layout, there was no problem either trying to ambush or avoid each other. The two just happen to run by Luna's room while she was walking out. 

"You get back here you bitch, you get back here you bitch!" The Commander yelled as she almost tackled her counterpart.

"Oh your so cute when your angry, I can see why Chrissy likes you!" Twilight said as she caught a glimpse of Luna before she was tumbling down the hallway."Maybe this will teach you not to get involved with other people's problems unless they asked you too?"

"Shut up!" The Commander said getting off of her counterpart. 

"Were you two enjoying a game of tag?" Luna asked as she walked up. 

"Nope, I was just messing with the Commander." Twilight replied and smiled. The Commander mumbled something under breath.

"Oh, now what's this about other people's problems?" Luna asked. 

"The Princesses over here is having relationship trouble." The Commander replied.

"Relationship trouble? Already found a special somepony Twilight, when did that happen?" Luna asked as she turned to Twilight.

"Ummm, for a while now." Twilight said with a hint of nervousness in her voice, that didn't go unnoticed by the Commander.

'Nervous around Luna.' The Commander thought, adding it to her mental notebook. 

"How long ago?" Luna asked again.

"T..the first time you came to Ponyville for Nightmare Night." Twilight the responded.

'The first Nightmare Night Luna came to.' The Commander added.

"Was it somepony we met?" Luna asked again.

"Y...you could say that." Twilight responded.

"Are you planning on telling this pony your feelings?" Luna asked.

"Yeah I was, i...I'm just a little nervous they won't like me back." Twilight replied rubbing her hooves together as she sat on her haunches. 

'Won't like her back, her crush is possibly a mare. Though judging how nervous she is around Luna, I think I just solved this mystery.' The Commander thought and gave herself a mental high-hoof."Would your somepony happen to be, oh I don't know a mare?"

"Um....y...yeah." Twilght replied. Perfect Twilight was too nervous around Luna, and that means her guard is down.

"Oh my, how does this mare act?" Luna asked.

"Um, she's sometimes funny and then sometimes she can be really deep. Her smell is like that of a bed of flowers, moon blossoms to be exact and lilac. She also really caring and understanding. Her eyes show wisdom and experience. She has a few problems but I don't care about them, she the one for me I feel it." Twilight said. 

"She sounds like a wonderful mare. Just be yourself around her, and don't keep any secrets from her." Luna said.

"Thank you." Twilight said. She and the Commander started walking away and when the got around the corner the Commander spoke.

"I know who it is." The Commander said.

"What!" Twilight screamed.

"It was easy once you started talking to Luna." The Commander said and smiled.

"Who is it then?" Twilight asked.

"Luna." The Commander said.

"How did you guess that?" Twilight asked. 

"Your nervousness around her, and there aren't that many mares that smell like lilacs." The Commander said.

"I told you to calm your nerves," Dying said.

"Shut up you would have been just as nervous!" Twilight yelled.

"Maybe, but at least I would be able to think straight." Dying replied.

"Suuuurrrrre you would." Twilight said not noticing the looks from the Guards, who were very concerned for their Princesses mental health.

"I would. I'm more coolheaded than you." Dying said smugly.

"What happened to being the same pony huh!?" Twilight asked.

"One pony different personalities." Dying replied. 

"What the fuck! I said that before, at least come up with something original!" Twilight said. 

Dying shrugged."Whatever."

"Don't make me split us." Twilight threatened.

"Oh no the infamous split, I'm shaking in my proverbial boots." Dying said sarcastically.

Twilight snorted."Whatever."

The Commander was standing off to the side, enjoying the little show she was getting. Twilight's friends rounded the corner and caught sight of Twilight arguing with the air.

"What's going on?" Rainbow asked. 

"She's talking to Dying." The Commander replied.

"She can do that?" Pinkie said.

"Apparently." The Commander replied.

"I so need to throw a Congratulations Twilight on coming home and talking to your second personality party." Pinkie said as a notepad and pen appeared from her mane and into her hooves and she started writing down ideas for Twilight's party. The gathered mares all shook their heads and shared a small laugh. Twilight walked over as she had finished talking with Dying. 

"Hey girls." She said. 

"Hello" They all said with the exception of the Commander and Pinkie...who disappeared.

"Where's Pinkie?" Twilight asked. 

"She was right there, but she slipped off to go plan your party." The Commander said. 

"Oh, ok." Twilight said.

"So Twilight, Princess Celestia told us that you and the Commander were fighting." Fluttershy said.

"It was training, nothing serious Fluttershy" Twilight said.

"Oh, thank goodness." Fluttershy said relieved.  

Twilight clapped her hooves together."So, who's hungry!?"

Three Hours Later

After they ate Twilight's friends left for Ponyville and the Commander went to talk to Celestia about getting a room, and Twilight was in her own guest room alone with her thoughts, well almost all alone.

"If it was that easy for the Commander to find out who my crush is, then I wonder who else knows?" Twilight said to the air.

"It couldn't be a whole lot of ponies." Dying said. 

"I know it's not that many, but just how many do know?" Twilight said.

"Know what darling?" Said a voice from the side of the bed. The voice was very familiar to Twilight. She turned her head towards the voice's location, and gasped.

"Ra...Rarity?" Twilight said not believing what she saw right in front of her. 

"What's wrong dear Twilight, you look like you've seen a ghost?" Rarity asked.

"B...but your de....dead, how?" Twilight asked with tears flowing freely from her eyes.

Rarity chuckled,"Darling if I'm dead how are we speaking right now. That wouldn't make any sense would it?"

"I guess not, but how is this possible?" Twilight said as she started scooting closer to Rarity.

"Maybe our friendship brought me back to you." Rarity replied. Twilight moved to give Rarity a hug, but when she got her hooves around her dear friend she disappeared in a puff of smoke and the world around Twilight got darker and darker, till all that was left was a sobbing Twilight. 

Twilight's eyes shot open."When did I fall asleep?" Twilight asked the air.

"Shh keep it down I'm trying to sleep here." Dying said falling back asleep. Twilight wiped the tears from her face. Damn humans, even here they were making her life miserable. She threw the covers off her body and walked into the bathroom. She turned the faucet handle and splashed water on her face, and when she was finished she looked in the mirror and saw her and Rarity's reflection.

She turned around and looked at the empty room and then back at the mirror. Just herself this time. She left the bathroom and out of her room. She passed many doors and Guards on her way out and when she goes to the door leading outside she opened it and took flight.

The cool afternoon air on her wings was refreshing. Soaring above the clouds with the greatest view in all of Eqquis, and a great way to clear your head. 

"Why do I keep seeing Rarity? Either I've still got something in my blood from Earth, or I have finally lost the rest of my sanity." Twilight said.

"Nah, if that happened then nothing on this planet would be alive right now, or we would be encased in stone." Dying said finally waking up from Twilight's constant thinking. 

"I guess your right about that." Twilight responded."What is it that keeps making me see her though, hell I even talked to her."

"Well I don't know what could cause that, but that was in a dream."  Dying said."It may just that you miss her."

"But why now? None of this happened on Earth." Twilight said.

"It may have been the drugs they were using to suppress our memories." Dying responded. 

"Probably," Twilight said as she landed on a cloud. This whole thing was making no sense, couldn't she just get some peace in her life. She wanted to settle down and have somepony special to lean on in times of need and to cuddle with by the fire during those cold winter nights or to just stare up at the stars with. Maybe even adopt a child, that would be nice having someone who called her mom....wait for someone to call her mom?

"WAIT I FORGOT ABOUT SPIKE." Twilight screamed as she remembered that she had her own legally adopted son/assistant/ brother. She jumped from the cloud and flew as fast as she could to the castle. She flew so fast that she created a magenta starburst in the sky that was a lot more powerful than a rainboom. 

She landed in front of the castle and the Guard posted there opened the gates for her. She ran past them and the only thing they saw a purple blur.

Inside the castle, Twilight ran through the hallways on her way to the Throne Room where Luna would be, hopefully. 

In the throne room, Luna was sitting looking over a couple notes from her last meeting when Twilight walked in.

"Evening Twilight, what brings you here?" She asked.

"Evening Luna. I was wondering if you know how Spike is doing?" Twilight said.

"I'm afraid that I do not have any information on Spike's well being, I have not been keeping in touch with him as much as I should of." Luna responded.

"Do you know if he's still in Ponyville?" Twilight asked.

"Now that is something I can help you with." Luna said with a smile. "He is currently living in the Dragon lands as King with his Queen, Ember I think her name was." 

Twilight's jaw literally hit the floor, causing Luna to stare at her with confusion.

"Hey Twilight snap out of it." Dying said. Twilight's jaw went back into place and she blinked again.

"Spike is the king of the Dragon Lands, when did that happen?" Twilight asked.

"Exactly 8 years ago." Luna responded.

"Thank you." Twilight said as she turned to leave.

"Surely you aren't thinking of going to get him tonight, are you?" Luan asked.

"Actually that's what I intend to do." Twilight said as she walked in the door to begin her journey. If her math was correct then it should take her exactly thirty minutes or more to reach the Dragon Lands.  She ran through the door out to the Royal Canterlot Gardens. 

As soon as she reached the middle of the garden she opened her wings and took flight, creating a gust of wind that blew away the leaves of some trees and uprooted some of the flowers in the garden. 

Inside her room, Celestia saw Twilight take off towards the direction of the Dragon Lands. "Flash Sentry, front, and center!" She yelled. A couple seconds later an orange pegasus with a blue mane walked in. 

"You called Princess?" Flash said as he walked in. 

"I need you to follow Princess Twilight ."  Celestia responded. At the mention of Twilight's name Flash blushed.

"As you command Princess Celestia." He said as he left the room and went out to the garden. Once he got outside he opened his wings and took flight. What most ponies didn't know about Flashes cutie mark is that it not only meant that he was a good guard, it also meant that he could move as fast as lightning, and if he were to use his full speed, he could move as fast as the speed of light maybe even faster, which he could use to easily catch up to Twilight who was pretty far off in the distance. The only problem would be that she would be able to hear him coming, so he decided that he would move slowly.

Thirty Minutes Later, Dragon Lands

Twilight landed on the ground and folded up her wings. "It's been awhile since I've been here." She said reminiscing. She started walking forwards but not after calling out for Flash who was hiding behind a rock. "Come on out Flash, I felt you the moment you started following me." She said. Flash came out from behind the rock with a face of confusion.

"How did you know?" Flash asked. 

"It's a skill I picked up, now are you going to accompany a mare on her dangerous journey or just stand there?" She responded. Flash blinked and ran to catch up with her. Their journey through the dangerous lands was unusually peaceful. There we no Dragons out and about, no children or parents. The silence was very unsettling for the both of them.

A couple of minutes later they arrived at a tall building made from obsidian, and what looked like iron. They entered through the large double doors. Inside it was cool and there was a blood red carpet that covered the entire floor with some gold trimmings towards the ends of the carpet. At the edge of the carpet sat two golden thrones one with a blue pillow with golden tassels, the other had a purple pillow with green tassels. 

"Their not here." Twilight said, surveying the room some more. The tapestries hanging on the wall almost looked like the flag of Equestria, but instead of the Royal Sisters circling their respective bodies, there were two dragons one with blue scales and two white horns protruding from her face with two great wings on her back, the other a purple dragon wing two great purple and green wings and giant green spines running from the top of the dragons head all the way to his tail. Obviously, these were the two rulers of the dragon lands, the two Dragon Lord's, the Queen and King, Spike and Ember! 

"Wow, they look so majestic." Said Flash, Twilight nodded at his comment. The doors behind them opened, they turned their heads towards the doors and saw a whole multitude of dragons enter the room. They all wore obsidian armor, with a second layer of iron under it. Their swords looked to be made of diamonds, with obsidian hilts, the helmets on their heads were made form the same material as the rest of their armor and each looked to be designed to fit the wearers head, some even including holes to accommodate for any of the dragons that had spines or horns on their heads or bodies.

"DON'T MOVE A MUSCLE!" Said a powerful male voice. "EXPLAIN YOUR REASON FOR BEING HERE!"

"We're here to see Dragon Lord Spike." Twilight said. The group of dragon guards laughed a hearty laugh. Both Flash and Twilight had looks of confusion on their faces.

"You want to see Dragon Lord Spike, ha don't make me laugh ponies. He may be an ally to Equestria, but he wouldn't waste time talking to little ponies like you." Said one of the dragon guards.

"I think he'll want to see me, tell him Twilight Sparkle is here to talk with him." Said Twilight. The guards shared a look with each other.

"Did you say Twilight Sparkle?" Asked one of the guards. Twilight nodded in response. The gathered dragons all gasped and bowed with respect. 

"Um, what just happened?" Flash asked.

"Please let us escort you to his lordship." Another dragon guard said. Twilight nodded.

A couple minutes later they were standing outside a large wooden door with an intricate design on it. One of the guards knocked.

"Enter." Came a voice from behind the door. The guard opened the door and stepped in.

"My lord there is somepony here to see you."

"Let them in." Said the lords' voice. Twilight entered and stared wide-eyed at-

"Spike!" She said. The dragon was no longer his small self, he was tall and muscular, his purple and green scales shined in the sunlight, his gigantic wings were folded up against his back, his spines were elongated and sharp. He had a few of his front teeth showing from the top of his mouth, his snout was also elongated.

"Twilight?" He said. 

"Yes, it's me Spike." She said. Spike stood up, easily towering over every other creature present in the room. He shrunk his size to just being a little taller than Twilight was. The two ran towards each other and embraced each other in a hug. 

"Oh I've missed you so much, what happened, where have you been, I've looked everywhere for you!" Spike said tears running freely down his face.

"I've missed you too Spike." Twilight said with her own tears falling."You've grown so much, you're even running a kingdom of your own, I couldn't be any prouder."

"Thank you. Oh come you have to see Ember, she'll be glad to see you again." He said as he stood up and started to lead her and Flash to Ember.

A couple minutes later, and they arrived at what looked to be some kind of ballroom. Inside the room stood Queen Ember sitting in the chair reading a scroll.

"Ember look who's here." Said Spike, causing Ember to look up at her husband and company. She couldn't believe it, Twilight Sparkle was back!

"Princess Twilight welcome back! We've all been eagerly awaiting your return." She said as she got up and shrunk her size. She was just a little smaller than Spike.

"It's nice to see you again too Queen Ember." Twilight responded

"Please just Ember, after all we are family now." She said as she hugged Spikes arm.

"Oh, that's right congratulations you two. I'm expecting grandchildren you two." Twilight said. The two smiled.

"Thank you." They said in unison. Twilight's smile faltered a little, that wasn't unnoticed by Spike.

"Is something wrong." He asked. Slicshia was formed and thrown between the two dragons, and into the back wall."Whoa Twilight, what was that for!" Spike said with anger on his face.

"Sorry, our privacy was being interrupted." Twilight responded as she walked past them and formed her crystal fingers picking up the small piece of human technology."Sorry bitches this is a family meeting." She said as she crushed what was left of the small robotic fly.  She grabbed the sword from the wall.

"What was that?" Asked Ember.

"It was a tiny robot, meant for spying, made by a race of bipedal creatures called humans." Twilight explained.

"What is a human, what's a robot." Spike asked.

"A robot is a machine made by humans. They are usually made of metal and many different circuits and parts. Some are for building and servitude, some for war. Humans are what I call bastards, at least in my opinion, I mean not all of them are like that just the first ones I initially met. They are an advanced race that acts just like ponies do. Their greedy, bad, angry, sad, caring, and other things." Twilight explained."There's more I want to tell you more about them but, there is a more important thing you need to know."

"And that would be?" Ember asked. Twilight sighed.

"Rarity is dead." She said. Spikes eyes went wide.

"De...dead Rarity?" He stuttered."How?"

"She was taken by the same people, and the experiments they did killed her." Twilight explained.

"WHERE ARE THEY I"LL KILL THEM ALL, TELL ME WHERE!" Spike yelled, with tears running down his face. 

"Their already dead, I took care of them before I came back." Twilight told him.

"MY LORDS INTRU-AHHHH!" Said one of the Dragon Guards as he was blasted away. Flash readied his sword, as did Twilight, while Spike and Ember grew in size. A bipedal creature with a red cloak with a hood walked in.

"Hello, 345." The creature said as it addressed Twilight with her specimen number. "The rest of you all can leave, this is between me and her." The creature said pointing a finger at Twilight.

"What do you want with her? Asked Spike.

"Like I said it doesn't concern you." The creature said as it removed it's hood and revealed a face of a human.

"No, it can't be you should have died. You're supposed to be dead." Twilight said frightened.

"That's right Twilight. What's my name." Said the creature smiling at Twilight who was visibly shaking under is gaze, her sword had disappeared, and her legs were shaking. Her eyes were wide and had shrunk to the size of pinpricks and her mouth was slightly open.

"Dr. Blood." She said, the fear in her voice easy to detect. 

"There you go my pet, oh how I have missed your screams. When we get back I must simply play with you some more." The Doctor said. 

"She's not going anywhere!" Spike said as he flew towards the human, only to be knocked to the side with minimal effort. Flash was hit by his tail and was sent flying out the door. Ember gasped and she flew at the human with rage in her eyes, she opened her mouth and blew fire at him. She stopped and was ready to see the ash pile that was her enemy. Instead of seeing the expected ash pile, standing there was the human covered in some kind of metal that reminded her of obsidian. 

"How?" She asked confused.

"Nano-technology dear." The Doctor replied as the black-purplish colored metal receded into the area around the heart."Look at what else it can do." He said as the nano-tech formed around his arm. When it finished there was a big canon resting on the Doctors shoulder. Embers eyes went wide."Surprise." He said as the cannon fired a big blue bolt of power flew and hit Ember in the chest. She flew to the far back wall of the ballroom, crashing through a few tables.

Twilight backed away from the approaching doctor, too scared to even look him in the eye. "St...stay back, get away!" she yelled at him. The Doctor inched closer."I'm warning you!" The Doctor took another step, Twilight fired a massive ball of magic at him. It threw him back a little but did not hurt him. Spike was back in action and saw the Doctor walking towards Twilight. His anger reached a new height when he also saw Ember out cold across the room. With a great roar he flew at the enemy, only to catch a fist to the gut, and then a fist to the chest, another to the gut, then another to the chest. Blood kept punching Spike after each strike increasing speed. After a good thirty seconds, he stopped and delivered an uppercut to Spikes jaw. 

The Dragon fell with a mighty thud. Blood smiled and turned back to Twilight."Did you see that 345, amazing wasn't it?" He asked

Twilight was battling with herself in her head. One side of the brain wanted to run and go cower in fear. Another was already crying and curled up in a ball. Then the most dominant part of the mind was a raging fire and was winning the battle. 

Blood stepped closer to Twilight his smile never fading. Smoke started coming from under Twilight's hooves. The fear in her eyes was all gone and was replaced with rage. She wanted to kill this bastard, for good this time. She turned into Dying and she launched herself at Blood and they went through several different walls until they were outside. Dying did a flip in the air so that her back hooves were on the Doctors chest. She pushed and the Doctor went flying through some rocks. 

Blood removed himself from the rubble in enough time to see Dying fly at him and deliver an uppercut to his jaw. He flew into the air and then Dying blasted him back to the ground, and landed with enough force to make the Doctor go through the surface of the planet. Dying removed her hooves from the Doctors chest and decided that she was going to pound him into the ground. Each punch she threw shook the planet, Her and Blood were well on their way to the center of the planet.

Dying continued pounding Blood's face until they reached a point where the gravity of the planet switched their direction. Dying grabbed Blood's throat a flung him upwards, she then preceded to punch him upwards until they reached the surface and she delivered a punch that sent Blood flying towards a lava pool. 

He landed just before it. Dying slowly walked up to him Slicshia forming in her hands."I'm going to enjoy hearing your screams this time Blood." Dying said as she readied the sword to end Blood's life.

"No, you won't." Blood said as he swept her legs from under her and got up. He brought a foot down on one of Dying's wings, She screamed out in pain."Ahh, music to my ears, shall I increase the pressure." He increased the pressure and this produced a louder scream from Dying. Blood smiled insanely, he loved hearing his pets scream and beg for mercy.

Maybe when they got back he would see how long she could survive with a thousand volts of electricity running through her. It seems that his pet wasn't willing to give him that wish, as she pushed him off. She slowly got off the ground, the bones in her wing already reconnecting. 

"I see your healing is still good. Your gonna take a nice long acid bath when we get home." Blood said

"Fuck no!" Dying said as she flew towards him. Dr. Blood sidestepped and grabbed the mare's tail, effectively stopping her. Dying let out a small yelp as she was thrown to the ground with enough force to crack it. Blood brought his foot down missing Dying's face by an inch. 

Dying once again summoned Slicshia for battle. Blood's nano-tech formed a sharp sword of its own. The two ran towards each other and clashed with each other. They jumped back from each other and stared at each other, one eye filled with anger and disgust, the other insanity. Dying swung her sword to the left and Blood parried with his sword. Blood then swung his sword towards Dying's head and missed as Dying slid under his legs, and when she got through she sliced both of Dr. Bloods legs off, and he fell to the ground. As Dying went to slice his head off Blood used his leg which had turned into a sword of its own to stab Dying in the stomach.

"Ahh, you son of a bitch." Dying said as she dislodged herself from the leg sword. Blood grabbed his severed legs one by one and the nano-tech reattached them to his body.

"You gotta love nano-technology." Blood said as he stood up. Dying's wound healed and with a roar of anger she jumped at Blood, sword in hand ready to slash. Blood dropped to the ground and held his legs in the air. When Dying landed on them he brought them forward and kicked with enough force to send Dying flying into the lava pit.

"OH SHHHHIIIIIITTTT!" She screamed as she splashed into the lava.

"Why did you have to do that my pet, I guess I'll have to find something else for me to test on." Blood said as he started leaving. He stopped when he heard the lava behind him bubble. If he looked close enough he could see some form coming to the surface of the lava.

Dying burst through the lava's surface, except this time she looked different. Dying now had a mane of blue fire, a body of many oranges, reds, and yellows, along with a fiery blue tail that waved in nonexistent winds, and a cutie mark of a phoenix in front of a blue sun. Dying's burning golden eyes looked at Blood."This ends now!" She said, her voice having been distorted by the whooshing sound that were made any time she talked.

"Helios Phoenix, it's been a while." Blood said.

"Silence you miserable cur!" Helios said, her voice shaking the ground."Thou have made Twilight's life miserable for long enough. We shall end thy life and Twilight will be free of thy oppression." She said taking on the old Equestrian tongue.

"We shall see, even with your immense power you can not beat me." Blood said as he formed his cannon again and prepared to fire, but before he could release the ball of energy his arm hit the ground.'What! How did she move so fast?' Blood thought as he saw Helios with a flaming Slicshia in her hands, staring at him with those burning golden eyes. To him it felt like she was staring into his soul, and burn it. 

"Did thou really think that we would allow thou's cannon to fire upon us. DIE CRETAN!" She said as she sliced him down the middle. 

"Im...impossible, how...how did you...beat meeee." Blood said as he life faded.

"Dost thou thou hath any more words to waste thy final breaths on?"

"I...it *cough* was good...to see you one last time,my......peeet." Blood said as he finally died.

"Goodbye, Blood." Twilight said.

"Are we absorbing him, or no?" Dying asked. 

"No. We'll leave him alone, we have enough power anyway." Twilight said."We will bury him though as a show of respect.

Thirty Minutes Later  

Twilight was on her way back to the Dragon Lords castle. She landed at the entrance to the towering structure. She walked through the smashed and smoldering pieces of the buildings doors, on her way back to Spike and Ember she ran into Flash.

"Princess! Are you alright?" 

"Where the fuck were you earlier!" Dying yelled.

"Yes I'm fine." She responded. 

"Why are you taking it easy on this guy! Berate him or something, he left us to beat Blood by ourselves." Dying said.

"Leave Twilight alone, She can make her own decision on whether or not to punish the guard for his inactivity during our moment of need." Helios said.

"And where have you been miss show up when we get thrown into lava!?" Dying yelled.

"Why art thou's emotions so heated towards us?" Helios asked.

"You've been gone awhile and you now just show up out of nowhere." Dying replied.

"What dost  it matter to thou, that we were not always present?" Helios asked.

"IF YOU WERE THERE WE WOULD  HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ESCAPE WAY EARLIER THAN WE DID!"

"WE HAVE A REASON FOR NOT BEING THERE! HOLD THOU TOUNGE YOUNGLING, THOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO RESPECT THINE ELDERS, FOR WE WERE BORN BEFORE YOU! WE ARE HER ANGER, HER FURY, HER WRATH, HER POWER! LEARN THINE PLACE WELP! DOST THOU UNDERSTAND OUR WORDS?!" Helios shouted. 

"Yes, I understand." Dying said feeling small.

"Good, we are sorry for yelling at thou. A mother should not yell at their foul." Helios said.

'Aww, that's cute, a mother and her foul getting along with each other. Oh how I wish had a camera to catch the moment' Twilight mentally said. 

"Hey, this is a family moment!" Dying said.

Twilight chuckled 'I thought we were family?' She teased.

"I guess that's true." Dying replied.

'You want to know something?' Twilight asked.

"What?" Dying said.

'If Helios is your mother, and she was born from me. That makes me your grandma!' Twilight said excitedly.

"WHAT, that's....that.........actually makes sense." Dying responded.

'I know right, I just came to that revelation a while ago too.' Twilight said. 

"We are glad that thou have finally come to that revelation mother." Helios said.

'I may be your mother, but still just call me Twilight. Same for you Dying."

"As thou wishes, Twilight." Helios said.

"Sure thing grandma." Dying responded.

'Really?' Twilight said unamused.

"Sorry brainmate, couldn't resist." Dying said. 

'Sometimes you are so annoying, you know that?' Twilight said.

"Yet, you still love me." Dying said using a cute little child's voice.

'Curse you and your adorable voice!' Twilight said.

"So mother what was your reason for not being around?" Dying asked.

"We had to keep the other parent under control." Helios responded.

"Ok, that is a good reason for not being around." Dying admitted as she remembered how her other mother was.

"I believe we have arrived at our destination." Helios said.

'Thanks Helios, talk to you both later.' Twilight said as she walked into the Ballroom. Spike and Ember were sitting down on the left side of the room and she walked over to them.

"How are you two feeling?" She asked them. 

"A little disorientated." Ember replied.

"That should pass in a little bit." Twilight said.

"What happened to that guy, who was he?" Spike asked. 

"He's dead. He was one of the doctors from Earth." Twilight responded. "I knew they were going to send someone eventually, I just didn't think it was going to be anyone I saw die with my own eyes, or that they would send someone so quick."

"What will you do if they send someone else you know?" Ember asked

"If they do, I'll be ready for them."Twilight said with a triumphant smile on her muzzle.

Twenty  Minutes

Flash and Twilight were on their way back to Equestria, Twilight had a blank expression on her face. Flash was worried about her when that intruder had entered the Dragon Lords Castle and she saw him, she looked so scared. The only thing on his mind was what happened between the two?

"You don't need to worry about me Flash." Twilight said.

"But Princess, it's my job to worry about you." Said Flash.

"Aww that's so sweet." Said Helios.

"BLEH" Said Dying.

"I know it's job, but I don't like feeling weak, and you worrying about me makes me feel like that. I'm sorry if that came off as kinda harsh." Twilight said.

"No it's alright, I kinda get it. Not wanting to be protected and all." Flash said.

Twilight smiled "Thanks Flash."

"No problem Princess." Flash said.

"Uh-uh, call me Twilight. I'm tired of all that Princess bull crap."

"Ok, Twilight." 

The two didn't know it, but their relationship was changing.

The two landed outside the gates of  Canterlot Castle.

"Bye Twilight." Flash said as he walked away.

"Bye Flash, we'll have to talk some other time." Twilight said as she made her way to the Throne Room. When she arrived she saw that Luna wasn't there "She must be in her room."

Twilight left the Throne Room and made her way to Luna's room. The hallway was always the easiest to detect as Twilight had lived in the castle for most of her life. Also because it was mostly painted a light blue. Twilight entered the hallway and traveled down it till she reached the door with the moon crescent on it.  

"Hi, is Luna here." She asked the Guard stationed there. 

"Yes,  her Highness is resting. It was a stressful Night Court for her." The Guard replied. 

"Oh ok." Twilight said. 'This can give me a chance to get something prepared. ' She thought.  "Tell her when she awakens to come down the dining hall. The second one, please. "

"Yes your Highness. " The Guard replied.

"Thank you, and please just call me Twilight." She replied as she made her way to the kitchens.

"Yes your High-uh I mean Twilight." The Guard said. 

2 Hours Later

Luna awoke from a blissful sleep and yawned. She hopped out of bed and stretched producing a pop. 

"We do so miss the days when we slept like that." She said. She went into the bathroom to freshen up. A few minutes later she exited the bathroom feeling nice and refreshed. She exited the room and the Guard posted there told her that Twilight wanted her to meet her in the second dining room.  

She made her way through the hallways and swerving between the servants that worked at night. When she made it to the door if her destination,  she caught a whiff of something coming through the door.  She opened it to find the room well lit with candles and the table filled pastries, fruits,  salads, and soups. She went up to one of the candles and inhaled. 

"Lilacs." She said. 

"I'm glad you could make it." Twilight said as she entered the room from the servants entrance.

"Yes, well 'twould be rather uncouth for us to deny our friends invitation. Now, what's with all the food." Luna asked 

"What, two friends can't have a normal dinner night together?" Twilight asked with a smile as she took a seat. 

"I suppose there is nothing wrong with that. " Luna responded as she took the seat next to Twilight.  

"Before we eat, we shall drink. " Twilight said as she pulled out a bottle of Moon Whiskey from her pocket dimension.  She poured herself and Luna some of the whiskey into the two glasses beside them."Here you go, my friend. "

"Thank you." Luna said as she grasped the glass in her magic and took a sip."Delicious. May we ask where thou hast found this?" She asked. 

"Spike gave it to me. He said to use it for a special occasion,  and this occasion is special enough for me to use it. " Twilight replied. 

"Well, we are honored that we can be part of this occasion." Luna said. After they finished talking they started eating.  Luna chose the cheese and hay soup and fruit salad while Twilight chose the tomato soup,  and fruit salad. 

"How is everything?" Twilight asked.  

"Delicious." Luna replied. Twilight smiled. 

"Good, I told the staff to prepare everything to your liking. " She responded. 

"Oh, well thank you." Luna said. After they finished eating their meals they went on to dessert. Luna chose the cheesecake with the chocolate chip ice cream. Twilight decided to choose the cookies and cream cake. The two sat in silence as they ate some glances and smiles were thrown around, to be honest, this was awkward for both of them.

'I thought I was ready for this.' Twilight thought.'You asked her here tonight because you thought you were ready, the evening is going well and all, but you still can't tell her. Just shout it out, let her know how you feel, and if she rejects you, you'll both still be friends, even though things might be awkward between you two for awhile  So take a deep breath and tell her.' Twilight told herself.

"Are you alright?" Luna asked.

"Huh? Oh yeah, just thinking is all." Twilight replied looking up.

"It looked like there was something bothering you." Luna said.

"Nah, it's just...Luna, there is something I have to tell you, I can't keep hiding this. Twilight said as she looked down.

"What is it? It isn't anything bad is it?" Luna replied.

"Luna, the first time I saw you, all the way back to when me and my friends freed you. You were one the most beautiful mares I had ever seen in my life. I didn't know it then, but I had started to develop feelings for you, and that first nightmare night is when I realized that I liked you more than just a best friend. Those nights when we hung out together and looked at the stars and talked about them, those times when we had lunch together, and those times when we just talk to each other through letters. I guess what I'm trying to say is, Luna, Princess of the night, mistress of war, the mare that stole my heart, I love you." Twilight confessed.'YES FINALLY. Congratulations Twilight, you finally told your crush how you feel, now kiss her you fool.' She told herself. Twilight placed her lips on Luna's, and closed her eyes.

Luna did nothing to stop her. 

"Aww isn't that romantic?" Said a familiar voice in Luna's head. 

'It can't be, Nightmare?' Luna asked.

"The one and only. How have you been my love?"

'Don't call me that. Just because I let you in doesn't make us lovers.

"Luna, Luna, Luna. You know how us Nightmares view those that let them in. When a being allows their nightmare to take over, their relationship becomes more intimate, and the more time the spend together the more their relationship grows, it grows until us Nightmares view it as a relationship like lovers have." Nightmare Moon explained.

'And just how well do these relationships work out for those beings who don't want the Nightmare anymore?' She asked.

"Well, I guess the closest thing you could relate it to would be a loveless marriage." Nightmare responded.

'Oh,  and what would you call our relationship?  Luna asked. 

"Me personally?  Well I guess I would call it a marriage with a neglected spouse and child." 

'Child? ' Luna said with some confusion. 

"Yes a child. In fact said child is the one kissing you on your lips right now. 

'How would that even be possible, I didn't meet Twilight until she freed me from your control.' Luna said with disbelief. 

"Maybe some of my memories will help you remember."

After the words left Nightmares mouth,  memories of those cold nights on the moon came rushing back to Luna. She remembers watching a dying star and taking some of it's essence and moon dust to form a alicorn child. She remembers putting some of her own magic and life essence into the child. She remembers a purple filly opening it's eyes and looking at her with curiosity,  she remembers said filly crying. She remembered having to feed the filly, she remembered having to protect the filly from the creatures of the moon.  She remembered building them a place to stay.  

She remembered naming the little filly.  She chose the name carefully going over everything she could remember. She had it, it was the perfect name for her daughter, Twilight Sparkle would be her name. Her purple coat reminded Luna of the sky she would see sometimes when her and her sister preformed their duty of raising and lowering the celestial bodies. Sparkle because she was born from a star,  and stars always sparkled even when you couldn't see them. 

She also remembered they were never alone,  there was always some pony else with them. She had pitch black fur, her armor was light blue,  her mane was a smoky blue,  she had sharp teeth,  she was taller than her, she always had a fanged smile, her eyes looked like they belonged to a snake.  She remembered this pony always staying and playing with her daughter, when she had to go hunting. She remembered sharing a bed with this mare, she remembered the things they did together. She remembered when they would travel across the moons surface,  all three of them.  She finally remembered this mares name. Nightmare Moon. 

The one she once thought was responsible for what she thought was a thousand years of loneliness. But now she knew that this mare was not a wicked mare of darkness,  but a gentle, and kind hearted mare that cared for her lover and daughter. A mare that will sacrifice herself for the happiness  of her lover and her daughter. 

'Nightmare, I'm sorry, when I was released from your presence,  the elements must have made me forget these memories. Why are you now just reappearing, my love?' Luna said. 

Nightmare Moon squealed, her lover finally remembered her."I have just gained enough power over the years to finally be able to talk to you." She explained.

'I glad we can talk again after all this time.  Just one more thing?'

"Yes my love?" Nightmare said excitedly. 

'How did Twilight get from the moon to the planet? ' Luna asked. 

"Oh that's an easy question my love. We created a star basket and using some of our combined magic transported her from the moon to Canterlot." Nightmare responded."By the way you should probably get Twilight to stop kissing you and tell her the truth about her birth."

'Ah, yes I should probably do that.' 

Twilight was enjoying this kiss,  she cracked on of her eyes open to see Luna move back. 

"Uh, Luna is everything alright?" Twilight said in a worried voice.' Oh I fucked up didn't I? I didn't break her did I?' She thought."Are you alright Luna?"

"Twilight" Luna said slowly"I... I can't love you in that way." Twilight heart sunk as the words left Luna's mouth. 

'Come on Twilight, you knew this a possibility, don't *sniffle* don't you dare cry.' Twilight thought as a small tear fell from her eye."I'm sorry for wasting  your time Luna, I'll just leave."

"No, Twilight there is something you need to know." Luna said. 

"No I get it you already found somepony else." Twilight said as she prepared to leave. Luna put a hoof on her shoulder to stop her. 

"That is not the reason." Luna said. 

"Then what is!  Am I not good enough, is it because I'm a mare,  am I too young, or is it because you just view us as friends, JUST WHAT THE FUCK IS THE REASON?!" Twilight yelled. 

"The reason is... because I am your,  I am your birth mother." Luna responded

"What?" 

"I am your mother."
> Bonus Chapter:  Au of a Au
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Suddenly the doors to the throne room are blown open as a red stallion with blue and green hair matching colour glasses wearing a sandy brown travelling cloak and a black scarf just visible around he's neck carrying twin swords one molded to look like flames with deep and light reds yellow's and oranges to match the colours of flames and the other one molded to look like ice with deep blues and greens to look like ice walks in over the guard he threw into the door "Hey Sunbutt, Moonbutt I see I'm still banned from the castle. " He notices Twilight and Blueblood . "Oh so the fool actually tried to kidnap sparky here even after I told him it was a bad idea and refused to go after a unspecified and potentially hostile force strong enough to warrant me to avoid so who did he hire?" The pony asked. 

"Who the fuck is this guy?" Dying asked.

"I don't know." Twilight replied.

"Redsopine, what are you doing here?" Celestia asked as Luna summoned her scythe  and glared daggers at the pony.

"Oh me I'm here to tell you guys he was planning to kill Twilight and wanted to hire my team for it but it seams someone beat me to it and put your scythe away Moonbutt if I was here to attack you two why would I use the front door and to answer your question Sparky my name's Redsopine recon scout and co-leader of the mercenary squad wolf pack we deal with certain threats to Equestria that most ponies don't want to go near and a few that even the princesses cannot fight without risk of full scale death and destruction but mostly the creatures that break out from Tarturas and no I don't mean like Tirek or the bug bear I mean the horrors that make them seem nice. 

"Are you trying to insult me or something. If you are your going to have to try better than that." Twilight said rolling her eyes.

"You see her as a monster to? See auntie I told you didn't I?" Blueblood said as he walked over and threw an arm around the pony and whispered in his ear. "If you get rid of her and her beast I'll quadruple whatever your original buyer did."

(Redsopine changes POV to first person. I still used third.) 

I sigh loudly and calmly punches a hoof into Blueblood's gut and withdraws it before grabbing he's throat and removing my glasses so my eyes are visable my normal golden orange eye and my other multi-hued red blue green golden orange an black surrounding the iris eye look at him as I carefully click a small button on the side of them my hooves now draconic claws as he's words are repeated for all to hear before I slam him into the wall and growl now with razor sharp teeth as I stand on two legs."How many times must I tell you no you fool if it was not for the fact ladies are present I would have forcibly made you eat your own guts after I ripped them free from you but I think breaking you would be more fun." I draw my red blade Diablo as it bursts into hellfire I plunge it into he's legs fast but when the blade is removed both times there's not any blood just a cauterised wound that glows angrily."Now unless you start to change and I mean this those wounds will grow and corrupt your body until your nothing more than a charred corpse that is barred from dear you wont eat or drink or sleep from now on got it does your thick skull understand your now cursed?"

Dying clapped her hooves in Twilight's head."I love this guy. Bravo, bravo! Encore!"

"Damn that's worse than what I was planning to do." Twilight said a little shocked."Blueblood get the fuck out of here." Twilight said as she looked at the crying Prince. He got up a limped away."Now that he's gone, what do you want?"


"Oh nothing much just to calmly arrest and take you back to some people who say you stole a ship of theirs and next time you break out of a highly secure facility and steal from them make sure to EMP the wreckage next time it was just by pure luck my team intercepted the team they sent after you and no there not paying me. Those bastards have my sisters though and they quite frankly said if I don't bring you in there gonna make what they did to you seem nice and quite frankly while Treble has seen and been through a lot worse our little sister Crimson has not. So Sparky do you want to come quite or do I have to break my own rules and hit a mare?"

Twilight's left eye twitched and her voice became emotionless."Those bastards again. And they have your sisters."

"Oh hell no. No way are we going back just after one day of being home!" Dying said. Twilight and Dying switched places."There is no way in this entire damn universe are we going back there.

"Dying what-"

"Shut it Twilight I am in charge right now. No back seat driving." Dying said."Now like I said to you no way are we coming with you." Dying said.


I grinned and started chuckling like a madman."So you finally showed yourself missy. I must say dark magic suits you well but your barely a foal in what's down in the depth's." I keep chuckling as my voice becomes younger and more childlike my body turning midnight black as my cloak falls off revealing my wings while the swords vanish in a burst if flame and ice as I keep changing till all that stood before you was a panther that looked no more then ten years old giggling insanely as he looks at you "Poor poor child it's not everyday I'm let out to play he must really want you. Now let me see awww I cant kill you but I can hurt you now lets see he also wants to test what you can do so this place is a no no so we need to go go." The panther leaps at Dying and grabs onto her hoof with strength that he shouldn't have as the world turns dark before it returns but now the place is a dark woods near a cliff top as claw steps out of a trees shadow he sits and smiles "Now that we are alone my names claw what's yours?"

"Dying  Phoenix." She replied.

"Pleasure to meet you miss and sorry but while I can see in your eyes we might be the same I still have to hurt you and test you " Claw says and steps back into the shadow's with a grim smile as he travels almost unseen in the shadows before slashing he's claws out behind dying's back legs aiming to cripple her from behind only a faint breeze as any indication of he's attack.

Dying heard Claw talk and then there was silence. For some odd reason she couldn't even feel his pre-"Owww!" Dying said as she fell to the ground clutching her bleeding leg."Why you little fuck." She got back up her back leg already healed.

Claw giggles from the shadows "Oooo this should be fun not every day I meet a regenerator."Claw says from your back as he runs a claw through your tail "But it also means my job is moot since I cannot kill you and my only non lethal move was to incapacitate your legs."Claw kicks off your head gently as the air temperature drops rapidly the ground becoming coated in frost as wing beats are heard before a deep blue and feathered Dragoness's lands before Dying holding a double edged sword made of pure ice "Hello dear my names Gelu and since Claw is unable to fight you I have been chosen to capture you so I hope this won't be to cold for you." She charges at Dying and sweeps her blade along the ground in a ark as ice crystals go flying towards Dying. 

Dying summoned her sword and leaps towards the dragoness over the ice spikes and clashed swords with Gelu. She had to admit it was getting a little cold so she lit her wings on fire.

Gelu hisses and jumps back."Put those flames away now if you was cold you could have asked."

"Aww what's wrong little dragon can't take the heat? I'm just getting started!" Dying yelled as she burst into flames and when the wall of flames disappeared there stood"Helios Phoenix. Hello little ice drake, I'm Helios Phoenix." Said the tall alicorn with a mane of fire, a body of many oranges, reds, and yellows, along with a fiery blue tail that waved in nonexistent winds, a cutie mark of a Phoenix in front of a blue sun.

Grins."My my your full of tricks but so am I." The air drops as your mane and tail freeze to solid ice as I move closer grinning."Go ahead try to melt it and see how bad you fail."

"Hmm, well I wasn't planning to attack you using my mane, but i'll gladly blast you." Helios said as she shot a beam of pure concentrated beam of sun light that was even hotter than the sun in the sky.


Grins as I fly towards the beam my form changing as I do so."You want heat I will give you heat." A more masculine voice roars out as Gelu turns into a red scaled dragon was the swords turns to living flames before I enter the beam and vanish from sight chuckling madly I dive at you through the beam using it to mask myself as I get closer I grab Dying's horn and slice my blade through the base severing it and cauterizing the wound as I spit out a ancient arcane word and around your now severed horn base symbols appear creating a fire barrier so you cannot heal the wound."Now lets see how you fight with no magic. I thrust my blade into the ground and stare at you ready. 

"Huh so no using magic?" Dying said as she stood on her hind hooves. She summoned her own sword Slicshia. "Now let's fight, please you first."


Grins."No magic remember and my blades are pure magic so if you please it's hand to hand?" I say as I get in a fighting stance.

"Slicshia isn't magic actually, but if hand to hand is what you want fine." Dying replied.

Smiles "Thank you now ladies first." I said with a slightly cocky grin on my face as I stare at you.

"If you insist." Dying said as she took one step forward was already half way in front of him. She jumped in the air and landed a kick to the face and then when she dropped a kick to the gut and then delivered a uppercut the the dragon.

Grins as I take the hits unfazed before I spit a tooth onto the ground and grab your hoof before twisting my body to slam you onto the ground as I put a foot onto your chest and brake your arm and hand before breathing flames and marking it like your horn base."Gotta try harder then that missy."

"Oww. I could tell it wasn't doing much. If I didn't know better I would say your the Incredible Hulk in disguise. I do have one question for you though, do you know about fifth dimensional beings?" Dying asked as she faded out of exsistance and appeared behind the drake.

Smirks and giggles."Do you know anything about demon lore or about that four of there strongest lords were bound to a single mortal one thousand years ago and that the mortal became a immortal as a gift and a curse?" I say as i twist round and punch a hole into your gut not to deep but enough to hurt.

"Ahhhh!" Dying screamed and also coughing up some blood."Da...mmit. I used up all my tr *coughs* icks."

"Well not all of them."Red says walking up from behind."You haven't learnt how to split yet have you give it time and you will now will you care to listen to someone older and has a plan that needs your help. " Lightly holds my hand to your wound as it seals shut in a flash of green flames as I remove my hand showing a strange glowing dust as a golem emerges from the earth. 

"I guess I don't really have a choice." Dying said turning back into Twilight.

"I know when I'm beat." Twilight said.

Smiles."So that dust comes from the golem Bloodcleaver and don't sell yourself short not many can fight 3 demon lords and manage to hurt one slightly outside there own kind."

"Thanks." Twilight said slowly standing up."So how are we going to get your sisters back, i'll gladly help now that Dying has been put in her place. Isn't that right?"

"Yes" Dying said as a small tear rolled down her face. Said tear also visible on Twilight's face.

"Stop crying, jeez! She doesn't like losing."

"Hey dying think of it as this way you can now have a rival to beat and sorry about before I had to test you now first things first this will hurt like fucking hell but it's the fastest way I can give you the information on how to split apart were gonna need both of you for this."

"Alright. Oh and Dying will be waiting for that rematch." Twilight replied.

Headbutts twilight hard as a flash of images and information passes between us."Ahhhh fuck that hurt."

"Damn that's one way to pass information." Twilight said shaking her head."Oh by the way can you remove the seals so I can regrow my horn? Believe it or not a couple hours of my horn broken, shattered, or cut off can have some nasty consequences, that I don't think Equestria is ready to see." Twilight said as she pointed to her bare forehead.

"Oh that was a mental illusion." Flicks your horn as it shimmers back into existence."I had claw put a neurotoxin on his claws to make you think I disabled you when I didn't. Your lucky that Dying didn't pass out. 

"You guys could give Rainbow Dash a run for her money with those illusions. You just have to make them non-lethal. Now let me try splitting." Twilight said as she went through the the memories. She and Dying split and they looked at each other. It was kinda cool to see what Dying actually looked like."So this is how you look? Nice I always wondered."

"Hmm your a lot smaller than I thought you were." Dying said as she looked at Twilight who was easily much taller than Luna, or Cadence, but still smaller than Celestia.

"Shut up and pay attention so we can help our new friend here get his sisters back from those bastards." Twilight said turning her attention to Redsopine.

"Thanks now here's the plan I take one of you like your my prisoner as soon as my sisters are free or they try to screw me over like they will the other one of you creates a diversion as my team grabs them once there clear and we blow them to pieces and I mean that literally claw likes to eat enemies."

"Also funny you mentioned dashie but she's actually trebles twin but they don't look like it.  And before you ask look at the memories and you will see reason why she doesn't remember us." 

"I like that plan and it seems that claw and I have something in common. But I absorb not eat." Twilight said."Also i'll look through those memories when this is all over and I will also be the prisoner."

Smiles."Ok lets get going."


"So are just gone sit around or are we going to get this done?" Twilight asked. 

"Hey give me a minute rapid changes and splitting leaves me hungry." I pull out a stack of raw ribs out of bag and cooks them in my hand."Want some?"

Sure, Dying mind lighting your hoof?" Twilight asked.

"Sure, just as long as you share." Dying said as she lit her hoof on fire.

Tosses you a few ribs each as there cooked."Hotsauce anyone? " I start eating messily. 

"I'll take some." Twilight said.

Passes you the sauce when I finish with a loud burp as my words reappear along with my scarf and a crystalline pendent I sigh."Come,eat as we walk Sparky we got less then a hour before they think I failed "Starts walking to the east near to the castle of the two pony sisters as a solider approached him with a rifle raised. 

" Hold it right there." Red glares at him and swipes the rifle and holds it to the grunts head 

"Go call your superiors I have her. I hope she can forgive me for the knockout drug in her food."
(We stopped here so I'm adding more to it.) 
A couple seconds later the Soldier returned with his superior. 

"Where is she?"  The older Soldier said. 

"Just let me go get her." Red replied as he went back into the forest. To bad the soldiers didn't notice the figure using the shadows to slip past them into their camp. 

Dying used the shadows to slip past the two guards that were posted at the tent used for the two prisoners they had. 

"Baka." She said as she traveled further into the tent.  Once she got towards the end she saw the two mares chained to the ground."Treble, Crimson." She whispered. 

The older siblings lifted her head to see Dying."Who the buck are you?" She said as she tried to move a little closer to Crimson to protect her from this strange looking pony. 

"I'm a friend of your brothers, I'm here to get you out while Twilight and Redsopine distract the soldiers." She said as she moved closer and broke their chains. 

"Thanks" Treble said. 

"No problem. Hold into me." Dying replied as both siblings grabbed onto one of her forelegs.  She turned all three of them into shadows and they slipped past the soldiers all the way back to Red and Twilight.  She reformed them and they all met up. 

"Treble, Crimson,  are you both alright?" Red asked them. 

"We're fine,  just a little malnourished." Treble replied."Crimson is just a little traumatized, so that's why she's not talking."

"Red we should get going if we're going to finish this plan." Twilight said. 

"I know,  but I don't want to leave them without protection." Red responded. 

"Let me take care of that." Dying said as her horn glows black and shot a beam towards the ground.  At first nothing seemed to be happening. Then the ground where the beam hit slit apart and a black hand shot through and a body made its way out of the ground.  Its eyes were a smoky yellow, and its body was black, with black and gold armor covering its body.  It pulled its sword from the ground and looked towards its masters. 

"Hi Dr. Frank. You job is to protect these two ponies with your life if anything tries to attack them. You are to be unmoving like a boulder. Am I clear?" Twilight said. 

Frank put a fist to his chest a hit it three times, and made a series of groans and moans. 

"Good boy." Dying said. 

"Alright Red lets get these bastards." Twilight said and part two of the plan was put in motion. 

The soldiers at the camp were getting just a little suspicious of this Redsponie character, until he walked out the woods with their prize. 

"Here she is." Red said as he dropped her on the ground and backed away."Now return my sisters." 

"I'm afraid you contract has expired and you are now returning to earth with us. We have to say your control over those Demon Lords intrigued us." The Superior said and more soldiers step out of their hiding places and surrounded Red. 

"You know I was expecting something like this to happen. That's why I'm grateful that you guys never looked up." Red said as he and Twilight moved out of the way.  The soldiers looked up in enough time to see Dying smash down on the ground creating a shockwave that knocked a few soldiers in the air.  They all heard a whistle and saw a large crystal dagger moving at impossible speeds cut through the few soldiers that were in the air. The dagger returned to Twilight's side. 

"Just so you guys know, you fucked up." Dying said with an almost maniac smile.  She formed a diamond sword and her own version of Slicshia which was darker than Twilight's was, but still followed the same color scheme.  Twilight summoned the exact same weapons,  and Red turned into Claw.  And then the bloodshed began. 

That day there was much screaming,  death, eating, absorption, gunfire,  and smiles. 

After the very unbalanced battle Twilight and Redsponie returned to Treble and Crimson. The found a few bodies,  which meant that Frank did his job. Twilight returned him to sleep and the four ponies became good friends. Twilight made herself available for any time they needed help, and Dying and Red made a date for their rematch. 

The ponies said goodbye and went their separate ways.  When Twilight returned to Canterlot she was told to meet the other Princesses in the Throne Room. 

Once she entered she saw Luna, Celestia, and herself in dark green armor.

"Oh,  well looks like the Commander is visiting our universe too." Twilight said as she walked in and the doors closed behind her.
> Welcome to the Unstoppable Program
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

My body feels so sore. How long have I been here? A week, A month, a year? My body feels like it's trying to tear itself apart, I feel sick, my horn hurts, my hooves burn, my wings don't function right, my taste buds feel assaulted, my nose can't take much more of the smell My mouth feels all wrong. 

I'm cold, hungry, thirsty, wet, dirty, angry, sore, and homesick. I miss my bed, the good food, my friends, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Cadence, Shining, Flurry, mom and dad, everything that made Equestria home.

I miss it all. 

"Then stop sulking and do something to get home. Just sitting there thinking about it isn't gonna do us any good." Dying said.

"I guess I also miss having my own thoughts too."  Twilight said hoarsely and coughed a little.

"Don't use you lungs to speak to me, they've been damaged enough. Use your thoughts." Dying replied.

"How do-"

"I said use your thoughts! Just concentrate and your brain will do the rest." Dying explained.

Ok just concentrate.

'Is this better?' Twilight asked.

"Yes." Dying replied."Now I know that your in pain and everything, but just try a look around for anything that could help us get the fuck out of here."

'Okay I'll try' Twilight replied. She painfully lifted her head slowly as any fast movement would gift her with a shock from her collar. She opened her bloodshot eyes and looked around the dark room. 

'I can't see anything it's too dark.' She said. 

"Here hold on a sec." Dying said. 

'What are you going to do?' Twilight asked.

"You'll see in just a second." Dying replied. A couple seconds later the entire room looked a lot brighter.

'How did you do that?' Twilight asked. 

"That's how I can see originally, and since we are the same pony.  So since we are the same you can get the traits I have and in vice versa I get what you get." Dying replied. 

'I going to try and look around again.' Twilight replied. She slowly turned her head to the right and saw the door that led to the hallway. She turned her head left and saw the few monitors in the room that had all her stats on it. She looked around her fourteen by ten by twenty cage and saw a few rusted bars on the right, while the left side still looked relatively new. 

They gave her a small straw mat to sleep on, a small bowl to eat from that they put just a little bit out of her reach, and they removed the chains from her hooves since she barley had any strength to stand. They had placed a stronger inhibitor ring on her horn than last time,  it was beyond her to even try and figure out how they got the schematics for making a inhibitor ring. And for some odd reason she was growing, more than she should have. She had done experiments that would show her how tall she was going to get. Since her and Cadance were not naturally born alicorns they wouldn't grow as tall as Celestia. As it turns out Celestia was at the maximum height a female alicorn should achieve if they never had an impeding force to stop their growth. In fact Luna would be the same size as Celestia if she hadn't been corrupted by the Nightmare force and sent to the moon. Celestia reached the maximum height seven-hundred and thirty years into her single hoofed rule of Equestria. Since Luna was born five years after Celestia, she would have reached that height five years after Celestia had. She didn't do the math but it should take Luna approximately a hundred and twelve years to grow to the maximum female alicorn height.

Her and Cadance were at least supposed to grow the size Luna is now, or just a little taller than she is. Right now though, she was Luna's height. Her mane was longer, and her bangs covered her eyes, her horn was longer and slimmer, and the point at the top sharpened a little. Her wingspan was a little bit longer than Luna's, and she started to get some coloration in her wings, like Cadance had. She also had scars running throughout her body. Having grown so much, the collar around her neck now felt like it was made to constantly choke her. All in all there was really nothing in this room that could help her escape this place.

'There's nothing here that could help us escape this place. All there is are the walls and this faust-dammed cage.'

"Well that's disappointing." Dying replied. She felt a presence coming towards her and Twilight."Jack is on his way in. Oh great lunch is here." 

'Well at least he's nice to us.' Twilight said. Jack turned out to actually be a nice pon-person. He always tried his best to clean any wounds that always reopened or any wound that was never treated properly. And unlike most of those sadistic bastards actually cared for her well being.

"He's still human, I don't trust him." Dying replied. The door to the room opened and Jack walked in holding a gray plastic tray.

"Hey Twilight." He said as he unlocked the cell door."I finally managed to get you some fresh fruits this time." He said as he placed the tray down in front of her. 

"Thank you Jack." She said as she tried to eat one of the apples on the tray.

"Do you want some help?" Jack asked. Twilight nodded. He picked up the apple and brought it towards Twilight's muzzle. She took a bite and moaned as the taste of a fresh apple assaulted her taste buds."I knew you would like it."

"Once again thanks." Twilight said with smile. 

"No problem Twilight." The two of them sat for while. Neither said anything as the silence reigned on. Twilight squirmed a little as Jack put his hand on her head and started stoking her mane. It was a nice feeling, it reminded her of when her mother used to wash her mane when she was a filly. This was her only escape from the hell she has had to endure since she's been here. 

After a while she ate a few more fruits,  and drunk the glass of water. Jack wiped her mouth with a napkin. He picked the tray up and walked out the cell. "See you later Twi."

"Hey, only my friends call me Twi, I guess it's a good thing your my best." Twilight said. 

'Heh, yeah best friend of the year. I feel bad doing this to her.' Jack thought.'They did something to that fruit  I just know it.' He thought as he walked down the hallway. He knew that the people in this complex liked to put things in the subjects food. 
He had checked it before he gave it to her but, he couldn't find anything that would indicate they did something to it. It also didn't help that he had limited tools. Plus if he didn't return in the approximate amount of time it should take him to bring the subject's lunch the doctors and guards might get suspicious. It wasn't fair to her. He continued on his way to the kitchen where he would return the tray. He entered into the kitchen and set the tray in the sink.

"Hey Jack, how'd it go with the subject?" A voice said from behind him. Jack turned around to see a short woman with long  blonde hair, wearing the same blue medical scrubs he was wearing, and she had on some black and yellow sports shoes. She had a rounded face and she didn't have that much make up on. She had green irises, and long eyelashes. 

"Oh, hi Martha. Yeah everything went fine with Twilight. She was still a little weak from the last experiments, so I had to help her out." He replied. Martha was pretty new to the job of alien caretaker, so Jack was assigned to her to show her the ropes. She was his shadow. She just got done feeding her fist Alien on her own today." Oh how did your assignment go?" 

"Oh, it was actually pretty good. Wasn't nervous at all." Martha replied. Jack lifted an eyebrow

"Uh-huh , sure you not saying that only because you were behind the glass?" Jack replied.

"What, no." She replied. 

"Yeah sure whatever." Jack said. He knew she was lying. Everybody that was new to this line of work had their first scare when they started feeding the aliens. That's just the way it was. It really did depend on which alien you were assigned to feed first.'The Kulotch was a pretty scary first one to feed all by yourself.' He thought.

"Hey Jack, I've got a question for you." Martha said.

"Yeah, what is it?" Jack responded.

"Why did you call the subject Twilight?" She asked.

"Oh, did I? Sorry I didn't know." He responded. He really didn't like that weird subject ID they gave her. 

"Oh, okay." She said. The two of them left the kitchen and they headed towards their assigned scientists lab. As they entered the completely white room, they saw many different lab tables. Some filled with many different chemicals, others with papers, and empty beakers. In the middle of the room there was a large gray centrifuge. On the left side of the room there was three large test tubes.  On the right side there were many blackboards filled with many notes, drawings, and statistics. Towards the back of the room there was a rectangular table. On the table there were still a small amount of visible blood stains form their doctors test subjects. Speaking of their doctor he was nowhere in the room. 

"Hm, I thought he be in here." Jack said.

"Maybe he's still in that meeting he was talking about earlier." Martha added.

"Or maybe I'm just getting back from it." Said a male voice behind them. They both turned around to see a tall white-skinned man, with white hair, blue eyes and a large smile.

"Oh, Doctor Blood. How'd the meeting go?" Martha asked.

"Boring as usual, it was just another meeting for taxes. I swear their always wasting time. I could've had all my paper work done, and got to my experiments." He said with a frown. "By the way how is 345 doing?"

"She's fine. She was still a little weak from the recent experiments, so I had to help her eat." Jack replied, he really did despise that subject ID.

"Do not refer to it as if it were human. When your in my laboratory you refer to all subjects by their ID, or you say it, are we clear?" The Doctor said in a serious tone.

"Yes, Doctor." The two attendants said.

"Good. Now we must prepare it for its training." Blood said with a smile.

"Training?" Jack said with an eyebrow raised. 

"Yes, training. It is part of the Unstoppable Program, remember. That was also a topic discussed at the meeting. It has went through and survived all its experiments and all enhancements have been completed, so now it's time to start on its training." Blood explained. "The food you gave it had a drug that should increase its strength. All food you serve to it from now on will have the same drug in it."

"Understood." Jack replied. 'I knew they put something in that food.'

"Go get it ready. You have a guard escort waiting outside its room for you." The Doctor reached into his pocket and pulled out a syringe."Use this to tranquilize it."

"Are you sure it's enough to do the job? " Jack asked. The Doctor gave him a blank stare."Of course you're sure." Jack stepped outside into the hallway where his guard detail of at least fifteen people were waiting, armed with tranquilizer guns and wearing special made fiber armor.  They traveled down the hallway towards 345's room.

Twilight's ears perked up to the sound of the door opening. She looked up to see Jack walking in."Jack, what are you doing back here." She asked.

'He's not alone this time either. I fell at least fifteen more presences outside of the door.' Dying said, she sniffed the air and caught a whiff of the drug that was in the syringe.'He also has a syringe, with some sort of drug in it. I told you not to trust him.

'Dying that's not fair. You and me know just how much he hates doing these things, it's just his job.' Twilight said trying to justify Jack's actions. Dying said nothing to respond.

"Oh hey, Uh look Twi." He started lowering his voice."They want to start your training since all the experiments were successful. I have this syringe here with a drug that will make you unconscious for a short period of time. There's like fifteen guards out there all armed with tranquilizer guns and wearing body armor. So I know how much you hate needles, but I need to inject you with this."

"It's alright Jack, I understand. Just be gentle." She said closing her eyes. Jack injected the sleeping drug into her and she was out like a light in no more than five seconds. Jack called the guards in and they came in and put her on a large stretcher that four of them had to carry. Once they entered the room where her training would take place they removed her shock collar and the inhibitor ring from her horn. After doing so they rushed out the room and closed the door and locked it through a series of complex locks and codes. The wall adjacent to the door of the room was a one way mirror. On the other side were a group of scientists and attendants preparing to take notes on the subjects performance. One of these scientists were Dr. Anderson. The older human scientists sat in the front row of seats. On his right was Dr. Rush. 

"Dr. Anderson which alien did you choose for her first training mission?" Rush asked. 

"The  X1785-drone. " Dr.  Anderson responded. 

"Isn't that a little too intense for it right now. " Rush asked. 

"She'll have no problem with it. " Anderson said not giving Rush his attention. 

Back in the room Twilight regained her consciousness and stood up. She looked around the barren white room. "Hello any one here? " She turned to the wall that the scientist were behind and looked at it suspiciously. 

"There are scientists behind the wall." Dying said. 

"So this wall is like a one way mirror." Twilight responded. The scientists behind the mirror gasped as she said those words. 

"How... did she know? " Asked a younger scientist. 

"That's not all Twilight. There seems to be another presence behind that other wall." Dying said and directed her eyes towards the wall opposite of the one way mirror. Just like the other walls it was a stainless white. Twilight stepped closer to examine it. Nothing looked strange. The presence on the other hand was definitely strange.  It felt so familiar to her,  but she didn't know why. 

On the side where the scientists were Dr.  Blood stood and walked to the front of the room. 

"Good evening everybody,  as you all know I am Dr. Blood and I am in charge of the Unstoppable Program." He started with a smile on his face. "The subject we have in front of us is the only candidate that is a part of this program. It's name is P345TS.  Alien species Pony,  subspecies Alicorn. It is currently the second youngest of the four Alicorns on it's home planet of Eqquis. 

It is a female and it is a virgin. It is proficient in the use of what it calls magic, and it has confirmed it to be it's special talent.  It can also wield a greater power known as the element of magic,  and along with five other elements known as laughter, honesty, kindness, loyalty,  and generosity can defeat any threat possible.  If you would would like more information on the element of generosity check unicorn experiment 173.

The subject has survived all tests and enhancements and is now ready for it's combat training. " Blood explained. Dr. Anderson stood up and went over to the microphone that allowed him to speak into the testing chamber. 

"Subject 345 are you ready to begin your combat training? " He asked. Twilight nodded and stepped away from the door that held her opponent behind it. Dr. Anderson pushed a button that was next to the microphone and the wall opposite of the observation room slowly started to open,  and inside there was nothing but complete darkness. 

Twilight stood facing the darkness with a confused look on her face. If she didn't know any better she would say whatever creature she was fighting wanted her to come into the darkness and investigate,  which would lead to easy pickens. Slowly and completely black foot came into the light followed by another and a loud hiss. 

Twilight didn't know why but she thought she might know what this creature is already. She had to see more of it to make sure.  The creature continued its slow crawl out of the shadows. On each hand the creature seemed to have its fingers attached by the sticky substance that the creature is covered in. Then it finally hit her,  she went through the memories of the the Yautja Lone Wolf and saw the creature in one the many memories that she had recived. 

'A Xenomorph.  That's what we're fighting.  If we're not careful we could get torn to shreds.' Twilight explained to Dying.

"Its only a drone,  so this one isn't that strong.  At best this should take you at least 15 minutes. I lend you a little power to help with the fight." Dying said. 

'Yeah it's a drone, but if we're not careful we could easily die here. It's still a Xenomorph after all.'

"Then I guess you have to tread lightly brainmate." Dying said with a smile.  The Drone finished emerging from the shadows and let out a loud hiss. Twilight turned her head to the creature and readied herself to for the first attack. 

The Drone lunged at with incredible speed.  She barley had enough time to sidestep. The Drone the try to stab her with its dagger like tail spike, but missed at she hopped backwards. She fired a magenta beam into the creatures side.  It sent the Drone flying towards the other side of the room.  

Twilight was surprised when the creature got up without showing any signs of damage or effect from her attack.

'Looks like it has a good resilience to magic attacks. Let see how many it can take.' Twilight thought as she took to the air and started raining down a number of offensive spells that shook the entire building. The Drone dodged each attack with almost no effort, it only got hit by of few of them and then decided to start climbing the wall to reach its target.  It reached the ceiling without any more attacks touching it and lunged at Twilight, who ducked under the attack,  but failed to see the tail of the Drone going in for a second attack. 

The tail wrapped around her barrel and the Drone used it momentum to throw Twilight to the ground. She landed with a thud. The Drone landed on the ground gracefully and started a dash towards Twilight. As it was about to pounce on her she lifted her head and shot a larger and more powerful beam at the Drone who was sent flying backwards and hit the far wall. Twilight stood and stared at the monster with a smile plastered on her face. 

The Drone stood with a roar and dashed at her again she fired another beam at the  monsters feet, it jumped and Twilight casted a short range teleport spell and landed a kick to the creatures elongated dome shaped head. The creature landed on its side and swung its tail at Twilight and cut her left side.  She yelped in pain and the Drone took the advantage to grab her by the neck and force her onto the ground. 

The Drone started hissing as it positioned it head over Twilight's face.  It opened its mouth wide and a smaller secondary mouth shot put. Twilight suddenly grabbed it with her newly formed crystal fingers. 'What the?  This must be from Dying.' She thought as she used her back hooves to push the Drone off of her. 

She used her magic to form crystals that shot through the floor and impaled the Drone through the the heart. She stood up on her two hind legs. 'Since when could I do this? ' She asked herself. She looked at her crystal fingers which looked more like claws and started to admire them. There was a low hiss and she turned her attention to the impaled Drone. 

As soon as she looked over at the Drone something in the back of her mind told her to absorb the creature and she did so without hesitation.  The Drones body slowly started to be absorbed by the crystal and when it was done there was nothing left. 

The scientists in the room stared in amazement as the Drones body was absorbed. Dr. Anderson turned his attention to Dr. Blood who also started with amazement. "Did you know that the subject had this ability? " Dr. Anderson asked. 

"No I did not." Blood replied. 'It looks like I have some more experimenting to do. 

"Hey it's looking this way. " A random scientist said. He was right Twilight was staring directly into the room and her stare was pointed in Dr. Bloods direction. 

Her eyes we're no longer their regular color. Instead of her purple irises,  there was a dark red almost black color. And the whites if her eyes we're now also black.  She had grown taller just a little and her body was now a deep purple color. Her long sharpened horn started to prepare a spell.

A black ball of magic formed at the top of her horn and she fired it at the wall which was easily blown away. The scientists screamed in terror as the wall was destroyed. She slowly stepped into the room and looked directly into Bloods eyes. 

"You must be that Dying form that she told us about?" Blood said casually. 'Hm,  the report said that the creature was black but this one it a dark purple,  would this must mean that this is another form of the subject.'

"I am not that foal." Was all the new form of Twilight said to him. She prepare to fire another spell at him,  but before she could the door burst open and the guards that were posted at it started opening fire on her.  The darts easily passed through her leaving the guards staring in confusion. 

Twilight's new form had a frown on its face.  It didn't like being interrupted by these worthless pieces of trash. She sent a wave of magic at the guards and they all instantly and simultaneously disintegrated and their ashes slowly drifted to the ground. 

The scientists in the room stared in disbelief at the show of power that this form had just displayed."Incredible!" Dr. Blood said. The form turned its attention back toward him.  She bared her teeth at him and prepared to pound his skull into the ground.  The form didn't get the chance as it felt a burning sent inside of its body. 

"No not yet!" The form screamed. " I must kill this being. Stop! Stop!  STOP!"  The formed screamed and screamed. Twilight body started returning to its normal state.  He lavender fur and he left purple and white eyes returned,  and she returned to the height she had gained during her time here in earth. After the transformation was complete she was unconscious on the ground snoring loudly.
> Let's Have A Little Drink
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

"What did you just say? " Twilight asked.  

"I said that I am your mother." Luna replied.

'What that makes no sense. How could she even? How would that even be possible?  She has to be lying, right? This must be her way of just telling me she doesn't like me. Yeah that's it,  this is her way of telling me she doesn't like me. That's pretty shitty of her.' Twilight thought in her mind. 

"Are you ok? " Luna said with a worried face. 

"That was a pretty shitty way to tell someone you don't like them." Twilight said looking at the floor. 

"What!? No Twilight it-" Luna said. 

"SHUT UP!" Twilight screamed. "Don't talk to me. I'm leaving." Twilight said as she got up from her seat. 

"Twilight please wait!" Luna said as she shot up from her seat and grabbed Twilight's hoof with her own. 

"Get off of me!" Twilight said as she knocked Luna's hoof away using her superior strength. Luna was knocked back into her seat."Now leave me alone." Twilight said as she left the room. Luna tried to remove herself from her chair to catch Twilight, but her body wouldn't move. 

"No I must talk to her!" Luna screamed. 

"No my love,  you must let her come to terms with this new information she now has, by herself." Nightmare Moon said.  

"But-"

"No! She has to do it by herself. I know it's hard but you have to understand,  seeing you might make things worse for her." Nightmare explained. 

"Fine,  I understand." Luna said with a sniffle. 

"I'm sorry you had to go through this." Nightmare apologised. 

"I just hope she can understand." Luna said hopefully. 

With Twilight

Twilight traveled down the hall leading away from the dining room.  Her mind was racing with thoughts and questions. 

"Why would she even try to play around like that?" She said to no one.  He anger started to rise a little. "Just who the fuck does that bitch think she is! That shitty rejection was just  so damn shitty."

She doesn't deserve an intelligent, young beautiful mare such as your self. Said a new voice in her head. 

"Who the fuck are you?" Twilight asked. 

Somepony who loves you much more than that bitch. Such a strange thing to say to the one who confesses their love to you.'I'm your mother', what kind of bullshit is that? 

"You sound familiar. I know everypony in my head has a different voice.  This isn't the first time I heard you before, is it?" Twilight said. 

You are correct as usual, oh great one. This is in fact you third time hearing from me. The first time was during you training against that Xenomorph. The second time was just a couple of weeks before you came home.i don't have to tell you the third.

"I see. Hey, during that first time why was I so tired afterwards? Jack said I was out for two days." Twilight asked. 

Oh, that would be Helios's fault. I took over you body so I could end all their lives and escape.  Unfortunately Helios interfered before I could finish the extermination. At the time I didn't understand why and I was angry with her for a while. When she did explain I lost most of my fury. 

She told me at that present time your body could not handle that much power. Even when you turned into Dying the first time, she had to suppress her power. So when you transformed,  it put a lot of stress on your body,  and it left you fatigued. So that's why you were sleep for so long. 


"Oh. Well I know Dying and Helios, but what's your name?"

Just call me Black

"Just Black? " Twilight responded. 

Yes just Black.


"Ok." Twilight said and went back into her sad mood. 

Don't tell me that skank still has you in a bad mood 

"Of course I'm still in a bad mood. I just got rejected by apparent 23 year old crush, and she had to use the weirdest lie ever.  There's no way she my mom." Twilight explained. 

Actually, there is merit to her words.

"What, how?"

You know a multitude of spells. And if I remember correctly there was a spell that you studied that allowed one to see the age of an object or pony. I do remember you using it in Celestia in secret once, and discovered that she is over one hundred seventy thousand years old. One hundred seventy-five thousand-eight hundred years  if I remember correctly. Anyway my point is that you should use that spell on yourself.

"Yeah that's a great idea. Hold on a sec. It's been a while since I've used it." Twilight responded as she closed her eyes trying to remember how the spell was supposed to be cast.  She' have to rewrite it a little bit so she could use it on herself.'I should probably write this new version down later.' She thought. Her horn started to glow and she cast the spell on herself. 

The spell would take a couple of minutes to give her the results. In her mind she just knew that there was no way Luna was her mother, even if Dark told her there was some kind of truth to back up Luna's lie. "Alright the spells ready.  And I am...over a billion years old! I'm eighty five billion three million and eight hundred years old!" Twilight said in disbelief

I told you.

"But how!? I'm only 23! I know I am!" Twilight screamed. 

Twilight, does magic ever lie. Also this is a spell that you have studied and corrected yourself. We both know for a fact that if you study or correct anything there is never any mistake, you even added something to it. Twilight knew Dark was right. Magic had never failed her before,  so why would it start now.

"But that doesn't make sense if Luna is my mom why am I older than even Celestial is!"

That's the one thing I can't help you with.

"Dammit, dammit, dammit,  dammit all!" She screamed as she punched a hole into the wall next to her.  She wasn't done she continued to punch new holes in the wall,  and once she ran out of space she continued to punch into one hole, not giving a damn that she could cause this whole wing of the castle to collapse. As she continued her punches became softer and lighter.  She stopped just before her final punch hit the wall,  which would have surely made the wall collapse. She slumped to the ground crying. Dark did nothing to comfort her and slipped back into the deepest parts of her mind. 

Hm, everything is going according to plan, this body will soon be mine! Dark said as she laughed maliciously. 


Three Hours Later

The Commander was returning from her nightly run and entered the gates of the castle. As she made her way back to her room she took notice of a crowd that was gathered in the hallway. She went to get a closer look but everypony was in her way. She decided that she would ask one of the ponies in front of her. 

"Hey what's going on here?" She asked. 

"Don't know. One of the maids was walking by and saw this wall and she went to get help." The pony said. He had a blue coat, with yellow eyes,  and a black mane. He had two giant bat wings coming from his back and they were folded along his sides and easily went past his hips. 

The Commander pushed through the crowd to get a closer look at the damage. The wall sure had taken a beating.  It looked something equivalent Swiss cheese. Whoever did this was strong enough to break through the marble wall and the steel beams behind it.  

She wasn't sure about the physical strength of the princesses here, but she was sure they wouldn't have a reason to be mad enough to turn the walls of there home into Swiss cheese. So that's leaves two candidates herself,  and her counterpart. She knows she didn't do this,  so that leaves just her counterpart. 

Well that's one thing solved,  but what caused her to get so mad. There were a multitude of possibilities. She did see her counterpart leave the castle earlier. Maybe something happened after she left. Her augmented hearing caught a conversation that was happening behind her. 

"Did you hear what happened in the dining room in the wing?" A random guard said. 

"Yeah,  I went to go see what had happened, when I got there Princess Luna was leaving. When I asked what happened she started tearing up.  When I looked in the room it looked like she had some kind of dinner date." The other guard replied. 

'Date?  Oh, I get it. My counterpart must have been rejected. That's the only reason I could think of. '  The Commander thought. She walked over to the two guards "Ahem!" The two guards looked at the bipedal Commander with there mouths wide open. " Hey lads, do you know where Princess Luna is?"

"Uh,  yeah she's in her room." Said one of the guards. 

"Thanks." The Commander replied. She left the scene and made her way to Luna's room. After walking for a few minutes she was standing in front of the door to Luna's room,  that was being guarded by two muscular thestrals. If there was anything closer to a EDF soldier it was a thestral. 

They stuck to the old ways of the Royal Guards. Hoof to hoof was and still is their specialty. They truly knew how to be a real guard,  unlike Celestia's money driven guards. The only thing they were here for was the pay, the medicare, and the pretty mare's. Luna personally found the thestral race and in exchange for their place in society they offered their absolute and complete loyalty to her. She walked up to the two guards. 

"Evening lads. Is Luna in there?"

"Her Highness is resting." The guard on the right said."She said no one is allowed in."

"Well please tell her that Commander Sparkle would like to talk with her." The two guards shared a look, then the right guard entered the room. A few seconds later he came out and allowed her access. 

As she entered the room was dark, but thanks to her augmentations she was able  to see easily.  The room was a very dark blue, and on the ceiling there were stars painted on it. The bed was located in the middle of the room.  It had dark blue sheets and pillows.  To the right of the bed was the entrance to the bathroom,  and on the left of the bed was the door to the balcony. On the balcony rested purple pillow. In front of the pillow was a telescope that could watch all the stars and over Equestria.  Laying in the middle of the bed was Luna. 

"You alright Luna?" She asked.  

"Commander I've made a huge blunder." Luna replied. 

"What did you do?" Commander Sparkle asked. 

"I've hurt the mare who is in love with me.  I've hurt her to a point where she'll probably never talk to me for the rest of our immortal lives." Luna replied. 

"You rejected my counterpart." The Commander said. 

"Yes I did.  But not in a way that you might think it happened." Luna replied. 

"Oh yeah,  so how did it happen?"

"Well as it turns out...she is my daughter."

"Wait what?" The Commander said confused. 

"Yes she is my daughter,  and the only reason I knew was because some memories from my time in the sky came back to me." Luna said. "She was kissing me on the lips and I couldn't think of a better time to tell her."

"Ok that's not what I was expecting to hear. Well apparently she took out her anger on a castle wall and turned it into Swiss cheese." The Commander replied. 

"Commander I have I request of you."

"What is it?"

"If you find Twilight,  please tell her that I'm sorry, and whenever she feels like it to come and talk with me so I can explain everything to door. "

"Sure Luna."

"You have my thanks Commander."

The Commander nodded and turned to leave the room.  Once she exited she headed towards her room to try and get some rest. Her internal clock determined that it was some time around 11: 30. As she neared the entrance to her room she saw the door was creaked open and the lights were on. 

She slowed her pace a drew her sidearm as she neared the door. She put a hand on the door and pushed it open and then she ran in and stopped as she saw her counterpart sitting in the middle of the room staring at the ceiling. 

"What are you doing in here, did you not see the sign?" The Commander said as she put her sidearm in its holster. 

"Sorry, I didn't notice it. I was busy contemplating my life." Twilight said as she lifted her head to look at the Commander. 

"Oh yeah I heard from Luna." The Commander said. 

"Don't you ever speak that bitches name in my presence ever again." Twilight said anger evident in her voice. 

"Well, she said whenever you feel like it to go talk to her so she can explain everything." The Commander replied. 

Twilight scoffed "She didn't even have the balls  to come tell me that herself. Typical." 

"Hey don't shoot the messenger." The Commander said.

"Hey, Commander remember that drink you promised?" Twilight said with a smile. 

Inside Twilight's Mind

While Twilight and the Commander were getting drunk, Dying and Helios were having dinner together. The table was set up with a white table cloth over a brown oak wooden table and in the middle of the table were a set of candles holder that had three candles in each of them. Above them was a clear glass chandelier that also held candles in it. Along the walls were portraits of Twilight and her greatest and most memorable moments in life.  The floor of the room was a dark brown wood, and under the table was a blue carpet. The chairs were set up all around the table and they themselves were made from a dark brown wood , with a blue cushion in it for those who sat in them to be comfortable.  

The two mares sat at both ends if the table.  Both of them had a plate filled with chicken,  sweet corn and sweet peas.  For their drinks they both had a glass of red wine,  and next to the wine was a glass of water. 

"Mother."Dying said looking towards her mother. 

"Yes?" Helios asked. 

"Why are we eating, you know we don't have to eat when we're in Twilight's mind? Also is this food even real?" Dying asked. 

"Yes,  and yes.  As long as this food is apart of Twilight's memory it is as real as we are."  Helios replied. 

"But,  there's still no point for us to be eating." Dying said. 

Helios sighed "Just eat daughter." 

"Alright." Dying replied. After a few moments of silence Dying spoke again. "So, how's mom doing?"

"Well, she's being your mother." Helios replied. 

"So angry,  secluded,  and ready to kill anything that isn't Twilight,  you, or me." Dying explained. 

"Yes,  pretty much." Helios responded.

Dying chuckled. "Yup that's mother for ya." The two mares finished eating dinner in silence. 

After they finished Dying made her way to her own room. Helios on the other hoof made her way deeper into the Brain Castle. She passed many different doors as she made her way through the halls of the castle. Behind the doors were many different rooms that held the different functions of the body, along with the different areas of the brain, such as the memory, motor, reasoning, sight, speech sections, and etc. 

Helios passed by all these doors and made her way to a dark oak wooden door near the end of the hallway. She opened the door and when it she saw nothing but a swirling black void. As she stepped in her fiery body started to disappear into the mist.
> Bonus Chapter 2: Rematch
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

After they were finished eating they made their way to the Royal Guard training room. Twilight's friends decided that they were going to talk to the Princesses, while the Commander and Twilight made their way towards the training room. As they entered the room they found  a few guards and one out of place pony. "Hey sparkle butts what kept ya" Says Red leaning on a guard who look as surprised as he felt that a strange stallion was leaning on him despite him not being there before "So I never thanked you for the help before and i did sorta cheat in our fight so how about a rematch four on four sound good to you."  He says as Ignis, Umbra, and Gelu take form beside him grinning. 

"Your welcome Red, and yeah a rematch sounds good. Oh let me introduce you this is Commander Sparkle of the EDF." Twilight said.

"That's good so no magic and no maiming otherwise no holds bared seeing as 2 of us cant be killed and these three can just reform easily so Sparkle you gonna let dying and that really fiery one loose?"

"Might as well." Twilight replied. She closed her eyes and focused. In less than a minute both Dying and Helios were standing beside her.

"Good so Commander Sparkle butt who you want to fight Ignis, Gelu, Umbra or tag team me with the badass Sparkle butt" He says stretching as he looks at the guard. "Don't you have a job to do somewhere."

"Tag team sounds fun" Dying said.

"Hush, little one. " Said Helios.

"But mom!? "

"Silence!"

"OK."

"I'm not gonna ask what just happened there, but a tag team does sound fun. " The Commander replied.

"Ok , good oh and claw here is gonna be running interference on us all so he can sharpen his shadow skills and so you guys can get used to opponents dropping out of presence." Red says right before he leaps forward trying to land a knee kick right into Twilight"s face before reaching a arm out and clothes lining the Commander.

"Oh that's dirty" Twilight said as she hopped over the arm of the creature. She fire a blast of ice magic at him.
The Commander was also able to avoid the attack by ducking.

Redsopine dodged the blast before grabbing it and throwing it straight back at Twilight and uses his draconic wing to slap the Commander in the face. 

"Ow, that's smarts!" Twilight said as she landed. "You alright commander?"

The Commander stood up a and wiped the blood from her nose. "I'm doing just fine." She said as her eyes turned red to signal that she was in combat mode. She drew her swords and charged towards the pony.

Umbra moves in front of her. "Hey wrong target let the twins and Dying and her mother spar try going at them again and your dealing with me" He says fading into shadows again while red taking the opportunity grabs the commander from behind in a suplex and throws her into Twilight.

"Wow these guys are good at this stuff." Twilight said as she caught the Commander. "Me and Dying haven't really had time to practice our tag team attacks, but there's no better opportunity than the present. Commander you go work with Helios while me and Dying work together."

"Alright. Hey wait what are you doing!?" The Commander yelled as Twilight threw her over to Helios.

"Catch Helios!" Twilight yelled. Helios turned her flames down and caught the Commander with ease. Dying flew over to Twilight and landed on her right. "Dying Black and Zamasu!" She yelled out a combo name.

Dying horn lit and pulled Umbra from the shadows, while Twilight formed a sword of holy light and flew towards where Umbra appeared.

"You do realise he was just observing right?" Red says grinning as Umbra casually sidesteps the light sword his twin claws extending from his paws as he walks slowly towards Twilight a mad grin on his face as he starts to giggle and says in a disturbingly cheerfully manner. "Your crazy sparkle butt." He grabbed the holy light sword and crushed it in half not caring about how his paw was smoking from it right before he slashes a small cut the glows green onto twilight's arms and walks away and sits on a box and pulls popcorn out some shadows and starts to eat. Meanwhile Ignis and Gelu face down the Commander and Helios. "So lets see if there a tough as they think they are shall we dear sister?"  Says Ignis to Gelu as a so commander tell me how much heat can you take * says Ignis twirling his sword as it changes shape into a scimitar then into a staff before back into a Zweihänder (looked up right spelling) as Gelu smiles at Helios * so we meet again hope you took into account what i told you before about your flames being more then show on your head * she says getting into a defensive stance smiling.

Meanwhile * so dying mind telling me why you locked out a small fragment of sparky's brain there when i looked into it before or do you want to help me film her face planting before we begin made of living fire and a giant shield made of unmealting and nigh unbreakable ice is formed the sword held buy Ignis while Gelu holds the shield and breaks it in half and reforms it. Meanwhile red walks over to Dying "So you did remind Twilight that Umbra has nerotoxins right?" 

Helios looked at the two siblings and tried to observe them, finding they had no openings. "Hm, this is going to be tough." She said. "Their stances show no openings, and Twilight and the rest of us are only pretty new to this fighting stuff."

"Wait, what?" The Commander said.

"Yes alas me, Dying and Twilight have only had a half a year of learning how to really fight, magic is still our strongest skill."

"Well keep looking for anything that could give us the upper hand."

"So that explains how we curb stomped you guys before without even trying." Says Ignis while Gelu tuts." This cannot do also commander do you happen to know any anti neurotoxin spells because twilight's about to face plant onto the floor and we do not know if Helios and dying will stay here if she does how can we teach if there is no one to teach well besides the one lesson of don't annoy Umbra. 

"Oh don't worry me and Dying can stay out for about an hour before we return, and Twilight own immune system is working of anti-bodies to counter the neurotoxins. If she does face plant it will be for about a minute." Helios explained.

"Ok that is good to know so miss Helios would you like to train with me ore my brother Ignis?"  Gelu asks polity.

"Training with you miss Gelu sounds fun. Commander you have your fight with Ignis over there." Helios replied.

"Sure. Have fun." 

"So Commander tell me how much heat can you take" Says Ignis twirling his sword as it changes shape into a scimitar then into a staff before back into a Zweihänder. 

"Can't really withstand intense heat with out a shield so let me put in on first." The Commander replied as her horn lit and a small red barrier appeared around her for a second before it disappeared. "There I've placed a tier 8 heat spell on myself, will that be enough?"

Gelu smiles at Helios." So we meet again hope you took into account what i told you before about your flames being more then show on your head. She says getting into a defensive stance smiling.

"Of course I would remember such a important thing, just because my Daughter is a fool doesn't mean her mother is too." Helios replied with a smile."

Meanwhile, "So Dying mind telling me why you locked out a small fragment of Sparky's brain there when I looked into it before or do you want to help me film her face planting before we begin?" Red asked.

"Firstly yes I will help you record Twilight's face plant. Secondly there is something in her mind that is very dangerous. Shhh, she doesn't know about it. It has to be locked away when both me and mother are out and about." Dying explained.

Makes sense. So its like Umbra when he is allowed loose without restraints sounds cool if they can be reasoned with." Red says as walk over to Twilight and placed a apple pie under her muzzle handing Dying a camera.

"Reasoning is not a word in her dictionary." Dying said as she took the camera."This is gonna be good. It's missing one thing though." She said as she teleported to the kitchen and then reappeared with whipped cream I need her magic. She walked over and put an excess amount of whipped cream on the pie. "It's perfect!" She said as she started filming. Twilight started swinging back and forth, and then fell face first into the awaiting apple pie.

Red chuckled loudly as twilight faceplants before booping dying and hiding the camera as he look towards the others  "Hrmm seems they split off to fight wanna watch till twilight wakes up?" He asked. 

"Sure, should only take her a minute or so to wake up." Dying replied.

"OK" Red replied as he leaned on a wall and watched Ignis and the Commander exchange blows with their arms.

"Those two seem to be having fun." Dying said watching the same pair." You know I've always wondered, how did you come into possession of such wonderful sparing mates?"

"You wouldn't believe me if i told you" Red said before sighing." To be blunt me and my sisters are from the Crystal Empire era it was during the fall of Sombra that I first met Ignis and Gelu, it was a war zone soldiers were looting places and burning homes of all non crystal ponies they tried to burn our house down and they were dragging my sisters away when I arrived so I charged at them with two swords, but they had experience I didn't and I took a sword to the back of my chest. I was dying when Ignis offered me a chance to save my sisters so i took it once the fight ended he decided to fully test me and went after my sisters. Well lets just say taking a sword to the gut and ripping it upwards hurts like hell but is effective, and while I was literally in hell I met Gelu, who bonded to me after remarking I was bound to another. And well Umbra, he was deaths replacement till he tried to kill death and was imprisoned till Discord found him and let him loose we fought and he bound himself to me to avoid dying."

"Hm, not the most unbelievable story." Dying said. "So I asked you a question, now you ask me. " She said poking Red with a hoof.

"Ok, so how long you been fighting?"

"Well as far as hand to hand, only about half a year. We've got great swordsmanship, and of course magic is our strong suit." Dying explained.

"True not many can call umbra from the shadow but its not a reliable tactic as you know." Red said. "I mean all it took was claw affecting your mind to incapacitate your strongest offence and defense."

"Yeah, that's true. Guess that means we're not as bad ass as I thought we were, huh?" Dying said sadly." I guess me and my mom and Twi will need to find a way to block against mental attacks."

"That's why were sparring without magic so you can handle yourselves." Red said as he grabbed Dyings tail and slamming her into Twilight.

The resulting impact of Dying slamming into Twilight, woke her up.

"Ouch, what the fuck is going on here? Can't a mare get some sleep?" Twilight said staring at Dying on her back.

"Sorry, he caught me off guard." Dying said standing up. She helped Twilight up and they both stared at Red and waited for his next move.

"So before I kick your plots Twilight apologize to Umbra for going after him you should know better" Red said his smoldering and badly burnt hand slowly heals with a smell of cooked steak."  I forgot when separated what I'm immune to comes back, oh and dying stuck a pie with whipped cream under your face when you face planted."

"YOU DID WHAT!?!?!?" Twilight said with her eyes burning like fire at Dying.

"Ha, ah um Umbra's still waiting for that apology. Please don't hurt me!" Dying pleaded on her knees.

"Oh I'm gonna do a lot more than hurt you after were done here." Twilight said. Then a hoof smacked her on the back of the head."Ouch." Twilight turned around to see Helios staring back at her.

"Apologize, now. " Helios said sternly. Twilight sighed and made her way over time the waiting Umbra.

"Please forgive me for attacking you with dangerous intention." Twilight said as she bowed her head in shame. Helios smiled and went back over to Gelu to continue training.

"It's ok Sparky and thank you miss Helios though, Sparky you just made a critical error in a fight losing your temper and threatening your squad" Said Umbra as Red grabs Twilight in a submission hold to knock her out as Umbra is speaking.

Gelu smiled. "It's good to see one of you has some maturity to keep them in line miss Helios and I must say your quite adaptive in combat, though you need to keep your flame's from scorching friendlies in close quarters." She said as Ignis exchanges sword blows with the Commander. 

"Good reflexes though your not gonna last long in defense like that." Ignis said.

'Damn he's right. I've got to do something.'

Back with Helios

"Well when your the only moderately sane play in that mind it's the best I could do." Helios said.

Over with Dying

"Thanks Umbra." Dying said wiping the sweat from her forehead. She looked back towards Red and charged.

"Red grinned as he twisted and threw Sparky onto Dying as he flip over them both."

"Oh, come stop using Twilight as a projectile." Dying said as she flipped Twilight's unconscious body off of her. She stood up a tried to land a punch on Red's face. Red stood still as his body turned to bedrock as Dying tried to hit him.

"Ow, fuck, fuck!" Dying said clutching her bleeding knuckle."Fucking smart ass!" She says as her eyes glow completely green and her fangs extend to the outside of her jaw. Her wings turn bat-like and her crystal claws sharpen. She let out a mighty roar of anger and flew towards Red in her rage mode.

"Red Stood still again as his body turned to bedrock as Dying hit it."That's gonna hurt later and I would stop but she makes it to easy." He sighed as he grabbed Dying in the air and twisted her into the ground pinning her." Never give into rage."

"Get the fuck of me!" Dying said as she ignored Red's words of wisdom. Thirty seconds later she had returned to her normal form. "There happy now." She said as she phased through the floor and came back through in time to land a kick to Red's back.

"Yes I am. That's really good control you have to calm down so fast and nice Ariel flip but you left your team mate exposed." Red says as a dagger is embedded in the ground next to Twilight.

"Dammit why is fighting so hard!?" Dying yelled. Once again leaving herself open.

Red rushes in and quickly punches Dying's nerves locking her body up. "Your to easy to anger that's why." He replied.

"Can I just lose now? Please." Dying pleaded.

"No! No you cannot." Twilight said as if Dying's words were the cure to her unconscious state.

"Twilight! Please I'm admitting defeat to the superior fighter. For once at least." Dying said looking Twilight in the eyes.

"Hm, well this is something unexpected. Dying Phoenix admitting defeat. Some ponies gone and matured." Twilight said teasingly." Well if my partner admits defeat then I too admit it."

"Ok then." Red said pushing a pressure point so Dying could move.

"Well then I guess you guys win. Where's Helios and the Commander?"

"Still fighting." Red said pointing behind him as the commander came flying over his head. "All right Ignis, enough."

Twilight catches the Commander and puts her down."So we are done sparing Commander. All were waiting on is Helios and Gelu to finish up. "

"Oh we stopped ages ago. "We've just been chatting and observing what's going on." Said  Gelu walking up to them.

"Oh ok. Well who's hungry my treat!" Twilight said as she started towards the exit.

"I already ate."  Red said holding out a slice of cake to Twilight and vanishes out of site as a very irate and mad sunbutt break's down the door and looks at Twilight.

"GIVE ME MY CAKE NOW!!!!"

"Dammit Red, what have you got me into!" Twilight yelled as she teleported away. Dying and Helios look at each other before they both burst out laughing.

"I work with foals." Helios said with a sigh.
> Inside The Mind
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Helios appeared from the smoke on a fiery red land. She sniffed in through her nostrils enjoying the smoke and burning ash that assaulted her nose hairs. "Ah good to be home." She said. She started making her way to the fiery fortress that was her home. She walked in through the red fiery door. She went up the stair case that led to her bedroom, she walked into her blood red room and flopped down on her fiery orange king size bed. "Ah such an eventful day." She said into her pillow. She sat there for a few hours and almost fell asleep. That was until there was a knock in her front door. "GO AWAY!" She screamed. Another knock accompanied her reply. "COME BACK LATER."

"Come on don't be like that Sun bun." Said a voice. Helios recognized that voice, and only one pony called her "Sun bun".

"Ugh, what do you want Meadow?" Helios said as she drowsily slid out of bed. She made her way down the stairs and opened the door to see the Bright Green Alicorn mare staring at her with teal eyes.

"Oh just wanted to see how your doing. That's all." Meadow replied.

'Of all the mares in this head, why did it have to be this mare?' Helios thought. "Doing fine Meadow. Although I did want to sleep a little more."

"Well some mares and I were planning on having a little get together. We wanted to know if you and Dying wanted to party as well." Meadow replied.

"No." Helios said as she went to slam the door. Meadow stopped the door with her magic, and then surrounded Helios with her aura.

"Too bad!" Meadow said as she started to hop her way to the to the party location. Helios sighed. She really did just want to sleep some more.

"Can you put me down? I'd rather walk." Helios said.

"Oh, fine." Meadow said. She placed Helios on the ground. "So should we go get Dying?"

"Sure." Helios said as she opened a portal to the lower regions of the area they were in. They made their way through the portal, and started walking to the left. They made their way into the darker regions of the new area. After what seemed like hours of walking they came to a little clearing.

"I didn't know Dying liked trees so much, why'd she plant so many?" Meadow asked. Helios ignored her question and continued walking. After a little more walking they reached a large cabin. It was made from some sort of dark-reddish wood. The grass around the rectangular cabin was also a dark reddish color. Helios made her way to the door and heard some music. Helios knocked and stepped back. Hoof steps could barley be heard making their way to the door. Dying opened the door and the music got louder.

"Oh, hi mom!" Dying yelled over the music. "What brings you and Meadow here?!"

"Turn the music off!" Helios yelled. Dying lit her horn and the music stopped.

"Sorry...so what did you want?" Dying asked.

"We just wanted to know if you wanted to go to a party that me and the others were planning." Meadow replied. Dying put her hoof to her chin.

"Sure, I've got nothing better to do anyway." Dying said as she stepped out and locked the door. Helios opened another portal, and the three mares traveled through it. Once they were back in the upper levels they made their way to where the party was being held. Of course the party was being held in Meadows domain, which to be fair is probably the best place to have one. Meadow held all the good, happy emotions.

"Hey, everyone I bought the two mares of the honor!" Meadow yelled. Dying and Helios looked at each other with surprise. The other mares of the mind hopped out.

"CONGRATULATIONS!" They all yelled. The two mares of honor stared at each other, and then looked back towards the gathered mares.

"Alright, what's going on here." Helios asked.

"It's a party for the two mares that got us home." Meadow replied.

"Yeah, we wanted to thank you for getting us out of that scary place." Said a small voice. The voice belonged to a mare who was just a little taller than Dying was. Her coat was gray, her mane was black, she too was an alicorn, and her flank was blank. She had dark gray eyes, and pearly white teeth. She was the mare that held the emotions of sadness, and shyness, humility, modesty, and kindness.

"Oh, hi Humble. How have you been?" Dying asked.

"Oh, I've been doing fine, thank you for asking. I had wanted to go get you and your mom, but sis said it's scary where you live Dying." Humble said as she looked at Meadow.

"Oh, well why didn't you just come with your sister?" Helios asked. Humble looked away her long black mane covering her face.

"She's still afraid of the dark." Meadow answered for her sister. A small whimper was heard from Humble.

"Alright, that's enough introductions, we got to get started if we want to stay on schedule." Said a voice from behind them, causing Humble to jump in the air and then teleport behind her sister. The mare wore a white lab coat, her coat was Twilight's normal lavender, and she wore thick rimmed black glasses, and her mane was up in a bun.  Her flank had two flasks, and explosions behind them.

"Oh, hey Astros. How have you been?" Dying asked.

"Fine, but can we please start the party, I've still got important work to get done."  Astros replied in annoyance.

"Still always so serious. You need to lighten up Astros." Dying said. Astros rolled her eyes and motioned for them to follow her. They walked a little further and they were in the middle of the party, all around them were different kinds of colored mares, all of them a part of Twilight, and they were all there to celebrate Twilight's return. Dying and Helios had a good time, there was food, drinks, and cake. They could catch up with everypony and meet a couple of new mares.

"So then *hiccup* me and Twilight chase him down the alleyway. He was on the *hiccup* ground, we were in the air. We dropped down. In front of him *hiccup* and he pissed himself." Dying laughed, the group she was with also sharing in the laugh. The party had been going on for a while now and almost everypony there had a little too much to drink. Helios didn't drink much, so she was one of the few sober ones.  A group of singing and dancing mares flew by her, and she allowed herself a chuckle. She also saw Humble walking around, lets just say when that mare gets some alcohol in her, she's a party animal. She went around and conversed with the other sober mares that were around. She was having a conversation with Astros about how her work was going, when there was a sudden breeze. Helios stopped her conversation and looked around. She looked  towards Dying who laughing and singing something about an Irish pub. She looked over to a gathering of swirling leaves, and knew exactly who was coming.

"Excuse me Astros, but I believe we must cut this conversation short." Helios said.

"Eh, why is that?" Astros asked. Helios didn't give her an answer as she made her way over to the gathering of leaves. If she was coming that meant that Twilight was in some kind of relaxed state. After about a minute the leaves stopped swirling and another mare appeared. She was as tall as Helios, her coat was pitch black, her eyes were black and her pupils a piercing red. Her teeth were sharp as she gave Helios a smile. Her horn was long and sharp, her large wings were folded at her side, on her flank was a red crystal that emitted purple smoke. 

"Hel-" Was all Helios could get out before she was interrupted.

"Mommy!" Dying yelled as she ran over to her mother and gave her a hug.

"Haha, hello my child. How are you?" The new mare asked.

"I'm doing *hiccup* fine." Dying said slurring.

"Oh, so your mother is finally letting you drink now?" 

"Yes I am, I do believe she is old enough now." Helios replied. "After all time is just a word here."

"Fair point." The mare said."So my little Dying how have you been?" She said as she booped Dying on the nose.

Dying shook her head. "Mom, not in front of everypony else." Her mother laughed.

"Dark." Helios said. Dark turned her head to her.

"Yes?" 

"What are you doing here?" Helios asked.

"I heard from a little birdy that there was a party going on, and that my wife and daughter were the mares of honor" Black replied as there was a raven caw heard, and the bird flew and landed on her back.  The bird was medium in size.  The bird had red eyes and slick black feathers. Dark's horn glowed and she created a hand that scratched the raven's back. "Thanks Violet, you go home and rest." 

"Thank you mistress." Violet said as she flew away. Meadow then walked over. 

"Why don't we let the two love birds have a dance." She suggested.

"Oh yeah that would be nice." Dying said as she shoved her parents towards the dance floor.

The two mares now stood facing each other, music then began to play. Dark lifted a  hoof, offering it to her lover. Helios accepted the offer and Dark pulled her closer. The two mares touched necks and they began to sway together. Everypony there could feel the love generating from the two of them. It had been a while since Dying had saw the two if them together, she found it quite nostalgic. Time rarely means anything in the mind, It is easy to stop time, or speed it up. So for Dying, growing up was a matter of seconds in real time. While in the mind it was 21 years of  practice, and family moments. After that she really didn't see her parents together again, so it was nice to see them together again and having a good time. 

After a couple more hours of partying, the group of mares started to disperse and make their way home. Soon it was just Helios, Dark, Dying, Meadow, and Humble left.

"Well I should get Humble home. She really had fun tonight, and she's probably going to be sleeping for a while. So it would probably be good if she got home and went to sleep now."

"Agreed, same can be said about this little over here." Dark said as she caught Dying, who was falling over.

"What, but I'm not *hiccup* tired." 

"Come now my little firecracker." Helios said as she levitated Dying onto her back. "Thank you for the party Meadow. We had a good time." She said as she opened the portal to Dying's home.

"Yes t'was a very entertaining party, we must do it again sometime soon." Dark said with a toothy smile. She and Helios walked through the portal and it closed behind them. 

The three of them reappeared in Dying's forest, and started making their way to her little cabin.

"It was nice to spend time with you again Helios." Dark said.

"Yes, that was a rather enjoyable dance we had." Helios replied.

"So what are you planning to do after we drop Dying off?" Dark asked.

"I am going home, getting in the bed and going to sleep." Helios said sleepily. They reached Dying's little cabin in the woods, and Helios unlocked and opened the door with her magic. They walked in and placed Dying on her bed. Dying groaned, and looked up at her parents. 

"When did we get back here?" She asked.

"Just a few seconds ago." Dark replied.

"When did I black out?" Dying said as she stood up and went to get some water form the sink in the small kitchen that was in the cabin. 

"Not long before we left." Helios replied.

"I glad my physiology stopped most of the headache, but my head still hurts." Dying said as she walked back over to her bed.

"You just need some more sleep. I'm surprised you lasted as long as you did for your first time getting drunk." Dark said.

"Well just know I'm not going to get drunk again for a while." Dying said and her parents chuckled. "Anyway I going to sleep." She said as she pulled the covers over her body.

"Good night Dying" Helios said.

"Good night my child." Dark said, she then planted a kiss on Dying's forehead. 

"Good night mother, mom." Dying said as she closed her eyes, and was already snoring. Her parents once again chuckled and left the cabin closing and locking the door behind them. Suddenly Dark grabbed Helios hoof, opened a portal and flung her through it. Helios landed on her bed in her castle. She looked around and then at the portal as Dark stepped through and closed it. 

"What's the meaning of this Dark?" Helios asked.

"It's been so since we've seen each other, and I've missed my wife sooo much!" 

"Look Dark it is good to see you again, but-" Was all Helios could get out before a firm and loving kiss was placed upon her lips. Helios couldn't help, but melt into the kiss. They stayed like that for almost a whole five minutes. Once they parted they were both gasping for breath."Cheater." Helios said with a blush.

Dark chuckled."I love it when you blush like that. Are you ready to be ravaged like the little slut you are?" Helios responed by pulling Dark onto the bed.

"You better make me scream." Helios said lustfully.

"No problem." Dark said as she got to work.