Chapter 5: Midday

Onto Rarity and Rainbow Dash! And along the way some analyzing.

Enjoy the chapter!

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"Accursed ponies," she thought as she zoomed forward. "Apparently my sister had made more powerful allies than I had previously thought."

The sun grew closer in the sky, accelerating the amount of light and warmth onto the land. For some this might seem to be extreme on her part, but in her twisted state of mind, she saw only brilliance and beauty. The light illuminated the land so and brought forth to sight the loveliness in everything the darkness could not show. The heat of the sun brought life and warmth to even the chilliest places. Even the caves shrouded by thick foliage could feel the brightness of her day as well.

She had to admit, though while they were her sister's allies which made them her adversaries, she had begun to grow a little bit of fondness for the pink, enthusiastic one. The energetic earth pony had giggled and shown much enjoyment when her light had illuminated the trees in the phantasm display of light and shadow. While she felt some irritation for the pony spoiling the effect of fear she was hoping it being, she would admit it had given her some thought and amusement to see the pony lose her fear of her light and share the joy with her five friend.

"Perhaps I might spare her aside from the others," she pondered to herself as the land then shifted to a different geographical landmark. A river was just below her, glimmering in the bright afternoon light where instead the midnight should've been. And just in the river, trying to gain some beauty rest, despite being in the fading shade of a large willow tree, was a very long and large sea serpent. His body was halfway in the water and half way on land, trying to get himself in as much shade as possible to avoid becoming overheated in the sun.

"Mm overheated." Light was energy that infused other things with energy. Water when infused with enough energy became warm, which then the later boiled and then steamed.

The ponies were coming out of the forest on this side of the river and the river might be just what was needed to stop them in their tracks. With enough thought, the sunlight suddenly condensed together into a wide, dense beam angled upon the water, soon becoming bubbly as it slowly started to boil.

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It was quite impressive, Solar Flare had to admit, that she was able to create a sling made of vines, leaves and tree bark and was able to hold enough water and him over the boiling river where he still would be refreshed by a cooler temperature of water yet be out of the boiling river. A sun umbrella was even constructed to keep his head and back out of the sun. The elegant unicorn had accomplished, though at the expense of cutting off a large piece of her tail to use the hairs of twine to hold the structure together. She was quite inventive and unique to have made all this.

It would all be more satisfying for her to see the fruit of her labors burn right in front of her, right along with her friends, one-by-one.

They had crossed the steaming river by help of the reptilian, amphibious creature and were just less then a mile away from the old castle that she and the now-imprisoned alicorn once ruled in. Since the roads leading to it had faded, the castle had no doubt faded as well, abandoned and left to decay and crumble over the passage of time.

She picked up her speed, wanting to see the entire extent of the damage as it could be played to her advantage. Sure enough, past the last grove of trees and the ravine with the broken rope bridge. It still remained intact, yet the end was not properly tied onto the poles on the other side and it now lay deep in the chasm. There were two pegasai in the the group, no doubt one would just fly in and retie the ropes so that the bridge was once again accessible.

All but two of the group had been challenged by her power and all four had overcome that obstacle and continued along with the group. All that remains was one of the other pegasai and her dear sister's prodigy, the unicorn.

She could tell the unicorn was too focused on getting to the castle and saving her dear princess, so she would save her for the last. What better then to kill her after everything and then perhaps take her broken body and present it before her teacher, throwing her into despair and pain. A perfect example to remind her of how she had felt for all those years.

So now she was presented with her next pony to tempt. After watching her for awhile, she had discovered an interesting aspect of this pegasus's personality. The pony was athletic, agility, ready to prove and brag of her exploits. And with the right motivation, she could be easily swayed to abandon her friends in pursuit of her own happiness.

Said pony now had already dove into the canyon and lifted up the end of the bridge. The blinding light provided an excellent cover to blond and distort her sight, meaning now would be the perfect chance to put her strategy to send disharmony into the group and secure her victory. The pony was already done with the first rope, so she had to work quickly. The sunlight made the world appeared blurry and warm,so she wouldn't expect her coming until she made her appearance.

Coming down to earth, she began to recall the trick she had gained while in this form. She focused a she felt her fiery orange and misty form split into three individual parts. She was in control with all three split forms, yet only one could talk. Focusing harder, she made them shape into three pony forms, one mare and two identical males. Their skin became a bright red for each of them, their manes spiked up and swept back in the hues of bright orange and yellow. Lastly, suits similar to the flying guard of pegasai she had seen on her flight came up, each of them deep crimson with a jagged gold lightning bolt sweeping through. Now topped off with goggles that covered up and his the three pairs of slitted magenta pupils, they were complete. She had split herself into three identical, eye color-changed replicas of the elite group of flyers.

What better way to tempt her with replicas of her heroes that acted just as she dreamed they would to her?

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Thanks for reading, thank you FlamingFoxNinja for the advice on writing how the altered scenes would be different from the original pilot. Please leave a review and prepare yourselves as the confront with Solar Flare comes out in the next chapter before the epilogue in the next next one. Sincerely, v.t.7