"I can feel it coming Suilla, I can feel freedom already" Tirek chuckles evily and rubs his hands together. Suilla walks up slowly shaking his head ..

"Tirek this will not work, what makes this plan different from the last?" Tirek snarls and turns to his cellmate with a fake smile on his face.

"Why, ill be taking you with me of course...we will escape, TOGETHER~" Tirek nod rubbing his hands together again and he walks to the other side of the cell, Suilla watches him as he does so with wide eyes.

"You expect me to help you escape? Now why would I do that?"

"Freedom Suilla, freedom" Tirek had really been thinking about this new plan, he chuckles looking to the cell next to them. A King lays on a bed, the dark unicorn Sombra. Sombra after being blown apart by the Crystal Heart was sent straight to Tartarus for his crimes. "You too Sombra, Freedom..." Laughing now Tirek nods  to the Unicorn. Sombra looks to Tirek tilting his head.

"Freeedom...." The dark king liked the sounds of that, he could make new slaves and practice dark magic if he were free. "I get freedom if I help you, is that what you are saying?"

"Yes, I could grant you all  the freedom you desire~!!! Every single one of you prisoners, FREE!!" Every single cell in Tartarus begins to fill with eager prisoners as Tirek chants out the words of being free. Suilla smiles and begins to want this opportunity himself, he and everything here could be free at last.  "FREEEDOOOM~!!!" Tirek yells and Cerberus wakes up with a loud growl as all the prisoners are yelling and trying to break out of their cages. The rage fills Tirek as he points at the guard, "He is keeping you here, HE is in your way, HE MUST FALL~!!!!"

Twilights eyes open and she screams, was that a dream? "Rainbow~!! Girls!!" she pants and she slowly gets out of her bed and wipes her eyes if tears. Rainbow and the rest of the girls burst into the room from Twilight call for them after a few minutes. Twilights shaking legs want to buckle . Her tear filled eyes want to burst to crying, Her wings wanted to droop as her whole body ached and shaked. "Girls..I-I had the worst dream.." She smiles seeing her friends. Applejack looks to Twilight and frown.

"Are you alright, Sugarcube. That was one heck of a scream" Applejack puts a hoof on Twilight shoulder as the alicorn shakes with fear from whatever just happened in her head. "That scream really startled us"

"I'm fine now...I'm not sure what happened" Twilight looks around the room at all her friends and rubs her head. Rainbow walks up to Twilight and puts a wing over her and smiles.

"Its alright Twilight, it was just a dream, its gone now" Rainbow smiles Applejack nods in agreement. Rarity walks up slowly and pokes Twilights nose.

"Rainbow is right, Darling...it was just a dream and we are here for you to recover from it" Rarity giggles, "Dreams can be very scary and it certainty  it helps to have friends around when it happens" Twilight nods at all her friends and smiles as they all now form a big group hug. They all snuggle close to one another. Their friendship truly one that shines brightly, they were almost family. Twilight however couldn't get the dream out of her head. Why would Tirek be in her thoughts to the point to cause her to dream about him?

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Twilight walks slowly down the streets of Ponyville. The dream of last night still linger in her mind, twirling and teasing at her thoughts as to know why. She continues to try to shake it out as she makes it to market, she needed to be able to think if she were to be able to buy things from todays market. Today was a big day for market, a surplus of materials and food bustled into Ponyville that day causing a risk to ponies with extra bits. For there were so many rare foods and other items out today that are rare to come by in a town like Ponyville.

"Okay, try to focus.." Twilight breaths and walks into the crowd of ponies. Many of them move out of her way with smiles, she was an alicorn so this was expected. She would rather she didn't get the benefit of this attention, she never wanted to be more important than anypony else. She slowly walked up to many stands and bought many things. Apples, bread, carrots, new pillows for the castle beds, soup, a new lamp because Spike broke the old one, and more food and accessories. The whole time she was shopping she was thinking for a logical reason as to why she had that dream. "Maybe it was the draining of my magic, did it traumatize me? I feel fine, what is it then?"

"Excuse me miss, you forgot something" a stallion says behind one of the market counters Twilight stops turning around to look to where the voice came from but nopony was standing there. Ears pin back to her head and her eyes widen turning white as the Alicorn falls over, many ponies jump back as Twilight falls to the ground.

"Gaahhhh~!!" Twilight stands up and nopony is around anymore, looking around shakily she calls out, "Hello~? Where did everypony go?" as she called out the sound of large hooves come from behind her as if somepony was behind her. Twilight slowly gulped and turned around.

"You're going to give me what I want~!!" Tirek yells at her and grabs her by the neck raising her off the ground. Twilight screams and kicks her hind legs as the beast grabs a hold of her, growling and biting at the air. "It's time to pay the price Princess~" Tirek grins moving her closer as his horns glow with a bright red glow.

"What~!! No, Let go of me!! HELP!!" she wiggles as her horn begins to glow but she stops when the area around her becomes dark, glowing eyes appear behind Tirek, one pair glows green, the other purple, the last yellow. She stares at the scene confused as she is then thrown to the ground and sent rolling down a hill. Rolling she comes to a stop at the bottom of the hill something. She slowly  looks to the feet to see one alligator one hoof , she looks up to see Discord in tears. Discord falls to his knees and  Twi puts her hooves on her friend to try and ask what is wrong,  only to sink through him as he bursts into dust. The dust swirls around her and  she then falls into a hole that appears below her. Screaming she closes her eye and then....nothing. Twilight shakes and whimpers, scared. Discord stands next to her, "I was tricked I thought she was in danger..." he frowns and turns away. "I'm sorry Twilight" Twilight shakes her head and gets up

"Discord, what is going on? Discord?" Discord looks to her and disappears with a tear rolling down his cheek, saying one last word to her.

"Wake up Twilight, wake up and run"

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