4 Months Ago: Canterlot-The Storm King's Invasion

Glitter Drops was afraid, more so then she had been in many moons. Not that such a feeling was unique to her at the moment. No the entire city of Canterlot was gripped in fear. Ponies ran in every which direction as giant masked beasts jumped out and grabbed them. Capturing them and throwing them in magic canceling cages, or shackeling them in chains putting magic nullifier's on unicorn's horns to prevent them from escaping and tying pegasi wings down. No help coming from the three princesses now turned to crystal or the Elements of Harmony that had seemingly dissapeared during the fight.

But surprisingly all of this is not what had brought fear into Glitter's heart. Like most ponies she knew that eventually the elements would return to save Equestria, they always did. No what struck fear into her heart this day was the pony that had led this invasion. A pony that despite being older now was one she knew quite well, one that she and the others had all believed to be dead. But there she was as plain as day, her childhood friend Fizzlepop, alive and leading an army of monsters!

"Buck, Buck, Buck!" Glitter repeated over and over as she ran. All she knew was that she couldn't get caught, no matter what she had to get out of Canterlot, if Fizzlepop saw her, she was a dead mare walking.

She twisted and turned through the streets of Canterlot as ponies screamed in terror and storm beasts grunted and howled. A million thoughts raced through her mind "Did Fizzy know we threw the ball into the Ursa cave on purpose? Does she know we were jealous? Does she know about what happened to her... " But before she could finish her thought a storm beast jumped out in front of her.

"Pretty green pony!" The beast growled as it set its eyes on Glitter. "Oh no, no way in Tartarus, not today you freak!" She shouted as she shot sparks of glitter from her horn, temporarily blinding the beast. As she slid between its legs and continued her fast paced trot. Looking around she saw a rather large storm drain and without thinking dove right in.

Glitter druddged through the grime & muck of the Canterlot underground as she slowly followed the path of the water to what she was sure would be her way out. "Oh this is sooo gross!" She shreiked internally. "It's ok Glitter, calm down, you didn't have a choice. You're safe and those beasts can't get you, she can't get you!" She reassured herself. "Now just trot your nasty flank back to Whinnypeg, take a nice warm bath and lay low till Princess Twilight and her friends take care of this and it'll all blow over!" She told herself. "Or would it?" She thought. "I mean sure those beasts & their boss will get the boot, but Fizzlepops a pony, crap they'll go easy on her won't they, no, no she's commited treason against the crown, that's gotta put her behind bars right? Which means i'll be safe right!?" Glitter asked herself in a panic as the rushing water drowned out the sound of the brewing storm above.

2 months Later-Manehatten.

Lemon Crescent hummed her favorite Saphire Shores song as she organized the displays in her shop. Lemon brownies, lemon pie, lemon cake, lemonade, you name it, she had it. Infact as far as she was concerned she had the best Lemon Sweets shop in all the city. "Ahh, time to open up shop and let the lemony fresh goodness brighten the day of all Manehatten!" The yellow unicorn cheered as she levitated the key and unlocked the door, changing her sign from closed to open.

Not more then two minutes after she opened did she hear the door open and the bell ring. "Welcome to Lemon Delights, i'm Lemon Crescent and I hope you'll love my....." Lemon froze as she saw who was standing at the door. The pony's dark green mane was a disheveled mess and her light green fur looked rough and tangled, and she was wearing a rather gauche grey hooded cloak but she recognized the mare none the less. "Glitter!" Lemon Crescent shrieked in surprise and terror.

"Nice to see you too old friend." Glitter Drops wheezed. "Looks like you're doing well." She chuckled between coughs.

"I wish I could say the same for you." Lemon replied "But quite frankly you look like something Cerberus dragged in." She hissed mockingly at her old friend. "And I thought we all agreed to never see each other again after, you know, the incident." She added.

"If I had any other choice, I wouldn't be here, but you were the easiest of us to track down. I need your help." Glitter wheezed. "Please"

Lemon paused for a moment. Truthfully she didn't want to have anything to do with Glitter or any of her other so called old friends, but she could see the mare was desperate, so she begrudingly decided to ask what was wrong.

"Ok, what do you need?" She asked with a huff.

"You know the attack on Canterlot a couple months back?" Glitter nervously asked.

"Yea, read about it in the paper, some creppy guy called the Storm King invaded and tried to take over, Elements of Harmony came back and kicked the bad guy's butt like they always do. What of it?" Lemon replied

"There's more too it then that, the royals are trying to cover it up, but the invasion, it was led by a unicorn." Glitter replied in a panic. "And not just any unicorn, it was her, it was Fizzlepop, she's alive Lemon. Godess help us she's alive!" Glitter cried as she began to hyperventilate.

Lemon froze. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. But the look on Glitter's face was plain as day, she wasn't lying and she was justifiably scared. "Even if what you say is true. Why should I be worried?" She asked nervously. "You and Spring were the one's who tricked her, the ones who abandoned her." She scowled.

"Only because you wouldn't stop annoying us to let you play with us!" Glitter screeched

"Only because you had that stupid rule that your group could only have three at a time!" Lemon hissed. "I'm not responsible for what you did. She lost her horn because of you, not me!"

"Maybe so, but i'm sure as Tartarus not responsible for what happened to her parents afterwords!" Glitter screeched.

Lemon froze. Anger filled ever fiber of her being as she levitated Glitter up with her horn, using her magic to slowly tighten the hood around her neck, nearly choaking the mare. "Don't you dare! Don't you dare blame that on me!" She cried. "So what, just because I was his marefriend when it happened means it was my fault!? Just because it was my suggestion to go over there and try to cheer them up, come clean if we had to, that it's my fault!?" Lemon screamed. "No way, no bucking way! That is on him, it's all on him, I, you, we didn't do a damn thing! Got it!' She growled as she finally let Glitter down.

"Bu, but she's back, she's out there, the princesses didn't punish her, she's free, she's going to find us." Glitter coughed and hacked as she tried to get air back into her now burning lungs.

"That's your problem, not mine, I have a good life here Glitter, I have made peace with my past sins and have moved on. I won't let you bring me down just because you can't do the same." She calmly replied, "now leave and never ever come back."

Glitter slowly picked herself up defeated as she limped out of the bakery, silently sobbing. "Why did you do it Spring? Why'd you have to ruin all our lives?"

Neigh Jersey Slums-Present Day.

Glitter shook as the cold wind blew through the old delapedated building she had come to call home. She missed Whinnypeg, but she knew as long as Fizzlepop was out there she could never go home, she could never let the mare she betrayed, who's family she betrayed find her. She curled up under a dirty old blanket and shook.

All of a sudden Glitter heard a noise and looked up. In the moonlight she saw it, the glowing eyes and the sleek outline, the batlike wings slowly folding in.

"A thestral? What's one of Luna's night guard doing here...unless?" Instantly a wave of panic poured over her. "NO!" She cried as she jumped up and ran, foolishly alerting the batpony to her posistion. Quickly the bat tackled her and she was flat on her back on the ground.

"My name is Lavender Nightsbane." The batpony announced. "Some time ago my unit was charged with digging up information for a pony named Fizzlepop Berrytwist. We compiled and relayed as much information as we could in the short time alloted to us as vauge as it was, but personally, I was not satisfied with the results." The batpony hissed.

"Y, you weren't?" Glitter gulped.

"No, I was not, so I decided to do an investigation on my own, and I find out about you Ms. Glitter, curious how such a successful party planner would just run away from home after Ms. Fizzlepop returns to Equestria, no?" The bat asked in a playful tone.

Glitter paniced. "No, no, I won't let you take me, I won't go to jail for his crimes. I won't confront her, I won't make you make me face her, not now, not ever!" Glitter screamed as her horn began to glow with an intense white aura.

"By the Moon, what is this!?" The batpony asked as she covered her eyes with her wing.

"No more, I can't, I won't, let me free!" Glitter yelled as she zapped herself with her own magical energy, her eyes going pure white as she collapsed to the ground, foam running from her mouth.

"In the name of the sisters what fresh madness is this?" The thestral asked as she walked up to the now unconcious mare, looking down at Glitter, Lavender just stared and wondered. "What could make a unicorn so scared that they would resort to using a mind scrambling spell on themselves?"

Lavender just sighed. "Another dead end. Oh well, suppose I best get this one to a hospital." She huffed as she lifted-up the limp, unconious shell of the pony formally known as Glitter. "Hopefully she'll still have a few memories when she wakes-up." The bat sighed as she flew through the night towards Neighton Heights General Hospital.

Author's Notes:

Here dear reader we have witnessed a story of a pony so afraid of what might happen that it led her down a path to her own destruction. But what secret could breed such fear into a unicorn that she would rather scramble her own mind then face those she has wronged? Perhaps someday we will find out.

Next time we return to our mane story with Three Faces of Fizzle PT II.