It is a very dark night, the nights have seemed only to get darker, maybe because the one who regulated night is no longer living. It has been a year since Ven came into power and ponyville has taken the brunt of it all. Ponyville has become little more than a dilapidated hoover town. Shops have fallen into disrepair, and houses have crumbled so that their support beams are showing. The Darkhart Royal Guard has an outpost based on the outskirts of ponyville but most of the Guards are unconscious from a night of hard partying.
On a trial that leads straight to Ponyville, is Twilight Sparkle. Looking more battered and bruised than ever, she has a dead stair. All of her conviction is focused into one thought, and Twilight knew she had to tell all of Ponyville. But how?
Twilight made it to the town square and walked up to the mayoral podium. The square was as empty and barren as ever, not even mice dare scurry around this late an hour.
Twilight closes her eyes, and her horn begins to glow, the glow becomes brighter and brighter until the entire square is illuminated. Using her magic Twilight manages to telecomunicate with all of ponyville, "Everypony, I have urgent news, please get up and meet me at the town square. It is of utmost importance that you meet me here as soon as possible"
One by one, the citizens of ponyville unlock their doors and shuffle out into the town square, even the once Mayor Mare is in the audience. It only takes about 15 minuets before the town square is completely full.
Twilight begins to speak "As most of you may know, us bearers of the elements of harmony decided to storm Darkhart castle." Twilights eyes grew darker " We had a plan, Rainbow dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie would storm the gates head first to cause a distraction" Twilight looked down at her hooves " Me, Rarity and Fluttershy were supposed to infiltrate the castle unnoticed. I used my magic to teleport us inside its walls." She looked at the astonished audience. "The plan did not go as we hoped, while Rainbow Dash's team did manage to distract the main Royal Guard force, they managed to get captured in the process."
"Me and the entirety of my team managed to infiltrate the walls of the castle. But the room that we teleported into..." Twilight's expression was now of vehement rage "CELESTIA AND LUNA ARE STILL ALIVE!" gasps from the audience filled the town square, whispers were being exchanged. "When we entered the castle, the room we teleported into was the room that held Celestia and Luna. They were strapped to a machine, a very technologically advanced machine. From what I could ascertain from studying the machine, it was draining their power. The machines made it impossible for Celestia and Luna to escape because the magic barrier they were in negates all magic from being used, and it syphons all the magic from the ones inside it."Twilight took a deep breath and continued "I do not know for sure what Ven is using their magic for, but the amount of magic he has collected from them in the past year is enough to destroy an entire continent" Every pony starts to panic, and it is clear that a riot was about to be incited " CALM DOWN EVERYPONY!" Instantly the crowd grew quiet "When we were in the syphon room, we managed to trip an alarm system. Guards had surrounded us before we could even sneeze. We tried to fight them, as you can see I am pretty beat up, but it was no use. They captured Fluttershy and Rarity, and they would have captured me if I had not used my magic to teleport and escape.
" I feel horrible for leaving my best friends back there. But I had to come here and tell you what I saw. And now you ponies have a choice, rise up and defeat Ven and rescue our princesses, or sit on your flanks and watch as our precious equestria is razed to rubble." Some of the audience instantly went back home "Oh come on everypony, are you really going to do nothing. I don't have much time left, the Dark Royal Guard should be here any minute. Decide right now, what you want the future of Equestria to be" There was a long silence in the audience, but some pony spoke up. It was a bright red alicorn with fiery orange hair. (All alicorns that once lived in Canterlot were banished when it turned to Darkhart Capitol) " I Blaze Pheonixtear, will join your rebellion Twilight" Twilight began to smile "Good now who else? A war can not be won with one pony."...
Meanwhile at the Dark Royal Guard outpost in Ponyville
Winds and Cloud Dreamer were awake doing paperwork, while the Royal Guards lay unconscious from their late night of partying. When suddenly a letter dropped on their desk via magic mail. They read it and it stated
To all Royal Guards in the Ponyville outpost,
We have it on good authority that a one Twilight Sparkle is in Ponyville at this very instant. Any guard who captures her and brings her to me Ven Darkhart, will be promoted to a member of Darkhart Clan and serve as my personal protection. Your pay raise will be exponential and your magic training will be top notch. At all costs capture Twilight Sparkle alive.
Your Evil and oh so handsome Emperor, Lord Ven Darkhart.