One moment, the foals were behind her and the next, they were gone. There was a crackling sound above her head and Glittermind looked up at the ceiling to see a medium sized portal flare into existence. The edges of the portal crackled with purple energy. The unicorn gasped as she figured out just what…or WHO…was falling out of that portal.
Lots and lots of ponies, unicorns and pegasi, a cragon (and two alicorns) all fell out of that swirling portal – all landing atop Glittermind.
"HOLY CUPCAKES, Twilight Sparkle!" Pinkie Pie blurted out as they all fell onto the stone floor.
"Yeeooww!" Rainbow Dash cried out. "Pinkie Pie, your hoof is in my face."
"Will you PLEASE get your face out of my rump, my dear, dear B-Pond." Dung Red's voice sounded strained.
"Well, you did that splendidly well, Twilight Sparkle; you teleported us all into the stinking dungeon." Color Jam hissed as her body was fallen upon by Flawless and Derpy.
The teleporting ponies all fell out of the portal Twilight Sparkle had inadvertently created. For armor-wearing ponies, pegasi, unicorns and alicorns to simply drop out of the sky into a limited-space room carved into rock was a very bad idea. For them to fall upon an un-armored unicorn was simply bad news. It was a tangled mess of pony limbs, wings, horns and pony bodies; the noisy clanking and general metallic hubris echoing in the room.
"I guess we made it here, where-ever 'here' is." Fluttershy coughed as Derpy's hoof collided with her gut. "This really is a small place to be in…"
"Oops, sorry Fluttershy." Derpy apologized, looking overwhelmed in her armor and moved to float gently in the air.
"Move it, I can't see a thing with your wing in my face, Fluttershy." B-Pond coughed. The lighting in the room went from bad to worse and the bunched up pony bodies blocked out the torchlight coming from outside the cell door.
"So sorry, please forgive me, I didn't mean to stick my wing there." Fluttershy whispered in embarrassment. She, Rainbow Dash, Color Jam and Dung Red joined the straw-haired pegasus in the air after getting themselves untangled.
"Just where are we anyway?" Rainbow Dash grumbled. The fliers in the group had to cope with the fact of a low ceiling. "Oh, great, it's a cave."
"Will you just be quiet, Rainbow Dash." Dung Red coughed as the older flying mare maneuvered carefully over the tangled mess of other ponies. "I think we are in a dungeon."
There was a silent pause, as the ponies mentally processed that statement. Then everypony spoke their thoughts all at once.
"Yea, what makes you think that, poop-head?" Dashie snarled at Dung Red.
"Flattery will get you nowhere little filly." The red pegasus called back.
"You wanna go, right here right now!" the cyan flier growled back. "I can take you down."
"Uh, Rainbow Dash, that's not very nice to…" Fluttershy's soft voice was lost in the ruckus.
"Rainbow Dash. SIT!" Applejack managed to snag the flier's rainbow tail and yanked Rainbow Dash down. "Now's not th' time to be fighting."
"Oh, hi there Glittermind." Pinkie Pie's voice rang out, mixing with Applejack, Dung Red and Rainbow Dash's voices. "So glad we found you!"
"Ow, Pinkie Pie, stop trying to dig under me!" Dragon Fly cried out as the pink pony wiggled under her. "You are pinching my withers."
"Girls…" Twilight Sparkle spoke uselessly. The lilac unicorn was in the middle of the pony pile and firmly on her four hooves. The rest of the group was tangled about and around the Magic-user, pressing in on Twilight from all sides.
"Get OFF my FACE, B-Pond!" Flawless squeaked as the grounded mass of armored ponies shifted. The yellow pony's stomach was pushing against the hornless unicorn's neck, making the magic-user become more squished against the rocky wall on her right. It was a good thing Flawless had neck armor on, otherwise her skin would be bruised.
"I can't help it, Pinkie Pie found Glittermind!" the butter-loving pony wriggled, trying to find her friend. Butterpond's legs where in the air, flailing about as she tried to get them on the ground. "I wanna see if she's ok!"
"Everypony, would you please…" Twilight's voice tried, and failed, to get the vocal chaos under control.
"Dragonfly, if you would use your wings and fly up, there would be more room for me." Shly's yowl joined the rest.
"Shly, shut up. This is not about you. Go find a corner to curl up in until we get out of here." Fairy Dust coughed.
"Doctor? Whattya doing?" Derpy's mild voice asked aloud. The grey-armored flier looked down at the brown pony as he was pushed against the dungeon's bar-made door. Doctor Whooves was currently focused on the bars and the lock, the blue mechanical stick firmly in his mouth.
"Ponies, please…" Twilight tried again to take control; still failing. She stood there in the gloomy, ill-lit rocky cell, trying to calm things down with her magic. So far, it wasn't working, every pony was moving on their own accord, so Twilight didn't opt to use telekinesis. A floating spell would not do any pony any good in the tightly packed room.
"Oh my, that is most embarrassing." Rarity's voice was heard. "Please remove your face from my…uhh…flank, Pinkie Pie." Pinkie Pie's face was pressed up against the unicorn's white rear-end.
"Haha, sorry Rarity. I'm trying to get to Glittermind, she's smooshed under all of us." The party pony shifted her head and smiled. "Ah, there you are, Glitters, I'm sooooo happy to see you!"
"Ugghhh, you got that right, I can breathe now, thanks." Glittermind finally gasped for air.
"I'm using my Sonic-driver to open this barred door, my dear Derpy." Doctor Whoove's reply came, being mumbled as the portable sonic driver was in his mouth.
"Nice thinking, Doc." Color Jam floated up next to Derpy. "He's really smart, isn't he?"
"Yup." The grey pegasus blushed and nodded.
"EVERYPONY, BE QUIET!" Twilight shouted, enhancing her voice with a spell. Every pony, unicorn and pegasus halted their movements and speech. The group stopped moving and gave their attention to Twilight Sparkle. Only Doctor Whooves was still moving; the quiet rasping noises coming from the thing in his mouth.
"Finally." The lilac unicorn turned off her loud voice spell and sighed. "Listen, I know this is not the best place to be smooshed together in, and believe me, I wanna get out as much as the rest of you…"
"Thank you Captain Obvious." Color Jam muttered.
"What'd you say?" Rainbow Dash growled over to her black counterpart.
"Ooooohhhh, didja hear what she said to Twili!" Pinkie Pie giggled as she still held Glittermind's face against her own. "Somepony's cranky."
"Pinkie Pie!" Twilight yelled at the pony. "Please be quiet!"
"Sorry Twilight Sparkle." Pinkie turned to face the unicorn and used a hoof to mimic zipping her lips. "My lips are sealed."
"If your lips are sealed, Pinkie Pie, then why are you still talking?" B-Pond asked curiously.
"Meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow…I want chicken. I want liver. Meow Mix Meow Mix, Please deliver." Shly jumped in from his nook in the stone corner.
"SHLY, SHUT UP!" Both Fairy Dust and Dragon Fly shouted at their cragon protégé.
"Ahahahaha, that's funny, Shly!" Both Pinkie Pie and Glittermind began laughing at the cragon's timing, material and deliverance.
"IF EVERY PONY WOULD JUST PLEASE STOP TALKING FOR FIVE MINUTES, I CAN THINK OF HOW TO ESCAPE." Twilight yelled at them all.
"…" The Elemental Holders all shut their mouths and turned their eyes to the lilac unicorn.
"meow." Shly said. The group broke out into laughter, and even Twilight had to keep herself from sniggering.
"Shly, that is too funny." Glittermind gasped between laughs. "You're so weird."
"There!" Doctor Whooves announced and the barred door swung open, allowing the smooshed group of ponies to pour out of the cell.
"Thank you very much." Twilight trotted out as the rest of her friends rolled over and found their hooves, standing and shaking to settle their personal armor back into place.
"It's about time we got out of there." Rarity sniffed, patting the brown Whooves on his head. "Thank you for setting us free."
"Yea!" Rainbow Dash zipped out of the cramped cell and stretched. "I can fly better now."
"You and me both, Dash." Color Jam exited the low-ceilinged room and looked around.
Applejack, Flawless, Butterpond, Dung Red, Derpy, Fluttershy and Pinkie pie all left the dungeon cell and spread out. Glittermind exited last, being pulled out by Pinkie Pie.
"We're free!"