Metroid Prime: Into Darkness

Fear feeds me as does destruction

                                                                                      -Mag Mel

Twilight opened her eyes, the pain was going down, that was a good thing for sure. She got up and looked at her surroundings, and found herself in a strange dark room, the floor seemed endless, without walls or exits.

"Whats going on?" she asked in a whisper.

She heard the faintest voice tingle her ears.

"I-Is somepony there? Show yourself!"

The whispers grew louder. Twilight charged her horn, just in case. A few seconds later, she spun around to find the owner of the voices.

Then, she felt as though she stepped into something. She looked down at her feet and she saw a purple puddle.

But the thing that scares her the most was that it was moving, almost as if it was alive. She screamed, hoping that somepony heard her. "What is that thing?!" she thought to herself.

Suddenly, like a body raising from its grave, something started forming out of the puddle. Its head came out first, and then a... mane? Two wings sprouted out of the creature, followed by four hooves.

It looked like Rainbow Dash, except it wasn't. This version looked much more evil and dark, like her best friend had been corrupted by some dark entity.

"R-Rainbow?"

Five more puddles appeared beside the evil clone, and formed more dark versions of her friends, even her number one assistant.

Twilight was scared more than she ever has been in her life.

Even more puddles appeared and each spawned a dark double of somepony Twilight knew, ranging from Princess Celestia, to Mayor Mare, Shining Armor to Cadence, they all were evil dark versions of themselves.

Now Twilight was terrified, this couldn't be happening, what in the name of Tartarus was going on here?!

She heard a voice start to speak in her mind.

"Your world has sooo much light... Princessssss" the voice said. The clones stepped closer.

"Stay away from me!" Twilight yelled out, but the darklings kept coming closer.

"All of you will become a loyal servant to the darkness," the voice spoke again.

The clones were only a few hooflengths from her now.

"Which of your friends will join our army first? Your beloved brother? Your little dragon, or perhaps we shall take your precious Princess Celestia..." the voice was now taunting her, playing with her emotions.

Twilight had a mix of feelings, from anger to fear. She didn't know what to think anymore.

"The one called Luna already has a dark past... Perhaps we shall bring back that darkness?"

Then another darkling pony formed from the puddle and shaped itself into Nightmare Moon, a pony she never hoped to see again."Eventually, even you will submit, Twilight Sparkle," the voice taunted once more.

One final puddle formed, and from it sprang a evil version of Twilight. She couldn't hold back her fear anymore. Twilight screamed at the top of her lungs.

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Twilight awoke screaming from the dream she had expecienced, only to see her friends and family trying to calm her down. They succeeded eventually, and Twilight looked around to find that she was in the medical wing of the castle. Thank Celestia it was only a dream.

...Wasn't it?

"Twilight! Whats wrong?! Are you okay?" Applejack asked her friend in her usual southern accent.

Twilight remembered it all, only she wished she hadn't. Those images where burned into her brain, she remembered every second of that horrid nightmare as if it was the back of her hoof.

"Twilight, its okay, you're safe now."

Twilight looked up to see the warm smile of her brother. She always felt safe with him.

"The portal is closed now," Luna stated. "Celestia scanned for traces of its energy, but they came up negative."

Twilight was relieved that the dark rift was gone, but she was still on edge.

"...Is there a problem, Twilight?" Luna asked.

Knowing she could not hide it forever, Twilight spoke."I had a nightmare," she managed to utter.

The group all looked at each other with concered faces, then back at Twilight."What was it about?" Celestia asked in a concerned voice.

Twilight clamed down when she heard Celestia's voice.

She knew she could trust her friends.

"Are you sure you want to know?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, this nightmare could be a result of the portal, and it could give us some clues about its purposes or even the creator." Luna said with a slight tint of nervousness to her voice.

"Twilight, your safety is our number one concern. Please tell us about this dream you had," Celestia added. Reluctantly, Twilight explained the dream she saw from begining to end, describing every little detail of the scary nightmare.

At first the ponies where taken back at this response, they could never imagine a dream like that, but here was Twilight, explaining it to them in great detail.

"...That is a very strange dream indeed," Luna said.

"But do you think this has anything to do with the thing that attacked Twilight?" Shining Armor asked to nopony in particular.

"There might be. We do not know for sure. But Twilight, what did you see on the other side of that portal?" Celestia asked. Twilight described the dark version of Canterlot she was transported to, and the dark creatures that attacked her.

This also surprised the ponies, and their fears began to rise.

"A dark version of Canterlot?" Spike asked.

"How is that even possible?" Princess Cadance asked.

"It may be possible that Twilight was teleported to a different dimension," Celestia suggested, and immediately, all eyes were on her.

"A... A different dimension?" Twilight asked.

"There are different realms in this universe, we are not the only ones in this world. Some dimensions are friendly," Celestia said while looking at Twilight's torn royal dress. "others are not so friendly."

After a few more hours Twilight was passed with a clean bill of health, she went outside where she was greeted a worried sick mother, and after a while she was given a her old castle room to stay at until this event could be resolved. Twilight's friends all tried to cheer her up by talking.

"Don't worry Twilight. Celestia's trying to figure all this out as we speak."

"The reasurring voice of her older brother made Twilight feel better.

"I guess you're right, we should try to do something else for now..."

"Ooh ohh, me me me! I have an idea! Lets play a game! How about darts?" Pinkie Pie said while pulling a target along with a few darts out of her hair.

"Okay... I guess we can do that."

Twilight tried to use her magic to life a couple of darts from Pinkie's hoof.

....Her magic wasn't working.

"Wait... I can't use my magic..."

Twilight again tried to lift the dart from Pinkie's hoof, but her magic failed again.

"...Twilight? What's wrong?" Spike asked with concern clearly evident in his voice.

Twilight looked at her friends.

"I can't use my magic."