Dawnbreak shot up into a sitting position, her breathing come out hard and fast as her heart beat spasmodically in her chest. Looking over at the clock, the mare realised that she had just succumbed to 'death' over four hundred times in less than a five minute nap. On one hoof she shuddered at the notion that so many had died so brutally, but on another it was interesting to see that so many of her previous incarnations had fought against Amourfous. That had made a total of 423 deaths due to fighting Amourfous, 127 deaths by accident, 28 due to assassins, 18 via planned accidents, which meant he still had four more deaths to cover.

First would be Moonprancer, a stunt flier and warrioress, Dawnguard, a vicious earth pony mare that acted guard for Amourfous under the guise of Celestia, Twilight, who was very odd out of the group, and lastly Mavis.

Laying back down, Dawnbreak closed her eyes and prepared herself for four more deaths, hopefully the last untimely ones she would have to endure.

^~^~^~^

When life has spent years giving you nothing but lemons, it's easy to start realising what a blessing the little things are. Getting to see a beautiful sunset, or being allowed to just wake up in the morning and take in that first breath of air. As such, it also meant that the big things that happened, the really good things, meant that much more. As such, the scene laid out before Chrysalis was so sweet a meal for her she literally felt that she was going to vomit.

As Spike howled in anger something in him had clicked and he'd began spewing frost from his mouth. While the ice didn't last long in the heated dragonlands, it did significantly lower the sweltering heat, and that had been enough for her to administer magically aided cardiopulmonary resuscitation to Myst.

And now the two were both awake.

And half of her changelings had already thrown up or left the room.

"Ahem, are you two quite finished? Or is it going to take me spewing over both of you to make you stop acting so damned sickeningly sweet."

Both Spike and Myst stopped their snuggling to realise that they were surrounded by changelings, somehow having not noticed before. Reaching over his shoulder, Spike wrapped his claws around his rifle stock only to find he couldn't pull it over his shoulder. Casting a look over his shoulder he saw it was firmly held with a aura of changeling magic.

"Please, if I wanted you two dead you would be dead, but something tells me an ancient creature and a dragon that was supposedly murdered by his mother don't appear by accident. Especially not with Luna sitting in my room with three other ponies that should be dead asking if we've seen you." Chrysalis growled.

Noting that Luna was apparently here, Spike stood and nodded, Myst standing at his side. The pair made to follow after Chrysalis just as the wall of the large cavern suddenly imploded inward, Spike wrapping himself around Myst as the latter threw a magic shield up around them as Chrysalis did the same.

The three looked over at the new hole in the wall to find a large ship floating next to a cliff face, pirates swinging across via ropes or landing if pegasi. And at the head of it all was a large alicorn and a young black pegasus.

"Chrysalis, the Twinkle Star in me says I should let you talk..."

Any battle plans Chrysalis had disappeared at the hearing of the name Twilight Twinkle, a very, very old friend of hers.

"But...the Twilight Sparkle in me says to rip your horn off..."

All previous relief aside, Chrysalis couldn't help but slump.
"Well, fuck..."

^~^~^~^

"So then, Luna," Dawnbreak asked after a time, "What exactly is going to happen here? I mean, I know you're going to release everypony and let them go to the Summerlands, but how does that work, especially since they're part of me?"

Luna continued weaving her spell for a few moments before she looked up.
"Well, simply put, I kill you, but I keep you heart pumping via magic. All of you will pass on, but 'He' will send you, Dawnbreak, back. Or at least that's how it should work. Are you sure you want to do this?"

Dawnbreak, despite the nervous sweating, nodded.
"There are six hundred ponies that have been trapped in this mind of mine, refused peace and forced to just exist with out purpose. Yes, I'm sure of this. Oh, and how are the others?"

"Bored, and Chrysalis isn't happy about the bump on her head, but is thankful she got hit, not torn in half." Luna smiled as she let the spell arc towards Dawnbreak in a flash of white.

^~^~^~^

Her eyes fluttering, Dawnbreak stood to find a hoofful of ponies standing around her. A few she recognised, Like the unicorns Twilight and Mavis, or the pegasus Moonprancer, though she didn't recognise the blue pegasus mare with the hazy eyes next to her. Then there was a stallion, far larger than any pony had ever been recorded.

"Ah, I see you are awake now, dear. I understand I have you to thank for releasing these wonderful ponies into my protection." the stallion smiled fatherly, "I am known as 'He'. I maintain the Summerlands and have been awaiting the arrival of these ponies for a very long time. As thanks, I have something to offer you. You may ask me three questions, three questions alone. After that I will return you to your body and you can resume your fight against Amourfous."

Looking about at the mares smiling at her, Dawnbreak nodded.
"Um, I guess my first question has to do with all of this. I mean, six hundred ponies? I thought we were just reincarnations of the same pony, not separate beings!"

"Ah, yes, I figured you would ask. Now, to answer this, imagine that there are a thousand parallel universe. Now imagine that every universe is the direct action of how you answer true or false questions on a test. In essence, for every decision there are universe that exist that are results of every possible answer. But on that same note, there are certain things that will never change, such as certain ponies. Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and the families of, as well as every single iteration of yourself were all slated to exist long, long, long ago, and nothing can change that."

"Oh," replied Dawnbreak, trying to wrap her head around the idea, "Okay, wow... Well, then as for question two, how do I defeat Amourfous?"

"Isn't that unfair?" jibed 'He'.

"Isn't ruining potentially perfect lives of over six hundred mares?"

"Touche, okay then, the fact of the matter is that you can't defeat Amourfous now. He has grown far too powerful over the last two thousand years. You can seal him away, but he will need to be resealed every five hundred years. That is all that can be done now, as it is far to late to destroy him."

"Oh..."

Dawnbreak kicked her hoof a few times before looking right at 'He'.
"I guess that's all then, I don't have any more questions."

'He' nodded, but spoke once more.
"Your plan, it could work, but you take yourself out of the equation that way. You, as Dawnbreak, will have never existed."

Smiling sadly, Dawnbreak just shrugged.
"I didn't exist a week ago, so I don't think it matters too much. Um, before I go, is there anything anypony wants me to take back. You know, to say to those that are left?"

Twilight stepped forward first.
"Do you think you could let everypony know that I'm sorry for letting it all get so out of hoof?"

"Oh, and tell Jubilee I'm sorry? And that I love her!" Mavis added.

"For Luna, could you tell her I miss her lots," called the hazy eyed blue pegasus, "I'm Snowdrop by the way."

"You guys got it!"

As Dawnbreak started to fade away one more mare, a white alicorn with a soft pink mane, stepped forward.
"Tell Luna Happy belated birthday for me!"

^~^~^~^

Amourfous grinned like a shark as he closed in on the caverns. Landing on the newly made hole of the caverns, the beast in the guise of Celestia chose to silently follow after the ponies he recognised as Blinky, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Darla, Rarity, Applejack, Lulianna and Jubilee."

^~^~^~^

Dawnbreak looked up as eight more ponies entered the room, one of them being a mare she recognised very quickly as Jubilee, who, coincidentally, was the first to speak.

"So, where's Mavis at?"

With a heavy heart Dawnbreak stepped forward, having literally opened her eyes back up five minutes earlier. She sighed, a slight frown tugging at her lips, as she spoke.
"It's a long story, Jubilee, but to put things simply, Mavis is dead. Luna, Snowdrop says she misses you, and your sister, your real sister, says happy belated birthday. Elements, Twilight wishes to apologise for all that's happened. As far as I know, six hundred mares have finally found rest today, and I have found that Amourfous can only be sealed."

"Or I could walk in here and kill you all!"

Dawnbreak spun just in time to see Amourfous, as Celestia, release a spell that engulfed everypony save for itself and Dawnbreak. When the light cleared there was nothing but skeletons and chitinous husks left behind in the room.

"Oops, did somepony want a heartfelt get-together? Guess not now, everypony is dead. Oh, and you're turn now too!"

Amourfous launched a blast of magic straight at Dawnbreak, who was too shocked to even move. Just as it was about to strike her time seemed to stand still for just a moment as the voice of 'He' filled Dawnbreak's ears.

"The answer to the third question you should have, but never asked."

As the magic just started to make contact with Dawnbreak, the alicorn mare's horn sparked to life, and in a burst of light the mare disappeared.

Looking at the room now devoid of life, Amourfous began to laugh madly.
"I did it, I fucking did it! They're all dead, and I now rule Equestria alone, nopony to oppose my power, nopony to stop me, nopony to-"

And then Amourfous disappeared as well...

Author's Note

"What do we want?!"

"TO LYNCH MEMORIAL!"

"When do we want it?!"

Well, preferably after I release the chapter after this one. If that's okay with you guys?

As for the future of this story? Well, it's actually drawing to a close, but there are going to be a fairly large number of chapters to do despite its soon coming end. What I mean by that is that Most chapters for the end I'm doing won't be much longer than this one. There is going to be the 'final fight' chapter, and then after that a number of epilogue chapters.

Enjoy! And yes, I just killed young lovers Spike and Myst, and Mamma-Shy and Darla. Oh, and Jubilee/Sparkler literally died seconds after finding out Mavis was dead...

And Luna is dead too....

And so id everypony else...

And Dawnbreak is gone...

I Am Memorial
^^^ This guy is a fucking dick!