I am Twilight Sparkle

I am Twilight Sparkle

Day 32

Day 32

late night

written by Cherry Pie

It has been... a verry long day indeed. Princess Twilight Sparkle has ordered me to record the events of the day as good as I can, since she is too busy organizing things, and too tired from all that happend today.

We hid ourselfes in a big cloud for the night. Quick Arrow and I took turns in watching over the sleeping Princess. She looked so peacefull while she slept.... I still can't believe that, all that is left of Quick Arrow now, is a pile of ash in the wind. In the morning, we made our way to Celestia Island. There once was a military outpost, since to the east of there lays the Griffon kingdom. The princess had decided that we should check it out, even if it was only to look for supplies. To our suprise, we saw that thousands of undead were swarming the last remaining bridge to the island.

That could only mean one thing: Living Ponies!

Quick Arrow and I wanted to fly directly to the outpost, but the Princess jumped down from his back and glided downwards, directly into the undead horde. At first, I thought she had finally lost it, but then I saw why she had done it. As Quick and I took positions on either side of her, while we took a controled dive, we spotted a cage, that was set up in the middle of the damn bridge! It looked verry strong, so the undead were not able to break it. As we approached, I saw something that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Inside the cage, was a young Unicorn mare, chained to the ground. She shot arcane bolts at the undead as she screamed. Her coat looked grey, while her pink and purple mane was ruffled and burned in places. Here is what she screamed, before she caught sight of us:

"Leave me alone! Somepony! Help! I have done nothing wrong! Twilight! Help! Twilight, where AAAAARRREEEE YOUUU????"

She repeated this over and over again, until she caught sight of us approaching. I have served at the palace for over twenty years, but I have never once seen a princess THIS angry before. Princess Twilight increased her speed, and fired bolts of magic of her own. The Undead around the cage were torn apart, when hit. As we landed, the young mare inside the cage tried to get close to the bars, while crying, but her chains were not long enough. Close to the cage, lay a dead Pegasus. He looked like a soldier to me, due to the barding and weapons he wore. Also he carried a small hoofheld radio on his belt. This type of technology is strictly limited to military personal.... This was when we saw the first bombs fall. Ahead of us a squad of about fifty Pegasi swooped down on the undead, dropping firebombs on top of them.

Appereantly, this Unicorn was put there as bait for the undead.... I will never forget this.... Quick Arrow and I took up positions to defend the Princess from the still coming undead, but she just ignored everything around her. She tried to cut through the bars of the cage with her magic, but to no avail. As I learned later on, it was made of magic resistant metal. Quite a rare material, but efficent if one wants to trap a Unicorn.

The radio, on the dead soldiers belt began to crackle, and Quick Arrow raced to get it.

"This is Sergant Quick Arrow, of the royal guard! Stop the attack on the bridge! I repeat, stop the attack on the bridge!"

He had tried to talk some sense into whoever was commanding the Pegasi, that approached us. The reply he got however, was not a good one.

"I don't care who you are! If you are on a bridge that is marked for purging, then it's your own fault! Now get off this channel!"

The Pegasi had almost reached us, and the bridge in front of us was already burning fiercly, when Princess Twilight Sparkle finally snapped out of it. She raced over to Quick Arrow, and janked the radio out of his hooves with her magic.

"This is Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria speaking! I order you to stop the bombing! I repeat, I ORDER you to stop the bombing.", she yelled at whoever was on the other end.

Her order, was only met with laughter however. It was not until we had to jump from side to side, hiding behind a shield spell from time to time, that they finally stopped throwing firebombs at us. Quick Arrow had already been hit by the time they finally did. His charred corpse lay only a few hooves away from me.

"Commander, I can see them. It really IS Princess Twilight Sparkle.", a male voice sounded over the radio.

"I don't care! And if it's Princess Celestia herself, BURN that damn bridge down! This is an order Private!", a female voice reprimanded.

"I herby take control over this facility! All loyal Equestrians, STAND DOWN! Everypony refusing to follow my order, will be considered an enemy to Equestria, and will be dealt with as such!", the Princess shouted into the radio.

I was suprised at her outburst, but it seemed to work. The Pegasi above us swooped down, and started to take care of the undead that were approaching us from behind with their firebombs, while the female voice over the radio started to shout threats of courtmarsheling them. One of them, an emerald stallion, stopped for a second and hooved me a key, with which I could finally open the cage, in which the young mare had been trapped. I had not recognized her at first, but when I got a closer look at her, I did. Her coat was not grey, but indeed pure white. She had been the filly that had stayed at the Pegasus prison/breeding camp. I do not remember her name, but after that, everything got even more ugly.

We entered the outpost, unopposed by any of the soldiers. The Princess ordered some of them to detain the "Commander" and bring her to her. A white coated Earthpony mare, with blonde mane and tail was dragged to the Princesses hooves only moments later. As I said before, I have never seen an Alicorn this angry. Not even when the "thing" that once had been Princess Luna, came to the camp and fought with Chrysalis!

The mare shouted threats at the Princess, who just stood there, loking down on her with an expression that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on edge. They talked about marshial law for a while, and why this outpost was still in operating order. Turns out the "Commander" had decided to desert, without telling anypony. When the order to retreat to Canterlot had come in, she had told her soldiers that all Princesses were dead, and they had barricaed themself here. About two weeks prior then, a flood of survivors, heading for Phillydelphia, had stumbled on their borders. Most of them had stayed quitet, but the Unicorn filly had started to talk to the "Commander" about a surviving Princess. Fooling the other survivors, she had kept her here, while they moved on. Ever since then, they had used her as bait for the undead.

The contingent stationed here mostly consists of Pegasi and Earthponies. Other the the young mare, I only saw two additional Unicorns. They are the explosive experts as I am told. The Commander, challenged our Princess to a fight over command in this outpost, and the Princess accepted. I tried to step in, and take her place, but she was determined to fight herself.

It was over in seconds. After she had "redistributed" the "Commander" over the walls of the surrounding buildings, the Princess finally calmed down. She chewed some other officers out, for letting the survivors leave the outpost, but was quite reasonable after that. The Unicorn mare is sleeping on a bed next to the table, I am currently sitting at. My orders are:

Keep her safe, no matter what. Don't let anypony near her, except the Princess. Make sure she gets plenty of rest.