The Forgotten Bridge Part 2: War with Fantasy

by MidnightRain

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure, Dark, Alternate Universe, Sad
Length: 2267

After finding the bridge, Twilight Sparkle teams up with Midnight to find a way to stop fantasy from destroying reality.

After waking up in the middle of nowhere with no memory and finding a bridge that is dangerous, Twilight Sparkle teams up with Midnight Star to find a way to stop the fantasy world from overpowering reality. Can they defeat the cause of the war or will they be forced to live in fantasy?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-10-05 19:55:18 UTC

Let's get Ready

   Previously on the Forgotten Bridge

She flinched.

   Twilight Sparkle woke up, finding herself in an open field. She was in the middle of nowhere probably not in Equestria. "Where am I?" Twilight thought. She couldn't remember how she got there. She couldn't remember. She had no memory. Twilight sat down, rested her head on her hooves, and cried herself to sleep.

   The bridge was amazing. Magnificent detail, beautiful designs, and all the lights lighting it up like Hearths Warming Eve. She tripped. She was so busy admiring the detail, she hadn't realized she reached the end. She stood up, now seeing a house in front of her.

   'GO NOW! THE BRIDGE ISN'T WHAT IT SEEMS! IT'S A- Twilight gasped and ran out of the cave. She kept running. Across th bridge, down the path and back to where she woke up. She panted and tried to slow her breathing. She then notice a small brick home onthe edge of the forest. It was her last chance on finding another pony.

That was the scariest part of the day. Fantasy had brought her here. Fantasy brought the bridge back. Fantasy had offically declared war on reality.

Chapter 1: Let's Get Ready.

  Twilight Sparkle and Midnight Star tried there best to get over what had happened moments before. The fantasy world was taking over reality and it wasn't showing any signs of stopping. Twilight, on the other hoof, wanted to stop it. She wasn't going to let it win, not after what it put her through. She wanted to stop the main source of the cause. She had to- Oh dear. She had to stop the on creature she had feared as a filly. The one that brought fantasy and chaos worse than Discord himself. She had to stop...

   She fell backwards, suprising Midnight. "What's wrong? He asked. Twilight tried to slow her breathing, again, and stood up.

   "It's him."

   "Who?"

   "The one who scared me the most as a filly. Lunar Nightmare." Twilight stated. Midnight stood confused.

   "That one character from that horror story?" Twilight nodded.

   "I wouldn't expect a mare to read a horror novel."

   "I'm a librarian." Twilight said. Midnight decided not to argue, so he accepted the fact. Twilight tried to recall the said story. "Lunar Nightmare. Master of fantasy and horror beyond all thought. The one who destroyed ponies in his factory(Not the Rainbow Factory.) and used there ----- for chaos. Making puppets come to life, frightening little children so bad, they slept with there lights on for weeks." Twilight finished. Midnight took some time to take in all she had said. "But that's just an old ponytale." Midnight finally said. Twilight agreed but sad.

   " I know, but fantasy is the one who did all this. I mean everypony thought Nightmare Moon was and old ponytale, but she turned out to be real."

"Point taken." Midnight stated. Twilight stood up and walked outside. She just wanted to go home she needed her friends- Her friends! Why didn't she think of this before? She could just call the Elements of Harmony and her friends could help her stop fantasy!

   Slowly, she called on her magic, it was confusing at first, but she was able to track them down. Ponyville was... five thousand miles away. Oh sweet Celestia, thank goodness she was still in Equestria. But with all the distance between her and Ponyville, it would take hours to get them by her side. She poured more magic into her horn and with a small pop, her magic created a small portal. One looking into the library. She couldn't walk through it, but she could pull things through it. She quickly pulled the familiar chest through and shut her magic off, closing the portal. Twilight put her tiara on and was ready to call onto her friends.

   Honesty. She held the element in front of her and with a spark, Applejack fell to the ground out of knowwhere. "Twi!" Applejack said. After looking around, her smile faded. "Twilight, where in the hay are we?" Twilight shook her head. "There's no time to explain. I need our friends help." Applejack just nodded and went to stand by Twilight.

   Generosity. Doing the same with the other element, Rarity fell where Applejack once stood. "Eewww. Oh how I simply despise dirt." Rarity grumbled. After the run down, Rarity sighed and stood next to her friends.

   Loyalty. Again with the sam spark, Rainbow Dash flew strait into the ground. "Hey, what gives? Twilight!" Rainbow said, seeing her unicorn friend. With the same rundown, Rainbow saluted and joined her friends.

   Laughter. Again with the same magic, Pinkie Pie smiled with delight  as she fell to the ground. "Yay! It's Twilight! Where have you been?" Pinkie said.

   "Long story." Pinkie nodded and bounced over to her friends.

   And Kindness. With one final pop, Fluttershy fell to the ground. "W-where are we." Fluttershy asked. Twilight was more than ready to give the explanation. "I woke up in this field with no memory. I found an amazing bridge that turned out to be a danger. I met a stallion that lives nearby. We encountered a disembodied voice and now fantasy is trying to take over reality." Twilight said. They all seemed, strangely, to now what was going on. She was happy to see her friends again. She had so many questions of what had been going on in Ponyville since her disappearance. But all that had to wait. One thing sat in Twilights mind for that moment. It's time to get ready. Twilight led them to Midnight's house. "Who are they?" Midnight asked.

   Twilight let them in and gave the introduction. "Midnight, meet the Elements of Harmony."

Temple of Fear

Mental Check-list:

Camping Gear-Check

Water-Check

Food-Check

Elements-Check

Fighting Supplies-Check

   Twilight Sparkle checked off the final item with a realived sigh. It had been hours getting prepared for the battle, she was happy that everything was in order. But , Twilight couldn't help but notice that something seemed off. She didn't know what the out of place thing was, but it just lingered in her mind. Twilight helped get everything loaded up and when they finished, they headed towards there first destination: the bridge.

   Within about just two minutes, everypony was tired. When Twilight had first gone to the hill, it had been a long walk but short time, and know after an "illusion" had been lifted, the hill showed it's true distance. Of two hundred and fifty yards. When she calculated the distance, Twilight realized why she had gotten tired in short distances. The group took a rest, now one sixteenth of the way there. The water supply, however, when somepony(Miss Dash) kept draining there water bottle in ten seconds, Twilight put a refilling spell on all the bottles to ensure that there would still be enough water whn the spell wore off. Twilight got a fire going and soon dinner was among the ponies. "Who knew cooking salad could actually be good." Rainbow commented.

"Well, it's whats inside the lettuce that kicks in the flavor when cooked. A small peice within the leafs body contains an amazing amount of flavor when cooked just right, so it gives the salad  kick in its fla-" Twilight said, being cut off in the last part.

   "Shows nothing that bad happened to your brain when you got sent here." Rainbow muttered under her breath.

"What was that?" Twilight asked.

"Nothing." Dash replied, trying to sound innocent. After that, she had decided to just keep her mouth closed. After dinner, Twilight was able to get a radio connection to see whats going on in Equestria. Breaking News- after the dissapearance of Miss Twilight Sparkle, a young drake by the name of Spike told us that now the Elements of Harmony and their bearers have dissapeared as well. Please, anyone with information of these strange occurances, contact your local news station. Here is Cloudkicker with the weather. As the news went on, everyone sat silent. When everypony snapped back to reality, what they heard next was shocking.  Today in Canterlot, a strange cloud has been sighted. Nopony knows what the strange cloud is but we will have the Cloudsdale Weather Team go up and check it all out. Back to you in the Studio. Fantasy was now spreading over Equestria. They needed to stop it before it let out its full true form. The sun was setting in the east, making way for the moon in the west. They set up tents and began to get settled in. Rarity somehow magically generated an air matress for everypony after saying something about who in Equestria can stand sleeping on the ground. They doused the fire and quickly after, drifted off o sleep.

Bump Bang Crash!

  Twilight woke up to the smell of breakfast. She got up from her place on the ground and walked out of the

Tent which she was in. "Mornin' sugarcube." Applejack greeted.

"Good morning Aj." Twilight replied back. Twilight looked about the scene and smiled. Five ponies wandered about and Twilight couldn't help but giggle at the pony who was absent. Of course, Rainbow was still dead asleep, unaware of her surroundings. But because they had to get to the bridge as quick as possible, Twilight used her best convincing voice. "Hey Rainbow come quick! It's the Wonderbolts and there looking for a new flyer!" Twilight said. As if on cue, Rainbow bolted out of bed.

"Where! Hows my mane? Oh this is so-" Rainbow said before she noticed something. "Not cool, Twilight."

"Sorry Rainbow, but we need to get there as soon as possible." Twilight said. After a "whatever" from Dash, the team finished their meals and packed up, ready to get to the bridge. As the last thingbwas packed, the team began their trek to the hill. Climbing up will be harder, but after everything Twilight hd been through, she didn't care. After the lunch break, they finally reached the hill. Wait, it shouldn't be this easy. As if that was the magic word, the hill started morphing. Rockslides and flamethrowers, spikes, knives, arrows. Ok maybe it wasn't that easy. Rainbow pipped up. "Oh man this'll be like Daring Do!" Rainbow went up and manuvered through the traped hill. In her one saying "Ten seconds flat", Rainbow was standing at the top of the hill, waiting for the others to get up. Rarity just walked up, Applejack stood next to Rainbow trying to pull and arrow out if her hat, Pinkie bounced up the hill as if it was nothing, Twilight was pulling a knife out of her saddlebags, and Midnight used a simple teleportation spell. That left Fluttershy at the bottem, too afraid to even get close. "I'mm sorry, I can't do it." Fluttershy whimpered out.

"Uh 'Shy, you are a pegasus." Rainbow said. "Just fly over it."

"Oh." Flluttershy said. After the team was the top, they were met with a familier path(only familiar to Twilight and Midnight). They then passed the tree line and were now standing in front of the bridge. It had been transformed into a black, spiked hoofbridge instead of the old simple design it was before. It was stained with something red, but neither of them wanted to even guess that it was something all familiar to them. Where the house once stood, a small pyrimid with rooms branching off both sides, similar in color to the bridge stood in its place.  The Temple of Fear.

  The team walked across the bridge, only to meet another pony at the entrance to the temple. This pony was a stallion with his mane parted of to one sie, in a deep purple color. His body was black and his eyes were red and on his flanks was a spiral with a knife stuck through it as his cutie mark. "Hello Miss Sparkle." The stallion said.

"Lunar Nightmare, master of fantasy and terror." Twilight spit out. Lunar Nightmare laughd nd began to speak again.

"Oh it has been ever so long seeing Equestria. The first place to see terror and illusion. Oh what's wrong Twilight? Still afraid of me?" He said, showing fake sympathy.

"Not anymore I'm not, the power in the Elements of Harmony will destroy you. Come on, girls, let's show him not to mess with Equestria." Twilight said. She waited for an answer. Lunar laughed. Not a happy laugh, more like an evil from a black heart kind of laugh. Twilight turned around to see her friends not responting. She looked in horror as their eyes changed from their regular colors to a deep, blood red. Their manes shifted from their normal selves into black spiked manes. Then there color changed from cheerful to a deep tombstone grey. They all walked over to there masters sides and stared at Twilight with devilish grins. Lunar lit his horn with magic and a cage was lowered down. "Oh what, these Elements of Harmony?" He laughed. All of her friends were sitting in the cage with terrified looks on their faces. Even Pinkies mane went flat.

"What- how did you?" Twilight stuttered.

"While all of you were sleeping, I ponynapped your beloved friends and use my minions to replace them. They acted the part so you didn't see the differance. Illusion is always at my side." He burst out into an evil laugh and hie minions came at her and Midnight. "Oh-"

To be continued