Chapters I used to wonder what friendship could be... I used to wonder, wonder about friendship, but now all my wonders are gone. The friendships that were made, when the princesses ruled Equestria... But Equestria isn't ruled by Celestia nor Luna, it's now ruled by none other than Discord. The Draconequus that creates chaos, when the elements didn't work against him, Equestria was his. I don't even know where all my friends are... But what I do know is that Discord rules, chaos runs the streets, and I'm in pony jail with the princesses on either side of me. Crownless, laid Celestia, pondering on what had happened to the elements. Crownless laid Luna, thinking about how the moon is now abused by Discord's hate and chaos. I'm sitting, wondering what's happening and what's going to happen next. I feel destroyed, heartstrickin' away from my friends, dealing with the chaos that Discord has created.
"Put her in the cell. These ponies will deal with her."
I looked over at the pony being taken to our cell. Grey fur, bubbles cutie mark, and yellow mane and tail. It was Derpy Hooves. She was chained up, something had happened. Her hooves were bloody, shaved, and ungrey.
"Derpy?"
She only looked at me and slumply sat in the corner. Something must of hurt her so much.
"Where's Dinky? Is she okay?"
I hear crying at this point, I look at her, tears rolling down bruised face as she cried.
"What's wrong?"
She didn't answer, I thought she wouldn't answer because of what Discord has done. There were alot of ponies that were in pony jail, but they weren't many that I knew.
"I lost the fight..." somepony in the corner said.
"What?"
"The fight... I lost the fight. The vengeance for my beloved daughter. Dinky Doo... My little muffin."
"Dinky is gone?!"
"Ever since Discord took over, almost all of the fillies and colts were killed. I wanted Vengeance for what they did to my muffin."
"Oh Celestia, I can't believe Discord would kill all the little ones. we need to try and save our home, but how. Without the elements, I can't do anything."
I couldn't do anything, the only thing I could do was sit and figure out a way. From the darkness and chaos from Discord. I wanted my friends, my family, the beautiful home I used to know.
"Another one, god... Discord really needs to take care of these ponies."
This pony was yellow, pink butterflies, pink mane and tail touching the ground... Fluttershy?
"Put her in there, she won't be so cowardly with these ponies. So stupid."
"Hey! Don't call her stupid! That's not how she is!"
"How do you know that! Princess..."
"Because she..."
I looked at her eyes and I could tell that she had enough of what had happened. Something seemed wrong. I simply looked away and tried not to finish my sentence. I had a lot to say... But for Fluttershy's sake, she looked helpless.
"THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT!"
Then they threw violently threw her into the cell next to us. I waited until the guards left the area until I bursted into tears, so happy to see that she was alive! One of the elements of harmony. The most kindest and shyest pony I knew.
"Fluttershy!" I yelled softly.
She gave me no answer, like Derpy. Whatever Discord is doing, it must be that bad that Fluttershy won't talk. I've seen bits of it in the cell and in Canterlot. Fluttershy looked hurt, hooves swollen, mane all mangled, part of her right ear missing, and her eyes, not teal anymore... They were more of a pale blue.
"Fluttershy, it's me... Twilight."
"How can you be her... She ditched us when Discord took over."
"I really am Twilight... I didn't ditch you on purpose... I wanted to find out what happened to the elements. Why they didn't work... I didn't want to ditch you, I knew what I did was wrong. Leaving you all in the dust to fight him on your own. But I don't know what happened, Celestia is trying to figure out but... Nothing is helping. We are trying everything, so we could get the Equestria we used to love. I just need Pinkie, Rainbow, Applejack, and Rarity. What is Ponyville like?"
"Ponyville isn't the Ponyville that we used to know. Pinkie has lost her smile. Her happiness was put in some kind of jar... Applejack can't grow any of her apples because of the irregular night times. Rainbow Dash I haven't seen for a while, it seems like she left us. But I know she is still around. She would be a coward if she left Ponyville. Rarity has kind of lost her mind, she has cabin fever.She hasn't been able to do any dresses because everypony is too scared to even come out. Ponyville is really dark, it's like night time every second of the day."
"Ponyville is in a world of darkness."
"Yes... Almost everything is destroyed, we can't live our normal lives anymore."
Hearing the way Ponyville is, the home where I made my friends,is in a world of darkness. It hurt, it was the worst thing just thinking about it... How my friends were living now. The world of darkness, everypony shielded in their homes, there fears over riding them... It hurt. Tears started to rise in my eyes, but they stung my purple beaten eyes. I wanted to cry, but it hurt so bad... I forced myself to cry... But they wouldn't let me.
"If it hurts to cry Twilight don't do it."
"I can't help it Fluttershy, I need to cry... The pain that this brings everypony... You 5 have darkness... Derpy lost Dinky... Celestia and Luna lost their kingdom's harmony... All over Equestria, they all morn for their home back. All the fillies and colts are dead now, they were killed... There's a big loss there."
"Not everypony is gone... Rainbow Dash snatched Scootaloo, Rarity hold tight to Sweetie, and Applejack comforts Applebloom. All the ponies haven't lost hope, they all believe that there will be somepony to overrule Discord and get Equestria back. Is the wall coming closer?"
The wall was getting close to us... It had been another of Discord's survival tricks.
"Um... Celestia... What is going on?"
She looked and saw that the wall was getting closer, she seemed to be thinking. She grabbed the elements of harmony. She told us to stand back. She casted a spell that stopped the wall from moving.
"We don't have much time left, soon Discord will kill us all, once he has enough power over Equestria."
I didn't want to loose my precious Equestrian world that I knew and loved. Then, a big idea swooped into my head.
"I know what we can do until the elements are fixed!"
"What is it Twilight?" Fluttershy asked.
"We could protect the ponies that are here by escaping."
"But how are we going to do that? We can't even break these bars."
"We don't need to break anything! I found a spell that would get us out of here like butter."
"Lets get out of here!"
I started to casting the spell on each pony in our cell and Fluttershy. The spell worked, the ponies in the jail got out of their cells. Celestia grabbed the elements of harmony, Luna was about to loose her mind.
"Luna calm down... we are out." I tried to tell her. But something was wrong... A big black ball swallowed Luna.
"Get down!" Celestia said as it got dark.
The darkness came as the black ball that swallowed Luna lifted to the sky.
"Ha ha ha... Bwahahaha! The moon shall take over!"
"Luna! She's now Nightmare Moon."
Celestia stepped forward trying to have Luna come back.
"Back away foul princess! Luna is no longer here!"
"I know you're there somewhere Luna."
" GO AWAY!"
"Run..." Celestia whispered to me.
I took Fluttershy and Derpy with me on our way to Ponyville... I had a another spell cast upon them so that we all were invisible to Discord's men. And we arrived in Ponyville, it was dark... The sunshined Ponyville I used to know, wasn't the same.
"So Twilight, what are we going to do now?" Derpy asked.
"Get everypony and tell them to go to town hall."
"Are you sure it's going to work?"
"It'll work, tell them that hope has arrived."
I wasn't really sure that they would listen, but it had to work. Hope is all they wanted.
"Derpy! Fluttershy! Get all the ponies and I'll get the others. Meet me at town hall."
"How are we going to get them to come?" Fluttershy asked.
"At 3:00, there will be a spell casted upon them that will change them invisible. Then tell them to come to town hall as it's going. No pony will see you going. Once you arrive, the spell will stop, only if you are outside it will still be going. Discord and his men can't see them."
"Okay, come on Derpy."
Fluttershy and Derpy went to all the ponies I wanted them to go to and
As I walked into Sugarcube Corner, hoping to see the smiling pink pony. It was dark inside... Moments later there was a light out of nowhere that appeared a flat maned pink pony holding an alligator being petted...
"Hello Ms. Twilight Sparkle..."
"PINKIE! Look I can't stay here too long... I need to tell you an order fast and easy to know."
"First answer my question... Why are you here after you ditched us?"
I explained the same thing, it started to get tiring.
"You didn't mean to ditch us?"
I looked at her half happy eyes. They sparkled at this saying, but they were still hurt... And I told her,
"Go to town hall at 3:00 when a spell is casted today."
"Why?"
"Let's just say, hope has arrived."
I looked into Pinkie's eyes, her diamond eyes sparkled again... I left Sugarcube corner with a little smile on my face... Pinkie was almost smiling. I knew she couldn't, her smile was taken, but I could see in her, she still had it. I headed straight for Carousel Boutique to see the rarest pony I knew. Rarity...
At 6; just like we planned, Celestia sent out her beam of light. We started the march; heading to our fate. Once we had reached Canterlot, we all sang the Equestrian Anthem.
"Equestria, the land of all friends. Equestria, the land where friendship is magic. Equestria, the land where we shall protect. Equestria, Equestria, Equestria, all the lands. Ponyville, Cloudsdale, Crystal Empire. With the help of the elements of harmony, we will be saved! Equestria! Equestria! Equestria! We will never break the harmony! For Equestria! We fight!"
All the ponies in Canterlot came out of their homes, marched and sang with us. With my friends by my side, we all had a chance. Discord came out of the castle with Nightmare Moon by his side.
"What are you doing out of your cell Princess?!" Discord yelled.
Looking at their eyes, Discord seemed scared, and Nightmare Moon seemed to still have Luna's soul trapped inside.
"We are here to take back our Equestria!" I yelled.
"Ha ha ha! And how are you going to do that?" Discord questioned.
"We are going to fight!" I yelled.
"You don't even have the elements of harmony!" Nightmare Moon yelled.
"It doesn't matter right now! We are fighting for love!"
"Guards! ATTACK!" Discord yelled.
Discord's men came flying toward us as we all stood there standing out ground. As they came closer and closer; I yelled.
"NOW!"
Vinyl Scratch pulled out her bass cannon; when she fired, we all ducked.
"Come on guys!" I called to my friends.
All 5 of them came to me as the others fought off the guards. We headed straight to the castle; then out of nowhere, the elements poofed right in front of me. There was a not as well.
"My faithful student,
The elements have been fixed; use them against Discord!
Good luck,
Princess Celestia"
" The elements!" Fluttershy yelled.
"They're fixed!" I yelled.
Then another poof came in front of me; along with a note; from Luna? I looked up and saw Luna up on the balcony. I read the note,
"Dear Twilight Sparkle,
Here's Pinkie's smile, defeat Discord; I'll get Celestia.
Good luck,
Princess Luna"
"Open the jar!" I yelled.
Rainbow Dash grabbed and opened the jar facing towards Pinkie Pie; the smile flowed within her body. Her mane fluffed up, we had our old Pinkie Pie back.
"What is going on? Where is Equestria?" Pinkie quickly asked.
"I'll tell you later; but right now we need to defeat Discord. Come on!" I ordered.
All of my friends followed me, as we entered the castle, eyeing Discord watching the ponies fight.
Once I had arrived, I called, "Rainbow?! Scootaloo?!"
Then out of the corner a young orange pegasus filly ran up to me yelling, "Twilight!"
"What's wrong Scootaloo?"
"It's Rainbow Dash... Something's wrong."
Tears were flowing down her face as she screamed help to me. I ran inside the home to see what was going on. I slammed the door open and saw a couple of Discord's men over Rainbow Dash. She wasn't fighting back.
"GET OFF OF HER!" I screamed.
The guards bolted out of the home, I ran straight to Rainbow Dash with Scootaloo by my side.
"Rainbow Dash are you okay?!"
"Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked, her voice, beaten.
"Yes Rainbow... It's me... I'm coming here with a message."
"What is is?"
"At 3:00 there will be a spell casted on every pony. I need you and Scootaloo to come to Town Hall."
"Why?"
"Let's just say, hope has arrived."
I left Rainbow's place with Scootaloo trying to comfort her. Rainbow was hurt, I had never seen her not fight back, she always fought back for what she believed.
I went to Sweet Apple Acres. Once I arrived, the farm was like a ghost town No pony inhabited the area. The trees didn't bear any apples, and the barn was rugged, looking older than it usually is. But I knew that they had to be there. Where else could they go.
"Applejack!? Applebloom?! Big Mac?! Granny Smith?! It's me Twilight Sparkle! Where are you?!"
Then a hoof grabbed me, screaming I saw the orange hoof. In the darkness I saw a little yellow filly with a pink bow on.
"It's Twilight!"
"Twilight?" Applejack's voice questioned from the darkness. An orange hoof descended from my face. Applebloom jumped into my hooves. Her face was beaten, she was hurt. She screams at me, " I can't believe it's you!"
"Why did you ditch us when Discord took over?" Applejack asked me through the darkness.
I told her the same things I had told Fluttershy when she accused me.
"You didn't mean to ditch us?" Applejack asked as she came out of the dark corner, I looked into her eyes... Her eyes told me, "I can't fight anymore. When will hope come for us helpless ponies?"
"Yes, I was really upset, but I still am when I left you 4 behind."
Big Macintosh and Granny Smith came out of the dark corner and looked into my eyes. Granny Smith's old eyes seemed older than they were the last time I saw her. Applejack was scared, so was Big Mac. His face didn't smile anymore. I missed his smile at the moment. Applebloom looked scared too.
"Meet me at town hall after a spell has been casted at 3:00." I told them.
"What for Sugar cube?" Applejack asked.
"Let's leave this conversation at this. Hope has arrived."
I left Sweet Apple Acres, hoping that all 3 of them would try and get the rest of their family to come. I headed to Sugarcube Corner to see the once smiling pony I used to know.
Carousel Boutique Crazies
As I walked up to Carousel Boutique... The windows were empty, like she was closed. I trotted to the door, suddenly grabbed by a white hoof.
"What were you doing outside dear?" Rarity asked.
"I was coming to tell you a message. But aren't you mad about the incident when Discord took over?" I explained
"Why no Twilight. Why would you ever think that?! I saw you coming back with tears in your eyes. You regretted leaving us behind. I could see it in your eyes."
"Okay that's good. I had to explain it to Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie."
"Is Fluttershy alright?"
"Yes... She's fine... She's out helping me."
"Are you okay? Your eyes look horrible."
"They feel horrible."
"What are you here for? A new dress?!"
"No, I came to tell you that at 3:00 there will be a spell casted on everypony. Go to Town Hall afterward to meet me there."
"What for? New dresses for everypony?!"
"No... Lets just say, hope has arrived."
I left Carousel Boutique and headed to Rainbow's place... Hoping that she was there.
3:00pm... It was time. I casted the spell to send across Ponyvile... As I waited with Fluttershy and Derpy by my side, we saw ponies walk in one by one. There was Dr. Whooves, Vinyl Scratch, the entire Apple Family, Bon-Bon, Lyra, Octavia, Pinkie, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash, Mr. and Mrs. Cake, Pumpkin Cake and Pound Cake, Cheerlie, and many of the other ponies.
"Hello ponies! You're hope has arrived. I've come up witha plan... All of us are going to march up to Canterlot with all the ponies that join us. We are going to fight for Equestria back." I announced.
"Do you think it will work?" A pony asked.
"I believe that it's going to work. And the elements of harmony are within our heats. We just have to believe in Equestria, that it will be ours forever."
Silence in the hall.
"Are you guys with me?!" I yelled trying to encourage them to help me.
Then town hall went into a whisper, things didn't look so good.
"Come on ponies! This could mean that Equestria that we used to know would return." I encouraged again.
"We're in!" a pony in the back row yelled.
"Okay! We march to Canterlot tonight. Celestia will signal our go. Be prepared!" I ordered.
The ponies left town hall and prepared for the march.As I watched them leave with a little smile to their faces. They seemed happy, Equestria was returning. I ran back to Canterlot to see if Celestia would signal our go. She was back in the cell where we began.
"Celestia!" I softly called.
"What is it? Why are you here Twilight?" Celestia asked.
"Look, I need you to do some kind of signal so then the ponies in Ponyville and I will try and fight for Equestria. But I promised them that you would signal us to start our march." I explained.
"Why don't I shoot a beam, so then Discord and Nightmare Moon don't get suspicious."
"Great; shoot the beam at 6:00. The ponies of Ponyville and I will start marching."
"Okay Twilight. My most faithful student."
I left Celestia at the cell as I returned to Ponyville. All the ponies were at the front of Ponyville waiting my my return; ready to fight.
"Celestia will send out a beam at 6 to signal us. Then to Canterlot we go, to fight for what we love."
"DISCORD!" I yelled.
He looked our direction, or elements on, we stood there together.
"You have got me now ladies, fire when ready."
I casted the spell that I did when I first met my friends. He snapped his claw... But nothing happened.
"NO!" Discord yelled.
He was turned to stone once again. The crowns dropped away from his claws, his surviving guards left the castle; going home.
"We did it! Equestria is back!" I yelled.
"Not exactly yet Twilight." Fluttershy pointed.
I looked out the balcony and saw the ponies still fighting.
"STOP!" I yelled.
The ponies and Discord's men looked up at me.
"Equestria is ours once again!" I announced.
"YAY!" the ponies cheered.
Discords men left to go home.
"Twilight!" Celestia called.
"Celestia! Luna!" I answered.
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were themselves again. So was I; Princess Twilight Sparkle. I looked over at my friends; they were walking away.
"Hey! Where are you going?" I asked.
"You don't need us anymore, you're a princess once again. We were going home as well, to clean up the mess Discord made in Ponyville." Rainbow Dash answered.
"This isn't the last time we will be together."
"Twilight is right; this won't be the last time." Fluttershy said.
"She is!" Pinkie Pie quickly said.
Rarity, Rainbow, and Applejack thought for a few seconds.
"You know what; why are we mad?" She's the Princess; but she will never stop being our friend." Applejack said.
"Yeah, we don't love because she became a princess. But her heart that she has shared with us." Rainbow said.
"Coming back for us, when we were losing hope." Fluttershy said.
"She more than just our friend ya'll; she's part of our family." Applejack implied.
"Thanks girls." I blushed.
"GROUP HUG!" Pinkie Pie yelled.
We gather around together, and as I watched them leave, tears welled up in my eyes purple healed eyes. Then the song that we sang together came to my head. From all the lessons that they had taught me.
I used to wonder what friendship could be.
A song arose in my head; from the lessons I was taught through the years of my friends.
Until you shared it's magic with me.
I walked into the room that was mine at the castle.
Big adventure... Tons of Fun... A beautiful heart... Faithful and strong... Sharing kindness... And magic makes it all complete.
Then the final thing before I went to sleep in the Equestrian world I used to know.
Don't you know you are all my very best friends.
I simply smiled, continuing my work as Princess Twilight Sparkle; Princess of Friendship.
