Twilight Limbo

1448EH - Canterlot Castle Throne Room

Twilight and Cadance were facing the entrance of the room, looking at the many stained glass windows in the corridor beyond. There were several that stood out to Twilight’s eye: one of a dragon and a crystal heart, one of 6 ponies surrounded by rainbow light, and one of a purple alicorn getting crowned by the Ruler of the sun. It had been 200 years since these had been installed into their current places, and about 180 since the last of those ponies died. Twilight looked up and smiled at who was once her babysitter, now a lover and a friend.

“It shall not be too long before one of us is with them, Twilight. I have a feeling that one of us might not make it out of this alive.” Cadance murmurs, “But we must do our duty to this world of love and harmony. We must stop this incessant maniac from using the dangerous magic of Limbo.”

“Agreed. It is a shame that we must let Luna and Celestia act as bait so that he materializes in our world. It is an even bigger shame that we could not find a way to harness the powers of the Void.” Twilight says as she rubbed a hoof over the crown she wore, the physical representation of the Element of Magic. “It pains me to have to use these tools again after so long without my Friends beside me.”

“Relax, Twily. Me, Bloody Rain, Celestia, Luna and Discord are all your friends as well. We won’t let you down, especially me.” Cadance turns to show Twilight the Red Lightning-Bolt-Shaped gem set in a gold necklace. “It will all be fine. What could go wrong?”

“Oh just the general destruction of all we hold dear.” Discord mutters as he steps through a Void Door. “Get ready ladies, it’s time for the Great and Powerful to get one upped by the elements.”

“We are ready Discord” Twilight growls. “Don’t be an ass.”

“I can’t help it Princess, I am part of one and part of everything else.”

“Well shut up and get your laughter ready, Discord.” Spits Twilight.

Just as Discord shuts up, a void door opens in the front of the three; and out through it runs Celestia and Luna.

“Where’s Bloody Rain?” Pants Luna, “It’s not like him to be the last one here.”

“Mwhahaha, You really think that you can stop me now, I have killed the weakest of you and taken the Kindness out of the equation. Those elements are worthless now.” A voice sounds from several rifts that appear throughout the room.

“Stop this Madness now, Dark Matter!” Shouts Celestia “Or prepare to spend an eternity in Hell!”

“Oh ho ho, Do you really think you can beat me without your precious Element of Kindness? Do you!?”

“We will defeat you, you gave Bloody Rain a great kindness when you killed him, oh I might laugh and jest, but you will be the agent of your own demise.” Discord starts laughing maniacally and a pink coloured light starts glowing around The Element of Laughter. At the same time the four princesses charge their own elements with the residual arcanum in the air.

“No! You will not do this to me!” Dark Matter shouts as he starts to form in the throne room, a glowing rose coloured gemstone sitting in his chest. A rainbow light crashes down into the now fully materialised unicorn, shattering his horn, all that is left standing is a hole in the fabric of Space-Time.

Twilight takes a deep breath to steady herself, “We did everypony, we did it” and then flops face first into the ground not noticing that the other four seem to be missing, along with the elements of harmony. Slowly but surely as she sinks down into unconsciousness, her extremities start turning to stone as the castle starts falling apart due to the extreme influx of void energies ripping the enchantments apart.