Equestria Aflame.

     Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Spike and Twilight Sparkle made it to Fluttershy's cottage without incident, since everypony in town was busy wreaking havoc in the name of freedom. Fluttershy held the door open to her home and let the group pass inside. Twilight was still shivering, she had never experienced a broken bone before, let alone a wing. Fluttershy flew in and motioned Twilight to the couch. There were a few woodland creatures scampering around Fluttershy's cottage, but none got in the way.

    Twilight climbed on the sofa, laid down, on her stomach of course, and tucked her legs underneath her body. She craned her head around and studied her mangled wings. Her right wing had a hole the size of a golf ball and her left wing was broken at the middle, it hung limp like a broken tree branch. Twilight winced in pain. Good thing it wasn't a compound fracture or the ponies would've had an emergency on their hooves.

     "That's pretty bad," Rainbow Dash chimed in, "You're not flying for a while, that's for sure. I've broken my wing twice. It hurts like crazy." She flapped her wings a few times.

     "Don't worry Twilight," Fluttershy said reassuringly, "I'll nurse you back to health."

     "Thanks girls, for helping me back there," Twilight said, "I don't know what they would've done to me, if you hadn't of shown up."

     "What else are friends for!" Rainbow Dash replied with an enthusiastic smile.

     "I just wish we could've done it without violence." Twilight said back, looking down.

     "It had to be done. They were going to do much worse to you." Rainbow Dash replied, now with a much more stern look on her face.

     Fluttershy came in the room with a steaming bowl of soup. Nopony noticed she left. She handed it to Twilight "Here you go, this will help you get better."

     "Thanks, Fluttershy," Twilight took it with her magic and sipped it.

     "Wait," Rainbow Dash asked, raising an eyebrow, "Can't you just use your magic to heal your wings?"

     Twilight put the bowl down and answered, "Well, yes, but I don't know the right healing spell by heart. I've never had to heal a broken wing before. Or a broken bone for that matter. I'm sure the spells are in my library; but I'll have to find the right books. And I can't show my face back there for a while."

     "I'll get 'em!" Rainbow Dash announced, "You're in no condition to travel anyway. Just tell me the books you need and I'll be back faster than lightning!" She took a quick lap around the living room to emphasize her statement.

     "I'm not sure about the exact book, so just try to find any books that have the words 'healing spells' on them. And I really appreciate this Rainbow Dash." Twilight said, with a grateful smile on her face, "Just, please hurry, these are starting to hurt, very badly." Fluttershy was already getting a splint ready.

     "This might hurt just a teensy little bit." Fluttershy nervously informed Twilight as she reached for her left wing.

     Twilight winced, "You better hurry Dash."

     Rainbow Dash tightened the strap of a satchel on her flank then saluted, "I'm on it!" then dashed out.

     Rainbow Dash took to the skies, soaring through clouds to Ponyville. She was able to get a bird's eye view of the town and she saw all the destruction and chaos that was occurring down below. "This is insane." Rainbow Dash thought to herself, "What would drive these ponies to do this? I know I will stay loyal to my princess no matter what!" Rainbow Dash remembered the element she represented, Loyalty, and she planned to stay true to that element.

     She dropped in altitude when she saw Twilight's house; but something was wrong. Very wrong. An angry mob was gathered there and they surrounded the library, some of the ponies carrying torches. "What's going on here!" Rainbow Dash shouted at the crowd, hovering just a few feet above them.

     "The 'princess' is standing with Celestia!" an earth pony mare shouted back, saying 'princess' in a mocking tone.

     "What do you plan on doing here!" Rainbow Dash yelled, getting angry.

     "You'll see! If she isn't with us, she's against us!" the mare grabbed a torch with her teeth and hurled it through a window, shattering the glass, the crowd cheered.

     "What do you think you're doing!" Rainbow Dash shot down like a lightning bolt and planted a hoof on the mare's face and delivered a crushing blow. Another stallion in the crowd, bellowed and lunged at Dash and tackled her and the two hurled through the window the torch was thrown through. Rainbow Dash's back shattered what glass remained, pieces making small lacerations in her back and wings. They hit the wooden floor hard, Rainbow Dash grunted, the stallion was still on top, he raised his head then brought it down with crushing force. His forehead caving Rainbow Dash's face in. She could feel the bones in her muzzle crunch under the force. She let out a shout of pain, blood gushing from her nose and mouth. Involuntary tears welled up. She was dazed for a split second.

     The torch had caught a bookcase on fire and it plumed out magnificent flames. They distracted the earth pony just long enough for Rainbow Dash to get a front hoof on his jaw and a rear hoof under him to kick him off. The stallion grunted in pain from the hook and rolled across the floor from the kick. He quickly jumped to his hooves. Rainbow Dash staggered up, still in serious pain, but adrenaline and endorphins were being injected through her blood stream. The stallion quickly grabbed a book and chucked it in Rainbow Dash's direction, smacking her right in the mouth. She yelped from the sharp pain and spit a blood soaked tooth out. She snarled with a saliva, blood mixture dripping from her open jaws. Her eyes ablaze with the rage and death. The stallion's bravery was leaving him and fear was gripping his heart. The fire was spreading, casting an eerie, orange light.

     Rainbow Dash powered her wings up like a jet engine and shot forward, burying her shoulder in the stallion's chest, splitting his sternum in two. They slammed into a bookcase, this time Rainbow Dash was the dominant. Books fell from the case from the force and some books from the top shelf dropped down and pounded the stallion's and Rainbow Dash's heads. The stallion's back was now bruised all over and tightening in pain. The stallion groaned and Rainbow Dash grunted from the raining books. But adrenaline made Dash completely forget about pain and she head butted the stallion's face multiple times. Hearing sickening crunches with each blow. The stallion's exposed teeth and cheek bones cut Dash on the final blow and she flew back, breathing heavily, smoke blowing from her nostrils. Her head and mane now soaked with his blood and her own blood soaking her fur on her body. The stallion drooped to the ground in a stupor. His face destroyed and gushing blood.

     Rainbow Dash flew to the top of the bookcase and pulled it down on his body with a loud crash. Books scattered everywhere and the fire was engulfing the entire library.

     The adrenaline was starting to wear off and Rainbow Dash was growing woozy. She finally remembered why she was there and she flew from bookcase to burning bookcase muttering, "Healing spells," Through her mutilated jaw over and over. She was growing faint, then she finally found the books she was looking for. She just grabbed a few and threw them in her satchel. She started coughing, blood and spittle shooting from her mouth, splatting on the ground. The coughing was very painful and tears soon ran from her eyes. "Have to get out." She told herself weakly. The fire was too much and the heat and smoke was getting to her.

     "Help." Rainbow Dash's ears perked up. "Help." She heard again, a very faint cry she almost didn't hear. She looked down the stairs she flew up and saw the stallion trapped under the bookcase she crushed him with. She saw his mutilated face, a small pool of blood, saliva and tears was under his head. "Help me." he moaned, raising his hoof ever so slightly. Tears were flowing from his bloodshot eyes.

     Rainbow Dash paused, "Help him?" she thought. She didn't know what to do and the pain and smoke were playing with her mind. She started to go for him but a blazing support beam fell from the ceiling, cutting her off. She could've flown over it but...she didn't. She stopped and simply looked at the trapped stallion. The fire soon grew to him and the flames started to lick his hide.

     He moaned in pain from the heat. the fire soon caught his fur and he burst in flames. Dying, bloodcurdling screams erupted from his mutilated face. He was slowly burning...slowly dying. His pain was too excruciating to even watch. Rainbow Dash turned her head away, not before seeing his eyes. Blame and suffering filled his eyes before death drained the life from them. Rainbow Dash flew to the top floor and straight out a closed window, shattering the glass, receiving more cuts and lacerations on her body. She was now a bloody mess. The endorphins wore off and she groaned in pain as she was flying.

     The sky was growing dark. Rainbow Dash soon gained enough altitude to see the town from a bird's eye view again and she was shocked by what she saw. Many small fires dotted Ponyville and destruction painted the town. But what shocked her most were the soldiers marching down the streets with ready weapons.

     A royal captain lead his troops down a street, gazing upon the rioting mob, with a small amount of uncertainty in the back of his mind. He dismissed it and shouted in a commanding tone "Company halt!"

     A loud "Aye!" erupted from the soldiers and they all stopped and stomped their hooves in unison making a very intimidating pound.

     The captain shouted again, "Forward lance down!"

     Another loud and deep "Aye!" sounded form the soldiers and the spears on the front line of soldiers creaked and swung down. The spears stopped with a loud clang, their sharp iron tips pointed in the mobs direction, hungry.

     The captain shouted again, "Forward march!"

     Anther loud, "Aye!" followed and the soldiers marched forward, pounding their hooves. They were marching in a phalanx.

     The crowd was soon losing it's morale and the cheers were growing quieter and quieter. Then, Bronze Buckler made his speech. When he ended with, "Now is your chance to fight for your freedom!" The crowd was re moralized, they cheered even louder than before and started to charge the soldiers, stopping about thirty yards away to throw things at them. Rocks, sticks, anything they could find. The unicorns in the crowd started blasting magic at them, but most were untrained in combat magic and the blasts just bounced off the soldiers' armor. One blast clipped a soldier in the knee, a place unprotected by steel, and he grunted and stumbled over he was soon marching back in formation, but that small sign of weakness invigorated the mob. They grew even bolder and moved closer in, chucking anything they could get their hooves on. The soldiers just continued marching, as ordered, wincing from the rocks bouncing off their armor.

     Bronze Buckler and his three companions opened a trunk that was on the platform and they gazed at its contents. It contained dozens of glass bottles, all filled with oil, with tissue paper sprouting from their necks: Molotov cocktails. Bronze grinned, menacingly and each unicorn picked up a few with their magic and made their way towards the marching army.

     The captain was growing worried and his worries were only enhanced when he saw something hurdling towards his battle line. Something small and apparently on fire, it landed on the ground a few feet from his lines and a five foot radius of the cobblestone road erupted in an orange and red inferno. The front line almost panicked and stopped for a split second before the captain railed on them to stand their ground. More flew in and landed amongst the soldiers, flowers of fire bloomed from the body of soldiers and the screams of the burning filled the air.

     The crowd cheered and howled in a triumphant shout. Soldiers were wailing from the napalm covering their feet and the fire heating their steel shells. The soldiers were on the verge of panic when the captain shouted, "All charge!" The soldiers didn't need to be told twice and the spears were closing in on the crowd fast.

     Loud battle cries erupted from the lips of the charging soldiers and the cheers of the rebels soon grew into screams of panic and death. The crowd tried its best to back up but so many undisciplined, unorganized ponies proved to just clog the street. The first line hit the mob with sever prejudice, their lances goring the ponies and the screams of the dying were heard. The first line separated themselves from their lances and jumped and lunged using their helmet blades to hack away at the frightened and panicking mob. The battle cries of the bloodthirsty soldiers and dying and panicked screams of the citizens made a cacophony of violence, played by an orchestra of death.

     The soldiers were slaughtering the citizens. The blood ran in rivers.

     The captain, who was a unicorn, used his magic to strike ponies dead. He was over taken with bloodlust and he ordered his soldiers to chase them down and cut them to pieces. He charged forward and grabbed a panicking mare earth pony and brought his forward head blade down in a lethal head butt. the blade passed straight through the mare's skull and the blade protruded out the back of the mare's head. The mare's jaw went lax and her eyes rolled back. Blood sprayed form the wound, painting the captain's face. He snarled and pulled the blade out and spat out some blood that made it's way into his mouth, letting the innocent body slump over in death.

     The fires were growing fast, too fast. buildings soon caught ablaze. Some of the soldiers who were caught by the cocktails were left behind from the rampaging army and were screaming in a living Hell. The citizens were panicking and galloping for their lives in every possible direction. Bronze and his ponies were still chucking Molotovs at the soldiers, killing more in a slow painful manner. Half the town was soon ablaze and the scent of death filled the air.

     Rainbow Dash was watching everything from above. So much emotional pain assaulted her soul. And tears were pouring from her eyes, the salty liquid stinging her wounded, blood soaked face. She wanted to help but she knew that was a lost cause and she would most likely be killed. She turned and flew as fast as she could to Fluttershy's cottage.

     So much pain, so much death.