In the Rest of the Nation

Twilight wakes. She sit up and looks around. She saw the 2 princesses and both of the royal guards that had been with them in the crash. She sighed, she was glad to see the princesses okay. Then when she finally regained her senses, she felt like sleeping for an eternity. She had a headache, her body felt like it had been scorched in lava, and almost all her limbs felt like falling off, except the one that had been crushed by the carriage. A image found its way into Twilight's head about how that leg would look like. She held her breath and pulled of the blanket that was covering it. She sighed with relief. Her hoof was still intact but when she squinted at it, it looked like stitches were there to connect the hoof to the leg. Twilight refused to believe it, thinking it was all a dream but it wasn't. Just then she heard a creak. she looked up and saw the Blue Unicorn from earlier. They looked at each other silently. The Blue Unicorn looked at her stitched up hoof.

"Don't worry it will heal and you won't need the stitches anymore"

Twilight looked confused, could she trust him.

"H-how do you know?" Twilight said trembling.

"Well you were lucky and same with your... acquaintances"

Twilight looked again at unconscious ponies in the room.

"Your hoof was close to being cut off but one of you blood vessels remained intact"

Twilight was relieved but skeptical about why he helped her. Then she remembered what Celestia and Luna were talking about when the explosion happened. She tensed up slowly moved backwards and stared at the Pony looking at her, examining her.

"Its ok were not going to hurt you"

Twilight had a flashback about the other ponies he was with.

"W-why are you helping us?" She said, worried about whats going to happen next.

"For starters, you are with the princesses of Equestria and it looks like you are going to be the next princess after Luna"

"How do we know we can trust you?"

"Well we saved you and your friends lives"

"But still you could of saved us to get information or you needed us alive to absorb our power!" Twilight said, not having faith in the answer the stallion was giver her.

The stallion was irritated. "I'm not a sick bastard who wants to take over the world by sucking the life force of the living!" the stallion yelled, with a glare that made you want to run and hide from something out of your nightmares.

Twilight was in shock. She knew all of the languages even the old ones but she never expected to hear a forbidden swear that was banned because it caused so much bad language that was getting used by foals.

The Blue pony sighed and introduce himself "I'm Blue Fang and I am the leader of the Rebel Army"

Twilight looked at him. She still didn't know what to say. So she decided to just give him her name.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle"

"Well since your awake I guess I could give you a grand tour of the place"

Twilight hesitated for a minute. She still didn't trust him. She just sighed and got out of the bed she was laying in. She thought if she didn't cooperate with them she would get hit or they would hurt the others. When she reached the ground, her back leg seemed to give out under her weight. Her backside instantly fell and went into a sitting position.

Blue came over and put his hoof out and gestured for her to take it. Twilight looked at him carefully and at his hoof.

"Oh come on, I'm not that bad"

Twilight slowly and carefully raised her hoof to him and pulled her up. "Thanks" she mumbled still unsure whether she should of taken his hand or stayed in the room with the princesses. Blue walked towards the door and Twilight followed silently. She was thinking what her next move should be. If Blue said anything to avoid or counter her question she would be ready for it. "Why did you attack the other ponies that were there before you and your team?". Blue snickered "Do you really know what that ponies intentions were?". Twilight paused, she was smart but she did't expect him to tell her that she had to answer her own question. "Well... no". Blue stopped walking. He turned around and stared hard at Twilight. When she looked into his eyes all he could see was fire. Blue fire piercing her with great sorrow. Twilight couldn't move, she felt scared and alone. "Blue stop scaring our guest". Twilight snapped out of her trance and turned around. "Sorry Golden, I got to carried away" Blue said Apologetically. Twilight saw a bright Yellow mare with an orange colored Mane. Her cutey mark was a flag with a bright Yellow star on it and the surrounding color of the star was red. Golden looked at gazed at Twilight and introduced herself. "My name is Golden Care, I am the whole command of the Rebellion Army" Twilight was processing all of the events that were happening to that she didn't hear Golden.

"Sorry she's still a little... disturbed about what happened with the Shadow's Minions"

"Hmm... I see"

Twilight came to a realization that they were talking about her and her question earlier and also they had said something that could be very useful to her.

"Shadow's Minions?"

"Damn I said to much"

Twilight heard another word of the old language and this time she was getting really mad, not because he cussed but because she knew he would try and avoid saying anything more about the question she had. She had to act fast and try to persuade him into telling her everything he knew. If that didn't work then the only solution was to do it by force.

"Anyway whats your~" Golden was cut off by Twilight who looked Blue dead in the eye. "Don't try to change the subject I want to know what~" She was looking for the right word for her to say in the predicament she was in. "~Buck is going on" Golden was in surprised to see Twilight fumed up and anxious to see what Blue would say but when she looked at Blue all she could see was the fire that Twilight saw last time. This time it wasn't sorrow it was rage and irritation of the young mares outburst. Blue sighed and looked away from Twilight, "Golden... we have to fill her in because if she going to be here, she better know who to fight for" Twilight turned to look at Golden for an explanation. The Yellow colored pony just sighed like Blue did and started to trot pass Twilight and straight through the corridor Blue was leading her. "Follow me, I will fill you in on the way"

Twilight followed the mare and Blue was right behind them. "So yo want to know what the hay is going on?" Golden said making sure if this is what twilight wanted.

"Yes"

"Well let me start off, The way this war started was a cold and stormy night..." Golden stopped walking and turned to look Blue, she looked at him with are-you-serious face. Twilight was looking at Golden until she noticed.

"I'm sorry, Blue thinks a riot when he starts it off like a fictional story"

"Hey at least I know to have a little fun and look on the bright side of things"

"Oh come on, you act like this all the time, can you at least be serious for once?"

Twilight was getting impatient, sure she was the prodigy of Princess Celestia but it was like waiting to get a letter that the  Twilight sent to princess to respond to her studies. Then she heard a cough right behind her, it sounded like the pony wanted to get their attention. Golden and Blue looked at where it came from and it was from Red pony but it was a Pegasus pony that Twilight had not seen before. "If you two are done arguing you tell are guest what is going on"

"Red I thought you were working on your drill"

"I was until I was disturbed by the two ponies that are highly ranked and respected, arguing about somepony's behavior"

Blue smirked while Golden was blushing a little about the the good point the Red pony made. He was shakes his head and walks over to Twilight.

"Names Red Winged, yours?" Twilight hesitates for a moment. "Twilight Sparkle" That's when Twilight noticed Red wearing a cloak that covered his backside. She turned to look at Blue to see he was wearing a Military jacket that was colored in Blue ironically. "So I guess I will have to answering your questions then, hmm" Twilight was finally happy to hear that. "Follow me, I will show your around while we answer your questions"

They all walked in silently. Twilight felt like she should start asking questions but she was not sure what was keeping her from asking. Was it because she still didn't trust the ponies that were taking her and the 2 princesses in? Or maybe it was she was afraid of what they might do? "I guess you are wondering what this place is?" Golden finally breaking the silence. "And I also presume that you still don't trust us?" Blue adding on to what Golden had said. "Yes I was wondering that" Twilight was now ready for anything that they say. If they say something that might relate to the topic at hoof then she could use it. "Your in the Old nation" Red, without any doubt it was coming from him.

"The Old Nation?"

"Yes this place is what Equestria left behind"

"Why did they leave it behind? In all the books I have read it said Equestria's border was a huge waterfall that had an endless drop"

"That's a cover up story"

"The reason why Celestia and Luna didn't tell there nation is because they didn't want them to be "curious" about what was left behind"at

Twilight was thinking for a moment, what did they mean by that. She was also thinking why no one was investigating the border. That's when she remembered about what the 2 unconscious Alicorn Princesses were talking about. "We're here" Twilight broke out of her thoughts and looked at a door in front of her. Blue walked up and knocked. When he did that, Shuffling noises came from inside the room. It sounded like something being closed and an unknown sound Twilight never heard before."Who there!" The voice sounded young and a little toned like a guitar.

"It's Blue"

"Just a sec"

Twilight heard the little ringing sound and to her surprised, the door slid in to the right of where she was facing. The door revealed a Yellow pony with wings. The odd thing about this fellow is that he was wearing clothes. It was not the usual type of clothes for a party or whatever sort of occasion. It was something Twilight never seen before.

"So Blue whatch'ya need"

"I need you to accompany us. we need to show our guest something"

The Yellow pony looked around Blue. Red was looking at the pony with a waiting look while Golden copying Red but with a slight pose. Then the pony turned his gaze at Twilight.

"Voltz Lightning, names Voltz Lightning"

"Twilight Sparkle"

Twilight now could inspect the clothes he was wearing. It was a Black with lightning bolts in it. It looked metallic though.  When Twilight got down to the place where the cutey mark should be, it was covered by the outfit. Then that's when She realized that all of the ponies with her had all their cutey marks covered besides her and Golden.

"So where we headed"

"Gathering the rest of the team"

"Oh you want me to tell them where to meet or we're doing this slow and boring"

Blue chuckled to himself. "Sure go tell them, you know where it is right?"

"Duh we've been doing this for 20 years the heck am I not supposed to where it is?"

Blue chuckled again, Golden giggled, Red snickered. With that Voltz flew of like a lightning bolt. Twilight remembered a Rainbow colored pegasus.

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Celestia just woke up. She was sweating and panting. She looked around the dark room she was in.This is not good. Celestia thought to herself. Better wake up Luna and Twilight so we can get out of here. She look to the beds next to her she saw her sister on her right but to her left was nopony there. No they to twilight, this is not good.