The Death Of Friendshipby SplatChaptersThe New WorldExploration Of The DeadRoad To CanterlotPicking Up The CluesThe Vortex Of DreamsEveryponies NightmareThe New WorldA new day. Supposedly a perfectly normal day. Twilight had a hangover, a pony who was a grade A student, very sensible and responsible and very mature, you wouldn't expect somepony like her to have a hangover, but last night wasn't a normal night for anypony. Everypony last night, even the foals, were dancing and partying like there was no tomorrow. Little did they know, that there wasn't. Last night was the eclipse. When the moon becomes aligned with the sun. The moon moves into place in front of the sun, blocking it's light for a few hours before it moved again. The eclipse only happened every one thousand years, so it was a big deal for everypony in Equestria. Everypony that day felt so lucky, so blessed to be alive that they didn't care if they died the next day because they had seen such a beautiful sight in the sky. Twilight and her friends were the sensible ones, they went home to go to sleep a bit earlier than everypony else, just to get some shuteye for the next day. It seemed that they were the only ones in Ponyville who remembered that the next day was a week day, a work day. Being absolutely shattered on a week day when you have to go to work is one of the worst feelings ever, always dragging yourself through out the day and then miserable for the rest of the week. But it seems that going to sleep early for the next day was pointless, since there wasn't a next day, but only destruction. Twilight woke up two hours late. Spike normally woke her up to make sure she wasn't late for anything and he never failed once to do so, but there is always a first for everything. She thought he had a hangover to, she looked down to his small bed below her own, expecting to see a cute, sleepy dragon snoring away, it was empty. Did he stay out all night? Is he passed out outside in the middle of the town? If he is, I will be furious with him, how irresponsible can he get? Twilight thought to herself. She got up, brushed her teeth and brushed her mane like every other normal day. Not knowing of the new world that she wasn't going to be glad to greet when she meets it. She trotted happily downstairs to the front door. I wonder what he got himself into this time... Twilight thought to her self, chuckling. Twilight opened the door, smiling, hoping to see a new bright and sunny day, like yesterday, with everypony smiling and jumping with joy. But what she saw when she opened the door was something that looked like something terrifying from her nightmares. Burnt ground with some blades of grass still on fire, slowly going out. Houses destroyed, a dark and misty sky and bodies of the ponies, citizens of Ponyville that she used to know, all lying on the ground, motionless. Ok, this is just a bad dream... I had a lot to drink last night, so it would make sense that I was so hammered that my mind is still a little bit messed up and is creating a nightmare. Oh please Celestia, please reassure me this is in fact a dream. Well I don't want to be here anymore, so please, Twilight, wake up! Wake up and get me away from this destroyed civilisation. Twilight thought to herself, begged herself. Almost crying, trying to wake herself up because she couldn't bare what was in front of her eyes. She tried everything to wake herself up. First nipping herself, the obvious thing to do, but it didn't work. She tried punching herself, something harder, and yet that didn't work. She tried everything, but the more she tried, the more harm she was doing to her self, soon there was blood on the floor from her body, she was that desperate to get out of this place that seemed like a nightmare. Twilight thought of another thing to try and wake herself up. She got a stool and a rope, she tied the rope into a knot and put it, hanging on the ceiling, she then put the rope around her neck. Ok, I've had nightmares where I was about to die before, I've read about nightmares and if you're about to die in one, you wake up in shock so you don't die. So I should wake up if I try to hang myself. Ok, I'm going to jump in three... two,,, one... "Stop! Stop right there, Twilight!" a white pony said from a distance. "We don't need another dead." Twilight looked over and waited for the figure to become recognisable. It was a unicorn with white fur and a well styled purple mane. "Rarity!" Twilight shouted, jumping for joy, smiling and laughing, probably the only pony feeling happy. "I'm so glad to see you!" Twilight was still smiling, looking at rarity, who after knowing her Alicorn friend wasn't dead, wasn't smiling at all. "Why are you happy?" Rarity asked. "Because, one of my friends are here, with me now!" Twilight said happily. "Look around you, Sparkle! Does this look like a happy environment?" Rarity snapped. Twilight's smile soon vanished from her face. What happened to her? Rarity isn't normally this rude and aggressive. What ever happened here must have changed ponies personalities! Twilight though to her self. She looked around the surrounding streets of what used to be Ponyville. "No..." "No! That's right. Do you know what happened after the eclipse lest night?!" Rarity asked anxiously. "Um... No..." Twilight replied, nervously. "No! Neither do we..." Rarity said as she looked down. "You were our only hope, Twilight. Our only hope of finding out what happened. "Sorry, did you say, we?" Twilight asked. "Yeah, we. We and our friends survived whatever happened last night, probably because we went home earlier and had some shelter from this apocalypse. They're at base, a cave hidden in the everfree forest. You are coming with me to the base with the rest of us. You shouldn't be out in this waste land alone." Rarity demanded. Twilight and Rarity started moving, on their way to a so called "Base." Twilight noticed something, Rarity wasn't heartbroken that her home had been destroyed. She wanted to ask her. "Um, Rarity? Our home's have been destroyed, along with our friends and families, and I haven't seen one tear out of you eyes. Why is that?" "When I first saw outside, a few tears fell out of me, then I found our friends, they too were also shearing tears with each other. Then I came to realise, we all came to realise that, what happened here, has happened everywhere, everypony is dead and we're the last survivors. Whoever has been effected needs to know that, everypony else has been effected. It's happened to everypony who survived, so what makes one survivor so special. We learned to take it and move along as nothing is going to change the fact that everypony is dead." Rarity explained. Quite a dark thing for Rarity to say... Twilight though to herself. Twilight and Rarity finally made it to the small cave that she called a base. It was in the edge of a mountain and plants were growing all over it, like they possessed it now. Twilight and Rarity entered. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Applejack were sitting in the corners of the dark cave. "Twilight! Thank Celestia you made it!" Pinkie screamed with relief. They were the same as Rarity, no tears, just depression on their faced but huge amounts of tears in their hearts, Twilight could tell. She looked in the middle of the room to see a purple and green dragon, motionless on the floor. Twilight recognised the body with only one tear falling to the ground. It was like she was having the same feelings as the others. To move along but depression moves with you. Twilight sat down and looked at him. Rainbow Dash spoke to Twilight. "Twilight, you just need to move along but never forget it. You are living in a new world and it is going to be hard to survive. This new world is filled with evil and disharmony, the complete opposite of Equestria." Rainbow Dash said calmly. Twilight looked back at Spike's body and accepted the he and everypony else was gone, and there was nothing else that anypony could do. Exploration Of The DeadHours past, but slow and painful. Spike's body in the centre of the room was still untouched. Nopony spoke a word after Rainbow Dash told Twilight to move along. Twilight couldn't take it anymore, how could she and her friends just sit there when their family and other friends were dead on the cold, hard ground left to rot? "I can't take this anymore." Twilight mumbled. "Can't take what?" Fluttershy asked. "I can't take this, what we're doing now, just sitting here, hopelessly, while the outside world becomes filled with the souls of the past living, our friends, family, ponies we loved and cared for!" Twilight snapped. "Ah don't know how many times we need to say it, Twi, forget it and move along!" Applejack stated "No, Applejack! I will not accept it and just move along. You keep saying move along, and yet instead of doing that, you've all gathered in a cave and not moving and what's worse is that you don't care! Before whatever happened last night, the days before. Somepony would die, and we would hold hoofs and stick together, and get passed it together. They would die, be put on the list of the dead and we would prepare a ceremony for their passing, yeah they're dead, but we would still respect them." Twilight explained. "I know, Twilight, but this is all of Equestria!" Rarity pointed. "And because it's all of Equestria, you're just giving up? When something threatened Equestria, we, together would use the elements of harmony to defeat the threat. We would unite as friends to save our beloved home, our world. So you're just giving up because it's already happened? Because it's over? How do we know it's over? It could in fact get worse! When Nightmare Moon took over Equestria to make the night last forever. Celestia disappeared, that allowed Nightmare Moon to take over completely. It was over! But then, Princess Celestia came back and defeated her, and that proves that, just because it's over, doesn't mean it can't get better. I suggest you all get out of your foul, depressing moods and help save Equestria from it's hellish future! Who's with me!?" Twilight asked. Everypony thought for a moment. Then Rarity. Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy all raised their hoofs in the air, willing to help. "Right, good, well first off, before we do anything, I think we should refer to what I said about respecting the dead. I think we should go back into Ponyville and make a list, like a book, a book of the dead, write every ponies name inside it as honour of their deaths and bury it in the ruins of Ponyville town hall, it's the least we can do for them." Twilight suggested. Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy left the dark, cramped, uncomfortable cave in the middle of the everfree forest to go identify the dead and give them the respect they deserve. As soon as they reached Ponyville, everypony seemed a bit more happier and their was less depression surrounding their group of friends thanks to Twilight. Twilight took command and started giving orders to everypony to make the job easier and quicker. "Right everypony, the effects of today has sadly effected us all. But just because they're dead, doesn't mean they're gone. Now, I'm going to go back into my library and give each of you a quill and some paper to write down the names of the dead." Twilight walked back into her library to get some paper and some quills, she soon returned to her friends. She handed them all a quill and a few pieces of paper each. "We shall split Ponyville into six sections to make this quicker." She pointed to everypony to where each of her friends needed to go. "Does everypony know where to go now? Good. See you girls soon." Twilight smiled. With in an hour, everypony had returned with pieces of paper filled top to bottom of names of the deceased. "Brilliant, thank you girls, hand me your paper and I shall go turn this into a book." Twilight smiled. She went into the library and stuck the pieces of paper together with glue to make it resemble a book. She returned to the girls holding the book of the dead and a shovel. "Come on, girls lets get to town hall and bury this under the floor!" Twilight suggested. When the arrived at town hall, Twilight immediately started digging a hole to but the book in, soon the hole was big enough for the book to fit and was ready to be put in. "Before we bury this book, I would like to read out the names." Twilight said. She opened it and started reading out loud. Book Of The Dead: The Dead Of Ponyville This book reads the dead of Ponyville, who died during the apocalypse that at the moment when written, had an unknown cause. The dead are as follows: Spike the dragon, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Zecora, Trixie, The Mayor, Cherilee, Discord, Fancy Pants, Flim, Flam, Cranky the donkey, Matilda the moose, Mr. Cake, Mrs. Cake, Iron Will, FleetFoot, Bulk Biceps, Big Macintosh, Granny Smith, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Twist, Snips, Snails, Pipsqueak, Featherweight, Derpy Hooves, Lyra Heartstrings, Bon Bon, Vinyl Scratch, Caramel, Doctor Whooves, Octavia, Berry Punch, Carrot Top, Colgate, Dinky Hooves, Thunderlane, Flitter, Cloudchaser, Rumble, Roseluck, Noteworthy, Redheart, Raindrops, Sparkler, Cloudchaser. These are the dead they are gone, but because they are gone, they are never forgotten. Twilight finished reading. She put the book in the hole and started burying it into the ground to be found as an ancient discovery in years to come. "There... That's that." Twilight mumbled. "I'm glad we did that." Rainbow Dash said calmly. "What now, Twilight?" Applejack asked. "Time to find out what happened to Equestria. This is our home and I will not rest until I find out what destroyed it. Yeah, we know who died, but now we need to know what killed them. I have a feeling it had something to do with the eclipse, since that was the event going on when all of this destruction happened. We need a starting point. Maybe Princess Celestia or Princess Luna know what happened, I think we should go to Canterlot, see if they know." Twilight suggested. "What makes you think they survived?" Pinkie Pie asked. "They're immortal, they can't die, if we survived, I'm sure they survived too." Twilight pointed out. "Now, come on, help me gather food and water, it's going to be a long trip over, so we need survival kits, anything we can find to help us survive, we don't need to raise the death count!" Road To CanterlotThey grabbed as much food and water as they could carry, water, coca cola, pepsi. Hay fries, vegie burgers, twinkies, M&Ms. They divided their supply so everypony had the same amounts, but them into saddle bags and off they went onto the railroads that connected Ponyville to Canterlot. On the way, Pinkie Pie spotted a train. "Oh, Twilight, can we take the train to Canterlot?" Pinkie Pie asked. "We can't none of us know how to control one." Twilight replied. She turned to Rainbow Dash who was walking beside her. "I see she's pretty much back to he old self again." the two mares sniggered. They were on their way to Canterlot at last, Twilight was looking at the ground, watching where she puts her hooves, making sure she doesn't trip on the planks of wood that connect the two steal rods together to make the track. Suddenly, it went pitch black. Twilight looked up. "Hey! Why is it so dark now?" Twilight asked. "Well if you looked where you were going, you would have noticed that we were about to enter a tunnel." Rarity replied. Twilight was starting to get sick of Rarities attitude, she decided to turn round and confront her. "Right you! Why don't you just shut the fu-" Twilight stopped and was very confused because of what she saw. "Wait, what? Why is there seven of us? Ok, Checking names and the population of our group, because I'm pretty sure there were only six of us, not seven. Ok lets see now... One me, one Rainbow Dash, one Applejack, one Fluttershy, one Pinkie Pie and... Two Rarity's? What?" Twilight had never been this confused. One of the Rarity's raised one of her hoofs, she faced the other Rarity. "Ok, um... Who are you?" the other Rarity asked. One of the Rarity's with her hoof up swung her hoof and punched the other Rarity in the eye, hey eye was badly damaged and had blood streaming out of the tear duct. The Rarity who was guilty of abuse soon revealed her true identity, it was a changing. Five other changelings surrounded the group of friends who were trying to recover from the disaster. "Apparently we're not leaving!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "We need to fight our way through. Rarity, you're injured, you just stay there, we've got your back. Everypony fight! We need to make it to Canterlot!" Twilight shouted. Changelings noticed that the ponies we're preparing to fight. They immediately flew towards the ponies, ready to dig there sharp fangs into their delicate skin. There was a massive fight in the tunnels of the railway. Everypony and every changeling started kicking and hitting the foe that they were fighting. Suddenly a changeling took Rainbow Dash off guard. It dug it's teeth in deep into her neck. "Agh!" Rainbow Dash screamed in pain, tears grew in her eyes, like water dams about to overflow with warm, salty water. "Right, that's it, I've had enough!" Twilight shouted. She used her magical horn to send out a shock wave throughout the tunnel, only damaging changelings, rendering them, not dead, but close to death. "Why didn't you do that when they appeared?" Fluttershy asked. "I needed to save my energy and I thought we could take them with not much harm done. But that doesn't matter at the moment, we have two ponies injured, Rarity is blind in one eye and Rainbow Dash has holes in her neck. Both ponies are severally injured and are loosing massive amounts of blood. We need to get to Canterlot as fast as we can. Not only do we need to speak to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, we also need to heal these two as fast as we can or there is a huge chance they'll die." Twilight explained. Twilight carried Rainbow Dash on her back and Fluttershy carried Rarity on her back. They ran through the tunnel and up the mountain and up to the gates of Canterlot. Twilight used her magic to open the gates. "Right, go, go, go! We need to go to the castle, I'm sure Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had some aid kits." Twilight suggested. Fluttershy and Twilight took, Rarity and Rainbow Dash to the castle to look for an aid kit, along with everypony else. Although Twilight was carrying Rainbow Dash and was worried about her as she had a huge chance of dying from blood loss. She would be relieved to see Princess Celestia's face once more, she though, seeing Princess Celestia's face would be at least one plus of this land that I once thought was a nightmare! She ran down the corridors of the castle, they were so clean. This must be the only clean place in Equestria now, the rest looks like a scene from the trotting dead! Twilight laughed. Twilight finally made it to the first aid room on the castle. She picked up everything she thought could help the injuries, luckily she was right and picked up the right stuff. Thankfully, Rarity and Rainbow Dash were healed and just about back in shape. Both, Rarity and Rainbow Das jumped up and hugged Twilight as a huge thank you! Now that they were back in shape, they all ran towards the throne room to see Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. They burst through the door exited, but suddenly that excitement turned into horror in a flash as everypony gasped at what they saw. "B-But t-that's impossible!" Twilight stuttered in shock. A tear, once again filled up in Twilight's eye. "This is the worst! Possible! Thing!" Rarity shouted. "But how? I thought she was immortal! How could this have happened to her?" Rainbow Dash asked. Picking Up The CluesBefore the ponies was a white Alicorn, lying still, dead on the floor. But Celestia was immortal, how could this have happened? "I think we need to just realise the obvious. Whatever killed Celestia, an immortal being, also destroyed all of Equestria and murdered everypony! Girls, I don't think we can fight this..." Rarity. said in disappointment. "Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not giving up, I was loyal and always be loyal." Rainbow Dash shouted. "Neither am I, I don't care how powerful this thing is, I'm going to find out what this thing is and why it did what it did! Before I moved to Ponyville, Princess Celestia was one of the only few ponies that truly understood me, other than my parents and my brother, I'm not going to let her die without finding out what this thing is, if it's the last thing I do!" Twilight shouted enraged by the truth of what happened to her teacher. "What do ya suggest we do, Twilight? What can we do?" Applejack asked, she was lost, didn't know what to do next, just like everypony else. "Honestly, I don't know? Princess Celestia was the only reason I came here, to get some answers of what she thought this was or what to do." Twilight said calmly, looking at the ground as if there wasn't any hope left in the world of so called "Friendship." "Twilight?" Applejack asked, she though for a moment, thinking what she was going to say to Twilight to give her at least a little hope to convince her to carry on. "You have recently been transformed into an Alicorn, a princess. Equestria has been destroyed with all other princesses dead. When you were transformed into an Alicorn, it wasn't just for Princess Celestia trusting you completely, but it was for your responsibility and leadership. You were crowned an Equestrian leader, everypony became your loyal subjects, now I beg of you, Princess Twilight Sparkle, t o take leadership and responsibility for your own, I ask of you now, to command your remaining loyal subjects, us five, to help find out what happened here and what happened to Princess Celestia, and as your friends, we command you to not give in hope. Together as one, we can overcome this massive problem." Twilight turned to Applejack, she looked stronger and more confident. "You know what, Applejack? You're right. I'm not giving in. Right, where do we start?" Twilight asked, she started thinking of everything, everything she thought could have caused this. "Ah, I've got it! The key to any investigation is clues, we need to get out there and find some! We'll do the same thing as we did in Ponyville, split Canterlot into six sections." Twilight, followed the same idea as she had for investigating Ponyville, she pointed out to everypony where they needed to go. "And with all sections covered, we should have investigated the whole city in no time. Listen everypony, check everything, break into shops and houses, find everything! On and Pinkie Pie?!" Twilight looked at Pinkie. "Uh... Yeah Twilight?" Pinkie Pie replied, nervously. "I can read you like a book, I know what you were thinking when I said break into shops and houses. Due to the circumstances, I want to make this clear. We cant go dilly dallying around, what we're doing is serious. Pinkie Pie. No. Stealing. Cakes. From. The. Shops! You can go in there, but to find clues, not confessionary." Twilight made it very clear, digging the memory of herself taking about not stealing the cakes. I... I don't think I could do it! How can somepony not go by a cake store and not eat a cake. Who cares if it's the end of the world as we know it, there is CAKES! Pinkie Pie thought to herself, she mind was screaming. "Everypony ready? Good! See you girls soon!" Twilight waved the rest of her friends off before they entered the dead, deserted city. Meanwhile, up in the sky of the dead world, evil was brewing, invisible to the unfortunate survivors who had to see their dead world like what it had been reduced to. If you looked up into the sky at the same moment the ponies split up to investigate the city, you would be able to tell something was up, the sky was glowing dark blue. Little did the ponies know that on the other side of the dark blue sky, somepony was looking down on them, following their every move. "Princess! The ponies of the legendary elements of harmony are moving again, once again investigating." the strange black coated pony hissed. "Good job! Keep an eye on them, but I wouldn't worry to much, I wanted them to survive this, and mot only that, everything is nicely falling into place!" Their princess smiled followed with an evil laugh!" Meanwhile, back on earth, everypony has searched everywhere, and nopony had found anything. "Did anypony find anything?" Twilight asked, nervously, she was eager to know what they've found that could have a chance of helping them. "No, nothing." Rainbow Dash replied. Fluttershy walked over to the balcony of Canterlot castle in disappointment, thinking that their trail had come to an end, until she looked up. There was no dark blue sky, that had suddenly disappeared, but it was something else she noticed. Fluttershy ran back to the others, she couldn't believe, what she had noticed and could help them find out more, much, much more! "Twilight, I think I may have found something!" Fluttershy screamed in excitement. "Well? What is it?" Twilight asked. "Well, have you noticed that when we all woke up this morning to find out what happened to Equestria, dead and lifeless. Did you notice it was still night? And that it's now twelve hours later and it's still night?" Fluttershy asked. "No, I didn't, good job, Fluttershy!" Twilight smiled. "No, no! There's more! Also, did you notice that the moon has a pony in it, once again, like a mark, looking exactly like the legend of the mare in the moon?! And, did you notice that none of us have found Princess Luna's body?!" Fluttershy took a breath from long explanations. "Oh, Dear Celestia! You're not suggesting that it was Princess Luna?!" Twilight screamed in worry. "No, but what if Luna changed again? Because this is what Luna wanted to do one thousand years ago, and that her symbol is in the moon, once again, I'm suggesting it was the mare in the moon!" Fluttershy explained. "Nightmare Moon!" Twilight gasped in fear! The Vortex Of DreamsSuddenly, Twilight's horn started to glow, but also causing Twilight a huge amount of pain. "Ow! Ow! Ow! What in the ay was that?!" Twilight screamed. "Twilight? What's wrong?" Applejack asked, worrying about her friend who was straining in agony. Suddenly, the tormenting pain stopped. "I... I don't know, but it hurt, a lot!" Twilight replied. "Maybe I can trace the power source that made my horn do that? For all we know, it could have something to do with what happened to Equestria." Twilight horn shined as she traced the source of the painful power. "This way!" Twilight ran towards the source and the rest of her friends followed, all the way there, Twilight couldn't stop thinning about what caused it, it wasn't normal, she even thought about how painful it was, thinking that if it went on for any longer, she might wanted to cut her horn off with a hack saw, just to stop the pain, yeah, cutting your horn off would be painful, but not as painful as what she just suffered. The source ended up bringing here to Princess Luna's office at the top of the castle. Twilight looked confused, why did the source bring her here? "Why did the source bring me here? What has this got to do with Princess Luna?" she wondered. "Just go in, Twilight!" Rarity demanded. "No! This is Princess Luna's private office, I can't just walk in!" Twilight stated. "Well, it's not very useful to her now, if she's dead." Rainbow Dash stated. Twilight looked at her with a face that was not so friendly, she wasn't impressed, it seemed like she was joking about an Equestrian Princess dying, how disrespectful could you get? Twilight burst open the door with her magic and she looked inside to see a deserted office. Twilight tried to describe the room with using the word "wrecked" as it was worse than that, everything was almost destroyed exept a portal in the middle of the room, sparkling, dazzling, with a starry sky and a beautiful pathway inside it. "It's amazing! Where do you think it leads?" Fluttershy asked. "I don't think it leads anywhere. I think i know what this is, Princess Luna told me about it that one Nightmare Night she came to Ponyville. She said it was something called the dream vortex. When she enters someones dream to stop a nightmare, this is what she uses to get into them." Twilight explained. "That's brilliant idea for her to produce! But does anyone think is strange that everything in this room is beyond wrecked and that the portal looks like it's brand new, untouched?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Yeah, that does seem very strange now that I think of it." Twilight's expression changed when Pinkie Pie pointed it out. She approached the portal and layer her purple hoof on it. Ripples were created on the surface of the portal as soon as she touched it, like water ripples, the harder she touched it, the bigger the ripples were. The ponies were confused, except for Twilight, as she recognised the spell instantly. "This is a protection spell! But I don't understand..." "Why don't you understand, Twilight? I thought you recognised it." Rainbow Dash asked. "I do recognise it, but the reason I don't understand is because to create a spell, a pony needs to be alive!No life, no magic." Twilight explained while replying to Rainbow Dash. She thought it was one of the most stupid questions she had every asked, I mean come on! Does she really think that one of the best unicorns in Equestria didn't recognise a simple protection spell? "Are you suggesting that Princess Luna survived this apocalypse?" Fluttershy asked. "Yes I am, but Fluttershy, remember what you noticed in the throne room about an hour ago, a curious symbol on the moon, constant night and Princess Luna's body wasn't found and we had a hunch it was Nightmare Moon who done it? I don't like thinking about it, obviously, but I was also suggesting it could be Nightmare Moon." Twilight suggested, she didn't like the idea, but it was still a hunch. "What's the difference? Nightmare Moon is Princess Luna, accept she is evil, either way, Princess Luna is still alive, and lets just hope she isn't Nightmare Moon. Otherwise we're all in trouble." Applejack stated. Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, stepped through the portal to the dream vortex. It was glowing blue like the night sky, but some of the ponies felt a bit dizzy, disorientated, as the ground didn't feel solid and the beautiful path looked like only stars and nothing else, so it looked like an illusion, it was if they were gliding through the sky with no ground to pull them down, it felt like being on the moon, low gravity. Everypony was only interested on who was in here and what happened to Equestria, but Pinkie Pie just liked messing around as always, she was having a blast on low gravity, laughing and happy. As they walked forward, a blue image appeared in the distance. It was Princess Luna. "Princess Twilight, thank goodness you survived this apocalypse, luckely i also survived." Princess Luna shouted from a distance. "Princess Luna! Thank goodness, some pony survived this, thank goodness it was some pony who can help!" Twilight had a tear of happiness in her eye, to see some pony she wanted to see, some pony positive. But something was wrong, as Twilight and her friends approached Princess Luna, her image started to fade and her image seemed further away the closer she tried to get to her. Soon, the image of Princess Luna faded away completely to bring a new image that no pony wanted to see ever again, a dark coloured figure that was also dark in the heart. The ponies stood still, silently in shock to see Nightmare Moon, laughing at them for their stupidity, thinking that it was Princess Luna. Everyponies NightmareNightmare Moon started mocking the ponies with an evil laugh. "Muhaha! I love the bravery of you six, but did you know that even with your bravery, you can't win all the time. Especially with me!" Nightmare Moon laughed. "All the evil ones say that and most of them always fail. What makes you so different?" Rainbow Dash giggled. "Because I am Nightmare Moon! I have already taken over Equestria once before." Nightmare Moon replied. "Until Princess Celestia stopped you..." Applejack interrupted. "And Celestia is dead!" Nightmare Moon smiled. "We stopped you with the elements of harmony!" Twilight pointed out. "Which you don't have with you, so you can't stop me, can you?" Nightmare Moon laughed. "No, but we can escape from you!" Twilight shouted. Twilight's horn glowed with sparkling magic. It surrounded the rest of her friends ad suddenly the vanished right in front of Nightmare Moons eyes. It was a teleportation spell. Twilight and her friends landed outside the portal of where the entered. Rainbow Dash was the first to stand back up and address Twilight. "So what now? We run away? Why did you teleport us?" Rainbow Dash asked. "A few reasons. One, she said we couldn't stop her. Two, we teleported because we are going to get something that will defiantly help us stop her." Twilight replied. "What? So I'm guessing that we go retrieve the elements of harmony?" Rarity asked. "Precisely. And not only that, but I read about the elements of harmony when we first got hold of their power. I know what they can do, they can reverse time. We can bring Equestria back with them, but it's just a theory, reverse time has never been used with the elements of harmony before, so at the current moment, it's just a theory." Twilight replied. "So how do we know it'll work?" Pinkie Pie asked. "I don't but we do know that it works on nightmare moon, and that's the main thing, avenging Equestria is the main thing." Twilight replied. "Good point!" Applejack said. "I suggest that we get a move on!" Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack ran to the tallest tower in Canterlot castle where the elements of harmony were hidden. Twilight was worried, she had a feeling that Nightmare Moon would of sent some of her followers to kill them once they got to the tower and only one of them needed to die for the elements of harmony to fail because they didn't have enough keepers. Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Applejack reached the tower. Twilight turned to the rest of her friends. "Girls, I have the slightest feeling that Nightmare Moon has sent her followers into the tower to kill us and stop us. I would like to point out that this needs to be team work, because as you all know, there needs to be six element keepers for the power of the elements of harmony to work, that means if just one of us fail, then the rest of us fail, we need to stick together on this!" Twilight explained. Twilight opened the door with her magic, they saw something surprising, nothing but an empty room. I don't get it. I was sure that Nightmare Moon would send reinforcements to stop them, I wonder why not... Twilight thought to herself. Twilight slowly walked in the tower, she was still very suspicious of why no pony was there to stop here, after all, the elements would bring her doom. Twilight just decided to go along with it, she couldn't be bothered to deal with all the commotion anyway. Twilight grabbed the elements of harmony, she passed them around to their individual keepers, then ran back towards the portal. When they reached the portal to the dream vortex, they waisted no time at all, they jumped through the portal with the elements of harmony, curtain to defeat Nightmare Moon, but not sure if the could restore Equestria once and for all. "Nightmare Moon! Show yourself!" Twilight screamed, making sure she heard her inside the spinning vortex. Suddenly a blueish black figure appeared right in front of them. "Hello, "Princess Twilight Sparkle!" Nightmare Moon laughed as she mocked Twilight of her powers. "Ready for your doom, we know these work on you, so you can't win." Rainbow Dash said seriously. Rainbow Dash being serious for once? Wow! "I know I can't win, but I will still win." Nightmare Moon replied. "How can we not win?" Twilight asked curiously. "Yes, you will kill me, but you won't be able to restore Equestria!" Nightmare Moon laughed. "Since I'm going to win anyway, just do it, kill me." "Ready girls?" Twilight asked. "Excellent!" The six keepers activated their elements. Nightmare Moon suddenly screamed in huge amounts of agony, a white glow from the outline of her body, and then nothing, she was dead. I can't believe it, it was that easy! Twilight thought to herself. She turned to her friends. "Girls! Remember, the elements are telepathic, all we need to do is think of Equestria to bring it back!" Everypony thought of Equestria, all of the best things. But some were in doubt of the elements from what Nightmare Moon said, they wouldn't work. Suddenly, there was a bang and nothing happened for a few hours, the dream vortex collapsed, the ponies were teleported back to the throne room while they were passed out. A few hours later, they woke up. "D-Did it work? Did we save Equestria?" Rainbow Dash asked. Twilight got up and looked outside to see the same dead world. "No, we didn't...." Twilight said depressingly. "We've failed..." The rest of the ponies got up. "So what now?" Fluttershy asked. Twilight put her element of harmony back on top of her head. "Well, there's no point in living in a dead world, it would be toucher to see a reminder of what it used to be everyday. We may as well be in peace once and for all..." She pointed her element at Fluttershy, and fired some kind of powerful bolt of energy, she wasn't there after that, Twilight had disintegrated her, dead. "Why did you do that?" Applejack screamed with a tear in her eye. "She was our friend!" "I told you, because there is no point in living in aw world that is going to cause us pain everyday..." Twilight replied. She pointed the element at Applejack and done the same. Then Rainbow Dash, then Pinkie Pie and then Rarity. It was for their own good, it's better than them suffering. Twilight thought to herself. And now for myself. Twilight used her element to destroy herself, with one though left to say. I had a good life until this disaster. I couldn't save Equestria and everypony else, but I saved the survivors from a living hell. Goodbye world and goodbye life, turns out being one of Celestia's students was the death of me, it would of been better being just Twilight Sparkle. After that thought of regrets, there was nothing. Even after death, Nightmare Moon had won. Pony kind was no more. The end for everything.
The New WorldA new day. Supposedly a perfectly normal day. Twilight had a hangover, a pony who was a grade A student, very sensible and responsible and very mature, you wouldn't expect somepony like her to have a hangover, but last night wasn't a normal night for anypony. Everypony last night, even the foals, were dancing and partying like there was no tomorrow. Little did they know, that there wasn't. Last night was the eclipse. When the moon becomes aligned with the sun. The moon moves into place in front of the sun, blocking it's light for a few hours before it moved again. The eclipse only happened every one thousand years, so it was a big deal for everypony in Equestria. Everypony that day felt so lucky, so blessed to be alive that they didn't care if they died the next day because they had seen such a beautiful sight in the sky. Twilight and her friends were the sensible ones, they went home to go to sleep a bit earlier than everypony else, just to get some shuteye for the next day. It seemed that they were the only ones in Ponyville who remembered that the next day was a week day, a work day. Being absolutely shattered on a week day when you have to go to work is one of the worst feelings ever, always dragging yourself through out the day and then miserable for the rest of the week. But it seems that going to sleep early for the next day was pointless, since there wasn't a next day, but only destruction. Twilight woke up two hours late. Spike normally woke her up to make sure she wasn't late for anything and he never failed once to do so, but there is always a first for everything. She thought he had a hangover to, she looked down to his small bed below her own, expecting to see a cute, sleepy dragon snoring away, it was empty. Did he stay out all night? Is he passed out outside in the middle of the town? If he is, I will be furious with him, how irresponsible can he get? Twilight thought to herself. She got up, brushed her teeth and brushed her mane like every other normal day. Not knowing of the new world that she wasn't going to be glad to greet when she meets it. She trotted happily downstairs to the front door. I wonder what he got himself into this time... Twilight thought to her self, chuckling. Twilight opened the door, smiling, hoping to see a new bright and sunny day, like yesterday, with everypony smiling and jumping with joy. But what she saw when she opened the door was something that looked like something terrifying from her nightmares. Burnt ground with some blades of grass still on fire, slowly going out. Houses destroyed, a dark and misty sky and bodies of the ponies, citizens of Ponyville that she used to know, all lying on the ground, motionless. Ok, this is just a bad dream... I had a lot to drink last night, so it would make sense that I was so hammered that my mind is still a little bit messed up and is creating a nightmare. Oh please Celestia, please reassure me this is in fact a dream. Well I don't want to be here anymore, so please, Twilight, wake up! Wake up and get me away from this destroyed civilisation. Twilight thought to herself, begged herself. Almost crying, trying to wake herself up because she couldn't bare what was in front of her eyes. She tried everything to wake herself up. First nipping herself, the obvious thing to do, but it didn't work. She tried punching herself, something harder, and yet that didn't work. She tried everything, but the more she tried, the more harm she was doing to her self, soon there was blood on the floor from her body, she was that desperate to get out of this place that seemed like a nightmare. Twilight thought of another thing to try and wake herself up. She got a stool and a rope, she tied the rope into a knot and put it, hanging on the ceiling, she then put the rope around her neck. Ok, I've had nightmares where I was about to die before, I've read about nightmares and if you're about to die in one, you wake up in shock so you don't die. So I should wake up if I try to hang myself. Ok, I'm going to jump in three... two,,, one... "Stop! Stop right there, Twilight!" a white pony said from a distance. "We don't need another dead." Twilight looked over and waited for the figure to become recognisable. It was a unicorn with white fur and a well styled purple mane. "Rarity!" Twilight shouted, jumping for joy, smiling and laughing, probably the only pony feeling happy. "I'm so glad to see you!" Twilight was still smiling, looking at rarity, who after knowing her Alicorn friend wasn't dead, wasn't smiling at all. "Why are you happy?" Rarity asked. "Because, one of my friends are here, with me now!" Twilight said happily. "Look around you, Sparkle! Does this look like a happy environment?" Rarity snapped. Twilight's smile soon vanished from her face. What happened to her? Rarity isn't normally this rude and aggressive. What ever happened here must have changed ponies personalities! Twilight though to her self. She looked around the surrounding streets of what used to be Ponyville. "No..." "No! That's right. Do you know what happened after the eclipse lest night?!" Rarity asked anxiously. "Um... No..." Twilight replied, nervously. "No! Neither do we..." Rarity said as she looked down. "You were our only hope, Twilight. Our only hope of finding out what happened. "Sorry, did you say, we?" Twilight asked. "Yeah, we. We and our friends survived whatever happened last night, probably because we went home earlier and had some shelter from this apocalypse. They're at base, a cave hidden in the everfree forest. You are coming with me to the base with the rest of us. You shouldn't be out in this waste land alone." Rarity demanded. Twilight and Rarity started moving, on their way to a so called "Base." Twilight noticed something, Rarity wasn't heartbroken that her home had been destroyed. She wanted to ask her. "Um, Rarity? Our home's have been destroyed, along with our friends and families, and I haven't seen one tear out of you eyes. Why is that?" "When I first saw outside, a few tears fell out of me, then I found our friends, they too were also shearing tears with each other. Then I came to realise, we all came to realise that, what happened here, has happened everywhere, everypony is dead and we're the last survivors. Whoever has been effected needs to know that, everypony else has been effected. It's happened to everypony who survived, so what makes one survivor so special. We learned to take it and move along as nothing is going to change the fact that everypony is dead." Rarity explained. Quite a dark thing for Rarity to say... Twilight though to herself. Twilight and Rarity finally made it to the small cave that she called a base. It was in the edge of a mountain and plants were growing all over it, like they possessed it now. Twilight and Rarity entered. Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Applejack were sitting in the corners of the dark cave. "Twilight! Thank Celestia you made it!" Pinkie screamed with relief. They were the same as Rarity, no tears, just depression on their faced but huge amounts of tears in their hearts, Twilight could tell. She looked in the middle of the room to see a purple and green dragon, motionless on the floor. Twilight recognised the body with only one tear falling to the ground. It was like she was having the same feelings as the others. To move along but depression moves with you. Twilight sat down and looked at him. Rainbow Dash spoke to Twilight. "Twilight, you just need to move along but never forget it. You are living in a new world and it is going to be hard to survive. This new world is filled with evil and disharmony, the complete opposite of Equestria." Rainbow Dash said calmly. Twilight looked back at Spike's body and accepted the he and everypony else was gone, and there was nothing else that anypony could do.
Exploration Of The DeadHours past, but slow and painful. Spike's body in the centre of the room was still untouched. Nopony spoke a word after Rainbow Dash told Twilight to move along. Twilight couldn't take it anymore, how could she and her friends just sit there when their family and other friends were dead on the cold, hard ground left to rot? "I can't take this anymore." Twilight mumbled. "Can't take what?" Fluttershy asked. "I can't take this, what we're doing now, just sitting here, hopelessly, while the outside world becomes filled with the souls of the past living, our friends, family, ponies we loved and cared for!" Twilight snapped. "Ah don't know how many times we need to say it, Twi, forget it and move along!" Applejack stated "No, Applejack! I will not accept it and just move along. You keep saying move along, and yet instead of doing that, you've all gathered in a cave and not moving and what's worse is that you don't care! Before whatever happened last night, the days before. Somepony would die, and we would hold hoofs and stick together, and get passed it together. They would die, be put on the list of the dead and we would prepare a ceremony for their passing, yeah they're dead, but we would still respect them." Twilight explained. "I know, Twilight, but this is all of Equestria!" Rarity pointed. "And because it's all of Equestria, you're just giving up? When something threatened Equestria, we, together would use the elements of harmony to defeat the threat. We would unite as friends to save our beloved home, our world. So you're just giving up because it's already happened? Because it's over? How do we know it's over? It could in fact get worse! When Nightmare Moon took over Equestria to make the night last forever. Celestia disappeared, that allowed Nightmare Moon to take over completely. It was over! But then, Princess Celestia came back and defeated her, and that proves that, just because it's over, doesn't mean it can't get better. I suggest you all get out of your foul, depressing moods and help save Equestria from it's hellish future! Who's with me!?" Twilight asked. Everypony thought for a moment. Then Rarity. Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy all raised their hoofs in the air, willing to help. "Right, good, well first off, before we do anything, I think we should refer to what I said about respecting the dead. I think we should go back into Ponyville and make a list, like a book, a book of the dead, write every ponies name inside it as honour of their deaths and bury it in the ruins of Ponyville town hall, it's the least we can do for them." Twilight suggested. Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy left the dark, cramped, uncomfortable cave in the middle of the everfree forest to go identify the dead and give them the respect they deserve. As soon as they reached Ponyville, everypony seemed a bit more happier and their was less depression surrounding their group of friends thanks to Twilight. Twilight took command and started giving orders to everypony to make the job easier and quicker. "Right everypony, the effects of today has sadly effected us all. But just because they're dead, doesn't mean they're gone. Now, I'm going to go back into my library and give each of you a quill and some paper to write down the names of the dead." Twilight walked back into her library to get some paper and some quills, she soon returned to her friends. She handed them all a quill and a few pieces of paper each. "We shall split Ponyville into six sections to make this quicker." She pointed to everypony to where each of her friends needed to go. "Does everypony know where to go now? Good. See you girls soon." Twilight smiled. With in an hour, everypony had returned with pieces of paper filled top to bottom of names of the deceased. "Brilliant, thank you girls, hand me your paper and I shall go turn this into a book." Twilight smiled. She went into the library and stuck the pieces of paper together with glue to make it resemble a book. She returned to the girls holding the book of the dead and a shovel. "Come on, girls lets get to town hall and bury this under the floor!" Twilight suggested. When the arrived at town hall, Twilight immediately started digging a hole to but the book in, soon the hole was big enough for the book to fit and was ready to be put in. "Before we bury this book, I would like to read out the names." Twilight said. She opened it and started reading out loud. Book Of The Dead: The Dead Of Ponyville This book reads the dead of Ponyville, who died during the apocalypse that at the moment when written, had an unknown cause. The dead are as follows: Spike the dragon, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Zecora, Trixie, The Mayor, Cherilee, Discord, Fancy Pants, Flim, Flam, Cranky the donkey, Matilda the moose, Mr. Cake, Mrs. Cake, Iron Will, FleetFoot, Bulk Biceps, Big Macintosh, Granny Smith, Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Twist, Snips, Snails, Pipsqueak, Featherweight, Derpy Hooves, Lyra Heartstrings, Bon Bon, Vinyl Scratch, Caramel, Doctor Whooves, Octavia, Berry Punch, Carrot Top, Colgate, Dinky Hooves, Thunderlane, Flitter, Cloudchaser, Rumble, Roseluck, Noteworthy, Redheart, Raindrops, Sparkler, Cloudchaser. These are the dead they are gone, but because they are gone, they are never forgotten. Twilight finished reading. She put the book in the hole and started burying it into the ground to be found as an ancient discovery in years to come. "There... That's that." Twilight mumbled. "I'm glad we did that." Rainbow Dash said calmly. "What now, Twilight?" Applejack asked. "Time to find out what happened to Equestria. This is our home and I will not rest until I find out what destroyed it. Yeah, we know who died, but now we need to know what killed them. I have a feeling it had something to do with the eclipse, since that was the event going on when all of this destruction happened. We need a starting point. Maybe Princess Celestia or Princess Luna know what happened, I think we should go to Canterlot, see if they know." Twilight suggested. "What makes you think they survived?" Pinkie Pie asked. "They're immortal, they can't die, if we survived, I'm sure they survived too." Twilight pointed out. "Now, come on, help me gather food and water, it's going to be a long trip over, so we need survival kits, anything we can find to help us survive, we don't need to raise the death count!"
Road To CanterlotThey grabbed as much food and water as they could carry, water, coca cola, pepsi. Hay fries, vegie burgers, twinkies, M&Ms. They divided their supply so everypony had the same amounts, but them into saddle bags and off they went onto the railroads that connected Ponyville to Canterlot. On the way, Pinkie Pie spotted a train. "Oh, Twilight, can we take the train to Canterlot?" Pinkie Pie asked. "We can't none of us know how to control one." Twilight replied. She turned to Rainbow Dash who was walking beside her. "I see she's pretty much back to he old self again." the two mares sniggered. They were on their way to Canterlot at last, Twilight was looking at the ground, watching where she puts her hooves, making sure she doesn't trip on the planks of wood that connect the two steal rods together to make the track. Suddenly, it went pitch black. Twilight looked up. "Hey! Why is it so dark now?" Twilight asked. "Well if you looked where you were going, you would have noticed that we were about to enter a tunnel." Rarity replied. Twilight was starting to get sick of Rarities attitude, she decided to turn round and confront her. "Right you! Why don't you just shut the fu-" Twilight stopped and was very confused because of what she saw. "Wait, what? Why is there seven of us? Ok, Checking names and the population of our group, because I'm pretty sure there were only six of us, not seven. Ok lets see now... One me, one Rainbow Dash, one Applejack, one Fluttershy, one Pinkie Pie and... Two Rarity's? What?" Twilight had never been this confused. One of the Rarity's raised one of her hoofs, she faced the other Rarity. "Ok, um... Who are you?" the other Rarity asked. One of the Rarity's with her hoof up swung her hoof and punched the other Rarity in the eye, hey eye was badly damaged and had blood streaming out of the tear duct. The Rarity who was guilty of abuse soon revealed her true identity, it was a changing. Five other changelings surrounded the group of friends who were trying to recover from the disaster. "Apparently we're not leaving!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "We need to fight our way through. Rarity, you're injured, you just stay there, we've got your back. Everypony fight! We need to make it to Canterlot!" Twilight shouted. Changelings noticed that the ponies we're preparing to fight. They immediately flew towards the ponies, ready to dig there sharp fangs into their delicate skin. There was a massive fight in the tunnels of the railway. Everypony and every changeling started kicking and hitting the foe that they were fighting. Suddenly a changeling took Rainbow Dash off guard. It dug it's teeth in deep into her neck. "Agh!" Rainbow Dash screamed in pain, tears grew in her eyes, like water dams about to overflow with warm, salty water. "Right, that's it, I've had enough!" Twilight shouted. She used her magical horn to send out a shock wave throughout the tunnel, only damaging changelings, rendering them, not dead, but close to death. "Why didn't you do that when they appeared?" Fluttershy asked. "I needed to save my energy and I thought we could take them with not much harm done. But that doesn't matter at the moment, we have two ponies injured, Rarity is blind in one eye and Rainbow Dash has holes in her neck. Both ponies are severally injured and are loosing massive amounts of blood. We need to get to Canterlot as fast as we can. Not only do we need to speak to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, we also need to heal these two as fast as we can or there is a huge chance they'll die." Twilight explained. Twilight carried Rainbow Dash on her back and Fluttershy carried Rarity on her back. They ran through the tunnel and up the mountain and up to the gates of Canterlot. Twilight used her magic to open the gates. "Right, go, go, go! We need to go to the castle, I'm sure Princess Celestia and Princess Luna had some aid kits." Twilight suggested. Fluttershy and Twilight took, Rarity and Rainbow Dash to the castle to look for an aid kit, along with everypony else. Although Twilight was carrying Rainbow Dash and was worried about her as she had a huge chance of dying from blood loss. She would be relieved to see Princess Celestia's face once more, she though, seeing Princess Celestia's face would be at least one plus of this land that I once thought was a nightmare! She ran down the corridors of the castle, they were so clean. This must be the only clean place in Equestria now, the rest looks like a scene from the trotting dead! Twilight laughed. Twilight finally made it to the first aid room on the castle. She picked up everything she thought could help the injuries, luckily she was right and picked up the right stuff. Thankfully, Rarity and Rainbow Dash were healed and just about back in shape. Both, Rarity and Rainbow Das jumped up and hugged Twilight as a huge thank you! Now that they were back in shape, they all ran towards the throne room to see Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. They burst through the door exited, but suddenly that excitement turned into horror in a flash as everypony gasped at what they saw. "B-But t-that's impossible!" Twilight stuttered in shock. A tear, once again filled up in Twilight's eye. "This is the worst! Possible! Thing!" Rarity shouted. "But how? I thought she was immortal! How could this have happened to her?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Picking Up The CluesBefore the ponies was a white Alicorn, lying still, dead on the floor. But Celestia was immortal, how could this have happened? "I think we need to just realise the obvious. Whatever killed Celestia, an immortal being, also destroyed all of Equestria and murdered everypony! Girls, I don't think we can fight this..." Rarity. said in disappointment. "Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not giving up, I was loyal and always be loyal." Rainbow Dash shouted. "Neither am I, I don't care how powerful this thing is, I'm going to find out what this thing is and why it did what it did! Before I moved to Ponyville, Princess Celestia was one of the only few ponies that truly understood me, other than my parents and my brother, I'm not going to let her die without finding out what this thing is, if it's the last thing I do!" Twilight shouted enraged by the truth of what happened to her teacher. "What do ya suggest we do, Twilight? What can we do?" Applejack asked, she was lost, didn't know what to do next, just like everypony else. "Honestly, I don't know? Princess Celestia was the only reason I came here, to get some answers of what she thought this was or what to do." Twilight said calmly, looking at the ground as if there wasn't any hope left in the world of so called "Friendship." "Twilight?" Applejack asked, she though for a moment, thinking what she was going to say to Twilight to give her at least a little hope to convince her to carry on. "You have recently been transformed into an Alicorn, a princess. Equestria has been destroyed with all other princesses dead. When you were transformed into an Alicorn, it wasn't just for Princess Celestia trusting you completely, but it was for your responsibility and leadership. You were crowned an Equestrian leader, everypony became your loyal subjects, now I beg of you, Princess Twilight Sparkle, t o take leadership and responsibility for your own, I ask of you now, to command your remaining loyal subjects, us five, to help find out what happened here and what happened to Princess Celestia, and as your friends, we command you to not give in hope. Together as one, we can overcome this massive problem." Twilight turned to Applejack, she looked stronger and more confident. "You know what, Applejack? You're right. I'm not giving in. Right, where do we start?" Twilight asked, she started thinking of everything, everything she thought could have caused this. "Ah, I've got it! The key to any investigation is clues, we need to get out there and find some! We'll do the same thing as we did in Ponyville, split Canterlot into six sections." Twilight, followed the same idea as she had for investigating Ponyville, she pointed out to everypony where they needed to go. "And with all sections covered, we should have investigated the whole city in no time. Listen everypony, check everything, break into shops and houses, find everything! On and Pinkie Pie?!" Twilight looked at Pinkie. "Uh... Yeah Twilight?" Pinkie Pie replied, nervously. "I can read you like a book, I know what you were thinking when I said break into shops and houses. Due to the circumstances, I want to make this clear. We cant go dilly dallying around, what we're doing is serious. Pinkie Pie. No. Stealing. Cakes. From. The. Shops! You can go in there, but to find clues, not confessionary." Twilight made it very clear, digging the memory of herself taking about not stealing the cakes. I... I don't think I could do it! How can somepony not go by a cake store and not eat a cake. Who cares if it's the end of the world as we know it, there is CAKES! Pinkie Pie thought to herself, she mind was screaming. "Everypony ready? Good! See you girls soon!" Twilight waved the rest of her friends off before they entered the dead, deserted city. Meanwhile, up in the sky of the dead world, evil was brewing, invisible to the unfortunate survivors who had to see their dead world like what it had been reduced to. If you looked up into the sky at the same moment the ponies split up to investigate the city, you would be able to tell something was up, the sky was glowing dark blue. Little did the ponies know that on the other side of the dark blue sky, somepony was looking down on them, following their every move. "Princess! The ponies of the legendary elements of harmony are moving again, once again investigating." the strange black coated pony hissed. "Good job! Keep an eye on them, but I wouldn't worry to much, I wanted them to survive this, and mot only that, everything is nicely falling into place!" Their princess smiled followed with an evil laugh!" Meanwhile, back on earth, everypony has searched everywhere, and nopony had found anything. "Did anypony find anything?" Twilight asked, nervously, she was eager to know what they've found that could have a chance of helping them. "No, nothing." Rainbow Dash replied. Fluttershy walked over to the balcony of Canterlot castle in disappointment, thinking that their trail had come to an end, until she looked up. There was no dark blue sky, that had suddenly disappeared, but it was something else she noticed. Fluttershy ran back to the others, she couldn't believe, what she had noticed and could help them find out more, much, much more! "Twilight, I think I may have found something!" Fluttershy screamed in excitement. "Well? What is it?" Twilight asked. "Well, have you noticed that when we all woke up this morning to find out what happened to Equestria, dead and lifeless. Did you notice it was still night? And that it's now twelve hours later and it's still night?" Fluttershy asked. "No, I didn't, good job, Fluttershy!" Twilight smiled. "No, no! There's more! Also, did you notice that the moon has a pony in it, once again, like a mark, looking exactly like the legend of the mare in the moon?! And, did you notice that none of us have found Princess Luna's body?!" Fluttershy took a breath from long explanations. "Oh, Dear Celestia! You're not suggesting that it was Princess Luna?!" Twilight screamed in worry. "No, but what if Luna changed again? Because this is what Luna wanted to do one thousand years ago, and that her symbol is in the moon, once again, I'm suggesting it was the mare in the moon!" Fluttershy explained. "Nightmare Moon!" Twilight gasped in fear!
The Vortex Of DreamsSuddenly, Twilight's horn started to glow, but also causing Twilight a huge amount of pain. "Ow! Ow! Ow! What in the ay was that?!" Twilight screamed. "Twilight? What's wrong?" Applejack asked, worrying about her friend who was straining in agony. Suddenly, the tormenting pain stopped. "I... I don't know, but it hurt, a lot!" Twilight replied. "Maybe I can trace the power source that made my horn do that? For all we know, it could have something to do with what happened to Equestria." Twilight horn shined as she traced the source of the painful power. "This way!" Twilight ran towards the source and the rest of her friends followed, all the way there, Twilight couldn't stop thinning about what caused it, it wasn't normal, she even thought about how painful it was, thinking that if it went on for any longer, she might wanted to cut her horn off with a hack saw, just to stop the pain, yeah, cutting your horn off would be painful, but not as painful as what she just suffered. The source ended up bringing here to Princess Luna's office at the top of the castle. Twilight looked confused, why did the source bring her here? "Why did the source bring me here? What has this got to do with Princess Luna?" she wondered. "Just go in, Twilight!" Rarity demanded. "No! This is Princess Luna's private office, I can't just walk in!" Twilight stated. "Well, it's not very useful to her now, if she's dead." Rainbow Dash stated. Twilight looked at her with a face that was not so friendly, she wasn't impressed, it seemed like she was joking about an Equestrian Princess dying, how disrespectful could you get? Twilight burst open the door with her magic and she looked inside to see a deserted office. Twilight tried to describe the room with using the word "wrecked" as it was worse than that, everything was almost destroyed exept a portal in the middle of the room, sparkling, dazzling, with a starry sky and a beautiful pathway inside it. "It's amazing! Where do you think it leads?" Fluttershy asked. "I don't think it leads anywhere. I think i know what this is, Princess Luna told me about it that one Nightmare Night she came to Ponyville. She said it was something called the dream vortex. When she enters someones dream to stop a nightmare, this is what she uses to get into them." Twilight explained. "That's brilliant idea for her to produce! But does anyone think is strange that everything in this room is beyond wrecked and that the portal looks like it's brand new, untouched?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Yeah, that does seem very strange now that I think of it." Twilight's expression changed when Pinkie Pie pointed it out. She approached the portal and layer her purple hoof on it. Ripples were created on the surface of the portal as soon as she touched it, like water ripples, the harder she touched it, the bigger the ripples were. The ponies were confused, except for Twilight, as she recognised the spell instantly. "This is a protection spell! But I don't understand..." "Why don't you understand, Twilight? I thought you recognised it." Rainbow Dash asked. "I do recognise it, but the reason I don't understand is because to create a spell, a pony needs to be alive!No life, no magic." Twilight explained while replying to Rainbow Dash. She thought it was one of the most stupid questions she had every asked, I mean come on! Does she really think that one of the best unicorns in Equestria didn't recognise a simple protection spell? "Are you suggesting that Princess Luna survived this apocalypse?" Fluttershy asked. "Yes I am, but Fluttershy, remember what you noticed in the throne room about an hour ago, a curious symbol on the moon, constant night and Princess Luna's body wasn't found and we had a hunch it was Nightmare Moon who done it? I don't like thinking about it, obviously, but I was also suggesting it could be Nightmare Moon." Twilight suggested, she didn't like the idea, but it was still a hunch. "What's the difference? Nightmare Moon is Princess Luna, accept she is evil, either way, Princess Luna is still alive, and lets just hope she isn't Nightmare Moon. Otherwise we're all in trouble." Applejack stated. Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, stepped through the portal to the dream vortex. It was glowing blue like the night sky, but some of the ponies felt a bit dizzy, disorientated, as the ground didn't feel solid and the beautiful path looked like only stars and nothing else, so it looked like an illusion, it was if they were gliding through the sky with no ground to pull them down, it felt like being on the moon, low gravity. Everypony was only interested on who was in here and what happened to Equestria, but Pinkie Pie just liked messing around as always, she was having a blast on low gravity, laughing and happy. As they walked forward, a blue image appeared in the distance. It was Princess Luna. "Princess Twilight, thank goodness you survived this apocalypse, luckely i also survived." Princess Luna shouted from a distance. "Princess Luna! Thank goodness, some pony survived this, thank goodness it was some pony who can help!" Twilight had a tear of happiness in her eye, to see some pony she wanted to see, some pony positive. But something was wrong, as Twilight and her friends approached Princess Luna, her image started to fade and her image seemed further away the closer she tried to get to her. Soon, the image of Princess Luna faded away completely to bring a new image that no pony wanted to see ever again, a dark coloured figure that was also dark in the heart. The ponies stood still, silently in shock to see Nightmare Moon, laughing at them for their stupidity, thinking that it was Princess Luna.
Everyponies NightmareNightmare Moon started mocking the ponies with an evil laugh. "Muhaha! I love the bravery of you six, but did you know that even with your bravery, you can't win all the time. Especially with me!" Nightmare Moon laughed. "All the evil ones say that and most of them always fail. What makes you so different?" Rainbow Dash giggled. "Because I am Nightmare Moon! I have already taken over Equestria once before." Nightmare Moon replied. "Until Princess Celestia stopped you..." Applejack interrupted. "And Celestia is dead!" Nightmare Moon smiled. "We stopped you with the elements of harmony!" Twilight pointed out. "Which you don't have with you, so you can't stop me, can you?" Nightmare Moon laughed. "No, but we can escape from you!" Twilight shouted. Twilight's horn glowed with sparkling magic. It surrounded the rest of her friends ad suddenly the vanished right in front of Nightmare Moons eyes. It was a teleportation spell. Twilight and her friends landed outside the portal of where the entered. Rainbow Dash was the first to stand back up and address Twilight. "So what now? We run away? Why did you teleport us?" Rainbow Dash asked. "A few reasons. One, she said we couldn't stop her. Two, we teleported because we are going to get something that will defiantly help us stop her." Twilight replied. "What? So I'm guessing that we go retrieve the elements of harmony?" Rarity asked. "Precisely. And not only that, but I read about the elements of harmony when we first got hold of their power. I know what they can do, they can reverse time. We can bring Equestria back with them, but it's just a theory, reverse time has never been used with the elements of harmony before, so at the current moment, it's just a theory." Twilight replied. "So how do we know it'll work?" Pinkie Pie asked. "I don't but we do know that it works on nightmare moon, and that's the main thing, avenging Equestria is the main thing." Twilight replied. "Good point!" Applejack said. "I suggest that we get a move on!" Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack ran to the tallest tower in Canterlot castle where the elements of harmony were hidden. Twilight was worried, she had a feeling that Nightmare Moon would of sent some of her followers to kill them once they got to the tower and only one of them needed to die for the elements of harmony to fail because they didn't have enough keepers. Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Applejack reached the tower. Twilight turned to the rest of her friends. "Girls, I have the slightest feeling that Nightmare Moon has sent her followers into the tower to kill us and stop us. I would like to point out that this needs to be team work, because as you all know, there needs to be six element keepers for the power of the elements of harmony to work, that means if just one of us fail, then the rest of us fail, we need to stick together on this!" Twilight explained. Twilight opened the door with her magic, they saw something surprising, nothing but an empty room. I don't get it. I was sure that Nightmare Moon would send reinforcements to stop them, I wonder why not... Twilight thought to herself. Twilight slowly walked in the tower, she was still very suspicious of why no pony was there to stop here, after all, the elements would bring her doom. Twilight just decided to go along with it, she couldn't be bothered to deal with all the commotion anyway. Twilight grabbed the elements of harmony, she passed them around to their individual keepers, then ran back towards the portal. When they reached the portal to the dream vortex, they waisted no time at all, they jumped through the portal with the elements of harmony, curtain to defeat Nightmare Moon, but not sure if the could restore Equestria once and for all. "Nightmare Moon! Show yourself!" Twilight screamed, making sure she heard her inside the spinning vortex. Suddenly a blueish black figure appeared right in front of them. "Hello, "Princess Twilight Sparkle!" Nightmare Moon laughed as she mocked Twilight of her powers. "Ready for your doom, we know these work on you, so you can't win." Rainbow Dash said seriously. Rainbow Dash being serious for once? Wow! "I know I can't win, but I will still win." Nightmare Moon replied. "How can we not win?" Twilight asked curiously. "Yes, you will kill me, but you won't be able to restore Equestria!" Nightmare Moon laughed. "Since I'm going to win anyway, just do it, kill me." "Ready girls?" Twilight asked. "Excellent!" The six keepers activated their elements. Nightmare Moon suddenly screamed in huge amounts of agony, a white glow from the outline of her body, and then nothing, she was dead. I can't believe it, it was that easy! Twilight thought to herself. She turned to her friends. "Girls! Remember, the elements are telepathic, all we need to do is think of Equestria to bring it back!" Everypony thought of Equestria, all of the best things. But some were in doubt of the elements from what Nightmare Moon said, they wouldn't work. Suddenly, there was a bang and nothing happened for a few hours, the dream vortex collapsed, the ponies were teleported back to the throne room while they were passed out. A few hours later, they woke up. "D-Did it work? Did we save Equestria?" Rainbow Dash asked. Twilight got up and looked outside to see the same dead world. "No, we didn't...." Twilight said depressingly. "We've failed..." The rest of the ponies got up. "So what now?" Fluttershy asked. Twilight put her element of harmony back on top of her head. "Well, there's no point in living in a dead world, it would be toucher to see a reminder of what it used to be everyday. We may as well be in peace once and for all..." She pointed her element at Fluttershy, and fired some kind of powerful bolt of energy, she wasn't there after that, Twilight had disintegrated her, dead. "Why did you do that?" Applejack screamed with a tear in her eye. "She was our friend!" "I told you, because there is no point in living in aw world that is going to cause us pain everyday..." Twilight replied. She pointed the element at Applejack and done the same. Then Rainbow Dash, then Pinkie Pie and then Rarity. It was for their own good, it's better than them suffering. Twilight thought to herself. And now for myself. Twilight used her element to destroy herself, with one though left to say. I had a good life until this disaster. I couldn't save Equestria and everypony else, but I saved the survivors from a living hell. Goodbye world and goodbye life, turns out being one of Celestia's students was the death of me, it would of been better being just Twilight Sparkle. After that thought of regrets, there was nothing. Even after death, Nightmare Moon had won. Pony kind was no more. The end for everything.
