COSMIC CENTURY

A sudden explosion rocks the heart of the peaceful town of Ponyville.

In an instant, quaint every-day life stops for all of it's busy inhabitants.

Worried stares drift towards the source of the deafening sound: the home of Ponyville's most brilliant scholar.

Twilight Sparkle's library burned, shattered, to the root.

"What if someone's hurt?"

And a collective mad dash begins as all of Ponyville converges at the the burning tree.

Our hearts hoped for a botched-spell, a silly misunderstanding and the bashful smile of Miss Twilight Sparkle.

Our minds expected much worse.

The first ponies reach the tree, only to stop on their tracks without notice. The next wave mirrors them and so does next one.

An unusual sight greets all who arrive at the core of the explosion.

On top of the flaming ruins stand a hundred tall figures clad in black armor, unfazed by the infernal heat of the flames which surround them. Their faces are concealed entirely by sinister masks of indescribable shapes.

And below the skull-faced monsters lay two immobile forms.

A scream resonates from within the crowd. A beautiful pearl-white mare with a violet mane steps out, grief visible in her face.

She shoots away from the crowd and jets towards the fallen forms, when a brief sound, like the sound of firecrackers, fills the air.