Twilight's Decision

She reaches the top of the hill and looks back once again only to see…nothing, absolutely nothing; Sombra’s unnatural darkness had overtaken all of Ponyvile and Zecora’s cabin. It had Left just a faint outline of her home. She turned away from the view and started walking down the other side of the hill even as the tears rolled down her face. She thinks of her fallen friends and wonders what would have happened if Rainbow Dash had made it in time. She imagines Celestia swooping in and reinforcing the shield with her magic while curing the infected then as she lies down to sleep her dream takes a darker turn.

Rainbow Dash, even with all the injury’s she had gotten, was almost to Canterlot, she looked like crap; one of her wings was ripped along the side and her beautiful mane was in tatters. Her right ear had almost been severed by an infected pony with fern shears and the edge of her back where her cutie mark was had been mostly peeled off by Pinkie Pie’s teeth when she had first been infected. But the pony of loyalty kept going walking up the long road covered in destruction to the edge of Canterlot.

Twilight twisted and turned in her sleep dreaming of Celestia’s demise and the path that led her to becoming Sombra’s own student, she saw her cutie mark change into a patch of black moving ink and she saw herself raise all of her friends from the dead. She saw herself hugging Shining Armor again and living with her friends in Ponyvile. Then the dream froze and out of the shadows stepped Sombra, his red tipped horn shining in the lamp light and his cruel eyes penetrating her soul. ‘This can all be yours’ he said ‘but only if you join me’.

‘No I’ll never….’

He cuts her off, ‘Princess Celestia has already been lost and Princess Luna had to give in to the darkness within her own heart to survive’. ‘Neither of them can help you now’ and laughing he stepped back into the darkness. She turned to her friends and screamed! They were all skeletal with glowing green eyes

‘what’s the matter Twilight?’ they all said in union. ‘You could join us’, ‘We could be friends forever!’

‘No’ she screamed and ran out the door. Only to find all of Ponyvile there in the darkness, a flash of lighting lit up their skeletal remains and they started chanting ‘join us, join us, join us’. Twilight screams as they close in and wakes up still screaming surrounded by Timber Wolves.

‘Oh crap’ she says‘ crap, crap, crap’. They look at her for an instant and then the largest Wolf walks up and licks her with a willow branch tongue and they all turn and leave. She looks around confused and then shrugs her shoulders and continues on warily. She re-enters the forest and realizes ‘I don’t know which way to go!’ She looks back up the hill, ‘but I can’t go that way, the Timber Wolves are still there and I don’t want to chance fate again’ so she keeps going in a hopefully straight line as she heads toward an area that in a separate future she knows very well, she heads toward the tree of harmony.