Apocalypse Rising [See Description]

===The Ponies' Perspective===

It was a bright and sunny day in Equestria. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the sweet crisp and clean air was soothing to anything.

Ponies moving along with their lives in the streets of a certain village just a few miles from a Royal Castle, that was professionally built on the side of a mountain. To the ponies that lived in the village, it was a everyday sight. To others, it was a breathtaking, once in a lifetime sight.

All was normal, and all was peaceful. All until a certain Purple Unicorn shattered the peaceful air with a rather loud spell, which apparently was just one out of a few spells that she had tried doing to find out if this summoning spell that she had found in one of her old spell books that she had gotten as a gift a while back. After one last attempt, the Unicorn got very annoyed at her failed spell.

"Ugh, no matter what I try, It just doesn't end up getting enough power!" With a tired sigh, she walked to her kitchen and got a small glass of water. Then a small child's voice spoke from upstairs.

"What kind of spell is it? Because I know you of all ponies should be magically powerful enough to do any sort of spell!" The child, which was actually a small dragon, said to the Unicorn.

"Thanks Spike, but this spell takes a lot of concentration, even more than a long distance teleportation spell." The unicorn said to the small dragon, which was now known as Spike.

"Well, good luck on it Twilight, I am gonna get some rest." Spike yawned, and then starting walking back up the stairs to the room where his bed was. With the sound of a closing door, Twilight decided to try the spell just one more time, now being a little more relaxed about completing it. She set the half empty glass of water on the kitchen table next to her, and walked near the center of the main room and got into a offensive stance. Getting herself ready for one last try, she started focusing all her magic into one spot in her mind. And thought of using that magic as a source of transportation.

She then felt connected to the world around her. She felt the magic of the world, and the pure magical abilities with it all combined. She smiled at this, because she didn't get that far that quickly with the last few tries. She then focused on her magic coursing through her horn and her mind. Her eyes were closed, but that didn't stop them from glowing a bright white. Twilight felt so much raw power that she smiled even wider, until she felt something that made a shiver go up her spine. She felt so much unnatural energy consume her mind, making her quickly lose that smile. She felt as if darkness and pure evil consumed her very soul, as if begging to taint her. Then she saw something she didn't expect.

I massive city that was being overgrown with vines and plant life, buildings that were as high as her library were on every corner of cracked stone streets. Among all the buildings, one stood out more than any other building in the city. A dark brown and severely overgrown tower, with had what looked like a large balcony, and a ladder leading to a smaller upper part of the building. She then noticed that there was a small stone sign that held what appeared to be blood-written Equestrian on it. Twilight read the words on it:

RESIST THE INFECTED     DO NOT BE DETECTED      THERE WILL BE NO HELP.

This made her be even more scared than ever, but It was only then till she noticed the most gruesome of sights she has ever seen.

Bodies. Blood stained bodies litter the entire city, some looked like they were a bit green, as if infected, and other had pale white skin with torn clothing and vests. But among all of that, she saw a body, tied from the neck, and hanging from a tree with blood dripping from massive cut in the creature's stomach. All of this made Twilight want to throw up, but she couldn't because she was too focused on using her magic. But the focus was suddenly dropped when the sound of a door forcefully being swung open. The city instantly dropped out of sight and she was forced to open her eyes, unknowingly letting out all the focused magic that she had contained inside of her mind for so long, all of the magic didn't really have a proper exit, so it was forcefully thrown out of twilight's horn, which in turn let out a massive shock wave that shook the entire library and shattered every window in the building. She shielded her eyes from the glass that fell from the upper windows on the higher bits of the walls. And then when she was sure that nothing else would fall, she then slowly opened her eyes to reveal a certain Cyan Pegasus with her mouth agape.

"THAT WAS AWESOME! When were you able to do tha-" The Cyan Pegasus was cut off by Twilight yelling at her in extreme frustration.

"Rainbow Dash! Why did you have to barge into here!? I was focusing on a spell that takes a lot of concentration!" Twilight said, glaring at the Pegasus, now known as Rainbow Dash.

"Sorry, but I was actually knocking for the past 5 minutes, Twi." Rainbow said, making Twilight confused and surprised at the cyan mare actually knocking for once. But never mind that...

"Still, knowing the type of pony that I am, you should realize that I am studying or doing complicated spells most of the time, if not all the time!"

The Pegasus rolled her eyes and then went wide eyed at the unicorn.

"Twilight, just to let you know, your nose is bleeding." This made the unicorn wide eyed herself, and then quickly walked to the kitchen to get some paper towels to care for her nose. After a good minute of cleaning her bleeding nose, she then sniffled a little bit and then walked back towards Rainbow that was impatiently tapping her hooves on the hard wooden floor.

"You alright, Twi? You seem to be a bit nervous." Rainbow asked in a rather loud voice.

"Y-yea, I'm fine. I'm just a little exhausted at almost completing a Specular Cosmos spell." Twilight tiredly said to Rainbow.

"A Spec What?" Said Rainbow in a confused tone.

"It's basically a Dimensional Travel Spell. It is similar to a Basic and or advanced Teleportation spell. It is suppose to make a small portal between the magically guarded barriers of this world, and then into any other world, if there even is another world, or dimension. Though it would depend on how much magic is guarding that world." Twilight said all in one breath, causing her to breath heavily for a small amount of time.

"All I heard was you were able to go to another world." Rainbow said, quite confused at the little explanation that her purple friend gave her.

"Well, close enough I guess." Twilight said with a sigh, and then went to finish her glass of water until she heard a small crack coming from under her hooves. She then realized that broken glass still littered the library floors. She then quickly used a spell which repaired all the windows and removed all the glass from the floor. With that problem gone, she then continued her way to the kitchen to finally finish her glass of water. After a few seconds, she finished the rest of her water, and then set the glass down. Her eyes closed, thinking about what she saw when she was doing that spell just a little bit ago...

'Where was that? And why was there so many dead...things, they looked familiar, just not with all the... blood' This thought made her visibly shiver.

"Are you sure your okay Twi? It looks like something spooked you" Rainbow said, laughing at the statement, but then stopped when Twilight just started looking at Rainbow like she grew a second head.

"S-something did s-spook me, Rainbow." Twilight said in a stuttered and scared tone.

"Okay! Then whats wrong?!" Rainbow said, acting like she would kick the crap out of anything that scared one of her best friends. Only until she heard Twilight's response...

"A place far worse that Tartarus itself, Rainbow." Right when twilight finished, there was a loud crack of thunder outside. This scared Rainbow to an extent where her legs started shaking.

"If you didn't know, there was a scheduled storm today. Again, you of all ponies should know when a storm is about to happen, you work for the weather team." Twilight said in a matter-of-fact tone. Rainbow then stopped shivering and then looked a little annoyed at her purple friend.

"Yea yea, it's just the timing of that lightning strike kind of spooked me, and I'm not one to admit when something spooks me twilight." Rainbow said, partly glaring at Twilight, partly laughing.

"Well okay then. But you should get back home before the rain starts." Twilight said to Rainbow making her realize that it was pretty late into the day, and she has a scheduled nap for the day.

"Okay, well I- OH! I just remembered why I came here in the first place! I was meaning to show you something I found near the edge of the Everfree Forest, and before you give me one of those boring little talks on how dangerous the place is, let me tell you that I'm to awesome to actually care about that safety stuff. Any who, here it is, hopefully you will know what it is." Rainbow said right before getting out something that made twilight's ears perk up in curiosity.

"Woah! It looks like some sort of goggles, the black bands on it seems to be for the head so you can strap it to your head, and view through the goggles without actually having to hold them, which is quite useful if your not a unicorn. It's actually a pretty well designed piece of equipment, but whats the point in wearing these if your just going to be looking through goggles? They look to small for a ponies' head, and too small for a ponies' eyes... So, what the hay is the use for it?" Twilight said as she to soon became confused about what the piece of equipment actually was and why it was designed for a smaller head and or eyes. A wild thought came to her head, thinking about the creatures she saw in that vision she had a little while ago, and if these goggles were made for them, but that thought quickly vanished from her mind, when rainbow said something that made twilight go nuts.

"Eh, if you don't know what it is, then it's probably junk." Rainbow said, quickly getting intervened by her friend.

"I don't think it's junk, Rainbow. It looks like a pretty well made item, it looks like it was made to last for a long time. Wait, let me see that for a second..." Twilight said while levitating the item off of Rainbow's left hoof, and then bringing it closer to her head to get a better look at the side of the goggles where she saw a few words etched on the side of the left goggle, along with a small picture of what appeared to be an owl, The words read: Night owl Optics. She was confused as to what these meant, only until she read the bottom two words when she realized what she had right in front of her. Twilight then looked back at Rainbow, who was looking at twilight with her head to the side, confused.

"Rainbow, where did you say you found this?" Twilight calmly said to her friend

"On the outside of the Everfree Forest, just laying there as if somepony put them there. Why?" Rainbow said to her friend, confused as to why twilight seemed to act a bit weird.

"Because, rainbow. These aren't just some ordinary goggles. These are professionally made, magicless, NIGHT VISION GOGGLES! Rainbow, nopony in the history of the world has ever come close to inventing anything like this, I mean, there is no magic in these whatsoever!"

The sudden out burst made Rainbow flinch just a little and then looked down, processing what she just heard.

"So, let me get this straight. I found some goggles, in the outside of the Everfree forest, and they just happen to let you see in the dark without any magic at all?" Rainbow said, getting a nod from her purple friend.

...

"Do I get a treat?" Rainbow said, laughing at her own joke

"Ugh, I suppose you wouldn't really care about tha-" She was interrupted when she heard small steps coming from upstairs, and not even 5 seconds after that, the door upstairs to Twilight's room opened, with Spike running down the steps with a scroll in his claws. Twilight gasped as she noticed the the scroll had a Red Seal on it, which meant it came from the princess herself! When Spike reached twilight, he handed her the scroll which twilight levitated out of his claws, took off the seal and then began reading...

"Hello my dearest Twilight, I am sorry but it has come to my attention that powerful Dark Magic radiated from the center of the Everfree, this magic more powerful than the magic Discord used, even at his most chaotic state.

I need you to gather your friends and see what has made such a disturbance. Because whatever it was, It must have come from something far more evil than anything I have faced In my entire lifetime.

I apologize again to say hello in such a way, but this is something that can not simply be avoided.

I wish you and your friends a safe trip. Approach this with extreme caution."

When twilight finished reading, she then looked up to rainbow with a slightly scared look on her face.

"Rainbow, I need you to gather the others. We have a treacherous trip ahead of us..."

And with that, Rainbow nodded and then ran to the front door, slammed it open almost breaking the door, and then flew off to gather her friends.