Once more, Dear friends

(A few days later)

Twilight and her friends smiled as they walked into Ponyville. Twilight looked back at her own personal Tiger that was finished just yesterday and was covered in a tarp.

"Oh I can't wait to get this home so I can study it more. I can't believe how much it cost nearly 300,000 bits not to mention the ammo for it. I'll have some of the construction ponies unload it and make sure it stays covered. I have a small area by the tree that I can keep it in. Fluttershy you mind helping me move it tonight?" She asked getting a nod from the mare.

"Oh I don't mind Twilight." Fluttershy answered as Twilight looked over at Pinkie.

"You're planning a party tonight right Pinkie?"

"Of course silly filly! We haven't had everypony here for almost six months so of course we're having a party!" She smiled bouncing around.

"Good have everypony come to the town hall around six tonight. Oh and go crazy Pinkie." She smiled as the mare froze for a second before a crazy look came over her face.

"Hehehehehehe! This is going to be so much FUN!" With that she took off towards Sugar Cube Corner.

"Well I'm gonna see how the family is Twi and see you at the party tonight." Applejack said heading home.

"I agree, I'm sorely miss my sister. I'll see you girls tonight then." Rarity trotted off to her home waving over her shoulder.

"I'm gonna go get Tank and see how the little guy is doing. I've missed him and Scoots is gonna be happy to see me. Later Twi." Rainbow gave a salute before zipping into the sky.

"I better go see how the critters have been. I left Angel with Lyra, I just hope that they are ok." She flew off waving back at Twilight.

"Well Spike you ready to get home and clean?" She asked hearing the younger dragon groan.

"Fine but I'm sleeping in tomorrow." He pouted as she smiled.

"Ok." She replied as they headed home for the first time in a year.

(That night)

Twilight smiled as Fluttershy turned the Tiger off and hopped out of it coming up to Twilight.

"Ok now lets get to that party Fluttershy." Twilight said looking up in the air smiling as the moon came out before catching what looked like lots of pegasus flying by.

"Hey Fluttershy, is there suppose to be any weather ponies out tonight?" f

"Um no they're all at Pinkie's home coming party." Fluttershy said looking up at where the pegasus were flying just when they say a rainbow streak head towards the pegasus.

BRAAAAAAAM!!!!

The two mares looked shocked as tracer round were fired at Dash and the mare fall just as some things began to fall from the pegasus.

"Fluttershy hurry and catch Dash! Meet me back here!" She said watching her friend heading for the ground as Fluttershy took off like a shot kicking up wind all around racing to save her friend while Twilight ran for Sugar Cube Corner while she heard what sounded like.... whistling?

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Explosions went off all around her as she teleported back to the tree to get Spike.

She appeared in the tree as he came running down the stairs.

"Twilight what's going on?!"

"We're under attack! Hurry get in the cellar! I have to get the others hurry move!!!" She screamed as he took off into the cellar as she headed back out now as ponies were running around panicking.

She looked around horrified as homes were blown apart with ponies still inside or were blown to pieces out in the street.

She saw Lyra holding BonBon crying, her lower body gone and her insides hanging out soaking the ground in blood she saw to her horror ponies on fire screaming unable to put out the fire on their bodies.

She made it to Sugar Cube Corner to see it completely destroyed nearly making her heart stop as she froze seeing the bodies of ponies under the rubble.

"No no no no no!" She screamed.

"Twilight!" She turned to see Pinkie and Rarity both with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo on their backs.

"What are you doing out here?!" She yelled as another explosion went off.

"Never mind that! We need to get to my house and into the cellar has anypony seen AJ!" She asked over the screaming and explosions as they ran.

"She left with Applebloom earlier! I don't know how they're doing! We were on our way to my house when it was destroyed by something!" Rarity yelled.

"Are they ok?!" Twilight asked as they heard a whistling directly above them. Twilight quickly threw a shield up around them as whatever it was slammed into it surrounding them in fire and losing their hearing.

The mares were shocked as time seemed to slow down while they looked around.

They Cheerilee pulling her upper body across the ground screaming in pain before she collapsed. They saw families being blown apart children, adults it didn't matter they were all dying around them. Twilight saw Mayor Mare screaming as she ran before she was blown apart in an explosion.

"-LIGHT!"

They looked up to see Fluttershy panting and crying as she carried a heavily bleeding Rainbow Dash.

"SHE LOST HER WING TWILIGHT!!" Fluttershy cried snapping them out of their shock before Twilight took Dash and Pinkie handed Scootaloo over to Rarity and caught Fluttershy whose legs gave out.

"I got you!" Pinkie yelled.

"Let go! Move! Move! Move!!" Twilight yelled as they took off to the tree again with a few ponies following a bit behind them.

Twilight looked back to see Octavia, Time Turner, Pokey Pierce, Filthy Rich along with his daughter over his back and Silver Spoon running with them.

"WAIT FOR US!" Time Turner yelled as the girls reached the tree first and Twilight kept the door open for them.

"HURRY YOU CAN MAKE IT!" They were ten feet away when Twilight watched them all be mowed down ruthlessly in front of her.

"Oh Celestia! They're gone!" She kept the door open as they ran into the cellar where a scared Spike waited. Twilight moved quickly clearing a spot on her lab table and putting Dash down on it seeing for the first time up close how bad it really was.

Her entire left went was gone the only thing left was a jagged bone where the round of severed the wing. They had completely caught her by surprise.

"We have to wrap this up and stop the bleeding!" Twilight said as they all looked for anything to stop the bleeding with.

"Stay here and I'll get some towels from the kitchen!" Twilight said as they began to protest but she had already reached the upstairs door as she ran into the kitchen grabbing dish towels and hoof towels and ran back towards the cellar door just when bullets tore through the side of the tree making her look back and scream as a round went through her ear blowing most of the top off.

Twilight tumbled down the stairs hearing her friends scream her name before her world went black.

(That morning)

Twilight opened her eyes to see the roof the cellar and groaned.

"Hey egghead. How you feeling? The others said that you really took a tumble." Twilight looked over to see Rainbow bandaged but alive.

"Dash! You're ok!" She gasped pulling the smiling mare into a hug.

"Well I wouldn't really say ok but I'm alive." She said moving the bloody stump around.

"Oh Celestia Dash. I'm so sorry. I- I-" She was stopped as Dash pat her shoulder.

"Hey I'm alive and so are my friends. Twilight I got to tell you that the tree is gone there's nothing left and it's not pretty up there." She said getting a nod from Twilight.

"I know, I saw it while it was happening. Where are the others?"

"Trying to find survivors. There's not many Twi. Whoever that attacked us wasn't playing around Twi." Dash said with a somber tone in her voice.

"And AJ? Did any of them make it out?"

"Yeah AJ, Bloom, and Mac made it out. Granny Smith didn't make it, since she was inside the house when it was hit."

"Oh no. Where's Applejack now?"

"She's helping with survivors. Bloom, Spike, Scoots, and Sweetie Belle are all upstairs. Fluttershy's watching them." She said her tone hollow as she talked.

"Come on Dash. Lets go."

"Ok." The two made their way upstairs where they spotted Fluttershy and the kids. When Spike spotted her he shot into her chest crying hard as she ran a hoof over his spines.

"Shhh, I'm ok Spike. We're ok." She cooed as the baby dragon sniffed and hiccupped and she could here Scootaloo do the same with Dash holding her.

They all looked up when they heard someone walk in spotting AJ covered in dirt and soot.

"AJ?" Twilight said as the mare broke down.

"T-T-The C-Cakes didn't m-make it! They're all dead!" She cried as they all froze.

"Where's Pinkie?" Twilight asked.

"She ain't left the site yet. S-She just ain't movin." Applejack said continually wiping her eyes as Twilight ran out to see her friend.

The first thing she saw was the covered bodies in front of her door but she had to ignore that for now as she ran to her friend. All around her the smell of burnt flesh, smoke, and death hung in the air so thick that it was making her gag.

As she came to where Sugar Cube Corner was she saw Pinkie sitting in front of the store.

"Pinkie?" The mare looked back with puffy dead eyes before turning back to four covered bodies, two that were to small to be covered.

"Hey Twilight." She said as Twilight came and sat beside her.

"Pinkie, I'm here for you if you need me."

"I know."

"Do you want to talk?"

"No."

"Ok I'll stay here with you though. Is that ok?"

"Ok." The two mares just sat there as Twilight took everything in.

Ponyville was destroyed.

"Twilight?" The mare jumped and turned to her friend noticing her straight pink mane.

"We're going to get them right? We're going to make whoever did this pay right?" She asked as tears flowed down her face as she looked at the unicorn.

Twilight pulled the mare close to her as the flood gates opened and the mare screamed her pain and sorrow.

"We'll get them Pinkie. We'll kill them all." She closed her eyes as she heard the rumble of treads coming behind her making them both turn to see their friends in the Tiger.

"Come on yall Rarity heard a rumor about some strange metal things headed this way. Might as well by some time so these ponies can get out of here and the guard can help out when they get here. Pinkie you think you can do this?" AJ asked as the mare looked back at her family's bodies along with Pound and Pumpkin's choking on another sob before nodding.

"Tell Rarity to move over so she can get the ponies out of here and to safety." She said climbing onto the tank as Rarity got out hugging the mare before climbing down and hurried to where her sister and the other foals were, while Twilight took her place in the commanders hatch.

"Lets go everypony. Panzer vor!"