PART I: TWILIGHT'S DESTINY-Chapter I: Escaping Equestria
“I cannot stand you anymore Twilight Sparkle!” Rarity said as she walked over to slap Twilight.
Twilight flung Rarity over to the other side of her library before Rarity’s hoof made contact with her face. “THAT’S IT! ALL YOU SELFISH BASTARDS GET OUT OF MY LIBRARY!”
All of Twilight’s ‘friends’ were at her house confronting her about her Princess title. They say that she has been acting selfish ever since the day she became a Princess, and they’re tired of it. So all of her friends, including Spike confront her about it.
“You’ve been acting like a spoiled bitch sense the day you’ve became a goddamn Princess! And then you go fling other ponies around? What’s with you?” Rainbow Dash wanted to lung at her formal friend.
Twilight angry build up to the boiling point, then she let it all out. “THAT’S IT! ALL OF YOU, GET THE HECK OUT!” she grabbed all of them with her magic and forced them out of her library. Then locked the door behind her.
“Let’s get out of here y’all, she doesn’t deserve us as friends,” Applejack was leading the four other mares including Spike away from the Golden Oak.
You’d think Twilight would start crying and becoming really depressed after all that, but she was enraged, started tossing books around all over the place. “I can’t believe them. First I help find Rainbow Dash’s favourite author of all time, then I host a trading exchange and even participated in it. And they get pissed at me because I ignored them for little over a week because I was working with Celestia. RUGGGHH!”
Twilight walked up to her room and got into her bed. She looked out the window to see all the regular Ponyville locals roaming around going from market to market. She closed her blinds and threw the covers over herself. She felt a wave of depression come upon her and she started to actually cry.
“Why did they abandon me? I loved them so much! I don’t know what ignorant thought got into their head that I’m some sort of selfish bastard but somehow it did!” Twilight got up from her bed and walked downstairs and looked at a picture of the tree of harmony. “Considering that none of us are in possession of the elements of harmony anymore, I can leave Equestria!”
She ran over to her desk and pulled out a piece of paper and a quill and dipped it into some ink. She then began to think out loud. “I’m just going to have to leave Equestria, no pony really cares about me anymore, I doubt even Princess Celestia herself really cares about me in the first place!”
Tears were running down her cheek as she wrote the letter. She put down the quill and looked at the note, the note read out:
Dear friends, I’m sorry that I turned into what I am today. I didn’t choose to become a Princess and now I’m starting to regret it. I know you may think that just because I get special attention and special privileges such as meeting up with Celestia every week makes me a spoiled bitch, but I’m not like that. I love you all so much, and if you are going to toss me aside like some garbage on the street, then you don’t need me anymore I guess. Well, I’ll just leave! Equestria! Forever! Yeah, by the time you’ve read this I’m probably long gone but I know none of you would care anyway so why should it matter that I’m writing this damn letter! Ugh, I guess it’s to just let you know that you won’t have to see me again. I hope you are having fun without me.
Yours truly,
Twilight Sparkle
She rolled up the note and tossed it onto the centre table. It was getting late and she was contemplating with herself whether or not to run away right at this very moment or wait until morning or even at the middle of the night! She walked around her house thinking about it, she came to the conclusion that she should probably head out tonight.
Reading many books on how escape works, she could easily get out of Ponyville without anypony noticing. Before she left, she decided to syphon any book she might need on this journey. She doesn’t know where she’ll go or what she’ll do, but she sure as hell ain’t coming back to Ponyville.
Twilight looked at the map of Equestria she had mounted on the wall above her work bench and tried to find a good place to call her possible home. She found a rogue strip of land with what looked like very little trees so her best bet was to head out in that general direction. She packed up her bag and set it right next to the door.
Nightfall raised on her and it looked like everypony fell asleep, this was the perfect time to escape! She knew she couldn’t go the whole night looking for a new place so she had to stop somewhere along the way and possibly go to sleep. But right now the only thing she could focus on was getting out of Ponyville and maybe even Equestria, if she’s cocky enough.
Twilight peeked outside and around to see if anypony was around. So far, the cost was clear. When she stepped outside she looked back at her beautiful library and she could fear a tear run down her cheek. She just hopes somepony will take good care of owlowiscious, he was the only thing left in Ponyville that did like her after all.
“No turning back now, goodbye Golden Oak, you served me well, while I was here in Ponyville,” Twilight thought as she walked towards the woods to the right of her library. She couldn't tell if she was making the most wonderful decision of her life, or the worst decision of her life, she didn’t really care at this point as long as she got far away from Ponyville.
Once she was deep in the woods she glanced around her to see if anypony was around, to her understanding there wasn't so she lifted herself off the ground and into the air. The moon only illuminated the land so far because from her perspective, it just looked like miles and miles of trees.
Twilight reached into her saddlebag and grabbed her map of Equestria, she used her horn to illuminate the map. From what she knew, she wasn't too far from her designation, but she had to sleep, she was too worn out. If she tried continuing any farther she probably would have passed out right on the spot.
After spotting a strip of land in the middle of a small lake, she figured she would crash there for the night. Twilight drew an arrow in the ground of the direction she needed to go tomorrow so she didn't forget. She gathered up some leaves and used them as a pillow and used her wings to shield her from the dense cold wind. It didn't take very long for her to instantly get knocked out, being that she has had a pretty rough day.
“What? Is that a pony?” a strange looking creature said as he was looking at Twilight.
Twilight didn't know what was going on. Was she dreaming? It must have been, it’s the only logical reasons she’s in the same room as these fleshy looking creatures.
“That pony has a horn and wings! Maybe we can harness its magical power to create some sort of weapon to destroy the rebellion!” a different man said.
Twilight looked up and gazed at her surroundings. She was in a slightly dark room, with three weird non-pony creatures in front of her. It didn’t take long for her to realize that she was strapped to some sort of table. “Are they conducting experiments on me?” the only thought that Twilight had.
“How would we do that though? We can’t just ask her to give us her magic! We don’t even know if it really has any magical abilities! Sure she appeared out of no wear, and being that she’s a natural purple unicorn with wings seems very magic like to me,” the third creature said. “Besides, it’s awake, but do we know if it can understand us?”
Twilight became enraged by this and shot a bolt of magic at the man to the very right. It send him flying back with a massive jolt. He was still alive, but he went into major shock.
Twilight’s eyes popped open after that even happen. She looked around and saw she was still in the woods. “Thank goodness that was just a dream,” Twilight thought. Thankfully the sun was rising so she could finally set out on the rest of her journey in a few short minutes. To her understanding she was almost there, just a little more ways to go until she got to that rogue strip of land. Who knows? There could be a town there with some really nice and thriving ponies!
She lifted herself up and continued on her way thanks to the arrow she left in the dirt. She looked back at the narrow strip of land she had spent the night on that night, she was going to miss it, maybe. Twilight was approaching her designation pretty fast. The rogue strip of land couldn’t have been more than a mile or two out of her reach, she was excited to finally get far away from Ponyville, and she didn’t even care if she was still in Equestria or not.
As she approached her designation, she noticed a bunch of houses. She became very excited about this and flew down even faster. After she touched down in the little town, she looked around to see if she could see anypony, but to her understanding, the town looks deserted.
“Wonderful, just wonderful!” Twilight thought as she walked up the desolate road. All the houses looked like they have been abandoned for years and were poorly kept. There was no town hall which was the astonishing thing, she’d think this used to be a real town, was this supposed to be a real town but was canceled for unknown reasons? Twilight didn’t know…
After wandering the abandoned town for about ten minutes, Twilight spots a house that has a blue light emitting from it. You could barely make out the light, it was flashing a little bit behind the doors and a little from the windows.
The door was unlocked, and as she stepped into the house she notice the light getting brighter and brighter, then she found the source. A light blue orb was elevated about five feet off the ground and had what looked like electricity admitting from it. She got closer, but the more she got closer the more faint she felt. When she tried pulling away, she found it was futile and continued walking towards the blue orb.
After she finally got directly in front of the orb, she already lost all control of her body, the only thing she could do was sit there and watch the blue orb as it spun around in place. After standing there for about five minutes, Twilight fainted.
Once Twilight regained her bearings, she looked around her and noticed she was in what looked like a laboratory. Nopony was in it and Twilight did regain control of her body, but she couldn’t move her hooves being that no blood was flowing through them.
After lying on the ground trying to gather herself together she managed to stand up. She then began to inspect the lab she woke up in. The only really that stood out to was the giant computer in the centre of the room.
She expected the weird device, this is not the first time she’s seen this. “Am I in Canterlot High?” Twilight was thinking out loud. “Can’t be, I’m still a pony. That means only one thing, am I in a different universe?”
Her whole body began to shake at the thought, she wanted to escape Ponyville and possibly Equestria but not go to a different universe and have no way getting back! She looked around the room a little more and found a light switch and flicked it on. The room revealed many odd posters and shelves with stacks of books on them. One of the posters had a weird creature, similar to what they looked like in her dream, looking upwards, with a white beard and fairly short hair (also white).
She looked to the adjacent post and saw to arc looking things with a circle in the middle of both of them. The post also read out “Combine” on it, Twilight became more curious by the second. That’s when she heard footsteps.
“I’m telling you, we haven’t seen Wallace in over a week! For all we know he could be dead!” a male voice spoke. “Say, I don’t remember leaving the lights on, what?” he walked into to the room, and stared right at Twilight.
“Um, hi?” Twilight smiled weirdly.
“Wha-what are you?” the man spoke again.
“Um, I’m a pony?” Twilight started backing away slowly.
The man reached for his watch and pressed a button. He started backing away from the weird purple alicorn. Seconds later, a tall man with a white facemask that look rather weird with a suit that wall gray blackish. He pulled out some sort of sunstick and started walking towards Twilight.
Twilight flew into the air. “Get that away from me!” she was about to fly to the exit, but she was quickly shot in the wing and came crashing down in front of the soldier’s boots. She looks back at her right wing which had a small bullet hole wound in it and looked back up at the soldier. Before she could use her magic to do something, she was hit in the face with the sunstick, which then she passed out.
“Go forth, my soldiers, we will crush the rebellion!” Twilight was marching with her soldiers. She was having another dream, but she wasn’t aware of it this time. “Go Combine, we are at the brink of whipping all the rebellion from City 17! We can do this!”
“General Twilight,” a loyal Combine soldier ask her as they were approaching the main gates to City 17. “We are ready for the attack, give the order on your command.”
“Ready everyone?” Twilight flew up and looked at the massive army behind her. She turned around facing the gate. “CHARGE!!!”
Twilight then woke up and looked around her. She had been cuffed to a table with all four of her hooves spread out in each direction. Her wings however weren’t chained down, she also noticed a bandage up so that a relief. She thought about the dream she just had and for the fact that it made no sense whatsoever. The Combine? Where those the people that she’s been equating with. She didn’t know but it wasn’t going to matter anymore because the same scientist looking man from earlier started walking towards her.
“Good, you’re awake,” a familiar voice spoke. “Don’t worry, we don’t intend on hurting you. But don’t try any of that magic you unicorn, we will shoot you right there and then if you do. But hopefully you’ll comply with us so you can make this simple for us, won’t you?”
Twilight look around the room. There were two soldiers guarding the only exit that had familiar mask, but they were the same colour as the uniform rather than white. Their uniform looked more buff too, they must be higher up.
“I don’t know anything about you all, other than you’re the Combine,” Twilight felt around for her saddlebag with her left wing but soon found it wasn’t there.
“Smart pony, did you read our posters?” the man smiled.
“Yeah, sure,” Twilight began to struggle in her latches.
“Don’t try escaping, even if you teleport out of here somehow, we have city scanners that’ll tell us where you are in less than a heartbeat!” the weird scientist began to laugh maniacally.
“Crap,” Twilight thought. “Well, looks like I have no other choice.”
