Sparkswirl's empire

The sun is shining bright upon the castle in ponyville. It's somewhat an early morning. Suddenly, the castle doors burst open. Out walks princess Twilight Sparkle herself, wearing a bathrobe. She proceeds to walk till the mailbox, there she stops. She takes out the letters from the mailbox and starts reading them out loud "From Rainbow Dash. From quills and sofas. From Ponyville University. From Town hall." Twilight takes all the letters with her and starts walking back inside. As she closes the door behind her, she throws the letter from quills and sofas into a trash can,which is sitting right next to the door. She then walks into her study, dropping all the rest of the letters on a desk. The purple alicorn sits down, puts on glasses and starts opening the letters.

Twilight starts off with Dash's letter "Hey Twilight! You're invited to Lyra's birthday party, she said it herself! I'll pick you up on the way there, so be ready!"

Twilight puts Dash's letter aside and opens the letter from Ponyville University "Your research funding has been granted. You can find the 3000 bits in the letter."

And then the last letter, the one which Twilight really didn't want to open that much, but as a conscientious pony, did anyway "Dear Twilight Sparkle, according to ponyvilles law paragraph 6.2, you're obligated to pay 8000 bits by the 10th day of this month."

Twilight sighed as she stood up and started moving books away from bookshelf. She pulled out a box from the behind the books. Twilight laid the box onto the table and started counting the money it contained. "2347 bits," finished Twilight the counting. "I'm gonna be 5653 bits short!"

"The great and powerful Trixie requires the most important meal of the day. Breakfast is an important part of the daily routine. And Trixie isn't going to....bla,bla,bla"

Twilight, cooking pancakes, tries to ignore Trixie.

"Are you even listening to the golden words of the one and only, great and poweful Trixie?"

Twilight lets out an annoyed grunt and answers "yes, I'm listening to all the fascinating things you have to say."

"Good, cause Trixie is...bla,bla,bla" continues Trixie on with her unuseful talking.

"Hey! What's for breakfast?"

"Spike! You're awake!" shouts Twilight, as she runs to hug Spike.

"Umm, yeah, what's for breakfast?" asks Spike again, while trying to avoid Twilight's hugs.

"Blueberry pancakes! You know, the recipe I got from Pinkie all those years ago."

"Oh yeah, those are my favourite!" shouts Spike happily after hearing the good news.

Twilight throws on a jacket "Well, treat yourself, I got to go."

"Magic! Can anyone tell me what magic is?" asks Twilight giving a lecture in front of the class.

"Force that you can use to manipulate the world around you?" asks a random filly in the front seat.

Twilight looks at the filly "That too, but I like to see it, as a wonderful force of nature. You see, thanks to the horns that every unicorn has upon birth, we can use our own nerv system, to manipulate the atoms and molecules around our horn, to create something completely new and useful out of thin air."

That moment Twilight releases a big light show out of her horn "Fascinating, isn't it?"

"Can we do tricks like that one day too?" asks an orange unicorn in the middle row. "Well, that was an advanced magic trick, but if you're interested in the subject, then one day you can perhaps learn to do almost anything you want, with just the power of your horn."

Now a brown unicorn in the last row gets curious "Could we use our horn to shoot things?"

There's a silence in the class.

Twilight quickly gathers up her thoughts and answers "Well, technically yes, but it's also filed under advanced magic. Also, it's not allowed to be fired towards other ponies."

There's another silence in the class.

Twilight looks at the class for a moment and decides to wrap it up "Well, don't forget to read pages 42 till 53, there isn't gonna be a test, but there's a lot of fascinating information there. Next time I'll talk about innovations in magic science."

As rhe final filly closes the door, after leaving the class, Twilight takes out a cup. "Okay, lets see if the machine is finally fixed." As she says those words, she looks at her reflection in a bottle of water. "That's weird. My horn shouldn't be glowing, I'm not using any magic." She touches her horn, only to get stinged by the magic aura surrounding it. As Twilight freaks out, she quickly makes a run towards the library, but collapses on the way there.

"Did you hear, what I just said to you?"

"Yes, horn cancer. Two years at best." replies Twilight.

"Well, we should talk about treatment. As you are an alicorn princess, we can get you the best doctors in Equestria. But, it's gonna cost you. Probably not a problem to a princess like yourself."

Twilight nods.

"So, should I schedule an appointment?"

"Yes. I can get the money, somehow." replies Twilight.

Knock, knock. Twilight waits for a moment and then knocks again. With no answer she decides to take a peek through the windows. There are curtains in front of the windows, but Twilight can see at least one pony figure through them. "Got you!" whispers Twilight. She goes to the back door and slowly opens it. As she sneaks through the hallway, she can hear whispers coming from the room in the far left. The whispers are loud enough to hear, but too muddled to understand. Twilight opens the door and jumps in. "Why are you trying to...-" Twilight is cut off middentence as she can see a dark blue pony holding a gun to Cadence's head.

"One more move and you're dead," hears Twilight from behind herself. She can feel the cold barrel of a gun touching the back of her head.

As the dark blue pony prepares to pull the trigger, Twilight shouts: "Wait! Why are you here? Whatever you are here for, I'm sure we can settle this like civilised ponies!"

The pony behind Twilight says: "heh, unless you could teach us how go cook Spark with purity over 90%, then you're pretty useless to our goal."

Twilight quickly gathers up her thoughts and makes up a lie: "I can cook it! I'm the best god damn cook out there."

"Oh really?" asks the pony from behind Twilight.

"Yes," whispers Twilight with a threatening tone.

"I call bullshit!" says the pony behind her and Twilight can feel the barrel of the gun pressed deeper into her hair.

"Please, just give me a chance and I can prove it. Get me into a lab and I cook it," whispers Twilight as the last act of despair.

"Well, we got nothing to lose," says the pony behind her. The two ponies throw bags over Cadence's and Twilight's head and throw both of them on a wagon.

As the wagon finally stops, Twilight and Cadence are pushed off it. The ponies remove bag from Twilight's head, as one of them says "well, genius, cook!"

Twilight sees Cadence still laying on the ground with a bag over her head. Twilight slowly walks to the workspace and starts mixing chemicals. She takes a few quick looks around the room and then continues on. As the dark blue pony sees Twilight's hooves starting to shiver, he slowly walks up to her and puts the gun against her head. "What exactly are you planning to do here anyway? We're not stupid, we realise, you've never cooked in your entire life. This bullshit here, ain't gonna save you."

"I might have never cooked a single batch in my entire life," Twilight's voice starts to tremble "but I sure as hay know my chemistry." After saying that she pours a dark orange chemical, she had mixed together, into water. She quickly jumps towards the gas masks she had located earlier. The chemical mixes with water and explodes, filling the entire room with orange poisonous gas. Twilight, wearing a gas mask, stumbles through the gas, trying to find Cadence. As she sees a glimpse of pink, she quickly runs towards it. She gently removes the bag from Cadence's head and puts on a gas mask. Then, a bullet flies through the fog, hitting Twilight right to the back hoof. Twilight falls to the ground, feeling a stinging pain in her back hoof. She can hear bullets flying over her head, all breaking some kind of lab equipment in the room. Suddenly the bullets stop, Twilight can hear a few strong coughs from the fog and then there's quietness.

As the fog settles, Twilight slowly opens her eyes. She tries to push herself up, onto her three legs. "Ouch!" shouts she, as the pain from the back hoof kicks in. She takes a horrid look at what she had done: Two dead ponies lying on the ground, a bullet in her hoof and a passed out Cadence next to her.