The Mane Twelve

Nightmare Chao's presence had now filled the skies with dark clouds, the wind started to pick up and the birds suddenly all ceased their singing.

"Allow me to start this … master." muttered Pestilence as he raised his hoof, "Now ... feed!"

When he said this a massive swarm of locusts thick enough to paint the sky black rushed towards Ponyville with the speed of gale force winds, eating and destroying everything in their path, living or not. It didn’t matter to the endless hunger of the locusts.

"This should keep the town busy my lord." Pestilence said.

"Oooooh ... Save some ... save some of that meat for me ... Pestilence... I want to feast on ... some, 'Fresh' ones ..." Barked Famine but still struggled to spit out his words.

"Perfect," said Nightmare Chaos. "Famine, remain to 'feast'. The other three are coming with me. We will storm into the castle to rid it of my little Celestia. Meet us back at the castle when you're done."

"I call her!" shouted War, "I want to be the one to separate her head from her shoulders! My Axe...thirsts for her blood!"

"Be that as it may … so long as I get the desirable pleasure of wringing out her soul with my bare hooves." said Death

"Alright!" shouted War "LET'S GO!"

The five started walking and slowly made their advance upon the city……

Ponyville was now being ravaged by locusts, eating everything, even ponies that were unfortunate enough to get caught in their path. Twilight Sparkle herself took the lead and gathered every Unicorn in Ponyville together.

"Unicorns... together!" shouted Twilight.

As soon as she finished that sentence all of the Unicorns gathered their spiritual energy and started forming a strong spiritual shield, causing the locusts to disintergrate in touch.

"Hold your formation ponies!" said Twilight to the Unicorns.

Famine formed a huge grin on his rotten face.

"Food..." he muttered and opened his mouth widely, a gigantic worm-like creature rising from it and storming at the little village.

Twilight looked at it in shock but kept her cool. He can't pass the shield. It fends off forces of evil. she thought with confidence. Yet the creature didn't hesitate and started devouring the shield. Twilight was speechless. She started panicking as the worm continued the job of the locusts.

"Retreat! Teleport to Canterlot! Take as many ponies there as possible! May the Princess of the Sun be with us..."

Fire had started burning and every building fell after the other. At the top of the hill, Famine could be seen licking his hooves while blood was dripping from his lips.

"Heheheheheh ... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!"

Twilight had just arrived with all the other ponies of Ponyville to Canterlot. Celestia's guards appeared and started to set up a barricade in the middle of the town square and spread the word for everypony to go there for protection under the statue of princess Celestia.

The guards were doing their best in the chaos to set up a safe haven amongst the madness, and they actually faired quite well. The locusts however started reaching Canterlot as well. They started fighting back the locusts with magic and got the barricades all set up. The battle was seeming to go in their favor for a while until…

There was a giant explosion around the statue of princess Celestia and amidst the smoke five pony bodies could be seen. It was the ponies of the Apocalypse.

"AHAHAHHAAAA! Look at all this food!" screamed Famine.

"Tsk. So ... this is Equestria's finest guard … pathetic." said War removing his giant Battle Axe from his back. He slowly walked over to a group of ponies huddled together in fear.

"Scream. Shout my name!" He yelled as he raised his axe and quickly brought it down splitting a pony in half.

The group started screaming and crying "Help! Help! Murderer!" just as War lifted his axe again. Four of the princesses' guards began to attack.

"Too slow!" yelled war as he quickly swung his axe connecting it with the throats of all the guards. They all fell choking on their own blood.

"Got you!" a voice yelled. War turned around to see a guard in midair of a jump ready to come down on him with a sword.

"Your back is vulnerable..." a voice whispered.

The guard looked but saw nothing then felt a quick sharp pain in his chest. He looked down to see about nine inches of a scythe sticking out of his chest. He died instantly after seeing the wound.

"War, I won’t be your babysitter again. I only see pity in your eyes now." said Death.

"War is everlasting!" he yelled at Death,  "My axe has waited long enough. It's time for blood to be shed."

"FOOOOOD!" yelled Famine as he bit a pony in the neck and started gnawing at his flesh.

In all this commotion the ponies inside the barricade had started to riot out of fear and push through destroying it and fleeing randomly about the city that was now a twisted mess of locusts and fire. Nightmare Chao's eyes could be seen glowing as the fire spread through Equestria.

Canterlot was now completely defenceless. The Mane Six were struggling to survive and tried to pull themselves together.

"Girls, go to Celestia. Ill try to hold them." said Rainbow Dash to her friends.

"No, Raibow, you're gonna get killed out there." said Applejack.

Rainbow looked down and turned around.

"I know..." she replied. "But if it's to save Equestria, I'm gonna do -"

Suddenly, Rainbow felt a gigantic slash coming through her cest, making way for a gigantic scythe to rise, lifring her in the air.

"RAINBOW DASH!!!!!!!!!!!"

It was Death. As he revealed himself in all the chaos, his mask could be shown, giving out a large grin.

"It's a pity. Such a proud pony to be killed out of its own arrogance."

Applejack stormed towards Death with tears running down her cheeks.

"Applejack no! That's what he wants!"

Death grinned one more time and grabbed her by her throat, raising her with ease. Applejack was struggling to breathe.

"Feeling of love? Anguish? Pity."

"Sh..Shut up..." Applejack hardly spelled.

Death looked at her with a look of emptyness and threw her down. Applejack coughed as she tried to get her breath back. Death then lowered his scythe and pointed at Rainbow Dash.

"You want her? Then come at me. Fight me! Hate me! Attack me with all your might!"

Applejack got up and looked at him in the eyes. Twilight took a step forward.

"Applejack, listen to me. We must save Equestria. And Celestia can bring her back. I know she can-

"No Twi. Imma stay. I'll ... I'll fight for my friend."

"That's it. The hatred in one's soul is what drives them to revenge."

"No. It's not hate. It's ... Honesty."

Before Applejack knew it, Death was right in front of her. She was shocked. She couldn't even move out of fear. She looked at Death in the eyes but now, she was scared of him more than ever.

"Look at me little pony ... look at Death in the eyes!" he said and revealed the face behind the mask.

Nopony else could see it. Only Applejack. And she had never looked at something scarier than that face ever before.

"VANISH TO THE PITS OF EVERLASTING DAMNATION!" yelled Death and burnt himself along with Applejack. The mane six, now only four, Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie cried out for Applejack as they watched her burn and scream in pain. Both of them vanished in a matter of seconds.

Fluttershy burst into tears and fell on her hooves.

"It's useless. It's all useless..." she muttered with a cracking voice.

She suddenly felt a hoof on her shoulder and turned around.

"It's over if you give up." said a mysterious pegasus with short orange mane and white coat to her.

Fluttershy looked at him for a moment then nodded, pulled herself together and got up.

"It's never too late." she said with the most determination she ever had.

In the castle of Canterlot, Celestia couldn't help but look outside of her window, watching her ponies suffer, one after the other, slowly multiplying in number. The deaths were endless and she did nothing. She just looked outside. At one moment, she didn't even look. She closed her eyes, like she was thinking or waiting for somepony. Suddenly, the door behind her burst open from an explosion. She opened her eyes and turned around calmly. Out of all the smoke rose Pestilence with a friendly look.

"My Celestia, it's been a while now hasn't it?"

"It has ... Pestilence."

"Is everything okay my dear? You seem ... upset." he said with a warm and friendly smile."

Celestia said nothing, only looked at him.

"Why do you care about them? You're a princess Tia. You can have anything you want. Fame, money, slaves. Everything really. So why do you choose to care for them?"

Celestia had her eyes closed when Pestilence was talking to her. She didn't seem to pay attention to him anymore. Pestilence looked at her in wonder and slowly approached her.

"Is something wrong Ti-"

Before he could finish, Celestia grabbed him by his throat and pushed him to the wall.

"Never call me like that again..." she said to him, looking him in the eyes with anger like no other.

Pestilence looked at her and started laughing.

"Ahahaha, ahhh, you're a fool, my little Celestia."

Celestia turned around but before she knew it, she could see Famine in front of her, quickly grabbing her hoof, then biting it with all his might. Celestia screamed in pain and let go of Pestilence's neck. Soon, Celestia started feeling weaker and weaker by the minute. Famine was draining her magic power with every second he had his teeth in Celestia's flesh, slowly sucking her blood.

"ENOUGH!" said a voice from a distance.

Famine immediately let go of Celestia's hoof and moved away, wiping his mouth with his hoof. Nightmare Chaos then entered the room and looked at Celestia which was now at the ground, struggling to keep herself together. The two Ponies, War and Death appeared out of a fire that burst between Nightmare Chaos. He in the meantime, looked at Celestia and gave out a laugh.

"You're pathetic Celestia. If you care for them so much, why not help them?!"

Celestia said nothing.

"Answer to your lord, you bitch!" he yelled at her and kicked her in the stomach, making Celestia spit out blood and cease her breath.

Death grabbed Nightmare Chaos by the shoulder.

"Hate in you grows stronger every minute brother, but we must set an example for the future riots that will come."

Nightmare Chaos sustained his hate and backed off, making way for War. He raised his axe and looked at Celestia.

"Queen of Equestria my ass!" he yelled and swung his axe at her, spilling blood all over the wall.

Right after that, the rest of the remaining Mane Six ran in the room only to see Celestia's head in Death's hoof. Twilight Sparkle looked at him in shock. Nightmare Chaos noticed her fear and laughed once again.

"AHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Generosity, Laughter, Kindnerss and Magic?! PATHETIC! You LOST! The New Chaos Republic has risen once again!"

"N-No ... it can't be..." muttered Twilight Sparkle.

"Darling, sorry about this..." said Rarity to Twilight Sparkle and teleported the four of them away.

Now the usual sounds of birds chirping and fillies playing are replaced by the sounds of torture and death, screaming and pain. The land is stained red with blood under the new rule of the Ponies of the Apocalypse. The New Chaos Republic is reborn and giant battlefleets are covering the skies while the streets are empty, under the presence of an everlasting night, under an everlasting full moon. All hope is lost...