Darkness in the Heart

All of the other ponies went to the windows and saw the angry mob of ponies coming towards them. They were all soon panicking. "Alright, everypony just calm down," Light exclaimed. The other ponies were still scared. "Please, calm down!" Her words were still ineffective. "QUIET!!" she yelled; the other ponies calmed down. "Alright, how do we defeat them? We're outnumbered nine thousand and one to six. Any suggestions?" Nopony piped up. "Crap. Okay, there goes my plan, since my plan was to leach off another plan." All of the ponies just stared at her. "...Um... Okay! I think I may have a plan... but I'm not sure if it'll work. If it doesn't work, then, well, we all die!" She exclaimed in a sarcastically happy voice.

"Well, what is it?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Nothing!" Light gained a big smile and threw her hooves in the air.

"Are y'all crazy?" Applejack asked.

"Yes!" Light answered, staying in the same stance. "Yes I am!"

"Well, that just won't work, dear!" Rarity said.

Light lost her smile and put her hooves down. "Actually, since there's a total of 6 ponies with a high amount of light, our harmony will make them too scared to attack." The other ponies were awe-struck at this logic.

"Are y'all sure that'll work?" Applejack asked.

"I have no idea!" Light replied. "Well, actually, I was just born with that logic... or technically, created, since I was never born... Bah, I hate my past." Everypony was apparently lost. "Okay! Let's go!" She started walking towards the door, but nopony else moved.

"How and why should we trust you?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Because this is our only chance of survival. Unless you all want to die while I go get your other friend and we save Equestria, I recommend we stay together." The ponies went silent for a few moments. Light got her sarcastic smile again. "Okay, let's go." She started walking towards the door again, though no ponies followed still. "Oh come on! What do I have to say for you to believe me?!" Everypony was still silent. "Okay, screw this! I'll just go save your friend and beat my brother ourselves!" She walked right up to the door and opened it; the sound of hundreds of hooves walking drummed loudly on the ground. "Buh-bye!" She was about to launch herself into the air when she heard a voice behind her.

"W-Wait," Applejack said.

Light turned around. "Yes?"

"Ah'm coming with you," Applejack said proudly, stepping forward.

"And I'm coming, too!" Pinkie said in her regular peppy voice, though with a sense of strength in it.

"And I shall tag along, also!" Rarity said.

"And so am I!" Fluttershy said with a strong voice.

The ponies sat there, waiting for the last pony to finish. "You comin', Rainbow?" Applejack asked.

"N-No! W-Why should I just trust you?!" Rainbow Dash stepped back awkwardly.

"You're not scared, are you?" Applejack smiled.

"What?! N-No!" She another step back.

"Yep, she is!" Pinkie teased. "Rainbow Dash the chicken! Buck- bawk!" She made chicken noises.

"I'm not a chicken!" Rainbow Dash stomped her hoof.

"Ah think you are!" Applejack joked.

"No I"m not!" Rainbow Dash slammed her hoof onto the ground, silencing the other ponies. "Fine! I'll come with you to prove I'm not a chicken!"

Light stared out the door and saw the mob of ponies was less than a mile away. "Okay, okay, great," Light rushed her words. "Now let's go before we get trapped in and have to do a final stand by fighting for our lives."

"But-" Applejack began.

"Too bad!" Light interrupted. "Just come on!" She opened the door and walked outside, this time to be followed by the five other ponies; they walked forward a few meters. She just stood there and watched the hundreds of ponies come close. She got into a battle stance, though, if her thoughts were correct, they wouldn't even have to fight them. The hundreds of evil ponies walked up to the 6 mares, then circled around them.

"Are you sure this'll work?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Nope," Light replied. "And if it doesn't, I swear I'll punch myself in the face a million times in the oblivion."

Rainbow Dash stared at her. "Yeah... Have fun with that."

Light changed her focus to the evil ponies in front of her. "So... Are you fools going to attack us?" She just stared at the antsy ponies in front of her. "I knew it; darkened ponies are always weak cowards." She noticed that this seemed to make the other ponies angry, though they still didn't attack. Light chuckled. "Okay, let's go. They're too scared to attack us." She started walking away, with the five scared ponies walking behind her. She went up to one of the evil ponies and it ran away, leaving an opening in the circle for them; they all walked away while the evil ponies just stood there, not daring to move. "Okay, that's one obstacle dodged. Now, where does your last friend live?"

"She lived in a library in the middle o' town," Applejack replied.

"And what does it look like?" Light asked.

"It's a tree."

"Huh... Interesting... I've never heard of a pony living in a tree before... This place is so much different from where I used to live." She looked around, admiring the town.

"There it is!" Pinkie randomly exclaimed, scaring the ponies. She pointed to a tree not too far away. The six walked over to it.

"Huh," Light said while staring at the tree-house. "I guess we should go in." She walked up to the door and slowly turned the nob to go inside. When she was in, she looked around; it definitely was a library, since there was enough books for hundreds of IQ points to be raised. She looked around to find a new pony. Well, she found one, alright; there was a lavender pony above them. Light quickly calmed herself to see inside the pony's heart. She about to see inside it when she got a sudden pain in her head, strong enough to make her lose her focus. I hate those damned magic spells! And... that's spell's a dark one, alright. I guess I got to my conclusion in the end. She looked up at the evil pony above her.

"Twi!" Applejack called to her. She started walking towards her, but Light put a leg in her way to stop the cowpony.

"Don't go; she's not her," Light said in monotone. The other four ponies lined up beside Light.

"Ah..." said the pony, who jumped down and landed in front of the six of them. "I knew you'd come," she said to Light, who just stared at her. "But I wasn't expecting my friends to come along with you. I'm sad; you should just stayed on this side; it's much better. I was expecting better from you all."

"'Better?'" Applejack replied. "It's not right being on your side! It's evil!"

Twilight chuckled. "No... I believe you're wrong. Since I've come to this side, I've been reading some... special books..."

"Like what?" Light said in a deep voice.

"Let's just say they're some special text books about dark magic..." Twilight replied.

That would explain the spell...

"Now... I guess I should show you all some of the spells I learned, shouldn't I?" she began charging a spell from her horn; however, instead of it being purple, it was a dark black.

This can't be good... Light thought to herself. Suddenly, a spell was fired and it hit every single one of the other ponies; Light was knocked back a few feet, but the other ponies just fell to the ground. Light got up to see her friends unconscious. Please don't tell me... The other ponies got up and looked at Light. Shit, it is happening... Pinkie's hair suddenly popped and became straight. Yep, they're dark again. If I knew this unicorn could do that, I would have just hunted herself down by myself first!

"Ah..." Twilight said to her friends. "It's good to have you back on the right side again..."

"Agreed," Applejack said with a crude smile. The group of evil ponies circled around Light.

Light looked around, finding a spot to slip out. Twilight said, "You came to the wrong neighborhood, mother bucker. Get her!" The six surrounding ponies charged at Light, but Light flew up into the air, making all of the ponies slam their heads together. Light flew away, but Twilight quickly charged up another spell and made it hit Light, knocking her out of the air.

Light got up and looked around to find herself in a completely different room. "Huh?" she said to herself. She looked around; it was dark, and the ground was uneven. "Where am I?"

"You're in my illusion," Twilight's voice rang from an infinite distance.

She has dark magic! Damn illusions... Suddenly, walls rose out of the ground, making Light fall back. She noticed that these walls were mirrors. She looked into one, and she was in all of the others. "The old mirror illusion trick..." Suddenly, her reflection was wiped away from the mirrors and was replaced with Twilight.

"Do you like my illusion? It was made especially for you," Twilight said.

"Well, you chose the wrong trick!" Light quickly turned to her side and kicked; she hit the real Twilight.

"Ah! How did you-" Twilight began.

"I'll never tell my secrets!" She began attacking the unicorn. After a few attacks, she stopped.

"Why did you stop attacking?" Twilight asked, face blood-stained.

"This is an illusion. My attacks do naught," Light replied.

"Correct," Twilight said. "But why did you attack in the first place if you knew that in the first place?"

"Simple. It was to make you lose your guard!" Light closed her eyes, then reopened them with magic flowing out of them. She flew into the air, then let out a burst of light, breaking the illusion. When she landed, she saw the six ponies in front of her.

"I shouldn't have underestimated you," the real, undamaged Twilight said.

"No. You should have. This gives you a better ending, but for me, not so much," Light said, gulping after finishing.

"And what do you mean by that?" Twilight bewildered.

"You know what that means? That means this is the end of me."

"I still don't understand what you're poking at."

"That means I die here, today!" Light began her special spell. The extremely special one; the one that would use so much energy, it kills her. But she has no choice. She flew up into the air, then gained the magic flowing in her eyes again. She made her wings fly out, sending a giant pulse wave of light and magic around her. It hit all six of the other ponies, knocking them back. There was a giant flow of magic circling around Light; then she fell to the ground, losing her breath... permanently.

The 6 ponies slowly dazed awake. "Uh... What happened?" they all said in different manners at different times.

When they were all conscious and awake, Twilight noticed another pony lying on the ground. "Who's she?" she asked.

"That's what's-her-name..." Rainbow Dash said. "Light, wasn't it?"

"Didn't she save us all?" Applejack asked.

"I think so," Fluttershy said.

"We should probably get her up, shouldn't we?" Rarity asked.

Twilight walked up to her and shook her; no response. She tried shaking her again, but she got the same result. She put her ear up to her chest. There was no sound. "She's... dead."