Chapter 1 - A Rock and a Hard Place [Remastered]
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Chapter 1 - A Rock and a Hard Place [Remastered]
Wind.
Nothing but wind.
Hearing the curtains move as the wind pushes it.
Then hearing like something was going to break with some movement.
Twilight woke.
Then seeing snow from the broken windows without looking. "Ugh, what happened?" Twilight woke gaining conscious. She can hear something making medal move. Then saw that she was in a train cart that looked like something crashed into it.
She then moved but stopped due to pain.
She looked down seeing her blood everywhere on her abdomen. She got stabbed by something.
"Yeah, it went though." Twilight said to herself she can feel blood coming from the back of her. "That's my blood... that's my blood, that's a lot of my blood..." Then leaning back of the seat.
She looked at the side of her window she saw the Canterlot with its Hearth's Warming decorations but it was sideways to the right. "What...?" Twilight asked seeing snow come in though her window.
She looked in front of her. She can hear something move.
Then out of nowhere seeing a emergency kit going right in front of her.
She quickly dodged it making it hit her seat. It opened making the supplies go everywhere.
"Since where did gravity come to me?!" Twilight asked.
Then saw a barrel hitting the seats as the 'gravity' was coming to the back to the train cart. It opened the doors of the cart then hitting the hoofrail falling off.
Then Twilight realized that the train cart was hanging off a high cliff making the cart sideways if she fell it would result death.
"Oh Celestia." Twilight started to panic.
She can feel the seat that she was at started to break due to her weight. She looked then jumped as the seat fell.
Hanging of the next level of the seat then started flapping her wings. "Ugh!" Twilight screamed in pain. Her wings were broken bad. Making gravity getting the best of her.
The chair she was on leaned back making her fall.
She used her spell to let her levitate but her horn had a big chunk of ice stuck on it.
Even if she tried she would still fail.
Now with the spell gone she fell on the hoofrail making her bounce then grabbing on it.
After that she looked up with getting a firm grip to the hoofrail.
"Oh, crap."
She can fell the momentum of the cart making it fell like just an eternity of just momentum.
...
Now hanging on the sideways cart she didn't know which side to go to.
So with little power she then grip-by-grip went to the left to the hoofrail. By the corner of the hoofrail a door fall off.
Then getting at the back of the train cart she proceeded upwards. She looked at the very top of the cliff seeing snow with little pebbles falling with it.
By getting distracted she slipped by the back legs, but still holding on the pipe with the two hoofs she has.
Due to this a chunk of rock from the cliff came falling down hitting right next to her little staircase with disconnecting the hoofrail. She let go falling down then grabbing the steel of the back of the train.She climbed back up to the place she was before.
She looked up. "It's okay, it's just a little jump." Twilight said. As she did that her back legs didn't do what she wanted to.
"Ugh!" She got the stab on her left side of her abdomen with blood everywhere on that side.
Making her not climb like she ever wanted to.
She climbed the pipe that would have no effect on the pain she had. The pipe then lead to the left side having to cross a box containing mechanics. She went on the right side then went to the left halfway there a huge rock fell on top of her.
She noticed while looking up she made as much space as possible in order to not hitting her. She hanged on one hoof looking directly at the rock she saw it crashing on the train wheels making it fall with it.
She still climbed at end of the box which lead to a pole at the left corner of the train cart. Making it the one-way-shot to the top. As she climbed the pole she spotted something was going to break only halfway it broke. "...It's okay... it's okay... come on...". She climbed as steady as she could be, but she can still feel it move due to it being loose. Almost there, almost grabbing the non-broken pole, as pole she was one had enough weight that it went sideways in a curved direction with Twilight hanging on hitting the train enough weight to make enough force. She looked at the pole after crashing to the cart.It was still connected but not for long. She jumped as the pole fell, making it successfully.
Now at the top left corner of the train she spotted little hoof gaps on the cart then leading on 'top' of train then climbing on a broken Sky Light which had a little platform. She looked around then saw a seat in front of her to jump on.
She jumped landing with a back leg dangling from her land. She got on it then looked up seeing an another two chairs but tightly together. She jumped with two hoofs on top with two back legs on the bottom. Then an another chair up from her side of the train.She can't seem to fit in between the gap so she leaped on the bottom of the an another two tightly seats.It broke not falling but just dropping a foot on the right side of the chair.She climbed on the seat on top.Then on last seat across at the right side of the cart. She leaped again but the seat she was on broke and fell out the train cart.She then repeated the process of climbing then she as pulled herself up it broke swinging her to a window that got repaired by wood.
She crashed though it with only one hoof stopping the process as she looked down with the broken wood planks falling off.
She then looked right seeing more hoof gaps then climbing right she made it to the same pole but the part that wasn't taken down by Twilight.
She proceeded to climb the pole connected to the train.
Almost at the top she looked as the first set of the train wheels were on the cliff but falling making it off it.
It made a big crash with the door next to her was a storage door opened by a crate falling off, with the pole Twilight was on holding with only the bottom part holding it together. Now with only a short time she jumped to the opened sideways door as the pole fell.
Now only a wall as tall as her, she climbed it but stopped to see if the doors were open or closed by something. She looked at the hoofles seeing a chain with a lock connecting it, so if she stood on the doors it wouldn't open.
She got up immediately with only little time, jumped on the stepladder then started climbing but almost fell due to the train cart connecting the train cart she was on dropping with it's last moments.
She got up on the ledge then started to go though the passageway, but fell because the train cart was now falling. She ran as the cart fell but now in midair she ran and ran until there was nothing...
She jumped as the cart went to a ninety degrees she landed on the edge then slipped hearing the train hitting the ground but didn't look down only up.
She climbed up then fell on the ground having a sigh of relieve.
FLASHBACK:
Twilight looked around in the Castle of Friendship outside seeing her friends walking towards her.
"Hey Twilight ready for some hot apple cider? It's some good stuff!" Applejack first said.
"Thanks," Twilight used her magic to left the cup of cider. "So," She took an another sip of apple cider. "So, what are we going to do toady? It's the day before Hearth's Warming Eve."
"It's snowing already," Rainbow Dash said. "I guess we should play in the snow."
"What happens if we get hit in the... eye?" Fluttershy now asked Rainbow Dash.
"We will be okay.... I hope." Rainbow Dash replied.
"It' will all' be okay'." Applejack then put a hoof on Fluttershy's back.
"Now all we got to do is plan a party!" Pinkie Pie said as confetti went behind her.
Spike felt something as if something would come out of him.
"Now all [gag] we [gag] go-" Spike collapsed on the ground.
"Spike!" Rarity pushed them out of the way as Spike put his claws on his neck.
Then a flame with water, snow and a letter came out of Spike.
"The flame melted the snow." Twilight nodded as Spike gasped for air.
Twilight read it to herself.
Then told them. "It's from Princess Celesta and it says that we are invited to a party at Canterlot for Hearth's Warming "
"No! I have to make the dresses for the party!" Rarity yelled.
She ran but Twilight stopped her. "She also said that we don't have to wear dresses besides its a private party."
"Oh." Rarity said.
"Come on! It's like nothing bad would happen!" Rainbow Dash said.
"Yeah, I mean what can possibly go wrong?!" Twilight replied to Rarity.
END OF FLASHBACK:
Twilight then got up.
She walked weakly through the black path the train cart created, now gone with snow everywhere she saw a big block of ice that looked something was on it. Twilight thought while walking weakly towards the train cart wall, it would have been completed but on there was one cart resting on a tree. On fire.
She saw that the tree was going to collapse if she didn't hurry. Even though she was a few feet away.
Then seeing Rainbow Dash all bloody under the cart resting on the tree. Twilight used her arms to left her up.
As she walked the tree started to collapse, she didn't really pay attention.
When it really was going to break it went to the same level as Twilight's head. Making her fall with her arms covering her head.
She just kept walking with Rainbow Dash in her arms then tried to fit her though the little gap in between two train carts.
Then other carts were surrounding the little area she was in.
As she fell with Rainbow Dash she saw Applejack unconscious. "Oh no!" Then looked at Rainbow Dash.
She was breathing. So was Applejack.
She saw a dead changeling on the ground near Applejack. "I need to use my magic to carry them both!"
She walked towards Applejack then stepped on water. Twilight followed the water to reach fire. "That's it! I can use the fire to thaw the ice stuck on my horn."
Twilight proceeded to the fire lifting up her head over it next to some debris. In between the surround carts and debris around it.
After some waiting the ice thawed enough that Twilight can use her own magic to left both Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
Twilight then looked at the left of the dead changeling and saw a sliding door. She opened it, leading to more fire melting snow with the passage way leading to the other door at the other side. Twilight walked towards the door in a cart using magic to hold the unconscious Rainbow Dash and Applejack.
Twilight reached the door then pushed it open but realized that it had a chain with a lock on it. "[sighs] Course it's locked, it's always locked." She used her magic to unlock the lock then pushing the door to the left making it collapse on the ground flat on the snow.
Now surrounded by carts and a cart over her head she looked up seeing a changeling dead in the cart above her.
She went a continued to the left not right because it will lead to a dead end. She continued walking right with the wound on her.
She saw a changeling alive she took cover behind a crate with her unconscious friends next to her. "She's alive!"The changeling said. Then started walking towards Twilight. A propane tank behind a sliding door exploded behind the changeling making it dead.
But kept the door not flying by the cart pressure next to the cart that exploded.
Twilight walked seeing a medal scrap covering the exit. She just fell on it then stopped.
Surrounding her was nothing but carts completely everywhere. It was like she was in a hole a the carts were walls.
She looked then saw Fluttershy unconscious, and bloody. As if Twilight's friends were bloody when she found them.
She lifted Fluttershy by her magic then climbing a cart broken as tall as her having a ledge.
Then she was an another cart resting on a cart on the back side. Twilight jumped on the cart on top but collapsed due to the wound she has.
Inside the cart was Pinkie Pie bloody."If Pinkie is there," Twilight began. "Then I have Rainbow, Applejack, Fluttershy, then... I'm still missing Spike and Rarity! Oh no..." A door opened on the side Twilight was at by itself.
Using the same thing she lifted the bloody Pinkie Pie.
Then stepped outside. Stepping on a ledge of a cliff. She looked around then looked at the left, seeing a cart that was a few feet off a cliff but not hanging. "Okay..." She thought. "It's a few feet below it wouldn't hurt...". She jumped then landing inside but landed hanging on the edge of the cart.
She pulled herself up then noticing it was sideways. She walked towards the end to rest at the end of the cart she was in. Bad idea.The door was lying as a 'floor' due to the cart being sideways and due to her weight the door fell. In a open non-trapped area she was free.
She looked in front of her seeing Rarity and Spike hugging together like it's the end of time. Rarity stood showing no signs of blood but Spike showing multiple cuts and bruises. "Cute." Twilight said.
Then Spike waking up gaining conscience. "W-ww- what's going on?" Spike asked seeing a shadow figure holding four ponies. "I SURRENDER!" Spike shouted raising his hands up.
"It's just me Spike," Twilight said. "Taking care of your lover?"
Spike had a massive cut also on his abdomen so then put his claw on it. "Yeah..." He said with a blush. "And you need to take care of that wound, it's gonna kill you." Spike pointing at the bloody hole Twilight had at the left side of her abdomen.
"It's okay," Twilight replied.
"You also have a few cuts on your face..." Spike said.
"I know... you too. Come on we have to keep moving." Twilight levitating Rarity with her magic.
The snow got the best of them both. It was a blizzard Spike then noticed.
Twilight got in cover leaning on a meter high create resting next to her a blue dagger. On it was lines that blue bright lights would follow the lines printed on the dagger. Twilight looked at it one more time with her bloody hoof. "It's the key to all of this."
