A Bitter End

Rest Now Quite Now

(Ponyville, Equestrian Pizzeria, 2:38 pm)

Twilight Sparkle and her friends have been wandering around the Pizzeria, even though it didn't look like a Pizzeria meant for kids. As Twilight looked around, she felt that it looked more like a Horror House for Nightmare Night, she half expected some in a Werepony costume to pop out and spook them. Seeing blood stained walls, mutilated carcasses, and having blood dominate every other smell, Twilight couldn't tell if they were on the right trail or not, all she could was decide were to turn at the end of the hallway.

"Man this place is lot bigger than it looks on the outside, huh?" Rainbow Dash said as she looked down each corridor, wondering which way to go.

"Indeed, darling, while it is amazing that this building was so well built, I'm afraid the 'scenery' around kinda ruins it." Rarity said as she inched away from a severed limb near her.

"I wonder which way we should go, anypony have any ideas?" Twilight asked as she looked back at her friends.

"Um... I do." A tiny voice came from Fluttershy's arms, and in an instant all eyes snapped onto the now awake small pony being carried by Fluttershy.

"Oh, um... Alright, which way we should go?" Twilight said as she approached the filly.

"On your right, there is a door, that is the room your friend Sunset is currently unconscious in, after you get her just go straight until your in the main area again." Twily said as she pointed left.

"Now why would we go and get her, she was helping Starlight!" Applejack exclaimed.

"Not of her own free will." Twily said as she hopped out of Fluttershy's arms and started walking towards the door. "She was under a hypnosis spell after she was ambushed by Starlight, before you found her Twilight."

"How would you know, you just got here, so there is no way you could know that." Rainbow attempted to argue, but was silenced, as were the others, when Twily responded.

"Because the same had happened to her in my dimension, she came here in hopes of getting all of your expertise on a problem happening over in the human world, by the way the ones at fault for that is their version of the CMC." Twily said as she tried prying the door open, but was clearly having trouble.

"I knew it!" Twilight exclaimed then smiled sheepishly once she realized everyone was staring at her. "Well Sunset said somepony was telling everypony's secrets over on her side, and that they were framing her as the culprit."

"Oh my, that sounds horrible!" Fluttershy said as she took her off the adorable sight that was Twily trying to open the heavy door.

"E~eyup, I guess that mare really needs some cheering up after all the stuff she's been through." Applejack said as she open the door for the little filly, ignoring the disappointed sigh coming from Pinkie and Fluttershy.

Twily ran in, only to trip and fall on her face, causing everyone behind her to coo at the adorable scene.

"Where are the Elements?" Princess Luna asked the Animatronic Twilight as she walked back over to her, even though they are a lot smaller than they were in their Nightmare forms, they still almost reached 6 feet tall and towered over most ponies.

"I don't know, they left the security room and were supposed to be on their way here, they might've gotten lost." Twibot responded.

"Or maybe you are preparing to kill them, you monster." Shining Armor spat a her, he didn't like these things, they just murdered almost a hundred ponies, traumatized even more than that, most of them foals, and they were going to get off scot free, and live with his SISTER!

"Nah, if anyone was anywhere near Twily with any kind of malicious intent, all of us would know, and if it were coming from any of us, the rest would tear apart that one, actually that depends on their reason as to why." Twibot pondered

"Horseapples, your all monsters, all you do is sow misery and sorrow into everything and everyone around you." he spat at her.

"Now that is where I will have ta interfere, partner." Animatronic Applejack said as she approached, with the others following after her.

"Yeppers, this meanie mean pants may have kidnapped and tortured us for hours, and used our pain to make herself more powerful, but she's trying really hard to make it up to us and Twily, and once Twily finds out that her BBBFF is a meanie pants as well, she is not going to be happy and going to use a lot of those big words nopony understands to show just how unhappy she is with you!" Animatronic Pinkie said, shocking most of the animatronics since this was the first time she spoke since her 'death'.

"So, doesn't change the fact that you all murdered almost a hundred innocent civilians and the squad of guards for no reason!" Shining shouted at the animatronics.

Just as Shining was about to continue, someone interrupted him by saying. "That's enough Shining."

Shining Armor whirled around to see Cadance and Celestia approaching, he grinned.

"Cadance, you have to agree that they shouldn't get away with this, and that they should be punished for all the damage they've done." Shining Armor was barely holding back a smug smile, fully expecting her to agree.

"Actually, I think what they did was the only way to save all of Equestria." Cadance said, the Animatronics snickered as Shining's jaw broke through the ground.

"Wha... huh... buh..." Shining couldn't find the words for a moment, making the Animatronics start laughing. "But they are murders, the bodies being brought out are increasingly more horrifying than the last!"

"While I do agree that the way they went about it is horrific and could of been done with more... professionalism." Princess Cadance began, Shining staring at her in shock from her previous statement. "But their reason as to why they were here to begin with, if my intuition is correct, trumps event the most horrific and mutilated corpse found in this place."

"What reason is that?" Shining was trying to figure out what his wife was saying.

"The reason is that the one Twilight's defeated foes has come back for revenge, and that revenge is to torture and murder all of her friends and any one she loves to increase her own power, the exact same way Sombra did in fact." Animatronic Twilight said as she put a hoof on his shoulder.

"What are you talking about?" Shining whispered as he looked down at his feet, trying to piece everything together.

"While you were hammering away at the barrier, me, Luna, and Cadance had decided it would be best to know what we were going up against, so we asked a couple of our intelligence guards to hack into the cameras and find out what was going on in there." Princess Celestia stated. " And after we saw what was happening, we thought just as you thought, and Luna, but she won't do anything because she holds her word over her physical well being, we held that last meeting with you before we got involved, Cadance would find out how the..."

Princess Celestia looked over at the Animatronics expectantly, to which Animatronic Rarity said "Animatronics, dear."

"Animatronics got into the restaurant, unnoticed." Princess Celestia finished.

"And what pray tell did young Cadance find that was enough to sway you in their favor?" Princess Luna asked, while she could understand Cadance wanting to spare them, bless her heart of gold, but Celestia, she was absolutely livid at the sight of her subjects being hunted down and torn apart.

"Twilight and her friends along with my former student were at a VIP table, so no pony saw as they passed out and were dragged off to some secret room within the establishment by the guards that you, Captain Shining Armor, had picked yourself to protect Twilight from any agitators who wished to send a 'message' to Equestria through the Elements." Princess Celestia's mane cast a shadow over her eyes as she spoke. Both Shining Armor and Princess Luna were shocked at the new information.

"After they were in there for about an hour, the Applejack animatronic over there showed up, out of no where, there were no cameras showing her approaching from any directions, not even the vents, and just kicked down the door and walked in." Princess Cadance concluded as she walked over to the aforementioned animatronic and patted her on the head.

Shining whirled around to face Twibot and said. "You said something about an old foe of Twilight, who was it, Discord, Chrysalis, that Trixie mare I heard about, who?!"

"Starlight Glimmer." Twibot earned herself a look of confusion from all of those present (except the other animatronics, who were looking confusedly at them). "Wait, you mean to tell me, that your Twilight didn't even notify you of me?"

"Wait, your the same pony who killed the Elements?!" Shining shouted at her.

"Yes, I mentioned that didn't I?" After a shake of heads, Twibot groaned and grounded her hoof in her face. "Alright, yes, my real name is Starlight Glimmer, and I have a spell that can rid anyone of their cutie mark, as a consequence of this is that their original personalities can be altered whichever way you so desire, at least until their cutie marks are returned, then all of the new altered personality flies out the window."

"And so, one day, Twilight and her friends came to town, something about a friendship problem and whatnot, I didn't really listen." Starlight continued, unabated by the horrified stares. "So when my opportunity came, I struck, I was able to overpower Twilight and her friends through the sneak attack, but not enough to... completely defeat them, as they were able not only expose me for being a hypocrite, as I had not removed my own cutie mark, but also release all the cutie marks I had... 'collected', including their own."

"After the fact, I had ran off, and instead of chasing after me and stopping me from ever doing something like that every again, she decided to let me go and hope I would see through the blanket of ignorance I had drawn over my eyes and see that what I had done had no excuses." Twibot said as she hung her head. "What she got instead was her dead friends, dead friends trying to kill her, nopony believing her, her being labeled insane, having to kill me, and finally live with fact that she had to kill her friends again so they could finally rest in piece."

"Oh, Starlight, just cause I called you a monster doesn't mean that I think that your unredeemable." Twily said as she and the others approach, Applejack carrying Starlight and rainbow and Pinkie were dragging Sunset behind them.

"So, you're their Twilight, it's nice to finally meet you." Princess Celestia with a kind smile as she approached them, only to be stopped by Animatronic Trixie appearing in front of her.

'I mean no offense to you, your Highness, but I pretty sure she doesn't to talk with the one who had sent a hunt for the 'delusional, distraught, and highly dangerous Twilight Sparkle'." Trixbot said as she trotted over and picked up the slightly sniffling filly.

"You mean that I had turned on Twilight, again, and she was actually telling the truth, again, and so she had take on a grueling task that if she failed it would mean the end of the world as we know it, again." Princess Celestia let her mane cast a shadow over her eyes again as she held back tears at what almost happened.

"Yes, now if you excuse me, I'm going to take Twily here back to the Castle of Harmony." Trixbot said as she about to teleport, only to be delayed by the Animatronic Fluttershy saying,

"Wait! you forgot to take her extra bandages, pain medication." Trixbot made an 'O' with her mouth before nodding and took the materials from Flutterbot.

Princess Cadance looked away from the two and focused on the Elements, and the two they were carrying, one of them she recognized right away from the many in depth talks about her with her aunt, the other was missing most of her arm, and looked like she had been beaten by one of the animatronics, and judging from the blood flowing her forehead, Cadance assumed she was a unicorn as well.

"Aunty, look, it's Sunset Shimmer, I don't know the other one, but I've got a few guesses as to who she is." Princess Cadance whispered to her aunt, as to not drag the attention of those around them.

"Indeed it is, and I'm assuming the one slung over Applejack's shoulder is Starlight Glimmer." Princess Celestia spoke with a dark ominous tone, not any louder than if was in day court, speaking to some pompous prick of a noble, and yet it had silenced everything around them, even the sounds of distraught families outside the establishment had gone hush, as they knew that somepony had earned the wrath of the Sun.

"Sister, I think you should accompany the Elements back to their respective homes, I shall deal with those two." Luna spoke calmly, pointing over to the unconscious mares.

"No Lulu, you've been through a lot today, I think I should be the one to deal with them, I'll make sure neither of them ever even thinks about harming my filia." Celestia said, slowly approaching the two unconscious mares, her appearance morphing into a more demonic form, thoughts of untold horrors and tortures was flying through her mind, and it showed in her eyes.

Celestia's approach was stopped as three Nightmares stood in her way, as Celestia studied them more closely she recognized Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie were in their Nightmare forms, Celestia looked over to where the filly Twilight was last seen, only to see Sunset being dragged over the filly's sleeping body, and then the Twilight Nightmare laid on top of her. Celestia was about to order them to move when she heard a sound, it sounded like a broken radio when she turned she saw the Trixie Nightmare following her every move, no matter were she looked, she was there, waiting for her to make a move.

"Um... your Highness." Celestia looked down to see the Applejack Animatronic looking up at her with a smug grin, "While admittedly some of us want to see Starlight pay for what she had done, but I think you should take breather before you do anything, that way you won't regret it."

"Oh~, I assure you Miss Applejack, I'm not going to regret any of it." The air around Celestia seemed to be increasing as seconds ticked by.

"Maybe, maybe not, but what our BIG concern is the fact you seem to be gunning for Sunset as well, and that is something we all will fight to stop." Applejack said as she morphed into her Nightmare form and stood next to Pinkie.

"Tia, you should heed their advice, escort the Elements to the Castle of Friendship and let me decide on what their punishments should be, and of course I will be running them by you, but remember that I will take away your opinion on the matter if you try and go overboard." Luna said as placed a hand on her sister's shoulder, ignoring the sizzling that came shortly after her hand came into contact with her shoulder.

"Okay Lulu, I will make sure the Element's arrive safe and sound." Celestia's eyes looked dead as she morphed back into her normal form.

"Thank you, Tia, and look on the bright side, this might be your chance to make up to this Twilight and prove to her that you aren't like her Celestia, and that you will make it up to her, right~." Luna waved Twily in front of her sister's face as if she was a puppy.

Celestia took Twily out of Luna's hand just seconds before a dog pile of animatronics piled on top of her.

"Alright!" Princess Celestia exclaimed, gaining all of their attention. "Luna you will bring those two to the Ponyville Guard Barracks and find out everything you can as to why they decided to do this to begin with, Animatronics and Elements, you will all accompany me and a full guard escort to the Castle of Friendship where we will discuss the living arrangements of the Animatronics!"

"Kay~" Everypony said, but the Animatronics didn't cease attempting to get the foal out of Celestia's grip.

To be continued.