Project Tw1l1ght

The castle was covered in dust after years of vacancy. Rarity finally decided that no matter how much it hurt to step back into that place, it had to be cleaned.

But she knew that even in one thousand moons she would never get it done on her own. She needed help. Even if it was just a single pony, that would cut the work load in half.

It couldn't be Spike because he left for the dragon homeland in his grievances. He was now Embers life mate. He was of age now considering it had been five to six years after, the incident.

Celestia was devastated, but she could never be as harmed as much as Twilights parents. Even though she wasn't, she knew Twilight even better than her parents.

But than doesn't lighten the load on them.

It couldn't be Fluttershy because she would pass out at the sight of the castle, let alone going inside. Where they laughed, they played.

Rarity quickly pushed that thought to the back of her mind as she felt a tear form in her eye.

'Maybe Rainbowdash?' She thought to herself as she trotted through the streets of Ponyville. Seeing the crusaders run out of sugar cube corner made her think of asking them. Then she realized they still haven't accepted that she's gone.

No one knows what happened. She just disappeared. She looked up and saw Rainbow busting a couple of clouds. Getting rid of the only shade in the ocean of Celestia's sunlight.

She didn't want to bother her. She was working. Maybe Applejack, its her day off. 'Yea, I'll see if she wants to help.' Rarity thought and turned down the road that headed toward Sweet Apple Acres, crossing the wooden bridge on the way out of town.

"What room should I start with first?" She questioned out loud. "Maybe the bedroom. Or the kitchen, or the library."

She walked, not looking. Deep inside her mind trying to figure out how she would ever get that place clean. She could always use magic, but she liked the satisfaction of a job done by hand.

"Thanks fir  the help with roundin up those godstarn parasprites, Pinkie Pie." Applejack said carrying a sack over her back with an exuberant pink pony bouncing behind.

"Oh, Applejack. Perfect timing."

Rarity said turning around and matching pace with them.

"Hey Rarity! Were just disposing of these parasprites." Pinkie said with a bag also over her back.

"Would either of you like to help me clean. You know who's castle." She said as they both stopped.

"Honestly." Applejack spoke up as her and Pinkie stared at the ground. Motionless. "I don't know if I can do it. The castles our only reminder of her, I think we should leave it as it is."

"I know its our only reminder, but would you like our only reminder of one of our best friends to sit there dirty and filthy." Rarity said walking over to the two mares, comforting them.

"I- I guess your right." Applejack said giving in.

"What about you Pinkie?" Rarity asked as she looked over to Pinkie Pie. Her hair was down instead of its usually poofy state. She was crying.

"I-I-I can't!" She yelled. "It's just to much for me, I don't even want to look at that castle." She said falling on the ground.

"Its ok Pinkie, we understand." Applejack said. "If ya don't mind getting rid of these parasprites fir me, so we can get started."

"Ok." She said drying her tears and taking the sack Applejack was carrying.

------------Twilight------------

The pony stood there. One leg made of metal, one wing, a huge scar over her eye and a coat covered in them. Looking down at the body of her fallen enemy, barely alive.

She knelt down and pick him up in her hooves and started laughing. And a light started to cover them.

"Daystar, your time has come." Twilight said pushing her hoof blade deeper and to the soft skin of his neck. "All this death, for what. Your demise. You've sealed yourself a spot in hell."

"Ha, You know what." He said as the light finished covering them. "I think you're right. See you there."

"No thanks, I've already been. Give satan my best regards." Twilight said pushing the blade deep into his throat.

They were now covered in the light, it was blinding as it reflected off of Twilights metal wing.

Rarity and Applejack had just finished gathering cleaning supplies. They walked up to the front gate of the castle and stared at its majesty. Just then a huge beam of blue light and electricity crackled down from above, slamming on the ground. Making an earthquake like impact.

The two mares could just stand there and watch their now alien friend hold the body of some creature in her hooves.

"TWILIGHT!" She got no response, all she heard was weak sobs.

"Goddammit! Die Die Die!" Twilight yelled, this shocked Rarity and Applejack.

Rarity or Applejack could never see Twilight telling anypony to die.

"Twilight, are you okay!" The two mares now running over to her.

They saw Twilight hugging the thing close in her hooves holding a knife into its throat as it gasped for breath.

"Its been a good run." The thing said gasping for breath, making Rarity and Applejack stop in their tracks.

"Twilight?" Rarity said in a confused tone.

She stood up licking the blood off of her hoof knife, laughing.

"I did it." She said quietly. "Your death was not in vain. Nightingale."

"Twilight, are you okay!?" Rarity ran and jumped onto Twilights back. Twilight didn't even phase. She stood rooted in place like a great oak.

"RARITY!" She laughed a little. "It's over. WE WON!"

"Won wh-" She saw the dead body of Daystar. "OH MY CELESTIA! Why did you kill somepony!"

"I would've asked myself that question to, a long time ago." She turned around and hugged Rarity and Applejack at the same time. "You have no idea how much I've missed you."

She whispered into their ears. They both broke down into tears.

"Twilight!" Rarity said sobbing.

"Where did ya go." Applejack finished her sentence doing the same.

"It's a long story." Twilight said plainly walking toward Ponyville motioning for them to come with her mechanical wing. Wearing the standard UDF commander uniform.

"We have to let everypony know your alive!" Rarity yelled as her and Applejack caught up.

"I know." She said walking over the wooden bridge that marked Ponyville's border.

"Who was that?" Rarity asked.

Twilight sighed and replied. "The devil himself."

He wasn't the actual devil. But he made Twilights life a living hell. She still wasn't satisfied with shoving that hoof knife through his throat. She wanted to stab him over and over again in the chest, and watch him gasp for breath as blood filled his lungs.

"Twilight." Rarity said snapping Twilight out of her trance. "Is everything alright."

"Yea, why wouldn't it be." Twilight said as Rarity gave her a concerned look.

"Your stomping your hooves through the bridge." Twilight looked down and saw her hoof went through the wood.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I just have a lot on my mind." Twilight said. She took her hoof out of the bridge and continued to walk.

"What's wrong?" Applejack asked.

"Huh. I'll tell you when I have all of our friends together." She sighed and continued to walk again. "Wheres Spike?"

"He, left for the dragon homeland when you disappeared. The little guy was so depressed. I just hope he found his happiness with Ember." Rarity told her.

"I hope he is too." Twilight said.

"Wait, ya don't mind?" Applejack asked.

"Why would I, if he's happy I am, if I was gone for five years I wouldn't wait for myself either." Twilight said as ponies started to see her. "What happened while I was gone?"

"Well, like I said Spike left. Celestia almost cried herself to death. Your parents and Pinkie were devastated also. Everypony was." Rarity said as they passed the first set of houses.

Twilight saw something out of the corner of her eye, a Rainbow blur. She laughed and said.

"She's not the fastest anymore."

"What do ya mean, Twilight?" Applejack asked. She soon got her answer.

Rainbowdash came flying in at super sonic speeds. Twilight quickly sidestepped so fast that by the time Rarity noticed she was gone Rainbowdash was eating dirt.

"Twigskidyhanh!" Rainbow yelled with her mouth full of grass and dirt. She spit it out and jumped out to hug Twilight.

"Where were you!?" She asked frantically. Twilight jumped three feet in the air carrying Rainbow with her. A pink blur flew faster than the speed of light underneath them.

'Still to slow.' Twilight though to herself.

"TWILIGHT!" Pinkie yelled grabbing on to her with Rainbow.

"Are you okay, where have you been!?" They asked in unison.

"Lets meet Fluttershy at her cottage and I will tell you the whole story." She said walking as the two ponies still held on, but she still walked like it was no challenge to her.

"What happened to you?" Rainbow asked as her and Pinkie let go.

Twilight started to sing.

"There was a time, when I was alone, nowhere to go and no place to call home. My only friend was the pony in the moon, and even sometimes she would go away too. Then one night as I closed my eyes, I saw a shadow flying high. He came to me with the sweetest smile, told me he wanted to talk for a while. He said, Nightingale thats what they call me, I promise that you'll never be lonely. He sprinkled me in fairy dust and told me to believe, believe in him and believe in me. We'll fly away in a cloud of green toward your beautiful destiny." She finished, all the mares snapped out of the trance induced by Twilight sweet voice.

"That, was the sweetest song I have ever heard." Rarity said.

"Thanks. It helped calm my mind when I was knee deep in bodies." Twilight said as all the mares stopped and looked at her with open mouths. Rarity and Applejack not so much, considering they've seen her do it, still no less surprised.

"You killed!" Rainbow yelled.

"Yea. Is there something wrong with that." Twilight said turning toward Rainbow.

"Yes! The whole concept!" Pinkie yelled.

"Ok, TELL ME IF ITS WRONG IF YOU HAVE TO DO IT TO SURVIVE! THAT IF YOU DON'T ALL YOUR FRIENDS WILL DIE!" She finished and calmed down. "I-I'm sorry. I just,"

Rarity walked over and put a hoof over her shoulder. "Its ok, you must've been through a lot, dear. We understand."

"Thanks, I'm so happy to be back." Twilight said as they rounded a corner and Fluttershys cottage came into view.

"AHHHH!" They heard Fluttershy's scream from around the corner. They all started to run. Twilight moved so fast even Rainbow couldn't see her move.

Twilight rounded the corner and saw timberwolves moving in on her friend.

Twilight drew her hoofblade and flew so fast it cause wind of around twenty five miles per hour behind her. She moved her hoof up as she came near the timberwolves. She stopped on the other side, twisted her hoof so the blade would contract, and the wolves exploded into splinters as the other four ponies came around the corner.

"Fluttershy, are you okay?" Twilight asked as she walked toward Fluttershy. The timberwolves started to form into one behind her. Dragging in trees from the nearby forest.

Fluttershy was speechless pointing behind Twilight's back as they made the wolf shape and converged. It was now one giant angry wood wolf.

"Fluttershy?" Twilight asked as the wolf tried to step on her, everypony gasped as it seemed like Twilight was crushed.

"I wasn't. Done. TALKING!" Twilight yelled picking the wolf up by the same paw that he just tried to use and crush her. She slammed it into the ground and spun around and threw it as far as she could. Which was a good distance considering the size of the lumberwolf.

The four ponies around the corner of the house were staring at her with wide eyes, Fluttershy with closed eyes because she passed out.

That look on Fluttershy's face brought back a memory.

"TWILIGHT! Hold off the Desperado! I'm kickstarting the engine now!" Sgt. Riley yelled over the comms.

"You got it!" Twilight yelled firing potshots at the approaching Desperado from the Starships cargo bay. The Desperado were a band of aliens led by their leader, Daystar. He looks to enslave the entire universe for profit. All he sees is the business in everything.

They are some of all species. Ragnar, who are bug warriors, humans. You name it.

Twilight was paying attention to the far side and wasn't watching close by the bay doors. A Ragnar spider scouts crawled into the hatch, this wasn't the average spider, all Spinar are at least ten times bigger that normal bugs, so a little bit larger than Twilight.

The ship started to take off as Riley ran out of the cargo hold with his rifle blaring. The Ragnar saw this and dogged and shot a spike right through his face.

"RIILLLLLLLEY!" Twilight yelled turning and tackling the Ragnar out of the ship.

The spider used one of its legs to rip off Twilights wing. She screamed as she fell through the air with the spider. She stabbed it directly through the heart. It screamed also, fell back, and floated away from Twilight. Twilight fell for another second or two thinking this was it.

The ship flew under her with cockpit open and caught her.

"You can't get away that easily, Ms. Sparkle." The AI, Monday, told her.

Twilight crawled over to Riley's body. "RILEY!" She screamed over and over again. Seeing one of her only friends in this horrid wasteland called reality.

"RILEY!" Twilight screamed and all her friends could do is watch as she had that horrible nightmare. She shot up.

"Twilight what happened!" Fluttershy asked as Twilight slowed her breathing when she realized it was a nightmare. "Just a nightmare."

"Just a nightmare." She said again.