Dimensions

The next day, and everyone was woken up by a loud rumble. The ground was shaking, and ended with an extremely loud bang. It woke up half of Equestria and caused cracks in the earth five times larger than Canterlot. Twilight struggled her way out of bed when she heard the pop in her ears. Running from her home, she raced towards the Ponyville town hall, meeting her friends there.

They didn't wait for the other princesses, nor Discord or Starlight or Spike. When Twilight arrived to see the other five, they were screaming and panicking on what would happen next. The purple alicorn quickly tried to silence the girls, to stop panic from spreading. When they wouldn't shut up, she fired up her horn and used a spell on there vocal cords to quieten them. Once this happened, they stopped moving around and turned towards Twilight.

"Finally." She sighed. She cleared her throat. "I get that something has happened, but we need to go at this calmly. Do you understand?"

She saw their heads slowly nod.

"Good. Now, when I add back your voices do not panic." Twilight told them. "Okay?"

They nodded again. Twilight's horn lit up once more, adding back their voices. Pinkie took a deep breath, as if she was going to panic again, but only responded with a long exhale. Looking behind her, Twilight realised that there was a large crack going through one of the houses. The ponies that inhabited that house were standing outside, looking at their broken home in disappointment.

"What do ya'll get from all this?" Applejack asked, tilting her hat forwards.

"I'm not sure." Twilight sighed, then perked her ears up. "But I'm pretty sure I know who might."

"Discord?" Pinkie joked.

"Midnight." Twilight rolled her eyes. "We should go to her shack; and quick."

She was pacing again, burying her hooves into the wooden floorboards. She was memorising every spell that could possibly at least slow down the glitched creature, and was awoken by the trance from a knock on her shabby door. Marching towards the door, she flung it open and walked towards the middle of the room to let them all in. Only the elements of harmony were there this time.

Midnight flicked her hair, and turned towards the herd. "What's up?"

"Have you not looked outside?" Rainbow Dash snapped. "There are cracks in the earth!"

"That's called an earthquake, Dash." Midnight informed her.

"You think I don't know that?" Dash argued. "We don't normally have earthquakes, you know?!"

"I know that." Midnight smirked. "Don't worry, it just means that Armageddon is coming."

"Yeah, that really lightens the mood." Applejack spat.

"Calm yourselves." Midnight rolled her eyes. "Something bad has happened, I get that, but it just means that it is getting closer to Judgement Day. We have bigger problems on our minds."

"Really!?" Twilight frowned. "Bigger then Armageddon!? What could possibly be bigger than that!?"

"It's Error Pinkie." Midnight turned away from them, and opened up a book on her table. "She sucked the life out of the anti-void."

"The anti-what now?" Dash murmured.

"The anti-void. It is extremely powerful. Each dimension has one to itself. Sucking the power out of it can cause you to have an enormous increase of power. Luckily, she had only captured three quarters of it. I think she save the last quarter to store something in it... A pony, perhaps."

"Great." Dash said sarcastically.

"This just makes her more powerful, yet not enough to beat me. If she has been corrupting this dimension, then she could find a way into another, and suck the life out of that anti-void." Midnight swished her body back towards them. "Doing that could add a humongous amount of power on to her shoulders. If she consumes the right amount, that is. Consuming all of the anti-void from another dimension could cause her to explode, but if she's smart enough to know what'll happen..."

"How big of a chance do we have on catching her early?" Twilight asked, adding up statistics in her mind.

"Not a big one." Midnight responded. "Increasing her powers like this makes her chance of beating me increase as well. And if she beats me..."

"We're not going to let you die." Fluttershy puffed up her chest, but then quivered back down.

"You're going to make sure I don't die!" Midnight raised her voice. "I won't. Error Pinkie knows what'll happen if I do; she'd probably suck my power out of me or enslave me."

"Wait, what'll happen if she kills you?" Rainbow Dash asked out of curiosity.

"If she kills me, if anyone kills me, every dimension will collapse; cease to exist." Midnight flicked and piece of her mane that got caught in her mouth. "You will all perish. But Error Pinkie knows that, that's why she wants me alive."

Twilight nodded, and lowered her body closer to the floor. She didn't realise how big this was. Not only was Equestria's life was at stake, but so was every dimension that existed out of theirs. If they let Midnight die, that'll be the end of it. No buts or ifs. Twilight spun her head around like an owl, seeing her friends shiver in fear about what's about to come. She sighed, and stepped forwards. "As long as she knows that..."

Midnight nodded. "As long as she knows that."