Dimensions

Hours flew by, and the dawn of the next day awoke Twilight through the crack through the curtain. She crawled out of bed and noticed Spike coughing up a letter in the corner of her eyes. The paper was a weird colour, damp and had many things engraved into it, usually images of an eye. Twilight used her magic to open up the letter.

"Twilight,

I am writing to you to tell you some important information. To save your time, I wrote a letter instead of talking face-to-face. I have an important task I ask of you; evacuate Ponyville.

You may think that I am being silly, but I am serious. I was thinking about the Ponyville citizens, until I was able to take a glimpse at the future if we did not evacuate. I saw nothing but corpses, and only few were spared, but only to become souvenirs.

Please, listen to me. I do not want to be held responsible for any casualties, and I do not want to be taking souls from their bodies.

• Midnight."

Twilight tilted her head, then looked at Spike, setting the letter neatly down on the table. Spike looked back at her in surprise, as she read the letter out loud. They looked at each other in silence. Finally, Twilight decided to break the silence.

"Spike, do you know what this means!?" She asked him, spreading her wings and flying towards the top of her bookshelf.

"No, not really." Spike mumbled.

Twilight sighed, then levitated her own paper and quill, handing it to him. "Take a letter." She flew back to the ground.

Spike nodded, still confused, but he followed his friend's orders. Twilight cleared her throat.

"Dear Princess Celestia, I have recently received a letter from Midnight telling me to evacuate Ponyville, as she fears that the battle may cause casualties. If this is true, than the battle that we are going to be apart of might be bigger than what we had expected. I am just checking with you to confirm this, as we should evacuate them to Canterlot. From, Princess Twilight Sparkle."

Spike finished writing, then settled the quill on the table. He rolled the paper into a scroll and then blew green fire on to the letter, surrounding it in a blaze and sending it to Princess Celestia. He then turned to Twilight. "Do you think the Princess would let you evacuate everyone to Canterlot?"

"I'm not sure, Spike." Twilight admitted. "Knowing her, she would probably take every pony to the other side of Equestria. Then again, we don't want to spread panic..."

"What do you think the ponies would think about the evacuation?" Spike questioned.

"Like I said, I'm not sure. They would start making accusations if we don't tell them, no doubt." As she finished her sentence, Spike coughed up a letter that was sent by Princess Celestia.

Spike held tight on to it, and then opened the scroll. He read it out loud. "Dear Princess Twilight, if Midnight had told you to evacuate everyone, then so be it. Please make sure that the Ponyville citizens do not know why they are being evacuated, just get the job done even if you have to tell a white lie. From Princess Celestia."

Twilight nodded. Quickly, she started packing a saddle bag filled with scrolls, quills and other essentials, like lists. She then signalled Spike, who jumped on her back. Without saying a word, they set off out of their library and out of the castle, where Fluttershy was waiting for her. Twilight walked down to her.

"Good morning, Fluttershy." Twilight greeted.

"Oh, good morning..." Fluttershy whispered.

"What brings you here?" Spike asked.

"I just wanted to be with someone, really..." The yellow pegesus murmured. "I'm scared about what's about to happen."

Twilight smiled softly, wrapping her arm around Fluttershy. "Don't worry! We're evacuating the town... Do you wanna help?"

"Why?" Fluttershy kindly asked. "Is something going on?"

"Don't you remember?" Twilight sighed. "The fight is taking place here! We have no choice..."

Fluttershy lowered her ears. "What...?"

"But don't spread panic." Twilight quickly interfered. "We're just going to tell everyone that Parasprites are going to attack again, and we need to get them to Canterlot."

"O-Oh..." Fluttershy squeaked. "S-So we have to lie..?"

"It's not like we have a choice. If we tell them what is actually going to happen, everyone will panic." Spike told her.

"I guess that's true..." Fluttershy nodded. "I'll join you."

"Me and Spike have to go to the town hall first, why don't you round up all of your animals?" Twilight suggested. "Meet us by the train station."

"O-Okay..." Fluttershy whispered, then crouched down and launched herself into the air, spreading her wings and taking flight, heading towards her little cottage.

Twilight raced towards the town hall with Spike clinging on to her mane in hopes that he wouldn't fall off. The saddle bags clinked together as they ran. Avoiding pedestrians, they came upon the large building, slowing down before they enter it. Hopping inside, they charged towards Mayor Mare.

The lavender alicorn memorised what she was going to say, repeating it again and again, going through every possible thing that the Mayor might say to her, and making sure that she had a comment for any response she gives. When they approached Mayor Mare, Twilight stopped in her tracks and took a deep breath.

"Good morning, Mayor Mare." Twilight panted. "I have some news."

Mayor Mare watched as Spike climbed down from Twilight's back. "Oh, what's wrong?"

"We have to evacuate the town." Twilight told her. "Parasprites are heading towards Ponyville."

"What?" Mayor Mare tilted her head. "Who told you that..?"

"Um..." Twilight stuttered. "Princess Celestia! And she said that there is going to be a big swarm."

"Yeah, like, really big!" Spike exclaimed, trying to help.

"Oh dear." Mayor Mare gasped. "We need to evacuate quickly, then! But where to?"

"To the train station." Twilight ordered. "We'll get a train to Canterlot. The Princess will be waiting."

Mayor Mare nodded, heading out of the town hall. Twilight heard her ordering ponies to head towards the station. Spike and Twilight nodded at each other as many other ponies started to leave the town hall. Spike climbed back on to Twilight's back. They exited with them, then Twilight unfolded her wings and took to the sky. She flew towards Sugar Cube Corner, hoping to find her friends there.

Landing in the bakery, she quickly gained the attention of Pinkie, Dash, Rarity, Applejack and Starlight. Stumbling a little bit, she maintained her balance and stood up straight. With that, she coughed and began talking.

"We're evacuating the town."

Starlight's eyes widened. "What?"

As the other girls started to mumble, questioning Twilight's decision.

"Why are we evacuating, darling?" Rarity asked.

Twilight rolled her eyes. "You don't remember what Midnight said, do you?"

Dash shrugged. "Not really."

"She said that the fight would take place in the middle of Ponyville, correct?" Twilight raised her eye brow.

"Correct." Starlight nodded.

"How many ponies do you think'll be caught in the crossfire?" Twilight asked them. She folded in her wings.

"I dunno." Pinkie shrugged. "A lot?" She said this with her casual voice, but then realised how bad that was. "Oh."

"Fluttershy's at the train station waiting with her animals. Mayor Mare is evacuating ponies. They think a Parasprite swarm is heading towards Ponyville."

"You lied to 'em?" Applejack squinted her eyes.

"Not like we had a choice." Spike interrupted. "How do you think they would react if we told them someone is gonna try to destroy this dimension?"

Applejack sighed, agreeing. "Ah guess that's true."

"We don't have much time." Twilight told them. "The train will arrive soon."

"Do you really think that one train would fit the whole of Ponyville, dear?" Rarity frowned.

"Of course not." Twilight smirked. "I've calculated that in my head, it would take around two trains and a half."

"Oh." Rarity huffed.

"Ah'll grab the apple family. Meet ya'll in a jiffy." Applejack tipped her hat, then ran off towards the farm.

Twilight sat down and wiped the sweat from her forehead. Starlight looked at her in confusion as Spike toppled off her back.

"You all right?" She asked her mentor.

"I've been running around for a while." Twilight coughed. "That's all. Oh, and yeah, the end of the world."

"Right." Starlight grunted, watching Pinkie, Rarity and Dash exit the building. "We're going to win. The world won't end."

"You know that Error Pinkie has gotten two civilians already, right?" Twilight snorted. "No doubt she'll try to get more."

"We'll save them too." Starlight reassured her. "I know we will."

Twilight lifted up her head. "Just-. Try to find everyone, get them to Canterlot."

With that, Twilight lifted herself up, with Spike bouncing back on her back. They trotted off, leaving Starlight in the bakery. The unicorn turned to walk upstairs where the Cakes were, and instructed them to go to the train station due to a Parasprite swarm heading to Ponyville. It may be a white lie, but it's better than the truth.