First Chapters... should I continue? (Some are really old)

One of the first stories I wrote when I entered the fandom. Oi vey. :P

It was another beautiful day in Ponyville. The sun was shining and only a couple clouds were in the sky. Rainbow Dash was typically dispatching them but she had to taking a break to meet her friends. She left the sky and flew as fast as she could, zipping and twisting around the trees and houses just for fun as she headed to the library tree where Rainbow Dash lived and they were to meet. All the friends were gathered in the Golden Oak Library.

Spike had received a letter from Twilight to gather the ponies at the library as quickly as possible and he did his task per the usual obedience and quickness he always had, quickly gathering the group within an hour from their usual places. The apple yard, around town, and sending a couple to gather the others.

It had been a week since she had last seen Twilight and were beginning to miss her and worry. No messages or word from her for this long was uncommon. They didn’t worry though as she was going to Canterlot to visit and cast spells with the princesses Luna and Celestia.

When Rainbow Dash arrived Applejack was just walking in the door so she bolted down and flew in ahead of her, flapping her wings and coming to a dramatic sudden stop with a small gust of wind that blew a light layer of dust and dirt at all the other ponies that were sitting, semi-circle talking. They all were taken by surprise and coughed and blinked at the sudden puff of debris that was flying at them.

Looking and glaring at Rainbow Dash the ponies greeted her with a sarcastic, “It’s nice to see you too, R.D.” She smiled big and didn’t understand the looks, quickly assuming their jealousy and ignoring it as she usually does. Looking at Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash beamed, “Hey Fluttershy! Tank is doing great! I taught him the coolest trick! First he…”

Twilight Sparkle appeared in a puff of purple light, typically a beautiful alicorn; full of joy, curiosity and wisdom, was gripped with fear. Her eyes wide -trembling- and her coat ragged, her mane disheveled and her legs trembling. All the mares were surprised to see her in this shape. Suddenly worried and slightly shaken at the Alicorn in front of them.

Seeing the looks she was receiving she didn’t know how to explain what had happened to her in the city Canterlot. Memories still forming and others fading, not fast enough for her simple mind to handle. Shakingly, she began to speak, eyes still wide with horror and fear.

“Canterlot is gone.” The ponies reeled back in confusion and fear. “Princess Celestia was casting a new spell to open a door to the Crystal Empire. Something went wrong and it opened a portal to another world. We left it open to see what was on the other side, and sent in a royal guard. He didn’t come back.” She paused, gulping.

The ponies were confused, Applejack spoke first, “What happened then? Was he okay? Did the princess close the portal?” Quickly snapping back Twilight responded, “No! We kept it open. We didn’t want to lose him. We kept it open. We kept it open. We kept it open.” She whispered at the end. “It was a few hours before anything happened, then they came through two at a time. Strange creatures that stood on their hind legs and carrying guns.”

Rarity chimed in, “What did the fabric look like! Was it colorful!?!” Realizing she was being impulsive and insensitive she stopped her questions and blushed, looking at Twilights coat she noticed something near her cutie mark. “What’s that?”

Twilight snapped her head to look and tensed up, her mouth agape, her eyes widened and suddenly she bolted forward and ran headlong into a book shelf, knocking several on the floor as she turned and began running blindly to another bookshelf. Her friends tackled her and tried reassuring her all was well.

The panic began to leave her as she felt the warmth of her friends love around her; slowly she stood again, collecting herself. “Princess Celestia.” Her friends looked at her in confusion at first, then slowly began it dawned on them and they began to back away slowly, staring at her cutie mark, their faces contorting.

“What happened?” asked Pinkie Pie, looking more concerned than happy, which unnerved the others. “They came through and started shooting us. They wouldn’t listen to us and even surrounded some of us, and then started shooting us in the head. The knights were falling and dying faster than we could react. They were merciless.

They shot at Princess Celestia when she was casting the spell to close to portal and jumped on her. Three of them knocked her down and one took a knife and… cut off her horn.” The mares sat silently, scared, listening. “They dragged her into the portal and grabbed me and a few others and forced us through the portal to their world. We were in a building and there were hundreds of them lining to come to our side.

They had the knight Princess Celestia had sent through hanging by his arms in a cage. They had tortured him, and then cut him open and two doctors were… they were…” She started sobbing as her friend Rainbow Dash went to comfort her. She continued, “He was still alive, but his insides were out. They had a machine in him keeping him alive and awake while they were studying him. He couldn’t talk but looked like he was begging for death.

They led us to a set of cages and locked us in. It was only the two of us left. They brought another colt with us that was there during the attack, and shot him once we were through to show us we meant nothing to them. They took chains and threw them at us, and told us to put them on.” She remembered the princess looking at her and smiling, reassuring her it would be ok.

“Then she bucked the back of the cage with such force she bent it and all the guards started shooting her.” She stopped her story and fell to the floor. Spike was taking notes and stopped when he heard that. All the mares were sobbing. What was happening, why? What did these monsters want?

She collected herself after a couple minutes and continued, “She screamed while she was being shot and looked at my locked door. I used my magic to open it then I cast a shield spell and flew to the portal. When I passed back into our world there were hundreds more of them: Shooting Pegasus from the sky with missiles, killing kids like nothing.

As I flew away a missile exploded near me. As I fell I made it look like I was dead and I called out to spike to gather you all; then hid until I could cast a spell to get me home. They were piling through the portal. They took the castle in almost no time.