Echoes in the Stone

Week after Twilight’s Death

Applejack sent a letter to Big Mac saying she decided to stay in Canterlot a few week because she needed a personal vacation and Gala was coming up was good enough excuses. She was going to ask Rarity to make copies of their Gala’s, but lucky for them she kept them for just in cases. After that was settled she rented a home for a month on Canterlot She was lucky she had “hero” status and all that she had was ask Luna since Celestia went A-wall. Applejack and Fluttershy ran to Sliver Swirl’s office to get answers for why Cadence and Twilight got killed. Applejack bucked the door open.“Prime Minster!”, Applejack yelledHowever, what stood before her was an empty room with empty room with a large table in it. As Applejack entered the room, she was begun dizzy and almost ready to pass out. Fluttershy grabbed her by the tail and exited the room. Applejack then throws up in the nearest pot, and after a while, she collected herself.“I'm not stuck or anything,” she thought, “So somethen is wrong with that their room. If I can’t get answers from the Prime Minster, then it’s time for Plan B.”“Fluttershy I want you to go the nearest hardware store and get some rope, knives, and anything that can hurt ponies. After meet  that me in the warehouse district ”, Applejack asked coldlyFluttershy raised eyebrow in question to Applejack’s order“Just trust me,” Applejack said with a serious look and putting her hoof on Fluttershy’s shoulder, “If I can’t get answers from the ponies in charge. Then the next thing is to ask the guards, and I have an honestly they won’t give us and easy answer.”Fluttershy thought about it and nodded with confidence and went off to the hardware store. Meanwhile, Applejack wondered the castle looking for one guard to kidnap. If she couldn’t get an answer from the sources since they’re most likely busy with the war, she’ll go for the next best thing, the guards. After a while, while wondering castle gardens until she saw a lone guard. She walked next to him and tapped him on the shoulders. In response, the guard turned around to the Applejack’s hoof coming right at him. It hit him in the face, hard, knocking him back to the statute’ s mantle and rendering him unconsciousness. Applejack knew of a warehouse in Canterlot that was once owned by her Aunt Orange before shut down for lack of production. Applejack, secretly made her way towards the warehouse caring the pony on her back. Near sunset she arrived, Fluttershy ran quickly to meet her with a bag full of tools and entered the warehouse with her.The inside looked quite empty and with rusted windows a fade yellow and orange paint along with a faded family orange logo. After she had found a chair, she removed the guards uniform and tied him up nice and good so he couldn’t move. He had purple mane and tail with a silver shield cutie mark.  She went to Fluttershy who was looking out making her sure no pony followed her or Applejack, which if I pony did they Fluttershy would have saw them by now.“Fluttershy you can stop,” Applejack said, and Flutter shy closed the door and turned to her, “I’ll be honest. I don’t want to do this in front of you, heck I'm quite nervous to do this myself. Well, I have to,  it if we are going to get answers, this is the only route we can take and am all out of the option. Plus, this won’t be pretty. It'll be the opposite. You ready?”Fluttershy nodded just as the guard started to stir from his slumber. Applejack closed and took a depth breath, grabbed the bag and walked to the guard “Here goes nothen,” she said with a gulp while holding the bat, “Hello sweetheart                “Applejack what in taturus are you doing?”, he asked                “Don’t try calling for help because no pony will her because you’re in an abandoned warehouse district all the way across town. I’ll get straight to the point; I want answers”, she said grabbing an aluminum bat from the bag, “I’m sure as my grandmother’s  grave that Celestia, Luna nor Sand well give them to me. My question is, why was the security so low around Cadence and Twilight right before their deaths?  I’ll be polite, like I was raised, and give you a moment to think about it.”                “I don’t know,” the guard said after thinking for a minute.                “Wrong answer,” she said swing the bat, at full force, towards his leg. It impacted his legs, and he screamed.                “I’ll repeat, I don’t know!”, he screamed                “I’ll keep repeating; wrong answer!”, she gripping pillars from the bag and going for the guard.At that moment, Fluttershy stepped out and to go to a separate room to bury her head and cry as screams for the guard echoed throughout the warehouse. 8 Days LaterIt was about eight o’clock at night, Applejack and Fluttershy were in a bar in the poor district of Canterlot drinking some cider, and both of them were on their fourth glass. However, Applejack and Fluttershy were now a very different ponies than who they were before Twilight’s Death. Applejack eyes were now a cold green, and Fluttershy’s a cold blue. Both had wrinkles around her eyes from little sleep they had. That little sleep was caused by them torturing guard after guard, both solar and lunar.                “Eight Days and we haven’t gotten close to answering,” Applejack thought while taking a drink,She took another while looking around the room. There mostly earth ponies some pagsi in the bar. A lot of them had ruffled manes and were chatting with their fellow about their day and no guards, and she went to her drink                “Why would guards come here,” AJ thought, “They are focused on the war, not some piety crimes down in this district.”                Fluttershy then coughed and a couple of times. After AJ, she was just but after minute doing that. AJ looked at Flutters                “What is Fluttershy?”, AJ said looking at her and her tilting to the left                Applejack looked to the left and couldn’t believe who she saw, Sliver Spoon. Silver disappeared shortly after Dash’s death and was presumed dead. Diamond Tria was very heartbroken for awhile, but this got Applejack’s curiosity. Applejack saw her leave the bar and she played it safe and fished her drink and paid her bill. Fluttershy and Applejack went to find her, and they found her a few minutes later.  Luckily for them, Sliver was in an alley not too far from the bar.                “Sliver you have some nerve faking your death,” Applejack said about to lecture“Keep it down, and  I did it to join Torchwood,” Sliver whispered“Torchwood?”, Applejack asked raising her eyebrow“I’ll tell you about it later, but here for two things. The first is give this” Sliver said looking impatient and giving Applejack a rolled up paperApplejack looked at the map and eyes went wide, “But that’s ..”“Shush, we can be watched right now, and that’s the second reason,” she said looking the ponies going by looking by and sighing, “We’re safe, I hope.”“Ah no idea what is gong on,” Applejack said“I’ll be quick. I’m part of a secret organization called Torchwood. Ever since SMILE was dissembled, we were ones to replace them.”Silver Spoon then gave  Applejack a sword. The sword had a golden hilt and guard with a sun emblem acting as the Pommel and Peen Block. She gave a look of“This was Celestia, and her orders when for me to give to you.”“But why?”, AJ asked                “I don’t know, she gave it to our director, and he gave it to me.”Applejack and Fluttershy studied the sword, and when Applejack looked back up; Sliver Spoon vanished“I'm not this   liking one bit,” Applejack said to FluttershyLater on, in the warehouse. Applejack was thinking out loud and pace back and forth getting stressed out with Applejack’s mane in a mess like a mop.“I mean who else would know, we toured every guard. We still have no answers”, Applejack said, reaching her breaking point with bloodshot eyes, “I mean who!”After Applejack had yelled at heavens, she decided to lay down for the night. When she went slept she found herself in Ponyville, but it was raining sideways.“Hello, any pony?”, she asked out loudShen then saw Twilight and huge wave relief rushed over her. Twilight then turned around asked Applejack“Why did you abandoned me?”, Twilight asked her Twilight body was slowly stripped way piece by piece. Applejack wanted to throw up at sight. It was like watching her friend dying before her eyes, and she couldn’t do anything, except watch. One moment her skin was stripped away, then next moment she was just bones“I'm sorry, I wasn’t there,” Applejack finally managed said“Why didn’t you  save me?”, Twilight said  before being turned into dustApplejack coughed as the dust turned into a cloud and she her parents and they asked Applejack, “Why couldn’t you save your friend?” “Sweet Luna, what a nightmare,” Applejack thought as she woke from a sweat and almost screamingShe then heard a raven fly by overhead and hit her, and she faces hoof herself.“Of course,” Applejack said with a deadpanned face, “Who else.”