"Shining just woke up, should we move him?"
"I think that would be a good idea, make sure that he is in the same room together."
"How many days has she been in a coma?"
"The fire started three days ago, so about two and a half days."
"Shining can the fire be stopped or should we evacuate the empire," Cadence said breathing hard.
Shining looked out the window of the room at the wall of fire approaching, " I don't know if we can fight it so that is a yes." Shining Armor caught Cadence before she ran out of the room, "I will keep fighting but it is possible that I won't get to see you again so.." Shining was cut off by his wife wrapping her arms around his neck followed by a quick kiss.
"I'm going to get everyone evacuated then we can both meet back here alright?" Shining nodded as he jumped out the window and slid down a large support to the ground. Cadence ran out of the room and flew down the stairs outside. Ponies were already running around every which way until Cadence flew up into the air and shouted, "Every pony get to the train, we are evacuating!" In a blink of an eye, the ponies made a sudden change in the movement towards the train.
Cadence turned around when she heard her name called, "Cadence!" She flew down to meet the mare who called her," What about your child, who is getting her."
Cadence explained, "The Crystal heart's magic goes straight to her room, it'll protect her till we can get her."
"Keep holding it back," Shining Armor shouted at the top of his lungs. Shining's magic was growing weak as the wall of fire pressed up against the wall of pony magic. The militia of unicorns was growing weak as the fire grew in size.
A pegasus flew down from the sky and landed next to Shining Armor, "The fire is reaching the south end of the empire, what should we do?"
Shining Armor grunted out an answer, "Push our last team to it and make sure there is a clear way for us to the train."
The pegasus took off and was replaced with Cadence, "Most of the ponies are evacuated but we need to leave now!" Shining nodded and let out a scream of pain as his magic let out sending a burst of fire to his body. Cadence quickly covered the hole with her own magic as she shouted to the pony next to them, "Get him out of here I will cover your spot!" The unicorn took Shining in his magic as Screams to their right began to sound. Cadence looked down the line of unicorns as the wall of fire completely overtook a unicorn, meanwhile, the unicorn next to him left their position causing a wave of fire to take over the wall that they were protecting. Cadence shouted, "Use your magic to cover your path ahead I will cover the end!" Unicorns ran past her as the wall collapsed behind them. Cadence ran in the opposite direction using her magic to hold up portions of the wall. All of the unicorns were gone and so was the magic, Cadence soon realized that she was now in trouble.
"Hold on," a voice from behind her shouted. Cadence was greeted by Sunburst as his magic pulled her off the actual wall as the wall of magic was finally destroyed. Sunburst set her down as they both began running from the wall of fire, "I know your foal is still in trouble but I need you to get me up there."
Cadence's jaw dropped as she remembered, "How could I have forgotten about her!"
Sunburst stopped her, "It's not your fault that you can't remember but what you need to do right now is...to uh."
Cadence looked down at him as he shuddered, "What do I need to do?"
He looked up at her nervously, "I can tell you but your not going to like the answer."
"Well, what is it," Cadence shout impatiently.
Sunburst looked up at her for the last time, "You need to wake up."
"Where am I," Cadence whispered.
"You don't remember anything," A voice asked
"I don't remember anything, and why can't I see?"
"You probably will have a lot of questions and be aware that they will be answered in time but we need answers from you."
"Ok I'm listening, luna right." A chuckle was heard in response.
"At least your ears are working, Anyway here is the question." "What was the cause of the fire?"
"What fire are you talking about, there are a lot of fires aren't there?" Cadence heard a sigh to the left of her and from in front, "How many Ponies are in here?"
"There are quite a few, we have Twilight and her friends, Me and Celestia, then there is your husband next to you."
"Shining is here is he alright?" A few ununderstandable whispers were heard in front of her that were followed by and "Ok".
"It appears that you are regaining some of your memory considering you know that he was hurt."
Cadence just sat in silence as she took in those words, "What happened to him?" An "Ok" was heard followed by the sounds of wheels moving. A hoof touched hers, in response, her hoof moved away but was soon grabbed again. "Who is this."
"It's Shining Armor."
"'Why isn't he saying anything?"
"The front of his body was burned in the fire and his vocal cords had to be removed while in surgery."
Cadence looked to her left as tears came to her eyes, "Shining?" She placed her left hoof over her body where it was gingerly grabbed and placed on Shining's face. They placed their snouts together as they both cried.
"Get me to up there and meet me at the train, we can't lose two alicorns if you don't make it."
"You expect me to leave my child behind and go!"
"Like I said you wouldn't like the answer, please trust me and go." Cadence already had tears in her eyes as she hugged Sunburst and threw him up into the window. Cadence ran underneath the castle and past the crystal heart.
Cadence finally made it to the train and turned around, "Don't leave yet there is still two more coming!" Cadence smiled brightly when she saw Sunburst running with Flurry in his magic
The happiness was snatched away and replaced with dread in the second that she saw the castle start falling behind them. Cadence took a step forward as she let out a blood-curdling scream, "Run faster!"
Sunburst looked behind as he ran and picked up his pace when he saw the tower falling. Sunburst made a face at Cadence that told her that he was sorry as the tower finally hit the ground. A flash of magic was made around Flurry Heart as Sunburst stopped and yelled at Cadence, "Turn away now!"
Cadence stared in horror as thousands of shards of the castle came flying in every direction. Sunbursts eyes went blank as hundreds of shards entered his body.
Cadence started tearing up as she woke up, "Help me," she shouted. She didn't know it but the chairs in the room were full of now awake, previously sleeping ponies.
A calming voice spoke up saying, "Its alright your in the hospital, you're fine."
"It's not me it Flurry, she is still alive." "I remember everything."
"We are rushing the girls over to the empire with Shining right now." "I need you to tell me what happened, what started the fire."
"It was Sombra, He is back."
