Author's Note

Hey, here' a short chappy! Have fun with that.

HOPE Dwindles...

3rd POV, Ponies POV

Celestia, Luna, and the Mane six were talking. “My little ponies, I have felt another world connect to our own. I glimpsed into it, and saw another version of us, with many differences. One being a human was there, and another that it did not exist.” Celestia said to the mane six. “If we can get to a sufficiently populated base, we may be able to use the ritual to leave this world and destroy it behind us, saving as many as we can as we leave.”

The eight were in Twilight's main room. Suddenly, a earth pony guard came in, bloody and beaten, claw marks through his armour. “P-princesses, I-i have t-terrible news. T-the timberwolves… t-they’re stronger.” The guard said, coughing, before falling over.

As if they had followed him, eight timberwolves with one alpha came into the room. The alpha opened it’s mouth to reveal a recorder, it pressing play with it’s tongue. “Excuse me ponies. Your ruler has committed a grievous act of sin. Therefor, I will be retaking my land. This is Gaia, and I hope you were nice all your life. Or this will hurt.” The recording stopped, the alpha crushing it.

The wolves charged. Celestia taking a hit, and feeling all of her many sins crawl on her back, wounds seeming to slowly appear on her. She leapt back, and blasted the wolf with solar magic. Despite its upgrades, it stood no chance against the attack. Quickly, she grabbed the rest in her telekinetic hold, lifting them so she could launch another few beams and destroy the wolves.

“Did that feel bad, sunnybooty? I hope it did.” Betty’s voice rang out. Celestia turned her head rapidly, finding it coming from a small apparition of the fearling. “I helped Gaia upgrade those. I gave them Karmic Retribution. This is a ability that turns your sins against your fat flank.” The apparition said with a giggle. Snarling, Celestia charged her magic.

“Ahahah, do you even want a chance of finding me?” Betty asked with a smirk. Blowing steam through her nose, Celestia halted her attack. “I’m glad I destroyed the monsters. That way, you couldn’t learn how to do SOUL magic. If you’d known, you’d be nothing but HATE. I imagine that you would have a better personality.”

Celestia was fuming at this point. Betty looked to be about to brag, before Akumu appeared, slapping her upside the back of the head. “Alright, alright, I won’t brag.” Betty said with a pout. “If you want to find me, dicklestia, me and my new ‘bro’ will be waiting, free forever… and there’s nothing you can do.”

The sunmare blasted the apparition, snarling. Thankfully, Luna had been tracing it the whole time, or this would have been the stupidest of moves. She couldn’t pinpoint it, but it was somewhere near the Tree of Harmony. And that scared them both, Luna moreso.

Making sure the six had the elements, they went to the Tree of Harmony.

Fear Twins POV

Betty giggled as she and Akumu watched the ponies fight through the forest, summoning popcorn. “I give them five minutes before they cry.” Betty said with a giggle.

“I bet they rage instead.” Akumu said challengingly. Betty, who was trying to make a robot for mommy-chamber to control, looked to her brother.

“I bet you that, if they cry, I’m dom tonight.” She said with a smirk.

“I bet if they rage, you have to do whatever I say or want you to do,” Akumu said back. Betty tilted her head a bit.

“How long?” Betty asked. She loved her ‘brother’, but didn’t want to be a servant to him forever.

“Next thousand years? We’re ageless, so…” Akumu shrugged simply. Betty scrunched her face up a little.

“What if they do both?” Betty asked her ‘sibling’.

“Then we… switch off every 500 years?” Akumu suggested with a shrug.

“Nah, how about we just call it void?” Betty suggested. “Besides, I’m only getting one night, you’re getting a thousand years.”

Akumu pouted. He’d hoped she hadn’t caught that. Not to make her do stuff, but to kinda restrain her a bit, she was reckless and it made him worry greatly. He didn’t want to lose her, it was why he took the elements blast, mostly, for her after all.

Betty shrugged. “Let’s see what they do.” Betty said with a smile. They looked to the screen and saw them doing both. Celestia raged, the bearers were crying, and Luna was… oddly calm. On the outside at least. They didn’t care nor bothered to check on the inside.

“So, neither of us get what we want. Damn.” Betty said with a adorable pout.

“Well, most of them cried… so… you can have your thing if you want,” Akumu said with a blush. Betty shook her head.

“No, I’m honoring my deal. If anything, I always keep my word.” She said, before turning on the new android she made, based off of 18 and 17. It looked just like Mommy-chambers hologram, but solid.

Betty and Akumu carried the android into the chamber, plugging it into the console. It had everything that Androids normally had in it, but could remotely control the chamber. “Well, this is new,” The mommy-chamber said from the droid, standing up and looking around. Akumu and Betty immediately hugged her, the droid smiling and hugging them back.

With the ponies…

The ponies arrived at the where the Tree was. Walking down the steps, they looked at the giant crystal tree, only to see it dim. Quickly, and without warning, Celestia takes the crystals out of the necklaces and tiara of the element bearers, and put them in slots in the tree’s branches, making sure to fasten them tightly into it.

Celestia hoped they were not too late to save the tree, mostly so they had a fallback if they couldn’t fight the two. She’d barely won against that clone, her control as shot as it now was. She was just glad that she didn’t need much control to move the sun, it being mostly power.

The tree glowed… before vanishing, taking the elements with it. Harmony had abandoned Equestria, and all it’s inhabitants.