Chapter 1: Twilight's Vision
Twilight was finishing up organizing her library for the fifth time that day. She placed the last Q in the Qs section, when Starlight came in.
"Need any help, Twilight?" she asked.
"No, I'm all good here, Starlight," Twilight replied. "Is Spike in bed?"
"He went to bed after his shower," Starlight replied.
"Then you head on to bed too," Twilight told her. "I'm just gonna do a quick check of the security cameras, and I'll be heading too."
"You had your turn to do that yesterday," Starlight reminded.
"Right," Twilight said before yawning. "Who's turn is it again?"
"Mine," Starlight replied.
"Oh," Twilight said tiredly.
"You go onto to bed," Starlight told her. "You need rest."
"Alright," Twilight replied tiredly. "See you in the morning."
"Good night," Starlight said.
Twilight went to bed. Starlight went to the security room and flipped through the cameras. She saw Trixie and Thorax enter the door, covered in paint after their paintball game with Discord and Princess Luna, the master of the game.
"We got knocked out by each other," Thorax said in disbelief.
"Just be glad we didn't get knocked out by Luna," Trixie replied.
"You wanna go get a sandwich?" Thorax asked.
"Sure, why not?" Trixie replied.
They went to the kitchen to go get a sandwich. Starlight smiled to herself, not at all surprised that those two didn't last long what with their lack of experience.
Guess Rainbow, Spike, Pinkie, and Grubber owe me, AJ, Flutters, and Tempest money, she thought to herself.
You see, earlier that day, Starlight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Spike, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Grubber, and Tempest Shadow had all taken bets on the outcome of the paintball fight. Starlight, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Tempest bet that Trixie and Thorax would be knocked out of the competition fairly quickly. Rainbow and Spike bet it would be Discord. And for some reason, Pinkie and Grubber thought it would be Luna.
Suddenly, Starlight was pulled from her thoughts when she saw a mysterious figure on one camera. She grabbed her own paintball gun with stun paintballs and rushed to go deal with the figure. She snuck up behind it and shot one paintball at it. After the figure groaned from the pain, he turned around and revealed himself to be Discord.
"Hey, I'm already out!" he told her in annoyance. "I was just going to get a sandwich!"
He walked off, causing Starlight to roll her eyes.
Why is everyone raiding the kitchen to get a sandwich? Starlight thought to herself.
She went back to the security room, checking on the rest of the cameras. Then she saw her. Luna had arrived, and looked ready to take on her next opponent. Starlight knew Luna knew that she had her paintball gun ready.
Knowing that because of her getting her paintball gun, she had basically inadvertently entered the contest. She went go find Luna, take her or go down, so she could get back to checking the security cameras for intruders. She used a small mirror to look around corners, doorways, even in the ventilation system. One of the things she and Twilight had in common was that both believed that one could never be too careful. And when comes to Luna, the Princess of the Night, one must always be ready for her sneak up on you.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Luna dropped from the ceiling, firing her paintball gun. Starlight took evasive maneuvers, and fired back.
If Twilight sees the paint on the walls, I'll either take full responsibility or we'll all just blame it on Pinkie Pie, Starlight thought to herself, getting behind cover. Blame it on Pinkie Pie it is.
Starlight started shooting at Luna's paintball gun, shooting at the paintballs that came her way or dodging them.
"Me and Tempest agreed you would be here, Starlight," Luna said. "We both figured it would be as soon as you took out your paintball gun."
"Could we speed things up Princess Luna?" Starlight asked. "I gotta check the other security cameras."
"Then maybe you should've grabbed a bo staff instead of your paintball gun," Luna told her.
Everything was silent for a moment. Everything except for Discord being in the form of a cricket and chirping to add onto the awkward moment. After a few seconds, Starlight and Luna looked at him in annoyance.
"Sorry, but the moment called for it," Discord told them.
They both aimed their paintball guns at him and fired. Discord flew off to evade fire. As Luna continued to fire after him, she failed to notice that Starlight had stopped firing and was aiming at her. Starlight took advantage of the distraction and fired, hitting Luna in the chest.
"Ah pony feathers," Luna said in annoyance.
"Alright, go get a sandwich, I'm gonna get back to the security room," Starlight told her.
With that, she left.
We then cut to Twilight who had finally reached her room. She got into bed and covered herself up. She then closed her eyes and began drifting off to sleep. Before she was briefly awakened by Spike's snoring. She rolled her eyes and went back to sleep.
Twilight found herself in a large city. It looked as if it was evacuating as if some great disaster was happening.
"Twilight, hurry!" she heard a familiar voice call out to her.
Twilight turned and saw Sunset motioning for her to run.
"Sunset what's happening?" Twilight asked.
"The city's being evacuated," Sunset replied. "The soldiers didn't say why, but it is."
"And I personally don't want to find out," a familiar voice said.
Twilight turned and saw Sonata Dusk. Twilight was ready to take her down, not wanting to take a chance.
Suddenly, a vehicle was thrown against a nearby building. The three turned and saw a giant grey wolf run down the road, jump onto a building, killing a few soldiers, then leaping down and running down the road again.
Another military vehicle was thrown on the road as a giant albino gorilla smashes his way through. He climbed up on a building and began running alongside the wolf.
"What in Tartarus is going on?!" Twilight asked.
"They aren't magic in nature, that for sure!" Sonata replied.
Twilight, Sunset, and Sonata watched as the two giant animals rampaged through the streets. Twilight stood at the edge of a river next to a bridge. Suddenly, a boat full of people was tipped over, and a giant crocodile rose out of the water, shook off the water on it, got on its hind legs, and roared. It came back down, but Twilight flinched as its large feet were about to crush her.
Twilight woke up with a jolt. She was panting, breathing very heavily, and having a hard time wrapping her mind around her nightmare.
Something's gone wrong at CHS, Twilight thought. I gotta go help.
