Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Special thanks to my proofreaders/editors: chasethebrony and Rainbowsoldier94

ABOUT TO CRASH REPRISE [part I]

It was a rainy morning. The clouds weren't black but they seemed to cover the entire sky like a grey blanket.

I got up and looked to both sides. Rainbow and Fluttershy were on their beds but I couldn't see Applejack. I then headed to the window and pulled the curtain just a little so I could see outside.

The usually bustling city of Canterlot was rather empty; all the ponies were surely in their homes, cozy and warm.

While looking through the window, my mind drifted to another place. It seemed like everything was back to normal. Maybe my mind attempted to hide my feelings of sadness.

The sound of the raindrops hitting the glass was hypnotizing. After all the sort of bad events that had occurred to me, I somehow managed to feel peace.

But it was cut short by somepony opening the door. It was Applejack.

"Good morning Rar'..."

"Good morning..." I almost said the words with a sigh. Applejack noticed how I was feeling and came to me, stood for a while by my side and then hugged me tight.

I was rather surprised by her sudden act; she got me in a fragile moment and I began to cry in her shoulder.

"I know Rarity, I know." She said while passing her hoof across by back, "Everything will be better you'll see..."

"How can you say this Applejack? We can't be sure about this..."

"Just trust me will ya?"

I wasn't sure what I could actually feel at that moment, but I tried my best to feel better. I really tried...

We ate breakfast in silence. But I noticed something, Twilight seemed to be planning something as her eyes kept going here and there through a book that she was reading while eating at the same time. She was focused.

After we all finished our meal, Twilight got up and said with a determined face, "Girls... We're going to find Pinkie!"

The silence still remained between the rest of us; the only thing I managed to do was to look in surprise at Twilight.

"Before you all ask how, I want to say that I will use a special spell to find Pinkie."

"An extremely dangerous spell to be precise." Luna stated.

"What spell? And why is it dangerous?" Rainbow said while getting up from her seat.

"Well you see, this spell makes a pony be able to exit their physical body and travel as a spirit to the past. I can't change what happened but I can see where Pinkie is. But it is very dangerous because if the spell breaks while I am in the past, I may never return to my physical body..."

"Wait, YOU are going Twilight?" Applejack asked.

"I have to. Only a unicorn with good magic control can make this work and one powerful enough to keep the spell going while the other is traveling is completely necessary as well."

Twilight headed towards the dining hall window and looked to the horizon as she continued, "I am okay now girls, I know I can do it and I want to do this no matter what the risks are. Luna and Celestia will be performing the spell, how could anything go wrong?"

I noticed that Celestia was staring at the teacup for a while after Twilight spoke her last sentence. She finally looked up and said, "It's good to know that you trust us Twilight, even though I think that this is a rather precipitated plan..."

"I know I can do it Princess."

"And when are you all going to do this?" I decided to ask.

"As soon as possible." Twilight said.

"Shall we prepare ourselves then?" I heard Luna almost to her sister.

"Yes... Let's get the preparations done."

"I don't know why... But I have a really bad feeling about this..." Fluttershy said in her usual low voice. Those words crept on me, I was soon became worried.

The room was eerily lit; all curtains were closed and the single spot of light was a candle in the middle of the room. Twilight, Luna and Celestia were sitting around the candle and the rest of us in a bigger circle around the three.

"Are you ready, Twilight?" Luna asked.

Twilight nodded, "Let me just explain something for the girls first..."

She got up and turned to us as she said, "This spell is rather complicated, if there is any problem during the spell, the consequences can be... permanent, so don't make any noises or else Luna or Celestia may get distracted..."

We all nodded back to her. She received our message and gave a smile to us while she continued, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."

"We trust you Twilight, you can do it!" Rainbow Dash said.

Twilight's smile widened but soon she turned and sat back in her place. I noticed that her smile faded away but I knew that I could trust my friend, we all knew.

She was going to risk herself once again to save somepony, but that time it was rather different. She was going to save our friend.

"May we start?" Celestia asked Twilight.

"Yes."

Celestia's horn began to glow a faint light that rivaled the candles’ but soon grew into a brighter and brighter sphere of light. Luna done the same and concentrated her magic along with her sister.

Twilight lay down on the cushion where she was previously sitting on, pointed her horn towards the center of the circle that they were forming.

The sisters' horns seemed to reach a peak of the light they were emitting; I watched amazed the yellow and blues lights illuminating the whole room.

"3... 2..." Celestia began counting as she and Luna pointed their horns to Twilight.

"1..." the light that emanated from their horns fired towards Twilight, the sphere of light being absorbed by her. She seemed to feel it hitting her as she grunted slightly but soon relaxed and rested her head on the big cushion.

Darkness. Nothing more than darkness surrounded her. "Where am I?" she questioned herself.

In the middle of the darkness a small white dot appeared in the mysterious place, "Maybe that is..." she couldn't complete her sentence, the small dot lighted the whole empty space, millions of images flashing by Twilight's eyes, millions of memories, events, things that she had never seen. She began focusing on her objective.

"Pinkie Pie, I must... find..." One of the sceneries appeared to glow more than the others. Just then she noticed how weird she was feeling. Her body swiftly floating into nothing was clearly a new experience to her.

The brighter scenery was getting closer to her as she concentrated her thoughts on when and where she needed to appear to be able to see her friend.

Now everywhere that she looked at was white like an empty sheet of paper.

"Twilight..."

The lavender mare concentrated her thoughts on the strange voice. In fact, it wasn't too strange to her at all. "Twilight, it's Celestia who's speaking... I just want to tell you that you must be quick or the spirits that protect this spiritual realm may hunt for you. You are in a totally different dimension so be careful. You can't change what will be appearing before your eyes but your physical body is still here. Please take care Twilight. We have full trust in you."

Those were the last few word she heard until everything went pitch black.