Twilight screamed as she felt the Elements of Harmony shatter. It was something in all her life she would never have expected. She could not move her body, everything hurt. Turning her head was like the grinding of stone. The others were all unconscious, but coming around. She heard a voice roaring over the storm.

“Fluttershy!” It was Discord, but she had never seen that look in his eyes before. He was glaring at Celestia with a level of anger and hate she had never imagined coming form him. He always seemed to be the type that never took anything seriously. Yet, there was no humor in his eyes, he was as serious as the grave, something that seemed more wrong from him then even the dark rainbow.

“Celestia, you are a damn whorse! You had the girls fire the Elements with no idea what they were up against! It’s not like you ever even actually taught them how to use the damnable things! Though, I suppose I should not be surprised given you could barely use them yourself.” Each word carried enough venom that it could fell a dragon.

Cadence and Shinny Armor picked up Twilight and were looking in her eyes now. Twilight did not know where they had come from.

“Twilly, are you alright? Can you hear me?” Shining asked his sister.

Twilight tried to respond but talking felt like her throat was full of gravel. “ I-I’m fine, but… the Elements…. they’re gone.”

Celestia who had taken to ignoring Discord heard those words and turned to Twilight, fear in her eyes. “Discord, if you cannot say something useful then you are to be quiet. Twilight, are you telling me that that attack launched by the storm destroyed the Elements of Harmony?”

To Twilight, this did not sound like Celestia. Her language seemed panicked and with none of her usual grace. Though she and Luna were pouring their strength into the barrier blocking the storm, Celestia’s eyes were glowing and her mane seemed to be smoking.

Discord interrupted before Twilight could responded. “Do you not even recognize the attack? The storm did not attack them, it sent the attack back at them with its own energy mixed in. And it was able to do that because the girls just launch their power without a proper focus at a target that Element themselves did not want to attack!” He pointed at the storm. “You think just because it’s dark and a bit destructive that it’s evil. Well, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, missy, but you called it wrong. We are looking at another world’s broken antihero. He was the savior of another world! The Elements would! The Elements would not focus their power on someone they felt they should have been protecting.

He glared at Celestia even as she glared back at him, her hooves sliding back in the dirt as the storm expanded again. She was drawing more and more power, yet it felt as if the storm was just eating it up. Unsure of what to do, she just glared.

“If that was true then why would they be destroying our home?! Rainbow Dash yelled, as the other girls rose to their hooves around her.

“Fair point” Twilight thought. “Discord, what reason does a hero have to destroy Equestria? Why not just come to the Princess and ask for help?”

Discord just looked at Twilight, his anger turning into something closer to disappointment. For some reason, that look on him hurt her heart. Discord laugh at everything, yet today there was no humor in him at all.

“Twilight, you I expect better of. Celly has always been a quick to pass judgement and apology later. You always seemed to be more curious. Did you even try to and figure out what this storm is? Discord reached through the sister’s barrier and touched the storm.

Twilight heard a sizzling of something cooking. Yet, as soon as his claw touched the storm images began playing across the barrier, moving too fast to see anything in them. In that moment, Twilight understood, and a feeling of horror passed through her.

“What you are seeing is the leaking of their pain and suffering. The reason it destroys is because their pain is so pure it’s corrosive to everything, even themselves most likely.”

Fluttershy spoke up, upset by the news “What can we do Discord? How can we help him? If we can fix their pain then the storm will go away, won’t it?”

Discord looked at Fluttershy. “Oohh Fluttershy, you are truly a kind pony. If only these others would listen to you more, they could have avoided so much trouble. But I don’t think this CAN be fixed now. I think we just have to wait for his life force to run out at this point.” He paused, “ Here, listen, his mind is gone I think.” Saying this, Discord pulled out an ear horn with a gramophone like listening end from behind his head and pointed one end towards the storm.

A voice began to sound from the horn, so quite that to all of the ears turned towards it, it was as if it was spoken by a mouse. “I don’t know fear. I don’t know loss…. I don’t know fear. I don’t know loss… I don’t know fear. I don’t know loss.” The voice constantly repeated those phrases as if it all it had in the world.

What caught Fluttershy’s attention was what was missing from the what she was hearing. There no sadness, no pain, it was as if it held everything so close that nothing escape. And she knew it was wrong. Where was the crying? The pleading for it all to stop? The amount of pain that was needed to make such a thing as this storm had to be huge, yet she could hear none of it in that voice.

She looked at the storm and for the first-time, things made since. Twilight was talking to Discord, trying to interrogate him on whether it was possible for him to banish the storm to another dimension. Fluttershy remembered that Rainbow always said the best way to fly into a cyclone was from above. Gravity would give you a boost and it was easier to enter the eye of a storm that way.

Launching herself high into the air, she hoped to keep enough speed to move forward with her plan before the others could get involved, before they could stop her.

She dived fast as a hawk into the storm.

It burned. Fluttershy wanted to scream, but she knew that it would only burn her insides as well. Time stretched one and one as she felt the need to breath as the storm raged on , burning around her.

Then, her world went dark.

When Fluttershy awoke, everything hurt. Her breath sound loud to even her ears. Raising herself to her hooves, she looked past her singed mane to see the storm raging around them. Yes, them. She saw a strange roiling shape ahead of her, hard to make out in the grayscale of this world inside the storm. Her first hoof fall sounded less like a clop and more a echoing boom.

It was in that moment the true silence here hit Fluttershy. Her breath was loud enough to be followed effortlessly, and her heart could be heard by anyone that would have been there. Yet for all the silence, she had to focus her ears to hear it. The whispering. The voice from before. It came from the roiling mass at the center of the clearing.

Those words, the words that sounded so wrong to hear, they came from the mass. She walked with quiet steps, learned from her years working with animals, yet each step seemed far too loud for her own ears. The mass did not react in any way though, it didn’t seem to even notice her. It bothered her with ever shifting form, making her stomach churn.

Sometimes it seemed almost pony like with fur that should be there before it was pulled back into the mass. Other times it had patches of naked skin like some shaved animal, yet that too would be pulled into the mass. It seemed less like flesh and bone, and more a like a boiling cauldron from Zecora’s hut with how fast the old and new seemed to rise and sink. Sometimes there was even a hoof or something akin to a talon come out of the body, only to be pull back in a moment later. Yet, one feature never changed the mouth that spoke without an ounce of pain.

A rainbow sheen gathered around the form in the air and surged inwards and for a moment faster than Fluttershy could glimpse the form solidified. The energy was then repulsed, broken like chains in a fit of rage. Darkness surged out of the mass in the moment to join the storm above them. She was barely able to tell from inside, but the storm grew in that moment.

As the rainbow’s remains touched Fluttershy she felt what it was made from. It was love, hope, and compassion. It was those forces that made up their world, their home, the forces that made Equestria. It was her world trying to help in the only way it knew how.

The mass returned to its shifting state, completely its constant changing.

The rainbow’s was trying to force the issue, but that would not help here. Fluttershy knew what she had to do. She trotted forward and hugged the mass.

“I know you needed to be strong, but it’s ok to let it out sometimes. If you hold it in all it does is hurt.” She spoke quietly into where she hoped the ear would be.

The mass ceased writhing for a moment. “I̸ ̸can̴’̸t . ͟I w͝i͜ļl ͡break i̕f͡ ̷ I ͜f͝ęe͢l.”

Fluttershy whispered softly, “You will break if you don’t. I know it hard to let go, but I will be here.”

With that the mass seem to leak a liquid showing a moment of weakness. Then the rainbow broke through.

Twilight had looked on for twenty minutes now, as Discord glared at the barrier after Fluttershy went in. He was sitting on top of Rainbow Dash, saying that Fluttershy would never forgive him for allowing her to follow.

Suddenly Discord spoke, “The poor guy never stood a chance.”

Then the storm, which had doubled in size despite the Princesses’ best efforts, collapsed. Sitting in the middle of the new clearing the storm had created was Fluttershy and a sobbing Earth Pony colt.

Author's Note

first person to ask a question, about the source story will get it answer.