Twilight Sparkle slowly lifted her head, a low, pained groan spilling from her lips as her eyes fluttered open. Slowly, she lifted her left hoof up to her temple, feeling an intense, throbbing pain running through her skull. She felt a wet, sticky substance on her hoof, and was confused upon contact. With a frown, she slowly began running the apendage across her forehead, but immediately stopped and grimaced in pain once she reached just above her left brow, and quickly retracted her hoof once she discovered the cause of her pain.

There, just below her horn, was a gash about an inch in length running across the right side of her forehead and ending just past her right temple. Gritting her teeth, she glanced at her hoof, and immediately felt an intense wave of nausea roll through her body. Closing her eyes, she began taking in deep, long breaths through her nostrils and out her mouth, trying to keep her guts from spilling out onto the dirt covered stone floor.

Once the roiling of her stomach subsided, she once again opened her eyes, but avoided looking at her blood covered hoof, instead on deciding to get a good idea on her surroundings. However, that was difficult to do when all that surrounded her was nothing but complete and utter darkness. Frowning, she squinted her eyes, waiting as her eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness, and what she saw made her eyes go wide in horror. All around her, were dozens of ponies laying on the ground in various positions with there eyes closed, seeming lifeless to the unicorn’s eyes. Gulping, she slowly lifted herself on shaky, unsteady hooves, not taking her eyes off what must’ve been dozens of corpses that seemed to be everywhere she turned.

Her ears quickly perked and swiveled to the left when the sound of another voice released its own low groan of pain, and the lavender unicorn whipped her head to face the pony. There, laying a few feet away from her, was a cyan blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail.

Author's Note

Honestly, I have no idea on what I was going to do with this one.