Author's Note

Sorry if this is long winded and bad, just something I've been working on while I was sick.

also is it Prolog or Prologue

(Chapter has been Edited)

Prologue - The Day the world went to Shit.

Spike sighed as he leaned back in his seat, he had ended up in some particularly odd company due to what was happening. He and every other creature on the train were on their way to a very special event hosted by Twilight and the other Princesses. Twilight and the Main 6 had gone to Canterlot after a summons and had sent him a letter saying some cosmic event was happening and that it seemed impossible or something, Spike had lost track of the letter before finishing it due to a poorly timed sneeze. The Train was full of every creature who could afford a train ticket and the return trip, Spike could see friends, random ponies he knew of, and a few he disliked, The seats were all jammed full, with some housing up to 6 creatures on them.

Sitting next to him on his right was Gabby, who was reading a book she had brought with her, and on her right was the window. On Spike's left was Vinyl Scratch, who was jamming out to some tunes, next in the row sat Braeburn, who was striking up a conversation with the pony next to him named Limestone Pie, who had been somewhat ignoring him until the realization he was an apple and possible a cousin of hers, which was something she was ecstatic to hear.

"How did I end up here?" Spike asked the cramped cart.

"I asked myself the same thing," Vinyl said to his surprise.

"I thought you were jamming out?" Spike said in shock as she took her headphones off and looked over at him.

"You said that just as that sweet spot when the song ends and right before the music picks back up," On cue, Spike heard her headphones chime with song just before she hit the button on the side that paused her tunes. "Your Spike right?"

"What in the world transpired that resulted in you knowing that?" Spike asked in confusion.

"I went to a club in the Crystal Empire-" Vinyl said and Spike nodded.

"Say no more," He said with a smile before their conversation could continue or end the Train lurched hard and the 5 ended up piled over each other, the rest of the carts residents having similar problems, some ending up on the floor.

"That's not a thing that's suppose to happen right?" Limestone demanded, having never really gone on a train before.

"Defiantly not," Every creature in earshot of her replied at once as the Train continued moving, now shaking hard.

"Did we just derail!" Gabby demanded from under Spike. Spike and Braeburn both looked out the window, it was making its way up the mountain that housed Canterlot and they had a perfect view of the world, the ground was cracking as far as the eye could see, the sky and the clouds themselves seemed to be falling, The two watched in silent horror as the City of Cloudsdale plummeted like a rock to the ground.

"Holy Shit," The Two said in unison as Gabby, Vinyl, Limestone got into a position where they could see. Before they could verbally react the Train lurched again and they watched as their view tilted ever so lightly.

"The Trains falling off the Mountain," Spike said in horror as Panic spread through the train car.

"GET OFF ME AND MOVE THEN!" Gabby screamed out, Limestone being on top attempted to help Braeburn up but another lurch sent them both to the floor, Limestone fell on her side and Braeburn was instead meet with an oddly painless Face-planted into an invisible wall, he blinked as a dome covered all 5 of them, around the train car more and more domes appeared, He blinked as he leaned into it and he, along with the other 4, turned to look at Vinyl who was curled uptight, her horn glowing brightly.

"Um?" Limestone said when suddenly she and the rest of the group suddenly felt like jello for a moment, a panic started for half a second before Spike called out.

"CHILL!" at the top of his voice, they looked as he slowly held his arms up. "This isn't a normal shield it's an anti-force shield, also known as the Jello dome and the Safety net,"

"Spike your one of my best friends but please don't throw trivia at as and tell us why we should chill on a train falling off a mountain?" Gabby demanded.

"This dome sticks to a surface and has a hard outer shell while at the same time making the inside like Jelly, it's used to limit the chance of falling to your death, it's used by a lot of professionals and I have no idea how or why Vinyl knows it but thank your ass she does!" Before any of the others could continue their questions or their panic they all started vibrating, around them the passengers went flying away to one side as the train tipped, not towards the plummeting mountain edge, but towards the side of the mountain. the train flew on with speed as the passengers when flying, one of them struck the side of their dome and busted their nose on it as they clawed desperately at it, Spike recognized her as Nurse Red Heart before she went flying again, she went about 5 feet before the dome twisted and lurched out at her, encasing her in it. She looked around for a moment before being pulled into the now slightly larger down and being put next to Braeburn and Limestone, who were both holding on to each other tightly.

"Alright let's try this," Vinyl said as she started sweating, her dome grew tentacles as began lashing out, whenever it touched a pony they where encase and the dome got bigger. The train grinded to a halt and the final count for the dome was around 9 or so, Spike looked over at Red heart who was holding onto Derpy who's left arm was broken, Spike and Gabby where now being held tightly by a scared Yona, whose friends hadn't been in the same train car. Spike managed to also pick out Scootaloo in the mess, tightly holding onto Pumpkin cake, who was crying out for a mother and a father who were both missing from the dome, he noticed that Pound cake was also missing but heard no crying elsewhere and silently hoped the young cake had been on an early train with one of his parents, the number of creatures rushing to Canterlot was massive so he could buy that they had been separated. Spike was sidetracked when the Train slammed to an immediate stop and the Bodies went flying before laying still. Before Spike could look around something caught his and everypony else eye as the heap of bodies laying below them had slight movement in it. The dome slowly crawled down to the floor that had been a wall mere moments ago. As soon as the Dome hit the ground it popped like a Balloon and they all fell over, Spike pulled himself out and saw Vinyl laying on the heap and immediately helped his savior up, The rest of the survivors slowly got to their respective hooves and feet and began looking for the movement they had noticed. Spike looked down at Vinyl, her glasses had fallen off in the fall but otherwise, she seemed fine, just exhausted.

"A few years back," She said with heavy breath "One of my roadies fell off the stage and another one tried to catch him with a shield spell, his neck snapped on impact," She looked up at Spike "I spent the next 8 months with all the ponies in my crew learning how to cast that spell so that never happened again," She smiled "Guess I'm the hero of the Crystal empires Hero now," Spike gave her a smile before the train shook again, not from falling but from the very earth below them shaking.

"found them!" Red Heart called as she and Yona found the still-living creature in the mass of dead, they moved a corpse or two and removed a half-conscious Time Turner from the mess.

"Thanks," He managed to say before nodding out, Yona held the colt up and the group looked around before Gabby found what they where looking for.

"Emergency hatch!" She called from the wall that had originally been the roof.

"Yona no fit through that!" Yona complained.

"I'll teleport you out once I'm out," Vinyl replied as she only just got to her hooves. "After witch Spike is in charge of carrying my exhausted ass to Canterlot," Gabby opened the hatch and one by one the group moved out, After handing Time Turner off through the Hole Yona was teleported out and Spike picked Vinyl up, who was just laying in his arms sweating. "Need to use magic more," She muttered.

"I know a pony could help with that," Spike replied before looking at the problem, smoke was pouring into the sky where the Train engine was, the cart behind them was dangling off the edge with the back half cleanly cut off by something, the cart in front of them had been buried in a rock slide that was also cutting off their way forward. "Where do we go now?" He asked the group there was no response as the group looked around, the patch back down was easier, but the walk up would lead to the city of Canterlot and that sounded safer as it currently housed all the Princesses, but it would also house danger as the Mountain seemed to be crumbling even as they thought it over, as the group argued over what to do Braeburn noticed Limestone was staring silently as the Train car that had been cut in half.

"Any pony you know in that car?" He asked as he looked at it, it was dangling over the cliff, it's lower half, the rest of the cars, and most likely all of its passengers could be seen near the base of the mountain.

"My sister Maud," She said quietly before pointing to the one that had been crushed "My Sister Marble," Braeburn stood in silence as Limestone stared blankly at the wreck that has claimed the lives of her siblings.

"I'll leave you to your Grieving," Braeburn said respectfully before backing off, as he did Limestone made her way to the train and looked at the Emergency hatch of the broken cart, she sat in silence for a few moments, a few tears making their way down her face as she looked at it in silence, before she could leave Yona, after handing Time Turner to Red Heart, made her way to the hatch and with little ease tore it open and stuck her head inside.

"Yona calling for surviving members of train," She called out loudly, after a moment of no response she pulled her head out, unlike Limestone she had let her grief known to the world as she sat down and balled her eyes out.

"You have friends on board?" Limestone asked.

"Yona had several Friends on board," She howled back, Limestone looked at the yak for a moment before patting her head softly.

"My sister's where onboard," She said, instantly Yona grabbed Limestone and smothered her in a hug "Crap," She muttered as Yona wailed holding her new friends.

"Yona sorry for loss new friend," She cried out.

"I appreciate that," Limestone said as she pulled back, "But we have to stay strong, my sister Pinkie is still in Canterlot, are any of your friends in Canterlot?" Yona sniffed as she held onto Limestone.

"Yona's Friends Ocellus and Smolder went on an early train," She shifted as she got back to her feet and set Limestone down. "Yona must stay strong, be rock for friends when she tells them what has happened," Yona was still crying but she stood strong as she marched back to the group with Limestone.

"Ow, ow, ow," Derpy said as Red Heart helped her up.

"Dont wurry, cantalot haffe grek hospitl," Red Heart said through her broken nose and missing teeth. "They pak ou uk good," Derpy looked at Red Heart in confusion.

"Hu?"

"Don't worry about it," Limestone said as she looked down at Time Turner, he was conscious again and looked to be in in great pain.

"Yup," He managed to say "These are some broken ass ribs," while Yona gingerly picked him up Spike and Vinyl were sitting with Scootaloo and Pumpkin, who was still crying for her parents,"

"I was sitting with Mr.Cake," Scootaloo said as she stared blankly at the train "He had to use the bathroom and asked me to watch Pumpkin for a minute, I was more than happy to but then the Train started shaking and..." Scootaloo sat in silence as he held the crying baby, Spike looked at her and she looked back at him balling.

"May I?" Spike asked Scootaloo handed Spike Pumpkin and he removed her from the blanket, her right arm was bruised but other than that Scootaloo had done a fine job shielding the baby from the chaos, Spike looked at her and rocked her in his arms as she cried.

"What do you think the odds of Mrs.Cake being on an early train are?" He asked Scootaloo.

"Apple Bloom and Sweetie got on the early train with Mrs. Cheerliee," one of my Aunts was sick so they asked the Cakes to take me, Mrs.Cake and Pound were on the early Train due to how packed the station was.

"Oh thank Celestia," Spike sighed as he looked at the crying foal, "Alright then I'm going to Canterlot," He said as he handed Pumpkin back to Scootaloo "who's joining me in this nightmare hike? Scootaloo you and Pumpkin are coming with me rather you like it or not,"

"Yona must be rock for friends," Yona said as she marched over with Time Turner.

"I'm just kind of luggage at the moment," Time turner said with a strained voice "Just take me where ever a hospital is,"

"Were Coming," Derpy said, Red Heart waving at them, her faces burning with pain every time she moved it.

"Let get out asses moving," Limestone said as Gabby and Braeburn made their way to Vinyl.

"I'm in," Vinyl said.

"And I'm not about to head down this nightmare alone," Gabby agreed.

"I got Family waiting for me up there," Braeburn added

"Epic," Spike said as he turned to the rock pile. "How the hell are we doing this?" He asked, there was a moment of silence.

"Man this epic quest died instantly," Braeburn said with a head shake, "we can't go up, but we'd never make it down the mountain and to a town before several of use died from wounds and exhaustion."

"If I die please don't ditch my body," Timer Turner called out "I Don't wanna be a gutter corpse,"

"OK let's all calm down," Spike said as he pinched the bridge of his nose "Vinyl can you...?"

"Whatever it is, not until I've had a good rest," She replied "I'm not about to give my self a heart attack from Magic strain,"

"Limestone?" Spike asked pointing to her.

"If Maud was here..." She said as she looked at the pile of rocks with a frown, Spike turned to look at the party before blinking.

"My Dumb ass," He said as he slapped himself in the face "Alight this will suck, Yona come here," Yona walked over staring at Spike suspiciously.

"What is Spike wanting?" she asked Spike who turned his back to her.

"I need you to stomp on my tail as hard as you can," Yona looked at Spike for a moment.

"Yona wishes to know why,"

"Signal flare," Spike replied, Yona looked at Spike, bite her lip and took a deep breath.

"Sorry friend," She said before crushing Spikes tail with all her might, Spike let out a scream before spitting a stream of Green Fire into the air. The Group watched as green fire filled the sky.

"FUCK!" Spike screaming getting their attention as he held his tail gingerly as he tried not to cry "Oh I'm gonna feel that for weeks,"

"Dam," Limestone said as she looked up at the fire "That should get some atten-" Limestone cut off when the ground began shaking violently again, Gabby and Vinyl fell over as Braeburn hugged the wall, Limestone fell into Derpy, who yelled in pain as she fell on her broken arm, Scootaloo Held Pumpkin tightly as she pushed her back into mountain wall, Yona stood firm through the shaking and called out.

"TO YONA, SHE WILL BE YOUR ROCK!!" Spike Tried to turn to her but fell back instead and hit the back of his head on the rocks, Spike's blinked as the world went fuzzy and failed to stay on balance, as he fell over, only for Braeburn to Grab him and hall him to Yona. Red Heart and Limestone picked up Derpy and held onto Yonas back, Gabby and Vinyl grabbed Scootaloo and Pumpkin before moving as fast as they could through the shaking to Yona. Timer Turner held out his hand and held onto Spike in an attempt to help in some way. Suddenly a light shone above them, they all looked up as Canterlot was developed in light, then everything exploded into blinding light and deafening sound.

Vinyl opened her eyes with a jolt, the members of the group were all laying around her and were all starting to stir, her attention shifted when she felt a dull pain in her leg, as tho she had just kicked a table she looked down and froze, her right leg was covered in burns, and at the midpoint of her calf her right hoof was missing, she held her leg in silence, Panic filling her as she looked at her damaged leg that didn't hurt nearly as much as it should.

"Oh shit," She heard Spike's voice call out and She looked over at him and her eyes went wide, the entire left side of Spike's face looked like her leg, and his left hand was missing similar to her right leg and the remaining arm was burnt as well, the two looked at each other in silence as their friends began moving.

Gabby rubbed her face and looked at her hands, they where both burn down to her elbows.

Red Heart had burns that could be seen around her neck and around the upper part of her left arm.

Braeburns entire Face was covered in the burns, his left ear as well, his right ear still looked fine.

Derpy blinked, the area around her left eye was burnt, but the eye itself was now missing from its socket.

Yona's right horn was broken and her legs where both covered in the burns.

Limestone lay on her back, her Stomach covered in Burns.

Timer Turner's chest was covered in the burns.

Scootaloo's right arm and leg where both covered in the burns, tho she lost interest in herself and quickly checked Pumpkin, the arm that had been bruised was covered in the burns but she was otherwise fine, she wasn't even crying. as the group looked around at each other they also became aware of where they were, they where on a large chunk of land, a piece of the mountain wall was next to them, and the train car they had been on was now just a pile of broken mettle, and to make things weirder they seemed to just be floating in the sky. As they looked around and at each other only one question could be asked.

"What just happened?"