The True Master of Chaos

"Hurry, move the serious injured to the left half, anyone who can handle your injuries stay to the right! Please, we need organization!" Twilight screamed out over the panicked crowd trying to rush past her.

Canterlot hospital was a madhouse from ponies trying to force their way past others to get ahead in the line. If it wasn't for the multiple guards Soarin had found, it would have been impossible to keep every pony in check.

The doctors were scrambling as they ran through the crowds of screams and cries of agony. They checked over the many ponies that were bleeding the most or that we're unconscious first, seeing which ones would need medical attention first.

"Twilight!"

Hearing her name, Twilight turned to see Rainbow flying in above the crowd. Landing on the ground, she was panting heavily, "I found another." she said between her breaths. She then lifted to show the item in her forelegs.

Twilights breath caught in her throat. The young filly in rainbows arms must have been only three years old, its small body littered with cuts and bruises. Twilight used her magic to gently lift it out of her friends grip. She glanced up to Rainbow, "where are its parents?"

Rainbow lowered her head and turned away, not wanting to tell Twilight what she had seen. The look she gave was enough to tell her friend the answer.

After handing off the filly to a passing nurse, Twilight returned to Trying to help out any pony in need. Suddenly, every pony in the street went silent, parting there way for the two walking alicorns coming towards the hospital.

"Princess!" Twilight yelled out as she ran up to the two sisters.  When she came close, she noticed the many cuts, dirt and bruises all throughout both of their bodies, "Oh my gosh! Are you alright? What happened to you?"

Neither princess answered to the questions, there attention turned to the whimpers of pain all around them. Both of their faces had the look a pure torment, having seen the destruction that had been done to the great pony capital.

Celestia stopped in the crowd, bending over to a young Pegasus. Seeing the large gash on its shoulder, she filter her head down to use her magic, but as soon as her horn began to glow, the eyes of the Pegasus went wide in terror. It dropped to the ground, curling into a shaking ball as if his death was upon him.

Celestia stepped back from the reaction, startled at first, then tried to relax the ponies nerves, "it's alright. I'm not going to cause you harm."

The pegasus slowly stood back up, closing his eyes as the princess put her horn to the wound.

 Sending out small sprinkles of light, she guided the magic over the opening, forcing it into the wound. After several moments, the blood stopped running, and the wound itself slowly closing up. While it would not heal completely, it would help until the doctors could tend to the wounds themselves.

Smiling, the princess stands and goes to another seriously injured pony to aid in dulling their pain. Luna was doing the same to another set of ponies huddled against a wall off to the side.

Some of the royal guards came running past Twilight, kneeling beneath Celestia, "princess! We need to have you come to the operating room. We need to have yours and princess Luna's wounds tended to."

Celestia turned to glance at the guards, then went back to healing a young unicorn, "I'm fine. Go and tend to other ponies that need help."

"But my princess, your wounds could be-"

"I said that I am fine. The citizens need the attention before us." the guards bowed their heads down, but before they could leave, Celestia called them back, "Actually, take this to the emergency infirmary." her horn glowed again, lifting up a dark figure from the grass where she had laid it. Small shrieks came from ponies as the body passed them.

When it came into the light below the hospital, Twilight gave a gasp as well, "Is-is that a dragon!?" she stared at the limp body of the black dragon held by Celestia's magic.

"yes it is. It crashed in the forest, warning us that Canterlot had been attacked. I want to find out what it was doing here in the first place."

Twilight sat confused as the guards took the drake without question and Carried it inside.then shot a glance in her direction, "and as for you; did I or did I not order you to return to Ponyville?"

Twilight's heart began to pound rapidly beneath her ribs. She was afraid of what her mentor would do to punish her for disobeying a direct order to  not go looking in the past.

"I thank you for not listening."

Twilight couldn't believe what she had just heard, "wait... Your not mad at me, princess?"

Celestia gave a small grin towards her pupil, "you coming here saved many ponies that would not have had a chance if you hadn't. You created order when panic ran through my soldiers." she stopped and looked around the guards that were spread throughout the area, "where's captain Ares?"

Twilights eyes went down to the ground, "Ares is in operation right now. He's in bad shape."

Celestia's eyes went wide with Twilight's answer. She turned and began to walk inside the hospital, leaving Luna to tend to the ponies outside.

Twilight did not understand what was happening. She turned to Luna, who was staring right back at her with eyes showing pain. She knew that there was more to what was happening. She walked over to the princess of the night, "princess, Ares says that an alicorn with dragon wings attacked Canterlot."

Luna immediately cringed at hearing the description from Twilight, powerful memories from just occurred earlier that evening to herself. She couldn't stop the small tremble in her shoulders. Twilight saw the reaction, now knowing that part of the Secrets had to do with this strange creature.

"Twilight, We must talk."

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The two carriages flew through the dark sky, the cold air blowing past. Inside of the white carriage sat Zecora, fluttershy and Applejack. The blue carriage next to it held Florence, Pinkie Pie and Rarity.

When he returned to the town, Florence had gathered the others as fast as he could, bringing them all back to the chariots that sat in the town square. At first when he told the guards the orders, they were skeptical to believe the story. When Florence showed them the necklace, however, they immediately accepted the orders and took off towards Canterlot.

Flying over the Everfree forest, Florence looked down to the fluttering necklace on his neck, thinking of what feelings were flowing through him. His thought process was broken when Rarity gave him a friendly slap on the behind, "well, look at this," she said with a grin on her face, "Luna is giving you her personal belongings. She must like you."

Florence once again blushed, yet tried to keep his face straight, "she gave this so we had permission to come to come to the city."

Pinkie Pie hopped up and down excitedly, "Hehehe! Oh she is all over you! I want to throw a party now!"

Florence shot a confused look at her, "A party for what? You already threw me a party for moving to Ponyville."

"No silly, I need to throw a princess is dating party!" she starting jumping up so high that Rarity had to use her magic to hold her in the cart, "I've never done that kind of party, and I want it to be super-duper good!"

From the other carriage, Applejack shouted to the others, "Hey Florence, what did happen to ya in the forest? Y'all never told us."

Turning away, Florence went over the order that Celestia gave him about not revealing what had happened. He was already coming to Canterlot against her will despite Luna inviting him; he did not want to face what would happen to him if he told what he saw.

After a few more minutes of silent flying, Canterlot came into view, and the shock hit them all like a powerful wave. Smoke rose from multiple destroyed buildings throughout the plaza. The red glow of fire lit up multiple spots in the city rear capital.

"W-what happened?" Fluttershy whimpered, fear overcoming her nerves.

"Ah can't believe this." Applejack said, staring wide eyed at the city.

Zecora was too stunned to even talk. In the many years of her travels and other past events in her life, she had never seen destruction like this before. The nearest form of damage she had seen was during the last time she lived in her former home; around the time she was banished.

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Twilight sat still on the steps below the hospital. The crowd of ponies in front had been filed through to the different area within the hospital, giving a quiet moment of seemingly tranquil peace to what was minutes earlier.

For twilight, though, peace ways not something she felt at the moment. It wasn't just from the rush of the hundreds of bloody ponies that once crowded the streets, but it was what princess Luna had told her before she went inside. Her mind was trying to figure out the new facts that she had learned, but it seemed as if she just couldn't accept them.

Looking up, she saw the two incoming chariots coming in for a landing. Touching to the ground, all of the passengers quickly ran out. Even the guards unhooked themselves and team towards Twilight, there faces locked in fear as well to what they saw in the city.

"Twilight, oh thank goodness we made it! What happened here?" Rarity yelled as she came to a stop in front of her friend, quickly followed by the others.

The guards pushed past them and came face to face with Twilight, "Where's princess Celestia and Princess Luna!?" the lead white one blurted out, "Tell us quickly!"

Twilight's face seemed unemotional; a blank expression was locked on her as she looked at the guards, "the princesses are fine. They are inside right now. You need to go through the city and help the rest of the soldiers look for survivors and to aid in the putting out of fires."

The soldiers were hesitant about accepting the orders at first, but since they knew Twilight was the personal assistant to Celestia, they knew it would be best to accept her demands, they bowed slightly, then turned and took to the skies once again back into the city.

All of the others stared curiously at Twilights strange behavior she was doing; it seemed as if all her emotion were stripped from her, and left with a blank plate to pick from. Applejack approached her purple friend, "Twi, are ya alright? Y'all don't look too good." she tried to sound reassuring as possible.

Twilight turned away so she didn't look at her friends, "I'm fine."

Zecora walked forward next, her eyes scanning Twilight's body language "you are troubled the scene of this town, I can tell. Yet, I can see something is bothering you as well."

Twilight did not answer the question from the zebra, but simply started walking to the door, "this way."

Florence sat still for a Second before yelling out behind her, "hey, aren't we here to help out? That is what princess Luna told me."

"princess Luna has ordered us all into the hospital, she needs to see us all immediately."

The group looked at each other curiously, then decided to follow in suit after he strange acting unicorn. As they walked through the hospital, they saw the many beaten and bruised ponies that were scattered throughout the floors on makeshift beds of blankets and cushions. The moans of adults and the cries of fillies echoed through the large halls. Fluttershy cringed and huddled closer to Rarity for comfort.

Florence could not believe how many ponies were injured here. When her heard that he city was attacked, he had no idea that there would be so many hurt. Suddenly, his mind went to the creature that he saw in the forest, and how powerful it was. That must have been the creature that attacked.

They walked though the long hallway until Twilight stopped at a large door at the very end. Opening it, Twilight walked through. When the others came in, they saw Rainbow Dash and Soarin by a bed, and Spike standing to the side. All three of their heads turned to the crowd that entered the room.

"Rainbow!" fluttershy screamed, running forward and throwing herself onto the cyan Pegasus. Soon the others came over to join in the embrace.

Rarity only sat in the group for a moment before turning her attention to the purple dragon looking at her, "oh my spikes whikey!" she ran forward and jumped onto the small drake, who threw his arms around her and pulled her into a tight embrace. She looked up at him with teary blue eyes, "when I saw the city, I became so worried about you!" she then leaned up and planted a kiss right on his lips.

After the group broke away from Rainbow, they turned their attention to the Pegasus in the bed. Florence couldn't believe it, "Spitfire! What happened?" he went to the bed, looking at the unconscious mare, seemingly unharmed, "is she alright?"

Soarin walked over to him, putting a hoof on his shoulder, "she's fine. She was in shock from what had happened. We were finally able to calm her down not to long ago."

"But what did happen here?"

"That is why I brought you all here."

A new voice came into the room from the doorway. All of the ponies turned to see Luna entering the room.

Florence gave a surprised look at the entering alicorn, "Princess? What's going on."

"She is here to tell you our entire world is a Lie." Twilight shot out, her face showing her anger. The others in the room looked in suprise to the outburst.

Luna looked down to the ground, her eyes filled with guilt, "I am sorry, but we had keep it a secret."

Twilight shook her head, trying to control the anger which had been built from learning her master's lies were true. "What happened, princess? What was so horrible in the past that you had to lie about it?"

Luna looked back up, a small tear falling down her cheek, "I will show all of you." pointing her horn to the ground, she shoots out a mist that envelopes all of the members in the room.