The Unknown Daughters Reunion:The Early Days

Flying up to the high tension wires, the alicorn snapped them with abandon. She did not even don an invisibility spell, as there was no need.

For it was time. The convoy was on its way; Marking the zero hour for her to leap into the silent future.

This would be an isolation beyond even her banishment on the moon. For; then, there was at least one other to talk to, though they were not pleasant words that were exchanged...

Watching the cables fall like dead snakes, she turned around flew back to the city center.

Her plans to terminate them properly were no longer an issue, being that this section of the power grid having failed weeks ago.

Though she had preemptively began shutting things in the city down weeks beforehoof. The streetlights; being the first.

When fear and disillusionment had swept the collective consciousness, she turned off everything that could draw attention.

Preparing for the minor incursions, she closed off the city.

Making the brush in the woods around the city grow thick and thorny; had inhibited many from seeking the city.

On the roads to the gates; she cast enchantments that would confuse and mislead travelers. Eventually drawing them back to where they entered the forested roads, even in their cars.

Landing on the circling road outside her castle grounds, she looked up to the sky.

In the distance there were a few plumes of smoke; final acts of desperation by the diminishing number whom still possessed the strength to act out.

And now, in a matter of a few hours, a number would arrive with a ghastly task in their hearts.

Bringing up an old fashioned spiral notebook, she turned the page.

Reading the next item, it said: 'Verify previous steps once before proceeding'

Nodding, she turned the pages back to the first.

After checking it all over once, she landed back at the road next to an allotment of crystals; Her reserve cache, should she need it.

Looking at the list, she made a quick check again: The enchantments surrounding the city, were terminated; The wells were shutdown, pulled and filled; Power disabled everywhere, and external connections severed.

...though they had been of no use for the last many weeks. Even her phone had been without service even before the energy grid had failed.

Looking up once again to the distant smoke plumes in the fading evening light, her ears wilted and her expression became awash with sorrow.

Thinking about the humans that she had met over the years brought her sadness. The likelihood that they had already succumbed, was more than half now. Odds were, that they were already gone from this world.

For a while she sat there, wishing they were okay. Though she knew it was folly in her mind, her heart still wished it...

When the sun had set, and twilight had fallen, she arose.

She was out of time.

Clearing her mind of all thoughts but one, her horn glowed; seeking the crystals embedded at the city's perimeter.

One by one, she established a connection with them all.

The first stage in the spell she prepared began; Every living thing around her that was not plant life, was cast out. Many squirrels and rodents were dismayed, finding themselves flung into the surrounding woods.

Second, a barrier of dark blue covered the city like a dome; cutting through the earth underneath as well. Physically separating what was inside of it from the rest.

Third, the alicorn poured a measured amount of energy into the time slip spell; setting its travel duration.

Tapping into her reserve next to her, she began the final stage; the displacement.

Her expression morphing into that of agony instantly, she pushed through it; her mind a steel trap of one purpose only.

The spell that violated the natural law of time, came with a heavy price. And that price was pain. The magic backlash of its resistance being extreme beyond description.

With sweat and tears falling from the alicorn; the light emitted from the dome of energy increased.

Shortly before she lost consciousness, the landscape outside the dome changed;

Where there was once a cityscape in the distance with smoke coming from it, was now trees.

The alicorn had barely time to notice it, before her body collapsed and she faded into unconsciousness.

The dome of energy around the city dissipating; the ground as one with the earth once more.

In the twenty first century, a few noticed the flash of blue in the distance... As they had more important things on their minds, to care.

A few soldiers headed in that direction, attributed it to an electric ark. Likely caused by civil unrest like that they were delivering their cargo from; their own luxurious homes being too close to the violence that was erupting.

What their reaction was to the road ending in a precipice to a pit, rather than their destination... no one knows.