Groom Hornwell's 2022

After ninety one years as the ruler of Equestria, Twilight Sparkle was getting it. Everything of it.

First it was the changeling invasion. They had failed to conquer Canterlot and left the castle plaza full of corpses. It was the second changeling attack in the whole history of Canterlot.

Then it was the collapse of the Canterlot dungeons. Many pony lives were lost in that incident. The ponies; lured by Stablo agent imposters, told there was a griffon threat; went inside the dungeons and got trapped there by the changelings. Many of them died because the dungeons collapsed on them, with parts of Canterlot's surface collapsing too; like the Housing Complexes and the Hospital. That incident happened, many ponies believed, because of the earthquakes produced by Spike. It took hours to help the survivors get out, and days to find all the bodies. Twilight felt really responsible for that. After all, she was the overseer for the construction of most parts of the dungeons. The prisoners held in the caves connected to the dungeons didn't need to be moved out because there was only a minor collapsing in the caves. About twelve hundred ponies entered the dungeons that night and only three quarters of them got out alive. Around three hundred lives were lost in that incident.

Spike had died. His body was magically lifted by the three alicorns; Flurry, Luster and Twilight; and was taken to the Everfree forest.

Chrysalis had died too. Moons later after the incident, changelings were sporadically seen. It was believed that the changelings remaining in the Equus world simply decided to blend in, disguised as ponies, for the rest of their lives. It was believed by ponies that they were without a chance to reproduce due to the lack of another queen.

Some days after the Canterlot battle and the dungeons incident, the Stablo Press was shut down and renamed as a nest of lies. Red, the journalist, was identified in the Ponyville's morgue and considered just another martyr of a cruel destiny. Something similar happened with Kalby, the director of the Stablo press. Although, he was found dead in Canterlot. Larynx's body, the nurse changeling, was found by the farmers of Sweet Apple Acres. It was buried near the Everfree forest.

The two Weapon soldiers that were killed by changelings that foursday night, also called the Night of the hundred, received proper military funerals. However, the first sergeant Prad Deccart, a pegasus also known as 'Bronco' by his comrades, was never found. He remained as a Pony in Absentia. Also, the survivors of that event were all promoted to official ranks, if they weren't already. Nevertheless, the soldiers that went to call for backup in other locations before the Canterlot castle battle were only given medals, not promotions. The former second sergeant alias Omegait, the earth pony soldier with a leg missing, returned to his home, Sweet Apple Acres, and got a wooden prosthesis. From then on, he worked on the farm everyday of his life.

The trains to south Equestria, that had been frozen due to a derailment, were soon available again. The name of the train, that was Victory Express, was renamed back to its original name: Friendship Express.

The School of Friendship reopened after the war ended. It had been serving as a bunker, just like the Friendship Castle, for the ponies in Ponyville during the war. After the end of the conflict, its doors reopened and all species one could think of were welcome to learn about friendship. Again.

Almost everyday, Twilight was brought complaints. The canterlotian ponies were angry with the government. They had lost their trust to the Stablo members.

Twilight's body looked colorless, creepily slender and hunchback. But her mind was fresh and curious as the day she first visited Ponyville. Those grisly events seemed to adjust the nuts on Twilight's brain, making her ideals suddenly change.

Although, she still have one disciple left.

Flurry Heart continued as the marshal of the Weapon (the mix of the royal guards and the wonderbolts), but as the war against other species got into a truce, the mandatory drafts stopped by order of Twilight. Also, a division of the Weapon was created in Canterlot. But it was voluntary to join.

On the other hand, Luster decided to quit from her Stablo functions, and became an independent detective and a journalist. She had Twilight's blessing.

Many moons after Twilight's ascension, she did the unthinkable. She, tired of being full of hatred and stress, asked for peace.

The press was shocked. The Equestrian government declared to the whole Equus world a plea of peace. It was well received by the hippogriffs, kirins, zebras and donkeys. Although, it took time to convice the griffons and dragons to cease the fight. Other species, besides ponies, were able to live again on equestrian soil.

The hippogriff species was the first one to come back to Equestria.

Then it followed the zebras and donkeys. No pony supremacist dared to object.

The non-pony species that were incarcerated for ponitical reasons were freed.

Every day, more and more ponies shared their ideas with other species.

The ponies, happy or not, looked more alive. Except for Twilight in her high castle. She had aged a hundred years of stress on that changeling night.

But war always burns down and like the phoenix it's reborn with the name of peace.

Equestria and its ponies, found themselves surrounded by friends of other species. That's why the Weapon mandatory drafts stopped and thousands of colts and fillies could go back home.

Two pony classes were defined, either officialy or de facto: liberals and supremacists.

It was the year 2022 after Celestia's birth, but it was also the year 0 as it marked an era of rebirth.

The end.