The silence of the foals

Luster, Twilight and Flurry were around Chrysalis body. They were in the Royal Garden. "We gotta go help the ponies get out of the dungeons", Twilight said. She turned her head to the left and looked at Flurry. "We need the Weapon's help, Flurry. Go talk to them. Also, tell them to turn off the sirens", she told her. Flurry nodded and immediately took flight heading east. Twilight turned her head forward and looked at Luster. She looked her in the eyes. "You and me are going to head to the dungeons entrances. I'm going to the one in the town centre and you'll go to the one near the train station. Understood?"

"Yes, Twilight", Luster answered. They both took flight from the garden, leaving Chrysalis's body behind. They flew over the castle plaza. Luster looked down at the mess there. An enormous dead dragon surrounded by dozens of changeling corpses. Luster and Twilight went separate ways. Twilight headed east while Luster went south east.

After flying for three minutes, Luster got to the entrance to the dungeons, near the gas mines. She saw a crowd of ponies. They were getting out of the dungeons. Stablo agents were guiding them in an orderly fashion. They were silent. Luster landed near the crowd. Seconds after, stablo agents approached her. She exchanged glances with them. "Gentlecolts, what's the situation?"

The unicorn in front of Luster spoke. "Commissar, the dungeons have collapsed in the central area. Even some buildings on the surface fell on us", he said. Just like the other stablo agents, he was dirty with dust and dirt on his coat and mane. Luster nodded energetically. "Alright, no time to lose. Let's get inside the dungeons and help everypony we can. Got it?!" She said, exchanging glances with the three ponies.

"Yes, commissar!" The others said in unison. Luster and them rushed to the entrance to the dungeons. They, as fast as they could, moved within the crowd of ponies getting out of the dungeons, and headed downstairs.

Underground in the dungeons, Luster and the other three stablo agents galloped. They dodged the ponies on their way. As the moved further into the dungeons they could already see the damage of the collapse. There were collapsed walls and parts of the roof. The metal gates of the vents on the ceiling had also fallen. Rubble and dust were scattered on the floor.

Luster and the stablo agents coughed every few seconds. The air was full of gray particles. Many torches on the walls had gone off or even fell on the floor. Some sections of the dungeons were in total darkness, still with ponies coming out from then. Luster and the other unicorns around had their horns illuminating, helping the pegasi and earth ponies see. The brick walls and the roof had fallen on some parts. There were ponies beneath them, covered in blood.

Luster and the three stablo agents stopped before a collapsed area. There were ponies beneath it. "Help me lift the debris off these ponies!" Luster ordered. With their telekinesis, she and the unicorns started to move the rubble off the ponies lying on the floor. The stablo agent that was a pegasus moved the objects with his wings and hooves. Only one of the ponies beneath that collapsed wall was still moving. He screamed in pain, only stopping to cough or snorting the dust out of his lungs. Luster looked down at him; at his chest. It was clear he had broken ribs.

Finally, in that small section of the dungeon, Luster and the other agents freed the ponies off the debris. Still, only the pony from before looked conscious. The others didn't move. Luster approached and unconscious pony. She was lying face up; her eyes closed and her mouth opened. Luster looked down at her, pointing her with her horn. The other stablo agents were looking at Luster. "Commissar! What are you...?!" One of them was saying. With her magic, Luster shocked the pony on the ground. The pony on the ground started to convulse. Luster stopped her magic.

The pony on the floor opened her eyes and inhaled deeply. She sat on the floor and started to cough. Luster turned around to face the stablo agents. Then her eyes fell on the other unconscious victims of the collapse on the floor. "Listen, gentlecolts!" Luster looked up at the two unicorns that were stablo agents. They were in front of her. "All of these unconscious ponies!" She looked down again and swept the ponies on the floor with her eyes. "You'll shock them in an attempt to restart their hearts and lungs!" She looked up at them and exchanged glances with the two unicorns. "Understood?!" She asked, shouting. The other stablo agents exchanged glances with it each other.

Then they looked forward at Luster. "Yes, commissar!" They said in unison. Luster nodded energetically. "Waste no time! I'll go ahead of you and see if I can help more ponies!" Without awaiting an answer Luster turned around and galloped away, getting further into the dungeons. Her horn illuminated her way. The stablo agents left behind looked down at the unconscious ponies. From their horns, magic came. They shocked the bodies hoping to revive them. Also, the pegasus stablo agent sat on the floor and pressed his wings against the chest of an unconscious pony.

Luster had gotten away from the stablo agents. She was further inside the dungeons. On her way she found more ponies under debris and helped them out. Although, despite the determination to revive the ponies with magical shocks, many of them didn't make it. Moving further, she looked up and saw the night light. From there she could see the sky and stars. Her jaw dropped. There was a hole in the roof, a hole that led to the surface of Canterlot. Luster flew up, crossing the gap, and landed on the surface. She was on the street of the hospital block.

She turned her body around and swept the hospital area with her eyes. That building and a few others had collapsed. Parts of the inside of the buildings, still standing still, were visible. She looked south and saw the Sun Memorial; the statue of Celestia. She looked down and sighed. In the background she could hear clopping and shouting. Atleast, the sirens around the city had been turned off. Luster looked up at the sky. She could see the Weapon soldiers flying around and shouting orders to the subordinates.

There was a lot of chaos in Canterlot until three in the morning. It took atleast five hours to help all of the ponies alive get out of the dungeons. Although there were lots of ponies dead or still missing. Since the only hospital of Canterlot collapsed, makeshift medical tents were set up on the streets. All the Weapon soldiers in town were helping, either providing paramedical care or donating blood. There were over five hundred injured ponies, and atleast two hundred missing. The toll of fatal victims was over a hundred, and they still hadn't found all the bodies still in the dungeons. Flurry Heart, Twilight and Luster used all of their alicorn magical power in order to lift the collapsed buildings. They also had donated blood, which was like an elixir that could help really injured ponies.

Around five in the whinniesday morning, Luster went again down the dungeons through the hole on the street she had gotten out before. She went east to the entrance of the caves. She could see that in the caves there wasn't a lot of damage from the collapse. Only a few rocks had fallen down. The torches on the walls were perfectly illuminating the path. Luster walked forward and after five minutes she reached the junction that led to Canterlin's prison entrance. The magic shield was on, meaning that the black hole was there. But, Luster came prepared. She had found the guard of the caves outside. She had found him injured lying inside a medical tent on the street. She had borrowed his cantie-rantie. With her telekinesis, Luster took the communicator out of her saddlebag. She pressed a switch and put it close to her muzzle. "Hello? Over", she spoke.

"Commissar, yes? This is the comptroller of the magic shield. Are you there already? Over" A voice coming from the device said. The sound was mixed with a static noise. "That's right, comptroller. Unlock the em-ess, please. Over and out", Luster answered. "Copy that, commissar", the voice from the cantie-rantie said. "Unlocking of the magic shield in three, two, one..."

In a millisecond, the dark path turned white.