"Enough! Or the dragon's wings get plucked!" Queen Chrysalis yelled out, her voice echoing through the field. The air hung heavy with tension as the ponies faced the menacing threat before them. Chrysalis sneered, her sharp eyes fixed on the dragon held by her magic.
Five of the six ponies bowed, submitting to the changeling. "No! Don’t hurt him!" Twilight cried out, desperation clearly in her voice.
Rainbow Dash, always one to act impulsively, had a different reaction. "PUT HIM DOWN!" she yelled, enraged but slightly scared.
"Make me!" Chrysalis taunted Rainbow Dash, not expecting anything to come of it.
"Alright, I WILL!" Rainbow Dash lunged at Chrysalis, sending the Queen flying backward with the force of her attack and dropping Fluttershy on the ground.
As Rainbow Dash and Chrysalis engaged in a brutal aerial battle, the neglected Spike fell to the ground, his head hitting the earth with a painful thud as Chrysalis's magic released.
“Augh!” Spike groaned in pain. Twilight, full of concern, shouted, “Spike, are you okay?!”. The small dragon looked up and said, “Yeah, I’m fine. I th—AGH!”
Cozy Glow and Tirek, both infuriated by the resistance from the mane 6, channeled their anger into a massive laser attack that they unleashed directly at the defenseless dragon.
“NO!” The five ponies who weren't currently in a battle shouted simultaneously. Twilight's horn reacted in a way that seemed almost automatic, creating a protective shield around her and a magical force that threw everyone but the mane 6 and Spike miles away, with the bell being thrown much further.
The purple Alicorn ran over to the now-motionless dragon. “Spike… are you… okay..?”
No response.
“Spike..?”
After a few seconds, something did come out of the dragon's mouth — blood. Twilight, upon seeing this, fell and started sobbing intensely.
Rainbow Dash, flying back and looking confused, said, “Not sure what happened, but Chrysalis just got thrown away randomly, aren’t I so awesome—hey Twilight… what’s wrong?”
Twilight didn’t say anything; she just kept looking down.
Applejack walked over to the Pegasus with her hat lowered and said, “Spike, he’s…” Applejack shook her head, unable to find the right words.
Rainbow Dash's confusion turned into realization, and her eyes widened in shock.
"Oh, oh no, is Spike hurt?"
“Worse,” Applejack spoke, trying her best to keep her composure.
Rarity, finally recovering from the intensive shock, ran over to the lifeless dragon, pushing Twilight out of the way.
“SPIKEY-WIKEY!” She yelled out. “THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING, NO!”
Rarity stared into Spike's lifeless eyes, eventually running in the other direction, a reaction made purely from absolute disbelief at what just happened.
Pinkie Pie, on the other hand, was just silently looking away as her hair deflated. Someone like her who was always happy, had no idea how to react to a tragedy such as this, so she was dead silent.
Fluttershy rushed forward with tears in her eyes. "Oh no, Spike... this is so terrible." She knelt beside Twilight, offering comfort.
Twilight, however, started to react far differently than the rest. Dark magic started swirling around her horn, an intense, dangerous amount, causing Fluttershy to back up, partially scared.
“This isn’t fair,” she said.
Her tears stopped flowing.
“I’m not letting this happen.”
"They will regret letting this ever happen."
Twilight started floating upwards, her eyes completely covered in white and her horn becoming so red and hot that it could easily melt steel.
Twilight’s horn seemed to magically tell her where the 3 villains had landed, and in a fit of rage for revenge, she flew over there as fast as she possibly could.
The three villains were still recovering from the magical outburst when suddenly, an all-too-familiar Alicorn appeared behind them.
Before any of the three could speak, Tirek was hit by an insanely big magical beam, leading to him being erased without knowing his time was near.
“OH CELESTIA!” Cozy Glow shouted, backing up after Tirek was obliterated. Chrysalis, in a stupid yet brave attempt for survival, morphed into a massive bear to fight off the enraged Twilight.
Twilight scoffed and stabbed her horn into the newly morphed bear, causing a massive roar of pain as the bear's entire body was enflamed and shortly turned into nothing but ashes.
Cozy Glow quivered on the ground in fear. Twilight stopped flying and walked towards Cozy, charging up her horn to its strongest power.
“What... what are you gonna do to me?”
Twilight fired all of her power into Cozy Glow, causing her to scream out in agony as she was struck directly by the attack.
As the intense blinding light of Twilight's magic faded away, Cozy Glow was revealed to be pathetically frozen in stone. The air was still thick with tension, then, the remaining ponies, who hadn't fled and had started following Twilight as she flew over to where the villains had landed, stared in disbelief at the aftermath.
Rainbow Dash, still recovering from the shock, was the first to break the silence. "What the hay just happened? Did Twilight just...?"
Applejack and Pinkie Pie exchanged uneasy glances, unable to find words for the scene before them. The remnants of Chrysalis lay scattered in the form of ashes, a grim result of the sheer force Twilight had unleashed.
Twilight slowly descended to the ground, her eyes glazed over with the remnants of the insane magical beam. Her memory seemed foggy as she addressed her friends, "Where am I? What's going on?"
The others hesitated, unsure of how to approach the subject. Applejack finally spoke up, her voice carrying a heavy weight, "Twilight, you... you kinda just obliterated them. All three of 'em."
Twilight's confusion melted away as the memories flooded back. Her eyes widened, and a horrified realization gripped her. "I... I killed them, didn't I?" Her voice quivered with a mix of guilt and shock.
The silence that followed was deafening, broken only by the distant sounds of the wind. Twilight took a shaky breath, looking at the petrified form of Cozy Glow. "Girls, let's just go back to Ponyville," she suggested, her voice lacking its usual confidence.
As the group walked back to Ponyville, they had lots of questions on their minds. How would this affect the future? How would they break the news? How would this change the present? And most importantly, could they bring Spike back?
