Odyssey of my friendship

Starlight was carefully separating pieces of sticky paper from Twilight's diary, and she didn't want to know what had stuck the sheets of paper together. Sunburst, on the other hand, was trying to read the pages and each time he transferred the entries to a different paper, trying to exactly transfer the text from the ancient artifact. Starlight turned around when she felt someone appear behind her.

"Princess..." Starlight wanted to bow out of habit, but a gesture with her hoof stopped her.

"Just call me Celestia, there's no need for formalities now, let's get right down to business. What did you find out?"

The princess looked worried.

"How can I tell you, most of the pages are in good condition, although the oldest ones leave much to be desired, we found DNA of unknown species of flora and fauna on them. There are traces of sulfur, gunpowder... Ahem... secretions... remnants of someone's semen, blood from centuries ago mixed with relatively recent blood. Traces of caffeine, traces of some kind of medication. Also traces of light, dark and Chaos magic, but overall the artifact is not dangerous or a threat to others," the stallion reported.

"Celestia, what about Twilight? How is she?" Starlight looked at the princess worriedly. She was worried, very worried.

"Ahem... My sister and I talked to her through the dream. Luna's still reeling from what she saw, and I'm still in a state of shock."

"Is it that bad?" The unicorn was worried, her pupils dilating a bit.

"If she's not kidding, it's a fraction of what she showed... But... bits of the original consciousness still remain. She's psychologically broken right now... She still doesn't believe she's home."

"Maybe seeing her parents and friends will cheer her up." Starlight suggested.

"She's dangerous..." Celestia warned, explaining that she shouldn't do that.

"I know, but the fact that she didn't do anything, ugh... that gives me hope," Starlight was still sweating, remembering the morning's events.

"I've roughly deciphered the text of the first pages of her diary, Princess!" Sunburst brought out blank paper with his own handwriting on it.

Celestia took the text of the first journal, then began to read.

"I transcribed exactly as the author had written."

"Entry 1. The world has been... unfriendly to say the least. I managed to escape, thanks to my teleportation magic. As soon as the guards, um... noticed me, they attacked without a second thought! That's reckless! They could have killed me! Well, not about that. I'm a bit frightened, though, no! I'm wildly terrified! Where's the portal?! I made two or three runes on the side in case it broke, and then it would self-repair. Oh, crap. I forgot to take the crown off. The important thing is not to lose it... And no... I don't have a crown..."

Further text was scribbled, and Sunburst occasionally corrected the princess.

* * *

The portal opened in the middle of a wasteland. There was an unpleasant atmosphere in the neighborhood. Clouds hung in the sky and it looked like it was going to rain, but it never did, yellow grass was up to her neck in places, and as soon as Twilight was on solid ground, she felt a little dizzy, and had to shake her head to get rid of the strange sensation of being in another world.

"Wow! This is a new world! So much room and ground to explore! Celestia and Starswirl will be thrilled to see what I've discovered! So, to begin..." an excited Twilight immediately wanted to start writing down what she saw, but...

"Who is you?!" A voice came from somewhere in the bushes, and a little while later, two griffins a little shorter than Twilight appeared, their faces clearly showing that they were not friendly.

"I am a researcher from another world!" The two guards looked at each other and pointed their spears at Twilight. And then they threw themselves at her with a shout to intimidate her opponent.

"Alicorn!" The guard shouted excitedly as he tried to attack her, but his spear broke against the protective barrier, the shaft crunched, and the griffin pulled back a little.

"I come in peace! I..." Twilight tried the diplomatic method, but unfortunately they wouldn't listen to her.

"Shut up!" rudely interrupted Twilight the second griffin, trying to attack from the air, but to no avail, the crack of a spear, and he is already standing on Twilight's dome, trying to greedily get inside and get the mistress.

"Oh, wait a minute!" she shooed them away with a spell and threw a stern look at both of them, concluding that they would attack any pony they could meet, as well as being very afraid of the alicorns. Most likely, there's supposedly a war going on here...

"Call for backup, there's an alicorn! Attention, alicorn!" wailed the griffin, speaking through a device that looked very much like a walkie-talkie. But without waiting for reinforcements, Twilight simply fled using teleportation, but how far she had gotten she didn't know, as she had just used a random location. Teleporting once more, just in case, to get further away from them. Now Twilight was standing alone in the middle of the wasteland again, trying to catch her breath from the emotions and adrenaline rushing over her.

"Hmm... Worth writing down. Okay. I don't know where I am. I don't know where I am. Shit! I think I'm... Eh... going overboard with something I shouldn't have done. Wait... Where's my crown?!" Twilight almost screamed. Now, to Twilight's excited state, a sense of panic had joined her.

"Hey! She's here!" There was a troop of about six griffins moving towards her, and of course they were quite hostile too.

"Shit!" Twilight whispered loudly. She clearly needed to think with a cool head first before yelling. This time, the Princess of Friendship cast a teleportation spell straight upward as the guards hurried through the bushes. As she flew overhead, she took stock of her surroundings.

"The charred remains of a civilization. Apparently there was a city here and all the houses were mostly wooden... and no, there's an alternative to concrete, like from the castle."

Twilight changed her opinion slightly as she found the ruins of houses with concrete and mangled rebar.

"Had there really been such a powerful collision here. Still, I should have thought about it a few times and listened to Spike, at least once in a while. This place isn't even comfortable to breathe in. It smells like garbage, that's what war smells like..." Twilight flew higher to observe the scale of the disaster, but no matter how much she climbed, she saw no end to the horizon of incidents.

"Alternate Equestria. What would happen if the war of two hundred years ago turned out in favor of the gryphons. Eh... I should get out of here before I get caught or, worse, killed."

The rumble and explosion that came from the distance didn't even let Twilight wake up.

"What the...?" A point instantly slammed into her, dragging her forward.

"Aah! Let go! Ugh!" Twilight lost the air from her lungs from the blow to her stomach under her solar plexus, and her neck twisted unpleasantly from the sharp pulse in the other direction.

"Don't move! Otherwise we'll both be captured! What were you thinking, you fool!" The voice was painfully familiar, and clearly belonged to a blue pegasus from Twilight's world.

"I don't know what kind of joke you're playing, but sit still, because I'm having a hard time managing my weight at this speed!" A minute later they were descending and soon came to an abrupt stop, god it was easy to lose a couple strands of your mane at this speed. The stop was on a hard surface near a yellow field. Soon both of them were hidden in the thick yellow tall grass, which was thicker in this place and exceeded the pony's height.

"Hey! Can you tell me what that is?" Twilight tried to speak to her again.

"Quietly follow me, no questions asked. Don't look at anyone. Don't push questions on anyone. You follow me quietly and silently." She nodded, glaring at the back of her new escort's head, she walked quietly and silently. I wish I could study her better, but I could only make out the variegated hue of her mane and the slightly dull color of her fur. It was quite dark inside the grotto.

Apparently the Rainbow of this world was different and not as reckless as in ours.

There were other ponies in the neighborhood, all engaged in the same common endeavor. The clanking of the hammer against the blacksmith's metal and the general commotion was clearly blended into the surrounding atmosphere. No one paid any attention to Twilight, because not a single person dared to raise their head and look at Rainbow. Soon they both entered some sort of room that resembled a study. The heavy door closed behind them with a clang.

"So... Sit down..."

Rainbow sat in the large brown leather armchair, while Twilight sat in the simpler version of the furniture across from her, not very comfortable, but it was what it was. Now she was free to study everything she could lay her eyes on, and yes, Rainbow was sitting across from her, albeit a little worn from time and numerous fights. There was no permanent guilty smile in her gaze for the mischief she had done.

"Tell me, who are you?" the voice was almost the same, but had a tone a little lower than the original.

"I'm Twilight..." she answered calmly, but only a heavy sigh was heard in response.

"Look, I used to love jokes, but... not now... I seriously want to know who you are?" Rainbow tapped her hoof rhythmically on her desk. She scrutinized her guest closely.

"I'm Twilight!" she answered more seriously.

Rainbow leaned toward her a little, the light now shining better on the rainbow-haired girl. It was only now that Twilight noticed that there was a warrior sitting in front of her who had seen a lot. She had a scar on her head that ran from the top of her head to her eye, a thin scratch across her iris, and the color of her eye was gray and matte, and she seemed to be blind in that eye. The other was a shade of violet, the whites were bloodshot in places, and the bags under her eyes made it clear that the bearer was obviously sleeping less than she should. A piece of mane was missing from her head, revealing another scar. Her gaze was stern, reminiscent of a serious boss reprimanding a subordinate for serious errors in production. Soon she took her gaze away from the lavender one and exhaled heavily. She clearly wasn't in the mood for conversation, Twilight reasoned.

"Hey, *Twilight.* Then explain how on earth you survived... No, I'll ask it another way!" Rainbow shouted: "How did you get out of the grave?!"

The loud clatter of a hoof on the desk raised the dust in the office. The pain in her gaze immediately threw Twilight off balance.

"Me?!" the alicorn looked at Rainbow in panic, now she seemed like a small frightened mare in the headmaster's office. "I'm from another world..." she quickly rambled her childish 'It's not my fault, I won't do it again' excuse.

"Uh-huh..." Rainbow replied briefly again, a note of disbelief in her voice.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle. I am the princess of friendship that came..." Twilight began to echo again.

"There's a note about your boy, isn't there?" Rainbow didn't let Rainbow finish, mockingly interrupting her excuses.

"Grrgh! I'm an alicorn!" Twilight had already gone to the extremes of her truthfulness.

She wasn't proud of it, as a mage, she was very strong, but here as a pegasus, she left a lot to be desired and flew like a paper airplane in a tornado.

"A fake horn anyone could have glued on."

"I can fly and use magic!" she defiantly levitated almost all the objects around her and then dropped them back to their places as a sign that she was right.

"Yeah, so a unicorn, but with false wings," Rainbow retorted.

"Watch it! I can fly! Touch my wings if you don't believe me! I know a lot about you. The only one who can fly so fast you can break the sound barrier, causing rainbows. Rainbow Dash's loyalty element!"

"I..." she opened her mouth, looking at her stunned. She bit her lower lip, clearly thinking about something. The range of emotions on her face made it seem as if she couldn't quite put the whole picture together, but she was successfully doing so.

"I'm your friend, Rainbow... I'm not trying to trick you, just tell me what's going on in your world. Maybe I can help..." Twilight lowered her voice, speaking in a more or less calm voice.

"That would explain how you haven't been killed yet... follow me," Rainbow stood up from her seat and gestured for her to follow her.

The pegasus headed towards the passage in the earthen vault. Twilight obediently followed her, she didn't know where Rainbow was leading her, it was dark all around, but apparently it was quite normal for the rest of the eyes of this dwelling. Rainbow stopped to light a torch and began her tale.

"For sixteen years there has been a war..." She raised the torch upward to illuminate the space. The glare illuminated the many, just countless, tombstones, each one was like the other. Gray monolithic stones that were so carefully polished and all with inscriptions. Twilight cringed, looking at the gruesome sight. She'd been to the cemetery before, but now she realized, seeing more and more familiar names chiseled into the stones.

"They're all..." Twilight whispered quietly in horror, not believing in the reality of everything that was happening.

"All of them..." Rainbow sighed, and then slowly walked over to one grave. Carefully stroking the stone, she got as close to it as possible and brought the torch to the stone. Twilight discerned the inscription. "Here lies Twilight Sparkle, rest in harmony."

"And yes, I believe you are from another world... For I buried her myself... Or rather, what was left of her..." the pegasus whispered almost inaudibly. It was not hard to guess that she was crying, but she hid it carefully, she did not want to show that the strong could cry too.

"I'm sorry..." Twilight said guiltily.

"What do you have to apologize for...? Silly... But thanks for reminding me what my best friend looks like," Rainbow hastily wiped her eyes, brushing away her tears.

"How did she die?"

"She... Protected me... The gryphons were exterminating mostly pegasi and unicorns... To enslave Earth ponies to work for slaughter. Our Twilight didn't have the honor of being born an alicorn and--"

"I was a unicorn too, Rainbow! Princess Celestia made me an alicorn."

"Celestia? Wow, your godmother is lying here too..." she walked past four tombstones and pointed with her hoof to the right grave. The inhabitants of this world had hoped for much, but Celestia, like Luna, had fallen from over-hospitality.

"Celestia has fallen?" The tears came again, now on Twilight's face, mixed with a shocked look.

"Twilight, did I tell you that everyone has fallen?" Rainbow swept the torch over the familiar graves again. Each new name shocked the lavender one more and more.

"S... S..." she couldn't get a word out.

Rainbow continued to hit her again:

"Everyone, Twilight! Luna, Celestia, your brother! Pinkie, Rarity! Applejack! Even Fluttershy! They broke in first and stabbed her in the house! Everyone fell! Even you!" Rainbow clenched her jaws, clamping her eyes shut and barely holding back another tearful outburst.

"There was no room for emotion and tears in war. And there's no room for trust and hope..." She lowered her head guiltily, ashamed of her own tears, and the torch diminished in brightness. Rainbow opened her old wounds again. Wounds that would never heal, growing larger and larger as time went on.

"You're wrong, there is always hope... Without it there is no future..." Twilight hugged her friend tightly, she immediately felt the hard smoothness of her back, shoulders and hooves. The burden of loneliness is heavy. The burden of war and loss.

"Twilight..." She snuggled into her and, no longer holding back her tears and her emotions, burst into her mane. Rainbow had no time to say "thank you" or "goodbye" to her friend, pretending to be dead so they wouldn't keep looking for her, and when it all subsided, Twilight wasn't breathing.

"Thank you, Twilight... For saving me..." Rainbow pulled away, wiping away her tears. "Now to the point... How did you get here, to this world? Perhaps you could help us get out of here?"

"I assembled a portal and used my Element to open it, I ended up coming here... And unfortunately I lost it when I was fleeing from the griffins."

"Hmm. I think they have it. The griffins. But not for long!" a light flashed in Rainbow's eyes, a frown and a smile stretched across her face.

"What? What are you planning to do?" she immediately understood her friend's plan, but it was better to ask again.

"How many more casualties do you think it will take to end the war? Our leader has fallen, everyone thinks that victory is theirs... But no. We will rise from the ashes and unleash an avalanche on our enemies! You are strong. We need your help, Twilight. The alicorns are very strong, that's why they fear them. Ask me for anything you want. I'll give you my body if you need it!"

"Hey! Rainbow, I don't recognize you. You're an Element, just like me. Behave yourself," Twilight held out her front hoof, and Rainbow smiled back. "I'll be sure to help you, friend," Twilight bestowed a smile on her as well. - Now tell me all about the plan, and I'll help you with the strategy.

And so began the development of the war plan. *Last Hope.* True, they should have called this plan *All or Nothing*, but Rainbow liked the first option better. The plan was simple, it was like a blitzkrieg. Attack all at once, with everything we've got. Rainbow would take command of the pegasi, as she should. The earth ponies would be commanded by Blacksmith, a dark gray, muscular pony with an anvil cotemark. The management of the unicorns will be taken over by Emily. A quiet, calm, but very strong unicorn who has had a lot of bad luck with her height. And all this and coordination will be managed, of course, by Twilight, as if she had returned from the other side of the world. She has raised the morale of the others to the skies with her presence.

"Don't be afraid of the griffins! They burn our homes! They're killing us and our children! Don't you dare show any sympathy for them! And now, we will end this genocide once and for all! - Rainbow spoke loudly in front of everyone, followed by very loud cheers of "YES!!!"."

In just one night, they made it out to the borders of the Gryphon Kingdom, the tall grass hiding everyone carefully, and the straw-like cloak camouflaged the army well. The scouts were quickly taken out by members of the pegasus scout troop. The gryphons tried to resist, but to no avail.

"Attention! Pie family unit! Let's go!" They were the first to approach the wall, being the most skillful in destroying stone, they used their own hooves to tear the cobblestone walls to dust.

"Unicorn squad! Let's go!" Slashing the steel grate with magic, they penetrated inside the state. Two minutes later, the wall fell. Inside, panic could be heard among the waking civilians. No one expected them to rush in and launch a counterattack. Almost immediately the alarm went up and the griffin squads took to the air.

"Pegasus squad, use the slingshots! Get rid of the flyers!" The griffins began to fall like rain from their guns. Twilight's information played well. As the gryphons were rocketing to the ground, the Earth squad was destroying them with their spears. Gradually, they approached the second wall. The ponies filled the empty space, covering Pinkie's family. But suddenly, something went wrong.

"Pegasus, get back!" they heard in their ears, the archers were on the second line of walls. They were shooting at the pilots. Those who were hit were carried right behind the wall, where there was an auxiliary squad and a medical squad.

"Shields up!" The Earth ponies raised a steady line of wooden shields with metal bolts. The stone pile of the walls fell with a rumble, but there was still a metal fence. A shield of solid steel, half a meter thick... It couldn't be taken down with ordinary magic.

"Twilight! What do we do?!" Rainbow Dash called out loudly.

"Gather the unicorns together and use the group spell. Have the others move away from the wall. I'll put a blast shield over them," Twilight commanded, stepping in front of the unicorns. "On my command, concentration! Don't worry! I'll protect you! After I give the order, point it at my horn!"

"You won't be able to take it!" Emily shouted, and it was partially true.

A normal unicorn would rather collapse than digest that much magic. But an alicorn with a magic reserve dozens of times higher than the others could handle such a load.

"I can handle it!" Twilight urged.

She put a shield around them and exhaled, concentrating on the battle spell, and the entire troop of unicorns, about fifty of them, gave all the magic they had to Twilight's horn.

"30, 40, 50, 60, 90, 100 %!" Twilight counted.

Her eyes lit up with a white light. Sweat ran down her face. Holding a bright, very powerful sphere of magic that shimmered on the end of her horn in all the colors of the rainbow, she prepared to launch the spell. The orb narrowed into a single point, and Twilight shot straight into the wall. She put up a huge barrier of defense, covering the pony. Dust kicked up. Visibility was almost zero, her head was buzzing. The excess magic made her nose bleed. But she was prevented from falling by Blacksmith, who held her left, and Emily, holding the princess on her right, allowing her ally to see the fruits of her feat.

"The wall is breached! Forward!" loudly commanded Blacksmith.

"Yeah!!!"

Everyone rushed in with a deafening clatter. The impact was much harder than Twilight had expected, and the wall was not just blown away, but fused together with several streets behind it. Everyone followed the tactics as before. The two commanders were still keeping their general from falling. Allowing them to see that everything they owed, they owed only to her. Sixteen years of oppression, shame, and genocide. They would finally put an end to this bloody era.

Rainbow slipped inside the castle where she executed the king herself in front of his wife and children, who didn't even get a word in edgewise, but soon found themselves in his place, Rainbow spared none of them. She took the king's head and carried it out to the public, standing on the balcony of the highest tower, where she loudly and smugly proclaimed to the entire crowd:

"Your king has fallen! Lay down your weapons! All who surrender now can expect mercy through hard labor, your families will not be threatened with reprisals!"

Predictably, the army laid down their weapons, seeing that their king's head was now in the clutches of their enemy commander. Soon the population of the city surrendered to the army as well, not wanting to die in vain. There were sparse resistances, but those were ostentatiously interrupted by public executions. Soon a crowd gathered in the square.

"Rainbow! Rainbow!!!" chanted every soldier.

"No!!!" shouted Rainbow even louder than the crowd. "You do not owe this victory to me! You owe your lives to a friend who came from another world! It is an angel who has come down to us! To bring an end to this war! She has rid us of a tyrant! Soon Rainbow obediently flew down from the tower and planned right in front of Twilight. Proudly, with a smile and all humility, she bowed before her."

"Twilight Sparkle!"

Alicorn was on her hooves by then, dust and dirt settling on her mane, clearly aware of the importance of the event. The commanders joined Rainbow in bowing their heads, and the entire liberation army and civilians followed suit.

"Accept my, no, our thanks! For being able to organize us and help us get rid of our enemies! These aggressors!" Twilight's head was actually buzzing and spinning, but she held herself with dignity and said:

"Raise your heads! Yes, I am an explorer from another world. It is very hard for me to see what war has led to in this world and I am glad to have helped you find harmony and peace! Spread friendship among other peoples! And know that only friendship and mutual support will help you! I..." Twilight suddenly fell silent. Her eyes blurred, her head rattled, and the figures of the three commanders became blurry blurs. She slumped silently on her side, listening with the remnants of her receding consciousness to the shouts of the crowd and Rainbow's sharp cry. What they were yelling about, she couldn't make out.

* * *

"Twilight!" The voice seemed muffled, like a trumpet calling her name. The horn hummed, sending a throbbing pain through her head. "Twi? Twilight!" Her name was called again as her eyes began to open.

"Oh... Don't scream, my head is buzzing..." she weakly squeezed out as she looked at her friend, her look of sleepless nights and gutted mane giving away her condition.

"Thank Faust, you're alive!" She clutched Twilight tightly with her strong hooves, clearly unwilling to let her go ever again. The pegasus patted her weakly on the back as the princess looked around the room she was in.

The room was very comfortable, although the beds were small, they were surprisingly comfortable for her back. There was a persistent smell of medicine in the room, some smells familiar and some quite new. And now Rainbow was clutching Twilight tightly in a hug that made Twilight fear her ribs were going to break.

"I..." she tried to squeeze out some words again, but again she was denied.

"Don't scare me like that!" she shook her head at Twilight. She was clearly hysterical about the alicorn's condition. Twilight had no choice but to try and comfort her.

"Hush, I'm alive... Rainbow, it's just that magic of this concentration I've only been able to contain twice in my life. And I'm sorry for making you worry," she stroked the pegasus' head, hugging her back. It wasn't long before many things were learned firsthand. Most of those who returned home were horrified to find their griffon dwellings occupied by the ponies. Many surrendered, some were killed. There were casualties among the ponies as well, though they seemed insignificant. A white flag with a purple six-pointed star shone above the cone of the tower.

"Rainbow... What does that mean?" Standing in her bandages, Twilight looked around at the flag. She clearly wasn't happy that her cutiemark was now adorning the royal castle. It was also disconcerting to see so much attention directed in her direction among the many ponies.

"It's in your honor, Twilight. No offense, but this mark will henceforth be our emblem of liberation, only because of you. Thank you! She would have liked to refuse the thanks, but Twilight knew that would be a spit in Rainbow's face and in the faces of those who had died today."

"And so we name you our ruler!"

"What?!" Twilight stuttered at that. "No! No! I can't! I have to go home! I need to find my crown!" She was about to backtrack, but Rainbow stopped her.

"By the way, we found your crown!" She pulled a crown with a star on it from behind her back and put it on her head. "There, now you really are our princess! Twilight Sparkle!" smiled the pegasus.

"No, I'm handing the reins over to you, Rainbow! And I must move on, I need to find the portal home..." Twilight wanted to leave right away, but again Rainbow held her back. She turned around to say something to her, but saw the look in her eyes.

"Twilight... Don't hurt me again... I don't want to lose you again..." her ears promptly fell downward. This conversation was between the two of them now, and Twilight clearly didn't want the others to hear it.

"Hey Rainbow! I'll definitely come back to you again," she tilted her head slightly to the side and smiled softly. "I'll be sure to visit you," the crown lit up, causing the portal in the square to glow yellow.

"I'll be sure to come back, Rainbow, clean up and clean up while I'm not around. Rainbow Dash, Element of Harmony: Loyalty."

"But... Ruler you..." she tried to stop her again.

"Fine, then you're my deputy, Rainbow." Sure, it was very tempting, but no. She's not ready to rule. Grabbing her bag, a couple papers and something else, she gave her friend a big hug goodbye.

"I'll see you again, I promise." It hurt her to say goodbye, but it hurt Rainbow a lot more. But she braced herself and gave a warrior's salute, saying it as loudly as she could so the others could hear:

"I will fulfill your order at all costs, Princess Twilight!"

"Well said, Rainbow! Show your best behavior! Until I come! See you all later!"

Twilight went into the mirror portal, and it soon burst, shattering into pieces.

"Hmm... There would be something to tell her friends. I don't want my friends and family to know what war is really like." Silhouettes of corpses and mounted warriors appeared in her mind, there she held on, but now the urge to vomit, the headache and the panic attack came on sharply. With that set, Twilight was thrown out already somewhere in the middle of the desert.

*Bueh... This is definitely not something worth telling,* — she muttered lightly to herself, feeling the bile in her mouth."Healing", she covered herself with a green aura and began to try to calculate where she might have gotten to.

"How much sand is here..." she rummaged around in her bag and sat down on the hot sand. "Ouch! It's hot. Well, diary." Settling on her bag, she began to write.

"Entry 3, in all likelihood I won't be able to tell my friends anything today... Day three, world two. Lifeless..."

* * *

Celestia stopped reading the crazy texts and was rather surprised.

"Wow, single-handedly destroyed the griffins. She really is a good strategist, but the others are pathetic... Why can't I help them... Why couldn't I help Twilight."

"Princess? Are you all right? You're crying..." Starlight turned around, hearing the sadness in the princess' words.

"It's okay, Starlight... It's okay," she exhaled and looked at her, wiping the tears from her face. "Just take care of yourself, and please don't let the guys read about it. Or anyone else. I'm gonna go now. Please save as much as you can, I'll read everything my faithful student has been through. After which she left. Starlight glanced at Sunburst. Surely he had read the diary and knew what it was about."

"What did it say?"

"Are you sure you want to know?" The stallion corrected his glasses, as he copied the new text onto a sheet of paper.

"My teacher survived it! I want to know!" Starlight stopped her own work and glanced demandingly at Sunburst, waiting for answers. He sighed.

"The war... She was the leader. Parallel Equestria, she, with Rainbow Dash's help, had stopped the griffin armies. Tyranny and genocide of civilians, slavery and selling children. It took her no more than two days to end it all."

"That's great! What about the others?"

"What about the others?"

"What about the others? Well, Rarity, or other?"

"I understand none of them... Well, there's no survivors, just Rainbow..."

"Oh... This is a very horrible world... How could it be brought to this state..."

"There's more to come," the stallion sighed, rewriting the pages."

"I promise I'll read the whole thing from cover to cover, too!" Starlight pounded her chest, waiting for the next installment from the diary.

* * *

Twilight was still fast asleep. She would definitely smile if she remembered the smiles and joy the ponies had left behind.

"It was a good time. I wish I could go back, yeah yeah... Sorry, Rainbow Dash from world number one. The Fixed World. I won't be able to get to you. You're probably not even alive anymore... three hundred years... No my relatives, no my friends, and no my family..."