Dear Princess Celestia

"So, how are you doing Applejack?" Fluttershy questioned, she glanced towards the orange earth pony with her eyes glistening, she held a mug of warm coffee in her hooves that she began to sip from as Applejack turned towards her with worried but still compassionate eyes. "Am alright, just worried about Twi and that new stallion. I can understand why she'd trust him, he's certainly proven himself magically capable. I just worry that this new stallion isn't exactly bein' totally honest with us." Applejack confessed, she was hopeful that the white stallion had arrived to help them with the outbreak but she couldn't deny her suspicion, she had experienced other creatures trying to show themselves as good creatures until they were revealed to be some kind of enemy.

"I suppose I can understand that, but I have hope that he's here to help us, it just feels right" Fluttershy responded warmly, her voice was low but remained soft as she answered Applejack's reply, she had been suspecting similar beliefs after she had been face to somewhat face of the Dark Alicorn that invaded the Chaos Dimension. "I'm beginnin' to hope you're right, because we're runnin' out of options in this fight, because we're really running out of options for allies. Especially after Discord disappeared, do you know where he is?" Applejack wondered, she was hoping that Fluttershy might've somehow remembered what might've happened to Discord after he and the Dark Alicorn disappeared from the Chaos Dimension or somehow remained there.

"Unfortunately, I don't know...I've been worried since I was sent here, it's been hours since I was sent here and he hasn't appeared. I was hoping that somehow he might've returned." Fluttershy confessed, she was hoping that Discord would've come to get her or at least returned to show he was okay, but his complete disappearance and continued lack of revealing himself was only making her fear that he might've genuinely suffered the worst. "Well, he's the embodiment of Chaos, that ain't somethin' that some prideful Alicorn can undo or destroy." Applejack stated, she was confident that not even the Elements of Harmony had the power to truly and absolutely destroy a being as cosmically powerful as Discord, even when powered by herself and her other friends while using them.

"I like to think that, it makes me feel better. It really makes me have hope that he's okay" Fluttershy replied, the comment from Applejack helped instil some extra confidence into her heavily fractured mind, she didn't want to admit it, but she had begun losing her hope in Discord's continued survival. "Well, hold onto that hope, cuz it might not be the worst idea you'll have, hope is a powerful thing, honestly. I'm surprised it isn't one of the Elements of Harmony" Applejack chuckled, she had already believed there were more components to sustaining harmony and friendship, but she had always assumed those components would become essential or otherwise important sometime in the future that involved them or the Elements themselves.

"You're right, I should have hope in Discord, it's not surprising that he'd be experiencing something like this" Fluttershy responded, she was glancing into the warm brown liquid swirling around in her mug, then she glanced towards the large glass window resting on the back wall of the library. "Knowing Discord, he's probably just pulling himself back together, in the literal sense, he does have the capacity to do so" Fluttershy reminded, she had already watched Discord repeatedly take himself apart in ways normally fatal, she had already predicted that his immortality was just as absolute as with the princesses but she could still feel her belief fading with each passing second.

"I suppose I should be fortunate, being in the presence of PRINCESS Twilight Sparkle! It's unbelievable! You're legendary in the places I've been!" Omega gasped, his eyes flashed with joy as he trots throughout the halls, Twilight was just glancing towards the crystallized Spike that was levitating behind her, she could feel the strain in her already chipped horn from the magic she was using to sustain the spell. "I'm sure it's revelational, but can you not be so damn weird about it." Twilight ordered, she was desiring silence so she could grief the potential demise of Spike after such an awful transformation, Omega took notice of Twilight's annoyance so he shut his mouth and glanced to the side to try and suppress some of his excitement.

"Right, sorry. I'm still getting use to all this, I know how it feels to experience all this unwanted attention, so I'll try and tone it down." Omega replied, he was hoping the apology would be enough to try and satiate the amount of emotional exhaustion that Twilight must've been feeling after all the madness that had happened, then he glanced back towards the crystalline cube containing Spike's body in perfect stasis. "Spike'll be alright, the crystal stasis I used will completely petrify his body, he's pretty much frozen in time, not a single part of his body is active, not blood, cells, or even his own beating heart, he's in perfect mystical stasis." Omega confessed, he had worked on the Crystal Stasis for years, so he was able to tweak and perfect the inner workings of the spell in order to work the thing perfectly, he was hoping that Dragons were also vulnerable to the workings of the spell like ponies were.

"You trapped him? Isn't that dangerous? Like...Wouldn't that risk his own death?..." Twilight inquired, she had studied the inner workings of biological entities, so she knew that a steady pumping of blood and oxygen was essential in the continued survival of living creatures otherwise they would inevitably expire. "No, that's if he was still functional, my mystical prison is like a time pause, his body is frozen in the same state it was in before the spell was cast, so he's just as alive as he was then. And he is alive, this infection. It isn't fatal for Dragons, but I've never seen it become something like a secondary consciousness" Omega expressed, he had never seen an infected individual showing such higher degrees of mental faculties, he'd only ever seen the infected managing to mimic the actions and ideals of the individual that was originally infected.

"Secondary consciousness? You've seen others who've expressed this kind of...Parasitic infestation of an entity. It spoke to me, told me its name is Death Rose and then it just attacked." Twilight confessed, she had not really properly given herself chance or time to comprehend the situation, she could feel her pulse beginning to increase once she began processing the situation that had occurred only a few minutes previously. "Spike attacked me because of something else possessing his body..." Twilight observed, she had only just processed that Spike's bizarre actions were resulting from a dual consciousness inhabiting his body, she had only begun realizing such an impossible to avoid or ignore inevitable reality that was existing before her.