The Facility

Many homes were destroyed. Stores were looted and things were broken. Many of her closest friends lie dead on the ground. Twilight fought back tears at the sight of her library. She decided not to go in, out of fear of what else might be destroyed. This entire event was a catastrophe. Almost everypony she'd ever known was dead, and she wasn't there to help them....

No. No, this event will have never happened. She just had to put Stainless in his place. Twilight took a deep breath and looked down at the amulet around her neck. Her friends would live again. Stainless would pay.

As she approached Canterlot castle, she was faced with an ungodly amount of armed guards. They surrounded the castle completely. It didn't look like they had seen her, so she crouched behind an overturned carriage for some thinking time. How to get past these guards.... No. How to get past them unseen.... Suddenly she perked her head up. An idea had forced it's way into her head. Twilight quietly tiptoed around the carriage and other various damages over to a small cliff just above the castle's main entrance. Once she was at the top, she took aim at the side of the enormous structure and focused a spell. This would be the first time that she'd done two spells over top of each other. She focused hard and surrounded herself in a purple wisp and teleported towards the side of the tower. Immediately afterwards, she reverted gravity towards the castle and simply walked up the wall.

She looked back at the guards below. They still hadn't noticed her, good. She continued up the wall until she was near a balcony. From where she stood it looked to be the watch tower of the castle. That means that there was only one rooms until the throne room. Twilight flipped herself over onto the balcony and returned gravity to normal. Twilight picked herself up and slowly approached the door. It was cracked slightly, so Twilight took a small peak into the hallway outside. One of Celestia's last royal guards stood at the entrance to the throne room. Someone else was coming down the hall, causing the guard to bring his spear to a defensive position.

"Step out of the way. My business is not with you." Stainless!

"You are not permitted to enter here. Leave now." The colt returned.

"This is your last warning." Stainless emphasized the last few words. The colt stood his ground. "Very well." Stainless removed a gun from it's holster and put a bullet in the colt's head. Twilight clamped a hoof over her mouth to muffle her gasp. Stainless kicked the body out of the way and pushed the door open. Slendermane flew into the room in his wisp form and landed at Celestia's side. Nightmare Sol flew in as well and landed on the side opposite to Slender.

"Ah! Princess Celestia! What a pleasant surprise! How are you?" Stainless chuckled as he entered the room.

"I have agreed to step down. Now release the elements!" She ordered. Stainless only laughed harder.

"You don't have any power right now! I can send out enough of my creatures to kill everypony on the planet! What can you do? Shoot a pretty colored laser from your horn? I'll just get back up!" Celestia gave the largest frown Twilight had ever seen. "Alright. Now I need you out of the castle." He said.

"Release the elements!" Celestia countered. Stainless scratched the back of head.

"Well, you see.... I already killed all of them." He smiled. Celestia stood up from her throne and prepared a spell. Stainless quickly grabbed onto who looked to be, the princesses adviser. Stainless had a knife held up to the adviser's throat.

"Nope!" He laughed. "No, you're not doing that!"

The princess retracted herself and lowered her head.

"I will step down if you promise not to hurt anyone else." Stainless didn't answer. "PROMISE ME!" She screamed. Stainless simply nodded. The princess slowly came down from her perch. She kept eye contact with Stainless, giving him the coldest glare as she descended.

Seconds before leaving the room, Twilight burst into the room.

"STAINLESS!!" She screamed. The colt jumped back.

"I gave the order to kill you! How are yo-" Terror froze him in mid sentence. He looked down at the large metal amulet around her neck. "Wh-Where did you find that?" He quivered.

"It doesn't matter where I found it. What matters is what I'm going to do with it."

"But I hid it away! How did you find it?!"

"I had help from a friend." She said. Stainless began to back away.

"You are a disgrace and an abomination! And you will never hurt another living thing again!" The amulet around Twilight's neck began to glow.

"Wait! NO!" Stainless shouted. The amulet grew brighter and brighter, consuming the room in it's light. "STOP IT!! NO!!" The room was completely enveloped in white, and the only thing anyone could hear was the faint cry of the villain Stainless....

"Man, she looks pretty beat up."

"I hope she didn't hit her head too badly."

"That's a terrible bruise on her fa- Oh! She's waking up!"

Twilight opened her eyes. She was laying in a hospital bed in one of their gowns. It appeared that she had bandages over her legs and her friends were looking at her pitifully. Wait... HER FRIENDS!

"AppleJack! Rarity! Rainbow, Pinkie, Fluttershy! Guys, oh my goodness! You're alive!" AppleJack chuckled.

"Well 'course we're alive, sugarcube. Why wouldn't we be?" Twilight was confused.

"Wait. You don't remember anything that went on in The Facility?" All of her friends looked at her like she was speaking another language.

"What facility?" Rainbow asked.

"Oh, my. You must have hit your head harder than we thought!" Rarity said. Twilight became even more clueless.

"What?"

"You fell down the stairs in your library." Fluttershy informed. "Spike got us together, and we brought you here." This was weird. A doctor entered the room.

"I'm sorry, but she'll need her rest for now. You'll all have to come back some other time." Her friends all nodded and slowly left the room. The doctor closed the door behind them. He walked up to Twilight's side and spoke to her.

"Thank you, Twilight." Her eyes widened. "Because of you, I was able to finally collect Stainless's soul." Twilight smiled at him.

"It was my pleasure. Thank you for giving me back my friends." Death smiled as best he could.

"I restored everyone. All of those that weren't tied to this world, were sent back home. I also erased this memory from everyone's mind. The Facility never existed. Only you and Celestia know that this ever happened." Twilight nodded. They shared a smile again. Death walked back to the door.

"Get some rest now, Twilight. You've earned it." With that, the light was shut off.