The Doom Patrol

"I had the dream again... It's before we used the Elements, I see myself and my friends. Then Discord is there, Celestia is beside us, she tells him our intentions and he smiles. He says "I'm so proud of you Celestia, you've come so far." Then there's the rainbow, it flies down towards Discord and he turns to stone, then the stone explodes into dust. The elements vibrate on our necks and shatter. the others collapse to the ground, almost unconscious and rolling in pain. Celestia is panicking she tries casting spells and nothing happens. The others are screaming and my skin is burning a peeling away, Celestia has tears in her eyes and she lowers her horn to my head and everything goes black."

Twilight Sparkle lowered her head into her hooves and tried to cry but she could manage no tears, she was sitting on a therapist couch and across from her was the therapist himself. The room around her was decorated with several pictures of the therapists family playing happily together, the pictures were interrupted by large mahogany bookshelves filled with books of worn oranges and reds.

"Now Twilight," the therapist said "If the princess hadn't saved you like she did you'd be dead, she told me that because you were the most powerful of the elements, that's why you felt the effect the most."

Twilight glared at him, if any form of expression still remained with her she would have scowled, but alas her body had been destroyed, replaced with one composed of solid magic. She would look in the mirror and to herself look like a purple jelly unicorn with a brain floating in it's head. "Saved me? The princess should have put me out of my damned misery!" The furious pony stood from the couch and trotted out of the room, making sure to slam the door behind her. "At least I still have my magic..." She thought aloud to herself.

Twilight trotted quickly down the corridors of the Canterlot mental hospital, she watched as doctors and nurses passed by an tended to patients wearing dull green robes. These halls weren't quite as well decorated as the hospital therapist's room. The walls were bright blue and the only decorations were signs indicating which way she was going. As she reached the end of the hallway she saw a pale blue door with a plaque on it bearing her name. She walked inside sat on her stiff hospital bead and wished she had eyes and tear-ducts.

Applejack sat quietly on her haunches as she watched movers crate up everything in the room. A gentle clip-clopping of hooves alerted her that somepony was beside her. She turned to face the newcomer and found Celestia at her side.

"Ah, it's you. Howdy princess." The farm pony's voice was monotone and her gaze turned back to a speck on the floor. In the years leading up to the incident the princess had become more social with the elements, becoming closer to each of them individually. "I figure ya'll had a reason fer callin' me to Twilight's old room in the castle. Got somethin' to say."

The princess smiled sweetly. Applejack had become more bitter after the incident, she was the only one who was entirely unharmed after the initial pain and had been racked with a case of survivors guilt.

"I'm here to make an offer Applejack,"

"Ah don't want to here it."

"I'm trying to get the elements back together."

Applejack glared at the ruler of Equestria with a gaze that could shoot daggers. "The elements?" hatred dripped from the word elements like honey from a beehive. "Don't ya'll talk to me about the elements. The elements destroyed us! Fluttershy is in ah coma she may never wake from, Twilight and Pinkie checked themselves into a nuthouse, an' don' even get me started on what happened to Rainbow and Rarity! Ah still have nahtmares regard that... thing."

Rainbow Dash and Rarity had become a much discussion in Ponyville. Exactly what had happened to them after the incident was entirely unique. The two of them had somehow become melded together. Into one creature, an alicorn to be exact.the creature would act as either it's own personality whom it referred to as Rebis, or sometimes either Rainbow Dash and Rarity's. It often would cover itself in an overcoat and black mirrored sunglasses when it went out on account of it's scared and twisted form, part of it was Rainbow Dash, and the other part Rarity. Ponies backed away from the creature as it wandered the streets, although it didn't show any intent of harming them.

"I understand that you have some... contempt against the elements," Said the whit Alicorn slowly. "but Equestria needs somepony to look out for it. I may raise the sun but I'm not nearly as powerful as the six of you or... five if we take Fluttershy into account."

"The elements were destroyed in the initial blast. We're powerless now."

"You still have your friendship, with that you can overcome any obstacle!"

Applejack glared at the princess again, huffed, and turned back to the spot on the floor. "Why are ya'll packin' up Twilight's room anyhow?"

"It seems... unlikely to me that she'll return. Yet, I've sent someone to the hospital she resides in. Maybe he can convince her otherwise."

"Ah see, you think she'll want to help you rejoin the elements?"

"Perhaps, I think that given time she'll understand the importance of you six, elements or no."

With that Celestia turned and clip-clopped back down the hall from where she came. Soon afterwards Applejack followed, instead heading for the castle exit.