“The Gleam… More recently known as the Shattered Gleam. It stands in the arctic north of Equestria, far past the mountains of the north. This once great town was one of the very few cities that had been erected in the frozen north of Equestria. Before the war it had been a major science hub that’s duty was to create pharmaceuticals meant to aid in the ever growing war.

That history is lost now since the war. For on the day the Mega-Spells ravaged the lands, the Gleam was hit the hardest not by the spells, but by the earthquakes that followed afterwards. Once the earthquakes were finished, the city was split into multiple sections, dominated by an elevated section in the middle that housed the main building. Each of these sections was inhabited by a town, but the center was always left abandoned.

For the inhabitants of the Frozen Wasteland feared what they might find deep in the earth below the old building.”

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“Hey… What’s that?”

“Looks like a Memory Orb...”

“Grab it; you can watch it on the way back to the Equestrian Wasteland.”

“Understood. I can’t wait to get out of this frozen hellhole anyways… Wonder where everypony went…”

“No idea and I don’t plan on finding out. Maybe that orb has something about what happened to this shithole on it?”

“Maybe… Holy crap! This orb is the largest I’ve ever seen! There has got to be at least a month long timeline! Maybe more!”

“You want to watch it? Who knows how long you’ll be out?”

“Yeah… It’s got me intrigued. Just get me back to the Equestrian Wastes with our carriage… I’ll start watching it now.”

“Good luck. I’ll be expecting a full report… Better get back soon. I really don’t want to miss the return of the pegasi! Rumors are that some pony picked a war with them.”

“Too bad I’m going to miss it. Never was really one for current events. No sir, leave me with the past.”

“You got to quit living in the past you silly pony… Don’t worry, I’ll tell you what happened when you’re done with that thing.”

“Going in now…” The gray unicorn activated the memory orb and entered into the memories of Subject 42… A Unicorn pony that had lived 50 years before the time of Little Pip’s escape from the stable. While the events in the Equestrian Wasteland came to peak, the gray unicorn entered into the tale of another wasteland far to the north of the Crystal Mountains…

The tale of the Frozen Wasteland.

Shattered Gleam.

Author's Note

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