Silence in Equestria

The Sector II: Episode XXXII

Phase Three

Minutes and minutes passed by when in a sudden, the pegasus disguised as Nightmare let go of the gigantic pillar of magical energy accompanied with the awful noise coming with it. Her front legs were completely numb, being unable to hold her anymore. The magic dissolved around her target as some sort of bright orb have been revealed. It was small enough to hold in both hooves without problem but too big to hold in one. The object had a biomechanical surrounding around, as if it'd have been some sort of armor to protect whatever it held inside, so much, the glow of the orb barely had any way out. The others only approached it with tiny steps.

"I-is it...?" Lisa asked. "It looks so different."

"I feel the aura... it's giving me chills. It surely is." Replied Irina.

"No time to wonder around, girls. I know it's on the edge of surrealism, but we can check it's reality later." told Nightmare with a level head "How are the- Ngh!" she staggered back in shock, seeing the condition of the papers on her skin. All green and yellow one was empty, the charms and symbols disappeared, only the two red one on her chest had a huge but faint red sigil in their middle. This was bad, with this much power she'd be unable to rescue Twilight with keeping up the disguise, and the thought unnerved her to no end.

"Hey, I found another one!" shouted Lisa from a distance, holding a sealed, red charm. She placed it on the ground gently to show it is yet to be used.

"Great, wrap in on the Core, the infused mana should be enough for you girls to get some proper hulls." told Nightmare, however the others had different plans.

"You clearly need it more than we do." said Irina with a sly tone in her voice.

"An innocent is about to get punished, God surely would choose this way as well." added Lisa with her eyes closed.

Silence shut her slit eyes as she replied "I'm humbled girls. But my clan- Hey!" the alicorn shouted up as she felt paper pushing against her chest. It was Martina, placing the seal on her despite her leader's decision.

"You lost your lover once during the transplantation, Mel, the least I can do is to prevent you from suffering again." she explained softly as she smoothed the charm on the surface.

"Martina..."

"Seal out!" the girl shouted "Go save your love!"

Silence nodded with a happy and grateful smile "Thank you girls, you're all so kind."

"Oh, shut up, just save the damsel already." Emily chuckled.

Silence rolled her eyes and with a few, powerful flings of her wings she took off to save her beloved unicorn.

Canterlot, capital of Equestria, the town usually peaceful in its own way, now under the siege of chaos and fear. While the citizens helplessly wondered around town now that the princesses were gone to handle to crisis, they could do nothing, but wait anxiously.

Meanwhile, the hospital were surrounded by Royal Guards not to protect a piece of lavender from the world, but to protect the world from her.

"Don't worry, Twily, as long as we don't get a clear order from the princess, nothing will happen to you." calmed her sister Shining Armor, right next to the door with the open window that could blur the vision of the inside completely once slid in. Inside the room was locked her, Twilight Sparkle, waiting for her punishment completely alone. The sound of the guards gaiting back and forth was felt from almost all direction, however these weren't close as unnerving as the small syringes and saws on the table or hung on the walls. The fear inside her was overwhelming, no windows, only some artificial light to provide some vision for her was the only thing that kept her hope alive. In a sudden, shouts were heard from outside.

"Nightmare Moon! Nightmare Moon!" guards shouted, not only one, but at least four or five. Confusion filled the building as they ran to the windows, to see an almost black creature in sapphire armor soaring through the skies towards the castle.

Two earth ponies walked through the narrow room with beautifully decorated pillars, and between them, even more beautiful stained glasses, and above the room, the gigantic chandelier that served with light when the night arrived. One of them however felt strange.

"Was that thing always up there?" he asked, making the other laugh a little.

"Yeah, it just seems new cause you never look at it."

But as they kept staring and adoring the sight of it the sound of breaking chains shocked them. Not in a blink of an eye later they saw the enormous golden light-holder closing towards them, turning into a dark cloud as they closed their eyes to prepare to the impact. The clock didn't even move but the demon stood just next to them. Nightmare's mane engulfed the one with the grey skin while the white one was hold still with the tail.

"Where's Twilight Sparkle?!" she shouted in such volume the windows began to vibrate around, it even echoed through the whole room. The guards couldn't speak properly, only incomprehensible gibberish left their throat. The alicorn grew impatient, which she shown through her sharp fangs, making the guard held hostage by her tail yell "The hospital, the hospital!".

Nightmare groaned and threw them at the wall, from which they stuck on for second and fall off like ragdolls. With a small fling of her mane and tail she engulfed her body into a small cloud and left through the wall in a blink of an eye. She had no time, as fast as she could she soared over the screaming townsfolk heading towards the only building completely surrounded by hundreds of guards.

She turned back to her alicorn form by the sight of the unicorns lining up and readying themselves for a wall of fire and as her horn charged up she began shooting balls of light blue magic at them. The guards, shocked  by the sudden charge scattered to dodge the incoming blasts, as Nightmare reached the ground like a meteor, turning into a blast of dark cloud, shoving away the resistance, retreating back to its owner afterwards, who broke in the door.

"Incoming!" and other shouts were heard everywhere in the two-floor complex, as the alicorn began her rampage through the building. The enforcers of law tried to block her way, but their cause was hopeless as they stood no chance against the fake form of a deity.

Nightmare literally swept through them as she kept tossing them away with her mane and tail. Guards were flying helplessly, hitting the ground or being smacked up the wall. Another tried to get in her way, but the alicorn just turned into her cloud form and flew right through him. Even more guards appeared on the stairs in the corner of her ruby red eye, she quickly turned there and flew through the solid concrete.

The place became an entire chaotic mess behind her as the guards lied all over the ruined corridors, and the ones who weren't had not the faintest idea how to stop the unstoppable. With a small charge of her horn she threw the guards onto the others behind her and rushed forwards, until she heard a voice from her left.

"Shining? What's going on out there?" cried out Twilight.

Nightmare's ear twitched and she turned her head in a blink of an eye towards that direction.

"Don't worry sis, I'll protect you no matter what." her brother replied, as he saw the end coming, the storm he had no chance in stopping. He charged up his own horn and pulled up a pink shield as the demon charged towards him, with her horn engulfed in a dark blue aura piercing through the air, pointed right towards him. The confidence of the colt however didn't change, no matter how fast and how close she were. In the last moment his eyes shut by natural reaction, as Nightmare's horn pierced through the shield like a rapier, and as a bull horned him up, blasting the captain with a force huge enough to make him do a few flips before being smashed to the wall. Cracks were heard as he hit the wall, it was both his bones and the wall behind that cracked. The alicorn kept the pose of a diva she ended up in for a small moment, before a scream pierced her ears from her right.

She looked there swiftly, making her ruby red and emerald green eyes finally meet her lover's beautiful purple ones. Long minutes seem to pass as they stared at each others' gems, wandering completely lost in them, while in reality only a second lasted. In reality Twilight fell back to, as she saw the rims on the alicorn shrinking in a flash of a lighting, before she turned into a dark cloud and charging into the room.

A slight shriek escaped from the throat of Twilight, before the cloud ate her up, and left through the wall behind.

"Don't worry, everything will be fine." the gentle voice of Nightmare said, before the unicorn passed out in the deep, dark space she stuck in. Arriving back in the open Nightmare revealed her original form once again, Twilight lying unconscious on her back. She took a look at the empty papers clinging on her chest, and with some magic she got rid of them.

As the dark blue creature left the mountain where Canterlot was lying she decided to take the remaining distance by gliding. She didn't feel any exhausted, but she knew this form won't last for long and she'll need a place to get Twilight safe and even afterwards getting lost from the heat. She aimed towards the Everfree Forest when a voice shouted her name.

"Not so fast Nightmare Moon!" called her out Rainbow Dash. As Nightmare turned her head upwards the first thing she saw was the blue pegasus doing a divekick towards her direction. With a swing of her horn however, she countered it, sending her back to the direction where she came from. Only afterwards she noticed the new bystanders, coming with a hot-air balloon. They were no other but Twilight's friends, her friends as well.

"Give us back Twilight, or I swear we won't hold back." threatened her Applejack, with a golden necklace hanging from her and her friend's necks.

"...please?" added Fluttershy in a gentle way, possibly the only way she could at that moment.

The disguised foe took a look towards her sleeping beloved and with a silent goodbye and the help of her magic she gently laid her into the basket, to the audible surprise of everyone. The unicorn slowly woke to the fact she is completely surrounded by worried eyes, only Fluttershy turned back after making sure of her friend's state.

"Thank you!" she said, however Nightmare was not there anymore, in fact she disappeared completely from all direction. Though this was something she could care later about, as now she felt the need to join to the others in the celebration of their friends.

"What in the wide world was that?" asked Applejack in total confusion after Twilight got back on her hooves, regarding to Nightmare mere seconds ago.

"It certainly was unexpected, let alone confusing." Rarity stated, as she gave her friend a golden tiara, the Element of Magic.

"I don't know..." Twilight replied with doubt and fear on her face, while the accessory slowly landed on the top of her head.

"Who cares? We got you back, that's what matters." said Dash.

"Let's go home, please." asked Fluttershy quietly, but cheerfully as the happiness was clearly heard in her soft voice.

"Yes... let's." nodded Twilight with a small smile. Something clearly bothered her, but she decided to hide her feelings under a mask of joy.

With her love in safety and her identity Silence sighed in relief that her mission succeeded. Dizzily she leaned against a tree as she ran completely dry on energy to keep up the disguise of Nightmare Moon, resulting it to crack, than shatter into fragments that disintegrated into nothing a second afterwards. Her body felt fragile and extremely weak again, she tried to lean away from the plant and walk, but it only resulted in two steps before she hit the dust once again, with a steam of almost completely black blood gushing out from her mouth. Her vision became bordered by ruthless static, trying to gain territory inwards. Something red signaled from the corner, crying for help as it was almost completely engulfed by the noise. It was a string of numbers.

"(This... again.)" Silence sighed, getting up on her hooves and trying again... and falling a second later. But she didn't give up, she stood up once again, waited till her body finds the perfect balance, and with slow, yet confident steps she began heading towards the exit of the forest not far away from her. She passed by Fluttershy's cottage like a drunkard, but as she attempted to cross the small bridge her body collapsed once again, the static growing bigger and bigger as the noise in her head grew stronger and stronger. She couldn't get up anymore, just lied there like a thrown-out doll as a red text kept flashing in front of her eyes:"Low Energy!", before the complete noise she heard and seen engulfed her senses completely, cutting to black in a sudden moment.