Midnight's Journey

Typers Note~ this is not part of the story, continue to next paragraph if you don't want to read extras. Now on with what I, the typer, was going to say. Which is that this recount of what has happened in Equestria the past few years or so is about 990,980% correct, if you don't understand what I mean then your lost... i suppose. anyways on with the story!

Story~ 30 minutes after I gave that little speech I was wearing a black cloak that had, on both sides for sake of symmetry, 3 pictures. The first was a picture of a group of ponies sleeping with a hardly see-able figure standing over them, casting a spell with her dark purple magic lining. The second depicted the same figure in a much lesser role crouching in front of, yet below, the two rulers of Equestria... used to be rulers anyways as they fought, each with their armies behind them. The third and final picture showed the figure from the other two pictures standing above the lunar princess who stood victorious, yet saddened, beside a pile of dead ponies who wore golden armor. the figure on this third picture had a blade of light blue, signifying that it was made of diamond.

My hidden blade that I am using is made of diamonds. I had thought since diamonds were very common why not make a blade out of one? Besides what better to assassinate a princess with than a blade made of one of the strongest materials ever to be found naturally?

Anyways 30 minutes later everypony was ready so after a 10 minute wait we exited our base. Have you seen 200,000 ponies leaving through an entrance made for groups of 4? If so then you'd know how long it takes to get everypony out, even though we were in an orderly fashion... mostly. It still took an extra 10-20 minutes for everypony to file out and reorganize. After we had done that I started on the long trek to Canterlot, which was already showing signs of heavy fighting via the large cloud of orange that popped up every once in a while. After a few hours of walking, we had cleared the Everfree forest, that forest is far too long or maybe it was just the pace i had set which was a walk, in anycase soon after we had continued into the plains, where we were able to go faster, guess who appeared? If you guessed Princess Sparkle and her friends, the elements of harmony equipped, then you would be slightly wrong. Miss Sparkle and her friends were there but they didn't have their elements with them.

"What do you think your doing?" Twilight asked me

"Well if your talking to me then I am going to go get rid of the last alicorn still alive after that fiasco of a war." I responded with a smile and tilt of my head "Why are you out here snooping around in other ponies' business?"

"We were just headed to Canterlot ourselves, the train is out of the question so we have to walk there." Rainbow spoke up before any of her friends could say otherwise.

"At a time like this? I would think you six would much rather just sit around ponyville as the rest of them seem content to do." I laughed a little inside my head at that point, no idea why but it just seemed funny at the time.

"Wait... you said 'the only other alicorn still alive" does that mean you don't think i'm an alicorn?" Twilight sounded very confused at the notion of it.

"It's because you are not. You are simply a winged unicorn who was given the rite of immortality. To be an alicorn, which is quite irreversible I might add, you would need an Earth pony's body and a much longer horn and wings, Twilight. It is quite apparent that you are not an alicorn just by looking at your wingspan." I had stopped smiling suddenly thinking about how long this was taking, even though I had planned to set up camp soon anyways.

Twilight tried to say something but was obviously too shocked to mutter more than "bu..bu-bu-but i-i-i..." when she didn't form a coherent sentence in a full minute I continued "However the inequality that you represent, Twilight, can be undone. Albeit it takes a lot of magic but that shouldn't be a problem. So I give you a choice: die, or be sent back to just a regular unicorn."

She chose the latter option and I performed the wing removal spell and the mortality spell and put both on a timer, one which I intended to ignore so that the effect would be permanent. "So do you six want to come along and help m-us?"

"Mus?" All six looked confused

"I was trying to say us but started saying me at first, not sure why but I did... so let me rephrase that: would you like to help us?" I smiled again as Rainbow Dash and Applejack nodded at me with a smile. Then I looked at the shaking heads of the other 4 ponies and frowned why can't everything be more simple than this? I asked myself to which I responded But then we'd be bored too much and we already are as it is. uh... most of the time anyways. not right now but ya know, a few days after we finish this we'll be bored again I sighed and smiled at RD and AJ then started walking towards where I had wanted to camp, which was about halfway between our base and Canterlot.

Speaking of Canterlot the orange flashes that told of bombs going off had stopped while we were talking at some point and I hadn't even noticed it. I hope they haven't finished fighting yet, that would mean we just- yes, I get it brain, I get it! I thought and continued towards the resting place.

I turned around after we had walked along for another 5 minutes and announced that we were going to spend the night there, which had begun 10 minutes earlier. I walked over to the edge of the place, not the smartest idea I know but still I never was one for trying to sleep in the middle, and I laid down. For 2 buckin' seconds. RD had appeared as soon as I had emerged from the crowd of ponies.

"What is it Rainbow? Can it not wait until morning?" I asked obviously irritated at the small amount of time I had attempted to rest in.

"Well I was just wondering if you knew what happened to the elements of harmony... they kinda disappeared after you went to the library that one day." she sounded more than a little worried.

"So the mighty group of friends can't do anything without the elements? I thought you six, had you attacked, would have been a tough challenge even with our equipment. Now I see that I shouldn't assume such things."

"Hey! I can fight without the elements its just that Twilight and the others seemed really concerned about the disappearance of the elements. That was you, wasn't it?" RD took on a fighting pose that quickly relaxed into an annoyed stance.

"If anything Rainbow, you know how to state the obvious. Besides I meant your fighting abilities as a group, not individually. Yes, I did take the elements so you couldn't use them on Discord, who so graciously returned the favor by turning dear Celestia to stone right before Luna left the castle. Did you know he can time travel?" My mood had changed from irritated to explanatory.

"Wait... doesn't that mean Discord's on the loose then? If he can time travel?" RD was slightly more confused than annoyed now.

"Well i limited him to travelling only backwards... for one time only. He didn't know this when he did me this favor so he effectively wasted his one chance to go anywhere in the time stream. Soon after he was defeated and the guards, not being able to turn him back to stone, had killed him. If it seems impossible then let me explain that as well. The reason he would not be able to do anymore time traveling is because I had weakened him to the point where he would be forced to shut off that particular power or risk dying. He risked it and died so yeah..." I seemed to be doing a lot of explaining nowadays.

Rainbow figured it would be a good idea to leave me alone after I told her that. So I slept.