//------------------------------// // Equestria // Story: Forever and Always // by AxalBrony //------------------------------// The same dream that Crimson Ace was having is back; except the perspective of the dream seems a little different, the dream starts off of at the end which was the blast the creature made. A light whitish gray pony with light cerulean, light turquoise, light cobalt blue, and pale heliotrope hair, a dark blue pony pony with sapphire blue hair with grayish Persian outline had their force fields out which helped block off against the blast. A deep pink force field was still in effect in front of the two ponies which; the force field subsided with the mane six inside it. The pony who made that force field is a pale grayish mulbarry pony with moderate sapphire blue, moderate violet, and briliant rose hair. She looks exceptionally fatigued especially with all her injures she has on her. after ten seconds she soon then starts to lose balance and she faints right after that. "Twilight!" The five pony friends yells out. The two ponies run up to her direction and they gathered around her as they see her severely injured. "No..."The whitish pony pony says. "Princess Celestia, Princess Luna what do we do now?" the light blue pony asks. "I-i don't know" The whitish pony says. "I have a solution to all of your problems" a smooth but terrifying voice says as they all looked at the creature who was still there staring at the ponies. "You can all die like your friend here" it says as it starts to charge it's lasers into it's eyes as the creature starts to laugh. "Ahh!" The mulbarry cries out as she awoke from her bed and starts panting hard. "Twilight! Are you ok?" a purple dragon says as he jumps on her bed. "Spike? I just had a really bad dream" Twilight answers. "What happened?" Spike asks in concern. "I...i don't know" She says as she gets up from her bed. "All i know is that something weird is happening, and i have a feeling is gonna affect ponyville in some way or another" "Aren't you overreacting a bit?" Spike asks. "I mean it's only a dream, twilight." "I know. But at the same time, i just got a bad feeling this is more than a dream" Twilight says as she looks outside her castle porch way. "What's more than a dream?" Twilight looks up and sees Pinkie Pie on the ledge of her porch while wearing some eccentric mask she has on. "Ahh!" Twilight reacts as she jumps back. "Good morning, Twilight!" Pinkie Pie joyfully says as she blows a party horn. "Pinkie, what are you even doing?" Twilight asks. "Oh i came here to see if you want to come to my party" Pinkie Pie answers. "What party?" Spike asked. "The wake-up-everypony-out-of-bed-in-the-early-of-the-morning-party! Duh!" She answers as she grabs a table full of cake and other bunches of sweets. with balloons and streamers flying everywhere. "Pinkie now's not the--Wait, did you say' wake up everypony in the early of the morning'?" Twilight asked. "She did!" A familiar voice to twilight was heard. Rainbow Dash came down from the clouds wearing still wearing a robe and some slippers and her eyes we're red, as well as an annoyed expression on her face. "She woke you up too, Rainbow?" Twilight asks. "How did she even get all the way up to clouds dale?" Rainbow Dash points down below. And Fluttershy flies up next to Rainbow Dash. "Oh" Twilight replies. "Hello Flutterhy" "Hello Twilight, did you have a nice rest?" Fluttershy asked. "...Yeah, real nice dream" Twilight says stretching the truth from her words. "But what about--oof!" Twilight pushes Spike over to stop him from mentioning her dream. "You sure? You don't look like you got a nice rest there sugar cube" Applejack says. "I'm positive, i just had a long night of studying that's all" Twilight lies. "Hmm..." Pinkie starts looking at her suspiciously. "Ok!" She says as she smiles and backs away from her elastically. "Well as long as nothing's bothering you i think we have nothing to worry about" Rarity says."Especially with that hellish suffering we had to endure with discord and tirek eight months ago" "I'll say, i'm still surprised we actually forgave discord after everything he's done!" Applejack says. "Yeah! The next time he does something like that again the next place he'll be sleeping at is in cold stone storage!" Rainbow Dash says. "Well...he has learned his lesson since then, you ponies are just being to harsh to him" Fluttershy says quietly. "Fluttershy's right, i mean i don't get me wrong i can't justify his actions but in the end people deserve a second chance, and we made sure discord has that chance" Twilight mentions. "Hmm, i'm not sure sugar cube. Me personally i don't still believe that guy won't change no how!" Rainbow Dash says. "Well, i wouldn't say that. We need to give him a chance and well you never know rainbow" Fluttershy says. "Ugh, Alright. But shouldn't we be doing something right now?" Rainbow Dash asks. Pinkie is looking into space drooling like a mad man until she blinked and realizes something. "Oh my celestia you're right!" Pinkie Pie says as she runs full speed to the balcony. "Meet me at Sugar Cube cornor! See you soon Everypony!" Pinkie pie says as she ran so fast she's running in mid air. "As much as i love pinkie pie. Sometimes i wonder how in Equestria does she do all of that" Applejack says. "That darling is something us ponies call 'being pinkie pie' " Rarity answers sarcastically. "Very funny" Applejack replies back. "You coming, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asks. "Yes, but i need to get ready first, can't go outside looking like this" "Oh i must agree with you twilight, your mane is awfully a mess, and your eyes is still looking closed shut, and your tail is--" "Ok, ok, Rarity, how about we let twilight get herself ready and meet us outside til then ok?" Applejack says pulling rarity back. "Ok, but please don't take too long, you know how much i hate waiting" Rainbow Dash says as she descends to the castle entrance floor Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy leaves through Twilight's room while Rainbow dash is still already at the castle entrance floor. As soon as Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy we're out of Twilight and Spike's sights. "Jeez, you didn't have to kick me like that!" Spike says in an annoyed tone. "Sorry spike" Twilight says. "Also why'd you lie to them twilight? Their your friends, you shouldn't have lied to them about your nightmare" Spike says. "I know, but...it's been eight months since we defeated Tirek. And all i want now is to have peace and normality away from the craziness that's trying to kill us" Twilight explains. "Over a bad dream?" Spike asks further. "Because if i recall something similar, we ended up breaking in to the Canterlot archives room just to find out there was never any catastrophe to begin with" He says. "Hahaha, thanks for remind me" Twilight says in an embarrassed tone. "But this is different spike, this time this is not my crazy imagination i feel as though something bad might happen, and my dream might be a warning or a predicament or" "Hello! How long are you gonna make us wait?!" Rainbow Dash asked. "I'm not getting younger here twilight!" She says as she floats back down with her friends. "Or maybe we should get going" Spike advises. "I agree" Twilight says. "Come on Spike!" Twilight then leaves her room and starts getting herself ready. "Ugh, how long do we have to sit here" Rainbow Dash asked. Then the door starts to open and Twilight walks down the stairs and meets up with her friends. "Sorry if that took a while" Twilight apologizes. "Did i keep you ponies waiting too long?" She asks. "Seesh! Sure took you long enough" Rainbow Dash complains. "Oh quiet down, Rainbow, we're all here now aren't we?" Rarity points out. "Yeah i guess" Rainbow Dash says rolling her eyes. "Well now that we're all here, shouldn't we all get going?" Fluttershy asks. "Right! Best not to keep pinkie pie waiting" Applejack says. "Good idea, how about we say we move along now" Rarity says. "Sounds good to me!" Rainbow Dash cries out. Soon then Twilight and her friends starts walking down the road where the street of ponyvile. Underneath Ponyvile there's a green screen monitoring the mane six and around ponyvile, around the green screen was fire surrounding the area from top to bottom and there was someone sitting on a distorted and not to mention evil looking chair watching the entire thing. "So these are the ponies that represent the elements of harmony" an evil and terrifying voice echoes the room. "It seems the old Celesta couldn't choose better than some sniveling pony brats!" "No matter let us see if they are what it has been foretold" The terrifying female voice says as her red demonic hand as made a snap. As she snapped her fingers a door has been magically opened as well as a light blue walkway towards where her chair is at. Walking in the room was a bluish and black well built earth pony wearing a blue and black battle armor on him was walking in and bowing to the mysterious creature sitting in the chair. "How may i be of service to you, m'lady?" The blue and black pony asked. "Yes. There is something i need for you to do, Onyx" The mysterious creature sitting on the chair says. "I need someone i can trust to carry out a message for me down to Canterlot, if it's not any amount of trouble for you" She says not bothering to look at 'Onyx' "Anything you need me to do, i shall happily do it for you, m'lady" Onyx says in a serious tone. "Good, carry on now" The mysterious female says. Onyx then get's up from the ground and proceeds to walk out of the door with the light blue walkway dispersing into flames. And whoever it was sitting in the chair was starts chuckling to herself. Twilight and her friends arrived at sugar cube corner, and when they went inside party streamers filled the room and landed on top of the ponies. "Surprise!" Pinkie pie joyfully says as she blows a familiarly purple party horn. Inside sugar cube corner there were party decorations all over the place with sweets and cakes all over. "You guys made it just in time! I just finished putting up all the cakes i made, boy you should of seen all i've made it sure was a doozy!" Pinkie Pie says. The ponies look around her the corners and they see about 3 cakes on the counter along with additional sweets next to it. "I don't see any other cakes here pinkie, besides the ones already on the counter" Twilight points out. "Oh silly me, one sec!" Pinkie says Then she ran to the back where the cashier counter is and quickly came right back with around 3 carts, each with two cakes on it. "That sure is a lot of cake there pinkie" Applejack comments. "oh that's just the beginning!" Pinkie Pie replies. "The beginning?" Twilight asks. ""Yep, want to see the rest?" Pinkie asked joyfully. No! I mean no thank you pinkie pie, that's quite enough" Rarity says. "How about we eat the cakes we already have out already?" Twilight suggests "Hmm...Okie Dokie!" Pinkie pie says as she grabs a cake from the cart and puts her face on the cake. Pinkie then gets her face out of the cake and licks off the frosting and such off of her face as she sighs out in satisfaction After doing that the ponies starts laughing at Pinkie pies shenanigans including spike, they soon go towards the cakes and the ponies start to have fun. Time has passed and the mane six we're groaning, and looked to be stuffed...well except for pinkie pie eating up what looks to be 24 plates of cake while the other ponies had around 3 plates worth of cake. "Ugh, i simply can't eat anymore" Rarity says. "I agree" Fluttershy says sounding stuffed. "Remind me never to eat one too many cake's again" Twilight says as she's groaning. "And...Done" Spike says sarcastically as he writes it down. "Haha...very funny spike" Twilight then rolls her eyes. "You gonna eat that?!" Pinkie pie asked ...And he continued to eat the rest of the mane six's cake without there consent. After eating there cakes she sighs out in satisfaction, and three seconds later she made a loud burp. "Goodness Pinkie! Please have some manners!" Rarity complains. "Hehe...sorry" Pinkie says. After she says that she starts to burp multiple times, til she fell off the table right next to Applejack. "Are you ok there, Pinkie?" Applejack asked. "Yup!" Pinkie responds back as she get's back up from the ground. The door to sugar cube corner was swung wide open and it made a loud bang on the walls, this made Pinkie, Fluttershy, Spike, and Rarity jumped back off of the table and they fell to the floor, while Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash stood up from the table on there hooves. "What was that?!" Rarity asked. Outside of sugar cube corner there's a pony outside in a silhouette figure who's looking to be standing there. "Hello? Can we help you?" Twilight asked. "Help....Us" The silhouette pony says. "Huh?" The silhouette pony then collapsed on the floors of sugar cube corner, and he is shown to be wearing a gold helmet, and some silver armor all over himself. Twilight then gasped. "A member of the royal canterlot knight!" Twilight and her friends soon then ran towards the collapsed royal knight, Twilight lifted his head up and looked to be bloody, battered, and bruised. "My goodness!" Rarity says looking shocked. "Is he gonna be ok?" Fluttershy asked. "He's waking up" Spike notices The royal canterlot guard opens his eyes slowly and he first sees Twilight. "Princess....Twilight" He says. "What happened to you?" Twilight asked. "Princess...Canterlot...Please...Go to Canterlot..." The royal guard says sounding weak. "Canterlot? What's happeneing at canterlot?" Applejack asked. "Princess Celestia and Princess Luna...What happened to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna?!" Rainbow Dash asked. The royal guard didn't respond and his eyes was closed...With no breathing being seen nor heard from him. "Answer me! What happened to Princess Celsetia and Princess Luna?!" Rainbow Dash asked again with anger. "Rainbow! Stop!" Applejack says holding her back away from the royal guard pony. "No! We need to know what happened to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna! Rainbow Dash yells "...I don't think he'll be up to answer that Rainbow" Applejack says as she looks at the royal guard with her cap covering her face. "...Oh" Rainbow Dash says realizing what Applejack meant. The girls then looked at the possibly dead royal pony guard and Twilight then used her magic to levitate him. "Twilight, what are you doing?" Fluttershy asked. "We better take him to the hospital. We can't just leave him like this in the floor of sugar cube corner" Twilight suggests. "Let me take him! Afterwords we're heading to Canterlot!" Rainbow Dash says as she carries the royal pony and dashed off to the hospital. "Even if Canterlot's in danger. How are we gonna get there fast enough, i mean the train would be fast but it wouldn't be enough--" Before Spike could finish he looked outside and sees a royal fancy looking carriage with two Pegasus ponies hooked on to it, and Twilight soon looked outside afterwords. The mane six soon then ran outside and reached to the Pegasus ponies who are standing tall. "I guess this could work as fast!" Pinkie Pie says. "Princess Twilight? How could we be of service to you?" The two Pegasus Ponies asked. "My friends and I got the message to the Royal guard, and we all need a ride to Canterlot" Twilight says. "And if it's not too much trouble we may need it to be as fast as possible" Spike added "It would be out please...But where's Rainbow Dash?" one of the Pegasus Ponies asked. "Oh she should be here right about..." Rainbow Dash dashed right back and stopped right next to Pinkie Pie with her still flying with her wings. "...Now" Twilight said finishing her sentence. "Huh? Who are they?" Rainbow Dash asked. "The carriage that the royal guard was riding on" Pinkie Pie answered. "Oh...thank god for royal guards" Rainbow Dash says. "Alright girls, next stop Canterlot" Twilight says The mane six and Spike gets on the carriage soon after and the carriage starts to fly away to Canterlot.