Twilight raised her head and looked about the room she sat in. The room was dimly lit, with a table in the center. Many weapons of some sort filled the room, lying in piles against a couple walls. She looked down and found that she sat upon some sort of seat which was elevated at the top of a three step staircase. She looked to her left and found a door, shut. She groggily pulled her head to the right and found a window overlooking a valley. She was very high up, probably in a tower by the looks of it. She looked dead on at the table and found a map with many pins stuck into it all over.
"Where am I?", she shakily let out.
Suddenly, Havoc's form manifested into the room.
"Hello there," He appeared much smaller, probably so he could actually fit in the room.
"You!", Twilight shot upright in her chair and glared at him, instantly regretting the sudden action.
"Me?! What did I do?!", he responded with what appeared to be genuine confusion.
"You brought me here! Where am I?", she looked around and then suddenly appeared shocked. "Where are my friends?!"
"Go look at that map. It should tell you."
Twilight got up and walked over to the map on the table and began reading names and the writing under them.
"Applejack, Fluttershy; held up in Canterlot Keep. Rarity; formulating forces in Manehatten. Rainbow Dash; Gaining support in Cloudsdale. Pinkamena Diane Pie; Whereabouts unknown," she went from name to name on the map. Suddenly she felt a sharp throb in her head.
"Does that answer your question?", Havoc looked at her.
"No. What did you do with them?! Those aren't my friends! Those are the dolls you created for this world!", she glared daggers at him. Her head throbbed again.
"If that is what you want to believe," he crossed his forelegs, somehow standing on just his back legs. "I would suggest you stop talking to me."
"And why is tha-"
"Your highness! Are you alright?!", a voice called from the now open door to Twilight's left.
Twilight stood there looking off into space as if she had just been talking to somepony.
"Um..." The pony walked over and put a foreleg around her neck. "You need to be resting. Come along. Back to bed," he led her into a room behind the chair Twilight had been sitting on, which she now saw looked like a throne.
"Here you are. Now just lay down and rest that head of yours. Just leave the battle planning to us," he left the room after laying her down on the bed.
Twilight lay there utterly confused. What was wrong with her? Why did the stallion put her to bed like a child? Why did she wake up sitting on a throne? Why did she have a map that had information about where her friends were? Battle planning? It almost looked like she was...
"Am I at war with them?!", Twilight shot up in her bed, her head instantly rebutting her action. "No! This is just a dream. Or something..."
She got up from her bed, or the bed she assumed was hers, and began walking to the door, but found herself looking at the mirror.
"Holy horse apples! What happened to me?!", she looked at the mirror in utter shock.
Her left wing was bandaged up, but blood was soaking through so it was obviously bad. She had many bruises covering her body, one terrible on on her right side.
"How am I not feeling this?", she looked down and saw a magically timed medicine pump IV in her arm. "Ah, that would explain it."
She suddenly noticed that she could see her right eye and face were bandaged up, along with the rest of her head, leaving only the left side of her face and horn uncovered. Blood was soaking through those bandages as well.
"How have I missed all this?! Is it so bad that I can't even tell that I'm not even seeing with my right eye?!", her head throbbed. "And that would explain that."
She made her way over to her bed. Somehow it seemed that knowing about her injuries made them suddenly debilitating. That or the medicine had worn off.
Speaking of which, as soon as she climbed into the bed, the pump went off, sending a cold sensation throughout her entire body. She blacked out.
Twilight found herself standing on a rock looking towards Canterlot as soldiers in black and red armor similar to hers ran past her, shouting. She herself shouted insanely at the massive wall that lay before her. Five bodies, clad in armor varying in color stood atop the wall, looking right at her.
With a flap of her wings, Twilight shot off to her right and assisted a group of soldiers in ramming through the door at the base of a tower. Upon bursting through the door, she found the base of the tower to be guarded by Canterlot soldiers. Immediately, she shot a knife through one of the soldier's helmets, and as the soldier crumpled to the floor, Twilight gabbed their spear in her magic and shot it into the other soldier's chest, killing him. Twilight flapped her wings and flew through the tower to the top and blew the door off. The opening revealed about one hundred soldiers.
"I would stick around and chat but I have a date!", she flew into the air and began to fly away but a spear clipped her left wing. She shreaked and fell back to the ground. "Very well."
A second spear flew in her direction but was captured in her magic. She encased it in purple fire and sent it back into the crowd, impaling two soldiers and bluntly knocking the helmet off of another. Three soldiers charged her, one with a fireball charging up and the other two holding a spear and a sword. The one with the sword lashed at her, nicking her right ear as she ducked. She followed by spinning and knocking his legs out from under him. The one with the fireball threw it at her face, though she took it in her magic, the fireball turning purple, and threw it through the spear wielding pony. The spear she held was lifted and driven into the fireball pony's neck by Twilight's magic.
The rest of the soldiers charged her at that moment as she backed toward the open doorway to the tower behind her, thinking of what to do. At that moment, a large number of her soldiers came rushing out of the doorway, charging straight past her at the other soldiers. Twilight looked up to where the five ponies previously stood, but they were gone.
Just then, a pony slammed into her left side, further injuring her wing, sending her tumbling head over hooves into a wall. She clammered back to her hooves and sent a bolt of purple lightning at the intruder, but it turned blue and deflected into the wall above Twilight's head. The first intruder, a pegasus mare wearing red light armor, flew into Twilight, sending them both through the wall, and into the courtyard below.
Just before they landed, Twilight teleported ten feet away, leaving the pegasus to land on her back. The mare stood up quickly, cracked any misplaced disks in her back back into place and began to fly right at Twilight. The unicorn that owned the blue magical aura from before appeared to Twilight's right and began charging. Another pony from the five jumped down and landed to Twilight's left, wielding a whip, and began to charge as well.
Twilight thought fast. The unicorn was too skilled and well balanced, as well as the Pegasus. The earth pony with the whip would be strong, but definitely ill-balanced.
She turned to the earth pony, snagged the whip in her magic, and flung the pony into the pagasus, sending them bother through a nearby wall. The unicorn was unfazed and nearly caught up to Twilight. Twilight sent out a pulse of magic that knocked the unicorn for a loop, but the unicorn landed back on all hooves and readied a stance.
Now that the unicorn stood still, Twilight could see her uniform. She wore a dark purple, nearly blue hooded cloak. Her white hooves wore purple gauntlets studded with bright blue gems. Her face was mostly hidden by the hood, save for the smug grin that adorned her muzzle. Twilight stood there in no stance at all, as the unicorn readied a shot of magic and unleashed it at her. She deflected it and sent two shots of her own, one of fire and one of pulsing magic. The unicorn went for the more deadly one, the fire, and blocked it with her own fire blast. Twilight readied a stance, causing the unicorn to forget about the magic and ready for her opponent's next move. The magic made it's way around and blasted the back of the unicorn's head, knocking her hood into her face. As soon as her hood had blinded her, Twilight unleashed a fury of fire at the unicorn, striking her in her face, melting the hood away, and leaving her burned. The unicorn fell to the ground whimpering. Twilight picked her up in her magic and flung her into a wall, knocking her unconscious.
Twilight turned to walk the other way but two new ponies walked in on her. One moved fast and nimbly while the other hovered patiently in place. The spastic one jumped right for Twilight, but she moved and put her hoof out, and would have clothslined her but she caught her foreleg and spun up into the air, spinning Twilight onto the ground. The pony came back down with two hooves landing right where Twilight's head had just been. Twilight found herself back on her hooves and blasted the pony with magic, sending her spiraling into a nearby tree.
The hovering pony glared and began to make her way towards Twilight. The pegasus and earth ponies came back from the hole in the wall and began to walk towards her as well. The burned unicorn shakily got up and made her way over. The agile pony found her hooves and made her way to the circle now. All five mares surrounded Twilight.
A pony's shout from above caught all five mares' attention. Twilight's forces had taken the walls. Twilight could see a large group of soldier coming into the courtyard from further in Canterlot, not hers. All of them seemed to know this was their fight. The five mares looked at each other and nodded.
The Pegasus lunged at Twilight and knocked her into the ground, but Twilight used her momentum and flipped over her, into the air and kicked her into the far wall. Both earth ponies jumped at her, but she pulled the hooves out from under the agile one and then blasted the other away using her magic. The unicorn came from behind her and caught her by surprise. As Twilight turned around to counter, a blast of fire hit her face, knocking her on her back and temporarily blinding her. As she sat there, the unicorn took her in her magic grasp and threw her into a wall.
The soldiers on the wall jumped down and attacked the five mares. The soldiers in the courtyard saw them joining the battle and came in to take it over. A soldier grabbed Twilight and flew off with her while everypony was distracted. As Twilight looked back down over the wall into the courtyard, she could see her soldiers get overtaken, and this caused her much sorrow. They had lost.
Twilight shot up in her bed in a cold sweat. She looked around to see that she was in her strange new room still. She looked out the window to the right of her bed and could see the night sky. Judging by the position of the moon, she supposed it was around five in the morning.
This must be real. I've never heard of dreaming in a dream before. But what was that dream about? Who was I fighting, and what could it mean?, she thought to herself.
An image of the ponies she had fought formed in her head, and her friends' faces appeared on them.
"WHAT?! Oh no no no no no!", she got up from her bed and walked over to the mirror. She saw that all of her scars matched where she took the most blows in her dream. She looked down at the floor, and then out the window. "That was no dream."