//------------------------------//
// Chapter 5- Purified  
// Story: The Great Divide of Equestria 
// by TheOldRedHills 
//------------------------------//

‘RAINBOW DASH, DISCORD, SWEETIE BELLE!!’  Pinkie Pie was feeling faint, but she had to alert her friends before those monsters attacked. They were closing in on her, fast. Pinkie slammed on the door rapidly.

‘Go away, Pinkie, we don’t want you here right now!’ Sweetie Belle screamed through the keyhole.

‘There are monsters out here, we need to escape and get to shelter!’ Pinkie was on the verge of having a mental breakdown.

Dash opened the door; you could see the tear stains in her fur. Pinkie simply brushed the hair out of her eyes and pointed directly at the pale white Alicorns. Dash’s eyes widened and 
called Discord over. She too pointed at the army. The 3 of them jumped into a blockade at the front.

‘Protect Fluttershy and the Filly at all costs.’ Discord ordered.

‘And the cupcakes!!’ Pinkie yelled.

‘Shut up, Pinkie.’ Rainbow said in a monotonous voice. Finally the group of deathly flying ponies had arrived, they didn’t receive a warm welcome.

Rainbow Dash flew up, grabbed one directly at the horn, and flung it straight down, its bones breaking at it hit the floor. Dash also performed a combination of punches, double-legged kicks (Applejack style, as she liked to call them), and head-butts to clear out any Alicorns that had still taken flight. All of them were grounded in just under a minute. One of the Alicorns attacked with its horn. Rainbow dodged it, but it still managed to scrape her eye, creating a deep cut on the eye-lid. She swept the Alicorn off its feet and stomped on its face, killing it in the process.

Discord trapped one of the Alicorns by teleporting in several directions around it, making it rather confused. He then clawed at it with his Eagle talons and finally flung it into a crowd of about 4 or 5 Alicorns, creating a bowling strike sound effect as it made impact. (What else did you expect from Discord?)

Pinkie was not really experienced when it came to self-defence. So she just did what was right. She pulled her party cannon out of nowhere and fired in multiple directions. She knocked back a large handful of the Alicorns backwards, causing many to run away or just pass out from exhaustion. One of the monsters shot a fireball right at Pinkie, she ducked, but the flames still caught her back, she yelped in pain.

Rainbow pinned the fire launching beast to the floor and interrogated it.

‘Who are you, and who are you working for?’ She demanded.

‘We are the purifiers,’ the bright white pony said. ‘Our mission is to destroy any reckless or dangerous ponies and live in a purified world!’

‘Who are you working for?’ Rainbow repeated.

‘We do not know who our leader is!’

‘How do you not know?’

‘We are working for an anonymous boss.’

‘Just let him go, Rainbow Dash.’ Discord told the blue pony.

Rainbow Dash pushed the purifier to the ground. It scampered off towards the rest of the pack. The day had been won by the Saviours.

‘GUYS,’ Sweetie Belle ran though the doorway. ‘Fluttershy is waking up!’





Fluttershy took a painkiller, which helped to numb the awful pain in her side, and washed it down with a strawberry milkshake made by Pinkie Pie herself.

‘I’m so glad you’re alive!’ Dash was hugging and kissing Fluttershy at every opportunity she had.

‘I’m glad that you saved me,’ Fluttershy responded. ‘Thanks for the milkshake, Pinkie.’

‘Oh, it was the least I could do after all the sleeping and jelly coming out of your side business.’ Pinkie took a smile, her hair still floppy and straight.

‘Speaking of injuries, look at you, Pinkie,’ Fluttershy got up and inspected the Earth Pony’s back. ‘Those burns look really painful.’

Fluttershy was correct. Pinkie was trying her best not to scream in pain. Her fur was burnt off in patches from the bottom of her neck to just above her cutie mark, leaving red raw, leathery skin patches.

‘You too, sweetheart, your eye needs stitching up.’ Fluttershy looked at the cut on Rainbow’s right eye, it was pulsating with blood. She kept her eye closed to stop any of the blood from blinding her.

So Fluttershy spent about 2 hours tending to her girlfriend. She found a first aid kit, pulled out a needle and thread, and slowly stitched up Dash’s eyelid. It was a risky task, but she did it nonetheless.

Pinkie was next, Fluttershy found some burn cream. Although the cream was only for 1st degree burns, and Pinkie’s burns were at least 2nd degree, Fluttershy believed they would do some work at least.

Finally, the 5 of them settled down for bed. Pinkie slept on one of the sofas whilst Sweetie Belle slept on another. Dash, Fluttershy and Discord slept in some kind of clump in the middle of the room.

‘Something is still griping at me…’ Rainbow mumbled after about 5 minutes of eerie silence.

‘What is it, Rainbow Dash?’ Discord seemed to be the only one awake.

‘What that “Purifier” guy said. Who are those ponies working for?’

‘Well let’s see,’ Pinkie woke up for some random reason. ‘Discord is with us AND he’s reformed. Nightmare moon wouldn’t make sense because Luna is not in her Nightmare moon form. Chysalis is still rebuilding her Changling army, King Sombra is dead, and Tirek is sorta banished.’

‘Well then it must be a new enemy. We’ve got to stop them before all of Equestria perishes!’ Dash was a little louder than expected saying that last sentence, she woke up the rest of the group. She cowered and apologised.

‘Well… um… if we’re going to go to the Canterlot archives to get this spell, we should really go through the Equestrian valleys, you know, by the Everfree forest. If you want to…’ Fluttershy was rather quiet and decisive with her words.

‘That’s a pretty good plan, you know,’ Discord grinned ‘but it could be a bit risky.’

‘We’re the Saviours, did you see how you wiped the floor with those weird ponies, we can do anything!’ Sweetie Belle was a lot happier than she was earlier that day.

‘I like how motivated you are, Sweetie!’ Rainbow had an adrenaline rush just thinking about it. ‘It’s settled. We’re going through the Equestrian valleys!’





Pinkie woke up; the sky was still dark, however. She checked the time, yep, it was 8 o’clock. She was still hoping it was one of the weird dreams she was used to having, it was not.

Rainbow Dash yawned and stretched, and she kissed the still sleeping Fluttershy on the forehead, and walked over to Pinkie. She noticed how Pinkie’s hair was still straight and lank.

‘You alright?’ Rainbow was obviously concerned for the Earth pony.

‘No, not really,’ Pinkie sighed and looked at her friend. Both of them realised the deadly their injuries still were. ‘I have that feeling that I don’t want to be in this corrupted world for 
much longer.’

‘Well, neither do I,’ Rainbow looked at her girlfriend. ‘I was gonna propose to Fluttershy during Twilight’s birthday, you know? Guess I didn’t get the chance.’ She shrugged and sat down.

‘Listen, I’m glad that you two are together.’ Pinkie placed a hoof on her shoulder. ‘The two of you are adorable.’

‘Heh, thanks. Listen, we’ll have to pack food for this journey.’

‘We survived G3, Dash, we can survive anything.’

The two of them laughed, which woke the other ponies and Discord. Fluttershy looked up groggily and walked over to Rainbow. They kissed and hugged each other.

‘Listen, I want all 5 of us ready to depart in an hour.’

‘Ok, Rainbow Dash!’ Sweetie ran all around Sugar Cube Corner, grabbing several supplies and throwing them into a pile on the floor.

Discord poofed into an explorers outfit, and gave a thumbs up with his Lion paw.  

Fluttershy gave a look that meant that she didn’t know what to do. So she just dug her muzzle into Rainbow Dash’s fur and made a squee.

‘Heheh, babe, I love you.’ Rainbow was happy to see Fluttershy get this close to her.

Pinkie was, whilst rather romanticised by the whole situation, decided it would be best to leave the two lovebirds alone.

She looked in her bedroom. She was shocked to find a sleeping Gummy curled up onto her bed. She danced around in circles, picked up the baby crocodile, and lay him discreetly into her satchel-bag.

‘Awww, Gummy, did you miss me?’ Pinkie asked in a whispery tone, to which the pet did not reply to. 





So finally, all of the Ponies had satchel-bags on their backs. Pinkie had to have some kind of sponge covering on her strap to prevent them digging into the burnt flesh. All 4 of the bags seemed to contain some kind of food, water, equipment and sleeping essentials.

‘To the Equestrian valleys, away!’ Discord praised triumphantly as the Saviours departed from Sugar Cube Corner.