"There is a story... That if you walk a path long enough you run into yourself."
"I am... Muffin. Well, I got myself in some deep crap. I thought I could go on a walk about like I always did and try to find myself. But instead, I got stabbed."
She gasped at the stab in her chest and fell to the ground.
"The stallion I saved just ran off... Now here I am talking to the fool that got herself stabbed. I am sitting here watching her die... I don't care if she does... But she needs to learn the hard way..."
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Grey sector Blood loss: 10%
The grey mare stares at herself who is crawling and groaning in pain. "Well...here you are...you found..me... You wished to talk to me... What...you get stabbed you expect me to save you? Oh, and no you can't call for help. You got rid of the com remember... I can't believe you...wished to be a doctor. But no...a few little failures and you get addicted to chems. What a fool you are..you threw it all away... You were a hero... The element of health..look at you now."
Another voice speaks it's the element itself. It takes shape as the former creature that held it. The element of sickness. He looks like a cockroach a lot different than the others. But he seems respectful. "Don't listen to her...she is the other side of your heart... I am the former wielder of the element of health." The other side of Muffin looks up to the cockroach.
"Listen..you..this doesn't concern you."
The element looks up to her. "Oh, it..does... I have been sitting on Luna's table for a month. She has been searching for you... But I can't stay too long... They will know that the element is waking...they will be searching for her... But they might be too late...because she needs to get there herself... That's why you're here."
The other side nods. "Thank you..." She nickers stomping her hoof.
"Leave." The element vanished.
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Luna's office
She was laughing and talking with Rainbow Cloud. They have become very close friends... They both miss Spike drinking tea and they see the bag glow. "You see it too Luna?" She nods
Rainbow cloud clicks the com. "Sugar Sparkle gather the girls and security we are going to search for Muffin." She looked to Luna and she nodded.
"I will ask Starlight to come with you."
She clicks the button while Rainbow trots out. "Starlight..please meet the girls at the meeting room."
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Meeting room.
The seven mares along with Starlight herself and some of her most trusted security guards... That aren't loyal to Twilight.
"Alright... Muffin is somewhere on this station... This will take a long time to find her... Sugar I want you to go back to C&C keep the station going... The places we will be going... Will be hard for you to walk through." She nods and trots out and she looks at the remaining mares and the two large guards. That are both diamond dogs.
"I want you two to go with Charity and Savannah. I will go with Starlight. Apple Core, Sun Sparkle." Apple Core nods to her friend and she salutes and they both trot out. "You two go on your own... Remember she treated you two when you had wounds... So you know how much she means to us all."
"OH OH!! What about me?!" Pinkie Cake asked, jumping up and down. Rainbow looked at her and smiled.
"Form a party for her when we find her alright?"
Pinkie cake gasped, bouncing out of the room. Yelling 'PARTY!!!'
The two Diamond dogs nod and walk out.
Charity and Savanna look to each other. It was easy to tell Savanna was worried for her foal hood friend. But she didn't speak it. She calmly walked out with Charity the two got along well. But Rainbow was worried about Starlight. She stared at Starlight.
"You...and I don't have to be friends Starlight... I don't trust you... I know you don't trust me... You're Twilight's personal toy." Starlight had a lot of anger in her good eye.
"Listen....and listen well... Dash... Yes... I know that you're the last decedent of Rainbow Dash... I have kept this secret from her..since... I met you. Now... I am not angry at you... But don't you dare... Call me her toy...her pet...or her slave... She was my friend..my teacher on the values of friendship." Her eye was full of rage. "I am doing this...because Muffin can save me... I didn't ask for this... I didn't ask for this at all." Tears formed in her eye and fell. She sat on her haunches snorting and sniffing. "I never asked..for this... So don't....be so high and mighty... Pony hater..." She sobs softly and looks down.
Rainbow blinks and sighed never expected that and realized she wasn't being very forgiving. She nuzzled Starlight calmly and smiled. "Listen... I am the element of forgiveness... I should be more forgiving but...sadly... I can't all the time... But with you... I can... I can trust you... You just have to let me alright?" Starlight looks up to her her eye puffy from the crying and she nods calmly trotting out with Rainbow not too far behind
Starlight looks back. "You do know..you will have to face... Twilight and either remove the curse she placed on your family with blood or through forgiving her." Rainbow blinks and looks to her calmly.
"She really did place a curse on my family? Just because that stallion was mating with her and she fell in love with him? The stallion that turned out to be the former element of peace. Now that is Sun Sparkle and the male is her father." Starlight stops in her tracks and turns to Rainbow her eye wide.
"You mean to tell me..this war of yours is real? You mean to tell me disharmony is real?" Rainbow scowled.
"Yes in fact..she is listening to them why Equestria is turning into what it is now... Did you ever wonder how she got those ideas? You will learn...when the resistance comes out with it. We are really the real new elements... From the creators of harmony... But from what I learned from them... They're just as bad as Disharmony."
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Grey Sector blood loss 20%
Muffin just sat there watching herself die. "Just going to give up then? You always have been worthless. Mother and father always thought of you as one that would just give up. Because oh you can't handle the fact... You're related to a bubbly mare that had wall eyes. Now listen you stupid mare... You're going to allow yourself to die... But I am sure your friends are out there looking for you. But if you do this...You have to walk...till you find someone... The stim's have left your body... Now, are you willing to just stay here as you keep losing blood?!"
Muffin tried to move but she was flat on her chest above a pool of her own blood. She tried to stand on her hooves but she couldn't... "I can't..."
She looked up the angry eyes of herself. "You have to try... Or you will die."
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Charity and Savanna
The two mares walked along brown sector to look for their friend. Charity tried to speak to make conversation. "Darling...what do you think of dresses? Do you think the dresses would be amazing to have if we find her and Pinkie cake throws a party? I am sure she will be happy to have on of those parties."
Savanna stayed silent looking around acting like Charity is not even there.
"Savanna dear what do you think would be amazing dinner for Eight legs..."
Again, Savanna stayed silent. But it could be seen in her eyes that she was getting very tired of her voice.
"Savanna."
She growled and turned staring at her with much anger and yelled in her exotic voice. "WHAT?! No, I don't care right now... I don't care if Eight legs is coming... I don't care about a party. We need to find Muffin... It's my fault that she vanished like this on this silly walkabout to start with." She gets up on her back legs angrily and smashes her hooves into the wall, smashing through the wall and shattering a power conduit. The diamond dogs looked at this and backed up saying softly.
"I think...we should go on our own..."
The other speaks. "Yeah yeah." They run away like something was chasing them. Heading deeper into brown Sector.
Savanna growled and removed her hooves pulling out the power core in her hooves and the power system started going nuts in Brown sector a bit. But then got back to normal. Savanna had tears falling from her eyes. Looking to Charity who just came up to her nuzzling her gently and smiled.
"I am sorry Savanna I didn't mean to upset you."
Savanna didn't even smile and sighed. "Look... Muffin and I grew up together... I love her... I love her so much. I hurt me seeing her use those stims... I have been worried about her ever since..she did this... That's how we met..you know... My family wanted to see other worlds... We met her through her hiking of star ships. She was young..she didn't care for her family. They never treated her well... She taught me how to speak without the rhyming like most Zebras do... Please, Charity... Every time I think about her my heart breaks more... I have to find her... I have to know she is okay..." She had no emotions on her face... But the sadness in her eyes was very easy to see.
Charity gave a soft smile and nuzzled Savanna again.. "I will tell maintenance that you didn't do this and found it that way." Savanna finally smiled and nodded. "Come darling lets go.."
Savanna felt happier that she got that off her chest and followed her friend.
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Apple Core and Sun Sparkle.
Apple Core along with Sun Sparkle looked in Blue Sector and suddenly Sun said something.
"I am pregnant."
Apple Core stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Sun Sparkle. "Excuse me?"
Sun Sparkle looked up. "Hmm?"
Apple Core stared at her. "You tell me...this now...does Claw know?"
Sun Sparkle smirks. "Nope... He will know soon... But I felt it was needed with this straining from trying to find a pegasus mare...in."
She blinks as they are surrounded by a gang and one claps his hooves together.
"Well well...how sweet..two mares all alone... You do know what we do to mares on their own right?" Sun Sparkle looked around and seeing it was all stallions a gang of stallions really she thought to herself. She wasn't even wearing her security outfit but she did smile.
"Ahem...boys... I am Sun Sparkle... Chief of security of this station. This is Apple Core the Chef and Apple Farmer...also the element of hope... I am peace..." The stallions stare at each other...
"Right..and I am the king..off!!" Apple core used her back hooves to smack him into the wall and Sun takes her gun and puts the cap on stun and starts firing with the element of peace. After a few seconds the stallions fell to the ground she looked at them and smiled.
"Awww poor stallions." Sun used her hoof and smashed something precious to the leader and he yelled in pain. "Enjoy boys."
Apple Core and her laugh as they walk off away from the broken stallions. Sun Sparkle then lifted her com. "Claw bring a security team to blue sector two. There is a gang of stallions here..broken as they tried to take advantage of little ole me." She giggles and turns the com off.
Back to the stallions...
"Oh...yes...they would be easy you said... They wouldn't put up a fight you said."
The leader said in a high voice... "OH, shut up."
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Rainbow and Starlight
It was the garden area of the rotating station. Starlight sat down sighing. "It will take forever to find her, this station is huge. But as we do... You can explain to me how this war is real."
Rainbow sighed and sat down herself on a bench her back hooves under her and her front hooves on the bench. "Well..we were told that this war happened before and that the war would fully start..When the elements wake... So far Apples, Charity, Sun Sparkle, Savanna, and Sugar Sparkle's have turned on. When all of them turn on..and the counters wake up... That would mean we are at war. We are trying to gather as many allies as we can... So hopefully this doesn't happen when we have these issues with Equestria."
Starlight stops on her hooves... "Then... I need to tell you what is going to happen. Rainbow..you need to confront Twilight when she attacks the station and that will be coming up very soon. In fact, I was sent here to weaken it... But that hasn't happened... She will be leading the fight... You need to confront her then and fight her as a Dash."
Rainbow nods calmly. "I am ready to face her. I have been training myself to face her... I knew I was a decedent of Dash all my life... But I was always given this dye to make sure Twilight never sees." She sighed. "Just never knew how Rainbow Dash was killed."
Starlight's eye opened wide... "What do you mean killed?"
Rainbow looks to her. "She was executed in front of her other friends... By Twilight herself. She almost even killed Spike then... Because during this time... The Queen of the changelings formed an alliance to keep her minions alive... Because Cerberus died from something..and the door was left unguarded.."
Starlight looked down. "I see... Rainbow was one of the ones... That took longer to trust me... But I never thought she would kill them." Rainbow gasped looking at her com.
"Oh...my we forgot about Muffin." Starlight gets off the bench along with Rainbow and they start their search again.
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Grey sector blood lost 50%
"Look at all that blood... You want to live?"
She nodded "Y..es..." She said coughing...
"Then...get up..."
She grabs a pipe with her mouth it burns her a bit but... It doesn't stop her from lifting on her hooves. "Say to yourself you want it all back...you don't want to run away anymore... Keep saying it."
"I want...it...all back... I don't want to run away anymore." She starts walking towards the way out of Grey sector to the elevator.
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Marketplace
Pinkie Cake was sighing not sure what to do she walked around the elevator waiting for her friends and she looked to some ponies that were ready to get in and suddenly a bloody mare walks out.
"Muffin?!" Pinkie Cake looks at her worried and tries to get to her but the two diamond dogs come out of the darkness that are the security guards and attack her.
"MUFFIN!!!"
Muffin looks at the two charging her weakly ready to kill her. The two she helped ready to kill her tears form from her eyes. She was about to die. But then a voice spoke in her mind. {Believe in yourself...become the Element..don't let them take you down... They're minions of Disharmony!} Suddenly in Luna's office the bag glowed again and lifted up in the air Luna very surprised. It would pass Savanna and Charity was well as the other's searching for her. They would run after it. They would get closer and then the back would touch the skin of Muffin and her wings would transform into angel wings and she would glow brightly as she spoke the two Diamond Dogs being stopped in their tracks by this power.
"What is she doing?!" Starlight asked. The others didn't answer and just watched.
A camera from the news and a reporter were there to record this... It was going live to Equestria. All to see.
"Behold...the minions.... Disharmony..." She used her magic to remove the fake shells. They turned into dark evil creatures of the light versions. They had bug features while the others seem to be like angels.
"I am the element of health... I protect those...to keep them healthy to keep them alive..to remove the ill will. For I wish to keep this battle..." Then suddenly more show up. More ponies and creatures turn into Disharmony some of them seem to be new to the station nopony even knew them...
"See they pretend to be our own... Others...rise up and fight with me."
Rainbow and the others didn't even need to use their elements they fought the creatures back without them.
Rainbow used her lancer pike to fight back the creatures killing them they turn into dark puddles and scream. But it's not just the elements fighting them... Young Zebras are attacking them as well River and her friends took one one by themselves many of the store owners tossed their wares at them. The ones who cooked the food used their rolling pin knives. Even Security started to take effect.
Savanna being herself did a back kick and snapped ones neck while she danced around like nothing was even attacking her. Charity was using the dream element to form minions to fight for her. Pinkie Cake used her party cannon to blow most of them away. Sun Sparkle used her gun and her back legs to remove most of them. This wasn't even the start of the war... The minions have been stirred by the one that would purge them from the station.
Starlight had her cyborg side open up unknowing her to her seeing this freaking out and machine guns fired at the creatures. Apple core used her back legs and took out more of them the entire station was fighting them cleansing them. Then they heard Muffin yell these words.
"Be gone!!!" A bright light went through the entire station cleansing all the disharmony creatures from the station. Stopping the fights healing the wounded healing the broken hearted. Then after all this, she turned back to normal and passed out blood draining from her wound. More blood draining from many wounds... That she got from healing the others.
"Muffin." Savanna rushed to her and she was stopped by the former Element of health. "Before... I fight her...as the Element of Sickness... Let me do this one thing for her... So I remember I did good..."
He leaned down and healed all her wounds but the knife wound. "She will live...but if you get her to the med lab... I will meet you all again... But as one, you fight." Another flash would happen and all would be healed from the fight. Savannah rushed to Muffin and lifted her up on her back and rushed to the Med lab.
The ponies of the marketplace along with Security cheered. Apple core smiled. She felt hope in the ponies here. Sun Sparkle rushed along with Savannah and so did the others but Rainbow. Rainbow turned to Starlight.
"This war is very real... Starlight as you see." Looks to the reporter who comes up to her and she smiles.
"What just happened Commander?"
"Disharmony so yes what you all have been told by the Queen is faults... This war is real... We have to allow her to see it and prove to her... What we are getting ready for is worth getting these Alliance with other worlds."
She then goes to the marketplace area to help clean up. Starlight does the same and the reporter looks at the camera.
"You heard it here ponies. We have all been lied to... This war is real... Would it explain the missing ponies? Or is that something else... We will look more into this when we can."
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Med lab.
Two hours later. Muffin went through much cleaning even some surgery to fix her wounds. She was strapped into a bed with a mask on her face. Savanna herself did all this with some help from the others. She sat in there waiting for her clothing bloody. She didn't wish to even move. Rainbow Cloud walked in.
"Will she make it?"
Savanna nods.
"She will but when she.."
A groan would be heard and she opens her eyes and she weakly looks around and sees Savanna who puts her hoof on the bed and she holds it with her hoof.
"Savanna... I am sorry...."
Savanna hushed her. "Shhhh Shhh.."
Luna walked in and smiled.
"Luna.... I wish to take my job...back..."
Luna gives a nod and Savannah hugs her friend.
Outside of the room, a screen comes up and its the news.
"Ponies....a civil war has broken out..here in space and on the grounds... Our other worlds have broken away from the Alliance...it's all out war... Oh, goddess..."
To be continued