Equestria Girls: The Inner Twilight

by Time Agent pony


Chapter 5

Scientropolis.

Twilight and Doctor Fate walked through the streets of Scientropolis.

All around them, beakers and flasks of all shapes and sizes were littered around the landscape.

The whole place was one giant science lab.

It was as if Twilight and Doctor Fate were in the science lab at CHS, only they had been shrunken.

"I wonder who's going to spring up to surprise us here?" Twilight pondered, aloud.

The answer came quiet quickly, "Oh, visitors," a voice said.

Soon after that, a girl with glasses and her hair tied up with a gypsy scarf appeared before the two.

"Greeting and welcome to Scientropolis," the girl greeted.

"Who might you be?" Doctor Fate asked.

"I'm Krypton," the girl replied, "and I don't think I've ever seen elements like you two around here, before."

"We're not elements," Twilight replied.

"What do you mean you're not elements?" Krypton asked.

"Not elements?" another voice echoed.

Twilight and Doctor Fate turned to see cheerful young girl dressed as a doctor.

"Hear that, Helium," she continued, "they're not elements."

Everyone looked up to see a guy wearing a red suit and yellow t-shirt come drifting towards them.

"You guys aren't elements?" the newcomer said, "mind blown."

"Wait," another voice stated, "I know you."

Twilight turned to see a women in a black dress and carrying a beaker, approaching her and Doctor Fate.

"Curium," Twilight declared, "you're named after the great Marie Curie."

"That is correct," Curium replied, "and you're Twilight Sparkle, the founder of Scientropolis."

"I suppose I am," Twilight retorted, "are you all elements from the Periodic Table?"

"That be us," another voice answered.

Twilight and Doctor Fate looked to the corner of the lab to see, young chilled teenage girl with silver hair.

"Name's Aluminum," the girl replied, introducing herself.

"But who are you?" Aluminum asked, turning to Doctor Fate.

"I am an observer and an agent of order," Doctor Fate answered.

"And a friend," Twilight finished.

"Right on," Helium commented.

"We're here to investigate," Twilight continued, "if anything strange or disturbing has happen around here, recently?"

"As a matter of fact....." another voice spoke up.

This voice belonged to a man wearing a wolf pelt, a black top and carrying two swords.

"Some of us have been disappearing," the man carried on, "taken by a hostile force."

"That means like," Helium said, slowly, "we're the only ones left."

"Is that true, Tungsten?" Krypton asked.

Tungsten nodded, "Titanium, Mercury and I were investigating the disappearances, when a mysterious black mist appeared out of nowhere and seemed to grab Titanium and Mercury."

"Then how did you manage to escape?" Twilight inquired.

"Well I managed to escape," Tungsten replied, "but I didn't get away unscathed."

He removed a bandage from his arm, revealing a cut with black energy seeping from it.

As Twilight looked at the wound, she could see the black energy slowing creeping up Tungsten's arm.

"I can resist whatever this is doing," Tungsten stated, "but I can't keep it up forever."

"Could you show us where you encountered the black mist?" Doctor Fate asked.

"That's the reason I'm here," Twilight explained, "I am trying to stop whatever is causing this all to happen."

"Can you really stop it?" Tungsten asked.

"We can try," Twilight replied.


Twilight, Doctor Fate and the remaining elements followed Tungsten to where the black mist had appeared.

"Tungsten has been infected with the same dark energy that destroyed Librarytopia," Twilight whispered.

"I would appear so," Doctor Fate nodded.

"Then we're too late, " Twilight said, beginning to give into despair again.

"If we find the source of the mist," Doctor Fate replied, reassuringly, "we may unearth a clue to who or what is causing your nightmares."

The group continued onward.

As they passed one of the giant flasks, Twilight heard a voice.

"Why are you even doing this?" the voice asked, "why save something that was born from evil and hatred?"

Twilight looked around, trying to see where the mysterious voice was coming from.

"Midnight was born from the darkness within your heart," the voice continued.

"Who's there?" Twilight asked, scared.

"It is a shell, a husk, a nobody!" the voice shouted.

She looked at the others for an answer and suddenly realised that everything and everyone had frozen.

"No one is born evil," Twilight replied, her voice shaking with fear and rage, "Midnight was evil, then she saved my life, so she is not a nobody, she's my friend, she a part of me."

In answer Twilight heard the sound of slow clapping echoing everywhere.

"What. A. Speech." the voice sneered, sarcastically, "to bad it's a load of garbage."

"Who are you to say that?" Twilight responded, "you don't know anything about Midnight or me."

"Oh, I know more about you than you might think," the voice laughed, "so unless you want your meaningless, childish fantasy dreams deconstructed before your eyes, STOP LOOKING FOR MIDNIGHT SPARKLE!"

"Leave me alone!" Twilight shouted, "WHO ARE YOU?!"

She turned around the frozen room, then she stopped, startled to see her own reflection moving on the giant glass flask.

The reflection laughed, "tiny little nerd with her tiny little glasses, all alone and afraid in the dark."

"SHUT UP!" Twilight screamed, charging at her reflection. Before she could stop herself Twilight struck the flask, shattering it into a million pieces.

Black liquid began leaking from the shattered flask.

"There she was," the reflection gloated, "everyone's favourite egghead resolute to do anything to save her friends, but Twilight didn't realise what was going to happen next."

Suddenly before Twilight could react, everything around her unfroze and everything happened at once.

The black liquid burst from the shattered flask and rushed towards the elements and Doctor Fate.

Doctor Fate managed to shield himself, but the elements weren't as lucky.

The black liquid completely enveloped the elements, until they were completely submerged.

All around the other giant beakers and flasks began shattering and releasing more black liquid.

Soon enough, all of Scientropolis was swallowed up by the black liquid.

Eventually, even the floor Twilight and Doctor Fate were standing on was taken by the black liquid.

Then, like last time, Twilight and Doctor Fate found themselves standing in spot where they started, next to the signpost.

The sign for Scientropolis, like the one for Librarytopia, was crossed out.

Twilight still couldn't believe what had happen.

Yet another one of her dream worlds had been destroyed before her very eyes.