"Pinkie, use the space stone to get your friends and the stones out of here!" whispered Celestia in a stern, but nervous tone.
"What about you?"
"I'm going to buy you all some time," replied Celestia, "If he's as powerful as the stories say, you'll need it." Indeed, even then Thanos was striding up to them with a double edge sword, not even looking exhausted from fighting the dead soldiers behind him.
"But based on the soldiers behind him, he won't hesitate to kill you!" For once, Pinkie had a serious and worried expression on her face.
"Please Pinkie Pie," with an insistent tone, "just do it, if not for yourself, for Equestria and your friends."
Pinkie looked to her mane that was currently holding the powerful cube and sighed. She then looked at Thanos, then Celestia one last time, and turned to her friends and said with her mane droopy, "Time to go girls." Before any of them could object, she opened a portal beneath the six of them and fell into it, with the rest of them thinking things along the lines of, "No Celestia wait!"
"Sorry girls," Celestia thought as she teleported on her armor.
***
The girls felt themselves fall into some chairs in Sugarcube Corner and before any of them could comprehend what happened and try to go back through the portal, it closed leaving an upset group of mares glaring at Pinkie. Twilight was especially angry, as Celestia was like a second mother she had known all her life to her and Pinkie just left her with a monster that killed an entire universe.
"Pinkamena Diane Pie," said Twilight in a slow angry tone, "take us back to the throne room right now or so help me I will feed Gummy to the Timberwolves, go back in time, and do it again for as long as he has ever existed, all the while making you watch each and every time and not be able to do anything. I don't care what effect it might have on the timeline!"
Everyone then turned to Twilight as she was giving off an extremely dark vibe. She looked like she could pounce at Pinkie at any moment. No one knew where her mind was at the moment, but they also didn't really want to know based on her expression. That's when AJ noticed a yellow glow seeming to come from Twilight's scepter.
"Um, Twilight didn't Princess Celestia say that tha' mind stone could turn us against each other?"
"Yeah, so what!" Twilight snapped at AJ. As Applejack recoiled, she pointed to the scepter and how it was glowing. Twilight turned her attention to the scepter, with her eyes wide, realizing what was happening. She then calmed herself, put the scepter down, and turned her attention back to Pinkie. However, this time instead of anger in her eyes, she showed sorrow.
"Sorry Pinkie," said Twilight, "The stone may have contributed to my anger, but it was still my anger and I shouldn't have taken it out on you."
"It's okay, I do understand where it's coming from, but taking you and the others away was the last thing Princess Celestia asked of me. I could also tell she wanted me to save you all, and not just keep the stones from him."
Twilight growled at that last word, but quickly calmed herself. "I guess for now we should try what we can to get the hang of what we can do with our stones in case we need to use them, except for Rarity and AJ since Rarity's stone is completely concealed and AJ doesn't want to use her's. Applejack, keep in mind though that if it turns out you can use it and it's in danger, you may have to."
Applejack looked down with a sad expression, lost in her own thoughts, and said, "Alright, but I still feel it should only be used as a last resort."