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// Chapter 4:  Revelation 
// Story: Nightmare Night 
// by Dreadnought 
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"All my life I've awaiting your coming and dreaded it, like death itself," said Dr. Zaius.

"You're afraid of me and hate me?  Why?" asked Applejack.

"Because you're a pony," Zaius spat back.  "And you're right.  I have always known about ponies.  They were a primitive, backwards race."

"What proof do y'all have?" 

"This land used to be a paradise, not it's a wasteland."

Applejack shook her head.  "A planet where humans rule over ponies, it don't make no sense.  There's gotta be an answer."  She donned her stetson and turned to her mute companion, "Come on."

"Don't look for it.  You may not like what you find," he cautioned.

Applejack ignored the warning as she and Nova galloped off down the beach....

The pair climbed over boulders.  They pushed through thick brush.  They waded through heavy surf.  

Rounding a point, Applejack slowed down and her mouth fell open.  She came to a complete stop.  "Oh Celestia.  Ah'm back.  Ah'm home.  All this time, it was..."  She pounded the sand.  "You maniacs!  You blew it up!  Damn you!  Damn you all to Tartarus!"

Confused, Nova looked down the beach.  Before the pair loomed a ruin statue, recognizable to Applejack as Manehattan's Statue of Friendship.