//------------------------------// // Clearing the (gamma-radiated) air // Story: Gamma Ponies // by ShamrocknRoll //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle woke up, lifted her eyelids and looked at her sundial. She realized she was three hours late for Pinkie Pie's party. She jumped out of her bed almost splintering it with her hooves and worked over her morning routine and went outside to see the day, this day was very different however. When she opened the door, Ponyville looked more like it was the victim of a purge of political dissidents than the lovely village she developed a love for. She galloped over to the Sugar Cube Corner, wondering what happened to her friend Pinkie Pie. That was who's party she was supposed to attend. She opened the door she nearly retched at the sight of Pinkie Pie's organs and most of her body parts strewn across the room. Twilight refused to enter the room any further. “I have to check on the others.” Twilight said in a frantic tone. She charged full speed to Sweet Apple Acres to check on Applejack, who sadly along with Applebloom were crushed under the attic floor in the barn. Tears flowed down her cheek, she didn't want to see what happened to her other friends if this was the fate of her first two earth pony friends. She galloped back the town square crying while on her way back home to her study. She bumped into the only living pony she met so far after the purge, her acquaintance Ditsy Doo. “I've been waiting for you Twilight Sparkle. Your destiny is here at last.” Ditsy Doo said. This put Twilight off guard usually Ditsy Do was slow, clumsy and overall foolish earning her nickname Derpy, however this Ditsy Doo was eloquent, serious and had an air of majesty and power that seemed to match Princesses Celestia and Luna. “Did you do this Derpy? Did you kill all of Ponyville?” Twilight growled. “If so I am going to take you down so you cannot...” “I didn't, in fact I am here to save it. I am still living because I was going to tell Luna about the incoming evil. However I felt a disturbance in the Power Mystic that turned out to be the deaths of your friends. I am here to bring back your friends from the dead and every pony in Ponyville. The Grand Evil that Dischord created millennia ago have awakened and are marching on Canterlot and Equstria's higher planes as we speak. The Elements of Harmony need to be harnessed once again against their counterpart of evil, The Elements of Chaos. Queen Glamour wishes to be free from her prison.” Ditsy Do firmly stated. Twilight was speechless until she had to ask questions. None of this made sense to her, she never picked up anything about this chapter in Equestria's history or magical items. “How are you going to do that? What are these Elements of Chaos? What is the Power Mystic? What are we supposed to do after we are back from the dead?” Twilight asked Ditsy. She realized this pony wasn't so derpy afterall. “Oh Twilight, ye of little critical thinking, the victors write the history books. I know more than even Celestia and Luna combined about magic and Equestria and if they do know as much as I do, I at least am willing impart some of it onto you.” Ditsy said as she turned her back on Twilight and spoke words of power that Twilight could not translate. As Ditsy finished her hymn a mushroom cloud of radiant energy engulfed all of Ponyville knocking over Twilight in awe, closing her eyes. The moment she opened her eyes, Ditsy Do had vanished. Her replacement was a bustling Ponyville. Bonbon and Lyra eating salad at the cafe, Doctor Hooves purchasing tomatoes at the marketplace. However, no signs of her five friends. Twilight rushed to Sugar Cube Corner and saw Pinkie Pie smiling as she gave Twist a bag of three cupcakes. Twilight smiled and walked gingerly up to Pinkie Pie who upon seeing her cowered behind the register and opened it up. “Here take the money, just don't gut me again!” Pinkie Pie yelled. Pinkie then looked at her hooves and flank and realized she was alive, no stitches, nothing that noted her being turned into a twisted science experiment. She was just Pinkie Pie. “Did you bring me back to life just so you can kill me again?” “Nope not even armed.” Twilight Sparkle answered activating her telekinesis and showing no weapons were remotely near her. Pinkie Pie closed the register and trotted to her friend. “Hmmm, you look like the Twilight Sparkle that killed me, but you have no weapon so you're kosher... for now.” Pinkie Pie said as she and Twilight went out of Sugar Cube Corner. “So you really didn't kill me eh?” Twilight nodded. Suddenly three distinct voices that both Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie heard. “There she is! Arrest her!” The voices yelled. Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle turned around and saw Applejack, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash charging at them. “Get away from Pinkie Pie you sadist!” Rainbow Dash yelled. “Yeah let me lay a senior hoof in you rump!” Applejack snapped. “Um... Ms Sparkle I would really like you to aplogize for killing me.” Fluttershy muttered. “You do know just because the murderer looked like me doesn't mean it was me.” Twilight said rolling her eyes. “I mean many ponies have created spells to mask their evildoings. In fact Starswirl the Bearded's archnemesis; Obsideon Skull the Pockmarked made no less than 57 different kinds of disguise spells to fight the noble steed.” “Well that just makes us 20 percent smarter than that old fart.” Rainbow Dash snorted. “Since we can see through that spell. You're good as glue, Pinkie Pie come with us if you want to party.” Pinkie Pie's eyes bugged out and turned to be with her friends against Twilight Sparkle. “Ya'll better step back a few, time to show this mare ya don't pee with the puppies and crap in the big dog's yard.” Applejack huffed as she tuned up Buck McGuillicutty and Kicks McGee for a kick. Before A familiar voice cried out. “Stand down you barbaric hive mind of jackanapes!” The four friends turned to see a familiar face, Rarity. She was covered in dust and minor scrapes over her body. “Friends, Twilight didn't murder you, nor all of Ponyville. It was... Trixie!”