1 Year Later
“Reckon we can reverse the spell?” These are the first words Twilight had heard after what she had thought had been only a couple of minutes. She did not know who had said those words, nor did she actually care, her back was killing her.
“I doubt it; whoever used this spell must have really wanted her out of their hair,” Said an odd masculine voice. “But I’ll go back to base to see if we have any materia that can help.” Twilight heard the person walk away; she could start to feel her body again.
“Oh, please wake up Sugercube.” Twilight knew who had said that, the only person to ever call her by that name was Applejack.
Twilight tried to get up, feeling the rock crack around her. Finally she gave on last try at sitting up, and the rock crumbled around her. She had a hard time seeing anything, everything was so bright and obscured because her eyes were no longer used to the natural light.
“Twilight, your awake! It’s been a year since I’ve seen you move around at all!”
“Huh, what happ…” Twilight stopped what she was saying because she was shocked at what she saw, her eyes had finally adjusted, and she wishes they hadn’t. Applejack looked pretty beat up, like she had been through a tornado, but what she saw behind Applejack was what shocked her the most. What was once Canterlot was now a giant pile of rubble, everything in sight was destroyed. What was even worse was the lighting in the area; this wasn’t normal sunlight, not at all. She looked up to see the scariest thing ever, the sun was purple. “No… what happened to this place…”
“I reckon you need an explanation don’t ya? Not right now though, we need to get out of here before the Followers find us.” Applejack said hastily.
Err… Ok I guess?” Said Twilight, more confused than ever.
As they slid down the pile of torn homes and street, to shadowy figures popped up from the ground. “Dag Gommit, they found us!” Yelled Applejack, the figures the saw were Pony like, but they were completely black, and had solid yellow eyes, they slowly approached the two Ponies who were trying to escape.
“It’s ok Applejack, I got this!” Said Twilight as she charged up for a Spell, she launched the magical projectile at the beasts. The shot hit one of them, but it did not phase it at all, it simply continued walking toward Twilight and Applejack. “Ok, I was wrong, I don’t have this!”
The monsters shot back with their own shots of magic, which Twilight an Applejack dodged by rolling out of the way. “We have got to get goin’ now!” Shouted Applejack.
As the two Ponies tried to run away, the creature Unicorn horn disappeared and they grew wings like a bat, wet from the bodily fluids that spurted out when the wings broke the skin. They started to pursue the two girls. Eventually they cornered the two in front of what used to be the building that held the Elements of Harmony. “I guess this is it then huh? I’m sorry I couldn’t of done more Twilight” As Applejack prepared for her death, a Sword came out of nowhere and sliced the one monster like a hot knife through butter.
“Stay back AJ, I got this!” Said the human who was holding the huge blade, he had spiky black hair, not like the human she had seen before. He was wearing some kind of uniform, the one part of it reading “SOLDIER 1st CLASS.” The human then did a flip over the other monster and sliced its head clean off, leaving a brutal mess.
“Thanks a bunch Zack, I owe you one.” Said Applejack, relieved that her life was no longer in any immediate danger.
“A hero’s job is never done when the world is in danger!” Said the human in a very prideful tone, he then turned to Twilight.
“Hey, aren’t you that pony that was trapped in the stone that Trunks was telling me about?”
“Do I even know you?” asked Twilight, felling like here privacy was being invaded.
“Oh, sorry about that Twilight, this here is…”
“Zack, Zack Fair.” Interrupted Zack.
“Nice to meet you and all, but am I ever going to get an explanation why all of Canterlot is DESTROYED!” Yelled Twilight.
“You can tell her as soon as we get back to the base AJ, but for now we got to get moving.” Zack then turned around a pointer toward the last standing tower of the Canterlot Palace. “This way!”