Tension filled an almost barren oak room, the raw energy drifting from corner to corner. The walls were the colour of amber and the floor a light golden brown, inside lie a single hospital bed, various tubes, wires and machinery filled with liquids and various Magic’s were fitted to the walls, beside the bed, a table filled with flowers both new and wilting sat, along with a few framed photos, many featuring six different ponies. The bed itself was occupied, a purple alicorn lay comatose, hooked up to the machinery, tubes ran down her throat and through her nose, wires poked in and out the entire right side of the mares body encased in bandages, the heartbeat monitor drummed into the walls and the ventilator making sure it’s presence was known with loud gushes of oxygen and carbon dioxide swimming through it.
There, next to her bed, sat a substantially grown young adult yellow mare, her red hair tied into a messy ponytail and a pink bow sat atop her head, she wore a peach coloured vest and a faded red scarf. The mare was dozing off, before an incessant beeping began to fill the room, the mare shot her head up and watched the alicorn intently, who began to stir before her eye fluttered open.
“Zecora! Zecora! Come quickly, Twilights stirring!” The mares voice rang down the halls and moments later a zebra came rushing through the door.
“What is it Applebloom?” Applebloom motioned over to Twilight, who was groggily attempting to look around the room. Applebloom rushed over and pulled the tube from her mouth, a few coughs spluttered out of the purple alicorn, she attempted to speak but no words escaped her lips, her throat felt like it had been through the hills of Appleloosa and back. A few long moments of regaining consciousness had passed before the panic began to set in, Twilights vision had regained, except she could only see out of one eye, the other totally pitch black, she couldn’t talk, she couldn’t feel half of her body, attempting to do magic caused fizzles to escape out of her snapped horn, the heart rate monitor began to scream, the beeping growing as frantic as the alicorn, Applebloom quickly rushed over as did Zecora and each held a hoof down on Twilights forehooves.
“Shhh it’s okay Twilight, you need to calm down.” Twilight looked over, recognition lit up in her purple eye.
“A...a...ap..” twilight swallowed hard, the words struggling to escape.
“I’ll go get some water quick, be back In a tick” Zecora rushed out, Applebloom simply looked over and placed a hoof on Twlights, a relieved grin spread over muzzle.
“I’m glad you’re back twi.”
Twilight remained in her hospital bed, her head propped up on various pillows behind her, she looked to Applebloom who was rambling about potion making before Zecora waltzed back through the door.
“It’ll take some time before you get your voice back, but by five days it should be on track. The potion brewed will help it return.” Twilight nodded her head in thanks. A tension filled silence swept over the three, despite the lack of vocals Twilights eye pleaded with Zecora and Applebloom, who in turn looked at each other, Zecora sighed and Applebloom nodded.
“I suppose we tell you what’s happened since you’ve been asleep huh?” Twilight frantically nodded and gestured to her head before shrugging with her good in bandaged shoulder.
“Right, yeah, before anything thought I’d tell you, you’ve got a bit of amnesia twilight, bits and pieces will be foggy and you blanty won’t remember some.” Twilights expressed worry through her body language, Applebloom gave her a reassuring smile and closed her eyes, before she recited the recent history that befell Equestria.
“After you and the other elements of harmony’s battle against the storm king, a new threat arose. Upon hearing of Equestria being weakened by his outside sources, who we to this day still never discovered, the tyrant, Lord Tirek made his escape from his prison in Tartarus. Absorbing the magic of the contained animals within his shared prison, he escaped. The princesses repeated the same process as previously, allowing you to absorb their magic, and escape to an undisclosed location, only this time, you weren’t so lucky. Throughout a lengthy battle, destroying almost the entirety of canterlot, you were struck down, damaged, broken and dying, Tirek absorbed all the magic of the 4 princesses, but among the added magic of the powerful creatures in Tartarus his body couldn’t handle all the power, it faltered, and alongside the princess of friendship, he fell. The magic he stole released back into equestria, at first we rejoiced...but it came out wrong, the alicorn magic that returned, corrupted the Princesses, turning them into their alter egos, Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon, Inciting a war, between day, and night, with Daybreaker ruling over Canterlot and the Western side of Equestria, Nightmare Moon taking the eastern and residing in Manehatten she also overtook various other lands such as Griffenstone. No one has seen the princess of love, and crystal empire has managed to fight off any influences from both day and night. Ponies retained hope, until months went by and every pony had accepted that the princess of friendship and element of magic, was dead. Each faction offered enlistment to the various ponies of equestria, many refused to choose sides and in the end, they were blatantly taken from their homes, cities and villages were destroyed, families split and ponies were trained for war. The fighting has been going on for a...while now. Not many of Nightmare Moon’s soldiers are seen away from the battlefield. Daybreaker however, brands each of her soldiers and workers with a sun insignia, burned with a hot iron into the right side of the neck. A few of us managed to escape, we now have refugee camps sanctioned all over Equestria, we are currently in the main one right now.”
Twilight took a moment to process the flood of information she’d been given, her eyebrow furrowed and she motioned to a frame beside her bed.
“Right, well, I’ll tell you as much as I know about the other bearers of the elements.”
“Upon the beginning of the war, immediately the wonderbolts were enlisted by Nightmare Moon, Rainbowdash was forced alongside them, training hard within that Army, she is now a Commander amongst troops, with Lieutenant Scootaloo close by her, and they serve under Captain Spitfire.
Without close guards to keep an eye on him, Daybreaker shot a deal with lord of chaos, Discord. Discord could have easily bent the world back into place, but Daybreaker gave him free reign over whatever section of her land he wanted, to live out his days a free draconequus. He now owns Ponyville, and had asked Fluttershy to go with him, no one knows why she agreed. But she is now an agent of chaos, Fluttershy, from my understanding over various reconnaissance missions has obtained some of Discord’s chaos magic, and is now half draconequus, her body mixed and matched.
Now this one I’m definitely fuzzy on. In the beginning of the war some ponies refused to choose sides. A few who were enlisted to Daybreaker became angry, and non compliant, Pinkie Pie was one of those ponies. Our sources say she was snatched in the middle of the night, no pony has seen her since.
Applejack, my sister. When all this started Daybreaker ordered Sweet Apple Acres to be transformed, a new factory to produce weaponry and armours. Applejack and Big Mac run that factory now, poor Granny Smith died due to too much fume intact. They never leave that farm, aren’t ever allowed to, it’s kept under strict security, no one in or out. When it all began, the day Applejack was marked with that burnt insignia she didn’t want me to go through that, she quickly led me away and left me with Zecora, hoping I’d have a better future with her than in that factory. I haven’t seen her since.
Rarity was enlisted to Daybreaker, she saw her designer eye as...useful to say the least. Daybreaker ordered her directly to canterlot. Her and my sister had only been engaged a month and already had to say goodbye for who knows how long to one another. Rarity as far as I know is engaged to Prince Blueblood, and designs the weapons and armour, handles distribution and material gathering for Daybreakers army, sweetie belle lives with her in canterlot.
Spike left when the dragon migration came around, he has a better chance through this than any of us, the dragon lands haven’t been touched in this war.”
Twilight looked mortified. Sorrow swept across her face, mingled with guilt, tears welled in her eye and she looked at Applebloom with the most sadness she had ever seen in the expression of a pony, walking over she hugged twilight. Twilight took a deep shaky breath, and gestured to the bandages on her body.
“Now, that one. That’s what’s gonna shock you the most out of this story. As I mentioned you were in a battle with Tirek, your second to be precise. And obviously...you lost, and you took the beating, hard. Zecora was close to where the battle had taken place and where you had fallen. After Tirek took his final breath Zecora launched into the site, frantically rummaging through the rubble and debris. You wouldn’t believe the state you were in when she pulled you out...” Applebloom shuddered.
“Lucky due to her intense potions knowledge, you were saveable, but...not without adjustments.” Applebloom walked over to Twilight and began to carefully unravel her bandages.
“I must tell you, brace yourself.” Twilight took a deep breath and nodded. Applebloom brought over a mirror, and Twilight brought a hoof over her mouth. Her entire right side no longer had a purple fur coat, but instead replaced with a sleek metal, her entire right leg replaced with a bionic version, the same went for her right wing. Her right eye socket had robotic parts embedded into it, pitch black with a purple glowing Iris, atop her head, her horn was snapped, her hair chopped into a short bob. Immediately the alicorn broke down, and wrecked with wheezing sobs as her vocal chords tried to express their sorrow. Applebloom placed the mirror down and gave the purple alicorn a hug.
A few moments pass before there’s a timid knock at the door. Applebloom called for them to enter. In walked a unicorn filly, she had a creamy coloured coat, a lighter cream blaze coloured her horn and ran down her nose to her chin, along with the lighter cream running up her legs, her back fur was a darker rusty brown and freckles dotted her face. Her hair was a light blonde that faded into a light purple at the ends and she wore a very familiar hat atop her head. She smiled and a gap was placed between her two front teeth.
“Yes Honey? What would ya like?” Twilight looked at the filly, a strange sense of familiarity swept over her. Before Honey began to speak she noticed the Alicorn looking at her, and she gasped.
“She’s awake!” Her country accent only deepened that familiar sense Twilight was feeling. Applebloom smiled and walked over, gesturing a hoof at Honey.
“Twilight this is Honeycrisp, Honeycrisp, princess Twilight Sparkle.” Twilight smiled through her tears at Honey.
“She’s my niece.” Twilights smile immediately faltered, she frantically looked around, and motioned to Applebloom for something to write with, Applebloom found her a pen and notepad, twilight jotted down some words.
‘How old is she?’ The paper read. Applebloom’s eyes widened. A deep sigh escaped her nose and she scrunched her muzzle.
“She’s ten twilight.” Twilight lied there rigid. Her heart drumming inside her chest, evident by the monitor beeping cautions at her.
“There’s no easy way to say this Twilight but....you’ve been in a coma for ten years.”