The foals soon headed to the one place that held all or at least part of their families- the hospital. Or at least a tent that was called the makeshift hospital. It was right on Sweet Apple Acres given in the time of need and much of the equipment used by the said hospital was created by Bloom Industries.
This day would be very lucrative for the Apple Family and for Equestria since much of the “excessive” profits of the Apples were given to orphanages around the world by the request of one of the stockholders.
That said stockholder was flying in on a business meeting and an unexpected visit...to visit her “big sister” and her family and to ferry the souls of the dead to the Higher Plane of Existence.
Princess Fortuna, previously Scootaloo was coming to Ponyville.
Chroma stared at the figure of her cyan mother as she slept. Movement awoke her from her stupor and she glanced at the new arrival before falling backwards in shock.
She never thought she would see the Grim Reaper in person. It is NOT my time to go and if it wants mom, I fight it. She began to get ready to attack with her hoof blade.
“Hey, hey, hey! Chroma, it’s me! You know, Scootaloo?” The cloaked intruder began to undress in order to not get stabbed by the foal.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I’m just worried about mom here and Celestia told me that she believes that Fluttershy is near the Crystal Empire, and I-” Chroma began to cry because of all the stress that she had kept inside.
“It’s okay Chroma. Not everything can be easily fixed. Take it from me. I wasn’t always the awesome alicorn you see, has Dash told you completely about how she got her metal legs?”
“No, not really.”
“Well then you are in for a surprise. You and your friends were part of an Alicorn Magic accident and your mothers have superpowers, but Celestia created a limiter system on their powers, so they could integrate into normal life after their battle with a being called Samael...”
And with those words said, Chroma would always think that her family was awesome.
Vinyl’s Room in the Hospital
Scale Harmony finally left the room that her parent was in. She couldn’t say any words to the unicorn so she left the only thing that she believed was necessary.
A letter.
Hey Mom,
If you are reading this my friends and I have left already. Sorry for not telling you and all, but we need to stop Chaos or things like this will just keep happening. Now you are probably wondering what happened in my adventure...I will tell you when I get back.
Mom, you are much braver than I. From what I’ve heard, you single handedly took down the barrier that surrounded the town. You are a hero, I am not and will never be. True, I am the leader of this rag tag band of friends and they trust me completely, but I am scared.
Scared of failure, scared of death, scared of what could happen to the world. But mostly I am scared of what I could become. Already I see my friends becoming more distant and Zap Apple... don’t get me started on her. Maybe it was what Celestia told us about in Canterlot. We believed that an adventure would not change us. Heck, the only real adventures we had were in the Everfree. Never in my entire life could I foresee that I would leave Equestria for a second.
But Mom, if I don’t come back, don’t worry about me. I tried my hardest, my best,and I always thought of my family. We’ve had a good time together and don’t cry for me because I always wanted to be a pony that other would remember. Maybe I was just destined for it, but it has come sooner than later and I wish I had more time for what I believed was necessary.
From the first time I saw you and mom, I always loved both of you but I just haven’t said it enough, if at all, and i am truly sorry. Sorry for all the times that you guys had to scold me and only now do I notice I was wrong. I guess this is goodbye for now and I hope I come back.
Love, Scale Harmony
Your daughter and leader of the Lights of Music/ Lights of Reason
P.S. Sorry for taking your sunglasses.
Eight Hours Later
Octavia was tired after that going away party Midnight Snack threw the entire camp. She felt their was some ulterior motive that those foals wanted to hide from the camp. Nah, must just be be my imagination.
Octavia was ready to leave the hospital, but she noticed a piece of paper that she didn’t remember from her last visit. She thought it was just a nurse’s letter or something, but she finally checked the letter.
She was going to destroy her daughter when she got back.
“So no goodbye? Did you really think that this was a good idea?”
Across the hospital the other mothers of said foals were experiencing the same anger at their children.
Celestia’s Makeshift Headquarters- The Library
Celestia was completely out of it. While everypony saw her as a kind mare that had no issues that was not the case. Whenever she had an episode of crazy, she did the first thing that came to her mind.
Get completely drunk. Luckily for her, there was Sweet Apple Acres right in Ponyville or else she didn’t know what she would do. She was smiling and remembering the last moments before she collapsed in a drunken stupor.
That was when her hearing was destroyed by the door exploding. Bits of wood landed all around the alicorn.
“Wha’ d’you bucking want? It definitely needs to be important or else so help me I'll kill you”
Celestia turned her head to the new intruders and was surprised to see the Uncorrupted Element Bearers, Princess Cadence, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, Octavia, Vinyl Scratch, and a very nervous Shining Armor staring back at her.
“Where are our children!” the group of irate ponies yelled at the incapacitated Princess.
“I think I told them that, uh, Crystal Empire?” Celestia racked her brain for the answer and it was the most difficult thing she did, even worse than holding Solar Court every boring day.
Shining Armor was the spokespony for the group since he was the most rational at the current moment. “Sorry, Celestia, I see that you are currently thinking about other things, but we kind of want our limiters released so we can join our family in fighting that monster.”
As soon as he finished, Celestia began to roll around the floor while laughing hysterically. “Really, you want to fight something that crushed Canterlot with a hoof. Really? My sister and I only survived because we are immortal. Can I do anything? Nope. And you really think you can help stop that thing? If so, then here’s your powers back,” She waved her horn and mumbled some incoherent words. “but don’t come crying to me when you are ripped apart because of that thing!”
Everypony ran as far away as they could from their drunk ruler. That night they created an unspoken rule: Never go near Celestia when she was completely drunk and crazy.
Celestia’s laughter could be heard throughout the entire camp.