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// Prologue 
// Story: Doomsday 
// by SilentWanderer 
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In the middle of a large room, filled with purple light and strewn with jagged blocks of broken crystal, lay a single lavender unicorn. Her body was full of bruises, and she was bleeding from several wounds. As she struggled to breathe, without moving her mouth she spoke to somepony:

“I believed I could fight them. I was wrong. I believed I could not fight destiny... I hope I was wrong too.”


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It was a beautiful morning at Equestria City. The dome covering the ecumenopolis glowed with a warm and soft light. Many ponies wandered about, feeling safe in the uninterrupted peace that they had been enjoying for more than a hundred years.

The one responsible for that peace walked calmly through a wide open area, enjoying the carefree way her citizens went about their lives. She was going to meet her friends.

It had only been a few weeks since the time travel incident. Meeting her former friends again, even if just for a few hours, had lifted a load off her mind. It had been hundreds of years since the last time they had met.

As for her current friends, it was a bit of a strange friendship. She was an immortal unicorn, responsible for everything within the boundaries of the City. Her friends were five ordinary ponies.

Of course, that friendship had a reason. Everything had a reason.

She stopped. In front of her, a blonde-maned gray pegasus hovered, carrying a small package held by a string on her mouth.

“Are you Miss Administrator?”

“Yes?”

“I have a package for you.”

The gray pegasus placed the package on the ground in front of the Administrator, and flew away. “Strange,” thought the Administrator. “She did not show in the scanners.”

Quickly scanning the package with her cybernetic glasses, she determined that there was nothing dangerous in it.

With another mental command, she searched for the pegasus. The advanced systems which maintained the City responded, but could not find her. They showed that she had picked a few sweets from a food dispenser, and then disappeared. There was also no recording on where she came from.

Sighing, the Administrator telekinetically opened the package, while readying an instant shield spell, just in case. Within the package, there was only a notebook and a few stones.

She opened the notebook and started reading. Soon, her concern became alarm. Sending an urgent mental command to her personal flying machine, she started to run. There was no time to waste!