When the ponies woke up, they stood up from their hooves, but the Assassins and Vinyl took a more bipedal stand, much like Discord. When they are now standing, they look to their surrounding to see any differences. The first difference they could are gold-like light surrounding them, and another thing to note is that it was like heavenly.
"Do you hear me cipher? Can you see me?" The ponies look around to see where is that voice coming from and could see a bipedal creature, and judging by it's appearance it's male and was holographic, much like Minerva's.
"Ah there you are. Good." The ponies watched as he stopped in front of them, with his holographic image before them. Never they witnessed such thing before their life, well except for Minerva's image.
"A strange place of nexus of time. I am not used to the......calculation. It had always been Minerva's domain." The ponies thought for a moment, before gesturing him to continue. But they had questions in their mind.
"I see you still have many questions. Who were we? What became of us? What do we desire from you?" The ponies in their minds were shocked that their questions are known by this....image.
"You will have your answers. Only listen and I will tell you how." The ponies eagerly listen to the image's tale.
"Both before the end and after, we sought to save the world." The ponies wondered what he meant, but holographic images of Celestia's sun and some other planets prove other wise.
"We built vaults within which to work, each dedicated to a different method of salvation." The ponies is now confused of the word 'salvation', but they want to hear more of the image's tale.
"They were placed underground to avoid the war which waged above, and also as a precaution, should we fail in our efforts." The ponies wide-eyed at the word 'war', but which kind of war?
"Each vault's knowledge was transmitted to a single place." The image said, pointing, when the ponies were following, a holographic world, in which a holographic statue was seen, then goes down to see two other images, one's Minerva's and the other one.
"It was our duty-mine, Minerva's and Juno's-to sort and sample all that was collected. We chose those solutions which held the most promise, and devoted ourselves to testing their merits." The ponies now realized that these images are now making sense, but still needs one piece of the puzzle.
"Six we tried in succession, each more encouraging than the last. But none worked. And then the world ended..." The image pushed something, and in turn the ponies saw a vision. These vision saw Luna's moon first, before their planet and Celestia's sun was shown. The sun fired a solar flare, directly towards the planet. On the earth, however, the ponies didn't even believe it. The image show bipedal creatures and ponies starring at the night sky with the aurora borealis, and soon lightning struck a building, prompting both the ponies and creatures to ran like mad. They are panicking, and soon they could see devastation everywhere. Suddenly, after seeing much devastation for quite some time, Jupiter said:
"The earth shook for the days. The fires burned for weeks. And when the ashes had settled, less than ten-thousand of your kind had survived....and far fewer from ours." The ponies shivered as they count the numbers of the surviving bipedal creatures and ponies.
"But we carried on-together. To rebuild. To renew. Listen, you must go there, the place where we labored-labored and lost..." After much explanation, they began to regain conciousness, and they are in Twilight's library. Meeting them, however, was none other than Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
"Your majesties, we have found the Apple." Vinyl said, revealing a golden ball. The princesses wide-eyed at this discovery.
"Good job their...Vinyl. Now, what you all doing when your lying at the floor." Vinyl and the ponies recalled what they had saw, and the princesses digested this information.
"So...your saying that-" Vinyl looked at her, and the ex-Templar knew what it was.
"We must find the rest of the Pieces." Rainbow Dash said.