Celestia and Luna both looked onto Twilight Sparkle, who had one of the most devious grins on their faces. Twilight and her squad of sidekicks suddenly charged towards Celestia and Luna, who responded with a charge of their own. Luna’s Birdo and Celestia’s Monty Mole tagged with each other and performed a dual tackle against Twilight’s Birdo. Meanwhile, Celestia’s two Dry Bones have teamed up with Luna’s Dry Bones and Boo to face off against Twilight’s Dry Bones and Shy Guy. The Dry Bones and Shy Guy backed away from the onslaught of dead foes before them. Celestia smiled towards Twilight.
“Don’t you see Twilight? Though me and my sister fight, we will always unite as the royal sisters to prevent harm from falling under anypony. There is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. By the power of the Equestrian Higher Authority, you will meet your end!” Celestia said in a proud, loud tone. Twilight smiled as she looked at her gauntlet, which revealed a single bob-omb in her item slot.
“That’s nice and all, but your words are meaningless if you cannot catch me.” As she said this, a large bob-omb fell down onto Celestia and Luna and exploded. Both alicorns were sent flying away from each other. Twilight grinned as she ran past Celestia and Luna. As the two of them got up from the floor, Celestia looked back and saw Twilight going into the hallway. She stared towards the direction in anger.
“Sister, you have to follow Twilight. She may be going after all the ponies in the infirmary!” She shouted.
“Point taken Tia.” Luna said. She looked back to her Dry Bones and Boo, who were beating on Twilight’s Dry Bones and Shy Guy alongside Celestia’s two Dry Bones. “Dry Bones! Boo! I want you to reach the infirmary as quickly as you possibly can! Lives are in danger.” Luna shouted. Her Dry Bones and Boo responded with a salute and ran down the same hallway. “Tia, I’m going to go after your student. Try to hold off her forces over here.” Celestia nodded.
“I’ll do just that. Just make sure nopony gets hurt under any circumstance.” She said as she turned her head back to the action. When she did, however, Twilight’s Birdo tackled into her foreleg and knocked her over. Luna ran as fast as she possibly could, but her Boo and Dry Bones ran three times faster than she did. She grunted her face as she looked towards all the possible routes to take. Then, her eyes opened in epiphany.
“I know for a fact that I myself can’t reach the infirmary before Twilight Sparkle does with running, but I know of a way to reach there before she can.” Luna thought to herself. She took a left towards a nearby corridor and stopped before a blue door.
Discord weakly limped over his hammock as he sighed towards the wall.
“Oh Discord, you managed to do it again. Only this time, I happened to develop some close… relations with each pony.” Discord pushed himself upwards from his hammock and angrily stared at his hands. “In the past, I would have just laughed out on situations like this. Now, each pony is actually starting to look miserable, and it’s making me feel weird inside.” He said as he put his lion’s paw over his chest. “I hate this feeling. It feels like everything is my fault.” He moaned sadly. Just then, he heard an aggressive knock on his door. He jumped up and became twisted within his net. He rolled out of the net. “I’m coming!” Discord walked over to the door with a sulking gait. As he pressed the button to the right of the door, the door lifted and revealed a uniform-clad Luna.
“Discord.” Luna strongly said.
“Oh, Luna… Why are you in your uniform right now? Shouldn’t you be in the infirmary watching over everypony and helping them like you should usually do?” Discord remarked.
“There’s a problem. Twilight’s gone insane from understanding what this place is and now she’s become murderous! She’s heading over to the infirmary to kill as many ponies as she can!” Luna shouted. Discord walked back in shock.
“Um, er, well, she can’t be that dangerous now can she? The energies of the world neuters her abilities.” Discord reasoned.
“Normally, it would. To those that have a gauntlet and can access it however, they can easily diminish other ponies that cannot access the gauntlet.” Luna said. Discord frowned and looked away from her eyes.
“Oh… no. Please Luna, I didn’t mean for any of these situations to happen. I was just bored and wanted to spend time with everypony. Please don’t put me into stone for my actions!” Discord begged as he went onto his knees and put his hands together.
“I don’t blame you Discord. You didn’t know that what would happen here would have scorned everypony’s minds. I hold nothing against you for your actions. However, I need you to warp me over to the infirmary. My sister is holding off Twilight’s sidekicks, and I’m supposed to stop Twilight from harming anypony.” Luna requested.
“I suppose that is a predicament you are in. Very well, but just make sure Twilight doesn’t hurt any other pony.” Discord said in a fearful voice. He snapped his griffon’s talons and Luna vanished in a puff of smoke. He sighed as he snapped his talons again. This time, a plastic bucket of vanilla ice cream appeared on his hand. “I need some comfort food to get me through this feeling of depression.” Discord said as he turned his lion’s paw into a metal spoon and started to scoop at the ice cream.
“Errrhhh, what a weird feeling that was.” Rainbow Dash said as she rose out of the gurney and rubbed her head.
“Ah feel ya pardner. If that’s what being brought back from the dead felt like, remind me not to go to extreme lengths to get some apple family members back from the grave.” Applejack said. As she stepped out from the gurney, Braeburn rushed towards her and embraced her.
“Applejack! You’re alive! You shouldn’t have scared me like that!” Braeburn shouted as tears fell down his eyes.
“Aww shucks Braeburn, you knew that I wouldn’t have been gone for long.” Applejack said. “Besides, being dead felt a bit like sleeping. It was kind of weird.”
“Ah know what you were thinking there, but I really don’t want to lose ya. Yer like my favorite cousin.” Braeburn said.
“Awww, you really mean that?” Applejack asked with a flattered voice. In the midst of the reunion, Luna appeared in the center of the infirmary. Everypony in the room shrieked in surprise.
“My ponies, you have to leave here now! Princess Twilight Sparkle is going to come in here, and she will not leave any survivors!” Luna said in a panicked voice. Everypony in the room laughed while Rainbow Dash walked over to Luna with a grin on her face.
“Oh Princess, please! I mean, this is Twilight we’re talking about. She’s like the least harmful pony that isn’t Fluttershy when she isn’t crazy. Even when she’s insane, she’s just only creepy at most. There’s absolutely nothing harmful about that.” She said. “I mean, come on, you think she’s going to burst through the front door of the infirmary in a hoofball uniform and say something along the lines of ‘All of you sinners shall pay for your actions with your lives!’ and chuck a red shell at us?” She then began to laugh, followed by Pinkie Pie’s laughter as she walked by Rainbow Dash and put her foreleg around her neck.
“Yeah, and she’s probably going to go after Lyra first for her irrational like of hands!” The two mares laughed harder until they heard a knock that came from the door on the infirmary. The door was opened, and a uniformed Twilight Sparkle jumped into the room with crazed, bloodthirsty eyes.
“All of you sinners shall pay for your actions with your lives!” Twilight shouted as a giant red shell spawned on her hoof. Twilight had her face set towards Lyra’s direction, who responded with a look of confusion and fear. Luna’s eye twitched severely before she facehoofed hard. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie sheepishly grinned towards Luna.
“Thou just had to remark that, didn’t thou?! Dear mother!” She shouted. Twilight chucked the red shell towards Lyra’s direction. Luna ran up towards Lyra and pushed her out of the way. The red shell turned slightly towards the left, but it was very much out of the direction of any pony. The red shell hit the wall and bounced back and forth between the walls. In anger, Luna tackled Twilight and knocked her over. “Run, now!” As the red shell shattered, all the ponies stampeded out of the room and screamed. Dust was kicked up, which left Luna and Twilight alone in the infirmary.
“Gone, they’re all gone.” As Twilight said this, Luna’s Dry Bones and Boo appeared from the doorway and blocked it off with their bodies. Twilight looked back at Luna and smiled. “It seems that it is just you, me and your sidekicks Luna. How very disappointing.” Twilight said. She ran towards Luna and tackled into her. Luna barely dodged the blow. Twilight chased after Luna, tackle after tackle. Luna dodged each tackle, but Twilight’s speed and defensive capability is causing Luna to breathe more heavily with each dodge. Soon, Luna stopped dodging. Twilight ran towards Luna and tackled into her with her head. Luna was thrown off into the wall, and a large dust cloud came out. As Twilight smiled from her strike, her eyes opened in shock as a blue shell was launched out of it. In those few moments, the shell hit Twilight hard, which caused her to freeze over. Luna dashed out of the cloud and kicked Twilight’s chin as if it were a hoofball itself. Twilight was launched through the wall and into another room on the ship. Luna jumped into the destroyed wall followed by her Dry Bones and Boo. Luna stared angrily across the dark room and into the other room where Twilight landed in.
Doctor Whooves and Derpy were in a very dark and narrow room. They heard the commotion appear from the other side of the wall. Derpy gasped in surprise, but Doctor Whooves held his hoof against her mouth and shushed her.
“Derpy, it is very important that you do not make a sound as we hide in this closet. All the ponies in the room scattered across the ship. I just picked this area closest to the infirmary because the best place to hide is right under our aggressor’s nose. It’s what our previous adventures taught us.” Derpy nodded until a large thump was heard towards the left of the wall. From the wall, a sudden burst of light alongside a dust cloud was seen. Twilight was flung across the crack and was blasted through the other wall. Luna and her sidekicks hopped over the room and jumped into the other crack. The Boo looked down the edge of darkness and saw a frightened earth pony stallion and pegasus mare holding each other, shivering in fear. It shrugged before it left towards the other room.
“I think we should stay in here Turner.” Derpy said.
“What? Stay in a compromised area and be sitting ducks waiting for a crazed madmare to come in here and kill us? I’m going to pass thank you very much.” Doctor Whooves said in a huff and exited the door. Derpy followed nearby.
A group of robots sat around in a metal room filled with blue pods, microwaves, sofas and television. As the robots were watching the events of the television unfold, Twilight burst through the wall behind the television and destroyed it. Twilight landed in the sofa between two robots. The robots looked at Twilight angrily.
“We were watching that!” One of the robots near her said. Twilight stared incandescently towards the robot. She thrust her forehooves towards the closest robot’s head and gripped it. She twisted her hooves and snapped the robot’s neck. Sprays of electricity flew from the robots neck as it erratically moved its arms in the air before falling onto the ground lifelessly. Twilight stared towards the other robot, which backed away with its arms up in surrender.
“Well you didn’t have to do that you know…” The other robot said. Luna jumped from across the gap in the wall along with her two sidekicks. The three of them stared Twilight down.
“It’s over Twilight! You have no other place to run. You will not hurt a single pony onboard this ship.” Luna screamed. Twilight looked back towards the other robots in the room and a sinister smile crept up her face.
“What would harming ponies be if they would only be able to be restored back to normal? If I kill all the robots onboard, then nothing will be able to revive them.” Twilight said darkly. She looked towards her gauntlet and saw that a sprite of her head was in her item slot. “And I know just the way to do it.” Twilight’s horn became enshrouded in a pink aura. A field of pink energy spread across the floor and enveloped all the robots. All the robots in the room were caught in the field along with Luna, her Dry Bones and Boo. The beings were levitated into air. The robots made a strange whirring noise, almost as if in pain. Their cords and circuits began to stretch and unwind and each robot screamed in horrible pain. Oil began to leak from underneath their circuitry before they exploded in oily explosions. Luna gasped in horror at the sight.
“Twilight… how could you?” Luna said. Twilight focused back onto Luna and her team and forced the same magical pressure onto her sidekicks. Luna’s Dry Bones rattled in pain before exploding in bones, and Luna’s Boo closed its eyes in severe uncomfort before becoming a puff of smoke. Twilight grinned sadistically before she began to apply that same pressure onto Luna. Luna grunted as she felt the magical energies inside of her bloodstream and expands outward towards her muscles. She groaned in pain as she felt her muscles compress against her skin. Her groans became full screams as the magic slowly tortured her to death. In the process of the spell, Celestia bucked down the door and ran over to Twilight. Twilight looked back in surprise and the spell was released, which dropped Luna onto the ground. Celestia bucked Twilight in the face, which launched her into the ceiling.
“Lulu, are you okay?! Your screams sounded absolutely horrible!” Celestia shouted in worry. Luna coughed loudly as she choked on air.
“We will be fine Tia. We just *cough* need to catch a breather.” Luna said. Gravity allowed Twilight to be pried off of the ceiling. Celestia reared her hind legs before she bucked Twilight as hard as she possibly can. Twilight was launched towards the north wall, but wasn’t launched through it. Celestia indignantly looked towards Twilight, who began to stir from the strike against her. When Twilight looked into Celestia’s eyes, her jaw dropped in absolute horror. Celestia scooped Twilight out of the wall with her hooves. She then prepped her forelegs and stomped on Twilight with violent anger.
“HOW-DARE-YOU-HURT-MY-BABY-SISTER-WITH-SUCH-A-HORRIBLE-SPELL!!!????” Celestia said as she beat her hooves into Twilight between words. “IT-WASN’T-ENOUGH-THAT-YOU-TRIED-TO-HURT-OUR-SISTER-BUT-YOU-HAD-TO-TORTURE-HER-IN-THE-PROCESS!!!” Celestia continued. Twilight’s entire body was being brutally pounded through the onslaught of her mentor. She cried out loudly between stomps to where Luna had an appearance of shock on her face. She ran up to Celestia and shook her.
“Tia, please stop! This isn’t who you are!” Luna shouted. Celestia looked back towards her sister with an indignant expression and then faced the beaten Twilight, whose mouth began to pour out a slight amount of blood.
“Luna, I just cannot act mercifully on Twilight just because you told me too. She has put made too many ponies in danger and shown a thirst for blood. She cannot be allowed to live, and I will end her life as painfully as I can in retribution!” She shouted. She raised her forehooves again and began to continue stomping on Twilight. Twilight cried out in pain as the torment of a thousand hooves continued. Luna grabbed Celestia and attempted to pull her away. “Let me go Lulu! Can’t you see that this foal before me who thinks of herself as an avenger for ponykind deserves to be killed?! I need her to die!” Celestia shouted. Luna looked at Celestia’s gauntlet, where the blue light flashed brightly. Her pupils constricted in horror.
“Please Celestia, stop the punishment! It hurts!” Twilight pleaded in pain. She coughed violently and a single drop of saline dropped from her eye. “I’m begging you princess, I’m sorry! I didn’t know it would be like this!” Twilight’s teardrop became two streams that enveloped her face. Celestia looked angrily towards Twilight until she noticed her tears. The tears triggered a flashback in her mind.
A filly-sized Twilight Sparkle energetically ran around a red carpet that Celestia was laying on as she looked through her letters. The fireplace blazed brightly. As Twilight laughed and ran, she tripped over herself and fell, dragging her hoof along in the process. Celestia moved her head up and ran towards Twilight in a panic.
“Twilight are you okay!?” Celestia shouted. Twilight looked upwards towards Celestia and began to cry as she held up a scraped forehoof.
“Princess, it hurts! Please make the pain go away!” Twilight pleaded with wide eyes. Celestia smiled warmly as she grasped Twilight’s hoof.
“Now Twilight, I’m going to use a spell on your hoof to make the pain go away. However, it’s going to feel a bit uncomfortable.” She said.
“B-but I don’t want you to hurt me. You say that when it’s going to hurt!” Twilight screamed.
“Now Twilight, I know that you are afraid, and I can understand it. However, that scrape on your hoof isn’t going to get any better if I don’t help it now. Just don’t worry about it.” Celestia reasoned happily.
“But… my body can form clots along the wounds and create scabs to prevent further bleeding and open wounds.” Twilight said.
“Twilight, let me just restore your hoof.” Celestia said unamused. “As I said, I understand you are afraid. However, I want you to be a brave filly and hold ward off the feeling as long as you possibly can. Understood?” Celestia said in a calm voice. Twilight sadly nodded as she turned her head away and held her hoof out.
“Not too hard please princess.” She said. Celestia’s horn and Twilight’s wound were enshrouded in yellow auras. Twilight closed her eyes as much as she could.
“Alright Twilight, the pain is gone. You can open your eyes again.” Twilight opened her eyes and turned back to Celestia. She saw that her hoof was completely healed. She smiled.
“Hey look! That didn’t hurt!” Twilight said.
“Didn’t I tell to not worry about a thing?” Celestia said.
“I should have listened to you before princess. Am I a brave filly?” Twilight asked as she made puppy eyes. Celestia could not hold back a grin as she nuzzled Twilight.
“You are a very brave filly, the bravest in all of Equestria.” Celestia said. Twilight smiled as she nuzzled Celestia’s chin. Celestia closed her eyes and smiled warmly, inviting the affectionate nuzzle.
Celestia looked towards Twilight Sparkle. Her eyes that were clouded with rage dissolved into a full clarity. She looked down towards her hooves and found the metal on them stained with the blood of her student. She slowly looked towards the downed Twilight, who wept loudly.
“It hurts! Please… help me p-p-princess.” Twilight pleaded. She tried to stand up, but the burning sensation of open wounds caused her to drop to the ground with her teeth clenched. The drop caused her to cry further. She looked up to Celestia, who looked shocked beyond her eyes. “I’m sorry! I’m sorry I wanted to do what I did! Ponies may have flaws, but I over exaggerated them to a strong degree.” Twilight shouted. Her head dropped to the floor as she miserably looked towards the floor. “I thought that I could handle any situation. I thought that I was prepared for the worst of any situation. Instead, I couldn’t handle the truth. I acted selfishly and abhorrently, and I’m sorry. I hurt your sister, and I hurt my friends. I’m sorry.” She quietly said. Luna let Celestia go, and Celestia slowly walked over to Twilight. Her eyes became filled with tears.
“No… I’m sorry. When I heard that you saw the worst in ponies and wanted to punish everypony for it, I kind of lost it. I didn’t reason with you well enough because I was in too much shock. I understand that, despite being a royal figure, you still are young and have much to learn. When I saw my dear sister hurt badly, my senses became drowned in anger. I should have never taken your challenge, and I shouldn’t have beaten you within an inch of your life.” Celestia poignantly said. She brought her head down and gently nuzzled Twilight. She moved her ear over to Twilight’s chest and heard a faint heartbeat and weak breathing. “Good, she’s still alive.” Celestia thought to herself. “Luna, please get some robot that wasn’t destroyed by Twilight to come over here and help her, please!” She shouted. As Luna ran towards the door, Star stood outside the door. Star was visibly shocked as it saw the debris from the television, sofa and destroyed robots.
“Goodness, what happened here?!” It shouted.
“Please Star, help Twilight out now! She’s seriously hurt, and she needs immediate medical attention!” Luna pleaded. Star looked towards Celestia and Twilight and then looked at Luna. Its electronic eyes opened widely.
“You caused this entire mess?! Great, just great! I hoped to come into here so that I can recharge, but now I can’t do that! Oh, and you want me to restore the purple one? Forget it! she deserved everything that came her way. I’m not helping.” Star said selfishly as it turned its back towards Luna. Luna glared furiously towards star and grabbed its chest.
“Thou dost help my sister’s student or so help us… We shall all scrap you as the machinery thou dost be, understood?!” Luna shouted towards Star. Star turned back, and a fearful expression was painted over its face screen. It sighed.
“Fine. Just don’t scrap me.” As it said this, it walked over to the downed Twilight. It held out its hands and a golden aura surrounded them. Twilight became enshrouded in the golden. Her eyes perked up as she felt a warm sensation envelop her founds. Her bruises returned to their normal color, and her blood receded back into her body. As Star finished, Twilight stood up. She moved her hooves around and grinned happily.
“Hey, it doesn’t hurt anymore!” Twilight exclaimed. “Thank you very much Star. You are a good machine.” Twilight said as she pats Star on the head. Star had an unamused expression on its face.
“Like I had a choice.” It said annoyed. Star walked out of the room. Twilight looked onto Celestia’s eyes. The illumination within them, Twilight saw them. She frowned immensely.
“Please don’t feel bad about what you did. If you didn’t do it, I would have killed Princess Luna.” Twilight said sadly.
“Listen Twilight, I know that you feel bad about what happened. Though you made the conscious decision to do what you did, I don’t blame you anymore for the interpretation of what you have learned. Sometimes, knowledge can be a very dangerous thing due to interpretations. I’m just glad that you have come to your senses.” Celestia happily said. She looked back to her cleats and saw that they were still stained with blood. She frowned. “This will be a permanent reminder that even I get lost in rage. Nopony is perfect, but living is learning. With learning, we become better than what we previously were. Through this, I was conditioned as the leader before your eyes today.” She said. Twilight smiled and brought her snout over to Celestia’s neck. Celestia brought her head down and nuzzled the back of Twilight’s neck. Each pony’s uniform disappeared and the each gauntlet’s screens turned dark. Luna smiled.
“May I partake in this group hug Tia and Twi?” She asked. Celestia and Twilight looked towards Luna awkwardly before they smiled.
“Of course you can join us Lulu.” Twilight said. At that moment, Twilight’s face became filled with uncertainty at the epiphany of her words. She blushed slightly. “Well, er, I heard Princess Celestia call you ‘Lulu’ all the time, and I thought it might’ve been applicable to me.” She sheepishly said. Luna responded with a wide smile.
“It’s no problem at all Twi. Because you are a princess, you are family now. You can call me Lulu whenever you desire.” She responded. In that moment, Discord warped into the room through a series of strange, falling blocks. Luna turned around and smiled. “Ah Discord, just the draconequus we wanted to see. I feel that we are ready to go back home now.” Discord looked to the left and right and twiddled with his thumbs.
“Ummm, about that… I tried to warp myself out of here. However, that particular power isn’t responsive in the slightest. I’ve tried several different times with several vantage points, but nothing happened. I guess we are stuck here.” Discord said in disappointment. Celestia, Luna and Twilight all looked at Discord with various expressions of shock and disbelief.