[Cue "Ruined Castle" FFI]
Twilight Sparkle was feeling while at Basil's house. Applejack came up to her concerned about her and she told Basil about this. Basil decided that it was time to show them. He gathered the six ponies and took them to Ponyville. Well, at least what was left of it. Along the way to the ruins of Ponyville, the ponies passed Froggy Bottom Bog by accident. The ponies especially Twillight remembered when Twilight finally believed in Pinkie's pinkie sense.
"I'm starting to think this is a chapter that is going to be very nostalgic." Pinkie Pie stated breaking the fourth wall. Along the way, they noticed the foot prints of the hydra that chased them that episode.
They arrived in the ruins of Downtown Ponyville (the place where Friendship is Magic took place most of the time). The town held so many memories of the six ponies even though no one has lived there for at least three hundred years. Almost all of the buildings are nonexistent or unrecognizable; the river that had once flowed through the town has now dried up. The ponies went around looking for anything of their memories.
Pinkie looks around Ponyville and eventually arrives at what was Sugarcube Corner. The stone base is still standing there along with the post that held the cupcake sign. She looked around there and on the ground she found a rusted tuba on the ground. She imagined herself playing polka music like the time during the Parasprite Crisis. Pinkie Pie while imagining the polka music fell down. Her face landed in a patch of mushrooms.
"Oww." Pinkie Pie stated. The spores ended up getting in her nose and her eyes. "What is this?" She looked around and noticed the bags leaning on the wall began to move and talk to each other and Pinkie. "I don't know if what I am seeing is real or I'm high."
"What do you think?" one of the bags asked Pinkie.
"It seems real enough." Applejack got lost in a nearby forest. She was wandering around.
"I can't see a thing." she thought. Then, something hit her head. "What was that?" She looked at the object. It was an apple. "An apple? Wait, this is Sweet Apple Acres?" She looked around. The orchard grew into a forest of wild apple trees. "It's gotten so large." She just for good measures bucked one of the trees to see the apples fall. Just that one act alone was able to trigger many memories. She noticed a pile of rotting wood near one of the trees but she also noticed a faded red cloth. That was the Cutie Mark Crusader treehouse that she passed down to her little sister Applebloom. She continued out to where the field used to be. In the field of trees, there were laying on the ground were rusted rings that fit on a barrel. She remembered competing with Rainbow Dash for a silly title.
Rarity looked around everywhere but couldn't find her boutique anywhere among the ruined buildings and structures. She was about to give up then she tripped. "What in the world?" She tripped over a kitchen sink. "Where in the world did this kitchen sink come from?" She thought for a moment. "Oh yeah." She remembered the fashion show that destroyed her career and the one that redeemed her style. She too ended up in the same field Applejack was. She fell into a pit of mud. She got up to shake herself off but realized that she was at the place where she competed in the Sisterhooves Social race with her sister.
Rainbow Dash while flying around found the entire town was empty for at least hundred years. So, she wasn't expecting to find much. She found the hospital where she laid for a while after crashing into the ground. The hospital was not much more than a metal skeleton with random eroded objects. To her surprise, she found a costume hanging on a pole. She flew down to take a closer look. It was almost identical to the Mare Do Well costume her friends wore. For good measures, she put it on even though only the cape remained. She continued flying and landed in a random patch of land. This patch of land that she landed was the one she had working Fluttershy's cheering.
Fluttershy was walking around then she saw a statue of a rearing pony that was mossed up and tilted toward the north. On top of the statue was a phoenix that was molting. The bird looked like Philomena.
"Philomena?" Fluttershy asked the bird. But the bird flew off scared. Fluttershy was saddened to see the bird fly away. "I guess it wasn't Philomena. But looking in the distance, she saw a building that appeared to be a spa. She walked over to it. The griders were busted and the paint was gone as she took a peek inside. She saw one of the walls was broken and saw an empty tub. She remembered this was the spa that she and her friends hung out at when she had he moments of being a superstar. Also, through one of the broken out windows she saw Dragon Mountain where she stuck up for her friends against a huge dragon.
Twilight Sparkle looked around and found the library. It was the most intact of all of the structures. She saw that the wood itself had fossilized and turned into stone. The leaves were no longer there and the windows were broken out. She entered it even though there was no door preventing her entry. She had remembered her first sleep over there and when her friends were there when she went psycho
Basil was at the broken down town hall. The top dome had broken. He discovered white lily-like flowers with yellow specks on them near the base. He picked some. Twilight came up to him.
"Hey Basil. I was looking all over for you." Twilight stated.
"Yeah." Basil replied. Basil was now acting odd.
"I just wanted to thank you for bringing us here. Even though it is not much."
"You're welcome."
"You have been acting awfully odd recently. Can you tell me?"
"I can't."
"Tell me."
"I can't."
"Basil, why can't you tell me?" He turned to her with a gentle gaze in his eyes.
"Twilight," Basil stated. "I know that can't hold my feelings."
"Your feelings. What are you talking about, Basil?"
"My feelings for you."
"You had feelings for me?"
"Yes. It's very hard to confess. But truth be told I have fallen for you Twilight." Twilight found this as a shock. Twilight blushed from hearing this.
"Basil, I didn't know about this." Basil held Twilight's hoof with his.
"Twilight, I'm sorry for holding back my feelings from you, Twilight."
"Basil…" She got closer to Basil.
"Yes, Twilight?" They looked into each other's eyes.
"Thank you for telling me." Then, they closed their eyes and kissed. It was the one kiss that brought them together at last. The rose that is love had finally bloomed with that one kiss. The two of them started a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship from that moment.
[Music Fades]
Basil and Twilight were now happier than ever went around Ponyville to find the other five ponies. Basil was walking around. But instead of finding any of the five, he found Tirac waiting for him in the ruins.
"It's about time you got here." Tirac stated to Basil. Basil gasped and he went for his sword. "Don't bother grabbing your sword. I didn't come here to fight. I came to talk." Basil paused.
"What do you want Tirac?" Basil replied.
"Remember what I said on the battlefield at Coltabasso, Basil?"
"Yeah? What about it?"
"I know something that the confederacy doesn't know."
"I'm sure you do." Basil said sarcastically.
"This is serious, Basil. This involves the safety of the world."
"You're concerned about the world's welfare now? But you were the worst warlord in the Great Pony War."
"There were others worse than me, you know. For example, the Bloody Red Hare."
"Well, you have a point. Who doesn't despise him?"
"As we speak a hidden faction is at work." Basil is now curious.
"They are…"
"The Heriotza."
"What are they?"
"It is a group of very malevolent ponies."
"What makes them any different from you?" Tirac was getting irritated.
"As I want to conquer the world, this group wants to destroy it." Basil was slightly intimidated.
"I don't believe you."
"I know you don't, that is why I am not asking you to help me destroy them."
"Basil." Twilight asked. "Where are you?"
"I will make my leave." Tirac pointed to Basil. "Remember what I said Basil. This group I stated is very real, you just have to look for them." Then, he vanished. Basil went back to the group rather concerned but he knew he didn't believe about the existence of the Heriotza.