Epilogue
6/1/14 3:45am Ambassador’s House, Bridle Lake, Earth
Rainbow Dash settled into her little bed in the living room, blue covers pulled up over her head. The party had been fun, but the pegasus was exhausted. Rarity was doing a last few things with her hair, Rainbow never did understand it, and so her head was buried until the lights were off. The mattress wasn’t as comfortable as her cloud bed back in Ponyville, but she had been getting used to the harder type since coming to Earth; cloud beds were too hard to control. Twilight was in the kitchen getting herself a late night snack. The sound of popcorn came from the kitchen.
Through the walls, Rainbow hears a set of very familiar pops, sounds she could never forget. The gunshots forced the cyan mare to throw off the covers and rush to the door, only to be greeted by another familiar sound, an explosion. Thoughts of the suicide bomber she faced ran through her head. The sheer terror at almost dying, the realization that she almost cost Twi her life, and the dressing down by Spitfire. “I gotta go.” She hollered at her friend as she soared out the door, trying ignoring her own fears. And even though the mare was acting, each step was a force of will. The guards would need every pony they could get.
As the mare darted from the house, she saw the top floor of the Embassy engulfed in flames. Eyes widening in shock and fear, Rainbow was broken out of her trance as a massive explosion from behind that knocked her out of the air, sending her end over end. She turned around once she landed to see the house she had been in mere moments before consumed in flames, the front part of the house missing. A moment later another house went up, the front door blasted off its hinges.
Her mind stalled and she fell out of the air. “W-w-what’s going on? How can this happen?” She mumbled, numb.
Rainbow saw another door open only for it to be engulfed in flames. Explosions, when doors open. Her mind slowly congealed, but not before a door almost directly in front of her opened and a familiar cream colored pony with a light rose mane exited her own home to see what the commotion was. Rainbow was too slow; she was barely off the ground before Roseluck’s house was consumed by another explosion.
It’s all my fault. Rainbow teared up, looking back at the Rairty’s home, the roof starting to sag from the heat and lack of support. I failed again. If I hadn’t left…If I hadn’t opened the door…
Rainbow didn’t know what to do, she feels powerless. Somepony needs to warn them, but the guards were all busy trying to find the culprits. Does anypony else even know what’s happening?
Something solidified in Rainbow at that instant, her sense of loyalty. She was the element of loyalty, she was there whenever her friends needed her, but now the entire town needed her and she would step up. An ethereal energy embraced the pegasus as she took to the air, yelling at anypony that would listen. She felt stronger, her wings using less energy to beat. Her voice when it came out was strong and confident. “Everypony! Stay inside. We are under attack, but the Royal guard is on their way.”
Rainbow just hoped they were on their way, and that doors opening was the true cause and it wasn’t caused by something using a remote.
3:45am Royal Vaults, Canterlot, Equestria
The vaults of Canterlot, where the most precious items in Equestria were stored for protection. This was the holding place of the Elements of Harmony, the most powerful weapons known to Ponykind, the only means of defeating creatures like Discord or NightMare Moon. But there were other creatures that feared them, Chrysalis had amassed her army to prevent the Element Bearers from reaching the Elements during her attempted coup.
CRACK!!!
The noise resounded through the entire room, a noise that never left the magically sealed room.
Moments later, the blue lightning bolt that was the Element of Loyalty lit up as its bearer made a decision, decided where her loyalties lay and disregarded her own safety. The radiance filled the vault with a suffused light, revealing the five other elements. What was now four, as the one next to it lay smoldering and shattered.