A week passed since the reappearance of Hell's Gate and the crazy day that followed. The Sun had still not risen at all since the day of Celestia's resignation. Reports appeared in the government run Swift Report that "The tyrant Celestia's refusal to raise the Sun caused many deaths of wildlife and forestry." Obviously this was a lie, since the wildlife and forestry were already killed by Hell's Gate, and Celestia was never a tyrant.
Twilight still hadn't gotten a response from Celestia about Pinkie, who was still in the dull, lifeless state she had turned into.
It was about noon, but only on the clock, since the Sun was gone. Twilight was eating lunch when Rainbow Dash bursted into her home, breaking a window.
"Rainbow Dash! What is wrong with you!?"
"Big trouble. You're in big trouble."
"What? What's wrong? And why do you smell so bad?" Rainbow Dash reeked of cannabis.
"I've been flying a lot, which makes me pay that stupid price a lot."
"Ok, whatever. What's wrong?"
"Since I got my epic speed power, I've been able to fly across the land a lot. I've been all over Equestria in the past week. In my travels, I've discovered that an anarchist group of contractors called Starlight Dawn has already developed. Obviously, since they're anarchists, they hate the government and absolutely every law they make. If there's a law, they're going to break it. Word on the street is that they're planning to attack you today."
"But I'm not really a princess anymore."
"But the government claims that you are."
"And they believe them?"
"I don't know if they believe the government or not, but they are against everything the government says and does, so if the government says you're a princess, then they will treat you as so."
Twilight looked outside her window and noticed a group of ponies hiding behind a bush.
"They're already here!"
"Go get your costume and stop these fools!"
"If I stop them while wearing my costume, the government's gonna figure out that I attacked them."
"Why?"
"I wore that costume attacking a government meeting. If I wear this costume while preventing an attack on someone they think is actually in the government, specifically me, the military is totally going to find out this is me."
"Well then. Yeah, we're in a real pickle here."
"Wait! I got an idea! Rainbow, get Spike and fly to Rarity's place, then you take Rarity, yourself, and Spike into a closet. I'm gonna be teleporting all of my important stuff into her house. Go! Now!"
"Why not Sweet Apple Acres? There's WAY more space there."
"Well. Um. There may have to be some lying involved to keep me hidden, and we both know that Applejack is the manifestation of honesty itself, so we have to stay somewhere else. With somepony who's generous enough to let us use her house."
"Seems to me that you're just taking advantage of her generosity to keep your precious books from getting destroyed."
"Well, um-"
She heard rustling in the bushes outside.
"GO! We'll discuss this later!"
Rainbow did so, grabbing Spike without explaining to him what was happening, and left for the Carousel Boutique.
She woke Rarity up when she came flying into her place of residence.
"Rainbow Dash! Spike! Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night!?" Rarity said.
"It's actually noon on the clock."
"Well it's midnight in the sky, so I have every reason to sleep to this time. Besides, I was up all last 'night' making dresses. Clients are just dying to have attire that matches the sky."
"Ok, whatever. This is an emergency. Twilight's house is about to get blown up. Get in the closet, NOW!"
"Why? Is this all some scheme to get me and Spike in a closet together?!"
"AH!" Spike yelled, "NO! IT IS NOT THAT WAY!"
"Not this time-" Rainbow said, getting cut off by Rarity.
"Not THIS TIME!?!?"
"Just listen to me," Rainbow Dash replied, "while that does sound like something I would do, this is an actual emergency. Twilight has some sort of convoluted plan for our safety and hers which involves us getting in the closet."
"Ugh. Fine. I don't know if I can trust you on this, but I can trust Twilight. Let's go."
They got in the closet. Spike peeked through the space between the floor and the bottom of the door to see a huge pile of books appear in the room, along with Twilight Sparkle.
"You can come out now!" Twilight said.
Rainbow Dash, Spike, and Rarity opened the closet door and walked out to see a massive pile of books, some clothing, and some knickknacks.
"Oh my!" Rarity said, "What is this!?"
"Look out the window", Twilight replied.
They all looked out the window to see a glorious castle now set ablaze by Starlight Dawn.
"Oh, Twilight, darling, I'm so sorry," Rarity said, "you and your stuff can stay here as long as you want."
"Thanks, Rarity."
"Um, Twilight?" Spike asked.
"Yes?"
"Did you get my stuff?"
"All of it."
"Thanks."
Twilight became depressed, having to watch another home one of her homes get destroyed. Rarity tried to console her.
"It's ok, Twilight. It's ok."
Throughout the next hour, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle helped set up a temporary residence for Twilight and Spike.
"Thanks everypony."
"Man," Dash said, "it's still hard to believe that it's 1:30 in afternoon, but the moon is high in the sky."
Dash looked out the window and noticed that the contractors were now bringing mayhem across the whole city.
"Twilight, look at this."
She looked out to see the insane contractors. They were burning buildings, looting stores, and torturing ponies.
"Ah! These ponies are crazy!" Twilight said.
"Are we just gonna sit here and watch them destroy the city?"
"Uh, no! Go get some clouds and make it rain, specifically where the contractors are."
"Gotcha."
Rainbow flew out the window. Twilight then went to the closet and grabbed her costume.
"Mare Do Well?" Rarity asked, "Why are you putting that on? WERE YOU THE TERRORIST FROM LAST WEEK?"
Twilight replied in her disguise voice,
"Don't call me a terrorist."
Twilight grabbed a knife and left.
"Really," Rarity thought, "a fake voice?"
Twilight ran to the scene of the chaos. As she waited for Rainbow Dash to arrive with the clouds, she attacked multiple contractors, shocking them unconscious. Some of them began to gang up on her. Luckily, Rainbow arrived just in time to let the rain pour down. Before any contractor could us their powers on her, she used hers. Using the rainwater on the ground as a conductor, she shocked everypony unconscious. Or, at least she hoped they were unconscious.
This act scared the rest of them all off, except one. Twilight glanced over at the one who didn't run. He had used his power to weld a pony to a streetlight. He approached that pony with a shard of glass from a broken window. The pony screamed in horror. He came upon her and killed her, leaving her dead body permanently stuck to a streetlight.
For Twilight, it felt as if time had frozen. She watched as another pony was murdered in a perverted way by a perverted pony, and she couldn't do anything about it. She had seen the darkness within them that their powers caused. And since she was a contractor as well, this same darkness was in her.