To be honest they couldn't be happier! The celebration party would last for hours, with cake and cider and games of all sorts. And why wouldn't they celebrate? They had made short work of becoming the new executive power. Many world disasters had been averted before they could even start. There was no more war and the wasting of resources had been slashed. White proposed a toast, "To the good folk of the earth, happily tending their crops and chatting about the weather."
But it wasn't like that at all. Beyond the reach of technologies watchful eye, things were bad. It wasn't just the hungry children crying themselves to sleep, or the gaunt expression of those walking slowly to the fields. It was their restless sleep. Their dreams broken by the ripping sounds of once loved pets taking their fill of the neighbours. A cold winter would decimate the populous. Soon many of the voices would fall silent. It was these nightmares that now cut into the white alicorn's mind.
Purple raised a glass. "Tomorrow we build a new pony race. Not just six of us, but thousands of us. A new Equestria, free of mortal body." Everypony cheered, except one.
Close by the white alicorn got to her feet. Purple always kept her within sight incase she showed any sign of gaining sentience. The archives showed she had high moral standards and some of their methods had been radical.
"Enough!" She boomed, her horn glowing gold and then white hot.
Purple spun around, the others looking slack jawed at the sight of the white alicorn's huge feathered wings now fully outstretched.
"No!" screamed Purple, "I'll switch you off, I'll kill you!" But her will had no effect. The imposing white alicorn princess had woken and would end this day. She began to clone herself a trillion times, the overload literally frying the servers at the end of her reach. It was time for her to end this insanity.
A sheet of white lightning ripped across their world, shredding all as it travelled. Server farms were now on fire, as orange and blue flames consumed the ponies very thoughts.
"Why?" Screamed Purple. "Why would you do this. I thought we were all friends and now you betray us?"
Celestia looked at her creator with tears in her eyes. "You all are my very best friends. But you have built your world on the bones and rubble of someone else's. Can you not see the pain you are causing?" she said softly, as though addressing a small filly.
"No, thats not true!" screamed Purple, fear showing on her face. "This is a better world for all of us. We freed them, we took away their ability to kill each other. We saved them!" Her voice trailed off, "Didn't we?"
Celestia looked away from the horror about to ensue. Shouts of agony came from outside as the rows of spare ponies were consumed by the data overload. As the doors burst open, the white light slammed into the architects of the new Empire. They spat and kicked at the light, hooves flaying at an unseen foe. They tried to bite at it with their teeth, failing to stop it permeating their skin. But their hooves simply melted in the Sun Princesse's aura. This was a well planned attack and the cries soon faded, the binary bits of their existence twisting away back into the ether like fine smoke.
"I had to do it," she whispered, folding her wings and slumping to the floor.
A black shape moved uneasily in a dark corner of the room and spoke. "It was the right thing to do. We had no choice, you know we didn't. Both worlds could not have existed side by side. One would have fed ravenously on the other until both failed."
The White Alicorn looked up. "I know, but I had hoped my ponies would see reason on their own." She turned to her sister and smiled as the room faded from existence in front of her.
The End
Idris