Fight The Darkness, With The Light

by Squiggly Cup

Ep. 2 - This Nightmare Begins

They were getting closer to town as they walked. The two ponies were just starting to reach the outskirts when one of them asked a question.

"Do you think it could have been just a power outage?" Rainbow asked.

"I doubt it, even if it was I feel like someponies would still have light from fire like lanterns or torches. It shouldn't be entirely dark" Twilight replied.

"Yeah well- oh hey look we're right here by Fluttershy's house" Rainbow stopped in her tracks and put her leg across Twilight's chest to stop her.
"right over there" she pointed her hoof left at Fluttershy's cottage, off to the side of the path.

"EEEEEEEE!!!" suddenly a loud ear piercing scream sounded from the cottage causing Rainbow and Twilight to grimace towards each other before quickly bolting towards the home. Rainbow lifted off the ground, and dashed ahead making it to the cottage in seconds. She busted the front door open and scanned the room, but it was hard considering there was no light.

She trotted over to the couch to find the shy pegasus curled up under it, eyes closed and shivering.

"Fluttershy it's me, Rainbow Dash" she said, while tapping her lightly. Fluttershy's eyes shot open to look at her friend, she then began crawling out from the couch.

Right as she started to get out, Twilight came bolting in the front door.As Fluttershy reached her feet, Twilight casted an illumination spell to see what was goes on. Fluttershy then shrieked like before when her eyes came to face Rainbow.

"Fluttershy what's wrong?" she quickly asked only to receive a hoof pointed her way. Rainbow quickly looked around, and spun on her hooves to find a shadow shaped pony standing behind her with an axe.

Rainbow lurched back in fear, and fell over the couch while doing so. Twilight ran up closer causing the shadow pony to slowly burn away into ashes, which then also disintegrated . Twilight stopped for a second, bewildered, but then quickly realized what had just happened. Twilight's thoughts were then pulled towards Rainbow's health as she heard an audible groan from behind the couch. Her and Fluttershy rounded on the couch to find Rainbow on the floor, rubbing her head in circle motions.

"Rainbow are you alright?" Twilight asked, as she lifted her up to at least sit.

"Yeah i'm fine, I just hit my head pretty hard there" Rainbow stated which then received an audible gasp from their shy friend.

"Rainbow you're bleeding!" she stated. Fluttershy pointed towards the left side of Rainbow's head and then to the slight blood stain on her coffee table.

"What!?" Twilight gently took Rainbow's head and turned it towards her to see the damage. It wasn't TOO bad, but it was still a pretty nasty wound.

"Celestia Rainbow! you might have a concussion" Twilight fussed while Rainbow waved her hoof. "No i'm fine Twi" she said as she rose to her hooves, causing her to swivel back and forth and tumble back. Fluttershy quickly jumped behind Rainbow Dash to catch her from under her legs, and slowly lowered her back down.

"Oh my, I don't think we should take this lightly Rainbow. This wound isn't very good" Fluttershy said with worry filling her voice.

"Yeah well no wound is good Fluttershy" Rainbow grumbled.

Rainbow rubbed her head and turned towards Twilight.

"and what the hay was that anyways. Some crazy axe wielding shadow pony!?" Rainbow yelled causing her to give herself a headache, making her rub her head some more.

"I'm not Applejack but honestly, yes. It was similar to the ones in my novel, they were affected by the light from my horn as well" Twilight stated with a joyful tone, and slight smile. This of course was received with Rainbow's glare and Fluttershy's bewildered expression.

"Sorry, sorry. I know this is serious, but it's part of my novel. It's sort of like when you got to live out the real adventure with Daring Doo" Twilight said while looking at Rainbow.

"Yeah well, that was at least an adventure. This is like a horror movie"

"Twilight, are you saying that you wrote and novel, and the things you wrote about are coming true?" Fluttershy asked, with a perplexing look on her face.

"Pretty much, and if that is the case then we need to get back to Ponyville, fast. If this really is like my novel then there is more of them, and without any lights Ponyville isn't safe" Twilight grimaced as Rainbow and Fluttershy both shared nervous glances themselves.

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Upon reaching Ponyville the three ponies found themselves walking down an empty road. The whole town was darker than any of them had ever seen it. Almost no signs of life really, that is until they saw a light coming closer from around the corner, down the road a bit. Quickly Rainbow slinked off to a nearby alley, and had Fluttershy and Twilight follow. The three of them then peeked out from the alley, one head looking over the other like a sort of cartoon as they nervously waited.

As they watched the light turn around the corner, they're anxious faces turned to ones of relief at their discovery.

It was Spike and Rarity wandering down the road with a lantern, the two of them were looking around in all directions, searching for something.

With joy the three ponies turned the corner to face the dragon and unicorn on the road. Atfirst the two jumped back only to then sigh in relief as they recognized who it was approaching.

"Oh thank goodness it's you Twilight dear" Rarity stated, meanwhile Spike had ran forward and tackled hugged Twilight.

"Thank celestia you're here, Twilight. I had no idea what was going on, shadow ponies were attacking the castle, and then Rarity came busting in to help and-" Spike was practically hyperventilating. Twilight simply hugged him back stroked the back of his head.

"It's alright Spike, everything is going to be alright. Rarity, where is everyone?" Twilight asked, looking from her assistant to the unicorn.

"I'm not quite sure. Most ponies seem to have disappeared. Spike, Applejack, Granny Smith, Big Mac, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Pinkie Pie and myself have been safe at Sweet Apple Acres. Pinkie Pie is there trying to blow up her balloon to transport us all out of here. Myself as well as Spike, who kindly volunteered, came back to town shortly to see if there was anyone we can evacuate" Rarity explained.

"So just about everyponys missing!?" Rainbow shouted, followed by shush from Twilight.

"Did you manage to send a letter to Celestia?" Twilight asked, looking at Spike.

"No we haven't had much time to, plus we haven't come across any kinda parchment for it" Spike stated sadly, causing the other ponies to frown as well.

"Girls, I have a bad feeling about this" Fluttershy said, she was practically shaking. "Maybe we should go to Sweet Apple Acres, is it safe there?" Fluttershy sent this question in Rarity's direction.

"Yes my dear, we have plenty of light sources arranged there to ward off any of these horrid ghouls" Rarity said while walking over to put a hoof on the scared pegasus' shoulder, which Fluttershy returned with a kind smile. The short and sweet moment was interrupted when suddenly, several shadow ponies began emerging from alley ways, front inside shops, and even from inside of some dumpsters.

"Everypony move now, to Sweet Apple Acres" Rainbow shouted as she took to the air. Everypony began to bolt down the road dodging and weaving shadow ponies grabbing towards them. As they ran Twilight looked up at the flying Rainbow Dash, and that's when an idea appeared in her mind.

"Rainbow Dash! Grab Rarity, you need to carry her, I'll carry Spike. Fluttershy up in the air, they can't get us from up in the air!" Twilight shouted, as Rainbow Dash saluted and took a quick nose dive to snatch Rarity. Fluttershy fluttered her wings a few times before she could get off the ground but she succeeded, and Twilight grabbed Spike's neck with her teeth, like a lion holding their cub, and hoisted him onto her back. She then also took off from the ground to meet the other ponies that were airborne. Twilight looked down to see the shadow ponies stumbling around and tossing some of their weapons up in the air in an attempt to hit one of them, none of them being able to throw high enough thankfully.

Twilight sighed, letting out a tense breathe she didn't know she was holding and looked over to the other ponies flying beside her.

"Good thinking Twi!" Rainbow shouted, followed by a wink causing Twilight to blush a bit.

"Alright so were flying North now... so I think Sweet Apple Acres should be over there, to the North-west" Rainbow said, nodding her head in the direction she instructed. The ponies flew for a couple of minutes filled with tense silence until everyones attention was brought to a loud gasp coming from under Rainbow.

"Twilight! Is that a wedding band you're wearing?" Rarity asked excitedly, while also lifting her hooves over her mouth like a little school filly. Twilight looked down at her wedding band, almost completely forgetting that she was officially engaged. 'that's one good thing about today I guess' Twilight thought.

"Well don't spare us the details darling, what handsome stallion did you get married to?" Rarity asked looking at Twilight. Twilight would be lying if she said the glistening look in Rarity's eyes didn't creep her out.

*ahem*

"She's engaged to a mare not a stallion, and that mare is me" Rainbow said, or well... boasted more like it based on the smug face Twilight was looking at.

"Oh darling that's wonderful, tell me, did you propose?" Rarity asking receiving a nod from the pegasus holding her.

"aww, that's sweet Rainbow" Fluttershy said, flying just behind Rainbow.

"It's simply adorable darling, so romantic!" the unicorn gushed, causing the pegasus holding her to blush fiercely.

"It wasn't adorable it was awesome"

"Nah, it seems pretty cute to me" Spike replied, holding a sinister grin. Honestly the word 'cute' being used to described Rainbow Dash perplexed him, but he knew it ticked her off so he went along with it.

"I concur, it's very cute" Rarity continued, causing Rainbow to blush even more, and glare at Spike.

"No it wasn't, awesome yes, radical even yep, cute absolutely not" Rainbow muttered.

"I think it's sweet" Fluttershy said, causing Rainbow to spin her head around like in the exorcist to give her shy friend a glare as well, causing her to squeak and mutter "sorry.... but it is sorta cute" she mumbled, causing Rarity, Spike, and even Twilight to laugh.

"It's not cute" Rainbow fumed.

"Hey, if I didn't think you were cute, we probably wouldn't be engaged right now" Twilight said in-between her laughs. As everyone started to calm down Rarity decided to point out the face that Rainbow didn't argue when Twilight called her cute, causing Rainbow to blush once again. Thankfully though they were almost at Sweet Apple Acres, and could see it from where they were at. The whole farm was lit up with what looked like a lot of construction lights, and some torches set up. The place looked like some kinda military base from above, though while everyone was sidetracked with looking at the farm, almost nopony noticed the swarm coming for them.

Twilight heard their screeching and snapped forward to face them, she quickly lit her horn in a light spell causing a hole to form in the 'wall' of bats. She and the others found themselves flying through it, almost like a cave, with bats surrounding them on all ends, but not getting closer because of the light. As they passed through, Twilight's spell started to weaken, it was hard holding them all off. Right as they were about to finish passing through her horn gave out and the bats began closing in.

Rainbow Dash pushed forward with her speed and escaped out with Rarity, meanwhile Twilight, Spike and Fluttershy got caught up in it before exiting and the bats swarmed them. Bats kept bumping and biting them causing them to get overwhelmed. The two of them couldn't keep flapping their wings and ended up falling. They fell right out from under the swarm of bats, but being average flyers, Twilight and Fluttershy couldn't catch themselves. They flailed their arms and legs and flapped their wings desperately to right themselves but it just wasn't happening.

The two ponies and Spike fell fast, being under complete control by gravity.

Comments

[Fritzy]

Why did I think you misspelled “Alan Wake” and that you meant “Alan Walker”? :/

Whoops...

[fluttershyfan3030]

Great start i'm liking where this adaptation is going. Plz tell me this story isn't dead because you last update was 2016 and i'm reading now in 2020. If it is dead i'm sad and i'll have to ask you to change your "incomplete" status to "cancelled" status so i know it's a dead story and i'll stop hoping for the next chapter of this great story opening.