Peace
Sunset waited patiently by the memorial stones, as Rarity, Pinkie, and Spike eventually came to join her, as they had for the past five years.
In the aftermath of what they called "The Devastation," Canterlot City, like every other city all over the world, had set up memorial stones, inscribed with the names of those who'd been lost to the dust. It was the best that anybody could think of, considering there hadn't been a single body to bury or cremate. It'd taken quite a while to get down every single name, especially considering that the vanished (Some part of Sunset desperately refused to think of them as the deceased, praying to whoever was listening that they might somehow return) had totaled exactly fifty percent of the population, but they'd done it.
If there was anything good to this never-ending nightmare, it was that the world hadn't descended into chaos, especially after half the world's leaders disappeared. The governments of the world had barely been able to avert a mass panic, even as people proclaimed it to be a sign of armageddon. Some people had flocked to churches, either to pray for forgiveness for whatever they'd done to deserve this, or to spout their own brand of preaching, claiming those lost had been the sinners, or in some cases, the raptured. It was terrifying to think about. Or rather it would've been, had Sunset not grown completely numb to the fear over the last few years.
She wasn't the religious type, but she didn't think that God had anything to do with this. She remembered, as though from another life, the day it had occurred, and she'd felt the wave of energy wash over her through her magic. Fluttershy, Twilight, Rainbow, and Applejack had felt it too, even as it consumed them. It had to be some sort of attack. At least, that's what Sunset told herself, as though it made some sort of difference.
It was even worse when she'd written to Princess Twilight in a panic. It turned out, whatever had done this to them had affected Equestria as well, disintegrating half of that world's ponies. The pony counterparts of Pinkie and Rarity were gone, along with Spike and Starlight. Sunset, who'd believed that nothing could affect her worse than it already had, had broken down upon the news the Princess Celestia, her old mentor, had disintegrated. Since then, she'd made several visits to Equestria, just to mourn her mother figure. But here, every year, on the anniversary of the tragedy, she always managed to make it to this place.
"Hey," came a voice. Sunset, Pinkie, Rarity, and Spike all turned, finding Adagio Dazzle walking down the path to meet them, wearing a thin black coat.
"Hey," Sunset replied simply, getting to her feet and hugging the former siren. There were no more words exchanged between the two. Neither of them had any words left to say.
Adagio took a second to walk up to the memorial stone, her hand gently grazing two names that'd been set right next to each other: Sonata Dusk and Aria Blaze. She didn't cry, but her grief seemed to run deeper than any tears could express. With a sigh, Adagio came and sat down next to the three former Rainbooms and their dog. Their eyes were focused on the four names of those who should've been sitting there alongside them.
For the next while, they simply sat there, looking at the names, allowing the memories to come. Nobody could've said how long it was. For all they knew, it might've been hours (in reality, it was just a few minutes). The silence was deafening as they waited, but nobody dared to break it.
Finally, Spike spoke up. "Does...does anyone want to say anything?" he ventured, his voice shaking with each syllable.
Sunset sighed quietly. "Spike, we've been over this," she replied. Indeed, they'd had the same conversation that was coming many times over the years.
"B-but how is this...?" Spike stuttered. "How can we remember them like this? We're just staring at the names like—"
"Like what?" Rarity snapped, angry. "Like they just vanished for no reason? Like we're only here because we got lucky? Because that's exactly what happened. There was no cause, no attack, nothing. They're never coming back and there's nothing we can do about it. So stop suggesting things that'll make me want to be with them even more."
The purple dog let loose a small whimper, and Sunset could tell Rarity immediately regretted what she'd said already. The fashionista started to mumble an apology, until she finally broke down and descended into sobbing. Adagio put a comforting arm around her, letting Rarity cry into her shoulder as she did so. Pinkie meekly reached out to do the same thing, but faltered, unable to make that leap. Sunset wasn't surprised. Pinkie hadn't thrown any parties in five years, and she barely even smiled anymore. It was like she was among the vanished, without actually being one.
Sunset looked up at the name Twilight Sparkle, as she felt her heart ache for what must've been the billionth time. She felt a painful wail welling up inside her chest, but fought desperately to keep it down, for reasons she couldn't have given had anybody asked. She just couldn't let it out, but it began to build up inside of her, like a balloon about to burst with too much air. She shut her eyes, frantically begging for it to stop, when she felt it.
The wind...changed.
Sunset couldn't describe it, but it felt like another wave was washing over her, like it had that day five years ago. This time, instead of the purple grimace she saw before, she instead saw a man with green skin and glasses, looking as though he was in pain. And there was no agony inflicted on her this time, just the sense of hope, as though this were a last-ditch effort to fix what was wrong. Sunset put a hand to her forehead, feeling how odd it was. Looking to the others, she could see that they, too, had felt the same thing. She was baffled.
Then the dust began to blow past them, gathering together. Sunset looked behind her to see ashes beginning to gather together, forming a cohesive shape. She couldn't tell what the dust was creating yet, but it looked humanoid. Color began to seep into the shape, and Sunset's heart skipped a few beats when she noticed that there was a strikingly familiar shade of purple in there. She held her breath as the dust finally finished forming, taking the shape of Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight immediately started gasping for air, as though she'd just breached a surface of water, taking in deep lungfuls of sweet oxygen. Her eyes were as wide as dinner plates, frantically darting from place to place, taking in her new surroundings. Then, they settled on the girls directly across from her.
"Sunset?" she breathed, as though afraid that what was in front of her wasn't real.
Sunset Shimmer, however, had no objections. She sprang from her seat, sprinting over to Twilight and throwing her arms around the girl, nearly knocking the wind out of her. Sunset's eyes were pouring, but for the first time in five years, it was from sheer happiness, not despair. She squeezed Twilight as hard as she possibly could, Rarity and Pinkie close behind. Pinkie's hair had sprung back into its pink poof once again. Spike couldn't jump up to hug his master, so he just threw his front legs around her ankle.
"Twilight...you're okay, you're okay, you're okay..." Sunset repeated, over and over again, trying to convince herself this wasn't just a desperate hallucination.
"Girl...can't breathe!" Twilight managed to squeak out beneath her three friends. Sunset, Pinkie, and Rarity all jumped back, letting Twilight have some air.
As they did, they noticed for the first time that dust was beginning to accumulate once again. Three more humanoid figures were beginning to take shape, and Sunset dared to dream. Her hopes were answered, as the ashes slowly reformed Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack. Like Twilight, they all began gasping for air after they finished, breathing deeply and greedily, as they hadn't done in a very long time.
"Girls...girls!" Sunset shouted, rushing towards her friends and hugging each of them in turn. It was liberating, feeling the skin of people she'd thought gone forever beneath her fingers, hearing them gasp in surprise as she practically tackled each of them. Sunset felt the weight she'd carried on her back for the past five years float away, like a big, dark cloud, off into the distance, where it would never hamper her again.
They were too focused on their friends to see, but the Rainbooms weren't the only ones restored. All across the city, piles of dust began to gather together, reforming the bodies of those lost to the Devastation, leaving them the way they'd been the moment they'd disappeared. At first, there was confusion, but it was followed by the joy to be alive, taking in everything surround them, as though for the first time.
Adagio watched Sunset and her friends reunion with a growing sense of nervous hope, her heart hammering away in her chest. She didn't dare speak, afraid of breaking some kind of sacred trust. Then, she noticed two piles of ashes were beginning to coagulate near the group, and in no time at all, had reformed Aria and Sonata. Adagio leapt from her place, rushing over to hug her confused sisters.
"Wh-what the hell happened?" asked Rainbow, palpating every inch of her body with trepidation. "I remember disintegrating, but...holy shit, I think we died."
"So, this is the afterlife?" asked Applejack, rubbing her upper arms nervously. "Sunset? Rarity? Pinkie? Y'all didn't die too, did you?"
Rarity shook her head forcefully. "No...no, darling, you're back! You're all finally back!"
"We're okay?" whispered Fluttershy. "Oh, thank goodness."
Pinkie looked at the city they could see, becoming the first one to notice all the new people who'd suddenly appeared. She noticed the Dazzlings, still clomped together in a tight group hug by Adagio.
"Girls," she breathed. "I think everyone came back."
"Everyone?" said Twilight. "How many people...what happened? Was there another wave?"
"It doesn't matter," Sunset replied, hugging Twilight once again. "You're back. You're all okay."
She knew there'd need to be a massive, organized effort to clear up this, of course. Half the life on the planet had just sprang back into existence, and the governments of Earth would no doubt be thrown off by this. It would take time before things were fully back to normal.
All the girls who'd still been around when the wave hit knew something else as well. Whoever had caused this, wherever they were, knew that this miracle had come at a great cost. Sunset didn't doubt that, somewhere, a great battle had been fought just to restore what had been lost. But at the moment, to be alive, to be hugging her best friends, that was enough. Sunset said a silent thanks to whoever gave their lives to fix this, knowing it was due to them that her friends were alive.
Over by the memorial stones, in her bag, Sunset's journal to Princess Twilight began to buzz.
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Man are you sure it's not too soon. Give it two months before not a lot of people saw this
Yeah, bud, I'm with 9611530 here. Might want to wait a little longer.
Good work.
9611695
I remember you from my first story. Man the memories. Sometime it drives mad
9611714
Nice to see you again.
9611731
I made new stories if you want to read. Soon I will publish new one
9611530
9611563
The directors said we can start spoiling last Monday.
Glad to see them all back but I wonder why Twilight failed to notice that Sunset and/or Spike was 5 years older? Still glad to see all the girls back once again!
Honestly the idea of everyone in the universe being restored, while joyful, is still pretty sad when you think about it. It's been five years after the Snap, and a lot can change in five years. Like, you never got to see your children grow up, maybe your lover's moved onto someone else, or perhaps they or someone else close to you has died in that time.
9611751
Somehow I managed to avoid spoilers until then.
True. I only agreed because I myself finally just saw it yesterday.
9611563
9611530
To be fair, it has been confirmed for awhile that there gonna be a Black Panther and Doctor strange sequel, and a Spider-Man movie in two months, so it’s not that much of a spoiler
Is it too late to make this joke?
mememaker.net/api/bucket?path=static/img/memes/full/2018/Nov/11/6/restoration-100-165.png
....I'd just about want to see someone - you or otherwise - create some sort of EQG x MCU.....thing.
This is why Hulk is best Avenger.
9611890
On this site, go read Applejack: Marvelous (MLP:FiM/MCU)
It's a very good story that is only begining but have tons of potential. At first it follow a bit the state of canon but the author promised more waves comming soon. It's the best MLP and MCU cross that I know of.
Not gonna lie, it'd be cool if Princess Twi suddenly appeared with info on exactly what happened, and then;
Sunset: Girls.... we have a Titan to crush.
Rainbow dash should have been punched for crashing that yacht
Good to see you did make a sequel.
I think you mean a great battle's happening right now! If Sunset waits a couple more minutes I think she's gonna feel a third wind change and start freaking out.
While it would be a very happy incident that everybody came back, it would also be one hell of a mess.
I mean, imagine if you survive the snap, but your wife doesn't. You end up meeting and marrying a widow who lost her family in the snap and the two of you then adopt a kid who lost both of his parents. You form a new family and finally things start to settle five years in, and all the sudden everybody's back.
Would be interesting to see a story looking at that, but not sure how you'd really manage it.
9611735
I'll keep an eye out.
9611764
I agree with you there. It is pretty sad, whilst conveniently allowing the MCU to revisit these characters in the future.
When such a tragedy occurs, rivalries and hatreds become utterly pointless. Adagio and the Rainbooms ended up bonding over what they both lost.
9612520
though incredibly specific, you would probably both send the kid back to their parents (assuming they lost them to the snap) divorce and re marry their loved ones.
9611980
Thanos, ROT IN HELL!!!!!!
9613878
"Most people rejected his mensage.
They hated Jesus because he told them the truth"
9612520
Acording to Endgame no one managed to move on, wich is the most unrealistic part in a movie were people have super powers and everything is solved by a "Deus Ex-machina" kinda solution.
Excellent work. Very bittersweet, as is appropriate for a story of this nature.
9614114
....whats your point?
9615237
Thanos was right, even if his "solution" was extreme because of his past experiences what he was trying to solve is true.
Also that's a meme used when there is some "truth" that makes people mad. It is a scene from a "chick tract" comic with this phrase in it and the image of jesus talking with some people.
Here an the "know your meme" page: Know your meme "rejected mensage"
9617620
if wiping out half of the universe is 'right' to you, then i suggest we part ways before things get ugly.
9617620
Thanos and Jesus are 2 COMPLETELY different things. Jesus would NEVER condone a plan like Thanos. Im sorry but you are trying to say oil and water are the same.
9618501
If you are unable to not have an emotional response then I agree.
You didn't even read the last reply before getting all emotional and writting that lackluster response...
9618508
Jesus and Thanos are two fictional figures that tryed to warn people of some bad thing that was happening and teach some way to solve it but people didn't listen to then in their time except for some followers.
The only diference is that Jesus has all the power to solve the problem and didn't while Thanos didn't had the power to do it but searched for it in order to do what he thought was the only solution.
Also Jesus would totaly agree with a solution like that, what do you think the apocalipse is?
9618685
At least people wont vanish suddenly. Christ is not like that. ALL, and i mean ALL life will bow before Him in His glory. Jesus is God. Thanos is NOT.
9619258
Jesus is good to those that believe he is good, he is just another human for anyone with analitic perception and evil to those that see him as evil.
Same goes for Thanos, the diference is that Thanos took the journey to fufill his vision while Jesus let himself be killed with the threat of coming back in the future to torture everyone that he didn't like (weren't willing to give themself as slaves to him, wait I think je calls them "worshippers").
9613878
Man, you spamming that dogspit is just... juvenilely fanboyish.
9619319
Torture? More like saving those righteous and leaving the wicked to their fiery graves. You're in no position to say something to the very man who supposedly saved Humanity through self-sacrifice. No one respects no one's opinion if those words incorporate brazen blasphemy in it, religion or no religion.
Though I do get Thanos, even though he's a radical revisionist, he's just doing what he thinks is right, at the wrath of billions surviving his quest for universal stabilization.
9630444
Speak for yourself
9630749
Oh yeah, sure, buddy.
Well, finally read this, and well, just made me think:
so Princess Twilight and Celestia disappeared. Wonder how Equestria handled their disappearance, considering that Twilight and her friends takes an active role in defending the kingdom.
That could be something to explore.
9643477
No, Princess Twilight was still around. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
9643484
Oh, I see.
Oh yeah, of course, it makes sense, human counterpart disappeared but not pony counterpart. Must have been brain fry.
I guess Equestria is safe then.
Still, though half of the Mane Six plus the Leader just disappeared. Honestly, given the disappearance, I am surprised that society in Endgame still managed to function somehow (though given all the abandoned boats shown five years later, I suspect that the economy must have slowed down somewhat, probably even crashed before adjusting. And who knows, maybe many were killed in the ensuing panic.
Yikes, imagine that, someone returns back to life only to discover that their spouse was killed in an ensuing IKEA riot.
Plus, who knew what the criminals and the terrorists and the supervillains did with world leaders missing. Ronin emerged for a reason, after all.)
Thank whoever is up there for Banner.
Love Tony 3000
9612023
Oh fuck you
Why are Twilight and the others that were snapped back not questioning why the others are all five years older?
I would’ve liked to see the 5 year change mentioned
9611764
That could actually make for a pretty good story.
Okay, I'm not going to lie, I read this a second time and I really want to see a sequel where Twilight calls the the Equestria Girls in and they all prepare to face off against Thanos with the Avengers.
9925911
Agreed.
And then the girls snap instead of Tony.