Twilight discovers a darkness within herself and must confront it, in order to save another's life.
Twilight has been having dreams, dreams that involve hearing the voice of Midnight Sparkle calling to her for help. After the dreams get in the way of her and the Champion's hero duties, Twilight decides to seek help from some of the greatest minds in world. But after getting no where Twilight looks to the world's magic users for a solution and once she discovers the source of the dreams, Twilight will find out that to rescue Midnight Sparkle she must confront her inner darkness.
Twilight Sparkle jerked awake, she'd had the dream again, it was always the same, always the voice of Midnight Sparkle calling her name and crying for help.
Twilight had thought about telling her friends about the dreams, but she had always decided against it.
She and her friends already had enough to deal with juggling their school life, hero duties and their part time jobs.
Twilight didn't want to worry her friends with something as small as a dream.
"Maybe I should wait until the right moment to tell them," Twilight murmured to herself.
With that, Twilight turned over and tried to get back to sleep.
Beep, Beep, Beep!
Twilight woke from a sleepy haze to the sound of her alarm clock, "Arrr," she groaned, hitting the clock's snooze button.
It was quite sometime before Twilight walked into the kitchen, her hair was a mess and she looked half tired.
"Morning, sweetie," Twilight's mum, Twilight Velvet greeted, as she entered.
"You been getting enough sleep, lately?" Twilight's dad, Night Light, asked.
"I'm fine," Twilight replied, as she began to have breakfast, "just a bad dream, as all."
After breakfast, Twilight headed back to her room to get ready for school.
"You know," Twilight's dog, Spike, said, as Twilight gathered everything she needed for school, "your brother's right, you do look really tired."
"Like I said, Spike," Twilight answered, "I'm fine."
After gathering her school supplies she headed into bathroom to brush her hair and teeth.
Just after brushing her teeth, Twilight grabbed a hair brush from the bathroom cabinet.
She was about to start bushing her hair, but when she looked in the bathroom mirror she saw Midnight Sparkle looking back at her.
"Twilight, help me!" Midnight called, "please!"
Twilight instinctively shook her head, when she looked at the mirror again her reflection stared back at her.
"It's all in my head," Twilight murmured to herself.
She proceeded to bush her hair, get dressed, grab everything she needed for school and headed outside to catch the bus to CHS.
As she boarded the bus, Twilight was greeted by some of the other students attending CHS these being: Laura Kinney a.k.a. The all-new Wolverine and her clone sister Gabrielle "Gabby" Kinney a.k.a. Honey Badger,
Derek James a.k.a. Sideways and Miles Morales a.k.a. Ultimate Spiderman
M'gann M'orzz a.k.a. Miss Martian and Gwendolyn "Gwen" Poole a.k.a. Gwenpool,
Cassie Lang a.k.a. Stinger and Karen Beecher-Duncan a.k.a. Bumblebee.
As Twilight boarded the bus, some of the passengers commented on Twilight's almost dog tired demeanour.
Twilight simply responded with, "I'm fine, it was just a bad dream."
When Twilight reached the back of the bus, she flopped down on the seat and closed her eyes for a few minutes.
Canterlot Highschool.
"Who can name the founding fathers of america?" Principle Celestia asked, as she looked over the class.
Twilight was trying her very best to stay awake, she usually loved all of Principle Celestia's lessons, but today she was finding it hard to keep her eyes open.
As the lesson continued, Twilight found it harder and harder to stay awake, until she finally slumped her head on her desk.
Twilight
Twilight
Twilight Sparkle!
Principle Celestia's voice woke Twilight from sleep
"Huh?!" she said, as she jerked awake, "I'm pancake! I mean, awake..."
The classroom burst out laughing, aside from Twilight's friends, all the while Principle Celestia looked on with a bemused look on her face.
Twilight blushed a deep shade of red, this was so embarrassing.
For the rest of the day, Twilight continued to drift in and out of sleep.
Her friends growing increasingly concerned about Twilight's sleeplessness.
After school.
The CHS seven and Gwenpool all walked home together.
"Twilight, are you OK?" Sunset inquired.
"Yeah," Rainbow Dash nodded, "you've been acting wired all day."
"Are you getting enough sleep? darling" Rarity asked.
"Have you had too many of Pinkie Pie's caffeine cupcakes?" Fluttershy commented.
Twilight was about to reply, when Sunset's phone rang.
It was two of their new friends: Kamala Khan a.k.a. Ms. Marvel and Kyle Rayner a.k.a. Green Lantern.
"We're on our way," Sunset said, after Kamala had told her where she and Kyle were.
With that, the girls activated their lantern rings, Pinkie Pie and Gwenpool having to be carried by Rainbow Dash.
Elsewhere.
Ms. Marvel, Kyle Rayner and Cindy Moon a.k.a. Silk were locked in battle with the Sinister Seven. The members of the Sinister Seven were: Big wheel, Condiment King, Paste Pot Pete, Firefly, The Spot, Zebra man and Swarm who was leading the villains.
"Looks like you three are in a bit of a pickle," the Condiment King laughed.
"Looks like you three are in the hot seat," Firefly smirked.
"Prepare to meet your sticky end," Paste Pot Pete added.
The villains all prepared to attack the three Champions.
When suddenly the three Champions were surrounded by a green coloured shield construct.
"Who dares?!" Swarm demanded.
"That would be us," Applejack replied, as she and the rest of the CHS Seven landed next to their friends.
"More heroes?!" The Spot said, turning to Swarm, "you didn't tell us there would be more heroes here."
"I'm starting to reconsider why I joined this team," Big wheel muttered.
"This makes no difference," Swarm insisted, "we are the Sinister Seven, we will not be defeated!"
With that, the Champions and the Sinister Seven charged at each other.
Ms. Marvel, Applejack and Kyle Rayner faced off against Big Wheel, Ms. Marvel using her shapeshifting powers to make herself grow giant sized to slow down the big wheel the villain was driving.
Meanwhile, Applejack and Kyle Rayner used their lantern rings, along with Applejack's geode's power, to tip the wheel onto its side.
While that was happening, Fluttershy and Gwenpool faced off against Swarm.
"Those poor bees," Fluttershy said, trying to use her geode's power to communicate with the bees that made up Swarm's body, with using her lantern ring to block the villains attacks.
"Your powers are useless," Swarm cackled, "now suffer my swarming fury!"
Hundreds of bees flew from Swarm's body towards the two heroes.
"NOT THE BEES! AHHHH!" Gwenpool cried, as the bees buzzed around her and Fluttershy, "AHHHHH! THERE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AHHHH!"
Fluttershy, thinking fast, used her ring to create a bright flash of light to blind Swarm and temporally disorientate the bees.
This was followed by Gwenpool who attack by spraying a can of insecticide in Swarm's face before he could recover.
Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie and Silk faced off against Condiment King and Paste Pot Pete.
Both villains firing their weapons at the heroes, while the heroes avoid their attacks.
The battle ended quickly with Pinkie distracting the villains, using her geode's power and Silk using her webbing to clog up the villain's weapons, causing them to backfire covering the two villains in glue, ketchup and mustard.
Elsewhere, Rainbow Dash and Rarity were battling The Spot and Firefly, Rainbow Dash was using her geode's power and her lantern ring to outmanoeuvre Firefly's fire blasts, while this was happening Rarity was also using her geode's power and her lantern ring to avoid The Spot's attacks.
After a while, Rainbow Dash came up with the idea to switch opponents.
This idea proved to be a good idea, as The Spot couldn't keep up with Rainbow Dash's speed and Firefly couldn't get a clear shot at Rarity because of her shield constructs, from her geode and her lantern ring, which ended with Firefly's flame guns running out of ammo and Rarity taking him down with single punch.
Lastly, Sunset and Twilight faced down Zebra man, with the villain attracting objects from his surroundings and hurling them at the two.
Sunset managed to dodge all Zebra man's attacks, but Twilight, due her tiredness, wasn't as quick at dodging the villains.
This made it hard for Sunset because she had to protect Twilight as well as herself.
Twilight tried her best, using her geode and her lantern ring, to attack Zebra man but all her attacks missed because of lack of sleep.
Seeing an opportunity, Zebra man concentrated his attacks on Twilight.
Sunset found it hard to both attack Zebra man and protect Twilight.
Zebra man was eventually taken down, but not before Sunset and Twilight were knocked around a bit.
Once the villains were all secured the heroes all regrouped.
"Few," Ms. Marvel breathed, "that was quite a workout."
"You know," Rainbow Dash added, "I never thought we'd be fighting a guy made of bees."
"Bees, my god," Gwenpool stated.
"That was almost too close," Fluttershy commented.
"Yeah," Sunset nodded, "what was with you back there, Twilight?"
"You know you can tell us if something is bothering you," Rarity smiled.
Twilight sighed, it was time to tell her friends, she began to tell her friends and the other Champions about the dreams she'd been having.
"But, why didn't you tell us before?" Applejack asked.
"I didn't want to worry you guys with something as silly as a dream," Twilight replied.
"Whatever these dreams are," Sunset said, "we'll help you get through it."
"No," Twilight responded, "this is something I have to face, alone."
Twilight stood outside the Baxter Building, the headquarters of the Fantastic Four.
After their battle with the Sinister Seven, Twilight's friends had advised her to seek some help with her dreams.
So Twilight had made a list of smartest minds in the world.
And now, here she was at her first stop.
"Well," Twilight thought to herself, "here goes."
With that, Twilight entered the building, stepped into the elevator and headed for the 31st floor.
When she arrived at the 31st floor, she headed for the public reception area.
"Good morning," the receptionist greeted, "can I help you?"
"I'm here to see, Reed Richards," Twilight replied, "I made an appointment."
The receptionist picked up the phone on her desk, "Dr. Richards," she said, "miss Twilight Sparkle is here to see you."
After a few seconds, the receptionist put the phone down and turned to Twilight.
"Dr. Richards will see you now," she said.
Twilight nodded and headed up to the office of Reed Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic, the leader of the Fantastic Four.
"Pleased to meet, you," Mr. Fantastic acknowledged, as Twilight entered his office and took a seat, "how can I help?"
Twilight explained why she had come and about the dreams she had been having.
Afterwards, Mr. Fantastic thought for a moment.
"Let's try a few tests," he said, after a while.
Mr. Fantastic escorted Twilight to his lab, where he proceeded to conduct a series of tests on her.
"I can't find anything scientifically wrong," he remarked, "but you are under a lot of mental and emotional stress."
"So you can't help me?" Twilight asked.
"I'm a man of science," he said, finally "and dreams aren't an exact science."
"Thank you, for your time Dr. Richard," Twilight replied, as she left the lab.
Terrific Tech.
"My T-spheres can't find anything wrong with you on a physical level," Micheal Holt a.k.a. Mr. Terrific said, "but you are under a lot of stress."
The T-spheres finished their scan of Twilight and returned to Mr. Terrific.
Mr. Terrific was the third smartest man on earth, the owner of Terrific Tech, his tech company and he stood there dumfounded.
"Is there seriously nothing your technology can do for me?" Twilight pleaded.
"Sorry," Mr. Terrific answered, "but I can't find anything wrong with you."
"OK," Twilight sighed, "sorry I wasted your time."
Pym Laboratories.
"My ants can't find anything wrong with you," Hank Pym a.k.a. the original Ant-man replied, as he and some of his ants finished their examination of Twilight, "I'm sorry."
"Are you sure?" Twilight asked, "is there nothing you can do?"
"I'm sorry," Hank replied, "but there is nothing wrong with you, apart from the fact you're suffering from stress."
"OK," Twilight said, disappointed, "thank you for trying."
Doom Manor.
"I'm terribly sorry," Dr. Niles Caulder a.k.a. The Chef said, "but I'm afraid I can't do anything for you."
"Are you absolutely sure you can't do anything for me?" Twilight pleaded.
"I'm truly sorry," Chef replied, "I really wish I could be more help, but whatever is troubling you is beyond the realm of science."
Twilight sighed, gave a small smile and left the Manor.
Later on.
Twilight sat at a bus stop, her search so far hadn't been very successful, she was almost contemplating giving up.
Twilight was snapped out of her thoughts, by her phone ringing, it was Sunset calling.
"Hey Twilight," Sunset said, "how's your search going?"
"Not good," Twilight sighed, "Everyone I've gone to can't seem to help in anyway."
"Well," Sunset replied, "you've seen everyone who are experts in science, so why don't you see some experts in magic?"
"It's worth a shot," Twilight answered, "I have a few people in mind that might be able to help."
"Good luck, Twilight," Sunset said, "I hope you find someone who can help you."
With that, Twilight hung up.
The House of Mystery.
"Frankly, love," John Constantine remarked, "your type of magic is something new to me entirely."
"I was told you were an authority on magic," Twilight said, "are seriously telling me you can't help me?"
"Sorry, love," John replied, "but this kind of magic is a type of magic I've have never encountered before."
"Alright then," Twilight sighed, "at least you tried."
Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum.
"I am deeply sorry," Dr. Stephen Strange said, "but this type of magic has me truly baffled."
"Is there seriously nothing you can do?" Twilight asked, "I mean you are the Sorcerer Supreme, after all."
"I'm sorry," Dr. Strange replied, "but this magic is beyond even my skills, I can barely understand its flow."
"Is there anyone else who you think might be able to help me?" Twilight asked.
"Well," Dr. Strange replied, "I do have one idea."
Dr. Voodoo's mansion.
"I'm afraid even my magic cannot help you," Jericho Drumm a.k.a. Dr. Voodoo said, "I'm sorry, I really wish I could be more help."
"I was sure that magic would be able to provide an answer," Twilight sighed.
"I am truly sorry," Dr. Voodoo apologised, "but I wish you luck in your search."
Elk Grove.
"Maybe you could use the magic from the Necronomicon to see whats wrong with me?" Twilight insisted.
"Sorry, baby," Ashley J. Williams replied, "in my experience, that book will bring nothing but terrible, believe me."
"It's ok," Twilight replied, "trust me, I'm used to getting that answer from everyone I've seen thus far"
Some time later.
Twilight felt completely defeated, everyone she had gone to hadn't been able to help or even provide some answers on what her dreams were.
She was about to give up completely, when suddenly a ghostly image of Kent Nelson a.k.a. Dr. Fate appeared before her.
"Twilight Sparkle," he declared, "I have the answers you seek, come to the Tower of Fate."
Before Twilight could responded the image vanished.
"Well," Twilight thought out loud, "what have I got to lose?"
She couldn't see a door into the tower, no way to get inside.
"Strange," Twilight thought to herself, "no door."
She reached out her hand and touched the tower's wall.
Right after doing that the tower suddenly glowed gold and an ankh shaped door appeared in front of Twilight.
"Twilight Sparkle," the voice of Doctor Fate declared, "please enter."
Twilight proceeded into the tower.
A fantastic sight met her eyes, it was as if a M.C. Escher painting had been brought to life.
Everywhere Twilight looked staircases stretched this way and that.
At the centre of it all was Kent Nelson, Doctor Fate himself.
"Thank you for coming, Twilight Sparkle," Doctor Fate said as Twilight approached him.
"Can you help me, like you said?" Twilight asked.
"Indeed," Doctor Fate answered, "the dreams you are having are no normal dreams, they are a beacon, a soul within you is crying for help."
"What do you mean?" Twilight questioned.
"I mean," Doctor Fate replied, "that there is another soul residing within you."
"Midnight Sparkle" Twilight uttered.
"Midnight Sparkle?" Doctor Fate echoed.
Twilight explained everything, about Midnight Sparkle and how she had been hearing her voice in her dreams.
"Interesting," Doctor Fate responded, "it would seem that Midnight Sparkle is calling for help through your dreams."
"How can that be?" Twilight queried, "dreams aren't real, dreams aren't reality."
"Ah," Doctor Fate chuckled, "but would you even know what reality looks like."
"Maybe it's the tiredness," Twilight shrugged, taking a seat across from Doctor Fate, "but I'm more confused, than I was before."
"The dream world exists apart from the waking world," Doctor Fate explained, "but it is real and it does exist."
"Then how do we get there?" Twilight asked.
"You fall asleep," Doctor Fate replied, simply.
"Ok," Twilight continued, "then you can fix whatever is causing the dreams to happen."
"I can only provide the means to enter the dream world," Doctor Fate answered, "once we're inside you and only you must confront the source of dreams. I can accompany you but I cannot interfere in any events that transpire."
Twilight thought for a few minutes, "Ok," she responded, finally.
"I will make the preparations," Doctor Fate nodded.
Moments later.
Twilight lay on a bed, while Doctor Fate looked over her.
"I'm ready," Twilight said.
"Remember," Doctor Fate replied, "It won't be the real you that enters the dream world, but a shadow of you."
"So I won't be able to use my ring or my geode," Twilight guessed.
"Indeed," Doctor Fate nodded, "however, the most power weapon in the dream world is the mind."
Twilight nodded, closed her eyes, surrendering to sleep.
Once, she was asleep, Doctor Fate placed his hands on Twilight's head, his eyes glowing with gold light.
On another plane of existence.
Twilight awakened and looked around at the her surroundings.
Seconds later, Doctor Fate appeared alongside her.
"Welcome, Twilight Sparkle," he declared, "to the realm of dreams."
"Pardon the interruption," Doctor Fate said, before Twilight could get anymore excited, "we were wondering if you point us in the direction of someone who is in charge."
"Oh, you'll want librarian Smarty Pants," Daring Do replied, "she'll give all information you need."
"Could you lead us to her?" Twilight asked, "we're kinda new around here."
"Sure," Daring smiled, "follow me."
Twilight and Doctor Fate followed Daring through the city of books.
As they walked Twilight gazed in awe at the scenery all around them.
Some of the books around them were as big as buildings.
In the sky, phrases from books appeared in the sky, before vanishing and being replaced with new ones.
After a while, they reached a giant bookshelf, before arriving at a giant book, resting on its front cover.
"Right," Daring prompted, as she motioned to Twilight and Doctor Fate to stand on the page number.
"Now what?" Twilight asked.
"To the top floor, please," Daring replied and suddenly the three where whisked up the page numbers, as if they were a lift.
A few seconds later, the lift arrived at the final page.
"Where are we?" Twilight inquired.
Daring pointed up.
Both Twilight and Doctor Fate looked up to see the words 'THE END' and next to it a figure sat.
"Here we are," Daring declared.
"Hello, Daring," a voice greeted, as they entered, "good to see you again."
Twilight could not believe what she was seeing, it was her favourite childhood toy, Miss Smarty Pants.
"Ah," Smarty Pants exclaimed, "you've brought some new friends."
"I understand you are in charge here," Doctor Fate said.
"That's right," Smarty Pants replied, taking out a notebook and quill, "It's my job to keep track of very book and every character in the entirety of Librarytopia."
Twilight was still overcome by the fact that, her childhood toy was right in front of her.
"Anyway," Smarty Pants continued, "Librarytopia has every kind of book you could want."
"Wow," Twilight murmured.
"Pardon me, for asking," Doctor Fate interjected, "but have you seen anything that would classed as out of the ordinary around here?"
"Well," Smarty Pants answered, uncertainly, "there have been some cases of books going haywire."
"Haywire?" Doctor Fate repeated,
"It started small at first," Daring explained, "with the books having nonsense written in them, instead of their original story."
"Then," Smarty Pants continued, "it started getting worse and worse, villains and monsters escaping from their stories."
"Do you know the cause?" Doctor Fate asked.
"Nightmares," Smarty Pants answered, "the nightmares are infecting the books, so we had them quarantined."
"We would like to see these infected books," Doctor Fate said.
"I don't belie....." Smarty Pants began.
"I believe I can stop what is infecting them," Twilight added, before Smarty Pants could continue.
"You two are gonna need a guide," Daring Do stated, "just so you don't get lost."
"That would be much appreciated," Doctor Fate smiled.
"Alright then," Smarty Pants sighed, "just be careful, the last character who came into contact with one of those books, disintegrated into black dust."
"We will," Daring nodded.
Librarytopia, quarantined zone.
Daring Do, Twilight and Doctor Fate arrived at the place where the quarantined books were located, inside of a giant Power Ponies comic.
Twilight shivered a little, the place had an evil vibe to it.
"Well this is it," Daring said.
With that, the three entered the comic book.
The book had the look of a classic prison and each comic panel was a prison cell.
In each of the cells were villains like: Dr. Caballeron, Mane-aic along with other evil doers.
"This is were the infected books are taken," Daring uttered, grimly.
The three had stopped outside of a section of the prison called Nightmare Wing.
A pile of black coloured books occupied the comic panel cell.
"Thank you for leading us here," Doctor Fate replied.
"I'll be waiting outside," Daring nodded, "when you're done come find me."
"Right," Twilight acknowledged.
"Before you go in," Daring added, handing Twilight a pair wired looking gloves.
"Protection from the infected books," she said.
Twilight understood.
With that, she and Doctor Fate entered the cell.
As they neared the pile, Twilight could faintly hear Midnight's voice all around them.
"I never imagined that nightmares could cause something like this," Twilight said.
"Nightmares are like a poison," Doctor Fate replied, "infecting good dreams, taking them over and twisting them into something ugly."
Wearing the gloves Daring gave her, Twilight picked up one of the books and opened it.
The sound of Midnight's voice intensified. Through it all, Twilight looked at the books contents.
The words 'TWILIGHT HELP ME!' were written on ever page.
The words seemed to form into hands, which in turn, tried to grab Twilight.
Twilight instinctively slammed the book shut and tossed it back on to the pile.
This caused some of the books on the top of the pile to fall towards her.
Some of them falling open around Twilight, one of them managed to land outside the cell.
From out of the books surrounding emerged monster from various books.
Monsters like The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, The Headless Horsemen, Dracula , The Balrog of Morgath and The Cyclops.
"So this is the form your nightmare have taken in this realm," Doctor Fate commented, as the monsters advanced on him and Twilight.
Suddenly, there was a scream from outside the cell, it was Daring Do the book that had landed outside the cell had managed to open itself and grab hold of her leg.
Daring managed to kick it away, but it was too late, the dark energy from the infected book had already began spreading over her body.
Twilight and Doctor Fate dashed to the cell door, slamming it shut behind them, trapping them inside.
Twilight looked to where Daring Do's scream had come from, only to find a pith helmet surrounded by black dust.
"No," Twilight said, sinking to her knees, "this is all my fault."
"There is still hope," Doctor Fate replied, placing a hand on Twilight's shoulder, "remember you're in a dream."
"What does that mean?!" Twilight demanded, in a trebling voice, "Daring Do is still dead because of me."
Fate remained silent.
Just then, from behind them, the door of the quarantined cells flew off, releasing the nightmare monsters.
Not just them, but the other book villains were also released from their cells.
The room started to become enveloped in darkness, everything being swallowed up by a black void.
The floor around Twilight and Doctor Fate was also swept away, as the nightmare spreading throughout Librarytopia.
Within seconds, the two of them had no floor to stand on and began falling through the nothingness.
Suddenly, the two were standing again, in the spot where they started, next to the signpost.
"Where are we?" Twilight asked, "what is this?"
"The dream simply spat us back to the point where we entered it," Doctor Fate explained, "think of it as your mind's emergency evacuation procedure."
The two looked up at the signpost, where the sign for Librarytopia was, only to discover, it was crossed out.
"I can't believe it," Twilight whispered, "I destroyed an entire world."
"I don't think this was your doing," Doctor Fate replied,
"How could it not be?" Twilight retorted, "this is my dream, my mind!"
"I sense, that something or someone else is pulling the strings, turning your dreams against you," he continued.
"Alright," Twilight nodded, taking a breath and finding courage, "where to now?"
Twilight and Doctor Fate walked through the streets of Scientropolis.
All around them, beakers and flasks of all shapes and sizes were littered around the landscape.
The whole place was one giant science lab.
It was as if Twilight and Doctor Fate were in the science lab at CHS, only they had been shrunken.
"I wonder who's going to spring up to surprise us here?" Twilight pondered, aloud.
The answer came quiet quickly, "Oh, visitors," a voice said.
Soon after that, a girl with glasses and her hair tied up with a gypsy scarf appeared before the two.
"Greeting and welcome to Scientropolis," the girl greeted.
"Who might you be?" Doctor Fate asked.
"I'm Krypton," the girl replied, "and I don't think I've ever seen elements like you two around here, before."
"We're not elements," Twilight replied.
"What do you mean you're not elements?" Krypton asked.
"Not elements?" another voice echoed.
Twilight and Doctor Fate turned to see cheerful young girl dressed as a doctor.
"Hear that, Helium," she continued, "they're not elements."
Everyone looked up to see a guy wearing a red suit and yellow t-shirt come drifting towards them.
"You guys aren't elements?" the newcomer said, "mind blown."
"Wait," another voice stated, "I know you."
Twilight turned to see a women in a black dress and carrying a beaker, approaching her and Doctor Fate.
"Curium," Twilight declared, "you're named after the great Marie Curie."
"That is correct," Curium replied, "and you're Twilight Sparkle, the founder of Scientropolis."
"I suppose I am," Twilight retorted, "are you all elements from the Periodic Table?"
"That be us," another voice answered.
Twilight and Doctor Fate looked to the corner of the lab to see, young chilled teenage girl with silver hair.
"Name's Aluminum," the girl replied, introducing herself.
"But who are you?" Aluminum asked, turning to Doctor Fate.
"I am an observer and an agent of order," Doctor Fate answered.
"And a friend," Twilight finished.
"Right on," Helium commented.
"We're here to investigate," Twilight continued, "if anything strange or disturbing has happen around here, recently?"
"As a matter of fact....." another voice spoke up.
This voice belonged to a man wearing a wolf pelt, a black top and carrying two swords.
"Some of us have been disappearing," the man carried on, "taken by a hostile force."
"That means like," Helium said, slowly, "we're the only ones left."
"Is that true, Tungsten?" Krypton asked.
Tungsten nodded, "Titanium, Mercury and I were investigating the disappearances, when a mysterious black mist appeared out of nowhere and seemed to grab Titanium and Mercury."
"Then how did you manage to escape?" Twilight inquired.
"Well I managed to escape," Tungsten replied, "but I didn't get away unscathed."
He removed a bandage from his arm, revealing a cut with black energy seeping from it.
As Twilight looked at the wound, she could see the black energy slowing creeping up Tungsten's arm.
"I can resist whatever this is doing," Tungsten stated, "but I can't keep it up forever."
"Could you show us where you encountered the black mist?" Doctor Fate asked.
"That's the reason I'm here," Twilight explained, "I am trying to stop whatever is causing this all to happen."
"Can you really stop it?" Tungsten asked.
"We can try," Twilight replied.
Twilight, Doctor Fate and the remaining elements followed Tungsten to where the black mist had appeared.
"Tungsten has been infected with the same dark energy that destroyed Librarytopia," Twilight whispered.
"I would appear so," Doctor Fate nodded.
"Then we're too late, " Twilight said, beginning to give into despair again.
"If we find the source of the mist," Doctor Fate replied, reassuringly, "we may unearth a clue to who or what is causing your nightmares."
The group continued onward.
As they passed one of the giant flasks, Twilight heard a voice.
"Why are you even doing this?" the voice asked, "why save something that was born from evil and hatred?"
Twilight looked around, trying to see where the mysterious voice was coming from.
"Midnight was born from the darkness within your heart," the voice continued.
"Who's there?" Twilight asked, scared.
"It is a shell, a husk, a nobody!" the voice shouted.
She looked at the others for an answer and suddenly realised that everything and everyone had frozen.
"No one is born evil," Twilight replied, her voice shaking with fear and rage, "Midnight was evil, then she saved my life, so she is not a nobody, she's my friend, she a part of me."
In answer Twilight heard the sound of slow clapping echoing everywhere.
"What. A. Speech." the voice sneered, sarcastically, "to bad it's a load of garbage."
"Who are you to say that?" Twilight responded, "you don't know anything about Midnight or me."
"Oh, I know more about you than you might think," the voice laughed, "so unless you want your meaningless, childish fantasy dreams deconstructed before your eyes, STOP LOOKING FOR MIDNIGHT SPARKLE!"
"Leave me alone!" Twilight shouted, "WHO ARE YOU?!"
She turned around the frozen room, then she stopped, startled to see her own reflection moving on the giant glass flask.
The reflection laughed, "tiny little nerd with her tiny little glasses, all alone and afraid in the dark."
"SHUT UP!" Twilight screamed, charging at her reflection. Before she could stop herself Twilight struck the flask, shattering it into a million pieces.
Black liquid began leaking from the shattered flask.
"There she was," the reflection gloated, "everyone's favourite egghead resolute to do anything to save her friends, but Twilight didn't realise what was going to happen next."
Suddenly before Twilight could react, everything around her unfroze and everything happened at once.
The black liquid burst from the shattered flask and rushed towards the elements and Doctor Fate.
Doctor Fate managed to shield himself, but the elements weren't as lucky.
The black liquid completely enveloped the elements, until they were completely submerged.
All around the other giant beakers and flasks began shattering and releasing more black liquid.
Soon enough, all of Scientropolis was swallowed up by the black liquid.
Eventually, even the floor Twilight and Doctor Fate were standing on was taken by the black liquid.
Then, like last time, Twilight and Doctor Fate found themselves standing in spot where they started, next to the signpost.
The sign for Scientropolis, like the one for Librarytopia, was crossed out.
Twilight still couldn't believe what had happen.
Yet another one of her dream worlds had been destroyed before her very eyes.
Twilight and Doctor Fate were standing in front of the signpost.
Twilight had explained to Doctor Fate what had happened back in Scientropolis.
"I see," Doctor Fate murmured, after doing some thinking, "we must press on."
"How?!" Twilight asked, "every dream we've been to has been destroyed! And we still don't have any clues to where Midnight Sparkle is or who is behind these nightmares!"
"That's not strictly true," Doctor Fate replied, "you said that the voice mocking you came from your reflection."
Twilight nodded.
"Well," Doctor Fate continued, "that tells me that whoever is behind all of this connected to you in some way."
He looked at the signpost, "Mount Timber Spruce sounds like a good bet," Doctor Fate said.
"Are you sure we're going to find anything there?" Twilight asked, blushing slightly.
"Why, is there a problem?" Doctor Fate inquired.
"No!" Twilight answered, "no problem At. All."
Without another word, Twilight strode off briskly in the direction Mount Timber Spruce.
Doctor Fate sighed with a smile, "humans," he murmured.
Mount Timber Spruce.
Twilight and Doctor Fate stepped out of the summit of the mountain.
It was as if someone had re-carved Mount Rushmore, but with Timber Spruce's face replacing the faces of the presidents.
"Well," Twilight stated, trying to hold her blushing back, "this isn't embarrassing at all."
"You need not worry," Doctor Fate replied, "There is no wrong way to fantasise."
The two began to descend the mountain.
When they reached the bottom, they were greeted by thousands of Timber Spruce clones.
"Hi there, Twilight," the Timber Spruces said, altogether.
"I don't think that we're going to find anything useful here," Twilight said, no longer able to hold back her embarrassment, "I suggest we move on."
She suddenly heard the sound of church bells, she turned to see herself in a wedding dress and Timber Spruce in a tuxedo.
"NOW!" Twilight said, quickly.
And with that Twilight and Doctor Fate moved onto the next dream world.
BBBFF Boulevard.
"Now this is more like it," Twilight smiled, gazing around at the art gallery-like street.
All around them were windows depicting Twilight's fondest memories and moments with her brother Shining Armour.
"Your brother," Doctor Fate remarked, "I assume he is someone important to you?"
"Yes," Twilight replied, "before I went to Crystal Prep, before I met Dean Cadance and before I met Sunset and the others at Canterlot High, Shining Armour was my best friend in the whole world."
As she finished what she was saying, Twilight looked at one of the windows, depicting a still image of her as a child with her brother playing board games together.
Suddenly, Twilight noticed something was off about the memory, she looked closer and gasped at what she saw.
The dice that younger her and Shining Armour were using to playing their board game, was a cage and inside the cage was....
"MIDNIGHT SPARKLE!" Twilight cried.
Without thinking, Twilight charged at the memory window, disappearing into it.
Doctor Fate following shortly afterwards.
Once Twilight and Doctor Fate were inside the memory, it sprang to life.
Young Twilight and Shining Armour didn't seem to notice the arrival of two strangers and continue to play.
"Sorry to interrupt," Twilight began, "but....."
Neither the young Twilight or Shining Armour seemed to hear what she had said.
"This is a memory," Doctor Fate explained, "you're not a part of it so they can't see or hear you."
"Then what to we do?" Twilight asked, "how are we supposed to get the cage?"
"We play the wait game," Doctor Fate replied.
Twilight was about to question what he had just said, only for Doctor Fate to put a finger to his lips.
The two continued to wait.
"It seems like Shining Armour is winning," Doctor Fate said, after a while.
"I LET him win!" Twilight corrected, "how long are we.....?"
Before she could finish a voice was heard.
"Kids, dinner!" the voice of Twilight's mum called from somewhere else.
Both young Twilight and Shining Armour rushed out of the room.
"......Going to wait?" Doctor Fate finished, "until now."
After making sure the room was clear, Doctor Fate nodded to Twilight to get closer to the cage.
Midnight was inside the cage and wildly mouthing something at her.
"I can't hear you," Twilight said, pointing at her ear.
As Twilight reached for the cage.
"Be careful," Doctor Fate warned, "interacting with objects in memories may cause unforeseen consequences."
"But this is what we're here for," Twilight responded, "I'm here to save Midnight."
Before Doctor Fate could stop her, Twilight had touched the cage, causing it to become full size.
"Midnight!" Twilight cried, "don't worry, everything's going to be alright."
"You shouldn't have come," Midnight whispered, "it's a trap."
Before anyone could react, the room and everything in it, along with BBBFF Boulevard was enveloped in a black void.
Twilight, Doctor Fate and Midnight started to drop into darkness.
"Where are we?" Twilight asked, as Doctor Fate helped her to her feet.
"We're nowhere," Doctor Fate replied, "its as simple as that."
Suddenly Twilight realised something.
"Where's Midnight?!" she asked, franticly, "WHERE IS SHE?!"
"It's always Midnight," a voice interrupted, "Midnight, Midnight, Midnight."
"That voice....," Twilight said, in shocked horror, "I know that voice."
"That's the voice you encountered in Scientropolis?" Doctor Fate asked, "the one you told me about?"
Twilight nodded.
"Oh, Twilight help me," the voice continued, in a childish tone, "save me, save me from the big bad darkness."
"OK ENOUGH!" Twilight shouted, "I have had enough of your taunting and belittling! You've already destroyed parts of my dream worlds! But this ends here!"
"Oh so thats the way you want to play?" the voice answered, "fine."
Shortly after that, a humanoid shape seemed to form out of the void and approached the two.
Twilight's eyes opened wide in shocked surprise, the figure in front of her and Doctor Fate looked like Midnight Sparkle, only coloured black.
"Well," the figure smiled, "you asked and so here I am."
"Who are you?!" Twilight demanded, "and what have you done with Midnight?!"
"I am getting so sick of hearing that name," the figure replied, an annoyed tone in her voice, "but to answer your first question, I'm a shadow of your true inner self, I'm....."
"No," Twilight retorted, "you're nothing like me, I would never say something like that about Midnight."
"Would you though?" the figure asked.
"WHERE. IS. MIDNIGHT?!" Twilight demanded.
"Midnight," the figure growled, "Midnight, Midnight, Midnight why do you care about her?! SHE ISN'T EVEN A REAL PERSON!"
"Don't say that!" Twilight yelled, "she is one of my friends, she sacrificed herself to save me, SHE IS VERY MUCH ALIVE!"
"Then what about me?" the figure uttered, " I am you after all, I'm alive."
"You are nothing but a bad dream," Twilight responded, "you are nothing like me or even a part of me."
The figure began to laugh, "Well, if thats the way you feel about me," she smiled, "so be it."
The darkness around the figure began to envelop her.
"I've got a bad feeling about this," Doctor Fate muttered.
Suddenly the darkness around the figure dissipated, revealing a nightmarish sight.
The figure had transformed into a monstrous form, a terrifying fusion of all Twilight's dreams and nightmares
"I am a Shadow Twilight," the beast declared, "I am your dark side, the true inner self."
The black void began changing rapidly to all the past locates Twilight and Doctor Fate had been to.
Shadow Twilight began to circle them, "you act all smart and nice, but really you're terrified your friends will leave you," Shadow Twilight continued, her voice now sounding like multiple people speaking a once.
Twilight sank to the floor, tears in her eyes, "What is that thing?" she asked.
"It's you," Doctor Fate replied, "the monster is not lying, that thing came from inside your heart."
"No, it didn't!" Twilight cried, "that thing is nothing like me."
Without thinking, Twilight charged at Shadow Twilight, only to be slapped aside my the monster.
"I know everything about you" Shadow Twilight declared, "I how feeble and weak you really are."
Suddenly, screens appeared depicting bad memories from Twilight's past.
"She's such a nerd," the memory of Sour Sweet laughed.
"I know right," the memory Sunny Flare replied, "She's such a loser."
"You're supposed to be so smart!" the memory of Sunset Shimmer said, "but did you ever think you shouldn't be messing around with things you can't control!"
"You're wrong!" Twilight shouted, no longer able to hold back her tears, "YOU'RE WRONG!"
Shadow Twilight prepared to attack Twilight again, only to be blasted back by Doctor Fate.
"Remember what I told you, Twilight," he called, "the most power weapon in the dream world is the mind."
"You're right," Twilight nodded, "I can't let what she's saying get to me."
Thinking fast, Twilight conjured up dream versions of her friends.
Suddenly Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Sunset Shimmer appeared out of nowhere.
"It's Hero time!" Dream Rainbow Dash cried, with that, the Dream Rainbooms all rushed towards Shadow Twilight.
Followed Shortly after, by Twilight conjuring up a sword and joining the battle along with her dream friends.
"I will beat you!" Twilight said, "you're an infection, me and my friends are the cure."
"YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" Shadow Twilight roared, releasing a shockwave that throw Twilight and her dream friends off of her.
"I don't understand," Twilight said, as Doctor Fate help her to her feet, "it's like when I try to fight that thing it gets stronger."
"It's like I told you," Doctor Fate responded, "that thing came from inside your heart."
"No, it couldn't have," Twilight insisted.
"In the back of your mind," Doctor Fate said, looking Twilight in the eye, "you've sometimes had those feeling of being abandoned, haven't you?"
"What?" Twilight asked.
"I mean you used to have them," Doctor Fate continued, "not that you still do have them."
"Yeah," Twilight nodded, "I guess deep down inside I've worried that the friends I've made at CHS, I sometimes worry that in the future we will drift apart."
"But you don't let those feelings overtake you?" Doctor Fate asked.
Twilight nodded, "I may have those feelings but they're a part of me, and in the end I have faith that our friendship will last for forever."
The moment Twilight said that, Shadow Twilight froze and her monstrous form began to flicker.
Twilight, seeing an opening, moved in along with her dream friends.
Before Shadow Twilight could react Twilight and her dream friends hit her with an almighty attack, reverting Shadow Twilight back to her original form.
"So thats a part of me," Twilight said, as she looked at the defeated Shadow Twilight.
Doctor Fate nodded, "No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach hell."
Twilight gave Doctor Fate a confused look.
"It's more human," Doctor Fate explained, "so to speak, to have a dark side and integrate it rather than reject it."
"I understand," Twilight acknowledged.
She approached Shadow Twilight and helped her to her feet.
"You're a part of me," Twilight said, softly, "and I'm a part of you, when you get down to it all of this is me."
Shadow Twilight smiled, "You have no idea, how long I've waited for you to say that," she responded.
With that, Shadow Twilight walked into Twilight and disappeared.
Everyone stood in silence, for a while.
Suddenly Midnight Sparkle reappeared.
"What happened?" Midnight asked, "is it over? Wheres Shadow Twilight?"
"Its ok," Twilight said, hugging Midnight with tears of joy streaming down her face, "its all over now."
"Well done, Twilight Sparkle," Doctor Fate smiled, "you have faced your other self."
"Thanks," Twilight replied.
"So," Midnight spoke up, "what happens now?"
"Now," Doctor Fate answered, "we must leave, I think Twilight has been asleep long enough."
"Before that," Twilight interjected, "there are somethings that need restoring."
Twilight, Midnight and Doctor Fate both stood near the dream signpost, all the signs had been restored.
"Time to leave," Doctor Fate remarked.
"What about Midnight?" Twilight asked, "I came here to save her so I'm not leaving without her. How is she going to join us in the real world?"
"I'll handle that," Doctor Fate replied, his hands glowing with gold energy, "after all, whats the point of having a god for an ally if they can't help when needed."
He turned to Midnight and offered his hand and as she took it Doctor Fate turned to Twilight.
"Time to wake up," he smiled.
The Tower of Fate, The Waking World.
Twilight woke up and slowly looked around her.
As her vision began to clear, the figures of Doctor Fate and Midnight Sparkle materialised in front of her, in the real world.
In a matter of seconds, the transfer was complete and Midnight Sparkle stood before Twilight and Doctor Fate in physical human form.
"Take it easy," Doctor Fate said, as Midnight stumbled a little as she took her first steps, "it may take a moment for you to adjust to being corporeal."
Midnight looked over her new body, "So this is what it feels to be corporeal," she remarked, "no wings, that going to take some getting used to."
"I have a sister!" Twilight squealed, giving Midnight a huge hug.
After Twilight had finished hugging Midnight she turned to Doctor Fate, "thank you so much," she smiled.
"No need to thank me, Twilight Sparkle," Doctor Fate replied, "through overcoming and excepting your other self, you were able to save Midnight and come to terms with the darkness within you."
"So now what?" Midnight asked.
"Now we go home," Twilight answered.
"Home?" Midnight echoed.
"Of course," Twilight replied, "you're my sister and that means you're part of my family now."
Midnight smiled, "Well, then," she said, "lets go."
With that, both Twilight and Midnight left the Tower of Fate.
Twilight's house.
Twilight and Midnight sat along in Twilight's room.
Twilight's parents had been a little weirded out by Midnight, but after Twilight had explained they had been very happy to welcome a new addition to the family.
Now both Twilight and Midnight were bonding with each other.
A knock at the door interrupted the two, it was Shining Armour
"Hope I'm not interrupting?" he asked.
"Not at all," Twilight replied.
"How are you doing?" Shining Armour inquired, turning to Midnight.
"Fine, thanks," Midnight responded.
"Anyway," Shining Armour continued, "I thought I'd come to tell you two the big news."
"What?" Twilight and Midnight asked, together.
"So, you know how me and Dean Cadence have been going on dates for awhile," Shining Armour answered.
"Yeah," Twilight nodded.
"Well," Shining Armour carried on, "me and her went out and I popped the question."
"And?" Twilight asked, "what did she say?"
"She said yes," Shining Armour smiled.
A huge smile spread across Twilight face.
"Shining," she said, "thats wonderful news!"
The next day.
Both Twilight and Midnight stood outside the front doors to CHS, Twilight was excited to introduce Midnight to her friends and even though she could feel her fears at the back of her mind, she no longer tried to reject them.
Twilight squeezed Midnight's hand.
"Ready?" Twilight asked.
"Always," Midnight nodded.
With that, the two walked through the doors and towards another day at Canterlot High.
