A/N: That ending probably made you go WTF? didn't it? Perfect. How many of you hate me for killing Fluttershy? I'm surprised there haven't been any hate comments about that…

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And so we go

Nothing. That's all that Twilight could see.

Pain, crippling, paralyzing pain. Thousands of red hot needles going into every part of her body, mainly her horn.

Slowly, Twilight's sight came back, albeit with a lot of stars. Looking around, all she could see was the sloping curve of the crater walls as they expanded past her vision. Forcing herself to look up, Twilight was shocked to see a miniature sun where Cloudsdale used to be.

"Over 25000 pegasi, gone," she muttered to herself.

Extending her wings, Twilight flew up to the new sun hovering where Cloudsdale had been. Attempting to use her magic to scan it caused searing pain to flash through her body, almost causing her to fall again. Running her hoof through her mane in frustration, she jerked it back when she cut it on the jagged edge of something in her mane.

"No," Twilight said, "Please not that. Anything but that."

Feeling with her hoof, she found that half of her horn was missing, leaving a broken stump. After crying to herself for about an hour, Twilight finally stopped and focused again. This new sun was more important than a broken horn. Flying closer to it, she raised a hoof towards it.

"Odd. It feels almost like pure magic, but that's impossible. Magic can't exist in this world without something channeling it."

Finally placing her hoof against it, Twilight was startled when the 'sun' started to flow into her hoof. The sheer amount of power the 'sun' held was equal to double the magic of all of Equestria's unicorns and Alicorns casting at the same time. Unable to contain so much raw power in it's current form, Twilight's body started changing. It grew until she was as big as Celestia had been, but that wasn't all that happened. Her mane transformed into pure magic, while still keeping it's coloring pattern. Not only did her horn grow back, it also became longer, almost twice as long as Celestia's had been. Continuing it's transformation, her body manipulated the excess magic into armor that formed over her head, chest, and legs, much like Nightmare Moon's, but with some changes. Each piece of armor took on a different color, the same colors as the coats of her friends. Her helm was the same Orange as AJ, her chest was purple just like herself, her front left leg was Cyan, the front right, Pink. The back left was Yellow, and the back right was White. Emblazoned on each piece was the Cutie mark of the pony it was colored after.

After the 'sun' finished flowing into her, and her body finished transforming, Twilight landed back in the crater, using her magic to scan for the entrance into the Hive. Quickly finding it, she began to walk towards it until she noticed some of the ash under her hooves begin to move. Watching it, she stood there as a large amount of ash formed a pile in the middle of the crater. The ashes caught fire soon after, surprising Twilight. From the smoke created by the fire, a form began to take shape. Slowly, the form became more defined: it was a pegasus. After a few more seconds, standing whole and healthy before her was Fluttershy. Twilight watched as a phoenix feather fell from Fluttershy's mane onto the ground.

"Fluttershy?"

Seeing the large Alicorn in front of her, Fluttershy squeaked and hid behind her mane, "D-do I know you?"

"Fluttershy, it's me Twilight," Twilight said as she took a step towards Fluttershy.

Looking up, Fluttershy finally recognized the Alicorn standing in front of her, "Twilight? What happened to you?"

"I could say the same about you. How did you do that?"

"Do what? I don't remember anything besides flying up to Cloudsdale with you, and then I was standing down here," Fluttershy looked around, "Wherever here is…"

"This was Everfree Castle," Twilight said as she wrapped a wing around Fluttershy, "Do you not remember that storm we got caught in while we were flying up to Cloudsdale?"

"All I remember is a bright flash, and then I was standing down here with you. Where did that storm come from?" Fluttershy asked with a confused look on her face.

Twilight sighed and decided to be honest, "That storm was the result of a Gryphonian attack on Cloudsdale. It destroyed both Cloudsdale and Everfree Castle."

Before she could continue, Twilight was distracted by the phoenix feather flying into her face. Trying to remember, she looked at Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy?"

"Yes, Twilight?"

"Where did this feather come from?" Twilight asked while holding the feather out to Fluttershy.

"Oh. That's the feather Celestia's phoenix gave me for trying to help it, remember?"

Twilight quickly did a magical scan of Fluttershy, and was stunned by what she found, "Umm, Fluttershy. You aren't going to believe this. It would appear that, by having this feather, you have the same regenerative capabilities as a phoenix."

"I have the same what?"

"When you die, you'll be reborn exactly how you were when you got the feather."

"Oh," Fluttershy said, sounding depressed, "That means I'll outlive all of my friends."

"No you won't, Fluttershy. You'll still have me and Discord and P-" Twilight stopped herself before she finished Pinkie's name.

Fluttershy noticed Twilight's sudden stop before she said who the third friend was, "Who's the third friend, Twilight?"

"I was going to say Princess Celestia, but then I remembered that she was murdered," Twilight quickly lied.

Fluttershy could tell Twilight was lying, but decided not to push the subject. Changing the subject, she asked, "How did you change so much, Twilight? What happened to you?"

Twilight was honest when she replied, "I absorbed all of the excess magical energy from the Gryphon attack on Cloudsdale. I guess my body changed itself to hold all of it."

"But what's with the armor? None of it matches?"

"As near as I can figure," Twilight said, looking over her armor, "This is a physical representation of Harmony, much like the Elements are. At least, that's what I'm guessing, since they all have the color and Cutie mark of an individual Element bearer."

"… Perhaps we should go back into the Hive?" Fluttershy asked suddenly, taking Twilight off guard.

"Why is that?"

Fluttershy pointed up to the sky with her hoof. Following the angle, Twilight saw a giant mass of storm clouds sitting overhead, but the clouds produced neither rain nor lightning, which could mean only one thing.

"I do believe you may have the right idea, Fluttershy," Twilight said as she teleported both of them to her quarters back in the Hive.