Chapter 22: Splitting up

5 years ago…

Sam Townson was on the floor after a fruitless battle with the Entity, with a worried Twilight Sparkle at his side.

“Oh sweet Celestia! Sam, are you alright?” asked Twilight

“Somepony get the number of that truck?” said Sam in a daze

“What’s a truck?” wondered Twilight

“Er…either I’ve lost it or there’s 5 Twilights” said Sam massaging his head

“Hmmm…you’ve hit your head worse than I thought…” said Twilight examining the wounds

“I’m fine Twilight, it’s gonna take more than a hard hit to the head to prevent me from going home” said Sam

Some time later…

“You miss them don’t you?” asked Twilight suddenly

“Yes I do, as enjoyable as this place is without the Entity attacking I miss home and I’m sure my wife and my son, Logan will make sure I never hear the end of it when I get back

“There will be a way to send you back, I promise I won’t give up until you’re back home” promised Twilight

“I can’t thank you enough Twilight but I will make sure the Entity is locked away for good so this kingdom is not in peril” said Sam

They looked to sky as they could only guess what lied ahead in their futures…

Present Day….

Logan woke up in Ponyville hospital with his body feeling great and ready for action but emotionally he felt guilty, guilty of 400,000 lives lost as Newspapers didn’t waste one inch of paper just to point that fact out! It was all so much simpler in foiling the bad guy’s plan until he blows up a city as a warning!

Numerous mutterings could be heard as Logan walked past as his name was mentioned for causing this along with the others and Logan just passed quickly before somepony could do anything,

Logan knocked on the door of Twilight’s Library and she answered again and let him in.

“Good to see you’re better Logan” said Twilight casually

“Better is pushing it, I feel like shit” said Logan

“We must keep finding the keys” said Twilight

“You don’t say? But we need to split up and find the four keys so we can get through this faster” suggested Logan

“But that’ll destroy the major cities faster in Equestria” protested Twilight

“I know, but if we do it faster than the smaller towns are at least saved but the rate we go it’ll be inevitable that a couple of small towns will be destroyed, we can’t surrender as he’ll do it anyway, if we take too long the small towns will die and every key we get will destroy every Major city and we can’t fight him without the Super Elements.” said Logan explaining the situation

“Sweet Celestia! We are…” said Twilight trailing of

“We’re in a fucked up situation and lives will have to be sacrificed in order to save this planet and what’s worse is that the kind of power he uses can’t be stopped unless somepony like me or you sacrifices themselves to make a shield to minimize the damage but the Entity will just summon another one” said Logan slamming a hoof on the wall.

“(sigh) I’ll get the others and explain this to them” said Twilight leaving Logan

One gather the ponies and explain stuff later…

“So you’re saying is that we should split up and find the keys at the same time?” asked Dash

“That’s exactly what I’m saying for the 15th time!” said Logan impatiently

“Ah’m siding with Logan in this one” said Applejack

“Well I don’t, there has to be another way” said Rarity

“We don’t have time! They are going to be destroyed anyway so it’s best we get them fast and the only way is splitting up unless you can clone everypony into four effectively then that’s our option!” said Logan angrily

“I suppose I see your point” said Rarity giving up

Logan took out the Map and looked to see four keys seemingly spread out on the map. One key seemed to be in the Desert in the south-west, one was in the Badlands, which from the looks looked like a dangerous spot to be, a third key could be seen in a place close to Fillydelphia and the last key seemed to be in the Crystal Mountains up north

“Typical…almost all of them are in quite dangerous spots” said Logan sighing

“And they’re all at least a day’s journey away” said Twilight

“Since there are seven ponies including Spike we should be in 4 groups of 2” said Dash

“Who goes to where?” asked Pinkie

“I’ll take Fluttershy to Fillydelphia” said Logan

“I’m happy to…if that’s okay with you” said Fluttershy

“Of course it is Shy” said Logan beaming

“Twilight and ah go to the Mountains” said Applejack

“OOOOH! I DIBS THE BADLANDS! They will fall to the might of Rainbow Dash!” said Dash excitedly

“Yeah who’s going with you?” asked Logan

“I suggest taking Spike as he’s heat Resistant more so than anypony” suggested Twilight

“That Leaves Pinkie Pie and Rarity to the desert” said Logan

“THE DESERT?! What did I do to deserve this? I’ll get all dirty and it’ll be a fashion DISASTER I TELL YOU!” whined Rarity

“oh for the Love of Celestia” said Dash

“It’s Fashion or whole World, I’m pretty sure Pinkie Pie would want a friend to accompany her but you don’t have to if you don't want…” said Logan

“I’ll do it!” said Rarity

“Haven’t lost the touch” muttered Logan

"You're really manipulating, you know that?" said Twilight

"I know but if you think that's bad wait until you see the girls from our world do it" Logan mentioned before moving out

Everypony went out of the Library to the Train Station and getting tickets to their destination and Logan got Twilight to clone the map into four so everypony knew where exactly to look. Everypony said goodbye and parted ways for now to their goals to find the keys…