Rarity was in her shop running around, gathering materials, and putting things away as quickly as she could. One window had already shattered in her shop, and the wind was throwing everything around, She was just lucky that there wasn't any rain coming in through the broken window.

She kept using her magic to levitate objects and placing them here and there. Not knowing the damage her magic was causing. The storm began to pick up around the boutique, another window shattered, then another. Rarity screamed in panic and ran to the cupboard under the stairs to hide. She could hear the wind tearing through her shop, a loud bang came from the door she was hiding behind as something had hit it hard. She screamed out in panic using her magic to shield herself in fear. The storm began to swell around her shop, picking up speed.

Lightning began to crack all around the shop, sometimes hitting it as it leapt about. The wind all over Ponyville began to die down as the storm started to recede. It began to accumulate around Rarity's shop. She was now in grave danger as the wind swirled around quickly as it began to slowly tear apart her shop and home. Pieces flying everywhere as it kept getting worse.

The whole shop began to fall apart as every piece of it was now swirling in a tight loop around where it now once stood. Rarity gasped as the door flew from its hinges and she was sucked out only to see her shop and everything around swirling through the air with her. She screamed in terror as she balled up, using her magic as a make-shift shield against the elements. A loud crack was all that was heard, then everything stopped. The wind suddenly quit and Rarity found herself falling to the ground. She was lucky enough to land on a bunch of fabric that had been caught under the edge of a large shelf, which cushioned her fall.

She stood up looking around at what was left of her home, seeing nothing but pieces of the splintered wood scattered about, Clothing and cloth littered the ground, ruined, shredded, and in piles. Strewn about like confetti at one of Pinkie Pie's Parties. She sat down on her haunches and began to cry, sobbing quietly.

"Of all the worst possible things....... this is the...... worst........ possible........ THING!"

Back at Sweet Apple Acre's, Big Macintosh had saved many apples and managed to get them into the apple cellars along with most of the ponies in Ponyville. Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie, were among the missing ponies there that AJ and Twilight had looked for. However Fluttershy was not among the crowded cellar where all the ponies and apples had taken refuge. Mac stood near the entrance of the cellar, making sure that it would hold and keep everypony safe.

The wind kept a steady pace for sometime, increasing but never decreasing in strength. The door to the cellar rattled hard making everypony huddle together in fear. Big Macintosh began piling anything he could find in front of the entrance to block it, should the door come loose and be pulled away from its hinges. Time slowly passed as everypony waited quietly, always staring at the entrance. Just as everypony began to lose hope though, the wind began to die down. The massive roar began to soften, and the rattles from the door almost stopped entirely. After a few more minutes Big Macintosh decided to unblock the entrance and check outside. Moving items left and right and slowly making it up the stairs, he listened for a moment before unlocking the door and pushing it open. Daylight shone through what little clouds were now in the sky, putting forth its warm rays onto everypony. Big Macintosh looked around the farm taking in the amount of devastation that had taken
its toll.

The farmhouse was tattered, but still standing strong. A day or two of TLC would mend it up right. The barn which was closest to them was in shambles. Pieces and farm equipment lay everywhere. His gaze searched the fields of apple trees. Many had been knocked down, snapped in half, severely damaged, or uprooted, but most still stood strong. It would take time, but what trees that had little damage would again produce fruit. Apples littered the ground, and what few that were still on the trees were barely hanging on. He gave a sigh as he turned around to the cellar entrance announcing that the bad weather had past and it was safe to come up. Everypony made way to the surface, also taking in the devastation that had past. Many offered to stay and help with the cleanup, while others made their way to their own homes to see if they were damaged. It would be a while before Sweet Apple Acres was back to its old self again. Big Macintosh suddenly stopped in his tracks as his littlest sister came up to him.

"Big Macintosh!!! We need to go find sis, What if she was out in that storm an got hurt?"

Big Macintosh gave a determined glare looking toward Ponyville. "You stay here and help with the cleanup. I'll go look for AJ." He took off without further word in full stride along the dusty road to Ponyville.

Back at the cave the wind had died off, making it safe to leave, But the two injured ponies were unable to leave, Spike was their only hope.

"Ok you two, stay here and I'll go get help. I hope at least somepony can help us out." Spike said as he exited the cave. He surveyed the area looking at all the damage the storm had caused. A groan escaped him seeing it all, knowing that help would be hard to find if this much damage had also been done to Ponyville. Spikes eyes narrowed as he looked down the path to Sweet Apple Acres seeing a small dust cloud begin to form and head in his direction. As the dust cloud began to close in on his position he could see a large red stallion with an orange mane in front of the dust cloud.

"Big Macintosh! Hey! STOP!" Spike yelled to the farm pony as he came to a grinding halt, breathing heavy from the nonstop sprint from the farm.

"We need your help Mac, Twilight and AJ are hurt! We need to get them to a doctor fast." Spike ran toward the cave where the two mares were, Mac in tow. Upon entering the cave AJ's expression went from pain and worry to utter joy seeing her brother.

"Oh thank Celestia yer here bro, it's been a right mess for the both'o'us." AJ said as she stood up trying her best to help Spike and Big Mac place the unconscious Twilight on his back. AJ let out a quiet groan hopping to the side as Spike bumped into her leg.

"Ow, gosh darnit. Ah hate it when ah get hurt, this is gonna take forever teh heal." She groaned.

"Come on AJ, hop on." Big Mac said turning to the side in front of AJ motioning her to hop onto his back next to Twilight, which dangled like a wet noodle across his back.

"No way, Ah'm just fine to make it to the farm on mah own." AJ said giving a huff as she hopped toward the entrance.

"No more arguing! Get on! We don't have time for this." Big Macintosh growled giving a hard stomp to the ground. AJ gave a small whiny of surprise before carefully crawling onto her brothers back.

"I'll go and search for others that might be hurt since I'm alright. Take care of them big guy." Spike said as he exited the cave with Big Macintosh and the two mares. Big Macintosh gave a nod and took off back to Sweet Apple Acres in a slow gallop, so as not to jar loose his passengers. Spike heading into the opposite direction toward Ponyville.

Spike had made his way into Ponyville and began searching all around to locate any and all hurt ponies. It had taken roughly an hour to make a complete search of several piles of debris, all the while worrying over Twilight, hoping she would be okay. Soon his search ended at Rarity's former home. She was sitting nearby, crying quietly over her now destroyed home. Opal was sitting next to her attempting to comfort the now, homeless pony. Spike made his way quickly to her side thinking she was hurt.

"Rarity! Are you okay?! Are you hurt?! How did you make it out of your home?! Were you in it when it was demolished?!" He spoke quickly as he checked her over to make sure she wasn't hurt.

He moved her elegant purple mane from her face to check and see if she had been hurt there, only to stop to see her sad expression and tearful face, She gave a quiet sniffle as she opened her eyes looking at the young dragon. Spike felt his heart jump into his throat as their eyes connected. He gave a soft smile and spread his arms offering her a hug, which she quickly jumped into, grabbing and holding Spike tightly as a new wave of tears flooded from her eyes.

He could barely contain his own tears from hearing Rarity cry, and hugged back stroking her mane while whispering quietly to her, trying his best to comfort her. After a short time, her crying had ceased and they separated.

"Thank you Spike. I'm sorry you had to see me like this, I feel simply awful because of this whole thing." She gestured toward her home, now in ruins.

"It's okay Rarity, you have every right to cry, a lot of damage was done to Ponyville but it seems you got the brunt of the storm. You didn't happen to use magic did you?" Spike asked giving her a look of wonder.

"Yes........ yes I did actually, I was so frightened for my well being I put up a shield around myself while hiding under the stairs. However did you know?"

"The princess sent Twilight and me a reply earlier when the storm had just begun to get worse and damaged the library. She said it was a magical storm and magic only made it center around the caster or area of magic. I guess you didn't know huh?" Spike gave a sorrowful look as the white unicorns jaw dropped.

Had she known about this, she would have most certainly just dived under her bed instead of using magic to shield herself. But it was to late for that now. Her home was now a pile of rubble and nothing was about to change that.

Reality suddenly hit Spike hard.

"Oh my gosh! Twilight and AJ were hurt during the storm, we should head to Sweet Apple Acres and check on them!"

"Hurry Spike, hop on, we shall make haste to Twilight." Rarity said as a purple aura enveloped the small dragon, lifting him up and plopping him onto the white unicorns back as she took off at full gallop. Spike was in heaven now as he held onto the white unicorns mane as she gallop toward the farm at the outskirts of the small town.

They made way quickly toward Sweet Apple Acres, only to stop just outside the farms perimeter to see a large home that they had not seen in Ponyville before. It was an older Victorian style home painted white and had 2 floors. A large wrap around porch, and an extra large door to one side of the home. It was much larger than any door the two of them had ever seen. They walked quietly up to the house looking at it with questioning eyes. As they made their way onto the porch they could see that the trimming on the home was badly damaged, and the door had been partially pulled away from
its hinges, still attached at the top but the bottom hinge had been pulled from the thick wood it had been previously attached to. They pushed past the towering door and into the home looking around at everything which was now mostly scattered across the floors.

"Hello? Is anypony in here? Is anypony hurt?" Rarity finally yelled trying to locate the occupants of the house. Spike tensed up at the sudden outburst and jumped from Rarity with a start.

"Geeze, give a guy a warning next time before you yell like that. I almost jumped out of my scales."

"Oh darling you shouldn't be so jumpy, I'm simply looking for WAAAAHAHAAAAAHA!" Rarity screamed as she jumped back, back peddling quickly and running into a large dresser. She stopped frozen in fear as she looked forward. Spike rushed to her side, sliding in front of her in a protective stance looking forward to see what had scared her. To his surprise though all he saw was a large bookcase that had toppled over onto some type of creature which lay unconscious on the floor.

"Oh my gosh! Rarity, we need to get this off this....... whatever it is. It's hurt!" Spike yelled racing forward, swiping as many items away from the bookcase as quickly as he could. Rarity stood motionless, frozen in place until Spike had made his way over to her, stepping in her direct line of sight of the creature and yelling into her face.

"HEY! SNAP OUT OF IT!"

The white unicorn gave a whinny of surprise then proceeded cautiously toward the injured creature. She gave a slight grunt as she used her magic to levitate the large bookcase from its place atop the creature and placed it to the side. Spike quickly began to remove the books from around the creature. Rarity walked quietly over to the creature, lowering her head to his face and listening, giving her ear a flick as she heard him breathing, but barely. She looked down, her eyes tracing the outline of the figures face. She had never seen anything like this creature and gave it a strange glance. Spike continued his torrent of removing the books from the creature. Rarity using her magic to help in the removal of books, finally finished as the last of the pile was lifted away and placed neatly on the shelf that had once been atop the figure. Rarity gave a smile of satisfaction as she looked at the shelf, all the books neatly in place.

"Oh no! This creature is hurt pretty bad. It's bleeding." Spike said causing Rarity to turn around and rush back over to see a small pool of blood forming around the beings head. Rarity quickly rushed toward the entrance of the home yelling back to Spike.

"Stay here in case it wakes up. Don't let it move if it does. If it can talk then tell it to stay put, help is on the way." She
exited the home and headed toward Sweet Apple Acres just a few hundred yards away.

Upon arriving Rarity looked around seeing many ponies around the farm. A small tent had been set up for the injured, there wasn't many doctors or nurses around, but most Unicorns knew first aid magic, except herself of course, her talents were spent elsewhere on things other than first aid.

She had made her way into the tent where the injured were, only a hoofful of ponies were minorly hurt. A few cuts, some scrapes and bruises, nothing major. Twilight and Applejack were hurt the worst. Both were laying in seperate beds, AJ with one of her forelegs in a cast from having been broken, and Twilight with an ice pack on her head from the blow she had taken earlier from a rouge branch. Big Macintosh sitting quietly between the two friends, AJ to his left, Twilight to his right.

"Oh thank goodness everypony is alright. I was so worried." She began, then noticed the lack of Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. "Where are......" She was cut short by the doctor who had walked up to check on Twilight again.

"Those two were in the way so I sent them out to check in Cloudsdale about the weather." He said with a huff, removing the ice pack from Twilight's head then placing it back again making her groan from the sudden shock. Big Mac gave an annoyed snort as the doctor moved away.

"Oh my! Doctor, there is an injured....... thing just outside of the farm. It's inside a house I've never seen before, it's bleeding as well. We need to check on it quickly." Rarity said causing everything to stop.

"Did'ja just say a house outside th'farm?" AJ asked giving her an odd look. "Sugarcube, didja hit yer head er somethin? There ain't no houses outside the farm, just trees an th'dirt road." She said giving a chuckle.

"No really, Spike is with it now. We simply must hurry." Rarity said in a slight panic.

"Nurse Redheart, Go with her to this injured creature. My skills are needed here for now. Patch it up and bring it here for further examination." The doctor stated as he went to check on another patient.

"Big Macintosh, will you please help too, we will need to put it on a small wagon to pull it back, it is a rather large creature after all." Rarity said giving him an innocent smile. Big Mac just gave a sigh getting up and moving outside the tent toward the barn to get a wagon.