Guardian had provided each of them with a device that would project the map of Equestria, now Luna stared at it in her bedroom, disbelief and confusion spreading in her mind. The blinking red dot marking where the portal was shouldn't be in the east, that was impossible. Luna ran all the geography lessons Guardian gave them and remembered enough to know for sure that the OCEAN lies in the east.
It was just impossible, Luna distinctly remembered the valley and could point it out on the map, and there it was in the east. How could the portal be where the ocean is supposed to be? Luna had no answers, she decided to bring it up with Guardian later.

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Get up! This is no time to act cowardly! The fate of this battle rests on you.

"I can't! Cowardly is what I am! I'm not a soldier, I'm worthless."

There is a station in front of you. It has been almost completely demolished by enemy artillery, but the control room remains.

"What does this have to do with me?"

Only a single crew member survives, but he is injured. You have to revive him so can input coordinates and fire a missile that will stop the enemy destroyer. Now get up!

Fluttershy remained a little ball in the snow, the booming of cannons echoed all around her.

"Why me why me why me why me why me."

Because fate has deemed it so. Now get up or everyone will die! And it will be all your fault!

Fluttershy was in tears, she tried to block out the world and the demon's voice. This is too much, she was never ment to handle a situation like this. Why did it have to be her?

So be it. When the time comes you will fail, and the consequences will be great.

"I'll be dead anyway."

That is the worst part. You won't die, you'll live to see the horrors you caused just because you couldn't overcome your fears. You'll realize that even though you'll be free from the nightmares from now on, it will be at others expense

One that your friend Twilight holds very dear.

---

Fluttershy woke up on the floor of her cottage, still on her back with a despaired Rainbow Dash standing over her.

"Fluttershy! What in Celestia's name were you doing?!"

Fluttershy felt tears coming to her eyes once again. She sat upright and threw her forearms around Rainbow Dash, crying into her shoulder. Rainbow returned the embrace crying herself.

"Oh Rainbow Dash! I didn't know what I was thinking! I was just so scared! Everything was just a big mess and...and...oh I'm so sorry!"

"It's okay...just promise me this."

"Anything."

Rainbow backed up into where she was looking into Fluttershy's traumatized face.

"Don't ever, EVER try something like that again!."

Fluttershy broke into a smile, "Okay...I won't."

Neither of them noticed the shadow watching outside the window.

It's a shame neither of you will remember me, or the nightmares. It could've taught you a valuable lesson.

---

Guardian sent the letter to Twilight notifying her of Fluttershy's re-enlistment. He was uneasy, he suspected that The Overlord's attempts to help Fluttershy had been in vain, but hoped the skittish peguses would come around eventually.
The darkness that had formed a presence in the atmosphere frightened him greatly. Almost as if they were here.
Guardian shook his head, no that was impossible, The Overlord would've notified him. But Guardian couldn't help feeling that he had been deceived, that both of them were being fooled.

"How exactly are you monitoring the portal?"

By keeping a close eye on the energy levels. When it hits a certain level then they are here, we would know.

"But it feels like they're here now."

I'm looking into that now but I think it's just-

"What?"

No...no no NO!

"What?!"

I've been monitoring false signals this whole time! I picked up readings that they set up to fool me!

"Okay can you locate the real signal? What is its strength."

It's too late! They're here, occupied in the Gryphon Kingdom but not for long.

A deep, deep pit formed in Guardian's gut. They were here. The most destructive force in the known universe invaded this realm and they weren't ready. He had to fire the signal.
Guardian found the nearest window and flew through it. He spiraled around the palace and came to rest on the tallest spire. He raised his hand, palm facing up, towards the sky. A ball of red energy formed in his hand. He built up the energy and released it into the heavens. The orb exploded in mid-air and cast a red glow across the sky.
The sirens began to wail. Every town in Equestria went into panic. The streets below were swarming with ponies trying to get to the evacuation zones.
This was it. Guardian had fought this war many times and failed every time. This was hopefully going to be different. This was the moment. Equestria was in chaos.

Equestria was at war.

Author's Notes:

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