One would have thought that after the last three stops the ponies would have gotten used to the routine of pairing up and sliding into their appropriate crates, shutting and locking the lids up behind them and remaining deathly still and quiet until the train started back up and moved on again. Strangely this was not the case as Applejack watched everypony scramble like dogs in the back of a downhill running trailer. Fluttershy had the most difficulty getting to and inside her crate considering her rather extreme upper body proportions, yet the pink-maned, butter-yellow mare was given a happy, helpful hand by her crate-mate, Princess Luna, who even though looking as exhausted as last night, still took the time to help the small pegasus down into their box. The soft faced mare, hair long as the day, like a waterfall of pink satin, cringed as she pulled in her assets to allow Luna room to join her in their, as Rarity had humorously entitled, 'Luxury-level containment cell'.

Pinkie was essentially off the walls as she prepared herself for another bought of self-restraint and 'sneaky-spy-time', the pudgy pink earth pony frantically skipping on the spot as she waited to join Princess Cadance in their lovingly dubbed 'Party-box'. As soon as Cadance sounded she was in position Pinkie took two quick steps forward and bounced into the air, taking a distinct 'lying down' shape as she hung in the air, Cadance crying out in seeing the beaming face of Pinkie swoop in down closer to her by the millisecond. With a squeaky thud sound Pinkie landed, a relieved and congratulatory announcement from Cadance that Pinkie had actually fit beside her like a hand in a glove. Twilight and Rarity were the two, who besides an initial panicked scramble, entered their crate with a solid sense of discipline. However it was Celestia herself who seemed to simply glide over to her wooden box as soon as the train had begun to slow and gracefully dip down inside. Due to her large size, and the odd number of ponies, Celestia had opted to take a crate alone, saying she didn't want anypony to be uncomfortable trying to compress themselves up next to her.

Dash and Applejack, however, failed to mirror this behavior in a spectacular manner, from the starting moment of Dash announcing 'Last one to the crate has to take butt-stuff if we end up in an alien lab', to the furious battle of who went besides, under or atop of who, and who went in first.

"You're a walking boulder, you get in first and I squeeze into whatever sliver of space you don't fill up!" Dash strained through a hushed voice as the trains movement grew slower and slower.

"If Ah git in first it just ends up bein' a sesshun of you rummagin' and rollin' up besides me like a pig in the mud!" AJ hissed back.

"It's not my fault I can't get comfy next to your thick...well...uh...all this!" Rainbow dash spluttered as she desperately gestured to Applejack in general.

AJ scowled and rolled her eyes as she dived into the box regardless of Dash's protests.

"Hey, I thoUGHT-!" Dash would have made further complaint, but a feminine orange hand attached to a monstrous arm grabbed the collar of her brown jacket and yanked her into the crate as though she weighed no more than a towel, pulling the sky blue mare into her chest and shutting the lid behind them.

"Hey! Let me go! At least let me-!"

"Can it, Dash! No more outta you! It's not exactly comfy for me, but we ain't got no other choice." AJ said in a strained whisper down to Dash, whose head was hard pressed into the farmer's breast.

With a huff Dash stopped her squirming and lay still in her helpless position. AJ wasn't much of a liar, but in the steep situation she'd found herself quite convincing, as she actually found Dash's position at this time quite funny, and at any other time she would have had a hearty chuckle at the very idea of having Dash in such an awkward position. It was actually something Applejack would have considered at that time had her mind not been on other things, on how she didn't feel the slightest bit uncomfortable, not at any point in having to squeeze up next to Rainbow during this whole journey. After all, she had been the one to offer to be Dash's partner for the trip, an offer she'd taken up without question. AJ's attention was snatched away as the train jolted forward. The earth pony reached to her side and pulled out her Leverload, the short-barreled firearm easily held in one of her hands. She lifted the weapon above the prone Rainbow Dash and aimed it at the farthest edge of the crates lid, awaiting any unlucky intruders.

The trains whistled gave two short bleats followed by a single long one as it stopped, presumably pulling into the Crystal Empire station. AJ and Dash both gave a half releived, half irritated sigh, relaxing back down into the crates floor for a moment.

"So, uh, Dash...wanna...git on up outta there?" AJ asked as she looked down at the barely visible Rainbow Dash with a raised eyebrow and sly smirk.

"Uh, well...Yes! I mean, uh...sure, yeah...sure...yeah."

AJ frowned to herself in thought for a second.

Had she just-? Ah mean, was she-? Nah, don't kid yerself you silly filly. She probably jus' tryin' 'a' think 'a' sumthin' to...Jus' git up yah nimwit!

Dash practically exploded out of the crate, Applejack hastily following her, sliding her firearm back into its holster before running her fingers through her slightly matted hair with a deep breath out. Dash herself was overcompensating for the awkward situation that nopony had actually seen by hyper-attentively straightening her clothes and enthusiastically helping others out of their crates.

"Okay everypony, we'll need to move quickly to get to the city borders. From there, Cadance will guide us to the entrance to the caverns from there. Applejack, the door if you would please." Celestia said as she effortlessly rose from her crate and stepped out onto the carriage floor.

"You got it, Princess." AJ said taking a quick walk to the handle of the large sliding door to the outside.

Everypony formed up, adjusting backpack straps and clothing for the running and ducking to come. Applejack grabbed a solid hold on the large handle, flashing a quick grin at Dash who seemed the most ready to take a step out of the train, the pegasus returning the favour with a grin and quick wink.

"Ready?" AJ asked.

"Do it." Twilight said as she braced herself.

AJ, with far less effort than an average pony would have, slid the door open and sharply turned the corner out the door to drop out the train, breaking into a sprint as soon as her hooves hit the snowy ground.

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It's a trap

Luna flinched.

The voice seemed more and more real every day. Luna remembered how silly her condition had seemed when she'd first been having these seemingly rogue, instinctual thoughts. She knew that sometimes any pony alive had the odd thought that tugged at the strings of morality or reason, just freakish impulses that flew through the head. But her careless dismissal of the then minor issue slowly turned to a slight concern, then a deep concern, and now sat firmly as a burning paranoia as to when her next impulse would be, and what it would tell her to do. More frightening was how the louder the impulses were getting, the more they seem actually connected to her. When the voice in the back of her head said she should yell at a guardstallion for bumping into her, she really felt like doing it. When her celery soup came to her a slight bit colder than normal, she actually felt like storming through the castle, crashing through the walls and halls to verbally discipline the kitchen staff. That wasn't all, she'd started having turbulent dreams, dreams that had recently become nightmares. Nightmares of something monstrous coming to swallow her, something dragging her into the dark and down to oblivion. Sometimes she'd even sleepwalk, she wouldn't do anything dangerous, just strange things like running a bath, emptying her drawers, and one time scratching at the wall. Lastly, and most inconvenient at this time, were the muscle cramps she was getting. This time her legs seemed to seize up painfully, breaking her run into a stumbling mess.

"Auntie!" Cadance called out, running back to help her fellow alicorn forward.

"Thank you. I'm sorry, Cadance, my legs just seized up." Luna said out of breath, which was a very odd thing seeing how she'd never been out of breath in her life before due to the supernatural nature of her very being.

The only time she actually remembered being rendered breathless was-

"Here! It's just this one here! The basement door should be open!" Cadance called forward to the others as she held Luna up with one arm.

Ahead was a corner shop, a stone carver and jewelers. The day was getting long, Celestia had just lowered the sun to set not a half an hour ago when they'd reached the city's edge. The orange of the suns almost liquid-like light washed over the blue crystal of the shop with a truly beautiful display of colour, the irregular surface of the crystal structure creating a tiger-stripe pattern of blue, purple and orange. Applejack, who'd taken the lead position in the group, a hand sat gently on the handle of her firearm the whole way through the city, ran up to the basement's entrance and yanked the door open, hurrying everypony inside.

Luna and Cadance gasped and Luna almost stopped dead in her tracks as a Federation Dominator stomped its way passed the corner shop and came to a stop right in front of them, in the middle of the street. It was facing to the side, its optical equipment swiveling in place, observing the area just ahead of it. The machine was a gigantic monstrosity of a machine, standing twenty feet tall, stocky and immensely well armoured. It appeared like an over-sized Fed, only made from machinery and having a more bulbous thorax. The chest was actually a compact cockpit in which a single Fed military pilot sat, controlling the movements of the vast, white and blue machine that lumbered forward. In its metal grip was held a Heavy Magna-accelerator, a large automatic cannon the length of a rowboat. Luna and Cadance stood dead still in the shadow of the colossal figure before them, afraid to make so much as a step and attract the machine's attention.

Destroy it!

What?! No!

We are the keeper of the night, creature formed of magic itself! You can break this alien toy with but a flick of your hand!

We'll have every alien in the city bearing down on us! I can't fight now!

You haven't fought for anything since they arrived! You've all just run away! That's all anypony does anymore, you all just run away and hide!

It'll get my friends killed! The answer is no!

Luna had never replied to the voice, afraid of what could happen if she did, afraid of what had just happened. She was arguing with herself, genuinely having a heated fight with herself. She feared this moment would come in recent days, that she would finally start to lose it. Luna concluded then and there that she was most certainly going insane. She pulled her hand away from her head and steadied herself as she knelt down, taking a moment to realize where she was or what had happened. She must have dropped to her knees as soon as the voice had spoken to her, and proceeded to clutch at her own head as the argument ensued, both things she hadn't even realized had happened until just a second ago. Cadance was looking down at her auntie with a terror stricken expression, trying to pull her up from under her arms. Luna's eyes darted about to rest on the cellar entrance, on her sister who looked at Luna with such a haunted look that Luna could have been convinced she'd just died in front of Celestia's eyes. Turning forward again, Luna saw the Dominator, still standing in front of the ponies, coldly assessing the terrain ahead of it. With a mechanical squeal and a titanic thunder of metal footfalls the Dominator, fortunately, turned away from the two alicorns and strode off down the street ahead of them. Luna finally allowed herself to be pulled to her hooves and stumbled over to the basement door, helped inside by Cadance and Celestia. As soon as Luna's hooves clapped to the basement floor as she dropped down through the entrance, Celestia turned and assaulted the dark blue alicorn with an intense hug.

"Luna! Are you, okay?! What happened?! Tell me what's wrong!" Celestia said, wide eyed and frantically holding her sisters face before her, and stroking at her cheeks and mane.

"It's alright. I'm alright. I'm so sorry, Cadance. Look, maybe I should stay here while you all go ahead." Luna said weakly, taking a seat on a storage crate.

"Luna, I can't leave you here alone. This is something we might all have to play a part in, together." Celestia said in deepest concern.

"I just don't know how much more running I can take." Luna's tone could have been mistaken for almost being venomous at one point as she spoke, but for the most part just sounded helpless.

"I'll carry you! I'll carry you down with us, just please don't make me leave you alone again!" Celestia said frantically.

Luna looked up at her sister, who was a mere moment away from tears. Luna couldn't help but notice how she'd said 'again', and knew exactly what it meant. She knew then that if she couldn't make it down to the caverns, neither could Celestia. The two really were in this together, all the way. One last bout.

"Okay, Tia. Just, could you give me a hand for a little while?" Luna said with a crooked smile.

"Of course. Here, put your arm around me." Celestia said with a relieved smile, wiping her eyes for a second before helping her sister brace up against her.

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Oh my goodness! This is all just awful! Giant, scary robots in the street, Princess Luna is badly hurt and now we're headed into a deep, dark, scary dungeon!

Fluttershy cringed deeply, sinking her muzzle into the high collar of her heavy-duty, forest green coat. Her eyes were watering up, her breathing was laboured and seemed to lack any nourishment and her mind was picking up every single potential disaster that could possibly occur. Maybe the robot just pretended not to notice them and was waiting outside the door at this very moment, ready to smash through the jewelry store and into the basement to snatch them up like rats. Or perhaps a pack of Eliminators were in waiting in the shadow confines of the caves below, waiting for the group to get lost in the darkness just to silently pick them off one by one, none of them to be heard from ever again. Or, and perhaps worst of all, would they spend hours, perhaps days down in that awful place that awaited them, only to resurface with nothing, finally proving to all Equestria just how worthless the Princesses and the Elements really were.

No, Fluttershy! You're not worthless! Neither are your friends! We've all been through too much together to be considered anything less that extraordinary! She thought to herself while tugging at the straps of her backpack.

Cadance had just had a quick, hushed exchange with the manager of the store this basement belonged to, and with the small security compensation taken care of the manager, a blue-coated crystal pony mare with a pink mane, moved a large stack of crates, palettes and tools to reveal a pony-sized hole in the corner of the dark room. The others were all too curious to take a peek inside to see what lie ahead, Pinkie testing the recesses authenticity with a loud echoing hoot. Everypony readied themselves up, this was what they'd traveled all this way for, and Fluttershy knew she couldn't back down now. Celestia looked to her sister with great worry, the white alicorn holding her sister up by one arm as the smaller, blue princess stood shakily on the spot. Her friends made quick checks on their gear and what was inside their packs before fastening themselves up and forming up before the cave entrance. Fluttershy hung back for a second, took a gulp, and allowed her feet to take her forward.

The entrance looked like the breach was artificial in nature, like somepony had cut and carved away at the wall to get through. However, Fluttershy noticed how strangely square-shaped and symmetrical the breach was, and how there was a faded chalk line around the cutaway area. She noticed a lot how different the breach in the floor was, how it seemed to have been dug away in a much more undisciplined manner.

"Um, excuse me, Princess Cadance? How did the crystal ponies find this cave?" Fluttershy asked in her usual meek tone, however she tried to keep a sense of attentiveness to herself as the group stepped forward and dropped, one by one, into the hole.

"The store manager I was just speaking to was planning to dig away an extension to this cellar. He planned out the initial dig point and hadn't gotten three feet deep before he hit a hollow space beneath his property. He and his staff came back one evening and spent a couple hours digging away the foundations to open a way into the cavern." Cadance replied as she helped Rarity down into the hole below her.

"How did you find out about this place?" Fluttershy asked, half astounded at the odds of the news of a find like this getting to the princesses before the Federation.

"The manager orders stock in from Vanhoover, when the delivery came in the ponies moving in the items were asked to place all their stuff in front of and over this hole. The manager paid the ponies extra to keep the find quiet, but it seems one of them let the word slip when he had a little too much to drink one night. A Vanhoover emissary overheard what he said in a bar, and said emissary was already deep in resistance activity, and summoned me to Vanhoover."

"Cadance got in a bad wrap with some Fed officials, which kept her busy for a few days, so she asked if I'd go in her place. However, Fed forces in Vanhoover made meeting the emissary very difficult, and we actually ended up meeting in a nearby village after being on the move for a couple of days." Twilight said from further in the cave as she ducked down under a rocky formation protruding from the ceiling.

"How far have ponies been down here?" Applejack asked, her voice echoing about the earthy confines that grew more glossy and moist with every step Fluttershy took, soil becoming less common as rippling surfaces of rock and crystal slowly made up more and more of the surroundings.

"Some of the shop staff said they went as far as the cave goes. Apparently this leads to a dead end." Twilight replied, struggling to find sure footing at one point.

"Then what are we doing down here?" Rainbow Dash asked in an aggravated tone.

"The crystal ponies say this route ends with some form of crystal wall, however they say it has an odd composition to it, and I believe if we can't think of a way to somehow open a passage through, I can at least try and cut away at it with my magic." Celestia replied as she kept a firm hold on her sister.

Fluttershy felt like this place was closing in around her, even though in actuality the rocky tunnel was growing slightly wider by the meter. However what was closing in was the dark, and although the watery surface of the rock offered some reflective luminosity, the light was growing scarcer. Rarity must have taken note of how Fluttershy was steadily growing shakier and more compressed in stature as her horn lit up at the tip with a bright, light blue magical light and putting an arm around her friend.

"Don't worry, darling, I'm sure there's not much farther to go." Rarity said reassuringly with a warm smile.

"Thanks, Rarity." Fluttershy said, her courage replenished slightly.

Fluttershy hugged her arms around her abnormally large chest, a gesture she had always committed to whenever she felt uneasy, and ironically a gesture that didn't exactly help matters, especially when in public. As she finished brushing the thick curtain of her long pink mane away from her face, Fluttershy could see something up ahead, some strange dim glow of sorts, one that the others also seemed to notice.

"Hold it!" Pinkie squealed as she pressed her back up against Applejack, the pink mare somehow getting to the front of the group unobstructed and unseen.

Pinkie scrunched up her face and squinted her eyes at the sight before everypony, appearing to assess the situation at hand with a fiery intensity.

"Ominous glow. Deep cave. Ancient underground war-fortress previously unexplored by ponykind. I. Smell. Trouble." Pinkie slid down to the rocky ground that had started to develop a small subterranean creek at its floor, and proceeded to slither across the wet ground like a snake, speeding ahead of the group.

Everypony was silent. Half due to the spectacle just given by the pudgy, pink pony, and half in anticipation as to what would lie ahead of them.

"It's okay! It's just a wall!" Pinkie cried out from up ahead, unseen.

The group sighed, some in relief, other in exasperation, and continued on down the underground tunnel towards the hazy glow ahead. After just a minutes steady-stepped walk the group found themselves turning a corner to see a large, seemingly crystal wall before them. It was about twenty feet side and around about the same in height, but had irregular edges as it led into the side of the cavern's walls. That which could be seen of it was a light blue in colour, with streaks of white running through it like marble. It gave off an odd glow, somewhat like that of a television set, the light drifting from its perfectly smooth surface with odd behaviour, almost like the light was a mist being softly blown from the crystal's surface. Before the wall stood Pinkie, who looked up at the structure with a childish wonder, as did some others who eventually joined the group to look upon the strange sight.

"Looks...uuuuuh~" Rainbow Dash said uneasily.

"Yeah, pretty much." Agreed Twilight.

"You think we can get HPO on this thing?" Chirped Pinkie as she raised a clenched fist and gave the surface a solid thump.

Cadance and Celestia were about to protest, but were too late to stop Pinkie. A moment after her hand came into contact with the surface the inherent energy of the structure seemed to ripple out, like a holographic wave upon the surface of the crystal. The crystal burped.

"Par-don you, mister!" Pinkie said aghast.

"What the hay was that?" Twilight asked nopony in particular, looking quizzically at the wall.

"Cadance, could you take Luna?" Celestia asked serenely.

"No, sister, I'm alright. I can stand on my own now, thank you." Luna said as Celestia let her go, after a slight sway she stood up straight, actually starting to look a little better than earlier.

Celestia gave Luna a weak smile before turning to the crystal wall and striding towards it. Fluttershy hugged Rarity's arm as Celestia drew nearer, in fear that something bad was going to happen. This fear intensified as the crystal started to softly hum as the Princess drew closer, a hum that ascended into a long drone, then into a heavy bass tone that seemed to shake her very bones. In fact, everypony started to back away in anticipation as to what would happen, and Fluttershy could bare to watch as Celestia raised her hand towards the wall. A couple of seconds later and the noise abruptly stopped, though seemed to leave the air feeling thick for some reason, and left the ponies feeling a little shaken through. Celestia had her graceful hand touching the luminous surface, her dainty fingertips pressed gently into the crystal that seemed to now be almost alive with some form of energy pulsing through it. The crystals energy shifted and darted about in strange, almost three-dimensional ways as it emitted a series of strange gurgling, purring and burping noises, sort of like a toilet being flushed. It stopped for a few second and then emitted the same sounds, in the same pattern, and then again after.

"I think it's trying to communicate." Twilight said in a hushed tone, but one Celestia seemed to hear as the white alicorn twitched her ears.

"Um...H-hello?" Celestia said, her head pushed forward, lips almost grazing the surface of the crystal.

"Keeeeert-fuuuurk!" The noise seemed like somepony had thrown a spanner into a running engine and made all present flinch.

"Exc-...I, eerm-" Celestia stuttered.

"Smeeee-Heeeeeeee!" The crystal replied.

"I don't know if this is working." Dash said unsurely.

"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Don't know. Don't know if this. Don't know if this is working. Working. Working. The pitch and tone emitted was fragmented, erratic and varied with each sentence, as if several ponies were saying different parts of Dash's sentence in different ways.

"I think it wants us to leave it alone!" Fluttershy cried from behind Rarity.

"It wants us to leave. Wants us. Wants us. I think. Leave it alone. Alone. I think it us to alone. Leave it alone. Leave us alone. Leave us to think." The chorus of voices returned, speaking nonchalantly, as if rehearsing a script for a play for the first time, but this time the voice began creating its own original sentences out of the words it heard.

"See!" Fluttershy cried out.

"See! See! See. Sea. Ocean. Water. Air. Fire. Weapon. Destroy. Create. Analyse. Analyse. Analysis complete. Exchanging." The voice began as sporadic as it had always been, but slowed as it seemed to pull words from thin air, settling as the voice of a stallion, a calm, contemplative one at that.

"What just happened?" Celestia seemed to ask herself as she stepped back.

"Communicative integration. I am exchanging." The voice said quickly, but calmly.

"Hi, Exchanging, how are you?" Pinkie asked happily.

"I am exchanging. Please set priorities."

"Priorities?" Several ponies echoed, confused.

"I am ready to exchange. Please enter requests."

"Oh! Pony Rock by Vinyl Scratch! Are we on the radio?" Pinkie said excitedly.

"I don't think we're talking to a pony." Twilight said uneasily, looking up at the canvas of pulsing energy.

"Uhm...open?" Celestia asked the crystal.

"Engaging." The voice replied.

A mechanical squeal filled the cave, startling everypony into a short-lived scream. The squealing was joined by several others, along with heavy clunky, crystal-on-crystal abrasion sounds as the surface of the wall seemed to glide in different direction, yet remained perfectly even. After several seconds of grinding, gliding, screeching sounds the wall opened apart, segments gliding away into the stone around it to reveal a large, empty, dark space beyond it.

"Well done, Princess!" Twilight said as she walked up besides Celestia with a wide smile.

"I just hope I haven't just done something I'll regret later." Celestia said peering into the dark ahead.

"Don't worry, Princess, I'm sure you won't." Reassured Twilight.

"It's not as if it isn't something I've ever done before." Celestia's head dipped slightly, her eyes flitting to look behind her for a moment before she took a deep breath in and walked forth into the strangeness ahead, leaving Twilight frowning in worry at the statement.

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"Nnnngh! It smells awful in here!" Luna protested through gritted teeth, arms wrapped around her waist.

"Cold as winter in here too." AJ added, her Leverload held tightly in her hands as the group moved carefully forward.

Fluttershy had noted a few minutes after entering the strange structure how the place smelled bad. Not a rotten, earthy kind of bad, or badly kept bathroom kind of bad, but a potent, potentially dangerous chemical kind of smell. It smelled like an accident that had happened in a chemistry class in school many years ago, acidic and with a sour ammonia tinge to it. It was like somepony had melted down a squid in a beaker of acid and splashed the solution all over the place. And the cold made the environment truly uncomfortable, Fluttershy's breath easily viewable before her own eyes. It was dark, but the strangeness of the environment presented itself in somehow illuminating the immediate surrounding to Fluttershy, and presumably everypony else, but without any lighting the yellow pegasus could see. Fluttershy suddenly became aware of a strange, yet familiar, crunchiness beneath her hooves as she trod forward, and looked down to see what she'd stepped in.

"Hey, look everypony. Snow." Fluttershy said softly as she scooped up a handful of the white powder.

"You think the Feds awful excuse for weather management has reached even down here?" Dash asked dryly.

"I don't think so. The Federation has only seized control of surface climate, there's no reason I can think of why they'd want to control the temperature down here." Twilight added as she looked at the snow with arms crossed.

"Wherever we are, that is." Rarity said, looking about at the cavernous space around them.

The vast halls seemed almost endless, like an underground city. Support beams the size of apartment building sat diagonal to one another, holding the ceiling up. Built around and between these beams were various different platforms and levels, each built with strange, angular terrain. It almost looked like this place was a gigantic power plant, the terrain made of various blocks, pyramids and other geometric shapes seeming to compose of some form of containment machinery, like rows of energy cells or fuel tanks. Structures the size of houses appeared to have once held some sort of functionality now sat lifeless in the cold. With the air soundless and glistening with ice particles, the vibe of this place was less lively than a graveyard.

"This couldn't have been built by ponies. Or the Federation." Luna said, her tone almost frightened.

"Are we really going to say it? Really?" Dash asked intensely.

"Looks like the Federation weren't the first aliens to find Equestria." Twilight said, giving words to what everypony had been thinking.

"This cold, the smell, it must be some sort of sustained environment. This must have been normal for whatever used to live in this place." Celestia said almost dreamily.

"So, if this was all built by more aliens, then where are they?" Dash asked aloud.

"Dead."

The voice was accompanied by a bright blue glow coming from besides the middle of the group. It was the same voice as earlier, and caught everypony's attention enough to turn them to face the light that had burst into existence besides them.

"Oh my." Celestia said wide eyed.