Pinkie flew back into the wall behind as Twilight's magic grew. It was now ripping the walls into pieces. She looked at the windows and they were starting to crack. She had to do something to calm Twilight or her entire apartment was going to be rubble along with her! She got up and stumbled towards Twilight, trying to get a hold of her and have her revert to the old Twilight.

"Twilight...please....come back." Pinkie pleaded, making her way towards the rage consumed unicorn. Twilight's eyes only glowed a brighter white as more magic released from her body, threatening to throw Pinkie right off her hooves. And yet Pinkie still pressed on. She had to bring Twilight back. She already thought she lost her once and she wasn't going to lose her again.

Twilight's mind raced with thoughts of Luna. Luna...the comforter....Luna...the friend....Luna....the betrayer. How could she be so foalish?! Her friend's murderer was right beside her the whole time!

How did she..fail?

Twilight's rage only grew, now with the realization of her utter failure. She wasn't her friend's avenger. She was an accomplice. If she would have took Pinkie to Luna, she would have killed her, and then probably killed her too.

She betrayed you...

I know....

She lied to you

I know...

She killed them...

I know!

You let her get away with it. You failed to avenge them. Failed

Twilight screamed within her unmeasureable rage."I KNOW! STOP IT!" This voice in her head toyed with her. Why was it tormenting her?

YOU FAILED!

"SHUT UP!!" Magic swirled even faster around her, her skin now turning into a dark purple and her pink streak in her mane and tail turned snow white. Her rage was changing her, destroying her mind. She couldn't stop it, she only gave in to it and fed it her guilt, her anger and her pain. It was breaking her...

A hoof grabbed onto her arm. Twilight slowly turned and laid her white glowing eyes onto a cut-up pink mare. Pinkie pushed through her whirlwind of magic to get to her. Her cuts looked as if they were caused by flying pieces of debris and glass.

Pinkie looked up into the burning white eyes and looked deep into them, trying to find the Twilight she knew.

"It's okay, Twilight. It's okay to be angry. Just calm down and come back." Pinkie said quietly. "It's okay."

Twilight looked upon her, looking at her hoof holding onto her arm. She was telling her it was okay. Was it? Suddenly, she felt something shoot across her mind like a bolt of lightning through her brain. The magic abruptly ceased and she fell down to the floor. Darkness closed in on her and she only heard a name that seemed to fade away....

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Twilight woke up with her body feeling numb. She shook her head a bit to try and get rid of a ringing sound inside her head. She slowly stood up, regaining her balance and took in her surroundings. Everything was dark.... She tried casting a light spell, but nothing happened. Her magic wasn't working.

What's going on?

"Your magic doesn't work here." a voice replied. Twilight looked around, but couldn't find who answered her.

"Who are you?" she called out.

"You." The voice was much closer now. Twilight spun around and before her was...her, but she was different. Her eyes were white and where her pink strand that ran through her mane and tail was replaced by a white one. Her fur was a dark purple.

"Me? You have similarities but you're not me." Twilight stated flatly. This was not her, but how did she know what she was thinking earlier? Who is this? Where am I?

"Like I said before, I'm you, and to answer the second question, we're in your psyche, or if you prefer, your mind."

Twilight stared at her. She was in her mind? In a way it would make sense, considering there was something standing in front of her that could read her thoughts, but how was she her?

"Okay, I'm in my mind, but you're still not me. There's only one me."

"Okay, I'll be more specific. I am a part of you, which therefore makes me you."

Was she losing her mind? She was talking to something that was a part of her? None of this was making sense to her, and she usually made sense of everything, except for The Pinkie Sense.

Pinkie...where's Pinkie Pie? The only thing she remembered, was Pinkie holding her her arm and telling her something. Other than that, the rest was blank.

"Pinkie is fine. You could have hurt her really badly. Luckily, she only has some cuts and bruises."

"Stop doing that!" Twilight said annoyingly. She was getting pretty tired of this...thing reading her mind.

"I can't. I said I'm a part of you, so when you think, I know what you're thinking. We're part of the same mind. For a pony that studies all the time, you seem to not have much common sense."

Twilight's face turned red with frustration. She hated being mocked and further more, when her own intelligence was questioned.

"You mentioned Pinkie. What did I do?" Twilight tried to remember, but all she knew was Pinkie holding her arm, mouthing words.

"You lost control. You gave in to your rage and, well, I pulled you back here to stop you. Right now, your unconscious but you'll be back up after we're done here."

Twilight remembered a pain that struck through her skull. It must have been whatever this thing did to pull her into her mind. Then memories flooded into her head. She felt rage, pain and guilt surrounding her. She remembered Pinkie yelling at her to come back.

Then she saw herself, surrounded by raw magic, destroying everything and throwing Pinkie back. She saw the anger in her glowing white eyes. It was so much anger, that Twilight shuddered. That was her?

I did that?

"Yes, you did. That's what happens when you give in and lose control."

Twilight only looked at the seemingly all knowing being.

"You said you were a part of me. What part?"

"Finally, you remember! About time. Anyway, I'm the part that makes you special. I am the Element of Magic."

Twilight choked on her own saliva hearing this. This was the Element of Magic? It was talking to her?

"How?! The elements are physical items, not spirits or whatever you are."

"Did you not pay attention when you went into Pinkie's mind? Luna was taking the essences from your friends. That is what I am. When you used the elements, we, the essences, manifested inside our bearer and give them the power of that certain element. We, or you, is what makes the artifacts work. Without the essence of that element, the artifact would be useless."

Twilight pondered this for a moment. So the elements were not physical items, but really a spiritual one? The artifacts are only there to help channel that power then. <i>But I didn't have the artifact with me. How did I use its power?</i>

"Now that's a good question!" the being said, abruptly. " You used your emotions to unleash your element. Your emotions are what fuels the elements, and depending on these emotions, can turn that power into something more than just flying, and strangely dangerous rainbows."

Twilight's head clicked. It was their emotions that powered their elements. She remembered the first time that she and her friends used them against Nightmare Moon. She had a feeling of warmth and bonding. It was that feeling of friendship with her friends that she felt. The whole time she thought it was the artifacts themselves that held their powers, but that was not the case.

"So my rage at Lu..her...caused me to unleash my element's power? My RAGE amplified its power?"

"Exactly! Your rage combined with your pain and guilt unleashed your element, and with devastating effects. It was destroying you, Twilight. If I hadn't intervened, that raw magical power would have torn you and Pinkie to pieces. I think you already felt some of the effects of it mentally."

She was right. Twilight remembered the voice that tortured her in her head. How she had failed her friends and that it was her fault. It only angered her more by hearing it.

"So that voice in my head was one of the effects? It only made me more angry."

"Yes, what you were hearing was rage itself. It wanted you to get angrier, to destroy everything and you gave into it. You lost control, so I had to stop you, as I said before."

Twilight understood. That would explain why her element was unleashed and why it was so destructive. She had to maintain control of it.

"Well thank you for stopping me. I could only imagine if I was left to continue...whatever that was. But how do I prevent that from happening again? How do I get rid of this rage?"

"You don't." the essence of magic stated. "Rage is a part of you now. You spent ten years channeling your rage towards Pinkie. You created it and now it's part of you. With no clear channel for it, your rage wants to consume you into senseless anger, having you disregard your's or others' safety."

Twilight knew this to be true. She spent ten years looking for Pinkie Pie, always angry for what she thought she did. She would wake up angry, go to bed angry, and would repeat this daily. Rage is what drove her every day to track and find her. Rage told her that she had to die, and only until this was done, would it be satisfied.

Then to learn that all that rage formed off a lie, a lie created by Luna that cost her ten years filled with pain and horrible dreams of her friends screaming her name while Pinkie killed them. A misguided and now lost rage. But if she couldn't get rid of it, then what was she to do?

"Then what do I do? Just stop being angry? I can't just shut that off. Luna killed them. I can't just not be angry about that."

"You keep in mind who you're angry at. Before, you were more angry at yourself, for what you thought as a failure, and your rage took advantage of that and used it against you. You lost all care and became enraged with the world. You wanted it all to end. Rage was gonna give you what you wanted at the cost of your life and Pinkie's. Channel your rage at Luna, for what she has done, and you will have complete control over it."

"I don't know if I want to use this anymore, though." Twilight was now terrified of herself. She was willing to kill Pinkie, her lover, and not even care, just because of her selfish wants. She was afraid to now use this rage to channel her element.

"You will have to, Twilight, because sooner or later, Luna will find out that you know the truth and come to kill you. You will have to fight her eventually. Do not fear this rage, but embrace it and control it."

"But even if I fought against her, I would be killed in seconds! Even if Pinkie helped me, we would BOTH be killed! What chance do we have?" It was hopeless. She knew that she was angry at Luna for what she had done, but what chance did she have? Luna was a princess, an immortal. She was a just a typical unicorn who loved a pink earth pony. Even combined, they wouldn't stand a chance.

"You're right. The two of you would be destroyed swiftly. But now that you know how to release your element, you can teach Pinkie and the other elements how. Together, the Elements of Harmony would decimate any who stand against them, even an immortal goddess."

Was this thing crazy? Did she not realize what the problem was with that plan?

"Do you not realize that the other bearers are <i>dead</i>? How can I teach them when they're bucking dead?!" Twilight's heart twisted. Was this just another lie? Was she simply going crazy and now she was in her own mind, being tortured?

"They are dead, but only physically. If you recall Pinkie's memory, Luna took their element's essence from them. They are not completely dead. They are simply trapped, sort of in a Limbo."

The necklace!

"Exactly. That necklace is what holds them prison."

Is it possible? Twilight thought about the necklace and how it would suck the essence from her deceased friends. Was it possible that they could...?

"Are you telling me that I could bring my friends back if I had that necklace? They would be alive again?"

"I am not sure. All I know is that their essence is trapped within that necklace, and a bearer's essence is powerful enough to transcend death. The problem is, I do not know what you must do once you have it. That is something you will have to find out yourself, but I can help you with your endeavor."

Twilight expected that this wouldn't be simple, but if there was any hope of getting her friends back, she would take it. To have them again was something she was willing to kill for. She would get that necklace and find out how to free their essence and bring them back to life.

"How could you help? I mean, yes, you are the essence of the my element, but you only help channel my power. What could you do to help?"

The being only smiled. "Let me take part of your mind. I will be able to speak with you in your mind, and help you. Also, it will allow me to take charge if you lose control again, but without sending you into your own mind."

Twilight thought about this. Was she willing to let this entity take a part of her mind? How would she know that this thing really wanted to help, and not just wanted to control, or even possibly take over her mind? She already learned the consequences of misplacing your trust in someone...

"You will still have complete control over your mind, if that's what you're worried about. Remember, I'm only a part of you, thus you control the whole. I can only take action if you give me permission to, and once I do what I am given permission to do, I will be forced out,"

Twilight nodded. She was going to have to trust it. She would need all the help she could get if she was going to get her friends back.

"Alright, I'll let you. You will help me get my friends back and then we will deal with Luna."

The entity nodded. "I will help you, Twilight Sparkle. Now that you know what you must do, and have a better understanding of the elements, I will send you back. I will be with you always now. All you have to do is ask and I will answer. Are you ready?"

Twilight nodded, feeling something she hasn't felt for years: hope. A hope that she could bring her friends back, a hope that she would make Luna pay, but most of all, a hope that she could be happy again.

"I'm ready."

Darkness started to envelope her once again and take over. She now had a plan to set things right. She was ready to go back out and try again. She never failed, only progressed. She found out the truth, and as painful as it was, it saved her friend... her marefriend...and together they would set it all right.

She couldn't wait...

**Edited by SuperChaosKG**

(A/N. Well, can't believe I cranked this out 2:15 in the morning. So there ya go, Part 4 ready to go. Hope you guys are liking the story as much as I am writing it. I'm getting a bit addicted to it in a way. Cheers.)