Silence that was all that was uttered throughout the silent corridors of the castle, as Twilight, the Royal guards, and Luna carried Princess Celestia’s motionless body, through the hallways, ponies gasped at the sight of the Princess’s body. They lifted her up onto her bed, laying her in a position so that it looked like she was holding a sword, like the ancient Kings and Queens of old.

Luna turned towards the guards, giving a gentle nod. ‘’You may leave. We wish to be alone.’’ The guard nodded, and turned towards the two other guards in the room, motioning with his hoof for them to leave the room. They nodded their heads, saluting him. They turned, and trotted the door, leaving out into the hallway.

‘’You too Twilight.’’ She suddenly said. Twilight turned, casting a weird glance towards the blue Alicorn. She opened her mouth to speak, but decided against it. She nodded her head, and turned, trotting out of the room.

He turned, looking towards her. Seeing the sadness that overtook her face. ‘’I’ll show myself out.’’ He gave a nod of his head, and turned towards the door, trotting out after Twilight. His hoof grabbed the knob, and pulled the door towards him. He turned, and looked towards Twilight. ‘’She wants to be alone.’’ He said, his eyes looked down. ‘’She’s going to need it.’’ He turned, and trotted down the hallway. Twilight, not wanting to leave his side, even now, trotted after him.

All over Canterlot, large groups of Royal guards were being deployed to begin rounding up most of the population. On orders from Luna, the city’s inhabitants were to be re-located to a safer location in the event of a necessary evacuation.

‘’Come on, come on. Everypony will form into groups, that group will be led by a squadron, and a Lieutenant to Canterlot’s Train Station. There they will board the train and be transported to Ponyville!’’ He instructed, standing atop a small platform so the ponies could see him better.

Amongst it all, a lone, cloaked pony slipped away, eluding the guards, and making it’s way into a nearby alley. It placed itself up against the wall, keeping itself quiet, as several guards passed by. ‘’I’ve got to warn them…Though, if there are to be believed, then this will be most beneficial.’’ It said. It turned away, and galloped down the abandoned alley, heading for the safest place for miles with Canterlot’s borders.

It rounded a corner, arriving at an abandoned steel factory. ‘’Fortunatly’’ It hasn’t been demolished yet because ‘’It was still of some value’’ to the new owner. It pushed the door open, and slipped inside.

Outside the abandoned ruined structure, there was no form of life, but movement was still made, as a shape approached the door. Moving away from the factory, it moved back the same way they had come. Returning to the least populated areas of the evacuating city.

The doors opened, and the pony stepped out of the elevator. It entered into a hallway. It turned left, and moved down through the corridor.

The humming of the tunnel’s machinery, and the soft beeping lights being the only indication that there was any life there.

The giant door moved upwards, and the pony entered inside. The door clanked upon reaching the top, before being lowered back down. He looked out in front of him, seeing several shapes standing in front of various consoles, operating their controls. Upon hearing the door clanking as it moved back down into place, they rotated their domes, and looked towards the newcomer. ‘’Hello.’’ He said, giving a gentle wave of it’s hoof towards them, but they simply ignored him, rotating their domes, and looking back towards the screens.

One of them turned towards him, it turned itself around, and slid across the floor towards him. ‘’I bring news, but I demand to speak to the Supreme.’’ He said. The figure in front of him nodded it’s eye stalk. It suddenly started to move forward, beckoning him to get out of the way. The figure approached the door, and once again, it moved up. Once it was high enough, it moved out. It entered into the hallway, as he followed after it.

They moved down another corridor, until they arrived at another door. Like with every other door in this place, it moved up, vanishing into the ceiling, as the two beings entered inside, moving into the center of a darkened chamber. A faint light flashed from amongst the surrounding darkness, and a soft humming filled the air. ‘’Speak!’’ The darkened figure ordered. ‘’Supreme, there has been a development!’’ The newcomer replied. The light lowered itself, looking down towards the pony. ‘’And you are the one in possession of it!?’’ The light asked, flashing as it spoke. The pony stepped forth, nodding his head. ‘’Yes. From the looks of it, I am the only agent that has avoided being rounded up.’’ The figure in the shadows looked back up towards the figure that had escorted the Stallion there. ‘’And the location of the Omega device. Has it been removed!?’’ He shook his head. ‘’I don’t think so. There has not been much activity at the castle, but I presume that they would want most of the local population’s attention focused on the evacuation, and not the castle itself.’’

The pony’s escort moved up, drawing the light attention towards it. ‘’The Duplicates have also been shut down. Connection with them has been lost, but we managed to recover some of their video-feed!’’ The figure said. ‘’Show me!’’ The light flashed. ‘’I obey!’’ It replied. It turned, and moved towards a darkened corner of the chamber, where several lights were glowing. It attached it’s Manipulator arm to the console, rotating it’s dome towards the light. Out in mid-air, a red screen started hovering, it displayed various points of views. In the corners of the various screens there were time-codes, making it easier to just ignore all the ones that took place before the connection with the Duplicates was lost.

‘’There!’’ He exclaimed, pointing his hoof towards the screen. The frame stopped, and it was brought into full view. The escort rotated it’s dome, and looked towards the screen, interrupting the connection between it’s Manipulator arm and the console.

‘’Him.’’ He said, pointing towards the image of the Medic. There was no reply from the light in the shadows. It just starred silently towards the image of the Medic.

Slowly, the light turned, looking towards the pony’s escort. ‘’Inform all Section Commanders that we cannot wait, we will strike at the first crack of dawn!’’ It ordered. This worried the stallion a little, as he didn’t like being left out of their plans, and lately he had been left out a lot by the Kaleds.

‘’Wait, what are we doing?’’ He asked, nervously. The lights shifted, looking towards him. He looked towards both of them with worried glances. ‘’Our time has run out! There is nothing we can do. We must advance our plans, and begin carrying out the final phase of our plan!’’ The light replied. ‘’And we need everyone who is able-bodied who can fight, to fight…! Everyone!’’ It said, slowly, gliding across the floor towards him. Frightened, he started to back away from it. It raised it’s Manipulator arm, holding it towards him, as he backed away from it.

‘’No-No…! NOOOOOOOOO! NOT NOW! I’M NOT READY!!!’’

The doors to the Canterlot Throne room swung open, banging against the walls, as he and Twilight trotted inside the in-need-of-repair chamber. He looked in front of him, seeing Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie standing by the throne. They turned, looking towards the new arrivals, as soon as they heard the door slam against the wall. Twilight and the Medic trotted up towards them. Staring, slowly, towards them.

‘’Celestia is still…not awake.’’ Twilight said, lowering her head. The Medic turned his head, casting her a glance, looking his eyes down.

‘’I don’t expect she ever will.’’ He said. He looked up, seeing that all the eyes were on him. Looking to the left, he saw Twilight starring towards him, but her expression was that of complete sadness. A tear ran down her cheek, dropping down to the floor. ‘’Whatever she did to undo Equestria’s destruction by the Sun’s explosion could never have been accomplished without her life being claimed in the process – It was inevitable. It had to be done.’’ After he was finished talking, he turned himself away from them, facing the stained

His attention shifted from the Element Bearers towards one of the stained glass windows. He narrowed his eyes. ‘’But Celestia’s death is the least of our troubles…’’ Suddenly, a powerful punch was delivered to his face. He fell to the floor.

Turning back around, and looking up, he brought a hoof to his cheek, as his eyes starred into the enraged, infuriated face of Twilight. She breathed heavily, slowly, as she glared angrily down towards him, as he lay on the floor.

‘’You will not mock her!’’ Twilight shouted down towards him. Her sudden outburst startled her friends, causing them to jump back from her. ‘’The Princess…’’ She paused. Her mouth hung open. She lowered her head, and brought her hooves up to her mouth, as she started to sob. She threw herself forward, grabbing him with her hooves.

‘’Twilight!’’ Her friends exclaimed. In panic, he closed his eyes shut.

Through the screen on it’s dome, the ACE looked up towards the projected screen in front of it. On the screen, various pieces of information was displayed before it, images from various places, locations, and a few perspectives were on the right side of the screen, some life feeds from current units.

Standing on both sides of the door, were a pair of black-domed, Royal Guards. They stood motionless, as the ACE analyzed the gathered information on the recent couple of days. It’s digital eye looked up, down, and towards the center of the screen.

It’s silence was interrupted by the soft beeping of a red light on the walls. The screen de-activated itself, vanishing away. The figure turned around, looking out towards the door in front of it. The beeping stopped, and the red light ceased blinking. Another, holographic, blue screen appeared in front of it, this time displaying the head-shot of a Dalek.

‘’Report status?’’ The ACE instructed. ‘’We are at full capacity. It will begin on your command.’’ The Dalek replied. On-screen, it’s dome rotated, looking the eye-stalk towards some off-screen.

‘’Very well. Fire on my command.’’ It said. It’s eye-stalk moved back to look at the screen, staring towards the ACE. ‘’We await your command, ACE.’’

‘’The order is given. Proceed with the ignition!’’ It exclaimed. ‘’I obey.’’

The ground started to shake violently, cracks forced it’s way through the skin of the earth, ripping it apart, causing the broken pieces to fall down into the chasm, the foundation castle of the two pony sisters started to come crumbling down, crashing upon hitting the ground, breaking into debris, and falling into the chasm . Up from the darkness a loud humming ascended, echoing into the night, as wild running lights projected up from the chasm.

Standing in amongst the trees of the forest, a figure stood, looking up towards the sky, it watched as multiple lights shined down upon the world underneath the vast shape rose higher, and higher above the ground. Turning back around, the figure started to trot back into the forest.

Back in the Throne room, he stood in front of the destroyed stained glass window, staring down, gazing towards the entirety of Canterlot, as images flashed before his eyes. Delivering a powerful punch to his face, causing the Mane Six’s glances, as they suddenly heard someone punch themselves, when they saw the Medic shake his head, holding his hoof up to his cheek, where he had punched, they cast several confused glances towards him.

‘’Sorry about that.’’ He excused himself, rubbing his chin, before trotting back to the group. ‘’Now it may not be much, but it’s the only thing we’ve got…’’ He said, Applejack cracked an eyebrow at him. ‘’Well then, let’s hear it. Without the Princesses, we’ll need everything we’ve got.’’ Twilight spoke, holding out her hoof.

‘’Who says that the Princesses have put out of commission?’’

The familiar sound of a teleportation spell emerged behind them, Twilight being the first to turn around, and looked behind them, her eyes lit up, and her worried look frown twisted itself into an overjoyed smile.

‘’Princess Luna!’’ She, and the other Element bearers shouted, as in the doorway of the Throne room, stood the familiar shape of the Princess of the Night.

The Mane six smiled overjoyed, but Twilight’s newly rejuvenated happiness, soon faded, as she approached the blue Alicorn. ‘’But Princess, what about your sister? I thought you were mourning her.’’ Twilight said, watching as Luna’s face contorted into a frown, her eyes looking away – Before long, they turned back, looking down into the face of the lavender Unicorn. ‘’It is true, Twilight Sparkle. My sister’s passing is disheartening, she was my closest friend, my mentor in some respect, and a mighty ruler-…’’

Rainbow raised her hoof, bringing it up in front of her mouth. ‘’Even if she did turn a little crazy.’’

‘’But what matters now is ensuring that Equestria is safe, so that her sacrifice may not have been in vain.’’ She put a hoof to Twilight’s shoulder, causing the Unicorn mare to nod her head back. Luna turned her attention towards the Medic, retracting her hoof from Twilight’s shoulder, and trotted forth towards him.

‘’So, what’s your plan?’’ She asked, he stuttered to form the words in his mouth, lowering his head, and looking it away from her – Bringing it back up, as he heard her voice speak to him again. ‘’I assume you DO have a plan, don’t you.’’ She asked nervously, a wry smile settled on his face, as he gave a gentle nod. ‘’Oh, better than that.’’ He said, turning his head, and gazing towards Twilight, a slight increase in the already existent smile on his face. ‘’I’ve got a solution…It’s not much, but it’s something, and if I’m right, then something is our best hope at this point.’’ Twilight opened her mouth to speak, but he was already trotting forward, heading towards the door, he reached his hoof inside the trench coat pocket, and retrieved the Sonic. Once in the doorway, he stopped, and turned himself around, facing Luna, and the rest, as he held out the Sonic.

‘’But first, I’m going to require the good Captain.’’ Luna cracked an eyebrow, and turned towards Twilight, who merely shrugged, neither of them noticing his grin. His eyes turned towards Luna, and his grin subsided. ‘’Princess…’’ He said, stepping to the side, extending out his hoof towards the door. ‘’Oh, of course.’’ She started to trot forward, approaching him – Trotting past him, as she led on.

‘’I would also appreciate it if you showed me where you previously kept the Elements of Harmony.’’ He said, she turned, cracking an eyebrow, and giving him a confused glance. ‘’Why?’’ She asked, not quite understanding the significance of it. ‘’You’ll see my dear Princess…Soon everything will fall nicely into place.’’

The Mane six turned towards each other, having no clue what he was thinking. Outside the shattered glass window, surrounded in a thick layer of a red filter, Canterlot burned, and in the distance, a dark, red light erupted in the distance, rumbling loudly, as heavy storm clouds lingered in place.

Suddenly, his voice called back from down the hall. ‘’Oh, and by the way! Can you girls look over the Throne room for me!? Okay! Be back!’’ The sound of clopping returned, and the five ponies in the room, knew that he and Luna could not be reached, not until they got back. They turned, attending to what the Medic had told them. Rainbow Dash flew towards the shattered window, hovering in the air, as she looked out through it, Applejack and Pinkie Pie trotted towards separate windows on the other side, Rarity trotted towards some of the windows on the same side Dash, and started guarding them, and Twilight turned, looking back towards the front doors, slamming the two giant doors shut with her magic, and sitting herself down, as she stared towards the shut door.

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