Twilight woke up to find herself back in the Castle of Friendship. “Huh, what's going on here?” She said as she got up. She found herself on top of the map. “I’m back, but how?”

“Twilight are you okay?“ She heard a voice and turned to see Spike. He looked the way he always did.

“Spike?” said Twilight, still confused as to what was going on. “Spike what are you doing here?”

“What do you mean?” said Spike, looking confused himself. “Don’t you remember? You wanted me to go get Rarity?” he stepped aside to show Rarity behind him. “See? I brought her here like you said and then we found you unconscious.”

“Oh, sorry,” said Twilight. “I must have been dreaming.”

“What about, dear?” said Rarity as she stepped forward.

“Well, you wouldn't believe me even if I told you.”

“Well, go ahead and try us.”

“Alright, well, I had the strangest dream that Rainbow Dash and Soarin were leaders of this rebel faction and they were telling me all this crazy stuff.”

“What kind of crazy stuff?” Spike asked. Suddenly he had a cup of tea in his claw. Unfortunately Twilight didn’t notice it.

“Stuff like Equestria had been conquered by Nightmare Moon, and I was leading another group of rebels,” said Twilight. Suddenly she was no longer sitting on the table.

“Really? That sounds awesome!!” For a second Spike sounded strangely similar, like Rainbow Dash. “I mean aside from the fact that Nightmare Moon had conquered the world.”

“Wait, I said Equestria not the world,” said Twilight. “At least it seemed like she just conquered Equestria and not the rest of the world.”

“Oh well, that sounds like a terrible dream,” said Rarity. Her accent was slightly off.

“Yeah, but what else did you see, dear,” said Spike. He was sounding a bit off as well.

“Well, I recall seeing you two, and you looked way different than what you usually do.”

“What do you mean? dahlin,” asked Rarity.

“What?“ said Twilight. She was slowly starting to notice something amiss as they were now suddenly outside the Crystal Tree House.

“What did we look like, dear,” asked Spike.

“What?” asked Twilight. She started to move away from them. ‘What’s going on here? Why is Spike saying ‘dear’? And did Rarity just say ‘dahlin’?’ Twilight’s mind was racing now even faster as she turned to suddenly find herself in the Castle of the Two Sisters. “What’s going on here?”

“You haven’t figured it out, Twilight?” said an unknown voice.

“What?” said Twilight as she spun around to try to see where the voice came from. As she spun, she noticed that Spike and Rarity were gone. “Wait, where are Spike and Rarity?”

“We’re right here, dear.”

Twilight turned back around once she heard Rarity’s voice, but her face went white with terror as the voice was coming from Spike. Twilight was knocked back so much by this, she fell over.

“What’s wrong, dear? You seem a bit off.”

“No stay back!” said Twilight, as she scooted away from him. Something was definitely going wrong here, but Twilight couldn’t figure out what.

Suddenly there was a scream through the hallway. Twilight heard the voice and it sounded way too familiar. She got up and ran to the scream, not knowing what she would find. Spike just stood there and said, “Run. Run as fast as you can. You will never escape my power, daughter,” as he vanished like smoke.

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Twilight ran as fast as she could. The walls of the hallway were starting to melt like liquid. It was as if reality was being bent. Things got crazier as Twilight found the scream’s origins, but the scream had stopped. Twilight started trembling from what she found in the room.

In it was a white alicorn in a long rainbow dress, its colors matching her mane. It was Princess Celestia. She was just laying there, not moving at all. Twilight moved closer as blood started to pour into the room from pipes in the walls. She was in too much shock to notice the blood surrounding her, or the fact that the hallway was just gone. There was just the room. Twilight moved even closer until she was standing right over Celestia. Tears ran down Twilight’s face as she realized that Celestia was dead. She broke down in tears right there, wrapping her arms around Celestia’s head. Celestia was her mentor, she was like a second mother to her, and now she was gone. Or so Twilight thought as she started to hear a voice coming from Celestia.

“Twilight, why did you kill me?”

“What?” said Twilight, in absolute horror.

“Why did you kill me? Why did you kill me? Why did you kill me? Why did you kill me?” the voice just kept repeating over and over. Celestia began to melt like the hallways before. It was this that got Twilight to notice the room filling up with blood. She screamed in terror, as the blood went up to her knees. The melting ooze that was Celestia started to scream in agony. The scream slowly started to change from a scream of agony to a scream of pleasure, then to a roar of hatred.

Twilight gaped as out the ooze something rose forth that made everything even stranger. It was a lavender alicorn with a navy blue mane. Twilight knew instantly this was herself. But she looked different. She was wearing the armor from the memories. This Twilight looked exactly like Rainbow Dash's description of the alternate timeline’s Twilight.

But the voice was very different, “Oh hello Twilight, how's my loving daughter doing?” said the Other Twilight, as the blood that was filling up the room stopped flowing and started to lower.

“What are you talking about? Who are you?”

“Hmm, let me guess you’re used to seeing my other form. Fine then.” She grabbed out a knife and tore open her chest, then she pulled at the tear until her skin started to come off like a suit, but with every bit of blood gushing out.

Twilight backed away in horror, as out of the flesh rose forth a black silhouette of another alicorn, her mane floating. This one much taller, but Twilight couldn’t see its coat color at all. And as Twilight looked at the face, her terror reaching its boiling point. Then the eyes opened, revealing the eyes of Nightmare Moon.

******

Twilight woke up screaming. Discord heard the scream and ran over, “Wow, wow! Calm down! It was just one of Nightmare Moon's terror dreams,” said Discord, trying to calm her. “You have to deal with them every few nights.”

“What?” said Twilight, as she slowly calmed down.

“Well when your world is ruled by her tyranny, you try your best to get past the nightmares.”

“Are you saying everypony gets these nightmares?”

“Yes everypony, every few nights,” said Discord, as he pointed to the outside. “Just listen.”

Twilight listened and heard screams all throughout the ruins. “No, no, no!” she said as she trembled, “No, no, no!” Tears fell down her face more and more until she just broke down crying. Discord grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around her.

“It will be okay, it will be okay. You just have to deal with it or not sleep.”

“How will it be okay? How am I supposed to think of something if I can’t get some sleep?”

“You will just find other things to do other than sleep.”

“Like what?”

“How about a game of checkers?” He said as he transformed into a checkerboard.

“Well, no.”

“Alright, how about a story?”

“Nah, I don’t want to hear any more stories of this timeline.”

“No, Twilight, I want to hear a story from you.”

“What?”

“We’ve been telling our stories about our timeline, so I think it’s only fair that this time you tell something from your timeline.”

So it was decided that Twilight would tell Discord some stories from her timeline.

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Meanwhile in the caves under Equestria a dragon and his mare were sitting at a lovely table. It was cover with beautiful tapestries. Spike the dragon was on one side and Rarity was on the other. Spike was wearing a brilliant black tuxedo and Rarity was wearing the most elegant of fancy dresses. It was purple like her mane (which she had tied in a bob) and had white lines going over it. She wore a veil over her head. She also wore long sleeves.

The two sat quietly and ate some dinner. The meal was very silent, no word was spoken until the meal was done, after which a few diamond dogs in suits took the plates away.

Rarity turned to one of the diamond dogs and said, “Would you be a dear and tell the chef that I thank him for the lovely meal? As always, it was delicious.” They took the plates away, then Rarity turned back to Spike and said, “So I heard you took Sweetie Belle to the Ponyville library?”

“Yeah, she had fun reading all kinds of books. She is always wondering what the world was like before the Empire,” said Spike. “I just wish I could show her more, but I never knew what the world was like either.”

“Yes, I wish I could tell her about some of the world too, but I remember very little before the empire as well.”

A silence fell between them. They both took a moment, then Spike spoke. “So you're wearing a lovely dress tonight.”

“Oh Spikey, you charmer,” said Rarity, then she hesitated for a moment. “Spike, would you think this dress was lovely on anypony, or just me?” He gave no answer as he turned his face away from for a minute. Rarity saw this and got up from the table and walked over to her husband.

“Is it because of the veil,” asked Rarity as she was standing in front of him. Again no answer. “Why do you go silent on me, when I mention the way I look and not just the dress?” Again no answer, so she sat on his lap. “You know you were never silent during our times of passion in our bedroom,” She wrapped her legs around him, pulling him closer. Their faces were just centimeters apart, but there was more silence as Spike just kept his face turned. Then she lifted the veil. “You know I will never blame you for this. You saved my life, both outside and inside, remember,” She pulled his claw to her chest. He finally calmed after hearing the duel heart beats.

“Yeah, I’m sorry, you look lovely, as always,” Spike said. He turned and gave her a peck. “Even without this lovely dress too,” He wrapped his arms around her.

“Well, it is a lovely dress. It took a few hours to make, but it was worth it,” she said as she did the same, She leaned into him and whispered into his ear. “And it's easily removable,” With that obvious hint in mind, Spike picked up Rarity as he got up. She gave a giggle as he carried her away. They continued back to their bedroom for a few hours until morning.

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Author's Notes:

Well here it the new chapter. Now it may have not felt different. But it is different, then the original. Anyway as I said this will be last posted chapter this month. On another note I'm going to be looking for an extra proofreader, as well as an editor. My current proofreader is so far ahead of the rest of you, that I don't want bug them with past mistakes we both missed. So I'm asking here and in a few other place. Will you help me?

If you are curious just PM me.