(A/N hello everyone, just thought I'd let you know that I am doing the sequel and it'll be in Trottingham. I need 3 OC survivors, rules and guidelines will be in a blogpost very soon so keep an eye out for it. in the meantime PM me bios and possibly pony codes. Enjoy my friends! -Dark)

“I know you said you were close, but in my 178 years of life I never once saw her act so young. She was like an excited high school girl with a crush.” Starswirl said as they flew.

“Really? When I was a little girl she was pretty playful. I always said she should get back to her duties, but she always said ‘You are my student, therefore it is my duty to teach you and make you happy’. When I got older we would sit and talk for hours on end since I no longer needed most of her lessons.” Twilight explained.

“In my time, if she would have acted like that then anyone who saw her like that would have known instantly she was in love. Obviously it wasn’t this kind of love when you were younger, but love can grow and bend a bit.” Starswirl.

“Thanks.” Twilight said as they landed outside of the hardware store.

“Now, you do know the government and those who are close minded will belittle the two of you for the same sex part of the relationship, but I hear people get angry when a relationship between two of only a few years’ difference starts up. For you two it’d be centuries.” Starswirl said.

“Well, first of all I don’t think anyone would dare get between us, my girlfriend moves the sun and her girlfriend is the survivor of Canterlot. Secondly, I don’t care what people think. I never really did much besides those who mattered, but all this time alone probably didn’t help that.” Twilight said as she opened the door and found her way to the magic tools section.

“Good point, what are you here for again?” Starswirl asked.

“Last time I was here I left behind some of the things that did the things I could do with magic, like saws and stuff. I’ve been experimenting with the Longsword and some of my old designs, if I had the right materials I could replicate the longsword now so I know everything about it. I don’t know about you, but having interchangeable weapons or even just a saw blade hand would be pretty damn cool eh?” Twilight said, picking up a circular saw from the rack.

“You’re like a mad scientist my dear and I absolutely love it. If we find a fast and easy way to produce these things we can give them to the others outside and make sure the people that come to help us clear the city when we fix the toxin problem will be better equipped than spears and shields.” Starswirl said.

“Hm... Spears and Shields...” Twilight said to herself as she looked around.

“I know that look, you’ve got a brilliant Idea don’t you?” Starswirl asked.

“Not sure yet.” Twilight said as she found what she was looking for. There was a series of torches meant to channel magic through an amplifier to make it cut or weld metal together. She had a few of them at the house, but she was going to need a lot of them for what she wanted.

“You’re either going to be cutting things or you need parts, right?” Starswirl asked.

“Parts, I’ve just come up with a design that might work well in our favor.” Twilight said as she put all of the torches into her back and took off through a hole in the ceiling.

“Where are we headed now?” Starswirl asked.

“The university.” Twilight replied.
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“Don’t you already have a fair amount of gemstones?” Starswirl asked as they entered the Gem Library of the Magic University.

“Yes, but only some of them have the enchantments I need. Plus I’d like to find manuals or something on how to do it so all I need to do is go to the jeweler's shop that’s near the house and enchant my own. gems.” Twilight said as she used her magic and hands alike to clean the room of enchanted gems.

“First you get torches for parts, now you’re getting enchanted gemstones? I’m excited to see what you’ve come up with!” Starswirl exclaimed.

“Shit, that’s going to have to wait.” Twilight said as she replaced her mask and turned towards where she felt a strong source of magic.

“I see it, it’s a Spectre. Get in close and make contact with it and I’ll take care of it.” Starswirl said. Twilight nodded and put a small barrier around herself. Just as the magic creature entered the room, Twilight dashed at it and grabbed its head with her right hand. She felt it’s unstable energy being drained by Starswirl’s gem. When it was drained it was just a normal Ghast and she took it’s head off with the Longsword’s blade.

“I can see more coming, apparently they’re attracted to the sudden loss of magical energy from you taking those gems. I recommend finding that manual or whatever you called it and making a swift exit.” Starswirl said as Twilight searched the shelves of books.

“Shit I’m going to have to risk it.” Twilight said.

“Risk what?” Starswirl asked.

“A teleport.” Twilight said.

“How is that a risk?” Starswirl asked.

“The city is falling apart and everything changes. My house it too far from here for me to safely get inside of it and there’s almost no space to make it successful. last time I teleported I was under three tons of rubble... But I can’t fight that many Spectres at once and these walls are heavily reinforced.” Twilight said as she put a few books into her bag.

“I’d offer my assistance but I don’t know where you want to try to teleport to nor do I have a very good knowledge of the city.” Starswirl said.

“It’s alright. I’ll try and chain two together. If I go to the edge of my safe range then I should be able to teleport us to the house.” Twilight said.

“Well I recommend you do so, there are five of them nearly here.” Starswirl said. Twilight could see the unstable energy that surrounded the Spectre in the front and quickly used the teleport spell.
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Starswirl flinched in his gemstone prison as he heard Twilight’s scream. She had tried to teleport them into an alley between two strong buildings, hoping there was no debris, and found herself partly inside of the wall of one of the buildings. Her left leg was in the wall just above the knee and her left arm was stuck halfway up her arm past the elbow.

“Oh no...” Starswirl said. “Twilight, Ghasts heard you scream... There are some slowly making their way over here...” Starswirl said.

There were tears running down Twilight’s face that she couldn’t concentrate enough to stop. She wasn’t just stuck, her arm and leg were crushed and annihilated in the thick wall. She could hear the sound of acid burning through the thick concrete, but it would take far too long with GHasts on the way to let her go free.

“I... I can’t focus on the spell to Teleport, and even if I could it would try and take this fucking wall with me!” Twilight hissed.

“If I push it I can see the house with a sight spell so I can do the teleport, but I don’t have enough to take the wall.” Starswirl said.

“We’re not taking the fucking wall you moron!” Twilight yelled as the Longsword’s blade slid out. Starswirl stared in shock as Twilight amputated her arm and leg in order to get free of the wall. As she created shaky magical barriers around the stumps to stop the blood from spilling she clenched her teeth and gave him a look that said ‘if we’re not home in five seconds I’m going to destroy you’. With a flash of white light they were in the house.

“Damnit I knew I should have tried a more open area!” Twilight said, trying to keep from screaming. The barriers around her stumps began to waver as she dropped to the floor and a few drops of her blood got through the barrier. Starswirl used his absorbed magic to strengthen the barrier as the drops started eating through the floor.

“T-thanks...” Twilight said. She used her magic to weakly bring over enchanted bandages she had made lots of and began wrapping them around her stumps. Once that was done she levitated over a pole that she used to get her into her bed.

“I need to rest... I haven’t felt pain like that ever in my life...” Twilight said.

“Alright, don’t die on me though.” Starswirl said.

“Don’t worry, it’ll take more than this to get rid of me.” Twilight said.
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“What are you doing up already?” Starswirl asked. He had been ‘sleeping’ along with Twilight and a few hours later he had awoken to find the armor he was notched in on a counter as Twilight had odd purple limbs to replace the missing ones.

“Getting to work. I saw this thing in a movie once and I can make something like it. I found all the parts I needed at that hardware store. It’s almost done come take a look.” Twilight said, levitating the gem out of the socket and letting it rest next to the device she was working on.

“It looks like a sphere nearly twice the diameter of my gem if it were a sphere.” Starswirl said.

“It is, it had circular magic projectors and amplifiers built into it. I’m just finishing the socket for it now. Basically you would be able to take form of whatever you wanted with a little magic.” Twilight said.

“And how does this work?” Starswirl asked.

“Basically you’d be forming what you want to look like with your magic, the projectors and amplifiers will give it shape and form for virtually no energy cost. It’d be solid, but how sturdy depends on how much magic you use. I’ve rigged it so you would be like it’s heart, with the enchantments on it you would generate magic like a living thing.” Twilight said.

Starswirl was silent and slightly doubtful as Twilight placed his gem into the socket and closed the few hatches to protect it. Suddenly, he felt a slight beat coming from within his prison. Using his magical sight, he saw that slowly but steadily a tiny flow of magic was being generated.

“It’ll take awhile to grow, but in a few days it should be able to sustain you without using your absorbed energy. Go on, try manifesting a form.” Twilight said, sitting on her bed and letting her magic limbs dissipate. The sphere slowly began to float, Starswirl was using a levitation spell on his sphere, and emit a slight purple glow. After a few moments Twilight was looking at a purple version of Starswirl.

“Ah, it appears it’s taken the color of what my magic used to be. Delightful!” Starswirl said with a grin that could now be seen.

“It worked!” Twilight exclaimed, pumping her intact arm.

“You know, if I didn’t know any better I’d say you were from a thousand years in the future by how much a genius you are my dear.” Starswirl said with a chuckle.