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You, Us, We, Now

by PonyJoel

Chapter 5: Of

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Spike runs as fast as he can. Twilight and Applejack keep up with Spike's speed while Sunset Shimmer is limping. Pinkie Pie is protecting Sunset Shimmer from any Changelings daring to attack. Spike winds up running straight into Canterlot High School. Applejack, Twilight, Sunset Shimmer, and Pinkie Pie enters the school and shut the doors.

"Oh my God," Applejack falls to her knees seeing Apple Bloom's body.

"Rarity..," Twilight kneels to see Rarity and her lifeless body.

"Holy shit..," Sunset looks around to see Principal Celestial and Vice Principal Luna dead on the floor along with several of her friends.

"This is awful..," Pinkie looks at all the bodies in the main hallway.

"To the nurse's office to patch Sunset Shimmer," Twilight said.

The girls and Spike head to the nurse's office to patch up Sunset Shimmer. Applejack loses her temper and punches Sunset in the face.

"This is your fault! Why did you have to come here!? You caused this!" Applejack spits at Sunset Shimmer's face.

Pinkie and Twilight hold Applejack back. "Applejack, calm down; this isn't helping!"

Sunset Shimmer wipes the spit off her face. "She's right. It is my fault..," Sunset feels guilty for what she brought. "If I never discovered this world, everyone would be alive and living a happy life..," Sunset Shimmer is feeling depressed.

"It is not your fault, Sunset. You had no idea you're involvement would lead to this," Spike said. "No one could have predicted this outcome."

"What are we going to do now?" Twilight asks.

"I don't know. I don't know if there's a way of reversing all of this," Sunset looks down.

"Kill every last one of them," Pinkie answers, sharpening a blade she modified.

"I don't think killing all of them is the answer, Pinkie," Spike said.

"If killing them all isn't the answer, what is?" Pinkie exclaims.

"Perhaps, a mind trick is in order," Twilight puts more thought into it.

"What do you mean by that, Twi?" Applejack turns to Twilight.

"The Changelings respond to Sunset's command. By taking the head off the leader and replacing it could calm the quarrels and perhaps can send the Changelings back underground."

"A Changeling of our own. It's worth a shot," Applejack turns to a saddened Sunset Shimmer. "Look, I'm sorry for losing my temper, Sun-"

"Don't worry about it," Sunset Shimmer takes a deep breath. "This could be our best chance to end the nightmare before it spreads worldwide."

"First, we gotta find Sunset and try to lure her here," Applejack said.

"How would we do that?" Spike asks. Then he, Applejack, Sunset Shimmer, and Twilight turned to Pinkie Pie.

"Say the word. I'll go on my spree to hunt that fucking bitch down for killing my family."

"First, we need to know where she's at before going out there, Pinkie. There's far too many of them out there for you to handle," Twilight said.

"I have an idea on how to look. I'll be right back," Applejack leaves the infirmary.

"Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash.., All gone because of me..," Sunset sheds some tears.

"I wonder if there's a spell in your world that can resurrect the dead?" Pinkie thinks about the possibilities of fixing what transpired.

"No. That's black and blood magic. It's forbidden in Equestria for many reasons. Maybe Discord can come here and fix it. I don't know."

"Who's Discord?" Spike asks.

"He's a chaotic deity in Equestria. Raising the dead should be child's play for him to perform."

"Perfect, once we send the Changelings back, we'll bring him here to restore order," Pinkie said.

"As I said, I don't know if it'll work. Discord could come here, but then, Discord's chaos magic may not work."

"We will have to wait and see," Twilight said.

Applejack is walking down the hallway, looking for Apple Bloom's locker. She knows that Apple Bloom would bring her laptop to school for any after-school programs with Vice Principal Luna. Applejack minds her surroundings in case there are any Changelings left in the school.

"There it is," Applejack opens Apple Bloom's locker to find her backpack. She takes it and walks back to the infirmary. A few minutes later, Applejack enters the infirmary. "I have Apple Bloom's laptop. I hope she still has that website bookmarked or didn't delete her history."

Applejack takes out Apple Bloom's laptop and turns it on. The laptop's battery is dead, and Apple Bloom didn't bring a charger.

"Is there a spare computer charger?" Spike asks.

"No. Not anymore with the barn and Sweet Apple Acres in smoke."

"My house isn't far from here. I'm sure my dad has a specific charger for the laptop. He always changes laptops every year while keeping the chargers just in case," Twilight said.

"Lead the way," Pinkie said, now her blade can cut through any Changeling daring to stand in their way.

Twilight, Sunset Shimmer, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Spike leave the infirmary. The lights flicker in the hallway. They pick up the pace while Pinkie keeps a keen eye for any Changelings that may have followed them.

What a sight to behold, many Changelings are holding hands in formation, smiling happily. Many bodies of people are lying on the ground in their blood. Many houses are on fire, but no sirens for police and or fire departments show up. No signs of medical emergency units are visible. News reporters try to make an effort to document the scenery but wind up getting killed by the Changelings. A town so peaceful is dead silent.

Luckily for Twilight, her house is not on fire like the many homes in her neighborhood. Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Sunset Shimmer, and Spike arrive inside the house. Some lights in the house are still functional, and some aren't. The living room, the kitchen, and two-bedroom lights don't work. The lighting in the other rooms is functioning.

"Mooom! Daaaad!" Twilight instinctively shouts. Then she tears up, remembering that they're dead from the surveillance video at Pinkie's house.

"Twilight, it's.., it's going to be alright..," Spike tries his best to comfort her.

"Where's the charger?" Applejack asks, looking around in Twilight's home.

"My.., my..," Twilight sniffs. The pain of losing her family is hitting her now. "My dad's office," Twilight takes Applejack to Night Light's office. Luck is on their side when the lights in the room turn on. Applejack sees how high-tech Night Light is in the office. She starts searching in the cabinets of Night Light's office.

Sunset Shimmer and Pinkie Pie enter the office. Spike decides to grab his favorite chew toy for comfort upstairs in Twilight's room. After everything he's experienced, he wants to calm his nerves to be stronger for Twilight when she needs him.

"Found it!" Applejack grabs the charger and hooks it to Apple Bloom's laptop. She turns it on. "Twi, what's the Wi-Fi password?"

"SparkleGlitter41."

Applejack types the Wi-Fi password and access the internet. She goes into Apple Bloom's bookmark section to see there are none. She goes to her browser history to see it wiped clean.

"Okay, I got this," Twilight takes the laptop and runs a program her father uses. Night Light's program allows any history, any files of some sort restored. After a few moments, the dark website Apple Bloom once bookmarked, returns.

"Nice going, Twilight," Applejack takes the laptop and searches on the site. "As disturbing as this website is, I'm glad Apple Bloom found it."

"I guess there are some good things but, this nightmare needs to end," Sunset Shimmer said. "I hate myself............."

"Don't say that; no need to hate yourself. No one could have predicted this outcome. I know they haven't."

"Who's they, Pinkie?" Sunset turns to Pinkie.

"The ones watching this, duh," Pinkie Pie uses her blade to point at the screen where the reader reading this part of the section is looking. She waves. "I see you," Pinkie said joyfully.

Sunset Shimmer, Applejack, and Twilight shake their heads, turn from Pinkie, and start looking at the website. Applejack plugs in Rarity's phone number on the website. The website shows where Rarity's cellphone is right now.

"Is the area dark?" Sunset asks. "Where is she?"

"Looks like Pinkie's living room," Applejack sees from Rarity's camera angle.

"That's not my living room. Maud's body would have been there on the table," Pinkie said, looking at the website.

"And Rainbow's body," Sunset Shimmer sadly sighs.

Spike is in Twilight's room, getting his chew toy to calm his nerves. He bites it and decides to go to Night Light's office, where the girls are. As he walks down the stairs, he sees someone moving in the shadows. "Twilight?" Spike muffles in his speech, the chew toy in his mouth made it difficult for him to talk properly. The shadow moves closer to him at a faster pace.

The girls are trying to depict the area from the website. They hear a familiar muffle in the background of the camera angle. They pay more attention to the screen when they see Spike getting grabbed by Sunset. His chew toy falls out of his mouth.

"Spike!" Twilight frantically shouts. She runs out of the room.

"Oh shit! She followed us!" Applejack and Pinkie Pie go after Twilight.

Sunset Shimmer goes to the laptop to see where her duplicate has taken Spike to. Sunset muzzles Spike with duct tape as she flees from the house. Twilight didn't see Spike's chew toy and trip on it. Pinkie falls on top of Twilight. Applejack leaps over the two, trying to get closer to Sunset. Sunset runs out the front door and slams the door behind her. Applejack opens the door and gets ambushed by two Changelings. One knocks her down with a forearm strike in the face; the other stabs Applejack in the chest with black scissors.

"Applejack!" Twilight shouts in fear. She witnessed another of her friend dying in the clutches of a Changeling.

Applejack gasps and looks at the two who ambushed her from the ground. She sees Tethered Big McIntosh smiling down and Tethered Apple Bloom holding the bloody pair of black scissors. In Applejack's mind, she hears her sister asking for a day to be together as sisters instead of her friends. The one thing she wanted was a sister-bonding day. Applejack closes her eyes and passes away.

"You bastards!" Pinkie gets up with her blade and attacks Tethered Big McIntosh and Apple Bloom with her blade. She decapitates the two in rage and slashes at their bodies repeatedly. Their blood gushes into Pinkie's face and hair while she cries in motion.

Sunset Shimmer sees where her duplicate is running off. Back to Canterlot High School. Judging from the screams, she lost another friend. Sunset Shimmer doesn't know how she's going to pull it off and make the Changelings go back to the underground facility. Sunset decides to use the website to find any files of the underground facility. Cameras still have to be in place in case of a containment breach. Right? She hopes to find something that can control the Changelings, a backup plan in case all hell breaks loose.

Twilight balls herself and becomes worried about Spike. She cries due to losing another close friend. Pinkie Pie stops and walks inside the house. She falls to her knees and cries her eyes out.

Sunset can't find any footage of the underground facility, so she gets up and looks for Twilight and Pinkie Pie. She sees the two crying on the floor and sees Applejack's lifeless body. Sadness and anger flood her mind, she balls her fist.

"Enough." Sunset Shimmer had enough of the murdering of her friends. "I'm going to kill that fucking bitch myself."

"She has Spike.., Lord knows what she'll do to-" Pinkie's phone rings, interrupting Twilight's speech.

Pinkie answers it and puts it on speaker. "Hello?"

"I knew where you were this whole time. A perk that you have Sunset is going into the minds of other people through physical contact. A trait that I have is going into the minds of my Changelings telepathically. I see what they see. They don't have to tell me anything." The girls gasp in horror after hearing that. "I have your precious puppy, Spike," The girls hear him whimpering on the phone.

"Release him!" Twilight demands.

"I have one last game to play before we take over this world. A winner takes all kind of game. Come to the school where the madness started. I'll be waiting," Sunset hangs up the phone and shatters it.

"We have to go, now!" Twilight storms out but Pinkie and Sunset Shimmer hold her back.

"Not yet, Twilight!" Sunset Shimmer says.

"Why?!" Twilight angrily shouts at her friend.

"We could be walking into another trap! We need to arm ourselves," Sunset said.

"I see enough material to modify weaponry," Pinkie said.

"That won't be necessary," Twilight goes to Shining Armor's room. Sunset and Pinkie follow her. "My brother always wanted to be a soldier. Unfortunately, he didn't had what it takes to be a Marine when Cadance came into his life," Twilight opens Shining Armor's secret stash of weaponry. Pinkie Pie and Sunset are awestruck to see many guns, armor vests, and combat knives loaded up. "He had all of this in case he could get a job as a police officer in town. He was scheduled to go into training next week. Time to lock and load. We're saving Spike," Twilight takes some pistols and puts on an armored vest. She passes some to her friends.

"I don't know how to use a piece," Sunset takes a look at the Desert Eagle pistol.

"Better start learning," Twilight said. She sounds serious and determined. She clutches her necklace and ponies up. "Failure is not an option anymore."

Pinkie does the same. She ponies up after arming herself. Sunset Shimmer takes a deep breath and ponies up after suiting up.

"Time to avenge our friends and family," Pinkie said. She marks her face in camo colors.

"Let's end this."

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