When the six fillies went their separate ways to evacuate the citizens of Canterlot. But they can barely fly due to the endless swirl of Windigoes that conquers the sky. When Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy reached the race track they saw the Wonderbolts in a grand dog fight with the spectral horses, apparently losing it. The two Pegasi watched how one of the Windigoes froze on of the Wonderbolts' wings, making him or her falling to his or her death. Fluttershy grasped in terror and while she stood there Rainbow Dash zoofed towards the falling Pegasus. She flew like the wind, no time to think about the Windigoes that surrounded her and tried to change her in a block of ice, she even rammed on of the Windigoes who combusted in smoke after impact. She made a downfall, building speed to grab the falling Wonderbolt. Rainbow Dash ultimately reached the Pegasus and pulled up to make her fly back upwards, making an explosion that combusted all the colors of the visual spectrum. Rainbow Dash noticed her multi-colored mane leaving behind a rainbow-like trail and laughed in joy.

"OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH!!!"

Fluttershy saw it all happen, "She did it," she said, "She performed a Sonic Rainboom!!!" And she sheered on to Rainbow Dash like a cheerleader, even though the rainbow maned pegasus couldn't hear it.

While flying back up, Rainbow Dash took a better look at the unconscious Wonderbolt she just saved. She couldn't believe her eyes when she saw her fiery manes and yellow skin in the open parts of her Wonderbolt costume. "OH MY GOSH!!!" She yelled, "You're the Wonderbolts' captain, Spitfire!" The captain opened her eyes, "What happened?" The captain asked but looking at her frozen wings made the answer quite obvious. She looked up to recognize the heroic Pegasus that saved her from death. "Hey you," She said, "You're that Sonic Rainboom girl. Rainbow Dash wasn't it?" Rainbow Dash grinned and blushed, "Ye...Yes ma'am."

Rainbow Dash was filled with joy, she saw this as a chance to become a Wonderbolt herself. But her happy thoughts were ruined by the surrounding Windigoes and the sight of the other Wonderbolts' frozen bodies on the cloudy racetrack.

...

Applejack found herself in a dark, cold room. It was so dark that she couldn't even see her hoof before her eyes. She was alone, better yet, thought she was alone. Applejack got the goosebumps when she heard a voice emitting from the shadows. It sounded cold, cold as the most frozen regions of the north.

"Nobody can save you..."

"What in tarnation?"

"Nobody can save your friends..."

"Like heck ah can!"

Then suddenly, light blinded the little foal, forcing her eyes to shut tight. When she opened it again. She saw images of her and the rest arguing. No, not her. Only the rest. But what made the pony find stranger is the fact that Fluttershy isn't with them. "Where... Where's Fluttershy?" She asked and the voice answered: "By that point in time, she met her fate."

Applejack was horrified. "Do you... Do you mean?" But another sight made her shock in terror. She saw how the arguing ended up in conflict. All ponies went their separate ways. Their friendship was over.

"No, not this again..." She said to herself. But more images started showing up. All of her friends, dead, all lying in the snow of the northern continent. Applejack started screaming and crying.

"Can you tell the truth about their fate?" The voice said to her, "Do you dare to tell the truth about their fate?"

And while she cried in agony, everything went dark again and silence ensued...

"..."

"A...ack!"

"APPLEJACK"

Applejack woke up from her sleep, what she saw before her was a lavender coated pony and a purple baby dragon. "Twilight, is that you?" She asked. "Yes, but what happened to you?" Twilight was looking at her friend who was pale and had a giant purple bruise on her forehead, probably from the collision between her head and the ground. Applejack moaned in pain on her forehead. She wanted to tell her about what she saw while she was sleeping, or what she could recall as sleeping. she reall wanted to but what she brought out was: "Nothing. Nothin' happened." She lied, something she would never do to her friends or any other pony. Twilight looked at her, "Really?" she asked. "No, nothin' special. Just got a... a rock on mah forehead, that's all." Applejack lied again, she felt uncomfortable doing that. The last time she lied to her friends was while she was corrupted by Discord. That very same Discord that turned in a statue which now stands in the garden where the two ponies and the little dragon were right now. "But what happened to you? Weren't you evacuatin' the ponies at the college?" She asked and Twilight nodded, "I was," then she pointed her head to the ground, "But it was all in vain..."

Spike interrupted Twilight and said: "It seems that the Windigoes are low on victims I think," and the little dragon pointed in the sky at the spectral spirits that were looming above them. "I'd say: RUN!!!" Applejack yelled and the three of them ran as fast as they can away from spirits of cold. They ran and they ran but shaking of the Windigoes was not an easy task. They ran all the way to Canterlot Square where they collided into Rarity and Pinkie Pie who also were running for their lives. "My dear, what a travesty! Everybody was frozen, we couldn't do anything, Pinkie just dancing around and now we are going to DIE!!!" Rarity yelled and feigned a pass out while Pinkie Pie was just jumping around like crazy. Her happiness should get rid of the 'scary stuff' but the last time she used it was on illusions made by Nightmare Moon. Those were illusions and the creeps they stood against were real as they could be.

Spike yelled at her: "It's not going to work Pinkie Pie," but the pink filly still jumped around trying to get rid of the Windigoes. She tried but the expression she suddenly got made you know that she's starting to realize that it, indeed, isn't working. The cold spirits were just running around the group, making some kind of cloud around them. It was like they had all the time of the world and that they could wait. But an opening was made in the cloud to make entrance to three Pegasi.
"Fluttershy? Rainbow Dash?" Pinkie said when she recognized two of the three Pegasi but the third was a complete stranger to her. The other Pegasus stood up and said : No standing ovation for a Wonderbolt? The name's Spitfire by the way."

The Windigoes where still spinning around the group but started to come closer and closer. Twilight and Rarity started using spells but they were to no avail, the spirits were unstoppable. "We've failed," Twilight said, "We couldn't do anything to save the citizens and we can't even save ourselves." She started tearing up and the others looked at her. Fluttershy stood there , frozen. Not by the Windigoes but by fear, the shock of seeing all those people being transformed into ice cubes. Everyone stood ready to meet their fate but Applejack knew that this wasn't the end, not from what she saw in her vision, "No, this cannot be the end." she said. Spike felt the same, "Of course it isn't. Don't you remember the play we did on Heart's Warming Eve?" he said with great confidence. Twilight dried her tears, she knew where this was going, "The Flame of Friendship!"

"But according to the play we have to become friends, how do we become if we're friends already!" Rainbow Dash said. Everybody started thinking about it. It was true what she said, in the play the three assistant became friends and that made the Flame of Friendship appear that made the Windigoes run away in fear. In the play they became friends while the ponies standing there were friends already. "Maybe... We could think about the fun times we had... Just asking..." Fluttershy uttered, Twilight found confidence again. "That's it," she said with a big smile, "Think, think about our fun times as friends. Think like your life depends on it!" And everyone, even Spitfire started thinking. Even though she barely knew them she tried to think about the Grand Galloping Gala and about her Wonderbolt colleagues. They where thinking and thinking and the Windigoes started to come closer and closer. The spectral horses were just a hoof away from our heroes but they were cut off by a bright light in the form of a pink flaming heart.

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