It was late at night, and it was very still and quiet in the streets of Ponyville. Everyone was inside, trying to protect themselves from whatever was scrambling the minds of innocent ponies.
Twilight sat for a moment, shocked that she hadn't thought to come up with a plan of any description. She was glad she had pinkie around.
"Oh, Pinkie. What would we do without you?" Twilight chuckled.
Pinkie thought for a moment then gasped. "I don't even want to think about it! You would have boring parties and mediocre cupcakes, not to mention you would have forgotten to make a plan just now... OH! And the Elements of Harmony wouldn't work." She giggled.
Wow, that pony has a distorted sense of priority, Lucas thought. He didn't know what the 'Elements of Harmony' were, but they sounded like something you would learn about in Music Theory 101.
Twilight began to speak as her logical mind kicked in. "Alright. First we'll need to gather some information. Ask around, until we can find out what is causing everypony to behave oddly."
Rarity discovered a flaw in her plan. "Are you sure that's the greatest idea? I mean, you don't simply walk up to a murderous lunatic and ask for a few pointers!"
Twilight clarified, "It seems that not quite everypony is affected by this... thing. We could find the last survivors and try to help them out."
Applejack entered the conversation. "Now wait a gosh darn minute. We are goin' in there? As in brainwash central?! I ain't going into none of those crazy cities until we know what's causin' all this. I don't know about you, but I enjoy bein' in control of mah own brain!"
Twilight realized she was right. She sighed. "You're right... how are we supposed to figure out what's going on if we can't even observe or talk to anyone?"
Everyone sat in silence for a minute.
Just then, a loud whooshing noise penetrated the walls of the library from outside, followed by three simple knocks on the door.
Twilight was about to open the door when Rainbow Dash intervened. "WAIT! Come on, Twilight! What if that's one of the zombie ponies?!"
Twilight laughed audibly. "They're not zombie ponies, they just have increased aggression... but at any rate, you could be right to a degree." Twilight walked to the door and shouted, "Who is it?"
Her response came muffled through the door. "This is Princess Celestia! I have urgent news!"
Twilight gave a sigh of relief as she pulled the door open with her magic. Princess Celestia ducked into the library. "Twilight, I have important information regarding this phenomenon of which you are no doubt aware. I have reason to believe this event is less likely to be related to a freak accident, but rather caused by a person. You see, while I was flying over one of the..." She stopped speaking, staring intensely at something in the back of the room.
Twilight and the others turned their heads to see what she was distracted by. Then it hit her. Shoot! I forgot to tell her about the human!
"My, my. What are you doing here?" Celestia mumbled as she approached Lucas. Twilight quickly explained. "I brought him here. After lots of studying, I came to the conclusion that it would be to our benefit to bring a human here into Equestria."
The Princess pondered for a moment before giving Twilight a stern look. "Never. Never let the affairs of parallel worlds interfere with one another. You are lucky you even got a human. If an entity from one world tries to interact with the other, in most cases chaos breaks loose. It could have been a lion you pulled into our world. These things are not meant to be tampered with. Like I said, you are very lucky nothing went wrong."
Twilight hung her head in shame.
"Do not fret, my student. You could not have known. But now that you do, I expect you to be more mindful in the future."
Twilight agreed. "Yes, Princess Celestia."
Lucas spoke up. "So you're Princess Celestia. I've heard good things about you."
Celestia was taken back a bit. "By the divine! It can verbally communicate?!" Lucas wasn't too happy about being called an 'it'.
Twilight nodded. "Yes, and he can do a lot more than that. He's pretty much like a pony, except, well... not a pony."
Princess Celestia mused. "...I understand. Well, he can stay here as long as he doesn't cause any trouble." She frowned. "And try to keep him out of view... We don't want to cause any more panic than there already is."
Twilight smiled and nodded. "Thank you, Princess! Now what was it that you were going to tell us when you first arrived?"
"Ah, yes. I was flying over Manehattan, the most recent city to be affected by the mass aggression, to assess the damage when I noticed something strange."
Twilight was going to ask what it was when a large vibration shook the library. Everyone looked around in surprise. Another, more powerful rumbling began, and it didn't stop. This time it was accompanied by a loud sound of metal creaking and wood snapping.
They rushed outside to examine their surroundings. It was windy and dark, and Rainbow Dash shouted, "Look out!" as she pointed up. It was a large fragment of the town hall, hurtling towards them at freakish speeds.
They all dove in various directions to avoid the conglomerate of wood and steel as it made quick work of Twilight's library.
"NO!" Twilight wailed as she watched the library lose its ability to be described as such, along with all the books inside. She was aware that there were more important things to attend to, so she reluctantly pulled her eyes from the pile of rubble and redirected them towards the town. What she saw shocked her.
A giant wall of pulsating energy reached as high as the eye could see. She watched in awe as the wall slowly encroached on the small town of Ponyville, ripping everything in its path to shreds. The realization that it was coming their way was almost too much to bear.
As three nearby buildings were vaporized, Princess Celestia shot out her wings and shouted, "Everypony! Behind me!" Her horn glowed and electric blue color. A few seconds later, a sphere of blue-white energy surrounded them. As the wall approached, they all shut their eyes in fear. The wall passed over, fizzing with electricity as it clashed with Celestia's barrier. She grunted with exertion.
The wall finally passed and everyone let out a sigh of relief. Everyone but Princess Celestia, that is. She had collapsed to the ground moments after the wall had passed. They all rushed to surround her limp body.
Twilight spoke with urgency. "Come on! We need to get her some medical attention right away!"
"We've got other problems..." Rainbow Dash said as she watched two ponies in the distance in an all-out brawl. Seconds later, a pony flew through a broken window and suffered a violent collision with a nearby brick wall. However, the pony stood back up moments later and charged back into the window.
Fluttershy was distracted by the sound of wood snapping. She looked down the street to see a pony slowly walking towards them, smashing through wooden crates and baskets of vegetables. He remained unfazed by the obstructions, keeping his bloodshot eyes on her.
"Um... hello." She squeaked.
This only fueled his rage, and he scowled and accelerated towards her.
"There!" Rarity was pointing at the remains of Sugarcube Corner, one of the few structures to hold up. It was missing the upper half, and chunks of the walls and roof were missing, but it would have to do, being their last chance of survival.
Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash lifted Celestia off the ground and the gang made a mad dash for the sweetshop.
A/N: There. I have dispensed another chapter. :)