The Dream and a Mistake
Applejack was sleeping in her bed but she couldn't very well, she kept on twisting and turning
In Applejack's dream, she was cowering in fear as a darker version of Spike appeared with a evil smile, the scales were dark purple, his spines were dark green his eyes glowed solid neon green with his power.
"Whuahahahahaaahaaaaa!" Spike laughed wicked and uproariously
"Stay back Ya'h varmint!" Applejack barked before running.
"Now is that anyway to say, to the one you let free" Spike chuckled evilly "I will return one day and when I do Equestria will burn, just like before whuahahahaaaaaa hahaaaa!" he laughed "and I am coming, for you" he said.
"See what will become of your friends and all of ponykind" Spike smiled vilely and the scene flashed to a new one making her gasp in shock, the rest of the Element Bearers with thousands including Celestia and Luna and Discord, dead "They did warn you there was no warmth or good in me, you should've not have let me go, that was a callateral mistake" "and now Equestria will pay the price" he said before cackling, before he faded.
"No, No Noooo!" Applejack cried.
Applejack bolted in a upright position with a gasp and a cold sweat from the bad dream panting, she got her breathing undercontrol she went back to sleep. Applejack went back to sleep having another dream but it was happier, In this dream Applejack was in a church in a white dress with a light green on a sash and end of the dress. her family was their, she lifted her hoof and placed it in a purple clawedhand making her gasp and looked at a happier version of Spike with the warmth and life and kindness he had before.
"You look beautiful A.J" Spike smiled "more so than Rarity why did I fall for a fake who hides behind makeup and eyeshadow but you don't have to, your naturally and rustically beautiful" he said, before the dream vanished.
Applejack woke up again with the sun starting to rise "Time for work" she said before she got ready for the day and put her hat on before heading out. she started bucking trees apples fell into baskets.
Then Rainbow Dash came up to her "Celestia and Luna are looking for us, they need us" she said.
"Alright be there in a sec" Applejack replied, an hour later she had finished her chores and washed up and headed back out. Applejack met the others in Twilight's castle.
"What's this meetin about?" she asked.
"Celestia didn't really say but she just said it was important" Twilight told her, then a flash appeared and Celestia and Luna and Discord appeared before them.
"Sorry for the sudden order of demanding your presence but this is a matter that is direly important" Celestia said.
"What is it Princess?" Twilight asked.
"I found the one responsible for letting Spike go" Celestia said "Luna explain" she told her.
"When you mares were asleep I released a spell upon that would reveal the pony who let Spike go by giving them nightmares" Luna explained.
"I slept fine" 6 mares said at once.
"I know, but one of you did not, leaving one question on mine mind" Luna said then turned to Applejack with a stern look along with Celestia "Why did you let Spike go free?" she said, the others looked at her with shock.
"we all fired even me'h nothin happened" Applejack defended herself.
Celestia looked at her with stern face "Maybe it didn't work because you didn't want it to" she said "The elements only work when the bearer wants it to work, but seeing how it failed, you didn't want it to" she said.
"So why did you allow Equestria to fall again, Why?" Luna asked
"there was just a part of me'h that couldn't do it" Applejack said "and the other part hoping in the slightest that there is something in him that can be saved" she said.
"Have you forgotten what he has done?" Rainbow narrowed her eyes "He plunged Equestria into darkness, twisted it into his own vile Empire, He tore our friendship apart, and above all he tried to kill us" she said.
"Sorry to cut in but during the battle I noticed Spike had never once attack me or her" Discord said "when he did it was to keep us out of the way, but only when I stopped him was when he tried to attack me" he said.
"And he'h never did harm a pony in his temporary rule, the only place he barely touched was Sweet Apple Acres, the only place really damaged was the trees" Applejack said.
"Do you two hear yourselves you overlooked one essential detail" Starlight said "He's the Apocalypse"
"I know and what he'h did is inexcusable but I didn't over look he never kill mindlessly" Applejack said "He killed that bug Queen so she wouldn't come after us again" she explained.
"And believe what Spike unleashed was far more chaotic than I would go and i haven't forgotten the look in his eyes when he tried to kill me" Discord spoke
"What he did with Chrysalis was revenge, he showed us how far he would go" Celestia spoke with a stern gaze "and with you Discord he just showed you he lost all sense of reason to let you live" she said.
"And from dear Applejack's dream Spike was even darker and stood among of thousands of, dead ponies among us and the ones who stood against him" Luna said.
"You mean to say he might kill us all and Applejack released him" Twilight said worried.
"Well only a dream but yes" Luna told her "But we don't want to find out for sure what I saw was either a false tale or a vision of a darker and eviler Apocalypse" she said.
"How can we find him?" Starlight asked.
"Well we can't since he can use his power to cloak himself" Celestia explained.
"Applejack your a fool to allow this to happen" Rainbow Dash said with grave disappointment.
"She showed compassion which is harder than showing no mercy" Celestia said softly before her voice turned stern again "and unimaginably foolish, you have let the greatest threat to roam free" she said.
"So he is still out there planning Faust knows what? and we can't find him" Twilight said with fright imagining the terrible things Spike could do since he could be twice as wrathful.
"We must be very watchful because it will not take long for him to attack since his wrath and hatred are twice as immense" Luna told them "But don't cause a panic" she said.
"It will not take long for him to stay hiding" Celestia said "Twilight you and your friends be ready" she said.
"Um Celestia sorry to rain down on your parade" Discord said making a cloud that rained on Celestia much to her annoyance "But something tells me he might be more careful and have more planning" he told her.
"I bet a giant cake he wont" Celestia scoffed.
"Okay a giant cake is on the betting table" Discord shook her hoof.
Spike was high in the mountains that was excluded from Equestria.
"hmm?" Spike thought "I can't underestimate or make another misstep again, I just need the right moment to attack" he said, then he sat down on the top of the mountain he was standing on, then he thought of something.
"I know what to do" Spike smiled wickedly, then he looked down at a clawedhand and his eyes widened, he smiled again "That could help tremendously" he said