Twilight took Pinkie back to her lab. "Ok, my first step is to evaluate these nightmares and see what they are all about." She laid Pinkie down on a weird machine and attached suction cup-like things to her head with cords leading to a giant glass orb.
"What's all this for?" Pinkie asked.
"You said that you have a nightmare every time you go to sleep?"
"Yeah. Then it will come true."
"Well, I'm going to watch the nightmare you're going to have when you fall asleep in a few minutes and study it. Then using the data I gather from that dream I think I should be able to make a counter-spell to break that curse."
Pinkie gulped. "So I'm going to have to go to sleep?"
"Of course Pinkie." Pinkie laid her head down on the table nervously. Twilight put her hoof on Pinkie's shoulder and comforted her. "Don't worry, I'm going to be right here. I promise I won't let anything bad happen. Do you want me to put you to sleep myself?"
Pinkie nodded. "Yes please."
Twilight smiled as she pointed her horn at Pinkie. It glowed for a second and Pinkie fell asleep. Twilight galloped over to the giant glass orb and observed it. She waited for a few minutes and sighed. "Guess I can't expect her to start dreaming right away." She levitated some pens and paper over to her ready to take notes. After ten minutes the orb flashed with a horrifying image. Twilight gasped as she stared at it.
Shortly after Twilight left to check on Pinkie, Spike started to feel hungry. He checked around the house but found no gems to eat. Spike was about to find something else to eat when he realized that this would be the perfect excuse for him to go and visit Rarity. He left the house and walked over to Rarity's beauty store.
Rarity was working on her latest line of dresses when she saw Spike walk in the door. "Oh good Spike I'm glad you're here. Could you grab that box of lace off the shelf up there for me?"
"Sure thing Rarity!" Spike enthusiastically climbed up to the high shelf and grabbed the box of lace. "This one right?"
Rarity looked up at Spike for a second and nodded. "Yes that's the one. Be careful getting down from there. The trashcan below that shelf is full of broken glass."
Spike nervously looked down at the trashcan. "What happened?"
"Oh it's just a little experiment I had earlier today. I found out from it that glass is not a good material for dresses."
Spike laughed. "Yeah I bet so." He was about to start climbing down when the support beam of the shelf started to creak. Then in an instant, it snapped and Spike fell directly into the garbage can full of broken glass.
Rarity gasped. "OH MY GOD! SPIKE!" She screamed as she ran over to the trashcan, which Spike merely climbed out of laughing.
"Aw don't worry about me Rarity." Spike said as he brushed some shards of glass off of his back and back into the trashcan. "It'll take a lot more than some broken glass to get through my scales."
Rarity let out a sigh of relief. "You scared me for a second there Spike. Come on and help me get this lace on these dresses."
"Sure thing Rarity." Spike walked over to the dresses and helped Rarity sew the lace onto them. When their work was done the two of them observed their work with pride. "These are your best dresses yet Rarity." Spike complimented.
"I know they are. They're going to some very important clients so I put forth a lot of effort into them. Now what brings you here?"
"Oh, I was going to see if you had any spare gems that I could eat."
"Yes, I do think I have some gems I'm not using at the moment. I believe that they are right up…" Rarity noticed the shelf that Spike had broken. "But could you be a dear and help me take down that shelf up there? It seems like it could fall at any moment."
"Ok." Spike walked over and started to unfasten the other support beam of the shelf when the door opened. Sweetie Bell trotted into the shop.
"Hey sis!" She said.
"What are you doing here Sweetie Bell?" Rarity asked. "I thought you were out comforting your friend."
"Apple Bloom said that she wanted to go home so I came over here to help you with your new dresses."
"Well I'm afraid you're too late for that dear. They're already finished."
"Aw." Sweetie Bell studied the dresses for a second. "But don't you think they could use some…" She thought for a second on what she could suggest so she could help her sister. "Buttons? They're in this drawer right?" Sweetie Bell ran eagerly over to the drawer and looked inside of it. What she didn't notice however was that the shelf Spike was talking down was right above her and Spike had nearly finished unfastening the support beam. He tried to stop and hold it up when Sweetie Bell ran under it, but it fell from the wall.
"SWEETIE BELL LOOK OUT!" Rarity shouted. But knowing her sister was a little slow on the intake; Rarity charged and tackled Sweetie Bell out of the way. The heavy shelf instead fell on her head. The impact of the shelf caused Rarity's horn to snap in half and blood seeped out of it.
"OH MY GOD! RARITY!" Spike ran down to her and started shaking her. "Wake up! Wake up!" But she didn't.
Sweetie Bell stared at Rarity for a second; then she finally understood what had happened. "OH MY GOSH! RARITY I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY!" She started to cry.
Twilight and Pinkie ran in the door. "Oh no we're too late!" Pinkie screamed.
Twilight ran over to Rarity and felt her neck. "She doesn't have a pulse…she's not breathing…"
Still crying, Sweetie Bell looked up at Twilight. "Is…is she going to be ok Ms. Twilight?"
Twilight nodded her head. "I'm sorry Sweetie…she's gone."