Clover,
I hope this letter finds you well, and I apologize if its delivery woke you at all. I sent the fastest pegasus we had to get it to you. We’ve found Solace. Twilight Sparkle said she had some way to bring ponies back from this place they’re all trapped in and that she could test it with him. She told us to keep a watch on Town Hall. I tried to tell her to wait for word from my superiors because of the potential risk, but it seems she moved forward without us.
It was around 5 p.m. when I was interrupted from my session with Doctor Blue Sky by Cage. We rushed to Town Hall, where he said they had found a pony that had Solace’s cutie mark, though he was in poor condition. He was up in the mayor’s office, sprawled out on the floor in the center of the room.
Blue Sky gave him as much of an examination as he could, but we couldn’t truly do anything until the medic arrived. His breathing was shallow and ragged. Most of the fat and muscle on his body had wasted away, his bones clearly visible along his chest, barrel, haunches, flank, and thighs. His mane, tail, and coat had all dried up, losing a lot of their color. His eyes were still closed. He may have been sleeping, but we didn’t get any response from him.
Both Blue Sky and I did as much as we could to help once the medic arrived. We kept him stationary and assisted with inserting an IV into his foreleg. Given his state, the medic suggested we get him to a more stable location where he could recover. We were able to get him on a stretcher and to the local hospital. The first of hopefully many more patients.
He’s yet to wake up, but the medic and one of Blue Sky’s colleagues think his condition is stable.
Clover, we’ve seen a pony locked up and underfed for a week or two at the most. I’ve never seen anything this bad. What if everypony else is like this? We’ll need a lot more on hoof than we already have, and that isn’t even taking into account the staff needed.
See if you can get in touch with a few hospitals in Canterlot and Cloudsdale. Blue Sky thinks if we make use of the latter for pegasi, we could accommodate the full population of the town.
If you’re only reading this in the morning, safe travels. Otherwise, sleep well.
Love,
Vines
Is it just me or this fourth part feels oddly safe, compared to the others? Probably it's the calm before the storm, but still
I hope this is good news. Who knows how long Solace was waiting there after his last entry though. He didn't describe himself as wasting away like that, considering how he was able to keep going without food and water for such a long time, it may have taken percieved decades for him to get to this point...
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Until there's been a conversation with the guy, I'd hesitate to say whether he's really back tbh.
Okay, I think I see two ways this will go; for anyone who looks, this is the oversimplified assumption;
Best ending; they’re able to save most of the ponies, although a few like Fluttershy will put up a fight or along those lines
Middle/grey you could say ending, what I have a feeling will most likely happen, Twilight’s not lying, but not telling the full truth about something in wanting to save her friends and the whole ptsd thing she’s going through (that or not thinking things through with the shape she delivered Solace in) so, when the time comes, she’ll do something that causes everyone to come back, but in doing so, it has played into the hands of some darker force, possible Fluttershy, that throws the world into chaos, and with this being the last story, will either end with defeating the darkness, or how/whoever it is, or it will consume the land.
How there can be a worse ending after that?; bad/darkest ending; it was Fluttershy or something else impersonating twilight the whole time. While I honestly don’t think so, there’s still enough to go on with this being the case (title aside). Which we’ll probably get revealed when Solace comes too, which was why he was sent in such poor condition, so, a, he couldn’t tell everyone what ‘twilight’s’ real goal is, and b, the optimisum that is set at the end of this chapter where ponies will now gather around Ponyville to help in the relief effort will allow the darkness (or again however you phrased it/what it is) to consume, which will possible be what causes it to grow large enough to consume all of Equestria, unless, with this same route, the real twilight and the investigators are able to save the day in the end
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That’s how I’ve been feeling
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The third part was like that, too; it felt pretty calm and then all went to Hell in the last couple of chapters.
I bet twilights been turned into one of them. Though rather then being defined as a people eating monster she/it clings to the concept of 'twilight sparkle'.
In fact I bet these creatures are just ponies or something caught up in some experiment from ages past. That's why I imagine they need to break a creature and make it pliable for their own 'definition' of said creature. With the goal of finally getting enough "pushing power" to move the nowhere-place out of dimensional orbit and into the dimension proper.
20 bucks that the ponies that twilight brought back aren't actually ponies
Oh man, I can’t wait to see where this goes. This story is so compelling!
So, what is the next plan?