Part 13: One Small Thing
In another part of Seaquestria, Princess Skystar was sulking to herself with only her "friends" Shelly and Sheldon for company. She had been so looking forward to making some new friends with the outsiders, only for her mother to more or less shoe them away.
Suddenly, it seemed as if Shelly and Sheldon had a mind of their own, because they started singing to the princess:
Hey now, don't be sad,
I know we cannot stay.
But it wasn't the shells singing, it was Pinkie Pie. And she was accompanied by all her friends, except for Princess Twilight. Pinkie was now excitedly singing:
But we've got a couple minutes,
And a little time to play.
Although delighted to know that the outsiders hadn't left yet, Princess Skystar couldn't bring herself to accept their invitation. So she opted to sing back to them:
I know you have important things,
So it's okay, just go.
Not one to take no for an answer, Pinkie Pie swam over to Princess Skystar and sang to her:
But we can still pick one small, little thing,
To do with you, y'know.
One small thing doesn't seem like a lot,
One small thing, work with the time you've got.
Soon, one small thing becomes two.
After two, perhaps another few.
Then one small thing is not so small,
One small thing can be the biggest thing of all.
The singing quickly convinced the young princess, and so she happily led her friends out into the middle of Seaquestria to play. As she did so, she started singing:
All right now, since you're here,
Let's see what we can do.
Swim with the flow until you go,
Together, me and you.
But of course, that "one small thing" was not enough to satisfy Pinkie (or any of her friends for that matter). She quickly started doing more activities, all the while singing happily:
I've got seashell necklaces for everyfish,
So what else do ya got?
Skystar sang in response:
Well, we could play the bubblefish.
You'll like this one a lot!
And indeed, that activity was a ton of fun. Naturally, the fun proved to be contagious, Pinkie Pie and Skystar together were having the time of their lives. And their joy was quickly spreading to the others, luring them in. Meanwhile, the two new friends started to sing in unison:
One small thing, it's a good place to start,
One small thing, and we don't seem so far apart.
They hadn't been singing together for long before Spike and the four other seaponies began singing together:
Soon, one small thing leads to more,
It's so much more than there was before!
Just one small thing, and you will see,
The start of something big for you and me!
Soon, it turned into a chorus. Said chorus drew in many of the residents of Seaquestria, who could not recall the last time they'd had so much fun and joy in their lives. And their harmonious, joyful singing echoed across the depths:
One small thing.
Just one small thing.
Or a tall thing.
Just one tall thing.
Or a sing thing.
Just one sing-y thing.
Or a bling thing.
Just one bling-y thing.
Or a conga thing.
Yeah, a conga thing.
Or a longah thing.
Just a longah thing.
A blue thing, true thing, you thing.
A whee thing, sea thing, me thing.
The fun continued for what seemed like forever. But all too soon it started to die down. And as it did, Pinkie Pie and Princess Skystar had time to reflect on what their "playtime" had accomplished. In the span of just a few minutes, they had brightened up everyone's spirits. And so they sang together:
So many things and everything until our time is done,
There's one small thing for each and everyone!
A moment later, Princess Skystar happily sang her sentiments:
One small thing, so much we can create,
You and me, we started something great!
It's so amazing, look around,
At all the happy sights and sounds!
One small thing is big, it's true,
You did this all for us.
I just wish there was one small thing,
An extra special kind of thing,
The princess was then joined by the residents of Seaquestria, as they all sang together:
That we could do for you...
One small thing!
As luck would have it, the joyous singing and laughter had drawn the attention of Queen Novo. She could not recall the last time she'd seen her subjects so cheerful and so full of life. Even she had found herself tempted to join in, and ultimately had done so at the very end, dancing with her daughter.
Just like that, the queen's earlier suspicions seemed to melt away. If these outsiders could do all of this out of the kindness and generosity of their own hearts, maybe they could be trusted after all. And maybe they deserved something more than just a few of her soldiers.
"You know," Queen Novo stated as an unusually bright, wide smile spread across her face. "Maybe there is one small thing we could do for you. You've convinced me."
Spike and the five seaponies were amazed and astounded! Everything seemed to be working out for them after all! Twilight's suggestion had worked better than she could've ever anticipated.
But before any promises could be made or any discussion could be had about what to do next, the sharp blaring of an alarm filled the air.
Queen Novo got a worried look on her face. She seemed to know what the alarm meant. She rapildy swam towards the throne room, and her daughter and the outsiders followed. What they saw shocked them!
There was Twilight Sparkle, tangled up in the long tentacles of the sea anemone that housed the Pearl of Transformation. Try as she might, she could not break free. The pearl remained just outside of her reach.
Immediately, Queen Novo's earlier happines faded. Now she became visibly angry, her eyes narrowed as she quickly swam up and snatched the Pearl of Transformation, holding it close to her chest. "I should've known! You can't be trusted! You just wanted the pearl for yourselves!"
"No! It's not like that!" Twilight protested. "I just wanted to study it, learn how it worked!"
"Well you should've asked me first!" The queen frowned.
Twilight could only argue back. "I didn't think you'd agree. You already said you wouldn't let us use it. I thought this was the next best option."
The queen only coldly replied. "You're no better than the last outsiders who visited my kingdom. Just like them, you used my daughter against me!"
Princess Skystar desperately tried to plead. "No, Mother! They're not like those previous visitors! They're not working for the Storm King!"
Queen Novo coldly brushed her daughter off. "They might as well be for all I care! This is why we don't trust outsiders, Princess Skystar! You are too niave for your own good! When someday you are queen, you'll learn to see it my way," Then she turned to Twilight, quickly untangling her from the tentacles, only to then say to her face. "You and your friends don't deserve the pearl's powers! You leave me with no choice!"
Twilight desperately tried to argue! "Please, your majesty! Do whatever you want to me, but leave my friends out of this. They didn't do anything. I'm the only one you should punish."
The queen scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Do you take me for a fool? Your 'friends' were part of your plan all along. You just used them to distract my daughter and myself so you could swipe the pearl while I wasn't looking! Therefore, they'll all share in your punishment!" She held up the pearl. "Don't ever show your faces in my presence or my kingdoms ever again!"
Princess Skystar quickly swam forward, grabbing one of her mother's fins as she saw fit to interject. "Mother, they're not like you and I! They can't swim underwater, they'll drown!"
Queen Novo sighed, quickly tapping a fin against her crown. Several air bubbles quickly surrounded the outsiders, circling their heads. "There, at least now you know I'm not like the Storm King. He would show you no mercy." Then she brough the pearl forward and held it up again.
With a bright, blinding flash, the transformations were undone! The seaponies were back to being just ponies, and Spike had been turned back into a dragon. And before any of them could say or do anything further, a current whisked them away! Seaquestria soon faded from their view as everything went dark again.
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I personally never liked this part of the film, Twilight just felt out of character to me, and I felt like this had to happen to get the typical lowest point moment. I’m still enjoying your version though, and to see Novo painted in a more sympathetic light. It would be cool if we got to see the Hippogriffs actually join the fight at the end like the film originally planned, but for now I just hope we get to see Novo forgive Twilight instead of having it alluded to like in the show.
11902864 Rest assured, Novo and Twilight will have a talk about Twilight's actions here before all is said and done. If there's one thing the 2017 movie sorely needed, it was a little bit run time to give plot points a satisfactory end, rather than just end with everything presumably still hanging.
Very little I can say that hasn't already been said better, but thanks for getting this up.
I am certainly looking forward to the rest of the story.
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In my AU, the events of the movie are made into Season 5 episodes, and my version of the movie is a simple adventure film that doesn’t need to be watched before the rest of the show, kinda like rainbow road trip. If you didn’t see the movie, you’d have no idea who the hippogriffs in season 8 were or why they mentioned characters we never saw.
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Did you rewrite every episode of the show?
11902938 No, not yet. I've rewritten over half of it at this point, including all of Seasons 3 and 8, but there are still episodes I've yet to rewrite.
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It would be nice to have the episodes in chronological order, just saying.
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If it happens, I hope the EQG what-ifs fixs the issue about Spike being stuck as a dog.
It really isn't fair for him being a dog while everyone else got to be human.
And the fact being a dog badly restricted him.
11903046 I get what they were going for with him being a dog. But it's weird that one of the shorts leading up to "Rainbow Rocks" had humanized Diamond Dogs.
11903048
What they were going for him being a dog really makes no bloody sense though.
The Diamond Dog bit was insult to Spike's injury right there. Diamond DOGS humans instead of well.. dogs.
Really adding salt to the wounds of dragons too.
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To be fair, the problem with a human Spike would be regarding how the heck to interpret Twilight and Spike's complicated relationship. Like especially during the first 3-5 seasons (the ones before the first Equestria Girls movie and Friendship Games), they hadn't really quite settled with how to interpret Twilight and Spike's relationship at the time, which is why fans are debating on how to interpret their relationship as mother/son (which was a pretty popular interpretation and still remains one to this day), older sister/little brother, or some third thing so making Spike a dog may have been a way of not having to awkwardly answer that at the time. It's telling it took until season 9 for them refer to Twilight and Spike as siblings in Sparkle's Seven so it could be they didn't want to rock the boat on interpreting Twilight and Spike's relationship at the time.
Plus, isn't it a bit weird for a 11-12 year old high school boy to be hanging out with a bunch of 16-18 year old teenage girls? And even raising questions on if human Spike even has friends that are the same age as him. It is hard to think of other shows that have a 11-12 year old boy hanging out with a bunch of 16-18 year old girls instead of friends his own age.
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If Spike were human, maybe he would probably be like 14-15 which is also presumably how old the human CMCs are.
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Reducing him to a dog to avoid awkwardly answering it ended up backfiring since its saying he's a piece of property/a pet to Twilight.
Really not weird since can't a male hang out with some other friends in general regardless of gender?
And most likely Spike would be around the CMC's age when human form, since the CMC were freshmen
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Kinda assumed the human CMC were around 11-12 years old with Canterlot High being a grades 6-12 school.
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Well, what about the age thing? A young boy hanging out with a bunch of teenagers is still weird. Like ask yourself this, how would you answer why a human Spike doesn't just hang out with other kids his own age? Why would human Spike hang out with the Rainbooms, but not the human CMC?
Name one preteen boy character in a piece of media that hangs out with a bunch of older female teenagers instead of friends his own age? At least answer that.
And then how should they have gone about trying to address the Twilight and Spike relationship in EQG? If they had no idea how the heck to interpret Twilight and Spike's complicated relationship during the early seasons, how would they have addressed the problem without forcing themselves into just one interpretation?
And besides, Twilight and Spike are established as mother/son in SPB12's stories anyway so Spike being a human wouldn't work in SPB12's potential rewrite of EQG since it'd raise questions on Sci-Twi being a teen mom to a preteen human Spike. At least a dog Spike means Sci-Twi can still treat him as her son.