Twilight shook her head. "I'm guessing none of the futures ended up how she wanted."
Chronoa started ticking things off. "Not unless she wanted Equestria taken over by Nightmare Moon, a still rotten Discord, Queen Chrysalis, at war with a Sombra controlled Crystal Empire, or just rendered into a barren wasteland." She gave a still sobbing Starlight a mild glare. "Because without the Elements of Harmony, any of those were possible."
Twilight sighed. "Ok, Starlight. I need to ask you something, and I'd like you to be honest with me; why didn't you just go talk to Sunburst when you started worrying about your friendship with him?"
Meanwhile, Spike was nearby, just glad a mess was averted. He wasn't fully paying attention to Twilight giving her a talking to, though a few words did slip through.
"Starlight, trying to punish others for your past actions..."
'Past actions'. It was probably not the right place, but he couldn't help grinning a little as those two words, for some reason, had him recall some of these that had happened over the last few days in between the dream meetings.
Like Trouble Shoes, the supposed criminal in Appleoosa who kept wrecking the rodeo. Until the crusaders found out he was just a stallion with supremely bad luck who wanted to be part of it.
Or the recent Gala, where Fluttershy brought her new friend, Treehugger. Spike had initially expected Discord to have a tantrum over not being invited. Thankfully, Fluttershy took the initiative to ask where the aspect of chaos' own ticket was, even asking him and Twi to check with Celestia.
He'd nearly fallen over laughing when they finally discovered Discord had gotten the munchies and mistook his for a tortilla chip.
Pinkie and Rainbow had recently had a map mission to Griffonstone, but he wasn't too sure what went on, aside from Rainbow had made up with Gilda. That and apparently they told her about what he could do, since she'd asked if he could try and help find a precious relic of the griffons that'd fallen into a gorge.
He'd made a note to go that afternoon.
Then there was Cranky Doodle and Matilda's wedding, which, due to a misprint, had everyone believing it was an earlier date than planned. Thankfully, the town managed to pull together, and aside from a pesky bugbear they had to shoo off, the wedding went off without a hitch. He also learned weddings made Shining cry.
And the delegation...Celestia...that was a pain! Twilight had ran herself ragged making sure everything was set up properly until she was too tired to even form a coherent sentence. So, he'd put her to bed and did his best to redirect any questions or complains.
Instead he got swamped with idiots who wanted to bitch at her over crap like someone stealing a seat, running out of capers, the freaking placecards not being in a font they liked! Granted, a snarl and quick flare of ki made them back off, but he still wondered if Twilight or Cadance would've held it against him if he'd gone ahead and made good on his threat to punt a few into Horseshoe Bay. At least he still had some of Bulma's anti-allergy tablets to let him deal with all the Dragonsneeze planted around there.
Once all that was done, he stopped to drop in to see their friends in Canterlot. He'd heard that Twilight had reconnected with them while he'd been gone, but found she'd forgotten to tell them he was back. 'Didn't think a unicorn could move THAT fast.' He thought, idly rubbing the spot on his chest where Moondancer had impacted from her mach-two glomp.
Another annoying group had been Prince Rutherford of Yakyakistan and his entourage. The whole town freaking bent of backwards to try and recreate some of their traditions to make them feel welcome. Did they show any appreciation? No...all they did was scream 'not perfect' and threaten war for it...until Twilight had enough.
"Very well. We accept your declaration of war." Twilight calmly replied, much to the prince's surprise. "However, I feel it only fair to warn you: we have ponies that can make dragons cry with a glare, the embodiment of chaos itself is one of our closest, allbeit somewhat annoying, allies. We've fended off an invasion led by the Changeling Queen herself, we can control the weather like we're setting a table, project city-wide force fields, our leaders are able to move the sun and moon by sheer dint of their will."
She then pointed to Spike and Chronoa. "My unofficial little brother has recently beaten seven shades of poop out of the demon Tirek." She then pointed to a black object off in the distance that had moss already growing on it. "He snapped off one of his horns. And he's friends with a Goddess of Time." In an instant, she was in the yak's face. "Care to reassess your odds, Spanky?"
"What do you need me for? Spikey's got enough power to obliterate a planet by himself."
It was then they all heard multiple thuds. Rutherford and his group had fainted.
'Think they peed themselves if the smell was anything to go by. Phew.' Spike's nose wrinkled at the memory.
By then, Twilight was winding down from the scolding she was giving the mare. "And if you have been spying on us all this time, you realize that I'd be fighting a lot more intently than in the cave, and you would've had a dragon who can break planets in the fight as well...right?"
"'Planet-Breaker' is right..." Starlight admitted, before bashfully scraping a hoof on the floor while she looked his way. "Um, you doing anything later?" That was followed by a squeak as she was given a collective death glare by every other female in the room.
Spike scratched his head. "Um, I promised Rainbow I'd head to Griffonstone..."
I was wondering were did season 5 went but I am satisfied with the results, so I must thank you for for it.
Thank you very much for satisfying my need of season 5 with a overpowered Spike on it.
I see. Took me a while to realize the missing gap. In that case, why did you skipped all those events? I mean, because during those days, Spike would have explained his quests to his friends and families, right? And it would cover quite an arc or two during those times. (if I am not mistaken Starlight's time travel incident happen at least half a year after the a visit to her village)
I thought you were going to have Spike told his adventures so it would cover all the way to Majin Boo fight or something. Now it is as if we have skipped all those storytellings.
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Accidentally skipped. We got so wrapped up in the storytelling and what we were looking forward to - that bit with Starlight and Chronoa specifically - that we forgot about everything that had to happen first.
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In that case, you guys can write those chapters to later fill all those skips and insert them before the Starlight's return chapter. I am sure the readers won't mind.
nice work.
I'm thinking, Twilight would be the first student who would want to train ki to beat the others, because her patience is wasted a lot, and now she need to learn self control, and martial arts exist because of that too. LOL
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You can even mark them as bonus chapters.
This is a fantastic story, this is way better than my Dragon Ball story’s!
Whats it going to be like when they find out the ways Spike has died?
Yup, time-skipping canon is a bitch, bu your doing a good job. Careful Starlight, your being watched!
Starlight, you've literally just barely dodged death, WHY in the nine hells would you think it a good idea to flirt with the literal largest bring in the room, who is on VERY good terms/relations with EVERYONE ELSE in the room and who can more than likely give you an ACTUAL death glare?!
Good chapter, but I agree with the others, you guys should write out the intermittent events and splice them in the space between Starlight's two earlier chapters.
SpikeXStarlight all the way
I'll never understand why those were approved by the princesses in the first place in the actual episode, when they knew that they have a dragon in their midst. It was as if they wanted Spike to f**k up the delegation and have him be publicly humiliated.
If there's one thing I detest, Public Humiliation is in the top 5
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A lot of crying, screaming, and hugging
spike x harem!
do you all really think only one female could keep up with him now without dehydrating?
Give starlight a break was it not sunburst's parents to dragged him to celestia's school once he got his cutie mark instead of asking him if he wants to go to said school?