This story is a sequel to Bring Them Back
Twilight tried to put everything back the way it was; her old friends rose from the grave, her old dragon now sits on her back again, a baby once more. But some things always change. Her actions in the Everfree have consequences, and as she emerges from the forest, she will discover a new Equestria, held captive by the perilous Wilder. Airships patrol the skies and artillery rings out in the night. This is not how it should be.
Twilight's journey to set things right will take her through the wilderness, over stormy mountains, and
into the treacherous Black Zones, but she will not go alone. With Spike by her side and her friends in her heart, Twilight will do what it takes to save Equestria.
Chapters (7)
I wonder if Celestia knows what Twilight did or just suspects. And how angry will she be that she is no longer a Princess or she broke the barrier between life and death? And mist importantly, now that they have died already, cam they die again? What if resurrection also inferred immortality on the new bodys.
Oh Twilight what madness have you wrought
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7241156 Someone caught the reference!
I guess the specific charges for why they've been arrested are state secrets, though. Right?
That's what folks arrested for unknown charges usually ask for first, even before a lawyer.
At least Twilight should have responded to "what Spike was doing out there, as you put it, was dying!"
7241838 It always cracks me up that we get five or so emotes per Mane 6 character, but all Spike gets is a single mustachioed emote. Glad you liked the story!
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Air Ships Baby! Air Ships! 
Spikey dearest did we have any draconies? pongongs?
A thousand years could the mane six meet their offspring???
7241925 Well, not all of them lived long enough to have any offspring. Let's just say that Fluttershy was lucky to die of old age. And Rarity... was not (there's a clue to her demise in this chapter. It's not pretty.).
7241933 ouch (makes for an easier story to write)
I like to think even Rainbow would consider that garish if she knew.
7255366 Eh, purple for Spike, pink for Fluttershy, another shade of purple for Rarity, blonde for Applejack, darker pink for Pinkie, and red-orange for Rainbow (her mane has a bunch of colors, but those ones matched best). It's probably not the most fashionable choice, but since when was Twilight fashionable?
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I was imagining it with their fur colors. White-yellow-pink-blue-orange-purple flatters nobody. Not even a quasi-immortal god-princess.
7255514 In the next chapter: Everypony dies in battle because Pinkie replaced all their ammo with frosting.
7255533 "I love the smell of frosting in the morning, It smells of vanilla victory!"
Pinkie 'KillGore' Pie.
Will this story be as short as the previous one?
7255848 Nope! This will be a longer-form adventure story.
Yea. Sure. Just imprison the greatest sorceress, element of magic, and princess of Friend-MuthaFuckin-ship instead of enlisting her and her now restored Rainbow beam of utter annihilation.
Smart move celly...
Twenty-three years? ...twenty-three years?
Twilight's friends weren't resurrected twenty-three years ago.
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HMM...
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The other purple.
7267280 They weren't, but Discord fast-forwarded time twenty-three years back in the Everfree. He'd already released the wild magic he needed to build the extractor before that, so for twenty-three years, it's been tearing up Equestria.
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Well, so that's the thing. The dead friends thing is actually a complete red herring. Nothing followed her friends from beyond the grave. Something else is corrupting Equestria, and the ponies don't suspect a thing. Twilight could sacrifice her friends to the dark gods of retribution or whatever, but what caused this couldn't be her friends being resurrected. It was...
It was Discord pulling the resurrection plan out of his head. The ideas even he was afraid to think about. They were trying to follow him, to make him think about them. An undead monstrosity didn't follow the ponies from beyond the grave. It was another, different bad idea, that followed him, out of his own head! This is all just a bad idea! A really, really, really bad idea! They're gonna try to undo what Twilight did, and it's not going to have any effect on the problem, because it's actually a completely unrelated idea!
That's the impression I'm also getting at this point.
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Actually, Plunder Seeds answers the question that's been bugging me the whole time with this thing. The Wilder began the moment when Twilight and Discord jumped time to get the energy to resurrect her friends--but unless Effect ceased to follow Cause due to it "being Discord"--after all, the Necromancy spell wasn't successful until AFTER they reappeared in the time/space--
The only other explanation is that Discord had been eating the vines and seeds to keep their numbers down all this time, and only by stepping out of the time-line did they grow again without him to keep in check.
7287908 I agree it's just way too convenient not to be a red herring
Welp, orders are orders.
"Halt, in the name of the princesses!"
"No, in the name of the princesses!"
during a seizure you do not want to hold someone still because the muscles will break the bones if they cannot move. you want to clear an area and then call an ambulance.
7509408 Yeah, I made sure to mention that in the author's notes. Spike isn't the best at medical care.
Luna: "Next time, try to scream a little louder, dufus.
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What happened to her friends?
7596688 In custody in the Castle. They'll show up soon...
Oh, glad to see this back. I looked at your account recently and you had been offline for so long, I thought you had abandoned the place. I hope you'll be updating the Rainbow Dash story as well.
stumps, twinged
Great, Twi escaped now she can learn just how screwed they are!
Alas.
Great story!