Resting in her castle, Twilight Sparkle was minding her own business, reading in her library, when a furious Starlight Glimmer burst in, wanting answers.
Starlight was away when the Yovidaphone mess with Pinkie Pie happened, so she didn't know some of the things that happened. Such as Twilight wanting to use a spell to buy time, before Applejack talked her out of it.
But Starlight Glimmer has finally learned that her ex-teacher wanted to bring out spells. And she's not happy about it!
But you might be surprised at the reasons why she's so mad...
NOTE: This story is completely separate from my stories with the human OC Eric Reed that takes place, from a "canon" timepoint, during Season 7.
This story is soon after the events of Season 8.
EDIT: Chinese translation available here https://fimtale.com/en/t/11695
*reads summary*
Huh. Now this should be interesting! The teacher getting yelled at by the student for once. XD
*reads story*
Uhhhh...well...that just happened.
I must admit, this threw me for a loop for a sec. But once it hit me what Starlight was ranting about, I nearly died laughing. Nice story! Well done!
Personally I'm in the camp of 'if magic exists why shouldn't it be a viable solution?' after all, what's the point of introducing a tool if it can't be used? It's like giving a carpenter a hammer and a special hammer that hammers all the nails in at once and penalizing the carpenter for using the special hammer. Then somehow making the house fall apart just because special hammers are wrong.
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Glad to hear you liked it! I had the idea for this story for a while, but finally got around to writing it.
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I'm in that camp myself, but I guess the show's like that to keep Unicorns from looking OP. After all, a small group of Unicorns could do in under a minute what might take a big crowd of Pegasi and Earth Ponies hours to do. And very powerful Unicorns, like pre-ascension Twilight or Starlight, might could do it by themselves
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Magic's only as powerful as the writers let it be.
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But if you hammer ALL THE THINGS! you just make things worse.
This part literally brought me to tears because it describes me exactly. I'm always cheering her on, I always side with her when dealing with people who hate her, I defend her when people call her OP. Hell I've been with her and on her side ever since season five and I even cheered her on during the time travel battle with Twilight. I have gotten into arguments with people when I say she is more powerful than Twilight. They always say, "Oh she just uses her magic differently." Really? No way in hell could Twilight have solved that problem with the Royal Pony Sisters and that isn't just because Starlight is the only one with CM magic, she has the balls Twilight will never have. I honestly don't think Twilight could have banished Discord's body from the school and to be honest, I think Starlight took it easy on him. If they were going to kill Discord off, I'm certain Starlight blasting him to bits would be a viable option.
Now regarding her becoming an Alicorn, I've been praying that she gets her wings. I don't care what else happens in the series, if she gets her wings I will be celebrating like I won the Stanley Cup. I do have plenty of ponies I like but Starlight is the only one I have felt a true connection to. I want to thank you so much for writing this story, it really resonated with me in a way that no other story ever has.
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You're welcome, and glad you liked this story.
I thought Starlight truly being mad for her fans and not herself could make a fun little plot twist at the end, and it was something I only thought about once I got halfway writing the story. Somehow, it really fits her.
Twilight and Starlight are both two of my favorite characters in FIM, but I couldn't help but have some fun and pick on Twilight a bit in this story. I've done it to Starlight a little on some of my other stories, but I just haven't make a full story about it.
About as close to friendly hazing as I can do to these characters
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I'm going to admit, this one made it into my favorites quickly. I do like Twilight too but when it comes to episodes surrounding her, "Lesson Zero" is still my favorite because of the humor involved.
I'm going to be blunt here, I don't get what is so special about Sunset Shimmer. Yes she was reformed and all but never has she unleashed powerful magic like Starlight. Yes there was the time involving Midnight Sparkle but she had Equestrian magic despite being human AND Spike distracted Midnight. In her pony form, we have never seen how good Sunset would do although I'm pretty sure Starlight would mop the floor with her in a magic competition. This is likely the Starlight fan in me speaking but to me, Sunset is just an average character and I think her best moments were when she came back to Equestria, with my favorite being her reconciliation with Celestia in "Forgotten Friendship." And that is likely my preference of FiM over Equestria Girls speaking as well.
I could go into another rant about how I've argued with people who think Sunset should be an Alicorn over the Midnight Sparkle confrontation but I'll save that for later. Again great story, I'm glad you wrote it.
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Between Sunset and Starlight, while they're both top-five characters for me, I personally like Starlight more than Sunset, partly because Starlight's more unpredictable and it felt like anything might happen when she's on screen. I've always liked the reformed Sunset but she was a bit boring to me at first, but I really found her more interesting after the short that showed she's a "gamer", then Forgotten Friendship and Rollercoaster of Friendship got her up to #5 on my favorite character list, where she still is right now.
I probably should note the part with Sunset Shimmer was really just based on how much Sunset was loved after Rainbow Rocks, not really my own opinions on Sunset or Starlight. I wondered about taking out the part with Sunset during editing, but left it in.
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This might get some flak but in my personal opinion, with the mess-ups in mind, Starlight Glimmer is best pony.
On the side not why can't we gat a Starlight emoji?
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That's why you switch to the special screwdriver instead. Or the special powersaw. Or the special lunch break.
*Cheerfully plays a Yovidaphone into the sunset*
Ah, memories..
Get your seasons right. Is it season 7, or 8? Pinkie's thing was in 7.
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I don't get it, Yakity-Sax was in Season 8
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Is the season 7 in the description for something else?
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Oh I see what you mean now. That part was about a different group of stories with a human OC character that does take place during the season 7 timeline.
This story is post-season 8
I'll edit it so it's clearer
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You need to make that clear up front then for those who don't know. Or it leads to this.
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Sorry. I'll be sure to remember that.
You nnnnotice that too, Eh?
Edit: REE! My phone was glitchinnng. Please ignore the extra ‘n’s. OH FLUFF I DID IT AGAIN!
Great story!
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Glad you liked it!
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Nice story！
Could you please allow me translate into Chinese？
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I ll leave a link here
please~
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Sure!
Well，Those problems are usual happen in Chinese brony.
Somesay"Starlight is evil!Twilight is the best pony" or "Starlight just an unicorn for replace unicorn Twilight."
What should i say?
Who can really understand Starlight?
I must admit,this story cant be called perfect but nice work.
Thank you.
Link is here~：https://fimtale.com/t/11695/ni-xiang-yong-ge-zhou-yu
Eh, didnt make me laugh. Why would Starlight bring up the smarty pants incident? She wasnt there, and she shouldn't berate her teacher for a mistake she made long ago unless she repeats it after giving that lesson.
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In this story, Starlight was told about the smarty pants thing, but she wasn't upset about that. She was really only mad about Twilight considering using spells in Yakky Sax after she told her about not using magic in season 6, which was intentionally over-the-top as part of the meta-humor.
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Okay.