Starlight Glimmer told her friends that she was afraid to go back to her old town to celebrate the annual Sunset Festival. The Mane Six reassured her that she’s changed for the better, and that she wouldn’t have been invited if her old village had not believed she had reformed.
She decides to go with Trixie, but upon leaving, Twilight and the others were captured by Queen Chrysalis which made Starlight come back and get an unlikely team to save them!
But what if something else happened?
What if Starlight was too afraid to go to the festival that she didn’t leave? And what if Chrysalis and her changelings arrived at that same moment to invade Ponyville? How different would it might have been?
Well, actually, it would end up being a smart move for Starlight since she would stay and save her friends BEFORE they were captured. But what if that’s what happened instead?
An alternate ending to the season 6 closer, To Where and Back Again, and the second in my alternate ending series.
Two times ponies other than Pinkie made very detailed descriptions about what could( and, in canon, did) happen
... Nope. I prefer how Starlight did go back to Our Town in Season 6's finale. It showed that she had matured so much in the season. Oh sure, she might have been having some of the same thoughts she does here.
But it showed she was willing to face the others again. This just makes her out to be a coward when it comes to that. And whatever else Starlight is, that isn't one of them.
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I agree but this story was fun to read.
What about Shining armor and Flurry Heart? and the Princesses?
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Since Starlight had stopped Chrysalis before she could take over those locations, it’s assumed that the other troops got word that their queen’s plan failed, and just released them or didn’t get the chance since Starlight didn’t leave for the festival.