Apparent Trilogy

by PioneerofImagination

Endgame Redone

Canterlot, the capital of the land of Equestria, it was at times a shining example of pony life. But on this day it was attacked by not only a reluctant Discord along with Chrysalis and her love hungry changeling army. But also Tirek and King Sombra who Chrysalis with Discord's help found when they were weak and helped bring them back to strength. They, in return, joined forces to make the attack and their revenge all the better. The guards got on the counterattack right away while a few others informed Princess Celestia.

"This is horrible," Celestia said. "Prepare every guard and protect Twilight. I mean protect Canterlot, but protect her too." Celestia then helped the guards and the mane five and Forest wanted to help out as well.

"Did this happen in the future too?" Pinkie asked Forest while they prepared to fight.

"Well Twilight isn't on their side so, not quite," Forest answered. "But it's happening again, what if, what if we can't stop it like last time? Or next time or-"

"Hey hey," Pinkie replied in a calming manner. "It'll be okay."

"How do you know Pinkie?"

"Because you're here."

"Me?"

"Yes you couldn't be then who?"

"Huh?"

"You helped us get Twilight back, that didn't happen in the future right?"

"Correct."

"Well that's one thing you changed so who's to say you can't change another, and another and another."

"I suppose you have a point." Pinkie Pie then grabbed Forest by the neck and pulled him in close enough for their faces to touch which made Forest blush a little.

"Yeah so, I want you to make me a pinkie promise right now that you're going to do everything in your power to save the future."

"A pinkie promise?"

"Cross your heart, hope to die, stick a cupcake in your eye."

"All right I promise." Forest then repeated Pinkie's bizarre sentence and body gestures that came with it. After that the mane five and Forest met up with Princess Celestia who was sending out the last of the guards to not only fight but also help get the citizens evacuated.

"Princess, we want to help kick flank too."

"That's good to hear Rainbow Dash," Princess Celestia said. "Because I'm going to need all of the help I can get."

"Well then it's a good thing I'm going to join in as well," Twilight said, getting everypony's attention, Celestia most of all.

"No!" Princess Celestia yelled. "Not a chance! Not happening! You get right back in my bed."

"I'm not tired anymore."

"I don't care you're not going!"

"Yes I am, you're going to need all the help you can get, remember?" Twilight then walked around Celestia but Celestia grabbed her from behind with both forelegs as well as her wings trapping Twilight in a powerful hug.

"I don't care, I'm not giving them a chance to take you away from me," Celestia replied with a tear running down her face. "I'm not going to lose you again." Suddenly an attack came from just outside causing a bit of the castle wall to break off. It was about to land on several guards too scared to move when suddenly the rubble was turned into bubbles. When they cleared Celestia saw that Twilight escaped the hug and saw a spark from her horn.

"I can take care of myself, especially since I've learned chaos magic." Celestia then saw the look in her daughter's eyes and sighed in defeat.

"All right, but stay close to me," Celestia said. They all made their way out and went to work, the mane five and Forest got to work fighting some of the changelings while Celestia along with Twilight and Luna helped the guards get civilians out of Canterlot.

"Before the sun sets on this day Canterlot will fall," Tirek said, who thanks to Chrysalis had been given enough power to return to his third form. "Though if I eat the magic of a certain alicorn princess, who knows how long it will be up in the sky." Tirek made his way through the city, taking the magical energy of any pony that had the unfortunate luck of getting in his way. While he and the changelings did some damage the evacuation was going rather well, mostly due to Twilight and the royal pony sisters using their magic to speed up the progress.

"I think we're halfway there!" Luna said.

"Good, once we're done here we can get to helping with the fight," Celestia said. "But we have to stay focused here and, Twilight, I told you to stay where I can see you."

"Sorry," Twilight said as she helped a family get through. Meanwhile the mane five and Forest managed to slow down quite a few changelings.

"Y'all ain't taking over this place!"

"We stopped you last time and we'll stop you this time," Rainbow Dash said as a rather large group of changelings surrounded her but she flew at them all super fast and the group dropped like flies. "Who else wants some?" Suddenly Chrysalis flew up to meet Rainbow Dash eye to eye.

"I don't want some, I want the whole thing," Chrysalis answered as she charged at the brave blue pony. While that was going on the others were doing a rather good job and fighting back the changelings, but the changelings spent quite a bit of time at the mountain training and their great numbers helped too. The latter of whom helped them start to pin down the mane five .

"Get your hooves off me this instant you ruffians," Rarity said as several changelings restrained her. Until the changelings were forced off thanks to Spike's fire breath.

"Rarity are you all right?" Spike asked as he ran over to get the slime off her.

"Yes, thanks to you my precious Spikey Wikey. But what in Equestria are you doing here darling?"

"I'm not going to stand by and let these monsters hurt my mare!" Spike answered with gusto that Rarity found charming and adorable at the same time.

"How noble of you Spike, but stay close to me."

"It's what I do best." Spike then got on top of Rarity and made sure the changelings didn't so much as touch her. While that was going on Forest was also doing a good job of pushing back the changelings and had Pinkie Pie backing him up.

"You know if these changelings weren't so evil they would be really good at parties." Suddenly Pinkie gasped, shocking not only Forest but also a few changelings. "Oh my gosh have you changelings ever been to a party?" Pinkie asked as she grabbed one of the nearby changelings by the face.

"What's a party?" The changeling Pinkie Pie grabbed asked.

"Oh my gosh it's true! No wonder you creatures are so evil." Pinkie Pie then pulled the changeling into a hug with Discord unknowingly watching from above.

"You always find a way to stand out in one way or another don't you Pinkie?" Discord asked. "If only the pony I was looking for stood out as much as you." As Discord searched for Twilight. Applejack, similar to Rainbow Dash, was kicking flank. Quite a few of them tried to tackle her all at once but she managed to force them all off and give them a good buck.

"Bring it on you varmints!" Applejack called out.

"Or you know you could all just give up," Fluttershy said. "I mean you know if you wanted to or wouldn't mind."

"Not interested." a rather creepy voice that seemed to come out of nowhere said.

"What the hey!?" Applejack said as she looked around and King Sombra appeared in front of them. Before she or Fluttershy could even say anything Sombra summoned a series of strange rocks that pushed them and the guards back.

"Nice work Sombra," Tirek said after making short work of more guards.

"Yes," Sombra replied in a rather echoing voice. "The capital will soon fall."

"And Equestria will be mine," Tirek said.

"You meant ours right?"

"Huh? Oh yes ours, forgive me force of habit from spending all that time in Tartarus all by myself."

"Yes I suppose." Sombra replied as he flew off but would keep a close eye on Tirek. Before long Twilight and the princesses got the civilians out and could finally join the fight with numerous guards that helped with the evacuation ready to back them up.

"It's time to make the changelings pay for what they did." Celestia said.

"Oh you just want to make the changelings pay? Well, that's rather fortunate," Discord said, hovering higher than Celestia and Luna. "For me anyway."

"Discord!" Celestia said. "Don't get confused, you're going to pay for what you did as well."

"Sorry I'm not here to fight, I'm just here to pick up a certain somepony," Discord said as he looked at Twilight. "There you are. Come on Twilight, let's go home before Celestia breaks your heart again."

"She's not going with you Discord!"

"You see that Twilight, now she's speaking for you when will it end with her?" Twilight remained silent as she had mixed feelings for the spirit of chaos who teleported right in front of her. "Come on, let's go."

"NO!" Celestia said as she teleported in front of her daughter. "You're not taking her from me again!"

"You pushed her away by yourself. You left her to rot in a cell, I rescued her and gave her a shoulder to cry on."

"Don't listen to him Twilight, you can't trust him."

"Why should she trust you any more than me? I was there for her when she needed me. You weren't!" Discord then used his chaos magic to summon a rather giant anvil to squish Celestia but Twilight summoned a shield to block it.

"No I'm not going to let you hurt her, no matter what she did this isn't the answer. What you're doing isn't solving anything."

"Of course it is Twilight," Chrysalis said as she arrived with Tirek and Sombra. "We're fulfilling our desire to rule over you."

"As we should." Tirek said.

"Perhaps some of us believe that more than others." Sombra whispered to Chrysalis, to her minor confusion.

"Hand over your magic!" Tirek ordered.

"You'll have to take them from us by force!" Luna replied.

"Fine with me," Tirek replied as he tried to blast Luna and Celestia. But when he saw Twilight and tried to blast her Discord summoned a barrier to protect Twilight. "Huh what are you doing? Why are you protecting these inferior creatures?"

"Twilight is not inferior."

"Well then get her out of the way!" Chrysalis ordered.

"All right, fine sheesh." Discord said as he tried to grab Twilight but she backed away.

"I'm not going with you!" Twilight said.

"Then you shall fall like all the other ponies here," Chrysalis said as she fired a beam straight at Twilight but Discord snapped his fingers and it turned into silly string.

"Chrysalis stop, I told you Twilight was the key to all this."

"This again he's turned into a broken record."

"No Chrysalis, he's good soft," Tirek said, who now in his fourth form restrained Discord. "He actually cares about these weak minded creatures who talk about friendship." Tirek then started to drain Discord's magic but Chrysalis stopped him.

"What are you doing? He's still our comrade."

"No he isn't, he's started to care for these ponies. He's a liability, we can't risk him going turncoat when we're so close to victory."

"So you decided to go turncoat first? That doesn't make sense even for me." Tirek then threw Discord to the ground and tried to capture the ponies around him but they slipped away, Twilight even managed to grab Discord and run off. Celestia and Luna ordered the guards to retreat while Sombra, Tirek, and Chrysalis made a mess of the capital. The royal sisters along with Twilight and the guards that could still fight met up with Shining Armor and Cadence who helped ponies get on several trains to the Crystal Empire.

"Why did you bring Discord Twilight?" Celestia asked.

"I don't know, it didn't feel right to just leave him there."

"He tried to attack me!"

"And then he defended me!"

"Sister!" Luna said as she got in the middle of Celestia and Twilight. "Now isn't the time for us to discuss this. We need to prepare. It won't take long for those villains to figure out where we retreated to. We can work out our personal dramas later."

"You're right sister, we'll need this time to think of a plan. But at least we don't have to worry about one of them at the moment." As the train made it's to the Crystal Empire Twilight was sitting alone in one of the seats when Shining Armor decided to sit next to her.

"Hey."

"Hi."

"Look Twily, I know Princess Luna said to save our personal dramas for later, but I need to get this out of my system. I'm so sorry for what I did to you at the wedding, not a day goes by I haven't thought about what I did. And I know saying I'm sorry isn't nearly enough, but I hope one day you can find it in your heart to forgive me."

"Why did you do what you did? You were supposed to be my big brother best friend forever?"

"I-I don't know Twily," Shining Armor answered rather hesitantly. He then got off the seat and left allowing Cadence to take his place.

"Twilight," Cadence said as she put her hoof gently on her back. "There's also something I want you to know too, the Cadence at the wedding wasn't me she was-"

"A changeling. Yeah I know when I was able to think more clearly I put two and two together."

"Wow, you always were a smart little pony."

"Funny enough when I was away I spent quite a bit of time with the changelings, they really aren't all that bad once you get to know them."

"Well whatever happens, I'm so glad you're back in my life when you were gone, my heart was broken and I don't think it ever got fixed." Cadence said as she put her hoof to her chest. "You're very special to me."

"I am?"

"Yes Twilight you are," Cadence said as they stared into each other's eyes.

"Cadence I'm so confused," Twilight said. "Discord made me hate, Forest made me less hateful, it feels like everypony else is in my head telling me how to feel. I think my head is going to explode." Cadence hugged Twilight when suddenly Chrysalis and a couple changelings attacked the trains. Suddenly a large can of bug spray came out of nowhere and forced them to retreat.

"Well it looks like I'm not completely useless," Discord said. "When Chrysalis interrupted Tirek she must have stopped him from taking all of my magic."

"Which means you can help us fight back?"

"Yes Twilight, and so can you I gave you some of my chaos magic as well remember? The two of us will be quite formidable."

"Wait Twilight, why should we trust him, he's the one behind this whole tragedy?" Celestia pointed out.

"Come now princess, I can't take all of the credit you helped too."

"He's right," Twilight said. "He filled my head and heart with hate using what happened to me as a starting point."

"Yes I tried to twist you into the perfect weapon for Celestia's undoing, but I didn't realize I would start to care for you as much as I did. But how could I not, what with all the time we spent together and all the time I spent in your head."

"But why help now?" Forest asked.

"Well Tirek figured I'd betray them eventually, so I might as well and despite all our time together Chrysalis didn't lift a hoof to help me, or make any real effort to stop Tirek from taking my magic. So I guess payback is another reason."

"Well if you want to help that's fine we're gonna need all the help we can get," Fluttershy said as she flew over to Discord. "Maybe after all this we can be friends."

"Friends? After everything I've done, you want to be friends?"

"Sure," Pinkie Pie said, agreeing with Fluttershy as she hopped over to Discord. "Being friends is way better than enemies. You don't go to parties with enemies."

"You know it's funny I spend so much time watching you ponies looking down on all of you, but when I finally got closer I see you're more than what I made you out to be. Does that even make any sense, even by my standards?"

"Actually it does," Forest said as he put his hoof on Discord's shoulder. "Maybe you and I should talk."

***

When the trains stopped at the Crystal Empire a plan was quickly put into motion, Shining Armor put up a barrier around the empire. With Discord mostly depowered and on their side they only had three threats: the changelings, Tirek, and Sombra. "Shining Armor can repel the changelings with his spell like that time," Cadence said.
"Speaking of last time, could you use the Crystal Heart to stop Sombra?" Luna asked.

"Yes I believe so," Cadance said.

"Then that just leaves Tirek," Celestia said.

"You leave him to me," Forest said as he approached the princess to their surprise.

"How are you going to defeat him?" Luna asked.

"Just like last time and just like Sombra, the Crystal Heart."

"Are you sure Forest?"

"Yes mo- yes Princess Celestia, I've always had a thing with magical items. Maybe it's because my power used to come from some kind of core, maybe those items somehow act as a substitute allowing me to use them so well. But whatever the reason, I just what to set things right and make the horrible future I witnessed not happen."

"Then let's get ready," Celestia said so Luna and Cadence flew up but Celestia stayed to put her hoof around Forest's neck. "And after all this, I'm okay with you calling me mom." Forest then made it to the Crystal Heart but started to tremble a bit.

"You okay?" Pinkie asked as she went to see how Forest was feeling.

"I'm scared, if we don't win there's no do-over."

"But Discord is on our side now, that's a major difference right?"

"But what if the other bad guys give him another chance and he takes it. We couldn't stop him last time. What if I somehow do get sent back in time but I'm never able to stop them. I could for all eternity-" Forest stopped Pinkie Pie wrapped herself around him for a hug.

"That stinkin thinkin is started to smell something fierce." Pinkie Pie let go as she saw Forest calmed down.

"Thank you."

"No problem. We're gonna give this our A game. So let's stop the bad guys and save the future."

"Yeah!" Forest agreed.

"Let's take them down."

"Yeah!"

"No regrets!"

"Yeah!" Forest said and suddenly kissed Pinkie who returned the kiss. After that everypony along with Discord and Spike got ready as the enemy forces were just outside the barrier.

"I figured they would do this," Chrysalis said.

"Do what?"

"Shining Armor put up his protective spell across the entire empire. It will take some time for us to break it."

"It's a good thing you went through all the trouble of getting every changeling for this attack, even the injured ones." Tirek said.

"Yes, every little bit will help in their defeat."

"On that we can agree on." Tirek then turned around and took the magic from not only Chrysalis, but her entire changeling army, making him bigger and stronger. He also took Sombra's magic as well taking his entirety with him. Not that he cared as he got all the more stronger as well as giving him a bit of a shadowy aura.

"What, what are you doing?" Chrysalis asked as she laid down in the snow unable to move.

"I made myself much stronger making it all the more easier to defeat these ponies and when I do I don't have to share my victory with you it's a win win."

"We were supposed to be comrades."

"You hardly cared when I did the same to Discord. Why should you be surprised?"

"Wow that's great," one lookout crystal guard who saw what happened said to another crystal guard. "Well I mean not for them, but for us because now we just have one enemy to beat. And since he's so big he'll be super hard to miss so maybe this won't be as hard as-" the guard was cut off when Tirek blasted Shining's Armor's spell and destroyed it entirely with a single attack. "Never mind."

"It was a somewhat pleasant thought though," the other crystal guard said.

"So much power and I haven't even taken the alicorn's magic yet. But I will soon." Tirek then made his way further into the Crystal Empire leaving the changelings in the snow.

"This can't be how it ends for me and my subjects," Chrysalis said as she struggled to get up but was powerless. "This can't be the end." Suddenly Chrysalis was teleported inside the Crystal Empire along with a small group of changelings.

"Thought this would be a better place for you to lay down," Discord said as he used what little chaos magic he had to bring some more changelings out of the snow. "Or at the very least warmer."

"Discord? W-why are you helping me? Why are you helping us?" Chrysalis asked.

"Because that's what friends do."

"Friends?"

"Yes, after everything I've done for them they still offer me friendship. And even when things seem hopeless they continue on, I guess they're stronger than we gave them credit for." As Discord and a couple ponies helped the changelings out of the snow, Tirek made his way further into the Crystal Empire that thankfully was evacuated earlier.

"Give me your magic!" Tirek said as he tried to blast Celestia who flew out of the way.

"You will not prevail, Tirek."

"And just what are you going to do to stop me? I'm already more powerful than even you could hope to be."

"And yet you still want more, how much is enough for you?"

"Enough for me to become the most powerful creature in this or any other land." Tirek then blasted several more buildings trying to get the princesses and along the way forced Twilight off a building she was on, forcing her to the ground. Several of her friends made their way towards Twilight to help her, those ponies being Applejack despite her feelings towards Twilight, Rainbow Dash who took a beating from Chrysalis but could still fight and her brother Shining Armor who made a small barrier to protect her as Tirek was about to step on Twilight. "What the?"

"You'll have to do better than that!" Shining Armor cried out.

"Uh, maybe don't antagonize the giant centaur." Applejack said.

"You haven't seen a fraction of my best!" Tirek said as he started stomping on the shield Shining Armor made that endured.

"You mean the best built from all the magic you stole?" Rainbow Dash asked which annoyed Tirek causing him to stomp on the shield more.

"Nice work Rainbow!" Applejack said.

"Twilight I'm sorry." Shining Armor said out of nowhere, surprising the three mares while making sure the barrier stayed up.

"What?" Twilight said.

"On the train I said I didn't know why I acted the way I did, I was lying. When mom and dad died I was in a dark place. And after Princess Celestia took us in, she favored you more, it might have been because you were still so young and she felt you needed more attention while I was almost out of school. But all the same, I was jealous of you Twilight."

"You were?" Twilight said, shocked while neither her or Rainbow noticed how much Applejack was taking what Shining Armor said to heart.

"Yes no matter what I did it seemed like I could never step out of your shadow, No matter what I did you were always the talented one. You were the apple of Celestia's eye, I think even Cadence liked you more than me."

"Why won't this break already," Tirek said as he stomped harder.

"I was so happy for the wedding, it was my special day and my jealousy blinded me to the truth." The barrier then started to crack but Shining focused more and sealed the cracks then started to talk much faster. "Even if Discord didn't take you away you probably would have left anyway. If I wasn't so obsessed with my wedding you never would have got taken away and I never would have lost you. I learned a valuable lesson that day, family comes first. It's nice to have a special day but the ponies in your life who love you, that's what you should really appreciate and that's what I promised I'd put first if we ever found you."

"Shining," Twilight said when suddenly she and her friends were engulfed in a magic aura. "Shining, what are you doing?"

"Keeping my promise, I love you Twily." Shining Armor then teleported the three mares to a nearby street corner just as the barrier broke. Shining Armor was then lifted up by Tirek until they were face to face.

"Where are the other ponies that were with you?" Tirek asked but Shining Armor was silent. Won't talk? Then I guess you'll have to do for the moment," Tirek then stole Shining Armor's magic.

"You're pathetic."

"What?" Tirek said clearly angered by Shining Armor's comment.

"You could take all the magic in all the world and that still wouldn't be enough for you. Nothing is ever enough for you, and the worst part is not too long ago I was sort of like you."

"You pathetic creatures are nothing like me!"

"We're more like you than you'd ever admit. It's funny as we planned our defense here I figured you were our worst threat, but now that I've gotten a close look at the emptiness in your eyes I actually pity you." Tirek then clenched his fists and then blasted Shining Armor, obliterating him to everypony's horror.

"Good riddance."

"N-O!" Cadance cried out as she flew over to Tirek in rage until Celestia and Luna, who finished clearing the mess and helping those hurt by the mess Tirek made, held her back. But that allowed him to grab all three princesses.

"This ends now!" Tirek called out.

"On that we can agree!" Forest said having finally made his way through and got close enough to Tirek. "You could grow to the size of a planet and still not be more powerful as us for we posses the greatest-"

"Speech later beat Tirek now!" Pinkie Pie interrupted Forest, so he fired the Crystal Heart right at Tirek causing to not only scream in pain but also shrink allowing the princesses to get free.

"How can this be?"

"I get it," one of the guards from before said. "Tirek absorbed King Sombra who is weak to the Crystal Heart so that means that now he's especially vulnerable-"

"EXPLAIN LATER BEAT TIREK NOW!" The guard next to him interrupted. Forest then used the Crystal Heart again causing Tirek to shrink once again, but Forest collapsed after using the heart several times.

"Forest are you okay?" Pinkie asked.

"Kind of, using the Crystal Heart like this is taking a lot out of me. I need a minute."

"Well let's hope you have one." Tirek, now in his third form, got up and resisted the pain.

"I, I need more magic." Tirek then looked around and saw Twilight helping several guards move what was left on the rubble. "Perfect," Tirek said as he grabbed Twilight with his magic. But before he could do anything else a rather large pie landed right on him making him let go of Twilight. "What the?"

"Banana cream, do you like it?"

"Discord! I knew you'd betray us."

"Yes, your self fulfilling prophecy came true." Discord then snapped her fingers and streamers surrounded Tirek. "Aw nuts, I was going for chains." Suddenly the streamer turned into chains trapping Tirek.

"Like that?" Twilight asked and Discord was quite proud of her. Tirek broke free and fired a magical blast straight at Twilight, but Discord got in front of her and summoned a shield that broke right away, causing him to take most of the attack to protect Twilight.

"DISCORD!" Twilight said as she ran over to him in tears. Tirek then absorbed the magic of the nearby ponies while Discord wiped the tears from Twilight's eyes.

"Nopony ever cried for me," Discord said.

"Forest, Tirek is getting bigger, you have to fire again," Pinkie Pie said.

"I don't think I can," Forest answered, barely able to stand. Tirek was about to absorb more but then Chrysalis having regained her magic led her army to attack Tirek and the princesses helped as well. "But I have to," Forest said after seeing the changelings attack. "Crystal Heart if you have to, take everything I have to offer."

"What?" Pinkie asked.

"Just as long as we can save the future for everypony, and make sure the magic of friendship, LIVES ON! IF IT COSTS ME MY LIFE THEN IT'S ALL WORTH IT!" Forest then fired his last shot that hit Tirek dead on and forced him to release nearly all of the magic he stole.

"No it can't be!" Tirek said back to his regular form.

"Oh it's about to get worse for you." Sombra said, still inside Tirek whose body started to turn to stone and crumble away, in mere moments he was a pile of rocks. The last few bits of magic he had flew off and the rubble became dust that would scatter to the winds.

"He's gone!" a crystal guard called out.

"We're saved, we're saved!" another cried. News of Tirek's defeat soon got to the whole empire and nearly everypony cheered. Spike was so happy they won he picked up Rarity and gave her the most passionate kiss he could who shrugged and returned it.

It's been a rough few days, I'll let him have this, Rarity thought. Oh! Watch the tongue Spikey Wikey. But not all were happy such as Twilight.

"C-can't you just heal yourself with your magic?" She asked while in tears.

"Not for something like this," Discord said as he placed his claw on Twilight's cheek wiping away more of her tears. "I'm sorry Twilight, I'm sorry for everything."

"I, forgive you," Twilight said and suddenly she felt a surge of chaos flow into her. "What the? What did you do?"

"It's yours now, use it better than I did." Elsewhere Pinkie Pie was trying to help Forest who couldn't move after using the Crystal Heart to defeat Tirek.

"He'll be all right right?"

"I don't know, using the heart like that seems to have taken a lot out of him," Cadence said as she and Luna went to check on him.

"Yes, especially in that last blast that took Tirek down to size, no pun intended." Luna said.

"Does that mean I stopped him?"

"Yes Forest you saved the day," Pinkie Pie said as she held him up a little.

"I did it, I did it," Forest said as he cried tears of joy. "I stopped him, I saved the future, I'm so happy," Forest said shortly before he closed his eyes for the final time.

"No, wake up Forest please wake up," Pinkie Pie said as she started to cry and her usually puffy mane became straight. "No it's not fair you barely made friends with anypony, it's not fair it's just not fair."

***

Forest, Shining Armor, and Discord were all buried at the Crystal Empire while many considered this to be a triumph, the victory at the Crystal Empire was bittersweet at best. Applejack decided to leave Ponyville for a while, maybe look for another place to make yet another apple farm for her family. She wasn't ready to face Twilight just yet, but was determined to seek things right with her one day. Pinkie Pie put off parties for a while to grief over Forest, only time would heal the wounds they carried.

Spike however continued to fawn over Rarity and even helped her reopen a shop in Manehattan.

"Thank you so much for all the help Spikey Wikey."

"Happy to help."

"Well I'm quite grateful all the same," Rarity said. Suddenly Spike wrapped his arms around one of Rarity's legs.

"No really, I'm really really really happy to help you." Spike said as he hugged a little tighter.

"That's quite a strong grip for an adorable little dragon."

"Oh I'm super tough, trust me." Spike said as he let go and showed off his muscles. Rarity knew Spike was a tad young for her, but she couldn't deny how much she liked him. And when he came of age she believed she would become quite fond of him. Spike would also make sure to visit Twilight every once in a while who was spending most of her time with Cadance. She would use her unique magic to help Twilight out with the mental issues she brought up on the train.

"So you and Shining Armor never got married?" Twilight asked as she and Cadance were sort of having a picnic at a Canterlot park.

"No, we wanted to find you first. Though in all honesty I wasn't sure I would have gone through with it when we did."

"What do you mean?"

"It's hard to explain, over time we just kind of drifted apart."

"I see."

"So are you feeling better?"

"Yeah. I'm better now thanks to you." Twilight answered as she used her newly acquired chaos magic to make a drink for Cadance appear.

"My you're really getting the hang of that, but you always were a fast learner."

"Yeah," Twilight said sadly, seeing that Cadance put her hoof and wing around Twilight. "He did horrible things and tried to brainwash me, but he helped us and gave me his magic to use for good. That has to count for something right?"

"Right. Sombra helped us too. I forgot to tell you this before, an old friend of his returned and helped Sombra become a pony like you and me, well not me."

"I get it, how did it happen?"

"Well, it's quite a long story." Twilight then got closer to Cadence. "But something tells me you don't mind."

"Nope," Twilight then got a little more comfortable and rested her head on Cadence's chest. "Cadence, despite all that's happened, I'm glad you're still in my life."

"Me too," Cadence replied as she rested her head on top of Twilight's. Meanwhile Celestia watched them from afar along with Chrysalis. After the defeat of Tirek the changelings were surprisingly open to peace between their races. The ponies gave them a chance and before long the ponies got the changelings to accept love, including Chrysalis who spent most of her time with Celestia to help each other run their nations.

"You're spying on Twilight again." Chrysalis said.

"I can't help it, I'm determined to be a much better mother to her. I will be a better mother for you Twilight I swear."

"I suppose I understand, I'm determined to be a better queen."

"Well you've been doing a very good job so far."

"Yes, most of that is thanks to you, you make me want to be better. You make me want other things as well." Chrysalis then grabbed Celestia's hoof and her head slowly approached Celestia's.

"Wait," Celestia said. "This might be a little too fast."

"Ssh," Chrysalis said as her lips were slightly touching Celestia's. "I'll be gentle, I swear." Their lips then connected and they used their magic to lock the doors and close the windows.

The End

Author's Note:

The 1st 2 stories ended on a song so to speak so why not this one too?

Comments

[KD22]

So, is this the definitive end? Is there a possibility of a sequel?

[PioneerofImagination]

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Yes it's the end.
But out of curiosity did you have something in mind for a sequel?

[KD22]

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Well, I thought maybe you were going to explore points like Twilight and Cadence's relationship because, in the end, I saw them very close as if they could be more than friends, but that was just my perception, I know some people don't like that couple, surely you wanted to show them as sisters and that's it.

Then there was if at some point Twilight's friends who haven't quite forgiven her finally forgive her or not, the reasons why yes or no. Also if Twilight forgave them all or if she still has resentments and how she overcame them (in case she forgave them).

And how was the process Twilight went through to control the chaos magic, how she got to control it, if she had problems with it or not or in case she still doesn't control it well, how does it affect her life. What use does she give it? Also if she has mental sequels of what she did and lived, how she overcame them (if she did), or if they still affect her.

That's what I thought might happen, it's nothing big or epic, there's no villain to defeat either, now I understand why the story ended there, maybe that's not your style of story.

[Starlight Fan]

Great story.

[PioneerofImagination]

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Thank you.

[PioneerofImagination]

10924673
Thanks.