Twilight gets a surprise visit from Sugar Belle, Night Glider, Double Diamond, and Party Favor! They've visited Ponyville to thank all the girls for what they did at Our Town, alongside doing so much for Starlight.
There's something that Twilight did, specifically, that Sugar Belle is especially grateful for.
Takes place after Season 6, but before Season 7.
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What I love the most about this story is it never tries to force a definitive answer about the nature of the spell. It is entirely dedicated to analyzing what was given through a concern-driven lens, following those details to paint a portion of the picture, and letting the audience fill in the blanks.
I can already think of a few interesting non-physically harmful possibilities that fit the bill...
-Some sort of "point of no return" mind-domination spell: probably harder to use, aligns with Glimmer's other spells, would make sense as a failsafe for complete loss of control over the town.
-Cutie-mark deletion: again it fits her area of expertise, would be a billion times worse than temporarily removing one which would explain her not using it earlier, "charge time" accounted for considering how long it takes to simply take one off a pony, and cutie-mark magic seems to be pretty serious if the act of changing them between ponies is tied to a destiny-swapping spell that can qualify you for your own godhorse wings.
-Emotion-powered empathy blast: AKA some sort of spell fueled by raw anger or general negative emotion, she can put her anger in a bottle, and that can affect others, but what if she channeled it? perhaps directed it at a fine point? If the elements can be combined into a rainbow laser of plot-convenient villain thwarting then it's not impossible for negative traits to also be allowed to resolve a conflict in it's own way.
Naturally, these are just some silly ideas, but if a story can catch my imagination well enough for me to think about it this hard then I have no choice but to upvote and thank you for the thought exercise.
Honestly, it was probably just a simple laser spell.
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To quite possibly lethal levels. She was portrayed as holding back her punches to slow them down until the jars were broken, and the gloves were off, she snapped, so it was still a very good thing Twilight stopped her.
I think in-universe, Starlight was referring to the fact Twilight copied her special shield spell just from seeing her repel the villagers with it once; it wasn't a standard shield spell, and the visual patterns matched, and we see plain ones later on both of their parts, so it wasn't just an art style change. It felt like it was a detail intentionally set up.
Mind, I think it would still be in-character for Twilight to be overthinking it if that specific interpretation is the case in this instance (all I'll say is, I think it's unlikely those visual details were an accident/coincidental, IMO; it's either that, or Starlight was specifically surprised an alicorn is blocking her attack, and she never got through any of Twilight's shields anyway, at any point, even when she had prep time for a rematch).
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Yes, I’m aware the spell was probably lethal and I am very grateful Twilight stopped her when she did.
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The term here is power copying and itʼs a thing Twilight frequently does. All she has to do is a see a spell and, without anyone actually teaching it to her, sheʼs able to accurately reproduce it. She does this again in the S5 finale where she replicates Starlightʼs crystal prison twice.
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And the literal series premiere never had her teleport... until Nightmare Moon did it to her, and she seemed to groan in pain after doing it, implying inexperience, meaning it's possible to interpret she never did it before that happened, and she learned the dark magic/crystal spell from watching Celestia do it in S3.
Twilight's kinda cracked for that reason, if you think about it. I'm not sure even Starlight has that level of picking new magic up, as rapidly as she does.