The Battle of Winniepeg Part 1
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-George Santayana
“Trixie, pay attention.”
The blue unicorn hurried over to the bars, dropping the magazine that had been left in her cell. It wasn’t all that interesting, as the periodical had been written by Rarity. Oh, there was the standard gossip rag articles on fashion and new plays and such, but everything had the sickeningly sweet coating of harmony painted over it. All the plays being reviewed were happy pieces where there were no real problems; the dresses were advertised to be free to everyone because it would be horrible to make them pay. It was garbage but unlike Faith, who had a bad habit of going into trances and not talking or moving for hours, Trixie needed something to do before her head exploded.
“What’s going on?” Trixie asked, peering through the bars. The wide hallway made it near impossible to see the cells across from hers but Trixie got the sense that they were occupied; she could hear murmurs and snippets of conversations coming from the cells much the same way Faith and her passed the time with idle talk.
“A murmur is rolling through… I think we are getting a new prisoner.”
“Wonder who this could be?”
“I am hoping the queens with Celestia marching in to inform us the war is over, but I doubt that,” Faith said.
“You still feel doubt?” Trixie asked, surprised.
“Does Princess Cadence feel hate or annoyance? Just because I am the embodiment of faith doesn’t mean I’m full of it.”
Trixie frowned. “Well… isn’t that interesting.”
“What?” Faith asked. He had found out early on that his larger size prevented him from getting his head through the bars to look down the hall, a problem Trixie did not suffer from.
“You must be psychic.”
Faith didn’t have a chance to question his friend (‘Is that all she is?’ a little voice that sounded much like Twilight nagged him; the abstract made a note to discuss mare and stallion relationships with his student, to get a better understand of what his feelings for the blue unicorn really were... especially since Twilight was the only mare he'd really been friends with since gaining a body), as at that moment the guards passed by with the new prisoner.
“Cadence,” Faith murmured in shock.
“No…” Cadence whispered, staring at Faith before thrashing against the guards. “NO!”
“Get in there,” one of the guards said. "We don't want to hurt you princess but we will."
“What are you doing here?!?” Cadence screamed in a near panic. “You are suppose to be with Twilight! Who is with her? Who?”
“It doesn’t matter,” one of the guards stated, answering the question that had not been directed at him in the first place. “Our queens are set to retrieve Miss Sparkle from Winniepeg and she will soon join them in ruling this land… then you will be dealt with, all of you.”
Faith grit his teeth in frustration. “Bloody stupid fool,” he muttered at himself. For the last day and a half he had been willing the chalk up his errors that had landed him in the cell as his own problems and nothing more. But now that the queens apparently knew where Twilight was a cold fear gripped his heart. All of their plans now hung on the dagger’s edge and with one flick they would be cast into the abyss. “Had to leave her… arrogant git!”
“Faith?” Trixie called out. “What is wrong?”
“I am just praying, my dear… praying I haven’t buggered everything up.”
~MC~MC~MC~
Winniepeg, as it was known, was a town of old and new, and this could best be seen in its buildings. For example, the Great Opera House had existed since 128 PC (Princess’ Coming). Much of the original structure remained, including the grand domed roof that dominated much of the city’s eastern skyline. However, there was still modern elements placed over the building. Some purists complained, likening the new restaurant that abutted the southern side of the Opera House to be like a bad wig on an old mule’s head, but most merely shrugged and accepted that such changes were needed to keep the old structures up to date.
The complainers would have something new to whine about when they awoke to find that the western wall had been blown out.
“You know,” Rainbow Dash said as she popped up on stage, looking down at the musician’s pit, “normally I wouldn’t be caught dead in a place like this. But you… you would.” Rainbow Dash chuckled as Twilight pulled herself out of the crater she’d made on impact. “Get it? Caught dead? Because we are trying to kill each other.”
Twilight groaned, but it was less from the pain and more from the bad joke, pushing a chair off of her. “Did you blast me in here just to say that?”
The cyan alicorn shrugged. “What can I say, I was inspired. Don’t tell me you weren’t thinking the same thing before-“ Rainbow’s thought was cut off when every chair in the audience section were transfigured into long chains that whipped through the air. She warped around, but the chains just latched together and created a massive web that clung to any surface it touched until one could hardly move an inch without colliding with one.
Rainbow Dash backed away, falling to the stage when it became too hard to find an empty patch of air. Twilight, much to the speedster’s annoyance, simply slipped through the chains, which curled around her like kitties wanting to be nuzzled.
“Huh, a variation on the tunnel web trap from Daring Do and the Sword of Ages. Impressive.”
“Not sure if that should be a compliment, since the one giving it is the evil hell queen that took over Equestria. And by the way, I wasn’t planning on some joke, if that is what you meant earlier. Just trying to figure out the best place to do this without hurting any innocent ponies.”
“Hell queen? Ouch!” Rainbow Dash looked down at the ground and began to spin rapidly, wood flying up and getting caught in the chains as she bore through the stage and into the Opera House’s basement. Twilight pursed her lips and phased through the floor, chasing after Rainbow Dash’s magical signature. “Seriously Twi, I don’t know what Doubt did to screw with your head, but the fact that you think he is one of the good guys and me and the rest of our friends are the bad ponies just proves how nuts you are.” Rainbow Dash’s voice seemed to echo through the cavernous supply room and Twilight frowned, sending up a few magical orbs. The points of light glowed before zipping out in all direction. Meanwhile, Twilight lit her horn and began to search on her own. “Oh, and I’m not an innocent?”
“First off, the blood on your hooves means you aren’t, Dash. Second, you can take what I am dishing out.” Twilight lifted up several trunks, only to find that Rainbow Dash had set up several magic orbs of her own as booby traps. The lavender alicorn yelped as they exploded in her face, sending her crashing halfway across the room. “I didn’t hurt ya, did I Twilight?”
“Blinded me but I’ll be ok in a second,” Twilight said, keeping her tone light. Both of the alicorns knew that the other wasn’t out for their throats and thus they were able to converse without resorting to snarls and growls. The moment Rainbow Dash had emerged from the wall Twilight had made her joke to Celestia then struck Rainbow full on while the speedster was frowning over Twilight’s not-so-subtle reminder of their fight 2 months earlier. The two of them had launched out of Celestia and Luna’s house and dueled in the air, each finding that the other was their superior in some way: while Rainbow had magic Twilight was absolutely a terror with her star magic, and while Twilight knew the battle skills of Hurricane, Rainbow Dash had created all new moves based on her super speed and teleporting. The result was a much more even battle than either of them could have ever supposed.
The skies above Winniepeg had only seen them duel for a few minutes but it was enough to send the guards into a panic. They had tried to rush in and defend their queen but Rainbow Dash had forced them back to their posts, thanking them for their loyalty but telling them it was not needed at the time.
“They are loyal… but they have no faith in you… that is MY element,” Twilight had taunted.
That’s when Rainbow had planted her in the Opera House. Even though she was the queen on an entire country, Rainbow Dash was still Rainbow Dash, anger issues and all.
Twilight blinked her eyes… or, more accurately, her new ones. One of the first things Faith had taught her was how to repair her body. Alicorns were made of strong stuff and healed fast but Faith had learned tricks during his long life that even Celestia and Luna knew little about. Clockwork, one of Faith’s avatars when he had been Doubt, had learned how to speed up the body’s natural healing processes to the point of near regeneration. It could be done with almost no effort as long as the user had magic in their system and Twilight had taken an instant shine to the spell. Which was good, since her first attempts at chaos magic (or gray magic, as Faith preferred to call it) had resulted in her usually blowing up bits and pieces of herself.
“I really hope they aren’t green this time… I hate green eyes.”
“Geez, are you talking to yourself?”
“It was either talk to myself, a brick wall or you. The brick wall will be quiet and you won’t listen, so I settled for myself.” Twilight sent out a blast of magic, only for Rainbow Dash to warp away before the blast could do anything more than taking out some music stands.
“You know, I think you have some misconceptions about all of us.”
“Do tell,” Twilight said, firing several smaller, faster blasts that nearly nailed Rainbow Dash in the flank. She made a mental note to decrease the size of the magic shots by about 30% in order to get a 45% faster strike rate.
“First I have to know… what was the eye thing about?”
Twilight shrugged, still sweeping her horn about and moving about the furniture and props that lay scattered about. “I regrew them and I was hoping I wouldn’t get green ones. Second time I had to do that I ended up with green eyes and yuck!”
“You’ve regrown your eyes?” Rainbow asked, her tone making it clear she was surprised by that bit of news.
“More than that, actually. If you want to get technical, there really isn’t a piece of me that was there when I left Ponyville. Well, maybe some of my brain, but still.”
“Huh, I’ll have to try that out.” The cyan alicorn laughed. “So many new things I’m learning about this alicorn gig!”
“I wouldn’t, Dash,” Twilight said politely. “I mean, you’ll heal just fine, but it will take time. I had to learn all of this from Faith... no offense, but between him and Celestia I have 2000 years worth of knowledge that has been culled and sorted. I know the best of the best and I am not afraid to use it.” Twilight pursed her lips. “By the way, once I am done with you I am going to find Faith and free him. And then the two of us are going to beat you and the rest of the queens down until you give back Equestria.”
“Yeah, sure,” Rainbow said and Twilight could hear her friend rolling her eyes. “Let me tell you how this is actually going to go.” Before Twilight could react Dash launched herself at the lavender alicorn. Twilight was flung back, only for Dash to warp and strike her back. The cyan speedster began to warp so fast it appeared that there were 5 of her, each one lashing out with a hoof and smashing Twilight like a ping pong ball. “You can fight me all you want, Twi, and you can use any magic trick you want, but in the end I am still going to beat you. Do you know why?” One of the Rainbow Dashs bucked Twilight in the barrel so hard that alicorn was sure her ribs were going to go flying out. “Because you’re all brains, Twilight. Don’t get me wrong… you need smarts. But life is more than brains.
“All you girls think I am just stupid, don’t you? Rainbow Dash the jock and Rainbow Dash the muscle. But I have brains to, Twi.” A hoof lashed out and nearly took off Twilight’s jaw. “I just have always preferred to go the more direct route. You can plot and plan and coming up with strategies but they are all worthless when you get a good hoof in the face! Pretty speeches and mindgames only get you so far, especially when the pony you are trying to trick isn’t buying what you are sel-“
Twilight reached up and caught Rainbow Dash’s incoming hoof, pushing it aside. The alicorn of the stars favored her friend with a dark smile as she spat out a wad of blood.
“Doesn’t this feel really familiar, Dash?” Twilight said, looking up at the larger alicorn. Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened as Twilight slowly began to push the cyan mare’s hoof away. “Think long and hard with that big brain of yours.” Twilight’s mane was now whipping around her head, the stars streaking through it almost violently. Her eyes, instead of going one black and one white, went monochrome and then negative: empty blackness with two pinpricks of white light forming her pupils. “Two months ago, in a night club?”
Rainbow Dash, realizing where this was going, warped away. However, instead of reappearing across the room she only made it half the distance. She tried again, and the leap was even shorter this time.
“Think about it… you beat me down, you delivered a little speech… and then I unleashed a trap and kicked your flank.” Twilight smiled, looking over her shoulder. The cyan alicorn paled when she saw the orbs Twilight had sent out at the beginning of their fight in the cellar, the ones Rainbow had dismissed as being seeker orbs, were now engorged with magic. “You know what they say about learning from history.”
“What… what are you… doing to me!” Rainbow grunted, finding that she couldn’t even move her mouth at a normal speed. Her eye lids shut and for a moment Rainbow began to panic, thinking that Twilight had blinded her, before they finally drifted open and a worse truth became clear: that was a blink. She was BLINKING in slow motion.
Twilight stepped closer and Rainbow saw that Twilight looked more like a ghost than a pony. Her body and head were see-through and her legs tapered off into a trailing mist. More startling, Twilight’s main joints where now flaring, white orbs of light growing with each passing second.
“I’ve learned so much about alicorns, Rainbow Dash. Granted, before you girls when power crazy, there were only five, but still, there was a lot to learn. Did you know there are two distinct types?” Twilight continued to pace around her friend, lecturing her like the former pegasus was a filly in school. “There is your kind, the emotional ones. You deal with feelings and thoughts. Faith, you girls, and Cadence are all emotional alicorns… though I guess technically Faith is one of a kind, since he is an abstract-pony hybrid.” Twilight shrugged and continued on. “Then there are the celestial alicorns, like Celestia and Luna and me. We are tied to a physical thing and control it and can become it.” Twilight gestured to herself. “In other, simpler words, I am now starlight, which is very fast and has very low mass; that’s why I can move while my heavy orbs, which have been feeding off all the magic you wasted warping around, slow you down to a crawl. They made all the oxygen in this room more dense, so it is like you are swimming through mud… and soon it will be like iron.”
Twilight returned to face Rainbow, glaring at her. “You want to know your mistake, Dash? You want to know where you got things wrong? Between just the two of us things would have been different. I would have been distracted and made mistakes… but you should have been more careful who you hurt. You depowered the princesses… you beat up my brother… you stole Dinky and all the foals from their homes… and you kidnapped Faith, my friend. That’s the problem with you, Rainbow Dash… you’re boasts are big and your power is great but instead that head your brain really is just-to-small!”
“And you… talk too much, egghead!” Rainbow Dash snarled, her horn flaring. A concentrated ball of energy flared rapidly and only too late did Twilight realize that Dash had done the impossible: she had figured out how to store and contain the power of the Sonic Rainboom.
The Opera House crumbled as the ball exploded.
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The Battle of Winniepeg Part 1.
It was important with this chapter that I show that Dash and Twilight are on a more even playing ground and also give them some time to talk. I wanted this fight to be more personal and a bit like their fight in the club. First because of literary echoes and call backs.
Second, because the second part of the battle will all be about the wrath of two gods baring down on each other. We have seen them using tricks and spells... the next chapter will see the full power of two alicorns locked in battle.
Meanwhile, Faith and Trixie have a new friend to plot with and the side arc now begins to really ramp up.
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And I was wondering what was going on with Cadence.
Love the update speed; Also I have noticed that as you are updating every two days, there is going to be an update on the christmas day, unless the story ends before that of cource. Is that update going to be of any significance compared to the others?
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Story ending before Christmas? I believe the author said this would be long as heck. I honestly think this story is going to go a few months into 2013, as he said that this could be twice as long, maybe three times, as Faith and Doubt.
I have school asshole!
But read it just in time!
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No, this story will not be done before Christmas but I plan to take some time off that week so there will be no updates during the holiday.
Well, this is getting interesting. And worse off, don't think I hate it!
dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Twilight_Sparkle_lolface.png Saw this updated before I headed to bed, so gonna make a quick review (if not full-on one) and again, save corrections for later, even though still haven't done last 2 chapters.
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Confused by what you mean about literary devices (literary as in reading?) in regards to the fight in club if not just that (like what Twi said to Celestia at end of last chapter and where it took place, both in Faith and Doubt) and the side arc (Faith and Trixie and now Cadence?), but eh, won't ask if will spoil too much.
Was myself wondering about Cadence like someone above me said. Surprised that she's finally being made a prisoner, would've thought she'd already be corrupted or one or worse. dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/shrug_Twilight_Sparkle.png Sucks we didn't get much Trixie/Faith time here, but glad to see I may be on right track! With thoughts from a previous chapter.
Well, definitely an intense fight, it answers questions of who's doing the fighting. And learning about alicorns being able to heal themselves any way they can (if not anypony, possibly, at least if they have magic) was... well, little unexpected I suppose. As well as of different types of alicorns you came up with, even if those are practically canon, what with Cadence being alicorn of love while her aunts control embodiments of things in the sky. Still kinda confusing what with all the accusations, but I know at this time that's what you are going for and until we get some more airtime with the queens or closer to the end, won't find out more.
Fight seemed drawn-out, but not too long to point seemed messy, though I know it's not over yet (at least one more part).
Dunno if I'm making much sense or thinking clearly, so I may just end it here. If have anything else to say, will when I likely re-read this later. See ya in couple days, if I don't re-read or PM or get a response!
1756361 No updates on the holiday week?
Well then, if you are going to take a 'vacation' from updating, you WILL have it and you WILL RELAX!
well twilight is a new alicorn species?
PROCESS!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
Arrgh! God you make me want to see Twilight kill Rainbow Dash! Stop making me feel rage already (
) Gah! Twilight is going to get angry and shit will go down...shit will go down!
Also great choice in quote! The is one of my favorite quotes
You promised us a good fight and you delivered splendidly. Twilight getting handed some humble pie for being conceited enough to believe the same strategy from the night club would work was a satisfying touch. Now if she wins the fight I won't feel like its through authorial-favoritism-via-villian-ball like I have in the past. Now I'll be looking forward to that knock-down drag-out power bout. Collateral damage here we come...
PLease Please, Please kill Rainbow Dash. or even better kill loyalty and bind dash on the moon.dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Twilight_crazy.png just anything to get rid of that annoying prick.
oh twilight, please stop, you're killing me; the bad guy routine? you just performed the bad guy routine, seriously?
(talking, while the "hero" manages to snake her way out of the absolute-doom situation). twi's been hanging out with faith/doubt to much...
if there was a romance tag i would started worrying about a possible Faith x Trixie by now...
cadence got caught? dammit! where has she been hiding? hm, then again, as cadence is also there now; i guess it will be easier to plot their way out of there.
“All you girls think I am just stupid, don’t you? Rainbow Dash the jock and Rainbow Dash the muscle. But I have brains to, Twi.”
I really liked the to/too error here... Rainbow dash is trying to plead intelligence and makes that kind of mistake.
And Burst. The battle is back on even grounds.
ha, twilight is officially the fastest in all of Equestria now... rainbow dash is going to be pissed.
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1756950 Exactly they don't realize that in life there will be those who are always evil and those who are always good, the important thing is that we are all given a choice to decide who we want to be. And the queens are taking away that free will essentially making them dictators.
hmm... wait a minute, the rainboom that Dash has is made of magic... oh man
Dash is likely one of the stupidest ponies in Equestria, harnessing the power of a rainboom via magic while Twilight's orbs suck it out whenever she uses magic = moving through diamonds for her
I'm dying to see her realize that mistake
Awww, that ending makes the fight sound almost fair. Bummer.
Faith and Trixie, sittin' in a tree. S-N-A-R-K-I-N-G
Full-on alicorn battle coming up in the second part, well that's going to be rather devastating.
If we've learned anything from the Immortal Game is that in those kind of battles, collateral damage is impossible to avoid.
Still why hasn't anypony learned how to use a silencing spell yet? Just freakin' short-circuit the enemy's magic and there you go! Easy victory.
Now for the trio in the Canterlot cells, a rather motley crew to be sure, it will be interesting to see how they get out of the proverbial pickle they're in.
*Slow claps* My hat off to you.
twilight has become sentient energy? this changes things for rainbow, how can she do anything to something that can't be destroyed? twilight can simply pull herself together no matter what happens.
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I IZ SMURT TWULET, ME IS BRANIS PENY TO
I like your style of portraying Twilights combat style, thinking ahead to the end of the battle before the beginning.
and also, with Twi being the god of the stars doesn't that make her a new and improved Celestia? seeing as how the sun is a star?
anyways never mind my obsessive need to rationalize. all in all i really liked this chapter
PS. at the risk of being a greedy follower, will we be seeing any more god squad soon?
Rainbow Dash, formerly the Bearer of the Element of Loyalty. She has Betrayed Equestria, Betrayed Twilight, and Betrayed Ponyville.
Loyalty deserves the tail-kicking Twilight is going to give when she gets up from that...
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To be honest, I don't expect a lot of updates during the holidays. The holidays involves spending time with family, and with Christmas plus New Year's, I'm not going to be expecting a ton of updates until January.
Twilight, monologuing? Looks like Faith is rubbing off on her.
Good chapter. I'm really enjoying the snippets of the element's new personalities. I also hope you throw in some more history details about what occurred immediately after the queens took over. The part in the last chapter about the "pranks" rainbow dash pulled on the wonderbolts left me curious.
Perhaps we will see part two of this fight tonight?
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I am refering to mirroring and echoing. The idea is that you take a scene you did and, in a later scene, echo moments and mirror events with new twists. A good example would be Star Wars... for example, Padme wears a white outfit similar to Leia's... or how phrases and such get echoed again in other episodes. Here, it was Twilight and Dash having a similar fight to their first one, but now both are much more powerful.
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Yeah... I want to show that while Twilight is powerful, the queens aren't going to be easy to take down and their own original talents will let them make the fights interesting. We've already seen that Dash has the Sonic Rainboom weaponized and can warp... the others will also have their own abilities that mimic what they could already do (just like Twilight)
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Yup, I wanted to show that twilight was mimicking Faith a bit too much and paid for it. As for Cadence, what happened with her will be explained soon.
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The queens are commiting the mistake all people make: When you give people only 2 choices, some will chose to stand against you. Wise people offer hundred choices with 99 of them working for them and only 1 against... thus wittling down the competition.
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God Squad will return the week after Christmas and into 2013 with all new episodes, including a trip to Griffian, Zebrica, and of course Tydal's Keep (please pity shining armor)
I think this calls for a little background music.
Rainbow Dash....being able to....to....HARNESS THE SONIC RAINBOOM'S ENERGY!
Oh ponyfeathers! This could spell trouble.
But anyway, this is an awesome battle, just as I expected it would. The next part of the battle will be as if heaven and hell (mental note: Tartrus, not hell) have been unleashed onto Equestria! I expect Twilight to come out on top though, even if Dash and Twi seem to be evenly matched now. Also, with Cadence in the dungeons, forming an escape plan will be easier than it was before! With the combined efforts of Cadence, Faith, and Trixie, everypony should be out there in no time flat.
The way I see it, when the final battle comes, I see this: Twilight, Faith, Cadence, Celestia, and Luna vs. Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. As always, this was an excellent chapter and I thou art eagerly await thy next chapter!
- Super-Brony12
Looking forward to the beat down that Twi is going to unleash on Rainbow... because I won't let her lose!
But in all seriousness I'm looking forward to seeing the next update and seeing how this goes along. If this fight falls apart it's going to be Twi's pride that caught her. She thought she had Rainbow trapped but... she shoulda just finished it...
I just had an idea... Twi imprisons her friends... in the stars... as constellations! 
It would... kinda serve as a marker for all those against the Queens saying "We defeated X of you! Look! They're she is! For all the world to see! We WILL defeat you!"
Anyways! Good show good show!
Okay, if you know me and have been following my comments on his stories, you probably realize how insane these words sound coming out of my mouth... I can't find a single thing wrong with this chapter!
Aside from the occasional spelling flub (don't really matter), This started off very well! Cadance enters the fray... okay where was she this whole time? And how did she evade capture for so... sigh... next chapter... defender you f**king tease...
And finally! FINALLY! FINALLY! Faith swallows his pride! How does the bitter taste of defeat feel ya arrogant rambler! Now I can actually respect you as a character and not think you're some OP Gary Stu! +10 Likability!
And good action scene here! Really sets the stage for later battles and makes me wonder what else they can do! Also, the dialogue between RD and TS was surprisingly believable, and, dare I say... in character and consistent! RD would like to know more about her super cool powers, leaving Twilight the openings she needed to lay the smackdown. Wonderful!
Defender, well done! Absolutely well done! I eagerly await the conclusion to this battle!
Great chapter, loved seeing the fight with Rainbow and Twilight and looking forward to how it plays out.
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I wanted to make part one a version personal battle, that way when it moves to part two, which is very IMPERSONAL because of how it is written, you remember what they were like here
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They also don't realize True Harmony is a balance between good and evil, between order and chaos. Without true balance, the world falls apart. If everything is controlled by Order, nothing changes, nothing improves. But if everything is controlled by Chaos, everything falls apart.
1758417 Literary callbacks in Star Wars? I've got a bad feeling about this...
Hmmmm.... The Harmony is too strong in this world... I Doubt even a little Discord can balance it out without
it getting messy....
Twilight still does not know that the Elements are to blame yet.... So if she kills Dash in the next seen....
that would destroy a cause and a Innocent....
Wait a minute.... too much harmony is a bad thing..... shouldn't a particular stone head be up?
oh well.... back to more reading ah guess.... dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/shrug_Twilight_Sparkle.png
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We don't know how the Sonic Rainboom interacts with Twilight's trap. The Rainboom may overload the orbs, or bypass them (allowing RD to move freely inside the zone while she's still in post-rainboom state i.e. trailing a rainbow).
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Are they evenly matched? We don't know whether "emotional" alicorns are equal to "celestial" alicorns... in fact, those definitions point to a power imbalance in Twi's favor.
1760879 Agreed, these abstracts don't understand the meaning of life because they believe they themselves as immortals are the example of what life should be. They don't even realize how easy it is for their beliefs to clash as Doubt pointed out.
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I see the Elements/Abstracts as being like The Guardians of the Universe. They want to guide but because they cut themselves off from the world they are the worst leaders.
Faith is like Ganthet... he went into the world and learned about life and thus is tempered.
1762617 The sad part is that it's their own fault that Faith became who he is, they cut him off and pretended they had never heard of him so of course he'd go into the real world. They just never seem to realize that they make the biggest mistakes by not dealing with things one step at a time.
I don´t understand how a thousand years old chessmaster like Faith/Doubt got caught in such a deseperate situation . Did he really believed that the Queens (bounded to F´s "family") wouldn´t make sure of locking every possible bit of his magical abilities before imprison him ?
. I don´t see Spitfire very entusiastic about letting RD into the Wonderbolts, neither Rarity selling many clothes from now in Ponyville or Canterlot. Also, the scene when they confront the restored but emotionally very hurted CMC should be truly heartbreaking 
Also I wonder how, even if/when the Queens get defeated and Equestria saved, the five mares are going to come back to their old lifes with ALL OF EQUESTRIA hatin´ the guts of them
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Faith simply miscalculated. He assumed that the abstracts would ward the cells but not strongly enough that he couldn't contact Twilight via their connection. However, they did. Even then he never thought twilight would go rushing into a mission and get caught, which puts him in a sticky situation.
As for Twilight's friends, this will be covered in the next chapter
I just really what to see twilight snap and start breaking necks already
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Not realy, the reason why Alicorns are so hard and regenerate so fast is because of magic they have, and as much as they are strong and tehy must have alot durability and magic inside tham, regenerating wounds and using magic for all kind of spells run it out, and I think that when Alicorns have alot magic, they do not recover it to fast, so in other words if Twilight run out of magic energy, it will be lost battle, and it can happen in both by recovering damage or by using magic to attack.
At last this is my theory of Alicorn powers, as much power they have, they need to be wise with using they magic because it not recover as fast and lossing it will lead to ultimate defeat, so they need to take a long breaks between battles.
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Wait a moment, I just figured out somethink.
If RainbowDash have weaponized SonicRanboom.
It mean.... it mean....... FLUTTHERSHY have some sort of super version off stare, oh the horror, Stare could force a giant dragon to submission, but it is super powered version can be devastating, puting armies to it is knees.
And PinkiePie will have super version of forth wall breaking, poor Twilight, she is a pony of magic and science and she will deal with Alicorn who deffy rules of the universe, if episode with Pinkie sense was not painful enoght, I can not imagine what wiill come out of this one.
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Yeah, I see your point on that one. I still expect Twi to school Dash big time though. Okay, so Dash got a major power boost from the Abstract of Loyalty, but this is Twilight here. It's blatantly obvious that she was above the average unicorn, now she's an alicorn. Plus, Dash doesn't really have a whole lot of brain power compared to Twilight. Sooooo....yeah.
- Super-Brony12