Equestria Girls Flipped! · 7:37pm Oct 6th, 2018
Alright, let's try and finish this up shall we?
In Equestria, Twilight is rallying the rest of the Flipped Six. After overhearing CH!Spike's talk with Sunset and seeing him break the mirror she's determined not let a situation like the changeling invasion play out again. Naturally the others are a bit confused over what's going on, Thunderlane asking why she's waking them up before sunrise and Ditzy wondering why they're having breakfast so late.
At this point the group realizes that contradiction and takes a look outside, seeing both the sun and moon hanging in the sky. Then the vines attack.
The Flipped Five aren't pushovers though. They fight their way past the vines, meet up with the guards (and CH!Spike, who had almost been grabbed by the vines but escaped), and learn that the princesses are missing. Deciding the Elements of Harmony are the best course of action the team grabs Spike and heads off to find them while the guards organize themselves to start helping the ponies of Canterlot. Unfortunately, this means Twilight has no chance to warn them that the Spike they're with isn't who they think he is. Something the others begin to suspect when they fight their way into the display room with the Elements, barely manage to get their hooves on them...
And they fail to activate. CH!Spike has been mid-panic this whole time, with no clue what to do about the vines. He followed the others' example, but now that the Element of Magic isn't working for him it's clear the jig is up.
Meanwhile, E!Spike over in Canterlot High has his own share of problems. The students, thanks to his efforts, have repaired most of their fractured friendships so they're at least all working together to keep the vines out and keep each other safe. E!Spike is with Ditzy Doo and Thunderlane, both of whom realize these vines come from his "magic pony world" and are asking how to stop them. Spike, needless to say, is at a loss as he doesn't even know what they are.
Sunset doesn't know either, but she still butts in on the conversation to point out that, if the vines breached into Canterlot High from Equestria then that means the portal might not be permanently shut like they feared. If they can find a way to get back themselves then E!Spike and the other Bearers of Harmony could probably stop the vines using the Elements. As much as Spike wants to be suspicious of Sunset's motives, it's a luxury he doesn't really have as the vines are growing up around the school (though they're moving much slower than the Equestria-side vines thanks to the human world's lack of magic). Spike agrees to work with Sunset in order to save both worlds, and Sunset explains her plan.
Rallying the students, Sunset gets them to help make an opening in the vines under the guise of starting an evacuation. While the students and principals focus on getting to safety, Spike races over to the statue. Sunset guesses that the vines are using the broken mirror fragments on the Equestrian side to move between worlds. Ergo, if they push and pull around the vines the right way on the Canterlot High side they might shift the fragments back into a whole mirror, or at least a big enough piece of one for Spike to slip through. While the vines might be weaker on this side though, Spike can barely shift them. Lucky for him, the Canterlot High versions of his friends show up to help him out despite him insisting that they should get to safety. Working together, the team can see their efforts starting to bear fruit as the light coming from the statue gets stronger.
Back in Equestria, CH!Spike is having exactly the opposite experience with the Flipped Five confronting him over the Elements not working and Twilight ousting him as a fake. He tries to bluff his way out, but the team isn't buying it. Even with their current situation though, opinions are a bit divided. Ditzy and Cheerilee think this might be a situation like with Thorax, Thunderlane is far less forgiving; Twilight, Mac, and Time Turner are more concerned with where the real Spike is given that they really need him at that particular moment. CH!Spike is just panicking, realizing his cushy hero treatment is crashing down all around him.
So are the walls, for that matter, as the vines suddenly surge every which way. CH!Spike takes advantage of the confusion and runs away from the others. The others are barely able to escape before the room collapses on top of them and the vines just go absolutely crazy. Twilight and the Flipped Five race off, looking for the faker, and Thunderlane spots the purple stallion amidst some weird light glowing where the vines are getting the thickest.
Thunder charges down and tackles Spike before he can run off, but surprise! It's E!Spike who (despite the rough greeting) is overjoyed to see his friends again! Sunset's plan worked, enough of the mirror shards coming together to open the portal back up, and Spike jumped back into Equestria to help. He's somewhat less enthused to learn that his Canterlot High counterpart ran off with his Element though. It gets worse as they realize that there's two more problems forming on top of that.
1. The vines didn't stop with widening the portal, they've torn the darn thing wiiiide open. Portals are ripping open randomly around Equestria and Canterlot High causing the two worlds to bleed into one another and the vines are moving way faster in both worlds, presenting an even bigger danger.
2. Sunset followed E!Spike back through to Equestria and overheard what happened. With the barrier between the two worlds breached, she figures it's now or never for her plan and races off on her own to find CH!Spike and the Element of Magic.
So now it's a bit of a race: Sunset vs the Flipped Six to find CH!Spike and stop the vines. While that group is caught up in their antics, however, CH!Spike is on his own being... contemplative.
Distance and travel times being as nebulous as they are in Equestria, CH!Spike has somehow found his way down Canterlot Mountain thanks to the vines. He's in a pretty bad way, mentally speaking. After all he'd been living a dream for a while there and it all got snatched away and the whole thing feels massively unfair to him. As he points out while avoiding vines and stomping around, he and E!Spike are the same guy pretty much, but the pony version of him gets everything he wanted while CH!Spike is left being a punching bag. He just wants to know what's different about the two of them that could've caused this.
Making his way through the dark, spooky woods he found himself in, CH!Spike gets his answer when he spots a light glowing from a nearby cave and goes in to investigate...
Meanwhile our racers (Sunset and the Flipped Six) wind up in a tussle in the Everfree Forest. The vines are causing much less trouble in the already chaotic forest than in the rest of Equestria, giving them a chance to slow down. The Flipped Six try to convince Sunset to forget whatever her plans were and help them stop the vines, but she's prideful and is convinced she can not only stop the vines on her own but also still see her plan through to completion. Of course she's still not giving the full details, but E!Spike reveals he already put her plan together: By controlling the student body she planned to use them as an army to help her conquer Equestria. He doesn't know or understand how or why she'd need the Element of Magic for that, but he warns her that part of her plan never would have worked since (despite all her magical talent) she doesn't understand what the Element of Magic really represents. Sunset shouts that she doesn't care, that's powerful and deserves to control both worlds.
At this point she notices the weird light glowing around the forest clearing they're having this conversation in and realizes that their chase blundered right into a portal between the Everfree and Canterlot High Gymnasium, where a majority of the student body has held up to hide from the vines and (consequently) heard everything she just said. And since they were present to see her jump through the portal and turn to her pony form, Thunderlane and the other Human Flipped Five are quick to oust the megalomaniacal unicorn as the same Sunset that everyone in school (now used to) look up to.
Sunset reasons she can still fix this by getting the Element of Magic going with her brainwashing plan, at which point CH!Spike shows up with it, the proximity to a portal shifting him back to his human form. Sunset demands he hand over the Element, but CH!Spike refuses.
Unfortunately he also refuses to give it back to E!Spike either.
See, CH!Spike came to a decision: He's done running, and he's done being pushed around and having everything taken from him. He's decided E!Spike has had it way to good, while CH!Spike himself has been constantly dragged through the mud and pushed around by people with more power than him. Well, as he puts it, now he's got the Element of Magic and all the power that comes with it.
Time to put it to some use.
CH!Spike dons the Element of Magic and immediately its power corrupts and warps his body transforming him into a monstrous dragon-like monster (less like Sunset's succubus form and more like a Pit-fiend from D&D). Sunset tries to wallop him back into line, but he just uses his new magic to toss her aside like a ragdoll into the depths of the Everfree. The Flipped Six try to stop him and get the Element back, but that goes only slightly better (read as, he can't quite fling them into the stratosphere since there's so many more of them). The human Flipped Five rally the other students to try and help but they're little better than distractions as CH!Spike finally uses his magic to freeze everyone...
Then he hears something barking. It's CH!Twilight, barking up at him. At first, CH!Spike is glad to see her and reaches down to pick her up. Then she bites his finger. He's less appreciative of that and lashes out, throwing her into the air before realizing what he's done.
CH!Spike reacts in horror at the thought that he might've hurt his only true friend, except she's fine. E!Spike managed to break the spell holding him down and catch CH!Twi before she got hurt. He goes on to talk about how, whenever he's done something stupid, he's been lucky to have Twilight around to help dial him back before things got out of control. For that matter, he's been lucky to have so many ponies around to help him. Ponies to call him out when he misbehaves, ponies to stand by him when something's important, ponies he's been privileged of help when they needed him. Because nobody can handle things all on their own, no matter how good they think they are.
That, as he points out, is what Sunset didn't understand. That the real power of the Element of Magic is only tapped by opening yourself up to others and having them open up to you in return. By confessing your mistakes, no matter how bad they seem, and overcoming them together like he did that first long night in the Everfree with the rest of his friends.
With his speech ending, the Element of Magic rips itself away from CH!Spike and goes back to E!Spike. The other Flipped Five are freed of the spell as well, and together they channel the Rainbow of Harmony again. Rather than a blast, however, it forms a wave that washes through Equestria, shrivelling and destroying the Plunder Vines while sealing the portals back up. CH!Spike isn't blasted, just returned to his human form. He's in tears after E!Spike's speech, confessing that he knows E!Spike is right and that's it's not the fault of anyone from Canterlot High or even wholly Sunset's fault that they wound up so different.
He winds up showing them over to the cave he found. Inside, they find the princesses and the Tree of Harmony which has been freed of the Plunder Vines leeching at it. CH!Spike explains he found the tree and it showed him more stuff about E!Spike and all his adventures with the others. He got jealous and latched onto an excuse, but he knew the tree was showing him the real difference between them: While E!Spike confessed to his mistakes and tried to make amends, CH!Spike just kept doubling down on them even when he knew the stuff Sunset had him do was wrong.
As one might've come to expect from Equestria, however, none of the ponies hold a grudge. They reassure CH!Spike that it's not too late to try and make things up with the people in his own world. Even CH!Twilight bounds loose from E!Spike's magic to run up and give him a good face-licking, showing that there's no ill-will.
Fast forwarding a bit, the team is gathered at the mirror (also magically repaired by the elements) to see CH!Spike and CH!Twilight off. He promises to work to make up for the stuff he did, and E!Spike assures him that he'll probably be able to find plenty of help around the school (not-so-subtly hinting at his own friends as he does so). CH!Spike and CH!Twi return home, and Celestia and Luna are quite proud of all that their new Knights of Harmony have accomplished this time. Plans are already in motion to finish repairing Canterlot and hold the Summer Sun and Knighting ceremonies, but Princess Celestia elects to hold an impromptu session to hand the team their titles immediately.
On the Canterlot High side of things, the school is also being cleaned and repaired as Spike arrives home. Quite a few of the students and faculty are giving him wary looks, and it looks like he's going to fall back on bad habits for a moment and run for it. Then he notices Ditzy and Thunderlane in the crowd, and Ditzy smiles and flashes him a thumbs up.
Spike pulls himself together, and starts by making an apology for everything that happened.
So, on the surface, a happy ending. Though there'd be a pair of "after credits" chapters to round things out.
Firstly, the Flipped Six, Twilight, Zecora, and the princesses all gathered at the Tree of Harmony. Celestia and Luna give the low-down about the tree and how it's connected to the Elements of Harmony as the group pokes around at it, trying to figure out where it came from and how it called out to CH!Spike like it did. As they do, it begins to react with their Elements, and suddenly its roots shift and reveal a box with six keyholes around the top of it. The team has no clue what's inside, but resolve to find the keys and figure it out.
The second scene takes place elsewhere in the Forest. Sunset is stomping about, fuming over her plans being ruined and that she's now stranded back in Equestria. It's at that point that somebody starts laughing at her. She's furious and starts blasting, demanding the heckler show themselves.
And who should walk out but Discord, still in his teenage dragon form from his last clash with Spike and the others, talking about how this seeming failure might present a new opportunity. And tucked under his arm is a familiar, glowing book that lets out a dark chuckle...
So yeah, sorry this one took so long. While trying to put down my somewhat disparate ideas for this into a cohesive story I might've overthought a lot of it, rethought parts, and did mostly the exact opposite of what these posts were supposed to be (IE, jot down the ideas I'd already had without worrying about how they fit together). Mistake I won't be repeating with future ones (I hope. I do rather like to blather about my ideas it seems...).
In regards to all this, trying to put the ideas down made me realize how bare-bones the original stuff I'd had in my head was. Complicating that was how dead-set I was on making the twist of CH!Spike being the final "villain" at the end. I came up with that prior to Sci Twi being a thing, so if I'd gotten around to it I like to think it would've been a decent twist. The stuff between swapping the two Spikes and bringing it all together in the end was where I'd had the fewest actual ideas and I couldn't even manage to find space to put stuff about them in here. For example: CH!Spike would've been unable to use his magic the whole time in Equestria, which would've been another factor of suspicion against him since he'd keep doing stuff like holding quills in his mouth or trying to pick stuff up with his hooves.
Yeah, honestly I feel like this outline turned into more of a mess than I'd hoped to make it but I still hope all of you had fun at least perusing it! Next time I'm hoping to put up some more notes about plans for the Flipped Six, including (likely) how and where each of their keys for the mystery box would've been found.
I understand you thought the outline was more messy than you wanted, but I liked it. It was a great twist having CH Spike being the final villian and I like the idea for his form. I can't wait for the next script where everyone finds their keys. Best of luck.
I loved this.
I will be honest these outlines feel just as good as reading a story, i’d even give them a thumbs up if I could, if you’re really so adamant about not actually writing the story I still say that you should find a ghost writer to write them for you.