Director's cut: Caught and Punished, prologue and chapters 1-5

First, this is the first story I've adopted.

Beacuse Donnnnn, who wrote the story, asked me to not ret-con anything in the chapters he wrote (prologue and chapters 1-4), there won't be too many notable edits here, considering this director's cut is about six chapters.

The single biggest change overall to the story is what my version of the story is more descriptive. Outside of that, the most noteworthy edits are in chapter 2.

One such edit, or rather expansion in this case, involves the part with Starlight trying to force the suppression ring off her horn. The part of the scene where she wondered if she made the ponies in the village feel like "nothing", and started crying over it, is exclusive to my version of the story. This addition served two purposes. First, it was meant to be the moment when Starlight first started realizing what she did was wrong and starts feeling bad about it, even if the guilt wouldn't fully hit her until chapter 5. This is why Sam thought he saw regret in her eyes the morning after. It's too soon to say what the second purpose of the scene is.

Another smaller but kinda noteworthy edit in chapter 2 was with Twilight organizing Sam's books. Originally, she was picking up his books from the floor. I later changed it to her organizing them instead to give her a "Twilight" moment. A number of ponies would be nice enough to put up his books for him, but only Twilight would organize them and on her own accord. The part where Sam said she's done it before is also something that's only in my version of Caught and Punished.

Yet another small change was how Twilight told Sam about the others' idea to put Starlight on a leash and in a cage. In my version, she says it a little more hesitantly, and the shudder she did is only in my version. This doesn't mean the Twilight in my version has more reserves about the idea: she's just simply showing that she's uncomfortable with the idea, not just saying she was.

Another very small change at the end of chapter 3 during editing is Sam mentioning Twilight had a speech to give. Similar to the other stuff I said before, this is exclusive to my version. Sam originally just said she was coming by the next day. This was done to help justify Twilight even needing to stick Starlight with Sam; the speech was part of her "Princess duties."

Chapter 5 is the first chapter I truly wrote from the ground up. Interesting enough, there are no noteworthy edits. Something that is worth noting is about Starlight's attitude changing as she went for one mane 6 member to another. This is because of the guilt she was already feeling rising, and it come to a head after Applejack truly forgave her.

One last thing. Even if the several other small changes and edits for my version of the story aren't "noteworthy", I will mention that not all are there to help make my version feel a little different from Donnnnn's version. A few of the changes I made are there for a reason...