I'm sorry everyone but I can't finish this story. I have zero interest in the brony fandom these days and thus zero interest to continue writing for it. Plus, looking back, Brawler was basically a self insert Mary Sue. Ya know, me but really cool and super important. I know there are people who don't see him that way, but I do.
All that said, I don't regret this story. Going through the chapters, I can see my improvements over the years. I'm particularly proud of the chapters that focus on Fighters who aren't Brawler, those characters might even appear in my future stories.
Thank you so much for all your support. I may not be proud of this fic, but if you enjoyed it that's awesome. Here's a summary of what would happen if I finished the story:
Shining Armor comes to Ponyville. He and Twilight talk, Twilight tries to dissuade Shining from going to Brawler but Shining goes anyway. When Brawler sees Shining he instantly becomes hostile (Because Shining is royalty and a former guard). He doesn't lunge out immediately, but he does act extremely rude and mocks Shining for being torn up about Cackling Lightning. Eventually Shining snaps and attacks Brawler, they fight, and eventually Shining is forced to hide behind a bubble shield. Brawler beats the shield using his 'anti-magic' training, and breaks through. He begins to beat Shining's face in, but stops when he sees Twilight begging him to let her brother go. Brawler looks down at Shining's bloody swollen face and backs off.
"Go bitch and moan about your problems to somepony that gives a damn, and thank your precious princess that you have a pony who cares."
Brawler storms into his gym, Twilight takes her brother to a hospital. Scar, the CMC, Shadow Dust, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie all take turns convincing Brawler that he does have ponies who care about him. At the hospital, Shining decides not to press charges against Brawler.
In Canterlot, Luna notices that something's bothering Celestia. She confronts her about it, and Celestia tells her about Fire Cracker. Luna persuades Celestia that Fighters are ponies too, and that the best way for Celestia to start to make up for what she's done is to apologise to Brawler.
At this point after a few more fights, Scootaloo got her Cutie Mark for fighting with her scooter when she injured Brawler in a fight, and Sweetie Belle got hers when she successfully countered Shadow Dust and beat him.
Back in Ponyville, Marehammed Ali arrives at Brawler's gym. She goes in while he's having a training session with his students. Brawler can barely form words around his childhood hero, and the CMC laugh at him coming close to fangirling. Later, after Brawler's students have left, Ali asks Brawler why he was so quick to train those kids. Brawler reveals that he still gets nightmares of being locked in a prison cell, and that he chose to train them because they were the sisters of ponies who were very close to Celestia. He gets the fillies to like him, they get their sisters to keep him out of jail. Ali sighs, and says she doesn't blame him, especially since now it's clear that he does care about the kids, and leaves soon after
(Bonus chapter: Marehammed Ali touring the Griffin Kingdom, encounters mugger in an ally, beats him up and relives her memories of her time as a boxer while doing it.)
Celestia comes to Ponyville, gets Twilight to bring Brawler to her castle to apologise. Brawler still hates Celestia, seethes through the entire apology, and asks for a pardon for a future crime against royalty to prove the apology is genuine. Celestia writes it up, Brawler beats her shitless, then walks away. With Twilight's help, Celestia gets back on her hooves, and says that she got off easier than she thought she would.
A few days later Applebloom and Applejack are walking around the edges of their orchard. Applebloom's sad about not getting her Cutie Mark yet, AJ comforts her. Then a timberwolf leaps out of the forest and attacks AJ. Applebloom tackles it to the ground and beats it to within an inch of its life, then tells it to warn its friends that if they come here, they'll get worse. She doesn't notice, but this earns her her Cutie Mark: A round shield with an apple emblem. Applebloom turns to AJ to ask if she's alright, but AJ backs away in fear. Applebloom is stunned, but then remembers Brawler's warning about family becoming scared of her. She runs to Brawler, crying. Brawler does his best to comfort her, then tells her to go hug AJ, who had followed her. The sisters make up, then AJ asks Brawler to teach her to fight to make sure she's never scared of Applebloom again. Brawler agrees, and training begins the next day.
A few training fights, teaching AJ how to fight and seeing how each character fares against one another, and then time for the climax.
The CMC are goofing off in a park when Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon come to try and bully them. The CMC brush them off, showing them their new Cutie Marks, and telling them to leave. The bullies are stunned, then Diamond Tiara gets smug, she says that those Marks must've come from Brawler, and that her Daddy was putting together a case against him to throw him back in jail. (Citing the fight between Brawler and Shining as evidence.) Sweetie Belle snaps, and begins to beat up Diamond Tiara.
"Where's your Daddy now, huh!? What good's your bucking money now that I'm beating your face in?!"
Applebloom and Scootaloo drag her off, and Sweetie Belle has to be taken to the police station. Rarity and Cheerilee attempt to scold her, but she only really gets scared when Brawler comes in. He tells her that he was ashamed to hear that she attacked a pony who couldn't fight back, then tells her to face her punishment without complaint because she has it coming. Rarity tells Brawler about how Filthy Rich is the one pressing charges, and Brawler becomes worried the case'll be an excuse to lock all Fighters away for good. He goes to his gym, gets drunk, and Rainbow Dash and Pinkie need to pull him out of it.
In the courtroom (I've planned this part out the least) the case is held. Sweetie Belle is sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile hall, but it's ruled that being a Fighter is not grounds for imprisonment.
Epilogue: After her sentence is over, Sweetie Belle comes back to Ponyville, greets all her friends, goes to Brawler, and challenges him to a fight.
"Hell yeah."
And that's it. If someone wants to adopt this fic they're welcome to do so, just let me know.
Thank you all so much for reading this story, I'm sorry that I don't have it in me to finish.
(Shameless self promotion! If you want to read more of my stuff, my account on fanfiction.net is Tf2sniper326. I have three stories uploaded there but the only one I'm working on is a RWBY fic called A Different Pyrrha. In which instead of being an overly polite champion, Pyrrha is a foul-mouthed street punk who only went to Beacon Academy to escape the mob. Check it out if you want, if not, oh well.)