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// My Most Faithful Student 2 
// Story: Regarding:  Gary Stu 
// by Bed Head 
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My most faithful student,

As pleased as I am by your prompt acquiescence to my requests, I fear that some details about how I wanted this matter settled were somewhat muddled.

Yes, it is true that I recommended Gary Stu find someplace other than your library to stay for the time being.  Yes, I do believe it was for the best that the two of you remained separated while things are sorted.

Booting him out on the street without figuring out where he might go might have been just a touch extreme, however.  It certainly didn't make things easy for Sir Flash Sentry, the investigating guard.

Nevertheless, what's done is done.  Seeing as Gary has done very little outside of Ponyville (and more notably outside of the company of yourself and your mutual friends) I trust Flash Sentry to find him.  Try not to worry yourself too much on the matter, Twilight, but do try to be a bit more even-tempered in the future.  Quite frankly I worry about how much stress you tend to put yourself under.

Which brings me to why I'm so glad you spoke with Applejack first.  While I had no idea how any of your friends might have reacted to the situation, she and Spike both brought up excellent points in your last message.  We do not know the full reasons why Gary chose to insert himself into our lives the way he did, and we do not know if there's some reason he could not simply tell us about what he knew.

Hopefully these story disks will offer some answers to at least one of those questions, or perhaps the numerous others that surround this strange case.

In the meantime, continue as you have been.  I've no doubt word about Gary being expelled from the Golden Oaks will spread quickly in a town as small as Ponyville and the rumors will not be far behind.  Better your friends hear the story direct from the horse's mouth before things carry too far.


Your loving teacher,



Princess Celestia






Luna,

The disks have arrived.


Celestia






And I thank every star in the heavens.  If I had to listen to one more minute of Blueblood trying to impress me by pretending to know what he's talking about when it comes to Reneighsance Era paintings I was going to go insane.

Again.

I shall be with you presently.


Luna






Dear Princess Celestia,

You are absolutely right about just kicking Gary out and I'm so sorry but even after getting your letter I was just so upset over this whole mess I couldn't even stand to look at him

(I think it might be easier to sum up that Twilight's amazingly sorry about just letting Gary go like that.  Really though, I think if she hadn't he would've just run for it.  Heck, he almost did after she untied him.  Not that I blame him.  Twilight can be kinda scary when she's mad.  —Spike)

At any rate, you'll be happy to know that my talk with Applejack has given me some perspective on this matter regarding Gary Stu.  I'd been so blinded by the fact that he hid all this future knowledge from us that I forgot for a moment how altruistic he'd been with most of it.  And nopony should know the stress that a small amount of future knowledge can cause better than me.

Still, the situation with the visit from my future self and Gary's own prophetic story disks do have some stark differences.  In the former case I had only an incomplete guess about what was going to happen.  Gary has had a full road map stretched before him for every disaster that might strike Equestria that my friends and I played a part in, from the largest invasions to the smallest social missteps.  I acted out of fear, Gary—

You and Applejack are correct in that we don't understand what motivated his actions, but it doesn't change the fact that he saw a version of events where we handled things ourselves.  Does attempting to help us towards those endings truly count as doing good when he knew his assistance was unnecessary?  Even if today's disaster at Sweet Apple Acres had gone through Applejack still would have learned an important lesson, one that would have brought her closer to her family.  All Gary did was remove her mistakes from the equation.

Even if he's not using that knowledge for evil, I have a hard time believing that his intentions were completely pure.  Especially given certain other events that you'll no doubt observe on those disks.

In the meantime, Spike and I elected to inform Rainbow Dash next about today's situation.  Given her famous speed I doubt it shall be long before I'm sending you another letter!


Your faithful student,



Twilight Sparkle


P.S.

Hey, Spike again.  I just had another thought.

See, Twilight mentioned how she got that visit from the future once and it made her all panicky, right?  Only the more she tried to change things the more she wound up forcing things to go the way her future-self knew they would.

Maybe Gary's got the same problem?  I mean yeah, he's obviously already changed a bunch of stuff, but even he couldn't do a thing to keep Twilight from getting all crazy and talking about stopping time after meeting Future Twilight.  Maybe the reason he never told us about any of this is because there were just some things he couldn't change and he didn't want us to worry about them?  If he knew about Future Twilight's visit and how Twilight was gonna act about that it makes sense, right?

I don't know, I guess I just don't like seeing Gary getting such a bum rap over all this without even getting to say anything for himself.  I tried bringing it up with Twilight and she just got real quiet.

Anyway, we're already at RD's so I guess I'll try and talk with her more about it later!


Your most faithful student's Number One Assistant,



Spike






Dear Princess Celestia,

I'm writing to you much sooner than even I expected.  Then again, the reason should be apparent as I doubt anypony in Ponyville or Canterlot missed that particular Sonic Rainboom just now.

To explain:  Rainbow Dash took the news about Gary and his future knowledge somewhat more violently angrily passionately than even I anticipated.

I'll do my best to catch up with her before she finds Gary herself.  You might wish to inform Flash Sentry to hurry with his investigation though.


Your faithful student,



Twilight Sparkle