Shortly after Twilight Sparkle was taken to the Canterlot Hospital for an immediate recovery, the rest of Twilight's parents and her brother showed up at the Canterlot Palace along with Carrie, Tommy, Sue, Spike, and the Mane 5. They all had worried looks upon their face after learning about what happened at Twilight's Castle from Carrie. They all stayed there, hoping that they'll be able to save Twilight from her injuries. During their stay at Canterlot, Carrie couldn't help but feel so worried about Twilight's recovery. Since she saved Carrie from getting killed by Margaret, the peach unicorn wouldn't stop thinking that it was her fault that Twilight is in the Hospital. Despite that, Tommy embraced Carrie in his hooves not want her to breakdown in tears again. As for the Mane 5, they were all crying silently in their sleep for not getting to the Castle in time to help Twilight stop Margaret's evil rampage. Eventually, after 5 depressing hours, the nurse from the Hospital came into their waiting room. Before anypony could say anything, the nurse makes her speech about the operation.
"We're able to save Princess Twilight during the operation." The nurse spoke in a calm voice.
"Oh, Thank Faust!!!" Carrie whimpered. "She's okay, isn't she?!"
"Yes, but she's still needs some rest. We already wrapped her wound up with a huge dress bandage." The nurse explained further before filing up her paper work at the reception desk.
"It's going to be alright, darling." Rarity spoke to Carrie in a sympathetic tone. "We all know that Twilight is always able to stay strong in terrible times like this."
As Twilight's parents and the rest of the Mane 5 felt relived that Twilight will gain a fully recovery, they all went to get some breakfast, while Tommy and Sue took Carrie and Spike to visit Twilight in her hospital dorm. The moment they came to visit Twilight, she was already reading a book that was right next to her while still lying on her bed. The purple alicorn was wearing a huge dress wound that was wrapped around her injury with her wings stretched out by a harness to prevent any complication of letting her wounds heal. The moment Twilight saw the three ponies and Spike in her dorm, Spike jumped on the bed and hugged her immediately, while crying in tears of happiness that she was alright. For Carrie, she sat by Twilight before she could say anything.
"I'm so sorry for what happened to you back at your Castle, Twilight." Carrie sobbed silently. "If only I hadn't dragged you into this, I'm sure none of this would've happened. I know you were doing the right thing for me and my mother but maybe if my mother could at least saw the truth in both of us, I'm sure she wouldn't be inside a body bag."
"It's okay, Carrie." Twilight responded with a weak smile. "I was grateful that you were able to save me before it got worse."
"No, Twilight!! You're the one who saved me." Carrie protested while tears were coming out of her eyes. "I may not be as strong and brave as you, but you were able to help me find the confidence that I needed to start a new life in Canterlot. For that, I owe you a lot, especially when you saved me from my mother and from my rage on Chris."
In just less than a minute, Carrie started sobbing on Twilight's stomach, with her patting on Carrie's head with her left hoof. For Sue and Tommy, they were both relived that Carrie felt a lot more better when getting support from Princess Twilight in just more than two weeks. If Twilight hadn't had what it takes for Carrie to find her path as a good citizen of Equestria, Carrie may fall apart in sadness and in grief, or die trying. After several more days in the Hospital, Twilight Sparkle was finally released.
Soon afterwards, Chris Hargensen, her remaining friends, and Billy's remaining gangsters were all being put on trial for their crimes against the Equestrian crown. After going over the evidence and interviewing with the witnesses for testimony, Princess Celestia had sentenced all of the crooks to work at a prison mining camp at Saddle Arabia for life. As for Chris' father, he was stripped of his entire career for causing corruption, blackmailing, and bribery at Celestia's School and was banished to Saddle Arabia for life. For Carrie White, despite her two counts for murder, Twilight has testified that Carrie saved her from her violent mother and that Carrie only acted out of self-defense against two of Chris' and Billy's thugs. So, in order to pay up all debts, Carrie's sentence was reduced to only one year in Ponycadero, while working in community service as a seamstress, with following Rarity's advice voluntarily.
As for Tommy Ross and Sue Snell, they were both married after they left the School of Gifted Unicorns and moved to Ponyville to start a new life with their children. Also, they did their best to keep in touch with their friend Carrie to make sure she is doing all right at Ponycadero. For the Mane 6, they all made sure to visit Carrie at Ponycadero so that she will not be alone there. Even though Carrie had to put up with her temporary sentence, she didn't actually mind because Carrie knew that she still have to start somewhere that will not involve any bullying or any harassment in the future. As for the Royal Sisters, they hired several security guards at Celestia's School to ensure the protection of unicorns, as well as preventing any more bullying occur there.
After Carrie's sentence, she was adopted to the Sparkle Family after learning of how she saved their daughter from her homicidal mother. Furthermore, Carrie's life as Twilight's newest little sister was already well-approved by her new foster-mother Twilight Velvet and by Princess Celestia. Upon hearing all of this, Carrie never felt so happy in all her life that she was able to live with a family that truly cared about her, the way they cared about Twilight Sparkle. Before she went to live with Twilight in her Castle, she paid one last visit to her mother's grave at Canterlot. The moment Carrie came by Margaret's Tomb Stone, she spat on it, claiming that Margaret was never the kind of mother that Carrie wanted her to be. As Carrie continued to settle her life in living in Twilight's Castle, she eventually met another unicorn at Ponyville named Silversteel Valiant who is just as troubled as she was in his past life. However, after going on several dates with him at Ponyville, they were both finally married. Silversteel now serves as a Royal Guard under the command of Princess Twilight Sparkle and Carrie now works as an assistant seamstress at Rarity's Canterlot Boutique. Five years later, Carrie and Silversteel were able to give birth to a unicorn colt at the Ponyville Hospital. During their son's first year at Cheerilee's School, Carrie explained to him her entire story of everything that happened when she was in her early teens at Celestia's School inside her son's bedroom within the Castle of Friendship.
"And that was happened in Canterlot and in Ponyville." Carrie explained finished her story time with her son.
"Wow, mom. That was a very a frightening, but an amazing story you had there!!" Carrie's son spoke while in shock. "So, were you finally happy that Princess Twilight was able to help you find your path and fulfill your dreams while finding friendship in Equestria?"
"I guess you could say that, my dear." Carrie replied as she smiled at her son. "Yes. Because of her, my journey to find friendship in Equestria has finally just begun."
"So, you were Twilight's hero, aren't you?!" Carrie's son asked.
"No, my son." Carrie replied as she looked up to the sky and smiled. "She was my hero!!!"
At the second floor of the Castle of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle appeared at the balcony and saw a clear view of all of Ponyville below her enraptured in a dark-blue night sky. As the Princess of Friendship smiled, Twilight lit up her horn and shot out an intense magic beam up into the sky. After several seconds, Twilight's magic made several firework explosions up in mid-air. As the fireworks made intense popping noises, they displayed the cutie marks of her and the Mane 5. After all that, the fireworks exploded into the night sky, revealing Carrie's cutie mark as a full red heart, instead of a heart ripped in two. As the fireworks continued to explode in the night sky, Twilight just remembered a wonderful memory of what happened during her first days at the School of Gifted Unicorns.
"Carrie, maybe if I were to help her lot more sooner, then maybe things will not get out of control in the later years." Twilight said to herself as she looked up to the dark-blue sky.
In the Past:
During Twilight's second-year semester at the School of Gifted Unicorns, while Twilight as a little filly unicorn, she was able to live up to her name when Twilight Sparkle was able to get a 100% on several of her physics, science, and magical tests. As a result, most of the unicorns, including Chris, Tina, and Sue, were treating Twilight like a Queen, much to the purple unicorn's embarrassment. Not that it matters, Twilight was able to do nothing more than smile back at her immediate fans, not wanting to draw that much attention to herself, while moving on. Shortly after school, Twilight meets another little unicorn filly that was crying at the school courtyard, while Chris and Tina were dumping juice and water and throwing tampons at her. Much to Twilight's annoyance, she confronted Chris and Tina and gave them a scary-looking glare before they backed away and left the school without another word. After they left, Twilight went over to the filly's side and took her to Donut Joe's and ate several donuts with her.
"I-I don't know how to thank you, uhhhh......" The little filly said not knowing who was the purple unicorn filly's name.
"I'm Twilight Sparkle. What's your name?" Twilight introduced before asking the filly's name.
"I-I'm Carrie White." The soft-spoken unicorn filly answered nervously.
After Carrie ate several donuts with Twilight, the purple unicorn smiled at her as they both left Donut Joe's and took Carrie back to her home, while they're were talking about what they both went over at school, other than dealing with their bullies. When they both reached Carrie's mother's house, the little unicorn went on ahead and turned around to wave goodbye to Twilight Sparkle. As soon as Twilight waved goodbye to Carrie, she whistled along the way back home before resting up for the next day.
Back in the present, Twilight was finally happy that Carrie is able to begin her journey to find friendship after 16 long years of suffering and torture by the hooves of her bullies and her mother.
"You have nothing to worry about, Carrie." Twilight said to herself as she smiled. "I'll always do my best to protect your friendship in Equestria because you'll always be my sister."
Not a moment too soon, Twilight turns around to face the doorway leading back inside her Castle. When she went inside, Twilight disappears into the Castle as she used her magic to close the door behind her. Up towards the night sky, the two huge exploding fireworks portrays the faces of Twilight and Carrie both smiling at each other before the lights disappear into the night.
The End