//------------------------------// // Bonus: Do you ever think things through? // Story: MLP Movie: Equestria's side of the story // by tzening //------------------------------// Seaquestria, Throne Room Around 48 hours after Canterlot Occupation As the Mane 5 and Spike led Princess Skystar and the guards away for one small thing, Twilight Sparkle put her plan into motion to steal the Pearl. Given the apathy of the Seaponies-no Hippogriffs and not giving a proper enough explanation as to why they can't help, they would most likely be disappointed a third time and be stuck in Seaquestria for the rest of their lives while their family and friends are captured or even worse. "So Twilight, you are a fan of Pinkie's songs and you definitely need one right now given your mood. Why are you staying here instead of joining them? I noticed you didn't come with us when Pinkie started singing so I came back." Twilight froze and proceeded to turn around. A very angry purple puffer-fish is glaring at her. "What are you doing here?" Twilight asked her assistant. "I was about to ask you the same thing. What are you going to do next now that you plan to steal the pearl? Disappoint our friends? Make enemies of the Hippogriffs and trap them indefinitely in here while making Equestria more enemies?" Spike retorted. "Don't stop me, Spike. If they can't help us, then I need to steal the Pearl. We alone are not enough." "And then what???!!!! You never think these things through!! This is exactly what happened when you found out about Starswirl being in Limbo. You set him and his friends free while never considering about the Pony Of Shadows!!" "First, I need the Pearl. Then I'll think of something else. Besides, it all worked out in the end." "No, you won't!! I seen this sort of situation happen to you before. You would just freak out and huddle into a corner and then apologize to your friends before cleaning up your mess!! If it wasn't for modern conveniences and Stygian's resisting, we would have lost the Elements or worse!!" "Stop it, Spike!! I know what do I have to do, I'll deal with the consequences later!! Right now, while we are all singing, dancing and living it up in here, our friends and family are being sold with price tags on them!! I saw what happened in Klugetown and realized that Equestria isn't going to be simply taken over. It's going to be stripped of it's wealth and population!! They are going to be reduced to slaves while we comfortably live it up!!! Shining Armor and Flurry Heart in peril once they are done selling Mom and Dad to the highest bidder and the moment Tempest finds out about the 5th alicorn..." Twilight's face was drained of her color at the realization. "We need action now!! There's no way the Seaponies would be of any help!! You heard from Princess Skystar and Queen Novo, they bailed underwater the moment The Storm King arrived. They had the home field advantage and they just threw it away on first contact to rot in here until this whole thing supposedly blow over!! Not a single line about how they lost their best fighters in combat or anything like that would justify why they can't be of assistance!! Even if they said yes, there's no way they would be of help now!! All we can do now is to get the only useful thing which is the Pearl..." If there are tears from Twilight, it definitely can't be seen since they're underwater. Spike took in all this in stunned silence and only had this to say: "THEN I'M BEGGING YOU AS A FRIEND, FAMILY AND YOUR ASSISTANT!!! PRINCESS OF FRIENDSHIP, IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE AND ASK YOURSELF THESE TWO QUESTIONS: 'WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF I ATTEMPT STEAL THE PEARL?' AND 'WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES?'!!" "ARRRGGHHHH!!!" With a grunt, Twilight rammed her head against the wall in frustration. The Hippogriffian airspace, Tempest's airship Around 48 hours after Canterlot Occupation Tempest Shadow hovered over the airspace with all the ship's scopes looking for the Princess. After scuttling that ship of traitors and liars while leaving them to fall to their doom, she found out that the Princess is going after the site of her previous conquest of Mount Aris. All she needs now is for her to show up in disappointment and her horn would be restored. "There's nothing stopping me from my horn being restored now. I can finally be normal again." Grubber was eating some cake out of earshot and decided to ask Tempest this single question: "So I've been wondering...what's the reason you want your horn restored so badly again? Aside from it looking cool again, how are you going to rejoin the society of the country you just enslaved and destroyed? You are from there and not some other ponyland right?" The gears turned in the commander's head as she thought back on her past actions, she could only respond with silence.