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// Prologue: The Friendship Journal 
// Story: Starlight Glimmer Fixes Everything 
// by Shakespearicles 
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"Hmm, now where was that?" Starlight Glimmer searched through her bookshelf for her copy of Twilight Sparkle's Friendship Journal. "Ah ha! Here it is!" Starlight said, retrieving the book and sitting down to read it.  She had gone through it quickly once before back when she had helped make copies of it for Twilight and her friends.

"And copies for the rest of Equestria," Starlight muttered to herself, recalling how much misfortune the newfound fame had brought her friends. Upon reflection she wished she could go back and do things differently. She looked over the many friendship problems in the journal and chuckled to herself. She was bemused with the rather convoluted ways that her friends had to solve these problems. Hindsight being what it was, Starlight realized she could have solved each and every one of them in a snap.

"In thirty seconds or less," she said with a rather smug expression. It was lark of a thought at first. But the more she pondered on it, the more she liked the idea. "I'd be doing them a favor, really," she reasoned. "Think of all the time they would save. Twilight would be a princess that much sooner. Think of what more we would have accomplished by now..." she trailed off. "What the hay, I could have been a princess by now."

Starlight looked up from her book at her bedroom mirror, imagining herself with wings and a crown. It was the mirror that Twilight had given her at her 'graduation' ceremony after she'd saved Equestria from the changelings' return with Discord, Trixie, and Thorax. She could go back and thwart Chrysalis all the easier now that she knew the secret of a changeling sharing love, rather than feeding on it. She realized that she could prevent the invasion altogether! Both of them!

"That's all the reasoning I need," Starlight said, clutching the book to her chest. "I'd be irresponsible to not do this." She readied her time-travel spell.

"It's time for me to fix everything!"