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// Twilight Rates Herself a Failing Failed Failure 
// Story: Twilight Transforms a Tiny Alicorn 
// by Mockingbirb 
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Weeks later, Twilight Sparkle was gently banging her head against a desk in her castle library. "Thousands of ponies have tried to find a cure for Inadequate Earth Pony Syndrome. They've all failed."

Spike put his arm around her shoulder. "But you're a genius, Twilight!"

"Those thousands of ponies who failed? I'm one of them."

"I know you can do it, Twilight!"

"How do you know I can do it? You DON'T know. Because I'm a failing failed failure."

"Ah, don't put yourself down, Twilight."

"Nopony can do it. It's impossible to cure IEPS."

"Ah, Twi, You just have to believe in yourself--"

"I mean really impossible. Why, it would be easier to..."

Twilight got a slightly crazed light in her eyes.

"Yes! THAT might work. I only promised to try to help. I never promised that little filly not to do what most ponies think is impossible."

"Twilight...should I be worried?"

"Worried? Let's see if I'm the greatest scientific genius ever in the history of Equestria! Then you can decide whether to be worried!"

"So maybe I should be worried," Spike said.