//------------------------------// // Intermission 2: Diamond Tiara's Evil Plan // Story: Selena and the Scar // by Mike728 //------------------------------// *SUGARCUBE CORNER: 2 HOURS AND 30 MINUTES PRIOR* The small gold bell that hung above the front door rung as Silver Spoon entered the bakery. The overpowering smell of the countless baked goods that permeated the air filled Silver Spoon’s nostrils, almost making the silver-maned filly want to drool but she had better control of herself. Silver Spoon wasn’t here to get a tasty snack, however. In fact, she was only here because a certain filly had asked her to meet her here after school. ********************** *1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES PRIOR: PONYVILLE SCHOOLHOUSE* Silver Spoon was the second to last of her classmates to walk out of the schoolhouse for recess. Standing by the schoolhouse steps, Silver Spoon watched her classmates having fun with the playground equipment, laughing and generally having a good time. After watching her classmates for a while, her eyes drifted to the tree that sat on top of the large hill and caught sight of the familiar forms of the five fillies sitting underneath the shade of the tree. Even from a distance, she saw Nyx was behind Selena and she had a feeling that the black-furred alicorn was cleaning out the spitballs from the filly’s mane. “Hey, Silver Spoon!!” came the voice of her best friend, Diamond Tiara. Silver Spoon turned behind her and saw the tiara-wearing filly stepping out of the schoolhouse and proceed on walking over to her. “How boring was that lesson?” “Very boring,” Silver Spoon said, a smirk forming on her face. “And did you see how the new filly acted when Miss. Cheerilee mentioned what we were going to learn today?” Diamond asked before making a face. “What a complete weirdo!! Hopping up and down on her chair like that? Double the weirdness!!” “She also called the lesson ‘fun’,” Silver Spoon pointed out, “so that makes her triple weird!” “So true, Silver Spoon,” Diamond Tiara said in agreement. “So anyway, I’ve come up with a plan to turn Nightmare Moon’s little sister against her and we will be discussing it at Sugarcube Corner after school.” The smirk that was plastered on Silver Spoon’s face instantly vanished and a frown took its place. It seemed that Diamond Tiara was still bent on turning Selena against Nyx, and that alone scared the filly for some odd reason. Either it was because of this so-called plan the tiara-wearing filly had or how willing Diamond was to go this low, Silver Spoon didn’t have a clue or the answer. Nevertheless, it scared the silver-maned filly to no end. “Oh,… you do?” Silver Spoon asked, trying her best to hide the anxiety she was feeling. “I sure do!” Diamond said with pride. “Remember, meet me at Sugarcube Corner after school. You’re going to love what I’ve come up with, I’m sure of it.” ‘I have a feeling I won’t,’ Silver Spoon thought to herself. ************************* *PRESENT DAY* “Hey, Silver Spoon!” The voice of Diamond Tiara calling out her name snapped Silver Spoon out of her thoughts. She turned her head to her right at where it had come from. Sitting at their usual spot right next to the window was her friend and she was waving her left hoof in the air as if she was trying to get her attention. Silver Spoon walked over to the table and sat down at the far left end of the table. There was a long pause before Diamond spoke up. “It’s about time you showed up,” she said in her usually snobbish tone. “What took you so long, Silvie?” “Well… um…” it was all Silver Spoon was able to say before Diamond had cut her off. “You know what, never mind. You’re here and that’s all that matters. Anyways, let’s cut to the chase.” A wicked smirk spread across the tiara-wearing filly’s face and Silver Spoon felt an involuntary chill run up her spine. No matter how many times Diamond gave that smirk, it always gave her the chills. Whenever Diamond had that smirk on her face, it was never anything good. “For 5 years, any plan to get back at Nightmare Moon has failed or has been thwarted by her friends, the Blank Flank Crusaders. I hate to say and admit it, but I began to believe that I’ll never get my revenge on Nightmare Moon. That is, until now.” The smirk on Diamond’s face grew even wider than ever before, which made Silver Spoon become very uneasy. The uneasiness was now getting to the point where small beads of sweat were beginning to form on the silver-maned filly’s forehead. “So last night, I came up with, like, a wonderful plan that will surely teach Nightmare Moon a lesson.” The smirk finally left Diamond’s face and a somewhat uncomfortable expression took its place, something that took Silver Spoon by surprise. “I’ll admit it, this plan is one that I had a pretty tough time debating whether to go through with it completely or not, but sometimes, you have to do things you don’t like in order to achieve your goals.” This instantly caught Silver Spoon’s attention and she became genuinely curious as to why Diamond Tiara had a hard time on whether to go through with whatever plan she came up with or not. From what she said, this plan had something to do with doing something that she didn’t like, but what in Equestria that was is what Silver Spoon was currently trying to figure out. ‘Whatever it is, it must have been a very uncomfortable decision for her,’ Silver Spoon thought to herself, turning her head to the right to look at the floor. ‘If that is the case, what was it?’ Silver Spoon wasn’t an idiot; she knew that whatever it was Diamond had in mind, there could be a number of reasons as to why she had a hard time going through with it. The problem was coming up with those reasons as to why and that alone was difficult in itself. Whatever it was, the plan was great enough to make Diamond Tiara a bit uncomfortable. That was something that Silver Spoon thought and believed to be impossible. “Hey, Silver Spoon?” The voice snapped Silver Spoon out of her thoughts and she returned her attention back to Diamond Tiara, who was now giving her a very curious expression. “Are you even listening to me? I was about to tell you my genius plan when I saw that you were just, like, looking out into outer space. Is everything alright?” “Y-yeah, I’m fine,” Silver Spoon said rather quickly. Diamond looked her in the eyes for a bit before letting it go. “Pfft, whatever,” she said before the familiar smirk reappeared on her face. “Anyways, here’s the plan, how it’s going to work, and why it’s going to go down this path.” Diamond Tiara took a deep breath and began to lay out the details first before deciding to lay out her plan. “Due to my… history with Nightmare Moon, there is no way in Celestia’s name that she’s going to let me get anywhere near her sister or even go as far as to try and speak to her, and no doubt those blanks flanks will be protecting her as well. That is where you come in, Silver Spoon.” Once again, that uneasy feeling returned while at the same time, Silver Spoon felt a surge of curiosity become mixed with the uneasiness. The filly had no clue on how she was going to fit into all of this, but something deep down was telling her that it wasn’t anything good. “What do you mean by that, Diamond?” Silver Spoon asked as she tried to hide her uneasiness as best as possible. “I’m glad you asked, Silver Spoon,” Diamond said, her smirk growing a little bit. “I want to point out that I have been noticing you becoming less and less involved in my schemes to get my payback on Nightmare Moon. Well, you have been to a certain degree, but not like you used to do back in the day. “On top of that, there’s also the fact that you weren’t standing beside me when I was terrorizing the new filly and all so that means that she will not be as scared of you as she is of me. With that in mind, we can use that to our advantage.” “Like how?” the silver-maned filly asked, arching her right eye at the tiara-wearing filly. “I’m going to have you pretend to be that blank flank’s friend and try to earn her trust. When you do, you will try to learn and find out Nightmare Moon’s most guarded and treasured secret, to which we will use to put an end to their little… sisterly relationship.” As soon as those words left her friend’s mouth, Silver Spoon felt the sudden urge to vomit, but she held and fought it back with all of her willpower. Never in, like, a thousand years did the silver-maned filly ever expect to hear something awful like that come out of Diamond Tiara’s mouth. The very thought on pretending to befriend Nightmare Moon’s, wait no, Nyx’s, little sister in order to try and learn Nyx’s deepest secret and use it as a way to end the sisterly relationship between the two sounded, like, the most Celestia awful thing in the entire world. Out of all the things that Diamond Tiara has ever come up, this was the lowest of them all. Something in the back of her mind was refusing to believe that Diamond was willing to go this low, and she really hoped that this was all some kind of sick joke and if it was, it wasn’t funny by any means. After a moment, Silver Spoon finally broke the silence. “You’re joking, right?” she reluctantly asked. “Um, no Silver Spoon, I’m not joking,” Diamond Tiara responded in a slightly offended and rude tone. “I’m being very serious here, Silver Spoon. I want you to pretend on befriending Nightmare Moon’s little sister, earn her trust, and learn Nightmare Moon’s deepest secret, one that Salon, Selene, or whatever that stupid filly’s name is doesn’t know, so that we can put an end to their time as sisters.” Any hopes that this was all some kind of joke was thrown completely out the window after Diamond said this. Silver Spoon didn’t want to believe it, but it was very obvious that Diamond Tiara was very willing to go this low in order to get her revenge on Nightmare- no, on Nyx. There was no way in Celestia’s name that she was going to go through with this plan or even help Diamond Tiara in any way, shape or form. Silver Spoon wished it didn’t have to come to this, but she just couldn’t take it with Diamond’s obsession for revenge anymore. If anything, the tiara-wearing filly had this coming to her for a long time, for over 5 years to be exact. “So, what do you think, Silver Spoon?” Diamond asked the silver-maned filly with sadistic glee. “Pretty great plan, huh?” The silver-maned filly looked her friend dead in the eyes for a moment before she responded. “No,” Silver Spoon responded in a low, monotone voice, her face showing no traces of emotion. “‘No’?” Diamond asked slightly taken aback by her friend’s tone, her tone showing a hint of curiosity within it. “What do you mean by ‘no’, Silver Spoon?” “What I mean is that I don’t like your ‘great plan’ and there is no way that I’m going to go through with it nor am I helping you with it,” Silver Spoon replied, still looking Diamond dead in the eyes. “This is very low, even for the likes of you, Diamond.” Diamond proceeded to give her friend the kind of look that ponies would give to a pony when they thought they have gone insane by doing something that wasn’t… normal. She was having a hard time deciphering on what had come out of her friend’s mouth. Like, did she really just say what she think she heard? It couldn’t be, it just couldn’t be. “I’m sorry, what did you just say?” the tiara-wearing filly said. You heard what I said, Diamond,” the silver-maned filly said rudely with a slight hint of aggression, genuinely surprising herself, but she didn’t show it. “I refuse to go through with tearing two sisters apart just so you can get even with Nightmare-, no, with Nyx.” Once those words left Silver Spoon’s mouth, Diamond knew that her ears weren’t playing tricks on her nor did she hear what she said wrong. A slight look of betrayal formed on her face as she looked at the silver-maned filly who was supposed to be her friend; a friend who would stick by her and agree with everything she says, does and even to the plans that she would come up with. This… this wasn’t supposed to be happening, not by a longshot. Since last night, Diamond genuinely thought that Silver Spoon would like the plan and would, like, totally think that it was a great idea, do their special hoofshake, like they usually did, and set it to motion. Everything was NOT going the way that Diamond Tiara hoped it would now that Silver Spoon is refusing to go through with the plan. As she sat at her seat, completely still like a statue, Diamond stared at Silver Spoon like she was now a complete stranger to her; like the filly that was sitting at the far end of the table wasn’t her friend at all. If anything, this wasn’t the Silver Spoon that she remembered when they first met back in the third grade. From Diamond’s perspective, it was like Silver Spoon was sticking up for Nightmare Moon, the filly who humiliated them in front of all of Ponyville just before summer vacation was about to start. The mere thought of that caused a great feeling of anger to grow within Diamond and the betrayed look changed into that of great anger. “Silver Spoon, have you forgotten that monster humiliated us in front of everypony before she defeated the Princesses and took over Equestria?” Diamond asked with a slight hint of aggression present in her tone. Silver Spoon shook her head in response. “No, I haven’t,” she replied. “I still hate her for doing that, but that still doesn’t mean that we have to try and drift two siblings apart because of what happened over 5 years ago. It’s wrong and petty, and you know it, Diamond.” “Are you forgiving her, Silver Spoon?” Diamond said, her tone becoming a bit more aggressive. Silver Spoon hesitated for a moment before she shook her head once again. “No, I’m not but nevertheless, I’m still not going through with your plan, Diamond. If anything, I can’t take it with your stupid obsession on wanting revenge on Nightmare-, no, on Nyx. All you ever talk about all the time is revenge, revenge, REVENGE, and I’m sick of it.” It was at this moment that Silver Spoon finally noticed that the tiara-wearing filly was now glaring daggers at her. She knew, at this point, that the filly sitting at the far end of the table was consumed by her need for revenge, and that alone caused her heart to ache. The blank expression turned into one of slight sadness, to which the tiara-wearing filly took no notice of. “What… what happened to the filly that I once knew? The Diamond Tiara I knew would NEVER let the thirst for revenge consume her nor would she EVER go this low. If the need for revenge is way more important to you, Diamond… then I want nothing to do with you.” “What is it that you’re trying to say, Silvie?” Diamond Tiara asked while continue to glare hardcore daggers at the silver-maned filly. Silver Spoon took a deep breath before letting it out. “Either you give up on your need for revenge against Nyx or… we’re through.” Diamond proceeded to give Silver Spoon an angry and shocked expression in response to what she just said. Did… did she just have the guts to say that to her? She, once again, wanted to believe that her ears were playing tricks on her, but she had decided that it wasn’t worth it. She clearly heard what Silver Spoon said and that alone fueled the flames even more. “Are you joking?” Diamond asked as she glared at her once again. “I’ll never stop until Nightmare Moon gets what she deserves!! She humiliated us and took Daddy away from me!! That’s why we’ll drift them apart to teach her a lesson!!” “Which won’t make you any better than her!” Silver Spoon retorted. At this point, she realized that nothing she will say will get through to Diamond and any attempts to dissuade her were futile. Diamond has left her no choice now; this had to be done. “It’s very clear to me that revenge is way more important to you than anything else, so you’ve left me no choice.” Silver Spoon once again took a deep breath and said the very words that she never thought would ever come out of her mouth. “Diamond Tiara, until you decide to let go of your petty need for revenge, we are no longer friends.” And with that, Silver Spoon got up from her seat and walked out of the bakery, heading in the direction of her house. As the silver-maned filly walked, a feeling of lightness flowed throughout her body, as if a huge weight was lifted off of her; a weight that she had no idea that she had at all. She didn’t know why, but it was a wonderful feeling, one that brought forth a smile on her face. Despite that, she couldn’t help but feel a cold pit forming in the pit of her stomach. Silver Spoon knew what Diamond Tiara was truly capable of, but whatever vengeful plan that the tiara-wearing filly will come up with, she will find a way to deal with it in time. Her thoughts suddenly shifted to Selena. What Diamond said was true. Maybe she can try to befriend her and the Cutie Mark Crusaders now that she wasn’t Diamond’s friend anymore. Nyx, however, was something that Silver Spoon knew was going to be a problem. It was true that she hasn’t forgiven her for what she did, but what she didn’t know was that it was going to take a completely life-changing experience for that forgiveness to come into fruition. ‘It’s worth a shot,’ she thought to herself as she continued down the path to her mansion. Meanwhile, Diamond Tiara remained frozen in her seat, trying to digest on what has happened, a shocked expression plastered on her face. Silver Spoon had ended their friendship and if that wasn’t bad enough, she even tried to get her to put an end of her ‘petty’ revenge. That filly, who she thought was her friend, had turned against her and that alone… was something that she wasn’t going to let go. The shocked expression quickly transformed into one of anger and hatred and she aggressively clenched her teeth. “You will regret this, Silver Spoon,” Diamond whispered to herself in a low, aggressive, and vengeful tone. “Mark… my… words…”