//------------------------------// // Chapter 9: A New Kind of Power // Story: Godzilla: Equestria's King of Monsters // by Microsoft_2016 //------------------------------// Well, men, it looks like we are starting out an episode with a song. Yeah, how classic Hasbro. But anyways, let's just give a quick analysis of what happens in the song. Basically, Twilight admires the wonderful weather and attempts to pull Spike out of the bed, but he didn't want to and fell back asleep. So, she left her library and went into town repeating about how everything was great, Even some of the townsponies went along with it. However, before she could finish the song, water got dumped on her head and it soaked her mane. She attempted to say to Rainbow Dash that doing that wasn't very funny, but she got a response from Rarity instead. Twilight was confused and said to herself that things were not going to be fine. The reason why is because she spotted Rarity having Rainbow's cutie mark on her flank and Twilight knew that she screwed up somehow. She asked Rarity why she had Rainbow's cutie mark on her flank and the white unicorn responded by saying that she was only doing what she was supposed to be doing since the day it first appeared. She made the sky all sorts of different weather and said to herself that her sky must have looked so beautiful. Unfortunately, most of the ponies disagreed with her and voiced their complaints against her. Twilight asked Rarity why Rainbow Dash wasn't handling this and Rarity told her that Rainbow was at Fluttershy's cottage. Twilight got Spike to come along with her to Fluttershy's cottage and Spike yawned a little bit. He asked her why she had to wake him up and said that he loved sleeping in the rain. Twilight didn't care and told him that it wasn't about the weather. She mentioned to him that for some reason, Rarity had Rainbow's cutie mark and said this was her cottage. Twilight knew something was up and she just had to investigate. She knocked on the door and Rainbow answered it with a worried expression on her face. Twilight asked Rainbow why Rarity was doing her job and before she could get an answer, Rainbow bolted back inside and went to take care of the loud noise that was just made. She also asked what was going on in there and she was really confused when all these wild animals were running around like crazy. It was like a zoo up in there, literally! The amount of animals that were running around recklessly was ridiculous and mind-blowing. Twilight was gonna have to need an explanation for this one. Once again, there is another song. There is a lot of these, so make sure to grab your popcorn because these will be popping up a lot and you don't want to get lost trying to follow it all. So, to summarize real quick, there is a lot of Twilight going around to see how her friends have changed and the crazy things they have tried to attempted that they are clearly not good at. But, there is a consistent theme here. While they do acknowledge that they might not want to be doing this, they are doing it out of obligation because that is what their cutie mark is telling them. At this point, Twilight knew she screwed up and she raced back to the library to figure out what caused this mess in the first place. Spike asked Twilight what was going on and why this was happening. Twilight explained to him that while he was taking one of his seven hour bubble baths last night, she got something in the mail from the princess. She looked at the letter and began reading the note from Celestia. She opened the book and began reading out the final quote in the book. She cast the spell to see if it would do anything, but she didn't notice anything happen. Little did she know that behind her, her Element of Magic casted the spell on the other Elements which caused it to be shifted around. Twilight said that line made absolutely no sense and that it didn't even rhyme. She told Spike that something did happen and because the Elements changed around, that's why her friends' cutie marks were all wrong. She looked in the book and Spike suggested that she did a counterspell to fix it. Twilight looked and told him there was no counterspell. Spike then suggested that she could use the memory spell that was done on her friends back when Discord was around in the Season 2 Premiere. Twilight also told him that it wasn't the memories that were changed, it was their true selves that were altered. Spike suggested one last time that maybe Zecora's cure for the cutie pox would work, and Twilight told him that would be no good either. Spike said that maybe things won't be so bad and their friends will grow to enjoy their new lives. Twilight couldn't bear that reality though. She made a huge mistake and the fate of Equestria must be screwed up because of it. She was simply trying to finish an old spell created by her idol and instead screwed up her friends' lives by casting that spell. All of her friends were miserable now and it was all her fault. She told Spike that they weren't the same anymore and it was all her fault. She simply walked upstairs and Spike had a sad expression on his face as well. You guessed it. Another song. Oh boy, we're gonna be here all day. I think this episode has the most songs in a single one out of the entire season. Maybe even the entire series. Name another episode in the series, let alone Season 3 that has seven songs in it. If you can name one, let me know. Anyway, let's move on. This song just goes over Twilight saying how she couldn't believe this one small mistake caused this much heartache and she just questioned herself on why she did it. She did all of this while staring out her bedroom window. Spike went over to check on her and Twilight asked him what she had done while she had tears in her eyes. Meanwhile, deep in the North Celestial Ocean, Godzilla was taking a nap once again and resting his body so it would be good to go if another fight came up. However, Godzilla's scales lit up and instead of roaring in anger, he made a noise of concern. He swam up to the surface and looked around Manehattan for a little bit. He needed to go to Ponyville. Something big was about to happen and he needed to be there to witness it. He wasn't sure what it was, but he knew it was something big coming. He began marching through the city and headed west towards Ponyville. Whatever this thing was, Godzilla knew he would have to be around to see it. Back in Ponyville, Twilight stared out her window with sadness and Spike just watched her sit there, staring out through the window. Spike finally spoke up and told Twilight that she'll find out a way to fix this. He said that these were her friends and Spike looked at him sadly. She looked back at the window and knew Spike was right. She couldn't just sit here sulking about what she's done and the emotional impact it's caused on her friends. She created the problem, she was going to fix it! She turned around and told Spike he was right. She got off the bed and looked at the portrait of herself and her friends. Twilight smiled at the photo and she started glowing all of a sudden. Spike had to shield his eyes and he asked her if she was okay. Twilight finally knew what she had to do and she announced it to Spike. Spike was curious about it and allowed Twilight to elaborate on that. Twilight explained to him that she may not be able to remind their friends about who they are, but she can show them what they meant to each other. She put on her crown and put the other ones in the chest. She told Spike to come on and the both of them rushed out of the library. She caught Fluttershy trying to leave and she told the pegasus to wait. Fluttershy greeted Twilight for a second and the unicorn asked where she was going. Fluttershy said she was moving back to Cloudsdale since she couldn't get anyone to laugh and even used a whoopie cushion as a demonstration. Twilight then asked Fluttershy if she could help out Rainbow Dash before she left since she was really struggling with her animals. Fluttershy said she didn't know anything about animals, but Twilight told her that she did know something about Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy saw the box containing the Elements of Harmony and it finally clicked for her. She said that she knows that Rainbow is a true friend and that she'll do anything she can to help her. The three of them walked over to the cottage and before Twilight could knock on the door, there was a loud banging sound coming from inside. Rainbow screamed for help and Twilight opened the door to see a bunch of animals with silverware guarding a cauldron to make sure the cyan pegasus didn't escape. Fluttershy asked Twilight if there was some sort of spell she could use to calm down the animals, but Twilight said no and told Fluttershy that she was the only one that could help. Fluttershy got the courage and attempted to talk with the animals. Suffice to say, she wore a shocked expression on her face when she saw how rowdy these animals had truly gotten. She was able to get their attention and said they should take a break. She gave them snacks and they began eating away at them. She walked over to the last few animals and told them that maybe they should calm down and have a little snack. The animals shrugged and went over to eat. She loved the sight and assumed that they were cranky because they were just hungry. The animals went over to her to bond with her and she told them you're welcome. The bear gave her a hug as well and that's when Fluttershy believed this was her destiny. She started to glow and that's when Twilight sent the Element of Harmony over to Fluttershy and latched it on her neck. It reset Fluttershy's memories and she was back to her true self. Fluttershy asked what had happened and Twilight told her to look at her cutie mark. Twilight mentioned how it worked and told Fluttershy how happy she was to be back to normal. She also mentioned that because she was restored back to her proper self, she would need to help Twilight as well. Yeah, another song. This is getting really old real quick. To give you an executive summary, Twilight was able to restore all of her friends back to their original selves and even got the town back to the way to the way it was. The Mane Six all gave each other a hug and then, Twilight's own words from the night before had echoed in her head. That's when she knew how to fix the spell and she announced that to her friends. They all went to the library and Twilight wrote in the book a new phrase. She stamped the period in the book and she shut it closed with her magic. She felt proud of herself and not only did she get her friends back, she finished an important piece of work created by a legendary icon of Equestrian history. However, she was not prepared for what was about to happen next. Her Element of Magic glowed and sent out a shockwave through the library. The other Elements lit up and sent beams of magic right at Twilight. They were all freaking out, but Twilight accepted her fate and waited to be taken to wherever she was being taken to. Finally, after a few seconds, everything stopped and the group looked to see what happened. They noticed Twilight had vanished and they began wondering where the heck she went. Twilight was transported to some place that no one really seems to know and she asked where the heck she was. She saw Celestia and the princess congratulated her on making it here. She told her student that she knew she could do it and Twilight was confused. She hugged her teacher and asked her what it was that she did. Celestia explained to her student that she did something today that no creature has ever done before in Equestria's history. Even something that a great legend such as Starswirl the Bearded was unable to do because he didn't understand friendship the way Twilight did. Celestia told Twilight that the lessons that the unicorn learned in Ponyville have taught her well and has proven that she is ready. Twilight was confused and asked what Celestia meant by being ready. She followed Celestia and there was a bunch of moving images of everything that had happened in Twilight's life so far. Celestia basically sang some ballad that I'm not going to include for obvious reasons, and spread out her wings at the end of the song. Something came out of Twilight's chest and it circled around her before carrying her into the air. Twilight didn't know what it was, but she allowed it to overtake her and suddenly, she was back in the living world. All of her friends shielded their eyes at the bright lights and even Godzilla had to as well. Oh yeah. He finally arrived to town and the second he did, he saw a bright light in the sky that was Twilight's cutie mark and became curious about that symbol. Regardless, it got smaller and slowly made its way to the ground. The group stood there and noticed that Twilight was on the ground. Applejack asked if that was her, and after a few seconds, Twilight got up and spread out her new alicorn wings. Everypony was shocked and Godzilla's eyes went wide. He never seen a revelation like this before. Clearly, this had to have meant something. Applejack said she couldn't believe it and Rainbow was happy that she now had a new flying buddy. Rarity commented that Twilight had become an alicorn and Pinkie called for an alicorn party. The rest of the group was confused by that and Fluttershy told Twilight that she looked just like a princess. Celestia flew down and told the group that Twilight was in fact a princess. All of them were confused by that and Pinkie did the spitting out water thing to express her shock as well. Even Godzilla was shocked by that statement. For the short time that he's known her, Godzilla always encountered Twilight as a unicorn and now she was just an alicorn out of nowhere? Something didn't add up. Clearly, she had to do something that would earn her this great achievement. Anyway, Twilight tried to grasp the thought of being a princess and Celestia explained to her that ever since she arrived in Ponyville, she embraced and demonstrated certain elements and the true leadership of a princess. Twilight asked Celestia if this meant she wouldn't be Celestia's student anymore and Celestia told her it would not be in the same way as before. She also explained that she would always be there to guide her, but they were all now her students as well. They all bowed before her and Twilight was still trying to take it in. She looked up to see Godzilla and she really wanted to bow before him, but he stuck out a claw to prevent her from doing so and lowered his head down to honor her new position of power. Twilight looked back at Celestia and asked what she should do now. She asked if there was a guide on how to be a princess and Celestia told her that there would be time for all of that later. Twilight smiled a bit and looked around nervously. A few days later, everypony was gathered together in Canterlot for one thing and one thing only: Princess Twilight's coronation. Celestia told the crowd that they were gathered here today to witness a momentous occasion, which was the coronation of her most faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. She mentioned that Twilight had done many extraordinary things since she lived in Ponyville which included reuniting Celestia with her sister, Princess Luna. She told the crowd that Twilight did something extraordinary which was creating new magic and that act proved for her to be crowned Equestria's next princess. Even Twilight's parents were happy for their daughter. Godzilla was also standing outside, poking his head in through the open windows and gave a small grin. She announced to the crowd that for the very first time, she presented Princess Twilight Sparkle. The doors opened and Twilight came walking down the aisle with her coronation dress on with the banner ponies singing some sort of song of sorts. I don't know what to call it, but whatever. She made it up to the altar and Spike presented the crown on the pillow. Celestia used her magic to pick up the crown and placed it on Twilight's head. It basically had Twilight's Element of Magic on the crown. She looked at her friends with a smile and they all gave smiles back at her. She even received a small grin from Godzilla. She then turned back to the crowd for a few seconds and she walked out onto the balcony, waving to the hundreds of thousands of ponies cheering outside. Twilight wave to the crowds and Celestia told her to say something to them. She looked at the crowd and began to tell her life story to the crowd. From her not really caring about friendship, to having the six best friends that she could ever ask for. All of her friends had tears in their eyes and Twilight told the crowd that she was honored to have them all. She thanked the crowd one last time and they all erupted with cheers. The group began walking back inside and Shining and Cadence came up to her to congratulate her. Shining told his sister that he was proud of her, but his sister noticed tears falling out of his eyes. So, she decided to tease him a little bit and asked if he was crying. Shining wiped the tears away and said it was "liquid pride," which was a totally different thing. Twilight went along with it and hugged her brother again for the second time. All of her friends were excited and gave their congratulations as well. They went in for the group hug and were like that for a few seconds. Alright, final song here. Sheesh. There were a lot of them. I'll probably never have to deal with this again in the future. Anyway, to give one last summary for this chapter, Twilight basically sang how great life in Equestria was and that everything would be fine. Twilight did one last flyby and Godzilla let out a massive roar in celebration. He began to head back to Manehattan and Twilight stopped him for a second. Now that she could fly, she did something that she couldn't do before. As per usual, she petted his snout and Godzilla let out a snort of smoke from his snout, but Twilight also went in to hug it as well with her body. Godzilla felt happy about that and gave a small smile from it. After a few seconds, Twilight pulled away and Godzilla continued on his journey back to Manehattan. Twilight waved him goodbye and Godzilla continued on. As he headed back east towards Manehattan, he reflected on the events that have happened in the last few days. He literally just witnessed a unicorn turn into an alicorn willy-nilly. At first, he didn't understand why that had happened, but after a few days, he finally understood why she became a princess. He didn't fully grasp the concept surrounding that, but he could care less about that. The one question that burned in his mind though is what would her new role be? He was obviously the King Of The Monsters and she wouldn't get in the way of that. But he still wondered what her princess role meant. But for now, he must return to slumber and wait for the next threat to pop up.