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// Proving His Feat 
// Story: Since Before the Stars Swirled 
// by The Real Darkness 
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That night, she broke into an unreconcilable sob. She knew where she had gone and she knew what she was doing, she told nopony, she was afraid of the judgement that would come from him, from Pulsar Splash. A long time ago, when Celestia and Luna were nearing the end of their lives, she ran, while everypony was busy, the unicorn galloped off to a place long deserted and steeped in evil magics. Time had shifted the place and magnetized it to a place most fitting for the crime against nature.



"She did what?!"



And now Pulsar had to find the unicorn.

So he waited out that night, being by Twilight's side before Discord and Sunset took over as he explained the consequences of casting such a spell.

Best case scenario, she went into hiding. Worst case...the attempted magic use would blow her horn apart, of course, that's what he said.

But when he first casted it, he had to be incredibly careful, messing the spell up even a little turned it into a death incantation, a lifetime cripple for whoever received it, but messing it up a lot could kill the receiver and that would be a preferable outcome.

So he teleported right to that evil steeped hill, the same soil where his old tower stood, there was an enchantment on the land around it to hide what was in the center and after Pulsar trotted through, he could see some ancient stone bricks still sitting and the familiar incantation circle emblazoned on the ground.

She had casted it, but whether she managed it or not was a good question.

He lit his horn, tracking her magic signature and saw a trail leading back out and down the hill, so he followed and went into the woods around Tartarus, finding a giant three headed guardian laying in front of the cave entrance that held the door to the most unholy prison. The unicorn lay there, breathing, magic fluttering from her horn still.

He couldn't be exact for how long she was there, but it was definitely an incredible amount of time for the guardian to not be barking at her.

"Star...light?"

"Pul. Sar."

A hoarse voice was what she managed and he trotted closer, seeing her in immaculate shape, but her horn was shattered.

Bits of it lay around her, she was almost powerful enough to cast the spell and she did the casting almost perfectly, but the worst case scenario he used to comfort Twilight, assuring her that a unicorn of her stature would not die during casting was true.

It would break Twilight to see her like this nonetheless.

He sighed, "I won't be passing judgement on you, that has already been done," her worried look softened, "can you stand?"

She slowly moved her muscles. The casting had taken much of her physical life as it did her magical, she could not manage to get herself off the ground.

"Don't worry, I can see you were partly successful in casting it, the time spell you used to see how I did must have taken a lot out of you prior to your attempt, more than you knew. You're...like me now, and Sunset."

"Sunset...is immortal?"

"Yes, let's get you out of here," he teleported her to his home, into a guest bedroom he had for whenever he other species friends had come to visit, her body laid on the mattress, "you're going to need to build your physical body back up and you might be able to stand, but I'm not sure about your magic and your horn, I'll do all the research I can."

"Thank...you."

"Are you...okay?"

She smiled, "better now. Fill me in...on everything I missed soon."

"I'll let Sunset do that, I need to visit Twilight."

He teleported away.





Twilight was no longer a crying mess, Discord kept her company at the moment in her room while Sunset was getting something for all of them to eat.

"What...what do you even cook for a draconequess?" She asked upon hearing his hoofsteps.

"He just conjures up whatever he wants to eat, we had a cooking competition once."

"How was that?" Sunset turned around, levitating tea and a salad in her magic.

"He. Cheated. The whole time. It was a lot of fun though."

And they left, Pulsar filled Sunset in and took the food from her before he entered Twilight's bedroom. He cast his own food spel and retrieved the perfect citurs fruit from far below in the castle gardens, teleporting it up to Twilight's plate to sit atop the salad.

"Here we are, eat up," the mage was already eating some of his fruit himself.

Pulsar waited until the Princess finished with a hearty burp, "mmm, the fruit you grow is always exquisite."

"It's been perfected after all."

Twilight had fought off countless atrocities. Tirek, an unreformed Discord, Chrysalis, a power mad alicorn, a slave-ethusiast tyrant.

This wasn't one of those she could fight.

"I found her, Princess."

Discord chirped up, "oh, good news at last!" He smiled wide, "if anypony could do it, it was always you!"

"Is..is she okay?"

"Yeah, she's alive, somewhat unwell, but my research should prove helpful in that regard."

"What...what happened?"

"Starlight is by far the second most impressive mage Equestria has seen. She was stronger than Starswirl, I'm positive. She did her research well, I have no fucking clue how as I've covered it up well, but she found the spot where I originally casted my immortality spell. Cast a time scrying spell and saw how I did it, wish I could ahve shown her how much it destroyed the environment so she would know the effects of it."

"I remember that, he scarred the sky in black and green for two hundred years!" Discord spoke, "honestly, Twilight. If I were to change back and be a menace, you wouldn't need any Elements of Harmony or Geodes," he teased, "you just aim his horn at me and fire."

"Discord, I would never do that to you and I doubt Pulsar would either."

The Prince smiled, "maybe just for fun," Discord laughed, "but back to the matter at hand. I think she was partially successful because the sky was not scarred. Sunset Shimmer cast her attempt while she was crossing the portal, which was bold and brave, but she left no lasting effects anywhere form the dark magic which makes the portal seem that much more interesting to me...on any hoof."

"I could see the effects of my immortality spell on her, but she's in a...state of recovery and I don't know how long it will take. You can see her, but," he was speaking like a doctor, "I'll find a way to fix whatever happened to her. I swear on the stars that birthed me."

Bold. I'm curious if you should stop the future.

"Stars that birthed you?" Twilight asked.

Discord smiled knowingly and Pulsar definitely caught it.

"Come, let's see her."

He teleported all three of them into his home where Sunset was already pouring over things in the library, speaking telepathically to Starlight aloud, likely to reduce straing and allow the room to be a focus, not her mind.

"Starlight, we're going to work tirelessly for you. You have my promise and his."

"Am I ever going to be able to use magic again?" Starlight was sobbing. Twilight went sprinting toward his guest room, she did once have a sleepover with them here.

"Yes! We bucking will!"

"Did you...fill her in?"

"I did, Pulse. I...we need a date night."

He nodded while she went through so many tomes, "we'll have one, promise."

Pulsar teleported to the room where she lay and Discord soon after.

Twilight was in tears.

"I...I'm sorry."

"You-your horn," she cried, "I don't care about apologies or what you did, only that you're still here!"

This was the pain Celestia once explained to Pulsar about Sunset leaving Equestria. 

"Twilight, we're going to keep her here and as you are welcome to, you can come and go to visit her as much as you like, but our library is off limits to you."

That was a rule Pulsar Splash kept enforced, nopony but him and Sunset could use his library and only Sunset could access his forbidden items, materials, and books if supervised. It was something he didn't trust anypony with.

And the next decades were spent trying to heal Starlight to which, they were successful. The unicorn, through physical rehabilition and study of earth pony magic, was able to stand and use her hooves and more like any normal pony could. They even managed to piece back together her horn, but her magic was forever stunted, she couldn't even cast a levitate spell.