//------------------------------// // Season 9 // Story: Starlight Glimmer Fixes Everything (The Final Adventures) // by TheSuperTransformerFan //------------------------------// Previously, Starlight Glimmer had gotten her hooves on Twilight Sparkle’s Journal and decides she can fix everything…which she does! Every situation she solves in 30 seconds…and major villains defeated….or the Pizza is free! Now, the final adventures are nearing completion! No writer has dared to complete the rest of the seasons, until now! With the final fixes in history, it’s time to set things right… 196. The Best Gift Ever Twilight Sparkle was a little frantic when she left her castle to go shopping for her friends. She wasn’t paying attention and SOMEHOW managed to wrap her friends in a to-do list! Her friends were struggling to get free. “Do we wanna know why you're wrapping up everypony in town?”, Rainbow Dash asked. “Not wrapping paper. A to-do list.”, Spike replied. Sure enough, Twilight was going around the stands to get everything for her friends for hearthwarming. “Two of these! Three of those! I'm gonna need ten of those! Just in case!” Twilight was trying to get everything in order when suddenly, Starlight JUST happened to teleport in front of her, making Twilight fall to the ground. “Whoa! Twilight! You okay? Let me guess...Traditional holiday meltdown?” “Starlight?! What are you doing here!? I thought you were going to spend hearthswarming with Trixie!” Twilight was shocked that she was here! “And how did you know?” “Lucky guess.”, replied Starlight as she checked her watch. She had only a few seconds to do this. “Okay! You are trying to get everyone a special gift, but don’t know what to do? I got this!” Starlight charged up her horn and with that, seven new gift appeared! A handmade guitar for Rarity, a new bucket for Applejack, a few sweets for Twilight, a winterchilla for Fluttershy, warm socks for Rainbow Dash, a pile of gems for Spike and a recipe for pudding for Pinkie Pie! “Get this recipe prepared in the oven...STAT! Don’t let Flurry Heart even GET to the stove!”, Starlight instructed Twilight. “And you! Make sure you put this winterchilla outside at sunset because then, it grows into a monster!”, she ordered Rainbow Dash. She checked her watch, and time was almost up! “Oop! Gotta go! Hope you have a good time tonight! Happy Hearthwarming!” And with that, she teleported away, leaving a confused group of friends. “How did she even know what to get us? I mean I know I have warm socks, but do you think this is overdoing it?”, Rainbow Dash asked. They all looked at the ground and saw a chocolate pizza! “Mmmmm! Tasty!”, replied Pinkie Pie as she gobbled up the chocolate pizza in no time flat! 197 & 198. The Beginning of The End Twilight and Spike were rushing to the entrance to Canterlot. “Oh, good. We're all here.”, Fluttershy said. “So, everypony got an urgent summons to the castle with no explanation?”, asked Twilight urgently. Pinkie Pie was eager to know what the surprise was that Celestia and Luna were preparing for them! “Yup! I just love a good mysterious summons. What's it about? Do you think it's a surprise party? Hey! Why are we running?” Twilight was really worried about what was happening so far. “Because something could be terribly wrong! Somepony turned bad? Another evil creature back for revenge?!” Just at that moment, Starlight showed up! “Hold your horses, everypony!”, Starlight said, and everyone just skid to a stop! “You’ve got questions. I’ve got answers! Nopony turned bad! Yes, King Sombra is back for revenge! He’s gonna be at the Crystal Empire, And that’s what’s wrong!” “SOMBRA’S BACK!?!?”, the Mane six asked in horror. “Yes, he’s back. And, I just wanted to tell you that you better hop on that train to get there before anything else bad happens!”, Starlight replied. “Oh, and I almost forgot!” Starlight gave the the Mane Six the Elements of Harmony. “Keep these on you at all times! Don’t even think about putting them back until Sombra is truly defeated!” The Mane Six immediately changed course for the train station! At that moment, Starlight told Twilight, “Oh yeah! And Celestia and Luna are both retiring.” “THEY’RE RETIRING?!”, asked Twilight in horror. “Yeah, And I just want you to tell them that you’re not ready for this sort of responsibility yet, and they’ll understand”, Starlight told Twilight. “Now, go on! You’ve got an empire to save!” Twilight quickly obeyed Starlight’s order and ran off to the train station. At that moment, Starlight was about to teleport when she realized she forgot to give them a pizza! “OH, CRAP!”, she shouted at the sky! 199. Uprooted “Well, this is a surprise. Why are you all here so early? Did I send out the wrong back-to-school date?!”, Twilight asked when the Young Six entered the school of friendship. “Oh, we're not here for school.”, Smolder told her. “Yeah. We're back 'cause the Tree of Harmony called us here.” Sandbar called out! Twilight gasped at that! “Don't feel bad it didn't reach out to you. We kinda have a special connection with it after last year.”, Gallus told her. “But the Tree couldn't have called you. It's gone! Sombra destroyed it!”, Twilight alerted them. Just then, Starlight randomly showed up for the 199th time in a row. “(Buzzer sound)! Wrong answer, Twilight! I thought I literally told you to never take off the elements until Sombra was truly defeated! The tree is still there!”, Starlight told them. And she teleported them to the tree which was still in one piece! They were pretty shocked at that sight! “It’s still there?!?!”, Twilight asked them. “Yep, it sure is!” A few signed permission slips were shown in front of the Young Six’s eyes. “By the way, I told your kingdoms that you were going to honor it, and they’re okay with it! Honestly, Twilight! Have you learned nothing since last time I came to fix everything?!” Starlight then teleported away, leaving seven, no make that EIGHT pizzas falling down on top of them! The Young Six were already enjoying their pizza. “This is what you ponies eat?”, Smolder asked Twilight to which She only replied with a shocked look on her face, “Uh huh!” 200. Sparkle’s Seven At Canterlot Castle, Shining Armor was getting ready to invite his sister to come and test out the new security system. “I’ve got a good competition that will get Twily the chance to know who’s going to be sibling Supreme.”, he told Celestia. Just then, Starlight showed up. “Shining Armor? I’ve got a special surprise for you.” “Really?”, he wondered. “What would that be?” “This!” Starlight clobbered him on the head, and snatched the crown from his head and left, leaving a pizza right in front of him. (Back at the School of Friendship) “Guess that explains your love of charts and so much else.” Starlight told Twilight. Just then, the Sibling Supreme crown landed on Twilight’s desk, along with future Starlight appearing before them. “Here’s your prize, Twilight!”, Future Starlight told Twilight. “Oh, and when Spike comes, maybe share this with him! He’s gonna love it!” She then teleported away, and at that moment Spike showed up. “Whoa! The crown’s already there?! How?”, Spike asked. “Were you secretly cheating?” Starlight playfully asked Twilight. “What? No! I wasn’t cheating! Don’t be ridiculous! Why would I ever want to cheat?” Twilight playfully answered. “And how did that pizza also get here?” 201. The Point of No Return (At Twilight’s studying quarters, the day she was to arrive for Ponyville...) “Spi-ike!”, Twilight called out. “Quick, find me that old copy of Predictions and Prophecies.” Just then, she noticed Spike had something on his tail. “What's that for?” “Well, it was a gift for Moon Dancer, but...” The toy dropped out of the crumpled box. “Oh, Spike, you know we don't have time for that sort of thing.” Twilight was about to throw a book under her bed, if Starlight hadn’t shown up! “Whoa, Twilight! Better take a look under the front cover!”, Starlight told her. Twilight did so, and saw that the book she borrowed from the library was due today! “Holy hay! That’s the book I was going to return to the library!” Twilight realized! “Thanks!” “Don’t question it!”, Starlight told her. “And after you return that book, check for info on the Elements of Harmony!” Twilight obeyed without a word, and dashed off to the library! She returned it on time, and she was nonetheless proud that some pony reminded her. (Present day...) “You don't understand, Spike! I have a perfect library book return record!” She told Spike, and she was still a little worried about the not-anymore overdue returned book. “Had a perfect record.”, Spike corrected her. “I've never turned in a book even a minute late!”, Twilight cried out. “And this one has been...” Twilight’s form suddenly sputtered and fizzed, like static on a television. She changed shape and size more than once! When it had passed, she remained as she always had been. “Uh, what was I worrying about?” Spike was a little surprised at what happened. “Uh, Twilight? You okay?” “I’m okay, Spike! I’ve never felt more better!”, she replied. “Hey, want to go to the Tasty Treat for lunch?” “Oooooooookayyyyy.”, Spike answered a little confused. They both flew off to Canterlot for lunch, and instantly forgot about the box of memories that was right before the school. 202. Common Ground “Come on, Sweetie! Quibble planned this out for you! Have some fun! You’ll enjoy it!”, Clear Sky told her daughter. “I don’t care how fun it’s going to be!”, she answered stubbornly. “One thing’s for sure that it will not make me forget about Dad!” At that moment, Quibble Pants showed up, and he was looking...a bit more muscular? Clear Sky was shocked at this. “Quibble?! What’s with the muscles?” “Oh, nothing much...just a surprise to show you how athletic I’ve become!”, Quibble replied excitedly. Wind Sprint was surprised as well. “Here. Throw this ball to me.” He told her. Wind Sprint threw the ball, only to see that he caught the ball and threw it back hard at Wind Sprint, giving her a black eye! “Quibble! Don’t you think you could be hurting her?” Clear Shy was horrified! “Sorry! I just...” Only at that moment, Wind Sprint got up, still rubbing her eye. “You okay?”, he asked her. “That...was...AWESOME!” Wind Sprint cried out! She hugged him tightly, smiling! “How’d you get muscles like that?!” “Oh, well somepony wanted me to ‘show my athletic side’ so I headed to the gym, and poof! These bad boys appeared!” He told her, showing off his muscles. “I’m so proud of you, Q!” Clear Sky told him! “Only next time, don’t throw it too hard to her.” “Oh. Whoops.” Quibble blushed that he threw to her a little too hard. “Wanna go see the buckball game?” “HECK YEAH!” They said with excitement. And with that, they headed toward the stadium, not know that Quibble would later be seeing Rainbow Dash. As he headed there, he just couldn’t help but wonder who suggested he work out. (Later...) “Quibble?! What a surprise!”, Rainbow Dash said. “Yep! Can you believe it’s been so long?!” Just then, Dash noticed that he was now sporting muscles. “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up! hold up!” She stopped him. “How’d you get all muscular?” “Well, it’s a long story, but...would you believe that somepony just randomly told me I needed to work out.”, Quibble asked. Rainbow Dash was shocked for a moment, but then she realized. “Starlight!” “Who?” Quibble asked. “Uh, nothing. How’s about we go the museum? I have to do this for a friend!” 203. She’s All Yak “Hey, Yona, want to be my pony pal?”, Sanbar asked Yona. “We can enter the contest together.” “But Yona yak. Yona not pony.” Yona replied. At that moment, Starlight teleported in front of them. “Starlight?” “Counsellor Pony?” “Yes, it is I! I just wanted to give Yona a few quick tips for the dance.”, She answered. She then turned to Yona. “Okay. You’ve never been at a pony party before, so I’ll give you some tips. You don’t have to wear a dress, you don’t have to dance like everypony else, just have some fun with Sandbar and you’ll be fine!”, she told her. “But, Yona not know HOW to have fun!”, Yona replied a little worried. “Just stick with Sandbar, and he’ll help you out with having fun! Get out there, and party hard, you party animal!” Starlight told her. “Okay! Yona won’t let pony pal Sandbar down! Thanks, Counsellor Pony!”, Yona thanked. Sandbar looked a little shocked as he tried to process what had just happened. “Uh, Yona?”, he asked. “What just happened?” 204. Frenemies Deep inside Grogar’s lair, Grogar himself was checking his ball and all of a sudden, Tirek came down to greet him in his usual way. “Don’t trust anything that nosy little Pegasus says!”, he snapped. “I don’t trust anything any of you say!”, Grogar snapped back. Just then, The magnificent Starlight Glimmer zipped down and decided to give him a piece of his mind. “There you are. You can cut the act, Discord! I know that’s you!”, she sarcastically said to him. “What?!” He asked. “Who are you, and what are you doing in my lair?”, he demanded. “You know it’s me, Discord.”, Starlight replied. “You don’t have to disguise as him while I’m around.” Grogar suddenly turned back into Discord. “Why, Starlight Glimmer!”, Discord greeted her. “You didn’t have to drop by this lair just so you could see me.” “Actually, Discord, I do.”, Starlight answered. She showed him an antique-looking bell. “This is the bewitching bell that I found all the way from Mt. Everhoof, and the bell must be destroyed.” Discord was shocked. “No, no. Don’t thank me. I just came to save you and your group of baddies a lot of time that you could have wasted. Speaking of which...” Starlight fired a beam in Chrysalis’s direction, which not only caught the attention of both the changeling queen, but the magic-sucking minotaur as well. “What’s going on?!”, the changeling demanded. Even Tirek wanted to know what was going on. Then, they saw it. “STARLIGHT GLIMMER?!?!”, they both shouted. “GET HER!”, Chrysalis shouted. “I’d love to stay and chat. But as you know, duty calls!” She teleported away, and the two fired blasts every which way. Discord turned back into Grogar. “NO! STOP! YOU’LL BE BLOWN TO BITS!!!”, he cried. They suddenly stopped, and noticed that the whole lair was about to collapse, which it did. Tirek And Chrysalis rose from the rubble, and asked Grogar, Who was the last one to rise from the wreckage, “Well, Mr. Leader. What do we do now?” Grogar had only one thing to say, now that his lair got destroyed. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” 205. Sweet & Smoky It happened when the new baby dragon eggs were just about to hatch. a few dragons had some other ideas. “Hey, guys!”, one of the dragons said. “Check out this whole tub of lava!” The other dragons were all excited and wanted to have it all to themselves. However, the unexpected happens. Starlight Glimmer arrived and told the dragons off. “You’d better stop that right now!”, she demanded. “There are baby dragons out there trying to hatch, and if you don’t watch it, you’re in for a whole heap of trouble if you know what I mean!” “We don’t need you telling us what to do!”, the dragons told her! “Just buzz off!” “I was prepared for that!”, she said. “Because, if you don’t put that lava back, I will tell Dragon Lord Ember, And you know how She is about the eggs not hatching because they’ll freeze to death!” “Okay, Okay, Okay! We’ll do what you say!”, the red dragon said. “Just don’t rat us out to Ember!” And with that, they put the lava back where it was, which made the baby dragon eggs in turn hatch. When Spike, Smolder And Fluttershy arrived, the red dragon was the first one to greet them. “Well, if it isn’t our pony friend, Spike!”, he snapped. Starlight popped into existence once more. “Don’t even think about it!”, she warned him. “Spike just came with his friends all they just to see the baby dragons hatch. And if you mess with him, you mess with her! Got it?” Starlight was pointing to Ember when saying that. The red dragon nodded. “Good. Oh, and one more thing.” Starlight teleported a pair of bongos and a poetry outfit right in front of said dragon, and she was gone in a flash. The red dragon looked pretty embarrassed. “Gar-Gar?”, Smolder asked. “You never did any of that poetry while I was away! You gonna play me a lick?” The red dragon felt a little embarrassed once more as Fluttershy picked up the newly hatched baby dragons, and held them. Spike and Smolder were watching the red dragon, while he said “ OH, COME ON, SMOLDER!!!” He was also blushing as well. 206. Going to Seed Applejack opened the door and in came some cats and a few of them were all over the place and some of them scratched her brother, Big Macintosh, waking him up. And guess who arrived in time to help the apple family. “Howdy, y'all! Now, that's how you wake a pony up.” The figure said. “Goldie Delicious!”, Applebloom cried out in excitement. She hugged her with all her might. “Granny told me y'all could use a helpin' hoof with this here Confluence, so I came a-runnin'.” Goldie informed them. “Well, with a harvest this big, we're grateful for all the help we can get. I guess.” Applejack replied. She wasn’t real big on the idea that Goldie Delicious came to help and would rather have some muscle to help. Big Mac agreed as well. “It's too bad y'all ain't ever caught the Great Seedling. He'd have granted you a perpetual harvest, Confluence or no.”, Goldie told them. Applejack was just about to laugh when suddenly, she heard another knock on the door. She opened it and it was none other than that time traveler of fixing everything, Starlight Glimmer! Applejack groaned. “What do ya want, Starlight? If you’re here to fix another mistake, thanks but no thanks!” “Oh, no problem.”, she replied. “I’m just here for a little surprise for all of you.” She thrust out a bag that looked like it had something...alive and squirming around in there. She untied the bag, and out popped open... “The great seedlin’?!” Applebloom was in a state of shock and excitement! “Yep. I caught him, brought him to you, and now you’re gonna have a bumper crop of apples all year round!” She checked her watch and saw that was almost out of time. “Oh, I gotta go! and I almost forgot!” Before Applejack could object, Starlight teleported away and there was a pile of apple fritters in her place. “Ah can’t believe Starlight actually caught her! Now we get apples all year round!” Applebloom shouted in glee! “That was something, alright.” Agreed Applejack. 207. Student Counsel “I totally respect my younger cousins' decisions to stay seaponies, but they've never been on dry land. Preparing for a visit with them is almost as much work as the research assignment Headmare Twilight gave me on hazardous fauna of the Everfree Forest! How would you describe a shower to creatures who live in water? So far, I've got "warm" and "steamy". Actually, steam has water in it.” Silverstream wanted to find out adjectives for dry land that don’t mention water, and Starlight herself was getting a little worried, because a lot of students were lined up to see her. “Silverstream, there are a lot of students who want to see me today.” She told her. Just then, Future Starlight appeared without warning. “Here are all the adjectives you need that feature words for shower, towel and a whole bunch of other words and what not!” Future Starlight reluctantly replied. “Really? Wow! Thank you, Counsellor Starlight! I’ll go tell my cousin right away!” Silverstream replied and flew out of her office. Starlight was shocked at all this. She left, and put an out of order sign to go get ready for the Spring Solstice party. But, when she arrived at the Spring Solstice party, there was already a cake prepared and her friends were there! “Hi, Starlight!” Trixie was excited to see her. “ I’m so glad you could make it, and also the cake has already been made and delivered! I’m so proud that you were on top of things. I’m impressed!” “Me and you both”, Starlight replied and went to join her friends. 208. The Last Crusade Scootaloo’s aunts had just left for the weekend, leaving the Cakes to take care of them for the night. She was super excited to have aunts like them. “Your aunts are so nice.” , Sweetie Belle complimented. “Yeah. It's really cool they watch you while your parents are gone.” Applebloom agreed. “I know. I just wish they lived closer. Nopony bakes like Auntie Lofty.”, Scootaloo agreed as well. Just then, there was a knock on the door. The Cutie Mark Crusaders answered it, and got a note. When Scootaloo saw it, she beamed with excitement like never before! “They're coming home today!” She cried in excitement! “Who?”, Sweetie Belle wanted to know. “My parents!” Scootaloo was so excited that her parents were finally coming home, and who else should show up, but Starlight Glimmer! “Ugh. Not again! Alright, Starlight! What is it now?” Scootaloo asked a little flustered. Starlight was ready to spill the beans. “Well, it seems like your parents are wanting to move to Shire Lanka and want you to come with them. I’m surprised this letter arrived after your aunts left.” “What?!” Scootaloo was now shocked. “They are also getting ready to sell the house and you’ll feel like you’ll never see your friends again.” Starlight told her. “What?!” Scootaloo felt like she was ready to pull her mane out. “Yes, and I know that’s a lot to take in. I suggest you go see your aunts and tell them all the schematics about your parents coming back. I bet they’ll understand.” She seriously told them. “I don’t wanna move away!”, the bright orange Pegasus filly told her friends. “Then, it’s clear what we must do.”, the bright yellow filly alerted. “That’s why I got you three train tickets!” Starlight shown them the train tickets for the place where the little pegasus’s aunts were staying. “Now get going! There’s no time to waste!” The three fillies were confused. But, they understood. And zipped over to the train station. But before they left, they managed to salvage a pizza that also managed to drop on the ground for on the way. 209. Between Dark & Dawn “Mr. Tortoise-Snap, I'm only asking nicely once! Let my friend go!” Fluttershy demanded. The Tortoise-snap obeyed and dropped Spike, Who was now covered in the creature’s drool. Twilight was getting ready to cast a teleportation spell. “And now, a simple teleportation spell should send him back to where he came from!” Twilight cast the spell and he vanished. The princesses weren’t around to help them this time. Her friends all cheered, and that’s when Starlight Glimmer showed up, cheering as well. “STARLIGHT?!” They asked “Yep. And I’ve already fixed some things ahead of time.”, she informed them. “I’ve already sent Celestia and Luna on a vacation, so they won’t have to interfere with your duties, and I’ve already taken care of the royal Swanifying ceremony!” “Swanifying ceremony?” They asked. “Yes, it’s how to get the swans to the royal garden. Oh, and take this!” Starlight gave Twilight an amulet about the sun and the moon. “Make sure you turn this twice to the left for night and twice to the right for day. If anything else otherwise, write to Sunburst.” The Mane Six were trying to take all this in, when Starlight was just about to teleport. “Here’s a list, and a pizza in case you get hungry!” Twilight was glad the Princesses hadn’t interfered, but couldn’t help but wonder how Starlight even knew about the Swanifying. Nonetheless, she and her friends decided to back track it over to Canterlot and prepare for this occasion. 210. The Last Laugh Cheese Sandwich was a little worried that everyone wanted gags and he didn’t want to let his fans down. He wanted to come up with some ideas for some gags. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. “Who is it?”, he asked. “Mr. Sandwich?”, the business pony asked. “The name’s Sans Smirk. I have been seeing you spread laughter all over Equestria, and I was thinking of nopony better than you to start an amusement gag factory.” Just then, unexpected reared its ugly head as Starlight Glimmer arrived. She looked at the contract and blueprint for the amusement factory. “So, this is your idea for an amusement factory, huh? Pretty cool. I like the idea, but have you ever worried about losing your laugh one day?” “Me? lose my laugh? I’d never lose my laughter to help out these comedy loving ponies!”, Cheese replied. “But, that’s just it!”, she told him. “Have you ever considered trying to approve of somepony’s gags, and staying all serious and one day, not being able to smile? Or even laugh?” “Wow. I’ve never thought about that.”, Cheese thought after thinking about it for a while. “Exactly”, Starlight said. “You’ll be so wrapped up trying to come up with new ideas for gags, that you won’t have any time to throw a birthday party or special attraction! So, unless you want to make serious funny gags without your enthusiasm...” She turned to Sans Smirk. “NO DEAL, MR. SMIRK!” She used her magic to send the contract and blueprint into flames. “What...?” Sans Smirk asked in shock. What happened next was having the door slammed into his face, but not before an all cheese pizza was thrown at his face. 211. 2, 4, 6, Greaaaaat Rainbow Dash was totally shocked and bummed that she wasn’t coaching the buckball team. “I don't mean to sound ungrateful. It's just when you said you wanted my help with something important, I thought you meant something important.” “The cheer squad is important.” Twilight advised. But Rainbow totally thought this was a joke. That is until, Starlight Glimmer showed up. “Listen to your friend, Rainbow.”, she said. “Even I can’t take on helping others at the same time.” Rainbow groaned. “Thanks, but no thanks, Starlight. Every time I get my chance to shine, you always try to mess it up!” Starlight laughed at that remark. “Oh, I’m not here to make a joke. I’m just here to give you some advice. Try to imagine the cheer squad IS a buckball team.” Rainbow Dash didn’t quite get it. “I’m saying try to imagine the cheer squad as a buckball team. What if they mess up? How would you help a buckball team win? What if they lose? How would you root for your buckball team if they had no inspiration? How would you like that?” After Rainbow heard that, she instantly realized what Starlight meant. “Oh, yeah! I got it now! I totally can think of them, and root for them as my own buckball team! Thanks, Starlight!” And with that, she dashed off. Twilight was shocked. Starlight told her, “It never hurts to give her some inspiration!” She then teleported out of sight! 212. A Trivial Pursuit Twilight Sparkle had never anticipated Pinkie Pie, the element of laughter as a player and now, she might be stuck with her as her partner. ...or would be if Starlight hadn’t teleported and burned Pinkie’s player card when no one was looking. Once that was taken care of, she was out of sight, and now, Twilight wouldn’t have to have her as a partner! “And our final pair of contestants for this week's Trivia Trot is... Twilight and Rainbow Dash!” Granny Smith announced. Pinkie Pie was shocked, and her mane deflated! “Alright, Egghead! You’re with me! Team TwiDash forever!” Rainbow cheered! “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Pinkie Pie shouted. “I was gonna make our TwiPie cake!” Now, Pinkie would have to be an audience member if that meant she wasn’t able to play without a partner. 213. The Summer Sun Setback Twilight’s friends were getting ready to assign their duties to the earth ponies, Pegasi, and unicorns, along with Discord who was trying to not be so “discordy”. “Could you not go popping us all over the place, please?!” Rainbow Dash asked anxiously. “Time is of the essence. Let's go, team!” Discord ordered. “We need to know what we're doing before we go and do it.” Fluttershy agreed. The Mane Six Sans Twilight read their job cards. “Pinkie, you and I are givin' Braeburn and the Appleloosan ponies some adjustments to the menu.” Applejack informed Pinkie Pie. “Fluttershy and I are meeting the Pegasi from Cloudsdale to give them changes to the weather.”, announced Rainbow Dash. “Spike, we're going to update the Flaming Sky Firework Unicorn Troupe with Twilight's new vision.” Rarity told Spike. Discord read his card. “And I'm supposed to... ‘make sure Discord doesn't do anything 'Discord-y’? Well, that's annoyingly specific!” They all split up, not knowing that the legion of Doom was watching them. “Increased security on a crowded holiday with Twilight and her friends bumbling around? This is impossible.”, Tirek grumbled. “Oh, no. This is perfect. We need a distraction, and those ridiculous ponies just gave it to us.” Chrysalis announced quietly. Just then, she looked and saw Starlight right behind them. “Starlight’s right behind me, isn’t she?” “Damn right I am!” Starlight shouted. And with a charge of her horn, one magic burst sent the whole legion sprawling all the way back to Tartarus! A few minutes later, The group got back from their jobs. “We did it! We finally got our jobs done!” Rainbow Dash announced. “And Starlight didn’t show up! Maybe she learned her lesson after fixing everything! Maybe... she’s right behind me, isn’t she?” The group wheeled on the meddling unicorn, who raised an eyebrow. "Well we don't even care! You're too late! We already SOLVED this problem, thank you very much! So you can just... go home! Or whatever it is you do!" Rainbow Dash paused for a few wheezing breaths, and if anything, Starlight's eyebrow only raised higher. Applejack took a step forward. "Not the real problem?" "Uh, nope." "You've already solved it?", Fluttershy asked. "Well, yeah." "Lead the way." With a sigh and a firm tug, Applejack pulled the slack-jawed group along with her, with Discord tagging along. "...so you see, the important part is that the community knows that they don't need to do much to really make a difference! Sure, I could just magic up the fix, but I don't know if that would count as a real solution, and we can't have you stuck here forever, now can we? So I... improvised." "Starlight... what is all this?" Applejack gestured with a hoof to the collection of ponies standing in the overgrown park. Most were staring blankly straight ahead, but a few were listlessly trying to get the baked goods ready, start their magic display or control the weather, with very little success. "They're here to help! With all of them together, you should have this all fixed up for the Festival of the Two Sisters in no time, and none of them will even have to do much!" This was enough to finally spur words out of Rarity, who had been in a depressed funk the whole way over. "Starlight! You undo whatever you did to these innocent ponies right this instant! This is... this is horrible!" "Don't worry about it! They'll barely know it happened, and it'll wear off as soon as Twilight, Celestia and Luna think you're done. It'll be fine! Anyway, I gotta go, I've already been here long enough-" "Now wait just a goshdarn minute-" "Sorry, can't! Oh! They'll listen to whatever you say, forgot to mention that. See you soon!" "STARLIGHT-" With a fizzle and a flash of light, she was gone They managed to return to the castle, where they found Twilight. “Twilight!” Rainbow Dash managed to shout. “We’ve got something urgent to tell you!” “It's all coming together. I really think this is gonna be the best Summer Sun Celebration ever!” Twilight was already proud with them, not know her friends were worried. “Well, yeah!” Pinkie Pie said. “But there has already been a catch!” She sheepishly giggled. Twilight was confused. “What happened now, girls?”, she asked. “We got there too late!” Rainbow Dash yelled in alarm! “All of the other ponies were somehow now under a spell that makes them instantly do anything we tell them to!” Fluttershy alerted. “And with little to no success!” Applejack added. Twilight facehoofed and shook her hoof at the sky. “Damn you, Starlight!” She yelled. 214. She Talks To Angel Fluttershy was already stressed out that Angel Bunny was annoying her, especially when she had too much work to do at her sanctuary. Angel finally managed to get Fluttershy’s attention when he told her he wanted Carrot extract. “You just like the taste?! Ugh! Angel, that extract is in short supply! What's gotten into you?”, Fluttershy retorted. “Every day this week, you've been causing trouble when I have work to do! I know you can't talk to anypony else. But that's not my fault. I have responsibilities!” Fluttershy was past the breaking point when her bunny wanted time for her. But just then, when it couldn’t get any worse, Starlight arrived in a jiffy! “Starlight Glimmer?!?!”, Fluttershy shouted. “I don’t have time to talk to you! I have too much on my plate!!!” “That’s what I’m here to help you with.”, Starlight announced. Her friend was confused, but luckily she had it all down in a jiff! “He feels like you’re the only pony he can talk to, and all you do is ignore him. Well, Ifeel like he doesn’t care about your responsibilities.” “Um, as you can see, we're kind of at an impasse.” Fluttershy laughed nervously. “Well, how about you make time for him, when he really needs it! And also, you can get Twilight or Pinkie Pie or AJ to help you with your sanctuary.” Starlight suggested. “Um, I’m not sure about that.” She informed. “Well, if you were Spike, and he needed help, who would he ask to get that help?” Starlight asked. “Um, he’d get help from Twilight and the others...just like I would need help with my sanctuary?” Starlight nodded. “Oh, thank you, Starlight!” She hugged her. “You’re the best at coming up with solutions!” Just then, Angel patted her impatiently. “Oh, yeah! And I’d have some time for him!” The kind Pegasus finished. “Now, that’s what I call a solution!” Starlight winked toward her, and was gone in a flash...as usual. And a carrot pizza was in her place. “Oh, um...Angel? Do you want carrot pizza?” 215. Dragon Dropped Spike was busy writing a letter to somepony or rather some creature that he would be there to hang out with her. He was just about to finish the letter, when suddenly, a burst of magic made him fall out of his chair and on his back on the floor! “Oh, sorry, Spike!” The voice said. “It’s really hard not to bump into any creature in the dark!” “Starlight?” Spike wondered. “Is that you?” “Yes, it’s me!”, Starlight informed him. “Try to hold still.” And with that, she cast a spell on the Young drake who cowered in fear! When all the commotion was cleared up, he was confused. “Uh, what happened?” “Look behind you.” Spike looked behind him, and was shocked to see an exact clone of himself smiling and waving at him. “Hi.”, the clone said. Spike turned to Starlight. “WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?!”, he asked furiously. “Oh, nothing much.”, Starlight replied. “I just cast Similo Duplexis on you! Do you not remember that after my magic training with Twilight?” Spike raised his claw furiously, and realized she might be doing him a favour. “Now you can be in two places at once!” She then pointed at the clone. “You know what to do!” The clone saluted her, and left for the ponyville post office. Starlight was once again, gone in a flash! And a gem crusted pizza took its place...right in Spike’s lap! At that moment, Rarity came inside the room. “Oh, there you are!”, Rarity said excitedly. “I was starting to think you weren't here. I realize this is last-minute, but I've decided on a quick trip to the gem cave!” Suddenly, she caught a whiff of something...cheesy. “Is that gem-crusted pizza?” 216. A Horse Shoe-In Starlight was in her counsellor office talking to her plant, Ms. Philodendron or Phyllis, as she called her. “I think you really spruce up the office, Ms. Philodendron.”, she complimented. She gasped. “Oh! I'm gonna call you Phyllis! Don't you look good, Phyllis?” Suddenly, a note appeared over her head and landed on it, which she proceeded to check. “Find Sunburst and appoint him as a new vice headmare. And appoint Trixie as a new guidance counsellor. It would probably help you with your new job as headmare of the School of Friendship.” Starlight’s eyes widened and she grinned a ginormous grin. “Sounds reasonable.”, she thought to herself. She checked the other side and something was written on it. “If unconvinced, consult Twilight. Just then, Starlight was teleported against her will and landed on Twilight unexpectedly with decent force. It scared both her and Spike...but only for a second. “Starlight!”, Twilight cried in shock. “I’ve been looking all over for you! Are you okay???” 217. Daring Doubt When Groom Q.Q. Martingale published the novel, “Daring Do And the Fallen Idol,” one mare made it a point to be right at the very front of the line on the day it was to be released. “Good morning madam! How can I serve you?" Martingale asked. The mare took a good look in disgust at the description of the book AND the cover as well. “Actually, I'm glad you asked.”, Starlight said. She gave him a copy of the court summons. “Police! Arrest him!” Two stallions in police uniforms grabbed Martingale by the arms. “You’re under arrest, Martingale!”, Starlight retorted. She then pulled the disguise off of him. “Or should I say Dr. Caballeron?” The customers behind her gasped. “What!?" Caballeron gasped. “There's nothing wrong with trying to list my facts about Daring Do!” He objected, nervously looking at the line of angry customers behind her. "While that is unfortunately correct," Starlight said, "Plagiarism is still very illegal. Especially now that you have used it to upstage a hero whom one of my friends believes to be her idol!” "But I was trying to... “ Caballeron looked at the notes she had just purchased. He tried to snatch them back. "Ah ah! These are mine now." Starlight said, putting them into a plastic evidence bag. The two police stallions threw him out of the store and into the squad car to take him to prison. “See you in court!” And with that, she set the whole stand on fire, and teleported out of existence, not looking back at what she just caused to Caballeron’s career! 218. Growing Up Is Hard To Do You mean we spent all this time planning a trip and none of us asked any pony to take us?!” Sweetie Belle was now a combination of stressed and angry as she bucked the board down to the ground. “In our defence,” Scootaloo reassured, “Every other part of the trip was planned well.” Sweetie Belle was about to chew both Scootaloo and Applebloom out for forgetting to ask about a chauffeur, when there was a knock on the door. “Howdy, y’all!”, Applejack greeted them. “Applejack?” Applebloom asked curiously. “Are you taking us to the fair?” “Eeyup.”, she replied. “Big Mac’s out sick, but luckily, Starlight came by and said that I should make time for you youngins. She insisted I get Granny Smith to take care of him while we’re gone.” “Starlight asked you to get Granny Smith to take care of your brother, and YOU’RE okay with it?” Scootaloo asked. “Yep.”, Applejack answered. “No doubt about it! Now, let’s hustle over to the Apploosian County Fair! Daylight’s a burning, and we don’t want to miss it while we still have time!” The Cutie Mark Crusaders were excited that they were finally going to the fair, and high-tailed it with Applejack over to the train station. Little did they know that there would be a pizza waiting for them when they got back to the clubhouse. Little did they also know that right behind the clubhouse, Starlight Glimmer herself was checking the problem off her list. “Well, that takes care of that.”, she said to herself out loud. “Now to fix that problem with Big Mac and Sugar Belle.” 219. The Big Mac Question Spike and Discord were planting the riddle-like apples all around Ponyville. After they planted them, Starlight Glimmer once again popped into existence. She already felt bad that she had to go and correct the mistakes she “fixed” in past seasons, but she couldn’t worry about that right now. She had to go get Big Mac and Sugar Belle together. She looked around for her, and that’s when the Cutie Mark Crusaders were JUST exciting Sugarcube corner with a Pie, and Sugar Belle was tailing them. She was caught in a force of magic when she heard a voice. “Sugar Belle?”, the voice asked. Sugar Belle turned to see Starlight Glimmer right in front of her. “Starlight?” She asked. “Why have you grabbed me with your magic?”, she demanded. “Because, somepony’s waiting for you!” Starlight urgently replied. And with that, she teleported herself, Big Mac, Sugar Belle, Spike, And Discord over to a nearby hill, and they were shocked at what had just happened. “Big Mac??”, Sugar Belle asked. “STARLIGHT!!!”, Big Mac, Spike, and Discord shouted. “BIG MAC!!!”, Starlight retorted. “WHAT are you yelling at ME for?” Big Mac asked. “I don’t know.”, Starlight joked. “I though we were yelling names at each other! Carl! Steve! Ndamukong Suh!” She laughed at that. Just then, the timer on her stopwatch went off. “Oh, great! Now, we’re out of time! Listen! You two, go get married!” Starlight blipped out and two rings landed in front of the couple, along with a pizza that landed right on top of Discord. “Oh, great!”, the draconniquis groaned. “Starlight left US a pizza and the couple didn’t get to look at the apples! What’s up with that?!” Spike had only one reply to him. “I have no idea.” 220 & 221. The Ending Of The End One of the unicorn bakers was about to head over to Canterlot and along the way, Crackle Cosette peaked out of the bush and came to her. “Hey there, my unicorn friend. Have you heard?” “About Princess Twilight Sparkle's coronation?” He asked. “Who hasn't? I'm on my way there now. So much baking to do and—” Crackle stopped him. “No, no.” she whispered. “About the Earth ponies?” “Yeah! A peppy voice said. “They’re awesome friends with the unicorns and Pegasi! There’s nothing that they can’t do together!” Crackle turned to see Starlight Glimmer already there. She was shocked. “They rely on teamwork together! Which reminds me...” Starlight cast her nullification spell on Crackle and revealed her to be Queen Chrysalis! The unicorn started to run, but Starlight blasted Chrysalis back to Grogar’s lair. The baker was shocked, but Starlight walked up to him. “Hey, we equestrians gotta stick together, don’t we?” The baker smiled and walked to Canterlot. Meanwhile, Tirek and Cozy Glow were awaiting The queen’s return. They were shocked to see her horn broken and her legs scraped. “What happened?” Tirek asked. “That idiot, Starlight Glimmer just BLASTED me!” Chrysalis said. “And she ruined my plan! Could things ever get any worse?” The two were shocked, but at least they still had Grogar’s bell. “Well, At least we still have Grogar’s bell.” The Minotaur said. He went to get it only to find out that it was missing. “IT’S GONE!” He said in shock. “Where do you think it could’ve went?” Cozy asked. Just then Starlight showed up and got the trio’s attention. “Ahem, looking for this?” She said, tossing the bell and catching it. “The bell!” Chrysalis shouted. “You took it while I was trying to talk to the unicorn! “Why did you do that?!” Tirek snapped. The legion was now furious at her. “I’m the good guy, Duh!” And Starlight used to bell to drain Tirek & Chrysalis’ powers successfully, and teleported Cozy to herself simultaneously! They remaining villains were tired, down and out of power for the count. “Hey, YOU’RE one to speak, you big cow!” Chrysalis shouted. However, Starlight cast a stone spell to zap the whole legion into stone, like Discord was. As soon as the spell hit them, Chrysalis said her last words. “Ugh, me and my big mouth!” The legion was now turned into a statue. Starlight smiled as she left Grogar’s lair and blasted the bewitching bell, destroying it! “Well, I’m outta here!” She said, and blipped out. And that was when Grogar came back as well. “I have returned. Twilight Sparkle's coronation is today, and we are going to ruin it with—“ suddenly, he saw Tirek & Chrysalis turned to stone. He was shocked. “WHAT?!” He shouted angrily. “BUT HOW?!” He then saw a note written out on paper that said. “Thanks for letting me destroy the bell! Another good job well done! Toodles! - Starlight Glimmer” Grogar was furious when he saw the note and that the Legion of Doom had been defeated and turned back into stone. He turned into Discord, who was also disgusted with this as well. “Darn it!” The draconniqus said in anger as he slithered back to Canterlot. Later, Starlight Glimmer popped into Canterlot, and did a quick survey of the town. After scanning the place, she saw no other problems that needed to be fixed or that were going to be happening. She had just enough time to talk to Twilight. Inside the castle, both Celestia and Luna couldn’t have been more prouder. She had been working her way up to this one occasion, and already, they had tears in their eyes. “Doesn’t she look adorably regal up there?” Celestia asked her sister. The moon princess agreed. “Our little Twilight...all grown up! Do you think we should tell her we cleared out the room before she and Spike move in?” She asked her sunbutt sister. “How about we wait until after the coronation?”, Celestia suggested. “Twilight doesn’t have to worry about anything else today.” Meanwhile, Twilight was just discussing things through with her No. 1 assistant, Spike. “So, are you freaking out yet?” “About what?” “It’s not every day the two princesses who ruled Equestria for hundreds of moons retire and pass on responsibilities to you and your friends.” The drake assured her. “Oh, that!” The alicorn realized. “We’ve all faced so much and come out okay. I KNOW we’re up to the challenge of keeping Equestria safe and happy! There’s NOTHING we can’t handle together. Which reminds me...” She was just about to give her friend a little box, when Starlight just happened to show up and scare the new soon-to-be ruler. “GAH!”, Twilight cried out, and saw that her pupil was already there. She just wanted to get this over with. “What is it now, Starlight? I was just going to give Spike the title of ‘Royal Advisor’ right now!” “Oh, nothing much.”, her pupil spoke. “Just something I wanted to tell you!” With a whiff of her magic, Cozy Glow teleported into the castle with the time pony’s magic. "Remember the filly on the chess team? The cute mare who would’ve cheated if not for the Cutie Mark Crusaders’ lessons on studying for that friendship test?" "Y-You couldn't possibly mean... Cozy Glow?" Twilight almost burst into tears, as her feelings of guilt at leaving the poor little filly all alone threatened to consume her. "I-I felt so bad, almost expelling her. But when somepony comes alone and kinda helps you out, you, do sorta owe it to 'take it under your wing'.…” "Okay, okay. I think I get the point." Starlight wrinkled her nostrils slightly, both at Twilight’s unimaginative name and her weak, weak gag. "Anyway, what would you say if I told you I had 'Cozy’ next to me right now, waiting for you?" "I'd say 'leave me alone’!” A very skeptical princess commented, raising her right eyebrow in the process. "It's all true though!" Starlight used her magic to lift the cover off a peach-coloured alicorn just out of the range of Twilight’s periphery vision. "She’ll keep you company throughout the new rule, and all future occasions where Spike has to go on missions too! All you have to do is give up this crazy idea of your dragon being the advisor, and she's all yours... at least temporarily! What do you have to say to that, then?" "Stop it!” The violet alicorn commented somewhat predictably, as she stared at the new young alicorn in amazement. "I-I mean... how on Equestria did you find her? And, she's okay with this?" "Details, details!" Starlight had not time nor patience to explain her unfettered brilliance to mere rising stars. "And in answer to your second question, yes she is! Just as long as you don't go talking about Tartarus or anything..." Twilight was so involved in wandering over to examine the new alicorn “sister”, she almost missed Starlight's apparently random proviso there. "Tartarus?!" "O-Oops, I've said too much. Gotta blast!" Starlight finally realized her time was up, and disappeared from view almost as quickly as she'd appeared, leaving behind two very stunned royal “sisters”... and a shocked, jealous dragon. "That Starlight is weird..." Cozy made a 'cuckoo' gesture with her hoof, at which Twilight seemed to nod in agreement. "Still, at least she's probably saved me an assistant to appoint. So, what say we get Spike home, and get our new ‘sister’ here settled before we move Spike back to Ponyville? So, anyway...you excited to be my new royal advisor?” Cozy nodded. “Oh, golly yes!”, she squealed in excitement. At this moment, Spike gave Cozy Glow a cryptic glance, as if to say: “You know, you still have time to change your mind now...”