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// A World Without Harmony 
// Story: Twilight's Regret 
// by moonblossom131 
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Walking around these solemn streets, there are no lanterns to light my path. I find my way through a forest of ice cream. Was this Equestria before Celestia and Luna's wrath?

Oh well, I think. I better see. Maybe it'll be fine! The Empire I mean. The only place I know that could shine! Crystal light shimmers on only me as I walk rather than fly. But all my hopes are crushed as I look to the stars; to that dark, black palace that rises to the sky. 

This scares me deeply. I somehow knew he'd be here. Its King Sombra of course, filling the Crystal ponies with fear! Because of my wish I never defeated him, he was never banned from this place at all! I feel so empty and lonely like an opened box. I know only too well that there's no one to break my fall.

But alas! They're here! Only they're tied up in chains. The other Elements, I've found them at last! But I found them with worn hooves and dull, faded manes. Is this Equestria because I'm not a princess? Is this what happened at long last? Its true what Celestia, Starswirled, Luna, and Cadence all said: "No pony dares to mess with the past."

How foolish of me, for once I did not think! It was wrong of me to stray from the safe, training walls of the Magic ice skating rink! This wasn't supposed to happen, it was supposed to stay the same! "That's what you get Twilight," my conscience whispers to me. "For bringing on this terrible shame."

"Ponykind is distraught. It is lost and hurt like a lamb that is lame. If only you had been patient, Twilight. Then we could've hidden from this shame."

"I know, I know!" I try to fight back. But listen my conscience dares not. "Please try to understand, you know I was bored! I never knew that without me, Equestria would slowly rot."

"Welcome home Twilight! There's no going back," my devil-like conscience tries to attack.

"Hold on, hold it!" I smile as the angel of me rests on my shoulder. "Its the Elements of Harmony! They've always worked before. They're force against all evil is more durable than a boulder."

"Twilight, you're brilliant!" I exclaim, though I must think "how am I not?" These ponies, my friends, will never become slaves if caught. I immediately fire up my horn. To my library, the Necklaces must be there, but what if they're gone?

"They're either not Necklaces, not just yet," the angel says. "But rewriting the history of the Elements. Oh, our victory is what we'll get!" Good thinking, Twilight, optimism is best! Before we defeated them one by one, but now we can vanquish them all at once!

The jewels, the crown, it'll all be reformed. I bet they're working together though to protect them from me, as Nightmare might've warned. Being as clever as I simply am, I trusted my faith, my gut, and thus rewriting history has began.