//------------------------------//
// The End 
// Story: All the Difference 
// by Tavi n Scratch 
//------------------------------//

	I threw the goddess against the wall like a ragdoll. “You have no idea how much I want to just kill you right now. I know I can’t though, you aren’t supposed to die, at least not here and not now. But I know exactly what that means for me.” Tears were streaming down my face, both of anger and sadness. “I get to keep none of this, the life in the palace, the friends I’ve made, the power I’ve worked for, all of it, just erased. It’s not FAIR!” I threw her again.

“I am great, I am powerful, I could just finish you and rewrite time, but with knowledge comes a burden. I know I could never do that, time would catch up to me. So it’s up to me to go back and make amends, heal the torn continuum. And what good comes from that? Twilight gets to be the Princess’s student, she gets to meet her friends, you get redemption, the Elements receive new bearers.It seems everyone wins, everyone but I.

“Here I am, the one forced to make this choice. And what do I get from it? I lose my palace life, end up in an orphanage, I have NO FUTURE!” I continued beating Nightmare Moon within inches of death. “Twilight Sparkle steals the life I have! All happiness I have shall be taken by her!” I turn to her dead body. “I thought her my friend, I was blind. She is my replacement, a version of me that Celestia could handle and control. I’ve seen into the cut of time, how could I be so naive.”

“And yet, there is no escape,” tears were streaming down my face, my knees shook and by body trembled. I remember shutting my eyes and collapsing to the icy stone floor. There I was, laying on the ground, joined by the pony who will take everything wonderful in my life and a goddess who was about to die. I laid there and cried, I cried for so long. I understood before that all this was meant to happen, but it never hit me like this. I just couldn’t stop, I have no idea how long I was there on the floor. 

When I finally opened my eyes, light filters through the cracked ceiling. Apparently I’d been l crying the entire night. I stood up, I was calm, but my composure was shaky. I walked up to Luna. “I need this.” I took the amulet from around her neck and put it on myself. I could feel my power increasing even more, “This should be sufficient.”  Using all of the power, I could feel time, I could manipulate it like cloth. “I wish there was another way, but it looks like the only way to save it all is to sacrifice my own happiness.” I turned to the dead unicorn as I began to mend the cuts in time, reversing everything to as it should be.

“Fuck you Twilight Sparkle, you ungrateful little bitch. I just hope you know that none of this is for you.”


~~~


	I found myself in the lobby of Celestia's school, in line for the exam. Behind me in the queue was a young purple unicorn. I was called in, but something kept me from using my full magic. I failed the test. As I walked out the filly smiled at me; for some reason I felt nothing but contempt for her. She walked into the classroom as I was lead out by guards to the orphanage. When I reached the building I heard an explosion overhead, and a glorious rainbow fills the sky.


I begin to cry