My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
The Great Reign of Chaos
Chapter 2: Believe in Your Own Power
At the tip of the highest of the mountains of Canterlot, Yeshuah stood alone there, wearing his bright white robe with red clothing. He told himself, “Twilight Sparkle. She is an interesting mare. She has friends and saved Equestria so many times. She is different from other ponies, in fact. I didn’t wonder she turned from a unicorn to an alicorn. She is extraordinary, smart, friendly and beautiful but she looks kind of familiar to me… No, snap out of it. Oh, my, why do I have to come back?”
Suddenly, an image appeared in the sky. The image that appeared in front of Yeshuah is a majestic and powerful looking god which has two heads in the same position, one face of a man below the other face which looked like a dinosaur-looking dragon. His shoulders are a pair of 5 missile cannons and his chest has five cannons with the largest in the middle. Below his shoulders are marked with a stylized letter M each. Beside his arms of steel are two barrages marked with a large letter Z. He rides on a Brachio, armed with cannons and barrages on its sides.
“It is because you have to,” the god responded to Yeshuah’s question.
“Ciu’koku Daijujin, the Ultimate Great Beast God,” said Yeshuah, “Why do I have to?”
“You have to because the entire world is at stake right now,” answered Ciu’koku Daijujin, “The threat once feared most by the mortals ten thousand years ago has come back.”
“What?! It can’t be,” Yeshuah responded weakly.
“It is,” he said, “The Burning Legion has returned.”
Yeshuah was shocked to hear from the majestic god, “That’s impossible… the demons are all sealed away! How come they could be able escape?!”
“Your father, the omnipotent, the omniscient and the omnipresent, almighty ever-living God has told us the gods that the Cerberus has been destroyed and the gates to Tartarus were opened. That dark presence from the opening the gates could help the Legion undo the seal and escape,” Ciu’koku Daijujin explained, “It is right for you to return and do what has been done 10,000 years before. You must do what must be done, for you are the Son of God, the Champion of Light and Savior of Worlds.”
“But, my god, are you sure about this? Did the Legion really escape?” he asked.
“I know that they did,” the god replied, “The legends tell of the evil Burning Legion, their demon lords and their return.”
Yeshuah momentarily became silent, before saying to himself, “They certainly are prevalent in the legends.”
“Be wary of the burning skies,” Ciu’koku Daijujin ordered, “If the vast skies flame, that is the sign that the Burning Legion are going to return for doom and vengeance.”
“Burning skies?” Yeshuah said.
“The world will rejoice and be glad of your return, for they are in need of you once again to save the mortal world from ending up in the same fate as the other worlds,” he said to Yeshuah, as the image of Ciu’koku Daijujin faded away from the sky.
“I better say this to Twilight,” Yeshuah alertly said to himself, “Perhaps she can know about this. If not, the least I can do is telling her everything I know about the conflict.”
Yeshuah flapped his wings and flew down from the mountains as he began to head to Ponyville.
Meanwhile, as Vancuria and Kazzak walked to the opened gates, they approached to the vast fields of scorched wastelands and fire of the world of Tartarus. There are mountains everywhere. The lakes and rivers have water but they engulfed in fire. The sky is burning red and orange, looking like it is burning. Volcanoes around release smoke and erupt with huge flames from their craters. The color of the ground is red-brownish and void of any plant life. There are no trees or plants around and the only life that can be found is the cruel and evil demons.
“Um, where are we going?” she asked.
“Just follow me and be quiet!” Kazzak the Supreme growled.
Vancuria whimpered in fear as she followed Kazzak, walking to a dark cave of tunnel.
As they approached inside the tunnel, Vancuria continued to follow the demon lord until they reach to the darker parts of the cave.
Vancuria momentarily turned her head away from Kazzak, saying, “How can you possibly walk in a dark place like this?”
But when she turned her head back, she noticed that Kazzak vanished without a trace.
“Oh, crud! Where are you, Kazzak? I’m alone again!” Vancuria complained, as she split into Nai and Mea again.
“This is too creepy and dark. I’m scared!” Nai whimpered.
“I’m scared!” Mea cried.
They continued to walk deeper into the caves.
Meanwhile, inside Twilight’s residence, the Golden Oaks Library at Ponyville, Twilight accompanied by her five friends and her assistant Spike, who are in the main room, still kept looking for Princess Celestia through the vision in the crystal ball Yeshuah gave her. She spent the whole time using the prophecy spell to reveal a vision on the crystal ball to where Princess Celestia is, but no matter how many times Twilight tried, she saw nothing.
She used her prophecy spell on the crystal ball again, her horn and the ball glowed in a magenta aura, and yet, she saw nothing in the ball. The glow has ceased after another failure. Finally, she grew tired.
“I see nothing no matter how many times I try,” Twilight groaned, “It is hopeless.” Her head hanged and her ears were flattened.
“Sugarcube…” Applejack tried to convince.
But, Yeshuah entered the doors of the library and spotted the six bearers of the Elements of Harmony.
“Blight! I mean… Yeshuah!” The mares were surprised to see Yeshuah in the library.
“So, this is the home of the princess, eh?” he said sarcastically, “A library. Hehehehe. Say, Twilight, what have you been doing?”
“Twilight has been trying to prophesize the location of Princess Celestia,” Spike replied, “However, she doesn’t see anything.”
Yeshuah saw the worried look on Twilight’s face and walked towards the desperate alicorn mare, saying, “What’s wrong? Giving up? That’s not like you, Twilight Sparkle. Nor one of your friends. That’s what I know about you and your friends, I hope.”
“Calm down,” the white stallion tried to cheer the lavender mare up, “Believe in your own power.”
“I’ve tried many times!” said Twilight hopelessly, “But it’s still no good! I don’t see anything!” She stood up and walked away in frustration, and said, “Well, I try prophesizing all day and don’t see anything… this could mean one thing… Princess Celestia is…”
“How can that be possible?!” Rainbow shouted as she approached to Twilight, “Princess Celestia can’t be gone!”
“Hey,” Yeshuah told Rainbow Dash, “Was there also a time that you tried to accomplish something many times but you kept failing?”
“I remembered the time when I performed the Sonic Rainboom during the Young Flyer’s Competition,” she answered, “Luckily, I was able to do it.”
“That ‘Sonic Rainboom’… did you just make it up?”
“No! That is true and it really happened!”
“No, I mean… Were you the one who actually first invented the Sonic Rainboom?”
“Actually, yes. I am the first and only mare to make a Sonic Rainboom.”
“Well, Rainbow Dash, can you show me your memory of that time?”
Yeshuah placed his horn on the rainbow-maned pegasus’s head and both closed their eyes, with Yeshuah ready to perform a memory-seeing spell.
“Memory, present yourself to me. Roogi Maneegi Magi Mamarugi. Now, transcend the confines of time and space.”
Yeshuah’s vision changed into a space-like dimension with vast dark-blue skies and various sparkles and swirls around them. The vision then changed from the space-time dimension to the point and time when Rainbow Dash performed the Sonic Rainboom during the Young Flyer’s Competition at Cloudsdale.
“And now, for our final competitor of the day, contestant number fifteen!” the commentator announced, “Uhh... And apparently contestant number four...”
Rainbow Dash and Rarity who whad temporary butterfly wings came out and entered the arena, as the crowd cheered for their arrival. Rainbow Dash at that time was scared, since she could be very embarrassed not able to perform the Sonic Rainboom for the competition.
“I get it!” Yeshuah realized, “Her fear on not being able to perform the Sonic Rainboom… I wonder what she was up to that time. And Rarity had… wings? Why now, I never saw have wings?”
“Good luck Rainbow Dash. Just do your best,” Rarity said to the scared and nervous Rainbow Dash, “I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of changing our music. That ‘rock and roll’ doesn't really match my wings.”
Rarity began to perform acrobatics in the air.
“C'mon, Rainbow Dash. You can do this,” Rainbow reminded and calmed herself, “Just remember the routine. Phase one.”
The pegasus began to set course and fly fast through and around a group of pillars of clouds. That was her “phase one” in performing a Sonic Rainboom. The four friends Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack and Pinkie Pie cheered. However, that last second, she accidentally bumped on a last pillar and crashed to a wall.
“Nice work, Rainbow Crash!” Hoops mocked as he and his two pegasi friends teased and laughed at her.
Rainbow Dash was not satisfied of the three pegasi stallions laughing at her. Neither was Yeshuah, watching the scene from the audience, “Cruel… bastards!”
The four mare friends of Rainbow gave concerned looks for her. Rarity continued to please the audience with her performance and her butterfly wings.
“Time for phase two,” RD said as she flew off the arena and set off to rapidly fly around the clouds, which caused them to spin fast by the speed. That is her “phase two” for the Sonic Rainboom.
“Look! Phase two is working.” Fluttershy said, as the group started cheering again.
But, Rainbow was accidentally hit by a cloud she tried to fly around with and sent away flying. The spinning cloud that hit Rainbow Dash moved itself towards the balcony where Princess Celestia and two royal guards stood. They dodged the impacting cloud.
“Now, that’s gotta leave a mark,” Yeshuah commented.
As Rarity finished performing her moves, she said, “And now for my grand finale. I will fly right up to the sun and beam my beautiful wings over the whole city of Cloudsdale! They'll be talking about it for years!” She soared aboved and Rainbow Dash still insisted to keep going to make her signature stunt succeed.
“Looks like this is my last chance to turn things around. Phase three. The sonic… rainboom,” the cyan pegasus said to herself, “Wings, don't fail me now!”
Rainbow took off, and the two mares, Rainbow and Rarity, were flying and soaring to the sky together. Dashie was flying above rapidly so that she reaches a good speed where she can make a Sonic Rainboom herself.
As Rarity finally reached behind the sun, the point where the crowd can see her, she shouted, “Look upon me Equestria, for I… am… Rarity!” The wings on Rarity refracted the beams of sunlight and were turned into beams of transparent colors towards the entire arena. The crowd was in awe of Rarity’s stunning and shining style and beauty.
However, the butterfly wings were burned off by the extreme heat from rays of sunlight directed towards Rarity’s wings.
“Uh-oh,” Rarity said as she began to fall down and scream.
“Oh, no! Her wings evaporated into thin air!” Twilight cried.
“Oh, God! This won’t look good…”
A trio of Wonderbolts set off down towards Rarity to save her. They tried to save her, but when they came close to her, she was flailing and accidentally smacked them with her hooves.
Rainbow Dash, still flying up high, saw the falling Rarity and Wonderbolts. She gasped in shocked and stopped for one second. “Hold on, Rarity! I’m coming!” she cried, as she dived down as fast as she could to save the four falling onto the verge of their ends.
“Oh, I can’t look!” Fluttershy whimpered, covering her eyes with her hooves.
Due to extreme speed of Rainbow’s flight, she finally managed to break the sound barrier. As a result of that, she unleashed full speed and power and created a sonic rainboom, letting a huge explosive wave of rainbow colors and a trail of rainbow from the cyan mare.
The ponies from the arena were surprised to see such stunning incredibility and by such surprise, Applejack, Twilight and Pinkie’s jaws dropped.
“A sonic rainboom!” Fluttershy cheered out loud, “She did it! She did it! YAAAAAY!”
Rarity and the three Wonderbolts were about to reach the ground for their impacting deaths, but Rainbow Dash managed to save and carry them all at once. Rainbow created an arch of rainbow around the whole stadium. Rainbow Dash, Rarity and the Wonderbolts managed to return to the arena safely.
The entire audience cheered and applauded for Rainbow Dash’s incredible performance and heroic deeds.
“A sonic rainboom! YAAAY! YAY!” Fluttershy yelled in joy.
“I did it. I did it!” Rainbow said to Rarity, who was carried by two pegasi.
“You sure did. Oh thank you Rainbow Dash. You saved my life!” cried Rarity.
“Oh yeah. I did that too,” Rainbow spoke in a boastful tone.
“That’s it,” Yeshuah explained after witnessing such events, “Both her efforts not to give up and her determination to save her friends brought out a miracle; a miracle in which Rainbow Dash finally performed the Sonic Rainboom.”
“Ha, BEST DAY EVER!!!” Rainbow Dash shouted in her success.
After that, his vision ended and Yeshuah was sent back to reality. Yeshuah and Rainbow’s heads moved back away, as he finished looking through the daredevil’s memories.
“You are simply amazing!” he cried.
“It’s more like awesome,” Rainbow Dash replied, “With the Sonic Rainboom, I am now 20% percent more awesome! I now got a chance to join the Wonderbolts!”
“Excuse me,” Yeshuah spoke, “What is ‘awesome’?”
The six mares and Spike gasped as if he never heard the word before.
“You don’t know the word ‘awesome’, sugarcube?” Applejack asked.
“No,” he negated, “I never heard such word back at my era,”
The seven gasped again in horror.
“‘Awesome’ is like amazing, fantastic and quite… good,” Rainbow answered.
“Right,” replied Yeshuah, “If there is anything that you know of this era that actually never existed back at mine, let me know… because I don’t know.”
“And, Rarity,” he realized as he turned his head to Rarity, “I never knew you were an alicorn before.”
“What are you talking about?” the white unicorn asked.
“You had wings before,” Yeshuah answered.
“Oh, darling, don’t put that on me,” Rarity replied embarrassingly, “Twilight here just gave me temporary wings.”
“Ah,” said he, “Well, was there ever situation about your determination not to give up? If there is, I may need your memory to look through you.”
Yeshuah approached to her, placed his horn on Rarity’s head, with both white horns touching each other.
“Transcend the confines of time and space!”
His vision appeared to witness the time when Rarity was humiliated for her bad dresses he made for the Gala. He was inside Rarity’s bedroom in the Carousel Boutique in Ponyville.
Yeshuah heard knocks on the door which was followed by Pinkie’s voice, saying, “Rarity? You okay in there? You haven't come out for days.”
“I'm never coming out! I can't show my face in Ponyville ever again!” Rarity cried, “I used to be somepony. I used to be respected. I made dresses. Beautiful, beautiful dresses! But now everypony is laughing at me. I'm nothing but a laughing stock!” She sobbed afterwards.
“‘Laughing stock’?” Yeshuah said, “Could it be that something embarrassing happened to and humiliated her?”
“You're not a laughing stock, Rarity...” Twilight’s voice called out from behind the door.
“She kind of is,” Rainbow Dash said.
“Shhh!” Twilight hushed and continued to call Rarity through the doors, “Come on out and talk to us.”
“Leave me alone!” sobbed Rarity, as she leaped on her bed, “I vant to be alone! I want to wallow in... whatever it is that ponies are supposed to wallow in! Do ponies wallow in pity? Oh, listen to me; I don't even know what I'm supposed to wallow in! I'M SO PATHETIC!”
Yeshuah placed his hoof on his head and said, “Jeebus Crust! What a drama queen~ Just because something happened to her, doesn’t mean she’ll go OA.”
He closed his eyes and said, “Memory, take me to the time when she fought her humiliation.”
His vision shifted to the point and time where and when Rarity showed Hoity Toity, a dress inspector, better dresses for the Gala for a second fashion show after the first one was ruined but she was given another chance, inside the boutique.
However, as his vision changed, everything was dark and black. “What in the world is going on? Why is it dark?” Yeshuah asked himself, until he suddenly noticed a magic light show that blinded light the entire room from its void-like darkness.
He turned his head to Rarity with her horn giving a bright and powerful glow at the stage. Her magic began to emit swirling effects and stars around, adding the stars to a blue dress.
Turning around, it revealed to be Twilight, wearing a blue dress with several stars as style for the dress and light blue slippers with stars on it.
“What is this?” Yeshuah reacted, “Such dressware, I—I never saw such beauty before.”
Another great scene was deployed after Twilight’s. In a sunny day, in a field full of apple trees, a rope caught an apple in a tree and revealing to be Applejack, she swung the rope carrying the apple away. She wears a western-style dress, green boots and a nice cowmare hat.
“How marvelous!” Yeshuah giggled, “Those two are the most brilliant dresses I’ve seen in the whole eternity! I wonder what’s next.”
For the next scene, a dull storm cloud appeared on the skies. There, it was raining candies and sweets. Little lollipops and candies landed on a white layer of a pink dress. Following a bright scene of a field of lollipops and sugar, Pinkie Pie was wearing the pink dress with a blue hat with a candy on it, and pink shoes with blue-and-white ribbons.
“Ooh, fantastic!” he said in awed, however he flinched as he saw a stunning start of another scene.
Two lightning bolts appeared in a loud crashing thundering sound; one with colors red, orange and yellow, and the other with colors green, blue and purple. A shadowy mist appeared in the sky and covered the sun, creating a dull cloudy gray sky. The clouds let out rays of colors of the rain. The rays of colors became an actual rainbow, which became the design for Rainbow Dash’s dress. Rainbow Dash was flying, wearing a rainbow dress, a necklace with grapes on it and golden slippers.
“Splendid works!” Yeshuah cried in awe.
Roots and vines uprooted from the ground, flowers bloomed, its petals all fell off and butterflies flew around, without a blue one landing on Fluttershy’s head. Fluttershy wears a green natural dress with flowers on it, green slippers and has flowers on her pink mane.
“Oh, Fluttershy, what courage to wear a dress that is been accessed in the natural world,” commented Yeshuah, “Whosever makes those powerful dresses shall be heavenly rewarded.”
He turned his head to Rarity wearing golden crown, and a pink dress with yellow layers, and with her horn glowing very brightly, as the curtains open, revealing the other five mares wearing their magnificent Gala dresses.
“Those six dress even better than the way of my gods,” said Yeshuah, “I have feeling that the white unicorn has some sort of extraordinary talent.”
Yeshuah’s vision ended and he returned to the real world.
“I’ve seen your dresses,” remarked Yeshuah, “They’re beautiful! I haven’t seen such dresswar for the last ten thousand years! They’re wonderful! They’re glamorous! They’re… they’re…”
“Fabulous?” Rarity suggested.
“‘Fabulous’? What’s ‘fabulous’? There was no such word during my time. That’s another thing I don’t know of this era.”
“You don’t know ‘fabulous’? Why, you must know the word ‘fabulous’! To a pony like me, she must be known for fabulous, even for an old-school pony, like you. By the way, you’re not fabulous with that old-school dress of yours.”
“This is not a dress; it’s a ceremonial robe for becoming the Son of God. That’s why I’m telling you; what is ‘fabulous’? And, may I see your dresses in person? I mean, as in, you are wearing them. That way you can tell what ‘fabulous’ is.”
“But, Blight… I mean… Yeshuah, no, Blight— no, it’s ‘Yeshuah’, no… Yes! No, ‘Blight’ is right… Wait, that’s not right— is it ‘Yeshuah’ or — URGH!” Twilight groaned in frustration.
“It’s ‘Yeshuah’, Twilight Sparkle. I’m not a frog anymore.”’
“Okay, Yeshuah. Our dresses were damaged in the Gala over three years ago.”
“Don’t worry, Twilight,” Rarity said, “I am a talented pony; the pony everypony should know. I can fix our dresses back to brand new without needing any stitches or patches.”
Later, the mane six, in their old Gala dresses looking brand-new thanks to Rarity, came down stairs and presented themselves in front of Yeshuah, who watched them in amazement and awe on their lovely dresses.
“Now, darling, do you know what fabulous is?” asked Rarity, however, Yeshuah gave no answer, meaning he doesn’t really know yet “fabulous”.
“I think we need to give that stallion some melody,” she whispered to the other five, who nodded. Rarity turned her head to Spike, and said, “Maestro, if you please.”
Twilight used her magic to send forth a large black piano in front of Spike. The dragon went to the piano and began playing its soft chords, as Rarity was about to sing to define the term “fabulous.”
[Rarity]
It’s out with the old and in with the new,
Goodbye clouds of Grey, hello skies of blue
A dip in the pool, a trip to the spa
Endless days in my chaise
The whole world according to moi
“Excuse me,” Rarity requested as she heard Spike played a wrong note, and as he played the right note, she said, “Thank you.” Spike started playing the keys in a different but stylish manner.
Jewels imported from Germaneigh,
Slippers imported from Zebrica,
Fancy food imported from Prance,
Dresses imported from Canida,
[Rarity and Spike]
We're gonna relax and renew,
[Rarity]
You, go, do!
I want fabulous,
That is my simple request,
All things fabulous,
Bigger and better and best,
I need something inspiring to help me get along,
I need a little fabulous is that so wrong?
Fetch me my jimmy choo flip flops,
Where is my pink prada tote?
I need my tiffany mane band,
And then I can go for a float.
[Spike and the five mares]
A Gala like never before
[Rarity]
I want more!
[Spike]
She wants fabulous,
That is her simple request,
All things fabulous,
Bigger and better and best,
She needs something inspiring to help her get along,
She needs a little fabulous is that so wrong?
[Spike and the five mares]
Fabulous pool, fabulous splash,
Fabulous parties even fabulous trash,
Fabulous fashion, fabulous bling,
She's got to have fabulous everything.
[Rarity, Spike and Yeshuah]
Nothing to Discuss
Everything's got to be perfect.
[Rarity]
For me
[Yeshuah]
She wants fabulous,
That is her simple request,
All things fabulous,
Bigger and better and best,
She needs something inspiring to help her get along,
She needs a little fabulous is that so wrong?
[Rarity]
This won't do, that's a bore,
That's insulting, I need more!
I need, I need,
I need, I need,
I need, I need
I Need FABULOUS!
[Other Mane five]
Fabulous mane, fabulous style,
Fabulous eyes and that fabulous smile.
[Rarity]
I like what I see,
I like it a lot
[Other Mane five]
Is this absolutely fabulous?
[Yeshuah and Spike]
Fabulous, Fabulous, Fabulous?
[Rarity]
Absolutely… NOT!
After the song finished, Yeshuah said, “I get it. I know now what ‘fabulous’ is!”
“Really,” Rarity said, “What is it?”
“The word is so fabulous; to what it means is too fabulous to tell.”
The seven laughed aloud at what Yeshuah said.
“What?” Yeshuah asked, “Are those the best dresses you made, Rarity?”
“You want to see more, darling?” asked Rarity, “I can prove to you I’m the best fashion designer in all of Equestria!”
A little later, the mane six arrived, wearing their dresses they wore during the coronation of Twilight as princess. Yeshuah’s jaw dropped in awe as he saw more “fabulous” things.
Fluttershy stepped in front, “Blight—er, I mean, Yeshuah…”
“Yes?”
“I just want to say, during my flight camp when I was filly, ummm… urrgghh!”
“What is it, Fluttershy? It’s okay; you can confess something to the Son of God. If you had a sin, I could forgive you.”
“I can’t say it!”
“Don’t worry. I will look through your memories in your flight camp,” he said, “If ever there’s something happened, then, I will understand you.”
“OH! Yeshuah, you don’t need to…” said Fluttershy fearfully as Yeshuah approached closer to Fluttershy, placed his horn on her forehead and said, “Roogi Maneegi Magi Mamarugi! Transcend the confines of time and space!”
Yeshuah began to look through the memories of Fluttershy when she was a filly during her very embarrassing flight camp.
Fluttershy was ready to fly from above. Behind her were the filly Rainbow Dash and their coach.
Fluttershy looked down, hyperventilating, and saw she was on the very high heights. Her eyes shrunk in fear, and her coach kicked her off the cloud ledge for her to be flying.
However, her wings locked up, rendering Fluttershy unable to use them, and she began to fall down, being watched by other fillies in the flight camp. She landed and impacted on a cloud. Lying down, the pegasi fillies approached to the shy young pegasus and shouted repeated chants of insults to poor Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Fluttershy can hardly fly!”
Yeshuah grew mad of their taunts to the poor filly he witnessed, saying two ancient words, “Cono iaro!” meaning “Bastards!”
Suddenly, the memory shifted to the point and time where all the pegasi of Ponyville were training to improve their wingpower and break the wingspeed record and bring the water up to Cloudsdale.
“The time and space has been shifted to this point and time,” he thought, “How is this important to the pegasus’s past?”
Yeshuah turned his head to Fluttershy who had her turn to test her wingpower which turned out unexpected, as she was so slow in flying and only made the anemometer be read in low readings.
“Tell her!” Twilight whispered to Rainbow Dash.
“No, you tell her!” she whispered back hushingly.
“No, you!”
Rainbow turned to the shy pegasus in a nervous manner. “Great job, Fluttershy! You measured… uh…” she said before looking at the anemometer’s readings, “…0.5.”
Fluttershy seemed satisfied. However, the lavender unicorn and cyan pegasus’s fake smiles broke as Spike said, “0.5? Isn’t that like… like less than one?”
Twilight knocked Spike on the head with her hoof, with Spike yelling, “OW!”
Yeshuah then saw Fluttershy becoming worried, trembling and suddenly running away in her embarrassment. He began running to Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy, wait!” Rainbow Dash yelled, flying to follow her, “So some punks poked a little fun at you and you got stage fright, big deal. You aren't gonna go quit just because of that, are you?”
Fluttershy stopped running and turned her face to Rainbow Dash. Her face was soaked with tears freely flowing from her eyes.
“YES!” she sobbed.
“But, I need you!” Rainbow said to Fluttershy with confidence, however, the crying butterscotch mare protested softly, “I’m sorry, Rainbow Dash, I just don’t have the courage right now.” She tearfully ran away afterwards.
Rainbow Dash became concerned and walked away sadly.
Yeshuah then said, “Fluttershy doesn’t seem to have any courage to fly. Okay, it’s bad enough for the bullies to make her look like a fool; to make fun of her. Where’s her pride? She will not run away and let them get away this!”
He was magically sent to the area of a nearby willow tree, where Yeshuah saw Fluttershy, comforted by little animals and critters, was crying next to it.
She was squeaking and sobbing, with Angel, her bunny, stroking her mane. A squirrel tapped her and showed to her an acorn it got from its mouth.
“Oh, thank you, but I'm afraid a couple of little acorns won't solve my big flying problem,” said Fluttershy calmly and the ducks quacked beside her.
“I tried, but you should've seen those ponies laughing at me…” Fluttershy cried.
Two birds grabbed Fluttershy’s mane, pulling the crying pegasus up.
“I know it's important to have confidence in myself…” whimpered the butterscotch mare, with a badger squeaking in protest.
“Yes, yes, I do remember. The river was swelling…” she said while the badger squeaked and acted dramatically to remind of her.
“…and you were scared…” said Fluttershy softly, “…yes, I did tell you to never give up… and to believe in yourself.” She suddenly realized on what must be done.
“You're right, my friends. I shouldn't give up,” said Fluttershy in determination, “I will get my confidence up and show everypony that I am a good flyer!”
She flew up above the tree and shouted aloud, “A great flyer!”
The animals cheered for the pegasus. Yeshuah clapped his hooves of her determination not to surrender to the horrible past.
He closed his eyes and cried aloud, “Memory, bring me to the time when Fluttershy fought her fears!”
His vision was shifted to the point and time where and when all the present pegasi including Rainbow Dash were forming a huge tornado to funnel the water up to Cloudsdale. Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy and Spike were watching the pegasi flying fast to create the tornado, as they hold on to the large anemometer which is read to almost 800 wingpower.
“What’s going on?!” asked Yeshuah to himself as powerful winds were producing from the resulting tornado.
“C'mon! Just a little harder! I can see the water trying to funnel through!” shouted Rainbow Dash to the flying pegasi as the water began to ascend through the tornado.
“795! We are so close!” yelled Twilight as she read the meter readings, and to Fluttershy, “Fluttershy, they need you up there!”
“I won’t make a difference!” cried Fluttershy.
“You can make a difference!” protested Twilight.
“My measly 2.3 wingpower is still too little!” replied Fluttershy.
“It's sticking at 795! I don't know if they've got any more in 'em!” yelled Spike.
“Do it for Equestria! Do it for Rainbow Dash! Do it for yourself!” convinced Twilight as she handed to Fluttershy a pair of goggles.
The shy Pegasus finally accepted and wore her goggles. The other animal critters watched as Fluttershy was about to begin her flight for the tornado-making. She was able to fly with the other pegasi.
As Twilight and Spike looked at the readings of the anemometer, she said, “It's moving! She's doing it! 798! She surpassed her best wing power number!”
“She’s doing it! She’s breaking through her own barrier!” cried the witnessing Champion of Light, when he saw Fluttershy suddenly flying faster than any other pegasi in the tornado.
The readings finally reached the wingpower of 800. All the water from the lake finally funneled through the empowered tornado and a long huge stream of water was being directed at a chimney in Cloudsdale.
“So, that’s what they’re doing… to bring forth water to a cloud city to supply water all across Equestria.”
“She did it! She did it! They all did it!”
Spitfire could not believe her eyes. Spike went to the horn and blew it, creating a signal for all pegasi to cease flying and land to the ground.
As all the pegasi got away and ceased flying, the tornado dissipated and left the lake completely barren and empty. They all cheered for their accomplishment to do such task.
“I see,” Yeshuah said, “Fluttershy’s determination not to give up and to carry on has made her pass through her limits and destroy her weaknesses forever.”
“Let’s hear it for Fluttershy!” yelled Rainbow Dash.
“Fluttershy! Fluttershy! Fluttershy can really fly!” cheered the pegasi, carrying the victorious Fluttershy as she, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Spike, Spitfire, and the pegasi left, crying and cheering to their triumph.
Yeshuah’s vision of Fluttershy’s past ended.
“You’re very impressive!” said Yeshuah, “You managed to break through your own limits. And I have never seen such pony in 10,000 years.”
“My, thank you, but you don’t to brag about it,” replied Fluttershy.
“Oh, how very kind of thee and most humble,” responded Yeshuah to Fluttershy, then, to Princess Twilight, “And you, Twilight Sparkle, I want to know why and how you became an alicorn personally.”
“You may,” answered Twilight Sparkle.
“Thank you,” Yeshuah said and he placed his horn at Twilight’s forehead, with both horns are crossed, saying, “Now, transcend… the confines of time and space.”
Yeshuah again was about to see a vision of a pony’s past, and this time, it’s Twilight’s.
However, his vision was in the same library with only Spike inside.
Twilight who seemed to be in a rush and trouble, entered and said, “This is bad, this is very, very bad.”
“What’s going on?” asked Spike, “Why is this happening?!”
“Last night when you were taking one of your seven-hour bubble baths, I got a special delivery from the princess,” replied the lavender unicorn.
She took a look at the Elements of Harmony that were contained in a glass container, whose colors on each Element except the Element of Magic were swapped. The Element of Honesty has a purple color, the Element of Kindness has a blue color on it, the Element of Generosity was red, the Element of Laughter was orange and the Element of Loyalty was pink.
“I cast the spell so I could find out what it was, but nothing seemed to happen,” explained Twilight, “But now I know something did happen. The spell has changed the Elements of Harmony! That must be why their cutie marks are all wrong!”
“So just cast a counter-spell to switch them back,” Spike suggested.
“There is no counter-spell!” cried Twilight.
“Why don't you just use that memory spell you used to fix everypony when Discord was here?” asked Spike
“It's not their memories, Spike,” contradicted Twilight, “it's their true selves that have been altered!”
“Zecora's cure for the Cutie Pox?” said the dragon.
“That won't work either...” negated the unicorn.
“Well,” sighed Spike, “maybe it won't be so bad. Maybe our friends will grow to like their new lives.”
“No, Spike,” said Twilight in hopelessness, “They're not who they are meant to be anymore. Their destinies are now changed, and it's all my fault.”
She felt helpless as she ascended upstairs and to her bedroom.
[Twilight Sparkle]
I have to find a way
To make this all okay
I can't believe this small mistake
Could've caused so much heartache
Oh why, oh why?
Losing promise
I don't know what to do
Seeking answers
I fear I won't get through to you
Oh why, oh why?
Spike saw Twilight softly weeping on her bed, blaming herself for what she had done.
“Oh, Spike, what have I done?" she said in tears.
“Aw, come on, Twilight, you'll figure out a way to fix this. These are your friends,” convinced Spike.
“You're right, Spike,” she said as she approached to a photo hung on the wall, a photo of her and her five friends smiling, “And they mean more to me than anything. My friends...”
As Twilight said such statement, she began to glow, her eyes were sparkling and as the glowing ceased, she had an epiphany.
“Twilight? Are you alright?” asked Spike.
“I've got it! I know what to do!” said Twilight.
“You do?”
“I may not be able to remind them of who they are,” Twilight said as she wore the Element of Magic and packed the Elements of Harmony for her solution, “but I can show them what they mean to each other. They'll find the part of themselves that's been lost so they can help the friend they care about so much! Come on, Spike!”
The unicorn and the dragon then left the library.
Yeshuah then observed and witness every scene of how Twilight was able to restore the true selves and cutie marks of her five friends. Starting from Fluttershy, to Rainbow Dash, to Rarity, to Applejack and finally, to Pinkie Pie, each pony was doing a usual hobby she does before, reminds of her destiny, and wears her Element, shifting it to the right color and her true self and cutie mark was restored. The destinies of the five mares were back to normal; Fluttershy’s in taking care of animals, Rainbow Dash’s in handling the weather, Rarity’s in making dresses, Applejack’s in bucking trees and doing business for her family, and Pinkie Pie’s in amusing everypony to their happiness and laughter.
[Twilight Sparkle]
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
A friend will be there to help them see
[Twilight and Fluttershy]
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
To see the light that shines from a true, true friend
[Twilight Sparkle]
Rarity needs your help
She's trying hard doing what she can
[Fluttershy]
Would you try, just give it a chance
You might find that you'll start to understand
[Twilight and Fluttershy]
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
A friend will be there to help you see
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
To see the light that shines from a true, true friend
[Rainbow Dash]
Applejack needs your help
She's trying hard doing what she can
Would you try, just give it a chance
You might find that you'll start to understand
[Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash]
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
A friend will be there to help them see
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
To see the light that shines from a true, true friend
[Rarity]
Pinkie Pie is in trouble
We need to get there by her side
We can try to do what we can now
For together we can be her guide
[Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity]
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
A friend will be there to help them see
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
To see the light that shines from a true, true friend
[Applejack]
The townspeople need you, they've been sad for a while
They march around, faces frown and never seem to smile
And if you feel like helping, we'd appreciate a loooooot
If you get up there and spread some cheer from here to Canterlooooooot!
“Come on, ponies!” shouted Pinkie Pie, “I wanna see you smile!”
“PINKIE!” the townspeople all cheered, as everypony in Ponyville sang.
[All and chorus]
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
A friend will be there to help them see
A true, true friend helps a friend in need
To see the light (to see the light)
That shines (that shines)
From a true, true friend!
The six hugged together, when Twilight realized of something, “Wait a second, that's it! I understand now, I know how to fix the spell!” The mane six and Spike ran back to the library for Twilight to finish the unfinished.
In the library, Twilight wrote at the final page of Star Swirl the Bearded’s book, “From all of us together, together we are friends, with the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end!”
As she finished it, the Elements of Harmony worn by the rest of the main six ponies began to glow like crazy. Each Element fired a beam with its respective color at Twilight. A flash of light emerged from the energy of the Elements of Harmony.
Yeshuah was also affected by the great flash of light as his vision was changed to a mysterious starry place with only Twilight in there.
“Where in the Father’s name is this?” he wondered.
“Hello? Where am I? What is this place?” Twilight’s voice of curiousness began to echo all around.
“Congratulations, Twilight. I knew you could do it,” Princess Celestia’s voiced called to her as she approached to the lavender unicorn.
“Princess... I don't understand. What did I do?” questioned Twilight.
“You did something today that's never been done before, something even a great unicorn like Star Swirl the Bearded was not able to do, because he did not understand friendship like you do,” said Princess Celestia, “The lessons you've learned here in Ponyville have taught you well. You have proven that you're ready, Twilight.”
“Ready? Ready for what?” she asked. Princess Celestia led her to the past moments of Twilight’s adventures with her friends from the very start, the memories Twilight had shared throughout her life.
[Princess Celestia]
You've come such a long, long way
And I've watched you from that very first day
To see how you might grow
To see what you might do
To see what you've been through
And all the ways you've made me proud of you
It's time now for a new change to come
You've grown up and your new life has begun
To go where you will go
To see what you will see
To find what you will be
For it's time for you to fulfill your destiny
Blinding light was covering Twilight as she began her transformation and her fulfilling of her one true destiny. A flash of light appeared again and shifted Yeshuah’s vision back to Ponyville, where Applejack, Pinkie, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy and Spike were outside and the figure of Twilight’s cutie mark appeared in the night sky and slowly descended to the ground, turning into a bright light covering Twilight Sparkle.
“Twilight...? Is that you?” asked Applejack.
Twilight slowly stood up, and a pair of wings on her was revealed.
The rest of main ponies and ponies gasped in amazement.
Even Yeshuah was amazed to see and witness such event like he never saw.
“Wha... I, I've never seen anything like it!” said Applejack, as she approached to the new alicorn.
“Ha! Twilight's got wings! Awesome! A new flying buddy!” laughed Rainbow as she hugged Twilight.
“Why, you've become an alicorn. I didn't even know that was possible,” Rarity responded in awe.
“Alicorn party!” screamed Pinkie as she swung from nowhere wearing a party hat and cardboard to act as wings and blowing a party kazoo.
“Wow... you look just like a princess!” said Fluttershy, as Princess Celestia landed to the ground, saying, “That's because she is a princess.”
“Huh?” everypony said in confusion.
“Hold on a second!” said Pinkie Pie, grabbed a glass of water, drank it and spat it out afterwards.
“A... a princess?” groaned Twilight.
“Since you've come to Ponyville, you've displayed the charity, compassion, devotion, integrity, optimism, and of course, the leadership of a true princess.”
“But... does this mean I won't be your student anymore?” Twilight questioned in worry.
“Not in the same way as before. I'll still be here to help and guide you, but we're all your students now, too. You are an inspiration to us all, Twilight,” said the princess of the sun as they all bow to the new alicorn.
Yeshuah also bowed.
“But... what do I do now? Is there a book about being a princess I should read?”
Princess Celestia giggled, “There will be time for all of that later.”
The new alicorn Twilight Sparkle gave a fake smile and still felt nervous even after all what happened.
Afterwards, his long vision of how Twilight became an alicorn and a princess ended and Yeshuah returned to reality. Yeshuah and Twilight backed themselves after they stopped touching horns.
“I see now that you also have the confidence in yourself,” said Yeshuah, “You have believed in your power and relied on your friends, that’s why you were given this ‘greater power’. As you see, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy suffered terrible issues but their courage not to give up did not stop them. It only pressed them further to success. So have you. So don’t stop believing in your own power. Do not give up.”
“Believe in your own power,” Twilight thought, “The courage not to give up.”
Turning to the Champion of Light, the Princess of Magic said, “Yeshuah, your words and looking at our pasts have touched me very well.”
“I want to be like you, Princess Celestia. I believe in my own power,” Twilight was ready to prophesize again to location of Celestia with the same crystal ball, “Crystal ball. Tell me where Princess Celestia is.”
Twilight’s horn suddenly sparkled and shined temporarily.
“My horn’s shining!” Twilight responded to it.
“It means you have been given stronger magic,” replied Yeshuah, “You can now use it.”
She nodded; her horn pointed at the crystal ball and she said an incantation, “Magi Magi Gigiru.”
Twilight's use of the Language of Heaven made her alicorn magic respond to the holy language and obey its user. A magenta aura appeared on Twilight’s horn and around the crystal. However, the magenta auras became white and bright.
Finally, the face of Princess Celestia appeared in the crystal ball. Twilight can finally see her through it.
“I see it! It’s Princess Celestia!” cried Twilight.
“I can see it too!” Fluttershy said. The five mares, Spike and Yeshuah stepped closer to see the image of their princess in the ball.
But, as the image zoomed out, their smiles turned into frowns as they saw Princess Celestia’s eyes shut and her body wrapped in rough green briars. Behind the briars was a red sky induced in flames as if it was really burning.
“A sky… is burning?” Rainbow Dash wondered about such mystery.
“What is that?” asked the lavender alicorn, “When I look at it, I have this dark feeling.” She looked away from the crystal ball, with a painful-looking face.
Yeshuah realized of what Ciu’koku Daijujin said to him before when Yeshuah was at the mountains, “Be wary of the burning skies.”
Yeshuah said in alertness to the six ponies and the dragon, "The Burning Legion has..."