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// Epilogue: The Best Laid Plans 
// Story: Blood On the Moon 
// by sentinel28a 
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   Far away, in the Smoky Mountains, a unicorn stared into a scrying glass.  There were places in Equestria where even Celestia’s hoof did not stretch, but this unicorn knew that there were places even in Canterlot itself where Celestia did not know.  
The unicorn sighed.  It had been a simple thing to manipulate Trixie into attacking Twilight Sparkle.  It had been she, the unicorn, who taught Trixie her new offensive spells.  It had not taken long: Trixie already knew quite a few, acquired from living alone on the road, but the truly devastating ones were acquired in the mountains.  This unicorn had learned them elsewhere, after leaving Canterlot in a rage.  Some she learned from forbidden books in forgotten libraries.  Some she learned from no less than Chrysalis of the Changelings.  In return, she had shared what she knew of Canterlot’s defenses.  That plan failed too, but then she had never really expected the overconfident Chrysalis to succeed.
No, the unicorn thought, Twilight was a means to an end.  Had Trixie done her job and killed Twilight, the Crown of the Elements of Harmony might have been wide open to take.  At the very least, it would have stabbed Celestia to the core.  Celestia had hurt this pony, and the pony wanted to return it tenfold.   It was not enough to hurt the Princess of the Sun; she wanted Equestria.  Had Chrysalis succeeded, the unicorn would’ve led a counterattack to retake Canterlot, and she would have been the heroine of the hour.  Unfortunately, that had not worked out either, but these things happened.
“Oh well.”  The unicorn tossed her mane, turned her back on the scrying glass, and instead regarded herself in the mirror.  She checked a clock.  “Almost time to go back to the other world.”  It would be awhile before she could get back, but that gave her plenty of time to plan.  “When that day comes,” she mused to herself, “Equestria’s mine, Celestia.  I’ll have technology your mind can’t even fathom.  Your magic’s going to be useless.  And I’ll step on Twilight and Trixie just as hard, just to hurt you.  I’ll force you into a war you can’t win.”  She grinned at her reflection, liking the evil she saw there.  And why not? Good had never done anything for her.  “You’re going to regret the day you spurned Sunset Shimmer.”