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// Love Prevails, Always and Forever 
// Story: The Trotzamore Stratagem 
// by The Rarispy 
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With a green and blue poof, Sweetie Belle, Spike, and Lilac Candescence all appeared out of thin air. Just as they had intended, they were now within the gray and desolate Field of Trotzamore.
 
“We did it,” said Lilac. “This is it. This is Trotzamore.”
 
“This is Trotzamore?” Spike questioned. “It doesn’t seem so magical to me…”
 
Indeed, at this rate the place looked like it had been stripped bare of whatever magic it used to have. The once pink and vibrant flowers were now gray and dead, and they crunched up under Lilac’s steps.
 
Discord still lay on the ground as a ruby-fied sculpture. The formerly white sky was now almost black, as the gray storm clouds continued to brew a storm above the Power Stone.
 
Rachelle Ruby still stood atop the Power Stone as it drew its beam of energy beyond the field. She seemed to be drawing some energy of her own from the stone now, her wings spreading high.
 
“We must hurry,” said Lilac. “She is getting stronger from Trotzamore’s limitless energy. She almost has full power!”
 
“DO IT NOW,” Rachelle commanded to the stone. “KEEP GOING UNTIL ALL THE EMOTIONS THAT DRIVE LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP HAVE BEEN WIPED CLEAN FROM EQUESTRIA.”
 
“Where is everypony?” Sweetie Belle wondered. “Shouldn’t Twilight and Rarity and everypony else be somewhere around here?”
 
“Yeah…” Spike observed. “Where are they?”
 
Just then, Sweetie Belle’s ear perked up as she heard a familiar voice.
 
“Oh, just look at my hair! It looks like somepony took a rats’ nest, dyed it purple, and stuck it over my head!”
 
“That’s Rarity!”
 
Spike put a claw to his ear and listened intently.
 
“Heh-heh! With fronds like you guys, who needs anemones?”
 
“And that’s Twilight!”
 



Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash were all at the cliffside nearby. The stream that had been flowing when they first arrived was now drained dry, as the rainbow-scaled fish all flopped about helplessly.
 
As Sweetie Belle and Spike approached their friends, Lilac stopped them with their hoof.
 
“Wait. Do not approach them so carelessly. Look. They have been affected, too.”
 
Sweetie Belle gasped. As she and Spike went to take a closer look, Lilac turned her attention to Applejack and Rainbow Dash talking to each other.
 
“Heh!” Rainbow retorted. “As if loyalty ever gets you anywhere! I mean, I used to be loyal to my friends, and look where it got me! I’m just going to stay here my whole life and have fun all by myself, no matter what anypony says!”
 
“Ya know why ah lie all the time?” said Applejack. “It’s ‘cause my boyfriend Caramel says it’s okay to lie all the time. That’s why she decided to lie to me about being a stallion!”
 
“You should totally dump that Caramel guy. He sounds like a jerk.”
 
“Yeah, she is.” Applejack did a double-take. “Ah mean… no he ain’t? Um… well, whatever! Loyalty is the only reason that yer all alone now, ya know!”
 
“Yup! I… HEY!” Rainbow stood up and faced Applejack angrily. “Stop saying that! It’s not nice!”
 
Applejack stood up too. “Yeah? Well, you stop saying that Caramel is a jerk, cause he… or she… is! Or, ain’t! Besides, you’ve totally got friends who care for you…”
 
“And love you…”
 
“And… always have your back,” they both said.
 
Suddenly, they looked extremely remorseful. They stood there staring at each other for several seconds until finally… they hugged. And when they did, the sheer power of that hug magically restored them to full-color.
 
“Whoa… what happened?” asked Applejack, finally coming to her senses.
 
“I don’t know…” Rainbow Dash replied. “My head is spinning. I think I’m gonna be sick…”
 



“How fascinating…” Lilac observed.
 
“What is it?” said Sweetie Belle.
 
“Those two ponies… it seems they were able to reverse the effects of her magic… just by talking each-other out of it.”
 
“Whoa!” said Spike.
 
“Hey! Do you think the rest of our friends could do that too?”
 
“Perhaps.”
 
“Come on!” Sweetie Belle called.
 



Sweetie Belle immediately ran over to Rarity, who was glaring intently at Fluttershy.
 
“Rarity!” Sweetie Belle hollered, shaking her arm. “RARITY! It’s me!”
 
“Oh, Sweetie Belle! Thank goodness!” She grabbed Sweetie Belle and hugged her tenderly. “Come on, Sweetums! Let’s get as far away as we can from this disgusting fillyfooler!”
 
“Hmmph,” responded Fluttershy.
 
“But Rarity, Fluttershy is your special somepony! You’ve been dating her for over three months! Don’t you remember?”
 
“Special somepony?” Rarity repeated. Her eyes started to revert to their original blue, but then she just scoffed it off. “Yeah, right! The only pony that’s any special to me is, well… ME!”
 
“Don’t listen to her!” Fluttershy snapped. “Rarity’s just a big meanie, who doesn’t listen to ANYTHING I have to say!”
 
“Well, why should I care about what you want?”
 
“Because, it’s what YOU should want, too! BUT YOU DON’T!”
 
“Okay, okay,” said Sweetie Belle. “Maybe we should just try to be mature and talk about this like--”
 
Suddenly, Fluttershy started Rarity’s shoulders while screaming in her face.
 
“I WANT A FOAL, RARITY! AND AFTER ALL THAT TALK YOU USED TO SPOUT ABOUT WANTING A FOAL SOMEDAY, SUDDENLY YOU DON’T!”
 
“WHOA! Um…” Sweetie Belle started looking around awkwardly. “Ummm…”
 
“I THOUGHT WE MADE A COMMITMENT, RARITY!”
 
“Now just hold on a minute!” Rarity pushed Fluttershy’s arms away. “Who ever said I don’t still want a foal? …Not that I would ever want to share my kid with the likes of you!”
 
“Why not?” Sweetie Belle asked, sternly.
 
All of a sudden, Rarity looked uncertain.
 
“Well, because… because… I don’t know!” She shook her head and now looked utterly alarmed. “Oh, Fluttershy, my angel! Why didn’t you just tell me you wanted a foal too?”
 
“I-- I tried to,” Fluttershy answered, now sounding more sincere. “But… I was really scared. Scared that you wouldn’t want one now that you were in a relationship with me.”
 
“OH, FLUTTERSHY!”
 
The two met in a passionate kiss. Not only did it bring them back to full-color, but this kiss seemed to have the added effect of actually restoring Trotzamore’s sky. It instantly went from black to a more pleasurable gray.
 
Even the storm clouds above the Power Stone let down and reverted back into yellow clouds… not that Rachelle Ruby seemed to notice.
 
“Hey, Fluttershy?”
 
“Yes?”
 
“Let’s make a promise, that the next time we have a little tiff like that… let’s tell each other right away what’s the matter.”
 
“Deal!”
 



“This is going better than I expected,” Lilac remarked. “…Now only two remain.”
 
“Twilight! Twilight!”
 
Spike ran over to Twilight Sparkle, who faced Pinkie Pie as if they were having a staring contest … They might as well have been.
 
“Ah! Spike! There you are!” said Twilight, not even looking away from Pinkie. “Take a letter, please.”
 
“Huh?”
 
“Tell Princess Celestia to go buck herself! … And send Pinkie Pie to the MOON while she’s at it!”
 
“Twilight, I don’t think I can--”
 
“HAH!” Pinkie interjected. “Don’t make me laugh, Twilight. You wouldn’t like me when I laugh. Besides, I hate you, anyway!”
 
“Good!” said Twilight. “I’m so glad that you hate me! Really, really… really glad, that you… hate me? Wait, no!” She started shaking her head furiously. “I’m not glad about that at all! Pinkie Pie, WHY do you hate me?”
 
Pinkie Pie didn’t answer for a few seconds. Spike was about to say something, but then Pinkie suddenly body-slammed Twilight to the ground and stood over her.
 
“Damn it, Twilight! I hate you because I LOVE YOU!”
 
“Wh-- what?”
 
“Yeah, you heard me right!” Pinkie was fighting tears in her eyes now. “You've always been my best friend in the whole wide world, Twilight! This whole time, I was just following the prophecies, hoping and waiting! SINCE THE DAY I MET YOU! And yet… and yet… you never gave me anything back! A sign, a message! ANYTHING! You could’ve at least said, ‘Pinkie, let’s just be friends’ and that that would’ve been all tip-top pickle-barrel kumquat sauce!”
 
“Pinkie… you don’t understand.” As her own eyes started getting damp, she turned to Spike. “Spike… fetch my book. …You know the one.”
 
Spike did what she asked and went over to Twilight’s saddlebag, which had been placed with the others near the garden path. He fetched a particular book and brought it to her. Twilight handed it to Pinkie.
 
“Open it.”
 
Pinkie did. She almost gasped when she saw the inside cover, which revealed the name of the book.
 

HOW TO BEHAVE AROUND YOUR CRUSH
A Lovestruck Mare’s Guide
By J.D. Saltlicker

 
She turned back to her crush with glistening eyes.
 
“Twilight…”
 
“It all started such a long time ago. It was… not too long after the whole Pinkie Sense incident. I… I noticed something. I noticed that I felt more strongly for you… than any of my other friends. I had no idea why.
 
Finally… I consulted some novels. And that’s when I finally came to the conclusion. But I still didn’t know what to do… I wasn’t sure how to act, how to behave. Whether I should tell you or not. Even my mind, after a point… every time I tried to think very intimately about it, it seemed like my mind just-- forcibly blocked me from doing so for some reason. And so… that book was my only answer.”
 
“But…” Pinkie closed the book and gazed at its barren cover. “Why doesn’t it have a title on the front?”
 
Twilight chuckled a bit, and then broke into a soft laugh.
 
“Well, because, Pinkie. Like I said, I didn’t want you or anypony else to know.”
 
“So, basically, you’re paranoid?”
 
“Yup!”
 
Pinkie giggled. “That’s what I love about you, Twilight. You’re just so adorkable!”
 
“And you’re sweet as candy,” Twilight said back.
 
“I love you, Twilight Sparkle.”
 
“I love you, Pinkie Pie.”
 
And finally… they too kissed.
 
Spike, Rarity, Fluttershy, Sweetie Belle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Lilac all cheered at the sight of the kiss. The final knot had just been tied, and it felt so good.
 
So good, in fact, that something magical happened. Whereas Fluttershy and Rarity’s kiss turned the sky from black to gray, Twilight and Pinkie’s kiss completely brightened it up, bringing it back to a full white.
 
The clouds dissipated completely from above the Power Stone, and most especially, the flowers all immediately burst back into their proud pink color. The glistening and shining ripples resumed once more.
 
The Field of Trotzamore had been restored to its full glory.
 
“That’s… strange,” Lilac noted.
 
As they finished their kiss, the other ponies gathered around Twilight and Pinkie to start congratulating them.
 
“Awwww!” said Rarity. “I knew you two would end up tying the knot eventually! I just knew it!”
 
“You did?” said Twilight.
 
“Well, of course! I don’t know about everypony else, but it seemed obvious to me that you two were madly in love with each other!”
 
“I… kind of saw it too,” Fluttershy said meekly.
 
“Hurray for Twilight and Pinkie!” Spike and Sweetie Belle cheered.
 
“Ah’m mighty proud o’ you two!” Applejack proclaimed. “Looks like just about everypony here has finally found their special somepony.”
 
AHEM!”
 
“Oh… sorry, RD.”
 
“It’s alright… Way to go, guys. Seriously.” Rainbow finished her piece by saluting them. Pinkie excitedly waved back, to which Rainbow just groaned. Everypony else laughed.
 
“Thank you all, but…” Twilight went from looking excited, to now deeply concerned. “I think we still have a problem. Lilac, what’s the situation outside of Trotzamore?”
 
Lilac shook her head grimly.
 
“Not very good. Outside of Trotzamore, all across Equestria, they are all the same. No love, no affection, no relations. Just hate and chaos reigning.”
 
“Yeah!” Sweetie chimed in. “Everypony in Ponyville was all gray and strange just like you guys!”
 
“Then… hows come you two weren’t affected by it?” asked Applejack.
 
“Well, I… I don’t know,” said Spike, shrugging.
 
“The two of them had a fight before the event happened,” Lilac stated. “Since the red mare appears to be intent on crushing all forms of romance across Equestria, then perhaps the wave of energy saw that they were already loveless, and decided not to bother.”
 
“Well, shee-oot! Ah guess we’re mighty lucky that you two had that fallin’-out, then!”
 
“Why were you fighting?” asked Rarity.
 
“Well…” Spike stated, “We… kind of said, some… nasty things to each other…”
 
“I’m sorry, sis, it’s all my fault. I overheard you at the station, when you were telling everypony about how our love was cute, but it would never last…”
 
“OH!” Rarity’s cheeks turned a deep red. “Uh, heh-heh…”
 
“Gee, talk about bad timing vs. good timing, huh Twilight?” asked Pinkie Pie. But when she looked next to her, Twilight wasn’t there. “Hmm? Twilight? Twilight!”
 
Twilight was now sitting at the cliff’s edge, watching as Rachelle Ruby continued to draw power from the Power Stone, releasing its energy through the skies.
 
The others came up to join her.
 
Twilight kept staring, saying nothing. Until finally…
 
“I think I have an idea.” she said, turning around. “Rarity, do you still remember that cockatrice reversal spell I showed you a while back?”
 
“Of course, but… why?”
 
“I know what we need to do, but… I don’t think you’re going to like it.”
 



“Darling, you have got to be kidding me.”
 
“He might be the only one who knows how to fix all of this.”
 
“Need I remind you that before Rachelle butt in, he was about to do this exact same thing… STARTING WITH US?” Rainbow Dash pointed out.
 
Rarity and Twilight said nothing, still unsure about the whole matter. Finally, it was Fluttershy broke the silence.
 
“I think we should give him a chance.”
 
“Huh?” they all responded.
 
“You sure ‘bout that, partner?”
 
“…Yes. I believe everyone has some good in them, somewhere. Even someone as cruel and mean as him.”
 
“Well… alright, my pumpkin,” said Rarity. “If you say so. Are you ready, Twilight?”
 
Twilight nodded. “Ready!”
 
Both of them closed their eyes and focused their energies on the statue. Rarity started to work up a sweat, and Twilight was biting her lip really hard.
 
But sure enough, the statue eventually stood upright, and began to crack piece by piece. With a shining white light, all of the ruby was broken off. Once the pieces broke away, Discord wobbled his body around, and made a massive yawn. As he scratched his back, he noticed that all of the ponies were glaring at him.
 
He crossed his arms defiantly and turned away from them.
 
“Just give me one good reason why I should help you ladies.”
 
“Because Rachelle Ruby broke your end of the bargain,” Twilight stated. “Surely, you’re going to want revenge on her now, right?”
 
“Hmmmm.”
 
“Plus, you won’t be able to do much of anything while she’s still in control of that thing,” Spike pointed out.
 
“You make a very persuasive argument. Alright, fine.” He poofed up a small “FRIENDSHIP” sports flag and waved it around, still deadpan. “Go Team Friendship, woo-hoo. Now what do you want me to do?”
 
“Well, first of all, there’s still one thing I don’t understand,” said Twilight.
 
“Oh, really? What’s that?”
 
“Rachelle said that she gave you a special ability that makes you more powerful through… love? That still doesn’t explain how you broke free from your statue form.”
 
“Ahhh, give the girl a prize!” said Discord, booping Twilight on the nose. “She really is as smart as they come! Yes, there’s much more to it than just simply the ‘power of love’. What Rachelle didn’t tell you was the most essential ingredient to our plan… KISSES.”
 
“K-kisses?” Sweetie Belle repeated.
 
“Yup! Believe it or not, my little ponies, a kiss can be a very powerful thing. So powerful in fact, that our entire scheme to seize control of Trotzamore rested on it! For you see, when you used the Elements of Harmony on me and sealed me away in a statue last time… what you didn’t know is that just, as it’s always been, my statue form was protected by THREE LOCKS. Get it so far?”
 
“Yeah…” said Applejack.
 
“This time, however, the locks weren’t activated by disharmony and quarreling like they usually are. Ahh, beautiful chaos.”
 
…Oops, thought Sweetie Belle. When Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and I were fighting during the field trip to the sculpture garden… did WE cause him to break free?
 
“No. This time, Rachelle Ruby’s powers changed up the whole game. Now it was determined by a kiss. But not just any kiss, a powerful kiss, containing such great love and energy from both ends… oh, and it also had to be at least one unicorn involved in the kiss to work.”
 
“No way!”
 
“Yes way, little filly! I was able to break free… because of YOU PONIES.”
 



Spike and Sweetie Belle, when you kissed each other on the top of that hill, after finally declaring your mutual crushes…
 
“Oh, just kiss me now, Spike!”
 
And then their lips both met. It was a simple yet passionate kiss. Tears ran down both of their cheeks, all of the angst and longing… was finally gone.
 
Eventually, both of them somehow began levitating a millimeter off of the ground, and Sweetie Belle’s horn started to charge with a very distinct aura of dark blue magic surrounding it.
 
All at once, a sudden burst of magic energy expelled from Sweetie’s horn, shooting up into the sky. It flew up into the sky above the clouds, and once it finally looked like it was about to touch the moon, it exploded into bright fireworks, that lit up the entire sky around the park.
 
That broke the first lock.
 
In the Canterlot Sculpture Garden, Discord’s statue momentarily flashed blue and cracked slightly, startling the nearby janitor.
 
“Heh heh heh…”
 



Rarity and Fluttershy, when your lips met at the peak of that concert, when long-standing feelings had finally surfaced…
 
Rarity and Fluttershy’s kiss felt magical to both of them immediately. As they both touched lip, tears instantly began streaming down both of their faces.
 
To the awe of everyone in the crowd, Rarity’s horn became to secrete a magical light blue aura that engulfed both of the lovers and started to carry them above the ground.
 
Over their heads, the aura continued to build up, creating a larger and larger mass… until finally, it exploded into a mystifying array of glowing light blue butterfly shapes, which flew out into all directions. They were accompanied by several strings of pink and yellow magic.
 
“Ooooh! Aaaah!”
 
Their necks tilted as they both moved in to touch tongue. This caused the butterflies to all gather above the park and blow out into an impressive display of fireworks, lighting up the night sky above the park.
 
That broke the second lock.
 
In the Sculpture Garden, Discord’s statue momentarily flashed green, and vibrated for a few seconds as it cracked some more. The janitor’s blue broom had mysteriously been left there on the ground.
 
“Almost there, hee-hee-hee…”
 



And what broke the third lock? Well… what do you think?
 
“My power is useless now… I don’t have the strength to repel them…”
 
“My love will give you strength.”
 
“Ah-ha-ha! What a lovely, but absolutely ridiculous sentiment!”
 
Shining Armor and Cadence touched horns, and the magic that happened afterwards did its job. As they both elevated off of the ground, their eyes glowed white, and the resulting explosion created a thick magical wave of energy.
 
“NOOOOOOOOOO!” screamed Queen Chrysalis, as she and all her Changelings were forced out of Equestria, blasting off into the area that would eventually become known as the Forbidden Cliffs of Lyshacria.
 
As the wave swept over the Sculpture Garden, Discord’s statue glowed again, this time a bright pink. And then it began to rumble. Cracks formed all over the statue, and the stone encasing stripped away gradually, until finally, Discord was able to break free from his stone prison at last.
 
“A-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA, HA-HA-HA-HA-HAWWWWW!” He picked up the blue broom and admired it. “Ahh, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. I love weddings!”
 
He started rocking out on the broom as if it were a guitar. It even made the noises.
 



“But I don’t understand!” said Twilight. “It was just two ponies kissing! How could two ponies kissing cause all of this to happen?”
 
“Believe it, Twilight Sparkle! A kiss is the most powerful display of affection, and Trotzamore feeds on the very power of those kisses!” Discord shouted. “Don’t you get it? You and Pinkie Pie have joined the mushy-mushy happy pony couple club at just the right time, because this is how you’re going to ‘save the day’!”
 
“Huh?” they all responded.
 
“Oh, for crying out loud,” he said, facepalming. “Pinkie Pie, I’ve seen how strong your love for Twilight Sparkle is. Meanwhile, you Twilight Sparkle are one of the most powerful unicorns in all of Equestria… as much as I hate to admit it. Your kiss alone would be like an atom bomb! Put all of those kisses together and they would essentially act like a giant reset button to Trotzamore!”
 
“Really?” said Twilight.
 
“Why did you think I was trying so hard to break you two apart? Spike and the little marshmallow were all part of the plan, they couldn’t do any harm! The same goes for Rarity and Fluttershy! But… just one kiss from YOU TWO, would’ve completely ruined everything we worked for!”
 
“Wait, I was a part of a… plan?” said Sweetie Belle, looking confused.
 
“I’ll explain later, Sweetums,” said Rarity.
 
“So, wait…” Twilight interjected, trying to wrap her head around all of this. “That Button Down guy… The ghosts in the haunted house… The sirens… Chrysalis… Those were all because of YOU!?”
 
“Of course! Drastic measures for drastic times! Oh yeah, that reminds me.” Discord snapped his fingers. Pinkie and Twilight’s eyes both flashed gray briefly, and then they both shook their heads in a daze.
 
“There. Your mind should be all cleared up now, Twilight Sparkle. And you won’t be breaking another Pinkie Promise for a long time to come.”
 
“HURRAY!” Pinkie instantly hugged Twilight. “Then my first true Pinkie Promise will be that I’m always going to be by Twilight’s side FOREVER AND EVER!”
 
“That’s it!” Twilight declared. “My head is clear! I know what to do now!”
 
Discord poofed up a neon “APPLAUSE” sign and clapped sarcastically. Twilight motioned for everypony else to come over. Once they were all huddled up, Twilight whispered the plan.
 
As she did, Discord swabbed his ear with his finger, pulling out a basketball. He dribbled it up against the ceiling of the screen for a few seconds, tossed it forward, and leaned in close to try to hear.
 
“That sounds crazy enough that it might just work,” Rarity nodded.
 
“Only one small problem. What about Rachelle?” asked Lilac.
 
“Hmm…” Twilight pondered. “Hey, Discord! We’re going to need your help!”
 
The basketball that Discord threw came back around and hit him in the back of the head.
 
“OWW! What now? I already gave you the information you need! What more do you want from me?”
 
Twilight cast a devious smile.
 



“ALMOST… COMPLETE. JUST A FEW MORE MOMENTS, AND I SHALL HAVE ULTIMATE POWER. I… WILL BECOME A GODDESS. THE GODDESS.”
 
“HEEEEEEEY, RACHELLE RUBY RAY JENSON!”
 
Rachelle’s concentration was completely broken, and the process was halted entirely. She whipped around in a seething rage.
 
“Look at me!” Discord was clad in a sequined red dress, of Rarity’s design it would seam… I mean seem. “I was chatting with Applejack’s boyfriend, and she told me I should try being a bit more adventurous! What do ya think? You wouldn’t tell my parents, would you?” he quivered.
 
“DISCORD, YOU FOOL! THAT’S MY DRESS! STEP AWAY FROM IT THIS INSTANT.”
 
Discord was now munching on a plate of hot dogs with mustard. However, his grip “slipped”, and the hot dogs tumbled down, spilling mustard all over the dress.
 
“Whoops!” He said in a high-toned squeaky voice. “Did I do that?”
 
“YOU ARE TESTING MY PATIENCE. CEASE YOUR TOMFOOLERY IMMEDIATELY BEFORE I INCINERATE YOU ON THE SPOT.”
 
Discord just blew a raspberry at her as he used scissors to cut snowflakes from the bottom of the dress.
 
“RAAAAAGGGGHHHH!”
 
Rachelle jumped off of her position on the stone to engage the naughty Draconequus. Once she had, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Sweetie Belle, and Spike all ran up to the Power Stone and stood on it.
 
“He did it! Okay, Spike! Sweetie Belle! Do it!”
 
“Huh?”
 
Sweetie Belle pulled Spike in close and kissed him hard on the lips. The Power Stone reacted to the kiss, and all of them immediately began ascending up the beam of light.
 
“HOW DID YOU ESCAPE YOUR PRISON!?” Rachelle demanded.
 
“It was dose guys ovah there, coppah!” Discord said in a New York-style accent, poofing himself into a flapper’s outfit and makeup.
 
Rachelle turned around and gasped
 
“OH, NO YOU DON’T! WRETCHED MARES!” she bellowed, jumping into the light after them.
 
“Come on! We need to get higher!” Twilight begged. “You two, don’t stop kissing!”
 
Rachelle Ruby spread her wings to fly up closer to them.
 
“Twilight! Hurry!” Applejack called from at the bottom of Trotzamore. Rachelle growled as she continued to speed up on them.
 
“Twilight!” Fluttershy cried.
 
“We’re still not high enough!”
 
“COME TO ME,” Rachelle said menacingly.
 
“Wait!” Pinkie shouted. “Rarity! Fluttershy! Tonsil hockey! NOW!”
 
“WHAT!?”
 
“JUST KIIISSSS!”
 
Rarity grabbed Fluttershy, and locked her into a kiss. Just as Rachelle Ruby was about to snare them, she found herself immobile by the kiss’s power.
 
“Whoa, whoooa!”
 
And then, she was suddenly knocked out of the beam of light, and began flying, very, very far into the distance.
 
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooo!” she shrieked, gradually demorphing back into her regular unicorn form as she flew.
 
“Wow!” Rainbow Dash remarked. “Look at her fly! Somepony call the Wonderbolts!”
 
Rachelle Ruby exited the scene with a twinkle in the sky.
 
Rarity and Fluttershy, and Spike and Sweetie Belle, were still hanging on by the lips as the six of them finally started to see the very top of the beam, spreading out into the wave that was manipulating all of Equestria.
 
“This is it, Pinkie Pie. Are you ready?”
 
“Twilight Sparkle… I’ve always been ready.”
 
They slowly leaned into it, and then finally… they locked in tight. Tears flew in both directions when Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie finally met each other’s tender lips. Pinkie Pie hugged Twilight by the neck, and Twilight immediately returned the gesture. Tears were running endlessly down both of their cheeks, falling off their faces and back down into Trotzamore, the center of love.
 
Great flares of magic began appearing. They popped all around Twilight and Pinkie like fireworks in the sky, making shapes of books, candies, pastries, and writing utensils. The lights were visible to all of Equestria, and though monochrome and bitter, all of the ponies stopped what they were doing to gaze up at the spectacle.
 
“Wooooooowwwwww,” said everypony in Equestria.
 
And that was only the beginning.
 
The magical wave cast by Trotzamore came to a direct halt, and was sucked back in towards Twilight and Pinkie, the center of it all.
 
Finally, Twilight’s horn glowed wildly, and with a loud bang, it began casting its own waves of magic. A pink and red magic that coursed through the entire land of Equestria.
 



Within the Mareianna Village of Tranquil Spirits, Zorophyllis was in the stadium now… and Zamber was about to bash her head in with the wooden spear.
 
The wave swept through, and they were both brought back to color.
 
“…Z-Z-Zamber?”
 
Zamber immediately dropped the spear and dove in to hug Zorophyllis, crying profusely.
 



“…LITERALLY THE WORST DINNER OF MY LOVE!” Fleur shouted. “AND ANOTHER THING…”
 
But then the wave came to Canterlot, and Fancy Pants and Fleur-de-Lis stopped everything they were doing.
 
“Fleur…”
 
“Fancy, sweet amoureux!”
 
They kissed each other from across the table, before noticing the huge mess they had made with the food and dresses. They laughed embarrassingly to each other.
 
“…Don’t worry, I’ll spot us,” said Fancy. Fleur smiled.
 



Pearl was laughing cruelly as Magnum tried desperately to rub the dishwasher soap out of his eyes. But then they were cured, and Pearl immediately grabbed a wet towel.
 
“Oh, let me get that, darling!”
 
“Thanks, honey…”
 



The wave made its way to its final destination: Ponyville.
 
Lyra and Bon Bon were having a food-fight inside Sugarcube Corner, with Mr. Cake screaming to the ceiling. Pound Cake was crying next to him.
 
When they came to their senses, Mr. Cake immediately tried to hush Pound in his usual nervous way. Lyra and Bon Bon gazed remorsefully at each other, before embracing in a hug. The ring on Lyra’s horn glistened.
 
Outside the building, Minuette was still munching on the eggplant, when she also came to.
 
“Aah!” she gasped, dropping the vegetable. She pulled a red toothbrush out from behind her. “I’m so sorry, brushie! I’ll never abandon you again!” Minuette started kissing it repeatedly.
 
And lastly, inside The Cobalt Flamingo, Berryshine had been cured and now she was on the floor, crying over the spilled martini. Golden Harvest jumped down to comfort her.
 
“There, there, sweetheart, it’s okay! I’m so sorry! We can make another one… together!”
 
“Mmm… I’d like that,” Berryshine replied, smiling.
 
“Aww, man…” said a voice from behind.
 
Golden Harvest twisted her head around.
 
“Huh? Roseluck? What are you doing here?”
 
“Um-- uh… nothing!” Roseluck stammered, looking around nervously. “Uh… HEY LOOK, A GIANT CARROT!” Golden Harvest whipped back looking stunned as Roseluck quickly sped off.
 



Now sailing high above Equestria, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Spike, and Sweetie Belle watched as the entire Equestrian population whooped and cheered.
 
The six of them, the ponies that finally found love after such long, hard journeys… and now they had just used that to save all of Equestria. They embraced their respective mates, more strongly than ever… and kissed one final time.
 
Trotzamore shot hearts all over the sky, in an explosive array of blue, pink, and green fireworks and flares, whilst neon butterflies flew around the entire area.
 
Applejack and Rainbow Dash cheered them on from bellow.
 
“Yeah! Way to go, little doggies!”
 
“I knew you guys could do it! Yeah-hah! That’s what I’m talking about! That’s almost as amazing as a Sonic Rainboom!”
 
The two of them proudly hoof-bumped.
 
All the way back in Canterlot, Princess Celestia was watching the entire event through a telescope.
 
“That’ll do, girls,” she said proudly. “That’ll do.”
 



Discord slowly inched his way towards the Power Stone, twitching his little grubby hands as he tried to reach out for it.
 
But just before he could, Twilight’s magic intervened and handcuffs appeared around his wrists, tethered to the ground.
 
“Ohhhhhh, clever girl.”
 
Lilac Candescence giggled at the sight.
 
“I’ll go get Princess Luna for you,” she happily teased. “I’m certain she will have a few choice words she’ll like to say to you.”
 
Discord grumbled.