//------------------------------// // 5 // Story: The Wedding is Off! (Rewrite) // by xd77 //------------------------------// Spike had managed to help carry in most of Twilight's things back into her old bedroom that she had been staying in all day, but the thing is her depression was getting worse by the minute, when Shining Armor saw this, he was flabbergasted he wasn't going to stand by and watch the only sister he had sink low in the hole, he headed out the door and walked straight to Canterlot Castle. Once out he saw some guards following him out of curiosity plus puzzlement about what he was up to, as soon as he stopped to look at the guards that were following him, one of them slowly approached him. "Captain, what are you doing?" he asked. "Guards, because of what has just happened, I'm telling Celestia that I'm resigning my role as captain for a while." he said, the guards gasped at this. "For what?" a guard asked "The attack, plus the fact that my sister has gone into a depression, I'm afraid now that she may commit suicide, so I'm going to do my best to get her back!" he said, the guards watched in sorrow as their captain walked away. Meanwhile, Celestia was in her throne room still sulking over what happened, when she saw Shining Armor walk inside and taking off his helmet. "Princess, I'm resigning, I can't keep doing this." he said putting his helmet in front of her hooves. "What, why?" she asked. "I'm sorry Celestia, but my sister has gone into a depression and it's because of me, so I'm doing this, because I'm going to set things right, oh and plus you have a massive crowd of ponies outside furious with you and Luna." he said as he left the room, Celestia pondered. "Why would they be mad at me?" She decided to go out and check it out, once she was outside, it was proven true, everypony was mad at her, because she was surrounded by a group of ponies with angered expressions. "Hey look everypony, it's are so-called leader!" one pony said. "Let's get her!" another said, Celestia tried to retreat back into her quarters, but she was soon tackled down by the crowd, suddenly they began beating her up, kicking her, punching her, and spitting on her. This lasted for about 20 minutes until a group of guards flew over after seeing the fight, and managed to break it up. Some ponies in the group were arrested for assault, once it was over, Celestia did her best to get back up on her hooves, when she did, it was not good, she had a black eye, a bloody nose, and a sharp pain in her right wing, she was too beaten to even move. Back in Ponyville, the other five were really starting to get not only tired but worried about Twilight, they had now known that if they had just listen to Twilight in the first place, none of this would've happened, yet they were too caught up in their wedding planning, so caught up that they had made everything easy for Chrysalis and her changelings, so they knew they deserved what they were getting, but they had never known they had put so much pressure on Twilight. Two days later..... At the Sparkle residents, Shining Armor approached his parents with ease. "What is it this time son?" Night Light asked. "I've stepped down, Dad, because of what I've done, I'm going to try and......" he said but Twilight Velvet interrupted him "You really hurt your sister Shining," Twilight Velvet said approaching him, "Ever since the attack, she's felt humiliated because you rejected her for no reason, you know she won't even talk to us, she just lies in her bedroom alone cause she's too hurt to see anypony, you ruined her whole life and you don't even care!" Shining Armor sighed, "All right, I'll go talk to her." "It doesn't even matter if you talked to her, she still going to be too upset cause you can't take back what you did!" "Look, I didn't mean...." Shining Armor tried to explain. "You went off the deep end son, and you can't fix it!" Night Light said. "I don't care dad, I'm going up those stairs right now, and I'm going to set things right!" he said with a serious expression. As Shining Armor was walking up the stairs he heard jabbering coming from outside the house, he quickly ran up a window and saw a massive crowd of ponies running to the Canterlot Courthouse, but what he didn't know was who was in the courthouse that was the problem. The Equestrian Royalty group along with congress were having a serious discussion with Celestia and Luna over what had just happened. "Princess Celestia, what in Tartarus is your excuse for ignoring a threat?" a royal unicorn asked. "I had a choice to make, I didn't know what to do, we didn't know who was causing the threat, so we figured it was no big deal and went on to do the wedding." "Oh bull Celestia, Twilight is not a plate that you put up in a cupboard then take it out when you're ready to use it, and besides that unicorn you called your student has every right to quit, because from what I've seen, every time a threat comes to Equestria, EVERY DAMN TIME, you always make her stop it, what in God's name makes you think that those elements of harmony can defeat everything?!" "Because well...." As expected she didn't have an answer nor did Luna. "Oh so you think, Oh well since I've discovered that Twilight's powerful, I can use her to do all my work for me, and I can just sit down and watch it., well you're wrong, Twilight has problems of her own you know, she can't do all your work for you." Celestia hung her head in shame, Luna approached her and put a comforting shoulder on her. :"Plus threats are your business not hers, so we're letting you off with a warning, but the next time you ignore a threat and we see that you're making Twilight handle it, you and your sister will be disbarred, this royal meeting is adjourned." Celestia just sat there in shock, she had now known that Twilight was under pressure and being depressed because of her lousy role as a princess, she was always making her handle all the trouble plus she never took her seriously from day 1, she too now had to set things right.