Twilight was the victim of a conspiracy. Nobles didn't like her politics, and tendency to give more power to the common pony. Soldiers thought that Twilight was guilty of treasonous acts herself, controlling Princess Celestia. In any case, she must die, for the characters' emotional enrichment. Or must she?
There are so many ways her death in that one story could have been averted. Therefore, in the name of happy endings everywhere, I present a fic where prevention is half the cure!
This is based upon Rated Ponystar's Assassination verse, thought this does not take place in it. It diverges from a heavily derivative background story at different points, all resulting in the saving of Twilight Sparkle.
Chapter One. Time Travel fuelled by Discord.
Chapter Two. Somepony set up an alarm system, complete with alternate version where a different pony set it up.
Chapter Three. Celestia proves a point that takes the wind out of military part of the operation.
Chapter Four. Celestia makes sure everyone stays loyal, way ahead of time...
Chapter Five. Naughty Naughty, someone got caught-y...
Chapter Six. And the one time she was able to bring her back.
As intrguing as this might sound some of the ideas for preventing the assissnation seem absurd. There's little that can be done to stop an assissnation once plans have been set in motion. And even then, if someone wants someone else dead bad enough, they won't give up til that objective is achieved.
3766393 After the press conference, the ponies on the military side who did it for Celestia's sake would have turned in Blueblood and the other conspirators that were still willing.
After the new orders (which are magically enforced) the military ponies would once again turn in Blueblood, because they would be incapable of disloyalty to Twilight.
The first two and next to last one has all the conspirators caught before it could happen. And the last one would have Celestia setting up a warning system (possibly after moving Twilight into her own room to care for her.)
I'm sorry if it seemed unclear. You know what they say about the devil being in the details.
I think irreparable damage begins after 3 to 5 minuets
this makes Celestia sound very creepy :-/
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you....do know that the only assassinations we hear about are the ones that come to fruition, right?
And that this might make the sample a bit skewed? :-/
3769995 Well, I was working with her and thinking, she would do anything to protect her child. Anything. In this, the determination was that she would remove the threat to Twilight's life, since she knew there was a good chance of one existing. She was ready for anything, and had a specific goal in mind.
Tl;dr? They were plotting treason against someone she loves.
Not a bad fixfic. That said, it has issues. The biggest? It's...short, and doesn't really do that much. The ideas aren't heavily explored, and it feels like an outline, more then a full story. It's not BAD, mind you, but it's not ultra-good.
It only suffers, because the story it is based on went to GREAT lengths to get in Celestia's head.
Twilight also became very close friends with Derpy Hooves, who while not actually disabled is in fact quite used to other ponies being cruel to those who are different from them.
I liked all of these. It's kind of sad how short they were, but each of them communicated their solution to the problem in an interesting way. I loved the press conference and Discord's Retcon(specifically the end where Discord and Fluttershy have their conversation)
This has inspired me to write my own way Twilight could have been spared then.
I'll have to go massively AU though.
Introduce some elements that weren't in the other story.
Suppose she had her human boyfriend in the room with her?
Her human boyfriend who slept with a .50 cal under his pillow then.
Now the only question is... who should I make the human boyfriend now?
1. Myself.(SI)
2. Methos.(Highlander TV Series) (Immortal human, ageless alicorn... makes sense, right)
3. Xander Harris.(Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV Series) (He's way cool)
4. Solid Snake.(Metal Gear) (deaged and cured of his virus problem)
5. Flash Sentry.(Equestria Girls Movies) (He's not girly)
1. SIs are cool, as long as they're done well.
2. Don't know Methos... *Shrugs.* If you feel good about the pairing, why not?
3. Xander is cool, but much like Lee from Naruto, he needs to become less ordinary. He got outshined, and massively.
4. No complaints. Solid is awesome.
5. Alternate Flash Sentry? Hmm... well, if the changes make sense, go for it.
Not bad.
Funny.
Good.
Nice.
7360708 Thanks.
Nah, I can't imagine Twi calling Celestia 'Tia'.
I'm still pretty sure she'd still be calling her 'Princess Celestia' despite them being equals.
Yeah, I like the first one best.
And that's when they knew: they fucked up.
Celestia celestia celestia.
Does what ever a monarch does.
Spies on you,
Through the sun,
Plan to kill?
Then get killed.
Celestia Celestia, Celestia
Does whatever a monarch does
I love/hate time travel. And remember, good is the new bad.
Roasted.
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Majorly.
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Snake. Always go for Snake.
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I do have a question though it would be interesting to see a blue blood that actually was smart even though he was still evil and going through with his plans figure out that there's a spell compelling the soldiers to only obey celestra and he manages to break it would it prove his point to the rest of the royalty that's true has been secretly controlling her soldiers or Worse still make everyone believe that he's right it would be an interesting idea don't you think