Thirty Minutes

by Stasiarose

Thirty Minutes

It's hard to believe I've been Princess Twilight for only two months. It's hard to believe that I'll only be princess for thirty more minutes, before the world ends. It's hard to believe that Princess Celestia is trusting me with the palace until the world ends. It's hard to believe that forever more my friends and I will exist no longer. What will they do in the next thirty minutes? What will I do?

11:55 AM THIRTY MINUTES BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS

The six mares, plus one dragon, gathered in the center of the throne room in a circle. Each on smiled to the next as an eerie silence entered the room. Each burst out crying hugging one another as what was about to happen hitting them hard. Nopony really knew what to say to one another, each to caught up in crying to think. The world was going to end quickly and swiftly, by radiation from the sun. Celestia had left to see if she could do something about it, but everypony knew there was really no chance of survival.

As the mares and dragon calmed down, each continued to simply stare at one another, waiting for somepony to speak up. Surprisingly one did. It wasn't that somepony did that was surprising, it was who spoke up that was.

"U-um... I've got something to say..." The shy butterball mare looking contently around the circle. Everypony nodded for her to continue. Time was starting to waste so nopony dared to interrupt. "I've always been a shy mare, I know that... But I've also been shy of my feelings too... I'm... I'M IN LOVE WITH TWILIGHT!" She screamed, getting blank faces in return. "Ever since the day she scared my birds away and asked for my name, I loved her." She looked up at Twilight to see her expression. Twilight simply cocked her head and smiled. She stood up, went over to the butter pegasus, and put a hoof around her neck, and she pecked her cheek.

The yellow mare turned into a light shade of orange as she blushed, making everypony around her coo. Rainbow Dash flew up out of her sitting place, and looked at the faces around her too. It was her turn to confess, and everypony nodded, Twilight putting a wing over Fluttershy.

"I've got a confession to make too... I'm not a brave and strong mare on the inside, I'm a frilly little filly who loves to take care of others, and thinks more of others than herself. Hard to believe, I know. I mean, still sleep with my teddy bear, Miscy Fluffles. My dad gave it to me for my fifth birthday. He told me there was something magical about the bear. He said when you cry, he absorbs the tears. Later that day, I crashed while flying, and nearly broke my leg, and Miscy was there and he wiped my tears away." The cyan pegasi's eyes began to water as she fluttered down, whipping out a small, tattered bear. Everypony simply nodded at her, nopony was in any place to judge at this point.

12:03 PM TWENTY TWO MINUTES BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS

Silence filled the room once more as the ponies, plus a dragon, waited for another to speak up. A white hoof raised in the air as the next pony began to speak.

"I suppose it's my turn." Rarity said, looking around the circle of ponies. "I... Am not as posh as I appear to be..." She raised a hoof to her mane, tugging gently, her luscious curls all but real. What was revealed under these extensions was a tied back mane, when undone, was quite the sight. Bangs in her eyes, he short straight do was revealed, as the same was done to her tail. She then took her make up off, revealing a much more beautiful mare. Spike stared in awe as she began to walk towards him. "And I'm also in love with my little Spike." She said, dropping her posh accent. "And I know he loves me too." She kissed him on the mouth, a kiss that lasted for more than five seconds, filled with passion and love that had been held inside for too long. As she pulled away from the blushing Spike, a small string of saliva followed. The group didn't make a sound, but simply smiled at the new, soon to be dead couple. At least they would die together.

The silence returned, but not for very long.

"Ah've got somethin' that's been weighin' me down for awhile." Came a country accent under a brown hat. "Ah know ah'm the element of honesty, but ah haven't been completely honest with y'all." Everypony around the circle nodded, beckoning her on. "Ya see, ah wasn't born intah a very rich family. In fact we could barely afford the seeds we'd sown each year. That was, until ya'll came along and became friends with me. Coarse we were still very poor, but ah never had the courage to tell any of you cause, well, ah'm supposed tah be strong. And ah am. Except for the thing we needed the most..." The orange mare looked around the circle at each face, before taking off her hat and continuing,"Ah've got a tumor that would've killed me this year even without the world ending." She looked at all the shocked faces around her with a frown on her face."Ah'm real sorry ah never said nothin' but I guess it doesn't really matter now." She plopped her hat back on her head as the silence returned once again.

12:11 PM FOURTEEN MINUTES BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS

Next surprisingly was the pink party pony Pinkie. She was more serious then she had ever been around the ponies, and dragon.

"I have something I've been doing that isn't very funny. It's a addiction, as much as it is a coping skill. A skill I've learned that makes me feel better and worse. Every morning of everyday I'd sigh when I got out of bed, I didn't want to do anything. I didn't even want to live anymore. I started cutting myself, started thinking it was the only way to get better, started thinking it was the only thing I could do." The pink earth pony paused, getting onto her hindlegs, showing her stomach. There was slashes among slashes, things that nopony had ever seen before, but as she pointed them out, was shocked to not have noticed something so obvious. "You see, this was before I moved out of the rock farm, before I saw Rainbow's Sonic Rain-Boom. And it stuck. Even when I moved to Ponyville, it was an addiction. I was happy, and didn't want to die anymore, but it was to hard to stop. Funny thing is, yesterday was the day I decided to quit, cold celery. Guess it doesn't really matter anymore. But I'm proud of myself for trying." She looked at the faces of understanding that stood around the circle. Pinkie was so grateful to have such great friends.

It was Twilight's turn to speak, as she got up immediately and sat in the middle of the circle. "I have no confessions, though I'm not perfect. I've been completely honest with all of you. And I just needed to thank you all for what you've done for me, what you've done for yourselves. I know I'm a skeptical pony who takes to long to create trust, but I'm glad I trusted all of you. Glad I was forced to meet you. I know we're all good friends, but you don't deserve to die together." Twilight looked at all the shocked faces around her. "You deserve to die with your loved ones." With a flash of magenta from her horn, Twilight poofed up everyponies family as their eyes grew wide. Each pony ran to each others family, sitting together as the world was soon to end.

12:20 PM FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS

Each pony sat with their family, each talking about the good happy times, about birthdays and Hearths Warming Eve's. Only the older mares and colts knowing that they only have five minutes before the world would break. Nopony could tell the small Crusaders that in five minutes they'd die without their cutie marks. Twilight shushed everypony at the five minute mark, beckoning them to sit in front of her. With a flash of her horn, a screen appeared, and she began to tell a story.

"Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria..."

It's hard to believe I've only been Princess Twilight for two months. It's hard to believe that I'll only be princess for thirty more minutes, before the world ends. It's hard to believe that Princess Celestia is trusting me with the palace until the world ends. It's hard to believe that forever more my friends and I will exist no longer. It's hard to believe...

Author's Note:

Spike decided he didn't want to speak after what Rarity did, and that's why he had no speech or whatever.

Comments

[Tunalock]

Well, it's nice to see other fics where time is a major factor, but I feel as if yours was executed poorly. I mean, you had the right idea of everypony having a confession to make, but some of them felt pretty out-of-place. Applejack's confession was the only one that felt like it had weight. It was the only one that made me think, "Yeah, I could definitely see that happening."
The others, however, had some inconsistencies. Rarity's and Rainbow's felt this way because trying to act haute when you're really down-to-earth or trying to act big and tough when you're really just a girly girl seems extremely hard to keep as a secret for however long it's been in the show.
Fluttershy's confession seems like a chance to get a favorite pairing in with no real reason, as there haven't been any notions to FlutterTwi in the show. If you made, say, AppleDash, I'd believe it more.
Pinkie's confession is pretty dark for the show, as well as it's pretty obvious to realize when Pinkie is or isn't happy. Feigning happiness doesn't change the fact that her mane will go straight if she's sad on the inside.
Twilight's confession – or lack thereof – feels like a pretty poor choice, as there are always things that people hide from their friends. I've got things I wouldn't tell my friends that I'd confess if I knew we were all going to die, just to know that they ended up knowing the true me.

So, let's recap: good idea, poor execution. Try to work on thinking up less absurd confessions for them.

[Lisa_M]

3799601 I kinda see where you're coming from, but there are a few things I'd like to point out:

1: Perhaps Rainbow honestly thought that she was hiding her girliness well? With an exception or two, she's fooled others into thinking that she's tough/not nervous/not scared when she's really the opposite. She trys to make others believe she's not into girly stuff, and freaks out a little TOO much if others think she is (Remember the FoalFreePress?) She also went to some pretty drastic extremes to hide that she actually likes reading.

2: I can see where you are coming from with this one, and to a certain extent I agree. But FlutterMac is a VERY popular ship and they have next to no interaction (that we've seen) yet. I say let them have their OTP.

3. Not necessarily. Too Many Pinkie Pies had her not only depressed, but doubting her own identity. Her mane and tail were as poofy as ever. While it has happened this way, there are some exceptions.

4: You're right, everyone does have something to hide. This was the least of her concerns. They literally had minutes to live, and perhaps Twilight felt that spending that time confessing wouldn't give her enough time to get them together with their families. I'm sure she wasn't the telling the truth, but she probably had her reasons. To her, her friends' last moments were far more important then anything she had to say.

[Stasiarose]

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I understand where you both are coming from, really I do. I know this story is rushed and that it could be better, but you must remember that this was a thirty minute challenge, so I didn't have much time to think or prepare. This was just streamed from my finger tips, and I went with it. I have to say though I pretty proud of how I'd done with only thirty minutes.

[Tunalock]

3801982 Well, I, uh, forgot that. Carry on.

[Stasiarose]

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It's fine. If ever I race back to this idea and make it into a real story, I promise I'll take your advice!

[PastaDerpPony]

So Why is the world ending? if its in the story i cant seem to find it, also, its a good consept, but a mediocre story. Sorry, just saying the truth.

[Stasiarose]

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It's quite alright, really. It is a pretty rushed story, but it was a story typed and thought through thirty minutes. And it does say why the world is ending in the story, it's gamma radiation from the sun.

[PastaDerpPony]

3806964 sorry, dint see it

[TheHoleyCheese]

The feels

[This brony here]

I loved your story dude no b.s it was a good read /)

[Stasiarose]

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Thanks man. And nice picture.

[PastaDerpPony]

pass the Fluttershy part, its a good story!