The Rise of Twilight

by Ephraim Blue

Chapter 1 - Joyfull Reunions(?)

Twilight walked slowly as Chrysalis and Pinkie went ahead. Pinkie bounced, but that seemed normal for her. She still had mixed thoughts about Chrysalis. Even though she came this entire way with Pinkie to get her back in Equestria, it still seemed strange.

"Ohboyohboyohboyohboyohboyohboy!" Pinkie said repeatedly. "This is going to be so great! Now that Twilight's back, the six of us can have just as much fun as we did before! We'll go berry picking for my famous scrambleberry pie, help Applejack raise the barn, accidently stumble upon a magical pond that can make duplicates of ponies and be the bestest of friends forever!"

"You do all that?" Chrysalis asked. "You ponies are weird."

"Well, what do you changelings do for fun?" Pinkie asked, now poking her face in front of Chrysalis.

"We have many traditions," she replied, pushing Pinkie about a foot to her right. "We normally scout for food, share it among our own and do it again."

Pinkie was silent for a minute. "That's all?"

"What?"

"That's what you do for fun?"

"Fun?"

Pinkie went silent again. "You... don't know fun?"

"Our kind is too busy to learn about... fun. We use up all our energy searching for food to sustain us."

"Oh my gosh!" Pinkie exclaimed, throwing her head back in anguish. "We need to change that right now! You need to learn about fun! Now," all of the sudden some music seemed to come from nowhere and Pinkie started singing, "F is for friends who do stuff together, U is for you and me! N is for anywhere and anytime at all, over here in the middle of Equestria!"

Chrysalis stared at Pinkie as she sang and turned to Twilight. "Does she normally do that?"

Twilight couldn't help but smile a bit. "I think she's waiting for you to continue the song."

"What?!"

"The song. The music is still playing."

"But where is it coming from?!"

"It's better if you don't ask. Now, try and continue the song."

Chrysalis turned nervously back to Pinkie, who had her hooves pointed at Chrysalis as if signaling her. "Um... F is for food, that we all love to eat... U is for ultimate rule over those that defy us... N is for none left hungry, over in the hive..." Her voice trailed off as her lyrics didn't fit with the song.

Pinkie stared blankly for a second before shouting, "What was that?!"

"What?"

"That's not what fun is about. Sure, food is always fun if you're having a pie eating contest, and always good when everyone has the energy to play, but what was that second one?!"

"Um... U is for ultimate rule for those that defy us..."

"You don't rule over ponies when you're having fun!" Pinkie said to her. "Well, unless your playing King of the Hill of Balloons. That's always fun in a pile a balloons!"

Chrysalis was silent while Pinkie kept on rambling about fun. In the meantime, Twilight kept smiling.

"Just you wait girls," she said to herself. "Everything is going to be just how it used to be when I get back to Ponyville with you all. I promise."

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"Over the valley and through the trees, to Ponyville we shall go!" Pinkie sang as they crossed went over a valley. "We once were away, oh sadly we say, but now we return ho~me!"

"Pinkie," Twilight began, "we're not going through any woods to get back to Ponyville. It's just a regular valley."

"That will never stop me from singing, Twilight!" Pinkie said as she continued singing. Twilight sighed and Chrysalis just chuckled lightly.

---

After many hours of singing, bouncing, chuckling, sighing and just about every game that Pinkie could play while they all still kept moving, several buildings of Ponyville came into their view.

Despite all of this, Twilight didn't run toward the town she lived in what seemed like many months ago. She only stared at it.

Chrysalis and Pinkie noticed this, and turned to look at her. "Something wrong Twilight?" Pinkie asked.

"It's just... What if they treat me like an outcast?" she said. "The girls and Spike might understand that I may have been under spell, but what about all of Ponyville? What about Luna and Celestia? After what I did, they might do something even worse than banish me to the badlands."

Pinkie responded by making a "Pft" sound and saying, "That's silly Twilight! The ponies of Ponyville," Pinkie began, earning a small chuckle from that statement from Chrysalis, "will certainly welcome you back! You've saved us from many disasters! No matter how crazy you act sometimes..."

"Crazy?!"

"...you will always be welcome in Ponyville! I guarantee it!" Pinkie finished, ignoring the sense out doubt from Twilight with a smile.

"Well, what about the Princesses?"

Pinkie only chuckled with Chrysalis. "Whoever said that we had to tell them you came home?"

"You mean... We keep it a secret?"

"Of course! We don't need them in order to help protect Equestria! I know an anonymous pony with a huge source of information about what's going on?"

"You know a pony like that?" Pinkie nodded in response. "Well, who are they?"

"Uh, Twilight, I just said they were anonymous. They don't like to give out something like that easily."

"Oh."

"Well this is all touching and what-not," Chrysalis interrupted suddenly, "but I do believe that the two of you need to enter Ponyville in order to see your friends again."

"Right!" Pinkie agreed and then promptly disappeared in a puff of pink. "Come on you two!" she said from a hill over in almost the same second from when she disappeared."

This time, it was Twilight who chuckled while Chrysalis looked between the two spots where Pinkie seemingly warped between. The two of them ran up the hill and into Ponyville, Pinkie already there for no absolute reason.

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Nothing.

The boutique, Rainbow's home, the Apple Family's Farm, the cottage, the library...

Nothing. There was no sign of them anywhere.

Twilight sat in the center of the library floor. The place was slightly dusty, almost as if there were no pony that had walked in there for several days. Each of the places she would have expected her friends to be were void of who she longed to see.

Pinkie burst in through the door, closely followed by Chrysalis. Twilight stood up and faced them. "Did you... did you find them?"

"No," Chrysalis said in response. "There's no sign of any of them in all of Ponyville."

"But... Why? I thought they'd be here..." Twilight hung her head in dismay. "This was supposed to be the day we all reunited as friends..."

"Don't be down, Twilight," Pinkie said as she pat a hoof on her shoulder. "They can't be gone from here forever. They could have gone to Appleousa to visit Applejack's cousin Braeburn again. I'm sure that within a week, they'll be back."

"You think so?"

"Of course!" she said happily. "They can't stay away from Ponyville forever. If we wait here, they'll come back. I'm certain about it."

Twilight's smile returned shortly after that. "Yeah... Thanks Pinkie, Chrysalis."

"But I didn't say anything..." Chrysalis said before shrugging. "Oh well. I guess that we'll have to wait and see for your friends to return."

"Yeah. And I'll be here waiting for them," Twilight said with all the confidence she could muster.

Comments

[Obsidian Husk]

Update?

[Ephraim Blue]

5936625 I've been very preoccupied as of late. I hope to continue this though, and I really hope that others will find it better than the first.

[Obsidian Husk]

5936635 That's good news. And I also hope others will like this. Even I admit, as much as I would like to understand this, time is confusing to me.

[Ephraim Blue]

5937005 Yeah... if there's one thing I really need to do it's redo that entire story

[Obsidian Husk]

5937011 From what I've learned through my entire life from book to movies is this. Don't fuck with space and time. Bad shit happens when you do that.

[Thunder--Clash]

Oh come on, please tell me that you are still writing this story cause its so amazing. How could you leave a story like this alone?!
Please tell me that you are still writing this story

[Ephraim Blue]

6503743 I'm trying my best to continue it, but ideas are hard to come by at times.

[Thunder--Clash]

6504823 OK if you need help you could try asking me

[Ephraim Blue]

6504863 I don't think that's necessary.

[Thunder--Clash]

6504923 OK but I really want to see the next chapter. Sorry for sounding bossy but come on the story is a masterpiece that needs to be put back into the light once more.

[Ephraim Blue]

6505000 Alright, Alright. I'll try to get to working on it after school, tomorrow or Saturday.

[Thunder--Clash]

6505037 YAY

[GIGA-XISBASS]

It's been 2 years and 5 months since you updated last. Any idea when you might have the next chapter out?

[Ephraim Blue]

8347720
Honestly, no clue. I'm on and off this site a lot and this is not 100% a story that I'm thinking of continuing right away. Its on my list, of course, but I'm more focused on the thoughts of where "My Life, Recreated" and "The Family of Time" is going more so than this. Either way, I thank you for showing intrest. Might come out with a chapter just to see what kind of support I get

[Edguy0009]

8353535
*in caveman voice* You write. update story. *proceeds to make ape noises*

[xenomorph1987]

more chapters?

[Apricot Heart]

How long is it going to take

[DarkSnowGaming]

And she never saw them again because the story is left discontinued.