Equestria Epilogue: Twilight's Turn Top
Twilight and the others stared up at the glimmering crystal castle as it floated above the Golden Oaks Library, somehow not casting a shadow on the ground below despite the castle's towers casting shadow's on its own structures. As Twilight muttered under her breath in an attempt to figure out how this was possible - all it took was one mention of 'selective reality structure matrices' for the others to decide they didn't want to know - Applejack brought up what she found was a concern. "So...castle," she mentioned softly.
"Flying castle!" Rainbow squeed excitedly. "So...awesome!"
"Yeah...flyin' castle," Applejack confirmed. "So...how do we get up there? Ah mean, Rarity, Pinkie and I don't have wings-"
"Yet," Twilight spoke up. "Given how the box blended our energies through the power of Harmony as we shaped that giant Harmony Battle Bot, I'm pretty sure the 'nascent potential' Luna talked about is in all of you now, if it wasn't already. Guessing it'll be a century on the outside before all of you ascend."
"...not the most comforting of news," Rarity murmured worriedly as she turned towards Pinkie, trying not to imagine what could happen if that mare got hold of alicorn magic.
"...well, ah don't see any o' us sproutin' feathers yet," Applejack pointed out, going back to her original concern. "While that might not be a problem fer Pinkie and her weird shortcuts, what about-"
A beam of light streamed down over the group, turning the six mares and Spike into points of light before sucking them up.
"-us...?" Applejack finished as the group finished reforming inside the castle, its crystal walls soaring into immeasurable heights in excess of its external dimensions as its long halls seemed to stretch up to countless floors and out into infinity from the central chamber they were in. "...whoa nelly..." she breathed in amazement, pulling her hat off as she stared up at the grandeur.
"Goodness!" Rarity yelped as she stared around at the faintly glowing walls as they seemed to hum with untapped potential. "It's...it's gorgeous!"
"It's so...warm and inviting..." Fluttershy marveled as she stared around at the pale pinks, fairy blues, and occasional rainbow patterns in the crystal of the walls, a living crystal tree growing out of the walls after every fifth door.
"It goes on forever!" Rainbow yelped out in shock, her voice echoing back from the long halls.
"What is this place?" Pinkie demanded in stunned amazement.
"I...I...I can't make sense of this!" Twilight gasped out, shaking her head.
"Maybe we should start there?" Spike suggested, pointing to a circle of seven thrones.
The group moved to the center of the circle, where they could look around at the seven thrones. To their surprise, six of them were marked with the symbols of the Elements of Harmony, while the seventh was marked with a green flame. "Are...are these for us?" Rainbow asked in surprise.
"Only one way to find out," Spike stated determinedly, marching up to the flame marked throne. As he clambered into it, the arm of the throne extended a leaf-bladed crystal dagger engraved with flowing runes. "Ooh, nice!" he murmured, taking hold of it and placing it against his hip, where it affixed itself of its own will.
Carefully, each of the six mares took the throne marked with their Element...and all seven thrones blazed with light. The light focused in the space between the thrones, and a wide table grew out of the floor before displaying a holographic map of Equestria. Twilight immediately started to hyperventilate.
"Twilight, what's wrong?" Fluttershy asked worriedly.
"I...I think I know...what this is...but it's impossible..." Twilight murmured worriedly. "But we're nowhere near the Edge of the World..."
As no one understood what she was talking about, they turned back to the map...only to see their six Cutie Marks floating in the air over a spot far distant from the center of Equestria. "...call it a shot in the dark, but I think we need to go there if we want answers," Rainbow offered dryly.
"That's...quite a trip," Applejack murmured worriedly. "Gonna take quite a while ta get there-"
"I think I know a quicker way," Spike suddenly spoke up, clutching the knife at his belt as his eyes went a little distant. Hopping off his throne, he turned towards one of the halls. "This way."
Confused, the group followed them even as Twilight continued to hyperventilate. After a time, Spike reached up and opened a door...revealing a path to the small village the Map had indicated on the other side.
"Whoa nelly!" Applejack screamed out in shock, accidentally kicking the door closed. Glancing over at Spike apologetically, she opened the door...only to reveal a plain room. "What the...?"
Twilight suddenly let out a fannish squeal. "It is!" she screamed out. "It's a dimensional reflective infinite waypoint hypersphere!"
"Uh...a what?" Rainbow asked in confusion.
"Each of these doors, if opened properly, goes to a specific point somewhere across Equestria," Twilight explained. "Or the entire planet...or the entire universe, maybe!" She took a deep breath. "And the towers will have omnipresent window views! In old myths, a place like this would be called The House of God!"
"Wait...like...the Maker?" Applejack managed to say as the others stared in silence.
Twilight nodded. "The myths about such things talk of 'God' - or The Maker, if you prefer - building a house from which to observe creation. They then made a door to each spot they created as they made it, only to leave the House behind when they no longer needed it." She took a few panting breaths. "I...I just never believed one could exist...or that I'd actually find it!"
"Keep an eye out for thieves and green eyed cats!" Pinkie piped up perplexingly.
"But...why did the door open properly for Spike, and not for Applejack?" Rarity asked wonderingly.
"Because that's his job here, apparently," Twilight concluded. "And that crystal dagger must be what unlocks it, connecting him to the map. He's...the Doorkeeper."
"...not a really impressive title," Spike grumbled irritably.
"Spike, don't you get it?" Rainbow suddenly gasped out excitedly. "You're the keeper of the doors to Everywhere! Maybe even Everywhen! That is totally awesome!"
Spike puffed out his chest with a pleased smirk. "Well...when you put it like that..." Chuckling with pleasure, he opened the door for the others. "I'll be right here to let you back in."
Smiling, the group stepped through the door and made their way down the path.
It didn't take long for the group to reach the village, if it could be called that. It contained two rows of identical houses on either side of a single street, populated by ponies with oddly grayed out coloration and identical Cutie Marks of a black equal sign. As each pony caught sight of them, they gave an unnaturally wide smile and an enthusiastic if unnatural sounding call of "Welcome!" Eventually, one pony approached the group directly.
"Welcome!" he greeted with the same unnatural smile and wide eyes. "I'm Double Diamond. You're all new here, so you really must meet our leader, Starlight Glimmer!"
Twilight blinked. For some reason, the mere mention of the name sent odd sensations through her mind. "And...where can we find her?" she asked curiously.
Turning, Double Diamond pointed to the one house not in the two straight lines, at the far end of the street.
Nodding, Twilight led the group in a march towards that house even as she mentally checked over the weapons in her armor suit. She had a feeling whatever was going to happen next, she needed to be prepared for anything.
As they approached the house, a mare stepped out. One thing that was immediately noticeable about her was that despite the equal sign Cutie Mark, her colors weren't grayed out and her smile seemed more natural. Her coat was a pale pink, her mane and tail were purple with a teal streak done in the exact same style as Twilight's own, and pale teal eyes. "Welcome," she greeted warmly as she walked down the steps. "It's so rare we get visitors here."
"Well, you are a bit off the beaten path," Twilight observed. "Starlight Glimmer, I presume?"
Unnoticed by Twilight, the mare - presumably Starlight - had jerked upright at the sound of Twilight's voice. She stared at the Princess with wide eyes...and as Twilight finished speaking, the mare rushed forward and threw her forelegs around Twilight's neck. "Mommy!" she cried out despairingly, burying her face in Twilight's mane and crying.
As the sound of a loud record scratch echoed over the town from the house the mare had just left, Applejack voiced everyone's thoughts. "Say what?"
Stats
Page generated in 0.049 seconds
Total duration
1,021 users online
2,300,118 hits today, 2,561,572 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
i agree with AJ. Say what?
lol the randomness
...uuuh....uuh...
Beep Boop, ERROR 404 Brain does not compute. Being will shut down imminently.
... snif... it's beautiful. keep it up tats.
ah.. the 'true reason' Starlight Glimmer reformed..
Time travel shenanigans everywhere!
They be great and confusing here!
ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN OF MINDFUCKERY!!
Could not have put it any better myself.
HA that's one of my favorite comics.
it'll be interesting to see how it get played off though
"Mommy?" Oh boy, I'm pretty sure I know where this is heading.
Link instead of pic for those who want to avoid spoilers.
7993733 WT FUCK MAN IM EATING HERE
7993758 YOU ARE SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP
7993769
...keep this up, and I will have to block you. I do not want links to pictures like that on my stories.
I am now going to delete the comments with those links.
7993769 Dude, seriously. It's almost five in the morning where I live and this is not the first thing I want to see this morning. Just stop okay?
nice work.
Wait... what? Okay, some time travel stuff or something has to have happen... or will happen?
7993779 free speech doesn't work on a private owned website you dip.
Free speech only protects you from government blocking you. When you comment on a story owned by a user, he, or she, is free to block your comments as much as he, or she, likes.
7993792 The law of free speech only protects you from government blocking you. That is the literal law. If you fail to understand that basic stuff, then there is no saving you.
7993791 just ignore him and enjoy the story.
7993772 This is why authors like you are saints my friend.
7993799 good god you are an troll.
Going to ignore you now, since you don't have anything of value to add.
7993803 Just reported him for the images.
7993799 Congratulations! You've just been reported and has been nominated for the coveted "Dumbass of the Year award." try to not let the praise kick you in the ass on your way out.
7993715
Let me fix that for you:
7993772 he continued tat...
7993819
And having now seen it, I have deleted all comments with images linked and blocked him so he can't post anymore.
7993779
https://xkcd.com/1357/
7993821 And the posts he made in the other forums are gone. So reporting him worked well.
Hahahah, I remember that comic, if that's what you're going for.
Wanted to write a story to it, but ended up too lazy to go through all the time travel shenanigans (writing then out, mind you, just doing the planning was fun). This one will probably be considerably shorter considering it's just all side plot, but all the least we know it'll update frequently and be well planned-out.
That ending seems... familiar...
7993822 Just downloaded that.
That is gonna be VERY useful when explaining free speech in future to the ignorant.
HA HIS ACCOUNT NOT JUST BANNED BUT GONE COMPLETLY
hah I remember that comic, while I don't mind how they reformed her in the show this outcome would have been pretty amusing.
OMG! Is this a reference to this comic?Oh, someone already post a link. My bad.
Nonetheless, this is a really interesting development. Can't wait to see reactions from Shining Armor, Twilight Velvet and Celestia on this.
Hold up. Epilogue pt 1? Does that mean this crazy ride is almost over?
Also, typo in the chapter title. Equetria.
7993749 My thoughts exactly.
Ok who let twilight manipulate time again and then erased her memory of it ras a hoof or hand
7993893
*Slowly raises hand wile a mischievous glint in his sanguine eyes draws attention to vampiric fangs in his mouth.* I shall not apologize, for this is hilarious!
7993880
One of my favourite comics, now if only I could remember who I watched dub it on YouTube.
love the comic reference that is implied (intentional or not) i wonder what twi will have to do to keep the timestream stable?
Guess Twilight found her... Star child. Let's just hope Twilight doesn't say the you've got to be kid-in-her about that. Or maybe we should...
It's alright, Spike'll show me the door out.
amaze!
From The Great Alicorn Hunt....
That ending...
I love that comic. Saw it a few months back, laughed pretty hard! All I have to say is...
Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey!
YES! ALL OF THE YES. This was my favorite comic, seeing it appear here is amazing!
All Hail the PWNY Twilight or "She who Makes Causality her Bitch"
that is what you get for quantumly entangling your mind with a point in your past and a point in your future to change an outcome in the past that effects the future. a point in the future must be changed that effects the past so that both quantumly entangled points can be stabilized and preventing the subsequent paradox from creating a hole in reality the size of Belgium.
Starlight Glimmer: "Twilight Sparkle, you are my mother. Search your feelings - you know this to be true."
Clank: "No. I am too young and beautiful to be a grandmother."
Ratchet: "Clank, you're a professional actor. Why do you sound like you are reading a script?"
Clank: "Because it is the tone the inflection notes on the cue cards say to use."
Discord: *hides cue cards*
Quark: "Hey! How's my favorite niece?"
Starlight Glimmer: "Uncle Quark!"
Spike: "Does this mean that we have an expositionary time-loop misadventure coming up to explain all this?"
Orvus: "No. This is the result of an applied paradox patch closing off a rogue time-loop caused by someone abusing advanced time magic."
Applejack: "So what we have here is an example of correctional causality appearing to automatically initiate itself prior to the events that caused even more chronological damage than the implied paradox of the repair itself."
Rainbow Dash: "Um... AJ? What the hell?"
Applejack: "Oh dear. I appear to have acquired a Hayvard education that I do not remember experiencing."
Rarity: "Applejack, you did attend Hayvard. You were my college room mate, remember? Wait... That didn't actually happen. How could..? Mother! Father! How could you!?"
Cookie Crumbles: "Well, we just wanted you to have that college education we couldn't afford to give you before, don't you know."
Hondo Flanks: "And we figured, while we had access to the Castle of Time, why not send one of your friends along as well so you wouldn't get too homesick. Pretty good idea, right?"
Rarity: "So, what you're saying, is that you abused having access to time travel. Which you are admitting to when the Princess of Time is sitting right over there next to the daughter she never had?"
Twilight Sparkle: "Princess of Magic, actually. I think the title of Princess of Time should go to my daughter, once she receives a proper education about temporal mechanics and responsibilities. And ascends to alicornhood, of course."
Starlight Glimmer: "You mean it, Mom?"
Twilight Sparkle: "Of course I do. Your previous iteration obviously had enough raw talent for temporal manipulation to end up requiring a paradox patch to fix the damage she would have caused had the neverwould events of the now cut off time-loop been allowed to take place. So you obviously have the potential for it. We'll just make sure that you get the proper training and experience that you will need."
Spike: "This is the second weirdest thing to happen since I woke up this morning."
Rainbow Dash: "Really? What was weirder than all of this?"
Spike: "Waking up with a mustache."
Rainbow Dash: "Got ya!"
I've seen that picture, but can't find it, so i'll just quote as i remember it.
From The Cutie ReMark: Alternate Ending
What?! Tuesday will not arrive soon enough for any of us.