“-And I’m not sure if it’d be wise to try something else, but I want to keep trying.” Sweetie confessed the last two Loops to Twilight, who bit her lip, digesting this information. While she wasn’t sure she agreed with Sweetie keeping it a secret, she was starting to really have concerns for her sanity.
“While I’m disappointed you lied about it, I agree with the fact you need to get out of this Loop. It’s starting to affect you, and I don’t know what I can do to stop it.” Twilight brought Sweetie into a hug, and both glanced toward the floor.
“I know, I’m scared Twilight. Part of me doesn’t want to go through more pain, and part of me wants to get out so badly I’m starting to be torn in two.” Sweetie stepped back, unsure how to deal with her current set of circumstances. What was she supposed to do? There was two options available to her, and neither one was a good decision.
“If I continue to try and get somepony Looping, I murder more ponies, and let more of my hope die. But if I don’t, I risk becoming like...Discord pre-reform.” Sweetie wasn’t entirely comfortable using Discord’s name, but it was the best description she had for it. Sweetie was frightened that when, not if, she got to that point, she wouldn’t even notice the difference.
“I’m sorry Sweetie, I don’t have the answers.” Twilight bowed her head, racking her brains for a third solution, a means to solve both problems. But she turned up no answers. Any risk Sweetie made might only hurt the filly more. And yet, doing nothing would lead to the same outcome. Twilight closed her eyes for a moment, and sighed.
“There is something that might work, but the chances of it doing so are slim, considering what you’ve told me.” Twilight seriously disliked the knowledge of something behind the scenes pulling the strings, especially since it filled her with burning anger. How dare something put a poor innocent filly through all of this!
“If we try transferring all your magic to me, I might be able to absorb the timeloop spell, and thus free you from it. It doesn’t entirely fix the problem, but it means we can transfer it between people, share the burden. Plus, it doesn’t have to wait until Friday.” Twilight offered her plan, and Sweetie bowed her head, eyes hidden under her hair.
“Yeah, okay.” Sweetie closed her eyes, knowing that everything she did was likely going to fail. But the other option just wasn’t an option. Giving up? Rarity was one of the most stubborn sisters Sweetie knew, and she would have never just ‘given up’ in Sweetie’s position. Or at least, that’s what Sweetie was choosing to believe.
“Let’s do it at your house.” Twilight put some things into her saddlebags, and turned to Sweetie. Sweetie concentrated, horn glowing, and they both appeared in her room. Twilight’s eyes widened, surprised.
“Wow Sweetie, you can teleport this far in one go?” Twilight was impressed, and a little nervous. If Sweetie had the magic capacity to teleport such a distance, would she even be able to contain it? Shaking her head rapidly, Twilight discarded her thoughts on the matter.
“Are you ready?” Twilight gulped, and Sweetie nodded slowly. Breathing in, Twilight concentrated, pulling on her knowledge of spells and magic to make the spell the other Princesses had cast on her. With a casual flick of her horn, she reversed the flow, and touched it to Sweetie’s.
Sweetie felt herself freeze, unable to move. It was as if something was slathering her with a terrible, ice cold ooze. Her horn felt like fire, and she was barely able to maintain consciousness. Twilight pulled at the last sliver of Sweetie’s magic, watching her Cutie Mark begin to vanish, and pulled it to the tip of her horn.
Sweetie blinked, thudding to the floor as she glanced around her. Twilight was ash, quickly blowing away, and she had full control of her magic once more. Rubbing her forehead, she tried to form a coherent thought, but decided to just teleport onto her bed, and fall instantly to sleep. Sweetie felt exhausted, for no reason she could conceive in her current state. So she slept.
A few hours later, she awoke with a fresher mind and sighed, ears flopping down.
“Well, that didn’t work.”
Previously Opal felt that draining effect, similar to the CMC, cause they "died". However, now she's all cuddly whenever Sweetie's in a bad mood. What's up with that?
“Well, that didn’t work.”
Ha! References.
Oh come on! Just last chapter I mentioned that line giving me the shivers... Well, excellent reference anyway. I can't wait to see how this one pans out...
-You, author, you will from now on here me comment on every chapter as if I'm talking to sweetie
- All I have to say to little filly is every try eliminates non-possiblities and opens up new ones. There was a reason for this, find the source, get the sulotion.
Well. I'd have loved to see the local reaction to Sweetie turning Twilight to ash. Rarity's poor carpet.
As this is post season 4, then Twilight has some more options. Theres still the mirror world with its 'different energy'(Thanks Dagi) and they could always look up Scorpan and stuff him like a turkey.
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Swirly's a dirty old b-tard. Useing such a dirty trick to insta kill anyone who tries shifting the spell. Seriously, Twilight held the magic of 4 dieties, could teleport all the way to the Crystal Empiere with the physical force of a pony giving a sneeze rather than any real effort ... and gets ashed.
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You know what, you're right!!!!!!! If tirek is still around, even a 1000 plus years, I don't see why the same wouldn't be true for his brother Scorpan.
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what exactly IS that a reference to anyway???????????
I've posted this same comment over and over again and I'm starting to get sick and tired of it. When the buck will Sweetie use the mirror pond and attempt to bring a clone though the loops with her????????
5682759 Won't work, they are made up of the Mirror Pond's magic, which is why when they 'die' in the show, they go back to it. And we already know Sweetie's loops drains all magic in the room, so wouldn't work.
5682750 It's a reference to Hard Reset by Eakin
Opal is making me think she knows more and is the interfering force... >:O ONTO YOU OPAL! I KNOW YOU'RE AT FAULT!
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that is a magicial word known as retconning
well st... that didnt work at all...
wait did sweetie lose her cutiemark at the end of this? I can tell that the loop probably restarted instantly once the spell was complete. but did the cutiemark survive?
5682653 to be entirely fair, we know that at the very least Sweetie has absorbed at LEAST 5 alicorns magic entirely along with who knows how many other ponys (and very possibly DISCORD during her 1st death loop) so its entirely possible that this isn't the result of the obvious third party and more a simple result of Twilight overloading so badly that she had a rather explosive discharge. (as a side note, i noticed this didn't mention that the loop reset)
course that raises another very good question.. how in the world is sweetie managing to CONTAIN that much magical energy if its more than even the Element of Magic herself can hold? and for another one, could it possible that Tirek could absorb all her magic as he appears to have a seemingly infinite capacity ( being able to hold literally every ponys magic as well as Discords and all four alicorns without a sweat)
so many questions here and yet no closer to solving any of the old ones.
Sweetie, I want you to trap Opal in your room when the loop resets. That cat is behind this somehow, and even if this doesn't break the loop, frankly deserves it.
Imagine Twilight let's Sweetie go through the portal because it might help her escape and it turns out that the eg world hasnt been loopin so there a year a head of equestria.
"Well, that didn't work."
I literally just said, "Oh, sh*t" out loud.
Sweetie, you might be screwed now.
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Have some tea time with Chryssi next time.
I was kinda hoping this "share the burden" thing would work...
it could explain how Starswirl got out of the loop, or rather... how he managed to pull everyone else in with him.
That could also explain why the sun, the moon and nature in general would have to be manual changed.
but then the chapter ended with a “Well, that didn’t work.” and my hope for my previous assumption died.
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Oh god, that reference! xD
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You know I didn't count that ... although I still call bullocks on two unaging, immortal Alicorns aging into dust. I can see Twilight and Cadance (Caddy's aged, or at least "seemed to" in the show (teen same age as Shiny, to adult same age as Shiny.) since they are both created Alicorns, and quite young for Alicorns.
But for thousands of years, from before Discord, Tia and Luna both were unaging. Not once in all the time we see them do they age (Luna's debut episode non-withstanding as she regained her power). So, them dying makes no sense, although I find it even odder Twilight's true providence / godessy aspect is magic, and she reformed just as her body died allowing her to be the only one to see herself and everyone die and turn to Ash.
Still, those two born ali's dying is infeasible. At least ashing. Them going celestial and their consciousness being slammed into their Doubles. Possibly , painful but possible. Especially if they are connected to their celestial source like a psion would. Then since all three ... four? Times the sun and Moon never extinguished. The Alicorn sisters wouldn't have died. Really those two dying, especially without the sun and outer space imploding / ashing, just doesn't work.
Twi exploding like Sarda the Sage in 8 bit Theater. Makes sense now. Yeah Sweets has three Twilight's in her, all of the world's ponies at least once, and a Cadance. I wonder ... in the deaths of Twilight. Did she instaform back at her home like the first loop? What about Cadance?
As for Sweets not going boom. Well Luna did say someone was taking a part of it somewhere. That one time she and Tia were going to force a flare.
I'm suspicious now. In books, I have only ever seen a character say something like that, that another is an innocent child that doesn't deserve what is happening, when it is later revealed that they're not innocent at all and have a long back-story with the villain who's doing everything.
But did the loop reset or Twilight actually became ash in the middle of it?
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All my yes.
Hard Reset, all day, baby,
I haven't read timeloop story on fimfiction so far that didn't have those four terrifying words on them.
I still love you worked this into your story.
Suddenly, a wild Hard Reset Reference appears!
You little shit
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HARD RESET IS LIFE! (And death via Horrible Shiny Wall of Death)
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Hard Reset by Eakin. If you look at the comments for a chapter where something didn't work, there will be at least one comment referencing that. Especially the past few chapters.