Chapter 15 - Confrontation
“Moonlight….I…”
Starlight barely had the time to turn her head as a blast of magic grazed her cheek. She cried out sharply as she reeled back.
“Don’t you dare call me that!” Twilight shouted, tears gathering at the corners of her eyes. “Where’s Spike? What did you do with him?”
“You have to understand--”
“What about the Princesses? What did you do with them?” Another blast of magic shot out from Twilight’s horn, but this time Starlight was more prepared. She quickly conjured a protective barrier in the form of a blue shield, deflecting Twilight’s attacks. “Or did you turn them into foals too!?”
Twilight lunged forward and sent multiple attacks at Starlight, bright beams of violet shooting through the darkness. Starlight grunted, springing back and forth in attempt to defend herself. Dodging Twilight’s magic, she took off down the hallway with her attacker not far behind. “Don’t run from me!”
Gritting her teeth, Starlight spun around and focused on strengthening her shield. Beads started to form under Twilight’s disheveled bangs as she tried with all her might to destroy Starlight’s barrier. Her breathing grew heavy and her eyes burned with pure hatred and frustration as she delivered blow after blow.
“You’re not the alicorn you once were, Twilight,” Starlight said, glaring at the smaller unicorn through her shield as she deflected another spell.
“Your magic is weaker. Stop this and I’ll explain!”
“There’s nothing to explain!” Twilight yelled, her energy slowly seeping out of her.
“Moonlight!”
Two pairs of eyes flicked momentarily as Sunshine skidded in between the two unicorns. Multiple heads popped out behind one of the door frames, accompanied by confused-filled mumbles. Sunshine looked back and forth between her sister and mother, almost at a loss for words. “Whats going on?” She turned to Twilight, her eyes burning bright with accusation. “What are you doing!?”
“Applejack, move!” Twilight yelled, not taking her eyes off Starlight.
“...What? Appleja--” Her sentence trailed off, her face flooding with realization and disbelief. “Oh, for Heaven’s sake, Moonlight! Have you lost your mind? They’re just mares from a book!”
“No they’re not!” Twilight half sobbed, regarding Sunshine fully. She choked at the sight of her friend’s appearance. It was like seeing through opened eyes again. Sunshine’s expression immediately softened considerably at the sight of her sister’s heartbreak. “Moonlight, what…”
“Just look!” Twilight threw her saddle back off her back, causing it to topple onto its side. Numerous jewels spilled out, each one a different shape and color. Starlight couldn’t hold back her gasp.
Multiple eyes fell on the jewels. Sapphire stepped out from the guest room with wide eyes. “Moonlight, what’s wrong with you? What are those?”
“And where did you get them?” Buttercup breathed. Prism was the last one to walk out, looking unnaturally pale. She looked between Twilight and Starlight and frowned.
“Girls, don’t go near those! They’re dangerous!” Starlight shouted behind her shield. She tried to use her levitation to grab the elements and pull them towards her, but Twilight managed to block Starlight’s magic and fire at her once more. Starlight and the shield staggered backward, cursing in a low growl.
“Don’t you dare,” Twilight hissed.
The four girls looked on in confusion and horror. “What's going on!?!” Buttercup exclaimed. “Stop it! Please!” but neither unicorn complied.
“Girls,” Starlight panted, her eyes flickering to them, almost pleading. “Your sister hit her head, she’s not well!” In the blink of an eye, she teleported behind Twilight and knelt down to snatch the elements, but Twilight proved to be just as fast and slammed into Starlight’s side headfirst.
The others gasped and shouted as their mother and sister slid across the floor.
“Girls, you have to trust me!” Twilight said before yelping as Starlight pinned her to the floor. Twilight squirmed for a few moments before kicking one of her hind legs into Starlight’s abdomen. Starlight released a deep, short gasp while Twilight rolled out from underneath her. “You need to touch the elements! I’d never do anything to hurt you!”
Starlight scowled and gripped Twilight’s tail with her magic. “Be quiet,” she growled, dragging Twilight backwards across the floor.
Twilight struggled and twisted her head around to face Starlight. “You owe them!”
“I don’t owe you anything,” Starlight hissed, encasing Twilight’s whole body in her aura. “You owe me everything!”
Twilight rose into the air, wriggling and squirming. “I can still be your mother, Twilight,” Starlight whispered, her eyes growing large. “I...I loved you, fed you, cared for you when you were sick and comforted you when you were frightened.” She paused as her breaths came out faster. “Everything I’ve taught you, everything we’ve been through...why would you throw that all away? And for what? Everything you’ve ever needed is right here!” She smiled faintly. “We can still be a family.”
There was a silence. Then, with a few tears slipping down her cheek, Twilight croaked, “I’d rather die.”
Starlight gasped quietly. Twilight couldn’t see Starlight’s expression, or anything else, for her vision was blurring with tears.
Then came a quiet, “Very well.”
Instantly, Twilight began to feel a harsh pressure on her brain. “Ah!” she clutched her head between her hooves, her eyes shut tight and her teeth clenched. “What are you doing?”
Prism rushed forward. “Mom!?”
“You’re hurting her!” Buttercup shouted, horrified.
“It’ll be okay my starlings,” Starlight murmured, her forehead creasing in concentration. “It’s for her own good.”
Twilight’s eyes snapped open. “You wouldn’t!” She thrashed around as the pressure on her skull hardened. “Stop! Please!” Her frantic eyes flew Sunshine. “Applejack! She’s taking my memories! Please lis--AHHH!”
Sunshine trembled. “Moonlight! I...I--!”
“It’s alright Sunshine!” Starlight shouted. “Don’t be afraid!”
“Applejack!” Twilight wailed as tendrils of bright blue magic began seeping into Twilight’s head. “You know I’d never lie to you!”
Sunshine suddenly jerked. After a few tense moments, Sunshine looked down at the jewels and blinked. Quicker than a wing beat, she dashed forward.
“S-Sunhine,” Sapphire called out with an edge of uncertainty. “What are you doing?” As Sunshine continued on, Sapphire's head whipped back and forth between the rest of her gaping siblings. “What do we do? Should we do something!?”
Buttercup and Prism looked too dazed to answer.
Sunshine’s shadow loomed over the scattered gems, the orange gem shaped like an apple shining brightly in the dark.
“Sunshine no!” Starlight shrieked. She struggled to levitate the elements, but all her magic was solely focused on Twilight. She quickly inched over sideways. “Sunshine don’t touch those, they’re--”
Sunshine looked Starlight square in the eye. Her hoof lowered. “I trust you, Moonlight….” she whispered.
“SUNSHINE N--”
But Starlight was too late. Sunshine’s eyes shone white, eliciting a few cries and shouts.
“Sunshine!” Prism shouted, running to to her sibling. After a few seconds, Sunshine exhaled sharply as the brightness dimmed down, and her forest green irises reappeared.
Her head snapped up.
Prism lifted a shaky hoof and started to place it on her sister’s shoulder. “S-Sunshi--”
With a pained roar, Applejack charged at Starlight and knocked into her, causing Twilight to fall out of the air in the process. Starlight cried out in pain as her body was slammed into a wall, leaving cracks in it. She weakly flopped onto the floor with a groan.
“You…”
Starlight looked up and couldn’t help but cower in Applejack’s shadow as she towered over her. She was still small, but the amount of pain and hatred in Applejack’s smoldering gaze made her shrink back like prey hiding from its predator. Her lips pulled back in a fearful snarl, and her muscles trembled uncontrollably.
“You!”
Starlight screamed as Applejack’s hooves descended on her. She whimpered softly, her eyes squeezed shut.
But the pain never came. “Wha--”
“What’s going on here!?” Sunset yelled, her aura freezing Applejack’s hooves in place. She trotted into the room and looked around at the damage. “What in Equestri--” Her breath hitched in her throat. “A….Apple...” She shook her head and her breathing growing shaky. She stepped back as Applejack turned her head, panting heavily. “But...no, that...that can’t…”
Sunset’s eyes darted over to the others, just in time to see Rarity collapse onto the floor with a wail. A purple diamond lay in front of her. “It can’t be…” A purple unicorn hugged her from behind, crying softly. “Celestia...oh, Celestia!” Starlight quickly slid out from Applejack and bolted down the hall. The farm pony yelled and screamed at her, kicking her hooves with force.
Twilight rose her head and met her eyes. “Sunset!”
Sunset Shimmer’s eyes rolled up as she collapsed, releasing her hold on Applejack.
“That monster!” Rarity sobbed, rocking back and forth. She shook her head over and over, her purple locks falling over her face. “I’ll never forgive her...never...never…”
Applejack shot down the hallway after Starlight. “Applejack, wait!” Twilight called. She looked down at Rarity and hugged her tightly. “Rarity...I know. I know. I’m so sorry. Rarity, I need your help in curing the others. Rarity please, I need you!” She let out a strangled sob.
Rarity continued to weep, but managed a weak nod.
Twilight glanced at over at Buttercup, who was holding Prism upright. The yellow pegasus watched her with large, confused eyes. "Moonlight..."
“I’m sorry,” Twilight whispered, choking on her words. “For everything.” She turned away and raced after Applejack with Buttercup calling out her old name.
“Where is she,” Applejack growled, charging through the castle, occasionally barging into different rooms Starlight could be hiding in. “I know you’re here! Come out and face me!”
Only silence answered back.
"What's the matter? Can't bare to face me when I'm not your little filly anymore?!"
She waited, taking in gulps of breath.
“Coward. Filthy good for nothin’ COWARD!” she hollered to the darkness.
“Applejack!”
Said mare turned to see Twilight’s silhouette galloping toward her. “Applejack wait!”
“I can’t find her,” Applejack panted, shaking her head.
“We still have to find Pinkie,” Twilight said shakily. “She’s still in the infirmary!”
Applejack’s pupils shrunk, and she broke out into cold sweat. “Oh Heavens,” she said faintly. The two mares quickly raced down the long corridors of Canterlot Castle. When they finally reached the infirmary, they found the door left wide open.
Hearts thumping, Twilight and Applejack rushed inside, only to skid to a halt in the entryway. Far across the room, Starlight was near and open window with a small pink pony draped across her back. The two of them gasped, but Starlight only glanced at them. “How nice,” she commented, her voice hollow. A rueful smile crossed her face. “Just like the old days...isn’t it?”
She looked back at Pearl, who was unconscious but shivering, small beads of sweat gathering at her forehead.
“Give it up, Starlight!” Applejack said. “Twilight broke your spell and soon everypony’s gonna find out about you. Put Pinkie Pie down and at least have the decency to turn yourself in. IT’S OVER.”
Starlight went quiet. “So quick. So quick, how you turn on me.” She looked at Twilight. “I gave you more love then Celestia ever could. Fluttershy’s never been bullied her entire life with me!”
“Rarity was never this close to your family. Rainbow Dash was always alone, and Applejack...Applejack, didn’t you ever wish you had a mother?”
Applejack set her jaw and fixed Starlight with an icy stare. “My Ma’s been gone a long time. I admit it... I wish I still had her around. But when she was more than--” her voice wavered a little. “More of a Ma in nine years of my life than you could ever be in eighteen!”
Starlight blanched. She looked at the stony faces that were once her daughters and swallowed hard. Twilight and Applejack stepped forward, but let out a sharp cry of warning.
“STOP!”
Before anypony could react, Starlight levitated Pearl off of her back and held her outside the window.
The two young mares stood in shock as their friend floated limply in the night sky. Starlight’s blue eyes were sharp. “Touch me and I drop her,” she said. “Go ahead. Try it.” Her eyes began to water. “Get your revenge!”
Neither pony moved an inch. Starlight burst out laughing, shaking her head. “Oh stars. What’s the point? I’ll be killed either way. The question is, by whom? You...the Guards...the Princesses….your families...maybe even random strangers when the word gets out.”
Pearl rose higher into the air. Her voice trembled. “All I ever wanted was to make Equestria a better place... "
“Starlight,” Applejack said slowly. “Don’t do this...not her. For Heaven’s sake, not her…”
Alert voices echoed through the halls.
“Not a sound,” said Starlight.
“Twilight,” Applejack said.
“It’s alright, Applejack,” Twilight said, finally speaking. Her eyes narrowed as she glared at Starlight. “She won’t hurt Pinkie. She’s bluffing.”
Applejack snapped her head in Twilight’s direction. “What?”
“She won’t do it,” Twilight repeated.
“Oh? And why wouldn’t I, Twilight?” Starlight snarled. “You said it yourselves. I’m not your mother anymore--why should I care if she dies? Huh?”
“Because I know the feeling isn’t mutual,” Twilight said. “You’re not our mother. But to you, we’re still your daughters.” Twilight lifted her chin. “And I know you’d never hurt your own child.”
A tear slid down Starlight’s eye. A long period of silence stretched between them. “Just let me keep her,” she said just above a whisper.
Before anypony could speak, a harsh voice rang out. “There she is!”
A small gasp escaped Starlight. Without a word, she abruptly tossed Pearl on one of the beds before jumping out the window. Twilight’s mouth fell open. Before she knew it, she was at the windowsill and peered down with baited breath. Applejack went over to Pinkie and turned her over. “Sugarcube,” she breathed, placing a hoof over her forehead.
“She’s getting away,” Twilight sighed. She watched as Starlight slid her way down a vine. As the words left her mouth, the infirmary was suddenly swarmed with Royal Guards. Two guards nudged the girls out of the way and poked their heads outside.
“There she goes!” one called. As soon as the pink unicorn reached the bottom, she looked up in their direction and quickly ran across the fields before disappearing in a bright blue flash.
“Captain!” a pegasus guard shouted, brushing past Rarity. “Captain, she’s escaping!”
“What’s going on!?” another guard squeaked as they all filed out.
“Find that mare!” a voice boomed. Hooves thundered against the floor, multiple voices overlapping in a confused chaotic blur. Twilight could only watch as dozens of ponies brushed past her.
“Twilight!”
Twilight looked up to see Sunset Shimmer racing toward her and her mouth went dry.
As Sunset slowed, they regarded one another with wide eyes.
After long moment, Twilight finally wiped her eyes and cleared her throat. “You’re...uh...you’re a lot older than I remember.”
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First I admit that this chapter was written pretty good.
Second, I still wish Starlight is getting some sort of win win situation out of it and because of that, I'm not to happy with what happened.
It looked like she would also still have her memories/feelings from the time with Starlight, so doing that much to her maybe seems a bit much.
edit: I just don't want a quick "bam Starligh is bad..we won ..yeeaaahhh" ending.
Wow...I did not expect that. I know Starlight is more powerful than Twilight right now but...huh. I'm wandering if the next chapter will either be Starlight and her running away or Twilight announcing to Equestria what kind of monster Starlight really is.
Either way, THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
This is great!
I'm looking forward to the next chapter. But don't rush yourself!
Hmm. Lots and lots of questions. Just how much younger are the M6 than they were orginally?
7601197 While that is true, a ton of memories just shot into their brains. They have the right to be angry realizing how much of their life is a lie now.
And there's the fact we saw in canon, even when Twilight was Alicorn, she and Twilight were EQUAL in power.
Then came a quiet, “Very well.”
No offense, but that feels OOC for Starlight, all things considered. I know I'm going to have a hundred disagree with me, but that's how I feel.
Before anypony could react, Starlight levitated Pearl off of her back and held her outside the window.
Again, this strangely feels OOC for Starlight, it makes her feel more like a dyed in the wool sociopath than a well intentioned extremist with a messiah complex.
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Oh how the mane six is acting is totally in character (who wouldn't react that way?), but personally I find Starlight OOC here. She feels here like an empty sociopath with no empathy and seeing those around here as objects, rather than her persona as a well intentioned extremist blinded by her messiah complex.
7601239 Well...you have to admit her giant master plan is suddenly falling apart after almost two decades of planning it. It wouldn't be surprising if she panicked quite a bit. And she was already an extremist with delusions of a very strange grandeur.
Starlight has a lot to look forward to. Wheath it's good or bad, i think sparing Pinkie was the right choice. Sure most people don't like her claiming she's OP as hell, when really she's just trying to do what's best for the world, in her own unique way. Now everyone's against her and she has lost everything possible save for her life. I can't see how this can end well for her considering how the ponies in this story are. Well, in either case it's hard to not think how this will affect everypony involved now that Starlight's plan was exposed.
7601250 So true, but in the end what she does is what's important. She isn't a killer and she spared Pinkie so it shows there is still hope for her yet.
This is big, but maybe forgiveness will come in time. There is going to be tearful reunions with their families. I'm looking forward for these.
7601206 I agree with that too, I just expected her to be more confused about the whole thing, and not just full onto killing her with Magic to exaggerate it a bit.
Maybe it would have helped to see her mind at work for a moment, I don't remember what happened in that regard right now. I have to look again
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7601239 I can understand what you are saying too, I guess I'm somewhere in the middle with my own opinion.
7601411 I like Starlight more than Starswirls, because she finally makes it look like their wasn't only one strong Unicorn badass anymore.
However it is going to happen the way it looks like, I somewhat hope that two of them are going to start defending Starlight even if they dissaprove of her actions, only to make the others aware of the possible change she had in her personality and stuff like that. I guess you notice that she is one of my favourite characters/Villains.
edit: I feel like I forgot to say something, but if I make it to long I'm only going to repeart myself.
"What’s the point? I’ll be killed either way. The question is, by whom? You...the Guards...the Princesses….your families...maybe even random strangers when the word gets out.”
After everything you've done, all you've hurt with your selfish actions; it's what you deserve.
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I'll admit, it is kinda confusing how 20 years worth of memories are now worth less than the empty shell of gnat. Applejack is clearly out for blood. But given Twilight's pure HATRED of her, I'm stunned at her even remotely realizing that Starlight wouldn't do it. Why? Because when we hate someone, it's INHERENT that we do our BEST subconsciously to find NO good qualities in them as a person. Because we LIKE things to be simple and black and white. And above everything, we NEVER EVER want our emotions to be wrong, if we hate someone, then they're the absolute scum of the earth, if they love them, they're a pure hearted saint, if we're indifferent to them, then they're a faceless shadow that has no influence on the world and might as well have never been born.
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While Frank Miller has IMHO slowly went off the deep end as a comic writer, he does have some good stuff in Dark Knight Returns when he's not showing how much cooler Batman is than Superman. An elderly Bruce Wayne thinks how NAIVE he was for thinking Joe Chill, his parents' murderer was the absolute worst scum of humanity. A faceless mugger who wanted money, "he flinched when he pulled the trigger, he felt guilty and sick about what he did. These are his children, they're a purer breed." Thus ironically, Batman was in his old age able to see his own parents killer as more than just some monster who swooped in for the exclusive purpose of murdering them.
So yeah I'm fucking glad Starlight got called out for the monster that she really is in this story and hope she is punished. Not death penalty but if this story just goes 'oh you might have screwed our.minds over for the past few years and denied us from seeing our families but that's fine because lol friendship or something' I will have lost big respect for it.
I think that the only way that she could possibly redeem herself now is to find that time travel spell. She could fix things so that they were all right again.
Just an idea ...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
7601679 But then she would've learned NOTHING. And if anything that would piss them off more and more. Each loop causing her to make them increasingly angry... to the point FLUTTERSHY might snap her neck.
I wish I didn't read this all at once right after an update...
The wait is gonna kill me. i've been waiting for the events of this chapter since reading the summary a few hours ago.
7601515 It makes a bit sense, but I don't exactly like to say that one acts like everyone else.
Nooooo! I need more!
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For Starlight, I think the most she can hope for is some level of acceptance, and understanding that she is a complex and very troubled individual who often had good intentions but still did monstrous things. Regardless of how much she grew into the role of their mother, nothing can overcome the facts that she violated their minds, stole almost 20 years of their lives, and outright stated that her original motivation for this whole plan was revenge and using the 6 of them as tools for her own ambitions.
Maybe she can still get a more bittersweet ending that doesn't end with her death or with all six despising her for the rest of their lives. I am curious to see how things develop once the dust settles and the mane six have a chance to get their bearings (also very much looking forward to the upcoming aftermath and reunion chapter(s)). Applejack and Rarity I don't see ever fully letting go of their anger given the nature of Starlight's crimes and just how personal it is to them, while Pinkie and Fluttershy I see as being less angry and more just sad, and unable to look at her without being reminded of all the misery their disappearances caused and everything they missed out on. Rainbow and Twilight meanwhile might surprise once the shock has worn off, I could see things go any number of ways.
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They may have ~18 years of memories growing up under Starlight, but they spent those years being isolated from the rest of the world and only being exposed to her personal philosophy. Those memories now have to compete with 20+ years of active and fulfilling lives with well established personalities and self-identities, which had already rejected her beliefs and worldviews. Plus I doubt the Tree of Harmony was weighing those sets of memories equally when it restored the original ones. It also doesn't help that their last memory from before was Starlight gloating over her vengeance over them. The next couple chapters I'd think would deal with the aftermath and everyone trying to find balance between their old and new memories, and trying to reconcile Starlight the spiteful villain with Starlight their strict but loving mother (who in retrospect rather blatantly indoctrinated and used them, even if for a 'good' cause).
Noooo, I have to wait again
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This is why I said "big" and "maybe". I didn't say it would be easy. Nor fast.
Maybe some of the 6 will forgive Starlight one day. She still deserves a punishment, but not death.
Dam....
I'll admit, I have the mental image of Starlight making grave marks for her daughters, (since her daughters ARE dead for all intents and purposes), and it turns out she took poison before the heroes even get there! The heroes of course think this is just cowardice to avoid justice. When in reality it was GRIEF (losing your children is enough to drive any parent mad with grief).
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Man, you've just read my mind. I'm also think about something similar.
Personally... in retrospect? As much as people have rambled, heck, even DONE FANFICTION of Discord enacting TERRIBLE revenge on Starlight for what she does to Fluttershy... I know Discord at fist doesn't seem the type to care... but I doubt his bloated ego could stand it... what do I speak of? He'd be a hypocrite. He twisted the mane six into mockeries of themselves FOR THE FUN OF IT! What he did was no different and he NEVER ONCE gave an 'I'm sorry' for that. So yeah, as much as Discord is the wrathful type, his demented ego couldn't stand the idea of being called hypocritical.
7601204 They are fourty-something year old mares in teenage bodies. When Starlight took them, they were in their early twenties.
7601830 All in one night? Dang
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7602299 Hopefully the next update will be faster this time.
7603761 One thing to note: Twilight never intended to kill Starlight-she was lashing out in any way she could at the moment.
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Oh. Didn't get that. Seemed both she and AJ were out for blood.
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I have a problem...and it's good pony words related...
Either help or a good fix will help...
PS an update does wonders
PSS I hope your other stories are prepared for me
Lastly where was your old pic from.
7603789 Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now hop to it... or else...
7603826 Grief and anger makes a bad combination.
7604323 Thanks for taking interest in this story! Also, that was a Pinkie Pie Pacha meme from derpibooru.
I may have not been paying attention or must have forgotten do to how long these updates take, but how and why is Sunset Shimmer back in Equestria? Why isn't she with her Canterlot High friends? I would have figured she would be with them in this sort of time, likely grieving about pony Twilight, surely they would want to know what happened.
7605366 That will be explained in the next chapter
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At this point, she'd request at least the names of her daughters be added to her grave stone.
I really can't wait to the next, with that I mean it is really good.
please 
Moore
Shit has hit the fan and i love it!
7605250 I opened every single thing on that and it looks like a tumblr post now.
Oh wow! I can't wait for more~
Dang. I never felt this conflicted. Cool. But yeah starlgitn doesn't deserve death but still needs to pay. It sad how the sisters never got to watch their siblings grow up or granny death. But hey at least Twi got spike Where is he anyway
If Pinkie Pie dies, Starlight WILL use the time travel magic to go back in time and stop her own plan, it's as natural as rain falling from the sky. Starlight literally has nothing left to lose.
Ironically, Discord and Nightmare Moon were both thwarted once, and once freed immediately went back to their old rampages. So it feels kinda hypocritical that either would seek the "permanent solution" for Starlight.
It took Starlight just one year to learn a fully functional time travel spell once she (likely with a lot of self loathing) stopped ignoring her own special talent. She's had DECADES now. (And she's ironically shown to be better at mixing and matching magics than Twilight).
The worst part is that Starlight could have won, IF she had explained to her daughters their true origin BEFORE starting off as part of 'the talk' so she could give it the spin from her point of view.
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Well that's what you get for being an idiot.
The top flashback of the stories is still great to read. I really like what she does for the dragon.
Don't mind me just reading this for the milinillianth time.
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Gonna update this soon!
7796957 :D
7601197 Except if that isn't the case then it'll be forced as all hell since Starlight STOLE YEARS FROM THEIR LIVES and is generally just CALLOUS thinking they'd just accept her. She is a monster in this no matter the justifications.