Same As The First
The blue box that Time Turner owned appeared in a fairly vacant grassy area under Cumula, The box’ door open and Twilight and Spike stepped out, as they looked around, Time Turner stood in the doorway, “Sorry, but I don’t have a permanent cloud walk spell installed on this, yet, so you’re going to have to fly or teleport up.”
“Well thanks for the help, Doc.” Spike comment as he took the scroll and put it into his backpack, “So what are you going to do?”
“There are currently too many people from the future from this point in time for things to go as they should.” Time informed. “So Brighteyes and I are going back to the Future, well, Present. Also in case you get sent back there because you failed to stop Starlight, we can try again.” Time Turner said as he shut the door and the blue box began to fade out of exitance or so it appeared.
“Well, thanks for the vote of confidence, Doc.” Spike deadpanned before Twilight rolled her eyes and teleported the two into the sky.
As the nine-year-old Rainbow and the ten-year-old Hoops and Dumb-Bell were about started with their race, Starlight was laying low, searching for her spot to be used for her trap only to be blasted with purple magic, and incased. “I know what you’re doing, and I am not going to let you do it.” came Twilight's voice.
After Twilight finished, Starlight’s eyes and her focus gem glowed turquoise as she was muttering various spells together and shattered the trap after a few seconds, “Not bad, but it's gonna take a lot more than that!” Starlight declared as if she was unaffected, but Twilight heard a faint pant.
Twilight’s eyes narrowed as her eyes focus gem and hands started to glow, a smile on her face as she could tell that what happened took more out of Starlight than she what the binder would ever willingly admit. “Lucky for you, there's more where that came from!” Twilight then started to cast various attack spells, such as magical missiles, beams, fireballs, acid orbs, etc.
Twilight was clearly powerful, but her aim was… far from true as Starlight was able to dodge most of the spells, “You've really gotta work on your aim.” She countered as she went on the attack in turn. However, Twilight was able to bat each spell that Starlight sent her way much like when the two squared off. Twilight, while still doing it almost effortlessly, had to note that Starlight was more powerful, in truth it really wasn’t by much, but there was something about each spell that Twilight deflected gave her something to think about, should she have a chance to actually think. Twilight also did not let up with her spells, which forced Starlight to use shielding spells. Many of Twilight’s spells didn’t make their mark, but those that hit clearly were more powerful than what Starlight could throw at her.
There were only two times in Spike’s life that he wished he was still the size and structure of a small iguana-like dragon when Twilight and he first moved to Magiville. The first was after he became his current state following the whole gem mine incident on his birth or hatching day, simply because it was the form that he knew. This was the second time and it was fairly obvious why, as he desperately clung to Twilight’s clothes, had he been his original size and shape, he could hide in Twilight’s clothes and might actually be a shield of shorts covering her heart… After another second or two of thought, he concluded that would have been a bad idea, but he would at least have a much better grip.
Back and forth Starlight and Twilight sent their spells at each other and protected themselves from their opponent's spells. This went on for almost two minutes as Starlight started to pant. Twilight was unphased and continued, as she was not about to let up. She had to stop Starlight here and now, by any means necessary. As Twilight elected to absorb the last spell Starlight sent and prepared to cast another spell to finish Starlight off when she heard “WHOA!”. She, Starlight and Spike turned to see Rainbow Dash, Hoops, Dumb-Bell and other children watching the fight. Rainbow Dash had a box of popcorn and was munching it.
Twilight was taken aback at all the young Skyborn that were watching her and Starlight fight, namely Rainbow Dash. She flew to be much closer to children with her focus on the three that should be racing. “What are you doing?” Twilight asked in a panic, “You have to finish your race!” she ordered like a worried elementary school teacher.
Rainbow waved the comment away, “No way!” she then returned to her popcorn, “This is way more exciting than any lameo race!”
“And she gave Gilda a hard time from that dated slang.” Spike quipped only for Twilight to hear.
“See?” Starlight asked as she walked a few steps closed to Twilight. Twilight turned and stepped towards her as well. “You can't stop me no matter what you do. Even using that chronomancer’s big blue time machine to circumvent the spell. You think I wouldn’t have planned for that. I spent the better part of a year planning this, but I had pretty much everything I needed while you were so focused on that lost cause Moondancer. ” Starlight mocked.
Before Twilight could counter, a copy of the bubble that had taken Twilight and Spike into the past and present appeared and pulled them in like a vacuum. Starlight then teleported away.
“Aw, man,” Rainbow complained as the show was over. Disgruntled she threw the popcorn box on the ground as everyone else gave a disappointed ‘aw’ and started to fly away.
As the bubble that pulled Twilight and Spike into itself opened and they two fell onto the table that projected the Aura Map. As they recovered, it was the same icy wasteland it was when they when back in time both via the spell and with Time Turner’s help. “Buck!” Twilight all but cursed. “What do I do now?” She asked.
Just then the blue box that Time Turner used reappeared right next to the table. The door open and it was Brighteyes, “Um, Doc. The plan didn’t work.” Brighteyes said over her shoulder. After she turned back to the other two. “You two look like you could use a little more help.” Twilight and Spike sighed and walked into the box. The headed to the table as Spike placed the scroll on it. After a minute Brighteyes hovered over and, “Muffins. This one is Emerald with Lime,” she said as she placed a muffin with the muffin with emeralds sticking out of it in front of Spike. Spike licked the muffin and then started to devour the muffin rapidly. “I’ll get you more. But this is for you Twilight, Chantalot Strawberry.” Twilight accepted it and started to eat it quietly.
“So what happened this time around?” Time asked as he sat down at the table.
Twilight sighed, “She expected me to get help from you.” Twilight stated. After a second she grabbed the scroll and threw it with an angry scream. “How could I be so stupid?! She had the better part of a year to plan all this! And I am making things up on the fly!” She wanted to blast something but she knew it was not going to do anything, but she grabbed the chair she sat in and threw it across the room, thankfully not hitting anyone or anything. She roared but after a second she dropped to her knees and started to cry, “I can’t outfight her fast enough to not be noticed by Rainbow. I can’t challenge Rainbow to a race. I can’t kill her because that would be much more noticeable than fighting her.” Twilight listed off. “And just casting this spell time and time again, she’ll eventually catch on and will try to get the scroll away to destroy it. And having Spike send it to himself on a loop again will only last so long until she catches on. I lost... I can’t win...”
Before Twilight realized it, she was in a hug from Brighteyes, “Everyone in my family says that my hugs are as good as my muffins.” Twilight didn’t respond but whimper a little. “Let it all out.” Twilight then cried into Brighteyes' shoulders for almost a minute. Once done Brighteyes ended the hug and looked Twilight in the eyes. “You are Princess Twilight Sparkle. You are the smartest person of our age. You did what Celestia could not, you did what Star Swirl did not. You will find a way. Now, who are you?” Brighteyes asked as her voice started to sound like a drill sergeant.
“Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight answered weakly.
“I can’t hear you,” Brighteyes stated.
“Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight repeated a little more confidently.
“I can’t hear you!” Brighteyes repeated with more force.
“Twilight Sparkle!” Twilight answered with more confidence and matched Brighteyes' force in her statement.
“I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!” Brighteyes shouted at Twilight once more.
“TWILIGHT SPARKLE!!!” Twilight shouted back, with the force to send Brighteyes to the ground and slide three free away. Twilight then got to her feet and stood tall. From Brighteyes' vantage point, it looked like Twilight had finally climbed the peck and fully ascended to her position of demigod. Twilight turned to face Time Turner and Spike, “And I will solve this problem.” Her confidence returned and she went to get the scroll.
“How do you plan to do that?” Spike asked.
“I have no idea.” Twilight declared unashamed before she started to look over the scroll in depth. After a second. “I got it. This spell sends Starlight to a week before my friends and I arrived at the village she set up after I am sent back to the present. Is there a way to find out if she's still alive?”
“Why do you want to know?” Time Turner asked as he and Brighteyes started to look for what Twilight asked for.
“Because I have a plan. If she wants me to see a world without my friendships. Well, I think she deserves a chance to view her handiwork.” Twilight couldn't help but grin slightly.
“Found it!” Brighteyes said as found something that looked like some sort of portable barcode reader. She pressed a button on it and after a few seconds, “Um, Doc, you had this calibrated to detected carbon-based lifeforms right?”
“Yes,” Time asked nervously as he didn't like where Brighteyes would be going.
“Well, there are only four living carbon-based lifeforms on this planet and they are all here,” Brighteyes said as she tried to hold back the horror and terror she felt.
“Perfect!” Twilight exclaimed. “Take us back, Time Turner, back to the past.”
It took everyone a second to register what Twilight was thinking. “Once more into the breach.” Tim Turner said as he started to prepare to travel back in time, “ALLONS-Y!”
After leaving Time Turner and Brighteyes for the two to travel back to the present, Twilight teleported herself and Spike to where they found Starlight, the last time. Once there, “Starlight, don’t do this!” She shouted and caused her foe to turn to face her.
“So managed to get here when I did. How did…” Starlight paused as she tried to figure out how Twilight got there without the spell. “Oh, the chronomancer with the screwdriver, clever.”
“His name is Doctor Time Turner Who, often he goes by Time Turner. Yet sadly, I have to admit, this was not clever enough. I know you planned this out and many of the possible ways I can try to stop you.” Twilight had to admit. She then took a breath as she collected herself and narrowed her eyes as she prepared to confront Starlight, “But I cannot let you do this.”
Starlight’s focus gem and hands started to glow, “So do you plan to fight, Twilight?” she asked as she prepared to fight Twilight.
Twilight shook her head and then dipped it, “No. I know I can't stop you like that.” She then rose her head with her eyes narrow and her conviction resolved. “But I will never stop trying to stop you. I am a demigod, I will outlast you.”
“I don’t care!” Starlight shouted back, “I don’t care! I will make you watch this as many times as I can. For as long as I can I will keep you and your friends from getting your aura mark connection.” Starlight then prepared to cast a spell, an acid orb, “So bring it, because I'm game!” She then sent the spell and Twilight batted it away like it was a fly.
“What you're doing goes way beyond aura marks!” Twilight then brought a cloud to be in front of her. She made a steep hill, a house and little ball that was placed at the top of it. “Everything we do here in the past” she then let the ball start to roll, “– even the smallest change –” as she spoke the ball grew as it rolled down to the steep hill and crushed the house. “can snowball into an avalanche of trouble for the future!” Then a blast of turquoise magic hit the crushed house and large cloud ball.
Starlight rolled her eyes as she Twilight looked up to Starlight from the visual aid, “Oh, and next I suppose you'll tell me that,” Starlight then used her hands to make air quotes as she spoke, “ ‘the fate of all of Mystica hangs in the balance’!” She then shook her head not believing that Twilight would result to make such a childlike appeal.
“It does!” Twilight shouted back.
Starlight rolled her eyes and shouted, “Spare me your overblown ego!” before Twilight could counter. “No group of friends, not even Princess Twilight's, is that important!” Starlight then look to see that Rainbow Dash was about to challenge the two bullies and then sent a blast of turquoise magic at the nine-year-old Rainbow Dash and encased her in the same trap Twilight and Spike were encased in when they first used to spell intentionally and Starlight was encased in when Twilight elected to fight her after she was assisted by Time Turner the first time.
Just then the bubble that has taken Twilight and Spike to the past and present appeared and opened to draw Twilight and Spike in. “I don't know how important other’s friendships are to the future,” Twilight teleported to be behind Starlight. “but I can show you what the world is like without mine!” Twilight then grabbed Starlight just as the power of the bubble grew to pull the three into it. She had to make sure that Starlight could not get away, she had to show Starlight the future she made. The bubble closed as the three were pulled into it.
The bubble opened and the three fell. Twilight, however, used her wings to catch herself and used her magic to catch Spike and let Starlight fall flat onto the table on her stomach. “Ow, should have told you, the first step’s a doozy.” Twilight mocked concern. She couldn’t help but smile as Starlight began to get back up from the table, clearly in pain, as impact bruised a rib or two.
After she steered at Twilight with and grumbled, Starlight started to look around as she saw the wasteland that her actions led to. Her mouth was slightly open in confusion, “Where are we?” she ordered Twilight to inform her.
Twilight land on the table and lowered Spike to it as well, “The present, should Rainbow Dash’s first sonic rainboom never happen.” Twilight could only look at the vacant land, not facing Starlight.
“But there's nothing here!” Starlight shouted not fully believing what she saw as the wind started to pick up and she started to shiver.
“Thank you, Captain Obvious, whatever could we do without you?” Spike quipped.
Twilight sighed as she looked at the sky dejected and forlorn before she turned to face Starlight, “I wish I could say I was surprised, but I have come this each time you stopped Rainbow Dash’s first sonic rainboom and if you keep at trying to stop it and if I keep at stopping you, this is the fate of all.”
“I don't believe you!” Starlight challenged as she refused to accept what was in front of her.
“Look around you, Starlight.” Spike almost barked before he huffed out a fire to warm the air around him. “You stopped the rainboom, and we were sent here after it when the bubble opened up.” He was not in the mode to deal with Starlight’s denial. “Cast a zone of truth and ask us. Cast a detect life or something.”
Twilight sighed again, “Like I said, everything in the past affects the future, even the tiniest act. And what you're doing leads here.” Twilight held her left hand out pointing to the wasteland that surrounded them. “I know I can't stop you, not by the means at my disposal, and trying to in infinitum will last in infinitum,” Starlight rolled her eyes in response, which Twilight noted. However, Twilight continued, “but I thought showing you this might change your mind.”
“Change my mind?” Starlight asked as she teleported to be much closer to Twilight her breath rapid as she tried to contain her anger, just so. “You don't know anything about me!” She shouted as she raised her right fist and clenched it. “I was perfectly happy before you and your friends ruined what I built!”
Twilight shook her head as she saw that Starlight was not going to change without Twilight making an attempt to know what Starlight holds as the root cause of this, but she also knew she couldn’t ask it directly, only she could do was address that she didn’t know, “I don't know what happened that led you to make your village without aura marks, and I'm sorry my friends and I had to take it away.”
“You want to know what happened to me?!” Starlight’s anger seemed to reach the boiling point. She took a few breathes and started to mutter as her eyes, hands and focus gem glowed as well as the scroll which was in Spike’s backpack. Once she finished what she was doing she placed her left hand on the map, “I'll show you!”. Another bubble like the ones that have taken them the three to Cumula on the day that Rainbow Dash performed her first sonic rainboom appeared and opened to take them to the time and place she wanted to show Twilight and Spike.
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Okay, with all the additions and improvements that you have made to the story already, you're really going to need to beef up Starlight's motivation. I mean, it was fine with the events in canon, but with this story, I'm expecting something utterly heart-wrenching. No pressure.
Hey there. Thanks very much for getting the next chapter up. Again, great job on the action, exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up in all the right places. I particularly liked how Starlight reminded Twilight of the preparations she made and the REASON she and Twilight are so evenly matched as well as Time Turner's pep talk and the extra details concerning Twilight's last ditch plan to get Starlight to listen to reason . And, yeah, I am DEFINITELY looking forward to seeing what extra details you will be going into concerning Starlight's backstory.
And, yeah, I will also strongly respect if real world concerns cut in on your writing time.
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Um... It was Brighteyes that gave the prep talk
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Ooopsie. Thanks for the correction. Serves me right for reading too fast.
I hope you don't mind me hazarding a guess as to how the wasteland happened, but, well, if it's too much into the spoiler territory, I profusely apologize in advance.
Anyway, here is my guess: there was eventually a three-way war between Nightmare Moon, Chrysalis and Sombra with Discord basically sitting back and soaking up the chaos so that his power would be at its peak. Unfortunately, Tirek eventually busted out of Tartarus and after draining enough innocents, then picked off Chrysalis, Nightmare Moon, Sombra and Discord one by one and in that order. Of course, Tirek didn't get a chance to enjoy having the combined power of all four of the other major villains because he got caught by the Plunder Vines. In desperation to escape, Tirek unleashed all of the power he absorbed into one blast, which wiped out all live including the Plunder Vines AND himself. If my guess is wrong, I apologize for wasting your time, but I was trying to think of an apocalypse scenario that somehow involves as many of the major villains as possible.
So, on a scale of one to ten, just how accurate is my guess?
Dawwwwww
Good chapter, but i do see a bit few spelling and grammer errors
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like what? I ran that thing through Grammarly like half a dozen times.
I’m having to re read the chapter to make sure i get everything, but this is what i’ve found so far, still have some more to look over
Here it’s talking about starlight so it should be “her” instead of her name
Should be shattered
Not exacly sure here, but the “not” part doesn’t make sense
“Spike’s life that he wished he was”
I’m guessing reptile, animal, or creature after the “like”
I think it should be “and continued and was not about to let up”
You can replase the second “spell” with “another”
You can just say “munching on it”
“Spent”, past tense
Needs a “,” after counter
Not exacly sure how to reword this part
Hovered over and what? (I know what, you just have it cut off), “as she placed a muffin with emeralds”, “he licked it and then”
Very cute but should be every-one, not every-thing
Brighteyes’ shoulder
You, not your
If she’s still alive
Take out the “it”
After a few seconds, “Um, Doc, you had this clibrated to detect carbon-based lifeforms right?”
His catchphrase here and in the begining author’s notes on chapter 2 need to be fixed