A lot of ponies would say waiting at the door for a pony with bad intentions would be suicide. Others would call it bravery. More would just say, "You're stupid."
Luckily, Pencil was in HER mansion, HER turf. Waiting at the door for the mare, drinking non-alcoholic Blueberry wine. Nopony could see her, hear her, or find her presence through any type of magic. If you scanned the building, you'd find nothing. Except Buff maybe, if he was here. Sadly, he was at home with his parents, enjoying his day off or whatever. He deserved it.
"Rainbow Dash," Pencil muttered, capturing the inner mare's attention. "Do not take what is about to happen to heart." Rainbow probably didn't know what she was talking about. But she was going to find out.
A series of loud knocks made her sip the rest of her wine, place the glass down and walk towards the door, dark magic lining her hooves. "Who is it?" She asked calmly.
"Twilight! Open up, Rainbow!" The painter groaned before unlocking the door and swinging it wide open, revealing the irked unicorn with the narrowed eyebrows. Definitely mad.
"Ms. Sparkle, you have five seconds to get off my property," she said casually.
"Don't 'Ms. Sparkle' me, Rainbow Dash!" Twilight yelled. "Who are you to tell me that my magic is not my best!"
"I have never said that and I've never said anything of the sort to you."
"Isn't that your beliefs, 'Pencil Sketch?'"
"Twilight get off my property."
"No!" Pencil groaned and closed the door in her face. "Open up, this isn't over!"
"I know that, idiot," she muttered, heading back towards her library. She started banging on the door before a flash behind Pencil caught her attention and made her groan, stopping and turning around. "Why are you in my house? You know this is trespassing on a totally different level."
"Because you need to take back those lies, Rainbow!" Twilight started scraping her hoof across the floor, like she was going to charge.
"Twilight if you attack me in my house, I will literally teleport you all the way to the frozen north and leave you there with a bag over your head and tied up."
"My magic is my calling and you're trying to make the foals in Equestria do dumb things to go against their calling! They were born to do that and if they go around looking for something else, somepony's going to get hurt—"
"Yeah, you."
"Quiet! Somepony's going to get hurt and it's going to be your fault!" She drifted her foot one more time.
"Twilight....you're going to leave my property. Right now."
"No I'm not."
"Yeah, you are. Because if you don't, I'll have you squirming on the ground worse than Applejack." She lifted a hoof towards her, dark magic coming off of it like smoke.
"Well you should know that dark magic doesn't affect light magic."
"And you should know that my target isn't light magic. It's you. And you are no mage." Twilight screamed in anger before running towards Pencil Sketch, lighting her horn and firing a beam at her. The magic hit her but instead of sending her flying across the room, it just....went inside of her. Like she absorbed it. She stopped and gasped before Pencil fired a bolt of magic at her. She ducked right in time before it could hit her soaring straight over and spreading over the nearby wall.
"Twilight, you really don't want to do this," Pencil persisted, standing there calmly.
"I am a mage! And you can't tell me I'm not!"
"Then why are you taking it so hard if I can't tell you you're not?" Twilight ran over and bucked, completely missing before Pencil teleported the both of them outside in the backyard, where she landed on the grass and Twilight landed in the pool. "Maybe you need to cool off." Twilight teleported next to her again and hit her in the face, forcing her head to the side.
"You cannot tell ponies who they can or cannot be, Rainbow! That is so offensive!" She yelled, ignoring Pencil's protests.
"And you do not rule over other ponies' lives, Twilight!" She fired a beam of magic hitting her and pushing her into the pool again, making her even colder than the magic. "You stupid mare! What part of leave my property don't you get!"
Twilight teleported out of the pool again, shivering from the magic. "Y-Y-You have n-no say so in-in other ponies' lives."
"And neither do you, so just go home or whatever!" She pointed towards the brick wall behind her, trying to push her point across.
"Rainbow—"
"LEAVE, TWILIGHT!" She fired another bolt of magic, hitting the crazy unicorn and making her scream out. She slid back across the lawn on her back, shivering. "YOU ARE NO MAGE! YOUR MAGIC IS NOTHING COMPARED TO ME! IF I HAVE TO HURT YOU WHERE PAIN DOESN'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT ANYMORE, I WILL!" She placed a hoof on Twilight's shivering body before they both disappeared in a cloud of black smoke, going somewhere else.
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"Twilight is dust!" Rarity exaggerated, pacing back and forth in the library area. The rest of the group was centered around her, trying to figure out what caused Twilight to go all nuts. "Why would she do something so reckless?! This is so not like her!"
"Not ta' mention stupid!" Applejack yelled, stomping her right hoof. "We're trying ta' bring Rainbow back and if she attacks her, we'll only drive her away."
"She's a party pooper!" Pinkie agreed. A black cloud of smoke appeared in the room, startling all of them before it dissipated revealing an intensely shaking Twilight and Pencil Sketch, who was clearly angry, having completely black eyes and a darker coat. Not to mention the black tendrils.
"And if you ever come to my house again, you will never see your friends again!" She yelled down to her. "I mean what I said, when I was going to teleport you to the frozen north and leave you stranded! My offer is still there! DO NOT TEST ME!" She looked around the room, her eyes as dark as the color black. "That goes for all of you! Do not return to my house!" After that, she disappeared again in the cloud, leaving Twilight shivering on the floor. They all stared in shock at her before Spike sighed.
"Well.....this is just perfect!" He yelled, throwing down his duster and walking over to Twilight. "Do you see what you just did?! We wanted to get her back, now she doesn't want to see any of us! AT ALL! All because you, with your stubborn mind to not leave ponies alone, decided to go over and confront her on her views! You're a freakin' extremist, Twilight! Your brother is so gonna tan your hide. Realllly bad."
Excellent can't wait for more Twilight screwed up big time. And I bet when the ponies and Celestia hear about this they not going to be happy. Pencil Sketch way about she talk about cutie marks makes sense and I believe the ponies will follow her lead. That just my opinion. Anyway excellent chapter
Touché.
Also, Twilight, trying to buck Pencil, hitting her, yelling at her, ignoring her protests, attacking her for stating her opinion? None of that is going to help win Dash back. If there was a chance of relationships being mended before, I'd say there's absolutely none now. Zero. Nada. You've pretty much burned all the bridges (and in this case, there was a single, fairly flimsy rope that was serving in place of a bridge)
On a related note, Twilight could now be legally thrown in jail, if Pencil chose to press charges. She has counts of assault, trespassing, breaking-and-entering (though considering she teleported, it's not quite "breaking"), and there's probably an Equestrian law somewhere that states that Unicorns may not use their magic in a harmful manner to others. Plus more that I might have missed.
I rest my case.
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I think Twilight's problem is she is focusing on the 'Magic is not my best trait!' thing, rather then actually listening to what Rainbow is saying. Rainbow isn't 100% right, for some ponies their special talent may in fact be the thing they love most. even if they do have other impressive skills outside the mark. But that doesn't mean the mark is the end all be all of a pony and they should still appreciate their other talents as well, instead of pigeon holing themselves into one type of career and nothing else due to their mark.
Looks like I’m playing Devil’s Advocate here but Twilight’s frustration actually is justified. She lives for magic; she’s happy with her cutie mark and what it means in her life. Pencil Sketch is basically trying to tell her that she shouldn’t be happy in “settling.” In the grand scheme of things, with as much influence as Pencil would have being the famous millionaire painter she’s become, her views have potential to tear Equestria asunder along ideological lines from which it may never recover. She knows that, so points to her for not truly wanting that to happen. I’m still not exactly rooting for her though.
Now, Twilight, let’s talk about trespassing and assault...
Hm.. Do you plan on upping the rating..? Looks like its moving towards T
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Maybe, I'll have to see if there will be more altercations in the future. I'm not saying it won't but it's fifty fifty.
There are only two things I have a problem with Spike being mistreated in the story.
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She doesn't seem to care when she dropped the book on his comic. And doesn't help him when Pinkie Pie was attacking him.
The only good thing about spike in the story when he told Twilight off.
I'm sorry but if Twilight keep this up and being rude to him like this I have a feeling that Spike will go with Pencil Sketch who will give him a chance after hearing his side of the story and become her assistant and without a doubt help her spread the word about her belief about the cutie marks.
Please don't judge me it's just my opinion.
What I would like to see is showing how Pencil Sketch's paintings are starting to affect Equestria. She paints to bring inspiration to other ponies and encourage them to do hobbies or jobs beyond what their Cutie Mark is telling them.
Remember this line?
Small spoiler from season 7
There was a time in the show where Rumble didn't want to get his Cutie Mark because he thought after getting it, he'd be stuck doing that same hobby for the rest of his life and never explore other abilities. I can see him as a good follower to those paintings.
I want to see effects like that with other ponies, have the CMC, or the other Mane Six see how that's affecting other ponies' lives, whether it's a positive effect or a negative effect.
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Good Idea! I'll add that to the plot! It'll take some time though.
I don't believe that's her intention...I believe she was just pointing out that they have the power to do something greater if they so choose.
Well, Twilight hasn't really been one to act rationally Rares.
And you're saying you didn't threaten' to tie her up and drag her back to Ponyville kicking and screaming?
Do. Not. Test. Pencil Sketch.
Spike just owned Twilight!
She never said that she put her opinion forward, she didn't say everypony had to follow it
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That was an angry reacton with no thought into it, Twilight has thought about this for a while and then decides oh I'm going to confront her about this now
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No. Pencil is saying that ponies who are not happy with their supposed talents should be able to pursue something else and that nothing says their Cutie Mark is the only thing they can be good at.
She never said that automatically made Twilight or anyone else mediocre at their talent or that they shouldn't pursue it if it makes them happy.
She just wants others to be able to choose what they want out of life instead of having to obey a tattoo on their rear.
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And considering how not talking and overreacting with her friend got her into this mess how is doing the same thing again going to change anything. Hopefully when everyone yells at them enough times they will understand how badly they acted.
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She did explain to her boyfriends parents that some ponies may be happy with their mark but that might not be the only thing that they are good at. If they choose not look to see what else they could be good at then who knows what they could miss out on.