Looking forward to seeing how Twilight's former friends are doing...

9360649 As am I.

Nice...
The way you delivered the flashback of the Equestrians was nice, plus, I want to see ponies grieving over Twilight. And seeing wherter or not Twilight forgives them. (Of course after a lengthy shouting match...)

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Believe me, the truth that will eventually come to light will NOT go down well with the citizens...

9360608
All right, I understand.

I wished that Princess Celestia and the others should had listen to Twilight.

Wonder what will become of Shining Armour and the element bearers following the devastation of the invasion?

Honestly, I want to see Twilight escape and confront them

How long did Chrysalis wait to attack?

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Yep.
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Probably Shining resigning from the guard or similar thing, with the bearers being abandoned and shunned by their peers while earning and RD not being able to live her dream while all of them earning the scorn of the populace.

So now, thanks to Celestia's and everypony else's incompetence and failure to heed Twilight's words, 74+ ponies are dead. … yep, I definitely smell a rebellion against Celestia and them coming.

9361656
Not long. She waited until she and Shining Armor were wed, commencing during the wedding reception. The link below is the inspiration for this reasoning.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/149998/what-have-you-done

I decided to blend crime epics of the past such as The Godfather (1972), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), and The Untouchables (1987) while sprinkling them with a hint of Spaghetti Westerns, Wuxia/Chambara, Spy Capers, Superhero Mystery, and Film Noir. So, yeah, it's basically one long game of Genre Roulette.

Through in The Shadow and The Phantom and I will be hooked.

Still gonna read it later anyways.

9363839
Ah, thanks.

Before I read this, I must know: What exactly happens in this story? The synopsis doesn't tell us jack!

In the original story this is based on, Twilight gets a kangaroo court trial and is exiled, along with Spike, for her insults and false accusations about Princess Cadance before the big wedding. Of course she was completely right all along.
A decade later her (mostly) false friends and brother finally found them, with Twilight as the Boss of a small city-state, running it like a crime syndicate. When she booted them out after they tried to get her to come home to Equestria, with an automatic on the spot execution waiting if they ever come back, Celestia decided to get sneaky about how to get Twilight back. Unfortunately, since Celestia had cracked, and under her serene mask was far enough round the bend to make the Joker back off nervously and ruthless enough to plan mass-murder and genocide to cover her tracks, things went to Tartarus in a rocket-propelled handbasket... There's also an alternate ending version, IMO the more realistic of the two, where the real Celestia had been replaced by Chrysalis before the trial, and all the nastiness was her playing with Twilight as revenge for her attempt to derail the wedding.

In this story Spike wasn't exiled along with Twilight, and it remains to be seen how the Elements react to their mistakes, or whether Celestia goes insane the way she did in the original story. We haven't even seen the tearful, or maybe that should be fearful, reunion yet...

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I think that's the point.

9367577
Well...I just hope and pray that Celestia does not get antagonized in this story as she was in the original. sigh I don't see why people need to do that in these AU ACW stories.

Next chapter please?!

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It's on the way. Still adding new material to the other one, though.

Question, why is your story mostly in italics?

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Because these represent flashbacks. They will slow down once we get to the present.

9415837
Excuse me, when is the next chapter going to be?.

any idea when we can expect an update and new chapter?