Once the process finished Spinel stood on stage and wiped her tears away as she looked down and saw her normal form as all the recalled memories fell into place. "Oh no no no! I can't let Pinkie see me like this," she said as she looked at the distorted shoes and dark clothes she now had on. As she looked and caught a glimpse of Pinkie bobbing and weaving through the crowd to catch Rainbow Dash, she briefly thought, "Or can I.... NO! She became friends with the old me.... there's no way she'd want to be friends with this me. And even if she did, this me doesn't deserve her." She then reached into her Gem to pull out the Rejuvinator and do this all again.... only to discover that it wasn't there anymore and she had no idea where it could be.
"Not good," said Spinel before she heard Pinkie say, "SPINEL!" with a voice full of concern at her sudden change.
"DOUBLE NOT GOOD!" said Spinel as her mind raced trying to figure out what to do. She thought about shape shifting to look like her old self, but despite her efforts she couldn't as she was unable to focus properly, and even if she could she doubted she could act like her old self. As she saw Pinkie now trotting her with her concern growing, all rational thought left her Gem as she simply dove beneath the incomplete stage like a child, and just like a child her hiding place was terrible as even if Pinkie hadn't seen her go into it, she still would have seen her in general.
As Pinkie approached the gap to below the stage, she said, "Spinel are you OK?.... Why do you look like that?"
Unable to think of anything to get her out of this, Spinel began to cry as she laughed and began saying, "No... I'm not sure if I've ever been OK. As for why I look like this.... it's because this is the real me."
"What do you?" began Pinkie before realizing what she must have meant by this as she slightly smiled saying, "You got your memories back."
"Yeah... and I remembered that Pink Diamond wasn't the only person who screwed up my past," said Spinel as she shucked through the tears once again.
Pinkie's concern returned as she slowly made her way below the stage saying, "Spinel, what are you saying?"
As Spinel saw her approaching she backed further below the stage as she said, "What I'm saying is... you deserve a better friend then me."
"What are you talking about... you'e my 'best friend Spinel' ," as she smiled again and continued to approach her panicking friend.
Spinel backed into the wall of the stage as she said, "Trust me Pinkie, if you knew what I've done you wouldn't want to be friends with me... no one should be friends with me...." her tears then increased as she made her way to a gap in the gap in the stage to run away.
Seeing this Pinkie started to go towards her faster as she said, "Look Spinel, I don't know what you did that you so scared of but I promise that you can I can get through it TOGETHER!" as she lept onto Spinel to try and grab her in a hug.
What happened though was something far more as their two bodies began to glow and melt into each other, as a hole burst furth in the top of the stage to make room for the much taller girl now standing their
As the girl looked at her strange new body, the long limbs that ended in glove like hands, the shorter limbs below them that looked like hooves with small glove fingers, the Gem which now had a string below it like a balloon, and finally the twin tails of thick puffy hair on either side of her head.
One voice came out of the girl saying, "What the... we?"
Before another voice, identical yet somehow different, said, "Fusion... we fused?"
"Fusion.... what-" began the one voice the two of them noticed what looked like a giant glowing butterfly iin front of them.
As the butterfly flapped it's wings, the second voice said, "NO! Don't look at that!"
But it was too late as the butterflies wings began to display an image
"Oh Spinel... I'm so sorry I-" began the first voice.
It was interrupted though as the second clenched the fists on the left of their body saying, "That's not the part I didn't want you to see."
As she looked back at the butterfly it showed several images of Spinel growing angry and mounting the Injector before eventually coming to this
"So their you have it...I tried to kill people who had nothing to do with Pink Diamond because she left me, a whole planet full of them," said the second voice as she gripped one arm with the other disheartened.
"Well... we all make mistakes... that doesn't mean you don't deserve friendship," said the first voice as she grabbed the arms in comfort.
"Yeah right, who would be friends with someone who's done stuff like that?" said the second voice.
"Well... me," said the first voice as it focused and made several ethereal balloons form around the.
As the second voice looked around the balloons began expanding as the images of what Luna, Discord, the Changelings, and even her best friend Sarlight came to light before showing how they all made up and have been friends ever since.
"I... wow," said the second voice as saw it all, "But this is.... are you sure you really can forgive me?"
"Of course I can," said the first voice as the right half of her face began to smile.
Before the second voice chuckled and the left half joined in on the smile.
As she smiled her body began to glow as Pinkie and Spinel split apart on to the stage.
As Pinkie looked around she said, "What... exactly was that?"
"That was fusion, it's more two or more Gems, or I guess they don't even have to be Gems, who are really close to each other can join their bodies together and become one," said Spinel.
"Wow, that's amazing," began Pinie before looking around and seeing... nopony looking at them, "But apparently not enough to get the attention of these stuck up ponies."
Spinel chuckled at this as she said, "Well then I guess our show will have to be even better.... that is if you still want to do it with me."
Pinkie smiled as she said, "Of course I do," as she approached Spinel who began smiling in return. "But first we should probably check on Starlight, besides I think she's going to happy to here about your little break through here."
"Ye-yeah," said Spinel as thought abut what she had just learned about Starlight... and how she was alot like her.
As Pinkie began walking away though Spinel took a moment to softly grin and say, "Today, right here, right now, I truly feel found," before following after her.
Meanwhile in the Canterlot Castle
As Luna finally managed to track the screaming down to Twilight's room she opened the door and the screaming abruptly stopped as she feared she was too late.
She trotted through the strangely dark room as she lit her horn saying, "Whoever you are I suggest you release your hold on my subjects mind and leave this place at once!"
To this Luna heard a chuckle in response as she turned to it's source and saw what kind of looked like Starlight only with matted twin tails and three black lines below each eye, "Starlight you-" said Luna before being interrupted as the creature before her ignited a rod she had gripped in her magic causing it to turn into a large glowing scythe.
It was then Luna gotta full look at the creature and realized that even if this was Starlight's body... it wasn't Starlight standing before her as she backed away in horror from the creatures huge unsettling grin. It then looked at her as it's vision distorted the person before someone else and she began saying, "Hmm, fancy seeing you here Blue, but I guess you wouldn't want to stray too far away from the new little Pink."
Before Luna could even ask what was going the creature bolted towards her and swung the scythe through her body. As Luna looked down in fear at what she would see she saw... nothing as her body looked totally fine.
This seemed to slightly stumble the creature as she said, "Hmm, guess you don't poof. Chalk that up to the list of things that are different about Diamonds. Guess I gotta go for plan B then." She then used her magic to twist the button on the Rejuvinator causing another rod with a metal ball to come out the other end of it.
She shown struck Luna in the gut with it knocking all the wind out of her, before a stream a magic came out of her back hoof as if it was stretching and kicked Luna into the wall. "You know you Diamonds think of everything, don't you. I mean, who would've thought of putting in a built in Shattering rod on a Rejuvinator."
As Luna struggled to breath again the creature formed a hand of pure magic on the end of one of her front hooves and lifted Luna's head up saying, "Don't worry though Blue, I'm not gonna shatter you... wouldn't want you missing out on the fun."
As her smile broadened she placed Luna in the bed and tied each of her hooves to each post before finally gagging her. She then positioned the bed so it was facing directly out the window as the creatures vision began to distort the tower above the garden into it's Injector. Her smile then widened as she hopped out the window towards it.
As Spinel and Pinkie began walking and laughing towards the entrance they noticed several ponies gasp and stare up as they too looked up and saw what appeared to a pony hop up on top holding something.
Both Pinkie and Spinel recognized what thing was though as Pinkie said, "Is that... Starlight?"
"Oh no," said Spinel as she remembered Starlight's spell and how she had been off since then.
The creature simply looked at the assembled crowd with a smile as it said, "Well well well, let me get a look at the menagerie."
Oh, geez.......this ain't gonna be swell on so many levels.
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Preach it, brother. Too many people get snookered into looking at Pink as some kind of horrible monster instead of paying attention to the story and dialogue, the people she affected, her memories we got to see - just doing basic character analysis. Yes, some bad things happened because of her - but far worse bad things happened without her even being present.
She's the character with the biggest positive change in the series. With the biggest heart in the series. With the most sacrifice in the series. Steven practically curses her name, yet he wouldn't be as sensitive and all-loving as he is without having been a reincarnation of her. He would have been brought up as a normal human around normal humans in a human world.
Pink was raised as a god-queen by three other god-queens. Even by the time she became Rose she was still very young. She was moving into emotional territory she wasn't created to feel or express - she was, after all, raised to believe all other Gems are servants at best, and expendable tools otherwise.
Which is Spinel's whole problem. She's the only one who thought they were friends. Spinel was given to Pink by her 'mothers' to play with in her garden. Spinel is a TOY. The reason she got left behind isn't because Pink is a monster, but because Pink was a LITTLE GIRL, one who was finally being recognized as a 'big girl', as we saw she wanted during Stevonnie's episode where Steven started getting some of Pink's memories. She got her own colony, she had responsibilities finally. No more time to just party and play with bouncy dolls in a garden! She left her toybox behind to go become someone she and her 'family' could be proud of. Spinel was the only one who didn't realize what she actually was.
And none of that is Pink's fault. It's how she was raised. And before anyone tries to say something about that, she was too sheltered to be able to think any other way. Unlike us humans in reality that y'all are basing any refutation on, she grew up under a literal rock. Can't let the budding god-princess be tainted by the silly thoughts of inferior squishy biological beings, or those lesser imperfect Gems who go a bit crazy and start having strange feelings. This is obvious by the fact she changes so DRASTICALLY upon reaching Earth. She was always receptive to being affectionate, loving, caring for life in all its forms. But she had no idea what any of that was, or that she could be. She never had the opportunity to break out of her programming.
The moment she did, look at her! She tried to get these planet-ruling, species-ending god-empresses to stop. When they refused, she led a fight against her own family - all she'd ever known, all she'd been built to care about in any fashion, for the sake of beings who would age and die in an EYEBLINK of hers. When you see thousands of years as nothing at all, perhaps a nap at best, what value can you possibly find in the life of a human or normal animals? But she managed it. And picked up her sword to face the only family she knew for the sake of others.
Were mistakes made? Sure. This was her very first time out of home and she was rebelling HARD. But no one else was trying, and no one else was making headway. It took a lot of loss and heartache for Rose to finally understand the true value of life, and she underwent massive psychological and emotional changes to reach that point. Time didn't stop to allow her to adjust to that easily, there was a war on as she was changing and having new and different ideas, things which she thought were impossible simply because Gems aren't supposed to be that way - she wasn't supposed to be able to make those changes in the first place. But she did, eagerly.
But the show, and shallow-thinking fans keep demonizing the person who saved Earth, who sacrificed herself to try and bring new life into the world that had the capability to become the kind of better person she lacked because of how she was crafted, how she was raised. She left Steven in the care of people who shared the ideals she gained, forged from her successes and failures. It's sad to think he couldn't be proud of her when she'd be so proud of him.
It's sad what happened to those who followed her and those like Spinel. But none of their pain was intentional or desired, and was not directly caused by Rose/Pink. People think she's evil because of those individuals, but she was too big to be someone that individuals mattered against. Divinity masquerading as the rabble to try and protect one tiny, underdeveloped world, to free some Gems from their fate as slaves in every respect. How could any of her friends and soldiers, how could Spinel, measure up to that? Even if part of it was 'fun' to her, what she was doing was massive and necessary. But still done with the innocence of the youngster she was.
Rose changed the most since her inception, during her relationship with Greg. For a potentially truly-immortal being for whom millennia are but dust in the wind to experience emotional maturity within a small portion of the human lifespan? That's insane. It truly boggles the mind, and the shallow-thinkers won't see or respect that. They can't even comprehend it. That's like in the middle of brushing your teeth in the morning suddenly you enter Nirvana and undergo such a qualitative change in thinking that you become some sort of holy guru that can lead the world to utopia, all before lunch.
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As for THIS story, while watching the movie I kept thinking that we'd just need a Pinkie Pie to solve the entire issue, really. Glad to see someone wrote it! Time to see where this continues to go.
Damn it Starlight! This is exactly why you don't use untrained mind magic on other sapient beings!
To paraphrase Jasper "You fused?! With a PONY!?"
I don't even know why I'm surprised that Pinkie can fuse. I'm honestly thinking now that Yellow abandoned this colony due to fear of all the Gems turning out like Pinkie.
Heh, I probably should have seen the fusion coming. And it looks like it could come in handy soon....
well looks like starspenil is going to try what real spenil tryed to do and real spenil along with the mean six are going to have to stop it.
I hope the new fusion ends up fighting Spinel Glimmer. Since Spinel would obviously know how she would fight and Pinkie would have a decent idea how Starlight Glimmer would fight. Plus, both are very hard to predict.
Also...would love a reprise/variant of this song during either the fight or an attempt to help Spinel Glimmer.
Or the Smile or Giggle at the Ghosties Song.
this was a little confusing, what did you mean injector? did starlight just magiced it into existence
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No. She just thinks the castle tower is the injector, just like how she thinks Luna is Blue Diamond
It was so painful seeing/reading Starlight like that; it’s still a good story though and I loved the reference at the end
OK, so Spinny was A-OK, but Starlight... Hoo boy, this gonna be weird.
Ok yikes, a Starlight "possessed" by the darkness that plagued Spinel from memories is scary.
But really not liking how Luna easily got taken out like that..
And I rest my case that is definitely not good