This story is a sequel to On Second Thought...
After becoming the new rulers of Equestria, Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends found themselves trapped in Tartarus easily, thanks to a plan from Empress Cozy Glow.
Why? Because the Mane 6 and Royal Adviser Spike gained the "uselessness" of ex-Princess Celestia and ex-Princess Luna.
Now, the only ponies that can save Equestria from Lord Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, Grogar, and Empress Cozy Glow, or the "Legion of Cozy" are Starlight Glimmer and Trixie Lulamoon. Really, it's all up to Starlight.
Will Starlight be able to find the power inside herself to defeat the Legion of Cozy? Or will the LoC be victorious? Starlight may be very surprised about what will eventually happen to her...
Enough will be explained to not require reading the prequel to understand this story (and laugh) but it would answer why Twilight and the others took over for Celestia and Luna, and it took place right after the season 9 premiere.
At the time this story was written, I didn't know what will happen in the season 9 finale of MLP:FIM, so there will be no actual spoilers for it. Any similarities between this AU story and the series finale is 100% coincidental.
It's worse. Rainbow Dash was the one who pointed out the Princess's uselessness. That means Purple Smart was outsmarted... by Rainbow Smart!
This was a fun read. Awesome job!
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Thanks! And Rainbow Dash did point that out in the both the show and in this story's prequel. I might try to have some fun with that if a chance comes along to do it.
Wait a minute.... you had all of the most vile vicious and evil villains in this story...
INCLUDING YOURS TRULY!
and...... you make Cozy Glow the leader?
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Sorry, GOAT, but don't look at me; I just wrote the story. It was Tirek, Chrysalis, and the version of you in the story that made her the leader.
But to be fair, they did have a pretty good reason.
I got early access to this story to help input ideas before this was edited, and this was one of the errors
Now, this line makes a little more sense:
I'll leave those of you who read this to laugh
Will there be a sequel
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I have a sequel idea with the ex-LoC in Tartarus talking about the Mane 6 and others, similar to how they did Twilight, as an anthology story. If this story did well and readers liked the dynamic they had enough. I would heavily consider doing it.
Right now, it doesn't look like I'll write it; I picked one of the worst times to submit this story and it got buried, so I don't have the feedback to do it.
Good story.
I like Starlight.
She is my favorite pony ^_^
I would have liked to have seen more of her in season 9.
Maybe an episode where Twilight tells her how much she loves Starlighy as if she were her sister.
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I'm surprised it took so long for someone to finally make a comment like that. I was starting to think it wouldn't happen.
Wait, but if Chrysalis can shapeshift, can't she just turn into something small and slip through the bars?
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here, Chrystlias's shapeshifting isn't quite good enough to turn into something small enough to slip through the bars. Although even if she could, she'd still be unable to break out of Tartarus.
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oh that explains it. Thanks