Twilight rushed into the library and slammed the door behind her. She then yanked me from her back.
“WHAT IN CELESTIA’S NAME IS WRONG WITH YOU?!”
“I was defending myself, Twilight! I didn’t mean to hurt her! Honest!”
“If you kept your big mouth shut, you wouldn't have been in that situation!”
“I didn't know she was going to do that! I thought Celesia would stop her before the celebration started!”
“Look, Spike the Dragon! You need to stay out of the grownups' way. I don't want you to end up getting hurt!”
"Okay! Okay! But first, could you look under 'E' on the bookshelf? It might have something you can use to defeat Nightmare Moon."
Twilight gave me a confused look. She released her grip and ran to the shelf labeled "E." Her eyes widened when she read one of the book titles.
"The Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide." Twilight pulled the book out. "This could work."
"And just what are the Elements of Harmony?!" Twilight turned around to see Rainbow Dash glaring at her. She then turned to me. "And how did you know about Nightmare Moon, huh?! Are you both spies?"
"Simmer down, Sally." Applejack grabbed Rainbow's tail and pulled her back. "They ain't spies, but they know what's going on. Don't ya?"
“I read all about the prediction of Nightmare Moon. Some mysterious objects called the Elements of Harmony are the only things that can stop her,” Twilight said as she flipped through the pages. "Here it is. ‘There are six Elements of Harmony, but only five are known: Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Honesty and Loyalty. The sixth is a complete mystery. It is said, the last known location of the five elements was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters. It is located in what is now…’"
"The Everfree Forest!" We all said in unison.
“Let's go!” Pinkie said in a cheerful tone.
“Look, I appreciate the offer girls, but I'd really rather do this on my own,” said Twilight as she closed the book.
“You’re not doing this on your own!” I retorted. “That forest is dangerous to go alone! What if you got turned to stone or eaten by a giant creature?!”
“Spike’s right, sugarcube,” Applejack said. “We sure ain't lettin' any friend of ours go into that creepy place alone. We're stickin' to you like caramel on a candy apple.”
“Especially if there's candy apples in there,” said Pinkie. We all stared at her. “What? Those things are good.”
“Good luck, girls,” I said.
"What are you going to be doing, dragon?" Rainbow asked.
"I'm going to bed," I replied. "I'm tired, and I don't want to get in the grownups' way."
Twilight rolled her eyes as she and the others left. I knew what would happen next. Twilight will learn how helpful her new friends were, and they will all defeat Nightmare Moon. At this point, I didn't need to do anything yet.
I yawned as I went to the small pet bed next to Twilight's. Then something occurred to me. Why couldn't Spike sleep on the other bed? Did he feel more comfortable in the smaller one? Of course, that didn't matter. I was genuinely tired, so I fell asleep the instant the pillow hit my head.
When I woke up, I noticed that I was still in the library.
It wasn’t a dream, then. I’m still in Equestria.
I wondered how long I was asleep. When I looked out the window, my heart sank.
It was still nighttime.
“Oh, no!” I quickly jumped out of bed.
If it was still nighttime, then that meant that Nightmare Moon hasn’t been defeated! I don’t know what went wrong, but I needed to find wherever the Princess was and warn her about what happened. Just when I was about to exit the library, the room started getting brighter and brighter.
Wait, what’s going on? Am I going back to the human world?
My question was answered immediately. I looked around and I saw I was once again still in the library. I looked out the window, and it was completely sunny. Nightmare Moon was defeated after all.
Guess I didn't sleep as much as I thought.
I sighed with relief. Had Twilight failed, I didn’t know what was going to happen. And if I did end up going back to my own world, would I have just seen it as a weird dream?
I hurried to the center of town, where a party was being thrown. (Typical Pinkie) Everypony was celebrating, including Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. I then noticed Twilight looked rather sad.
“Why so glum, my faithful student?” Celestia asked. “Are you not happy that your quest is complete and you can return to your studies in Canterlot?”
“That’s the thing,” Twilight replied. “Just when I learned how wonderful it is to have friends, I have to leave them.”
“Spike, take a note please,” Celestia said as she handed me a quill and parchment. “I, Princess Celestia, hereby decree that the unicorn Twilight Sparkle shall take on a new mission for Equestria. She must continue to study the magic of friendship. She must report to me her findings from her new home in Ponyville.”
The ponies around me cheered after hearing that.
“Your highness, if I may. Would these be weekly reports, or does she only have to send you a report whenever she learns something?” I asked.
“It may be whenever she learns something,” Princess Celestia replied.
“Oh thank you, Princess Celestia! I'll study harder than ever before,” Twilight declared.
After that, the party continued, and I was relieved that I didn’t have to worry about Twilight going crazy in Lesson Zero.
As the girls and I celebrated, I wondered what should I do to prevent or solve future problems. I would have to be careful not to make any problems worse. I would also consider what big events might occur from small changes.
I thought about how the major villians could be defeated differently. Twilight and her friends already stopped Nightmare Moon, so I didn't have to worry about that. I would have to convince Twilight to go to the library when Discord comes back. During her brother's wedding, I could try to back her up about Cadance being a changeling, or try to capture Cadance myself if things don't work out. Sombra and the Storm King would be too much of a problem to stop them alone, but I could find a way to prevent Twilight from being captured by Tempest. When we’ll encounter Sunset Shimmer, I'll have to think of something. Although, I have no idea how I'll do anything in the human world when I'm a dog. Obviously, Tirek needs to stay in Tartarus. I don't know when Starlight took over that small town, but I'll have to find that cutie-mark-stealing stone before she does. I don't think I need to worry about the Pony of Shadows too much. I knew nothing about Cozy’s backstory (then again, does anyone know?), but I bet if I could “persuade” her to cut ties with Tirek and accept that friendship isn’t power, then she will get reformed before Season 8’s finale. As for the series finale, I’ll have to stop Discord from reuniting the villains that haven’t been reformed yet.
But until then, I should focus on some of the smaller problems.
Since you’re skipping both unaltered episodes and episodes that never happened, could you make a running list of which episodes get nixed?
Or, as a twist, the human-turned-Spike could become a human in the EqG world. Maybe even a human with his original skin and hair color?
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so much this he should bring gold and gems to the human world to sell since their common in equestria and buy stuff to bring back into equestria
You're probably going to need to explain or come up with a reason for Spike to know to check under "E", because that bit seems a bit ex nihilo.
Wow! This is such a strong chapter! GASP! It's like you suddenly got hit with an' old person magic spell.
Ah'm shocked. GASP!
Why not fix that? :/
I really liked it. And about Cozy ... Idk. Maybe Spike would have to make sure Cozy doesn't begin to think that friendship is power
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That would make sense... but it would be terrible for the story. His stoping all of the bad guys would be boring in the long run, and cozy is one of the best bad guys, in my opinion. She actually does something logical in a world where friendship is used as a weapon. I mean, if you think about it, friendship has power here, and it literally lets you blast people like a nuke, some bad guy trying to use that power makes sense and is interesting beyond belief.
*cough* 13 I don’t know the other two but I think I know the others.
Courage
Forgiveness
Love
Understanding
Harmony? - my guess
I'm reading this for the 2nd time and I still get impressed by it.
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I tried to search it up but there was too many meanings so this is what I chose to help you with.
- music
- peace
- unity
- equality (maybe)
- order
Who's "Celesia"? It's on The Tip of my Tongue; mighT be a Typo, meThinks. GeTTing somepony's name wrong like ThaT, especially a royal, is essenTially criminal.
...Maybe ask a certain monotone grey mare, before Starlight does?
It's weird how that cult, followed by the time travel debacle, all happened because Pinkie's sister didn't bother to verify why Starlight would want such a stone. Like, honestly, Maud, you careless ass!
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Also all the stone did was hold the cutie marks in place, she had to figure the take away the cutie mark spell herself.
Lesson Zero was a fantastic episode (as was Amending Fences.) But I get that this Brony in Spike's body sees it as his moral duty to prevent as many bad events (that he knew were gonna happen) as possible. Of course, it's for the best that he can't or won't prevent every conflict.
Though I can't help but wonder if this will result in some lessons not being learned, potentially harming character development.
Oh hohoho this is gonna be 20% cooler!
I don't understand why this man/dragonSpike needs to be so noisy about the things that happened in the show, now the different reality that he is occupying. If the certain things end up happening they should be allowed. Sometimes he can make suggestions but that's it.
NOOO! You should've went with them. Haven't you seen the 7th element theories!? Now Spike will still not get enough credit and appreciation.
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Please elaborate on 7th element?
Hrrm
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Well there's this theory going around that there's secretly a 7th Element of Harmony. Some say that the 7th member is Sunset Shimmer, but I choose to believe she's only that in the human world.
I believe Spike's the 7th element because one of the elements' colors were green, he was a part of the Sonic Rainboom destiny, he was raised up with the Mane 5 in Ending of the End, and him being a main character and all.
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Oh, you poor, naive soul... You've just opened the door to SO many MORE possibilities!
As they say, nature abhors a vacuum, so something WILL happen that week. But now that you've prevented Lesson Zero, you have NO idea what it could be.
You, my friend, are royally screwed.
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Stealing line from characters is not story improving thing. Cant you add something? Humor, smartass remarks,some jackass humor or actions to hint of a higher interlectual mind.
There unlikely to be spies. Also isnt Twilight Sparkle a big deal? Princess Sunbutts protigee and all...
Really... Really? Really?? really?!?!?!?
Wait a Minute... ... ... Aaaa there it is...
That discribtion is totaly false.
Again... Discribed story is false...
Would probably be for the best...
Sick burrrnnn to Moondancer
You just ruined a moment were her friends faced the Sunbutt GODDESS for there friend. Sure Spike isnt secretly destroying Equestria?
Also poor Big Mac, no dolly for him
Stealing dialog lines is not the way...
Destroying lesson zero hurt indeed Twilight development. Yep. David-Spike made it worse...
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What did she learn exactly not to crazy and jump to conclusions?
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Well sometimes they did act like idiots. Mare do well was supposed to teach not to brag but all it taught was how to steal your friends thunder. Yeah maybe rainbow was getting a swelled head but stealing the spotlight didn't give the message be humble. And 28 pranks should have said be direct about problems because all it did was give a bad version of the Golden rule. Do to others what they do to you isn't a good lesson.
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Her friends learned to take thing seriouse if a friend is concerned. Also they all started writing Celestia, not just Twilight Sparkle!
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I see it totaly different. The other wronged RD entirely!
All she wants is some praise and recognition for risking her life for others. That also helps her build up a Reputation that is needed to be seen by big shots at all...
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Agreed. Changed scripted events might change everything. After all, they changed the fundamental experiences that lead her to become herself.
For example:
Might be stopping here. Feels way too railroaded in my opinion. With how little he is actually doing this feels less like reading a story and more like watching a "Person reacts to the episodes" series.
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True, one can hope stuff get added later via edit.
Moondancer and Lyra will take offense to that...
I seriously don't get why this story has so many likes. While he says he'll change things he doesn't actually do that when it comes to the major events and what he does change actually hurts the development of these characters. He mostly seems to react to it all.
villains
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Start very weak indeed, but become glorious rather soon. Especially in today's update.
Still disappointed that Spike didn't play the brave and glorious
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hahah dodged a bullet there
Unfortunately the fireball to the face had a great effect and the Elements never got activated.
The end ...
Funny, everyone want to change stuff but expect the main story to continue on. How typical
Dave-Spike changing things subtile, clever boy.