Chapter Thirteen: Wrapping Up
The magical glow faded from the eyes of Twilight Sparkle and her five best friends as they descended back to the ground. Once their hooves reached the earth once more, they all nearly collapsed face-first into the grass, even Pinkie Pie. Nopony would blame them, considering they'd channeled all their magic into one, harmonic blast to defeat the Elements of Disharmony. It was no surprise they could barely stand up straight.
"Are you okay, Twilight?" asked Spike, rushing over to her side.
"I'm fine," replied the alicorn. "Just kinda worn out."
"Could somepony tell the world to stop spinning, please? I'd like to get off," complained Pinkie, wobbling from side to side.
"So, uh...anypony know what happened to Grogar?" asked Rainbow. "I'd kinda like to know if we just killed him. Not that I'm complaining, considering we gave the chance to surrender, but..."
"He's not dead," replied Twilight. "We banished him back to Tambelon, along with his castle. He's just trapped in the dimension of darkness now." She looked sadly over the remains of Canterlot Castle, over which the portal to Tambelon had once floated. "I wish we could've reformed him. Made him see that friendship isn't a waste of time, that's it's better to have friends than to rule the world."
"We gave him a fair chance, sugar cube," said Applejack. "He's the one who rejected it. We can offer friendship to everypony, but we have no control over whether or not they take it."
"It's a shame, but true," added Rarity. "It's not like we can force anypony to accept our ideology. That would make us unjust brainwashers."
Twilight's frown faded a little, but she still looked down at the ground, sadly. She was the Princess of Friendship, charged with spreading that concept and all that it entailed across Equestria. Did Grogar's refusal mean she'd failed? Was she simply not good enough as a princess to convince him to change his ways?
She felt a paw settle on her withers, causing her to look behind her. Discord floated beside her, a somber, but accepting look gracing his features.
"Don't take it personally, Twilight," he told her. "Grogar...father...never really accepted anyone else's ideas. He believed he was always right about everything. I think calling him insane wouldn't be much of a stretch. It was admirable of you to offer him redemption, but it's not your fault he didn't take it."
That brought an actual smile to Twilight's face. She still felt sorry for Grogar, but that didn't seem as heavy to her now.
"Thank you, Discord," she replied, flying up until she was level with his head and hugging him.
Once she settled back down onto the ground, a small cough caught her attention.
"Um, Twilight?" ventured Fluttershy. "I don't want to spoil our victory moment, but before we do anything else, I think we should decide what happens to them."
She pointed with one butter-yellow hoof. Twilight's eyes followed, discovering Chrysalis, Sombra, Tirek, the Storm King, and Cozy Glow were all still lying on the grass. She noticed their wounds didn't appear to be bleeding anymore, likely a by-product of the harmony blast. Twilight felt relief course through her, happy to know that their enemies weren't still suffering.
The feeling didn't appear to be mutual, of course.
"If I were in your position, I'd execute us as quickly as possible!" Chrysalis screeched, though the effort clearly hurt her. "If you don't, we will be sure to return! We'll find more dark magic, and we'll bring you ponies down until you can't—"
Tirek weakly raised his hand, and covered Chrysalis' mouth again. "Please, shut up," he grumbled. "My head hurts enough already."
"Just send us all to Tartarus already," said Cozy. "I bet my cage is still warm, anyway."
Princess Celestia marched past Twilight, Luna by her side, and glared down at Grogar's five lieutenants.
"Do any of you have any idea what you did?" she demanded. "Grogar wasn't seeking to conquer Equestria, he wanted to destroy it! And the five of you went along with him! Not to mention the destruction of the Tree of Harmony! There is no punishment in this plane of existence worthy of what you have done!"
"Oh, I wouldn't be too sure of that," said Discord, snaking his way around Celestia's neck. "I can think of a few good ones."
"Hey, it's not like we had a choice!" complained the Storm King. "He said he'd, and I quote, inflict a pain worse than death on us if we didn't help him."
"Now you know how I felt," Tempest growled, earning her a glare from her former boss. "Well, not exactly, but you did say you'd destroy me if I failed you."
"We can build an enchantment to keep the Everfree Forest from overgrowing and covering Equestria," said Star Swirl, "but you still destroyed one of the most powerful beacons of good magic in this world. The severity of that act cannot be overstated."
Sombra groaned. "Are you actually going to sentence us?" he whined. "Or is sitting here listening to you monologue the punishment? Because, if that's it, I'd rather go back to being dead."
Celestia opened her mouth, likely to reprimand the villains some more, but Twilight touched her on the wing, prompting her to stop. The solar alicorn looked down at her former student, and as they made eye contact, a wordless conversation passed between them. Celestia gave a small nod after a few seconds, and took a step backwards. Luna followed her. Twilight was left alone to look down at the villains.
"The others are correct. Each of you have committed your own grave crimes against Equestria, embodying the elements of greed, cruelty, despair, deceit, and betrayal. Even worse, you worked alongside Grogar, whose evil eclipses all of your own. I understand he threatened you, but you could've found a way to get around him, and yet you didn't even try. We cannot allow such evil to go unpunished.
"However," she continued, holding up a hoof to silence any potential interruptions, "as the Princess of Friendship, and the future ruler of all Equestria, it's my duty to spread comradery to every creature across this world, or to at least try. And I won't make exceptions for you five, despite all that you have done.
"Don't mistake this as getting off. You five will still serve sentences in Tartarus. But when you get out, you will be given the chance to redeem yourselves. You will be given the opportunity to accept friendship and become kind and productive members of society. If I were you, I'd take that opportunity. Especially you, Sombra and Storm King. You two were given a second chance at life, something very many creatures dream of but never get. I suggest you use it."
The Storm King groaned and slapped his own forehead, Chrysalis hissed, and Cozy Glow looked like someone had just told her Hearth's Warming was canceled. Still, none of them had any strength left to whine in actual words.
Twilight turned to Shining Armor. "Can you contain them until we can get them transported back to Tartarus?"
"Sure," answered her brother, lighting up his own horn. Magical crystal barriers began forming around the five villains, levitating them off the ground and moving them from their positions.
"We should have enough anti-magic metal to cage all of them," he continued. "I'll post some extra security around Tartarus, just in case."
Twilight sighed in relief, before turning around and walking back to her group. Princess Celestia looked down at her former student, tears beginning to form in her lilac eyes.
"I am so proud of you, Twilight," she breathed. "You've grown so much. We couldn't have chosen a better successor to rule Equestria."
Twilight blushed a little. "Thank you, but I never could've done it alone," she admitted. She cast her gaze over the other five former Element Bearers, Spike, and all the other creatures that had come to their aid. "You taught me the most valuable lesson of all: friendship can overcome anything."
"I'm glad you took that lesson to heart, Twilight," Celestia continued. "You truly are the Princess of Friendship, and all that encompasses."
"We've still got a lot of rebuilding to do before the coronation," Spike pointed out, sadly. "Canterlot is pretty much in ruins right now." He gestured at the massive pile of rubble that was once Canterlot Castle.
"It doesn't matter," said Twilight. "We've rebuilt it before, we can do it again. As long as we all work together, we can do anything."
Discord groaned. "The sappiness of this is killing me..."
"Me too," complained Rainbow Dash. "Still, at least the fight's over."
"Who's up for a 'We Just Saved Equestria Again' party?!" shouted Pinkie, who immediately regretted it based on how the other five immediately pressed their hooves to their heads in pain. "Oops. Sorry!"
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Finally, an ending that is good for those five instead of Sealed Evil in a Can for later use
I'm not sure how fair it is to send the remaining Legion to Tartarus. I mean, Starlight and Tempest didn't need to go their and the Legions actions were at least somewhat influenced by Grogar. At the very least Cozy shouldn't have to grow up in a cage.
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Hopefully, it won't be a long sentence for them. Maybe just long enough to give Twilight and rest time to rebuild and prepare for reform process once the Legions gets out.
So, Grogar's recruits are given a chance at redemption instead of death of stone petrification. It is up to them to decide what happens to them now, whether they take their second chance to heart or waste it.
Awe, I can't wait more more ^-^
I hope that Chrysalis, Tirek, Cozy Glow, Sombra and Storm King remains evil and gets vengeance on the ponies! I hope they stay on the dark path! I have a feeling that Tartarus would only make them even worse! Cozy Glow was placed into Tartarus in the end of season 8, and look what happened to her! Instead of learning from her mistakes, she became even worse! Tirek was also thrown into Tartarus twice, and he was still more than willing to make the ponies of Equestria bow down to him by consuming their magic and strength! Also, if the five evil ones does stay bad, I would want them to win this time! And I have a feeling that Celestia is actually angry at Twilight for giving the five evil ones a chance to turn to good deep inside and I'll bet that Discord have wanted to turn them into stone and believes that he, Celestia and Luna should have done so. The three of them have turned Chrysalis, Tirek and Cozy Glow into stone in the show, so why wouldn't they turn them into stone along with Sombra and Storm King in this story too. Maybe Tartarus wouldn't be enough and at this point, I hope that Twilight's attempt and effort to end up all in vain.
You know, i really hope all villians get a chance to redeem themselves, but realistically speaking, i think some of them should stay in the dark path. If i had to choose one villian to get reedemed, though, it would be Cozy Glow. Cozy is just a filly! She may have caused lots of damage but she's still young and misguided. She just needs to talk with somepony about her issues.
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Yeah, well, I want them to stay bad! They don't deserve to go to Tartarus, get turned into stone or even be executed! The Equestrian ponies are not as harmonious as they want people to think. I think that the ponies wanted everyone to give up their freedom, pride and goals and potential just to accept and embrace 'friendship' or else serve life or eternal sentences, and Celestia is not as benevolent as she wants her subjects to think. She sent her own sister to be imprisoned on the moon for 1,000 years before influencing her to be as bad as her, obviously putted Sunset Shimmer through Hell, and influenced Twilight to be as negative and hypocritical as her. The white alicorn princess was even more than willing to send a little filly to Tartarus and later permanently turn the same filly into stone. That's one thing I hated about MLP.
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Wasn't Twilight is justified in what she's doing? These villians have destroyed Equestria many times already, because of pride or just because they are evil. Either way, they're completely justified in going to Tartarus, for all the damage they have caused (Except Cozy, she's a literal child, she's not old enough to have rational thoughts about murder and death and stuff, she probably had a messed up life and was manipulated). They should be thankful she's shown them mercy, because they could've been turned into stone. And when Twilight is giving them a chance at friendship, she's giving them a chance to not become evil, to live a fulfilling life and leave their evil past behind (Because it's completely ruining their life). They may have their freedom to be evil, but it becomes plain wrong when it begins affecting innocent lives in Equestria.
I mean, that was like more than 1,000. Celestia had enough time to regret what she'd done with all her heart, and then make peace with her sister on the subject. She helped her sister settle on the throne again, and now they are both ruling together and with a repaired sisterly bond. However, Celestia had no other choice but to send her into the moon all those years ago, the night would've been eternal. No matter how bad she was to her sister, it dosen't mean she can't defend her kingdom against her.
In wich way?
I can agree about that, but remember it was all Discord's idea originally.
I want to see Cozy Glow reform it should become good!
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Do you mean to get rid of prisons and laws in every country in the world?
Stupid thoroughly
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I know, right? Throughout this story, Grogar was forcing the five of them to help him out in his plans, threatening them and was more than willing to make them suffer a fate worse than death if they didn't do what he said.
Punishing them for their part on everything is one thing, but it surely would not help them become better creatures if they stay in a prison like Tartarus, especially Cozy Glow who is still only a child and shouldn't have to spend her whole childhood trapped inside a cage. 
Twilight could have just made them stay in her castle while under house arrest instead or even just let her former mentor, Luna and Discord turn them into stone and leave them like that for all eternally (not that it would have been any better). 
BTW, you should have put there instead of their in the second sentence, not that I'm mad.
I sure hope they wouldn't have to stay there for too long too, but I'm scared that they may choose to stay bad and throw away their chance to become good creatures and would still want vengeance against the ponies and their allies and takeover Equestria as their own. 😨
THe legion of Doom pretty much deserved such a sentence even though it's relatively light. After all it's not like they ever had much of a problem with Grogar's plans other than the fact they might not have any slaves to torment for their selfish fun.
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Personally, I want them all to remain bad, even with being given a chance to redeem themselves. Boltstrike58 could have at least written an epilogue to this story where the legions get out of Tartarus after finishing serving their time or if they escape (somehow get pass through the new security Shining Armor said he'd pose). But no, he has given us a what-if, alternate ending joke!