Applejack heads to Sweet Apple Acres in search for Spike.
“Big Mac have you seen Spike.” Applejack asked her brother.
“Eee-Nope. Why Applejack?” Big Mac asks curiously.
Applejack sighs and then answers “Spike accidentally burned our memory book and Twilight said stuff she shouldn’t have and now he left.”
"Don't worry AJ I'll help find him." Big Mac said.
Applejack smiles brightly as the two went off on the search to find Spike.
Meanwhile Pinkie Pie used a megaphone to make an announcement.
“Attention Ponyville, Spike has run away we need your help to find him pretty please.” Pinkie Pie announces.
Everypony soon began searching for the little dragon as they were all quite fond of Spike.
Meanwhile Fluttershy and Starlight were at the Changeling Hive.
“Have you seen Spike he ran off and we can’t find him?” Starlight asked worried.
“No I haven’t, I hope you find him I have the hive to look after, sorry.” Thorax admitted scared.
“It’s okay, we understand.” Fluttershy said calmly.
Meanwhile at the Dragon Lands with Ember and Rainbow Dash.
“Why did Spike run away?” Ember asked angrily.
“Um Twilight kinda drove him away.” Rainbow Dash explained meekly.
“Listen Pinkie Dash, not really good with pony names, Spike is my friend so you better find him.” Ember lectured.
“Can do.” Rainbow Dash said in fear before flying away.
Back in Twilight’s castle the girls regroup.
“Any luck finding Spike?” Twilight asked fearfully.
“No sorry Twilight.” Starlight apologized.
“I’ll ask Discord if he can help, but he might not be happy.” Fluttershy admitted meekly.
“I can deal with Discord getting mad at me, I deserve it.” Twilight admitted sadly.
“Twilight this is getting out of hand we have to alert Celestia.” Starlight said concerned.
“What? No she’ll hate me, and she’ll take Spike away from me forever.” Twilight said in a frantic tone.
“Twilight, Celestia wouldn’t do that to you, she knows how much you love Spike.” Starlight comforted.
“Sigh you’re right, I’ll write a letter asking her to meet here.” Twilight stated.
“That’s the spirit Twilight.” Starlight said happily.
“I’ll go get Discord.” Fluttershy said flying out of the window.
Fluttershy then went to the Chaos Realm and opened up the door to Discord’s house who was happy to see his friend.
“Oh Fluttershy how nice to see you again.” Discord said happily.
“Nice to see you too Discord, but I have something to tell you, you know Spike right?” Fluttershy asked timidly.
“Oh yes we’re pretty close, why do you ask?” Discord asked curiously.
“Gulp, he ran away from Ponyville.” Fluttershy explained.
“What? Why would he do that he loves that place?” Discord asked concerned.
“Twilight and him had a fight because he accidentally destroyed her scrapbook, and she said she never should’ve hatched him from his egg and now he’s gone.” Fluttershy said with tears.
Discord’s mouth was agape but he was also furious at what he heard Twilight had just made his friend feel like shit and all because of one mistake.
“Oh don’t worry Fluttershy I will help find him, but I might need to have a talk with Twilight.” Discord said darkly.
“Discord you’re not gonna hurt her are you?” Fluttershy asked worriedly.
“No but I will be telling her the extent of her actions.” Discord said before teleporting him and Fluttershy to Ponyville.
he we go again
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What? I’m trying to make the story better. Did I do something wrong? Or is it something else? I can fix it.
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Not that kind of smoke.
What makes this one different?
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I made Spike right back more and the extra scene I added in chapter 2 is there.
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No, it's not that I'm going to read it again, so the "here go again" xd
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Do you mean fight back?
...I mean, it’s a stab in the right direction, but all you've really done is taken the Mane Six's collective OOC assholery from the original and shoved it all into Twilight. A fresh coat of paint alone can't fix a broken vase.
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Yes.
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I had no intention of making Twilight OOC I meant for her anger to at least be understandable, I'm sorry if I did otherwise.
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Actually, it’s not as understandable as you may think.
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Explain.
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Twilight has dealt with some of the most heartless villains in mlp. From a b*tch with an ego the size of a blimp(sunset shimmer and trixie) to a cultist(starlight glimmer) and barely bat an eye. You mean to tell me all I have to do is accidentally burn a book in order to get her angry? If I spike I would have not only called her out for hypocrisy but would have said ‘f*ck it’ and burned a few more books along with her wings.
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The Reformed villains are not heartless and she did bat an eye shall we point to the laser show with her and Starlight Glimmer in Cutie Re-Mark.
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But, do you get my point?
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Yes. Twilight was a bit too harsh and I could've built it up more.
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Especially when others have done worse. And I hope she gets called out on her hypocrisy.
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Grammar, my friends. Grammar!
, = Pause in sentence
. = End of sentence
Thus your comment becomes like this:
No, it's not that I'm going to read it again, so the "here go again" xd
With that structure you are actually saying that you will not read it again.
Should have been written like this.
No, it's not that. I'm going to read it again, so the "here go again" xd
That little dot☝ right there
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I think that what Pete tries to say, is that with Starlight, she tried to intentionally destroy Twilight's friendships.
What Twilight did in return was to ask why would Starlight do this, try to explain why Starlight shouldn't do this and general battle banter.
Yes, there were a ''laser show'' and Twilight was clearly displaying frustration and anger towards Starlight, but she did not clearly vocalize them to Starlight (as far as I know).
I don't think Canon Twilight have ever just straight up insulted anyone in the series, for who they are, or their worth as a person.
The closest examples I can think of is towards the end of ''Bridle Gossip'', where she starts to buy into the xenophobia.
Here, Spike accidentally destroy memories of Twilight's friendships.
And instead of lamenting to Spike why she is hurt by that loss, she starts to directly insult Spike's entire person, and any slight he have done (be they willingly or not).
She even went as far as to say the insult of, ''I wish you were never born''.
As far as we know, Spike is an indentured servant of Twilight, from his hatching.
The show didn't hint that he did ever get any real schooling... Just instructions on secretary work.
Thus never gaining any friends of his own equal peers.
With that he became Twilight's ''pet project'' (I my thoughts).
Even Lauren Faust and Jim Miller have two different views on this.
TLDR: Did the punishment fit the crime? ''canon''-Twilight vs Starlight compared to Twilight ''vs'' Spike
PS: I noticed that Twilight said:
If one say this to another person, this exclude that specific person from being considered inside that ''circle of friends''.
Not ''our''... If one dig into this, it means that Spike is not considered her friend.
Kinda like Pinkie wanting Maud to meet ''all of her friends'', and then don't introduce Spike at all to Maud.
PPS: Tis story still goes into the ''Tracking'' bin!
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Wow, I was just calling twilight a hypocrite, but you explained it a lot better than I did.
Time for Discord to give the friends princess a earful.
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He probably picked up a few things from twilight considering sometimes he had to get books for her so he must have learned to read.
Now THAT surprises me.