Twilight Sparkle thought that her day would be great, only to find out that her friends has switched destinies, as well as cutie marks! To her frantic shock, it turned out she got a special delivery from Princess Celestia, tasking her to make sense of Star Swirl the Bearded’s unfinished spell, as she believes she is the only pony to do so.
Twilight inadvertently cast the spell, not knowing that the Elements of Harmony would also be changed as well! All hope seemed lost, until Spike suggested that she go and remind her friends of who they really are, being true friends all in all. Once she did that, she finally figured out the spell and finished it, but this would change her drastically....turning her from a unicorn into an alicorn, and Equestria’s newest princess of Friendship.
But, what if something else happened?
What if Twilight, at the suggestion of her friends, didn’t cast Star Swirl’s unfinished spell? What if her friends never got their destinies switched? How different would it might have been? What consequences would be foreseen if this happened? How would Celestia react? How would Spike react? What if there was no Princess of Friendship? Would everything still be perfectly fine?
For Twilight, that might be a smart move. But, decisions can lead to consequences that no one had ever thought of. And sometimes, you have to face the punishment if you didn’t do what was told of you. And, there might be a few words the Princess of the sun might have that could impact not only Twilight’s psyche, but also her time in Ponyville.
An alternate ending to the season 3 closer, Magical Mystery Cure, and the eleventh in my alternate ending series.
"And what if it makes you explode--KA-ZAP!--and then puts you back together again but with TWO extra limbs which you would have to use to fight tentacle monsters and the Princessuhsus's evil former student who is now an adolescent ape-thing and other big bads that are even SILLIER than Sombra was, but then...! One of them makes your library explode, but instead of it getting put back together with two new limbs it gets replaced by a super-duper ugly crystal castle with a magic table in it that NEVER gets explained and tells us to do stuff like turn the changelings into doofy rainbow beetles and build a school where we have to spend whole years GRADING PAPERS and...
NOPONY WATCHES OUR MOVIE!"
Odd, I thought that only the Element Bearer could strip herself of the Element, or the Element itself could do that (like they did with C
elestia after banishing NMM).
Thank you for summarizing all of magical mystery cure in your description not a lot of bronies watched that episode /s
This actually fall in line with the possibility Twilight would not want to be a princess or alicorn cause in some cases in certain fanfiction of mlp Twilight being an alicorn was the blast thing on her mind.
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Apparently in this one, Celestia is a vindictive evil tyrant. Who knew?
I don't understand the Dislikes of this story is an interesting premisia and introduction to the story.
Psdt: Good Story:twilightsmile❤️❤️
I look forward to the next chapter.
Sequel: Ponies rebel against Celestia.
Hey there! I'm a fan of speculative alternate endings, and given my rocky opinion of Magical Mystery Cure, I was interested to see what you would do with it.
Though the concept is interesting, I think this story suffers from a lot of leaps in progression. For example, Twilight says she is worried the spell will alter her friends' cutie marks and destinies. She bases this conclusion on the fact that the colors of the Elements got scrambled. But as a reader, I'm stuck wondering, why did Twilight think changing the Elements means changing their destinies? I know that's what happens because I've seen the episode, but Twilight hasn't, and in fact never will because that episode doesn't happen in this timeline. That kind of reliance on meta-knowledge takes me out of the story because the characters are using knowledge from outside their own universe.
As another example, I can't understand why Celestia's punishment on Twilight is so severe. Some consequence is warranted, if for no other reason than Twilight is disobeying a direct instruction from her ruler and mentor. I can understand Celestia wanting to drop Twilight as a student in order to start grooming a new heir; that's in line with your characterization. But total isolation in Canterlot seems a step too far. It gets even more confusing when, for some reason, she can't undo Twilight's isolation. Was Twilight banished in the same sense that Luna was? Luna's banishment was a last-ditch effort to stop her from destroying the world. Is that supposed to be on par with refusing a homework assignment? Is Celestia supposed to be a tyrant? Then why does she immediately, and severely, regret her decision to banish Twilight?
I want to like this, and there are some interesting ideas here, but I just can't get past the leaps in reasoning and overreactive consequences.
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In fairness to the author, I imagine that it must be exceeding difficult to re-tell "Magical Mystery Cure" without at least a few massive logic leaps and/or plot holes. The very premise of the story is a layered onion of plot holes.
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I totally agree. I've always thought MMC should have been a two-parter to adequately explore the premise and give the characters time to be, you know, actual characters. That's one of the advantages of being a fic writer, rather than an actual show writer - we can take as much time as we want to make sure everything more or less makes sense. The author was definitely more interested in exploring the character drama than filling in plot holes, which is fair. It's not exactly what I like, but that doesn't make it bad by any means.
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I remember that when the episode first aired that the kindest thing that the anons on /mlp/ had to say about it was that it was "rushed," meaning that it did not have enough time to tell the story that Larson had wanted to tell. It needed to be a two-parter, they said. It needed to not waste so damned much potential story time on musical numbers, they said. It needed to have the fourteen more episodes worth of build-up that were lost to Equestria Girls, they said. The whole argument was that with so much extra time they could have justified Alicorn Twilight in a way that made it seem like a logical progression of the narrative that had been estsblished in the prior two seasons as opposed to a two-fisted ass-pull that broke the world for the sake of selling winged Twilight toys. At the time I was of that opinion. After all, Meghan McCarthy and M. A. Larson had written some of the absolute best (and in retrospect all-time great) episodes. If anyone cared about telling a good story in the post-Faust era it was surely them.
After watching subsequent seasons, I no longer buy that. The fact is that the writers had no intention of actually explaining any of the nonsense that they shoehorned into the series' ever-collapsing narrative after Rob Renzetti finally threw up his hands and said, "Fgsfds, I'm going to Disney." That is evidenced by the way that nothing whatsoever that was added to the show after that point was in any way fitted into the walking zombie corpse of the universe that Faust created. Every new thing was just thoughtlessly piled on and subsequently left there to rot. The Princessification was never going to be given any more consideration or narrative justification than the Cutie Map ultimately got, no matter if Larson had another half a season to develop it.
Sorry to dump on you. My favorite hockey team was losing, and I felt the need to wax poetic about someghing else of no real importance.
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Hey, I get the need to rant. No worries from me. My outlook on MMC isn’t as bleak as yours, but I respect your opinion.
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If Faust saw what happened at that point and the later seasons she would have been like:
"Maybe I should've brought my G4 MLP project to a different company who is willing to put the story first and toys second."
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Hasbro already owned the rights to the characters, or at least their names. Most of the rights anyway. Twilight Sparkle was going to be Twilight Twinkle, but Hasbro had already sold off the rights to the name. Lauren did show up on 4chan to complain about what had happened to her creation from time to time, although she was much for diplomatic about it than the other Anons. On the other hand, I do rememebr her "hulking out" drawing that she made after Eqauestria Girls was announced. Poor Lauren.
This was a terrible story! Even after Twilight's friends gave her the scolding she deserved, Celestia STILL chose to have Twilight banished from Ponyville and wanted to find a new student who would blindly obey her instructions?! No! She should realize her mistake and restore Twilight's status!! Why would you continue to have Celestia be such a terrible character with no redemption?! If I were you, I'd change the ending to be a lot happier for everyone!