Reinforcements
“What a mess…” Twilight muttered as she materialized in Fluttershy’s cottage. The light outside had died some time ago, only the pale moonlight illuminated the interior of the humble home. Starlight was asleep on the couch, snoring as she went through another dreamless sleep enforced by spells Twilight had taught her.
The once-princess sat down in the middle of the room and let out a deep sigh. She had been on edge all day since getting that letter and this was the first time since then that she could do something that resembled relaxing. It was at that moment that she realized just how tired she was. Months of traveling by hoof, months of little sleep and excess worry felt like it finally caught up with her. Her muscles ached, her eyes felt like they were being dragged down by weights, and she had a headache that was just strong enough to make thinking difficult.
It was easier to do this stuff when you were tense, when you were excited. It was when you came down, when the moment of action was over, that you really began to regret it all. She was at that stage now.
“Twilight Sparkle, do you know what time it is?” Discord’s sarcastic tone broke the stillness of the night as he appeared in front of her. “I expected you home hours ago, missy.”
“Discord, can we not?” Twilight whispered at him to keep from waking Starlight up. “It’s been a long day, alright?”
“I can tell.” Discord floated towards her in midair on his back, his arms behind his head. “You look like a timberwolf’s plaything.” He flashed a toothy grin at her. “No offense, of course.”
“Of course.” Twilight grumbled in response.
“Oh, Starlight and I got your final piece by the way.” Discord jerked a thumb towards an old beat up shovel resting against the couch that Twilight hadn’t noticed yet. “No dragons to burn us this time, but it was a lot of digging.”
“Thank you, Discord. Really. It means a lot to me.” Twilight pulled a strip of off-white cloth out. It was old and dirty, but it was in one piece. The threads were starting to come loose, but they were holding together for now. “I got the last one from Manehattan.”
“Do you really think this will work?” Discord asked, all mirth removed from his voice. He sounded sad, worried even.
“It has to,” Twilight muttered. “Somepony needs to save Equestria…”
“You already did, Twilight.” Discord set himself on the ground, rested a claw on her shoulder and squeezed lightly. “You and your friends, you saved Equestria. It just needs to be rebuilt now.”
“It doesn’t feel saved,” Twilight countered as she looked out of the window. “It feels like all we did was delay the inevitable. It feels like all we did was delay the end.” It was a bitter taste in her mouth that coated each of those words. The more of the world she saw, the more she heard of what ponies were doing to one another; the more bitter she became.
“Please don’t say that,” Discord pleaded in a small voice. “Don’t…ever say that.” He shook his head and she could see tears forming in his mismatched red and yellow eyes. “You make it sound like they wasted their lives. Like she wasted her life.”
“What if she did?” Twilight asked. “What if they did? What if, after all of this, it turns out not to have mattered?” she asked the question that had been on her mind every minute since she woke up covered in the ashes of her friends.
“Then maybe we should’ve all died in your castle,” Discord answered bitterly. “If none of that mattered, then what’s the point of going on? Why are you doing all of this?”
“Because it needs to have mattered,” Twilight whispered and wrapped her wings around herself. “Their lives, their deaths, need to mean something. Even if I have to make them mean something.”
Discord sat for a moment, thinking that over, then he nodded. The two poles of the world, harmony and chaos, sat in silence for a few more minutes before bidding each other goodnight. Neither would sleep well, and they both knew it.
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Starlight Glimmer woke up slowly. Before The Event she relied on coffee to get her mornings started for most of her life, partially a failure of parenting and her fault for not cutting off her obvious addiction earlier in life, but nowadays coffee wasn’t exactly something she could get her hooves on. So now here she was left, cranky and tired with no way to get her brain going except the old fashioned way of just waking up. That was one of the many many inconveniences about the current state of Equestria, and honestly it was the one that Starlight hated the most on a deeply personal level.
She groaned a bit as she stared up at the ceiling. The couch she had been sleeping on the last few nights was uncomfortable, as most couches were, and the arm dug into her neck at the worst possible angle. After a few minutes of silently cursing the furniture, she sat up and blinked the sleep from her eyes.
It was early in the morning, right as the sun began to come over the horizon. The interior of the cottage wasn’t dark, but it wasn’t bright enough to distinguish every little thing quite yet. She could see Twilight, though. Her mentor was propped against the nearby coffee table, her head resting on it and a puddle of drool forming beneath her mouth.
“Oh Twilight…” She said with a sigh. The drive that her mentor had harnessed for this mission was nothing short of astonishing. It was enough to kill any other pony. Then again, she wasn’t sure how ‘alive’ Twilight was anymore. Sure, she was alive in the most literal sense, but she wasn’t living anymore. She was just doing things, using every last drop of energy to accomplish this task.
What would happen when they were done? What would Twilight do then?
“Nnnn.” Twilight groaned as she stirred and sat up. A wing came up and wiped her face free of her own saliva. She blearily blinked at Starlight, the frown she permanently wore already present this early in the morning. “Morning, Starlight.”
“Morning,” she responded in kind. They never said ‘good morning’ anymore. No such thing existed anymore.
“Got the last one in Manehattan.” Twilight went straight to business as she rose to her hooves and stretched out. “Today’s the day,” she stated simply. “We leave as soon as we can.”
“Are you sure you don’t want to give it a day?” Starlight prodded. “Just take a day to go over what we need to do and prepare fully?” She just wanted Twilight to slow down and not completely burn out, even if it was a hopeless task.
“We’ve gone over the plan a thousand times,” Twilight stated resolutely as she went over to their packs and fished out some of their food. It wasn’t anything fancy, just a bunch of dried fruit and canned goods they had gathered and scavenged over their travels. “Eat up, it’s going to be a busy day.”
They both sat on the couch and ate in silence, as they usually did. Twilight had Starswirl’s journal out, long since translated with the help of Starlight’s unique talent of deciphering chicken scratch, and made some notes in it.
“I still can’t believe that Sunburst brought that with him from the Crystal Empire when he fled.” As Starlight said the name of her foalhood friend, a severe and deep pain shot through her heart.
“Then he managed to leave it on the train,” Twilight shot back. “We’re lucky it wasn’t destroyed in The Event and that the guards found it and confiscated it before somepony else got their hooves on it.” Her mentor added. “Without this, I don’t know what I’d be doing.”
‘Being miserable in Manehattan with Celestia’ would be the safe bet. Without this mission, this quest, Twilight would be just as miserable as the perturbed portrait painter at the top of the tower.
“Goooood morning, you two,” Discord chirped cheerfully as he came from one of the rooms in the cottage. “Up early are we?” The draconequus left the ground and floated over to them. “Don’t mind if I do!” he said as he took a piece of dried apple from Starlight and popped it into his mouth.
“Morning, Discord!” Starlight gave her best smile to her friend and leaned in to give him a small hug. “Yeah, today’s the day. So it’s going to be long and stressful, y’know?” She had flipped the switch from melancholic to something resembling happy in an instant. Twilight wouldn’t respond to this kind of enthusiasm anymore, Starlight knew that well, but Discord thrived on it.
“Do you want me to tag along? I can take the day off from all of this.” He gestured to the house and the animals who were now beginning to wake up as the sun spilled in through the windows. “I’m sure I could help. After all this is some old magic, as I’m sure you’re aware.”
“We got it,” Twilight stated bluntly.“ Starlight and I have this plan down and we’ve had it down. The last thing we need is another variable. There are too many already, I don’t want another.”
Discord visibly wilted as the words spilled from Twilight’s mouth with no small amount of venom coating them. Starlight patted his side and gave him a little smile and a shrug. He only frowned and sighed in response.
“Well alright…” He conceded and then turned to Starlight. “If anything goes wrong, just yell for me. I’ll be keeping an ear out for you.” To make a point he pulled one of his ears off and slipped it into Starlight’s saddlebags with a wink. Starlight rolled her eyes playfully and gave him a nod. “Well at least let me see you two off. Do you need a teleport to wherever you’re going? I can do that too!”
“It’s probably a good idea.” Starlight put her weight behind Discord’s suggestion. “You need to save up all of the energy you can, Twilight.” They both looked at the alicorn as she mulled over the suggestion. She sighed and nodded her head in agreement.
The odd trio of two villains turned do-gooders and one hero turned world destroyer went about collecting all of the things they would need. Starlight was in charge of the various artifacts that Discord had recovered for them, and as such they were tied to and in her saddlebags to the point where she was weighed down. The rusty metal shield rested on her back with a shovel and a potted flower sticking out of her bags, then an intricate blue and yellow bird-looking mask was placed on top of her head. Then finally Twilight told Discord exactly where to drop them.
Twilight had Starswirl’s journal with the Alicorn Amulet on top of it stuffed in her saddlebag along with their supplies and the weight of what she’d done on her back. As far as Starlight was concerned, the division of labor was good enough.
“Like I said, just yell if you need me,” Discord whispered to Starlight as his ear poked itself out of her saddlebag and wiggled a bit. Twilight was in the lead as they all left the cottage to stand in the early morning sunlight. “Okay, let’s get you two on your way!” He clapped his mismatched hands together with a grin and sped to the front of the group. “Keep your hooves, horns and wings inside the ride at all times and please enjoy your ride on Discord Air!” he proclaimed as he raised his talons and snapped them.
The two mares disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared somewhere else instantly. Normal teleportation was disorienting enough, but Discord’s was a special kind of Tartarus. Starlight wasn’t sure how it worked, but it felt like her entire body had been sucked through a very long straw very very fast and she was spat out here.
When they both finally regained their senses, they found they were exactly where they needed to be. At the base of Foal Mountain, nestled amongst now dead trees, were ancient ruins left undisturbed save for the vines and trees that had attempted to reclaim it before being thwarted by the harsh sunlight of The Event.
A large stone circle encompassed the area with six pillars covered in runes and markings rising from it near the edges. In the middle was what looked to be a large stone bowl or some kind of dais. The vines that had once wrapped around every piece of stonework were now rotten and brown and littered the ground. When they had come here the first time they had cleared most of it, but so many little pieces still remained.
She still remembered the scene that had once played out here. On their first trip Twilight had placed Starswirl’s journal down in exasperation and activated some kind of magical projection that replayed the battle that the mythical Pillars of Equestria had with the Pony of Shadows. They had successfully banished the creature and took themselves with it.
She still remembered when Twilight had the realization that bringing back the Pillars would mean bringing back the Pony of Shadows as well. They had been going from library to library all across Equestria, or at least where libraries still stood, and Starlight had come across a first edition copy of Magical Mishaps and Accidents that had some ancient unicorn hero accidentally banishing himself along with the monster he was supposed to dispatch. Then they finally put two and two together and realized the threat that would join the Pillars.
So here they were, after months of reading and preparation, ready to right a wrong and bring heroes back to Equestria.
Starlight went around placing all of the artifacts on their proper pedestals before the stone pillars. Her heart raced as she went around the circle, it sped up and thundered in her ears as she placed Rockhoof’s shovel, the final one before the journal, in its place. When it was done, she trotted over to Twilight and nodded.
“Remember, Want It, Need It spell,” Twilight spoke with a grim determination. “It should be able to break through the Amulet’s charms with the modifications we’ve made to it. Persuade me to take it off and then we can deal with the Pillars. The Pony of Shadows comes first, though.”
“And you’re sure you’re comfortable…doing this?” Dealing with the Pony of Shadows meant a lot more than talking with it and using the power of understanding, friendship and magic rainbows to make it friendly. Dealing with it meant using the Alicorn Amulet and disposing of the monster permanently.
“What’s one more body on the pile?” Twilight asked coldly, clearly not seeking an actual response. “Here, take the book. Place it whenever you’re ready.” She pushed Starswirl’s journal into Starlight’s chest and took position facing the giant bowl in the center. The Alicorn Amulet hovered around Twilight’s neck, not yet clasped but waiting.
Starlight held the journal close to her chest as she trotted over to the pedestal where it would rest and then Starlight would have to use her magic to activate the return spell, that is if they were right and this is how it all worked. She took it in her magic and held it above its spot. “Okay Twilight, putting it down now!”
“Let’s do this,” Twilight muttered almost inaudibly, a subtle click accompanying her words.
Starlight put the journal down and then stepped back and focused energy into her horn. There was no great secret or old spell to do this, she just had to pour energy into the book to kickstart the process from what they had learned. So she aimed her horn at the little blue book and fired a stream of pure magic at it.
The strain she felt was intense and instantaneous. She hadn’t used magic like this since before The Event. In fact, the last spell she had used that caused her to put any kind of effort in was the teleportation spell that caused her to turn in the first place. Beads of sweat dripped down her forehead and her legs began to shake as she opened up her magic for maximum output. This felt like a job for three unicorns, not one.
As soon as the book began to shine with an overwhelming white light, she killed her stream of magic and immediately collapsed onto the ground. She watched on as a beam of light shot from the book to the next artifact and onto the next until the circle was completed and the beam returned to the book. All of the Pillar’s symbols began to rise into the air while still connected by that white stream of energy, then they began to spin. Faster and faster they went around until they couldn’t be distinguished from one another. Then in the blink of an eye they converged right above the giant stone bowl in the middle of the clearing and collided in a flash of blinding light.
When the light faded, six ponies were hovering in the air with giant stones above them. They began to fall. Adrenaline surged through Starlight’s system as she leapt to her hooves and fired up her horn again. Those stones were big enough to kill a pony, so she needed to act as fast as she could. She focused on the six ponies and reached out to them with her magic and gave them all one tug towards the center of the clearing.
Where originally they might have landed on the stone pedestals that once held their artifacts, now the Pillars landed about a foot in front of them while the massive boulders crashed harmlessly into where they might’ve been if Starlight hadn’t interceded. Starlight took short panicky breaths and looked around wild eyed for a moment, alert for anything else that might appear. Then her eyes fell on the elderly stallion now at her hooves.
“What…what has happened?” he asked as he looked up at the unicorn mare who had saved him with deep blue eyes. His coat was gray with little streaks of white here and there, but the white had fully overtaken the long mane that flowed from beneath the ornate blue wizard hat adorned with bells, and it had certainly overtaken the long flowing beard that drooped from his chin.
“W-we brought you back.” Starlight managed to sputter out.
“Back where?” Starswirl asked groggily as he got to his hooves and looked around.
“Equestria. You’ve been trapped in limbo for the last thousand years, but we brought you back.” She was doing her best to stay on her own hooves as he rose to his. As she spoke she saw his eyes shrink to the size of pinpricks and looked around in a mix of horror and panic.
“WHAT?!” He bellowed. “No no no no!” He pushed a hoof into Starlight’s chest. “You must undo what you have done! You cannot bring only the Pillars back!” He looked around at the other ancient ponies who had joined him back in the land of the living, and they all stared at the giant bowl in the center.
“We know!” Twilight growled out. “We have a plan for that.”
Starlight spun on her hooves to face her mentor. Twilight’s wings were spread out wide and she was in a wide powerful stance like she was bracing for something. Her eyes, now tinged red along with the original purple, were narrowed. The long alicorn horn that sprouted from her head was crackling with energy as she prepared some spell for the coming threat.
As if on cue, a crack of lighting erupted from the clear sky above. Then a mass of black clouds coalesced in the center of the clearing right above the stone dais. The mass spun for a moment before forming into an uneven sphere of pitch black. While all of this happened, clouds came from seemingly nowhere to blot out the sun above. Then the sphere melted into the bowl below into a pile of writhing black tendrils that eventually formed into something looking like an alicorn made of pure darkness.
The Pony of Shadows reminded Starlight far too much of the monstrous alicorns that had terrorized Equestria during the Event. Its proportions were correct, but it was about the same height and had the same imposing presence about it. The long curved horn and short splindly wings only added to the similarities.
The monster opened its mouth to speak, to say something to the heroes that had vanquished it so long ago, but it didn’t get a single word out. A massive pillar of purple magic slammed into it with the force of a locomotive. Just like a locomotive, the magic didn’t stop. It was a single stream that kept coming. Starlight could see layers of darkness be stripped away as The Pony of Shadows wailed out in pain as the amplified magic of an alicorn was being used against it.
Starlight looked at Twilight again. Her eyes had changed. Before there was a look of determination on them, now there was nothing but pure unadulterated hate. Twilight’s mouth opened up with a roar that was drowned out beneath the thunderous sound of the blast she was leveling at the monster before her.
At that moment, Starlight was transported right back to Ponyville. She could see Twilight, twelve feet tall and malformed, letting out a blood curdling howl as she chased Cheerilee and Scootaloo through the streets. She could see and hear the rage, the hate in Twilight and she was reminded that it was still in both of them.
Starlight was snapped back to reality by one of the Pillars calling out a name. She was back here, but she could still see Twilight as that monster. The urge to look away from her mentor, her friend, overcame her and so she did and instead looked back at where the Pony of Shadows was. She corrected herself almost immediately, where the Pony of Shadows had been.
Twilight’s blast finally stopped and now there was nothing where the monster had once been. Even the solid stone that it had once stood on was as smooth as glass. There was nothing left of the creature, not anymore.
“Stygian!” One of the Pillars called out as they all rushed to where the Pony of Shadows had been.
Starlight, meanwhile, rushed to Twilight. She quickly cast the modified Want It, Need It spell over herself and stepped right in front of the alicorn. Her mentor’s lips were still curled into a snarl and Starlight could’ve sworn she saw sharpened teeth in that sneer. After a few moments the spell wormed its way into Twilight’s brain and the rage in her eyes died, only to be replaced with a dazed blank look.
“H-hey Starlight.” Twilight sounded out of breath as she spoke. The alicorn stepped a little closer, close enough that Starlight could smell her breath. Why did it still smell like death?
“Twilight…” Starlight swallowed her fear and put on the sweetest voice she could manage. “...honey.” The pet name rolled off her tongue like cyanide laced molasses. “You’d do anything for me, right?”
“Yeah, of course Starlight!” Twilight answered hopefully as she stepped forward and nuzzled the unicorn’s cheek with her own. That sent a shiver up Starlight’s spine. “What do you need?”
“W-well I need you to take off that necklace.” Starlight was doing her best not to back away from Twilight and put some distance between them. She needed the Want It Need It spell to overpower the charms of the Amulet and she wasn’t sure what effect distance would have on it.
“Mmm anything for you, Starlight,” Twilight answered dreamily as she nipped at one of her pupil’s ears. That made Starlight pin her ears back and nod a bit. “I think it would look great on you, but honestly I prefer you with nothing on.” The thought of Twilight imagining them doing that was enough to make Starlight’s stomach roil.
There was a soft click as the clasp of the necklace was undone and then the Amulet floated towards Starlight. The unicorn grabbed it in her magic quickly and stuffed it in her saddlebag. Wasting no time at all, her horn immediately flared as she cast the counter to dispel the foul charm she had put on herself.
Almost immediately Twilight blinked and stared at Starlight with a look of abject horror. The alicorn stepped away from her pupil and swallowed something she wanted to say. The two mares gave each other a little nod, a silent agreement to never talk about that interaction again.
“What…did you do?” The masculine voice interrupted their little aside. Starswirl, his presence announced by the jingling of bells on his cape and hat, trotted over to the two mares. “What did you do?” He glared at Twilight.
Some part of Twilight, the old pre-Event Twilight, still remained there deep down. Being that close to the pony who she admired more than Celestia made her hooves tap against the ground in excitement. It was tempered, however little, by the stern tone the ancient mage took with her.
“I-I’m sorry, Starswirl.” Twilight finally managed to get out after blurting out how big of a fan she was. “We just didn’t have the time to handle that the long way. I know violence is never the answer but we need the Pillars to-”
“Not that.” Starswirl interrupted her with a wave of his hoof. “You did something I should’ve done…a long time ago.” There was a twinge of sadness in his voice as he said that, but it was quickly smothered by annoyance and frustration. “The magic. What has happened to the magic. It’s wrong.”
“Oh.” Both Twilight and Starlight answered in unison as the realization hit them both at the same time. The magic of the world had changed after The Event, not functionally but in the way it felt. It was a bit sturdier now and took a bit more effort to use. The ponies of Equestria now were the proverbial frogs that had been boiled in that change, Starswirl was a fresh amphibian dropped into the roiling pot. Of course he had noticed.
“That’s…a long story,” Twilight answered somberly. “You see, I was in the Frozen North on a mission and these two archaeologists approached me claiming to have found King Bullion’s Vault-”
“No.” Starswirl interrupted her again. “You unleashed it.” He started harshly and leveled an even harsher glare at her. “You let it out, that fool’s plague, didn’t you?” The old stallion growled and looked up at the sky. “Gods, I should’ve banished that whole vault to limbo when I had the chance.”
“Wait, how do you know about it?” Starlight pondered aloud. “I thought it was some sort of big secret last resort.”
“Who do you think made it?” Starswirl asked, no small amount of bitterness in his words. Both Starlight and Twilight recoiled in horror as they looked at the stallion. “Some of my best work that should’ve never been, but we’ve all made mistakes. We’ve all done things we regret.”
Starlight wanted to fire back about how not everypony makes plagues that are made to destroy the planet and commit genocide, but considering her own track record she couldn’t really play that card. Her meddling in the timeline, with Starswirl’s own spell by the way, had caused wars and numerous deaths in those alternate Equestrias she had created and left to damnation.
“But…but…why?” Twilight asked. “Why would you, of all ponies, help make something so horrible?”
“I was young,” Starswirl answered plainly. Slowly the other Pillars gathered around them and listened to the little discussion intently. “I was a young foalish boy who believed too much in the superiority of the unicorn race. Back then we were all prone to believe such things, and we were prone to believe that the other two races had it out for us.” Starswirl’s sadness faded in an instant under the boiling heat of his anger. “I stamped out every record of that forsaken vault, I buried it beneath a mountain myself and I thought the Frozen North itself would be enough to keep fools like you out, but I was wrong!”
“When I finally fail, all my good deeds will be like dust. They will be replaced by ash in the mouths of those who once revered me,” Twilight murmured the ominous line from Starswirl’s autobiography that had been hotly debated by historians for as long as it had been in print. “That’s what you meant, wasn’t it?”
“I knew one day my involvement would be known, I didn’t think anypony would be stupid enough to unleash it!” Starswirl exclaimed in exasperation. “I thought it would be left alone, or after all of this time somepony would’ve found a way to destroy it! I left all of my notes in there! Everything I had on it because I thought it would be helpful to the ponies of now to understand it!” Starswirl pushed a hoof into Twilight’s chest. “I didn’t think a foal would find it and bring ruin.”
“You don’t think I regret that?” Twilight asked, tears streaming from her eyes and down her cheeks. “I-I did so much damage because of that one stupid mistake. I killed so many ponies. I lost my best friends in the entire world, The Elements of Harmony, the ponies that replaced you.” She pointed at the Pillars. “Equestria is ruined because of me, so please…please don’t act like I don’t know that. Because I do.” Twilight glared right back at her hero with bleary eyes. “I can’t save Equestria. I thought maybe you could.” She shook her head bitterly. “Turns out you’re just as guilty as me.”
Twilight’s magic reached into Starlight’s saddlebag and pulled out the Alicorn Amulet. Before Starlight could even react to the theft, Twilight slammed it onto the ground and brought a hoof down on it. A small crack and a spark of magic signified that the gem itself was broken now.
Twilight sat down and began to cry as she looked down at the broken remnants.
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Huh, well that explains a few things, though wasn't a twist I was expecting. Pretty sure I recall the weapon/plague being booby-trapped from Twilight's earlier recollection, in which case I don't see how Starswirl can give Twilight a hard time for unleashing it when just trying to examine it closer would set it off before she even had a chance to realize what she was dealing with. Also wondering whether we're going to get any further explanation about exactly what that thing was and why it was designed that way, it really doesn't feel like something that was well thought out, instead being a weapon that screws over everyone equally in the end.
Whoof. That was rough
question is... what happens now?
Well, hopefully they can all work together to find a way to fix this mess. Hopefully. Though I can't help but think that Stygian might have been able to help. To bad he got vaporized..
Also thankfully Discord is still a good friend.
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It's possible that once the majority of other pony tribes were eradicated, that there was a failsafe that would change everyone back. Or maybe they would stay the way they were, as a pseudo-hivemind collective. It was also probably made before alicorns, so it would've taken much longer to destroy the other tribes back then. Presumably, it was also meant as a last resort if unicorns were on the brink of extinction. This is also headcanon, but it most likely would've sterilized the other races since it infected all mana, and in this fic's canon earth ponies and pegasi get all their mana while they're in the womb, most likely leading to manaless foals that would quickly die.
Starswirl's arrogance prevented him from thinking that maybe, just maybe, the ones who would find this vault wouldn't be that familiar with his notes on it, not to mention that his notes may be lost or destroyed in thousand years in between.
both of discords eyes are the same in the show
It's been a while but didn't the thing just break out of a tube and infect twilight as soon as she got within a certain distance of it? That doesn't seem like a sealed away experiment, that seems like a booby trap
Star Swirl made the vault? Talk about a plot twist.
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The glass could've grown brittle throughout the years.
Or the sickness, as it was created by the strongest unicorn in ancient history, possessing a clear intelligence; reacted to the strongest Alicorn in modern history.
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So you mean it may be only the affected populace has it whilst the next generation would be inmune to it? It'd make sense.
Please say that there's going to be a next chapter. Please. It cant end like this
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Something shot out underneath it and broke it, yes. It was probably Bullions doing, a last effort in his crazed mind to ensure his plague came to action.
Another question, so The Repopulation Bureau is ONLY for Earth ponies and Pegasi?
Finally caught up with the story. I am so hooked, please keep going.
Read all of this in an evening, it was so good but so sad. Hope it gets an update soon.
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Nah, she activated something with her magic.
I'm not sure if its a good idea. And how are the Pillars going to help?
IT WAS YOU!!!!!? YOU CREATED IT!!!!?
HOW THE HELL WAS SHE SUPPOSE TO KNOW WHAT IT WAS AND WAS GOING TO DO!!!?
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I mean.....he did just say that he left all his notes about that plague in there. Twilight just never took the chance to read them, assuming she took them with her.
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The white of the eye is yellow and the pupil is red