“Spike! You put a comma before ‘but’ even though the sentence doesn’t contain a subject. I’d tolerate it if you made such an error when you were a few hundreds of years younger, but you're just as ancient as I am. The populace expects us to set a good example in all our work!”
“I’ll rewrite it, okay? There’s no need for all your twilighting.”
She grabbed the scroll from Spike claws. “You know what? Prevention is better than curative measures. And as a bonus, I get to test this new Heart’s Desire potion I bought.”
“Twilight, I don’t think that’s such a good...”
“I wish to prevent Spike from committing this grammatical mistake!” While pointing a hoof at the comma, Twilight chugged down the potion.
She looked back at the scroll. The text changed. It read: “Dear potion user. Thank you for purchasing our legit product. In order to undo a mistake, simply do everything the same as before up until the point when the mistake occurred. At that juncture, just prevent it. Your trusted Flim&Flam brothers.”
What she heard next, chilled her to the bones. “Now split that dragon egg, filly. We don’t have all day!”
“Whaa…”
“Filly, this isn’t a library. Put down your scroll and demonstrate your magic if you want to pass your kindergarten test. The dragon egg won’t split itself, you know?”
Just call me Denver, As in omelet
I had egg on my face
11138439 That's one way of preventing Spike from making a grammatical mistake in the future.
Twilight: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHAT HAVE I DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!
11138611 The irony is, she can undo what she has done. All she has to do is live for the next millennium exactly the same way as she lived before. Upon that time, she will even be able to prevent Spike's grammatical mistake if she will choose to do so.
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Twilight: Phew! Wait what?! Another millennium?!
11138655 And she has to willfully commit every single one of the mistakes she made in her past, else the spike from 5 minutes ago won't ever exist again.
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T- *a purple alicorn jumps in and runs off with my laptop* Hey Twilight! Give that back! No fair! Twilight: Every single mistake?!
11138672 In order for Twilight to get back to the future, she must recreate that exact future over the next millennium, one second at a time.
A RainBoom is about to strike.
11138849
Me: Twi, give my laptop back.
Twi: No!
Me: I need it!
Twi: You talk too much, I'm going to tie you up,
Me: Mmmfff!
Twilight: Every single second?! You must be kidding me!
11138867 Indeed. Unless Starlight Glimmer gets in the way again.
11138880 The future is the sum of the past. To get to the same future she originated from, everything must take place exactly how it took place before. Every moment, every move. All the mistakes she made, she has to make them all over again, or the future will change.
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Twilight: Oh no! I forgot how I defeated Tirek! Did I ask Spike to burn him with dragon fire? Wait a second. Who's Spike?
11138894 That's another good point. If the future changes, will her memories change?
Personally, I subscribe to the view that traveling to the past creates a new timeline. The best Twilight can do is approximate the new timeline with the old one, going by her memory of how she acted in the past.
It's like when a dog eats your homework. You can write it again, but it won't be the same homework, even if you write every word the same as you did before. However, for all intents and purposes, you've recreated the homework.
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Yeah. If a dog ate my hw, if it was maths hw, I'd throw the dog out of the window, and then banish myself to the moon because that'll be a good excuse for me to never do any maths hw again
11138972 Imagine that Twilight has been doing math homework for a millennium. And now that she found herself back in the past, she has to do 1000-years-long math homework from the start. Every single letter of it has to be exact and precise.
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Twilight: I love maths, don't get me wrong, but doing it for that long! I'd rather die. Also, could you check out my captive's story? It's linked in the word story.
11138979 Can you link it here, please?
11138999
Ok. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/511216/what-if
11139000 It's a crossover with something I'm not familiar with.
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It's not really important to be familiar with it. Leon and Alexi are gonna argue with each other, and Bratt will surprise you.
11139018 I usually have a problem with multiple characters. I can handle one. Even two sometimes. But three is kind of a crowd for me. I have to remember their names and it feels like school all over again.
11139022
Ok. It won't be more than a few characters. Btw, I've made a blog that's got lots of info.
11139032 That's just the thing. I can't handle lots of info. I couldn't even watch Game of Thrones because it had more than two characters. I was literally twilighting and drawing graphs, and I still couldn't handle it.
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Oh. Then I'll give you a short explanation on the characters that's going to go to Equestria.
Leon:
He's a Greek Lieutenant, and is in love with a turkish girl, Hilal.
Alexi:
He's the Greek Commander, Commander Philapos' son. And he's Leon's cousin. He believes that a war can be won with money, not guns.
Hilal:
She's Brigadier Jebded's (or Cornel Jebded as he's known in the Turkish army) second daughter, and a patriot. She's also in love with Leon.
Illis:
She's Brigadier Jebded's eldest daughter, and is married to Captain Yaqub who works for Mustafa Kamal, who is the commander of the Turkish army.
In the film, the Greeks have invaded Turkey and are taking over it.
Is that short enough for you?
11139046 It sounds like the beginning of Godfather when they give you a gazillion names, making sure that you know for a fact that the movie will be unwatchable. I could only watch that movie for the first 30 seconds.
The Godfather movie was okay until it was just Godfather behind the desk. But then a bunch of characters showed up and everything turned to shit.
11139056
Oh.