Starlight's Fate

by cornholio4

Alternate Ending

Author's Note:

I knew that I had to do this alternate ending as I quickly realised that the actual titular fate was a bit much.

Starlight was sent hard to the boulder and Twilight's face filled with horror and a bit regret when she saw that Starlight's horn had broken off. The force of her powerful magical blast and the impact upon the boulder was stronger than she had realised. The look on her face fell as Starlight's horror grew into frantic fury at her opponent.

Twilight used her magic to telekinetically get up Starlight as she then had them leave the dark future that she had sent them to so that she could go all out without endangering anyone in the past. She didn't trust Starlight to play dirty and be willing to endanger innocents just to make Twilight falter; she had made clear that her mask of doing things for a more equal future was just that: a mask.

She then had then sent back to collect Spike and got the Sonic Rainboom to go off as it was supposed to before returning to the present. She then burned the scroll and then used Starlight's own spell to collect her Cutie Mark.

"Let's see how you like having your Cutie Mark removed yourself..." Twilight said shaking her head as Starlight felt her life left her as her Cutie Mark was forced away from her. She could only weakly groan as she tried to get up on her knees.

"Spike... Take a message..." Twilight told him as she had to inform Princess Celestia and all her friends about this...

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A special trial was set up before Princess Celestia and as special witnesses Twilight had managed to track down and collect Sunburst and Starlight's own father. They both looked disappointed at Starlight who growled from the defendant's stand with her Cutie Mark put in a special place inside a jar while next to her; Starlight's public defender had to tell her not to make it worse for herself.

Twilight and her friends were all called as witnesses whose glances towards Starlight went from just extreme disappointment like Fluttershy's to outright anger like Rainbow Dash's.

Twilight and Spike made their testimonials about the horrible timelines that Starlight's petty actions created and how she refused to listen to reason. However what was really telling was the testimonials collected from the residents of 'Our Town' who were looking for a new name for their home.

"...She kept claiming that getting rid of our Cutie Marks would be our choice but those that didn't want to part with them... She kept practically stalking us to share the virtues of being equal with everyone else..." spoke one villager.

"She pretty much encouraged everyone to shun those who wouldn't part with theirs..." spoke another.

"She disregarded any ideas of electing our leaders. 'Why would we need elections when everyone is clearly equal and everyone has their own role to play?' Those were her words despite the fact she was clearly in charge in her own self appointed role..." bitterly spoke another.

Each testimony pretty much tore down Starlight's claims of wanting to spread true friendship and equality when all she was doing was making sure that she was in charge of her own cult; she led all the sheep while keeping her Cutie Mark so that she would be the only one special and never actually practiced what she preached. It revealed that she truly was just a self righteous control freak who never got over a friend moving away and took it out on Cutie Marks as a whole.

The jury didn't spend long handing down a verdict.

"...I can only hope that a term in the dungeons without your Cutie Mark would help you realise what kind of mare you are... As you feel as your forced others to feel without a part of yourself... " Princess Celestia handed down her sentence sternly.

Starlight fumed in her dungeon cell blaming Twilight, her friends and 'the ungrateful flock in that town'. Still convinced that she hadn't done anything wrong and that she only had the best intentions. As an added bit of irony; the food that she had to eat were the same kind of bad pies that was served at Our Town during her time as leader. The ones that she avoided eating herself and had her own stash of actual edible food.

Comments

[Pete100]

Interesting ending

[ChubbyNia]

Nice!

[iconicgg]

This is the ending I wanted. And twilight is more in character in this one. Keep up the good work

[Catpaw616]

Better than leaving Starlight to die in an alternate timeline, that’s for sure.

[cornholio4]

11795962
Thanks very much

[Pete100]

11795930
It’s good. I loved seeing starlight angry.

[Mystic Sunrise]

Equestris is still doomed. Chrysalis wins in the Season 6 finale. Let alone anything else.

[cornholio4]

11796161
The domino effect could be Twilight more alert by the time that she appears

[D48]

The first ending was better.

[Nebbie]

This story basically amounts to "What if Twilight and Celestia were awful ponies who thought people needed to be utterly traumatized as punishment for doing bad things?"
The second ending is just garnished in a more palatable manner to people used to the cruelty of the real world's many prison systems.

[cornholio4]

11812901
Sorry it’s not your taste though Starlight was a defeated villain and her own selfish actions caused history to be rewritten several times and didn’t care that her actions could doom all life. Plus at least she wasn’t made to just suffer as a statue forever.

Plus I wanted to go for an iron punishment as this one was basically what she was doing to the mane six.

[Nebbie]

11812980
None of that excuses the cruelty of isolation, even if Celestia and Luna went cruel all of a sudden later on to other villains.
They could easily just take her cutie mark away and then try to reform her, offering to give it back once she's better.
Locking someone up in a dungeon might seem fine to you, but it's really not, people generally need social contact to remain sane, and the entire design of dungeons from medieval times was to make someone suffer mentally and physically without technically doing anything to hurt them, so that they would rapidly end up physically ill or suicidal, over time assuring their death. The modern prison systems emerged out of slow and gradual changes to this, expanding it for more people while raising conditions to where most would survive indefinitely, but still assuring they would suffer and be broken by the experience.

[cornholio4]

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Only used dungeon as it seemed like it would be the big punishment for treason as jail time here and sorry that you disagree but without getting into prison systems; some people are too dangerous and set in their ways that they have to be locked up. I don’t see Starlight as someone who should have been redeemed and was a dangerous criminal who was a cult leading tyrant to our town

Plus this would give her time to reflect during her sentences considering she gets to see what she puts others through

Hope we can agree to disagree