Please be advised, I don't consider this a good example of my work, but I'm leaving it up because I wrote it for a contest, i.e. for someone else.

Discord tells Twilight a story about an old enemy of Equestria, and how she was defeated the first time.

Written for Super Trampoline's Fimfiction Feghoot Festival.

Twilight Sparkle has somehow, for a particular value of "somehow" that means "she got Fluttershy to guilt him into it," saddled Discord with writing friendship reports to Celestia, under the impression that it will make him a better friend. She might or might not be right, but nobody said Discord had to learn the same lesson everypony else did....

The whole school saw Sunset Shimmer's demonic form get hit by the Elements of Harmony, and half a second later she was in a smoking crater in the ground, sobbing and repentant. From Sunset's perspective, her change of heart took a bit more time.

Genre is... not well-suited but to be perfectly honest that's the closest it's gonna get. Think of it as a missing scene.

Art is by Rennygade, though for some reason I can't find this specific piece on their page. Please contact me if you object to my using it here; it's a beautiful piece.

Many thanks to the folks on the Fimfiction and Clocktower Discord servers for their editing help; any remaining errors are my own.

Cross-posted to AO3 finally here.
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