How Could You, Twilight Sparkle?!
It was a dire situation.
Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadance found themselves captured by the Changelings.
Okay, those three getting captured isn’t much of a surprise.
However, another factor made the crisis exponentially more grave. Princess Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Spike were also held captive. Even the foal Flurry Heart, the first pony to be born an Alicorn in Equestria, was taken.
Fortunately for Equestria, hope remained. During the Changeling invasion, Twilight’s student, Starlight Glimmer, was away on a trip with her best friend, Trixie Lulamoon. After Princess Luna used her power to enter dreams to alert a sleeping Starlight to the danger, Starlight recruited Trixie, Thorax, a reformed Changeling (though he was never a “villain” to begin with) and Discord, the Lord of Chaos, to save her friends.
Discord initially had little interest in assisting, until Starlight pointed out that Fluttershy was one of the ponies taken. He then became VERY interested in helping.
But Queen Chrysalis’s throne, made from the writers' way to nerf Discord an ancient dark stone and lay deep in the Changeling Hive, negated the brave rescue team’s magic, except Thorax’s. Thus, once inside, Starlight and her team were helpless against the sheer number of the Changelings. Trixie and Discord were captured, but in return, it granted Starlight and Thorax the time to reach the hive’s throne room.
After a desperate ploy to destroy the throne, which would have allowed Starlight to regain her magic and subsequently unleash Tartarus, failed, Starlight found herself pinned to the floor by two of the Changelings. She was at the mercy of not just the Changelings, but of Queen Chrysalis, the leader of the Changelings.
Standing in front of Starlight while wearing a smile of near-pure evil, the Queen couldn’t resist taking the opportunity to relish this moment. She knew absolute victory was at hand, or hoof. Trapped in “cocoons” full of a strange green semi-liquid substance, that hung on the throne room’s ceiling, were Twilight, her friends, the other Princesses, and Flurry Heart; and Discord and Trixie. Starlight Glimmer was powerless and would soon be placed in her own “cocoon”. Thorax stood no chance by himself. The rest of the Changelings were spread out in the room, and parts of the walls had holes in them, similar to the holes in swiss cheese.
“Well, well, well. It was a pathetic but amusing rescue attempt. I will at least admit that you are great at providing entertainment,” Chrysalis teased.
“Queen Chrysalis, please don’t do this! There’s a better way than stealing love from ponies! Ask Thorax!” Starlight begged.
“The only thing I’m going to ask Thorax is how dumb was he to return to the hive, after I'm done feeding on your love!”
Thorax, who forelegs were stuck in a green glue-like substance on the floor and stood behind Chrysalis, gulped.
“But if you share love, you could--”
Chrysalis groaned and complained, “Oh, will you give it a rest? You’re as bad as Princess Twilight! Next thing you know, you’re going to bore me with a friendship speech and then--”
As if Chrysalis’s words forced horrible memories to resurface, Starlight frowned and her eyes widened.
Thorax knew what was happening in Starlight’s head and begged, “Queen Chrysalis, no! Don’t say ‘friendship speech’ around Starlight! She can’t bear hearing it!”
Starlight whimpered.
“Oh, I’m so sorry, Starlight! I didn’t mean to say friendship spe--oops!” Thorax would have covered his mouth, but since his legs were still "glued" to the floor, he just simply stopped talking.
Starlight whimpered again and started shaking. The two Changelings holding her glanced to each other, but their grip on Starlight remained unchanged.
Oblivious to what Starlight endured not long ago, Chrysalis rolled her eyes. “Well, if you think hearing ‘friendship speech’ is bad, imagine how it feels for me.”
Starlight whimpered yet again and sealed shut her eyelids.
“But you don’t understand!” Thorax yelled. “A while back, before I met them, Princess Twilight gave Starlight ‘The Treatment’ for two months, and--”
Queen Chrysalis gasped and her scowl intensified. But, it wasn’t about anything Starlight Glimmer did. It was for what happened to her.
“Wait, she did WHAT to you?! And for TWO MONTHS?!”
“Yes! That’s why Starlight--”
Chrysalis’s mouth dropped. She knew what “The Treatment” was, and would not have wished for anypony to receive it. Not even her cold heart had that level of cruelty. Her widened green eyes screamed sympathy; an emotion Chrysalis didn’t know she possessed. The desire to replace the most important ponies in Equestria with Changelings left her, and she even forgot she was hungry for more love from ponies. All she wanted was to comfort the shivering Unicorn in front of her.
“You fools, let her go! This poor pony has been through enough!” Chrysalis shouted at the two Changelings still holding down Starlight.
The two guards looked at each other, then released their grip on Starlight. Chrysalis sat down, wrapped a foreleg around Starlight’s back, and gently rubbed her mane with the other foreleg.
“There, there. It will be all right,” Chrysalis said in a soft voice. A number of beings from other worlds would have rubbed their eyes in disbelief at this sight. Others would have tried to ship “Chrylight”.
While continuing to shake, Starlight muttered, “It was horrible...five hours of friendship speeches...every day...for two months...”
“Don’t you worry. She won’t do it to you again.”
“I...I thought you didn’t like me.”
“I don’t, but in a situation like this, the girl code trumps that. Even if the so-called ‘Princess of Friendship’ broke it by giving you ‘The Treatment’! Why I oughta--”
Before Chrysalis could finish, Starlight whimpered, “Thank you...but I don’t have my magic...flashbacks of ‘The Treatment’ coming when I didn’t have it to escape her...help me...”
“Okay, I’ll break the spell that blocks all magic except Changeling magic, so you’ll have your magic back.”
Still with a foreleg around Starlight’s back, Chrysalis’s horn glowed and a bright green light shot in every direction, though no impact was felt from it. Starlight felt an invigorating flood of magic enter her body. Once aware that her magic had returned, she stopped shaking.
Lifting her head to the cocoons hanging on the ceiling, or to be more accurate, the one that housed Princess Twilight Sparkle, Chrysalis gritted her teeth. “Guards, get up there and release Princess Twilight from her cocoon! Now! I want to have a word with that monster!”
The same two guards that had previously pinned down Starlight flew to the cocoon with Twilight. They severed its short stem-like attachment to the ceiling, and both grabbed and carried it down. One of the two fired a green beam of magic from their horn, which opened the middle part of the cocoon, and some of the green semi-liquid inside oozed out. Twilight, who had previously done little more than random twitches inside her cocoon, wiggled free.
Once completely free, but with some of the odd substance covering her body as green spots, Twilight muttered, “W...what happened?”
Chrysalis seethed, “‘What happened’ is that I want a word with you, Princess Twilight Sparkle!”
Lying on the floor, Twilight rubbed her eyes while still trying to get her bearings. She weakly lifted her head to the scowling Chrysalis. “Q-Queen Chrysalis?”
Chrysalis removed her forelegs from Starlight, and moved to position herself between Twilight and Starlight. “Yes, I’m Queen Chrysalis! Now that we all know my name, what is wrong with you?! Don’t you have a heart?!”
“What?” Twilight asked as she looked around, as if she wasn’t sure if Queen Chrysalis was really talking to her.
“Don’t you ‘what?’ me! What kind of ‘Princess of Friendship’ would give something so cruel like 'The Treatment’?! I heard you invented it, but I didn’t think you could be cold-hearted enough to actually give it! Let alone to one of your fellow ponies!”
“Wait, you mean ‘The Treatment’ that I gave Starlight a few months ago?”
Chrysalis shouted, “Yes, that!”
Twilight’s ears drooped and she tapped the floor with a hoof. “Uh...well, maybe I got a little carried away when Starlight inter--”
Chrysalis stomped her hooves. “I don’t give a flying buck what she did! How could you--”
From behind, a turquoise beam struck Queen Chrysalis.
“Ow! What--” Chrysalis swung her head around to the source of the blast.
It came from Starlight Glimmer, who was standing on her hooves and gritting her teeth.
Chrysalis gasped at the unexpected sight and asked, “What? Why?!”
Starlight grabbed Chrysalis in her magic and spun her around to face Twilight. “Okay, Twilight! NOW!”
Twilight sprung to her hooves with her horn glowing magenta, and fired a narrow beam that hit Chrysalis’s horn. Upon the beam's impact, though Chrysalis didn't feel an impact, a magenta ring formed around the middle of it. Chrysalis attempted to focus her magic, but the ring on her horn glowed brighter, then dimmed. Afterward, Starlight released her magical grip on the Queen and she stumbled sideways, so she no longer stood between Twilight and Starlight.
“W-What’s going on?! What is that ring on my horn?!”
“First, you fell for it. The freaking-out I did was partly an act,” Starlight answered.
“And second, that's an 'inhibitor ring' around your horn, so you can’t use your magic. And before you ask, I learned the spell to create an inhibitor ring soon after I became an Alicorn. Lastly, we heard you were planning an invasion, but I didn’t know when it would start, so I made plans. A lot of plans.”
Starlight added, “One of them was for what I would do if you captured Twilight, Spike, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, the other Princesses, but not me.”
“What?! How? Who told you?!”
Thorax looked away and whistled nonchalantly.
Chrysalis squinted her eyes to Thorax and let out a deep growl. “Of course it was you, Thorax.” Chrysalis turned to a smiling Starlight. “Traitor! I gave you compassion, and this is how you repay me?! What about the girl code?”
Starlight’s smile flipped into a frown and responded, “I would feel bad, except you did something horrible.”
“And it is worse than interrupting one of my friendship speeches,” Twilight said in an ominous voice.
“Is it ponynapping you?” Chrysalis asked.
Starlight shook her head. “Nope. She told me ponynapping her isn’t as bad as interrupting one of her friendship speeches.”
“Then what is it?!”
Twilight's face evolved from giving a serious frown to one baring an intense scowl, with gritted teeth, and she spread out her wings. She was experiencing something that was, to her, brand-new. Her squinted eyes oozed pure hate; something the (if you let her finish friendship speeches) kind-hearted Alicorn had never felt before.
Anger is something Twilight had felt before. A lot. Maybe she should consider taking anger management classes before she hurts somepony. Twilight felt rage for the first time when Lord Tirek blew up her home. And worse, he blew up books. She soon felt rage again when one of her friendship speeches was foolishly interrupted by Starlight Glimmer.
But Princess Twilight Sparkle had never hated another living being. She never understood how anypony could hate anything. Until now. In a chilling voice that Twilight had never used before, she seethed, “Queen Chrysalis, you ponynapped a foal. And not just any foal. You ponynapped my niece, Flurry Heart. I won't punish the others for just following your orders, but you I will punish."
Staring at Twilight’s hate-filled glare, Starlight failed to resist gulping. “Uh-oh. I know that look.” Starlight looked to Chrysalis with a frown full of concern. “Chrysalis, run. Fast. Now.”
However, Twilight wouldn’t allow it. She used her magic to hold Chrysalis in place, so she was not going anywhere without the Princess of Friendship’s permission.
“Y-You fools, what are you doing? Get her!” Chrysalis screamed to the other Changelings.
The Changelings took some steps toward Twilight, but before they advanced any closer she shouted, “Don’t you try it! If you don’t reform and learn friendship, I will give all of you ‘The Treatment’!”
Upon hearing the “T” word, the swarm of Changelings stopped in their tracks, gasped, and turned their heads to one another.
“Uh, no, I’m not going to mess with Princess Twilight again,” one of the Changelings said.
“Yep, yep, reforming and learning friendship sounds like a good deal to me,” another Changeling agreed.
“Count me in. Princess Twilight wouldn’t steer us wrong,” a third Changeling chimed in.
A fourth Changeling admitted, “And my mom always wanted me to give friendship a chance.”
A fifth Changeling reminded, “Dude, our mom is Queen--”
The fourth Changeling smacked the fifth one on the head, then in a hushed voice admitted, “Shut up, you idiot! I’m trying to make myself look better!”
In a voice not showing fear, a sixth Changeling said, “What are you guys talking about? We outnumber her, and we caught her before!”
“But, Pharynx, that was because Princess Twilight held back half her power because she hates to risk ‘showing off’, remember? But now she’s mad enough to go all-out! Look at her! She’s got her wings spread out!”
“Yeah! If she grits her teeth any tighter, she’ll break them! And then she’ll break every bone in our bodies!”
“And after that, she'll get to the painful part and punish us with ‘The Treatment’!”
The Changeling known as “Pharynx” groaned and conceded, “Augh, fine! But I’m going to be slow to change my attitude if ever.”
“Traitors!” Chrysalis yelled at her children.
As all the Changelings wised up and agreed to reform, Twilight, scowling at Chrysalis with her teeth gritted, folded her wings and seethed, “And now, Chrysalis, I have plans for you.”
Staring into the violet eyes of Princess Twilight Sparkle, and still trapped in her magical grip, Chrysalis frowned. The last pony who made Twilight anywhere near this angry got “The Treatment”. Chrysalis begged, “N-No! Don’t give me ‘The Treatment’! Please, Princess Twilight, I’ll do whatever you say! I’ll reform and learn friendship too!”
In a less threatening voice, Twilight assured, “Don’t worry, Chrysalis. I’m not going to give you ‘The Treatment’.”
“Oh, thank you! Thank you very much! No wonder you're the Princess of Fri--”
But Twilight interrupted, “Chrysalis, be quiet. As I said, I’m not giving you ‘The Treatment’. For messing with my niece, you will get ‘The Works’!”
Chrysalis's eyes doubled in size. Pure fear prevented her from saying anything, even to beg for mercy.
Starlight's eyes tripled in size and she gasped. Twilight told her what ‘The Works’ is, and how it’s much crueler than “The Treatment”. In a calm voice to ensure she didn’t make Twilight any madder -- and possibly give her “The Works” as a punishment -- Starlight said, “Uh, Twilight? It was beyond despicable for Chrysalis to ponynap Flurry Heart, an innocent little foal. But punishing Chrysalis with ‘The Works’? I don’t know--”
“But I know. You don’t interrupt my friendship speeches, but you definitely don’t mess with my niece. I might never have my own foals and she’s the closest I have to a daughter,” Twilight explained in a serious voice showing that changing her mind was out of the question.
Starlight got the message, backed away, and said nothing else.
Twilight’s horn, which was still glowing from holding Chrysalis in place, glowed brighter. A narrow beam hit Chrysalis in her chest and she fell to the floor with a thud, yet there was no scream. Her pupils paled from green to a gray color, though her cerulean mane covered one of them.
Starlight, looking to Chrysalis with a sympathetic frown, said, “Oh, poor Chrysalis. I feel bad for her now.”
“I don’t,” Twilight declared.
After two of of the Changelings freed Thorax's feet from the "glue" they were still stuck to, Thorax walked to the unconscious Chrysalis. “Uh, can somepony fill me in on what just happened? Why is Chrysalis not moving?”
In a normal tone of voice, Twilight explained, “She’s getting ‘The Works’.”
“Huh?”
“You see, as we speak, Chrysalis’s consciousness is in a lightless void where she can’t move or speak. In that void, she’s experiencing the most agonizing, torturing thing possible in Equestria, and it's far worse than ‘The Treatment’.”
“How long will you make it last?” Starlight asked.
“A year, and then I’ll reverse the spell to bring her back, but she will return a mental wreck. This will teach her to leave my niece alone!” Twilight frowned, walked beside Starlight, and rested a hoof on her back. “Hey, Starlight? I admit that I got a little carried away when I gave you--”
But before Twilight could unexpectedly apologize to Starlight, one of the other Changelings, overwhelmed by curiosity, asked, “Hold on, Princess Twilight. What is ‘The Works’ that you keep talking about?”
Twilight bit her lip. Turning her head to the Changelings one by one, she knew their hearts would be unable to withstand hearing the terror that is "The Works".
But, because they literally asked for it, she explained, “‘The Works’ is hearing the voice of Pinkie Pie screaming my friendship speeches, 24/7, and it's in twice the volume of her loudest scream. And Chrysalis can’t even cover her ears to try to muffle it.”
Learning the horrors of “The Works”, every Changeling, except Pharynx, fainted.
Twilight looked to the unconscious Changelings, chuckled, and commented, “And if they think ‘The Works’ is bad, they really don’t want to know what ‘The Ultima’ is.”
Just hearing the words "The Ultima" forced shudders from Starlight. Pharynx considered asking about the inconceivable nightmare, before he noticed that Twilight and Starlight showed no signs of doing something important.
“Hey, uh, Princess Twilight? Starlight? I’m new to friendship so maybe it’s no big deal. But, aren’t you two forgetting something?”
Twilight and Starlight turned their heads to each other, then to Pharynx, and at the same time replied, “What’s that?”
Pharynx pointed up to the ceiling, which still held the cocoons of Twilight’s friends, Flurry Heart, and the other Princesses.
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Do I even wanna know?
The Ultima? As in, End of all magic ragnaroc Ultima? EEP.
Yes, I do want to know
First impression of The Works(without knowing what it is): Oh please, I could handle that just as easily as The Treatment!!! How bad could it be??
After this:
But, because they literally asked for it, she explained, “‘The Works’ is hearing the voice of Pinkie Pie screaming my friendship speeches, 24/7, and it's in twice the volume of her loudest scream. And Chrysalis can’t even cover her ears to try to muffle it.”
*nervously sweating and looking terrified*
Oh god. I think I'm gonna die. That's horrible...
As terrified as I am to know...I'm actually really curious as to what The Ultima is.
*prepares for the horror*
Alright. Lets hear it.
Seriously though, I would love to see a third installment. This is a brilliant piece of writing. Very brilliant.
Part 3. Part 3! PART 3!!!
..... This story proves what i always assumed....
That you are %100 insane.
I like that.
Well, you've officially dig yourself a hole to the bottom of the earth. I'll probably be joining you when I finish one of my stories, don't know which one
Yes. Fluttercord. Yes.
Also I know it's canon but how could you not ship them this episode? I've never seen him rage before. And his motives are for her specifically. It's just - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
SHE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!!
I can think two things Twilight couldn't torture with friendship species. The dead and the grim reaper.
I HAVE NEVER KNOWN TRUE HORROR BEFORE NOW.
9841207
Probably not, just it will be revealed in part 3.
9841248
Nope, it'll be worse! EEEEEEP!!
9841262
Well, you're been warned. You might not be able to get the visions of "The Ultima" out of your head when what it's revealed though...
9841303
Thanks! And a third installment will be written. Not sure when it be out, but probably sometime next month.
9841360
It will be coming. But you SURE you can handle the terror of "The Ultima"?
9841402
Well, if it isn't "The Goat" himself! You still trying to defeat Twilight?
9841484
Well, I always did want to travel
9841871
No kidding. Discord went from literally yawning to "I'll kill them!" in mere seconds!
9841893
Maybe, but do you want to get in Twilight's way? I can't even stop her, or she'll break the 4th wall to give me "The Treatment/Works/Ultima"!
9841911
I don't know. Twilight just might find a way to do it, if they get her mad enough.
9841954
Now I'm wondering what would happen if a deaf person interrupted one of Twilight's friendship speeches
This is a funny line, but it brings up something the show has always struggled with. The show often presents conflict without ever explaining it. The only exception I can think of here is Starlight herself. Every other villain, we get little to no motive or backstory other than plot drive
9841974
I would say that Twilight would first use her magic to fix their deafness, then give "The Treatment".
9841986
We got it with Luna and Stygian too, even if it was truly another entity that became the "villain" (NMM and the Pony of Shadows)
Unless we count Tempest, or Discord in the season 4 finale, I think Starlight's the only major villain (unless the season 9 finale change it) that both had reasons shown for why she became a villain and didn't have a darker entity take over.
9842002
I honestly forgot about Stygian, but I don't really think Luna counts as an actual backstory
I wasn’t that far off on the works I see, different voice and different method of cacophony than I stated but otherwise close. So The Ultima must be multiple works with an (intentionally) annoying voice?
9841994
but what if their 'deafness' is incurable
9842002
well there is also Tirek… sorta, all we get about him was in the season 4 finale where he appeared, and all that was said about him was that he was a power hungry lunatic whos brother betrayed him for friendship
but you also have to remember, this is all based on what the show has told us, not what the comics have told
9841954
Of course it will.
"We have exoskeletons! We don't have any bones in our bodies to break!"
Hey, who unstuck him?
What's the difference?
The quote Ronald Weasley, "You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant... but scary."
I thought you were supposed to put her in the furnace for a time, then the deep freeze for a time and then in that state. Then kill her.
this is genuinely horrifying
Twilight is becoming a monster
Fluttersy should kill Chrysalis, its the kind thing to do
9842188
That's the point
There isn't one
Whats "The Ultima"?
9841954
Of course.
And thank you for calling me the Greatest Of All Time.
You ruined it. I was having fun until halfway in and you ruined it. Plus it got real dark near the end.
9842256
(Total non-sequitr) Awesome avatar, btw.
9842156
I take the lessons I've learned from Applejack and won't lie: I forgot about getting him unstuck. Fixing it now!
9842040
My point is, almost all the show's villains have rushed or cliched backstories or motivations, save for Starlight and Stygian (and yes, power hungry is a cliche)
9842257
I means that another sequel is in the works...somehow I get the feeling that a certain pink pegasus filly with a turquoise mane styled like Shirley Temple is going to find out what "The Ultima" is...her or Sombra...maybe even the whole League of Villains.
Sequel! I want to see Cozy Glow get "The Ultima"!
9841402
Your getting the ultima, calling it now Grogar
Ooooo!
Interesting! Loved it! 
9843089
A sequel will be coming! Will Cozy Glow get "The Ultima? The answer will be in the sequel!
9843201
Thanks, and glad you liked it so much!
9843194
magis appretiant
Twilight and Starlight proceed to only rescue Flurry Heart and the rest of the Mane 6, because the others are bucking useless and Equestria and the Crystal Empire are better off with Twilight in charge.
9843440
9843334
That'll be fun and it'll be more interesting if you use the idea that Cozy might actually Canonically be an adult mare with a stunted growth as part of her backstory as Big Jim himself actually heavily hinted to that on Twitter, saying Babydoll from Batman was one of her inspirations when asked about her. That explains a lot about Tartarus being her first punishment and why it isn't extreme anymore. Plus blunts the backlash of the finale punishment when it airs officially in a few months.
nice work.
The Ultima:
Teleporting Grogar into an empty, featureless room, deprived of magic. There is only one thing there--a single portrait, hanging on the wall.
But the picture frame is crooked.
And no matter how much you try to put it back into place, he can never fix it.
I am now terrified of what "The Ultima" may be. The Treatment was bad enough, the Works a work to be absolutely terrified of. If the Ultima is worse than that, then I think no mind will not break from it, even a mind as twisted as Discord's own would not be safe.
9843853
When you're a Final Fantasy fan and you hear the word "Ultima".
9841954
ACK!
9843334
I'll be looking forward to it!
9843728
Thanks!