Sparkle No More

by ace_attorneyfan800

Rating: teen
Tags: Alternate Universe, Human, Dark
Length: 3838

Twilight wakes up one morning to discover that her alicorn powers are starting to fade away

After Adagio Dazzle and the Dazzling's defeat Twilight went back home for a little rest and relaxation. However after a nap Twilight wakes up to find her alicorn powers were slowly fading away along with all her magic in general. Now Twilight rushes to find an answer, will Twilight find an answer or is it already too late?

(Additional notes: Wanted to try something a little original and different since a story like this "AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED" has NEVER happened before on this site which made me think that somepony like Twilight losing her powers would be an interesting concept for a fic)

*NOTICE: The human tag is for later into the story*

(POINT OF REFERENCE: The title is based off of the Spider-Man comic with a similar kind of title, "Spider-Man No More". The whole fic in general is also based on the scenes in Spider-Man 2 where Peter Parker/Spider-Man starts to lose his powers. References to the Spider-Man movies featuring Tobey Maguire will be made as well, so if you know the Spider-Man trilogy staring Tobey Maguire, then you'll be able to spot them. But as one final thing, they may or may not also be limited to the video game adaptations of the movies.)

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-01-10 17:09:46 UTC

(1) I Am So High...

"Whew. I didn't think we were gonna make it." Spike said as he and Twilight came out of the portal

"And while I might like a change of scenery, I just wanna hope that the next time we get called over there doesn't end with us almost losing." Twilight added

"Twilight!"

Twilight didn't have time to react as soon her friends gathered around her and Spike with no mercy as they hugged them to death.

"You're crushing, us." Twilight and Spike said together with a bit of a squeak in their voice

The bear hugs then ended for the two to catch their breath.

"I must say that I'm glad for the hug, but you know I was only gone for two and a half days right?" Twilight said

"But without you everything's just so booorinnnnnng." Pinkie said

"Plus from the looks of things everything is going back to normal." Rarity added

"Normal?" Rainbow said, "Normal is trouble appearing every 10 seconds."

"Really?" Rarity said quiet puzzled and a little unamused

"Well it's the truth." Rainbow said, "Equestria gets more trouble than a security guard working the night shift at a pizzaria filled with killer robots of the night."

"And his only means of protection being doors that drained battery life, or a mask that is a little too much it the worthless side." Pinkie added

"Exactly." Rainbow said

"Rainbow while that may be a good analogy, the likely hood of that ever occurring in Equestria is a million to one." Twilight said

"Yeah." Pinkie said while looking at the truck load of Five Nights at Freddy's fics on FIMfiction before angrily shouting in an Australian accent, "BECAUSE THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE BEFORE!"

"Pinkie, um, did you remember to take your medicine?" Fluttershy asked

"Nope." Pinkie said like the TF2 Engineer

"We can worry about Pinkie's medical conditions later, I just wanna take a nap right now." Twilight said

"So be it." Applejack said, "Come on girls lets get Pinkie her medicine and let Twilight take a little nap."

"See you later guys." Twilight said as she left the room

Twilight then teleported to her bedroom where she yawned after seeing her bed. She then turned the lights off and got into her bed ready for what ever dream came her way.

Princess Luna was the guardian and ruler of the night, this much is true, but very few know her of being able to go into everypony's dreams. Some would think of it as an act of protection, others think of it as an invasion of privacy, and some....well....she doesn't really like to talk about THOSE dreams. Luna however views it as a way of helping those face their fears. Today Luna was just going through the dreams of ponies who decided to take a nap, one sparked her interest though.

"Well, it appears Twilight has decided to take a little nap." Luna said, "Lets see what she's dreaming shall we?"

Luna then entered Twilight's dream only to come face to face with Twilight fighting a match she knew she couldn't win. All of her old foes were there, Nightmare Moon, Discord before his reformation, Queen Chrysalis, Nightmare Rarity, King Sombra, Trixie, Sunset Shimmer before her reformation, Mane-iac, Tirek, and three newcomers who Luna didn't recognize.

"Oh this is bad!" Twilight shouted as she found herself being wrapped up by the Plunderseed Vines

"Finally." Nightmare said, "Our revenge is here!"

"No!" Twilight scream as the villains closed in on her, "It can't end like this!"

"We're up first." Aria said, "What are we gonna do first Adagio?"

Luna knew she had to help her, but she also knew that even her powers alone wouldn't be enough to take on this many villains. Meaning all she could do was watch which she hated.

"We're going to put her under our spell first, use her as our own personal play toy for a while, and then cut the tip of her horn off." Adagio said

"She is sooo going to squeal when I try to eat her like a taco!" Sonata said

"Seriously?" the villains all said at once

"No matter, lets begin." Adagio said

"Set her down tough guys."

The villains and Luna then turned to see a red and blue colored bipedal creature hanging from a white rope of some kind. Twilight recognized him though from a movie she watched the night before she left at Pinkie's.

"Spider-Man help!" Twilight shouted

"Spider-Man?" the villains said

"Why that's the most ridiculous name I've ever heard of!" Nightmare Rarity shouted, "And that costume looks-MMMPH!"

Nightmare Rarity then found her moth cover in Spider-Man's web.

"Is that actual spider webbing?!" Trixie shrieked, "GROOOOOSSSSS!"

"Hey you wanna fight some one?" Spider-Man said as he got do onto his feet, "Fight me!"

"With pleasure!" Mane-iac shouted as she used her hair to run towards Spider-Man

"Gotcha!" Spider-Man shouted as he stuck out both is arms and shout out webbing at Mane-iac's hair making all sticky

"MY HAIR!" Mane-iac shouted

And with a fast pull Mane-iac had no time to react as she came tumbling down and wrapped in his webbing.

"You know there is such a thing as a barber right?" Spider-Man joked, "WHOA!"

All of a sudden Spider-Man found himself captured by Tirek's magical grip and brought over to him. What Tirek tried to get was the magic from Spider-Man but instead he only got nothing.

"WHEW! Man your breath stinks, take a breath mint!" Spider-Man joked again

"WHERE IS YOUR MAGIC!" Tirek shouted at Spider-Man

"Simple!" Twilight said, "Spider-Man doesn't have any magic!"

"WHAT?!" the villains shouted

Taking this opportunity to his advantage Spider-Man quickly shot a string of webbing at Tirek's eyes causing the centaur to go blind a little and scream as he lost his grip on the hero.

"Hey Luna I could use some help!" Spider-Man shouted as Sunset and Trixie ran towards him with their horns glowing

"Their numbers have thinned some, so help I will." Luna said as she flew into action and used her magic to delete Mane-iac, Tirek, Sunset, Nightmare Rarity and Trixie

"Thanks for the help." Spider-Man said as Luna landed right beside him

"You're welcome, but how did you know I was here?" Luna said to Spider-Man

"Spider sense." Spider-Man said, "And how about this, you take Nightmare Moon, Sombra and Discord and I'll take the Dazzlings."

"What about Chrysalis?" Luna asked

"We'll take her on together." Spider-Man said

"Then let us do this." Luna said, "ATTACK!"

Flying high into the air Luna went for her three targets while Spider-Man used his webbing to jump and fly in the air as he readied his legs to kick Adagio high into the air.

"THY SHALL NOT HAVE SPARKLE!" Luna shouted as she blasted at Nightmare Moon, Discord, and Sombra

"TRY THIS ON FOR SIZE!" Discord shouted as he placed two of his lion paw fingers onto his forehead which sparked some, "MAKANKOSAPPO!"

However before he could even get his fingers off of his forehead Spider-Man shot out some webbing at Discord's fingers causing them to stick to his forehead and then the worst thing happened.

"All children in the audience skip this part!" Twilight, Spider-Man and Luna said to the reader

The blast Discord had intended for Luna had instead blasted through his forehead going through both his skull and brain as well as hitting Nightmare Moon in her left wing making a giant hole in it as blood poured out the wounds on the two.

"I think I'm gonna puke." both Twilight and Sonata said sickly

Discord just flopped down to the ground as Luna then deleted the corps and then Nightmare Moon who let her guard down. Sombra was easy as Luna teleported behind him and blasted him making him disappear. Meanwhile Spider-Man had released his kick causing Adagio to fly high into the air. Aria had followed after the two only to get caught in a web trap like Adagio. The two then dropped down to the ground safely as Luna then deleted them and Sonata as she was puking up her taco lunch.

"Six down, and one to go." Spider-Man said as Luna flew down next to him

"Indeed." Luna said

The two then turned around to see that Chrysalis had disappeared.

"Where did she go?!" Luna shouted

"Gone." Twilight said, "She disappeared as soon as Adagio was kicked up high."

"No matter victory is with us." Luna said as Spider-Man got Twilight out pf the Plunderseed Vines

"I just wonder why I had this dream though." Twilight said

"Maybe it is a precursor to an event yet to happen." Luna said, "To be honest Twilight, I'm not really sure, I've never seen dreams like this."

"Well I at least hope it doesn't happen again." Twilight said, "And thank you Spider-Man."

"No problem." Spider-Man said before he swung away

"I believe it is time for me to wake up now." Twilight said

"Indeed." Luna said before she started to disappear, "GOOD LUCK TWILIGHT!"

(2) I Can Hear Heaven...

Twilight opened her eyes to find herself in her bed as usual. She looked around to find that there was hoof prints to her left, or more specifically footprints heading into her room and stopping at her bed.

"Footprints?" Twilight asked herself, "That's just too weird."

Then Twilight got a nagging feeling that they looked just all too familiar. She then got out of bed to inspect them more and noticed that the last pair scrapped to a broken window.

"What happened?" Twilight said as she inspected the window, "Nothing a little analysis spell won't change."

She then charged up the spell and focused on the broken window, only to feel nothing.

"Huh?!" Twilight said in confusion

Twilight then tried to do it again only to be met with nothing again.

"W-what the?! My magic!" Twilight shouted

She then focused even harder on the spell and instead of getting nothing she actually used it.

"What the?!" Twilight said, "What's going on with my magic?!"

Keeping a mental note to write a letter to Princess Celestia about it Twilight then analyzed every bit of broken glass in her room and the broken window to find that the glass had been shattered from the inside with only a few bits of broken glass remaining inside. But during her investigation outside she found not just the other pieces of glass, but a single hair strip which was as white as snow. However a single dab of blue on it and the analyze sell made Twilight see that it had been removed of its color in order to draw her off track.

"This hair piece could belong to anypony, Rainbow Dash, Flash Sentry or even one of the royal guards." Twilight said to herself, "I better keep it anyways."

Twilight then teleported back to her room where she placed the hair piece inside a plastic bag. But then something started to bug her.

"But it's weird though." Twilight continued, "The analyze spell should have told me who it belonged to."

Twilight then placed the plastic bag into a desk drawer for safe keeping and headed off to the throne room to see if she could find Spike and send a message to Celestia asking if she knew what was going on. To her surprise she found him in the middle of the hallway talking to one of Celestia's pegasus guards.

"I've got a bad feeling about this." Twilight said as Spike and the guard came to her

"Your highness, you've been called to Canterlot for a meeting with Celestia." the guard said to Twilight

"Thank you sir, um, what's your name?" Twilight asked

"Sargent Quick Silver, or Roach as I'm called among the Night Guard." he said

"Well Roach be sure to tell Celestia that I am on my way." Twilight said

"Actually me and a night guard has been assigned to bring you there." Roach said

"Oh! Well, um, lead the way then." Twilight said

She then followed him outside where she saw a bat pony night guard wearing a mask with a skull on the front and sun glasses was ready to pull her out. Roach then got into position as Twilight took a seat in the chariot.

"Ready Ghost?" Roach asked his companion

"As ever Roach." Ghost said in a British accent as he readied himself

The two then pulled up and the chariot followed with them as they took to the skies. Twilight then took this time to ponder to herself as she constantly tried to use a levitation spell on a book she brought with her. Why was her magic failing? What was that weird dream she had? Why was her window broke and why was their human footprints leading to her bed? She also wondered how the window shattering didn't wake her up, but those thoughts came to a halt as soon as she saw that they had reached their destination.

She was then escorted to the princess's chambers, though she insisted she went alone, to find Celestia looking at a stain glass window showing the victory over Tirek. She stopped looking at it when she heard the door open and looked at her old student with an expression of worry. The guards escorting Twilight then left as Celestia went over to Twilight.

"Twilight, do you know why I called you here?" Celestia asked

"No." Twilight replied

"Do you remember the dream you had during your little nap? Luna told me about it." Celestia said

"Yes." Twilight replied

"I had the same dream not too long ago, only I didn't make it like you." Celestia said

Twilight gasped.

"You had the same dream as me?!" Twilight asked

"I believe that this is no ordinary coincidence Twilight, me and Luna had the same dream not too long before Nightmare Moon arisen, but the only difference was that Discord, Sombra and Tirek were the only ones there and we had the elements of harmony with us." Celestia explained, "We were able to defeat them, but this time I could do nothing because our enemy's have grown in strength and numbers."

"But what about Sunset?!" Twilight asked, "I reformed her, she shouldn't be after me!"

"She told me in the dream before I woke up that in three years time she will appear from another universe where she won and will gather the army of out past foes, even reviving the dead ones." Celestia said

"Why would she tell you that though?" Twilight asked

"My only guess is that she believes that we have no chance of winning the upcoming fight." Celestia said

"Not if me and my friends have anything to say about it!" Twilight said in defense, "The magic of friendship hasn't failed us yet."

Then a thought came to her to tell Celestia about her magic.

"Um Celestia?" Twilight said, "There's something I need to tell you."

"What is it?" Celestia asked

"It's about my magic, something's wrong with it." Twilight said

"How so?"

"When I tried to use the analyze spell on a broken window it didn't work the first two times I used it, and then when I was trying to use levitation on a book I brought with me it didn't work no matter how many times I used it." Twilight said

Celestia's face then grew pale.

"No." Celestia said

"P-princess?" Twilight asked in fear

"Oh no, oh no!" Celestia said in panic

"Are you okay?!" Twilight asked in a bit of panic

"Oh no, oh no, no, no, no! This, is bad!" Celestia shrieked

"What's going on?!" Twilight asked with paranoia

"It's happening again!" Celestia shouted in a mixture of fear and sadness

(3) I Am So High, I Can Hear Heaven...

"H-happening again?!" Twilight shouted, "What's happening to me has happened before?! But to who?!"

"Starswirl." Celestia said

"STARSWIRL?!" Twilight screamed

"Indeed." Celestia said, "Quickly, we must head to the Starswirl the Bearded wing before it's too late!"

And just like that the two ran off for the wing.

"Might I ask how Starswirl got this?!" Twilight asked while they were running

"It happened to Starswirl when he tried to learn the secrets of alicorn powers!" Celestia said, "He learned too much though and quickly all the magic within him drained until he had nothing left!"

"Did he record the effects?! Is that why we're going to his wing?!" Twilight asked

"He did and we have to hope you've not entered stage 2, by then it'll be too late!" Celestia stated

They then reached the wing and Celestia told twilight to look for a scroll that contained a reverse spell for what was going on. The only problem was that she wasn't she if it was finished or not, she didn't get to talk to Starswirl much before he lost his powers and disappeared. Finally after what felt like a long time Twilight managed to find the scroll and gave it to Celestia.

"Yes!" Celestia said in excitement before becoming very serious, "You may have taken Starswirl, but I will not let you take Twilight!"

Celestia then looked over the spell and felt tears in her eyes as her smile of hope quickly turned into a very sad face. Twilight didn't even have to look at Celestia's face to know the sad, sad truth that her only means of hope was gone as tears appeared in her eyes as well......the spell was not finished.

"No more." Twilight said sadly

Sunset Shimmer. Who could have thought that someone like her would've been recognized as a savior of the school. Or to be more specific Canterlot High, a high school unlike any other because twice now it's fallen under attack by a creature from Equestria. Once being herself, and then another three who were sirens.

"Canterlot High just can't get a break can it." Sunset said as she tuned and strummed her Flying V Rhythm Guitar

It was lunch in the cafeteria and today the students were doing a little something for themselves. What is that you may ask? Well the students were doing a once a month thing they called "Old Times, Old Crimes" which is where they went back to the way things were before Sunset's reformation, minus the Sunset hate and Sunset Bitch thing. The reason why they were doing it was because some things were just hard to let go. They even agreed to hold it once a month at the end of every month.

Sunset was sitting with the Rocker group and more specifically Ringo and Brawly Beats. Brawly Beats and Ringo were Flash Sentry's band mates in their band called Flash Drive, and the reason why they chose that was because they felt Flash would drive them to victory. Ringo played the Bass, but originally he wanted to play the drums like his idol Ringo Starr from the Beatles who ironically shared the same name as him. However certain things prevented him from doing so, but he learned to appreciate the bass after a while.

Brawly Beats was the obvious drummer in Flash's band if his name didn't give it away. They even on occasions had the techie Atomic Adam be their sound man for any special occasion at Canterlot High. But their was something that was bugging the two that Sunset noticed.

"Okay guys what is up with you two?" Sunset said to them, "You've been acting all weird this whole morning!"

Ringo just gulped as he was about to talk.

"Um, uh, well, you know Flash?" Ringo said nervously

"Yes. He used to be my ex-boyfriend dummy, everyone knows that." Sunset said

"No it's not that." Brawly said

"What is it then?" Sunset asked

"Um, well, how can we explain this?" Ringo said again nervously

"Uh, explain what?" Sunset said a little confussed

"This is all my fault." Celestia said sobbed as she looked at Twilight from the floor she lied on

"Princess it's-"

"IT IS MY FAULT!" Celestia shouted cutting Twilight off as she continued to cry, "I SHOULD HAVE TOLD YOU!"

Twilight was at a loss for words. She never saw Celestia this upset. This one must've been personal to her.

"Princess, if I may ask, what exactly were you suppose to tell me?" Twilight asked

"I-I-I."

Celestia swallowed some as she tried to hold back her tears.

"I-I was going t-to tell you to stay away from alicorn magic. Al-alicorn magic is what made Starswirl lose all of his. He was ar-ar-around it to-to much and it resulted in what's happening to you." Celestia stopped taking a deep breath before continuing, "He was experimenting to see if unicorns could harness alicorn p-powers, I allowed him to do it but with a warning, and he succeeded at his goal, only to discover that it was draining him of everything he had in terms of magic. There was four stages and when he reached the final stage it was over. He passed out to discover his horn and cutie mark was gone."

Twilight gasped.

"He then left us and he never returned." Celestia finished, "I guess he was too ash-ashamed of the fact that unicorn lost his abilities."

"Celestia, what was the warning you gave him?" Twilight asked

"With great power, comes great responsibility." Celestia said, "The alicorn power was his great power and his great responsibility. And then their was you. Being the princess of friendship is your great power, and your great responsibility. I should have told you that the moment you became a princess and maybe there would have been a fifty/fifty chance of this not happening."

Twilight went over to Celestia and gave her ex teacher a hug which Celestia returned.

"Twilight, I'm so sorry." Celestia said

"There's no need to be sorry." Twilight said as she felt tears come up, "It's not your fault. It's mine."

"But-"

"You may have turned me into an alicorn, but that doesn't mean I'll hate you for it." Twilight said before pulling out of the hug, "It's my fault for going into alicorn magic in the first place, but could I help it? No. No pony is perfect, and sometime's we're bound to do things that are gonna come back to haunt us later into the future."

"You have grown to be very wise Twilight." Celestia said as she felt her tears dry up, "Look, I know I'm not your mother-"

"Then stop pretending to be." Twilight said trying to cheer up Celestia, "I already look up to you as a second mother Celestia, and I don't want that to ever change."

Celestia felt a smile crawl onto her face as she got up and placed a wing around Twilight who tried to do the same.

"How about some ice cream for old times sake?" Celestia said as the two walked down the hall

"Sure." Twilight said

However unknown to the two three pairs of blue bug eyes were watching them from the shadows.