The Rainbow Conundrum

As Scootaloo was falling into depression, so was another pony. However, while Scootaloo couldn’t do anything to combat her depression, the alicorn of magic/friendship could do something to combat both of their depressions.

“I can’t believe that I just killed an innocent pony like that…I’m a monster! No, worse than that! Monsters are ponies like Sombra! I’m a MURDERER! I wouldn’t be surprised if Celestia banished me to the moon for 10,000 years for what I’ve done!” Twilight could be heard saying to herself. “Spike! SPIKE! Where’s that book of magical locations in Equestria?” She shouted to her number one assistant, before remembering that she had sent him to Rarity’s to help her out so that she could vent her feelings about the situation properly.

Standing up, she dashed throughout the library, looking for the aforementioned book, as well as any other books that could help her learn about the Mirror Pool. After she had collected all of the books that seemed to be promising candidates that she had in her library, she set up in a comfortable position, and began to read them. Hours passed, and it was suddenly too dark to see. So, she simply cast a light spell, and continued to read. Briefly she wondered how many books she had read, before seeing that she had finished the last book.

“What, already? This isn't good! None of them have the information that I needed, and what information one book did have was contradicted by the information that another book had! The only thing that all of the books seemed to have in common was they all seemed to say that the Mirror Pool had been entirely comprised out of Chaos Magic! Wait! That’s it! If the Mirror Pool is indeed made out of Chaos Magic, I can go ask Discord for help with getting the Rainbow Dash clone back! He’s sure to help me, especially if I explain what I’ve accidentally done to Scootaloo when I ask for his help!” Twilight said, excited.

The next day, Twilight told Spike that he had another free day, and this worried him. He thought that all of these free days were a sign that she didn’t need him anymore, but when he said this, she simply laughed and said, “Spike, I will always need you, I just have some very personal matters to attend to today!” Spike replied to this by saying “You’ve had some very personal matters to attend to for the past six days now…oh, I get it now! Who’s the lucky stallion?” Spike asked, with interest in his eyes.

“Not that type of personal business, Spike!” Twilight said, shocked at her little brother’s thoughts, as she had never thought of pursuing a relationship with anyone. Honestly, she was much too busy with her friends to seek a romantic relationship with anypony, except for one of her friends, and she shuddered to think about that.

“Well, I hope that you two have fun!” Spike said, chuckling at her plea that it wasn’t that type of personal business, before heading out to go and see if Rarity required any more assistance today.

“It’s not that type of personal business!” she repeated, annoyed at the fact that she would have to deal with the fallout from what Spike will believe to have been her lying to him. “Oh well.” She said, sighing. ‘That was a close one! It’s not like he won’t find out eventually, but I’d rather bring her back and then have everypony, or, in his case, everydragon, find out about what I did.’ Twilight thought to herself as she started preparing a scrying spell to search for Discord with.

When she cast the scrying spell, she saw that Discord was in the Canterlot gardens enjoying a nice picnic with Celestia, and a strange filly that she had never seen before. She started to panic about how much trouble she would be in once Celestia found out about what she had done, before she thought about Scootaloo. Ever since the loss of her big sister, it appeared that Scootaloo was spiraling down a deep pit of depression and misery. Even worse, combine the loss of her big sister with the endless bullying by Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara, and you get a ticking time bomb, only when it went off, the only one hurt would be Scootaloo herself, as she would very likely decide that death would be preferable to living. These thoughts spurred Twilight into action, and she immediately teleported to the Ponyville train station, and purchased a ticket to Canterlot.