Author's Note

The story is officially canceled. This is where I was planning to take things...All of this was object to changes on a whim. Sorry if some of it doesn't make sense. But it's an outline and how my twisted mind works.

What could have been.

Twilight has a bad dream, Comforted by Cadence who turns out to be a changeling. She was sent to keep an eye on Twilight, but they don't -need- her anymore. Its codename is 'Bug' (The changeling from the first series) and it is following Twilight around, screwing with her on behest of Moon Dancer. We'll get to her in a bit.

Meanwhile, the Circle of Sorrow is actually defunct and destroyed. Moon Dancer is the librarian in Canterlot Castle, now, and she's running the show and pulling the strings under Celestia's nose. She's as clever as Twilight and is harvesting the elements of Harmony to clone them.
She requires the power of the Elements of Harmony, but can't force the bearers to use them. She plans to clone them, and one of the components for the spell is the girl's 'awesome sauce' Unfortunately, the cloning spell isn't perfected. Moon Dancer needs lots of components to get it right.

She wants the power of resurrection to restore her father, an archeologist who died in an accident at a dig site while climbing the Crystal Mountains. She has the spell, but needs a power source. She decides she needs Sombra to help recover her father's body and bring him back. Moon Dancer completely lost it to grief and is willing to follow the instructions she has to resurrect Sombra. From Canterlot, she can keep an eye on Ponyville, has access to spells of all shapes and sizes, and knows Twilight forward and back. She spends her time in Twilight's room at Canterlot Library. She hired changelings to throw ponys off her trail and help her kidnap the elements of harmony. She uses Twilight's juices to clone her and hopefully help kidnap the rest of the six. With the juices taken from Twilight, She finally clones the purple mage and has complete control over her.

Meanwhile, Luna has discovered something is up. She sends her servants to find Twilight and tell her to 'stay put' In the empire, where she knows Twilight will be safe. Twilight doesn't believe Luna is on her side, and flees the Empire and heads to Canterlot, where guards are on watch for her. Luna is trying desperately to keep Twilight safe. She knows the Circle of Sorrow is active again, and they're after Twilight for some reason but she doesn't know why. It is safer for Twilight to be under her watch and guard.

Twilight flees the guards and everyone she knows and goes into hiding. She tries to get a message to Dashie, but Dashie is busy keeping tabs on everypony and has been run ragged trying to keep a watch on the town at night. Twilight is captured by the lunar guard.

Moon Dancer sends the Clone to Ponyville to help the kidnappings along. She needs the other 4. She went after Twilight first- the strongest of the 6 and weakened her with sexuality, and confusion and paranoia. Dashie suspects the clone might be a changeling, but surprise, surprise, they scan her and discover she is not in fact, a changeling. >=3

They trust her, of course, and Twilight leads them into various traps. Dashie and AJ manage to escape. Zecora flees into the mountains after Clone appears and attacks her. The others are captured.

Applejack becomes priority one- the last sample they need. Clone tries to trick her, but AJ deduces the clone isn't the real deal and flees with Dashie. Moon Dancer is furious, and decides to go after Apple Bloom and succeed in catching her as bait for AJ.

Applejack won't stand for her kin to be hurt, and submits to Moon Dancer's Demands. They hold Applebloom and Spike hostage.

Meanwhile, Twilight has been captured by Luna, who is trying to explain how deep this shit goes, and that she's actually trying to HELP Twilight. The circle will stop at nothing to get what they want, and if they want Twilight, it's best not to let them have her. Now understanding why she's prisoner, Twilight doesn't -care- and figures out a way to escape anyway. She goes to Ponyville and can't find her friends. She runs into the clone in the library, and they face off. Clone Twilight wins and drags Twilight back to Canterlot. With all of the elements of harmony captured, Moon Dancer starts the ritual to bring him back, killing Clone Twilight. A life for a life.

Moon Dancer succeeds in restoring Sombra to life, who is now a terrible pervert. All the forced collections have tainted the components of the spell. Moon Dancer doesn't understand what she did wrong, but it doesn't matter. She asks Sombra to resurrect her father, And Sombra promises he will after fucking Moon Dancer, who is taken by him willingly. Obsessed with the idea of restoring her father, Moon Dancer allies herself with Sombra.

Applebloom is placed in one of the machines to 'keep her quiet' but she manages to escape, and frees the rest of the mane six; they unite to hit Sombra with the Rainbow Beam, stopping him before he can regain too much power. Luna arrives to see her boyfriend slain yet again and reluctantly offers Twilight a bid of thanks, and leaves without a word. Twilight is cleared of all charges, of course, and tries to relax at home. Rainbow Dash comes over and asks if they can still be... Something. And Twilight invites her in for dinner. Later on, Twilight asks her if Rainbow wants to work on a project with her: She's found interesting blueprints for a machine...

Bug returns to Chrysalis and explains the situation. Moon Dancer failed, and Chrysalis is disappointed, but has 'new' ideas after what Moon Dancer has done. She begins to plan for a new assault...