Saving Princess Twilight

Chapters

Celestia Learns the Truth
Planning Over Snacks
Confronting Trixie
Freeing Twilight
Catching Up
Clearing the Air
Catching Up (Alternate Ending)
Prelude

Celestia Learns the Truth

Two weeks had passed since Starlight's coronation and all seemed to be well. She had been training with the unicorn guard to make them an even more effective training force and was working with the pegasi guard on effective ways that they could take out enemy forces as well. While she kept herself busy for a good amount of the day, six days a week, one thing continued to bother her, the situation that Twilight was in. Her nagging voice continued to warn that if Twilight was not released from the spell prior to the birth of her foal, that Trixie's spell would not be able to be reversed so she went to talk to Celestia.

For Celestia, it was a rather uneventful day. She had no disputes between ponies she had to settle, no diplomats from abroad she had to deal with and since Starlight had taken control of the military, she could feel that Canterlot was a much safer place. She thought to herself, "Now this is what being a princess is supposed to be like! No petty squabbles, no problematic diplomats and no threats." Her stomach began to growl as she continued, "I'm thinking perhaps I should just relax and have some cake!"

Just as she was getting ready to summon the chef to get her some cake she heard the racket of a pony in armor heading towards the throne room. She thought to herself, "Oh great. Just as I was going to have a stress free day, something just has to come up."

Starlight saw her and asked, "Celestia, do you have a moment?"

Celestia sighed, "Well I was about to have some cake but yeah. What do you want to talk about?"

Starlight replied, "You know how I get those nagging voices in the back of my head sometimes?"

Celestia said, "Yes. What is going on? Do you think we are going to get attacked?"

Starlight replied, "No. That voice is telling me that if we don't free Twilight from Trixie's spell before their foal is born that Twilight will forever be under her spell, that we will never be able to break it."

Those were two things that nopony had ever told Celestia and this angered her. She snapped, "What? Princess Twilight is under some sort of spell of Trixie's and she is pregnant and none of you ever bothered to tell me this?"

Starlight replied, "Well no. After I went to Ponyville and my friends and I went to check on her we discovered what was going on. I was going to tell you but then I got deeper into my studies, then the changelings attacked, then the unicorn army and I saved all of you and now taking control of the army made it skip my mind."

Celestia yelled, "AND HOW FAR ALONG WAS TWILIGHT WHEN YOU LAST SAW HER?"

Starlight replied, "I'm not sure exactly but I'm thinking it was around six months after you took me in so my guess is that she was roughly 5 to 5 1/2 months along."

Celestia sighed, "Ok, it has been four months since then. So if she was 5 1/2 months along, she should be nearing 10 months now so we need to come up with a plan in less than a month* in the event she was to give birth early."

Starlight replied, "Come up with a plan? Can't we just charge in there and cast a proper spell?" Starlight could see an unsure look forming on Celestia's face as she continued, "Look, Trixie and her pathetic street magic won't be a problem for us."

While Celestia could see Starlight's point, she knew things about this that Starlight did not. She sighed, "Look, I don't know a lot about what is going on but from what I do know about this is that you can't just head in there and save Twilight. This isn't a search and destroy mission."

Starlight replied, "I know, I know. I know that we're going to have to find some sort of counter-spell."

Celestia asked, "Starlight, you still lived there when Trixie and Twilight began to grow really close. Do you know of any books that Trixie may have found this spell in?"

Starlight replied, "No, I do not." She hung her head low and continued, "I had done enough involving mind control in my past that I never even looked at those kinds of books."

Celestia could understand why but knew that something had to be done. She asked, "Starlight, do you think that perhaps if Twilight sees her friends that might help break the spell?"

Starlight replied, "Well we've tried it before and it didn't work but if you are there as well, perhaps it will break it." She saw Celestia get up and continued, "Let me go get Spike and let's get going."

Celestia said, "You must have been reading my mind. Let's get going."

Starlight yelled, "Wait, we need to grab a horn cap."

Celestia asked, "Why would we need a horn cap?"

Starlight replied, "So we can place it on Trixie's horn. We can't have her releasing any energy at us while we are breaking that spell."

Celestia said, "Ok, grab one and let's get going."

After grabbing a horn cap the two headed towards the exit. While Starlight was confident that they would be able to break the spell and remove Trixie from Twilight's life, Celestia was not so sure. She knew that even average unicorns can cast powerful spells and felt that Starlight was wanting to treat this more like she treated the invasion of Chrysalis's cave, a method that simply would not work.

Author's Note

* The normal gestation period for a Shetland pony is 11 months and that is what I will use for this story.

Planning Over Snacks

They arrived in Ponyville around noon and both were hungry. While Starlight had been using her wings a lot lately she was able to make the flight with no problems but Celestia had become a bit out of shape so it was a bit tiring for her. Starlight saw Celestia breathing heavily and asked, "Celestia, are you alright?"

Celestia replied, "No. I haven't done much flying for a while so my wings are a bit out of shape."

Starlight's stomach began to growl, "Celestia, Spike what do you say we go and get something to eat?"

Celestia asked, "Can we get some cake?"

Spike asked, "I wonder if Rarity will be there?"

While Starlight was hungry for some meat, she knew that Celestia was the primary princess. She sighed, "Yeah, we can. Perhaps my friends will be there and we can go get Twilight freed from Trixie's spell."

When they arrived they were immediately greeted by Pinkie, "Hi Princess Celestia, Hi Princess Starlight, Hi Spike! Can I get you something sweet to eat?"

Celestia licked her chops, "Yes!" She pointed her hoof towards a huge cake in the display case, "I want that one!"

Spike replied, "Of course! You know I love the cake here!"

Starlight added, "Yeah, I'll take a couple of slices. I don't want to eat too much though because all of us have things we must do today."

Applejack asked, "All of us?"

Celestia replied, "Yes, all of us."

Starlight figured that now would be as good of a time as any to reveal their plans. She began, "Alright ladies, today is going to be a special day. Today is going to be the day we free Twilight from Trixie's control."

Rainbow asked, "How the hay are we going to do that? She probably won't even let us in."

Rarity added, "And if she does let us see her she has Twilight so far under her control she will likely just yell at us."

Starlight continued, "The last time we were able to see Twilight things were different." She spread her wings wide and continued, "But this time there will be two princesses present." She stood taller and continued, "And I'm pretty sure that when she sees two princesses marching in, she will cave into our demands and we can break this spell."

Rarity asked, "I don't mean to question you judgment darling but won't we need a spell? I doubt we'll just be able to go in there, fire energy at her and break the spell."

Fluttershy added, "And uhm, she has that fertility spell cast upon herself. What will she do about that?"

Starlight remembered about how Trixie wanted her to cast a fertility spell and it brought out anger in her. She snapped, "She has a fertility spell cast upon herself? Well we'll just have to fix that, won't we? Whether it be a spell or me ripping that horn out of her head with my teeth, I'll make sure she never impregnates another mare."

Celestia glared at her, "Starlight, you can't go doing that. I know you have this warrior mentality now but what did I tell you earlier today?"

Starlight sighed, "That we can't treat this like a search and destroy mission."

Applejack asked, "So how exactly are we going to do this?"

Celestia replied, "Well I can't tell you exactly because it will depend on how Trixie behaves. If she does not resist in letting us see Twilight, we will simply go in and try to lift the spell."

Spike held up the horn cap and added, "But we think that we should put this on Trixie before we try anything."

Rarity asked, "What is that?"

Starlight replied, "A horn cap. We can not have her discharging any magic while we are working on freeing Twilight. If she was to be able to do so, that could reduce our chances of freeing her."

Rainbow asked, "So when do we want to do this?"

Celestia replied, "Well I was thinking we could do it this after........"

Starlight interrupted, "I think we need to do this as soon as we finish our snacks. This could take a while and I think things will flow more easily if Celestia doesn't have to take a break to lower the sun."

Celestia said, "Starlight, if I'm not there Luna will know to do it for me."

Starlight sighed, "Oh alright, we'll wait until this afternoon."

Celestia replied, "Besides, I don't want to feel like I'm being rushed in eating my cake." She began to giggle, "As my sister would say it, 'being rushed through eating our cake would make us most unhappy!'"

Everypony except Starlight burst out laughing over this. Starlight just couldn't understand why they weren't in as big of a hurry as she was. She almost felt like they were taking this way too lightly but she was going to make sure of one thing. She thought to herself, "I don't care what anypony else wants or thinks, I'm going to haul Trixie's pathetic flank to Tartarus myself if I have to."

Confronting Trixie

Afternoon had arrived and everypony was simply enjoying one another's company despite having finished their snacks long ago, save one. Princess Starlight was in no mood to chit chat and reminisce, she wanted to free Twilight and punish Trixie. She interrupted, "Ladies, don't you think we should go and save Twilight now?"

Celestia sighed, "Yeah, we probably better. Come on ladies, come on Spike, let's go and save Twilight."

As they headed towards Twilight's castle Starlight breathed a sigh of relief. While she obviously wanted to free Twilight, deep down she truly wanted to punish Trixie for breaking her heart. The memories of that morning when Trixie threw away their love for Twilight was still seared in her memory. She decided that this would be the day that Trixie learns that one does not hurt her feelings and get away with it.

When they arrived at the castle Celestia asked, "So who do you think should be the one Trixie sees first?"

Starlight replied, "I believe that I am the one she should see. After all, I do have a history with her and I think seeing me in my new form will scare her into letting us in."

Celestia asked, "Starlight, do you even think she will know who you are in that armor? She won't be able to see your cutie mark and given your size, she might be confused."

Starlight sighed, "Fine." She looked back at Applejack and continued, "Applejack, perhaps she should see you first. She knows you mean business."

Applejack replied, "Alright." She headed to the door, knocked and continued, "Well here goes nothing."

After a minute of waiting the door creaked open and they were greeted by Trixie, "Hello......" She saw who it was, put up a force field and snapped, "Trixie thought she said that you are not to bother The Hot and Dominant Trixie ever again."

A powerful blue beam of energy shattered that force field which allowed everypony to go in. When Trixie saw that Celestia was there, her arrogant attitude changed to one of anxiety, "P-Princess Celestia, what are you doing here?"

Celestia replied, "You should know why I am here but I am going to let somepony else go into more detail with you."

Celestia stepped aside and a pink Alicorn clad in titanium armor approached Trixie. The Alicorn stared her down and stated, "Trixie Lulamoon, we are here to free the one you are holding captive against her will."

Trixie asked, "Oh and who are you? What makes you so special?"

Starlight pointed her hoof to her helmet and replied, "You know me and what makes me special can be discussed later."

Trixie saw Starlight's cutie mark on the helmet. While with many ponies seeing a pony they wronged having become an Alicorn would scare them but with Trixie, it was the opposite. It caused her to regain some of her arrogant composure. She laughed, "So Starlight, what did you do to become an Alicorn? Was it because you rewrote Starswirl's time spell? Is it because Celestia felt sorry for you?"

Starlight replied, "That is Princess Starlight Glimmer to you Trixie. As to how I became an Alicorn, like I said before, that can be discussed later but we have more pressing matters to take care of." She grabbed the horn cap and put it on Trixie, "Where is Twilight? All of us need to speak to her."

Yelling and struggling she asked, "What is that thing? What are you doing to The Hot and Dominant Trixie?"

Starlight replied, "It is a horn cap. We can not have you discharging any magic while we are freeing Twilight." She placed the cap on Trixie and again ordered, "Where is Twilight? We need to speak with her."

Despite having her magic disabled, Trixie's arrogance continued. She laughed, "Ha! What good would that do? She's so far under my spell that she won't even recognize you anymore!"

Celestia's jaw dropped open. She towered over Trixie, spread her wings wide and snapped, "So the rumors of Twilight being held under your spell are true?" She grabbed Trixie in her aura, lifted her up to eye level and demanded, "You will lead us to her, show us the spell you used so we can write a counter-spell."

Trixie knew she was in a world of trouble given that Celestia was angry. She replied, "Ok your Majesty. She is up in her bedroom."

Celestia sat Trixie down and they headed up to their bedroom. When they arrived they saw Twilight laying there, nearing term with a pinkish glaze over her eyes. Celestia bent down to her and said, "Twilight, it's me Celestia. Are you ok?"

Celestia received no response as Twilight was in a state of full control. Trixie walked over and said, "Twilight, your old friends are here to see you."

Twilight replied, "Master, could you send them away? The Weak and Subservient Twilight does not wish to see them."

Trixie began laughing, "You see! She belongs to me! She sees me as her master!"

Celestia grabbed Trixie in her aura and demanded, "Trixie, I am going to give you an option. Provide us with that mind control spell AND that fertility spell so they can be reversed and maybe your punishment won't be so harsh."

Despite being held in Celestia's aura, Trixie's defiance continued, "The Hot and Dominant Trixie didn't use a written mind control spell so you'll just have to write something yourself and Trixie knows you can't reverse any spell that The Hot and Dominant Trixie wrote herself!"

Spike interrupted, "Trixie, I remember when you were wanting to cast a fertility spell to get Starlight pregnant. You were looking through a book so that one either Celestia or Starlight should be able to reverse."

Celestia demanded, "What is the title of that book? We can not have you impregnating any other mares."

Trixie laughed, "You really think The Hot and Dominant Trixie is going to tell you that? Trixie is not stupid you know."

A memory came back to Spike, the day he caught Trixie with the spell book. He shouted, "I remember that day. It is called 'Equine Fertility Spells.'"

Starlight ordered, "Spike, hop on. We're going down there, getting that book and writing a reversal spell."

Spike hoped on and Trixie began to chase after them but was stopped when Celestia again grabbed her in her aura. She snarled, "Listen Trixie, we're reversing that fertility spell and we'll find a way to reverse that mind control spell."

Celestia decided to just hold Trixie in her aura until they had Twilight freed. She had full confidence that Starlight would be able to find the fertility spell and write a counter spell and do the same with the mind control spell despite it being something that Trixie wrote herself.

Freeing Twilight

As soon as they headed into the library Starlight and Spike began looking for books on fertility spells. While Spike pretty much knew where every book was from his time with Twilight, Starlight had no clue to look as she never had any interest in such spells. She asked, "Spike, where did Twilight keep the books on fertility spells?"

Spike replied, "They were in the far right corner in the middle."

The two headed to that area but much to their dismay they were no longer there. Spike sighed, "I have a feeling that Trixie either made Twilight remove them or she rearranged everything while she still had the wits about her to do it."

Starlight glared at the massive amount of books and grunted, "Well it looks like we're going to have a very long search on our hooves. You start looking on the left side and I'll look on the right side. If they aren't there, we'll look in the back."

When Starlight mentioned the back, something crossed Spike's mind, "Starlight, before we go looking through everything, what if Trixie had Twilight put the fertility spell books in the back in case something like this was to happen?"

Starlight replied, "Spike, you're a genius!"

The two headed to the back of the library and began to search. At first they were becoming frustrated. It was at this point that the nagging voice in Starlight's head said that they would be on the very top shelf. Starlight flew up there and found many books on fertility spells so she brought them all down. She asked, "Spike, do you remember which one it was?"

It did not take Spike long to find it as he was able to point it out easily, "Starlight, this is the one."

Starlight opened the book and began to flip through the pages. She was mumbling to herself, "Let's see, futa spells, energy spells.....oh here it is, spells involving horns!"

Starlight opened the book and began to read through the various spells wondering which one Trixie used. She kept on reading until she hit a part she did not expect to find, counter spells. "Spike, this is it! Counter-spells!"

Spike looked at the book and replied, "This is great! Now all you have to do is cast the counter-spell and Trixie won't be able to get Twilight pregnant again."

Starlight sighed, "That is true but I will need to channel my energy into the book so I'll know what energies to use and after that, I'm going to have to write a reversal spell from scratch to free Twilight from Trixie's control."

Spike replied, "Well if anypony can do it, you can Starlight!"

Starlight said, "Thanks Spike. I appreciate your confidence."

Starlight began to channel her energy into the book for the counter-spell. Her eyes began to shine white as she realized what type of energy would be required. After a minute her eyes returned to normal. She said, "Well I know what type of energy to use, now comes the hard part, writing a spell from scratch."

While Starlight had used mind control magic before, the type she used would not work in this instance and even if it would, she knew that nopony would approve of her taking Twilight's cutie mark. She sat down deep in thought with her head resting on the table. She seemed to go into a trance like state when she shot up and said,

"For the pony free will is a thing of the past

But this can not last

Freedom is what the pony needs

So she may see where life leads

The time has come for her to think as a whole

So that what can be fulfilled is her role."

Spike asked, "Starlight, do you think it will work?"

Starlight replied, "Well we're about to see. With any luck it will. I just hope that if it doesn't it won't make it impossible to save her."

As they were headed back up stairs Spike asked, "So which one are you going to reverse first?"

Starlight replied, "I will reverse the fertility spell first but I will have to do it outside of Twilight's room. I have my concerns as to what seeing something bad happen to Trixie in front of her might do."

Spike asked, "You mean like she might try to attack us?"

Starlight replied, "Yes and not only would that not be good for our cause to free her, it might harm her unborn foal and I certainly don't want to be responsible for that."

Once they arrived in Twilight's bedroom Celestia asked, "Starlight, do you have any spells ready?"

Starlight replied, "Yes, I do." She glared at Trixie and ordered, "Follow me, I shall handle you first."

Trixie laughed, "Trixie shall follow you but Trixie is not worried because no spell can reverse The Hot and Dominant Trixie's fertility spell!"

Trixie followed Starlight out of Twilight's bedroom into what used to be her bedroom. Starlight figured that it would be a slap in the face to Trixie by doing it in her old room given that is where she wanted Starlight to cast it upon her. Starlight pointed at her old bed and ordered, "Trixie, sit down."

Once Trixie sat down Starlight lit up her horn, pointed it at Trixie and recited,

"While the mare enjoys spreading the seed of life
by doing this she has caused much strife
normal this is not
it is despised by a lot
this ability can no longer be
free from the father's role she shall now be."

Starlight fired a powerful bolt of energy encircling Trixie in a bluish-white light. Trixie began to scream and yell as she felt her horn begin to return to it's normal size. Once the spell was complete Trixie fell onto her side. She could tell that the spell worked and was not happy about it, "Starlight, how could you just do this to Trixie? The Hot and Dominant Trixie didn't do anything to deserve this."

Starlight stared her down, "Trixie Lulamoon, you used this spell to impregnate Princess Twilight. Not only was that wrong but from what I understand it is also illegal." Starlight headed out of the room and locked Trixie in. She headed to Twilight's bedroom where she announced, "Well it worked. Her horn is back to normal so she can no longer do what she did to Twilight."

Celestia asked, "Where is Trixie?"

Starlight replied, "I locked her in my old bedroom. I do not believe that it would be in our best interests if she is in here while I free Twilight."

Everypony nodded in unison as Starlight headed over to Twilight. She waved her hoof in front of Twilight's face and asked, "Twilight, are you ok? Can you hear me?"

Twilight just sat there in an unresponsive silence as though Starlight was not even there. Rainbow asked, "Starlight, why did you ask her that? You know how deep she is under Trixie's spell."

Starlight replied, "Rainbow, I had to make completely sure that she is completely under her spell. If I would have got even the slightest amount of response from her, I would have to alter the energy I will be using from this."

Fluttershy asked, "Uhm....Starlight. I know I'm no master of magic or anything but do you think your spell might work better if you took your helmet off?"

Starlight stood there annoyed for a couple of seconds but realized that with the state Twilight is in, that removing her helmet may help her succeed with this. She replied, "Good thinking Fluttershy."

She took her helmet off and began to stare intensely at Twilight. Her eyes began to shine white, she began to levitate as she recited,

"For the pony free will is a thing of the past

But this can not last

Freedom is what the pony needs

So she may see where life leads

The time has come for her to think as a whole

So that what can be fulfilled is her role."

As soon as she recited this, a powerful beam of energy shot towards Twilight. While it was absorbed into Twilight's body, a powerful shock threw Starlight back into the wall, "Oww!" Her friends gave her a concerned look as she continued, "Well I certainly wasn't expecting that."

Everypony headed over to where Twilight sat to see if it worked. She blinked her eyes, shook her head and said, "Ugh....where am I?" In front of her she saw Celestia, Spike and her friends, "Princess Celestia, Spike, girls, I'm so happy to see you."

Upon hearing this, Applejack was the first one to hug her, "We're glad to see you too sugar cube."

Twilight asked, "What happened? Why am I in bed in the middle of the day." She then felt her foal kick her, "And how in Equestria did I become pregnant?" She looked around and continued, "And where is Trixie?"

Celestia replied, "Twilight, there is a lot that we have to catch up on since Trixie put that mind control spell on you."

Twilight asked, "Mind control spell? I don't remember Trixie putting a mind control spell on me."

Celestia looked back and motioned for Starlight to step up to Twilight. When Twilight saw her she was stunned to see how much she had grown and it stunned her even more that she was an Alicorn and was wearing armor. She asked, "Starlight, is that you?"

Starlight replied, "Yes Twilight, it is me."

Twilight asked, "But-but how did you get so big? How did you become an Alicorn? Why are you wearing armor?"

They heard Twilight's stomach growl and decided that it would be best if they caught her up on everything over a meal. Starlight put her helmet back on and said, "Wow Twilight, I have never heard anypony's stomach growl so loud in my life."

Celestia added, "Let's get you down to the dining hall and get some food in your stomach, you must be hungry."

Given that Twilight had not walked much recently she was wobbly on her feet but managed to get down to the dining hall. While everypony was happy to see that she was free of Trixie's control, they also knew that there would be a lot of catching up to do, some of which they were unsure of how Twilight would react to.

Catching Up

Author's Note

Most of this chapter will be done in a back and forth dialogue.

Catching Up

Once they got down to the dining hall they were greeted by the chef. He was shocked to see Twilight down there as Trixie had kept her confined to her bedroom for months. He hugged Twilight, "Twilight, it is so good to see you again!"

Twilight was still quite tired after having been under Trixie's control. She replied, "Yeah, it is good to see you too."

He asked, "So, what would you like to eat?"

Twilight replied, "I'm not sure....maybe a couple of hayburgers and some cider."

Everypony else requested the same thing. While the chef headed back to the kitchen, they got Twilight sat down and gathered around the table. Twilight asked, "You guys said we have a lot to catch up on. What all do we have to catch up on?"

Celestia asked in return, "We have a lot but I want to know something, do you remember sending Starlight and Spike up to Canterlot?"

Twilight replied, "Yeah I do. I remember that happened not too long after Trixie and I realized that we love each other."

Celestia asked, "What is the last thing you remember before coming to earlier today?"

Twilight replied, "Well I remember Trixie wanting to get me pregnant and I remember us having fun in the library but after that, nothing. The next thing I remember is waking up in my room with you guys around."

Celestia asked, "So you don't remember Trixie putting a fertility spell on you?"

Twilight replied, "No." She became more defensive as she continued, "Look, I know Trixie could never cast anything like that, she loves me and her magic is not strong enough anyway."

Spike interrupted, "Twilight, I remember before you sent Starlight and I to Canterlot Trixie was wanting to get Starlight to cast a fertility spell on her so she could get her pregnant. You don't think that after she had you under her control that she had you cast a fertility spell on her so she could get you pregnant, do you?"

Despite being freed, this did not sit well with Twilight. She snapped, "Trixie would never do such a thing! Trixie loves me and would only do that if I consented!"

Starlight spoke up, "Twilight, during the early stages of her control, you likely still had enough ability to think for yourself and said yes."

Rarity added, "You probably said yes to her so she took that as you consenting to it."

Speaking about this caused that memory to come back to Twilight. She gasped, "You know, now that I think about it, I do remember to consenting to it. I remember casting it on her, I remember us going to Starlight's room and I remember her ramming her horn in me." Twilight got a dreamy look on her face and continued, "And what a wonderful feeling it was. Trixie getting me pregnant, Trixie dominating me, Trixie cuddling with me. Oh it was so wonderful!"

Everypony put their hoof over their face in disgust. Celestia whispered, "Starlight, I'm not sure if your spell freed her entirely or not."

Starlight whispered back, "Trust me, it did. The problem is that she had already fallen in love with Trixie before she had the spell cast upon her."

Celestia asked, "How do you know this?"

Starlight replied, "Because I saw it with my own eyes. It was after Twilight joined Trixie and I one night that she fell for her and at that point, Twilight was not happy with Trixie and she and didn't seem to be overly fond of Trixie until that moment so I know what I'm talking about."

Celestia sighed, "Alright. Is there anyway we can remove the love she still has for her?"

Starlight replied, "Unless we use mind control magic ourselves, no. We will just have to hope Trixie does something to make her mad enough that she would leave her."

Their whispering and discussing Trixie did not set well with Twilight. She yelled, "What are you two saying? What are you saying about Trixie?" She began to snort, "And where is Trixie? Why are you keeping her from me?"

Celestia replied, "Twilight, we were just talking and besides we have a lot more to talk about."

Twilight glared at Starlight and grunted, "Oh, is it about how Starlight became an Alicorn? Is it why she is wearing armor?"

Celestia replied, "Both actually." She nudged Starlight and continued, "I'll let you tell her about it."

Starlight started, "Well Twilight, here is what happened. When you sent me to Canterlot you asked Celestia if she had anything up there for me. When Spike and I arrived up there Celestia asked me if I would be her protege and after she showed me around, I agreed and Spike decided to leave you because of what was going on with Trixie and became my assistant."

Twilight snapped, "What?" She cast her glare at Spike and continued, "So you just left me and headed off with Starlight because you didn't approve of my relationship with Trixie?"

Spike sighed, "Twilight, I left you because you had started referring to yourself as 'The Weak and Subservient Twilight' while Trixie started referring to herself as 'The Hot and Dominant Trixie.' I could not bring myself to be the assistant for a pony who would submit to anypony, especially the likes of Trixie."

Twilight snapped, "I was not submitting to Trixie. I love her and it was just how our relationship became."

Celestia mumbled, "A loving relationship does not involve submission."

Twilight yelled, "What was that Celestia?"

Starlight decided that this needed to get back on track, "Ok, now back to where we were. Well I came down to get my lock box before moving to Canterlot and by then you were much more under Trixie's spell. It was at that moment that Spike decided to quit on you and become my assistant."

Twilight snapped, "What?"

Starlight did not feel like repeating herself so she continued, "Well things went by quite well in Canterlot for six months. I was learning more and more but then one night Chrysalis and her changelings attacked. They take Princess Celestia and Princess Luna captive and take them back to the southern wastes."

Rainbow interrupted, "And the changelings did the same thing to the five of us. They put us all in cocoons of green ooze in their cave!"

Starlight continued, "Well when this happened I knew I had only one choice. I had to train the unicorn guard into being an army built to go on the offensive."

Twilight rolled her eyes, "Oh and how did you do that? You're no soldier and how did you even know where the changelings live?" She tried to lunge forward and continued, "You didn't set this up did you? You didn't set this up just so you could become an Alicorn did you?"

Celestia grabbed Twilight and replied, "No Twilight, she did not set this up." She looked at Starlight, "You may continue."

Starlight continued, "Well, I had done research on battle tactics, geography and changelings. That is what allowed me to train the unicorn guard to become soldiers, learn where the changelings live and understand how they fly and how they think. After that I led an army of 100 into the wastelands. We hunted down and killed every single changeling."

Twilight asked, "Oh and how did you take down Chrysalis?"

Starlight replied, "Well I cast a protection spell around myself which rendered my ability to wield a weapon against her useless so her and I fought the old fashioned way. It was quite a physical fight until I broke her horn off of her, cut her abdomen open and......." Starlight began to laugh, "and I ate her heart! I tell you, changeling meat is quite tasty."

Twilight was quickly beginning to see where this was going. She asked, "Celestia, I take it that after she killed Chrysalis and freed all of you that you decided to transform her into an Alicorn?"

Celestia replied, "Yes Twilight, that is when I decided that she was deserving of ascension."

Twilight yelled, "But she stole cutie marks, she altered Starswirl's time travel spell TWICE! She almost prevented me from hatching Spike because I tried to turn Trixie against her! She shouldn't be an Alicorn, she should be punished!"

This was something that Starlight had hoped to hide from Celestia forever. Celestia asked, "Starlight, is this true?"

Starlight hung her head low, "Yes Celestia, it is true. I was so angry at Twilight at the time that I decided I would punish Twilight for trying to take Trixie away from me."

Celestia asked, "And how would things have worked had you succeeded?"

Starlight replied, "Well Princess Twilight would have disappeared and filly Twilight would have just had to go to public school while my knowledge and the scroll would have been beamed to the filly me in my hometown." She broke down crying, "I'm sorry Celestia, I was just so upset that Twilight would try to take the one I loved away from me that I lost control of my rational thought."

What would happen next would shock everypony. Rather than Celestia being angry over what Starlight did, she was amazed, "Wow Starlight, I never knew you had that much magical ability. Had I known that when you became my protege, I would have made you a princess for PERFECTING that time travel spell."

Twilight was shocked by this, "But Princess, she tried to alter everypony's destiny and here you are praising her!"

Celestia replied, "Twilight, after the way things have turned out, that isn't the biggest thing to worry about now." She nudged Starlight, "Please continue were you were."

Starlight continued, "Alright, after I killed Chrysalis a bright ball of light exploded from her, sending Celestia and I into a dark realm of stars. There she told me why I was deserving of becoming an Alicorn princess and she transformed me."

Twilight gasped, "But Celestia, she is the same size as Luna and why in Equestria is she wearing body armor. Why is she dressed like a soldier?"

Celestia replied, "Because she proved that she has a vast amount of military knowledge and with her leading the military now she needs to be bigger."

Starlight added, "And I always wear my armor because if some problem arises, I don't want to have to take extra time getting it on. I want to always be prepared."

Twilight asked, "So what is her official title?"

Celestia replied, "She is The Warrior Princess. Her role is to transform the whole guard into an army and keep Equestria safe."

Twilight screamed, "So that makes her more deserving of being big? She deserves to be big but I don't?"

Celestia sighed, "Twilight, did you not hear what I said. She is The Warrior Princess. She needs to be bigger to make it easier for her to fend off enemies."

Twilight was upset over the fact that Celestia seemed to give Starlight preference over her in how she transformed her. Soon though her mind would return to Trixie, "Celestia, so now I know how Starlight became an Alicorn but I want to know one thing, where is Trixie?"

Celestia rolled her eyes, "Starlight, would you go and get her?"

Starlight nodded and headed upstairs. When she got to her old room she could hear Trixie trying to kick the door down. Starlight opened the door and was nearly kicked. Trixie sneered, "Oh so you and Celestia have finally decided to let The Hot and Dominant Trixie out of your old room."

The whole 'Hot and Dominant Trixie' thing was really getting on Starlight's nerves. She was fed up with it so she smacked her. She snapped, "Listen, could you talk like a normal pony for once in your miserable, pathetic life? I'm getting sick of this."

Trixie grunted, "No Starlight, Trixie will speak however she wishes."

Starlight stared her down, "Like I said before, that is Princess Starlight to you."

Once Trixie had calmed down Starlight led her down to the dining hall. As soon as she saw Twilight her whole mood changed. She rushed to her and asked, "Is Trixie's Weak and Subservient Twilight ok? What have they done to you?"

This hit Twilight like a ton of bricks. She began to tear up, "Wait a minute, you think of me as weak and subservient?"

With that response Trixie realized that they had removed the mind control spell. She realized that she could no longer call her that and knew that she would have to behave in a different way to keep Twilight. She replied, "No Twilight, I don't. It was just a term you let me call you for a while."

Seeing Trixie in her normal state caused everything to come back to her. Twilight remembered everything, the mind control spell, being impregnated, being kept locked in her room, Trixie not allowing her to have guests and not being allowed to leave her bed except to use the restroom. She asked, "Everypony, do you think that Trixie and I could talk alone?"

Celestia replied, "Of course."

Starlight added, "Come on everypony, let's go to the library while they talk."

They all left the dining hall so that Twilight could speak to Trixie alone. They were unsure as to what would happen while the two talked alone. While they wouldn't show it around Twilight, they all were hoping that Twilight would see that everything Trixie did was wrong so they could take Trixie to Canterlot and put her on trial for the crimes she committed.

Clearing the Air

Once Starlight, Celestia and her friends left the dining hall, Twilight realized she had to find out the truth. She glared at Trixie and asked, "Trixie, I want to know something. Starlight and Celestia mentioned something about you putting a mind control spell on me, is that true?"

Trixie hung her head low and replied, "Yes Twilight, I did."

Twilight asked, "Why? You knew I already loved you before you cast that spell on me."

Trixie began to cry, "Because I wanted us to have a foal together and when I first talked to you about it, you said it would be wrong. I just wanted us to cement our love for one another."

Twilight sighed, "But that soon? Did you not trust me to stay true to you? Did you think that if you didn't have me under your control that I would throw you out?"

Trixie laid her head on the table and continued to sob, "Actually Twilight, yes, I was worried that if I didn't have you under my control that you would leave me. After all, Starlight left for Canterlot without even saying goodbye to me. She put her ambitions ahead of me and I didn't want to get hurt like that twice."

Twilight replied, "Trixie, I remember everything now. You were excited that Starlight was leaving. You were happy that it would just be us so please don't lie to me."

Trixie sighed, "Ok Twilight. I'll admit I was happy." She walked over to Twilight, hugged her and continued, "I guess I wanted us to have a foal together and be together forever so bad that I lost all rational thought. I'm so sorry Twilight, I do hope you can forgive me."

Twilight replied, "Well, I don't know Trixie. What you did to me was really bad, it is morally wrong, it is highly illegal...." Twilight began to cry, "But most of all it hurt my feelings. You didn't trust me enough to stay with you so you felt like you had to put a mind control spell on me."

Trixie began to cry, "Please forgive me Twilight. I do love you, I truly love you Twilight Sparkle." She buried her face in Twilight's mane and begged, "Please forgive me Twilight, I love you and want to be with you forever."

Twilight was watching her closely when she said this. She began to cry, "I love you too Trixie. I know what you did was wrong but I know that you won't do that to me again."

The two gazed into one another's eyes and began to kiss passionately. For the first time in months both mares felt true happiness. Once they broke the kiss Trixie asked, "Twilight, I know you are upset with everything that happened but I am wondering, can we still be marefriends?"

Twilight replied, "Well, I was kind of hoping that we could be more than just that."

Trixie gasped, "Do you mean?"

Twilight asked, "Trixie Lulamoon, while you have done bad things I will admit my love for you is strong. I am wondering if you would marry me!"

Trixie hugged her and squealed, "Yes Twilight, oh yes Twilight! I'll gladly marry you!"

The two began to kiss passionately again. Now that they knew that their destinies were each other, they felt like they were on top of the world and while they knew that nopony would approve of it, they weren't about to allow that to spoil this special moment. They truly realized their love for one another and were ready to cement it in matrimony.

An hour later they headed into the library. Twilight had her wing wrapped around Trixie and they both had smiles on their faces. When the others saw this, they all put their hooves over their faces in disgust. Twilight saw this and asked, "What's wrong everypony?"

Starlight asked, "Twilight, why do you have your wing around Trixie?"

Celestia added, "You do know that she will have to face charges for the crimes she has committed against you, don't......"

Twilight interrupted, "No, she won't because I do not wish to press charges against her and given that I am a princess, I would pardon her of everything anyway so don't waste your time with some kangaroo court trial."

While her friends, despite being disgusted by her decision, could understand where she was coming from. The same could not be said of the two princesses and Spike. Starlight sneered, "Oh and what are your plans now? Return to being marefriends? Twilight being willfully subservient to Trixie?"

Trixie joyfully replied, "We're going to get married!"

Everypony gasped, "What?"

Twilight replied, "You heard her, we're going to get married."

Applejack asked, "Are you sure about that sugar cube?"

Rarity added, "Come on darling, she controlled you for so long. You can do so much better."

Twilight sighed, "Look girls, could you just be happy for me? I don't expect any of you to support this but please at least respect my decision."

Celestia said, "Ok Twilight, we'll respect your decision. Given that this will be a royal wedding, it will be in Canterlot."

Starlight asked, "So are you going to want this to happen before or after the birth of your foal?"

Twilight replied, "I think it would be best if it happens before so our foal won't be born out of wedlock."

Celestia rolled her eyes in disgust, "So be it. We will get this set up as soon as possible. It likely won't be as grandiose as your brother and Cadence's was, but I will officiate it and make sure everything goes alright."

Twilight and Trixie cheered and began to kiss again. The princesses and her friends decided to just leave at that point. Twilight's friends just couldn't fathom how Twilight could still be so madly in love with Trixie, Celestia never imagined that the pony that was once her star student and had saved Equestria on multiple occasions would fall like this and Starlight, despite having had bad moments with her, never imagined that Twilight would fall for what she thought was Trixie's games. All that mattered to Twilight and Trixie though was that they had one another and that soon they would be married and have a royal foal.

To be concluded....

Catching Up (Alternate Ending)

Author's Note

Everything above the divider line is from the original "Catching Up" chapter.

Catching Up (Alternate Ending)

Twilight was still quite tired after having been under Trixie's control. She yawned, "Yeah, it is good to see you too."

He asked, "So, what would you like to eat?"

Twilight replied, "I'm not sure....maybe a couple of hayburgers and some cider."

Celestia asked in return, "We have a lot but I want to know something, do you remember sending Starlight and Spike up to Canterlot?"

Twilight replied, "Yeah I do. I remember that happened not too long after Trixie and I realized that we love each other."

Celestia asked, "What is the last thing you remember before coming to earlier today?"

Celestia asked, "So you don't remember Trixie casting a mind control spell on you?"

Twilight replied, "No." She became more defensive as she continued, "Look, I know Trixie would never cast anything like that, she loves me and her magic is not strong enough anyway."

Despite being freed, this did not sit well with Twilight. She snapped, "Trixie would never do such a thing! Trixie loves me and would only do that if I consented!"

Starlight spoke up, "Twilight, during the early stages of her control, you likely still had enough ability to think for yourself and said yes."

Rarity added, "You probably said yes to her so she took that as you consenting to it."

Speaking about this caused that memory to come back to Twilight. She gasped, "You know, now that I think about it, I do remember consenting to it. I remember casting it on her, I remember us going to Starlight's room and I remember her ramming her horn in me."

As everything continued to sink in for Twilight she became angry, "Curse her, curse her! She used me, she used me so she could get me pregnant and then tie me to her with a foal. Ugh when I get my hooves on her, she'll suffer dearly." Twilight then got a look of discomfort on her face as her foal was kicking her, "Oh, I guess I should spare my wrath until after the foal is born."

Celestia gave her a smile, "Yeah, that would likely be for the best."

Starlight cleared her throat and asked, "Twilight, I know right now your number one priority should be preparing for the birth of your foal but I do want to know something, do you want Trixie to be punished for her crimes?"

The question irritated Twilight somewhat, "Well of course I do. She impregnated me while I was under her spell, she kept me locked up, she kept me away from my friends and she treated me like a possession instead of a pony."

Starlight and Celestia gave one another a smile before Celestia added, "Very well then, we will transport her to Canterlot and throw her in the dungeon while you tell us everything you remember so that we can get the proper charges pressed against her." She turned to Starlight and asked, "Given the strength of your magic, could you get Trixie secured and haul her up to Canterlot?"

Twilight asked, "Starlight, could you just teleport the two of you there because I do not want to have to see her."

Starlight agreed, "That I can." She then turned to Spike and added, "I need you to stay here because handling Trixie will be best done alone."

Spike replied, "Yes I can." He then turned to Twilight and asked, "Twilight, with you not being under Trixie's control anymore, can I be your assistant again?"

Twilight gave the dragon a smile, "Well that will be up to Starlight."

Spike turned to Starlight and gave her puppy dog eyes causing her to reply, "Of course you can come back to being Twilight's assistant. After everything she's been through, your help will be more important than ever."

Spike exclaimed, "Yes!" He went and hugged Twilight as he added, "I'm sorry for abandoning you Twilight."

Twilight replied, "It is alright Spike. I'm just happy you want to come back to being my assistant."

Everypony was happy seeing this as it was a sign that things were heading in a direction where the whole situation would be at least semi-normal. Starlight gave everypony a smile, "Alright, now to get Trixie secured and transported."

Before heading up to take care of Trixie Starlight turned to Celestia and asked, "Celestia, I plan on taking her to the dungeon so we can hold her until a final punishment is decided. Where is it?"

Celestia replied, "Pull out my throne and there is a doorway that will take you down there."

Starlight nodded and headed up to handle Trixie while Celestia wanted to know exactly what happened, "Twilight, I want you to tell me everything you can remember about all of this. It is vital so we can press the proper charges against her."

Twilight began, "Ok, one night I joined Starlight and Trixie in bed and after that, Trixie wanted me and only me. I think that might have been after Starlight told her no on the whole foal thing but I can't remember exactly. Then she wanted me to have her foal and I told her no. Then she suggested we have fun in the library so we went down there, she got on top of me and I don't know if I was imagining things but I think I might have seen her horn glowing as she was gazing into my eyes intently, and after that, I remember being in my bedroom with all of you surrounding me."

Celestia sighed, "Well that isn't much to go off of but once we get Trixie interrogated and get statements from everypony else, we should be able to get this taken care of."

The castle chef then brought their food in and Twilight became much happier, "Oh good, lunch is here! I'm so hungry I feel like I could eat several of these!" Everypony began to eat leisurely while Twilight was devouring hers as though she hadn't had a substantial meal in quite some time. This caused Celestia some concern because Twilight had never ate like that before, she then began to wonder if Trixie was restricting what she ate to being just enough for her to provide food for her foal.

While everypony else was eating, Starlight headed up to handle Trixie. When she arrived up to what was her old room, she heard Trixie trying to kick the door down. When Starlight opened it she wound up getting kicked by Trixie, knocking her backwards but not down. Starlight flared up her horn, grabbed Trixie in her aura and firmly stated, "Trixie Lulamoon, you are coming with me. You shall answer for your crimes."

Trixie yelled, "You can't do anything to the Hot and Dominant Trixie! Trixie never committed any crimes!"

Starlight intensified her hold on Trixie and with one powerful bolt of energy, teleported the two up to Canterlot. No longer were they in Twilight's castle but were in Celestia's throne room. Trixie had never been in the throne room before and asked, "Where are we? What are you doing with the Hot and Dominant Trixie?"

Starlight ignored the question and dragged Trixie up towards Celestia's throne. She pulled it out and revealed a door. She opened the door and dragged Trixie through. Very soon they began to descend a stairway and began to go down it. To make Trixie miserable Starlight was holding her in a way that caused her head to hit each step, striking her horn. Each hit caused Trixie to cry out in pain.

Once Starlight got her down into the dungeon, she dragged her down to the very back cell and threw her in. She then cast multiple lock spells on the door. She laughed, "Well now, that ought to keep you from escaping!"

Trixie yelled, "Why did you do this to Trixie? What kind of crimes do you believe that the Hot and Dominant Trixie committed?"

Starlight had a smirk on her face as she replied, "Well rape for one. You did force Twilight into sex while she was under your control."

Trixie yelled, "She was not forced, Trixie would never force anypony into anything like that."

Starlight continued, "And there is the mind control itself, false imprisonment and you did kick me so there is assaulting a princess as well."

Trixie continued to scream and deny all the accusations that Starlight had told her about and it was quickly getting under Starlight's nerves. She stood in front of the cell and wound up striking Trixie with a relatively weak bolt of energy and yelled, "Would you shut up already? You're going to have to face charges for these crimes and with the evidence against you, especially the foal growing inside of Twilight, I would advise you simply admit your guilt. Maybe you can simply get time in Tartarus rather than time on the moon."

Starlight began to head away from Trixie's cell and then one thing crossed her mind, keeping Trixie fed. She knew that unlike how it would be if she were in Tartarus that she would need food. She sighed in frustration, "Well I'll have to talk to Celestia about feeding her."

Once Starlight left the dungeon and pulled Celestia's throne back into place, she flared up her horn and teleported back down to Ponyville. When she arrived the first to say anything was Celestia, "So did you get her taken care of?"

Starlight replied, "I did although we're going to have to do something about feeding her." She paused before adding, "Unfortunately though we do have to feed her because it would actually be illegal for us to starve her."

Celestia sighed in frustration, "I know. Perhaps we should have just hauled her off to Tartarus so we wouldn't have to worry about taking care of her."

Starlight nodded in agreement before turning to Twilight, "Twilight, I want to know something. Do you want us to start the trial immediately or would you rather wait until after the birth of your foal?"

Celestia added, "Your testimony will be very important and I don't want something such as you giving birth to cause any delays."

Twilight had a somewhat annoyed look on her face over the comment but knew that Celestia did make a good point. She replied, "I think it would be best if we waited until after I give birth. You're right about giving birth causing delays and I also don't want any unnecessary stress causing me to go into labor early."

Celestia stated, "So be it. We shall wait until after you give birth to start her trial."

The overall mood seemed to be full of grim determination but one pony wanted to change that since Trixie was locked up. Pinkie asked, "Hey everypony, we should throw Twilight a 'I'm finally free from Trixie's control' party!"

Nopony particularly cared for the name of the party but they all agreed. With Trixie being locked up where she belonged and her being free Twilight could finally eat enough to keep not just her unborn foal healthy but also herself. Celestia and Starlight however, their focus shifted from Twilight to the upcoming trial and making sure that the prosecution could get a conviction and in the case of Starlight, hoping that Trixie would get sentenced to Tartarus for her crimes.

Prelude

After Trixie convinced Twilight to send Starlight away to Canterlot, she thought she had it made. She had a princess completely under her control and used a fertility spell Twilight wrote to get her pregnant. Since then, Trixie has kept Twilight from having any visitors and is anxiously awaiting the birth of her foal. One thing she did not anticipate though is that after being sent away, a disaster struck Canterlot and it was up to Starlight to save Equestria. For saving Equestria the way she did, Starlight was transformed into an Alicorn and crowned "The Warrior Princess."

Now that things have returned to normal, Princess Starlight's attention can turn from military affairs to saving the pony who took her in as a friendship student a year ago, Princess Twilight. She will not be alone though as Celestia and Twilight's friends also want to remove this spell from Twilight. While wiping out Chrysalis and her changeling army was not overly difficult for Starlight, saving Twilight may actually be tougher than she thinks.