Twilight’s Love Volume One: It Begins

There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of. There were... loose threads - untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I... pulled on one of those threads - it unraveled the tapestry of my life.

-Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation; Episode: Tapestry.

It’s theorized that with each decision we make, it may split the fabric of space-time. So one version goes off under the first choice and a second goes on the other. An infinite multiverse of universes.

This story starts the Friday before Magical Mystery Cure. We all know Twilight would receive Star Swirl the Bearded’s spell book on Sunday night. The one containing his unfinished ‘Master Piece’. Twilight would inadvertently switch her friends’ cutie marks and it would take all her power, knowledge, skill and friendship to restore her friends and ultimately finish Star Swirl’s spell.

Doing so, the Elements of Harmony would project Twilight to a plane of magic. There she’d be met by Princess Celestia who’d initialize the process of elevating Twilight from a Unicorn to an Alicorn Princess.

Yadda, yadda, yadda!

They dance, they kiss, they schmooze, they carry on, they go home happy.

And the rest is, as they say, history.

But…

What if Twilight wasn’t home that fateful Sunday night? What if there was a choice that split reality into two versions? The one we all know and an alternate one.

We’ll follow the choice less known and see where it might’ve lead.

We find when we do the smallest of things; such as going left when you’d normally go right, having the soup instead of the salad or deciding to take the chance nopony would’ve expected you to ever do. These can change our lives and the lives of those around us in ways which can only be imagined.

This alternate history is based on two ponies doing just that….

‘Time is like bread,’ said Dahood. ‘The loaf of bread is the shape it is because it has been formed and baked. The shape was chosen by the baker.

That’s the past, unchangeable.

But the future is like the dough unbaked. It’s still bread, but it has yet to be shaped and will not be shaped until the baker is ready to bake it. At that time the baker will choose the shape based on what has happened up to then. Everything is there that can happen. But the slightest thing can change the future.’

‘Do you always speak in metaphor my friend?’ thought Zecora with a smile.

‘Yes,’ said Dahood, Zecora could feel his smile, ‘it makes me sound wise.’

-Dialogue between Zecora and her spirit guide From: The Derpy I Know And Love Volume 4; Part Two, Chapter Seven: Echoes Of The Past And Present - By Stormbringer