Shattered Harmony:Twilight Prevents Cupcakes

She couldnt put it out of her mind any longer. She had the spell she needed, she just had to get over the uneasiness of what she was contemplating. Celestia had warned her not to take the spell, that it wouldnt bring Rainbow Dash back to her. The Princess of the felt it neceessary to suspend Twilight from being her student and protege until the unicorn mare could learn to cope with this loss.

"Oh, what do i do,", Twiligiht thought to herself. Spike was in Canterlot on business as far as she knew. She had told him that she needed time alone to process everything that had happened to her within the last few years. She had sunk into a deep depression over Rainbow's death. She couldnt bring herself to confront Pinkie. Or more apt Pinkie's grave. This was the only thing she could bring herself to do. She was going to travel back in time and stop Pinkie from killing Rainbow Dash. She didnt even care at that moment what it might do the timestream.

All Twilight Sparkle could think of was her marefriend. Those magenta eyes she used to lose herself in, that smirk that Dash always got when she was up to something mischievous.

As she began to charge the spell, she thought she saw Rainbow's Face staring at her, a hoof extended pleading with her not to do this. Pleading with her to just let go.

"I cant let go, I cant lose you, you were my life, Dash," Twilight realized as the spell began to take form and swirl around her that she had been speaking to a chair.

There was no way in Tartarus that she was going to let history repeat itself, there was no way she was going to let her marefriend die this time, least of all to the hooves of a deranged friend of their's. She had consulted her other friends before deciding whether or not to go forward with her endeavor. She was going to travel back in time and stop Pinkamena/Pinkie Pie from killing Rainbow Dash. She was going to stop her from killing the mare Twilight had planned to marry.

The day Before

Of all the ponies to support her decision, Rarity was the first to speak up about it. She was in full support of Twilight's idea to go back and stop Pinkamena before the nightmare was allowed to escalate. About a month ago, Pinkamena had gotten her hooves on Rarity and tried to have her killed by mercury poisoning. Applejack had shown up to take Rarity to dinner when she found her unconscious with Pinkie just staring at her with a crazed grin creeping over her face.

"After that dreadful incident last month believe me Twilight when i say that the rest of us fully support your decision," Like always Rarity was the most supportive of what Twilight wanted to do. She had lived through something horrific. If Applejack hadn't been there she might have died because of what Pinkie tried to do to her. It was both painful and heartbreaking that one of their own friends tried to take another pony's life.

Both her and Applejack decided that it was best if they started living together after that. That way AJ could always make sure she was safe from any future harm.

"It was like she has a completely different pony Twi," Applejack recounted to Twilight what had transpired over a month ago. It was the hardest thing for her to do. Pinkie was such a bright soul that AJ could have never imagined that she was capable of killing another pony. And by poisoning them for that matter. That just seemed so despicable. Applejack continued with her description of events.

AJ had turned around and done a complete 180 spin and bucked her right in the jaw, the force tossing the pink mare half way across the Carosoul Boutique and right into the adjacent wall. The force of the impact almost snapped Pinkie's neck, sending the pink pony's body crashing to the floor. Twilight had to make sure her calculations were precise. If the spell worked, none of this would have happened, and Rainbow Dash would be alive, and Pinkie would be locked up or at the most, executed for what she attempted.

That and Twilight would still be Celestia's student. Her mental breakdown after Dash was murdered nearly destroyed half of the town. Even though Pinkie tried to kill Rarity too, the one pony she avoided at all costs was Twilight. Part of Pinkie that was still sane knew that if they crossed paths, there would be no escaping her wrath. She knew how Twilight and Rainbow Dash felt about one another, and that the pain of her death had caused Twilight into a downward spiral of insanity that nearly destroyed most of Ponyville, and forced Celestia to suspend Twilight's position as her student because of it.

Twilight looked at her friends and turned back to where the spell was lying and cast it with no regrets. She had altered it to take her back farther then a week. As she felt herself being lifted, she opened to see the traces of the time tunnel she was traveling through before coming out the other side of it. She opened her eyes again to reveal the floor of the Library and looked around to see that there was no sign of the damage she had caused to it when she had her self destructive stunt.

She opened the door to see Rarity walking towards the Library, she remembered that they were going to Sugar Cube Corner to see what was taking Dash so long. The three of them had planned a picnic together.

"We need to get over there fast, I think something's wrong with Pinkie,", Twilight couldn't exactly tell Rarity the real reason for her worry. How would her friends think of her telling them she traveled back in time? Probably about as well as when she tried to get their help in solving a friendship problem during the Want it Need it Incident.

"Ok..", Rarity said, unsure of what was making her unicorn friend panic like this.

Twilight walked in the door to Sugar Cube Corner to see Rainbow Dash about to take a bite out of a cupcake, a cupcake Twilight knew was laced with a sedative. She knocked it out of Dash's hooves before she could take one taste of it, causing Dash to jump back a bit. She looked at Twi, with an annoyed look in her eyes. Until she turned to see Pinkie trying to come at her with a kitchen knife, to which she dodged the incoming attack.

Twilight lit her horn, and enveloped Pinkie in a purplish aura and threw her into the wall jutting out of from the kitchen, which knocked the pink mare unconscious, without killing her this time.

"Twi.. Twilight,", Dash stammered, " How did you know she was going drug me?", Dash stared at her with those magenta eyes, those eyes that Twilight had missed so much, the same eyes she had imagined losing herself in every night.

"Because, I came back in time for you.", She didn't care if they believed it, It was the truth. She had traveled this far back to save the one she loved more then anything else in the world. She turned back and walked over to where Pinkie was laying and used some masking tape to bound her hooves together. She then got a pen and quill and wrote a letter to Celestia, asking her to send four Royal Guards to Ponyville immidiately. Somepony had tried to kill her and Dash, and was being restrained at the moment.

The Guards arrived to take Pinkie into custody while Twilight and Rainbow decided to investigate the basement of Sugar Cube Corner. They both wished they hadn't as they were left utterly speechless to the scene arrayed in front of them. There were numerous organs done up in pastels hanging from the ceiling like party favors. on the other side of the room was a door that led to another area. It was littered with bodies from the other ponies she had done this too before targeting one of her friends. Twilight nearly became sick when she spot a familiar mint green unicorn strapped to a metal table.

"Lyra.", she said as tears started to well up in her eyes, that was until she noticed.. movement. There were no cuts or anything, just a needle mark under Lyra's neck where she had been injected with a sedative. She immediately unchained Lyra from the table and helped her to her hooves. Lyra turned and wrapped her hooves around Twilight, pulling her into a deep hug.

"Thank you for finding me Twilight,", Lyra sounded so modest and relieved that somepony, most of all a dear friend, had found and rescued her from this horrible torment she had been subjected to. Twilight helped walk Lyra to the door of the bakery. Twilight held her friend in a hug that seemed to last forever. Both of them were grateful that the other was there to comfort Lyra.

With some help Lyra was able to go back to a semi-normal life. She still experienced nightmares though. What Pinkie had tried to do her would stay with the mare for the rest of her life. But at least she had Bon Bon and Twilight to help her through this. She was grateful for that at least.