Legend of Starlight Book 1 (Equality)

Chapters

Pilot
Isn't that bad
Evil alies
Siding with the people
Suspect Number 1
Samesh
The enemy of my enemy
An act of revenge

Pilot

Author's Note

Hellow everyone, ProyectV here presenting to you a short fanfic, i’m not sure but i think this fanfic could be consider a mini-series, anyway, before reading there are somethings you need to know, dear reader.

1) In this fanfic i’m going to asume you know who are the main cast and the secondary characters, so there will be no description of the appearance of the character, also i will asume that you know at least how the main stages look like, still i will give a short description of the place if needed (I want you, te reader, to have as much freedom as you can when picturing the scenes, so i will not detail most of the places unless nedeed or that i want you to put in context)

2) For understanding most of this you should at least watch the season premiere and season finale of mlp fim season 5 and 6. (To get all the references you should watch at least the Starlight’s episodes of the season 6)

3) Please do comment the story, it helps a lot to see what things i did wrong and what things i did well, even if you want to theorise, make suggestions or other stuf, it really makes an autor happy to read comments, but please, try to not be an asshole while commenting, let’s keep the comments section clean of curses or bad words.

anyway, that’s all, enjoy this little story called “Legend of Starligt” (LOSt in short)

Pilot

It was a beautiful day in the village of Ponyville, the birds sang, the flowers bloomed, a perfect day for a picnic and they would have done it, if it wasn't for a small incident that had them very confused.

"What does this mean, Twilight?" A mare in a cowboy accent asked.

"No idea, Applejack, but it can not be good ..." Twilight replies.

"Well ... I understand that the map sent us to other parts of the world to solve friendship problems ... but ... Ponyville?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"Not only that, it's specifically pointing to this castle ... and it's all our cutie marks," Rarity says, looking at them.

"What problem can there be in the castle that the six of you have to solve?" Asks a confused Starlight.

"Do you have any problems?" Fluttershy asks calmly.

"Well ... no, not that I know, I have my personal problems like everypony, but those problems are so personal that I don't share them with anyone or let them affect those around me, they are mostly doubts that I have about myself ... that's not a problem of friendship, right? "Starlight asks them.

"Well ... you locked your anger in a bottle and ended up with a series of ponies wanting to hit Trixie ... maybe your personal problems are not as far apart from your friends as you think, sugarcube" Applejack suggests.

"And not only that, there's the time when she brainwashed us to do whatever she wanted and that time she traveled to the past and almost ruined all Equestria, and the time when you enslaved a whole people for Silly and ...!"

"Pinie, I think Starlight already understood your point" Rainbow says, covering her mouth.

"Look, I know I've made mistakes in the past, there's no point in denying it, but believe me when I tell you, these problems are very, very personal and I will not share them with you" Star says walking out of the room.

"You don't have to tell us what happens to you, but if you notice that it causes you some problem in the way you interact with ponies, don't hesitate to ask for advice" says Twilight smiling at her.

"Agh ... it's fine ... I'll see you," Starlight says, leaving the room.

"So ... we're not going to do anything about it right now," Rainbow Dash asks.

"Well ... no, not really, Starlight has gained some benefit from the doubt and I have not really seen her arguing with anyone ... so ... maybe it's something else," Twilight says looking at the map.

"Maybe the map broke,it has received many blows throughout his stay in this castle" says Applejack giving it light blows.

"I don't think it's damaged ..."

"And if it is damage, hitting it won't fix it," Rarity says to Applejack.

"Whatever we must find out what it is, check every corner of the castle, Applejack, Rainbow, check out the basement of the castle, Fluttershy, Pinkie, look at the kitchen, dining room, and the first floor, Rarity, you and I will review the library , The second floor and the ceiling, we'll see you here after about thirty minutes to see what we find"says Twilight to the group with a slight smile.

"All right, let's do this," Rainbow says as each group walks by.

"Well, let's first check the library," says Twilight, walking in direction to the library followed by Rarity, the castle library was large, not as large as Canterlot or the crystal empire, but it was larger than the old Golden Oak library, it had one floor, but unlike Golden Oak this had three dedicated rooms each twice the size of the old house of Twilight, the first room was round, had several libraries dedicated to history and science, their volumes went from humanistic subjects like art and music to sciences like physics and chemistry, passing through computer science and medicine like many others, the room had two doors to the bottom, one on the right side and another on the left, the room on the left Was a round reading room, had multiple tables with wooden chairs surrounding them, there was an immense glass chandelier hanging from the ceiling in the center of the room, lighting with its light bulbs, on the other hand, the room on the right was different from the others, it was rectangular and had only one object inside in the center connected to a strange machine with a book in it, both mares advanced through the library checking anything out of the ordinary.

"Jum ... something serious is happening ..." says Twilight reviewing a library carefully.

"What is it, dear?" Did you find anything? "Rarity asks.

"It's not something I found, it's something that is missing, or rather, several things that are missing ..."

"It's just books, Twilight and it's a library open to the public, it's not uncommon for anyone to take a book" Rarity replies without giving much thought.

"The problem is that very advanced magic volumes have been taken, there are 3 volumes missing and they'r called "Handling of the internal magic" "Use of the external magic" and "Ways of creating advanced spells", those are a series of volumes very Peculiar to take ...

"Im sure it's nothing ..." Rarity says as the library door opens to reveal Starlight with a red book.

"So you found the problem?" Starlight asks, putting the book in its place.

"You see? I told you" Rarity responds to Twilight.

"Management of the internal magic? Why did you read that book?" Questions Twilight

"Why not read it? I like magic, I want to learn more about it, this is a library ..." respons Star

"Yes ... it makes sense, sorry, things of mine ... two volumes are still missing. Do you have them?"

"No, I just took this one"

"I see ... well ... I hope they get it back, I'd hate to ..."

"Twilight!" Screams a small purple dragon with green entering the library with a parchment. "Princess Celestia sent you this, the letter says important on the outside" Spike says giving it to Twilight, which indeed had a red ribbon that said "Important".

"Thanks Spike, I'll read it right now" she says, opening the letter and beginning to read it, as Twilight read the letter, his face became more and more serious until a point where she looked worried.

"What is it, Twilight?" Starlight asks.

"Apparently Princess Celestia needs me in canterlot, it's something related to a police investigation, does not give many details, but says that it is very important that i attend and assist them" says Twilight looking at it.

"Then let's get going" Starlight says to her with a slight smile.

"No, I need you to stay here checking the castle and taking care of it while I'm gone, Spike and I will go to Canterlot to see what happened, that the map points to the castle and then Celestia says that there is an emergency, they have to be connected, come on Spike , We have a train to take" says Twilight as Spike climbed on his back and they both left the library.

"Okay i guess, take care of yourself Twilight, we'll let the others know you'r gone" Rarity says to her with a slight smile.

"Well, now ... let's go on with the search ... What are we supposed to look for?" Star asks Rarity.

***
The city of Canterlot was large and it came to no suprise to anyone, being the central city
it should be big, located on a mountain, the way it was done was a feat of architecture, the beautiful streets of polished rock, the Metal lighthouses with beautiful details engraved in them, the picturesque houses, it was a sight with which one could be delighted, but without a doubt the most imposing of Canterlot was its immense castle, the same one was composed of several structures and towers of until 5 High floors, completely made of polished rock its foundations, with many marble ornaments and beautiful stained glass were a common thing in the castle, while Twilight walked the hallways of the place next to Spike she saw the stained glass of all the times she and her Friends saved the day, it was the time when they defeated Nughtmare, when Discord, Cadance and Shining repelling the changelings, herself becoming an alicorn, many stained glass windows each with their tales Before arriving at the throne room, Twilight could see that the last stained glass was no oft her or any of her five closets friends, it was Star, Discord, Trixie and Torax, when they defeated Chrysalis, Twilight gave a slight smile before To enter the throne room.

"Did you want to see me, Princess?" Twilight asks, entering the throne room next to Spike.

"That is true my dear Twilight, I see you brought Spike with you," Celestia says from her throne watching them both.

"I am Twilight's number one assistant, of course I was going to be here. What would become of her without me?" Spike asks smiling.

"I have to agree with you ...anyway, follow me" Celestia says, guiding Twilight through the hallways of the place. "As you know, things have been relatively quiet in Equestria for some time now, no one has appeared to attack our kingdom in anyway and no problem has arisen in the last weeks.

"Yes, it is ... a little weird, usually we do not last so long without someone trying to do something or the map sends me and my friends to investigate something, but today before coming here The map called us all ... but in our castle, which is weird ..." comments Twilight thoughtfully.

"Well, I'm afraid you're going to have to leave the map for a moment ... you see, something happened last night" Celestia says, leading Twilight to a room with a few scientists examining a unicorn lying in A stretcher connected to a hospital machine, he looked very pale"His name is white knife, he's a criminal, last night he was being chased by the guards and he escaped from them for a moment ... then they found him a few minutes later unconscious ... all his magic was drained - says Celestia in a serious tone to Twilight.

"Drained?" But that can only be done by Tirek ... Did he escape from the Tartarus again?!" asks Twilight worried.

"That is what I thought at first, so I personally went to check ... he is still there, when I mentioned what happened, he said he did not know anything about it, but he did say that 'Appearances are deceiving' "

"Then ... if it was not Tirek ... it means we are facing a pony that gained the ability to take away the magic from other ponies ... that is bad ... if it absorbs a lot of magic there will come a point where we can not stop it ..."

"Exactly, that's why we need to take actions right away, I need you Twilight to help find out who this pony is before it's too late ... you're going to have to leave the map aside for a while"

"Jum ... certainly this is more important than a friendship problem ... well princess, the girls and I will work on this, you can count on us" says Twilight smiling at Celestia.

"Excelent ... you can leave now, but first, take this" Celestia says, handing a folder to Twilight. "Inside that folder there is everything we know so far, obvious things like the pony has to be a unicorn and clearly advanced in Magic"

"Well thank you princess, I will take care of it immediately," Twilight says, walking out of the room.

"I should be the one giving the 'thank you' ... be careful and send greetings to your friends from me ... and Twilight ..."

"Yes princess?"

"We have to see one day when the future of Equestria is not hanging by a thread or because there is an event" says Celestia with a slight smile.

"Of course, Princess, I'll open a gap in Twilight's agenda to come visit her" Spike says with a slight smile.

"See you," Celestia said as Twilight closed the doors.

"A pony capable of taking away the magic of others ... reminds me a little of Star when I took off the cutie marks."

"You think it's Star?" Asked Spike

"No, I'm just saying that it reminds me a little of her, that's all, I don't think it's Star, it can't be her, she dosen't do those things anymore, anyway... let's go home, we have a lot to investigate," says Twilight, heading back to Ponyville with a goal in mind, to discover the pony that was stealing magic from others.

Isn't that bad

"So ... they have not found anything yet?" Applejack asks the group.

"No, we haven't found anything, and it's been a good few hours already" Star says in a tone of annoyance.

"At this rate, I don't think we'll find anything" Rarity says to the group.

"That's the thing, Rarity, we're not going to find anything if we just sit here and do nothing" comments Rainbow.

They had already spent their good hours the six mares looking for who could be the pony that had a problem of friendship in the castle, they asked the guards, recurring visitors and other ponies in the place, but couldn't find anything, the girls meet up in the room of the map and they separated more than once, they registered every corner of the castle, every corner of the same, under each table, in every room, even in the rooms that normally were not of public access, until finally they reunited in the map room, frustration was a common factor in these situations and it was about to make them discuss, while Rainbow, Starlight and Pinkie wanted to keep searching, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy thought there was not reason for it.

"We haven't been able to find anything at all for a few hours, Rainbow, I don't think we're going to find anything, no matter how hard we look" says Fluttershy.

"I have to agree with her, perhaps the problem is not a friendship problem, the map not only sends us to solve friendship problems, the first time we were sent to the village of Starlight to stop her, perhaps we have to stop someone in this castle before they do something bad"suggests Applejack.

"But what if it's something serious? It has already happen with Chrysalis once, we lowered the guard and she managed to capture us, we can't ignore a possible threat under our own hoofs"says Starlight to the group.

"True, there could be a new villain, or Chrysalis herself, or an evil sect, or Nightmare Moon, or Discord, or who knows what else!"Screams Pinkie altered to the group.

"Exactly, we have to keep looking, if necessary to get everyone out of the castle to see if our cutie marks change places with the pony responsible for this" says Rainbow

"Whatever the problem of the castle is, it's going to have to wait" says Twilight entering the room.

"Twilight. Why did Celestia wanted you to go to Canterlot? Is something serious going on?"asks Starlight worried to Twilight.

"Yes, something very serious" says Twilight sitting in her chair around the map "Girls, we have a new enemy in our hoofs" says Twilight to the group.

"I knew there must be a new threat, I knew!" Rainbow says triumphantly.

"We do not know much about him, but we know he can take the magic out of the ponies" Twilight says, getting a few reactions from the present ones, some of fear, some of surprise, one of uncertainty and nerves.

"They're going to DESTROY EVERYONE!"Screams Pinkie runing out of the room at full speed.

"I'm going for her ..." says Applejack leaving the room after Pinkie

"Someone able to take away the magic from the ponies? Are you talking about Tirek, honey? "Rarity asks.

"Ugh, Tirek ..." Star complains.

"Do you know him?"

"Yes, I've had a couple of meetings with him ..."

"It's not Tirek, I asked and apparently Tirek is in his prison in Tartarus ... whoever is doing this is quite possibly a pony, specifically a unicorn" Twilight responds, surprising the group.

"Wait a second ... how can a pony remove magic from another pony?" Rarity asks confused.

"Well, if Starlight was able to create a spell to take away the special talent from the ponies ... it is possible that someone could develop a spell to take away the magic of other ponies" Spike says.

"That's true ... one moment, you said that you met Tirek ... Have you traveled toTartarus?" Rainbow asks suspecting Star.

"No, he appeared in my village and took the magic of everyone, including my magic, it was not until a couple of hours later that the magic returned to me and my inhabitants thanks to you"says Starlight with a slight smile to the girls.

"Oh ... I see ... that's fine" Fluttershy says quietly.

"But you said 'A couple of times' What were the other occasions?" Rainbow asks, pinning Starlight to a wall.

"Rainbow, I think that's enough," Rarity says to this one.

"Why? I'm just asking you important questions related to the topic"

"You're pushing her against the wall and questioning her as if it was her fault" Fluttershy says.

"Yes, besides. Why the doubt with me? Didnt I have´earn your trust after saving you from Chrysalis? "Star asks Rainbow.

"It's true, if it wasn't for Star, we might not be here at the moment, he has gained our confidence by actions and is innocent until he proves otherwise" Spike says with a big smile.

"Well, I think it's okay ... but I'll be watching you ..." Rainbow says distrusting Starlight

"As you wish, Dash, as you wish," Starlight replies quietly.

"Anyway, we have to investigate about it, according to the report that the princess gave me, the victim who presented me is not the first, since a couple of ponies have been found without magic, but they were not given much importance because of the circumstances as they were found, some disappeared for several months without a trace until they were found, classified as a matter of importance rather than priority, the problem lies in the last victim whose magic was absorbed in a lapse of time of 15 minutes, it is not known if its magic was absorbed in that time span or if it was something instant, anyway, the drainage velocity caught the attention and changed to be a matter of priority" explains Twilight to the group.

"So ... a pony that can absorb magic ... that's easy, we just have to look for powerful ponies in the magic and the list will be reduced, right?" Spike asks.

"It's not so simple, Spike, the magic of a pony can not be measured by conventional methods, it has to be by someone who has a good knowledge of internal and external magic"

"I could do it" Star offers surprisingly.

"Do you know about the handling of internal and external magic?"

"Yes. How do you think I was capable of developing a spell capable of removing the cutie marks? The cutie marks are connected to the inner magic of a pony and to his special talent, the power to remove a cutie mark is basically to know to remove part of the inner magic of a pony, is not something that i'm very proud of, but if I can use it to help them in this case, it would be like mending the damage I did with the same tool I used in the first place"Star responds smiling.

"I think it's okay, so let's start putting working" Twilight says as she heads to the exit of the map room just to get Applejack and Pinkie peeking through it.

"Um, Twilight, we have a little situation," Applejack says to Twilight.

"What happen? Did you find the castle's problem?" Fluttershy asks.

"No, Pinkie here dosen't know when to keep her mouth shut and always exaggerates everything that happens, so she alerted the ponies that 'They were going to destroy us all' "

"I see ... Can you and Rainbow handle it? I have to get with Starlight to investigate on an efficient method to find the pony responsible for all of this"comments Twilight to both.

"Didn't we say she was going to track down all the ponies who were powerful users of magic?" Rainbow asks.

"Well ... I can do it, the problem is that it would take a lot of time that way ... we have to look for a similar but efficient method to detect the level of magic of a unicorn ... we will basically have to invent a capable artifact to read that level of magic so that the guards can do the magic scan" answers Starlight to Rainbow.

"Okay ... Applejack, let's calm the masses" Rainbow says determinedly to Applejack.

"Oh, Oh, can I help, Can i help?" Pinkie asks.

"I think you've done enough scaring all the ponies ..." Applejack says while Pinkie shows an expression of disappointment and sadness.

"Come Pinkie Why do not we cook something rich for all of us? I'm sure that when Star and Twilight finish what they have to do just like Applejack and Rainbow they're going to be very hungry. Will you help us, Rarity? "Fluttershy asks.

"I'm afraid not, honey, I have to do some things at the boutique right now," Rarity says, walking out of the room.

"Then it's just you and me ... well, let's cook something," says Fluttershy smiling to Pinkie.

***

"Erm ... Applejack, when you said a 'little situation' I thought you were talking about something small, not about this ..."says Rainbow dash watching the streets of Ponyville in complete chaos.

"I swore you it was small a few minutes ago ..." Applejack says, watching the ponies run in circles around the city.

"Okay, let's fix this, I'll take care of the disasters that the ponies make and I'll save those who get in the middle of those, you try to stop them" Rainbow orders, taking a flight to see Scootaloo from above, she was about To fall to the ground from a two store building.

"HELP!" Cried Scootaloo as her grip on the roof weakened until she fell. But the moment she started to fall, Rainbow caught her in the air and laid her gently on the floor.

"Are you okay?" Rainbow asks.

"Yeah, I was with Sweetie and Apple Bloom, but we were separated when a lot of ponies started to destroy everything in their path as they ran screaming 'They're going to destroy us all' "she says.

"Yes, I imagined ... How did you get up there?"

"The girls and I tried to reach the high ground to avoid the ponies, but we parted on the way"

"Well, come on" Rainbow says taking Scootaloo with Applejack. "Stay with Applejack, I'll find your friends" Rainbow says, taking flight again.

"Come on, we're going to take you somewhere safe" Applejack says, leading Scootaloo towards Twilight Castle.

"But what about my friends? I will not leave without them"insists the little pegasus.

"Mmm ... I think it's okay, if you're not going to take shelter, then help me stop the ponies"

"How do we do that?"

"It's simple enough ..."

***

"Well ... let's see ... if we place this magical reader here ... and adjust the parameters here ... we can measure the energy waves inside the ponies ... which translates to the magical potential of the same. Isn't it like this, Twilight?"Starlight asks.

"In theory it should work, but you are making the detector very sensitive to achieve it, which means that it will not work if there is some magic object or some spell in the proximity, we have to find out the range that affects it and for that we need another unicorn" responds Twilight.

"Uh ... it's all right, I'll go find Trixie to do this."

"Would not Rarity be any better?"

"Do you have any problems with Trixie?"

"Not really…"

"Then it will be her, if I find her, if not i will go for Rarity," Starlight says, peering out through the window. "Erm ... Twilight ... I think you should come and see this ..."

"Agh, I hope the chaos that Pinkie caused is not so ... SWEET CELESTIA! WHAT HAPPENED?"Wonder Twilight surprised watching the destroyed streets and some houses in flames.

"Erm, Twilight, we have a small situation"says Applejack peeking through the door of the room with scratches on her face.

"SMALL SITUATION?!"Ask Scootaloo with the burned mane.

"I can see, come on Star, let's stop this" says Twilight leaving the castle flying out the window to land on the ground, while Star was teleported to the streets of the village with Applejack and Scootaloo.

"I'll take care of the fire, you try to calm the ponies" says Star running to a burning house turning off the fire by making a large bucket of water appear on the top of it and turning it over, repeating that process with each house. Twilight on her part tried to control the ponies.

"Can you hear me a ...?" Twilight tries to say just so the pony will get past her.

"Could you calm down and..." The ponies continued to ignore her, at which point a pony ran past Star, hitting a pillar of a burning structure, collapsing it over Star.

"ENOUGH! "Scream Twilight using his magic to paralyze everyone in town.

"Aw ... I'm fine" Starlight says, coming out of the rubble with a few scratches.

"How can you...?"

"Remember, good handling of external and internal magic, you can't immobilize me or take me with magic.

"True ... now ALL THE PONIES ARE GOING TO CALM DOWN AND YOU'R ALL GOING TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE AND THEN GO TO THE CASTLE TO AN ACLARATORY MEETING!"Explained Twilight receibing noods of approbal from the ponies "Good ... now ... get to work, you have a lot of work to do" says Twilight as the ponies begin to work together to put out the flames and repair the houses. "Well ... now ... let's look for Trixie or Rarity," says Twilight as she meets Starlight to find one of the two unicorns.

"Do you think things are okay now?" Star asks.

"Tehy should be, usually a call for attention of a princess is usually enough, but if things get back out of control I will have to contain them in an area so they do no more harm until the situation is explained, now let's go" says Twilight, exploring the streets of the damaged town followed by Starlight.

***

After a couple of hours the village was completely repaired, the ponies gathered in one of the conference rooms of the castle, there was some uncertainty among the ponies, but the atmosphere was relatively calm, at that time, both Twilight and Spike Entered the room, Twilight with a notes and Spike with a projector, which connected and prepared to use.

"Okay, now, surely all present should have their doubts about the rumor of a pony able to take the magic off the other ponies"Twilight begins his speech.

"Is that true?" Asks one of the public ponies.

"Yes," she replied, causing the ponies to start panicking and screaming.

"HE WILL REMOVE MAGIC TO EVERYONE!"

"WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING!"

"WE ARE DOOM!"

"Now, althoug it is true that a pony is being able to absorb the magic of other ponies, at the moment it's not doing so with innocent ponies"says Twilight To the group.

"What do you mean, innocent ponies?"

"This" Twilight says as Spike passed slides showing a pictures of the ponies without thei'r magic each one had a photo of his record next to each picture of the pony as a criminal. "Apparently he is only attacking ponies who have a serious criminal record, such as grand theft scale, kidnapping, among other things much worse"

"I stole a lolípop, HE'S GONNA GO AFTER ME!"

"I don't think a lollipop counts as a serious crime" Spike says aloud.

"Yes, so do not worry about it ponies, at the moment you don't have to worry since you have not attacked any innocent poni, but neither should we lower our guard, when a pony has such power and ability it is common to become corrupted, excess of power takes out the worst of us and we become something that we are not, that is why we must be attentive to who surrounds us, at the moment we only know that the pony has to be yes or yes a unicorn, the rest we know nothing, But that should be enough to give us an idea of how to handle the situation and find out, my student Starlight and I are working at the moment on a feasible method to detect the magic of an individual and thus reduce the list of suspects, until then do not panic, but do not lower you'r guard. Is that clear?"Twilight asks the crowd.

"Yes, princess" said these.

"Well, you can retire" Twilight says as the ponies leave the room "Well, that was a problem solved ..." Twilight says, adjusting his notes and making them disappear.

"Are you sure you handled it the right way?" Star says entering the room.

"Oh, Star, I did not realize you were at the door. Why do you ask if I handled it the right way?"

"Well, you basically said the suspect was a unicorn ... Is not that going to make the village ponies resent theirs?"

"Star's right, I think it would have been better if you had not told them he was a unicorn," Spike says.

"Oh, nonsense, I know everyone in this town and everyone knows each other, no one is going to treat another pony badly just for a suspicion, it will be fine" says Twilight leaving the room.

"If you say so…"

"How is progress with the device?"

"Good, but at a slow pace, calibration is the hardest part, but once we find the exact point to calibrate it, it should be no problem producing them in mass"responds Star

"Excellent, now, come on, we've got to keep working on this" says Twilight coming out into the library hoping to solve this problem before it gets out of control.

Author's Note

So here’s the second chapter of legend of starlight, i hope you enjoy it and i’m happily waiting for you’r coments, thanks and see ya later.

Evil alies

Author's Note

Another chapter of The Legend of Starlight, sorry for this one to take soo long but i was busy with other stuf, anyway, see ya guys later, and don't forget to comment.

Evil alies

It was a quiet night in Ponyville, the flowers lay to catch the sunshine the next day and feed on these, the birds slept peacefully on the tree branches and the roofs of the houses to get up early in the morning to Wake up the ponies with their beautiful song, the wide and somewhat simplistic streets of the village were partially empty, at this time of night there were not many ponies in the streets of the place and those who were in the streets were going either to the nightclub to listening to Vinyl mixing or heading home, the latter was the case of Fluttershy who moved throught the streets of the village heading home, she had left her house at the last minute to buy a few bands and products to care for animals because didn't had the time to do it during the course of the day since she had been very busy assisting Starlight and Twilight in what she could with its calibration of the device they're working on, it had passed a week and a half since Twilight and Starlight began working on the reader and they had hardly progressed, but considering how sensitive the device was, it was expected that the calibration was the most difficult part of it. While Fluttershy walked throught the streets of Ponyville, she decided to take a shortcut throught an alley to her house.

"Hello girl ..." a voice sounds from a corner of the alley

"AAAAHHH!" Scream Fluttershy hiding startled for the sudden voice behind her, after a few seconds she look at the poni"Oh ... sorry, you scared me ..." she says in a slightly altered tone to the pony.

"Already noticed ..." says the unicorn, approaching Fluttershy and pushing her, the subject was beige, with brown mane and tail and a cutie mark with the black bit symbol" So ... tell me ... what is doing someone like you around here at this time?"

"Erm ... well ... I ... I was buying some things and I was going to my house throught this shortcut ..."answers Fluttershy timidly.

"Really? How curious ... you'll see ..."

"Get away from her," a male voice sounds behind the unicorn. Fluttershy and the unicorn turned to see a pony at the entrance of the alley, the pony wore a hooded red wine jacket.

"Excuse me?" Asks the unicorn, turning to see the pony.

"I told you to stay away from her," says the pony.

"Oh, you have no idea of the problem you got into" says the unicorn casting a spell on the mysterious pony, however, the pony dodges the attack with ease as he ran towards the unicorn, the unicorn stepped back and immediately launched a rain of spells To the mysterious pony, but no one managed to hit him, finally, in the middle of a panic attack, tried to take Fluttershy as hostage, but he realized that for some strange reason he couldn't move, something prevented him to,he looked up To see the pony whose horn emitted a bluish glow, at that moment, the pony began to approach slowly to the unicorn.

"No, get away from me, leave me alone!" Cries the unicorn struggling, trying to free himself from his opponent's magical grip, but without accomplishing anything, the mysterious pony placed his horn on his forehead and then Unicorn fell to the ground, the pony turned around and began to withdraw from the place, the unicorn saw this as an opportunity and tried to cast a spell on the pony, but nothing came out.

"What did you do to me?" Asks the altered unicorn.

"I've taken away all your magic and abilities, you've been ... How to say it? Equalized? "Asks the curious pony just so that at that moment the unicorn attacks him, while all this happened, Fluttershy had taken advantage of the distraction to escape the place, fleeing in terror of everything.

***

"Girls ... we have a problem ..." says Twilight entering the room on the map.

"Now what happened?" Any other problems with the magic reader? "Rainbow asks dullly.

"No, even worse, this morning the royal guards here in Ponyville found a unicorn without magic in an alley, unconscious and with several bruises on the head"

"HERE, IN PONYVILLE?" Rarity shouts in surprise.

"Yes, here in Ponyville"

"That means she knows we're investigating her, she's coming for us!" "Pinkie scream trying to run out of the room just to be stopped by Applejack.

"Not so fast, I think, you already did a lot of damage the last time running around the streets shouting that 'they were going to destroy us all' ... now ... Are you sure it's the mysterious pony?" Applejack asks Twilight.

"No doubt, it's the same pony, but it has perfected its spell, it removes the magic but does not leave the pony in a deplorable state" explains Twilight.

"But didn't the guards found the pony unconscious?"

"Yes, but with bruises, a sign that there was a fight, the bruises were made with magic blows to incapacitate, not to hurt of gravity, the unicorn in question was a subject with antecedents, robbery, scammer, among other crimes.

"Twilight, erm, By chance the unicorn was beige with mane and brown tail and a cutie mark with the symbol of the bit but black?"asks Fluttershy quietly.

"Have you seen him in the streets?"

"No ... I met him in the alley of South Star Street,when i was headins for my house."

"Did he stole anything from you?! Are you okay?! He didn't do you any harm?!" Rarity asks.

"No ... a pony with a hooded red wine jacket appeared and faced him ... took away it's magic..."

"Did you saw the pony that removes the magic?!" They all asked in surprise.

"Yes ..." Fluttershy said quietly.

"So ... did he save you?" Rainbow asks.

"Basically ..."

"You said Red wine jacket, anything else?" Twilight asks, taking notes.

"Yes, it was a woman's jacket, but I do not remember anything else ... ah and I had a masculine voice ..."

"Then she was a mare something else?"

"Darling, it dosen't necessarily have to be a mare, as odd as it sounds, there are certain stallions that have certain women's garments, tell me, darling. What was the jacket like?" Rarity asks.

"What's that going to do to catch him?" Applejack asks.

"Do we even want to catch him?" Rainbow asks.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asks.

"All the ponies that have been stripped of their magic have a criminal record. Why should we stop him?"

"Because it could be a possible threat to the other innocent ponies in this town, and the fact that we have made public the fact that we were investigating about him and then a few weeks later he appears in this town only makes it clear that he's going after us to stop us before we find out who he is"

"If so, why did he protect Fluttershy?"

"I have to agree with Rainbow on that, if it really was after us. Why didn't he do Fluttershy anything like take her natural magic or attack her, or kidnap her, or something? I think this mysterious mare or stallion despite using unorthodox methods has managed to reduce crime in Equestria slightly"responds Applejack.

"I ... erm ... well, it saved me ... so ... I don't think it's really a bad pony..." Fluttershy says.

"Well, if Princess Celestia says it can be a threat I'll take it as such" Twilight replies firmly.

"I have to support Twilight in this, a pony who believes can be above the law should not gain our trust, we should continue working on capturing it" says Rarity

"Imagine, if you are so evil as to take away the magic from the bad guys, imagine what you could do to the good ponies, you could turn them on food and then eat them or turn them into cake and eat them or turn them into little snacks and eat them, or…"

"Okay Pinkie, we understood the point," says Twilight interrupting her.

"Good morning," Star says, entering the room yawning.

"Star, it's good to see you, you can help us resolve a dispute and ... What happened to your cheek?" Twilight asks.

"Ah?" What? "Star asks, seeing her reflection on one of the glass walls of the place, Star noticed that she had a cut on her cheek, no blood or anything, but it was a remarkable cut that would surely become a scar "I hadn't noticed this ... jum ... Maybe i cut myself with a leaf or something like that? "Asks Star watching the scar.

"Whatever it was, it was deep enough to leave a scar ..." Twilight says thoughtfully.

"No idea what might have done with it ... Maybe some cut with one of my hoofs while i sleept?"

"I don't know ... it's strange ... but ... mmm ... it seems okay ... it could be ... but ... no ... you're not like that anymore..."

"I'm not what anymore? A lunatic obsessed with removing talent from the ponies?"

"Yes…"

"Anyway, you said you wanted me to help solve an issue, right?" Is it a friendship problem, the map called me to a place again? "Starlight asks interested.

"Well ... not exactly ... we're arguing about the mysterious pony and whether we should go after him or not," Rainbow explains.

"Jum ... well ... Why not go after him?"

"Because he saved me" Fluttershy said.

"And you haven't thought that maybe that's what he wants us to do?"

"What do you mean?"

"Look at it this way, if I were that subject and I wanted to divert attention from research to me, I would make sure to look for the perfect opportunity to save one from a problem and thus make sure that research slows down" Starlight says. "Besides by the reports of the victims he's been perfecting the spell so that it removes its magic but dosen't leave the ponies in poor condition, I don't know if he already had achieved that goal, but we have seen that progress,anyway what i want to say that at least he cares about the way he leaves the ponies, you have to give that as credit, there is also the fact that he has only removed the magic from the criminals ... I think we can be dealing with a species of vigilante"

"Exactly, a vigilante, a pony who watches over for the good of others, not a criminal" Rainbow defends the mysterious pony.

"Yes, but how long will it last? Power brings out the worst of the ponies" comments Twilight

"Not really, power demonstrates how we actually are, not the worst of us, what happens is that it's more common to see the bad things than the good ones, we usually look at the black point and we do not see that the whole wall is white, It's easier to name bad things in a being than good things, we keep negative memories instead of positive ones, we forget the good things we should remember and we can't stop remembering the bad things we should forget"

"Wow ..." they all said staring at Starlight.

"Did i said something wrong?"

"No, now ... then ... you're in favor of catching him, aren't you?" Twilight asks.

"Yes, Twilight, I'm in favor, but at the same time I say we should have consideration that maybe it's not a bad pony, maybe is someone who just does what he thinks is right ..." Starlight tells the group.

"Well ... we still have to stop him ... before he makes a mistake, we will work not to lock him up, but to stop him before he does something he regrets later, what do you girls think?"

"I can live with that" says Rainbow.

"That's an apple I'm willing to bite" says Applejack.

"I see no problem in helping that pony..." Fluttershy says.

"Sounds right, my dear," Rarity replies.

"Let's help this pony girl!" Pinkie shouts excitedly.

"Then it's settled, let's work to find this pony and help it" Starlight said cheerfully, that things were going good for everyone in the room.

Siding with the people

Author's Note

So, new chapter, sorry for the delay, it's just that i totally forgot about the english version of this fanfic, as an apology i will post in the next few days another chapter, thanks and i'm so sorry

Siding with the people

Black Mercury was anything but a pony that other ponies like, he was known for exploiting its employees but he really didn't do anything that really violated the laws, he was famous for making contracts where its workers committed themselves to "X" amount of years to work for him, only to force them to do heavy work for 10 hours in a row without rest, everything to fill his pockets, but ... Why didn't they stop him? Simple, it was the mayor of Manehattan, one of the largest cities in Equestria, although it was known that what he did was wrong, he was also very good doing his job as mayor, in Manhattan the streets were always clean, Jobs were never lacking, products abounded and a pony was able to live peacefully with a minimum wage, so much so that even street sweepers were able to afford luxuries like having internet or other stufs, in this city were the largest Clothes stores, cinemas and theaters, it was known for being the home to great contests ranging from fashion, dance, singing, painting, among others, the main reason why Twilight and Starlight were in that city was simple, they needed a final piece for Their magic detector with which they could discover who was the vigilanty was protecting the ponies from the shadows.

"Then ... We already have the Hextech breaker, this will allow us to turn the device on and off and finally we can do the first test" says Twilight happily walking alongside Starlight in the streets of Manehattan.

"It sounds great, Twilight ... but ... I was thinking ... Why don't we take a break from all this?" Star suggests to Twilight smiling.

"A break? Why? We are very close to completing the invention."

"Yes, but we haven't rested anything, look, we've been working on the invention for two and a half weeks, without rest, without recreational time, with nothing. Why don't we just take an hour or two? Look at it this way, it is useless to overload a machine, that only damages it and then makes the work go wrong, but if it is given a break from time to time, it can resume it's work without problems and do even better than it was doing before the break, it's like computers, if they get too hot they start to fail and we have to give them a break so that they work again well. What do you say?

"Mmm ... that's fine ... I can't argue with that logic ... and ... what do you want to do?" Twilight asks with a slight smile.

"Well ... how about going to the fair that's taking place here in Manhattan?" It's about 6 blocks south of here according to the map ... it's the closest entertaining site there is, "Star says looking at the map.

"Yes ... sounds good, but there's a movie theater two blocks north. Is not that closer and more comfortable?"

"It's just that... I havent been to many fairs ... and never to Manehattan ... I wanted to see what it was like ..."

"In that case, let's go to the fair, eat something, play a few games, and then come home to finish this" Twilight suggests with a slight smile.

"Sounds good to me ... let's do that!" Starlight says excitedly as they both walk south toward the fair.

***

The Manehattan fair was a huge place, it was held in the main city park and covered more than half of it, there were all sorts of things to do, there were varius games, a large food area with tables for The ponies to sit down, a section of shops to buy things and a big stage in the center of everything where the bands played, Twilight and Starlight had already been a couple of hours at the fair, went through the games, They ate for a while, Starlight bought some handmade soaps that left a smell of roses, at the end of the fair, both decided to go to the middle stage to hear a little of the Music of the place before retiring.

"It really was a very entertaining fair Star, you were right, I really needed to relax a bit, the only thing that bothers me a little is the pony bows, but the rest is fine," Twilight responds with a slight smile.

"I told you, well, don't worry about the other ponies, you came as a tourist, not as a princess, you can do whatever you want right now, you owe nothing to anyone ... now ... something interesting ..." Says Star reading a brochure.

"What's the matter?"

"Simple, the end of the fair, the mayor throws a wish ballon while the sunset, as the last wish of the day, at least that says here" explains Star keeping the pamphlet while the musicians finished playing and got off Place together with their instruments.

"It seems the final event is about to start..." says Twilight watching the sunset occur.

"Yes, and there's Mayor Mercury" Star says white a pegasus with gray mane and tail came up on the stage,he wore a formal suit with a red tie, and carried a balloon of desire in his hands.In the center of the stage there was the globe in front of a microphone.
"Ah, good afternoon to all the citizens of Manehattan"says Mercury with a slight smile to all the presents "As you must know this fair was founded more than a thousand years ago to commemorate the day that was born "The city of the sun" as we Like to call this beautiful place, we call it the city of the sun because it is the closest city to the east of Equestria, so it is the first to receive the warm rays of the sun and therefore, the first city to plunge into the sweet embrace Night, this event of releasing the balloon of desires at sunset, symbolizes the exact moment when the city was completed, at 6:48 p.m., at which time the globe is released with the best wishes of its Inhabitants so that the city will prosper as it has done throughout its life, now without further ado, we will release ..."but at the time when Mayor Mercury was about to finish the speech, the stage screens went out and the microphoneIt stopped working.

"Mmm ... a technical fault," says Twilight aloud. However, at that time, the screens were re-lit with a symbol of equality in these, then saw a pony with a redwine jacket enter the stage and approach the mayor, the aura it was emanating was frightening and not because the nature of the poni was threatening, but because it emanated such a great confidence so overwhelming, that it was difficult not to be intimidated by this, Mercury tried to take flight, but realized that the mysterious pony had him immobilized, but did not know how, The pony was obviously a unicorn, but he did not see the usual sheen of magic around his body holding him.

"THE VIGILANTY! What are you doing attacking the mayor ?! Star we have ... Star?!" Twilight wonders searching foor her with the look but unable to find her.

At that precise moment, the vigilanty ran to the mayor and placed his horn on his forehead, then the mayor fell to the ground very tired and with a paler coat of fur.

"What did you do to me?" Asks the exhausted mayor.

"You have been equalized ... you have no magic, you can't walk in the clouds ever again" the pony responds dryly. At that moment, the vigilanty approached the microphone that was in the center next to the balloon, but before being able to speak a purple ray struck him in one side.

"Stop this instant!" Twilight says flying over the audience.

"Oh, Princess Twilight, I was not expecting you here," the watchman says quietly.

"Give the mayor the magic!" Twilight tells the watchman.

"I'm sorry, but I can't do that" the pony responds, for Twilight to instantly launch another magic beam, yet, surprisingly, the pony deflected the ray with one of his helmets, slapping it to the side. Before Twilight could do something, she realized that she couldn't move, she watched the watchman's horn, it was dark pink in color like his rear hoofs, however, she couldn't see a cutie mark and not just that, neither she could see his face beneath the hood, it was as if the shadows were accumulated in that place to hide it, an illusory spell, Twilight supposed.

"Now what i was about to do?...Ha, right, ejem, citizens of Manehattan"begins to say the pony with a deep and imposing voice"My name is not important, however I come to leave some things clear, surely all you have heard about the pony that is Removing the magic from criminals, that poni is me, in case you haven't noticed, now ... I know you must think that I'm a threat, i mean, I just took the magic from Mayor Mercury, but I didn't do this with the intention to cause damage to the city, but to release it, Mercury exploited its workers and gave them a bad treatment, nevertheless, since it was a pony with position of power, nobody did anything and there is the problem, the current system Does not work, the current political system does not work" says the watcher to win sounds of surprise from the public.

"You can not achieve peace with some ponies crushing and walking on others, no, this nation has been built with the hard work of the people, the ponies that break the spine every day to achieve a bright future for this beautiful nation, that's why I want it to be clear, I'm on the side of the people, it's not fair that a few ponies selected by the princesses decide what is best for everyone ... no... in a utopian world , There are no leaders, there are no nations over one another, they are all equal and work as a team to achieve their goal, that is why I say 'Why should we submit to the power of a few' The people should not be Oppressed by their rulers, there should be no one above anyone, the people should not fear their rulers, but vice verse, because we are more, we can do more, I will bring them the equality that everyone wants, will never be oppressed by our Leaders anymore, there will be no more ponies on top of others, I will destroy the current political system in Equestria and I will found the first utopian country, where we are all the same, where you are the leaders of your lives, your ways, your cities" after saying that, the vigilanty took the balloon of desire of Manehattan.

"Today, I will mark the beginning of my movement, those in power, fear me, those who have no power, guard behind me, I will watch over an equal and just world, I will mark the beginning of my equality movement using this balloon of desires" Says the vitgilanty, raising the globe with its magic.

"I DESIRE AN UTOPIAN COUNTRY, A WORLD OF EQUALITY, A WORLD WHERE EVERYONE IS FREE AND NOBODY BENDS US, THAT IS MY DESIRE FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL NATION!" Says the watchman, releasing the balloon which rises in the heavens until it is lost of the sight of all.

"Those who wish to join me, carry with you a necklace with the symbol of equality, and we will begin to form our forces and overthrow this corrupt and imperfect system where the neighbor is abused ¡EQUALITY !"shouts the vigilante raising his hoof and then approaching To Twilight to be face-to-face with her.

"Princess, I have much esteem and respect for you in particular, your lessons have taught me the true way, the right way to take things, that is why I beg you kindly to renounce your political power as a princess, Help me create this world of equality where nobody tramples on anyone "says the watchman extending a hoof to Twilight and freeing her from his magic grip, only to end up dodging a magic beam from her.

"It's a shame, princess ... maybe later you'll get me, maybe later and hopefully you can see what I see, I ... I just do what I think is right, I only do what I think is the best thing for everyone"Says the watchman dodging other attack from Twilight.

"See you, princess of friendship, this will not be the last time we face," the watchman answers as he disappears in a blue burst of magic.

"Fuck ... he escaped" complains Twilight fearing that would happen, it was more than obvious that being a unicorn with such powerful and advanced magic would be able to transport himself without leaving a magic trace of where he went, Twilight at that time Turned to see the mayor and ran to this.

"Mayor Mercury! Are you all right?" Twilight asks, alarmed.

"Oh ... I feel weak ... Where the hell were my guards?" The mayor asks for Twilight to look around the room and see all the guards unconscious.

"The vigilanty took care of them first, that's why they could not come to stop him ..."

"Twilight!" Star shouted, climbing onto the stage next to it.

"Where the hell were you, Star?!" Twiilght asked clearly furious.

"I went to buy one of those breaded carrots ... I've never eaten one ... I've seen it all from the public, or at least the last part," Star responds timidly to Twilight.

"Agh, you picked the wrong time to go, come on, help me, we have to take the mayor to an hospital and the other guards as well," Twilight orders, helping Mercury walk while Starlight took care of the guards.

***

"So ... now what?" Rainbow asks in her chair, the girls along with Starlight were gathered in the room of the map, Twilight and Star communicated these events to the girls, but by the time they arrived at the castle and the news had gone all the way through Equestria.

"Simple, the Vigilanty turned out to be a fiasco, he only wants to overthrow the princesses and destroy the current political system, he's incitating the ponies to rebel and bring chaos to the nation ... I think we should stop him now more than ever" says Twilight dryly.

"Agh ... Why can there never be a hero? He's always a villain ... fuck ... and how happy i was that the watchman was good poni..."

"I understand the disappointment sugarcube, but you heard the story of Twilight and we saw it in the news ... there is nothing to do ... we have to stop it" replies Applejack to Dash

"Well, then it is decided, Star, come, we are going to finish building the device and do the first tests with the complete equipment, if everything goes well, in 3 days the invention should be ready and we can stop this psycho before it's late, "says Twilight, noticinng that Staright was down." Is something wrong, Star? "

"It's just ... things did not come out this day as I expected ..." she says sadly.

"I understand, but we have to concentrate on catching that pony, Star, it's the only way to stop this before it gets worse."

"Okay, let's finish the invention," Star says leaving the room disappointed, that things did not go as planned.

Suspect Number 1

Author's Note

Sorry for the delay, but finally the chapter is here, i will publish new chapters sooner than you think, thanks and i'm so sorry for posting this so long after the last chapter

Suspect Number 1

There were all the girls present in the map room analyzing the situation, just as Twilight predicted, the watchman committed a stupidity and went from hero to villain and things have only gotten worse since then, a good portion of the equine population was against the watcher, but another part of the population was in favor, especially the earthly, there was a general discontent on the part of the citizens not being able to choose their mayors or representatives and that these were chosen by the princesses, not only that , but the current system forced the people to accept the rules and laws imposed by the princesses without the possibility of saying anything, ponies only wanted to have control of their lives and be completely free.

"The news says there's a large group of ponies that disappeared in Las Pegasus, Manehattan, Fillydelphia, Cloudsdale and many more" says Applejack to the group.

"How many ponies?" Twilight asks.

"About 2500 ponies," Fluttershy says.

"Almost as big as the royal guard at Canterlot...

"That means the watchman has an army almost as big as Canterlot's...that's bad," Rainbow says.

"Yes, every day more and more ponis are uniting to their cause and the mayors of the cities are beginning to resign their positions, the mayor of Fillydelphia and Cloudsdale resigned their positions, nobody is very excited to take them...

"Then this watchman in only four days succeeded in forming a small army and frightening the leaders of every city and town of Equestria ..." commented Applejack

"And only with a public appearance..." Fluttershy says.

"Yes... but we can't blame them, the guy is scary ..." comments Rarity.

"IS IT SCARY?! IT'S A FREAKING MONSTER! It will destroy us all, EVERYONE, first He will remove the princesses and then it will do worse things, like saying that all sweets should be the same, or that all ponies should be the same and it will force us all to have cutie marks with signs of equality and ...

"Pinie, you said enough, besides, I don't think there's anything worse than the fall of the whole Equestrian political system," Rainbow says, covering Pinkie's mouth with one of her hooves.

"Anyways. I was watching the pictures of the vigilant and I have good news Twilight, we can substantially reduce the list of suspects" says Rarity with a big smile.

"Do you have any information to give us?

"Yes, that jacket, the design, details, ornaments, and so on, is mine.

"What?" Asked the others in surprise.

"It's part of my winter collection from last year and it's a red wine one, the rarest of them all, I only made about 20 of those jackets while the others I made 60, I just need to see my store records from here and Canterlot and we can reduce the list of suspects" says Rarity smiling.

"Excellent Rarity! In that case we will only have to investigate 20 families who have bought that jacket and with the detector almost ready we can catch the subject in a couple of ... "Twilight could not finish the sentence because a loud explosion shook the castle, the girls looked at each other to others.

"That felt close..." Rainbow says.

"It came from the library ... STARLIGHT AND THE DEVICE!" Shouted Twilight flying out of the place flying at incredible speed followed by her friends, upon arriving at the library they saw Starlight covered with ashes and her mane a little bit burnt.

"Starlight! Are you okay? "Twilight asks in alarm.

"Yes ... I was putting the last adjustments to the invention and it exploded in my face..." Starlight says, coughing slightly at the same time.

"Are you sure it was an accident?" Applejack asks.

"Yes why do you ask?

"Well ... it's not for nothing, but ... I've noticed certain specific things about you, the way you deny so firmly that you're the vigilant, the fact that when he appeared you disappeared, and that now that the device just blew up just when it was to be completed and we would have a way to discover the watchman? I don't know ... it's little bit ... suspicious ...

"Applejack is right ... Where were you when the vigilant attacked?" Rainbow asks.

"I got one of those breaded carrots: I told you" Starlight replies.

"Come on girls. I don't think it's Starlight" Twilight says to her friends.

"I don't know Twilight, it's true, all those recent events are really suspicious. The one that was not there when the vigilant appeared and an accident happened now when we're close to discovering him... it's a little suspicious," says Fluttershy .

"Besides, she brainwashed us that time to solve her friendship problems, also there's that time she bottled up her anger to solve her friendship problem and changed the ponies cutie mark, she has not changed much or learned much" she says Pinkie.

"Besides, I haven't heard her complain about the fact that the vigilant plans to destroy the current system of Equestria... What do you think about that?" Rarity asks.

"Well...I feel like it's not right for the princesses to impose everything on us ... we should have the control and freedom to do what we want, you know ... Social and political equality?" Starlight replies in a low voice tone, ashamed of herself.

"YOU SEE TWILIGHT?! IT HAS TO BE HER! It would not be anything different, only now instead of removing cutie marks removes magic" Rainbow responds.

"But she saved us from Chrysalis!" Says Twilight.

"That she saved us doesn't mean that she's not guilty, sugarcube. The vigilant told Twilight that what she considered that what she's doing it's right, if it's really you we will not be mad at you, but you have to stop this madness before it gets worse" says Applejack to Starlight.

"But it's not me ...

"Think Twilight, the watchman is not bad, just think differently and believes that she does the best for everyone ... she wants equality for all but with the interest of helping them, she also told you that she had respect and admiration for you and she asked you to resign to your place on leadership. Is it really hard to imagine it's Star? Only instead of doing it for evil she does it because she thinks it's the right thing to do.

"Agh..."Twilight stared at her friends, they all gave valid point, it was very suspicious everything and there were not that many other suspects, her heart said no, but his mind said yes, Twilight listened to her mind.

-I'm sorry Star... but the circumstances make you the biggest and only suspicious... I can't do much... you will be under investigation and constant vigilance of the guards of the castle until you prove your innocence or show your guilt" Twilight sentence causing Starlight to crouch her ears.

"I suppose... it makes sense what they say and the suspicion of me... I haven't been one of the best mares in this world..." Starlight says, head down.

"Star..." Twilight says in an attempt to comfort her student, but she simply stands up and leaves the room with her ears crouched.

"Ther must be always two guards with her," Twilight says to the guards at the entrance of the library for them to nod and withdraw, it really hurt to do this to Twilight, but it was the best course of action considering recent events, Twilight retired to her room to rest for a while,she needed some time alone and write to Celestia that they already had a suspect, although she did not feel like a winner.

Samesh

Author's Note

New chapter of legend of starlight, hope you all enjoyed the episode and i'll see ya in a few days

Samesh

"TRIXIE DEMANDS TO SEE HER!

"You know no one's holding her back, right?

It had only been about 2 hours since Starlight was consider a suspect, initially Twilight had only ordered two guards with her, but after considering it lightly, she decided they were three guards, she did more for Starlight's security than out of mistrust in general.

"WHERE IS SHE?" Trixie demanded of Twilight.

"Well, I suppose in the library working on the device ... although ... I don't see the point anymore..." Twilight says, ducking his ears.

"Well, Trixie is going to see Starlight at the moment, who she considers her friend and knows she would never do something like that, not like OTHERS supposed 'friends' who only condemn the ponies" says trixie indignantly entering the castle, Trixie was worried about Starlight, although it was true that she retained certain ideals of equality, she was not able to do those things, Trixie believed that, she needed it to be true, so she decided to ask her friend in person.

"STARLIGHT!" Screams Trixie entering the library to see Star with some tools working on the magic reader.

"Oh! Hello Trixie, how are you?"Star asks with a slight smile.

"I'm the one who should ask you that.

"Well... not very well... things do not go the way I want, they never do, I'm never lucky...

"So... you did it...

"NO! I didn't it's just that ... since Twilight welcomed me as their student and gave me a new purpose in my life I've been working hard to change, I really do, it's just ... they think I am the Vigilant only for my old ideas of equality. I understand that what I did is wrong and I have changed my way of thinking, believe me I have but ... they don't think that way, maybe I should not have told them that I was on the side of the Vigilant ... maybe that made me more suspicious of what I already was.

"Why do you support him?" Is it because of his promise of a world of equals?

"Yes. I like the idea, the ponies abuse their power, fuck, I am an example of it, and suddenly someone appears, someone able to bring balance, no pony is above of another, an Utopia, it's a nice idea.

"Exactly, it's just an idea," Trixie answers with a slight smile.

"What do you mean?" Starlight confused.

"Well ... Trixie does not know much about how a country works, but it does know basic things, you need a leader, if we are all equal, there would basically be anarchy, without a kind of order or nobody above nobody there will be chaos. The ponies would do what they wanted without consequences, some ponies need some power to give somewhat of an order, some degree of control over the ponies is needed, so a utopia where all are equal is a nice idea, but it will not be fulfilled never.

"Then-why so many followers of the watchman? If it is as you say, an idea that can not be realized, why so many followers?"

"Well, I suppose the great and intelligent Trixie will have to explain it to you. They do not follow him for a utopian world, they follow him because he is right in certain things, at present the princesses control everything, events, choose mayors, village leaders, etc They control everything, the only thing that the ponies want is to have more control over choosing who they represent them, that's it, it's rare that you have not noticed, you tend to notice these things before Trixie" says Trixie with a slight smile at Starlight .

"I suppose it's true ... we can't have an utopian world ... but we can have a kind of democracy... right?

"Well ... I see it very difficult ... but if anyone can do it, it's the watchman, here among us, Trixie also supports him, maybe he'll get some equality for us in the sense that we gain the power to choose our leaders. Trixie does not have a problem with this, usually the ponies with more power tend to abuse the others, Trixie just like Starlight abused her power once, only that you used your natural magic, Trixie used an amulet, the point is, maybe she can give us a certain level of equality, and if her support makes Trixie a criminal, then she'll spend her days in jail with her best friend.

"Thank you for supporting me and helping me understand certain things, Trixie, you're smarter than you think," Starlight says with a slight smile.

"But of course that the great and powerful Trixie besides being great, powerful, beautiful and charismatic, is also the smartest.

"The smartest one ... I don't know, I don't believe it ... I think in intelligence I'll give you a 3 out of 10 and I'm risking it" Starlight says with a slight mocking smile.

"Really? Does it say the one who is shouting to the four winds that supports the enemy of the princesses? Trixie feels that Starlight has not seen herself in a mirror for a long time, but with that face better not to do it, you might break it.

"You're a fool.

"You too"

"Thanks..."

"It's nothing..."

"Beautiful" a neutral voice sounds behind Trixie and Starlight.

"Maud? What are you doing here? "Starlight asks, hugging her tightly.

"Boulder told me you were suspected of being the watchman, I came as soon as I could" Maud says to both of them.

"She's not the only..."

"Discord ?! What are you doing here?!" Star asks, surprised.

"A little bird out there told me that you were suspected of being the vigilante, with 'a little bird' I mean myself and 'out there told me' I mean to intercept the letter of Twilight and read it before giving it to Celestia, soo Starlight You're the watchman! I'm so proud of you, you've caused chaos across the nation, it's beautiful" Discord says excitedly.

"Oh come on, I don't think she's really the vigilant" says Thorax.

"She may be stubborn, but I've known her since I was a child, she never makes the same mistake twice" Sunburst says.

"All my friends came to visit me..."Starlight says with tears of joy in her eyes.

"But of course we were coming, we would never leave a friend behind" Thorax replies cheerfully.

"It's not like Discord gave us many options... but... knowing that it was you I had no issue coming" Sunburst says with a big smile.

"I love you so much, all of you..."Starlight says crying, embracing all his friends with her hooves.

"And we love you to, Starlight."

***

"Then ... we can assume it's her?" Rainbow asks the group.

"Yes ... we can do it" Twilight replies with crouched ears.

It had been a whole week since Starlight was put under surveillance, all that week the watchman did nothing, no movement, no statement, no attack, nothing, everything was silent, which was rare considering there were reports of criminals losing their magic every day before putting Star under surveillance, this in fact discouraged the girls enough, there was an uncomfortable atmosphere in the room of the map and a slight disappointment from all of them.

"So... I guess when the map pointed to the castle he meant it, right?" Applejack asks.

"I think... it makes sense now..." Twilight replies.

"Uh... but... why do something like that?" Rarity asks.

"It's obvious, she still retains certain ideas of equality, though not so radical ideas..."

"NOT SO RADICAL IDEAS?! THE MAGIC WAS REMOVED FROM 45 MORE PONIS ONLY IN THREE WEEKS!

"Well... I think sugarcube, that Starlight was not doing it with bad intentions, that is what you heard the vigilant told Twilight 'I only do what I think is right, I only do what I think is best for everyone'... Starlight only does something that feels right and fair, that's it "says Applejack to the group.

"That's doesn't free her of guilty at all, sweetheart" replies Rarity.

"I know but... look, I'll talk to the princesses, we'll see if we can come to an agreement so they don't exile Starlight or lock her in, maybe if we can convince the princesses that she just made a mistake we can fix things" says Twilight thinking of a plan from A to Z to be able to reduce Starlight's sentence

"Well, I'll go see her, I'll take her along with me to Canterlot to talk to the princesses. Will someone accompany us to the castle ?

"Well ... she's my friend and I'll support her even though she made a mistake" Fluttershy replies.

"The same thing, err is equine, I'm sure that the more we talk to Celestia, the better it will go for Starlight" says Applejack with a slight smile.

"I suppose considering she saved us, it's the least we can do for her, besides being our friend, of course" Rarity.

"AND IF THE PRINCESS DECIDES NOT TO EXILE HER OR LOCK HER UP, WE CAN MAKE A 'I regret what I did!' PARTY"Rejoices Pinkie cheerfully.

"Well, then we'll all go" Rainbow Dash tells the group.

"Excellent! Well, now, if you excuse me, I'll go get Starlight" Twilight says with a slight smile, leaving the map room to go to the library.

"Starlight ..." calls Twilight entering the library.

"So... nothing about the watchman?" Starlight asks.

"No

"I understand... well... I'm ready to receive my sentence" Star says, ducking her ears to give Twilight the magic reader they've been working on.

"It's almost ready, just the final tests ...

"Thank you ... a bit late, but ... it will be useful in the future, I'm sure, come on, let's go" Twilight says as four guards surrounded Starlight and escorted her towards the exit of the castle, once at the exit, Starlight was able to see Trixie, Sunburst, Thorax, Discord and Maud along with Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Applejack.

"They're all here..." Starlight says with tears in her eyes as all her friends support her.

"That you have made a mistake does not mean that we will leave you sugarcube" says Applejack with a big smile.

"Trixie still thinks it's not Starlight..." Trixie replies to the group.

"I don't think it's her either, but the evidence says something else..." Twilight replies.

"Could we just go? I'd like to finish this for before it gets dark"Starlight replies, watching as the sun slowly approaches the horizon to start the sunset. The trip to Canterlot was very quiet, nobody said anything, nobody commented anything, no one dared to speak in general or make any noise, they just 'enjoyed' the trip, finally, they arrived in Canterlot during the sunset, where the princesses received them all with a serious face and make them move to the throne room where Celestia sat on his throne with Luna at her side, both staring at Starlight.

"So... it was you, isn't it?" Celestia asks Starlight seriously.

"Apparently" Starlight says, still staring at the floor.

"Well... in normal cases, we would take you to a trial, but considering certain factors... I will be forced to give a verdict here and now" says Celestia walking in front of Starlight.

"She's not..." but before Trixie could speak, Starlight frowned at her telling het to not to speak.

"But... all right...

"Starlight Glimmer, based on the evidence and recent events, you are considered guilty of having stolen the magic of several unicorns, pegasus and earthly ponies along Equestria, among them the mayor of Manehatan, Mercury, also you have been guilty of incitement to violence among many other crimes, that is why your sentence will be...

"PRINCESS!" Cries a guard, entering the throne room.

"I thought I was very clear that we didn't want any interruptions" Luna says in a dry tone to the guard.

"But... you have to see this" says the guard, lighting a television in the living room. In it, you could see the image of the watchman, in a small wooden stage, in a dark room.

"Greetings to all my followers and opponents, I make this communication to answer a few doubts that there is about my entity" It begins to speak the poni

"It is said, that I have been captured, but not so, the presumed current suspect of all that has happened is Starlight Glimmer, a mare with... a past... however, she has corrected her actions and is now being unjustly condemned by the princesses to a punishment without even a right to a trial.

"How does he know that?" Twilight asks in surprise.

"Again, princesses abuse their power to pass over the law and the protocols established by themselves to convict an innocent mare, however, this is not the main reason why I make this statement. As you know, my original goal was to form a utopian nation, where we were all equal, but an ally recently made me understand that a utopian country is just a beautiful idea that can not be achieve.... what it can be achieved is what I have heard many of you want, a democracy, to be able to choose their leaders and those who represent them, that's what I can give them, that's why I want to make something clear, I'm on the side of the weak, those without power, defenseless, take shelter behind me, since I am the defender of justice.

"Then he finally realized that the Utopian country was an impossible idea..." says Thorax.

"As for my ideals of equality ... at the moment they remain the same, the ponies abuse their power, it has always been like that, nobody is safe, that is why, besides giving them their democracy, I will take power from those who do not deserve it and those who have ever done harm, because the seed of evil, is never exterminated at all...

"Trixie does not know how to feel about that ..." Trixie replies looking at the screen.

"Lastly, many of my followers have asked me for a name, but I have not been able to give them one, for fear that this information will be filtered and the enemy will end up finding me... nevertheless, after thinking carefully, it is true, a symbol needs a name, a leader needs a name, an identity, that is why you can all call me, Samesh.

"Samesh?" What kind of name is that? "Rarity asks curiously.

"Samesh, is a name from the desert of Equestria, which means 'God of equality' I could not get a better name to represent me than this... that will be all for now, the Equal Party wishes all of you a good night"At that moment, the transmission ends and Equestria's news programs begin to report on how their signal was interrupted to give that message.

"Samesh..." Twilight says thoughtfully.

"A curious name, isn't it?" Starlight asks.

"Yes... but... I think I've heard that name before..."

"Well ... one of the protagonists of one of the short stories of the book 'The stampede of the hoofless horses' is called Samesh, it's from the story of "Strange House"

"True, your favorite story..." says Twilight with a smile at Starlight.

"I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS NOT STARLIGHT, I ALWAYS KNEW IT!" Trixie says firmly hugging her friend along with Star's other friends.

"Well, Star, in view of the recent events you are no longer guilty of the crimes previously stated ... you are free of any guilt and you are no longer a suspect," Celestia says with a slight smile.

"Thank you, Princess ... thank you ..." Starlight says, embracing Twilight.

"I'm so glad it's not you ..." Twilight replies staring at Star.

"I'm glad too, anyway. Shall we go back to Ponyville? We have to start with the final tests of the magic reader.

"Sounds like an excellent idea, but ... I think at the moment it's best to celebrate a little ..."

"That means...?"

"Yes, Pinkie, we'll have a party," Twilight replies smiling.

"WOOOHOOOOO!" Sceramed Pinkie cheerfully as the whole group left Canterlot, happy that things ended well.

The enemy of my enemy

"What do we do Snips? WHAT DO WE DO?" Snails asked frightened to his partner.

"I dont know! We have to tell somebody!

The two ponies were terrified, strange black creatures with gaps had kidnapped Starlight, Trixie, Twilight and their friends. They didn't know what to do or who to go to, they only knew that they had to save them somehow, both ponies walked in circles through the town until they managed to see a well-known purple dragon walking the streets of the village with a cart full of books.

"Spike!" Snips grinning toward him.

"Oh? Oh, hello snips, hello snails What's wrong?"Skype asks with a slight smile.

"They took them and we do not know what to do, they need help!"

"They took who?

"THE GIRL" the two shouted.

"What girls?" The cutie mark crusaders?

"NO, THEY TOOK STARLIGHT, TRIXIE, TWILIGHT AND HIS FRIENDS!"

"What are you talking about? Twilight just sent me to get some books for the library ... Wait. Are you talking about Changelings? "Spike asks curiously.

"YES! I think ... Are they black with gaps and look like insects? "Snails asks.

"Yes ... at least they used to be ... But after the incident the day of the celebration of the summer sun they changed completely ... except ... By chance one of those insect ponies was a very big mare!

"Yes!" They answer in unison.

"Chrysalis ... this is bad, surely decided to have her revenge, maybe some changelings still follow her... that means, the Twilight, Starlight, Trixie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Pinkie and Rarity who returned yesterday in the night is not them! We have to rescue the girls but we can't leave those Changelings loose in the town... we need help, I don't think I can with all of them, especially if they are together ...

"Can you fight?" Snails asks curiously.

"Yes, I know how to defend myself relatively well, not so much as Twilight, Dash and Applejack but more so than Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie ... But as I said, I can't fight alone against those eight changelings we need help. Jum... Oh, I know, come on, follow me! "Spike says to both of them running back to the Twilight castle and going the three inside the castle.

"Spike, did you bring the books I asked for?" Twilight asks with a slight smile.

"Erm ... yes, here they are Twilight..." says Spike somewhat uncomfortable handing the wheelbarrow to 'Twilight'.

"Thanks Spike, I see you brought Snips and Snails. How are you both?" What brings them to my castle?"Twilight asks with a slight smile.

"..."Neither of them said anything, they just watched Twilight in fear.

"Is something wrong?" Are they okay? "Twilight asks concerned.

"Yes, what happens is that they need to send a letter, it's urgent, so as it has to be fast they asked me to send it"Spike interrupts with a nervous twitchy smile to Twilight.

-Really? And where is the letter?

"They're going to write it right now... we'll get paper and pen and we'll make the letter to send it."

"That's fine to me. And who's the letter for? If i may ask

"Is for…

"A OLD FRIEND! An old friend who lived here in Ponyville but moved to Canterlot, it's her birthday and we will not be able to attend, so we'll send her a letter"Says Snips nervously.

"Why can't you go?" You don't have a way to get there? I can get you some train tickets if you want ...

"NO! It's just that we can't go because we have studies to do, you know, school readings and that... "interrupts Snails.

"You want an advice? Studies are important, you can be successful in life if you study a lot, look at me, I was able to be a princess thanks to all my hard work and studies of magic in my life, but believe me, it's no use achieving something if you don't have anyone to share it with... Why not take your books to the party and study there? I'm sure your friend will be more than happy to see you came to the party, I don't think you mind that they spend a couple of hours at the party to study"Twilight responds with a slight smile.

"It's just... we're very stupid, it will take us a long time to study, we're not going to do anything at the party" Snips excuses himself.

"In that case I'll escort you there, I'm sure I can help them with the homework and we'll finish before they even notice" Twilight says with a slight smile.

"But…

" No but's, I insist, anyway Starlight insisted that I take the day off from all the stress of working to capture Samesh, tomorrow she will take the day off, come on, it will be fun, in addition, if you don't go to the party of your friend that could create a problem in your friendship, and as the princess of friendship my job is to resolve those disputes or directly avoid them, Spike, leave the books in the library and give them to Star, I will accompany these two to Canterlot, so I'll take advantage of visiting Moon Dancer, see you later" Says Twilight dragging Snips and Snails with her outside the castle.

"See ya. Ok, or Snips and Snails imagined everything, or this time the changelings took the time to find out ALL about the life of who they interpret. In any case, better safe than sorry, I have to write that letter and send it" Spike says running to Twilight's room for paper and pen, he had to act fast if he wanted to help Snips and Snails and stop the Changelings.

***

"And here we are in Canterlot," says Twilight smiling, getting off the train with Snips and Snails, who had a face of absolute terror.

"Is something wrong?" Twilight asks worriedly, watching the two of them.

"No, nothing, we're fine..." Snips answers.

"Just a little... ¡Nervous! yeah, that's all ..." Snails replies.

"Nervous about seeing an old friend? I understand the feeling, something similar happened to me with Moon Dancer but there's nothing to fear...as long as you haven't put the helmet like I did" Twilight responds remembering that day

"Anyway ... Where does your friend live?

"Erm... In the northern part of Canterlot, the party is going to be there in the street ... hope. Yes! The street hope... the last house in the place" responds Snips shyly.

"The area of the rich and noble?" Wow, your friend must be the daughter of someone important in Canterlot, very well, let's go there" Twilight says starting to walk outside the train station.

"NO!" They shout in unison.

"Now what is it?

"Is that…

"We have nothing to give her!" Snails shouts, interrupting his friend.

"Yes, that's it, we have nothing for her!" Confirms Snips.

"Jum. I see... if you want to give her something, I think ... erm ... What things does your friend like? "Twilight asks them both.

"I don't know..." Snails says unsure of his answer.

"What do you mean you don't know? Oooohhhh, right, old friend, you haven't seen her in a while. Surely what she likes now is not the same as before, well ... let's do this, let's go to the party and meet her, we find out what she likes and I go out to buy her gift, if she asks you about her present, we say that your gift has already been bought but is not here yet, and it will get to the party in a few minutes. What do you think?"Twilight asks with a smile.

"Sounds like a good plan..." Snails says to get a slight snap of Snips in his head.

"Excellent, let's go then" Twilight says continuing to walk the streets of Canterlot followed by the two boys.

"Are you stupid? You just have us taken to an imaginary party" blames Snips to his partner.

"We were also going to end up going one way or another" Snails says.

"Yes, but if you had not agreed we could live longer. now she's going to find out ... what will we do when she finds out?" asked Snips altered.

"No idea ..." Snails says with the same worry and fear.

"Twilight?" A voice behind the three ponies hisses.

"Celestia?" Princess Celestia! What are you doing here? "Twilight asks in surprise.

"I needed to clear my mind a little of my royal duties by walking through the city" the princess responds with a faint smile.

"Through the village? I thought you preferred the walks in a more secluded and calm place, like the castle gardens...

"I was opening a hospital south of Canterlot, I was heading for the castle. Would you want to hang out with me for a while?" Celestia asks with a slight smile.

"Yes!" Snips and Snails scream at the same time.

"Mmm?" I'm sorry princess, but right now I can't, I'm helping these two ponies with a friendship problem. Maybe later? "Twilight asks with a slight smile.

"NO!" The two ponies shouted again.

"Actually I'll have to insist, Twilight, I'd like to talk a little about Samesh and his temporary disappearance along with the ponies that join his cause" Celestia insists.

"You SHOULD GO WITH HER PRINCESS!"Screams Snips instantly.

"But... what about your friendship problem?" Twilight asks them both.

"We can handle it, it's more important to catch that Samesh guy" Snails says.

"They're both right" Celestia says with a slight smile.

"I don't want to leave this friendship problem unresolved, let's do this, come with me and Celestia to walk around the castle while we talk, after that we'll go with your friend" Twilight says with a slight smile.

"Sounds like an excellent idea, come on" Celestia says before Snips and Snails can respond by guiding the ponies through the streets of Canterlot

"Snips... we have to tell her. It's our only chance to get out of this" Snails says to his friend.

"But... how?" Snips asks.

"Well, let's take a shortcut to the castle around here" Celestia says, leading the group through an alley, quietly advancing through it. "Twilight ... A Volkswagen Karmann Ghia doesn't have a radiator" Celestia says quietly.

"Erm...I don't think so..."Twilight answers confused, at that precise moment, Twilight was locked inside a magic sphere.

"You're not my student" Celestia says seriously.

"What are you talking about, princess?" Of course, it's me…

"A Volkswagen Karmann Ghia doesn't have a radiator... finishes the sentence," orders Celestia.

"... a secret code? That I did not expect it" says Twilight with a slight smile covering herself in a green fire to reveal a changeling

"I don't understand... I've been studying Twilight for months, I spent eight hours a day by six months to learn to act like her, I even developed her nervous tic to lick her lips when she reads you wouldn't have used a secret code if you hadn't had any suspicions. What made you suspect?"asks the Changeling within the sphere.

"Nothing, you played Twilight very well, terrifyingly well, I found out because Snips and Snails watched you catch my student and her friends, what's more, you played Twilight so well that I decided to use the secret phrase just to make sure you weren't really Twilight" answers Celestia dryly.

"Spike sent me a letter, Luna is already in Ponyville taking care of the others, but one of us had to come and save you" Celestia says with a slight smile to the two boys.

"aaaaaafffffffff ... we're not going to die anymore ... WE'RE NOT GOING TO DIE" say the two smiling.

"All right, let's go to Ponyville, we have work to do" Celestia says, teleporting herself, the Changeling and Snips and Snails to Twilight's castle in the map room to see seven other changelings locked in a sphere of magic and Luna and Spike in front of them.

"I see you managed to save the boys, sister" Luna retorts, locking the Changeling who Celestia was bringing with the others.

"I managed to intercept them in the streets of Canterlot, I was lucky" Celestia replies quietly.

"It's good to see you two are fine" Spike says with a smile to both boys.

"We're happy to get out alive," Snails answers for both.

"Okay, we need to be told, Where are Twilight and her friends? "Celestia asks.

"In the castle in the Everfree forest"Snips and Snails respond at the same time.

"Very well, from here we take care of them, go to your houses and rest, you deserve it, Spike, gather the guards of the town, we will go in a group" comands Luna.

"Immediately princess" Spike says, leaving the room next to Snips and Snails.

"And now... what do we do with them?" Luna asks her sister.

"We'll leave some guards guarding them, after saving Twilight and the rest we'll see what to do with them" Celestia says quietly to her sister.

While all of this was taking place, in the castle of the two sisters, Chrysalis walked quietly down the hallways of the castle, she went to the throne room to destroy the device next to the blueprints of the device, but when she reached the room, she could see a pony wearing a vinotinto winter leather jacket standing in the center of the room, on each side she had two ponies, an earthy and a pegasus, all wearing white masks with a symbol of equality on their forehead.

"Samesh... I was waiting for your arrival..." Chrysalis says with a slight smile to the hooded pony whose face and Cutie mark remained a mystery. But Samesh said nothing, just stared at her.

"Our leader Samesh demands that you release the ponies you have as prisoners and give them back their belongings" says one of the masked pegasus with a woman's voice.

"You're kidding, right?

"Samesh never jokes.

"I will not do that, I'm helping you get rid of your enemies. Can't you see?" Chrysalis asks this with mild annoyance in her words.

"For Samesh, those girls are as dangerous as the strongest of termites, now give them away and return their things" The Pegasus orders.

"You won't give me orders, I won't release them, if you have nothing with them, that's ok, but they ruined me and for that, they will pay, I will leave them locked in the dungeon of this castle until they rot.

"Then live with the consequences" says the pegasus mare, so that everyone present pull out electric batons.

"You have never faced anyone like me" Chrysalis says, using her magic to crush the ponies against the ground. She had been feeding from the love of several ponies for several months along Equestria, her power was equal to that one of Celestia, perhaps bigger, however, Samesh didn't fall to the ground like the other ponies, instead she began to walk slowly towards Chrysalis. Chrysalis, surprised, began to use all her magical power to stop her with a magical grip, however, Samesh kept walking toward her as if it was nothing.

"WHA-WHAT ARE YOU?"Chrysalis asks in panic to see that even with a greater power than Celestia she could not stop that pony.

"I am the solution" Samesh says, starting to run toward Chrysalis, the ex-Changelings queen panicked and began to throw magical beams at Samesh, but Samesh dodged them with great speed, Chrysalis used an electricity spell to launch an electric Ray, but Samesh very surprisingly, dodged it without any problems.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!"Chrysalis shouted, only to feel her body being pinned and forced to the ground to be on the same level as Samesh.

"NO, NO, NO!" Chrysalis cries, struggling to free herself, at that moment, Samesh put her horn on the one of Chrysalis, then, after a few seconds she released her, the queen rose dizzy and with difficulty, tried to cast a spell, but nothing came out.

"You have been equalized" Samesh says dryly, only to have the queen fall to the floor and begin to cry.

***

"There is the castle of the two sisters, keep your eyes open and the guard up" Celestia says to the group of guards who accompanied her and her sister as they entered the castle, however, they were very surprised to see several Changelings on the floor, pale and unconscious.

"What the hell happened here?" Celestia asks, watching the Twilight, Starlight, Trixie, and the other girls coming down the hall from the back room.

"A Volkswagen Karmann Ghia has no radiator..." Celestia tells Twilight.

"It cools with the air" Twilight replies with a slight smile to Celestia.

"My dear student, it's good to see you're okay!" Celestia says, embracing Twilight tightly.

"How did you escaped?" Celestia asks in confusion.

"We did not ..." Twilight says for Celestia to look towards Starlight and Trixie, there, at their side was Samesh and four other ponies, immediately, Celestia locked Samesh and his companions in a sphere of magic.

"What are they doing here?" Luna asks in a serious tone.

"They saved us..." Twilight replies.

"Why would they do such a thing?" Celestia asks, staring at Samesh.

"It is to demonstrate our ethics and morals, we are not enemies, we are on the side of justice, Mayor Mercury exploited his employees and therefore, paid the price, Chrysalis kidnapped eight innocent ponies and paid the price" responds a pegasus mare of the Samesh group.

"You should be grateful, we just saved your pupil," says another one of the ponies.

"I'm grateful, but that does not remove the fact that they are criminals" Celestia says firmly to Samesh's group.

"Princess ...we know they are criminals but ...could you let them go?" As a 'thank you' for saving us"says Starlight.

"I'm sorry, but a criminal is a criminal, no matter what they did" Celestia says firmly.

"We're going to move them to Canterlot right now where I'll decide what to do with them."

At that moment, all present except for the group of Samesh were lifted by the air, a firm magic grip had them all immobilized, Samesh, slowly walked to the edge of the magic sphere where they were locked and with her horn absorbed the bubble , then began to walk next to her group towards the exit of the castle, not before turning to see Celestia in the eyes before disappearing in a burst of blue magic.

"Agh..."Complains Luna, rising from the floor.

"What was that?" Rainbow asked in alarm.

"Samesh ... we were all immobilized with her magic, I couldn't use any spell ... broke my magic defenses as if they were nothing..." says Celestia worried.

"Wait ... that means ..."

"That's right, Applejack, Samesh is stronger in magic than my sister and me, it's almost as strong as Discord," Luna tells the group.

"That's bad ... really bad ..." Twilight says worried.

"For now ... let's focus on taking you to a safe place ... then we'll worry about Samesh ..." Celestia says, leading the much disturbed and troubled group. Samesh was capable of rendering the princesses useless as if they were nothing. How could they stop him? Neither wanted to think about it at the moment as they left the old castle of the two sisters to recover and plan what to do, they had little time to stop Samesh, they had to act now ... it was only to finish the invention to find him and then ... think about how to catch him once and for all and end this problem.

An act of revenge

"So... it wasn't you ... Trixie told you it wasn't you, it was obvious, although of course that something you should already known since you were the accused one and those things, but the others were not sure and suspected you, however, the great and powerful Trixie! knew that you were not like that. Do you get me?

"Yes Trixie, I understand, it's good to have the confidence of my friends back" Starlight replies smiling.

"Yes, well, friends friends as such ... Trixie is not convince at all, real friends wouldn't suspect about you, that means they don't know you as I do" Trixie replies smiling.

It had been about two days since the incident where the girls accused Starlight of being "Samesh", in these last two days, Twilight and the other girls had tried to reconcile with Starlight for accusing her, however, Star was not annoyed with any of them, to tell the truth she did not blame them.

"Well ... well ... You should not rely entirely on someone like me ...

"Nonsense, stop thinking those things, Star. You have to be a little more ... How to say? ... Bleh ... Do you understand me?

"Yes, it's just ...

"Don't think about it, anyway. How's your invention going to find the pony?

"Okay, we're in the final phase, doing the last experiments, all good at the moment" replies Starlight cheerfully.

"Excellent, then you can catch Samesh soon... but... just like I do, you don't look very excited about that..." Trixie says quietly.

"As I told you, I am not against your idea of giving some power to the other equines, but... I have my insecurities about it...

"Trixie doesn't feel very safe either, but if Trixie has learned something, is that one can never be completely sure of something, there are always insecurities, but in the end things turn out well... most of the time.

"I suppose you're right... well, it's getting late. I guess you're leaving, right?" Starlight asks with a faint smile to Trixie.

"Yes, the GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE, needs her beauty dream, see ya Starlight"says Trixie while leaving the library.

"See ya..." Starlight says with a slight smile, not knowing how to feel about it.

As Starlight continued to work on the invention, Trixie walked back to her house when she started to feel that someone was following her, she began to walk hastily and nervously around the place, finally, turned around surprisingly to see if she managed to catch who was the pony following her, but there was no one there.

"You're imagining things, Trixie, you're imagining things..." Trixie says to herself.

"Really?" A voice asks after her.

"YOU?!"

"I!"

***

"Jum ...

"Is something wrong, Starlight?" Twilight asks.

"No, it's just that Trixie hasn't come to visit today, not that she comes to see me every day but... she's been doing it for a season already" Starlight comments.

"It's probably nothing, she must be busy working or something.

"Yes ... it sure is nothing ... but anyway, I'll go find her, she wanted to help being the test subject of the invention as it has been these days" says Starlight with a smile heading towards the exit of the castle to look for Trixie in the place where she usually assembles her act of magic for foals, nevertheless, when arriving at the same she found the place empty.

"Uh... Hey! Snips, Snails, have you not you seen Trixie?" Starlight asks the two ponies walking around.

"Not really, she did not come to do her show today, we actually thought she was with you or was walking around the town" Snips replies.

"Yes, we thought she'd taken the day off," Snails said.

"Huh... weird... she's not with me, well don't worry, I'll look her up at her house to see if she happened to fall asleep or just did not want to leave her house today, see you later" Starlight happily said goodbye to both of them.

"Wait, we'll go with you" the two young stallions say.

"Trixie is our friend too" says Snips with a slight smile

"Well, friend as such, no, but we do care" replies Snails smiling.

"Ok, let's go get her" says Starlight smiling at them both, the group of three ponies head for Trixie's house, only to find it empty and with her hat on the ground in front of the entrance with a rare and viscous green liquid with a note.

"What does it say?" Snips and Snails ask Starlight.

"Huh? It's a note ... "says Starlight reading the same, to immediately run away back to the castle.

"Wait! What do it say?" Snips and Snaisl ask chasing Starlight

***

"Then they took her to force us to give the invention to detect magic and the blueprints to whoever wrote the note..." Rainbow says to the group.

"The note says that you meet with her at 12 o'clock in the old castle of the two sisters, in the throne room and it wants you to go alone, just Starlight and no one else..." Applejack reads te note.

"Sounds like a barter not convenient, I feel they're not going to give Trixie and they're going to take Starlight and the device along with the blueprints" says Twilight.

"But... what other choice do we have? They have my best friend and we can't stand not doing anything, I honestly prefer to give up the blueprints and the object to risk losing Trixie" replies Starlight worried

"We agree with Star" say Snips and Snails supporting Stralight's idea

"And risk risking Starlight too?! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We will not risk that... besides, it is not good to negotiate with ponies, not this way. Have not you read crime novels? It always ends bad.

"So what do you usually do in those novels, honey?" Rarity asks.

"Well... in these cases they usually do two things, or set a trap for the villain, or chase after the barter ... and I know exactly what we're going to do" says Twilight smiling at the group, starting to plan to capture whoever kidnapped to Trixie.

***

"Agh ... I'm not really sure about this, Twilight" says Starlight through a magical connection with Twilight.

"Nonsense, everything will go according to plan" Answers Twilight by the same connection.

"So ... Who do you think it is?

"Samesh, there is no doubt

"Are you sure about that? This doesn't look like something Samesh would do ...

"Who else would specifically want you to deliver the plans and the invention that we made to discover the identity of Samesh?

"No idea ... the responsible are already coming, we'll talk later when you start the plan

"See you later" Twilight replies cutting communication with Starlight.

At that moment, a large mare emerged from the shadows, her body was hairless and black, had green insect wings and was full of holes, had green eyes with a penetrating look and imposed a certain fear as it advanced towards Starlight, she was a mare she knew very well, sadly.

"Chrysalis?!" Starlight asks in surprise.

"Were you expecting someone else?" Asks the ex-queen as a pair of changelings with a look like the one before Thorax's changed them.

"You still have followers?!

"Of course, my dear. Did you think all the changelings would accept the Thorax change or leadership? No sir, not at all, some are reserved and prefer the old methods of feeding... anyway, I came for the invention and the blueprints and also, for you" Chrysalis says as changelings proceeded to surround Starlight.

"That was not part of the deal ...

"Neither was bringing your friends along" Chrysalis says, catching Starlight's attention and worrying her lightly.

"What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about…

"Oh, you don't know?" Chrysalis asks as her changelings bring a Rainbow Dash and Rarity gagged from the shadows, noticing Starlight that Rarity had black crystals in her horn.

"One of my guards intercepted them as they went to their position, they put up a good fight, but I personally made sure that they did not alert the others or make much noise. Did you really think that after my meetings with you, I would fall for the same fool trick to get behind my lines? No, I've been preparing for whatever you and your friends had in the bag for me, and... wow... look who's coming here" while Chrysalis was saying this, the Changelings brought the other girls tied up.

"So there they were... I told you, Rainbow and Rarity were acting strange!" Applejack says to the group.

"It was more than clear Applejack" says Twilight, which also had black crystals on her horn.

"Do not worry, Starlight must be able to get us out of here, isn't it Starlight?" Pinkie asks smiling.

"Oh, she will not, although she's strong using magic is not enough to face us all, and if you try to escape things will be worse for you in many ways, not to mention your little friend Trixie"says Chrysalis smiling at the girls

"Why are you doing this? Why do you work for Samesh?"Starlight asks.

"Working for Samesh? Oh no, you misunderstand, I do not work for her, I just want her plan to be done, because that way I will have my revenge against the nation that made me stand aside and kick me away for thinking different that also barinwashed my Changelings, but with me thodr mind tricks don't work, you can't be a judge, jury and executioner, eventually you will face someone with whom you can't apply that method and that someone is Samesh.

"Then you're an unrecognized associate of her, you're not going to achieve anything, Samesh is not against us, she just wants to empower the people to choose their representatives and leaders.

"Maybe, but the princesses are going to oppose that, for example, your friend Twilight Do you think she's going to give up her title just because a pony who thinks different than she asks her to do so? No, she'll fight to the death for her title, and not because she wants to, but because Celestia says so, Twilight is just the princess's mascot, the one who licks her hooves when she gets close to her, for pleasing her just to receive a bone in return, Twilight is unable to think for herself, she highly idolizes her mentor and so she will never stop doing what she asks, regardless of the price or against whoever she puts her"While Chrysalis said those words Twilight just listened quietly with crouched ears.

"That's a lie, Twilight would never do that" Applejack says.

"Really? Do you think if Samesh were you she would defend or support you? No, not at all, a dog is loyal to its master and will defend it by cloak and dagger no matter how wrong it's master is"Twilight did not say anything at the words of Chrysalis, she seemed to be frozen in place.

"Anyway... now, give me the invention, the blueprints and come with me if you don't want anything bad to happen to your friends" says Chrysalis extending her hoof to Starlight.

"What guarantee do I have that you're going to do what you say?" Starlight asks.

"None, but I think they're more likely to survive if you do what I say, don't you think?" Chrysalis asks in a venomous tone to Starlight. Starlight looked up to see her friends and then look at her purse.

"Okay... take them..." she says, handing over the invention and the blueprints who Chrysalis takes inmediately.

"Well... you seven, disguise as them and go to the castle, check every corner of it until you found any possible copy of the blueprints and destroy them, then occupy their respective place and this time do not make the same mistake as last time? Was i clear? "Chrysalis asks the changelings, who nod their heads and turn into each of the girls, including a copy of Starlight which takes her empty bag and places it on herself to retreat with the others.

"Well, now, you escort our guests to their cell next to the shrill screaming blue and block Starlight's magic to, I don't want surprises" says Chrysalis while she retired with the invention and the blueprints, while the Changelings guards escorted them to the dungeon of the castle, while all this happened, Snips and Snails were hiding behind a pillar of the throne room, somehow they had managed to follow the girls and sneak among the guards without drawing attention or being discovered.

"What do we do now, Snails?" Snips asks.

"No idea Snails, but we have to get out of here" replies Snails

"I agree with you, let's get out of here" says Snips fleeing the place at full speed next to his friend, the two had gone because they wanted to help Trixie, but only managed to witness the kidnapping of the girls and the surrender of Starlight, they had to alert someone, but they didn't know who, the only thing left was to hope for the best and that someone believed their story.