Twilight's Downfall

by trouble

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Violence, Princess Celestia, Death, Twilight Sparkle, Main 6, Princess Luna, Drama, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Mystery
Length: 1949

Since Twilight became a princess, power did not matter to her. However, all of that changes one day.

When Twilight fixed Starswirl's spell, she got the gift of being an alicorn. But, after a while of seeing her teacher do unimaginable things and being respected so much, Twilight's obligation for power grew. So, it remains the three princesses with two questions: will Twilight take over the throne? What will happen to Luna, Celestia and Cadence?

Published 2018-03-24 22:00:12 UTC
Last updated 2018-03-25 10:27:34 UTC

The Beginning

Twilight always loved her friends more then her alicorn powers, and she was proud of it. But, what if jealousy takes over her? Will she still earn her title of "princess", or achieve the title of "queen"?

Twilight was studying hard, after Princess Celestia recommended her to investigate on a new case in Appleoosa which could not be figured out, so she had to visit The Castle of the Two sisters to seize a few books about psychology. Twilight's extra work beside princess duties were like additional stones being stashed onto her back; having to finish the neverending assignments. Twilight hated doing studies, but still loved her books nevertheless. When Twilight would have a random outburst of anger, Spike wouldn't take action at all: he would just sit on his little cushion, but he still felt bad for her. Twilight would barely have any time for her friends, or anypony for that matter, and that would cause her apprehension to rise.

She had alot of fans, friends and family she didn't have time for, because of her stupid researching. Twilight couldn't go anymore then a few days without socializing, until she would feel disorientated and alone. Spike didn't have much time for the princess either, as he was having some secret infatuation with Rarity and wanted to finally ask her the question. When Spike or anypony else bought the subject of "love" and "coltfriends" up to Twilight, she would groan banging her head against a wall. Twilight loved fillies and colts, and wanted a family of her own; after all, she did adore Flurry and her small baby toys. But, then again, she couldn't go out and find someone confidant and truthful for her cause of her stupid bucking studies. Twilight would often curl herself up in a deserted location somewhere in her castle, and just cry, for hours. She wanted all of her stupid tasks to just disappear, as if Celestia only wanted Twilight to do them, and not care about the emotional stress she has to endure everyday in the proccess.

But then, Twilight's mind sparked with a newfound idea; this one surely would work. Twilight galloped to her saddle bag, placing it onto her back immediately. Spike heard the noise of hoofsteps which had shaken him awake.

"Twilight?..", Spike quietly murmured, respiring. "Where are you going?"

The alicorn princess remained reticent, as she packed her luggage, dashing from place to place in a blink of an eye. Spike looked over to her, seeing the distress through her eyes. Twilight took off and circumnavigated her way to Canterlot, not stopping a minute to atleast take in one breath. She landed down right in front of the big palace that towered over her, and walked right in between the guards spears; not leaving any scratch on her. Twilight opened the royal doors leading to Princess Celestia's throne, putting on a sober poker face. Celestia noticed Twilight's resentful look, and raised her chin.

"Princess Twilight, I see you have arrived. What may you want?", Celestia said, calmly. Twilight's head lowered, gazing at Celestia with a death stare.

"I want to talk about YOU using me for your own knowledge, CELESTIA.", Twilight snarled, as Luna noticed the commotion.

"What is this nonsense, Princess Twilight Sparkle.", Luna muttered, turning her head to face the young alicorn. Twilight and Luna engaged in a staring contest for a few minutes, before Luna started walking around Twilight.

"Twilight, we are not using your work for our own profit. For whatever book we make, we mention you in the book. You have no reasoning to visit our castle.", Luna growled back in enmity. All of a sudden, Twilight shook back and blasted a sparkling, blinding aurora into Luna's direction. It, unfortunately, hit the princess and she collapsed on the floor, her crown flying. Twilight walked besides her, looking down at her tiny crown.

"How ironic. The Princess of the Night witnessing a wrath to the youngest alicorn princess.", Twilight taunted her as Luna felt ashamed for not saving herself and her sister from this horrible, abomination of a princess. Celestia stood up, as her face turned to a mix of sorrow and disbelief.

"Twilight Sparkle, my foolish faithful student. I had have thought I could trust you all these years, and yet still, you lust for power?", Celestia said in a dissapointed murmur, looking at Twilight and closing her eyes. Twilight rushed at the princess, hoping to stab her with her long horn, but Celestia stood back, blasting an aurora in Twilight's face just like she did to her sister. Twilight tumbled back and crashed onto the floorboards, twitching. Princess Celestia stood upon her ex-student with a look of grief, her head slowly shifted downwards, as she could not believe what her most trusting smart student wanted to do.

"Guards.", Celestia said as she looked around for any troops. Three guards quickly galloped into the scenario; quickly examining the scene.

"Please do take my sister to the hospital, and Twilight.. leave her here."

Celestia requested of the stallions, as she sat down, still looking down at her used-to-be faithful student. She had never known it would come to this moment, that Twilight's jealousy, anger and longing for power would make all of this happen. She could have considered her as her sister, even daughter but.. she'd never raised her to act like this. Celestia trotted in a circle and then sat again, getting caught in thought. She started silently sobbing, after having a close bond with Twilight, her heart completely fell apart. She couldn't believe this was happening. Celestia felt a hard throbbing headache overcome her, and she blacked out. Two hours had passed and Celestia heard complete silence, but then, she heard her sister's voice.

"Sister, are you awake? A minuscule army of changelings attacked Manehatten, we must defend the crowd.", Luna said with haste. Celestia bolted up, breathing deeply. She looked at her sister, and then at Twilight - but, Twilight was gone. Celestia's glare transferred to Luna.

"Where is Twilight?", Celestia said, quickly standing up.

"She had leapt from the castle earlier, I banished her from ever visiting Canterlot.", Luna said in annoyance. Celestia sighed, putting on her crown.

"I.. I honestly do not know what to do with her. I don't feel that it is right to banish her from Equestria, as she is an alicorn and she can grow more strong, even stronger then us. If I try to confront her, she'll try to kill me.. once again."

Celestia shivered at the thought of her giving up to her student, however, there are three of them combined; Twilight couldn't nor would defeat a large group of mature alicorns, since her magic is still in the "adolescent stage" of alicorn magic. Luna realized that her sister was lost in thought, so she shook her out of it.

"Sister, we have a battle to attend.", Luna said, nervously

"Okay, we must assist in defending the ponies of Manehatten now. Lets hurry, we must not waste any time.", Celestia said as she looked away, and flew up into the sky; following her younger sister.

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed this chapter of the story! There'll be more :twilightsmile:...

Psst, Twilight isn't really Twilight...

Leave Me Alone

Twilight looked at the huge tower. It had multiple holes in its walls and cracks. Twilight entered the dusty castle, where the queen sat in her throne. Queen Chrysalis. Twilight smirked, as her eyes flickered green for a second, before a wave of a green magic appeared around the supposed alicorn. It was not Twilight. The creature bowed down to Chrysalis as it gave her a sinister grin.

"Have you captured the princess, your highness?"

It asked, as Chrysalis looked over to the cage, where the disturbed Twilight sat; Chrysalis just laughed.

"Oh, don't worry, I've already got the prey.", Chrysalis giggled, as Twilight shook the bars of the cage. Chrysalis stood up and walked around the captured princess, giving her disgusted looks.

"What a shame, where are your so-called HELPFUL friends?", she chucked besides Twilight, angering her. Twilight suddenly raised her tone of voice, scaring Chrysalis in the proccess. Everytime, when Chrysalis would insult the alicorn, she would become more hysterical, banging against the bars. After a few more jokes, Twilight snapped. She yelled at the changeling, but Chrysalis noticed something peculiar. Whenever Twilight would loose her cool, Twilight's voice would morph into a diabolical, deep voice. Just as if something was shouting for her.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!", Twilight screeched, shaken. But, nobody came to help. Chrysalis just laughed once again, ignoring Twilight's hopeless attempts to escape. She came close to Twilight's face, as she put a hoof on the cage.

"Oh, don't worry Twilight. I'll keep you safe.. and suck off of your LOVE!", Chrysalis hissed as Twilight gave her a petrified look. Twilight shook the cage once more, but then, she realized.

"I'm still able to use my magic.."

Twilight secretly charged a blast while Chrysalis wasn't looking, and she bursted a aura into whatever changeling she saw. She flew out of the tower, but tumbling on the way. But then...

SNAP!

One of the joints in Twilight's wings had BROKE, and Twilight spinned down, hitting the hard rock floor. She saw a few changeling guards galloping after her, and struggled to stand up, but she couldn't. The pain from the joint had spread to her spine, and she couldn't straighten her back no matter how hard she tried. She saw a shadow gazing upon her.

"Well well well... someone trying to escape?"

Celestia was sitting in her throne, waiting for a letter from Twilight, even though she knew Twilight wasn't in Ponyville, nor Canterlot. She sighed, eating a piece of cake she borrowed from Pinkie Pie earlier. Suddenly, Luna slammed the doors open, galloping towards Celestia.

"SISTER!", Luna yelled as her sister noticed a look of shock.

"What happened, Luna?"

"I SAW MULTIPLE TWILIGHT'S IN THE SAME LOCATION!", Luna screeched.

Celestia dropped her cake, standing up.

"How many in one place?", Celestia asked seriously.

"THREE!"

Celestia rushed to the scene, with her sister following her hoofsteps on the way. She saw the increased number of Twilight's in the area, and commanded the guards to lock them in a cage. Celestia decided to isolate the fake Twilight's in a secret room positioned somewhere in the castle, after all, she needed to threaten Chrysalis with something. She sent a letter to each of Twilight's friends, and all of them quickly appeared in front of the princess.

"I have bought you all here to save Twilight. She has oddly gone jealous of me and my sister, but you still do need to bring her to me, I want to talk out things with her."

The 5 mares looked at eachother, and obeyed the princess. Celestia told them all of the information they needed to get to Chrysalis' tower. Positions of the troops, hidden passageways, main entrances, the map... everything.

"Please do also bring along the Elements of Harmony, it would be dangerous to enter Chrysalis' territory without them. Even with or without the main element of Magic, the other elements can as easily attack anything, even when all of the elements are separated. Spike, I want you to bring Twilight's element, too."

Spike ran to Twilight's castle, grabbed the elements and they were on their way. But, who knew what would await them there.

Author's Note

Here I was trying my best to make some sense in the plot of the story, and it somewhat worked. Also, criticism is welcome, as long as it's not harsh!