"But, Princess Cel-"

"GO! Now. You do not qualify to be a princess. Now everypony in the Crystal Empire is dead. You are lucky Cadence survived. Her child too."

Twilight slowly walked away from Celestia, her head drooping and tears emerging from her eye. She felt like she was carrying a thousand bricks on her back. Uncomfortable, like something wasn't right. What had she done wrong to deserve this? She hadn't done anything. She was being good old responsible Twilight, like always.

Then she remembered.

It was Fluttershy who caused all this in the first place. She was the one who was being "sent mixed messages" and destroyed the top of the tower. Twilight was the one who kept up, and Fluttershy flew back into it by "accident". Twilight remembered it so clearly. That was the moment her wings were sliced off by that large piece of stained glass windows. The pain seared up her body to her head, and she screamed loudly. Her friends didn't even notice. Fluttershy didn't even notice.

When she came back from the hospital, everyponyacted like it was her fault, but it wasn't. Something was different about Fluttershy. But nothing was different, Twilight would soon discover.

As she made her way back to her library, still in a depressed/furious state, Rainbow Dash flew over to her at an almost super-sonic speed, and landed in front of her, skidding against the moist dirt.

"What do you think you're doing? I bet Spike wouldn't want to see you either! Everypony in this town hates you, so Spike should as well!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she trotted closer, forcing Twilight to walk backwards also.

"Spike is a very reasonable dragon! I'm sure he would understand it wasn't my fault." Twilight argued as she pushed past Rainbow Dash and entered her library.

Spike was waiting, sitting on the stairs. Twilight expected him to hate her as much as everypony else, but surprisingly, he didn't.

"I can't believe Fluttershy did that. She didn't even say it was her, and she's the element of kindness!" Spike ranted. "It was so obvious it was her, but nopony paid any attention, and now you get all the heat? What did Celestia say?"

Twilight slowly inhaled, and said, "SHE SAID I COULDN'T BE A PRINCESS ANYMORE! How is she that stupid? SHE'S A PRINCESS!"

"SHE WHAT?" Spike exclaimed.

"Exactly! But I really need to get to bed. I have to figure out a way to solve this tomorrow."

But Twilight did not sleep that night. She kept thinking about what to do. She could not get anymore supplies, as nopony would sell her anything, hell, she couldn't even go in public. She stayed up all night trying to figure out if she could use a spell to reset all of the events with the death of everybody in the Crystal Empire or if she could reach out and force Fluttershy to admit it was her fault, but something kept coming up in her mind.

GET REVENGE ON FLUTTERSHY. MAKE HER PAY. MAKE HER SUFFER, NOT PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY.

Who are you? What are you? Am I going insane?

I AM YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS. WHATEVER I SAY IS WHAT GOES. YOU WANT THIS. I AM YOU. MAKE THE PONY PAY.

But how? I don't want to break her like she... NO. SHE DESERVES THIS. WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN MIND, OR WELL... MY MIND?

MAKE HER STAY QUIET. IT'S WHAT SHE DOES BEST, SO SHE WON'T BE WORRIED TO TAKE PART AT FIRST. BUT GIVE THIS LITTLE GAME A TWIST. SHE HATES BEING SCARED. DO WHAT YOU CAN TO SCARE HER. IF SHE FAILS, GIVE HER NOT DEATH, BUT SOMETHING THAT CAUSES DEATH. HOW ABOUT BANISHING HER TO THE EVERFREE FOREST? YES. THAT WOULD WORK NICELY.

Of course. But, this isn't me. BUT SHE DESERVES IT. Okay, I'll do it.

This was the moment Twilight cracked.

Author's Note

Thank you for reading the first chapter of this story! Hopefully I've written well enough for everypony's standards