The Best Troller In ALL Of Equestria

"Thank you... for not being a complete, and one hundred percent jerk in my life."

It was strange for Princess Celestia, waking up that morning only to start remembering what her previous day had been like in that world. This caused a very little drop of blood to come squeezing out of her ear, but that was about it for the time being. Then, she recalled separating herself from other ponies just in order to avoid harming them. That's why there weren't many guards, either. She could also remember murdering her sister, and then laughing about it. All the while, inside, Empress Celestia never even wanted to do such a thing. Her situation was complex, but that was no excuse for Canterba's Celestia to behave so poorly, and all because of her carelessness.

As Celestia got to her hooves, and quivered, she said, "Not only am I able to remember many details of her life, but I'm also able to remember her death, too... This is just... Ugh," she groaned, and held her throbbing head. "Two memories, both in the same place... It's just baffling how this can be. How can I be..."

She gasped, and held her mouth again, feeling the blood dripping all the way down to her chin. Spike walked in, but Celestia was too preoccupied with her current situation to really care. He hastily jumped at her, and yelled. He then ran off only to come right back with a while towel in his clutches. "Here you go, your Highness. Use this to dab it... Are you alright?"

Celestia nodded, and then held her head back to try and stop the bleeding more effectively. "I'd be better if I knew which Celestia I was."

Spike just backed up, and gulped. It took him a good second to answer, but when he did, Spike showed himself to be more worried than Celestia had ever heard him sound. "You're our Celestia. You're Princess Celestia. Come back to us, your Highness..."

"Spike, I'm fine! I just... This is... You know what? Forget it. We don't have time for this. Do we at least have the amulet?"

Spike nodded, and smiled. "Here it is," he said while presenting the trinket to his Highness.

She grabbed hold of it with her magic, and then asked, "Now, where's Luna?"

"I'm right here," Luna said while coming from the balcony window. She gestured for her sister to join her, and Celestia did so. Outside, they looked amongst the vast, sandy lands, and Luna said to her justly awoken sibling, "Nopony will know for days that their Empress has died. In the mean time, we can't just leave this world with the day only, obviously. What should we do?"

Celestia, in all her glory, breathed. She looked up at the star that scorched the world they were visiting, and then at the setting moon far off in the distance. "I suppose it's possible... that we could..."

"Yes?" Spike asked, joining them.

"We could just... permanently lock the sun and the moon so that they wouldn't need us any longer."

Luna just glanced at her sister, and remarked, "That... could take up a lot of our energy."

Celestia brought forth the alicorn amulet, and suggested, "Not if I use this to do it with."

Luna's eyes widened at the notion, and complained, "That's a terrible idea! You'll become corrupted, just like Empress Celestia was! I can't believe you'd even think of going through with such an idea."

Celestia pursed her lips in aggravation, as if Luna had though she'd lost her mind or something. "No, Luna," Celestia said softly. "You've got it all wrong. The moment I'm done with the alicorn amulet, I'd take it off. I wouldn't keep it on! I'd be in complete control. I wouldn't even be able to wear it long enough in order for it to really have any effect on me. Now, I'm going to equip the alicorn amulet. Are you ready to assist me, or do I have to do it by myself?"

Luna scoffed, but knew Celestia had things under control, and said, "It's dangerous, but I'm right beside you."

Thus, together, they forced a mighty spell upon Equestria's moon and sun, bringing them into everlasting alignment, and constant, circular motion. After such a feat, Luna collapsed while Celestia just removed the amulet from around her neck. She seemed highly weakened, and panted. Spike and Celestia carried Luna to the bed, and when she woke up next, they would be ready to leave Canterba behind. There was nothing left for them in the world of Canterba.

Meanwhile, Twilight and Trixie waited in the castle. After a trip the likes of which they had experienced, Twilight and Trixie both felt the need to distance one another. Twilight could be found in the library catching up on her studies, and Trixie could be found in one of the ballrooms that the palace had to offer. Trixie was busy with drinking some coffee to keep herself up during the earlier hours of the morning. That's when Celestia, Luna and Spike would return. It would be a bitter sweet victory for Celestia, though. Even when entering the throne room once more in order to consult Trollestion, she still felt uneasy.

"Look," Celestia said to Luna just before coming inside. "I may not feel too well, but at the same time, It needs to be me that deals with her. Let me do this... alone."

Luna bowed to her sister, and left. Entering, Celestia told Molestia and the guards to lower the shield. "Are you sure that's wise?" Molestia asked.

Celestia nodded darkly, and the task was carried out. Trollestia and Celestia was left to themselves. Celestia stared at herself with squinted eyebrows, but Trollestia just smirked, and asked rather bluntly, "Did you have fun finding who I sent there?" She laughed, and commented, "Or, did you not even get it at first?"

Celestia breathed, and tried her best to calm herself down, and said, "I guess I must've misheard you say somepony when you really said something. Didn't you? Isn't it odd, though, that I still ended up finding my world's Spike in my universe?"

Trollestia blinked, her smile going away. "Huh?"

"Oh yes, that's right," Celestia said with the most unpleasant of glares. "You allowed my Twilight's dragon to be put in great harm. He followed you into one of your portals without you even knowing about it. Because of your negligence, he almost had a knife go through his tiny, innocent heart on your account."

The troublesome mare just laughed at the revelation. "What do I care? There's probably thousands of ponies that died all because of me!"

Celestia snarled, "I'd keep such suspicions to myself if I were you, which I am, so can it!" She gritted her teeth before calming down as best she could, and said, "Here's why."

Trollestia simply stared at her other self, and asked, "Why?"

"Because... I've found out something curious. You see, Trollestia, if one of us dies before the other, then whoever the witness is will also gain all of the dying mare's memories. In short, if I kill you, I'll be able to fix everything much more easily that way. As compared to having you cooperate, that sounds like a much better option. The question is whether or not to go through with such an act of savagery?"

Trollestia blinked nervously, and glanced at one of the nearby, closed window. She knew, however, that escape wasn't an option. "You... can't possibly believe that's how it works!" She hiccuped, "H-how can you even think such a thing would be successful???"

Celestia just inched closer, and closer, looking into her own eyes. "Because, Empress Celestia killed herself directly before me, and now, I have all of her memories."

Trollestia screamed, caught off guard by the news. "She committed suicide?! A-and you WATCHED?"

"Yes," Celestia announced loudly. "I don't understand it all too well myself, but it seems that when this happens... Like, if I were to kill you, I'd gain all of your memories as well. There was so much trauma within my brain, that I started bleeding out of my nose, and my ears, Trollestia. Do you have any idea how much that ached? To have two memories? Some of the time, I can barely remember which Celestia I am. Because of this, I sometimes don't know which Celestia I hate more!"

Trollestia was truthfully frightened by all of this, and it showed in her quick breathing, and the way Celestia now had her up against a wall. If that wasn't evidence enough that Celestia had finally broken through to her, Trollestia also began offering, "Look, I'll cooperate! I'll tell you everything! I'll tell you where I sent that colony of ponies! I'll even tell you everything I've done before you turn my ugly mug back to normal! You don't even have to do that! Please, just don't kill me!"

Celestia backed away, and stated, "I haven't decided to do that yet! Look, we're going to keep our original deal going, same as before. The only difference is that this time, you can NOT leave out any details. I want the scoop on the next hardest world to restore, and I want it now."

Trollestia simply nodded, and offered, "Well, yeah, sure... I can do that, but wouldn't it be nicer if I just gave you the specifications for something a little less stressful for right now? Hmm?"

Celestia shook her head, and threatened Trollestia, "If you don't get to it in the next five seconds, nopony will be able to recognize you ever again."

Trollestia huffed, and commented, "I'm so dead, then..." Nevertheless, she followed orders, and started spilling the beans for Celestia's next assignment. "The world of Los Cantos it is...! It's a dangerous one. It's a modern looking city, much like your Las Pegasus, or Manehattan. However, it's been cursed. Crime is free to roam over there. Ponies can die, but they'll just come back someplace close by to where they had gotten wasted. They can't give up their desire for... certain things, either. Places to live in, things to use for transportation, instruments of mass murder. The list goes on and on."

"What're you saying?" Celestia asked.

"I'm saying," trollestia hopefully voiced freely, "Celestia! This place is bad business for you and your team! The Celestia that rules Los Cantos with an iron hoof has doomed her world. She did it during a time that nopony can remember. Since then, Canterlot became something of an outlawed nation. It's now called Los Cantos, and life there is scary, and yet, it can be fun. You'll be looking for Starswirl's notebook. The very same notebook that holds his incomplete spell. The one you were planning on one day giving to Twilight as a test."

Celestia seemed annoyed by that last statement, but this wouldn't stop her from going forth, and carrying out the mission. Still, as she turned around, she couldn't help but to at least thank Trollestia in a way. "Thank you... for not being a complete, and one hundred percent jerk in my life."

Trollestia warned her other self, "You should reconsider, then! I can still be your friend! After all, if that-"

"Shut up," Celestia said harshly.

"What?" Trollestia asked, offended.

"We'll never be friends. You have no friends here. What you've done... There's no coming back from it. You'll pay, eventually. I don't even know why I'm sparing you for the moment, come to think of it. This whole thing would blow over so much more smoothly, probably, if I just watched you die. So, if I were you, which I am... I'd give myself the necessary information that I needed, and absolutely nothing else."

Trollestia lowered her ashamed head, and said, "Yes, ma'am."

Celestia left, and Trollestia momentarily lost herself in thought. Had she realized what was actually going on around her, she might've taken a chance, and escaped. However, she didn't even look up from the ground in all that time. Trollestia just kept staring blankly at the floor, thinking about a certain decision in her life that she was beginning to regret. By the time she spoke, it would be too late, and the shield would be back up.

Trollestia looked all around her. She looked at the troops, and then at Princess Molestia. Then, she whispered to herself, "I never should've drank that pink potion inside Starswirl's hidden cellar."

Celestia trotted alone, all the way to the outskirts of town where a waterfall could be both seen and heard. She reached a fairly soft, and grassy hill, and before getting started on her next journey, she took the time to find sanctuary in all of this. She took off her golden hoof shoes,, too, and her crystal neck piece. Finally, her crown, and she then placed them next to her while she rested. She didn't smile at all. She couldn't. Celestia just kept sighing, and wishing for the easy way out.

"Perhaps, that's the only way out this time. How am I supposed to go through with it, though? It just... seems wrong, even when I know Trollestia is better off dead, and that's what'll happen to her by the end of this, I still don't want to go through with it! Although, I'll get all the answers I need. Maybe more, so how do I choose?"

She looked all around, and sighed yet again. "Perhaps," she speculated. "Maybe... it's what's meant to be done, but still, I wish there was another way. There has to be! We can't just jump from world to world, trying to fix them all. That's not even truly restoring them. Besides, what about that colony of ponies Trollestia has doomed? Is there even an actual way that Luna and I could possibly undo something as chaotic as that? No, what we need is a solution to all the world's problems. I need..."

She stood, and started putting back on her hoof shoes while promising herself, "I need to find out what that solution is."

Twilight was coming her way, just over a far off hill, so Celestia made herself appropriate onceagain. "Hey," Twilight yelled. As she came up to greet her mentor, she explained, "Luna just got done telling me about how you two had recently got back, so I came looking for you. Any news on which universe we'll be exploring next?"

Celestia told Twilight about what she knew, and when the notebook came up, Celestia also chose not to withhold any information from her pupil. Twilight then asked the Princess, "You mean, it was supposed to be a test to see if I had what it took to be an alicorn?!"

Celestia nodded with grief. "It was going to be so perfect, too. I'll just have to figure something else out, or just turn you into an alicorn and be done with it. These days, I'm preferring the latter."

Twilight shrugged, and said, "Whatever works best for you. I guess Luna could use a break after all of that, and I don't even feel like interacting with Trixie, but what about you? Are you sure you're up to another multiverse ordeal?"

Celestia only glanced away from Twilight's sight for a brief moment. She then looked Twilight right in the eyes, and said, "I have to be."

The two of them then got themselves ready for the voyage ahead. They also informed everypony of what was happing, and then decided to make the library their primary place to use as a teleportation station. Little did Celestia, Twilight, or anypony else know that this world would be the penultimate world Celestia would have to intrude upon.