The Best Troller In ALL Of Equestria

"It seems you've forgotten the basics."

Celestia would never forget the smell of burning flesh. They were in the middle of the woods, and Twilight's entire right portion leading from her lip, and curving down to her cutie mark was completely scorched, and deformed. She twitched in actual pain while falling down, and coughed while desperately trying to ask her mentor for help, and then, everything went blank.

Celestia teleported herself as well as Twilight back to the castle. She even went as far as to transform Twilight into an alicorn, but the damage had already been done. Twilight remained the way she was. Even worse than that, she wasn't waking up, either. Princess Twilight had fallen into a deep coma, leaving Celestia unsure towards the future.

She stood over her pupil who rested on a soft, rectangular bed. Celestia covered Twilight's body with a glass top. At the ends were holes so that she wouldn't suffocate, and as it was secured, Celestia said with tears running down her face, "This has gone on far too long. There has to be a better solution than just jumping from world to world. I have to figure out something that's going to fix everything, but there..." She grieved while the door behind her opened. "There is no other way! We're all slaves to these never ending missions!"

"Twilight?" Trixie called from behind Celestia. "It's true!? She's..."

Trixie came up to the glass while Celestia held her back. "She's not dead. She's just in a coma."

Trixie looked at her Highness, and asked, "Are you sure? Even if you're a Princess, you better not be lying to Trixie!"

Celestia nodded, and said, "I know it's probably hard for you to cope with this, but we have to keep going without her."

Trixie looked at Twilight, and then she looked at Celestia, and said, "It's stupid of you to be acting the way you are towards Trollestia."

Celestia nodded, and said, "I know what I need to do. I need to kill her. If I do that, then I'll gain her memories. That's exactly what happened while we were at Canterba. I saw my other self from that universe commit suicide, and then I had all of her memories. It was... weird."

For a good, long while, there was a pause. Neither said anything, but then, Celestia finally took a look at Trixie's expression. It was one of sheer surprise.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Trixie stared at Celestia with a quivering lip, and the world's most twitchiest left eyebrow, and said, "Whoa... Look, Trixie didn't mean anything like that. Celestia, baby, Trixie's not sure what other worlds you've been through as of late, but let her tell you something... You shouldn't kill her just because you want information from her. Just... motivate her a little bit. Come with Trixie. She'll brief you on how you'll be doing this."

Celestia turned towards Trixie who seemed to be headed towards where they were keeping Trollestia. "You'll... what?"

Trixie just rolled her eyes, and said, "It seems you've forgotten the basics."

They both entered together, but Trixie was the one to instruct Molestia and all the guards to leave. She also told them not to worry about the forcefield. It went down, and Trollestia stood there before Celestia, and her supervisor. She almost seemed innocent. Celestia then stated, "My pupil is in a coma. She was set on fire just as we were teleporting ourselves out of there."

Trollestia became animated, and she said, "I had... hoped that wouldn't have happened since we're trying to keep that kind of crazy crap from happening now."

Rather forwardly, Celestia said,"I could kill you, and to add to that... we need your information. We need it to be accurate, too. So, we've reached a particularly stubborn roadblock because it's immoral for me to kill you. I feel as though, however, you're holding something from us..."

Trollesia winced, and stated coldly, "I'd tell you, but then, you'll kill me anyways just to be sure that I'm not lying to you. If you're just going to kill me, then do it!"

Celestia's anger rose. "I'll tell you this only once. Tell me the honest, and most efficient way of resolving your stupid puzzle or else. Trollestia... I'll have no choice but to kill you!"

That's when Trixie stepped in, and revealed, "We're not like you, however. We're not going to kill you just for pleasure, and we're not going to get scared when our own lives are put at risk above all others who we're close to. Friendship in this world, and all the other worlds, too... It's just... important. Giving up your information would mean that you're ready, and that you're able to make friends again. Trixie bets you haven't had a good friend in a long time, huh?"

Trollestia looked down, her coat sparkling in a dull way. It was just barely noticeable, but still, Celesia saw it anyways, and said, "We promise that we won't hurt you if you just... help us."

Trollestia seemed distant, and then, some white color returned to her. She smiled to say, "I guess I will..."

Celestia grabbed hold of Trollestia by her hoof, and pulled her closer to the middle of the room. "You may begin, then."

Trollestia still had pink in her coat, but nevertheless, she was now at least cooperative. "I've been working on this plan for a short while, but I haven't been able to determine if it'll really work or not. It makes sense in my mind, so let me see if I can't put it in words."

Celestia just nodded, and instructed her new friend, "Take your time. Start at the beginning."

"Okay..." Trollestia breathed, and then began. "You see, I was like you. My sister went away, and so did Star swirl the Bearded. So many things happened back then, but in the few years to come, I'd find Star swirl's abandoned shack. I'm sure you remember it. I went down there, into his cellar buried underneath that lone island that could be found in the middle of the ocean, and I just so happened to bump into a pretty, pink potion."

Celestia's eyes widened, and she voiced, "You mean to say that you..."

"As if I had lost control of my body completely, I uncorked the triangular bottle, and drank up without any second thoughts. I was changed forever." Trollestia blinked, and said, "See? There's the thing. If you were able to go back in time, and then enter my world, you'd be able to stop me from taking the potion that made me the way I am today. However, it won't work because you wouldn't be in the timeline where the worlds are linked. That's where your last journey comes into place."

Celestia asked, "What do you mean?"

"It's simple," Trollestia hoofed. "You need the assistance of Star swirl the Bearded. That's a problem, though, because the only way that's going to work out is if he never even went away. You'd need a Star swirl that stayed in Equestria, and has had time to make a potion that will make it possible for you to travel to other worlds of your choosing without the need for them to be linked. I know of one such universe, but..."

Celestia asked, "But?"

"I was too intimidated by the place to go there myself. This is just from me visiting a light house, but from what I'm able to comprehend, if Star swirl never meets a certain somepony, he never goes away. Because of this, he manages to create an elixir of life that keeps himself alive forever. Although, he didn't stop there. Soon, he advanced his power, and his influence, and was able to ascend all of Equestria to the skies. According to the warning signs that I saw while I was in that lighthouse, no alicorns... no pegasi, or even unicorns are allowed into the city. Only earth ponies."

Celestia opened her mouth, but before speaking, she though for a second about how to word her question. "How is it that you're able to teleport to and from unlinked worlds?"

Trollestia said, "I drank a potion a long time ago that allows me the ability to do so, but it's finally wore off. It being a potion, I didn't get any additional perks, either. That's why I haven't tried to use my magic. I found it in the same cellar as the first potion. If you go there now, however, the potions will probably be destroyed."

Celestia shook her head, and said, "In my world, a long time ago, there must've been a collapse, or something. When I went in there the first time around, all I found was that potion. I took it as an omen, and thew the bottle to the ground."

Trollestia nodded, and agreed, "I probably would've done the same thing had I seen that. Anyways, if you're going to fix all of this, then I recommend reaching out to Star swirl the Bearded, and seeing if he can lend you the proper potion you need. Then, all you have to do is go back in time, and then teleport to my universe in order to stop me."

Celestia got up to start asking Trixie to go get Luna, and before she did, she asked, "Just how am I supposed to get there, though?"

Trollestia said, "I left your mirror in the offerings dish, just inside the lighthouse. I was... planning on having you wonder around the whole world looking for it, just to finally find that single lighthouse amongst all that nothingness."

Celestia merely rolled her eyes, and sighed. "I was wondering where that went. Well, at least you're honest. So far, though, all I can say is that your pranks have all been bland." Again, some of the pink in Trollestia's coat went away slowly, but not all the way. It was just enough to be seeable. Celestia then said to Trixie, "Could you get me my sister. I wish to see if she'd like to take part in this adventure as my co-pony."

Trixie suggested, "Why not just bring me? Let's not leave Canterlot without a princess."

Although Trixie wasn't Celestia's first choice to bring along, she had a point, so Celestia decided to deal with this, and offered the outskirts of town as a good spot to use for teleportation. Trixie agreed, and they left Trollestia in the room, alone. They knew now that she wasn't going to teleport out of there, because soon, none of this would even matter. Celestia informed Molestia of what was going on, and told her that she could stay here if she wanted to, or that she could go back home. Predictably, Molestia chose the latter.

Considering this would likely be the last time Celestia would face her subjects again, she sent a message in front of a wide crowd, in the middle of her fair streets. That message was that everypony needed to be strong, and that they needed to be there for her even when she was so far away. The last thing she did before leaving was say her goodbyes, consult her sister, and see Twilight one last time. She merely glanced at the glass, but then turned to finish this madness.

Celestia and Trixie left the castle together. Soon after that, Celestia would instruct Trixie that they had trotted far enough. Trixie just looked around, and asked with sarcasm, "So, an Equestria in the sky?"

Celestia chuckled, but pointed out, "I wonder what'll happen to us since they only want earth ponies coming into the city."

Trixie shrugged, and said, "Trixie supposes we'll have to just go there and see."

Celestia's horn lit up first, followed by Trixie's, and for the very last time in her life, Celestia would teleport to a world that she was unfamiliar with.