The Best Troller In ALL Of Equestria

Ending Segments: "There's still hope."

Beyond that door was a town. That town appeared peaceful, especially when all of the dove birds resting just outside scattered before Celestia and Trixie's hooves. Star Swirl's Bliss was definitely breathtaking to say the least. The structure they stood upon slowly descended itself to patch with a main walkway. In the distance, at the end of that walkway was a statue of Star Swirl towering higher than some of the establishments surrounding it. He looked heart broken, and tired.

They walked together down a familiar street, ignoring the other residents. Had Celestia not seen a particular restaurant she occasionally ate at, she wouldn't have realized it was her very own downtown Canterlot. It just looked so different in this particular, other worldly lighting. Also, there were things Celestia had never seen before, like suspended, metal rails that seemed to be used to transport carts probably containing goods.

They went by a hay dog stand, and the vendor offered them half price, but the two newcomers refused. That's when the kind business owner just gave Trixie the hay dog anyways, stating, "Ah, here, take it! It's my last one. Business has been really good lately."

"Thank you," she said, smiling. Celestia, however, kept walking. Trixie took her time catching up.

They now stood before the statue, and Celestia read the plaque below aloud. "Taken after the fall of the alicorns. Star Swirl chose on that day to purify the ponies of the world except himself, so that nopony would be tempted to experiment with alicorn magic ever again..." Celestia looked at Trixie, and said, "I think I understand now. Luna and I... We must've gotten out of control in this world. We might've even taught regular ponies how to use alicorn magic, and thus, Star Swirl had to stop us."

Trixie raised her eyebrows, and commented, "Wow. For him to be powerful enough to do such a thing, though..."

Celestia shook her head in disbelief, and said, "That's just it. There's no way he took us down. He must've done something else to the alicorns of this world."

Little did the two of them know, they were being watched from up above. A small, white coated filly with a pink mane followed them in the shadows of another building, double checking what she saw. She just had to be sure this was who she thought it was before running off to go tell her sister all about it.

Meanwhile, below, Celestia and Trixie kept walking to the right of the statue of Star Swirl, and towards another connecting walkway. They wandered down the friendly streets of Bliss, and took the time to peruse a fresh produce stand, but were soon on their way again once the roads made new contact once more. Celestia commented to Trixie, "Star Swirl certainly seems to have taken things in the right direction, but I wonder... What of the other species?"

Trixie asked, "Huh?"

"You know," Celestia sighed. "Dragons, and griffons... Are there only ponies way up here? A dragon would sure still be able to reach such a height."

Celestia rubbed her chin, and pondered to herself while Trixie just smirked, and hoofed. "Oh, you're thinking too much into it! Come with Trixie. We need to find Star Swirl the Bearded. Remember?"

That's when somepony else wearing a straw hat stopped in front of them, and commented, "Well, don't you two know? He's gonna be at the fair n' raffle that's goin' on today! If you just keep headed that away, you'll eventually run into the attractions."

Celestia and Trixie looked at one another, and nodded in sequence. "Thanks," Celestia said.

As Celestia and Trixie trotted onwards through the better parts of Bliss, the filly from before ran through a floating orchard farm, and came up to a blue filly sleeping inside of a barn. She woke her up, and chanted, "Luna! Luna! Wake up, you lazy head."

"Huh?" Luna asked, her eyes hurting from the rays that came through an opening in the roof. "Why'd you wake me up, Celestia? It better be important."

"It is," the white coated mare said gleefully. "Today's the day. We need to hurry!"

Luna's eyes went wider than dinner plates. "You mean... she's here?" She got to her hooves, and asked more directly, "You're here?"

Celestia's smile got more and more powerful, and she said, "I saw her standing just in front of Star Swirl's lonely statue." She then became serious. "Come on, Luna! We need to hurry. She's headed for where the raffle was taking place."

Whatever they were up to, the two of them snapped to it without anymore waiting. Luna followed closely behind, and said, "There's still hope."

Meanwhile, the more grown up Celestia and her partner, Trixie still did a bit more wandering around before they'd reach the entrance to the fairgrounds. Trixie commented to Celestia, "So, what happens to us once we do this? Do we just... stop existing?"

The question loomed in Celestia's mind, and she said, "There's... no way to truly destroy an alicorn. I suppose that law can be effected, however by current circumstances. In other words, I... don't really know."

She lowered her hoof, as if she was giving their plans a second thought. Then, she looked up towards where music was coming from, and they followed it. On the way, Celestia asked, "Trixie? Are you afraid of God?"

Trixie came to a stop suddenly, and looked at Celestia who was stopping, too. "No... but Trixie's afraid of you."

She then continued walking. Celestia just stood there for a moment, thinking about this. Still, she kept up, and eventually, they reached the fairgrounds. A posted sign nearby even said that Star Swirl the Bearded would be attending in the Canterlot Gardens this year. Celestia and Trixie entered closely together, and faced all the ponies gathering for the festivities, and there was plenty to see, too.

The first thing Celestia noticed was a wall of posters advertised to the right of her. She came up to it, and read, "The Flim Flam brothers introduces... sugar cubes? It says here, they're scientifically made to provide unique traits to ponies. I've never heard of something more ridiculous!"

Trixie pointed, and said, "Look, this one gives you... lightning powers? Why?!"

"And these cubes-"

Celestia was cut off by somepony announcing rather loudly, "If I told you that mere earth ponies could lift a juggernaut into the air, and off a platform, would you believe me?"

Celestia turned around, and came up to the crowd to listen to the stallion standing atop the small stage built for one. Two other ponies below him surrounded by an audience glowed, and once Celestia got a good look at them, she realized the two ponies performing were none other than Applejack and Rarity. While Rarity glowed yellow, but looked fairly like herself, Applejack was ablaze with fire surging from her hooves.

Applejack just looked at Rarity with pure, undeniable scorn in her eyes. Rarity, however, seemed at peace, and ready for Applejack's attack. The announcer timed it just right, and said, "What about the ability to throw fire from your very hooves?! Or, better yet, stop that fire with a shield that can also be used to heal any of your wounds? Would you believe me?"

Applejack leaped at Rarity with such ferocity that it even put Celestia on edge. The two fighters refused to speak to one another. Blow after blow, however, was either deflected by Rarity, or absorbed. Applejack finally backed away, and stopped her onslaught. The announcer then explained, "These are no small achievements made over night! These are sugar cubes!"

Trixie tapped Celestia on the arm, making her jump a bit, and said, "Come on, your Highness. Trixie feels that overall, it wouldn't be very productive of us to watch this."

Celestia nodded resiliently. She wished to find out more about this, but knew that such research would just delay them that much more. So, she continued to lead the way. She even pointed out Rainbow Dash to Trixie, saying, "Look who it is."

Trixie blinked, and squinted. "What's she holding?"

Celestia blinked as well, and said, "I believe that's a shotgun. She's using it on those targets. It's a game, and if she wins, she earns a prize. I saw them being used as well in Los Cantos. They're very dangerous."

Rainbow Dash fired off a round, forcing Trixie to hold her ringing ears. "And it's loud," she cried.

Celestia continued to walk until she saw what was surely one of those juggernauts that announcer from before was talking about. It was a colossal, steam fueled contraption. It was only thanks to the description of it dangling on an unoccupied podium that Celestia and Trixie were able to tell what it really was. One couldn't even tell what somepony could possibly look like inside of some ugly, iron device like that. "It's a..."

"Pony," Trixie finished for Celestia. "It's a very old pony that was going to die anyways, so to keep them alive... Also, they use them within The Guard. This is what they do to them?"

Celestia just backed away, and said, "I mean... I can see the purpose of it, of course. Imagine being in a building with that thing..." It looked at Celestia, it's dome-like head making a noise. Without a doubt, it was breathing in her direction now. "Outside, I'm sure it's clunky, and wouldn't be able to chase anypony, but in doors..."

Trixie cleared her throat, and Celestia stopped talking. "This place is crazy," Trixie stated quite boldly. Celestia could tell, too that Trixie wasn't being sarcastic. "Super powers for earth ponies...? Guns...? Elders turned into fighting machines...?" She shivered, and asked, "Is all this even safe?"

Before answering that question, Celestia looked all around her, and at all the other ponies having a good time, and playing games. She listened to the peaceful, live music, and smelled the cotton candy, and the popcorn. "I mean... it must be..."

They continued trotting along shortly after that. They eventually reached a gate with some sort of contraption guarding it. The robot boarding up the way forward stated to Trixie and Celestia rather hastily, "Sorry! This portion of the raffle and fair is currently closed! I can only let important dignitaries pass. Come back later!"

Celestia scoffed, and asked Trixie, "Now what're we supposed to do?"

That's when out of the corner of her eye, Celestia saw a filly run behind some of the stands. She came out from the corner, and if Celestia wasn't mistaken, it looked an awful lot like herself. She waved at Celestia, and said, "Hey! You! Why don't you come on over here?"

Celestia trotted up to the filly, and so did Trixie. The two of them just stared at the filly, and that's when another filly with a blue coat came up from behind the stands as well. They all looked at one another, and then the white coated filly said, "We're here to help. You're Celestia, right?"

Celestia blinked, dumbfounded as to how somepony could know who she was. "Y-yes, I am, but how do you-"

"Well, so am I!"

Celestia inhaled deeply, processing this, but soon, she'd be asking herself, "How can this be?" She had some strain in her voice. "How do you know who I am???"

This world's Celestia just giggled as if everything were a game to her. "Let me start at the beginning. You see, it's actually quite simple. Me and my sister used alicorn magic when we weren't supposed to. As punishment, Star Swirl took away our alicorn magic by baptizing us. He created a potion that removes all magic from ponies, and he then uses it to keep Equestria afloat." The filly bowed her head. "By the end of it, we were really sorry for what we had put Equestria through. To make up for it, we used our alicorn magic one last time. We saw into the future, and saw your arrival."

Luna cut in, and said, "We know that nothing can stop you! If we don't give you this, then bad things will happen. We have to keep that from happening."

The young Celestia gulped, and said, "We hope you accept this gift. It's taken us years to perfect it."

The fillies presented a single sugar cube to her Highness. It glowed with a green tint, and the taller Celestia picked it up gently. "What does it do?"

Luna said, "It allows you to control anypony you want, and anything you want, too."

"What you need to do," they younger Celestia explained, "is when you see Star Swirl, use your power on him. Things... just won't work out at first if you don't."

"Just take our word for it," Luna inserted.

At that, Celestia breathed, and looked over to Trixie before she began consuming the sweet delight. "Well, you only live once..." Then, she began eating the concoction. Slowly, things around her darkened even more once it was all gone, and her hooves turned into sheer, green fog. Celestia could've sworn that she was hearing voices in the back of her head, too. Soon, the others appeared the same way, and the side effect of taking the sugar cube lasted for a good few seconds. Eventually, Celestia came down from it, and panted at the experience.

She then questioned the children, "That... That was definitely not a sample, was it?"

Her smaller self shook her head, and said, "Of course not! We wanted to make sure you got your mission done as quickly as possible."

Celestia just nodded to that, and agreed, "Probably for the best. Otherwise, who knows what could happen." She thanked the duo, and then gestured for Trixie to follow along. As a test, she'd need to use it on the gate keeper.

Her hoof glistened in its radical way, and just like that, Celestia had it under her control. It rang, and made them raise their eyebrows. "Goodness me, Star Swirl the Bearded! How did I not recognize you?! Then Again, I thought you had already come by here earlier... Well, anyways, come right on in again!"

It opened up, and Celestia trotted forward. Before them was a different looking plaza with kids playing in the streets. Below their noses, they quickly noticed a crow. It stood there, chirping at first, and then, it took off. As the two of them continued their voyage through the streets of what must've been upper manehattan, Celestia began to notice certain things in this richer environment that she hadn't in other parts of Bliss. For one thing, there were changelings, but they were all dressed up in a certain way, as if they were butlers or something.

Soon, while she walked along the bars that protected ponies from falling off, she also started to see dragons as well, and griffons flying about, but again, they were all dressed up for service. Also, they all looked both busy, and miserable. Trixie apparently noticed this along with Celestia, because she was commenting to her Highness, "Looks like we figured out what happens to the other species."

Celestia started to walk faster along the path, and Trixie did her best to keep up. They wandered right by a pair of guards, and one of them had some sort of hooked gadget secured in his grip. Celestia heard him comment, "Standard issue, this! Lets you even latch on to them rails up there, and ride em' as if you're flyin'! Magnetized, ye see."

He twirled it with the other hoof, and Celestia shivered at what else something like that could easily be used for. Following that, they finally began entering what definitely appeared to be the Canterlot Gardens. Tall trees planted in concrete structures blocked the way for the two of them to proceed anywhere else. Plus, everypony else was headed towards what appeared to be a very large stage. So, Celestia and Trixie had no choice but to continue.

A loud bell could be heard over the booming holiday fireworks, letting everypony know that it was noon. The stage was a little bit bigger than Trixie's, and was mostly covered for the time being by a red tarp emblazoned with gold tassels. Right in the middle of the crowd, and up on stage was Star Swirl the Bearded himself. He looked as if he hadn't aged a day since the last time Celestia had seen him. However, that didn't make him the same pony.

Celestia could barely hear the soft singing of all the ponies surrounded around her. Instead, her mind was way more focused on other things, like how all the ponies were treating their slaves. Trixie, however, appeared completely distracted by what was going on. The singing stopped after a moment more, and Star Swirl spoke to his public.

"Thank you for joining me in this year's raffle and fair. This year, we have a very special event for you all. Recently, and I know it was spread around on the news... there's been some law breakers. In the town of Bliss, we do openly accept slavery. Because of this, certain laws are required in order to keep the peace."

The tarp came up, and the two newcomers gasped at the same time. Celestia held her hoof up to her mouth, offended by what she was seeing. Star Swirl had a dragon, a griffon, and a changeling on display for all of the city to humiliate. They were chained by their throats, and were kept close to the wooden floor. They struggled, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't break free. They pleaded for mercy, but it seemed as if nopony would be coming to rescue them.

Then, Star Swirl claimed with a rather serious frown, "Garble the dragon? You were caught breathing fire. Gabriella the griffon? You were caught trying to fly... again. And then, there's Thorax... Although these two were surrendered unto me by their owners, they will instead be for sale." He pointed to Garble first, and then Gabby. "If nopony buys, then they go to labor districts. As for this changeling? He was caught stealing fruit. Let the crime fit the punishment, I say. Besides, his owners have officially disowned him. So, now, he is to be executed following this demonstration."

Celestia blinked a few times, and couldn't stop herself from silently asking, "Execution?"

A mare holding a bucket filled with fruits walked by, and most everypony graciously took some except for Celestia and Trixie. She looked at the two of them, and they acted upon getting some fruit themselves as to not blow their cover. Celestia picked up an apple, while Trixie held onto an orange. At that time, Star Swirl would look at Celestia, and see her scornful expression. Then and there, Celestia used her power of possession, and Star Swirl was out of commission.

By now, one might regard Celestia to be some what of a rebel. This next act of her's, however, would be one that would be talked about amongst the residents of Bliss for ages to come. Her hoof steps were loud on stage, and the silence that followed didn't help in bringing everypony's attention trailing to Celestia. She got up on stage, and came over to the frightened changeling. He whimpered, and begged her, "Don't... Please..."

"It's okay... I'm a friend."

He looked up to her, and asked, "Huh?" Celestia just looked back at him, smiling. Then, she presented the apple, and he grabbed it. "Th-thank you...!"

She just smiled wider, and replied, "Of course." Then, she stood back up while everypony in the audience started to react negatively towards this stunt. However, Star Swirl stopped them by merely raising his hooves, and stating quite clearly, "Everypony, please... This is an old, and all too kindhearted friend of mine."

He turned to her, and she told him, "You're being too rough with the changeling. Just go ahead and sell him off like the others." She then also asked him, "Do you have someplace that we might be able to chit-chat in private, Star Swirl?"

He nodded obediently with a green glow in his eyes, but nopony but Celestia and Trixie would notice. He showed her the way, behind the stage, and Celestia gestured for Trixie to follow as well. It just so happened that Star Swirl had his very manor connected just a few steps away from the fairgrounds. Needless to say, once inside, Celestia and Trixie would demand to know where he kept his potions.

"Yes," he said with a hint of resistance. "Right this... way..."

He guided Celestia and Trixie through an unfamiliar hallway. In time, they'd reach his personal study, and the Princess would be overjoyed to see filled bottle after filled bottle closed up in a tall, glass case. "Okay," she said. "So, Star Swirl... Here's what's happening. I've been pranked by another universe version of myself, and I need to go back in time, and then to her universe to stop what's happened to me from ever happening. She drinks one of your potions that you leave behind in some shack, on some island, and that's what makes her that way! So, which potions do we need?"

He sighed, and said, "Just a second."

He grabbed not just one, or two, but several bottles, and began carefully brewing them all together. Apparently there was more to this than Celestia and Trixie knew about. He concocted a new, all in one potion for the two of them to share. It didn't take him long at all, either, and once he was done, he would just present the two of them their respective portions. Celestia held onto her own cup, and Trixie waited for the Princess to drink her's first. Celestia did so, and only after that did Trixie swallow her's, too.

Celestia waved Starswirl away, and she then felt her horn as well as her wings return to her. Trixie's horn came back, too, and she cheered, "Yesss!"

Star Swirl told the two, "You should be able to go to any universe now, but once you do, it'll lock you to that world. That way, the effects are permanent across the multiverse, and you're not just making another alternate universe."

Celestia smiled, and said, "That's exactly what we needed. Good work, Star Swirl." There was nothing else for them in Bliss, so Celestia said to Trixie, "It's time to go."

The sharp glow of yellow and pink magic filled the room, and as Celestia exhaled, they left Bliss at long last. What happened to that world after these instances didn't matter. Nothing prior to that mattered. All that was important was what happened to Celestia and Trixie following all these chain of events. They had reached the end of their trials. First, they would be in the past, before Bliss was ever even an idea. Then, they'd be in the universe they wanted to be in. They'd be in Trollestia's world, and just before she would drink from Starswirl's infernal, pink potion.