Track 13: Regrets

It had been the order of Princess Twilight Sparkle to evacuate, however it was Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor who were charged with the task of rounding up every free pony. They did not waste any time in clearing out Canterlot, sending everypony to the Crystal Empire. Units of the royal guard and volunteer ponies were sent to every corner of Equestria to save as many ponies as they could. A number of ponies were too stubborn to leave their long held homes, others just saw no point to leaving. These numbers added with those already taken by Nightmare Rarity’s demons, and President Rainbow Dash’s Third Flock, left the amount of survivors was small.

While the two married royal ponies did their duties, Twilight was deep in Canterlot forgotten gem mines. She was set on a plan that would be too dangerous for any to be in Canterlot, and it failed, the Crystal Empire was the best and last hope for survival making the evacuation absolutely necessary, and it freed her from worry of doing any more harm to innocent lives.

When she had been sent here by Chrysalis, Twilight took quick note of the caverns and tunnels. Later she returned to learn more of them, and with some help of Pinkie Pie’s sister Maud, she knew this was formed largely by a volcano that had long fallen asleep. The size of Canterlot as a mountain, and the formations, it was clear that the volcano was one of the largest in the history of this part of the world, likely even further beyond. She was assured that she would find the magma chamber, even though it was likely no longer beneath the mountain due to time and the movements of the earth, it was still assuredly near enough for her plan.

“It’s me, the real Princess Cadence” Twilight tried to ignore the echoes in her mind. “Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake, clap your hooves and give a little shake” She shook her head, driving deeper into the naturally formed tunnels.

“Twilight Sparkle is the finest student I could have ever hoped for, and has proven herself worthy of the title of Valedictorian of this class of Gifted Unicorns” Princess Celestia’s voice passed by, in another lifetime.

“We are so proud of you” Now her own father’s voice haunted her. “First a son that became captain, and not a daughter that is Princess Celestia’s personal assistant? Our family has never been so blessed”

“You’ll be fine, that’s the honest truth” Echoed Applejack.

“I could not let such a crime against fabulosity go unchecked!” Mirrored Rarity.

“Oh you poor baby” Fluttershy reverberated.

“Just gotta laugh!” Pinkie Pie’s memories imitated.

“I’d never leave my friends hanging” Rang out Rainbow Dash.

Each of her friends came through in the formative moments before Twilight even knew she had made friends, and those voices lost to her now stabbed at her. She fought breaking down as each voice spoke to her as clearly as they did then, cutting deep into her wounded heart and mind.

She did stop her march when another Twilight stood before her. This version seemed older and to be in a much better place in life. “Turn back, this is not the way to save Equestria” The other said.

“I have no choice! Unless you have something else in mind?” The present Twilight responded.

“What is now, is set to be, nothing will change fate. All you can do is wait for the Elements of Harmony to rejoin and stop all of this”

“If you are an illusion, future Twilight, or just my own fractured mind, you should know that it is impossible for the Elements of Harmony to return. The Tree is dead, and those of us who held them as either likewise dead, gone, or turned evil. Even with the last of the Tree’s power, I could do nothing! Celestia and Luna are gone, Cadence and Shining can only protect the Empire. So I fail to see how this will just get better by sitting on my flank?!”

“I took a great risk in telling you not to follow this path, and I shall not risk anything further by telling you just what is to come. I calculated the course you are on, and it is the moment where you can make everything worse than it already is. If you stop now, things will work out in time”

Anger building in her, Twilight blasted the other Twilight, and shattered the crystal that was creating the illusion. “I will not fall for more of Discord’s, or any other illusions! I will awaken this volcano, and use the terrible force of nature as my weapon against he and those like him! I will purge Equestria of villains, even if I must raze it to the ground!!!”

With new drive, and a growing touch of madness, Twilight followed the old vents and finally came upon a molten river. The vast red-orange, melted and churning rock stretched far in both directions, and if she did not know better, she would swear she found one of the rivers of the underworld. The heat was intense, but she pushed back her discomfort. She took flight over the magma, and summoned her power to fire into the calm flow, upsetting it as it bubbled and shifted. She kept at it, using her magick to create gas and pressure that would force the magma up. As she angered this sleeping beast, she also made sure that the flow would find its way back into the old vent. She would see to it that Canterlot would again be a volcano, allying herself with a force greater than any of those monsters above.

As below, so above was their a growing chaos, both of the same source. Her meddling in the mantle was being felt all around Canterlot and beyond, as those locations nearest the epicenter saw fissures and quacks that toppled buildings and swallowed anything near enough. Ponyville and Everfree also felt great shakes, prompting Nightmare Rarity to send out some spies to investigate the sudden change in the calmness of the ground.

Twilight was ascending fast, keeping a pressure behind her to allow her to control lava. She was first to burst out of the top of Canterlot mountain, and as gathered herself to find aim for this weapon she now wielded. She first target would be Everfree, to destroy the forest and all its evils. She hovered for several seconds as she calculated the best way to achieve this, as she was in debate if it should be at Nightmare alone, or minimally creating controlled damage. As she spent the time to think, she misjudged the power of nature and it did not wish to wait for a small mare to make up her mind. Finding and making new paths, the super pressured flow spread in different directions, and quickly several new cones formed all around Canterlot.

“No, no, no!” Twilight panicked, trying her best to regain control, however each attempt only made more redirection of the magma and in moments she lost all control. Without her force against it, the original cone exploded just where it once had ages before ponies ever lived here. The force was so great that it ripped through the city, like a wave through a sand castle. Twilight could only fly back, and watch helpless at this mess she made. “I… I thought… I could control t-this?!” She cried out, as she realized her folly. “What was I thinking?!”

“You know, Celestia once harnessed lave too” Discord appeared, holding a bag of marshmallows. “She had little success, and that is one reason the Badlands are so ‘bad’” He held out a stick. “Join me?” She looked at him, nearly devoid of all life in her eyes. “Oh, my mistake” The marshmallow at the end of the stick became a book on roasting said confection.

She ignored his antics, too lost in her own mind to care. As the two of them hovered in the air, Canterlot below, her home, where her teacher had taken her in. The place that she spend her formative years, and where she would take the first steps to become who she would become, was quickly being consumed by lava and fire. Twilight was feeling herself slipping, losing nearly all will to do anything. She would have dropped from the sky, but Discord grabbed her, holding her in his arms. “I failed… completely failed… and brought about another disaster in this already broken land… Every single one of my friends are gone, in one way or another, and it is all my fault”

“I wouldn’t be so hard on yourself, think of all the good you did” Discord started, as the mare looked back at him. At this point, Twilight was so beaten that she was actually hoping that this was not a setup to kick her more. She clung to this, believing that he might actually show a genuine act of kindness. She fooled herself into believing this. “Rainbow Dash has gotten what she always wanted, she is the best and most famous Pegasus alive. Rarity now has endless adoring minions to worship her. Applejack finally has Apple Bloom listening and following her hoofsteps as they work for their family. Pinkie Pie was able to be everywhere, and spread her fun all over Equestria. Fluttershy is now somewhere that she doesn’t need to be afraid or intimidated by other ponies. Have to look at it all in a perspective; sure Equestria is royally screwed, but at least your friends are doing well”

Going limp in his arms, and looking at the ground far below, Twilight said weakly. “You are a horrible monster…”

“Fluttershy doesn’t think so, she really grown to me” He replied, taking a bite out of the roasting stick, he had been holding with his tail.

“You delight in misery and suffering. You manipulate and corrupt” Twilight’s fire was returning, as her anger rose. “You brought about so much destruction, and you don’t even care one bit”

Tossing her out of his arms, she took to flying on her own as Discord grew annoyed. “Can you not open your eyes, even now? I am but a small part of a greater problem, one that has been growing since before Equestria existed. The Tree of Harmony put everything in motion, and you, Celestia and Luna were pawns in its mahjong game. It gambled on ponies and lost, then hoped they would eventually destroy themselves. You control nature, and burn resources, and look at what you’ve done” He swept an arm out to point at the inferno below. “The last gambit of the Tree was to die and leave one behind that would take out Equestria. Between you and your friends, ponies should be extinct in a couple decades” He snickered at her reaction of horror to his revelation, as she tried to fight believing it. “Congratulations, you fulfilled your destiny” He threw up his arms, literally, in excitement. “Not many can claim that you know?” Arm growing back, he went on. “Yes, I am the lord of Chaos, I enjoy having my fun, but that Tree you all put so much faith in, was not the great provider you all thought. Maybe once, but by the time it lured you into its plot, it was just as wicked as the rest of us. Playing you ponies like a kazoo”

At another point in her life, she would have fought this, but her fractured, tired mind was seeing everything he said as fact. Her heart sank, seeming to completely escape her body. Though debatable, the evidence supported his claims. The visions she saw behind Sombra’s door, the fact the Tree had called to her, using her as a linchpin to reawakening the Elements, and nearly as soon as she was granted the powers, even greater disasters struck, far worse than those before. “I am the cause… I was the final move, and I destroyed it all. My friends, my home…” As the guilt began to consume her, she started to fall from the sky. She did not notice, not even as the heat rose up to meet her as she neared a flow of lava. Moments from taking the final plunge, she was flashed away, reappearing just outside the destruction.

Discord floated there, watching as she dropped. He mused. “Such an inglorious end, although a fitting one, to die by your own mistake. Still, I would rather see what will become of you, now that your sanity is hanging like a kitting from a branch, and that you have lost nearly everything. I guess I am a monster” He snickered, then it grew into a full fit of laughter. When he disappeared, another came out from hiding.

Looming over her, Trixie stared down at Twilight in disgust. “How far you have fallen, and now you have given up” She sneered at her rival. “Is this truly who Trixie has come in second too? A pony who cannot bare being knocked off her pedestal? A crippled minded princess? Trixie has known the highs and lows of life, and it affords her the ability to cope” Her eyes flared red, as she presented the amulet she wore. “Trixie has moved past you now, and with this, she’ll be second to none! Trixie can use this charm to absorb magick from others, and Trixie’s power will grow”

“Take it,” Twilight said so weak, that it was nearly lost to the wind. “What good has it done for me, or my friends, or Equestria? Take my power, and do what you want… just leave me here to die and be forgotten…”

Raising her brow, Trixie was further appalled by this. “You think Trixie a murder? How offensive you are in your hole of self-pity. Trixie will take your magick, but out of what little respect Trixie had in our rivalry, she will drop you in Ponyville”

“No!” Twilight sat up, but slumped over. “I can’t face anypony there, not anywhere…”

“Trixie is not a taxi! She admits how similar it sounds, but she is no service. She will not just leave you to die, but where else is left in Equestria after the evacuations?”

“At least I did one thing right…” She sighed, taking no comfort in this. “I don’t belong in Equestria. My home is gone, my friends betrayed, and now I’m so low that the very last pony I would ever expect aid from, is here trying to help me find a better place to die…”

Scoffing at her, Trixie said “This self loathing does not suit you, and seeing you like this brings shame to Trixie and her legacy. The reasons for her aid does not mean any kind of sympathy or concern for you, but the fact you are tied to Trixie. Trixie cannot earn glory and fame, if the one pony she lost too had given in so easily. If Trixie is to have your power, and use it to destroy those villains who think so lowly of her, you cannot parish here at the skirt of your poor choices. Trixie will not have you be a stain on Trixie’s legacy when she rises as the true ruler of all villains and the world!”

Briefly, Twilight regains herself and looked at Trixie in disgust. “So you finally admit it? That your not just some simple illusionist, but actually a bad pony?”

“Nightmare Rarity believed Trixie to be weak, a minion! Trixie proved to her that she is not one to be claimed, or looked down upon. Now Trixie has the power, and she will seek her vengeance on all who underestimated her, and bring all of Equestria under her hoof!”

She wanted so much not to care, but she could not pass this world to allow herself to be a party to another villain’s rise. She would not donate her powers to the cause of the wicked again. A fire burned in the mare once more, and she stood with the fury of one who was beaten once too many times. “No!” She locked eyes with the other mare. “My last moments will not be in the benefit of evil, but the burden! You’ll not have my power for your mad bid for power and supremacy. I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, appointed ruler of Equestria by Cosmatia-” One of the stars of her cutie mark began to glow. “I swore to uphold the protection of Equestria and to save my friends!” Another star joined the first. “I will give my all, until there is nothing left to give!” Now a trio of star shined off her. “I trust in fate and hope, and know Equestria will enjoy happiness again!” A fourth added its light, and soon it was five. “I will not allow goodness to die, and will spare anymore from suffering” With all five smaller stars glowing, it was the final, largest turn. It flared to life as Twilight went on. “In my friends memories and all those I love and who loved me, I will not go down, not without stopping you and all those who are threatening Equestria!!!”

Trixie stepped back, as the mare’s cutie mark and eyes became too brilliant to look upon. A power awoke in the mare, and she had finally gained the powers of all of the Elements of Harmony.

-In Rainbow Dash’s presidential chambers above Cloudsdale-

The president of the Aerial Nation was joined by Dr. Atmosphere and Scootaloo, in the middle of a discussion. “-Without her, we are still capable of harnessing the gift of restored flight. Contrail had discovered that Spectra can heal and improve, as well as reduce aging” Rainbow explained, tapping a jar of brightly colored liquid on the purest tones. “A treatment I intend to indulge in, and suggest the same of all my top-”

Hesitant to interrupt, Scootaloo pointed out. “Sis, the drawer is glowing!” This caught all the other two attentions, and Rainbow went to investigate.

Slowly opening the drawer, thinking a trap may lie in wait, she peered inside to find her Element of Loyalty glowing brightly. At first, she took it as a positive sign, but when the stone turned black, she was enraged.

“What is that?” Dr. Atmosphere inquired, coming around beside her.

“A relic… now” She responded bitterly. “Seems my old friend Twilight has claimed my Element’s power for herself. Almost amusing that Loyalty would be taken in an act of betrayal”

-Everfree forest, in The Castle of Shadows-

Nightmare Rarity observed her demonic minions moving like ants, reinforcing and building her glorious castle ever grander. She had remade several banners and statues to better suit her likeness. “A shame these wonders will go unseen by those who cling to the lowly princesses. Such exquisite works of art, seen by so few” She suddenly felt something shift in her realm, as she was using her magick to stretch out like a spiderweb, she knew any and all movements in the forest; physical or otherwise. She changed to smoke, and hastened to the source. She had sent her minions to retrieve some things from her old life, and here she found her Element upon a pedestal. “What is this?” She wondered, as she seamlessly shifted back into her regular form. As she trotted to the spot, the stone went black. “How dreadful! It will no longer stand out against my gloriously dark coat, this will not do” She levitated the necklace, and tossed it unceremoniously into a bid labeled “Rejected designs”

-Far beyond Equestria, in a small camp-

Applejack was finishing setting up the site, when Apple Bloom pointed as a glowing pouch. “Golly sis, what is that? Y’all got some kinda lamp in there?”

Investigating, the mare looked over the gem. “My Element…” She responded, with a heavy heart. “I figured it might come useful, but looks to be dying’” The glow was slowly fading away, unlike the first two. Applejack was silent as she watched yet another part of her disappear before her. “Guess’n this means there ain’t no reason to go back” Her voice was near to breaking, as Apple Bloom went to her.

“So’k sis,” The filly said, embracing her. “we got one another, and will avenge our kin someday. No matter where it takes us, we’ll always be together”

Smiling at her, Applejack felt pride in her sister. “”Y’all truly grown up, and the best sister in the world” She that the filly would like hearing this praise. “They’d be so proud of ya”

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Fluttershy was playing with some animals that looked like the rejected ideas to some game, and despite their appearance, she still found them lovable. She could always see past those things others are blinded by, to see the good inside.

Discord came into the room, as a theme song played. He silently greeted her, and tumbled over an ottoman, causing Fluttershy to snicker.

“You are such a silly villain” She said, as he stood.

“Only for you,” He returned. “Got the mail!” He sorted through them. “Letter, letter, birthday card,” Each he tossed away in disinterest. “Oh, a bill!” After reading it, he noticed his realm quivering. “What in the heaven is that?” He snapped his fingers, but nothing happened. “Fluttershy, go check your Element”

She got up and went into another room, then a scream rang out moments after. Discord rushed to her, and found her looming over a blackened necklace. “My… Element!” Her voice rose in anger. “They took my Element! I want it back!!” She turned, showing such fury the animals scattered and Discord floated back. “Get it back!!!” She spun around and looked at him.

“I can’t, it is one of the few magicks mine can’t effect” He explained, then squealed in fear.

Fluttershy shot into the air right at him, grabbing his face in her hooves. “What about when you stole them and turned all of us against ourselves? You could move them then!”

He was not sure why this triggered her, but he was too occupied to find out. “Well, yes… Because Celestia had them in that sad little vault. They were dormant and disconnected from you six. In use or with their barer, I can’t do much to them. That is why they can turn me to stone, and keep me stuck”

Letting him go with a growl, she asked. “Who has my Element then?”

-In Sugar Cube Corner, one of the last occupants of Ponyville-

Spike had been working to convince the ponies of Ponyville who refused to leave, to see the danger. The Cakes were among the holdouts, and they did not want to abandon all they had struggled for.

“You guys are nuts!” Spike stressed. “Canterlot is a volcano, Everfree is full of demons, the sky looks like a wet oil painting, and we have no idea what Discord is doing, but it’s likely bad. Think of your kids, what about them? Is this shop worth their safety?”

“We worked hard for this, it is our family legacy, our dream after so long” Mr. Cake countered. “We want to give this to our children when they get older, so we have to fight for it now!”

Spike could not win against them, and threw up is arms in frustration as he paced. Mrs. Cake interjected. “It’s late, and it is dangerous outside. Stay in Pinkie’s old room, just be careful of her stuff. She left everything, and we want it to be just how she left it when she returns”

He gave in, finding them both to be too delusional. He was tired, and they did at least understand the risks of the outside, so he retired to the room of a friend he did not believe to be ever coming back. He had carried the box she had given him, and placed it on the dresser as he fell into her bed. So defeated, he did not notice a shimmer in the box that lasted only moments.

-Back in the fields, just beyond where Canterlot once was-

Twilight had taken to the sky, and used the powers of the Elements to attack Trixie, who was doing well to avoid the blasts, as the Alicorn tried again and again.

“Foal! Nopony can catch Trixie!” She spun around, and drew in the stray energies and growing her own power. “You only make her Greater and more Powerful!”

“You will not dissuade me, I will achieve victory here against you! Then as you lay defeated, I will systematically take down each villain and regain Equestria!”

“Not likely” Trixie raised her brow in smug achievement, as she stood against her rival so easily now. “Let’s see just what the Alicorn Amulet can do against an Alicorn Amateur!” She switched her tactics, and went on the attack. Her corrupted, red magick fired out like a wild stream of lightning, aimed right for Twilight who summoned the full range of the Elements of Harmony to crush the opponent. The two beams met in midair, and at first it was clear the Elements held greater power, but as the Amulet and its barer pushed back, it was starting to lose strength. The stray bits of their magick was not flying off in random directions, but going right back into the Amulet, giving it even more power. Twilight realized her folly, and ended her attack. “Giving up, but Trixie can take so much more!”

Backing off to think, Twilight observed how best to deal with her vampiric foe without using magick to simply fuel her. “You can absorb magick, but I doubt you can absorb what it can control” As she finished, the ground right under the unicorn ripped open, and a new flume of lava shot out. With a terrible scream, Trixie was consumed in the fires and silenced as suddenly. “I’m sorry, but I will not allow an evil to thrive” She waited for the fires to die, and when she found nothing left, Twilight moved to her next target.

Now above Everfree, the Alicorn summoned all her magick, the magick of the Elements of Harmony, and that of the Tree. She unleashed the forces of nature upon the Castle of Shadows, and destroyed it in violent and wild display of rage. The rubble and corpses of demons scattered far, and with it Twilight was gone again.

Entering the most dangerous of places, Twilight traveled to the Realm of Chaos. “Discord!!!” She roared. “Release Fluttershy and surrender to your fate!!!”

Stepping out from his mailbox, Discord stood before her in amusement by her challenge. “Fate, my horoscope said nothing of this. Try again tomorrow”

“No more of these games, I have the full power of the Elements of Harmony, and you are finished!” She pointed at him, emphasizing her claim. “I made a promise to come for Fluttershy, and now I’m here”

“I’m not so sure that is a good idea, but I do enjoy a bit of drama” He turned his head, now dressed like a red, flamboyant pirate captain. “Fluttershy, someone to see you… dear”

Fluttershy came from the house, standing beside Discord and looking up at Twilight in confusion. “Who is that Discord?”

Twilight’s heart sank, fearing that she had been brainwashed, or her mind controlled. “It’s me, your friend, Twilight Sparkle! Fluttershy, give me your hoof, we’re going home”

“But… I am home” She moved closer to Discord, as he laughed.

“Good form, Fluttershy, good form” He looked to Twilight with an unshaken sense of triumph. “You see, you’ve lost long before you came. She is mine, and I am ready to do whatever it takes to keep her. You can fight, you can fly, and now you die!” The objects adrift became projectile, and was flying at Twilight at every angle. She fought some, dodged others, but she knew she could not keep it up. “You see, just like the movie I showed you. She has all this power, but still can’t do even the simplest task of saving a friend!”

As she struggled with the debris, as she continued to try and reach Fluttershy. “I discovered the power I needed to fight the villains, I found how I can use the Elements of Harmony to save everypony. It was you, and all our friends!”

Fluttershy looked at her, almost appearing to change, but then a darkness washed over her and she dropped this act she and Discord had designed to get at her. “You stole my Element of Harmony, Twilight Sparkle, killed it. I have no friends anymore, none beyond this realm and the animals and Discord who live here!”

“Oh, did you just renounce your friendships?” Discord grinned. “That means…” In a quick move, he used his clawed left hand to slash at her. Twilight flew back, thinking she would be diced up, but no marks were there to both their surprise. “Oh, right” He then used the pawed hand and several gashes appeared across her.

Twilight was not backing down, to be beat as she was feeling so near victory. “I will fight, even if I die, I will fight!” Teleporting, she struck Discord in the chest with her horn, and with a large blast of her energy, shot him across his realm into his home, and leaving both in a hole.

Getting up, losing any humor in his face, he healed the hole in his chest and aimed a hand at her. He was willing her to turn inside out, but she was fighting his twisted spell with her powers. “Damn, you are one with those stones” He was now chafe. “No matter, my magick is not completely blunted by this, and even with them, you can’t heal like me”

Allowing herself a moment to reach Fluttershy one last time, she attempted to break any hold he might have. “Let’s get out of here while we can, I came to save you!”

“You came to beat Discord, saving me is just a second thought” She responded, with a hateful tone. “All this time, and only now you want to help me? Well, it’s too late! I like it here, and nopony is here to judge or stop me from doing what I want. They can’t hurt me, or put me down anymore. Discord, the evil monster who stole me from my ‘friends’, is the only one who lets me be me, without any terms”

“You cannot be serious, he’s using you to get to me” She pleaded for sanity, but it was not to be found. “He put a spell on you, and gave you a Trotholm syndrome” Twilight cried out in pain, as she flew from her spot. Discord had appeared and struck her hard. She crashed through a tree, that turned to toothpicks with a few sticking in her as she passed.

Recovering and brushing away the splinters, she focused back on Discord. She was a good distance away, yet she charged up a ball of energy anyhow. He took amusement in this, and mocked her. “What are your doing? You are too far away, I can just dodge it, or redirect it, way before it-” He stopped, as Twilight disappeared. Looking right below himself, her saw her too late to do much more than yell out. The blast engulfed him, and exploded. As the smoke cleared, his top half was gone, leaving his legs and tail to crashed to the ground.

Fluttershy cried out, briefly confusing Twilight. She was starting to fear that her friend was far gone, too far gone. “He’s done, and you’re free. Let’s go back and-” Twilgiht reached out for her friend, but was again rejected.

A sound from where Discord lie caused Twilight to turn to see the legs jump up, and stand. The coagulated part of the torso started to shift and ungulate, and in a moment Discord was again fully formed in a bloody mess. “Remind me to thank Piccolo for the regeneration” He snickered. “A worthy try, only not nearly enough to defeat imperfection like me. I commend you on the efforts, but sadly, you just cannot win. Not here, not now”-

In the wintry wastes just beyond the Crystal Empire, a wild storm was tearing through at a deadly pace. In the chaos, a portal opened and Twilight came screaming out, crashing to the bitterly cold frost in a bloody mess. She struggled to stand, only to collapse again as the snows covered her.

Discord peered out of the portal, and remarked. “Have a nice moment to chill out, and think about your failures. Fluttershy and I have some Shrinky Dinks to make. Ta ta for now” He was gone, and so was the portal.

Twilight lie upon the ground, covered ever more by the snow, as the light faded from her one open eye. Weakly, as her world went dark and body going white, she said. “Sorry… everypony…”

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