Daring Do's Remembrance

One year ago.

“So how bad is it, doc?” Twilight asked the doctor. It was another one of her daily check ups at the hospital. Her condition was getting worse so her friends insisted that she go see a doctor.

“It’s nothing we’ve ever seen before, your condition is quite unique Boss.” Said a white mare with a pink mane. She wore a nurse hat that bore the traditional red medical cross.

“Nurse Red Heart, please it can’t be that bad. Right?” Twilight said with a smile.

“I’m afraid it is pretty bad Boss, your body is slowly getting weaker and weaker. Yet from what you told me, you're still able to produce impressive strength despite the weak body. Especially after that accident you had, you need to lay off on the impressive strength it won't do you any good but drag you down to your grave.”

“Wait, what happened to me during that accident?” Twilight had a look of shock and surprise on her face.

“I’m afraid your body’s undergone trauma to the chest. That rock that hit you did more to your body than you may have realized.”

“I see, so how long do I have exactly?” Twilight sighed.

“You’ll be fine as long as you lay off the impressive powers of yours, but I’m afraid if you use it more you’ll eventually die from overusing it. So think carefully before using your strength Twilight.”

“I’ll keep that in mind”

“One more thing Twilight. We do have a treatment for this by magical means but I'm afraid it’ll take us a while to prepare the spell.” Nurse Red Heart smiled as she looked to Boss Twilight. Hearing this perked Twilight's mood a bit.

“Thanks doc. I appreciate it.” Twilight smiled and left the Doctor’s office leaving the room.

“So I just need to stop using my strength until my next appointment. Guess that means in the meantime I should stick to using magic.” She lights her horn up to levitate a pencil and starts writing down on a piece of paper.

After Twilight’s doctor appointment she had to go visit AJ for some kind of party in thanks for her ending the war, which was long overdue since it had been more than a year since the war ended.

Even though Twilight was good at magic she hadn’t used it for a while ever since returning back to Equestria. She found out that some of her magic had weakened over the course of her adventures with Daring Do across worlds.

By the time Twilight got to Sweet Apple Acres AJ was already there waving at her. Not much has changed at the farm aside from the additional defenses to protect the apples from apple thieves. She had cameras and turrets at the entrance and barbed wire fences surrounded the entire field of apple trees. Twilight levitated herself down from above as she went through some kind of barrier meant to keep unwanted thieves from flying or making their way over the fence.

“Hey AJ, what’s up?” She smiled

“Ah can never get used to flying like that you know, levitation and stuff.” Applejack said

“Heh sorry, it’s something I picked up in another world. Levitation was pretty easy to master.” She smiles and laughs a small bit as memories come back.

“What's so funny?” Applejack asked.

“Oh nothing just remember the first time I tried to levitate wasn’t really one of my best moments.” She couldn’t help but giggle remembering it. “I may have fallen face first on the first attempt.”

“Haha sounds just like you diving head first in any situation.” AJ said laughing a bit herself at the thought.

“So what did the doctor say?” AJ had a look of worry.

“I’ll be fine Applejack. I just have to stop using my strength for some time. They’re going to have me undergo some special spell that will cure me.” Applejack made a sigh of relief of hearing the good news.

“That’s great! Now come help me out with the apples if you don’t mind.” AJ said but as soon as they took one step towards the apple field an alarm went off.

“Dang it now what?” AJ said, turning around to look at the entrance. There stood a pony who seemed quite out of it. That wasn’t the only thing that surprised them though. The pony looked up and raised a hoof up in the air, as the pony did that a giant ball of black energy started to grow at the tip of their hooves.

“What the heck! AJ go warn the others. I”ll hold whoever this is off.” Twilight said, giving AJ a stern look.

“But what about you? You know you can’t use your strength this time, right? And your magic’s not so strong either.

“I’ll figure something out now go!” With that AJ ran into the barn to get the others. Leaving Twilight with her mystery pony alone.

The strange pony tilt its head at Twilight, not making a word. It stood there holding a now giant ball of black energy. Twilight had to admit that was quite impressive. She had controlled dark energy like that before but now she can’t.

“Alright who are you and what do you want?” Twilight asked the pony who didn’t respond to her.

“Fine, if you won’t talk then I guess you leave me no choice but to fight you.” With that said, Twilight Sparkle drew her sword with her mouth and braced herself for battle.

“T-Twilight……...TWILIGHT!!!!!!!” The strange pony spoke in quite an angry tone. As her name was shouted a huge gust of wind started to blow outwards from the pony. The aura was getting stronger somehow but Twilight didn’t understand what. Suddenly Twilight instantly realized who this pony was.

Before Twilight could ponder about the pony’s outburst, the pony throws the giant ball of black energy towards Twilight. Seeing this Twilight ran towards the ball and tried to hold it back. She utilizes a little bit of her strength and all the magic she could possibly muster to stop that ball of darkness from trashing the farm, the farm where her friends were having a party in.

“Damn it's no use, I can’t hold this ball of energy back without using my full strength.” Twilight said noticing that she’s getting pushed back by the ball of energy making skid marks on the ground.

Twilight soon sees her friends, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and even Fluttershy was helping her push back the ball of energy, as soon as they did this the ball was pushed back in the other direction.

“Stop! We have to somehow sling this thing upwards! Twilight shouted.

“None of us can push this thing upwards, Twilight” Rainbow Dash grunted. At this point the ball was getting bigger as the aura of the strange pony continued to grow stronger.

“And from the look of it, the attack’s only getting stronger. We can’t resist it for much longer, Twilight.” Rarity spoke as she grunted.

“I guess I have no choice. Rainbow Dash... Take care of our daughter for me.” Rainbow Dash looked confused as Twilight said this. Twilight looked back at the ball of energy as she used her full power to push the ball upwards into the air.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” Twilight grunted as she threw the ball of energy to what she assumed to be the endless space. However as soon as Twilight was finished throwing the ball of energy she grew weak and started coughing up blood. Eventually passing out for a short time.

Rainbow Dash ran towards Twilight trying desperately to wake her up. Rainbow Dash then heard another thud and saw the strange pony who she assumed threw the ball of darkness they struggled to push together. Seeing the pony, Rainbow Dash ran towards the pony ready to pound them but stopped as soon as she got a closer look.

The strange pony that started this whole scenario was none other than Boss Twilight’s own daughter who had been seemingly sleeping. The pony had Twilight Sparkle's mane but she had Rainbow Dash’s rainbow coat. Two traits she got from both her mothers.

“STARBRIGHT!!!!!” Rainbow Dash said in surprise at seeing her daughter. Starbright jumped at Rainbow’s shout. She was having a peaceful dream after what felt like a nightmare ended.

“Mom, what’s the big idea, can’t you see I'm trying to get some shut eye?” She said stretching her hooves. The second Starbright took a look at her surroundings she realized she wasn’t where she was earlier.

“Wait, how did I get here?” She asked her mother who wasn’t paying any attention to her now. She flew towards the unconscious Twilight.

“TWILIGHT! Wake up come on. This isn’t funny, Twilight.” Rainbow said, holding back tears as she tried to wake up Twilight. Rainbow Dash’s efforts were in vain because Boss Twilight didn’t wake up. Eventually Twilight did wake up after coughing up a lot more blood which now stained her purple coat.

“Thank goodness! you're ok, Twilight” Rainbow Dash said relieved.

“Rainbow... I don't have much longer.” Twilight began coughing up more blood.

“NO! You’ll be fine, Twilight. Just hang in there. I'M NOT GOING TO LOSE YOU! Not like this...” Rainbow Dash said as she took Boss Twilight to the hospital as fast as she could.

The doctors there tried to do everything they could to help Boss Twilight with her new injury, but it wasn’t enough to save her. Her friends eventually gathered around the hospital bed so she could spend the last moments with her dear friends and her only daughter.
Rainbow Dash glared at Starbright who was tearing up at her mother's side. Even though Starbright did this to Twilight, she couldn’t stay mad at her. After all she was her only daughter and probably the only family she’ll have once Twilight passes away.

“Rainbow, please forgive Starbright for what she did to me. It wasn’t her fault that she put all of you in danger. I know my daughter would never put me or my friends in danger like that. It’s not in her, but we do have a problem. One I can’t really fix and must rely on my friends.” Twilight said smiling sadly.

“When I saw Starbright before she attacked us. I sensed something inside her, something Dark.
I can’t quite put my hoof on what it is though. It almost felt like Starbright was being possessed by someone and whoever it was, they were intending to kill me.”

“I don’t recall any sort of enemy we have not defeated would want to go out of their way to kill you like this. Not to mention anypony who has the power to possess anypony... Everyone was slain by the elements or killed during the war against the zebras.” Rarity said fiddling with her gun as she was deep in thought about this.

“So Starbright, what happened to you, can you give us any leads to go on? Try to think hard and remember something while you were possessed.” Rainbow Dash asked, looking at Starbright.

“All I remember was going to bed and having a peaceful dream until a weird nightmare started to ruin my dream, but I don't think it's like any normal nightmare. The nightmares normal ponies have usually wake them up after a traumatic event scares the pony out of their dreams, but I couldn't wake up from this nightmare. No matter how hard I tried.” Starbright sobbed next to Twilight as she tried to recall the nightmare. Her mother rubbed her head and assured her everything was ok.

“It must’ve been pretty terrible for you, Starbright. But you have to be brave now and girls, whoever did this to me…… give them hell for me.” Twilight said, smirking at her friends who stood there.

Twilight closed her eyes with a smile on her face. Next came the dreaded sound of Twilight’s heart stopping on the machine monitoring her heart rate. Starbright and Rainbow Dash both started crying harder as she died. The others decided to leave and give the two mares some time alone.

“A nightmare you can’t wake up from huh, can’t say I've ever heard of that one, but either way we need to report this incident to Princess Luna. She will probably know more” Rarity stated as she looked at Applejack.

“Right, I’ll be sure to send a letter immediately and one more thing... It’s nice to see you taking charge of this situation Rarity.”

“Yes quite. Now then, let’s go and let Rainbow Dash and Starbright mourn in peace.” Rarity left the hospital and went on to investigate the mysterious incident.

Present Day

“We investigated long and hard on the incident, but never came up with any clues who had it out for Twilight. We didn’t tell Celestia or Luna about this part because we didn’t want them to worry about another threat to Equestria.” Applejack said finishing another cup of cider.

“Someone... Actually killed Twilight?” Daring Do looked shocked by the news.

“It would seem so, but honestly I think it was by pure luck. She died by sacrificing herself to save all of us. In the end we never did find out who it was that possessed Starbright. It’s quite a strange and unique power, it’s new to Equestria?” AJ said, looking at her empty mug with sad eyes.

“I’ll find out who's responsible for this, if it’s the last thing I do.” Daring Do said with angry eyes towards her mug of cider, drinking the last bit of it before standing up.

“If anyone’s going to get revenge for Twilight it’s going to be me.” Daring do said as she started leaving the stand. A dark aura began to surround Daring Do as she became filled with hatred. Eventually her eyes began to turn a shade of red over the natural magenta she always had.

However these new changes only lasted for a second as Daring Do reverted back to normal the further she walked.