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Caught and Punished

by ThePinkedWonder
Alternate take on Season 5 premier: here, Starlight gets caught instead of getting away.

Alternate take on Season 5 premiere:

What if the Mane Six followed Starlight into the cave? What if they caught her instead of letting her get away? What if there was also a human living back in Ponyville who had trouble making friends?



This story is an "adopted" story of my friend TheHardie-Boy's story of "Caught and Punished", and that story was inspired by Slave Starlight written by titanictime2

The prologue and chapters 1-4 are from TheHardie-Boy's version, but with some minor edits. Chapter 5 and the chapters afterward are completely written by me. Despite the "Sad" tag, this isn't going to be a downer story and it will have a number of light-hearted moments. There will still be some sad moments, of course.

Special thanks to TheHardie-Boy for giving suggestions to the story and proofreading the prologue, chapters 1, 2, 8, 11, 12, and 32, and flutterJackdash for editing chapters 3 and 5.

Teen
Complete
Slice of Life
Human
Drama
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Alternate Universe
Sad
 
OSTMS

128048 words: Estimated about 11 hours to read
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34 Chapters:

  1. Prologue 2020-02-06 16:42:42 UTC
    2443
  2. Chapter 1: A deal made 2020-02-06 16:42:52 UTC
    3822
  3. Chapter 2: First day, part 1 2020-02-06 16:43:00 UTC
    5552
  4. Chapter 3: First day, part 2 2020-02-06 16:42:35 UTC
  5. Chapter 4: Enemies become friends 2020-02-06 16:43:14 UTC
    2775
  6. Chapter 5: Forgiveness, part 1 2020-02-06 16:44:26 UTC
    4145
  7. Chapter 6: Forgiveness, part 2 2020-02-13 01:21:07 UTC
    4697
  8. Chapter 7: What's next? 2020-02-19 20:36:56 UTC
    3834
  9. Chapter 8: Differences between worlds 2020-02-27 20:31:10 UTC
    3599
  10. Chapter 9: Talking with Lyra 2020-03-11 18:36:07 UTC
    3189
  11. Chapter 10: Spike's confession 2020-03-19 21:59:05 UTC
    3101
  12. Chapter 11: Returning to Our Town 2020-03-27 16:57:13 UTC
    3631
  13. Chapter 12: A hurt Diamond 2020-04-04 15:10:41 UTC
    4156
  14. Chapter 13: Enter the Dragon Pit 2020-04-12 19:09:49 UTC
    5672
  15. Chapter 14: The magical plan 2020-04-27 17:52:42 UTC
    3927
  16. Chapter 15: Am I any good? 2020-05-05 18:51:05 UTC
    3119
  17. Chapter 16: Starlight Glimmer's atonement, part 1 2020-05-15 17:41:05 UTC
    5414
  18. Chapter 17: Starlight Glimmer's atonement, part 2 2020-05-23 22:19:17 UTC
    5579
  19. Chapter 18: Starlight Glimmer's atonement, part 3 2020-06-03 19:27:57 UTC
  20. Chapter 19: Starlight Glimmer's atonement, part 4 2020-06-16 22:28:02 UTC
    5099
  21. Chapter 20: The awards 2020-07-01 15:36:27 UTC
    3617
  22. Chapter 21: Beginning the next battle 2020-07-15 19:09:54 UTC
    4353
  23. Chapter 22: The question 2020-07-31 20:32:23 UTC
  24. Chapter 23: The answer 2020-08-13 21:54:20 UTC
    3687
  25. Chapter 24: The adorable little homewrecker 2020-09-04 20:05:55 UTC
    4941
  26. Chapter 25: How to fix a (crystal) heart 2020-09-08 02:15:36 UTC
    4427
  27. Chapter 26: The long-awaited return 2020-10-09 17:26:02 UTC
    2899
  28. Chapter 27: Like mother, like daughter 2020-10-27 18:29:01 UTC
    7633
  29. Chapter 28: Cakes and a turn of events 2020-11-11 23:58:47 UTC
    3781
  30. Chapter 29: The biggest scare 2020-11-25 16:40:29 UTC
    3569
  31. Chapter 30: The full story 2020-12-10 19:09:11 UTC
    4944
  32. Chapter 31: The hardest yet 2020-12-26 16:46:35 UTC
    4531
  33. Chapter 32: Keeping a promise and new beginnings 2021-01-16 17:22:39 UTC
    4787
  34. Epilogue 2021-01-16 17:22:42 UTC
    1125