Forgiveness Accepted

by Brerdaniel

Chapter 2

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The next day. Twilight Sparkle wanders around the streets of Ponyville. But she notices that some of the citizens are just staring at her. Whispering to each other feeling like they're talking about gossip and rumors. This Twilight very concerned.

'Why is everypony lookin at me like that?' she thought. 'Did I do something wrong to them?'

Suddenly someone throw a tomato on her chest.

"Hey!" she shouted in anger. "What was that for?!"

"For being such a hypocritical pony!" one Pony answered.

Then the other ponies are starting to gang up on her.

"What's going on?" Twilight asked.

"You should know!" the other pony answered once she showed Twilight the Ponyville Chronicles newspaper.

"Princess of Hypocrite?!" she read the headlines out loud. "Twilight Sparkle has harshly banned the Cutie Mark Crusaders from the School of Friendship for accusing them of failing Cozy Glow without hearing their side of the story?!"

"How could you do that to such innocent fillies?! That is sick and inhumane!" Bon Bon shouted at her.

"Hold on everypony!" Twilight tried to calm them down. "If you all could just let me explain! This is all just a mistake! A Big Misunderstanding!"

Everypony keeps throwing fruit and veggies at her and runs away until she ran into some reporters wanting some answers.

"Princess Twilight, is it true that you have accused the Cutie Mark Crusaders for failing one your students?" the reporter asked.

"What? " shouted Twilight in shock. "Whoever told you that?!"

"There have been reports about what happened at your school yesterday." The reporter said. "Is it true?"

"Go away! Leave me alone!" Twilight shouted.

She began to run away but the angry mob of haters and reporters began to chase after her. She ran as fast as she could, but the mob is getting closer and closer. Her next option is to fly so she leaps up and soar into the skies, but she forgot that the Pegasus ponies that are also haters and reporters that can fly to as the chase still goes on as she was trying to fly fast enough to get away from the mob she was almost as fast as Rainbow Dash. So, her only option is to teleport back to her castle. She charged up her horn uses her teleportation spell to teleport back to the castle and she successfully did so she run back inside and hide herself from the mob. Starlight Glimmer came and saw running past her.

"Twilight, wha--" Starlight was getting ready to ask her something.

"Put a force field around the castle quick!" she commended to Starlight.

"What? Why?" She asked surprisingly.

"There's an angry mob of haters and reporters after me!" she screamed.

"What?!" Starlight took a peek out the door notice the mob are heading to the castle. So she wasted no time! She cast her force field spell all over the castle in order to block the crowed from trying to get in.

"Whew, that was close." said Starlight with relief she left to go find Twilight to find out what all this is about.

Starlight starts off at Twilight's room she knocks on the door. Starlight opens it a tiny bit to take a peek.

"Twilight?" Starlight asked. "I put up the force field around the castle. So, you wanna tell me what's going on?"

"They know!" Twilight cried in tears. "They know about what happened at the School of Friendship! It's all over the papers! Like how I banned the CMCs without hearing them out! They thought I became The Princess of Hypocrite!"

"WHAT?!?!?!" Starlight shouted in shock.

Twilight showed Starlight the paper that she got from Bon Bon. Starlight reads it very carefully. Here eyes went wide. Starlight was confused how word got out so quickly.

"But...but...how did this happened?!" Starlight asked. "How did word got out so quickly."

"I don't know!" Twilight said in tears.

"Twilight! Twilight!" Spike called out rushing into her room. "What's going on out there? There's an angry mob outside!"
"We know Spike!" Starlight answered. "Apparently, somepony must've wrote an article about what happened yesterday at the school. Look,”

Starlight showed Spike the papers and he reads it. Spike became shocked, surprised, and angry about this.

"What?! Who told the Ponyville Chronicle about this?! It's got to be the Cutie Mark Crusaders! I get they're mad at you and Cozy Glow! But this has gone way too far!"

"Easy, Spike!" said Twilight trying to calm him down. "Let's not jump to conclusions. It's bad enough that I banned them from my school. But I don't think they have anything to do with this! Perhaps they're right! I am a complete hypocrite!"

Twilight buries her head in shamed and started to cry. Starlight and Spike looked at her very concern about her. So Starlight tried her best to comfort her and said.

"You're not a hypocrite, Twilight. I'm sure there's a good reason for all of this. We just don't know what happened. Somepony must've heard about it while you were talking to Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash in your office. The culprit must've taken an advantage on it to ruin your reputation."

"But who would do this?" Twilight asked.

"I'm not sure." Starlight said.

"What could be worse than this?" Twilight said sadly.

Just then, Spike burped his flames to reveal a scroll. Spike picked it up and read it.

"Twilight, it's from Princess Celestia!" Spike shouted. "She says she wants you to come to meet her at Canterlot Castle immediately!”

Twilight gasped. "She knows! What would she say? What will I tell her?!"

"Calm down, Twilight." Starlight patted Twilight’s shoulder to calm her down from her panic attack. "Just tell her the truth. I'm sure she understands what you're going through right now. Just take a deep breath and go to Canterlot. In the meantime, I'll see if I can get this problem sorted out."

Twilight took a deep breath and nodded.

"Okay. Thanks Starlight." She hugged her and turns to Spike and said. "Spike, you think you can stay here and help Starlight take care of the crowd while I'm gone?"

"Sure." he said.

"Okay, I'll be back." said Twilight.

Twilight teleported herself to Canterlot Castle. Starlight and Spike decided to go outside and try to keep the crowd calm.


Meanwhile, the Cutie Mark Crusaders are off to find some ponies to earn their cutie marks. They saw an angry mob at Twilight's castle. The fillies were confused and concerned about it.

"What in tarnation?" Apple Bloom said in surprise.

"What's going on over there?" Scootaloo asked.

"I don't know." said Sweetie Belle. "This is worse than what we heard about what happened to their Friendship journal got published all over Equestria."

The three fillies race to Twilght's castle to see what this is all about.They ran into the news ponies and some of the reporters from the Ponyville Chronicle just stopped the fillies and one of them asked.
"Are you the Cutie Mark Crusaders?"

"Yes, we are." answered Apple Bloom. "But what's goin' on?"

"There have been reports about what happened to you three at the School of Friendship." the reporter answered.

"What kind of reports?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"This," The journalist showed them the newspaper about Twilight being the Princess of Hypocrite. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo read the headlines and they were completely shocked and confused.

"WHAT?!" screamed the girls.

"Is it true that you are banned from her school?" The reporter asked.

"Wait a minute!" screamed Scootaloo. "Is that why there's an angry mob out here?! Who told you about all this?!"

"We are mad at her about what happened." said Apple Bloom in defense. "But we never told everypony about all this!"

"This is all a big mistake!" Sweetie Belle shouted. "Can everypony just calm down?!"

But the reporters kept asking them more questions which put the crusaders under a lot of pressure they don't have the answers.

"Uh, girls." said Apple Bloom feeling nervous and scared. "I think we should just head over to the clubhouse just to avoid all of this."

"Good idea." said Scootaloo. She puts on her helmet and got on her scooter. "I don't want to stay here for all of this."

"Me neither." said Sweetie Belle.

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle got on the wagon. Scootaloo takes off with lightning speed on her scooter with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle riding along to get away from the reporters. The fillies head to clubhouse as fast as they could. Starlight and Spike tried their best to calm the mob down. They notice far from the distance that the reporters were chasing the fillies as they head back to Sweet Apple Acres. Starlight and Spike looked at each other as they knew why the reporters were chasing the Cutie Mark Crusaders.


At Canterlot Castle, Twilight enters the throne room where Celestia is waiting for her.

"You wanted to see me Princess Celestia?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, Twilight." she replied. "There have been news reports about you being a hypocrite. What happened between you and the Cutie Mark Crusaders?"

Twilight took a deep breath before telling mentor the whole story.

"The Cutie Mark Crusaders wanted to enroll at the School of Friendship, but I already said no to because they already know all about it. But when they helped one of my students a young filly named Cozy Glow with one of her friendship tests. She failed it on purpose and I accused them for making her failed because I couldn't let them be part of my school."

Celestia gasped in shock but keeps on listening to her student's story. Tears were starting to run down in Twilight’s eyes.

"And without hearing them out I banned them from my school without hearing them out....That's when Starlight and Cozy Glow came and tell me the truth. But when I asked the CMCs to come back in when Cozy tried to apologize to them it didn't go to well. They got mad Cozy and she dropped out of my school and they yelled at me because they think I am NO Princess of Friendship and called me a hypocrite! Now word has gotten out all of Ponyville and Equestria! It's all my fault!!!"

Once again Twilight breaks down into crying and Celestia got up from her throne and walks down to her student giving her a comfort embrace as she looks up at her.

"It'll be okay Twilght..." Celestia assured. "You just made a mistake and so do they. We all do. And it's your duty to correct your mistakes."

"But what I can I do?" Twilight asked. "How am I going to make it up to them?"

"You'll think of something...." Celestia answered. "It'll take some time. Just show the Cutie Mark Crusaders that you're truly are the Princess of Friendship and that you are their friend. I don't who reported this. But I will find out who's responsible for it."

Twilight sighed and said, "Thanks Princess Celestia...I will think of something. I just hope they won't stay mad at me forever."


Author's Note

Here's the second chapter. Yeah, Iife's been busy now a days you know how writer's block is. But at least I got this one done. So, in the next chapter Twilight and the Cutie Mark Cruasders will get this mess sorted out.