MLP:FiM; Turn back time

It had been a month since the wedding and everypony was happy but after the wedding Trixie went back to traveling for now with a smile.

The Crystal Empire came back and they learned the true story behind the banishment was to protect the heart and to save the pony trapped inside as Sombra had given up his title of king and became the advisor to the alicorn queen. Chrysalis is still in charge of the hive from the hive mind but Cadence was in control of the body and they had moved the hive the Changeling queen was ruling over to the empire. At first Celestia was worried for the ponies coming from under the ruler of a vile umbra only to find that he was trying to protect them from his mother only for him to be punished for it.

They get back home and things go well at first but Pinkie had found the mirror pool by listening to what the ground was telling her and caused enough chaos for Discord to come back if he was stone.

Rainbow went to practice with the shadowbolts that night before the next day when a twister was about to endanger a lot of ponies. Rainbow stepped in and smacked Lightning Dust upside the head after dealing with the twister and Spitfire came up and asked “cadet what is wrong with you?!”

“What's wrong with me? What's wrong with her! I was coming over to visit my parents when I saw a twister coming through cloudsdale about to wreck the place!” Rainbow snipped back with a bit of a glare

“It's just training!” Lightning Dust said but Rainbow started to berate the mare,

“No, that’s not training that is being a danger to everyone around you and just by looking at you I can tell you like the extreme but is that all there is? Also that twister was about to hit princess Celestia before destroying all of cloudsdale and that's if the princess didn’t notice it. While I stopped it she was looking right at it so good luck” Rainbow said before flying over to the princess who was actually there “you okay princess?”

“Yes I'm fine Rainbow Dash but do you know where that twister came from?” she asked concerned

“Yeah it came from the Wonderbolts academy and I was on my way to see my family” she said with Celestia nodding

“I’ll take care of this, you may leave and thank you again” Celestia said with Rainbow nodding along with saluting before flying off.

Trixie returned after a familiar stallion and a meek mare came by and caused a commotion by him claiming that he is the strongest unicorn and challenged the strongest unicorns in town to a magic duel while the mare was battered and bruised but the ponies who knew her were shocked. “The name’s Windigo Sonim huns and I challenge the strongest unicorns the town has to offer to a magic duel and the winner gets the mare from me if they win if they lose they must relinquish all of their magic to me” he said and that angered the two mares at his blatant disregard of the mare’s well being but they decided that they weren’t going to lose and stepped forward as he put a strange pendant on and the mare walked over to the crowd unnoticed by the male unicorn.

“I hope they win” the mare said with hope,

“Don’t worry Winter they wont lose” one of the townspony’s said with a smile,

“You're on” they both say a bit pissed at him as they narrow their eyes at him.

“May I get your names as we never introduced ourselves the last time we met?” he said cockly,

“Trixie Lulamoon” “Maroon Ripple” they say with one being faster than the other but it was still understandable.

“Oh some members of the most renowned and hated house in canterlot your awfully far from your family” he taunted before laughing.

“I would have said the same but let's use our best spells eh Maroon?” Trixie said while lighting her horn with Maroon nodding while doing the same. Then Trixie had an idea and started her spell with a grin. Maroon noticed the grin and put the plan into action by distracting Crimson by zapping his hooves. He started firing back on Maroon who was smirking though before he could hit her horn with forbidden magic and nearly broke her horn for good. she threw up an armor spell to protect herself, Trixie fired something at him and he barely deflected it back but then a shield formed around both of them and Maroon launched another magic barrage till he pulled an ace out of his sleeves and used the amulets magic with his forbidden arts to disable their magic and it nearly worked for Maroon as she had gotten it up at a millisecond before it hit her but for Trixie nothing happened. It seemed that the amulet wasn’t helping Crimson it was helping Trixie who said “that’s cute” shocking everyone “you’re out of luck and yes I know what you did so either you give me the amulet or I can beat it off your sorry body plus we already won!” he was a bit scared but didnt let it show but Maroon said

“She’s right you know and judging by your skill you were one of Celestia's students who never left her alone.”

“So what?! she turned her back on me first so it's only fair to do the same as another alicorn will rise to take her place!” he said with Midnight telling Trixie

‘Trixie he's going to try and release the alicorn killer!’

‘The WHAT?!?’ she asked but got the response from Fallen

‘She is the reason Celestia and Luna are the only alicorns that are known.’

‘Ok so she's bad right?’ she felt them both nod and it made her afraid before glaring with Maroon and he said

“When the sun is dead and the moon is gone, time for the unnatural to reign! You won't live to see another day! The bound and the phoenix are to die for the being of order shall smite them for good! Awaken my queen and take your throne!” shocking everypony there as there was a pulse coming from the place he was standing and it caused Trixie and the amulet to disappear along with the illusion that was there.

Maroon held him in her magic and yelled “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” as her magic started to turn dark and Windigo was going to use more forbidden magic right as Crimson started to leak through while pushing Windigo back, Fluttershy said as Maroon charges Windigo with purple wisps coming from her eyes as they turned a sickly green,

“Rainbow knock him out i’ll handle Maroon” Rainbow nods and they leaped into action before Maroon could do anything Fluttershy openly kissed her which snapped her out of her rage while having her tackle Fluttershy before taking the brunt of the blow as Rainbow knocked Windigo out before anypony could stop her as Crimson came back scared at what the others were reacting to so he asked

“What happened? I’m sorry if he did anything” he said as he found the key on him “what’s this for?” he asked as he pulled it out before looking at Winter and seeing the collar on her “oh”. He unlocked the collar before sitting away from everypony ashamed of himself.

Maroon walked over to him and asked him “what happened?”

“I don't know, all I remember is getting stressed about making the battle boring while being in the battle then it faded to black.” was all he said

Celestia showed up with Luna who was confused due to her sister not telling her anything about this as Shining Armor came in with Cadence to see this while wanting to know where his cousin is. Maroon went to canterlot to tell them what she knew of what happened and made sure Crimson was not at fault as he was almost given a sentence that would cause him to shift back to Windigo. Winter stayed behind and got a welcome back party. She happily stayed with Rarity who caught her up on what happened while she was gone.

Her friends ended up having to deal with their own things such as Scootaloo who getting scared by Rainbow Dash by accident, Winter Star’s return, Crimson’s willing imprisonment vs Windigo’s rioting one and Discord’s reappearance like he just showed back up and asked about what happened to which Fluttershy told him and actually became his friend, he met Winter star and realized that something wasn't right, “i need to do something real fast don’t worry i won’t take long” he said before suddenly appeared in front of Celestia and Luna.

“Discord, how are you here? Why are you here!?”

“Well Sunbutt I just got some news that is bigger than all three of us combined”

“What do you mean?” confusion radiated out of the princesses as worry came from Discord

“He said the oath to release the Alicorn killer”

“Who is the Alicorn killer?” Luna asked

“The Alicorn killer is someone, a friend of mine, banished to the deepest depths of Tartarus. After all, she is the reason you and Luna are the last alicorns till recently.” he took a breath before saying “Let me tell you a story, Over 5,000 years ago during the Age known as the migration era. The pony tribes were coming into Equestria for the first time. After three tribes started to migrate here, there were three outcasts who were sent ahead as either fodder or to scout out a good spot to rest and then lead the rest there, these three were my friends and are the reason behind this they did not mean to leave it to their future but they could only keep this foe away as not even the mineral Orochu could kill it thanks to it using unnatural magic and i mean the forbidden kind that has to be locked away. They were Fighters of the highest class. Yet they were looked down on by others just because they were different. They never held any resentment towards the foals but towards the adults they shake their heads in shame. Three separate enemies and you've only heard about one, the next you've encountered and I'm ashamed that they're still alive for they are my opposite but they cannot die now as thanks to a magical imbalance that was caused around that time, if they go, I go as well and vice versa unless the elements are destroyed, the last one is actually a group one of the first governments of Equestria or a failed attempt of one six ponies all unicorn major egos is locked away in a chest and unknown place. think upon those stories there's more than you know now I gotta get back to my friend just wanted to let you know.”

They were confused after Discord teleported back to his friends and had fun while causing mischief in small ways like pranks. He even got together with Pinkie and Rainbow Dash to prank all of Ponyville at once which made everyone angry for a bit. After Maroon returned home exhausted she turned in as Crimson had been locked up and had his magic taken from him as punishment but she felt it was too harsh and he didn’t know what happened to him after the shift.

The next day she was visited by Winter Star about something “um hello?”
“Hm?” Maroon said while looking at the door “oh hello! Come on in” she said before opening the door and letting the nervous mare in “im maroon ripple what's your name?” she said before holding up her hoof for a hoof shake,

“I'm Winter Star” she said before giving one back but Maroon was shocked before smiling.

“I've heard a lot about your Winter, don't worry it was only good things.” Maroon said with a smile which shocked Winter.

“How much did you ask?” Winter asked confused.

“Actually i asked our friends after learning about you from Applebloom and Scootaloo” Maroon said which shocked Winter “if you want to be here i wont mind having a roommate” she said cheerfully shocking Winter even more.

“How did you know what I was going to ask?”

“I didnt i just guessed” Maroon said “oh and don't worry about the orphans i decided to pay them a visit after learning about it. You can take it back if you would like?” which Winter nods with a smile on her face with how friendly Maroon was, before heading downstairs after noticing a book on the table.

“Why is that book out?” she asked, curious.

“Oh I just got it from Celestia today and she wants me to complete an unfinished spell from it” she said before walking over to it and going back to reading winter made her way to bed as it had been a long day for her. Maroon read the spell out loud near the elements, which somehow Winter didnt notice on her way down, causing the cutie mark, mix up for her friends. After that the ponies were not happy with what occurred but Maroon managed to fix it by showing her friends their true purpose and helping them get their right cutie mark back. After writing about how friendship conquered as she finished, the elements disintegrated her unicorn body while transferring her soul to the realm of ascension where princess Celestia showed her what she has been through and how she persevered through her toughest challenges while remaining true to herself. “Princess?” Maroon said worried for herself and her friends.

“Yes Maroon?” she asked, curious about the question.

“Is it alright to take a break from the elements sometime soon as I feel as if something might happen because of them being alive”

“When did you learn this?”

“Discord told us in his own way and we figured it out from there. We also hear them in our thoughts sometimes and it makes us feel odd. If it's alright we would like to be separated from them for a while and see how it goes?”

“Thank you for letting me know but in the meantime I’m having the guard looking for Trixie as i think something might have happened to her but now is not the time for that” she said as Maroons magic constructed a new body for her as her cutie mark descended out of the library her friends gathered out there to meet her only for her to reveal that she is an alicorn shocking them. Sure it was a surprise but in the end it worked out in the end as Discord popped into the scene with curiosity.

“How long are you willing to wait for this to happen?” he asked her.

“Not too long as i now have my coronation to go to and make sure everything is ok” Maroon said with Discord nodding. Winter was shocked at how all that happened in a day and passed out. The coronation went fine and it was the Shadowbolts first show with the Wonderbolts.