If you have found the memories of Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie in the Act II endings and you reached either chapter 202 or 302, this is the secret "good" ending.

As the world ends with the narrator's death, you concentrate, furrowing your brow and hold the Princess' hooves. You talk about your friends--whose memories you have glimpsed. It's all coming back to you.

Applejack -- and her love of family.

Fluttershy -- and her gentle kindness.

Rainbow Dash -- and her brash loyalty.

Rarity -- and her sweet generosity.

& Pinkie Pie -- and her morale-raising parties.

You focus on those friends... and you make your way back.

You blink and see Princess Twilight Sparkle, Starlight Glimmer, and the rest.

"Princess Twilight!" Starlight Glimmer trots forward, breathless. "We thought you were gone for good."

"I thought I was too..." she says, then she reaches out. "Spike? Spike?"

You present yourself.

She hugs you. "I'm so sorry, Spike. I neglected you with all the governing I was failing at while trying to prevent society crumbling."

"It's not a problem."

"It is a problem when I decide it's a good idea to consult spirits of long-dead ponies and brood." She dismisses the simulacrum memory of her first pupil Starlight Glimmer. "I need to focus on people who care for me in the here and now."

You hear a booming at the end of the hall.

"The apocalypse is coming..." you note.

Princess Twilight sighs. "I'll remove the magic and life will survive. I cannot keep us in stasis forever."

"But what about the crow--what if it succeeds?"

Princess Twilight sets her face. "Some ponies want to stay in stasis forever... maybe we should let them? Maybe everypony should live forever.... but I can't make that reality."

"Princess..."

"Yes Spike."

"Do you think you were the crow? Did you split your personality and--"

Princess Twilight held up a hoof. "I think... we all... well, most of us, anyway, want to be the crow."

"The crow was wrong, right?"

"I..." Princess Twilight frowned. "I don't think it's possible to eliminate death. It doesn't mean we shouldn't try.... but we shouldn't destroy any world in doing so. That's deciding for everyone else."

"But you're taking away ponies' magic... you're deciding for them."

"Perhaps I am a monster. Perhaps I am wrong. Maybe all my options are bad. But at least... they will live."

With an ear-shattering crack of an earth-shattering spell--Princess Twilight opposing a certain apocalypse bearing down--cuts off pony magic from the universe--for a time.

Hundreds of years later, Sunny Starscout recovers magic for the entire world. But that is a story for another time....

Author's Note

Thank you for playing!

This is the secret 'good' ending!

It is a bit different from the video game's ending, so you may wish to check out the game!