Y/n POV
Starlight and I are in her house talking to each other.
Y/n: Hey uh, Starlight?
Starlight Glimmer: Yes Y/n?
Y/n: Just wondering but where are the girls?
Starlight Glimmer: They're locked in that shack over there.
Y/n: Hm, okay good to know.
Starlight Glimmer: I hope you don't mind me asking but, what is your relationship with those girls?
Y/n: They're my girlfriends.
Starlight Glimmer: You have six girlfriends!?
Y/n: Actually I have seventeen girlfriends.
Starlight Glimmer: Seventeen girlfriends?
Y/n: Well, sixteen girlfriends and one dragon princess wife.
Starlight Glimmer: Oh wow.
Y/n: And one of my girlfriends has a daughter who I think of as my own.
Starlight Glimmer: You have quite the interesting life.
Y/n: Yep.
Starlight Glimmer: I'm sorry they couldn't join us here right now.
Y/n: Don't worry they'll come around, I know they will.
Starlight Glimmer: I hope you're right.
Y/n: I am, Fluttershy'll come around first, probably tomorrow because she really finds this village pleasnt.
Starlight Glimmer: Ah that girl. Well it's time for my broadcast.
Y/n: Broadcast?
Starlight Glimmer: Indeed.
For some reason I had this image in my head from just talking to her.
Twilight Sparkle POV
We're now hearing Starlight doing a broadcast.
Starlight Glimmer: In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie.
Pinkie Pie: Hey, this is pretty good!
She said flipping through a book with only equal signs on every page.
Twilight Sparkle: Ugh, we've gotta find a way out of here! I can't take much more of that voice!
Rarity: Oh, this is horrible!*crying*
Fluttershy: There, there, Rarity... It's not so bad...
Rarity: Yes, it is! Look at those drapes! I have no idea if they're tacky or not!
Fluttershy: Well, I think they're nice.
Rarity:*crying*So do I!
A bird lands on the window seal.
Bird:*chirp*
Fluttershy: Oh, thank goodness! Can you help us, little birdie?
Bird:*chirp*
Fluttershy: Go on, now! Fly away and get us help!
Fluttershy: Oh, even tweets don't make sense any more!
Applejack tries to punch and kick the door down to no avail.
Applejack:*grunt*This door's shut tighter than a... summer of... uh, piglets in... shoot! I can't even make countryisms no more!
Pinkie Pie: I don't know! Maybe it'll be super fun to be all the same! Sort of. More pleasant than fun, I guess...
Twilight Sparkle: Something odd about that staff. I haven't studied Eastern unicorns as much as I should have, but I'm pretty sure Meadowbrook only had eight magical items, not nine. And I don't remember any of them being a staff.
Applejack: Well, it looks like you'll have plenty of time to try to think about it.
Starlight Glimmer: Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friends.
Y/n POV
Starlight Glimmer: You don't have to answer but, what happened to your eye?
Y/n: Hm? Oh this? Nothing really, I just cover my clock eye with it.
Starlight Glimmer: What?
I lift my eye patch revealing my clock eye.
Y/n: I can control and manipulate time.
Starlight Glimmer: Seriously!?
Y/n: Yep, stop, slow, reverse, fast forward and the clock tells the actual time.
Starlight Glimmer: Interesting.
Y/n: I know right?
Timeskip: Tomorrow
Twilight Sparkle POV
Twilight Sparkle: I've got it!
I know how we can get out!
Rainbow Dash:*sigh*Forget it, Twilight. This door's not opening.
Rarity: And I'm afraid the windows are much too small for escape.
Twilight Sparkle: But there is a third way.
Pinkie Pie: Of course! Eventually the wind and the weather will wear down the walls until they start to crumble! Then all we have to do is wait for a big enough hole to form and we can just walk out! It's the perfect plan! I guess.
Twilight Sparkle: We don't actually have to escape. They'll just let us out when they think we've accepted their philosophy!
Applejack: But they're never gonna believe we switched over in just one night.
Twilight Sparkle: There's one of us they might believe.
I said as we all looked at Fluttershy.
Fluttershy: Oh! Me?!
Twilight Sparkle: Don't worry you won't be alone, Y/n will be there with you.
Fluttershy: Well, that does make me feel better.
Rainbow Dash: And plus you've been saying how great this place is since we got here!
Fluttershy: But that's because everyone's so nice and their village is so pretty, and, and... Oh, you're right. They probably would believe me. I hate to lie to them. They've been so welcoming and friendly... aside from locking us in here and trying to brainwash us into abandoning the things that make us special... Okay. I'll do it.
Pinkie Pie: Woo-hoo! I mean, cool.
Fluttershy: But what do I do once I'm out?
Twilight Sparkle: You've gotta find a way to get our cutie marks back.
Then people start gathering around the shack.
Starlight Glimmer: I trust you had a pleasant night? This way, please. There are some friends who'd like to see you. Gather round, friends, gather round! We've come to ask if any of you are ready to join us! There are so many friends to be made once you realize you don't need your cutie marks or the talents that come with them.
Double Diamond: We have a welcome ceremony for new friends! The whole village joins together to build you your own cottage—
Rainbow Dash: Not interested! You may have them now, but we're going to get our cutie marks back!
Applejack: Y'all don't understand, do ya? You can't force no one to be friends! It don't work like that!
Sunny Song: Please, join us!
Rosemary: We love new friends!
Starlight Glimmer: It's all right, everyone. This is a perfectly normal part of the equalization process for those who haven't... quite seen the light yet. We'll try again tomorrow once you've had a bit more time to consider our philosophy!
Fluttershy: I'd like to join!
TwilightSparkle: Fluttershy? How could you?!
Fluttershy: If giving up my cutie mark means I get to stay in this lovely village with these lovely people, then I'll do it.
Y/n: You made the right decision Fluttershy.
Starlight Glimmer: We have a new friend, everybody!
Starlight Glimmer: Now, there's one more order of business. It seems some in our midst might be... dissatisfied with the village life!
Starlight Glimmer: Unfortunately, it's all too true, my friends! Will you kindly tell us the names of those friends who so desperately miss their cutie marks that they would sneak around in the shadows talking to strangers about it? Just so we can be sure your intentions are indeed pure.
Fluttershy: Um, I don't know who they were. Um, I'm sorry. I don't know your names and faces yet.
Starlight Glimmer: Nonsense! Obviously these people must have asked you directly. Kindly point them out!
Party Favor: It was me! It was only me! But I only wanted it back for a little while!
Starlight Glimmer: And you're quite certain it was only you?
Party Favor: I just wanted to remember what it was like.
Starlight Glimmer: And no thought to the pain you'd cause your friends. Such selfishness.
Y/n: So selfish, now get in there and think about what you did.
He said pushing him in the shack.
Party Favor: I'm sorry, everyone! I never wanted to leave the village! I love all of—
He shut the door in his face.
Party Favor: What was I thinking?! I can't believe I even considered asking for my cutie mark back.
Rainbow Dash: Don't worry. Fluttershy and Y/n will have us out of here in no time!
Party Favor: Didn't you see what just happened out there?! Your friends have accepted our way! You will all accept our way! It's only a matter of time!
Rainbow Dash: This guy's a barrel of laughs.
Pinkie Pie: Laughs don't come in barrels. They come from inside you as your body's response to delight.
Applejack: So what are we gonna do while Fluttershy and Y/n are out there lookin' for our cutie marks?
Twilight Sparkle: We have to stay as positive as we can. If Party Favor sees how much we really do like each other, even though we're all different, maybe we can use him to spread our message to the rest of the village.
Rarity: Let's hope they don't convert any of us first.
Y/n POV
We are now walking to Starlight's house and everyone is welcoming us.
Fluttershy: Gosh, you really are the nicest people I've ever met.
Starlight Glimmer: Come. All new friends stay with me until their cottage is completed. Let's get you settled, and then you can enjoy all that our little village has to offer.
Fluttershy and I are sharing a room alone together.
Fluttershy: Y/n we have to get our cutie marks back.
Y/n: Okay, we'll get the cutie marks at night.
Fluttershy: Good idea.
Y/n: You know we're all alone in this room.
Fluttershy: We are.
Y/n: You wanna do it.
Fluttershy: That does sound nice.
Y/n: Good.
5 minutes later
Y/n: Damn it! You sunk my battleship*sigh*you win.
Fluttershy: Don't worry I'm sure you'll win next time.
Y/n: Let's get some rest until nightfall.
Fluttershy: Okay
We lie in bed together and rest until night.
Timeskip: Nighttime
We get up
Y/n: Fluttershy hold my hand.
Fluttershy: Okay.
She grabs hold of my hand.
Y/n: Time stops.
I stopped time with Fluttershy still able to move.
Fluttershy: Wow.
Y/n: Come on.
We walk out the front door and we see Double Diamond with a crate with a tarp covering it.
We hide behind a corner.
Y/n: Time starts up again.
We see Double Diamond enter the house and we watch and listen to them through a window.
Starlight Glimmer: Excellent work, Double Diamond.
Double Diamond: Of course, but I don't understand why you wanted me to bring them here. Fluttershy and Y/n are one of us now. Surely she can be trusted.
She takes a jar from the crate and it had Twilights cutie marks in it.
Starlight Glimmer: This one belongs to a princess. It could be very important to our cause.
Double Diamond: But if Twilight Sparkle becomes our friend, then why do we care about this old cutie mark?
Starlight Glimmer: I just want to keep them close until everything is... settled. You may go, Double Diamond.
Fluttershy: Y/n can you stop time and take them.
Y/n:*smile*No, I believe it isn't the right time.
Fluttershy: Well I trust your judgement.
Starlight Glimmer: Aw!
She accidentally spilt at water on herself and what we saw was quite surprising, her true cutie mark revealed by the water.
Starlight Glimmer: Ugh! Starlight, you clumsy girl!
She puts makeup on her shoulder.
Y/n: Come on let's go.
Timeskip: Morning
We are now in front of the shack and so are my girlfriends.
Starlight Glimmer: I've got a good feeling about today! So, do any of you have anything you'd like to say? Aw, pity. Well, let's try this again tomorrow, shall we? No new friends today, I'm afraid!
Fluttershy: Wait! I'd like to lock them in.
Starlight Glimmer: Marvelous, Fluttershy! That's the spirit! Party Favor, will you join us, please?
Party Favor runs out of the shack and grovels at Starlight's feet.
Party Favor: I'm sorry, Starlight! I'm sorry, everyone! I've seen the error of my ways! I never want to look at my cutie mark again!
Starlight Glimmer: It seems there's cause for celebration after all!
Crowd: Hooray!
Party Favor: They tried to break me! They wouldn't stop talking about how different they are, and that somehow makes their friendship stronger!
Starlight Glimmer: Such backwards thinking.
Party Favor: But I didn't listen! I knew what they were up to, and I didn't listen!
Starlight Glimmer: Well done, Party Favor! We welcome you back with open hooves!
Fluttershy: Um, Starlight? I think we might have one more friend joining us today.
Starlight Glimmer: Is this true?
Twilight Sparkle: I-I think so. But I just want to be sure. If I agree to leave my cutie mark in the vault, I'll really be happier?
Y/n: Yes you will.
Starlight Glimmer: Just look around! Equality has given us more happiness than you've ever known!
Twilight Sparkle: And you wouldn't let me just live here in the village with my old cutie mark?
Starlight Glimmer: Out of the question. A person with a different cutie mark in our midst would destroy our entire philosophy. We are all equal here!
I stopped time and got a bucket of water and threw the water on Starlight.
Starlight Glimmer: Huh, What?!
Fluttershy: Then how do you explain that?!
Starlight Glimmer: I knew you couldn't be trusted! No! Get away!
Everyone sees her actual cutie mark.
Starlight Glimmer: Wha... What are you looking at?! They're the problem, not me!
Party Favor: How could you?
Double Diamond: You said cutie marks were evil! You said special talents led to pain and heartache!
Starlight Glimmer: They do! Don't you see?! Look at them!
Sugar Belle: Then why? Why did you take ours and not give up your own?
Starlight Glimmer: I... I had to, you fools! How could I collect your cutie marks without my magic?!
Night Glider: But the staff has all the magic we need!
Starlight Glimmer: The staff is a piece of wood I found in the desert! It's my magic that makes all this possible! You'd all still be living your miserable lives thinking you're better than everybody else if it weren't for my magical abilities! I brought you friendship! I brought you equality! I created harmony!
Double Diamond: You lied to us!
Starlight Glimmer: So what? E-Everything else I said is true! The only way to be happy is if we're all equal!
Party Favor: Except for you.
Twilight Sparkle: Everyone has unique talents and gifts, and when we share them with each other, that's how rea—
Starlight Glimmer: QUIET!
Twilight Sparkle: ...
Sugar Belle: You can't have a cutie mark, Starlight! Either we're all equal, or none of us are!
Double Diamond: Come on! Let's get our cutie marks back!
Crowd: Yeah!
They all run off to the cave.
Y/n: I'll go with them to the cave, Fluttershy lead them the house.
Fluttershy: You can count on me.
Rainbow Dash: Come on! Let's go get our cutie marks!
Fluttershy: Our cutie marks aren't in the vault! They're in there with her!
I get to the vault and everyone is having trouble breaking the glass.
Y/n: Stand back!
They all move out of the way and I swung my sword with enough force to smash the glass with the wind pressure and all the cutie marks flew through the sky returning to their rightful owners and it was quite beautiful.
Y/n: Please everyone, will you help me.
Party Favor: Ofcourse.
We make it to them time and the girls are having trouble getting into Starlight's house.
Night Glider: Stand back, everyone!
Night Glider breaks down the door.
Fluttershy: They're gone! They were right over there!
Rainbow Dash: Look!
We see a secret door where Starlight's bed was, so we enter and find ourselves in the mountains.
Party Favor then makes balloon binoculars that actually worked as actual binoculars.
Party Favor: She's headed for the pass! If she makes it into those mountains, we'll never find her!
Pinkie Pie: These are amazing!
Sugar Belle: There's a whole network of caves up there! Your cutie marks will be gone forever!
Applejack: Then let's get moving, y'all
Rainbow Dash: Oh, come on!
Starlight Glimmer: Are you all so willing to give up everything because of these strangers?!
Sugar Belle: We gave up everything for you, because we thought you were our friend!
Rainbow Dash: I can't believe we have to count on these other people to save our cutie marks!
Twilight Sparkle: If we hadn't come here to help them, they'd still be living under her rules! Now it's their turn to help us!
Fluttershy: And I know they can do it!
Sugar Belle: My newest recipe – snow pie!
Starlight Glimmer destroyed a bridge and then Party Favor made a balloon bridge to which we all bounced across it.
Rainbow Dash: She's gonna get away!
Double Diamond: Whoa! These are my old skis! This is where I first met Starlight!
Night Glider: Maybe you can reminisce another time! She's almost to the caves!
Double Diamond: Feel like an air drop?
Night Glider lifted Double Diamond into the air and dropped him near Starlight making the jars fly through the sky, so I summoned my sword.
With my sword I cut jars open releasing their cutie marks.
Applejack: Yee-haw! Finally, I can buck like a five-bit snake herder in an Appleloosa ranch house again!
Fluttershy: And you got your countryisms back, too!
We finally caught up to Starlight and she blasted magic at Twilight but she blocked it with a magic forcefield.
Starlight Glimmer: Wh– I studied that spell for years! How can you—
Twilight Sparkle: I studied magic for years too! But what I didn't know then was that studying could only take me so far. Each of my friends has taught me something different about myself! It was their unique gifts and passions and personalities that helped bring out the magic inside of me! I never would have learned that I represent the element of magic without these five! And I certainly wouldn't be here to stop you now!
Starlight Glimmer: Spare me your sentimental nonsense! I gave these people real friendships they never could've had otherwise!
Double Diamond: How do you know that?! You never even gave us a chance!
Y/n: Starlight, it's not too late, just come with us, come with me.
Starlight Glimmer: No.
Y/n: Well if you ever change your mind or need help just tell me and I'll help, and so you know, I consider you friend so please consider me to be your friend as well.
Her reply was a magical explosion which allowed her to escape.
Rainbow Dash: She's getting away!
Double Diamond: We'll never find her in there!
Twilight Sparkle: We just have to hope that when she's had a chance to think it over, she realizes that you all have taught her something.
Party Favor: It's you who have taught us something. We all came to this village because we were searching for something missing from our lives. We thought Starlight had given it to us, but now... now it seems it was in front of us all along. It's us!
Y/n: Does that mean you'll stay in the village?
Night Glider: It's our home. I'm not going anywhere.
Double Diamond: This is a chance for all of us to get to know each other again for the very first time!
Sugar Belle: And I finally have a chance to bake something besides terrible muffins!
We are now back at the village.
Pinkie Pie: Now those are real smiles.
Their cutie marks and my eye start glowing and pulsing.
Applejack: I'll never get used to that.
Rarity: I think it's divine.
Fluttershy: Does that mean that the map is calling us somewhere else?
Twilight Sparkle: I have a feeling it means our work here is done.
Applejack: Looks like you were right, Twilight. The map did have a reason for sendin' us here. We brought real friendship to these here people. Guess that's why you're the Princess of Friendship.
Twilight Sparkle: But the map didn't send me. It sent us. You're a part of me, all of you. And there's no doubt you're a part of my mission to spread friendship too.
Pinkie Pie: This feels like an ending! It doesn't have to be an ending yet, right? 'Cause that Sugar Belle can bake!
Twilight Sparkle: Maybe we can stay a little while longer. Come on!
Y/n: Hey girls.
Rarity: What is it dear?
Y/n: Thank you.
Rainbow Dash: For what?
Y/n: For trusting me.
Rainbow Dash smacked me on the back.
Rainbow Dash: Ofcourse we trusted you, you're our boyfriend*blush*and we love you and we have the utmost trust in you.
Y/n:*smile*Let's go have some fun.
Pinkie Pie: Yeah let's party!
We went to the village.
Y/n: Hey sugar Belle can I have some of your muffins
Sugar Belle: Sure, pick your favorite.
Y/n: You know if you ever need apples I know a guy.
Sugar Belle: You know I think I'll take you up on that offer.
Y/n: Cool, you won't regret it.
After a while we left the village and made our way back home.
Next: Avoiding the Crystal Castle
I'll be taking another break from
One with Time to write a new story on the Mlp The New Generation movie, but they will remain ponies.
The title of the new story is below.
Mlp The New Generation: A New Flame
I just have to say that this'll take a little while.
The picture below will be the cover.