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APPLE FACTS 16: YOU SCREWED UP HARD [Forward Dated to Monday] - Visual

Everyone shut up.

[Oh look who's back. And looks like she just woke up from one of the longest sleeps imaginable, and not one fraught with pleasant dreams. She had taken at least a little time to go through the scrolls when she got back, see how everything else had went and what was being said.

She almost wished she hadn't.]

Before we get this shit tour on the road, step one, let's clear something up. This bullshit is only one person's fault. This sure as hell isn't the fault of anyone who went in and and it sure as hell isn't Dandy's fault for trying to get everyone I dragged in out, it's my fault. I was told this was a dumbass idea and I didn't listen. There'll be more on that shit in just a minute but hey before we go there I have crap I need to tell you about what we found out inside this goddamn thing.

Calice has changed the palace in Canterlot into some kind of freaky-tiki mad science laboratory. It looks like some 90s villain corporate asshole had a field day designing their hideout and then devolves into shithole dungeons where she keeps anyone who disobeys her and anyone who she's bringing in from other worlds. She puts you in a little asshole cell and gives you the bare minimum of food we eat here, and then she stares at you like a shithead and changes your soul so it's ready to become a pony if you're a newpony she's bringing in here. If it's someone who's disobeyed her it's pretty much the same thing except it's just staring and staring until she gets whatever information she damn well wants. She's got rooms too where she has the princesses captured, has her own Element bearers stashed away, and has the element bearers from here that have disappeared held up, because bitch has to have this shit under wraps. Turned the goddamn throne room there into...hell. I dunno. it's a room that leads to outside now and back to a building where she's keeping...where I'm pretty sure she's keeping Twilight. Or her. Or goddamn whatever is happening now maybe I'll put this shit in writing because I can barely understand it. I can't focus enough on it because it was a mindscrew and I just...hell, I...just...

Shit.

...I thought this could've worked. I guess I thought, hell, I dunno, that maybe hearing everyone else would flip some switch and...

...The third time we went in went so well. She actually responded. And I thought that, maybe, she'd respond more if it was with others she recognized. I guess I thought it'd work like some kind of magic goddamn lightswitch and that while it wouldn't solve all our problems it'd help make headway. And then I thought it'd help if others knew who she was and was about and...

I over did it. I was told by others who knew better than me that I was over doing it and I didn't listen. I just thought that...the last time, if we took a step forward and I was part of the group then...hell, actual bearers would take it even further. Ponies who were a shitton more natural and better than me at this crap. But I screwed up. I was wrong, because I didn't know what the hell my dumbass actually thought aside from something magical was going to happen because I'd been shown this could work. I jumped the gun, I screwed up any progress we'd made doing this before because I didn't know what the hell I was talking about. I lost Fluttershy because of it, and I hurt all of you.

You all are behaving in some dumb bullshit over this. You want to know who's at fault? It's me. You want to know who to blame, blame me. You want to get angry at someone over it and mess with them, mess with me.

For that matter, now that I'm back Air Jappleack is grounded. I'm not going to stop anyone dumb enough to try and find some way to go in, but I'm sure as hell not going to be dragging anyone else in there to get caught because of my dumb bullshit. I'm gonna tell you not to go in there because that thing is probably pissed the hell off and going to immediately jump on anyone going into it, but hell. What do I know.

I'm sorry. I know that doesn't mean or do anything at this point but I'm sorry. I thought....I dunno.

I thought this could work. But I didn't plan enough, I didn't have enough or given enough information, this is on me. No one else.

You wanna scream at me, I'll be here. You wanna do it in person, I'll be the asshole trying to meditate on Sweet Apple Acres.

[Private to the Mane Six]

I'm sorry. I should have been there. But Dandy had a much better chance of getting everyone out if everything went to shit, and I needed to take what chance I could to find out what the ponies inside wanted to tell us. Maybe if it had been both of us warping together we could have done it quicker. This is on me. I misread everything and I hurt all of us.

If you want me to piss off for awhile? I get it. I will. Cause I can't make up for this shit.

[Private to Dandy]

You were right. I was wrong. I should have listened to you, and because I didn't I absolutely screwed us and got one of my best friends hurt.

This is my fault, entirely, not yours.

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[Her message is simple and gives no room for arguments.]

You. Me. Tea. Preferably soon.

[Well. Shit.

Being told what to do still wasn't something Japple was crazy about, but that tone of voice even made her reconsider trying to get her smart ass on. Not like she's particularly raring to at the moment.

Rarity's voice left no room for question, and so Japple doesn't leave her waiting. It won't be too long before there's a knock at Rarity's door.]

[Good choice. Rarity may be a lot calmer than when she initially returned from her part of the trip, but she still had quite a ways to go. So, when Jappleack shows up, the door just swings open and there's a gem pointed at her.

It floats there for a few moments before moving back towards the kitchen to guide her. The point leads her back to the kitchen in the boutique where Rarity has a mug set out for JA and she has a teacup set out for her.

Why? Because the concentration it takes to make sure the cup does NOT break in her magical grasp is keeping her from lashing out right away. In fact, she waits for Jappleack to sit down before she even starts.]

I told you this was a bad idea, but you wanted to try it your way and I don't know who is the bigger fool. Myself for letting you or you for believing it may actually work.

Quite honestly, I'm leaning more towards myself for not anticipating just how badly the venture would go. Now, you mentioned it was a mind screw in your little rant. Just how bad of a mind screw was it.

[Japple does a slight double take at the sight of the gem, but she follows it all the same. She takes her seat and listens as Rarity speaks, looking into her mug for the time being. It's much, much easier than looking back up at Rarity, though she does once she speaks in turn.]

Rough. Like I'm not sure I can walk the next morning rough.

I have no clue how many people, and ponies, and whatever she has in there that she's just...staring at. Transforming, slowly, to make sure they fit in here. We've all been there before, apparently, just being looked through by her. Every bit of us.

And then there's the goddamn throne room. I still don't get that. I mean, I get it, bitch wants to make a door lead to a field with another building she can do that hey. She's got the power to might as well abuse it. It's just the place looked so damn lonesome, and tepid and...

It felt like she was a prisoner there. To herself.

[She pauses for a moment, drinking from her mug. Draining it.]

...I thought it could've worked. That maybe it'd...I dunno. Wake her up a bit more to hear from you. I mean hell, you're actual ponies instead of...

[She pauses, then shrugs.]

Never mind.

[And then tries to take a drink again, looking at her mug in surprise then annoyance. That's right, she drained it already. Whoops.]

Dammit.

[Without a word she brings the tea pot over and sets it down on the table. If JA wants more, she's pouring it herself. Though, what she's describing... Rarity frowns softly.]

So, in essence, she is the reason we were pulled from our homes. So she can study us and change us to fit in a web of her design for some grand experiment to attain the knowledge she seeks. Which, according to Calice, is all of the knowledge in order to find an 'anomaly'.

She seemed particularly interested in making the Twilight suffer.

[Rarity takes a calming sip of her tea before speaking again.]

Calice is focused, obsessive and stubborn with a thirst for knowledge. In essences, the worst parts of Twilight taken to extremes and we are no closer than before in knowing how she got that way.

[Japple doesn't pour any more for herself. For the moment, she seems content to just look into the dredges of her cup as she shakes her head.]

Not even that. Finding the anomaly's important to her, but all she really wants is to prove that existence is just pointlessness. It's why she's looking into us. She thinks it'll confirm it.

No.

I guess we aren't.

[...This still was hitting a little too close to home for her. Between Nihilus and the terror the Alicorns brought to her Equestria...]

So, the question that remains is why and what drove her to this.

The last time I saw my Twilight like this, she had been corrupted by Alicorn magic. If we can figure out how she became like this, we might be able to reverse it.

[Jappleack thinks for a moment, looking back up at Rarity again.]

...I still think something happened to her world. Or even just us. It's so much further down the line, and each time I run into one of us there or someone related to us, we're so much older. And the way Dash told it to me the first time I went in, the Dash I met, it sounded like she started by plucking us one by one.

We're old. She isn't. And one by one the ponies she cares about leave her. So she tries to stop it and...something goes wrong. Or she was just wrong to even begin with and it got worse and worse. That's what corruption is, isn't it?

[Unless you're just corrupted to start with.]

...Hell. Though. Maybe I'm wrong about that too.

I'm out of my league.

I think we all are. I can only relate to what I have seen and compare it to what I know of my own world's history.

[She swirled her tea briefly before finally setting the cup down. At least now her anger has subsided for a more productive line of thought. Honestly this was hardly Rarity's expertise. She was a soldier, a Knight Commander!

Her experience in situations such as these stemmed from Luna's history lessons and her own observations about her Twilight.]

Well, if she is an Alicorn, it would explain why she does not age. We grow older and she does not. Of course, it would also explain where she is getting the massive amount of magic to accomplish this experiment of hers in the first place.

[She toyed with her cup for a few moments.]

....I have seen what has happened to Alicorns as the ages wear on. King Titan and Queen Terra are prime examples of how things can go horribly wrong. Especially when it comes to loss of a loved one. If this is a reaction to something like that...

[She shuddered slightly.]

...Calice is reminding me too much of Titan with how she was talking with us and that simply does not bode well.

[Titan.

Well that at least gets a kind of reaction from Japple. She just looks at Rarity for a moment before finally bothering to pour herself another cup of tea.]

So who was he?

This Titan asshole, I mean?

[The reaction did not go unnoticed. Rarity took a moment to gather her thoughts on the former tyrant.]

The King of the world. Or, at least he liked to think so. King Titan was Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's father and one of the first Alicorns. As such, he was immensely powerful and ancient. I think... Luna said he was over three thousand years old?

[She thought about it a moment before nodding. Yes, that sounded about right.]

King Titan took pleasure in reminding those of us fighting against him that he was in control of our fates. Everything was his to rule, it was his purpose, and was determined to return the world back to the 'natural order of things'.

If you trace everything back to the beginning, he lost whatever dignity and sanity he had after his first son died due to Discord's meddling.

[Slight shudder. That was a bit of history she could have gone without knowing.]

[Not exactly what she was thinking of. But boy did he sound similar. She takes a swig from her mug, shaking her head a little.]

Well. Dude sure sounds like a Titan, that's for damn sure.

Keeps feeling more and more like each of us are from an Equestria that's got to have a terrible past by default. Shit is kind of getting old.

Darling, you have no idea just how bad the past of my world got. In fact, none of us knew until the King and Queen resurfaced and things started to come into light. Things that Celestia hid from us for over one thousand years.

And lets not mention what she did to poor Twilight, and what happened to the rest of us.

[She takes a moment to breathe in, hold it and then slowly let it out.]

But, I agree... this kind of shit is getting old. But, at least we have a base to judge how bad things around us actually are.

Try me. I kind of come from the backwoods slums of Equestria. We're pretty much where everything that was too dogshit for everywhere else came home to rest.

[She goes to take another sip of her tea.]

[And then just barely keeps herself from spit-taking all over Rarity's carpet at the unicorns own use of the word shit. Her head bobs down humorously as she catches herself, cheeks puffed as she keeps the liquid in her mouth, finally swallowing it hard.

Still a little speechless the unicorn actually said that. She'd laugh if she wasn't certain it'd feel out of place.]

[She had been wondering if her use of words might gain a reaction and Jappleack did not disappoint. Rarity watched with amusement, calmly sipping her tea while JA dealt with her dilemma.]

Don't be so surprised darling. I spend three months running around with other rebels, sleeping in the dirt when necessary and overall just trying to keep as many ponies alive whenever we did engage the enemy. Even a Lady over hears some rather uncouth language.

[She took this opportunity to refill her own cup.]

Now where to begin? Ah, how about this. King Titan's and Queen Terra's return. They attacked Canterlot first and got to Twilight and tore Celestia apart.

Luna barely escaped and before anypony knew what was going on, Nihilus showed up. To describe that...sadistic bitch, imagine Twilight with everything twisted... love to hate. patience to impatience. Peaceful to sadistic violence.

She destroyed my boutique, put Rainbow Dash under a spell that turned her into...[She shudders slightly.]

...She used Rainbow Dash a attempt to kill Pinkie Pie...and Fluttershy. All while Twilight was trapped within her own mind.

And that was just within the first few weeks of the war.

Jesus.

[For everything horrible she had seen in her own world, war hadn't been a part of it. The evil that slunk around in her world, defined it, was of a bit of a different breed.]

Then what happened?

[War is what ended up defining her world to its very core. ]

Well...We fought. Luna came up with a plan and quite honestly, we ended up captured and nearly died.

And somehow, I'm still rather fuzzy on the details, Twilight turned the tables on her evil counter part and we were able to use the Elements to purge the corruption.

...It just took most of us nearly dying. And I am rather sure at one point Fluttershy did die.

[Sip. There was a lot she was glossing over from that fight... mostly because Rarity didn't want to dwell on it.]

Twilight was in a coma for a month after that while the rest of us organized the resistance against the King and Queen. Luna took me under her hoof and expanded my skills at bladecasting.

She made me her Knight Commander, can you believe it? I suppose there really wasn't any other choice. I already had an extensive background with war magic...I suppose that is one thing I might thank my father for. He provided me with a way to fight back against him.

[There were still quite a few issues there, but Rarity was getting better. At least she no longer had nightmares of Esteem killing her friends.]

Regardless, I'm getting a bit off track. We element bearers became leaders of the resistance. We ... attempted put up a good fight against Titan's army while Twilight recovered. I am not going to lie, I watched many ponies die in battle... both soldiers and by-standards.

Titan's arms didn't care who they killed. Ponies were expendable in the King's eyes. When Twi came back... lets just say things got worse.

[It's a lot to take in, and a lot of something Jappleack simply can't imagine or relate to. So she just listens, at least for the time.]

Death seems to kind of be the big permutation that Prime doesn't get, or at least out and out murder.

So how does it end?

So I've come to notice. I suppose that makes them blessed in one way or another to not have to worry about death like other worlds have.

[She continues to play with her cup. How did it end? Rarity would love to say with Rainbooms and triumphant counter attacks. ....Such was not the case however.]

...When Twilight came back to us, we could tell there was something wrong. Instead of the sensible mare we knew, she blamed herself for every thing that...What Nihilus did while she was trapped. We got to watch her descend into insanity.

The poor dear started to take more and more of the work on herself and tried to avoid conflict in the middle of the war. Of course, by this time.. she was a bit of a martyr so, she was expected to lead us.

Luna even made her our general. Personally, I can understand where the Princess was coming from, but even I felt it was a bit much for Twilight to handle after such an ordeal. But, she agreed to it.

She started to withdraw from us, and if Pinkie is to be believed, started talking to herself. I personally never caught her doing it, but her behavior was rather suspicious. Then there was the blow up between Twilight and Rainbow Dash... Things simply went south from there for a while.

[She sighed softly.]

There was a barrier around the inner city of Canterlot where Titan was ruling. Twilight took it down where all other unicorns failed. I'm not sure what happened after the barrier fell, I was a little busy fighting General Esteem.

But... What I do know is one of Titan's avatars attacked her. And Twilight killed it.

Luna made her our Master General, we attacked the palace... and Twilight nearly died. We all nearly died and if it weren't for the Elements, we would have. Things just kept going down hill from there.

Queen Terra slaughtered a lot of the ponies in Ponyville after that. We saved as many as we could but, even now it doesn't feel like it was enough.

Somehow, Twilight took down Terra. She tore her powers away and gave them to Luna. After that, we ended up taking three hundred ponies and rushing into battle in the Everfree.

You see, Titan had one last trick. He was initiating a spell to wipe away out free will... We fought and lost a lot of good ponies to the monsters.

Then... I died. I don't know what happened after that, only that Twilight revived me and was an Alicorn when I regained consciousness.

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