Ninth Kindness [Visual]

[shy_kindness]

[Fluttershy opens her scroll. She looks a little urgent and a tiny bit ashamed.]

Omigoodness, with all that's been going on, we forgot about this! The Princesses have been saved from Tartarus! Me, Fluttercruel, and some others went into Tartarus to rescue them, and with the help of a unicorn named Alicantor, we, um... made sure that the creature that was trying to attack them didn't hurt Princesses Celestia, Cadance, and Luna.

So, um... just so you know they're safe now.

[She kind of... sits there awkwardly for a couple seconds before rolling the scroll up.]

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[verygassy]

Well, considering Luna's on the rampage, it figures...

hang on this may take a bit

[verygassy]

...that...wait a sec

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...

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...........

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.........................................ah--

DONE

[verygassy]

Wait a second, who helped you!?

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[shy_kindness]

Um. Alicantor. He was still in his shackles, though...

Was he not supposed to...?

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[verygassy]

How about you can't have been helped by Alicantor because it makes no sense! The only Alicantor in the history of ever isn't even around anymore.

[And when did you become the history expert Minako YOU DON'T KNOW THAT FOR SURE--]

Also he wasn't a unicorn.

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[cruel_kindness]

[Cruelly takes over.]

And how do you know that? We met Alicantor.

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[verygassy]

Because! The ruins of Stalliongrad had info on him! He was the last alicorn ruler and he got blasted with the Elements by his mentor.

Ask any pony who's been there and seen the relics!

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[cruel_kindness]

So he was lying to us? What the buck was on the relics to begin with? What did they say?

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[verygassy]

He had to have been! His mentor had to use the Elements and lots of ponies got caught up in what happened. It ended their entire civilization!

Seriously! Twilight can back me up on this!

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[cruel_kindness]

...Well, Purple? This conversation ain't private. Or was she one of the ones that got Rainbow'd?

In any case, what did Tall, Dark, and Evil do to destroy civilization?

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[verygassy]

...She better not have been. I was gonna invite her to riff that awful movie in the charity thingy I'm planning.

[Also partner in LEARNING ABOUT SILVER MILLENNUMS in Equestria apparently]

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[cruel_kindness]

Don't really care about the movie, blondie. Only the faker. Did it say what he did?

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[verygassy]

Basically? He was being corrupted and doing terrible things. There wasn't much in specifics, but it was apparently bad enough that the Pale Pony gave somepony the Elements to use on him!

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[shy_kindness]

The Pale Pony? Omigoodness!

...W- wait, the real one? Oh. Um... That's still really shocking.

But... then why would the pony I talked to be locked up? He was helping us...

[Fluttershy is now a little confused.]

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[soulofblue]

Um...I'm not Twilight, but...that's all true. We found several different documents about it. They weren't very specific though - they just said that he was afflicted by the Corruption, he was using something called the Word of Truth, and so...

...well. Supposedly the Pale Pony came to the author in a dream and gave him the Elements to defeat Alicantor.

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[cruel_kindness]

Whoever he was, he didn't look corrupted at all. And we dodn't ask much about who he is. We only argued that the things in Tartarus weren't completely irredeemable.

[soulofblue]

Well...if it was the same Alicantor, he's been through several thousand years and presumably exposure to the Elements of Harmony between then and now. I'd be surprised if he were exactly the same.

But you said he was a unicorn?

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[cruel_kindness]

Yeah. Black coat, grey mane, green eyes, and freckles. Looked kinda cute, too.

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[magicalrealist]

Minako's right. Entries recovered all point to Alicantor being the last alicorn ruler of Stalliongrad before it was wiped off the map.

He's also the reason Stalliongrad was wiped off the map.

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[cruel_kindness]

So we have some fewmetface lying about who he is. Care to join us after everything gets repaired on a trip back to Tartarus?

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[magicalrealist]

Of course. I have to see this for myself, especially since there's a chance he isn't lying. You know what the Elements of Harmony can do to their target.

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[cruel_kindness]

Great. We're planning with some other people to go after everything gets rebuilt. Two others said they wanna join.