Epilogue

Malbourne and his people made it to ReproScape. He flew in front of them and said, "It has been many, many moons since we have been without the Immoral Gems Influence and it is in that time of the influence where many bonds have been broken, history have been erased and all of our infrastructures are damage or destroyed: all through our inherit naughtiness. Now, we are free and we know the good from the bad as well as the knowledge that is use today. With that and our newly form friendships, let us rebuild." He command his people to rebuild their civilizations.

Sometime later, ReproScape went through some major and minor changes: many of the buildings, whether a home or shop, are cleaner and more complete compared to how it was. Some of the changes that happen was the name of the village was change from ReproScape to CrestColt, seeing how the explosion created a crescent shape in the top of the mountain, giving the citizens some light.

Another change that happen is now the friendly pony-folk coexist with both the unicorns and pegasii helping each other, whether it is a hoof or their special talent. Within the population, two adult earth ponies are amongst them as full residents: they were once a unicorn and a Pegasus who were learning about growing plants and farm.

When they try it themselves, they did not get any luck in their efforts. After so many failed attempts, they decided to go to their king and ask if he can use his powers to turn them into Earth ponies in hope they can properly grow plants with the added bonus of repopulating the earth pony population.

He heard their request and decide to help them with his magic. He use magic to transport some clips of hair he had hidden in a small organizer located in his study. With two of the hair, he brought it out and use magic to fuse the hair into the two ponies.

Than he use another spell that would take their horn and wings away. When the hair is infuse within the two, they awake to find they are Earth ponies and the king have their former parts in magic spheres. He said that they can see them all they want and if they want to change back, they can come back at any time. The two said it will be highly unlikely as they went out to spread the joy of nature as they end up married and gardeners who supply CrestColt with food and flowers.

After that meeting, the king's job was done for the day and he decide to spend the day in his study. This king is Malbourne: who goes by Bourne as of when they return and with the blessing of the four princesses and his people, crown himself king. He walks through his castle that is starting to look like the one in Canterlot. When he made it to his study, he open up the book place on a pedestal mid-room.

As he is studying potential spells, he look up at a bookcase and found his old journal. Feeling nostalgic, he use magic to get the journal out of there, close his spell book and sit down to read it. The first few entries made him cringe until he made it to his first entry in Ponyville, where he start to feel somewhat silly. Looking back, he start smiling and think about the ponies in Ponyville, mainly Apple Bloom. Outside in the hallway, Captain, now reform and is the main leader of the newly form military group, pass by and see the young king there. He sees his smiling face and knew he is thinking about Ponyville, than ask him about it.

"Greeting Captain, what are you doing?" Bourne asked.

"I wanted to let you know, the guard defense has been formed and we were planning to build new weapons. Though I must ask, have you had contact with your friends?" Captain asked.

"I... have not. I've been busy overseeing the construction of the town and the development of the people. I receive letters from Apple Bloom every now and then but I have not given one response as of our return. Just a few months prior, the letters have stop. I believe it is from me not responding or I have become a forgotten memory," Bourne answered with some sad thoughts.

"Sir, you are one of the few alicorns in this world, and you're a male aside the others who are female. I see no reason for them to forget you," Captain said. As he said that, Bourne closed the journal and thought more of the Apple family. He thought about his agenda for the day and realize he is free for the whole day and thought of something he has been thinking of doing for some time.

"Captain, I'll be going out alright, take care in my absence as it won't be long," Bourne said putting his red cape on a hook and leaving the room. He past by the newly built Stain-glass windows, which depicts the first scene with him and Apple Bloom together, the second having the Apple Family and their farm, third is of the four princesses in a diagonal formation and the fourth one is of CrestColt with a Crescent shape on top of it.

After the last one, Bourne went outside and step into the castle gardens to see how it is growing. He saw how the flowers are blooming and how his adult apple tree is doing. He brought a water hose and water it a little and use magic to bring an apple from the tree to eat it. As he finish the apple, thinking how good it is, he stop this and decide he should go visit his friend.

"I wouldn't want to forget to make sure its healthy or give it the necessities that it needs. They taught me well enough to take care of a tree," Bourne said as he began to fly and head towards Ponyville.

In his flight, he worried about how long has it been since he seen his friend and thought of whether she might be as old as her Granny or if she really has forgotten about him. He could just imagine what Apple Bloom look like after what felt like many years. But he reminded himself that friends should not be too rude to each other and he was rude in not communicating with her so no matter what, he is going to see her again and that is what matters the most.

He finished this thought as he fly above the horizon in midday.

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One year ago, I publish this story on this site. Now it is about to officially end & as my first fanfic to end, with the addition of being done on the day it was published, I want to make it special so here are some of my confessions about this story, mainly little tidbits about either myself or the story & I hope you like it.

The Seed of Darkness, An Unexpected Guest, & 1st Day, 1st Half

There is not much for me to say for the first three chapters, just Malbourne was going on what he was taught and he is so focused on his mission that he never realize he lost his Gem and he is seeing a lot of things, such as kindness and the feelings of openness.

An Earth Filly & a Male Alicorn

I am honestly surprised I have not seen that many images or usage of wings being able to turn into clothing. This is use whenever he wants to trick other ponies to believe he is another unicorn.

The idea of the spell to rewind & fast forward came to me when I thought of Pinkie Pie skipping as if she is in rewind while the background ponies notice & wonder what is she doing while they move on.

Breakup of the CMC

I had Sweetie Bell & Scootaloo follow Malbourne because they notice he is a new pony & wants to get to know him more.

The thought of someone vandalizing Twilight's castle came to me when I heard some of the complaints about the castle design & I thought of how vandalism would happen in the pony world.

The two that are accused by the crowd are Silver Quill & Lightning Bliss. Not that I dislike them, actually they were the ones I heard the complaints from & are some of my favorite reviewers.

This is one of the chapters that been through some drastic changes: originally, Applejack would see her young sister's bad behavior & told her to tell Malbourne they will not be friends any longer. The early events with Applejack didn't happen here but she did notice early than the final copy. After she told him they won't be friends, he became sad and in the scene where he is about to be taken away, he overreacted & instead create an earthquake and some lightning. Before that happen, Discord took all of the Mane Six, their immediate families & their pets into the castle as the chaos happens.

The Past & the Present

The Brony Fandom is what inspired the creation of the Power Capsules: having to pick what kind of pony you want to be with the addition of having the real owner's skills.

Because of one less type of pony in ReproScape, it took them longer than it should give birth to the Alicorn.

Not only that, they also got rid of any and all ponies that would be considered disabled.

The final scene regarding the attempted assassination made me worry the most throughout the whole story.

The End of Apple Bloom's Wild Ride

If you know what story I reference here, just know, Apple Bloom really was tempted to do such a thing, as anyone under the Immoral Gem's influence would commit all kinds of crimes: hurt, cheat, vandalize, pollute, thievery from a single bit to a vital organ in a living pony, etc. However, she didn't know where the organs are, have the proper tools to guarantee a full knockout or open her brother up without causing damage to his organs. Therefore, she settles for a different route but had filled the bathtub with ice cubes already and did not want it to go to waste.

I had thought of putting a SAW reference use on Diamond Tiara & Silver Spoon this chapter & only have it describe by their parents through a gruesome sounding note. This is because I saw how it is used in another series & thought about doing something similar, but I think I show enough of Apple Bloom's badness without it.

The whole Applejack blaming Malbourne came from an original idea where she did actually see the two hang out and notice Apple Blooms' bad behavior. Throughout the idea process, not once did she notice Malbourne's growing good behavior till later.

Both Trauer & Albtraum are German words, with the first one meaning Sorrow & Grief while the other one means Nightmare.

The School, Mature Adolescences Living In Certain Expanses Academy is the long way of saying Malice.

Battles, Siblings & Equines

During the flight above ReproScape, on the ground, a Pegasus is stealing a soap-on-a-rope. A unicorn is near her and uses magic to cut the rope with intends to have her pick it up. He hides, waiting for to pick it up when he is discovered by the Pegasus who hold up the rope and start to beat him up. This is cut for this kind of implication.

The hardest character to think of when it comes to the actions were Fluttershy & Rarity: before the change of actions, Fluttershy was meant to fight one of Malbourne's many siblings because Rarity took out three of them. However I change it to her working with Doctor Hooves to build a machine that would not only protect her animals but also attack against fraudulents.

The idea for Pinkie Pie doing her impression came when I thought of her blasting bad guys using loud music, mix with her constant real world jumps. I am not really a fan of ACDC but I have not really seen this that much.

During the fight scene, I thought of Lightning Rider throwing feathers at Applejack or Big Mac and they would do a Matrix dodge scene on the feathers. However, I was not sure how to describe it in writing & list it under maneuvers. Sorry.

The cold feel in the hallway is a reference to the "Exorcist" main setting. Not only that, but also the only named council member is also a reference, but he is just called "Captain".

Malbourne's Metamorphosis

The idea for Alicorn Applejack and Big Mac came when it is decided that they were going to be the ones going but knowing AJ's friends, they would like to give something to help them.

Something that I change from here is when Apple Bloom wakes up and what she did next turns her head around completely and say, "Our mom and dad are in Tartarus, cleaning up what Cerberus drop-." Before she says anymore, Malbourne knocks her out with a sleep spell. I figure this would be too below the belt for this situation.

This one also went through some changes: originally, the four princesses would leave their posts to add their powers to Malbourne's potion, thus giving the explosion more color and make it able to travel across the world. This was change when I check out MLP:FIM comic # 34- 37 and I didn't want to truely copy what happen here for the ending, so I scrap it & only copy what Rarity did in this series.

In this chapter, Granny Smith reverts to her old age because by the time the fraudulents are defeated, her magic gem start to fade & she became old before her grandchildren return.

Apple Bloom does remember what she did while under the Immoral Gems' influence and want to apologize, but want to do it properly.

Something that I found personally funny is as of the finishing blast, both Big Mac and Applejack are considered the biggest visual liars in ReproScape as not only did they lie about being Alicorns, they lie about not being earth ponies.

The story itself

All throughout the story, I had thought of this being a CMC story seeing how all of ReproScape, young & old, don't have a cutiemark but as the story develop & change, it becomes more of an Apple Family story.

I have been having problems while editing this and my other stories: what happens is when I try to make a new line, it would copy & paste said line or sentences, giving weird copy lines in the story. For the occasion, I went back to revise the chapters so they are shorter than they were & these copy lines will be removed. In addition, they appear when I'm done revising the story so it takes me a while to find out these though mainly it could just be my computer with the problem.

I am not really a fan of horror movies, I like to read their synopsis as well as watch some horror clips. I mention this because of where the references came from; I add these while writing because some, in a way, fit the story as well as interesting having them in an MLP fanfiction.

During writing, I have this small fear that this will turn into a shipfic with Apple Bloom & an OC. I'm not too keen on writing romance or any shipping yet and I want this to be about friendship though. However, the ending might say otherwise.

Many episodes from season 5, such as "Slice of Life", inspire this story: it mainly would have taken place before Crusaders of the Lost Mark but after the season 5 premiere.

The Characters

The name for Malbourne came to me after remembering the movie "Maleficient", and being mad at how the story is and how some of the details makes no sense. I knew what Maleficient means, before the movie, so I thought about a character with "Mal" in the name, born with ponies saying his birth foretells a fall of a kingdom while being influenced for bad.

I will admit it took me forever to come up with a design for Malbourne: I wanted him to look the same age as Apple Bloom as he is the same age as her but with the design similar to Canned Cream, the first MLP analyst I found that got me to know of the Brony community. However, I didn't want to make him too much like the pre-establish alicorns, so white is no longer an option: I thought of making him in a shade of purple, to make him made for Apple Bloom, but it is similar to how white would have work.

Eventually, I came up with him being Tan color, with blue eyes and brown, long flowing mane. When he had the gem, he is a darker color with Red color eyes. His cutiemark is an Alpha sign with a four point star making the line and the top point being the top point of the symbol.

While Malbourne is based on Canned Cream, Weapon Mage is based on Lethal Aurora Mage when she was in a collab with Silver Quill.

As for Lightning Rider, he is based on Shining Armor, if he is a Pegasus with great flying skills.

That is all, I hope you find it interesting both here & the story, so will I make another Fanfic for MLP in the future? Maybe, but for now Gokigenyou.