Twilight looked at the sprawling mass of scrolls that had slowly grown over the last year. They while she had thrown away a majority of what came with said scrolls, they were something she kept nonetheless. Even if she didn’t know the reasoning behind it.

They represented every request Celestia sent her way. The first one was a request to deal with a plague of parasprites descending upon Equestria. She told Pinkie Pie to prepare her one pony band for when they invaded Ponyville as well as to get the rest of the musicians in Ponyville ready. Then sent a quick reply consisting of, “No, get a marching band to play constantly once they make contact to lead them out of Equestria or prevent it in the first place.”

The next letter a few days later was warning of a Dragon heading towards Fillydelphia. After telling her no, and all the reasons she was saying it. Reminding Celestia that during the incident where she went back in time, but before the act itself she did an in depth analysis of problems Equestria could face. Magic Fire Suppressant systems needing to be upgraded was at the top of the list. Right above, reinforcing buildings from magical attacks. She never got a reply to that letter.

It took her an hour to tell them that Dragon’s aren’t affected by the Elements, at least not as far as their horde empowerment went. Then showed them pictures of ponies that were killed by dragon attacks. Making sure to show and explain the horror that some of the more slower, comparatively speaking, were. For each of the pony races.

They sat that night weeping into each other's forehooves as the screams from Fillydelphia echoed throughout Ponyville. But each of them knew the amount of work Twilight went into her analysis as any report she gave the Princesses, and knew from history books the Princesses once battled many dragons. And if they and the ERAF were having problems they would be more worse off than helpful.

Later that day they went to Fillydelphia, answered questions, helped survivors, and groaned at the fact that the Magical Fire Suppressant System was under fueled, not upgraded, and broken in several areas hampering the rescue missions efforts. When the populace learned that Celestia ignoring the warning of her protege were the reasons behind the deaths. Celestia’s infallibility started to drop. It dropped even further when they found out the reason that the dragon came in the first place was that Celestia never went there to place the wards and enchantments that are supposed to be attached to wherever a large amounts of bits, magical artifacts, or things that could attract the horde sense of a dragon, or other similar creatures.

That was the first day Twilight wrote to Celestia outside of dismissing her letters. It was sent to comfort an old teacher, a pony who was at one point in her life a trusted friend, and a pony that through her memories sympathized with. Even if just for a moment. Although the reply she got was from Luna knowing that she had never seen Celestia cry more other than when she was cleansed of the Nightmare.

After that the letters became less severe in what they asked for. But for some reason more elaborate and odd. That’s not counting the time Celestia sent pornographic pictures of herself with the message that she was lonely. Shaking her head from that last memory. She reminded herself that she had Friendship Court in a few minutes.

As she sat down with her friends, the first petitioner came in. It was none other than Celestia herself. She looked at the combined friends and let her head fall, as she said in a voice that was as loud as Fluttershy’s normal yelling voice, “Bearer’s, Twilight. I’m sorry for what I put you girls through. I’ve been around to see so much, and so many failures that I simply stopped trying most of the time. After all other than my sister, I never had any friends. Well none that didn’t die in the blink of an eye … there is no excuse though.

“You’re all young mares, just starting your lives. It wasn’t fair of me to send you to what looking back on it was almost certain slaughter. I’ve come to ask that you someday forgive me, and I’ll do whatever it takes to make it up to you.”

Twilight looked at her friends who nodded at her, “I can say this right now. If we’re willing to give Discord of all things a chance. We can give you a shot at friendship. It won’t be easy, and there’ll be hardships. But we’ll be willing to try if you are, after all a wise mare once told me ‘to err is equine’.”

“Deal.” Celestia said with a hopeful look in her eyes. Sure she had countless failures under her bridle, but with friends like these, she might just break the cycle. And even if she didn’t, hopefully she’d have ponies like the 6 mares before her at her side to get her on the right path.