"H-happening again?!" Twilight shouted, "What's happening to me has happened before?! But to who?!"

"Starswirl." Celestia said

"STARSWIRL?!" Twilight screamed

"Indeed." Celestia said, "Quickly, we must head to the Starswirl the Bearded wing before it's too late!"

And just like that the two ran off for the wing.

"Might I ask how Starswirl got this?!" Twilight asked while they were running

"It happened to Starswirl when he tried to learn the secrets of alicorn powers!" Celestia said, "He learned too much though and quickly all the magic within him drained until he had nothing left!"

"Did he record the effects?! Is that why we're going to his wing?!" Twilight asked

"He did and we have to hope you've not entered stage 2, by then it'll be too late!" Celestia stated

They then reached the wing and Celestia told twilight to look for a scroll that contained a reverse spell for what was going on. The only problem was that she wasn't she if it was finished or not, she didn't get to talk to Starswirl much before he lost his powers and disappeared. Finally after what felt like a long time Twilight managed to find the scroll and gave it to Celestia.

"Yes!" Celestia said in excitement before becoming very serious, "You may have taken Starswirl, but I will not let you take Twilight!"

Celestia then looked over the spell and felt tears in her eyes as her smile of hope quickly turned into a very sad face. Twilight didn't even have to look at Celestia's face to know the sad, sad truth that her only means of hope was gone as tears appeared in her eyes as well......the spell was not finished.

"No more." Twilight said sadly

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Sunset Shimmer. Who could have thought that someone like her would've been recognized as a savior of the school. Or to be more specific Canterlot High, a high school unlike any other because twice now it's fallen under attack by a creature from Equestria. Once being herself, and then another three who were sirens.

"Canterlot High just can't get a break can it." Sunset said as she tuned and strummed her Flying V Rhythm Guitar

It was lunch in the cafeteria and today the students were doing a little something for themselves. What is that you may ask? Well the students were doing a once a month thing they called "Old Times, Old Crimes" which is where they went back to the way things were before Sunset's reformation, minus the Sunset hate and Sunset Bitch thing. The reason why they were doing it was because some things were just hard to let go. They even agreed to hold it once a month at the end of every month.

Sunset was sitting with the Rocker group and more specifically Ringo and Brawly Beats. Brawly Beats and Ringo were Flash Sentry's band mates in their band called Flash Drive, and the reason why they chose that was because they felt Flash would drive them to victory. Ringo played the Bass, but originally he wanted to play the drums like his idol Ringo Starr from the Beatles who ironically shared the same name as him. However certain things prevented him from doing so, but he learned to appreciate the bass after a while.

Brawly Beats was the obvious drummer in Flash's band if his name didn't give it away. They even on occasions had the techie Atomic Adam be their sound man for any special occasion at Canterlot High. But their was something that was bugging the two that Sunset noticed.

"Okay guys what is up with you two?" Sunset said to them, "You've been acting all weird this whole morning!"

Ringo just gulped as he was about to talk.

"Um, uh, well, you know Flash?" Ringo said nervously

"Yes. He used to be my ex-boyfriend dummy, everyone knows that." Sunset said

"No it's not that." Brawly said

"What is it then?" Sunset asked

"Um, well, how can we explain this?" Ringo said again nervously

"Uh, explain what?" Sunset said a little confussed

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"This is all my fault." Celestia said sobbed as she looked at Twilight from the floor she lied on

"Princess it's-"

"IT IS MY FAULT!" Celestia shouted cutting Twilight off as she continued to cry, "I SHOULD HAVE TOLD YOU!"

Twilight was at a loss for words. She never saw Celestia this upset. This one must've been personal to her.

"Princess, if I may ask, what exactly were you suppose to tell me?" Twilight asked

"I-I-I."

Celestia swallowed some as she tried to hold back her tears.

"I-I was going t-to tell you to stay away from alicorn magic. Al-alicorn magic is what made Starswirl lose all of his. He was ar-ar-around it to-to much and it resulted in what's happening to you." Celestia stopped taking a deep breath before continuing, "He was experimenting to see if unicorns could harness alicorn p-powers, I allowed him to do it but with a warning, and he succeeded at his goal, only to discover that it was draining him of everything he had in terms of magic. There was four stages and when he reached the final stage it was over. He passed out to discover his horn and cutie mark was gone."

Twilight gasped.

"He then left us and he never returned." Celestia finished, "I guess he was too ash-ashamed of the fact that unicorn lost his abilities."

"Celestia, what was the warning you gave him?" Twilight asked

"With great power, comes great responsibility." Celestia said, "The alicorn power was his great power and his great responsibility. And then their was you. Being the princess of friendship is your great power, and your great responsibility. I should have told you that the moment you became a princess and maybe there would have been a fifty/fifty chance of this not happening."

Twilight went over to Celestia and gave her ex teacher a hug which Celestia returned.

"Twilight, I'm so sorry." Celestia said

"There's no need to be sorry." Twilight said as she felt tears come up, "It's not your fault. It's mine."

"But-"

"You may have turned me into an alicorn, but that doesn't mean I'll hate you for it." Twilight said before pulling out of the hug, "It's my fault for going into alicorn magic in the first place, but could I help it? No. No pony is perfect, and sometime's we're bound to do things that are gonna come back to haunt us later into the future."

"You have grown to be very wise Twilight." Celestia said as she felt her tears dry up, "Look, I know I'm not your mother-"

"Then stop pretending to be." Twilight said trying to cheer up Celestia, "I already look up to you as a second mother Celestia, and I don't want that to ever change."

Celestia felt a smile crawl onto her face as she got up and placed a wing around Twilight who tried to do the same.

"How about some ice cream for old times sake?" Celestia said as the two walked down the hall

"Sure." Twilight said

However unknown to the two three pairs of blue bug eyes were watching them from the shadows.