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Celestia looks around as she taps her I-glasses that are recording everything that she's seeing. She had discovered a portal that lead to wherever this place is, at the base of the horse statue in front of the school. Now she's recording everything that she's seeing, which is some kind of fancy building from the looks of things.

"Luna you hear me?" Celestia ask.

"Yes I can," Luna said back on the other side of the portal. “Do you really need to do this?”

"No one believed me when I saw Sunset step into the statue, I’m going to find out what happen to her. Don't make any calls or anything to me. I don't want to end up like that guy in that alien movie where someone called him and got the monster's attention," Celestia said as she began exploring the chamber.

The first thing that Celestia noticed was how big everything is compared to her. There was a massive wooden chair in the chamber with her, it reminded her of how as a young child everything was just so much bigger. The chamber looks to be a storage room with several things covered in dust, but the mirror looked like it was new to the room from the lack of dust on it.

She found a massive door that while is in the shape of a door, like the chair and other items in the room, is much bigger than she's use to. Standing in front of the door brought back memories when she was younger and smaller where she had to reach up to reach the door handle. Opening the door Celestia found herself on an upper balcony overlooking a long hallway. She saw at one end of the balcony is a door and walk down to it.

“Sunset you can do anything.”

A voice spoke out behind the door as Celestia was going to open it. What stop Celestia was that it’s her voice. Opening the door Celestia found herself in a room that looks like one of those rooms of the super wealthy, and laying on the bed is Sunset and another Celestia but with wings and a gem embedded on her forehead.

“There’s no point in trying,” Sunset said as she lays on her back on the back while Celestia stood next to it.

“Sunset please we need you,” Celestia said.

“Why don’t you get Twilight your daughter to do it,” Sunset said.

“Sunset you’re my daughter,” Celestia said.

“You never treated me like it or cared about me till now that you have to,” Sunset said.

“I do care about you,” Celestia said.

“No you don’t. You don’t love me, you threw me into that cell with no light for months,” Sunset said.

“You tried to steal the element of magic,” Celestia said.

“Something that I should have had,” Sunset said.

“It’s yours now,” Celestia said waving to the dresser with a crown and five necklaces on it. “You haven’t even tried them on.”

“Why, I’m worthless like you told me,” Sunset said.

“I was wrong,” Celestia said.

“Why should I do anything when you’re just going got stop caring when you don’t have to anymore and throw me away like before,” Sunset said.

“I won’t,” Celestia said.

“I can’t trust you,” Sunset said.

“Sunset I’m your mother,” Celestia said.

“And you never treated me as your child,” Sunset said looking at Celestia. “I remember you calling me a mistake.”

“What can I do to make you believe?” Celestia said completely lost in how to get Sunset to believe in herself and believe in her.

“I can’t trust you, can’t love you, can’t forgive you,” Sunset said. “All I want is to have someone besides you as my mother.”

Celestia left the room closing the door behind her where she met up with her sister Luna who has been listening in.

“I can’t believe that she’s the only one who can complete the ritual,” Luna said.

“She is and if I could I would had just erase her memories but if I do the ritual won’t work,” Celestia said.

“What we’re you thinking in treating Sunset like that? Why you even had her when you never wanted her?” Luna asked.

“I made a mistake and I never once tried to love Sunset not once and made her feel worthless for all of her life. Now in a cruel twist of fate the only way to save magic is in her hands. Only if she believes in herself and is full of love for the ones around her. The daughter I never wanted is now my only hope after I burnt the bridge long ago,” Celestia gave out a bitter laugh. Having to kiss up to Sunset to get her to save magic of their world. (1)

“Which you made sure she knows. We only have a limited time before our magic starts failing and there be no way to save magic,” Luna said.

“I know. Just get ready for the spell to turn her into an alicorn that should help her to trust in me,” Celestia said.

“Maybe killing Twilight in front of her to show you will give up anything to gain her forgiveness,” Luna suggested.

“Luna?” Celestia asked shocked.

“If we’re going to make any impact on your years of being a horrible mother, you’re going to have to do things that you don’t like as it’s not doing things to your satisfaction but hers. Sunset is your daughter and you need to be one if we ever going to have a chance of keeping our magic,” Luna said.

"Yeah but how do I just get her forgive me and love me when I never care for her at all?" Celesita asked lost at how to solve the problem when she's just use to problems being solved by others instead of her.

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1 - You can’t make someone feel worthless for all of their life and break them down so that they can’t ever believe in themselves and suddenly reverse it.

Also I would love to see a work where the person who is the only one who can’t save it, doesn’t want to do it. Or because they never showed love or friendship needs that to use the item of power to save the world. Or that they were never trained or taught how to use something that only they can use.