After her night time visitor had left and the sun began to rise, Palutena sighed, “Out of all the people on the face of this planet, out of all of them, you chose to fall in love with, it had to be me.” You’re such a silly mare. Palutena thought.

Things had been interesting over the centuries, she had to admit. Despite the global population’s relatively low exposure to her, her mere existence has had far reaching consequences. First of all, the ponies created Equestria’s metal genre based on a song she used to sing to pass the years, obviously somepony heard it, and it has grown to be very popular. Even Fluttershy is a metalhead! She looks so adorable in that Maretallica shirt. Second, ponies chose to become less skittish and taught their children the reasons why they shouldn’t discriminate based on appearances, this was due to Palutena spreading her influence as much as she could and through her priests and clerics. So when Zecora first entered Ponyville, nopony ran away, but she was instead embraced and welcomed into the community. It seems like 'Tia took my words to heart. Thirdly, oddly enough, a religion devoted to the worship of herself sprung up around her fairly quickly, Palutena thought it would take forever to build up her presence and her influence. Granted, she didn't know if she liked the idea of ponies viewing her as some kind of higher power, seeing as she was an atheist originally, but she played the part as best as she could.

I mean sure I'm a goddess and that does make me a higher power, but I was also mortal in my humble beginnings and so I'm not really comfortable being worshipped despite my divine status. It is a huge responsibility. What if I mess it up? It's like how Twilight didn't want to be treated as a Princess. Though, since being sent here I have started to re-evaluated what I think of this situation and my belief in gods. My religion, was based around my aspects of Light, wisdom, craftsmanship and true neutral in its alignment. She thought and hoped that she didn't have a group of zealots that take the religion way too seriously because that would be a nightmare to quell. A craftsworker’s quarter had also sprung up around her prison.

Ponies had started waking up and visiting the local café/bakery Sugar Cube Corner to start the day. It had recently been renovated in which they ditched the fairytale gingerbread house motif and went for a more modern style. Similar to Central Perk from that television show, Friends.

Apparently it was nearing the time of the Summer Sun Celebration and Lulu’s eventual release. Which would be good because that meant that her own eventual release was close at hand. Palutena watched several ponies who were all working hard and putting forth effort into decorating the craftsworker’s quarter in preparation of the big yearly event. It had become a contest between the various quarters, though the arcane quarter was the craftsworker’s quarter’s main rival for anything that could be considered a contest. The other quarters also participated, although they did so to a lesser degree.

There were lights being hung up as well as a bunch of bows and ribbons. Family shields with their family crests painted on them were hanging outside of workshops and stores.

The best of the best of blacksmiths, tailors, jewellers, carpenters, sculptors, and artists all lived and worked here. Even Rarity and Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie had been rushing about welcoming new ponies.

The craftman's quarter took Palutena by surprise as at first there weren't that many and she thought it was a mere coincidence that they would make their workshops near her. Well, that is until she noticed that little shrines of her hung on the walls of their workshops and that those shops that did hang small shrines to her were churning out masterful works. Which she assumed meant that her divine aspects, were for lack of a better word buffing the abilities of the craftsmen.

A group of ponies were also praying at her shrine fountain, for success and victory in the upcoming events, which she would oblige them.

As a result of her divine interference, she gained followers, and the offerings which were offered unto her would disappear without a trace every time, and it wasn't thieves that made the offerings disappear. She knew, because she had watched the offerings placed before her as they just vanished. As she was thinking about it, a group of Ponyvillians made offerings unto her. Mostly bits and a book even.

Palutena could also hear ponies’ prayers to her, which was odd at first. Even more odd was the prayers giving thanks for things related to previous ones, some prayers even mentioned that Celestia was Palutena's daughter. Which cracked her right up, and seemed to annoy Celestia to no end, especially because she couldn't do anything about it without undermining her legitimacy as a ruler.

Ponies had grafted Palutena into the Equestrian pantheon, because in their logic she was the goddess of light and Celestia was the goddess of the sun. So she superseded Celestia as light was a fundamental force of the universe and life. Palutena intended to correct this mistake as it's unfair to poor 'Tia, though granted it was only a school of thought which had been popularized recently. So to keep her place as ruler she even had to worship her, even if it was all an act to appease ponies. It still counted apparently, because when she started Palutena received a significant power boost. Which was good seeing as the person who enchanted that hunk of junk stuck in her back made a very strong petrification enchantment, which meant that she would need more power to break out or be freed via Discord. Whom she had been friends with for as long as he had been here, she had to wonder who made the sword and why, and then kick ‘em in the nads for making such an effective weapon.

Palutena turned her attention towards the cobbled streets and brick buildings with some thatch cottages mixed in, just in time to see Applejack trot by with a cart laden with apples on her way to her stall and her cider brewery.

A lot of ponies had embraced magical tech, which is just as it sounds. A meshing of magic and technology. Which Palutena had purposefully worked to push into the brightest minds of the land, through dreams, mental manipulation, and even just suggesting it to Ponies, meaning a lot of her original world’s tech was already being emulated including the internet and cell phones. And in case you are wondering, yes the rules of the internet are multiversal. Palutena was intrigued by the internet, and wondered in her centuries of boredom if it would be much like the one in her old world. So when she influenced those who could make it, she watched to see if the internet would parallel her own and the results. Yes, yes it does. Other technology she had introduced surreptitiously was the phone, the cell phone and the TV and of course computers for the internet and other uses. The government and the young ponies embraced the new technology quickly seeing how it improved their lives. This had the ‘knock on’ effect of ponies being even less xenophobic and much more accepting of more carnal pleasures, including homosexuality.

All in all these events made Ponyville the craftworkers’ capital of the world, as well as the holy town of those who worshipped Palutena. As a result, it eventually culminated into it being more than a town, however that is when Ponyville stopped growing any further than that. Though that was mostly only due to Celestia's meddling as she continued trying to keep Ponyville as tightly a knit community as possible and rejected every city bid that Mayor Mare would put forward. Palutena didn’t blame Celestia as she did this for when her sister would eventually return, which caused her to often rant about Palutena’s meddling in front of her personal shrine to Palutena. The memory of 'Tia ranting caused Palutena to giggle. She is too adorable when she is angry. Palutena reminisced.

A booming roar sounded off in the distance as a cyan and rainbow blur flew towards the invading monster or villain of the week with hoof-claws electrified. She flew over the town’s wall at a high velocity, ready to face the creature.

The town of Ponyville, a decade ago started experiencing attacks by monsters every week, instead of every other month sadly. Including huge titans and many that shouldn't exist in Equestria. At one point it caused so much disruption, that everyone got together to build a wall around the town. The Captain of the local guard, and one of Palutena’s most ardent followers, Rainbow Dash, had almost pulled her mane and tail out from the stress. This was due to her experiencing stress from the logistical nightmare of trying to get a town wall built around the city’s perimeter, and with enough space to expand. Palutena would like to assist by moving the town for space however her current situation, barred her from doing so. A group of guards rushed past trying to keep up with their Captain and ultimately failing to keep up with her.

The creature this time was one of Discord's crueler pranks, a chimaera. This was a creature with the front of a tiger, the hindquarters of a goat, a goat’s head on its shoulder and it’s tail was a snake. Palutena enjoyed watching Rainbow Dash fight as her agility enabled her to duck and weave in a smooth graceful manner avoiding hits. This was because she would favour hit and run tactics akin to DPS(Damage Per Second) classes because of her squishy defences, though what she lacked in constitution and defense, she more than made up for it with agility and technique.

The guard squad had caught up with the mare as she would dodge and leave gashes on the chimaera's body. She cut off its tail, causing it to roar in rage and slash at Dash with its claws. This however was a distraction as spears embedded into its side, its focus on Rainbow Dash leaving it open for the guards to attack the beast themselves. Ignoring its wounds, it continued to try and capture Rainbow Dash in its ire. The beast eventually fell and bled out, then Rainbow Dash called out “looks like we get to add chimaera to tonight's Summer Sun Celebration feast, boys!” The guards cheered as they collected the corpse, which would be picked clean of reagents and materials and then given to the cooks. It had been a fascinating discovery when ponies revealed themselves to be meat eaters, or omnivores.

This had been due to a famine shortly after her arrival, as a swarm of Parasprites had eaten the crops in the fields and in the Granaries, Ponies had to turn to Starswirl the bearded for a solution regarding the problem, he created a spell which altered Ponies biology so they could consume meat, and suggested ponies should eat the non sapient beasts of the wild, and those already domesticated like pigs and fowls.

Unfortunately another issue created by her presence was that Palutena's connection with the weather had overridden pegasi control while they could still affect local weather and retained cloud manipulation abilities, due to this they rarely used it, some nonsense about it treading on Palutena toes and having angered her and that is why they were diminished. So the weather was largely left to do its own thing. It took Palutena ages to make the weather cycle like it was on earth and rarely did she change it once the weather was set on its way.

This, of course, left many Pegasus without jobs, so many remembering their history as a military people, joined the military or the royal guard and PMCs, short for Private Military Companies. This in turn meant that wars weren't as distant as it was in the show and actually many people around the world had developed a culture encouraging chivalry, Bushidō, and other similar systems of honourable combat. She felt the regret returning for inadvertently turning this near utopia into what it is today, Sure, she knew her influence has helped improve lives. She had eradicated xenophobia, racism, and speciesism. That these are no longer a problem gave her hope, though sexism is still a problem, which is something that she is still working on. She knew that the show painted a picture of a vulnerable country that required a deus ex machina to survive, but through her influence it was becoming a real superpower in the world.

But Newton's third law, which states that; ‘for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ this includes actions of living beings for instance, criminals like bandits, thieves, murderers, smugglers, warlords, and sky pirates rose up to take advantage of the chaos and progress, which in turn gave birth to bounty hunters. All of this surfaced as a result of the few changes. She was not going to lie, it sucked that this all occurred because she existed or had interfered.

It was then that she was interrupted from her musings by a curious set of violet eyes belonging to a lavender unicorn mare scrutinising her statue.

Oh my! Twilight is so adorkable in person, hnng!

“Twilight, please! The princess asked us to oversee the Summer Sun Celebration, not prove that you're right and that Palutena's not real or that Nightmare Moon’s return is imminent!” Spike begged her from behind.

“She is coming, and Palutena isn't real Spike, if she was she would have done something for all these centuries,” Twilight responded.

Ouch, I know I was subtle but jeez girl that hurts. Okay, time to troll this mare.
Palutena linked her mind to hers and spoke, <<That's quite the assumption you just made, and to insult me on top of that. Perhaps I have done something and it's just too subtle to your mortal perception.>> Her eyes widened and she flinched back as if she had been shocked.

“That's impossible,” Twilight whispered.

“What is it, Twilight!?” Spike exclaimed.

<<It’s nice to see that 'Tia instilled a healthy scepticism in you. But I very much do exist, and before you ask nopony else or your dragon can hear me.>> Twilight bolted for the Arcane quarter and the Golden Oaks library with Spike holding on for dear life as she ran away. When they reached the library she used her horn to open and then closed the door, panting and collapsing after her sprint. Her eyes were still wide in fear as she watched the door.

“Twilight, why did you just bolt like that?” Spike asked with concern lacing his voice.

“I can't say, I don't know! I think somepony played a prank on me.”

Spike shrugged and put Twilight's behaviour down to stress.

<<Really, Twilight? You think you can escape a goddess?>> Twilight ran upstairs and slammed her door.

“P-p-palutena?” Twilight called out trembling with fear

<<Yes, my little pony?>>

“I’m sorry I insulted you! Please don't smite me! I’ll go to church! I’ll study a craft! I’ll do anything!” Twilight whimpered. After a moment Twilight thought she felt an eyeroll in response.

<<Twilight, I am not going to smite you, and I don't need you to worship me, though I do suggest taking up a craft you enjoy as a hobby, if only to relax so you're not so high strung. What I do want you to do is as Celestia has asked, prepare the Summer Sun Celebration and make some genuine friends.>> After Palutena had finished her order Twilight sped downstairs again, reclaimed Spike and the list she brought with him and started on her task and left the library

“Twilight? What's up now?”

“There’s no time to lose, Spike! I need to complete the tasks on Celestia's list!” Twilight replied, causing Spike to groan at her.

Author's Notes:

Rewrote in 3rd person.