Starlight Glimmer: [slightly muffled, over loudspeaker] In sameness, there is peace. Exceptionalism is a lie.
[door pounding]
Starlight Glimmer: Free yourself from your cutie mark. Choose equality as your special talent.
Rainbow Dash: [over] [grunting]
Starlight Glimmer: [voice fades under] Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail.
Pinkie Pie: Hey, this is pretty good!
Starlight Glimmer: [under] Be your best by never being your best.
Twilight Sparkle: Ugh, we've gotta find a way out of here! I can't take much more of that voice!
Rarity: Oh, this is horrible! [crying]
Fluttershy: There, there, Rarity... It's not so bad...
Rarity: Yes, it is! Look at those drapes! I have no idea if they're tacky or not!
Fluttershy: Well, I think they're nice.
[pulsing noise]
Rarity: [crying] So do I!
[bird tweets]
Fluttershy: Oh, thank goodness! Can you help us, little birdie?
[bird tweets]
[pulsing noise]
Fluttershy: Go on, now! Fly away and get us help!
[bird tweets]
Fluttershy: Oh, even tweets don't make sense any more!
Applejack: [grunts] This door's shut tighter than a... summer of...
[pulsing noise]
Applejack: ...uh, piglets in... shoot! I can't even make countryisms no more!
Pinkie Pie: I don't know! Maybe it'll be super fun to be all the same!
[pulsing noise]
Pinkie Pie: Sort of. More pleasant than fun, I guess...
Rose Light: Something odd about that staff. I haven't studied Eastern unicorns as much as I should have, but I'm pretty sure Meadowbrook only had eight magical items, not nine. And I don't remember any of them being a staff.
Applejack: Well, it looks like you'll have plenty of time to try to think about it.
Starlight Glimmer: [fading up, echoing] ...Choose equality as your special talent. Difference is frustration. To excel is to fail. Be your best by never being your best. Conformity will set you free. Accept your limitations, and happiness will follow. You're no better than your friends. [abruptly fades back under]
Twilight Sparkle: I've got it!
Rest of main cast: [exclamations of surprise]
Rose Light: I know how we can get out!
Rainbow Dash: [sighs] Forget it, Rose. This door's not opening.
Rarity: And I'm afraid the windows are much too small for escape.
Twilight Sparkle: But there is a third way.
Pinkie Pie: Of course! Eventually the wind and the weather will wear down the walls until they start to crumble! Then all we have to do is wait for a big enough hole to form and we can just walk out! It's the perfect plan!
[pulsing noise]
Pinkie Pie: I guess.
Rose Light: We don't actually have to escape. They'll just let us out when they think we've accepted their philosophy!
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Discord
FanfictionThe spirit of chaos and disharmony known as Discord and his wife, Rose Light, escape from their stone imprisonment following an argument between the Cutie Mark Crusaders to which Princess Celestia summons Twilight and her friends to use the Elements...
