The Day My Life Began

Halloween. Pony Style

The Third and Final Part of the Birthday Special.

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"Thank you, everypony, and welcome to the Nightmare Night festival!"

Yep. The Nightmare Night Festival was fully underway. I had waited about two weeks for this. Time in cartoons is beyond fucked up. It was Christmas, in Equestria, and we were just now doing Halloween.

It made my head hurt too much if I thought about it. I just went along with the Cartoon Time Line.

This year, I had opted to dress like the Mad Hatter. What can I say? I love his top hat. I managed to put the whole thing together soon after Twilight's mega-freak out.

Oh. Now that was a tail and a half (Pony pun!). At first, I planned to be a bitch. Then, I saw the look in Twilight's purple eyes. I had felt that level of terror more times than I could count. That fear where everything is just going to be drop kicked out of your life because you failed.

So, I tried to give her advice. I told her to relax, and that sometimes winning is losing, and losing is winning. She looked at me like I was just another disturbance in her life. She ran off. She even admitted it, under her breath.

I immediately went to Lilac. I wrote a letter to send to Princess Celestia, begging her to come to Ponyville. That Twilight was falling apart, and Celestia was the only pony Twilight would listen to.

Lilac was in the park with the Crusaders when I found her. Twilight would show up any second, ready to make things crazy.

The white alicorn arrived just as the episode said. She took Twilight to the library, and I followed after them. I listened in, hearing as the Mane Six panicked over Twilight leaving. Then, somepony asked who told Celestia to come.

That was when I walked in. I told everypony I sent the letter to Princess Celestia. I told her Twilight was having a panic attack over being tardy, and needed help. I told them that I understood the pain of a panic attack, and how much pain Twilight was in from this whole thing.

Apparently, none of them expected this as the answer. Then, Rainbow Dash had to ask where I was when Discord was around.

I answered simply. "I was having a panic attack, wondering if my daughter was okay in Canterlot."

Speaking of.

Lilac was next to me, dressed as Alice. I had told her the story of the little blonde filly after Discord, and she fell in love with it. So, obviously, I had to find her the outfit. A pale blue dress, with a large black bow, and a white apron. On her shoulder, was a stuffed bunny with a fake golden watch. She looked so darn adorable!

Lilac and I were using teapots as candy pickets, going full on with the Alice in Wonderland theme. We had them mostly filled, but then I used a little spell I may or may not have borrowed from a witch princess to make them bigger on the inside.

That spells work wonders, I swear.

Of course, it took a while to get the spell right. I've been focusing on that power, the one River Song told me about. It was mostly just a bunch of meditation, trying to focus on the power from Frederica Rose (one of my other Jumps) to help with my Plan. I knew I was going to be in River's past, and I knew that she knew not to mess with a message from Future Me to Present Me.

So, that meant Future Me had already done this. That meant I succeeded. Many think this is a wrong train of thought, that I had already succeeded and thus didn't really need to put forth much effort. Wrong. I see it as saying 'I did it because I worked hard, now it's time to work hard'. Hopefully, I'll figure it all out.