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>”Ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. That’s what Granny always says.” Applejack agrees.
>”But it’s just the power of friendship, isn’t it? We’ve used it all the time to take down whatever stands in our way and we’ve been totally fine!” Dash retorts.
>”But never that much power. And it never changed us directly like that. We were all given incredible power after being completely drained. It’s possible that power was only meant to be used in an emergency. That would explain why the box had all those locks we needed to open together.”
“Then I think it’s likely that wielding this rainbow power changed you all somehow. It might have caused you to become disconnected to the power of your elements.”
>”Hold the bananaphone.” Pinkie chimes in. “I thought Twilight used her crazy broken friendship magic to stop the Dazzlings in the Battle of the Bands! That’s still canon, right?”
>”Actually, when I think about it… Twilight was having a lot of trouble in the other world. It took her a long time to figure out how to stop them. When she tried it at first, nothing happened. Then when they all played against the Dazzlings they were overpowered even after their magic activated and they transformed. We weren’t able to stop them until I joined in. So if Twilight couldn’t use her element of magic… then that just might fit everything into place.” Sunset says decisively.
“What do you mean?”
>”Back in the human world when I tried to uh, take over Equestria… I absorbed power from the Element of Magic to do so. If some of that power remained in me, that might explain why it didn’t work until I joined. And when I finally did, we were able to summon the spirit of that Alicorn that finally stopped them. And I think that Alicorn was Harmonia.”
