The Clouded Turnabout: The One Who Was Good (Part Two) by CloudMistDragon
"I think it's about time to end this little game, guys..." said Derpy Hooves after she had teleported them all to the destination. "I shall tell you everything..."
Derpy began her cross-eyed examination with a testimony.
How Did It All Happen?
-Ace Swift's accomplice was not Sonata like you have been led to believe...it was actually ME!
-Sonata was actually Ace Swift's master...with her knowledge of the dark arts, she made Ace Swift a slave of them. But Ace didn't mind being a dark magician, for his goal was to be number one. Besides...he and Sonata just so happened to be consensual BFF's, Best Friends Forever!
-There was just one problem with their sexually friendly relationship...Sonata didn't want any children. This was bad for Ace, because to truly be number one for generations to come, he needed to have kids to pass down his legacy of the dark arts of blackmail to. Even though he was a sex addict, none of the mares he offered to impregnate agreed to help. And that's where I came in...
-He arranged a secret meeting with me, his sister and a Celestial official secretly granted magical powers disguised as Ponyville's #1 Mail Courier, and discussed his plan...His plan for me to help him conceive his children and become a mother and father...
-He had written ten letters addressed to the ten mares who had previously refused his offer, this time planning to use a bit of force...
-He knew I was a whitemailer, the antithesis of a blackmailer. Unlike a blackmailer who sends evil letters to ponies threatening to expose their secrets, a whitemailer sends nice letters promising good fortunes to their receivers, which with the power of TRUE MAGIC come true when the sender reads them, creating secrets that will ironically destroy that receiver's life forever...
-He gave me the letters to lace with TRUE MAGIC and send to the ten mares. Inside each letter, this message was written...
"Dear "Mare's" Name,
Greetings, Mia More. I have come to humbly accept your opinion. Even though you don't like children, that's your own personal opinion to have about your own personal offspring. Instantaneously after reading this, you will give birth to an adult named "Child's Name". "Nominative Gender" will be a "Nominative Gender", and "Nominative Gender" will also be an adult when "Nominative Gender" is formed inside of you because I am not good at parenting. When "Nominative Gender" comes out of you, have "Objective Gender" read this part that says "Nominative Gender" must come to meet Ace Swift in Canterlot at once for "Personal Gender"'s destiny to be decided. Thank you.
Love,
Ace Swift
-When the mares read the letters, the magic of the whitemail caused Ace Swift's children to form in their wombs, but at one cost...their wombs were ruptured and they died, causing the magic to backfire and turning nine of them into zombies with no conscience of what happened. Thankfully, I gained control of them and turned them into my servants, as Ace did with his children when Sonata found out about him being a whitemailing cheater...
-He was in big trouble...so much trouble that Sonata forced him to punish his children by making him have them be an active part of the blackmailing scheme with the Equestrian 500. Maybe that's why Cruise Control hates Ace so much, especially with his mother being a young girl who didn't have enough mental strength to lose her conscience and become a zombie, but that's a different story!
-One different story I'd like to bring up is when Trixie did her research on this and found out about me being an evil mother who tried to steal her brother's legacy upon his death. When she confronted me about it, I warned her to throw the case and the trial or there would be consequences...
-But she didn't listen, and so I was forced to kill her! Oh, what a tragedy the Ugly and Stupid Trixie has to suffer now, all because of her foolish lust for power!
-Fortunately for me, my dream for power will come true, for I have you guys here to revive my friend, and there's nothing you can do to stop me and him from ruling the word as black and white magician siblings! MWA DAH HA HA HA!
Upon hearing this long testimony, Twilight and Phoenix just laughed.
"Ha ha...?" Derpy said sheepishly. "What's so funny? What's with that positive reaction?! STOP SNICKERING!"
""Derpy", you're pitiful..." Phoenix and Twilight said confidently as they wagged their pointers. "You've shocked us enough to get us to believe a story that is the definition of a contradiction, but if you think you can get us to believe a tale with not one, but TWO statements containing TWO glaring inconsistencies, you're sadly mistaken..."
"What?" Derpy replied nervously. "H-How?!"
"We don't think we need to tell you..." the heroes both chuckled. "We think it would be better to SHOW you!"
"The two statements that revealed the glaring inconsistencies were the ninth and eleventh statements, "Derpy"!" Phoenix and Twilight shouted. "Why? Because you got too smart and then too dumb for your own good! We'll show you where exactly you went wrong..."
In the ninth statement...
-He was in big trouble...so much trouble that Sonata forced him to punish his children by making him have them be an active part of the blackmailing scheme with the Equestrian 500. Maybe that's why Cruise Control hates Ace so much, especially with his mother being a young girl who didn't have enough mental strength to lose her conscience and become a zombie, but that's a different story!
"The problem?" they prepared to explain. "Cruise Control has never been brought up in this entire story, nor has his sister! And when you finally mentioned them, you referred to Cruise Control's sister as his mother...WHEN YOU INSISTED EARLIER THAT YOU WERE HIS MOTHER! A mother would never make a mistake like that...unless it was to try and close a case with cold logic!"
And...
In the eleventh statement...
-But she didn't listen, and so I was forced to kill her! Oh, what a tragedy the Ugly and Stupid Trixie has to suffer now, all because of her foolish lust for power!
"The problem?" they prepared to explain. "You chose a bad time to play dumb Derpy...or should we say Dixie! Did you forget that Trixie isn't actually gone? Despite everything you've tried to explain in this testimony, YOU'VE NEVER BROUGHT UP ONCE THAT YOU ABSORBED TRIXIE AND TRANSFORMED YOURSELF INTO DIXIE! And Ugly and Stupid? If you've absorbed Trixie, you must have Trixie in you...and Trixie would never stand for those kind of insults!"
"W-what does this mean?" Dixie was scared as her voice became distorted.
"Our theory is that Derpy is not the main mind of Dixie..." they had found the truth. "Trixie is! Trixie has been the mastermind of this entire scheme all along and you've just been taking orders in hopes to see your brother again, haven't you?!"
With that, Dixie finally broke down, unable to make a stand.
"HOW COULD YOU SAY SUCH...MEAN...THINGS...BE QUIET TO ME!" Trixie de-fused herself with Derpy. "Heh heh...you may have discovered my true intentions...but you are too late...Trixie is no longer in need of your friends!"
Trixie made a wet bag large enough to hold two ponies and people appear with her horn and tossed it over to Phoenix and Twilight. When they opened it, they were horrified to see that their friends, the judge and Fluttershy, were inside of it...dead. Bloody cuts had been made all over their bodies, and the words "IT WAS LIKE THIS WHEN YOU GOT HERE!" accompanied by a smiley face were drawn on their faces with black marker.
"No..." Twilight said as tears formed in her eyes.
"Trixie...you...YOU BASTARDLY FUCKFACED DAMNSEL!" Phoenix yelled. "I'll..."
"If you have an objection, hold it right there!" Trixie pulled out a blood-stained blade, licked it, and held it up to Derpy's neck. "If you want Derpy to live, you better stick with the plan and resurrect Ace Swift! Did you think the Great and Powerful Trixie dull enough to fall for this brightly naive child's child's play? Trixie had done her research on her relations with Ace Swift long before she confronted Trixie about this case. When she foolishly threatened this Great and Powerful one, Trixie realized that the easiest way to take her down and discover the legacy of Ace Swift at the same time was to darken Trixie's eyes to her treachery by staging my victory at the courtroom and later staging my defeat by her hooves so Trixie could take control of her mind and set everything up in Trixie's plot of world domination without having to lift a hoof of Trixie's own! That plan, Trixie's friend...is TRUE MAGIC. Now come on, just do what Trixie says and Trixie will spare Trixie's fool..."
Twilight and Phoenix had no choice... They reluctantly got out the spell book and followed the instructions written in it. Phoenix prepared the ritual by drawing the shape of a phoenix feather setting an ankh ablaze in the dirt and putting Ace Swift's body on it while Twilight casted the spell...
"Yes...Trixie did it...THE WORLD IS TRIXIE'S!" Trixie cheered, letting go of Derpy as Ace awakened with a powerful aura of dark magic exuding from him. "TRIXIE DID IT! TRIXIE..."
"No..." Derpy muttered as one of the ten mare zombies began to laugh. She pulled off her mask to reveal that she was...Sonata!
"You mean...I DID IT." Sonata laughed as she absorbed the other nine zombies. "You were so busy pointing out the inconsistencies...that you didn't even notice that they meant that there was one extra zombie that whole time...and you also forgot that Ace Swift has a master stronger than he...ME!"
Upon stealing the souls of the mare zombies, Sonata was able to transform herself into the evil Majin of the Dead! She grew taller and bigger than the largest tree in the Everfree Forest, donned a giant gold helmet with a giant mouth upon her head, and wore a giant blue suit of armor with an insignia of a demon being possessed by a skull with Sonata's omnipresent Masonic eye cutie mark in the center. She was now...SATANO!
"T-TRICKXSIE-YOU-" Trixie couldn't speak in fear.
"YOU ARE TOO SMART FOR YOUR OWN GOOD TRIXIE..." Satano gave Trixie an evil look in her booming voice. "MY ONLY PUPPETS WHOM I GIVE POWER TO ARE DERPY PLAYTHINGS...BUT DON'T WORRY...I CAN MAKE YOU ONE!"
The skull on Satano's armor spat out a cereal box that Satano gleefully grabbed. She then used it to seal Trixie in a cereal that was named "Admiral Grinch", and had a bunny-eared and nosed Trixie's portrait on the front saying "ARR...STAY AWAY FROM ME TRIX, MATEYS!".
"THIS IS THE POWER THAT I SHALL PASS ONTO YOU...THE POWER OF BEING SUPER-CEREAL!" Satano bellowed as she opened the cereal box and ate the cereal inside.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Trixie screamed as Satano ate her insides. "HELP ME!"
Even Phoenix and Twilight felt sorry for Trixie as Satano hurled up the cereal in disgust.
"BLEGH!" Satano spit the chewed up cereal out and it transformed into two mysterious upside-down bowls. "THIS IS THE WORST CEREAL BOX I HAVE EVER CREATED! NOT TO MENTION THE ONE WITH THE GOOFIEST MASCOT...HONESTLY, I DON'T EVEN THINK THE PRIZE FROM THIS ONE WOULD EVEN DESERVE A PLACE IN MY COLLECTION..."
"NNNNNOOOOO!" Trixie cried, being ignored as a biodegradable substance as Satano cast a fire spell on her that incinerated her to ashes...
"Oops..." Satano snickered. She then turned to the others and gave them a similar evil smile.
"Why did you kill me and eat my mare buddies, Sonata?" said Ace Swift. "I thought we were friends..."
"No Ace..." Satano's original personality was briefly restored. "We are best friends...FOREVER."
Ace Swift screamed in agony as Satano forced him to grow wings and turn into an evil red devil! Under Satano's control, he flew to her side.
"I'VE GROWN TIRED OF GIVING DERPY PONIES MY POWER..." Satano cast a fire spell and burned the spellbook. "I THINK IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO GIVE ME THEIR POWER...AND I THINK I'LL START BY HAVING THEM GIVE ME THEIR SOULS...AND BECOME MY SLAVES AS I TAKE OVER THIS MISERABLE WORLD! GWA WA HA HA HA!"
"Guys, the bowls!" Derpy exclaimed their last hope to Twilight and Phoenix. "They contain some of the power of good magic! It's what Satano expels from her body to retain her soul of pure evil! Get in the bowls and use their power...please use their power to send that thing back where it came from! UGGH!"
Derpy cried in pain as Satano stepped on her belly and started absorbing her.
"Please heed me...this once..." Derpy said finally before she went silent.
"HEH...THAT'S ENOUGH FOR NOW..." Satano was satiated. "I THINK I'LL SAVE MY APPETITE FOR WHEN I GET OUT OF THIS MISERABLE VEGGIEFEST OF A FOREST AND INTO YOUR SUGAR BOWL OF A TOWN..."
'"Oh no...Phoenix, we have to warn everyone!" Twilight exclaimed.
"I know...we can't let all the sacrifices be in vain!" Phoenix agreed.
"AS FOR YOU TWO..." Satano noticed Phoenix and Twilight getting into the bowls. "THOUGH I COMMEND YOU FOR MAKING IT THIS FAR, I NO LONGER HAVE ANY USE FOR YOU...KILL THEM, RED ARREMER ACE SWIFT!"
Forced to comply, Ace Swift flew to Twilight and Phoenix, but halted when he saw that the bowls were hovering. They turned upside-down as they levitated in the air and transformed into UFO fighter ships! Holy handgrenades secreted from both interiors of the ships and landed all around the pilot's seats. Sensing that this was the good magic Derpy spoke of, Twilight and Phoenix learned how to fly the ships out of heroic intent, and set a course for Ponyville!
Getting away was not easy. Even though Satano walked slowly sideways in her heavy suit of armor, Ace was able to soar through the air and shoot projectiles from his mouth at our heroes! Upon finally making it to Ponyville, Twilight and Phoenix used the UFO grenade launchers to fire the holy handgrenades and shoot Satano up in the face. But in the midst of the firing, Ace Swift did a Kamikaze move by slamming his body against the ships, causing them to crash into Ponyville! All of the pure grenades were detonated and blew all of Equestria straight to heaven!
Later, at a courthouse in heaven with the estimated time being ?...
Everyone in the sacred courthouse was very angry. Twilight, Phoenix, and Ace Swift (who had turned back into a regular pegasus) were all being tried for the murder of everyone in Equestria. The jury, consisting of the victims, glared at our two heroes and Ace furiously.
"Mr. Wright..." the judge Trixie victimized began. "Aside from me, Prosecutor Trixie, and Fluttershy you and your friends have caused the death of everypony in the world...how do you plead?"
"We plead for the permission to ask a question..." the three stood up out of the chairs they were sitting in. "WHY ARE WE ALL IN OUR UNDERWEAR?!"
"To symbolize your shame..." the judge bent his head despondently. "For your crimes against poniesanity, I hereby sentence all of you to..."
"HOLD IT!" yelled a voice who came into the courtroom just in the Nick of time. It was...Celestia!
"Your honor..." Celestia said valiantly as she donned Phoenix's attire. "These three kids have done nothing wrong! None of them are evil...they just did evil things for me!"
Everyone in the courtroom gasped as Celestia grabbed the right side of her hair and put it over her right eye.
"I confess..." she said innocently. "To being the true mastermind of this whole case. It was me."
Celestia went on to describe her plan in great detail...the reason a Psyche-Lock didn't appear around her when Phoenix asked her if she was evil and she said no was because she wasn't. But even though she had no intent on doing evil...that didn't mean her subjects had no intent on doing evil...
"Ace Swift is my son..." she explained about Ace. "I created him from magic and sent him on a mission to populate Equestria with my grandchildren...that was his legacy that he had to carry on, even if it meant world domination. That is why his ideals were so weird..."
"Twilight, I'm afraid to tell you that the trial was rigged..." she explained to Twilight. "Rainbow Dash was never in danger...I've been keeping her safe on the sun this whole time. The whole trial was all about trying to get you to find out about Trixie and Sonata and stopping them as part of my revenge for my children...forgive me..."
"Phoenix, as for you...all I can say to you is..." she explained to Phoenix as her grim mood suddenly brightened. "Congratulations on your victory!"
The court began to cheer as the judge handed down a "Not Guilty" verdict and confetti was thrown.
"Wait...WWWHHHAAATTTTT?!" Phoenix cried in shock.
"I shall send you back to your world now..." Celestia's horn brightened, and in the next moment, Phoenix woke up in bed back in his own world.
"Why did that happen...?" Phoenix asked himself in fear. "That wasn't a dream...what did she do?"
Phoenix looked over to his left and saw staring white eyes from the dead bodies of the judge and Fluttershy lying on the floor. On top of them was a note that he picked up and read. It said...
Dear Phoenix,
This is the rest of my revelation to you. I am your fairy godmother. Aside from Mia, I was the force that helped you win your cases and become the World's Greatest Defense Attorney. I must say though...I was quite disappointed with your loss in the case with Matt Engarde...and your loss in this make-up case I gave you... You can not lose Phoenix...YOU CAN NOT LOSE! But at least your losing streak has finally ended, and for that I have given you a reward. I have resurrected you in your home world...with a few minor changes...
Phoenix rushed to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. He was still wearing only his underwear. He could see everything that revealed who he was now.
He was now Maya Fey.
On the other side of the note, it read...
"The victory is yours. GHEH HEH HEH LEH HEH HEH MEH HEH HEH AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA GHA HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!"
Game Over
"Phoenix, YOU WIN!" Celestia, Twilight, and Ace Swift shouted together.
THE END
Thanks for reading, you are the ace of the heroes! Good night!