Background Pony #158B
"@Phantom Rider":/1096106#comment_5082846
Well there IS _The Great Alicorn Hunt_ by Ralph Hayes Jr. where not only is Apple Bloom turned into an Alicorn (1/5th the way through the story so far): but also the Mane Six to become Alicorns because Twilight had modified Starswirls' Spell to have them all Ascend at the same time:
[bq]_In another time, another place, an alicorn Princess sent her faithful student a final test-- an unfinished spell by the greatest unicorn mage in Equestrian history. After a near-disastrous first effort, the student finally solved the riddle of the spell, completed it, and was transformed (as her mentor had planned) into an alicorn princess._
This is not that time and place.
In _this_ time and place, when Twilight received a certain notebook by a certain Starswirl the Bearded from a certain Princess, she actually had half a clue as to what she was doing the FIRST time...[/bq]
_"From one to another, another to one._
_A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, UNfulfilled;_
_From all of us together,_
_To each of us together,_
_With the marks of our destinies made one,_
_and one shared by all without end."_
[bq]_The canon version seemed to be more about fulfilling one pony's destiny...which made it seem like the spell was about exploiting five other ponies to ascend oneself. Starswirl, I suspect, was a jerkass._[/bq]
A recommended starting point of this story would have to be its prequel _Parting Words_: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5510981/chapters/12727478
Well there IS _The Great Alicorn Hunt_ by Ralph Hayes Jr. where not only is Apple Bloom turned into an Alicorn (1/5th the way through the story so far): but also the Mane Six to become Alicorns because Twilight had modified Starswirls' Spell to have them all Ascend at the same time:
[bq]_In another time, another place, an alicorn Princess sent her faithful student a final test-- an unfinished spell by the greatest unicorn mage in Equestrian history. After a near-disastrous first effort, the student finally solved the riddle of the spell, completed it, and was transformed (as her mentor had planned) into an alicorn princess._
This is not that time and place.
In _this_ time and place, when Twilight received a certain notebook by a certain Starswirl the Bearded from a certain Princess, she actually had half a clue as to what she was doing the FIRST time...[/bq]
_"From one to another, another to one._
_A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, UNfulfilled;_
_From all of us together,_
_To each of us together,_
_With the marks of our destinies made one,_
_and one shared by all without end."_
[bq]_The canon version seemed to be more about fulfilling one pony's destiny...which made it seem like the spell was about exploiting five other ponies to ascend oneself. Starswirl, I suspect, was a jerkass._[/bq]
A recommended starting point of this story would have to be its prequel _Parting Words_: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5510981/chapters/12727478