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Tear Jerker / I Against I, Me Against You

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  • Church refusing to help Twilight get home is enough to make you feel bad for Twilight, but the ultimate Kick the Dog moment is his response to her last plea, and this is just Chapter 2!
    Twilight: If you don't help me I could be trapped here forever! My friends, my family will never know what happened to me! Don't you care?
    Church: Honestly? No Twilight, I don't give a shit about what happens to you.
  • The build-up and death of M.I. Rainbow Dash. At this point, the M.I. believes she's really Rainbow and begs her "friends" in the most tear-inducing way possible not to let Sunset Shimmer kill her, but they don't intervene. Her implanted memories quickly fade as she has no idea who she is before she dies. This scene is very painful to read. You have been warned.
  • Pinkie Pie after she's freed from O'Malley. Having him in her mind affected her so badly, that she ends up avoiding her friends at all costs because she's afraid that one day, she might end up doing horrible things to them like O'Malley did.
  • "She just didn't know what went wrong." Or, how to make the entire fandom want Meta's head on a pike.
  • Grif finding out Kaikaina is dead. Oh, boy. Where to begin?
    Simmons: Okay, I like seeing Grif suffer as much as the next guy, but I gotta admit, that was low even for you, sir.
    • And to twist the knife further, Grif's complete breakdown when Fluttershy proves that she's dead by giving him her dog tags.
    Grif: I wasn't there! I was never there when she needed me! I wanted to be there for her, but then mom left and I had to support us by myself and then I got drafted...a one man draft! Can you believe that bullshit?! She was so damn shy and nervous all the time, I just wanted her to be happy! I didn't think she'd turn out like...that. He was my friend, and he was her age...they got along pretty well, so I thought I'd get 'em together. And they were doin' well for awhile...she was happy! She was confident! But then he started getting her mixed up with his fuckin' junkie pals, and suddenly she's a fuckin' addict! Fuckin' asshole leaves her as soon as he gets bored screwing her so she finds comfort with another guy who's just as bad, then another guy, then another guy and before I know it she's addicted to that too! Then I got drafted and I had to leave her all alone and...This...this makes no sense. I lost her years ago...so why the fuck does it hurt so much now?
    • Because of how similar Kaikaina was to Fluttershy before she spiraled, when Grif hugs Fluttershy, he's holding his sister again one last time. Damn, Flynt.
  • In a way, Agent Maine's death. After Twilight is able to reclaim Church's AI chip from him, he doesn't even try to attack; he just looks at the blood—both dried and fresh—on his hand for a long moment, then willingly lets himself drop into a lava-filled chasm. Applejack wonders if that meant he'd been able to see clearly again in that moment; it's easy to consider that perhaps he'd been considering the full ramifications of his actions up to that point, including the fight that he'd just had with someone who'd been willing to trust him, only to be backstabbed when the Meta resurfaced.
  • Chapter 3-9. Just Chapter 3-9. From Simmons's Heroic Sacrifice to Washington's betrayal to Twilight being captured and subject to fragmentation, there's a ton of Tearjerkers to go around.
  • Tex having a Freak Out and declaring herself an abomination after it finally sinks in to her that everything she does is doomed to fail at the last second.
  • In Chapter 3-12, The Mane Six, Washington, Maine, Spike, and Church finally find Twilight, but by this point she's already fragmented off her memory.
  • Caboose, Tucker, and the Reds deciding to leave and cut their losses after Simmons dies. Church's response is even more brutal.
    Church Fine! We don't need you cockbites anyway!

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