I might have even succeeded in that foolish endeavor if my fervor hadn’t driven me to raid the personal library of Princess Twilight Sparkle. The resulting chase stretched across much of Equestria, until she and her friends finally cornered me in the Canterlot Museum and confronted me with the consequences of my own reckless actions: In erasing so much, I had wiped out the means by which that ancient evil had been defeated, even from my own mind. If the Pony of Shadows did somehow return, I had sentenced Equestria to the very doom I was trying to prevent.