Princess Applejack

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Here is full archive of ALL the stories in condensed, easy-to-read form with all chatter in-between removed.
Check out the pastebin here:
http://pastebin.com/u/PrincessApplejack


Curious what happened last time, or just wanna know what happens during an active thread?
Check out the previous thread here:https://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25616096
You are completely new and have no idea what is going on? There is a wikia with an overview of all characters, a complete timeline, previous thread recaps and explanation of the various concepts used in these stories!
Check out the wiki here:http://princess-aj.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Applejack_Wiki


Confused about when a character first showed up or who they are? Want to know when an arc started?
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We have begun working on a big project to fix up old stories and make this crazy world more coherent and accessible to new readers who don't like the thread format.
Check out the 'Princess Applejack: Re-Cut Edition' here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15cv3kqExr_vOM0JkUh4dqnvVKxJ5Z-P1KHwE8Z7aG0k/edit?usp=sharing
And finally, while most of the thread is very much clop free, we have a pastebin in case you're feeling a little more naughty with your writing, find it here. http://pastebin.com/u/PrincessAJAfterDark please upload any like it to a pastebin so they can be added out of thread.
And above all else, enjoy your stay at /paj/!

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First for Pinkie

>>25673553
Pinkie, tempting anon will not get you more screentime.

Pinkie stahp.

>>25673592
Can't hurt!

RARITY WAS RIGHT

>>25673938
Not to dispute her rightness, she very much was right, but she did go about it wrong.

Like, forcing Cadence to come out and say it without looking like she was pulling the mask off a scooby doo villain would've helped. Right now it looks like Rarity exposed a coverup.

OOCO
>AJ
"Celly"
~~~

>...

"So you say... Applebloom drew this?"

>Yep.

"Well, I certainly see that."

>Do you now?

"Oh yes, this is most certainly the work of childhood whimsy!"

>Oh... good?

"Hmmm... I like it!"

>Ya' do!?

"Yes! Quite an amazing character here Applebloom has drawn. She looks a bit plain, perhaps, but other than that quite nice!"

>Plain? But... but she's gotta saddle.

"Yes, and? Nothings on the saddle."

>But that would get in the way of-

"..."

>...Appleblooms creative vision.

"Of course, and we know how immutable that is."

>Well, just wanted yer' opinion.

"Oh, by the way, I'm obviously not foo-"

>Hey, Celly? You still got that sore part in the back of yer' head?

"The one from when I got drunk? Actually, yes! Thank you for your concern, not supposing I can get a day off-"

WHUNK!

THUMP!

>Sorry, Celly, it's for mah' own good. This is all a bad dream... and Chrysalis did it.

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Pinkie Preview Prophecies

>Pinkie gets the need to dance.
>Fancy Pants drops a bomb.
>Bulk Biceps shows just how strong he really is.
>55 finds out what happens when he eats the hottest pepper in the world.
>56 finds a pinball table.
>2 needs everyone to open the door, and get on the floor.
>Silver Spoon was right.
>Luna has maracas and she's not afraid to use them.
>We have a burro equivalent of a cholo!
>Xeno fanservice!

>>25674120
There have got to be easier ways of getting concrit.

And remember when that one omake happened where AJ was like "Please let me do something please let me do something give me development" and then someone made a joke about everything being solved without her moving, and not getting any screentime or development and being sad?

...Think she'd still be sad?

>>25674022
>Right now it looks like Rarity exposed a coverup.
Except it is a cover up. They actively hid the fact that 18 was pretending to be Cadence. Shiny was in on it. Chrysalis, Celestia, AJ, Twilight, etc. They decided to play the politician and lie to the people, hiding the truth. My real disappointment was AJ. She should have been the one to be honest to the people and be transparent about it in the first place, instead of being part of the conspiracy.

>>25674217
Think he meant in the 'Government conspiracy" or more accurately "Changeling conspiracy" way, instead of that.

And AJ was just happy the CE was running fine. She picked ease of dealing with her paperwork storm over being transparent, and you can hardly blame her for that.

>>25674217
>my real disappointment was AJ
GOOD
no seriously, GOOD
that means she has room to grow, she's not perfect. Never will be, but this gives us room to make her interesting again.

>>25673515
>>25673505
>>25673493
jesus christ
is it worth it to catch up on all this shit?

>>25674269
Yes, it is one fucking insane ride.

Bullet points-

>One long story, so no "Where's a good place to start", start at post 1 in the pastebin.
>No anon/humans
>No smut in the main story, the tiny amount are in that After Dark pastebin, and they're not the main focus.
>Mostly comedy, spirals out into big action laden 'arcs' sometimes.

That's about it, your choice.

>>25674240
I like that this gave us a chance to explore the whole
>I didn't even want to be a princess
Thing. We haven't touched on that AT ALL

>>25674591
I just like that she called out Sunbutt for the whole teacher thing, even if she wasn't there. I want to see her actually call that one out sometime. To her face.

>>25674269
If you read this cap
http://i.imgur.com/xnCMKEB.jpg
and like what you see, I suggest keep reading.
I make this suggestion every time, but try reading up to the Robot invasion and Gala 2.0 arc. I think it's worth reading up to that at the very least.

>>25674234
It is a government conspiracy. High government officials both pony and changelings knew about it. Many crystal guards knew about it.

>She picked ease of dealing with her paperwork storm over being transparent, and you can hardly blame her for that.
I completely can.
By knowing about it and not making efforts to make them reveal it on their own terms, she implicated herself in the cover up. It wasn't a matter of if people found out, it was WHEN people found out about the lie, she's going to have to face an even bigger ax than paperwork storm. People generally don't like being lied to.

>>25674120
Dawwww?.....

>>25673487
>thread 111
Non-canon
>AJ
"Twi"
~~~
>Sugarcube, we gotta have a word 'bout your latest project.

"Oh, I ran over budget, didn't I? I'm sorry-"

>Whoa, take it easy there now. It ain't about bits, you're pretty well in your budget. But I just wanna know... Why the hell do we need a buncha underground mini-city bunkers?

"In case of total nuclear annihilation. We have to prepare for the future, Applejack! Speaking of which, have you and Spike registered you space in the Stables?"

>...When'd you even get that dang yellow coat an' hat?

>>25675116
Now, see, yellow coat and hat just makes me think of Curious George's friend..

>>25675116
>Huh, guess those Stables weren't so crazy after all eh, Twi? Twi?

"Hey smoothskin, got a light?"

>GAH!

"...yeah, radiation did NOT do me any favors...also I'm voiced by Paul Eiding now."

OCOO
>AJ
"Celestia
~~
>Tia? got a question

"and I have TBDRLITU!"

>...ah'm not even goin' to ponder that, anyways, why is mah magic red?

"What do you mean?

>Well, from what ah've seen, unicorns castin' their magic? it always matches their eyes

"yes, and?"

>mah eyes are green, mah magic is red

"How often are they bloodshot, though?"

>...point

>>25675303
Aaand now i'm imagining a recast of Fallout 4 with PAJ characters.

>77 as Nick Valentine
>42 as Paladin Danse
>18 as Curie sensing a theme?
>DT as MacReady
>Celestia as Hancock
>Shiny and Cadance as Nate/Nora
>2 as SynthShaun
>Spike as Dogmeat

>>25675520
Just gonna say this as a little cross-thread pollination

I've been thinking about how Changelings can = Synths for /foe/ for weeks now.

Also

>7 as X6-88

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>>25675582
a shame really since I felt like Chrysalis would make a better Hancock myself. Hell, last time I actually paid real attention to these threads, the hive basically was Goodneighbor.

I dream of playing catch-up with these threads and I'm not sure it'll ever happen. A good, long stay in a hospital is what it'll take.

>>25675653
Here's what you do. Become unemployed and dedicate your life to it for a month, you'll get there.

>>25675415
Hey, can this be a thing? It makes sense enough, or maybe only when her eyes are actually. Bloodshot at the time?

>>25675726
And best of all, it's actually worth it.

>>25675737
I wrote that to poke fun at the OP, which includes red magic. there's another pic somewhere with AJ picking up AB in red magic as well.

>Lavan
"32"
'88'
-JJ-
~Acty~

"-and THAT is the differences between the classes of changeling, any questions?"

>Yes, why was thirty minutes of your speech dedicated to insulting someone named 42's helmet?

"Because it's stupid and so is she."

>Ah, ingenius.

-Okay, hold up one minute, I have to know. What is your DEAL with her?-

"Hm?"

-Every single time you talk about or to her, it's a giant insult fest. You realize she probably doesn't give as much thought about her as you do about her, right?-

"What, am I not allowed to dislike her? Am I simply supposed to worship the ground she walks upon unquestioningly?"

-...yeah?-

"Never."

-Okay, but why the hat? It's always the hat with you.-

~I noticed that too, I like it, it makes a fashion statement.~

"And that statement is a series of drooling grunts."

'You two really need to just have it out, bribe Twience Lady into turning on some kinda god mode in the Danger Room and go at it, make a day of it. Murder each other in fun and exciting locales, pretend you're characters in a Chineighs Comic, let her top your ass in a dirty bathroom, all those things you secretly want to do.'

>...that last one seemed out of place.

'That was the point.'

>Ah, rule of threes, this pleases me.

'This guy is dumb as hell...and can someone PLEASE turn the air conditioning on!?'

Goodnight thread.

>>25675520
Ha, small world. I've been trying to figure out a way to do a Dragon Crown themed thing for at least half a year now, off and on whenever I glanced at it.

Kinda like
>Amazon = Applejack
>Knight = Shiny

And that's all I pretty much had.

>>25676562
Morning, anon.

>>25676866
Had your chance with OnO...

>>25677656
He didn't really, remember everyone was all jazzed for Wizard AJ 'finally learning magic'

Yep.

>>25677735
Would it have been that hard to ignore it for a bit? It was kind of just there anyway.

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>>25677735
>everyone was all jazzed for Wizard AJ 'finally learning magic'

>Go against my normal rate of fuck-all content creation to try and nail down the Wizard-class switcheroo when OnO begins proper
>It sticks, thank fuck I think to myself.
>Sit back and slowly type out another one when the ball doesn't really get rolling on reluctant WizardJack
>Look throughout the whole arc and realise Twilight is getting more interesting stories and action based on her being a nerd-rage fuelled barbarian.
>mfw the whole gimmick didn't amount to much
>End of OnO
>Still nothing important has happened to Applejack
>Luna teaches AJ magic, round 2, GO!
>"Applejack walks into the Canterlot gardens..."
>Proceed to shit my pants as that whole plan falls to absolute pieces. Has to be Changeling'd by another writer to pass through

Why bother dude

>>25678042
because eventually we will stop making her a stubborn mule about the whole thing and learn. And not just say she will and never start.

>>25678065
And it'll probably get declared non-canon until our Lady and Saviour traipses in on chitinous legs to be the one to do it.

>>25678042
I was always an avid follower of Luna teaching her magic, and God help me it'll get off on the right foot eventually. If I ever get the dang blasted time....

>>25678104
Saying no to ponies and yes to Changelings is the true answer to all of life's questions and issues.
So....do you accept Changelings into your life, anon?

>>25678130
Sorry, I'm already in the Cult of Lavan and the Worst Ling

Though I can wait for 32 to eventually get told that he got offeasy getting his ass beat and his home under siege because the Crystal Empire crew had their feelings hurt and that's much more important.

>>25678065
what she needs is the proper motivation. Say someone she cares about getting shot when someone tries to assassinate her. Only this time Luna points out that she could have stopped it all with a simple shield spell.

Perhaps elaborates on the uses other simple spells have and how not learning in her position can have serious consequences for those around her?

>>25678159
I'd buy that, and God willing I';d do my damndest to write it out.

On the occassion that Cheeselgs of any kind are not involved.

We're saturated with the damn things. And having Chrysalis bust the door down in that aborted story just rubbed salt (read: Cultural Enrichment) into the wounds.

>>25678104
Not necessarily. Maybe next time someone has AJ agree (key word is agree Luna) to learn from anypony of non-black coloration, they get the ball rolling themselves.

I mean we had her agree to learn from Celly, but it is way more entertaining to have her fuck around with Shiny.

We tried to set something up with Twilight...and she disappears into her lab fixing the danger room until the next arc.

>>25678146
That will happen, because 32 is Chrysalis without the rabid fanbase to write her up

>>25678108
get her to not be forcefeeding her and people will stop getting her out of it
>>25678159
We have had her time and again say fuck everything that isn't telekinesis. Fuck the Chrysalis thing was only because AJ was too chickenshit to tell her about her mother but unwilling to let Arana come and rub it in to make her feel better.
>>25678177
people getting hurt for her last time motivated her to create a unit with the one who got hurt as second in command. And people wouldn't have had to bring in bugbitch if he didn't write into a corner.

>>25678197
right sure, that's what happened LAST time. One of the key elements to this is someone like say Luna pointing out (In a much less bitchy way)

Hey, look! Your refusal to learn even basic spells got someone hurt! Wow, if only there were a way to easily prevent this. If only it could have been stopped. But no, I guess being stubborn and you pride are far more valuable to you than the lives of your family, surrogate and otherwise, and it doesn't matter if you are the last mare standing on a pile of their corpses at the end of the world.

At least you won't have dirtied your hooves with filthy unicron or alicorn magic.

Totally. Worth it.

Y'know, something to really get into the chinks of her armor and break down her stubborness.

>>25678042
Maybe if you weren't is so dedicated that one terrible anthro picture?

Seriously, I get its a nice picture, but you clearly didn't think of any way to actually include Luna in there and make it work. At least the guy who used Chrysalis thought about why she would work.

Story is more important than a checklist.

>>25678320
>anthro picture

...the fuck you talkin about?

>>25678320
Nigga for real

Celestia evidently wasn't going to teach her Alicorn Magic, she's too busy being but buddies with the Crystal Harem.

Twilight can't either, she's too busy fucking around with Twience and shit with Chrysalis

Luna? The fuck does Luna really do? Fuck all, that's what she's contributed.

So fuck me in the anus if I tried something novel you nigger.

>>25678354
Well, if you're a girl, then go get the pens and paper, I'll grab the lube an black face and I can't possibly see how this would go wrong.

Wait a minute, there are no girls on 4chan...THIS PARTIES OVER!

>>25678319
Except there is no way Luna could say it without being a bitch. And AJ would rebel and try to be better her way. Because Luna has only JUST learned that imposing her will and forcing others to learn the way she wants isn't always the way to go. But having this I told you so moment with AJ would refute that.

>>25678354
Well,
>she refuses to help with work because it makes more sense to bring in AJ.
>She is in a not relationship with 56
>She teaches 29 magic
>She hates Queen Changelings and is chomping at the bit to kill one
>She has the whole thing in LNPP land

>>25678354
But why can't those first two? Those stories arent exactly all encompassing. Why not? Other people write them doing something else on occasion?

The story was what was needed here. Why Luna? I don't mean that in a negative way, I mean that in a broader sense. What's the story behind Luna wanted to teach you this why does she have such a stake in this matter. Why is this personal to Luna, enough that she would at least pretend to be a different person just for a little bit. Just long enough to teach her.

What this gives to Applejack is apparent, but what is Luna's story in this? The mini Ark with 29 had a purpose for her. She was special in that, it wouldn't have worked in with any other character. What story are you trying to tell besides someone learns magic? What's the big picture?

>>25678411
No way she could say THAT. but there are more gentle ways.

And it isn't about imposing her will, it is drawing out AJ's through motivation. Not external motivation, but her internal desire to keep ponies safe and happy.

Also, please remember that good does not mean nice and sometimes you have to be harsh with people to get them to do the right thing.

>>25678486
Luna's bit was she knew best and AJ HAD to learn because Luna thought she should.

As for the other two Twilight is an also-ran outside of main storylines and we actually wrote her out of the plot since she got that orb.

Celestia is another matter. Aj and her can't have a scene together without one getting to laugh at the other or accidentally rubbing salt in the wound We would run into a "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me"

>>25678526
Her motivation was she feels Aj needed to learn because Alicorn-magic=what's the point to her. Harsh. The thing AJ doesn't deal with well and lashes out against? We have to handle her with the softest of kid gloves or she will ragequit because no matter what she doesn't want this.

>>25678545
Right...so MAKE her want it. Give her reasons to want it. To need it.

The pieces are on the board already. Spike getting shot. 7 getting pummeled to meat in her untrained rage. Being unable to help in ponyville just last thread.

She has lots of motivations already to learn to control this stuff, because it won't go away and it is physically dangerous to continue to leave it uncontrolled. Not to her, but to those she cares for.

Which is stronger, her stubborness? Or her love of family when applebloom needs a blood transfusion from due to a bullet wound she could have stopped?

>>25678146
I think the only thing that can end 32's suffering at this point is a Bull .44, a maxed out gunslinger perk, and someone hitting the execute critical button in VATS.

>>25678598
>You exploded into gore, which melted down, flowed back together, and coallesced into you once more.

'...rats'

>your new name is 'ling 1000'

>>25678582
Well, if AB gets hurt now (don't shoot Applebloom) it will be her being inattentive from her princess duties which would make things worse.

Here's a thing. Make Rarity do it. She is a magic user on her level that could teach her a thing without going into the super showoffy stuff that she doesn't want. It would be a way to rebond after AJ punches her face in.

>>25678545
>Luna's bit was she knew best and AJ HAD to learn because Luna thought she should.

And that's not a bad thing, it's just a matter of you knowing where the story is going and why this is going to pay off. Hell, that's literally the exact plot of the 29 mini, isn't it? That Luna stomped in because she was feeling upset and decided to show 29 why her methodology was the best.

That's a little difficult to compare since the end result of that was "Luna discovers she was wrongs, comes to a new realization about herself, and grows as a person" to match up with "29 understands what she was trying to do and grows as a person when he realizes his dreams do not match up to his real life." But the same principal can apply, even if a 1-1 scenario wouldn't fit.

>Celestia is another matter. Aj and her can't have a scene together without one getting to laugh at the other

You mean actually make the story funny and interesting and full of chemistry and back and forth interactions while they were learning?

Yeah. Wouldn't want that.

>>25678627
I'm not against Celestia, I'm against shoot Granny Smith so Luna can do it. I was listing a possible reason why we abandoned the idea of AJ learning from her after it was set up

>>25678651
shooting someone isn't about who the teacher is though. It's about getting AJ to budge.

Do you have...another way perhaps?

>>25678627
You mean the part that if Luna was "right all along" about AJ it vindicates her shoving lessons down her throat. It also gives her full reason to shut down any back talk by pointing out AJ's failures and basically be a bitch for threads on end.

>>25678682
We already have one set up. She verbally agreed to go learn the basics from Celestia, we just have to do it. Probably OOCO because of obvious reasons.

OOCO
>SA
"Celestia"
'Chrysalis'
[AJ]
~~~~

>Annnndd... done!

"Bravo. Just, bravo."

'A masterwork of art.'

[Meh, three outta ten.]

>The life of an artist is a harsh one.

'Alright, my turn!'

"Can't wait to see this one."

[Ten bits says she builds a tank.]

'I'm not going to build a tank! Watch!......... TA DAAAAAAA!'

"Absolutely no part of me is surprised."

[Shoot, should'a bet fifty on this one, it was mah' next choice.]

'LIES!'

>I think it's nice.

'HAH!'

[Enabler.]

>I have no regrets.

"Shining, while I do so dearly love you in all your wonderful bighearted bubblehorsenesss, when someone takes a bunch of building blocks and makes a statue of themselves, it might need some discouragement."

>All I did was make a house.

'I would live in that house.'

[See? Now she's asskissing.]

'Oh, I would do a lot of things to that ass.'

>...exit only.

'Not that!'

[Alright, enough talk! Ya'll step back while a real pro does her work-]

'Are you going to make an apple?'

[...no.]

'I think you're going to make an apple.'

[No Ah'm not!]

'Barn then.'

[NO!]

'Fine, what are you going to make.'

[.....................]

"Get the coffee, it's going to be a bit."

[...crud.]

>>25678582
I say, Rarity asks AJ to help out with a charity event. Rarity uses magic to help folks out and would appreciate if AJ decided to learn magic to help too.

>>25678624
AJ needs to be punched in the face for being part of a lie in the first place and failing to do the right thing before it spiraled.

>>25678108
How about instead then...

>Apples
"Tia"

>"Hey Tia?"

"I Sweat to my mother if this is one more thing..."

>"Well I was looking over your books again an-"

"That's it! No more!"

>"Come on now you can't just leap out o- what are you doing?"

>Horn alight the princess's eyes dance with unholy glee.

"You wanna know why I do the bare minimum here!"

>With a twist of her head the mare sends a bolt of magic at Applejack making her wings flare out in surprise.

>"What in tarnation!?"

>Suddenly Celestia let's out a happy sigh of relief.
>Applejack can only watch as she seems to shrink and settle into the now twice as big chair with a smile.
>That wasn't important as the sheer weight of something hanging off her head drew her attention.
>What in the pits of Tarterous was it?!

"Oh that would be the sun Applejack."

>"Pardon?"

>Applejack's stomach tightens into a ball as her horn feels like it's about to snap in half.
>When did it start glowing?

"Well since you keep coming to me about all my mistakes I figured you could walk a mile in my horseshoes."

>"And the..ngh..fact that Ah already do yer paperwerk?"

>The alicorn simply waves a hoof at the mare.

"Why do you think I have a beucracy? I had them handle it before you came along, you just happened to make the whole system run smoother. By the way if you don't start moving it soon the ponies will start to notice."

>"Wh-what?"

"Move the sun, otherwise it will stay noon all day long."

>"N-no..."

"Come on now, surely a strong earth mare like yourself can do it."

>"Darn it Tia, Ah don't know how!"

>Head bowed again Applejack strains at the unfamilier feeling that hanged off the tip of her horn.
>Trying to keep her head up to even look at Celestia was a burden that sent tremors through her frame.
>Meanwhile the now pink maned mare sighes.

"Fine, fine I'll help you get started."
>Horn glowing the pressure starts to ease from Applejacks neck.

>>25678872
"Now all you need to do is not true to physically shove it, just guide it."

>"How?"

"You just give it a tug, just pretend instead of a large flaming mass of hydrogen gas in the void of space, that it's a normal coffee mug you're trying to drink."

>Grinding her teeth Applejack glares at Celestia.

"Ohoh, not so easy now is it?"

>"Ah do-"

"Stop being stubborn about doing it, and just do it!"

>Shocked at Celestia's tone the applemare huffs before closing her eyes.
>Feeling the sheer weight of this thing hanging on her neck and horn the mare tries to pull on the tangible feeling before her.
>It's like trying to move a boulder buried in the ground with only a hoof shovel.
>This is hopeless...
>Before she can despair however Applejack remembers something from her time on the farm.
>"Big Mac how are we gonna raise the barn? Ah can't push the frame up like that."
[Easy enough lil sister, see that wheel up there?]
>"Wazzat?"
[It's a pully, its gonna let us pull this here frame up, it's just a matter of leverage, now come on.]
>"Okay!"

>Leverage...
>Stretching the rope of her mind the applemare can feel the sun stay in place.
"Any day now Applejack."
>"Ah'm workin' on it..."
>She had her rope, but what to use as a pully...
>Wait, on the edge of her perception...a cool green and blue feeling.
>Of course!
>Grinning now Applejack raises her head high and with a mighty tug the world went white.

>"Wh-what happened?"
"Well I see you finally figured it out."
>"What?"
"Look at yourself."
>Looking down Applejack feels her head sway.
>"Whoa nelly...why am I so high up?"
>Silken strands of yellow danced past her eyes and Applejack holds her hoof up to it finding the etheral mane slip through her hooves.
>"How?"
"You figured out how to move the sun didn't you?"
>"Sure as sugar, I just needed a pully."
MOre? I was going to dump lore on alicorns

>>25679026
Like the flashaback with Mac, that was just perfect an idea.

Rest of it, not really sure. Celestia's sudden "No, totally, I have a bureaucracy I just need you to make it smoother" doesn't really seem to gel with anything seen up to this point, and AJ getting a Celly-style floating mane is right out a bad idea that doesn't fit with the show. Twilight moved the sun all by herself AND she had Celestia's power, and didn't get one. That doesn't make sense at all.

Other than that, nice go. Mac bits were standout.

>>25679109
>Twilight moved the sun all by herself
When was that? The S5 finale?

>>25679230
DYEWTS?

Season 4 finale. She made it go crazy for a little bit before getting it right too.

And why the heck is Celly saying she needs to move the sun at noon? The show said she just starts it on it's journey, she doesn't move it throughout the day.

Wow I'm late, but nevermind!
LAST THREAD RECAP, AJ HAS HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR SHIT EDITION!
>Chitania goes over to retrieve 13 so she can leave, but her daughter is unwilling to leave her hive behind. Reluctantly, Chitania takes 41 with them and decides to go collect the others.
>32 makes it inside the embassy, where he's greeted by JJ, Acty and a 88, the last of whom is still making blindjokes. They decide to hole up and wait for this to pass by playing monopony, the fools.
>But they get an unexpected guest! No, really, really unexpected. It's Lavan.
>Lavan comes in and wants to play.
>Then he wants to know about changelings.
>Poor bastards.
>Shining Armor, after having a moment where he is forced to go over 18's work to see which ones were Cadences, decides to look on the bright side of life!
>Long story short, everyone tells him to get out of their places of work... don't ask.
>The Crystal Ponies don't know who they go to for outside investigations.
>Trixie runs out of things to hurt herself with, but that's okay! Because everyone got bored and left a while ago... yep...
>29 laments that he's going to have to bunk with Zecora at this rate.
>Tonight was a bad night for Batmom/Dadling roleplay night.
>Soarin' proves he's not a changeling by whinnying
>2's teacher needs help.
>7 and Fluttershy discuss how he gets his love, and it's revealed Buttercup knows what sex is, which makes sense, but still
>Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootlaoo accidentally turn an already giant war into something worse by activating a super robot.
>The fillydelphia mayor is happy.
>10 infiltrates Stalliongrad!
>Dash finishes reading the crowd control handbook, but everyone except Bulk left.
>Twilight asks Rarity if this is what she was hoping for, Rarity bluffs and says she knows it was right.
>DT can't use any of her cool new toys.
>Jetset finishes his training, even if he didn't quite get what he wanted, and goes off to go help with Canterlot
>Arana ran up to Canterlot to help Blueblood
1/3

>>25679288
>Up in Canterlot, while Coltsly is selling so much she can swim in bit and having ethical dilemmas, Pennydrop lands and takes control!
>She subtly influences the mob, playing on their need to seem high class, to turn them into a more focused force who go off to demand certain answers out of Celestia, the answers they want.
>Celestia sees them coming, and immediately recognizes something is off. She orders all her guards to stand down so as not to give any impression of oppression, and goes off to meet them herself.
>She engages in some talks with the mob, carefully thinning the herd so she can determine who is the leader of it all.
>Through this, she's able to narrow it down to one pony to invite in and discuss these 'requests'.
>"Miss Pennydrop, would you like to come in for some tea?"
>~I would be delighted.~
>Celestia Vs Pennydrop is go.
>Back in ponyville, some of them don't even know why they're mobbing, but they're mobbing.
>Applejack has no idea what to do. Every option seems like a bad one, one that will either end with her exposed and none of her hometown trusting her ever again, the changelings being banished, or even worse. Sunset wants to know what AJ wants, and a desperate AJ asks her what to do. When Sunset cannot answer her, she becomes enrages and demands that Sunny go help watch the lings. Bitterly, Sunset points out that when she left, the thing that hurt the worst wasn't that Celestia hid stuff, it's that she didn't think she could handle it, as right as she turned out to be it still hurt.
>AJ keeps panicking, keeps trying to think of ways to both protect her hometown and keep her promise to Chrysalis, but can't manage anything while the mob gets worse.
>She waits too long, and someone else steps up instead...
>Chitania
>Chitania mocks the mob when they try to stop her and/or declare that this is proof of an invasion, taunting them by asking what they would do if this was an invasion, since none of them could actually fight her.
2/3

>>25679293
>Eventually, she orders the changelings to come with her, demanding it so they can be taken home. This finally makes AJ snap into action to protect them, but she finds her determination wavering when 13 steps forth and says this was her idea, and that she just wants to get them to safety since Applejack isn't doing anything. She doesn't want to, but if she has to she'll mind control the mob and make them move.
>The mob agrees to them leaving and says to get rid of the changelings, but Applejack realizes if they get kicked out now, there's no hope of them ever coming back and being accepted.
>Pommel asks for orders.
>Sunset asks for her to say something.
>Chitania demands she do something.
>Ponyville tells her to do something.
>The changelings tell her to do something.
>Then she snaps.
>Applejack lets out a SHUTTTT UPPPPPPP, goes off into a massive rant wherin she details that all of them are idiots and for various ways, goes into how she didn't even want to be a princess, rants that every choice she makes is wrong and makes everyone hates her, and rants that nothing she does with the changelings works.
>She declares that since none of her ideas is right, they can decide, and flys off, leaving behind confused and unsure remains.
>She lands in Everfree, the only option she had left thanks to avoiding her family and Canterlot, and aimlessly wanders until she reaches the old castle.
>Desperate for something, she heads towards it, figuring that since it had all the answers before, maybe it has one last miracle in there...
>OOCO, Spike works on his weapons with hilarious results.

Woo, sorry for the lateness on this one. If it seems kinda short and to the point, that's because it is a touch rushed. Just a touch.... though a recap is supposed to be to the point and short, but nevermind!

As this is so rushed, if I missed anything, I apologize.

>>25679304
Was the whole of Pommel resolving to hold the line declared non-canon or just the bit where Chitty relented?

I mean either way I figure he's just going to be easily dispatched because 'Pone weak, Changeling stronk' but I figure it should be figured out.

>inb4 he's rendered a quivering mass of jello before the might of Chitania or just mind-zonked by 13

>>25679414
>Was the whole of Pommel resolving to hold the line declared non-canon or just the bit where Chitty relented?

I guess the whole thing because otherwise the story is only half done and makes no sense?

Either way it's non-canon, but not because Chitty didn't do something, but because the author had her go "I need to go find my daughter" when...

>I must go find my daughter, watch them for an hour or else-

"Mom I'm right here. I've been right here the whole time. Mom turn around. Mom. Mom. Mommy. Momma. Mama. Momsie. Momesh. Momzerella. Momtania. Mom. MOM. MOM! MOM! MOOOOOMMMM!"

>You have one hour!

"FUCK YOU!"

>>25679434
yeah, I was the author of that, and COMPLETELY forgot 13 was actually there, some part of me thought she was still fucking around in the woods

Hold up. Why are we having AJ learn magic OOCO? I know we are in the middle of something, but unless the plan is for her to magic it right, doesn't it make more story sense to wait until after these events to do it?

>AJ
~~~~

Everfree Castle, the previous abode of Celestia and Luna, the previous land of...

>Wait, did ponies actually live here?... I mean, they had to, right? Someone else had to live in the castle. Like, staff, right? Staff had to be here ta' clean it up. And then there's a whole bunch'a buildings on the outer rim. What, were they storage units for cake?... Nevermind, that's possible. Fer' that matter, where did they live if they didn't live here? Did the ponies live inside the castle walls? You'd think they at least were in this here ring, wouldn't ya'? But they still had tents or whatever in mah Granny's time, and that was up where Canterlot eventually went. Why the heck did they leave? They had this massive, already done structure! This is just a waste of a lot of really hard work!... AND WHERE THE HECK DID CELESTIA AND LUNA COME FROM!? Why ain't this never come up before!?

This continued on for a long, long time...

>>25679443
But that's the whole idea of OOCO, you can tell stuff that didn't happen right here and now.

Admittedly, it probably would be smarter to see where this is going with AJ and what new developments are no doubt going to wreck what little status quo we have left at this point before going full "Learning!", but if you don't wanna wait you don't have to, that's the whole point of OOCO.

...Now, developments like AJ getting a flow-mane(which I found fucking stupid) should probably wait, but eh.

>>25679576
>AJ getting a flow mane

...is it still in a ponytail?

Cuz I figure that'd look like a windsock.

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Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content does matter, but it's time for...MAIL TIME!

"Yay!"

'...Really?'

>Yup and you two are doing it for me! I want to see what people have been saying.
Slowly reaches for popcorn.

"Pumpernickel writes, I bought a small ice sculpture in your image and had it delivered to my house. I planned to send it to you the next day, but it would always mysteriously disappear in the morning with only a puddle of water in it's place. I'm sorry I couldn't send it."

'...Listen carefully, you may not know this, but ICE MELTS! Put it in the freezer, so that it doesn't melt! Also why are you sending it to your house!? It's going to melt on the way to Pinkie if you try to send it and there's nothing to keep it cold, you idiot!'

"Happy Hour writes, a friend of mine gifted me a banana slug. It's neat, but it's so lazy. I tried to take it for a walk, but it just goes at it's own pace. Is something wrong with it?"

'...Let me tell you what's wrong...SLUGS ARE PHYSICALLY SLOW! WHY WOULD YOU TAKE A SLUG ON A WALK?! DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT A SLUG IS?! WHY IS IT TAKING YOU SO LONG TO FIGURE IT OUT?! It may be physically slower than you, but it's FASTER THAN YOUR BRAIN!'

"Morning Joe says, I love cheese, but my mom keeps leaving cheese on this weird device. Every time I reach for it, it snaps at me and hurts my hoof. Why do you think she's using this torture device on me?"

"Here's a clue...IT'S A MOUSETRAP! THE CHEESE ISN'T FOR YOU! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S DUMBER! THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A MOUSETRAP IS OR THAT YOU'RE DUMB ENOUGH TO SET IT OFF! MAYBE IF YOU WEREN'T SUCH A FAT TURD, YOU'D ASK YOUR MOM TO BUY CHEESE FOR YOU SO THAT YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO GET IT FROM A MOUSETRAP!"
DT pants heavily as Pinkie claps.

>You're really good at this!

'...If I die of a brain aneurysm-

>Thanks for sending your fan mail and have a wonderful day!

>>25679647
...The twist is that Pinkie writes these just to watch DT's reactions, isn't it?

>>25679414
Quivering mass? Hell no, he'll stand up to her.

...Now, admittedly, I have no idea what the hell he expects to DO, like... the fuck is he going to do to hurt her? Is he going to punch the giant monster?

>18
"Chrysalis"
~~~~

The family room, normally a place of whimsy and fun, was surprisingly cool. Shining Armor had gone off to get the movie, stating that they needed to all relax and calm down a bit, and nobody had the heart to disagree. While he was off, the others were doing their own thing. Cadence and Two the food, Forty Two the pillows and Mane-Iac and Spitfire were just waiting about. That, unfortunately, left only two on the couch. Two sitting there on that comfy crystal couch, the most unlikely pair of the bunch, waiting.

>...So, do you have a plan?

"Don't know what you mean."

>In case they try to... you know, kick Cadence out.

"Now, why would you wonder something like that? Surely they won't."

>Chrysalis.

"..."

>...just.. just tell me you've got a plan. I don't even care if you don't, I just need to know.

"...Considering my plans usually stumble at the last hurdle, you sure you want that?"

>Yes.

"..."

>Just tell me you're doing something in case they come looking for her.

"...I'm prepared. Cadence isn't going to be homeless anytime soon."

>...good.

It was strange, that something like that from her of all changelings could do anything at all.

But, true to her word, she relaxed immeasurably following this, seeming to be worry free when they rest returned, and the movie came in. Eighteen, as strange as it sounded, seemed at ease, just knowing.

"...I'm prepared."

She would have to put that faith to use sometime.

>>25679993
POCKET SAND!

SHA-SHA-SHA!

>>25679993
he could turn HER into a quivering mass by telling her about the time he killed a god
she's be all OVER his dick after that
or try and punch him into space
I'm not sure.

>>25680215
>Did you punch the god to death?

"...Well, no, it was more of a mental thing, and I guess he's actually still technically alive-"

>DISAPPOINTMENT!

*FALCON-PAAAWWNNCH!*

"I THOUGHT IT WAS COOOOoooooollll....*DIN!G*"

>...This is why I took down my online dating profile, guys are all about the embellishment!"

>>25680309
...I think he did actually punch the god to death
like, in the dream sequence, he punched Red and shattered the crystal

>>25680309
>Imagining Chitty on the computer

"Tall, strong Queen seeking Godkilling stallion... oh wow, I got a shitload of hits already! Now, just to- wait, hold on, Thirteens back.... "Has kid-" HOLY SHIT!... They just... gone! I didn't even finish typing and they're just gone!"

>>25680387
>>25680387
If I remember right it went like this

>Go up to big spooky monster
>Distract it long enough for the ship to shoot it with cannon broadside
>Oh shit, it's still cracked but not broken, draaaag a cannonball over to it and smash it.
>Get knocked unconscious
>Outlast it in a chase through mind until it burns out from being in full contact with the outside world

>>25680215
>or try and punch him into space

She wouldn't try to punch him into space, she'd just engage him in battle in order to ensure that she is, indeed, more powerful than a god, since by transitive properties if he's stronger than a god and she's stronger than him, ipso facto she's stronger than gods.

In other words, if he says that, she's gonna try and power bomb him.

>>25680580
Can Pom Cena lift the Chit Show?

>>25680617
...god damnit where'd my sides go

>>25680644
Clearly the answer is for Pommel to challenge her to something that requires elaborate setup that will take long enough for either AJ to come back or someone else to intervene.

>>25680892
>I challenge you... TO MONOPONY!

"I'M OUT!"

*BLAM!*

>..Huh. Did not see that coming.

>>25681193
Pfft, "send it where it can't hurt anybody again" my ass.

>>25680122
>18 relying on Chrysalis

Well, she's a little desperate.

>>25681193
"Aw man, I'm bulletproof!"

>Oh no! Now's going to-

WHACKWHACKWHACKWHACK

>...try to kill herself with a tree?

"WHY WON'T I DIE!?"

>>25681921
So Monopony is Chitty's biscuit tin. Good to know

>>25681921
~Try drowning!~

>...Celestia?

"HEY! THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK!"

STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP

>...Huh

"THIS LAKE'S TOO SHALLOW! GRAAAAH!"

>Chitania
"13"
'Pommel'
(Sunset)
[Guards]
{Lings}
~Ponyville~
-???-
~~~~~~~

A broken tile fell from the cracked roofing the princess had left in her wake, crumbling to the ground and shattering on impact.

This, it seemed, was what everyone needed to snap out of their trance.

>Well, that was something.

To remember that there was, indeed, a much, much more powerful being right in front of them, and no longer anyone even remotely close to her level remaining.

So when those eyes of fire turned back to the lings and guards huddled together, very little was felt besides a constricting, pressing fear.

>Are you ready to leave, or am I going to make you?

"MOTHER!"

Again, her daughter moved herself in front of the Titan, to put herself closer to the mass of chitin hidden behind a notably smaller wall of gold covered bodies. She glared, a stunning sight that left most reeling in shock that they would ever see such as that in their lifetime.

Yet even that shock proved to be nothing in compared to what shot through them when the Titan shifted backwards, just a bit.

>I was just going to grab them, I wouldn't have broken them.

"You never mean to break them!"

Nobody around them knew what to think anymore, their minds had gone blank. Completely broken when they saw the massive beast wince and turn her eyes away from the much smaller thing.

>Fine, then you make them. This was your idea.

"Thank you!"

Back again she turned, once more her attention fully on the guard and the lings behind them.

Or, more specifically, the two unicorns standing in her way, while all the others shuffled ever so subtly to the side. One of whom, the captain of the guard. The other, the 'student' of the princess herself, even if from that rant it seemed it was not a favored student. The changeling marched forwards, without any fear present despite the capabilities of both, and the fact she remained surrounded on all side by an endless mob.

"I'm going to take them back to the Empire now."

1/7

>>25682566

With just as little fear on his face, the white stallion took only a single step forwards, remaining locked with his eyes to hers.

'No, you're not.'

"I'm not asking, I'm giving you a chance to move by yourself."

'And if I don't?'

"I'll make you move."

Pointedly, she looked up to her horn.

'Threatening an officer is a jailable offense.'

"So is forming an angry mob. Going to have enough space?"

He twitched, yet he did not move back.

(We can handle this.)

Instead, another moved forwards. The yellow, barely alive being, who nonetheless had a fire about her. A power to her, from skill or from magic.

"No, you clearly can't."

Neither of which swayed the sickly looking ling.

'I think we've handled it pretty well up to this point.'

"By that you mean you stood around and did nothing while the mob got bigger. What, exactly were you planning to do if they just started throwing stuff?"

(Shield spell, pretty basic actually.)

"Uh huh. And that would stop them?"

(Hold them off.)

"Until what?"

Finally, something that made them break off their endless double stare, and share a look with each other.

'Until the princess decided what to do.'

"Well, she left, and said we decide. This is my choice, we leave."

~YEAH!~

~Good! That's very good!~

~Please take the giant thing away!~

The Titan snapped her teeth in that one's direction, smirking again when they broke off into a run.

'Your mother isn't helping.'

"Really? Looks like she's the one holding the crowd back."

(You do realize a giant airship just flew over Canterlot, right? You might be bringing them into danger.)

"Through danger, you mean. And I don't know if you were filled in, but airships? Not a problem for my mom. Even war airships, which that one certainly wasn't. Push comes to shove, we'll take the long way, she can carry all of us. But here? Here is already danger, and I know about it."

(Thirteen, stop it. We need to stay put until the princess comes back-)

"She's not coming back!"

2/7

>>25682593

The screech was as sudden as it was piercing. Loud and straight through their skulls, like a bullet.

"She isn't going to just turn around, come down here with all the answers and fix everything, okay!? She ran off because she couldn't handle this! She couldn't protect them like she said she would! Well, I can! And if I can't, she can! I'm handling this right now, I'm taking them home, and you can't stop me! Move!"

'No.'

"I... said...'

He went still, sudden as it was horrifying, as her horn glowed.

The gasps of terror that sunk through the crowd rocked them down to their core as, ever so slightly, he looked to move.

But he didn't.

'Well?'

He remained, looking cautious, but otherwise unmoved.

"Wha-"

>Daughter, if you want intimidation, ask me. Not to say you're not strengthening, I'm just much more effective.

The crowds attention returned to the monstrous being, stunned they had ever left, and what they found nearly made them scream and flee.

Chitania, her eyes alight with magic and her horn burning like fire as her changeling power positively poured from it. She looked to them all with strained, red eyes that made her look unto a thing of pure evil, a thing of nightmares and nothing less.

"MOM STOP!"

A thing that left, in an instant, when her daughter asked it to be.

>Oh, fine...

She only looked a little disappointed.

(Your mother is causing problems. Why don't you take her and leave?)

She shot forwards, brushing past the mare who's magic was charged and ready and closing the distance until she could poke the stallion right in the chest.

"I'll be happy to with my Hive, buddy! Right guys!?"

The lings jumped, reacting to being acknowledged for the first time, and even stranger to be asked their opinion on something.

{Uh...}

[Hey! Yeah! Why don't we just ask the lings if they want to go?]

[That... actually seems like a good idea, let them pick!]

~I'm fine with that so long as they pick 'leave'!~

3/7

>>25682607

Panic went through both stallion and mare as they looked back, already knowing the response.

{Well... I mean, she did leave us.}

{Yeah, but I don't want to make it seem like we're joining up with Chitania! We're not! She's not our Queen!}

{Not our Queen!}

{Buuuuut it's Thirteen who is asking us to go with her, and she's a sister.}

{She is one of us, so at least that makes sense. But what if she's being mind controlled?}

{...isn't... isn't Chitania really crappy at that?}

{Point... I dunno, wanna just bail?}

{Well I sure as love don't want to stick in the middle of the fucking mob anymore!}

{You guys are scary!}

~US!?~

{...She's not coming back, is she?}

They didn't know which one of them had said it, but it didn't make it any easier when not a one of them could tell them otherwise.

{...Bail.}

{Yeah, let's just go back, they don't want us here.}

{This whole idea was stupid.}

'Guys...'

He couldn't keep the look off his face, the defeated slump as he watched his guards part without orders to let them through. He watched them, every one, as they started to move.

'...They are still under my supervision, I can-'

He hadn't even seen her move, hadn't had any time to react or blink, before a chitnous hooftip as sharp as it was thick pressed itself to his chest, and the muscles beneath it tensed. He looked up, to a fanged maw snarling in anger, and the words died.

>You can stay quiet, or I'll send you back to Canterlot, express ways.

He wanted to argue, wanted to fight her even. All of his past experiences told him to fight, and battle.

The only thing that stopped him was the fact he knew it would make all of this worse. It would be the last straw, and the real battle would begin.

One he, and all of Ponyville, would probably lose.

"Come on, guys. Let's go."

4/7

>>25682619

They walked, slowly and as defeated as Pommel looked now, towards the Queen that would protect them. The Queen that looked ready to destroy any who got even close, not that any of the mob though of such. They would be taken off, they would be protected, they would likely never return. It was over.

They all knew it was over.

(You can't leave yet.)

Or, at least, almost all of them.

"Yes, I can. And if you have a problem with it, I'll tell my mother that holding someone against their will is grounds for self defense."

>I heard that.

(No no, you misunderstand, you can't go yet.)

She stepped forwards, a thoughtful, yet utterly determined look on her face.

"And why not?"

It struck the student, with all the force that even Chitania could not be capable of.

Inspiration.

(Because you're missing someone.)

"Forty One is over there, I made sure she stayed put."

Pointedly, she ignored one of the guards letting out a breath of relief.

(Great! But that wasn't who I was talking about.)

She couldn't keep the smile off her face when Thirteen's look went back, scanning over all the lings in the group.

"They're all here."

(All from you're group, sure. But I thought you said you were protecting your hive? That any changeling was in trouble?)

"...And?"

(Annnnnd... where's Twenty Nine?)

The smaller changeling went rigid, scanning and rescanning over and over to find that, indeed, the posh changeling not only wasn't there, but wasn't anywhere nearby either.

(Well?)

"...I..."

(Well, you're certainly not going to leave him behind, are you? He'd be in as much trouble as them, wouldn't he? And sure, he's annoying... but he's still from your hive, isn't he?)

Her teeth grit, and she began sucking in air through through them, once more looking over the crowd for any sign of him hidden beyond.

{..We can just leave him.}

{Yeah, dude's an asshole.}

{Also, he lives here.}

{Let's just leave!}

5/7

>>25682630

But she wouldn't give the okay. She just kept looking, just kept searching, for the last missing piece. She wouldn't leave anyone behind.

And, now, Sunset knew that.

"We can't..."

It had been a gamble, sure. A risk that she would have dedication to all of them, even those that lived elsewhere, but Sunset was nothing if not a gambler.

She just managed not to roll snake eyes this time.

"Mom, do you think you can find him?"

It was a mere second before Pommel caught on.

When it happened, he had to fight not to smile.

'Oh yes, brilliant. Send off Chitania, the hair trigger rage machine, to go find Twenty Nine. Twenty Nine. The most annoying changeling on the planet. Him. I'm sure she'll be as gentle as a lamb!'

She winced, any retort quite wisely never voiced.

"Then I'll do it."

(Even better! Leave Chitania alone with the mob. I mean, it's not like your reputation can get any worse, and I'm sure you don't care if ponies get crippled, best case scenario.)

From the disgusted look on her face, it actually seemed that she did quite care about that, and the thought did not agree with her stomach.

Both captain and student made a note on that one.

'I guess you could send a ling, but then you're back to step one if they get lost, and they're unprotected.'

(Or... we could go get him.)

She hissed, clearly disagreeing with that idea even more than earlier.

(It would just take a second.)

"...Do you think I'm stupid? I know you'll just stall for time. You won't ever come back."

They shared a look, not even bothering to hide it, knowing full well that she wasn't fooled for a second.

'Offensive.'

(Very racist.)

Despite their comments, the ling knew she had been backed into a corner.

She couldn't leave without him, couldn't go get him herself, and couldn't risk leaving him to the mob. She was stuck, and she knew it, and they knew it. She could stop the mob, she knew, and not kill a one of them. But her mother...

"...An hour."

6/7

>>25682649

(Hm?)

"If you don't find him in an hour, then I'm... I'm sending my mom."

'You know that she'll-'

"The Queen would forgive me. I'm giving you a chance, use it."

Giving her a chance, were the unspoken words.

Only one hour.

>...Well? GET GOING!

Her roar was what finally spurred Sunset to start running, to go off with a smirk on her face while she made a show of her fastest race. She shared only a single look with Pommel, a single glance to say 'you're still on the clock' before she was gone. Disappearing into the town, to find the 'lost ling'.

Leaving them, the mob, the Titan, the guards and the lings behind, where they knew they would remain for an hour.

Where not a one of them expected to have that time limit broken by a return.

They all sat there, remained there, in the most awkward and uncomfortable silence to have ever graced the face of Eqeustria.

'...Sooooo... anybody got a game? One that takes a bit of time?'

[We could play Monopony.]

>GRRRRRRRAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!

Everyone screeched in terror, be they ling or pony or otherwise, when flames enveloped the Queen, and the full sized Titan let out an ear splitting roar.

She shrank back down a second later, glaring at every single one of them in turn.

"...Mom doesn't like monopony."

'Put that together myself, thanks.'

Thus, the longest hour in the world began.

>>25682660
_So can I go hang out with 41 now?_

"No."

_Darn._

>>25682660
>Didn't make Pommel punk out
>Didn't make Chitty go full retard
>Didn't just have the lings leave and end it
>Didn't have anyone back down
>Used 13's Muh Hive thing
>Even slipped in the monopony bit

10/10.

You guys never cease to impress me sometimes.

>>25682660
Now I'm just imagining Sunny shoving 29 into a bag and going

>NOPE! STILL CAN'T FIND HIM!... WHAT IF HE IS OVER THERE!? WHOEVER SHALL KNOW!

>>25682660
>did literally everything better than me by including sunset and 13
thank faust, I was worried the guards would just be standing there frozen until Applejack came back because no one wanted to write them

>>25682866
That would've been pretty funny.

NC
>Chitania
"Pommel"
'AJ'
~~~

>I'MMA TAKE THEM!

"DON'T TAKE THEM!"

>I'MMA TAKE THEM!

"DON'T TAKE THEM!

>I'MMA TAKE THEM!

"DON'T TAKE THEM-Princess!"

>Prinwho?

'...Have... have you just been standin' here? Ah' was gone for six hours!'

"So thaaaat's why I really have to use the bathroom."

>>25682607
....Did Chitty just stop 13 from mindzotzing Pommel?

Why?

>>25683158
Have to keep your potential powers hidden until the last possible second. You don't want to blow it on one little thing.

OOCO
>AJ
"???"
~~

>...AH HAH! She stabs the thing in the eye... with an APPLE! Brilliant!

"Whoa, we talking about stabbing here, because-"

>GAHHHHHHHH!

ZAP!
BOOM!

>...HOW DO YA'LL KEEP GETTIN' IN HERE!?

"I-It's my office too..."

>Oh, right.. sorry Dash!

"..."

>Ya' okay?

"..."

>Yer' probably okay.... Oh hey! Ah' shot a laser! That's neat ain't it?

"...I hate you."

>>25682854
She'd probably actually have a harder time dragging him away.

>NOOOO! UH DUN WANNNA GOOOOOOOOHOHOOOOOO NUUUNN! NUHN! YUH NUH GUNUH MAKE MEH NUUUHHHHHHHH!... Wait, wait a minute, is that shield still up? What happens when I try to go through the portal-WAIT NO

>>25683712
Better than what I was gonna have her do.

Get so mad she just blows shit up.

>>25682723
_Awww, why not?_

"She wanted to come."

_So?_

"..."

~~~~~~

=I'm coming with you, and there's nothing you can do to stop me!=

"MINDMOTHERFUCKINGZOTZ!"

=HABBABAALAAB=

~~~~~~

"She's... sleeping."

>>25683158
I'm just impressed she managed it. You'd think 13 would be able to power through her... ironically.

>>25684168
>That would actually fit the OP really well

Huh,

>2
"SA"
~~~~~~

>Hiya Shiny!

"Heyyyy, Two! See? This is why I came over here, I knew you would be appreciative of my company. You want me around!"

>Yep!

"Everyone else is all doom and gloom just because I said that we should look on the bright side."

>Bright side is AWESOME!

"It is! I mean, things aren't nearly as bad as they could be, right? So we should be happy!"

>...

"...Two?"

>...

"Two, don't you agree? No worries? No worries because things could get worse?"

>...Shiny.

"Uh... yes?"

>Open the door.

"Okay... um... sure. There. Why? What did that?... What is that sound."

>Is the door open?

"Huh? Yes, doors open, but what is that rumbling sound-"

>Good, Ah' needed you to open the door.

"Whyyyy?"

>GET ON THE FLOOR!

"WHAT!?"

>EVERYTHING IS GONNA GET WORSE SOME MORE!

"Two that's silly- is that an airship?"

>GET OUTTA MAH ROOM!

SHOVE!

SLAM!

"...Whelp, time to take up shaving again."

>>25685361
>Not Gwendolyn's mad as a dinosaur

I don't care if she wouldn't have known, 0/10.

>>25685361
>Even 2 doesn't wanna hang out when you're like this

That's a drowning excuse if I ever saw one.

>>25686068
>Drowning, one of the many things that's only depressing when you do it alone.

>>25686302
> drowning with white horse equals fun and happy time jokes
> drowning alone equals...
Checks out.

>>25686445
When you drown alone, you drown for real.

>>25686445
>Drowning with your best buddy who's going to fix you for sure and you'll be fine in a second
Kinky married couple act.
>Drowning alone because you're sad.
CRAWWWWLLLLLING IN MY SKIIIIINNNNNNNNN!

>>25686302
>>25686445
>>25686809
>>25686972
Not since catchphrases for reporters murdering someone has /pa/ seen such intellectual debate as to the merits of drowning with or without other participants.

>>25682660
I have to know what Monopoly game set her off like that and scarred her so deeply I just have to know. I just. Have. To know.

>>25687683
it was Variolus's favorite game.

>>25688050
Yeesh, kinda makes 32's reluctance to play a bit dark...

>>25688077
Less then if he was super stoked to play or something.

>Lavan
"32"
'88'
-JJ-
~Acty~

Fwoosh!

"-so you see based on the amount of love we're charged with, the actual size of our transformation can vary. It's far more easy for me to become a pony than a dragon, as you'd expect."

>Ooh, ooh!

"..."

>...can you not see me?

-Oh we see you, we kinda wish we didn't.-

'What happened?'

~He turned himself into a foreleg and raised himself.~

'...no, seriously, what hap-'

>I must ask, is it possible to turn into many things at once?

-Ha, no, that's ridic- -

"Welllll..."

-No way.-

"Well I mean I can but holy shit I don't reccommend it."

>Explain please.

-Goes double for me.-

"Well consider when we change form we are washed over with a green flame. It's not entirely for show, particularly when we're changing from one disguise to another, burning away one form over our chitin to produce another."

Fwoosh.

In an instant, 32 went through a rotation of earth pony, gryphon, pegasus, unicorn, and earth pony again.

-Showoff.-

"Please save the heckling for the end of the class. Now, here's the trick, and please, do not try this at home: You begin to change from one disguise to another..."

One of 32's forelegs begins burning away to reveal a gryphon's talon once more, but...

"You stop the flame at a certain point. However-"

32 completes the transformation to gryphon.

"-that flame is hot as all hell, so unless you complete the transformation or cancel it quickly, you'll end up like a marshmallow dropped in a campfire."

'So it's really only good for a suckerpunch on someone.'

"Pretty much, whatever you do, you have to do it fast, otherwise-"

>Fwoosh?

"You'll fwoosh your last."

>...interesting, allow me to try being many things!

"Nonothat'squitealrigh-!"

Poof!

>Glkghlrkle...

"-~AAAAAAHHHHHH!~-"

'Loud.'

Good night thread.

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>Pinkie
"Applejack"
~~~~
>Welcome to Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and the crazy ones are out! Now for our main guest...APPLEJACK!!!

"Howdy hoe."

>Now that I've had my own entertainment, it's time to ask, what do you do for fun some times?

"Why Ah do all sorts of fun things like-"

>That are not apple related.

"......Did Ah ever tell you the story of how me and mah cousin Peach used to hang around in our club house?"

>Okay, I'm sorry. It can be apple related.

"This one time, she managed to nail her tongue to the wall hahaha. Hooo it was messy. There was a lot of screaming that's fer sure. Couldn't make a word out of her. Now you'd think it's strange how that could possibly happen when you're holding the hammer in your mouth, but you can count on cousin Peach to nail her own tongue. Since she technically pierced her tongue, she went ahead and got herself a tongue piercing later on."

>WE'RE OUT OF TIME NOW, but enjoy the rest of your night and I'll see you next time!

"Oh wait, Ah didn't get to mention the-"
AJ wakes up.
"...other place that she got piercings...oh well. It's an area I probably shouldn't say on the show."

>>25689917
Ellis-jack is gonna be a favorite of mine, I can see that now.

>>25690168
I've loved you since story one.

>>25688818
>INB4/ Lavan shapeshift shenanigans
>It's all just fire.

OOCO
>AJ
"Pinkie"
~~

>...Pinkie?

"Yep!"

>Ah'm glad ya' decided to help with the paperwork, buuuut...

"Did I do something wrong?"

>Well, ya' filled it out right, if that what yer' asking.

"So then, what's the problem?"

>...It's a sheet of bubble gum.

"And?"

>Ya' wrote it out on a sheet of bubble gum.

"Yeaahhhh?"

>That's... not good.

"Why?"

>Cause iffin' it gets wet, it'll rot.

"So will regular paper."

>...

"..."

>...Huh... but still, it smells.

"Like bubblegum, which is better than paper.

>...Uh... it's... sticky?

"It's not! I double triple powdered it!... Unless it gets wet, then it sticks to stuff... like-"

>Like regular paper, got it.

"Soooo..."

>...So here's the real problem.

"Shoot."

CHOMP!

"APPLEJACK!"

>AH' CAN'T HELP IT AH'M SO HUNGRY! NOMHNOMNOM!

"I knew I shouldn't have made it apple flavored! I just knew it!"

>NOM!

>DT
"SS"
'Spike'
~~

>Don't say it.

"I'm not going to."

'Can I say it?'

>Silver Spoon, tell Spike I'm not talking to him.

"She's not talking to you."

'Silver Spoon, tell Diamond Tiara this is an extremely ineffective and stupid thing that doesn't prevent me from actually hearing her, nor her me, and that she is being immature.'

"DT, this doesn't prevent him from hearing you and you him, and he thinks you're being immature."

>Silver Spoon, tell Spike he's a loser.

'I AM NOT A LOSER!'

>And a blank flank.

'I AM NOT A... well, dragons don't get those anyway!'

>Then tell him that just means he'll be a loser for life.

'I HAVE A GUN!'

~ARMING WARHEADS!~

'...'

>Silver Spoon, tell Spike not to try to take on TBDRLIATU, he won't win.

"Spike, don't try to-"

'I HEARD!'

"That one was actually coming from me, not her. Seriously don't. You will lose. That thing is scary."

'It is not!'

"Spike, she didn't even touch it when it did that."

'...I could take it-'

BOOM!
...
SPLAT!

>... you okay?

'FUH UHHH!'

>Bet you're glad I installed the quick hardening foam bomb instead of the castle-buster now, aren't you!

"It was my idea."

>It was a good one.

"...I want to go back to bed."

'GIMMEH OUH!'

>>25691540
That thing has officially reached very, very uncomfortable levels of 'alive'.

He's gonna pull a BBB at this rate.

>AJ
~~~

The empty halls gave off subtle echos with her every step. A barren area where there had once been life, and very shortly ago quite a lot of ranting. It seemed even in times like this, she was ever the mare who noticed the inconsistencies with everything.

She tried her best to subdue it for now.

>Yep. Definitely gonna be some kinda answer in here.

She was lying, and only to herself. She needed no magical trinket or special power to know that. She was merely running, merely hiding away from the rest of the world in here and convincing herself it was all to 'find a miracle'.

But she found only empty halls, barren walls, and crumbling stone no matter how far she would go. She knew this, she expected nothing less, for if there had been other things within these halls then Twilight would no doubt have scoured them clean long before now. The smart thing, she knew deep down, would be to go to the tree.

She could think of nothing she would rather do less.

She knew it had no real options anyway. What was she going to do, retrieve her Element from it? Let the world be overrun by giant thorny vines, again? There was nothing it could give her, nothing to take. It was as empty an option as these walls were, yet still it would have been smarter.

Far smarter than when she found herself in that empty throne room, where a battle had once taken place.

For a moment, looking at it, she felt empty. To have a symbol of the royalty she was supposed to be staring back at her so blatantly gave her nothing but a cold, empty feeling. She could not, no matter how much she wanted to, look away from that spot.

She found herself moving towards it, drawn like a moth to the light, stepping on her own accord until the musty old smell distinct from the others reached her nostrils.

She didn't know why she did it, but she sat down.

>... Ah' gotta question.

1/2

>>25691995

>And I would rather drill into my head with a nine iron than hear it!

>Would at least clear some o' the sugar out of your system, yer' dang brain has gotta be clogged full of angel cake at this rate. But seriously, why's it always gotta be us?

>Because, Applejack, much to my great sadness my subjects tend not to be able to handle these matter very well. For instance, I have yet again been forced to tell no less than six dozen of them that, no, it is not mandatory that you eat an apple everyday for every meal.

>Ah've had ta' tell them peaches ain't illegal.

>And then there's the matter of the Apple Family now being nobility.

>Peh, Granny would hate that.

>Only until she could teach them fancy folk how real ponies act.

>Point... but.. why us? Ah' mean, is there really nobody else in the whole world?

>Well, we are rather special, though it seems kind of arrogant to say out loud.

>But we make a whole buncha mistakes too.

>That we do. But still, element of Harmony tends to have some weight.

>Ah'm not even that! Ah've been lyin' for a whole year!

>Technically, you just haven't said otherwise.

>It's the same thing!

>Is it?

>They sure are reacting like it is!

>Well, you certainly didn't tell them why they should say otherwise.

>But iffin' Ah' admitted it, they'd never trust me again. Maybe they shouldn't, but...

>...but what?

>How do Ah' fix somethin' after messing up this hard? This seems hopeless.

>Really? Because things are broken, they don't look like they can get fixed, and it's all due to negligence and, oh I don't know maybe a little bit of... laziness?

>...It ain't the same.

>Well, how did you fix that?

>...Did Ah' actually fix anything, or did Ah' just lie a whole lot and keep it from getting worse?

>Did you?

>Don't gimme that dodge, Ah'm askin' you!... Tia?... CELESTIA- oh.

The empty room looked back at her, as strongly as if it had eyes to stare.

She, alone, looked back at the empty castle.

>...Why am Ah' a princess, again?

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>>25691995
>>25692004
It's only going to get better, AJ

>>25692004
Uhhh... shit.

This went kinda bad when Chrysalis had her little hallucination party.

AJ, invest in some casts, just in case.

>>25692163
So does this mean the changelings are double fucked?

>>25692004
One hundred some odd threads later we find ourselves asking the u wordy toon that kicked this thing off in the first place.

Welp. Let me go grab some popcorn. This can only be entertaining.

>>25692419
>u wordy toon
*very same question
What the fuck, keyboard...?

>SA
"Cadence"
~~

SLAM!

>HEY! HONEY! HI! WE HAVE VISITORS!

"Not now, Shiny. I need to get this."

>I'm sorry, I think I may have been a little unclear, AIRSHIP VISITORS.

"I'll just be a minute."

>Royal airship!

"Just a second."

>Of our foreign allies! Maybe! Don't know if that's still a thing considering!

"Just handle them until I get there."

>...I'm sorry what? This... this is the you thing. You do the talky thing. You are talky pony! I am paper pony!

"Just handle them until I get there."

>I don't think you're hearing me!

"Just go handle it until I get there."

>Caaadddyyyyy-

"Shiny."

>...

"Go say hi."

>...Uh-

SLAM!

>...Whelp.

>>25690604
I'm not that guy, but if you mean that you've loved my LNPP stories since the beginning. Thank you. I never thought my filler fluff would ever amount to anything.

>>25692553
Not him, but I've pretty much loved that bit of silliness since the start too. I thought it was just going to be a one off or stop eventually, but it just kept going and getting funnier.

Mad respect, it's damn fine quality.

>>25692513
...Did she improve or digress?

>>25692778
I dunno but I like this new version of Caddy. Makes me wanna write for her again.

>Pommel
"Chitania'
~~

>...Soooo...

"..."

>...You have any interests?

"Killing those who annoy me."

>...Do stuff while you're not being... you?

"I research in hopes of one day reaching the plain beyond, and murdering gods."

>Ah... play any games?

"How many ways can I break someone without killing them."

>...See any shows?

"Horror shows, so I can laugh at the inaccuracy and inefficiency."

>Seriously? Any hobbies at all besides that?

"I play the violin."

>...

"..."

>...The... the what now?

"The violin."

>Made of pony bones or something?

"Are you insane? That would sound terrible. Bones are too thick and soft, and their vibrations are terrible. You might as well use organs as tuba."

>...Do you do that?

"No, regular tubas are fine."

>Ah... huh.

"..."

>...Read any non-killing books?

"Mystery novels."

>...

"I like figuring out the ending."

>...Am I drunk?

"No, just a pussy."

>So, this is the real world.

"..."

>...Go back to talking about killing.

"Don't tell me how to live."

>>25692943
Pfft, typical. Assume she's all about the killing Pom.

>>25693125
Well she kinda led off on that...

Also is she like ever impressed with anything?

>>25693285
Who, Chitty?

In the sense of accomplishments or just in general? Accomplishment wise, we haven't seen anything yet. She tends to take it as a challenge or them bragging when she could obviously do better. But just in general, hell yeah. She used to be adorable when she was all like "HOLY SHIT FUTURE IS AWESOME!" and I still remember her being honestly impressed with what Pennydrop was capable of creating with the infusions. She didn't care for the 'golem', but when she saw the vials she was like "Dude... whoa."

She wasn't that hard to impress with technology due to her being so far behind, but I don't know if she's still got that fresh wonder. She seems like the type to be impressed with any new thing, though.

>>25693285
>Also is she like ever impressed with anything?

Technology, she has a massive ladyboner for it. It's one of the few things that she stops and loves to learn about.

Not even 'kill all gods weapon boom' style, she fucking lost her shit over a popcorn machine.

>>25693334
>She tends to take it as a challenge or them bragging when she could obviously do better

Makes sense, when someone goes
>KILL ALL THE BIGGEST THINGS
they tend not to be the one who goes
>Whoa, look at the balls on that guy!
Simply because if they're always looking for bigger things to fight, they're probably not interested in gushing about others accomplishments instead of just surpassing them.

>>25693718
I realize that, but it seriously makes reading her dialogue a chore sometimes. It's just 'Oh but I'm better' over and over again.

>>25693802
I can agree with this. It's not exactly a chore for me anymore as it's just kind of... boring. I still love Chitty on the whole, though.

>>25691710
>TBDRLITU with a love core
it makes sense, Twilight invented it, she could make another one, and DT is supposed to spend some time with her
also it would never run out of power, ever
like holy shit she's making it sentient on her own with all the affection and care and upgrades she gives it.

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>>25693360
>mr. popcorn will never come back

>>25693802
>>25693849
Wow, I could not disagree more.

The thing I love reading about Chitty since day 1 has always been that she gives no fucks, but she's not depressive or sad or dramatic. She has interests, she has hobbies that she loves and she smiles and laughs and all that, but she loves posturing and doesn't give a fuck if you posture back. In fact, she takes it as a challenge.

Who else would trashtalk a dragon that was kicking her ass sideways?

>>25693998
So...she's really strong, a bitch to everyone she does not recognize as being hers, proud to a fault and uses violence to get what she wants.

She is a schoolyard bully.

Hooray?

>>25694054
No, you don't GET it, her tragic backstory absolves her of being a total jerk to everyone who's guilty of being weaker than her.

>>25694054
Bullies pick on the small fish and are content with that, because they're the ones who are going to give them the least amount of fight.

She wants the whales.

The chainsaw wielding whales.

>>25694087
Different anon here and I kind of get what you're saying, and yeah, it might make sense in THAT way, but a tragic life doesn't really give anyone the right to act like a 'schoolyard bully'.

Life is life for a reason. If hers was shitty and that's why she acts like that, cool. She's still a bitch most times, she just has reason to be a bitch. Still wrong.

>>25694143
Yeah guess what, I hope the whale eats her.

>>25694054
>proud to a fault

That's the only one I'll contend, as she does accept when she just plain can't win in a fistfight. She was extremely cautious when Discord popped up and was so tense she didn't even try bantering with him despite actually having the advantage.

She's not proud, she's driven. She doesn't hear someone say "I beat up ___" and think thats a shot to her pride that she hasn't, its a challenge to get bigger and stronger and do better, and she voices that.

And this isn't getting into

>Her love of advancement of technology, sciences and the like
>Her wonder of what the future is going to hold
>That she likes classical music
>That she did want to be a mom to a huge hive
>That she has a protective instinct towards her species(that got soured later, but still is there)
>That she tends actually not to pick on someone way weaker than her even when she has the advantage, like with Pommel, simply because she doesn't care about them.

And lots of other stuff.

>>25694087
Exact opposite.

She has never once even implied anyone should feel sorry for her, or that she's still clinging to it or letting it drown her out. It changed her, but only in the sense that it was a bad thing that changed her time, place and who she has left to protect, not that it made her a worse or better person. She's the same as she was before Variolus, and has said multiple times "It happened, it sucks, but it's done." and moved on.

Chitty don't let no backstory hold her down, she's got Gods to punch.

>>25693802
>>25693849
I also agree to this. She's a chore and a bore.

>>25693998
>She has interests, she has hobbies that she loves and she smiles
and honestly I still don't care about her. Unless she's doing something funny, I'm just not invested in her.

>>25694054
Kinda this. I regard her more as a schoolyard bully.

>>25694087
and then things like this starts giving me off weird Mary Sue OC vibes when she's a jerk and immune to repercussions. I assume you're probably joking, but it's tough to tell sometimes.

All this discussion about developing our canon show characters sure is productive, huh?

>>25694143
...She wants the whales eh?

Too bad she doesn't restrict herself to the whales.

She goes after anyone all the time.

>>25694163
>but a tragic life doesn't really give anyone the right to act like a 'schoolyard bully'.

Here's the thing, it didn't. She acted like this with the arrogance and being annoyed with anyone weaker than her, except her kid obviously, well before the icing. She's never cared about Ponies especially, and outright hated them up to the town incident. She doesn't even hate them now, she popped out of the ice and was like "FUCK YOU SISTER" and then never got back to hating ponies, she just thinks they're worthless.

Her 'tragic life' had surprisingly little effect on her, she was just always cocky about her powers.

>>25694227
The canon show characters i care about most in this thread have all just A) Shit the bed and caused this mess. B) Ran away from there responsibilities to go through some shit and then actually do something (I hope, maybe she just ran off); and C) been run over by a bunch of nobodies then sealed inside a foam ball fired by an autonomous rocket launcher because apparently the universe rolls a d20 for his skill level every 20 min. and he's getting 1s today.

I'm mostly just waiting for this all to be over.

>>25694260
...is...is that supposed to be better?

>>25694227
We're currently in the process of doing that through story.

>>25694286
>been run over by a bunch of nobodies then sealed inside a foam ball fired by an autonomous rocket launcher because apparently the universe rolls a d20 for his skill level every 20 min. and he's getting 1s today.

...Well what the fuck was he going to do against a stampeding mob or a rocket anyway?

What, was he going to backflip over the fucking rocket or something?

>>25694224
Hell yes, I'm joking, I despise Changeling Queens and in some cases Changelings in general. I'd rather fellate Charity than write for fucking 42. Hell, half the reason I left the thread for so long was because I caught myself debating whether a missile to the face would be enough to have her be punch drunk.

Fuck Chryssy, fuck Chitty, fuck Punchwaifu

>>25694339
Dodge. duck. literally anything other than stand there? Not like it's the first time he's fought the thing.

besides the point though. Point is the characters I like are getting the stick right now, and I just have to wait it out.

>>25694470
>Not like it's the first time he's fought the thing.

....Actually? Holy shit, you just made me realize it is!

The version he 'fought' was a gimped build meant not to cause any collateral damage(they were fighting in Canterlot) and DT relied on smaller things like Tasers and smoke bombs and what have you, nothing full power and no rockets that could wreck anything. And even then, this was Pre-PL TBDRLIATU, he didn't even have his jump-jets or different weaponry yet, he was just a boomstick she downgraded so she didn't bring Canterlot to the ground.

HUH.

...What would happen if Spike did fight current-version TBDRLIATU?

>>25694506
depends on whether the writer likes him or thinks he sucks.

>>25694531
Just like in the show...who are we kidding, no one on the show likes him.

>Screwloose
“12”
____

>Well, would ya look at that….

“Look at what?”

>This, out the window. It’s really turning up down there, pervert.

“It’s really turning up down here, that’s where it’s turning up.”

>…I swear to Celestia, if you don’t quit rubbing your dick on my hooves-

“That’s not my dick. Okay? That’s my nose. Both are warm, yes, but one’s quite larger than the other.”

>For future possibilities, I’d sure as hell like to hope so.

“…”

>…

“…So. Window? What’s going on?”

>Seems like a bunch of mass rioting and yelling annnnnd… unless my eyes are fucking with me—and they may well be as ever since doggifying myself my vision’s taken a nosedive into shit—I do believe the earth pony traitor princess just bailed. Nothing but a glint in the sky.

“I’m not even going to look.”

>Yeah, no, I wouldn’t. Last thing we need’s a brick being hurled at your head. Then I’d have to do some very unscrupulous things.

“Aww….”

>Because if they blinded you, you wouldn’t be very good at giving hoof massages anymore, I suspect.

“Aw respectfully retracted.”

>You ever notice that an awful lot of mess follows you and your kind, perv?

“Noticed, been victim to, accepted, moved on.”

>I wonder… doesn’t that bother you? Like, in the slightest? Equestria’s being thrown into some delicious turmoil right now because of changeling endeavors, regardless of their intention at that.

“Honestly? It bothered me the very first time I took a knife to the chitin when applying for a job. After that? Nope. I just cling to what little happiness I manage to find. It does bite ass being born outright into a negative light but we barely do ourselves any favors as it is.”

>Hm.

“Yeah, hm.”

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>>25694787

>…Think the world would be better off without changelings?

“…is what she decides to ask a pure-blooded, emotion-having changeling.”

>You oughta know by now that I give exactly zero fucks about the questions I ask or who I ask them to, pervert, come on.

“True.”

>So? Yay, nay?

“…I believe that changelings did exist… something else would. That’s usually how it goes, I’ve found. Hell, changeling history is a good example. You got one bad queen. She gets axed. Here comes a worse one. Like Sci… Sc-Scide-… yeah. Anyway, if my race suddenly died off, we’d get replaced by something ten times worse. Something that probably wouldn’t disguise itself, something that probably wouldn’t be willing to talk, to listen, to help… to give massages.”

>Well, you might be right on that one. Whenever one bad disappears, another always takes its place.

“…I’m not bad.”

>As a single entity free from the oppressive rule of your hive, most certainly not. You’re about as bad as free scalpels. But together?

Twelve could practically count her teeth when Screwloose smiled, almost ear to ear.

>You’re almost as frightening as I am. And you know how much I detest competition. …Huh.

He stared when her nose ran through a series of twitches.

“Something wrong, Screwloose?”

>Smells like garbage just waltzed into the castle….

>>25694798
>>Smells like garbage just waltzed into the castle….

How does she know!?

>>25694506
If you're talking about DTvsSpike, allow me to break it down. The outcome of the fight was pre-determined because he simply won the coin toss.
Now the first problem I realized was he's a quick draw. He shoots first. It's how he beat Blueblood, so if he takes the initiative and fires fast in the right spot he'd win, but that's not an interesting read, hence why I made him go ladies first to give DT a chance. As soon as he lost the initiative he ran into trouble.

DT first throws a smoke bomb so that Spike can't get that clear shot on him and uses infrared goggles so that she can see.
She's gimped herself though so she has to probe what Spike can take hence the tazer.
The glass jar of yellow liquid was to make sure even if she did lose, it would humiliate him. Plus it made him stink so extra detection.
She ups the damage by using concussion shots, but Spike is still somewhat tanking it.
To get out of her zone of control and to make her come to him, he tried to get out of the smoke, but she can see where he's going so she simply tossed a flashbang to make him stop and throw another smoke bomb to extend the reach.
Eventually Spike thinks fast by tossing garbage and lighting it on fire. It covers his own smell, and the multiple heat signatures make the infrared almost useless.
Spike then uses ventriloquism to throw his voice to a pile of garbage which revealed DT's location when she shot at it.
He then delivers that one good shot to put her to sleep.

I'd say it depends on if he can take advantage of his initiative and land that one good hit right away. Also it would depend on DT if she can defend against his speed and accuracy long enough to deliver massive firepower.

Let's say if this was an RPG.
Spike would probably come with an ability to attack first and would have a high stat in accuracy.
DT's more of the nukey mage. Squishy, but is able to deliver a devastating attack that would soften targets.

That's my 2 cents from writing fights for both.

>>25695182
>Effectively an OC
>Kooky crazy sexy lady straight outta /d/
>That kind of crazy, the very erudite and all-knowing one

Whaddaya think

>>25695182
>1. Having fucked herself into near dog-status, she can smell PD and was just calling her trash.

>2. She seems to have an affinity with PD vis a vis second sense according to earlier stories.

>3. She just has a knack for sensing danger, being dangerous herself, like back with Chitty and other such times.

>>25695227
Were you one of the writers for that three round fight thing from the waaay back threads?

>Celestia
"Pennydrop"
~~~

>Anything I can get you?

It was the rare pony who would ignore her, who would keep up the pace of the long legs in a smooth, easy stride alongside her as they entered into Celestia's very own private study. It was the rare pony who would waltz in like she lived there, eyes trailing all around to the various collections and things on the shelves with an appetizing gaze. It was the rare pony who would take a seat on the chair before a word could be said, and look her, the grandest princess of them all, right in the eyes without so much as a hint of discomfort or acknowledgement to that power.

But, it seemed, this was the rare pony indeed.

>Come now, no need to be shy.

"That's okay, you don't have the kind I like."

>I assure you my stocks are of things you would not believe, I very much doubt there is a single type I do not own.

"Sorry, the stuff I had privately cultivated isn't on the market."

>I see... Well, do tell me when it is up for purchase.

"I'll send the note myself. But if you're offering a drink, any chance of Griffon-Wine? None of that Griffonstone stuff, I'm talking the one made from the rosegrapes."

>Oh, I suppose I have a bottle or two.

The two sat oddly still as the beverage was summoned, never looking away from the other as it was poured, and offered. She took it without hesitation, no worries at all to her as she sipped heartily of the drink.

>Quite the thirst when you were so worried I was under some kind of influence yourself. Didn't you worry something was slipped in there?

She smirked like she had seen very little smirk before as she set the glass down, licking her lips to catch any remains.

"Maybe I'm just testing the waters and seeing if you're planning anything. Wouldn't do any good to make demands if you were trying to do something at the start, would it?"

As expected, she was better than she had let on.

>...I suppose not. So, of these demands? I'm sure you know what they want.

1/6

>>25695586
A smile that would give a shark pause graced the mares lips, and the words flowed smoothly.

"Well, I'm certainly not going to pretend I'm the voice of the ponies or anything, I'm just a simple mare who wants whats best for the city she has done so much business in, and who has a great many friends here! Honestly, I don't know why you picked me, but everyone else seemed like they weren't willing to step forwards, and I clearly couldn't let the will of the ponies go unanswered, no?"

Eyes, once beautiful and full of love, narrowed ever so slightly, looked ever so slightly dangerous, as she looked to the mare who practically sang her every word.

>Oh no, and it was very... brave to step forwards.

"Had to be done. But if I was to give some direct requests, and most of these are coming from the others so feel free to pick them apart as you wish, it would be these. An outside investigation into all matters that might have been compromised by the changeling infiltration over in the Empire. An examination of anything military or otherwise that may have been compromised by association with said race. An examination into any funds, and how much, were given to said species and if those funds need to be refunded or otherwise reobtained from the changelings. And finally, a banning of all changelings and direct associates from Canterlot Castle until this investigation is finished to the satisfaction of the ponies."

Everything she had expected, quite a lot more. There was much she needed to bring down, starting with the worst would be a good start.

>You don't feel the banning is a bit much?

"Nope. Best to be cautious when they can disguise themselves as us or control minds."

>Even still, lumping them all in the same cloth is a rather biased request.

"Good."

Silence hung above them like a swinging pendulum following that, ever tick of the clock a swing that brought it lower. Bargaining was off the table. A new approach would be needed, something more direct.

2/6

>>25695613

>And, this investigation... would it be headed by you, by any chance?

She expected the affirmative, she most certainly did not expect a flippant wave of a hoof like she were some street beggar asking for a bit.

"Me? Oh no no no, I wouldn't want to get directly involved myself. Sure, I pay taxes, but my main headquarters is stationed elsewhere. No, it will have to be someone else who looks to the goings on of Canerlot Castle, I'm merely here to give the word. A messenger, nothing more."

Before, she had been curious.

Now she was worried.

>But you have so many investigative organizations, do you not?

"None in Canterlot."

>Wouldn't that make you the perfect unbiased party?

She needed her to take the bait, to bite the hook.

"Only if you call "Ignoring the ponies below" unbiased. They certainly have the right to choose someone from their own ranks who will do the looking. Why, it would be preferable, really. They would bring with them their own national pride to get the job done right!"

But the little fish just swam away.

>And biases that will make them see a bug in every dot on an i.

The makings of a smile moved beneath the smaller mares lips, only barely held back from the surface.

"Think so little of them, do you? That's a little elitist."

>It is not that I think so little of them, but what I think of you.

"...ohhh?"

Her voice was coy, smooth like silk as she held the princess's gaze.

>Shall we cut to the chase, Pennydrop?

The smile.

The smile she had seen before, known of for all of her political life, that had graced a dozen lips before her, was there. It was hidden, but it was there.

"I did already, try to pay attention."

>... do you really think you're the first?

Everything about that, the words, the shift in tone, the way her look changed, absolutely everything was finally enough that the smile need held back no longer and died hidden.

3/6

>>25695626

>Really now, do you think you're the first one to try something like this? Or the tenth? Or even the twentieth? I've dealt with more events like these than I have earth-threatening beings, and that's saying a lot. I've seen them come and go, Empires built up and poised to win the political game over and over.

"And?"

>And you are talking to me, now, in my castle, on my land, in my country.

That really did say it all.

That was enough to turn what once threatened a smile into a scowl.

"You know, just for the record, I never bought the perfect pretty princess routine. I always knew you loved this power you have. Why so many others are taken in by a pretty flowing mane and a 'nice' smile has always left me shaking my head. Like you're something special, when you get down to the bone. Like you don't love every second of it."

A single, sharp eyebrow rose, and a look of pure contempt covered every inch of the earth pony.

>Love it?... You're unfortunately every wrong on that one. Sometimes I wish I had what I've seen in those that came before me, what no doubt hides in you. A need for power, for control, a need to always have more and more and more. It would make my job so much easier, you know. But no, every time I defeated them for a simple reason. I love them. I love every one of my subjects, and I love them dearly, and I will not see them used for a powergrab.

"Unless it's for you, of course."

The smaller mare leaned back, still glaring, not in the least bit afraid by the much taller, opposing figure sitting across from her.

>I, unlike you, do not want them manipulated, do not want a single other who does not belong to be involved in my matters. I only want to protect them. I only want them to be happy.

A short, almost pained laugh was the response and it did nothing but sour the alabaster face even further.

4/6

>>25695647

"You know? So do I, to be honest. Ponies do a lot better when they're happy. Have you seen my pay rates? I'm the best, and I get the best. That whole 'dark master atop a twisted castle' just looks pretty bad, doesn't it? Just looks cheap and tacky, and why would you want to look down at a whole bunch of sad sacks every day? No, I think I'd much rather look down at smiling, happy faces every day, wouldn't you? Though I guess it's pointless asking, that is what you do, isn't it? Seems nice."

Nothing, not a single word she had spoken this whole time, had unsettled her as much as those words.

>...It's not too late, you know. You can stop this..

Another laugh, louder, harder, more booming and powerful, and this one pure.

"Stop this? Are you crazy? Oh, you have no idea. You have no idea, Princess Celestia."

The sour look twisted, looking almost remorseful.

>I'm being honest. You can still turn away, live a successful life, work hard and make Equestria better. You do not want what you think you want, and it will bring you only ruin. I don't know what caused this, why you think these things you do, but they do not have to define you. Turn back, before it twists you into something dark and terrible. I've seen it... I've lived it. Turn back, before it's too late.

Silence, horrible, horrible silence followed that. In it, in the wait, she dared to hope.

In the laughter that followed, she dared no longer.

"Heh... does that speech ever work?"

>...no.

It was a bitter thing that rolled off her tongue, as honest as it was disgusting.

"So melodramatic..."

She slugged down the last of her drink, hopping to her hooves without a single shake in her body, without a single hesitation in her step.

"Demands are set, and I'll be sure to inform everyone you've agreed to all of them. If you say otherwise to them, well, it would sure look weird if you agreed to a safety measure against a changeling and then suddenly backed down or changed your mind, wouldn't it?"

5/6

>>25695659

Eyes that had been regretful ignited, narrowing into thin, dangerous slips as she glared at the other pony.

"Got something you want to say? Go on, shoot me. Shoot me with all of your big Alicorn power. Then you can just say this was all a big attempt at assassination or something, or even just stride out there and put on a lightshow, it would shut up the masses right quick. Nobody has a power than can match you, let alone all your little 'buddies'. You could end this right now, if you wanted."

Never, not once, did she actually consider doing just that.

Though she would be a liar if she did not admit the temptation was there.

"No? Good call. Get ready to meet those demands, or else I don't think that mob is going to be all civilized next time. They are mostly unicorns after all, and so many of them have powers, unsettling powers... no?"

>...You know, there's something off about you.

"No kidding? Maybe you're not as quick as they said."

The barb rolled right off her, not phasing her pensive gaze in the least.

>Oh, it's nothing you would notice, not at all. But with all the others, they kept up the facade right until the end, right until they were sure they had won, and everything was theirs. You've moved too quickly, you've shown yourself now. You did not even attempt to keep it up... why?

That, Celestia knew is when things had changed. That moment, when Pennydrop turned her head around, when she looked her right in the eye, and when she smiled, is when she knew this time around was going to be different.

"Because I'm not like them."

It was the rare pony who would turn her back on the princess with a smirk. It was the rare pony who would dare to slam her ornate, beautiful door. It was the rare pony who would stride out, her head held high, when she knew the princess would be watching her every step from now on.

But, it seemed she was that rare pony indeed.

>...so, it begins again.

This time, though...

She knew things would be different.

>>25695647
>>And you are talking to me, now, in my castle, on my land, in my country.
It's amazing how one little line made me want to pump a fist, as stupid as that sounds....

I am far too invested in this series....

>>25695300
Yup yup. Wrote the DT vs Spike specifically while the others took place in the simulator and were on the graphic side. I still have it on notepad++, so was pretty easy to refer back to.

>>25695716
As one of the trio (I believe) that wrote those fights, it's fucking excellent to know you're still around, /pa/l.

>>25695675
...WHELP.

GOOD MOTHERFUCKING JOB, RARITY.

>>25695876
R-Rarity was right...

>>25694352
At least they aren't useless like pretty much every non-alicorn pony character.

Pommel and the guard are all shits.

OOCO
>AJ
“Shiny”
____

Thwump.

Thwump.

Scraaaaaaaape!

The table wasn’t so long, just the right length for two annoyingly towering stacks of paperwork to touch as a princess and a prince pulled up their respective chairs on either end and sank into them.

She peeked around the left.

He peeked around the right.

>Well. Here we are again….

“You know, I could’ve sworn we said the stacks would be lighter last time. Didn’t we say the stacks would be lighter? These stacks don’t look lighter. In fact, I daresay they’ve gotten heavier.”

>My back would agree wit' ya, Shinin’.

“The mess afterwards, though….”

>Tell me about it. But! We’ll worry ‘bout that when the time comes. Fer now, let’s jus’ get started. Ain’t gonna take care’a itself.

“Right. On three, then. One…

>Two…

>“Three!”

In one concise swipe, those same two teetering towers of documents went crashing to the ground, freeing up just the perfect amount of space for Applejack and Shining to put their legs up and lean back comfortably.

“Maaaan, I swear… these little ‘joint meetings’ that we have? Highlight of my freaking week at times. All the crazy goes away, all the whining and prodding and sexual innuendo… all of it just becomes background noise and I can just….”

Throwing back his head with a long-winded, relaxed sigh was obviously more important than finishing his statement yet Applejack understood him perfectly. Stretching her hooves up high, she could honestly say she felt the same.

>Plus, the added benefit’a jus’ slappin’ all that shit on the ground… it jus’ feels like a win.

“A win for all of ponykind. Screw it, all kind. A win for all kind in Equestria.”

>Yeah, fuck paperwork.

“Right smack in the ear.”

1/2

>>25696207

>…So yer’ balls still blue?

“Bluer than the purest water imported from the Frozen North. Think I might have a new shade of blue going on down there.”

>Hawh….

“Those hairclips fuse with your mane yet?”

>Nooope, not yet. On their way, though.

“Hard to believe you’ve got about four grand in bits on top of your head. That was some high-grad crystal he got there.”

>Hard tuh’ believe Ara’s ‘bout as old as Chrysalis an’ has the mental apples’a Two.

“Hard to believe a lot of things….”

>Mmmhm.

“…Hey, paper horse?”

>Yeah, shield horse?

“…nevermind. I’ll ask next time. Right now, I just want to fade for the next two hours.”

>Don’t forget tuh’ set yer’ horn this time, dummy.

“Yeah, yeah, sheesh… mess up the alarm one time and you never hear the end of it….”

>>25673487
i hate the way you guys pastebin your stories

>>25696202
>At least they aren't useless

On the contrary

They're overpowered, and their flaws are just too damn boring

>>25696228
Motherfucking COMFY.

>>25696253
Sorry mate, it's a linear story, it's the only way it fits.

>>25696256
It's the way it's meant to be. No one should have even named those garbage redshirts. Some faggot spent fuck knows who long writing that bland ass OC having an adventure and I could NOT scroll fast enough past that cringefest.

>>25696228
Awwww yeah, that's the comfy /pa/ stuff I love.

Props.

>>25696202
>>25696256
>>25696291
So, just to check, nobody actually thinks this is anybody except that 'I'm great at making writers go away' guy, right?

Cause come on, you could not be more obvious with a giant neon sign. At least pretend a little bit. Roleplay! You can do it, man!

>>25696315
Nope
I'm just >>25696256

Quit seeing things under the bed

>>25696315
I fucking dare anyone in this thread to actually write even one of those pieces of shit taking on 42 and winning without it being laughably noncanon.

>>25696315
Hey, at least he switched things up a bit. Normally he only does the ling thing. Still laughably obvious, though.

>>25696331
Oh well, don't we feel all silly. Looks like we were wrong after all.

>>25696383
I swear to God I can hear the sound of fingers punching a keyboard...

>>25696315
>>25696405

>>25694352 here, as I said, I left around thread 101, who's the guy you're talking about?

>>25696499
You know, just on the off chance you're not him, I'll tell you just so you can have a laugh. Wish I could show you the post, but the archive is down again.

Long story short, another ling argument breaks out, someone wonders out loud if somebody just does it to start fights, and then, I shit you not, some poor guy actually comes outright and says the words

>I feel I'm pretty effective at making writers get so frustrated they just leave. Go back to fimfiction or something.

True to life, he said that. He actually said he started fights to make writers leave, and then took pride in his 'effectiveness' in the thread that gets updated daily with new content and progressing storylines.

I shit you not. Not a word of that is made up.

So, whenever I see something like>>25696291... come on, what the fuck am I supposed to think, besides "Oh shit he's not even trying." Maybe it was a little harsh to assume nobody would respond to that, but still.

>>25696562
Nah I'm not him.

I'm the faggot that wrote the cringeworthy story about his OC apparently.

>>25696584
Then, sorry to say mate, you took the bait.

>>25696584
Oh, hey Pommel-anon/7backstoryanon/lots of stuff. Nice to see you again!

Someone solved the kingsmoot for you. Didn't follow your outline, though.

>>25696383
OOCO
>42
"18"
~~~

>...

"Why are you rocking back and forth?"

>...I... I lost...

"Lost a what?"

>A fight.

"You... you lost a fight? You!?"

>I LOST!

"To who!?"

>Q-q-q-q...q-q-q-q...quuuiiiiii...

"...No..."

>QUICKSILVERRRRHEREHERRRRR!

"Wha-who... fucking HOW!?"

>It was so faaasssst!

"What!?"

>There were just so many punches, and they were so fast, and they were hitting harder and harder and then... and then....

"And then what!? How!? How did you even feel them!?"

>And.... and then...

"Then what!?"

>POP!

"...pop?"

>POP! THE HEAD GOES UPPPP!

"...Forty Two."

>W-whattt?

"Are you talking about the rock'em sock'em punchy toy thing?"

>What difference does it make!? I LOST AT PUNCHES! I LOOOSSSTTT!

"And what did you lose?"

>NOTHING BUT MY PRRIIIIDDEEEE!

"...Forty Two?"

>W-what?

"Get out of my office."

>...can I get a hug before I go-

"OUT!"

>>25696584
Ahhh, knew you couldn't stay away. In case you're not caught up with the dangling threads you didn't get a chance to finish

>Kingsmoot got resolved by Pennydrop and robots
>10 is infiltrating stalliongrad to get Trenderhoof out
>7/Cheerilee subplot hit a... slight snag thanks to Rarity revealing Cadence's deception with 18
>32 is chillin' with Lavan

>>25696718
Aww, you beat me... Guess mine's a tad bit longer.

>>25696642
Guess I did. Honestly I'd take him up on his little challenge but given my biases, I doubt it'd be good/forget some canon snarl.

>>25696692
Hey at least it's finished, can't exactly complain about how a soup came out if all I did was write a basic recipe.

>>25696769
I caught myself up, and I've been writing the last one.

>>25696870
Neat! Totally didn't know it was you doing that.

Was sad you were gone forever.

>>25696870
>guy that wrote my favorite character comes back
>turns out to hate changelings
...huh
I'm not sure how to feel about this
I'm the guy that gave Daw a sword

>>25696870
Welcome back to the paperwork, bud.

>>25696925
Not all of them, just the three I listed.

Years of having to watch John Cena has given me an irrational hatred of seemingly invincible individuals who are total jerks I'm expected to like.

>>25696954
>42
>Invincible
>Jerk

Nigga what? She's the most bro ling to ever be bro in brotown.

And she lost to Shiny in their last fight forever ago. You're not supposed to like her for being a jerk, she's super-loyal to a fault, doesn't want a fight and never thinks she's bigger than she is, if not thinking she's smaller than she is most days.

Is this really still about the simulator thing? Gotta let that go, man.

>>25696993
I fully admit it's irrational, if it's any consolation I'm trying to find a way to bury the hatchet between her and 32

>>25695876
Damn it, I can't resist biting it anymore. Everything I'm about to say is opinion based on how I generally hate liars, so don't take them as facts.

Cadence threw the curtain up to hide the truth and hoped to keep a lie indefinitely. Rarity merely left candles there and was on her way to take them back. It was Chrysalis who lit the candle and burned the curtain revealing what was behind it. Rarity's part in it was an accident as much as Chrysalis. The difference is one of them isn't sorry for what happened. I have no sympathy for the CE crew. Part of being a leader is accountability. If something goes wrong, it's suppose to be the leader's job to take responsibility for it, so if 18 fucks something up, people need to be able to blame the right person. If citizens blame the wrong person and 18 gets away with it, the same mistake can happen again, with the person making the decisions impervious because someone else can take the blame. That's why citizens need their leaders to be accounted for their actions. What 18, Cadence, Chrysalis, and SA did to covered the truth. It wasn't for the good of the people, it was for their own selfish reasons and it was about time that they realize it wasn't right for them to hide it in the first place and that they needed to be accounted for their actions. If Rarity had done this intentionally, then she'd be a whistle blower for blowing the lid off a lie which raises Rarity quite a few point in my book. If she means what she says, she'd have no problems eating the punishment that she's done in the past and would make her the better person. In fact, she did what AJ should have done herself. Make them tell the truth and be transparent with their citizens.

>>25696718
Legit loved it.

Das my /pa/.

>>25697323
There's only 1 option I see for AJ, be resolute, stick to her guns, and tell the truth. People want the impossible, an honest politician. Something that AJ should be striving for. If she were to lie to people, she'd be compromising her core values, not only that she'd be another politician just like what the CE crew have been doing. It'd be a great disappointment if she were to choose that route and I'd lose a lot of respect for her. Even more so on top of her hypocrisy with DT. The greatest challenge for her is to be truthful, but still be able to manage the situation. A shitty princess would lie, a good princess would hold on to their values by doing the right thing telling the truth. A great princess tells the truth and is able to keep her citizens from tearing others apart. In the face of adversity, this is going to be a test of her character, and we'll be seeing if AJ can still stay true. Will she take the easy road betraying her element and lie, or will she take the hard road and keep her integrity. In a way, it's kinda our own version of the episode Leap of Faith without Silver Shill and the Flim Flam brothers (it'd be nice if she got a key).

In my eyes, the CE and anyone who hid the truth are lying Lannisters while Rarity who's willing to pay the price for doing the right thing is a Stark. If Rarity gets punished for doing the right thing, that will be the lesson. Don't tell the truth, or bad things will happen to you. It's Cadence, 18 and anybody who knew about the truth, but did nothing with it, who are wrong and now that the truth has come out, they are now paying the price for the deception and didn't bother to go to House of Cards levels to make sure there are contingency plans for when it gets out, so it's their own fault as far as I'm concerned.
Like I said, I generally hate liars and to me I'm seeing the lies come back to bite them back. I am not going to praise the CE crew for keeping up a deception because that's kinda not a good thing.

>>25696718
Well shit, after reading that, mine just doesn't feel right. I'll just post what I had so far; can't beat that good ol' /pa/ humor.

Unfinished OOCO
>42
“Haymaker”
~~~~
For the love of Celestia… This had shot past the realm of ‘haha let’s go again’ and straight down into ‘why the fuck do I even bother anymore?’

That was the concise thought that perforated the mind of every onlooker, every arena-goer gathered for today’s bout.

Before, they used to come for the thrill of the sport.

Now, after getting desensitized by the same brutal spectacle, they came to get their daily fill of laughter.

Because the changeling would win.

And they knew it.

The changeling always won.

42 was the bug-pony’s name--number, rather--and her credentials piled up high enough to nudge Faust herself on the chin.

Her opponent?

The only stallion on the guard dumb enough to not only attempt to battle her, but attempt to battle her multiple times: Haymaker.

For a stallion named after one of the more hard-hitting techniques ever spawned, there had been no sign of it in over sixty matches. No oomph, no power, no technique or hidden skill—nothing.

His routine usually consisted of stepping into the ring, dodging her attacks while offering the lamest of counters. Counters that never landed.

Still, he kept on challenging her and she kept on accepting which meant the crowds kept paying to come see him bounce off the ground, ricochet off the walls, get thrown through the air….

Even now, banners of 42’s stoic face flashed everywhere. The crowd was chanting her name, stomping their hooves, tossing green and black streamers—

>From a glance around, it would seem as though they don’t have much hope in you.

Standing the arena-standard eight ponies distance away, Haymaker only shrugged.

“You’re implying they ever did.”

1/2

>>25697484

>Well, it just seems kind of odd. Ponies not rooting for their own.

“When their own puts up a poor display it’s not hard to understand the switch to a more popular end.”

>Hmm… end. How apropos.

A visible cringe shook Haymaker.

“Don’t tell me you’re about to hit me with one of those faux-witty remarks like ‘this will be your end’ or—”

>I’m not known for being witty. I’m known for cutting through the fat and getting done what needs to get done. And this? It needs to end.

“I… don’t follow.”

>This will be our last bout.

The stadium grew oddly quiet in response to her claim. Which was pretty damned astounding that she’d even been heard over the previous roaring.

>>25697399
...lesson? Dude, we ain't kids...ostensibly, anyway. We don't have to worry about lessons anymore.

Good grief, what's the lesson of the ever growing suicide club?

>>25696993
>>25697105
And, hey, if you have any ideas on that, I am open as hell. I feel like this pettiness is holding me back as a writer, I suppose it's kind of an inversion of 'kill your favorites'.

Honestly I'm kind of glad I didn't go with my original ending to 32's problem: Hosptilization via a potshot from a jury-rigged bot.

>>25697494
Good thing you didn't finish it. Because >>25696718 is the only way one them would beat her anyway.

>>25697323
>It was Chrysalis who lit the candle and burned the curtain revealing what was behind it.

Nope, Rarity.

They just showed that there might be more than one curtain, it was literally, LITERALLY Rarity who ripped that curtain down. 18 was about to fix it when she revealed everything.

> If Rarity had done this intentionally, then she'd be a whistle blower for blowing the lid off a lie which raises Rarity quite a few point in my book.

There is no possible other way to interpret the scene where she makes 18 drop the disguise and then drops her own, none. This was 100 percent intentional, all of it.

>If citizens blame the wrong person and 18 gets away with it, the same mistake can happen again

The only way this possibly works is if the leaders were using Cadence as a scapegoat for problems, which they clearly were not. If 18 fucked up, EVERYONE in CE's higher ranks, guards included, would know.

>f Rarity gets punished for doing the right thing, that will be the lesson. Don't tell the truth, or bad things will happen to you.

Or, the right choice can be the hard one that has repercussions. If Rarity got off scott free, then she's a hypocrite. She literally says "We shouldn't be treated special or any different", but then gets less punishment because hey, she's Rarity.

No offense but trying to even imply this was as much Chrysalis's fault, when Rarity was the one going around the Empire posing as someone else without their knowledge or consent and then forcibly shove their secrets into the limelight via magic, is kinda telling.

This was, 100 percent, Rarity. Now, if she's in the right or wrong, this has nothing to do with. This is just saying this was intentional, this was by Rarity's reveal and nothing else, and so on. Think the CE were wrong and that they deserve this shit? Hell, I agree. I hated this and wanted to crash it down a while ago but never did. But it was Rarity.