Princess Applejack

There appears to be a second scruffening upon us

Wait what

I'm scared

>>26904004
Wonderful, So I should expect a ban for this thread then?

>>26904015

Quite possibly.

Right, someone get that copypasta up

>>26904015
I dunno bout banning but the thread might get sniped. CYOA general and a slew of greentext threads/generals are getting shot today.

>>26904062
Then stay on the DL and re-setup shop when shit blows over?

Howdy, partner!

What you see here began as a series of comedy-centric stories with the concept of an alicorn-ascended Princess Applejack trying to change a mismanaged Equestria for the better by humorously interacting with the other, quite lazy, princesses.

Not to mention a whole bunch of Changelings with nothing better to do but cause mischief.


The whole thing was set in motion by this gem:

~~~~~

>So, wait, why am Ah' a princess again?

>Because you seem to be the only goddamn one of those ponies who gets that a Princess need to do actual work regarding maintenance of the kingdom. You know how much city planning or trade negotiations Twilight or Luna have done? Fucking nothing. Everyone is obsessed with the world ending threats they think I should fight, but the minute I point out the free health care I have to work to maintain everyone goes quiet. And don't even get me started on Cadence, who can't even manage a basic meeting with the Equestrian Games representative. Fucking annoying. Go do actual princess stuff, because apparently everyone else got the pamphlets mixed up or something and thinks "Princess" means "Beat cop."

~~~~~

Are you feeling creative? Try your hand at writing a story! No contribution is too small and we love having new folks around.

If you're more artistically inclined give a drawing or sketch a shot. Don't fret too much; it doesn't have to be fancy and we appreciate artwork a lot.

If that isn't your style either, writers always need feedback. So tell us what you liked - and what you didn't - to help us improve.

If you are unsure about anything, do not be afraid to ask. We will gladly bring you up-to-date or explain anything you feel is unclear.

Thread 131! The ffffffffUCK happened,

>>26904097
1 https://archive.is/f0oQ3
2 https://archive.is/dI35Q
3 https://archive.is/o0ktE
4 https://archive.is/w071K
5 https://archive.is/L40YG
6 https://archive.is/EaVK7
7 https://archive.is/uCJn9
8 https://archive.is/c1XZZ
9 https://archive.is/SjdzK
10 https://archive.is/Jmtlu
11 https://archive.is/eqheI
12 https://archive.is/ZbNtc
13 https://archive.is/EDijG
14 https://archive.is/ZbNtc
15 https://archive.is/CnI1z
16 https://archive.is/pTcOu
17 https://archive.is/MXTjw
18 https://archive.is/kk3FI
19 https://archive.is/JFE0I
20 https://archive.is/wygJG
21 https://archive.is/3bu9x
22 https://archive.is/63p7X
23 https://archive.is/G7mEf
24 https://archive.is/kKu4B
25 https://archive.is/7C6Nz
26 https://archive.is/5YZEa
27 https://archive.is/x8QWT
28 https://archive.is/kIJBv
29 https://archive.is/EP1S2
30 https://archive.is/0rb3f .5: https://archive.is/Y5NYc
31 https://archive.is/ONFET
32 https://archive.is/MpCy9
33 https://archive.is/Cqdkc
34 https://archive.is/tts5W
35 https://archive.is/kwIRG
36 https://archive.is/x5j0H
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39 https://archive.is/w5Qol
40 https://archive.is/69MUD
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44 https://archive.is/vhtYd
45 https://archive.is/42Hp9
46 https://archive.is/Ah1u9
47 https://archive.is/Eh4Jl
48 https://archive.is/siDSi
49 https://archive.is/VFpsr
50 https://archive.is/kh6Md
51 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/20740272/
52 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/20855918/
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58 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/21510114/
59. desustorage.org/mlp/thread/21619890/
60. desustorage.org/mlp/thread/21715642/
61 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/21858107/
62 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/21945390/
63 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/22007346/
64 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/22086019/

>>26904097
We still had 200 posts left, this should be 130.5.
>>26904000
You're wrong too.

65 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/22152409
66 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/22223659
67 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/22274618
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112 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25717170
113 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25779356
114 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25832901

>>26904062

It's about time, too.

>>26904122
115 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25893943
116 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25941085
117 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26008453
118 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26066966
119 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26124883
120 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26194825
121 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26278593
122 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26346142
123 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26411050
124 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26477997
125 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26540512
126 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26606754
127 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26679572
128 desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26851945

Here is full archive of 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?
Check out the previous thread here:desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26795242
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?
Check out character notes and details here :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PsMAwLcIdC3IYxezAV9Ko4neEguNvc3eQqQqiTCxdDs/edit#gid=2119378650

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/!

MODS DO NOT

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>>26904123
Not today, anon.

First for New Season means a new flood of shit for /mlp/.

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In the thread links of the wiki, I've put in an emergency link in case we go down again.

Do we have a backup chan if this persists?

Ponychan or Cripplechan?

>>26904191
Yes back up plan to cripplechan will take effect if we get shut down and we will go from there.

>>26904191
We don't have a backup chan yet decided but we did have a few ideas about what to do if things went to hell here. Just keep an eye on the Wiki.

>AJ
_____________

>....Are they gone? Is it safe yet?

>>26904246
Nope, mods just deleted anonfilly thread...

>>26904283
Shall we press the panic button?

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>Day 130.5 of Applepone reign
>Things were great at the start
>Shit was getting fixed
>Idiots getting straightened out
>Now everything is worse than before
>Foreign invaders, warmongering neighbours, infighting, dead ponies, monsters and deadly artifacts
>Ruling class is tired, overworked and angry
>Common Pony is cofused and still dumb as bricks

>I think my sister may be dead or missing
>I think God actively despises me

>"Maybe it is time ta call it quits and count mah blessin's..."

>>26904283
What are you talking about?
Its fucking genocide out there!

>>26904295
Fuck that, mods are not gods, they are the devil!

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>>26904283
>>26904246
They just killed the Norman thread. Time to abandon ship

>>26904246
/satyr/ is gone too. Two threads attempted, two threads gone.

>>26904324
What in the fuck.

half the threads are gone, we got a min, but they are taking them out one by one.

>>26904311
We are almost down to page 5.
They killed half of the /mlp/.

>>26904324
b-but i was j-just there h-how.

>>26904348
What I want to know is why the hell they waited until NOW to do this shit. If they're going to do it, do it from the start, instead of until it's literally half of /mlp/.

>>26904345
If there's anybody from /satyr/ here, I've made a thread on FimFiction in the Satyr group. Make an account.

http://www.fimfiction.net/group/199231/satyrs/thread/244566/satyr-backup

>>26904372
Well they were smaller and deader. They took out the more active and bigger ones first. Fucking heart of war is still up.

https://www.ponychan.net/oat/res/41059256.html

GO GO GO GO GO

>>26904324
Thingpone just went down
The fetish threads went out during the weekend
>>26904372
Guess they decided to get literal with the "show discussions only" rule

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>>26904464
>ponychan

>>26904489
It is fucking MLPChan. they are the same thing now.

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Just in case you are wondering. It's a pruning of any thread that isn't EXCLUSIVELY talking about what is happening on the show. Soooo... Unless you wanna be all about 'Princess Flurry' now, we're soon ghosts on desustorage.

>>26904517
I LOVE MCFLURRY

THIS IS TOTALLY RELEVANT TO THE SHOW.

>>26904517
Awesome. Make me hate Princess Poof more. We'll probably be off of here for a week or two. Or if they are super serious the season.

>>26904517
DAMN MAN, THAT PREMIERE WAS THE MOST RELEVANT THING TO THE SHOW THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN!

DID YOU SEE THE APPLEHORSE, SHE IS RELEVANT AND SHOULD NOT BE KILL!

>>26904583
Oh. Don't blame it on her. She's... haaah... A side character at best. It'll blow over. Like so many times before. Derpy, Alicorn Twilight. It's always the same.

LET US NOW TALK ABOUT HOW APPLEHORSE AND MCFLURRY ARE RELEVANT TO THE SHOW IN THE MOST OBVIOIUS WAY POSSIBLE.

Son of a...

>>26904146

You're here to discuss, not to create, and this is an IMAGE board. All greentext writefags must now fuck off forever.

greentext = roleplaying

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I've updated both the spreadsheet and the thread links of the wiki. If the thread gets nuked we have a temporary base of operations until we can discuss what's the next course of action. I'll continue to monitor the situation and will update the SPREADSHEET and WIKI accordingly.

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I wish >>26904713 was kidding. But it's true.

This is the end of all writefagging, /pa/ls.

>>26904713
>Writing stories about characters in the show (and Anon) is roleplaying

How? It's one guy (per green) writing a story in the second-person tense. That's not roleplaying.

>>26904716
The next course of action is to start discussing the show instead of your stupid mothpony bullshit.

>>26904716
Link it damn you

>>26904736
>>26904737

>>26904743
Wrong thread. We have changelings, and Applehorse.

>>26904795
It's all the same shit with different colored wrapping.

>>26904743

This, and fuck all your size fetishes, feet fetishes, monster girl fetishes, and other cancer.

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>>26904795
The fact that you put Changelings before Applejack kind of makes me realize that this scruffening might be for the best...

It's over. Go home. This is no longer Apple territory.

>>26904820
We are literally a smut free thread, you asshat.

>>26904848
I put Chiggers first because bug. Applehorse is still first.

I give up, fuck everything.

>>26904848
He put Changelings before Applejack because they are a type of bug pony and he was talking about Mothponies. Learn to fucking follow a conversation ass hat!

The Apple lives on!

>>26904888
The trips cannot be denied! We shall survive the tide!

>>26904902
Quiet, you moron! Do you want to get nuked for numerical reasons?

Well guys, I'll use this chance to take an extended break from writing. It's been fun and you guys are a riot but I am just feeling exhausted at this point.

I am sure most of the others will wait until this blows over so no written story gets lost too.

So thanks for the experience, good and bad times. Stay awesome y'all.

>>26904960
Anon don't! Please, we need you as much as you need us! Take a break but don't leave!

>>26904960
At least tell us who you are so we can honor you!

>>26904976
Also this! My thread is kill but we can survive! The anons need us!

Standing on the edge of the 4chan
Like the thread ghosts once said
and the mods are all cold now

No more discussions and the /pa/ls are dead
Whispers in the desustorage tell the tales
Of the anons gone
Desolation, devastation
What a mess we made, when it all went wrong

Watching from the edge of /mlp/
For the bans to begin
Artfags draw their OCs
form their ranks for armageddon

I'm BANNED
I'm PRUNED
I'm breaking up inside
A heart of broken glass
Defiled
Deep inside
The abandoning thread

Wouldn't it be kinda meta-funny if this current situation could be the result of Chitania and Sunset's declaration of war on God itself?

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>>26905183
....Faust is so angry that both Chitty and Sunset are happy that she kills the thread itself?

>>26905183
OH GOD THE THREAD GHOSTS AREN'T HAPPY ANYMORE
WE FUCKED UP

>>26905220
>Faust
"Craig"

>They... they are happy. They are actually, genuinely happy together. They are laughing! That little human world immigrant is SMILING! They were supposed to be miserable together, bound by resentment and distrust!

"H-H-Honey, calm down. It's... it's just the initial phase I'm sure."

>Sunset is making friends with the Changeling I cursed with misfortune and that whore whose life I destroyed for reasons I forgot.

"..."

>Welp. Time to end everything. Unleash the Mods.

"HONEY, NO! THIS IS MADN

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>>26905302

>>26904000
>FUCKING FILENAME
WOAH WOAH WOAH! WHAT THE FUCK!? IS SOMEONE STEALING MY SHIT!?

>>26905435
No, I think I accidentally overrode the pic from the file name when I saved it. Like I accidentally clicked the other pic and it filled the file name portion when I saved

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Is it over? Can we start making generals again?

>>26905515
Shit seems to have settled...

>>26905489
Oh... ok. Man over reacted a bit. Sorry Anon, the thought that my /pa/ exclusives are being claimed by someone else is just bad.

>>26905515
I think so, this thread somehow weathered the storm it seems.

>>26905515
I-I don't know
Hold me I'm scared

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>>26905515
I'm scared to check.

>>26905546
>I think so, this thread somehow weathered the storm it seems.
But for how long? Everything else got axed, hell trap tickler got saved yet Satyr did not!

>>>/trash/2082951
>>>/trash/2082951
>>>/trash/2082951
Take screenshots of happenings,

>>26905579
He's waiting for us

Waiting for us to make our move, to write...

>>26905579
Well I think we were one of the first to get hit and a few of the other Gens have re-posted their threads in defiance more than once and we've only had this one... Maybe we're gonna be fine? From the sound of it, it might have been a rouge mod.

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Let's blame this pony for everything. Like, holy shit, this supercedes the It's All Celestia’s Fault thing by a wide margin.

>>26905649
Don't you dare bring shim sham into this! Blame the mods, damn it!

>>26905683
>>26905330
>>26905302
>>26905302

>>26904000
Scruffy is out for blood. Only the banned can know peace from this hell.

>>26905616
threads are repopulating now but most generals that didn't survive the sweep, are not back.

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>>26905719

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Remember to check the spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PsMAwLcIdC3IYxezAV9Ko4neEguNvc3eQqQqiTCxdDs/edit?pli=1#gid=512887174

and the wiki
http://princess-aj.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Applejack_Wiki

Both contain the links to both ponychan and cripplechan.
The threads in the other chans link to each other including this thread.

Best case scenario: we survive, let the other respective threads die, and continue writing. We'll know what to do next time if this situation happens again.

Worst case: we uproot to one of the others and discuss what to do from there. Then continue writing.

Let's hope we weather the storm.

Is.....is it really safe now?

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>>26905750
Rodger. We stay together, we will survive.

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>>26905750
Thanks for your commendable efforts, LNPP. You are the bright, cheerful guide I need in this.

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>>26905850
We've suffered worse, we'll make it.

>>26905877
THREAD GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTS

>>26905877
Oh wow!

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>>26905877
Well timed sir.

>>26905877

THEY HAVE NOT ABANDONED US!!!

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The first fetish general is back up: Fat Ponies. Let's see how long it lasts

Oh shot. Here's another shit wave. He does it for free or something. BRACE YOURSELVES /PA/LS! WE WILL SAIL THIS STORM YET!

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>>26905969
Rogal will protect us!

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>>26905955
ya know, if that shit dies it wouldn't be so bad.
like, there's a limit, generals like us and Normal Norman and the slave ponies that aren't all about the sex or hyper-fetish shit are fine, but then you see that stuff and you wonder if it would be better off going to /trash/
>>26905969
>mfw

Alright, seems it is over. Take the night off /pa/ls just to be sure and we'll resume thread 130.5 (if the coast is clear) tomorrow

>>26906374
Agreed! Noonish sound good?

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>>26906392
Sounds good.
>>26906400
They stopped deleting threads and we are picking up the pieces. No war, just an attack we withstood.

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Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Flurry"
~~~~~
A storm is raging in the studio.
>WELCOME TO AN EMERGENCY NOT LATE NIGHT /PA/ WITH YOUR HOST PINKIE PIE! IT'S DURING THIS TIME THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING HEAVY WEATHER, BUT I NEED TO BE HERE TO CALM FOLKS DOWN! NOW FOR OUR MAIN GUEST...FLURRY HEART!!!

"Agrooo moo moo hee hee."

>WHILE YOU'RE NOT QUITE RELEVANT TO /PA/ YET AND YOU CAUSED US A LOT OF TROUBLE ON THE SHOW! ANYTHING TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?!

"Hee hee ha brrr"

>YOU HEARD IT RIGHT HERE FOLKS! NO MATTER WHAT THE HAPPENING IS, WE WILL FACE IT TOGETHER! WE HAVE TRIPS BLESSING US! >>26904000

"Ahwa wadada ha ha haa."

>I'M YOUR NEW AUNT! THE BEST KIND OF AUNT! I'M YOUR AUNT PINKIE PIE!

The studio begins to flood.
>EXCUSE ME FOR A MOMENT!
Pinkie gets on top of her desk and converts it into a rowboat. She puts on goggles and starts rowing.
>OH WHAT A DAY! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!

>>26906578

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

Huh. I came in at the tail end of all this but hey, glad to see we made it through the 'doom' phase, /pa/ls and everyone else!

...Was anybody not even slightly worried? I dunno, just after having this happen about two or three times in the past, the 'terror' was lost on me this time.

>>26906700
More pissed the thread was dead when I came home than anything else.

>>26906374
I guess writing wouldn't really be worth it until we know for sure, I guess everybody get the day off!

See you tomorrow my /p/als

>>26906692
Hopefully mods know the difference between greentext bait and greentext prompts

>>26906808
I dont think they give a shit about difference.

>B& for linking to the emergency cripplechan thread
>Will expire in 2 days and 23 hours

G'NIGHT EVERYPONY!

>>26908050
That's what I was concerned with hence why I was linking to the wiki and spreadsheet instead.

Perhaps we should start hammering out a procedure if this were to ever happen again. I'd call it operation Apple Bunker. What I personally did was make a thread on 4+4chan, updated the wiki and spreadsheet and regrouped people as best I could. When word got out that there's also a thread on ponychan, I made posted links on both chans, so that all the threads were linked together in some way and people can be on the same page.

>>26909401
Well, Ponychan was a bit quicker to accept us in vs the other guys. And the only thing they really said was we have to deal with tripfags on /oat/, but could go to /anon/ if that bothered us. So I feel the emergency plan should be regroup on Ponychan if shit is going down.

>>26909501
Oh don't mind the ones who make a fuss on 1+7chan. It's the /pol/ blood that gets riled up. A 4chan bunker springing up in their yard probably took them by surprise. Our dedicated /pa/ thread there got more positive responses and one even asked about what /pa/ is about. He seemed to enjoy it. I still endorse 7+1chan as a possible place to regroup, but will link both on the wiki and spreadsheet for people to see.

>>26909501
>>26909716
Wait, we should choose 1, let's poll it
http://strawpoll.me/7215164

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>>26909501
>Ponychan
>trusting them after what happened the last time

>>26909776
>http://strawpoll.me/7215164
I think you mean /pone/, not /pony/

>>26909838
I trust the part that was MLPchan. They treated me alright.

>>26909849
I do. good catch

>>26909776
Seems like we have a favorite. Fuck Ponychan.

So this makes the, what, third half thread so far? One at 30, then at 60, and now 131.

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NC
>Pinkie
"Twi"
'???'
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content does matter, but we need a post! Now for our main guest...TWILIGHT!!!

"Do you know anything about Rene Haycartes?"

>Nope!

"He proposed that since we perceive the world through our senses and our senses are fallible, what if there was a being lying to us about all we know and perceive, how could we know what is true?"

>...does it matter?

"Discord bringing up David Human gave me an idea. Haycartes came to the conclusion that he couldn't prove anything existed, but because he can reason to that conclusion, he at the very least must exist. Cogito Ergo Sum, I think therefore, I am."

>...where are you going with this?

"...I think this will somehow only work with you. I'm trying to blow your mind. My theory is because this is your dream, your mind, you are the one in control, so it's you who has control over your shadow. If you obliterate what you consider is true, it's possible you can change the rules for yourself according to your mind."

>...hmm.

'That's the best you can do?'
Discord is immobile, but his voice still heard.
'I've been frozen like this from my perspective weeks and the best you can do is blow her mind? Tsk tsk tsk, how disappointing. I expected something more interesting. Instead you bore everyone by trying to teach a lesson.'

>...I could erase you from existing here.

'Ohohoho there's the inner Pinkie I wanted to hear...you and I can both alter the reality we experience at will...but I wonder if even you realize about which being is lying to you about what you perceive?'

>...is that suppose to mean something?

'Who do you think is the bigger liar? Me...or princess Luna who says she broke the mind of her 'friend'...that Buck Norris sure was an amazing dream walker.'

>...?

'A little chaos to your mind. Have fun with Twilight.'
Discord disappears.

>...No...Luna couldn't have already...who's the bigger liar indeed.

>>26911755
For those who need a refresher, I was continuing off here. https://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26739492/#26773524

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G'night thread.

>>26913682
Good morning, y'all.

>>26911716
30, 61, and 130. We actually thought this would have happened sooner.

>>26915444
True.

Also we were supposed to let this thread flip so we could have a blank for 130.5. You guys really let us down.

>>26915604
LNPPAnon posted content to keep the thread up and we are still a net positive in posts since thread 130 was nuked at around 300 posts. So no foul, to keep the thread going from as is. No different from when we spend 100 posts in a changeling argument.

>>26915649
Yeah I guess. Maybe we could take a thread off, make some NC, talk about stuff?

>>26915674
I'd be for it, I'd like to flesh out this Apple Bunker Protocol. This would also give me the excuse to post some doodles.

>>26915705
Agreed, gibe art plz.

>>26915674
Well, while we need to stall for our writers to come out of their "fuck this shit" exiles, 130 was pretty much half filled with McFlurry ep reactions, so we were heading that way anyway.
So let's see what we have currently
>CMC, vekir and Winona are still on their odyssey and AB is still fucking done
>29 is fighting Potsticker while MM/Zecora and 56 watch
>Trixie is trying to prove herself to Luna-senpai by training on Cheerilee's Class
>Applehorse is sad, Bubblehorse is angry, Bookhorse is about to be stupid, Sunhourse is hitting her vices, and bitchbug is setting up a plan to get Shiny to admit what is wrong
>Sunset, Chitty, 13, and SN are currently going over how Sunset got her heart back off screen
>Dash is "training" with Fluttershy/Pinkie/Rarity
>Spitfire is training, 42 is a teleport addict, and Cadence is slowly improving.
>007 is fighting Flash and Fizzle in his booty call's apartment.
>Gwen and PD are fucking around apparently content to wait on the wonderbolt thing.
>Speaking of which LD is going to go all in to play spoiler on that.
>and Brass Pommel is going to go down to the morlock caves, as soon as Rekulk gets back from whatever train the Widow's Regret shot him at.
>>26915705
Straawpoll says ICE plan is head to /pone/ to wait it out/setup residence if we can't get a thread up here.

>>26915794
forgot
>Snake Eyes is being left to be beaten up by roaches because he is stuck in the dungeon until Twilight remembers him.
>Cheese and Idris are in rout to Canterlot
>32 is riding this shit out in a hottub with JJ/Acty
>88 is a detective now
>and 10 and crew made it back home.

Continuing on hammering out details. I'm thinking of making an entry in the wiki called The Apple Bunker Protocol.

In it it'll say, "In case of emergency where the thread has been deleted and forced off, head to /pone/, create a thread and copy paste the following into the OP header."

blah blah blah something something stuff Princess Applejack plus the original prompt probably.
Apple Bunker Protocol is now in effect. Direct all /pa/ls to this thread and we will discuss our next course of action.

Obviously the blah blah part is what people are going to copy and paste, but I figure we should have a premade header we could copy and paste, so that it doesn't matter who's making the OP they will know what to do.

>>26915794
Rekulk and Sebjek actually came back, they were on the same train as 32 and co.
There was a little story of them getting off after him and 32 being supremely confused as to where they came from.

Also
>Lavan is getting bugs bunny'd by Angel

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>>26916937
And I just got this from a /b/ drawfriend!

Liam has taken his victim.
Sombra-anon will always be remembered...in our hearts.

>>26915794
If they're like me, they're not in "fuck this shit" mode, they got banned. It should wear off today, but I dunno what time.

It's gonna be slow going till they get off the "fuck yo shit" hits.

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>>26917306
You want something to keep yourself occupied? Talk about how freaking hot Human Chitty is.

>>26917328
She looks like if maleficent let her hair go fuzzy.

I love it.

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>>26917328
I'm thinking of redoing Momsie's one too.

>>26917328
Damn, she is pretty cute.

Also, I never got to make my "Two as a bunny was so adorable everything died" joke! Damn moda' fuckers.

might as well see if this gets me banned...

>Lightning Dust
“???”
‘???’
~~~

Her wings burned with every push upwards, sweat caked her brow, and her breath grew short. Even with the weight of the world seeming to push down on her, she would not stop in her routine.

>I can do this… I can do this…

Her mind willing, her body simply unable to keep up. She could feel it, little by little, she was breaking.

Her determination was there, the need to overcome her previous rival and short time captain. To take the lead, and this time keep it.

>I have to do this.

The pony was no fool, nor was she blind. She knew this opportunity, this rare shot, would only come once in her lifetime. By challenging Dash, she knew she was potentially throwing aside all she had built for in trust. By trying to take the crown, she no longer could claim to have Dash’s back, for the other would forever be watchful for the knife to stab it. She was no fool, and she knew the cost of this.

But she was nothing if not a risk taker, and the reward… was worth it.

>I have to do this.

She had been watching over the Wonderbolts like a hawk for the mere day she had been officially in charge, never letting them slow or leave her sight until the day had ended. She would prove she was the better captain, the better flier, the better mare.

If it killed her, she would be the better.

>…I will do this.

So wrapped up in her determination, her unyielding need to succeed, she never even noticed the others.

The two sets of eyes that looked to her, with a fire in them that could match her own. They did not stay for long, matching one another soon enough, and tilting as a mirrored nod of understanding passed between them.

“You thinking what I’m thinking?”

‘Oh yeah… she’s going down.’

The challenge had been made.

It would be met.

>>26917328
>Dint think about the fact she's wearing an armor swimsuit don't think about the fact she's wearing an armor swimsuit don't-

Shit.

>>26917360
Really? I got a Shego from Kim Possible vibe.

>>26917465
It's a one piece~!

>>26917481
Its mostly the lip and a few other little things, I think that are making you think that, I always loved how they did the lips like that.

>>26917306
29 anon here, yeah. I'm posting from my phone after getting ban hammered yesterday, I think it doesn't even wear off till later tonight.

Gonna guess Wiki guy is too, considering he's not going nuts like I am at more Chitty.

>>26917328
10- 1 beneath what we can see, she is fit as all hell.

>>26917638
Oh yeah, the armor just makes that fit tummy stand out like a sun... then your eyes travel down a bit and then you brain goes dumb, from the sight and the hit that followed.

Man its gonna end up being really slow today.

>>26918515
Like they said, everyone is waiting for the ban to expire.

>>26918886
Fuckin mods!

I need my /pa/la!

>>26917328
Damn, she's a cutiepie

>>26904736
heh, this ban is temporary.
I got banned forever twice and 3 times temporary.

>>26917328
>That's not a mark
>It's a prison tattoo

When Chitty got locked up in this universe, it wasn't on ice.

>>26919529
Oh its her horn profile, just like on momsie >>26917363, I didn't color it in because I still haven't figure out if I want it a dark color or a light one. Think of it like a clan marking.

>>26919529
>Human Chittys story is lot darker than regular Chittys
>Also, a lot more awesome, since when the Government asked her for help, it was more Mission Impossible than Godzilla Vs Biollannte

>>26919582
I know, I was just making a joke since it looks like a tat.

>>26919592
Actually, in my headworld human setting, it's all pretty much the same. You can have it anyway you want though, I just make faces for characters.

>>26917328
THE BAN ON ME IS LIFTED(And I just got home from a trip, what the fuck did I miss!?)

INTO THE WIKI, IT GOES!

>>26917096
You know what? I need some silly there, into the wiki you go too.

>>26919989
A Scruffening! It was a massacre, everything from Prison Anon to Fat Pone. We survived though after the first thread was scruffed! We weathered the storm on this one, we ain't licked yet.

>>26919989
Some serious shit, man! SOME SERIOUS SHIT

>>26919592
>Chitty punching a roided up other-world Spike

"I must break you"

>Chitania
"13"
'Sunset'
~Sweet Note~
~~~~~

>And then you came in, and here we are.

The quite old changeling 'child' had been silent through it all. Passive, receptive listening with a look of blank understanding on her face. She had not even spoken up a once, even though it was painfully obvious the elder changeling had been expecting it and preparing for it at multiple parts in the story, her tale of the resurrection of Sunset Shimmer, and the fallout it brought. Though Sunset noticed she had left out quite a lot of the actual resurrecting process, in particular a certain sharing of the minds, she was nothing if not detailed about the encounter within Canterlot square. Thirteen had listened, without so much as a groan of discomfort.

In the wake of her finishing, there was silence, and emptiness. A void that the Queen had previously filled, yet no other had decided to take up the mantle of standing in for once it had reached it's end. All eyes fell to the unluckiest changeling, and maybe her daughter on occasion too. In times like these, there was no question who was the worst off of the pair.

If there had been, it was unquestionably answered, when Thirteen slammed a hoof into her face.

"Ugggghhhh."

>Daughter, speak like an adult-

"Uuggghhhggg."

Her approach was stalled by a hoof. Not a powerful one, but one that nonetheless could bring the Titan to a stop with weak taps on the nose.

>If you are going to act like that, I am going to treat you like the child you are behaving as-

"UGUGGGHGHGHGGGG!"

Both hooves uselessly flailed against unbreakable chitin, as the smaller one let it all out.

>... I take it you're upset?

No words could ever adequately explain what she felt, or at least that is what the changeling said to herself.

Instead, all legs bending in and her head hitting the ground would have to do.

Seemingly content her point had been made, the changeling curled into a ball on the ground, and started rocking back and forth.

1/6

>>26921032

~You uh... you gonna be okay, sugar bean?~

'Go make out with her, that'll help.'

~Will it really?~

'I'm torn between wanting to laugh at you for asking that, and telling you yes just to see what she'll do.'

~Probably hit me again, or make me see funny stuff.~

'I have just realized Thirteen's brain magic is drugs, and I wish to bond.'

>Daughter, please-

"Shhhhhhhhhh..."

She hadn't been angry when she held the hoof to her mouth and shushed her far more powerful mother, if anything the opposite. She was the very picture of calm, the very pinnacle of serenity.

This worried everyone far more than it should have.

>Just... speak already, this has gone on far enough.

"Oh, I'm sorry, did I mess something up? Well, has to run in the family, cause you know if you had just thought about this a liiiiittle bit, sooooo many problems could have been solved. Noooo, let's not go to Princess Twilight and be like "I can fix this problem for you", let's not make changelings look a little better when we're currently the hot topic of "Are we secretly taking over the world", noooo. Let's do this crazy thing and get attacked by the crazy princess and look like we are literally brainwashing former students. That's what you do. That's the road we went on. Because you're Queen Chitania and you wanna do a thing, so you do the thing. You don't fix things, you hit the things, and make everyone mad and think we're monsters."

>I care very little for what others think-

"I know, mom. I just know. You don't care what anyone thinks about what you do or the ramifications of literally punching the princess of Equestria in the middle of the street. They don't matter to you. You don't care about anything or anyone. I know."

>...do you want me to go apologize?

At last, the changeling stopped her gentle rocking back and forth, and took her eyes away from the floor that had been her whole world for a brief few seconds.

"Come again?"

>I asked... if you want me to go apologize.

2/6

>>26921047

Of the two spectators, only one of them was blinking in abject shock, no longer sure if she'd heard what she had thought she heard. Only one of them held her hooves to her mouth, and tried to reconcile all she had seen and known with what was playing out in front of her. The two realities were at war, and the battle was as shocking to her as the worst she had seen.

The other one just rolled her eyes dramatically and pumped her hoof up and down in a very mocking gesture.

>I do not care what they think, if they believe me a monster or not, if they believe me to bring their destruction or not. I do not care if they fear me, or think I should be removed from this world. I do not care about any of them, and never will. But...

A hoof, powerful enough to shatter a diamond, strong enough to hold up a mountain, and mighty enough to beat back the very tide of the ocean, was as gentle as a downy feather as it brushed across the younger ones face.

>You're wrong, about what you said. If you want me to go apologize to them...

The words were never said.

Nor, did they ever need be.

"...Mom..."

'Yeahhh, let's not.'

Before either of them could react, Sunset brazenly through a hoof around the changelings shoulders.

'Look, Thirteen, can I call you Thirteen?'

"...what else would you-"

'I'm going to be real honest with you, you're wrong. Why are you wrong? Because Applejack and Twilight and Celestia all totally deserved that. No, actually, they deserved to be hit with bricks, but we're not doing that a second time.'

"S... second time-"

'Instead, you know who was totally right?'

Her hoof snapped out, poking the unamused and quite irritated Titan right in the nose.

'That bitch right there. See her? See this bitch? She was right, the princesses were wrong.'

"But Canterlot-"

3/6

>>26921063

'Saw me, literally high on not being dead-did your mom not make that clear? I was dead dead and living in a neverending nightmare just FYI- anyway they saw me run around and be crazy and then me, not her, tell them all off and tell them to fuck off, and then they saw your mom walk up to find my crazy ass and not attack or stomp or go crazy even when Applejack was throwing rocks at her and trying to punch her. That? That's disregarding an assault is what it is, but you know politics. But my bigger point is, you know where I would be right now, if it weren't for your mom?'

"...where?"

All joking was put on hold for one brief moment, just long enough for Sunset to grab hold of the changelings face, and look deeply into her eyes

'I'd be dead, yes, dead, a walking zombie corpse fueled by rock magic. I'd be sitting and waiting, very likely for yet more months to come, all for the privilege of maybe one day getting a shot at feeling normal again. You know what I feel right now? Everything. I feel chitin on my fur, I smell your breath-nice choice with the Mexicolt by the way- and I can actually feel the heat radiating off you. That? I didn't have that before your mom.'

"She just wants something-"

'Good. You know what? Good. She deserves something. She deserves fucking anything for that. She wants me to help her build her own castle? Get me bricks. She wants me to massage her for the rest of her life? Get the oils. She wants to grow new parts, hold me down and work out some frustration on my backside? Get the completely different oil and I will bite the pil-'

"OKAY OKAY POINT TAKEN!"

~Don't bother, I already asked and-~

"EVERYONE STOP."

Strangely, though she would never mention it or think of it again, Sunset no longer wished to continue that line of thought.

4/6

>>26921070

'My point is... I'm alive, thanks to her. I'm ALIVE. So whatever you wanna scream about, whatever you want to think, do not be mad at her for how she acted, and what she did. Please? I just... owe her this one. I'm the one who started the fight, I'm the one who kept telling them to go fuck themselves, it was me, and I don't regret it. I didn't want Celesta, I didn't want Twilight, and I really didn't want Applejack, all they ever did was say empty words and left me dead. I know it would have been better for changelings... but not for me. They didn't deserve any credit or thanks for this. They deserved only what I said, and worse. Not like her. Don't be mad at her. All she did?... Was be the only one who kept a promise.'

Something strange passed by behind Thirteen's eyes. Some stray thought that she could not see, nor fully understand, but lingered there, even after it seemed gone.

For the first time in years, who knows how many, when the changeling looked back to her mother, she looked up to her with something that had not been with her in quite some time.

Just a little bit of wonder.

"...I... I guess if they didn't-"

'Not. Once. And I was sick of waiting.'

"...Sorry, mom."

Something passed by in Chitania's eyes as well. Something that, too, had not been there for quite some time.

Just a little, almost imperceptible bit, of glee.

>It is alright. I... know how I am.

'So, we all good?'

It took some time, but eventually, the other changeling began to nod.

'Great! Because I want you to know, as your future step mom, I'm not going to treat you any different than-OOF!... ahahaha, I'm just happy I can feel it!'

"Thank you."

The Titan nodded, brushing stray yellow hairs off her hoof.

5/6

>>26921088

"... wanna... wanna go get something to eat, maybe? Your new... friend will probably-"

'YES.'

"I was asking-"

'SHE SAYS YES!'

"That's rude."

>I actually do say yes.

"Totally undercutting me."

>I'm allowed to do that-

'Less banter, more food! The spiciest, hottest food! Come on!'

"Are you really going to let her drag me around?"

>I'm not the one with mind control powers.

"Ugh... uh... Sweet Note? You want to come too?"

The pony who had thus far been mostly silent jumped, as if startled from a trance only she had known of, and one she had placed herself in. She shook her head, trying to rattle free some stray thought that should not be there, and dislodge it at last.

~Oh... yeah! Sure, love me some spicy food! S'pecailly this kind, kind down by the docks will make you rush to the nearest bathroom and-~

"POINT TAKEN!"

The yellow pony laughed, still dragging the changeling away without pause, off to experience more of the wonderful world that lied just outside the door. Behind them, the Titan followed with a light step, never looking away from her daughter, not once.

So wrapped up in their own worlds, their own wants and desires, none of them noticed the strange look crease the face of the only earth pony in the room.

The one who looked to Sunset Shimmer, just as she had this entire time, and let the nervousness show for all to see.

Something was very, very wrong.

And all too likely... it had something to do with that case she had seen the other pony hide.

~What're you doing, Chitty...~

>>26921098
>~What're you doing, Chitty...~

Getting fucking PLAYED.

>>26921147
Sunset wants to kill gods.

By GOD is she not getting cockblocked by a kid.

>>26916937
Hey "Into the wiki guy", you forgot to put Sombra in!

>>26921245
Well, one god in particular.

Kinda funny the educationally defunct hooker is who figured her out...

>>26921502
Well, shoot! I did.

INTO THE WIKI GASHTLY GOES!

>>26921507
Sweet Note understands manipulation, she understands when someone is just saying sweet things to get her way, and she understands exploiting feelings.

That's why she likes Chitty so much, Chitty is blunt, direct, hides nothing and lies about nothing. You know exactly where you stand with her 24/7. You never have to worry she's got some secret plot that acting nice to you will achieve, nor that she's going to lie and butter you up to get more out of you. It's a deal and she keeps her word every time. It's why she went off on AJ when she said "I'm just going to move you back there and it'll be the end of it", she knows that's just the start, AJ is just lying to get what she wants, and if she caves once she'll cave again. She understands that stuff.

You can't learn that stuff in school.

>>26921098
I know she's playing her, but damn it was nice to see Chitty admit she'd swallow her pride for 13.

>>26921807
Chitiania, a changeling whose entire species is all about lying and deceit, is the most Honest.

Applejack, the former bearer of the Element of Honesty now a Princess, has become... less and less Honest... to the point of lying to herself and others.

Its almost poetic... Applejack hated Chrysalis, her past rival for what she stood for, a walking breathing creature of lies. And now her current and most hated foe is Chitania, a changeling who is as brutally honest as she is in battle. It's... amazing to see how things have become.

>>26922117
All bout dem themes, man.

Chrysalis was her thematic opposite for a long time. Abused and coveted her power, relied on lies and mind control and always hiding yourself away while pretending to be someone else, always scheming something with very little thought of her kin as actual family. She was a stark contrast to AJ in so many ways, that's why they clashed all the time.

Pennydrop is a dark mirror to her, what she would be like if she was dishonest, cared about industry and progress above all else, and only looked out for herself.

Chitty's a little different. Chitania is more a dark version of AJ than a dark mirror or contrast. She's honest, but brutally and uncaringly so. She dearly loves her family and looks out for those she calls friend, but only her family and friends, nobody else. She always keeps her word, but that word is built around getting the most out of it for herself. She'll never lie to you about a deal, but that doesn't mean the deal isn't catered towards herself. She's all about hard work and never taking the easy route, but it sure isn't for making the world better, it's all about getting more power.

All of AJ's opponents are interesting case studies in an of themselves.

>Lavan
"Angel"

Thwump!

>Not under the couch...

Thwump!

>Not under the chair!

Thwump!

>Not under the Ottoman! ...wait, how does this planet know what an Ottoman is? This confuses me...

"Ohhhh yooohooo~"

>Hm?

"Here I am~"

>You're just sitting there.

"Ahuh."

>On the table.

"Ahuuuuh~"

>...I am terrified.

"Naaah, come closer, I just realized I should thank you for making me realize something."

>...I will not. You are an evil bunny, and I want no part of being evil.

"Oh pshaw...guess over there will work fine. Y'see, I realized, if eating marshmallows roasted on your flames made me able to talk..."

Snap!

Whirrrr...

"What would a few more do?"

>How did you make so many tiny marshmallow catapults!?

"Lots of free time! Fire!"

Thwap thwap thwap thwap!

The elder being Lavan could only watch in horror as the tiny sugary cylinders of sweetness sailed throigh the air, passing through his flames ti be caught by the small white blur...

The medium sized white blue...

The alicorn sized white blur.

>Oh no...

The very large bunny that stood beforrs him grinned.

"Ohhhh yes. Now what was that you said earlier? About your magic being able to-"

Glass shattering noises filled thie cottage, followed by that of air spilling out of a balloon. A large lapine figure bound out into the night, closely followed by the firey abomination!

"CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, SUCKER!"

>NO COME BACK! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!

>>26922579
Flutters is gonna be piiiiisssssed...

>>26917328
>Still a hot milf

Of course.

>>26922714
>Lavan is finally defeated
>Because of a bunny

It fits so well...

>>26922714
>>26923340
I'm...starting to get the feeling people aren't going to like where this is gonna go...

>>26923629
meh, it'll probably be fine.

oh dear

>>26923629
Always comforting to hear

>>26922510
She still hasn't even met one of those ceilings too...

>>26925838
One apple tree at a time.

>>26925838
That's the thing about PD, you can't fight her directly. Not and stop her, at least. Sure, you might physically beat her that one time, but she'd use it against you in public opinion it litigation. She would use whatever attack you tried as fuel. You can't beat her the normal way.

>>26926426
You say that, but you can beat her the normal way. You just have to force her to go all out against you, so that when you punch her in the face she has nothing left.

>>26926443
The only way that works is if she's up against an opponent that she can't turn the rest of the world against. It would have to be somebody who's public opinion can't go any lower comma nor can she use the Army available to actually defeat them. She would have to be in a situation where her attacking benefits her both politically and in the public eye, plus she gets what she wants, plus whoever she is attacking dead.

This doesn't work for any of the main Royals, as she is trying to not get involved in a fight with them directly, and a civil war would benefit her more. The only time she would ever do something like that is if she was up against, say a known Criminal who has too much power to directly stop with whatever shmuck she has available.

>>26926483
So Snake Eyes and Screwloose? or Chitty and Sunset?

>>26926510
Latter, she could just shoot the former.

With, like, guns. Or electricity. Or fire. Those two are not exactly high on her friend list except for what they could reveal, and then that just means she has to go fight it in a court which she totally can. It's the other two that she can't bribe or shoot or just plain attack.

Finally back!
>SA
"???"
~~~~~

>... okay, look. I know I said you guys are always welcome here and I will not judge you, but I have to ask. I want to clarify I am not mad, or suspicious, are going to do anything about this regardless, I just have to know. Please understand that right now I have to know what the heck this is all about. Because frankly, whatever response you give me, it simply will not suffice, but it will have to do. So... What's going on?

" I'm waiting for the signal."

>To do what?

"I... I don't know."

>...

"..."

>... is that gun loaded?

"Probably."

>...

"..."

>... okay.

Without another word, he walked off.

"... I DON'T UNDERSTAAAAAAAND!"

>>26926754
It is okay 48, I still like you.

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>>26917465
>>26917638
>mfw further developing Human Chitty and seeing what lies in store.

Wooooow... Just wow...

>>26927046
Oh lawdy this is gonna be weird.

>>26927070
How is it gonna be weird? If anything its gonna be hot hot hot!

>>26927046
I wanna see show me!

>>26927070
I'm curious, is it because you'd be seeing her in human form instead of her normal form?

>>26927091
It's not ready, you must wait!

>>26927091
I just foresee weird feelings incoming.

Weird... Unexplainable feelings.

>>26927132
Ah, well now I'm not as worried about your reaction, I love inspiring feelings of all kinds! ~Even the weird ones~

>Rarity
"Dash"
~~~~~~

>THAT DISGUSTING BRUTE!

"Annnd, there she goes again."

The prissy pony ignored her long time friend, instead continuing to huff and stomp down the halls of Canterlot castle.

>I cannot believe that disgusting monstrosity would do something like this! Such a sickening, abhorrent thing!

"To be fair, she just kinda walked away. I mean, it's not much admittedly, still wanna rainboom her again, but it's not like she supersized and stomped the city again."

>I very much think her stomping one city was plenty!

"She actually did that to a lot of places?"

>WHAT!? When!?

"... who are you talking about?"

>Who are you talking about!?

"Chitania."

>Oh, I see. I was referring to Sunset. The brutish thuggery of the changeling goes without saying.

"..."

>What?... Oh, come off it, I didn't mean it like that!

"Sure sounded like that."

>Well, it wasn't! I was referring to the fact that Sunset Shimmer is a piece of gutter trash that does not even deserve to be thrown in with the rest of the garbage, lest it be tainted by her mere presence!

"Well, about that..."

>What!? Dash, surely you can't agree with her!

"Agree is a really strong word... I mean, I feel like hitting her for yelling at AJ like that when she clearly was trying to help, but...'

>But what!?

"...Nevermind, it doesn't matter."

>Good! Now, if you don't mind, some uneducated piece of thuggish scum is about to get a piece of my mind!

"..."

>I MEANT SUNSET!

"I didn't say anything-"

>You were thinking it!

>>26927520
Pfft, just like the privileged, high class white pony to look down on the black, undereducated, horrible monster who seriously crushed a whole lot of cities and grabbed a child with the intention of draining them to nothingness just so she could go back to the city she just stomped and finish breaking whatever she didn't break first and you know what this metaphor is a little muddy now.

>>26927643
DIN

DU

NUF

FIN

>>26927684
NC
>Chitania
"AJ"
~~~~

>Changleings didn't do nuffin' wrong.

"..."

>...I mean, I personally did a lot of things wrong. A LOT of things. Like wiping out an entire town in a blind rage. I did that. I totally did that. That happened. Then I mashed a bunch of cities into dust, and punched your princess out a window. That all technically happened, yeah. But like, on the whole, they just invaded a place and did other love-eaty stuff.

"..."

>...Racist hick.

>>26927643
>>26927684
No one has ever claimed chitty is a saint. Every changeling except 22's kid is guilty of at least assult/kidnapping And most of rape/murder/corpse desecration/arson. Kinda like the rest of the lings, her rapsheet doesn't really grow much after the initial introduction. But you knew that, which is why you like to bait.

As for Rarity, good on her for taking the high ground for the first thing that wasn't technically her fault in 25 threads. Oh wait, everyone was still busy cleaning up the aftereffects of her mess still when Sunset tried to reach them, which led to this moment. But, no, you're right, I need to cheer for Rarity here.

>>26927793
>But you knew that, which is why you like to bait.

I'm the top one, and I assure you it was 100 percent joke, as I know Rarity wasn't being racist, which is the joke of the story that I was responding to. It was just funny to me.

No bait, just couldn't resist.

>>26927762
Hold on a tic

What if some pony presses charges on "The Hive" on account of Identity theft/assault/rape/conspiracy to murder/arson citing either the Wedding Attacks or any previous incidents of a Ling being outed?

What happens then?

>>26927864
Honestly, its been too long, if we had done it earlier it would have been fine. Bringing it up now would just give the Ling-Haters hateboners and more purging materials.

>>26927793
Think you're both overthinking and underthinking this at the same time. Rarity is ranting, but Dash is constantly undercutting her and pointing out how she's acting, so the story doesn't imply you should cheer for her. At the same time, nobody claimed that Chitty was a saint, and the base of the joke is that Rarity just expects this out of her, she's mad only at Sunset, but in trying to clarify(she expects it out of the CHANGELING, not the pony), she came off sounding like she was focusing on Chitty's race, when in reality she's just thinking about Sunset and how angry she is at her. Even Dash points out getting mad at Chitty is weird, even if she's still thinking about hitting her because Element of Loyalty and AJ is her buddy.

She's not taking the high ground, she's mad, and Dash is poking fun at her when she's not getting confused for humor.

>>26927864
Nothing, AJ pardoned them when they arrived, just like she pardoned Chitty later. Even then, wedding stuff aside, they couldn't prove it was a changeling beyond a reasonable doubt, kinda the whole point of them being hidden forever.

>>26927864
Well, with the exception of 2, babyling, and 18 every other ling is still classified as refugee. And almost all of them are in the Crystal Empire with those that are left holding gov. jobs, being in with the guard, or have protection of a different sort. A regular cantie is going to be SOL unless Rarity's hateboner is still strong enough to try it.

>>26927904
AJ, didn't pardon shit, the ballroom was their dungeon. They were to be pardoned when Chrysalis let them be equestrian citizens but that never happened. They just kinda forgot that they were technically prisoners after a while (we made OCs). That is the whole reason 2 is in the empire because 42 escaped and they made Chrysalis handle it.

>>26927969
>AJ, didn't pardon shit, the ballroom was their dungeon.

Actually, it was where she stuck them because their dungeon didn't have room, then she decided to try and merge them with society, but in order to do that she had to make it so they were free to go and actually try(and comically fail) to get jobs, so she just forgave all their previous crimes, since otherwise they would just be locked up in the dungeon they didn't have room to hold them in.

They were free to leave the ballroom whenever they wanted, in fact AJ insisted on it a bunch of times(Thread 2, she tells Chrysalis to just go build a kingdom in Everfree), but they didn't because they were worried what would happen if other kingdoms knew where they were, and how they would get food.

Kingdom invasion and all that has been a non-issue since thread 2.

>>26927969
>That is the whole reason 2 is in the empire because 42 escaped and they made Chrysalis handle it.

I just looked up the story in question, it's in thread 2 but I can't link it, and it's not that she escaped, it's that they just had her kill a whole bunch of monsters and then 'he' ran away, so they thought they unleashed a psycho murderer on the world.

That same thread, AJ said Canterlot "Opened it's doors" to changelings. They weren't prisoners, they just wouldn't leave.

>>26928076
>>26928099
Okay by that logic Changeling crimes against ponies are officially down to...uh,,,10's storming of staliongrad and 29's assault on a royal guard. As everyone else has been pardoned, served time, gained diplomatic immunity, or some combination of the three.

>>26927969
Got rekt! >>26928076 >>26928099

>>26928208
Yep, besides that the only heinous criminal the changelings have is Two... for being that cute.

>>26928208
Correct, which is why in-story none of them have ever gotten arrested or anything.

Though technically Chitty is still wanted in every country NOT Equestria or the Empire, and if she ever sets hoof over there her "no extradition" agreement is null, but other than that, yep! None of them have outstanding warrents.

>29
"Potsticker"
'56'
(MM)
{Zecora}
~~~~~

It was a battle unlike any the world had ever seen.

Blows were exchanged one after the other, a strike against each other so rapid they put the deadliest of snakes to utter shame. Holder of the warriors of the night, and the love devouring creature that stalked the deepest shadows met in that place of war, one so deceptive in its mediocrity to hide the grandeur of what would be upon it on this faithful day.

To him, she struck like the lightning bolt, a flash to carve out the dark.

To her, he was as unto the eclipse, his shadow covering her light.

The barbs of pain left behind after every rapid connection of skin to chitin was matched only in precision, and brilliance, as the barbs that left their tongue. Words that held the power of even the mightiest of blows, and cut deeper than any blade ever could.

Truly, in mind, and in body, they were a match of forces the world, nay, the universe itself had never seen.

>YOU SUCK!

"YOU SUCK WORSE!"

So astonishing and awe inspiring was their battle, to any casual observer it would appear nothing more than the warrior of the dark straddling the changeling and hitting him with unfocused, chaotic blows that left absolutely no damage behind whatsoever. So beyond the understanding of any who did not know the way of battle, it would seem that the changeling merely flailed in weak slaps against the one who held him down. They could not understand the precision of every fur covered hoof against chitin, nor the ingenuity present in every wobbly flail of a chitinous limb against pony.

Truly, the scope was beyond them all.

'Cuz, please...'

(Now now, let's not interrupt.)

{Indeed, I feel this is just starting to get good. At this rate, they're going to scuff the wood.}

"Is that the best you've got!?"

1/2

>>26928435

To those watching, it would seem quite strange when hooves of black locked around her body, dragging her as close as he would a lover. Many, as uneducated as they were, thought it silly and unwise.

For the first time, they were actually wrong about that.

"GAH!"

Against the ground, his wings buzzed, and though she kicked and flailed it was in vain. His grip was too strong, and she was held too tightly. The wall came quickly, and unmercifully.

'Ooo~, ouch.'

{While this whole trip has been quite the lark... that is going to leave a mark.}

The pony remained with her face to the wall, twitching in pain as best she could in the iron like grip.

>Has thee had thine fill, harlot!?

She had, that much was clear. If not from the growl of irritation, then from the steady beat of her wings that slowly but surely began.

'CUZ NO!'

His cries fell on deaf ears when up she went, and the hugging ling with him. When she returned down, it was likewise not alone.

"OH CRAP!"

Whatever she, or those watching, had been expecting when black chitin hit the ground, it did not include the wooden floor cracking and splintering before giving way, and down both tumbled.

'CUZ!... Are you okay!?'

For a time, there was only deathly, eerie silence.

>...STRUMPET!

"LOSER!"

Followed by the sound of hoof meeting face. It had not come from either combatant.

'Really, Cuz...'

(This is better than wrestling.)

{I agree, my dear mayoral friend! Now hurry, before they reach the end!}

There wasn't even a moment for reflection, before both raced down a single story. There was a grand battle to see, after all.

>Er... DUMB PONY!

"OH YEAH!? You're uh... uh... WEENIE!"

And they did not want to miss a single moment of it.

>>26928444
I feel like they're running out of insults.

Just call it a hunch.

>>26927904
>Even then, wedding stuff aside, they couldn't prove it was a changeling beyond a reasonable doubt, kinda the whole point of them being hidden forever.

Wow, I just realized the legal fuckery involved if changelings ever get so widespread you couldn't literally keep track of all of them.

"A changeling pretended to be me!" Would be the new "Devil made me do it".

>Spitfire
"42"
~~~~~

The pegasi grunted with every upward bend. Her wings burned like her namesake, but no amount of pain could so much as slow her down. No amount could distract her from her goal.

The challenge had been made.

It would be met-

FWOOSH!

"... What in the pit of the Hivemind are you doing?"

The pegasi paused mid-rise, glaring at the new intrusion.

>Preparing, of course.

"Okay, putting aside the whole grander implications of that... what exactly does that do for your wings? Aren't you bending the muscles wrong doing that? Isn't wing pull-ups training your body how NOT to fly?"

>...

"..."

>...It's fine.

"How is that fine?"

>How is you teleporting everywhere fine?"

"Don't try to turn this on me."

>Well, don't try to question me if you don't like being questioned.

"..."

>...

"...Ahem."

FWOOSH, away she went.

>Her muscles are gonna get so atrophied doing that.

Even with that said, she looked left, and she looked right. Then she hopped down, and stretched her wings.

>I'm not doing this because she said that, I was just done.

Even though nobody else was in the room, everyone present could all but see the glow of the lie.

>>26928565
Either that or they landed in a very suggestive pose

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My friend gave me new art!
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Applejack"
~~~~~
>Welcome to Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and we wait for writers to return from their bans! Now for our main guest...APPLEJACK!!!

"Howdy."

>How's that fireside project that you needed my dreamhouse for?

"So far it's only Rarity who's been mah guest, but things are going great."

>...guest?

"Yaaaa errr ummm ya know what? Did Ah' ever tell you the time when me and mah cousin Peach were trying to guess what was going on at the Bananas family mansion? They were really kind of ooki, but we were too curious for our own good, so we decided to go visit them. Now their mansion is practically a rickety museum with a cemetery in the back, but they seem to like it just fine. However, when we worked up the courage to walk up to the gate, and cousin Peach rang the...noose, a runway cart ran Peach over. Apparently cousin Prunesly had removed a stop sign at the top of the nearby hill."

>Uh that's all the time we have now, but thanks for joining us! Have a good time everypony!

AJ wakes up.
"Whew...thank goodness that actually does work on her."

>>26929288
And I know where to put that art!

In the gallery I was finally unlazy enough to make!

INTO THE WIKI IT GOES

>>26929288
>They were really kind of ooki

But were they mysterious and spooky?

I mean, they were the bananas family... wait shit.

>>26929389
>Seemingly immortal
>Can do crazy shapes
>Can open dimensions
>Very chaotic
>Loves snapping

MOTHER OF GOD.

Discord is an Addams family member!

>>26929512
Mother of Celly...

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>>26927520
Oh sweet lawdy, I literally can't wait for Rarity to go and try trash talk Sunset while she's sitting in a restaurant and eating with 13, Sweet Note and Chitania. Thats gonna be riiiiiich~

>>26929699
>Rara and Dash VS No Fucks, Meganofucks, Mindfucks, and moneyfucks

TAKING ALL BETS

>>26930024
Damn it, Gambling! Cut that shit out! You can't take bets for EVERYTHING.

>>26930144
DON'T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE!

>Luna
"Trixie"
~~~

>Where the devil are mine students!? We have searched this entire city, yet found nary a trace!

"Teacher! Teacher, over here! Teacher! Teach! Teacheroo! Teachtastic! Teacher! Teacher! My teacher! Princess! Princess Teacher! Teacher princess! Luna! Princess Luna, my teacher! Teacher Princess Luna! Luna Princess Teacher! TEACH! TEACHER! MA'AM! MADAM! PRINCESSSSSS!"

>Hmmm...Blast, we suppose we shall just have to busy ourselves and wait. We suppose there is nothing else we can do.

"... oh..."

>>26930505
Luna-Senpai will notice you one day Trixie.

>>26930531
It's especially funny since, as the brawl proved, she is by FAR the most powerful of all of them. Excepting Ghost-Spirit-Bomb, even 29 can't come close to matching what she can do.

Yet Lulu was even more excited about Mayor Mare than her. MAYOR MARE.

>>26930657
I think she thinks it's a 'test'.

She's not very good at this.

>>26931013
NC
>Trixie
"Luna"
~~~~~

>THAT'S IT! TRIXIE WILL BATHE THE ENTIRE WORLD IN DARKNESS SO THAT YOU WILL NOTICE AND APPRECIATE HER!

"Oh no! Who could have seen this coming- wait a damn minute..."

So this far into The Misadventures of Princess Applejack, rated T for Teen, how do you fellows think the comedy has changed since we began? Do you think it's still A1, or has it settled itself into the side-seat to allow other areas their moment to shine?

>Chitania
"13"
'Sweet Note'
~Sunset~
~~~

A silence had fallen over the table.

The faces of those present was nothing short of somber and chilling, the look in their eyes, haunted and empty. All of those present had seen things, horrible things, things to bring low even the greatest of beings. Yet, in all their travels, in all their worldly events that shaped them into the beings they were on this day, none of them, not a one, had heard what now filled their ears like muck pouring and sticking to every crevasse. Not a one of them had known what they know on this day.

>...So-

"So I'm going to hear this when I go to sleep at night."

>Well, it's not that terrible a-

"Yes it is."

>I still think we could talk-

"No, no we can't."

>...Damn it.

'Uh... Sunest? How you holding up in-'

~REGREEEETTTT!~

On this day, all of them knew horror.

On this day, Sunset Shimmer remembered why she never, ever, ate spicy foods. A fact she had forgotten, in her body so cold and still.

It had been fate that had placed them next to the bathroom. Both a fortuitous one, and a damning one. Fate, that proved the gods some sought did indeed still live.

And they had a wonderful sense of humor.

~REGRET!~

>>26931587
It's still mostly the same for like, 90 percent of stories.

Character A is the crazy one, character B is the sane one, they banter back and forth and then resolution. We mix it up with character C being the wildcard to swing back and forth sometimes, or we do a group thing where everyone bounces off each other in the conversation or gangs up on the single choice of character for one, but group stuff isn't the norm.

We work a lot more with slapstick and situational humor than we used to, probably due to our change from having reaction expand more than single word onomatopoeia's, but conversational still is king.

>>26931612
holy fuck there goes my sides

>>26931587
I was gonna say we've kinda backed off on the direct comedy for some of our characters, then >>26931612 reminded me that, no. No we have not.

We're still mostly the same, joke wise, we just don't overdo specific gags like we used to. We drove those into the ground sometimes.

>>26931722
>got a question rarely returns

>>26931742
To be fair, holy SHIT do we have a lot of those, I think we literally made a joke about EVERY FUCKING INCONSISTENCY in the damn series. That's why you know when do they return?

New episodes, of course. When we have something else to make fun of.

We didn't just mine all the gold outta that pit, we scraped up the fucking rocks and started pumping the magama beneath the crust.

>>26931774
>AJ
"Celestia"
~~
"Hey, AJ, I gotta question"

>No

"Hmm?"

>You don't get to turn this around one me

"No, seriously, question"

>stop

"Why haven't we delegated most of this paperwork down? I'm almost certain we have the budget for a few Secretaries"

>...oh mah stars what have I been doing with my life

>>26931587
Literally the only time comedy isn't the focus is in the very rare 'serious' moments that injecting it into would otherwise rob of their impact and character, putting humor in every scene in the Apple Crazy arc would ruin it, for instance. Other than that? It's still the driving force and front and center, making up the vaaaaast majority of all stories, by far. And it's not like it's forgotten in all places, even something like the Sunset confrontation had spots of humor like with Sunset grabbing onto Chitty's leg, or when she went all Looney Tunes with the bed. Our humor, I think, has developed, both in setup and execution, but for the better. But the one thing that stuck around since day 1, which is building off other jokes and continuing them, is still present. So, on the whole, this is still a comedy thread, we just have moments where shit gets real.

>>26931824
We did this joke, but I will be damned if I can remember which thread it is in. It is when Celly admitted that she left pretty much all of the rest of the place handle itself with no oversight from her. Then handling the paperwork is what got them to this position.

>>26931612
I was wondering when we would make this joke.

>>26931855
We even had some comedy in Cordyceps with Coco.

>>26931612
>Featherweight
~~~~~

>I... should I report this? This isn't news, but... I feel like ponies should know... oh dear Faust, I understand tabloids.

>>26933093
>10 is crying inside. She's crying.

Goodnight, thread.

>>26933729
Night, anon.

>>26934275
Let me in on this night giving action.

>>26934955
I don't have any night time actions, but morning actions? I'm chock full of 'em, have a few.

>>26935375
Ohhhh myyyy~

>>26935375
How quaint.

>>26931824
You know... I think that this might be a nice time to have Celestia flip the table on AJ to help her grow.

>>26936091
I agree, but also think some of them should be blatantly silly, for example...

NC
>AJ
"Celestia"
~~
"Hey, AJ, I have a question...
>Nuu...
"No seriously, I have a question!"
>Celly plz...
"Why haven't you finished your eggs?"
>Why are you doing this?

>>26936154
10 bump!

>>26936656
Already? We really fast this morning

>>26936740
High traffic, there are a lot of shit posters trying to fuck with the mods. Everything is getting pushed down faster, even when the threads are deleted they just get re posted and the other Threads and Generals post to get higher up and if we don't keep up with it, we're gonna get pushed down and off. I've saved our threads on the brink more times than I can remember. The only ones I missed where the high traffic nights when I was asleep.

>>26936740
Go out into the catalog, half the damn threads are that same stupid Cadence face.

>>26936843
More than that now. God damn this is stupid.

>>26937085
No worries, they're finally dead.

...and took out half the fucking board.

>77
"Cheerliee"
'???'
~~~~

>Honey? I brought your lunch, you left it on the counter again... what the devil?

"She won't leave."

'THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE WILL DESTROY YOUUUU!'

>But... but...

"I know."

>Wha...

"Trust me, I know. You want to try telling her? Give it a shot, go ahead, I dare you."

>... Miss Trixie?

'Trixie cannot talk, eyepatch wearing one, she is involved in a grand battle can you not see?'

>Miss Trixie... that is not a demon, that is a skeleton that she uses for biology class. It's fake.

'HAVE AT THEE!'

>...

"Told you so."

>Huh... you know, maybe throwing her down into the caverns would actually fix her, it's not like it could mess her up any more

~~~~

this is why I never write from a phone

>>26937498
I believe in Trixie, she can do it.

>>26937537
Remember all that Chrysalis talk a few threads ago about her being nice? I remember her forbidding 77 from volunteering to go back down there because she had lost him once and wasn't gonna let it happen again... That was nice.

>>26937708
Uh what? It was just a joke about how stupid Trixie is being. And caves have been safer since 32 tamed the morlocks

>>26937735
I think he was just reminded of that scene by your story.

Also yeah, we'll get to see how the Morlocks are doing pretty soon.

>>26937853
yep

>AB
"SL"
'SB'
-Winona-
^Vekir^
(Sweetie Doll)
~Being~
{Knight}
=???=
~~~~

>And that's what's a cutie maaaark!

>"'YEAH!'"

The being before them was old, ancient, wise and powerful. It moved through the world unlike any other being, it experienced and saw things in ways that the fillies before it could never fully comprehend, it had seen things, known things, that a scant few in all realities would ever know.

He still clapped when their song and dance ended.

>That clear everything up, partner?

~...NO.~

"But... we did the song!"

~IT WAS A NICE SONG, BUT... FROM WHAT THE SONG SPOKE OF, THIS MARK IS VAGUE ENOUGH TO MEAN ANYTHING. FOR INSTANCE, YOU SPOKE OF YOUR TEACHER, WHO HAD FLOWERS FOR HER CUTIE MARK.~

'Yeah! Miss Cheerilee is awesome... I think you guys would get along!'

~BUT THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FLOWERS.~

>O' course not! We gotta sing it again? It's all about helpin' others bloom!

~BUT WHAT IF YOUR TALENT IS RAISING FLOWERS, WHAT WILL THE MARK BE THEN?~

"...Uh... flowers?"

~SO THEN FLOWERS MEANS RAISING CHILDREN AND ALSO FLOWERS.~

'...yes?'

~DID YOU NOT ALSO SPEAK OF A GREAT MANY WHO HAVE HOURGLASS FOR MARKS?~

>Yeah, there's... a lotta them. And none of 'em mean the same thing.

~AND WHAT OF THE MARK OF THE TWO SALES PONIES WHO ARE A SLICE OF AN APPLE AND MOST OF AN APPLE? NEITHER OF THEM ARE TALENTED WITH APPLES, BUT MACHINES.~

"Right, because their mark is all about finding the rest of the pieces to make a whole."

~BUT THIS IS SHOWN WITH APPLES. WHICH FOR EVERYONE ELSE JUST MEANS APPLES.~

'Well, not everyone everyone, there's that one pony who...'

~...~

>...Ah'm startin' to see how this can be confusing.

~I HAVE PARTAKEN IN THE GRAND SONG, YET I AM NO CLOSER TO MY ANSWER! THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION... I MUST DESTROY ALL THINGS, WHICH WILL LEAVE ONLY WHAT I SEEK!~

>...Wait, what?

^Even Vekir can't follow that thought, and she once ate a snail to get a shell on her teeth.^

(I have stuffing for brain, and that seems dumb to me.)

1/7

>>26938308
As the power once more began to flow to the single remaining claw of the being, power returned once more to another on the battlefield.

{NAY, FOUL THING!}

The knight, luminous in his form, raced to the challenge laid down by the being of the stars.

{You seek to destroy children? As always, every bit the monster I have slain before! Prepare yourself, my old foe! It is back to oblivion that you shall return!}

His words, heroic and punctuated by his blade held aloft, were not spoken alone.

-BRING IT ON! I don't care how big you are, MY SWORD SHALL FIND YOUR BLOOD!-

The simple dog defied the expectations of all, when she placed herself between the being beyond her comprehension, and the one she sword to protect.

~AGAIN, WE SHALL DANCE IN THE SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION? SO BE IT. THE COSMOSIS HAS WEAKENED THE BARRIERS, AND YOUR POWER. I SHALL AT LAST DEFEAT YOU, FOR ONCE AND FOR ALL. YOU AND THE BEAST YOU CALL ALLY!~

{SO BE IT, MY ETERNAL FOE-}

>Waiiiit wait wait wait. Wait.

Both beings did, as she asked, wait. Neither of them looked happy about it.

~WE WERE JUST GETTING TO THE GOOD PART OF THE PREAMBLE.~

{There is a process to this, child! How rude, Sweetie Belle managed to muffle her sounds when I asked!}

>Ignorin' that.

'He was just taking about when we-'

>IGNORIN' THAT... is that a heart?

All eyes, be they of mortal flesh or otherworldly energy, followed the point of the hoof to it's destination. To the mark on the side of the beasts hip, where she would not look away from for a single moment.

Eyes squinted, and heads tilted, as all thought of her question asked.

"...Huh."

'You know...'

(Yeaaahhh, I think I see it! If you just... you just gotta... wow, good thing I'm stuffing, or this would hurt a lot.)

^Vekir thinks you are all being stupid, that is looking nothing like a heart! Vekir knows what hearts look like, and they look like lumpy red rocks that are squishy!^

~BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN?~

Slowly, but surely, Applebloom smiled.

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>>26938320

>Don't ya' see, big guy?

~...NO! NOT REMOTELY!~

Slowly, but surely, Scootaloo joined her.

"It all makes so much sense now!"

~IT DOES NOT! YOU SPEAK THE TONGUE OF LIES!~

Slowly, very slowly... very, very, very slowly, way more slowly than it should have been, Sweetie Belle smiled as well.

'Ohhh... wait, hold up... oh... OHHHH! OH OH OH! I GET IT!'

~I FEAR THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I CANNOT!~

{No no, I'm lost too, my old foe.}

^Vekir never understands what half of ponies are saying, they speak gibberish and pretend it is words!^

-I understand everything, and I'm a dog! You're just dumb.-

>Look, it's like this... ya' said ya' don't understand cutie marks cause they all look the same, or look so vague that they could mean anything, right?

~YES?~

>But... look up there.

Her hoof rose up higher, until it pointed right to the stars. He followed her, until he too looked to the twinkling lights in the sky, with an empty gaze.

~I do not understand...~

>Don't all those lights look the same? Don't they look like they can be anything? They could be stars, or planets, or even just big old explosions up there, couldn't they?

He pondered her words, scanning beyond what she could see with a thoughtful, yet lacking gaze. He could see things she could not, tiny inflections in the light and waves that told him exactly what type of star, or reflection of light from those stars, each sparkle above was.

Even still, he did not understand.

"And even if you know what they are... what are they like?"

That began to change, the more they spoke.

'What's each one like, what do they have on them, what kinda color do you think is there?'

He focused, he concentrated, but he could not find the answer to her words. Across the cosmos that the light traveled, the lightyears between them were simply too great.

He could not see them, for they were too far away.

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>>26938326

>Ya' don't know, and ya' can't know... till ya' go take a look. There's life there, there's a whole buncha things on each one, event ya'll ain't never gonna see anywhere else, and life that ain't gonna be there on any other planet. Ya' gotta look really close ta' understand what each one is like, don'tcha? Just like...

She pointed again to his marking, to the galaxy in the shape of a heart. For the first time, no matter how often he had examined it again and again before, he truly saw it.

>Just like ya' gotta look really close on a cutie mark to understand just what it means... cause they look the same, and ta' most it's just a single speck in a big old ocean, but ta' somebody... it's their whole world.

Countless eons of searching, untold time spent on his quest, eternities passed, and worlds left behind on the journey. He had looked through time, and space, to find the answer to his greatest question. What this mark meant, and what it meant for him. He had been searching for an answer all his existence.

At last, he had found it.

-HIS GUARD IS DOWN!-

Without warning, the dog lunged forwards, blade poised right for the heart of the beast.

>WINONA NO!

He met her charge, as he had never met any other before it.

With arms open.

~I UNDERSTAND.~

-DIE, APPLE HATER!-

The wild swings of the blade were met only with a tighter hug, gentle enough to leave the animal unharmed, no matter what she tried to do to him.

~I UNDERSTAND, AT LAST. I HAVE SEEN ONLY THE COSMOS AS THEY WERE, THEIR VASTNESS, THEIR ENDLESS WAVES, YET I NEVER FOUND WHAT I TRULY SOUGHT. IT WAS BENEATH MY SIGHT ALL THIS TIME, AND I NEVER KNEW TO LOOK.~

Tighter, enough that she could swing no longer, he hugged.

~I HAVE MISSED THE LOVE, WITHIN EACH LIGHT IN THE ENDLESS WORLDS.~

>Whoa now!

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>>26938331

Three fillies, one Morlock, and one stuffed animal brought to life all rose up, and joined the embrace.

"Uh... glad we could help?"

'I like this!'

^Vekir does not like this!^

(Wait, why am I getting a hug? I didn't do anything!)

{Er... unhand them? I don't know what to do here. This is all very strange to me.}

~THANK YOU.~

He released them, letting them float in the skies beyond time and space, in a realm of magic that rapidly shifted.

The chaotic, horrid things beneath them began to change, the wild and untamed expanse becoming less abrasive, more soothing with every passing second.

{By the love of heavens light...}

Harsh fire was replaced by a gentle glow, searing light cast away in favor of a glimmering twinkle, and the nauseating colors changed until they became wondrous to look upon. Everything was wonderful, as much to their sight as it was to swim in this strange place so amazing.

~I UNDERSTAND AT LAST BECAUSE OF YOU... MY FRIENDS. I CAN NEVER REPAY YOU ENOUGH. IF THERE IS ANYTHING I CAN DO-~

>Turn everything back.

She could not have been more blunt if she had literally become a hammer.

~...REALLY?~

>Yep. Back ta' normal.

~I COULD GRANT YOU ANY POWER YOU WANT, ANY ABILITY THAT YOU COULD EVER DREAM OF-~

>Nooormal.

~I COULD GRANT YOU THE MAGIC TO FLY BETWEEN WORLDS, YOU COULD BE MORE GRANT THAN ANY ON THIS PLANET-~

>Just want the normal, thank you very much.

~OH... OKAY.~

He almost seemed disappointed.

>Hey, buddy?

~...~

>Was nice ta' meet you too. You ever wanna stop by Sweet Apple Acres, Ah'll set ya' a plate at the table mah'self.

~...I WOULD LIKE THAT.~

He did not after that.

He gave them one last, final embrace, one last hug to all of his wondrous new friends, and then he called his power once more. Not the power to destroy, not the might he held before, but something else entirely.

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>>26938337

The shattered, broken parts between the world began to reform, sealing what was broken, making whole what was in pieces. Their world, and the world they had been in, became as they were, as they were always meant to be.

All was as it was meant to be, as their world became as close to normal as it would ever be again.

~...GOODBYE, MY FRIENDS~

>See ya' later!

"Come back sometime soon!"

'Byyyeee!'

^V-Vekir would like to go home now.^

(I have a sudden craving for tacos...)

-I'm watching you... watching yoooouuu!-

{Goodbye, my old-}

~I still don't like you.~

Before another word could be said, there was a blink in the very fabric of reality, a light that reached out and covered them, filled them from hooftip to hair tip, passing through them and leaving them feeling with an elation unseen by any mortal being before in just a flash, and all shifted back to as it had been.

Once more, they were in a cafeteria, in a place they did not know, and not a single thing out of place, or changed from what it had been.

Well, almost nothing.

>Awww, thanks, big guy.

The giant plate of tacos was a nice change.

{By... by the wonders of the heavens, you've done it!}

In awe and respect, the Knight bowed.

{You have done what I could not, and lead the beast from beyond into the light of love! Thank you, my friends! I thank you for all that you've-}

>That's nice.

{...Ahem, I would like to reward you with-}

>No thanks.

{No... no thanks?}

>Kinda want everythin' ta' go back to normal, and well...

Wordlessly, she rolled her hoof in his direction.

{Oh... oh, yes, I suppose my light being here does have some changes... but don't you wish to hear of what the beast what, what he had done through the cosmos, what impact you've truly left on this world-}

>Nope.

{It's a pretty epic story.}

>Ah'm good.

{Filled with gods, creation myths, wonder-}

>Juuust fine, thank ye' kindly. Gonna sit here and relax a bit if you don't mind.

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>>26938343

{Oh... okay, I suppose it would be... rude to throw a request back to one who had done such greatness for this world.}

>Yep.

{...That said, may I stay a little longer? Myself and Sweetie Belle were going to go back and-}

>Ehhhhhh.

{Oh, no to that?}

>Beeeetter not.

{...Can I come to Sweet Apple Acres someday too?}

>Ehhh... sure, Ah'll even bake ya' an apple fritter, just for you.

{Myself, and all of reality, give you our thanks.}

>Gotta be hospitable.

{...But really, this story is-"

>GIT!

{As you wish. Farewell, all!... Farewell, Sweetie Belle...}

'Bye Mister Shiny Pants, it's been fun!'

A choir of wonder sang to the world, a light reached down from the heavens, and into the sky the knight of light raced, sparing only one long, slow look back to the one who he had spent such an adventure with.

'...he was nice!'

>Meh.

Silence, empty and cold, filled the room.

(So... that was a thing.)

>That was a thing.

^Vekir, uh... thinks that was pretty weird, and she knows weird.^

"You know, that was weird."

-...I stabbed a god today...-

'Good girl, Winona! Who's a good girl, you are!'

(So... what happens now-)

The cafeteria doors did not slam open.

They slammed right off their hinges.

=WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN HOW-=

The mare on the other side, a sharply dressed unicorn with strips of false flesh that had once been a faceless mask hanging off her face, continued to babble, unaware nobody was listening.

=WHY WHY WHY... HOW DID YOU... THE WORLD WAS OVER... THE COSMOSIS! THE COSMOSIS!... HOOWWW!?=

Gradually, a hoof was brought to Applebloom's lips.

>Shhh... ya' want some tacos?

^Vekir advises taking them, things get weird otherwise.

=WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET TACOS!? WHERE IS THE GIANT MONSTER!? WHY AREN'T I DEAD I WAS PRETTY SURE I WAS DEAD! WHY IS THE WORLD THE WORLD! WHO STOPPED THAT AND DID YOU ALWAYS HAVE THOSE CUTIE MARKS WHEN YOU GOT IN HERE!?=

>...
"..."
'...'

Everything had changed.

>...neat.

>>26938351
...Did we really just have the CMC save the world twice, and redeem an elder god just to get their cutie marks?

We don't do shit halfway, I guess.

>>26938351
Is it over? Has the Odyssey finally reach the end? I don't know if I'm ready for it to be over

>>26938351
>AB is so broke and she is not even fazed by getting her cutie mark

Oh Lord, AJ is going to be so regretful...

>>26938351
IT'S OVER

ITS OOOVVVVEEERRRR

It's been such a wild ride...

>>26938331
>-HIS GUARD IS DOWN!-

Oh, Winona, this is why you are best dog.

>AJ
"Pinkie"
~~~

>...

"Still nothing?"

>Nope. Not even a twitch on the line.

"No?"

>Nope.

"...Hey, AJ? You did remember to file those things saying Arana can live in the vents again, right?"

>...

"..."

>...

"..."

>...Son of a...