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>>28098109
The safest place I can imagine would be in Scootaloo's cooch

>>28098109
A villain that actually plans what he's doing with a plan more than 1. kill everything.
Lets say a human or alicorn who discovers the magic of hate and opposes the six, perhaps with magic of black instead of rainbow.

When they win, he bestows immortality from old age upon them to prevent the hard feels

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>>28098154
>Villain who's evil just for the sake of being evil
its a timelessly lazy and overused narrative anon, how about a villian with some actual story? a motive for being evil other than "Do it to survive Chrysalis" or "Born this way Discord"?
Seriously, I know its not popular but Nightmare Night may have been the only villain with any serious motives behind why she was evil...
And i reject Glimmy as a good villain, becauce yeah, she has motives, but they are unrealistic and shitty motives (although i think she's better than any of the other villains who are evil 'just because')

>>28098154
Fun fact: "The Rainbow of Darkness" was a plot device in G1

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Outer Starlight Part 1

The episode begins in the Crystal Empire library where Spike is managing ponies who are setting up comic books on shelves. Starlight asks what Spike is doing, to which he explains that Shining Armor put him in charge as the curator for the soon to be comic book wing. Starlight asks why such a thing would be necessary, Spike explains that you might never know what to do if somepony creates an evil duplicate of you, or some mishap with a spell makes your house want to eat you, or you shrink down to the size of an ant, or you get abducted by aliens. Starlight laughs it off as Spike overreacts to one of the mover ponies not realizing following his ridiculously geeky rules for sorting comics.

>>28099625
The four princesses along with Shining Armor and the mane6 are discussing a series of magical surges happening across Equestria. They determined that according to a pattern the being will strike the Crystal Empire next and she wants to capture the being and prevent it from causing any other magical power surges. Our cast splits up or patrols the area around the Crystal Empire hoping to capture the being as soon as they can. Needless to say the being arrives, and immediately the pegasai lose control of their flying, spells unicorn spells start becoming uncontrollable in terms of output, and crystal apples start growing around Applejack. Amidst this chaos, Starlight manages to locate the creature near the outskirts of the town. Starlight manages to pin the creature with her magic, but it opens a portal that when her combined with her magic causes it to become a vaccum that sucks her in.

>>28099640
Starlight finds herself on what appears to be the creature's home which seems to be a flying mettalic object and comes across the creature going over information on a display. She is completely shocked and angry when she spots pictures of her and her friends on the monitor. She then notices one of the beings giant colored wings, and how similar they are to a pegasus, wondering if a pony is behind all of this. One of wings turns and immediately Starlight notices the wings have faces on them. The wing makes an adorable squeak alerting the being that there is an intruder, and showing Starlight that this is indeed not a pony.

Starlight and the alien both freak out, with the alien panicking that he cannot perform any further research since he has been by one of the subjects. AFter a moment to calm down, she notices right away that the alien has two giant wings with ridiculous faces on them. He explains they are bonded wing-shaped comrades (namded Lift and Rise) and he himself is named Simon, an aspiring intergalactic explorer hoping to discover and research intelligent life across the universe.

>>28099657
Starlight asks what is going on and the alien explains that he has been across Equestria for several days studying the species to learn all he can in the interest of science and possibly so his race may start a peaceful relationship with the Equestrians

Meanwhile back in Equestria, our heroes are worried about the prospect that Starlight might have actually been abducted by an alien. Shining Armor, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Cadance are tasked with trying to keep the Crystal Ponies calm while Sunburst, Pinkie Pie, Twilight and Spike head to the library to figure out a book that might give them any clue on how to get their friend back, Spike immediately goes searching in the comic book section believing that if it really is an alien it's probably going to be extremely difficult to find any help in old history books or guides to Equestria.

>>28098109
Is that where you live?

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>>28099673
Outer Starlight Part 2
On the alien’s ship Starlight Glimmer asks Simon why he was causing all of the magical power surges. Simon looks shocked as he was unaware that he was causing any problems as he was trying to recreate magical energy the ponies were using in Equestria, but however he was unable to create anything using the magic, so he felt that he just needed to generate more energy to compensate, but he over did it. Starlight Glimmer explains that the magic of Equestria is tied to the world and the beings that live there. Starlight explains that he has been causing many problems in Equestria with magical power surges. Realizing the damage he has done, Simon freaks out and tries to immediately set a course back to his home planet with Starlight in tow.

Starlight attempts to use magic Simon, to knock some sense, but accidentally grabs the whole ship. She then struggles to halt the ship in place until Simon agrees to cancel the trip back home. He calms down and sets a course to bring Starlight back down to the surface, and then immediately head back home before any of the ponies decide to take action against him. The Mane Six and Spike come aboard the ship via the portal, almost immediately Twilight attempts to grab Simon with her magic only to send the ship spiraling out of control towards the ground. The crash causes the ship’s engines to shut down and the portal to deactivate.

fucking aliens

>>28099625
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>>28099673
Are you still continuing? Try to fill a post before moving on to the net one; these four could probably fit in 2 posts.

>>28099780
With our heroes dazed from the crash Simon opens a door and attempts to flee by taking to the skies and having his wings exhale a huge amount of air to simulate a jetpack engine, Simon is almost immediately stopped by Celestia, who keeps him held long enough for her guards to wrap him up and take him away. Starlight tries to explain that Simon is harmless, but no one believes her, thinking that Simon is just trying to appear innocent and scared to gain their trust, but Starlight doesn’t believe he is trying to deceive her. He is taken away and locked up in one of the Crystal Empire dungeons.

At night time Starlight Glimmer manages to free Simon via a remote teleport spell. The two of them manage to escape and get back to his ship. This alerts the guards which in turn alerts her friends. Her friends insist that she is making a mistake and doesn’t know what the alien could be really planning and tries to use the magical energy inside of the ship to generate a force field so he can escape just in time. Once her friends realize how dedicated she is to defending Simon, they back off and apologize.

Simon, grateful that she managed to defend him and that the natives on the planet are capable of trusting him, asks Starlight if she’ll help continue his research on the pony species. She agrees, but asks how she is going to do it, suddenly a bright light emerges from his back and travels over to her. When the light fades, Lift and Rise are now attached to Starlight Glimmer. He offers his goodbye’s to the ponies and hopes to see them again real soon in the future.

>>28098109
>An episode of AJ taking a trip to her parents grave with Applebloom and Big Mac.
>An episode of Starlight meeting back with the village, it turns out most still have a grudge against her. She tries to fix it, but one mare cannot make up with probably what amounts to thirty plus ponies. She learns only time can heal wounds and some times, you have to let people feel mad at you when you have done something wrong.
>An episode of the sisters daily routine, probably the main conflict is Luna forgot to do some paperwork, now they have to meet up with Saddle Arabian Consuls to assure Equestria is still going to get there lamp oil solely from them.
>An episode where Pinkie helps Limestone's anger issues, and also we see why Limestone has anger issues.
>An episode of Twilight reminisicing about old stories of Shining Armour and Cadence when she was a filly over a dinner with everyone
>An episode of Rainbow finding her mother, who left her when she was a filly, but she is not what she wanted
>An episode of the Mane Six's Mothers hanging out, or trying to, because there daughters suggested it.
>An episode where one of Rarity's boutiques cannot sustain itself and shut down, and she learns to cope with the failure and try again with a new approach, and succeeding
>An episode of Fluttershy feeling like she's not herself any more, with being more assertive and all that, and learning to cope with change
>A season finale where Scorpan comes back to Equestria and has some information of Starswirl

>>28099625
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>>28099813
Okay, here's my thoughts on this:

>Spike and the comic book section
I see where you're going with this, trying to make him useful even if he doesn't seem it at first and avoiding the "Spike is an idiot when a main character" trope. The problem is, you completely forget about him in the second act - he vanishes after he goes looking information. Moreover, I don't see an opportunity to really include him in how you've laid out the latter half of the story.

>Simon is unaware of the power surges he is creating
This is my second major issue: Just how blind is this alien that he - as an active researcher studying their civilization - fails to notice the surges so destructive that the highest levels of the Equestrian government had to convene as a result of them? Again, I understand you're trying to make him innocent of any deliberate wrongdoing but that level of ignorance is very hard to explain. Also, 'Simon'?

>Celestia stops Simon and orders him imprisoned
This also seems like a 'for the plot' decision that feels way out of character for her. She has reason to be wary, but to order him imprisoned without any actual evidence of deliberate wrongdoing? That doesn't seem like the action of a ruler with a millennia of experience and a penchant for acting subtly in the background.

>Once her friends realize how dedicated she is to defending Simon, they back off and apologize.
Why? What evidence does this present that (in their minds) he is actually innocent? She could be mind-controlled, or just lied to.

>Wing things attach to Glimglam
No, just no. We don't need more alicorns, even pseudocorns. If you want to pull this, I'd suggest having them remain independent but hang around - acting as a familiar creature in a rough parallel to Spike.

>>28100310
Didnt we see that Starlight resolved things in "The Cutie Remark"

>>28100366
>Simon
Look at the colors of the antenna that stick out of his head.

>>28101165
Unfortunately. It was fucking retarded.

"Hey, you lied to these ponies and stole the one thing that means the most to them, keeping them utterly under your control and abusing those who showed signs of rejecting your authority. But you're the designated hero in this episode so you get a three-second shot of them automatically forgiving you without so much as a heartfelt apology let alone any effort, because fuck good storywriting when you have to hammer through a reformation in the final 3 minutes of an episode!"

>>28101209
Even with your hint, it took me far longer to figure this out than it should have.

>>28098109
Hey, where's Aria's giant paintbrush?

>>28100310
Pretty good, some of them dealing with mature topics. But that last one seems like a bad fanfiction idea.

>>28100366
Spike did suggest that the alien's tech might work similar to the comics later on.

And yeah the wings are more like Starlight's pets, the wings I imagined were a different form they could take, while they normally resemble slimes.

>>28100310
> An episode where Scorpan returns to Equestria, bringing information about Spike's parents.
> Spike's dragon clan terrorized the badlands, destroying and burning everything on their path
> Spike's parents were especially hated by everyone
> They only terrorized people because Tirek was holding their baby egg hostage, and would destroy it at the first rign of rebellion
> The rest of the clan obeyed Tirek's cruel order out of fear to whatever he could do to their friend's only child
> That egg was Spike
> Scorpan managed to steal it and entrusted it to Celestia so she could battle against his evil brother without fear
> Tirek had a backup spell that activated and imprisioned ALL dragons and scattered thrm through the Badlands on the very moment of his defeat.
> Centuries later, Scorpan finally got a clue about Spike's clan whereabouts, hence why he returned to Equestria to request their help with the liberation of the dragon clan.
> Spìke and Scorpan lead the scouting team, both of them form an immediate bond.
> Each trapped dragon is guarded by deadly traps and spells that Spike and Scorpan barely manage to survive, every liberated dragon gives them bits of info that leads them to the next one.
> Once every dragon is liberated and Spike finally gets to met his parents, a huge curse activates that puts the Badlands on mortal danger, as Tirek's final "fuck you" spell.
> Ponies and Dragons work together to save Scorpan's homeland.

>>28100310
Good

Are you faggots enjoy something?

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Something that puts Guardians of Harmony into the show.
Has to have at least one army clash.

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>>28098413
>Nightmare Night
Anon you fucked up

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>>28099625

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