Princess Applejack

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>>28856625
Darn, and here I was going to post first for Cadence.

>>28856625
>actually made it
Hell. To the yes. And after being late so many times, I trudge off to bed feeling mighty fucking victorious.

>>28856625
Congrats on making it once more.

>>28856634
Damn!

>>28856634
Aw, that would have fit perfect with LNPP.

Though I guess not much to The main story she is just in bed for a while.

So, now that the chaos is out of the way...

AJ date arc when?

So...I've been away for a bit and applespike was my favorite pairing...

So that was a gut punch.

As Spike has long been combat irrelevant, went hard on angst, and now doesn't even have a romantic angle...what now?

Does he just become a background character? Disappear entirely a large cheese sandwich? What?

Sorry this is just hard to process right now.

>>28856690
He hasn't done shit for Angsting in forever, I literally cannot recall the last time he felt bad besides the talk with Rarity when it was fixed and swept away that story.

The thing is, this should be a chance for him to do literally anything. Get back into combat and devote time to protecting Equestria, persue other interests, hang out with the gun club FFS. He is whatever the ones who are willing to write want him to be.

Is Jetset's simulation over yet? He's been in there for a good while.

Also where's 007, I straight up forgot about him.

>>28856690
I know how you feel, /pa/l, but I don't think this will be the spiral into Spike's submergence from anything. If anything, whether he gravitates back towards AJ or elsewhere, I feel this is kind of like an igniter to something great.

>>28856717
Jet is still in the simulator.

As for 007... wait and see.

>>28856717
>Is Jetset's simulation over yet?
How very apropos, I just finished the next part of that, with an ETA of tomorrow, I wager.

OOCO
>AJ
"Celestia"
~~~~

>Tia? Gotta question.

"And I have a hole in my heart, Applejack. A hole where my happiness used to be, and now every day I have to fill it with cake, because when you come around, that happiness goes away, and the hole grows bigger. When I die of diabetes one day, with my last breath I shall say to the world, it was Applejack's fault."

>Kay, just make sure Ah'm there to tell ya' how much of our healthcare budget yer' sappin'.

"Hate!"

>But mah' question is, is prostitution legal in Las Pegasus?

"Yes."

>Wha- what?

"Yes, it is. I think there's actually this cute little bubble machine with a pony inside and- is something wrong?"

>Ya' can't-what-NO!

"No?"

>NO! Ya' can't do that!

"I did, like, a hundred years ago."

>Well ya' can't!

"Okay? I'll get right on not doing that thing I did."

>Undo it! Undo the bill, whatever!

"Applejack? Is something bothering you?"

>Mah' granny's gonna flip her apples, Ah've been tellin' her no about that fer' years! Do ya' want to make me a liar!?

"So you want me to undo a law I've held in place for some time just to make your previous statements no lies, when they actually were?"

>YES!

"I-I don't- is this a prank?"

>Mah' granny is gonna lose her cookies and IT'S ALL YER' FAULT!

"What happened to my life."

>FIX IT!

"Cake, dear cake, the hole has grown bigger."

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Pinkie Preview Prophecies

>Applejack says that's a racist barn.
>Rarity gets naked.
>Granny Smith remembers a house that was on the prairie.
>Silver Spoon tells Spike and Diamond Tiara that Fruit Loops are all the same flavor.
>Octavia secretly kept the flamethrower cello.
>Trixie always has a few hidden Twixes.
>The CMC will float on okay!
>Pink fanservice!

>>28856681
She JUST broke up.

>>28856690
>and now doesn't even have a romantic angle
To be fair, he hasn't actually had much of an angle about that for fucking ever. That was a huge thing in the leadup in meta and was even addressed in story, there wasn't much of a relationship there at all, and it only became more obvious with recent events that it just plain had no teeth in the end, and wasn't going anywhere, and not because of his age or angsting, the latter of which he doesn't even do.

>Does he just become a background character? Disappear entirely a large cheese sandwich? What?

Question, what's different now that wasn't before?

He never did a thing with AJ during any arc, so it's not relevant there. He never dated her in between, not relevant. She never relied on him during crappy times, Post-Cordyceps and Apple Crazy proved that, what's she missing, and what can he no longer do that was so important before? This should be a way to open up, but I'm worried that the interest to keep writing him just isn't there. Not because the relationship is gone, but just because it wasn't there before, and that's why it ended up like this. I'm happy AJ has more venues open that she previously had locked off, and doesn't have to be forced to work him in somehow, but for him? I guess I share your concern, I'm worried he'll go background character because nobody will write him.

Even so...

>>28856762
Fuck that, Shining got FOUR date things, two of which were major story arcs that had huge repercussions we feel to this day. AJ deserves better, and those who don't like Applespike have nothing holding them back!

>>28856797
That's my worry, not that he won't have anything to do, this change should mean he literally has nothing but brand new things to do, new avenues and adventures he can have now that we don't have to make him all about AJ, but with that in mind, will anyone actually do it?

Only time will tell.

>>28856826
So....he can do anything, and no one has any ideas, so he'll likely do nothing. He could do action but then why not have an alicorn or changeling show up and do it all instead? Romance is out because no one likes him in that role. He could...make wry jokes from the background and do banal assistance?

>>28856873
>he can do anything, IF no one has any ideas, THEN he'll likely do nothing.

Fixed that for you.

>He could do action but then why not have an alicorn or changeling show up and do it all instead?

>007 and Jetset can do action but why not just use 42 and Shining Armor instead?
>Dash and 77 and Harry can do action but why not just use an alicorn instead?
>Rarity and Spike can do action against Buttercup but why not AJ and Celestia instead?

Dude what?

> Romance is out because no one likes him in that role.

>Because there was no development of his place in that role or connection, so they'd have to actually have him do romance with whoever they're shipping him with.

> He could...make wry jokes from the background and do banal assistance if nobody wants to write him doing anything else.

That's the hard truth, Anon.

You want Spike to be more proactive, more action packed, more romantic, more whatever? Gotta write it. Have ideas but don't think you're a good enough writer? Won't get any better not trying.

Sorry, I know that's not helpful considering, but it is what it is. he has nothing holding him back, but he still needs someone to push him forwards.

>>28856905
I have written. It didn't work out. Now I just don't have time. Ideas I had before were all based on a status that no longer exists anyway.

Honestly I'm just hoping to hear that somebody has some kind of an idea, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

>>28856873
So what are you suggesting? That we should have a left them together simply because otherwise he would have nothing else to do? We had to miss out on all that introspection, all this inner AJ and her reflections, so that Spike wouldn't lose his 'thing' that was so under developed developed it was a plotpoint? Keep her still so that he doesn't get left behind?

We're better than that, come on.

>>28856946
I have lots of ideas for AJ, but sorry, nothing for Spike.

>>28856954
I don't really have an answer for that. It's clear this became the prevailing wind sometime in the last 10 or 11 months and that's that whether I like it or not.

It's just profoundly disappointing this is how it ends for him.

Nothing to be done through I guess.

>>28856603
>TFW my pic is in the header
Yeeeeeeeee

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

The brilliant yellow pony placed the glass of orange juice down with a contented sigh, not a care in her world when she dabbed a napkin on her face to remove any trace of the stray spakles of cinnamon from her lips.

>That was wonderful. I have to admit, you're a better cook than I thought.

The earth pony, looking quite out of place and feeling smaller than a mouse between the pair of monstrously huge changeling and dangerously powerful magician, even still managed to give an appreciative nod to the praise, a blush spreading hidden beneath her cream colored coat.

Opposite the pony, the changeling grunted in what could be gathered to approximate praise of the same nature, even if her own addition to it was so very much more muted than the unicorns.

"It seems the screaming and alarms have stopped."

The prodigy barely even gave a look of thought to it, her care on the matter so little it could easily, and likely should be, thought as pure indifference.

She leaned back, stretching her body to ease out the kinks and letting out a satisfied sigh, before sliding free of the table.

"I could have handled it, whatever it was."

The pony's eyes flickered over to her, utterly bemused.

>Obviously, but like I said, that's why we have the help. You'd handle it, but you have a tenancy to handle stuff too well and too fast. Someone would have noticed that things calmed down over here just a bit quicker than elsewhere, wouldn't you think?

"They might've been able to do the same."

She didn't even dignify that with a response, save the way her cheeks puffed out in amusement.

'Hey, they ain't that bad...'

As shocking as it was for the Queen to hear Sweet Note of all ponies come to the pair's defense, she dwelled on it for precious little time before a yellow hoof waved the insinuation off.

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>>28857315

>Obviously, otherwise I wouldn't have sent them after it if I didn't think they could handle it. I don't think they'd fail or be hurt, clearly. But let's just say, whatever I may think of them, they're just not up to a level where their performance would be that worrying. They're alright, as annoying as Fizzle can be sometimes, but however fast they may be, Chitty is just plain faster in all areas. Well.. probably all areas. I'm betting they're faster than her in one aspect.

The Titan had absolutely no idea what the wink was supposed to mean, and it was going to bug her all day.

'Ha! That's the truth!'

The earth pony joining in did not help matters at all.

She was going to be pondering late again, she felt.

>But whatever it was, it calmed down, and none of my warning bells went off. So, whatever it was, it was a minor distraction at best with no loss of life.

'You got somethin' for that?'

Again, the look of cocky amusement crossed her face, and the bacon striped mane flipped as she trotted happily away from the table.

>No, I clearly have no worries whatsoever about a guard coming down here to investigate a death and just so happening to stumble across something he shouldn't, and then I risk having to either use mind control, which a changeling might find and expose, or start a damn chain of burying bodies that come this way that only ends when the guard is out of bodies to throw at us.

'Oh, that makes sense, the fuzz go nutty on guard-killers. I thought it was on account'a how you used to be before Chitty fixed you, I think I'd be spooked about anyone else endin' up like that too.'

There was a stumble in her step, a faltering in her endless smugness and cocky brash flair, and the makings of a glare when she looked over her shoulder.

'...Sorry.'

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>>28857325

The sparks of that venomous look grew, and nearly became smoldering by the time a booming voice cut in.

"There's nothing to be sorry for. She handled that before, and it wasn't enough to break her. What happened in the past is what it is, it cannot live in you and slow you unless you let it, and clearly, she hasn't. Stop being so skittish, Sweet Note, she's not going to snap at you."

Instantly, the look had gone away, put out like a tsunami over burning coals. Instead her glance turned into something warmer, only barely able to be seen before she looked away.

>Yeah... you're being stupid, whenever I kill you, at least I know how to bring you back now!

Though the earth pony turned green at the implication, the Titan couldn't help but laugh.

'Heh... well, don't go giving me a heart attack, you've already beat our quota for this year!'

When the head snapped around, the powerless pony expected more fury, and more worry. Instead, she saw sparkling amusement, and the way her tongue stuck out put her at ease.

The apology was accepted, if not forgotten completely, if the way her head turned back was any indication.

"Still haven't beaten our crushing quota!"

'Depends on what part she's gonna use, I might go for it!'

Sunset continued walking without even a look back, barking laughter all the way.

>Hey, it's a better way to go than I had!

'Ya' say that like she can't handle us both.'

>Pfft, she couldn't handle me!

'Awwww girl, no you did not! She's got muscles for days!'

>And I've got magic for days, what do you have?

'Honey, you're smart in a lotta ways, but I'm betting all the bits in the bank you ain't got the smarts I got in this area!'

>That... huh, guess you're right?

'I'd show you, for a price!'

"...what are you both talking about?"

Having long since lost the conversation, she desperately hoped she would find it back once more with some answers.

Alas, the laughter proved she would get nothing of the sort.

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>>28857332

Once more, the smile on the changeling was replaced with a blank furrow of confusion, and a fury at how little sleep she was going to be getting tonight as she struggled to figure them out.

>Sorry, going to have to pass, no time I'm afraid. Me? I've got business to attend to, and now that we've finally gotten passed that chaotic mess, it's time to get to work. A certain something should be charged, and now... the future begins!

As she said her final line, she proudly swung the entrance to her laboratory open, her amused grin splitting into a manic and wild smile, and her breath growing short in anticipation.

Sunset Shimmer was no stranger to having her heart stopped, for one reason or another. But of all of them, either by physical or magical means, she felt she would remember this time for as long as she lived, and it would forever hold a special place in the thing that now beat in her chest.

Her world, her mind, and her heart stopped and came crashing down with a single, simple, declaration that came from within the room that held her hopes and dreams.

~I DIDN'T DO IT!~

>>28857340
..so.

This is how a dragon dies.

>>28857340
Huh. Seemingly unlikely she's gonna backstab her.

>>28857340
Awww man. There is so much character development in just those four posts. The way Sunset is actually letting her guard down around Sweet Note and Chitania, how Sweet Note doesn't fear her as much anymore, how Chitania defends both of them and tries to make peace, the familial atmosphere and even Fizzle and Flash don't get spoken about badly, as if they were the Yamchas of this group.

These guys actually stick up for each other and have a chemistry that's beginning to warm my heart.

But, heh, call me sadistic if you, but the mess of whoever is there and whatever happened is making me grin with glee already!

>>28857408
It's still going to blow up in her face. it always blows up in her face.

>>28857462
Sad truth. In that story above we can for once see her happy and relaxrd. And the moment she let's her guard down, fate apparently decides to screw Sunny over again.

She just can't catch a break.

>>28857375
And it turns out that one anon held true to hos promise, and it's Spike. Can you imagine? He just broke up, is in inner turmoil and somehow, via Chaos, stumbled into Sunsets lab and broke her god killing machine? I know I'd have a riot reading that

>>28857479
>She just can't catch a break.
Hey, suffering builds character! This dude >>28857438 literally just said
>There is so much character development in just those four posts
so that's good!

>>28857340
>Briefly imagine AJ and Twilight there instead

Why do you make me hurt?

>>28857517
S=CD? Are we finally in agreemeant that this is equation is true, as long as its not applied to AJ?

>>28857494
I would laugh, but cry.

>>28857674
Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

All about that story.

>>28857674
Sadly... Yes.

>>28857674
>>28857689
Rainbow Dash breaking down last thread may have been small, but it told us a lot about all the stress and hostility she's facing from all sides nowadays. I am confident she will develop further after this

>>28857674
Not suffering, CONFLICT.

For the last time, CONFLICT is the word you're looking for.

Conflict=CD.

42 being conflicted over her feelings=CD.

AJ being conflicted over her relationship=CD.

Sunset in conflict with changelings=CD.

Twilight being in conflict with herself and going crazy=CD.

Someone sitting around moping=32 for his entire jailcell stint, which was boring and had no CD.

But 29 in conflict with his loyalty and running the risk of being discovered to spend time with 32, which had no suffering till well after he was released and even then not really=CD.

CONFLICT
NOT
SUFFERING

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>>28857721
This guy gets it right every time.

>>28857721
Sucks we gotta keep repeating that.

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>>28857674
>>28857693

First of all, no.
Second of all, image related.

I swear, I'm gonna start slapping everyone with this image every single time they bring up suffering is character development.

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>>28857818
and while I'm at it.

>>28857721
>>28857742

>32 possibly starting a revolt against Chrysalis is boring
>32 venting out all the hurt feelings and anger that 77 let go of is boring
>Snake Eyes/High Roller is boring
>32 being the only changeling to bond with a rando guard that wasn't gay or pointless is boring
>32's foreshadowing experience with the Hivemind is boring
>The entire dream-sequence and glimpse of what 32 was like before being mindwiped was boring
>"Do the right thing" was boring
>Everyone coming to his cell to talk shit to him while secretly being grateful that they never went down that road and establishing how far their characters had come was boring
>Chrysalis's internal conflict over having an honest and fair reason to kill one of her own is boring

I have to disagree with you there

>>28857846
>>32 possibly starting a revolt against Chrysalis is boring

...No, that's pretty interesting, but he wasn't doing that in his cell, that's what put him in the cell.

>>32 venting out all the hurt feelings and anger that 77 let go of is boring

Which means he's in conflict with 77 on their ideals.

>>Snake Eyes/High Roller is boring

Which puts him in conflict with a defined antagonist.

>32 being the only changeling to bond with a rando guard that wasn't gay or pointless is boring

>wasn't gay

is... is that a disqualifier?

Actarius has done more in the main story than Pommel has. He freaking lead the changelings in the final charge against Cordyceps and cleared the way for Chitania to run.

>32's foreshadowing experience with the Hivemind is boring

Also conflict with a defined antagonist, his evil self.

>>The entire dream-sequence and glimpse of what 32 was like before being mindwiped was boring

Literally a massive conflict.

>"Do the right thing" was boring

LITERALLY an internal conflict. Like that's the definition of being conflicted internally, brain saying one thing but you want to do something else.

>Everyone coming to his cell to talk shit to him while secretly being grateful that they never went down that road and establishing how far their characters had come was boring

Did that happen? I legit don't remember that.

>Chrysalis's internal conflict over having an honest and fair reason to kill one of her own is boring

Well no, that was amazing.

I suppose I was being too general about it when I mostly meant the beginning, before anyone did anything and after the legit 77 one he mostly just screamed at 42/18/Twilight/SA when they visited him and dwelled on nothing, but that all changed when 29 showed up and he actually started doing stuff after.

Bad example, you're right, but on the whole I'm glad you brought this up just to show the stark difference between, say, him yelling at 18 and how little that ended up with and an actual conflict.

>>28857907
My point was, it was interesting and had many conflicts in it that explained his reasons for being so pissed and just sort of rambling at people.

Everyone came up to his cell and talked some trash at some point (usually in retaliation to what he said first, but cmon, he's in a cell, they could have been literally anywhere else if they didn't expect a man in prison to not be pissed) but everything he yelled at them or called them out on were things that they would have agreed with when they were first introduced, like "42 you're just a lapdog that should just not to every little thing that Chrysalis tells you just because she's Queen"

I'm not really arguing your Conflict does not equal Suffering point at all, I just really liked that arc and felt that it was being oversimplified I guess

>>28857907
>Actarius Main-Story tally

>Accidentally helped get the blowjob bill passed
>Was the only outside pony to befriend Arana
>His subplot with JJ brought him into direct conflict with Chrysalis and that subplot is what set off the clash in Partyland between AJ and Chrysalis, a clash that would continue to fester until the Arm-Break
>He was one of the protectors in Partyland, getting his ass kicked by chaos-spiders but protecting the normies.
>He lived with the changelings and is the reason they got some actual aide, because he stood up for them.
>He convinced the changelings not to run away, and that's what saved AJ and Chitania
>He got them gifts, which lead to the Ballroom Blitz subplot.
>Said subplot is the direct cause of the Arm-Break arc, which is what caused the Changelings leaving in a massive shift of the story.
>Protected Two during the toy invasion during OnO.
>He was the only one who applied for the changeling embassy and helped out in the flashmob.

>Pommel Tally

>He was the only 'casulaty' against Chitania, which lead to 32's downward spiral and through him eventually the redemption of 88 and the creation of the changeling embassy
>He's the reason we don't have robots in the army
>He's the one who got them to start acting half decently and being a real army
>While not directly responsible for the recruitment numbers, DT, Luna and Spike did that, he is indirectly responsible thanks to his talk with her.
>He's the one who tried to stop Chrysalis during Ragylis. He failed, but he tried.
>He also is the one who caused Chitania to be shot in the hallway, but also the reason she didn't spill out in the first real Guard Formation
>Went on the fieldtrip, which was a major section of Changeling-pony relations.
>He stalled Chitania with Sunset during Apple-Crazy.
>He and his guard also were the ones who mobilized when Rarity nuked Chitania.
>And recently kept AB from spilling out into the city battling Aj.

Tough call, actually.

>>28857993
...white ponies are really oddly important to the overall narrative.

>>28857993
I say Pommel would outdo Actarius if Prime Rose/Red/Brahmos (PrimRedRos?) ever broke out or made direct contact with Lavan or the Book

>>28858046
Would it even out if Acty ever managed to educate the changelings?

I feel like that would be bigger to the overall narrative than another Cordy-esq opponent to fight.

>>28858031
... Hmmm...

>>28858031
I'd be more concerned if it wasn't also super dependent on black buggies.

>>28857700
I have very little doubts she's going to develop a lot, I'm just happy she got to get involed with something that big.

Goodnight new thread.

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>>28858598
G'night!

Hello, got a question.
What are current whereabouts on Flim&Flam and Snake Eyes?

>>28859628
Former, are in a very nice apartment like cell. The latter is in the dungeon beneath the castle.

>>28856797
18 had to almost kill herself to get An actual date (not just win a 5 min boat ride). And that was after 40+ threads of build. We have the same problem as we always do, we give AJ things because "she should get what everyone else has, but better". Now I'm not saying that because applejack is written at the top it won't automatically get bonus points without trying (you know it is true), I'm saying that we really need to stop trying to give AJ everything just because we can.

>>28859954
Are F&F doing something atm in general?
Like cleaning ala BB or something? How closely are they watched/guarded?

>>28860125
Nothing going mentioned I can find and they are being watched by two guards.

>>28860125
Oh fuck I forgot to do the thing I was going to do with them...

>>28860634
I myself have in mind something requiring them, but thats in far future when I finish writing something entirely else Im working on right now.

>SA
"Cadence"
'Chrysalis'
~Celestia~
~~~~

>Oh shoot. I just realized.

"Oh great, now have you realized you've done to me!? What fresh new horror do I have to put up with this go round!?"

>None of your old clothes are going to fit, we're going to have to get new ones!

"..."

'What? I don't get it, why did she just smile?'

~I'm not sure, but if I'm right, this might be a clever ploy...~

"...It's not going to work."

>No idea what you mean.

'Hrm. Her mouth is twitching.'

~The first blood is struck!~

"Nnoooopppe."

>No what? You don't want new clothing? You sure?

'Her ears are flipping!'

~Little more, little more!~

"...Fine.~

'And a smile!'

~Score!~

>I thought you'd like that.

"Not going to complain about having to go shopping?"

>With you, honey?... I'll survive.

'And there it is!'

~Goooooaaalll!~

'This has been a wonderful day for 'spot the feature', don't you agree Celly?'

~Finest I've seen in a while.~

"Will you two stop!"

'Oh sure, now she wants us to stop.'

~Too bad she didn't tell him that earlier!~

~'Dooohohohoo!'~

>...what.

>>28860933
>Celly and Chrysalis as W/S

Yes.

>AJ
~???~
~~~

>...alright, AJ, ya'll have this. Just smile, nod, and keep walkin'. Just keep walkin', don't stop, keep that look like ya' don't want none of what they're sellin', and ain't nobody gonna talk to you.

She looked left.

She looked right.

She breathed deep, and slowly let it out.

>Nobody has ta' know ya' ain't got a dang clue where ya' were goin' and now ya' don't even know what side of the castle yer' in... dang it, but that walk off was so cool!

~OH THANK GOODNESS!~

~LIFE! REAL LIFE!~

>...C-...changelings?

Many, many, many changelings.

~WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE WE WERE EVEN GOING!~

>...what?

>>28860719
Would the two of them getting recruited on a work-release of Peacetrotter maintenance interfere with that?

>>28861147
Not at all.
It would be beneficial to my plans they could be easily contacted(maybe in secrecy) by someone and maybe even being able to leave Canterlot for a little while without it rising any alarms.

NC
>AJ
"Various"
~~~~~

>NEXT... Ah hell.

"What's wrong with me?"

>Yer' married!

"Have you seen my kids? Clearly, that is not as much a dealbreaker as it should be!"

>NEXT!

~~~~

>What!?

"Look, my daughter is going thought a phase, and I just thing she'd do better with a mom in her life."

>YER' EIGHTY GAZILLION FEET TALL!

"I'm not picky."

>NEXT!

~~~

>...No.

"But mine flower, now thou art free for I, the greatest of creator of royal fantasies, can be with thee and show thee the wonders of mine sword of fantasy-"

>NEEEXXXXXXTTTT!

"I didn't like you anyway!... *sniffle*..."

>>28861449
Who's the middle one?

>>28861475
Torch.

>>28861114
...I completely forgot about them.

Can someone give me a quick refresher on torch?

Obviously a male adult dragon with a daughter but...what else? I'm still playing catch up.

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>>28861676
....This guy.

He's this guy.

From Guantlet of fire.

DYEWTS

>>28861714
Er...up to season 5?

>Rarity
"Luna'
~~~

>Ohhhhhh, dear.

"Thou hath stopped. Why have thou stopped?"

>Look at their faces.

"Who's faces? All we see is sad."

>Exactly.

"What?... Oh, dear."

>Oh dear indeed.

"Tis that bad?"

>Anytime a guard looks at you like that, it's bad.

"Ah. We suppose we would not know, often we are on the other end of such things."

>Ignoring that.

"Should we go and offer our support?"

>Do you remember which one Forty Two is?

"Is she the one with the helmet?"

>Correct.

"Than we do!"

>Do you know anything else about her?

"...she wishes to cuddle Shining Armor?"

>Did you just guess that?

"We felt it a reasonable assumption."

>Well, you're not wrong, but you're missing the point. This, I feel, is for them, not us. We would only intrude on their feelings.

"We suppose that is reasonable and fair?"

>I should hope so. I fear that they're... not going to be in a good place.

"Ah. We see."

>...

"...So are we just supposed to wait?"

>I think it would be the best choice.

"...three million bottles of cider on the walll."

>...three million bottles of ciderrrrr!

>"Take one down, pass it around, two million nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine bottles of cider on the wall!"

>>28861938
I would love it if, 10 threads later, they are still singing.

NC
>AJ
~Various~
~~~

>…Ya’ll have to be kidding me.

“I figured it couldn’t hurt to give it a shot.”

>You tried ta’ shoot me!

“Well, that just shows I’m dedicated to trying to be inside you!”

>…NEXT!

~~~~~

>Really?

“I’m the alpha dragon! Look at my lava claws!”

>NEXT!

“You lied to me, self help book!”

~~~~

>…Have we ever actually met?

“I ate your pie at a party once.”

>…

“…”

>…OH! Oh, you mean the actual pie.

“Yeah, it’s actually the reason I came up to you! Your pies are great!”

>Oh, well, thankee! Maybe this won’t be so bad-

“Though about the other thing… who knows?”

>…NEXT!

>>28862244
These should not be as funny as they are.

>>28862244
NC
>AJ
~Various~
~~~~

>...Wait, ain’t you dating that there pirate lass?

~Yeah, but well, I figure if every other white unicorn is going to get one, I should get a har-~

>NEXT!

~~~~

>Aren’t you dating that there headband wearing bug?

~I just want to be remembered-~

>NEXT!

~~~~~

>Aren’t you…

~…~

>…

~…Aren’t I what?~

>Ya’ know, with that there… juggling fellow.

~Jugglejack? What about him?~

>….NEXXXXXTTTT!

>>28862514
>Last one

Pfft.

NC
>AJ
~Various
~~~~

>…Do the thing.

~Sorry?~

>Ya’ know, that thing you do, whenever someone does somethin’ excited or yer’ just agreeing. Pretty much anything. Do that, that thing.

~Excuse me!? I’m more than just a catch phrase!~

>Yeah, but… do the thing anyway?

~….~

>Come onnnn, just one yeah?

~…NEXT!~

>YOU DID NOT

~NEEEXXXTTT!~

~~~~~~

>…Who the fuck even are you?

~How do you not know who I am? I hang out with Blueblood all the time.~

>…

~I hang out with Arana too, and she lives in your office!~

>…

~I hang out with Potatojack!~

>…who?

~…~

>…NEXT!

~~~~~

>Wow, no.

~Oh come on!~

~We have a lot to offer!~

>You two should be in school.

~But we can fulfill two desires at once! He goes high, I go low!~

~We worked on this!~

~He cuts up.~

~And he goes slow!~

~We got this!~

>… but wait, how did you work… that means you… NEEEXXXT!

>>28862725
Sorry, Snips, underage stuff didn't work out so well.

>>28862725
...the fuck is Cheer teaching in that class?

NC
>AJ
“Changeling”
~~

>What in tarnation are ya’ll doin’ in the middle of the castle lookin’ lost, ya’ll up to no good again!?

“…well, what are you doing in the middle of the castle looking lost?”

>...Ah’ don’t wanna talk about it.

“Us neither.”

>Good, then we’re agreed.

“Good.”

>Good!

“Good, no more questions.”

>…Yer’ dumb, aren’t you?

“You just messed up, didn’t you?”

>…

“…”

>…no more questions it is…

“Good.”

>Good…

“…You sad now?”

>N-no more Questions, Ah’ said…

>>28862899
How to survive long enough to procreate? Isn't that what all teachers should teach?

>Spike
“SA”
‘DT’
~Silver Spoon~
-77-
~~~

The look on the white stallion’s face said everything.

He had been called out at the behest of his guard’s insistence, even if he’d clearly wished to stay, and it hadn’t taken longer than a single second after he laid eyes on them that his face had completely crestfallen, and the worry that had been little more than a spark inside of the group had grown to near wildfire size.

>I’m guessing it’s not good.

The way his eyes cut to the side, and the way his breath rolled out in a slow puff should have told them everything. In a way, it did.

“Ah… probably should have expected you guys were going to show up.”

Diamond Tiara, firework that she was, couldn’t be held back any longer, and advanced forwards.

‘We need to see Forty Two, now.’

That she would demand in such a way of a prince should have been an insult, should have carried backlash had he been any other of the royals of the world, but he was no fool, and he knew better than most what it was that drove the filly forwards.

“Yeah… look, you guys, she’s not awake right now, and we’re not going to wake her up-“

‘I don’t care.’

He wouldn’t have doubted that in any other instance of her saying such, and he certainly didn’t doubt her now.

~We just need to, you know, see it.~

Silver Spoon, though she had so very little interactions with the punching changeling, was all too aware of what this meant to her friend, and to her team.

“But she’s not-“

He was cut off by a sharp throat clearing, and a rumbling hum from one who had been so far perched into the background.

-We’ve seen our fair share, Prince Shining, I think we can handle it. If nothing else, it’s better to suffer with others there, than to lie in pain alone.-

1/3

>>28863418
Behind him, he gained little more than a nod and a thoughtful chewing from the other changeling. The spud loving Potatojack said nothing, leaving it all to the stern look she gave him to cover that.

It did fine.

>Even if she can’t see us, she’ll know. Please, Shiny? For us? Just this once, we need to see her… alone.

He couldn’t argue that, and felt it would be nothing short of shameful if he did try to argue that.

“…I can’t move her.”

>We both know that’s not a problem for you.

The dragon was quite right, and even those who didn’t know the prince could tell he knew that as well from the way he flinched.

With a slow breath, he cautiously looked back, his eyes pained as he looked over his shoulder to where no doubt the subject of their talk was resting.

>Hey.

He cut back, clearly still weary of the prospect of letting anyone else near her.

>Just… let us be there for her too.

It took a long, thoughtful pause before he could move.

“Alright.”

When he finally did, it was with a sad, slow nod, and a sparkling of magic on her horn.

He cast his spell, and by the time they had walked around the entrance of the door to where most of the now widely extended family of the Crystal Empire was resting, and where bizarrely one such familiar pony was currently bouncing and proclaiming things that sounded in approximation of ‘graubabbbyyy’, they saw the errant corner of the room, shrouded in magic, and from which no sound emerged.

“The doctor is going in with you, just in case.”

He was stern, firm and unmoving, no argument allowed in this command that would have put his most powerful royal command to shame.

They couldn’t argue that, and honestly had no intention to.

>Alright. We’ll just be a second.

2/3

>>28863424


He moved forwards, only to be stopped by a stern, powerful hoof on his shoulder, and a stare that had turned sad and pleading from the alabaster pony at her guard.

“She’s… she’s not doing well, but she’s going to get better, okay? Whatever you see in there, she’s going to get better, she’s going to get up, and she’s… she’s not going to leave us. I promise. She’ll get through it.”

He shrugged off that hoof, though he could not shrug away the pit in his stomach that had formed at the words. With one final wave of his claw, he ushered in the others, and one by one they moved in and found themselves beneath silent, sympathetic stares from those bedridden, those who had fought in the same battle that had hurt their friend.

Those who now felt themselves grow weary at what the group of friends would see on the other side of that shield.

>…I know. She’s strong. She’ll get through it, whatever it is.

They lined up, shared a single glance, and with the closest thing to courage they could muster, they moved as one past the glowing barrier that blocked off their friend from the world that had caused her such pain.

“I’m sorry.’

That was all they heard, before the sound cut out, and their breath was taken away.

>>28863435
This is gonna hurt...

>>28863435
Awww man, just piling it on the little guy aren't you?

>>28863435
Why must you make him suffer more!?

...well I guess it's better than him being a background character.

>>28863507
Maybe this will somehow lead to romance! Problem solved!

>>28863523
...between who?

>>28863516
S and/or C=CD

>>28863580
77.

Fucking obviously how are you this dumb?

>>28863580
Well, 42 might be a hard sell considering.

>>28863630
You know, I think you were writing this case. I do really think this is going to help him grow.

>>28863516
It honestly is. So long as it isn't exclusively suffering.

>>28863523
Maybe take some time on that? It really just seems like a nonstaryer for people without a lot of work. Also would need to be someone who play off him and who he plays off of well so there would be ongoing interest in writing their interactions. If no one writes it, the eventual result would be stagnation and death of that relationship.

>>28863817
I know you're serious but I was just kidding.

Of course any relationship has to have build up. Otherwise it's not much of one is it?

>Lightning Dust
~~~

She had done a good job, hadn’t she?

She had won, she had done all she intended to do, she had put Dash in her place, won the Captaincy, and now proven she was the best leader the Wonderbolts had ever had.

She’d won, and was a winner, she was the best, she was everything she was supposed to be and more.

She had won.

So it was with an odd feeling that she moved almost robotically as she filled out her recent reports, detailing the aberration and what investigations needed to take place to find the culprit who had caused such insanity and chaos, and her own suggestions as to what to do to the one who had done it. It involved a lot of stabbing, in the eye mostly.

She knew she was making mistakes, ponies in one place when they had clearly been in another, times that weren’t perfect, an error or two in spelling here or there, but she was having a hard time focusing.

She had won, she was on top, she was untouchable, she was the best, and everyone knew it now.

So she couldn’t figure out who her hooves creaked when she tapped away at her typewriter, why her limbs were so stiff and her eyes so dry, and why everything felt so weird.

She had done good.

She was the winner.

She was the best.

So what was wrong?

>…You’re the best, Lightning Dust, just like you always said.

Why did she feel so heavy, when her hooves finally stopped typing, and all was done?

Why did she look around the room, and feel it was so empty.

>…you're the best.

>>28863858
ARROUOUND! NO ONE'S EVER GONNA KEEP YOU DOWN!

>>28863909
Damn you, I laughed.

>>28863909
And just like that I now struggle to take this seriously

>Time Turner
"Pokey"
'Blues'
(Roseluck)
~~~

WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB

>AHHHHH!

“AHHHHHHHHHH!”

‘AHHHHHHHHHH!’

(AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!)

WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB

>I’M SORRRYYYYYY

“I’M SORRYYYYYY!”

‘I’M SORRRRYYYYYYYYY!’

(I’M NOT THEY ROCK IT’S ALL YOU AND YOUR NOT-PLEB TASTE!)

WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB

>”’(AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-

CRACK

>>28863686
>Romance blooms
>42 wakes up
>Has no fucking idea why Spike is holding flowers.

>>28864140
What did you do, timehorse!?

>>28864029
The downfall of serious stories, comedy!

>>28862725
....Holy shit, what males do we have left!?

>>28863858
Lonely at the top, ain't it LD?

>>28865063
Let's hope it's going somewhere.

>>28864827
Flimsy and flam? Blueblood?

>>28864827

>...

"..."

>...

"..."

>... Ahm... Not to sure bout this...

"..."

>Ah mean, its not like it hasn't happened before...

"..."

>...

"..."

>...Nope?

"Nope."

>"Nnnnnope."

>>28865397
Blueblood was here>>28862244

unless someone else tried to shoot her?

>>28865431
...did you just make apple incest cannon?

>>28865439
>Canon

... Bit a stretch for a story without a header or even explanation.

>>28865439
... It was an accident, I swear. I should be asleep but it popped into my head and I forgot to add the NC.

>>28865467
To borrow a direct qoute,

>Ah mean, its not like it hasn't happened before...

>>28865488
Again, there's no listing of who that's even supposed to be. Not even following a story so we could just use that as a connection?

It's up to the reader to imagine who that is.

>>28865471
... Or just clear back up, take away all of my fun.

>>28865431
>Aw HELL NO!

"Greetings Princess of Apples, allow Rekulk a moment to woo you!"

>Nope! Next!

"Rekulk shall trade all away for your affection!"

>Next!

"Behold I have slain the vile Deep Gulper to prove my strength and virility!"

>NEEEEXT!

"Aha, Rekulk can too perform the mating call! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKAKAKAKAKAKREEEEEE!"

>>28865855
>...Ahm, sorry, no, fer soooo many reasons.

"What kind of insipid accent is that? Are you a farmer!? A FARMER!? AS AN ALICORN!? They're just giving the power away now."

>Personality swiftly becomin' reason one.

"Bah! No matter! JOIN WITH ME, FARMER PRINCESS, TOGETHER WE SHALL SIRE A RACE OF SORCEROR KINGS!"

>Yew are literally a skeleton.

"...Oh, yes, that'd uhm...that'd make that difficult...I'll just excuse myself from your strange consort market."

>Well that sucked, next!

'...'

>...

'...ok, now I know what you're thinking, but I make for one hell of an erotic novel.'

>Ah hate this place.

>>28865874
Skeletor? Is that you?

>>28865903
Kek

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>>28865855
Hah!

NC
>Reporter
“Potsticker”
____

>Huh… I… I am in the right spot, right? Am I? I thought I had an interview scheduled with-

KRA-KOOM!

>GAAH!

“Annnnd, lo’, I am here, ready to be interviewed! Heya! Did you enjoy that, the lightning and mist there? That cost about half a paycheck, let me tell you, and fair bit of coordination!”

>…S-so… this is a thing that you really do? You like making grand entrances, too?

“Oh, we’re starting now? Hold on, hold on, let me just… nnngh- stupid ass small chair… first Fifty-Six mocks me, now chairs want in on the act….”

>…

“Ah, finally! Now then, ummm, no, not really. The idea came up during one of our weekly cast discussions, the meetings where we kick ideas back and forth to pitch to the writers. It was DT who suggested that it’d be a nice little switch-up for the shadowy lunar captain to be a bit goofy, you know? Spike suggested I always have blood dripping from my mouth, but actually find out its tomato juice!”

>Huh, guess that one didn’t take too well?

“Oh, it was the best one by unanimous vote but then DT threatened to Tubaloorado us all to death if we didn’t choose her way.”

>…

“So we chose her way.”

>But-

“It’s best not to argue sometimes, I’ve found. After that, I was lucky enough to be given free rein in coming up with different ways to enter a scene, and I was even ordered not to tell whoever was in the scene with me so their reaction could be authentic, ha.”

>…I’m still hung up on the DT thing, honestly.

“She’s harmless, really. All she would have done is whack us with Thumbawhumba until we gave in.”

>Cute. And according to my notes here, you were in what the writers call ‘character stasis’ for quite some time before you were actually revealed and given a proper role. How was that?

“In a word? Terrifying.”

>What? Wait, what? Why?

“Because I-”

KA-THOOOM!

“…”

>…

1/3

>>28866812

“…Fucking son of a- that wasn’t meant to go off until I was about to leave!”

>…pft.

“Maaaaaan, shucks… well, anyway, it was scary because I was never supposed to actually BE the Lunar Captain.”

>But… you are?

“I am now, yeah, but back when the LC was just this shadowy mare, that was me, doing all the cool appearances in silence and stuff. I really, really enjoyed that, I got to work with Princess Luna herself! Talk about fangirling all over the place, heh.”

>You must have been thrilled, and nervous as hell.

“Completely. Even if I only had like, one or two lines every twenty threads, it was still something, you know? It meant a lot to me… but they had made it very clear from the beginning that I was just a spot-filler until they decided to reveal the ‘true’ LC.”

>Ooooh. Oh, well yeah, I can see that. It’s not an uncommon practice, I guess. Before you see the character’s face and whatnot, they can be played by anybody before they find someone to cement the spot…

“Exactly. So there was always this overhanging cloud of sadness… but that didn’t stop me from befriending most of the cast! I… I wanted to make a lot memories… And then the day came when Mourning Star would be introduced. Even then, being so close to shooting the scene, no one knew who it would be, it was all the cast could talk about. I felt nauseous waking up, I remember. Applejack herself handed me the script and… and then…”

>…Potsticker?

“…”

2/3

>>28866821

>Hey, you okay?

“Yeah, I’m… I’m fine, totally. Anyway, uh… so she gave me the script and I think I started to cry a little, told her I was thankful for the opportunity. I remember reading it as I babbled, just a mess, heh, and then I saw my name next to those two words, right there next to 'Lunar Captain'. Applejack congratulated me with a hug and the hug probably went on for like ten minutes until she eventually had to snatch herself free to go shoot a scene.”

>…I bet you looked kinda like you do now.

“And how’s that?”

>Leaking tears and snot and smiling.

“Ah… then you’d probably be right….”

3/3

>>28866823
Aw, that's kind of sweet.

>>28866823
I love how AJ is always so motherly in these.

>>28866823
And then we barely see her!

>Cloudchaser
“Derpy”
~~~

>Oh my gosh oh my gosh what happened who am I where did I go what did I do what did I doooo!?

“Huh… maybe this is exactly what I’ve been hoping for! Maybe we can finally wake up from this craziness, maybe we can finally think again! Finally, I can get some answers!

>Why are you celebrating this is awful!

“Yep! Time to think again!”

>I don’t want to think you asshole I just want to know what’s even going on!

“And now I can tell you, because you’re thinking!”

>What!? What does that have to do with anything!? What does anything have to do with anything?! What even is this!?

“And now we know!”

>Know what?! KNOW WHAT!?

“Yep. This is gonna work out.”

>WHAT IS?!

“Okay, here’s what happened-“

>WAIT!

“Yes?”

>…I have an idea.

“What’s that?”

>What if, instead of you telling me, you write it down, tear it up, shoot it through the air, and I divebomb through it! All the information will just slam into my brain!

“…”

>It’s foolproof!

“…Aw nuts.”

>>28867650
SO CLOSE!

>>28867588
I DON'T EVEN KNOW HER

>Cadence
"Chrysalis"
~Celestia~
(18)
{Spitfire}
^2^
~~~~

>....

"...hrm..."

~...hooo boy...~

(That uh... that's gonna be fun...)

{...yayyyy...}

^...I'mma get mah' marchmalleys ready.^

>You do that, Two. You do that.

>Cantie
"Cantie 2"
~~~

>What do you mean, I can't change my vote!?

"Did you not see the world try to kill us!?'

>We get it, all powerful pony thing, we get what you can do! Point proven!

"We just want to keep being rich, thank you!"

>Keep the politics if it means I can keep my summer home and yacht!

"Change back! That's what I want to vote for, change back!"

>I don't wanna dieeeee!

"..."

>...

"...it occurs to me we're just talking to a poling booth."

>It occurs to me that was alive earlier and that makes all this somehow worse.

"...uh buhhhhh.."

>>28867973
>Discord accidentally put the princesses back into being untouchable.

Whoops.

>>28867719
Potsticker? I don't even know her!

Buhdumtish!

>29
"MM"
'Zecora'
~Trixie~
(Sombra)
{32}
~~~

Things were not going well.

>By the thunder of the Hivemind!

Their last bastion of hope, Zecora's tiny hut, was besieged on all sides. Walls rattled with powerful blows, windows and doors shattered beneath solid hits, the earth beneath them rumbled and the ceiling above rattled and threatened to give way at any moment. Through it all, the four fought on. Magic cast, weapons swung with a fury, and even hooves pushed as strongly as her weak blows could manage against the never ending mob that surrounded them and blinded them with their combining light. The glowing specters marched on, undeterred, shoved away for only a second before returning in full force in a tireless and ceaseless assault.

"Niney! Flank right! Zecora, you're left side is open! Trixie for the love of Faust stop with the spinning and just shoot them!"

~Trixie has flair, thank you!~

Her denial rang hollow when her sudden movements were swiftly replaced by much more solid, straightforwards battling.

'This mob is never ending and will not stop! We have to do something, or they'll come out on top!'

"Any suggestions, I'd love to hear!"

Behind them all, shielded by the ones who fought against the hoard, two souls so different shared feeling useless as they sat together, and could only watch.

(We have to do something.)

Beneath the wall of smoke, the changeling scoffed, horn sparking dangerously in a useless show of power against those who would not even feel it.

{I admit, feeling so useless is leaving me quite irritated. I thought my days of standing behind a wall while all things came down around me were long since past.}

(They shouldn't be doing this... not for me.)

Another, louder scoff came from Thirty Two in response.

{If I knew of a way to dissuade them, I'd have spoken it already, but those four are unique.}

He flinched when he saw them, each one growing tired, slowing down, becoming more lethargic and weary.

{They will never stop.}

1/9

>>28868484

The sound of something else shattered, wood splinters rained down, and the whole house shook with another blow.

'My home, you fools are going to destroy the place! I'm going to beat in every glowing face!'

"Stay focused-HOLY SHIT!"

The zebra's words of threat fell flat when a section of ceiling fell down, nearly crushing the only earth pony among them. As one, every eye looked to her, and only when they ensured her survival did they snap back to the task at hand, and the never ending wave that had grown closer in the scant few seconds they had looked away.

(...I'm not worth this...)

The wisp among them watched the carnage, the struggle, and the rising tide with sadness. With every slip or gasp for breath of the tired combatants, his nonexistent heart grew more weary, and his pride shriveled into nothingness. Beneath the watchful eye of the scarred changeling beneath him, he began to float forwards.

(Perhaps... it would be better if it was over now.)

He had nearly moved beyond his spot, when a growl called their attention, a snarling sound they'd never heard before, and certainly never from the body it originated from.

>Enough of this.

The normally posh, prissy, and quite wimpy changeling was glowering, the fangs characteristic of all changelings that he so often hid finally on display for all to see. He hissed, his tongue waving about beyond his face, and for once the creature known to his friends only as the most pathetic of warriors finally resembled the creature all saw in their nightmares of his species.

>Things of light, horrors that vex us so, against thine power we have stood for too long, against thine haunting presence we have lived beneath for a moment too far, thou have unleashed our ire, thou have unleashed what was always meant to be caged away. Mine hate, I give to thee. Mine anger, I shall unleash. Our rage, as one, I shall deliver to thee. To thee, horrors of light, I say this... STOP WRECKING ZECORA'S HUT!

2/9

>>28868491

A brilliant light, brighter even than the things gathered around him, exploded from his horn, and in a dazzling display of magic green and powerful the things around him were washed away, wailing in pain as they were cast away in every direction as his own species had been on the day of the failed wedding invasion. He screeched with a terrified shriek as he did so, the green magic rolling down off his horn and his chitinous back, giving him the image of a burning creature of nightmares as he cast away the defenders of light.

"...huh."

When the wave finally ended, there was nothing left but the sound of crumbling remains, and stunned looks.

{Oh my.}

Some more stunned than others.

~...why didn't you do that sooner?~

The changeling, his fangs seeming to recede and the dark look on his face moving away, looked much the same as he always did when he turned his blank look to the unicorn.

>Tis obvious! Such a show could only be used as a final attack, I must save it and savor it for the grand finish. Thou, as a showmare, surely should have understood.

~...that's stupid!~

A small part of him honestly worried for his intellect if someone such as his friend would say something like that, and not a single denial was heard.

>In truth, it's not. For you see, we changelings are of a different kind than thee, for our power is finite. Such an attack looks pretty, but it is a bit... draining.

He weakly waved his hoof, which most of the group noticed did not look much different from how he normally daintily waved it.

"No time to chat! Niney, how long do you think you just bought us?"

>Dear marey, fear not! The last time mine attack was ushered, we had time aplenty to merry about in our day. With this, we shall have found endless chances to once more complete our goal of... of...

His voice trailed off, starting brash and confident and ending whisper quiet when he heard it. When they all heard it.

Rage.

>...Or maybe I've simply made them mad-

3/9

>>28868502

He was given no time to finish and none of the others were given time to think. In seconds, the light came back, stronger than ever before, and something had changed. Something drastic had changed. Whereas before the light beyond was that of spotlights, pointed straight towards the window in focused and sharp glows. Now, it seemed they had been transferred to the surface of the sun, and the white hot light beyond their walls burned to look upon for even a moment.

"What the-"

The former Mayor was cut off suddenly and powerfully when the door was blown off it's hinges, and the earth pony found herself knocked aside by the sheer force of the light that spilled in.

>MAREY-

His voice was drowned out when a booming and thundering hum, very much like the blowing of a foghorn, made everyone within the hut clench their ears in pain.

'W-we have to continue to fight! Do not be scared by their light-'

Her bravado was soon broken, as easily as the staff in her hooves was. She watched in horror as it shattered into a thousand bits like glass dropped from Canterlot's highest peak to the ground. Another wavering boom of that sound rushed in, and Zecora found her breath ripped from her lungs as she was cast back by an unseen blow.

~YOU BASTARDS!~

The blue unicorn charged, magic dancing on her horn as she raced brazenly and without fear towards the light.

~You want to pick on someone? TRY THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXI-~

Her magic blew out on her horn like a candle on a birthday cake, leaving her only a moment to gasp in shock before she too was blasted back from the doorway and sent rolling into the center of the room by another call of that unearthly power.

>Y-you... you think us scared!? You think us defeated!? Thou knows nothing of what we are capable of, nothing of our power! We are unstoppable! We are the majesty made form! BURN!

4/9

>>28868508

Twenty Nine's fire returned, nearly as powerful as it had been before, and with everything he had he cast it. For one brief, hopeful moment, he seemed to push it back.

>WE SHALL-

Then came the call.

He could hear it, and with it he could no longer hear himself. His brain had gone numb, his mouth frozen open in shock, his breath gone from him and his head ringing with the force of a thousand bells as the breath was taken from him. His pupils vanished, leaving nothing but blank eyes that stated into emptiness that he could not comprehend. Only when the vibrations down his chitin from the call had stopped did the supernatural force that had assaulted him find themselves satisfied, and mercifully shoved him back with the others in a painful blow that left his horn scarring the floor with the force of his fall.

The four groaned on the ground, beaten, battered and tired, and they could not rise again.

(...I see.)

It was over, and the wisp at the center of it all knew it.

(Thank you, for trying.)

He looked to the light spilling in from the door, another booming horn sounding, and with a sad breath, he ushered himself forwards.

(It was... nice, to be with you for this time, short as it was. Tell the others... I'm sorry, that I won't be coming home. Tell Two... I'm sorry I didn't get to hug her, like I promised.)

With every laborious inch, he moved towards the light.

(Thank you for trying... my friends.)

He would have made it to, if he'd not heard the weak whisper call out to him.

'It's not over yet, my friend. There's still one spell for the end.'

He froze, looking back over his shoulder, an act that brought fluctuations and howling waves from the light beyond. He spotted her on the ground, stripped hoof pointed upwards over her shoulder, towards a certain thing he had forgotten in all the battle.

(...Oh.)

The potion in her cauldron had turned blue.

(Is blue good?)

Her smile said it without words.

>Trixie, do you think you can manage it?

5/9

>>28868516

She groaned, rolling over painfully.

~Not on the ground, she can't.~

"Then what are we waiting for?"

They helped each other, all four of them as one, to stand up again.

'Are you ready for one last shot to help the wisp? It's possible this will just burn you to a crisp.'

Trixie faltered beneath her smile, they all saw it, and they all knew it even if she tried to hide it.

~They don't call me the Great and Powerful Trixie for nothing!~

They chuckled, knowing it might very well be the last they ever shared, but when the light outside let off yet another booming roar of a horn, they knew it could wait no longer.

'Cast your spell into the pot, and move it along the ground. Keep it steady, and we should all be safe and sound.'

~...Trixie can manage that. Because SHE!~

She nearly slipped from their grasp, bringing all of them ire when she insisted on striking a pose as she started to call her magic.

~IS!~

She bent low, cape covering over her, and to their annoyance all of their faces.

~THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE!~

With that, she cast her spell, magic dancing off her horn and into the pot in waves. With each one, it bubbled, danced and shined with a brilliant light, ripples dancing along it and through it's every blue inch. Outside, the light reacted as violently as if it had been the one struck, it's booming foghorn sound splitting the ears of all inside and it's already burning light turning everything around them a stark white with it's brilliance.

With a swing that nearly brought all three of her supports to the ground, her hoof whipped out and took with it twin ropes of the blue liquid straight from the cauldron. Her horn suddenly ignited, the power radiating off it clashing and nearly matching the one that assaulted them from all sides, her new magical level unseen since the days she had worn that amulet of dark magic around her neck.

~AND THIS IS HER SHOW!~

6/9

>>28868529

Her eyes glowed with power, and with a furious cry she sent forth her two streams of blue liquid, each one sliding along the ground in a perfect dance.

(...Wow...)

The wisp slipped back, further away from the light much to it's dismay and closer to the huddled four behind him. He watched, rapt with attention as each one slid over a rune on the ground he'd never even noticed, each one suddenly glowing brilliantly the moment it was passed over. One by one, the light shined on every hidden rune and letter that had been hidden, and with every one made, the light outside grew in it's fury.

~AND THIS IS HER FINALE!~

When at last the perfect dance reached it's end, when the two streams finally connected in the middle into a perfect ring around them all, it was completed.

Then came the wails.

The light thrashed, and wailed, the low booming horn sound replaced by a distorted and warped version of the same, so unnatural and obscene it left a stinging ring in their ears even when it briefly paused. But it was all for nothing. The runes throbbed, the light shined in pulsating waves from each, and at last the hut had stopped shaking, and was as still as it always had been and was always meant to be.

~And that... that's all folks, hope you enjoyed the show.~

She slumped forwards, completely drained of any and all magic, only held up by the unsteady hooves that had to work in tandem to hold her up.

"You did great, Trixie good job."

'It was quite a show. Your best, you know.'

>Certainly great, and absolutely powerful.

She smiled a goofy little smile, and tried her very best not to look smug for once. She failed.

They didn't mind.

(So... is it over?)

His question was answered, not from words, but from the last thing he ever wanted to hear. A crack.

>...uh...

7/9

>>28868535
His sentiment was shared when the second crack came. Slowly, as one, they did as most did in times of strife, and looked to the heavens. They watched as the ceiling above began to crack, as tiny lines began to shine through the new cracks that had formed, coming down on them like holy grace. None felt very blessed at that moment. More and more cracks, more and more light, began to shine through.

'I... thought my protection would reach up there.'

More and more the dread began to form.

'I should have done more to prepare.'

Finally, they heard a crumble, and saw it start to rise, a stark contrast to the way their stomachs began to drop.

"...anyone have any magic left?"

{You rang?}

Their jaws dropped when a green light reached out as if heavensent, and grabbed hold of the ceiling in it's magical grasp.

{Finally, I can do something!!}

They couldn't tear their eyes from the ceiling as the cracks sealed, the light was taken away, and hope sprang forth anew.

>Good show!

"Oh, thank goodness."

'And here I was thinking of kicking you out. I suppose you're not a useless lout!'

~Trixie could have done it!~

They felt elated, they felt happy, they felt hope. They felt a great many things.

(...wait.)

But it was what they heard that made all of that ring a little hollow.

(...does anyone else still hear cracking?)

They looked closer, but could find no more cracks in the ceiling, no more breaks to be found, everything looked normal, and his magic held true.

The cracking continued.

>...Mine friends?

"Yes, Niney?"

>What, ahhh, what are the odds this was just a distraction?

In a harmonious sync so perfect, it could not have been pulled off better with a lifetime of choreography, every single head in the room looked down. Down to where the floor was covered inch to inch with glowing, crackling streams of light.

They heard one last, booming crack, and they felt the floor begin to sink, too late to react at all.

{...well isn't that a son of a bitch-}

8/9

>>28868545

His words, all their words, were gone, and replaced with screams. The floor vanished, crumbling into a gaping chasm beneath them that lead down into endless light. Those who could fly flapped with all their might, or did their best to float away, but they were useless. A pull more powerful than any vortex sucked them in, yanking them from the safety of their solid footing and into a freefall into a glowing endless chasm beneath their hooves. They grabbed hold, all six holding on as best they could and letting loose the most horrified scream of their lives as they were pulled into the light. They fought, they held on, they did all they could, but it was useless.

In a second, they had been pulled below, and in a flash of light that no other eyes in all the world could have seen, that hole closed, and solid ground once more returned to where it had been.

Empty, deathly silence filled the room, now void of any life, the only sign anyone had ever lived there in the damaged and destroyed personal artifacts of those who had inhabited it. All of them, pony, zebra, changeling and wisp, were gone without a trace, without a sound, without a sign.

It would remain that for a time, the length unknown to any, before life returned to it again, in the form of two bodies floating in on webbed bat wings creeping in from the darkness, and scanning the empty abode from which they had heard reports of so many screams. They searched as meticulous as could be, as silently as could be, and without disturbing so much as a single shard of glass, before they reached their conclusion.

In the darkness, two pairs of yellow eyes shared a worried, sad look to one another.

-...what are we going to tell the new shade?-

Only silence of an empty hut answered him back.

>>28868550
Finally

With the Memebusters suddenly and satisfyingly killed off, we can conserve our thread posts to focus on more Important Characters now

>>28868550
...well, 56 is about to have a bad day.

>>28868550
>We were just going to have him have his body.

Weird in hindsight.

>>28868550
Holy shit, What!?

The fuck is going on?

>>28868615
From what I can tell, the aliens from Close Encounters are pissed.

>>28868573
>Makes a big long story arc that's seemingly about Sombra getting his body back
>Out of nowhere just kills off the GB's, 32 and Sombra

I know you're shitposting but holy shit what a twist.

>>28868550
>Everyone gets a shining moment
>Still all fail in the end

That's pretty dark.

>>28868727
Despair wins!

>>28868550
NC
>Nightguard 1
"56"
~~~

>Fifty Six... I have something important I have to tell you.

"Is it booty related?'

>Booty is attached in a tangential sense, yeah.

"Awesome!"

>Not so much.

"Try me, I think anything is awesome!'

>Alright...

"..."

>YER DAD IS DEEEEEEEAAAADDDDD!

"...well, yeah, I'm pretty sure my old Queen killed him?"

>New one.

"I've got a new dad!?"

>Had.

"Crap, how did I miss that!?"

>...How did you miss that?

"How did he die?"

>Murderers, probably? He was out in a cabin in the woods, so...

"Kinda brought it on himself, didn't he?"

>Guess so?

"Huh... well, crap. I had a dad and then he died, that sucks!"

>You're taking this well.

"I get over stuff quick."

>Huh. Good for you!

"Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go tell cuz, he should probably know. He's my cuz, so that means he's like... related to my dead dad somehow."

>...oh right, you call him cousin.

"What else would I call him?"

>Dad.

"Well I'm not gonna do that, that went really crappy for the last guy apparently!"

>...

"...what?"

>>28869041
Can this, like be canon as an intro into telling him? Like some funny before the soul-crushing realization?

>>28869060
I'm going to second this,

>>28868550
NC
>Filthy Rich
"???"
~~~

>...I WIN! No more opponents, this is Filthy Time!

"NOT SO FAST!"

>C-... cloudchaser?

"Now it's down to you or me! You, the seasoned kinda smart and friendly if a liiiiitttle dedicated to money and making money guy, and ME! THE CRAZY PONY with NO experience!"

>Well, pfft, I'm obvious I'm going to win-

~~~

>HOW THE EVERLOVING FUCK!

"Grabbed you right by the dick, didn't I?

>>28869156
Now THAT needs to be canon

>Jetset
“AJ”
‘Chrysalis’
~???~
~~~

How long had this been going on for?

Five hours? Ten hours? Two days? A straight week?

He hadn’t the foggiest, his throbbing muscles didn’t keep time, but he did know one thing for certain: he was fucking tired of losing.

“TO THE LEFT YA’ IDGET!”

>AGH!

When her fang-riddled maw snapped down over that tender section of throat just below his chin, Jetset couldn’t help but wince. He knew, deep down he knew this was virtual reality, it wasn’t real, nothing around him was actually present… but that didn’t stop the pain from exploding where those fangs pierced flesh.

Nor did it stop him from suffering another defeat.

‘Annnnnd your dead. Tasty, but dead.’

She spat him out like a wad of tobacco and Jetset stumbled back, massaging his throat and hacking as though about to cough up a hairball.

“What was that? Huh? What the fuck was that? Y'all went out quicker than last time, fer' Faust's sake!”

To be honest, he didn’t know what in the fuck that was. One second the Queen had been before him, and the next, she had caught him like a wayward rabbit.

Something heavy struck him over the back of his head-

>NNGH!

-and he hit the dirt muzzle-first, snorting up a healthy amount of grass.

In a panic, he tried to teleport, the action purely instinctual, but only managed the smallest of useless flickers before a black hoof came down over his head, further mashing him into the ground with the most condescending little nicker he had ever the displeasure to hear.

‘Oh, this is just too easy, I almost feel bad. What’s the matter, secret agent colt?’

Only half of his head wasn’t buried, only one eye was free, and he glared up into that changelings conceited face, watching as that thin, slithering tongue of hers lashed about her prominent fangs….

‘Still can’t teleport, hm? Still broken? That's a damn shame, guess you won't mind if I turn your skull into paste, then.’

1/?

>>28869232

True to her word, that heinous pressure began to increase with each passing second, and with it came a myriad of dizzying questions: what would happen next? Would he simply die, virtually, and be tossed out the system? Did death here equate to death out there? He didn’t think Twilight so cruel to do such a thing, and he’d never heard of it happening before-

“Yer’ thinkin’ too much, Jet. Head’s about to get mashed into applesauce an’ y’all’re off in the stars somewhere. Landsakes, boy, get yer’ shit together!”

>My sh-… I mean… I am together, my princess-

“Then teleport. Right now. Do it now.”

>But I-

“QUIT THINKIN’ AN’ DO IT OR THIS ROACH IS GONNA CRUSH YER’ HEAD!”

>I’M TRYING BUT-

More of his head sank into the ground accompanied by the sound of his neck giving a warning crack, like it was seconds from dislocating under the weight Chrysalis was steadily adding on.

‘-buuuut, you’re ever so content to being nothing more than a hoofstool down in the dirt where you belong. Right? That’s what you were going to say, yes? That you’d gladly serve me as your new ‘princess’, because who else would have you right now?’

Not even squeezing his eyes shut could block out that voice, no amount of grinding his teeth together could shield himself to the haunting tones snaking their way into his head, taking over his scrambled thoughts and forcing him to listen, to believe.

‘This may just be virtual reality but here’s one thing that’s true: you need to disappear.’

It was hissed out, almost directly into his ear.

>I… can’t…

Forming words when half his face was one with the ground was a chore, but he didn’t stop, spraying spittle with every forced attempt to get even the most clipped words out.

>I w-won’t- I can’t!

2/?

>>28869243

‘Oh yes you can, and quite easily. You were more of a something when you were ghost, you know, back when you out there, in the world, feeding Celestia information. Then you made the mistake of trying to become a bigger part of her life, trying to find a place within the castle. Just… awwww, did you miss your mommy that bad? Did the ever-growing number of changelings cause you to worry? Scared of the big black bugs that bite in the night?’

Her laughter was the most haunting thing Jetset could recall in recent memory. It caused a physical pain that rattled him down to the marrow in his bones.

His free eye frantically glanced around for his other princess, a plea for help forming over his tongue, but he didn’t see her. Granted, his range of vision was severely stunted but he couldn’t even feel her usually calming presence anymore….

>Where… wh-where did-

‘Appleass go? Oh, she left.”

No…

>She… what?

‘Left. Can you really blame her? Look at yourself right now. You are literally under my hoof, overpowered by the very so-called enemy you promised to protect her and your marshmallow-assed princess from. Shit, I’d leave, too. At least Seven, for all his blundering fuck-ups, at least he doesn’t get bogged down to the point of not even being able to operate correctly. You know what that means, right? The life of an agent is no longer for you, little pony.’

More and more, deeper and deeper, his face was being ground into the dirt, burying him further into that soft, chilling darkness, threatening to snap his neck at any moment-

‘Just… go away.’

The tension bled away from Jetset’s arms, from his legs, from every inch of him that had been previously struggling against the will of the Queen above him.

She had given a blunt command, and he didn’t even have an iota of the strength required to disobey.

He… was hers.

And he would go away as she wanted.

‘Ha, what a fitting end to a worm.’

3/?

>>28869251

A worm… a worm, like… a worm like the one trying it’s hardest to burrow into his nostril. A reflexive snort boosted his head from the ground for only a moment.

But in that moment, he saw her.

No, he saw them.

They were there, standing as if they’d always been there… both of the mares he had pledged his life to serve and protect.

The smaller one, with her glinting hairclips and rusted stetson, and the much larger one, with her free flowing prismatic mane and… they were both smiling…

Somewhere in the back of his subconscious, Jetset registered that Chrysalis was beginning to stomp down now, attempting to deliver the blow that would push him back into that darkness for good, but the weight was gone from her touch.

He could barely feel her.

He could barely feel anything.

The only thing he registered was the combined light emanating from the two mares before him, and how Celestia’s lips began to part, a soft laughter proceeding all else, and then,

~You came and got me just in time it seems, AJ.~

“Told ya’, darn fool was startin’ to lose it.”

The look that Celestia leveled Jetset with was one of pure love, of patient understanding for all of his troubles.

~See, this is what happens when you’re left to your own devices, Jetset. You were never one who possessed a strong sense of self-worth, you base all your credit on how well you serve me, on what I think of you. And while that’s been a steady work-in-progress-~

“Y’all can say that again.”

~-I need you to believe me when I say… I will always need you. Until my sun no longer provides its warmth, I will need you, Jetset.~

Something hard and rubbery grew in Jetset’s throat and he had trouble swallowing.

4/?

>>28869260


~So, with that said, I’m sure you can see why I’m baffled that you thought you would be able to just leave. Just… really? After all we’ve been through, after all we’ve suffered past and prevailed over… no, no, no, leaving now is not an option, my little agent. Our journey together is far, far from over.~

“Yeah, ya’ goofball. It’d be a different story iffin’ ya’ hadn’t given me these hair clips here. Back when Ah’ felt so down, so beaten… y’all came an’ played in mah’ mane, tried to make me pretty an’ whatnot. C’mon now, ya’ can’t jus’ woo a girl like that an’ then dump her.”

~Indeed. I expect more class than that, Jetset.~

“’Sides, iffin’ y’all left… who would protect Celly’n me?”

The immediate answer was him, of course, but Jetset couldn’t form words to speak it. Their encouraging words had sufficiently choked him. He only began to crawl, inching slowly but surely from under the Queen’s imposing hoof, dragging himself toward those beacons of light.

Every movement felt boundless, every clench of muscle, every twist of his flesh and jostle of his bones felt ethereal in a way, like he was nothing more than a pool of warm fluid moving seamlessly and effortlessly. The climb back to his hooves was an easy one, and he stood before his Princess’s with more strength and principle than ever, feeling revitalized beyond measure.

But their gaze was not on him and his revival. No, they were staring behind him, and so he followed their gaze.

He had to blink, then look again. When the image persisted, he rubbed at his eyes, determined to clear his vision.

A third and final glance yielded the same bewildering results.

5/?

>>28869271

It was as if someone had recorded the motion of Jetset climbing from underneath Chrysalis to where he stood now, he saw every frame of movement he had entered, like still-shots captured from a movie to show his journey.

There were over twenty after-images of himself, each one frozen in time, each one depicting Jetset in his struggle, each one serving as a mark for his travel.

As the realization washed over the shell-shocked agent, and he came to terms with the fact that he was indeed seeing the process of his teleportation in the shape of after-images, he exhaled a breath he didn’t know he’d been holding.

And instantly, time found them again.

The grass swayed, the wind whistled, Jetset’s cloak rustled… and Chrysalis awkwardly stumbled forward, having no pony underneath her for balance, and hit the ground on her chin. In the same instant, both Applejack and Celestia jumped as if Jetset had just appeared before them.

“Whoa, nelly! What in tarnation jus’… Jet, did y’all… did y’all teleport? Ya’ did, didn’t you?”

~He must have! It… he was right there just a second ago… and now he’s right here!~

Just a second ago, she had said… when Jetset knew full well he had been standing before them for at least a minute or so before they reacted.

Somehow, he had done more than merely teleport... but what? That earlier sensation of gliding, of moving unhampered even by time itself… What exactly had he-

‘OW! FUCKING HIVEMIND ABOVE I THINK I CRACKED MY JAW!’

6/7

>>28869282

His train of thought was severed by the steady flow of swears from Chrysalis as she rolled on the ground in agony, and it was only then that Jetset realized his heart was beating faster than normal, to the point of lightheadedness. His vision was beginning to fade no matter how hard he blinked, the darkness was coming back… but this was different.

It was a warmer darkness, one born of pure exhaustion, the consequence of pushing himself too hard to do… whatever he had done, and he turned to Celestia and Applejack, both of whom had taken notice of his wobbling figure with differing looks of impending worry.

>I… I’m back.

THWUMP.

“~JETSET!~”

When he fell out on his side, peaceful and still save for the rhythmic rising of his chest, nothing in this virtual world nor the real world could take his smile away.

7/7

>>28869291
So he did time stuff?

....neat!

>>28868550
... I'm not sure what to feel in this moment, I think I need to lie down... Like on the floor here. Everyone else at work can just walk around or over me.

>>28869291
God damn, b-plots unite, am I right?

>>28869291
Finally! Can he get back into the fray already?

>>28869291
Thank God, I was worried this whole subplot was just going to be dropped
>>28869344
I have no idea what emotion you are trying to convey with that.

>>28869291
Enjoy it, Jetset.

You can't get away with that with the real Chrysalis.

...becauseshe'skindanotasmuchabitchanymore.

>>28868727
Standard story convention. The team-combo worked last time, it can't work twice in a row.

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>JJ
"Actarius'
~~~~

>So now everything's just normal.

"Nothing, ever, is normal around here. This place is the antithesis of normal. I'm pretty sure I walked in Canterlot straight and ended up bent before my hoof hit the ground."

>That's a great analogy.

"Thought it fit."

>I think I was always full of crooked stuff though, so this makes sense to me.

"With as many holes as you have, I figured that."

>They're useful!

"..."

>...where's your boss anyway?

"Probably ran to doodly Mexicolt at this rate."

>Probably.

"This sucks."

>This suuuccckks...

"..."

>...wanna go back to my apartment and watch Top Sun.

"I LOVE THAT MOVIE!"

>It's so amazing and I don't even know why!

>>28869844
We;ve seen that so many times it was a THREAD HEADER once.

>>28869844
One day...

>>28869848
>This place is the antithesis of normal. I'm pretty sure I walked in Canterlot straight and ended up bent before my hoof hit the ground."

...pretty accurate, ain't it?

>>28869041
>He was out in a cabin in the woods, so...

...Oh my god, I just realized that this was a classic horror setup.

I JUST realized it.

I'm an idiot.

>>28870375
>Classic X-FILES setup

You PLEB

>>28869291
Spoonfeed, pls. Did that conversation he had with AJ and Celestia not happen? I hope it didn't, because it seemed kinda emotionally abusive, even for a bodyguard with Jetset's dedication, and that's saying something.

Also, is this OOCO or were those fake AJ and Celestia at the end?

>>28870486
NC
>AJ
"Spike"
~~~

>What's it look like to you?

"Standard measure. Swoop in, swoop out, bag them tag them off they go."

>Huh. Looks like somethin' right out of a horror novel.

"Looks to me like these busters."

(•_•)
(-•_•)⌐■-■-
(⌐■_■)

"Are ghosts."

~YYEEAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!~

>>28870738
It's all a simulation.

Does anyone have an overview of the currently ongoing story arcs?

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>>28870748

>>28870965
Not on hand, it would be pretty hard to map the story tree... Oh wait never mind!!!

>>28856603
>>28856605
>>28856611
>>28856616
>>28856622

>>28870965
>29 and the GB's +Sombra and 32 just got sucked to light-hell
>Jetset just finished his simulation training and now has time magic(?)
>Discord's misdeeds came to light and he's currently in-route to Celestia to admit to everything
>Spike and the Gunclub just went in to see 42.
>AJ is still reeling after the breakup.
>SA and the CE Crew are recovering
>Filthy Rich is still running for mayor
>Everyone is dealing with the chaos fallout
>Dash is admitting everything she did was wrong
>88 is getting Lavan some help
>10 is after Evo-corp
>Sunset just walked in on something that made her freak out

And that's the gist.

>>28871018
Thanks!! You've been really helpful for some... story-related... things.

...soon...

>>28871018
>29 and the GB's +Sombra and 32 just got sucked to light-hell

Dammit, now I have to read that. I've been avoiding us because I don't care about Sombra and this seemed last minute peddling, but fuck, I HAVE to know.

>>28870748
That's only kinda better, cuz it just means that they've left him in there for at least two days now getting beaten and degraded by someone who he already thinks that he should hate.

Twice, because it also happened with the 42 simulation that eventually turned into the Chrysalis simulation. In the end, this entire experience, whether it's lasting 2+ days or just one, would really fuck up the average person's mental state, since dying enough times will eventually alter someone's psyche in the Murderbox.

>>28871081
>29, his mixed bag buddies and Sombra are in hell
>YAY, I hate those guys so I gotta read THAT!

I want to something horrible to happen to Spike right now /pa/ls...

>>28871142
>>YAY, I hate those guys so I gotta read THAT!

Okay, one, I said I don't care about SOMBRA and that the storyline seemed like last minute peddling so we didn't just snap him into a body, I like 29 just fine, Zecora is mah' zigga, and I even like Trixie. MM is kinda eh, but she's the straightmare so I guess that's her point. But I like them.

I'm like "I gotta fucking read this"(And I just found where it started and am doing it right now), because holy shit I HAVE to know. I have to know what the fuck they mean when they say that and I need real context goddamn it. That is an attention grabber right there.

>>28871134
>since dying enough times will eventually alter someone's psyche in the Murderbox.

He turned that on and stayed in there willingly, Spike was in there originally with him too and left. He could have left anytime, and he would've been just peachy, there was literally nothing to keep him from going away at any point but his drive to stay inside kept him there.

Also that dying thing is just speculation, since we don't actually have a basis for it in real life, closest is VR which through the studies done on it has shown no lasting effects to their character dying, but so long as they remember it's just a simulation and their body realizes it's not in a state where it can die, like the aforementioned VR, it'll be fine, and he'll be fine.

He knows he wasn't getting beaten by someone he should hate, Virtual Chrysalis kept reminding him over and over she's not real.

>>28871175
Basing your choice out of how interesting the story sounds instead of hate of characters and suffering!? What madness is this!?

>>28871191
Add to it, he never 'died' once in the simulation. It was basically the equivalent of someone pointing a gun at your head and going 'Bang, you're dead', except the gun here was Chrysalis' fangs.

>>28871191
I thought Twilight said that if you died in there enough regardless that you're fucked. And Celestia put him in this simulation, there's no way Celestia or anyone else that knows him would expect him to leave this by himself unless some lesson was meant to be learned from it, and no lesson should take this long to learn and be this brutal emotionally for someone who's so unstable that they nearly PHASED OUT OF EXISTENCE due to their continuous training.

In any case, he should be supervised right now and not left to getting beaten up by whatever obtuse lesson Celestia is putting him through.

>>28871253
She put him in there and then gave him the option of leaving and coming back if he needed it, this was a lesson that was going to take some time. Maybe she underestimated how much but it's not like she locked him in there. And the bigger point is that the training was supposed to teach him he didn't have to believe she would abandon him if he didn't live up to those standards, which is the belief that made him go all phase happy. There were failsafes, and like he mentioned he never actually died, it just took this long because Jet was so stubborn that he couldn't quit or leave.

She put him in there, but then shit happened, she couldn't stay there.

>>28871282
Okay, now that makes sense.

But how long has he been in there?

>>28871324
Good question. Author Dude? What's his timeframe?

>>28871338
Hm? Shit? I dunno honestly. How much time has passed since he went in? I know our days be wonky as fuck, with one canon thread day lasting a month IRL, so I can never keep track.

>>28871018
>>88 is getting Lavan some help
Eventually!

>>28871498
He's been in there at least since before the Mechabloom fight.

>>28871528
Oh... so that's like, two days?

Has to be two days, Cadence was being stalked for the CE Invasion then.

Goodnight, thread.

>>28871827
Night anon

>>28871535
So two days? Not as long as I thought, actually. I was thinking this would be like a week long thing, but damn, he overcame in record time, ha. Go, Jetset.

>>28871505
To be honest, the giant Opalescence kinda put a hold on that. Someone tell Upper Crust to Olimar harder!

>Twinklejinx
"Hydia"
'???'

>Why me!? Whyyyy meeee!?

"Is that a rhetorical question or should I start filling my pages with your crimes?"

>Not even the nefarious Tirek himself deserves such a vile hell! I tug and I tug but I won't come off, Hydia, it simply won't!

"Have you tried blasting it with your magic?"

>Knowing my insipid luck this horendous headwear would split apart so that my spell would bore into my brain, reforming to rest upon a remade corpse!

"Don't get my hopes up."

>Oh foul befuddlement, oh calamitous...calamity! Is there no greater humiliation? No larger cosmic slight than this DAMNABLE JESTER'S HAT!?

'Uh, Mister?'

>Not now, small colt, I'm delivering a soliloquy. Ohhhhj cruel Faust on high, I know now why the forces of darkness array against your gilded reign, your sappy tyranny, your-

'Ssh!'

>...did you just shush me!?

'Well technically mom shushes you, but she's kinda stuck dealing with animals coming outta one of the encyclopedias, so she sent me to...ok she said to tell you to 'Shut your five-dollar word spewing piehole', but you woulda just interrupted me so I shushed ya instead.'

>...

"...ha."

>I WASN'T EVEN BEING COVERT!?

'Ssh!'

"Hahaha..."

>OHHHHHH DEATH, TAKE ME INTO THE FOUL EMBRACE I SPUR-

Shump.

>MMPH!?

'Ya gonna be quiet?'

>MMPHHMPHRRMPH!

'It's a banana I didn't eat with my lunch, you don't keep quiet, you're getting the orange next, ok?'

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

>HRMPHRMPHRMPHRM*PHRM!*

'She's a book, she ain't makin' noise.'

"HAAAAAAHAHAHAAHA!"

>...mmph.

'Thank you!'

>>28872400
Son of that lesbian librarian, I presume?

>>2887271
.... that sounds like the weirdest Indiana Jones spinoff ever.

>>28872969
That or a really unsexy porn novel.

>>28873090
Thrills! Chills! Flames of passion!

It's the son of the lesbian librarian!

>>28873161
Dammit, don't make me want to read that.

>Crystal Pony
“CP2”
~~~

>So is that seriously the griffon prince, some kind of mecha pony, and a giant robot dog walking though the streets?

“Are you actually questioning that?”

>…

“…”

>…So! I heard the princess is pregnaaaant! From screaming, to clarify, that pink pony screamed it.

“Awwww!”

>Yeah, it was just after the prince made the train not-exist.

“What a whaaaacky world!”

>…I wanna go back in the curse.

“Weirdly made more sense there, didn’t it?”

OOCO
>SA
“AJ”
~~~

>Wow, your medical budget is pretty high, looking at it. You might need to dial back the free healthcare.

“Iffin’ we did that, Celly would probably be dead by month three.”

>She doesn’t get injured that… oh wow.

“Hittin’ ya’?”

>Oh wooooowww.

“Don’t feel good, does it?”

>Wow that does not-wait, how much have I… wowwww… I almost died that time too-WOW!

“Guessin’ ya’ ain’t dialin’ back yer’ own anytime soon?”

>Wow, oh wow. Wait a minute, but you-

“Don’t start, Ah’ve just been lucky.”

>Wow, really lucky.

“Do not start, bugs me everyday how often ya’ll get put up and Ah’ don’t get a scratch most days. Ah’ friggen walked off bein’ tossed ta’ space.”

>Well, you know what that means, right?

“That Ah’ apparently got way too lucky?”

>Nah, that you’ve got someone who’s ready to make sure they’re in the way of anything coming to get you.

“…wish they wouldn’t sometimes.”

>Some things you just can’t change.

“Fair’s fair, Ah’ need to have a turn at least once, better me than…”

>…Fair’s fair, I guess.

“Stick around, Shinin’. Yer’ squishier than you know.”

>Heh… Did you just call me fat?

“Ya’ll have been getting’ rolls.”

>NOT AGAIN! Dropping and giving thirty!

“Oh come on-“

>NEVER AGAIN! Spot me, Applejack!

“Nahhh… why don’t we go for a run? Think we could both use some air.”

>Enjoy the day between the catastrophes?

“Sounds like a plan to me.”

>>28874004
These two are so cute together.

>>28874004
OOCO
>Cadence
“Celestia”
~~

>Er, Auntie Celly? What are you doing on my desk?

“Shining is cheating on me with Applejack!”

>….I have so many questions and feelings, I think I shorted out.

“He’s supposed to be my bubblehorse! We’re supposed to be silly and talk, but he just spends so much time with her now!”

>I feel like I should be concerned about multiple things you just said, but again, numb.

“So I’m hanging out with you to get back at him!”

>I should be more offended by being a political pawn, right?

“You and me are going to have talks, and he’s gonna get jealous, then he’ll want me back!”

>…But not me?

“You can come too, if we have room.”

>I… what?

“So! Let’s talk about life.”

>…

“…You start.”

>Okay, I have one inside me right now, and it prevents me from straining too much.

“Yeah?”

>Yeah, and I’m willing to stress test a baby.

“…”

>…

“…I don’t know how to react about that.”

>Isn’t it so nice when you see the other’s perspective?

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...why...

I want this.

I want this so, SO badly, but it is too much of a distant, impossible reality to happen anymore...

>>28874279
Because

>No Hooves

>>28874279
What is the context of this post?

>>28874279
People said the same thing about Fleetfoot.

>>28874218
OOCO
>Spike
“42”
~~~

“…why me?”

>BECAUSE APPARENTLY NOBODY ELSE WANTS TO HANG AROUND ME!

“…”

>…you want to go hang around with Cadence, don’t you?

“Or Shining. Either or. I’m not picky.”

>…

“I like them.”

>…

‘You’re nice too, but I like them more.”

>…

“…Do you need a hug-“

>YES

>>28874410
Twilight explicitly said she hates Sunset and would toss her through the portal and keep tossing until she stayed out.

Sunset lost all faith in Twilight and friends.

I liked the gghead friendship the two had going, re-enact in books and theatre pieces. I loved their chemistry, nonromantically.

It's never going to be the same again.

And that makes me sad.

>>28874451
And Dash explicitly hated Fleetfoot and was gleeful when she fired her, and then twisted the knife by barring her from seeing shows.

And Fleets tried to outright depose her.

Now Fleetfoot is who Dash went to for advice on how to fix her many mess ups, and Dash sees her as a friend.

No it might never be the same, but it might be better.

>>28874497
STILL
HOPE
IN
PONIES

>>28874523
I hope so.

I wanna see the day Twi, Sunset and Chitty all geek out over science. Chitty won't understand most of it, of course, but she'll want to so hard and Twi and Sunset will help her because damn it she knows science is the future and the future is cool!

Someday...

>Pinkie
“18”
~~~

“…Where did you pull all those balloons from-“

>SHUSH!

“…”

>Balloons will be needed, and when they come out, the balloons will be there.

“…they look so happy.”

>They are happy.

“They make me feel joy.”

>The joy is what makes them float, fuck science.

“I… I wish for a balloon.”

>Eighteen?

“…”

>You may have one.

“…eeee…”

>…

“…So have you noticed Twilight is just-“

>I don’t even know with that one, and I’m Pinkie!

>>28874587
>Threesome science buddy's

Now I weep.

>AB
“SL”
‘Changeling’
~SD~
~~~~

~…How…~

The doll was given, and would receive, no answer as they floated by above the world on the back of a pretty white swan parade float, unhinged by reality, and very soon unhinging the living doll’s sanity with it.

>Dang it, Scootaloo, ya’ put too much float in the floating!

“You said make it a float, and by Celestia’s sun I did that! Don’t you blame me for doing what you said but better than you could have imagined!”

>Curse you! Ya’ll are the best float floater… alright, mah’ fault for underestimatin’ you.

“But we can’t blame you! You’re Applebloom!”

>Sound logic. Let’s see… ‘Sweetie Belle’?

The changeling, still a perfect mimic of their friend, shrugged.

‘We can say I messed up.’

>Nah, dug that well too deep, by now we’re just scrapin’ out the gravel. Oh! Let’s blame the doll!

“Can’t, we did that once already, don’t want to make it a running gag, those come back ta’ bite ya’,”

>They really do… hrm… Ah’ know! Let’s blame Celestia!

‘It fits!’

“It’s so perfect, why didn’t we think about it before?”

>All ta’gether now!

>”’I BLAME CELESTIA!”’

“That felt good.”

‘That felt reeal good.’

~…What the fudgemakers does Princess Celestia have to do with anything!?~

>See, this is why ya’ didn’t get to join in.

~You didn’t tell me I couldn’t!~

“You knew… you knew.”

‘…So how do we get down?’

>Hrm… Scootaloo? Yer’ good at not-flyin’, what do you suggest?

“…ow…”

>Er, Sweetie Doll said that.”

~WHAT!?~

“YOU JERK!”

‘Pure fluffly monster.’

~…urge to jump, rising…~

>>28874873
So am I the only one who has no idea what's even going on with these guys anymore?

>>28874921
Nope. I lost track so long ago so I've been along in blissful confusion.

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>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
[Fluttershy]
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your hosts the Pink Pony Club! It's during this time that content does matter, but literal trash talking!

Pinkie and DT are sitting on top of an upside down trashcan. Cadence's voice echo inside it.
"I'm the best one <3"

'...I'm the grumpy one.'

>And I'm the crazy one!

>"'Now for our main guest...FLUTTERSHY!!!'"

[Um...hello...why are you-]

"They're incredibly jealous and-"

>So we heard that you had a little fight with Discord.

[Uh it got better, and it looks like you're having you're having your own fight.]

"They couldn't handle the result of me being the best pink pony and are being petty about it. Pinkie even took her greentext back whatever that is."

>I said you'd get it the next time, I didn't say you'd get to keep it.

'Can we just keep her in the trashcan the over her the rest of the show?'

"See what I have to deal with, Fluttershy? They're keeping me down when the ponies have spoken! My love has to be shared by all! You can't just contain it! Love horse is best horse!"

[Pinkie, Diamond Tiara, I know you're not pleased that you didn't get voted the best pink pony, but surely there has to be a better way than putting Cadence in the trash.]

'...hey Fluttershy has some pink...right?'

>It's just her mane, but...wait a minute.

'Pinkie, are you pondering what I'm pondering?'
They both slowly turn their heads towards Fluttershy.

[...oh dear.]

>>28875098
Trashing her is like trashing love, you can't do it!

>Fancy Pants
“Fluer”
~~~

>Oh, drat.

“Darn.”

>…

“…”

>…

“…Are you still up for it?”

>For one as ravishing as you?... Always.

>Wonderbolt
“WB2”
~~~

>So is it just me, or is our new captain…

“…a massive little pouty whiner?”

>RIGHT!? I give her good news and she acts like she just saw her puppy get ran over. Just this gormless stare into nothing with no rhyme or reason.

“And then she just acts like she’s got the weight of the world after all’s said and done and she has to do paperwork.”

>Oh no! The part not filled with unstoppable chaos monsters!

“Anything but that! Anything but thaaaatttt!”

>For fucks sake, that mare.

“How did she get elected, again?”

>Dirty Laundry on Rainbow Dash.

“Of course.”

>What a bitch.

“But she’s the captain.”

>Yeah, till the princesses get pissed for what she did and raises the sun right over her before dropping it.

“Ohhhhh, that one is not going to be pretty.”

>No shit, it’s not.

“What a dumbass.”

>Brilliant, right?

“…Think she can hear us?”

>Faust I hope not, did you see what she did to Dash? We’d be fucked.