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Princess Applejack

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Howdy, partner!

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

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


The whole thing was set in motion by this gem:

~~~~~

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

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

~~~~~

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

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

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

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

Thread 181! And this thread we learn the power of a gun!
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>worshipping a background character
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Here is full archive of the stories in condensed, easy-to-read form with all chatter in-between removed.
Check out the pastebin here:
http://pastebin.com/u/PrincessApplejack

Curious what happened last time?
Check out the previous thread here:>>29409666
You are completely new and have no idea what is going on? There is a wikia with an overview of all characters, a complete timeline, previous thread recaps and explanation of the various concepts used in these stories!
Check out the wiki here:http://princess-aj.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Applejack_Wiki

Confused about when a character first showed up or who they are? Want to know when an arc started? Check out character notes and details here :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PsMAwLcIdC3IYxezAV9Ko4neEguNvc3eQqQqiTCxdDs/edit#gid=2119378650
Check out the 'Princess Applejack: Re-Cut Edition' here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15cv3kqExr_vOM0JkUh4dqnvVKxJ5Z-P1KHwE8Z7aG0k/edit?usp=sharing

Are you interested in the dark side of these threads?
Check out our collection of NSFW stories here:
http://pastebin.com/u/NSFT_NotSafeForTwo_

And above all else, enjoy your stay at /paj/!
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First for Spike, Sunslayer!
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>>29458827
>Wasting a perfectly good first on Spike

Why do you hate good things
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>>29458836
Hey, Little guy has been killing it this arc, getting developed in a not Kirito level way.
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>>29458836
Obviously is cause our new thread is unblessed
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>AJ
"Celestia'
~~~~

>Tia? Gotta question.

"And I've got nobody to looove me. Tall ponies got, tall ponies got, tall ponies got, nobody to loooove them."

>Well, at least you have your flawless system of governance-oh wait.

"I will backflip preemptively Applejack!"

>Fine, hold yer' horses-

"Jumping!"

>-mah' question is, are sheep sapient or not?

"Sheep?"

>Yeah, sheep.

"Don't you have those on your farm? You'd know better than I would."

>Oh. Right. Whelp! Answer done.

"Applejack."

>No no, it's fine, ya' got out of this one, take the win!

"Applejack what did you do?"

>Everything is hunky dorey, yes ma'am, no need to go on about that-

"APPLEJACK!"

>Ah'm out!

BACKFLIP!

>It was still yer' faauuulllltttt.

Flipflipflip...

"I'm going to get sued for this, I just know it."
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>>29458864
We know AJs racist, this isn't a shock to anyone
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>Thread full of guns
>Spike is the only one to actually try a headshot on a bad guy

The fuck
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>>29458924
Untrue, some guy at the bar went right for Chitty's eye.

The value of a good headshot is not lost on the masses
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>>29458946
That wasn't a gun, it was some form of Anti-Life Magic infusion-thingy and it should have left a scar or discoloration at least.
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>>29458962
Joys of your body being made out of a love absorbing material I guess.
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>>29458962
It wasn't an infusion, he was just a unicorn with a hateboner
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>>29458977
Chitty's mom is covered in scars though, if we take both of these into account, then there are things in that valley that are capable of neutralizing the power of love... Oh... Oooooh.
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>>29458998
Actually it was, he complained about it not killing her since he paid an assload for it. Get an Archiver if you don't believe me.
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>>29459008
>Chitty's mom is covered in scars though,

Because she never really got a lot of love? Certainly never to the levels Chitty got, for sure. Sunset alone was probably more than Chitty's mom ever got together.

Which makes her more badass, she doesn't need a full charge to kick your ass.
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>>29459019
Pretty sure the rest of the hive kept her fed.
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>>29459019
God, what are her love levels!? Iridescent snow?
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>>29459015
And from the depths of sleep, I arise for ponies.

Here is the reveal of the type of magic used http://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/27045491/#27073251

Here is the meeting with the bangbang dude http://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/27091818/#27110493

Neither of these say it's an infusion, or even confirm it was him, just 'almost certainly'.
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>>29459053
White colors are good you fool!
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>>29459037
Fed is different from being overcharged enough to heal, especially when she burns it off getting into fights. Also, Chitty fought in the pit of monsters too, the theory something down there stops healing makes no sense, because then Chitty would be covered in scars too.
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>>29459074
> just 'almost certainly'.


~~~~~

>So were almost certain she was doin it to be ah bitch?

"Almost certain, there's a minute chance it was a complete misunderstanding."

>Almost certain?

"Y-yes but there's a minu-"

>Good enough for me! SHE DONE DID IT!

√Π¶∆[{•-:~GASP!~:-•}]∆¶Π√
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>>29459108
... who the fuck are you talking about? The one who she thought shot Chitty was a guy, and even if he didn't do it then he was literally opening fire on 13 while she calmly asked him questions. She's almost certain it's him because he SHOT AT HER WITH THAT MAGIC.
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Pinkie Prophs!

>Forty Two is feeling blue,
>Twilight can't believe she's right,
>Spike is not a tyke,
>Pinkie is a little stinky,
>Dash is fit to crash,
>Eighteen is super mean,
>Cadence is set to radiance,
>Celly is lost in a pool of jelly! A
>switching fanservice!
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>>29459117
And Sunset told her, it's not like to just picked that guy at random.
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>>29459117
Its just a joke on how everyone jumped on the Chitty's going on a Ramage thing because she almost certainly was doing it for 'rawr' monster reasons. Nothing more, I just used AJ as the lyncher cause country pone.
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>>29459139
>Forty Two is feeling blue

Umm... Umm... Uhhh....
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>>29459181
Ohhh, okay, you confused me because of the part you quoted was referring to the guy. All right, we are on the same page now.

Do I have to find you using AJ kind of funny seeing as she is the only one who would not accept that it was just her fault.
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>>29459202
There's that too, since she was the one that went on the search for truth, when everyone else was just going with the rawr situation.
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Good night thread!
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Night
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>>29459193
Anon, no! Bad Anon!
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>>29459841
Satan will literally torture him if he thinks about it, summoning the Liam of Neeson to drag him to hell and damnation.
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NC
>FS
“???’
‘???’
~~

>And welcome everyone to another episode of Fantastically Fixing Friendships, Featuring Fluttershy. It’s during this time content doesn’t matter, and we’re making the most of it. Our next guests are two old friends who drifted apart, and need to mend. Please welcome Minuette and Moondancer.

“Hi!”

‘Do I have to be here?’

>Now that’s not a very helpful attitude. Moondancer, why do you still have such frustration to your friend?

‘She just up and forgot about me!’

“Well after the freakout at the party-“

‘I was hurt!’

“I know, but I showed up.’

>That’s a good point. Being hurt that another friend snubbed you is completely valid, but why put that on Minuette?

‘I didn’t mean to, I just didn’t want to try again after I got shut down like that.’

“I don’t see why that’s my fault!’”

>Minuette, it’s not your fault, but did turning away from her when she was hurt help at all?

“Well no, but why’s it my job?”

>Friendship isn’t a job. If you don’t want to be her friend, there’s unfortunately nothing we can do here.

“I do! I just didn’t feel that was fair. I showed up, why am I getting yelled at?”

>It seems you hurt her feelings, Moondancer, most likely as much as your friend hurt yours when she didn’t show.

‘I…I guess I just made it worse, and didn’t really appreciate that I had other friends show. It’s just, she was more Twilight’s friend then mine, so-‘

>So all the more reason you should have been appreciative she came when she wasn’t forced to, right?

‘…I guess. I’m sorry, I was wrong.’

“Yeah, I guess I over-reacted too, I let one angry moment last way longer than it should have.”

‘Can we… try again?’

“I’d like that.’

>The best friendships start with a hug.

“Alright!”

>…andalittleroughfondlingtoventfrustrations-

‘What was that?”

>I said unfortunately that’s all the time we had. As always, stay kind.
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Holy crap, I can't believe the old thread was alive long enough for me to post the achievement in it.
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>>29460491
You have got to be kidding me.
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>>29460772
The thread just couldn't be complete without it, so it waited. It was the very last thread on page 10 before falling.
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>>29460958
That's almost kind of sweet in a way
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>SA
“Celestia”
‘AJ’
~AB~
~~~

>Hiiii, Applebloom! I work with your biiiiig sister!

“Do you want a lollipop?’

‘She ain’t TWO… the number, not the… not the you know who.’

~Ah’ want that lollipop though.~

>Do you know what your big sister does?

~Yells at Celestia a lot?~

“…”

‘She ain’t wrong.’

“I know, but I’d have rather you not tell her that.”

~She also says Shiny needs ta’ stop sleepin’ with her on the weekends.~

>Er, she uh, she means… wait, the weekends? What, do you not care during the weekdays?

‘We turn down the heat when the staff has off, and they don’t work seven days so… it’s cold.’

>Huh…b-but that just means sleepover! Riiight? Yay! Sleepover! I bet you have all of those with your friends!

~We don’t end up with ropeburns when Ah’ do it.~

>…

“Pft.”

~What’re you laughin’ at? We don’t get sunburns either.~

‘HAW!’

>Okay, I think we’re in too deep and you’re doing this intentionally.

~Do what intentionally, mister Shining Armor? Don’t you wanna be mah’ big sister special friend and hug her alllll the time real special like?~

>Definitely intentional, I’m out!

~Wait! Ya’ll can bring Celestia too!~

“OUT!”

CLOPCLOPCLOPCLOPCLOpclopclopclop…

‘…Good job.’

~Hoof it.~

SISHOOF

~This lolli’s dang sweet.~
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>>29462179
More like this Loli is dang sweet!

I'll stop now.
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>>29462393
Wish you had stopped sooner.
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>>29462438
That's what she said!

I'm sorry.
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>>29462393
Well, I'm awake two hours earlier than I'd like, I was not expecting to have Markiplier screaming in my ear first thing today! Hello New Thread!
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>>29462464
The fuck? Wrong thread maybe.
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>>29462487
Nope. It just means I'm awake and now I need can do things, /pa/ related things, earlier today than normaL. Gonna get some coffee and a fresh white eraser.
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>AUJ
"Luna"
~~~

>...what do you all do?

"We don't need to answer that."

>Yes you do.

"No we don't."

>Yes you do.

"No we don't."

>Yes.

"No."

>Yes.

"No."

>No.

"Exactly!"

>...

"Even we are not so old as to fall for that one."

>...Damn.
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>>29462631
Luna's not taking shit from two orange mares
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>>29462675
Doesn't take it from the one!
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>>29462698
Thats kinda what I meant, maybe I should have put 'two' in caps to emphasize.
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>SA
"???"
~~~

>Oooohhh, that's the stuff.

When his lower half sank beneath the water, it was as if the entire world had just melted away. All the aches and pains that remained from the earlier, rapidly ignored and pushed aside incident were carried away by the bubbles that rolled along his body and replaced with a gentle warmth. His eyes closed and his head went limp against the rest behind him, and every trouble sank beneath rolling waters.

>This is sooooo what I needed.

One of these days, someone besides him was going to remember that they had a hot tub they used to use all the time, and that was going to be a dark day indeed.

"Well looky looky here..."

Thinking about it, a day when he got kicked by his wife between his legs already sounded like a dark one on paper, he really should have just seen it coming.

"Looks like someone had the same idea."

The water rolled across his chest as another entered into the tub, big enough to make it rise a couple inches up higher to his shoulders. He hadn't opened his eyes, but even if he didn't recognize the smooth voice alone, that would have answered who it was who had disturbed his Shiny Time.

>Hey, Celly.

He felt more waves as she crossed the short distance between them, her long legs so tall she was forced to awkwardly waddle to keep the majority of her body beneath the warm bubbles, and they'd given out completely by the time she reached his hind legs. Her entire weight pushed down on them as she sank lower, until only her head remained above the water, her long and forever waving mane left rolling on the surface with the bubbles.

"Do you feel any better?"

>Define better.

"Awww."

She playfully poked him in the leg, her barely visible lips turning up into an impish smile.

"Poor Shiny, just wants to be the big protector, but everyone's got their own lives to live."

>You don't have to rub it in.

"Honestly, wouldn't you appreciate that right now? When's the last time that happened?"

1/4
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>>29463070

>I choose not to answer that entrapment, thank you.

"Not answering is an answer in it's own right."

>It's up for interpretation.

"Well, I do need something to fill the time without my book club."

>See that? I could interpret that in so many ways.

"Yes, but which one is the most fun?"

He finally cracked an eye, just to give her the glance she obviously wanted so that her smirks did not go to waste. She seemed pleased with herself before he rolled back and closed them again.

"Made you look."

>Didn't know that was the goal.

"I would have told you, if you'd asked. No one to blame but yourself."

>Feeling a lot of that right now.

"Well, not to be mean, but you did ask for the second one."

>My good side gets to me sometimes.

"If that's what you consider a good side, I'd hate to see her reaction to you being a bad little stallion."

>It's not as fun as it sounds.

"Depends on whom we're talking about, I suppose. This sounds like it would be loads of fun to me."

>It's always fun to watch.

"Not as much as joining in."

He flicked her on the ear before letting his foreleg go limp.

>Do not join her in kicking anything, I'm pretty sure I'd be a eunuch if you even tried.

"Well, at least you'd have an excuse for your current state."

>My lovelife is fine, thank you.

"Is it? So, did that legendary randiness that pregnant mares are supposed to have finally kick in?"

His silence said it all.

"Nooo, really?"

>You know 'really', don't end up in Applejack's shower all the time because cleaning up in mine was too hard.

"Well yes, but I figured that was because she was in the bloat stage."

>She's more in the shove stage.

"So it's been, what, nine months?"

>Little longer.

"Well, hopefully when the baby comes... oh, right."

He groaned, and she laughed even if she felt a little bad about it.

>I'm just being happy I get to be a daddy for a baby this time, I regret missing Two's baby years.

"Not exactly your fault."

2/4
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>>29463081

>I know, and she's adorable, but this is the Equestrian Dream, right? House, wife, kids, steady job-

"Being punched by a giant dinosaur changeling, being shot by robots, being used as a love battery by a giant mushroom..."

They both went silent after that last one.

"We're still never talking about that?"

>I'd prefer not.

"Alright, I'll be kind about that."

>You'd be the first one to do so today.

"Then I shall be the best one at it."

>I'll take whatever I can get at this point.

"Oh, you poor thing."

>I'm not pretending I have it the worst, I think Applejack currently holds that title dealing with you-know-who.

"Ugh, her."

>I think she's nice.

"You only see the nice side."

>Or maybe you only see the bad side. Variety is the spice of life.

"Said the stallion with two lovers."

>I stand by my principals.

"Hmmm, I suppose so..."

She brought up both front legs, using the added height of his hind legs to rest her chin on top of them just enough to keep above water. Her contented sigh would have put even the laziest of cat to shame.

"Shiny?"

>Hm?

"You'll still have time for me after the baby, right?"

>Obviously.

"Oh ho! No hesitation! Could it be that you underestimate just how big raising a child will be?"

>Of course not. But I think you underestimate how many wonderful, wonderful others I have in my life. I'll make time for you, and if not then you'll have to be the best Auntielestia to two different perfect children... that's two the number, not Two the-

"I got it."

>We really need to start calling her AJ Two.

"Jumping in her bouncy shoooes-"

>Don't you start.

"It's infectious, I swear she's a long lost cousin of Pinkie Pie."

>Considering Applejack is apparently a long lost cousin of Pinkie Pie, that's not so farfetched.

"Wait, what?"

>Long story.

"And she told you, not me?"

>She likes me.

"I like you!"

>And I told you.

"I... huh, I have nothing to that."

>A rare win for me, please don't ruin it.

3/4
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>>29463094

She chuckled again, her body going into full relaxation as the last of her worries drifted away.

>Celly?

"Hm?"

>You'll still have time for me later too, right? No matter how crazy things get?

"...Anytime you need someone, Shining, I'll be there."

>Good, because right now, I really needed to talk.

"I know. Trust me, when a mare knows, she knows."

Nothing more need said, nothing more need shared, they gave each other one look, and let the jacuzzi carry all their troubles down the drain. For now, everything was perfect.

At least until the next time their lives got flipped upside down.
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>>29463104
BEST PAIR returns and they are as glorious as ever!
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>>29463104
BEST
PAIR
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>>29463104
Been way too long since we've had one of these
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>>29463104
...Did Happy Bath Time happen or was it left ~ambiguous~?
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>>29463329
They didn't explicitly say it.
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>>29463329
COMPLETELYNC
~~~~

>...
Shining looks left.
Looks right.
Smirks.
Gently puts his hoof on her head.
"Really? Not even going to ask? Just going to make me?"
Smirks deeper
"That's the Shiny I like to sebbulblb."
Pushes her down beneath the water.
>Just like old times.
The bubbles stop.
>Hhh, Say, while you're down there, since I'm still sore, could you-
BLAM
Gets brained by a flying bar of soap
"...Shibby?... Shiiiibbbby?... Dib uuhb wanb mebb to-"
Another soap breaks through the ceiling
Brains Celestia
>...
"..."
Maid who walks in later wants a new job.
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Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
[Spike]
{???}
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your hosts the Pink Pony Club! It's during this time that content does matter, but don't you like chase scenes?!

"I'm the pretty one <3"

'I'm the grumpy one.'

>And I'm the crazy one!

>"'Now for our main segment...COPS AND ROBBERS!!!'"

Spike is chasing down the pink ponies in a big wheel, making siren sounds.
[WoooooOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOooooo You're under arrest! Pull over now!]

'You'll never catch us alive!'
TBDRLIATU turns into a minigun and DT starts firing at Spike.
*DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA*

Spike bobs weaves between the shots making his tires screech.
*ERRRRR*
[Dead or alive you're coming with me!]
Spike fires back using Charity and hits Cadence's shoe off.

"Gah! I've got a flat tire!"
Cadence starts screeching out of control.
*ERRRRR*

>Hold it together!

[Should have stopped sooner.]
He fires another shot blowing out a the left wheel on the cart. Sparks fly as the cart grinds against the pavement.

'WAH!'
DT tumbles in the wobbling cart, but not before firing a rocket at Spike. Spike jumps off his big wheel before it explodes from the rocket and lands on the cart.

>You've made a big mistake! HOOF OF THE NORTH PONK!

[Crap!]

>ATATATATATATATATATATATAT
Pinkie throws a flurry of punches. Spike desperately blocks and struggles to dodge. DT tries to bludgeon Spike with TBDRLIATU, but he makes Pinkie get between them and ends up conking her instead.

>Ow!

'Sorry.'

[An opening!]
Spike throws a punch at Pinkie.

>WATAAAA!
She uppercuts Spike off the cart.

[Ahhhhh oof!]

"The ground's too hot. I'm taking off!"
Cadence flies up.

'...aren't we missing one of the sacks?'

On the ground Spike is brushing himself off holding one of the sack of bits.
[Heheheh.]

>Fiddlesticks. At least he can't catch us in the air.

In the distance, Rarity is flying towards them pulling a chariot with Applejack in tow.
{Bring us closer, Rarity. I want to lasso them with my rope.}
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>>29463590
This is way more epic than it has any right to be.
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>>29463590
LASERS
YOU HAVE LASERS
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I know I am really late to that party, but may I go on to say that the big story bit of Spike last thread really pulled me in for a bit?

He voiced all his inner turnoils, concerns and worries, resolved not to see Chitania a person but a monster, steeled his nerves... and then metaphorically faceplanted when he saw Sunset, wide open, exposed and unaware.

The whole thing where he went over whether he could pull the trigger on her and how just it would be at the end of the day had me rightly captured and empathizing with him.

The only thing that saddens me is the fact that at the end, he didn't really want to do it... but not because he saw her and knew her as a person, but because he didn't want to end up being the kind of monster he was hunting as is.

In the end, if it turns out that he didn't aim to kill Sunset, it's clear that he is not doing this for Equestria, Applejack or even Sunset... but just for himself.

Wow. I'm floored.

Of course, if Spike DID shoot to kill and maybe even does the deed for real he has a lot of respect from me for being willing to be the guy who is willing to be ostracized for not being a hero or good, but getting shot done and that's final.

I know, some of you may not like the whole Antihero or Becoming what you hunt theme, but I just came back from a two month long Bloodborne stint and that just REALLY resonated with me.

Fear the old blood. By the Gods, fear it, Spike the Dragon...
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>>29463933
Spike has always been terrified of being seen as a monster since the very first day. He wants to be the hero, he wants to be the knight of shining armor but he still very much has the romanticized version of what that is. I was fascinated by his talk simply because he pictured himself still as the just hero through it all, he never wavered in the believe that he was slaying a monster.

Thing is, if he does shooter, I don't know if he will be doing it for Equestria, or just for himself. To finally be the one guy who is special for his own reasons, and who is finally distinct from the big brother he never really managed to catch up to. It's very obvious he's doing a lot of this to impress his friends, but he is going to do in order to finally be recognized is going to be the real question.
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>AUJ
"???"
~~~~

>Okay, Ah'm officially lost once again. This is bringing up some worrying realizations here. Is this universe so different that Ah' can't even figure out my way around the castle, or do Ah' really not get out of my office so much that even one for one, Ah' don't know where it is... Ah' might need to think about some things.

"A-HEM!"

The alternate pony stopped, blinking and eye twitching as she slowly turned around to face the one softly tapping her hooves.

"Not that your self realization isn't important and learning about yourself and all that, but do you mind? Standing is a bit of a problem for me, I'd like to keep moving and that's a bit of a problem with you in the hallways. Fair warning, if you say go around, I'm not responsible for my actions."

The threat was unnecessary. The Applejack of another world was many things, but one thing she was not was unkind to pregnant mares.

>Sorry.

"I thank you."

The princess wobbled with all the speed of a gimped turtle, taking her sweet time to move past.

>So... uh... how's the baby coming?

That wobble came to a shaking stop, complete with wide jiggle, hooves that looked ready to break in half and to top it all off a dumbfounded raised eyebrow.

>Just you know, in general. Everything okay? Baby wise?

"I certainly hope so!"

The Applejack from a different dimension was many many things, including blunt, forceful, direct, angry, harsh, unforgiving and very unkind, but one thing she was very rarely was awkward. This was awkward.

>Ah'm just asking.

"Did something happen to your Cadence with her pregnancy? Should I be worried?"

Princess Cadence, lucky mare she was, got to witness a legendary occurrence, an event spoke only in legends and claimed by all to be but a myth. She was the lucky one who got to prove all those others wrong. And lo, the rest of world did weep, for they would never know that the hard mare could indeed scrunch her face with the best of them.

1/3
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>>29464176

>That, uh, wasn't a concern over there.

"Oh?... Oh! I see, she must've gotten pregnant just before you left, right? So she's not as far along than me? Like, three months? Less?"

>...Ah' guess 'less' would be the closest one. Since zero is technically less.

"You mean, she's not pregnant?"

>Ahhh, no, no she is most certainly not.

"You're sure? I wasn't sure until I had to have an X-ray to look at all the broken bones from a dinosaur changeling punching me."

>...Ah'm sure. Trust me, you uh... you are not pregnant in my world.

"Oh. Well, I suppose that makes sense, this was kind of a spur of the moment thing. I guess the right moment just never came?"

>Sure, that's one way of putting it.

That scrunching intensified when the pink princess gave her a look, and the normally unflappable mare began to sweat.

"Did something happen over there?"

>Besides me taking over the Empire? They told you about that, right?

"They did."

>Are you mad?

"I kind of wish I could be, but considering how I used to be... the sad part is, I actually understand."

>That's interesting, we should talk about that.

She had been ready to, until that line.

"This feels like you're deflecting the question. Did something happen?"

>A country became Equestria's vassal, that's pretty big.

"I meant for me, personally."

>You weren't happy, don't see why Ah' have to clear that up.

"I know, obviously I didn't like losing my Empire, but I meant more than that. Was the takeover why we decided not to have a baby in your world? Did we not want to bring a child into the strife? Was that it?"

Twice today, the love princess was blessed. She was one of the rare beings who had ever gotten to see the mare sweat.

2/3
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>>29464203
>>29464203

>Uh, don't think that's really relevant, you're completely different here. You and Shine are much better off than in my world, Ah'd just be happy with that.

The heart just off from the baby inside her started to beat faster the more nervous the other mare became.

"...Applejack, is something wrong with the other me and the other Shining? Are we having... troubles?"

She'd had all she could take, and she couldn't take no more. If she'd been trying to make a smooth exit, she failed spectacularly.

>Don't worry about it it's not important just be happy with what you've got and iffin' ya'll don't mind Ah've gotta run got stuff to do and Ah' reckon it ain't gettin' done on it's own-

Any sense of subtlety was lost when she literally backed up and walked up the wall before trotting off sideways down the hall too quickly for the wide mare to keep pace.

>Congratulations hope it's a healthy baby bye-

After that, she was gone, and Cadence was left alone with her worry, and her single question.

"...Do I want to know?"
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>>29464038
So, bottomline, he's doing it for self-gratification, like everyone else on the A-Team is in it for themselves alone and no one else?

And please, don't come at me with the weird 'Deal' 007 and PJ have got going. That whole thing reeks of ulterior motivations.
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>>29464223
I think he, like everybody else, is doing it for their own reasons, and yeah they are a little bit selfish. For sure, they are doing it to help out their loved ones and make sure they are protected, but they all have their own reason for why they are in there right now. The only when I think we can see is doing it for completely selfless reasons is SS. she is just there for DT.
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>>29464223
I didn't say that, he's doing it for what he thinks are noble reasons, but they're the romanticized "Knight saves princess" reasons with clear cut good guys and evil monsters. Even if the story says the knight does it for good reasons, there's still that whole 'save=reward' mentality they've got going on.

And no I don't think the other A-team are doing this for themselves. Silver Spoon for sure is just there to back up DT, DT is there because she actually has that ideal that Spike only sort of has, and the need to protect others in her own weird way, this all started with "her town' being invaded by changelings after all, and 007's loyalty to his Hive means he's not in this for himself, and PJ is actually going against her nature to help out to protect others. They've all got selfless reasons.
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>>29464221
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffff-
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>>29464221
Breakup confirmed!
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>>29464221
>"...Do I want to know?"
I'd like to know. Even though I can foretell it'd make me sad to find out. But Caddy can't change that world's past so maybe leave it be...

>>29464307
>They've all got selfless reasons.
...and they're still going to get someone killed that wouldn't have died if they had brought everyone on the same page.

Vigilantism is bad for a reason, bro.
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>>29463933
>The only thing that saddens me is the fact that at the end, he didn't really want to do it... but not because he saw her and knew her as a person,

But he didn't really know her, he barely ever talked to her, and most of the times he dealt with her were extremely negative. AJ at least had some moments where she talked to Sunset and knew deep down there was something more, Spike missed pretty much all of that. But I do agree, I think he's doing this as much for himself as he is to actually protect anyone, he's got that need to be needed after the breakup with AJ and the realization she got along just fine without him, if not better.

>>29464221
Ohhhhh shiiiiiiitttt.

Divorce Confirmed?
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>>29464352
>and they're still going to get someone killed that wouldn't have died if they had brought everyone on the same page.

Who? Sunset?

The only ones who don't want Sunset dead are PJ because of her promise to Blueblood(not even for her own desires) and 007 because he can't handle someone dying in front of him. Daws okay with it, DT and Silver Spoon haven't said anything, and we'll find out what Spike feels soon.
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>>29464221
>Auj slipping back into country talk

Nice touch
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>>29464436
Holy crap I didn't notice that! Nice touch.
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>>29464361
>Divorce Confirmed?
Or dead.
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>>29464631
How'd he die?
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>>29464706
That's anyone's guess.
For all we know, it was Cadence herself when he tried to leave her

"THE PRINCESS OF LOVE DOES NOT GET DIVORCED!
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>>29464631
Alterjack was so brutally honest Shiny an Hero'd.
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>>29464837
Dude no... Please no. Can you imagine? She teared into him so badly, probably not even maliciously and hearing it from honesty personified...
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>>29464739
Jesus, he thinking that...
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>Fluttershy
"Luna"
~~~

"Fluttershy, our friend? We have a question."

>Oh. Oh my goodness! I'm actually being asked something! This is amazing!

"We disagree with the sentiment, but thou do thou."

>What do you want to know, Luna? Animal care? Some strange story you heard? What certain things mean? If I can make a tuna? I can, I don't know why you want it, but I don't judge.

"No, this was about the second time we met."

>The second time? You mean, the wedding?

"No, the actual second time."

>...

"Nightmare Night."

>Oh. What about it?

"Why did thou scream Nightmare Moon? You saw me, we had a party, what was the sense of that?"

>...

"..."

>...I'm the scared one-

"That's not going to work."

>Ah. Well, fine, if you really want to know, Treehugger gave me some mushrooms that were supposed to calm my nerves.

"..."

>I was only supposed to eat one.

"..."

>I ate the bag.

"...and that meant-"

>I had to get my stomach pumped and was lucky I didn't choke.

"..."

>I saw some things, Luna.

"..."

>I saw some things.

"...we will accept this answer on one condition."

>Share?

"Share."

>Let me hit her up...
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>>29465028
Weed buddies!
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>>29465212
Flutters and Luna go to Black Fortress for all the Hay Bacon Burgers and seasoned fries.
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>>29465310
>Black Fortress
I...I don't get that reference. This is a new one for me.
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>>29465372
It's a colored abode commonly used for royals.

Stoners.

Put it together
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>>29465310
NC
>Fluttershy
"Luna'
~~~

>...Hey, Lu?

"Yo?"

>What do you think is... in these?

"Whaaaa?"

>The fries. The fries mare, what do you think is in them?

"Pooottaattooeees?"

>Pfft... nooo, no silly, the seasoning.

"The seasoning is also potatoes."

>Whaaa, you don't-you're messing with me, you can't make seasoning out of potatoes.

"Yuh huh."

>Look at you, talking like you know, you don't know. You're not a potato farmer, the only spud you know is the soap spuds you use to clean up the mess that is your life. You don't know.

"The fry box says "only all natural potatoes used"

>...Well turn me into a stallion and blow me.

"Naaahhh, that'd be weird."
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>>29463933
>he has a lot of respect from me for being willing to be the guy who is willing to be ostracized for not being a hero or good, but getting shot done and that's final.

But that's bad!

Sunset doesn't deserve to die, she's just had a crappy life.
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>>29465028
I thought we established you didn't actually do drugs though?
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>>29464739
NC
>Celestia'
"Cadence'
~~~~

>Cadence? Sweetie? I know it's been over a thousand years-

"THE TIME IS ETERNAL"

>But I find it strange your spouses all vanish right around when they'd be having their mid life crisis. Is there something you want to tell me?

"Nope!"

>...

"Princess of love!"

>...okay.
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>>29464221
>"...Do I want to know?"

The one time I wish AUJ would be blunt and direct.

>Fine, ya' want to know? Ah' stole your husband.
"W-...what?"
>WE'RE MARRIED.
"I don't.."
>ME. HIM. MARRIED.
"I'm not following.
>He' liked it, he put a ring on it!
"I think I'm following."
>And we have sex all the time!
"I'm lost again. Those statements you said cancel each other out!"
>ALL THE TIME.
"Are you having a stroke?"
>AHHHH!
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>>29466687
>Auj trying to help an oblivious AJ steal Shining when?
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>>29466687
"How'd you feel about adding another mare to the mix?"
>Ah'd have cut his balls off.
"..."
>Why? What's that got to do with anything?
"..."
>What!?
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>AJ
"Rarity"
~~~

>Have ya'll seen Dash? Ah' want her to deliver a message.

"I think she knows."

>What makes you say that?

"I haven't seen her in hours."

>...Ah.

"She's a very lazy mare, Applejack. You know this."

>So, shake the heavens and knock her out of the clouds?

"I doubt that will work."

>You don't know that.

"Do you really want to get on her bad side?"

>What's the worst that could happen?

"According to your alternate universe doppelganger-"

>Alright, point taken.

"..."

>Have you seen Pinkie?

"Do you hear a party?"

>No?

"Then she's not in hearing range."

>...Ya'll have some right respectable logic, You're impressin' me.

"I learned from the best."

>Awww.

"..."

>You weren't talkin' about me, were-

"I'm talking about the mare who's modest with the hardy wisdom."

>...Clever girl.
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>>29467078
There's the banter I love!
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>>29467182
And the Rarijack I wish I could write...
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>>29465752
Not Nc!

More drug shenanigans!
>>
Goodnight thread
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>>29467713
This!
>>
Here's hoping for big things today, night/morning thread
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>>29463897
But then how will she lasso them?

>>29465372
Also he's referencing White Castle. They basically serve stoner food.
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>>29468896
>>29467980
Morning everyone, today we'll have lots of fun~
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>>29467390
just do it
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>>29469534
Thank you, Shia.
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NC
>Fluttershy
“???”
‘??’
~~~~

>Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of Fantastically Fixing Friendships, Featuring Fluttershy. It’s during this time that content doesn’t matter, but we have other things to chase than cars. Our next guests are two friends who have lived together for a while, but maybe the proximity is having an undesired effect. Please welcome Octavia and, um, DJ PON3?

“She insists on being called that! And that’s one of the things that’s driving me insane!”

‘Yep!’

>Well, everyone has their own preferences. Now, what seems to be the problem?

“She plays her music boomingly loud on her half of the house!”

‘Yep!’

>Oh, I see. And this makes it hard to sleep?

“It makes it hard to not want to kill myself, that noise is awful!”

‘Pffft.’

>Oh dear. Well, surely you must get along on some things, you did choose to live together.

“Well, she is rather good about paying her rent on time.”

‘Uh huh!’

“But the noise has to stop!”

>Miss Pon3?

‘EP!’

>DJ Pon3. Would you mind being more considerate? Being a punctual roommate is wonderful, but feelings are more complex than that.

‘Hmmm.’

>And Miss Octavia, why don’t you give her something in return, that way this doesn’t degrade into one-upmanship later.

“I suppose I could promise to stop leaving my laundry where she can trip on it. If you’ll be considerate for me, I’ll do the same.”

>Does that sound fair?

‘Hhhhmm. Yep!’

>Wonderful! That was so much easier. Why don’t you hug it out to remind yourselves how good feeling kind is.

“Oh, alright.”

‘Yep!’

>…andthenyoushowherhowtoreallyfeelgoodwhenyouslidedownand-

“Beg pardon?”

>I said that’s all the time we have today, and as always, stay kind.
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>>29469812
I love this new segment. I bet she writes fanfiction about her own guests between the episodes.
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>>29469933
I'm waiting for the inevitable LNPP crossover where DT freaks FS got her own spinoff
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>>29470193
Their fault for kicking her off the pinks.
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>Cadence
“Rarity”
~~~~
“Darling! You look wonderful!”

>Aha, ahahah, ahhhh… I will stab you in the throat.

“I was being sincere.”

>And so was I!

“I take it you’re not adjusting well?”

>I feel like I swallowed a bowling ball and it hurts.

“Well, size wise, a baby pony is comparable to a bowling ball, especially their oversized heads…”

>…

“Not the best time?”

>I’m now imagining pushing that out, you tell me if it was a good time to bring it up.

“Ah. I see. Well, unfortunately there’s not much I could do in this case.”

>One day, you will be in my hooves, this exact place and with this exact problem, and I will laugh, and laugh, and laauuugh.

“…C-…carrying Shining Armor’s child?”

>…

“You said exact, this is rather specific. I suppose I fit being an alicorn, so yes, I’d be one of the rare ones able to be exact, so are you… hoping for this?”

>…Rarity, I’m going to share something with you, and you can never, ever, ever repeat it to anyone, ever.

“You… you’re giving me a secret… ME. I… me? You do remember who I am, right? You haven’t gone delirious?”

>This is your chance to redeem yourself.

“If you say so? I don’t know if I deserve this.”

>I’m going to share with you something only you will know, and can never leave the room.

“Is it that Shining has a crush on me?”

>…

“It’s what we were talking about, I wanted a heads up.”

>No.

“Aw.”

>….

“I like feeling loved.”

>…

“The secret, darling?”

>What I’m about to say is one hundred percent truth.

“…”

>…I wish Shiny had knocked up another mare besides me.

“…”

>This huuuurttss.

“…I think you’ll reconsider later.”

>I doubt it.

“Er, what if he wants another-“

SLAP

>HE GETS ONE! ONNNNEE!

“…”

>Byeeee!

Moonwalks out.

“…And that’s why I’m always on birth control…”
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>>29470743
Birth control? You get less action than shiny, bitch!
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>Guard
“Guard 2”
(Cantie)
{Cantie2}
~~~

>Almoooosstttt.

“Allllmoooossstttt.”

(Not going to work.)

{Bound for failure.}

>Allllllmooooooosttt!

“Allllllmoooooooooosssstt!”

(Gonna blow up in your faces.)

{Any second now.}

>ALLLLMOOOOOOOOOOSTTTT!

“ALLLLLMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSTT-GOT IT!”

>WE GOT THE KEYS!

“WOOO_

ZAP!

THUP

>…
“…”

~Please cease trying to escape.~

>…
“…’

(Told you so.)
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>>29470811
>Whiteys don't get no lovin
>>
>Celestia
“AJ”
~~

“Why are you wet?”

>Wish I could say that was the first time I was asked that question!

“Is it not?”

>…why do I hurt myself.

“Don’t drip on my papers.”

>Don’t make them so water-absorbent.

“You know Ah’ can’t change that.’

>And you know I’m never going to change my ways.

“That’s… sadly looking to be true.”

>Can’t teach an old mare new tricks.

“Course you can, you can get her to finally admit she’s old.”

>…I will stab you in the eye.

“Have you done that before?”

>First time for everything.

“Sounds like another new trick to me. Ah’m teaching you all kinds of things.”

>Better teacher than I was, I guess.

“Meh, what can Ah’ say? Maybe you just need the time.”

>…

“Oh-“

SHAKESHAKESHAKE

“MAH PAPERS!”

>This is what you get, Applejack! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET!

“OUT!”
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>>29471330
>Celly shaking like a dog

A.
Fucking.
Dorable.
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>>29470743
>“Er, what if he wants another-“
>SLAP
>>HE GETS ONE! ONNNNEE!

Flurry heart will not have competition!
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>AB
~~

>…Ah’ wonder what happened to Sweetie Belle or Scootaloo?... What would Applejack do?... Yeah, it’ll sort itself out later.
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>Pommel
"77"
'Potsticker'
~MH Captain~
-FD Captain-
(BM Captain)
{Silver Star}
=TH Captain=
■LP Captain ■
~~~~

>Prostitution is legal in Las Pegasus!?

■Of course! ■

“Did you not know that?”

>Excuse me!?

“Don’t give me that look, I’ve got a mare who fulfills that need back home-“

>Did not need that!

‘I would like to hear more.’

~I would not! UGH! Imagining you with a mare…UGH!~

“Please make that about the fact I’m clearly not attractive, and not because-“

~It’s the changeling thing.~

“And there it is!”

-Do Changelings do weird stuff during sex?-

“I can change sizes.”

-…What kind of sizes?-

>I think we all know what kind of sizes and I hope you all will be silent now-

(Can you do that with magic? I’m asking for a friend.)

>I don’t know-

(Bullshit.)

>Fine, bullshit, but I’ve never been able to.

‘Whoa!’

>Do not give me that, it’s a damn right of passage for any unicorn stallion to try at least once to make it grow!

■He’s telling the truth, all of us try it at least once. ■

~Hrmph! I’ve never had a need for such things-~

‘PFFFTAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!’

~Like you would know!~

‘I’ve seen all of your medical files, I know.’

>What was that!?

“I have a medical file?”

-I’m getting treatment for whatever you read in that!-

{It ain’t an addiction, it’s a hobby.}

=Hrmph.=

‘I didn’t read yours!... Mostly because I couldn’t get a hold of it. I uh… take it you don’t need to see the doctor very often?’

-Probably just punches the cancer right out of herself.-

>FOCUS PONIES!

(Fine! If he’s legal with his prostitutes, can I make mine legal?)

>What?! No!

(I have a lot of prostitutes I don’t know what to do with!)

>Holy shit, what!? Where were they when I was growing up!?

“Uh-“

>I know how that sounds but it’s not what it sounds like! I meant I never saw them, and I grew up there!

1/2
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>>29471838

(Down by the docks. Also? Everyone? Everyone please, can I have your attention? You now all have complete freedom to laugh your ass off at Captain Pommel.)

>Excuse me!?

“Why?”

>SEVENTY SEVEN!

“I just want to know why I’m going to be laughing at you.”

(Because the only guys who never go down to the docks on their sixteenth birthday are the guys with loser friends.)

~Ha ha! Even though what you said is disgusting and I’d never touch one of those wretches souls, I will happily take my chance to laugh at you! Ha ha!~

>Well this is going well!

■Have you not legalized it yet? My goodness, that’s strange! I don’t know what I’d do without access to the bubble machines, how do you all live? Oh, so behind the times, you might as well be ruled by medieval ponies. ■

>We literally are!

■…Huh. ■

(So can we legalize mine?)

>NO!

{Why’re ya’ askin’ him? Ain’t that decided by the princesses?}

(Hey, yeah! Why’re we taking your word for it?)

~REVOLT! REVOLUTION!~

-YEAHHHH!-

=Hmm.=

~…~
-…-
(…Nevermind.)

>I thank you.

=Hm.=

“This does bring up an interesting point-“

>No revolution against me!

“-how do we get better law proposal access, right now it takes months to hear back from them, and I live right over there! My guard took forever to get formed. Can we open up a channel directly to them or something?’

>That’s… a good question. Good question!

■Why don’t we use those wonderful EVO Corp towers? They’re simply divine! ■

~The… what?~

■Oh ho hooo!... So behind the times. ■

>…I have questions.
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>>29471846
>Evo Corp

Oh shit.
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>>29472035
Considering it's currently imploding, not exactly a threat.
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>>29472099
>>29472099
>>>29472035
>Considering it's currently imploding, not exactly a threat.
>implying the princesses won't see as everything EVO has done as useful
>implying they won't seize it or at least leave it running as an institution to keep crime low
>implying no matter what happens to the leadership, EVO won't remain
>implying the princesses and the Equestrian miltary would want to tear down radio towers that enable long distance communication at last
>implying Sunset hasn't planned for that
>implying Sunset needs to be there for something bad to happen when someone fucks with her tech
>implying OH SHIT *isn't* the right reaction To anything Sunset does or ever did

Dude.
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>>29472149
>Sunset sets it up so even if she dies, the princesses can't turn off the mind control without sending the entire economy into chaos

JUST
AS
KEIKAIKU
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>>29465028
>>29465212
>>29465752
>>29467713
>>29468393

>Fluttershy
„Luna“
'Tree Hugger'
~~~

Gurglegurglegurglegurglegurgle... wheeze!

„Cough cough cough... ooooooooooooooooooooh... cough!“

*fwumph*

>I have never seen a princess do that before. Mares, stallions, gryphons, even a donkey... but never a princess.

'Righteous.'

„Stars... so many stars... they taste like little, sweet tears.“

>I think she's eating her own mane.

'Let her be, mare, let her be. Everyone has a right to explore themselves.'

„Mmmrrrnnbbblll...“

>I... I don't know, eating yourself sounds so... weird, like... what would you even taste like? I don't like it.

'I think its prety rad. The Lu's exploring uncharted territories. She's a real pioneer, isn't that sick?“

Twitch.

Sudden stand!

>!

'!'

„...“

>...

'…'

„...we aren't hungry anymore.“

*flop*

'That's what I mean. Lu's on a reall deep exploration of herself, right? Pass me that?'

>Sure.

'And I really dig her new, short hairstyle. All... wild and rebellious.'

„*gigglesnort* Rebellion she says... let me show you a rebellion!“

>W-wait, princess, you, wait, that's the balcony you might...!

SLAM!

„HEAR ME, CITIZENS!“

>Oh dear!

'Whoooo... this is going to be GOOD.'

„THE NIGHT!“

>OhdearOhdearohdear!

„SHALL LAST!“

'I dig the night. It's all, like, cool and refreshing, right?'

>Not the issue!

„SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN USUAL!“

>...oh.

'...heheheh. Groovy.'

>...I am not high enough to babysit a princess.

'...sooooo...?'

>So, please pass me the paper, the milkweed and some poison joke. I feel like going rogue tonight.
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>>29472272
Fluttershy is totally taking over.
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>>29472272
Oh sure, but when ZECORA does it, it's immoral. Fucking racist.
>>
>>29472401
It was a different thread mentality then man, now she can go right ahead.
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>>29472401
Eh. CD if you will. I have no idea about Luna's past brushins with Zecora,Flutters or her stance on recreational drug use.
>>
>>29472502
''Twas a joke, she was freaked out at the idea because she was old-fashioned, but I could see her loosening up
>>
>>29472272
NC
~Cadence~
~~~~

~YES!~

>Um... I don't think pregnant mares are supposed to-

~SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GIVE ME A TOKE!~

>O-okay.

~What's the worst that could happen?~

~~~~

(WAAAHHHH!)

BOOM!

~Don't do drugs, kids!~
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>???
"???"
~~~~

Sunset's life had been one of change for as long as she could remember.

From the very first memory that still remained in the fractured parts left standing after her brush with the mental connection with her new ally, she could recall that her life had always been about changing. Changing subjects in school, changing homes, changing locations, changing worlds, changing teachers, even changing alliances and her very body, changing everything in her whole world with the flip of a coin, never knowing what it would show when she landed. Some days, she would be the brightest student of the noble princess, other days she had been their most deadly of enemy. She had learned from them, she had faced them as a pony and as a monster, she had thought of them as friends and thought of them as her most hated of foes.

To change what she thought the status quo of her life no longer held any shock to her, for now she had just expected it. When it held steady for months on end, when she stayed in one place with one group and their relationship remained as it had been, that was the oddity of her life. This life she had lived these past few months as she toiled away had been the outliners in her entire existence, and before this day she'd never said a single negative thing about it. This place she had found herself in had slowly but surely become that norm that she'd never had before in her life for too long.

She'd had steady work, a set goal, the means to accomplish it, a comfortable life, and most of all consistent companions. She'd never explicitly called them friends, not a single time before today, but the need had never struck her a single time either. With them, in this place, she had found her stride.

But hers was not a life to stay steady.

Her life was one that changed.

No matter how much she could have prevented or struggled against it, or how much she wished it would stay the same, it changed suddenly.

Just like always, it changed with a Bang.

1/7
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>>29472756

She would never get another chance to think about it. Her one chance to realize how lax she had become, how flighty uncaring she was in this moment had completely gone. She would never have time to reflect on how little she'd cared of anything in the world at that point in time, how her plans within plans within plans had all been laid aside in a brief second, and that one second was all that had been needed to completely turn her world upside down.

She'd not been able to throw up a single shield, cast a single spell, no defense rushed to her aide, there had been nothing prepared and nothing to go off when the unthinkable happened. Just like that, it was too late to prepare.

One moment where she had let her guard down, sure it had not been needed, and everything changed.

One moment she would never get to reflect on. It was too late.

There was a Bang, and it was over.

>...I honestly did not expect this... congratulations.

Who stood behind her, who was the one who had made that ventilation grate fall to the ground with a metallic bang before they were upon her was a mystery. She could feel the cool of some sort of metal near her, could smell the gunpowder and the stink of a grip that had been handled until it had faded, she could tell exactly where they were, exactly how high, and could even guess just how deadly the weapon pointed at her was. Those questions were easy.

The others were not so simple. To her dismay, she could not guess exactly who it was that lied behind her.

Even worse, she could not fathom why they had not fired that weapon yet, and what that meant.

"This is the part where you cry out."

One of those two burning questions, at the very least, had been answered.

>...Spike? Spike the dragon?

"The one and only."

The other, not so much.

>No... no way.

She felt like laughing.

She felt like falling to the ground in heaving, burning laughs at the thought.

She felt like exploding out until she screamed.

2/7
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>>29472763

Of all her plans, of all her designs, of all the scenarios she had prepared for, this had been the one that had completely slipped her.

Even now, it was so absurd, she'd no way to even conceive of it. Even with the answer metaphorically staring at her right in the face, she could not put it to reality. That of all creations, of all the powerful and godlike beings that roamed Equestria in power, and of all the myriad of ways they could face her and her Titan companion with all their unspeakable might, the one who had found her at her most vulnerable, the one who had dropped down on her and taken her completely off guard, was none other that Spike the Dragon.

Spike, the little thing she had found so adorable before. Who's most vivid memory in her mind was when he was a tiny puppy. She'd heard tales of his supposed abilities, but she'd never seen them a once, and had believed them just as many times. Spike the Dragon, the adorable little thing that latched itself onto whoever would give him the time of day.

And he had been the one to take her off guard, and if he'd wanted to, could have ended her new life with a single shot.

She wasn't ashamed to admit, especially not now when she still remained in the situation he had created, that he'd completely gotten her. He could have ended it, still likely could end it if he chose, to the point she dared not even try to summon her magic, not with that shadow pointed straight towards her horn visible just out of the corner of her eye.

>No way... Spike? Really? You're the one who-

"I'm not in a very laughing mood right now, Sunset, so can we save the whole 'oh, I can't believe it was 'you' who managed to get the drop on me!' spiel."

He was serious. Just from the strain in his voice alone, there was not a single question to if he was serious or not. The way his claw stayed steady, the way his breathing stayed calm, the way he never spoke above a whisper all pointed to one thing.

He was deathly serious.

3/7
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>>29472771

>... Very well. So, here to capture me? Bring me home to the princesses yet again like a good little doggy? Go fetch for your masters?

"That's entirely up to you."

>...Oh?

Before, he'd certainly had her interest. Now, he had her curiosity as well. Even with her heart racing a thousand miles an hour and the fear of her fresh new life being ended by a single tug of that little finger, she couldn't help herself. She had always been one to find interest in the strangest of places, and this was no exception.

>I take it then, you want to bargain? Finally grown tired of being just a lap dog? Trust me, I understand. Oh, I understand toiling away, trying to impress them, only to-

"Save it, if I was going to betray them, it would take longer than a short speech and a few carrots on the end of a stick."

>Whatever way you swing, big boy, I can provide it.

Her hopes he would shake at all from that were sadly left wanting, he stayed as steady as ever.

"What's going to happen is one of two things, Sunset. You get to decide if you are brought back as a prisoner, or in a body bag. It's up to you."

That rapid heartbeat intensified a thousand fold, and it took everything she had to ensure he never knew.

>Death or cake? I guess I choose cake. There, was that so hard?

"Not good enough."

>If you want information, I'd hate to be the one who points this out but you're not exactly in the best place to get it, anything out of me would probably take more than the cliffnotes version if you wanted something of use-"

"You don't know anything I want to know, I'll leave that to Chrysalis to find out the juicy stuff."

Her fur stood on end at the mere idea of another Queen invading her mind, of anyone else beside the one she had willingly let in being allowed to touch her most valuable and most cherished asset. Just the thought of Chrysalis in her mind again was enough to turn her eyes dark with anger, and her stomach roiling with disgust.

"Nope, none of that."

4/7
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>>29472776

>Then what do you want?

She heard the near imperceptible sounds of a grip tightening, and the inaudible breath seeping in through his nose before being let out slowly.

"I'm actually not sure if you deserve this chance. I was really beside myself if I should shoot you, if I should just end it right here. Maybe I should, maybe I'm just letting the fact I know you, I've seen you when you weren't like... this, and it's clouding my judgement. Maybe I'm wrong, and I should just pull the trigger now, and it's done."

Her breath hitched when she felt him move closer, forcing her magic to stay down lest it set him off in a jump and he follows through on exactly that.

"Maybe I should... but they'd probably hate me for that."

It took an even greater strength of mind than that to keep herself from scoffing at the mere idea they'd care if she died or not.

"I don't want anyone to look at me like that... but I will, if I have to. What comes next is up to you."

>Get to the point already.

She felt the cool sting on her cheek as he pressed the gun to her face, her breath frozen as still as his unmoving, unflinching hand.

"Yell for her to come in here, and I'll just take you back."

If she'd had any air in her at all, it would have left her.

"I won't blow your horn off, I won't put holes in your legs, you get a chance right now to be taken in peacefully, and even make your case in your favor. Just call for her, tell her to come over to this room, and I'll let you live. If you do that, there's still hope for you, there's still a chance. Just call for her, now."

It was never a question who he referred to, only how much it made the dark part of her swirl inside her head that he would ask it at all.

>...and if I scream? If I call out that you're in here?

"Then I blow your head off, and I deal with her."

>...ahha...

He pressed the gun in deeper to her cheek, but the giggles would not stop.

5/7
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>>29472782

>You think... you think you can kill her? You? She could rip you in half with a look, she could shred you into pieces by thinking at you really hard, what are you going to do, make her choke on sadness?

"I have my ways. Question is, are you going to make that easier, or harder? One way or another, Chitania is dying today, only thing in doubt is if I'm telling Celestia I killed two monsters today, instead of one. Call out to her."

For a brief second, her mouth opened. For that half of a moment, it almost seemed she would comply.

Any hopes of that were dashed when instead, she brought up the very thing thing she'd been searching around for when he'd stumbled upon her, a massive bottle of the fanciest wine he'd ever seen, and ripped the cork out with her teeth.

He watched her throw her head back with disgust, she could now plainly see his lips curling in the reflection on the bottle, and she didn't care at all. She drank and she drank, and she loved it.

When she finally came up for air, it was with a self satisfying sigh, and a smirk on her face.

>Spike? I don't know what you think you're up against, but..

"But?"

>I didn't come here just because I was thirsty.

She tilted the bottle at him, and the coy smirk turned positively wicked.

>This is my celebration wine.

"And that means?"

It was then, as if divinely chosen, that it happened.

The room began to glow.

"What... what the fuck!?"

He'd never moved his grip, never truly looked away from her enough that she could surprise him, of course he would be expecting that. Even so, even with that deadly weapon still in her face, she wouldn't have traded seeing his face twist into horror for anything else in the world.

"What the fuck is this!?"

>The finale, Spike. The ending, and none of you ever saw it coming.

6/7
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>>29472787

The room's glow became almost blinding, the waves beneath his feet beginning to pulse as some strange kind of magic pumped through it.

>I flicked the switch for it... an hour ago? In other words... you were too late, before you ever even arrived.

He could feel it. Even without a single bit of that glow reaching above the floor, he could feel the tingle of magic coursing beneath him, sparking like electricity beneath the soles of his feet.

"How...'

>How could you all have missed it? How could it all have happened without anyone knowing?... You know the reason. Because when it comes right down to it...

She leaned forwards, letting the barrel of the gun press deeply into her cheek all for the pleasure of seeing his twisted face up close.

>I'm better than you. Go on, shoot me. Fire your little pea shooter. Because with this... it won't matter anymore. We're beyond this now.

The temptation to pull the trigger overwhelmed him, but his claw never closed. Not yet.

>We're about to take down the gods, and everything has gone exactly as planned... you lose.

Not yet.

~Sunset! Will you hurry up, we can't start without you-~

Now.

Quicker than anyone could follow, even his own eyes, his arm swung to the side, and he fired.

Chitania, the Titan Queen, the strongest changeling to have ever lived, and the bane of the existence of the land of Equestria and the world over, never saw it coming.

One second, she was swinging open the door.

The next, the bullet he fired hit her right in the mouth. A perfect shot, one in a hundred thousand million, and he made it.

Both watched as the unstoppable, unbreakable, indestructible beast went rigid.

Then like a mountain falling, she fell to the side, and lie still on the ground.

"...Was that part of your plan?"
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>>29472795
>He didn't shoot Sunset
What a copout-
>Last post
>FW
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>>29472795
NO
FUCKING
WAY
>>
>>29472795
AHHHHHHHH
>>
>Applejack

>...Am Ah' missin' out on somethin'?

>Nah, not like I'd be left outta any important happenin's

>...Nnnnope, no way that'd happen....
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>>29472795
All those he shot Sunset jokes just feel super lacking now. How did you top that so gloriously?
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>>29472795
Whelp! Did not see that shit coming!
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>>29472795
~Actually I'm not dead~

"Oh"

~Fucker~
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>>29472795
OH MY FUCKING GOD

How do you keep me on the edge of my pants like this you fucker?
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>>29472838
Well she's probably not dead, but holy shit.
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>>29472830
>Spike in the middle of dangerous enemy territory, giving all the cool speeches, and taking on the enemy that should have an emotional connection to AJ and taking out her biggest threat in the process

It keeps happening!
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>>29472795
>have to wait before I can read because busy
Why does life not coincide with my wants?
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>>29472795
Oh.

Oh man...

...this... this is NOT good.
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>>29472864
RIght!?

Just out of the blue! No warning or a lead up! Just DAMN

Ice cold, Spike!
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>>29472888
Oh hey

Now I'm genuinely angry

Now any future confrontation between Applejack and Sunset is gonna have less than a zilch of impact seen here cos it's first proper contact, and also at the zenith of Sunset's plans and goals

And it's the stories B-Team who gets to chow down on it at all
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>>29472972
Are you kidding!?

This is going to have the weight of the fucking world on it next time Sunset and AJ meet. Don't you get it? AJ MISSED THE BIG REVEAL! The big moment! The huge event that she, as the hero, is supposed to be there to combat, and she MISSED IT!

Yes, she missed it because Spike didn't tell her like a dick, but still, think about what this is going to do to her. Think about what AUJ is going to think! This is the biggest twist we've had so far, and AJ is going to have to deal with the fallout.
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>>29472795
Shit. Muse just up and mouth raped me. I have no idea where you are going with this but this is still a conjoinedly written story and like FUCK I will sit by and let a chance to ramp up the epicness of this scene go to waste this easily. Finally, got my groove back!
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>>29472795
>Blueball me last thread
>Resolve it for Super blue balls

I'm starting to think this is your fetish
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>>29472993
>The next big moment between AJ and Sunset is how AJ was a fucking dumbass who wasn't present when Sunset was Important!
>Just like last time!
>And the time before that!
>Can you imagine what brand new quips we can make Doppelgangerjack say?
>It's perfect!
>She doesn't get to participate and be active and solve things! She get's to be lectured at and dwell in hindsight and mope!
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>>29473008
>Excited
>But worried

Please be good please be good please be good...
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>>29472795
Okay, there has to be some divine intervention going on here. Literally everything is done right with this guy. Literally. Everything. Has gone on his way.

This is unnatural!
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>>29473123
Right?

Reality has just been up and bending over backwards in order to make this work for Spike. Nothing has gone wrong, nothing's even stopped him, he just has these moments handed to him.

Something bigger is going on.
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>>29473019
Pfft, it can't be AJ this time.

We can't have this blow up super hard in her face.
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>>29473187
NO FUCK YOU IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S GOOD OR BAD SHE JUST HAS TO BE THERE AND DOING STUFF
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>>29473198
Doing what, though?

Did you want AJ to have a huge dilemma about killing Sunset? You can't just replace characters like that.
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>>29473227
AJ being stealthy would be pretty weird. Kinda want it though.
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>>29473227
You know

Owning up to her actions and mistakes and well

Getting stuck in

Doin the confrontation, horse to horse, throw in the deicide thing, spring from that and go from there.
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>>29473265
...Did you think that Spike was going to stop Sunset or something?

Dude. I'm not sure here, but I'm 99 percent sure this is KKA, and he wrote Apple-Crazy. He knows how to bring the ultimate confrontations of two enemies to a head.

I'm not worried about that, guy just takes forever to build up to the perfect moments. One thing I'm kinda iffy on, to be honest, loooot of buildup. The payoffs obviously floor people, but it takes a while to even get there. I get wanting to establish stuff, but you know.
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>>29473297
I'm kind of with you, the atmosphere is always perfect, but it takes some times and often weeks to get to the big moment. We literally had the A-team just crawling around an empty building last thread.

Don't get me wrong, HOLY FUCKING SHIT WOW that story, and Spike's inner doubt was great but yeah, wish it came out faster. That said, I'd prefer a perfectly cooked meal every time, even if I'm about to fall asleep by the time the chef gets there.
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>>29472795
I'm torn. Obviously, this would be a very anticlimactic ending to the entire thing there between her and AJ. On the other, this would be something I've never seen before. I'm torn.
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>>29472993
>This is going to have the weight of the fucking world on it next time Sunset and AJ meet. Don't you get it? AJ MISSED THE BIG REVEAL! The big moment! The huge event that she, as the hero, is supposed to be there to combat, and she MISSED IT!
>as the hero

Hahahahaha! Weeeeew, I find it funny that you think that. AJ isn't the Hero mate, she's the janitor,the custodian, the caretaker. AJ is NOT the hero even if this is her thread.
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>>29473015
/pa/ we keep you edging till you die.
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>Fluttershy
"Luna"
'TH'
~~~~

"Verily, we see the sun!"

>That's a lamp.

"The lamp is it's own mini sun, the entire world revolves around this point of being. Think of the universe created in a living room. It's like..."

'Whoooa'

"Thou gets it!"

>That's very profound.

"Does thou ever wonder why they're called chips?"

>They're chipped off the potato.

"...sweet mother of me."

'Lulu my trulu, I knew that forever ago. What I don' know is... where does the hoof end, and the leg begin?'

>That's... huh. Where does my hoof end?

"I can't even handle this right now."
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>>29473584
Luna is tweaking!

We're fucked!
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>>29473198
I want her to do stuff too but the story has to fit.
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>>29472795
Damn. Well THAT was pretty raw moment, even if it's suffocatingly obvious Chitty's still alive and going to get right back up. Still, the banter between Zombieset and Spike was top-notch.
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>>29473916
>Zombieset

Wut?

She's not a zombie anymore.
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>>29473928
She'll always be Zombie man, only thing is that now she's dead on the inside instead of the outside.
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>>29473994
>Implying that giggly mess we saw in the shower isnt more alive than before she died
>>
Well, this is the PERFECT time for valentines stories!
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>>29474148
NC
>Reporter
"Sunset"
'Spike'
~~~

>Really? "Killing" Chitania right before HnH day? Really?

"Were we that transparent?"

>Come on.

'Hey, I was just doing a favor.'

>Seriously?

"I have a contract, Chitty has a contract, we have X number of scenes we have to shoot, but if we can do it in one taakkke..."

>Then you can go on for more Hearts and Hooves stuff, I get you.

"There it is!"

'Could be worse.'

>How?

'Shiny is shooting like, ten Hearts and Hooves scenes tomorrow. At least.'

>Wow.

'Yeah, wouldn't that suck?'

"Totally awful."

>Uh huh. So what are you two going to do?

"Go on a date."

>Ohhhh?

"Not with each other, gosh!"

'That'd be so weird!'

"Super weird!"

>Sorry, shouldn't have presumed.

"Damn right. Now if you don't mind, Chitty is waiting, and the Celestial Hair Dye isn't going to last more than twelve hours, I'm making the most of it."

'And Twilight should be juuuust about finished with the salon treatment for her new hair, so gonna give that one a whirl if you know what I mean.'

"'LATER!"'

>...wait what.
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>>29474230
>'And Twilight should be juuuust about finished with the salon treatment for her new hair, so gonna give that one a whirl if you know what I mean.'

...How is that one MORE disturbing than Chitty dressed up like Celestia?
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>>29474342
...well, I know to mares getting an outfit swap.
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>>29474379
>Celestia in Chitty's Battle Armor

MAKE
IT
FUCKING
HAPPEN
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>>29474379
>>29474387
God yes
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>>29474387
Chitty would look down right majestic
>>
Goodnight threax
Happy love day tomorrow
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>>29473418
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>29475108
Yay, love to everyone
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>>29475403
>>
Night thread
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>>29458805
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>>29476571
Gj
>>
NC
>FS
“???”
‘???’
~~~

>Oh, hello and thank you all for joining us for a special Hearts and Hooves day edition of Fantastically Fixing Friendships, Featuring Fluttershy. It’s during this time content doesn’t matter, but love days always do. Our next guests aren’t having so great of a time on this day, and we’re going to see if we can help them out with that. Please welcome Lemon Hearts and Cherry Berry.

“Hello.”

‘Hi!’

>Now, the issue you two are having is a scheduling one?

“She promised me to hang out on Hearts and Hooves day, she knows I don’t have anyone else to go with! But she promised Golden Harvest the same thing!”

‘No I didn’t.’

>Oh dear. Cherry, I’m sure you had the best of intentions to help out more than one friend, but going behind her back like that isn’t going to end any way but badly. And lying isn’t going to help.

‘I didn’t, though!’

“I saw you!”

‘I was across town, how could you see me there!?’

“Because you’re lying! Is this about me? I’m sorry I’ve been hanging out with my old friends so much, but taking it out on me for spending time with Moondancer isn’t fair!”

‘I’m not!’

>Now, yelling isn’t the answer.

‘Look, I’ll be there on Hearts and Hooves day, okay? I promised and I’ll be there, and no, I won’t bring Golden Harvest along, I never talk to her! This is all a misunderstanding!’

“Well…”

>Sometimes the simplest answers are the best.

“Alright, I’ll believe you, and I’m sorry for assuming, it’s just when I saw you-“

‘It wasn’t me!’

“Okay. I trust you, and I’m sorry I’ve been missing out so much.”

‘You can make it up to me on Hearts and Hooves day.’

“I will!”

>Oh, and I didn’t even have to tell you to hug… nowgogetsomecandlesandrekindlethatsmoothlove-

‘What?’

>I said that’s all the time we have for today, and as always, feel the love, and stay kind.
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>Implying what won't happen is Sunset breaks the spess time continuum to go Get Chitania Back and kick the A-Teams ass while doing so

At this rate there's no point doing anything else, no hope for Applejack to get a Bigger Moment than that. Nothing could surpass that level of character power levels, development, importance and stakes

Applecrazy is a fucking drop in a puddle compared to this
>>
>>29476871
Are you talking about your hypothetical scenario or what happened?
>>
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your hosts the Pink Pony Club! It's during this time that content does matter, but you'd be lonely without us!

"I'm the pretty one <3"

'I'm the grumpy one.'

>And I'm the crazy one!

>"'Now for our main segment...HEARTS AND HOOVES DAY!!!'"

>What are you girls doing for Hearts and Hooves day? I'm gonna be giving out candy to the sad ponies who are alone.

"This is my holiday! I'm gonna be going around and matching ponies up, spreading all the love. It'll be sooooo cute!"

'I'm just going to stay at home and eat chocolate cake.'

Pinkie and Cadence raise an eyebrow.
>"Oh?"

'...what?'

Nosy mode activate.
>How come you're alone? Don't tell me you're spending all your time with your rocket launcher.

"You're young, you should be having young love right now."

'I'M JUST NOT LOOKING OKAY!?'

>She can't find anypony.

"Yup yup. Probably because her personality is too difficult."

'I AM NOT DIFFICULT AND I CAN HAVE ANYPONY I WANT! IT'D BE EASY!'

>"Riiiiight"
They grin mischievously.

'You what? Screw you guys.'

>You'd at least screw something.

"OOOOOOOOH!"

>That's all the time we have now, but have a good Hearts and Hooves Day everypony!

>"Byyyyyye!"

'You two are assholes.'
Pinkie and Cadence look away sticking out their tongues.
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>>29476928
>Later, she goes back home, looking over her shoulder with suspicious eyes.
>Opens the door
>There's candles and trail of roses.
>TBDRLIATU is waiting for her
'They could never understand...'
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>>29475960
Da Raaaaaage! Nice! I don't even see any guide lines
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>>29475960
Is he going super anon?
>>
NC
>SA
“Cadence’
~~~

>HAPPY HEARTS AND HOOVES DAY! I got you a present!

“Is it the ability to give birth without pushing a watermelon sized object out of my hooha!? OH SHINY! I’M SO HAPPY!”

>…

“…is it actually-“

>It’s chocolates.

“…”

NOM

“At least something is getting inside of me tonight.”

>Awww.
>>
>>29475960
>Pictured here: typical /pa/l's reaction to the story not going the way he wants it to
>>
So what's the plan today? Some Hearts and Hooves NC/Cd/canon stories to lighten the mood, or straight to the horrible events unfolding in Hoofington?

Because holy shut guys I have such sights to show you...
Haha... ahahaha... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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>>29477345
We're not that bad.
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>>29477371
Did you ever check out some of the discussions? Especially those involving Blacklings?
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>>29477357
Wait a second… I reconize that post!

Oh god, no again! Please no more Sunset pulling bullshit powers with "super cool" incantations out of nowhere, please no more 180 character flips designed to reset characters back to a previous state because of obvious shipping bias, please no more characters introduced out of nowhere and suddenly being super relevant and please for the love of GOD please no more of that stupid "she's unhinged so all her crazy acts make sense" bullshit!

Please I am begging you do not ruin this hype train for me again!
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>>29477391
What? No! That whole EVO Infiltration number is propably KeikakuAnon's brainchild. I am not touching that stuff with a 10ft pole unless he asked me to.

Nah. There's outer stuff happening surrounding that event I want to write. Or at least, which I think SHOULD happen. I really need an editor or something... It shouldn't be that bad. Or bad at all. Who knows!
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>>29477391
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>>29477410
Fuck off tumblrshit
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>>29477391
Dude, story first, THEN critique.

People won't advance if you stay stuck in the past.
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>>29477412
Don't be rude. Please?
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>>29477433
>Doctor Who gif
>less than 1.00MB
>"Dude crazy stuff is cool"

Never again
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>>29477409
Oh, in that case, please post it today. You've shown some great skills in the world building if nothing else, and adding more to this event would be absolutely fantastic. Though, he did say he wanted help with the fight scenes, and if nothing else the desert battle was absolutely amazing to behold.

Fears deleted.

>>29477428

Yeah, that was rude, I am super sleepy and I apologize. Super, SUPER tired. Sorry.
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>>29477412
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>>29477409
For the record, I actually don't mind if anyone wants to join in. Yes, I have a plan, but no, it's not unmovable and it's not something that I would lose my mind over if someone changed. In fact, I actually like it when people join, being able to flex my thinker on my feet is fun. Don't be afraid of the pool, I've got Floaties.

That said, I'm glad you cleared it up, I was planning to wait it out to see what you were going to do before I moved onto my next part. Your post yesterday made it seem like you were diving in so I was ready to tread water before charging in.

and I liked the incantations
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>>29477357
Post it! This is the closest thing I'm getting to a Valentine's today!

And now I've made myself sad
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>>29477455
>>29477514
>>29477543
Thanks for the vote of confidence, you guys are awesome! It'll be up in the next few hours.
>>
NC
>Two
“Shiny”
~~~~

>SHINYYYY! AH’ GOTCHA A HEARTS AND HOOVES DAY PRESENT!

“Awww, thanks Two! But you didn’t have to do that.”

>Yuh huh, cause yer’ mah’ special Shiny.

“Awww.”

>Yep!

“…I feel like this should end with a joke.”

>Can we end it with a hug instead?

“You’re gosh darned right.”

FAMILY HUG
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>>29477645
Best!

Dad!
>>
NC
>AJ
“SA”
~~~~

>…

“…”

>…how am Ah’ supposed to take this?

“With your hooves.”

>You know what Ah’ mean.

“Look, I know you and Spike-“

>Please no.

“So I figured, you know, why not show you you’re still known and appreciated? You’re still someone who deserves a Hearts and Hooves gift, AJ.”

>…Dang it, why you gotta do this to me?

“Because you deserve it.”

>Awww, shucks, thanks Shiny. Now ya’ made me feel bad, thought it would be right weird iffin’ Ah’ got ya’ anything, now Ah’ look selfish.

“You don’t have to.”

>Ya’ know Ah’ do. Come on, Ah’m goin’ inta’ the kitchen, and Ah’m bakin’ you an apple pie.

“You really don’t have to.”

>Ah’ have a lasso and Ah’m not afraid to use it!

“Alright! I’m coming, I’m coming.”

>You better be!

“…I feel like I should end this with something silly-“

>Just enjoy getting’ some pie for once in your life!

“Can’t put it better than that.”
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>>29477778
At least A mare appreciates him!
>>
NC
>SA
“Celestia”
~~~

“Shining Armor? Giving ME a hearts and Hooves day gift? The scandal! What will they think!?”

>You know I don’t give a bubblepop what they think.

“Oh my! So dashing!”

>No, we’re going to be dashing.

“You mean?”

>Oh yeah, I decided to up the game for the special day.

“Oh… oh my… oh my!”

>There’s the pool.

“But the water, it’s so clear, but it looks so strange… Is that…”

>…jelly.

“It’ll be so… strong! Just as breathless, but with hugs from all sides, like we’re being gripped by the very hoof of the ocean!”

>You want to talk about it, or be about it?

“… Shiny?”

>Yeah?

“You will always be the only one I share this with, you’re special.”

>…thank you.

“No, thank you. Together?”

>Until the very end.

SPLASH!
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>>29477941
>SPLASH

Not

>BWONGLFLFMP

Cos that's what a large enough volume of jelly does when impacted with a large enough force

t. fluids graduate
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>>29477778
>Dat sweetness
HHHNNNGGG
>>
NC
>77
"Cheerilee"
~~

>...

"Do you liiiike it?

>...Who's heart is this?

"Mine, silly! I wouldn't give you someone elses heart, that would be weird."

>Ah.

"..."

>...I love it.

"EEEE!"
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>>29478196
Don't go breaking my heaaart!

Seriously don't drop it.
>>
>Chrysalis
“???”
~~~

Her head was going to explode.

Full gore, splattered all over the walls, straight up explode. Erupting in a sea of chitinous gore and cheers. Yes, cheers, because obviously the whole universe hated her and wanted her dead. Obviously everyone would be happier, that’s what she was getting from all this. She was going to keep living to spite it, but she was now keenly aware that reality would just rather not give her a break.

>Nnnggghhhh.

Even with all her hate to fuel her, the desire to just blow everything up and end it all in a sea of flames and bright green in a way that would be as much satisfying as it would be effective. Say whatever there is to say about her, when she goes out, she blows stuff up, and she was three second from..

“Mmmhmmm.”

She hadn’t even heard someone come in. She hadn’t heard anyone walk up. And somehow, she hadn’t even noticed someone get right behind her close enough to shoot forwards and grab her in a hug. She knew who it was, she’d regcognize that love anywhere, but she was in exactly zero mood for a hug right now, and was going to show it.

>…Ngghhh!

“Mmmmhm.”

>Ngh NGH.

“Mmmhhh.”

>…ngghhhhh…

“Mmm hmm hmm. Hm hm hmmm hmmm…”

>Nnnnnggghhhhh.

On second thought, it could wait. Maybe a minute or two of hugs wouldn’t be so bad.

>…ngh.

“Hm.”

Just a bit longer, that was all.

Stupid hugging Shiny.
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>>29478555
Jesus why do you have to do that to me if your trips of love
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>>29478555
Adorable

Bugs need hugs too
>>
NC
>Twilight Velvet
"Nightlight'
~~~~

>Happy Hearts and Hooves day, honey!

"Happy HnH to you too! I got you a new set of earrings and a pair of tickets to the new Hoofleton showing."

>Thank you honey!

"Well? What did you get me?"

>Sex.

"...I'm noticing this is waaaaayyy easier for mares."

>We gonna talk or do this?

"Damn you, capable distraction!
>>
NC
>Cadence
"18"
~~~~

>...I feel like this is a little extravagant.

"Which part? The giant sapphire heart that matches your cutie mark? The synchronized fountains that spell out your name? The giant cake filed with buttercream? Orrrr did you think the specially cultivated giant rose was a little too much?"

>...I forgot what early date valentines were like.

"Why? What did Shiny get you?"

>Chocolates.

"..."

>...

"Did I overdo it?"

>I like it.

"...sooo..."

>...

"Do I... get something?"

>Yes, you get a kiss.

"Is that it?"

>Want to scale it back?

"NO NO! Kisses fine!'

>...I forgot how easy this was.

"What?"

>C'mere.
>>
>>29479183
>>29479318
Noticing a theme...
>>
>Cup Cake
"Carrot Cake'
~~~~

>Happy Hearts and Hooves day!

"Oh my goodness! A giant cake!"

>Yep!

"Are you saying I'm fat? Is that it? I just want a big sweet thing to eat?"

>Impossible, you're already the sweetest thing ever.

"...You win this round, honey bunches."
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>55
"Ingrid"
~~~~

Changeling number Fifty Five was a very simple thing.

He wasn't smart, he wasn't clever, and he wasn't quick to think on his hooves. He wasn't a grand fighter without compare or a magical behemoth capable of laying low any foe. Sometimes he wished things were different, a night or two lied awake wondering what it would be like to be as smart as those he admired, questioning if he was as useful as he could be if only he'd had a mind that worked like everyone else seemed to. Sometimes, though they were rare he wondered what the trick that let them pull it off was, like a child watching a magic show. He himself had no such trick, regardless of what magic he could use. He didn't have a secret brilliance to him or a hidden mind he kept away from sight, what anyone saw is what they got, and nothing more.

For some, that was more than enough.

"Higher!"

Being as she was, coveting the sky was something that likely passed through any that shared her lack of wings, pony or not. It wasn't a rare occurrence for an earth pony or unicorn or buffalo to look up to the sky with a little bit of envy and wonder what it would be like to have the sky's grace at their grasp any time they felt like it. It often wasn't much to ask for a friend to take them there, most pegasi would do it just for the fun of it, but it never felt true. The element of needing to do it for themselves, and the hidden joy at relishing in that thing that made them special was always there. To fly was a gift they were lucky to have and thankful for and that tainted it a bit.

For one that just wasn't true.

"Higher, higher, higher!"

>Okay!

One was just excited to hear her happy.

1/2
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>>29479527

There was only one being in all the world she knew without question wanted to see her smile, and nothing else. There was only one who did not feel that rush of superiority of what they held over her. Only one who had nothing hidden away, nothing kept secret. There was no love of themselves there.

"Oh my goodness!"

There was only love, from one who should not have been able to give it.

There was only love that held on in that sky up above, with the sun setting just out of sight. There was only love in his smile as he watched her expression, not needing to look at his creation himself. There was only love when she looked back, away from the heart he'd spent the entire day forging in the sky. The flames still burned brightly in their shape to show how he felt, and if it was magic or something more that kept them alight in the sky he could not have even begun to question.

For he was a very simple thing.

"...I love you."

And for one, that was more than enough. For the simplest things have the simplest answers to partner them, and make them whole. Every day, they felt whole.

They'd found their simple answer.

>I love you too.
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>>29479533
HOLY SHIT!

Never miss a valentines day, do ya'?
>>
>>29479533
ohhhhhhhh

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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>>29479564
LOVE FINDS A WAY

>>29479533
>Fuck drama
>Fuck screentime
>Fuck yo' politics
>I got my Apple
>I'm good.
Stays out of sight and is the happiest of them all.

>>29479581
???
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>>29479591
Ingrid's the queen one, right?
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>>29479600
Ingrid Marie is an Earth Pony. Specifically, she's one of the Apples, so she's 'probably'(never clarified) a cousin of Applejack.

She's green with bright a red mane. Also freckles.
>>
>>29479620
Fuck

Memory managed to register it with the gryphon lot
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>>29479636
Griffons are Idris, Ingus, and Isabelle.
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>>29477514
>join in
Wanna proofread ahead of everyone else, just to make sure it doesn't clash with your plans?

It's about ready.
>>
NC
>SA
"42"
~~~~

>I got you a Hearts and Hooves day gift!

"I require nothing. I have no wants, no needs, no reason to desire anything you could give to me. I have no taste for the sweet things of this world, no skin that yerns for silken sheets, no nose that wishes to smell the scents of grandeur. I am a being of war, of conflict, of battle, and I shall live my life as such. I have no Hearts for Hooves this day, and you shall give nothing I have any need for."

>It's punches!

"EEEEEE! YOU'RE THE BEST SHINY EVER!"

>...

"I mean... that is acceptable."

>...

"Can I punch you now?"

>Yes.

"...Iloveyousomuch."

PUNCH
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>>29479669
Eh, why not? I don't really mind if stuff clashes with my 'plans' as said, but I love getting sneak peeks!

>>29479978
Shiny, you goddamned brilliant stallion you.
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>>29480014
>sneak peeks

SPOILER ALERT
http://pastebin.com/mpueY0Rk

It's horridly late where I live. If it's passable, post it. If not, alter it and post it. If it's a grotesque, malformed abomination, get the flamethrower and say a cool catchprhase before sending it back to hell.

I had a blast writing it either way, and might continue if it works out. Good night!
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>>29480077
Well, I have absolutely no idea what the heck that was or where you're going with it, but I say post it if you like it, see what others think. It's wonderfully atmospheric, but literally all I could think of at the end is "This is watchmen. He's doing that scene in watchmen and-there it is!"

I say go for it!
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>>29480192
Having not read it, I don't want to be spoiled, anything you can give us for if it'll clash with anything setup thus far? Hate it when details like that happen.
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>>29480215
He has the glowing energy go in a different direction, I guess? It's only gone straight up the building so far, but the story he has involves it going outside to another source that a character follows further away from the building. It's not exactly a dealbreaker, writing around that or just keeping on is cake, it's all very outside the main story and I find it pretty nicely done.
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>>29480192
>I say go for it!

You're the boss, boss.
>>
>>29480215
>>29480242
I did read it because I don't give a fuck bout no spoilers, but I noticed that too. The story's always had the energy building up just behind our heroes as they started at the very bottom where something used to be, and then flowed upwards. This has it going all outside the city for a thing.

That said, I trust you can work it in if you say you can. It shouldn't be too hard especially if it's not the only one.

That said, yeah, now I cannot see anything but Doctor Birdhatten.
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>>29480077
>http://pastebin.com/mpueY0Rk
>Peppermint would never find out what it was Blackbill saw moments before she died.

Nope

Not havin it

We're not killin anymore people off
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>>29480192
>>29480215
Though, at some point, I'd love to do a concerted effort... maybe create something really enormous, like Sunny's final clash with AJ... mmmfh...
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>>29480288
While I encourage that, and the writer of the AJ VS Mechlebloom fight to join in, the final confrontation is a bit off for me personally, if I start it. You just can't rush an epic final building of all things like that. Sunset's not ready yet, Applejack is definitely not ready yet, gotta cook it a bit more
>>
So

How does AUJ fit into this?
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>>29480283
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii... could make it more Disney-ish in what happens. Your call~
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>>29480315
Into what's happening or what will happen?

You'll have to wait to find out both, but since everyone figured it out, yes, she came through the portal, and what that's going to mean when it's revealed what she's powering on? You'll have to find out.
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>>29480315
I've got you covered. Though, it'd depends on a question I'd need thread consensus on.
>>
CD

~~~

Both watched as the unstoppable, unbreakable, indestructible beast went rigid... and then, like a mountain being leveled, she fell onto her side to lie still on the ground.

“...was that part of your plan?”

~~~

Elsewhere...

~~~

Deep below the sprawling industrial area Hoofington had become in the span of a single year, an awe-inspiring mass of tubes wide enough to fit a dragon through, several hundred miles of wiring, complex engines beyond simple equine understanding and machinery the combined size of four Canterlot Castles has been dutifully powering up in long-before scheduled intervals for over an hour now.

Little by little, this colossal feat of engineering, magical and scientific genius was building up power beyond even the scope of the titanic war machines Fawntaine Industries yet intended to build. All of this was made possible due to a crack in the otherwise near solid tectonic plate upon which the magical land of Equestria rested, a massive amount of pipes the size of small houses converging onto one, focal piece of machinery that was, against all odds of reason, half-submerged in the boiling, bubbling deadly soup of an underground magma chamber.

Those lucky few souls that had laid eyes upon this seeming miracle work of future technology being made reality when it was first built were now dutifully working to maintain the energy flow as indicated and overwatched by the computing network EVO's highly secretive and elusive shadow leaders had installed and prepared for just this moment. The supercomputer did as it was supposed to do, interpreting signals and values for the many, varied species involved in this project to work with.

Every single one of them knew that this thing they had helped create from nothing but scrap would one day change the world in dramatic ways none of them could forsee just yet. And everything was progressing smoothly; everything was going perfectly.


1 / 12
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>>29480351

Until the very last moment, when small, seeming innocuous signal arrived wirelessly from the surface.

It was nothing dramatic. Nothing immediately alarming, and certainly nothing the staff was alerted to. Countless signals like these were flitting in, out and about Hoofington thanks to the many radio towers EVO had installed lately. And, really, all it did was notify the computer that a single, small variable had changed. A simple number among the hundreds of billions that kept the Operating System functional and doing what it was programmed to do. Nothing significant, in the eyes of even the keenest observed.

A single ONE in the midst countless others, was changed into a ZERO.

It could have come from any device with enough importance or clearance to affect the entirety of Subsection A through D down below, which encompassed all there was to this titanic project. It may have come from just about anything; a terminal, a mobile device or even something as innocent as a hidden switch within something as small as an earbud.

But... the effect it had was instantaneous and jarring.

Like a chain reaction, more and more numbers collapsed and turned into new, numerical values. Data was flowing, charts were altered and predictions based on the lightning speed of computed calculations were formed. All coming to one, per-emptively prepared result.

Control was seized from every manual input device with no previous warning; keyboards, digital locks and interfaces stopped responding to those taught to operate them. Within short order, panic was breaking out as the loyal employees of EVO's most secretive Alternative Energy Project were cut off from the surface and the unfathomably powerful reactor they had been tasked to oversee within the single bat of an eye.


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>>29480362

The most crafty and tech savvy among them were just barely able to figure out that there hadn't been a hostile take-over or a catastrophic failure. Sadly, the reality of the situation was far more disconcerting.

Upon their meddling with the computer's interface, the simple Artificial Intelligence informed them in a gentle, flat voice that allowed no room for argument that the situation had changed, and that it would put the according protocols into effect on its own from this point onward. Scientists, researchers, engineers, security... everyone was left puzzled, confused and just a little worried.

When, minutes later, the energy re-routed through this section of Hoofington's underground and up to the surface spiked to such levels that the more mathematically-inclined of them could safely predict it being enough to put a Crystal Empire-sized hole into Equestria's countryside, some of them remembered how to pray to whatever deities of old they had once believed in.

~~~

Several miles to the East, far below the central point of the Hoofington valley...

~~~

...a radio set crackled to life, lonely and silently, the voice coming from it sounding weary, but concentrated.

“Bearing housing T-203?”

Holding said jet-black device was a gryphon, with feathers dark as the night, blue eyes and a scar that visibly told the story of a broken beak at some point in the past.

“Check.”

The gryphoness' voice was was flat, the boredom easily heard from the lack of any lilt or haste in it.

“Connecting rods I-415, I-416 and I-419?”

Every time the voice over the radio asked something, the gryphon glanced down at at a set of unfolded charts. Then she bent down and compared the actual item with the schematic drawing.

“Check, check and check.”

Both of them knew this kind of work, from hours upon hours of endless repetition.

“Pump T-927?”

Both of them knew better than to let routine creep in.

“Check.”


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>>29480368

A single mistake or oversight could mean damage in the range of millions of bits.

“Are the crankshafts of section T-222 in phase position for simultaneous stroke?”

A single mistake could mean someone's ruin, be it a life, economic damages or a stress-induced breakdown.

“Check.”

So, despite being made to endure a seemingly dull and lonely task all alone in the deep, twisting and dark tunnels beneath Hoofington, both the gryphon and her co-worker on the radio performed it dutifully.

“Alright. That's a wrap, then. Apply the front cover N-217 and screw set N-217 and you're good to come back up.”

The voice over the radio sounded relieved, and just a bit tired. It said tone of voice that made the gryphon speak her next works with some slight hesitance.

“Actually... when I passed through Intersection J-203 earlier, I think I saw one of the older flip-disc displays the previous guys installed half a year ago show a potential hazard concerning the wire tie of gear cluster O-066. I wanted to check that out before calling it a day, Peppermint.”

Peppermint, the mare currently holding the other half of the radio set, far, far above and further to the West, sounded cautious, her voice changing to something more laden with concern.

“O-066...? You mean, that stuff behind the ablative-thaumatic shielding at the end of corridor T-225 they had to abandon four months ago?”

The gryphon nodded, despite the futility of the action, before vocally adding.

“That's the one.”

More silence, only the soft crackle of the radio and the distant gurgle of some viscous fluid passing through some nearby pipes breaking up the monotony.

“I don't know, Blackbill. Sure, it's at potential breach risk that could affect us, but I am pretty sure the guys upstairs would prefer if we made a formal request first.”

Blackbill snorted, waving a talon, uncaring whether Peppermint could see her gesturing or not.


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>>29480328
I have no idea what that means

All I want is for us to not make characters up, give them names and emotions solely for us to kill off to make the Good Guy feel vindicated and promptly forget their name
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>>29480380

“Oh, come on. You know how lenient they are with our backgrounds and what we do, so as long as we get this shit done. I'll just have a quick look Whether there's a risk of malfunction or not, I'll be right back up with you.”

Despite all that, Peppermint seemed to have reservations. Rightfully so, Blackbill thought, but she wasn't some little, young chick that needed constant supervision. Of course, the mare who had been appointed as her partner for the last two months didn't seem to share her opinion.

“You sure?”

“I'm sure.”

“Are you absolutely sure?”

Blackbill was just a moment away from tossing the radio against the wall, an intense, piercing glare leveled at the device. Hope she was hoping against hope that her intimidating glare would be transmitted through it.

“YES! Dammit, I am absolutely sure, you feather-damned nag!”

Silence. Long moments ticked by, prompting Blackbill to scratch her claws across the raw floor in annoyance. Then, finally...

“Haaaaaah. Fine. Just be certain to check the cycle counter at the double door system's lock . You don't want to run in there if that malfunctioning primer kicks back up and purges the airlock with you inside.”

“Ugh, don't remind me. I bet old Hephaestus' paw is still stuck in the fluid outlet down there.”

“As long as you are careful.”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah... you old, cranky nag.”

Despite her sharp, reproachful tone, Backbill felt a bit of a warmth; a pleasant tingle as she thought of Peppermint. She may be a cranky, aging mare with a shady background that featured far more dark moments than her own, but she really did have an watchful eye on all of them.

“Just call through if there's any problem.”

Even if the constant, mother-hen attitude could really grind her gears.

“I will! Over.”

“Over and Out.”

With a twist of the button at the top of the black, brick-shaped device it fell silent, though not without emitting a single, loud crackle.


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>>29480390

Blackbill mused on the strange communication etiquette and codes EVO's top brass had passed down to them, idly wondering who had thought of it in the first place, before discarding the history of that as something to inquire on at some other point. For now, work awaited, and the gryphon would be far happier the sooner it was done.

As she walked through the tunnel, a flashlight firmly secured in the breastpocket of the partial overalls she wore, Blackbill had to occasionally pause and check her map. It may seem silly to an outsider, but the gryphon knew better than to rely on memory down here, where countless twisting corridors, spiraling staircases and an abundance of machinery formed a labyrinth-like maze that looked the same on every floor. Forgetting to constantly double-check one's location was an express invitation for disaster to strike.

It didn't take her long to reach her destination and despite the eerie sounds the echoed down the hallways from a distance, she didn't feel ill at ease. The Diamond Dogs had done truly marvelous work down here, and they had inhabited the underground these tunnels now criss-crossed long before EVO or even Equestria itself was a thing.

The worst she expected to encounter was a cranky Diamond Dog putting the moves on her, really.

All too soon, she stood before the by now outdated panel that, as she had suspected, displayed a warning for a potential malfunction of a minor device beyond the heavily shuttered floodgate next to it.

Briefly, Blackbill mused that it was unlike any door or passageway that had been installed down here. Comparing the instructions and charts she had brought with her in a saddlebag didn't yield any useful information besides several cautions of the potential dangers of this abandoned section of the project.

“Come on, Blackbill. Your mother didn't raise no chicken...”


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>>29480399

Mumbling quiet assurances to herself, the gryphon approached the gate, trying to find a way to open it. It took the better part of the next fifteen minutes, a lot of cursing, sweat and physical force for her to turn the lock, and even more cursing and huffing until she had managed to pry it open far enough for to slip inside

The musky smell of stale air and dust immediately assaulted her senses, causing her to cough and cringe in disgust. Blackbill didn't care to examine the big, messy splotch of reddish rust on the ground near the right corner of the airlock where she suspected Hephaestus had his accident several months prior.

Thinking back on it, she supposed it had caused quite a scare, both for the mangy mutt of a Diamond Dog and everyone else on this section back then. Following the strange incident that had seemingly been caused by him having some inexplicable sort of panic attack further down, reportedly combined with a software error of the computer network identifying him as a threat and reacting accordingly, EVO had restricted this section of the underground tunnels.

Work and development had been pretty much abandoned down there, and the Diamond Dogs kept their lips sealed, the small pack Hephaestus belonged to suddenly as silent and reclusive as they had been before EVO arrived.

“...freaking better have powered down the security system...”, Blackbill mumbled to herself as she bent down, took a screwdriver into her clawed hand and removed the panel that featured a prominently blinking, red light identifying it as the likely source of the malfunction.

When she set the panel aside, Blackbill realized that the tiny space had hidden some strange, black monitor upon which a seemingly random collection of vertically aligned letters and numbers, all digital, were displayed.


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>>29480414
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SS 1
CH 1
TT 1

CE 0
LU 0

TS 0
AJ 0
RY 0

DC 0
FS 0

OK 27
X 6

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>>29480423

None of what she saw made any sense to Blackbill, nor did she hold any hope of deciphering the meaning of the display or the exact source of the malfunction without any sort of input or manual to be found nearby. It was frustrating, but she would just have to report the incident and hope someone actually instructed how to use this interface would come by and fix it BEFORE anything happened.

The gryphon was just about ready to screw the panel shut, head back topside and call it a day, when something strange happened right before her eyes. The number, behind the second line of code changed from a 1 to a 0.

A sudden, sharp noise of screeching metal, followed by a resounding SLAM startled the gryphon badly enough that she jerked upright, slammed her head into the top of the small opening she had been leaning into, causing her flashlight to fall to the ground.

Blind panic seized hold of Blackbill. She was no coward, but the strange noises all around her started picking up in volume and frequency. The gryphon had only heard of the incident, and what it had done to the Diamond Dog's paw, but her imagination was doing its own to make her see strange things in the all-consuming darkness.

It was when she registered the sensation of something hard beneath her left hindpaw giving away with a sharp CRUNCH of broken plastic that Blackbill knew she was screwed.

She barely managed to reach for her radio, claws shaking, sweat breaking out all over her body. A dull, rhythmic thumping was beginning to pick up in intensity and volume from beyond the walls surrounding her, barely allowing her to focus enough to turn the knob of the radio and speak into it, hoping that Peppermint hadn't left yet.
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>>29480430

~~~~

Several floors up, in a staff break room...

~~~

The pegasus known as Peppermint by her peers nearly jumped out of her skin when the radio that had laid silently at her side sprang to life. Until just now, she had been trying to nap and catch just a little shut-eye before her shift would end and she could start her trek back home.

“...*pop* *crackle-hiss!* -Mint, please, please, please, RESPOND!”

Any manner of reproach or annoyance was flung away when she recognized the voice coming from the other end... and the panicked, breathless way its owner was yelling through it. Without a second thought, she snatched the radio up and sprang to her hooves.

“Blackbill! Did something happen?”

“I-I... I don't know. I can't see. I broke my flashlight. I... I think...”

“Blackbill?”

“Sorry, I was just checking something. Yeah. The airlock shut on its own, locking me out. I... I don't know what happened. One moment, I was checking out a screen, then suddenly, everything down here started howling, thumping and hissing.”

“Okay, Blackbill, I want you to calm down. Think of the underground safety classes we took. Breath. In and out. Calmly, steadily. There is enough air.”

“Y-yeah, okay... I, jeez, I know this stuff, Peppermint!”

“Alright, sorry. Just making sure. Did you fall? Are you hurt?”

“No. Just a bit disorientated.”

“Okay. Where are you right now?”

“Right beyond O-066, where that stupid mutt had his accident. I can't see. It's... huh.”

“Blackbill? What happened?”

“I am not sure. There's... there's this weird blue light all along the walls. It looks like its flowing, or something... really weird.”

“Okay, let me just get the maps real quick, okay? Do NOT touch anything!”

“Yeah.... yeah, okay”.


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>>29480437

Peppermint had tried to remain calm through their conversation, but even she felt a bit of trepidation and worry as she ran over to the desk that contained a good portion of the maps that charted the underground tunnel network.

This was an unusual situation, and while what Blackbill was seeing didn't sit right with her, she'd first have to help navigate the gryphon out of there before thinking about any of that.

“...Mint? ...Pepper!”

“I'm here, I'm here! Calm down, will you?”

“Not that easy. I don't like this. I don't like this at all. It's getting louder down here. I don't want to get caught in some weird freak machinery accident because it locked me inside.”

“Okay. First, you are going to be fine. I promise. Secondly, can you see the gate from which you came?”

“Uh... yeah. My eyes adjusted a bit, and the weird blue light is kinda helping.”

“Do you see a small, hoof-sized panel on the left side of the gate?”

“Uhm... yeah. Yeah, there's one.”

“Alright. Press it, then push the lid up.”

A minute of relative sillence passed, rudely broken with a sudden, sharp series of curses Blackbill uttered.

“Hey, are you alright there?”

“It's a fracking dummy.”

“What?”

“A dummy, Peppermint! There's nothing here, just an outline of something that was supposed to be there!”

“What the... O-okay, fine, uhm, let me just...”

“Ohcrapohcrapcrapcrap, shit, shit, shit!”

“Blackbill! Calm. Down.”

“I'm... I'm trying, okay, I'm trying! It's just.. it's so loud down here. It's like my whole body is vibrating.”

“Right. Look. I want you to turn around and follow-”

“Are you NUTS! No! I am not going down there! What if...”


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>>29480449

“Look. The maps say there's just a lot of slightly unstable, unfinished tunnels and an emergency hatch into the upper floors further down. I want you to follow the hallway, take a turn right at the first intersection, go through the doorway there and then take the ladder in the unused utility closet YX-272.”

“Unstable...?”

“Look. According to this, there's just some stabilized ceiling and floors. Go through there, keep your eyes open and stay calm, then you'll be fine. I'll head down and meet you halfway, okay?”

“Dammit.... fine, yes, okay. I'll... I'll go down the dark, glowing hallway of of thumpy noises. Great. Just great.”

“You'll be okay.”

“...dammit, Peppermint...”

Snatching up her safety helmet, saddlebags, maps and keycard, the green pegasus hurried out of the break room. Despite her reassurances, she felt a bit of unease. What the gryphon had described didn't sound a lot like an abandoned, unused hallway or emergency light at all. She couldn't make sense of what could be active at this time at all, nor was she aware of any test runs today.

It took her four minutes to reach the large cargo elevator, and another minute for her to ride it down to the appropriate floor where the emergency escape hatch Blackbill should emerge from shortly would open up.

“Pepper...”

“I'm here. Don't fret. Are you at the ladder yet?”

“I'm still walking down the hallway. I haven't seen any cross-sections yet. But the noise is getting really loud.”

Peppermint came to a slow stop, frowned, and yanked out the map from her saddlebags, spreading it out on the floor. What she saw upon it made her heart nearly stop.

According to the map, the intersection should've been jut a measly hundred feet down the hallway. Right within viewing distance of the airlock. If Blackbilll hadn't even reached the cross-section yet, that would mean something had changed since the map had been drawn...


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>>29480456

...or that the gryphon wasn't quite in her right mind anymore. It wasn't unheard of, nor unthinkable. She might have hit her head or something worse, stumbling down the hallway, injured and disoriented.

“O-okay, uhm, just... maybe you should sit down and wait until I come for you, okay? Blackbill?”

“There's a door.”

“Blackbill? Hey, Blackbill!”

“It's... it's weird. It's not like the others down here. It's... crap, it's really big. You could git an entire-”

“Okay, Blackbill, STOP! Stop, sit down and wait until I am there!”

But it didn't seem like the gryphoness could hear her. And it was getting increasingly difficult to hear her too. Aside from static, there was something else making the conversation increasingly unreliable.

“It's... it's open, I think. But there seems to be so much light. It's all moving towards it, into it. I... I think it's really big. It sounds like a huge cavern or something...?”

A dull roar and muffled crackling seemed to drown out whatever Blackbill was saying, her voice increasingly quiet, like she was lost to her exploration.

“I'll just have a look, maybe it leads... leads to some way out. Right? Right...”

A new surge of desperation made Peppermint run as fast as her hooves could carry her, the map she had been reading forgotten and abandoned in the hallway.

“Is that... that's, I think that's a wall? A really big w-... what...”

Abandoned like her attempt to talk to the lost gryphon wandering the hallways right below her.

“...oh lord of the skies...”

The pegasus' breathing was sharp and ragged by the time she reached the dimly lit dead end that...

“It's... it's moving... what... what is... it's... it's big...”

...that...

“It's... black, and gigantic. There's... there's metal grafted onto it, I think... that shouldn't be there...”


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>>29480466

...that held nothing but emptiness. No emergency hatch, no uneven outline in the floor, no interface, no display. Not even a map. Nothing. It was a complete dead, without any way in but the way she came.

But even here, she could feel the dull thump of something below her hooves. Like a powerful heartbeat, deep down in the earth below.

“Are they... there's... it's connecting to it! It's blue, all over blue. Some weird energy!”

Blackbill seemed to be losing her mind, and Peppermint didn't know how to respond, what to say. An incoming rush of dread, horror and helplessness paralyzed the pegasus as she listened to her co-worked ramble.

“I am getting out, they're, they can't, how is this even....”

Then, there was a sudden change of pitch and volume, as if Blackbill had just realized in what kind of danger she may be.

“No! PleasenononononNONONOOOO-”

Peppermint would never find out what it was Blackbill saw.

And the pegasus was absolutely certain she never wanted to know.. For no living being should be willing and able to make such a high-pitched, horrid screech like the one she was hearing from the radio.

In some ways, it was Blackbill's voice, but in some others, it wasn't. It went on and on and on, even as Peppermint clutched her ears, even as the ground started shaking, even as the blue light started pouring through the cracks in the ground and past her, over her, touching her... entering her... breaking her apart...

...on and on and on, the shriek went. Wild, loud, panicked, horrid. The last scream of an intelligent creature suffering a horrible death, of body and mind.

Though which one would first was the final uncertainty.

In a brief, blissful moment of self-awareness before her self and psyche shattered, Peppermint realized she had begun screaming as well.


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>>29480475

Well, I was writing this before you started posting, but I guess I'll throw in my two cents now. I don't like the 'NOBODY CAN EVER DIE' mentality, and I'm but I'll agree this one seems a little off. I liked the buildup you gave for her before it happened, but then when it got cut off everything felt a little hollow. Like, "Why did I just see that? I didn't care about her and won't remember her." It's kind of like a horror movie death. But the horror movie kill is to show the monster being the monster, which is what people are there to see. This is because, I don't know?

Also, this brings up a lot of questions about that blue stuff. Is it deadly now? Does this mean that everyone in the building is dead? That's what you're saying.

Making it lethal wasn't a good idea.
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Mozart's Lacrimosa guided me through this.
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>>29480382
Not the guy you're talking too, but you really need to just get over that man. It creating a restriction that's just getting tighter and tighter. Stop caring for the one offs, that's the purpose of them, one and done.
>>
Apologies in advance for creating controversy. I just really, really enjoy our storyline and characters and want to contribute in some way.
Even if it's in sometimes crazy, sometimes dark and sometimes just plain stupid ways.
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>>29480496
Finally able to read it, I agree with the base sentiment, that wasn't a shocking death, and said death didn't really add to the story since it was based off a lot of questionable decisions(Why didn't she just wait for Peppermint to go unlock the door where she was at? Why didn't she turn around when things got hairy and get out of the room? If the energy was flowing through the pipes she was in, then it would have fried every monitor too, and why put monitors out where there's going to eventually be a surge of energy? That's like putting a screen in the middle of a race track. Even if it's inactive, there's a better place to put it!)

But I liked the overall idea, and I liked the overall aesthetics and sense of foreboding, and it'll be interesting to see where this is headed in the grander sense, so goodbye Blackbill, we're probably not going to address you again but hey, that was pretty cool.
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>>29480543
>so goodbye Blackbill
We care about our characters. Even the ones in tiny side roles.

Someone do one of those interview things for her!
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>>29480475
Definitely canon, getting it out of the way right now. Keep it, it's worth it just for the overall ideas.

That said, two things. One, yeah, that death was hella pointless and I don't like it because it's so meaningless we're not going to address it, I loved that every death in the story mattered up to this point, Pommel's Adventure aside, but this one has no bearing for anyone as she was in a place she wasn't supposed to be, did a lot of dumb things that didn't make any sense, and as a result trying to pin this on Sunset would be like blaming Mazda for someone running themselves over with their own car, so there's no weight to it. It doesn't make Sunny more morally ambiguous, the heroes more right, or provide motivation or even context for anyone else, if she gets brought up nobody will know her and nobody will be affected, so that's bad storytelling, and I do not like that one bit.

Second, we do need to address if this stuff is supposed to be lethal, if so why isn't it hurting anyone else in the building, where it's going and why it needed that thing out there. This brought up a lot of questions that are in conflict, but not resolvable, and he said he could handle it, so he can handle it, no worries on that, just pointing it out. If he could read it and say "I can work with it", case closed as far as I'm concerned. Just please address it.
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>>29480505
We fix characters

We don't kill them
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>>29480590
That's kind of the point here, there's nothing to fix, this isn't a character who's flawed but needs to grow, he introduced her specifically to have her get killed off at this point.

We could argue till we're blue in the face if that kind of character building is bad or not, but my personal opinion is 'bad', but if it's for that purpose it doesn't have to fit the 'fix it' mold.
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>>29480586
That's the beauty of this thread and these stories. I was inspired by the A-Team story (A) and what was happening to the Ghost busters (B), writing something that directly injects into the action(C) of the former and may involve the latter at any given point. With the story out of the way, the writers of A and B can take what I did, twist it, evolve and go from there. And then, I or anyone else can pick it up and go from there!


This isn't rigid, linear storytelling and I absolutely adore the creativity this allows.
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>>29480561
>Reporter
"Blackbill"
~~~

>Well, that was... disheartening.

"I admit, when my agent called me and said I got a role on here, I was a lot more excited. I thought "Oh my gosh! I can finally get my chance!" Not a lot of studios hire me, the beak isn't very 'photogenic', so I only ever get mobster or gangster or thug roles, but then I learned I was going to be an engineer in here and I was like 'Yes yes yes!' I was happy."

>Now?

"Little sad."

>That bad?

"I got to meet the cast between shoots, and they were absolutely wonderful and the best co-workers you could ever ask for, Miss Applejack even gave me a big old apple pie when I got on set, she said it helped to shoot with the energy, and it really made me feel at home! But then I learned I wouldn't get to act with any of them, I wouldn't even get to meet half of them due to them having the day off, and that today was my only shoot, and you saw why. So... not as happy as I was."

>Yeah, kind of brutal.

"It was at least a little fun to practice death screams with Two. She's adorable! She is just the cutest little thing and she gave me my very own bag of marchmalleys, it's the best. I'm keeping it forever."

>So, any chance you're coming back?

"You never know with this series, but I'm not holding my breath. I know a guy, Gag Reel, and well..."

>Ha! Point.

"Lot of extras there, but maybe they'll recast me in the future, who knows? I feel like we really hit it off."

>Well, if nothing else let's hope for a cameo in the future. Certain cast are in the afterlife, after all?

"Oh my gosh! That would be so much fun! Zecora is so wonderful, she's a dear to work with."

>Well, who knows what the future holds. Thanks for talking with us.

"Thank you! And I hope this isn't the last time."
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>>29480672
Aw... you made me feel a sad...
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NC
>SA
"18"
~~~~

"Shiiinyyy! I got you a Hearts and Hooves day gift!"

>Oh, thank you! I got you one too.

"OH OH! What is it?"

>That painting you adored in the art gala last week, I thought "The Spring of Love" would be perfect!

"Oh my gosh! This is perfect!"

>What did you get me?

"..."

>...Is.. is that a to-scale replica of the Hyperspace Hyperwars Dread-Juggernaut, complete with to-scale flag and chains-sword?

"I um...I think I might have gone a little bit overboard trying to impress you."

>Eighteen? You don't need to impress me, ever. You're with me now, and that's all I ever need.

"..A-aww..."

>Gimme some sugar.

"Actually I think we should move because that thing is leaning and-HOLYFUCK-"

CLANG!

>...

"...So thaaaaat's why it's in a cartoon..."

>Animated series!

"Whatever.
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>>29480687
>>29480687
>I'm like "Meh, I'll probably forget about that bird."
>One NC story later
>"WHY DO I FEEL SO BAD!?"

How is it I feel so much worse when she's alive?
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>>29480789
The magic of /pa/!

We take horror movie kills and turn them into heartbreak. Meanwhile >>29480764 we don't forget to bring the laughs.

Dude is spot on about creativity.
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NC
>SA
"Spitfire"
~~~~

>Happy Hearts and hooves day!

"Ahah, ahahaha, really? We're doing this?"

>What's wrong?

"Shiny, look, I appreciate what you're doing, but I'm not some sad sack who needs some loving just to feel appreciated."

>It's not-

"I know, I know, you're my friend, you're just making sure I know I'm appreciated, and I do. I'll come clean, you make me feel appreciated, but I don't need special treatment."

>I've actually-

"So, respectfully, I have to turn-"

>It's a blow up desk-puncher with Rainbow Dash's face on it.

"-up the appreciation to a hundred. You are at a hundred and you are a damned too nice pony and you should not be doing this to me and I hate love you."

>...

"...I also got you a big chocolate heart with your name engraved on it."

>Really!?

"I'm considerate."

>You just-

"Shhh, or I will eat it in front of you."

>...

"You are best pony."
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>>29480993
C-C-COMPLETE COMBO!
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>>29480590
Ok, I've kept my mouth shut on this matter for way too long now and it needs to be said.

Fellas, not every character can be a 'Character'. Not every one we make can have a long back story, a more important role to stride for, make a significant impact. They're meant to be seen once, get you invested just a tad and then they die. It's not a pointless death mind you, even if it seems that way, because their death has a bigger meaning than what might be instantly apparent. You see when a one off dies we find them at the end of their lives, their destinies fulfilled and their fate met. We've come across them at the very climax of their adventure and that it. Now when they die, what you invested in them doesn't just go away, it gets transferred and changed into something else. It moves on into what killed them, and then changes. What likeability for them turns into dislike for what caused their demise, thus making you negatively invested in something that's supposed to have negative feelings directed at it in the first place. Their death, helps you to get invested in what killed them, which happens to be the main focus in the first place. It's a sacrifice for a greater proporse and trying to say its pointless is actually whats insulting. You need to realize that people die, we're not going to go all GoT on our cast, but it happens. Extra's die, one offs die, even characters die, but its for some greater propose.

Trying to fight that is honestly a huge limiting factor. We can't make a decent villain without someone wanting to make to develop them more than needed. A tragic back story makes them seem less evil and more broken than anything. Something that you and others want to FIX, thus you want to keep them alive. The less we focus on them being people and more on the fact that they're monsters, the better chance a Villain will actually be the Villain.

We can't keep giving more life to things that don't deserve or need it.
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>>29481117
I disagree with literally every point running here.

>They're meant to be seen once, get you invested just a tad and then they die.
This is where it really falls apart, worse even then outright saying you're creating a character with no history and no goals and still expect them to make a significant impact. Why? Why would we get invested in them? We've seen them at the start of their journey, to us. You say "it's at the end", but to the audience, we've only just seen them. It's pure horror movie death of a side character, designed to limit investment and be forgotten and discarded instantly. Their climax hit, and because we have so little to associate with them besides 'they died by ____' they're not characters, they're a death scene.

>. Now when they die, what you invested in them doesn't just go away,
This would be okay if we invested anything at all in them. We didn't. Why would we? We just barely learned of them, what do we want to see them accomplish? What goal are they heading towards? Survival? That's what most war movies or horror movies do. Well, if they didn't survive, then all your investment is gone. All you wanted out of them was 'make it out alive', because that's all they had, and now it's gone. There's nothing to transfer, every survival story lives in a vacuum, and they're swiftly left aside.

>What likeability for them turns into dislike for what caused their demise, thus making you negatively invested in something that's supposed to have negative feelings directed at it in the first place.
So what if we don't like them? Or worse, what if we didn't have enough of them to actually give reasons to hold against the ones who ended them? What are we supposed to hate against for what was taken away?

1/2
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>>29481257

>Their death, helps you to get invested in what killed them,
No, it does not. It at best establishes a threat, that's all. The motivations of why the thing killed them and what it will continue to do later, the threat it poses elsewhere, that's what gets you invested in what killed them. This is, at best, an establishing shot, at worst it's a forgettable bit of entertainment like Jason slashing someone up on the bed. Only there, we don't even hate Jason for what he did, that's the whole reason anyone came

>Extra's die, one offs die, even characters die, but its for some greater propose.
Absolutely none of that stops it from being pointless if it's written as such. You can claim it's for a bigger thing, but if it doesn't matter to the characters, it doesn't matter to the villain, it doesn't raise the stakes and it doesn't establish the threat, it's one hundred percent pointless, and it's just another tick in a box.

>Trying to fight that is honestly a huge limiting factor.
Disagree wholeheartedly, Cordyceps was the most terrifying foe we've ever made, and he's by far the least lethal. Without one death he offered more threat then a monster who wanted to genocide the entire universe.

> We can't make a decent villain without someone wanting to make to develop them more than needed
There is no such thing as 'more than needed'.

>A tragic back story makes them seem less evil and more broken than anything.
We don't have tragic backstories for all our villains, and Chitania's entire spiel is 'I don't give a fuck about what happened before'.

>Something that you and others want to FIX, thus you want to keep them alive.
Good! That's actual, real investment. Not 'transference investment', or 'hate investment', real and tangible investment in a character and where it's going to go.

>The less we focus on them being people and more on the fact that they're monsters, the better chance a Villain will actually be the Villain.
Could not disagree more on all of this.
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>>29481117
>The less we focus on them being people and more on the fact that they're monsters, the better chance a Villain will actually be the Villain.

>The less we make them interesting the more we can make them stock things who we kill off and then we don't have to worry about those actual CHARACTERS with histories and hopes and fears and dreams running in here all hoity toity and stealing the show and all the interest, and interesting isn't what a villain is supposed to be!

There's a reason people keep saying "You can just use Antlers, he's totally evil, nobody has shown any desire to fix him, we killed him off already once and nobody cared so you could do it again and nobody would care, and he's the villain you say you want' and everyone keeps ignoring it and pretending he doesn't exist, while Pennydrop gets more screentime and threatening scenes with Celestia.

Thing is, no character inherently matters, nobody inherently cares about anyone even when we're supposed to. Interest died down for a lot of new OC characters, even ones who were supposed to be all important, because they didn't quite make it.

Nobody is sure if you're going to click a character, and the only way to ensure you have a meaningful death of a newbie would be throwing bodies at the wall it's World War Z.
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>>29480590
Psh, says you. I've got the highest kill count in the thread and I treat my OCs like playthings to be used and thrown away.
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>>29481263
>it doesn't raise the stakes and it doesn't establish the threat,

I think that's my issue with Birdy dying.

What exactly was this supposed to do, threat wise?

We've literally god Sunset sitting her talking about how she's about to get so much power it could help her take on GODS and WIN. We've literally established the threat as being so great the entire world could be at stake just from being a battlefield.

...but OH! it also could kill someone!... if they stand right next to it. And don't walk away from it. And it's probably bad? Maybe?

I mean she might've just died because she stood next to a generator in a room she wasn't supposed to be in. Generators are full of nasty stuff.

This isn't really making SUNSET out to be anymore evil, since the bird literally left the safety of the entrance she just got into in order to find this strange area she wasn't supposed to go to, it's not even like Sunset can take the time to brush past it or be more ~Evilhoihoihoiii!~ she's currently at gunpoint, or not, we don't know.

Is Spike going to find her and be like "OH NOW THIS IS ON!"? He's literally debating killing her for stuff she already did.

Yeah, as said before, that whole 'We can't kill ANYONE!' thing? I don't like that, that's silly, we could do it on occasion, but I'm not going to pretend that this wasn't just cheap and ultimately meaningless, and I cared way more that a pretend actor in a pretend story isn't going to hang out with the cast anymore than I did that she died.

The death didn't do anything, but I guess it's nice to know this apocalyptic energy that's going to fight gods is also... bad?
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>>29481263
>Cordyceps was the most terrifying foe we've ever made, and he's by far the least lethal.

Cordyceps was the rare occasion where him not being lethal was scarier than any skin-flaying monster ever could be, because his non-lethality meant that his victims would never ever die, and continue only to make him more powerful under his control until he consumed everything, maybe even reality itself. At least with death in this universe you know you're going to 'the happy place' and we established Faustmom, so it's not like any soul-destroying creatures make sense in universe, there was a long point about that and everything. But he doesn't let you die, he just takes over your body and keeps you going, forever. And ever. And you can't do anything about it, and you can't even wish for the sweet release of death because he will protect and instantly heal you so you can spread for him. Cordy was fucking real-horror shit, not that blood and guts nonsense.

That said, come on, we can't make them ALL like that. That was a very special case.
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>>29481317
>There's a reason people keep saying "You can just use Antlers, he's totally evil, nobody has shown any desire to fix him, we killed him off already once and nobody cared so you could do it again and nobody would care, and he's the villain you say you want' and everyone keeps ignoring it and pretending he doesn't exist, while Pennydrop gets more screentime and threatening scenes with Celestia.

That's what I'm worried about, it's like, we have a villain exactly like what this occasional point crops up and says they want, we have this diversity to fit this mold, but he's only been used once in like fifty threads, and just to fight Seven. It's kind of coming off "Yeah, we have that guy... but he's not cool and nobody ever writes for him. Now Chitania! That would be cool to have her be a VILLAIN who KILLS to establish threat(eventhoughshe'salwaysahugethreat) and then we can really see her be HUGE(andthenkillheroff)!"

Use the damned Antlers! Or just make your own villain! Don't switch the one's we have with all the established characterization and history and development mid stream because you like them better. Diversify our Villain Portfolio, for sure, but it's not slipping by when you try to yank other characters down a path that fits what you want out of a villain more.

>>29481339
You do?

...Why can't I remember a single one of them? This is bugging me. Who'd you kill off?
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>>29481339
Pommel anon? Is that you?
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>>29481510
You know, we have that Diamond Dog villain Schmoe designed. Why don't we use that?
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>>29481651
Sure, or one of the Griffon Houses that Pennydrop armed, or literal monsters in the catacombs, or anything. We've got options for Villain-Villains.
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NC
>SA
"Twilight"
~~~

"Shiny! Did you get me something sweet for H&H day?"

>You know I did.

"EEE! An edible book!"

>It has the writing of Trostinguard written in white chocolate.

"How did you know I love books and chocolate!?"

>Oh, Twili, I know all about you.

"Mmmmhm. I bet you do."

>What did you get me?

"The He-Stallion loincloth."

>Holy smokes, yes!

"Limited. Edition."

>With the misprinted belt buckle?!

"The same."

>You know exactly what to put on my legs.

"You know it! Bring it in, nice and tight."

>Mmm. I love hugging you.

"You are the best higger. BHBBBFF."

>We're getting too long with that.

"You're never too long for me."

>Awww.

"..."

>...

"..."

>So should we stop hugging? Ponies are starting to stare.

"Nope."

>That's the Twilight I know. Don't care one bit what they say.

"You're Sister-loving right."
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>>29481834
Just cross the line already!
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>>29481870
It's.
Not.
Creepy.
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OOCO
>Two
"???"
~~~~

Hearts and Hooves day was her day.

Not in the way it was her mommy's day, it was her day in it's own special way.

It was the special day where she got to taste all the flavors of love in the world.

Special love of a friend to a friend, the unmistakable family love of brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers and cousin and everything in between, and that oh so sweet and delectable love she didn't really understand, and she knew she wouldn't for a long long while, but so beautiful to see. It was like looking into the sun itself, only it didn't hurt quite so much. She didn't know how it worked, and she would be way bigger before she could understand just how huge it really was, but it was so fun and pretty to see.

So many kinds of loves in so many kinds of flavors, some shared with each other, some shared with her, but never any that would make Shiny mad. Everything that came her way was pure, and it was amazing. Everything she tasted was wonderful, and it was amazing.

Today was an amazing day.

"Two!"

Her life had been an amazing life.

Shiny and Mommy, Not-mom and Auntielestia, Eighteen and Forty Two, Spitfire and Auntie Twilight, Applejack number one and the whole big hive of all the other ones, and they were waiting.

For her.

It had been years, and she still hadn't answered the question she asked so long ago, if she deserved this. Any of this.

If she deserved to be Applejack number Two, when number one was so big.

"You ready to go?'

But days like this reminded her, every day, that she had to keep trying.

She had to earn this special life.

And their special love.

>Coming, Shiny!

She was going to be the best princess, ever.
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>>29481905
So. Darned. Cute.

Satan, I see why you like her.
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>>29481905
Perfect
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>>29481519
No, it's LNPP-anon.

>>29481510
You shouldn't. They were almost all one off characters. As a rule I try to avoid naming my lab monkey OCs unless it's for a joke. I tried to make my killings subtle as not to raise too many alarms, but enough to satisfy my bloodlust.

There were the Mustangian conspirators that wanted Mustangia to cede. I had Spike kill them, even if he didn't I made an alternative scene where they drop a red barrel which blew up the entire warehouse.

There was the time when Spike first shows up to the airship and a bunch of pegasi were unloading parts on to the airship. I implied he killed them by saying he would show no mercy for sedition. Rarity (as charity) even told him, point her to who he wants dead.

When Rarity took control of Charity during the airship, I had her kill a Handydog.

There was a unicorn with a bounty on his head that Spike chased down. He ended up getting hit by a train because he wasn't looking.

There was Iron Snatch, who slipped on the wet floor and broke her neck falling down the stairs.

There was the time Spike investigating an illegally Parrot Eagle trading. The Parrot Eagle repeated things that made the bad guys suspicious of one another, so they shot and killed each other. I had fun with that by making Spike get hit by an eyeball. The last survivor in that story died too because a red barrel got knocked off the shelf and blew up.

I'm especially blood thirsty in my non-canons. There were a large number of gory deaths for my Dream Eaters, like one of them attacking Pinkie in the kitchen it spilled nightmare fuel that Pinkie ate. There were the ones in the Dream City and the Dream Farm. There were the shadow Derpys. Shadow Applejack. There was cardboard Rarity who essentially melted because they were in a wet bathroom. Oh and of course the Alpha, who was the head top Dream Eater. I even had this one LNPP fan letter writer get eaten in the Dream City attack.

The rare few OCs I haven't killed is cousin Peach.
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>>29482013
>You shouldn't.

Dream-eaters aside, I don't. Literally, I don't remember a single one of these, including the airship ones. Which is especially weird because I thought I could remember the airship stuff fine, and I know I remember every scene from the Empire's Robot Invasion. Huh. I don't recall a single one of these. I don't even remember being against them or for them.

Huh.
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OOCO
>SA
"Cadence'
~???~
~~~

Hearts and Hooves day was Cadence's day.

The official day of love, the official day when her magic shined brighter than any other time. The day when her powers, her horn and her wings all meant something, for once. This was her day when she normally felt like a trillion zillion bits and zoomed around the entire kingdom.

Which is why it was all the worse that she was inside, sitting on her bed, too sore to move after only an hour flying around. She'd been so excited, and now she hurt, and it was the worst.

>Honnneyyyy.

The cursed one, the one who had doomed this state upon her entered in, coy little smile on his face as if he had not been the one to ruin all good things in the world with his ruin maker.

That's what she called it now. That was his ruin maker.

>I got you a little somethiiiing.

No amount of bribery would sway her, she was going to pout at him for disabling him and that was that.

"MINE!"

The quickest way to do this was to take the object and stuff it into her face right in front of him. That would show him.

He got no delicious chocolate covered bonbons, those were hers and she was asserting dominance.

>You feeling okay?

She would have kicked him in the fork of his legs if he'd been closer. Instead she could only kick him in the soul with her mind. That would show him.

>Awww, don't be like that, I got you a little something else.

No presents would make her feel better when she couldn't go out and feel the love. None. This was the worst day.

>You're going to like it.

This was the worst.

"Shiny, I'm not in the mood for..."

Her rational mind doublechecked, and yes, there was still a cursed and evil pony in front of her.

That brought up a lot of questions when she triple checked and confirmed something hugging her.

"...Uh..."

And then more hugging.

And more and more and more and more and more.

>Just because you can't move doesn't mean you can't enjoy the love.

1/2
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>>29482070

She didn't know what confused her more, the fact that she'd somehow missed what felt a small hoofball team coming in.

Or the fact she could tell, without question, that they were Forty Two, Eighteen, Celestia, Chrysalis, and Spitfire, she knew them from hugs alone.

Her husband took her moment of distraction and was upon her, clinging to her front while everyone else held tighter to her back. He cradled her softly, gently, and lovingly with all the care a husband could.

>Happy Hearts and Hooves day, Cadence. No matter what day, I want you to know I love you, we all do. You'll always be the brightest part of my heart.

She was not crying.

~Happy Hearts and hooves day, Mommy! Ah' can't wait till mah' new brother or sister gets ta' hug ya' too!~

Even when Two effortlessly slipped between them and she felt the warmth of love coming at her from all sides, she was not crying.

"...Happy Hearts and Hooves day, everyone."

It was liquid pride.

Nothing less.
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>>29482073
Lets face it, It's Valentines.

The Land of Love was designed to end this one.
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>>29482044
Yeah, it happened.
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/16501328/#16535107
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/16501328/#16603052
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/16610392/#16625550

https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/18110396/#18235251
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/27517724/#27524168
https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/27704420/#27722141

I always bury my deaths in comedy or try to imply it. The deaths happen in my mind regardless.
I've been pretty proud of my subtle killings as to not raise any red flags and I laugh every time people mention people don't die in /pa/.
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>>29482073
An the Land of Love bring this to a close. Happy Valentine's Day everybody.
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>>29482177
Lnpp aside, none of those are subtle, they are just ooco

So, yeah, slasher movie victims. Nobody cares because they don't matter and nobody thinks they do. They are still cheap, but they aren't supposed to be anything else? Why do you think anybody would have a problem with that?
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>>29482261
Yeah, when people say "nobody dies", we mean like... Arcs and stuff.

Well, arcs past the first one. The tournament mini arc had killing, we didn't adopt the process for the main characters till way later. And even then, we still killed off cordy.

We aren't against the notion of killing, nobody said NC that story up there at all, just that it felt pointless. And those did too, they didn't develop anything, it's not a threat, or even get remembered. But they were fun for what they were. Why can't you just enjoy that?
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>>29480475
Someone please recap what happened, I stopped reading after I realized that this was entirely OC filled and didn't feel like getting attached to some rando i'll never see again
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>>29482288
I think it was the Flim/flam thing that caused it, and to be fair that one was a pretty good reason.

But Antlers killed somebody too, so it's not like it's never happened with our villains.

>>29482360
Griffon worker underground h and slightly away from sunsets building accidentally wanders into a bad place that Sunset designed, and when it registered Chitty going down it goes crazy causing her to wander off abd find the strange device that all that strange glowing energy is going into, and then she gets vaporized
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>>29482261
because people would constantly bring up nobody dies and both sides of the argument would make a fuss, when it's not true at all that nobody dies. Characters do die and you can easily push death. I have no problem making them cheap and senseless. In fact, I'd rather have people treat death as cheap instead of trying to make it like an oh so dramatic moment with a huge impact. I think it's just discouraging folks from writing death in and it's turning it into a taboo to write death into a story. Sure nobody died....except the ones I wrote.

Dead puppies are funny.
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>>29482667
Can't agree, I like it better as it is now. Where if it happens in the main story, if it happened to someone we see you, it's a huge event. It's a massive changing shift for somebody in our main staff to actually see or witness death. In the main line, to them, death matters.

Or you can just slap NC or if it's Spike ooco and bam. Don't make it a main character in or a nameed one from the show and we don't really care. Just like always. I mean, hell, if you really want to go and start a side series and then you can kill off even characters that are made for that side series. We don't care so long as they are ocs. It's not that death doesn't happen, it's never been that way., it's just never going to be cheap and senseless in the real Mainline. Have fun, do whatever, if it's not canon we literally really don't care. But take it seriously if you ever write it in the main line.

Or just stick to NC or everyone treating it Nc, really it's all just fun.
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>>29475960
>Almost a whole day without into the wiki

LIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMM!!!!!!
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>>29482013
You're terrible and made it a fuck ton harder for me to write Spike cos now he's got a stonkin' big bodycount I've got to deal with
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>>29482667
>I have no problem making them cheap and senseless.

I do, so I just treat them like I always have. Non-canon little side stories that somebody writes because they want to do it. I'm never going to make a fuss about a non-canon character dying. I didn't even care with the Spike side stories, nobody followed up or mentioned or tried to make them ever Canon like we did the Shiny/AJ stuff, what's the harm if oc one off nc characters are disposable? Do whatever in NC, I don't care if Mains die in NC. But no, I'm always going to fight trying to make it cheap and using these cheap tactics in the canon. Even if it stays canon, I'll still call bullshit. I know, it's really hard to make a villain threatening when you can't kill somebody, and it's just so much easier when you can do something so cheap in order to raise the stakes and seem cool. But easier and faster isn't better, and I've seen better. You can be better. You don't have to rely on them, and they haven't really worked here. Be better. I mean, not you, I know you just stick to NC and that's fine and Lnpp is fun because it doesn't have to make sense, but for the bigger story I have to use a different standard.
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>>29482900
Not liam, Love you fool!... No not that kind of love, regular kind.

INTO THE WIKI IT GOES!
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>>29482924
You really need a dose of something, I'm not sure what or at least stop smoking your dank as much. You need to let ggo man
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>>29482941
Wew, don't scare me like that.
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>>29482948
>'m not sure what or at least stop smoking your dank as much. You need to let ggo man

Looks like someone needs way less of something.
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>>29482956
It's a love-holiday. And love, my friend, is the greatest Wiki I can INTO IT GOES!

Wait that came out wrong
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>We don't need to invest in that character at all cos she's dead and that's it

I_came_here_to_laugh_at_you.mp4

It's established that Blackbill has a connection of some kind with Peppermint, who if she survives is gonna be like "Wowee my understudy fucking died" after this thing and wed be cunts to sweep that under the carpet.

Orrr, she's bout to bite it too in this I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-Resonance-Cascade. In which case hey lookit that our bodycount is only going to go up, and given the scale of how big and bad it is, it's gonna go up by a lot.

And if that happene, there's gonna be a point where someone's gonna go "Wowee, a fuck ton of people got murked down there, I wonder if this will have any affect" cos hey ho you got a city which just got x-amount of it's working population splattered, no biggie, right?

Of course, assuming that there won't be a stupidly high collateral rate from what comes AFTER this
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>>29482997
>Orrr, she's bout to bite it too in this I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-Resonance-Cascade

Sunset is literally standing on it, and was doing so before Chitty got shot. And she was happy it happened. I don't think this other pony further away and not in the room is in any danger. Or if you're implying Sunset set the thing to nuke herself if Chitty died... Little ooc.

But hey, this other Pony can be sad her friend died but can't really put the blame on anybody but her friends own actions. That's something.
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Goodnight thread!

Hope you all had a happy Valentine's Day and your own way
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>>29482910
>You're terrible
I know I am :^)
I hope to load him up with an even bigger body count and make it funny. We must make deaths cheaper!
Just do what I do and keep him light.

>>29482924
Chill /pa/l. When it gets right down to it, I guess the question is should we have important deaths that mean something? If that's the case that I guess that would mean I'm in camp, no we shouldn't have anyone die because that sounds serious and not fun at all.

My standard has been simple and always will be the same as the very first thread, "Was it funny?"
An important rule I keep to myself in /pa/ is never be serious about anything. That includes the story. If people want to have a serious death with consequences then all I can do is go "...why?"

If it wasn't funny, then why?
I don't care how much development a character gets, how tragic blah character's back story is, how much a character suffered. Was it funny? If it wasn't funny, then why would you make me slog through it? When I came for a laugh.

>Where if it happens in the main story, if it happened to someone we see you, it's a huge event. It's a massive changing shift for somebody in our main staff to actually see or witness death. In the main line, to them, death matters.
That sounds serious. There's an easy solution to that, so that's not so serious. Just send them on a trip to the demon portal at school. I'm sure they'll get desensitized to death eventually.

>Have fun, do whatever, if it's not canon we literally really don't care. But take it seriously if you ever write it in the main line.
When did the main canon get so precious and serious that cheap deaths are no longer possible where they must be regarded as NC?
>But take it seriously
>take it seriously
>seriously
...why?

I'm not serious and I'm proud of it and I hope I never do. It would only get in the way of fun.
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>>29483039
Well half the problem was that the Murder Room was not even on the map

Peppermint vengeance mode when
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What I wanna know is

The hell is TT?
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>>29483344
Just because something started one way doesn't mean it has to adhere to it through its entire existence. Things change, things grow, were not a religion, we don't have to fanatically follow a doctrine here. That said, you don't have to liked it, you don't even have to read it. This thread isn't just for you, if others want in on something serious, let them have it. There is more than enough funny to satisfy you in the meanwhile during the serious moment.
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>>29483414
Uhh... Thirteen man.
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>>29482044
>I don't. Literally, I don't remember a single one of these
But Blackbill's implied death stuck with you, huh? Guess she was better established or more likable than we thought?

>>29482360
>Someone please recap what happened I stopped reading after I realized that this was entirely OC filled and didn't feel like getting attached to some rando i'll never see again
You are terrible.
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>>29483471
I don't even know who Blackbill or Peppermint is myself. I'm just nodding along pretending I know what's going. Blackbill was a she?
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>>29483434
....oh

Youd think they'd just use 13

Y'know, simple really
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>>29483487
They weren't even worth reading about.
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>>29483547
I bet you're the Anon that skipped pommels adventure.
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>>29482360
>>29483487
>>29483547
>being his cancerous of something someone took their time and effort to write and create
>complaining about wanting to be spoofed what isn't on their highly selective list
>every fucking time
Wow. I bet you didn't watch show either and just love to talk shit about stuff other people like
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>>29483633
You'd be wrong. I'm up to date on the show. I just simply have zero respect people's OCs. The more backstory they have, the worse they are. I didn't come for the OCs. Sue me.
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Night/Morning thread!
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>>29483699
Geez... I'd love to discuss this with you some day. Who knows? Everyone is entitled to their opinion. And I get where you are coming from. The show offers a very wide variety of characters with established backgrounds 6o play around with, so why should we have to establish and learn about mew ones?

As a writer, I can tell you that whenever possible, I try to or with Canon characters as much as I can. The problem with them is that there isn't a character for every single role you need to fill. Sometimes you need certain backgrounds, personalities or talents one of the characters can't provide.

Another aspect is that a writer doesn't have completely free creative reign over what canon characters are, what they do and where they end up. If you write an alternative interpretation or fiddle around minor details of a character that doesn't sit well with a reader, the 'THAT'S SO OUT OF CHARACTER' outcry always comes hard and fast.

It's so bad that I felt genuine relief when Alter jack showed up, because I could finally.write for and mess around with an Applejack that ISN'T constantly tied up and firmly entrenched in her routine and background. Alter jack is a free radical, a beautiful, young tree growing where wind had carried it's seed. Applejack is an old, mighty and respectable oak tree in the middle of my orchard of writing. I care for her, I tend to her, but there is little I can change unless something really terrible can happen. I am happy for the fruit that tree bears, and I use it to climb, but other than that...

Plus, you try permanently injuring or even going as far as removing a major CANON character completely from play. You'd get publicly flayed for even trying!

So. OCS may be annoying at times... but they are the flavour to the main dish that is Friendship is Magic and their character roster.
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>>29483961
You win a something from me, I'll tell you that something later, but you win it! Keep fighting the good fight!
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>>29483891
Morning!>
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>>29484055
<3
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Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
[AJ]
{Rarity}
=???=
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your hosts the Pink Pony Club! It's during this time that content does matter, but our OCs are kept to a minimum!

"I'm the pretty one <3"

'I'm the grumpy one.'

>And I'm the crazy one!

>"'Now for our main segment...COPS AND ROBBERS!!!'"

Rarity makes helicopter noises.
{ThupThupThupThupThupThupThupThup}

[Give it up, Pinkie, you're not going to get away from us!]

>Don't blink, you're going to lose us pinks!

AJ starts swinging her rope.
'Is she really going to try and lasso us?'

Applejack throws her lasso and ropes in a sack of bits.
>Oh you did not just-

"Did she take our booty?!"

{Technically you never had booty.}

"REEEEEEE!"

'Oh we're getting somepony's booty alright.'
DT fires a rocket at AJ and Rarity, but Rarity shoots it down with a laser blast from her horn.

{Ohhhhohohoho!}

[Did y'all forget we have lasers?]

>'...crap.'
AJ and Rarity fire their lasers.
*PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW*

"No fair, I'm carrying a lot of weight and I can't shoot backwards!"

>Just squibble squib!
Cadence flies between buildings trying her best to avoid lasers. Glass explode in all directions as lasers and bullets go back and forth hitting buildings.
*PEWPEWPEW DAKKADAKKADAKKA*

'Pinkie, use one of the other surprises!'

>I know just the perfect surprise! Close your eyes girls!
She tosses a flashbang and it explodes in a bright flash.

[{AHHHHHH!}]
Blinded, AJ and Rarity crash into a building.
*BOOM*

>and that takes care of that.

"...we lost some booty though."

>DOH!

Meanwhile Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Fluttershy in Wonderbolt uniforms fly towards them.
=Awww yeah. Finally some action.=
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>>29484454
>{Technically you never had booty.}

ICE
COLD
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>>29484675
She will never live that down.
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>>29484905
Never!
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OOCO
>SA
“AJ”
‘Celestia’
~~~

>So we’re all in agreement!

“No knives!”

‘No lasers!’

>No suffocations!

“No heart punches!”

‘No kidney kicks!’

>No biting!

“No grinding!”

‘No goring!’

>No throwing!

“No bending!”

‘No flipping!’

>No using the chair!

“No using the couch!”

‘No using the window!’

>No using magic!

“No using wings!”

‘No using horns!’

>”’AND NO TICKLING!”’

>We good?

“We good?”

‘We’re good.’

>Alright… monopony night is a go!

~~~~

>Why do we hurt ourselves.

“IT BURNS!”

‘You didn’t say no fire! IT COUNTS!
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>>29485359
That game is the devil
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>42
“18”
~Spitfire~
~~

>…so do you all think I have a chance with-

“I really don’t want to introduce another partner into the mix with this, but I don’t want to crush your dreams. You do you, Forty Two.”

~HA! No, if you tried to seduce them you’ll just crash and burn and drop your love all over the floor.~

>I DIDN’T MEAN THAT-wait, drop my love?

~Look the drop my spaghetti analogy doesn’t work with a species that uses metaphysical concepts for sustenance, sue me.~

>I feel like I should for racial discrimination.

~Go ahead, no court will convict me! Because of all the racial discrimination.~

“Is there really in our court systems?”

~You don’t know, and now you’re more hesitant to ask. Psychology is an important part of life.~

>She’s not wrong but I still feel like I should punch her.

“Do not break your hoof again>”

>I won’t! I’ll hit her harder this time.

“Ugh-“

>No no, I’ll hit her so hard her face breaks, and then I’m just punching jelly face, which is way softer.

~Flawless logic.~

>See? She agrees, and she’s about to get punched.

“Forty Two, you literally can’t break a marshmallow right now.”

>…well you don’t have to be mean about it.

“You. Could. Not. Hurt. An. ANT.”

~Racist against your fellow bugs.~

>Fine, I won’t punch her but only because I like you.

~Suuure.~

>Do not tempt me!

~Or what, you’ll-~

FWOOSH!
WHUNK!

~Ow.~

>STILL CAN TELEPORT, FOOL! AHAHA… Now if you don’t mind I need a nap-

THUNK

>ZZZzzzz…

~…Did she hit the-~

“Right on the edge of the coffee table.”

~Do not tell her this when she wakes up, but teleporting me into the statue was clever.~

“I’ll never breath a word of it.”

~What do you think she was talking about originally?~

“She’s a mare of mystery.”

>ZZZZzzz…
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>>29485531
>Teleport INTO a punch

Okay that was cool.
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>Pommel
"77"
'Potsticker'
~MH Captain~
-FD Captain-
(BM Captain)
{Silver Star}
=TH Captain=
■LP Captain ■
~~~~

>They’ve been doing WHAT!?

(Have you seriously not heard of them?)

~No!~

{Eeenope.}

=Hm?=

■So bizzare! They came to my little town forever ago, they’ve set up such things there, it’s wonderful! ■

>And none of that seems suspicious to you?

■Don’t be absurd. Of course I made sure they did nothing shady, the only shade that’s allowed in my humble town is whatever I throw out to the worst dressed at the party. You didn’t think I found it odd they were hiring so many criminals? ■

>Red flag. Red flag!

(They did it over in my town too, but they never seemed to get up to anything.)

■ Too true! In fact, come to think of it, my crime rates have spectacularly plummeted since they’ve arrived. ■

>Reeeed flag.

“I’m with Pommel here, that’s a lot of warning signs that they’re up to something. How deeply did you probe?”

■Oh my! ■

‘You walked right into that one.’

“Shut up.”

■But really, if anyone knows how to get the deep and dirty little secrets of everyone who goes through my town it’s most certainly me. I know how to find out the nit and gritty, and deep as I looked, I couldn’t find anything. Perhaps they’re simply some noble souls. In which case, my goodness are they in the wrong place! Ho ho!■

“I have to visit sometime.”

■My buggy friend, I don’t care what species you are, everyone gets to play the games in Laassss Pegasus! ■

“…Thanks?”

>Look, we’ll get to the bottom of this later, the point of the meeting is-

■That Hoofington never showed up? ■

>…Huh. Maybe he’s late?

■She’s never late, trust me on this. Oh ho!■

>I don’t know what that means.

=Hm.=

>Thank you!
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>>29485790
Good news!

You're PROBABLY not going to have to worry about that!
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>>29485860
You never know...
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>Celestia
“Rarity”
~~~

>Have you seen my little sister?

“I’m noticing that’s a trend going on.”

>Oh? You lost yours too?

“Of course not! She’s down in Ponyville, I can’t lose her if she’s in another city?”

>You’re sure she’s over in Ponyville?

“I think I’d know if she somehow crossed that distance so suddenly.”

>Well, Luna has to be in the castle somewhere.

“She could have left.”

>I think I’d know if my sister left a whole city, someone probably would have mentioned this.

“…”

>…

“…It’s good we’re so worried about our siblings.”

>We’re good sisters.
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>AUJ
“AJ”
~~~

>…Is that chocolate?

“Yep.”

>Why do you have chocolate?

“Wouldn’t know, it didn’t happen.”

>…what!?

“Exactly.”

>Ah’ don’t… what!?
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>>29485968
Ha!
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>>29482396
>>29483633
To be honest, I don't really have a problem with OC's, I just kinda expected someone I knew to show up in this story, and when that wasn't the case, I just couldn't invest myself in a one-off character at this climactic apex in the story.

Though, I still wanted to know what would happen because I know that whatever transpired with Blackbill would become relevant later, in some way at the very least. The writing seemed pretty good, I just didn't wanna read it all myself.
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>>29486183
NC
>Spike
~~~~

>Oh oh! Wheres mine!?

...

>Oh.
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>Guard
“Guard 2”
(Cantie)
{Cantie2}
~???~
~~~

>This isn’t working!

“They’re too smart to stop!”

(Wait, maybe that’s how we win!)

{I’m listening.}

(ROBOT!)

~I am designated Babycakes, please do not refer to me as a robot, it is insulting.~

(This sentence is a lie!)

~Then how do you know the truth?~

(...what is the sound of one hoof clapping!)

~Whoosh.~

(If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?)

~Not if you’re in space.~

(…Shit, they really do program these things good.)

>They’re smarter than our idiots!

“WE’RE DOOMED!”
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>>29486539
>>They’re smarter than our idiots!

The villains summed up in just five lines.
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>>29486389
Ooooooooooooooowwie...
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>>29486183
>Pinkie
"AJ"
~~~

>HEY!

"What?"

>That's my gig!

"...And?"

>Don't do it!

"Yer' doing it right now."

>Nuh uh!

"Oh yeah? Where are you supposed to be?"

>...OH SHOOT! Dashie!... I'll be right back you jerk!

ZOOM!

"Heh. Logic... ah' ain't got none.
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>Sunset
"Spike"
~~~~~

"...Wow."

Nothing seemed real anymore.

In a single twist of his arm, a single act, a single moment the dragon had somehow turned everything real into something different, something abhorrent. Wide, beautiful eyes watched and waited for the moment it would turn back, when things that should not be would shift back to what they should be, and the unstoppable being that had somehow fallen would rise once again, and bring her legendary vengeance down on the dragon.

"So... is the next plan coming?"

Time ticked away, and she didn't.

The Titan lie there on her side, still and unmoving, nothing but a faint hiss of some strange wisp of color rising up from her mouth.

"I'll take that as a no. She's actually... wow. Even planning it, I kind of didn't think... wow."

She wondered if he felt it cruel to say that now, as if there had really needed to be an answer if this had been a part of her plan. It hadn't, of course it hadn't, none of this was supposed to happen. The set plan of returning back with fancy wine in tow and celebrating their final victory was not meant to end so suddenly and certainly not like this.

"It's over. It's just... over. I did it."

It wasn't supposed to end with him breathlessly staring, even as he held his gun steady in case she should move.

"I did it."

It wasn't supposed to end with her waiting for something that never came.

"She's not getting back up, Sunset.. it's over."

Her frozen mind rebelled against this idea, gears that had stopped sparking alive just long enough to move once to form words of pure hate that never made it out into the real world before returning back into their locked position, lying in wait for when reality would go back to what it was supposed to be.

It never did.

She waited and waited, and the Titan stayed felled. Chitania never again rose up, no matter how long she waited. It felt unreal. It all felt so wrong.

"This is your last chance to come back."

1/9
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>>29487202

His words twisted her already aching gut, and she felt like screaming. She felt like striking at him, even with the deadly weapon leveled right to her face in preparation for just that. She felt like roaring, raining down all of her magic on him, letting it all out in a shriek that would deafen him as much as it would end him. She wanted him to die. She wanted to scream.

"There's nothing left for you now, there's nobody here waiting, but you can come back. You can end this, on good terms, or I'll end it on my terms. I came here to make sure one monster died today... I'll make it two if I have to."

She never screamed.

She never even made a sound.

"Sunset."

She never even looked at him when she started walking, one hoof slowly raised up after the other.

He kept the gun aimed at her, squarely pointed at the back of her head, ready to fire the instant she made a move to conjure her magic, either to attack him or use it to try to help the downed changeling, but it never came. She couldn't focus, she couldn't bring that magic to hurt or to help, not like this.

Nothing was supposed to be like this.

"Sunset, it's over. Don't you understand? It's finally over, you can't change that, but you can stop whatever this is before it's too late, and you can save yourself. You can stop this before there's no coming back... like with her. She made her choice, you can be different."

So lost in her gaze, she'd almost forgotten about the pulsating energy directly beneath her hooves. She'd almost forgotten the warped power channeling around the very walls surrounding her and basking her in unnatural blue light, the same one that now surrounded the fallen Titan and made her seem to float on an endless expanse of oblivion. The power she had meant to use now rolled around her, wasted.

"Turn around."

Her movements, robotic as they were, never even changed their pace. Not slower, not faster, just a steady walk towards the still creature on her side.

"Turn around."

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>>29487207

She crept up closer, seeing more that made her chest ache with every new detail she forced her jerking gaze to see. Ugly, black veins were throbbing around the changelings mouth, her nose was leaking a viscous ebony fluid, her eyes were shut tightly and her body was as still as a statue. Not a twitch, not a single sign of pain. She did not look at peace, but instead like some abomination of a figure carved from black stone and pushed aside by a careless stone carver. Everything about her looked wrong.

Everything was wrong.

"I said..."

She heard the click, and she never looked away.

"Turn around... before it's too late."

She never even looked aside, before she neared the Queen's body, and reached out to touch it.

Cold. She felt deathly cold beneath her touch, and she could feel nothing else. She knew that armor, she had felt that chitin on her own fur more times than she cared to count, and though it was thick enough to hold back even the strongest of weapons, there should have been something. A single glimpse of warmth that always felt special for the rarity that it was. It was like a treat, hidden away for only those she would let hold onto her long enough to feel. She'd felt it, many times before.

Not now. Nothing was there now.

"Sunset... please. Please don't. I don't want to..."

She never heard his gun shake, not once.

"But I will."

>...what are you waiting for?

Not until she'd said those words.

He likely assumed the croaked things that had come out were meant for him. Some sort of admission of defeat, a begging for a quick and painless death to come and put her down once and for all. He all but certainly thought she was asking why he had not shot her dead yet.

It couldn't have been further from the truth.

>He had the gun on me, that was your chance... why didn't you move?

When her next words came out in scolding and bitter cold, he understood.

3/9
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>>29487213

>He turned it back, he was still starstruck in thinking he won, that was your opening, that was your chance to break him.

He understood, and despaired.

>What are you waiting for? Why won't you move? You have to show me that you're alive, otherwise we can't coordinate a counterattack. I can't fight with you if you pull these surprises out. I'm here for you, just give me a sign.

"Sunset, damn it. Stop."

>Why aren't you getting back up? Why aren't you showing this little speck what you're really capable of? What are you waiting for?

"Sunset! Just stop already!"

>Smash him into the ground, grind him into purple paste, break his neck by thinking at him, something.

"She's dead! Okay! She's dead! Nothing can survive that toxin, nothing! I made damn sure of that! I know, she seemed invincible, she seemed unstoppable, but she wasn't! Nothing is! Not her, and not you, and if you don't stop this right now, I'll prove it!"

>You're meant to fight gods, you're meant to bring them down and break them like glass, you're not meant for something so small.

"She's dead! Dead! No question no hope dead! Do you think I'd take any chance with this!? Do you really think I'd leave it up to maybe or give her a chance to fight back!? Sunset... this could have killed an elder dragon, at full size! Even in Titan form, it could have taken her out! As she is, there's no way... get a hold of yourself! Sunset! SUNSET SHIMMER! If you don't turn around I will-"

He froze, and it had very little to do with the near imperceptible click of a trigger on the edge of being pulled inwards. It had everything to do with the loud slap that rang out when the pony brought her hoof down on the chitinous cheek.

>Get up! I'm not waiting for you anymore! This is your power! This, all of this, it's for you! It's to make you strong! I did all of this to make you strong!

He watched on in horror as she did it again.

"Sunset..."

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>>29487217

>Don't you feel it!? We're so close! We can have everything now, and you're going to let something like this even slow you down!? We have so much waiting for us!

And again, and again.

"Stop it! There's nothing there!"

>We have the world at our hooftips, and you're just lying in wait for some kind of trick!? Who even cares! This isn't worth the grandeur! Get up, end this, and let's get back to what we actually care about! Get up damn it! GET UP!

"SUNSET! STOP IT! For the love of Celestia if you don't stop it right now I will..."

Her last swing froze in the air, and his finger froze just before pulling back enough to let the hammer dropped.

>...why did you have to be worried about me...

Her hoof shook above her, twitching like the final spasms of a downed animal.

>Why did you have to come looking... why didn't you just assume I was fine... the one time... the one time it would have been so much better if you just forgot about me for a little bit, if you just went on ahead and did what you wanted without me. The one time... the one time I should have been forgotten so you could succeed...

It slowly lowered, until it touched the cheek she had battered once more, with a gentleness so unlike the force she'd brought down on it before.

>The one time... I wanted you to stay away... and you opened the door without even checking, because you were waiting for me...

It brushed against her, searching for anything, but only finding the cold.

>...get up.

"She won't."

She could hear the bile rising in the throat of the dragon behind her, she could hear the pity in his voice, but she couldn't bring herself to focus on it, it was a miracle she could hear it at all through the haze in her ears.

>Get up.

"She won't, she's dead, and she's not coming back, and if you don't get away from her right now, I'll send you to go join her."

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>>29487224

He was shaking. Truly shaking, but he hadn't moved. She could hear him rooted in the same place as before, likely frozen, all but certainly still with the gun leveled right at her head.

>Get up!

"She's dead! She's dead! What do I have to say to get this through to you!? Dead! Gone! Don't... don't make me do this. Damn it, Sunset... don't make me."

Whatever he had said didn't matter anymore.

She only cared about one thing.

>GET UP DAMN YOU! GET UP! GET UP GET UP GET UPPPPP!

She hadn't meant to call her magic to her horn, she did not even have a single thought in her screaming head for what to do with it, it truly was an accident.

The reasons didn't end up mattering, in the end.

"...I'm sorry, Applejack...but this is for everyone."

>GET! UP-

She heard the click.

She heard the hammer fall.

And she heard the bang.

There was no mistaking the wet noise that followed afterwards, the sound of something cracking and breaking and the wetness that spilled on the ground. There was no question he'd made his mark, that the one in a million shot that had flown before stayed true again, and for the second time cold steel had met something living.

In a single moment, the world had shifted once again.

Sunset Shimmer heard that bullet hit flesh.

>...it's about time.

It was not her flesh.

"No fucking way."

She leaned back, never even looking away from the still face on the ground, and just as she knew it would be there was a massive hoof waiting for her. A massive limb cradling behind her head, perfectly in the way of the shot that had sought to end her life. She heard chitin fall to the ground, the shot apparently enough to shatter the armor on her leg and powerful enough to expose the muscle beneath the chitin before drilling into the bone, but it held. Even as it bled onto the ground, it stayed up, and it protected her.

>I was almost worried there for a second.

6/9
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>>29487229

A single eye cracked open. It was wrong, riddled with a strange black lines that pulsated and throbbed, lines of steam from what she could only gather to be something dissolving beneath her eyelids wisping up to give her a hellish gaze of a demon unleashed.

To her, nothing could have been the more perfect picture of an angel.

>Were you faking it?

Her only response was a gurgled groan of pain, and a lockjawed maw cracking open like a dried skull to spill a thick wave of viscous black liquid onto the ground.

>I'll take that as a no.

The once indestructible being struggled to breath through the disgusting muck, her nose disturbing the streams down her face when she painfully sucked in and out to keep what little oxygen inside of her.

>Shhhh, shhh... it's okay. So long as you're alive...

Another shot rang out, and four more along with it right after.

This time, not a single sound of steel on flesh rang out. Only the reverberating ricochet of metal against a magic beyond it's compare. Each time, the sound of a tiny wild explosive rang out with with, no longer stifled by the absorbing nature of flesh, the shock loud enough to shake the very foundation of the building itself. All the same if they'd been bullets or BB's, it held.

"Oh come on! I designed these-"

>To be able to break even my strongest shield, I'm sure. You were prepared, weren't you?

She rolled back her head with a new, wicked smile on her face, never pausing the gentle brushing she ran through Chitania's wild mane. She found him in the middle of ducking behind some of her furniture, her most favorite of couches at that, with a bullet fired wildly to cover his escape and prevent her from stopping him. She likely could have anyway, if he'd bothered

>You weren't prepared for this.

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>>29487234

She saw the corner of his head poking around, and the hiss of realization as he spied her shield, surrounding her and her downed Titan Queen on all sides in a display of power he likely thought her incapable. If only he knew the full truth, he might have turned the gun on himself now to save the trouble.

Even with his tiny understanding of the situation, he still pieced enough together to understand just how outclassed he was. She could hear him loading new bullets into the chamber, no doubt a backup plan he banked his success on. He'd thought ahead, and he was ready for the magic she was doubtlessly going to cast against him. He'd likely taken precautions, put on wards or shields or some other such nonsense he'd gathered in the months that he'd been waiting for this chance.

If it were any other time, she'd be more than happy to show him exactly how far behind he was when it came to preparedness for battle. Today, other much more important matters awaited her.

>...stay alive.

That was the only true command she had ever given Chitania in all the time they'd been partners. The one time she made a demand, rather than simply requested and hoped for the best. This was the one time she'd break their unspoken vow to each other, that they'd never test if they could make the other obey.

Just this once, she made an exception.

>Stay alive until we make it... and none of this will matter.

The Titan still could not move save a twitch of her legs, she could barely breath save through gurgled pain, and her eyes struggled not to close again in fear that the poison ravishing her body would take it's toll, and she would never open them again.

>I'll carry you this time.

She watched as those eyes stayed open through pain she knew. The pain she'd felt exactly one time in her life, when her heart was taken from her and destroyed. She knew the Queen felt that now, more than ever.

"You're not going anywhere!"

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>>29487245

To his credit, he tried. He already had his weapon swinging back and forth in whatever path they would choose, left or right, likely to stop them dead in their tracks and force them to loop back around no matter where they chose.

She would give him credit for that, and nothing else.

It would be the only thing she ever let him have ever again.

When her eyes flickered and her horn sparked with more magic, it was over.

>Ahem... would you kindly beat this dragon to death?

He didn't even have a chance to understand, before the wall caved inwards.

The dragon's draw was fast, the downed Queen was more than proof enough of that. His skills of aim were not to be forgotten, lest they come back to bite him

But even his speed, his skills and his aim simply were not quick enough to move before the blur of yellow too fast for him to comprehend was upon him, and the blows arrived.

He'd barely even had time to register the battering pain before he felt the crumble of drywall behind him break against his back. He'd barely had time to understand that before another shattered against it.

And another, and another, and another, until either they'd reached the edge or he'd grown bored, and there was one final thunderous blow of a punch, enough to rock the entire structure clear up to beneath the unicorns tingling hooves.

She could not see them, they were much too far away now, but the distance was not so great she could not hear the words that made her smile.

~For the record... this one's going to go even worse than last time.~

When she heard more cracks of stone as the blows resumed, it brought the smile she'd all but forgotten back to her face.

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>>29487249

>...Stay alive.

The warm, caring smile that matched the glow of the magic that gently carried the Titan with her, as she headed back the way she came.

>Stay alive just long enough... and you'll show them all.

When she saw the fire in that single eye she could see, the power of the Titan in something more than her body behind that gaze, she never doubted for a second that she would obey.

She would live. They would both live. They would become so much more.

>Attention, everyone! It seems there are intruders in the building. Would you all kindly tear their heads of?

Nothing would stand in their way again.

Nothing would stop them ever again.

>Stay alive... until you can be so much more.
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Spike's dead

GG

Thread over
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>>29487252
OK, the previous story ended with her getting shot and apparently killed, how is it that only now is it I am able to say, boy that escalated quickly.
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>>29487267
Hey, he finally has a chance to redeem herself!

He's doomed.
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>>29487291
Nope

He's dead

Or Chitania is a massive jobber and a hack fraud
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>>29487252
>The whole universe bends over backwards to kill her
>She just plain is too stubborn to die

I'm starting to see why this required divine intervention
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>>29487296
>Or Chitania is a massive jobber and a hack fraud

>Massive Jobber
>Literally was directly shot in the mouth with Dragon-Killing poison and STILL SAVES SUNSET
>ISN'T DEAD YET

I'm not going to deny she jobs to Spike on occasion, she did it the once, but what makes an interesting jobber is when they get back up eventually and fuck someone up.
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>>29487296
>He's dead
>Or Chitania is a massive jobber and a hack fraud

???

You do realize it's FLASH who just Super-Tackled him, right? Chitty's currently spitting up RE7 goo and trying not to keel over.
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>>29487252
Jesus fuck man. That Sunset scene in the first half, man... fuck
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>>29487401
Right? Holy fuck the sheer raw emotion there, that subtle breakdown that escalated so slowly.

Damn.
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>>29487252
FINNALLLYYYYYY

The action can begin!

You blueballed me for so long and now my time has come!
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>>29487252
It's not quite>>29472838 but close.

Spike is going to get his tight little dragon hole fucked sideways.
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>>29487252
>Chitania's number in the outside place switches to 0
>She's lying completely still
>Totally no response
>Nothing heat
>No breathing
>Until Sunset breaks down, then she moves just enough to protect her.

...did a VILLAIN just use the power of love!?
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>>29487603
DON'T NEED MAGI
DON'T NEED FLAME
DON'T NEED NO SUPER POWER INSIDE THE VEIN
SHE'S STRONG AND SHE'S CRAZY, AND THEY'RE CRUEL SOMETIMES
BUT IT MIGHT JUST SAVE YOUR LIIIIIFE
CAUSE THAT'S THE POWER OF LOVE
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>>29487224
>>Why did you have to come looking... why didn't you just assume I was fine... the one time... the one time it would have been so much better if you just forgot about me for a little bit, if you just went on ahead and did what you wanted without me. The one time... the one time I should have been forgotten so you could succeed...

>>The one time... I wanted you to stay away... and you opened the door without even checking, because you were waiting for me...

Holy fucking SHIT MY HEART

WHY
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>>29487603
>...did a VILLAIN just use the power of love!?

Villains can love, half the time they're villains because of love.
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>>29487603
If these two weren't crazy/an asshole(Lets face it, Chitty is an asshole. Even she doesn't play the 'Oh woe is me I've got a bad childhood' card or anything, she knows what she is and doesn't care, she's just an asshole. Sunset's got legit falls but Chitty is just a dick.), they would probably be two of the biggest heroes in the world.
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>>29487249
>blur of yellow
Did Sunset just summon the Savior of the Universe?
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>>29487846
>Superfast
>Yellow
>~For the record... this one's going to go even worse than last time.~

AHHHHHH HAA HAAAA!

HE CAN SAVE THE SUPERBUG!
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>>29487794
>Sunset! In a world without goals, we might have been heroes!
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>>29487252
NC
>AJ
"AUJ"
~~~

>...Ah' wonder what Spike's up to-

"YA'LL LEAVE HIM ALONE YA' DANG PEDOPHILE!"

>Ah'm not a-

"NGH!"

SLAP!

>OW!

"No more worrying about Spike! You worry about work!"

>Fine, dang... he's probably okay.
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>>29487659
Ha! Applejack would have avoided all of this! BEST PONY!

;_:
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LAST THREAD RECAP, BANG EDITION!
>SA is not okay
>AUJ hasn't seen Alterfluttershy in a whikle
>Spitfire wants a hug
>Vekir and Rekulk think Thirty Two would be proud of them
>The other captains are having a hard time believing the crime families are going legit
>AUJ calls out AJ for thinking she's a facist, but then immediately vanishes when Shining comes into the room. Literally, with camouflage. When AJ presses her she dodges the question.
>The peacetrotters are acting really weird
>Celestia does no do hypothetical debates
>Magic lessons with Luna goes awry
>Dash and Pinkie find what they least expected in Griffonstone, five changelings on a mission of peace and a whole lot of suspicious griffons.
>They then proceed to make everything horrible by arriving
>The mob is initially stopped by changeling magic, but one fuckup means it's now all five changeling plus Dash and Pinkie VS the griffons
>Rarity is sassy
>In Evo Corp, inside the air vent, PJ is chilled when she realizes there's nobody there on the top floors, she keeps searching and not a soul to be found. She realizes either they saw them coming, or it's too late.
>SA and Fluttershy hit it off
>Daw wonders if she's doing the infiltration right, somethings wrong, or if she's just awesome
>Actarius and JJ realize that Celestia just hires whoever to be the ambassador, there's no set pony
>Cadence is aching
>Twilight is making the professors do work
>Silver Spoon is trying not to freak out
>Celestia is worried about AJ
>Cheerilee's students are really desensitized
>SA and Rarity are Whiteys and they love it
>Actarius brings up the Ambassador thing to AJ who is going to look into it
>Twilight does not like Rarity bro-hoofing her bro
>DT is worried about the others and is ready to bust out if she hears them in trouble
>SA and AJ talk about ambassadors and realize their policy sucks
>Vekir wants Fancy Pant's stache
>Forty Two is having trouble brushing her teeth
1/2
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>>29488209
>One of the 'diplomatic' changelings somehow ended up in a mad-max scenario
>AUJ thinks she and LD would get along great anywhere else
>It turns out 007 was looking for more than just Sunset, and he found it
>Two is good at distractions
>AJ might be crazy
>Derpy and AUJ meet. Strange things happen
>The Las Pegasus captain arrives and he's Elton John Pony
>18 and Caddy talk about the celebrity exception
>SA should not call Luna "Lulu"
>AJ gets fed up with AUJ and goes to see her sister
>We get a look into 32's Light-hell world, and it's pretty much the same.
>Except all the ones in the cave who died are alive
>AB gets saved by an angry AJ. SB and SL, not so much
>AJ and the family talk
>Spike, searching through the vents, is ready to kill Chitania, after a long debate within himself, recognizing her to be a monster who has to be stopped, and knowing the other royals can't do that.
>But when he finds Sunset, not Chitania, he suddenly freezes, and a massive debate begins inside of him if he can go through with it.
>After flipping back and forth, he eventually points his gun at her, and makes a choice.
>Bang.

As always if I missed something, say something!
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>>29487252
NC
>Spike
"Flash"
~~~~

"That's right, this is going to end even worse than the last time we met!"

>OH NO!

"...That, uh, that sounded kind of forced."

>...N-nope.

"..."

>...who are you again?

"Seriously!?"

>Dude, I fight a lot of ponies.

"..."

>Are you from Mustangia?

"AAAATTATATATTATATATATATATATATATATATATATAT!"

>NOTOWFROMOWTHEREOWGOTCHAOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOW
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>>29487249
SO ARE WE ALL GONNA JUST SKIP OVER SPIKE TRIED TO FUCKING SHOOT HER IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD

WHAT THE FUCK
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>>29488633
We saw him debate why he should do it, it's just a confirmation of his thoughts that she couldn't be saved.
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>>29488419
You are already dead! No really, you're better off now before she gets up in god mode
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>>29488795
He's right though, that was a pretty dark thing to do.

That said, while I know the next scene will be awesome, the action scenes will doubtlessly be amazing, and the twist will just keep coming and be astonishing, I'm always going to wonder what it would have been like if he had actually succeeded and both of them died right there. Could Spike have been the final boss?
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>>29488127
This makes me angery
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>>29488633
Pretty much, little psycho had his fun, now consequences!
>>
So... Spike and Flash have met/fought before this? Can someone give a detail or two on that? Does Spike know he used to be a guard and Twilight cut him up?
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>>29489998
Probably helped do it actually.
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>>29489998
All I remember/know is that Flash whooped Spike pretty handily during some raid. This was when Flash was more or less a robot just following orders. I think.
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>>29489998
Airship battle. Flash ironically ended up beating him pretty handily, and locking him up in the cage that he would later escape from. He would be defeated by DT of all people.
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So, I think I'm going to try something, a challenge of sorts. I'm going to en devour to draw a new header pic each thread. Not saying we will always use my pics as a header image, but that it will always be an option.
>>
Soooo...
>Sunset activates the portal-o-heavansu-doooooaaah thing bob
>beep boop eldritch shenanigans
>rest of the A Team get walked off cos really what are they gonna do?
>ok back to Slimjim Slammer
>magical portal feedback resonance cascade event horizon or something
>AUJ gets teleportled in because something something portal something
>AJ might too but I'm not holding out any hope goddamnit why why why even bother hoping
>Applejack is now relevant in some capacity

Yes? Is that it?
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>>29490502
Awesome! An art challenge, especially if time-based, can really help you crack down on your basic drawings and most fudamaental mistakes and how to improve technique.

As a fellow artist, I wish you the best of luck and may the muse kiss you where the sun don't shine if you are into that!
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>>29490515

...uh, maybe? Are you asking the writers for an outline, or the readers to inspire some remnant hope for you?
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy, guuuuuuys~

I do believe it is high time for some good old DESPAIR again! Are you rrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeaaaaaaadyyy for the HURT to set in?
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>>29487229

>>29489236
>I'm always going to wonder what it would have been like if he had actually succeeded and both of them died right there. Could Spike have been the final boss?

~~~

ALTC (Alternative Canon)
>Sunset
„Spike“
~~~

"...I'm sorry, Applejack...but this is for everyone."

>GET! UP-

He heard the click. He felt the trigger relent under the pressure of his finger. He felt the hammer fall. He heard the bang and felt the recoil of his gun all the way through his arm.

There was no mistaking the wet noise that followed afterwards, the sound of something cracking and breaking and the wetness that spilled on the ground. The brutality by which the unicorn's body was flung sideways when the bullet struck her body was sickening, a high-caliber round meant to slay monster not ponies, doing more to her body than just punch a hole into her.

He hoped that Sunset Shimmer never truly felt that bullet hit her flesh, that she was dead before she hit the ground. That she would never move again.

He hoped in vain.

The rasping gurgle of the mare's death rattle as she raised her head to give him one, final look of desperation before she slumped down and moved no more was enough to rob the young dragon of any remaining strength. His arm fell to his side, his gun slipping from his grasp to clatter onto the floor.

Panic seized his heart, prompting him to turn his rapidly from side to side in search for any attacker to approach or emergency plans to kick in; any indication that this was an illusion and victory had been snatched from his grasp once again.
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>>29490651

He found nothing. There was no one here, but himself; nothing but the soft 'plip-plop' of blood and poison, off to the side where Sunset and Chitania laid, never to rise again.

His breath hitched and got caught in his throat.

For a moment, Spike forgot how to breathe as the reality of his victory and what he had been forced to do to accomplish it came crashing down onto him. He took a deep breath...

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

...and screamed.

He poured all of his frustration, all of his anger, all feelings of helplessness and confusion into that one, primal scream that sounded every bit like the roar of a mighty dragon he might one day grow to be. And when it was over, and he stood, swaying unsteadily besides the bodies of his felled enemies... he felt empty.

There was no feeling of vindication, no satisfaction to be found in what he had done. He had done what he felt and thought was necessary.

No one could take that from him. He sat down... and refused to acknowledge the bodies, the blood or his actions until the rest of the A-Team arrived. Motions, words, actions, meaning, all slipped away from him for a day.

Spike the dragon had won. For the A-Team. For Equestria. For himself.

It was too bad that Spike the little dragon wasn't truly there anymore.

The young dragon who had been hatched by Twilight Sparkle, become her assistant and a friend to the Elements of Harmony had died with Sunset Shimmer and Chitania the Titan in that small, cramped storage room. And just like he did for Chitania and Sunset...

...he would never mourn his passing.
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>>29490651
>>29490661
I'm glad this didn't happen because Spike was a bit of a bastard there and the little shit doesn't deserve the victory as cold and unsatisfactory as it might have been
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>>29490606
Fuck off weebshit
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>>29490502
Sounds like a plan to me!
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>>29490542
Spitballing

Trying to think of some way the writer will get AJ relevant to this
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>>29490861
Huh. Good idea.

How about what's happening in Hoofington having an effect so great you can see/feel it all across Equestria?
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>>29490502
A!
Cute!
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>>29490502
>Filename

Damn straight she is.
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>>29490502
INTO THE WIKI IT GOES!
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>>29490502
You know, this one looks the most like a promo image. You know? Like the kind you'd see on an advertisement.
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>>29490502
That actually would be a pretty great portrait for a character pic, like in a sim or something.
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>>29490502
Oi.... can you make a vector of that one...? It's for
.. uh... educational... purposes.
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>>29491329
*Gasp* The thing! I know what you mean!!!
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>>29491276
Or an Rpg one.
>>
NC
>FS
“??”
‘??’
~~~

>And welcome everyone to another episode of Fantastically Fixing Friendships, Featuring Fluttershy. It’s during this time content doesn’t matter, but we do. Our next guests are a change of pace, please welcome Fleetfoot and Soarin’.

“He’s still complaining about that one time we tried to replace him.”

‘Seriously!? I can’t believe you did that and never apologized! I freaking apologized first!’

“And wow what does that say about you.”

>Now, Fleetfoot, apologies can heal a lot better than time can most days. Why don’t you just apologize?

“Because it was for the good of the team! He should be fine with it!”

>Really? He should be fine with you picking the need of a competition over him, to the point of outright deception? That doesn’t sound like something he should be fine with. At best, it’s unfortunate, at worst you’ve completely betrayed him.

‘Thank you!’

>But Soarin’, I know it’s not completely your fault and you likely were trying to just build back bridges, but if you’re going to accept blame and apologize, you can’t be angry if they don’t take the responsibility that you said was yours. If you say you’re sorry and it was your fault, mean it, don’t backpeddle when they don’t share the blame.

“Thank you!”

>It sounds like you both have problems, what do you feel is the solution?

“Feh. I’m sorry I lied to you. I stand by trying to get a replacement to win, but I guess if it really was for a noble reason, I shouldn’t have had to hide it. Either you’d understand or not, but lying only made it worse.”

‘And I guess I shouldn’t say I forgive you and then hold a grudge. That’s not fair.’

>Sounds like you’ve really soared in finding problems.

“That was painful.”

‘Wanna hug it out before she gets worse?’

“Sure.”

>…nowtellhershe’sabadbadfillyandneedaspanking-

“What?”

>I said that’s all the time we have today. As always, stay kind.
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>>29491449
Working on it the entire time. Writing is coming smoothly. It needs... character art/portraits. But, sssshhh.
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>>29491518
Why must you tease like this?
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>>29491506
*spits out drink* we finally addressed it, holy crap!
>>
OOCO
>SA
“AJ”
‘Celesita’
~~~~

>Did you all raid my HnH chocolates?

“Ya’ don’t need them!”

‘Really, who could eat this many chocolates?’

>You two, apparently!

“Exactly. Ya’ll don’t want to get fat.”

‘You have to keep that sexy guard body.’

“Iffin’ you ain’t got huge muscles, ya’ ain’t a guard.”

>Oh, but you two are fine!

“Considerin’ everyone won’t stop talkin’ bout mah’ apples, Ah’ consider it a public service.”

‘And there’s always more sun to praise!’

>Double standards!

“Different jobs have different standards.”

>I’m a prince!

“And Ah’m also a farmer, so Ah’ gotta kick hard.”

‘And I have to talk good! Me am good with wrrds!’

>Ugh. Not fair.

“Hey, look at it this way, ya’ll have so many mares who wanna give you chocolates you don’t know what to do with it.”

>…Mmm.

“That backfired. He feels really good but Ah’ feel bad.”

‘EAT THE PAIN AWAY!’

“NM!’

>…mmm…
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>>29491789
But...none of them gave you any chocolates.

Where did the chocolates come from?
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>>29491854
>Has a harem but still has to buy his own chocolates on pony Valentine's Day

That is a new level of sad.
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>>29490651
I meant on a larger scale, not the scene in question. That part was obvious, I'm always gonna wonder what happened after, and what it would mean to everyone else.
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>Guard
“Guard 2”
(Cantie)
{Cantie2}
~PT~
~~~

>Okay, we have to distract them!

“How do you distract a robot?!”

(…sexy dance?)

{Sexy Dance.}

UNNTSS UNNTSS UNNTSSS

~…I cannot even process this right now.~
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>>29492045
>Seducing a robot
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
>>
>Chrysalis
“Changeling”
~~~

>I need more hugs. Someone get me more hugs.

“Okay!”

>NOT FROM YOU!

“Awww.’

Deflated, the changeling lowered his wide arms, and sighed while kicking the ground in a fit of sadness. Said kick managed to leave behind a deep black streak on the floor, a challenge when the floor itself was black.

>How did you even manage to do this?

“I flew. For fucks sake this isn’t complicated, why does everyone forget we have wings.”

>That’s not… okay, I’ll let you have that one, because inexplicably we do. I meant how did you manage to get covered from hoof to tail in soot?

“I think it’s sulfur actually.”

>Sulfur is found near volcano’s.

“That makes sense, it’s where I found it. All is right with the world.”

She had many disagreements on that.

>Why were you near the volcanos?

“It’d be rude to ask the dragon to move, he was there first.”

Seconds ticked away, and sense would not come. It had shot itself in the skull and now bled out on the ground, dead and alone. This was it’s life now. It’s life was death.

>Dragons?

“Well, you said to make alliances, so-“

>I didn’t tell you to go there.

“I know, that’s what makes it special!”

She tried really hard not to hit him.

>…Did you almost die?

“Maybe, but he talked to me!”

She really, really did.

>…

“Did I do good?”

>….

Patpat

She succeeded.

>Good effort, don’t do it again, it’s only special once.

“Darn! Should’ve picked better. Okay! I’ll check with you next time.”

>Promise.

“I promiiiise.”

He skittered off, all grins, and she was left there with her migraine.

It wasn’t getting better.

>…shiny come back. It hurts.

Seconds later, something did hug her.

~Good job.~

>How do you do that!?

~Should I stop?~

>…No.
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>>29492262
Pinkie?
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>>29490502
Adoribbble
>>
>Twilight
“AUJ”
~~~

>So what your saying is that the transunifying theory of elemental magic has no basis?

“...I don’t know what you just said.”

>I can’t believe I was right!

“Are you? I don’t know. I feel uncomfortable.”

>So then Alternate Twilight must’ve recreated a new theory of transmogrifying the elemental basis of the world into a greater ideal of creation!

“Good for her? Don’t know how you know her and Ah’ don’t and you’ve never met her but Ah’ just want you to stop now because this makes me feel weird.”

>That means… the elements… are based on PONY!?

“This pony is werid..”

>OH DEAR FAAUUUUUUUSSSSSSTTTTTT!

“Mah’ Hooves hurt.”

>SSTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

“Ah’ wanna go home”

>SSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTT!
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>>29490502
>Before her Smile is Taken
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>>29492675
Pffffffffft! Dude, thats not how you make her name long and drawn out, you got Twilight going tsst tsst like freaking Cesar Millan!
>>
NC
>Evo Corp Employee
“ECE2”
~~~~

>….

“…Is our building glowing?”

>Wow, TGIF, am I right?

“Are we ignoring this?”

>I ignore pretty much everything now.
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>Yes, finally!

"Wooooooo!"

>>With this last tile, Canterlot is officially restored!

:="_-Yaaaaaaaaaaay!-_"=:

>We did it boys!

~~~~~~~~~~

Some time later...

>Fucking damn it!
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>>29492988
NC
~IT WASN'T ME!~

>Are you going to punch them, then?

~...No.~
>>
>>29492988
We destroyed Canterlot first, better, and better the next time! Also wtf is he? That's not a centaur.
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>>29492262
...............Hey guys...
Do you think whatever stunted Two and 56's mental development to the point they act like children somehow affected Chrysalis's hive's mental process? This ling is acting very much like them.
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>>29493069
They act like children because those two are children, dumbass.
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>>29493069
Two and 56 aren't stunted, they're completely normal for their age. Two specifically was a Kindergartener who had to fight for what little love she got, so she never got the reduced aging development the others did.

They're just... you know, children.

Kids?

Beings who are younger than a set number?

This meme that Two is just pretending is never gonna catch on.
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>>29479669
I need a... beta-reader again. Though I am starting to doubt the validity of the method, since everyone reads it anyways...
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>>29493224
>>29493225
The only stunted one is Arana, and that's because she got cut off from society for a huge chunk of her life, and she was in a place with little room to grow. The other lings aren't stunted, they're just silly, Ponyville is full of silly ponies who act the same way.

Two's been confirmed to just look like that naturally(Both from her own statements and her retaining that form after having been drained to near-death from Chitania, so any disguise wouldn't have remained), and 56 was confirmed from the flashback and subsequent backstory he got when 29 rescued him from the dead hive. 10 was the only iffy one, but she doesn't act like a child, she was just originally very naive, and now is super-spunky-reporter-mode.
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>>29493266
I'd be more than happy to help you out, but I mean, is this going to have an effect? People didn't like the death scene but you went with it anyway. I'd be more than happy just to point out spelling errors or fix continuity gaffs, just leave it so anyone can alter it.
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>>29493299
Well. For one, I guess no one but me has the whole picture, so certain things seemingly happening and then someone not liking them from their understanding of the moment-snapshot they just read is something I will take in stride.

I did take the 'pls no kill' voice of majority into consideration for the future though. So it wasn't in vain.

The thing is that I tend to go... errr... big. Quickly. Often. This can go over well, or it may seem hurried. Frankly, I'd love to have another day to muddle around with it. But since KeikakuAnon posts on a 2-day cycle, and the action scenes are a free for all now, I want to get this next portion out of the way so everyone can hopefully what the deal with the 'blue light' is so they can work with it if they want to and I can write some fun fight scenes as I go.

On the other hand, I want a voice of reason to either say 'this seems big and scary but plausible' or, as with the desert fight with Sunset and Chitty, to say 'you are going overboard for the sake of rule of cool'.

Savvy?
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>>29493224
>>29493225
>>29493281
Woah now lads, no need to get all passive-aggressive and not-so-passive-aggressive.

But didn't all the hives die out a hella long time ago?
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>>29493351
>so everyone can hopefully what the deal with the 'blue light' is so they can work with it if they want to

...Wait, deal with it?

Isn't everything building to the reveal OF it? That sounds like the finale thing. Why would we reveal the source of the huge hook and THEN do punchy punches? Or are you saying you're just going to reveal it what it is next so that people can work with it? I don't have a problem with it, I just hope you took into account the criticism before that your story paths kept clashing with what was directly before it and it was making others work AROUND it, not with it.

But as said, more than happy to review and chip in my two cents.
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>>29493366
Not true, a running theme in the background is that its implied that there were/are more lings out there and potentially other Queens, since Two and 56 are so young.
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>>29493366
>But didn't all the hives die out a hella long time ago?

Nope, Two revealed she got found by Chrysalis a mere two months before the Wedding invasion. The downfall of the hives was a recent event, recent enough that THIRTEEN saw it in her lifetime.
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>>29493395
>>29493404
Clearly I must have my fucking dates mixed up, how long was Chitania's stay in the ice-cube?
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>>29493391
>it was making others work AROUND it, not with it
...maybe I'll review it some more first. I am also beginning to realize that it is impossible to cater to/please everyone.

>But as said, more than happy to review and chip in my two cents.
Thanks! I will reply with a link to it once I feel better about it next week. Just kidding.
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>>29493447
>I am also beginning to realize that it is impossible to cater to/please everyone.

Don't be like that, it was a gentle criticism at best. Just "Okay, the story's before all had the energy going in a specified direction towards the top of the tower, but this new element completely reversed the direction to another device further away, we have to work with that if we want to keep it in." Just keep in mind what you're following and remember we're building on each other, so it helps if we're paying attention to whatever was written before it in order for it to flow together.

...I mean, not me, I write one post sillies, but in general.
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>>29493439
>how long was Chitania's stay in the ice-cube?
Never revealed for just this reason.
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>>29493485
What reason?
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>>29493515
We're not sure how long it is and were worried about creating a story conflict.
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>>29493485
>>29493515

Its been awhile though, like at least a few centuries.
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>>29493529
I want to say at most a thousand years, but its some time within since I don't think Luna was ever mentioned in the flashbacks. It was always Celestial I think.
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>>29493568
Can't be even close to a thousand, Chitty had no idea who the hell Luna was, and she read up about alicorns all the time when she was a kid, that's how she developed her pants shitting terror of Celestia. So even Chitty at her youngest was too soon to remember Lulu.
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>>29493529
>>29493404
>>29493527

Thank you, you guys are making me feel like i'm going fucking crazy.

So, I think it's weird that, even though it was CLEARLY implied that hives were dropping around the time Chitania was put on ice like 29's story showed, 56 is still a small child. Remember, 29 had to take care of 56 for years and years before Chrysalis took him in, and even then 56 was described as looking like he does now. Also, didn't 56 have some sort of weird split personality that was a strong soldier that served some queen for a long time?

This shit's not adding up, is all I'm saying.
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>>29493584
>Remember, 29 had to take care of 56 for years and years before Chrysalis took him in

Actually, it was A year, singular. http://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/22908818/#22961147

>The rest of time became a blur. It lasted a year, perhaps just a touch longer than that, as he and the little one traveled the world, searching for more of his kin.

>and even then 56 was described as looking like he does now.

Nope!

>http://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/22908818/#22961113

He was specifically called 'a grub' when 29 found him and was so tiny 29 could hold him with one hoof.

>Also, didn't 56 have some sort of weird split personality that was a strong soldier that served some queen for a long time?

Not served a queen, he was a harsh personality that was brutal about survival. This actually implied that either he killed the other grubs, or he killed his old hive, or he just sucked the love out of this dying hive since there was no trace of the others

It adds up fine, he syncs up with Applebloom's age perfectly.
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>>29493616
>but now it seemed almost... desperate
And unless something in the story states it DIRECTLY, I'm not going to believe anything otherwise, no matter how much everyone is trying to make this "changeling kids" meme a reality.
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>>29493649
>And unless something in the story states it DIRECTLY, I'm not going to believe anything otherwise, n

...you mean like stating his size when he was so love-drained illusions would be impossible, stating he wandered around for a single year, and then stating when he found Chrysalis? I... I quoted all of that. It's all stated directly. He was literally the equivalent size of a toddler when 29 found him and they only wandered for a year.

> no matter how much everyone is trying to make this "changeling kids" meme a reality.

It's a reality. It's made. We've synced it up and proved their age in the stories. That one especially proves it, as 56 is so love drained his chitin is transparent and yet he still is tiny sized, and we got a set timeframe for when 29 found Chrysalis and how much he grew.

Also, Two stated in a story that her current form is her real age. Point blank, full stop, she said 'this is the real me'. Then we proved it when Chitania drained her. She literally said it out loud and then proved it with actions and you're trying to make this 'No, they're really adults who just look and act like kids!' thing happen.

It's not happening.
>>
~~~~

They could hear the alarms.

They could hear the gunshots.

They could hear the sounds of battle, and of war.

They could hear it all, and as one, they knew.

"Someone fucked up."

It remained a mystery to them who exactly had been the one to trip the wire and send the infiltration mission into chaos. It was up in the air if it had been a mistake caused by negligence, a wild thought sprung to mind the instant that their targets were found, if it was a dashing attack or if they simply had been found with the most basic of methods. What had caused the downfall was not clear, and likely would not be so for some time, if ever.

What actions need be taken, that was another story entirely.

Few in their group were any sort of experts on the subject of stealth, and those not in the know knew very little of infiltration. Of them, a mere one third had any sort of tangible idea what need be done in a situation such as this. Those two minds who had been bred for just this occasion knew they must ensure that the spread is contained, those who had gained the information dealt with, and nothing left behind to signal they'd ever been found at all. That was what came to mind in the ones who had lived their lives of secrecy. Though the grander ideal of burning everything to the ground wasn't as obtainable as it had been once upon a time, the base idea of finding the source of the collapse and dealing with it was as always prime in their minds.

To the others, it was a different story. Three different minds had three different answers.

Bail.
Stab.
And blow everything up.

It was not too complicated which of them thought which.

1/2
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>>29493764

So wrapped up in their own choices and preparations to spring, so devoted to their plans, it took every one some time before they noticed the tingle. The tiny little sparks on their hooves, and the feelings dancing around their bodies. It was some time before they realized their eyes had not adjusted to the dark, and that the very surroundings had begun to glow.

It was some time before they heard the sounds of walls breaking along with it, and the pulsating energy around them intensified.

It was some time before five very unique minds with very unique outlooks shared the same, singular thought.

"We're fucked."
>>
Was it Chrysalis or her mom that messed with a bunch of ling's minds?
>>
>>29493773
CALLED IT

REST OF THE A-TEAM GET'S WALKED
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>>29493795
Momsie, to all of the Non-pure hives to make them more subservient to her. The one exception is 42 who she did for some as yet unrevealed reason, but does not include any other of her hive, Chrysalis included. All the Momsie hive sans 42 have their minds in tact, all the stragglers sans 18 had their minds tampered with.

>>29493801
...from the glow?

But... Sunset was just standing on that. Spike got punched through walls brimming with the stuff, it's not like it's dangerous.
>>
>>29493818
Did Chrysalis ever undo that for anyone besides 32?
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>>29493829
Nope, because it's super dangerous, the only reason she did it for 32 is because he was about to kill himself and it wouldn't matter.
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>>29493773
Guess that's our end point!
OMAKEEEE!
>007
"???"
~~~

>Huh, crawling on my belly on this stuff can't be good... maybe I should get checked out.

~~~~~~~LATER!~~~~

"You have testicular cancer."

>....

"I have a treatment option, but you're not gonna like it."

>I'll do anything to save my balls!

"Alright..."

>Wait, why are you cocking back-

"ONE PUUUUUUNNNNCCCCCCHHHHHH!"
>>
OMAKE!
>Chitania
"Sunset'
~~~~

>GLGLGG!

"You doing okay?"

>GLHHH!

"You're okay. You're a champ."

>GLGHLHGHJHHH!

"Yeah, your insides probably are being dissolved or something, there's some kind of steam coming out of your eyes? That's probably not good."

>GHHGHGKKKKLLL!

"Don't worry, it'll be fiiiiine. You'll be fine."

>GHHGGLLKDFLJLSKDFJK

"Kisses!"

>(LET ME DIE YOU IDIOT THIS HURTS SO MUCH!)
>>
I remember there was a time I could walk away from this thread for about two or three hours and come back to maybe five or eight posts, but now? Now I miss twenty-post debates and twelve-part story drops.

I. CAN'T. KEEP. UP.
>>
>>29494022
ARC TIME BABY
>>
>>29493843
That sounds like an interesting conflict that AJ could tackle. "Is it right to mind control your followers even if it's for their own good" would trigger the shit out of AJ after a while if the seeds of that Monarch Apple ever resurfaced in any way.
>>
OMAKE!
>Dash
"Pinkie"
~~~

>OH CRAP I'M GONNA

CRASH!

>...I'm okay! Wow! A fight between changelings and griffons, with us caught in the middle! A war for the ages, and surely the biggest thing happening right now!

"Obviously! I just got thrown through THREE different portapotties, this is huge!"

>...I think

"Yeah it's obviously intentional."

>But wow, what're we going to do next?

"Only time will tell!"

>...

"...So is the sky blue over there, or-"

>It's probably nothing.
>>
>>29494033
That's literally it. Debates! Huge stories!

Sadly less chill!
>>
>>29494129
Nah, somethings you just leave alone, you don't make an amnesiac rape victim relive their trauma just cause allowing them to forget about it seems wrong. Let them have their peace of mind, even if its artificial.
>>
>>29483961
>Applejack is an old, mighty and respectable oak tree in the middle of my orchard of writing. I care for her, I tend to her.

It's late, but I still wanted to reply to this part anyway.
I'm the exact opposite with Pinkie. I use and abuse her like she's my plaything. Sure I kill my OCs off, but I make her face the darkest parts of her own psyche (literally) and have no problem putting her in the shit. It's all about giving her stuff to do. If Pinkie was a balloon, I pull, stretch, twist, and shape her any way that amuses me the most. I love my pinks, but I'm also a sadistic God toward my characters.

My own philosophy in terms of writing is slightly messed up.


Anyway enough of that. I've gotten off work and alert. Have we reached unlocked yet?
Also how would you guys sum up this thread in one sentence?
>>
>>29494695
One sentace? Hmmmm....

You have got to be freaking kidding me, there is no way, absolutely no way I could describe it in one sentence!

That's my sentence :P
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>>29494695
>Have we reached unlocked yet?

Let's find out!

>Forty Two is feeling blue,
Blue in the face. From lack of oxygen, and nothing else unscrupulous. >>29485531
>Twilight can't believe she's right,
AUJ's hooves hurt.>>29492675
>Spike is not a tyke,
...this feels awful but >>29490651 counts and I feel unclean and make it stop
>Pinkie is a little stinky,
>Dash is fit to crash,
D-DOUBLE CHEER!>>29494352 I feel better.
>Eighteen is super mean,
It's coming from a good place!>>29485531
>Cadence is set to radiance,
LOVE LOVE GLOW!>>29479527
>Celly is lost in a pool of jelly!
He's so thoughtful! >>29477941
>switching fanservice!
You are getting a pie and you will LIKE IT>>29477778 Also, this would have been a double 'switching partners' thing a year ago, but alas, it's just switching appreciation.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!

And for a one word summary

>While Applejack deals with her counterpart back at home, Spike makes a chilling choice and nearly kills Chitania, only to have the tables turned and now faces the beatdown of his life from Flash while Sunset begins her grand finale!
>>
>>29494829
>>Cadence is set to radiance,
>LOVE LOVE GLOW!>>29479527

Uhhhh, whoops. I clicked wrong there. Searching for the valentines story must've fucked up.THIS >>29482070 is her in full radiance mode.

ACHIEVEMENT, ANON IS A DUMBASS UNLOCKED!
>>
>>29494613
But it's also wiping away any good memories as well, and I doubt they'd share views on something like this.

Also, it'd satisfy those guys that whine whenever AJ isn't the focus. I dunno, it's just an idea anyways.
>>
>>29494969
I like the idea, but unfortunately we kind of wrote it so CHRYSALIS would be the moralfag there.

>Ah' want you ta' give those changelings back their memories!

"They could die. Literally die. My mother literally, LITERALLY, not metaphorically or figuratively I have to make this very clear, literally made it so that if they ever tried to get their own memories back, the magic in their heads would kill them. The only reason 32 didn't die is because a ghost fucked with his brain first and then an asshole used a drug to alter his brain and that weakened the spell and made it so I could break said spell. They could DIE."

>But then they'd know!

"Fantastic! Hey, everyone! Free lobotomies!"

~YAAYYYYY!~

"NOT YAY IT'S A BAD THING-do you see the shit I have to put up with?"

>Mind controlling others is wrong!

"..."

>Ah' mean, Ah' know that now, obviously. That there was a learnin' experience.

"My doctor says the chitin on my ass will never heal right."

>PFFTTAHAHAHAHA.

"..."

>Sorry.

"..."

>Honesty!

"Shut the fuck up Applejack."
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>>29495011
I see your point, and also love that I imagined the lings as that royalty free "yay" sound effect. You know the one.
>>
OMAKE!
>SA
"???"
~~~~

>...where am I?

"The hospital."

>Why am I in the hospital?

"Because..."

>...oh crap.

"Ah' said, you're done."

>...APPLEJACK HELP!

"No."

>Not you!... Well, fuck, storyline's on hold again... unleeessss-

POW

>MY DIIIII-

"That's a no."

>IIIIIIIII

"Just wanted to be clear."

>IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
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>>29495057
And thats bump!
>>
>>29495057
Annnd, das bump!

Reminder we got unlock>>29494829 and that anon is silly>>29494896

And hey, no need to summon PP anon!... i hope!
>>
NNEEWWW THREAD! >>29495094
>>
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>>29494829
>>29494896
https://www.myinstants.com/instant/achievement-unlocked/
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>>29495321
Uhhh, PP anon? You gonna make it? We're sinking pretty fast here!
>>
>>29495525
We're already down to 8P Capt'n! I don't know how much longer she'll last!
>>
>>29495525
I'm almost there. I'm trying to think of fanservice. I'm kinda alarmed how fast the thread is sinking myself. She'll hold though.
>>
Pinkie Preview
>Pinkie
~~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxUbgEHP2Qg
>While Applejack deals with her counterpart back at home, Spike makes a chilling choice only to have the tables turned and now faces the beatdown of his life from Flash as Sunset begins her grand finale!
>Applejack is going to jack that. I chase after an ice cream cart. Rainbow Dash's mind is telling her no, but her body is having the urge. This isn't even Barry Punch's final form. Derpy feels a little cross-eyed. Blueblood has a princely moment...but still hates going to the Cowrean dry cleaners. Scootaloo lives up to her name. Find out what happens next time on thread 182: Apple Counters...and of course skin-tight fanservice!
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