Princess Applejack

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First for Spike

FIRST FOR SUNSET!

You deserve it student horse...

>>29835797
Remember when it looked like he was going to be the main hero of this arc?

Defied every expectation, that guy.

>>29835797
CURSE YOU ANON

SUNSET DESERVED IT

>>29835805
Nah.

>>29835797
>0 victories
>1 battle
>worst injuries of the bunch

Spike you should probably stop

>>29835801
That we can't deny, every time we thought we had figured out he managed to out fox us...

That said, it wasn't my favorite arc.

>>29835820
It had some of my favorite fights, but I felt it was a little too long. Totally worth it for the ending though, DAMN>>29835820

>>29835820
Same. It wasn't mine either. I'm glad it's finally over after almost 3 months. We can move on to something else now.

>>29835797
>Spike will never be this cool

>>29835863
Which is AJ deciding Chittys fate, right?

Or did that one guy who said he wanted her opened up cut in?

OOCO
>AJ
“Celestia”
~~~~

>Tia? Gotta question.

“But do you have love, Applejack? Is there love in your heart? Will you be the princess of love, and share it?”

>Cadence is the princess of love.

“I will eject her right this second and slap that title on you right now if it will end this conversation.”

>Not a chance.

“DAMN.”

>But since ya’ brought it up-

“Lies! You speak horrible, awful lies and you are a monster for it!”

>-why do we need a princess of love, precisely?

“Come again?”

>Or a princess of friendship, or a princess of anythin’ really. Why do we need princesses for certain elements of society? Aren’t the ruling class supposed to be able ta’, ya’ know, multitask? Why do we need a princess of love, and not just a princess?

“You really want to know?”

>Ah’ do.

“Because for the last thousand years, I have been the princess of the sun and the moon, the princess of love, the princess of friendship, the princess of agriculture, the princess of city planning, the princess of charity, the princess of economics, the princess of dreams, the princess of medicine, the princess of guarding, the princess of hope and the princess of teaching and so many other damn titles I would literally spend the next thousand years rattling them off. So maybe, just maybe, when another showed up out of the blue after defeating a magic necklace, I might’ve snapped at the opportunity to take just a little bit of the heavy load off my massive ass and shuffle off some duties onto someone else, and maybe, just maybe, after a thousand damned years of this I deserve someone else to handle one tiny itty bitty aspect of this world I haven’t had a chance to really experience because I’m too busy with everything else! Does that! Make! Sense!?

>It does.

“GOOD!”

>The fire wasn’t necessary-

“All fires are necessary!”

>Still all yer' fault we needed a princess for those-

"FIRE!"

>Withdrawn.

>>29835863
It's one of my faves now that it's all done. Loved the lack of singular character to focus on, how it didn't hold back anything in the fights, the twists, and holy shit the finale. I never knew what was going to happen next and feared for everyone. It had something no other arc had and the dead silent battle was exactly what I hoped for.

This arc was the best, can't wait for the new one.

>>29835887
>All those potential future princessses

And yet, Shiny will never get wings.

>>29835968
Prince of Guarding?

Anyway, I have an idea! A wonderfully beautiful idea regarding Blue Luminescence! Such a woefully tearifyingly delicious idea!

>>29835865
He was pretty damn badass in this arc. Cool is style, not wins.

If it was wins, Chitty would be sub Diamond Tiara.

>>29835983
Have it spit up Sunset and Crew because I just noticed that you guys waited till after the building went ground level before you sealed it?

>>29835996
....ohhhhh.

AJ team up with Chitty to get her out when?

>>29835996
We pull a fern gully on it, and deal with it when it undoubtly returns the same way! With a tree!

>>29836014
>pull a fern gully

... You do not even realise the full potential that has from a creative stand point. BL as pseudo-Hexxus, Toxic love as a theme cause made from love, the ending alone would be amazing! Cause it could literally be AJ's moment!

>>29835873
Can I just point out how weirdly dedicated he is to her development for that by the way? I mean I know with AC and breakup he was invested, but holy shit.

>>29836014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWxiR99wtZ8

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Pinkie Preview Prophecies

>Applejack talks to a black mare whose's life sucked.
>That's right, I went there.
>So about Rainbow Dash's race...
>Big Mac wonders what he should call his new hayburger.
>Moondancer tries to be less of a NEET.
>Cheerilee wonders how she's going to get her kids to open a textbook.
>The CMC saw something and got bloody noses.
>Stocking fanservice!

I'm pretty much going to keep making Samurai Jack references for Applejack for a bit.

>>29836149
NEETs are just people who couldn't stop being TEENs and clung on so hard they reversed the word in their desire to never grow up.

"The arc is over yaaaaay!"

Haha no it fucking isn't

You have so much shit lift to clean up

>>29836171
That doesn't mean the arc isn't over yet, that just means we're beginning the new status quo.

>>29836171
The ARC is over, the storyline continues on.

>>29836149
>Applejack talks to a black mare whose's life sucked.

Little on the nose with that one.

>>29836202
Five fritters says that wasn't intentional in the slightest.

>>29836189
>we're beginning the new status quo.
Theres loads of uanswered questions and locations and characters we can't work with

I got Celestia and Luna close in on Hoofington so HOW THE FUCK AM I MEANT TO HANDLE BLOOPLE?! HOW THE FUCK DO I HANDLE AN ENTIRE UNDERGROUND CITY FULL OF CORPSES?!

I can't fucking answer those questions, and those are only the start of them

>>29836236
Blue is sealed off by Discord, so
>Those who arrive on the scene CANT get to the bodies because of the unstable and unknown sealed magic covering them, and the investigation into that begins for our MCs, who don't understand and don't want to unleash it
You gave the alarm bell in their head, might as well use it to tell them not to mess with the thing.

What other unanswered questions did you need?

>>29836263
>What other unanswered questions did you need?
Is the Anti-A-Team REALLY all dead?

I see no bodies so I have no confirmation.

Also where the fuck is 13

>>29836285
>Is the Anti-A-Team REALLY all dead?

If you're unsure just don't have anyone dig up some bodies and just say the area is completely dangerous thanks to GOD being mingles in it. Don't confirm bodies, don't find them; just have the caracters treat them like they're dead, which all would think without doubt after Chitty's situation.

As for 13, she's not THERE, or at least Chitty doesn't think so, so you don't have to address her if you don't know, I'm sure they have a plan for her.

Anything else?

>>29836299
13 becomes ms nefarious after they "killed" her mother and various companions.

>>29836299
How do I keep them away from the A-Team and Pennydrop's poners?

All I could do is land them in some corner and just.... try and make them go "oh shit" there?

>>29836315
>How do I keep them away from the A-Team and Pennydrop's poners?
Why would you do that?

They're right there and there's no reason the princesses wouldn't talk to them.

>>29836315
It is a big city, it would be understandable if they didn't spot the drop ship, but wouldn't it make more sense for them to look for survivors and see them?

>>29836327
>Why would you do that?
...Didja see how little dialogue I put into my stories?

Didja count the number of characters I put in one more than one hand?

>>29836327
That and the conversation is going to IMMEDIATELY be "What the fuck happened?" and "We uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh went and killed Sunset and Chitania and Flash and Fizzle and this other chick" and BOY do I lack the emotional character chops to pull that confrontation off

>>29836338
If you don't want to have them talk it's understandable, you are just going to have to be creative as to why is okay

The Princesses descended on ashen clouds, their wings tapering through the streaks of dust and smoke.

It was worse, far far worse than Canterlot.

Hoofington, a name dully brought to Celestia's memory, a small town nowhere out of anyplace, now... it was a city reduced to nothing.

They landed, and looked frantically about the great mounds of once buildings... Mercifully... they saw no bodies... felt no lingering souls or calls for help. They're desperate breathing shuddered in vain relief as they felt no lives lost in the once-city.

But they felt It again.

That old, familiar sensation that made the two sisters think of...

...Mother...

They felt something beneath their hooves, try as they might, they could not understand it, or what it could even hope to mean. They only stared aghast at what was a home... to thousands, now gone in the same wake of destruction that had injured Equestria itself.

Luna looked up, she felt something terrible had occurred here, something that she should've been involved with, now it was past her... the distant yell of cheering pricked her ears up

Cheering?

Celesita looked down, she sensed something shift beneath their feet, her breathing caught in her throat and she didn't know why, she had to find out... but she was mortified to find out.

Something...

Their dual reviere was cut short as Luna held up a hoof and her mouth moved to say something, but she didn't know what she would've said.

In some far flung distance, silhouettes, both unrecognisable but distinct stood out.

They felt a pang of familiarity for someone they could not remember, but if they knew... it was their charge to see to them.

Aching wings flapped once more

And the Princesses flew to their subjects

TAKE THE WHEEL /PA/LS FOR I'M WELL OUT OF MY DEPTH NOW

Can we stop making the magic necklace joke...

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>>29836448
No.

I do not like this status quo

So many things are unaccounted for it's not fun

And their surrounding circumstances are horrifically depressing to work with

NC
>FS
“???”
~~~~

>And welcome everyone for another episode of Fantastically Fixing Friendships, Featuring Fluttershy. It’s during this time that content doesn’t matter, but the one behind this door does!

“LET ME OUT!”

>You’ve been very, very naughty! How dare you do such a horrible thing when I’m trying to help ponies!

“I’m sorry…”

>Are you? Are you really?

“I am.”

>You don’t sound sorry.

“I never sound sorry, even if I am!”

>...Oh, I see. Well, in that case…

*Door opens.*

>Looks like that’s another aspect of our friendship we’re going to have to fix… Discord.

>>29836202
Well, it's what happened on Samurai Jack.

>>29836313
>Pissed off mind controlling hate bug

That'll end well.

>>29836783
Stop thinking and get Pinking!

>>29837732

Look I don't wanna sound like I'm issuing a threat or anything but I'm under a lot of stress right now and this arc hasn't really helped, I was still holding out for some hope spot or a slimmer of mercy at some point in the "finale" but boy was I left high and dry

The writing of the landscape destruction has helped with catharsis somewhat and Celestia and Luna's anguish has been a handy trickle for me but they are now in Hoofington itself and it is now a matter of when, not if, they hear of what had happened and what the A-Team has done/tried to do/succeeded at and

If I don't get or see visible confirmation of Sunset's wellbeing then I am going to have Celestia...

....You ever played Asura's Wrath?

....This bit? https://youtu.be/oUZHku8nNLE?t=768 [Embed]

Okay maybe less of the laser beams and punching and transformation and such but you should get the idea

Yeah

She's not gonna be happy, I haven't a single way for her not to be grieving beyond grief.

And that's not taking into account what Luna's going to be up to...

What's Ghostbuster anon's canon on nommed souls again?

>>29837923
GB anon didn't have any connection to the events that happened.

>>29837950
>GB anon didn't have any connection to the events that happened.
I know, but we have a situation with ghosts and souls... Luna's gotta have a hook in this, but I'm not sure how it'd be done.

>>29837923
Well, you could go with the single tear and then calm acceptance. This probably isn't her first atrocity and she knows it probably isn't the last one shell see. Have her grieve a bit then get to work on helping the survivors get their lives back together, like the loving maternal Demi-Goddess she is.

>>29837953
The ghosts they deal with are restless orphan souls.

So... maybe?

>>29837955
>calm acceptance
how the fuck
>This probably isn't her first atrocity and she knows it
She's personally responsible for this, by failing to help Sunset when she needed it, all the way to allowing the A-Team to act behind her back and kill Sunset dead. After months of trying to get her back and fix her mistake.

>Helping the survivors

What survivors? The airship ponies? They seem fine

The A-Team? I see nothing but contempt for their actions, and irresponsibility bringing about such a needless tragedy

The Hoofington Pones? No fucking clue what their status is other than dead dead dead, and if so then that leads back into "I just let an entire city be murdered in the dark" territory, resulting in lots and lots of anguish and no one to help.

>>29837965
Maybe isn't going to cut it, I need something solid to go off of.

"Finale" my saggy left bollock

Soooo I read the whole thing but my memory is shit, but I also want to write.

Questions: how big the damage and what's it affected? Who's cheering again? Where's AJ? Where's Sunny and co.? Is the A-team functional?

I don't mean to be daft but my memory really is terrible, which is why most of my stories always have some sort of continuity error in them somewhere.

>>29837978
Also, I rely on Recapanon like a fuck so whenever he drops the synopsis, I'll feel right at home again.

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>>29837732 Will do!
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
[Derpy]
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your hosts the Pink Pony Club! It's during this time that content does matter, but I think people could use some laughter!

"I'm the pretty one <3"

'I'm the grumpy one.'

>And I'm the crazy one!

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

[Hi everypony!]

Cadence whispers to DT.
"Which eye are we suppose to look at?"

'In Ponyville we just pick an eye and follow that one.'

>How have you been doing? We haven't seen you since your reoccurring nightmare.

[At some point, I remembered that the package I was delivering was a dick in a box. It's been a lot better now.]

>That's good...wait, are you using-

[Oh I just remembered. Here's a package!]
Derpy gives Pinkie a box.

"You deliver in dreams to?"

[Yeah, sometimes I give you your fan mail.]

DT points her trusty rocket launcher at Derpy.
'Get out. I want you to get out right now!'

[DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER!]
Derpy flies off.

>There goes our guest. Oh well, that's all the time we had anyway. Catch us next time when we unbox the package!

>"'Byyyyyye'"

Dubs decide what's in the box.

>>29837978
> how big the damage and what's it affected?
Hoofington is totalled, not a single building standard (so FUCK your groundwater!)
Craters and other such damage done "Across Equestria", no specific location set, but very very extensive and very harmful and very long lasting.

>Who's cheering again?
Pennydrop's ponies upon seeing Chitania get zapped after watching it happen on a Livestream that was mounted to MechaChitty. Word spreading by mouth from fast moving Pennydrop employees, surprisingly a lot of normal pones are quite happy that Chitania the smashy smashy Godzilla monster is deaderino.

>Where's AJ?
Somewhere in some jungle, relative location to battle unknown, Chitania's ragged half-corpse is nearby.

>Where's Sunny and co.?
Under the remains of the World Trade Centre

>Is the A-team functional?
Unfortunately they still live, thankfully they have many injuries that will plague them till their last choked breath..

>>29837972
> >calm acceptance
>how the fuck

You really need to stop thinking she has the same mindset as you do, she's an immortal. After a while you become numb to the death of everyone around you and enjoy the lives they live instead. She's only going to be upset they had their lives cut short after doing her best to ensure her ponies lived long fulfilled lives. She'll her over them being dead pretty fast, but shell be focused on what caused those deaths very intently so it won't cause more and that requires a calm mind, not an emotionally compromised one.

>>29838044
>She'll her over
*get

Stupid fingers.

>>29838007
Do you have a grudge against the A-team or...?

>>29838044
>She'll her over them being dead pretty fast
I really, really cannot see that happening

I think back to everything we've seen Celestia do; and I know you're not trying to make it like this, but it makes it look like a bizarro version of her neglectful side to the state of things.

>>29838103
I'm basing this on how she acted during her conversation with Two about death.

>>29838007
SS and 7 are fine actually.

>>29838115
Link?

Context would matter a lot here, again, so much was of her own action or inaction, and her student had been taken away from her by those she was certain she could trust. To argue that there wouldn't be anger is just.... odd

>>29838116
>SS
Emotional trauma. She's never going to look at her friend the same way again, and she'll jump into cover every time a loud noise nearby goes off.

>7
Horrible, burning, aching guilt over letting someone die he feels he could've saved. It'll be even more painful because he talked to Sunset right before her death and she showed not even the slightest inclination to hurt him.

>are fine
So. No. No one came out fine.

>>29838128
Well I'm not saying she won't get angry, just that she can't allow herself to be angry right then. Its unhelpful.

>>29838148
>just that she can't allow herself to be angry right then. Its unhelpful.
Well when CAN she get angry

All she's surrounded by is rubble, a few dead ponies, the A-Team and some randos

>>29838128
Twos context was she was worried about forgetting someone after they died, not from her own inactions but naturally, so it's not a 1-1

>>29838130
Let me rephrase, SS and 7 are UNIJURED

You know what I meant.

>>29838007
>surprisingly a lot of normal pones are quite happy that Chitania the smashy smashy Godzilla monster is deaderino.

This one struck me as really weird and wrong too. Chitania had fans among the populace. A lot of folks who adored her for being a non-normie-killing supermonster. Actions figures, requests for autographs... some ponies even went 'that can't be right' when the news of her 'rampage' after Rarity mistake got out.

The only populace to be cheering for her death would be the griffons. And fuck the griffons.

Oh wow. I just realized how estatic the Griffin Queen will be...

>>29838161
And how horrified when she returns!

>>29838161
They were probably terrified after the CE invasion. Whatever they thought of her must've been put to the test when she went giant sized.

And all those comics and action figures were from PENNYDROP, so she could have just had her go "evil" in the comics and a heroic robot just happened to show up...

>>29838177
Go back to last thread. Read KKA's commentary about Aj being about to learn about justice and it's pitfalls... and remember the fact that AUJ is with her.

I... worry about this supposed 'Return'. Even if they somehow stop AUJ from murdertentacling a near dead Chitty, she will return in chains. Even if it was originally Rarity's fault, letting it publicly known they levelled a whole city and killed several well-intentioned extremists and outcasts just to get a Changeling they wronged in the first place... the populace would be in uproar. Their neighbors would call for blood.

It's not going to end pretty for Chitania. It'll be insult on top of injury. The boot to her face so she learns her place in this world.

>>29838194
That's something we didn't think about, Pennydrop has been preparing for this moment for nine months, and with the knowledge she would be the one to kill Chitty. She already controlled all the media around Chitania's "character", and wouldn't want herself to be the "bad guy".

It's not surprising that when the day finally came, they think of her as a monster.

>>29838196
I only have OE thing to say about that...

That sounds incredibly dishonest.

>>29838243
Don't worry, Chitania will make a comeback in the sequel: The Dark Titan Rises.

>>29838285
>That sounds incredibly dishonest.
Welcome to global politics. Learn to lie, or be replaced.

>Coco Pommel
“Guard”
~~~

>…

“…”

>…good job, everyone! Way to be prepared!

“We did nothing.”

>Really showed that team spirit!

“We would have done nothing had they arrived.”

>Really got in deep there and made everyone feel safe!

“We would not even be in their notice.”

>We’re here! We cheer! We’re guards!

“We are nothing.”

>Okay, LISTEN HERE YOU SNUGGLE HUGGER! YOU SHUT YOUR BIG WIDE PIE EATER AND LISTEN UP! WE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE INTO THE SHAKEY-BAKEYS AND CRY LIKE WE STUBBED OUR HOOVES ON A REALLY BIG ROCK! WE ARE THE SHINY-PRETTY GUARD OF CANTERLOT, DO YOU HEAR ME!? OR DO YOU NEED TO GO INTO THE BATHROOM AND GENTLY WASH IT CLEAR FIRST!? YOU BETTER HAVE A COLD FOR ALL THAT SNIFFLING AND I AM THE MARE WHO WILL BRING YOU SOME SOUP TO MAKE IT ALL BETTER! SHOULDERS STRAIGHT LIKE YOU”RE PAYING ATTENTION IN CLASS! LEGS LOCKED LIKE YOU’RE GOING TO GIVE THE BEST HUG, AND PUT YOUR SMILES ON LIKE SOMEONE LOVES YOU AND WILL HUG YOU EVERY DAY!

“M-MA’AM YES MA’AM!”

>One two three four, and I’ll give you a five because you earned it! MARCH PRETTY PLEASE!

“MA’AM YES MA’AM!”

MARCHES OFF WITH PRIDE!

>…pretty ponies in the moonlight, haven’t had to be that loving but stern in a while… I wasn’t too hard, was I?

>>29838329
Actually that was my subtle way of saying AJ is not going to allow it.

>>29838360
Yes. All of the yes. I missed her so much.

>>29838380
I can only hope.

>>29837923
>dat Aura scene
While I am all for action, consider the following:

Celly said to Discord that if anything happened to Sunset, she'd personally blame him and... do something very drastic. Don't quote me here. I don't remember the story verbatim.

So... have her be mad. Have her get furious beyond anything had ever seen. Let her call Discord out (especially since she sensed him during the weird mental disturbance earlier)... and then have her realize he's gone too. And etch her fury evaporate.

>>29838420
>she'd personally blame him and... do something very drastic.

I could try and work that in

But it was never Discord who was responsible for this, it was the A-Team that did this.

I'm not sure how that works out

>>29838440
Nono. Celly told Discord that if something happened to her at any point before she is back home and safe (because his Dreamstone stunt had a great part in making her go rogue) she'd personally tear him a new one. Or inflict x100 times her pain onto him. Something like that. Shes was so mad even Diacord was shaking. Have an Archive Diver look it up for you. It's was pretty important.

And, again, both sisters sensed his powerful meddling with BL and thought it was him going crazy again.

Ok, how did the A-Team even begin their mission, as in their "Ok let's go right here!" thing

Aldso why didn't they tell anyone about their mission, I have forgotten

>>29838472
Uuuuuuuuuuuugh... why does everything have to be repeated over and over when you can just look it up... jesus...

10 infiltrated Hoofington. She informed 7. 7 gathered the A-Team. They decided to go I without prior OK from the princesses because... dunno. They figured the princesses wouldn't let them. And correctly so. Basically, A Team and 007 went rogue to both Equestria and Chrysalia

>>29838472
7 gained information from 10 about suspicious activity regarding a sudden crater with a lot of new foliage and a town that seemed unbothered by it. Apparently she wasn't sure what it could mean, so when 7 intercepted her she relied on his infiltrator skills to assess what it meant, he requested Spike come see him about investigating it and Spike took it into his own claws to look into it with the A-team. 7 actually brought up asking the princesses, but Spike said no as they had AUJ to worry about. So he called the A-team which brought DT who brought Pennydrop.

None of them thought Chitty and co would be there, the crater was a week old, all of them were just looking for intel where they went.

>>29838504
>None of them thought Chitty and co would be there
Wrong. WrongwrongwrongwrongWRONG! 007 knew damn well it was Chitty and even teased Spike with the fact. They all knew. ESPECIALLY Pennydrop and DT, who brought special gear and means to bring her down. Don't you dare white wash the A Team. They KNEW who was in Hoofington and we're prepared to face her!

>>29838530
No, I meant they knew Chitty had been there, but none of them were sure she was still there. Go back and read it yourself, they point out several times how long the crater has been there and how unlikely it was they were still there. They were all prepared for her, but none had any indication she was still there, this was supposed to be step ONE in finding her, they were looking for information where they moved to because why the fuck would they still be there with such an obvious warning They didn't know about BL and why they couldn't leave.

They DID plan to kill her, except the obvious ones, i'm just correcting they didn't know she was there.

>>29838490
7 didn't tell Chrysalis because he didn't want her connected to whatever went down, spike made up a bullshit excuse about having enough to deal with thanks to the alternate universe traveler but really he just wanted to be a hero, DT says fuck the princesses and SS just went along with it, PJ wanted at sunset for a promise she made to BB, and Daw never cared for authority figures.

>Guard
“Rarity”
‘Fluttershy’
~~~~~

>And that’s pretty much what we know.

“You could have just summed that up as, “The alternate Applejack flew away on the airship, and Applejack went with her.”

‘The diagram was appreciated, but a little much.’

>Just making sure you knew the angle and air velocity, all information must be imparted to the higher ups!

“Yes, but describing how shapely she looked as she flew off seems a touch overdoing it.”

>All information!

‘Oh dear. How bad is it, exactly?’

>We are unaware of the current meaning for the alternate version’s rapid flight.

“It must be serious.”

>There have been no indicators that it is anything other than an odd happenstance.

‘Then why are all the Wonderbolts screaming and flying around?’

>…

“…”

‘…’

>…there is new information regarding this current event being more than happenstance.

>>29838598
>PJ wanted at sunset for a promise she made to BB
He asked her to bring her back safe instead of killing her, like she wanted to, because he believes in second chances. Like his own.

>>29838622
Right, exactly, that's why she never tried to kill sunset at any point and seemed against it when spike suggested it

Ok I got a lotta contradictory and verbose detail to work with a nasty ass headache

letsa go

>>29836399
>TAKE THE WHEEL /PA/LS FOR I'M WELL OUT OF MY DEPTH NOW

I can handle the A-Team meet up if you guys are not sure

OOCO
>Chitania
"Flash."
~~~~

"So, I've been thinking..."

She could tell by that look on his face, one of grim determination the likes of which only an action movie hero could employ, that Flash was about to lay down some nonsense.

>...About?

"Well, if there's, like, an attack or something and... things went south..."

Her eyes widen slightly, the frown on her face lessening.

"If it came down to it, I was thinking I could reroute any remaining power to overload my power core, which should result in a pretty big explosion..."

He pauses for a moment.

"Go out with a bang, you know? One last showing...! I'll call it the Final Flash!"

>No.

"Ah? Not good enough? How about Big Bang Buster-"

>No.

"...You're not talking about the name, are you?"

Her frown deepens, lips parting slightly as they curl downwards.

>Ya think? That fool plan you just ran by me? Don't do it.

"But-"

>That's an order. I order you not to do it. I forbid you from even thinking about it.

He shrinks under her glare, a nervous look on his face.

"As you wish!"

>Good. You and Fizzle... don't squander your lives. I'll be the one to stand tall above all others, so you idiots don't need to worry about blowing yourselves up for me or whatever.

Anger subsiding, she lets out a sigh.

>Support Sunset Shimmer. Support me. If you can't run, then fight until your last breath. I haven't been training you all this time for you to waste your life on a suicide attack. Understood?

It takes him a moment to respond, but when he does, he does it with a smile.

"Loud and clear."

She nods.

>Now, if only we could do something about your sensitivity. I can't have you being so soft all the time.

"Hey, I can get hard when I need to."

>Hmm.

"Uh, that came out wrong-"

>Go and tell Sunset about your little plan.

"I... uh, don't think that-"

>That's an order.

He cringes and takes a few, tentative steps back.

"...As you wish..."

>>29838775
Ah

Thanks

This is what I had dregged up so far, I am certain I couldn't pull it off.

Use it or not, your call

https://pastebin.com/3gpgVb2W

I'm going to lie down now, my head is splitting.

>>29838360
Magnificent. Just... magnificent.

>>29837986
>Dubs decide what's in the box.
Pp anon no, don't degrade yourself like this, you will just end up with dragon dildos or something

>>29838877
... God fucking Damn it anon

>>29838877
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?

>>29838877
I can't stop laughing.

PP ANON! You know what to do!

>>29838877
Hoist by his own petard. Classic!

>Twilight
“???”
~~

>The minute I find out where she went, I’m going to boil her. I’m straight up just going to put her into a tube, bring the water to boiling, and cook a pony. Who’s going to know? Who would possibly know? Nobody know what my tubes do! I’ll tell them I’m re-examing her genetic makeup or something. I’m looking in the proteins for any mitochondria that seem to have latent deoxyribonucleic acid. Nobody knows what those words mean! Then when she melts I’ll just say something about extradimensional sine waves going concurrent with our realities metafrequency. They’ll just smile and nod, guarantee it. I’ll have my revenge and the ponies will never know. I’m doing that. I’m so going to do that. I’m so going to-

“…aahhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHOHDEARFAUSTSAVEUSALLWE’REALLGOINGTODIIIIIIIIIIIIIiieeeeee….”

>…figure out why a Pegasus just flew past me screaming, and hope it gives me an excuse to boil someone. WAIT!

>>29836285
If you would like to learn about upcoming plans because you want to write along/give ideas/field ideas/bounce off ideas, I'm open to talk at keikaku at protonmail dot come.

If you don't and just want to write devoid of all that, I understand, just putting it out there! Collaboration helps!

>Guard
“Guard 2”
~~~~

>….

“…”

>…can… can we get one of those?

“I don’t think they’re for sale.”

>They should be.

“Could you afford a giant mech anyway?”

>…how much do you think someone would pay for Celestia’s crown?

“DUDE!”

>LET ME DREAM!

>>29838877
It hurts

It hurts to laugh

~~~~

They were cheering.

Across the way and as loud as they could scream it, the ponies surrounding the drop ship were cheering. Hugging, swinging, dancing, laughing full of joyous abandon, they truly were a sight of happiness.

A short distance away, more than close enough to hear every cheer, sat six other individuals. All of them distinct and so very different from each other in body, mind and spirit, yet all held the exact same expression on their faces. Flat, blank stares on lips that neither smiled or frowned. The six sat next to each other, five leaning on the singular support that was the changeling in the middle, waiting, watching, breathing and living. In empty silence, they remained like that, watching as time went on, waiting for something or anything at all to give them feeling. Together, in pain and exhaustion, they waited.

"...that didn't go as planned."

It was that very changeling at the core of them all who finally ended that wait, who finally made several of them start in shock with rapid beating hearts. It was only their battered bodies that kept them from slipping away.

"Kind of an understatement, lad."

The pony leaning on his side snorted, shivering slightly at the cold on her back that was even in the hot sun taking far too long to finally melt off of her.

"Yeah, I'd say things went to shit pretty fast there."

The scoffing derision was in every word of his fellow changeling on his side, laced with a tiredness and a rasp of a throat that had tasted far too much smoke in far too short a time.

"We did it though..."

The weak argument from the armor clad filly leaning up against the frosty mare had about as much enthusiasm behind it as anything else she did. Just enough to look alive, not enough to fool any into thinking the world was okay.

None of them could pretend that, not after all that had been.

1/11

>>29839775

"Yeah... I guess we did."

The rapport of the dragon leaned against the wounded changeling mare was the product of an honest attempt, forced through cracked and wheezing lips to muster even a single shred of enthusiasm or pride at what had come and gone. His weak claw rattled in the grip of his gun, the one he clung to with all his heart even now, even with all the blood poured across it and damage it had taken. Both physically and otherwise.

"...I want to go home."

The hope of said forced pride being fanned by the flame of agreement went out with the cold, dead words that slipped from the silver filly clinging to her friend with all she had.

"We will, Silver, we're going home."

"...you were right, DT..."

None of them saw it, yet the remaining four could not have missed the subtle rattle of armor shaking or the sharp intake of breath if a bomb had gone off next to their ears.

"D-don't... don't say that, you did good, you did... you did just fine, and-"

"I want to go home."

The shaking ended with a short sigh.

"I know..."

"S'gonna be okay, lass. We did it, fuckin' a was it a problem but we did it. Nobody's gonna come at you now..."

The pegasi's eyes shifted to a blank space. There, in that empty void, had once stood a proud building. It was gone now, and it would not return.

"Made damn sure of that, didn't we?"

"Guess we can't really deny that..."

The five wounded all felt an uncomfortable shift. A twitch, a shake, all of it very subtle, yet with the pain shooting down their bodies at the movement it may as well have been screamed in their ears. They all felt the need to say something, anything.

The dragon did just that, if only to hear his own voice.

"...Thanks for getting us out, Seven."

"Yeah, we'd have been right squashed if ya' hadn't dashed in. Ya' didn't have to do it when the building was going down, don't expect the crew to search a sinking ship ya' know!"

2/11

>>29839781

"Heh... yeah, you really looked out for me, just like you promised. Thanks."

"I guess I'm not going to complain if you want to join the gun club."

"T-thank you... thank you so much... I couldn't move..."

Each praise was weak, no matter how much they tried to push it.

"I shouldn't have had to do that."

The embers of what little heat they could bring didn't even give steam before he put it out.

"That was... that was a stupid thing to do, Spike. I didn't agree to that. I didn't... I never said I was okay with you almost blowing me up like that. Nobody said that, or if they did you all damn well didn't tell me! That was not okay!"

All eyes shifted to the dragon.

His eyes looked to anything but that gaze.

"...yeah, well, today... it's not been a day of my best choices."

"I wish you'd talked to us, Spike. Silver Spoon was still in there, you know I wouldn't have said okay with her in there."

"And I'm not exactly chompin' at the bit to die to that crazy ass mare thank you!"

"I... look, guys, I was okay with it too-"

"Shut up PJ just shut up I didn't want to die like that fuck you, FUCK YOU SPIKE!"

The silver filly had never sounded more bitter in her entire life.

The dragon had never seemed more defeated.

"It... it was for the good of Equestria, we had to stop the portal. Guys, it was almost open, we had just a few seconds left..."

None of them argued him on it. None of them would, either. They all knew what was at stake, they knew the risks.

They were still hurt.

"We stopped it, we made it out alive, isn't that enough?"

It wasn't, that much was etched into every one of their faces.

"...Well, we technically stopped the crazy madmare, the giant monster she created has been slain, and her laboratory destroyed... we're still heroes, guys."

His follow up did little better.

"...I'm glad you're all okay."

That one, at least, made an impact.

"Yeah... glad you guys are okay too."

"It could be worse. One of us could be..."

3/11

>>29839787

"Better to be thankful we all made it out, I guess."

"I don't want to think about it. Don't make me think about it..."

Only the infiltrator remained silent.

"...HEY! HEYY-ssshhhaaa..."

Waving his lavender arm proved to be an ill-advised and poorly thought out move, in hindsight. All the same, it managed to grab the attention of one of the many swinging ponies.

"Can you guys get us some bandages or something already!?"

"Don't worry, guys! We've got a med ship on the way! We had one on the airship, but uh..."

The stallion nervously shot his eyes over to a pile of wreckage only barely distinguishable from the rest of the destroyed masses.

"...it didn't go so well. Just sit tight, you'll be patched up and drinking champagne with the rest of us in no time!"

"I'm still in grade school."

"Miss Silver Spoon, after the shit you've been thought, I won't tell if you won't! WOOOOO! WOOOOOO SHE'S DEAD! SHE'S-"

Everything stopped.

From the cheering, to the partying, to their very beating hearts, all of it ended with the sound of eight hooves rocking the ground as they landed.

Deathly silent, when they saw the two royal alicorns, with glares that could have rivaled those of the beast that had wished them slain beneath beating hooves. They prayed it would not be the same.

"What are you all doing?"

It was less question than demand. Curt, sharp words meant to cut right through even the happiest of their thought and leave them cold in it's wake.

"What is the matter with you all? How can you cheer? How can you all... do you have any idea what is right at your sides?"

The golden hoof shot out, pointing into the wreckage and the destruction.

"What part of that brings you cheer? What part of that brings you joy?"

Their silence said it all.

"S-she... she did it, though, it's over-"

Her hoof stamped down, cutting off his stammering and sending the rare brave soul scampering into the crowd.

4/11

>>29839794

"Over!? This has hardly even begun! I've not a single idea what transpired here today, all I know is that it has wrought a terrible destruction all over Equestria! I've never seen a disaster of this magnitude, Discord didn't unleash such a terrible fate when he took it over! Now, one of you have exactly two seconds to tell me..."

It was her turn to go silent.

It was her turn to stare with wide, uncomprehending eyes at what she saw.

It was her turn to go breathless, and her mouth gaping wide open, when she saw those who had not danced with the others in the crowd.

"...Spike?"

It was her turn to gasp when she saw his wounds, their wounds, their state in general.

"By mother's flowing mane... what happened to thee?"

Beneath her burning, intense gaze, he couldn't bring himself to move. Couldn't even manage to shrug.

Not that he'd dare try with his claw still clenched to the wound on his chest.

"SPIKE!"

All pretenses of royal stature and all signs of stern glaring long gone, she charged over at full speed until she neared him. Though he tried to hold up his claw in protest, it was futile before he was gently lifted from the ground in a halo of golden magic. Both limbs were pulled away, letting her see the full extent of the damage done to his pristine scales.

What she saw made her gasp in horror, hoof going straight to her mouth.

"Mother above..."

The stab wound that had nearly run him straight through, and bled him out. He looked away, unable to look at her stricken face any longer, claw reaching up to rub the back of his neck.

"It's actually not as bad as it looks, the healing stuff made it..."

He'd never seen her more horrified in his entire life.

"This is after you healed it!?"

He winced at her screech, and the subsequent sting of magic cleaning it out that followed it.

"Partially. Seven had a bunch of-"

"Partially!? Those things should be able to..."

She didn't need to say it.

He didn't need her to either.

5/11

>>29839797

"Yeah, it was a little... worse."

His desire to look away was halted and forgotten when a stern, unforgiving hoof reached to his cheek, and turned him to face her. She had not met that gaze, not at first, not until she finished looking over the silent and unnerved five sitting just behind him.

When she looked back, her caring eyes had gone cold.

"What. Happened."

He tried to fidget, but she would not let him. His claws were pulled away, face forced back to look her in the eyes, never letting up for even a moment.

"... I... what do you want-"

"Start from the beginning, and start talking."

He sighed, gathering himself. She let him have that, the one mercy granted so far, but her sight and the sight of the pony behind her made it clear that was all they would get.

"...so, uh... Seven came across some... information. He learned of that over... well you can't see it now."

His claw fell, finding no more reason to point at the charred remains of the broken forest in the now thoroughly scorched crater.

"He... it seemed to point to Sunset and Chitania, but we didn't have anything concrete-"

"You knew it was from her. You knew the other Applejack came from that portal. You knew, Spike."

She did not even let him breath.

"I... well, we didn't know she was in there still, it was a week old, we thought she'd moved on-"

"Do not lie to me."

"I'm not! I'm not lying! We didn't know! How could we have known she would stick around after that huge crater suddenly appeared! She had to know it was obvious, she wouldn't-'

"I mean, do not lie and imply if you'd found her here, or across the world on the other side, it would have changed what you did."

He didn't.

He couldn't.

Not for a single moment did he consider lying to her about that.

She'd have known, and she'd never have forgiven him.

6/11

>>29839802

"...look all that matters is we... we went inside. We took care to get in, we didn't set anything off, but when we did...all that matters is I found Sunset, but something was wrong. There was this... blue light, everywhere! I don't know what it was, it was just bright, and beautiful, and everywhere! And Sunset was talking about how it was going to make Chitania invincible and unstoppable and... and we got there just in time! Don't you understand!? If we'd waited a day, a couple hours, it would have been too late. It was going down today, Celestia! That very minute! She was getting celebratory champagne when I found her! Don't you understand? We had to do it, now! There wasn't time to get you, there wasn't any time to go get help! It was all or nothing, then and there, do or die the end of all things and only I could stop it!"

"...and?"

He shook, claws gripping around his stained gun.

"I... I shot her."

She shook as well, even if her expression remained just as hard

"Shot... Sunset?"

"No... not Sunset. Chitania... I got her, right in the mouth, one in a million shot, it was perfect."

"And then?"

"She didn't die."

"Is that all?"

He looked away.

"It's not, is it?"

He shook his head.

"Spike?... What did you do?"

Tears.

Barely there, barely visible, hidden through his turned head and raised cheeks, yet unmistakably there.

"...Flash attacked me after that. We got into a fight, and.. he won. He.. he's the one who..."

Gently, his claw parted, letting her see his wound once more.

"Then he kicked me out of the building... and Chitania survived, and got better. All that, and I didn't stop a single one of them. I... I didn't save anyone."

He choked, and finally, Charity fell from his grasp.

"I lost. If Seven hadn't... if PJ hadn't have..."

His claws, bundled up, slammed hard into his face.

7/11

>>29839808

"I don't even know what she was doing up there. All I saw was the portal, and the orb, and it was bad, and when I couldn't stop her.... I could just slow her down, I couldn't stop her, so I called Pennydrop..."

"And?"

"...and I told her to destroy the building before Sunset could succeed."

Deathly, empty quiet followed.

"And then?"

"... I don't know. The airship opened fire, Seven pulled me into the building. He was up there with her, he saw everything, and he had to leave that just to catch me, get me out, and I... I don't know anything after that. I was so damn useless."

If she'd accepted that and agreed with him, it would have hurt.

That she didn't deny it out loud hurt far, far more.

"...Seven?"

His eyebrow shot up. Unlike the others, he held no worry on his face, there was no fear or awe of the one who stood in front of him, there was no worry present.

"I'm afraid I can only report to my Queen, you'll have to get the information from her following my debriefing."

There was something else, that much was painfully clear, but he did not fear her, no matter how sharp and curt her words were.

"Seven... please."

Only when her voice went soft, pleading and desperate, did he cave immediately.

"From what I can tell... she was using love gathered over several months, that's the glow Spike mentioned, so much of it that the whole building was just... changed. She had so much, more than I'd ever seen, and she was using it to open the portal as a gate to the hivemind. According to her, she had some way to use it, and make Chitania all powerful. Spike was right to stop her. Perhaps his methods were a little... extreme, but... he was right. We couldn't wait for you, princess."

It was a soft comfort to the dragon in her grasp, but it was the only comfort he'd been given so far.

"...What of thou? What happened to thine airship?"

8/11

>>29839816

The ponies behind her jumped when the lunar mare spoke to them, having long since prayed that they would not be of notice any longer. They realized far too late they'd prayed to the wrong deity.

"We... we engaged the tower, but a shield stopped us at first."

"Then this HUGE white dragon came out!"

"He wasn't huge when he came out, but then he went HUGE! And he had all these muscles and spikes and spines and stuff!"

"He fucking destroyed our airship like it was nothing!"

"NOTHING!"

A curious thought passed between the two royals, each sharing the same question with a mere glance.

"Was he the one who caused this?"

"Ah... well, no, most of this was backlash from our missiles... before he brought it down."

Things became even more curious immediately after.

"If thou were brought down, how did thou survive?"

What little sense they'd found was swiftly broken, when all of them smiled.

"Because PENNYDROP IS FUCKING AWESOME!"

"WOOOO! SHE DID IT!"

The world turned upside down at their words, and only became more strange.

"Pennydrop? The... mare?"

"How? How could she have possibly managed to match a dragon?"

Even Discord could not break their minds as the next words did.

"With MECHA CHITANIA, BABY!"

"...mecha... I'm sorry?"

"She came out and took on that dragon and was like BAH WHAM CRRRRACKKLLAAA!"

An further explanation should have been necessary, the pair felt. The miming of breaking a jaw was not necessary, the pair felt.

They knew which one they were getting.

"And she was going to break him when HOOLLYYYY SHIIIT!"

"Fucking CHITANIA! Just comes right out of nowhere!"

"And then they fought and BAM BOOM BAKAAAA!"

"All across the freaking nation!"

"Just BOOM BOOM BOOM ROOOAAARRRRR!"

"And then..."

"And then..."

9/11

>>29839822

With the breathless giddiness of children, the mass of engineers, scientists, technicians and workers all gathered together, and with a synchronization so pitch perfect it could easily have been one of Pinkie's musicals, they cheered.

"SHE DID ITTT!"

The wild cheers that had been so cut off returned, with a vengeance.

"After all that fighting, all that work, all those sleepless nights, she finally did it!"

"She beat her ass to the sea and BOOOMMMMM!"

Somewhere in the wild flails, the excited rapt words, and the breathless joy, they understood.

Even as the others heart beat so quickly, their own slowed down as their blood ran cold.

"SHE KILLED CHITANIA!"

There was a pain in the elder mares chest, true hurt seeing them dance as they did.

"No fakeouts! No from behind victory!"

"Just pieces flying off and aggghhha! Ahghghghhh! AGHHHHH!'

"Until BOOM down into the sea she goes!"

"And wait for it... wait for it... BAKAKAAAABOOOMMMM!"

"Making DAMN sure that's the end of that, am I right!?"

"No coming back from that one!"

"She's deeeeaaaaddddd! WOOO!"

Pain, more so than any of those who had battled behind her had felt, resonated deep within her. Not of flesh, but something much more.

They cheered over a death.

A demise, one such as this, brought them joy, honest joy.

It hurt her, it disgusted her, and she could not bare it any longer.

"BE SILENT!"

She had never been so cruel in her words before, never shown off her power just to cow the masses like that.

Hopefully, she never would again.

"Do not... do not cheer for a death in front of me. Never again. Do you all understand?"

Those who could move, nodded.

Those who could not, cried.

"...This still does not answer the most important question. What happened to Sunset?"

Those who could do neither, went deathly still.

"Well?"

None, not a one of them, not friend or stranger or foe had the strength. Not a one of them could look her in the eye. Not a one had the stomach.

"She'd dead."

10/11

>>29839831

Not a one, save the changeling who'd started it all.

When she turned those wide, blinking eyes back to the changeling, she'd found them changed. He held no hardness in his eyes, he held no stern looks or flippant hiding of his emotions. What he wore was raw, painful, every bit as much as the festering infection that grew within herself.

To that mare, he offered much with just a look. To her he gave only honesty, nothing held back.

"That... machine, mecha whatever.. it drained the magic out of the building, it took everything. All the love, all the magic... including Sunsets. If it was the missiles, if it was the machine, if it was something else, I don't know. All I know is that when the building went down..."

He suddenly swallowed, hard. His emotions, the ones inside her eyes, they'd become one and the same. The regret was the same.

"...she went with it."

The hurt was exactly the same.

"Sunset Shimmer is dead."

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>>29839837
>mfw

>>29839837
>Her smile, gone

Why couldn't you protect it?

>>29839816
>Seven
"No way bitch I'm only talking to my Queen HIVE4LYFE"
>Celestia
"Please?"
"Well shit."

Seven just admit you're too pure for this.

>>29839837
Whelp!

Cue the heartbreak!

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>>29839837
>"Sunset Shimmer is dead."

Aaaand it's official.

...goddamit, Sunset...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJiDdM6vCU

Light

Gold, irridescent light spread with desperation as it bled between girder and block, between chunk and crevice.

The remains of EVO were lit up in a display of wondrous golden light, as a panicked, terrified, alabaster Alicorn flew into the centre.

A dark indigo Alicorn pursued her, shouting supplications, pleading to her, to anyone.

Please don't be true.

Celestia settled onto the rubble, her horn blazing, warm gold reflecting off tears that flowed freely down her cheeks, her magic snaked and probed, filtered, followed and flowed. Everywhere it touched, it found nothing lifelike. Cold, solid, unyielding. Anything that was even vaguely soft felt cold and filleted.

Celestia's chest heaved, she was torn, she could feel no bodies, but that meant she could feel no hope, but that meant she could feel no pain, but that meant she could feel no sorrow, but that meant she could feel no collection...

Luna landed beside her, she tried to speak, but found no words to be said. This expression, this fear, this desperation that Celestia displayed was something almost unknown to Luna. She cursed herself, her lapse in Equestria meant she had missed far too much, far too much of her own Sister to know... Now she really saw her sister, and she wept...

Dark violet magic intermingled with the golden one, where Celestia searched for Life, Luna searched for stillness, a clue, maybe. Truthfully neither sister knew what they were doing, they just needed to know, they needed to see, to hold and feel.

No

Celestia's magic tendrils faltered in their search, and waned. Her face contorted into anger, if she could not sense, she would have to see for herself.

A golden halo spread around a large patch of rubble, with a sombre rumble, a disjointed cylinder of building was lifted up, up and up, the floating tower breaking apart slowly, eyes scanned the segments for anything, a body, a face, blood...

Nothing

1/?

>>29839952
Three halos to each Alicorn, while an awestruck crowd watched with grim realisation, their joy or sombre reflection fizzled as they saw the Rulers of Equestria magically dig through the remains of the mighty EVO Corp.

Each one rose, each one split, each one cast away. Celestia bent her head down, eyes clenching through the tears. She had to see. She had to know. She had to say...

A sonorous bell tolled, a great wave of magic engulfed the remains of the tower. Around the two Alicorns, golden light carried every chunk, every speck, everything up into the air. The former tower took on a terrible mocking image of itself, sections of building dancing about like a sadistic marionette.

Celestia looked, and looked, and sought, she wept deeply as she was denied... anything. Luna aghast at the sight, could Sunset be truly gone...? That there was nary a scrap of her left. Nausea filled her, unfamiliar to the horrendous reality of death.

Silence fell, the Princesses search was all in vain, not a sign, not a speck of that wonderful red and yellow mane, not a slight of that golden coat, a hint of azure eyes.

Celestia didn't even flinch as she hurled every single fragment of EVO away in a great boom. Her attention fell to her hooves.

To the ground beneath her hooves.

There still, was rubble, surface level... sub surface, maybe she was there, a spark of hope came to her, her search was not yet completed. A muzzle silently mouthed her name as her hoof gingerly touched the buried ground before her.

Celestia cried in anguish as she felt that Voice, that angered howl shock through her again. She thought she would never have to hear it again, her sister taking to her side as she stumbled and sagged.

She yelled inarticulately as Luna failed to hold her back, she lunged forward and struck at the ground, seeing the cracks and crevices filled with the faint glow of light. She stuck her hoof at the ground, she blasted it with magic, she tore and scrabbled and pulled.

2/?

>>29839970
Sunset had to be there, she had to be, she could just get through, she would see her, she could say she... Each time she struck, that Howl sounded in her head, her ears ringing, her head throbbing. She didn't care, she had to get to Sunset.

Her student

She had to tell her

"I'm sorry"

The air was filled with the desperate cries of the immortal princess, her beating and blasting subdued, the ground still held firm, the white light never once reacted between the cracks, it simply was.

It dawned on her that the light could be broken, she simply hadn't focused hard enough... But as she regained her sense of Luna holding onto her, desperately pleading with her to make it stop. She knew she couldn't break through, she dared not to, not unless she wanted to subject them all to that howl...

Celestia strared ahead blankly, the wind rustling through ethereal mane, through dusted coat, sweeping tears away from her chin.

She was denied everything

She could never help her own pupil again, who she had placed such hope and such potential for...

She was denied her student redeeming herself, through sacrifice and acceptance, that they could come together again, as friends...

And now she was denied even the chance to see her face

To say goodbye

To say she was sorry

To say this never should've happened

Celestia rocked back and forth, her eyes closing and opening between the tears, her mouth clenching and hemming, she couldn't speak, nothing but white hot anguish surged through her, she tried to say something, she...

Screamed

A scream that had only been borne in Equestria a thousand years ago, one of pain, loss, anguish, grief, anger, sorrow, guilt...

Then, it was of how a sister had cast out her own, with no other choice, and to suffer the burden of guilt all on herself.

3/4

>>29839974
...Ironic

So much had changed, yet so much stayed the same, a chance lost, a burden forsaken, a promise broken...

The Princesses' scream rang out, echoing across the blasted city, across the dying landscape of Equestria, into the ashen sky, for all to hear.

Those who saw and heard it first could only stand there watch in awful marvel

As the mourning sun shone for a sunset lost.

4/4


oh i needed that

>>29839982
HOLY
SHIT
That was fucking heartbreaking

>>29839982
>>29839837
>oh i needed that

I feel you. Not over it myself... dunno what to write to properly vent it, though. I'll miss Sunset. She was my favorite character until now.

Anyways! Nice wrap up. You did great.

>>29839982
Damn.

>>29840013
There's still hope, they didn't find the body, so maybe Blue had them?

>>29839982
YOU MADE ME TEAR UP YOU DICK

>>29839982
It's chilling how similar and how different Chitty and Celestia's reactions were...

I'm laughing at you all, you guys know that right? Laughing so hard that you're mourning her 'death' when you all should be preparing for the rebirth... The Sunrise...

>>29840041
Yah. Sunset's life touched a lot of folks on a deep level. I don't even want to imagine how Twilight will take it. The last thing she did when they were face-to-face was to yell at her to be gone through the portal and never come back. You carry those kinds of unresolved things, words said, actions taken, with you for a long time.

>>29840052
>you all should be preparing for the rebirth... The Sunrise...
...?

>>29840033
>they didn't find the bod
Even if they wanted to 100% confirm Sunset's death, I am unsure if I would be able to bear a description of a smashed body or something horrible like that, dude

>>29840062
>?

Her story isn't done yet, AJ and her haven't had their final confrontation.

One way or another, she will be back, I guarantee it, we just might not want her back...

>>29840041
If only they'd realized how close they were...

>10
"BBB"
~~~

It was more instinctual than intentional. A involuntary twitch, a reflex honed from many days of improving herself as a reporter, as someone who had to grasp opportunity by the scalp and pull it out into the open. 10's hole-riddled hooves shot up, and she pressed on the button before it fully even registered on her mind.

A single snapshot was taken, quickly and without flash. A still in time, capturing the grieving alicorn sister's to the background of an entire city laid to waste... and the slowly moving, mechanical monstrosity in the far distance. Little more than a gleaming, unblemished stain on the backdrop of the sky and blood-red sun announcing the nearing dusk.

The small changeling lowered her hooves, her face stricken, intense gaze focused on her camera, on her tool of trade. Below her, BBB remained silent, observant... or thinking to himself, perhaps.

>No matter how much it hurts.

“...bzz...”

They remained, upon their precarious perch, long enough for her to take a couple of more photos. Of the ruined airship. Of the awe-struck ponies. Of the devastation as far as they eye could see. Then, with all done and little said, 10 slung the camera over her back, and tapped her hooves into her friend's sides.

>Let's go, BBB. Everyone out there will demand answers. And we will be the ones to ask the pointed questions.

The artificial stallion remained uncharacteristically quiet for long enough that 10 worried he was lost in thought or malfunctioning. Then he moved, jerkily, and strangely unsteadily.

“AFFIRMATIVE, FRIEND 10. LOCATING POTENTIAL TARGETS FOR LIVE TESTIMONY.”

With the steady clack clack clack of metal against stone, they moved down into the ruined remains of what had once been Equestria's most technologically advanced city.

So!

Can Sunset lose a limb now? There was a Cyborg pony thread earlier that had me going over the Sundered Shimmer concept again.

>>29840101
If Final Fantasy 10, the Hivemind and standing at a friend's grave myself have taught me one thing, it's that you don't need the one you want to reconcile with to be alive... you just need to be able to have closure by talking to them one. One final time, or a lot over the years.

It would be good for AJ. But Sunset is somewhere where it doesn't matter anymore to her.

>>29840169
>Can Sunset lose a limb now?

With all the heart-break we have seen and will continue to be seeing, it's the least I want her to lose if we seriously pull a 'The rumors of my death were vastly exaggerated'.

Now, she did make a stallion almost 70% machine. I don't see a reason for her not to pull a Ghost in the Shell if it comes down to it. But boy will she hate losing her body. Again...

Okay maybe this isn't such a good idea afterall. Can't we let the dead rest? Sunset was an amazing villain, and she went out like a Disney one. Reviving g her would make her sacrifices and the choices and sacrifices everyone made to stop her seem cheap in hindsight.

>>29840173
>But Sunset is somewhere where it doesn't matter anymore to her.

Pfffttt.

Yeah, I'm sure she's reeeeallll content there, and not pissed and trying to get back home.

>>29840199
>Sunset was an amazing villain, and she went out like a Disney one.

That sounds more like a case AGAINST never bringing her back.

>>29840234
Okay that may have sounded weird to you, but I actually really like Disney deaths. Dunno. Something about the visual and siffering brutality of onscreen death really irks me. I don't like it. I liked that we did it this way.

>>29840199
Sorry to say it but you are the last /pa/l I want to hear from concerning this. You're one of those who have cemented Chitty and Sunset as the bad guys in your own minds. Nothing I say will convince you other wise, and that's fine, but I'd like to hear from those like me know she isn't the villain needing to be slain, but the hero saved from the path others put her on.

>>29840245
Disney deaths just mean offscreen ending of the deaths with no real fault of the main characters or their actions to absolve them of all guilt. They may have lead to the specific scenario, IE chasing them up to a cliff or breaking the magic talisman, but our heroes aren't the ones who sent the villain off the cliff or dragged them to hell, so even if they created the whole reason the villain died, they're still not the ones who tore them apart via hyenas, so they don't ever actually have to feel guilty or think about what they did too hard.

THAT is what we did with Sunset. Our VILLAIN is who finished her off, Pennydrop, so that none of our main heroes could actually say "We killed someone", and why it would not take away from the sacrifices and choices anyone did to stop her. In the end, it wasn't their actions anyway, they merely contributed to the other villain's actions, and even then the Main Characters had no part in it what so ever, good or bad. AJ never sacrificed a single solitary thing to get her to this point, Spike did nothing but shoot a green glowing orb for a second and then came out fine, all the choices they made have the same impact because the one who finally struck the blow and broke the building is the one whom the choice has no meaning, Pennydrop. There is nothing negative in what she did to call her on, no reason to rally against her, especially with what they learned, so if she came back in a month or a week it would have no negative thematic impact on the choices they made and their struggle to stop her, because that part remains unchanged.

So yeah, TLDR, she went out like a diseny villain, and that sucks.

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NC
>Sunset
~

>Just a little twist of the screwdriver here, some lubricant here... aaaaand done.

CLICK.

>>29840173
>If Final Fantasy 10

Pffft. You do realise there are two dead men walking in that game, and one of them came back by the effort of one that loved them in the sequel, right?

Chitania's got the ressurection game in the bag.

>>29840289
It's a path she put herself on, not others. I will argue that up and down. That she continually broke down and made terrible choices that worsened her situation is her own doing. Yes, some parts she had no fault in, just like in all well rounded characters, but just because a few events beyond her control worsened her life does not absolve her of her own actions.

That said, I agree she is mostly misguided and could be an amazing hero if the stars had aligned a little differently or if the mentors had learned just a bit sooner.

This is the thread of heartbreak!

>>29840289
I can accept that. I'll reserve further judgement until after we figure out how much 13 has cracked at this point.

I can already literally see her as PhoenixForce!13, tearing people apart with her mind alone...

>>29840362
Celestia failed her, Applejack didn't even try that hard, Twilight "I'm the princess of horrible scientific atrocities but that's okay Maaaaaaare friend cause friendship is magic' Sparkle didn't even try at all cause she 'knew' it was impossible.

There are reasons, you can't hide them. Yes she went down the dark path, but when the Light shuns you, you really don't have a choice but to tread the shadows. If they had saved her instead of pissing around then Sunset would have turned out better out of sheer gratitude of not being a fucking CORPSE anymore.

She's coming back, and I laugh at you for thinking otherwise.

... I just had an amzing idea for an image of an ascended Sunset Shimmer. Dammit, I wish I had artistic talent to put it to paper...

>>29840413
>Twilight "I'm the princess of horrible scientific atrocities but that's okay Maaaaaaare friend cause friendship is magic' Sparkle didn't even try at all cause she 'knew' it was impossible.

I'm sensing some acute hostility there, just a smidgen.

>>29840434
Umm... I have an artistic talent, wanna give me the rundown?

>>29840437
I had faith in Twilight to come up with at least a slimchance crazy concept. Litteraly got nothing. Feel betrayed man.

>>29840413
I still think you're wrong for putting the entirety of her salvation on everyone else having to help her when she just would not stop her pursuit to 'prove herself' and 'save everyone' from something they never asked to be saved from, it was her own reckless ideals and her own short shighted actions that put her at odds with those you're putting her entire good or evil will on. You're trying to say she can't possibly have done good things because nobody else specifically made her or taught her to do exactly that and that's wrong. The light never shunned her, Twilight only ever banned her from her lab when she broke in and stole valuable research that she'd only gotten because at long last a friend trusted her, and that she let someone who had vocally said their opposition to said friends entire race was nothing short of a despicable act. One Sunset was well aware of, but cared nothing for, even after seeing how angry it made Twilight.

AJ tried to help her and guide her, but she couldn't watch her 24/7, and that was apparently too much. Celestia didn't fail her, Sunset rejected her. And her entire problem with her body was of 100 percent her own causing, from trying to gain someone elses secrets through trickery and magic that violated their privacy to doing an illegal experiment beyond where any could see. Twilight hit a roadblock in trying to fix her, and that was too much. Because Twilight, just as much as Sunset, couldn't progress and had no ideas because they didn't have a very unique magic that if they'd held would have used in an instant, it was her fault.

Sunset did this to herself, all of it.

She COULD have been a great hero, but she has to want to BE a hero first, and not because someone told her how to do it.

>>29840453
More of an inversion of DEMONset. Could give you a bit of a try and explanation on flockdraw, if you wanna see it?

>>29840149
>and the slowly moving, mechanical monstrosity in the far distance.

Boy is PD going to get a fuckover here!

>>29840476
>she has to want to BE a hero first
...she rebelled against the princesses int he first place because she thinks they're far more malicious than they let on. Malicious, or uncaring. She wants to be the hero. But to her, it must seem like she had been trying to be the hero while villains secretly had surrounded and kept her fraom succeeding the whole time.

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>Diamond Dog
"Griffon"
~~~~

A motorized carriage, its power source giving off a gentle, purple glow, makes its way down a beaten road.
Inside of it are a griffon female, her claws occasionally steadying its steering wheel while her eyes scan the road ahead, and a burly diamond dog dressed in fisherman attire.
His face in a grimace, the cigar-like object in his mouth shifting about as he chews on it, the diamond dog is focused on the neverending stream of trees to his right.

"Sir?"

>Rrmm?

"Please try to relax."

>Can't.

"I know you're still a little shaken up, but there's no need to be so past-tense."

He spares her a glance.

>Hope ya ain't anglin' for a job in comedy, kid.

She shrugs her shoulders.

"In all seriousness, this is supposed to be your vacation, sir. Those earthquakes were just that: earthquakes. A natural occurence, like rain and thunderstorms."

>She says when a buncha ponies think it's their job ta make both.

"Well, they still occur naturally."

>Feh. As far as we know, those earthquakes mighta been a couple earth ponies stomping around after a dip in the bar. Probably lyin' in a ditch somewhere like bums.

"Highly unlikely. But my main point is that you're supposed to be relaxing. No worrying about work; no worrying about playing hero... What on earth...?"

As he turns to look at her, he sees what's caught her attention.

>Hounds Above.

Further down the road, trees and debris are strewn about in what could only be described as a giant scar cut through the land.
A metal billboard, torn to the ground in a twisted heap, marks their stopping point.

"What could have done this?"

With barely a flick of his wrist, the diamond dog overturns the heap, revealing it to be a welcome sign for the nearby town.

>It sure as hades wasn't a damn earthquake. Guess that vacation has ta wait.

"What are your orders, sir?"

Reflexively, he reaches for the gun at his hip.

>Help in whatever way we can.

>>29840533
Sounds like daydream shimmer with corporeal wings. I get the idea though.

>>29840555
This makes me wonder if anyone who had lvied in Hoffington had been gone, and now sees all this, horrified and stricken.... or maybe the family or friends of someone who had moved their to try their luck seeing everything laid to waste, without a single survivor in sight, on the pictures Pennydrop is transmitting.

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>>29840566
Mostly incoporating Variolus' orb, glowing machinery and a bit of etheral cloth and superthing wings into a semblance of this... though I'd like to think of that head as Chitty's or something. Dunno.

>>29840555
>Reflexively, he reaches for the gun at his hip.

"...Sir, if this thing could literally blow a hole in the landscape and twist metal, I don't think-"

>LEMME HAVE THIS!

>>29840573
Hoofington was supposed to be an area completely controlled by gangs and the like, that's why Sunset could stay hidden for so long. The guard literally wouldn't touch it, the whole city, so if they were headed for work that way, it wasn't for anything pretty.

Far more depressing is the ones who their friends and family saw improving, getting better, learning and really making a life for themselves, who saw EVO give them a job and education when no others would. They probably thought "they're finally going to be somebody."

Oh dear

>>29840600
Wait. Didn't they mention a Captain of the Guard in Hoofington, during the Captain Meeting with Pommel? And how they wondered were they were? It happend right at the start of the arc too!

>>29840600
>"they're finally going to be somebody."
oh but they are... they are part of a greater whole now...

ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US

>>29839954
>I have a lot of newfound respect for Seven and him upholding all the virtues a hero should. He's amazing, and I love him for it. Thanks for writing him that way.

I find it interesting that despite this, his main motif is "I don't like this I hate feeling like this why can't I make it stop."

Like someone crossed a wire in his brain and set it to 'James Bond' instead of 'Agent 47' and he never got over it.

>>29840476
You can think I'm wrong just as much as I think you're wrong for placing all the blame on Sunset for her situation. Her desire to prove herself stems from her desire to be accepted back into her world and be seen as useful and worth their appriciation. And as for wanting to save them, who wouldn't try to desperately save all they have left in the universe from a threat that they seemed to be ignoring, even if it meant doing things the wrong way. It's irrational thinking based off of fear and everyone has the right to be irrational, it's up to others to break you out of that. They never gave her enough information to break her out of the mindset, because they still didn't trust her completely and that caused her to seek things out herself leading to the events that would eventually see her a walking corpse. And when she was at her worst point in her life, no one cared enough to try and save her. I can understand not wanting to help someone that betrayed you, but you don't say you will help and just leave someone like that.

Celestia failed her then by not making them actually try, if not for Sunset sake alone then for the sake of someone in desperate need of help. Applejack made promises not kept, and Twilight didn't even put a freaking foot note about anything related to fixing her.

A desperate mare realised those she had put her faith in had no intent of getting anything done besides going on vacation. So she turned to the only one who might be able to save her and made a deal with someone that wasn't exactly liked by those she had put her hopes in.

If they had tried, or at least shown that they had at least attempted something, Sunset would have waited and behaved in quiet desperation. But they didn't. Instead, she became loyal, neigh devoted to the one that did save her. Sunset would have been changed for the 'better' if they had tried. If not for her personally, then just because someone was in need.

She's 'Evil' because of that.

>>29840582
I've got an image in my brain of how that would look. Its interesting.

>>29840706
But they never implied they needed her to prove herself to be appreciated, in fact all of their actions were to the exact opposite of that. And the fact is, she's trying to save a universe from a threat they're not ignoring, but living with and letting stay in their own ballroom! One of them goes out and has fun with royals even. She's the one who brought her own preconceived notions based on some history, the invasion, but then ignored the followup history where they were shown not to be at war anymore. They never gave her information on the changelings because they knew she would misuse it, while she ignored the fact they had this information to give in the first place which means that obviously there must be someone willingly giving it! She assumed she could do better with the information Twilight was privately given and took it from her because of that, and ignored how that made everyone else feel because only her opinions matters.

No, it's not their job to break her out of preconceived notions, especially when she herself has done terrible things in the past as well! Who was she to say that someone who's mindcontrolled/taken over a place could never be good? Celestia couldn't make them try because there was nothing for them to try for. Applejack made a promise to her that she would be with her until Twilight fixed her, a promise Sunset broke. Twilight didn't put a footnote there because she carefully explained to Sunset all the reasons she couldn't progress, but Sunset couldn't accept Twilight didn't pull something out of nowhere for her, or worse assumed she had an answer but didn't do it immediately.

You know what actually happened at the worst part in her life? She drained Cadence beat the shit out of Chrysalis and then you know what?

They forgave her and tried to help.

THAT is why this is all her fault. They showed they were willing to forgive her and go at it again, but she just couldn't accept it.

>>29840833
>They showed they were willing to forgive her and go at it again, but she just couldn't accept it.

...what if she couldn't forgive herself? What if she was so broken inside that she couldn't believe someone would just forgive her like that, when she's still the one who hates her old self and old mistakes the most? She needed catharsis, but never found it with them.

>>29840858
What more could they give her? Applejack dragged her ass to the Hearth Warming party, LITERALLY kicking down her door and dragging her there, and then she invited her to come on the field trip.

If she couldn't forgive herself after the ones who she hurt and nearly crushed because of her own mistakes could, then it wasn't them who lead her down this path, just the fact she couldn't see anything but the road she was already on. It was sheer luck Chitania was down along the way with a lantern, nothing more.

>>29840878
>it wasn't them who lead her down this path, just the fact she couldn't see anything but the road she was already on. It was sheer luck Chitania was down along the way with a lantern, nothing more.

What a creepy mental image. Like something straight out of a dream diary.

>>29840583
*Sees Mecha Chitty off in the distance*

>Hmm. Gonna need a bigger gun.

While we're on the subject of redemption, I have one dear hope for the future. I truly hope, after Chitty reveals what happened to Sunset, that AJ gets a vested interest in trying to save her. Chitania I mean. I truly, truly hope that she sees how much this monster meant to the student she failed, how much she helped her when nobody else could, and how hurt she is over her death, and says "Come hell or high water, I'll make sure I save you for Sunset's sake"

>>29840999
Spike and the rest of the A-Team that played a direct hand in the death of Sunset and the CBH are still alive, though. Which will no doubt be a thorn in your dream's side for a long time if that route is explored.

>>29841090
That's more of a reason! She's the one who formed the A-team all those years ago, she's the one who let Spike have a gun and even let him stay on when she was willing to kick DT out. I want her to know her friends are the reason Sunset is dead, they're the reason Chitania is broken, and damn it I want her to go "I'm going to fix you, because you meant so much to her."

>>29841115
Well, AJ's going to have a long road ahead of her then. I doubt Chitania's going to be all that thrilled about an offer to be 'fixed' by AJ when her main beef will be that she wants Spike and the A-Team dead for what they've done. That particular hatchet's going to get buried in someone's throat.

>>29841205
Good. I want it to be a long road, a hard road, a road she wants to give up on all the time.

I want her to be pushed to her limit; and push though. Try, damn it, try.

>>29841291
>.... Nope, not silly enough. Look at mah cheese whizz!

Skkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

>Look at it! Its ah mouse made of cheese!... This is mah life now.

>>29841442
Are you the same guy who posts something like this every single time?

>>29841442
You do realize the guy wrote for months just to set up a scenario where AJ has to question justice, right?

>>29841549
Yes, I'm not really serious about it though, its more or less to see how many ways I can do the bit.

>>29841618
Get it allllll out of your system now, we're going dark in the future.

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>>29841638
>we're going dark in the future.
Ugh, that's the exact opposite from what I want.

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Enough depressing talk. How about laughing at a classic!

>>29841704
Laughter is good!

>>29841677
Don't worry, little filly. Now that Flash and Fizzle are out of commission, you don't have to worry about getting pounded at least.

>>29841704
INTO THE WIKI IT GOES!

>>29841677
It's the good dark.

Chrysalis dark.

>>29841704
So simple, but so funny.

>>29841704
Damn, that takes me back...

Also, PPanin, you better deliver. Threadghosts May have a sick sense of humor, but their word is law

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>>29842027
I'll deliver. I did ask for it...just...need to figure out how they would react to getting sent dragon dildos.

In the mean time, one more comic.

>>29842161
>That approach

Beautiful

>>29842565
Noice

>>29840878
NO!

SUNSET DID NOTHING WRONG!

CHITANIA DID NOTHING WRONG!

REEEEEEEEEE

>>29842565
She's coming right for us! Sacrifice all the virgins!

>>29840706
They did try

They hit a wall and didn't find a way around it

Only ONE specific Changeling Queen had the magic skill of 10 and surgery skill of 10 AND specialised both skills in Changeling subset

It's not 100% their fault or wilful neglect

>>29842565
>When you eat the last popcorn bag and that's the last thing you see

>>29842161
>>29842565
INTO THE WIKI THEY GO

>>29842565
I thought those markings were tears and first and they seemed so appropriate.

>>29842565
This looks like a cover for Big Chitania Hunting...

>>29842565
>>29843288
So... Spike?

>>29842565
That would make a WICKED decal.

>>29843737
Applejack, Celestia, Sunset, Twilight, Chrysalis (rape no counto), 42....

Man, so many virgins to choose from!

>>29843828
>Chrysalis (rape no counto),

... by what metric?

>>29843859
Illegal masturbation

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>>29843828
>Chrysalis (rape no counto)
Chrysalis not being the mother of a single Changeling under her rule is far fetched enough, but she's definitely not a virgin in this case.

>>29843828
>Sunset
I doubt that. I HIGHLY doubt that. She's waaay too promiscuous and sexual confident to be one.

I mean, compare how thirsty Chrysalis and Celestia are, and how easily embarrassed Twilight and Spike get. AJ is no nonsense typical country gal.

>>29843828
Also
>Sunset
Lad, there's no way she's a virgin. She took human-Flash's v-card and gobbled it whole.

>>29843960
>AJ is no nonsense typical country gal

Tried that approach to her

Failed miserably

>>29843305
>and surgery skill of 10

Eh, more 6. Even Sunset was skeptical she could actually do it and not stab her.

>>29842565
Now that is a horror movie poster.

Put some ponies underneath her and CHITANIA RISES across the top, I'd rent it.

Okay. So. Now that our biggest antagonist ist is gone and Chitty is about to be pacified or grilled... what's next? Tirek, having Twilight find her Element to once more complete the set, Starlight Glimmer, Blue Luminescence, the Flurrying...?

>>29839982
NC
>Scientist
“Engineer”
~~~

>…

“…”

>…

“….”

>…phweee.

“DUDE!”

>Ah hah ih in mah moufh.

“DUDE!”

>Ah’ shorry…

>>29844376
>Tirek

Umm... Didn't we already deal with that? I'm not sure if it was NC or CD, but I'm sure we gag stomped him. Like he wasn't even an issue?

>>29844376
>Now that our biggest antagonist ist is gone

No body, not dead. Not saying that to be a stubborn optimist, but in this scenario she has Schrödinger Cat syndrome. She both is and isn't dead until proven otherwise.

>And Chitty is about to be pacified or grilled...

Hah! You really don't get Chitty do you? She's going to go down roaring and I'm sure we covered an exploding Queen before, so she'll go Nuclear and take out a very large area with her.

>>29844499
>Implying she'd ever kill herself

She'll find a way out.

She always does.

>>29844467
Bigger issue, no Discord.

He could take a bit to find, but he'll never get strong enough to fight the alicorn without Discord.

>>29844427
?

>>29844376
I've got some stuff in the works that sorta need Cadence to stay pregnant, so I'm against the Flurrying at the moment. As for antagonists, well, sorta got something in the works for that, too, once we hop off the Main Quest and go into Free Time Mode.

>>29844499
>>29844574
>Nuclear
Punished Chitty
-A Queen deprived of her Family-

Her lust for vengeance will consume her.

>>29844589
Party favor.

You know, those little FHWEEEE whistles that roll up? He apparently had one in his mouth and blew it while looking at Celestia crying.

That's the joke.

>>29844499
>>29844574
I'm getting Meltdown Chitania in my brain now... That would be an amazing way to go... I'd fucking cry too.

NC
>Daw
“PJ”
~~~

>…So do you know why they’re crying about this mare?

“I literally never met her. Literally never.”

>I don’t get it.

“It’s a pony thing.”

>…Was…. Was that a-

“Take it as a compliment.”

>Yay?

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>>29844653

>>29844725
Ooooooooh yeah... Goodbye Manehattan

>Lightning Dust
“Soarin’
‘Fleetfoot’
~~~~~~

>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

“Right?”

‘I’m actually agreeing with you on this one, holy shit.’

>AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

“This is insane.”

‘How could we possibly have missed this? How could something this huge just fly right by?’

>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

“This is heartbreaking.”

‘I’m literally heartbroken over this.’

>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

“This was a failure on our part.”

‘We can never let this happen again.’

>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

“…Is she going to be a while?”

‘Probably. Let’s let her have this.’

>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-

‘To an exent.’

>Spitfire
“Crystal Guard”
~~~

>…Solider?

“Yes, ma’am?”

>Would, ahhh, would you mind reminding me current protocol with our airscouts?

“Move quickly, move as quietly as possible. Cause no stir, cause no reason to question your placement. Always be calm and respectful, to give them no reason to send you away. Do not disturb any, do not intervene unless absolutely necessary, observe, report quickly, return to work.”

>Sounds about right.

“Why did you want to know, Captain?”

>Just wanted to know how many rules that guy is breaking.

“…what guy-“

~AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!~

CRASH!

~YOU FUCKERS ARE NOT GOING TO FUCKING BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS THERE’S A FUCKING FUCKINGTON FUCKERY GOING DOWN IN FUCKSVILLE AND FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUCCKKKKK IT’S FUCKED!~

>…

“…I’d say all of them, including several made just for him.”

>I might go easy on him, depending.

~FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU~

>>29844640
>Her lust for vengeance will consume her.

She seemed to want to get back to business actually. Isn't that scary? Sbe can just move on like that?

>>29845198
>Sbe can just move on like that?
I think she's trying not honour the memory of everyone by finishing what they all started. By not letting herself drown in sorrow, by staying alive and fulfilling their legacy, she tries tio give their deaths meaning.

If she, the last one, were to fall, it would all have been in vain. She refuses to die, because it would mean letting their memory and dreams die with her.

She can't stop now. Even if she wanted to.

>>29845222
What if you just....

Bash her head with a metal bat.

Over and over, in her state.

Just keep neganing at it

Wouldn't that be enough?

>>29845242
Might as well hit her with with a pair of Sock 'em Bop 'ems. Can't kill an ideal, friend.

>>29845256
...What about a reeeeeeeally big chunk of metal.

Just drop it, thunk, right onto her skull

>SA
“Cadence’
~~~~

TAPTAPTAPTAP

>We should ignore that.

“Absolutely.”

TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP

>Nothing important.

“Not at all.

TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP

>Nothing more important than snuggling time.

“Snuggling time is paramount above all others.”

>Being here, snuggling with wife, that is important.

“Only thing important.”

TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP

>…they’re not going away.

“They know.”

>They somehow knew I was going to lie down and hug you and everything would be wonderful.

“Is there anyone the universe hates more than us?”

>If so, they’ve never been found.

“This is the worst.”

>Nothing could be worse than this.

TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAP TAPTAPTAPTAPCRASH

~GET THE FUCK UP CHUNKF OF EQUESTRIA IS EXPLODED!~

>…
“…Except for that maybe.”

>>29845294
>Cue cheer to rock the world

"THEY'RE DEEAADDD!"

>>29845559
"OH BOY OH BOY HEY CELESTIA DIDJA HEAR THE GOOD NEWS? SUNSET SHIMMER AND CHITNIA ARE DEAD!"

~AHUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~

"I KNOW IT'S SUCH A WONDERFUL DAY!"

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck me! I know what to do! I KNOW what to do! Mhwhahahahaha AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

>>29845713
Good for you!

I think?

I mean you could literally be talking about anything. The current storyline, future one, masturbation, shit you could be talking about painting AJ nudes.

>>29845721
I don't paint, I suck at painting, but I think I know how to get everything I want set in motion with one or two pictures...

>>29845744
They better be Applejack sitting on my face boiiii

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>>29845744
>everything I want set in motion
...y-yay...?

>>29845771
IT BETTER BE APPLEJACK SITTING ON MY FUCKING FACE BOIIIIII

OOCO
>SA
“AJ”
~~

>That things should be illegal.

“How in tarnation would you go about outlawin’ mah’ dang rear?”

>Put it in a cage and make you walk around with it.

“Considerin’ yer’ only whinin’ like a baby because Ah’ bumped ya’ inta’ a dang table, do ya’ not see how this might be self defeating?”

>… My plan might need revision.

“Ya’ll okay there?”

>As okay as I can be with a back full of woodshards.

“So, okay completely, but whining.”

>Exactly. You have me down pat, Applejack.

“What, ya’ want me ta’ kiss it and make it better?”

>Whole lot of pain in my rear, Applejack.

“…is that supposed to be a yes?”

>Really?

“What? Ya’ll can mock mine all day, but Ah’ can’t make fun of yours?”

>It feels weird for me.

“It’s a nice flank, Ah’m not gonna lie about that.”

>…

“Ya’ll can compliment mine.”

>It’s a very nice flank, very plump.

“Don’t overdo it.”

>…

“…Ya’ll can keep going.”

>At some point you turned my pain into fishing for compliments.

“How did you ever get married? Ya’ll are terrible at this.”

>Celestia
"Luna"
~???~
(??)
~~~~~

They earth was shaking again.

Like the beat of war drums for a battle long since passed, the earth was shaking again. With every succession the sound boomed in the distance, each one rising like thunder growing closer as the storm grew near.

(LOOK!)

The shape in the distance was unmistakable. Or it would have been, had it not been a shining chrome instead of the darkened chitin everyone was so used to seeing when that sound rocked towards them.

The ponies who served her were quick to run into line, those who had abandoned her were quick to start sweating, all had gathered and waited in the outskirts of the city they had brought low, and waited as she grew.

And grew, and grew, and grew.

All watched, in awe.

"...so that is the beast spoken of..."

Or some, in anger.

Dark fur rose in anger as it's owner witnessed the creation grow near, the 'mecha-chitania' as the one employee had described it. As it became clearer, the name seemed so very apt. The shape of the face, the body, even the horn, all of it screamed of the look of the Titan Queen.

Correction, she thought, the former titan queen.

"This is the one who killed Chitania."

Her grip on her despondent sister tightened, if only to keep herself from rocketing off and facing her.

~Hello, Equestrians! Your protector has arrived!~

When the booming voice crackled from within the metal maw, that grip became painful to keep that same stalling.

>PENNNNNNYYYDROPPPPPP!

It wasn't even close to enough to hold the alabaster alicorn when she tore loose.

"Sister!"

Her voice fell on deaf ears as she charged, straight towards the battered, scraped, beaten, dented and damaged machine.

>PENNYDROP!

One that never wavered in the least when a white shape appeared before it, so close to the nostrils the princess easily could have flicked it in the nose.

~Celestia.~

1/5

>>29846010

There was not a hint of fear, respect, barely even a scrap of acknowledgement from the voice inside of the machine. The mechanical eyes never even stayed on her glowing horn or furious face, only glancing before looking away without a care.

With no regard to the one in front of her, the mechanical beast moved forwards.

>COME OUT FROM THERE THIS INSTANT! You must answer for this!

~Fuck off.~

Jaws dropped as far as the eye could see.

From the lowest employee, to the scaled dragon face, to the highest of royals, jaws dropped at her words, and the way she brushed past the tiny mare in her sight.

>Either come out now, or I will do something drastic.

Her words were cold, deathly serious, and full of all the regalia and strength a royal should have.

~Go ahead, I've fought bigger today.~

It turned to a cold fury when she never even slowed down.

>...very well...

The world shook again.

This time, things did not fall. This time, nothing reached the ground.

This time, things began to rise.

First, it was little more than scraps of dirt. Then pebbles, tiny stones, and it only grew from there. Grew, and grew more until massive rocks began to rip forth from the ground, and the rubble of the broken city began to rise.

Ponies cried out, lifting a few inches off the ground before a misty, starry magic wrapped them tightly. They alone were spared as everything began to rise.

Everything, save the machine standing unaffected in the center of it all, and glowing.

~As I was saying, I come bringing great news!~

Her magic, and so much more with it, shook and stuttered out when she noticed the thing would not even shift no matter how much power she poured into it, it would not be lifted and it would not rise no matter what magic she used, it would not even be affected, not even pulled slightly. The spells on it's legs fizzled out, doing little more than making the strange glow surrounding it wobble in tune.

Everything, from the stones to her magic, dropped.

2/5

>>29846017

The mare just continued on, like nothing happened at all.

~I have slain the Titan, at long last! We've done it! All your hard work has paid off! Now...~

She reared back, metal hooves coming together in a sparking show of power.

~NOW IS THE TIME OF FAWNTAINE!~

No cheers followed her. Those below were still too shocked, horrified even, by what they saw on their princesses face.

Whatever their employer was to them, that was still Celestia, being left behind and ignored.

>PENNYDROP!

Something she would not allow.

~Celestia?~

The lack of title perfectly matched the utter lack of any interest or respect the machine had. Her whole of her attention seemed to have shifted only when she noticed her crowd was not cheering her on, not a second before.

~Equestria's had enough fights today, don't you think? Beating you wouldn't prove anything I haven't proven already today, stop before it's you and me flying across the distance this time.~

It stung, right to her pearly white chest. Both the flippant dismissal of any chance of victory, and the stinging truth that she wished not another scrap of land would be marred on this day, if ever again. It stung, and it must have seemed weak, but her love of her country made that horn go out once more.

~Good. Have they told you what happened yet? It's quite a story.~

Even without her glow of magic, the fire was still there.

>They told me you brought down the building... with Sunset inside.

~...I did. I did that. From what the monster was going on about, she's dead, isn't she?~

No magic could have matched it in that moment.

~I'll take that as a yes.~

>How dare you...

Finally, all four metal hooves hit the ground, lifting everyone clean off it when the full weight smacked down. At long last, she turned to face the princess.

3/5

>>29846021

>How dare you... after all the destruction you've caused, after all you've done, after all the hurt you brought.. You brought such horror to my country, you irreversibly destroyed so much in that fight that never should have happened, you ruined entire landscapes, homes, livelihoods, you've ruined so much, and you have the gall to act like this is a victory. How dare you, how dare you act so-

~How dare I?~

There was no more flippant tone. No more lack of interest.

The mare within her metal body had grown just as serious.

~No... how dare you. You want to know why there's so much destruction? Why there was so much torn apart, torn asunder?... That's what she brought. That monster, that beast, brought that destruction, that creature is the one who you should be placing your hate on. She's the one who's blows sent me across miles, Celestia. Every broken stone, every ruined river, those weren't the actions of someone trying to destroy it. That was just backwash, that was the nothing beneath notice without her even trying. That was the damn broken table that shattered when two bombs collided on top of it. Think about that. Think about the power that could do that, and realize that everything you saw... was the lightest it could have been. She wanted to destroy it, bring it to ruin. And that's what stings, doesn't it?~

In those metal eyes, the eyes of an earth ponies shined through. And they burned.

~That's what really hurts. This isn't the first time she'd gone across your landscape and brought destruction in her wake. This isn't the first time she crossed miles, and miles, leaving devastation wherever she went. This isn't the first time... and you were too late, again. I don't know if one of them called you, you saw the fight or if the sky itself opened up and brought you down a big old magical letter that told you something was happening, it doesn't matter. This happened... and you weren't there.~

They burned right into the alicorns eyes.

4/5

>>29846028

~Yet again, she brought destruction. And you know why? Because no matter how many times she did it, you never stopped her. You never beat her down for good, did you? Your world needed you... and you fell short, yet again. Yet again she roared, and smashed, and punched, but this time it wasn't you who dealt with her, it was me... and that's what really hurts, doesn't it?~

Ones that went wide, and silent, when that metal face moved so close that she could see her own crown in it's scratched finish.

~I'm an earth pony with no magic, no spells, no godlike power granted to me and special only me because I'm so special and I deserve it, I didn't have the sky open up and make me stronger... and I beat her, for good, when you couldn't. I stopped your student, when you couldn't. That's why you're angry.~

She swore she saw the machines mouth move when the next words were spoken.

~I'm better than you now without any aide from you, and it stings. We're better than you, in all your special unique power, and it stings.~

There was a shadow.

Crossing over the setting sun, cast down on the two locked in glares, a shadow passed over all of them.

~The age of waiting for you and your 'gifted' to save the world is over, Celestia.~

Above them, the sky roared with the jets of a dozen airships, each one glowing in the sky with their magical glow.

~This is our world now.~

The machine, the mare, turned away.

The princess would not follow her.

She would not move or silence the cheers of ponies as the metal monster moved into their midst.

~You... are finished.~

She would not speak to her, deny her words, or attack her. With the flash of bulbs, the cry of those who sought their story, the reflection of a dozen cameras all pointed to her, she had nothing to say.

Nothing but a single phrase, whispered beneath her breath.

>No... I just have another monster I must face.

The new age had begun.

Yet somethings felt so very much the same.

>I will face it like any other.

>>29846035
>We traded the kinda nice Kaiju for a mecha one piloted by a bitch

Worst timeline!

>>29846035
This is awful

Pennydrop only won cos she copy and pasted Chitania onto her spinal cord and added some more lasers.

No special magic, no intrigue or talent or anything like that

>When you despise Chiggers but have to spend million of manhours and resources to hope to beat one by becoming a Chigger.

>>29846035
>Cue Pennydrop NEVER EVER LEAVING THAT THING because Celly will shoot her.

>>29846069
>No special magic,

.. I mean that's all pretty special.

>intrigue

I fee like that's not the word you meant to use.

>talent

I feel like you'd have to be pretty talented to make that...

>>29846035
Cue ponies and bon-ponies telling the princesses to Fuck Off too, since Pennydrop, a mere businessmare, could do it and get away with it.

Congrats. This truly is the end of the age of princesses. No one is going to take them seriously anymore. Pennydrop just made them into a public joke.

>>29846083
>Say Pennydrop, what's your cutie mark stand for?

"Oh that.... that's the Norinco logo"

>...Wha?

"If you can't be the best, just copycat the best!"

>>29846091
I like it!

We finally have to make the princesses SPECIAL besides 'Lol wings and superpowers' again! I like this angle! No more "We're princesses because god said so" it's got to be "We're princesses because we're the best at it and work hardest."

Love it!

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>>29846035
>When the one-off side character secretary stereotype you made to act as a foil to Flash's Evil Dead 2 impression becomes the Big Big Bad

Welp

Yeah let's see Pennydrop run Equestria herself then, like a business

Nothing can go wrong there.....

Kill the neoliberals

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>>29846103
Hey buddy! Spare a shell for me after blowing your brains all over the tapestry! I was the one who introduced Sunset Shimmer

>>29846130
Hey now, your character had antagonist potential right from the get go given her prior history

Pennydrop was a one shot, maybe a repeating gag character. Nothing else!

How did it come to this?!

>>29846035
~Equestria! I am your hero!~

-We want to look you in the face!-

~....Actually I'm just gonna stay in here~

-...?-

~Forever... gotta stay on top!~

-But you--

~WOAH LOOK OUT THERE'S A THREAT I MUST DEFEAT! WORRY NOT EQUESTRIA! PENNYDROP IS HEEEEEERREEEEEeeeeeee.....~

>>29846017
>>COME OUT FROM THERE THIS INSTANT! You must answer for this!
>~Fuck off.~

...dont you fucking dare let this have no political or financial repercussions. DONT YOU DARE!

At the very least, that's an affront to the Crown, who still very much rules the country. At worst, it could be considered treason!

I mean, holy fuck, does Pennydrop still seriously expect to run a smooth business in Equestria after this?! Unless she plans to single-handedly usurp the crown, that was the deathstroke to her company's success in Equestria! WHAT THE FUCK! She doesn't have political immunity. Or anything!

>>29846093
>HA! You're just like Chitania but slightly better.
"HA! You're just like your mom but worse in literally every regard."
>...low blow.

>>29846035
>we traded Chitania and Sunset in for this gigantic dyke

Well, gee thanks KKA. You shouldn't have!


No seriously. You shouldn't have. This is terrible. I didn't think I could despise that mare any more, but that just opened my eyes to a whole new level of bitchiness! Worst of all, her motivation is just pure ego-stroking and inferiority complexes! AUUUUGH!!!