Princess Applejack

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We have begun working on a big project to fix up old stories and make this crazy world more coherent and accessible to new readers who don't like the thread format.
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First for Applejack and Pinkie

Second for AJ taking some stress relief with three Big Ones

Third for "Don't give AJ all the answers"

>>25616235
Forth for prioritizing solving it and not dragging it out for not giving the answers.

>Canterlot Pony
"CP2"
~~

>Oh, hey, look at that. Giant airship coming down.

"Yep."

>...

"...So, um... is this, like, an actual invasion?"

>Dunno.

"Do changelings have airships?"

>I guess they could take one over?

"Wouldn't be hard, yeah."

>...I miss it when our problems could get shot with magic necklaces.

"Goooood times."

>>25616292
>prioritizing solving it

Just so long as she doesn't go
>HERES WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO
*Speech*

out of nowhere, I'm good.

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Pinkie Preview prophecies!

>Applejack deals with a frustrated Cowrean.
>I throw a party for Chitania.
>Fluttershy has a weaboo moment.
>Rarity makes a convincing bluff.
>Twilight makes Rainbow Dash read a crowd control handbook.
>Arana plays defense for Blueblood.
>The Crusaders find out what happens when you rub two sticks together.
>Metal fanservice!

If I can actually finish my arc, I'm going to eventually see if I can throw something AJ's way...it'll be non-canon, but it'll be something.

>>25616637
>If I can actually finish my arc, I'm going to eventually see if I can throw something AJ's way...it'll be non-canon, but it'll be something.

Well, now you've got me excited.

>Chitania
"13"
'41'
~~

Finding her had been simplicity itself. She had prepared for this, just in case it were to ever happen again.

Was she a touch paranoid to devise a way to locate her daughter, no matter where she may be? Perhaps. But she certainly doesn't feel bad about it.

Nonetheless, she understood the shocked look in her daughters eyes when she found the pair of changelings that had run off a bit ago. They must think her incapable of such a way to track her without magic.

Good.

"Mom?"

>We're leaving.

She wasted no more breath on words or explanations, as rude as she knew it to be, before scooping her up by the scruff of her neck and placing her upon her back, the smaller, sickly changeling struggling and flailing all the way.

"What do you think you're doing!?"

The moment she was sure she was settled, she turned back.

>I said, we're leaving.

"Excuse me!? I'm not done yet!"

>You are now. Things are happening, and we need to go, now. Before it gets worse.

"Whoa whoa! STOP!"

Against her better judgement, she did so. Her daughter always had a way to make her listen, it seemed...

'Yeah, can you clue me in here?''

A glare silenced the much smaller warrior, sending her shuffling back with little more than a look of real power.

"Mom!"

>...There has apparently been a reveal of some sort in the Empire. One of your fellow hivemates has been standing in and doing royal duties for that pink princess.

"Who? Forty Two?"

>I do not recall the number, but that doesn't seem right.

"Eighteen?"

>...Hrm, I think that was it. How did you know?

"This doesn't take a lot of deduction here, unless Two is a savant on another level."

>Hm?

"She was my third choice, by the way."

>Hrm. Long story short, the ponies are irritated, and talking of infiltration and invasion.

'Uh, yeah! Hivemind Beyond, what was Eighteen thinking!? You can't impersonate a-'

Another look, more silence.

'Sorry.'

1/3

>>25616890

>As I was saying, they have begun to amass. I feel it is time to make an exit until-

"Go back."

Even now, to hear those words spoken so brazenly, so confidently, filled her with mixed emotions. Of course she was proud that she would have so much confidence in her, and of course she wanted to encourage this and have it grow.

But there would always be the part of her that wanted to snarl her back into submission for talking to her like that.

>I don't think you understand, there is a mob.

"That's exactly what I understand, and why I said it. Go. back."

She turned to the little one on her back, doing her very best to keep her expression neutral. No anger, no irritation, that was her goal, and she set out to do it.

Followed by her failing with all the grace of a whale trying to win a diving competitions

>I am not bringing you into enemy territory. We are leaving.

"Then go get my hive and bring them with us!"

It stung. To her chest, it stung to hear that. She could only move past it as best she could.

>That would involve either leaving you alone or bringing you into the fray. Neither of which I am willing to do.

"I can handle myself, thank you!"

>It's not about what you can handle.

That, at last, seemed to be the wallbreaker, the thing that shattered through the pride and the looks that she held. Those words, at last, spoke to her.

"...I'm not going to leave you again, I said."

>None of them wanted to either.

She winced, even more of her fire dispelled.

"This isn't the same situation."

>No, it's not... I didn't get to rip off anyone's head before the mob started this go round.

"They're not going to do something like that!"

>...I thought that too, once.

The distance between them closed as her massive head rolled back, her gargantuan cheek touching the top of the smaller changelings head.

>I'm not taking the risk.

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>>25616905

"...I don't want to lose them either. Don't you understand that?"

She did. Even if she could not bring herself to say it, she did.

"Please. You're there this time, they're alive this time. You can do something, this time."

>I could lose everything this time. They're not worth the risk.

"They are to me. My hive is worth protecting."

Nothing more came from the titan. Instead, she remained, as still as a mountain that she so resembled in her other form.

"Please... for me?"

She said nothing. No affirmative... no denial. It lasted for a time, for a second or an eternity she did not know, but whichever it was it drug out forever, until the only other changeling could take no more.

'Um-'

>Get on my back.

Stunned silence was her only response.

>I said...

At least, until those eyes looked to her once more.

>Get. On. My. Back.

'U-uh... okay.'

Without argument, she took her place.

'But, why?'

"Because she doesn't want you slowing her down."

There was something in her voice, a tone she wasn't used to hearing from the unlucky little ling.

Excitement.

"Hang on."

'Hang on for whaaaHHHHAHHHHHH!'

She did indeed hang on for dear life as the Titan tore off into a gallop, her speed full tilt, her hooves tearing apart the ground as she raced.

She would be faster, this time.

She would make it there, this time.

She would protect them, this time. All of them...

This time would be different.

"WHEEEEE!"

Even if there were some things she would never change.

>>25616637
>metal fanservice

>>25616939
Look man, nobody can get it up to plastic, and you don't want to meet the guys who want some rubber fanservice.

Even a show about baby mutilation, suicide and murder knew the scariest thing was going to be a guy in all rubber.

>>25616921
>"WHEEEEE!"

Holy shit why was that so cute.

LAST THREAD RECAP! PANNIIIICCCC EDITION!
>The Crystal Ponies are lamenting their lost trust, in strange ways in some cases.
>Spike using a gun does not calm down anyone. Nor are his debate skills up to par, as he is ran over.
>Also, his manners need work, as was silently told to him by private... FUCK!
>But no fear, for an old friend is here to help! DIAMOND TIARA has arrived! And she has a giant set of power armor!
>Because heavy artillery just plain wasn't enough.
>She then abducts him to go tell Silver Spoon, because deep down she is still DT.
>42 speaks to the CE guards, saying that she understands if they wish her to take a sabbatical or feel betrayed... forgetting that they all have known this whole time.
>Sunset and Chitania talk about the current situation, with the former musing about how she almost caused this exact scenario, and the latter musing that she doesn't care what happens to the rest of the lings anymore.
>One of the temps from Partyland return to talk to 18. She describes how she used to think Cadence was beyond reproach, even going so far as to join a fanclub, after that day. To the point that she quit her field, thinking she just couldn't match up to a princess like that.
>Learning 18 was 'just' a changeling has changed her ideas slightly, and she now wants a job.
>Everyone in the CE Crew is sad, so Chrysalis cheers them up with tapdancing... yes, tapdancing.
>Daw finds a sword in Pommels study. OOCO it's revealed to be a gift for her that she wants to enhance.
>Pinkie tries to cheer dash up. It works.
>Jugglejack wants to be in with Actarius, but a mob is blocking the way. There's only one thing to do..
>BECOME THE JUGGLE BALL AND BE JUGGLED INTO THE BUILDING
>Yes, he makes it in. No, nobody is sure how he gets inside a sealed building. His explanation? "Fucking holes". That's it.
1/3

>>25617559
>32 starts to feel better, so of course ponies mob him. And 88 won't let him in.
>Over in Apploosa, they hear news of the reveal!... And do not give a FUCK.
>Cause 55 wanted them to eat a big old meal with the buffalo as friends, and they're eating a big old meal with the buffalo as friends, and anyone who thinks he's trying to infiltrate anything is right stupid.
>AJ is lamenting the loss of all her hard work, Chitania meanwhile rubs it in that she saw it coming.
>Aj snaps, chews her out and punches her. Yes, punches her. Then she tells her to fuck off so she can fix things.
>After the requisite punch back, Chitania does indeed leave to go get her daughter, and AJ vows to prove her wrong.
>PJ and Blueblood are sticking together.
>When Ponyville is ready to chuck out 29, it's up to Trixie to distract them! With a show!
>When that fails spectacularly, she switches tactics. As in, she starts hurting herself... a lot.
>It works.
>OOCO Spitfire tricks Dash into eating her underwear.
>Applejack panics just a bit more, and granny tries to calm her down to no avail.
>Luna tries to tell Canterlot to calm down, feels bad instead.
>Cadence is trying her hardest now.
>Pommel and Haymaker talk about how this is bothering them just as much as the regular ponies, but they have a job to do anyway.
>Applebloom, Sweetie Bell and Scootlaoo are now in a massive war featuring pretty much every hooved animal except ponies in a grand battle against living golems.
>...Yep.
>Winona is there too, and tells them to stay back while she fights them off with her sword.
>There is communication error, and now the CMC are charging supergolems in a war... yep.
2/3

>>25617573
>42 tires to cheer up 18. Succeeds.
>Chrysalis tries to cheer up Shining by messing up his papers. Succeeds.
>Gwne and Idris head off to the CE after learning about 18's deal, and they are ticked.
>Meanwhile, Vekir got drunk and is now in a barrel heading off to... somewhere.
>Chrysalis realizes the world is changing, things are no longer going uphill as they had been, and she needs to change with it.
>Chitania notices that things are happening like they did before. Only this time, she's ready for it.
>The Wonderbolts are now suspicious about each other.
>Big Mac needed to check to make sure AJ was AJ.
>Spitfire is assured she's not getting fired.
>Celestia and Luna see the mob seeking answers, but realize the truth might do more harm.
>Applejack is totally lost on how to deal with the mob surrounding the changelings, she doesn't know what to do at all.
>And, finally... Pennydrop has arrived in Canterlot.
>OOCO, Spike and Chrysalis make it out of the cave, and learn that this was all a big trick to get them to be nice to each other. They are, understandably, ticked. They leave, deciding to go to Pony Joes, and then have a talk. Afterwards Spike talks with AJ and Celestia about his problems, and they help him along. Finally, Spike decided to be more optimistic, and shoots his mirror... don't ask.

WHEW! Not so bad this go, round, lots of NC and OOCO thanks to thanksgiving and finale.

As always, yaddadyaddayaddamissedthingyouknwothingyaddad

>>25617587
I know you normally skip most OOCO, but
>OOCO Applejack is writing a book starring a character named Applina.

I only mention it because this tickles me something fierce.

>>25617117
Because it's the unluckiest ling in the world riding on her mama's back while going WHEEEEEE!

I mean... that about sums it up.

>>25617736
I too wish for the continued adventures of Applina.

OOCO
>AJ
"???"
~~~

>...What am Ah' gonna do about this... OH! Maybe iffin' she picks up the-

"Picks up the what?"

>GAHHHHHHHHHH!

"..."

>AHHHHHHhhhhhhlight! How are ya'!

"Erm, picks up the what?"

>...Toys! Picks up her toys! Ah'm talkin' about Applebloom!

"Then... why are you writing it down?"

>...Wanna make it official! Gonna have it notarized and everything!

"Like, legally?"

>Most official kind!

"Doesn't that seem pretty extreme?"

>Ya' ain't never stepped on a buildin' block at six in the morning.

"Fair enough?"

>...

"...You know, I know a lot about books-"

>LOOK! SPIKE GOT INTA' THE CHOCOLATE!

"DON'T YOU DARE YOU LIZARD I NEED THAT!"

SLAM!

>...Picks up the sign and smacks 'smarthorse' right on her nosey little noggin. That's what she does.

Been gone a while, question. Has Lavan done anything since his visit to the Gryphon lands?

>>25618498
Nope. He's wandering back to Canterlot now, but Pennydrop outran him.

>>25617587
We did go crazy with NC, didn't we?

I counted like, three streams.

>>25618552
...it'd be fucking hilarious if they somehow did the EXACT same thing they did in Gryphonia to him here. Lavan being utterly oblivious the whole time.

>>25618734
Reminded me of the earlier threads during those moments, too.

Wonder what attributed to the number of OOCO stories?

>>25618877
It actually doesn't look like we had too many OOCO in comparison to normal, just wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more NC.

>>25618552
Follow up question, is Watchdog still with Vekir?

>>25619044
Not that we know of.

He might be in another one of the barrels, but right now it looks like she's off on her own.

In case that confuses you, she got drunk in the After-Kingsmoot party and ended up in a barrel with a traveling salespony. He/she doesn't know she's there.

>>25619085
Hopefully Watchdog is at least trying to keep tabs.

I'm pretty sure he got threatened with death if Vekky left his sight.

>>25619318
>Hopefully Watchdog is at least trying to keep tabs.

I'm now picturing him going

"Okay! I know exactly where she is! Her tabs are KEPT MOTHERFUCKER!... And she issssss... clear... across... EquestriiiaaaAAAHHHHOHSHIT!

>>25618818
What, Pennydrop shoots him a bunch and he wanders off again?

...That would be kinda funny.

>Wow, there sure are a lot of robot ponies around here!

>>25620032
Oh god her reaction would be priceless.

>MY LITTLE PONIES! I'm here to offer you- wait, hold on a second... DAKKKADAKKKADAKKKKADKAAAA GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING!

"Kay."

*LEAVES!*

>...Fuck, do I have to head him off now too?... Okay, everyone hold tight! Just... keep rioting or something, I don't know.

>>25620286
>GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY OFFICE!

"But I'm on the tour! It is very interesting! I got a t-shirt for free."

Fwoosh.

"...awwww, why do I always burn the things I love? Oh, right, I'm literally fire."

>GET OUT!

"Kay."

Morning, thread

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Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
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>Welcome to Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and conclusions can be temporarily skipped when folks are sleepy, but still want something to happen! Now for our main guest...APPLEJACK!!!

"Howdy, y'all."

>While I'm still in this format, have you ever smashed an apple on somepony's face?

"Well one time, me and mah cousin Peach got in a fight right. Ah think it was over something silly like, what was going to go into the gumbo. Anyway at one point things got pretty physical and we ended up in the mud hole. Then we-"

>Uh okay that's enough. We're out of time now.

"Oh...well if ya want to ever hear the whole story, Ah can always-"

>That's our show and thanks for tuning in!
AJ wakes up.

"Aw...well cousin Peach discovered what can fit in her rectum that day."

>>25621962
Damn, aj.

>>25622448
Does she look like the element of mercy?

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>>25622673
Nah, she's more the element of: "Why, God?"

>>25622832
>AJ, you're drunk.

"Don tell me how tah lif!"

>AJ why

"Caush it makesha pain shtahp just Fer a bit...

>>25623092
Royal "Euthanasia" methods

Celestia: Gunshots, concussions, drowning

Shining Armour: Drowning

Applejack: Rapid alcohol poisoning

Chrysalis: Character Development

>>25623112
That last one made me laugh more than it should have...

>>25623141
The sad part is, it's not inaccurate. Both times she almost died(The Airship and Cordy) were because of that, and every other time she's been hospitalized it's been because of that...

She pretty much goes-
>I'm gonna grow as a person-OH GOD WHY THE PAIN IT HURTSGLGLGGLGGG...

>Applejack
"???"
~~~~

She was frozen. Locked, limbs unmoving as she looked to the masses crowded around those she had promised to protect. Not a one, she said. She had meant every word as she spoke it, true and honest as she was capable and then some. So to find her limbs unwilling to even twitch was hanging on her, gripping her chest as much as it did her legs.

She wanted to go protect them, of course. But Ponyville was not asking for blood, or imprisonment, or retribution. No, they asked for something far more sinister.

Answers.

They wanted to know the truth, how deep this whole affair went. Though she knew the changelings could not answer that, that for the most part they were as clueless as any to this whole charade, she knew them. She could answer every question they had, and she knew it.

And that is precisely why she could not move.

She did not want them to ask if she had known about this deception, for then she would have to admit she did. She did not want to see their faces when she was forced to admit that she had not only known, but endorsed it. On a couple occasions, she even used the changeling for help as well. That, she understood, is what kept her limbs in place.

It was a situation she couldn't believe, could barely understand, but here they all were wanting nothing but a little truth, some honesty, and she was terrified to give it to them. She couldn't step forwards to protect them, not yet, not until she figured out how to get around those shouts and screams.

The sad part was realizing there was a way, there was a very easy way.

Lie again.

Either by simply keeping her mouth shut on the whole ordeal, as she had, or simply saying she wasn't in the know and it wasn't her business. Either one was a lie, she knew, either one was dishonest, but the alternative was the chaos that would follow them knowing that the royals they so trusted with their livelihood had been complacent in such an event.

Neither one was a good option.

1/4

>>25623595

If they were panicking now, she didn't want to know what would happen when they learned the real truth. At best, they were probably going to force every changeling out of Ponyville, permanently. Worst part is, she couldn't even blame them. Might've joined them, just a couple months ago.

Her charges needed protection, she had sworn to protect them, but she couldn't turn her back on her hometown. She had grown up in this place, she knew it like she knew her own hoof. But now, she knew that in order to actually protect them, to do what she had promised to Chrysalis and herself to fix their image, there was only one answer.

If she lied, if she said she didn't know anything about this and that neither did the hive, she could at least mitigate it. She could probably convince them all if she just bent the truth a little bit. She was Applejack! They threw her a celebration once for stopping some cows. They knew she was trustworthy and honest as can be, so if she just came up and said she didn't know, the lings didn't know, and Eighteen had acted on her own, well, it wasn't all a lie. It's not like this was actually an invasion or infiltration, she knew that much, she just knew that if she actually said it to them, after they learned she had hidden it from them for so long, it's possible, likely even, they wouldn't believe her.

She could lose the trust of her entire hometown, or instead, she could just leave. She could take the changelings without a word, drag them back to Canterlot despite the dangers, shove them through the portal, and that would be that. Ponyville would never even question if she had a part in this if she just acted right now, she could keep all of that recognition, all of her friends and the home she had grown up in, if she just acted.

She didn't even have to lie to their faces, just act.

Just move, grab them and go.

2/4

>>25623605

Sure, Canterlot was probably a problem, but she could probably protect them. They could take care of themselves, even. It wouldn't look good, bailing after such an event, but it would keep her promise, and it would protect her hometown from the truth.

But if she did, there would be no going back. The changelings would be gone, and they weren't returning ever. Her whole trip, her whole effort, gone. But at least the lings would be safe, that was the most important part, wasn't it? That was what was most vital.

So why couldn't she move?

She was stuck, afraid, and just plain didn't know what to do. There was no tall white alicorn to blame this go round, no friend of magic who would swoop in and use her big brain to solve the problem. The blame was shared, and she was alone.

She didn't know what to do.

"Applejack? You going to get in there?"

Her students words, rather than encouraged her, only made her more tense, less willing to move than she had been before, if that was even possible.

>Ah'm... not sure what to do.

"Isn't it obvious? Just go in there and tell everyone to back off!"

>...Why?

She never looked to her new student, her eyes unable to move from the sight in front of her face.

>Why should they back off? Don't they deserve ta' know?

"Well, doing it like this isn't going to help!"

>Doing it the other way didn't help either.

"Well, then go tell the truth!"

>... Should I?

She looked to her, with desperate, pleading eyes. She was begging her, her own student, with that look. She was honestly asking, looking for answers.

>Is that the right thing to do? Should Ah' just go be honest? Tell everyone? They won't... trust me anymore. Nobody will. Is that worth it?

Needing them, just to hear it from someone else.

"I... I mean, maybe?"

Destroyed, when she didn't get it.

>What do ya' mean, maybe!?

The afflicted pony backed away, taken off by her mentors sudden outburst and advancement.

"I don't know!"

3/4

>>25623619

>Why don't ya' know!? Ain't you supposed to be super smart or something!? Come on, ya' thought ya' had all the answers before, what's the right thing ta' do now?!

"I said I don't know!"

>Why not!? Why don't you know!?

"Applejack stop!"

She did. She stopped in her oddly powerful advancing, stopped her bearing down on the frightened, genuinely afraid thing.

>...Go help them.

"Applejack-"

>Yer teacher just said ta' go help keep that gaddang mob from getting to the changelings, so stop arguing and do it!

Authoritative, strong, commanding as she pointed her hoof to the crowd...

And about as authentic and real as a 'diamond' being sold attached to a plastic gold necklace in an alleyway.

"...You know, Celestia didn't tell me a lot of stuff back then too."

Slowly, that orange hoof lowered back to the ground.

"And you know what the worst part of it was? I didn't even care if she was right, if I wasn't ready, if it would've been better not to know it yet. The part that stung me before I left was knowing that someone I admired... didn't think I could handle it."

Bitterly, she shoved past the stock still princess, going off to do her duty as commanded.

"Maybe she was right... she probably was, that I wasn't ready, that I couldn't handle it, that I shouldn't have known yet. I get that, I get that it was probably better if I didn't know it just yet, or maybe ever at all... but nothing hurts more than learning someone you trust, someone who says you can be great and do great things, thinks it's better if you just don't know some things, and it would be better if you stopped looking. Knowing you can't handle it... it just isn't the same as being told you can't handle it. Even if they're right."

She kept going, until she joined those poor beleaguered guards in holding everyone back from the huddled mass of black chitin. She joined without further complaint or argument, and left her alone.

Without a single answer given.

>...What am Ah' supposed to do...

>>25623640
Whelp, you made Applejack question being honest.

Is there still an argument if Rarity is Worst Princess or not? I feel like there shouldn't be.

>>25623640
I really did not see this much a of a dilemma coming, but holy shit am I glad AJ is in ponyville for this.

Would not been nearly have bad if she hadn't had to deal with the betrayal of her hometown on top of everything.

>>25623640
So, Aj's options are

>Tell the truth, Ponyville doesn't trust her anymore
>Grab the lings and bail, they're safe but probably aren't coming back
>Lie, probably keep the lings safe, let them come back and so on, but she has to betray the trust of her hometown even further
Or
>Join in Ponyville's thing and keep her hometown trust, but lose the lings and Chrysalis's

SO MANY GREAT OPTIONS

>>25623705
Nah, Chrysalis was a Princess once
>>25623741
ditto, I actually was expecting something along the lines of
>AJ
"PP"
'PD'
[CP]

>stop bein' idjits, you idjits.

"kay"

>To Canterlot!

*flys away*

'MWAHAHA'

*ker-buck*

'AHHHHHHHHHH'

*ting*

>Stop being idjits, you idjits

[kay]

Equestria is saved thanks to AJ's straight shooting.

exaggerating of course but with that one guy wanting to silver platter answers for AJ it isn't out of the question

>>25623904
It is a fatal Four-way match between her duty, her pride, her element, and her word

>JJ
"32"
'Acty'
[88]
~~

>What the heck happened to you?

"Oh, you know, I stubbed my hoof this morning, my coffee was just a bit too hot, I thought happy thoughts so of course the world decided I needed to be punished"

'Er, you okay boss?'

"Chipper! Just chipper!"

[Is he that bad? I'm afraid to look.]

"Not the time!"

[I can't see a better time, thank you.]

"...Toss me back out."

>I would if it wouldn't let them in, and I can only do my trick once I think!

"Trick?"

'Don't ask. So! Boss! What do we do?'

"Curse that moron who knocked me into the ceiling for being so thirsty and not just leaving that inept ninny to bring her Empire to fiery ruin. Because oh, investing in a marital aide instead of endlessly chasing married tail is so much better!"

>...Aren't they dating?

"ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!?"

'He is, and they are.'

"...fuck her."

[Didn't you hear? She's taken.]

"FUCK YOU!"

[Not with that attitude!]

"...ugh."

[So, what do we actually do now?]

"Divide up the stallions evenly and wait for someone to come tell these morons to stop scratching my door."

[DIBS ON THE WHITE ONE!]

"..."

'...'

>...h-how...

[He smells white.]

'Wha... what?'

>...

*Sniff sniff*

'JJ!'

>I had to know!

[HA!]

"This is going to be a long day."

[Anyone want to play monopony while we wait?]

'Sure!'

>I'm game.

"..."

[Awww, come on 32! It's.. out of sight!]

'AHAHAHAHAHAHHA!'

"SUICIDE IT IS!"

>>25623962
I like this, there IS no straight shooting here. If she goes

>Stop being idjits
Ponyville can go
>HOWS ABOUT YOU STOP FUCKING GIVING SECRETS TO OUR INVADERS... THAT WOULD BE A TRIP!

>>25623904
And don't forget, Chitty is wandering towards her.

This is all going to go great!

>>25624076
Man, 32, just go. You don't need this shit. Whole hive besides your brother and sister hate your ass anyway. Fuck'em. Go back down down to Morlock Town and be King of the Cavepony's. Might actually be happy for more than five minutes.

>>25624307
>32 goes down there.
>smiles when he sees the village
>cave in.

>>25624307
That actually came up, he says he won't go down there because he knows if he does, he'll never leave, and the Morlocks will come to depend on and mindlessly follow him like they did back in the day. Right now they're forced to evolve on their own and they've made massive strides without him, he doesn't want to mess that up.

It's probably my favorite story with him, where he reconciles his own need to step back and just let them grow with 29's need to let 56 move on. They were both rabid, crazed beings with no purpose until 29/32 stumbled along, and it's hard to acknowledge that you did such a good job that the very best thing you can do now is just let them advance without you.

>>25623619
I fucking love this scene. Where Applejack just needs someone to tell her what the right thing would be. Shes so lost she'll take anything if it makes it okay. Even if its sunset who says it, she'll take it just to hear someone say it was the right thing. This right here? This is goddamn golden.

Fuck the other stuff, Rarity is best princess.

OOCO
>Celestia
"AJ"
'SA'
~~~|

>So is this a... Revenge thing? Are you getting revenge on me? If so, I feel offended he got skipped over.

"No, it ain't a revenge thing, it's a 'You two broke my dang bed' thing."

'I'm pretty sure every tabloid writer in the world is now harboring a lost love for what could have been. To record that would have put then in the Mareibbian easy.'

"Why are you here anyway!?"

>Says the actual invader. Bubblehorse is allowed in my bed anytime he wants!

"..."

>I'm starting to see it.

"..."

>I don't take it back.

"Just shush and go ta bed!"

>Really? But me and Shiny were going to paint our hooves!

"He polishes them enough when he's alone, he's fine."

>OHHH HO!

'I like how you don't question her painting my hooves.'

"Ain't like her wife is gettin any color on hers from you."

>DAMN!

'... You're mean when you're sleepy.'

"Only one fix for that. GO TO BED!"

'..'

>... This is the worst sleepover ever.

"SLEEP!"

>>25624914
They are just crashing all if her stuff, aren't they?

>>25624525
I know it's just...dude needs a vacation or something. This job has to be among the most thankless in history.

>>25625296
Think that one goes to Celly, actually.

She does good but everyone just blames her.

>>25625592
I acknowledge that, it's why I said one of and not THE most thankless.

>SA
"42"
~~~

>....

"You look ready to cry."

>...They....

"..."

>They want me to double check everything... everything... to make sure which parts were Cadence, and which were Eighteen.

"Shouldn't that only take two seconds?"

>She did a few... she did a few, Forty Two. And now I have to find them.

"..."

>I have to find them all.

"As in-"

>Search through all of that... and find which ones were Cadence.

"Ah."

>...I have to find them all.

"Well, maybe you'll get lucky and find them quick?"

>...

"Perhaps there isn't as many papers as it seems?"

>...

"...Will... will punches help?"

>...

"Erm... h-hugs?"

>...Hugs would be wonderful.

"Okay."

>....

"...oh! Um... me?"

>...

"...S-sure, hugs then."

>Thank you.

"Please don't cry on me, I already do not know what to do."

>No promises.

"...h-help."

>>25625917
A punchbugs one weakness.

SOCIAL SITUATIONS

>>25625296
Meh, maybe 29 will finally break down and just give him a pity-fuck.

So are there any plans among you anons as to where Vekir ends up next? Can I make a suggestion?

Transylmaneia

>>25626414
A barrel, right?

In that case, let's send her to Not-Lake Town and shit all over Hackson's work while we're at it

>>25626494
>An entire fight between deer and kelpies happens with nonsensical choreography.
>Vekir is just annoyed her barrel's rocking around while she's hungover.

>>25626414
>So are there any plans

Yep.

I might send her there afterwards, but she's going to show up in a certain other place first.

No spoils, but she might not be going alone.

>>25626523
>Vekir is interested in all these felty green costumes, not-ponies, are they used as decorations?

...

>AN ENTIRE WALLPAPER OF GREEN?! INCREDIBLE!

>>25626577
>The entire story is just Vekky reacting to absolute nonsense happening all around her.

>"Wherefore did the short ponies get battle-sheep from? Why is that giant pig here? EEK! GIANT WORMS! ...oh they're gone now. That was quick."

>Awkwardling
"Maud"
~~~

>...

"..."

>...

"...You seem bothered."

>Uh... n-nahhh, me? I'm peachy, peachy keen. Peacheroony. Peach and fuzz, whole nine yards.

"You are not supposed to eat the fuzz on peaches."

>No? Well, shoot! Did something else wrong, whoops!

"What was the first thing?"

>Huh?

"You said did something else wrong, what was the first thing?"

>Oh... nothing.

"If it was nothing, then the 'else' wouldn't have fit."

>Oh, right. Grammar sucks?

"..."

>...I think me being here was the first thing.

"How so?"

>I just... get looks now. I didn't used to get looks. Think that Shining Armor getting me the job was... suspicious? Not to say you guys aren't totally right to be suspicious and even I would be suspicious if I wasn't me not you have a reason to be suspect I just mean I understand why you did but shouldn't because....

"..."

>...Sorry.

"For what?"

>...N-nothing, nevermind. Sorry.

"...You are not suspicious. You are nice."

>T-thanks...

"..."

>...

"..."

>...

"...I enjoy our talks.'

>...me too.

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>>25623640
>"Applejack stop!"

Well. That was a mildly frightening mental image. Wild-eyed, raving super-powered earth pony bearing down on someone who shouts for them to stop.

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>>25626879
AJ going WHY DON'T YOU KNOW Kinda reminded me of Mr cage

>32

>You know, maybe I'm blowing this all out of proportion, maybe if I just clamly talk to them all, we can find common ground and calm those tempers-

32 opens his door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xlhUjufOQ

>WELP!

Door slam!

>>25626932
>....

Door opens

>You have a lovely voice!

Slam!

>I just had to say that.

>>25626850
...Fuck it, I've shipped weirder.

>>25626910
>WHY DON'T YOU KNOW WHY DON'T YOU KNOW

"I DON'T KNOW!"

>BUT HOW DID IT GET BURNED!?

"FIRE!"

>...

"...Well this is what caused it!"

>...Huh.

>>25627338
She's not wrong?

>>25626932
>Who gave them torches anyway?

~~~

~Well my brother, isn't this time for us to shine?~

~Indubitably brother, I feel this is our time!~

~He's Flim!~

~He's Flam!~

~~AND THE FLIMFLAM MOB BUSINESS IS OPEN!~

>MM
"29"
'Trixie'
[Zecora]
~~~

'WHELP! TRIXIE IS OUT OF THINGS TO HURT HERSELF WITH! She is officially just done! Gone! Not from lack of effort, but simply lack of things existing to hurt herself with! She's done! One of you can distract them now!'

>Um...

'...um what.'

"They wandered off a little bit ago."

'...'

>...they did.

'...And you didn't tell Trixie... Why?'

>We tried.

[Your profession is probably badly chosen, though I know you are a dreamer. Because, as it turns out, you are really quite the screamer.]

'TRIXIE IS NOT THAT LOUD!'

>Erm... good job! You did such an amazing show, they felt such striking sympathy for you that they could not bare to look at you hurting you anymore. You really endeared yourself to the crowd, Trix! Good job!

'...Trixie will take it. She knows it is a lie, but she will take it.'

>Good, that's the best I have...

"But have no fear, instead they have all chose to mob around... oh."

>Oh.

[Oh.]

'Trixie is not doing this again.'

"We wouldn't ask you to, watching you hurt yourself for mine own sake was... I did not like it."

'Like she said, Trixie will take it.'

>Wow, that is some angry chanting.

"Zecora? It... might come to pass that I will have to stay with thee for a time."

[Do you have any reason to think this is not fine? You are always free in any home that is mine.]

"My thanks."

[Though I will warn you now, and this is not up for debate. If you try to steal the covers, into your ear I will berate.]

"Erm... why would that be an issu-"

>Nah, Niney doesn't steal covers, or take up most of the bed really. Only issue is that he breaths into your ear sometimes.

'...'

"..."

>Nobody heard that, right?

"If I get lynched, I'm blaming you."

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/pa/ pitching in their autism bucks to have these produced more W H E N

>>25628103
Heh, that's actually kinda cute.

>>25625296
I feel like 29 has it harder than him.

At least Rekulk and Vekir and all the others light and and are all "ZHETRI THUL!" when they see him and hug him and stuff, 56 treats 29 like a stuffy old uncle he has to spend time with most of the days, and even whines when 29 makes him go to school or shit.

>>25628499
STILL WAITING FOR THAT HUG

>>25628499
Again: That doesn't make me stop feeling bad for 32, it just makes me also feel bad for 29.

If I get shot in the foot and my hospital bed is next to a guy who got stabbed in the crotch, I feel bad for him but my foot still hurts.

>>25628741
Oh, not arguing that at all, just pointed out something I've been thinking. I definitely feel for 32 as well, guy has been through way too much shit with his friends getting killed and all that not to deserve a break, just joining in >>25628675 and wishing 56 would get the hint.

Really, most of the lings have really unnecessarily bad shit happen to them all the time.

>>25628766
Pretty much the only one who got off is 55.

Not to say horrible shit didn't constantly happen to him, it did, he even almost died a shitload of times, and his Queen apparently used to burn his ass back in the day out of stupidity, he just got out of it because he remained optimistic and chipper despite it all, and despite the fact he's dumb, he knows he's dumb, and he knows everyone else knows he's dumb.

Well, him and Chitty, I guess? She didn't remain optimistic, but she did go "Fuck feeling sorry for myself, I'm finding BIGGER THINGS TO PUNCH!" Which is a kind of optimism at least.

>Lyra
"Bonbon"
~~~

>Wait, why are we mobbing again?

"Mobbing!? The sugarbits are you talking about, who's being a mob!?"

>...Us?

"What gave you that idea!?"

>The torches, mostly. Are the torches really necessary?

"Well, it is kinda hard to see."

>Right, but the pitchforks?

"I think that's just for prodding ponies in the front along."

>What about the ropes?

"I think they were just carrying those and got caught up in the not-mob."

>Okay, what about that gun.

"Ponies can just have guns! There's no laws against carrying them!"

>...I feel like there should be.

"Yeah, we probably should implement that at some point."

>...Soooo, what're we doing?

"Asking the changelings if they are invading."

>Why the screaming?

"It'd be hard to hear otherwise."

>And shoving the guards?

"They're in the way!"

>...Are we-

"WE ARE NOT MOBBING!"

>...

"...Just shut up and hold the torch."

>Why are you sticking the pitchfork over the fire?

"To make it hotter, obviously."

>...

"For... sterilization purposes? In case someone gets poked?"

>Just hold the fucking fire.

"I don't even know what's going on..."

>>25628088
>She's just been hurting herself this whole time, and nobody even wanted to watch

Ice cold.

...So is just nobody fucking around with 77/Cheerilee because demons?

>>25629533
What're they going to do, march into the school?

>>25629615

>Wow, his pitchfork is bigger than ours.

"Yes, it is."

>And the torch he's carrying is also bigger than ours.

"Indeed."

>And the fire coming from the torch seems to be burning my very soul.

"I noticed that too."

>Maybe we should go back to chasing that other changeling with the mayor.

"Good idea."

*Ashdautas Vrasubatlat, Mirdautas Vras*

[I'm sorry they didn't want to be friends, Lucy. Yes, I know you went through all that trouble of getting the torch and pitchfork from the land of eternal torment. I'm sure somepony else will appreciate the effort.]

>Suckerpunch
~~

>....Okay, this has gotten stupid. Where the fuck is Forty One!? She was right in front of me, and then apparently I just looped for no fucking reason!... And how did I get lost in the middle of these trees!? They're not even that thick! AND WHERE AM I!?... Oh! Look! Light! Thank goodness! I just have to follow them and... and mob. There is a mob. There is a very, very big mob, and they are surrounding my fellow guards and the changelings and they are yelling very loudly about invasion or something and HOLY FUCK WHAT DID I MISS!?... I WAS GONE FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES! COME ON!... Huh, that gypsy was right, this shit did happen to me today. I owe her six bits, I guess.

>>25629939
Poor Punchpone

>>25629939
I seriously wanted to know where the hell he went.

Damn it, 13.

>>25630242
I like how she's just casually going all offhand mind control now.

It's like she finally stopped holding back, and is now just going all mind-zotz on everyone, maybe even without meaning it, and it's getting hard to find out what she did and what is just happening just because.

I...I just realized /pa/ is Calvin's dad from Calvin and Hobbes

>Applejack
"/pa/"
~~
>WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME!?!?

"CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT"

>>25630476
That's not true.

Calvin's dad got right to it and made up reasons why he needed to suffer off the bat, /pa/ was like

>Something bad!? TO MY APPLEJACK!? HERESY!

For like 90 threads, then they decided
>Hey, wait, all these other characters who we actually let suffer seem to be more... like, interesting? Developed? Funnier, even? You think maybe we were kinda dicks?

If anything, /pa/ is now going full-

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME!?"

>It's for your own good we're sorry we're so sorry you can have your thread back we're so sorry!

>>25630516
"Are you seriously goin' full "Ah' hurt you because Ah' love you"

>What? Nooooo, we're not physically hurting you! Come on, we're not torturing you, we're just making you confront stuff outside the norm and that you don't have answers to so you can grow from it.

"Oh."

>...Now, CHRYSALIS, we're gonna hurt her plenty.

'OH COME ON!'

>FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, BUGBITCH!

'That just makes it feel insincere!'

>32
"88"

>This is horrible, terrible! All because something went wrong in Happy True Love Orgy Land! Why are WE getting the shaft over this!? What did we ever do to anyone!?

"Well we did kill like...a LOT of Gryphons that one time."

>...oh. Right.

"And that other time in Neighpon with those ninja brothers I tricked into killing each other."

>Yeeees...

"Oh, and duh, Stalliongrad. Wow that village burned brightly."

>Nngh...

"Heh, oh, and Goatopolis. Wow, toppling governments was a hoot-"

>Pleasestoptalking.

"Just saying, karmically I at least am at peace with this...wow, like, I have killed a loooooot of people."

'BOSS WHAT THE FUCK!?'

>SHE IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR WHOLE RACE!

-WHAT HE SAID!-

"Slowly, even."

>-SHUT UP!-

>>25630553
>JUST STOP-wait, why did you never mention these before?

"What?"

>It's just, during Cordyceps, it was making you go over all the 'ill deeds' you did and such. This never came up. You'd think it would, right? This seems like something it would bring up.

"Huh."

>For that matter, why didn't I bring it up when I was talking to Pommel? I went over my own stuff in pretty good detail when somebody died, didn't I? But this stuff just never came up. Why are we just mentioning these very deeply dark events now all of a sudden?

"..."

>....

"...'"

>...

"..."

>...

"..."

>>25630604
>Princess Applejack: Fuck Gryphons
>And also Ninjas, not!Russians and Goats

>>25630604
I now want this to happen every time someone has a character reveal a dark secret that they totally should have revealed before. Not just now, but in every medium.

They just point it out and shuffle about a bit, nervously rubbing their necks or something.

>>25630604
Juuuust gonna point out 32 totally mentioned the gryphon thing in one of his dialogues with Reggie and Q. Apparently they went in disguised as one clan of gryphons, left the symbol of another clan, and essentially sparked a horrible blood feud for years to come.

But they got the two guys the gryphons had captured so if was fine

>Coltsly
"Assistant"
~~~

"SO MUCH MONEY!"

>Is... is this ethical?

"SO MUCH!"

>I feel like this is unethical.

"I CAN SWIM IN IT!"

>I mean, I'm glad our sales exploded like they did, but it's clearly a cause of civil unrest. What if someone uses one of our robots to do something horrible?

"ALL OVER MY BODY!"

>Sales wise, it would be terrible to pass up this opportunity, our security bots are flying off the stands! But moral wise, is it right to exploit ponies fears and arm them with weapons in such a time? Should we really be doing this now? Should we at least make them wait until the chaos dies down? But by then, they might not buy from us, or worse they'll buy an inferior one from our competitor! Is it right to sell them so at least they'll be as prepared as they can be? After all, maybe there is a reason they'll need it, maybe there is something to defend them against! But if there isn't... are we just arming a mob with more advanced pitchforks and torches, wrapped in mechapony skin?

"..."

>...

"WE HAVE ALL THE BITS!"

>...I think I need a vacation.

"I AM SO HAPPY."

OOCO
>Twilight
‘Spike’
[Dash]
(FS)
-AJ-
“Rarity”
+Pinkie+
The seven of them stood in a room in the lower reaches of the palace, not far from where the forge was situated. A cryptic summons from their green and purple compatriot had brought the other six here standing around a long table covered by a plane canvas.

>Alright Spike, everyone’s here now, why did you get us all down here?

‘I’m glad you asked Twilight, ahem, Ladies Gentle-er….Ladies! May I present, the ‘Arsenal of Harmony’!

With a flourish he whipped off the covering to reveal 5 beautifully crafted pieces of weaponry.
‘You all know Charity, versatile, reliable, with many different ammo types for any situation, communications, and a grappling hook. Really the best sidearm I could ever ask for and my number one gal.’

“Ohoho, of course darling…”

‘In terms of munitions.’

-Haw!-

“Hmph!”
‘Then there’s Crackerjack, my faithful backup piece. She’s never let me down when I needed her. Not as versatile, but does take both pistol and shotgun rounds, and even comes with a detachable blade!’

-S’good piece o’hardware right there. You oughta use it more often.-

‘You may have a point. But I was thinking to myself that while these are good, they can’t handle every scenario, and since I can carry other stuff with my dragon card, why not add a bit?’

+OO! OO! Me! Pick ME!!!!+

‘…pinkie?’

+Because you can only reasonably handle 2 at once and switching takes time and you’ll rarely find situations where you NEED a specific weapon AND have time to prepare it?!+

‘…I’m going to ignore the validity of those points as I’m most of the way through this project already.’

+Aww…..+

‘So! Next up is Beneficence. Benni for short, she’s a grenade launcher with a short time delay and medium range. Perfect for hitting stopping large groups of weaker enemies and for single targets that Charity can’t quite punch through.’

(1/3)

>>25630898
+And bringing rocks down on your head!+

‘Y-yeah…’

(…What’s the name mean?)

‘Er…It’s a synonym for kindness?’
(oh…)

‘But the rocks thing was totally my fault! Used correctly it’s really not dangerous at all!’

(Except to the things you’re shooting at.)

‘….moving on…Next we have Ebulliance! She’s a…well she’s a um…I call it a lightning lance…she’s a little melted just now…’

>WHAT!?

‘Yes it’s one of your unfinished designs.’

>Do you have any idea how dangerous that is!?

‘Yes. I had to use it to kill an eyeball monster. It melted. Just like…the whole thing. Around my claws.

>Spike! It could have exploded killing you!

‘…Wanna help refine and finish the design?’

>No! I have a dozen other things going on and no time to help you build a better death machine!

‘Well then I guess I’ll need to figure it out on my own then.’

>Or you could just not use it!

‘I need a heavy weapon. It saved my and Chrysalis’ life down in the caves.’
>…GAH! Fine! Just…show me the designs before you try to build another ok!?

‘…fine. Next up, the only one not field tested yet Thaumaturgy. A .50 caliber automatic cannon!’

“…What’s the difference between a cannon and a gun?”

‘On a cannon the bullets…explode!’

“oh…of course…”

Twilight’s eye begins to twitch.

>Yes…that’s something worthy of being branded with the magic of friendship…that’s totally ok…totally…

[Wait….isn’t something missing?]

‘About that.’

All eyes followed his to a crudely carved rubber band pistol with the word ‘TBD’ carved into it on the far end of the table.

‘Faithful is a…work in progress at the moment.’

[So…can I see the plans?]

‘Absolutely not! They’re still in too early a stage.’

[But I need to make sure they’re awesome! At least tell me what the plan is?]

(2/3)

>>25630915
‘I’m thinking…crossbow? It’d be the most quiet of all of them, and could be loaded with nonlethal knockout drugs…it’s fill a gap in the arsenal that isn’t covered by one of the others.’

[THAT’S NOT AWESOME!]

‘It’s useful? And besides, you’re element of loyalty not element of awesome.’

[I’m both thank you very much! Why not make the crossbow fluttershy’s thing, and make the grenade launcher me!?]

(…I like quiet and nonlethal…)

Suddenly they were all clamoring at once.

[OO! Better! Make the grenade launcher and automatic and THEN switch them around!]

(I like that a little less)

+Can Ebulliance shoot confetti!?+

>Maybe, make Thaumaturgy…not hurt anypony? Make it some kind of friendship gun? There’s got to be a way…

-Y’know, Crackerjack really outghta’ be your primary weapon with Charity as the backup…-

“You shut your Applebucking mouth!”

‘LADIES! Please!’

They fell silent.

‘Look, dash, maybe you can work with me on the plans and Fluttershy…I’ll think about it. The rest of you…no. The arsenal will stay more or less as is unless there is a compelling reason for a change.’

+Aww…but I still don’t see what the point is of having six weapons when you can only use at most two at a time.+

‘Let me…show you.’

With that he flipped the table up launching the weapons into the air. As the fell he caught one in his right claw, the next in his left. For the third he shot his tongue out grasping I in mid-air. He then lay prone on his belly wrapping his tail around the fourth finally catching the last two in his back claws aiming all six away from his friends.

‘A BLA-BLA BLA BLA-BLA!’

>whut.

‘A BLA-BLA BLA BLA-BLA!’

>We can’t understand you with a gun in your mouth!

<Ptoo!>

‘I am the harmony!’

A pall fell across the room.

(or 3/4, sure it could be that too)

>>25630930
Silently the mares began to file out, an unspoken agreement running between them. All but two. Applejack and Rarity approached, their faces grave.

“Spike.”

Just Spike, not Spikey-wikey, not Spike-Darling, not Spike-Dear…just Spike. Uh oh.

“Get up, and you are never, ever, Ever to do or say that again.”

‘But-‘

-NO, Spike. No. Whatever, ya’ll are gonna say, just….no.-

“Now promise me.”

‘….Fine…’

“Good.”

They both turned in unison and marched out. Snatches of conversation drifting through the door when it opened.

+So gross!+

>I can’t believe…!

[So wrong!]

The door slammed shut.

‘…I thought it was cool.’

(4/4)

>>25630940
Whop whop whaaaa.

Goodnight, threado

>>25631989
Night, anon.

See more applepone in the morn.

>Lavan
"Ponies"

>So what are we doing?

"We're demanding answers!"

>Oh wonderful! What are the questions?

"Are we being invaded?"

>Oh, that's an important question.

"Have we been duped?"

>I hope we haven't!

"What else are the Princesses keeping from us!?"

>Cake. Lots and lots of cake. I'd eat some but it'd melt in my mouth. It'd melt in my hand too but I don't have those...I should really see about getting them back. They seem important.

"What are you talking abou-? ..."

>Hi, I'm Lavan. I'm talking about cake.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"

Ka-flee!

>...I hope I answered your question, nice pony! Being of service, this pleases me. Ooh! It appears ponies are besieging that small building over there! I will go observe this! Maybe they need their sticks ignited for a proper torch! Mob mentality, this pleases me too.

>>25632591
One down, everybody else to go

>>25633180
All the time in the 3lrld, pal!

>>25632591
>>Hi, I'm Lavan. I'm talking about cake.
Great beginning to a commercial if nothing else.

>>25631465
At least he tried.

>>25632591
...how does he know that?

>>25634935
At this rate, even freaking aliens would know.

Like, they'd come down and just intrinsically know Celly and cake are one.

>Dadling
"Batmom"
~~

>...what are you doing?

"Have you seen my good sword? I thought I left it right here."

>No, seriously, what are you doing?

"Honey, there is a riot. Where there are riots, usually I have to go out and do my job. Now, I know, your perception is a little skewed because I didn't do anything the last times, but that was because I had a baby in me. The baby is out. She's right over in the crib and everything."

>You're seriously going out there!?

"That is my job, yes."

>B-but... b-but...

"Honey? Don't worry, we have an amazing security system. Absolutely nobody is going to come anywhere near this house, you or the baby. Or, if they do, you can shoot them. With lasers. Legally in the face even!"

>But...

"Ohhh, Sweetie, I know. You want me to stay here and protect you both, but this is my job. This is what I'm supposed to do. When Equestria is in danger, I'm supposed to rush off and save the day, that's my job! I know, you want me to stay, I know, you want to come even, but it's too dangerous to come with and I can't leave it alone. I'm sorry, but I can't stay."

>But...

"Don't worry, I'll be back soon. And, just to tell you, if anyone even tries to approach... shoot the motherfuckers."

*Cheeksmooch!*

"Love you!"

*SLAM!*

>...wait for it... waiiiiiit for it....

*SLAM!*

"I am still wearing the Little Red Riding Hood outfit, aren't I?"

>The bottomless one, yes.

"...Tonight was a bad night for roleplay night."

>Could've been better, yeah.

>>25635538
>Implying there is ever a bad night for roleplay night

Worst couple.

>Pennydrop
"Canterlot Citizens"
~~~~

They were waiting for her.

Her crowd, her ponies, all of them waiting for her to descend down the ramp of her airship like paparazzi waiting for a star, and she was certainly nothing less. In face, she would argue she was quite a lot more. Unlike them, she could do more than screech into a microphone.

No, she needed no sirens song to sway these masses to her tunes. All she needed was one little thing.

Her own words.

>Well, this is certainly a development, isn't it? Has the princess made a statement about this yet?

No, she could tell without waiting for a single answer, she had not.

...Perfect.

No doubt, right now, they were forming their perfect words, their optimal means of assuaging the fears of the masses to bring them back in line under their godlike hooves, to shake away all fears and let them be nothing but safe and happy. Not a question asked, not a thing thought more. They were waiting for someone to give them the answers.

But life favors the bold. Sometimes, most times in fact, life did not favor those who did it perfect, but those who struck first and struck hardest. And she, with all her technological might, was going to strike.

>Well, I certainly hope you guys aren't panicking or anything!

And she was going to strike right to their heart.

"Why not!? Don't you see that this is exactly what happened before!?"

>Oh, I do! I do indeed see that. But come on, if this were an invasion, wouldn't they want us disorganized, running about asking for any answers at all?

She moved through the crowd so smoothly, like a shark hungry for the biggest and meatiest in a school of fish. She chose every word carefully, but fired them off as quickly as she could to her rapt audience.

>No no no, clearly, what we all want is the right answers, the honest answers, don't we?

1/2

>>25635955

A rolling murmur of agreement came from the Canterlot elite, the posh prissy ponies who stood high above the 'common' folk in their castle on the side of a mountain easily swayed by the prospect of everything in a nice, neat little package.

>What we need to do is just get in there and have someone ask the right questions, don't we? We just need to make sure we know everything we deserve to know about this, and then we can go from there. But why the riot and panic? Riot is for the simpler ponies, not us. We are smart, and when the time comes we find answers, not run around like common folk.

Rolling waves of affirmative came from that, the entire crowd relaxing in waves she could practically feel tingling beneath her fur.

Canterlot was a city that prided itself on being the very upper crust, the very elite of the elite, those special enough to live under "The Princess's" gaze. They, she knew, were by far the easiest to sway.

>You're all right, this whole mess with the changelings is suspicious, isn't it? Well, we can't have that! I say we march to the castle right now, altogether, and then we get answers. We're getting answers!

Affirmative, wonderful affirmative, called back to her powerful words.

>Because when we need to find the answers, we get them! This is Canterlot! The city of the learned! Come on! This is our city, and we have a right to know!

"Yeah!"

>We deserve to know!

"YEAH!"

>And we're going to know!

""""YEAH!"""""

It was too easy, she noticed in hindsight. A mob so looking for a leader, for that one pony with the magical problem solver, that they would follow her so simply. It didn't surprise her, just because she didn't have a magical necklace didn't mean anything to them. She had the answers to their problems, she made them feel smart, she made them feel like this was their idea, and they deserved it.

They would follow her off a cliff if she wanted them to.

>LETS GO!

To think...

She didn't even have to pay the army this time.

>>25635967
Ffffffffffffff.....


Didn't even have to try there.

>>25636066
Mobs aren't exactly known for being hard to point at a target.

>Soarin'
"LD"
'FF'
~~~

>...So do we, like... stop her?

"You would like that, wouldn't you, CHANGELING!"

'Will you stop with that!'

"I'm just saying what everyone is thinking! That only a changeling would want someone who walked in and told everyone to calm down and go peacefully get their answers to go back to rioting!"

>I don't want them to riot! Just... you know, this seems like she's marching to the castle.

"Where the CHANGELINGS are!?"

'There aren't any changelings in the castle!... Except for the Spider... and that one that steals potatoes when nobody is looking... and that adopted one that comes over with Shining... and the punching one and stabbing one with Spike... and then there's the 'ambassador', and then there's that juggling moron, and then there's-'

>POINT TAKEN!

"See!? He's clearly defending his own kind!"

>I'm a pony!

"Prove it!"

>How!?

"Do a pony thing!"

> *WHINNY!*

"..."

'...'

>...Well!?

'...Oh my gosh that was adorable!

"Do it again!"

>I thought-

"DO IT AGAIN, CHANGELING!"

> *WHINNY!*

'EEEEEHEEE why didn't you ever do that before!?'

>...you're seriously asking?

"I think we need more confirmation-"

>Don't push your luck.

"CHANGELING!"

>>25636272
...That is fucking cute.

>32
"JJ"
'88'
[Acty]
~~

>I'm starting to think it's our lot in life to suffer. We're just predetermined, from the start, to endlessly have our lives be meaningless and short.

"...Well, yeah."

'Even I can see that one.'

>I feel like we are born into this world with but a single purpose, to serve and then fall. Serve and fall, serve and fall...

"That is correct yes."

'That's our whole point from birth. Literally.'

>To serve a Queen, a hive, is our only reason for being!

"Yep."

'Nothing but factual statements there.'

>Could anyone know of our pain?

"Acty?"

[My whole life is predetermined by a funny picture that magically appears on my ass. ]

>...Fair enough. How do you all cope with it?

'Get taken over by a giant spore thing. You?'

"Juggle."

'Juggling is neat.'

[It is!]

>...Just roll the damn dice.

'Thank you!... WOOO! PARK PLACE!'

"You're not even on that side of the board-"

SLAP!

'I LANDED ON PARK PLACE I SAID!'

[OW!]

'Whoops.'

>The sad part is, this is by far the best game of this I've ever had.

>>25635967
So, PD is now literally marching on Catnerlot, only she's not doing it with an army, but with the common folk.

More effective than robots, give her that.

>>25636729
>AJ's flaw is that she's done zero in the way of being a leader
>PD is excelling at controlling a crowd to do her will.

Well, this is building up to a hell of a fight.

>>25636902
So that anon who suggested we go MGR Armstrong vs Raiden final bos battle, we don't have the NANOMACHINES, SON, or the VOHCUL CHORD PARUHSITESSS, so what DO we have?

>>25636930
What, are you asking what they could have if this came down to a fistfight?

Pennydrop JUST gave DT power armor and she has a fuckload of giant mechs, and AJ has uncontrolled magic.

Technology VS Magic.

Put it together.

>>25636950
>Applejack fighting with the superpowers she was just spontaneously given by a higher being for the express purposes of doing work
>Pennydrop fighting with a less powerful device that is the product of years of work that she had built herself and made to make her reliant and owing to nobody but herself, using work to create instead of being given.

...who am I supposed to root for again?

>>25637125
Wait...did this all start because Fawntaine STOLE the Robot designs from Blueblood's wrecked blimp which he himself stole from Twi's lab?

>>25637166
*didn't
Damn touchscreen

>>25637166
So we've got a Achilles Vs Prometheus vibe here?

The one who was gifted with great power from the gods VS the one who stole the fire from them?

>>25637166
>Steals the technology that the elite use for themselves for fun that the normal folk just 'don't deserve'
>Uses it to make herself strong enough to stand on the level of the supposedly untouchable, instead of just hoping the biggest horse will give her the power to fight back in a world that keeps almost getting destroyed.

Again, who am I supposed to root for?

>Crystal Ponie
"CP2"
~~~

>Hey, Sparkler?

"Yep."

>Who do we go to if we want an outside investigation?

"What?'

>If, like... we want to make sure that Eighteen isn't setting up for an invasion, who do we go to?

"Uh... I don't think there's, like, a guy? They're pretty much at the top."

>Huh. That's not good.

"Why? I mean, it is Eighteen. She eats my cheese danish's every morning, she doesn't seem the invadey type."

>Oh no, no knocking her, she helped me to finance the renovation for my house that kept me from getting locked in interest debt. I have a patio because of her!

"It's a nice patio."

>It is! But I mean... that doesn't mean a certain someone else isn't using her, you know. Like, I get that those changelings seem like they just want a home, but that big one is... scary.

"Very scary."

>Have you heard how she talks?

"She talks creepy."

>So I just want to make sure Eighteen isn't getting rused, you know? She's a good girl! I like her, I really do, especially learning that she did all this for no thanks at all, but...

"Buuuut yeah, kinda hoping she's also smart enough to out smart the smarty who almost took over Canterlot."

>Soooo-

"There isn't an investigator type."

>...Should... should we ask for one?

"Who would hire them though, and who would they answer to?"

>...

"..."

>...Shit got real complicated in a few hours.

"No shit."

>>25637388
>18 gets her wish of not being thrown out of the CE.

>Instead, everyone else gets kicked out and she winds up being the sole ruler.

Even when the gods grant her wishes, they're still dicks about it.

>>25637425
Faust mom's hatred of changeling continue.

OOCO
>Spike
‘Dash’
“??”
Spike was in the forge area again, busily working and reworking the plans for his final weapon. Oblivious as the blue Pegasus flitted in.

‘SPIKE!’

>Gah!

In his surprise a gout of flame escaped burning a hole in his carefully made plans and scorching his desk

>Who What Where!? Oh….it’s you.

While the displeasure in his eyes was very clear it likely meant nothing to the mare doubled over in laughter.

He lifted up the plans and looked through the hole the size of his head.

>Well that’s several hours wasted. Can I help you?

‘Actually yes! And don’t worry we were going to throw those plans out anyway, those were for the crossbow right?’

>…Yeah...you mean you still want to work on that? I was under the impression ya’ll would rather not think about the arsenal again.

‘Pfft! Don’t be so sensitive! The guns are fine just not the…pose…’

>I have been informed I am never to speak of or discuss the matter in question again apart from informing others I cannot speak of or discuss the matter in question.

‘…Seriously?’

>They were quite adamant.

‘O….kay! That’s fine! Look. I know how to make the crossbow awesome And functional!’

>Be still my beating heart.

‘…Wouldn’t that kill you?’

>It’s a turn of- actually? Screw it. What’s your idea?

‘Right, follow me on this one. Are you following me? Good. A crossbow-that shoots, wait for it…..Swords!’

>…uh huh.

‘That Explode!’

>because of course they do.

‘Into a spray of Flaming. Axes.’

>Naturally.

‘Which make their targets BURST INTO FLAME ON CONTACT!!!’

>Brilliant!

‘Right!? And so SO AWESOME!’

>That they are! Just one problem.

The Pegasus tilted her head in curiosity

‘What?’

>oh just a minor thing like THE PHYSICAL LAWS OF THE FREAKING UNIVERSE!

‘What? How!?’

(1/3)

>>25637673
>Swords don’t explode! Unless made at least partially of explosives! And even if we could shape charges to create axe blades from the exploded sword, and coated them in some incendiary but not explosive material, presuming such a thing exists mind you, HOW WOULD WE DIRECT THEM SO THEY DON”T JUST FLY IN ALL DIRECTIONS INCLUDING STRAIGHT BACK AT ME!?

‘Well when you put it that way…’

>DASH!

‘Fine, fine…I guess the loss of those plans is an issue after all huh?’

>Eh…maybe we lucked out and they just went to Celestia. Don’t worry about it.

‘Um…’

>Yeah?

‘So…maybe you can’t forge that…but maybe twilight knows something? Like she can…magic it or something?’

>Almost certainly not.

‘Can you check?’

>Right now?

‘Pllleeeeeease?’

>Sigh…fine.
***
>So, that’s impossible right?

“Not at all! Just a few enchantments of teleportation, explosion, and incineration and it’ll work perfectly!”

>…Can you SAY it’s impossible?

“Spike. I won’t lie to one of my friends! But I am too busy to do it myself, you can do the inscriptions can’t you?”

>Aside from incineration, I don’t have inscriptions for those.

“Oh…Well I don’t have time to do it, so I guess Dash is just S.O.L. on this one.”

>Pleasure doing business with you!
***
<Some time later>

“Uh…hello Dash.”

The Pegasus stared at her.

“S-Something I can help you with?”

‘Ahem. <Deep inhale> Pllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-‘

“No!”

‘eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee’

“Absolutely not!”

‘eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee’

“This won’t work!”

‘eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee’

<a long time after that>

‘eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee’

“Alright! Alright! You win you madmare I’ll do it just stop making that noise!!”

(2/3)

>>25637683
‘ese and Thank You Twilight! I’ll go get Spike and the stuff!’
***
“Aaaaaaand there. All finished!”

>Thanks twilight.

He took the crossbow in his claws.

>I dub thee Faith-

<ZOOM!>

Only to have it snatched away by a blue streak.

‘HAHA! Screw that noise! I claim this pile of awesome for myself and dub thee Crossbow Swordsplosion Mark 2000 Double XX!! AWAY!’

And in a blur of blue and a rainbow streak she was gone.

“…huh.”

Spike just pinched the bridge of his nose.

>Twilight? Why do I try?

“I don’t know Spike. Some days I just don’t know. Some days I just gaze around and marvel at the futility of it all.”

>…Hug it out?
“Either that or try to commit suicide in a new and interesting way…”

Together they gazed around at the myriad of equipment and dangers the lab possessed.

>“…nah.”

(3/3)

>>25637264
We are going full /wwe/ here. The heels are more interesting, are mostly in the right with their qualms, and have better reasoning behind their actions. While the main event babyfaces are all assholes whos reasoning most days is "I'm right, because I'm the good guy" and respond to criticism with insults, threats, and punching others in the muzzle

>>25637696
Suicide is a tradition by this point...

>>25635694
she walked outside in her roleplay suit to stop a riot
that was a bad time for roleplay night if there ever was one.

>>25638045
Some part of me wishes she hadn't figured it out in time, and was now trying to stop a bunch of crazy ponies wearing nothing but a bottomless Red Riding Hood outfit.

A big part

>>25638189
Damnit now i want this.

>>25638189

NC
"GASP! Look at the deviant behavior her husband has forced her into! Is that what awaits all of us!?"

<5 min. later>

All across Canterlot the most jubilant party ever to grace the land of Equestria had broken out, and at the center, a simple banner: 'Welcome new Overlords'

>...Well I guess it worked to stop the riot. Kinda...

>>25637810
....fffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck

We fucked up big time

>2
"Teacher"
'Stundents'
~~~

>...

"..."

'...Can I say it?'

"SHIMMY! You most certainly not say the thing you and only you are thinking Tiny Shim. You stop now or you will take your crutches all the way down the hall to the principals office!"

'The principal who's budget is changeling-controlled?'

>She ain't controllin' nobody! She's just gotta kill the paperwork monster or it'll get loose and fight us all!

"..."

'...'

>...Well it will!

"Don't worry, everyone! I'm sure this is totally reasonable, and there is no such event in order to take us over... again... because the last dark thing that took us over did not go well..."

'...My daddy says you're a booty kisser.'

"TO THE PRINCIPALS OFFICE!"

'Sorryyyy!'

SLAM!

"..."

>Ya' okay miss teacher?

"Just peachy."

>...

"Soooo... is uh... is your daddy looking for any 'castle staff'?"

'OH COME ON!'

"Better than being in the mines again."

>Um... no?

"CRAP!"

>I need an adult...

'We have one, she just sucks at this.'

"HEY!"

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>tfw compelled to write an Applejack relevant to the plot but have no idea how

>>25638369
Just do some training by having her war with herself over her choices or something, that'll get you in the mood.

Just don't end it with "I know what I have to do now!" unless you actually have an idea what to do.

>>25638340
POOL IS FULL HONEY

>>25638243
"WE'RE NOT PROSTITUTES I SAID!"
~~~Fiveminuteslater~~~

~Ponies run around screaming GAS THE LINGS!~

"I have made a terrible mistake.

>Pommel
"Bonbon"
~~~

"WE WANT ANSWERS!"

>Miss, please, we can't let you go near someone with pitchforks and torches! I mean... that's just obvious! I do not see why this needs explaining!

"Okay, so answer our questions!"

>Fine!

"Did the princesses know about this!?"

>I don't know.

"Did they approve it!?"

>Don't know.

"Did they do anything to stop it!?"

>Don't know.

"Did they investigate the possibility!?"

>Don't know.

"Did they notice anything off!?"

>Don't know.

"Are they okay with this!? Do they endorse it, even!?"

>Don't. Know.

"..."

>...

"...None of that helped at all!"

>I... might need to rethink my strategy.

>>25639109
It's okay Pommel, you're trying.
>>25635967
I don't even know which race war she wants anymore.

>>25639317
>I don't even know which race war she wants anymore.

Pennydrop doesn't only care about the lings. She hates them, sure(Chitty in particular), but they're not her main focus. No, her main focus is what it's always been.

Gaining power.

>>25639317
>I don't even know which race war she wants anymore.

Whichever one ends with her in a majority stake in Equestria and the power to do what she wants when she wants.

>32
"Acty"
'JJ'
-88-
~???~

>And one, two, three...FUCK!

"Aw, tough break boss."

'Jail again.'

>SIX TIMES! HOW!? HOOOOW!?

-Loud.-

'Yeah, bet the mob can hear that.'

>Good! I hope they do! DO YOU HEAR ME, YOU INGRATES!? I'M STUCK PLAYING THE WORST GAME KNOWN TO BOTH OUR KINDS BECAUSE OF YOU ALL!

-Also you owe me rent.-

"You can't build hotels on the jail space."

-Says you.-

'I don't think you know how this game works.'

-Irrelevant.-

>Ugh, I give up. If I'm happy, life makes me sad, if I'm sad, life punishes me FOR being sad. Maybe I should try being an emotionless robot, I hear that works for buckethead...

-No, the emotions just build up and burst out all out once. It's preeeetty embarrassing.-

"Hey boss?"

>Maybe the answer is to change occupation. Think you can get a bartending lisence, Actarius?

"Boss?"

>No, you're right, we'll never attract customers. Hmmm, arcade? Bet I could mooch some hardware from Coltsly...

"Boss!"

>Oh come on, she's alright, she's just absolutely oblivious.

'Look behind you!'

>What? ...oh.

~Hi, I'm Lavan.~

>Fuck.

>>25640090
...So is Lavan... pony sized and inside the building? It's not like they have windows on the roof, or the pegasi JJ bounced against would just fly in.

He's pony sized and just popped into the building, right? I'm not reading that wrong?

I'm confused as to how they would see him otherwise.

>>25640128
because lavan. Obviously.

>>25640090
Good news 32, Pennydrop led the mobs away.
Bad News, the Changeling Embassy is still going to burn down because the living embodiment of fire decided to say hello.

>Fluttershy
"7"
'Buttercup'
~~~~

'Him back!'

>Oh my, you look a lot better!

The changeling barely even looked her way as he fluttered back to the ground, his chitin once more a luscious, sharp black, and nothing at all like the weak grey it had been when he had flown away earlier that day. He kept his eyes straight ahead, focused on his landing, and not at all on the former pegasi or manticore sitting at a tiny floating table, enjoying some tea.

>I take it you um... spent some time with whoever it is you're seeing?

"You could say that."

She blushed, trying not to think too hard about that one.

"Heh, she's literally all that keeps me going sometimes. Literally! I'm not using that wrong this time."

>That's nice... she's in biomagic, right?

He smiled, moving around to the manticore eagerly awaiting him, smoothly moving behind her and placing his hooves on her head to yet again continue his seemingly endless work.

"Indeed. Studying the links between the physical and the magical, and how to enhance both with the other, as she puts it."

>Oh, that's very interesting.

"I find it so. She wanted to study me initially, if you can believe that.'

>I can see why!

"But she had to settle for only studying parts of me."

>Oh? What parts... oh.

Slightly skewed, she brought her tea cup to to her lips, quite noticeably covering her whole face with her hoof by holding it in quite the odd manner.

'Pony is funny.'

"Don't tease her."

'Me can if me want.'

>U-um... so! Are you and her... dating?

"No."

>Oh?

"No, I just show up at the bar once every other day, we talk for a bit, she picks me up and we go back to her place, hardly a date."

>Oh, I guess that's true...

"Don't worry, I'm not manipulating her or anything."

>I didn't say that... but why do you do it, if that's the case?

"I need to stay charge, and she brings me back to acceptable power ever time."

>Is that... it?

"Is that a problem?"

1/3

>>25640380

She shuffled in her seat, quite uncomfortable.

>I suppose not if she doesn't mind, but is that... it?

"I do need charging."

>Isn't there a better way?

Her already terrible sense of unease expanded exponentially when he looked her way, a single eyebrow cocking up.

"Are you offering to charge me like she does instead?"

The sight of watching what very well may be the most powerful being in Equestria go completely scarlet was nothing short of amazing. The added sight of tiny little "WHOA" signs popping out of the back of her head and a firework or two shooting out of her ear only compounded this.

>Don't say that!

"What? If you're worried I'd turn you down, I wouldn't."

>N-No! I'm not worried about that at all!!

"Oh, good. So is that a yes? That would cut down on a lot of my flying time if we just did it here."

She buried her face in both her hooves, more uncomfortable than she had ever been in her whole life.

>I wasn't talking about 'that'!

"Ah. Sorry, but that's what we do. Did I not make that clear?"

>No, you made it very clear you and her do... that!

"It's what charges me, so when you said-"

>I get it I get it please stop!

He should not have found that funny, and very much knew he was poking the proverbial beehive, but he couldn't resist.

"Sorry. But yes, there are other ways to get love, obviously, this method is just the fastest while I work on our... alternative."

Beneath his hooves, the massive beast rumbled.

>I get it, sorry... sorry for bringing that up.

"Sorry for pushing you."

>...Why don't you just bring her here?

"Hm?"

>If she does work with biomagic... wouldn't she help?

He paused in whatever it was he was doing, but only for a moment before he went right back to work.

"I'd rather not."

>Why?

"I have my reasons."

>Um... not to pry, but Chrysalis learned that keeping secrets from those you're close to, it never really helps. She might be able to help.

"Maybe, but I'd rather not."

>But why?

2/3

>>25640395

He remained silent, focusing entirely on the task at hoof.

>Seven-

'If him not want her over, him not bring her!'

The snarl from the beast below was far harsher than it needed to be, enough so Seven wasted no time bopping her in the head to calm her down.

'Sorry.'

"It's alright. Let's just say... I have my reasons."

>...Alright.

More silence, as uncomfortable as had been before, if not even moreso.

>I think my love would make you all... weird, anyway.

"Hm?"

>If you did that sapping thing on me. I think my um... condition, it would make it all weird. You might grow another head or something.

"Well, I think I could figure out how to put it to good use."

There was a bout of silence while she pieced together what he meant in her head. When it hit her, her hooves hit her face just as hard as the realization had.

>You're terrible, and I'm just happy poor Buttercup doesn't know what you're saying.

'Hm? Wait, what? Me am watch parents and siblings mate all time, why you think me not know what mating is? Just cause me not get mated and have cubs yet not mean me not see it, me live in Everfree! Me know what he do with two heads. It for when one miss, right?'

The world, quite literally, stopped. Time frozen as leaves ceased to fall, and the birds ceased to fly, and the parasprites rolling in the trees became locked in place.

'What?'

>...So are you done with-

"Yep."

>Good.

'WHAT!?'

Without another word, he got back to work.

>...So what do you supposed everyone else is doing?

"Nothing too exciting, probably. There weren't any major disasters when I left three hours ago, I doubt something earth shaking popped up out of nowhere and nobody thought to find you.

>Good point...

>>25640411
A part of me knew that it wouldn't make any sense if Buttercup didn't know what sex was, but that's still making me shuffle.

It's like when you find out Vekir knows what sex is. It's like, a doy, but wow does that feel wrong.

>>25638340
>Stundents
..just that typo alone makes it seem like Two herself write that one.

>>25640729
>SPELLIN' AIN'T NOT-HARD!

>>25640128
Well there was that story where he demonstrated he could shapeshift.

Think it was the one where he 'fought' shining armor

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>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
[Luna]
~~~~
>Welcome to Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and a season has ended!

[We gave you one job. Imagine our surprise when we came back. Not only was the dream door burned down, everything was on fire.]

>She opened the box as soon as you left! After we dealt with nightmare, we thought we were done.

"The door was still intact when we left and I swear she wasn't burning down her town the last time we saw her!"

'They got frustrated you didn't tell them when you were coming back. I told them we shouldn't have left, but they went anyway. I had to keep them out of trouble.'

[...she opened the box and you still managed to contain her glass shadows? ...that's actually impressive considering I was expecting them to keep you busy for quite some time. ]

>So we did good?

[...We will address this some other time. The dream eaters coming back is concerning. Their voracious appetite will eventually make them turn to pony dreams if they are unable to find a steady supply of dreams to eat.]

>What are you going to do now?

[The guards and I will handle it for now, but the services of the P-team may be needed in the future. I'd rather not admit it, but since you've been able to handle yourselves without my help, it...it means you may actually be capable of more serious assignments.]

>Yay! We couldn't have done it if Cadence hadn't seen through his disguise!

"...Oh yeeeah that's right. What was up with that? I couldn't believe you girls didn't notice his blue tusks."

[...2 tusks, or blue tusks?]

"Blue tusks, of course!"

'They were white, Cadence.'

"That's silly, that'd be a lot of tusks. There were only blue tusks."

[...it appears your warped perception from love allows you to be unaffected by their disguise. Noted. For now, enjoy the rest of your dream and have a good night.]

>Welp, I guess that's the end of our arc. I hope folks enjoyed themselves! BYE!!!

>>25640992
Was a trip.

Can't wait for the eventual war of the dream eaters!

>>25640992
Holy shit it has been so long since someone did a "Colors=Numbers" gag I was honestly lost for a second.

Bravo.

>>25640992
Non-Canon Cut Extra
>Pinkie
'DT'
~~~~
'I see your dreamhouse made it just fine. I thought it was going to be eaten for sure.'

>Nope, it's not like Applejack's barn. My dreamhouse is made of sturdy stuff!

'...gingerbread is sturdy?'
Dreamhouse collapses

>...NOOOOO!

~~~~~~
Whew, and I can finally go back to nonsensical late night stories.
Since nothing is ever planned, I never know where I'm going with things. Hopefully I won't have to do another arc for a while and bite off more than I can chew by setting up a-

>>25641037
>Can't wait for the eventual war of the dream eaters!
I DID WHAT!?!

>>25641272
>I DID WHAT!?!

...Oops?

Just thought that's what was getting set up with the whole "He leaves + Luna says they're gonna come back in bigger numbers and the Pink Ponies might handle more" thing.

>>25641359
Nah, don't worry that pretty much where it's going.
It's more of an oh crap that is where I went with that and shit future me is going to be annoyed by more work when he writes it out.

>>25640128
I so want that to be the case.

He just randomly decided to pop in, and he is now sitting in on the worst game ever. Just to see how he deals with this.

>>25641690
Fucking Monopony is the thing that finally makes him go full Lovecraft Fire Vampire on the planet. It is so absolutely boring he makes Red/Squirk look downright benevolent.

>>25641812
>88
~~

>I did NOT see that coming!... Eh? Ehhhhh?

"EVERYONE IS DEAD!"

>...I thought it was funny.

>>25641690
>Lavan peacefully playing monopony while everything is going to hell outside, nobody but Acty/32/JJ know he's even there.

>88 remains oblivious

YES

>>25640628
It's the kid talk, it skews with what you think that should be.

>>25642604
Seriously, it is. out of our 8 childish sounding characters only 2 are actually children. Ones a changeling that until they got to the CE pretended to be fully grown (2) and the other is a pervert suppressing their original personality (56). The rest are
>7's Experiments (Mentally superior to any of their kind, but challenged compared to ponies)
>Vekir (she's short and Equestrian is her second language)
>Arana (a mental midget who is around Chyrsalis' age)
>55 (he's a different brand of special)
The actual canon children (CMC, DT & SS, Spike, 2's classmates, etc) all seem well older than them by comparison just based on diction.

>>25642825
Also I just realized the Chekhov's Gun we loaded with Two passing for an adult among Changelings, that we used for 13 hiding her identity.

>>25642825
Arana is the one I've got to keep reminding myself she's actually older than she sounds. I can wrap my head around the beast crew and Vekir, but Ara still throws me for a loop.

Probably why I can't write her for shit.

Also, funny point with 7s crew, that although they seem childish to us, to every other one of their kind they are the most brilliant ones who have ever existed.

>>25640395
>"Ah. Sorry, but that's what we do. Did I not make that clear?"

holy shit 32

kill yourself like right now

right now

do it

end your life

give something back to the world

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>Pinkie
"Applejack"
~~~~
>Welcome to Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and we're back to our regular schedule! Now for our main guest...APPLEJACK!!!

"Howdy y'all"

>What has been your favorite place to visit when traveling?

"Hmmm...that's a tough one. Almost all of them have been a unique memory. Like this one time, me and mah cousin Peach went to Hayseed Swamps and she decided to wrestle an alligator. Now she never wrestled an alligator before, but we've wrestled pretty hard together in the past and she figured how hard could it be to do the same thing to an alligator? She apparently didn't know about the death roll thing that alligators can do. Long story short, she ended up with bite marks on 75% of her body and nearly drowned. This could have been a cautionary tale about overconfidence, but after she opened her eyes her first words were 'Did Ah win, because gator was rigged if Ah didn't.' Good old cousin Peach was nev-"

>Okay, AJ you're eating up our time. Now that's our show and enjoy the rest of your night everypony!

"Wait, Ah didn't mention the part where-"
AJ wakes up.

"...Aw there were crawdads involved too."

>>25643355
32, you are so drunk. Go to bed.

>>25643355
There's no part of this that doesn't confuse me.

>>25643795
Wow, that was a real interview!

Way to go Pinkie

>>25642825
>>Arana (a mental midget who is around Chyrsalis' age)
The fuck outta here! Really? Like, really really? I mean I can understand and see why, but as old as Chrysalis' age? Damn, man.

>>25645519
Not her age exactly, but pretty close yeah. Her mom locked her up while chrysalis's mom was still alive.

OOCO
>AJ
"??"
~~

>Ha ha! And they said ya' couldn't bring world peace with apples, but we're sure showin' them, ain't we Applina? Yep! She's gonna show 'em all.

"What are you doing-"

POW!

>...OH MAH STARS! RARITY!

"OW!"

>AH' AM SO SORRY!

"MUH NOSH! AH SHINK YA BROKA MAH NOSH!"

>...Is that what mah' accent sounds like?

"GEH A RAG!"

>Ah' think Ah' need ta' work on that.

"IH HURTS!"

>Always about you, ain't it? Ah' think Ah' gotta problem here!

>AB
"SB"
'SL'
~Winona~
~~~

>This was a terrible idea!

~YES! IT WAS!~

"What were you thinking, Winona!?"

~THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE HERE!~

'This is the last time we take advice from a dog!"

~YOU HAVE TO DO IT THE FIRST TIME FOR THAT TO WORK!~

>...Wait, what did Winona say?

"Bark bark bark bark?"

'A doy!'

~BIG APPLE WILL KNOW!~

>Well, at least we ain't in the battle?

Sure enough, the war was reaching a fever pitch down below, a massive collision of the gathering of forces and the golems of stone a sight to behold.

From up high.

Because they were up high.

On a giant rock.

That was being carried by the golems and thus probably very bad.

'Can we just get this over with!? The prophecy says if we use the Spears of the Stonehearted one, then the battle will be decided! That has to mean this all will stop!'

"What else is it going to mean?"

~Ruh Roh, Little Apple...~

>Alright! Ya'll hold up yer' spear!

In tandem, they did, positioning it over the mountain's peak.

>Ah've got mine!

They crossed the spears, metal rubbing against metal as they angled it just right.

>Annnnnd-

~Will saying this is a bad idea help?~

>STAB!

~So, no.~

They thrust down, and...

Lights of power raced down either side of the stone, forming dozens upon dozens of markings all along it's length.

>WOO! WE DID IT! WE... we...

There was a rumble, there was a crack.

~I feel like I should say I told you so, but that sums it up.~

Those down below would agree.

The giant rock arm that sprung out of the side seemed to sum it up.

When the rest of the limbs came, it was pretty much a moot point.

There was only one reaction when a great, terrible eye opened up, and looked to the three fillies on it's back.

>...THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA, WINONA!

>>25646099
Winona just dryly going "Woof woof woof" during all this just makes it perfect.

>>25646099
Dude, since when did Winona get so damn awesome?

>Lavan
"32"
'Acty'
[88]
~~

>Is your friend alright?

'Ah, no. He is pretty much just... stuck like that.'

>Very interesting!

"I wouldn't find 'frozen in shock' interesting, but alright."

[WILL YOU ROLL!?]

'Um... bigger problems.'

[There is nothing bigger than what is going on right now! I'm about to win!]

"You have six dollars and a railroad."

[That's what's going to make my sudden victory all the sweeter!]

>This game... it looks very interesting.

'Isn't he supposed to be, like, sixhundred hooves tall or something?'

"The fact he is a living fireball didn't clue you in to the possibility he could shift in size?"

>Observing this would be interesting.

"If you want to see screaming and occasionally a pony getting punched, sure."

>That does sound interesting!

'Wait, you just want to watch? Wouldn't that be really boring? I mean, joining in sounds like more fun.'

"...You fool."

>May I join?

'Uh, sure. So long as you don't burn anything down.'

>I will repair whatever I burn.

[HOLD UP! I don't care who this guy is or what, I'm not giving up my headstart for this! Nothing could stop me now! I'm on the path to victory and this train ain't leaving, baby!]

'I'll give you an extra hundred dollars at the start, and you can be the shoe.'

[Deal!]

>This will be very interesting! Nobody has ever wanted to play a game with me before.

"Can't imagine why!"

'Do you need to know the rules?'

>Yes.

The room suddenly went black, time and space ceased to have any meaning, those inside were suddenly stricken by the coldest fire that had ever been frozen to their skin, and the stars themselves seemed to weep in agony.

>No.

[Holy crap! Someone close the damn window, it's freezing in here!]

'...'

"...You did this."

>May I go first?

[NO!]

"Ohhhhh shit..."

>Oh, okay.

'...Maybe this won't be so bad?'

[SHUT UP AND ROLL!]

"You know, somehow... I'm only kind of worried about the fire monster."

[ROLL!]

>>25646254
Partyland, when she fought Mini Chitty on the C-plot (given that the clusterfuck of like 30 different stories on Partyland was A, 32's mind delve was B, and Canterlot guard v plushies was C).

SOMEONE WRITE APPLEJACK DOING SOMETHING

YES THIS INCLUDES HER DOING A BAD THING

>>25646470
>Applejack
~~~

>WHA!

WHUP!

>...Did anyone just see me trip on the banana?... Nope... never speak of that again.

>>25646470
NC
>Applejack
"Ponyville"
~~~

>OH CRAP OH CRAP WHAT'EM AH' GONNA DO AH'M GONNA-

*PBBRTT!*

>...

"OH DEAR FAUST WHO DID THAT!?"

"HOLY SHIT THAT IS A STRONG ONE!"

"IT'S BURNING OFF MY EYEBROWS!"

>...changelings did it.

"FUCKING CHANGELINGS!"

>>25646470
>AJ
"???"
~~~~~

>Okay, gal, think! There's gotta be something from yer past that can help here! Ya just gotta find it! Think!

~~~~~


"Hey AJ! Look! It's like Ah'm wearin' nothin' at all! Nothin' at all! Nothin' at all...."

~~~~~~

>Dang it Big Mac!.... Wait, he ain't wearin nothin at all... Did not want to realize that...

>>25646470
chill out. In this thread, She's been on two LNPP's, flipped the script on Shiny and Celestia by sleeping in Celestia's bed, was being petty over Spikes' use of Charity over Crackerjack, Had a two post internal monologue before begging Sunset to give her the answer so she didn't have to think of it, and including the three post above me has had five little NC posts.

She's had more stories than anyone else this thread before you spoke up (second place is 32). She is being used, but she doesn't have to be in all the stories.

>inb4 a streak of NC's putting AJ in all the other active storylines just because

>>25646672
NC
>AJ
"Various"
~~

>Annnnd, boom. Solved the Crystal Empire problem by pointin' out that they're bein' idiots and makin' Cadence sleep on the couch.

"THANK YOU APPLEJACK!

~~~

>Done, that there Pennydrop lady got her hind end bucked to the sky fer' landin' her airship in the street without a permit.

"LOOKS LIKE PENNYDROP IS BLASTING OFF AGAIIIIIiinnnnnn....*DING!*"

>And ya'll don't need ta' worry because Ah' said there weren't no invasion while holdin' this here element of Honesty the tree shot out at me, so ya' know it's the truth.

"THANK YOU APPLEJACK!"

~~~~~

>Done, Ah' bucked that there manticore in the head and now she knows what love is.

"ME AM FINALLY UNDERSTAND!"

"I wasn't even needed at all! Guess I'll go back to trying to beat Jetset!"

>Fer' the best.

"THANK YOU APPLEJACK!"

~~~

>Done, Ah' done broke that golem thing by staring at it for a bit and then it felt bad and crumbled. Applebloom, yer' grounded.

"AWWWWW!"

>Winona, here's a treat.

"ARF!"

>Wars done.

"THANK YOU APPLEJACK!"

~~~

>Done, Ah' finished up and won the game of monopony.

"I... I lost!?... THAT ISN'T INTERESTING AT ALL! I HATE THAT! GRAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

>Whoops.

~~~~

>Ah' burned Equestria to the ground... it's an improvement.... "thank you Applejack!"

>>25646528
My fucking sides, you asshole. I want them back this instant.

>Applejack
"???"
'Ponyville citizens'
[Guards]
{Changelings}
(Sunset)
~~~

It was getting worse.

>No no no no!

They were gathering now, from every corner of Ponyville, from the edge of Whitetail forest all the way long past the old library, they were gathering. The sea of ponies only growing, only growing more out of control.

With every addition, the choice was being taken from her. She could feel it, the options she had as limited as they were being stripped away. Soon, it wouldn't matter if she did step forwards, if she did decide to tell the truth, they would not hear it. As it grew, the possibility of her voice being drowned in the ocean of bodies became tellingly likely.

The only thing worse than that feeling of watching the wave grow was realizing that she still would not move, still would not stop it. She needed to act, now. She needed to move, now. She needed to do something, anything now.

But if she stayed, the choice wouldn't be up to her. She wouldn't have to decide. They would come to their own conclusions...

'How do we know you aren't under their control right now?! How do you know!?'

[Because we're not!]

'Oh yeah, that cleared it up!'

[Look, do any of us look drained or weak!?]

'Do they have to drain you to mind control you?'

[...Uh...]

{We don't!}

[REALLY!?]

'See!? You see!?'

{Hey! You said you wanted us to be honest!}

'Be honest about the infiltration, we meant!'

{What infiltration!? We're on a freaking tour just so you don't think we're evil or something!}

'Good job!'

[Look, what do you want from us!? They're clearly lower end drones, why would they know important secrets anyway!]

'AH HA!'

{Oh, that was smart.}

[Better than telling them you can mind control us!]

{We can't! Not for very long, at least!}

'Not better!'

(STAY BACK!)

1/3

>>25647104

Her student's aide proved invaluable. Magic quite powerful doing more to hold back the tide than any of the guards combined. Perhaps, with her, they could at least hold back a little longer, just until she could figure out a way...

(Look, I don't know the truth any better than you all do, but a freaking mob isn't helping!)

'You were taken over by them! You see the issue here!'

(I was taken over by a Queen, not a drone! Queens are different, way worse!)

'Like the one in the place that has a changeling running the government?'

(Ye-... uh...)

To say that was the worst thing that could be said would be an understatement akin to saying an apple was smaller than the world.

It set them off, and now they were struggling, fighting, trying to get closer in, trying to demand answers any way they could, as the fearful ones would. Trying to get to them, the changelings, where their answers would reside.

The princess remained frozen.

She could not bring a hoof to bare against them, the town she had known her life. She could not bring any of her magic to stop them, nor her powerful muscles. Every time she felt so much as a twitch in her limbs her mind was flooded with images. Terrible images.

Images she had been shown in the wake of the 'incident' that had lead to the changelings exodus. The sight of what a single blow had made of changeling number Zero Zero Seven. The sight of him broken, barely alive, was a painful reminder any time she so much as thought about walking over and moving into the crowd. A single slip, a single push gone wrong, and she could do such terrible things. Things she could never take back.

Nothing hurt more than realizing she wasn't willing to hurt any of them, even if it meant protecting the changelings. She had made a promise, swore on her life that she would, yet now that the time has come to put her words to practice, she could not. They were her charges, they were who she had sworn to protect, yet...

This was her home.

2/3

>>25647110

The choice of her word, her pride, her love for her hometown and her duty were all there. But she could not choose a one of them. She remained, and likely would remain, until the choice was forced.

Thoom.

That's when the choice was made for her.

A rumble like a rockslide, a powerful shaking like the world coming apart, exploded behind her. It was only with great difficulty, with an alicorn like strength, that she could tear her eyes away from the crowd, the masses, and to the sound that had stolen the attention of all around.

With ever second, the sound came.

Thoom.

Like a bell, sounding the arrival of the army, the sound came again.

Thoom.

With every beat, it returned.

Thoom. Thoom. Thoom.

She knew that sound. She had heard it, not quite a year ago. She had been striken by it, in that time. It was not as loud as had been, not even close, yet it resounded within her just as powerfully now as it had back then.

The sight of that monolith of power coming into sight seized her chest just as it had so very, very long ago.

She was not the Titan she had been on that day, she was not as tall as the city she had destroyed. Yet, she felt no less imposing, no less massive, no less powerful.

Chitania had arrived.

"Step away from the changelings, now."

She had waited too long.

The choice had been taken from her.

>>25647120
WHAT DID YOU>>25646470 DO!?

>>25647120
So, is Chitty and AJ finally going to have a fight? Please? Please please please?

>>25646400
>inb4 32 decides 'Fuck everything' and becomes a cultist

>>25647120
Way to go, AJ.

ONE FUCKING JOB.

>>25646731
>and makin' Cadence sleep on the couch.

I feel like that, if anything, would just be to stop Shiny from coming over by freeing up room in the bed.

>>25647250
Okay, now think about this. Can you believably see AJ w/Sunset and the Canterlot Guard beating ChItty w/13 and likely the other 10 or so Changelings. You can if you can write a way where Sunset can drain her without 13 mind controlling Sunset first, then AJ becomes the strongest player on the field and can wreck shop.

but then that's now twice she has accidently kicked the lings out of Equestria and Chrysalis gets to cash in her kill AJ card because everyone said trust AJ and she basically attacks them because Rarity fucked up. Now Chrysalis and her hive (sans 18/42/2) are thrown out of the Empire because while they all agreed with her having a murderboner if AJ fucked this up, they probably wanted her to forgive her and not actually go through with it so they stop her and she is out. But now all changelings are fugitives except the ones we explicitly put a no hit on (Ara, 55, and the 3 with Shiny) Chitty gets to have a small hive in the form of JJ -acty, 32, 88, 29-his comrades, 13, and whoever they run out of Ponyville with. 10 never gets out of not Soviet Union Oh and 77 stays in the schoolhouse because they might be weak but the ponies are not fucking with those demons of Cheer's.