Princess Applejack
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What you see here began as a series of comedy-centric stories with the concept of an alicorn-ascended Princess Applejack trying to change a mismanaged Equestria for the better by humorously interacting with the other, quite lazy, princesses.
Not to mention a whole bunch of Changelings with nothing better to do but cause mischief.
The whole thing was set in motion by this gem:
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>So, wait, why am Ah' a princess again?
>Because you seem to be the only goddamn one of those ponies who gets that a Princess need to do actual work regarding maintenance of the kingdom. You know how much city planning or trade negotiations Twilight or Luna have done? Fucking nothing. Everyone is obsessed with the world ending threats they think I should fight, but the minute I point out the free health care I have to work to maintain everyone goes quiet. And don't even get me started on Cadence, who can't even manage a basic meeting with the Equestrian Games representative. Fucking annoying. Go do actual princess stuff, because apparently everyone else got the pamphlets mixed up or something and thinks "Princess" means "Beat cop."
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Here is full archive of ALL the stories in condensed, easy-to-read form with all chatter in-between removed.
Check out the pastebin here:
http://pastebin.com/u/PrincessApplejack
Curious what happened last time, or just wanna know what happens during an active thread?
Check out the previous thread here:https://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25779356
You are completely new and have no idea what is going on? There is a wikia with an overview of all characters, a complete timeline, previous thread recaps and explanation of the various concepts used in these stories!
Check out the wiki here:http://princess-aj.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Applejack_Wiki
Confused about when a character first showed up or who they are? Want to know when an arc started?
Check out character notes and details here :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PsMAwLcIdC3IYxezAV9Ko4neEguNvc3eQqQqiTCxdDs/edit#gid=2119378650
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.
Check out the 'Princess Applejack: Re-Cut Edition' here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15cv3kqExr_vOM0JkUh4dqnvVKxJ5Z-P1KHwE8Z7aG0k/edit?usp=sharing
And finally, while most of the thread is very much clop free, we have a pastebin in case you're feeling a little more naughty with your writing, find it here. http://pastebin.com/u/PrincessAJAfterDark please upload any like it to a pastebin so they can be added out of thread.
And above all else, enjoy your stay at /paj/!
First for Pinkie!
>>25832965
Pinkie wins this round!
Though, on the whole, AJ is winning overall.
Pinkie Preview Prophecies
>Rarity played that funky music and laid down the boogie.
>Pinkie confuses people by speaking in very rapid Spanish.
>Rainbow Dash shows how radical she can be.
>A tiger won't stop climbing the counter eating Fluttershy's frosted flakes.
>Luna laughs at Celsestia for getting her hoof stuck in a pickle jar.
>Spike, DT, and Silver Spoon share a very kid moment.
>The crusaders realize eagles are jerks when Winona gets nabbed!
>Jingle fanservice!
>>25832901
>The very first time these amazing pictures have fit.
Fantastic.
Although it's not 1-1, just picturing AJ in gnarled tree armor busting up Chrysalis puts a smile on my face.
>>25833049
But Anon, Chrysalis is riiiiight~
>>25833076
She actually sorta is? In the sense that, while what AJ wants to do is noble, she's also, like... talking bout mind controlling everyone.
>>25833103
And nobody can say dick about it.
Suck it~
>>25833049
This whole thing has been pretty much nonstop hype. Now that Chrysalis has the apple, but is otherwise completely out of options, I'm super ready to see what AJ does in retaliation. Is she going to snap? Is she going to realize what she's done? Is she going to keep going and start hitting Chrysalis with the hammer until she needs to use those earthbending powers to hide a body?
Fuck, this is too hype. It's everything I wanted in a AJ arc.
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
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>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content does matter, but I want the first story too! Now for our main guest...APPLEJACK!
Applause
"Wait weren't we-"
>Do you have plans to watch the new Stellar Battles movie?
"Not really. Ah've never watch any of the Stellar Battles movies."
>...what?
"Ah've never actually seen any-"
>No, shut up. We're going to drop everything and go watch right now. I will reserve a movie theater for you and have you watch all of them...
"All of them?"
>...we should probably skip the prequels...and maybe find the original release...we're watching!
>>25833177
I'm suddenly remembering that one NC with her debating about whether to use the apple to save her...
>>25833224
No Pinkie, no! That's how they were meant to be seen!
THAT'S HOW THEY WERE MEANT TO BE SEEN
>>25833254
Who let George Lucas have another computer?
He was supposed to be banned from that after episode 3.
LAST THREAD RECAP, CHRYSALIS BEATDOWN EDITION!
>Screwloose and 12 celebrate their two week anniversary. It's... weird.
>SA and 42 talk about Cadence's progress, and SA reminisces about when she was younger, wilder, more full of energy.
>42 wants him to go on.
>He will not.
>LD is put in charge of the Wonderbolts while Dash is on leave.
>Quicksilver likes comic Chitty better.
>29, still in the shed, notices Sunset is rather cold. She fills them in on her state, he fills her in on dead orphans.
>Luna is curious as to what is happening in Ponyville, but is calm when Celestia tells her that Ponyville is more accepting. Still, she heads off to check on something.
>That something, coincidentally, is Chitanias home. Only, she's not there, it's just Sweet Note behind a bunch of security. SN tells her Chitty will be back in five minutes, but Luna doesn't wish to wait that long. Instead, she's more focused on the disrespect SN gives her thanks to her authority problems.
>Derpy gives Chitty jury duty via paper airplane. Chitty claims she can't read. Nobody argues her.
>42 realizes she hasn't punched anybody in a while, and decides to fight Mane-Iac, because.
>Daw finally gets her confirmation that there are pony pods. And they are cool.
>The CMC discover a possible tactic to stop the golem, pulling out the spears! But before they can, a Zebra named Zebrata beats them to it. A zebra with a terrible secret... SHE IS HALF DONKEY.
>Yeah, nobody cares
>Then she gets zapped because a shield is protecting the spears.
>Neat.
>Back in ponyville, time runs out, and Chitania sets out to find 29, Pommel right on her tail.
>29 hears her coming and welcomes death.
>OOCO, Spike continues to test Twilight's flying apparatus with hillarious results that end with him in pain.
>He reveals that he's only doing it to spend more time with her, which is adorable.
>BUT SCREW ALL THAT BECAUSE IT'S THE MAIN EVENT
1/3
>>25833404FUCKING INTERNET
>Applejack regrets hitting her, but knows she had to do it in order to save Equestria.
>But when Chrysalis advances on her, all bets are out the window, and she goes full defensive. To the point when lassos and bucking rocks at her don't work, she turns to another means of attack.
>In desperation, AJ uses magic, getting in a devastating blow to Chrysalis' stomach before shooting her against a wall.
>Thanks to this moment, she manages to learn via winging it how to manipulate rocks and dirt, and eventually even 'call' to roots and vines in the ground in devastating earth based attacks.
>When just relying on magic doesn't work and she gets cornered, she uses something else, flight. She's unsteady, she can't fly very well, but with Chrysalis on her tail she figures out how to go fast!
>Thus begins an aerial battle, with AJ using her skills together for the very first time!
>Despite the massive struggle and devastation, she's no match for Chrysalis one on one. She's forced down after a terrible blow, and it looks like Chrysalis is going to take the apple.
>At the last second, Applejack tells her she can't take that apple, and to her surprise Chrysalis doesn't! It seems the Apple is working again!
>After a quick shot to get her away, the tides completely turned. Aj uses the truth powers to devastating effects, forcing Chrysalis to miss every shot, ram into walls, all while she batters her with spells and attacks big and small!
>Eventually, she even takes away Chrysalis's ability to fight back, when she tells her that her magic will set off a methane leak, and her wings will pop off if she tries to fly, which Chrysalis accepts as truth.
>After a furious beatdown, Chrysalis can just barely stand, and AJ puts the final nail in the coffin'.
>"It's pointless to keep fighting. You want to give up."
>"...It's true."
2/3
>>25833453
>It looks for a second like Chrysalis might quit, might give up, but instead... she charges her!
>Even without her wings or magic, she fights on as Applejack unleashes magic like she's never done before, roots and vines and stones and even a giant hammer made of root and stone beating the Changeling blue, but she never gives up.
>Never, until somehow, some way, she catches Applejack at a weak moment, and steals the apple.
>Only, after all the attacks, Chrysalis does not even have the strength to shoot the apple and destroy it.
>Angry at her, Applejack makes a chilling demand to the downed changeling.
>"Chrysalis... either you give me that apple right now..."
>"Or Ah'm gonna kill you."
>It's almost over.
>>25833103
But anon...villains are more interesting.
>>25833666
Now anon, we all know that your Queen and mine is merely playing the part of an underdog. In truth, she had the situation handled the whole time as I'm sure a future story will tell us.
Glory to the Hive.
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
'SAJ'
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>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content does matter, but when I said right now, I meant right now! Now for our main guest...APPLEJACK!
They sit in a movie theater and space orchestra fanfare music plays.
"...Oh there's reading involved."
>Sh sh shhh...yeah there's a little reading involved in the beginning, but embrace it.
"It's scrolled back. Ah can't read that far."
>Darn it, okay don't worry too hard about it.
'...Ah'm still here you know. It's not like Ah left or anything-'
>Sha-sha-sha-shush. This is important. Both of you need to experience this.
'But Ah-'
>Nopenope, have some popcorn. We finish later.
'...so why is the big ship chasing the little ship?'
>...are you one of those people who keeps asking questions in the middle of the movie when it's about to explain it?
"No."
'Yes.'
"..."
'...you know you are.'
"N-no."
AJ looks away.
>>25833666
First off, obvious thing.
>Devil trips
Oh, threadghosts, we knew you never went away.
Second>Especially when they think they're the hero.
>>25833843
>Two LNPP in an hour
Well, this is certainly new. And welcome!
>>25833049
>just picturing AJ in gnarled tree armor busting up Chrysalis puts a smile on my face
A. Men. It's about time. Only thing that sucks is that someone beat me to this epic arc. Mini-arc? What even is this? It's AJ's, whatever it is, but what kinda arc is this?
>>25833915
It's a full arc due to 2 things. 1, its length(giggidy) and 2, who all it encompasses.
This is the finale, sure, but the whole thing involved the CE crew's reveal, Rarity, Pennydrop VS Celestia, all the Canterlot crew, and Ponyville too. Remember how this was started by Rarity's reveal? Yeah, kind of forgot myself. Not to mention this is going to massively change the status Quo, no matter how it ends. No matter what happens when the final battle is over, MASSIVE changes are coming. This is the Reveal Arc, and she might not have started it but by god AJ is ending it.
>>25833843
>Questioning during a movie.
I'm sorry, AJ, but you are now officially worst Princess.
>>25833915
It's a full arc, this was originally started by Rarity... who we have not heard from in a while. Huh.
>>25833843
>asking questions in a movie
GOD DAMNIT AJ YOU NEED TO FIX THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW
On another note, MASSIVE FUCKING SPOILER ALERT:The Force Awakens is A New Hope 2.0, complete with main character on a desert world and a planet destroying weapon, only this time IT EATS STARS TO POWER ITSELF HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK YOU COULD HAVE JUST MADE THAT THE WEAPON AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WAY WORSE THAN USING THAT ENERGY TO DESTROY PLANETS
Holy fucking balls, there really is no way of beating Chrysalis, is there? Even when her opponent is fully Harmony powered, she's too dense to get through to. And to imagine she could once be defeated by something silly as a loves hielt tossing her into the sky like Jesse and James.
>>25834161
The fuck are you talking about? Aj was beating her without getting touched.
All she's managed to do is grab the apple, that's it. She hasn't physically touched AJ since she started using the apple.
>>25834147
Uhh...I disagree?
On the spoiler thing, not the...not the talking during a movie.I know enjoying things typically makes you look stupid, but screw it, I realy liked this movie...
>>25834206
Pretty much this. What ARE you talking about? Buggy's been getting handled both mentally and physically all up and down the side of rocks.
It's funny. It's epic. It was the ass kicking a long time in the making.
After this, Chrysalis can go back to winning absolutely everything again and I'd give not a shred of damn anymore. Because this beatdown will last for centuries.
>>25834219I didn't say it being a new hope 2.0 is bad, I'm just saying it's a new hope 2.0but they really didn't need to make it blow up planets when it can EAT STARS
>>25834206
>She hasn't physically touched AJ since she started using the apple.
It was glorious.
>Before apple
"OH NO! Nothing I throw at her even phases her for a second! She's gonna beat the shit out of me! OW! She's beating me! This hurts!"
>Post Apple
"Ya' like the taste of rock. That ain't even an apple truth, yer' just gonna have an acquired taste by the end of it. Still comin'? Can do this all day, you literally have not even gotten close to scratching me. No no, keep tryin'. Or don't, cause now, no wing! No magic! No anythin'!... Are ya' dead? Ya might be dead."
OOCO/NCDunno
>SA
"AJ"
'???'
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>Alright, the previous one was a disaster, but I'm optimistic!
"Yer' behind, like, sixteen shields."
>Optimistic, not stupid.
"Right..."
>But lets see some more tricks!
"Well, Ah' can do one with roots... HUP!"
WHA-CHA
'SON OF A BITCH!'
"OH MAH GOSH! CELLY!"
'MY EYE! MY GODDAMN EYE! OH FUCK IT HURTS!'
>Oh no! Hold up, I'm coming!
"Now hold up! Just stay in yer'"
CRACK!
>AHHHHHHHOLYSHITITHURTSSOMUCH!
"OH SHIT! OH SHIT OH SHIT!"
>AHHHHHHH!
'AHHHHHHHH!'
"AH'M SORRY! Lemme look and-"
CRACK-CRACK!
>OH FUCK!
'THE OTHER EYE!'
>"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"....Okay, so, no whips in the house. We're learnin' from this!... Admittedly, it was somethin' granny taught me when Ah' was six, but still! Learnin'!"
>'AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!'
"LEARN WITH ME DAMN IT!"
>>25834206
>>25834278
It was a complete beat down induced by whatever the fuck that apple is.
This wasn't Applejack's victory (as the goal was to keep the apple), Applejack's power (as proven when she couldn't call her new abilities without it) nor Applejack's gain (as the next bit will be about regretting her actions ).
Nothing about this speaks of Applejack to me. Hell, I bet more of us were rooting for the determined and correctly acting one, Chrysalis. Depending on what happens next, this might not change SHIT aside from personal feelings on some matters.
By this point, I am more curious about how Chitania is likely going to tear Sunset and Pommel limb by limb instead of Applejack is busy wailing on her old nemesis.
This doesn't outweigh all the shit Chrysalis makes me put up with reading about her and her alone for over 100 threads.Though, to whoever is writing it? Good show.
>>25834688
>Chitania just steamrolling Sunset and Pommel
Welp, I was considering alcoholism anyway.
>>25834688
>Hell, I bet more of us were rooting for the determined and correctly acting one, Chrysalis.
Chrysalis is the one I wanted to see win, AJ is the one I wanted to actually read about.
I didn't want to see AJ give in to desperation just to make sure this happened "Her way" and nobody could argue with her, but I did want to see every second when she started thinking it. This is still Applejack the base idea of her being sure she knows what's right and just wanting to do the best for everyone is there, but it's very obvious it's to a deep extreme, and the thing is, with all her internal dialog I understand why.
>>25834726
Genuinely curious what exactly depresses you about that. Enlighten me?
>>25834688
>Nothing about this speaks of Applejack to me.
Wow. Totally disagreement there. All I see is Applejack. The only part this I care about is Applejack. She can lose the apple after this for all I care, my flame to write for her has been reignited.
>By this point, I am more curious about how Chitania
I'm one of the rare few on this but this whole arc has made me find Chitty bland as fuck. And I love Chitty.
>>25834781
What exactly is confusing about that? He doesn't like Chitania, doesn't want to see her win. It's as basic as it gets.
>I don't like this character.
>This character winning would make me feel bad.
>That this character is probably going to win makes me feel bad.
>>25834781
She's already made everything he's done mean nothing by just puffing out her chest and tearing him down verbally, now she's just going to pummel him.
Again.Should've never fucking brought Red back, should have just left well enough alone.
>>25834345
Well I meanthe star has to go somewhere
>>25834874
No, she hasn't. She's been a bitch. That's all. Just because someone ridicules someone else does not make it true. If that were the case then the daily show and the onion would be completely legitimate news sources rather than jesters serving as mouth pieces to the left.
>Celestia
"Luna'
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"And she said such disrespectful things! To our face!'
>Uh huh, that's nice... am I really going to need the extra shoes? I'm only going to be gone a day... oh, but what if I lose one?
"And in such languages! Hmph! We could certainly wreck that pitiful bug she so hides behind, it would be such an easy thing! We merely do not out of respect for the law!"
>And you do such a good job... no no no, why would I need my toothbrush, nobody will notice... hah, hah... maybe just in case.
"Ugh! Sister! We wish to have that mare banned from the city!'
>I'll get right on that as soon as we get back, don't forget that thing!
"As if we would!"
>Aw, I love you too.
"...Wait, what?"
>Like there was ever any doubt?... Wow, yes, I am packing this, not because I need it, but because if anyone stumbled across this I would die of embarrassment.
"Are thou even listening?"
>I have listened to every word, you just don't like my answers.
"What now!?"
>Now now, I only do it because I love you!
"We don't... what..."
>Yes! I am packing this!
"W-...Why art thou packing a swimsuit?"
>Ugh, so glad he's got room, I'm just going to crash in Shiny's bed until this all blows over. I sleep over there all the time anyway, it's not like this is a big deal.
"...then... then why... why the swimsuit..."
>Atta girl! That's the spirit!
"W-why would thou need a swimsuit..."
>Knew you had it in you.
"...Oh, we are not standing for this!"
SHOOM!
CRASH!
>Luna! My wall!... Meh, I'll get it fixed later. I wonder where she's going? I wanted to spend some time together over at Shiny's... oh well, I guess I am a bit of a bore sometimes, maybe she has some friends she wants to stay with instead... oh, they grow up so fast.
>>25835202
Except it was then accepted to be totally true.
>>25835268
When, when that one guy who is totally not trying to rile you up said it? Or by the story where, surprise surprise, Chitty still did not give a fuck.
Wow, what compelling evidence.
>>25835265
And thus, Luna began a war when she felt shiny with being inappropriate with her sister. It was later deemed just
>>25835438
...that is not the tone of helping.
>>25835268
Dude, if I accepted it to be true that Pommel sucked why would I point out that her being a bitch does not change the fact that he went on a swashbuckling adventure that ended with him trapping a sentient piece of not-cthullu in a maid bot?
Relax. He's doing fine.
>Twilight
-??-
In her lab the mare looked over the remnants of her attempts to make her assistant fly.
The wreckage of jetpacks and armors. The antigravity devices with horrifying physical side effects. The siege weaponry with hastily tacked on gliding devices. All failures. She was running out of ideas, and what she had left, she wasn’t willing to try quite yet.
-Oh dear, don’t tell me you’re considering giving up already? Surely you haven’t scrapped the bottom of the barely quite yet?-
>I shot him out of siege weaponry.
-To be fair it did go rather well, all things considered.-
>It went well that time. It could just as easily turned him into a stain.
-Oh I don’t know. His head’s hard enough that his brain would likely survive, and then you could make him a cyborg like you wanted to all that time ago! Now, wouldn’t that be fun?-
>No. I don’t think trying to reconstitute him into a mostly robotic body meets my definition of ‘fun’ thanks. Besides I didn’t have to because *Someone* showed up to make him all better. Right, Discord?
-Guilty! Guilty as charged!-
>Don’t suppose you’d be willing to give another snap and fix this one?
-No. I don’t think so.-
>WELL WHY NOT!? Why are you never around when we need you!? Big cataclysmic events or just minor nuisances you’re there! What kind of friend leaves his friends twisting in the wind EVERY TIME!?
The expression on the drconequus’ face was not amused.
-Because I usually have no choice. Fluttershy and I both trying to cast in the same area leads to nothing but trouble. You know this.-
>Yes, but-
-And as for as you call them ‘minor’ issues if I swooped in for every one what lessons would you learn? What growth would you have? Harmony is a fine thing, but it is also often…static.-
He smiled.
-Chaos however, well…that brings change. And I am quite fond of it you know. Change, development, progression! O ho ho ho, my dear. Don’t forget what I am.-
(1/2)
>>25836015
>Then why do you help sometimes? Why help ever?
-Because it will be more chaotic if I do! Leave the boy in his hospital bed while the fight raged on, or put him back on his feet to watch him struggle with whether or not to kill? Not a hard choice my dear. And neither is this. After all…-
With a snap of his fingers a vial appeared and began to turn over and over while floating above his claw.
-It seems to me you already have a solution-
>GIVE ME THAT!
Purple magic encompassed the cylinder and yanked it away.
>It’s too dangerous!
-What? A mutagen to return his morphology to…factory settings Shall we say? What’s the harm?-
>I don’t know what it will do. It could give him adult wings at his current size! It could give him properly sized wings that never grow! I have no way of testing it.
-So, what? You’ll just never give it to him? Never roll the dice? Just leave him wingless his whole life?-
>…
-Well?-
>We don’t even know for sure he won’t get them later. They might grow in!
-Right! Because he’s an Amphibian!-
>…I won’t try it until I’ve exhausted all other options. And’s he’s grown up. At least that way if it does give him tiny wings they won’t be in the way.
-Well, that is of course, your choice my dear. Just don’t ask me to solve your problems for you when you are perfectly capable of handling them yourself.-
>Sigh…fine.
-Oh, don’t look so down. I’m sure it will all be fine. I for one can’t wait to see what you try next! After all…I love to watch.
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>>25836030
Every time I see Discord I think of Smarty-Belle. Good times, goooood times.
>Chitania
"Pommel"
~???~
~~~
>Come out, come out, where ever you arreeee..
This was entirely pointless, of course. She didn't need to ask this anymore than she needed to ask the waves to roll in. She could sense him already, her magic honed by countless thousands of times locating hives across the continent drawing her in like a moth to flame. She never once needed him to come out, she would find him all the same.
"That's not going to work."
>Oh where oh where has my little ling gone, oh where oh where can he be...
"Wow! Okay! Wow! Are you trying to sound like a serial killer? Is that it? Seriously, is that it, is that the goal? Sound like you're going to skin him and wear him like a coat? That's what you're doing! That's exactly what you are doing!"
>Do you ever shut up? You're like a damn clanging monkey.
"Those shut up when the little winder goes down. Chitania! Ignorant to basic toy functionality, everyone!"
She grunted, but continued on all the same.
>I'm not going to pay attention to you just because you're annoying.
"Really? Sounds like you're paying attention to me now. Chitania, everyone! Ignorant to basic cause and effect!"
>...I think he's over there.
"Chitania, everyone! She talks to herself because nobody else will."
>By the hivemind, I wish that were true right now...
"Got a problem with it? Say it to my face."
>No no, by all means, keep talking to my ass, it's as good as it's going to get from you.
"Chitania, everyone! Wants ponies to talk to her ass!"
>Puddle, everyone, his best tactic is 'basic distraction through insults.'... Wow, no cheering? That's got to be new for you.
"Got a lot of cheering in the past, actually."
>Yes yes, everyone was very proud of you for using the potty by yourself, I'm sure.
"Actually, I killed a giant minotaur with an axe."
>Whoopee.
"...Aren't you going to start rattling off stuff you did that was bigger and better?"
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>>25836425
>Why would I do that? What, am I supposed to treat you like a competition? This isn't important to me.
"Totally did kill a god you know."
>Are you all powerful?
"Well, no. Obviously."
>If you defeated said god, would you gain access to heaven but you turned it down?
"Clearly not."
>Did killing it grant you access to other gods to kill?
"Ahhhh, no."
>Then why the fuck would I care? Also, I don't believe you.
"You can ask him yourself if you want."
>...I genuinely am now feeling bad for you.
"He dies, but doesn't stay dead, that's his thing."
>So you killed a god that can't die... and then you tried to brag to me about it.
"You're the one who is all "Durrr, I'mma kill all deh godsh!"
>Ah hah, cute. But no, I'm out to kill the most powerful ones for... purposes. Yesss, soon to be very obvious... purposes....
"Serial killer talk is back."
>That... is appropriate, I guess? I'm specifically saying I want to kill a large number of a group.
"Fair enough. So, why don't you detail me your plan? Sounds fascinating."
>I could do that, or...
"Orrrrr-"
>GET YOUR SCRAWNY ASS OUT OF THAT BUILDING BEFORE I BRING IT TO THE GROUND WITH A SINGLE SWING, AND DRAG YOUR PATHETIC CARCASS FROM THE RUBBLE TO BE LAID AT MY DAUGHTER'S HOOVES LIKE A PRIZE!
The moment, the absolute instant his ears stopped ringing, he retorted.
"...That sounds more like a tabby cat-"
>NOOWWW!
It seemed banter wasn't going to work.
With nothing else to do, no more ways to defend, the pony could wait no longer. Proudly, he stepped in front of the changeling, and held his ground.
"Alright, that's far enough. I'll accept you being scary, but if you actually want to break into someone's house, I'm afraid I have to stop you."
>...Fuck, this guy is taking forever.
The Queen, never once, looked down at him.
"I'm serious, either fight me now, or back off. I don't care which, I'll take you on."
>He better not be on the toilet.
Angry, just a bit, he conjured magic to his horn.
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>>25836441
"Hey! The Captain of the royal guard of Equestria is talking to you!"
>How would I even broach that? I don't want to pick him up if he is, he might... spray. Ehhhgghghhhhh...
"If you try to take one step closer-"
Pointedly, she did, until he was face to face with her broad chest.
Even still, she did not look down at him.
"...Alright, if you want to be like tha-"
>I SAID GET THE FUCK OUT OF THEEEEEERRREEE!
Whatever magic he had been bringing to bare went down, drowned out among the EEEE sound in his ears.
"...That's it-"
SLAM!
The pony jumped when he heard the door slam open, eyes wide with panic that the one inside had actually emerged. Now, it was too late, she would have seen him, there was no stopping her now if she-
~IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING NIGHT! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT!?~
"...Wait."
>My daughter wants to see you.
~What, the FUCK, does she want to see me at when it's PITCH BLACK OUT AND I SHOULD BE SLEEPING!?~
>She wants you to join the Hive.
~Why!?~
>Worried about the mob, I guess?
~....MOB!?~
The changelings head snapped to the side, pausing only for a second before it snapped back.
~What the fuck did I miss!?~
>Bring it up with her, Twenty Nine, when you are joining the others.
~....Uh, slight problem.~
>Oh? And what is that?
~Erm... I'm not Twenty Nine. Remember? We've met before. I'm getting married, you said some vague insult but weren't paying attention... you know, we've met!~
Pointedly, he poked his eye patch, depressing it a bit to show it hollow, as if this would in some way mean anything to her.
>...Your number isn't Twenty Nine? I remember you, the face, not the number.
~Ah, no, number is Seventy Seven.~
>....I have several questions.
~As do I!... Hi, Pommel.~
"Hi."
~Rough night?~
"....Where have you been."
~I'm a heavy sleeper.~
"How much have you missed, exactly?"
~...Better take it from the top.~
>Oh for fucks sake...
>>25836455
Damn, apparently Cheers can knock a fucker out.
>>25836777
Trips confirm.
>>25836777
>Lucky 7s
Appropriate.
wake up thread AJ's gonna kill a bitch.
>>25837943
Hamertimr, fucker.
>Primrose
"Red"
'Brahmos'
-Cordy-
'So lemme get this straight: EVERYONE has gotta leave?'
>Affirmative.
'Everyone. From the highest Princess to the lowliest guard captain-whom I shall one day murder, that is obvious fact- is going go have to walk out the door?'
>All individuals with connections to the Changeling Hive must vacate the premisis, AI Construct Designate: Brahmos and this unit share a logic processor, therefore Construct Designate: Brahmos should have arrived at conclusion.
-Zzzzzz...-
'Ok, somehow Cordy the Wondershroom is in sleep mode through all this, not going to question that. So what's the plan?'
>This unit presumes that, per vernacular 'vacation' being used, there will be a mass exodus to areas of sun, surf, and sand.
'Sand? That's gonna suck for the joints, get right in there.'
>This unit will undergo regular self-maintenance after arrival.
'Oh come on, you know you'll never get it all out. It's going to griiiind every time you try to move.'
>Unfortunate. Rebuttal: This unit's primary function is to serve the Princesses, if the Princesses are not present, how can this unit serve?
"SUB FUNCTION."
'GAH!'
-Snrk...issit spread-o-clock? ...zzzzzz...-
>Elaborate.
"YOUR...SUB FUNCTION...MY CONTAINMENT...HOW CONTAIN...IF BROKEN?"
'He has a point, as spread out as it is. If you break, he gets out...and I get the sweet release of death.'
>Counterpoint: Eviction.
"NO CHANGELINGS...OR CHANGELING FRIEND...WE ARE NO FRIEND."
'Hey yeah, last I checked Queen Fuckface doesn't even want us around because of Shroomboy.'
"IF NO CONNECTION..."
'Then we can stay!'
-Zzzzz...pretty pretty view...spores go whoosh...-
>...Princess designate: Twilight Sparkle will be informed immediately.
'WOOHOO! I can still debate like a champ!'
"HAHAHAHAHAHA...AHAHAHAHA!"
'...wait, what do you get out of not going to the beach? I just hate people.'
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
'I'm sure it's nothing.'
-Zzzz...denial...-
I think that's the mulch of it when it comes to Queens, stubborn as hell cos it's the only way they can survive.
And even then it doesn't work, they're a doomed race.VIGILO CONFIDO
>>25838576Once upon a time I wanted to write Twilight trying to formulate a scenario where ponies and changelings could work together. It would've literally been XCOM 2 with the Princesses/Queens kidnapped by aliens and their underlings struggling not to get stomped out.
Then again, I've always wanted to do more with that damn simulator...
>>25838576
For how soon they went, it is surprisingly hard to kill one.
>>25839158
Really it's only hard to kill one of they have
A) overpowered Titan magic
Or
B)an enormous supply of love either from the heart or mutant cancer punched pony.
>>25837943
She actually might, I can't imagine bug Queen lasting much longer. I mean, damn, she laid into her before.
>Chitania
"77"
'Pommel'
~~~
>So, what, there was just another one of you wandering around? How many more changelings are in this place!?
"Just me and Twenty Nine... assuming he's not with his br- sorry 'cousin'. Still don't get that vernacular."
'We should definitely check on that.'
>Oh for fucks sake... so why are you here!?
"M... married? Remember? I said it twice now, you have no excuse."
>I don't need an excuse to- wait a minute... why were you in the school?
"She's a teacher."
>So? Even I know you don't live in the damn school when you teach there!
"Uhhhhh..."
>...
"...We got caught up in some... studying..."
>I have heard enough.
'I haven't heard enough.'
"R-really? Uh... didn't know you liked to... listen."
>He doesn't, he's trying to stall me.
'Nope, totally a loser like that, by all means explain this to me in graphic, extended detail.'
"...No?"
>Just tell me where the other one is.
"I don't know that, why would I know that!? I don't ask where he sleeps! What, do you think we partner swap or something?"
>Oh for fucks sake! He has one too!?
"Yes? No? I honestly have no idea. It's weird, he's like, super close to my brother, and he's even the reason I hooked up with my fiance, but I just am not really interested in the guy."
'Same. Weird, right?'
>UGGHH! Just go sit with the other hive!
"...No?"
>GO SIT WITH THE DAMN HIVE! I have had enough of this shit tonight!
"Erm... kind of with my fiance-"
>Then go tell her that you're going back home tonight! Do you not see the fucking mob!?
"...That is a mob, yes... Ehhhh-"
>QUEENS ORDERS!
"Oh goddamn it, Chrysalis... fine, I'll go, but just to tell Chrysalis to let me come back. Let me go tell Cheerilee..."
SLAM!
>...
'...'
>...
'...Wait, that sound, is he-'
>NO GOODBYE QUICKIES FOR FUCKS SAKE!
"OH COME ON!"
>>25840011
77 you old dog, you.
>>25840011
I love how utterly nonchalant about all this 77 is.
OOCO
>SA
"AJ"
'Cadence'
~~~~
>Soooo.... any luck helping her?
"Was she dropped as a child?"
>... Is that a yes?
"How did she pass any of those classes when she was a filly!?"
'Erm... Celestia isnt super attentive all the time.'
"Ah' am revving up the biggest "it's all her fault" ever, want you to know."
'I'm trying!'
"Would feel better iffin' ya weren't."
>I just wanted you to help, not make her feel worse.
"Ask me ta' shoot the moon why don't ya'."
'I understand...'
"... yer' not as bad as Luna."
'...'
"Best Ah' can do."
'...I'll take it.?
>>25840195
Well, he DID seen some shit down in the caves, Chitania is not very terrifying in comparison.
Dangerous, yes, but not very terrifying.
Especially if she wants you alive.
>AJ
"Chrysalis"
~~~~
>...or Ah'm gonna kill you.
The hammer she held, little more than sturdy twisted root binding a massive cracked stone, seemed to multiply a thousand times in weight in a single instant.
It wasn't exactly the truth, or at least she believed she was, but Chrysalis had to know it was. She had to take everything she said absolutely seriously, or else. If she were to discover the Apple's power, all would be lost. If she were to use it, nothing could stop her.
In Chrysalis's hooves, it was the most dangerous weapon in the world.
That, she knew, is why her words weren't exactly a lie either. She knew fully well that sometimes her magic got out of control, especially when she was panicking. One time, she had very nearly hurt someone much more permanently. If Chrysalis discovered the power and tried to use it, she would have to be quick. If she was too quick, something might happen.
Something she will regret.
That was why her weapon felt so heavy, why her horn sparked with such power, why her breath felt short and she felt such an uneasy feeling in her gut. She may have to attack her again. If that damned bug didn't just call it quits now, she may have to strike before the changeling could say so much as a single declaration to her. If she gained that power, all was lost.
Or, worse, she might destroy the apple entirely. She had tried, admittedly failed but nonetheless tried, and if she found some way to succeed, all of this would have been for nothing. Her victory, even when divinely granted from the Tree of Harmony, taken from her again.
This was about more than just Chrysalis, this was about more than just their abrasive relationship, the entire fate of the changelings, of Equestria, of everything, was riding on this. She could not take a chance, she could not let her take control of it.
If that meant risking a pain that the Queen couldn't just fix by getting some hugs and resting a bit... so be it.
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>>25840670
She would do it, even if the very thought made her so sick to her stomach she could barely keep down her dinner. She would manage, even if the thought made her mouth go dry and her head ring with pain. She would do it, for them. Everyone was counting on her, even if they didn't know it, and she couldn't let them down.
Not again.
If she had to do what she had to do, she would be honest with them, all of them, and they would understand. She would speak nothing but the truth, like she was always supposed to do, and they would believe her. This had to be done, if she should do it at all, and they would understand that.
They would understand, if she told them with that Apple.
They would understand what she had to do to protect them from a power none of them could stop, if she just explained. That's what it granted her, the power to tell all of them the truth, and for them to understand.
It was all riding on what the Queen did next, and if that thing that she did, whatever it was, was the last thing she ever did.
"Ahhhh, shit, was hoping this would break off the crazy instantly."
She went tense as a wheezing, pained laugh rolled from the prone changeling, she could not look away as she shuffled back ever so slightly.
"Damn... had a lot riding on that, actually."
>Chrysalis... put the apple down, right now, or Ah'm gonna end this.
The changeling let out another raspy, short chuckle, her free hoof scraping into the dirt to pull her tall obsidian body as far away as she could go, which amounted to so little her hind legs barely even moved.
"You know, I never really liked the taste of apples. I hated them, actually. Something about them tasted off, they're all tart and the juice tastes weird. Never liked them, had no idea what anyone saw in them."
She took a single, cautious step forwards, eyes never leaving the prize that was pulled into the Queen's chest.
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>>25840683
>Chrysalis, you don't understand what you're doing. You need to give me that apple, right now, or Ah'm gonna have to do something Ah'm gonna regret.
"And then there was the skin. It just got everywhere, stuck right in between my teeth and it stayed there for weeks, hated it. Hated it down to those terrible tasting seeds."
She was almost close enough, just another step or two and she could leap forwards and grab it. No way was the Queen fast enough in this state, no way could she dodge.
>There's more than you know riding on this, Chrysalis, if you don't give me that apple then something terrible is going to happen. This is for everyone, you hear? You, your changelings, everything will be all better if you just give it to me.
"I hated apples... I really, really did..."
So close, and she had enough.
>Damn it, Chrysalis! Ah'm doin' this to help you!
"...H-hah... HAH! Hahahaha!"
That laugh, that damned, screeching, crowing laugh. There was little else in this world or any other, that she hated as much as that laugh.
"Aha... aha... ohhh... you know the funny thing? I bet this thing really is stupidly powerful, no way could you beat me this badly without some kind of power. I'm pretty messed up, I'll admit that. But you know, while I believe this thing is pretty strong, funny thing about what you just said... about that whole, helping thing."
At last, the Queen looked to her, a glint in her bruised, swollen eye.
"I don't know why, my changelings are safe, everything is fine, nothing bad has happened, but... for some reason..."
She was close.
But still, just too far away, when Chrysalis brought the apple to her face.
"...I don't believe you."
She watched with horror, as that fanged maw opened wide.
>No... NOOOOOO!
She watched, in terror, as that same mouth closed around her gift, the salvation of Equestria.
3/4
>>25840688
It was over, she knew. Everything, all she had worked for, all she had struggled and fought to maintain, all she had wanted, needed to make the lives of everyone, her changelings included, all chomped away by the mouth that only ever screeched words that brought her headaches and pain. A worthless fanged mouth of a serpent who had yet again brought ruin, only this time the Queen hadn't even realized just how badly she had destroyed her home.
She couldn't hold it back anymore, couldn't hold the fury as she hefted her hammer above her head, as her magic went wild and her horn burned so hotly she swore it was aflame. She couldn't hold it back as she prepared to swing down, and make her pay for all she had caused at long long last.
All the while, she watched, watched every second as her gift went into that mouth of lies.
>YOU FUCKING BUG MONSTER! YOU JUST DESTROYED EQUESTRIA!
She watched as the jaw suddenly froze.
Only this, only that sight, is what brought the same to her hammer, and to her rage. Only that prevented her from striking, and nothing else. All she cared about was if the Apple could be salvaged, and nothing more.
"...Hrm!?"
The chitinous head rolled up, Chrysalis looking very much like a dog with a treat while she held the Apple in her mouth, looking with eyes that strained to go wide underneath the pained welts and bruises.
"Whafuhfuck!?"
Chrysalis hadn't bitten down.
In her wild scanning of every inch of that apple, she could see not a single tear in it's immaculate skin, not a single break in it's otherworldly glow. She hadn't bitten down yet, she hadn't broken it yet.
"The fuch you talkhin bout!?"
She was waiting, she was listening.
With this, she had been granted a chance, one last chance.
If she wanted to save everyone, if she wanted that power back...
She was going to have to do the impossible.
>That apple... is gonna save Equestria.
She had to make Chrysalis believe her.
It was her last chance.
>>25840697
OR! Oooooorr... you could cut off her head?
That's an option, that option is on the table, just wanna make that clear.
Still an option.
>>25840697
>Applejack has to talk some sense into Chrysalis
...So next post is her just getting frustrated and deciding that rebuilding Equestria from scratch is easier. Gotcha.Just kidding, I'm damned hype for debate-ending.
>>25840697
I seriously think AJ was about to just straight up end her right there. Just, straight up make some bug paste.
AJ is fucking SCARY in this.
>>25840865
She's just a simple earth pony at heart, what did you expect?
Power corrupts.
>>25840830
>I might get my AJ/Chrysalis heart-to-heart
HYPE
Also, I just realized Gambling made off like a bandit last thread, we were all wrong.
>>25840926
It's not that, it's that she's kinda right. Chrysalis with that apple is fucking scary, and if she uses it on AJ, AJ can't counter it. If Chrysalis says "This is my apple, and it was always my apple, and you're happy I have it because it's for the best if i have it", she's fucked.
But still, APPLEJACK is seriously contemplating if she's going to have to seriously hurt someone to stop that, and not because she wants to, but because she knows if her powers go out of control like they have before, she doesn't know how to keep it in check. If she panics and takes a swing, she's not gonna be able to stop it, but she knows she has to do it anyway because the alternative is so much worse.
It's scary.
>>25840985
Wellllll, to be honest, Chrysalis don't NEED that apple, she has mind-control build in. It would be convenient, but she can do without it.
Also, now we see AJ having to choose between having things her way, and killing someone. And she doesn't really try to find other options from this situation. That doesn't speak highly of her.
>>25841090
>Chrysalis don't NEED that apple, she has mind-control build in
But that's the thing, Chrysalis' mind control has limits, someone can start to see through it and needs to be reapplied, but here? She's someone already skilled in lies and keeping a cover, and now she's gotten a hold of an item that turns her pretty good mindcontrol into an absolute. She knows how to turn situations to her favor, and now she has an easy way to make it absolute.
>And she doesn't really try to find other options from this situation.
There are no other options, Chrysalis just has to talk, just say "You don't want to do this" And bam, she doesn't want to anymore. "You can't hurt me." Bam, she can't do anything about it. And then if she says "It would be a lot better if you didn't have this apple", she's done.
It's not having things her way, she thinks this is the ONLY way, she thinks every other way will just lead to failure. She's convinced if the EOH even gets taken from her, nothing will fix it.
Or, she risks hurting Chrysalis and saving the world.
>>25841140
That's kinda the scariest thing about that apple, if someone doesn't explicitly know what it does, it's even scarier. If Chrysalis just says
>"Applejack, you need to stop"
You know, something completely reasonable, then she knows that's true and she'll stop. Or-
>"You know what's a better idea? You eating thar damned hammer, that's a great idea."
Just something sarcastic and snide, and then Applejack literally thinks she has to chew her hammer.
That thing is broken as shit.
>>25841140
>There are no other options
>she thinks this is the ONLY way
>she thinks every other way will just lead to failure
>she thinks
Opinions=/=Facts.
Surprise!
Also, Chrissy doesn't seem to know EXACT power of The Apple yet.
Besides, shes not mind-controlling everyone willy-nilly now. She did it once, and spilled the beans about it afterwards. It almost seems like she tries to not rely on it to solve every situation, unlike AJ here.
Would she use it for her own purposes when/if she get to know its power? Maybe? Even probably. Or not? WE. DONT KNOW.
>>25841260
>Opinions=/=Facts.
Well, yeah.
Unless the Apple worked on her and she thinks they're facts, you mean.
>Also, Chrissy doesn't seem to know EXACT power of The Apple yet.
No, she doesn't, but the problem is stuff like >>25841228 where if she just says something completely benign, she's fucked.
>Besides, shes not mind-controlling everyone willy-nilly now.
Because it makes ponies act weird and eventually makes them zombies. Imagine what she would do if everything she said was fact.
...Wait, scratch that, imagine that she knew what she said would be taken as fact, and you were Applejack, and thus super fucking suspicious of Chrysalis.
>It almost seems like she tries to not rely on it to solve every situation, unlike AJ here.
Yeah, she also hits things.
Like AJ here.
>>25841290
Can something be too good at mind control? Chrysalis doesn't even have to know she's doing it or actually want to control her, as far as we know it's purely verbally based and that's it. The first time it worked, AJ just shouted it out. That's what I, personally, find scariest about the Apple, it just needs words and that's it. You just have to say something. AJ's right to be freaking the fuck out, Chrysalis doesn't have to know how it works or even want to do anything but tell her to calm down and she can't stop her.
Assuming it works for more than just AJ, I mean, it might not. We don't know, but it's like pushing a button on the side of a bomb, you're certain doom waiting to see if it works.
>>25841361
As long as Chrysalis doesn't say AJ needs to go fuck herself we'll be fine.Can you imagine?
I forget. Why does Chrysalis even want the apple again?
>>25841439
Applejack was acting weird, and then when Chrysalis tried to see it for herself AJ punched her like a motherfucker, and then went into full "YOU AIN'T TAKIN' IT" mode immediately after.
Chrysalis thinks the Apple is making her act weird ala the Orb, and wanted to get it away from her. She doesn't know what it does, or if it does anything at all thanks the the Apple's secondary power of keeping you from noticing it's influence, she just thinks it's making AJ do shit like punch her with cliffs. Not into cliffs, WITH cliffs.
Hence why she was hoping AJ would stop being crazy when she got the thing.
>>25841472
Aww, Chrissy cares for AJ!
>>25841472
Actually? Chrysalis said she wanted it because AJ didn't want her to have it. Chrysalis has gone wellfare-abusing gibsmedat waste of breath
>SA
"42"
~~~~
"You're getting sloppy."
He was going to retort to that, really, just as soon as the little tweeting birds stopped flying around his head.
Going 'no-shield fight' had been a mistake.
>Sorry, little distracted.
"Very distracted, I should say."
>Yeah, well, my populace were already talking about maybe looking in to just how much changeling influence I have going on up here, and with this recent news from Canterlot....
"Ah."
>They want me to go to a psychiatrist.
"Do they, now?"
>They insist I need to be 'examined' to make sure Chrysalis isn't mind controlling me.
"I see. Are you worried about that?"
>Nah, stopped worrying she was mind controlling me a while ago.
"Good."
>...You would do something if she did, right? Like, I know she's your Queen, but-
"I'd punch her."
>...
"A lot."
>...
"In the face.'
>...
"Other places too."
>...
"...She wouldn't do that. But I would if she did what she wouldn't do."
>...
"I would punch her, I mean."
>Really? Even though, you know, she's your Queen?
"...You're worth it."
>...
"...Ahem, next fight?"
>Next fight-WHA
WHAM!
"SLOPPY!"
>>25841597
>Actually? Chrysalis said she wanted it because AJ didn't want her to have it.
She did not, she never said anything like that.
>>25841553
I dunno if it's that or if it's because she promised Shiny she wouldn't make it worse.
>Twilight
"Rarity"
~
>...Rarity?
"..."
>It wasn't the wrong thing to do.
"..."
>I know it looks that way right now, I know you must feel like that, but it wasn't the wrong thing to do.
"..."
>I may resent it a bit for what it did to my old foalsitter, but I don't resent you for doing it, okay?
"..."
>Okay?
"...okay."
>Okay.
"..."
>And, hey! Vacation! This'll be fun, right? Fun in the sun?
"Yeah... sure."
>...
"..."
>...Boop.
"OW! WHY!?"
>Because it's what Pinkie would do.
"...Oh dear lord that is what she would do, isn't it?"
>Heh.
"Hee hee."
>...
"Thanks."
>That's what friends are for.
>>25842075
D'aww, atta girl, Twi.
>>25841472
If this is legit, that Chrysalis does care for Applejack enough to try and "save" her like that, then my views of Bugbutt will skyrocket out of the negatives.
If it's more like >>25841597 then she deserves to get her chitin cracked.
>>25842335
>If this is legit, that Chrysalis does care for Applejack enough to try and "save" her like that, then my views of Bugbutt will skyrocket out of the negatives.
>http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25779356/#25798618
>"Well, whatever it is... you clearly need to give it to me. You're acting a bit strange, Applejack."
>Next time, she incapacitates AJ and goes right for the Apple
>Final run, even without any powers or flight, goes at it and puts everything into grabbing it even when she's so broken she can barely stand up.
>Newest development>>25840670
>"Ahhhh, shit, was hoping this would break off the crazy instantly."
>"Damn... had a lot riding on that, actually."
It's pretty obvious.
>>25842389
That last line kinda makes it impossible to interpret it as anything else, she literally just said "I was hoping this would break off the crazy". Like... what the fuck else could that mean?
"I was hoping this would break off the crazy... so I could have it nyahahahah!"?
>>25842389
It's almost tragic. Almost. Still, I favor Chryssy a lot more now.
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
'SAJ'
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content does matter, but I'm ignoring my own arc to watch movies!
*PEW*
"Whoa, Bon Solo shot that alien."
>And Bon shot first, don't let anypony tell you otherwise.
"...um okay."
'This movie's pretty good so far. I'm glad we're doing this.'
"How come people just ignore the dead body?"
>The place is lawless and-
'No pony wants to clean up the mess probably. Do we ever find out what they do with it?'
>*sighs* no but-
"Ah wonder if she really had to shoot that bounty hunter though. Maybe she could have talked it out or something. Just shooting outright is kinda cold. Is it safe for Lute Cloudskipper to travel with her?"
>Don't you go there AJ and you'll find out if you'd just watch the movie.
"Fine, but how did they sell the speeder so fast?"
>...Is this what Celestia goes through?
>>25842669
Yes.
>AJ
"Chrysalis"
~~~~~
Every second may as well have been an eternity.
Every single ticking of the clock of time may as well have counted away a thousand years to her, it would not have felt any different. Every moment she saw that beacon of harmony in the fanged maw of her serpent of a foe was a trillion times too long. She had lived centuries in this one minute, no matter what the rest of reality would dare to tell her.
"...Goh on."
She had not bitten down yet, had not closed those sharp fangs, not yet broken it's skin. She had been given her chance, her one last chance. All she had to do was convince her to drop it out of her mouth, if she could get it out from that cage of sharp fangs and pointed teeth, maybe she could use her magic just enough to pull it free. Her telekinesis wasn't particularly quick or snappy, but just this once, this one time, she was willing to give it a shot.
And, if not, then she would do what she had to, in order to ensure Chrysalis could not place it back in her mouth.
>It's just like Ah' said, ya' hear!? That there apple is gonna save Equestria, and yer' about ta' chew it like a dang dog with a bone!
"...howh?"
Every hair on the back of her neck riled up, pointed on end as she hissed out, trying to keep her cool, trying not to give in and break. If she snapped, she might startle the Queen, she might cause her to snap involuntarily. She had to treat this like a wounded animal back on the farm. A crazed beast that she needed to act kindly to, just long enough to get what she wanted, and strike.
>Listen, yer' just gonna have ta' trust me. Now... drop the apple.
"...Noh!"
Keeping that anger down was going to be a challenge.
>Chrysalis, we ain't got time for games!
"Yer' actin' crazy!'
>Ah'm actin' crazy because you currently have the thing that's gonna save the whole dang world in yer' friggen mouth! Ah'm a little stressed, okay!?
"From what!?"
1/4
>>25842790
Despite the terribleness of the situation, she couldn't help but notice that the changeling had adapted rather well to have a massive obstruction in her mouth. Every time, she was getting a little clearer.
>Look, Ah'll tell you all about it when you drop the apple, alright? Ah'll explain everythin', this'll totally make sense, just put... it... down. That's the important part, that ya' put it down.
"...No."
Keeping her anger in was going to be a big, big challenge.
>Why not!? Ya' know Ah'm not gonna risk the world over something, why are you still fighting me on this!?
"Because you're acting really weird and you won't tell me what this does! Why is this apple so important? I don't know what this does or what it means to you, how am I supposed to accept that if you won't tell me?"
Again, even through her rage, she had to admire how quickly she could adapt to being able to speak almost normally with a giant apple in her mouth.
>It just is! Ya' can't understand it, okay!? Not yet, Ah' can't tell you yet, not till the right time. When it's right, Ah'll tell you, Ah' promise! This is just too important, Ah' can't tell you what it does or why yet, yer' just gonna have ta' accept it! It's just for the best if you give it to me right now, and yer' endangerin' everything by holding it! You have to give it to me!
"...I don't believe you."
There it was.
Back again, and she had only just gotten a taste of it. She had only just gotten a taste of having Chrysalis listening to her, to believing her like she should, and it was gone away again. She had only gotten to enjoy it for a minute, ten at the most, and it was gone.
Just like everyone else, it was gone away again. She couldn't make her believe it, she couldn't make her understand without the Apple. It was just like everyone else, it was just like all of Equestria now.
They won't listen anymore, and all she is telling is the truth.
2/4
>>25842805
She could save so much trouble, prevent so much heartbreak, if they believed her, if they accepted it, if they didn't fight her. So much, she could avoid, they just needed to listen.
But they wouldn't. She wouldn't. Just like always, the bugs suspicion had prevented the world from getting better, her need to look over her shoulder at every little thing instead of just accepting what everyone else was telling her was bringing the world down again.
She felt it burn again, just like it had so many days before this year. The need to have her just listen, just stop, just understand, and she couldn't. She wouldn't. Because it didn't come from her own fool head, she just didn't want to hear it, no matter how honest the words really were.
>Chrysalis... give me the apple. Please.
The last word could not have been more forced if it had been jammed in with a rock, but she said it anyway. Desperate, if that wasn't obvious enough.
"No."
It wasn't enough.
When she saw that jaw start to strain, start to move, the challenge of holding it all in was lost.
>Look ya' gaddanged empty headed fanged toothed bug monster! This is for you! This is for you, and them, and everybody, everything will get fixed in a snap, two little seconds, if you just stop being yer' everyday stupid ass self for just an instant and give me the dang apple!
"Tell me how and I'll consider it."
The guttural, frustrated roar rang out all through Everfree forest, so loud and booming any would swear it had been made from a rabid, feral dragon. Before she even realized it, her hammer was slamming into the ground, her make-shift armor rattling against her with every swing as she let out more and more frustration somewhere, anywhere but the prone Queen who was seconds away from snapping her mouth shut and dooming the world.
>You can't know yet!
"Tell me how."
3/4
>You can't know! Alright!? Just accept it and give it to me!
"Tell me what it does."
>The whole dang world is about to spiral into chaos, and you just keep wasting time!
"Nothing big is happening, my changelings are safe, tell me what this is supposed to stop."
>Yer' changelings aren't safe you fuckin' moron! They're surrounded by a dang mob and they're about to be cast out of Equestria entirely!
Her words had been forced out by anger, by frustration, and not a single bit of conscious thought on her end. Her need to argue with the Queen so great, she had resorted to even this just to prove her wrong.
When she saw such horror, such fear in the Queen's eyes, she knew that it had been the final step too far.
"...What did you say?"
She watched as the Apple pulsated, that unnatural red light shifting and changing hues, blinking and wavering like candle about to be blown out. She watched as that red light shifted, moved like steam off the Apple.
"But... that doesn't make any sense, they were fine. They were..."
She watched as it flittered in front of the Queen's eyes, hanging just long enough for the red to cover her vision, and was gone.
When it left, something else, something deeper, remained.
>...Chrysalis-
"Applejack? What, exactly, can this apple do."
There was no question to it.
She had figured it out. The changeling just wanted her to say it. She was ready, she was waiting, her mouth straining and preparing to snap down so quickly that there was no magic spell in existence that could possibly match it's speed. She was going to bite down, she was going to destroy it.
The Queen just wanted to hear her say it first.
>....It'll make them believe again, Chrysalis.
She said it. She admitted it, nothing left to do, nothing left to argue, nothing left to fight for. She had known. It didn't matter anymore.
Nothing mattered anymore.
She had lost. She knew this, for certain.
"...Interesting..."
There was no doubt left when Chrysalis did not bite down.
>>25842824
Oh god my stomach's in knots. Anon, why ya gotta do this to us?
>>25842824
Whelp, Chrysalis knows, game over.
Equestia is fucked, Bugs shall reign supreme, we're all done. Cyanide pills everybody!
>>25842824
CHRYSALIS
ALWAYS
WINS
FUCKING GODDAMNIT
>>25842922
We're no worse off than 20 mins ago. Because at that point, AJ had the apple still and was planning to do what you fear Chrysalis will. Make Equestria perfect for herself.
Difference being we KNOW AJ was going to do it, you THINK Chrysalis will.
Cue next entry with her mwahahaing over it proving me wrong and flipping the paradigm back to AJ=good Bug=Bad. Because BitchBug deciding to use it being the thing that makes AJ see her error makes too much sense for us not to do
>>25842964
Alright I am going to settle this Chrysalis shit right now. Because I looked back and she is pretty 50-50 in her booking. Not in AJ/Dash’s 85-15 ballpark nor as low as say Jetset 5-95 (he really sucks at his job). But I went back and decided to go through the highlights of BitchBug (not just fights) and score it.
>gets beat by Discord offscreen L
>Gets shoved in the ballroom L
>Bonds with Celestia over 42 beating up Shiny, other guards, and monsters W
>Loses 42 L
>sends 2 to find her, she does W
>Loses 2 to Shiny L
>Sends 18 to seduce Shiny and it fails, repeatedly L
>Loses SneakyApplejack to Shiny. L
>42 and Spike declare a draw in the pit, so Chrysalis doesn’t get the prize money L
>Gets sent over to the CE to annoy Shiny and he fails to throw her out W
>Every DnD campaign that she rolls for seduction and gets it. W
>Every time she doesn’t sans the time 42 got it about. L
>Loses Pole Dancing Competition to Celly L
>Shiny forgives her W
>She snipes robots W
>she steals the Crystal Heart, disposes of the CE crew, and achieves her ultimate power W
>Wipes out the invading forces by thinking at them W
>Runs out of juice L
>starts to die from the overload L
>Shiny kisses her back to life W
>She is still badly damaged L
>Twilight and Celestia decide not to tell her that she built a tolerance to that power and could sustain it next time L
>Luna tortured her in her sleep for info L
>Repels her after admitting she took the heart as a power grab W
>Can’t swim L
>Stupid Changeling Powers drawbacks L
>Loses the loyalty of 18 L
>passes blowjob bill W
>77 is alive W
>he has PTSD, all his comrades are ‘dead’ and it is all her fault L
>got great deals with everyone for the benefit of the Empire W
>Until she decided to not pay the price Granny Smith wanted and AJ stepped in L
>Successfully covers for Spike during his Gala stunt W
>32 is alive W
>He hates her L
>Chitania is alive W
>She hates her mother and by extension, her L
pt1/4
>>25842824
I love that without the Apple, she couldn't convince her. Actually puts a nice point on her whole mental state right now.
>>25842977
I don't even fucking know what to expect anymore, this ride has gone off so many rails I think we actually ended up back at the station at some point, but everyone had mustaches because reasons.
>>25843037
>This one unlucky Changeling named 13 really likes her W
>she saves said ling from being killed by Chitania W
>She loses the fight to Chitania and is buried in rubble L
>Ponies blame her for Chitania’s attack L
>until Twilight arrives and takes blame W
>32 tries to kill her L
>She puts him down easily W
>Twilight protects him from her by locking him in the dungeon L
>Twilight givers her ‘all’ her Changeling data W
>It doesn’t have her file L
>She has a rational fear of Spderlings. This gets punctuated by her wanting to kill the mostly harmless Arana. Shiny stops her L
>Twilight ‘loses her marbles’ and they become friends W
>she can’t use this to get her file L
>She gets Spike to do it in exchange for ‘fixing’ Twilight W
>Spike holds her medical records for ransom L
>He reveals that she was faking (but not that he knew that when he made the deal) L
>She beats the valley girl out of Twilight W
>Cadence pulls rank and forces her to hear Twilight out L
>They becomes friends for real but on a shakier ground than before W
>Cadence likes her now W
>Discord fucks with her L
>Fluttershy Fuck with her L
>Dash fucks with her L
>She gets Fluttershy to realize what a bitch she is being for holding a grudge that long and Fluttershy wants to start over and be friends W
>She agrees to call off Discord W
>JJ Disobeyed her and is hanging out with Arana L
>She easily stops AJ and Actarius form stopping her from doing what she wanted with JJ W
>She takes out what Arana put in without killing JJ and thinks it is proof she is dangerous W
>Beats Chaos monsters W
>Shows up Jetset W
>Partially fixes Fluttershy W
>Gets fried when friendship does the rest and has to be stretchered out L
>Gets to help Fluttershy control her chaos W
>Uses it as an excuse to do some fun shit W
>Twilight has bad news, Arana’s pheromones are harmless L
>Tries to get stuff from AJ and she won’t her a word of it L
>Mind controls her to have a civil conversation W
pt2/4
>>25843050
>Gets Shiny to do it (he never got to rant at AJ about that, lol) L
>Saves 10 from AJ W
>get to do a show of power when she never planned on hurting 10 to begin with W
>She is able to secure Twilight and get her to her lab to speed up finding a cordy cure W
>None of her plans to get anyone of Twilight’s friends out succeed L
>41 disobeyed her and 7 failed her L
>Those that did manage (Drained 42/Drained Jetset/Bleeding out 7/41/Suckerpunch) were not infected despite 13 accidently sending a zombie to the shelter W
>She and Twilight managed to make a cure W
>at the loss of her knowledge of Changeling abilities L
>She gets to return the favor and kisses Shiny back to life W
>She puts all she has left to free 32/77/88 from underneath the ruble W
>Stretchered out again L
>88 is alive W
>Changeling Population +1 W
>She wants her to release 32 and she can’t see L
>After talking with 32 and unlocking his memory, she agrees to let him out if he plays along, and he does. W
>Acty and JJ get the stuff back but AJ is pissed about how they got it. Using an anti-discrimination bill Chrysalis snuck in to prevent the assholes of Canterlot from saying no at the word Changeling (which they did, a lot). W
>Chrysalis tries to help by volunteering to give the fledgling guard her charges, if a changeling is the captain and he reports to her, AJ understandably say no (but yes to robots, thanks for stepping up Pommel) L
> hallucinates Chitania giving her a reminder that nobody likes her and when Shiny dies she is SOL L
>12 is gone and it is AJ’s fault but she knows where he is she swears L
>Punishes 41 by erasing a month of her memory but tells her that none of the guards stepped up to save her W
>7 goes after 29 on his own, fights and beats Jetset, and then AJ nearly kills him with Mega Punch. When she goes to unknowingly finish the job Chrysalis steps in to block and gets her arm snapped L
>Apparently all of Canterlot has been chomping at the bit for an excuse to fight her L
>>25843062
>Her Changelings back her up L
>She backs down to prevent war L
>Much to all of Canterlot’s joy She and her lings move out L
>AJ undoes every change Chrysalis made to the laws L
>CE is awesome to them W
>7 disobeys her order not to anything she gave for his safety and goes back after 29 L
>She has to save his ass from Luna. W
>she tells off Sunset W
>Turns out AJ didn’t know, cue Unhindered and understandable rage. L
>Mows through all of AJ’s available back up including Shiny and punting Spike W
>She gets to put the fear of Faust in AJ and orders her to get 12 W
>Varry kicks her ass and destroys the empire L
>Even a full power shot fails L
>guess who’s so drained they’re going to the hospital again L
>She and AJ are straight (Chrysalis lets their feud go but AJ is still going to hold a grudge) W
>Changelings are back in the ballroom L
>she Mind delves and takes the Varry out of Sunset and puts her in an orb W
>Orb makes you crazy L
>Sunset drains her of love and beats her from pillar to post L
>Cavalry arrives W
>AJ grabs the orb and starts beating her and anyone who tries to take it (huh, familiar) L
>gets the orb seals it up and gets Twilight to study it to make the information inside not make you crazy W
>Beats her share of virtual mooks in OnO W
>Gets to punt Spike, Again W
>Her and Twilight get taken out by AJ L
>Stadium is done enough time to go W
>Laments that she can’t make her own city, because she can’t bring herself to leave the empire L
>Because she decided to have fun instead of walking around plotting she accidently exposes 18/Cadence (With a major assist from Rarity) L
>Gwen wouldn’t trade with her dead body and because she didn’t get thrown out stops trade with the CE L
>AJ spends the better part of three threads destroying her mentally and going so far as to get her to stand still while she keeps hitting her. L
>Gets Mind control Apple off AJ W
She currently stands at about 63-70
>>25843037
First off, I actually find you tallying that impressive, good show. Second
> nor as low as say Jetset 5-95 (he really sucks at his job).
Which is weird, right? He's supposed to be like, an opposite of 7, but their track records are nearly identical as far as losing goes. The only exception is 7 gets more serious injuries, and maybe gets a win in once, but he has to pretend he was doing something else(ballroom Blitz, I mean), and even that had a loss.
Why do both of their secret agents suck so hard!?
>>25843175
Still catching up, how are things guys?
>>25843243
With the story.
Shit got nuts, just like it did every other entry, but this nuts is a particular flavor of OH SHIIIIIIIIT nuts, not AWwwwwwSHIT nuts of watchingAj beat Chrysalis with a swingset made of a boulder and some roots,but more OH NO version of OH SHIIIIIIITTTT!
You know, the OH SHIIIIIITTTT you get when you turn around and you see a man in a giant bunny outfit kind. Like, nothing bad has happened yet, and he might not be so bad, but you feel like you're going to be crying in the shower tonight.
>>25843271
Hue, sounds nice. Can't wait to finally catch up, burning through threads like a forest fire.
>>25843306
This recent arc has been fucking nuts, been gripping the edge of my seat every update.
>Dadling
"Batmom"
~~~
>Now now, it's not that bad.
"HRM!"
>It's really not!
"HRMPH!"
>Honey, it could be way worse, it's just a little vacation because, uh... you're a little compromised?
"HRRRMMRM!"
>...Maybe it'll be fun-
"HRRMRMRMRMRPRRHROMMPLMRMRMRPPRMRMRMRMPRRMMRNGMGMGPGMGGPGMGPGP!"
~Giggle!~
>Well, at least someone is enjoying this.
"HRMRMPMNGGMRMRMMGPMRMRMPGMRMRPMGGGMMRRRRRRRPPPMMMGMGMGMGMGMMRPPPPMPMMPMMMMPPPPMMMPPPP-"
>We could have beach sex!
"..."
>...
"...This might not be so bad."
~Giggle!~
"Why do you find that funny!?"
>>25842824
>Chrysalis can talk with a full mouth
Oooooohhh myyyyyyyyy~
Y'know I'm still not convinced that cBugbutt showed she was deserving to be forgiven by Shining and Cadence for what she did to them.
I still don't see where everyone is chill with that
>>25843725
Eh...some will forever think that everyone should never forgive her and hate her guts and others think that eventually people can make up for their actions. (this poster does not condone rape before you strawman)
>Chitania
"13"
'77'
~~
>Here.
"...Er, mom, wrong one-"
>I know it's the wrong one!
'Hi.'
"Hi. Mom, you need to go back-"
>I know I need to go back, but I wanted to bring him here first!
"Well, he's brought."
'I'm brought.'
"So you can go back and get him now. The actual him this time."
>You know, some might get the impression you're pushing me away.
"Mom!"
>Fine! Fine! I'm going! For fucks sake.
'...That was Chitania the Titan, everyone, walking away and grumbling because a changeling yelled at her.'
"I'm not just a changeling!"
'No no, of course not.'
"...So, why do you smell like..."
'...'
"Nevermind."
'Good call! Me and Cheerilee have been busy.'
"...OH EW! I meant the sulfur!"
'Yes, that's what I was referring to.'
"..."
'...what?'
"I wanna go back to the Empire."
>>25844121
...didn't we confirm that 2 has an anti-demon field?
like, she killed the made the paperwork demon go away a few times now, and I'm pretty sure the one time long long ago she was in the Ponyville schoolhouse the demons NOPED
Thread Ghosts I need a confirmation on this.
>>25843073
Wow, what an exhaustive statistical analysis.
Still don't like her.
>>25844161
Wasn't for you to like her, I understand that her ability or attitude or just that other ponies like her can put you off.
What it was, was to point out that "SHE ALWAYS WINS" and "SHE NEVER WINS" are both factually incorrect. She gets slapped down as often as she gets the last word or stands triumphant.
>>25843725
Because the anon who wrote it wanted it and nobody wanted to tell him no.
It's the fault of everyone who didn't
>>25844291
Christ, you're right...
But I'm pretty sure that one anon made it comical, which is the only reason I can think of that allowed it to slide, much like how 98% of the beginning threads slid by on comedy.
>>25844291
So it is the fault of everyone who didn't vote to let Chrysalis die in thread 9, got it.
>>25844323
Damn it, my memory must be shit right now. When was that ever a thing to vote on...?
>>25844319
If you can sneak it in a gag you can loophole anything.
It's the narrative equivalent of attaching a bill no one will approve to a budget increase no one will vote against.
>>25844319
What, her getting forgiven?
Exact opposite, it was a serious story both times. First time with Shiny was robot invasion when he admits it before going off to fight, second time with Cadence was during Twi-Crazy when she made Chrysalis listen to Twilight. Neither of them were comedy based.
>>25844319
When He expressly stated she was forgiven, 1 year anniversary, serious talk about if she regretted her actions.
>>25844346
It wasn't but we also killed Flim and Flam during that same arc (before deciding if we aren't killing BlueBlood we can't kill them), so it wasn't out of the question to say Shiny doesn't revive her and she dies.
>>25844352
Fact. So in that sense, every writer can be Chrysalis back when she was sneaking shit into bills.
>>25844369
>serious talk
Must have been pretty poignant diatribe then. Extra kudos on that one. I mean, naturally she should be forgiven somewhere down the line but still, ya know? Fucking mind control, imprisonment, rape, take over...
No wonder she wants his dick. Any guy with a heart that big is a true catch indeed.
>>25844407
>Fucking mind control, imprisonment, rape, take over...
Characters who share this mindset still
>Rarity
>Dash
>believe it or not Pinkie Pie
>Luna
>>25844461
Oh and the non named guard and Canterlot in general.
>>25844461
>>believe it or not Pinkie Pie
Pinkie made friends with her post arm break actually.
Also, pretty much everybody not in the main cast.
>>25844493
Those outside of Canterlot would hate her because of chitty or 18 (read: Rarity), not because of her actions in ACW.
>>25844461
So much for being about harmony and friendship, am I right?
Racists.
>>25844522
No, they specifically hated her because of the invasion long before Chitty ever showed up. That was the reason 12 got stabbed no matter where he went, including Ponyville.
>>25844544
Yeah, friendship and harmony. Fortunately, nowhere in that particular handbook does it say you have to befriend bitchy, unrepentant rapists.
>>25844562
Be fair with Ponyville, they are just racist against non ponies. And I guess because DT is a thing, i Can't argue with the hate being there.
However, I was arguing about those still having a bone to pick with her over ACW. They don't.
>>25844461
>>believe it or not Pinkie Pie
I don't believe it, they went skiing and stuff, they'd been having a ton of fun recently. Post Move she and Pinkie were fun buddies.
>>25844623
Bitchy unrepentant rapists that have both saved the world multiple times and been a bitch and fucked with their friends during the downtime. So, going either way shouldn't be really questioned.
>>25844655
Sorry I forgot that since Partyland they have made up
>>25844623
Well then I'll write a story about the Tree spitting out a Friendship and Harmony rulebook that says just that.
As long as it's funny, I can do anything.
>>25844121
>77 still gives NO FUCKS
I love this guy.
>>25844159
Nope, NC story when someone wanted to send her to Ponyville school, but it didn't make story sense.
>>25844677
I'm already laughing.
Seriously, I literally chuckled at the thought.
>>25844997
>OH WHAT THE FUCK!? REALLY? REALLY. RACISM?! YOU'RE PASTEL PONIES WHAT DO YOU EVEN KNOW ABOUT...ugh...okay, here, have a book.
The book literally just says 'Don't be racist. I don't care what they stuck in where, don't be racist'. Scrawled in crayon.
>THANKS FOR STOPPING BY THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HARMONY, DON'T COME AGAIN!Angry Harmony Tree is fun to write.
>AJ
"Chrysalis"
~~~
The hammer she held now felt so much heavier than it had before.
She knew exactly what she should be doing the moment she saw that glint appear in the changeling's eyes. She knew what her head was telling her to do. Act now, strike now, move before the thought, the realization, can sink in. Lash out with everything she has before the Queen can speak a single word and end it. She knew what she had to do, what it was her duty to do, but she remained still.
She was a protector of Equestria, someone who had defended it time and time again. This was just another threat, she knew. This was just another danger to it. Someone, right now, was threatening her home, her life, her everything.
In Chrysalis's hooves, that apple was far more dangerous than it could ever be in any other. Chrysalis already knew how to lie, she knew how to cheat, she knew how to turn friends against one another, her whole life had been built since her birth around deception, and she had become a master of it. With the Apple, with the ability to make any believe as she wished, Chrysalis could do anything. She could not merely make the populace accept changelings as their friends, but as their betters. She could do anything, forge any land, with nothing but simple words.
In that maw, the Apple was no longer Equestria's salvation, it was no longer the beacon she could use to save the world, it was a weapon. A deadly weapon more powerful than anything they had ever used before.
She knew what she should do, what it would be right to do.
But she couldn't.
She could not bring up her hammer, no matter how much she strained. The thought, the idea of what that might mean, what she might have to follow through with, sickened her.
It was certainly no surprise that it would, she was no monster, she was not one who reveled, or even liked, to bring pain. The thought of seeing again what she had seen that day when she had struck Seven, or possibly even worse, it sickened her.
1/4
>>25845094
She knew in her head what needed to be done, that leaving her around meant all the pain that would follow would be on her hooves.
But she couldn't.
"...It's strange."
Not yet.
"I remember it so vividly... my changelings are really in danger?"
So sickened, her mouth went dry, and she merely nodded.
"Even with you saying that, I still feel... like they're not. I feel like they are safe, that this whole reveal was little more than a passing note. Even when you say that... I want to argue you, I want to tell you that you are wrong. I just know that what you say is a lie."
She had gotten frighteningly good at speaking with the obstruction by this point.
"So that's it's power... anything I say, it is fact, yes? Does it change the world, or merely... no, no now I get it. When the sky changed color, I never missed the change at all, did I?"
Bitterly, she shook her head, her mouth still too strained to open for a peep.
"I could tell them anything, couldn't I? Any word I said, and they'd just... believe it. No, more than that, they'd know it was fact, and never even care that the words came from me, wouldn't it? I could do anything with this... I could tell the world that changelings are anything I want them to be, and they'd just... know it, wouldn't they? They'd believe every word."
She had not had the ability to move before.
She was finding it.
"Anything I said, to anybody! I could tell Celestia cake will make her sick, I could tell Luna that stars are supposed to spell out my name in the sky! I could tell anyone anything in my mind, and they'd just believe it!"
She was finding the strength to lift that hammer.
"I see now why you went to such lengths to protect this, Applejack. This power... it can do anything. It can..."
Strangely, the changeling paused, looking over to her with an almost jovial spark in her eye.
"You mind controlled me... huh. You're rather effective with it."
Nothing she could have said would have disgusted her more.
2/4
>>25845102
"Curious though... what were you going to do with it? Not that it matters, I'm sure it could stop you like it did me, but I do wonder."
The changeling was distracted, in that second. She wasn't paying attention. She still had the Apple firmly gripped in her mouth, but she wasn't focused. She was listing out, likely the result of her injuries.
>Ah'm gonna save Equestria with it.
"Oh? How do you plan to do that?"
>By finally drillin' it into those thick heads of theirs, yours included.
"Drilling in... what?"
>The truth.
It was just breathing, at first, rasps around the edges of the now thoroughly saliva coated apple.
>Give me the Apple, Chrysalis.
"HAH!"
The laughter came after that. First the crow, then the long, deep cackle.
Her magic must have grown unstable again, it must have gone crazy.
She felt like exploding.
>Ya' wanna use that thing, don't you...
She kept laughing, cackling so long her breath ran short, so loudly the sound filled the broken cavern all around them, making the echoes seem to come from everywhere. She was surrounded by the mare not three steps away from her.
>You do...
"Of course I do!"
She threw her head back, her laughter growing, increasing, becoming wild and ever louder.
"Of course I want to use it, this solves everything! Everything I've been working on this whole time, just gone! Of course I want to use it, of course I want it's power! Who wouldn't want this? Who wouldn't want to use it just to have everything wrapped up, nice and neat! Of course I want to use it!"
The changeling suddenly hunched over, wheezing, struggling to breath for a moment as her chest contracted in terrible shudders. For a brief second, she saw her still, saw her vulnerable, but before she register it all and finish bringing up her weapon the dark thing had already recovered.
She was always a quick one to recover.
"This... this solves everything..."
When the Queen's eyes went unfocused, she knew what she had to do now.
3/4
>>25845112
"I could use it to build my own world..."
She knew she had to call her magic, bring up something where the Queen was not looking.
"I could use it wash away everything I did..."
She knew she had to steel herself, and prepare the twisted stone.
"I could even use it to make..."
In a blink, in the second before she pulled with all she had, in the instant so quick it would outrun a bolt of lightning, she saw it.
She saw something pass through Chrysalis's eyes.Something underneath, buried away, something that held on, something so cold her magic at it's peak could not hope to burn it away with all the flames it could conjure. She saw it, in the moment before her jaw, ever so slightly, tensed up. When she swore she could see the red skin beneath her fangs bend as it prepared to break.
What came next, she did not see. She heard.
She heard the breathing become short, fast, ragged and filled with pained sounds. Something churning in her gut, something foul.
Every second, she watched, she listened.
"...I would control them..."
Every single second as the changelings throat clenched, her nostrils flared, and her lips went dry. Every single second, she watched every detail, until she saw it. The moment that came once in a lifetime.
The moment, when she saw the jaw loosen ever so slightly, just enough to take the pressure off the skin.
"...He bel-"
She struck, so fast, so hard, Chrysalis had no chance.
Her head snapped to the side by the force of the blow, flopping painfully to the ground in the next second. She lie there, in that pain, a fresh new bruise and a new small wound on the side of her jaw.
A jaw now bereft of a very important, very special, gift.
That was all too happy to return to where it belonged.
"You..."
>Iffin' ya' don't mind, this here is mah' Apple... and that's the truth.
She could save Equestria again.
>>25845119
Awwww fuck
>>25845119
>AJ got the apple back
Y-ya... boo... oh shii....
How the fuck am I supposed to react?
>>25845119
AHHHHHHHHH
God damn you anon, stop making me wait for these bombshells you love throwing.
>>25845119
Whelp, this is now in my favs list for one reason.
Finally, finally FINALLY I get to see a story where a super powerful item exists, and the heroes don't just see someone bad using it and go "GASP! This thing that is powerful can be used by BADDIES, that means if we use them we're BAD! We must destroy it and all it's potential usefulness because otherwise a BADGUY might use it, because if an item can be used for bad it is EVIL AND MUST BE DESTROYED! Wheh! Good job team! No need to deal with all the moral stuff, because a BADGUY used it, that's how we know that nobody else can use it, because it's not about what WE might do with it, we're the good guys! It's all about the BADDY BAD WHO IS BAD, and we are good! Destroyed!"
FINALLY I get a story where the protagonist is like "Yeah, I don't care if you can use it for evil, I want to use it for good." Now, even if Applejack DOES decide not to use it, it's because of her calls, her growing as a character, not because the mean old badguy wanted to use it so it must be evil and destroyed.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>>25845180
Huh. Actually? Had he ever done 3 a day before?
So I guess I missed the 'party' but one thing ya'll always seem to forget during scrums like this:the early thread is not 'slip by' on comedy. It was born in it, molded by it. It didn't see action or feels until it had already built momentum.
Seriously. I started reading this thread right around the time an old friend up and died on me unexpectedly and those early threads helped get me through some dark days. This is a thread founded on comedy, without the laughs it would never have existed. 'Canon' and 'serious story telling' were an afterthought and the craziness was the fodder that allowed it to grow.
As much as it has turned into an as often as not drama heavy quagmire post cordy, this did not start as a soap opera.
Drama is not what built this house.
Laughter built this house, and laughter is what keeps a lot of us here.
>>25845321
>Laughter built this house, and laughter is what keeps a lot of us here.
Oh, for sure, which is why aside from the current AJ thing there is literally zero stories without comedy. Really! Zero! Scroll up, check it out and see for yourself. It's still a comedy thread, no question.
But, hey, that's the great thing! It's a whole world with big stories and small ones, one shot sillies or grand adventures, it can be a lot of things, not just comedy alone, and we get to see sides of characters just not present anywhere else.
Think about it, the Maud VS Shiny fight was 100 percent comedy through and through, but do you think that same tone would work for the Chrysalis Vs Aj fight? Of course not. That was fun because it was so big and serious.
Even when she's in the middle of the arc, we still just write some OOCO sillies of her slapping Shiny in the eye, she still does funny things, but what kept this thread alive wasn't just the comedy, it was the great big picture all those tiny stories weaved together to make. They carried over, they continued, and characters grew and changed. Thread 1 Chrysalis sure as hell wouldn't have felt bad about thoughts of controlling anybody, and that's what makes it great.
Laughter laid the foundation, but what made it a comfy thread was how everything tied together and made a story, and it just fit. And then we just kept building it up.
>>25845119
Damn. That knockout was one part comical, one part awesome.
>>25845321
Oh, dude. Dude, hold up. If you thought I meant 'slipped by' in any negative light whatsoever, that is so not the case. Considering I've been writing since thread one, I used slipped by to mean we were literally slipping all over they place with comedy, no rhyme or reason, not a care for anything but laughs.
This series right here means more to me than it really should.
>>25845448
Huh. Ok if you say so. First time I've ever heard someone use 'slipped by' not in a negative sense.
Sounded more like exhaustion and frustration with the silliness of early thread.
>>25845067
I just hear Lewis Black every time I read Angry Harmony Tree
Maybe with a bit of Brian Blessed thrown in
>>25845067
>Hey, hey assholes! Assholes! Is someone going to give me my Apple back? You knocked it off the branch. I just... give it back! Come on, give it back! I need that! The little three apple symbol looks silly with just two! Yes, I know, it's a dramatic moment, but you have my fucking... GIVE ME BACK MY FUCKING APPLE! GIVE MY FUCKING- goddamn it... I hate being a tree.
>>25845166
Actually? Bad, I guess? Chrysalis was like "Oh shit, I'm just about to mind control them again, aren't I?" Aj's like 'HAH! PUNKED, BITCH!"
>>25845448
>Damn. That knockout was one part comical, one part awesome.
Well, she's not knocked unconscious, she said "You" after all, but point.
AJ is back to getting the last shot in.
>>25846613
Well, yeah.
It's her apple.
>>25845321
Not really for good as much as good for her. Whether or not it winds up being good for who she plans to use it on is not her concern.
this arc has shown that as much as we are going for an AJ pennydrop parallel AJ and Chrysalis are almost identical.
>>25847055
...good? PD and Aj are meant to be opposites, not identical. Their entire conflict is that their worldview is so radically different despite them being the same on the inside. They are both earth ponies who want to work hard, but the outlook they have on their lives and how to achieve success is so radically opposite they could never be the same.
>>25847055
We've known about that for a while.
Aj and Chryssy are just too similar not to fight.
G'night thread
Sweet Note being priced out pones on 4chan selling sex for 5 bits.
>>25844369
>serious talk about if she regretted her actions.
and
did she?
>>25844461
>Not AJ
what the fuck
>>25844672
Nah fuck that, hold her to account for all she did.
Don't let her get away with this, what kind of ruling class do you think you are if you just let it slide
OH WAIT
>>25848785
Mercy and forgiveness are things. Rather important things.
>>25848770
No because she believes if everything didn't go the way it did she wouldn't be with him at that moment.
>>25848785
If we want to get super technical she already did. She was imprisoned on Equestrian soil in a ballroom for the first five or so threads. That point where she was still just a Dumbass who couldn't tell anybody apart and didn't absorb her current personality from the pilot version of 2 until the latter half. In fact that was when she couldn't plan her way out of a paper bag without coffee.
>>25849168
Not for those we don't like anon. That is why all chiggers must die.
>>25849279
>No because she believes if everything didn't go the way it did she wouldn't be with him at that moment.
>Alright so,I kidnapped his wife, I raped him, then mind raped him, left his Wife to die, attacked Canterlot, took over Canterlot, beat Celestia, got blown out; unfortunate, came back for round two aaaaaand got glued to the ceiling for an hour or so, then stuck in a Ballroom.... and that was it.
REFUGEES
WELCOME
>>25849279
Imprisoned seems like a strong word considering both she and her hive came and went as they pleased, at will, with no consequence, seeking jobs, education, joining clubs, or just bugging the royals and show main characters. Less Alcatraz and more really troublesome roommates.
>>25849302
Not very welcome. Her actions in ACW can be considered as being paid for by being shot across the country too fast to keep from slamming the ground. Her attacking fluttershy resulted in the gluing and imprisonment.
Also mister revisionist history, your apple wanted to throw them in the dungeon and forget them but they had no room. So she stuck them in the ballroom and decided she needed to integrate the drones into society. Presumably to get them into low enough numbers that the rest could be dungeon-ed considering plan B was chuck them into the everfree. And then she immediately stopped caring for 80 threads excluding threatening to kill 29.
>>25849415
With the drones, AJ forced them out and they got it worse than staying in the ballroom (see 12 and 56 if he wasn't comically durable). Chrysalis and 42 weren't let out until Celestia decided pit fights was a good idea. 2 didn't get out until 42 went missing and they said it was bugbitch's fault. And 18 was sneaking to and from the empire. the only one I can't account for prior to the robot invasion (the point where helped save them the first time) is that 29 and that's because they wanted Cadence to have a bit in the Pit tournament (him getting beat to a pulp and her not giving a shit). Add to it we only let out about 20% of the hive and 3 of them don't even count. The rest don't come out of their cell until the shit hits the fan and then they go right back in.
And on the note of ex villains who are not hated but yet walk around currently unpunished. What are Sombra, Sunset, Luna and Discord up to right now? One would have had his body back last year if Liam wasn't so sexy, one decided to try again and is now half changeling, one tried to kill everyone by taking away the sun (Cutie remark isn't canon to our story) and is doing sod all except get fat jailbait wait and be a horrible teacher, and one continues to fuck things up for everyone (he killed Sunset) and his only noble deed is healing Spike.
>>25849519
>(he killed Sunset)
Huh
Did anyone ever actually find out what happened?
Hell, did Sunny even tell people "Oh god I died" and did anyone ask "Holy shut how what"
Imma be pissed if Celly just went "EEHH"
>>25849562
They know he fucked with her dream stone because Twilight found Chaos magic in it but they can't really DO anything about him, so Twilight got a little huffy and that was the end of it.
>>25849519
Yeah, those are totally the reasons those characters came and went as they pleased. Totally that. Not anons creating OCs and having them go do stuff because the idea of the ballroom as a gulag is a recent bit of revisionist history.
Heck the changelings *liked* getting the ballroom, and liked AJ for it even referring to her as 'ballroom giver' and taking her name prior to chitty.
AJ never really forgot them, but none of them wanted to work with her except 12 preferring to stay in the ballroom seeing what happened to him, which was entirely for comedic effect before everyone decided to grow a drama boner.
She did neglect to provide basic aid. Probably because no one thought of it until shiny and by the time chryssi wanted to ask for it bug queen had pretty thoroughly burned that bridge by repeatedly attempting or looking like she was going to kill one of the changelings in front of AJ which AJ always tried to stop. Also bj law.
Painting AJ as some stalinesk villainous mastermind then saying others are playing revisionist history? You must be smoking the good stuff.
>>25849725
Did I fucking say She was a villainous? No. In fact the first bad thing she really did other than be neglectful to refugees is still going on.
Second, yes they celebrated her for giving them a place to stay. They would have also been happy in the dungeon, since that was still an upgrade for them as a whole.
And really, calling me out when you are probably one of those guys that want the next part of the story to read
AJ brings the hammer down on Chrysalis head and continues until her hammer again meets dirt.
because of your hate boner for Queen Bitch. Forgetting the part where if AJ wins this, the thread is over. And before you fire back I want the thing destroyed and they handle this whole mess together as allies. Because friendship, fuck off with that "she needs to be punished until I deem it enough" shit.
>>25849725
Not fighting the OC bit. but you asked me for a reason they came and went I gave you why they were let out (except 29) and you fire back with the meta answer.
How about this, Chrysalis is no longer being punished because, like Spitfire, we don't feel it necessary anymore. And we try to keep a little FiM in this which is why she is slowly redeeming herself in the eyes of the characters. except AJ which is the mouthpeice for your side.
Speaking of her, AJ hasn't gotten to do much because some think she is boring and others don't want to fuck up her character. We had to make her afraid of making a big girl choice and dangle the prospect of tyrant of 'truth' in front of everyone to care enough to stop bitching about her screentime.
>>25849821
DELETE THIS
>>25849778
Fun fact: I'm not one of those guys and possess no hate boner for chrysalis.
As for firing back a 'meta' answer there was no in story reason given at the time because no one apparently felt it was needed. All of these 'in canon' reasons are being manufactured whole cloth to suit your view of that situation when they simply weren't part of anyone's thinking at the time so far as I can discern.
OOCO
>SA
"AJ"
~~~~
>Oh! Oh! You know what you need to try to make?
"Is it bubbles?"
>...
"It's a bubble, ain't it?"
>... Bubbles are cool.
"Fiiiiine... Hup!"
THOOM!
>AWESOME! Ten out of ten rock bubble, Applejack!... Applejack?
"HRMPMMMMH!"
>Sigh... I'll go get the chisel... Great bubble though, really great.
"HRMMMOH!"
>Going! Going!
>>25850714
>It didn't hurt Shining this time
DO OVER, I DEMAND A DO OVER!
>>25850989
>Alright, I've got the-
THOOM!
"GASSSPPP!... WHEW! Thank goodness! Almost had me there. Thanks anyway, Shiny... Shiny?"
>SUNOHGBUGGHHH
"...It's Celestia's fault."
>MMMMGGG!
>Chitania
"Pommel"
~~~~
>...Come out come out where-
"Stop."
>I can do it if I want!
"Oh, hey, you're paying attention to me again!"
>Puddle, you are driving me up a wall, I swear.
"Back to that insult, really? It doesn't even fit. What, do you accidentally eat puddles as you walk?"
>When they fly into my mouth, sure.
"...Touche."
>...WHERE THE FUCK IS HE!?
"Wait, you can't find this guy?"
>No! For some fucking reason, I can't divine him! This makes no sense, I found the other one just fine! Where the fuck is he!?
"...Good girl, Sunset."
>WHAT!?
"Nothing."
>I will beat the answer out of you!
"No you won't"
>...Wait, right, I'd probably just kill you in one hit. Shit.
"All that violin practice for nothing."
>...Fuck it, I'll just sniff him out.
"No fucking way do you have that power-"
FWOOSH!
"...AHAHAHAHAH!"
>Shut up.
"Y-YOU'RE A... Y-YOU'RE A... "
>Shut it.
"YOU'RE A BIIIIITCHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
>...Maybe picking bloodhound wasn't the best idea.
"OH MY GOD THE COLORSAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
>And my disguise skills still need work...
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
>AJ
"Chrysalis"
~~~
It was like dragging a sack of apples, and she knew a thing or two about that.
Just dead weight, dragging along the ground while she pulled her into the relative sanctity of the cavern housing the Tree of Harmony. The changeling put up no fight, no struggle, not that there was any sign she could, just let herself be dragged along like a dog who didn't want to go outside.
She was plopped right at the base, right at the bottom of the warm, ethereal glow that rained down from that beacon of Harmony.
>Now, ya'll stay in here till Ah' find one of yer' enablers ta' come get you. Ah'll have everything fixed by the time ya' get back on yer' hooves.
Her deeds done, her hooves were dusted, and she prepared to finally end this, once and for all. She didn't even make it a step before she felt something clamp down on her tail, and hold her for all it was worth.
>...Come on now.
It was almost sad, watching the bruise beneath the chitin as she struggled to keep her jaw down, she could not keep the slight bit of pity from forming just before she yanked herself loose, the bite unable to hold on even against that slight bit of movement.
>Look, this here is the safest place in Eqeustria, bar none. Ain't nothin' gonna happen to you in here. Just sit tight, and let me go finish this already.
"No."
Nothing but pity, that's all she could feel when the Queen struggled to rise, struggled to stand up after all the long abuse she had been put through. Shaking legs, wobbling head, every bit of it screamed that a stiff breeze would knock her away like a bowling pin who's base had been filed down to a sharp point. She stood, defiant, hostile, looking ready to fight again, even when it looked like the changeling would break from a simple push.
For reasons she could not explain to herself, it made her angry once again.
1/9
>>25851948
"Heh... guess it was stupid to try so hard... it never was the Apple, was it? Shouldn't have bothered.... No, this won't work. I'll just tell everyone what that thing does."
>Then Ah'll just say yer' wrong. What happens after that?
The wounded thing didn't have an answer to that one, like she knew she wouldn't.
>Look, have you not been listenin' to me? Ah'm gonna go fix this whole mess with yer' changelings! Alright? Ah'm just gonna go to Ponyville, and ya' know what Ah'm gonna say? "There weren't no invasion, it wasn't a trick, she was just tryin' to help cause she's in love with the guy runnin' the place, you don't need to be afraid of them no more."... It's the truth! You and Ah' both know it's as sure as the sun the truth. It's one hundred percent fact, and now they're gonna believe it. Ain't that what you want? Them to be safe, everything to be okay, everyone to know that you don't want to fight anymore? Don't you want this to all get better, all fixed and be fine and then we're done? This is all Ah' have to do, just tell them the truth, nothing more! And then it's done forever! One time, Ah' just have to do this one time, and it's done.
"You're.. you're going to-"
It wasn't hard to outpace the panting, breathless ling in speech, a first for her when she thought about it. Normally, the taller one could talk circles around her, but like this getting her own shots in was as easy as sliding a book back from where she got it on a shelf.
>Ah' know what yer' thinkin', because it's all you think about. Yer' thinkin' about all the takeover possibilities, all those nasty thoughts bout makin' everyone just serve you forever, but ya' know what? Ya' can take those thoughts and shove it, cause Ah'm not like you.
It would have been so easy to step forwards and shove her, to knock her down and break off that bold glare. But if she was being honest with herself, and she often was, she was worried she might break one of those long black legs if she did.
2/9
>>25851958
>Ah'm not interested in rulin' the world, or controlin' anyone to serve me, or any o' that nonsense. Ah' don't give to scoots of a dogs rear across the ground for bein' in control or bein' on top. Ah' don't care about any of that, and Ah' don't want what Ah' got right now, thank you. Ah'm not like you, Ah' don't want more, Ah' just want what's there to be fixed, and to stay fixed. Ah' don't give too shakes if someone like you would use this here thing for evil, cause Ah'm not gonna let you, or anyone else. Ah'm gonna use it for good, Ah'm gonna use it to fix everything, and that's that.
There was never a second of doubt in her mind. The Apple was powerful, yes. It was dangerous in the wrong hooves, for sure. But just because of something like that didn't mean it wasn't so useful. Every useful thing had a bit of risk to it, even her own magic had proven that. Just because it was dangerous didn't mean she should disregard it, or be rid of it. This was her Apple, it had been given to her to save the world, and that's exactly what she was going to do with it.
"You're... just going to... control them."
That thought had entered her mind more than once, if she was being honest. The thought had stuck with her for a bit or two, but no matter how long it did, it never stayed.
>No, Ah'm not, Ah'm just gonna tell them the truth, and they can do with it whatever they want. Ah'm not gonna make 'em do anything but accept the cold hard facts, the end. Not gonna make 'em dance like puppets, not gonna make 'em serve me or anyone else. Ah'm not a tryant, Chrysalis, Ah'm just a mare who needs the folks to know the truth before they do somethin' they're gonna regret. You want this, don't you? Don't you want your changelings to be safe? They're in trouble right now, and every second you spend rattlin' on is a second Ah'm not savin' them, so are you gonna lie down and take a nap while this all gets fixed, or are you gonna make it worse?"
3/9
>>25851968
Something about that last line, those final few words, struck a chord with the changeling, she could see it even in the oddly lit room. Something had strung within her like a string on a guitar, and she couldn't for the life of her find what it was.
She watched the debate, the internal struggle on the Queen's bruised and swollen face play out with every twitch, every dart of her eye, every insecurity plain for all to see.
>Come on, just stop and let me go fix everything. It'll be done in a snap, and that there is the truth. You know that now, don't you? Just let me go fix everything, and stop this.
"...There has to be another way-"
Six little words, and they may as well have been the code to detonate the bomb that had always been inside of her.
She felt it build up so fast, burn so hot, explode so quickly she felt it shoot through every limb of her body. Those words, more than any other event in this day that just would not end, had brought it to the surface. Had brought the fire, the anger, the hate and the need.
Part of it was the insult, that the Queen would think that she had honestly not thought of any other way but the gift of the Tree of Harmony. Part of it was the annoyance, that she would say this while clearly having no idea herself. Part of it was the derision, that the Queen of plans that blow up in her face would actually try to propose an alternative to a sure thing.
But, more than any of that, she admitted that far eclipsing it all, was a single burning question in the center of that flare in her chest.
>Why!?
That raging inferno in three little letters.
4/9
>>25851980
>Why!? Why would we do that!? Why's it always gotta be the hard way!? Why do we always have to go the long way around that don't work as often as it does? Why take the other route when the sure thing is right here, right in my hoof!? Ah' did it the hard way, Ah' did it since Ah' got these stupid things, and ya' know what? It didn't work! One bad event, one bad thing, and it all just goes away! Ah'm sick of it! We just keep pilin' on worse and worse onto it, and we put out the big disasters, but eventually one just gets through and none of that matters anymore! Just one thing gets through and it's all back to square one! Ah' did it that way, your way, whoevers way! Ah' walked the hard road, and it ain't worked! Well... no more! One time, one thing, and it's fixed. One shot and all of this is fixed, and stays fixed, and we ain't gotta worry about it anymore. No more strugglin' to make them understand or make it work, this is all Ah' have to do. It's quick, it's easy, and then it's all done. Just done and done, and then Ah' can just forget about it. Why? Why would Ah' ever do it any other way beside this? It's so easy... and then it's just done. Don't you just want this to be just... done, Chrysalis? Don't you want to never worry about them being suspicious no more, or have to do all that work to get them to believe you, and just accept your Hive without no more work? Do you really want to keep doin' it in the way that don't work? Don't you just... want it over?
She did. Without a single word said, she could see it plain as the glowing tree behind her, the Queen wanted this done as much as she did. She wanted to stop, she was hoping that all would be done exactly as said, and that everything would just be fixed. No more fighting or trying, all just fixed and done. Chrysalis wanted it, she wanted it every bit as much as she did. Without her disguise to hide behind, at last, her emotions were plain as day.
She wanted that.
5/9
>>25851990
>Just... let me go fix the situations with the changelings already.
But she did not stop.
"...And then?"
>Oh for the love off... and then Ah' guess Ah' fix the next problem! It'll only take a minute there too! No matter what problem, no matter how big, one shot and done! And it stays done, never gotta worry about it again!
"What about... after that?"
>Then Ah'll fix the next problem, and the next! And the next and the next and the next! And then, sometime soon, sometime not long at all from right now where yer' standin', all the problems will be fixed. It'll be quick, it'll be short... and it'll be fixed in the only way that works for sure.
"...What about after that?"
For a second, that burning sensation inside her flickered. A slight chill inside where that flame had been when she realized that, for once, she didn't have the answer to that.
>Huh... Ya' know, in all this here ruckus, Ah' never even got a chance to think about that. Before now? Didn't even bother to imagine it, cause Ah' just plain never thought it would come. Was always gonna be one more thing Ah' had to fight, one more thing Ah' had to fix, it wasn't ever gonna stop. But now? Huh... guess Ah' can think about it now. What am Ah' gonna do when everything is all fixed? Won't be long now, not a lot of time to think about it... Ah' don't know. Guess Ah'll just... go home. Go back, turn in mah' wings if that's an option, just go back and live on the farm again, would be nice. Maybe pop up when somethin' is tryin' to take over the world or wreck it or whatever, solve that in a jiffy, and go right back. Ain't even gotta fight it now, can win no matter what happens. It'll all just be.. easier.
The inferno inside started to grow cold, to die out, as she pictured it all. How easy it would be, how simple, how fast, and then it would just be done. It would just be done.
"...when you control them, you mean."
That fire did not stay cool for more than that second.
6/9
>>25852002
>Oh, yer' one to talk! All Ah' want to do is tell them the truth and have them believe it, Ah'm not like you! Ah' don't just mind control ponies for fun or ta' take 'em over! Ah'm doin' this to help the world, ta' fix it because yer' stupid ass just had to try and invade somebody! Because oh! Right! Yer' the whole dang reason we're in this mess!
She no longer cared that the Queen looked in pain when she jabbed her with a hoof to her chest, that blaze had returned, and it had returned with a vengeance so great it made the fire before look like little more than a flickering candle. Something, something strong, had been building up inside of her this whole time, every second since the reveal, something had been needing to get out of her, clawing it's way and struggling all the while until it tore up her insides to keep it in. She was going to let it out, she was going to show that arguing her had been a mistake.
She was going to make damn sure Chrysalis knew it.
>If you hadn't been such a powerhungry fuckin' moron, nobody would have batted an eye when this came out, the reason everyone is suspicious of you and talkin' bout mind control and takeovers is that's what you fuckin' did! That's exactly what you did! You took over someone's mind! You imprisoned someone else, and then you invaded a country! The whole reason this reveal with Eighteen wasn't all about Cadence not knowing what blue plus green equals is because of you! You did this! You did all of this! And now, Ah've got to fix it! Ah've got to go use a gaddang magic apple to fix your mess, because otherwise, nobody is going to believe me when Ah' tell them the truth, and it's all yer' fault! Do you understand me!? Equestria thinks Ah' was coverin' up some invasion and not a one of them believes a word Ah'm sayin' right now, and it's all yer' fault! You did this! You made them not believe me! You! It's all yer' fault! It's all! Yer'! Fault!
It was the truth.
7/9
>>25852015
She had not needed a single solitary bit of Harmony magic. There was never, for a moment, any doubt with the Queen that every word had been absolute truth. Never any doubt in the eyes that, for once, looked away of their own accord, never any doubt in the slight slump of her shoulders, or the slow breath she let out. She admitted it, without saying a word she admitted to it all.
It was all true, there was no doubt.
"...I have to stop you."
But there was no surrender either, when she pushed back against that hoof.
From either side, that much was clear when the faint sounds of chitin cracking became audible.
>Why!? Ah'm fixing your mistakes! Ah'm fixing problems you caused! Ah' can't even control you no more, you actually figure it out! You just get to sit back and enjoy while I make this world all better for your changelings! Give me one reason, one reason you want me not to use this thing besides the fact that yer' gonna have to owe yer' species not getting wiped out to me! That's it, isn't it? That you just don't want to have to admit Ah' fixed everything for you? Don't want to admit Ah'm better than you at this!? Don't want to have to admit everything would be better if you just listened to me!? Huh!? Well? Is that it!? What's the reason damn it!?
"...You're going to use it on them."
She pushed forwards, more and more cracks filling the room as she strained against the unmoving hoof.
"I can't... let it happen."
She kept fighting, even when she looked ready to fall.
>Why.
"I can't let you do that to him, or Cadence, or any of them..."
>Why?
"I can't let you do this, I can't let you control them."
>Ah'm not gonna control them! Ah'm just gonna tell them the truth, nothing else! Ah'm not gonna make them puppets! Ah'm not like you! Ah' just want them to believe me, all of them!
"I can't let you do that, I can't... I can't..."
>WHY?!
"BECAUSE HE BELIEVED ME!"
8/9
>>25852027
The obsidian hoof flew with a speed it never had before, struck as a blur as fast as Dash on her very best days, wind whistling through the gaps of her limbs holes as it aimed square for the ponies jaw.
Hit with all the force of a light breeze in the summer day, not even making the cheek so much as twitch when it connected.
The tall body slumped forwards, putting so much of her weight on that hoof, desperate for it to keep her upright as the exhaustion brought spots to her eyes. Pants came out in hot, rolling breaths as she struggled to stay upright, failing more and more with every second.
"You don't... you don't know what that means. You can't understand... he only asked me to do one thing, just one thing... just don't make it worse... that's all he asked..."
The hoof against her cheek shuddered, slipping just a bit as she went even lower.
"I tried... I really did try this time... I said to myself no matter what happened, I wouldn't make it worse, I wouldn't. I would... I would do it, because I said I would, and he believed me. He believed me... but when I saw you without my changelings, I did it again. I tried, I did, but I couldn't..."
The hoof pushed, doing little more than mashing the skin on her cheek, but it pushed all the same.
"I can't let you do this. I can't... I can't let you do it to him. I promised him it wouldn't make it worse... I have to stop you... I can't...I can't lose..."
She listened to every breathless word as the fire left. Not of it's own accord, but of simply going out, like a candle that had reached the bottom. There was simply nothing left to draw on, no matter how hard she tried.
"He... he believed me..."
She listened, still, to every whisper of the Queen, rapt in attention to every single syllable.
"He believed me..."
She listened to every letter, when she hit the ground.
Listened, until she heard the words that made her heart stop.
"Like I believed you..."
>>25852038
Sorry for the longer than average waittime/post, but good news!ALMOST DONE!
>>25852038
>Don't like longer posts
>But it's all very good dialog that addresses a shitton of stuff I wanted looked at
So conflicted...
>>25852051
>ALMOST DONE!
I'm almost sad to hear that. This has been a crazy ass ride.
That said, Am I the only one thinking that, at this point Applejack actually needs to use the Apple? Not to fix this mess, but because how the fuck else is she going to explain this?
>Howdy ya'll! Ah'm here ta' fix this changeling thing and... oh, uh... Chrysalis? Sheeee's... uhhhhhhhh... probably still alive, yeah. Ah' mean, what are the odds some internal injuries are gonna be fatal- ya' know what, Ah'll be right back.
>>25852038
>"Like I believed you..."
...When?
NC
>....No
"Mhmmm"
>Nuh uh
"MhhHHmmm"
>Not happenin'
"MHHHMMMMM"
>AH'M NOT KISSIN' Y'ALL BACK TO LIFE DANGIT!
"You're going to haaave toooo"
>>25852261
When she said she was going to take care of her changelings.
Remember? First thing she screamed when she saw AJ next to the tree.
>>25852272
'...Doo dooo dod do do... do do do doo... mnum mnuh.... wow, this is boring-'
SLAM!
'GAAAHHHH WHAT THE FUCK!?'
>Do the thing.
'HOLY SHIT CHRYSALIS!'
>Do the thing dang it!
'I SEE HER SPLEEN!'
>DO THE FUCKIN' THING!
'AHHHHHH!'
>TWILIGHT!
'...'
>Do the thing.
'...Shiny can never know.'
>>25852051
Almost done, and I'm sad to see it go!
Finally, AJ got to say that, been waiting for it forever, and hey, Chrysalis didn't get shit on either. Keeps on keeping on, that's damn impressive.
>>25852051
>ALMOST DONE!
Thank god.
I say this not because this hasn't been fun, I'm just ready to see this all finally come to a close. You've done a lot, given us a shitload of AJ development, now I'm ready to see where it's all headed.
>>25852567
Right? Its like damn, it's good, but the blue balling must end!
>>25852667And hopefully the debates will at least take a hiatus too.Please?It's Christmas.
>SA
"Cadence"
~~
>...
"..."
>...
"..."
>Soooo-
"I'm busy."
>Right, right! Busy, doing the thing, and I'm proud of you I want to know!
"..."
>Buuuut, Two is also wondering where you are.
"..."
>It's a problem.
"..."
>She wants to see you.
"..."
>Like... now.
"I'm busy."
>Right, of course, I know! And, like, I said, super proud. Buuutt... Two? Wants some mommy time?
"...I'll get to it in a bit."
>Oh, okay...
"..."
>...Do you want to-
"I'll be able to talk in a bit."
>Oh! Good, that would be good.
"..."
>Do you want me to leave you alone?
"Please."
>Oh, okay...
"..."
>You're doing a good job, you know. I'm... I'm always proud of you.
"..."
>Well, I'll leave you to it...
Quietly, he left, taking great care not to shut the door too hard.
"...I'll prove I'm worth it, just wait... just wait."
AJ needs to win.
She's had so much go wrong. And all her other victories have been off the backs of everyone combined.
Fuck the bugbitch and her double standards. "I can directly mind control people and be a cunt but that's fine, but you can't use this apple of power to just boost your CHR to 9999 and win'
Go on AJ, me lass.
>Fluttershy
"7"
~~~~
Every which way she scurried, this way and that running all around in a panic. Every moment, little plants of all kinds popped up in her wake. Razor blade plants, plants with six eyes, daisies...
They weren't all bad.
>Oh dear!
"Are you going to be heading off soon?"
All the while, he remained completely nonpulsed.
>Just as soon as I stop this!
"...so, a week or two."
The glare was a good sign, strangely enough.
"Sorry... Would you like help calming down?"
The other look, less of a good sign. Funny, but not very good.
>Oh dear!
"You think this is bad for you? Think about me. And my hive. This is going to be a nightmare."
>Oh... Oh yes, this is going to be terrible.
"Yes... Just a bit."
>Do you want me to tell her where you are?
"If she asks, but..."
>Don't mention your experiments?
"Please."
>Oh... I suppose that's fair.
"..."
>Should I mention your... Um, friend?
"If she asks."
>...
"She's not gonna ask."
>...are you okay?
"S-Sure..."
>...
"...even if she doesn't ask-"
>Tell her you're alive, got it.
"...thanks."
>... She probably won't-
"I know."
>>25852038
Just... fucking let her use the apple to fix things. Damn. Acting stubborn like AJ on her worse days, Chrysalis. Let her fix this fuck-up, you say fifty Hail Mary's, call it done. Every second you distract her is a second you're making it worse. Christ.
>>25853165
I want her to win, but not if she has to be like Chrysalis to do it. Relying on mind control and magic.
... Which is what she's been doing up to this point, I just noticed. Huh.
>>25852694
Never.
>>25853304
>implying she's actually going to need the apple in the end
>implying the tweest won't be something that makes even M.Night Shammy-Whammy green with envy
>>25853287
You do realize that using that apple is actually WORSE than changeling invading for real?
Because its not changelings controlling your mind now, Its those princesses trying to cover their asses. You might think its for the greater good, and to that I say 'Go fuck yourself.'. Ends do not actually justify means, not in my book.
Chrissy is morally right here.
>>25853165
>I can directly mind control people and be a cunt but that's fine,
But she's saying it's NOT fine, she's saying she gets that doing that to Shining did something to him, and she's terrified of it happening again to him or anyone else in the CE crew. She explicitly is saying it's awful, and that she shouldn't be doing it.
Hell, the THOUGHT of her doing it to them is exactly what caused her to drop the apple. That was a huge plotpoint, that she got swept up in making the world like she wants it until she got to Shining and was like "Oh shit, wait, that would be fucking horrible!"
It's not a double standard if you mess up and then later realize you fucked up hard, and want to prevent it from happening again.
>>25853440
Depends on how she uses the apple and what 'truth' she tells. There's literally only one way I can see her using that apple that does not count as mind control.
>>25853507
Assuming you and I (not the same anon you replied to) are thinking the same thing, that's exactly what AJ wants to do:
>ALRIGHT LISTEN UP, THE CHANGELINGS ARE NOT TRYING TO FUCKING INVADE, 18 DID THIS OF HER OWN WILL AND THE ROYALTY OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE SUPPORTED HER OF THEIR OWN WILL, GET OVER YOURSELVES YOU GOD DAMN PANSIES
>THE CHANGELINGS ARE JUST LIKE YOU AND ME
boom, done, on to the next problem, though I suspect the apple will somehow not be needed at the end of all this, and I can't fucking wait to see what this guy doesAJ GETTING CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IS FUCKING AWESOME
>>25853541
...Wow. That is EXACTLY what I wss talking about. Damn, anon, ha.
Because epic Applejack is epic right now.
>>25853688
Heh
Ap-El
>AJ
"Chrysalis"
~~~~
"...Like I believed you."
Truth was something she was used to.
She was used to speaking it, living it, relying on it and taking it so deeply to her heart they might as well be one and the same. She lived off the truth, because when it got right down to it, the truth was the only real thing in this world. A lie could make something look like something else, but it couldn't change what it was deep down. She understood this, she knew this, she was used to this.
It was only when she heard the truth, knew it to be the truth, but still did not understand it that she remembered that even that wasn't perfect.
She knew what Chrysalis spoke of right away, it did not even take a second in her mind. It should be as obvious now as it was deathly obvious when the Queen had been mere moments from throttling her at the very start of this, no matter how inverted things had become. She knew, exactly, what she meant with those words.
Her changelings.
She had to have known what the Queen had said was truth on some level. There had to be, at least at the very core, a basic belief when she said that she would look after them. Even if it were a shaky foundation indeed, one so unsteady it would topple over with a stern look alone, there had to be a basis there. There was, at it's core, something to stand on.
She had, even if it had not been complete and fully, believed her, and trusted her with a number of the hive she had so very little to spare.
Chrysalis had believed her, and put them in her care.
Then she had abandoned them.
It was stupid, she knew without question, that she had run off to such a place, to find answers far away from all of them. Or rather, she had eventually come to seek answers, the truth was she had just left them to be away from all of that. She had left them, rather than face the mob. The mob of ponies that, once upon a time, had believed her as well.
"You don't understand..."
1/6
>>25854151
The words repeated into her chest with every breath, low and barely conscious. There was so little life left in her, but she was using it all the same. Throwing it all against a force it could not even scratch like a child punching a storm. Useless, even if they felt they had to try.
"I can't let you."
She was struggling, she was fighting. All because someone believed in her.
"I can't..."
Her mind returned to those changelings, where they were right now. Were they even in Ponyville any longer? Had they gone away? Had things gotten worse, or had they calmed down?
How long had she been here, how much time had she wasted on her search for answers, her battle, her war?
"He... believed me."
Belief.
That word, that concept, everything about it, resonated with her.
Belief. It held such weight, held more power than most could understand. To believe in something, anything, gave purpose, it gave direction, it gave comfort and understanding, it gave so much.
When she felt the dark hooves slip, scrape down the side of her chest, she reacted. She did not think, her body moving on muscle memory alone. Instantly, she caught both hooves, and she held on.
With them in her grasp, she remembered.
She remembered a time that seemed an eternity ago, a time so long, so far away. A time that had defined her life as it would come to be, even if she didn't understand it yet. She did not understand what happened on that day, but now it was undeniable.
She remembered the night she held in her hooves two others, lavender color, with bits of scrapes along normally pristine hooves. Hooves that were so unlike her own, tarnished from setting out on their very first adventure. She remembered the time Nightmare Moon returned.
She remembered that time, looking down at a face of fear, of terror and uncertainty, she remembered every detail. Every single inch of that face so certain she was about to fall, and most of all she remembered what she had said that night
>Let go.
2/6
>>25854160
Two words, with all the weight of certain doom bearing down on her. The look of disbelief, of thinking her mad or crazed, or perhaps even possessed. That look the look of needing to hang on, of wanting so badly to cling even longer to the edge. But she needed to fall.
She needed to believe her.
She had spoken the truth, she had spoken with her heart, and she had only wanted to see her friend safe, but it all hinged on her believing. It hinged on the trust that when she said she would be fine, that all would be well. She had been saved, when she believed.
>Chrysalis...
Now, nothing was like it had been. They were all poised, just as Twilight had been on that night, they were all on the edge of falling into an endless pit of suspicion, of distrust and strife until it became unbearable, and a final battle broke out. It was this reason why she could not understand why the Queen continued to fight her, continued to battle against her even as she worked to save her changelings, not just those she had been tasked with, but all of them. Save their reputations, their futures and their lives. She sought to save all of them.
So why didn't she understand?
She had needed the Elements of Harmony to save the world before, Chrysalis had to know of this. It was not her own power that had held back the eternal night, it was not her own might, but that of the Element of Honesty in tandem with the others. Why couldn't she understand that the Apple was exactly that? A gift from the Tree of Harmony, out to save all the world?
It was not mind control, she was not making them like puppets. She was using it to tell them the truth, a truth they needed to hear even if they did not understand it. With it's power, they merely believed, just as Twilight had so long ago. She was using it to save them, just as she had her friend.
>...But...
She hadn't.
3/6
>>25854173
She hadn't needed the Element of Honesty, Twilight had believed her, just her. Her truth had been heard, and she had saved the day with the others. She had only needed her own words.
That was why she spoke the truth, why she put so much into it. It was special, important in a way that little else was. Truth was so vital to this world, lies were hollow and empty, lies broke and they took everyone down with them. She did not want to make them believe lies, she wanted them to know the truth.
>Ah' just want them to know the truth, the real truth, so they'll believe it. Just like...
"...Just like me?"
Those words had struck her harder than any blow had done this day.
She had not been lying to Chrysalis when she swore to protect them, she had not. She had been honest, true and dedicated. She had put her all into that, she had worked her best to make it a fact.
>Ah'...
But it had become a lie.
She had spoken the truth, believed it to be the truth, knew for a fact it was the truth. For a time, it had been the truth.
It had not stayed the truth.
>...Ah' lied to you. Ah' meant it back, then, really, Ah' did, but...
She had not only failed Chrysalis, but every one of those changelings, every one that put their trust, their lives, in her hold. She had lied to them all.
"...I meant it too."
What was it she had promised. Something about not making it worse? That was what the Queen had apparently swore to him. From the crumbling stone outside, the sounds of the cliff occasionally falling it, it seemed that too, had become a lie.
Or had it?
She was trying to go to save the changelings right now, she would keep her promise if she just left.
Chrysalis was trying to hold her back, to keep her from continuing on, she wished to keep her promise as well. They were both holding on to their truths, lest they become a lie. For the ones that had believed in them.
If one let go, they had failed.
>...Don't you understand...
4/6
>>25854182
The power of the Apple tingled in her hoof, pulsating with a magic beyond her comprehension.
>Don't you understand what this means? We can end it already. Ah'm just... Ah'm sick of it all, Chrysalis, aren't you too?
Where the energy had come from, where the power had emerged, she would never be able to say. But somehow, the Queen managed to lift her head back up, to tilt it upwards from her near ground level position, and look her right in the eye.
"Yes. I hate this too. I hate this... so much. It feels like everything I tried to do is just..."
>Gone.
"Gone... a whole year trying to get our reputation back, gone."
>Just washed away..
"...I know it's all my fault."
She shook and rattled in her grasp, but her head would not fall back down.
"I know... and I'm so tired of failing. Every time I try, every single time I try to do something it just blows up in my face. Again and again I just have to deal with nothing working. I'm sick of it too."
>So... why? Just let me go do it. Just let me end it.
"I can't."
>Why?
"Because... he believed me."
She felt bile in her mouth, a foul taste that made her lip curl, her nose flare out in discomfort and her eye strain to even look at her any longer.
>Why is that so important?
"You can't understand."
The Queen's words were sincere, every single one she believed to be the absolute truth.
The more she thought of them, the more she looked at them, the more she realized. They were wrong.
>...Ah' just want it to be over. Ah'm doin' this for your changelings, for you too even.
"Applejack?"
>Yeah?
"Put down the Apple, and say that again."
She hadn't even realized it she had been holding it this whole time in a deathly grip, so strained it pained her to let it go.
It took determination, it took will, but eventually, let it go she did.
>...Ah'm doin' this for your changelings, and you.
She watched every expression, every twitch that crossed the Queen's face, and held her breath.
"...You're lying."
5/6
>>25854200
It shook in her head, like the sound of a hammer hitting the nail on a coffin. Two words, and they said more than any speech of a thousand ever could.
The Apple returned to her, so quickly she wasn't even sure if she had picked it up intentionally or merely out of reflex, but she picked it up all the same. She picked it up, cradled it, protected it like it was her everything, and she looked away from the eyes boring into her.
>You need to let me go now, and stop fighting.
"...One shot."
A single, shaky hoof pulled back, touching her own chitinous temple with the very tip.
>Chrysalis...
"One shot, right here."
>Chrysalis, Ah' can't. You won't survive it.
"Then I'm not letting go."
>Chrysalis, Ah' can pull you off easy as ripping paper. Ya' ain't nowhere near as strong as me right now, this ain't even a fight.
"One shot. Do it, if you're sure."
>Why...
"Because otherwise, I won't be able to look them, any of them, in the eye ever again."
>Who?
"...Everyone. Do it, so at least I know... I gave it everything."
Her hoof twitched, a subtle vibration running though it as a tingle of her magic intermingled with the muscles and fibers below. She could feel the power in her now, her wild use of magic still remaining even so much later after their fight. So much power.
It would only take one shot. One little tap, one little hit, and she would go down. She might hurt her, it might do so much worse damage, but it is all it would take.
Or, she could simply pull her loose, toss her away, and fly off. No way could she follow, not like this.
Either way would work. Either way would stop her, and free her to go solve this problem once and for all.
"Do it."
She felt her hoof rising up, to grab the limb or to strike, even she wasn't sure.
"Do it, if you're sure!"
Her breath slowed, and she prepared herself.
"Do it, or I'll never let go!"
She felt the magic of the Apple against her, felt the truth flow through her.
"DO IT!"
She made her choice.
>>25854214
AND THEN THEY KISSED!
>>25854214
YOU DID THIS
LOOK WHAT YOU DID
LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID ANON
YOU DID IT
>>25854214
Yay! I got my AJ/Chrysalis heart-to-heart!
Damn, both of them just admitting they were just tired of that whole dance was just... special.
>>25854214
Dude just let the Chancellor take care of your refugees, geeze, no one's interested in your sex-jihad anymore
>>25854225
>...
"...that was weird."
>Little bit, yeah.
"Why did you..."
>Panicked.
"Oh, I see... is that just something you do when you panic?"
>Not really.
"... uh huh."
>...
"...this a bad time to mention I don't find you attractive?"
>Not a good time, yeah.
>>25854214
>and then Applejack picked the abttle-worn Chrysalis up, threw her over her back and took off into the air
>cue music
>I can show you the truuuuth...~
>>25854214
I feel like it's going to end on the next one or the one after, and dammit I'm not ready to see this go!
>>25854300
>has hit every note I wanted
Well, expect my AJ win, but that's coming, right?
....r-right?
>>25854811
>Turns out this was all one giant troll, and AJ is going to lose horribly and just decide to quit at the end.
>>25854503
>Speaking facts, being hooooonest
>Tell me Chrysalis now when did you last let your heart shine briiight?
>>25855195
...now I want a full song. Right the hell now.
>>25854981
Or worse...HE NEVER FINISHES IT
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
'SAJ'
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content does matter, but I need to get this out!
Applause
"That was a great movie."
'Ah loved it.'
>Yay, I knew you would!
"But why did Oboe Wand disappear like that? Is she dead or what? Ah don't get it. Her body wasn't even there."
>It's a little weird to explain, but-
'How come the Death Sun didn't have many guard rails? Did they skip out on it because of budget?'
"What happens to Darth Flavor? Does she just float around in the Pie Fighter?"
>You find out in-
'That award ceremony kinda reminds me of the time after we beat discord.'
>Oh about that. The funny thing is-
"Hold up, if it's the size of a moon then why didn't they call it a Death Moon?"
>I'd explain if you two would just shut up and let me!
"You didn't have to raise your voice. We can hear you just fine."
'Look at miss grumpy there. Gosh, Ah guess there's no fun allowed here.'
>*gasp* Am I the grumpy one now? When did I become AJ's striaght mare? Is this why DT's so grumpy wumpy?
"Shhh the next one is starting...oh more reading."
>WHAT IS MY LIFE BECOMING!?
>Chitania
"Pommel"
'???'
~???~
~~
Watching a giant, easily twice his size, polkadotted, red and green plaid colored dog he knew to be the strongest changeling alive sniff the ground and follow an invisible something was, without question, the moment of his life. This easily topped killing a god, no question.
"I just- why the colors!?"
>Shut up.
"How!? At what point in forming your disguise did you make such a horrible connection!? What has to happen in a changelings brain to do this!? You'd think this would be harder to do than just copying someone, right? Don't you have to see in your mind all of these colors and designs? How do you make this from nothing?"
>Shut up.
"I just... and a dog! You picked a dog! Of all the things you could have been, a dog. Does your nose actually get better? Is that a thing? Do you gain animal powers when you turn into them?"
>Animals don't have powers, they just have better built nasal cavities and sensory organs in their noses.
"Oh my god who I totally killed but then he didn't die, how did you even find that out? Did you test this? Did I miss the day that Chitty became a Kitty over and over? You have to show me that."
>I wish I had digested you.
"Then you would have a frankly unhealthy worm inside of you- wait a damn minute! You don't eat food! How did you get a tapeworm!?"
>I don't know.
"I have so many questions about all of this!"
>Well, it will have to wait.
"For what? What could possibly be worth more than this right now?"
She did not answer with words.
Instead, she answered with fire that covered her form, burning away the fur and the dog shape, and revealing the Titan once more.
What little questions remained, she answered with banging.
>GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE AND COME HERE YOU PIECE OF SHIT! I AM SO NOT IN THE FUCKING MOOD FOR THIS!
"...You actually think they're in a shed? How would they fit!?"
>ONE!
1/2
>>25855805
"I mean, that's just stupid. They'd die! This is the dumbest thing you have ever done, and I just saw you become a tyedye dog!"
>TWO!
"And why would they even come out!? You're asking them to do this for literally no-"
WHAM went the door. What followed was small, it was tiny, and many a time before it had brought pain.
Instead, this time, it only brought a tiny pip! sound.
>HA! HA HA HA! FUCK YOU!
"Damn it, I hoped that paper airplane would keep working."
>Why? Why would it? Why would I never figure out how to stop that with all my powers? It's a damn piece of paper and foes go for the eyes all the time! Of course I would figure it out, that's just moronic to assume it would keep working!
"...then what took you so long?"
>Because shut up! Now! You! I want to- wait, who the fuck are-
'BEHOLD, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE!'
From every inch of the inside of that shed, colors bright and wonderful literally erupted, so powerful they bowed out the interior and threatened to bring the whole thing down.
>MY EYES!
"...yes."
>OH FUCK THAT HURTS! THAT HURTS MORE THAN THE PAPER!
'Ha ha! You have been bested by the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie, foe! Come my friends, run before she recovers!'
At once, they all scattered, running under the flailing Titans leg while she wailed in pain. Every which way, they fled, all off in so many directions she could never follow.
Or they would have, if they all didn't immediately run face first into the nearest flat surface.
'...er-'
~WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN US!? OH FUCK I CAN'T SEE!~
'Trixie might have misjudged her own power.'
~OW! WHY ARE THERE SO MANY WALLS!?~
>GET BACK HERE! I WILL TURN YOU TO PASTE!... JUST AS SOON AS I CAN SEE WHAT THE FUCK I'M YELLING AT!
'Are you going to run, Guard?'
"Hm? Oh, sure, in a minute. Just let me enjoy this."
>I CAN SEE FOREVER!
"...let me enjoy this."
>>25855823
Ha, take that you literal giant bitch
...now everyone run before she murders you all.
>>25855646
>Pinkie as the straight mare
>AJ as the conflicted morally ambiguous one
>Chrysalis as the never-give-up hero who's trying to save the day, even if it kills her
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT'S REAL ANYMORE
>>25856093
Up is down! Left is right! Mice are chasing cats! Everything is backwards!
>>25856093
>>25856335
I'm pretty sure Cheese Sandwich is singing this in a cell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KThlYHfIVa8
>>25856360
>Cheese
>Hey everybody what'd I mi-
He sees everything, does a moontrot right back into the train.
>>25856391
I'm pretty sure he got arrested or is still stuck on the rock farm, right?
>>25856407
Really? I thought he got on a train and was never heard from again
>>25856093
You forgot
>Trixie is being useful
>>25854214
>Going 2deep4me by examining the actual implications of telling the truth as you see itVS reality as it will come to be
What the fuck.
Gnight, thread.
Hope the big finale of AJS arc drops tomorrow, and is as good as the rest of it was.
Tru Dat
Goodnight
CD
>Lavan
"32"
"So is the coast clear?"
>I am not sure, do you want me to visit the coast?
"Wh-nonono, you stay riiiiight here, ok? I think you're playing a part in me not being besieged again."
>Being useful, this...
"Pleases you?"
>I am pleased, yes, but...hmm...
"Hmm?"
>Friendly Changeling, tell me true, is this all the use I can be?
"Well I mean I can't ask for much more, I have had more than enough beatings for one lifetime."
>But you invited me into your homes, me, of all creatures me.
"Well I wasn't going to turn you away...mostly out of complete and utter fear, but still, I didn't."
>This is much of a kindness, I've been getting turned around and told to go here and there so much...I didn't really think there was more to do in a place than see all the interesting things. Now I know about Changelings, and they are fascinating. I wonder if there are more interesting things that I didn't think to listen to...
"Hey, you're apparently new at this whole...being a tourist thing. It takes a while to realize you need to stop and smell the roses."
>I will do that when my nose comes back, but this information is greatly appreciated! So I feel I must help you as you have helped me!
"How so?"
>I have lived very very long, longer than most beings alive today, and I know much from doing that being alive thing. So, I need to the answer to a question...
"Yes?"
>If I knew how to help your blind friend see again, would you accept my help?
"Hmm..."
'MOTHERFUCKER IF YOU SAY ANYTHING OTHER THAN YES I WILL BREAK BIOLOGY TO SWITCH GENDERS JUST TO SKULLFUCK YOU!'
"GAH! YOU HEARD ALL THAT!?"
'ENHANCED SENSES! TELL HIM YES! I'M SICK OF BEING BLIND!'
"..."
>...
"...yes."
>Fantastic! I will begin remembering the things we need to do this.
Fwump.
"...uh...does the remembering really necessitate lying on my welcome mat?"
>I am in thought, will resume conversation after thinking is complete.
'Gonna see again, hell yeah. Was running outta eye puns.'
>>25858671
Good early morning, thread.
>>25859421
Good morning
I guess if Bugbutt is the one being the determined stubborn stamina hero etc etc this time, and AJ is the opposite, then that's a good thing.
Cos evidently being the stubborn good guy hasn't netted AJ any character development since thread 1
Ah shit, I remember that story where Celestia told AJ "Fuck you, you nearly pulverized 7 into a fine mist, learn your magic you fuck" and AJ was all "abloo abloo abloo I'm so sorry I promise I'll start practising right now" And Celestia was all "Yes our training starts now" and then when it got completely forgotten.
If we don't tail this into a "Someone teach AJ how to fucking control her magic" after wrapping whatever this arc is up, I am outski
>>25860117
Hopefully will leave off on a higher note, cuz I don't want to write about that. That's fucking depressing, it would make me only one to make her do stuff that would have her not look at her magic, but rather suppresses iy.
>>25860117
Another thing on the semi short list of things forgotten.
Although now that we've seen unions of her power, reckon that'll change.
And also, just how much of this was AJ's power in the first place? Did it all come from apple, or did the apple just vastly amplify what she could do with training??
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
'SAJ'
~~~~
>Welcome to Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and I drag a movie trilogy out!
"So that's what ponies are referencing. Darth Flavor is Lute's mother!"
[That was such a big twist!]
>...Who said that?
"Said what?"
'It turns out Master Yogurt was right. Shouldn't have gone.'
"Now hold up. The movie just ends right there? What happened to Bon Solo?"
>They threw her down a pit where she gets digested. Lute spends the rest of the next movie agonizing over it.
'What about Prince Lego? He's not going to be her romantic interest?'
>Stray blaster shot. The one time a Ponetrooper actually hit something. The actor who played Prince Lego was killed in an accident during the filming, so they had to kill him off.
["'NO!'"]
Movie starts.
>Nah I'm just kidding, but I'm going to start making up things if you keep asking questions about the movie.
'Ahh ha ha...you got me...Ah'll remember that when Ah'm about to kill you later.'
>...Oh yeah that's right.
>>25855823
Does this count as Trixie beating Chitty? Because I really want it to count.
>>25860587
I'd say not, since she is still fine, she just hurt her eyes.
>>25860379
Screwing with a sociopathic monster.
What could possibly go wrong?
Question to the thread. Are we planning to bring any of the season 5 characters into our world in the near future?
>>25860824
Don't care. Cast is humongous as is. If you want them in, write them in.
>>25860887
I'm indifferent. I just was wondering if anyone had plans.
>>25860824
Don't have any plans, but I'm open
>>25860343
I personally HOPE it's the latter, cos endgame AJ using this stuff for her actual fight scenes would be a joy to read and write
>>25861247
She has actually shown before that she can control plants (most recently in a gag with Sunset's dead plant). Everything else she has done is an extension of her telekinesis, which means she can do it on the regular if she actually does magic training.
>>25861271
You mean the armour?
And the wings? (Did we do wings? We should do the wings)
That was plant magic?
>>25861285
It is made of plant material, so she was controlling it to make her armor and wings (probably temporary fused or held there subconsciously). And I also meant all the vine whips she kept spamming.
>AJ
~~
Through Everfree Forest, she walked alone.
>It's almost over.
She felt very little determination, despite that. She felt slow as she trudged through Everfree forest, not even bothering to rely on her wings once again. Nothing but step, after step, after calculated step.
All the while, she remembered.
She remembered her life down in Ponyville, of being the mare everyone relied on, who they looked to when there was danger. Of that silly get together when she had stopped the cows from running the town over, when everyone had been watching when she had been sent off to go get the money to repair the town hall. They had looked to her, again and again, because they knew she was the hard working, honest mare. She remembered every single time.
Those memories were blurrier now. Not gone, just blurry. Somewhat unfocused in the sea of her recent adventures. She hadn't always made the best calls recently, she could admit that, but more often than not she was completely right. More often than not, everything would have gone so much better if they had just listened, if all of them had just listened.
So many problems, so many issues, could be avoided if they had just listened.
She never wanted to be a princess, not once, not never. She never dreamed of being in a big castle, of having wings and a horn and magical might, no. She loved her farmlife, she was happy to be a farmer.
Then things had to change.
She knew the importance of responsibility. She stuck to it, and if she couldn't fulfill it she wouldn't show her face until she could. She knew the importance of sticking to your word, no matter what. That was vital, if you were ever going to be worth a thing.
It made it all the more painful when she realized she had not when she had flown away. When she had let the frustration get to her, to move her like she never would if she could think straight for just a moment. She never got that moment, even when she had so long.
She never got a chance to breath.
1/3
>>25861464
Look after the kingdom, look after Sunset, look after the changelings, just kept piling them on and on and on. The whole weight of the world on her back, and then they just decided to start fitting stuff in the gaps. Didn't they understand she was still just a pony? Didn't they know she felt the weight, just like everyone else?
Or, did that even matter anymore?
She was a princess now, that was her responsibility.
She was a teacher now, that was her responsibility.
She was an overseer now, that was her responsibility.
That was her life, and it was hard. All of them filled with so many questions.
>...why not?
She had the answers to these now. Every question could be answered, solved and set, all with the magic that tingled against her. The thing with the power to solve her every question and have it answered once and for all.
She still did not understand the stance of the Queen, out of everyone she would think that the changeling most of all would have understood, certainly not fought her to such drastic extremes, and certainly not forced her to make such a terrible choice at the end. She didn't know if the others were going to forgive her for what she had done to Chrysalis, but they would understand. She was sure of that now.
She simply did not understand why the Queen would not want this. An easy solution, a simple answer, and it was done. Out of everyone, she would think that her longtime nuisance would be the first to jump at the chance. She didn't understand it.
She believed it now, but she didn't understand it.
>It's... it's just too much.
She could solve everything, right now, with nothing but the truth and not a thing more. She could solve it now, there was nothing standing in her way.
>Ah'm not gonna command them, Ah'm not gonna take them over, Ah'm not...
No, she had to admit it, she was going to control them. There was no getting around it, she was going to control them with this new magic.
>Is that so bad?
2/3
>>25861473
Just because the magic can be used for evil, doesn't mean she would. That whole power corrupts junk never made a lick of sense to her, and always felt right pessimistic. That there just wasn't a pony alive who could actually handle vast power and do the right thing.
Sure, in the wrong hooves, this would be a weapon that could bring Equestria, or the whole world, to it's knees. She wasn't like them, she wasn't obsessed with victory or power, she just wanted it fixed.
She wanted it all to be fixed, and to stay fixed. To stop taking the hard route, and just take the one that works.
To take the magic against her that felt so soothing, so comforting, and just use it. To finally be done, and to be fixed. Why was that so wrong, why was that so bad? She wasn't betraying what they had taught to her, their words still rang true, she was only going to use the truth to make this done, what was wrong with that?
She still believed in what they had said, she still believed in what they had left her, but this way would work, what was wrong with that?
What was wrong with it.
>All they have ta' do is... is...
She knew why, but she still felt comfort in the glow at her side.
She was a princess now.
>...it's almost over.
And they needed to believe her.
~~~~~Ready for the big finish? It's coming next.
>>25861479Not like, immediately next, when I finish it, but it will be done today!IT'S ALMOST OVER!
>>25861479
Oh my god, she really did kill Chrysalis
Whelp, that ones going to be hard to explain unless she has something onhand that can make them think it was alrigh-oh hey!
Everything's coming up Applejack!
>>25861545
Vigilo confido!
VIGILO CONFIDO!
VIGILO CONFIDO!
V I G I L O C O N F I D O !
>>25861490
>dawn of the final day
OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
>>25861479
Everyone is going to blow their loads thinking you killed BitchBug.
>>25861545
>>25861571
If she did btw, this becomes her supervillain origin stroy.
>>25861479
it's a good thing she just knocked Queen Bitch outright?r-right?
>>25861605
If she just shrugged her off she would have collapsed and passed out. But she needs hugs ASAP.
>>25861545
>>25861571
>>25861593
>>25861605
>>25861635
>Implying Chrysalis is dead
If that happened, 70% of your fucks would piss yourself in anger for your hard-on you got for Queen Bitch.
I can't stand her, personally. Love the silliness she outputs, but it's always overshadowed by 'I am Queen I do what I want niggers'.
So as much as it would be lovely, you have to remember the only canon deaths we've had in this thread are a couple of unnamed griffons that Chitty done smushed.
Cunt-bug is fine.
>Chitania
"Pommel"
'29'
[MM]
{Trixie}
(Zecora)
-???
~???~
~~~~
>GET BACK HERE!
Her eyesight had not yet totally returned, as was obvious to any who could see the almost drunken stumbling around and blind flailing that the Queen changeling was in the middle of doing.
Not a hard feat for any, seeing as at some point in the process, she had made the decision that the most appropriate way to speak to a changeling was in her Titan form.
"Illegal! This is so freaking illegal!"
>SHUT UP QUICKSILVER!
"I'm- wait a fucking minute, how do you know what his name is, and yet I'm just 'Puddle'?"
>GRAAGGGGHHHHHHH!
Down below, running every which way that the Titan wasn't and little else thought but that, was the one she sought.
He was not having fun.
'OH SUGAR HONEY ICED TEA FLYING UNDER CRUEL KINGS!'
>...What!? What the fuck did you just say?
'LANGUAGE!'
>...WHAT!?
[It's for ghost orphans!]
>...WHAT!?
{They're very young and don't like bad language! Or, well, I guess they're technically not young anymore, some of them died ages ago, but they were young when they died!}
>I... I don't... what?
"Don't look at me, I'm just as confused as you."
>I don't... I don't....
(This isn't complicated you simple thing! No more swears from your mouth should swing!)
>...What happened to my life.
She closed in on the fleeing ling, easily outranking his pitiful speed with long strides of her own. It was only then, when she neared him so close she could almost reach out and grab him, that Pommel made his move.
"Alright, that's enough! You are clearly causing a panic and public discontent, and I am going to have to-"
She never even slowed down, merely stepped over him like he wasn't there.
"...Fine, want to be like that."
The moment her hind leg came into view, he made his next move.
Grabbing onto the nearest hole he could reach, and hopping up.
1/5
>>25861761
"Tried to be a nice guy, tried to play it easy, that's what I did! I tried to be cool about this! I totally tried to be cool about this! But noooooo! You just had to make this a whole big thing, didn't you!? You just had to make this so I had to act like this! Well, guess what!? I've fought bigger, and I've fought uglier, and-"
And whatever he was going to say, it was going to have to wait.
He felt gravity leave him as the massive body leaned forwards, just barely hung on to that hind leg as they lifted off the ground.
He felt the dread overtake him when those hind legs were brought in.
"...Son of a-"
Like twin rockets, both hind legs shot out in a devastating buck, so powerful all watching were fairly certain that had a castle been in the way, it would have been little more than rubble. So much power, and he would have felt all of it.
>Hrmph, stupid fucking... oh come on!
He had not yet let go. His entire body was covered from hooftip to horntip in magic, but he had not let go.
>Seriously!?
She bucked, again and again, kicking wildly at nothing at all as she struggled to get him loose.
He held on, with magic and with his strength, despite it all.
>Oh for fucks sake!
"M-ma'am, I am bringing you in and there's nothing you can do to- please don't do that."
Her massive wall of a foreleg reached back, aiming right for him as her lower ankle coiled inwards.
"Please don't do that."
Her expressing was fairly neutral when that hoof went back.
There was just a hint of a smirk when she flicked forwards.
>...OH COME ON!
Less so when he ducked inside one of those holes.
>OH FOR FUCKS- wait, this is actually easy.
Fire consumed her, yet strangely to all watching it did not change her size, nor her form. Nothing about her seemed any different.
Unless, of course, one were looking at where there had once been a hole that a certain pony had ducked into.
>...Wait for it- there it is!
2/5
We back now?
>>25861776
Only she could see, or rather feel, what was going on, but the blast after blast that went off inside barely even tickled her.
>Ha! I'm Titan Armored all the way through, asshole! Now... let's see- Oh! This is good.
Maliciously she smiled as her hind leg lifted just a bit, then stamped.
And stamped and stamped and stamped and stamped.
>Annndd, done?
The flames returned, and with it the hole she had hidden. Her leg ever so slightly tilted to the side, and out the bundle of white rolled, gasping all the way.
"HUHHH!... Okay, so, firing off in an enclosed space, stupid, I got that."
>Congratulations! I'm sure it's rare that you get to be inside of a lady's hole and not have to pay for it, I hope that was fun.
"...Says the mare who hired a prostitute?"
>Oh ho, fair enough, now- SON OF A BITCH!
Her hoof snapped up so quickly he could not follow it, barely even registering when that hoof went into her massive, wild mane and punched inside of it.
What shot out was, somehow, even quicker, yet he managed to catch it.
"...hi?"
-WHY DIDN'T IT FUCKING WORK!?-
"I choose to take that as a hi back."
Angrily, the mare let out a burst of magic, breaking the captains hold on her.
-Why!?-
"Why what? What was the plan, exactly?"
-I was trying to drain her!-
"Oh... why didn't that- shutting up."
It did not take a genius to know to stop talking when she was glaring at him so fiercely she could melt steel with it alone.
>Because you did it already.
-...What!?-
>You did that, you drained my power when you were that... thing. That weird two legged thing.
-So what!?-
>So I know how you did it and can counter it now. What, did you think I wouldn't be prepared? You blew a fucking hole in me! That's not exactly something you just shrug off and forget! I had a scar for a month because of that!
"...Really? You looked fine to-oh, right, changeling... you know, you guys have really useful powers-"
-Shut up.-
3/5
>>25861788
"Uh huh... do you have a plan? I'm fresh out, she's got the terrain advantage thanks to the wide open spaces, so I can't collapse anything. She's prepared in case we go for the eyes now. She's got the power advantage, and now my plan B of having someone drain her is apparently not to be. Thoughts?"
-Aren't you the one that comes up with plans?-
"Well, yes, but-"
>But he thought if he talked about all the things I'd done, I'd be distracted listening to him instead of just walking over here and grabbing this changeling.
He winced when he saw her leave.
"Yes, that, exactly that... you know, for a being who wants to kill gods, you have a weird hubris streak."
>Already lost to a pony once thinking him weak, that was plenty thank you!
-Hey!-
>Fine, a pony and a weird... thing.
-... she better be talking about my demon form.-
"She's not."
-I know...so, plan?-
"Don't have one."
-But?-
"But I'm gonna charge the giant monster anyway."
-Good.-
They needed to say nothing more, they were already running. Off at top speed towards the massive shape closing in on two ponies, a zebra and a changeling.
>Just stop already! I promised my daughter I wouldn't hurt you.
But they would not. Every time she came close, they would duck between buildings, and then somehow come out on a seemingly random side.
'I don't believe you!'
[Just live Niney alone! He doesn't want to go with you!]
She swiped down, grabbing at him once again, only to miss when he ducked into an abandoned building that looked like a carousel had fused with a house, before somehow coming out clear across the street from another empty building that had pictures of sweets all over it.
>Oh, sure, the mob's better.
{The Great and Powerful Trixie can handle any mob!}
>Good job so far.
4/5
>>25861798
(Oh, you are one to talk you massive beast! I still see quite the gathering to the east!)
She paused, just long enough for them to escape her again, noting the direction of the sun.
>...They're to the north.
(I know but it had to rhyme! I didn't have any time!)
She honestly didn't know what to say to that.
>Do you have a disorder of some kind?
'HEY! Still thine tongue talking of mine companion most dear!'
>Definitely something wrong with you.
[Don't diss the sexy talk!]
>I'm noticing a trend.... hold up.
Listlessly, her wings began to flutter, carrying her up just before a wave of ice could slide it's way underneath her.
>The golem already did that.
The two leapt out from their hiding place, a blast already firing off from the yellow horn and colliding with the changelings shoulder, doing nothing more than fizzling out harmlessly.
-FUCK YOU! Come back and fight me like a real mare, or are you too much of a pussy to fight someone who kicked your ass before!?-
She never even turned her head.
>For fucks sake! Stop running! It is so hard to catch up to you without stepping on you!
'No!'
>Ugh... I'm a fucking dog catcher. I've literally been reduced to a dog catcher.
[GREAT AND POWERFUL FLARE!... SHOOT!]
>Did that one already- oh thank goodness.
'Wait, wha-'
"TWENTY NINE! LOOK OUT!"
'For wha- BY ZECORAS FLANKS!'
He only had a second, that was all. Just one second to turn his head around and look.
Just one second before he, and all the others, ran headfirst into the mob.
~OH SHIT!!~
~IT'S THE CHANGELING WHO'S BEEN IN THE MAYORS OFFICE!~
~It's just like over there! IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME!~
As the mob descended into screams, accusations, panicking and fear, they all had their own reactions.
"...Well shit."
-SHIT!-
'Uh oh...'
[Oh, oh dear...]
{Ahhhh... shoot.}
(Damn.)
Only one, only a single voice among the chaos, was different from the others.
>Hrm.
Only she had a neutral on her face as the screams grew louder.
>Told you so.
>>25861798
We never did repurpose carousel boutique like we did the library (Cheerilee's house). Good continuity.
>>25861748
Actually the CIDF is not as big as you think it is. Anti-bitch bug outnumber and anti-changeling dwarfs them.
>>25861986
...how the fuck can you tell? We're all anonymous, keeping count of any one side would be impossible, the only thing you could measure is which side posts more vigorously/often than the other.
>>25861986
Yeah, I mean, Chrysalis isn't that popular of a character, it's not like she shows up in that much comedy or serious stories. And of course there's the lacking of stories for the other lings, they've never gotten much attention. I mean, hell, Chitania never gets any stories of any kind at all! We don't even use her for literally anything until she has to hit something, lame. Changelings never get stories.
You can see the evidence in this by the complete and utter lack of any arguments concerning changelings, it's pretty much universal. There's, like, way more people that hate Chrysalis and all the changelings than ones who like them or write about them or shit, look at all the evidence! It's pretty damn obvious if you're a smart guy, and not an idiot.
You're a smart guy, right? You don't want to be an idiot.
>>25861593
>If she did btw, this becomes her supervillain origin stroy.
>The final villain of /pa/ is... Applejack.
Admit it, it's not going to happen, but that would be fucking awesome.
>>25862048
Didn't say unpopular, I said those who jump to her defense are outnumbered. I know because I am most of the chrysalis defense posts in the last 10 threads. And by two of you jumping up to call me an idiot for saying she is hated more than loved. Hell I started most of my shit because some of you were cheering for AJ to do the shit chrysalis is hated by the other characters for.
OOCO
>SA
"AJ"
~~~~~
>....
"Alright, no worries, ah got this now."
>You're sure.
"Totally sure!"
>Positive.
"Yep!"
>.. Alright, lets see it.
"Alright... Hup!"
CRACK!
>...
"...huh, where's the tree? There should be a..."
>...
"...Ah am so sorry."
>Not like I was using them anyway.
>>25862361
>I am most of the defense posts from the last ten threads.
Yeah, could you stop that?
I say that not because I want you to stop defending Chrysalis, it's just... That's really, really obvious bait. The reason no one else really does any arguing on that is because it's the same arguments we've had for over three dozen threads. It's the exact same arguments, the other side never has a good argument besides how much they dislike Chrysalis and how they don't want her to do all the stuff she does for no other reason than its her, and it just eats up posts. After you(assuming its you) finally laid out a definitive answer to if Chrysalis keeps winning, the only response from that side was "but I still don't like her!"
Those on the pro-changeling side vastly outnumber those that want Chrysalis to go away, only difference is that they prove it with content, with jokes and with serious stories, not arguments at two in the morning.
Stop falling for it, it's been happening since thread 20, and it hasn't done a thing. Pro changeling? Prove it with a story, that's literally all we care about.
Anti side could do that too with stories of the main six, but... You know. They can't all have LNPP's abilities to actually provide some entertaining content, and prove it that way.
>>25862428
You can be pro-changeling while still thinking Chrysalis and Chitania are a couple of bitches, you pretentious asshole.
>>25862428
>They can't all have LNPP's abilities to actually provide some entertaining content, and prove it that way.
Hey, mad respect for PP/LNPP anon. He doesn't like the harem or Chrysalis or that, so he does his own thing with funny bits of Pinkie Pie. That right there? All I give a fuck about. I have never read a single of those 2-6 AM arguments, and never plan on it, but I will always CTRL-F For "Late Night" every morning. I don't care if the dude is arguing all the time or not, don't give a shit because he brings the laughs/occasional funny battle.
Just... so much more of that, please? That is so much better. The arguments and debates never seem to affect the story any, so why not spend that time contributing? If you're worried about it getting NC'd, just play it safe. Just something, you know? I used to argue in favor of Chrysalis all the time, but around thread 98 I just got tired of it. It's the same thing all the time, and all it does is make the thread shorter for something I don't want to read again and most don't even seem to pay attention to.
I'll probably never join in an argument about them again, but I'll always be happy to cheer her on when she's fighting Supermode Applejack. Or hell, anything without her, these bits with Aj's powers hurting Shiny are a ball. More of that, please? Anything story wise, I'll take it.
>>25862428
Okay, I'll contain my autism when it comes to Chrysalis. The win-loss thing was me. I was actually just curious myself about how things shaked out with her and decided once I put in the work to share (after someone made a post I could reply to in order for it to be relevant to post it). As for the 2am arguments. I've been working overnight and have been bumping the thread on my breaks. Taking the bait gave me something to work with besides 'goodnight thread'. Hell I responded to the filly prostitution spam that almost knocked us off a few nights ago.
Before you say it, I've tried my hand at writing for here and honestly the best thing I ever did for this thread with my writing was taking over for that one thread LNPP couldn't do predictions. I'm much better at coming up with ideas (it was my idea to expand from next thread preview to omakes) Than execution. I just don't have the ability to put it to paper myself.
I also love LNPP stories. It gave Pinkie something to do to while out of the plot and it is generally awesome. He even taught Cadence how to use whips in one of his stories.
>>25862735
>As for the 2am arguments. I've been working overnight and have been bumping the thread on my breaks. Taking the bait gave me something to work with besides 'goodnight thread'. Hell I responded to the filly prostitution spam that almost knocked us off a few nights ago.
I understand, and appreciate that.
>Before you say it, I've tried my hand at writing for here and honestly the best thing I ever did for this thread with my writing was taking over for that one thread LNPP couldn't do predictions
Ahhhhh, come on, try your hand at some sillies! Sillies are how most of the 'big' writers started. Hell, the guy who did the vast majority of the big parts of the Chitania arc, including her character, started out doing DnD gags that were 100 percent dialog. Well, he might've done something else before that, but I remember him being DnD/Table Manners/ Momsie/Movie Night anon. Those were just talking funnies, and yet he still eventually worked up to dramatic fights.
Give it a shot! Do an OOCO where AJ tests her magic, who knows what might happen? It's really fun, take my word on it. And the best part about short funnies is that while you're getting better, worst case scenario is 'it doesn't get a lot of laugh's, thats all.
Go for it, man. Have some fun, that's what all this is about.
>>25862735
>>25862790
Fun fact, the guy writing the current AJ arc?Which is coming with the finale I swear, I'm just slow
Never wrote a serious piece, or any post over THREE long, before now. This is my first arc.
Comedy is the perfect cutting ground while you form some ideas.
>>25862508
Beat me to it.
>>25862821
Fuck, I wrote nothing but 1-2 post sillies for 29 since thread 13, never got around to my mini till WAAYYYYY later.
>>25862821
Wait, this whole arc started with AJ taking the changelings out of the castle for a journey. And continued with the 'leak' that was Rarity, and then Pennydrop, and then moved into where it is now, all while without losing it's main focus.
So is this just one long ass arc with multiple branches like a second Party Land?
>>25863228
Partyland was everyone and their brother had their own storyline and there was no clear goal until Fluttershy went haywire and sent the thread into overdrive to get us out.
Here the story has been Changeling-pony relations from the jump. Rarity's part was about 18, Pennydrop used the fear of changelings to do her thing, and AJ was doing changeling PR. Everything was interconnected with the main plot from the start instead of tangentially connected by the end.
>>25862428
>Pro-Changeling writers are inherently better
>Anti-Changeling writers suck and just want to argue all day (besides LNPP anon, he's great)
Oh go fuck yourself, I'M the guy who said I still didn't like her and I was joking.
I have never said she always wins or always loses, my dislike for her is not based on quality of writing but due to the fact that I completely dislike that kind of personality and she-along with Chitania-will always be among the characters I like the least because of that no matter the quality of the story.
And I WOULD just write for characters I like, but changelings are continually rubbed up against them like the proverbial ass on Shining Armor's paperwork.I'm still glad I wrote the paper airplane thing. Bitch deserved to be the putz for a change.
>>25863359
Ok, you know what? I'm just gonna say I'm sorry for this post.
I'm just tired, probably just as tired as AJ and Chrysalis about how all of this turned out.
Can we do something fun after this? Please? The beach can't possibly turn into drama, right?
Right?
>>25863359
look, i get salty when people dis best bugpone too, but at least im accepting of it if they give me a reason WHY.
>>25863613
at this point we've decided if there's a chance for either comedy or drama we're gonna choose drama every time
we're a soap opera now, not a sitcom
>>25863673
But haven't we decided some time back to do comedy after some serious arc to bring back balance?
>>25863613
Not unless it is a side plot.
>Pennydrop has what she wants
>Wonderbolts will be busy hating Lightning Dust
>Gwen and co are stewing back at the nest
>The infighting will be done with at the end of the arc
>Chitty will be off doing her own thing
The only sideplot I see is Fancy Pants back at the Castle and whatever we decide to do with 88 getting her sight back. Everything else will be around having hi-jinx and making Cadence forget about trying to sit and stare at a form for a while.
>>25863673
Not true, Every story that hasn't started
>AJ
Chrysalis
has been comedy.
>>25863709
I don't see how you get any real drama with a beach episode so I think that is it.
>>25863746
Oh believe me, 88 is at least going to TRY to be comedy.I'm still debating whether or not she should be blind in her own head, though. I mean, it'd be a great gag but something about it seems like it'd be limiting for me as a writer.
>>25863228
>Stealth, better written PL
...I'm down with it.
NOW JUST END ALREADY!
>AJ
"Various"
~~~~
It was nice to feel a familiar road beneath her hooves once again.
Even after all this time, it was so fresh in her mind, the memories that resonated with every crunch of dirt, every rustling of grass, every step down the long worn path that would take her home.
Home, a word that she seldom thought of. Home where she had been born, been raised, lived for all her life. Home where her family remained, home where her memories were brightest, home where her journey to becoming what she was began.
She remembered them, every step, every bend in the path, every stone just off to the side, every single whiff of that brilliant earthy smell, she remembered it all. This was a place she remembered.
Until she crested a hill, and could no longer see her home.
She saw the buildings so familiar, from Davenport's sofas and Quills shop right down to the old library, still there. She saw the roads leading in and out, that old fence post that still isn't fix, that old tree that still stood strong, she saw things she recognized, but she did not see her home.
Instead, she saw a mob. She heard screams of anger and suspicion. She heard things, felt things inside from the sight alone of so many ponies who she remembered so fondly as smiling, happy folk, twisted in angry scowls she could see from here.
"Are you serious!? After all I have done for you lot! All the work, the toiling down to mine bones, thou still thinks me a spy!?"
She did not have any memories in that town of the one currently surrounded, being shoved and screamed at. He was new, after her time, after her change, but it still brought something to her heart when she saw him being herded towards the others despite the protests of their mayor.
"Ponies, please! This is all a big misunderstanding, you all need to calm down now or-"
"How can we trust you!? He might be mind controlling you right now! Right this second! We don't know what he did!"
It hurt, to hear all the cheers of agreement.
1/14
>>25864548
"I didn't do anything!"
"He didn't! Please!"
"Go back with your own kind!"
"Yeah!"
It hurt, to hear them back every word up.
It hurt, to watch the Titan, thankfully not in her massive form, right behind them, the only reason they did not attack. It hurt to have to see the desperation in so many faces, and the inevitability of it all.
It hurt when he was forced with the others.
This was not the home she knew.
"...F-fine! Fine! Be like that, you wretched things! Think of me as you want! I did not wish to be here anyway! I was thrown, I'll have thee know! I was thrown out like trash to start of anyway! H-HRMPH!"
For all the changelings fancy words and bluster, she couldn't rightly think of him as a decent actor.
"Niney..."
She doubted anyone would argue her on that, certainly not the other mares who were forcibly shuffled back in defeat, backed away as he was mingled in with the other changelings.
"Alright, I think we're ready to go... unless you two want to start a fight over it."
She only now just noticed them, the twin pair of the captain she had hired and the student that had been thrust upon her, standing side by side. Furious faces, very much looking like they wished to answer the call of the smaller, sicklier looking changeling.
"...No, I guess we don't."
Nonetheless, it seemed they had good enough heads on their shoulders to know that even if they did start a fight, nothing good would come of it. They accepted it, when the changeling gave a curt nod, and turned around.
"Alright, I guess we're taking the long way home. The portal probably isn't safe, and I doubt we could get you all through anyway, line up and get ready to ride on her back."
If the Titan had any objections to being used as a ferry, she didn't voice them.
"Move out-"
>Excuse me.
2/14
>>25864589
Her voice had been lower than she had expected, weaker, like she had been possessed by her friend Fluttershy in that instant. Even with a voice so low she could barely hear it herself, somehow, she managed to grab the attention of every single one of them.
"APPLEJACK!"
The excitement, the relief, on her students face on any other day would have brought her joy, but there was no time for that.
She had something that needed to be done. She had something she needed to fix, now.
She felt heavy as she walked down that hill, a strange weight on her pressing every step of the way, seeming to make gravity heavier, less tolerable with every one of those strained steps.
They were all looking to her, expectant, rapt with attention for her alone. She felt an odd tingle shoot through her as she met their gazes, be they Titan Queen or tiny filly from down the road. She felt an odd sensation inside of her one she wasn't used to at all, as she moved closer and closer, until she reached the edge of the formation, and planted her hooves.
>Look, ah... sorry for... for runnin' off like that, think Ah' lost my head for a little bit there, not that Ah' need to tell you after all that screamin'. Don't rightly expect you to just accept that or brush it off or nothin', ya'll know whether or not that was a mistake. So, listen, would it be alright if Ah' just... said something really quick, before you did whatever it was you were gonna do? If Ah' said Ah' wouldn't stop you or anythin' if you do, would that be okay?
It wasn't instant, many inside were skeptical, to say the least. It was apparent from Thirteen especially that she wanted nothing more than to tell her off and carry on her marry little way.
"...Well? Hurry up already."
3/14
>>25864599
But it was the admission of the Titan, the tallest among them, that seemed to break the cold ice washing over all of the, to let loose the flow of acceptance that made it all the way down to the very corners.
>...Alright, since this is probably the part you all want to know most off... yes, Ah' knew that changeling Eighteen was helping over in the Empire. That right there, that's the truth.
Gasps of shock, recoiling of horror, nods of acknowledgement, the reactions were as varied as they were powerful, and they were very strong indeed.
>But Ah'...
Her mouth grew dry as she prepared, unsure what to say next. Unable to breath beneath those pressing, powerful glares, of looks of betrayal, or just outright disgust of her.
>Ah'...
She felt that feeling shoot through her again, that spark that traveled all along her legs, and up into her brain.
>Ah'...
This was her home, this was her life, this was the place she cherished, and not a one of them looked to her as they ever had before. Every one of them had a new look, one that made her feel ill inside, one that made her feel like fleeing, yet again.
She did not have to, not again, but every single part of her wanted to.
>...Ah' knew...
Every single part of her wanted to flee.
>Ah' knew all about it...
Every single part of her wanted something, anything, to make their glares go away, to bring things back to what they were before, to turn back the clock to a time without wings, without horns, to when things were like they used to be. There was not a single cell in her mind that did not scream for the days of the Ponyville of her youth, to bring back all the love and trust they had placed in her before.
There was not a single part of her that did not wish for that.
>...and Ah' was okay with it...
4/14
>>25864611
Not a single part, when she watched those already wretched looks twist into something worse.
Something hot, something strong, bubbled up in her throat, begging to be let out, begging to escape, begging to do what it needed to do.
Begging her to let it fix them all.
It grew, and grew, and grew, so hot it took over her vision, so fast her world turned white for just a bit.
It grew, it twisted, until she could see something in that light.
And she let it out.
>...Ah' don't expect you to understand. Maybe you would, if you were in the same place Ah' was, maybe you wouldn't. Truth is, that don't matter to me. Maybe things would'a been different, maybe Ah' should'a been more open, maybe Ah' should'a stopped it or stepped in, maybe Ah' should have been the one to pull the curtain away, maybe nobody ever should have. Ah' don't know which is better, which one would have worked better, which one would have been worse. Ah' don't know. All Ah' know is that, to me, none of that matters... because of how yer' all looking at me. All of you.
She watched them falter, a wave unsteady like stormy seas, as her words sank in.
>Ah' remember a time when... when you never would have looked at me like that, none of you. When this whole mess wouldn't have even crossed your mind. Ah' remember that, Ah' remember those days, and Ah' wish they hadn't ever gone away... but they did, to me. They did, and Ah' see it when you look at me like that. And... it's mah fault.
A shaky, unsteady hoof reached around, round her side, round her back, until it touched the wings upon them. New wings, and they would always be new wings, even if they lasted a thousand years.
>Ah' don't blame you for thinkin' this stuff now, Ah' don't blame you for what's on your mind, cause Ah'm sure it's all mah' fault. Why wouldn't it be mah' fault? Shoot... no wonder some thinks this looks suspicious.
Vindication, that's what she saw on so many. Too many.
Too many waiting for just that.
5/14
>>25864629
>Ah' just grabbed a whole buncha changelings and paraded them around a whole year after they got here! Just a few months after Ah' broke their Queen's shoulder right in front of everyone! Ah' did that, Ah' just dragged 'em all along the way... long Ah' think Ah' should have. Maybe you disagree, maybe you don't, Ah' don't know. But me, Ah' think that... Ah' waited too long, and that's the reason. Ah' was stubborn for so long, that Ah' just made it so much worse. That's what Ah' think.
They came, so softly, so shortly, she didn't even realize they were there until her eyes began to fog, and her vision began to blur.
>...Ah' think it's all mah fault if all of you don't believe in me anymore.
The recoil swept through them, like a blast going off right from where she stood.
>Ah' think Ah' used to be someone you could depend on, someone you could always count on and trust in and believe in. Maybe this changed things, maybe it didn't. Maybe this change happened a while ago, and you didn't even notice it until now, or maybe that's silly. Ah' don't know when it happened or why, but Ah' feel like... that changed. Ah' feel like... Ah' changed. Ah' feel like somewhere along the way, Ah' just... lost it all. Shoot... Ah' can't even remember the last time Ah' came down just to visit. Not to come see mah' family after some big event, not to go there to get advice, none of that. Just cause Ah' wanted to see you all, not just mah' family. Just to... visit, because visiting mah' old hometown is nice. Ah' can't remember... and that don't seem right.
It was slow, that they all came back to her, leaning in as her voice went lower and lower into a quiet whisper.
6/14
>>25864639
>...it got too much for me, if you can believe that. Eighteen? To me, she was just a way to make fixin' one thing easier. Ah' didn't care what she said her reasons were, to me at the time, she was making things better, and that was that. It got to the point that Ah' even asked her to come work for us too, Ah' did! Ah' wantted her working off over here just like she did over there, cause she would have made things easier. That's all mah reasons were, if you can believe it... but Ah'm not sure you do.
Quieter, and quieter, her whispers went low.
>...it hurts that you don't believe in me anymore. Once upon a time Ah' could imagine this happenin' and you all just brushin' it off. Ah' could see someone saying, Applejack knows what she's doin', Applejack's got a good head for trouble, Applejack ain't gonna let nothin' slip past, once upon a time I could have heard all of that. Now... Ah'm not so sure.
Slowly, her head rolled to the side, gesturing without words to the changelings all huddled together, all grouped tight.
>What Ah' told myself when all this started was that this whole thing was going to be over when this trip was done. Ah' said to myself that if you just saw it, Ah' wouldn't have to struggle no more to prove they ain't monsters. Ah' just wanted it done, Ah' was sick of waitin' for it to happen, and Ah' was sure it was gonna work, and when the reveal hit and it all just fell apart, Ah' felt like... like it had all been for nothing. Like it didn't matter anymore. They trusted me, and Ah' ran off to leave them to a mob... maybe that's why they don't believe in me either, maybe they never did, Ah' don't know.
Her neck creaked, it popped like a broken toy as she looked back up to them, her vision still blurry, her cheeks so much colder.
7/14
>>25864662
>...Ah'm not sure of much right now, Ah'm just not sure of anything anymore, but there's one thing Ah' know for sure, disagree if you want... but lookin' at you all, what Ah' saw when Ah' looked at mah' hometown and what it turned into, Ah' realized... this just plain ain't gonna work if you don't believe in me anymore.
She felt that tingle shoot through her wings as they began to unfurl, still calling to her, still reaching out to her. She could hear it's call, it's roar, waiting.
>Ah' didn't want to be a princess... but Ah' always wanted you all to believe in me. Ah' always wanted you to think that no matter what, Ah' was lookin' out for you. Ah' know that shouldn't have changed when Ah' got wings and a horn, but Ah' feel like it did. Ah' wanted you to trust in me...
That same tingle reached out for her horn, digging, scraping at the walls of her mind.
>When you pay taxes, yer' trusting in us in some way. When you let us train the guard, yer' trusting in us in some way. When you look to us and ask us to handle the big stuff, you believe we're gonna save you. If that changed, if you still feel that way or don't, that's up to you. But it can't work if you don't, Ah' realize that now. Ah' finally get it. If you don't trust me... why would it work?
When the tingle reached her forelegs, she could contain it no longer. They snapped out wide, presenting her chest, her heart to the crowd in spirit.
>Ah' lied to you when Ah' kept that hidden, Ah' think that's true anyway. Ah' hid somethin' from you this whole time, that ain't a lie to me. Iffin' that's too much, then... then Ah' can't do this anymore, Ah'm sure as the day is long. Ah' can't be a good princess if you don't trust me, there ain't a doubt in mah' mind.
The first hoof came down, and something seemed to come down with it.
8/14
>>25864686
>Cause a princess ain't just someone with the power, the power ain't worth a damn to me when you get down to it. A princess ain't just someone with the money, because money can't buy the stuff Ah' find important. A princess ain't any of that... yer' leader is someone you have to trust in, believe in, put your faith in. If Ah'm not worth that anymore, if Ah've changed too much... Ah' accept that. Ah' won't lord over you, Ah' won't tell you what to do...
When the other hoof went down, it all just rolled away.
>...Ah' won't tell you what to believe.
Her lips once again tasted the honest truth.
>So... what do you say? Do you still believe in me? If you don't... Ah' understand, and Ah' won't hold it against you a one... what do you say?
There was no instant response. There was no quick answer. There was nothing fast, and certainly nothing solid. At most, some of them just moved aside, away from the huddled lings, let them breath again. Some put out their torches or tossed aside whatever they had been carrying. Some just looked to her with a raised eyebrow, and nothing more. Some didn't even look to her at all.
There was no one answer among any of them, no one response.
"...You did change, I think."
No one voice that said those words.
"You are different, yeah."
"It kind of felt like you forgot about us when you got important."
"And then... you lied to us? Applejack? Lied? She let a lie happen? I... I couldn't believe it."
"And with the changelings too. They invaded us! They..."
"You did change"
There was no one pony alone who said this.
"...I still believe in you."
There was no one solid voice.
"What you did sucked, but... everyone makes a mistake sometimes."
There was no single call or single thought.
"I mean, from what I hear, they're doing great over there."
"Yeah! And, well, maybe she would have done good over here too, who knows?"
9/13
>>25864702
There was no one pony mind. Each one had their own thoughts, their own opinions. Each one held suspicion, or optimism. There was no one thought that was in the middle of the talking that raged on, loudly and all through the dark of the night. There was no unified thought.
There was no one belief.
Not until the end.
"...I still believe in you."
Not until the voice came from none other than some tiny little filly, she didn't even know her name. She didn't know who it was, who's kid, or why she believed. She didn't know anything about her, except for that.
"You know... yeah."
"She deserves another shot."
"She's been trying."
"I still don't trust the changelings though. But... I mean, maybe they're not invading?"
"I guess we don't have any real proof one way or the other, we should at least... wait? Not saying we should let them near anything important till we're sure, but... maybe we were a little too fast?"
"She's saved the world a bunch of times, that's got to be worth a chance."
"She's still Applejack... right?"
"The most dependable pony in Ponyville!"
It had been so long, so very long since she had heard that.
She had missed it so much.
Her vision was just gone again as it grew louder and louder, she could not see a single face, a single form. It was simply gone, drowned away.
She could not see them as they dispersed, growing thinner and thinner.
"Screw this, I'm going to bed."
"Maybe she has changed."
"But... she's still Applejack."
"Yeah, let's just wait, forcing them out seems like a dick thing to do."
There was no one mind.
There was no one thought.
There was no one belief.
But, with what she could hear, no matter what they thought of the changelings or the lie, they were willing to wait. Wait until they had answers.
Wait until that time, and give her the benefit of the doubt.
To believe.
10/13
>>25864716
"...Well, thanks for getting rid of the mob at least.
There were still plenty of ponies left, they had not gone away. But they were so much fewer now. So little left.
Enough that the changelings were no longer surrounded, at the very least.
>...Ah' left you.
No longer had anything blocking their vision, as they bore right into her.
>You could have been hurt, and it's all mah' fault.
No longer anything between their glares, and her vulnerable eyes.
>When Ah' started this, Ah' wanted to help you, Ah' was sure of it. That was all on mah' mind... do... do you still think Ah' can?.... Do you even want me to try anymore?
It was the same.
"...I don't know if I still trust you."
"You abandoned us."
There was no one voice.
"I guess we did kind of put a lot of pressure on you."
"You did come back, I guess?"
There was no one mind.
"Meh, I've had worse."
"Way better than my old Queen, actually!"
There was no one belief.
"You should never have been trusted with my Hivemates."
It was the same.
>...Ah' won't make you believe me when Ah' say... Ah'm sorry, and Ah' never wanted it to happen.
"Should we leave?"
"...Well, they said they weren't going to force us out."
"We could stay if we want."
"I kinda am worried after the mob though."
"Strangely? Not me, have dealt with way worse."
"I don't even know..."
"...I still believe her."
That changeling, she knew. That one she recognized, right away. The one who held the potted plant in his hooves, who had defended the thing with his body all throughout this entire night, who had never given up and let it be hurt.
Who's tiny little sapling stood strong.
"I... I still think she could help us, if we let her."
There was no one voice.
There was no one belief.
Not until the end.
"...I think we should wait until the Queen arrives, so she can take us home."
11/13
>>25864732
"Yeah, going to the Empire would be a lot safer with her around, and I don't want to ride on Chitania's back."
"If she's going to try, we can do that much, right? Just... wait a bit?'
All eyes were on their smallest, their thinnest, their sickliest and shortest. All eyes were on her.
"...I guess waiting would be fine, for the Queen."
All eyes followed her, with annoyance, with relief, with mute acceptance. No one thought, no one mind.
No single thing, except the belief they would be alright until then.
>...You guys okay staying until then?
The guard, her stalwart defenders of her kingdom, did not share the same thoughts. They shared the same stance, the same salute, the same pointed nod, but they were not all thinking the same thing.
Not all of them were sure. There had been no cheering, no grand victory. She had won the day, she had stopped the strife, but it was not over. She had not swept all her problems away, once and for all. It was not over, it was not certain, it was not done.
There was no one belief.
And that was just fine.
Because she was Applejack, she was a Princess of Equestria, and she was going to earn it.
The memories of those left behind, of those that had helped build this town she so loved remained. She still remembered what they spoke of, when she planted her very first seeds.
She felt more tears return to her eyes as she remember their hooves on hers, the gentleness they had given to her. It wasn't going to be easy, they had said, it wasn't going to grow quick, no matter how much she wanted them to. She would have to wait, she would have to be patient.
They could grow them fast, with magic or spells, but that was dishonest. A lie that would fall over when confronted with the truth, that was what they had said.
Her seeds were small, they were sickly, they were tiny and weak, and storms came by so often now, but she was not going to let them die.
Protect your seeds, they're your life. That's what they had said.
12/13
>>25864767
These seeds were not as certain as forcing new ones, magic ones, far stronger ones in where they had been, but they were still there, even if they had been buried in the muck. They had survived, and she was going to take care of them.
Because they still believed in her.
She was going to watch them grow, she was going to protect them as best she could, and most importantly she was going to give them a light that would give them all she could. It was long work, it was hard work, it was work that might break, might be washed away at any second, but she was going to do it. She was going to risk it, because they were all worth it. If they were going to put their fates in her hooves, she would work them until they were raw, she would earn every one.
They would grow their own way, no two would be the same. Every branch unique, every fruit their own, but they were going to grow. Every tree, no matter what the color of their leaves, no matter what the fruits on their branches, she was going to help them grow. And one day they would all stand together as they should, where they belonged, not where any thought they should be. They were going to become something amazing if she worked at it every day.
She would.
Because she believed in them.
Like they would believe in her.
>Ah'm gonna earn it.
That was the Honest Truth.
~~~~Not done yet!
>AJ
"???"
~~~~
>Did you really drag yer'self all the way out here?
It had not been hard to spot her, hiding in the darkness of the trees. For a though changeling she was, her skills had diminished somewhat in her less than favorable state.
"I did. You should have known that little love tap wouldn't keep me down.”
She couldn't help but find it a bit funny, even if she couldn't bring herself to smile.
>Shouldn't have been enough for you ta' get up, just not die.
“I make do with only a little... Nice speech, by the way."
>Figured you heard all that.
She winced when she heard a gasp, her mind already awash remembering every bruise, every break, every lump she had left behind on the changelings frame. She was an unsightly thing, to be sure.
>Ah'm... sorry for that.
"You should be... and I know you are."
She was, to the bottom of her heart, she was.
"You didn't use the Apple."
A soft glow emitted from her horn, she could tell by the way the tops of her eyes lit up with it. Ever so gently, perhaps a bit unstable in its grasp, she pulled it free from where it had been hidden, in the confines of her hat.
>...Ah' wanted to.
"I'm sure."
>No, Ah'... Ah' really, really wanted to. It was just so tempting, so strong, the whole time Ah' was talking Ah' just wanted to stop and just say everything. Just get it... over with. Just tell them what to do, and be done with it and move on.
She was answered back by nothing but a guttural grunt, punctuated by a bit of a wheeze to it.
>Is that what it's like for you?
"...Yes. Every day."
>How do you deal with it?
Eyes of emerald in the dark shifted away, unable to look at her any longer.
"You know how."
>...Yeah, guess Ah' do now.
A bit of regret left her as she exhaled, floating off into the air like a brisk leaf caught in the wind.
>He really means a lot to you, doesn't he?
That she had even asked may have been an insult. If it were, the Queen took it with uncharacteristic stride.
"Yes."
1/4
>>25864792
>Ah'... guess Ah' knew that, just not so much.
"I guess there was a lot we didn't know."
The breeze that wafted through should have been cold, it should have been a chill of the night.
Instead, there was something almost warm about it.
>Guess this here thing is too dangerous to keep around, ain't it?
"I'd say so, yeah. A shame though."
>Could solve a lot of problems.
"If you don't mind taking away their minds and ability to choose."
She winced, that grip still familiar, still inside of her, it had not gone away any more than her problems had.
>Ah' have to get rid of it. It's just... it's too temptin', you know? Ah' still want to just run back down there right now and just use this thing, get it over with and be done. Ah'm still thinkin' about it.
"...Well? Why not destroy it?"
>That's just it... Ah' can't.
It was painful to admit to herself, especially to the changeling of all beings. Of anyone in the world, Chrysalis was by far the last she ever wished to hear those words.
"I understand."
Or, she had been, not a couple hours ago.
>...Here.
"Me?"
The Apple floated unsteadily, it's unsightly red glow shaking as it bobbed through the air. Slowly, but surely, it made it's way over to the Queen, and into her grasp.
Even then, it took far too long for the telekinesis to let go. Only then, only when it was free, did she turn her head and look away, offering her hoof to the Queen.
>How did you give it up?
A hoof that was eagerly taken.
"...I couldn't, not alone."
With the last letter that left her lips, a fire burned upon that hoof. A flare of green, fueled by what she could take of magic, that consumed the Apple, ignited it and burned it all away. Her magic, the remains of the latent magic of Harmony within her, seemed to be enough.
Before the eyes of the two watching rapt in attention, the Apple burned away.
2/4
>>25864805
She could not keep the regret from her heart, no matter how she tried to fight it. She could not keep the loss from her face, no matter how she tried to keep it down. She could not keep the pain away, no matter how much she wished it healed and forgotten.
She had given up everything, the ability to solve every problem with just a word.
Now, the road before her seemed so much longer, so much harder.
>Well, Ah' better get back to it...
A road she had to get back on, and walk again.
She made it seven steps, only seven steps away, before she heard it.
"Applejack?"
A call for her to return, to where uncertain eyes looked at her from the darkness. Her return was slow, as slow as the hoof that emerged from the darkness, and titled her hoof upright.
"...You missed something."
At first, it seemed that the Queen had done little more than pour ashes into her hooves. Then she saw it. Buried away inside, she saw them all.
Tiny little seeds, inside of the remains. Each one glowing a pleasant, warm glow that flickered away in the dead of night.
>Why...
"Figured keeping anymore secrets wouldn't be worth it. Best just to be... honest."
She felt something pass by her vision, something there and gone, but she did not think of it for even a moment.
>What do you think they do?
"Guess we'll have to wait and see."
All she could see were those seeds, all she could feel was the magic that tingled in every one, and all she could think of was what it meant.
"Take my changelings back to the Empire when you get a chance. Don't think they need to see me like this."
>You... sure about that? What about you?
"I guess I'll take the long way around, since Canterlot is not an option."
>...And then?
"Wait till all this blows over, and then... well, I hear Fillydelphia has a casino, Gambling will like that... bring a leash, he's hard to keep put."
She had nothing to say to that. No words ever could say it.
3/4
>>25864842
>But... after all that.
"I know, you lied to me, and I hate it, but... I want things to get better. "
She felt her throat constrict, only barely loosening up to speak again when she heard the changeling hiss.
>You gonna be okay?
It was the first time she could ever remember speaking genuine concern for the changeling.
"I think I've proven I can handle myself."
>...Thank you.
She didn't know what part she was thanking her for, what it meant at all, or if it was just simple words that needed to be said.
>He was right to believe in you.
"...thank you."
Likewise, she had no idea if Chrysalis herself knew at all.
Something passed, in the slight pause between them. Something unsaid, something almost silent.
Something only spoken when the obsidian hoof reached out, and she reached back.
Something was said when they shook.
What it was they didn't know yet.
But they believed.
They believed it was something that should have happened a long time ago.
"Take care, Princess Applejack."
>You too, Queen Chrysalis.
Weak, yet steady wings beat as the taller mare lifted into the air, waiting to be carried off into the dark of the night.
"Oh, and Applejack?"
>Yeah?
"That armor is neat, but Nightmare Night is still a few months away, maybe change out of it before someone gets the wrong idea. HAH!"
That cackle went out into the night as Chrysalis spirited away, and despite it all, she couldn't help but smile.
>...Oh mah stars, was Ah' wearin' this the whole time?
The laughter came slow. It came gently, at first.
But like all things, it grew. It grew bigger, and taller, and louder until it put the tallest apple tree to shame.
In the chill of the night, two mares laughed with all they had.
Things would be slow, they would not be instant, but they would get better. It would all get better.
It was a long, painful, broken road ahead.
...But she would not walk it alone.
Things would get better, in time.
>Ohhh... Ah' need a vacation...
She believed.
>>25864860
Annndd, DONE!
That's our show everyone, hope you enjoyed the ride!
>>25864860
This is good
Isn't it?What a lovely 2 am birthday present this was
But what happened in the interim, where AJ was walking to Ponyville, with Apple in hoof and all?
>>25864860
>she gave that speech wearing the armor
>and no one else pointed it out to her
welp, I thought I'd survive this thread without losing my sides
I was wrong, and proven wrong by the most dramatic story in the thread.
Good show, anon, GOOD SHOW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=barWV7RWkq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heAw4z71lvo
>>25864860
>AJ speech
>Resolving to be a good, more personable princess instead of the one who just does paperwork and does it the fastest
>Getting them to believe in her
>Chrysalis heart to heart
>Appleseed item that does who even knows what
>She was till wearing the
Perfect. This whole arc, all of it, was just perfect.
>>25864883
>But what happened in the interim, where AJ was walking to Ponyville, with Apple in hoof and all?
Nothing, except that she stuck the Apple in her hat looks like. She love-tapped Chrysalis to keep her alive and then left thinking that was what she had to do, but when she saw her hometown twisted into something else, she realized why them believing in her was so important.
Speaking of, I just noticed that NEVER ONCE did she make a direct statement aside from actual events they knew about, everything else was just how she felt about it.
Very nice touch.
>>25864860
Now that is how you earn a key. We got two left, who's going to take a crack at Fluttershy or Twilight.
>>25864860
Fucking... yes. I love this.
I fucking love this.
I love all of it.
I love that what made her snap out of it was seeing her hometown turned into something else.
I loved the subtle shift to never speaking in a way that could be taken as a demand.
I loved the talk with Chrysalis at the end so, so, so fucking much. Everything about it was just perfect.
The sense of uneasiness at the start, the way Chrysalis admitted she couldn't give up the power of mind control alone, the way that even after she picked the hard road it wasn't just set for Aj, she had regrets, she wanted to go back and do it again even then.
I loved the internal struggle.
I loved all of this.
I LOVED ALL OF THIS.
Aj is so fucking interesting here, just everything about her. The way her beliefs conflicted with her need to just have it done, the dedication she had to everyone else driving this whole mentality, and just the fucking conflict, just that internal war with her was so fucking good and gripping and you could see her struggling not to use the Apple every single second up there right until the very end.
MAGIC! BATTLES! FLIGHT! INTROSPECTION! DEDICATION! And just plain good storytelling!
This was the AJ arc I've been waiting for.
>>25864860
Holy crap. What a lovely Christmas present. Merry Holidays, y'all!
>>25865014
ALRIGHT WE NEED 10 MORE OF THESE ARCS BEFORE SPRING HOP TO IT PEOPLE
>>25865040
There's still so much to address. This is far from over. But for now, we have Christmas and the new year to greet.
>>25864860
>>He was right to believe in you.
Whelp, Applejack supports Harem End.
We're good!
>>25864997
Well, if the person writing it has the thing going in that direction, Seven&Flutters could bring the kindness key. Still don't know what we are going to do with the elements or Twilight's castle.
>>25865219
Uh
Uhhh
I dunno how to feel bout that
>>25865040
>10 more
>Guy too 4 threads for just the AJ half
...Uh... maybe three.
>>25864860
Holy shit
It's beautiful
Just beautiful
Anon, you wonderful bastard, you did it!
Shine on you crazy diamond!
>>25865461
Well, if he started when they set out, thread 101 it is a bit longer than that. If he started when news of rarara hit Ponyville in thread 109 and Chrysalis got there in 112 so even time spent on freaking out and introspection and confrontation.
>>25865021
Totally should have delivered it tomorrow.
Blueballed me enough, what's one more for the holidays!?
>>25864860
>AJ's key is the remains of a superweapon
That's almost as funny as her talking like that decked out in armor and absolutely nobody mentioning it.
>>25864860
So am I the only one wondering how Aj is going to explain this to everyone?
>HOLY SHIT CHRYSALIS! You look like you were run over BY THE MOON, and then the moon BACKED THE FUCK UP AND DID IT AGAIN!
"Ah' did that."
>...why.
"Well, it started when Ah' bucked the Tree of Harmony..."
>You need medication.
>>25865658
You know, next to the roll of fabric, rubber chicken, and Wonderbolt Badge, remains of an apple themed superweapon does seem out of place. Can't all be as simple as just a plain ol' bit.
>>25865899
Let's just skip over that and just say they all understand and Shiny wants to be ranty but he was more happy Chrysalis was okay and kept her promise to do it.
>>25865899
Actually, you can bet the first thing Shiny is going to think is
>GODDAMN IT SHE MADE IT WORSE! ONE THING! ONE FUCKING THING IS ALL I WANTED!
"I got hit with a rock."
>OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!
>>25864860
I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact this was almost NC, all of it before the Treekick.
What a weird world that would have been.
>>25866445
I wonder if we would have just resolved it to skipping to the end speech in that path.
>>25864860
So, uh... is... is 29 okay?
Like, holy shit, poor guy.
>>25864781
'...so can I wait for the Queen in my fiancé's house? With my eye closed?'
"No."
'...my kids are going to know you as 'Worst Aunt'.'
>>25867253
yeah, at this point how the fuck is Cheer's NOT pregnant? they must be fucking like rabbits off-screen
>>25867350
Oh yeah, no, they are going to end up with sooooo many kids.
>>25867076
Ahhh, don't worry, Ponyville are going to feel like dicks when Fancy is like "Yeah, nothing bad was happening... sorry."
>>25867253
I'm still waiting for a scene where Cheerilee goes to retrieve 77 from Chitania.
>You talk about fighting gods all the time but you've never actually killed one. Tartarus overflows with the demons I've sent there.
>>25868143
They are actually too afraid to fight her. They cowered in the schoolhouse when she had her walk by ponyville.
>>25868143
"... Er, honey biscuit, aren't those the same demons that-"
>I know, sugar bottom!
"I just don't want them to pee on the rug again, sweetie pie."
>I told you, they are house trained now, shmoopy!
"I you say so, wuvvy lovvy-"
'BY THE HIVE MINDS WAILING DEPTHS, JUST FUCKING TAKE HIM! ANYTHING TO MAKE IT STOP!'
>Wow, what a jerk, wooby doobie.
"Yeah, she's a jerk, shnooky pie."
'AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'
>>25864860
...shit.
How the fuck am I supposed to top that?
Early because I felt pumped from what people said.
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
'SAJ'
~~~~
>Welcome to Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and I feel motivated, downright motivated!
'Sheesh it was weird to watch those big koalas fight the empire like that, but overall I think that was a good-'
Turns to see empty seats.
'Rude...Ah would have been willing to give them a head start if they asked.'
"APPLE BINDING!"
SAJ gets lassoed to her seat by Applejack behind her.
>PREEMPTIVE PONK PUNCH!
Delivers a powerful punch dazing SAJ.
>PRETTY FLY PUNCHES!
Throws a combo of punches.
'Owowowowow'
Her tentacle tongue grabs AJ and uses her as a shield against the punches.
"Owowow-"
Pinkie stops.
>Sorry sorry sorry!
SAJ bludgeons Pinkie using AJ's head.
>"OW OW OW OW!"
'You should have stayed home at the Apple farm...and been a family mare.'
Throws AJ smashing her into the various seats.
'And you...'
Picks Pinkie up with a tentacle tongue and chokes her.
'Ah don't know why you bother to hang out with such a boring pony who has to rely on talking about somepony else to keep herself interesting.'
>Urghk...I don't care...she's my friend...she'll always be interesting...
Pinkie glares as her teeth turn sharp and pointed.
>TO ME!
Bites all the tentacle tongues clean off and slurps them like noodles.
'GARGH!'
Pinkie moves to take a bite of her face, so SAJ bats Pinkie with a wing and sends her crashing into a wall.
'You bigth meh! And actuawwy tried to bi-'
Pinkie gets up with SAJ's wing in her mouth dripping black gunk. She hungrily eats it. SAJ looks to her side and is shocked to find a stump of her wing.
"You're missing something!"
SAJ turns to find AJ holding the halberdshotgun.
"APPLE SHOT!"
SAJ gets shot.
"APPLE SHOT!"
Gets shot again. Visibly hurt.
"APPLE BLAST!!!"
It shoots out an apple and explodes SAJ.
'You're...not actually boring.'
SAJ vaporizes.
>>25868830
Dan straight you're not!
Actually, this is double funny to me, because I personally found all of her most interesting bits when she was talking about her own struggles in the finale. All the time she was talking about what she wanted, was when she was the most interesting.
>Lavan
"32"
'88'
>Oh, well that's pleasant.
"Huh?"
>I just feel like a very good thing just happened. A thing that needed to happen. Warms my heart...I assume, I'll check when I figure out what I did with it.
'Hey, weirdo, focus! You said I could get my eyes back with your help, I want the details yesterday!'
>You are very enthusiastic about this.
'Have YOU ever been unable to see?'
>Do the periods of time where I was dead count?
'No.'
>Drat, then I don't.
'Look, I'm desperate here, I'll give anything-aaaaaanything to be able to just see again! Preferably before my brother constantly banging the demonic school marm produces some kind of adorable Antifaust! I wanna be cool aunt not blind aunt! Hell, maybe I'll find myself a guy too, raise a family! But I can't do that if I can't see!'
"Well I mean you could-"
'It'd be harder than your dick around literally any guy ever.'
"Not around Shining Armor!"
'That's because you're a sexual hipster. But we're getting off topic, you! Happy guy! Start talking!'
>Ok! We need stuff, like, medical stuff. Mind medical stuff, we gotta make you do that thing where you're asleep but you know what's going on.
"Lucid dreaming?"
>Yes that, but a very long sleep, like when you mortals get hit in the head real hard.
"...a coma?"
>Yes that! Minus the head hitting! We gotta go to this place...it's an ooooold place, ancient even. My sister, my sisters and I hatched one of our plans there, but the gods caught onto us and we got foiled.
"...why'd you say sister then sisters?"
'THAT'S the weird part to you?'
>Oh! OHHH! We gotta get something else too!
'Which is?'
>We gotta go ask Faust's daughter for help. Not the big one, the little one. Well, she's kinda tall, the less tall one than the really tall one.
"Princess Luna?"
>That one, mhm.
'What, do we need her permission to dream?'
>Yes, we need her permission to go in the dream where we need to.
'Well alright then, let's go get a permission slip signed.'
so odd
Lavan sounds like a really nice guy.
I hope it'll stay that way.
>>25870154
Wait till something totally benign set him off come it'll be so weird. Like... a kitten or something
I honestly just want AJ to learn and understand her new bevy of powers/armour/wings cos that shit is legit sexy as fuck
>>25869237
>sexual hipster
Does that mean he doesn't want 29 if he and Zecora hook up?
>>25870684
no, he would have a threesome if he could help it
>>25870684
Nahhh, he'd just never stop saying-
>I wanted to be his mare before it was cool!
The whole time during.
CD
>AJ
~~~
>...Ya' know Ah' should probably go tell everybody Ah'm okay. Yeah! Yeah, definitely need ta' do that. But first... HRM... HPH! GRRNNNGGNGNNG!... Okay, Applejack, don't panic, there's got ta' be a way ta' get this here armor off.... HRNNGGNNGNGNGNGNGNNGNENGNGNNGNGNENNGNENGNG...GGHHGHGHGGGAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!... Ah' might have ta' use the magic of friendship on this.
>>25871056
>Big Mac
"AJ"
~~~
>...uh...
"Don't ask, just kick me."
>...w-wha-
"AH' SAID KICK ME YA' GADDANG SACK O' RED!"
>Eeeeeyup!
BLAM!
>...
"...Ah' meant in the armor."
>Ohhhhhh.
"..."
THUP!
>...whoops.
>>25864860
10/10
Honestly, damn.
AJ was already my favorite character in this series but that right there just cemented her top mare spot.
So, how similar is AJ RIGHT now, to the OP pic?
Does she have the super wings? The Hammer of Honesty? Even the craggly tree horn?
>>25871202
>So, how similar is AJ RIGHT now, to the OP pic?
She has armor, but it should be more earth-like and less green, since it was plants and roots, and a hammer.
>Does she have the super wings?
Wings weren't mentioned.
>The Hammer of Honesty?
She had a hammer, but it was described more like a root twisted around a fuckoff rock, she never put the Apple in it either, so it didn't glow.
>Even the craggly tree horn
It was red and glowing like in the pic while it was going out of control, but since the armor went up to her head her horn might have gotten wrapped in roots like that.
>>25871236
Cool
I vote we give her the cool OP picture shit next time she has a fight, of course with limitations and build up.
Logically it wouldn't work in built up areas like the castle and such
>>25871091
>Granny Smith
"AJ"
~~
>Hrmmmm... yep! Ah' know jus' how ta' getcha outta this here hoosywhatser!
"Er, it's just armor, Granny."
>Yep! Know just the thing! Ah' cut this off'a ya' lickety split!
"Ah' swear iffin' you pull out a chainsaw, Ah'm runnin'."
>A chainaw!? Missy, in mah' day, we did it the right way! With hard work and nothin' but one of these!
"...Granny, that's an axe."
>Yep! Cut down mah' share of trees, Ah' did!
"Ah'm not a tree."
>Now, hold still, mah' eyes ain't what they used ta' be, but Ah'm bettin' Ah' can still hit it straight!
"GRANNY NO!"
>Hold still Ah' said!
>Chrysalis
"Various"
~~~~~~
The cool, frozen night air kept her aloft, more that than any strength left on her end. To put it simply, she had very little of that left to give.
Yet, she felt more at ease, light enough that the winds alone could carry her, and idly a strange sound began to sing in her head.
>Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got.
She knew that for certain, better than most even. These last few... as hard to believe it, mere hours, had taken a toll on her, had taken everything she had simply not to slip back into the life of the shadows, of monsters in the dark.
>Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot.
She dreamed of that, of a time when she could just relax, and take it easy. More than anything, right now, she wanted that if only to sooth her aching body.
>Wouldn’t you like to get away?
She nearly cried when she saw the light in the distance.
>Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name,
It was like cresting into heaven itself when she went through that shield.
>And they’re always glad you came.
She couldn't see the faces down below, nor did she care to. All she cared about was the point from where all that glorious light shined.
>You want to be where you can see, our troubles are all the same;
She very nearly collapsed when she landed on the balcony, kept aloft only by what little remained within her. A need that would only be satisfied when she flung those doors open, and was greeted by so many familiar faces.
>You want to be where everybody knows your name.
"HOLY SHIT, CHRYSALIS!"
1/2
>>25871706
>Be glad there’s one place in the world
"Majesty! By the hivemind, were you hit with a castle!? Repeatedly!? That is not a joke, you know I don't do jokes! I am legitimately wondering if you got hit with a castle!"
>Where everybody knows your name,
"Because of course you came back looking like you were partially chewed by a dragon made of explosions. And you wondered why I have you health information on file! See this? Saved me a ton of paperwork.
>And they’re always glad you came.
"Who did this to ya' Not-mom!? Who! They ain't gettin' no marchamalleys for a month! A MONTH!
>You want to go where ponies know, we are all the same.
"Chrysalis..."
There they were, that grip, that touch, that hold. That grasp around her that never, ever, failed to make her feel better, no matter what she felt. No pain, no matter how long or how deep, could ever stop it.
>...You want to go where everybody knows your name.
Nothing in the world could keep her from smiling when he looked into her eyes.
"What happened?"
>...I didn't make it worse.
She would not stay conscious a second longer, she couldn't no matter what she wished.
But at least she could go out with the image of him smiling.
"I knew it."
She was happy, here.
Where everybody knew her name, and was always glad she came.
>>25871715
NC
"...So she totally made it worse, right?"
"Probably."
"Not mom ain't very subtle."
"LET ME HAVE MY MOMENT!"
"Yer' gonna choke her huggin' her like that."
"LET ME HAVE IT!"
>>25871715
NC
>Man.... Ah' sure hope nuthin' else comes an' makes another mess of all this...
".........aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
>...The hay... Issat...?
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
>Shini-? Oh... Oh no
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
>Hoo boy, here it comes
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
>Mhmm, yup
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
>Ah' know...Ah' know.... y'all just gotta listen
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
>Well it was mah fault an-... wait... Shining?
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
>That's.....that's th- way to the lake... why?
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....................."
>...
"[sploosh]"
>....Yep, pretty much
>>25871792
How is she going to explain this? I assume she has to, being all bout honesty now, that and it would be kind of hard to cover up the massive chunks of rock around the TOH, but still. How do you broach this topic?
>>25872049
>Ah' got a magic apple and hit Chrysalis a lot... that's about it.
>Spike
"DT"
'SS'
~~~~~~
>...This sucks.
"No fucking kidding! I lost my goddamn power armor! I JUST GOT IT!"
'Stop swearing.'
"Sorry if my language is too mature for you, but deal with it!'
'That's not what maturity is.'
"Oh yeah? What is?"
'Doing, like... grownup stuff. Like taxes.'
"None of us do taxes!"
>I do taxes sometimes.
"You do not!"
>Well, I organize it for Twilight to do. She liked doing taxes.
"...that is so sad..."
'It is a little sad.'
>Hey! She likes what she likes! It's like... I like licking my feet, everyone's weird.
"Ahhhh, no, that's just you. You are really, really weird."
'...'
"Don't."
'...'
"Don't you daaaare."
'...'
"SILVER SPOON IF YOU TELL HIM ABOUT SNUFFY YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND ANYMORE!"
>...Snuffy?
"SILVER SPOON!"
'What?'
"Why didn't you stop me? I would have stopped you if you talked about that thing under your bed!"
'Don't make this about my fairy dream diary!'
>Your what?
'DT! Why didn't you stop me!?'
"...Spike has a little doll he sleeps with."
>YOU MONSTER!
"You leave it in your basket!"
'Can we make this about your basket now?'
>I LIKE MY BASKET!
"..."
'...'
>...Snuffy?
"Don't."
>It's just, isn't that a giant pink elephant toy-"
"DON'T."
>...
'...'
"Pretend it never happened?"
>Never happened.
'...Wanna hear my Fairy Magic story?'
>...
"..."
'...I just like talking about it...'
>>25872049
Chrysalis doesn't care enough to tell and provided she gets the armor off no one will question what AJ did, because she dispersed her mob. This literally can be a just between them thing.
>>25872489
What about when anyone heads over to the old castle?
They were literally ripping out chunks of wall.
>>25872570
The Ruins of the two sisters castle? Handwaved as falling apart, earthquake, or a rampaging animal. They won't look there and say "Applejack must have done this", so they won't bring it up to her.
>>25872570
>What about when anyone heads over to the old castle?
Nigga this is the first time this ever happened in the thread.
Why'd they go there now?
>Celestia
"Luna"
~~~~
>Oh dear... this is a problem-
SMASH!
"SISTER! THEY LOCKED THE PORTAL!"
>...y-yes? Why wouldn't they? Why would they possibly leave open an instant access to the Empire where they changelings are? You're the silly one! You! Silly silly Luna!
"...What is that?"
>New hooficure treatment, which it totally sane, unlike you, who is silly. Silly little lulu.
"..."
>...
"...pfft."
>HOOFICURE!
"He hee."
>HOOFY!
"HeheheHAAHAHHAHA!"
>I just wanted one for the trip!
"Why didn't thou simply use magic!?"
>...SHUT UP!
"AHAHAHAHAH!"
>This is why I hang out with Shiny...
"AHAHHA- OH RIGHT!"
CRASH!
>...well, that was weird. Now... how do I get my hoof out of this one. I'm... in a pickle!
*Crickets*
>Pinkie would have laughed.
>>25872915
Try again, Celly. Just...try again. Bad sunhorse.
>>25873071
>This whole situation is rather... Jarring!
*Chirp*
>I think I need to stop.
>>25872915
>>Pinkie would have laughed.
...I think she would have, actually.
>>25873108
>>I think I need to stop.
Awww, come on, I thought it was pretty crisp.
I have never wanted to write all the things for everyone all at once before now...
What is wrong with me?
>>25873677
Christmas spirit?
Which is funny, because that damned holiday is why I'm not going to be writing till the 26th.
>Fluttershy
"Twilight"
'Rarity'
~~~~
>Banned!?
"Yep. Just for a little bit, though."
>Can they do that!?
'They did, darling.'
>Oh... I suppose so.
'...'
>I don't blame you, just so you know, I'm sure you were sure it was the right thing to do.
'That's... comforting?'
>I am!
"Where have you been anyway?"
>...helping a friend with animals.
"Oh, okay."
'That sounds right.'
>...Not going to ask further?
"Why would we?"
'Don't be silly, darling! Remember the last time we stuck our noses in that?'
~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK!~~~~~~
>Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear!
"WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
>He just wants the cornflakes!
'I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!'
>Tell them!
~They're above average!~
"..."
'...'
>That isn't what he normally says!
"WHY IS THAT TIGER SO BUFF AND HUGE!?"
>He plays sports, really! No drugs!
"..."
>Maybe I caught him once!
"'AHHHHHHHHHHHH!'"
>Get down from there Mr Tiger!
'But they're more than average!'
>Down!
~~~~~~
>...That happened like, two weeks ago.
"We learned our lesson."
'It stuck with us."
>... at least someone appreciates me.
>>25874081
>~They're above average!~
You motherfucker, you got me good there.
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
'???'
[???]
~~~~
>Welcome to Not Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content does matter, but here's a Christmas Eve present!
"Pinkie are you okay?"
>I'm A-Okay!
"You bit off a chunk of that shadow me. That was brutal."
'Curses! You actually defeated it!'
A filly sized dream eater appears speaking in a low female demonic voice.
'I meant to bring out your shadow and eat it. This changes things.'
>A Dream Eater? So that's why AJ's shadow randomly came out!
"What's a Dream Eater?"
>Right you're the newbie. It's exactly what the name says. Wow a lot of things have happened for a non-canon. Why didn't you eat AJ's shadow during the movies?
'I...wanted to see what was going to happen next.'
>Oh so you were the one shocked by the Darth Flavor was Lute's mom.
'I was trying to bring yours out too, but it looks like you already ate yours. I didn't expect competition.'
"Wait What? Pinkie do you-"
'I was hoping to see the next one too, but a girl's gotta eat.'
The Dream Eater begins inhaling the floor and warps the reality around it, sucking up seats.
>Hey stop!
The Dream Eater spits a chair at Pinkie.
>Gah
AJ readies her halberdshotgun.
"APPLESHOT!"
*BANG*
The Dream Eater rips out another seat and uses it as a shield, then throws it back at AJ.
"Uh APPLESLICE!"
Uses the blade end to cut the seat in half.
'I hate it when the food fights back.'
Pinkie takes out a cannon.
>AJ, at the same time! PONK CANNON!
"APPLEBLAST!"
An apple and present shoot out. The Dream Eater spins using her trunk and tail to send them back.
*BOOM*
>Ugh...maybe if we had a 3rd pony we wouldn't have to put up with this bully.
'I just want a meal. Not my fault you're my prey.'
[LUNAR SCYTHE!]
The Dream Eater evades, but still gets slashed on her side. Luna appears.
[Long ago you were the monsters that drained our dreams and made us fear sleep. Back then you were the predators. But now we are the hunters and YOU are the prey.]
>AB
"SB"
'SL'
~Winona~
(???)
=???=
~~~~
It was only now, as they reached a height that would dwarf any mountain, that it occurred to them.
>This was a bad idea!
"This was a bad idea!"
'This was a bad idea!'
~THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!~
She was like a blur, all of them were as they raced up the side of the thing that had transformed, rods that exploded with lightning erupting from its back as it's form changed ever more.
They knew, even without anymore prophesies to lead them astray, that this was the final run. The mountains it called arms were heaving up, piercing the sky as they lofted a blade power and magic above it's head.
They were running towards the head that started it all, every second besieged by more and more of the guardians of stone it created from it's skin alone. They fired upon them with thousands upon thousands of guns, all of them determined to stop the final run of the fillies and their dog.
She would not be stopped.
~THIS ONE IS FOR YOU BIG APPLE!~
She was a blur of silver, spinning and twisting every which way as she cleared the path. No beast of stone nor magic could stop her, none of them stood a chance.
>So is anyone else wonderin' where mah' dog even got a sword?
"Nope!"
'Don't care!'
>Huh... me neither. So weird.
They were making it, they were almost there, their long journey at last at an end!
They had beat the traps, outrun the foes in their way, scaled a mountain that constantly moved, but it was almost over!
~I SHALL SAVE MY APPLES!~
It was almost-
BZZT!
~YIPE!~
>Oh no! Winona!
'Oh, right, did we just forget about the shield?'
~No... no I haven't~
>Winona says yes.
~I know what it is, because I'm going to break through it!~
"And that we should give up and go home. Good thinking!"
~I'm going to break through it, because my Apples need me! They need their good girl who is such a good girl yes she is! My apples need me, and I WON'T LET THEM DOWN!~
'And also we should get ice cream. Good thinking girl!'
1/4
>>25874635
She curled her entire body inwards, getting ready to spring. Every muscle inside of her coiled, getting ready to be unleashed.
The fury of the ancients burned inside of her, a primal fury that howled to be unleashed from the days when the world were young and her brethren were monsters that roamed the land. Everything inside of her begged to be unleashed, and she could contain it no longer.
~MY APPLES NEED ME! AND I WILL NOT LET THEM DOWN!~
She howled to the sky, her sound carrying around the blades hilt and out into the world, a call to let them know.
She was Winona, and she was a good dog.
~FOR YOU, MY APPLES, I-~
SCREE!
~WHAHHHHHAAAAaaaa....-~
They all watched as she grew smaller and smaller in the sky, and then was gone.
>...
"...Did an eagle just catch her mid jump and carry her off?"
'It did.'
"And now we don't have a super dog to go break the shield."
'We don't.'
>...W-Winona, nooooo...
"Aww, don't feel bad! Pretty sure we'll all be together forever in about... two minutes?"
'Seems about right.'
>...
"..."
'...Girls... it has been an honor.'
"If I had to do it all over again, I'd be a crusader every time."
>We never found our Cutie Marks... but that's okay.
"Because we found each other!"
'If this is the end... I'm glad it was with you all!'
>ME TOO!
"ME TOOOOHOHOOOOOI!"
Tearfully, they all embraced, hugging each other tight as the magic grew more unstable, more powerful.
It would be over soon.
>AH' LOVE YOU ALL!
"I LOVE YOU GUYS TOO!"
'ME TOO!'
>"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS... TILL THE END!"'
In a second, in a flash, it was. It was all over.
>...Where'd the sword go?
It sounded like somehow, everything had just stopped. Everything had just grown quiet, and dead.
All around them, every one of the golems that had been birthed to bring their end stopped. All around them, they began to crumble and fade.
Like the plug had been pulled, it all just stopped.
>...Uh-
(VERKIR CLAIMS ANCIENT RIGHT OF FINDERS MEANS VEKIRS!)
2/4
>>25874646
A blur shot past them, a strange armored looking thing carrying on it's back the twin spears that had started this whole mess, and for some reason various bits of golems. Bits the figure paused to add to said collection with by stopping occasionally and picking up an arm, leg, or whatever else she could see.
>...Who the heck was that?
"How... how did she get through the shield?"
'What's keeping this thing from falling apart?'
The answers, they would find shortly, were 'Vekir' as she had screamed, 'Because she is Vekir' as she would claim, and 'nothing'.
That last one became quite obvious when the giant being started falling apart.
With them on the to.
>..OH SHIIIIIIIII
"RUUUUUUUUUU-"
'AHHHHHHHHHHH-'
>"'EVERY FILLY FOR HERSELF!"'
They shoved, they pushed, they rolled as the thing became a crumbling rockslide. Like a melting ice cube on fast forwards, it simply fell apart at the seams.
>'"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
All the way down, until every stone hit the earth, and lie in silence.
>...Cutie Mark sound off.
"None!"
'Nope!'
>Shoot... Oh hey! We're all alive!
"We are!"
'WE'RE ALIVE! WE- uh oh.'
Down below them, were thousands upon thousands of dirty, war torn faces of a thousand soldiers.
>...uh-
=You...=
'About this... um...'
=You fillies...=
"...C-call my sister? She'll pay for it?"
=...YOU SAVED US!=
The cheer was as shocking as it was deafening.
>Y-yayyy?
"Yayyyy..."
=You four pony Fillies have saved us all!=
>...Wait, four-
(VEKIR IS JUST SHORT!)
=To you, fillies! YOU ARE HEROES!=
As one, a thousand voices cheered.
=YOU ARE HEROES!=
(VEKIR IS NOT EVEN PONY!)
Every protest was drowned out by the chant.
=HE-ROES! HE-ROES!=
"WE DID IT! WOOOOO!"
>But... what about-
There was a crack, a snapping of bones that brought pause to the crowd, but only for a second.
~...I played fetch with the bird.~
>WINONA!
3/4
>>25874662
Without missing a beat, they all shrugged off the sudden appearance of the animal wielding a sword and the broken eagle beneath it, and continued to chant.
=HE-ROES! HE-ROES! HE-ROES!=
One by one, species big and small, from Zebra to Buffalo to Donkey To Caribou walked up to bow, to pay their respects.
=We will never forget you ponies, ever. For you duty, you have saved us all.=
=Now... it is time to celebrate!=
=WOOOO!=
Cheers, as loud as they were excited, filled the air. They had fought long, they had fought hard, but now it was time to celebrate.
>...Ah' wanna go home.
"Me too."
'Yep.'
(Vekir does not even know where she is!)
>Why are we even here anyway?
"...OH CRAP! We were supposed to go to Bisongard!"
'I literally forgot all about that.'
=Bisongard?=
>Yep. Was goin' there the whole time.
=But, it's that way. So far that way.=
>...
"..."
'...Fuck you, Applebloom.=
=Well, we'll be sure to help you get back to it when the celebrations have ended. There is just one more thing to do! Brave Pony Filly, we need the Staffs of The All Seeing One back.=
(...Big fuzzy wishes for pretty sticks?)
=Erm... yes.=
(Ah. Well, Vekir has only one thing to say to that.)
=And that is?=
(FINDERS VEKIRS!)
Everyone watched as she turned tail, and hauled off with all she was worth.
=...did she just run off with our most sacred artifacts?=
>Sigh... Got one more run in ya', girls?
"Yep."
'I can manage.'
>Good... GET BACK HERE YA' IDJIT!
~CHASE THE STICK CHASE THE STICK MINE MINE MINE~
And so would be come to be told, the tale of the four pony fillies who saved the world from certain doom. All through the lands they would sing of them, their bravery in what would be come to be known the most massive battle to ever be fought on those lands. It would come to be one of the most defining moments in the histories of every soldier who had seen war that day.
And they were pretty sure nobody back home would believe a word of it.
>AH' WANNA GO HOME!
>>25874679
I have absolutely no idea where the hell this little mini-subplot with the CMC came from, but I loved it.
If that's the end, it's a fine one.
>>25874646
>(VERKIR CLAIMS ANCIENT RIGHT OF FINDERS MEANS VEKIRS!)
Lost all of it.
Every single bit.
Shiny on, you crazy little thing.
Huh. The year us about to end. I guess we are wrapping up as many subplots as we can?
It'd be nice to start fresh.
>>25874679
So THAT'S where she ended up
>>25874679
so how'd she get out of th-
oh wait, I know EXACTLY how
>vekir puts the barrel in her pocket
>barrel is now in her pocket
>and thus not around her
>Vekir is free!
>>25875177
Actually, she got let loose forever ago.
I knew she did, I just was wondering what was taking so long. It was when the CMC heard something and were like "What the fuck? and then Winona went "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Because Winona doesn't like her, just like she hates Arana.
Vekir has been loose for a while, she JUST showed up for some reason.
>>25875232
huh, last I remember her being anywhere was the barrel post-Kingsmoot
>>25875284
She was in the barrel, but then there was this
>http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/25673487/#25713207
{AHHHHH!}
CRASH!
>...
"..."
'...The heck was that?'
~...*Sniff sniff*... noooo...~
{Ah hah! Free! Finally... AHHHHHHHHHHH!}
>That voice sounds so familiar.
~....Nooooooooo....~
'...Your dog is foaming at the mouth.'
>She does that sometimes.
'...Wha-'
~NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!~
~~~~
Like I said, I knew who it was right away, I was just waiting for her to do something.
>>25875365
oh, yeah, I had no idea that was her
>Jetset
“Harshwhinny”
‘56’
~~~~
‘-an’ then suddenly I knew what I had to do ‘cause there would only be one shot an’ I couldn’t miss my chance to blow-’
“He’s quite the talkative one, isn’t he? I state that not as a simple observer but as someone who’s legitimately wondering how he can ramble on for four minutes straight without a single intake of breath.”
‘-an’ they say opportunity only comes once in a lifetime-’
>This… this is madness. Utter depravity. I thought my glitching was abnormal but this creature here is-SHIT!
‘Hey! Hey, Mr. Jerkshades! That’s not a very nice thing t’say to the one who dug ya outta-’
“He just phased into some branches, little insect.”
>AAAAAAAAAAAA-
‘…Oh. I see.’
>-AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
“And as you can see, one of them is jutting from a very sensitive area.”
>-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
‘That I also can see.’
>-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
“Well, just bite down on end there, little insect, and give a nice, firm tug, won’t you? There’s a good boy.”
‘…this feels wrong.’
>-AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
“Tug right, it might turn pleasurable.”
>>25874679
>AJ ha no idea she's gone
Glorious.
>>25875817
...That's just wrong...
>>25876210
Hey, at least now he knows what's been happening to Shiny in OOCO.
Wild magic goes right for the hanging fruit, its a law.
Well, looks like we just might end up using that new xmas pic after all, woo!
>>25876753
70something posts left, let's go fast, if we're lucky we'll have a thread up at midnight my time with cristmas pics
Can we use Christmas to finally calm the hell down, unwind from the crazy that's been going on these last few threads?
because THAT would be a gift, truly a gift.
So I'm debating something regarding what's going to happen with 88.The plan-as of right now-is for Lavan and 88, with permission from Luna, to travel to the site of one of Lavan and his siblings' attempts at destroying the world way back before Luna and Celly existed. The plan back then was to siphon the fears from the primitive tribal races wandering the world and form them into an army of nightmarish monsters, before they were stopped by Faust and Co. leaving the place as essentially a drainage pipe for discarded thoughts and ideas due to the convergence of Chaos, Harmony, and...whatever the best term for the anti-creation stuff Lavan and his siblings use is.
Lavan's theory is that, as the place was once intended to influence reality and eventually destroy it, there can be a way to heal 88 there.
Of course, the whole thing becomes a lot more complicated for then when they get there, but I feel like I'm putting the bughorse before the love-flavored carrot as it were.
Is this anything worth writing/reading? My goal here isn't to retread the ground I already trampled in 32's dream while keeping it from going as dark as it did in the latter. Granted, I may end up going for black comedy in a gag or two, but I can't help myself with that.
>>25877253
It is a bit convoluted and backstory heavy when it doesn't really seem to need it, it would be just as easy and more in tune with the set lore to just have Lavan try to use Chaos Magic to warp reality and fix her eyes and something just goes wrong that way. Like, I'm reading all that and I'm just thinking "You can apparently warp shit on a whim just by accident, why the fuck do you need a dead area where you tried to set off a superweapon to fix a set of eyes?"
I dunno, it feels less like it's about 88 if you try to cram all that backstory in for what is a very simple goal, and more about just trying to talk more about Lavan's backstory and spiraling off into these ideas you had for early-Equestria wars, which isn't good.
I'd say you can avoid the entire 32 comparison wholesale if you just have her actually live it instead of dream it, and I know you were on the fence about taking that one anon's suggestion, but having her not see crazy shit while it's actually happening would do that for sure. The whole nightmare monsters backstory just plain isn't needed, stick to making this about 88 and her need to see the world again.
>>25877480
Ok, back to the drawing board I guess. That last story has to be NC now then. I'll try to figure something else out.
>>25877480
I'm going to agree with this, but unfortunately I can only give the perspective of a reader, I'm not good at themes or coherent narrative as a writer, but-
>>25877601
Since you are, the thing that jumped at me with that is that right away, I knew I would be skipping all that backstory. Not because I'm not sure it would be well thought out and interesting, but by tying it in to 88's story, I'm immediately going to think
>Yeah yeah yeah monsters evil whatever just get to 88's part.
Because she's the character I'm invested with in this story. She's the character I want to see progress and change in some way. The backstory is probably a fine setup for the shenanigans, but to me, the how of the shenanigans don't matter so long as it makes sense and I can follow it.
Since you're going back to the drawing board, all I can say is from my perspective alone, take this with the tiny bit of salt it's worth, but I'm here to see 88 and I want to get her on her journey as fast as possible, so I can travel with her character as she hopefully learns to see once again. All that backstory would be something I would want to skip past, not something I need to understand crazy things happening.
Lavan is a wonderful choice to set off this journey as he's already got built in crazy. I just have to know "This guy has weird magic" and I can roll with it, I don't need psudo landbased versions of the comics nightmare forces.
>>25877743
Ok, how's this sound:>Lavan, with 32 and 88's blessing, whisks 88 away to an obscure patch of wasteland to try and figure out if his magic can fix her predicament
>"Why some random hellhole?" "Because I'm not used to doing magic that helps someone."
>After resolving she still wants to do this, 88 demands Lavan do his stuff.
>Pop.
>"..."
>"...so your eyes, the good news is, I can see they are one hundred percent fine. The bad news is...they're currently rolling away from us at about the speed of a very determined cheetah."
>88 has to chase her runaway eyeballs while they, charged on crazy eldritch magic, turn the wasteland into a nonsensical mushroom-themed Wonderland knockoff.
>Lavan can't intervene for fear of making it worse, trying to offer guidance over 88's shoulder.
Better?
>>25877853
That's actually a kind of funny setup, yeah. It's just the right amount of crazy and nonsensical. The whole meta-concept of literally chasing her sight through the remains of a warped mushroom just tickles my fancy something funny, and the idea of Lavan providing commentary for her(as the audience stand-in so we can point out the crazy shit but she can't see it yet) is a clever one. With the way he talks, it would be very easy to make exposition and simple descriptions of areas funny.
I like it! Cuts out the fluff, gets right to the action with 88, offers a ton of different ways the story can go, and it's totally unique from 32's story.
>>25877853
yet another Christmas present all lined up
perfect
>Sunset
"Pommel"
>Welp.
"I concur."
>Gotta say, she was-
"Cutting it close?"
>Yep. Still...
"I got some mixed feelings about this, you too?"
>Ohhhh yeah. But hey, nothing we can really do but try and make things better going forward, right?
"Agreed, we just have to keep a stiff upper lip, eyes fixed on a better future, and most importantly-"
>"Pray we never have to talk to that three story tall pain in the ass ever again."
>...
"..."
>Jinx.
"That was a super specific jinx."
>I know, right?
Reposting with tweaks to fit the new direction.
>Lavan
"32"
'88'
>Oh, well that's pleasant.
"Huh?"
>I just feel like a very good thing just happened. A thing that needed to happen. Warms my heart...I assume, I'll check when I figure out what I did with it.
'Hey, weirdo, focus! You said I could get my eyes back with your help, I want the details yesterday!'
>You are very enthusiastic about this.
'Have YOU ever been unable to see?'
>Do the periods of time where I was dead count?
'No.'
>Drat, then I don't.
'Look, I'm desperate here, I'll give anything-aaaaaanything to be able to just see again! Preferably before my brother constantly banging the demonic school marm produces some kind of adorable Antifaust! I wanna be cool aunt not blind aunt! Hell, maybe I'll find myself a guy too, raise a family! But I can't do that if I can't see!'
"Well I mean you could-"
'It'd be harder than your dick around literally any guy ever.'
"Not around Shining Armor!"
'That's because you're a sexual hipster. But we're getting off topic, you! Happy guy! Start talking!'
>Ok! So, I need to take you to a place, it's super important we go there.
"What place?"
>It's not important what it's name is, just that it's there. And it is there, I think. Hang on.
Poof!
1/2
>>25878690
"..."
'...did that chipper freak just DISAPPEAR!?'
"Yyyep."
'How does this guy do that!? Is he a unicorn or something?'
"..."
'What?'
"You cannot get your sight back soon enough."
Poof!
>Ok! It's there still, juuuust like it was when I was there last.
"When was this?"
>Millions of years ago, but no matter for that! I need to know a thing before we continue...
'Yes.'
>This may be very dang-
'Yes.'
>It could backfire horrib-
'Yes.'
>Are you s-?
'WHY! EE! ESS!'
>Determination, this pleases me. Very well, friendly changeling!
"Yes?"
>Your friendship is something I will remember long after you are dead!
"Morbid."
>And I vow your sister will return with eyes that work and absolutely no other problems!
'Hell yeah!'
>No matter how many things I have to set on fire to do it!
'Yeah!'
"WHAT!?"
>GIVE MY GOODBYES TO THE YOUNG LOVERS AND STRANGE TALKING MARE! AWAY!
Poof!
"...I just entrusted my sister to a flaming face that can break reality like a twig. I need a drink. Many drinks. Many many drinks."
>>25878699
just keep drinking
Merry Christmas, /pa/!
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"AJ"
'Rarity'
[Twi]
{FS}
=RD=
~~~~
>Welcome to Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and we take a short break to do a CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!
"A what now?"
'I think this is a humor Pinkie moment, darling.'
Twilight shows up with a smashed flower pot on her head.
"Rule one when dealing with Pinkie...don't question Pinkie."
>And don't you forget it! Now help me decorate Fluttershy!
Puts a star on top of Fluttershy's head who's become half tree.
>...Pst say the line.
{Oh um...I am flute.}
>Someday people of the future will wonder...what in the world is this referencing and the joke will fail, but as long as someone remembers.
"Remember when Pinkie once made a vague reference? Applefarms remembers."
=Hey Pinkie, I hear you've been having crazy adventures in these dreams. When are we going to go on an adventure together?=
>I'm still working with AJ right now, but depending on what happens in the future maybe I'll be able to bring you into the fold once I talk to my producer.
=Aw, but I'd rather have it now.=
>Come up with a shtick we could use and I'm sure our viewers will enjoy it!
[Will I go on some of the adventures too?]
>You're doing fine in canon. I don't really need to spotlight you.
[Aw, but I'd be interested in seeing what you do in these dreams.]
{Uh, I'm fine if I don't get a spotlight. You can pass mine to Twilight.}
>Don't be silly. I know there's a hidden mine of comedy in you that just dying to be found!
'Will I see a return someday?'
>You've already had your own cardboard shadow, but luckily my producer likes you, so you might get a cut ahead of others here.
"You know, my time on your show hasn't been exactly consistent. Are we ever going to-"
>That's all the time we have, but I hope you've enjoyed my show as much as I have. I love all my fans out there. Even the ones that send silly letters. G'night and have a very merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, /pa/
You fight sometimes, but you're always worth the wait
>>25880199
Merry Christmas PP anon and all.
Thanks for the laughs twists turns and fun
>>25880219
Ahhh, we only fight because we loveourwaifus.
>>25880995
Even when we do we keep it surprisingly civil, which is a nice change of pace.
Merry fuckin' Christmas, /pa/.
Hope you had a traditional family christmas!... Or else.
Christmas Omake
>AJ
“Spike”
~~~~
The castle had never been in more resplendent state than it was today. The floors had been scrubbed to a sparkling finish, the windows glared bright, the walls sang with new festive portraits, the suits of armor glistened, the smell of warmth and holiday cheer permeated everything.
“Looks like divvying up some of the cake funds to the castle help was a good investment. Because, damn, I don’t think I’ve seen the place this dolled up before.”
>Mmm….
“...Nervous, applebutt?”
>Now what would ever give y’all that idea?
“You keep making little kicky motions with your hindlegs.”
>Y’all’d kick too iffin’ yer’ best friend had somehow managed to convince ya’ to wear a thong. Shoot, Ah'm gonna need a team o’ spelunkers to dig this thing here outta mah rump….
“Well! Happy hearth’s warming to me, heh.”
>Perv….
“But so why the thong?”
>Goes wit’ the dress, she said. Which is another thing that’s buggin’ me! This infernal thing’s so tight Ah’ can barely walk!
“Looks fine from where I’m standing, applebutt.”
>…r-really?
“Duh. But then you look great in almost anything so that’s not saying much.”
>…
“And besides, no need to be nervous. If everyone’s too busy gawking at your bodacious figure they won’t even notice if you happen to flub a word or two.”
She really didn’t want to laugh but against his goofy smile… she couldn’t help it.
The pair stopped at a grand pair of double doors that would lead to the main hall, AJ dressed in her silken dress and Spike decked out in a black tuxedo so sharp it seemed to ripple.
Except….
Her magic, refined and flawless, took hold of his tie and straightened it to perfection.
>There.
He beamed, then gripped the doorknob.
“Well? Ready to go greet your subjects and bring 'em some Hearth’s Warming cheer, Princess Applejack?”
Her smirk was debonair in return.
>Ready as Ah’ll ever be, Spike.
1/3
>>25881411
Nodding, Spike gave his hand a twist then pushed the door open.
A flash of bright light proceeded everything else, followed by the uproarious sound of dozens of voices all conversing at once.
The main hall had been reconfigured to accommodate a mile-long dinner table, outfitted with sparkling gold silverware and chalices and lined with chattering patrons, guests, family, friends, representatives, and dignitaries on both sides.
How anyone could hear the one next to them was a mystery by itself, but the moment AJ took her first step within the hall, the noise was snuffed. Heads craned and bodies twisted to get a good look at the princess as she entered, her walk surprisingly lithe and gracefully as she began the walk up towards the head of the table.
She felt the multitude of eyes upon her, heard that ear-pounding silence disrupted only by her hooffalls.
But she only smiled and continued to trot, Spike bringing up her rear with his hands clasped professionally behind his back.
For some reason, Celestia had decided to relinquish her annual duty of delivering the Hearth’s Warming speech to none other than Applejack herself. The same Hearth’s Warming speech that was spoken before the entire castle and its esteemed guests.
The same Hearth’s Warming speech that AJ had no intention of reading.
2/3
>>25881420
Mostly because the stupid thing was nine sheets of parchment paper (that grew every year) and crammed full of the previous years’ accomplishments and the like.
It was no wonder why halfway through some of the guests had to be prodded awake by their neighbor.
No, not this year.
As AJ ascended the steps which placed her behind a lectern overlooking the entire hall, that put her in a splendid viewing angle for everyone gathered, she stared out at them all, instantly recognizing the faces of her closest friends, of her family, of Celestia and Luna and Blueblood and Chrysalis and Chitania with her daughter….
She knew they were all expecting to hear the same tired and overly long spiel heard every year. The look in some of their eyes, that look of impending boredom, was only proof of that.
So it confused them all when she started to chuckle, moving her lips closer to the microphone.
>So… it’s been a real fucked up year lookin’ back, hasn’t it?
Spike laughed.
3/3
>>25881426
>Christams stories
Das mah /pa/.
Nice.
>>25881426
Oh year, this seems like a 'next year is gonna be crazy' thing.
>>25881896
What? Nooo, what gave you that idea?
"Denial, this pleases me."
Quiet, you!
>>25881896
On the positive side, looks like she keeps working on her magic.
>>25881426
>and Chitania with her daughter…
Who the fuck invited CHITANIA to that!?
>>25882647
It's Christmas, Mr. Scrooge! Let all bygones be bygones as long as that one particular bygone doesn't step on anything!
CHIRTSMAS OMAKE!
>AJ
"Chrysalis"
~~~~
>Why didn't ya' get me nothin' this year? Ah' thought we were friends!
"What? I got you magic super seeds."
>That don't count!
"Why not?"
>Those weren't a gift!
"Last I checked I gave them to you."
>Yeah, but...
"..."
>...Friggen Buffalo giver.
"WHOA!"
>Ya' are! Ah' gave ya' the apple and then ya' gave it back in seed form.
"Just say regifter!"
>Don't tell me how ta' live!
"..."
>...
"... Fine. Here's a bullet."
>What am Ah' supposed to do with a... oh.
"Now you can't say I never gave you a vacation."
>Har har har.
Chirstmas omake!
>SA
"18"
'Chrysalis'
[42]
{Cadence}
~~~~
"Hey Shiiiinyyyy, look who's under the mistletoe?"
>... That's holly.
"OH DEAR HIVEMIND ANOTHER ONE!?"
>Er, no, I mean that's holy you're holding up, not mistletoe.
"Oh... shoot!"
'Shiiiiny? Look what Iiiii've goooooot.'
>...A thistle? That's a thistle.
'That's the thing you kiss under, right?'
>Not even remotely close.
[...]
>...Er-
[This is not mistletoe.]
>Oh? What is it-
FWOOOSH!
[Ash.]
>Ah.
[...I am sorry if I over reacted, however, I would like to remind you what would likely happen if I were to be kissed in public.]
>Bad?
[In the spirit of the holidays, I shall call it charitable.]
{Shoot! Now how am I supposed to kiss Shiny!?}
>...Cadence?
{Yeah?}
SMOOCH!
{But there's no mistletoe!}
>Married.
{...Oh! Right! Neat! I can kiss you whenever you want!}
>And do other stuff!
{Don't push it.}
>Stopping now.
"..."
'...'
[...]
Awkward shuffle.
>...Sigh.
{Go ahead.}
>You sure?
{This counts as presents from both of us.}
"'SCORE!'"
BRO-HOOF!
[...yay.]
>>25883471
Well, it's cheap, give them that.
>>25882918
At least she got a gift, AJ.
Insensitive.
Christmas Omake!
>Lavan
"88"
Poof!
>Whoops.
"H-h-h-hoooly shiiiit it's cold here!"
>This isn't the right spot at all! Where did I take us?
'Ho ho ho! Merry christmas!'
"Gah! Wh-wh-what was th-that!?"
>Oh hello giant red fat man, I'm Lavan. I appear to have teleported us to a whole different planet. Butterfingers. Wait, I have no fingers, butterlips? No that's gross. Butter eyes?
'You two saved me a trip, let me just look on my list here...aha...ohhh. Several individual counts of extinction, multiple collapses of civilization, and a moving violation. Aaaand, oh, bodysnatching, murder, and attempted assimilation with intent to spread. Welp, here you both are!'
THUMP!
'Merry christmas!'
"...what just happened!"
>Coal, how fascinating, now we just need a combustion engine and we'll have those funny metal contraptions that go so fast!
"GET US OUT OF HERE!"
>Ok!
Poof!
'...weirdos. On Dasher, on Dancer!'
>>25884133
...That's kinda mean to 88, Dick-Santa.
>>25884256
to be fair, before the "reform" all the changelings were fucking dicks, 88 was no exception
but yeah, Santa is being a dick tacking the shroom's crimes onto her
>>25884256
True considering the only thing that could be held against her would be assimilation. The other stuff is just called being any Changeling ever before the ballroom.
>>25884256
>Implying that was directed at 88
>Implying he didn't know there's still cordy bits in there
He knows everything, anon.
C-Omake.
>29
"MM"
'Zecora'
[Trixie]
~~~~~
>...Sooo... does anyone here celebrate Hearth Warming?
"Well, I'm actually Chewish."
'I am not from anywhere near this place. I am not one of the pony race.'
[Trixie is non-practicing.]
>...Non-practicing what? Isn't... isn't this about the three pony races coming together?
[Meh.]
>What does that even mean!?
"What do you celebrate around this time?"
>That time I didn't starve to death because some businessmare at a Hearth Warming Party pulled me into the closet.
"..."
'...'
[...]
>That was nice.
"...We need to get you some traditions."
[Or do the same ones!]
>...
[Trixie might have eaten some nog.]
'You don't eat eggnog, you silly fool! You drink it, don't be a tool!'
[Ah... then Trixie requires medical attention.]
>Wha-
[BLARG!]
"...How did that not hit any of-"
~OH COME ON!~
>>25884712
Hahahaha! Every fucking time!
>>25884712
Faustmom is probably doing this, and is a dick.
Christmas Omake!
>AJ
"Chrysalis"
~~~~
>Alright, since ya'll were bein' a sourpuss about it, Ah' gotch'a a present.
"Is it an apple?"
>...Now that right there, that's offensive.
"It's an Apple, isn't it?"
>Oh, cause o' course, old Applejack ain't got nothin' for her but apples! She's as one note as they get, apples and that's it!
"It's an Apple."
>You know what? Ah'm downright insulted. That right there is an insult to me, ta' mine, and all Ah' have ever done! Ah' don't even know if you deserve it anymore!
"Just say it's an apple."
>Why, iffin' that weren't insultin' enough, ya' got the nerve ta' act like an Apple would be a bad gift iffin' Ah' was gonna give it, which you got no indication Ah' am! This here is so insultin', so offensive, Ah' downright want to give you what for just cause! You'd be lucky if Ah' gave you an apple! It'd be more than someone as rude as you deserved! And another thing-
"Applejack!"
>...
"I can see it."
>...No ya' can't.
"Right there on your back."
>Mah' wing is hidin' your gift, thank you!
"That only works if you close it all the way. Which you haven't."
>... Yes Ah' have.
"Applejack."
>...
"..."
>...Well, yer' about ta' feel silly! Cause Ah' didn't get you an apple!
"Alright, fine, what did you get me?"
>Get ready ta' be blown away! Because what Ah' actually got you was-SMOKEBOMBATTACK!
PAFT!
"GAK! HAAKKKKK! OH FUCK MY EYES ARE BURNING!"
>AH'M NOT ONE NOOOOOOOOOooooooootttttteeeeee.....
Ding!
"...Why does the smoke bomb smell like apples..."
>>25885318
YOU CANCER CAUSING BITCH
>>25885318
Hoooohohoho and here I was going to put in a prophecy that Applejack doesn't give very good gifts. You beat me to it. I wonder if I should make a special achievement for this one.
Christmas Omake!
>Rarity
"Dash"
'Pinkie'
[Twilight]
{FS}
~~~~~~
>WOOOOO! HAPPY HEARTH WARMING! LAY DOWN THE BOO!
"...The what?"
>THE GEE!
"Wha... wha?"
>IT'S FUNKLY!
"I'm not the only one who's confused, right?"
'Rarity chugged three wine kegs. The whole kegs.'
"...Those come in kegs?"
>LOOK AT WHAT I LAID DOWN!...IT'S ME!
WHUP!
>Weeeeee...
"Huh."
[Don't act like her chugging those isn't impressive.]
"It's not!"
'Pfft, like you could do better?'
"DAMN STRAIGHT I CAN!"
{Oh dear...}
[We should do something about that.]
{Oh, yes, we should.}
[...]
{You're the smart one, we need smart reasons.}
[You're the nice one, you can be nice to her and she'll roll with it.]
{[...Pinkie?]}
'I'm the party one, so I BRING THE PARTY!'
SLAM!
'SIX WINE KEGGERS! MAKE IT HAPPEN!'
"Oh, this is happening! Kids, if you want to be radical like me, always remember, when your friends dare you to drink massive amounts of alcohol, you always remember to tell them FUCK YEAH I CAN, I'M AWESOME!"
'CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!'
{...I feel like this is why we normally invite Applejack to our Hearth's Warming.}
[Could use some common sense now, sure.]
{...Are we going to step in?}
'CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!'
[No.]
{Oh... you okay, Rarity?}
>P-play sha fucky music white maaaaare....zzzzz...
{She's probably fine.}
Christamas Omake!
>Discord
"Lavan"
'???'
~~~
>...
"Hello!"
>I'm on to yooooou.
"Are you? You seem off of me. Are you on a part of me I do not see? Please remove yourself, I will burn you by accident."
>Don't think you've fooled me!
"Changeing the subject, this pleases me. I like things changing."
>You have to be pretty quick to confuse the lord of chaos!
'OH! OH! I know how to confuse you then!'
>...how?
'FelizNavidadFeliz NavidadFelizNavidadProsperoañoyFelicidad!'
>...wha-
'IsaidFelizNavidadFelizNavidadFelizNavidadProsperoañoyFelicidad.'
>....
"To you as well, from the bottom of where my heart would normally be, small pink pony!"
'I knew you'd like it! Too bad old Discord can't keep up, eh?'
"Talking about him like he isn't here, this pleases me."
>...I do not like this.
>>25885657
>Rainbow Dash, teaching all the best lessons.
Also, AJ sells Cider for a living, she'd be chugging them right along with her.
>>25885657
she laid down the boogie and played that funky music 'till she died.
>>25886030
...Was this planned, PP anon?
You can tell me.
>>25886030
Just because of this, I got curious and
>Rarity played that funky music and laid down the boogie.
>Rainbow Dash shows how radical she can be.
Both of these are answered by "Drinking, so much drinking">>25885657
>Pinkie confuses people by speaking in very rapid Spanish.
Merry Christmas to you you crazy bitch>>25886030
>A tiger won't stop climbing the counter eating Fluttershy's frosted flakes.
Well, duh, he's not settling for average!>>25874081
>Luna laughs at Celsestia for getting her hoof stuck in a pickle jar.
She wouldn't be laughing if she heard Celly's standup. >>25872915
>Spike, DT, and Silver Spoon share a very kid moment.
Which involves secrets and plushies!>>25872319
>The crusaders realize eagles are jerks when Winona gets nabbed!
She doesn't like jerks.>>2587466
>Jingle fanservice!
...Where do you want me to start? So many omakes!
ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED!
>>25886739
There is like, one famous Spanish Christmas son.
50/50 chance.
>>25885513
AJ just wants to see Twi punch her.
>>25887095
http://www.myinstants.com/instant/achievement-unlocked/
God, the above average really got me too.
Also if the CMC think the prophecies are going to stop interfering they've got another thing coming. They can't run from fate!
>>25886739
Honestly, I didn't expect that. It was just a play on the moment when Pinkie sang in spanish for Rainbow Dash's birthday. This worked out very well.
>>25887948
... can you blame her?
I like her too, but that just sounds funny
Non-Canon
>Pinkie
"Cadence"
'DT'
[various]
~~~~
>Welcome to Late Night /pa/ with your host Pinkie Pie! It's during this time that content doesn't matter, and we are delayed due to heavy holiday drinking!
Cadence pulls a sleigh through the air with Pinkie and DT riding in it.
"How come I have to pull the sleigh?"
'Does it look like we have wings?'
"But we're in a dream. Couldn't you have given it wheels or turn it into a helicopter?"
>Tradition Cadence!
"I don't know what tradition you're talking about Pinkie. You just strapped a sleigh on me and told me to fly."
>We're giving gifts to all the dreaming kids out there.
'If we're in a dream then what's the point of giving dream gifts to sleeping kids?'
>I'm giving them the gift of imagination!
'Pinkie, I'm a kid. We're full of imagination.'
>No harm in giving them more! There's one now. Hey little filly! Have a present!
She shoots down a gift box that turns into a good looking colt. He gives the filly a special look.
[Thanks Pinkie!]
"...I don't get it."
'...is this heading where I think it is?'
>Hey little colt! I know what you want!
Shoots a present at him which turns into a Cheerilee in a sexy school teacher outfit.
[You're the greatest Pinkie!]
'...wow, they're going to have a really nice dream tonight.'
>Wait until I give the shippers their gifts.
'...mother of Celestia.'
"Did Aunty Luna approve this?"
>I never bothered to ask! Sooo you're going to have to fly fast if we're going to reach everypony!
"...I'm scared."
>>25889849
Oh, but I am not.
Dis gonna be good
>>25889849
CORRUPTING THE YOUTH!
CORRUPTION I SAY
Hope you /pa/ls had a merry Christmas, I certainly did!
Can't wait to see what the new year brings AJ
Late-Christmas Omake!
>SA
"Cadence"
'Chrysalis'
[18]
{42}
~Celestia~
^2^
(Spitfire)
=Mane-Iac=
-Sombra-
~~~~~~~
>...Oh dear god I just realized we got bigger over the year.
"Oh shoot, we did!"
'Ahhhh, come on, Spitfire's fine!'
[And hey, it's not like things are going to get bigger, right?]
{Sure, certain... things were revealed this year, but it can't get too much crazier!}
~At least there weren't any giant mushrooms this year!~
^I still missed all the cool stuff!^
(No, you didn't. You missed the crazy stuff.)
=AHHHHHAHAHAHAH! I DID NOOOOOOT MISS IT, THIS TIIIIME AHAHAHAHAHHA!=
-Nor did I, unfortunately.-
>Well, at least this is as crazy as it's going to get, right?...R-right?
"...We got you a new wine cellar for Hearth Warming."
>WOO HOO!
'But we drank it.'
[All of it.]
{It was... tempting.}
~Our willpower was strong, but nothing is that strong.~
^I DIDN'T GET NUFFIN AGAIN!^
=AHAHHAAH! NOR DID IIIIIII... It sucked!=
(Trust me, you don't want the headache.)
-I drank it too, just because... no i don't feel bad.-
>...Some things never change.
>>25890871
It was last minute but we got a hell of a head start thanks to her arc.
We've got magic, a surprisingly solid relationship moment with Chrysalis, lots of development into how tired she is at the moment, all sorts of things.
Hell, Chrysalis has developed a ton thanks to this arc too. Things are looking up for both.
OMAKE!
>29
"MM"
~~~~~
>...
"Soooo... not mad about that whole... mob thing, right?"
>...
"You're not, are you?"
>...
"I feel like you're not."
>...
"Yep, you are taking this great-"
>GRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
*PRISSSTOMPPRSISSTOMPPRISSSTOMP!*
"...Well, shit. I am going to have to blow him like crazy to fix this."
>>25891483
>*PRISSSTOMPPRSISSTOMPPRISSSTOMP!*
....why did I miss the Priss Stomp....
OMAKE!
>SA
"Cadence"
'???'
[???]
~~~~~
>...Do you hear something?
"Yeah, it sounds like... bells? Jingling bells?"
>...that's stupid.
"Yeah, sounds kinda-"
CRASH!
>SWEET LOVE IN THE MORNING!
'HO HO HOOOO... what day is it?'
>You just crashed into our castle!
'...when it the week does that normally fall?'
"Are you drunk!?"
'I might have celebrated a bit too hard.'
>Who are you!? And why do you have so many reindeer!?
"Follow up, they're all pulling your sleigh. That... looks like Slavery, is this slavery?"
[Nah.]
'Ho ho! That's why I like you, Vixen!'
[You only like me because I'm the only girl on the team!]
'...Dancer isn't a girl? Well... I have things I need to reflect on.'
>WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY CASTLE!?
'Such language! You're going right on the naughty list! And so close to the end too!'
[Last night, fatso. You missed it.]
'Ho hooooSHIT!'
[Ugh, I need a new job... well hello there, cutie!]
>... this is the part where you reveal you were talking to her, right?
"SHINY!"
>It would be a change of pace!
[Nope, all you buddy. Soooo... you going to any after christmas parties?]
>MARRIED!
[So is chubs over there, didn't stop him.]
'So... many regrets...'
[Besides, how often are you going to be able to say you got it with a reindeer?]
>...
"NO MORE!"
[WAH!]
'HO HO HOOOLY SHIT! SHE CAN LIFT MY WHOLE SLEIGH!? That takes like, sixteen elves!'
"NO MOOOOOORE!"
*CHUCK!*
[AHHHHHHHHHHI"MSORRYHE'SJUSTHOOoooooootttt...]
'...How did you know she could fly and survive that?'
"SHE CAN FLY!?"
'I'm getting too old for this shit.'
>>25890496
>Pinkie, why don't you have a seat over there?
>>25891858
I'm oddly sympathetic to Santa here....
>>25892462
he cheated on his wife with a MALE deer
he gets no sympathy from me.
>>25892613
So Santa has a thing for reindeer, so what? It's the 21th century!
>>25892650
it's not even the reindeer thing:
>cheated on his wife
>failed to recognize a trap
>>25892663
>Failing to recognise a trap is bad
That's why they're traps, Anon. And it's why they're so delicious.
>>25892613
>implying Mrs. Claus doesn't like to watch
OMAKE
>2
"Santa"
~~~~
>...zzz...z...
"HO HO HOOOO!
>SNK!?.... SANTA!
"Hello, little Two!"
>Ya' finally found me!
"...er-"
>Ah' knew it, the reason ya' never delivered nothin' ta' me 'afore!
"...uh-"
>Mah' plan ta' have a whole family and a place ta' sleep where ain't nobody gonna bite me worked!
"...This is getting sad."
>This is great!... Why do ya' look like Shiny?
"...I'm his third cousin, twice removed?"
>Oh, that makes sense... night!
Thp!
>Zzzzzzz....
"...And Cadence called me stupid for installing a chimney."
OMAKE!
>AJ
"Big Mac"
~~~
>Oh! Ah' just remembered, ah' gotta gift for Applebloom waitin'!... Where is that gal anyway?
"..."
>...
"..."
>...What?
>>25893095
Keep the arms and armour, AJ, you got a sibling and dog to rescue
>>25893095
You know, the weird thing?
I'm more wondering why she hasn't noticed her dog is gone.
>>25893370
Because, like Applebloom, Winona has been making trips back and forth from SAA to Canterlot Castle.
PP-anon here. I'm traveling and I'm too lazy to draft something by phone, so I'm going to need someone to sub for me.
>>25893544
Not a problem.
We still using the AJ pic?
>>25893653
See no reason why not!
Also, new post is bump.
NC
>Pinkie Pie
~~~~~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiHu_wmZT-o
>Hooooeee! Applejack's and Chrysalis's confrontation at last comes to a close, and she makes an startling choice this Hearth's Warming!
>Next time! Applejack needs to keep her head on straight, Twilight loses the keys to her Juggernaut, Two can't sit still, Chrysalis can see forever, Zecora tries to stop rhyming with catastrophic results, Luna feels like she missed something, Celestia discovers her hair is not a flotation device, they're trying to catch Dash flying dirty and I just can't take it anymore! Find out what happens next time in Thread 115: A national Pony vacation!... Oh! And lots of icy fanservice!
Alright, whoever's still standing after the holiday celebrations get the lights, NEW THREAD! >>25893943
