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Hearts and Hooves Day
Chapter 8: A Heart for Derpy
"Oh please don't be there, please don't be there," Derpy said, she was a grey pegasus with a blond mane and beautiful golden harvest eyes, she was special though, while her eyes were golden, they also were crossed. Due to this, many of the ponies called her names and she had a very bad childhood, but she was happy. She...
Hearts and Hooves Day
Chapter 9: A Heart for the Princess
Princess Celestia's horn glowed as she lifted the bright yellow orb as she did every day. Today was the one day she did not have to file any taxes on the work of many sales ponies or having meetings with her staff for 3 hours or more. No, today was her day to relax. Though the only problem was, today she should be rela...
Hearts and Hooves Day
Chapter 10: How It All Ended
Twilight Sparkle: was happy now that she and flash were a thing, she missed him a lot when she went home but she always wrote to him whenever she could, she made spike so tired he napped more than usual. they went on dates whenever she went to the Crystal Empire, or when Flash came over to Ponyville, which was a lot. N...
Sunset Shimmer - Six Friends One Heart
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"I mean, no one has visited. No one. I... I..." her gaze fell, as did a single tear. "You know how I came over through the portal, remember? I lied. I don't have any family here. My family is all back in Equestria. My Equestria, on the other side of the portal." Another tear. "My friends are the only family I have here...
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9 - Special Holidays - Shining Armor
Shining Armor Detective Shining Armor, seated in Principal Celestia's office, looked up from his notepad. "So there is no security footage of the incident, nor of any activities in the surrounding area?" Principal Celestia nodded. "That's correct. For privacy reasons, we don't have cameras in the interior of the scho...
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10 - Special Holidays - Luna
Luna The break ended, and school once again resumed. Anon-a-miss had taken a break over the holiday, suspending her toxic postings. With the return to school, however, she was right back to her old tricks, postings resumed as soon as school started. It was noticed that Sunset wasn't present. Bragging reports from a f...
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11 - Special Holidays - Canterlot Movie Club
Canterlot Movie Club The girls of the CMC met in their meeting room during the first break. "This is bad. This is really, really bad!" gasped Scootaloo. "We are so caught. We are so in trouble." "I heard she was beaten within an inch of her life and is on life support in the hospital. We are so going to be jailed - a...
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12 - Special Holidays - Luna - The Assembly
Luna - The Assembly It was time. The student body filtered slowly into the assembly, still subdued. Gone were the usual boisterous banter and hijinks. Everyone quietly found a place to sit; with their friends, if they still had them, alone otherwise. Anon-a-miss had been rough on the school's friendships. More than a...
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13 - Special Holidays - Canterlot Movie Club Redux
Canterlot Movie Club redux Applebloom and Sweetie Belle sat next to their friend in the school nurse's office. Scootaloo was laying on a bed, a cold compress on her forehead. "Y'all right Scoots?" asked Applebloom, reaching out to her friend. "I'm fine. Don't touch me!" groused Scootaloo, pulling back from her frien...
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14 - Special Holidays - Sunset - Dr. Quinn Explains
Sunset - Dr. Quinn Explains Sunset Shimmer sipped her apple juice through a paper straw. "I guess cafeterias are all the same, right?" she grinned, lifting the carton-shaped box that came with her breakfast. "Not going to lie - exact same thing where I come from. Probably haven't been around as long though. They were...
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15 - Special Holidays - Twilight
Twilight After finishing her cinnamon twist and mocha latte, Twilight left the bakery and returned to the school. Earlier, when she first arrived through the portal, she tried the doors but they didn't budge. The building was clearly locked up tight, with no signs of anyone present. She tried banging on the doors, yel...
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16 - Special Holidays - Sunset - Homeward Bound
Sunset - Homeward Bound Sitting in her borrowed wheelchair, Sunset surveyed everything she would be taking home. On her bed were several boxes, filled with supplies the hospital was sending home for her care. Packages of adult diapers, wipes, disposable nitrile gloves, and bed pads. Suppositories, creams and gels. A ...
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17 - Special Holidays - Twilight rides the Rocket
Twilight rides the Rocket Twilight pushed away her finished breakfast plate, savoring the taste of the scrambled eggs and biscuits she had just enjoyed. Nursing her coffee, she looked to Big Mac. "Thank you for that breakfast Big Mac. That was wonderful!" she smiled. "Don't tell Spike, but I haven't had eggs like tha...
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18 - Special Holidays - Luna
Luna Vice-Principal Luna left the assembly, walking calmly back to her office. Inside, she was shaking with rage, angered by some of the responses during the assembly. That anyone could think so poorly of Sunset, after everything that had happened, was to her unfathomable. Sunset had suffered so much! They had no righ...
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19 - Special Holidays - Principal Celestia
Principal Celestia Celestia helped Sunset pack everything into the boxes the hospital provided. Eventually everything was ready and loaded on the cart. They waited for the staff to finish the release paperwork. Dr. Quinn returned, paperwork in hand. "Okay Ms. Shimmer. We're ready. Sign this, and we will get you loade...
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20 - Special Holidays - Canterlot Movie Club
Canterlot Movie Club The girls were back in their room. Apple Bloom had her phone out, logged into the Anon-a-miss account. "Delete it! Delete it now!" gasped Scootaloo. "We shoulda deleted it earlier! Darn it all... we shoulda deleted it ages ago.. We shoulda never done it. Ah crab apples!" Fingers racing, Apple Bl...
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21 - Special Holidays - Five Former Friends
Five Former Friends After the assembly, the students were instructed to return to their homerooms and wait for further instructions. Luna was hoping that the news, coupled with a chance to quietly reflect on what they had learned, might motivate the responsible parties to own up to their parts in the events. Apparent...
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22 - Special Holidays - Sunset
Sunset Gathered in Luna's office, Twilight related her 'adventures'. Sunset then explained what had happened, and what was currently going on. She told Twilight she couldn't recall anything about the events that lead to her injuries. She was sure, however, that Rainbow couldn't have been one of the ones responsible. ...
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23 - Special Holidays - Flash Sentry
Flash Sentry Flash ran down the hall to the band room. His face was still flush, embarrassed by his inadvertent confession. 'Ugh. Really? Really really?' he thought. Poking his head into the bandroom, he saw no one was there. SugarCube Corner it is then. Off he went. 'Why? Why did I say that? So not cool...' His t...
Sunset Shimmer - Six Friends One Heart
24 - Special Holidays - Sunset
Sunset Stories shared, everyone was brought up to speed. Twilight cried as she embraced Sunset. "I am so, so sorry Sunset! I never thought this would happen. Not in my worst nightmare. I am so, so very sorry." "It's not your fault Twilight. I don't blame you. Please know I don't blame you for any of this," Sunset cr...
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25 - Special Holidays - Sunset Redux
Sunset redux The group adjourned to SugarCube Corner, celebrating their reconciliation, and the joy and peace they found in the process. At Sunset's insistence, the girls of the CMC were included. They knew they were facing severe consequences for their actions. Principals Celestia and Luna let them know, in no uncer...
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26 - Special Holidays - Luna
Luna Later that afternoon, Luna finished up her paperwork, looking forward to spending the evening with Sunset and her friends. Looking over her desk, Luna nodded. Everything was caught up, reports filled out, requisitions signed and approved. Contented, she placed the completed work into a purple folder and locked i...
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27 - Special Holidays - Sunset
Sunset Sunset moved into the guest bedroom. Cadence's old room. The irony was not lost on her. They contacted the local medical supply warehouse, and ordered a hospital style bed for her. They informed her it would take a few weeks to process before it was delivered. The sisters also assured her she had free reign to ...
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28 - Special Holidays - Sunset redux - Canterlot Mall
Sunset redux - Canterlot Mall That weekend, Luna drove them to the Canterlot Mall. At the sisters' suggestion they had asked her friends to join them later. Rarity was showing up earlier to help Sunset pick out more clothes to 'flesh out' her wardrobe, as Celestia put it. Honestly, she was getting a little tired of th...
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29 - Rehabilitation - Book 2
Book 2 - Rehabilitation
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30 - Rehabilitation - Gilda
Gilda Gilda Griffon ran her fingers through her short cropped white hair. "We are so screwed." Sitting on the bench beside her, Lightning Dust groaned, her face buried in her hands. "I can't believe it wasn't her. I was so certain. I would've bet my life on it!" "Crap. Don't know what we're gonna do. There were so m...
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31 - Rehabilitation - Sunset - Assimilate and Adapt!
Sunset - Assimilate and Adapt! Sunset waited at the dining room table. The contractor was coming today to upgrade the Royal household with the adaptability aides they had ordered while on their Mall shopping trip. Sunset was looking forward to using them. In truth so where Celestia and Luna - carrying Sunset up and d...
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32 - Rehabilitation - Trixie
Trixie The Great and Powerful Trixie was greatly and powerfully troubled. "Starlight, Trixie doesn't have anyone else to talk to about this," she whispered into her phone, hidden in her bedroom. "Trixie never thought it would go that far, and has no idea what to do now!" A tear rolled down her cheek "Hey, at least y...
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33 - Rehabilitation - Starlight Glimmer
Starlight Glimmer Starlight looked around nervously. This was the address; the sign over the door proclaimed "The Royal's Residence". She had asked her friends at CHS, and found Sunset was staying with the Royal sisters; Celestia and Luna, the school's Principals. On-line sleuthing turned up their address; now here s...
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34 - Rehabilitation - Trixie
Trixie Trixie had arrived early, as Gilda suggested. Everyone was to quietly sneak into the gym and hide before Sunset arrived. Gilda had stolen Rainbow Dash's phone, which she used to text Sunset, inviting her to join them. Gilda told everyone, once Sunset entered the gym, they would jump her and hold her down. Then ...
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35 - Rehabilitation - Sunset
Sunset Trixie cried softly, hugging tightly to Sunset. In shock, Sunset gently rubbed Trixies back, while Starlight held her shoulder. Trixie's shoulders shook; she sobbed in guilt and grief. Sunset took a deep breath. She didn't recall any of it. Even hearing the horrific details, she could only listen in shock. It...
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36 - Rehabilitation - Luna
Luna Starlight left, taking Trixie home. At the dining room table, Sunset sat across from Luna, sipping her coffee. Luna stared out the window, lost in thought. A tear rolled down Luna's cheek. "So that's what happened. It's bizarre, but I swear I still don't recall any of it. Everything past walking to the gym is a...
Sunset Shimmer - Six Friends One Heart
37 - Rehabilitation - Sunset
Sunset Sunset dialed Starlight. "Hi Sunset, what's up?" answered Starlight. "Starlight, what are you doing for dinner the day after tomorrow?" asked Sunset. "Do you think you and Trixie could come over? Celestia and Luna would like to meet with her, and also Shining Armor. He's the detective investigating my assault....
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38 - Rehabilitation - Trixie
Trixie Trixie Lulamoon squirmed in her desk. She was nervous. Despite Starlight's promise nothing bad would happen to her, she could think of a thousand ways this could all go wrong. Ms. Harshwinny's phone buzzed. She glanced at the screen. "Ms. Lulamoon? You are needed at the office for a project. You're excused, pl...
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39 - Rehabilitation - Dust
Dust Gilda Griffin was angry. And when Gilda was angry, people got hurt. Right now, she was fantasizing wrapping her hands around some stool pigeon's throat, throttling the life from them, then snapping their neck for good measure. "I'm not buying it!" she growled to Dust. "We checked for cameras. And we made sure no...
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40 - Rehabilitation - Trixie
Trixie Trixie sat, crying and shaking, waiting in her cell. Even though she knew being arrested was part of the act to protect her anonymity as the informant, she was thoroughly terrified. When her turn came to be 'interviewed' she was relieved to see Detective Shining Armor waiting for her in the room. "Shining Arm...
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41 - Rehabilitation - Gilda
Gilda Gilda used her one phone call to call her parents. She made bail after her arraignment. Her father drove her home in silence. She was sent to her room as soon as they arrived home. In her room, she locked the door, then called Dust. "Come on Dust, pick up!" she groused. When no one answered, she threw the phone...
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42 - Rehabilitation - Sunset and the Babysitters Club
Sunset and the Babysitters Club Author's note: Trixie's theme song is 'Your Place' by 'Zero7'. Look it up! (She especially enjoys the bridge at 1:50 and plays it at all her shows.) Luna knocked on Sunset's door. Sunset looked up from her desk and smiled. "What's up?" Luna smiled back and sat on the sofa. "Sunset, h...
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43 - Rehabilitation - Cadence
Cadence Shining Armor took the plate from Cadence, dried it, and placed it into the cabinet. "She really is a sweetheart. We should get Twilight and her together. As smart as she is, I bet the two of them would hit it off." Cadence smiled at him sweetly. "And it would be great for your sister too. That girl really ne...
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44 - Rehabilitation - Luna
Luna Shining Armor's voice rang out from the phone. "So, anyways, yes, after everyone finished laughing hysterically and we got Twilight calmed down, she said she would be delighted to meet up with Sunset. So, yeah. If you want, I can pass on Twilight's number, or we can set up some sort of... I don't know, play date?...
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45 - Rehabilitation - Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle Twilight hung up the phone. "Well, that was awkward..." she mused. Shining, her BBBFF (Big Brother Best Friend Forever!) had called, and told her she was invited over to Cadence's Aunts' house to meet their foster daughter, Sunset. Sunset Shimmer, the girl that had been attacked in the gym recently ...
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46 - Beginning of the End - Book 3
The Beginning of the End - Book 3
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47 - Beginning of the End - Sunset and Twilight Sparkle
Sunset and Twilight Sparkle Sunset sat at the dining room table, waiting to meet her new friend. Snacks prepared, a small cooler packed with ice and assorted soft drinks, all were placed on the kitchen counter awaiting her arrival. "So she's Shining Armor's little sister..." mused Sunset. "And Cadence and he are gett...
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48 - Beginning of the End - Gilda
Gilda Gilda was arraigned. It was decided due to her age and the nature of her offenses, she would be tried as an adult. Her trial was quick. With the overwhelming evidence against her, she was found guilty of attempted murder and felony assult of a minor. She was sentenced to serve her time in the local penitentiary...
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49 - Beginning of the End - Dust
Dust Lightning Dust pled out, was briefly placed in Juvie, but was quickly released for her exemplary behavior, and on recommendations from her parents' friends. It paid to have connections apparently. Once Dust was released, she returned to school, doing everything she could to appear as a model student. Hearing tha...
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50 - Beginning of the End - Sunset
Sunset To say Sunset was surprised was an understatement. When Lightning Dust contacted her asking to meet, she was hesitant. She firmly believed everyone deserved a second, or even third or fourth chance. None-the-less, knowing how deeply Dust was tied to what happened to her, she felt reluctant to welcome Dust into...
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51 - Beginning of the End - Sunset Redux
Sunset Redux Sunset awoke that morning feeling well rested. She had her PT this morning, then OT in the afternoon. As Celetstia had chosen to be the one to stay with her today, they loaded Sunset into her sporty car and headed out to her first appointment. At least this time Sunset did not have to watch her chair boun...
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52 - Beginning of the End - Dr. Discord
Dr. Discord The session with Dr. Discord was interesting, to say the least. Luna accompanied Sunset to her appointment, it being her day to stay with Sunset. Arriving early to complete the ever present 'first visit' paperwork, they sat in Dr. Discord's waiting room. The walls were painted like something out of an Esc...
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53 - Beginning of the End - Sunset's Nightmares
Sunset's Nightmares That night, Sunset's nightmares began. She was trapped in the vision again. But this time, while she watched, she felt every terror, every blow, every break. She woke several times, crying and shaking, not calling out, but returning to sleep. And each time she slept, she returned to the nightmare,...
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54 - Beginning of the End - Angel Dust
Angel Dust Dust shared with Sunset what was going on at school, including the volunteer work she had taken on to try to atone for her misdeeds. As she spoke, Sunset felt herself slipping further and further into a disconnected state. Eventually, Dust noticed she was fading. "Sunset, you okay? You seem to be spacing o...
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55 - Beginning of the End - Faust
Faust A white light surrounded her, lifting her gently from the world and carrying her through the cosmos. Cocooned in the beautiful light, she watched stars, nebulae, and galaxies float and drift past. She felt loved and accepted by the universe, completely wanted and cherished. A bright and colorful band of light gr...
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56 - Beginning of the End - Sunset
Sunset Sunset heard crying. Someone was crying out her name. "Sunset Shimmer! Damn you! Don't you dare leave me! Come back Sunset! Don't you dare leave!" She slowly opened her eyes. She saw Luna by the bathroom door, talking loudly into her phone. She saw Celestia, in the tub with her, holding her head up, weeping, ...
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57 - End of the Beginning - Epilogue
The End of the Beginning - Epilogue
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58 - End of the Beginning - Sunset's Reprise
Sunset's Reprise Sunset awoke. She heard the steady beep of a life support machine. Opening her eyes, she saw a blurry vision of her hospital room. "Ugh... " she groaned. "I seem to be making a habit of this." Blinking, her vision cleared. Looking around, she saw a bizarre sight. Both Twilights were asleep on a cot n...
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59 - End of the Beginning - The Beginnings End
The Beginnings End The days returned to some semblance of normal; her new normal. Sunset continued her recovery. Within a few weeks, she was able to return to school. She was still in the wheelchair, but she had adapted. She no longer felt limited by her disability. Dust stood trial for the attempted murder of Sunse...
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60 - End of the Beginning - Dear Twilight
Dear Twilight I love you so much! Twilight, you are my forever friend! Thinking back on everything that has happened, I'm filled with deep Peace. No, seriously! After meeting Faust, and meditating on everything that has happened to me, by me, and through me, I really see Harmony's Hand in this! I was wretched. I tr...
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61 - End of the Beginning - Dust
Dust Lightning Dust was enclosed in a white cloud, drifting through the cosmos. Ahead of her, a rainbow band of color stretched out from horizon to horizon. As she drew closer, she could see golden fields waving in a gentle breeze, stretching for as far as the eye could see. In the distance, Dust saw a magnificent wh...
The Silent Shore
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She swore, spat as silence reached her...and no voices came back speaking of their pain...as the victims of the explosion, she worried, slowly succumbed to their wounds. "Frickin' fog!" she yelled up to the sky, her face turning with malice. At once she resolved to end it, to lift away the carpet of grey that had cons...
The Silent Shore
Chapter 3: "The Elder Lord"
The Silent Shore Written by The Descendant Chapter 3: "The Elder Lord" The water washed over her, filled her mouth and her nose. At once Dash felt her breath escape her. She pedaled hard, felt her hooves strike against something. At once there was a feeling that she was being pulled, dragged. Something, something w...
Legends of the Hidden Temple
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Dramatic music played, as Rainbow Dash flew up the steps. "There goes Rainbow Dash, into the temple!" Kirk said. "She's in the Crypt! She's in the Crypt!" The Crypt had three skeletons, each one holding a book in its arms. Pulling on the correct book would open the door to the next room. The only way to win this ...
Spike's Omnitrix
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Turbo engine Solar Panels: To charge all equipment in the RV during the day. Lunar Panels: To charge all equipment in the RV during the night. Thrusters: Powerful jet thrusters deploy from the rear and sides of the RV. Grappling Hook: A high-tensile strength cable with a spike at the end to attach onto things. Ele...
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Transitions
Shining Armor slowly drives the RV on the fresh meadows of Equestria. He's going twenty-five miles per hour to test the stability of Doctor Whooves' invention. During the simulation, Doctor Whooves urged Shining Armor to feel the engine of the RV and grow a passionate relationship as pony and machine. In due time, Shin...
Spike's Omnitrix
Wild West
It's been a slow five-hour drive for Shining Armor since departing from Ponyville. Trixie spoke story after story about encountering different creatures not native to Equus. Starlight becomes enlightened by the breeds and prowesses of each alien, monster, ghoul, and dormant entities Trixie spoke. Spike looks out the wi...
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Night One
Pinkie Pie has remained motionless since coming home from Canterlot. She can't determine what happened to her home, whether there was another fight or karma for blurring out Spike's rant when Princess Celestia asked about Twilight's condition. Her bed, party planning journals, and room are now dust and ashes. Pinkie P...
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Changes
It's a beautiful sunny day in Ponyville. Twilight's alarm clock sounds off at 7:30. She uses magic to shut off the ringer and yawns. Twilight Sparkle did not have a good night's sleep; she'd practically cried herself to slumber when she realized she was all alone in the castle. "Spike, can you make me some breakfast!" ...
Spike's Omnitrix
Unforgiving
Moments before sending the telegram Shining Armor enters the RV and opens a hatch to a hidden room to make documentaries, audio logs, and emergency calls to any plumber base throughout Equus. He uses his magic to turn on the monitor. "This is Captain Armor. Plumber Number: 19-8-9-14-9-14-7 calling in about an urgent m...
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Revelations
Princess Cadance receives a letter from Princess Celestia. It's 3:30 in the afternoon at the Crystal Empire. "Hmm, I wonder what Celestia wants me to know," Princess Cadance unveils the letter and notices Shining Armor's name at the top. "Huh?" Princess Cadance reads the letter thoroughly, and her heart sinks, her jaw...
Spike's Omnitrix
Omni-Log Part One
Shining Armor brings Spike to the monitor room, where he can make audio logs. Shining Armor gives Spike a switch to activate and deactivate the audio session since he doesn't possess magic. Spike thanks Shining and sit on a cushion on the floor, facing the monitor so the plumbers back in HQ can hear his progress. Spik...
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Learning Curves
Princess Celestia wakes up after having a good night's sleep. She raises the sun after Princess Luna lowers the moon; Celestia wonders what today's training will be like as a plumber. The excitement gets the better of her when some pony knocks on her door. Raven Inkwell is the mare knocking on Princess Celestia's door...
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Appleloosa
Shining Armor parks the RV near the Buffalos' territory. Starlight and Trixie finish making dinner and call for Spike and Shining to the table. Shining Armor turns off the RV and walks with Spike. They sit together while Starlight and Trixie carry a bowl of salad, hayburgers, fish tacos, and new meat to try. Starlight ...
Spike's Omnitrix
Who's To Blame? What To Do Next?
"Uh oh," Big McIntosh said after receiving today's paper. The headline reads: APPLELOOSA IN SHAMBLES! The newspaper documents the surreal earthquake fault line stretching across Buffalo's sacred land and the apple orchard. Apple trees are uprooted, scattered, and appleless. Pictures of several apple trees made Big McI...
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Mutant Animals
"Ah, shit!" Shining Armor curses to himself as he realizes he took a wrong turn and turns off the map of Equestria. "Shining, what's wrong?" Trixie approached Shining Armor after noticing his sudden change in demeanor. It's been two days since vacating Appleloosa. Shining Armor and Trixie delegated Little Strongheart...
Redeem Us In Our Solemn Hour
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I shiver. It's cold, and we don't have the same resistances to the elements that pegasi do. We handle snow and rain better than unicorns do, but so does almost everything. I rise and stand firmly on my hooves. I'm fine now. I'm fine. I've never killed anything before. Not anything with a face that had eyes that though...
Redeem Us In Our Solemn Hour
III. The Dark Forest Where the Path Gives Out
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. I. The ragged column of evacuees had a destination. Of course, you'll say. It's obvious. But it is amazing what obvious things one can forget in panic. We say--don't go that way, it wil...
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IV. Unreal City
I. It's a lot like a hangover. When I was on leave in Stalliongrad, the day I almost bought that hat, our class went and partied pretty hard. It's tradition, and like most traditions, it is at least a little stupid. I threw up everything that night on the street and then my friends threw me onto a couch and propped m...
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V. The Gates of Hell Shall Not Stand Against
I. We found the legionnaires eating cold pasta and cold cheese in a little dugout trench they had made in front of the Governor-Generals' compound. They just sort of blinked at us. They looked awful. So did we, but they just looked pathetic. All dirt and grime, all cuts and bruises, helmets askew or missing, plumes r...
Redeem Us In Our Solemn Hour
VI. Luna in Sulvam est, all's Right with the World.
I. Check was not a pony without a heart. Often, others assumed so. Ponies often assume this about those whose heads are full of numbers. They see a trend and make it a characteristic--head full of numbers, head full of straw, no heart and no tears. Accountants don't cry (they say, though perhaps in the back of their m...
Redeem Us In Our Solemn Hour
VII. Precious In the Sight Of Our Lady, The Suffering of Her Loved Ones
I. How do you prepare for battle? There have been many answers to that question through uncountable years and uncountable words. Everything from grooming, polite company, light music... to an orgy of mead and drunkenness sometimes spiced with hallucinogenic. But neither of these are quite the Ranger's style. He is no...
Redeem Us In Our Solemn Hour
VIII. Martyr
Luna pushes through the night and into the morning. She is going faster than she has ever gone before. Why? Twilight is too exhausted to ask her anymore and Luna knows she will not like the answer. Because I never arrive on time, Twilight Sparkle, she would have said. I never do. I try every time. I try and I try an...
Redeem Us In Our Solemn Hour
Epilogue: Redeem Us
Luna would find their bodies one by one. Poisoned, crushed, cut. She would find the trigger and after a few hours have pieced the whole desperate plan together. She would cry when Twilight was not with her, after they had been collected and laid out together below the steps, dusters over them like funeral shrouds. She ...
Monster Urge Mansion
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"... PRUNEY FINGERS!" Rarity then pull up her arms and show her friends the state of fingers. They were indeed wrinkly and they look like the hands of a little old lady. Sunset and Twilight was taken aback, fully expecting something worse. They could see why Rarity would be upset about this and why nobody would want t...
The end of an era
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"Are we not mentioning the dead pegasus?" Trixie asked quietly. "She isn't dead," said Twilight. "The kind of power required to destroy New Pegasopolis fast enough to catch a pegasus in it as well, is rather beyond the unicorns here." Twilight saw Ivory's eyes tense. "More than likely she's in hiding, or flying back t...
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3. She who would be queen
Twilight must have stared at the open door of the cell that had formerly contained the single greatest threat to Equestria, as well as the world, for more than ten minutes. During those minutes she'd sat, almost had a panic attack, and now did nothing as her mind just failed to comprehend the enormity of the situation....
The end of an era
4. Bold moves
Celestia and Luna sat side by side on their private balcony overlooking the city of Canterlot, enjoying each others company in that short time they had where their respective duties met. In the west the moon sunk out of sight, Luna bidding it goodnight as Celestia greeted the sun in the east, happily watching it spill ...
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5. More importantly, how do we fix this?
"Twilight!" The sound of Trixie shouting her name being brought Twilight out of her thoughts long enough to see Trixie, Fleur, Octavia, and the filly running towards her as she, along with Pinkie and Rainbow, entered Canterlot Castle. "Are you alriiight... Ahem, I mean, what can we do to help?" Twilight managed half a...
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6. Old friends
Twilight blinked in the harsh daylight as she and Trixie walked out of Canterlot castle. With the amount that had gone on that day it was bizarre to think it was barely midafternoon. "Boy have these ponies got a surprise coming," Trixie commented idly. It took Twilight a moment to work out she was talking about the po...
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7. Stand together
For once in her long life Celestia was reluctant to raise the sun. Although any clock you looked at would tell a different story, for her, raising the sun reinforced the fact that through the inexorable process of time, tomorrow had become today, and today she had to tell Equestria, and the rest of the world, that they...
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8. Special training
Rainbow opted to stay quiet as Spitfire led her, along with Thunderlane and Cloud Chaser, the others to have stepped up to replace Spitfire, Soarin, and Fleetfoot while they were in Mareitania, to a part of the Wonderbolts headquarters that Rainbow had seen plenty of times before, but had never been into; the mysteriou...
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9. Ponies with questionable intelligence
Fleur straightened her uniform. The uniform that she was very surprised to be wearing. When she approached Luna about the possibility of working with Equis, she hadn't expected anything in particular about the group, and in hindsight suspected she should have. She thought they'd be more like the Shades in Mareitania, w...
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10. First strike
The royal air yacht was a level of comfort that Rainbow had rarely had the luxury of experiencing before, save for her few visits to Canterlot Castle. Sure it was a little dusty from being kept in storage for so long, but that hardly detracted from how nice it was. Rainbow hadn't even been aware that there was a royal ...
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11. Hitting the road
Twilight stirred at the sound of her door opening as quietly as possible, and her ears twitched at the sound of hooves tapping gently on the floor as somepony made their way around the side of her bed. It took a lot of mental wrestling to wake herself enough to the point she was able to speak, but she managed it. "Ngh,...
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12. Semper Pie
"Is she still sitting there?" Limestone growled, pointing an accusatory hoof at the back of Pinkie as the pink mare stared listlessly out of the window with Gummy perched on her head. "I don't work my hooves to the bone on this farm just so she can spend all her time staring out of the window!" "She misses her friends...
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13. Not a place to bring your family
The burning sun in the sky, the hot breeze, the dusty roads, the faint smell of cherries that permeated everything... Actually, that one wasn't too bad, and while Twilight might once have been reluctant to say anything against the sun, they all agreed that Dodge Junction, with its uncomfortably warm southern location, ...
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14. The mild peevedness of the swarm
A sharp smack to the nose rocked Twilight's head back so it impacted on the rocks behind her, rapidly returning her to consciousness in a rather hurried and unpleasant way. Twilight groaned as pain blossomed in both places that had been struck, and she tried to reach up and rub her nose, only to find herself totally un...
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15. Bon Bon voyage
Fleur walked intrepidly down the corridors of Canterlot castle, heading towards the one place there that she had only grown to despise further with the more time she spent there. The offices of Equis, plain and unassuming as they were, housed, in Fleur's opinion, the laziest bunch of ponies ever. She never saw them doi...
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16. A Royal visit
Celestia dropped the report her sister had given her and sighed, disgracing the breakfast table with her worries. "Are they really depicting us as villains?" "You seem surprised sister," Luna replied cheerfully. "I am, especially after we helped them. Now they're painting us as the ponies that imprisoned Faust back b...
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17. Dashed hopes
"Dash! Hey Dash!" Rainbow looked up from polishing her gear as Lightning ran into her room, a newspaper held by her wing which she threw down in front of Rainbow. Rainbow spared it the merest glance, then looked back up at Lightning. "What am I looking at exactly?" "Didn't you read it? Somepony tried to blow up and k...
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18. Cleanup
"Another griffon flight just went over," Rocky said, peering out of the window of the train carrying him and his companions to Stalliongrad. "This country suddenly got a lot more interesting very quickly." "I just want to know how many griffons there are," Creme said back. "I've not really paid attention to groups lik...
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19. Pie family secrets are the weirdest
"Drill Sergeant Knocks? Why do we have to run for miles with a heavy pack on our back?" "Pinkie Pie, why do you feel the need to ask me such silly questions?" "I just think ponies would be happier if they didn't have to carry so much stuff. You're not carrying anything, so why are we?" "Because I'm the Drill Sergean...
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20. In the jungle
The jungle was... not nice, to politely describe it at its most basic. Other ponies might have described it as fucking horrible, and they would be exactly as right. A constant, oppressive heat seemed to suck all the energy from you, and that was besides the snakes, bugs, and other things that wanted to either eat you w...