Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"Felix! Frederick!" Queen Shindig frowned, glaring across the chamber. "What is the meaning of this?!"
"The entire tower is buzzing with chaos, Mommy Dearest," Flim said, keeping his weapon trained on Rainbow from afar. "And you would entertain her like a regular guest?"
"She doesn't deserve to trot free on this very platform, much less within shouting distance of the gateway!" Flam added.
"There is something terribly amiss here, my little ponies," Shindig said. "And while the Blue Jay's declarations may sound preposterous, I must do what I can to assure the safety of your sister."
Flim and Flam exchanged glances.
Rainbow squinted, studying their expressions.
"Preposterous declarations, eh, mother?" Flam trotted closer, pivoting his rifle so that it aimed at Rainbow Dash while he approached the Queen. "You should know better than that! After all, you've taught us not to take much stock in the raving words of a stranger!"
"She speaks with great conviction," Shindig said. Her alicorn wings spread wide. "She refers to this world as a dream. As odd as it may sound, I feel there may be some merit to her murmurs. I find it more than a little bit curious that her paranoid feelings should suddenly coincide with Apple Jewell's."
"The Cider Princess was nearly corrupted by these vagabonds' presence, mother," Flam said. "That's why we endeavored to execute them before they could spread to the Cider Princess... and to you, Mommy Dearest."
Queen Shindig frowned. "And exactly who are you to lecture me on the necessity for—?"
Flim groaned. "It's too late, brother, she's tipped over."
"Then we must steady her again." And his whole body flickered like the static outline of a stallion.
Fl-Flash! The walls and floors grew translucent tendrils of energy that lashed out and coiled around Shindig's legs and wings. The Queen gasped, utterly restrained.
"What in the buck?!" Rainbow tried flying to her aid, only to feel a length of glimmering energy wrapping around her petite spine. She struggled and squirmed, anchored in place.
"What... what manner of sorcery is this?!" Shindig barked, eyes a'flame. "My sons, I demand an explanation at once!"
"You do not need an explanation, mother," Flam said. He reached up and lightly tapped the edge of her horn. "Simply a subliminal seditive."
Scrkkkkk! Shindig's face and upper body peeled in opposite directions as if she was a bag being zipped open down the middle. Rainbow Dash watched with disgust as a considerably smaller, frailer unicorn appeared inside the fantastical alicorn body suit.
"Flam?" Serenity Shindig wheezed, hugging herself with chattering teeth. "Flim? What... what's happened?"
"A glitch in the dream sequence, mother," Flim said from afar, his horn still glowing with static in Rainbow's direction. "Nothing more."
"We will have the simulation running smoothly once more," Flam said. He reached into the deflating mesh that was once Shindig's dream-body. "The cider's effect hasn't worn off. However, the fascimile had grown weak."
"I... I don't understand..." Shindig wheezed. "Why can't you just let me observe like normal?"
"We already told you, mother," Flam spoke. "The chance of collapse is too great."
"We need a shell for you to inhabit!" Flim added. "Something that will protect you for the inevitable implosion once the gateway is pierced!"
"And... and then..." Shindig sniffled. "...I'll be with my beloved Philanthropy again?"
"Of course, Mommy dearest." Flam winked. "You can trust us." He wound a swath of the alicorn goo around his forelimb, then flung it back over Shindig's flank and spine like a funeral veil. "Shhhhh... just relax. Father will return, and you two will be together again. You'll see."
"I... I can only hope..." Shindig smiled, eyes tearing. "Thank you, boys. You are too kind. You make me so pr—" The slime rippled over her muzzle, and she collapsed on all fours. "Grlllghhhhh!" The figure melted into a viscous mound of shifting colors. Then—with bizarre grace—a pair of alicorn wings emerged from the mess. The mound rose, forming a head, snout, and legs. Within a minute, Queen Serenity re-formed, glaring in the direction of Rainbow Dash. "... ... ...what is this vermin doing here?"
Rainbow blinked, her muzzle agape.
"She infiltrated the Tower, hoping to attack the Cider Princess in her sleep!" Flim exclaimed.
"Hrmmmf... typical Blue Jay..." Tossing her mane, Shindig marched firmly out of the room in her alicorn shell. "Eliminate her, at once. I do not care how you go about doing it."
"Hey! Wait!" Rainbow hollered, struggling against her otherworldly restraints. "Shindig! Reach deep! That's not the real you!" She raised her voice. "Your sons are killing to bring your husband back!"
"Destroy all who stand in the way of the Coronation," the alicorn's voice coldly rang off the Tower walls.
Flam smiled, shutting the door behind her. "As you wish, Mother..."
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Aaaaaaannnndd things just went south in a fucking hurry.
...Scum...
5846549 That's putting it mildly, I think.
*sighs* So much for Epcot's feeling about Rainbow being safe.........
I really, truly hope that this comes back to bite those two sneaky, worthless bastards! Hard!!!
God, I hate these three more than ever now! I don't care if Shindig is every bit as much a victim as AJ now! I frickin' hate the bitch!
C'mon, Applejack! Wake your apple-decorated butt up, and start kickin' with Rainbow!!!
5846600
And maybe start kissin' wit Rainbow, too.
And so it begins...
5846600 I THINK I KNOW WHAT APPLEJACK'S SIM WAS!!! Remember when she kept calling Shindig "mother"?
Of course you guys remember. She kept repeating it ad nauseam.And remember all those times she had dreams in which Rainbow had to intervene and she kept saying "mommy"? She wants a family! But not any kind of family, she wants a complete family. Since she still misses her parents (and she will keep denying it to be strong for the rest of her kin), her dream is still likely her being reunited with her mother, but maybe her mind will start to change in that she will not want her mother and father back (as Rainbow said, the mature thing to do is to move on, and AJ still needs to confront that part), but rather, she will want to start a family of her own, and this is where our heroine comes in.Also, I just noticed: protagonists are Rainbow, AJ and the main 6. Why the heck are those tags still on when the story focuses 90% on Rainbow and they barely appear? Even with these two arcs developing more AJ's personality she barely had any "screentime".[Screw you, Wolf. You passed on to me your habit of emphasis]
Well, this makes 94 chapters for this arc so far, and it's still going strong. I wonder how many tries it took for Flim and Flam to get that 'suit' right
5846603 Yeah, that, too.
And I made a bit of a typo in that last sentence. My bad.
5846657 Hmm, you may have a point there. I never thought of that one.
And you're right; she does.
And I'm hoping that, too.
As to that last, sorry 'bout that. Been working on getting the rest of Chapter 2 of my MLP anthro AU fic typed up (I finished it! Thank Celestia and Luna, I've finally got Chapter 2 done and put to bed!), and I just started typing up Chapter 3, and I've been doing that a lot in them.
Didn't mean for my own bad habits to rub off on you.
Forgive me?
5846667 I think that the answer to that is in that ravine where Dash and Epcot found the discarded "Apple Jewell" shell-construct fragments.
And something just tells me that, where AJ is concerned, they didn't quite get it right even yet.
As I hope that we see soon.
For her, Dash's and their posse's sakes.
Well, that was weirder than I expected.
5846698 Nay! OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!
I see. So shindig agreed to the plan, but wasn't told all the specifics. The Flim Flam brothers have conned their own mother. And all because they want her to be happy. So the next question is, does Rainbow try the persuasive route, or the awesome route?
5846749 Okay.
5846753 Yeah, which makes it kinda/sorta worse, in my book.
A little of both, I hope.
So… Shindig is apparently in on it.
However: Fine, she needs the alicorn shell to survive the piercing of the veil, but why is it necessary for the shell to have no knowledge of the plan? That makes no sense. The only conclusion is that Shindig is being scammed by her sons, though it's a bit hard to be sympathetic for her. So what the heck is the real plan?
5846836 Right then. The answer has been chosen:
Awesome persuasion by headbutt!
5846917 Exactly!
Congratulations, author. I'm completely bewildered.
So Shindig ISN'T in on it. Wait... no she is in on it. Or... well, I give up. I hope she is just being controlled by her sons and is not the Queen in this game of chess. Hey, speaking of chess, anybody else remember those chapters?
Squidgy!
I hate flim and flam even more here than I did in the show. I didn't think that was possible with the level of jerk they were in that.
So, Shindig contains a smaller Shindig, like a russian doll.
I'm starting to loathe Flim and Flam even more than before...
*brain explodes*
So what I think is happening is that Shindig is covered in the same thing that AJ is covered in, and if Rainbow can figure out how to release it, then they'll have real AJ on their side. And they might also be able to rehabilitate Shindig...
5847563
You aren't the only one...
Shit's fucked.
Need to pee but must read more now.
Oh you little shit