Chapter Summaries
Which may be useful for remembering what's going on. WARNING: Here be spoilers!
Here also be explanations of my odd titles. So without further ado:
Prologue: A rhyming tale of Sparkler, a far northeastern mining town, the mountain it sits on, and its brave and hardy inhabitants.
Chapter 1: Sea Wagons: Autumn Leaves and Sea Swirl are on a ship crossing the Greater Marigold Ley Line on their way to Sparkler. They get bored, so they have sex. Flashpan Leaves is conceived as an earth pony rather than a unicorn.
Title Explanation: Sea wagon is another (two) word(s) for a ship, which they are on.
Chapter 2: See Dragons: The Death Whisperer dragon attacks the mines, and Autumn and Sea die distracting it so the other miners can escape, leaving behind a baby colt.
Title Explanation: It rhymes with the previous chapter; I'm clever like that.
Chapter 3: Can Phil Collins Orchestrate This Too?: Pen Stroke is a bureaucrat who hates his job, but loves helping ponies. He helps the earth ponies Flintlock Alley and Winter Heart (who is barren) adopt Flashpan.
Title Explanation: This story bears a lot of parallels to (at least the Disney adaption of) the movie Tarzan. Plus "You'll Be In My Heart" is one of my favorite pop ballads. Though given a choice between Phil Collins and Randy Newman (song writer for a lot of Pixar movies)... ooo, that's a tough one.
Chapter 6: Exposition Parkour: Sparkler 101: Everything you always wanted to know about Sparkler (but were afraid to ask).
Title Explanation: A pun on Exposition Park which is located in Los Manegeles, Coltifornia. In this chapter I run all over the place throwing exposition at the reader.
Chapter 8: "Stuff": Flashpan finds his friend Wendy Skies sulking by herself and cheers her up. Also, foreshadowing.
Title Explanation: What's on Wendy's mind, apparently.
Chapter 14: Training Montage, Except A Montage Requires More Than One Scene.: Moody Blues trains Flashpan to levitate rocks, or something.
Title Explanation: You know how it is: every underdog or sports or martial arts story seems to have a training montage with inspiring uplifting music you can sing in the shower. The only problem is, I'm too lazy to write more than one short hackneyed scene, and you can't have a montage with only one scene.
Chapter 14.5: Dinner for Two: Moody Blues and his husband Octavian Citrus discuss Flashpan's training over dinner.
Title Explanation: Their son moved out years ago, so now it's just the two of them at dinner each night.
Bonus Chapter: April 1st, Pinkie Pie Style!: Pinkie being Pinkie, breaking the fourth wall 'n shit.
Title Explanation: This wasn't written on April first, in fact it was written pretty close to the opposite of April first, but I don't care.
Chapter 21: There's a Changeling On My Couch, and It's Bleeding. What Do?: Flashpan Alley saves Ereton Parallax from a lynch mob. Now she's bleeding on his couch. Conversation ensues. The original pilot one-shot.
Title Explanation: Pretty self-explanatory, eh?
Chapter 22: Now What?: Flashpan and Ereton shoot the breeze.
Title Explanation: Now that Flash has rescued her, now what?
Chapter 27: A Knock in the Night: Princess Celestia and two royal guards pay Flashpan and Ereton a surprise visit at three in the morning. Ereton freaks the buck out.
Title Explanation: The sound one makes upon a door they wish to be opened.
Chapter 28: Well, Fudge or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Princess: The couple and the princess have tea together. Ereton stops freaking out, and gets an assignment to make fudge for the princess. Royal guards are assigned to protect her.
Title Explanation: A play on the classic movie title Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Ereton is a fudge maker who learns that Celestia isn't actually out to get her.
Chapter 597: That's No Planet!: blah blah blah post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi space opera blah blah blah
Title Explanation: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't explain that. These aren't the chapter titles you're looking for.