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River Road


Writing Comedy, Adventure and Slice Of Life. Desperately trying to keep up with all the crazy stories my brain comes up with.

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Wealth, Fame, Power.
The pony who acquired all that was Gold Clover, the queen of pirates. With her last words she said:
"You want my treasure? Go and get it! I left it all in that place."
Ever since then, pirates from all over the world have been travelling to the Grand Line to look for the legendary treasure, the One Piece. This is the story of one of them, Pinkamena D. Pie, better known as "Straw Hat Pinkie".

Not just a retelling of One Piece. With all those new characters, the story won't be nearly the same as the manga. As such, knowing the manga is not required for enjoying the story.

Cover art drawn by Magello

Edit: Feature Box on 18/04/2016; this is the greatest day of my life as an author. Thank you, everyone!


Not recommended to be read on e-book, due to the loss of formatting when it's downloaded over the site.

Chapters (8)
Comments ( 135 )
Comment posted by isjor1 deleted Feb 19th, 2016
Comment posted by River Road deleted Feb 19th, 2016

Finally, a One Piece story that has its own direction! I've been looking all over the place for one like this! You, my friend, deserve a slightly larger group of followers watching this story. (+1 Follower!)

Oh, and here, have a like too! (+1 Like!)

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Yay, thank you~ :yay:
I hope I will keep meeting your expectations. Or rather, not meeting them (plot twisting all day long~)

Can you throw in a kick in the butt as well? Because I really need to write more on this story. :twilightsheepish:

Comment posted by Skylarking the Stargazer deleted Feb 20th, 2016

6954345 If that's what you need to continue this, then I'll give you the ass kicking of a lifetime!:yay:

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Oh my, you have seen straight through my nefarious plot of casting one of the most popular characters in a background role. :trollestia:

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Something about that art style for those pictures is just a little disturbing... Especially the second one. :twilightoops:

6954484 Nvm, you are including Fluttershy in the crew... were you?

6954484 And yea, I have been following (and searching) One Piece since awhile, so it's no surprise for me to see through your skilled creativity.

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I guess you won't know until we're through the Shells Town chapters. :raritywink:
Unless you want to beg me for spoilers.

6954501 Ugh, okay fine, I was a bit amused when you mentioned how she "grabbed" Fluttershy along with her. Which automatically made me think: 'What? As if Fluttershy's actually joining?'

Then now that you brought up the next episode I was like forget it.

BUT ARE YOU?! WE NEED HER IN THE CREW!

Scabbards aren't the blade itself, but the case people carry swords in. Also, placing in sfx words like [clink clink clink] is a bit distracting. You should weave them into the narrative, like "The chains of her cuffs clinked solemnly as she was led to the executioner's platform." Otherwise, a good start.

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Fixed the scabbards thing, thanks for that. (Even more thanks if you know what those things they use in the original are called)

I thought about those sfx words, but I'm going to keep them and I'm going to use them again like that. I'm trying to get a bit of a feel like in a manga, and those are basically the beat panels - kind of a halfway point between something happening and actually telling the reader what is happening.
I will explain or at least imply what the sounds stand for, though. You'll note that I wrote something similar to what you suggested right there in the story, the sfx is more of an extra to try and make it more vivid.

Besides, at least that way I have a decent reason for why I shouldn't even try to get this into EQD. :trixieshiftleft:

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If I finish the next chapter tonight, I'll take a look. Otherwise it might take a bit longer, I want to keep on this while the motivation's still fresh. :twilightsheepish:

Comment posted by Skylarking the Stargazer deleted Feb 22nd, 2016

I'll bet there'd been a critical clue in her hat, maybe even a map. She knew that without it, a new golden age of piracy would begin trying to find her treasure—and it may never end.

Whee! Pinkie antics are very Pinkie. I liked Rarity and Pip's cameos, too. :3

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Interesting theory, I gotta say. But no, the meaning behind that was something else (even if it might never be more than hinted on).

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Glad to hear you enjoy it so far. And don't worry, we haven't seen the last of either of them. :raritywink:

Love the dialog, you portray the pony characters very well while continuing to keep in general with the show.

I love this story so far, I can't wait to see what happens to the rest of the Mane 6, will they all be part of Pinkie's Crew and what about the CMC, will they join too, because that would be great if they did, also what about Celesita, Luna, Cadance and Shining Armor, are they going to be in this story also at some point?

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Well, now there's an enthusiastic commenter. For being the first comment on the whole chapter, I'll see what I can answer of those.

I can say that all of the Mane Six will eventually cross Pinkie's way. I will also say that at least one of them will not appear directly in the first season (I'm making each season its own story).
I have special plans for the CMC, plans that are completely outside of the original manga. The first hint as to what those plans are will be in the upcoming chapter, which I will hopefully be able to finish tomorrow.

Thanks for the comment. I hope I'll see more comments like this in the future.

makes me wonder what the roles for Twilight, spike, and applejack are gonna be.

cause rarity is nami ,rainbow is zolo/zoro(however you want to pronounce it) and fluttershy is chopper. though my guess is spike is taking usopp's role, twilight is taking robin's role, and applejack is taking sanji's role.

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Not bad, not bad... It's not gonna be quite that simple, but in general you guessed right. :raritywink:

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Well, I'm afraid that Twilight won't appear until the third story of the series. Or maybe the very end of the second story. :trollestia:

7091730 i figured that much already.:twilightsheepish:
though i gotta ask will she be like herself when they meet her or will it be like meeting robin the first time? pm it so as not to spoil it for others.:twilightsmile:

7091730 if she appears in the end of the second story or at the beginning of the third story will she be smart and evil or geeky and good or geeky and evil but still dangerous

Rainbow chuckled, relaxing a bit. “Well then, you got yourself a navigator. If that position isn’t already taken, I mean.”

As this story's Zoro I won't believe it until you prove me wrong:ajbemused:

About the video: Do you mean OnePiece spoilers in general or spoilers that only apply to this story?

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*joins in evil laughter* :moustache:

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Spoilers that apply mostly to this story, and especially if you've read/watched the first part of the manga/anime. Things like which canon characters are taking which roles, and a few more or less obvious hints at plot twists.

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Yes. :trollestia:

Pinkamena D. Pie

I see what you did there. :trollestia:

The mare didn't look up, trudging after the squad of stallions in uniform with her head held low.

Oh, you are right, this is different. One paragraph in and I already notice a difference. In One Piece, Roger holds his head high to the execution platform and of course he did after all *spoiler* He wasn't captured, he turned himself in having been terminally ill his last act was to give his message to the world.

Just like she once set our flag, the sign of our unity aflame…”

More One Piece spoilers. Luffy did this for sure, but I don't remember it ever been mentioned in the series that Roger had too before him.

“Let this moment officially mark the end of piracy.”

Right. Because capturing the most wanted criminal means that all criminal activity will cease, just like killing Bin Laden would bring stability to the middle east, it makes sense.
Uh, sarcasm, it always leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

The two scabbards moved down to impale her, cutting off anything else she might have had to say,

If she was like Roger, she wouldn't have planed to say anything else.

~Leonzilla

7137697 In that case I don't mind it very much, because I can already imagine who will be who.

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1: I don't know what you mean; that's her name, isn't it?. :trollestia:

2: To clear it up a bit, she doesn't keep her head low because she's scared or anything. It's more of a visual thing, it's how I imagined the scene, just like how Roger's head is usually in shadows during that scene. It's up to interpretation, though. :pinkiesmile:

3: It wasn't mentioned in the series, that's one of my own touches to this story.

4: Well, it's meant more like "now that we have her, it's only a matter of time until we've unraveled the rest of them since not as many new crews will pop up." And to be fair to him, pirates in One Piece as an 'ethnic group' behave radically different from Middle East terrorists. But yeah, we all know how it turned out in this case.

5: There wasn't much left for her to say, but they wouldn't know that. *shrugs*

That being said, if you leave comments like this on every chapter you might just be my new favorite reader. :raritywink:

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Oh, you know the Straw Hats obviously... But what about Smoker and Tashigi? Or Shanks? And what about Pipsqueak?
Ohhhh, I have plans for Smoker.

Isn't Pinkie wanted for making internet parodies?

6955426 Scabbards still are very useless as weapon. It's blunt. It can cause blunt damage, but it cannot cut nor impale.
In the manga Roger is executed with some sort of Naginata, although Naginata usually have shorter blades, it is the closest thing.

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I thought I fixed that... I hope it is now.
I don't think a lot of people would be able to picture a "naginata" without looking it up, so I went with swords. Lances or spears would be an alternative too, I guess. Or Lancies. She's getting impaled by Q and Discord.

I am grateful for the input, though. That's probably one of the things I'll have trouble with more than once in the future, weapons and ships and all that technical stuff. :twilightblush:

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2: To clear it up a bit, she doesn't keep her head low because she's scared or anything. It's more of a visual thing, it's how I imagined the scene, just like how Roger's head is usually in shadows during that scene. It's up to interpretation, though

Well no, I don't think this is very open to interpretation. There is nothing wrong with making it different in your story tho, but I feel like Smokers perspective is pretty reliable and it's the first most detailed and extended scene made as far as I know of the execution and I have watched all the canon. The movie Strong World and the OVA chapter zero are also good reference points for Roger if you aren't yet satisfied.

You might like to check the sub rather than the dub, but they are pretty much the same here, at least I'm sure both paint Roger as standing proud. The shadow over his face it something that helped add mystery and wonder to the character responsible for the premise of one of the most successful mangas of all time.

~Leonzilla

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Huh, I... actually didn't know that one yet. I do know Strong World and chapter zero. This is even more detailed, though.

Still, I think my favorite video of Roger is this one:

This shall be fun, so a Zoro who's half Nami in concept, not bad for Rainbow Dash and amusing jab Zoro's sense of direction. I take it that Twilight might end up being the Robin of the group due to both loving books and knowledge and being intellectual. If we see Spandam later, go the extra mile, I want every Straw Hat to beat the crap out of him before they leave that Judgement island they were at, something that should've happened in the series.

ayh

Going to guess that Sanji is being played by AppleJack. As for RD, I'm betting that it wasn't a joke and her sense of direction really is that bad. Rarity as Nami, Fluttershy is in early for Chopper (using flutter balls to transform into FlutterBat, FlutterHulk, and FlutterGuy forms) Twilight as Robin, and Spike as ..... Brooke I guess?

I'm keeping an eye on this one. Fascinating, so far... will we meet the other Mane 6? Pipsqueak's side-story is certainly entertaining.

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