Chapter 5
Time to Change Strategies
World Destroyed: 4 Times
Princess Celestia closed her eyes and slowly shook her head. She was preparing to send her sister back to Twilight's bedroom when Luna placed a hoof on her shoulder to stop her.
"Hm?" Celestia asked. She looked at Luna and raised an eyebrow at the look of mischief on her sister's face.
"Let's send the pink one this time," Luna suggested.
Celestia stared at her sister open-mouthed. Of course: send in the pink one when the one pony who was probably the world's only hope had just failed four times in a row. Surely that would solve the problem. It's not like literally everything depended on the choices they were making at this very moment.
Her thoughts must have shown on her face, because Luna resorted to trying to reason with her.
"Come now," Luna said. "What is the worst that could possibly happen? Oh, that's right, dear sister, the world could be destroyed." Celestia frowned at her, but she kept at it. "It has already happened four times. What harm could a fifth time do us? We'll just watch her fail spectacularly and then reset time like we've been doing."
Celestia let a long sigh out through her nose and looked down at the world below. She had a feeling they were in for a long night as it was. She stood still for a moment longer just to allow for more tension, then turned back to Luna.
"Fine," she said, smiling.
Well THAT wasn't a few days!
4247541 FiMFiction is on the ball today, it seems!
Hilarious.
I bet it was trollestia casting the spell of "the entire world will explode in 30 seconds" just 'cause she was bored. Or maybe the blood moon two nights ago affected Luna's mood so it was HER all along!
I agree. Send the pink one.
And then Pinkie wins. Or destroys the multiverse.
This should be interesting.
What I like about this? Is that the time limit is short enough, and the goal important enough, that Twilight isn't going to be able to level grind until she's a god-mode-sue like the monstrosity that is the Loops series.
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I like that the chapters are nice and short, and I don't have to worry about losing my entire day reading it. Also, it is hilarious.
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Cutie mark crusaders ancient scroll readers
What?! No! Don't send Pinkie! Pinkie uses hax.
This idea should totally be made into an actual episode.
~The lizardman isn't kidding
4250699 Pinkie isn't the only pink pony. Th8re's also C8dance.
~Vriska Serket
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Jesus, m8n, why 8re you t8lking like this?
4259983 I'm not. I'm not typing like that either.
~Vriska Serket
Plot Twist: Dark Lord doesn't actually want to destroy the world. He just knows that the Princesses will use time travel to try and stop him.
So what he really wants is for the Princesses to screw up the timeline enough that he can accomplish his TRUE nefarious purposes...whatever they are.
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Isn't it Cad8nce?
4261012 No, I wrote C8dance. Completely different. It's my typing quirk. I think this comment thread has gone on long enough, since TheSlorg gets a notific8tion for every one of these comments, assuming the site's working correctly.
~Vriska Serket
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Alright.
looking forward to more
Candace at crystal empire and it far away so only pinkie go because she near the everfree forest and not to mention that she is like very fast like the game half minute hero do.
4264341 Surprisingly, I haven't read Hard Reset, though it's on my Read Later list, and I'm aware of the basic plot.
As such, I'm hoping what I'm doing here is different enough to that story that things don't get awkward. Especially since this story is based more around a video game, and less on the Groundhog Day concept.
4247760 I hate you. Please stop pretending that Celestia is evil. Also, DO YOU FUCKING KNOW WHAT A LUNAR ECLIPSE IS?!
I wonder how long it will take to finish a story that lasts 30 seconds
4264879 Calm down! You dont have to take it so personally. Im sorry if I offended you, I didn't mean to
4265201 Huh, I was sure.... Well, I stepped on that one.
4264548 First off, as ClutchedbyanAngel pointed out, I was actually wrong about what Spike said, so there's that. But the two stories are very different. While Eakin's is more serious, your's is blatantly being played for laughs. The basic concept is the same but even the mechanisms of the time loop are different. Both a very different, very good stories. Finally, which video game is this story (presumably loosely) based on?
>> Bluedot The game is called " Half-Minute Hero "
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In the game time stops when you're in town or in cut scenes, and you level up faster than normal. Twilight doesn't have that advantage here.
4268068 Oh, thank you. In retrospect I could have figured that out. It's odd how it never occurs to me to just Google a reference I don't get.
4271672 Good try, but chapter 3 had a timeout and lasted longer than thirty seconds. I was well aware of the timeframe when I wrote it.
New Plan!
What's that?
Add more numbers to the equation, it should solve everything.
Won't that just increase the problem?
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Man, I have no clue the context of that comment because this is my first time reading this story as far as I remember. Unless the world reset and unlike twilight I don’t remember when it reset.