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2nd longest story on FIM?! I'm gonna be busy for a while
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It's the longest. The counter for story stats is bugged.
6450926 Ah, makes sense. Let me retry that:
1st longest story on FIM?! I'm gonna be busy for a while
*slumps over* Oh jeez... I feel like I need to lay down after that. You and your 'can't go home' and 'it was attacked' scare me.
that Bucky-Cadance scene...
Current 93, huh!
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93?
I really do not understand what made the crystal unicorn immortal. They had exhausted the lich after all and its body was not alive. The crystal unicorn is technically alive in a way, so that means it has an even steeper limit.
Also why didn't bucky freeze it? Freezing is almost as good as turning em to stone.
REgardless a good chapter, if a bit confusing. Cute cadance is cute.
*clicks the button to look at The Chase's stats*
Oh. So that's what it looks like when there are multiple updates in a very short period of time.
Alright.
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Who was the near immortal entity lurking in the mirror?
That's how the crystal unicorn kept reviving.
Freezing works on flesh. There was no freezable flesh on the abomination they were trying to kill. Might as well try to freeze a rock.
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my mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgROpZn__0M
I first ran into the song in ~2000, downloaded from Usenet on a mac I built out of the dumpster!
Turns out it's a lullaby, too. Neat!
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For me, All The Pretty Little Ponies comes from Irish folk ballads.
Honestly this chapter was disappointing enough for me that I very nearly changed my vote to a thumbs down. I still might. It's like everything that makes me want to stop reading in one chapter.
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I'm very sorry. What is bothering you exactly?
I'm going to need to brush up on my offense, I was borderline useless in that fight.
Nooooo, not a hiatus !!!!!!!!!
*brains starts to work again*
Oh, ok, you were refering inside the story....hehehe, my bad...
Honestly I kind of expected them to do some sort of dimensional-shelving of each individual piece. Or at least shunt the crystal unicorn's horn off into another dimension or a demiplane.
9,746 words, 5 chapters.
That's 1,949.2 words a chapter.
Side note: kudz has yet to acknowledge this.
6450977 freezing can destroy stone you know, work between the cracks and seperate it.
aka, traps its pieces in a frozen statue of itself,
6451152 The combination of despair from all the battle PLUS the ammount of power necessary to do that (they all were at their limits) would probably prevent this solution.
6451090 do not see what you are seeing. whole infintie regenrate thing is iffy perhaps.
or is it deus ex cadance?
honestly if she is basically an avatar of love, that means all aspects of love are hers. and hatred is simply another aspect fo love.
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Actually, if you recall, Cadance was bound to Bucky. They have a special bond.
And to make things clear, she didn't cure Bucky. She purged the hate from his system, removing the blood-lust.
We'll get to see Bucky's recovery in the spring.
6451232 she purged it because it is her's to command.... least that is what i am getting from it. love is a gray emotion. in the sense both great good and great evil can come from it. sombra's hate was born from love after all.
that is a vibe o have been getting in general in mlp. the most powerful things are always things connected to emotion, especially things that link others together. love definitely has to do with it as well.
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More or less, I agree.
I came. I read. I was pleased.
6451272 Also shows that cadance is pretty powerful overall XD
One hurdle down, many more to go.
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I figured with Bucky having shunted off some of his power into the Shadowbolts we would be able to absorb bits of Sombra to keep them from taking over Bucky. We are willing recepticables of his power after all, infused with his mana and essence.
Was actually attributing us going with him as Bucky being prepared with "Unicorn Cleverness" and using us as soul batteries of a sort.
The energy HAS to go somewhere and because we aren't a direct bloodline relation it could be a kind of trap for the energy.
Each time we run into a crystal necromancer we could trap the Sombra's Soul Blight with in ourselves like the traps from Ghostbfusters.
Crystal Necro: "You WILL ascend, one way or another. We have the power and the will to. . ."
Bucky: "What's wrong?"
Lich Guardian: "Where is the power?!? Where did it go?!? You were going to turn before my very eyes!"
Moonless night belches.
Blackbriar: "That tasted nasty. Can we mulch them now Boss?"
Bucky: "I need to get Minion above ground. Try not to make a mess, we made learn something from this coven."
Deus: "No promises."
6451325 I read that wrong...
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I honestly thought this was the end of Bucky....well Damn....way to go Kudz...
6451915 In a certain way, it was, but...Cadence to the Rescue !!!!
Well, actually, Cadence was the emergency measure...it seems we have a recover arc ahead....recovering Buck is the best Buck.
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It's actually far more chilling when you realise that Celestia and Luna were bringing Cadance there as a means to destroy Bucky.
6452113 Yeah, and Starswirl word´s become more and more relevant. Celestia´s pride WILL be her doom. She was slower with the trigger this time, but the finger, errrrr, hoof, was, again, in the trigger, ready to headshot Bucky...again.
Luna was far more assertive this time.
Yes, I understand the NEED to put Bucky down but, after all that hapenned, including a very likely situation not much time ago, Celestia should try harder to not kill Bucky everytime he becomes darker. At least not immediatly ! "Hey Bucky...BOOM HEADSHOT !" "Celestia, we have found the cure....oh...couldn´t you wait, I don´t known, 10 BUCKING SECONDS BEFORE KILLING BUCKY !"
Hypothetically, if they'd just gotten Bucky a sandwich or something, they could've straight-up brought the Crystal unicorn WITH them and found someone who can deal with it. Just have Bucky carry it along in his magic and the rest take turns hitting it with a hammer.
6453185 Again...it was a crystal unicorn, not a stained glass unicorn...they managed to break him over and over but with GREAT effort...they were ´bout to give up and retreat any time, to the point that Bucky was thinking who would be left behind to gain time to the others...
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This is incorrect thinking. It's not as if she's doing it heartlessly. But Bucky is currently the largest potential threat to the world. Moreso than the Night Stallion and mirror travelers. All it takes is one itty-bitty babystep and Bucky can literally have the world under his hoof and no one can stop him.
So, when he starts taking that step, you have to have the sniper dot on the base his brain stem and your finger on the trigger. Before his hoof comes down and completes that step, you need to have sent that bullet flying.
Or everyone is fucked. Some more literally than others. In a choice between one person and the planet, and you aren't prepared to kill that person for the sake of the planet as soon as they do something that might make them that level of threat, you are failing everyone who depends on you, for the sake of one person. She did that once with Sombra. She does not want to make that mistake again.
6453478 I understand your reasoning, but, after everything that happened, Bucky showing, over and over, being able to hold all the curses and darkness directed to turn him evil, she could, at least, think for a couple of minutes before killing him.
And, in Bucky´s case, it is not that simple to say "it´s him or the rest of the world". Yes, sure, he have the potential to wipe out the world. He is, too, the only hope of fighting (and win) against all the threats of such world. So, in one hoof, you have him destroying the world, in the other hoof you have him as the only protector of such world. You let him live, the world ends by his hooves. You kill him, you let the world ends but others hooves, since the protector of such world is no more.
And, yet, Celestia keep coming with the hoof in the trigger ready to put him down. Ii UNDERSTAND, really, the need to be ready for such contingency, but she could, at least, think a little before doing it.
Celestia: KILL HIM, HE IS A VAMPIRE !!!!
Sunset: Actually, he did not fell to his vampiric nature, nor is showing any signal of doing it.
Celestia: AIM TO THE HEAD, HE LOST HIS CONTROL !
Bucky: No...coff, coff...I didin´t !
Celestia: USE ALL THE ANTI-UNDEAD WEAPONS !
Sunset: Bucky, I think she is ignoring us.
Bucky: *sigh* The story of my life..."the short one is talking...who cares ?"...it´s high magic scholl all over again...
Celestia: WHERE ARE THE GARLICS BOMBS !?
Sunset: That bad in school, Master ?
Bucky: You have no idea, Minion...ummmm, garlic bread ! That would be a perfect last wish !
Luna: Sister, maybe you are overreacting just a little bit ? Maybe ? Just a little ?
Celestia: LUNA IS UNDER CONTROL OF THIS ABOMINATION...WIPE HER OUT TOO !!!!
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When time is of the essence? You want to sit and think? A good leader understands that in many situations hesitation is death, friend. That's why they greatly appreciate crises where they have TIME to sit and suss everything out. It's a godsend, trust me. When you have no time, you just have to hope all your previous preparations are correct and act on the most obvious thing you can as fast as possible, praying it's the right thing to do and you didn't just miss something important in the attempt to not be late for the end of the world. Literally or figuratively.
6453446 They were sitting on him and snapping his horn off for a while. I think they could've managed to hold him long enough for the super speedy shadowdivers to make a Tim's run
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It was actually pretty clear that Celestia didn't want him hurt. She was more worried about Cadance wiping him out than him hurting Cadance. But, the whole purpose of Cadance being brought there was as a last resort if what everyone feared had happened had actually taken place.
It was actually Luna who acted here, with the suspicion that Cadance would destroy Bucky.
Translation?
Celestia was being the levelheaded one. "Hey, for now, let's just keep Bucky safe and we'll figure out what to do later."
Luna was more like this. "We don't know what Cadance will do to Bucky, she might obliterate him into dust in his current condition. Bucky has stated that he wants to die, so let's see if I can help him." **Releases pink beast.**
Actions speak louder than words, people. Celestia could have just as easily said nothing at all and let Cadance go with the hopes of Bucky being destroyed.
So, to recap:
Celestia: Learning and pushing ahead, and trying to preserve somepony that she loves.
Luna: Falling back on old habits and in one dumb move, attempted to turn her own apprentice into dust because of fear and panic.
And Cadance knows it. See, Cadance didn't glare at Celestia. She knew that Luna was up to dirty fucking business.
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At that point, I don't think a Tim's run would have worked. Hell, not even poutine might have helped.
Bucky would have needed a blood bank run.
6453509 But that is the point, time is essencial, yes, I agree...except that Bucky wasn´t as bad as she though. Again. And again.
Back from The Isles, beware, here comes the dark lord, heir to Sombra, ready to kill everything. Except...not. He wasn´t like that at all.
Comes Alternative Nightmare Moon possession, here comes the dark lord, heir to Sombra, ready to kill everything, let´s banish him immediatly before he kill us all. Except...not. Again. Sure, the possession was happening, but not as fast as she imagined. There was sometime yet...not weeks and, probably, nor days, but a couple of hours ate least, to try something different.
Comes the Army of Darkness, and Ash....I mean, Bucky turns a vampire dark lord, heir to Sombra, vessel to the pure evil, ready to kill everything, let´s kill him immediatly before he kill us all. Except...not. For the THIRD BUCKING TIME !!!! Come on, Celestia, can´t you see a pattern here ? Ok, no problem, you had no way to know the real state of Bucky, bringing Cadence and the rest of Hellsing Army was a good idea but, you know, whimpering submissive Bucky, being hold as a stuffy by Sunset Shimmer, does not sound that evil at all for me. It is not like he was crackling over the dead bodies of his companions, drinking bllod directly from his student still fresh heart. The guy was laying in the ground, a weak mess of injuries and sorrow !
But, to Celestia´s credit, she, at least, took a couple of seconds this time, before starting "Operation Kill Bucky", wich let Luna have what is, IMHO, one of the best Loyalty moments in this story so far. Not only Loyalty, but Trust. This new Luna, the changes are VERY subtle, but you can see her being more assertive (not aggressive, they´re slightly different), more trustfull, more open.
And Cadence is the best alicorn foal. Period.
Promisse not be bad with me Aurora. PROMISSE !
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You completely missed my post where I just explained how Luna was trying to kill Bucky this time.
6453530 out of sheer curiosity, what would've happened if they'd just, like... Cut his head off, buried the body under molten rock (or just in a hole if Sunset was too tired to heat it up) and put the head in a box so they couldn't re-form?
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Sombra's essence would have manifested a new head with time.
6453535 Yeah...just read it now.
Also, reading the chapter again, does anyone have any idea who the "Mother Figure" in the mirror, after the explosion, could be ?
6453535 BTW, any chance we have a chapter or two showing the Farm defense ? Really, you have no idea how much I want to see Rising in action. Probably he was behind, organizing the defense, not a good idea to put a nuclear bomb in a defensive stance but, even so, I would love to see details of what happened.
Evil Crowd: It´s just a filly, let´s kill her !
Ripple: That´s not fair. You brought 30 enemies against me !
*dramatic pause*
Ripple: You should have bring more.
*bones being smashed*
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Who was the mother figure in Bucky's dream before all of this started?
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Read 792 again and pay attention in the dream. Mommy's identity isn't too hard to figure out.