YES! This is AMAZING! This NEEDED to happen! Thank You for posting it here, you wonderful, hoopy frood! I'd love to sass you sometime!

Edit: Anyone else? No? Okay then...

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I read the title and instantly knew that this will be AWESOME

Have some stuff I want to complain about!

"more controversial than the infamous "Cupcakes" fanfiction, This wholly remarkable book" - Random capital letter

"Then they pealed away, leaving nothing behind." - Wrong word (try peeled)

"The Hitchhikers Guide, in a moment of surprising clarity" - Missing apostrophe

"One race which, by some quirk did not gain this ability to write off tragedy are the Mardajons of Lepluss." - Missing comma

"evolution is the driving force behind all life in he universe" -

"Back in the void left behind by Jeltz, a bright spark of light moved around, trailed by another purpler one." - Not sure if using wrong word, or just reading wrong...

"And she did, including Everypony there." - Another random capital letter

"Vogon’s know exactly the right fiction to bring out" - Unnecessary comma

Oh, god. Considering how bad Vogon poetry is, I can't even begin to understand how terrible their fanfiction will be.

*shudders*

Ah, the references!

...this is just a repost of last chapter.

>>402688402688

Woopsidoodle, right on that.

Much better!

I love Zaphod's cutie mark. You couldn't have made a better choice!

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This is just too awsome.

Funny how this story has more hitchhiking in it than the actual Book Trilogy.

Rarity will never cease to be a marshmallow.

"Luckily, none of the above actions are in any way forthcoming. The safety of the innocence of the readership is absolutely assured for the time being."

Damn it!

It took me a moment to realize that Pinkie has five hooves in the cover art.  Well played.

>>402664402664 Ugh, it's like a hundred goffik writers all came together to write the biggest Mary Sue in the entire universe ever.

>>402825402825  I like marshmallows.

"SWEET CELESTIA HUGGING ME IN MY FOUNTAIN CANDY!”

Is that an innuendo?

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Good day.

After reading it all.

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Good day.

...Is this?

VOGON FANFICTION!?!?!?!?!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Woo! It's up on here!

What's this?! A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy/MLP crossover?! MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go shed tears of joy for about a half hour before I get to read this.

This is a work of pure genius. Discord powering the Infinite Improbability Drive makes so much sense.

actually, it is not mach 1, but mach 5 at which a sonic rainboom accuors. someone did the callculations.

FIRST!!! and nice I-Robot reference.

-It is this remade Earth that our heroins escaed from-

Escaped.

>>402654402654

Polished up, made more legible!

>>419281419281

I love the movie... and I love this fan fiction.

oh, and I would be happier if you added this part ===>(so long, and thanks for all the fish)

Awesome !

Thanks for coming here

I, um, don't have gifs to express this, because there aren't gifs to express this. There isn't enough incoherent fangirl squeeing in the universe to express this. I have to use words.

This whole story so far is the best fanfic I have ever read in my life. This is near the top of the best fiction I've read in my life. I'm a huge fan of Adams (and Pratchett as well) and it's been a very long time since I've read anything as funny as this. I want more then a "like" button. I wish there was a "READ THIS NOW BECAUSE. . . JUST DO IT!" button.  

I need more. Please. I would seriously pay for more of this fic. On the other hand, I'm left feeling that if you finish this fic it will mean the end of fanfiction, because no other fic will compare to it. (But, um, no pressure or anything. . . I'm shooting myself in the foot, aren't I?)

What I mean to say is amazing, excellent, incredible job, sir. Please don't stop.

"Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz saw that the gun was having no effect, but continued firing out of spiteful stubbornness."

You really have got the vogons dialed in, haven't you author?

I swear, it feels like you are channeling Douglas Adams himself. This is what H2G2 would be if a pony version of Douglas Adams wrote it in Equestria.

"Backup restored." ... *snort, facehoof*

The sad thing about that snippit of Volgon fanfiction is that it sounds just like many actual fics people have written. XD

I only begged for more two days ago, and then this shows up! If my special talent is getting awesome fanfic to update, I'm really okay with that. Not sure what the cutie mark would look like, though.

Amazing once again. Thank you for writing such a fantastic story.

Thank you so much for bringing this awesome to fimfiction!

I predict the invention of many, many new forms to be filled out in increasingly unlikely situations coming from that vogon. He will also get a promotion out of it, because really, what if something the new forms were for DID happen? They wouldn't have any paperwork or propper procedure for it! Of course, first he would have to invent, and fill out, the form authorizing a vogon to do whatever the heck he wants in the event that a cosmic entity brainwashes him after said cosmic being has been shot with a full ammo clip from a standard issue personal sidearm. Said cosmic entity will also be billed for the cost of said ammo clip.

>>482555482555

+100500

You get 6/5 Twilights

>>482555482555

I know, right? He's doing a really good job of keeping the feel of the Guide, without just repeating all the jokes.

Theta, eta, gamma ...

I see what you did there.

Never forget your towel

PINKIE'S AN ALIEN!!

Somehow, this doesn't surprise me...

Hooray? Yes, very much so! Hooray is correct!

After loathing Google docs and now enjoying the more palatable FiMFiction, i'm very happy that EqD noted an alternative posting of this wonderful series AND it's being located here!

I am also equally annoyed at myself for never looking to see if this story was ever here to begin with.

Guess I'll give myself a break, relax, and just enjoy the read. Mm?

Interesting. If teleportation conserves only momentum, you'd still get left behind, as the planet keeps moving during the teleport (it does not appear to be instantaneous). As a consequence, teleportation spells would require one to keep moving during the teleport itself. Furthermore, they'd also have to account for gravity and other forces, for without them the teleportee would continue in a straight line, shooting off into space (or the center of the planet) due to the curved path a planet follows.

Which begs the question: When and how does the actual translocation occur?

Sorry, I couldn't help it

Unrelated point, but possibly symbolic. The theme tune for the TV show of Hitchhiker's Guide dubs perfectly over the intro to MLP. Sorry it's not related to the fic, but it's a fact that brings me joy.

>>482699482699

Wow, I am not going in this direction, but I almost wish I was... I admit that would be hilarious.

>>498674498674

Teleportartion is also instantaneous, it takes an infinitely small amount of time. This means the planet is still, for your purposes, in the same place.

That's the hand wave I literally just thought up.

>>499069499069

Mashup vid please? Or Am I going to have to attempt to do business with youtube doubler?

>>485410485410

MWAHAHAHAHAHA

>>499069499069

I did the deed... and holy crap it fitted well.

>>528594528594

That's none too remarkable, it turns out. I've got a vast list of songs you can put over the intro that work perfectly.

I am so, so, sorry that I waited this long to begin reading.  Take my like.

Douglas Adams never died. Proof.

HAPPY TOWEL DAY :-D

Er. Does it have to be paper Spike?

I mean, there's this jerk in the room wearing the worst ensemble ever.

Wouldn't Rarity LOVE TO SEE IT BURNED?

>>646370646370

Yes, it does have to be paper. Why? Because mumble mumble mumble, that's why.

O.O

.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

O.O

:D

I need to read this

The way you manage to maintain all characterization perfectly and at the same time mimic exactly Douglas Adams' style of writing is beyond me. This is the most awesome thing ever.

And thus ends the latest chapter in the greatest story ever to be told. I have been humbled by this.

Seriously though that was great, it takes the humor from the books and movie to the extreme, as if compressing it down so we don't have to read through an entire book to get the same amount of joke and preposterous situations.

FUTURAMA REFERENCES

Best Fanfic Ever updated?

You can do no wrong, sir.

YOU  JUST HAD TO TAKE MT MOST FAVOERITE BOOK EVER AND PUT PONIES IN IT????? I CAN"T STOP SMILING!!!!!!!!!

this can only be awsome

hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy + mlp.

can't say I wasn't expecting it.

Oh my friggin' goodness... This is just too awesome for mortal words...

>>402603402603

I see what you did there. I SEEEEEEEEE IIIIIIIIIT!

I think Douglas Adams would be proud of this feels like the book does.

I think I triped out a little after reading this.

Pinkie Pie was suddenly animated. Figuratively, that is. She didn’t become a cartoon or anything. That would be silly.

Indubitably. Harumph.

May I have your attention please... Thank you.

That is all.

Good.

All of it.

Very, very good.

Allow me to woohoo in delight?

Ahem.

Woohoo!

Dear god what did I just read! My brain is melting I cna'skdt fenael itka ozoinds'algnka'kshbag/sgryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Either:

A) Douglas Adams faked his death and you are him

B) You are Douglas Adams reborn

or (and my personal favorite) C) You were kidnapped and had your soul sucked out and replaced with that of Douglas Adams so that his work could continue only he discovered ponies and became a brony

>>667513667513

Sir GINGER.

No soul needed to be removed.

I wonder how many of the references I've seen here were intentional, and how many of those were caught by others.

I've seen

Red dwarf (Cat's EEEE-YOW!! Is startlingy similar to Zaphod's FREEYOW!!)

Doctor who (mentioned directly, possibly Ditzy too)

Portal (Parasprite Emancipation Grills. Did they once stop ponies from taking Companion Cubes with them?)

That's all I've caught so far, but. I may have missed some.

Cool story, keep it up!

This...is quite possibly the greatest thing I've ever read. (It's definitely the greatest fanfiction I've ever read!)

Also, this is further reminding me that maaaaaaybe I should return my best friend's copy of the omnibus of Hitchhiker's Guide...

And I'm definitely waiting for the number 42 to be of some significance. It needs to happen. NEEDS to. (Mostly because the number 42 has appeared a few times in my life this past week and it is bugging me.)

Also bugging me...every "it's" I've seen in this needs to be "its". The grammar nazi in me is making my eye twitch like Twilight's was.

Oh good Lord, Zaphod...

He gave Derpy a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster...

Do I detect a Red Dwarf reference?

>>673667673667 Naw, "Freeyow" is from the Hitchhiker books. The Red Dwarf reference was in an earlier chapter.

>>702671702671

darn... Ah well, I missed it.

>>705345705345 I put a comment on the chapter that has it. If you read through them again, you'll find it.Chapter nine, I believe.

>>705345705345

>>707167707167

I thought I only put one in in chapter 3.

... And I can never find the Futurama reference I apparently left in somewhere. Keeping track is hard!

>>707292707292 There's one in chapter three as well? Rereading!

And if the one in chapter nine (The party and traffic cone segment) is unintentional, that's a very happy accident! So, where is this Futurama one, even though you just said you don't know where it is?

>>707312707312

The traffic cone bit was just a little trope abuse, hell spike even has a lampshade in the first pilot episode. Oh god, I lampshaded the use of lampshades as a trope. I really wish I had a TvTropes page.

>>707634707634 Ah. I assumed it was the "Where'd we get a traffic cone three million years into Deep Space?" segment. Excellent use of lampshading of lampshades.

trotterington thomas skip ova he sa helo grass helo trees helo flowers etc so i blast him with mi cosmic space magicBAZOOM PING ZAP etc.

>>743106743106

YOU  ARE INSTANTLY MY FAVOURITE READER.

Say hello everyone, Undertone just set the goddamn standard.

This is... sheer genius... I'm going to go... just be happy in the corner... thank you so much... you are a wonderful organic being...

On a side note, "its" is possession, and "it's" is a contraction of "it is." (http://garyes.stormloader.com/its.html) Sorry to break the praise cycle to point that out.

Thank you for an AMAZING story. The references ( ) make this another 20% cooler. XD

So help me Celestia, if this story is out of the feature box before I become more popular than Jesus I will kill the next person I see with my cup of tea.

>>940726940726

But they won't let me like it a second time!

>>940763940763

I didn't ask for excuses, I asked for RESULTS DAMMIT!

TBH, I have no idea how the feature box works.

"Just being Pinkie Pie"---- Aha. I now see everything. I have reached enlightenmen

I must read that book again. It was maybe 3 years or so since last time.

I need a towel. At least I celebrated official towel day this year.

This is just awesome.

>>940726940726

That's monstrous! Violence should only be attempted with chilled drinks, such as a glass of lemonade, or a pan-galactic gargle blaster.

Murder with tea is a major breach of etiquette!

Oh dear, murder with tea? Wouldn't the saucer have better range?

Oh, I read all of this and I love it!

>>940837940837 You can expect around 1-3 hours ginger. A popular longer high rated story tends to get at least that long.

Murder with tea? As delightful a death as that sounds, you had best be certain the person you push off the mortal coil can fully appreciate their method of extermination, lest you commit a heinous crime against the very nature of tea!

As for the chapter - positively wonderful. I feel that perhaps the fight between the Ponies and the Vogons was a bit accelerated, but otherwise a marvelous story. And on FIMFiction now, as well! Such a pleasant surprise.

>>940726940726

Tea? Well, there are worse deaths, I suppose.

Unless you have milk or sugar in it. You monster.

Um.. now you will... um... (damn it) suffer my interrogation!

...that is, um, if you can...

It had taken him less than a second to assess the radiation making it through the shielding and compare it to the radiation coming through the shielding one second later, and thereby make an estimation of their position and speed with an error of only ±3.4x10^160%.

Very nice! But I think the number you want is ±3.3x10^-16, or ±3.3x10^-14%. You had 3.4 instead of 3.3, the exponent wasn't negative, there was an extra zero in there, and you forgot to account for the percentage. I still laughed like a madman when I saw the joke, though.

Ah, Mister Resister is back. He was always my favourite Vogon, as far as having a favourite Vogon can actually go.

How did I know Discord would show up

>>482576482576 The cutie mark would be you on your knees begging some random author