Ralph lay back on his stump, staring up happily at the night sky of Niceland, sighing in contentment. It was the end of yet another day at the arcade, where he did his best to tear the apartment building apart while Felix did his best to stop him. As usual, the players were good enough that Ralph lost, but he didn't mind so much. As he'd told the BadAnon group, as long as Vanellope thought he was good, he couldn't be all bad. Between the now more comforting attitude of the Nicelanders, his growing friendship with Felix, and the time he spent over in Sugar Rush with Vanellope, being the bad guy was no longer such a bad thing.
Staring up at the moon, he smiled. "I'm bad, and that's good," he said softly. "I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be...than me." Ever since he had said those words as he flung himself to what he was certain would be his doom at Cola Mountain to stop the Cybug King that Turbo had become - to save Vanellope - he had said it to himself every night before he slept. Each night, it had more meaning for him. Each night, he believed it a little more. Each night, it was a little more true.
As he stared at the moon a little groggily, however, he found a wish still in his heart. The happiness Felix and Calhoun had together was wonderful and celebrated...but it often left Ralph feeling like a third wheel. And despite restoring Vanellope to her true role in her game, she was still glitched. She still couldn't leave Sugar Rush. If Ralph wanted to have fun for a night in one of the other game worlds, he either found himself tagging along with Felix and Calhoun...or going alone. Despite being a hero to the arcade, he was still a bad guy. He was still dangerous to many of the hero sprites.
"Sometimes I wish..." He paused, cutting off the words. The last time he'd made a wish, the game had nearly been unplugged and the entire arcade had nearly been consumed by the Cybugs. Even so, he couldn't stop himself from expressing this wish completely. "I wish I had somebody...somebody who could come with me when I relaxed after games." He glanced around at the empty little house he'd built around his stump. "Someone who could help make this house...a home."
He turned back up to gaze at the moon, and squinted. "Is that a horse face on the moon?" he asked in confusion. He blinked, and the image was gone. However, a bright streak of light was shooting through the sky. "I wonder what that is..."
It was at that point he realized something rather important. "It's coming right for me!" he screamed, scrambling away.
The rainbow colored light streaked to a halt pixels above the ground, hovering right in front of Ralph. After a time, the rainbow light began to fade, leaving only a mix of very dark blue and black. Eventually, the color solidified into a sprite figure.
Standing in front of Ralph was a tiny horse that barely came up to his ankle. It had a pitch black coat, with wings and horn of the same shade. On each side of its butt was a purple splotch, with a pale blue crescent moon in the middle. Its mane and tail seemed to be made of energy, flowing in the absence of breeze. They were dark blue throughout, save the edges, which were pale lilac, and they were speckled with points of light, as though the tiny pony wore the night sky atop its head and off its butt. It wore pale blue armor in the form of a helmet, a curiously designed chest plate with the same moon symbol as on its butt, and shoes on all four hooves. Its eyes, when they opened, were bright turquoise against pale turquoise corneas, with slit pupils.
"Well, someone had fun designing you," Ralph murmured to himself.
The tiny figure raised its head and grinned, revealing bright white teeth sharpened to fangs. "At last!" she proclaimed, her voice revealing her to both be female and very young. "After nearly 1000 years I'm free! It's time to conquer Equestria!"
"Where's that?" Ralph asked.
The tiny figure blinked. "Umm..." She glanced around. "...not here..." she muttered nervously. "Well, no matter!" she rallied. "This world will do as well as any other! I am Nightmare Moon, Queen of the Night, and I proclaim that the night shall last...forever!" She then proceeded to laugh maniacally.
"Uh...yeah," Ralph pointed out. "It's always nighttime here in Niceland. That's kind of the setting."
Nightmare Moon blinked. "It is?" she asked, shocked. She glanced around.
"Yeah," Ralph replied. "The moon never moves," he continued, pointing to said orb.
Nightmare Moon looked up at the orb. "...oh," she said, sounding crestfallen. "But then...what am I supposed to do?" she asked sadly.
Ralph looked at her carefully. "Well, you don't look like any sprite from any game plugged in here...tell you what. Tomorrow night, I'll bring you to BadAnon. Somebody there is bound to know what game you're from. You might be from one of those online ones that got plugged in last week."
"How can it be tomorrow night if it's always night?" Nightmare Moon asked, tilting her head.
"It's always night in Niceland, but we live by the arcade schedule," Ralph explained. He laid back, pillowing his head on his stump. "In the meantime, you can find a room with any of the guys over there for the night if you like." He gestured to where Felix had built homes for all the gameless sprites.
Nightmare Moon glanced towards the buildings, then flinched as one of the monster sprites stepped out to water the lawn. "I think I'll stay here," she said quickly. "You're harmless."
Ralph chuckled. "Be my guest," he offered, gesturing around his spartan home of broken bricks. "Make yourself comfortable."
Nightmare Moon jumped onto Ralph's belly and buried herself between his shirt and overalls. "...is that edible?" she asked, pointing to Ralph's cookie medal.
"Don't eat my medal," Ralph scolded. "The Nicelanders bring me a pie for breakfast before the arcade opens these days. I'll split it with you. Wait till then."
Nightmare Moon grumbled, but curled up against Ralph's chest. She rested her head just over his heart, and fell asleep to the sound of his heart beating.
Ralph glanced up at the moon once more. Apparently, his wish had been granted again, at least for a time. Idly, he wondered what would happen next, and how long this would last. He also wondered what sort of crazed, chaotic, wicked spirit would grant wishes like this.
Giving whatever spirit that was the finger, he curled up for sleep, one hand resting protectively over the tiny pony on his chest, covering her like a blanket as she snuggled in.
Ooooh, I'm excited for this! Wreck-It Ralph is easily my second favorite Disney movie (Only behind Tarzan), so I'm incredibly hyped to see how this goes!
Well... This is going to be quite interesting
Do you have any plans for Discord?
Adorbs
One word: YUS.
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At this point, no idea.
I do have a couple of major story elements I intend to cover, though. And those will take quite a while to get to.
I still need to see the movie.
Cool! After a year of talking about it, it's good to see you put it up here!
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Wow. I really have been talking about this idea for a whole year? Wow...
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Among other things. I may not be what I used to, but my memory is still sharp as ever
Hell, there are ideas I've been talking about doing for just as long and still haven't gotten around to doing
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Well, when I run out of ideas...
...yeah, that's never going to happen, is it?
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Not if I can help it. Lol, between the two of us, ideas flow like the ancient rivers of Babylon.
...now I'm just talking shit
But seriously, we do come up with a lot of ideas together.
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Indeed we do!
I really hope you have an idea for Discord! I was thinking about Loki but thats way too obvious.
When Nightmare Moon first spoke why did she sound like Rita from Mighty Morphing Power Rangers to me? This just sounds like a fun story!
5949124 YES YOU DO.
This. This must be featured.
5949150 WILL THERE BE PICTURES!?
This is way funnier than it should be.
This is adorable. I need more!
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Sunset Shimmer gets adopted by Qwen from the Ben Ten series, or maybe just the first show. (I might write this one if you don't)
Baby Discord gets stuck in videoland from Captain N: The Game Master. Yes I know you are doing something like this in this fic, but you already did two half demon ponies (Rarity and AJ), Two armor wearing heroes, Spike and Rainbow Dash. So why not two creatures that have videogame like abilities?
Babies Princess Luna and Princess Celestia get adopted by... Princess Peach from the Super Mario Bros games? That would be amusing. Possible crossover with Captain Chaos (Discord) from Videoland later.
Uh... maybe I would write the Babies Princess Luna and Princess Celestia in the Mario Bross series world, but I would have to watch the old Super Mario Bross show to refresh my memory. Captain N: The Game Master? Haven't seen that one is ages and has way too many hero characters...
5949921 Oooh, I'm liking the Ben 10 one. To be honest I wouldn't mind the story taking place during the first series, you know when Ben and Gwen were still kids and Ben first got the omnitrix.
Looks promising. Strange, but now I find myself wondering if anyone is doing this sort of thing, only twisted. For example, Cadence raised by the Jigsaw Killer from Saw or Luna raised by Scar from the Lion King. Just imagine the nightmares unleashed when they got home. In the case of the former, I'd almost feel sorry for King Sombra and Chrysalis... Almost.
Looks good but it's a little too fast.
How many of these are you able to produce? Do you have some kind of disease that forces you to writ this much? No offence but it feels like you have far to much free time... I wish I could do as much as you.
5949371 There must be!
Interesting. Not enough there for me to make a solid decision on the quality yet, but certainly interesting enough to wait and see what develops. This intro does seem a bit fast paced, but I would hope that is just you wanting to get into the meat of the story as soon as possible.
The idea piqued my interest and found the interactions here clever (Eternal night? It's always night here. )
I look forward to read more of this.
I've waited so long for a crossover like this... continue please!!!!
Crack the code above, if you crack it it, you win a cookie.
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I CAN'T CRACK IT!!!!
I HAVE USED MY SUPER COMPUTER MK3000 AND IT FAILED!!!!
TELL ME WHAT IT IS!!!!
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Sowwy, no cookie for you laddie!
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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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thats wat is says
Yay moar crossover <3
Keep it up teh gud work Tats
5950055 Same, I also prefer the first series than the others. While somewhat interesting it is not really that immersing. First is better at doing that.
You know... this story could explain where Gamer Luna comes from in you head canon. After making friends with so many game characters, she starts playing games to remind herself of those times back in the Arcade. Who knows... maybe if there aren't any video games in Equestria, she might decide to make some of her own. That certainly be an interesting ending.
Given the switch to MLD stories involving villains, what do you think of King Sombra in Final Fantasy 4? He could be raised by Cecil and Rosa while Cecil was a dark knight, then journey with him as he became a paladin, trying to save the crystals. You could probably have some fun with the idea of Kain, world's easiest hypnosis victim, becoming wrapped around Sombra's little hoof.
5949921 5950055 I'm liking the Ben 10 thing, too. So many things that could be done with that.
Although if Tatsurou wanted to do one starring Discord, I was thinking the Watchmen might be good for that. Dr. Manhattan might prove a good counterpoint to the spirit of Chaos.
Also wondering if Tatsurou might have any plans to stick Derpy with the actual, humanoid Gallifreyan Doctor, or if that might be to close to what others may have done?
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D'aaaw! I's gonna hug her, and squeeze her and call her Loonie.
5950419 KAWAII DESU!
your stories are EPIC I look forward for more deadpool and The moth and more of this it be funny to see how this turns out
One of my favorite Disney movies and one of my favorite villains ending up in it with someone who will raise her right.... SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Even Calhoun will find it hard to resist this adorable little filly, and I bet the Villains Anonymous will all spoil her and become a big set of Aunties and Uncles. Though if Kano does the heart rip thing in front of her.... I hope Ralph punches him through every wall of the maze.
Be cute and get lots of hugs. And kill the sun from Super Mario 3, it's EVIL!!!!
Awesome new story, I like this already. I do suggest Nightmare be able to keep up with the carts in Sugar Rush and have some races with Penelope, become adored by every female character in the arcade, and get a Final Fantasy style inventory space so she can carry a ton of power ups from different games with her.
5951241 Oh man, glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that last line, I would have sprayed my computer from an epic spit take.
5951318 Yay, you've got another idea!
so much potential, please continue
Yes! I freaking love Wreck it Ralph! It's got the perfect setting, a great message, a good story, tons of references, and Owl City (my favorite musician) wrote the main theme! Wreck it Ralph meets ponies is awesome!
That's a really nice touch with the eternal night gag. Loved it!
Nightmare Moon appears to be taking this well. I am intrigued as to where you will this. Do continue.
Also - somebody make a picture of that scene here Nightmare Moon is sleeping on Ralph's chest. PLEASE!
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If anyone makes a picture of that scene, I'll use it as cover art!
Speaking of suggestions:
1. There should be a blog for these instead of posting them on your stories. If there is, I'm sorry.
2. Derpy shall be found by the tenth Doctor.
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Derpy's going to Dirty Pair Flash, to be raised by Kei and Yuri.
5949098 i cant seem to find any
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Just posted a thread on Art For Fanfiction requesting for that picture.