This story is a sequel to Sombra The Highly Unmotivated
Over a year ago, Twilight Sparkle, Discord and four million other ponies escaped from an alternate Equestria on the verge of collapse, hoping to start a new life on Earth.
While many have started to adapt to a world full of humans, Twilight still has trouble calling the place home. Trying to correct this, Discord arranges for the pair to spend a night out on the town.
If only someone had warned drunken human Arthur Mitchell about the dangers of insulting ponies in front of Discord.
Edited by spigo.
Chapters (6)
great fic so far...faving it
Just loving the reviewer's sarcastic tone. Hope this gets approved, this is funny.
And...Faved
You don't say.
Its not Sombra but it's enough
...well this is going on my follow list
I still think I'd have preferred a story about Twilight finally contacting her "gone right" alternate self, personally, but regardless, keeping an eye on this.
BESHT
6495254 Thank you!
A lot more oddity to come.
6495487 Sarcasm is my bread and butter. Thanks for reading!
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6495638 Actually, Steve's from the US. One of the hotter states, if what Sombra mentions about it being warm there are true.
6496188 No Sombra. No Steve. You've all had enough of those two for a while.
6496278 Thanks!
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Never enough Sombra and Steve, never enough...
What I want to know is how the U.S is dealing with illegal immigration now. If they suddenly got four million new citizens with minimum negative effects, that would really weaken a lot the arguments a lot anti-immigration folks have.
Very happy to enjoy your writing again. Thank you!
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To be fair, it's very likely that the only reason ponies didn't end up indefinitely interned in "asylum-seeker" camps is that a. someone saw their powers and went "Holy shit, if these guys don't like the way they are treated we could be in serious trouble" b. Discord had a friendly conversation with the President about what is certainly not going to happen to the United States if they welcome ponies with open arms and how very into the concept of friendship he's become and how much he would just love it if ponies and humans were friendly and got along and what a very big problem he would consider it if that didn't happen. While randomly exploding objects in the Oval Office into confetti, turning an aide into a pony and then back into a human repeatedly, and animating objects to illustrate his points.
Mexicans, sadly, don't have horns, wings, super-strength, or Discord on their side.
So yeah, the anti-immigration argument would be drastically weakened, but it's never really been a good argument -- the sentiments that keep it in place probably wouldn't change.
(Either that, or the anti-immigration folks would suddenly decide how much they would prefer America to be for humans and do a total about-face on immigration so that the human population of America would expand more than the pony population just did.)
Ah, that won't end well. For Arthur, I mean.
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Or, in a combination of hilarious, pathetic, and stupid that humanity currently lacks a word for, they would embrace the ponies but still loathe those [insert racial epitaph of your choice here]; “most ponies can fill niches humans literally cannot, and those that don’t at least have the benefit of being cute… but those [racial subgroup]? Hideous subhuman filth coming to take our jerbs!”
6498866 I thought it was a reference at you derp,
In the original story, as I recall, Discord told Steve he was basically in constant communication with his counterpart in the other Equestria, and I believe he implied that he could have transported the population to the other Equestria, but didn't so he could keep Twilight for himself. Does Steve's book include this? Does Twilight know?
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There is a highly relevant quote from The Coneheads:
very interessting AU Human fic here
im gonna track this ^^
Discolight <3 <3 <3
6499477 Thanks for coming back!
Weird stuff coming up.
6499681 Nope.
6500717 I highly doubt Twilight would've ever read that book. Not when she lived it!
6501342 Thank you!
6502761 Sure, but anyone who knows the full story would be incredibly distrustful of Discord, and I think sooner or later even depressed shut-in Twilight is going to notice, or her friends are going to tell her.
On the other hand, the prologue/book review doesn't mention Discord's role at all, and Steve is smart enough to both Get a restraining Order/Constantly pay off Discord to keep away from him, so my guess is Steve left those parts out due to a healthy sense of self-preservation.
Mess with the bull and you get the horns, jabroni.
Discord? Doing dark things to a person who hurt someone he loves? Inconceivable!
Of course, possibly that word doesn't mean what I think it means...? :-)
While Johnny Cash did do a cover of Hurt that song is actually by Nine Inch Nails. Not that I have a problem with Arthur not knowing that; God only knows how many cover songs I’ve heard that I thought were the original until I started searching for the lyrics and found the song attributed to multiple acts who’ve never worked together.
ya. dun. goofed.
big time.
Man, Arthur really got a low sense of self perservation. Drunk or not, you should know angering something like Discord is never a good idea.
Arthur is a huge jerk, but Robert is kind of a jerk too. He knows his friend hates ponies, but he brings him to this bar staffed by ponies, with a special menu for ponies, all so he can try a fancy drink.
I get the feeling that 6 months from now, people in uniforms in undisclosed locations are going to be referring to what's about to happen as "The Incident."
6504334 Actually, in the second chapter, it sort of says that Arthur and Robert had been going to that restaurant/bar for a while, but it took that long for Arthur to completely flip his shit about the incoming ponies. Also, Robert heard about the pony bartender at work and went on a night when he knew he'd be working. So it could've also been the first time Arthur saw him working and that just set him off on a rant.
6504277 To be fair, Discord wasn't in sight when he made a scene.
6503432 I highly doubt Arthur was in any mood to correctly cite his sources--being both drunk and terrified. Plus, I think his generally knowledge of Nine Inch Nails ends somewhere in Home Depot.
6503273 "Hello. My name is Discord Montoyeski. You insulted my girlfriend. Prepare to eat pie. Wait. I meant prepare to die. I'll be eating the pie. While you die. Repeatedly."
6506155 Right, but Robert knew ahead of time that this was now a pony bar with a special pony bartender making special pony drinks, and he still brought his speciest friend with him, so he could try that swirling drink. I'm not so much concerned for Arthur's tender feelings, but if Robert wants to make friends with these ponies and come back on a regular basis, he really didn't think about the likely outcome of bringing Arthur here.
For some reason, the highlight of this chapter is Discord blackmailing his way into Monopoly nights for him and Twilight with a changling and his buddies.
That was hilarious. PERFECT!
This is why you never mess with something or someone Discord likes.
I can't wait for Twilight to find out, that's going to be quite the conversation.
I'd be all moving out of the city by the morning. Damn he's funny and terrifying.
I'm glad Arthur has decided ponies arent that bad. It is very mature of him.
aaw so nice how protective he is ^^
i love it
6508009 Thank you!
6507767 When he's forced to accept ponies...
6507709 City? Arthur's moving to Canada as soon as he finds his passport.
6506738 Thanks!
6506183 Discord's just trying to widen his group of friends... the only way he knows how: blackmail and all around nastiness.
If 1/4 of Americans have the book already, that's 80 million copies. At $24 per copy, and being one of the two primary protagonists (in the sense of main characters, since Sombra is hardly a protagonist), Steve would have been able to negotiate himself a large chunk of revenue per book.
Shoot, Steve's probably a billionaire on the book sales of a single book alone. Eat your heart out Rowling.
Man, trying to save everyone from a doomed world and having an aborted suicide attempt before getting transported to a world where, despite ponies numbering in the millions, the only sapient race there so far numbered in the BILLIONS, sure changed Twilight's personality a bit for the lazier, apathetic, uncaring.
Discord, you better be careful. If you get Twilight filled up with fire again, well, now that she knows you can change into a pony no problem...
Well, given the author...
Ah, but Discord, if you mention you can turn humans into ponies (and presumably vice-versa), it won't be long before your skills are asked for if a human-pony marriage wants to do it all one way. And you have lots of commercial potential there
Man, I wonder if Arthur's going to go to the press with whatever happens next, or if he'll be convinced by Discord not to.
Maybe Arthur should start a Victims of Discord Support Group.
Yes, of course, his older self. He definitely didn't do anything like that to a mailpony for being late recently.
6509046 Group slogan: "New members every week!"
I have to say that I liked this story. I liked it very much.
I was a bit hesitant at first, thinking it would be comedic whimsy, like the previous one. But I was pleasantly surprised at the more serious tone. Keep up the great work!
That ending was sweet.
now i am curious about pinkie job
This was a great story, and I really appreciate it filling in the gaps before the epilogue of Unmotivated. But I was really creeped out by the last chapter (in a good way.) Discord checking that everyone is nice to the CMC, his routine use of duplicates, almost everyone being so nice to ponies and fast-tracking Discord's personal marriage laws... Arthur isn't the first, is he, not by a long shot?
6511074 Thanks for saying so!
But I don't think Discord did anything to help the CMCs. I think any kid in school would be like, "Talking pony!? I'm gonna befriend that so hard!"
6510369 Something in the FBI. That seems to make the least sense.
6509646 Thanks!
6509640 I didn't want to repeat myself, so I went for a more serious feel. Although there are still plenty of odd, goofy parts, anyways. Thanks for reading!
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Or in the CIA.
Nicely done! A great follow up and really good character piece.
6513908 Thank you!
Glad you came back for a little more.