Well It's More of an Apartment
Welcome to My House
“Okay, that’s it, I’m calling her.”
A group of six friends stood before a newly restored horse statue as the one with rainbow hair pulled out her phone.
“Honestly Rainbow Dash,” Rarity interjected, “She’s five minutes late. Give a lady a few minutes to prepare herself.”
“Yeah but if she not here soon, we’re going to miss the movie,” Rainbow Dash replied.
As if right on cue, the portal at the base of the statue glowed and out flew a red and yellow character.
“Sorry I’m late,” Sunset Shimmer said. “Completely lost track of time over there. Seems like there’s some kind of time skip. It was high noon when I left and now it’s…” Sunset looked at her phone “5:00?” Sunset looked at the sun. “Three years here and I’m still not use to the Sun setting differently each day,” she said mostly to herself.
“Yeah yeah whatever you’re here now,” Rainbow Dash said, turning to the portal. “What were you doing over there anyways?”
Rarity nudged Applejack and gave her a slight smirk. Annoyed, Applejack reached up to her hat and produced a five dollar bill and handed it to Rarity. “Last time Ah bet on Rainbow rememberin' somethin' important,” Applejack muttered to herself.
“Well Twilight,” Sunset stopped and looked over to the Twilight Sparkle standing in front of her. “Sorry I mean Princess Twilight Sparkle, no offense.” Sunset said apologetically.
“None taken,” Twilight replied. “I’m still not use to the fact that there’s an alternative pony princess version of me either. And that is a sentence I never thought I would say.”
“Well anyways, Princess Twilight called me over to help her teach a lesson on how to move past the mistakes you made. I was teaching a bunch of ponies Twilight thought could use some advice or help moving forward.” Sunset continued. “Had a weird draconequus demigod of chaos, two spoiled rich fillies, a cult leader that traveled through time and “The Great and Powerful Trixie”. Seems like her ego is a constant in any universe.” Sunset chuckled to herself.
“Fascinating,” sarcastically Rainbow Dash replied. “But come on now, if we don’t hurry we’ll be late for the show!”
Rainbow started pushing Sunset towards Applejack’s truck. Sunset brushed her off and started walking with the rest of the group following. Sunset stopped and started patting herself all over.
“Oh shoot,” she said. “I left my wallet back home. I’ll go run and get it.” Sunset started to make off.
“Nah, it’s no problem,” Applejack injected. “We’ll go pull up to your place before we go. It’ll take us five minutes.”
“No, I’ll just go grab it real quick,” Sunset said somewhat nervously. “It’ll be faster this way.”
“I doubt it,” Twilight said. “Even if it was in the opposite direction, the speed Applejack’s vehicle is able to go it undoubtedly faster than you’d be able to run. It be far more expedient if we just drove there.”
“Actually now that I think about it, I’ve never been to Sunset Shimmer’s home,” Fluttershy said.
“Me neither!” Pinkie Pie interjected.
“Same here,” Applejack inputted.
“Now that you mention it,” Rarity stated.
“Yeah whatever, let’s just go to Sunset’s place and get her wallet and move people!” Rainbow Dash said.
“What? No!” Sunset said very nervously as everyone stared at her. “Err, um, what I mean it that it’s no big deal, you guys don’t need to come.” She gave a very shaky smile as she reached her hand behind her head.
“Okay now I’m curious,” Rainbow Dash started. “What’s so bad you got up where you live that you don’t want us to see?”
“You do have a place to live, right darling?” Rarity asked. “I mean I hope you’re not living in the library like Princess Twilight did when she first got her.”
“Oh no I have a place,” Sunset said. “Though I did live in the gym here for the first few weeks when I arrived here.”
“Okay then let’s see it,” Rainbow butted in.
“You guys don’t want to see it,” Sunset said, “I mean it’s small, there’s not a lot going on there and it’s could use a good cleaning. It’s nothing important.”
“Then there’s no reason why we can’t go there,” Rainbow Dash replied.
“Well I mean but…” Sunset started
“Listen,” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “Either you invite us all up there or we start stalking you until we find out where you live.”
“Now hang on just one gosh-darn minute,” Applejack said. “We ain’t doin’ no stalking!”
“Okay fine,” Rainbow Dash said. “Me, Rarity and Twilight would stake you until we found out where you lived.”
“Rainbow!” Rarity replied. “Why on Earth would you accuse me of degrading myself to such a loathsome activity such as that?”
“For the gossip,” Rainbow Dash bluntly stated. “And Twilight here, since I figure I could get her with some ‘Let’s understand the cohabitation of extra dimensional equine living standards’ or something like that.”
Rarity raised her hand to object but was at a loss for words.
“Listen here, sugarcube,” Applejack said to Sunset. “Ya don’t need to show us your home if ya ain’t comfortable with it. Ah mean Ah’m not going to lie that Ah’m a bit curious myself now but only when you’re ready. And don’t worry about this one.” Applejack pointed at Rainbow Dash. “Ah’ll be sure to keep her in line.”
“Thanks Applejack.” Sunset said sincerely. “But Rainbow Dash is right, I probably should show you guys my home. I mean you’re my friends after all.”
“How about I make you a deal?” Rainbow Dash said. “You show us your place after the movie and I’ll pay for your movie ticket. Deal?”
“Throw in some popcorn and a soda?” Sunset smirked.
“Fine,” Rainbow Dash said, annoyed at losing another twenty dollars. “Now come on or we’ll be late!”
2 hours and 37 minutes, plus a rather long commercial runtime later,
“Hang a left up here,” Sunset said to Applejack.
In Applejack’s truck, Sunset rode shotgun, with Twilight, Fluttershy and Rarity packed into her back row seats.
“I thought you said these seats could hold three adults, Applejack.” Rarity complained about her seating position.
“Yeah well apparently by adult I guess they mean 5’1” double leg amputees who are undernourished.” Sunset joked. “Take a right here, before the stop sign.”
Applejack turned into the parking lot of high-rise apartment complex.
“So is there any sort of special parking permits and what not’s Ah got to be aware of?”
“No just park anywhere, though closer to the main door the better.”
Finding a decent enough spot, Applejack pulled in and parked her truck. Everyone filled out as Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash jump off from the truck’s loading bed.
“So this is the oh so mysterious place you live?” Rainbow Dash teased at Sunset. “Not too bad.”
“Yeah well come on,” Sunset said as she lead them to the main lobby of the complex and into the elevator. She hit the eleven button.
“You live on the eleventh floor?” Fluttershy asked. “Oh my that must be a hassle if the elevator isn’t working or when you want to move something heavy.”
“Yeah that can be a hassle,” Sunset said. “But I really like the view. In Equestria, building with more than ten stories are still relatively new and even then they’re only located in the really big cities.”
The elevator dinged to let them know they had reached their destination and Sunset lead them down the hall to room 1138.
“Here we are, home sweet home,” Sunset said nervously. “You sure you still want to see it?”
“Yes! Just open the door already.” Rainbow Dash impatiently stated.
“Okay but I did warn you,” Sunset turned the key and opened the door.
The six friends walked into the room. The room was very large with a large panoramic window view of the entire town stretching for miles. In the middle of the room was a large leather looking couch with a coffee table in front of it and several bookshelves off to the side. To their left was a fully stocked kitchen with a countertop bar area and a few stools next to it. Far off into the left was a hallway which lead to the bedrooms and bathroom. All of this would be impressive if not for the absolute mess surrounding it all.
There were dozens of shoes littering the floor in front of the door. Clothes were flung about the place haphazardly. Bowls, cups, silverware and a couple of pasta strainers covered the counter space in the kitchen and the sink was full of dirty plates. The stove was host to several large cooking pots. Books were piled high on the coffee table and several stacks left disorganized next to it. The apartment also had the distinct odor of burnt popcorn and cheese to it.
“So, um, what do you think,” Sunset said very nervously, already knowing her friends responses.
“Oooh,” Rarity said as she fainted into Rainbow Dash.
“Omph,” Rainbow Dash grunted as she caught Rarity. “Okay Rarity, need you to get up. You’re not all that light.”
At that remark, Rarity regained consciousness immediately. “Are you suggesting that I’m fat?!”
“Huh what?” Rainbow Dash replied, slightly confused at the reply. “Oh yeah I’m sorry I’m not just able to immediately pick up a 120 lbs-ish person when they decide to just up and faint.”
“Well I’ll have you know that I’m,’ Rarity started.
“Not now,” Applejack interrupted, breaking the two apart. “Sunset, no offense, but this place is a pigpen. And Ah should know, Ah own a few.”
“Yeah I know,” Sunset said, rubbing her head guilty. “Now you know why I really didn’t want you guys coming over. I’ve been wanting to clean this place up for a long time, but stuff keeps getting in the way, you know like the sirens, The Friendship Games, Princess Twilight wanting me to give lectures, school work and so on.”
“Ya know, if ya had just said so, we would have let ya clean up the place a bit before we came over,” Applejack said.
“Yeah but I got a free movie ticket and some snacks,” Sunset smirked.
“Man I can’t believe your parents let you keep your apartment like this,” Pinkie Pie said. “If my parents saw this, they’d sent me out to the rock farm. Well more like Limestone would be still.”
“I’m a 24 year old pony from an alternative dimension,” Sunset replied. “My parents are back in Equestria.”
“Wait, you’re 24?” Pinkie asked.
“Well that’s in horse years,” Sunset stated.
“Oh okay,” Pinkie accepted, before a look of confusion appeared on her face. “Wait what?”
“How did you afford all this then Sunset?” Fluttershy interjected. “I mean I’ve never seen you at a job, especially one that would pay well enough to buy all this.”
“Oh that’s easy, I’ll show you.” Sunset walked off into the hallways and returned with a small chest in her hands. “With this.”
Sunset opened the chest and the others stared at awe. In it was a small collection of pure gold coins with horse figures on the heads and a weird looking Yin-Yang style symbol on the back.
“I cashed out my Equestrian bank account before I left,” Sunset said. “Apparently gold is a lot more valuable here on Earth than it is in Equestria.”
“How much do these weigh?” Rainbow Dash asked, awestruck as the rest of her friends were, picking up a coin to examine it.
“About 11 grams give or take.”
“And how many do you have?”
“Well I had about 5,500 bits before I left, and I probably spent about 1000 since I’ve been here, what with this apartment, the furniture, my car, the forged birth certificate and other ID’s.” Sunset trailed on.
“Twilight, how much?” Rainbow asked.
“About 2 and a quarter million.” Twilight said almost unaware of the figure she rattled off, her gaze still stuck on the large sum of gold.
Rainbow Dash put the coin back down very gently and closed the lid. “Sunset I have one question to ask: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING IN HIGH SCHOOL?!”
Startled, Sunset jumped back a few feet. “What do you mean?”
“I mean why aren’t you down in the Bahamas or some other topical paradise living it up?”
“Because that’s not what I want to do?” Sunset replied. “The thing is in Equestria, we don’t have a want to acquire money for money’s sake. Yeah we still use money, you know for buying stuff, universal means of trade and whatnot, but most of us don’t go out just wanting to make money so we can just stop and lounge around. We don’t find that all that rewarding. I mean a few of us do, but most of us want to go out and use our talents and share them with the rest of the world. We get a bigger kick out of fulfilling our potential to the fullest, or some of the stuff like that. Funny that I was against that namby-pamby sort of stuff back when I was in Equestria. And besides, I wouldn’t want to leave high school, it’s where all of my friends are.”
“So you wouldn’t miss a few coins then?” Rainbow Dash reached into the box.
“Yeah sure,” Sunset said and passed out a few coins to her friends. Rainbow Dash and Rarity were positively beaming.
“That’s mighty kind of ya to offer us this,” Applejack said, “But it’s your money, ya should feel free to do with it what ya like.” She reached for the other coins and put them back in the chest. She had the most difficulty getting it back from Rarity.
“But dear, just think of all the fabric and wonderful designs I could make!” Rarity pleaded.
“No, it ain’t right and you know it,” Applejack said finally, grabbing the coin.
“Spoilsport,” Rarity dejectedly said.
“Well great, you’re super rich, got super friends, especially with me included and you get to go super saiyan. Man some people get all the luck,” Rainbow Dash smirked, her tone conveying mock jealousy.
“Super saywhat?” Sunset asked.
“You know when you went all glowing and super powered against Twilight at The Friendship Games?” Rainbow replied. “Don’t tell me you’ve never seen Dragon Ball Z?
“Other world pony,” Sunset stated. “I don’t know half of the things in this world. That’s half of the reason I have so many books lying around here.”
“Oh man, it’s like the best show ever!” Rainbow stated. “Me and Fluttershy would race home after grade school and we’d watch the ever loving heck out of it! Remember that Fluttershy?”
“Oh yeah,” Fluttershy replied meekly. “Those were good times.”
“Hey don’t you have it on DVD?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Well sort of, I have ka-“
“Perfect!” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “We’ll help Sunset clean up her total trainwreck of an apartment and then have a sleepover where we’ll marathon a whole bunch of DBZ! Hey Sunset, where’s your TV?”
“I don’t have one,” Sunset replied. “They don’t exist in Equestria and so I never bought one.”
“Well that’s fine, we’ll just have to go back and get one from my house,” Rainbow Dash said. “I got a pretty sweet one that’s sure to be big enough for all of us.”
“Okay then, if that’s fine with everyone else,” Sunset asked. “Everyone’s okay with having a movie sleepover here?”
“Eeyup.”
It’s alright with me, I mean so long as you’re fine with it.”
“I’ve got nothing going on, just so long as Spike is taken care of.”
“It’ll be wonderful helping you, um, spruce up this place.”
“I’m always down for a party!” Pinkie Pie, pulling confetti out of nowhere, threw it all over the place and tooted a small kazoo. “Oops, sorry, I just made this place even dirtier.” Pinkie snickered.
“It’s fine,” Sunset smiled back. “At least it’s a lot more colorful than the mess I made.”
“Well, that’s settled then. Me, Applejack and Fluttershy are going to go out and get the equipment while you guys work on cleaning all this up,” Rainbow Dash said. “’Kay bye!” She said rapidly and dragged Fluttershy and Applejack clean out the door.
The others looked stunned for a minute at Rainbow’s fast exit and started picking up the clothes and silverware scattered around the apartment.
“Oh that little-“ Rarity started before stopping her clean up.
“What?” the others asked.
“Rainbow Dash abandoned us to do all the chorus while she, Applejack and Fluttershy can skip out on all of them!” Rarity stated rather crossly. “Rainbow Dash, when you get back, you’re going to get it!”
End
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With SOME back seats, that's if they're healthy
I can see that.. but won't the goverment get tiped off if someone sales that many gold coins. My headcannon is that she only sold some to get a small apartment.
Wow. One of the few times Sunset DOESN'T live poorly (when she hasn't been adopted/taken in, that is).
BTW, nice George Lucas reference (even if it's unintentional).
“Sunset I have one question to ask: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING IN HIGH SCHOOL?!”
Very good question Rainbow Dash. Very good question.
Really? Kai isn't bad at all.....people just complain too much
Pretty good, and your headcanon works for me. I do have one grammatical question though:
Did you mean "Well, more like Limestone would, but still." As in, it's not so much Pinkie's parents, but Limestone who would be upset. Or did you mean, "Well, more like Limestone would be still." As in, Limestone is still on the rock farm because of something like that. Just confused by the wording.
7067789
Pretty sure gold is gold where the government is concerned. As long as nobody is missing any. Not to mention that she could use different pawn shops and gold dealers to spread it out.
In your short summmary, I think you meant "Human 6" not, "Humane"'
7068310 Um, no, pretty sure that was intentional. Just like any other time that fans refer to them as such. "Mane 6" is a play on the use of the word "main" when referring to a lead character or group of characters. "Humane 6" is, in turn, a play on words that incorporates "human" into the "Mane 6" terminology that fans came up with once their human counterparts were introduced. Trying to correct people by telling them it should be "Human 6" is like trying to correct people by telling them it should be "Main 6." It defeats the entire purpose of the play on words if you just use the original word instead.
7068514
Oh, okay sorry
If I had that much money I'd be selling all the fucks I don't give to the rich!
Great story bruh.
I agree with your headcannon.
7067789 Not really. It's not like the government strictly monitors any and all gold sales in the nation. People sell gold all the time. All that a bunch of gold coins being sold means is that someone with a big collection of old school gold coins has decided to sell them. Unless Sunset is pumping out enough gold to interfere with the national economy in some way, or the government has reason to believe that the coins were stolen from a museum or something of the sort, then the it literally has no reason to take notice, and even less reason to care if they do take notice for some reason.
7068524 Ah, no biggie. It was pretty odd looking when people first started using it, and it takes a while to get used to. Heck, even knowing that's what it is, I've read plenty of stories and forum posts that use it and still do a double take on it sometimes.
That actually makes a lot of sen--Wait, what about fake IDs?!
Also, I just recently saw Zootopia and my favorite joke in that movie talked about income tax evasion so I'm going to ask this: What is Sunset doing about taxes? Because she has to owe a LOT of money.
7068534 Considering she was not even born in this dimension and is an illegal alien in a very literal sense the fake ID is more of a necessity considering the lack of an actual real birth certificate, I'd say taxes are the least of her problems here. On the Equestrian side of things I'd be concerned if it wouldn't be in character for Celestia to pardon her of all crimes and presumably taxes she hasn't paid on account of being in another world.
Loved this. It was a nice easy read. I'm gonna need to check out some more of your stuff.
P. S. The name was so catchy that I just had to read it. I love that song lol.
Nice read, I like your explanations about how Sunset had to find a place to live and other important things, like a fake ID. I wonder if someone ever wrote a story where Sunset is discovered by the authorities...
DBZ Kai? Noooooooooooo!
I love this fic!
7068529 In the U.S., the supply of gold coins and ingots is actually quite restricted, and while people have had the right to own and trade it for forty years, the trade is still pretty highly regulated.
I wonder whether Sunset ever considered using her riches to hire a squad of mercenaries rather than use high school students. Of course, it'd be rather hard to do that as a teenage girl, but...
7069817 I think you overestimate just how "highly restricted" it is. There are different reporting rules for buying and selling, there are different reporting requirements depending on which coins you're buying or selling (largely depending on when they were introduced, since the CTFC inexplicably made a specific list of coins that need to be reported rather than a more general standard, allowing coins made after that list to essentially go unchecked), those coins that do have strict reporting requirements are based on cash value by troy ounces of gold rather than the raw quantity of the product, there are specific time frames in which the necessary amounts must be sold before the need to report them expires, etc, etc. The entire system is a mess that leads to a lot confusion and misinformation.
If there is a sale with a cash value of $10,000 or more, you have to provide/fill out Form 8300, a much more in-depth I.R.S. form that includes various forms of identification including a social security number. It also has a very clear 24 hour time limit. You can have an $8,000 gold transaction, and come in a day or two later and have another one, and neither of those have to be reported via 8300. That said, if you do attempt this (especially if you do so frequently), the buyer is technically required by law to file a suspicious activity report, which has its own set of complications. So it isn't a very good idea.
When it comes to reporting on smaller scale gold sales (NOTE: Sales, not purchases), the form in question is 1099B. It's also where there's the most leeway, since it's only legally required when certain limits are hit with certain coins that are listed under the CTFC's conditions. There are a lot of gold coins out there that simply don't have any reporting requirements. Even when you are using coins that need to be reported, much like Form 8300, it's still only required when the sales are made within the 24 hour time frame. And whether or not frequent resale of high premium coins (much less low premium bullion) necessitates a SAR is still very debatable, given that the large cash sum is the primary reason behind implementing the SAR for...well...suspicious purchases and sales.
Now, make no mistake, all gold transactions are still taxable. However, "taxable" does not mean that there are special reporting requirements. If it did mean that, then we would be filling out sales forms for a lot more than gold. Capital gain reporting is required for everything. You know, taxes and all.
In the context of this story Sunset is using a form of bullion that doesn't even originate in this world, much less appear on the list of coins that have strict reporting requirements. Even ignoring that the EG universe is a parallel version of our world that clearly holds a number of differences from reality, and therefore might not even have the same (wonky) gold regulations, there are a lot of ways Sunset could easily exploit bits to keep herself set up pretty well. Never mind that she's already clearly indicated that she's using various forged forms of identification, meaning that she's not exactly going through strictly legal channels to handle all of this.
“Rainbow Dash abandoned us to do all the chorus while she, Applejack and Fluttershy can skip out on all of them!” Rarity stated rather crossly. “Rainbow Dash, when you get back, you’re going to get it!”
not to be a nit pick but chorus is the group that sings , the word your looking for is chores
I'm surprised that fics about Sunset's living conditions are still popular. It'll be chopped gravy like Scootaloo's family situation.
7076350 So long as canon doesn't fill the gap, the fandom shall.
Not bad, though I think I prefer my ideas about her living conditions a little more.
I'm surprised Fluttershy would enjoy a show about laser blasts and pummeling people.
Short and simple. An okay story
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nice
Pretty tall for someone without legs
7068534 Mmmmm yes and no? I mean Taxes are weird. Living as a teenage illegal alien there's actually not a lot of taxes you'd be dodging. What gets taxed at that age? Things you buy, which she'd still be paying and taxes on any job earning her income, which she doesn't have. Even then most high school age positions would not make enough to be classified over "working poor" which means the IRS would be giving her everything back anyway. At least from my experiences in the American tax system.
7076552 yours (second mirrior with an in between dimension) was unique but I feel a bit less believable than this ones "Shiny Bit Coin" situation or my personal favorite "Abandoned Building". Still liked your stories though.
7088555 Yeah, I know. But this is a series with magic and talking ponies, so a little suspension of disbelief isn't a bad thing, right?
7088615 exactly
7088666 I like the whole Idea of bits or gems being worth alot of money. Think of it like this you magically go to equestria and spend 3 weeks mining and pull out around 300 pounds of gems. and then do some odd jobs and make like 300 bits. Over there thats not worth much and might have you rent a inn for a month or so
Now turn around and come home melt down the bits into gold bars and the gemstones can be cut into maybe 10 to 20 10 carat gems. If you look at the gems they all look to be Excellent grade gems. Thats around $1000 a gem now thats 10 to 20k per normal gem . Or if you look at it all 300 pounds of gems would be in the rough ballpark of 100 million dollars. + the gold price.
7067825 At least it's better than GT.
7089115 At the risk of necro-ing an old thread, I'll point out that trying to make money off of Equestria wouldn't work in the long run.
When you go to sell gold in this world, they'll want to know where you got it. Selling gold bars means they have to take them, and run tests to determine how pure it is. A home smelter won't be very pure, which will lower the value of the bars. Plus, if you can't prove where you got them, then you have another problem. You could claim you went spelunking while on a hiking trip somewhere. It's actually something some people do. I know a couple people who went on camping trips for summer vacation, and found enough silver on personal expeditions to pay for school. So it can happen. But that has to go through certain channels, as well. And you could only realistically get away with that now and then.
So once you get the gold you want cashed, the rest is basically useless, for at least another year or so, when you could repeat the performance, and just claim it was another hiking trip. But while you could do that with the gold, the gemstones are another matter.
Every cut gemstone in the world has a laser-etched serial number on it, too small for the naked eye to see. If you dump a dozen cut stones on the counter with no serial numbers, they'll call the cops. And if you drop a dozen uncut stones, you'll get far less for them than you might. Again, the hiking excuse might work, but don't expect to get much from the stones. And unfortunately, Equestrian stones are always mined post-cut. Something to do with the magic of the world which allows stones to grow at the speed of common wheat. So you'd have a fortune in cut stones you can't explain when the authorities show up. And heaven help you if you try to pawn them through the criminal underground. If they thought you had a line on gem-quality stones for peanuts, you'd quickly find yourself staring down the barrels of several guns, while they made you an offer you couldn't refuse.
Realistically, converting gold is easier than gemstones, but has to be done carefully. Gemstones are strictly for show, no matter how much you have, considering how hard they would be to convert without drawing attention. Ultimately, you might make enough converting gold to make your day to day concerns go away, but you'd never be rich, as such.
7207066 unless you can learn yourself how to become a lapidary in the Human world. Then you can claim that the gems you have are gems that you cut yourself. I myself have cut a 1.1 carat Ruby that I sold to a jeweler in my area for 380 dollars.
i prefer classic to kai for dbz
thoe as for shonen anime i think yu yu hakusho is the best (also likely more up sunsets ally than DBZ)
plus what sunset really needs to see is sailor moon (the viz dub of course) and madoka and nanoha as thsoe are teh 3 most inportant magical girl anime and the rainbooms are magical girls
oh also good story
Sunset has a disorderly apartment. Well, almost sounds like "Home Sweet PreCPS Visit Home" or something.
What's wrong with DBZ-Kai? It took out everything pointless and boring!
You know what's also unappreciated and should get a fixed reboot? DBGT. Just replace the look of SS4- or just give them a different unique form since SSGSS is a thing. Keep some of the ape look, but take out the red eye and make it look natural... or god-like. It looked cool, bet yet it also looked emo if you sucked the black out and replace depression with anger.
The story had a cool Star Trek + Frieza Saga mix and the future characters were cool... except for Trunks. Other Future Trunks was cool. SS4 fusions were derpy, not looking like two people fused. More like some new guy appeared. Young Goku was an interesting idea, but if they were adding old ideas then where was Launch?
7070910 There's also the fact that the gold trade is based of what 99.99% gold. Cause magic I wouldn't be surprised if Equestrian bits were literally pure gold.
This story reminded me of this comic by tjpones. More or less a gryphon is in human world buying sausages and paying in bits. When she asked about how many she could get the waiter just goes "With you money... I'd say infinite."
7270774 Yeah, that would make sense. Their gems do come out of the ground cut and ready for sale/use, after all, so it honestly wouldn't surprise me if the money that they intentionally make was pure gold. Though seriously, how the heck do they justify the value of anything in this world? What...what rate do products go for in FiM? If there's no smaller currency even for things like fruit (we see them use bits to buy things like apples and cherries), then just how much value does gold hold in Equestria? How much do more expensive items cost? I mean, could Vinyl trade her synth system for a castle or something?
7271447 That's one thing I was thinking about not too long ago. The only examples of the worth of bits are in the episode where Fluttershy tries to learn to be assertive (the shopping at the start show her paying a couple bits for singular items I think. Haven't watched it in a while) and the episode with Spike petsitting. That one though he gives a sliver of a gem to the CMC who use it to buy a large automated pet washer.
My personal guess is that there are 2 types of bits. Smaller ones, that might be gold plated rather than solid gold, to be small change, and larger ones that are meant for major purchases. Gems fall into the same type they do here, common and jewelry grade. As a dragon who eats gems I can see that jewelry grade being more to his taste while Rarity uses a mixture of them for her outfits to get the looks she wants.
Unless "what ya like" is sharing with your friends. That's totally not ok.
Geez, AJ, lighten up a little.
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Oh, you're evil.
Has a story named 'Welcome to My House' really been around since March without someone dropping this in the comments?
Ah... that's better,
You should do a prequel of this with the lecture to the group because im actually really curious to what happend. Also maybe Sunset pulling a cellphone because one of the firls is calling her.
I'm glad Fluttershy being a pleb-tier weeb is a constant across dimensions. Loved the stories!
So? In my opinion, that's the best one.
So who's your favorite?
I like stories that show Sunset (and Scootaloo) actually having a place to live that isn't a hellhole and/or in a bad part of town. I really liked this.