Fighters live for their next battle. They fight until they taste the dirt of defeat. But that was never supposed to be a part of Twilight Sparkle's schedule. Once, she was a promising student for Unicorns everywhere, and now... She's a bar fighter.
She says she'll leave Ponyville one day and return to her life as an accomplished scholar. But her new "friends" at Knuckle Brick Corner have made that more difficult than it needed to be.
Now she'll either have to learn to fight or learn how to fight better. As Equestria's rising contender for the most skilled fighter. Starting at the bottom of the loser's bracket.
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You meant A.M., right?
Huh. I like this concept so far, and it's written pretty dang well. Onwards!
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More to come
good story I can kind of see twilight then going learn how to fight and have few scars,
Well, this looks different!
please tell me rainbow dash and vinyl got beaten to a fine paste? seriosuly please, they can't have gotten away with this.
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Thank you for understanding that what happened to Twilight sucks
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you are, fixed
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yes well honestly i'm curious to see how the story goes before i give it my like, stories like this try too hard to turn things around and make it seem like 'it's alright they ruined her life because this BS reason' or 'they said there sorry so she forgave them for ruining her life' there is a limit to forgiveness and a line to redemption, your story is interesting and very good at drawing out feelings, but i'm reserving judgement until i see how this plays out.
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Pretty fair point, not gonna lie
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However, to be fair, Nightmare was the one who ruined her life, not Dash and Vinyl
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But they certainly didn't help matters by getting her expelled. She could have still had a relatively normal life if it weren't for their actions. They're the main contributors for her life to go to SNAFU, in such a short time no less.
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Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm kinda glad you guys feel this way about Vinyl and Dash.
Because it means you're on the same side as Twilight of how she felt at that moment. Even if that's how she views all of this.
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uh they kidnapped her, that alone puts things past the point of no return.
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Sorry, I guess I originally thought it was funny
Interesting
interesting
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What's so interesting, buddy?
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The idea never really seen this sort of take on the cannon that and how twilight has not tried to make dash just pay for the ticket and doctor appointment since it's literally dash's fault
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Yeah, the most likely reason she hasn't or the reason she hasn't said she has is because it's not what fluttershy asked about.
Plus, she's weak, for now.
But don't worry, Dash'll get what's coming to her.
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Good for some reason the image the pops in my head is broken wings since twilights horn is broken
I'll bite.
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You will?
I feel this song would fit https://youtu.be/h2dX7lImJYo
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(Epic Foreshadowing)
"I'm not a hero, but the fight is like a drug,"
You have no how true that actually is in this story
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I like.
I like very much.
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You have no idea how motivating it is to hear that. When hiatus is over, this story will be complete
Good story so far, keep up the good work
This Twilight reminds of Tempest Shadow.
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Is it the broken horn, or her attitude to kick butt ask questions later, or her love for looking good in CG?
...
It's the CG isn't it?
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The first two.
This story sounds very interesting. Is there a chance it will be completed?
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Almost done with it, I plan on releasing the rest of the chapters once it's done.
I've got like... 8-ish chapters to go, and then it's revision and editing time.
The revision will go by quick enough, I just need to finish putting the chapters done on keyboard, and we should see it done in about two to three weeks. Hopefully two.
8374579 I am glad to hear that. The story looks interesting and when it is completed and I have finished the other readings I am scheduled to do I would like to do a youtube reading of this.
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A youtube reading, really?
Didn't know that people did that kind a thing.
Well I'll try to make sure it's readable
8375737 Oh there are quite a few of us. Check out Creepypastasalad or Obadscribbler, they are both pretty good MLP Youtube Readers.
Please do take your time. Don't rush the story just for me to do a reading of it.
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Will do
Loving this story so far.
What can I say?
I had this one in the read it later, got bored and read it.
I love this story. Please tell me the hiatus won't last much longer.
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Don't worry, we'll most likely be back next week
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:D
argh this story keeps making me want to read and yet i hate everyone in it so muhc, well not twilight or flutterhy, but the otehrs. where the hell is karma?
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don't do that, don't name names, it's not dash, all of them, pinkie AJ dash, vinyl, they all need to get whats coming to them, and dash needs both wings broken, with permanent damage, i think that would be fitting.
honestly fluttershy's scolding twilight seems pretty stupid, it's quite clear from the narrative it was the fault of the people around twilight for what happened too her. honestly there is a definite lack of consequence in this story for the actions of selves, breaking the law? no big deal, ruining someones life? haha laugh it off. worse yet you have twilight still giving these people a degree of camaraderie they don't deserve.
wow, so vinyls entire justification for being a bitch is "we kidnapped and forced a untrained unprepared kid into the ring and ruined her future and because she wasn't some kinda master i wanted to fucking leave her" seriously are you trying to make these characters the reverse of endearing?
Hope the votes come in soon. You managed to buck my expectations with how the fight went. Perhaps I've read to many manga but I was expecting Twilight to do something similar to Muso Tensei of Fist of the North Star.
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I don't remember her saying that.
Dash didn't get a fighter, so Vinyl basically said, "forget her, let's find another one. I'm not dealing with some Canterlot snob!"
They only needed a sixth pony to enter the tournament with them to make their team legal.
And it just happened to end really bad for Twilight. Vinyl had no control over her horn getting broken, and Celestia took what they said about Twilight partying in Ponyville the wrong way.
But yeah, Vinyl's a bitch. So? That's the point I had in writing this chapter, so she'd see the error of her ways.
Character development! Weeeeee!
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And there were so many times that I wanted to!!
But I had to make a decision to either make this go Dragon Ball Z or Don't.
I challenged myself not to.
But thank you for understanding my pain. Cause now I'll never get to write about Twilight and Celestia, flying through the air, fighting with their manes on fire!
i find it rather unlikely there is nothing that could have repaired twilights horn, but i still find your story well well written horribly unrealistic. you need to work on establishing consequence for otehrs for there actions, not just allowing them to get away with it for storyline lols. it seems like any form of decency just doesn't exist in this world.