Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 3
By TDR
Keep Calm and Frigoris On, Part 4
["This is supposed to be my triumphant return? Where the heck am I?”]
Rahs lay stretched out near the edge of the containment building on top of a pile of unused lumber, half in a doze. This whole situation had been a complete mess and he really had no clue what the heck was going on at this point.
His sister was running some test or another and wanted him out of the way to avoid any sort of magic draw he might cause so he had come outside and found a spot to stretch out. The crystal spire was keeping the snow away, but this far from it, it wasn't keeping out the cold, so Rahs was quite content to be bundled up in his coat with a nice warm ray of sunshine beaming down on him.
Changeling invasions, empires returning from nothing, Luna's son showing up and being a dick, and now this stupid shit with the timber wolves and whatever happened to Applejack. This had been a rather insane year, and Hearths Warming hadn't even happened yet.
Still... Rahs couldn't argue that Applejack didn't look and smell good while changed, and as a pony her scent had changed as well. She also seemed a bit too affectionate when transformed and he had no idea what was up with that. Not sure he minded so much, but she denied everything when she was back to normal so who knew what was going on.
Not like he needed to worry about it, Twilight was already super worried enough for everyone and he already had three other females to consider, he didn't want to think what would happen if this was a serious attachment and not some stupid crap from the witch wolf infection.
That was still a weird thing to think on.
Rahs might have continued his rambling thoughts for a while longer, though they were interrupted as something got in the way of his sunshine.
Opening one amber eye Rahs looked up into the red face of Big Mac, the large stallion had what looked like a iron rail road rail sitting on his shoulder. Granny Smith stood next to him with a slight grin on her green muzzle and a bundled up package that was probably lunch.
“Howdy Rahs.” Granny smirked as the moon dog sat up, his ears perking as he turned his attention to her, it would be a bit rude just to keep laying there while she spoke. He offered a yawn and a small wave in return.
“Everything going well?” Granny asked her smirk not getting any smaller. For some reason that unnerved Rahs. “So, Applebloom has been telling us what's been going on out here.....”
The screech of metal drew Rahs' attention to Big Mac, who was casually bending the rail road track over his shoulder like it was taffy. Rahs blinked a little as Big Mac stared down at him before it all clicked.
Rahs flattened his ears and slapped a paw to his face.
Granny cackled at the expression before she started walking towards the building.
“Jus be sure tah have some of that poison joke around, ah want great grand foals not great grand pups.”
Big Mac simply dropped the now pretzel shaped iron rail on the ground before the moon dog before grinning and walking off with a last gesture of pointing his hoof to his eyes then to Rahs before following Granny.
Rahs just let out an embarrassed and annoyed growl.
Twilight dropped back into a chair with an exasperated sigh.
She had no idea what this was. None of the tests helped. She had hit countless dead ends and had even entertained a few of Pinkie Pies stranger ideas to no avail.
She had looked into the necromancy that Sombra had pointed out , but unfortunately neither she nor the former king had enough knowledge about it to do more than detect traces of it in both Applejack and the timber wolf. Princess Celestia knew very little and even Princess Luna was clueless about it. It seemed the the rest of the gods were not sure either. Imperial taint as it was called was not a widely practiced art. It generally wound up being worse for the caster than the targets so dark and shadow magic were much better options for the same level of power. There was a known practitioner in the past, but the Ram god was killed when the last tribe of his race was wiped out by dreadnoughts.
Twilight was pretty much back where she started no closer to curing her friend than anything else. The only thing she had noted was that if Rahs drained the excess magic from her, the necromantic taint got smaller. She had set up several sessions only to find that the taint hit a certain point and wouldn't drain any lower.
Trying to drain Applejack while she was a pony only increased the draw of magic she was absorbing and it wound up that she would actually pull on some of Rahs' magic through the link to keep herself stable.
Rahs was also starting to get sick of apples.
Twilight had even secreted in a couple of lab mice to see if she could duplicate the transference to find out what it was. The lab mice were injected with blood, drool and magic drawn from both forms of Applejack.
Neither of the mice changed in the slightest, though one kept making plans to take over the world.
They also showed no sign of the necromantic taint.
She let Rahs eat the magic of the timber wolf and watched the scan on it finding that Rahs devoured all of it with no trace of the magic of any kind remaining.
She was stumped.
Applejack was starting to go stir crazy, the others were worried, and she had made no new progress for days.
Ascepius, Twilight shuddered, had come by and done her thing as well and found nothing of note. Bleu knew nothing. The books she had been given from Rhino had nothing, Iinii knew nothing, Kaz and Lockheed knew nothing. None of the books that Moon Dancer and Sunburst had found were not any help, even Solomon's journal had nothing. White might know something but it was universally agreed he would show up after everything was done and over with. Even Angel Bunny said that his grandfather had a thing for being late.
Twilight had even raided the restricted wing of the library to look over the necromantic tomes there. There were only three of them on file. One was bound in pony skin and spoke of some distant land called Tamberlane and it's King, Bray, but had nothing on spells.
The second one required a magic phrase to be said correctly, evidently the last time the book was read some one got it wrong, there was an army of undead and some poor stallion had his foreleg replaced with a chainsaw before it was all over.
The final book was just a bunch of necromancer jokes and puns, like 'It's not hard to raise a family, if their buried close enough together'. Twilight almost suggested burning that one by the end of it.
In the end none of them told her anything.
It was stupid, she knew there was some connection right there but she couldn't put her hoof on it. It didn't make sense, it was driving her mad that she couldn't figure out the chaotic mix of spells and conflicting information, it...
...It was time for plan D.
[“FINALY!”]
Well at least Granny can find something to laugh about in all this
Seriously Brain?
Spoil Sport
HA, I know it’s forth wall breaking but it’s discord done well (he is very hard to get right)
good luck weathering his vengeance TDR you’re going to need it :p
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it's payback for his interrupting so many other chapters and stealing my laptop.
Quarantine.
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pinky and the brain
Rahs they gave their blessing to date Applejack and make up your mind already
What about great grand were-wich wolf? Best of both world, I'd say. Can help you with farm like an Earth pony and also can chase away Timber wolves like a champ.
A wedlock, Apple clan style?
Your required earworm:
We need Spike to break the Necromantic pun book out of the library and start telling them.
Oh Keep your tail on Discord, you’ll get your turn to shine again very soon.
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Your ponified required earworm:
What are gonna do today Brain?
Ah the old Klaatu Barada Nik*cough cough*tu
So no shot gun wedding, for the moment, and AJ is definitely sailing on a river in Egypt.
And Rahs is oblivious as usual. Who has placed the bet on that one, I wonder.
Shining Armor wishes he could do that with his bare hooves.
If they are cursed to be werewolves like AJ, you’ll get both for the price of one.
I’m sure Shining Armor now agrees that Twilight can make the best decisions about her love life with absolutely no interference from him.
Gee. I can’t imagine why.
They’re Pinky, they’re Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, NARF!
I agree with him. It’s about time Discord makes his grand return!
intentional or not that last book puts me in mind of the The Worst Equestrian Necromancer
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Lyra has money on AJ.
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RAGAR!!!!!
Great i show this chapter to a few of my friends and one cant stop doing the zarbon laugh
Maybe it's ghosts? The Witch Wolves were deliberately hunted to extinction, and I doubt any of them went peacefully.
I am Rahs in this scene
While that's not a bad thing (the whole "Grogar is probably dead" thing, not the the whole "An entire species was wiped out" thing) I can't help but wonder if he comes back since, you know, necromancy
...so yeah calling it now, Grogar (the real one) shows up at some point
I agree, but the question is... where are we gonna find enough dynamite to...what? were not doing that anymore, you sure?... okay, so yeah, plan D2 it is then then
Better to first try plan P, If Poison Joke can turn Rahs into a pony, maybe it could do the same to AppleWolf
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Lyra? as in:
"precognitive ability"
TDR, you do realize that we are going to have to take your statement of
as confirmation that Applejack, or Witch-Jack, is the fourth female that will be after Rahs, right?
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Smirks
Well discord you dealing with an inter dimensional black rabbit author that probably has chaos magic in that computer of theirs they can be just as unpredictable as you, its funny when the chaos is on the other forelimb
PINKY AND THE BRAIN!
Jerk. C'mon Big Mac, you're literally screwing Rahs' sister. The least you can do is trust your own sister with Rahs. Hypocrite.
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Rahs did much the same to him. Which is why Rahs is embaressed and annoyed, not intimidated.
The Brain!
would be funny if plan D didnt involve Discord seeing him go "oh come on" in the red texts and the plan that would involve him was called plan Q
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Ah.
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Even canon Twilight made a Pinky and the Brain joke in the show.
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Using the Lord of Chaos to solve anything, may be a crazy idea. He practically never helps in the show, just makes things more "interesting".
His chaotic nature makes his co(s)mic powers mostly useless anyway.
This is going to be a really crazy twist even for Discord I'm sure.
This is the second mention of dreadnoughts and then wiping out a race. Who, what, and why? These are my questions.
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Dreadnaughts are the dragon creature from the crystal empire. The thing shiny killed.
The force of them wiped out the harpys and rams. Harpys have recovered rams have not.
Does she have a cape?
finally
So, still just kind of sitting in a holding pattern of small gains in figuring out details about Wolfjack while the story teases us with what we are all waiting for.
See above!
Kitty gotta kitty
Meanwhile in the Crystal Empire, Cadance is going nuts as the quarantine keeps her from diving into the fray to see why her shipping senses are going off.
"Mixed signals, what do you mean a'hm send ya mixed signals?"
You know what...... the Apples and the Sparkles are perfect for each other.
That's when you know shit is serious.
Suuuuure he was...........
Hmmm, interesting.
"And the other keeps making this odd sound, kind of like 'narf'"
Oh?
Groovy!
See, story, while I do get annoyed by how you treat Celestia.... I do still love you for stuff like this.
Discord what do you expect, you insulted the author and messed iwht his stuff...repeatedly...i'm surprised he didn't have twilight revive you to be witchjacks chew toy for the next 50 years
The second one required a magic phrase to be said correctly, evidently the last time the book was read some one got it wrong, there was an army of undead and some poor stallion had his foreleg replaced with a chainsaw before it was all over.
ashy slashy
anyone else hear this automatically play in their head upon reading this line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYvAYwpUDv8
We had a Pinkie now we have a brain!
I love your referanced storys/movies/ series.
That's a Pinky and the Brain reference, isn't it...
Pinky: "So what we gonna do tonight, Brain?"
Brain: "Same thing we do every night, Pinky... Try to take over the world."
pinkie and the brain rofl me like the refence rofl
army of darkness refence good one
This is Madness... I know =3
Discord... Q or something else entirely?