Ever the law bidding citizen, Twilight Sparkle never thought she’d be in a court trial, but when the mayor of Ponyville asked her to co-preside over the town’s latest case, who was she to refuse? Besides, passing judgment onto ponies is just the practice Twilight needs if she‘s going to rule Equestria.
However, Twilight’s inexperience might just lead to her downfall, and the consequences of her mistakes might be too much of a punishment for her to bare.
Regardless of what happens next, Twilight will learn one important thing —
The legal system is a joke.
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huh...... i was honestly expecting twilight to cop the blame for
^ Was expecting that it would come back to Mayor Mare or to Twilight, eventually somehow blaming either Luna, Celestia, or both
And this trial took place in the house that Jack built.
that line...................................................................................................................................................................................... This belongs next to Pinkie's new/old suitcase.
OH MY GOD IT ENDED IT JUST WENT ON AND ON and I figured you'd do the entire town.
Then you laid down that line and I put my fist into a wall.
Well played.
~Skeeter The Lurker
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I had to remove five ponies from the chain to keep it under five thousand words.
Once it got around to Trixie, I thought it was going to be Celestia, and then that last line. I expected a pun but not that
Oh my god, that was painful. My retina's are completely shot.
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Which ones?
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Fluttershy, Dr. Fauna the veterinarian, Applejack, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and the Cakes.
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And how did they affect things?
I'd have worked it out so that twilight was guilty but by being a princess she's immune
Heh. I always figured the foam fonger was made by minotaurs.
Ah, small town values.
The recitation got really old, really fast, but the punchline... Well, it didn't make up for it entirely, but it was nicely terrible. Best of luck in the contest.
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Originally, Rarity got the dragon sneeze flowers by mistake because the entire post office was panicking over the lack of ice cream at a ‘one week without work related incident’ because Sugarcube Corner ran out. Sugarcube Corner ran out of ice cream because Sweetie Belle came in crying and ate all of it.
The reason why Sweetie Belle ate all the ice cream at Sugarcube Corner was because Apple Bloom was ignoring her, and she learned from Rarity that the best way to treat heartbreak is by drowning yourself in ice cream.
It turns out, however, that Apple Bloom didn’t mean to ignore Sweetie Belle, she was just in a bad mood over Applejack breaking a promise to teach her a secret family apple bucking technique that day. The reason why Applejack didn’t teach Apple Bloom was because she was stuck in line at the vet for Winona’s annual check up.
Normally, there wouldn’t have been a huge line that day because that’s the day Fluttershy sets aside time to volunteer, but Fluttershy never came. See, she was the one who thought Rainbow Dash was insulting her, and she flew off, too distressed over Rainbow’s apparent betrayal to help.
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What a chain of events
Is it wrong that I kinda was hoping the case was going to get dismissed because Spoiled was going to have to admit that it was her old bag that got tossed when she last visited Manehatten?
I'm so upset
I don't get the pun.
Seriously, I was expecting something about "making a liar out of me" or some other pun on the word lyre.
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A case dismissal is when a lawsuit or claim is closed with no finding of guilt and no conviction. A diss is a slang term for ‘insult.’ The case between Lyra and Spoiled Rich was dismissed, having had no legal standing, while Rainbow’s attempted diss of Pinkie Pie’s suitcase missed its intended target when it instead hurt the mail carrier.
Thus, “the case diss missed/case dismissed.”
Ugh, ok, that's bad. :-)
I was expecting the blame line to go full circle and have something Spoiled Rich did be the catalyst. Would have been ironically poetic if the reason for dismissal was that there was no point in suing herself for an egregious sum.
I died so much inside when I read that.
I screamed into my suitcase.
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Yeah, I got to the point pretty quickly of just skipping over the repeated event chain... and then my face met my desk when I read the punchline...