Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 4
By TDR
Twilight's Kraken,
Part 2,
Prologue
[Outer edges of Equestria.]
Rahs frowned crouching down to look over the giant hoof prints in the mud. Whatever this thing was it was massive, and if the state of the town was any indication, it was a problem.
The scent of it was easy enough to track even if he couldn't smell the fruit punch styled mix of various flavors of magic that followed after this thing. It smelled like a foul cesspool that some one dumped several fruit carts a perfume stand and anything else they could into.
Standing back up he glanced to the collection of moon dogs he brought out with him. Most of them were the care takers of the towns ponies dreams. Now they were caring for them physically. Whatever it was that had come through this place had drained the ponies here of their magic and left most of them catatonic. Out of a town of about sixty ponies, so far they had found only three that had not been drained, two of those had been changelings, the third had been out of town. It had taken a bit to convince the remaining locals they were not there to hurt them, though once that was done it hadn't taken long to collect the fallen ponies and move them some where safe.
Rahs had left a collection of moon dogs to watch over the townsfolk and drive off any predators in all of the towns he had been to. With luck he could find the cause of this problem and deal with it before anything got worse. With the ponies magic drained like this, they were not feeding their magic into the dreams, and thus the chance of the moon dogs starving was a possibility.
This was the fifth town he had found like this, thankfully injuries were mild, and they had only found one death, and that was an old stallion on a respirator. When the magic was drained from the device it stopped working and the stallion died.
As did the moon dog guarding his dreams.
Whatever had done this was going to pay.
As Rahs slipped back into the Oneiroi to track the creature, he didn't notice the points of light on his ears and tail had started to flare brightly looking less like the moon, and more like the flickers of a sun.
Across Equss gods stopped what they were doing and looked in one direction.
There was a flare of power coming from that way.
Some of them had no idea what was in that direction, though quite a few recognized the source as some where on the pony dominated continent. Others could pinpoint it came from Equestria, and fewer still could pin point it was Canterlot specificity.
One of those last few was a massive centaur who simply smiled and rushed towards the source of the energy.
Another, was a white rabbit, who was simply watching this from slightly out of phase of time, no sense in letting the magic stealer steal a way to alter time after all. A large number of gods were behaving like this. Hiding rather than facing this head on, with some of their portfolios that was for the best.
White was however countering this in a interesting way.
“We should destroy him while we can.”Bleu huffed.
“You have done no such thing.” White proclaimed. “ I will only bring you here to maintain you're powers so nothing goes wrong, nothing more.”
“PiTy.” Grace offered. “I sUpPoSe I aM nOt AlLoWeD tO tElL tRoPh?”
“No. Despite things working out, you have not told him.” White stated.
“What are we here for then. I recall when this happened and I do not relish the memory.” Iinii huffed.
“With you here your portfolio's are still active. Death, the snows, the wind . All of it still works despite the fact that you have also fallen here and therefore it does not work. “ White explained. “ I will simply overlap so there is no separation, and put you back when it's done. I will do the same for the alicorns except.....”
“They went a different route.” Bleu offered.
“Precisely.” White nodded.
“So what now?” Fledge asked.
“We wait.” White stated.
“For wha...?” Bleu asked her head whipping to the side at the tremendous flare of power that quickly subsided.
“And here, we went.....” White smiled
It does sound like Rahs is charging the magical power for his Super Saiyan transformation.
Also I am curious at who will be greater magic eater of the realm? I mean on one side we have magic-suction centaur, and on the other side we have moondog/witch wolf whose species eat magic as food source. Is there any magic in moondog/witch wolf body that Tirek can suck out of?
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wait you really want to give Twilight 'weekly meltdown' sparkel the aspect of war?
are you trying to make this go all fallout equestria?
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World war sparkle sounds about right after golden oaks gets leveled.
Shit about to get real.
I'm getting kinda concerned about how newborns will react to having their magic drained
Oh yeah... I forgot that in this story the Sparkle siblings are much more OP... And genre-savvy. And there's more of them here.
well tirek like a moth to a flame hunts a large source of magic probably to find himself getting burnt when he discovers that he is not the only one who can drain magic
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It's like two black holes trying to absorb each other.
this is going to be a knock down drag out party in the streets.
Hay Pinkie pass the pop corn.
By the time this is all said and done, Tirek is going to SO wish he went through the cannon episode!
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that is if he is still around you mean?
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I REALLY doubt that any of the siblings will be feeling very merciful if at all. So yes, I really figure he's going to live through this. Unfortunately for him
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Unless Goddess of Magic Twilight Empowered by the Rainbow Power from the Box of Harmony figures out a way to Forcibly remove Tirek's Portfolio's from him... as painfully as possible. Which I also hope that IF Forthe isn't dead, something is finally done about him as I am sure all the Gods will not take kindly to him freeing Tirek. I doubt even Kodiak could defend this.
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Oh trust me, Forthe is most likely dead. Remember, all he had left of his being was magic. All those who were Diamond Dogs or had even an ounce of Diamond Dog all wept when they felt his essence disappear. And usually in literature, the only reason why those who are connected to a god weep is if the god dies.
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Oh I know. I just REALLY Wanted to see the Soul Shattering Despair of him Learning Twilight and Rahs being Gods and there is no way to kill them now. I wanted to see any god willing to take his side on things turn their back on him fully. I wanted to see him lose EVERYTHING he had left.
Its all well and good building a system that can drain the energy base out of local reality, the problem you have to then consider is local reality calling its family of Total Reality to back it up.
Pinkie is Meta Reality.
I dont tend to try following the details by the time the exponent passes the first million digits.
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he lost everything a long time ago...no D Dogs listened to him any more, no Gods, some of the D Dogs were even looking to non Dog mates just to spite him...
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They would merge into one larger black hole. There’s no “trying” about it.
I feel bad for the dumb magic kleptomaniac he’s about to be so hurt and batterd that death would be a mercy that death herself then denies
I’m surprised they don’t look like eclipsed suns. Remember how Twilight and Rahs are linked, and Twilight has (presumably) just absorbed Celestia’s, Luna’s, and Cadance’s magic and portfolios. Or maybe Rah’s picked up Celestia’s portfolio entirely, Twilight picked up Cadance’s, and Luna’s is shared between them. We’ll see!
And with Rahs acting as a bit of a magic sink, Twilight might (might) have better control of her magic this go-round.
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He was confrmed dead by the author on tireks release chapter
Wait, are they power duping?
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Well Tirek's portfolios include (but probably aren't limited to) Thieves and Centaurs. I'm thinking after all of this that Tirek is kept alive, but may lose one of his portfolios, most likely Thieves, taken over by Rahs (as a Moon Dog, he can eat magic, so it's kind of an obvious transfer).
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Think about the huge ramifications for all the gods, that a god can take an others god's power. I don't think that will go over well.
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Its. Sort of a kirby thing. He only gets the last god he ates portfolio power. The rest is just adding to his base power.
Oh..... shit......... also.... Fuck Yeah! Rahs is not happy... and have fun sucking the magic out of a god who eats magic!
huh... smart bunny, and I follow what he's doing. Very smart bunny! Too bad the Alicorns did something 'clever' instead.....
A very powered up and angry Rahs I see.
I love how you do the tenses with White. I don't think I've ever seen a better interpretation of a living, speaking being that exists outside our linear timestream.
I wonder why White just doesn’t tell them that this is in the bag and let them watch the show.
Time shenanegance are strange...
Is it strange that I actually understand White? Then again, My understanding comes from my own understanding of time itself, and how it ties into him. White is Time. Time is White. Time knows all and has and will see all. Therefore, White has seen all and will see all.
Current events are nothing more than a memory to him, which he eagerly awaits.
The best and least confusing way to put it is that he is the Past, Present, and the Future all in one.
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"Everything's fine. Everything's the way it's supposed to be. And there's your boy, back to his time. Safe, sound, and clearly not evil." -Clockwork
Is white ever wrong?
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There. It makes no sense as he had nothing to do with that, so 'would' or 'could' would fit better
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White doesn't speak in the right tenses
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I would explain it that White who is the god of Time is talking in both past, present, and future tenses.
White is very bright and ever right. Because he like to read spoilers
White is a timeless conundrum, it is to be accepted, not understandable in the least.
I wonder if everything would go bad, if White would change everything up. After all, he will be there to witness it all... for better or worse. No need to needlessly suffer a bad ending if a good one is available.
Probably Undertale style.