This story is a sequel to Last one out
Space! It's big. You can find things in it.
Or so is the hope, at least. Nova Flare - Twilight's best pupil, at least right this moment - has been put forward as the first pony Captain of a Hegemony science vessel and so she really is aiming to find something out there in the inky black.
She does, obviously, though what she finds comes as something of a surprise to everyone...
What's this? A fic from Cackling Moron that isn't about a semi-clueless human and general fluffiness?
Who are you and what have you done with Cackling Moron? :P
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I have RANGE!
Also you can't have possibly read it all yet so hmm...who knows...
I wonder what caused them to have to leave Equestria behind.
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What indeed...
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Verily, the voracious verbosity viewed vetoes a void-filled vocabulary, vouchsafing a verigation of verbs!
Don't mind me, I get strange when I'm tired.
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...yeah, what you said.
Well, if that Author's Note is anything to go by I guess I know why they left Equestria now.
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Tee hee
Thank you for this.
I knew what this was as soon as I read the description, super happy to see more of this.
To Find this is a pretty happy ending to a pretty tragic story I thought was over, is a really nice surprise.
I'm not crying, you are crying.
I actually teared up with Jack's heart wrenching pleas for Twilight not to leave him again.
Twilight. Would you care to explain why Silver Shoals is burning up in the middle of winter?
Oh sure. It's my fault Equestria is turning into a place nothing can ever live agin while the universe lasts, and we all have to move off planet in the next year or so, or we all die.
.. Purple pony princess says what?!
Um... Surprise?
No I'm not sorry.
Should have spaced uploads out at least to one or two a day
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...why?
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Cackling Moron: "Oh, COME ON! "
Kevin Lee: ""
Cackling Moron: ""
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Why is there a door in the first place?!
This is poor design!
Course, now I'm thinking of this.
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Hope it landed alright.
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One for the OG's. Or something.
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Many years ago I did something - non-pony - that ended on such a dour note my wife compelled me to write an followup with a happier ending.
Kind of happened again, kind of...
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Emotions. Sometimes, I can near to them.
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Without a question.
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Naturally, I had this in mind, but yours works, too. Both were damned great fantastic scenes.
Intriguing. A planet-ship, perhaps? Or dimensional hop into the system?
I feel like I'm going to cry, I'm sick and delirious but so so so very happy.
DisQord, I bet.
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Visibility reasons.
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To be more or less visible?
I just figured people would want to read the thing. Assuming they cared, of course.
Twilight should at least be able to confirm this is Equus.
So, Q̅-but-more-like-Ego.
Or do we call him Eqo? Eq̅o? eQ̅o?
Alright, you had my attention, now you have my paranoia. That setup reeks of trouble.
Quite a bit saner version of Ego (or eQ̅o), but still.
Also, a bit sad, and perhaps bittersweet, but good nonetheless.
What's not to like?
BTW, did you know this is Featured?
Ah, right, that guy. I seem to recall him being somewhat larger. Seems to have done alright by himself, all things considered.
Son of a bitch, you actually did it.
He turned into a great old one. Of course he did.
This is precisely the kind of self-indulgence I adore indulging in with you. I'm so satisfied by this conclusion. And I approve of your stab at trickeration.
You absolute hero, you followed up on that story. I'm probably just a sucker for the triumph of, well, love (philo, eros, philia, whatever Jack and Twilight have, doesn't matter), but this feels pretty conclusive, in a good way.
Thank you.
" I always thought you’d - you’d just died. I’m sorry! But now you’re saying you woke up? All alone? That’s worse! That’s worse than you dying! That’s so much worse!"
Damn that right there is gold. Alone in the utter darkness for thousands of years as you slowly change into something so much more and less than human. Very golden age.
"Under great Luna and great Celestia dead Jack lies Dreaming"
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone, more or less.
Let me fly, far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun.
I now imagine Jack's representation with a H on his forehead
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Really the only way it could have gone.
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Hurr...
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I was giggling wildly to myself at the crass subterfuge, but I'm easily amused.
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Like to think it brought to a slightly nicer end than last time...
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I have my moments.
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Kinda undercuttin' the drama of the moment there.
...pretty funny to imagine though, now you mention it.
"I would be happy if he had no emotions at all."
"Why do you say that?"
"Being an emotional being, deprived of social interaction for so long and he can do all this happy....what happens when he gets mad?" Norman Johnson Phsychologist -Sphere by Michel Chriton.
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You know, the Ego comparisons only occurred to me after I'd had the idea...
And I did notice, yes. Got two in there somehow!
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I haven't thought of Sphere in, like, a million years, wow
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Or maybe not. I hadn't been paying attention to one of the OCs of your other stories, sorry.
Of course, that does raise question of what did happen to DisQord?
Also, did he create Mount Celestia and Mount Luna over their graves, or is his real body sleeping on their graves? (and maybe over the territory that used to be Canterlot & Ponyville??