Crossover with Gatchaman II. As Gel Sadra is dying, her mother appears to her and tells her that part of Sosai X has escaped to another world, and she agrees to seek her redemption by going to that world to help that world's champions defeat the creature who destroyed her life and made her a monster.
Meanwhile, Discord is monitoring Equestria for a dimensional incursion...
(Just to be absolutely clear, this is not Displaced. The human crossover character is herself, not someone who was cosplaying as her and got turned into her.)
Chapters (3)
You've piqued my curiosity, but I have to know before jumping in: how much prior knowledge of Gatchaman II (or Gatchaman in general) would be necessary to enjoy this story?
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None whatsoever, Gel Sadra and Discord will explain everything that you'd need to know going forward.
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Ooh, shiny. All righty then! Thanks for the info!
I liked Crowds...
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You have no idea the depth of my pettiness about this show. I continue to despise Popeye and the Howdy Doody Show because 40 years ago, my local TV station took Battle of the Planets off the air on two different occasions to show those instead, and I've only warmed up to Voltron (which they did the same thing with) since the new series came out. I can absolutely hate a show I've never seen for the extremely petty reason that it clogs the tags for the show I prefer and makes it harder to find fanfic. :-)
Oh hey, I'm actually vaguely familiar with Gatchaman... though mostly through one of those terrible dubs.
... On a completely unrelated note, I just got a very interesting idea for Arlinn Kord in Equestria.
Lovely inclusion, just in case it wasn't clear this bit is from Rarity's point of view.
I second this motion. Also the converse. (You know, without having to sink a cruise ship beforehand.)
"Replaces Season 8" would've garnered my interest if you hadn't already had it. I like the Student Six, but the School itself was... let's be nice and say "misguided."
Glad to know we're not the only ones having trouble there.
She and Pinkie very nearly got back into an argument that had raged off and on since the Friendship Festival at that.
Spike, there is a time and a place for genre savviness, and it is not during a woman choking out her horrifically traumatic life story through her tears.
That is the literal opposite of reassuring.
I have several questions.
I have further questions. I know that's canon, but I still have them.
And those are quite the stakes to establish. Definitely looking forward to seeing where you go with this one.
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It's definitely a completely different series with some legacy names and beats, but I suspect that's mostly the "Do whatever to build up hype for the movie" origins.
Just the fact this is *not* a Displaced story has put this in my radar, I'll be checking it out when time permits.
Hey, this is great! I’m excited to see what happens next.
I am curious to know where Discord was during the events of the movie. It’s a question that I’m sure all of us Discord fans have had in terms of an “in universe” reason rather than the production perspective of “he can snap away the problem.” It’s especially curious since they did include his silhouette in the end credits enjoying the party after the entire crisis happened. Given his relationship to Fluttershy and how he reacts when she is in danger, willing to dive head first into danger to save her when the chips are down, it is odd for him to only be present for the peace time party.
Will this question be answered later in the story?
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I'm curious as well. I always figured Discord was trying to avoid the concentrated harmony of the Friendship Festival and was on some kind of extended tour of other dimensions, and was thus incommunicado for the entire movie. But in this story he was planning on attending the festival. Definitely begs the question of what the heck happened.
Yes. I have a headcanon for this. Two, actually, but I haven't yet decided which to use.
Very excited to see your take on Cozy Glow.
Nice story!
Why couldn't Discord snap Gel Sadra back to health?
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I should have covered this.
In my universe, Discord cannot heal, per se. Healing, after all, is restoring a body to harmony. What he can do is replace a damaged organ with the undamaged version of the organ, but the reason he can do this is that magic makes a "record" of every moment of a being's existence, so he's basically tapping into magic as version control.
Gel Sadra came to Equestria injured, and her own universe is too low-magic to be making such a record. So it's like, what if you check in a new version of your code, but for the first time, and it's full of bugs. You can't revert to a known working copy, because you never checked it in when it was working.
Discord has no access to a "working" copy of Gel Sadra's body. This is a large part of why he was panicking; he's used to being able to just fix whatever with a snap, but here is a potentially very interesting creature who may well have information he needs, and she's about to die and he can't fix it.
Thanks for reminding me about this, BTW; I'll make sure I address it in text next chapter.
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Oh, I see, that makes sense. Happy to ask something helpful.