It really isn't Twilight's fault. She certainly didn't intend those exact results and given everything else which was happening at the time, there was no chance to fix it! Besides, it was just reasonable to expect that Ponyville's natural tendencies would solve things on their own. Probably without even noticing, and most likely with a squish.
But that clearly didn't happen. Because when it comes to that particular experiment's aftermath, the worst-case scenario just came through.
Fluttershy knows about the frog.
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Rated C for vitamins Crackfic.
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Added to The Triptych Continuum Rebooted Group the "Noncannon Folder"
It's just an orange. Or two. Three, tops. And perhaps some persimmons. One or two turnips, because they just cry out for improvements. But no apples, for obvious reasons. Cherries, maybe. Potatoes, most certainly, because they're such a pain to dig up and it would be so much easier if they dug themselves. Then there's the whole berry family. The fruits, not the ponies. Princess, why are you holding your breath?
(You know, it says something about Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns that the bureaucracy has a full and complete series of detailed forms just for this occasion. I'm not sure what it says, but it's something like "Doctor Frankenstein could be dropped into the middle of the school and never noticed.")
A scene in Gilmore Girls
"That would have required a close inspection of its genitals. I denied myself that pleasure."
Wow Fluttershy was channeling Dr. Ian Malcolm in this story. This is why Equestria needs a tighter leash on their powerful mages especially if they are occasionally scattered brained.
Bold of her to assume there were any bones involved there.
Hmm. I do have to wonder what she meant by that.
"... Sorry, who teaches baby birds how to fly in this town?"
"Only when their parents are busy or... unavailable."
"How was your last Tuesday tea?"
"Things Draconequui Are Not Meant To Do are a very different list."
"You've gotten very good at pronouncing capital letters, by the way."
For a long time, this was Twilight's greatest ambition and the reason for much of her research.
If it involves a rear orifice, assume the cloaca can take care of it.
I love that little flash of academic territoriality. It's okay, Twilight, you're publishing in different journals.
Ah. I was wondering how the fruit bats might factor into this.
Huh. Is that what eventually led to the topic of bloodberries?
Ooh, lovely bookends regarding seemingly Sisyphean labor.
Oof. And that ending. At least birds don't lay nearly as many eggs at once. Lovely bit of silliness. Thank you for a hilarious reminder that all actions have consequences.
I can only hope that there are no Buddha’s Hand frogs in the colony. That’s a level of horror nopony needs.
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I thought about it, but I didn't come up with an instant ponyism for 'Buddha'.
I just live how you manage to juice out stories out of the most little details of an episode.
This was a good one.
I kind of want to see both in action: the griffin chef arguing with the produce vendors about prices because Cirtrus frog legs became the new hot fad item on his menu.
i take it that twilight paying by being turned into a fruit pony was low hanging fruit?
She changed one orange I'm kind in the same mindset as Twilight it should've died. Foregoing that I'd expect more of the same type not sure how we got all these varieties not counting lemons, limes ECT.. Maybe Twilight should've tried for a navel orange those things only reproduce though cuttings or splicing the tree
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see this is why you bring a shotgun, because nobody would have questioned a bunch of pulped fruit and viscera
"Discord, can I ask you for a favor? It involves genocide of a species I accidentally created."
"No can do, Twilight. One, Fluttershy would never forgive me. Two, the chaos you've caused by making them absolutely DELICIOUS."
"Gggh..."
"And I mean that literally. This chaos tastes like chocolate banana smoothies and its wonderful."
"...And now I'm wondering how other forms of chaos taste."
"Classes on being a chaos acolyte are at five o'clock on the weekends."
This was a fun bit of disturbingly plausible madness. Thanks
wow, that was great!
The way I'm picturing the frogs, they'd look least 'out-of-place' in the Crystal Empire. Less chance of them spreading that way, as well.
ah, the joyous fetch quest that would be, to gather up the birds & frogs.
This was bordering on Lovecraftian in it's excellence. Very well done.
At least it wasn't as bad as the genesis of the vizzerdrix.
Zester and Juicer by his side
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After all this it boils down to there being a chance for ponys to play predator with fruit based creatures.
.... well, now I'm curious as to what they taste like.
Reads fic about citrus frogs and fruit bats. Realizes just how to explain how fruit bats came into existence in canon. Are we sure this should be a crackfic?
Where was the porn tag!?!? This contained Lemons AND Limes and I was blindsided by the sheer citrusy adult content!
Love you. I need another!!
Hilariously over the top. Very enjoyable and clever. Thanks Estee!
Well Equestria did kind of take care of the problem, the fruit bats took up the roll of predators for the citrus frogs, but it didn't do the moutians of paper work.
Thinking about it this probably explains some of the weirder Equestrian creatures, crazy unicorns combining animals and the crewtion getting loss. Proably where Bugbears and Flyders come from, though what ever unicorn combined biting flies with spiders was just evil!
I'm guessing that this is why she panics so much about what Celestia will do if she really messes up.
Celestia might have taken a different stance had Twilight crossed a frog with chocolate cake.
First:
Second: My cynical side has to point out that meddling with nature is pretty much what ponies do! Ignoring the manipulation of Sun and Moon and the twisting of plant cycles, they warp the weather constantly, and the rest of the world has to suffer the repercussions for ponies meddling with a highly sensitive, horrifical complex interlocking system with little to no knowledge of meteorology or actual weather science, and even less concern for the fact that Equestria is a giant hole in the planetary weather system.
Third:
Snips and Snails would be very disappointed if "Princess" Twilight had been kissing frogs without them
*Jurassic Park theme intensifies*
Hmmm. How often might Princess Celestia or Luna have seen the need to fill out those forms themselves?
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Gibbs would.
Then Doctor Duck and the vampony would figure out who did it....
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Well, seeing as how Equestria IS A MAGICAL FAIRYTALE LAND WHERE OUR SCIENCE CAN GO F ITSELF IN THE PLOT.... messing with nature is pretty much meaningless, because the nature is magical as well.
No one complains about Thanos opening portals all over the place, even though in OUR world, doing such things would release cataclysmic blasts of radiation. No one complains because they have no concept of how a portal could even hypothetically work in our world. It's basically still magic. They just CALL it sci-fi to avoid having to call it magic. Which is also confusing since there's actual magic in the Marvel world too... and let's not get started on the Infinity Gems god-mode powers.
So just let the ponies do their thing. It's worked for over a thousand years. A far better record than humanity's pitiful attempts at weather control. The damn satellite didn't even work for 5 years...
11402987 If messing with nature is so meaningless, than why does Celestia feel the need to punish Twilight for it, hmmm?
And since both Triptych!Cannon and cartoon!cannon have both made it clear that the rest of the world uses real weather, than the ponies sticking their hooves in damn well needs to be "magic" because otherwise they would have murdered the rest of the planet already ... which just goes back to my (as I stated, cynical) point that screwing with nature is what ponies do.
This is really good.
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Sense? What fun is there in making sense?
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Because Celestia is a merciless tyrant who loves to torment the pitiful mortals!
I can relate.
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"Life... finds a way."
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You should write
an autobiographya compendium of your otherworldly and meritorious exploits in the Alondroverse.please tell me their a part two involving the birds and other twilight messes!
also would discords animal making more responsible than twilight?
That was quite the juicy read! Thanks
Now imagine for a moment everyone, what would happen if it had been Oranges AND Apple frogs? Not only would Twilight have to deal with a pissed off Fluttershy, but a VERY pissed off Applejack
Haven't read yet, but unicorn magic being able to distort biology like this, I wonder what it means about the differences between unicorn magic vs. Discord's magic?
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Meh, she already has a dog trained for herding, so it might work out pretty well for her in the end? Don't know enough about the Triptych-verse to know how Fluttershy would feel about that, or if the Apple's would need to acquire more lands for the frog-farming ponds, but it seems plausible to me.
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good point...And for Twilight's sanity thank goodness they existed prior to this conundrum or she'd be filling out forms for moons, maybe even ON the moon.
11403341 I did that once already. My publisher Beelz. E. Bub insisted on calling it "The Necronomicon".
Don't mess with animals Says the pony that let her friends talk her into using magic on the fruit bats. And also teach pinkie to stop busting down doors.
I wonder if Twilight considers just burning down Equestria at the point the second stack drops to be a viable solution.
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Pretty sure Grogar came up with that last one.
Angry Fluttershy, a fate worse than death.
That was a good story.