• Published 23rd Apr 2023
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They're The Same - D-20



Ember races throughout Ponyville in search of help, but nopony wants to listen!

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Trouble Afoot.

"Apples! I'm in dire need to see the princess of friendship! " Ember exploded out of the sky on beautiful blue wings, landing right beside Applejack grazing in the open field.

"Moo!?" Applejack lifted her head from the tall graze in a dreamy daze unsure of what the dragon princess was going on about.

"Is that all you can say!? This is an emergency not a time for games!" Ember snorted a stream of flames from her nostrils annoyed.

Applejack swished her tail lackadaisical in manner."Moo?" She spoke without a care in the world, turning her spotted rotund body and walking off into the distance to lie down.

"Hard working indeed I see! I'll make sure to tell the princess about this!" Ember darted off back into the sky hastily to find help.

Luckily she spotted Rainbow Dash in a tree, she hovered over a nest of hatchlings chewing up a mouthful of fresh worms. Without a moment to spare, Ember perched on the same branch.

"Rainbow, I need you to accompany me to the princess!" Ember struggled to speak as she tried to catch her breath.

Rainbow looked at her curiously with a melodic tweet, before turning away from her to vomit up a mixture of dead worms into her children's mouths.

"This isn't time to feed your young, I need help!" Ember watched the pegasus ignore her completely and lay inside the nest to keep her babies warm as they ate.

Ember couldn't believe how selfish these ponies had become. Had they forsaken the teachings of friendship and turned away from the princess?

Was this town of equines under attack from another vile force of evil?

Luckily for her sake, Fluttershy was swimming in the pond right across from this cursed tree. Her yellow feathers glistened with cooling water, as she preened her coat with her bright orange bill.

"Fluttershy, will you help me!? All Rainbow is doing is whistling!" Ember screamed from atop the branches as the blue pegasus continued to chirp annoyingly in her ear.

"Quack!" Fluttershy honked outward in a tone that wasn't polite or reserved at all.

"Quack!? Are you making fun of me!?" Ember gasped in shock at such a vulgar response to her pleas.

"Pssst!" Fluttershy shook out her coat wildly, shaking water all around before sneezing loudly.

"I used to think you had the most class, now I know the truth!" Ember felt her eyes sting with tears as she flew off into the sky above, heartbroken from such vulgarity.

Flying into the park, she spotted Pinkie Pie sitting atop the trash can. No doubt being her odd and colorful self. Ember landed a few feet away to compose herself, wiping away tears and taking a deep breath.

"Pink one, will you aid me or shall you be as rude as your friends?" Ember cautiously spoke to Pinkie who sat there in silence.

"Well, nothing to say?" She watched ants begin to crawl over Pinkie as she stood there in continued silence.

"I see, it's me isn't it!" Ember screamed at Pinkie who decided to rudely fall over onto the ground and get carried away by hundreds of ants.

"Why won't nopony answer me!?" Ember screamed as she exhaled a stream of flames over the trash bin and shot into the sky.

A tiny filly walking with her mother down the park trails looked upward curiously. "Mommy, that big lizard was talking to cotton candy!" She watched the gecko fly away in awe.

"Don't mind her, she's….odd." The mother sighed, shaking her head confused.

With a mighty thud, the dragoness landed in the middle of town in a clear panic. Had these ponies been cursed by evil magic or simply lost their minds? Eyes darting across to a nearby bakery just in time to see a pony eating Derpy, the mare's teeth digging into her bran-covered side sickeningly.

"Oh my Dragon Lord, you've become cannibals! " Ember screamed at the mare who slowly swallowed her breakfast muffin confused.

Ember stumbled backward as even the children impaled sticks into the backsides of Sweetie Belle and Rarity, lifting them effortlessly over a bonfire giggling like creatures gone mad.

"I think I'm going to be sick!" Ember lifted both claws to her head and let out a piercing scream of terror.

Ponyville came to a halt around the now crying dragoness in the middle of town. Whispers wafted on the winds eerily as Starlight Glimmer rushed over towards the royal in distress.

"Ember, are you ok?" Starlight asked in her usual sarcastic tone, the dragoness still not completely trusting her after her redemption.

"I need the princess, not you Starlight!" Ember hissed and pushed her away frightened.

"Ember, it is me…Twilight? " Starlight tilted her head confused with a scrunched muzzle.

"No, that's Twilight!" She pointed a claw towards the coffee shop, as the princess and her arch-enemy Trixie shared a drink giggling.

Which honestly did vex her.

All clues pointed to a evil unicorn curse.


"And then she went into an all-out attack on Twilight, saying she had placed some curse on the town!" Spike exploded into laughter as he rolled onto his side, Smolder giggling with both claws covering her snout.

It was a nice day to hang out in the Dragon Lands, especially on a vacation as the volcanic vents were in full swing this time of year. Ember perched above on a rocky hill overheard the two teens laughing as she swooped closer, knowing that story wasn't correct at all.

Children had a real tendency to exaggerate, especially with such rumors.

"I'll have you two know, I didn't wander the countryside that confused!" Ember huffed as both claws landed on her hips.

"Hee, don't feel so bad Ember! It's funny and kind of cute." Smolder teased her elder playfully with her tongue stuck out.

"Uh-huh, what's the difference between these two images?" Spike chuckled and lifted two photos, one of Twilight and the other of Starlight.

"They're the same picture."

Comments ( 34 )

LOL that was hilarious, poor Ember! :facehoof:

At least Spike/Smolder had fun! :moustache::rainbowlaugh:

Yay! Glad you're back :)

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Thank you, glad you enjoyed.


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Nice to be back.


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:rainbowlaugh:


11565394
:trollestia:

*sees "Mane 5" tag used*
*reads story and seen no mentions at all of any G5 ponies*
:facehoof:
And once again, another newbie has wrongly used the G5 group character tag in the mistaken belief that it means "Main 6 without Twilight".

At this point, I'm beginning to seriously consider if I need to start harassing all the mods and admins, because it's just getting ridiculous how frequently I'm still seeing new writers continue to make this silly mistake. I mean, really, it shouldn't be that difficult to simply rename a tag to say "Main 5 (G5)" so that readers and writers could much more easily differentiate it from "Main 6", just like how "Main 7 (EqG)" is obviously intended for Equestria Girls.

I've been insisting on this simple clarification for weeks now! Am I just talking to empty air or what? :twilightangry2: :flutterrage:

11565700
Sorry for the mistake, I fixed it.

11565707
I certainly appreciate your willingness to very quickly correct that mistake. :ajsmug:

What's been frustrating me lately is that a lot of other people have also made that same simple mistake, and while I've made attempts to contact the mods to suggest a simple renaming of that tag to better clarify which characters it's supposed to be used for, I've so far received practically no responses at all.

Really, how much more do I have to make a big deal about this nonsense before someone finally does something about it? :ajsleepy:

11565713
I dunno I'm still newish. I thought main 5 meant the main 6 minus twilight, didn't know G5 was using the main thing too.

I did this joke briefly in one of my stories but nowhere this funny.

11565783
:twilightsmile:, I'll need to check it out tomorrow.

Ember stumbled backward as even the children impaled sticks into the backsides of Sweetie Belle and Rarity, lifting them effortlessly over a bonfire giggling like creatures gone mad.

you know, i'm not certain this was necessary to add

Ri2

So what did she need help with anyway?

Ember
Have you ever tried wearing glasses?

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:rainbowlaugh:


11565956
The Griffon Kingdom wished to visit the Dragon Lands, and discuss future plans and treaties. She wanted Twilight to be like an ambassador of goodwill, and help her keep stuff or herself from getting things in hot water. I actually have a future story planned, on the idea.


11565815
I wanted a little dark humor, plus to show , just how much Ember was jumping the gun. XD. But yeah, that's real dark Marshmallow torture.

11566130
God damn it I love that meme and the artist who did this did really well

11566139
I know right!? It just inspired me from a glimpse, lol.


11566164
:rainbowlaugh:, Now that's priceless!

Theory…. Ember needs glasses, her eyesight is terrible, but she doesn’t realize it…. Or maybe she’s scared the other dragons will make fun of her?

11566841
Contact lenses to the rescue then.

Ah yes, daily adventures in face-blindness. I know the pain XD

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11566958
Hee, these replies made my day , lol. Ty.

Wow, the cover picture and the last 2 paragraph is a reference to a meme!:pinkiegasp:

11568032
Yeah, the Meme inspired this story.

This is a good fanfic it has all my favourite characters in it. Twilight and all the other Twilights.

Children had a real tendency to exaggerate, especially with such rumors.

I don't know; that story sounded legit to me:rainbowlaugh:

This was great but I felt like that end bit was kind of pushed too hard into the story since it was just saying the meme.

11567069
Face-blindness, also known as prosopagnosia. It is usually (if not always) caused by either damage or underdevelopment of an area of the right hemisphere responsible for facial recognition. I have had this since birth as a result of a right hemisphere stroke which was a result of being born prematurely.

In Ember’s case, though, one would think that she would be able to learn to identify ponies by their cutie marks. It takes a bit of practice and it uses a different brain region than facial recognition so one would think that she could learn to do this. At the very least one would think that she would notice that cows, ducks, bran, marshmallows, and cotton candy do not have cutie marks. I sometimes wish that humans had cutie marks. It would make it easier to tell which one is which without having to rely on the sound of their voices.

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Ouch. I think mine is more a disconnect between the different observations I make when I see someone's face than an actual condition. My whole brain operates on a warped game of connect the dots where I see tons of additional dots and none of them are numbered :P

Someone needs glasses or something.

Ember Magoo!:rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh:

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