Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
The shadows of evening had filled the valley by the time the group reached the windblown bastions of a decrepit clock tower. Epcot mounted the balcony beneath the crooked clockface first. She hummed, trotted over towards a mold wall of mortar, and pointed at it.
"And here we go! Cozy, huh?"
"Uhm... Epcot?" Rainbow Dash muttered, ascending the balcony before the rest of the group. "It's a dead end."
"Yes..." Mulia Mild shuddered, climbing and helping Donut Joe up beside her. "Not to mention... erm... perfectly in view of everyone who lives here."
"Our mule friend is right!" Gustave said, flapping his wings as he hovered alongside the balcony. "This cover of darkness won't hide us forever!"
"Heeheehee!" Epcot smiled, fluffing her sparkly mane. "Mortals are so adorable sometimes." She winked. "Once again, your heads are stuck in the regular dimension! What we have here is a gap in comprehension! Observe..." She proceeded to lean against the wall... only to slide through it.
"Gah!" Rainbow Dash did a double-take. "Epcot, come back!"
With distorted light, Epcot stuck her head out, smiling. "Oh, I'm still here! And you can be here too! Come on!" And she slipped back beyond the wall.
Rainbow Dash and the others exchanged nervous glances. At last, Rainbow Dash trotted forward, reaching a hoof towards the wall. Her limb slipped through the mortal, and—with a gasp—she stumbled straight forward.
She heard echoing hoofsteps. All around her, she saw what looked to be a distorted sphere of funhouse mirrors surrounding her at every angle. Every fifth shard of reflected light displayed what looked to be a completely different image altogether. Rainbow Dash saw movements, ponies, machinations, and several more things too incomprehensible to describe. And—at the very same time—she saw past it all, as if the outer surface of the clock tower was translucent. Stretching up towards the north were the skycrapers that belonged to Shindig and Sons. They glistened in the last rays of the sun peeking down into the valley within which the city of Philanthropy hovered.
Not long after Rainbow Dash had entered, Donut Joe, Gustave, and Mulia slipped in. They too stumbled, no less dumbfounded.
"Magical, huh?" Epcot chirped. "On account of Shindig's sim being so big, we've got this wonderful hiding spot!"
"You called it... a gap in comprehension?" Rainbow murmured.
"Yup yup yup!" Epcot's smiling teeth glinted. "It's like how most mortals only dream in black and white, or neglect to formulate words and text within their visions. There are some things the mind can't do... or simply refuses to do. It was a lot less problematic with the alicorns, of course. But... a dream of this size? Shindig couldn't dream it alone. She needed other minds to help her build it!"
Rainbow took a deep breath. "Frederick Flim. Felix Flam."
"Indeedy!" Epcot did a twirl, her skirts trailing as she gestured at the distortion bubbling around them. "But they can't see us heeeeere! Heeheehee!" She swiveled to a stop, winking. "Of course, if Applejack is really out there—dreaming along with the psionic currents—then she can't see us anymore either."
Rainbow Dash did a double-take. "You mean to say she could see us the whole time before?"
"Well, part of her did! She sent her... 'friends,' did she not?"
Rainbow Dash took a deep breath. "Yeah... that she did." Her jaw clenched. "As Celestia is my witness, I'm gonna go find her and save her."
THUDDD! Stu Leaves and his mech slid into the room, causing everyone to flinch. "Duaaaaah!" He wheezed, sliding out of his Red Rook suit and curling up on the floor. "Goddess, that was just too much of a climb! I almost thought I was gonna throw up!" He took one look at the distorted imagery all around him and visibly blanched. "Oh—urp—Celestia dang it..."
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What the actual fuck? Who gave this another downvote and why?!?!? This is probably the most Underrated story on this site. Seriously why the hell don't more people read and upvote this? It's hard to contain my frusteration everytime I see the number go up on the downvote count.
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No clipping! They're cheating.
Hax!
5706018 Simple. Either they see it as a typical shipfic and dismiss it outright, or they start reading it, notice the minimal shipping, and then look at the length and say "F@ck this!".
Reason 25 why Epcot is best pony: she knows all the glitches and how to exploit them.
5706018 Here, here... Lynch mob.
Well, someone changed their mind.
5706018 I'm not kidding, but it looks like someone is mad, and making extra accounts to sow vote due to a severe case of butthurt.
The Blue Jay officially has a bat cave.
5706170 On top of that, they don't have a clue who "Just Essay" is, so no benefit of the doubt.
5706353 I wonder if that's why he's taken up so many different names for these epic stories? Getting mostly honest opinions, with only those who stick around long enough figuring out that he's also SS&E?
You know, this story is just great. I can't stand the fact that somepony keeps downvoting it. I mean, even if you can't wait through all of the chapters because you are just too busy, it doesn't mean that you should click the dislike button since you don't have the time or patience to read it...
5707114 interesting thought, I always wonder why he has different accounts for different epics too.
5707552
In my games, I make different characters different names so I can partition their tasks. One will always be a main character that I will level and gear up, while others may be for storage, crafting, and/or gathering(This is what I did in WoW pre-Cataclysm). However, most mmos that have been coming out(ArcheAge; FFXIV) allows all of the above on one character, so if I did have another character, I'd use it as storage and selling items and I'd hope I didn't name them close enough to where others knew my main to bug me on there.
In essence, to hide. Those that knew(or put some suppositions together), no biggie: continue dealing with them as is on the different characters. For those that didn't care or didn't want to care, unfortunate loss for them and I have less of others that I'd have to keep track.
It's good for double-blind experiments in certain games. Most everyone has an extra character in a mmo where they go and play without the hububaloo of having to deal with individuals you don't want to deal with at that specific time or circumstance.
I believe Epcot will show the demigurge more glitches to where the Lemur can take some time off. In fact, I already know they have shown the Lemur several of them. I now feel terrible for not keeping my hands tied on a particular one. I wasn't thinking at the time of my learning and confirmation of Ibswftu to the members of the OK.
To put it bluntly, who cares why others downvote JE regarding length or a slow start; They're missing out.
5707552 I doubt this is a reason, but a possible explanation is that it spreads the notifications around. Someone like shortskirtsandexplosions must get a crap load of notifications every day from follows, favs, and comments on his dozens of stories.
5707114 I think this is the most likely reason.
Okay, I give, Epcot is best pony.
Careful, this is how you end up in, the backrooms.
I really hope they find a way to pull Epcot out of cider space and into reality, I hate the fact she might end up super lonely again. Oh! She can overwrite Stu or Joe's consciousness. Hey! Don't look at me like that we're all thinking it!