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.
"I was shattered... broken... cast apart into dozens of little inert pieces... like the planets and stardust of long ago.
"All things considered, I should have perished right then and there! I mean... whew! Talk about an adventure! However, for the first time in as long as my stagnant mind could contemplate—you guessed it—something unpredictable happen. That alone wasn't enough to lift me out of my prison. No... I have a spark to thank for that.
"Your spark, Rainbow. Something stronger... warmer... and more deliciously daring than anything I had ever encountered in eons. And there it had arrived... strolled in like an alpha predator... and singled me out. The result was an explosion... a sudden and irreversible embrace of all things crazy... and I saw... I saw...
"A universe I had never perceived before. A dark... twisted... positively sadistic one. A universe populated by many ponies... but only one mattered. A very daring pony... a very loyal pony... one powered by a spark that was very familiar to me, and suddenly very delicious to contemplate.
"And in this universe, the one thing that set it apart from every other dimension bordering it—was the fact that the me of that dimension had wrecked the life of the only pony that mattered... that I had taken all that was important to her and... destroyed it... shattered it to ashes like you had so spontaneously shattered me. And this one act—spontaneous and all-encompassing—set the pony on an endless path... a straight line into the scrumptious unknown... to embark upon a quest that she didn't even know about... and would come to both love and loathe in the absence of her closest friends...
"What could drive a pony to go to such crazy lengths? Suicide, at least, would be swift. A wet kiss upon the brink of her inevitable oblivion. But, no, her love—masochistic as it may have been—was so grand... so great... that she was willing to give away a sane death for an insane life. What was the impetus for this? The inspiration? It couldn't have been Harmony. After all, she abandoned her home, her kingdom, her everything for this sojourn... for this blind leap into emptiness.
"Was it inspiration that drove her? Or some unseen intuition? Nay... I'd say it was the same thing that empowered you when you collided with me... some burning spark... a loyalty that transcends all loyalty. It even makes me gag just thinking about it. And yet—I couldn't dwell on anything else, for this spark had come to infect me... to animate me... to undo the prison that had constrained my handsome limbs for so many millennia and miscarriages.
"Indeed, I was freed! Constrained by stone limitations, most certainly, but all of that could easily have been undone. After all, I possessed the power to recollect myself. If I wanted to, I could have gathered up all the shards in a fortnight. Heck, in another dimension, I may very well be running this modern day shindig called 'Equestria.'
"But all of that would have been... too predictable. Too boring. Too easy. At best, if I repeated things here like my other self had in the neighboring dimension, I might have had a chance of repeating the delicious tragedy that ended me and began... her. But you never make the same work of art twice. No, I had to evolve beyond my alternate self... and see if you could evolve beyond yours."
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Wait, I was right the first time. That was an east-horse reference.
...This is getting pretty deep.
So in other words, you didn't want to start that one other fanfic? Neat.
... Austraeoh?
Hmmm, interesting exposition there, Discord.
I never expected an actual canon reason for Discord calling her "Sparky" besides just breaking the fourth wall.
But this works. It actually explains a hell of a lot. I'm not sure how to feel about this story actually making sense.
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Hello...my name is Nightmare Paradox.
and I will reset this universe as many times as I need until I find one that can become golden again.
I will snuff out the lives of countless creatures all for my own selfish desire.
All so I can watch Discord die over and over and over again...
I am Nightmare Paradox... but you might know me better as Amacita Zorya Spes Equestria... or Twilight Sparkle.
...or was that a reference to BP?
Really the first thing that jumped to my mind was the end of Dark World from POV.
HE SAID IT
yes i know that's reaching that's the joke
Sir, you spelled that wrong.
Wait...
So...
Discord used... Austraeoh...
to justify... helping Rainbow...
instead of disintegrating the other Elements?
...
Am I the only one confused as fuck about this?
"Too easy" he says.
Hooboy
Well, Discord's laying out the connections for us after speculation about the connection between Skirts fics. Nice to see that our speculating had merit.
So, to evolve beyond his alternate self - his evil self - he's been helping Rainbow and been generally 'good'. However, what has Rainbow evolved into - or has she reached that point yet? He did say 'if you could' which makes it sound like she hasn't.
On a more depressing note, I wonder if Discord's telling Rainbow all of this and using his powers because this is the end for her. After all, the 'villain' usually only monologues at the start of the fight or the end when he believes he's won. Could all of this be just an illusion, a way for him to give Rainbow some peace of mind before she dies?
Of course it's not, we were promised cuddles! JE would never end it like this. Right?
I love the explanation for the fourth wall breaking, adds a whole nother dimension to the story. Swear to god I did not intend that pun and if I wasnt on a phone I would just rewrite it.
Well, that was one hell of an exposition.
Are you hungry? That's a lot of "delicious"
Oh and that's one hell of a connection.
When the plot blows your mind like a big Pinkie Pie
That's amore.
So the Spark the Ledomaritans believed in was another Rainbow Dash all this time.
So Discord confirmed for Noble Jurist?
Alright, I'm impressed. I mean, this story was awesome to begin with but I'm pretty sure we just doubled it.
Only you, Colon old boy. Only you would write a story where a main character's motivation was that you were writing a different story at the same time and it was so damn good it impressed them from beyond the fourth wall.
To be fair, East Horse is pretty damn good. That's why I refer to you as Colon rather than one of your less crass titles. But still. What the hell? Why am I even surprised at how monumentally bizarre Appledashery gets anymore? Damn it Colon, you have no right to be this good at walking the line between absolute nonsense and a functional narrative!
I know that this is supposed to be an Austraeoh reference, but I cannot help but think of the Star Trek, the Next Generation episode 'All Good Things', which actually has a similar premise. Q tests Picard to see if humanity is able to expand beyond themselves, and as Q says
I'm not your buddy, guy.
Also, goddammit.
Wait. You mean all those pointless Austraeoh references weren't pointless?
So, am I the only one thats a little confused. I mean i get the jist of things, but I feel like im missing something.
~ADG
6580904 Discord is referring to The End of Ponies, Background Pony, and Austraeoh, in that order.
6580985 Oooooooh, that makes sense, especially if you consider the fact that I haven't read any of those. But I will...eventually.
I've been purposely avoiding this story for over a month so I could come back later and be able to binge read a bunch of chapters. Every now and then though, I'll come here to take a peek at some of comments, and right now I wish I hadn't because it looks like there's some really good stuff going on.
Yet, I promised myself I wouldn't start reading again till the next arc starts.
Dang it.
EDIT: Man, this is some good stuff. Who would've thought Austraeoh and Appledashery was actually somewhat connected!?
To think that less than 500 viewers got as far as this insanity. I mean, this is next level shit. And it's totally allowed with a character like Discord.
this is literally epic. Every time he called her sparky... I wondered. And here it is all laid bare.
...
Confirming they're different timelines in the same setting?
Careful with that wall, Skirts
It's really incredibly how much this was hiding in plain sight. Of course the stories were similar, and they kept referencing each other, but this level of connection?
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Oh my god, I never connected those
This has been great
And now the stories are officially linked. Skirts really is the Stephen King of pony words.
There are other worlds than these, Rainbow Dash.
After reading Austraeoh, this chapter makes a lot more sense.