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Review by PaulAsaran
An Evil Lord learns of a forbidden spell that will destroy the world. Naturally, he intends to cast it.
No problem! Princesses Celestia and Luna will just send Twilight Sparkle to go stop him. That usually does the trick. There's only one catch:
There are only thirty seconds left to stop him before the spell is completed.
Inspired by Half Minute Hero
Well THAT wasn't a few days!
4247541 FiMFiction is on the ball today, it seems!
Bitch move Twilight.
Hilarious.
I bet it was trollestia casting the spell of "the entire world will explode in 30 seconds" just 'cause she was bored. Or maybe the blood moon two nights ago affected Luna's mood so it was HER all along!
I agree. Send the pink one.
I HATE THIS GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME
The pain
HEY! What made it possible for The Hero to save the world was that time was STOPPED (relatively speaking), in the safe zones. And the tension came in the final chapter when they COULD NO LONGER turn back time!
And then Pinkie wins. Or destroys the multiverse.
This should be interesting.
What I like about this? Is that the time limit is short enough, and the goal important enough, that Twilight isn't going to be able to level grind until she's a god-mode-sue like the monstrosity that is the Loops series.
hi hi
I like that the chapters are nice and short, and I don't have to worry about losing my entire day reading it. Also, it is hilarious.
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Cutie mark crusaders ancient scroll readers
What?! No! Don't send Pinkie! Pinkie uses hax.
This idea should totally be made into an actual episode.
~The lizardman isn't kidding
4250699 Pinkie isn't the only pink pony. Th8re's also C8dance.
~Vriska Serket
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Jesus, m8n, why 8re you t8lking like this?
4259983 I'm not. I'm not typing like that either.
~Vriska Serket
Plot Twist: Dark Lord doesn't actually want to destroy the world. He just knows that the Princesses will use time travel to try and stop him.
So what he really wants is for the Princesses to screw up the timeline enough that he can accomplish his TRUE nefarious purposes...whatever they are.
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Isn't it Cad8nce?
4261012 No, I wrote C8dance. Completely different. It's my typing quirk. I think this comment thread has gone on long enough, since TheSlorg gets a notific8tion for every one of these comments, assuming the site's working correctly.
~Vriska Serket
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Alright.
looking forward to more
Candace at crystal empire and it far away so only pinkie go because she near the everfree forest and not to mention that she is like very fast like the game half minute hero do.
"Boy am I glad that's over with!" Is that a reference to Eakin's Time Loop trilogy, specifically the first story Hard Reset? It's what Spike says at the beginning of each time loop in that story so I kinda figured....
4264341 Surprisingly, I haven't read Hard Reset, though it's on my Read Later list, and I'm aware of the basic plot.
As such, I'm hoping what I'm doing here is different enough to that story that things don't get awkward. Especially since this story is based more around a video game, and less on the Groundhog Day concept.
4247760 I hate you. Please stop pretending that Celestia is evil. Also, DO YOU FUCKING KNOW WHAT A LUNAR ECLIPSE IS?!
4264341 No, you're thinking of "That didn't work."
I wonder how long it will take to finish a story that lasts 30 seconds
4264879 Calm down! You dont have to take it so personally. Im sorry if I offended you, I didn't mean to
4265201 Huh, I was sure.... Well, I stepped on that one.
4264548 First off, as ClutchedbyanAngel pointed out, I was actually wrong about what Spike said, so there's that. But the two stories are very different. While Eakin's is more serious, your's is blatantly being played for laughs. The basic concept is the same but even the mechanisms of the time loop are different. Both a very different, very good stories. Finally, which video game is this story (presumably loosely) based on?
>> Bluedot The game is called " Half-Minute Hero "
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In the game time stops when you're in town or in cut scenes, and you level up faster than normal. Twilight doesn't have that advantage here.
4268068 Oh, thank you. In retrospect I could have figured that out. It's odd how it never occurs to me to just Google a reference I don't get.
This is an example of the fencepost error. It's actually the fourth time in one and a half minutes, since you don't start counting until the world ends the first time.
4271672 Good try, but chapter 3 had a timeout and lasted longer than thirty seconds. I was well aware of the timeframe when I wrote it.
And she died....... Greatest story EVER!
And she died again.......... Best epilogue EVER!!!
And purple horse died once more......... The story that just keeps on giving!!!
I guess I was wrong. The pink one is Pinkie Pie, not C8dance.
~Vriska Serket
Damn it, Pinkie!
need more plz
~The Final Day~
30 seconds remain
lol this story is like hard reset xD
i also played the game half minute hero it's so annoying
Really enjoying these; the short format makes them easy to read on the fly. Now curious to to know was 'the pink one' actually did!
I notice your Dark Lord is 'shaking his tiny fists' -- was that deliberate?