I left her bowl of chili just outside the bars where she would reach it if she changed her mind. Exiting the dungeons, I found Midnight waiting for me, sitting on a bench outside the prison, a book floating before her.
“You waited for me!” I told her with a grin, “Finally released from prison and there is a mare outside waiting for me!”
That got a snort from her which I counted as a win before she smiled and shook her head as she closed her book and put it away in her pack,
“I was looking for you,” she clarified, “Princess Celestia asked me to come find you, she wants to talk to you about something.”
Again?
“Oh?” I asked and moved to walk with her as she turned to leave the way, “What’s going on?”
She shrugged her wings, “I don’t know. She just asked if I could go find you, but that it wasn’t urgent.”
That made me relax a little. Not urgent meant no alarm bells ringing. Besides, If she really needed something from me urgently, she would have sent a pegasus to find me. But I just saw her literally an hour and a half ago.
Midnight got off the bench and put her saddle bags back on before joining in next to me to head towards the castle proper.
“So how are you doing?” I asked her as we entered the castle, the two guards by the doors pulling them open for us.
I gave them a quick nod on the way past as Midnight shifted her wings,
“...I’m doing okay. Just worried.”
“Oh?”
“My friends back home,” she clarified and sighed softly, “Tirek attacked here too, the changelings did the same. What if the Storm King attack home too and I’m not there to help them!”
I shook my head, “You don’t know that,” I told her, poking her side with my wing, “Seriously. Me being here has set off some Mothra sized butterflies and the changes just keep getting larger. There is no guarantee it’ll happen at all in your world.”
“Mothra?” she asked with a frown.
“...Giant moth monster from a story,” I explained, “It doesn't matter. You get what I’m meaning?”
Midnight sighed softly, “I suppose, but we just don’t know. It makes me worry.”
“Yeah, I get that,” I agreed before I smiled to her, “Besides, even if you’re not there, everypony else is still there. Still no ideas how to get home?”
She shook her head a bit, “No. But I can’t think about that right now with the potential of his attack there. If I do, I’m going to panic and I can’t do that right now.”
I just nodded and then looked at her, “Well, luckily we have about the ultimate distraction going on.”
Midnight frowned and looked at me worried, “Do you really think it will come to actual war?”
“I hope not,” I said and sighed, “Nopony wants a war from this. We just need to convince the Storm King to agree with that.”
Midnight nodded, “Hope that works.”
“Yeah, me too,” I said and then shifted my wings, “But we won’t know for a few days more still. Look, you need to just unwind your brain for a bit. Take an evening and just lay down by a fireplace with a book or something.”
She hesitated for a second so I continued,
“How about this? I’m thinking to have dinner with Luna, Sunset and Twilight tomorrow evening. How about you join us?”
Midnight frowned slightly in thought.
I smiled at her, “Come on. You said we were friends. And you need more. Did you know any of them in your world?”
She nodded, “...Sunset a little. A little Princess Luna. But… not really. We were friends, sure, but we never did become that close.”
“So you didn’t really know either of them that well?” I asked, “The Princess of Friendship need more than one friend, you know. Come on, I only know so many ponies. I mean, I could always introduce you to Swift Spear-”
“Hello!” Swift said from where he trotted along behind us, giving her a small wave before quickly going back to acting like the guard he was at her surprised look.
“-Or Thunder Cloud. I do know I want to introduce you to Silver Leaf at some point,” I continued like he didn’t say anything, “But the point is that you need to get to know more ponies and can’t just be shut away in the library doing research.”
Midnight hesitated and scraped her hoof against the floor for a second before she nodded, “...Okay, I’ll come. If I’m not intruding.”
“You’re not, I promise.”
DEM BOOKHORSE IS EXPANDING!!!
Fern! Introduce her to Fern!
mothra now that is a classic movie from the early 60es.
Has Midnight read any of Page's novels yet?
Does Page knows what he is doing?
I don't mean war but relationships with Luna and others
He was denying that he had some feelings for Sunset and she was doing the same and I'm not gonna be surprised if Sunset won't be the last
Wait, you just ended the conversation from the last chapter and changed the topic? Why? That's some tone shift right there. The last chapter didn't imply that the conversation was over.
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The last chapter didn't even indicate that the chapter was over at all. The chapter endings are getting worse and worse ever since he started complications...
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https://www.fimfiction.net/story/121836/the-bridge-a-godzilla-mlp-crossover
You fool, you said Mothra now I must point to the Godzilla crossover~
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My biggest concern is that our concerns are going to be ignored all together. Remember truesight? That was just given to Page and some people had problems, but then was never brought up again.
*Shining Armor and Cadance watching the events thru a crystal ball*
Shining Armor: ...and Midnight seems to have now bypassed all the Changelings candidates in your "waifu wars" via being invited to dinner by Page.
Princess Cadance: Hmm...interesting turn of events but not surprising. Chrysalis's tsundere tactics are a time-tested classic but it sacrifices speed for accuracy. She is almost guaranteed to be part of the harem but it'll take god-tier patience to get to that goal.
Shining Armor: ...Should I be happy or concerned that you're pouring all this effort into Page and not to me?
Princess Cadance: Don't worry Shining. Shipping Page with ponies is pure business. For you and I? *eyes the secret file with notes on Sunburst* I'm planning something EXTRA special.
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Quiet you, the food is not allowed to scheme!
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That soooo explains why all Sith light sabers are that color....
Luna, Sparks, and Sunset: *covered in food* "Hello, Lovercolt, ready for dinner?"
Midnight: *is propelled through three walls and Luna's SECRET SEX DUNGEON by a massive nosebleed*
BP: "Midnight, what happened?" *looks in only to get a nosebleed* "If I had thumbs they'd be way up."
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If it works that way ... than yes. But only if hes death keeps his actions untouched
Lovedhow Swift Spear just broke rank to say hi.
Defensiv war. Equestria holds its own territory while Luna and Page attack via dreamrealm.
Simpel deal:
Storm Kings head for restful sleep.
If its still attached to his neck? Bonus points for effort
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I mean this twilight better hope that time in her dimension froze or something because otherwise starlight would have succeeded and everything would be fucked
Perfect! Absolutely perfect!
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Personally I'm thinking that she's from a fucked-up timeline, and not the 'canon' Twilight. I mean, it's pretty sure that her original world is going to fuck right about now, and I suppose it's easier to swallow if we assume that it's not the "original" world that's being fucked up right now.
But what's done is done. As a wise man once said, "Ours is the only reality of consequence."
But of course, the original premise didn't allow for parallel timelines that didn't closely align with her own - in fact, it didn't allow for parallel timelines at all. These two concepts are not that easy to combine. In the same vein, there was never a guarantee (here) that she'd end up in her original timeline either - given what we know, it's much more likely that (here) she was jumping between parallel timelines more than anything else.
Swift exists!
Yesss... Hook her up with friendship, double snu-snu book pone for the future herd
*Beats Flash Sentry with a stick away until he has some proper characteristics to be considered something*
Canon logic, Equestrian loses hard.
Canon gone, carry on.