Dream Encounters · 2:45pm Dec 8th, 2013
“Great party, Pinkie Pie!”
Pinkie grinned and called back, “Thanks, Buttercup! And give the punch a try, if you haven’t yet!”
“Pinkie Pie, this cake is fanstastic!”
“Thank you! I’m so glad you like it, Bon Bon!”
“Hey Pinkie, you gotta see this game of Switcheroo we’ve got going. Rarity and Carrot Top are up next, it’s gonna be a hoot!”
“Oh, I don’t wanna miss that. I’ll be over there in a jiffy, Rainbow Dash!”
“Pinkie Pie, you murdered me.”
“That’s… huh, what?” Pinkie Pie turned to see Nightmare Moon looming large over her.
“You and your friends, Pinkie Pie. You used the Elements of Harmony and killed me.” She stepped forward.
Pinkie Pie stepped back, ears drooping, tail between her legs. “It wasn’t like that… We saved you. The Elements turned you back into Princess Luna, so you wouldn’t be a big meanie anymore, and then we all celebrated. Everypony was happy.”
Nightmare Moon shook her head and stepped forward again. “No, Pinkie Pie. The Elements of Harmony killed me, and then you all threw a party to celebrate my death.”
And then the ghost of Sombra shows up and really ruins the mood . . . I'd like to keep reading.
Seriously, though, you've got an interesting thing here, and I'd think it could be fleshed out into a real story. 'Killing' NMM may be kind of similar to resolving a behavior problem with psychotropic drugs or irreversible brain surgery; does that make it right?
Equestria is undoubtedly better off without NMM, but is Luna?
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Actually this almost became a scene in Black Angel. I had a whole long list of ponies that NMM could possibly encounter in their dreams (Trixie was another that I started on), which might have filled two or three chapters, but I pondered for a while and decided not to get bogged down with that. So, I cut it to basically Derpy, Dominus Tusk and Spell Nexus. It's implied that Nightmare is interacting with others, but those were the ones I decided were most useful to the story.
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.....aaand I'll be reading that. Hmm, Sandman crossover you say? Wouldn't happen to have Fiddler Green in it, would it it? Cause that would be super awesome.
That line where Nightmare first says "you killed me" made me laugh, though by the end of the scene I'm pretty sure it was meant to be serious