Silver Soul · 11:18am Oct 28th, 2012
For those of you who didn't know, my first pony fic was one that had Trixie has its main character, and the plot generally followed along Gintama's except replaced Equestria and ponies and humans instead of Japan and humans and aliens.
I recently found the work I hadn't deleted on a gdocs folder, and I figure I'd place it here.
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Silver Soul Outline
ELEMENTS OF DISCORD. These are DISHONESTY, DISLOYALTY, GREED, SADNESS, CRUELTY, MAGIC
Chapter 1
Pipsqueak's introduction
limited background reveal
foreigners
Celestia and Luna disappeared
Fed up with Town Watch sergeant, Pip quits
Dinky's introduction
Literally bump into each other
Chapter 2
Pipsqueak and Dinky reacquaint
Pipsqueak and Dinky at diner
Human Thugs
Trixie's appearance
Pip and Dinky catch Trixie
Chapter 3
Pipsqueak, Dinky, Trixie introductions
limited background
Dinky’s mom captured along with human women by human slave traders
plan revealed
Pipsqueak undercover (cross dressed as pretty-looking filly)
Plan goes south almost immediately
Trixie steps in
Dinky steps in
Dinky captured
Pipsqueak and Trixie crash into ship
On the ship
Trixie, Pipsqueak and the leader of the slave traders, a “Prince”
Dinky looks for her mom
Trixie, Pipsqueak, Dinky, Derpy meet
Confrontation
Trixie fights back
Ship is sunk
Prince is apprehended
Pipsqueak leaves with Trixie
Chapter 4
Pipsqueak's third week back in Ponyville
Pipsqueak and Trixie's run-in with Scootaloo
Pipsqueak and Scootaloo reacquaint
Scootaloo's contract is revealed
conclusion
Chapter 5
Spike hires Rin (a human) to help at the library web cafe
Trixie/Spike limited backstory
Trixie stops Rin from stealing important information using the library computers.
Chapter 6
Dazzle Blaze asks Trixie to be an editor for his fanfic
Trixie pushes the job onto Pipsqueak and Scootaloo by bribing them
Chapter 7
Pipsqueak reviews several of Dazzle Blaze's drafts
Each a parody of other fanfic/story errors
Dazzle Blaze is extremely jealous of Pip that he works with Trixie
Scootaloo reveals she's a fanfic writer (who's extremely popular)
pseudonym Keyboardhuman
writes same-sex shipping fics of in-story show and alternate version of “My Little Dashie”
Pipsqueak and Scootaloo fight over how to edit Dazzle's story and accidentally get him banned from the site
Chapter 8
Explosions reported all over Equestria
Stork crashes into library, needs package delivered
Trixie, Scootaloo, Pip deliver package to meat processing plant
package is actually a bomb
Trixie, Scootaloo, Pip are chased by security
Fluttershy saves them and they hide in a building
Fluttershy and Angel's introduction
Trixie revealed as Element of Magic
Equestrian Guard stage a raid
New characters introduced
Starshine (Pegasus; blue eyes; white body; pink/yellow/green/blue mane; 8 point gold star surrounded by 8 spots cutie mark)
Skyflier (Unicorn; purple eyes; peach body; red mane/white streak; kite cutie mark)
Everyone hides in a closet
Angel has a bomb; responsible for the bombings
Equestrian Guard pursue
conclusion
Chapter 9
Recently freed from jail, Trixie, Scootaloo, Pip come across electronics store, return to library
A hot new singing sensation has hit Equestria and it turns out to be Sweetie Belle
Sweetie Belle hides at library from a stalker,
Maury B. (bad guy, chapter 4), now reformed, is her manager and asks for help
Sweetie Belle is also secretly “Sarah Song” the main voice of a character on in-story show
Pip is protective to the point of creepy
Scootaloo decides to go with Pip to protect Sweetie Belle (from Pip as well)
Trixie, Pip and Scootaloo set up a trap at Sweetie's next appearance
Sweetie's stalker, Dazzle Blaze, is apprehended
Has a unicorn fetish and got his cutie mark by guessing horn measurements
Chapter 10
Twist crashes into Pip's apartment and hides there after a botched mission
Twist is missing her glasses
Mistakes Pip for Snails
Trixie and Scootaloo visit, walk in on Pip and Twist in awkward position
“What a Twist” running gag
Pip, Twist, Trixie and Scootaloo leave apartment to get Twist new glasses
Run into Equestrian Guard patrol (Snails)
Snails thinks Pip is trying to steal Twist, unaware that she's a thief
Snails is part of Equestrian Guard
Snails challenges Pip to duel
Starshine and Skyflier (from chapter 8) tag along to watch duel
Pip tricks Snails during duel
Pip wins, but accused of wanting to create a harem
Pip realizes how many girls he knows
Snails' defeat is reported at Equestrian Guard headquarters
Derpy is revealed as the General of the Equestrian Guard (to audience)
Side Chapter
The now unemployed town watch sergeant talks to Scootaloo
Was blamed for the events to the Prince's embarrassment (chapter 3)
recounts meeting with Trixie and wasting time together
Tries another job; fails
Trixie and SARGE get involved with recently released “Prince”
Oneshot
Scootaloo and Dinky hang out
Oneshot
Spike rehires his assistant Rin
Assistant’s former co-hackers want to do one last job (Matrix parody)
Rin - Trinity
Flashback: Spike forgiving assistant and getting her to promise not to steal
Trixie saves Rin
Oneshot
Scootaloo, Pip and Trixie win a vacation trip
remark how last time on an airship was chapter 3
Pinkie Pie appears but suffering from a doozy
Trixie/Pinkie Pie limited backstory
Ship crashes somewhere in desert on Earth
conclusion
Applejack arrives to save everyone
Silver Soul: “Brotherhood Revealed”
“Equestria has changed...”
Scootaloo finds a giant tortoise (names it Tank)
Fluttershy passes by the library and meets Tank the giant tortoise
A library patron is worried about daughter, Spike has Trixie, Pip and Scootaloo investigate
The daughter has been going to “meet-ups” for a new popular show
A drug called “clop” is popular with Ponies
Humans involved with one of the meet-ups
The daughter is found there
Scootaloo and Pip are taken
Trixie is attacked, found by Fluttershy (daughter saved too)
Human crime syndicate, the Brotherhood, revealed
Angry at “Prince” (chapter 2 main story) for getting arrested—group lost access to his money
Human government representative involved
Trixie and Fluttershy rescue Scootaloo and Pip
Equestrian Guard review the defeat of the Brotherhood
Confront human government representative
Equestrian Guard fight off rebel attack
human government representative exposed
Oneshot
Trixie takes Tank on a walk
Fluttershy gets a human friend
Trixie and Fluttershy compete to see whose pet is better
Chapter
Twilight approaches Fluttershy about plan to overthrow government
Silver Soul Outline 2
Chapter
Trixie, Pip and Scootaloo deal with the mess made by the new tenant of abandoned Sweet Apple Acres
New tenant is Applebloom
Equestrian Guard is wary of Twilight appearing at festival
Scootaloo reacquaints with Applebloom
Pip and Scootaloo marvel at Applebloom's robots
Impressed by large red robot, Mac
Scootaloo, Pip run into the unemployed sergeant at the festival
Twilight confronts Trixie during fireworks show
Explains how Big Mac died because of government during War
Applebloom uses robots to attack at festival
Pip tries to reason with Applebloom; Trixie confronts her
Fluttershy confronts Twilight
Chapter
Trixie is woken up by an argument between Spike and a crossdressing diamond dog
Pip is taken hostage to work at the crossdressing bar
Snails was also taken as a result of being a rowdy drunk the previous night
Pip and Snails start a competition
the crossdressing diamond dog's son is being made fun of by other kids at school
Chapter
Sweetie Belle has become more popular with both ponies and humans
Sweetie starts a rivalry with Sapphire Shores
Trixie, Pip and Scootaloo help Sweetie
Chapter
Equestrian Guard is under review by government and a representative is sent to observe Derpy
The rest of the Guard hopes to mitigate Derpy's antics
An appearance from Fluttershy, Trixie, Scootaloo, Pip and the SARGE complicate things
Chapter
Dinky wants to go shopping with Pip again
Derpy wants to test Pip's resolve
Snails wants payback for being tricked
Twist doesn't want Snails and Pip to fight over her—Pip doesn't want to fight
Fluttershy arrives with Angel and human friend to stop the fighting; complicates things
Chapter
Famous Bounty Hunter/Mercenary (Rainbow Dash) returns to Equestria
Scootaloo is attacked by an Everfree Forest creature, but saved by Dash
Dash wants to take Scootaloo with her on adventures, Scootaloo wants to stay
Dash and Scootaloo decide to settle by racing
Trixie pushes Scootaloo to go
Limited Scootaloo backstory
Pip tries to get Scootaloo back; Everfree Creature attacks
Trixie rushes to fight the creature
Dash loses her tail while protecting Scootaloo
Dash recounts meeting a certain human on in her travels; limited Brotherhood backstory
conclusion
Chapter
A basket is left outside of the library, inside is a white dragon with blue eyes
Everyone thinks that it's Spike's baby
Spike goes looking for the real parents
A pack of dragons comes rampaging in Ponyville
A white coated earth pony with a purple mane that isn't Rariry is wanted by these dragons
she is the baby dragon's mom
While helping with the search, Trixie and Spike are confronted by a group of dragons and a unicorn
Pip and Scootaloo investigate the company created by the dragons, running into the SARGE who explains what he heard
background of pony and deceased dragon husband
Trixie and other unicorn fight, Trixie easily outclasses in magic
Mother pony confronts dragon grandfather
argument of pure blood dragons/love
grandfather dragon misses son, lost wife
Trixie, Pip, Scootaloo, Trixie, Spike watch from afar
Spike has last moment with baby dragon
Chapter
Sweetie Belle is asked to help with the Equestrian Guard's image
Chapter
Applejack has come to visit her sister Applebloom leaving Pinkie Pie to cause party-related havoc all over Ponyville
Silver Soul Reunion
Fluttershy is attacked at night
Angel and human friend goes to the library for help
worst game of charades ever
Trixie visits the Cake twins
A special magic enhancer was taken
Scootaloo and Pip investigate the scene of the crime
Pip and Angel are attacked, saved by Trixie
Attacker (unicorn from chapter ) using magic enhancer
Scootaloo investigates a boat pointed out by Tank
Trixie injured in fight, saved by Pip; Twilight implicated
Twilight confronted by Scootaloo
Scootaloo cornered
Trixie awakes injured at the library
Trixie sneaks aboard boat
Trixie confronts
Twilight reveals alliance with the Brotherhood
Trixie and Fluttershy escape
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Silver Soul: Dark Side of The Moon (Woefully Incomplete)
The Sun is beautiful.
It shares its light to everyone. Never asking for anything in return.
It doesn't discriminate who receives its soft rays.
Even when rain or clouds obscure it or nighttime beckons it to leave, the Sun remains steadfast. There is no night that does not end. No rain that does not stop.
Its light warms our bodies and can brighten our hearts. It brings us joy and happiness.
As long as the Sun shines in our hearts, we will never lose our way.
The Sun is indeed beautiful.
But sadly, the brighter the Sun's glow, the more distinct the shadows become...
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The land of Equestria has changed.
A place where ponies have to resort to crime in order to survive.
“Hey...kid...”
“You have grown to be quite extraordinary, Trixie Lunamoon. I will commend at least that much. But even if you were the most powerful unicorns in Equestria, you stand no chance against the things that exist beyond what you know.
“What hopes did you have in defeating me when you couldn't even protect Equestria? Such a simple mind. If I hadn't done all of that...committed all of those sins...do you think you or your friends would even be here now? The humans were going to take everything. I did what I had to in order to save those that could be saved. What's left of Canterlot, of Equestria and all of the citizens...it's because of me that they're still here! It was my prerogative as your Princess to do what had to be done! If you were stronger, then none of this would have happened!
Would you really rather die a worthless death than to live on and keep fighting!?”
“NEITHER!”
“...what?”
“You heard me. Neither of those are choices to me. Those aren’t even on my radar!”
Tr....Tri....TRIXIE!!”
“Spouting off about things you know nothing about...”
“You've already given me so much.
You called me your mom. I could think of no greater gift than that.
“What can he do? He cannot fight. He cannot perform magic. How can he be any sort of hope in these dark times? What I see is a foal that knows too much about things that could fall to the enemy should he be captured. To me he's only a liability.”
“You're saying all that despite the fact that I'm here too? Unless that is, you're pretty much declaring what you have planned for me next.
And besides, considering everything you just said, what sort of value does Rarity have? You keep her trapped where no one but you can see her. You went so far as to cut her tendons so she could never escape, much less walk.
Since all of your subjects either think you're dead or are terrified of you, perhaps you just need her to be your friend?
“What nonsense. Why would I need a friend? What sort of friend is she that I can treat her as I've done?”
“Hey, I don't judge.”
Luna growled but largely ignored the comment.
“I have lived for more than a thousand years. If anything, she is but a reminder of the citizens I'm fighting for. The ponies that seek to be protected, but unable to do so by themselves.
But despite their fragility, even when all hope seems lost, those of Equestria can remain defiant.
That despite you humans' efforts, our sun remains with us in our spirits!
“That's sort of sick now that I hear it coming from you...”
“Hmph.”
“All of your mothers are proud of their son.” Sweetie said, leaning against another mare.
“Treason...? You dare defy your Princess!?
“We simply fell for an illusion. Using flashes of light and sleight-of-hoof.
“You showmare!”
“Hey, she's up!”
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“If you were to break that spell
“We have to fight.”
“To bring the Sun back to Canterlot!”
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“Foals...all of you...FOALS!
“Such courage...is this all because you're an Element?”
“Wh...WHAT? This light...?”
The city shook. The ground trembled as the sky was torn asunder.
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“Sister, I wish you could watch the sun right now...it's...so beautiful...”
“Your night is so dazzling, sister...”
“Princess, are you alright?”
“Princess, I'm sure that...everything will turn out for the better...”
The white pony tumbled to the ground.
“It's not your fault, Princess Luna...
“Oh, Tia...how can it be that you can look down on me yet give me comfort...? Was I so ungrateful...since I can appreciate you only now that you're gone...?
Why did I ever say I wanted to rule alone...all those years ago...there can be no punishment worse than never seeing you again...why was it you? Why couldn't you have been banished? At least then...I could have hope to meet you once more...”
She smiled. “The light...it's almost like you're embracing me, Tia...”
“Dear, princess...you hid yourself in the broken ruins of your castle plotting revenge yet wished nothing more than to bask in the sun.
“You humans are no better...your kind will fight and take until there is nothing left...you will
“Sister, please...forgive me...”
“Princess, your sister loves you.”
'What is this light?'
Her clear blue eyes, shining brightly under the sun. “Rarity...”
“Luna.” She said with a smile.
“You gave all of yourself for us. Not even stopping to ask if that was what we wanted.
“How beautiful, seeing you ponies overthrowing the shackles of royalty, stepping into the modern age. I'm quite proud of you.”
“KEVIN!” An orange-yellow blur shot by him. Landing on the rooftop, Scootaloo was gritting her teeth so tightly they ground against each other. “You twisted idiot! I'm gonna fix your attitude!”
“You're quite an interesting one, little pony. I expect great things of you.”
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“I thought I knew everything there was to know about ponies, but I met one that was so different.
These are exciting times we live in...
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A rainbow-maned pegasus sat somberly next to an unmarked tombstone.
“You did a held out pretty well against the Brotherhood.”
“If you say so.” Trixie said back.
“Scootaloo wants to save him.
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“Everything's turning out really well, although I've never been to Canterlot before.”
“This place is a dump. Why are they even staying here?”
“So many things are different now that the ponies here have no idea how to survive in the outside world. My sis stayed for them.
“I guess it isn't so bad a place after all.
TL;DNR
I didn't read the outline because I didn't want to spoil it for myself when the story came out, please please PLEASE put it up. I just love the entire idea of making Gintama with ponies and humans.
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It won't. Silver Soul, like the rest of my stories, is cancelled. I have a copy of the first chapter and I can PM it to you but I won't be writing anything up.
471004 Gah, derp. Forgot which author posted the blog when I typed up that comment. Anyway, at least now I have the idea of a Gintama/MLP story floating around in my head in case I like it enough to try writing it out.
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The reason this wasn't deleted was because it was a shared doc with someone who was supposed to be the beta reader for the story but she sort of had life get in the way...hmmm...there seems to be a theme going on, here...
Anyway, ENJOY!
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Chapter 1
Scrawny. Lanky. Small. Gangly.
Pipsqueak had been called all of these and more since he was a foal. Which was exactly the reason why ever since becoming a colt, he'd started going by the name “Pip” instead. That had been a bit easier to do since moving out of Ponyville a few years ago. Though despite his change in moniker, that didn't change the fact that he was slightly smaller than the average male at his age.
None of that mattered however, he thought. He'd make up for his lack in size with tenacity; with spirit.
“ROOKIE, YOU LITTLE BRAT!”
Unfortunately his eagerness to prove himself didn't endear him much to his superior.
While the younger brown and white pony began to struggle to keep standing still on his thin frame, fighting against the lactic burning that had been growing in his legs, the fifteen minutes of lecturing had apparently no effect on the larger, more muscled stallion pacing about before him.
“There used to be a time when ponies learned what it was like to take responsibility and do what was expected of them! When colts became stallions! Not because they wanted to...because they HAD to! But what do I find you doing? Trying to make excuses...of all the nerve...” the stallion muttered a few more things under his breath before continuing.
“I'd start callin' you a filly from now on if that didn't simply insult all the girls in the world that are tougher than you!”
It wasn't the first time the gritty-looking stallion, whose age began to gray what seemed to have once been an orange-hued mane, deigned himself a taskmaster that needed to scream and holler whatever it was that was bothering him that day. Be it something he read in the paper to a stubbed hoof. Today was a more pointed criticism of Pip's attempt to take down a serial burglar. Whether the result of breaking the sting or the subsequent chase ended in failure wasn't important, Pip thought. His intent was at least a good start, right?
There had certainly been a number of instances that Pipsqueak would be remiss to disregard the seriousness of his past mistakes. Losing the trail of a purse snatcher; accidentally breaking a shopkeeper's expensive vase; refusing to pitch an extra twenty bits to his superior so the stallion could have some “quality time” while the white-and-brown recruit had to wait awkwardly in front of a “massage parlor”.
That had Pipsqueak's first mission since enlisting.
It was a sting operation that required some undercover work, and it was up to the then-rookie Pipsqueak to be on the lookout for anyone suspicious while his superior gathered information. Well, actually now that he had time thinking about—while ignoring the cussing out currently in progress—that last one seemed a bit of a stretch...
But otherwise, there was never a time that Pip could be beaten in amount of effort to succeed. Since of course, the department of the Trottingham town watch included just him and his sergeant.
“And another thing! Where the hell is that medicine I asked you to get? It's a matter of national security that that medicine is delivered to my office by the end of today, do you understand me!?”
Pipsqueak sighed, wondering when it was ever “important to the defense of the country” to fetch the sergeant's hemorrhoid medicine. The teenaged pony let out another slow tempered exhale through his nostrils at the thought.
“Don't sigh like that, rookie!” the grizzly-looking earth pony dressed in mismatching armor admonished.
Pipsqueak's eye twitched at the name. It had already been a year since he joined the town watch, after becoming of age to serve, so there was no point to still call him a “rookie”, was there?
“Sorry sir...” Pipsqueak replied with half the enthusiasm of a foal wanting to do his chores before being able to go play with his friends.
“Tsk...” the sergeant bared his large incisors, worn and slightly crooked from time into a scowl. Glancing at his superior, Pipsqueak couldn't help but notice a garish-looking piece of parsley stuck in the gap of his teeth. “I don't like that attitude, rookie! Give me...agh...” before finishing his order, the pony rushed out of the room, leaving the only other member of the town watch to stand at attention. “S-stay there until I'm finished with this urgent...urg...business!”
“Yeah, yeah...” came a tired reply as the younger pony rolled his eyes. “He should really lay off the spicy food...” Pipsqueak felt like reciting his usually internalized mantra out loud would somehow break him out of this repetitive cycle.
Unwilling to look about the understaffed ('Why are there so many chairs in this room for anyway? There was only the two of us most of the time'), underfunded ('that calendar on the moldy wall over there is at least five years out of date'), under-appreciated ('nopony even realizes there's a town watch in this part of Trottingham') station around him, Pip's attention turned toward more idle thoughts.
While being to place of his birth, Pip never really considered it his “hometown”. No, that honor would have to go to another place in Equestria he had moved to when he was just a foal. Despite being smaller and a bit more rural, Ponyville was the place of his childhood. Where his friends were...until it became too dangerous to stay there a few years ago and he and his parents moved back to Trottingham. Just looking out the grimy windows of the town watch station would fail to show any signs of the fact that it was no less than a decade ago that a war ravaged all through Equestria.
A country of nearly unlimited space that was once a peaceful home to pegasi, unicorn and earth pony, Equestria was now a mess of vying areas that had been invaded by and dominated by foreigners.
Foreigners, who were so unlike the ponies that made use of the land, as well as both the magical and mundane wildlife and other creatures that had settled throughout the country.
With their technology, the foreigners made short work of the army and very quickly changed the landscape. Glass paneled skyscrapers of incredible heights; roads paved and grasslands and other woods developed, pushing back nature as though it were simply an irritant. What had once been the great cities of Manehattan, Stalliongrad, Trottingham, Fillydelphia and Canterlot were now just hubs within a great expanse of city. What could only now be called the megalopolis of Equestria.
But that wasn't the end. Not only had Equestria changed physically in practically every way, but the very spirit of Equestria had changed into something unrecognizable.
The disappearance of the Princesses Celestia and Luna was a shame that many ponies still to this day haven't fully accepted.
Initially terrifying was the behavior of the moon and sun, each setting and rising of its own accord without the control of the princesses or any unicorns. As though they each had a life of their own, much like the Everfree Forest. And even when unicorns had tried to take control of the celestial bodies, their magic, even when combined in great numbers, had no effect whatsoever on the pace or schedule of the day and night.
In an effort to reconcile such a traumatic event, ponies found it comforting to think of their princesses to have become the sun and moon respectfully. While their direct presence was and is sorely missed, there was a sort of false sense of security to attribute the astral bodies as their princesses. As for Pip like many ponies who had met Princess Luna or Celestia, found it a bit difficult to adapt in such a superficial way.
The scream-like creak of the wooden boards broke Pip out of his contemplations and signaled his dear sergeant's return.
“Anyways...back to where I left off...” Pip watched the stallion continue trotting up to him until they were not even an inch apart from touching snouts. “Your failure to solve these kidnappings is bringing a negative outlook onto my record, rookie.”
'Kidnappings? What happened to burglaries?' Pip clenched his jaw tight as he felt the other pony's breath uncomfortably close to his face. “Well how do you expect me to be able to solve a case like that if you never trained me in the first place?” the smaller pony snapped, causing the sergeant to falter backwards in surprise at the outburst.
A moment of quiet accompanied how unprepared the grayish-orange pony was for Pip's strong response before he resettled into a gruff demeanor. “Watch your lip, boy! That's the sort of things only rookies complain about!” He bobbed his head once like a toy balancing atop a slinky as he felt reassured in getting his groove back. “If you took some initiative, I wouldn't be on your case like this! Besides, what do you think I've been doing this past year, huh? Haven't I been taking you on missions? Showing you everything you need to know about keeping the peace?”
The parsley was brought to the center of Pipsqueak's attention once more.
“If I had half a mind I'd back-hoof you to show you your place! But you're lucky about the laws in place that prevent me from doing that! Since upholding the law is our primary function as town guard! What's more I-”
“Oh, is that so, Sarge!?” Pip exploded in an irrational rage. “Well if you had half a mind, you'd realize that those things you taught me about 'keeping the peace' was just looking out for anypony who saw you walk into brothels! Oh, I know exactly what those 'massage parlors' are`!”
The excitement from seeing the look of despair on the bigger pony's face was palpable. There was something today that was pushing Pip to finally let out what he had been bottling up for the past year and a half of being part of the town watch and admiring the-now trembling sergeant as an idol. Was it the frustration of his work being unappreciated? Was it the endless days of doing shopping runs? Was it that damn parsley that somehow still wasn't noticed? Right now, no single reason was sufficient.
“And another thing!” Pip felt empowered by his new-found confidence and even jabbed his hoof against the more muscled pony's copper breastplate. “Even when I did bring in lawbreakers you just let them go! The shoplifter from last week! That pickpocket two months ago! Even that crazy pony that dipped his tongue into jars of jelly and resealed them! I. CAN'T. TAKE. IT. ANYMORE.”
He said it. Pip finally said it and he did what he couldn't imagine doing in a while. He smiled. He flashed his own teeth toward the sergeant, who by now was too disturbed by the quiet rookie's sudden change in personality to say anything much less try to reassert any sort of authority.
By this point Pip had run out of things to say. Even if he could say more, there was nothing he wanted to say anymore. The brown and white pony backed off now and took a deep breath while smiling. Without any further hesitation, Pip reached to the band of cloth wrapped around his left leg and took it off, placing it into the stallion's hoof. That band of cloth that supposedly marked him as a member of the town guard. That band of cloth that, when Pip had ordered ponies to halt in their criminal acts, had to be explained since nopony believed him.
But that didn't matter. Not now. Pipsqueak turned toward the door of the station and walked out, not embarrassed in the least by the creaks and squeaks from the poorly maintained floorboards from every step he took toward freedom. Not once was he stopped from his walk to the other side of the room, opening the door and closing it behind him.
Looking around the City of Trottingham as a civilian once again, Pip marveled at how nopony not so much as noticed the hop in his step. Ignoring such strange behavior was the norm amongst the Trottinghamites that were too preoccupied with their own busy lives.
The raucous of cars, music and pedestrian traffic buffeted Pip who was so used to the nothing inside the Town watch station. The television advertisements on the electronic billboards high above and clamored for attention of everypony below them.
All of this cacophony of alien sights and sounds was made possible only by the technology brought by those foreigners known as Humans.
Joining the unforgiving sea of ponies and humans to head home, Pip was knocked to the ground from behind. 'I'm being mugged!?' the pony grimaced at the thought. Twisting his body to meet his attack head on, the ex-town watch found himself being confronted by a gray coated unicorn filly.
A filly with teary eyes and a panicked look in her face.
“Please!” The girl pleaded. “You have to help me!” Close to hyperventilation, the unicorn's breaths were ragged and quick and the quick movement of her wide eyes accelerated while waiting for Pip to respond. “It's an emergency! You've gotta help!”
Fortunately, on one of his many “training missions” early on in his town watch career, Pip had already been a victim of such a tactic. While it had involved a number a foals that time asking for him to play with them, Pip was sure that this was also a scheme meant to relieve him of his wallet. Using a pretty young unicorn like this one was probably the more effective strategy at this point, since he simply wasn't in the mood to deal with children at the moment. Her blonde mane and tail, the large pink bow that accentuated the contrast with her gray coat, the fragile signals of her trembling frame that just asked to be protected from harm.
“H-hey! Aren't you going to help?” But Pip had to commend the filly for her acting. He was quite moved and persuaded by her panic. Her teary pitiable eyes, after looking into his skeptical and distracted gaze for a moment, suddenly arched down from the force of her furrowed eyebrows. “HEY, BUDDY! I SAID I NEED HELP HERE!” Without warning the filly grasped his shoulders with her front hooves and shook him about with more force than could be expected from such a small pony. “Did you hit your head when you fell? Come on, work with me here!”
'Wait a minute! That demanding tone, the brash attitude toward others...that starry cutie mark...no...it couldn't be...'
Pip pulled himself out of the angered filly's hold with his own hooves and shook the dizziness out of head, ignoring the stares of the passers-by who were curious with the strange events before them.
With a gulp, Pip stared back at the amber eyes of the crazed unicorn. “...Dinky?”