Story idea 1053 · 2:01am Mar 11th, 2019
"Rarity, you need to get up!" Spike said.
For a moment, Rarity wondered where she was. It seemed like her bed was sticky. All sorts of questions raced through her mind. Did she befoul herself? Hadn't done that since she was a foal in diapers, and even then not too often. Another discreet sniff answered that question. It wasn't, um, no. It was blood. Thankfully, not her's.
"Rarity!"
Her blue eyes sprung open. Blood? Why was she laying in that disgusting substance? She hoped it was some sort of prank by Pinkie, but then again, where did Pinkie get all that blood? She's a mare... Rarity cut that horrible thought off. It also seemed too extreme. Pinkie's pranks were never this gross.
A look around showed that instead of being in her bed at Twilight's castle, she was between two desks on a dirty floor. Rarity made a mental note to never ever accept an invitation to Twilight's Slumber party.
With a wet smack, she pulled her body out of drying blood. It took almost all of her willpower not to look down at her beautiful white fur now besmirched with blood.
"Rarity, it's coming!" Spike said then pointed at some creature that was lurching toward them while groaning.
The dim light shone on the crusty looking weapon in the creature's hand.
"What do we do?" Spike asked and looked at Rarity. He looked back at the creature.
It was close.
For a moment, Rarity didn't care. Her beautiful coat was a horrible mess that stunk of old blood. A search for a hot and cleansing shower seemed more important. But she saw that the red crust on the weapon seemed to be dried blood. Even though a lady may not be at her best, she still must protect herself and others. She sighed and focused on doing a telekinetic blast, but her head throbbed with pain, and Rarity almost sunk back into the blood pool. "Spike, I'm soo sorry, I seem to not be able to do any magic now."
The creature shambled closer.
Rarity could smell the rot. She took shallow breaths.
Spike inhaled and blew out a plume of green flame.
The creature grunted in pain as the flames covered its body. It dropped the weapon and just burned.
The smell, well, Rarity tried her best to be like a lady, but her stomach which was not so ladylike spewed up bile. Her vision turned red as she barfed and later dry heaved.
She felt Spike's warm claws on her sides.
"Rarity, you gotta stop that or you're gonna break something."
Rarity nodded and looked away from the white mushy puddle on the floor. After taking a few breaths, not through her nose, she asked,"What's going on? Where are we?"
Spike looked around.
Rarity looked around too. Other than the bodies of strange creatures laying around and the toasted... Her stomach churned again.
"All I remember was going to bed late then I awoke here in this place with dead humans," Spike said.
Rarity grimaced. The creatures did seem familiar to her like somepony had described them to her. "Humans?"
"Yeah, like the ones in Bulfinch's Mythology," Spike said. He pushed a chair over to a too tall table.
It seemed like they were in some sort of room with tables and chairs. White panels in the ceiling provided enough light so they could see the area clearly.
Rarity watched as the wheels on the bottom of the chair moved. It was something better to watch than what was near her. The chair design looked like it could be studied further. There were some interesting elements to it. She shook her head to focus on what was at hoof even if it was quite dreary.
Spike climbed into the chair then up on the table. "Rarity why don't you come over here. There's less barf."
Rarity grimaced, but walked over to Spike's chair. A quick look showed where all of the blood came from. Several dead humans lay in a pile.
Why? How? Her tail and ears drooped. She was quite sure today was going to be the worse ever.
"Papers incoming!" Spike yelled.
Several sheets of white paper with blue lines floated down to the dirty floor.
Rarity needed no prompting to use the paper to soak up the puddle of vomit then she saw a black garbage can nearby. The wet sheets were dumped, and she felt a little bit better. Nothing like a bit of tidying up to make a lady feel better. The large blood pool? Well, she'll leave that for the help. "What do we do now?" This area was just too odorous to linger in.
Spike peered down at Rarity. "We go find Twilight and the others of course. If that doesn't work, try to take over the world!" He smiled.
Rarity looked around. "Looks like something beat us to that." Her tail and ears drooped.
"Come on Rarity, we got to find them! Imagine what poor Fluttershy is probably going through," Spike said then stood up. He fussed with something on the table.
"Considering what I've seen, she'll be in the corner quivering with fear. I almost want to do that, but I need a cleaner body free corner first. Or one with a nice hot shower," Rarity said.
"You know, Rarity, I thought that my green flame would send the zombie to Celestia. Can you imagine how awful that would be?" Spike said as he jumped into the chair.
It creaked.
"Well, Spike, I don't think that Celestia would appreciate a delivery of a weapon wielding dead human."
"Zombie, Rarity, They're called zombies," Spike said as he jumped down to the floor from the chair. He had some sort of shiny black and red panel in his left claw.
"Well, I also don't think that zombies are appropriate gifts for royalty, even if it's Nightmare night. We should find a proper gift if this place has a shop," Rarity said and a small smile crossed her face. It didn't stay long.
Spike smiled. "Yep. Can you help me pick out a gift?"
Rarity nodded. "Yes. Let's go find the others. Lead the way, my brave dragon."
Spike bowed. "Yes, my fair lady."
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Had an idea.
What if instead of doing Lyra, I did the main six instead.
What if the main six ended up scattered in a doomed martian base overrun by demons, and they have to find each other,
and figure out how to get home?
This would definitely be a long story.
Hm... nice.
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Thanks.
Am working on a story where Lyra ends up on a doomed martian base overrun by demons.
This blog says more.
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/844630/new-story-idea-thy-pony-flesh-consumed
I might post in a blog what happened to Pinkie and Twilight later.
I bet it'll take a lot of stain remover to get that out.
Optimism!
I think the idea is interesting. Heck if you really wanted to go for it, I'd say maybe make it a horror story where each of the mane six is picked off by the creatures. You've got some potential here.
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Oh no, that's the way to a million downvotes, killing the mane six off.
But, I might have fun having them fight Betruger and his demonic friends.
Was thinking about having Pinkie being able to make friends with the demons while Fluttershy learns how to dominate them, while Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Spike are less than thrilled with dealing with demons.
Not sure I want to do that, might want to do the cursed sisters story first.
I do know how it starts and ends, the middle is vague.
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I can see it now, Rarity becomes the Martian slayer then has to crack open some of Twilight's spell books to learn how to make her magic powerful enough for a trip through time. She then goes back to try and stop the mane six before they head off from Ponyville to the Martian base. Then, after the mane six are prevented from going to space, Martian Slayer Rarity travels back to her time, only to find out that time actually operates on the multiverse theory so now there are two timelines instead of the one. Mane six saved, and Rarity has now been turned into a certified badass.
Not if you somehow use time travel.
Okay, after reading that, why can I come up with all of that on a whim yet have trouble generating ideas that coherently work for my own stories?
Forget my idea, go with that cursed sisters story. How does it start and end?
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Rarity, the doom slayer?
I could see that.
Well, you know a lady has to defend herself and if I have to rip and tear, I'll do it with style!
Applejack the Doom Slayer!
Ahm, gonna open a can of whupplot on y'all!
Fluttershy as the Doom Slayer
Um, Mr. Imp please don't throw that fireball at me.
WHY WON'T YOU IGNORE ME! She starts tearing demons apart.
Oh yeah,in doom 2016, you need to do glory kills that tear demons apart for some ammo and health.
And then there is the chainsaw. If you want lots of ammo, use a gassed up chainsaw.
Doom 3 was a horror shooter, Doom 2016 is an action puzzle jumper.
If you suck at jumping , you might not like Doom 2016.
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Maybe because you're too serious?
Have some fun!
Your char just burned down a building, that's worth a trip to Disneyland, just stay away from Galaxy's Edge and watch out for brain busting birds. Not kidding, google it.
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It starts with Spelltongue getting the Alicorn Dagger and ends on a most bittersweet note.
Have to get Well of Midnight going, just finished a bit of backstory on Zoland.
He tells a story about how he got on the path to being a gunslinger. Some ponies have gone missing and Zoland, who's a deputy and the sheriff, Hannigan are investigating the disappearances.
It's pretty raw, don't tell the angry chef.
A excerpt from that:
Have to dope out what to do next. There are five or so places in the story
and I have to go back and find out how far I am.
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Yeah, I think I'll just pass on Doom, it seems like I game I would have enjoyed when I was younger, but not so much now.
I can't really picture the others being a Doom slayer, though this is probably because Rarity is my least favorite of the mane six and she is now a badass in my head.
I do write fun stuff, you just haven't read any of those scenes yet.
It sounds like your moving a decent enough pace. I'm sure you'll figure it out.