Hands: Regent Shepherd · 7:25am Dec 24th, 2019
Shepherd, Sword of Equestria, and Twilight, Princess of Friendship, have been summoned to Canterlot for an important job...
Celestia: *Trotting along with Shepherd into the throne room* "You see, Luna and I need to go on an important diplomatic mission."
Luna: "Vitally important."
Celestia: "And we need someone to handle things in the meantime."
Shepherd: "Okay."
Twilight: "Absolutely, Princesses! You can count on me!"
Celestia: *smiles* "I understand that, Twilight. And I know I can, but... It occurs to me that you need more experience in how to handle administration."
Luna: *wryly* "A great deal more experience."
Celestia: "And let us not forget the last time you had a taste of power."
Twilight: *blush* "Ummm..."
FLASHBACK...
Twilight: "ALL BEINGS MUST FINISH COLLEGE AND HAVE LIBRARY CARDS! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
END FLASHBACK
Twilight: "I-I wasn't that bad!"
Shepherd: "You kind of were."
Twilight: "You would have been exempt from that law!"
Shepherd: *sigh* "That's not the point! You need more experience in managing not just the kingdom, but yourself! ... Right, Your Highnesses?"
Celestia: "Exactly, Shepherd!"
Luna: "Correct, Sir Andrew."
Twilight: "Well... If you believe I need more experience, I guess I can't argue with that. So, will Shepherd be my advisor to keep me from going too far?"
Celestia: *Smiles* "Not exactly... You see, being a princess is far more than a role: It is a duty."
Luna: "We are serving our ponies, after all... So learning how to serve others is a good means of learning."
Twilight: "So... Who will I be serving?"
Shepherd: "You're not sticking Blueblood on the throne, right?"
Celestia and Luna are smiling intently at him. Twilight looks between them. Shepherd gets it, and groans.
Shepherd: "Oh, no. NO! Come on! NO!"
Twilight: "Huh?!"
Celestia: "You do have administrative experience, correct Shepherd?"
Shepherd: "I was an assistant manager, that does not make me a king!"
Luna: "Still more experience than young Twilight has!"
Shepherd: "Look: She outranks me! A princess outranks a knight!"
Celestia: "Yet whoever we put in command, must command."
Shepherd: "Why me?!"
Luna: "Thou art a knight! A hero to the people!"
Shepherd: "A weird alien with no political capital or experience!"
Twilight: "Shepherd, if Princess Celestia thinks you'll do a good job-"
Shepherd: "You'd jump off a cliff if Princess Celestia told you to!"
Twilight: "... I can fly."
Shepherd: "... Bad example. Look, why me?!"
Celestia: "Simple: You do not want the job."
Luna: "But will do it out of duty."
Celestia: "Rather than letting the power go to your head, you will despise that you have it."
Luna: "And will be relieved when it is over."
Shepherd: "N-No I won't! I-I'll abuse the power immediately! I'll have the chefs bring me cake on demand!"
Celestia: "Pfft. That's what I do."
Luna: "We really must be going so..." *She shoots Shepherd with a beam of light: One Celestia soon shares* "By the power invested in we, the Diarchs of Equestria, we name thee, Sir Andrew Shepherd, Regent of Equestria. Serve thy kingdom well."
Celestia: "And Twilight will make for a wonderful adviser. See you two in a week!"
Shepherd: "But-!"
The two vanish in flashes of light. Shepherd finds himself stumbling backwards... Onto the throne. He gets up, as though it was hot to the touch. He looks at Twilight.
Shepherd: "I don't... This is a prank, right?"
Twilight: "No... It looks like right now you rule Equestria. And I'm your adviser. You know, I've never been a royal adviser before. Would you like to spank me for speaking out of turn, Your Highness?"
Shepherd: "That's not funny."
Twilight: *laughs and nuzzles him. He slowly sits back down in the throne* "Come on. It's only for one week. You'll be a great ruler for a week!"
Shepherd: *sighs* "Fine... Want to watch me tempt fate?"
Twilight: "Has it ever withstood temptation before?"
Shepherd: "Touche... Still... What could happen in a week?"
ONE DAY LATER...
Twilight hurries into a conference room with several papers.
Twilight: "Sorry I'm late everyone, I needed to-"
Shepherd is slamming King Aspen's head into a pie while the rest of the delegates are also fighting one another.
Shepherd: "EAT GLUTEN YOU COOKIE ELF FUCKING BITCH!"
Twilight: "... And did I step out at the right time..."
Great leaders are not those who seek power, but those who have power thrust upon them.
*Proceeds to beat the ever loving tar out of delegates.*
... He's just getting used to things.
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It's just King Aspen. The other delegates were fine with that, because they all find the deer to be obnoxious. This is how they bond.
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I'm liking this even more.
...You know what
I forget what the Deer people might have done to Equestria, but wasn't it something nearly awful?
"EAT YOUR GLUTEN OR I'M HAVING VENISON"
Hah. Good way of avoiding someone who'd let it go to their heads, I guess
Uh-oh. Royal Vizier stereotypes, here we come! She wants to be sultan instead of the sultan!
Hail to the king!
"You'd have done it before the wings!"
Ah yes. Power is best entrusted with those who want nothing to do with it.
And yeah, Aspen had that coming. Self-righteous elk bastard.
I need to steal this at some point in time. Merry Christmas, you crazy bastard.
This was lovely Lol
well shit did you have to piss off shepherd
Who is this king Aspen and why so many people are talking about him?
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https://www.ponywiki.mlpwiki.net/wiki/King_Aspen
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I never saw that edit of the comic before! It certainly does a fine job of covering its events.
Better be careful about Aspen and the deer, though. Remember what they did to Equestria the last time they got teed off.
How insulting for Shepherd to call Aspen a cookie elf, considering the great war between the Deer and the Keeblers.
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Wow, and I thought my characters were a pain in the butt.
I never read the comics (big surprise) but I know better now. Shepherd is doing a great job.
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This is why the Deer Royal Line still suffers from Magical Diabetes.
To quote Ron Burgundy, probably, "Well, that escalated quickly."