Weekly Updates: Twilight's Bizarre Adventure - Chapter(?) Two · 1:43am Jul 20th, 2020
Yeah, I may continue from where I left last week's idea. it wasn't half bad, and only half of it was ripped off adapted from another, more successful story. Anyhow, here's a quick recap:
Twilight, the owl who never flew the nest, is suddenly trust into the weird world outside her window, when a mysterious Ms. Pie desperately came for help to find her disappeared sister, and an even more mysterious vampire named Trixie swore her loyalty to Twilight. Together, they went for refugee at Twilight's family home. But in order to do so, they must first traverse the streets of the Imperial City of Canterlot at midnight.
Is the quiet of the night the reassurance they're safe in loneliness, or is the lack of signs a premonition or further danger?
So, this doesn't have an intro, but since I'm already taking a lot of certain Shonen Jump manga, here's the first 4 OPs by a Chilean singer
"Okay, run this one Trixie again, Lady Sparkle," the mare asked rather distracted while shuffling a deck of cards between her hooves. "Why can't we get an escort by the Imperial Guard?"
"Please, Trixie, just call me Twilight. You don't need to be so formal." They stepped outside the night club and over the empty streets. "And we're going alone because the lieutenant thinks the assailants may have been corrupted guards," Twilight adjusted her night cape's collar due to the cold. Despite being close to the summer solstice, the last remnants of a winter that refused to die still blew ice through the dark hours of the night. "Or may have an arrangement with corrupt guards, according to miss Pie."
"It's all I can remember. I'm sorry, I was too scared," the aforementioned answered. She was visibly nervous. Like Twilight with her collar, she couldn't help but adjust and readjust her glasses. "And I can't thank you enough for taking me in. I'm so sorry you got tangled in this mess." She blushed, looking down to hide her face under her mane.
"Don't worry, miss Pie," Twilight reassured her. "My mother taught me to be a proper gentlemare, and I wouldn't be one if I gave my back to a compatriot in troubles." She smiled proudly. "So rest assured I will do everything within my power to be as much of a help as I can."
Trixie signaled the first taxi to stop for them. It was an old cart modified for an engine, but properly painted black with a diagonal yellow strip on the side to mark it as a collective transport. The driver, sitting at the front, pulled the brake lever, making a loud creak that echoed across the street. She looked rather young to be a cab driver. Trixie talked with her while signaling Twilight and Pinkamena to step in. As Twilight expected, the interior looked like an older cart, made out of varnished woodwork with a curtains made out of thick velvet over the door windows, and pillowed seats. The door closed as Trixie sat on the seats in front of them. The driver put the brake lever back down and the motorcart began to move. Twilight too note of the modifications the motorcart underwent for its engine as Trixie put her had over her eyes and went back to shuffling her cards.
"So, miss Pie?" Twilight turned back to her companion. "What was your sister doing here in Canterlot, to begin with?"
"Well, hmm," Pinkamena once again took her glasses off to give them a cleanse with her dress. "She's some kind of adventurer." Twilight only tilted her head to a side, while Trixie stopped shuffling her deck and pushed the brim of her hat up to see better.
"How so?" Twilight asked.
"Trixie can answer that one, Lady Sparkle," she gave Pinkamena a stealthy wink, to which the mare only replied with a soft smile. "Adventurers, like miss Pie's sister, are mares and stallions who live by through traveling the lands and finding fortune in ways regular ponies wouldn't." Trixie took the first four cards out of her deck and laid them on the space next to her over the seat. "For example, some are treasure hunters," she flipped the seven of golds. "Or bounty hunters," the ace of swords. "Another aspect is the exploring, going to places outside our known maps," the two of cups. "And some," Trixie said between her teeth. "Are self proclaimed hunt--"
A loud hit to the side of the motorcart interrupted her. Only Trixie reacted quick enough to hold Twilight from falling while Pinkamena ended up falling on her face on the seat in front of her.
"Hold onto something, gentlemares!" The driver called from the front as the vehicle took up speed. "We have some unsavory company!"
Twilight pulled the curtain of the cart to see a second motorcart, of a more recent model, almost hitting them. It's side window opened to a side, so one of its occupants could poke their body out. She recognized the same mask from the ponies that assaulted them back at the night club. This one also had one of their weird weapons, though this one was bigger, and aimed at them.
The night's darkness was interrupted by the glare of the weapon firing its round at Twilight.
Yare yare daze..... This is quite excellent.
Not gonna lie at first I thought the story was going to be about how twilight has to face her evil adopted sister Trixie who has turned into a vampire and to do it she has to learn Pinkie pie secret technique of friendship wave
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This began life as just a retelling, like you described, only with Trixie actually trying to become a good daughter and sister to the Sparkle's, with her fall-de-grace to the mask being more tragic because of that. But then, while making my investigation, I came upon the idea that Dio Brando and Speedwagon are foils to each other. Namely, a low class guy who's offered kindness by a Joestar. Dio only sees it as a sign of pretentiousness and keeps on his selfish hunger for power, while Speedwagon sees the situation as a second chance in life, which he takes in order to repay such kindness.
So here, Trixie is an expy of both characters. Like Dio, she enjoys being the center of attention and has troubles thinking of anyone but herself. She also fell for the promise of power the Stone Mask offered. But like Speedwagon, she also sees Twilight's show of kindness as a sign to turn her own life, promising to accompany Twilight in order to pay her debt and as well as a way to do better for herself.
And Piknamena (not Pinkie) fills in as the less active side of Speedwagon (narrator extraordinaire) and a little from Smokey Brown, being the non-action gal but still being important to the plot as either a source of information, or for character moments.
Hope you enjoy the following and later entries, and thanks for commenting.
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Interesting as decisions goes, I would have loved to see Trixie pull off the kind of hammy villainy Dio gets up to but this could be a very interesting take
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I gave her a pretty slasher villain scene in the 3rd part. I'm still experimenting on what works and what doesn't here.