Audience participation time!

I'm writing an intermission chapter before the next big story arc of potion shop. It's titled "Arca gets on a train and nothing interesting happens, I swear."

What MLP character should Arca encounter on the train? And why that character in particular?

No wrong answers.

Comments

[Dashie04]

Pinkie Pie because that’d create a riff in space-time that everypony would watch in horror.

[MLPMekarm]

i want to see what would happen if arca would meet a kirin. its bound to get spicy.

[Venerable Ro]

A random alicorn on his commute.

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Why? Because Arca is missing out when it comes to spittakes.

[b300mussolini]

Fluttershy going out on her first trip to study the breezies

[theillustriousq]

A pony arca meets on a train?

Starlight and Sunburst.

[FrostTheWolf]

The Cutie Mark Crusaders possibly?

[Ashfur]

Oh god people are commenting
I forgot my words carry weight here
I forgot I am FUNNY here

[Herald of Opera]

There should be a throwaway gag involving Steven Magnet where someone asks how the heck he even managed to fit on the train and his response doesn't really answer the question. Alternatively, some other character you can use to do exactly the same joke.

[Ashfur]

5562544
"How did you get on?"
"I bought a ticket."
"No, how did you get in the train?"
"The door."

Tbh I had to do a quick memory searchto realize who you were talking about

[Latrans]

Obviously Arca needs to run into his good friend (at least to him) Dotted Line, Cabinet Secretary of the Equestrian Civil Service, much to Dotted's consternation. There wouldn't even need to be any bizarre happenings. I should imagine Dotted's desperate need try and stay in control of the situation while getting Arca as far away from him as possible without causing An Incident^TM could suffice.

[Astump199]

Arca encounters discord, again….
Leave that up to interpretation

[Shadowshame]

Ember the dragon emperor because why not

[ANW]

Thorax, cause changelings needs loves too.

No wait, even better. Cranky the donkey, cause we need more hair potions.

[Ashfur]

5562655
I would like to take this moment to remind you all that
A) In the potion shop's canon, Discord's initjal takeover lasted an unknown period of time until Tia and Luna found the Elements of Harmony, and
B) Arca was alive at this point, and already working as the Royal Alchemist. He had yet to attain his alicornhood at that point, but was only slightly less reckless and crazy. (After all, he was mortal at that point. Being nigh-invulnerable leads to reclessness, and reclessness leads to jumping into a pool full of boiling nacho cheese.)

[Astump199]

5562706
Fair enough

[VInP]

Trixie

[Ice mage]

Pinkie pie because why not

[Herald of Opera]

I know your response to 5562655 amounted to "he was alive during Discord's original takeover" but I'd still love to see the prequel tackle the specifics.