Gabrielle Desrochers and Studded Armor cruised silently through the dark streets of Canterlot, their tails swishing behind them like a pair of siamese flying cyber foxes.
They came to a halt by a window on the second floor, and peered through the opening between the pair of curtains.
"This is the place," Gabe whispered.
"Do you see anything?" Armor said.
"Yeah, two ponies, a mare and a stallion under the covers."
"How many legs to they have?" Armor asked
"You know what, that's kinda hard to say from here," Gabe deadpanned.
"Are we gonna do this?"
"Yeah. No time like the present," Gabe said, and dug through the bag hanging by Armor's side, pulling out a metallic hind leg.
"Hopefully his measurements are still what the doc said they were," Armor said.
"Yeah, well," Gabe said, and shrugged before magicking the window open. "He's gonna have to visit a smithy if they're not."
As soon as the window as unlocked, Gabe powered down the magic, silencing the chiming sounds, and opened it slightly.
Gabe and Armor stopped, but neither the chiming of magic or the low flapping of Armor's wings made the two ponies stir in their sleep.
"Alright, I'm going in," Gabe said, and sat down on the windowsill.
Armor held her hooves and helped her slowly lower herself to the floor, tush first.
When she was on the floor, Gabe took the limb in her mouth, lay down on her back, and slowly pushed herself backward with her elbows. That was the thing with hooves; They were not great for stealth, at least not on parquet.
When she reached the bed, she slowly lifted the cover off the ponies' lower halves. Luckily, the couple had not coupled that night, this felt weird enough without witnessing that.
True enough, the stallion's left hind leg ended just above his knee. Gabe took the limb, and stopped herself just as she was about to attach it to the leg, and breathed out in relief at having spotted the flaw.
She turned the leg over and breathed on the cup that would be connecting the prosthesis and the leg to warm it up, and made sure that the textile between the cup and the leg was in place.
Gabe lifted the covers again, hesitated for a moment, the simply put the cup against the stallion's residual limb.
She held her breath as the stallion stirred, making him hold the mare closer. She mewled slightly in response, but neither of them woke up.
Gabe let out her breath, and lifted the cover again to see the prosthesis hook around the mare. Then she lay down on the floor to scoot back to the window.
"Did it work?" Armor asked as she reached the window.
"Like a charm," Gabe said.
"Great," Armor said, and reached into the room, hooked his legs to Gabe's, and hoisted her onto the windowsill.
"Wait," Gabe said, as they were about to close the window. "Manual."
"Oh, right," Armor said, and fished out a roll of paper from his saddlebag.
"Okay, uuh," Gabe said, holding the paper uncertainly, then she just tossed it towards the bed, before closing the window. "Whatever. Now let's get the buck out of here."
I like it. I also like the fact that Gabe is consistently casual-but-calm on the topic of sex, that's refreshing. Suits medical training and her attitude too.
Also, I never do that, but...
Pretty sure that should be something like:
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Ah, thanks, Right as I was about to hit the publish button in mlaabq I remembered I hadn't written a gaiden, so I had to squeeze something out quickly. Probably a few mistakes in there
Huh. This is my first time inspiring an author like this. Feels kinda nice.
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Aha, the culprit returns to the scene of the crime!
But seriously, it was a fun idea. Cred to you
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Yeah I know. That nine-word story was really pushing how long I could make these.
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The only response I can give to that is:
That must make for some weird/awkward conversations.
"Hey, how did you get a new leg? "
"Hell if I know, I just woke up with it "
Heh! Thats funny!!
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Yeah, it's gotta be weird to wake up with a perfect prosthesis. "Whaaaaat the buuuuck?"
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Glad you think so
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And I'm glad that your glad!
I was thinking more this.
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Yeah, instead of that stallion waking up with a new leg, he wakes up with a hamburger shoved into his mouth.
Actually, that sounds like a horror story in herbivore-pony land
Yeah, get the buck out of there before the couple starts bucking.
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"Honey, why is your leg so cold? ... Honey, why do you suddenly have a leg?"
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Glad to know.
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Never seen that. Hadn't even heard about it until now.
Though all this reminds me of Admiral Tigerclaw's Arrow 18 when the protagonist prints out a picture of a winged horse that Twilight thinks is very handsome. I wonder what movie dragons would look cool for the dragons in MlpFim.
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Stop socializing with only fruit flies
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"Honey, why does your leg feel cold?"
"Which leg?"
"Back left."
...
"What are you talking about? I haven't had that leg in 25 years."
"Then what am I-"
...
"Huh."
"Look! There's a note here! 'A gift from your friendly neighborhood Reverse-Toothfairy-Batman-Prosthetist!'"
...
"You know, it's a lot more confusing having this happening to you than hearing about it from your friends."
"I can imagine... So! Want to show me just how strong your new leg is?~"
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Yeah I'd say that would be cause for celebration. Let the foam flow.
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It's a nice light fantasy book series (there are four of them) that plays with the whole traditional fairy tale theme. They are quite good, partially because they mess with a lot of the stereotypes (the princess RUNS AWAY to become the servant of a dragon and chases off the knights herself, the wizards are actually suspicious characters (who turn out to really be evil) who can be melted with soapy lemon water (witches are safe from it), and of course, the flying carpets have more lore, parts, and crafting behind them than a car.)
It's the carpet part I refer to, since there are a few occasions where they run into issues with the carpet and need to get some part of the weave fixed, etc.
Most libraries should have them, and they can also be found as ebooks online.
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Oh. Well, I'll a note of your recommendation, though I have quite the backlog of culture to consume.
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He wrote one of the (IMHO) best stories set in MLP ever. Called The Great Alicorn Hunt, it is a massive AU that attempts to explain a lot of Celestia's real plans and why she'd have a number of young ponies who are rather ill-suited for the task fighting evil. Following the ascension of all six, they are sent on the mother of all fetch quests to research how to make every single pony (whether or not it can apply to other races is uncertain, as in not mentioned yet) immortal by way of ascension. It features a number of quite amusing arcs where the six and their friends attempt to find nascent alicorns (both to increase sample size for research, and to get more hooves on the ground, as it were) and collect hints to the eventual cure for death itself (or at least that by old age).
Some of those others to have become alicorns so far include Trixie (who isn't actually evil) and her apprentice (recursive fanfics for the win), Sunset Shimmer, Shining Armor, the entire CMC (oh, snap!), and a few OCs, including the leader of a small band of misfits responsible for some of the funniest pranks I've ever read AND resulting in one of the best crowning moments of awesome as well.
Even when there isn't crazy stuff happening, it's quite fun to read. The CMC tend to get into all sorts of fun situations (the Gala being a prime example; Luna already spiced it up and then the trio happened. Plus, they get different marks from in Canon (in all cases they manage to ascend(!) at the same time; in Scoot's case that was ALSO all during her first flight while stopping a tornado!), and have a nightmare about the real ones before pointing out why that would be so stupid!), the town of Hollow Shades is frankly awesome for the level of occult protections to the point it convinces Twilight that it's haunted, Tirek never happens and the Box is to be opened by Daring Do, etc...
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Eeh, I have some reservations about reading that.
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I have no idea, but some sort of inexplicable event caused by Pinkie freaking out should be involved.
I wonder what happens if Spike hiccups badly enough...? Does he send himself to Canterlot?
Rainbow or Rarity stressing out Twilight-style would be fun, too. Especially if SHE remains calm. Or worse, becomes fascinated by the idea or even wants to make one...
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Ya fun story. Same author also dose the Rise of Darth Vulcan which is a fun read.
Authors still updating stories as well:
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Found it again for you.
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/78447/scarlet-tears
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Thank you kind drake. May your wings never falter, your breath never chill, and your scales never lose their luster.
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Snerk. How long did you spend coming up with that epithet? :D
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About five seconds, I've dealt with many dragons, drakes, and wyrms. It's second nature by now.
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Haven't given much thought to Gabe in a war-fic, but she will kick ass the way only she can in the upcoming chapter
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The only branches I could figure out the roles for were The Boomers, being artillery-ponies, and the Brotherhood Of Steel, being clad in powered magical armor, possibly with magitech cybernetics
Heh, alright, but why?
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That chapter was a response to the fad of short fics about Sunset Shimmer fucking horses.
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That chapter was a fixfic for that episode where Fluttershy's dad's collection of cloud is ruined by her brother.
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And that might go on the list, but I have quite a few things to read first.
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Ok. Thx for answering.
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No cookies for you!
The name of the military is a reference to Europa Universalis 4 (EU4), which is a grand strategy game, like Civilisation, only more complicated, in a good way, with a significantly larger learning curve. Anyway, when translated from German, it's meant to be "Prussian Space Marines", although the lack of a dedicated word for Marine makes it easy to get lost in translation. The joke is the Prussian idea group is by far the best militarily, and with the right idea groups, the quality of your troops, gets insane (like win battles outnumber 2 or even 3:1). As such, the term/meme "Prussian Space Marines" arose, from Warhammer 40k's "Space Marines".
As for the two you got, I really need to stop making references only I get. Boomers, mostly right, but also have a few teams that work with the H.A.B. That set traps/bomb factories, rail lines, bridges, etc. Brotherhood of Steel is what the guild of Blacksmiths call themselves, since power armor's a bit much, even for Gabe.
"Winged Hussars are the pegasi, referencing the eastern European (Poland/The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but I think Russia/others might've copied them) Calvary, best known for being essential to successfully defeating the Ottomans sieging Vienna in the 16...70s?
The Thundering Herd was just one from a US division that was horse-related, thinking unicorns.
The Rock of The Marne was another nickname for a U.S. division, thinking Earth Pony.
The Old Guard were Napoleon's veterans, who had to be at least 6'- REALLY tall when almost everyone was at least mind of malnourished, and 10 years of experience. Point being, that's "The Marines"-not so good, or small, to be special forces, but where the best of the rank-and-file are.
Wonderbolts needs no explanation.
Rangers references both the USA's Rangers, who were the ppl who claimed up cliffs in Normandy, the night before D-Day, then had to go several miles behind the lines to take out these big guns that power a huge threat to the invasion, and the ships, as well as the NCR'S rangers, and veteran rangers.
A.L.M. we're the initials of Audie Leon Murphy, one of the most decorated U.S. soldiers of WWII. As such, this is, like Navy SEALS type badassery.
H.A.B. as in Habsburg, who ruled Austria for a LONG time, as well as Hungary (which used to be a lot bigger), Bohemia, and Spain, through royal marriages and Personal Unions, at one point. Their C.I.A., and while it's not an acronyms, everyone knows spy agencies have three word acronym names.
H.R.E. Also meaningless (mostly) acronym name:Holy Roman Empire. What German was for almost 1,000 years, between Charlemagne in the 800s and when Napoleon decided it was STUPIDLY overcomplex (there were thousands of princes in the HRE. Border Gore doesn't even behind to cover it) and broke it up, Their FBI (since almost everyone in it was focus inward, and ignoring all the colonial empiries being built).
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Ah okay. I've played EU4, but only in single player so I'm now down with the lingo, I guess
I knew most of the rest of the history, mostly thanks to EU4 and Total War.
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Oh. Well that's good to know, but since I didn't know that, I thought it best to assume you didn't, since no one teaches you about stuff like the HRE in school, or how France and Austria were pretty kickass for most of the past millennia. And I learned about Prussian Space Marines from Reddit and YouTube, not multiplayer.
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That's certainly true. In school, I learned a little about the second world war, a little about Rome, a little about Gustav Vasa, a little about the British Empire, a whole lot of time was dedicated to the USA (one of my teachers was a big fan of the US) but I didn't learn all that much about it to be honest. South America, most of Asia, most of Africa, and even most of Europe wasn't covered. No Holy Roman Empire, no Charlemagne, no Austria, no Russia, no proto-Russian territories, no Huns, no Mongols, no Teutonic orders, no Ottoman Empire, no India, no Persia, not even the crusades.
I just realized that EU4 and ther games like it are interesting and unique in art, culture, and entertainment, in that it's completely non-diegetic.
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I took world history last year, and while, by its nature, it was "mile wide, inch deep," and as such glossed over the HRE and other details, it covered the Ottomans, and Ming, and Quin, and the Mongols, and the Huns, Aztecs, Incas, colonialism, etc. I really liked it.
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I tend to learn that on my spare time. That's one area where video games outperform school as far as I'm concerned, teaching language being another. I think there will be more to come.
I remember Gabe talking about wanting to do this, and I gotta say this is bucking hilarious, even as a non-canon scenario.
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Heh, cheers
I so wanna see how the stallion reacts when waking up, and at the same time I just don't wanna write it
Nobody? Really? Okay.
"I'm Batmare."
What's her batsignal? A prosthetic hoof, or a stump?
Also, I wonder if she could employ the services of one Sweetie Drops, in finding these ponies (and otherwise) in need... Magical accident or not, there is precedent.