//------------------------------// // Final Author Notes // Story: World of Chaos // by ugugg93 //------------------------------// Note: this is all written not only off the cuff, but onto fimfiction directly, so any typos are whatever, and I don't care enough to have perfect grammar and junk. Sometime around November, 2011 (give or take), I was driving home from school after a long day of classes. It is a thirty minute drive, and the radio wasn't playing music at the time, so I was stuck with thinking to myself. My thoughts wandered to ponies, and the various things that come with such thoughts (heh... Pinkie wearing a tutu). However, one of those thoughts was this... Me, "Hmm... I wonder what would happen if fully grown adult Spike fought Discord?" Now, the answer is that Spike would be completely slaughtered, and he wouldn't stand a chance. But what if something happened that cut off most of Discord's "superpowers", putting him on a much more even field. I imagined all of the visuals that would go with it, the moves that each would do, how Spike would use power while Discord would use speed, etc. My next thought was... Me, "Hmm... what would Twilight think about this event?" Answer? She wouldn't. She'd be dead. Dead dead dead. I go by D&D rules when it comes to dragons in MLP, and according to that, dragons don't become adults until they are over one hundred years old (with the most powerful great wyrms being over twelve hundred years). This said, Twilight would be long dead after this time. But what if she wasn't? How would she think of it then? And that was how the story was born. From the beginning of the story, I knew that I was going to have the girls leave their time, do their deal, then come back to their own time. Keeping them in a post-apocalyptic waste (even with things all nice and good again) didn't really sound like a real happy ending to me, so I decided to make it this way. How? I had no idea at the time. I knew that it was going to be a temporary thing, and that Discord's magic was going to be blocking them from traveling back, but other than that, I didn't know. The biggest thing keeping me from actually touching on the subject (other than that the fact that it never really came up in character dialogue) was the whole idea of the "Grandfather Effect". If I were to have the girls go forward in time, do their deal, come back to the past, then finish off Discord, then shouldn't Discord have never have taken over the world? Wouldn't that make sense? I didn't think of a good reason to "beat" this until around chapter 30: not only did they go forward in time, but they shifted dimensions. Here's how it works: you have universe A, B, and C. Universe A is the one that the M6 started. When they were thrown in time, they were thrown ~1500 years forward in time, and also shifted into universe B. This means that anything that happens in this future universe won't affect universe A, and so they can do whatever they need to do. When they finished, they were shifted back to universe A, where they saw themselves leave. But what about the universe B ponies? They were also shifted forward in time, but they were also shifted into universe C (universe C ponies were shifted forward and into universe D or something. Doesn't matter). However, they ran into a snag or some bad situation, and they failed. Spike didn't become Sarlaka, Pinkie didn't get away from Xavier, Fluttershy was clipped by the stallions, any of the ponies died, doesn't matter. That happening, they never got back to universe B, and so because of this, universe B was left without any Elements of Harmony forever. Universe C got new Element bearers after the original M6 all died, so they still have that. Here's the map I drew with my touchpad, microsoft pain, and about 45 seconds. There were a lot of scenes in the story that I couldn't get to that I really wanted to. I never wrote them, but I felt that there was a lot of content that could've been explained in these. Many were because they never would make sense in the dialogue that I made, while others were just because I decided to go a different route. Here are some of them: 1) Spike telling Twilight in further detail about how he killed the entire dragon race, because Discord told him to. 2) Spike joking to Twilight that his first sexual encounter was with the last female dragon. When asked how it went, Spike says "apparently she took the whole extinction thing poorly, for when I woke up, she was trying to gouge out my throat." 3) Spike explaining more about Sweetie Belle's theory about the diamond horn, and how she realized it might work. 4) More about what happened to the rest of the background character (especially AJ's family). 5) Something talking about the "Grandfather Effect" going on. 6) When they all get back, AJ making the comment "Wait, so Fluttershy and Rainbow have each other, Twilight and Pinkie have each other, and Spike and Rarity have each other... AM I THE ONLY SINGLE ONE LEFT!? That's it, I'm kissing the first stallion I see!" 1st sees Big Mac. 2nd sees the old geezer of a stallion. 3rd sees Hugh Jelly. AJ sighs. "Eh, being single isn't that bad." If there are any questions you had about the story, ask them now! I'll get back to you as quickly as possible! And now, because some people wanted it, I'm posted my entire outline for you guys to see. As you can see, the beginning part is much more disorganized as the later part. This is because I found myself wanting much more structure in my story than I was trying to give. Also instead of merely hitting the major plot points, I started putting in important movements, dialogue, and such like that. Finally, if you look carefully, you'll see that some parts don't line up with the story exactly or are missing. A big example of this is the entire scene where Rainbow is talking to herself after realizing she slept with Fluttershy. All of Rainbow's impersonations weren't written into the outline, and I actually came up with the idea off the cuff. Why post this? 1) Because you asked, and 2) this might help others with making their own outlines. Outline here!!! Thank you everyone for reading, and I hope to see many of your friendly faces again soon!!!