The Dark World Series has been a long hard road. A story of redemption, atonement, and revenge...But what about what we didn't see?
What was Twilight the Unicorn doing before she met up with Applejack?
What were the Apple Pies up to while the heroes were off fighting Discord? Who are the Apple Pie Clan?
These are the untold stories of the Dark World.
Warning, spoilers!
Loose Canon.
Pony POV Series belongs to Alexwarlorn!
My Little Pony belongs to Hasbro!
I made the picture myself!
P.S. Yes, I know these technically aren't drabbles, but it made for a catchy title.
Chapters (17)
. Tah be honest, Ah kinda like it once Ah got a close look at it!
Feels disclaimerish.
ones tah take Morning-Radio Boss Discord out?!
Ah don’t think Banana Pie ever got over ma accidentally hurtin’ her
If it can be CALLED an accident.
. If the family needs any heavy liftin’ done, Ah’m the one they turn tah.
Remember she's a filly.
No wonder Spike is head over heels for her!
For Spike that isn't the reason anymore of course.
Discord’s right hand?
Makes me think Mad Tiara and Screwball counted as his left hand and middle hand.
Did you show this to Louis?
Considerin’ she let Rainbow Dash go help Apple
He wouldn't know that name, or be USED to calling her by that name.
Of course the thing with Angry Pie . . . look at how many of her adopted children were from her own family.
Ah just knew how it’s computers worked.
Ah just knew how it s computers worked.
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". Tah be honest, Ah kinda like it once Ah got a close look at it!
Feels disclaimerish."
Changed it a bit so she's neutral on it.
"ones tah take Morning-Radio Boss Discord out?!"
Nice, changed it.
"Ah don’t think Banana Pie ever got over ma accidentally hurtin’ her
If it can be CALLED an accident."
True, but think a daughter would WANT to believe her mother hurt her sister and it wasn't an accident?
". If the family needs any heavy liftin’ done, Ah’m the one they turn tah.
Remember she's a filly."
Might either be how she sees HERSELF or kids in the Bad Future don't have it easy.
"No wonder Spike is head over heels for her!
For Spike that isn't the reason anymore of course."
Yeah. Of course a filly isn't going to understand love.
"Discord’s right hand?
Makes me think Mad Tiara and Screwball counted as his left hand and middle hand."
I wouldn't be surprised if he actually called them that.
"Did you show this to Louis?"
He hadn't been on for awhile, so I didn't want to add more to his workload.
"Considerin’ she let Rainbow Dash go help Apple
He wouldn't know that name, or be USED to calling her by that name."
Fixed it a bit, hope it works.
"Of course the thing with Angry Pie . . . look at how many of her adopted children were from her own family."
Couldn't think of a way to work it in.
"Ah just knew how it’s computers worked.
Ah just knew how it s computers worked."
Thanks!
I hope I did a good job making each of the Apple Pies unique.
“Guillotine? Really?”
Anarchy gave a shrug. “Why not?”
“Well I know it’s one of your favorite creations and all, but really? Isn’t it kind of outdated? I know I’m in no position to make demands, but could you at least upgrade a little? You’ve used the same design for several million years.”
Watch it there, Dissey, they could have decided to force you to watch every SyFy Saturday movie ever made instead!
Nice
I like the opening with Pinkie and her foals in Pony Paradise. And the battle with the Elements of Chaos and Harmony against old Grogar really works great.
I do hope we see more about them.
I REALLY LIKE the banter between Apple Pie and Poison Apple, with HER playing the role of interviewer.
Ah like it as well as the next Apple Pie,
That might lead to some confusion that she means the families, not the pony.
They were fun, but they seemed too short tah hold mah attention.
The convoluted ways they kept inventing to extend he story likely didn't help.
Big Banana Discord
Discord title is never the same twice.
Nice note that Poison Apple WOULDN'T know a lot of words.
Big Banana Discord had all the Pre-Chaos Era literature he could find destroyed (yeah, Ah know now he was doin‘ it tah try and avoid bein‘ beaten like he had before. Ah died yah know). And Ah wanted tah keep understandin’ things.
Actually, Discord WANTED ponies to remember the past so his chaos would continue to have context.
It’s Heaven, it’s kinda hard tah describe if yah hadn’t been there!
The most logical thing you can say. After all, how you ACTUAL describe perfection?
I wonder. . . . Just thinking about the Optimal-verse. And AI Celestia, 'fulfilling maximum values through friendship and ponies.' IMHO, heaven is meant to more than that. Heaven is not meant to be just what we want. Or rather, shouldn't be.
Zecora's dialogue is as always spot on.
And yeah, now Ah know it equals three and not fish.
Emperor Joker reference.
Hey name was Ms Hackney,
Her name was Ms Hackney,
Of course, Ms hackney and Zecora have a 'unique' relationship.
I LOVE THIS!!!!
AND I LOVED THE 'FULL CANDLE ALREADY BURNED' metaphor from Zecora! That's straight out of godfather death!
I love the hints of her DOING SOMETHING after being kidnapped rather than sitting on her flank waiting to be rescued. Discord's world, like it or not, HAS produced some hardy ponies.
Ah asked, findin’ Granny Smith diggin’ in the backyard.
Hard to call her that now that she's the age of a filly.
I LOVE THE BOOK ENDS WITH Granny's time capsule! Doing that while dancing non-stop with a broken hip . . .
And I like the joke at the end. Thank you for writing this.
I love this just for Rarity/Libra getting to meet dear little Sweetie Belle again. Yay! And Pinkie, Flutts, and Sweetie as the Three Ghosts of
ChristmasHearth's Warming? That is going to be one weird Christmas Carol.And I hate to be a Grinch, but I noticed this: Rainbow Dash gave a chuckle, flying next to Scootaloo and rubbing her mane mane. Was 'mane' really supposed to be repeated there?
And Discord got his back presents? I suppose he's finally learned his lesson, but after everything he did!...
Great to see everypony together for one last holiday in some cases. And I like how Libra 'put herself together'. Hopefully she doesn't often make mistakes when doing so, though it can make for a memorable Nightmare Night appearance if she just showed up as a crystal skeleton! And I enjoy the little part about Luna and the 'windy gos', which I imagine are basically gentle if chilly wind spirits.
Very lovely gift for Hearth's Warming; and thanks for sharing it.
Discord really likes his nonsensical titles? No surprise, this is the guy whose first and mot memetic line was "Make sense, oh what fun is there in making sense?" yeah, this is retry much how dragons treat their loved ones for me too, to them, say, to Mrs Pie, the clan is technically part of her horde, so add that to the protective instinct of a mother and wellI think that making her mad would not be a good idea.
Very well done! I especially like the interaction between Diamond and Scootalloo. The scenes in Pony Heaven were pretty good too. I wonder if Scoot and her friends met Megan, Danny, and Molly there?
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I love the interaction between the draconequi, it's so much fun to read, especially the fact that they're Affably Evil, they may be Nature's Furym but they can be quite nice. Expect Entropy, but She's well, Entropy.
yes! A combination of the Rainbow Of Harmony and of Chais used on one poor fool! And who better, but Grogar, finally defeated at last.
Forgive me for this but, NOPONY EXPECTS THE EQUESTRIAN INQUISITION!
Heartwarming and hilarious. Loved it. Fluttershy really is the Element of Kindness,
she really is Mercy and Kindess incarnate. Glad to see some old gags brougnt back, such as the fainting couch and Cutie Mark Crusaders one, they may have their cutie marks, but deep down, they're still the same fillies that hid under the same table during Nightmare Moon's return and who bonded at Diamond Tiara's cuteceañera.
I like it, the chapter was definitely very apt, a lot of hatchet burying.
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Good question. Anything is impossible. But infinitely is a big place.
Pot, kettle, black.
That is adorable.
I can imagine.
I'm sure, yes.
Very clever. That reference. I get it. Star Trek, the Next Generation. Picard got into a fight with a bunch of Nausiccans after rigging a game of Dom Jot, it's the episode where Q claimed to be God. Either way, he gave him the option not to do it, now if it was one big illusion or if he really DID place Picard back in time, that's the question but, Picard became the man became BECAUSE of that incident.
The whole point of the Ying Yang concept, without evil to balance out good, people/ponies would lose sight of what GOOD is due to not being able to comprehend the idea of evil.
Not in the slightest.
Half expected Jirachi since granting wishes IS his shtick.
Borders.
Mysterious as, the dark side, the mooooon!
Forgot how petty he was.
It's fine, for you, the Diamond Dogs you knew had Greed as a part of their culture, much like Dragons or griffins. No offense.
Ugh.
No, he's as much the prison itself as he is the warden. Besides, anyone who's landed in Tartarus deserves what's coming to them, and it's his JOB to make sure they get their just desserts.
You're the reality warper, you tell me.
And I am thoroughly confused.
A piece of advice. RUN.
I'd question it, but, Power Rangers logic.
Like with Apples a millenium ago.
Explains why he spent most of his time in the episodes as a smoke cloud, he'd yet to record full power and full conciousness to say much beyond "Crystal"
That's fine.
Well, that's certainly something to be proud of.
Ah.
15th huh?
Repressing emotions is rarely a good thing. Few cases are those that work, you are not the Vulcans who's fear of their powerful emotions made them repress them in favor of logic so as not to descend back into barbarism.
That's perfectly fine.
Very. I hope Spike gets to punch Sombra in the face, because come on, how many times do you get to punch a monster like Sombra in the face and make it WORK?
Xenophobia if left unchecked and unjustified.
And ways to dispel or counter said dark magic, just in case.
Since when? I also forgot how annoying and just plan WIERD the whole Abigail thing was.
... Point taken.
Point taken.
Yes, but she has to look THROUGH said memory. And the Empire's not been around for about a millenium.
I see...
Oh dear.
And ya broke her.
Gotcha.
I'm almost disappointed that she's not Spanish.
Oh yeah.
Relax, liking books doesn't mean you can't be awesome, heck, it's a trope, Badass Bookworm, remember Twilight? She fits the bill.
RariLibra, as someone who had to deal with the original Crusaders, you of all creatures should know how bad an idea that is.
Point taken.
Very.
You need to work on it.
Yeeesh...
HEH!
There is now.
*snerk*
No kidding.
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This chapter meant a lot to me too when Ken wrote it. In particular Scootaloo telling Diamond Tiara how selfish she'd was being throwing her lot in with Discord to be with her mother.
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That so?
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I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO GOT THE STAR TREK REFERENCE!!!
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Adam and Eve got along fine without knowing what good or evil were.
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Maybe, but pokemon names don't really fit with the naming themes used for the concepts.
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What Mulan got to do with this?
And personally I think Kendell2 here overused the term 'child' and 'tantrum' here.
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Gilda, "Hey! Mine was an ancient and proud warrior culture! We ate ponies for breakfast! Uh not literally... anymore. Ugh! The flashbacks! "
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Morning Star, "I WAS JUST TRYING TO CLEAN UP THEIR MESS OF A SHODDY UNIVERSE THEY PUT TOGETHER!"
Nightmare Eclipse, "I AM JUSTICE! DISCORD'S THE CRIMINAL! NOT ME!"
Hidea, "Where's the fire and brimstone?! Why is it filled with ICK! Happy fuzzy bunnies?!"
Tirek, "All you need to know, is that I will get free, and I will kill you."
You're the reality warper, you tell me.
Pandora, "Technically that's Dissy's job."
Discord, "And my day is complete."
Sometimes history does repeat.
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So they just need to shout boldly, and pose dramatically, and giant robots will come to save them?
Let that sink in for a while. There were 13 others between Cadence and her!
And they're all being dumped into creating something nasty.
Discord, "In my defense... Nightmare Eclipse took every incident of collateral damage from my games, from every timeline we wen through, and edited events those always happened afterwards... Seriously, you think I'd WANT to PURPOSELY wiped out my own toys?"
Obsidian Zephyr, "The crystal ponies are the ones who wanted to hide from their own feelings. They should blame themselves."
Radiant Hope, "No! Sombey isn't an evil overlord... he's... just misunderstood! That's all!"
"CRYSTALSSSSSSSSSS!"
Radiant Hope, "VERY misunderstood!"
"Fear! Darkness! Blood! Come unto me!"
Radiant Hope, "VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY misunderstood! And he had a bad foalhood!"
Crystal Pony,, "We're living crystals, do we even have blood?"
Crystal Pony, "I don't wanna find out!"
"Element of Deceit for a 1000 years darlin', ya pick up a few things."
You expect less from he pony pov series?
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Pretty much.
Yes, I get that.
Precisely.
No. So that's ONE point in your favor.
Even you don't believe this at this point.
Not sure.
Ya don't say?
Of course, of course, whatever you say.
Point taken.
Lovely.
No kidding.
Relax, relax, I understand.
A, the dark side of the moon, B, why NOT Mulan, and C, I refuse to make a reference to Bay's movie.
Eh.
Point taken.
Yeah, not pulling the pin on that grenade.
You're talking to someone who watched The Next Generation AND Deep Space 9. ALL of it. Back to back. WOrth it.
Yes. Yes it is.
Hm.
You REALLY need to work on that name, yes. How about, Fantasia? Just Fantasia.
=I suppose a lot of you readers may be a little confused on what everypony meant by 'my awakening' during the second war with that brute Grogar while we were in the Empire. Well wait no longer, darlings.=
Who are you?
Ah, Applejack, they're right, I do need to put introductions of whose talking at the start.
What does Gaiden even mean?
To be fair, Mothers are good at that, and she's literally the Mother of All, and Empathy incarnate, if she couldn't, then she wouldn't be good at doing her job, which in paradoxical seeing as she IS her job, so if she wasn't good at her job, she wouldn't be good at being her, and this is giving me a headache.
Oh my god this is the greatest thing that has ever happened. This is amazing!
Well, hard to tell a story without imagination.
Yep. Would have been hysterical.
I know, I know.
This I like, small bit of philosophy without becoming preachy.
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It means side story.
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Did you read the fallen generosity story that went with this?
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Link?
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It's basically a continuation of a pony pov dark world's alt reality fanfic that was abandoned by the original author, then someone commissioned Ken to finish it as a birthday gift to the original author.
Author's original story:
http://saphroneth.deviantart.com/art/Pony-POV-series-Epilogue-alternate-Contingency-310095331
http://saphroneth.deviantart.com/art/Pony-POV-series-Epilogue-alternate-Absolution-313658648
http://saphroneth.deviantart.com/art/Pony-POV-series-Epilogue-alternate-Determinism-320849780
This is the continuation/completion story Ken was commissioned as a gift
http://kendell2.deviantart.com/art/Fallen-Generosity-Chapter-1-Contemplation-567843693
http://kendell2.deviantart.com/art/Fallen-Generosity-Chapter-2-Confliction-576032799
http://kendell2.deviantart.com/art/Fallen-Generosity-Chapter-3-1-Finality-584295360
http://kendell2.deviantart.com/art/Fallen-Generosity-Chapter-3-2-Finality-584295941
http://kendell2.deviantart.com/art/Fallen-Generosity-Chapter-3-3-Finality-584296502
What a wonderful family. I really do love the combination of the Apples and the Pies. Together, they sound delicious and juicy.
I know, bad joke.
This was a lovely chapter. And sure did answered a few questions concerning the two conflicting timelines. Oh and.........
Ouch.
Never knew Rota to be the vengeful type. Was still funny though.
This chapter put a lot smiles on my face, especially with Apple Smith's appearance. You have no idea how happy I was for Applejack when she was reunited with her grandma.
And boy, having Pinkie Pie and Surprise throwing a party at the same time must be one hell of a time to be in.
This was fun and heartwarming to read.
Wow.............this chapter was absolutely wonderful. Has funny moments, but it was also very, VERY heart warming.
It was extremely nice to see that Rainbow Dash got to have her favorite drink again. Good ole Apple Cider.
It was very wonderful to see Pinkie and Fluttershy again. Pinkie always makes me smile.
Very nice of Discord to get his well deserved gifts after being denied for so long.
And best of all, Rarity got to see her sister for one last time for who knows how long. And this time, they can savor it. That was a wonderful Christmas present to her. One she really deserves. I am so happy for her.
And you know what, just because of this chapter alone, I'm adding it to my David Crespo's Picks list. This fic deserves to be listed and honored by yours truly.
I loved this chapter. The emotions, expressions, drama and realism of what the two characters felt towards each other was well articulated. The pacing was superb and well timed. And the resolution between them, when Diamond repented and sought forgiveness and friendship, and received them, was so sweet to read.
The dialogue was great and reading the exchange from both POV was enough to pull my heartstrings. Wonderful chapter.
Also:
Yeah, I can definitely understand the fear factor in a situation where someone literally believes hurting you is an expression of love and being nice.............especially if you are powerless to do something about it except run. *shivers*
This was sweet. And that ending was...........humorous.
First of all, seeing Discord and Fluttercruel throwing a temper tantrum in this chapter was very humorous.
Secondly:
I'm happy for Anasi. And I'm glad to see that universe has four survivors. The more the merrier.
6840120 I read all of them just now and I really liked them..........though I will be honest, I really get annoyed with ambiguous endings, but I understand their purposes and just have to accept them.
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I wish Ken would give you some feedback, you're nice enough to give HIM feedback. I'm happy you're so passionate about the verse. You read Majesty's saga yet?
7335127 Uh no, not familiar with it. Where can I find it?