Dan Vs. The Magic of Friendship(Season 1)

by Barrobroadcaster

Resort: Dantasy Island- Canterlantis

Captain America and Redfield took the lead, clearing their way through the jungle. Some of the plants were similar to ones in the Everfree Forest, others were of kinds that none of them had ever seen. The trees were tall, creating a partial canopy over them as they trekked. There were a few bugs, horse and dragon flies mostly, but not as many as those in the Everfree Forest. Actually, it was a little more comfortable than the Everfree Forest and even had a breeze.

Privately, this reminded Dan of when he first arrived in Ponyville. It was strange how things went in circles, changing subtly and moving forward in small steps. Like walking in a circle until you've dug a trench. They were somewhere between coincidence and destiny, walking a middle path, right between the two of them through both future and past.

"I don't know, sir," Reginald said, "if I'm more relieved or concerned... by the fact that this island is formerly inhabited."

Tuxley nodded. "The sooner we find signs of the previous occupants of the island, the sooner we'll know whether relief or concern is in order. You brought enough supplies for the documentation, did you not?"

Reginald patted his saddlebag. "Naturally, sir."

"We're not here to take the tour," Dan reminded them. "We scope the place out, find out if there's anything we can use, get us off the island and if we can move the rest of the group here. That means we do this quick and we try not to disturb anything."

"Of course, Master Dan," the two gents replied.

"Hmmph. You telling people to be careful," Chris Redfield commented aloud. "Odd to see from someone who worked for Umbrella for so long."

"I'm always cautious, Redfield," Dan said back. "I've always done my best to follow rule numero-uno."

"And that is?"

"Safety first," the group except Redfield replied. He shook his head and continued on. To be fair, Dan had drilled that into all of them, Chris included, for a while now. Redfield should've gotten the message by now.

The jungle was dense, but started to sparse up a bit. Dan gradually dropped back to where Tux, Reginald and Redfield were bringing up the rear. Cap with his shield was in front, Chris in back with his gun to cover point and rear.

"Chris."

"Dan."

"Keep your voice down," he said, lowering his own voice. "Keep an eye on Khannie... okay?"

Chris glanced at him. "Okay...?" It begged the question why, so Dan answered.

"You know that Star Trek ship docked at Cloudsdale?"

"Yeah."

Dan gestured at Khan with his forehead. "Twilight's brother and Cadence are still on it. And Khan's got a communicator in his pocket he could use to call them and tell them to beam us up. Like in the movie. The thing has range for thousands of miles, so, it could reach us here, I bet."

Chris looked between the two of them. "Then why doesn't he use it? We could get off this island right now."

"SHHHH. I don't know why, but I'm pretty sure it isn't because he's enjoying island life," Dan said. "I didn't want to do this in front of the entire camp. I'm going to confront him about this and if he doesn't comply... you'll make him. Got it?"

"I got it," Chris said, frowning and turning back ahead. He gripped his rifle a bit tighter. Khan was ahead of them, looking almost at home as he made his way through the jungle.

Dan looked over at Khan. "You still don't trust me. Because I worked with the Umbrella Corporation."

Chris glared slightly at Dan, then stopped. "No. I don't trust you because you kept working for Umbrella... after everything came about them."

"Well," Dan said, licking his lips, "I can honestly say I wasn't involved with any of the... bio-terror stuff."

Chris looked over at him again. "The bio-terror stuff? Yeah... I guess you could call it that. I can't tell you what kind of a living hell that... 'bio-terror stuff' has made my life. And the lives of people I know."

"Well," Dan said again, eyes forward. "I can tell you one more thing." He looked over at Redfield, said nothing until the other man was looking at him right in the face. His eye briefly changed from Dan's normal green eye to a larger green eye. "I'm not Dan."

Redfield's jaw dropped... but then closed. "Chrys?"

Chrys, as Dan, nodded. "Keep it down. Dan is back at camp, we swapped when we set out."

"But how...?" Chris looked back and fourth. Khan and Gust were up front with Captain America, Captain Springer and Spinner were somewhere overhead with Rainbow Dash and Daring Do, Lightning Claw had the Magic Gears on his back. Every one of Dan's enemy-turned-friends were isolated and away from the beach. "I just realized... everyone that Dan doesn't really like a whole lot is out here."

Chrys glared at him. "Trust me, if everyone that Dan didn't like was on this island, you wouldn't be able to see this island. Besides, Dan and Phoenix are pretty much inseparable at this point. They don't hardly go anywhere without each other."

"And that doesn't bother you as his girlfriend?"

"Nnnope," Chrys grinned.

"We should be careful," Khan said, loud enough for them all to hear. "Some of the biggest threats in the jungle can be the smallest of creatures. Insects. Poisonous plants."

"He's right," Cap said. "Diseases carried by mosquitos, flies and other things. Even leaves and fungus."

"At least there's a breeze," Gust added. They all were in agreement of that fact. And strangely, the breeze was keeping the level of bugs to a minimum.

Khan stopped as they were passing a tree. Flowers were blooming on a vine that wrapped around and up the bark, orange and yellow. The tree itself was not of the tropical region, and the flowers looked non-native as well.

Tuxley and Reginald stopped. "Ah. That's err... a McGiver's Orchid, I believe. Quite rare."

"It's beautiful," Khan said. Despite the earlier precautions, he reached out to gently touch the petals of the flower. It rippled but didn't shrink at his touch, responding to the stimulation.

"Yes, the orchid grows on the vine that embeds itself in the tree's bark as it rises. The tree benefits from extra sunlight and the flower collects dew as the tree grows. It's a very beneficial symbiotic relationship," Reginald explained. "They're both able to reach higher heights together."

"Fascinating," Khan said. He was absolutely enamored by the flower. He placed his hand on the bark near it, strong, sturdy. The tree and the flower would grow tall indeed, perhaps even to tower over, but not consume the canopy.

"You okay, Khan?" Chrys-Dan asked.

"I am... fine, yes. Thank you. I'm uh, familiar with flowers like these."

Chris, Cap, Reginald and Tux looked to 'Dan.' He shrugged. "What? He's allowed to have hobbies."

"Hey guys?" Gust yelled from up ahead. "We're here. I think you might like this place."

Chrys-Dan pushed his way to the front. "Alright, what are we looking at here, Gust. Because if I trek through jungle for the better part of ten minutes, I expect to see... something..." he trailed off. "...good." They all joined him, shoulder to shoulder, and for a moment none of them said a word. They had all been captured, just as Khan had with the flower, by what was in front of them.

And then Chrys strangled Gust. "YOU KNEW THIS WAS HERE?!?! THE WHOLE SqueeING TIME?!?! WHAT IN THE SqueeING Squee IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!"

"Goodness! Master Dan, I don't believe that's-"

"Never really seen Dan go this hard on Gust before," Cap said. "Alright, break it up you two. C'mon, let go." Cap pulled on Chrys, not knowing it was Dan and his arms stayed wrapped around Gust's neck for a moment, stretching impossibly long. He pried his fingers off and finally, Chrys let loose.

"Canterlantis," Khan said, reading the sign. "Royal Luxury Resort and Spa."

In front of them stood the lost city of Canterlantis. Sand and coral-colored buildings stretched out a long a cleared path through the jungle, stretching for several miles at least. The island was indeed massive. In front of them was a fence long-since worn away. The sign proclaiming the place as Canterlantis was a billboard halfway down the street. A trolley was parked at the end nearest to them, sand covering its wheels.

"That... can't be correct," Reginald said, perplexed. "Canterlantis is underwater. Isn't it?"

"Come now, Reginald. Eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, however unlikely, must be the truth," Tux reminded him. "Though, I'm not sure how far away this truth is from the impossible."

"Maybe this place was just using the name," Cap suggested. "There are resorts like this on Earth. They sometimes took the names of mythical cities. Shambala, El Dorado, Paradiso."

"No, this is it," Gust said. "This is Canterlantis." He held up a blue pad, one of the remote displays from the carrier. "Sonar data from the Bass Cannon went further than any of us even anticipated. This is the only Canterlantis in Equestria."

"Or... the only Canterlantis... in this Equestria," 'Dan' remarked. She stepped over the fallen-over fence. "Well, we came all this way. Might as well look around."

The humans, dinosaur, pony and griffon entered the main road of the resort. The buildings all resembled Earth in the 50s, which meant it looked a lot like Phillydelphia, Manehattan or one of Equestria's cities today, a strong indication the buildings hadn't been there that long.

"Eyes open. Everyone, eyes open."

"Dan!" Rainbow Dash and Daring yelled before swooping down. "Dan, did you see the signs?"

"Even I have a hard time believing what I'm seeing," Daring Do said.

"It does seem to make sense, Miss Do," Tuxley said.

"I know," Daring nodded. "All this time we were looking for Canterlantis and it wasn't under the ocean at all. It was on land. An island all this time."

'Dan' folded his arms. "Uh, to remind everyone, our evidence so far is a novelty sign and the rubber chicken's iPad so maybe we shouldn't jump to conclusions."

Back at the beach, Phoenix Wright felt his logic senses tingling. "Hmmm."

"Something wrong, Phoenix?" Twilight asked.

"No... actually, I have a feeling something just went very right for a moment," Phoenix said. (A small thing, but a good thing. We could use more of those.)

"Oh. Why is Dan hiding behind the cutout of Fluffle Puff?"

"No, this is actually Fluffle Puff," Dan said, popping up from behind her. But in the moment the scene changed, so did the Fluffle Puff. "Now she's a cardboard cutout," he said, as the cutout fell over. "AAHHG!"

The group walked down the street. Rainbow Dash and Daring joined them. "Okay, we saw a few spots we should check out."

"There's a castle AND an amusement park here," Rainbow said. "I can't believe they never told anypony about this place. A resort island? A resort island WITH ROLLERCOASTERS? Islands don't get more awesome than that."

"This sand isn't the same sand as on the beach," Reginald said. "Sir, look."

Tux examined it closer with his inspector's eyeglass. "You're right, Reginald. This sand is artificial."

"Fake sand?" 'Dan' said. "And why does a beach resort need fake sand?"

"I have no idea," Cap said. "But this far from the mainland, they must've used something to transport all this here. Boats or airships."

"Let's check the castle first," 'Dan' said. "Rainbow, head back to Twilight and tell her to get us some more help to search these buildings. Tell Dan and Phoenix-"

"Mrrm-hrrmmm," Redfield cleared his throat.

"I mean uh, Chrys and Nick that we've found Canterlantis... or something like Canterlantis."

"Right, I'm on it."

"Also!" 'He' stopped her before she leaped into the air again. Dan checked his 'watch.' "It's Fluffle Puff's snack time and we're rationing her ham supply. She gets half ham between now and noon but no more, even if she begs."

Rainbow stared at Dan for a solid second. "What."

'Dan' frowned. "Fluffle eats ham. Hams. Just tell Twilight she can feed her now." Fluffle Puff, being the oldest creature in Equestria, was more than capable of feeding herself but she lacked any semblance of self-control. So Twilight and Chrys had taken it upon themselves to feed Chrys her favorite food: entire fudge-covered honey-maple-caramel coated cream-injected and chocolate sprinkled ham.

Originally conceived by Pinkie Pie, it had no official name because Pinkie was distracted after she made it. The meal concoction was more sugar than ham and Fluffle's favorite snack food. Her favorite regular food was pie.

"O-kay," Rainbow said, and zipped off to carry out the order.

"Let's check out that castle," 'Dan' announced. They set off, now with Daring Do among them, to see the castle at the end of the sandy road. After a few minutes of walking, they came up to the castle to see something else they didn't expect: the royal symbol of Princess Luna adorning the front.

Comments

[thatguy45]

this is still season 1? Jesus

[Booster Spice]

Luna:And This is why I headed to the Moon for a vacation.

[Barrobroadcaster]

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And simultaneously, I'm writing Season 2, Season 0 and the movie. And other stories.

[Razzy]

Secret agent Chrys.

To be fair, Umbrella Corp. did have, like, a million divisions and departments, some not even remotely related to bioweapons. Maybe Dan worked at the cafeteria. :B

Yay, a meal that will give you both diabetes and arteriosclerosis.

'Cap pulled on Chrys, not knowing it was Dan and his arms stayed wrapped around Gust's neck for a moment' - I think Chrys and Dan switched places on this sentence.

[LadyLeomon]

I may not be the first this week but I am indeed earlier than usual, yay

Oy vey I am really looking forward to my weekly dose of Dan-sanity this week! Yesterday wasn't one of my best days, funny thing is nothing really happened, it was just my own irrational anxieties taking over, partly due to backup data backing up when I didn't want it to (don't ask) then secondly thinking I had lost something I kept as a sentimental reminder. Nothing I can do about the former but I ended up finding the latter today and now I feel a lot better and can enjoy this week's chapter in peace! Now where was I? Oh yes:

A new chapter means it's ~Sunday~ now lemme see here (dons reading glasses) Okay, so ...

~Oh a-hunting will go!~
~Wherever the chapter goes!~
~An island with filled with lotsa sand~
~Led by our angry leader: Dan~
~Don't forget Fluffle's dinner ham!~

... Sorry! I was watching an episode of Simpsons and Homer was singing this jingle, so I decided to gift 'Dan' and Friends with a cheery jingle to repay them for all the smiles they give me

Ahem, now back to the review at hand! It is so enjoyable that Mr Tuxley and Mr Reginald are joining today's adventures, all polished and ready for the new day (as any gentleman should be) and ready to document this new island for the betterment of the academic world! (Good grief, talking proper is hard work!)

Huh, Khannie has an inner botanist(florist?)? ... Sounds legit! ... Grrr! Do we really need to keep Redfield around?! Cap is *way* more useful than he is (so long as no one tough enough to crack his shield comes along!) besides Redfield is chafing my hide worse than an angry Ride Sharpedo with the Rough Skin Ability I do apologise for the language Mr Tuxley, but he does irk me so! Also, if Dan had gotten involved in the BOW side then ... Umbrella would've won and there would've been no games following the original 3! So sound yourself lucky Redfield, Dan can either be your most awesome, super-cool friend or the most terrifying, fear-inspiring enemy

Wow, Dan is really whaling on Gust-ohh that's Chrys! Hehe oh Chryssy, you got me again! I should've known Dan wouldn't have gone anywhere without the team's resident Ace Attorney, but she's getting better at this!

What the fudge?! Seriously if I find out Canterlantis is just the Pony equivalent of some crappy, Earth resort I'm leaving ... Till next chapter!

Uh-oh, Fluffle needs her snack! Fly Rainbow! Fly! (Seriously that snack ... I'm not sure if I should be drooling with the weirdbeauty of it or just gagging from the image of such polar opposites in the same dish

Now for my favourite quotes:
(TBA just wanna post this before the app decides to crash!)

Phew, and that is everything I love (most) about this week's Dan-tastic adventure! Like I mentioned earlier I really needed it after yesterday, thank you for my weekly refresher Mr Barro (how is Michael doing finding that legit raffle ticket line?)

Like always thank you for this latest Dan-sane chapter and I shall be right here awaiting the next. I swear on my honour as a Lady Knight of Engalos (seriously I just loved that part so much, thank you again)

Awesome as always and I'll see you ~next time~

Your Eternal Fan =^_^=

[Barrobroadcaster]

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He worked in the construction division. Dan holds two PhDs, his first in architectural engineering and the second in electrical engineering from Adams College in southern California. He's a graduate of San Gmod High, class of 1995 along with Chris.

I've had to take some(a lot) of liberties with Dan's backstory, such as changing his age and adjusting where he was from, certain details about him to differentiate him from the creator of the show who he is based on. This is why Dan has no set last name, though it was at some point Mandel.

Dan was raised by a largely apathetic mother after the bitter divorce and death of his father in a school shooting, the fake and empty apologies being the reason for his revenge obsession, which mirror's Vice Grip's own motives.

Dan, Chris and Ted have worked for a lot of different evil organizations as contractors, mostly in construction because of their unrivaled benefits. Would you rather work long hours, day and night for little pay at some store where you have to clean up shit and deal with the occasional vandal or criminal threatening to shoot up the place or for an allegedly evil multinational corporation and retire in 4 years with lifelong health insurance including dental and vision? Dan has personally worked for everyone from Hank Scorpio to Dr. X(from Mr. Show) and for organizations like CEC, Czerka Corporation, HYDRA, Umbrella Corporation and pretty much most everything you can imagine.

The show is set in an alternate version of 2003 with Dan crossing over into Equestria on October 22nd at 1.44 p.m. PST. Chris and Elise crossed over into Equestria roughly 2-3 hours later at San Garry's Mod International Airport, Gate 17. Also, though Dan has been arrested multiple times, he has never been convicted, mostly due to prosecutor incompetence. He has been defended by Marvin Grossberg and Diego Armando, but not Phoenix Wright as of yet.

Also it was supposed to be wasn't instead of was. Not sure on that one.

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I like your own Pokemon references. It's hard not to write a scene where you show up(Dan describes you as 'that anime girl') and you nab an item that increases the chance of shiny encounters before riding away on a Lycanroc.

[LadyLeomon]

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Wow, so Dan has an even more impressive resume than I thought was Dan still working for Umbrella when he got sent to Twilight's Zone (lol) or was he between contracts?

Though it makes me wonder ... just what kind of devastation could Wesker have wrought if he had gotten Dan totally onboard Umbrella's Crazy Train (I'm not talking about the train Rebecca Chambers found where everyone got eaten by the mutated leeches but just as crazy) ... not even the combined awesomeness of Leon S. Kennedy, Captain America and Shiranui could have stopped him (as well as a Dansciple and Pokéfan I'm also a big Okami fan, and Shiranui is confirmed to have been male in the Okami sequel). I guess it's a good thing Umbrella either didn't recognise Dan's true talents, couldn't afford his price or Dan just didn't wanna be bossed around ... or he hated Wesker, any of these are real possibilities!

Ahh, I always wondered how Dan always managed to avoid jail time. I guess his world is lucky he never got Phoenix on retainer full-time (yet)!

*Squee!* thank you so much! I love Dan's and Chryssy's series (Fluffle really deserves her own spin-off series and not be lumped in with the rest) but I loved Pokémon first and one of the basic morals of Pokémon is be good to your Pokémon and good things happen so I can't help but feel good when I think about it.

Thanks for the lift Lycanroc, now back to Ash in Alola with you! *Lycanroc disappears through the fourth wall* all three Lycanrocs are awesome but my girl is the only wolfie-Pokémon for me! *Hugs Yena the Mightyena* Yena was originally given to a Trainer by her Breeder but that Trainer was bad for her and ended up giving her back with physical and emotional scars (see the PokéPasta called Devolution) but she has learned to love and trust again, recovered and is now flourishing in Engalos! ... yeah, I may be a Pokéfan but I also have a dark mind =_='

A good morrow to you Mr Author and deepest regards from 'that anime girl' Sir Dan =^_^=

[Razzy]

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Huh, nice resume.

I meant that:

'Cap pulled on Chrys, not knowing it was Dan and his arms stayed wrapped around Gust's neck for a moment' should probably 'Cap pulled on Dan, not knowing it was Chrys and her arms stayed wrapped around Gust's neck for a moment', since Cap doesn't know it's Chrys.

[Barrobroadcaster]

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Hmm... maybe I should create a fictional resume for Dan.

Name: Dan
Sex: Fuck off
Age: Modern

Also, as I said, we're in the process of writing two more seasons of Dan- Season 0 and Season 2. Season 0 is going to be 12 episodes and features Dan versing the Mane 6 and others around town, trying to acclimate to life in Ponyville. Chrys serves in an antagonistic role, Vice Grip and the other OCs will not be present except for Fluffle Puff. Season 2 is the continuation of the series, the next logical step into insDanity.
The movie is the only time Dan will return to Earth to solve... unfinished business.

And finally, Gust Grasp is getting an origin story/spinoff. Apparently, people like pirate griffons that much so he's getting his own thing. Along with that, we're thinking of a Lost Episodes series because there's just so much that can be done. Once Season 1 is finished, we'll have a lot more flexibility.

Trust me when I say the Season 1 finale has about the best ending it could have. It will be very satisfying.

[Dustchu]

Hehehe, wheeeew man... I love it! Not sure what else to say, hmm...

Chrys pulled the switchiroo on them I see, hehe, interesting. I also find myself wondering if other Resident Evil characters are gonna pop up Wesker yelling for Chriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis and both Redfield and Rogers getting confused (Rogers more so maybe considering) would be amusing.

GG work fam.

[Barrobroadcaster]

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We're definitely not short of volcanoes.

[Warrior Kitten]

So Twilight and Chrys had taken it upon themselves to feed Chrys her favorite food:

Should be Fluffle not Chrys