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Autumnschild


Words are coming.

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This story is a sequel to Princess Twilight Sparkle's 505th Birthday


Smarty Pants, Honeycrisp, and Sandy find themselves stuck in the salad days of Equestria, four hundred and eighty years in the past. Can they get back without screwing up everything?

Probably not.


This story is a direct continuation of Princess Twilight Sparkle’s 505th Birthday, which is itself a continuation of Princess Twilight Sparkle’s 500th Birthday. To really get a grasp on what’s going on you should give both of those a read in the right order. You can skip them if you'd like but... Oh boy, will you have questions.

Notes:
- Cover art commissioned by HAK2. Check out his other stuff, too.
- This is a story in the Birthdayverse.
- Many thanks to my faithful Pre-Reader and all around super-duper best pony, Blood Lord go read his story, too!
- And thanks to the newest pre-reader to join in the craziness, Razalon The Lizardman. Keeper of the mighty Em dash! Go read his stuff, too!
- Dedicated to my wife. Her love keeps me going and her snark keeps me smiling.

As always, please leave comments and critiques.

Chapters (7)
Comments ( 346 )

Whoo! I've been waiting for this one! :pinkiehappy: In the tradition of my getting FIRST COMMENT, a short review shall be appended to this at a later date, after reading the beginning.

AND NOW THE REVIEW!
*minor spoilers, major if you've not read 505*
First of all, :yay: :whoohoo: :yay: I only started reading this series in the past month or so, and I'm hooked. Everything is balanced just right. Adventure, comedy, a fair bit of darkness... And I can kind of see that starting to surface here.

The story opens up where we left off. Smarty Pants and Co. are in Ponyville almost 480 years in the past, and the author opens with a bit of a recap, reintroducing our main trio and a few things that happened. This was actually kind of good, it having been a little while since 505. It doesn't last very long, so readers coming off of 505 won't be in for a long boring recapitulation of old facts, but it's packed with enough info for people right now.

As always, the characterization is spot-on, and getting to see some of the Mane 5 in a slice-of-life setting was pretty awesome. I especially liked Pinkie. Just cuz.

Something I have to mention: everybody look at the Fic Pic really closely. Right now, I'm calling there's going to be Back to the Future time-shenanigans going on before the gig is up. In the past stories we've had some sort of despicable horror. It's going to come back, and this time it's going to be the threat of the main trio never having been born. The prologue seems to hint at this, and between the two, well, that's my call.

The only thing I'm gonna ding you on is that it wasn't clear who was where and why at first. Since it has been a while, it was hard to remember that Sandy had already been discovered, while Smarty and Honeycrisp were still hidden. The positioning was kind of confusing until I went back and reread the end of 505's epilogue. Luckily, this didn't impact the story much, and it's the only thing that holds it back at ALL!

I look forward to reading the rest, so far it's pretty awesome!

Always glad to FIRST!
conanthedelorean

Yaay! I've been waiting for like.... forever :pinkiehappy:

So, is this +505 Discord who's come back with them, or Current Discord who somehow knows what's going on? I've got five bits on the latter. :trixieshiftright:

Loved it!! Can't wait for next chapter...

I imagine anyone who hasn't read the first two stories won't be asking questions given how much was explained in the beginning. Just saying. :twilightsheepish:

Sure were a lot of uses of the word 'dead' there at the end, not that I'm complaining. :pinkiecrazy:

All in all, MOAR! :flutterrage:

If you don't mind that is . . . :fluttershysad:

Those vittles fer Twilight’s party won’t bake’n deliver themselves.

Victuals.

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I do like victuals, but I think I will stick with vittles, as it's one of my favorite 14th century words for grub. But thanks so much for your comment and suggestion! :pinkiesmile:

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Victuals - Look at the pronunciation and the definition.

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Still working on FS's 750th B-day. Imma send some of it later tonight.

YES YES YES FINALLY!
The mosr awaited by me story is here!

Instant like+fav, I don't even need to read it to be sure it's a masterpiece.

Comment posted by conantheimp deleted Mar 21st, 2014

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Ah. You raise an excellent point, that compliments the original commenter's point. I shall change it in the morning. Thanks to both of you for helping me make the story better.

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Excellent point on the who was where flub. I tried to keep it clear, but I will be sure to avoid situations where the positioning of folks is circumspect.

And thanks for the review :twilightsmile:

IT'S OUT!!! :raritystarry:

This makes me happy.

Yet we see the rather successful beginning of another great story in the Birthdayverse.

It has arrived!

I saw this coming even though I knew it was coming anyways because it was this story that made me read the others. With the whole Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie knowing them in the tides of magic and all that... I really with you would update this again every minute until it is finished....

Haha. Dude, can't wait to see where this goes.

I just noticed that all three PTS Birthdayverse stories are now in the Popular stories box. Wonder why? :derpytongue2:

OK we have started it! Good Timing on my part to finish the 505th B-day story a day before this one started.

4120775 you said it! I finished about an hour ago. Didn't see this coming.

Comment posted by Lord-Commander deleted Mar 23rd, 2014

I've put this on my read-later list to keep an eye on it.

Any idea how frequently new chapters will be finished?

need...moar!

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Once a week on average.

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Vittles - Look at the pronunciation and the definition. There is absolutely no way that Applejack would spell it "victuals".

oh good!:pinkiehappy: I've been waiting for this since the 505 ended:flutterrage:

"Hello Smartyosnts. You're dead."

Totally appropriate Q quote there.

Made an account just to post. Sigh... I had so much to do today. Somewhere I saw a link for Princess Twilight Sparkle's 500th birthday. Read the description. "Oh hey that sounds different. Maybe I'll read it when I have time." I found a few minutes, skipped through a few paragraphs, went back and read from the beginning. And now here I am, 6ish hours later. I read the whole thing. And I loved it. It is brilliantly executed with believeable characters and simply fun to read and get into. I can't recommend your work enough. I loved watching your universe expand and develop as the story went on. Thank you for letting me have a few great hours. I can't wait for this series.

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I made an account the same way! I finished a story and just had to comment on it. I think it was something by SS&E. Thanks so much for the kind words, hope I didn't keep you from too much today! :twilightsheepish:

Sandy nodded, and Smarty Pants began counting out on her forehooves. “Option the first: We’re not in trouble because we are actually dead.”

“Dead?!” squeaked Sandy. “I don’t want to be dead!”

“Who’s dead?” asked Honeycrisp, trotting down from up the road.
“We’re dead,” said Sandy with watery eyes and trembling lips.

This bit of news stopped the red unicorn in her tracks. “We’re dead?”

“Maybe,” said Smarty Pants holding up a foreleg.

I loved this conversation.:rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh::rainbowlaugh:

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Good spot on the Back to the Future thing. We can also guess that it is on the Pinkie side because it's only happening to Smarty.

Well, I just marathoned both 500th and 505th. Both were a lot of fun and held fascinating headcannon and were exceptionally well written. I now find myself here, eagerly awaiting seeing how things all got started... As well as some adorable FlutterMac. Any chance we can hint or peek at who the other girls end up with, if anyone at all?

Heh, sorry. I'm a shipper. :twilightsheepish:

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Sorry no hints at this time. But I am glad to hear you had fun reading up until now. More will be revealed as the chapters go on. :eeyup:

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:yay:

Is there any kind of update schedule? Of is it the time-honored system of "whenever the hell I can find time?"

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Every Thursday, baring interuptions. I've got a two chapter buffer :raritywink:

Alright, having read the first two in this series, I can safety say, you've got my fav and follow.

Another great story!:pinkiehappy:

Is this the story that will reveal WHY Celestia and Luna went into hiding?

:pinkiehappy: yes. yes they are.:moustache:

had to do for a lime green pegasus

missed an r on that hard.

It's the box? The story is about the box? I was not expecting that.

Ok, the whole impostor Discord is Current Discord(current being relative to Smarty and pals) thing was amazingly well done. Made me go back to catch all the hints once I figured it out, which I love doing. And now we know how the windigoes got free.

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Thanks for catching that!

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Ok, the whole impostor Discord is Current Discord(current being relative to Smarty and pals) thing was amazingly well done.

I for the life of me couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on there. Mind explaining?

Oh, and great chapter as always Autumnschild. I look forward to the shenanigans that shall ensue now that the fillies' predicament is known to their great-to-a-great-degree grandparents. :trollestia:

So we finally know what form of time-travel that Celestia gave Discord and its the "creates an alternate timeline when you change the past," type. This fic-verse is created when Discord travels back in time and steals the box of harmony splitting off from the show timeline.

That retroactively makes "505th Birthday," kind of depressing because for the timeline we saw where the Beacon of Order was defeated there were dozens? of splinter timelines from failed attempts where all of Equestria remains brainwashed and starves to death.

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