When ponies start appearing all across Equestria claiming to have traveled from the future, Twilight Sparkle and her friends must uncover what is going on. Why do the time-travelling ponies all die after only a few moments? How did they travel through time at all? Just what has happened to the future they are coming from?
Meanwhile there is growing turmoil in the Crystal Empire as there are increasing reports of attacks made by ponies formed of strange black crystal. As the ponies of Equestria grow more nervous about the events surrounding them, Twilight is faced with the most important question of all: Can the future even be changed?
Act I of Fragmentation of Harmony
Chapters (22)
This looks interesting.
One thing I've learned while planning this story: If you write the word 'crystal' enough times, it stops looking like a real word.
Well that's unbearably ominous. Funny that perhaps Twilight's plan to stop this happening actually caused it to happen in the first place somehow.
Ooh... So that's where the Ali-Shard came from.
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By attempting to change the past they make it happen
Again.
But this time nopony will know.
4431339 That's happened to me with words so many times... Then I forget how to spell it right... Then I start wondering if I made them up and nobody can understand what I'm writing...
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Perhaps the solution is to only write using basic words, 'Simple English Wikipedia' style!
4485344 That would be hilarious! What if we convinced Webster's to cut out all non-Simple English words?
Does King Sombra appear or is at least mentioned in this story?
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He'll definitely be mentioned more often, but the assumption is that he died after his defeat via the Crystal Heart.
4514728 So then his horn WON'T be coming into play?
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...wait and see?
His horn survived. The significance of that remains to be seen.
Damn
, I hope they find a way to reverse what happened to Luna, because that's not a worthy death for her.
Just so you know, there's going to be a break in my reasonably rapid update rate. IRL stuff means I won't be at a computer for much time at all over the next few weeks, so there probably won't be another chapter for a month a least.
Oh well, at least this didn't happen at a particularly dramatic point in the story...
NOOOO LUNA!!! Poor Cetestia she just gotten Luna back after 1000 years away from here. :(
What's this? End of Act 1!?
Well not quite, there's still an epilogue to go, but otherwise, yeah, this is the end of part 1. It's probably been obvious for a while that this story is not finishing just yet. Watch this space!
Blog post with concluding notes: GftF (Act I) complete
1.) When is the sequel?
2.) Was ending with 111,111 words total in the story intentional?
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Good timing with the question! Up until a few days ago I'd been (very slowly) planning a different story, but I finally concluded that it really wasn't coming together, so I'll be back to this one now. If I can get myself back into my speedy writing schedule then you can expect the first couple of chapters of act II pretty soon. Maybe by the end of the week?
As for the word count? No it was not intentional. No I did not notice it was a neat number. No I definitely did not submit the epilogue and notice I was a few words short of 111,111 and then spend almost an hour trying to add the extra words . No, that would be stupid and pointless. Haha, nope, definitely not.
5078155 Really.
Alright, you’ve piqued my interest. Adding to my read later list.
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Finally got around to reading this. The introductory scene in the library was glorious. The part where Twilight reasons out who each of her three visitors was based on their method of ingress stands out as one of the better ways this sort of scene ever gets pulled off.
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Most embarrassing two minutes of my life.
I had the same thing happen with the word “the” once.
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So hell‐bent on revenge she’s going to let her food source go extinct? Methinks Chrysalis has gone off the deep end.
6086402 Oh boy, the fact that it's been 27 weeks and that mistake still hasn't been corrected really makes me wary of reading this. Almost as if the author doesn't care...
Awesome? Applejack just said somepony DIED, yet Rainbow is on about how awesome it is? Heck, the only emotion Twilight gave was interested. What is wrong with these ponies? I can't read anymore if you are going to write all your characters as psychopaths.