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It has been six months since the events of "The Life of a Wanted Changeling." And you, Bugze the changeling, have settled down in your new home town of Appaloosa. You've managed to buy a house, protect Nightshade (your filly) from Princess Luna, and you've lived a peaceful life (besides that comet incident and that one time you accidentally set fire to the apple orchards) as the only changeling living in plain sight. But, after receiving a letter from a certain Time Lord requesting you to head to Canterlot immediately, you can't help but feel that your life is about to become more...chaotic.
The sequel to (if you couldn't tell) "The Life of a Wanted Changeling (Comment Driven Story)", where you decide what happens! Come in, sit back, and prepare to laugh your butt off!
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Edited by Kersey475.
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Hmmm... Here are my proposed episode arcs:
-"Luna Eclipsed": As a Halloween episode, Bugze and Nightshade can essentially go as themselves (a changeling/Hooded Offender and Nightmare Moon) and even interact with Luna
-"The Mysterious Mare Do Well": HEAR ME OUT! We have an opportunity to essentially make a superior version of the episode with "Mysterious Mare Do Well vs Hooded Offender" capped off with Bugze calling out the Mane 6 on their actions
-"Dragon Quest": Hooded Offender vs Dragons! Plus an opportunity for Bugze to potentially acquire some dragon treasure to help pay off the Doctor's debt or even get payback in a rematch with a certain dragon...
Depends wether or not the "Hooded Offender" would return. There's a bunch of good ones can could go well with a mysterious hooded figure. And even still there's good ones without it. Maybe it'll be a Nightmare Night costume. Maybe he'll see Fluttershy at Hurricane Fluttershy.
Maybe he'll meet Blueblood again at Sweet and Elite as El Hunko.
Maybe there'll be some love shenanigans with Hearts and Hooves Day.
Maybe a fight with Spike in Secret of My Excess would happen.
Maybe he'll accidently crash the Heartswarming eve play.
Maybe there'll be more backstory of his Grandbuggy in Family Appreciation day.
Meet Derpy in the Last Roundup?
Give Dashie a try for Sherclop Holmes during Read it and Weep?
Fuck, this story is damn flexible for these situations and so damn hard to pick favourites, we'll actually end up needing to vote for these kinds of episodes. Otherwise, I'd pick the two most bottom listed episodes of Season 2 and attempt to make it BETTER than the original!
YES! It's out!
Pretty decent recap. Please keep up the good work, man.
good story glad that are writing more for this story
Oh, I would love to read about Bugze dealing with Discord in the season premiere.
*thinks*
YES!!!
Seriously:
1. May the Best Pet Win: No idea how this would work, but it's one of my favorite episodes in the series.
2. Hurricane Fluttershy/Putting Your Hoof Down: Considering we gave Flutters some tough love on the train from Appleloosa, it makes sense for Bugze to be there to help her be more confident when the time comes. Doing both might be overkill, though.
3. Ponyville Confidential: The CMC chasing after the Hooded Offender for an exclusive story/blackmail exposé? Why not?
The return of harmony - make bugze meet with discord on the premiere
with the amount of chaos during the last gala discord might have some interest on him
Hearts and hooves day . its about time bugze gets some love whether he wants/likes it or not. make some mare find who he is and love him anyway
The mysterious mare do well - since he was/is a masked hero/villain might be a good episode for him also
Luna eclipsed - he should also have some quality time with nightshade during nightmare night(if lady luck permits it of course)
You have a feeling that your GrandBuggy could beat Discord in a chaos-off... 'yeah Grandbuggy would win' You think to yourself.
4890820 well, for may the best pet win, he adopts a timberwolf, phoenix, or manticore and has that pet compete in the challenges, or he saves rainbow with tank
Bugze should take a bite out of the MMM
Make a recap on Bugze abilities and equipments...
I don't know about how some episodes might playout but maybe in Luna Eclipse, we can have Bugze having a not exactly friendly but civilized conversation with Luna in private that sorta reduce them to acquaintances not enemy (or become neutral if you don't get it).
Still, I don't have much to add without the material.
Okay, since no-one's suggested it yet. Baby cakes.
Now you might be thinking "Oh geez man, the one with the two troublesome twins? Why would you want that?
Well... just think of the possibilities.
Pinkie: *Panicking hysterically* "You! Changeling, whatever-your-name-is! HELP ME! They won't stop crying!"
Bugzy: "But I don't know how to deal with babies!"
And then Nightshade spills flour on them, causing Pumpkin and Pound to start laughing.
Or maybe at one point the twins make Nightshade their leader, and they become a group of vigilante toddlers with a name like "The Midnight Hot-cakes" or something, on a mission to stop crime and devour delicious baked goods.
Ya know it would be cool if it turned out that the magic staff plays dubstep.
Yes this is my first comment fot season 2.
Cuz dubstep is awesome.
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oh here's some dubstep by the way.
Good job dwc.
I would really like to see bugze in the return of harmony part 1 and 2
Bugze really need to be
It's not easy to be a many's favorite vigilante and adoration of many mares across Equestria.
4892096 correction, Night Shade should eat ALL the treats
4897659 steals the grand prize right out from under Pinkie's mouth at the end, huh?
Ok guys. It's a new season, so let's try not to put paragraphs of suggestions in right away.
Also, the episode I want is it's about time.
Wait.
Is that...
In the distance...
IT'S AN IDEA!
HOODED OFFENDER VS MYSTERIOUS MARE DO WELL VS RAINBOW DASH SUPER HERO FACE OFF.
What, he's retired? WELL, UN-RETIRE HIM.
Hang on, i'll get back to you, gotta think this through.
Since he is back in Appaloosa or however you spell it, something like this should happen except with two buffalo tribes instead of two native american tribes.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S5V1TINLIe4
its a scene from a movie called shanghai noon, if you haven't seen it I would totally recommend watching it here
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nbmC93fjjZc
seriously, go watch it
just copy and paste the links
Stay hidden and continue with your endevour.
You stop and watch dumbfounded at this occurrence and proceed to go through the possible causes. After some thinking you decide that it's just mother nature, but a voice that sounds like Q from star trek continuously laughs at the back of your mind.
when you were thinking it was just mother nature you found out that you are in the middle of patch of poison joke and curse your luck.
I like the setting so far.
Discord + bugze = FUBAR. (F-ed up beyond all recognition)
Must resist... Urge to sing... Chocolate Rain!
Lyra says something about humans, hands, and/or worries about where Bon Bon is
Nightshade pops out and starts drinking the chocolate milk rain (while also being upset that she can't fly to eat the cotton candy clouds) before joining in on devouring the chocolate-milk-filled cotton candy clouds, popcorn field, and giant apples (it's been a while since breakfast so you join her, but the apples taste different with every bite for some reason)
After a brunch break, get on a train to Canterlot, only for the Mares to also be on that train
Speaking of the link, I propose OK GO's "Here It Goes Again" as the season's theme cause I get the feeling that Bugze's going back on the run (the story is still titled The Life of a Wanted Changeling) again and will probably have quite a few cases of deja vu hijinks. Plus the tone of the song fits the comedy tone of the story
Continue on. Maybe this is normal weather for this place. (You and I know it isn't, but he doesn't :))
this seasons theme song eh? hmmmmm how about dracovallis the return of the hero?
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You shout, "IT MUST BE RABBIT SEASON!" and No Shadow Kick into the hoard of rabbits chasing the unicorn, scattering them. You turn to the unicorn as smile, saying "If only there were some ducks around, too."
She looks at you blankly.
You chuckle. "'Cause then you could say, 'No, it's duck season.' And then I say 'Rabbit season!' And you say, 'Duck season' again. And..."
She quirks an eyebrow at you.
You sigh. "Just got back and I'm already 0-for-1 on the references. Brilliant."
You will get a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide from Discord as well as a towel and the foreboding comment-"you're going to need these". Queue the Mane 6 thinking you're in league with the living embodiment of disharmony.
PS: Carefully collect some poison joke to use on the Mane 6 in case of emergencies.
First things first, let's try to get our bearings on the situatio- Is that a table and chairs made out of red velvet cake?
So after you and Nightshade consumed the red velvet cake furniture (which turned into blue velvet cake halfway through), you realize that everything is totally flipping bonkers today. Seriously, the ground is now a checkerboard, houses are flying through the air upside down, and you could have sworn you saw the sky get replaced by an error code for a few seconds. It's Chaos! Chaos everywhere!
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A few possibilities for how all this happened fly through your buggy head:
- The Doctor's time machine is malfunctioning and it's bringing all of Equestria down with it.
- Pinkie discovered how to use magic, and accidentally broke reality in an attempt to throw the biggest party the multiverse had ever seen.
- Aliens from space have invaded and as a result, disrupted the fragile magic balance that keeps the world in check.
- It's opposite day.
Each reason terrifies you more than the last, but whatever is going on, you realize that going unnoticed just became the least of your worries.
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Also, theme song suggestion!
You decide that A this isn't your problem and you shouldn't get involved and B this town is weird.
Thats when you somehow managed to slip up a path covered with soap and up a waterfall made of chocolate that seemed to come out of nowhere screaming then suddenly deposited out of said waterfall and into a what was once a spa, now flailing around screaming in s sea of poison joke and chocolate you suddenly swirled downward as if someone had pulled a plug on the 30 foot hot tub and you then felt your body move in ways never thought possible as you where then turned to pure liquid and sucked dowards though.the soil of the floating building as your body changed back into a phisical form with an audible pop you screamed once more as you crashed though a road made of incredibly strong soap ( the magic infused kind that burns as if it where acid so they send you something to bite on when you use it) you clawed your way to the surface (somehow the road had a river under it.) and climb out of the path desperately gasping for air. this is when you realized that C this just became your problem. "someling. is. about. to. pay." You say between clenched teeth. "but at least the suits clean...." You say looking over your sparkleing, strangely dry suit. *twinkling "el hunko" suit acquired. EFFECT: your suit, now (permanently due to over exposure) infused with magical soap made only in the cristal empire, now lost to the snow of the north, creates a paper thin shield around you similar to that of,a cristal pony that can block all damage and is immune to cold weather, however due to its thinness any thing stronger than a fillys buck will instantly shatter it but it regenerates every ten minutes or so. (also the air around you may be colder by a few degrees and cuase slight crystallization of your environment( excluding organisms).)
Sorry for bad grammer, i need to get off my lazy bum and walk to the computer rather than type with my phone.
I have just gotten back from school. I have some due stress to release.
Brain.EXE Set to: (Random Variant...);
Processing... Initiate Referential or non-referential one-liners.
"Saxon Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale!"
"But I am your sandwich. My hoof, that is!"
"Here, hold this for me" *leaves lit bomb*
"Uh, the distraction thing doesn't work, uh— Look! It says "gullible" in the ceiling!"
"The hand go— I mean, HOOF gods has spoken! Prepare to get smacked!"
"Why in the creators are there ballerina dancing buffalo! You guys are suppose to be back at the desert!"
"There's only thing left to do: Touch fluffy tail!"
"Who's idea was it to teach Llama to drive?!" *Hey! We just as smart as you pony, insect... Thing.* "Well stop trying to run me over/stop driving towards a CLIFF!"
Processing incomplete. Please add sugar intake to continue. (Sugar Levels); unconfirmed. End? Y/N?
In terms of theme song.... [youtube=http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=0XS2Qm0Bblk] #NRGForceforever!! Oh, you have to be ducking kidding!!
You turn around about to walk away until you hear a scream.
Discord + bugze?
Brain.Exe has stopped working. Please hang up and try again.
Theme song? How about "Fife and Gun" from the movie Gettysburg?
Doctor Who theme song!
Mutter 'Not this time.'
and stay hidden for as long as neccersary.
Keep calm! You're in the El Hunko suit, and considering how quickly you bolted out of the donut shop after the Bland Boring Ball, she might not recognize you.
She gasps. "Ooh, the Valley of Fear. I still can't believe that Mare-riarity kills--"
You shove your hooves to your ears. "Ya-ta-ta-ta-I'm-not-listening-ya-ta-ta!"
"Oh! Me and my big mouth, I'm so sorry. Well, I hope we all get to Canterlot safe and sound. With all this craziness around, who knows what could happen next? You know what I mean, right? I mean, look at your suit. Rarity would have a heart attack if she saw you." With that, Twilight walks away.
You bury your face in your hooves. Of course the other mares are here. And even in the El Hunko suit, Twilight didn't like you. You're going to need all of your cunning if you want to avoid the rest of them.
...
You're doomed.
Outro:
In cantorlot, you see that a bunch of ponies are made of plastic bricks and they surround a normal pony and you hear an old stallion in the crowd of block ponies yell "He's a freak, take off him apart and lose him under the couch!"
After you try to think of something to say you finally decide to nope outta there
Go up into the rafters and when the mane 6 and spike come say This
(In that voice of course) and the go through the skylight onto the roof and escape to a different traincar.
Well, you still needed that restroom break, so you'll use that excuse. If it weren't occupied that is...
New plan! Distract yourself from your bladder and talk interesting books!
As you stare one of your many pony-equivalents of death in the eyes, you suddenly get a flashback to your Grandbuggy and his words of wisdom.
"Now take it from me Bugzy, mares are trouble; never had any good that came outta them."
"But what about me? How would I have been born if you didn't meet someling you really liked."
Then he just stared blankly at you and sighed. "Bugzy... one day I'll tell you where hatchlings come from, but until then, just remember: When confronted with a mare, stay cool, calm and collected. Don't do anything that would anger them, just slowly back away. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to hide more money in the walls of this rickety shack.
*end flashback
"He never did tell me where hatchlings come from." You mutter to yourself, gaining an odd glance from Twilight. "Okay, just remember what he told me; cool, calm and-" Then the rest of the mane 6 show up behind Twilight "Oh screw it."
"AAAAAAAAHH!" you fall onto your back screaming like a little filly.
Twilight :"What is it?! Are you okay?!"
Rarity :"Not with that outfit he's not"
AJ: "Ya'll got a problem with stetsons?"
"AAAAAAAHH!" You scream again, this time pointing a trembling hoof at them.
Somehow they think that means somethings behind them is causing you to scream, and they all turn around.
Seeing your opportunity to escape, you quickly get to you hooves and run, still screaming your head off.
...
"aaaaaaaahh."
4905022 Resubmitting this and adding that it should take place shortly before Discord is re-petrified and that this also happens:
As soon as they jump to this conclusion, Twilight gives you a free express-trip to Canterlot via Air Magic Blast. While flying through the air, you get bored of screaming like a little girl and open the book that Discord gave you. The "book" is actually a device similar to a tablet (if there are video games there are probably tablets) built into a folding case with the words "Don't Panic" embossed on the cover. When you open it, a voice tells you...
Shortly after deciding that that was the least useful advice you have ever heard, you impact a few hundred yards from Canterlot. Standing up and brushing yourself off you say "I'm okay... at least I think-"
*THWACK*
"What the hay was that?"
Suddenly the book said "Don't think."
Okay Bugze, when you get back to your seat (or even when you get on the can), just stay calm and read the "Kung-Fu For Dummies" book and learn:
Psycho Crusher: Launch yourself forward and spin like a bullet while covered in orange energy to knock through groups of enemies or flimsy windows, doors, or even really thin walls (Warning: Improper use of this technique can lead to headaches or concussions)
AND/OR
Izuna Drop: Embrace a midair opponent before pointing both of you headfirst towards the ground, Then fall while spinning so opponent slams headfirst into the ground.
Rarity confronts you and you panic and think you're cover's blown... but then she comments on the fashion faux pas you committed by wearing a suit with a stetson.
She then recognizes you from the Grand Galloping Gala... As the gentlepony who told off Prince Blueblood before "accidentally" knocking him into the wall. Maybe you should get out the "How to be A Gentle Colt 101" book...
When you finally get to Canterlot, you break away from the mares (who are getting into a carriage with Royal Guard escort to the castle) and think you're safe when you realize something... You have absolutely no bucking idea where to meet the Doctor at.
While I'm happy my theme was chosen as the intro, in retrospect, if I knew you planned to do an outro, "Here It Goes Again" would be a better outro than intro due to the title best fitting a wacky cliffhanger ending
Frown at her.
Then say "You make me sad." (In a British accent) And keep walking.
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you fear that when lady luck strikes the mares will be upon you. you quickly excuse yourself and head back to your seat. When or if they discover you are a changeling, you could either a.) use your El Hunko alias and state that you wish no one any harm and that your on your way to meet up with a few close friends of yours. You explain that not many changelings were given a choice during the changeling invasion and the only one they should be angry with is his queen. b.) reveal yourself as the hooded offenders son and that you seek vengeance upon those who have misjudged him leading to him sacrificing himself to save those that have wronged him which lead him to his death. you explain in great detail what you plan to do to all parties that harmed him, once you figure out who they are. (your pretending you not know. shuuush!) c.) boop all of them on the nose and hop back to your set while speaking nonsense. during the ride to Canterlot you make sure they keep their distance by getting in their personal space and deeply smelling them. d.) start crying and make a sob story. e.) There's always plan F! f.) commence fight scene.
Twilight doesn't notice you. Deciding to play a prank on her, you leave the room, transform in to Celestia, and walk back to meet her. During your conversation you transform back (Ending very awkwardly for you), and because you know 'look a distraction' no longer works you just point behind her and stare in horror. When she turns around, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!
Twilight begins to apologise so much you wish you were deaf, after 5 minutes of this you scream at her in your Royal Canterlot Voice, making your EL Hunko suit disappear exposing yourself you nope outta there