As Twilight turned, she found her friends - they were her friends, she had relived her time with them - staring at her in amazement. "T-Twi?" Applejack finally spoke up. "Is...is that really you?"
Twilight smiled softly. "More or less," she confirmed. "I am Twilight Sparkle, the unicorn who befriended you all and went on all those adventures together." She flexed her wings. "I admit, these are new...I guess. Lot of other things are new, too-"
"Ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh ohmygosh!" Rainbow squealed, dashing up to Twilight's side as she examined her spread wings. "Look at these babies! When did you find time to get them this strong? And how'd you get armor to fit the individual feathers? Heck, where'd you get this futurey armor?" She started flapping all around Twilight, trying to look at her from all angles.
"Goodness, darling, you look just like a Princess!" Rarity crowed eagerly. "Admittedly, a sci-fi warrior princess..."
"That's because she is a Princess," Celestia spoke up, trying to once more get a hoof-hold on the situation. "Things are just...more complicated than anticipated." She stepped forward, looking Twilight over carefully, looking to see if this was indeed the same filly she'd helped raised, taught, and fished out of dozens of book forts over the years.
"Princess?" Twilight asked, rather nonplussed. "Really?"
"Tis true," Luna confirmed. "You have achieved apotheosis through creating new magic derived from Friendship in completing Starswirl's last spell. The energy reaction catalyzed the alicorn potential within you, triggering your ascension to the Astral Plane." She glanced towards Celestia. "Sister hastened there to guide you through the ascension process, to gentle it. However, something appears to have interfered with that, and the magic she was going to use to guide you back. Any ideas what it was, sister?"
"I'll tell you later," Celestia whispered quietly, hoping to avoid humiliation on top of confusion and possible catastrophe.
"Umm...Twilight?" Fluttershy asked quietly. "Uh...who's the adorable kitty? And...why did you call him Dad?"
Before Twilight could answer, Pinkie spoke up. "Oh, that's Ratchet! He's a Lombax superhero and raised Twilight from infancy after she showed up on Veldin as an infant alicorn somehow. They've saved the entire universe together several times."
"How can you possibly know-" Clank began.
"Hey, I know you!" Ratchet spoke up suddenly, pointing at Pinkie. "When I was in that drug induced hallucination back on that medical outpost, I wound up here and you told me I wasn't supposed to be here yet! But you were smaller then!"
Pinkie giggled happily. "Yeppers! Daddy told me all about your adventures together on his visits, so I knew you weren't supposed to be here back then." She idly batted at her mane with one hoof, shaking loose a charm that had on it what Ratchet and Twilight recognized as a properly processed sewer crystal.
Twilight's eyes popped wide. "You're the daughter the Plumber told me to say hi to when next I saw you?" she gasped out. She then blinked, running over things in her mind. "You know in hindsight, that explains so much...one way or the other."
"Wait, I was right about saying she looked like a 'sci-fi warrior princess'?" Rarity asked in surprise.
"Warrior Vice President, actually," Qwark spoke up as he staggered over. "Greetings. I am Captain Qwark, President of the known universe, many time hero of many galaxies, and Twilight's BBBFF." Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out an apple. "Bah-weep-graaaaagnah wheep nini bong!" he proclaimed as he offered the apple to Applejack. Twilight promptly facehooved.
Applejack managed a small smirk. "Well, shucks. An apple from another world..." She reached under her stetson and pulled out a Sweet Apple Acres apple. "Uh...what you said," she stated as they swapped apples, each digging in.
"See!" Qwark proclaimed to Clank around a mouthful of apple. "Told you the universal greeting always worked, Mom! Ooh, this is tasty!" He proceeded to devour the apple rather messily, making Applejack chuckle as she enjoyed hers, saving the seeds for later investigation.
"...Mom?" Luna asked carefully, glancing between Qwark, Clank, and Twilight.
"We're a very strange family," Ratchet allowed. "And it's a very long story."
"Reunion-ascension-coronation-storytelling Party-Sleepover-Celebration-Royal-Bonanza!" Pinkie proclaimed eagerly, leaping into the air surrounded by a burst of confetti. "Wow, I'm gonna need a huge banner for all those words...and a giant cake. Better go multi-layer sheet. Glad Dad told me their favorite flavors!" With that, she dashed off.
Twilight glanced towards the Golden Oak Library. "As much as I'd like to, I don't think there's room in there for all of us...unless I started tweaking its internal spatial dimensions. Looks like I could add some of Aphelion's tech, has the right anchors..." She rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "SPIKE!"
Spike came running out of the library. "Twilight!" he called out worriedly, coming to a halt a few feet from her, staring at her in awe. "T-Twilight? Is...is it really-"
"Spike, take a memo," Twilight spoke up, completely in the zone. "I'm going to need a half ton of copper wire, 20 pounds of high grade mana crystals, three ounces of acornite..." She continued to list off esoteric ingredients and item requirements as she stared at the library.
Spike simply smiled. "Yeah, it's you," he confirmed warmly, rushing forward to hug her around one leg.
She returned the embrace with a wing. "It's good to see you too, Spike," she replied, nuzzling his head. "Oh, better add three etheric generators to that list-oh wait, I'm going to have to invent those. Tech here's not up to that level..."
Chuckling, Spike whipped out scroll and quill, rapidly filling out the entire list.
"Or we could hold this here shindig at mah barn," Applejack suggested. "Got room fer everyone there."
"I suppose I can hold off on breaking reality to give myself more space until after everyone's filled in on pertinent details," Twilight allowed.
"Did I hear someone mention breaking reality?" Discord asked suddenly, unrolling from a nearby tire swing. "I hope no one's infringing on my-" He froze as he took in Twilight's changed appearance and the presence of Ratchet, Clank, and Twilight. Grinning widely, he snapped his talons, pulling Aphelion out of the ether from the moon. "Oh Celestia, all this and it isn't even my birthday!"
"Hey Aunt Aphelion!" Twilight spoke up happily. "How's adjustment to the environment?"
"Smoothed along quite well after the chaos flux brought me here without adapting to the atmospheric envelope," Aphelion responded happily as she finished her repairs.
"And...this is?" Luna asked curiously.
"Aphelion was my Dad's ship," Ratchet explained. "She was a prototype of what would have been a series of ships with an Artificial Soul program, meant to enable them to think like an organic at robotic speeds. It was meant to breach the gap between organic and synthetic life, by creating an AI machine that could have instinctive, gut reactions."
"And then Twilight super-repaired and upgraded her by bombarding her with the energies of 117,000 Zoni," Qwark added happily. "She's so cool now! She can even transform into a super robot form!"
Celestia groaned, rubbing her forehead. "So in addition to Twilight now having access to Lombax tech and Zoni Magitech, Discord's going to sit back and enjoy the show and you just told me she's accompanied by the equivalent of a man-made god. I love her to death as my student, but I know her! Anything else you'd care to enlighten me to before I suffer a nervous breakdown?"
"She has this other form called Dark Star she calls her Nightmare that comes out when she suffers sufficient emotional trauma," Qwark offered helpfully. "Like when she gets zapped by a ray meant to reduce aggressive impulses except the battery's in backwards, or when she's been tortured by science, or if she gets angry enough about someone restricting knowledge..."
"She quantumnly entangled her brain with herself once to resurrect three dead family members, and in the process created an ontological paradox that repaired the space-time rift the Great Clock was created to contain," Clank added impishly.
Celestia blinked several times. "...Applejack?"
"Uh...yeah, Princess?" Applejack asked nervously.
"How much for all the reserve cider on your farm? I feel I will need it tonight."
Applejack stared, eyes wide. "Uh..."
"Oh, just put it on my tab, Granny knows I'm good for it."
I'd say poor tia, but I'm laughing right along side Discord so I can't be bothered yet.
Also, Shouldn't Qwark be mentioned somewhere in there?
they didnt need those cider reserves anyway
XD Celestia is just done with all of it
Oh Twilight, you drive Celestia to drink, and we love you for it.
Yes Celly throw those hooves up and scream to the heavens in the royal canterlot voice...DONE!!
Then go on the biggest drinking binge in recorded history until you wake up in bed with Qwark, a monkey, two sombros, and a pool noodle. What happened last night?....Not even the author will know~
And yet it somehow raises more questions than it answers, starting with how her pony family factors into this.
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Easy.
The Plumber can shapeshift.
7806922 ...Eh, I can buy it. He's Pinkie's dad, after all - more experience, which means he's probably had time to figure out how to do crazy stuff she's never even thought of. Like shapeshifting.
This marks the second PWNYverse story to have Celestia driven to drink. One wonders what she'll do in Three More Things...
Tirek: "TWILIGHT SPARKLE! You will give me... your..."
Tirek: "Um... Here's everypony's magic back. I'll just see myself back to Tartarus. Please don't hurt me!"
Pinkie: "All hail Twilight Sparkle: Princess of Superior Firepower!"
7806974 AWWW! And I didn't even get to test out my new weapons systems much less the pump I had rigged up to forcibly RIP OUT EVERY IOTA OF MAGIC HE HAD!
7806921 You know in the reimagined Ratchet game they released earlier this year, he said, "See you in the next reboot."
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Except he's so unlike Pinkie's father personality-wise that it's absurd. And not Pinkie Pie absurd, but actual, disbelief-breaking absurd. Unless you're outright tossing the quiet, stern, old-fashioned Amish-pony Igneous Rock Pie out the window and completely retcon-replacing him with the mildly goofy, forth-wall-breaking Plumber, I fail to see how you could possibly make that not seem absolutely pointlessly contrived.
You could have just said he was an old friend of hers, a pen pal, a mentor even! That I could have bought without a second thought, but shoehorning in a biological relation seemingly stemming from superficial character traits is where I draw the line, good sir!
and Equis was never the same again
so... I kinda see Celestia doing some kinda of waterbending thing: making the cider flow out of the kegs into a funnel that Celestia is under and just drinking all of the cider in one go.... and then asking for another because it wasn't enough to handle the Twilight. is that right?
Can't blame Celestia there. So much to take in at once.
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Keep in mind, the "Plumber is Pinkie's father" was established way back in the first major arc of this story (aka, the first game arc, when he told Twilight to "say hi to my daughter next time you see her"), which was written before Igneous was introduced as a character beyond the original flashback. So this isn't "out of nowhere", but has been established since practically the start of this story.
As for the different character behavior, that can easily be explained as him acting differently on the job as opposed to at home.
*drinks dwarven ale*
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"I will pray to the ancestors for your liver."-Uncle Chan
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That...that reminds me of an old song from the olden days of the Internet...
But it's too early in the day to be singing about dwarven ale. Although, thanks for the Fluttershy head-bobbingness! Tis adorable!
7807074 *offers ale*
Tell me what song?
Please?
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It still feels pointless and forced, no matter how long ago you planned it. Nothing is accomplished that couldn't have been done just as, if not more believably without it (this is Pinkie Pie we're talking about), and it serves no purposed beyond tying two superficially-similar characters together like some sort of familial crack-ship.
I'm sure it may have seemed clever at the time, especially considering how long ago that was (have you really been at this one story for over two years now?), but unless this is somehow vitally important to the plot going forward, I would suggest giving at least some consideration towards retconning out at least the biological/genetic aspect of their relationship.
Honestly, them knowing each-other would be more believable than them not having any contact, but being related just shoves it out the other side and into "what am I even reading" territory.
and then Tia was beaned in the head by a particularly ripe apple, she picks it up in her magic. "Make that Hard apple cider."
Apple family ale.
7806921 I think this sums it up nicely.
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no banana?
7806967 Remind me, which one was the first?
7807095 it seems to me it would be a key point in the mega crossover "my little pwny" that is set for after the main stories have been completed. oh which if i remember correctly their is only this one, shining armor's, the cmc, and Octavia. because i doubt coco's will be of interest in the story and that discord will be of a key point with in it.
why is it i see celestia drinking enough to drown a dragon.
....And the author has now let TwiFight break the entire known universe
P.S. Since the universe is going bye-bye, I have no reason to write anything useful here.
Oh, Tia...... You don't even realize.... that's not even half of the short, condensed version of the full story.
well now. seems like pour celestia is going to have a huge pain in her flank. not to mention that tirek is going to be in a test tube in the near future.
Celestia's so done and I love it
7807262 Another Hatchling, with Spike being raised by Samus.
7807095 Or you could lighten the hell up about the issue since the author has spoken and those of us with functioning brains can see the chronology at work here.
Divergence from canon is not the high crime you're determined to make it out to be. Relax and enjoy.
7807458 Ah, haven't read that one yet.
On a related note, this story's almost done, which means that all of the Mane 6, and Spike, have had their story's completed once this is finished. The ultra-cross is nigh, stock up on popcorn while there's still some for sale/the prices are reasonable.
They haven't even told Celestia that Twilight's ALSO the Captain of a bunch Robot Ghost Pirates!
"Also, I have a boyfriend!"
"Princess, Galactic Vice President, Galactic Hero, Time-traveler, and so forth, sure. But a boyfriend? You really expect us to believe that!"
7807684 Ratchet: "Actually she's telling the truth, she's been dating one Dr Nefarious, one of our Galaxy's smartest Super Villains, I am unsure if he can still be classified as one though" he replied.
Celestia: Applejack? Double my order of Cider please"
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I hope so. These stories are the bomb???
Very nice chapter, I can't wait to see the rest of Twilight's new family show up and everypony's reaction to Nefarious and his relationship with Twilight. I also can't wait to see Ratchet swap foal pictures with Twilight Velvet and Nightlight.
... I don't think Applejack will have enough Cider to sell to Celestia, in fact... all the cider in the world, and I am certain it won't be enough for Celestia.
Now to see the conclusion of this and see just how badly Celestia will need more Cider.
As per request, I took out this comment. With a party cannon!
7808295 PM this to me and we'll continue there.
I really would like to know how well Celestia knows granny smith
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I thought that all announced stories where coming first? We still have Celestia, Glenda, Moondancer, Sombra, Derpy, Dinky, Big Mac, and Sunset Shimmer to go. I could be wrong but we still have a few stories to go before we get the crossover.
7808591 was that announced in one of his blogs? because if it was then i must of missed it because of my habit of not reading the blogs. of anyone. even when told to.
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Well I know that those are the stories Tatsurou has stated that he planned on doing. My understanding was they where all to be a part of My Little PWNY. The Cadance, Shining Armor, Chrysalis, Trixie, Nightmare Moon/Luna, CMC, Discord, Coco, Octavia, and Vinyl stories are also a part of the mega crossover.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/AdoptedDisplaced