At the Mercy of the Strings
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At the Mercy of the Strings
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“Hey, Twilight, are you alright?” Alpha asked, poking his head in to the bathroom as the mare hugged the bowl and groaned.
“I must have eaten something that didn’t agree with my stomach…” Twilight said, her face tightening as she prepared for another expulsion.
“Don’t you have any spells that could fix you?” Alpha asked, tilting his head.
“I tried, but none of them did anything for me…” She said, taking a deep breath to compose herself, “How long has it been since we went to the Hive?”
“A month? Five weeks?” Alpha estimated, before pausing a moment, “Five weeks on Friday.”
“Is there any chance that you guys have some kind of virus that takes five weeks to incubate?” Twilight asked.
“No, I don’t think so,” Alpha laughed, “You don’t need to worry about having some bug virus inside of you.”
Twilight’s face contorted upon hearing the words ‘bug virus.’
Alpha winced as he watched Twilight start vomiting once again.
“Here,” He said, walking over to her, “Let me hold your hair back.”
“Thanks…” She grumbled between heaves.
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The dark figure levitated outside of the library, watching Twilight and Alpha with a measure of curiosity, tilting her head as he comforted her through her throwing up.
“I shouldn’t interfere with an expecting mare.”
With that, she turned her head to the Ponyville spa.
“I’ll have to manipulate Rarity and Fluttershy instead.”
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Rarity and Fluttershy sat in large hot tub in the spa, relaxing for the last hour before the establishment closed.
“Go on, Fluttershy.” Rarity encouraged, gesturing to a bottle of soap sitting on the rim of the tub, “Levitate that over here.”
Concentrating on the bottle, Fluttershy flared her wings, causing the item to unsteadily rise from the edge.
“Yes! Now just push it over here.” Rarity continued, “It’s really quite easy once you get the hang of it.”
“Rainbow Dash is much… better than I am at this…” Fluttershy said, her concentration solely on the bottle.
Spreading her wings further, Fluttershy managed to get the bottle half way to her friend, but was thrown off when Rarity began to chuckle.
Instantly, the bottle fell from the air, and splashed in the water squarely between them.
“Oh, I’m sorry,” Rarity said, holding her hoof over her mouth, “I was just thinking, you shouldn’t use these spells in public.”
“Why’s that?” Fluttershy asked innocently, her wide eyes blinking slowly.
“Well, we don’t want the boys getting the wrong idea with your wings all over the place like that,” Rarity said, smiling broadly at her now deadpan friend.
“I’ll try not to use my wings so much.” She said flatly.
Rarity only tilted her head and smiled.
“You know, you’re one to talk,” Fluttershy said back, “With the way you talk to every stallion you come across, I’m surprised you’d be giving me advice on the subject.”
“Excuse me?” Rarity asked, all humor drained from her expression.
“You heard me.” She said, “It must kill Spike to see the way you hit on every available guy.”
Rarity’s face reddened. She didn’t even care that it was sweet, innocent Fluttershy saying these things.
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Far off in the Everfree Forest, Pinkie sat under a tree, looking up at the ceiling of the cave that held the reflecting pool.
“We can’t just sit here forever…” Pinkie said, looking over to her doppelganger, who sat next to her in the shade, “We need to go and find our third part!”
“No we don’t…” The off-pink mare said softly, blowing her straight hair out of her face as she looked at the ground, “We can’t stop her.”
“But she’s a part of me, isn’t she? Just like you!” Pinkie said, trying to infect the dejected version of herself with some happiness, “I just need to tell her that I accept her!”
“But… you don’t.”
“I’m Pinkie Pie. And if I can accept that you, Sorrow, are a part of me, I’m pretty sure that I can accept just about anything else!” She said happily, “So come on! Don’t you want to be back in my head?”
“I don’t think you’d be as happy if you saw what she was like…” Sorrow sighed, “She wasn’t even supposed to come out.”
“What do you mean?” Pinkie asked, “Maybe I’m just so Pinkie-tastic that I have two sides!”
“Discord said that I was the only one that would be allowed out. But she didn’t like that.” Sorrow said, looking around nervously, as if she was about to be attacked, “And when you walked into that pool… she took all that magic for herself, and split away from you.”
“What?” Pinkie asked, “She just seemed like… another me! Why would you be so scared of another me?”
“She was just acting that way so she could go free!” Sorrow said, biting her lip and lowering her volume.
“Well, then what is she going to do?” Pinkie asked, tilting her head.
“She didn’t like that everypony was ignoring you… so she’s going to make them hate each other.” Sorrow sighed dejectedly, “We should just sit around and wait for her to finish the job. At least we’ll have more attention from our friends.”
“What?!” Pinkie shouted, jumping up from her seated position, “We need to go help everypony! I can’t have her making my friends hate each other!”
“But that’s what you want.” She sighed, unmoving.
“No it isn’t! How could you possibly think that!?” Pinkie bellowed, “Now let’s get going!”
With no resistance, from Sorrow, Pinkie skillfully lifted the mare with her head, and slid her down her neck on to her back.
“Come on! I need to go accept my dark side!” Pinkie announced, trotting toward the exit of the cave.
“Here we go…” Sorrow sighed.
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“I don’t wanna talk right now!” Dash shouted, having finally stopped most of the way to Canterlot, on the top of a very large hill, “Not to somepony who think’s I’m just making all this up!”
“Dash, come on,” Alex coaxed, panting heavily as he landed next to her, “You’ve gotta know how this sounds.”
“I know it sounds crazy- but… but it happened!” She said, sighing loudly as she sat down on the tip of the hill, “She was ruthless! She said just terrible things to me. And I can’t even get my own husband to agree with me.”
“Husband?” Alex asked, “I didn’t know we had the ceremony.”
“Sometimes I just like to say it out loud.” Dash huffed, as Alex sat down next to her.
“Well… okay. Let’s say that she really did say that stuff to you.” Alex said, trying to work out the reason all of this had happened, “I know I dismissed it earlier, but do you really think it could have something to do with her dark side?”
“I don’t think so, to be honest.” Dash shook her head, “I mean, we didn’t really see it at all, but she can use magic just the same as anypony else.”
“And it’s not really deceitful to tell somepony to kill themselves.” Alex pointed out.
“If only we could go back and— wait, do you know any spells like that?” Dash asked, looking at him hopefully.
“Like, time traveling?” Alex asked.
“Not quite,” Dash shook her head, “Back when you went missing, right before I went to the Wonderbolt’s training camp, Twilight used a spell that allowed us to see the past! We couldn’t interact with anything, but we could see what happened!”
“I don’t know that spell,” Alex shook his head, “But I might know one that’d do the trick…”
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I sense a Doctor Hooves finally returning to the story after who knows how many chapters.
Doctor, Doctor, Give me the news, I got a bad case of, the dark side blues.
At least I hope it only gets as far as Cookies, and not all the way to Cupcakes.
What the HELL? So there's...3 of them? Crazy Party Pony, Clinically Depressed, and Ape-shit? What the hell is going on?
What the hell?
7339416 And Yes, I am DYING to see the good doctor and Derpy horse again.
7339503 who wouldn't
This is going to be good. I know this sounds horrible, but why about having Soike and another mare make out because of the strings. That would make slots of hatred.
7339566 The anti-bronies.
7339608 hmmmm I suppose.
Poor Twilight, morning sickness sucks.
7340057 Damn them
Pinkie's dark side not messing with Twi. At least some tiny sliver of goodness is in her.
Let's see Pinkie do damage control after her dark side. After all, this is different, as those are two separate entities now. Hoo boy, this will be confusing.
So, Alex and Dash are about to do some time traveling shenanigans. If it's the kind that isn't purely observatory, what can possibly go wrong?
Wait, I'm confused. Pinkemena Diane Pie #2 (That's what I'm calling her) said she wouldn't mess with an "expectant mare".
When did I miss what stallion she bucked, and who? Am I missing something, because I've been following this since ch. 1
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It was a couple of chapters ago. Mentioned subtly that Alpha and Twilight had a session one night, and Discord even tells Twilight in one chapter congratulations. Twilight isn't aware that she's expecting though.
Review Over Chapter:
Nice to have a bit more clarity on how Pinkie's dark side came about. Still though, Pinkie has two darker sides to her huh? That's interesting and only something I would expect from Pinkie Pie.
I also thought it was intriguing that Puppet Master Pinkie didn't bother to mess with Twilight or Alpha. Kind of weird that she doesn't want to mess with an expecting mother.
Another good chapter, and I look forward to the next one and getting the possible chance to see Doctor Whooves.
~ Super-Brony12
So, Pinkie has a third part that she has to accept. And that part wants her friends to stop ignoring her. Why do I think this part of her is Loneliness or Autophobia or something like that. That would be a part of her that would be very hard to accept. Plus, Pinkie says she accepts Sorrow as part of her, but deep down, I don't think she does. This isn't the normally absurdly long chapter we get that involves the pony's Chaotic side but I have a feeling that is what we are going to get after Pinkie eventually accepts both her chaotic sides.
7342485 Ok, now I'm even more confused
Wasn't the whole cheating based on Treachery(Dash's dark side)? And everything was made up? If so, how exactly in that made up cheating, did Alpha turn and lay with Twilight?!?! I'm just not getting it. 
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I'm sorry, I'm a little confused. Unless I've made a huge plot-hole (which I easily could have,) I'm not quite sure what's misunderstood for you. Could you elaborate a little more?
7346938
Okay. Yes, the whole cheating fiasco was a product of Treachery (Dash's dark side).
However, for reference purposes, read these:
From the end of the chapter Riding Home - Ignorance
From the chapter Discordant
These two excerpts show that Alpha and Twilight are expecting a new foal, and they occurred well after Dash coming to terms with her dark side. Hope this helps.
7347336 My thoughts after reading that? *Ducks in case of Double-Rainboom*
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Lol
I'm interested to see what happens when Twilight finds out that she's expecting when her dark side is running rampant. If it's one thing that you shouldn't mess with, its a mother when her baby/child is under threat.
7350464 Yup, that rock over there looks good underneath. What? Magically warded? All the better. Cannonball!
...There be nopony here!
“With the way you talk to every stallion you come across, I’m surprised you’d be giving me advice on the subject.”
OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!
"I don't know"... What?!?! Then who was it that...! Nevermind, onward to the next step in the conflict...
Huh. I remember thinking about Pinkie back when the dark sides were first introduced, and wondering if she'd be sad and mopey, or angry-psycho Pie.
And even then a part of me knew... the answer was both. Still freaky to see it!