The Adventures of Spectrum Slash

by CCC

Applejack/On

"You sure you got all you need?" asked Applejack.

"Eeeyup," said Big Mac, firmly.

"Fireproof boots?"

"Eeeyup."

"Lion-tamer's chair?"

"Eeeyup."

"Snake-charmer's flute?"

"Eeeyup," replied Big Mac, sounding a little bored.

"Ricotta cheese?"

"Eeeyup." Big Mac's boredom mixed with a little irritation.

"Pies?"

"Eeeyup."

"Hey, Applejack!" called out Rainbow. "You going someplace?"

"Nah, Big Mac's just got a pie delivery t'do," said Applejack, turning to greether friend. "An' who's this?"

"Applejack, meet Spectrum Slash. Spectrum Slash, meet Applejack. And here's her brother, Big Macintosh."

"Eeeeyup," said Big Macintosh, dreamily. He leaned slightly towards Spectrum Slash with a silly grin on his face, and one could alsmost see little hearts in his eyes.

"You are Apple Horse," said Spectrum Slash, firmly.

Applejack blinked. "No, Ah ain't, Ah'm Applejack," she said, with equal firmness.

"This world's Apple Horse, then," said Spectrum Slash. "Discord brought me to a world surprisingly like my own, but... different."

"Ahhhhh," said Applejack, nodding. Discord was involved. That explained everything.

"What is strange is that I have not yet found the other me," said Spectrum Slash.

Applejack glanced between Spectrum and Rainbow. "Are y'sure o'that, sugarcube?" she asked.

"I have not yet met anypony with sufficient levels of awesome to be considered my counterpart," insisted Spectrum Slash.

"Ah see," said Applejack.

"But perhaps you can help me track her down," continued Spectrum. "Is there a pegasus who regularly harvests all your apples in ten seconds flat because there's too much for just you?"

Applejack shook her head. "Nope," she said. "Me an' mah brother do all the applebucking necessary."

"Maybe there isn't a Spectrum Slash in this world, then," Spectrum mused. "Maybe everypony else is doing so many things because there never was a Spectrum to help them. Or maybe this world's Spectrum Slash is just really lazy. Maybe Discord's trying to show me what my world would be like without me."

"Eeeeeeyup," said Big Macintosh, dreamily.

~~~~~

"What I don't understand," said Discord, "is if nopony but Spectrum can touch the weather, then how was the weather run before Spectrum was born?"

"Oh, the pegasi did that," said Celestia. "I don't - I don't like to think back to those days."

Discord raised an eyebrow. "Why not?" he asked. "Did you have lots of disasters?"

Celestia winced. "Not... not so much," she admitted. "It went... smoothly. But things are better now, really! Now that Spectrum Slash is here, she can handle everything!" She gave Discord a nervous grin.

Discord, for his part, offered a very flat look in exchange. "Everything," he said.

"Yes!" said Celestia. "Everything! Spectrum Slash has to be the one to handle everything! Stuff goes wrong if anypony else tries!"

Discord raised his left eyebrow. "Are you saying that the very laws of the universe are conspiring to make sure that Spectrum Slash is the only pony permitted to partake of particularly positive action of any persuasion?"

"Yes!" squeaked Celestia, nodding rapidly and somewhat nervously. "Only - Spectrum Slash - is allowed to do - anything!"

"I see," said Discord. "So, if I am ever going to help anypony, I'd need to find some way around that rule..."

Celestia winced. "Don't!" she said. "It... it only gets worse, if you try to fight back against it... and then... and then it's other ponies who bear the brunt of it..."

"Oh, don't worry," said Discord. "I wouldn't do a thing to harm any ponies. Nonetheless - breaking the rules is rather a speciality of mine."

He cracked his knuckles.

"It. Is. On."

Comments

[PrincessOfTheEnd]

Discord, be careful...

[FanOfMostEverything]

Ooh, more of this story. Fun times. It should definitely be interesting to see Discord try to disarm a Mary-Sueniverse. I just hope he can do it without completely annihilating the place.

[nightwalker]

for this not being dead.

Would have been nice to have seen AJ chucking and grinning at Dash towards the end of her part, through, if she had realized Dash's own self-insert was talking smack about her to her face. Surprised there wasn't much reaction from Dash there, what with being called lazy and insufficiently-awesome (the slander of that!)

[Twilightsparklefairy]

Yay, the story is still going!

[Alex Warlorn]

"What is strange is that I have not yet found the other me," said Spectrum Slash.

She is truly RD's self insert.

"Maybe there isn't a Spectrum Slash in this world, then,"

And she doesn't even question RD at all.

positive action of any persuasion?"
wrong word at the end.

Question, what happened to the Slash's world Discord?

"I wouldn't do a thing to harm any ponies.

Says the guy who betrayed ponies to TIrek and turned Twilight and her friends into monsters.

[CCC]

positive action of any persuasion?"

wrong word at the end.

No, that's actually right - "of any persuasion" is basically the same as "of any type". And he p-word was needed for the alliteration.

Question, what happened to the Slash's world Discord?

[Ultra-the-HedgeToaster]

"Eeeeyup," said Big Macintosh, dreamily. He leaned slightly towards Spectrum Slash with a silly grin on his face, and one could alsmost see little hearts in his eyes.

It only occurred to me after a time that there's more to this then a silly one-off gag - Big Mac is Spectrum Slash's first victim.

[...] half the ponies ever would be falling in love with her all the time. Oh, and all the stallions. So I have to reflect that in my story.
- Rainbow Dash, chapter 1

I once again applaud you good sir and/or mam. You play an excellent game of hidden meaning.

[Prism Smasher]

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Fool! There is only ONE Discord! He exists across all realities simultaneously!