Sweetie opened her eyes, and concentrated, biting her lip. With a grunt, she teleported right to the door of her home. Puffing, she smiled, that was two paces further than yesterday! Turning, Sweetie cantered straight to Twilight’s home once more, and knocked on the door. Slapping the letter in her face, again, Sweetie waited for her chance to interrupt.
“Twilight, Could you send a letter to Celestia for me? I want to go visit her.” Sweetie pulled out her letter, and her looping letter, and waited as Twilight did what she asked. Sure enough, a letter quickly arrived, telling her she could. Sweetie nodded, and quietly thanked Twilight.
“If Rarity comes looking for me, could you tell her what happened? Kay-thanks-bye!” Sweetie galloped away, quickly checking her saddlebags had everything important. Finished that, Sweetie turned up to the station just as the train rolled in. Pulling out a bit, she bought a train ticket and hopped on, waiting for the train to start to move. It wasn’t long before she arrived, and found the guard who was escorting her to Celestia.
Sweetie Belle smiled as she was lead into the throne room. Her ride had been so boring. It wasn’t often in loops that she came to Canterlot but that fast moving gopher fight she kept seeing wasn’t enough to keep her attention. Even if she did sit in the caboose to catch more of it this time.
“Hey Celestia.” Sweetie bowed her head slightly, and the Princess smiled, bowing hers also. Sweetie followed Celestia as she slowly walked back toward the throne, and took a seat. Sweetie smiled, and opened her mouth to speak.
“Hey uh, I was wondering, do you have any secret spies? Like undercover agents?” Sweetie sat down on the ground, waiting as Celestia mused for a moment. Giving a shrug, she seemed to decide that there was no point in hiding it.
“We have a few, most of them are trained to live a quiet life in the background. I can’t name names for security reasons, but I normally have one stationed in every town.” Celestia shrugged, sipping a drink as one of her servants entered the room. Sweetie took the drink offered to her and blinked, it was quite good.
“Do they go on any secret special spy missions?” Sweetie’s eyes sparked, thoughts of undercover missions in the back of her brain. Undercover Belle. Secret Agent 00Sweet. Sweetie giggled, oh what fun it would be to do something spy related one loop. Sweetie had been hoping Celestia could help her brainstorm it.
“Actually, they’re all a part of this single mission I’ve been trying to accomplish since me and Luna took over the kingdom. It’s classified, so I can’t tell you much about it. Why, you looking to live out some secret agent loop?” Celestia winked, and Sweetie blushed with embarrassment. Well, when Celestia said it, it sounded a lot more silly.
“Alright, I can make you a spy. I’ve always wondered if children spies would have an edge. Like how no one suspects the orange.” Celestia sipped her drink again, ignoring the confusion on Sweetie’s face.
“Oh uh, well that’s great!” Sweetie didn’t understand the last sentence, but something told her she didn’t really need to understand. Sweetie made a silent note to always be wary of oranges in the future.
“Alright, here’s your mission. I need you to steal a cookie jar.” Celestia pulled out a diagram showing the cookie jar, Sweetie tilted her head. Celestia glanced to the window, and pouted.
“Our mother gave it to Luna and forbade me from ever looking inside. Since we’re stuck in a time loop, it’s a perfect chance to find out what’s inside.” Celestia nodded, and Sweetie shrugged, it sounded like fun anyway.
Celestia pressed a button, and the wall popped open, revealing a dozen or so gadgets. Sweetie picked them up as Celestia quickly spoke.
“These are your tools. There’s toothpaste, a ponyboy, and all the usual kid spy gadgets. I will teleport you right to the Night Ninja’s lair, where you will then steal the jar and bring it here.” Celestia’s horn began to glow as she turned toward Sweetie.
“Alright,” Sweetie spoke, and blinked as she appeared in front of a castle. Sweetie could see many bat ponies patrolling the area.
Using her many tools, Sweetie made her way silently through the building, snatching the cookie jar and leaving without being spotted. However, the moment she entered the throne room where she was meeting Celestia, Luna appeared.
Boss fight activated
Sweetie struggled to defeat the boss, and eventually managed to pull out her Luna note, waiting as Luna read it. Eventually they all crowded around the jar, and Celestia took the lid in her magic. Opening it, she poked an eye inside.
“Oh my-”
“Sweetie Belle, wake up, it’s time for school!”
COME ON! Cliff hangers suck
so was that a dream or did she just die from the terrible secret that must not be known. we will never know haha
Did the Cookie Jar just kill everypony?
The Cookie Jar was the Ark of the Covenant!
Also, that means that Celestia always carries 'spy' gear in her train car, and, that Luna really does have the Ark.
If the loop did reset, does that mean that they've tested Celestia? Wait, why would she wake up in her room if the loop reset in Canterlot?
Or maybe it was all just a dream. Or was it?
5482792 Remember when she fell to her death? She woke up in her room.
5482808 Ah, that explains things. Still, that leaves some potential data on what happens when a biothaumically mature alicorn is drained.
5482823 not necessarily, the Jar could have killed Luna and Celestia as well before the drain could happen.
course, i think we're all missing the true Horror of this... the Looping Phillomena is now.. well not dead per say.. more.. doesn't exist now. unless she was also in the room for some unexplained reason but seeing as she tends to fly off to the everfree during the week the odds are she just got erased.
It was an endless filled cookie jar, what else? I would add some tension likes sneaking past guards almost setting off an alarm, humming the James Bond theme to open a lock ect.
5482860 Oh shit you're right! Poor Philomena.
Pretty sure that was just a dream.
5482780 No-one suspects the orange...
It's pretty obvious what happened. The secret that was in that cookie jar was so profound that everyone that witnessed it instantly died from mind blow (The entire throne room was entirely caked in brain matter and other such smut) except for Sweetie Belle who was blinded by a fiery explosion as Philomena, who had been roosting in her mane, instantly burst into flames upon witnessing the cookie jar's awesome secrets.
Sweetie Belle was so distraught when she discovered she'd missed it (and that the princesses had died) that she went straight home, climbed into bed, and woke up the next morning with amnesia.
--Sollace
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I just thought she slept in and dreamt it all.
Well, when Celestia said i, it sounded a lot more silly
1. It.
You are all thinking too much about it. The answer is always the easiest one:
THE COOKIEJAR WAS EMPTY FROM THE BEGINNING AND THE REVELATION MADE EVERYPONY GO BYEBYE.
But that's just my two cents on it xD
your right, that chapter sucked. not sure its possible to make it better really, unless you simply go through it adding more detail to everything. It feels more like an outline. However, writers block sucks worse...way worse...so thanks for posting :-)
Well.
Writer's block really stinks, doesn't it.
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"lopping letter" - other than that - thanks.
Was that a reference to The Outsiders that I just saw?
what happened when they opened the jar;
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but it looked more like:
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life
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much
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Thanks for the fic link.
5484758 When I stepped outside into the bright sunlight...
Celestia read over the lopping letter once again, in shock that she would issue such an order. But if Sweetie Belle wasn't telling the truth, then there was no way she could know a dialect that ancient...
"Very well," Celestia sighed. "As much as it pains me, I will do anything to protect my little ponies." She teleported to her war room in a flash of golden light, blinding all present.
"Princess!" Steel Wind yelped. "What brings you here?"
"It is time," Celestia whispered. "Every pegasus, earth pony, and any race other than unicorns must report to their local royal representative to be beheaded. We have to do this for Equestria. I'm so sorry."
Steel WInd's face was a perfect mix of shock, terror, and disbelief. Everyone looked on in shock as the pegasus' head slowly rolled around on the floor, the stump of his neck dry from how quickly and forcefully Celestia had lopped off his head. The war council looked back up at Celestia, praying that this was all a sick dream. "W-Why, princess?" Blinding Justice shakily choked out.
She down at him, face unreadable.
"I'm sorry."
Outside, a certain filly unicorn was cackling madly. "It won't be long, Celestia," she muttered. "You will fall to the dark. And you will bring the world a new age of purity and perfection."
This was going to be the best loop ever.
Also, I don't get the end. Can someone explain it?
Hold on a sec, I just realized: Alex Rider reference!
Possible Theory: Cookie Jar is really Pandora's Box... or it contains a Lovecraftian Horror.
RULES OF NATURE!
5492589 yeah, it needs to be looping! Who else noticed?
*Thinks about that frog crossed with an orange* Oh.... God...
Especially that frog crossed with an orange!!
Orange family confirmed for spies.
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Oh. My. God.
That is horrifically dark, yet amazingly awesome...
Fallout?
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT-Waaaaaait a sec, that's a James Bond reference there...thetoddanderinfavoritefive.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/clever-ideas-to-make-life-easier-520x390.jpg
5709211 Agent Orange is particularly effective, even if he occasionally kills the houseplant instead of the target.
celestia: oh my-...
...
Me: waaaaaaaaaaaaattt, ( imagine there was a cookie in the cookie jar
Celestia found her mother's secret porn stache, didn't she?
I'm honestly surprised there's no mentions of Scootaloo in the comments to this chapter...
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She died and woke up at he beginning of the next loop.
6138401 insert the Indian Jones melting face here
Their mother shoved the smooze inside that jar.
5717567 I think it's more of an Alex Rider( forgot last name
7113754 Conspiracies !!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!!
5506876 its kinda obvious that you didnt notice (before you read that comment). by kinda i mean REALLY obvious.
She should've said, "Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to steal a cookie jar."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Y25FT7DxE was that this kind of oh my or
this kind of oh my... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ohhh+my+gooooood
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seeing as she was looped from opening the cookie jar? i don't think it as the george one.