This story is a sequel to Princess Twilight's Profoundly Peripheral Protector
Storm Kicker has faced many challenges as part of her duties as bodyguard to Princess Twilight Sparkle, and despite some initial difficulties, she has managed to adjust quite nicely to her new role.
That is, until she she faces the most terrifying enemy of her entire career in the Royal Guard: an unholy prankster alliance between Sparkler Doo, her own younger sister, and Ponyville's premier prankster Rainbow Dash. Can Storm and her princess face this threat and escape with their dignity intact, or will they become the laughingstock of Ponyville and all Equestria?
Chapters (3)
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Hmmmm...
I'm getting a small... very small sense that these two could end up being together (and no, not just because of the shower scene).
This was hilarious. I love that Celestia got in on it too. Great work as always.
This was wonderfully funny. I now ship TwiStorm. That is all.
5621514 that comment and image together has my sides hurting so much. That was a well needed laugh
Twilight's vengeance is quite terrible to behold.
Called it. One does not get involved in a prank war with Twilight Sparkle.
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On the plus side, at least that toy actually resembles Celestia from the show. The coat is white, not pink!
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Even if it had been, Twilight is the type that would buy the correct paint to make her the right color.
[amused smile] I'm so blowing this out of the water
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Flash (at least his pony counterpart) hasn't shown any indication of feelings towards Twily, so doubt he has a crush.
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Rumors are notorious unreliable, after all.
Oh my gawd, Twilight is so friggin' adorkable.
Bees!
Sigh, random Flash hate for no particularly good reason. I would have expected better than that out of the Winningverse given how much worldbuilding it has done to make the Guard interesting.
Nice to see Twilight take the first round in this war, though I can't imagine they'll all be victories.
Good show, Twilight! Dunkin' Dipsticks.
5622762 Remember that the Kicker family thinks that Shining Armor got his position in the guard due to politics and not merit because a Kicker would obviously be superior for the position. Trash talking other rising-star guards that aren't Kickers is what they do.
Celestia and Luna vs. Discord and Pinkie? Celestia is an excellent planner, and Luna is the former Bearer of Laughter. Discord and Pinkie are... uh. Self-explanatory. I kind of want to see this Great Prank War, now.
We do need the tale of the prank war between Discord and Celestia!
Also, to try to express how much I like your work: I would buy the book, if you ever printed all the stories of this universe.
Damn, Twilight, he's just a kid.
Good lord, those pranks. My vote at this point is that Twilight should just provide a full accounting of what Star got up to on leave back to her commanding officer in Canterlot. If you can't trust her to not abuse the hell out of one Princess, why should they trust her with guarding Luna?
I do like the sound of Twilight having a Sol Invictus phase, that's fun.
Okay, aside from that first prank (not cool, Star, not cool), this is turning into Discord levels of delightful chaos.
Of course Twi doesn't snore. She'd be stealing Spike's 'thunder'
Wow, give Twilight enough of a push and she goes straight up insane. Blowing up the moon? Thank Celestia for, er, Celestia.
Hah!
5622844 You know what, that's a good point, thanks for the reminder. I hadn't really considered the source of that comment.
Excellent work, as per usual. It's always nice to see these snapshot continuations (well, to be fai,t I'm nopt sure I'd call this a "snap" shot, but you get the idea...!)
woho! sequel time!
The end of the war is rather unsatisfyingly vague... Sparkler and Dash get surrender scenes, but we're left to just infer that Star gives up sometime after Twilight does something with the tracker. Did all trackers everywhere start announcing themselves? We're given no indication of this (not even that multiple trackers left in the library started doing this), but it's the only thing I can guess to understand why it was enough to end the war.
and then they banged? Made love, mated? eight legged beast?
Wonderful story!
Found this though;
This story made me laugh alot. Good show! cant wait for another story about these 2.
lol poor Discord
I can't believe that Twilight would make Navi a thing... that is just unbelievably cruel.
-Ambassador of the Changelings,
Dopple Ganger
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Ah, but it's only a rumour. The truth of the matter could easily be that the 'crush' could be based on Cadance saying that she thinks they would get along well, (and given that her talent is love, ponies jump to the obvious conclusion). Meanwhile, 'mediocre' could simply be based on him not having any particular reason to stand out.
Given that it is a military rumour about a non-military pony's opinion about what they should do, I would take it with a few grains of salt.
I'm kind of starting to hope Storm isn't quite as straight as she believes herself to be...
I'll give the final prank against Dash major points as it was quite clever. The the ones against Sparkler and Star were pretty iffy and seemed to cross the line a bit and are the equivalent of stop-hitting-yourself-stop-hitting-yourself.
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That seemed perfectly in character for the Winningverse. Shining Armor has been nailed to the wall as well.
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Yeah, I would say that's a very reasonable possibility, assuming there's any truth to the rumor at all. It's not like there needs to be any element of truth to a wild rumor.
Yeah, fuck those virtues of Harmony! Loyalty is for losers, kindness is for sissies, and generosity is for chumps! It's not like they are the only reason we are still alive or anything.
*BANG*
Well... there goes the Mark Two. Maybe we should put a sarcasm fuse in the Mark Three....
Elsewhere, Discord is singing praises to such acts of comedic chaos.
Oh... that is diabolical.
5623814 Agreed, I'm also extremely confused on what exactly they did to Star.
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While that is a valid concern and equally logical...
DUDE, low blow.
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Hey! Listen!
Please somebody tell me I'm not the only one who pictured Navi as the orb floating around Sparkler. Please!
5630572 That left me scratching my head for a while, too. After re-reading that last bit a couple of times, the nearest I can figure is that all of Star's tracking gems are now loudly announcing themselves to everypony she ever hid one on, not just the one she stuck on Storm, as Harwick surmised.
My pedantic side demands I point this out:
That should be "or"; "and" already implies both articles.
The word you should be using here is Sapient not Sentient.
Sentience is consciousness: the ability to understand signals, interpret them, learn them, and use them. (basically all animals)
Sapience is the ability to think abstractly about the world, to search for meaning instead of purpose. (Humans and possibly some apes, dolphins and whales.)
Saying Nothing Sentient is would exclude everything but those creatures with the most primitive nervous systems, like jelly fish.
5631095 I know I sure did.
They should recruit Pinkie Pie to their side. It would be an all out pranking war
This may be the second-sickest burn I have ever read. Thank you, sir.
5623968 Did the Sleipnir Shuffle?
The orb yelling "hey", was it supposed to be like the fairy in some of the Legend of Zelda games?
5633101 Pretty sure that would constitute a war crime.
Oh man, it was soooo good just to get a small snipet of some more Cloud! It feels liek it's been forever since we've have a good Cloud scene since Winning Pony!
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