This story is a sequel to If You Give Someone Super-Powers...
There are patterns in all things, even if we don't look for them. After spending a few years in Ponyville, Max has gotten pretty good at spotting them, so he invites a friend of his to watch the fireworks.
Not so much a sequel as a story set at a later date in the same timeline. Inspired by Joe Diffie's song, Third Rock from the Sun. And yes, Max is my "I have an idea, but no real story premise at the moment" changeling character.
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I'll give it a like. And a comment.
Changelings need more silly stories anyways.
They're shape shifters. Honestly, the possibilities are endless. I've been walking around with a notebook lately so things like this don't fade from my mind before I can record them. I can't tell you how many ideas have been lost that way... Makes me kinda sad, actually, as I know I'm not the only one who's forgotten good ideas, so the total is even higher
Now there's a word you don't often see.
Great little story, love Max, you need to use him more.
5870816 I've actually just had an idea, one I've not seen used before (if it was used, I haven't seen it) that may let me slip him into a story. I'll have to use a different name though, as the story I want to write has him meeting Twi quite early, so these can't be in the same 'verse. As I said in the description though, Max is basically the OC I use for random changeling shenanigans.
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Well, to be fair, If You Give Someone Super-Powers... doesn't specify how long they've know each other before Twi realizes he's a changeling. If that knowledge on her part isn't critical to the story, it could still work.
5870937 One I was talking about is out, by the way. I wasn't kidding when I said they'd be meeting early.
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The reference to the last week's disaster must not be obvious to someone who hasn't seen the source. I tried looking up his movies and some of the keywords and got nothing.
Very funny though!
Sadly I too did not get the "train hitting pies" reference, Monty Python maybe?
I don't really care for the "Ponyville has trouble every week" trope, but this was a good use for it.
Best letter ever, and Celestia's reaction to it was great.
You know, I think the ponies would really like margaritas, alcohol and salt! Get hammered twice as fast!
You could make this and eposodic series. The misadventures of Max the alicor...err, changling.
This was nice. I didn't laugh out loud, but I was smiling through most of it, so thank you for that Reykan.
And in case anyone else stumbles across this little story in the future and doesn't know what the previous week's disaster is referencing, I just googled "train hitting pastry", and found this. I'm actually not completely certain that's the right event that inspired the joke in this story, but it's still a bit funny itself I think.
6401514 As I said in the story intro, it was inspired by the song third rock from the sun, no actual disasters. I also was making fun of the fact that Discord seemed to have an interest in causing trouble, which isn't needed in Ponyville, shit just happens there. Still, I do find it funny a google search about train hitting a pastry led you here.
6401539 I was actually referring to the moment inside of the story, where Discord claims that the train hitting a pastry shipment was a poor pop culture reference. Then your author's note feels to heavily imply that that part was based on something that actually happened, something that would have made headlines for being so apparently obvious. I tried to look it up, and the closest I got was a news blurb about a train worker in England getting a deliberate pie to the face on April 1st, then suing for assault (with a pastry).
If that specific part was supposed to be influenced by that song as the rest of the story was, rather than being based on a true event, I think just a smidgen more explanation was warranted for it to work. Probably just a few lines to imply/expose the main reasons that led to a train hitting a pastry shipment. Something like Max's time table he share's with Twilight here, if a bit less precise and formal for being in speech rather than notes.
Or maybe it's perfect as is, and I just don't get it. *shrug* Either way, have a nice day.
Take my upvote, take it I say!
Oh, you might be surprised. Why do you think Celestia keeps all those guardstallions around, anyways?
Really funny, great work.
Snrk, that East hilarious. Also, the ending shows how the serving sun-moon war started.
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Celestia's female, of course she'd keep stallions.
Really, we need more Max, ASAP!
Samuel L. Jackson? ... OH *facepalm* I get it.
It's Crapes on a Train isn't it?
THESE STORIES ARE BEUIFTIFUL
I'm heading back to the castle.
(1) I think you meant grabbed.
Either way, the fact that all of this happened because of some rubber duckies (and the lineal set of events regarding how) is so absurd and ridiculous that it actually makes sense (regarding how things tend to spiral our of control in the MLP universe every now and then)
oh, now i remember, "peewee" is the baby phoenix Spike rescued from the other dragons in "dragon quest". so he must have started the fire when something startled him.
Oh, holy crap. That... they... Delegated cake... chaos nexus... gasp. I need to stop reading funny stories all at once.
Take my like. Take ALL my likes. You, my friend, are a comedic genius.
Jackpoooot~
God this fic is brilliant.
Banishment calls