While Apple Bloom is waiting for her potion to take effect during Twilight Time, a picture of Twilight's family on a nearby shelf brings back long lost memories of her dead mother. She craves her mother's loving touch, and right before she's about to give up on her potion, its contents bursts into life.
Her confidence in her abilities restored and now armed with the necessary knowledge and skills, Apple Bloom is confident that she'll be able to bring her parents back from the dead. She enlists the help of her friends, but they quickly discover that some things are better left in the past.
Edited and Proofread by Alcatraz, Rated Ponystar, Manaphy, ROBCakeran53, and PatchworkPoltergeist.
Chapters (1)
The feels...
Liked.
Loved.
And you can't do shit 'bout it.
ooohhhh, The feels.
I loved it a lot.
Liked and faved
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The law of Equivilant Exchange.
For every action, there is a reaction. One cannot obtain a reaction of larger potential than the action given.
This is the one, and only Truth.
This better not make me feel anything.
This is a heart warming story. It definitely brings out the feels.
Nicely done.
Its a nice story.
6338472 Got those, thanks!
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Oh my God, I knee it! Sadness having to do with their parents! I'm going to read it and weep!
Oh my...
Well done. Very well done.
Loved it. I wish I could give you a cookie. Have a smiley Twilight instead:
Maybe you could write one about a owner and his/her pet thing.
Me likey! Have a like and a fav! Wasn't very sad... but! It was still a good read!
The pacing feels a little rushed, I can't help but wonder if it would have worked better as a multi chapter story. Still not bad. I neither upvote nor downvote this.
Already featured? Abyss! How're you so good?
6339867 Hmmm, TwiDash?
6337994 Um, what exactly does that have to do with the story though? Sure it's true, but I don't see the relevance.
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Someone obviously doesn't get the FMA reference.
6340453 FMA? I don't think I know what that stands for.
6340476 Fullmetal alchemist ^^
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Full Metal Alchemist, and the quote is basically what the show is about. Basic and most fundamental rule of Alchemy.
6340476 Basically, you can't create a bowling ball from a marble, or fill an ocean with a cup full of water.
If Apple Bloom were to be successful in bringing her parents back, what do you think would have happened?
6340542 the potion could contain the proper amounts of energy to bring them back, but I doubt they'd have their memories due to their brains most likely being gone.
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Oh! Never watched it but I hear it's good. Also, three people respond to that in only 5 minutes. I think that's a new record for me.
6340550 You're missing the point of physical, flesh mass. By now all that would remain is bone, so where is all the organs, muscle, skin etc going to come from?
Thought this was going to be the origins of Zombiequestria.
6340558 there's no specifics of how long they've been buried.
6340949 There is. Also, I never specified if their actual bodies were in the ground or not. They could have been cremated.
I absolutely loved it.
6340958 fair point. Where did it specify how long they were dead?
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6341180 hm. Well. Not sure how long it takes for a body to decompose, I just know it takes a few years. Ok, never mind!
Great story, I wish that I could write that well, maybe I should just stick to poems.
I love it.
6341334 Well, you won't get better at something if you don't practice at it. ^^
A strange quirk of fate (probably having this page open for awhile
) made it look like my thumb up counted as 5. Anyway, wonderful story - and it resonated with me personally 
because something kind of similar happened. Minus the possible necromancy. See, last year, my Grandma died.
All accounts, a wonderful woman. She'd gone to Cornell in 1930, started the local republican party in South Carolina in the 40s and 50s, knew a lot about forestry, but around the 2000s she started getting dementia or alzheimers. Or both. But by last year, she was just about gone. She couldn't even speak, (I think her broca's area was just about destroyed) she was doped to the gills, she was almost skeletal, and me and uncle john checked her into a place she'd be better able to live by convincing her she was going on vacation.
I'm genuinely glad I didn't see her then. I've got memories of Grandma as a sweet, wonderful woman, not... not dead in all but the body. So that thing that Applejack says about remembering them? I can relate.
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Well done, Ab.
I was initially afraid that Apple Bloom would go through with it and it would SOMEHOW end up like Fullmetal Alchemist...but I like the way it turned out much better.
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Well, the word "successful" sorta implies they'd come back as intended.
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To be absolutely fair, pony magic blatantly ignores conservation of mass all the time.
If she did bring them back they might well have come back as badly decomposed bodies with a taste for pony flesh.
Something struck me as slightly off. Didn't Applebloom's potion restore a rotting apple to a fresh apple? If so, why does Applejack's argument work when she brings up their parent's rotting copses (even using a couple of apples to explain her point)? I might believe that Applebloom just forgot that her potion can restore the physical form, but she argued the exact same point with Scootaloo right before her encounter with AJ.
The pacing was a bit rushed (with AB getting the potion perfected after one night and AJ convincing her to give it up so easily). It's particularly apparent when Applebloom goes from crying tears of sadness to tears of joy so quickly.
Overall, there were a few issues with the execution, but I've still got to give praise to the author for the concept of raising the Apple parents from the dead and tying that in with Applebloom's potion making. It's like watching an MLP take on Frankenstein.
6343758 Thanks.
6344400 Scary thought that is!
I have a strange urge to re-watch Fullmetal alchemist again.
I know this is supposed to be a one-shot fic focusing on the touchy-feely part, but that's a rather startling leap of logic. I think she's missing the catalyst to that thought. She didn't bring a dead tree to life, she brought a seed to the age of a tree. It seems that the tree was aging quickly enough that its fruit rotted. If she was to have some plausible reason to consider making a potion to reverse the hyper-aged tree...
You'd think that a castle made of crystal, kept by a dragon and an obsessive-compulsive wizard wouldn't sound like the windows are rusted. Either that or it's intentional.
It's not bad, but it could be better.
Neat.
What if the potion raised some other long rotted pony fro the ground that was buried long ago?