“So how long have we been walking?”
“About an hour.”
“Okay stop. Show me the map. Where are we?”
“Here.” She points with her hoof.
“And where is my home?” I ask causing her to point again back an inch from where he pointed before.
“And where is the edge of my property?”
She drags her hoof to the top of the paper. I turn around and start walking.
“Hey wait! Where are you going?”
“Home.”
"But I thought you wanted to see how much land you had.”
"I did, One hour of walking worth is one inch on paper, times that by twelve hours squared I think I got how big it is….
Thanks.” I say as I walk away.
“Oh…… Wait no. That’s not all of it!” I stop in my stride and turn back to Twilight.
“What do you mean? NOT all of it?
She smiles “Well… When I filled out the papers for the Neutrality act of 353 I filled out all the sections 444-56-C though 777-56-F.”
I look at Twilight with a slightly raised eyebrow and wave my hand for her to go on. Thankfully she did. “444-56-C helps ownership of the base land, which is what you see here.” I nod. “ Well 444-56-D allows for subterranean land ownership and 444-56-E allows for aerial space…..” I cut her off there.
“Twilight. Hold up just one second. Are you telling me I own the sky?”
“Um... Yes.”
I stare at her for a long moment, before waving my arms around. “And what pray tell, am I going to put in the sky Twilight?”
Twilight just looks at me quizzically before replying in an even more questioning tone. “A playground?”
still staring at her with the most un-amused and neutral face in the world before replying to that sarcastic remark with one of my own. “Sure! Why didn't I think of that!? Tell you what Twilight, why don't you take, oh say...” I point at a random dot on the paper. “ That dot right there, to its deepest depths to its highest sky.” I gesture wildly from the ground up into the sky blue above us. “And make a playground there, and when you're done tell me.” I huff and march away.
“Okay….” She says looking down at the parchment being held in her magic. “Wait how much should we spend on this?!” She asks loudly, but I keep walking and she shrugs. “Guess we'll talk about price later.”
An hour later we were finally made it back to my house while Twilight still rambled on about all the land. “And any excavation or mining operations that turn up valuables you will take an eighty….” This is when a little purple dragon showed up yelling “Twilight! TWILIGHT! Come quick! You have got to see this!” hearing that made me die a little on the inside, if anything because he came from the direction of my house.
We picked up the pace, moving quickly until we stopped at the edge of my, well the edge of what was my original property line. There was a bunch of Pegasi flying around, Unicorns staring and a bunch of Earth Ponies trailing what looked like stone mining carts across my backyard and flower garden to my house where it was lifted by the Unicorns' green magic before a tide of rainbow colored objects were tossed into the back door of my home.
“What is GOING ON HERE?!” I yelled looking at one of my flower patches that were completely destroyed; I felt my eye twitch. “My… Petunias!” I forced out between gritted teeth.
There is a slight cough causing me to turn and look down a Unicorn pony. “Yes well, our Queen managed to get through the paperwork we procured when neutrality act went, though. She found it quite acceptable and has gathered up the riches owed to you over the last night cycle. We decided to bring half of what we owe to your residents and keep the rest in a vault created when digging out a gem enriched chamber.” At this moment, Twilight said something about not having to worry about paying for a playground but I didn't hear. The little unicorn blinked up at me, but I just stared at him before turning to look at my home apparently now just a massive bank vault. The unicorn coughs once more as I watched another three earth ponies walk out from behind the stone statue in the corner of the yard before looking back at the unicorn. “Anyway, our queen has asked if she might procure rights to another fifty acres of suburban land to the east and south of here?”
That snaps me out of my thoughts. “Wait, Queen? Queen, OH! You are one of those fellows that… I was wondering about that.”
“We’re Changelings, sir.” This got a jump out of Twilight
“C-Changelings?” Twilight stared at the disguised Unicorn.
“B-but you're convicted felons!!!” she all but screamed at the poor creature who lowered its ears.
“Maybe in Equestria, but here we have asked for asylum that was granted to us by the Shepherd.”
“Shepherd?” Twilight and I ask in unison. To which the unicorn pointed at me with a hoof.
Sure, Shepherd, why not; I do kinda have a bunch of ponies running around on vast amounts of land…. Makes since…. “Yeah alright…” My brain had shut down at this point and was slowly rebooting it took it a few seconds. “ALRIGHT! Twilight deal with the land thing for me you have a better grasp on it than I do.”
Twilight looked a little nervous but nodded her head before looking over the paperwork.
An hour or so later, I had to get the Changelings to stop bringing me money, since I literally, could no longer get into my home at this point. The person that says you can never have too much money hasn't been locked out of their house because it was full of money. I was sitting on the back porch looking out at the multitude of ponies, mostly Earth Ponies, fixing the flower beds that was wrecked and a little drooling baby dragon just standing next to the porch and staring at a large pile of gemstones that was dumped out on said porch because there was no longer any more space in my house for them.
But I had bigger concerns like. “Where am I going to sleep tonight?" I’m not even sure anymore honestly. I let out a groan.
“Hey, um, c-can I have some of them?”
I look up from behind my hands as they were firmly attached to my face to look at the little dragon known as Spike who was now looking up at me with the biggest doe eyes I’ve ever seen in my life and I’ve had a stare down with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. I lost that battle, but won the next when they tried again! I didn't need that fence anyway.
“Sure, take whatever you want off the porch.” I said to him and he got the happiest little face I’ve ever seen, it made my heart swells slightly at the sight of it; right up until the point where he took the biggest gemstone from the pile and chomped into as if it was little more than rock candy, this act alone threatened to break what little I had left of my sanity.
As the sun was starting to lower in the sky and with the bath having more Pegasi in it then it probably should have at any one time, Twilight decided to return and explain the details of the subterranean Changeling domicile.
“Well, it would appear you have permanent residence living under your house now. Also, I’ve granted them the land they wanted; well not all of it, they wanted the land to the east but the we-” Crunch! Snap! Creak! “to the wes…” More breaking and sounds of general enjoyment. “I’ve also decided it would be a good idea to plant a small woode….” Creeek, snap, CRASH!
All was silent for a moment as I let out a heavy sigh. That last crash was not from a baby dragon. That was from the support beams holding my upstairs floor up snapping, causing the entire second floor to give way to under the thousands of pounds of pressure upon them causing gemstones to rain down into the lower levels of my house.
I’m beginning to think being locked in a dungeon might have been the better alternative here.
I'm just waiting for him to get completely fed up and just move
6579556 lol.... I have a feeling things will work out.... We hope... hmmm.....
Maybe he should take the money and build a bigger house.
That would solve a few of his problems.
And include an Fallout-like doomsday-vault.Good chapter for a good story!
Edit: Are you sure you mean 'loesing' and not 'losing' in the chapter-title?
6579559 ????
6579559
Just finished playing some Vegaaaas.
a doomsday vault with plenty of crazy experimental birdbathsgood idea, horrible execution. find a spell checker, please.
You need to capitalize the word Equestria in both your description and your story.
Proofreader would be nice, because story is amusing like hell
6579623 This is extremely informative! Thank you! I have always had all of these problems when I write my stories. Someone resently has stepped up on the last two chapters and has been helping me with the editing. I hope it is up to par with everyone, as I believe he is doing a wonderful job and is quite helpful.
I'll see if I can ask him to take a look over the other chapters and edit them aswell for me when he has the time.
And I will do my best to get better at writing, but I must admit i'm horrible lol. I still enjoy writing and will keep doing it learning as I go along!
6579679 The chapters are pretty short, and I like the story, so if you want I can edit it a little when I get the time. Send me a google docs link (via PM) and I'll see what I can do.
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I wouldn't say its horrible but its not A+ either.
It's that moment in any RTS, getting so much cash, you forget to build silos and vaults
With how crowded things are becoming there, he'll need to construct more bird bath gardens to supplement the influx of visitors, we're going Rollercoaster Tycoon here, too many people, not enough to ride.
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With that much land he could almost found a city....
Also, whose idea was it to overflow the house with gems? At least he has plenty to feed spike so future buildbuilding tasks get finished quicker. (mlp game reference)
Keep going! ;)
6579690 I wouldn't say no to assistance.
Poor guy. Well, he can now actually employ Twilight to handle all of those things for him.
Of course, the condition is, he has to give approval to stuff first
The grammar got better drastically over the last couple of chapters, but there's still some slight polishing which needs to be done...
But apart from that, enjoyable little story there!
if its subterranean doesnt that mean diamond dogs could be under there too?
Guess you need a castle guy.
6579838 Just almost?!
Alright, so walking speed is generally calculated with 2km/h, so a 1 hour walk would do 2km (I know walking speed in and itself is 4km/h, but my father said they used 2kph in the military so we'll go with that). Our protagonist said it would take ~12 hours, so we are counting with a 24*24km (little bit less than 15miles) area at least. That is bigger than Los Angeles or New York for example. And with the pony ability to build in the air, it can be a giant metropolis.
Those awkward mornings when you wake up just to find a city in your garden.
6579897 well they're going to rebuild his house right? Might as well make it worthy of being a Town Hall!
6579838 Well... There are a lot of diffrent spices living in equestria and the space was needed.
*Cough* Chrissilas *Cough*
6579851 Aggreed! I have someone else also helping now aswell.
6579860 Lol yeah, he needs an adviser for sure! And also thank you, my editers are doing a great work, I obtained another editer that is going over my first four chapters for me when they get the time so expect fully edited chapters of 1, 2, 3 and 4 soon.
6579884 This is very likely.
6579897 Well. As I said before there is a lot of diffrent life in equestria, and a lot of them are quite large in stature. So the space will be needed.
i cant stop laughing!!!
you have my Favorite! cant wait to see what happens next!
This fic was just great, exellent work!
6579567 No offense, but what do you mean by '????' ?
Also, it's in the feature-box!
6580242 I was just confused about something but my spelling is just horrible lol its all good, thank you for pointing it out.
I wonder if all that wealth for the land can be spent on improving the 'ruler's domicile. Otherwise, he'll be the only one without a place to live.
Now he has something to spend his money on.
[The] Shepard just commissioned a theme-park based on Minecraft "free fall" maps!
6579838 i see dragons sometime on the future
6580551 ooh, i see hoard challenges!
This guys place is turning into something outta Forge of Empires on Facebook.
No stupid. D: SHE DOESN'T GET SARCASM WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING >_<
XD YOU ARE MISSING THE IMPORTANT STUFF, MAN!
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6579556
I'm waiting for the return of shiny and cadie.
THAT will be a hoot and a half.
6581242 I laugh so hard at the comments you ponies are making on this story, you have no idea! And I kinda think I would be doing the same thing as the character... Just screaming to the heavens in futility...
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Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
Hehe. I like it. I like it lots~
Equistra's first human garden will hilariously evolve into its first Megacity
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and walking down one of this smucks garden paths will equate to this
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the poor bastard just wanted to see some birds with his morning Coffee...
6582094 Lol yes this!
6583651 Yeah, Its me!
Damn! Equestria is trolling the shit out of him. One day at a time.
Let's see how far this goes!
ah i have had days like this, when you wake up groggy as all hell, stumble down the steps to the kitchen, stub your toe on the corner counter fetching your beloved breakfast cereal, bash your head into the open cabinet getting your bowl, having the butter dish smash your foot retrieving the milk and OJ, all before sleepily stumbling over to the table to make your breakfast, when your roommate, The Universe, decides to come bonding happily down the stairs preppy as prep can be, leaps up onto the table drops its pants, takes careful aim, and lets loose a long hot stream of piss all over your cheerios then squatting down and let a nice big wet one plunk right down into your OJ with a splash. you just have to take a moment staring at the ruined remains of a hard fought breakfast and wonder to yourself, "do you really want to see where the rest of today is going to go after that, or do just want to crawl back to bed and curl up in a ball until today goes away?"
for those wondering, take my advice and go back to bed because it just went down hill from there ending up in the hospital with 3 different poisonous snake bites, a whole mess of bee stings, half my hair burnt off and the rotting head and spine of a rodent impaled in my foot. Good news was that for the whole story the doctor gave me half off my bill
6588919
I genuinely gave you the benefit of the doubt until that part.
6580387
He could list it as something to attract humans.
6581242 6581323
Money Bin. Habitat for money and ducks.
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6579556 The way things are going, I think it's more likely that he's going to accidentally build a metropolis to rival Canterlot and the Crystal Empire combined.
6598436 It's gonna feel, sound and look like a little patch of Coruscant within a decade if this keeps up.
Yup, he most definitely needed booze instead of coffee.
Give him a whole bottle of Scotch, on me.
Hahaha, ooooh how I wish I could get lucky to have gems in my backyard.
Nice.
And then Spike had Greed Growth Part 2. And stomped all over Shepherd's house.