This story is a sequel to My Sweet Passion
Diamond Tiara has always been loathed by the Cutie Mark Crusaders for being the school bully, but Silver Spoon has recently been viewing her in a different light. When she accidentally reveals this, Diamond Tiara lashes out at her and ends up being expelled from Ponyville School for her unruly behaviour. Heartbroken by the loss of her only friend, Silver Spoon finds herself gaining the sympathy of her former targets while Diamond Tiara is sent away to a Manehattan boarding school.
Over the course of time, Silver Spoon gradually gains the trust of the Crusaders and their other friends, but feels empty without Diamond Tiara in her life. In an attempt to heal the breach between the two fillies, the Crusaders head off to Manehattan to pay her a visit, taking a reluctant Locomotion with them. But what they don't know is that Diamond Tiara needs Silver Spoon more than ever...
As with its prequel story, this one contains plot elements that contradict a recently aired episode - in this case, Crusaders of the Lost Mark. It was still being written when the episode was first broadcast, and I nearly cancelled this and the conclusion to the saga, which I'll reveal in due course, when I found out that the Crusaders had gained their Cutie Marks; but I eventually bit the bullet and decided to finish this off as an AU story. The same will be true of the next one, but after that, I'll be reverting to show canon for the CMC in future stories.
This story contains a fair amount of Unwinese, which may confuse some readers. Translations have been provided at the bottom of each chapter for those who are unable to understand.
May I offer for your consideration Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 #1218
6576618 For goods services, yes, I think that might be a good concept. I should point out, it probably won't inherit the N&W locomotive's number since, in the context of my fanfictions, the ENR locomotives are pretty much going to be numbered in their own series. What I have in mind is that the engines from the previous companies, which were eventually nationalised to form Equestrian National Railways, inherited their original numbers, and all ENR-built engines were numbered in a similar manner to how the SNCF used to number their engines. Essentially this is made up of their wheel arrangements, their individual classes and their serial numbers, such as the aforementioned 484P1 "Princess Celestia", 484P3 "Princess Twilight Sparkle" and 484P7 "Princess Cadance". Those that existed prior to nationalisation will probably be in the process of being renumbered, so "City of Cloudsdale's" number, for example, might one day change from 2508 to 464B9 or something along those lines.
Unwinese dialogue possibly a slight tribute to old time double talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcE0G_OMDA
6579662 Actually, Unwinese is a real brand of nonsense talk thought up by British comedian Stanley Unwin, on whom the janitor is based. That language, and indeed Unwin himself, were a central feature of Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation TV series "The Secret Service", and also played a fairly prominent role in "Carry On Regardless" among other films.
This was definitely a nice story. Diamond Tiara got a taste of her own medicine, but far more than she deserved.
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Well, I felt it'd make a much heavier bombshell if it waited until the final confrontation. That's largely why I had Nick Shilling and his gang baffled by an extremely specialist subject coming from a supposed "redneck" (red being Loco's fur colour) instead of revealing straight away that Twilight lived in Ponyville; basically, the Princess of Friendship defence is being used as a last resort.