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Ah, Precious dies. Now it doesn't feel so weird that she was shoe-horned into the story.
Once again, another awesome chapter from Somber.
Apparently, the zebras did have some semblance of civilization after the bombs dropped, but it doesn't look like things turned out correctly. First to note is the razorgrass. You, Somber, wouldn't keep on bringing up "this is not a pony invention" if it actually wasn't. My guess? Somezebra seized power after the Caesar died, and is using this to control the population. (Just a guess. I don't have enough info to be sure). I also want to know who these Reavers are, the ones that Aleta mentioned, and also what the Syndicate is. Could they have planted the razorgrass?
I also want to say that we're going back to the swamp sometime in the future. I think Scotch is going to find that lost hunting rifle (the one owned by the dead zebra that guided Scotch out of the swamp, which I can't bother to look up what his name is) , and the Rougarou is going to come into play sometime soon. Somber left too many loose ends in the storyline for us to not make a return trip. What will the state of the swamp village be in? Will Riptide have decimated it trying to get answers as to where Scotch is going? (I don't find this too likely, since Lamprey and the "odd bunch" (gargoyle, centaur, and giant dog trio) were hot on their heels. Though I think Riptide will do something nasty to the village. When Scotch returns, it will be changed.
It also looks like Aleta is a permanent part of the gang now. (Those stupid curses!)
Could I ask when the next chapter will be done? (Just an estimate is fine)
This chapter brought to you by the Conversion Bureau. The zebra's land is ruined, and their only hope for survival is to be transformed into ponies and travel to Equestria.
The Whiskey Express ... Black Jack would be so proud of you Scotch
How about we ask her sword instead, that could cut through any object without even a scratch on it, and probably slayed more of her foes than any of her other weapons?
Damn... Chapters over... Now it's back to waiting...
Well...crud.
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Yeah, I knew what was going to happen the moment I read these lines.
So, they have a new party member now. Dragged in via "curse" business just like Blackjack with Xanthe so long ago.
Yet another fantastic chapter.
*Sigh* Hope Precious can make it, I knew it was a bad idea to use the seaweed without removing that round; but what could they do without the tools.
After what has happen in the Hoof, on the ship and in the swamp, I hope Scotch will open up to the posibilities of things just to survive. Curses and spirits will be in play.
Heck, after thinking back to some things in the Hoof as containing spirits (not the soul jars), the perception of things change.
Truly, there is no greater action race than one on Tractors. If anything, I am quite pleased to see you writing about Zebrica (it's how I say the name in my fic), as well as how vast and full of life it has. And to see spirits and scrying in action is giving me bursts of inspiration for new ideas. Oddly enough though, there should be more sentient equines other than Zebra living on that continent, like Gnus and Impala and such. Either way, enjoying the chapters so far, and I hope your other book will be e-published soon.
I think everything I wanted to say has been said, like "going back to the swamp... find that lost hunting rifle...Black Jack being proud of Whiskey Express...another fantastic chapter...no greater action race than one on Tractors and... Now it's back to waiting". I'm looking forward for the next chapter and seriously awesome chapter.
This grass is salt-the-earth 2.0
In Chapter 6 they will run out of coal and discover it'll run on alcohol with a few changes. The name becomes literal. (Or further on, but for some reason I don't feel like the tractor will last that long.)
So they only have one submarine's worth of disposable henchmen, right? They gotta run out eventually.
From a skeptic's point of view, the scene where Pynthia and Scylla start threatening curses at each other looks like children playing pretend constantly trying to beat the other with their made-up thing. And later revelations suggest that might have been exactly it.
Sounds to me like we're going to be reading about the zebra version of the Flim Flam brothers soon.
Goood lord, reading these two took a chunk out of my time... qand I LOVE IT!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
And I gots me a sweet idea... *plots evilly*
Good work on this one man, hehehe... I love Precious, she's so fucking cool.
CURSES!
THEY BE REAL YO~
Is this why this story isn't first-person from Scotch's perspective; because she can't tell a story?
Your razorgrass makes me think of a sadistic hybrid of sawgrass and fiberglass insulation....fuck that. Fuck that so much!
Okay, okay! Time to take a break from Fallout and read... Fallout. Am I the only one who keeps seeing little hints of FoE in Fallout 4? Maybe it's just convergent evolution, but the Giddyup Buttercup factory makes it pretty clear that someone over there is a fan...
No, I absolutely did not mod out a super-sweet legendary combat shotgun and name it "Sexy."
Hmm... tempest? Volcano? Or something else?...
It's kinda hard to tell when Pythia is foreseeing and when she's just being sarcastic! Though all things considered, maybe she was and she still didn't see that coming.
That's odd... we know they're getting closer to something called the "Eye of the World", I wonder if that has an effect on seers.
She's awfully defensive of that cloak, to the point of an anxiety reaction there. Is she hiding something under it she doesn't want people to see? Or is it just (...just...) some past trauma that made her phobic of physical contact (haphephobia)?
I know they're just kids, but I think "stupid" is a cruelly vague term to use. She's thoughtless, not stupid. Which, like ignorance, is something that can be trained out.
I guess there's no obvious deformities she was hiding, then...
Well, that's certainly the point of resource denial, but if this is a weapon, it was probably created by unicorns. So it's probably coded to shrivel up and crumble into dust in response to a specific trigger spell or something. I'm sure someone figured that controlling the clearance rate would give them an extra way to help control the defeated zebras.
Of course, it could also be a Zebra weapon that got loose, in which case it'll probably take a shaman to talk it down. It does seem more the Zebra style, where ponies were concentrating on bizarre megaspell applications and various ways of creating super-soldiers.
Well, if you feel like alerting the enemy to your location in the middle of a field of razorgrass, by all means, set fire to anything you wish.
Of course, what's the point of adventuring in a grain silo if you're not going to blow it up?
So that was new. Hmm. Interesting.
That'll be a first... Kid, you have no idea how lucky you are to not be as hapless as Blackjack.
The same sort of person that would get their mattresses slashed open by someone looking for it...
As if we didn't have enough to get the heebie-jeebies from.
>Can't understand written Zebra
>Knows about advanced mathematics
Holy crap. Harvest that shit and use it for building materials!
Oh, I know a Quest Item when I see one!
I wonder if chaotic events totally out of any conscious control -- like the random failure of a pressurized boiler -- are easier or harder to predict. Like, does it generate a different "window" for every specific way the crack could form, or are they only spawned by the various choices someone could make?
Ah, you make me long for the days of bouncing across the Wasteland in a modified Highwayman with Goris poking out through the sunroof like something off a Rat Fink t-shirt. (What? You say it didn't have a sunroof? It did after Goris got done with it...)
Depending on the circumstances, this might be preferable to blackwater.
On the right track...
I'll be over there in the corner, squeeing.
D'awww...
Erm. How are you going to get it to the road without the tires getting all slashed up? Even solid rubber will lose bits, won't it?...
Crap.
Crap crap.
That was awesome! This whole fight is awesome!
Crap crap crap!
Hee... I thought she'd know that by now!
Eaugh... I'm assuming some form of shamanism is involved. Injecting a bug spirit into a zebra, or something?
FIRE IN THE HOLE!
Geez, you'd think they ran over his dog or something!
...
*trollface*
Whew. I hope the boiler didn't take any hits...
Oh, wow. That was a very effective line.
Got a little of the "PC glow", there, I think... I shall call you Boo Two!
Or I could call you Aleta, fine...
A "battle angel" she ain't, though.
Maybe "morgul-grass" would be a better name for it...
I'll grant that pony weapons tend to be more... um... flashy. Hmm. Which begs the question: was it released by accident, or created by one zebra tribe to control another? Or perhaps by Four Star, which is starting to seem less like a fifth column and more like a third party...
Well, you've got a gun. Let's see how rugged that boiler is.
Once again, she talks and things listen...
What is it with Precious and dangling from chains?
Pythia's got a nasty streak.
This makes me highly suspicious of Carnico as the weeds' creator.
...bzuh?
"Don't you think she looks tired?"
Yeah, as far as I can tell, "cursed" just means "shook up their life". Kind of a "may you live in interesting times" sort of thing.
Which, so far as I can tell, is generally good for ponies.
I see. I take it the three words, then, would be something like, "You are powerless."
I'm sure that threat won't ever come up again.
I guess that means claiming she saw three dragonfillies last week was also a bluff.
...ah.
I see. So it's only Achu (and presumably other warlike tribes) where "Proditor" necessarily means "fighting for the other side". Still, he didn't hesitate to work on Precious, which is probably a good sign.
Still wondering how the whole 'red stripes' thing happens, though from Pythia's description, I expect it's a shamanistic curse of some sort. Her comment about needing to really, truly be in the right to pull off a Damocles suggests that, similarly, you couldn't just randomly curse someone with red stripes out of spite. Handy to know.
It's quite cool how both Majina and Pythia are metagaming against the story a little bit. Now we just need Scotch to start always expecting the worst possible scenario and they will be unstoppable!
Wonder what Pythia would think if she saw even half the horrors ponykind seems to have managed with magic in FoE. For all her knowledge, I doubt she's seen that much of the total. Celestia One and the SPP towers are neat tech by comparison and that Whirlpool and Hurricane are terrible, but much more predictable and ordinary seeming than some of the crazy magic out there. Precious seems like the benign end of strange experiments with breeding/species fusion?
7099555 She lived in the Hoof. I'm pretty sure she's seen some things...
I just realise this story lacked some tags, like Gore or Sex. XD
Are you sure Somber wrote this ? XD Sorry, I found it fun after PH. ;)
Another nice chapter, though I'm not sure how an abortionist is too big of a deal except for some ponies.
7515912 I think it's amusing to imagine ponies as not batting an eye at free love but being freakishly pro-life... Second thought maybe it's not too amusing.
Man, compared to glass grass, enervation seems positively vanilla.
Please tell me she's just seeing it, and not feeling it.
Gosh, it's almost like spending her entire life being told she's cursed and evil hasn't left her with a positive outlook on life!
Razor kudzu ... ponies, you are fucked up. Also dumb, because any countermeasure to it was probably lost in the war, so what happens once it spreads to Equestria?
Burning down the building in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
You end up totally boned? (Sorry-not-sorry)
Point to Pythia.
Dust fires are no joke.
Get some acid, melt away the rest of the plant, weave some ballistic cloth out of the fibers?
Why have neither BJ nor Scotch thought to ask, "Ok, so then how does one lift the curse?"
Did this threat come after watching the Powerthirst videos?
Inherited BJ syndrome?
I'm wearing my shooty face at whoever she's trying to hide this from.
Wait...so Galen is like Angel?
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My mom worked at a milling plant in around 1995. The evac procedure for a fire in the building was pray. You had about 5 seconds before the plant and about 4 miles of the surroundings became a fireball because of all the flower dust in the air.
Kind of surprised thoses zebra didn't think to just put some carpeting over the glass grass. Maybe the seeds would be hard to kill but if you get enough carpeting, planks or anything you could just shade the grass to death.
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or plant spruce tress cause then the barrs would sure the ground and make it unhabitabel for the grass to grow
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Sure. And honestly the zebras tried all that. But Razorgrass is tenacious. It crowds out all other growth, it has no natural herbivores or insects that eat it easily. It will happily suck all the nutrients out of the soil, thriving on minimal nutrients, and it reproduces via runners. The first clumps were all annoying. Then they were a problem for larger groups.
Razor grass has one weakness: a herbicide that is produced exclusively from Carnico. Carnico doesn't just make the poison. It also sells the seeds that are resistant to the herbicide. The Carnilla tribe is supposed to be about life. Carnico is the perversion of life for profit.
Yeah, I bet that's what the military assholes told them as the world disintegrated amidst the fallout.
This kid needs to learn the wonders of S.A.T.S..
I never though I would see a high speed trace on tractors but here it is. Lol. The grass really is something insidious it’s not quite flashy enough for something made by ponies though. Also another instance of scotch possibly have spiritual powers.
Fuck off Scotch Tape! Majina is taking your place as best pon- err... zebra! Mane character! Whatever! Majina is the best! Whoo!
Level Up :D
Point Lookout DLC Added! :D
Infinite RazorGrain Added! :D
You are overencumbered
and can not run :D
New Quest Perk: Mad Bomber
Repair: 50 Int: 6
What most ponies see as every day objects, you see as the makings of one big booming good time. :D
Stay Tuned :D
Of course, just one chapter after I wrote that this story is a lot more lighthearted that PH a scarred and traumatized Zebra mare joins the group.
The part at the farm, ho boy, that was depressing. The inhabitants offer their daughter to what they presume are a bunch of raiders. Said daughter then begs them to do with her as the please as long they spare their family. And when she suddenly realizes that Scotch is a pony, she gets even more desperate thinking that Scotch can somehow make destroy the glass grass. The whole thing made me tear-up. Really great scene! And to save her, Scotch had to tell her that she’s cursed and forced her into the tractor at gunpoint. Meaning she can probably never go back to her family. Which may or may not be good thing. Hope they find a nice home for her in the city. Because if she stays with group, I predict a 99% chance of her dying horrible to some kind of monster.
Pythia is also suffering a lot more than I thought. To see dozens upon dozens of alternative futures, many of them resulting in her dying horribly, and not knowing which one will happen is terrifying. Reminds me of that one scene with Griffin in MIB 3.
And that’s on top of being part of the “Worse than Hitler”-tribe. It’s a small miracle that she hasn’t snapped yet.
The action scenes in this chapter where great, too. Scotch is a pretty good brawler. Using her strength and wits to take out two fliers. Which are pretty scary creatures. I wonder what exactly turned them from normal Equips into these things and how Riptide was able to gain control off them. Does she pay them or is there a way to control them?
Then we got an awesome chase scene, with the Whiskey Queen (Blackjack would be proud) and Lamprey’s tractor that resulted death of all pursuers except the Bounty Hunters (I’m surprised that they’re still alive, guess they are protected by the power of being the comedy relief guys) and Lamprey. So by attempting to kill Scotch, Riptide has now lost more than a dozen men on top of one of her submarines. That’s the point where you should call it a day and cut your losses. Otherwise it just gets worse. Just ask Immortan Joe.
I think Precious will survive, but there’s a chance of her receiving permanent brain damage. And please girls, don’t start a debate about the ethics of abortions with the guy who’s trying to save your friends live.
I didn't expect a Mad Max style car chase (of sorts)!
That was pretty awesome!
Now I want some agoloosh to chew on
It's Majina's fault the Whiskey Express is dead.
...is it weird my favorite part about this chapter was the notes at the end? Because that was amazing 🤣