Group Precipitation

by FanOfMostEverything

Dream Engine, by Sudrian Engineer

An orange-skinned teenage unicorn aspect carried his laptop down the halls of CHS, glad the universal goddess had agreed to at least hear out his the request. Once in the agreed-upon meeting room, he set up his laptop and waited. At the appointed time, Sunset appeared in a flash and nodded to him.

“Thank you for agreeing to this, Sunset. As promised, I will not try and beg if you say no,” the teen said, pressing a key on his laptop to pull up his presentation.

“Sure, Rusty,” Sunset began. “Not many people ask as respectfully you did. They tack on a bunch of titles I didn't ask for, sure, but they still shout demands at the heavens until I say something.”

Rusty nodded and began the presentation, the first slide showing an image of a fictional island. “If you would, please close your eyes and picture a land where the sky is so blue…”

Half an hour later, he reached the last slide, depicting a blue, orange, and white flag. He nodded to Sunset, signifying that he was done.

She looked at him with a thoughtful expression before giving a sad smile. “This was a very well put-together proposal, but I think you know the risks and possible consequences of expanding an island. To say nothing of giving locomotives sapience.”

The teen had a sad but understanding look as he nodded and rubbed the back of his neck. “Yeah, I kinda figured it was a long shot, but I was always taught that it never hurts to ask.”

Sunset's smile took a turn for the sly. “That being said, I think I can do something you may enjoy almost as much.”

---

"So then, I—" A chime from Sunset's phone interrupted her. She pulled it out with a scowl. "I swear, if this is Rainbow Dash..." Her expression mellowed as she looked at the screen. "Oh!"

"What is it?" said Twilight, even as she slid closer on Sunset's unpronounceably Scandineighvian couch to look over her shoulder.

"You remember that one guy who actually made an appointment? He sent me a photo."

In the image, Rusty beamed in his massive basement, standing front of a sprawling scale model replica of a fictional railway, a little blue engine visible in the background.

Author's Note:

Ask (respectfully) and ye shall receive (within reason.)

Comments

[Sudrian Engineer]

Feels kinda nice to see this added, and I like the changes you made! Thanks again!

[Malandy]

"unpronounceably Scandineighvian" heh.

11659877

Explain to me what happened? Sunset made him a model railway set??

[Sudrian Engineer]

11659896
Okay, so first, you get what he was asking originally, right? Making the Island of Sodor from Thomas the Tank Engine real?

[PiMan]

I twigged to what was going on when it was mentioned to give locomotives sentience. I figure some die hard fans would have figured it out earlier, but most probably don't recognise the flag or locale by simple description.

[Sudrian Engineer]

11659913
Honestly, that was my goal, give hints that slowly make it more obvious, before playing the little blue train card at the end

[Malandy]

11659907

I just read enough about enough media that I got *that* part. yea

[Sudrian Engineer]

11659920
Basically, what Sunset did was give Rusty's basement a Tardis style make-over, making it bigger on the inside, and gave him a scale model replic of the Island and all it's railways.

[Malandy]

11659922

Ah. The "massive" for the basement. Makes sense. Yea. Not too strong an effect, but makes him real happy!

[Sudrian Engineer]

11659928
Exactly!

As for how she did it, depends on what fits best. Could be a literal bigger on the inside thing, could be a pocket dimension, could even be that she enchanted the basement so that, when you enter it, you shrink, and the model is in that scale, so it fits in the room.

[LEGION55]

YEY!!!!!

[Sudrian Engineer]

11659959
Heh, I take it that you like it?

[LEGION55]

11659975
Very Much.

[Sudrian Engineer]

11659982
Am glad!

[Eroraf86]

Unexpectedly wholesome. I love it.

[Sudrian Engineer]

11659988
The backstory is quite similar actually: I was reading thru the collection and began to notice just how often Sunset was being harrassed, and people demanded things. As such, I wanted to do a short where someone was actually polite and understanding

[ShadowLDrago]

She looked at him with a thoughtful expression before giving a sad smile. “This was a very well put-together proposal, but I think you know the risks and possible consequences of expanding an island. To say nothing of giving locomotives sapience.”

Well. That's an unexpectedly pleasant reference.

[Sudrian Engineer]

11660305
I figured most people would get it with Locomotive Sapience, but if not, the little blue engine at the end should be the final hint needed

[blastdragon]

Maybe a bit of obscure reference/connection, but I see Rusty as the EQG version of Lemon from Bullet Train. They only have the connection of loving Thomas the Tank Engine (Or however it's called in the Oversaturated World) but I just love giving a random new character a random backstory based on one small connection (And isn't that how most background pony's got their backstory's?).

[Sudrian Engineer]

11660981
I have never seen the movie, only heard things, so I sadly cannot say if this is a good connection or not. Sorry

[UrsaMajor]

11724423
Ah, I watched that episode within the past year or two, I think, but I must've missed that line. That is indeed quite a goof!

[UrsaMajor]

Finally caught up! Yaaaaysob.