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Fluttershy took a long, slow breath, looking around the spa room. Not another pony was moving--not even Lotus and her staff. They were all staring at her, wide-eyed.
"...I... think that's enough for today," she finally managed.
"What?" Rainbow Dash slid off her table. "You just told us part of your ear was torn off when you were taken hostage, and--"
"I've been dumping a lot on you, without much context. And it's not all... it's not all going to be nice." She stepped off her own spa table. "Besides, I need to check in on my animal friends, and... and I have so many questions for you as well, I have so much to catch up on--have you make it onto the Wonderbolts roster yet? What was the CMC's last crusade like? Did I miss any world-threatening adventures? And what about Discord, and my family, and--"
"Alright!" Rainbow held up a hoof. "Alright, alright, I get it. You've got a point..." She sighed. "I just... I want to know all of what happened to you, how you got like that, and--and I want to know you're okay."
"...I will be, Dash. I promise." Fluttershy smiled, taking her bandoleer and turning to Lotus. "Thank you for... allowing all this. I know that it must have been a little off-putting--"
"Non, Fluttershy, zis is ze place ponies come to rejuvenate, and you seem to have needed zat quite a bit." Lotus hesitated for a brief moment, before wrapping a foreleg around her. "It is good to see you again, zough."
"Heh." Fluttershy wrapped her own foreleg around the spa pony. "I think me and Rarity will be starting up our weekly spa dates... not next week, maybe the week after."
"I shall look forward to it."
Twilight cleared her throat. "So... we start this up again tommorrow, at the castle?"
"OOOOOO!" Pinkie hopped up eagerly. "I haven't even thrown you a welcome-back-from-another-world party! I'm going to need to invite everyone--the cusaders, the ponytones, the princesses, your family if I can get their address--"
Rainbow winced. "Yeah, um. I never actually told Flutter's parents she was missing so--"
Fluttershy broke from her hug and gave the other pegasus a flat look. "You kept my family out of the loop?"
"...H-Hey! So! You know that sisterhooves social me and Scoots went to? You'll never guess who Apple Bloom convinced to be her own partner--"
"Rainbow. Dash."
"BIG MAC WORE A DRESS!"
Fluttershy blinked.
"...Big Mac... wore a dress?"
"...Y-Yeah! Called himself cousin Orchid Blossom. I mean, nobody bought it for a second, but he was really fun to watch." Rainbow grinned broadly. "How 'bout I tell you all about it on the way back to the cottage?"
Fluttershy looked at her for a moment. "...Yeah, sure. You can catch me up on everything I missed, and tomorrow I can tell you more about my time on Mars." She gave her a pointed look. "And I expect to see my family at that party, Dash. Zephyr included."
"...Unngh. Fine." Rainbow Dash groaned. "I'll tell 'em you vanished and you're back after I drop you off."
"Thanks, Rainbow. Oh, how's Scootaloo doing, by the way?"
"Heh. Shy, you'll never guess what happened..."
The other ponies watched them trot out of the room, talking amicably between themselves. Finally, Applejack cleared her throat. "Well, Ah think we can all agree... Shy's been through a lot."
"And we don't know the half of it," Rarity pointed out. "She said her leg was torn off by pirates, and her wings..." Her face paled beyond its usual ivory coloration, before she shook herself. "My... my point is, we... might not be entirely equipped to handle the situation. That sort of trauma isn't anything any of us have gone through."
Pinkie Pie's mane went limp with an odd squeak. "Yeah. My usual method might not be best here. Heck, some of my unusual methods might not be good here. I'll need to talk with some ponies."
Twilight sighed, putting down her notepad. "...I'll alert the princesses of Fluttershy's return and condition, but I don't know how long it will take them to find appropriate help. Maybe get some doctors from the hospital to look her over after the party... for the moment, though, the best we can do is be patient and gentle."
Applejack nodded slowly. "Yeah... Ah reckon you're right. Still... wish Ah could do more."
"...and right then, she pulled out a musical triangle, and Applejack went and hit it. I mean--it was a little thing, but it clearly meant so much to the both of them."
Fluttershy smiled. "I can imagine.... our Applejack, childhood friends with the Coloratura?"
"Yeah, it amazed me too. You think you know a pony." Rainbow Dash shrugged. "She's actually super nice in person. Really cares about the foals, and... once we got that manager away from her, she apologized for all that he put Pinkie through."
"That's good..."
Rainbow continued walking for a few moments before realizing that the yellow pony was no longer beside her. She glanced back, seeing the other mare standing on the dusty road. "...Shy?"
"...I've missed so much. The Crusaders finally getting their cutie marks, Shining and Cadence announcing their pregnancy..." Fluttershy looked up. "I mean, I'm half-expecting you to tell me that Rarity found a prince to marry or something."
"No, not yet. You know how it is in Ponyville, Shy... crazy stuff happens all the time."
"I know, but..." Fluttershy kicked the ground with her hoof. "I'm just... I'm just wondering if I'll be able to fit back in if--"
"Hey." Rainbow walked back, putting a hoof on her shoulder. "It'll be weird, sure, but you know what? We're going to work through it. All of us. Together. I promise, in a few weeks, it'll be like you never left."
Fluttershy half smiled. "You sure about that?"
"Abso-posi-lutely. Look at what happened with me and Tank after he was done hibernating--after a few days we were back in our old routine, and everything was good again."
"You practically used him as a second pillow for three weeks straight."
"Wha--!" Rainbow sputtered, backing off. "No I didn't! Who told you that?!"
Fluttershy's expression grew sly. "I can talk to animals, remember?"
"...okay, fine. So I cuddled the guy a few nights." Rainbow narrowed her eyes. "You can't ever tell anypony, got it?"
"Yes, yes, your tough-mare reputation is safe with me, I promise." Fluttershy rolled her eyes. "I guess some things never change."
"Nope. I'm awesome, you're good with animals, and we're fillyhood friends."
"Hmm." Fluttershy paused. "Hey Dash?"
"Yeah?"
"I've never really considered this before but, um..." she gestured at herself. "As a friend, seeing all... this, do you think I'm dateable?"
Rainbow blinked. "Er... what?"
"I'm not asking you to date me," Fluttershy clarified. "I'm asking if you think anypony would date me, seeing as I'm missing a leg and--"
"Oh! Um. Well, sure!" The blue pony chuckled awkwardly. "The leg's actually pretty cool looking, and it's not nearly as bad as the eye--"
She cut herself off at Fluttershy's raising eyebrow.
"--I, I mean, the eye looks awesome too, very techy, but the scars are--uh, that is, any pony that wanted to date you would probably be the kind that, uh, didn't want to upset you--because they respected you! Not because they were afraid of you, I mean--Oh, geeze--"
Rainbow Dash noticed the corners of Fluttershy's lips twitching. "...Wait. Are you... are you messing with me?"
"Maaaaaaaybe," Fluttershy replied, trotting down the road.
"Huh." Rainbow followed after her. "You know, you never did that before. I mean, maybe you got a little snarky at times, but I never took you as one to pull a prank."
Fluttershy paused. "...Huh. You know... I think you're right."
"It's not a bad thing," Rainbow assured her. "It's... different, though."
"Yeah. I guess it is."
The two of them trotted on in silence.
"...you still a virgin?"
Fluttershy gave an exasperated sigh. "Yes, Dash, I'm still a virgin."
"Oh good. Cause I thought, with that dating joke and all, you might have--"
"Yeah, no. Aside from physiological incompatibility, the way Vector culture approaches sex and romance is just too blatant for my tastes. And really, do you want me to tell you my first time was with an alien shark?"
Rainbow Dash made a face. "Good point. Er. I mean, if you two loved each other I'd be totally cool with it but I'd also be weirded out." She paused. "Actually, you being so open about it is kind of weirding me out."
"The whole shy thing kinda dropped after the fifth time I was ambushed. It helps to be able to call for help, you know?"
"...I guess. Um." Rainbow rubbed the back of her head. "I just... your name is Fluttershy, you know? Outside your family you've always had issues being... casual."
Fluttershy was quiet for a moment or two.
"...am I really that different? Did I really change that much?"
"...I don't know, Flutters. But... you know, I'm not sure I care." Rainbow smirked. "Far as I'm concerned, you're my friend, no matter how much you've changed. I just have to get used to the new you, is all."
"Well... I'm happy you're willing to try." Fluttershy smiled at her gently. "Really. And it is... good to be back."
Rainbow nodded. "Yeah. Well!" She coughed, pointing behind the other pony. "There's your cottage. You... probably have animals to check on and calm down and... they're going to mob you and give you animal hugs or whatever."
"They might," Fluttershy allowed. "And you have to go to Cloudsdale to get my family ready for their first ever Pinkie Pie party."
"...You're holding me to that."
"You're the one that kept them out of the loop. You should be the one to tell them." The yellow pony smirked slyly. "And I'm sure my little brother will be so happy I came back that he'll give you a nice. Big. Hug."
She turned around, humming happily as she trotted into her home, leaving Rainbow staring after her.
After a moment, the pegasus sighed. "I guess a prank-pulling Fluttershy isn't the weirdest thing I've ever seen..."
"Mmmmrngh." A yellow ear twitched as the pony under the blanket rolled onto her stomach. "Grmph. Alright, I'm up, I'm up, no need to shout."
Fluttershy yawned wide, stretching her four legs out before grumbling and kicking the blanket off her body. She took a moment to look around her room--her room, one she hadn't seen in so long... and a faint smile formed on her lips.
Her head tilted for a moment.
"...We check on the nocturnal animals first. Should be just getting to bed right now." Her hooves hit the floor, almost automatically heading for the door. "Then breakfast, take a shower, then we look over the little animals waking up."
She rolled her eyes as she trotted down the stairs.
A few owls were fluttering onto their roosts, quietly hooting as they took their positions. Fluttershy glanced at them--looked closer. "Hello, friends. It's... been a while. How have you handled things?"
One or two looked at her, hooting curiously.
She took a glance at the pair of rods on her back. "...Somebody stole my wings, and somebody else made me replacements." She sighed. "The same thing happened with my leg, actually... I'm sure that Angel will tell you about it, I'll take him along to the castle so he can listen in while I tell my friends that story."
The owls seemed to be satisfied by that. One by one, they coughed their pellets into the shared bowel Fluttershy had made for them, before nestling into the nooks and crannies of the cottage. A few raccoons, a large number of mice, and one particularly curmudgeonly badger skittered across the floor, taking roost in their own hidden places. Many of them looked at her, a few sending chitters and welcomes back, but despite their curious stares they kept their questions to themselves.
It was a courtesy that both pleased and saddened her.
With a sigh, Fluttershy trotted into her kitchen, opening a pantry and pulling out a small tube of oats. A faint smile hit her face as she poured them into a bowl, moving it over to her table and taking a deep breath. "Genuine Equestrian oats. It's the little things, isn't it?"
Her ear flicked again.
She gave a small snort. "I'll get back to more complex cooking after I've settled in. Quick meal, for the moment." Her muzzle bent down, and with almost bestial efficiency the bowl was soon emptied. The pegasus nodded, moving the bowl to the sink, before trotting back up the stairs and entering the bathroom. "Hmm. Ceiling is different..."
Her hoof went to the faucet, twisting it on--
Fluttershy sagged. "Is now really the time?"
The hot water splattered against her back as she stepped into the stall, closing the door behind her.
"Look, I know you're getting antsy," she groused as she grabbed the bar of soap, "but you knew going in--"
Her ear twitched as she started up a froth on her forelegs.
"It doesn't change anything. I just need to speed up the plan a bit."
The rods on Fluttershy's back snapped up and she started scrubbing her withers.
"Then recalculate the parameters. I shouldn't have to spell this out."
She lathered up some suds on her back, pushing them across her coat.
"I'll talk to Twilight about it today, I promise."
Her hooves moved to her scarred haunches, slathering them with soap.
"That's an easy enough fix, I'll leave a note."
Reaching into the kit strapped to her thigh, Fluttershy pulled out an odd device, switched it on, and ran it along her mechanical leg.
"Oh don't worry, I can handle Discord."
The rods on her back snapped flat, and she moved the device along each of them before putting it back in its place.
"...no, not yet. I don't think they're ready for it. But... maybe tomorrow. Maybe."
Grabbing the shampoo bottle, the pegasus squirted its contents into her mane and tail.
"It'll all work out, okay? Trust me. I know what I'm doing."
Her pink locks, drenched in soap and water, glistened as she stepped out and reached for a towel.
"And take notes, will you? Because today you're going to see how ponies really welcome guests."
"...so we absolutely must not draw attention to her leg, or her wings, unless she herself points them out."
"Ah know, Rares, Ah ain't a fool."
"And we don't make any sudden motions or startling noises. That could trigger some sort of reaction, the book said."
"Yep, Ah could see that happening."
"And above all else, we treat her like a pony. We make sure she knows she's home, and she's safe--"
An orange hoof covered a white muzzle. "Look. Let me sum this up fer ya. Fluttershy's jumpy and unsure. So we be calm and friendly. That about cover it?"
Rarity rolled her eyes, moving the hoof down. "Yes, in essence, but you must understand--"
"Ah get it, really. It takes time ta recover, and it ain't going ta go away completely forever. Ya don't have ta overcomplicate things, Rares."
The unicorn sighed. "I suppose I am letting my perfectionist tendencies override my common sense just a tad..."
"Yeah, you do tend to get intensely focused on things that are important to ya." Applejack smiled. "Won't begrudge ya that."
"Oh, hello!" Fluttershy waved as she walked down the road. "Good to see you two! Let me guess, you're my escort to the castle?"
Applejack blinked. "Er, yeah. We kinda thought we'd need ta pick you up from the cottage, so--"
"Well, thank you for your concern. Really, though, I'm..." Fluttershy considered. "Hmm. Let's call it eighty-five percent fine?"
Rarity winced. "So that's fifteen percent not fine?"
"Six percent worried about how ponies will react to my appearance, five percent traumatized by horrific experiences, and four percent excited to finally be home."
Applejack quirked an eyebrow as the three of them started walking. "Only four percent?"
"It still hasn't quite sunk in," Fluttershy admitted. "It's an abrupt change--one I've been working toward for more then a year, but even with that I... I keep saying 'I'm home' and it feels like it's not complete. Like, there's something missing."
"Well, I don't know if a Pinkie Pie party will solve that," Rarity mused, "but it certainly couldn't hurt!"
"Oh, I'm looking forward to it, really. But... how have you two been, anyway? Rainbow tells me the Crusaders finally got their marks?"
Applejack smiled fondly. "Yep. All at tha same time, can ya believe it?"
"I have to say, that was quite the day," Rarity agreed. "Everyone in Ponyville was celebrating their cutecenara. Even little Diamond, she... well. She turned over a new leaf, and she's stuck with it."
"Oh, wow." Fluttershy's eyes widened. "I mean Rainbow said it was helping her reform that got them their cutie marks, but... I didn't realize it would last that long. What do their marks look like, anyway? Rainbow never told me."
Applejack and Rarity shared a knowing look. "Weeeeeeeeeell," drawled the farm mare, "you're gonna get a chance ta see fer yerself."
The yellow pony half smiled. "They're going to dogpile me when I walk through the door, aren't they?"
"Don't be so dramatic," admonished the fashionista playfully. "We told them to announce you when you came in."
"And speaking o' entering... here we are." Applejack gestured toward the castle.
"Wow. Really?" Fluttershy blinked. "That... was a surprisingly short walk."
"Well, you did make half of it on your own, and Ponyville is a small town." Rarity cleared her throat. "...Are you ready?"
Fluttershy took a breath. "No time like the present."
"ANOUNCING!" shouted Apple Bloom, her voice echoing into the castle hall.
"The Bearer of Kindness, Tamer of Animals, Rebuker of Cockatrices, Admonisher of Dragons, Befriender of Discord, Heroine of Equestria, and World Champion of the Shush Game!" Sweetie Belle pontificated proudly.
"The One! The Only! FLUUUUUUUUUUUUTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Scootaloo proclaimed.
The castle doors swung open, to much hoof-stamping applause and not too few cheers. It died down just a bit when the guest of honor stepped in, her metal hoof clacking ominously against the crystal. It almost died as she strode to the center of the atrium, mane drooping over her face. By the time she looked up, the room was entirely silent.
Her eyes roved over the collected population of Ponyville.
And then... she smiled. "You know... it's good to be home."
"PREACH IT SISTER!" Pinkie cried. "Come on everypony, let's party!"
The next few minutes were a bit of a blur. Various ponies headed her way, welcoming her back and giving her gifts. The Mayor offered a brief tax exemption while she got her hooves back under her, something Fluttershy accepted warmly. Her parents and her brother pulled her into a shared, tight hug--Zephyr Breeze was bawling, babbling about how he was so sorry he didn't know what she'd gone through, and she had to very firmly push him off in the end, though she never stopped smiling. Spike had even brought out a list of the things the others had done to keep her house running while she was away, and was in the middle of checking it over with her...
....and then Fluttershy noticed one pony, awkwardly standing to one side while Twilight spoke with her.
Her smile dropped. "Hey, Spike?"
"Huh? What is it Fluttershy?"
"What," she asked in a tone of very forced calm, "is Starlight Glimmer doing here?"
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Is Fluttershy's prosthetic foreleg affected by magic? Also, I'd like to know how the hecky did Starlight survive intact? I'm surprised there aren't a lotta fanfics about Starlight having a lotta trouble in so many ways from shattering the timeline six times. Now that I think about it, the most powerful villains tend to be those who control time and space and are sociopathic monsters.
...Right, appropriate cliffhanger music for this.
Oh, right, she wasn't here for Glimmer's reformation.
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Anyone wants popcorn?
Hoo boy...
8077276 Yes please.
I like the way you're blending flashbacks with the present series. It helps keep interest.
Right, they never did get around to telling her about Starlight's reformation did they? And timespace breaking...
8064208 okay I'm lost
What crossover is this sir? Wh40k? alien?
It most certainly ain't for honor
Cyborg Fluttershy needs to do more cyborg-y stuff ;3 she has a cybernetic eye, surely it gives her some augmented reality type benefits, as well as better than average vision and analysis stuff?
The update didnt appear in my feed for some reason.
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Tabletop game Hc Svnt Dracones ("Here there be dragons"). Despite the name, it's far-future, post-human (post)cyberpunk.
Kind of.
8077346 Same here.
Damn FimFiction. Git yer act together.
I believe you mean "Absotively Posilitely".
We need a fan for the applesauce to hit.
Make that two fans. Gotta bad feeling about this one.
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One by one, they coughed their pellets into the shared bowel Fluttershy had made
1. Bowl.
Hmmm...so, in addition to getting a Neuroplex, Artificial Limb Implants to replace her eye, hoof, & wings (& a Zip Chip for everyday computing needs), she also got herself a full Grade 3 Voice Implant to augment her Mental Attributes? Interesting. I wonder if she also thought to pack a Display Blanket or the like, so as to be able to use her Zip Chip to show some of her experiences/accumulated data to her friends? Or roughly how soon we'll find out more about her Wing Implants? Given the seeming lack of force fields in HSD, and given that Pegasus Flight is largely possible thanks to magic, I'm quite curious about how they work.
Also, thank you again for continuing this story. It both introduced me to Hc Svnt Dracones and is delightfully fresh and evocative in and of itself. Fluttershy as the hapless pony in a SciFi setting & not only surviving, but managing to make her way home without magic? Superb!
The next chapter will be interesting when Fluttershy learns about Starlight's time shenanigans, heck I wouldn't be surprised if doing so is very high on the list of crimes you can commit, I'm picturing something along the lines of "She committed a cosmic level crime over a grudge and is not only not punished for it and the previous things she's done but is actually rewarded for it!?!?!?!?!"
Yeah, I'm calling it now. That's not the real Fluttershy. Why else would she need to deal with Discord? I'm guessing it's a clone trained to infiltrate Equestria and has Fluttershy's memories.
Perhaps her leg is actually an AI? And she may be in debt to someone for getting home: it's all about business back there, after all.
I don't think she's hatching really SInister Plots, since she indicates she's going to tell Twilight and the others about "it." As for when she talks about "taking care of Discord", she may just mean in the sense of getting him to cooperate and do what she wants, whether it's to help out with the as yet unknown Plan, or getting him to NOT tear a hole into the other universe and turn everyone who ever hurt Fluttershy into kumquats.
8077608 I really hope thays not what is happening here.
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Mostly what B_Munro said, though I expect she'd have saved ahead of time for the TTI job, so as to leave her in the black before presumably leaving the HSD universe forever. Having read through the rulebooks for Hc Svnt Dracones (all two of them), I think I know what's going on with that one-sided conversation. However, I'll put it in spoilers for courtesy's sake: There is a cranial Implant in the game called a Voice, which basically gives you a helper A.I. in your head to help you sort through stuff better. Game-mechanically, it improves your Mental Attributes; flavor-wise, at the full level it develops a distinct personality. It can be something akin to a virtual assistant who can also serve as a friend, of sorts.
Anyway, I suspect that Flutters' comment about 'dealing' with Discord is innocuous, e.g. having to 'deal' with any good-but-overbearing friend during what needs to be a calm situation, like Pinkie Pie at any formal event.
8077608 Meaning she was actually simulated and she somehow found the place where she was being simulated in a different universe where the futtershy in the one where she got into disappeared three months before she arrived there... and now I made a time loop... GOD DAMMIT!!!!!
8077651 so basically Pinkie Pie will lose her shit when she realized there is a new "pony" she hasn't greeted yet
I like getting that feeling of fluttershy reintegrating into equestria. So much happened to her there is no way for her to tell the whole story in one sitting. So its good to have a story time arc and a reintegration arc.
I wonder if fluttershy will end up using her algorithims for market exchange to gain control of the equestrian stock exchange.
Is the author implying that Fluttershy's allies from the other dimension will be coming to do something in Equestria
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or maybe not her allies, but actually her enemies, but who would they be and what do they want with Equestria
? I can't remember any specific groups mentioned in a particularly negative light, so who would be the attacker and what do they want with Equestria, or what would the ally want? I saw a few people talking about AI's and such,
but they way Fluttershy was speaking sounds more like she has an agenda to met for someone
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can not wait for the next chapter
Dear lord... this is gonna be good *Runs off to by popcorn*
So... why do I get the impresion that she was only ALLOWED to go back home, and not willingly MADE it home?
If a martial threat is on Equestria's horizon, the threateners better make sure they grind the currently peaceful nation into dust. Exposing ponykind to technology and tactics on the level of this other universe without completely subduing them could lead to a reverse-takeover.
Personally, I'm more concerned about an internal threat as far as the long term is concerned.
Not one-hundred percent sure there is a threat coming yet, though.
8077306 Time space breaking? Wait a second — is there a reason why equestria's 3-months to Fluttershy's year involves Starlight Glimmer 's attempt?
OH NO, NO MORE CHAPTERS YET
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Interesting story, no idea what it is a crossover with. Maybe some weird Shadow Run? Mega corps and technology seems like Shadow Run. Fox people and Mars not so much.
Gotta say, Fluttershy and all her friends are taking this surprisingly well. No tears, no real horror at what has happened to her. Maybe it's shock? Her wings and leg would probably freak out most of Ponyville, cringing, ponies crossing the street, all that stuff.
I somehow doubt Flutters is really back to do any harm, if she has only been in the other universe for a year, anyways. The society seemed fair enough, despite the random person shooting her ear off. Grabbing a hostage the other person doesn't know or care about...smart one mongoose, smart one.
My guess is she made a deal that involves her bringing back something for the company that fronted the money for whatever experiment brought her back to Ponyville. A permanent gate would be bad, be more about invasion with Equestria's low tech, and this other places mega corp's would be horrible for Equestria. So I doubt Flutters is doing that as well. But only time will tell.
I look forward to the next chapter.
Nice way to derail a topic.
And the sci-fi weapons attached to her body have an AI, because that 'always' turns up well...
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You're not far off with Shadow Run. Its an RP called Hc Svnt Dracones (here be dragons). Dystopian future cyberpunk. With Furries. Its pretty awesome.
Really enjoying the looks into the rest of the mane six and Equestria. I think the Glimmer situation is gonna be reaaaall interesting to see play out.
Oh dear. Fluttershy missed some rather… critical developments.
Presumably this is still before the final, Discord would have had minimal reason to lend a hand with the Changling kidnappings without Fluttershy being involved.
Thinking about it someone managed to both summon and return Fluttershy from/to Equestria. That implies that there may be others making the same trip.
Lyra might want to go get her own hands if the fanon is to be believed.
Just happy to read more.
Glad the characters have started to agree with your plans again.
I hope that if/when they decide to oppose you again, it takes less time for you to beat them into submission.
#SQUEE$ updates.
8112291 I assume there's some theoretical lower limit on the amount of energy required to store a bit of information. If we assume that energy isn't massless, then we can say X information weighs at least so much if it were in Earth's gravity.
Alternatively, if we assume pony brains work mostly the same as human brains, and aren't based on exotic physics, like magic, then we could potentially figure out how much brain matter is required to store a bit of information and use that to estimate how much X information would weigh.
I'm loving this story! I'd imagine that Twilight would probably try to study or backwards-engineer the tech Fluttershy has on her haha
Please update again soon, this is too good to be so slow :(
So, Masterweaver, any chance of an update to this splendid tale? Hell, I'd be happy just knowing that you plan to update it eventually, I can be absurdly patient for updates if need be (I'm a fan of both the Dresden Files and the Stormlight Archive, after all...).
Just read the whole story today and not that I caught up it feels like someone slammed a door in my face. Need moar.
Please for the love of The Twelve, update soon ;-; it's been months.
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Absolute minimum weight per bit is probably around 1.8×10^-33 grams (weight of a neutrino, which is pretty much the lightest thing you could use to store information).
Currently, the weight of a single bit of information is around the weight of a single electron, which is about ~9.109383×10^-28 grams.
Fun Fact: The entirety of the Internet weighs around 50 grams, which is slightly more than a golf ball.
well this is now on my tracking list. i like it and look forward to more.
I'm really enjoying this story! I'm not sure where its going exactly, but you've got a cool concept and I'm liking how everyone has reacted to it so far. Pinkie and fluttershy tend to be pretty tough to write, but you're doing great!
I'm so glad your continuing this fic
Great to see some updates! Which reminds me, I need to check over the new RPG book sometime! <3