13. Introductions
“So… you were Princess Celestia’s student?” Rarity asked after some time, not liking the quiet that settled over the group. They were currently walking along the only path that they had so far been able to find.
Twilight nodded. “I was taken in by the Princess and made her personal student in magic when she saw how powerful I was, and my inability to control that power.”
“Is that why your horn is shattered? She broke it to try and prevent you from casting magic?” Sunset asked, suddenly interested in the conversation.
“No. This,” She touched the stub of her horn. “... happened after I hopped dimensions. Thankfully, I was unconscious when it did happen.”
“Isn’t there a way to restore it?” Applejack asked, curious. “I think I heard about that in the news one day, some mare discovering the means to restore a broken horn through technology.”
Twilight shrugged. “If it’s possible, I didn’t know about it. I vanished two years ago and only returned a few days ago. Besides, that world I was in did this to me. It’s some kind of natural defensive mechanism that limits the ability to use energy, like magic. If my horn was restored there, it would have just been shattered again.” She paused, and then held up a hand and let her magic visibly swirl around it. “Besides, that’s what this body is for. It allows me to channel my magic through my limbs just as well as if I did it with my horn.
“You guys have been asking me questions about myself, but what about you?” she suddenly asked. “I know your names, and that Applejack owns that farm, but that’s it.” ‘And that Fluttershy can be very scary.’ She kept that last part to herself.
The group of ponies looked at each other, trying to decide who should go first. Rarity finally spoke up. “I suppose that’s fair, dear.” She swept her mane back. “My name is Rarity Belle, as you know, and I am the owner and sole employee of the Carousal Boutique. I design clothes for a living.”
“Any goals for you future?” Twilight asked curiously.
Rarity’s eyes sparkled and she grinned. “I want to be known world-wide as a pony that anyone who is anyone simply must know.”
“So… a Noble?” Applejack asked.
“Yes! Quite so.” Rarity nodded at Applejack.
Applejack rolled her eyes. “And suddenly, my respect for you has vanished.”
Rarity blinked. “What? Whatever do you mean?”
Applejack opened her mouth, but Twilight interrupted her. “I think Applejack is a bit jaded in terms of Nobles. If she owns that farm, then I think it’s safe to say she has likely dealt with the, to be blunt, pure idiocy some Nobles can display when it comes time for taxes.”
“Some?!” Applejack spat to the side. “I ain’t met a Noble yet that ain’t some moneygrubbing politician who thinks anyone who does an honest day’s work is too filthy and “low-born” to deserve respect!” she exclaimed with some rather impressive venom.
“Really?” Rarity asked, looking a bit confused. “I’ve never had any issues with Nobles come time for tax season…”
Twilight groaned, already seeing where this conversation was going. She decided to head it off. “Fluttershy! How about you? What do you do for a living?”
Fluttershy squeaked, actually squeaked, at the sudden attention, and tried to hide in her mane. Rainbow Dash spoke up for her.
“Fluttershy takes care of the town’s animals for free, as well as the animals that live around her home. She’s pretty much our local veterinarian, just… not officially,” she said.
Twilight raised an eyebrow. “Free? Not officially?” she asked.
Rainbow Dash cringed. “She’s… well, I can’t get her to actually enter the Mayor’s office. The entire building is usually so full of ponies that she’ll start having a panic attack. I usually handle delivering her tax work for her. Unfortunately, Mayor Mare won’t let Fluttershy be registered for a Veterinarian license unless she personally shows up to fill out the paperwork.”
“Hence the free service. She can’t be paid for it unless she has a license,” Twilight concluded, remembering that lesson from her time as Celestia’s student. She looked at Rainbow Dash. “What about you?”
Rainbow Dash grinned. “I’m Rainbow Dash, and I manage Ponyville’s weather team. It’s my job to make sure the Pegasi in Ponyville keep the weather on schedule, and to clean up any wild weather living so close to the Everfree causes.”
“Impressive,” Twilight nodded. “Any dreams?”
Rainbow Dash’s grin shrank for just a very brief moment, but Twilight caught it just before the grin became almost blinding. “Yeah! I’m going to join the Wonderbolts one day!” she exclaimed.
Twilight noticed Fluttershy wilting in on herself momentarily, and wondered if perhaps there was a story there. “I see.” She decided to leave it alone. It wasn’t really her business to pry in something that wasn’t offered. She looked at Applejack. “You?”
Applejack smiled and tipped her hat slightly. “Ahm Applejack, and I manage the workers of Sweet Apple Acres, the best darned Apple Farm you’ll ever find. Granny Smith owns the property itself while my brother, Macintosh Apple, manages most of the paperwork.”
Twilight nodded. “No plans for the future?” she asked.
Applejack shrugged. “Not really, no. The farm is my life, and the entire reason I got my Cutie Mark. I’m likely gonna do the same thing Granny did and grow old on that farm,” she said with a wistful smile.
"Pinkie?" Twilight asked, looking at the eternally smiling mare.
"I'm Pinkie Pie, the partienest party pony you'll ever meet! I help the Cakes run Sugarcube Corner, and one day I want to hold a party for aaaaaaall of Equestria!" she declared with a wide grin.
Twilight leaned towards Applejack. "I'm fairly certain that's not possible... She's going to try anyways, isn't she?" she asked.
"Welcome to Ponyville," was all the farm mare said in return.
Twilight looked at Sunset. “And then there was one. How about you?”
Sunset grunted. “Sunset Shimmer,” she said.
Twilight waited, and then frowned. “What do you do?” she asked.
“None of your business.”
Everyone blinked at the rather harsh response.
Twilight sighed. “Okay." 'Not like I’m a paragon of openness myself,' she thought to herself.
“Speaking of…” Rainbow Dash started. “What about you? We know your name and that you were the Princess’ student, but what else is there?”
Twilight paused to consider that.
She hadn’t actually meant to turn this into a second round of introductions, just learn a bit more about the ponies travelling with her. She had no intention of telling them about herself and leave her open to manipulation.
But then… she wasn’t in Tartarus anymore, was she? Paranoia was all well and good, but she had to draw a line somewhere, or risk killing someone who didn’t deserve it. ‘I guess I could tell them a bit about myself,’ she relented.
“I’m Twilight Sparkle, likely former student of Princess Celestia. I was a Unicorn that loved to study magic before the accident that sent me to another dimension. Magic back then was everything to me,” she said. ‘That should be enough, and it’s nothing that a look through the Archives won’t reveal anyways.’
“Any dreams or goals?” Applejack asked.
Twilight chuckled. “Heh, until recently my only dream and goal was getting back home to Equestria. No dreams, not yet anyways.”
Applejack nodded after a moment. “I suppose that makes sense.”
“Hey, can I ask what those things are you keep using? I think you called one a gun at one point. What’s a gun?” Rainbow Dash asked.
Twilight smiled a little more. Now this was a subject she was happy to talk about. “Right, so magic was a little hard to use in the dimension I landed in, and my horn was shattered anyways, so I had to learn how to defend myself another way. That was when I was introduced to the wonderful world of firearms, a technology that makes use of controlled explosions to propel a small object, the bullet, at such a high speed that it blows through most materials with ease. Very dangerous, very lethal, and very much needed for survival back there.”
Everyone listened as Twilight began regaling them with her first training session in using pistols, and the many, many nights she spent nursing an injury or two because of improper handling. She even pulled out the pistol that they had seen her use, a modified revolver that substitutes the standard ammo with her own solidified magic, and displayed how it worked and the shells that contained her solidified magic.
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yea for update, keep up the good work
nice gun.
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I noticed that you completely left out Pinkie in this chapter. Is there a special reason?
Isn't the type of ammo her pistol uses... Massive in handgun standards?
...huh, I wonder how the ponies will react to the world of firearms.
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I agree, what happened to Pinkie?
Otherwise it is good to see the girls all making nice.
Don't Blame Sunset for not talking about herself, beinga fomer student, and she was exiled?
Celestia never told her own brother ethier, Same old Celestia doing things that gurantee to make enemies in the future.
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Well other then unicorns they would need to new modified to for in their mouths and have a tongue activated trigger which might be really awkward at first
I pictured Twilight using a replica of Blue Rose.
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7775213 kinda, yeah. You'll only see that size of calibre in what you'd call 'poser' pistols. Things made to look cool, and are kind of excessive in reality.
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Hence the modification to use her magic instead of actual .357 bullets. The kick is significantly reduced due to there being no gunpowder in the shell. Twilight's strong, but she prefers efficiency over brute strength.
Unless she's showing off or having fun. Then she'll pretty much say "I'm gonna do this, come hell or high water, because it looks cool."
7775464 Because Twilight hasn't admitted to it, and the general populace of Equestria knows nothing about other worlds?
Or did you mean readers?
7775396 It looks cool... but why do you picture Twilight using it?
7775681 Makes sense, I mean the kick from those bullets can break a wrist if the person isn't prepared
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Well you do enjoy sharing your new chapter when it is done. I think it was an honest mistake on your part.
7775698 I pictured her using a Devil may cry style when It was reveiled she uses a sword and gun
Not much I can say other than, once again, excellent job on the exchanges, emotional content and future chapter set-up in all the right places. I particularly liked the banter between Rarity and Applejack, Twilight's reaction to Pinkie's ultimate goal AND the pride Twi had when talking about how she learned to use guns. I'll definitely be looking forward to more of this as soon as time and inspiration will allow.
Wonder how ponies will react when they find out just who took Twilight under his wing during her time in Tarturus.
7776034 They would shrug and say, "Who?"
7776085 That is actually what inspired Fluttershy's little spiel. I'm hoping to turn it into her personal motto.
7776210 As in I left it open for building up on? Or that I could have written it better? Because the latter wouldn't surprise me at all.
Please don't make twilight the element of magic. She is badass as of now and I kinda don't want that ruined by the elements.
Ps please kill nightmaremoon / Luna
7776234 Well, that's an interesting request, and now firmly splits at least some of my readers in half regarding the Element of Magic.
All I can say is that the Bearers of the Elements aren't chosen by "destiny" or any kind of hogwash like that. If Twilight, Sunset, or some random OC becomes the Element of Magic, it will be because they are simply the most uniquely tuned to the true aspect of the Element.
If you want an idea how it will work, check out Tatsurou's The Moon in the Dark story. I developed the true aspect thing he uses at the end of the story, and he implemented it so well that I hadn't even realized what he had done until I was nearly slapped in the face with it.
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It's decent sized, but nothing too bad. Plenty of punch while still being manageable. You don'5 start getting into the "massive" range until around the .45 magnum in my opinion. When a handgun has the capability to stop a truck with a well placed round you either really like big guns, are compensating for something, or have a damn good reason to have that much firepower at your hip.
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*Cough*Tartarus; a literal hell-dimension*Cough*
Well at least you're continuing the story rather than others.
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I'm dissapointed in Twilight that she didn't have a monster of a gun like Hellboy's "Baby", heh.
686, huh? Interesting.
I carry a S&W 586 myself. Good revolver.
7775263 It's practically her special talent.
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I assume you mean 'of'