Chapter 2
Trotting down the stairs, I yawned as I entered the small kitchen, revealing Skitter in her winged, white unicorn disguise sitting by the table with Princess Twilight Sparkle, each of them with a cup of what smelled like hot chocolate before them.
“Good morning, Skitter, Princess.”
“Good Morning, Page. And you can call me Twilight you know.” Twilight said with a smile, floating a third cup over to the table for me.
“Thank you.” I answered and took it, taking a long sip. Mmm. She did good hot chocolate, “Thanks for letting us stay here while we're in Ponyville. You didn't need to though, we could have taken a hotel.”
“Nonsense. What kind of Princess of Friendship would I be then?”
“Still, thanks.” I said as I sank down by the table.
It was good to see her again, we didn't have the time/energy for more than a quick 'Hi' before bed last night. Skitter and I arrived kinda late from Manehattan. That city felt very... Earthy.
Well, as close as a Pony city could at least, which was middling at best. No cars or anything, but the architecture was way different from anything else I had seen here. Nice place, but not sure I wanted to live there.
We went to concerts, plays, hung around the harbor, looked into some seedy taverns filled with sailors. Got into a couple of barfights. It had been awesome.
It had been just one of the stops Skitter and I did.
Manehattan, Baltimare, Appeloosa, The Badlands (which was just sunbaked desert. Got bored quickly of that. I did see a neat lizard though), Cloudsdale which was AWESOME and now Ponyville and the Everfree Forest.
A lot of time spent in hotel rooms and trains while traveling. Surrounded with that much inspiration, writing came easily.
“Oh! I finished it!” Twilight said and put a stack of papers on the table before me, “It was great, Page. The action scenes were really tense and I liked the villain.”
I looked at the draft in surprise. I let her borrow it last night, did she really read the entire thing? Wow, she was a faster reader than I was.
“Really? What did you think of the main character?”
Twilight tilted her head, flicking on an ear, “Shimmering Diamond was.. interesting. I'm not sure it's realistic that she managed to seduce ponies that easily. But she is described as beautiful and intelligent and I guess as a agent she would be trained for that.”
I frowned in thought and nodded, “Think I need to turn it down?”
“Well... no. I mean, it's clearly a book for adults and even then none of the love scenes are very graphic and the violence wasn't overdone.” Twilight said and slowly rotated her hot chocolate between her front hooves, “I hope you don't mind, I made some notes.” she added and floated a stack of papers a quarter the size of the draft itself onto the table.
I blinked at the pile in surprise, looking at the first page. Notes on the first chapter with notations to not only page numbers but also paragraphs. Questions and small spelling corrections.
Switching pages, I then looked over at Twilight, “...Did you get any sleep?”
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Stopping, I took a deep breath, taking in the scent of the small town. Mmm... baked goods, cut grass, flowers.
“Sir?”
“Hmm?” I asked, opening my eyes again to look at the semi disguised changeling next to me.
She tilted her head, “What now, sir? To the forest?”
I considered that for a moment and then shook my head, “Tomorrow. We still have a couple of weeks before I promised Luna we would be back in Canterlot. We have time to just recuperate from all that train traveling for a day.”
Skitter nodded, “We do need to purchase supplies, especially if you still intend to see the castle.”
The Castle of the Two Sisters. The point of the original battle between Luna and Celestia. It was deep in the forest, but we should be fine.
We both could defend ourselves. Better than most ponies even. If we were careful, we would be able to handle the Everfree Forest.
I nodded, “I do. If possible, we need to get a map of the forest. Twilight should have one, we can ask her when we get back to the Library. For now let's focus on WAAAHG!”
As I turned back forward I ended up nose to nose with a pink pony,
“HI!”
“Uhm... Hi?” I asked as I stepped back, “...I know you. Pinkie Pie, right?”
Another element bearer. Laughter was it? Oh yeah, she was the strange one. And considering who I am, that's saying something.
“Yep! Are you in town for long, Pagey?” the mare asked as she bounced on the spot with a happy smile.
Pagey?
I shook my head, “Until tomorrow, then we're moving on. We'll be back in a week or two though depending on how things go before we continue back to Canterlot.”
“Oh! We need to have a 'gathered all the supplies we need for the adventuring party' party! Of course that's completely different from party where you are being adventurous and it's important you don't mix them up! I'll bring the Mountain Dew and Doritos!” she babbled with a happy grin as she bounced off into the distance, “But what's a Dorito?” she continued to herself.
I just looked after her for a long moment, my jaw hanging half open before I turned back to Skitter, “Did that really...”
She could not have said what I thought she said, could she?
Skitter looked after her with the same expression on her face before she shook her head, “No, sir. It didn't.”
I considered that for a moment before I nodded, “Agreed. Let's go see if we can find what we need.”
It's Pinkie Pie, don't think about it.
The Twilight Sparkle is wise.
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Nice if short chapter.
Silly Page!
You can't do an all-nigther of
geeking outstudiying with on of those "sleep" you are talking about. It is not compatible.Omg
HAHA lol that was so funny!
MC
Ya I just finished the last chapter then this one appears out of nowhere. Hey I can check that off my list
Finish reading a chapter and then have the next chapter suddenly appear(x).
Also damn you Hiver I'm trying to go to sleep not lose it.
Oh also Going to beed but a chapter appears before going to sleep(x)
Read ya later-BFBL
That was something...we now have the great and random Pinkie Pie!!
The Pink Demon is leaking over from different instances of herself; she might want to keep an eye on that.
Sudden Ork is sudden.
Me thinks Page has based Shimmering Diamond off of Rarity
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The Twilight Sparkle is wise.
Liking the story just for this line
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Well, I think a comment in a previous chapter made an interesting point; if the gender roles are in some ways reversed for dating, does that mean males are looked down upon for being with lots of females? I personally don't think so and I agree with you (especially with herding and sperm donation being normal). What bothers me most is that all the set-up in the last fanfic suggested he was writing a male spy character.
I'm getting really mixed vibes on the gender equality in this Equestria. Most of the book protagonists are female, with them being the ones going on adventures and performing amazing feats. Yet the guard is fully male, which is (as Page mentioned) really confusing when compared to sex distributions and their traditional gender roles in dating. Further, when speaking of nobles there is a great emphasis put on 'the Lords' rather than Ladies, suggesting the males are the heads of their old-monied houses. This makes sense if males (in their short supply) take precedence in the family unit, but how it meshes with the independent/strong/leadership females is very confusing.
I guess confusion is a good thing, as it shows both sexes have exhibited dominance at one point or another. Better to have a spread of inequality to both sexes, rather than just making things unequal to males (although true equality would obviously be nicer to see).
Ya know, considering Pinkie Pie was able to leak the entire plot of Equestria Girls through both versions of herself, it's not that weird that she'd magically know about Mountain Dew and Doritos.
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All they need is the gamer fuel(mountain dew and Doritos) and some mlg sunglasses
So the Changeling was disguised as an alicorn. That’s not exactly subtle when there are only 4 around...
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It's not supposed to be subtle. The last book mentions something about a law prohibiting changelings from disguising themselves 100%. Specifically, they're not allowed to disguise their wings (I don't remember anything about horns, but it sounds like they must maintain changeling horns as well), the reason being that ponies feared them. This way, they could look normal enough (ie, they don't look like weird bugs with holes in them) that they can (in theory) interact with other ponies, while at the same time making it (legally) impossible to kidnap and replace said ponies.
On that note, having a changeling guard like Skitter wasn't really meant to be a security precaution, but rather a PR stunt, to show that changelings are now so trustworthy that Blank Page is now willing to have one follow him around wherever he goes.
It's Pinkie
and you don't question Pinkie 
cause Pinkie 
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omg, i was right, human Pinkie did jump through the portal while Twilight and Page were eating. wonder where her friends, Sci-Twi and Vice Principal Luna got off to.
Tru dat
reminds me of this funny fan-video:
Skitter can't have been happy about that last one
Sleep is for those not of the purple persuasion
Sometimes, other times she is not
i had a friend who used to pour a 60 oz of mountan dew into a bag of doritos and sit in the closet in the dark for the whole weekend eating it
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... wut da faq? Was your friend a goblin!?
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I have no words for, how I feel about this. Just No.
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Im'a be straight with you jim...
(Clears throat, takes deep breath)
(Cries of mental and physical anguish at the very thought of defiling the two sacred consumables of gamers like that)
Ahem... yes. That is all.
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So...
We have a new Flavour of Doritos in New Zealand recently.
Mountain Dew flavour.
It IS as weird as it sounds.
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My curiosity is piqued
Crunchy baked tortillas broken into chips and covered in cheese powder. Invented by Disney.
"Inconceivable." -Twilight Sparkle
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"Stare too long into the Pink Abyss, and she starts making faces back at you."
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Do not eat it vertically like I do. You may die.
Besides Pinkie Pie i mostly fear Discord. Both cant be explained
WAAAHG you say? I didn’t know Page was an Ork.
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He wants to get stuck in with the Boyz~
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Pinkie: You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Discord is Chaos. That's all there is to explain.
Best version I meet in FIMfiction about Pinkie Pie is a elder God who is on vacation time. One lifetime as a vacation from the eternity he or she usually endured.
Mine outright is messing with the Author (like in the 'Stanley Parabel'.
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Pinkie Pie and Discord defying explanations, yet I enjoyed using them in my stories a lot. Gotta love the 'Q' Discord and Pinkie Pie who is a more free with her bending the rules of reality.
Sounds like my kind of party!
Random Pinkie is random.
Pinkie Pie, because Discord was not enough
♡
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Yeah, Discord is merely chaos, with a lot of Q mixed in perhaps to instill a lesson of some sort....
Pinkie, however, is chaos on LSD: but it's YOU going on the bad trip!