Set during 'The Cutie Re-Mark' as Starlight Glimmer attempts to stop the rainboom and change the future with her magic scroll. But something goes horribly wrong. There is a bright flash and a shockwave felt all across Equestria. Now Spike is stranded in the past and the Twilight he knows is nowhere to be found. Spike teams up with filly Rarity in an attempt to get fate back on track. Meanwhile the other mane six fillies face new problems of their own without the rainboom to guide them. Worse still, the fallout of that bright flash now known as the 'Starburst Event' threatens to reshape the future of Equestria in a way that nopony could have predicted.
Hiatus info: Part 1 is completely uploaded. Now I have to go and write Part 2. This is going to take a while, of course. (No more deadline promises - I learned my lesson.) Bear with me during this time and feel free to continue giving feedback on Part 1 because I will still be hanging around and reading comments.
Just a warning that the comments section does contain spoilers.
Nine chapters and not a single comment. Odd that.
Still, I am enjoying the read. Keep it up :D
Seconded. This is a good one, especially the Twilight stuff. I hope to see more.
Aww man, Rarity and Spike team up, Twilight going dark (?), seer Pinkie? This getting good.
She got the wrong egg!
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Okay, serious author question - did she? Did I write something confusing? Because you weren't meant to get that impression.
Feedback very welcome, thanks.
7601479 If it was meant to confuse me on purpose, you're welcome. I also like the story so far, especially how Spike is the new Twilight.
I also think that she got the egg by dumb luck.
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So it was confusing? Shoot. It wasn't mean to be.
I'll re-read it and see if I can spot the problems.
What was confusing specifically? Like, whereabouts? If you don't mind.
I wonder if we'll learn the rest of the Pie sisters' full names...
Spike the changeling dragon able to adapt through all. I wonder how shock Spike may feel if he found out the current timeline become an alternate reality and all he had to do is solve the time spell. Any enjoyed the reading so far.
The sequences with Pinkie and Maud alternate between touching and creepy: creepy because of Pinkie's Lovecraftian cutie mark and talent; touching because of the novel bond forming between the two sisters.
(Also, as Pinkie is growing more comfortable with her talent and herself, one can almost perceive hints of the Pinkie Pie we know and love from the "prime timeline", though of course presumably she is in this story/timeline forever a different pony.)
All I have to say is: well done!
But she is a timberwolf.
It's like they're compensating their brains for something else. Also, hope that Spike sees Twilight soon.
Great, Twilight sees Spike as a changeling and she's suffering a really complex fever dream. Did I also mention how Twilight's more paranoid than normal?
Question is, whose magical booster is more evil. Might be Trixie's.
Spike recognized Sunburst back in chapter 22. Couldn't he just ask him where he and Starlight used to live? I hope you're not going to have Spike waste years looking for Starlight when a simple question could have gotten him there in time to actually have a major effect on Starlight's personality.
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...right.
Thankyou. Well spotted. These are the kinds of things I need to fix before going into Part 2.
I think I'll go give that chapter an edit.
(The details of edits will be available in the author's comments for each chapter.)
Thanks again!
Maybe Starlight that did the time spell was Chrysalis. Situation is too convenient for changelings to not be planned in advance by them.
Spike can set himself a goal: if he's able to make the resulting timeline to be better than Chrysalis one, he succeeded. Otherwise he failed.
Something tells me that the Starburst Event here is the equivalent of the nukes of the Fallout series.
Love the story so far. I'll be eagerly waiting part 2.
(Take whatever time you need with it though, not trying to rush you.)
In case anyone is wondering what's going on with this story right now, refer to this blog post, thanks.
Right, but canon still keeps throwing twists to the background of changelings. Wonder what changes to these chapters it would cause if Chrysalis turned out to be a lost princess of something, or such drastic things.
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(So maybe it's a bit weird to reply now, considering this is like a year late, but I've only recently come back and I wanted to address this anyway.)
A valid concern, regarding the canon. My idea is to make these small cosmetic changes when applicable as long as they don't derail the plot of this story. Things such as editing a few aesthetic details of the changeling hive, or editing my guess at what type of rock Boulder is, don't really change the story itself. These changes make me feel better, for some reason, and I think they stop the story from feeling too dated / like it's aged badly. (As always I'll make sure to document any edits in the author's notes of each chapter.)
If the show throws out a new piece of information that I can't accommodate then obviously this story will have to carry on anyway and be canon-divergent, at least on that particular point of contention. (Assuming I do manage to get back to this story at all. Which I'd like to, but I know better than to make promises.) And if I ever do seem like I'm jumping through hoops to incorporate new canon from the show, then know that it's probably because I want to for my own reasons. Though feel free to call me out on it if this behavior starts to negatively affect your enjoyment of the story.