Chapter Fourteen
Following
I spotted the discarded cargo net and branches that had disguised the top of Nebula's envelope and went to get a closer look.
"Luna's fury!" I growled, as my forehooves sank into the sodden ground of the meadow.
Skyla came up behind me, looking down. "Mud?"
"They must have dumped ballast," I said, pulling my hooves free with a squelching sound. "Most of it, apparently."
"Ms. Nightshade," Ao said quietly from behind us. "This one has examined the area of the camp. There are no signs of a struggle. This was an orderly departure."
"Why would our crew leave us behind?" Skyla muttered. "Without you to design the connecting mechanism, they can't hope to open the portal, even if they have enough crystals to power it."
I scooped my small compass out of my saddlebags and touched the hidden spot that activated the locating spell. A short glowing arrow formed above the case. It was angled sharply upward. "Yes, they've gone for altitude, but… east northeast. That's directly away from the Western Territory."
Click, click, click, went the pieces of the puzzle. The timing, the direction they'd gone, the altitude, it all added up.
"Tambelon take it!" I hissed.
Skyla and Ao looked at me expectantly.
"Revenge," I said. "They must have seen Redkeep go up, even from here. Because we're a day late getting back, they think we're dead and they're going to attack the provincial capital."
Skyla frowned. "Are you certain?"
"They've got a load of crystals that they can't use for anything much but crude explosives, they're headed in the direction of Grayhold and they're going for altitude that the imperial ships can't match. It's the most likely scenario." I stretched out my wings and gave them a trial flap. Not back to 100%, but they'd have to do. "We've got to stop them."
Skyla snorted. "You want to save some of the monsters that help run this nightmare government? Really?"
"Wh—" I stared at Skyla. "I want to save our chances of getting home! The imperials might think Redkeep was an accident, but a direct airship attack on the capital... This kind of government thrives on direct military action! Bombing them will only strengthen them!"
"That doesn't make any sense, and I'm not afraid of—"
"It's not a matter of fear!" I stalked toward her, trying to resist the urge to get my point across with sheer volume. "It's a city, not a military installation like the keep! Are dead foals something you want?"
"I… I didn't think—"
"We don't have time to argue if we're going to have a hope of catching up to them," I said, gritting my teeth and shaking my head. "Trust me on this, please!"
Skyla grimaced and nodded, then she floated the big crystal over to her back and lashed it to her harness. "I'll take this. I'm the strongest flyer."
We took to the air, and climbed as quickly as we were able. The sky was rapidly lightening, and I hoped that any pegasi would be looking toward the ground, intent on rounding up the unicorn runaways.
We got into thinner and colder air fairly quickly, but the indicator arrow was still tilted at an unfortunate angle. It wasn't long afterwards that I began to strain and breathe heavily, yet Nebula remained stubbornly out of sight. I didn't want to waste energy getting out my spyglass, so I just clutched the compass and flapped grimly onward and upward.
By the time we sighted the ship, all three of us were nearing exhaustion. Ao's weaker, wingless flight magic, Skyla's burden, and my own not-fully-recovered magic had turned an extremely difficult flight into a nearly impossible one, with Nebula still several hundred lengths above us.
It was a good thing that the Nebulas spotted us, or I don't think we would have made it. The engines spun down to let us catch up, and when it became obvious to the crew that we were struggling to gain altitude, they threw a long net over the side. Swift Wing and Sirocco flew down to boost us up to where we could get hold of the rope mesh. It was far from dignified to be hauled aboard like a sack of potatoes, but at that point, I couldn't have cared less about my dignity.
"I can't believe you're alive!" Filigree said as he helped untangle us from the netting.
"Aren't we too heavy to be ghosts?" Skyla replied a bit testily. Perhaps she was just a teeny bit put out by having been dropped on deck like a piece of cargo.
I got to my hooves. "We're fine, Filigree, thank you. Let's call off the plan to bomb the city, okay?"
He blinked in surprise. "How do you know about that?" He looked over at Skyla for confirmation.
"Cancel it!" she said, through gritted teeth.
Filigree nodded. "It would have taken us another half-day to get all the gems fully charged anyway."
"Please tell me you haven't ruined them with the flawed rhythm yet!" I said.
"Uh… only one small one," he said. "We wanted to cram as much charge as we could into them before setting them to detonate."
It was nice to get a little good news for a change.
Sugarpine pushed his way to the front of the crowd surrounding us. "Glad you're alive," he said. "What's the plan, now?"
"We will have to discuss that," Skyla said, giving him a very hard glare. "But it certainly won't involve killing civilians!"
"Back to the original would be best," I said, as casually as possible. "The explosion at Redkeep will appear to be an accident or simple sabotage, and as long as Nebula hasn't been spotted—"
Sugarpine coughed discreetly. "Well, about that…"
Now the bad news, it seemed.
Swift Wing stepped forward. "A pegasus patrol saw us about an hour ago. They came in for a better look, and we… Well, Sugarpine's ponies shot all but two of them."
"It will only take one to put the whole province on alert," I said. "We should prepare for—"
"Oh, it's alright, ma'am," Swift went on. "Neither of them got away. We captured one, and the other… uh… surrendered, I guess."
I flicked my ears in puzzlement. "Why the uncertainty? Either he surrendered or he didn't."
"She, Ms. Nightshade," Swift said, still behaving like a pony who had something embarrassing to hide. "And she said she wanted to surrender to you specifically." He cleared his throat. "Asked for you by name, actually. Your other name."
"What?"
I hadn't even used the Royal Voice, but Swift winced and took a step back anyway. "I think maybe you should talk to her… alone. She's tied up in the sail locker. Didn't put her with the other one, 'cause they were trying to bite each other's faces off."
I wanted to rush down below decks right away, but there were too many other things that needed attention. I gave myself exactly three deep, slow breaths to bleed away as much tension as possible and then began dealing with the more immediate situation.
Nebula couldn't descend without venting precious lift gas, and since the reserve cylinders were nearly empty and she'd dropped all of her ballast, doing so would be a dangerous (and irreversible) maneuver.
"That must be the Swift River below us," I said to Skyla as we stood near the bowsprit with our spyglasses. "If we head into the mountains north of Grayhold, we may be able to anchor in a high valley… get some water or melt snow to fill the tanks." I took another look through my glass. "Seems to be some feral clouds up there. Might make for decent cover."
"What about lift gas?" she asked, chewing lightly at her lower lip.
"If we can find the right minerals, I can design another waveguide to power the spell to extract gas for us. We've got enough unicorns aboard for plenty of recharge capability, at least."
"That will take some time," she said, considering. "If we're spotted before Nebula's ready, we'll be nearly helpless."
"The chances of that are very slim," I reassured her. "Pegasi will have trouble flying that high, and the air currents in the mountains are so dangerous that no airship captain would…" I trailed off, realizing that my reassurance was turning out to be not all that reassuring.
Skyla looked over at me with a crooked grin. "No sane airship captain would try flying through those peaks, right?"
I sighed. "No captain with any other options, at least."
Skyla nodded. "I wish we could just attack an imperial ship and take their supplies, but I suppose your insane plan is the least risky course of action." She paused for a moment, carefully collapsing and putting her spyglass away, then said, "And it will give us plenty of time to discuss exactly how we are going to cut the head off this vile empire."
"That might be a very apt analogy, if we consider the Empire of Earth as a hydra. Cut off one head and you'll get two in its place." I held up a hoof to stop Skyla's angry reply. "To kill a hydra, you have to sneak under its belly and stab for the heart. Tough scales there, but it's just a matter of finding the right spot."
"And what spot is that?" she asked me, dubiously.
"Well, there's certainly a chink in their armor," I replied. "Let's go talk to the pegasi, shall we?"
Skyla gave the orders to get Nebula headed on the right course, made sure the crew and passengers knew what to do,[1] and then we went to talk to our captives.
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[1] And, more importantly, what not to do.
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We visited the pegasus who had been captured first. I let Skyla precede me into the hold so that I could watch the pony's reaction when he caught sight of her. It was a pretty standard sequence of surprise, momentary disbelief, shock, and then violent threats to cover up bone-deep terror.
Then I stepped out of the shadows.
"You're real," he moaned, going absolutely rigid in his bonds.
I didn't put on the monster act for him; he was terrified enough already, and I hoped to get some sense out of him. "Do you know who I am? Do you know my name?"
"Oh yes, I know you," he said. "I never really believed, but now I do. You are the Thief of Honor, the Replenisher of Graves, the Separator of Friends, the Terminator of Delights, the End of All That is—"
"But what is my name?" I insisted, cutting off the rather dreary CV that showed no sign of ending soon.
"Only that crazy blacklip is foolish enough to speak your name out loud!" he said, shivering so violently that his hooves rattled on the deck.
"Black Lip? Is that your comrade's name?" It couldn't hurt to ask.
He laughed mirthlessly. "Loose Leaf… I should have killed her!"
"Why? Help me understand."
But the pegasus had shut down. He squeezed his eyes shut and began reciting in a low shaking voice. "My honor is the honor of my flock; our hearts beat as one and our sacred duty binds us. My honor is the honor of my flock; our hearts beat as one and our sacred duty binds us. My honor is the honor of my flock…"
"We won't harm you—" Skyla began, but I shook my head and motioned her toward the companionway.
"Best to leave him alone for now," I said. "He won't believe anything we say."
We went forward to the sail locker and I knocked on the bulkhead before entering, calling out through the thin partition, "I hear you've been asking for me?"
There came a strained laugh from the other side. "Not unless you're Twilight Sparkle, I haven't."
Skyla and I exchanged glances.
"And where did you hear that name?" I asked, still keeping hidden.
"I wouldn't be much of a blacklip if I didn't know the true name of the Thief of Honor, would I?"
"Twilight Sparkle. Well, that's interesting. Do you know her cutie mark as well?"
"Of course I…" She stopped and kicked a hoof against the bulkhead. "Go shove your horn through a tree, you miserable screwhead! Stop taunting me!"
I almost snapped back, but held myself in check and said quietly, "Now is that any way to talk to the Replenisher of Graves?"
There was a long silence, and then she asked, "Who are you?"
"You named me only moments ago."
"Show me! Show yourself!" Oddly, her voice didn't sound fearful. If anything, she seemed… eager.
Time for the big entrance. I stepped through the doorway and flared my wings, grinning. I made sure to step slightly to one side so that the mare could have a good view of my cutie mark. "Hello, little one," I said, in my warmest, friendliest tone of voice.
Same sequence of reactions as before, except it ended differently. After looking back and forth between my cutie mark and my face for at least a half-dozen times, the pegasus smiled so broadly I thought her cheeks might cramp up.
"You're real!" she said in a voice of breathless wonder.
Then her eyes rolled up in her head and she fainted dead away.
Skyla gave me a wary, sidelong look. "Does this sort of thing happen to you a lot?"
"More often than it ought to," I admitted.[2] I pulled back one of the pegasus's eyelids and took a look at her pupil. "She'll be okay in a minute. There'll be some convulsions when her blood pressure comes back up. I'll keep her from banging her head against the deck."
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[2] The most extreme reaction I ever induced when suddenly recognised (as Captain Blackmane), was from a hulking stallion who had tried to slit his own throat with a belaying pin. It's odd how a reputation can be so powerful.
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"She's awfully skinny for a warrior," Skyla observed. "They tend not to faint when excited, either."
I nodded toward the mare's cutie mark, which was a green quill pen over a wisp of white cloud. On closer examination, I saw that the pen was made from a leaf, not a feather. I turned her head in my magic to get a look at her lips. Sure enough, they were somewhat ink-stained.
"She must be a scribe or chronicler," I said. "Probably only up here on patrol because of the all-hooves-on-deck situation. We may be in luck."
The mare started trembling, and I took a firmer grasp on her with my magic as her convulsions became more violent. After a moment she settled down, and she moaned and her eyelids began to flutter.
"It's all right," I told her. "You just fainted. Take a few deep breaths. Don't try to sit up yet."
When she finally looked up, a big, stupid grin stretched across her face. "You're real," she said.
I nodded. "I know. Don't forget to breathe."
She got a very disturbing look in her eyes and tried to reach out and touch my hooves. We had wisely refrained from untying her.
"I will serve you, oh dark one! I will obey you unto death!" she gasped out, still trying to touch me. "I will worship you!"
It was then that Ao floated into the room, carrying in her magic a tray of food and water for the prisoner. She raised an eyebrow and turned to me. "This one is gratified that at least one pony aboard has the correct attitude toward Your Majesty," she said, her expression the furthest from a sarcastic smirk as she could manage.
The pegasus fainted again.
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Those are not exactly... happy epithets.
Twilight groupies, yay!
Now, how can they have heard of Twilight Sparkle?
Or, do they know OF a Twilight Sparkle? The multiverse is a big place after all...
My word, what did the alicorns do in this world?
Good. Good.
Does this mean Twilight had been here before? What did she do to these ponies?
Excited mare : "You are the- the- the- the fourth... princess..." *faints*
Seems like this either isn't such a different universe as we thought, or timetravel shenanigans have occured.
You know, I was wondering about the local analogues of Twilight and her friends. I was also wondering about whether cutie marks existed in this world, given how the royal sisters created the mechanisms involved in Twilight's home universe. The fact that they do has some interesting potential ramifications.
Of course, far more intriguing are the definite ramifications, especially since Twilight's counterpart appears to be her direct antithesis. Earth pony propaganda or half-remembered history? (And of course it's the scribes who revere her. No matter what instance of Twilight we're talking about, she is ever the scholar-god.)
Rather small chapter, but yay, easy one! And can use a break as the three try to find the ship.. and Twilight tries not to give Flurry Heart thoughts on just what Twilight planned to do to her for stealing her ship. Also... time to feel sorry for the poor poor ponies that stole her ship.
Now now Twi... you can do better then that. But you have to worry about Skyla so, I'll supply it for you.
"Luna shitting moon rocks!"
How warm and dry is it? Is the fact it's still that muddy give them something to go on to judge how long ago it's been?
Hmmmmmm... so, not likely to be Empire then, so the Rebels take over? Though can't se Twi's crew not putting up some fight.. though might have been on board. OR, did their scouts see a patrol coming this way and they leave? Or, just lie about a patrol to get airborn? Or, get worried waiting and feel the need to go? Still many options for what went on.
And still has that so, not much use in them running for it, as if any of them REALLY new what they were doing. She did give lessons but, doubt they'd be able to do this long on their own.
Hmm, trying to stay above the Empire ships? Or, just screw up and drop to much ballast and now way higher then planned?
So not 'your crew.' Though that is where the capitol is, isn't it?
... Nice one... very nice.. I see what you did here and I like it.
Oh... oh.... OHHHHHHHHH Shit.... okay did not think about that one but.. it makes sense. And, ohhhh shit. High altitude bombing run with messed up crystals?
Yup. called it!
Flurry.
1. This won't do anything good.
2. It WILL cause a whole lot of bad things in retribution that you won't have done enough damage to be worth it.
3. It will paint an even BIGGER target on you and likely get your ship destroyed.
4.It is a CITY, meaning lots' and lots and lots of innocent civilians, and the type of bombing they will be doing is not going to care about that. Again Flurry, your idea, your cause, it's great. But your tactics are very poorly thought out.
Called it, and yeah, so unless you have a massive force to face them with, big attacks like this that you can't replicate easily just make them all the more convinced to wipe you out and given that much more power over everypony else through fear.
Yes it does, and Auntie Twilight will explain it... but maybe your should GET MOVING first.
Yeah.. there IS a line between freedom fighters, and terrorists, and it is NOT just what side you are on.
No, you didn't.. that's ind of how you got here isn't it? Again, your heart is in the right place... now use your head.
Exactly.
There we go... and guess it helps
1. Having a mom that used to be a Pegasus and 2. Being born with wings.
Also the whole magic dampening still there thing.
Well, time to do something to get their attention.
Oh, yeah paranoia and on edge, so likely looking everywhere for threats. Also, this is going to take some explaining.
Also, did she call her crew 'The Nebulas'?
And the flight here... but hey at least you caught up to them fast.
It' Twilight. Never ask that.
And she is not in a good mood.
Ohhhh boy.. this should be fun.
YAY!.. But does that mean JUST one you kill yourself as collateral damage, or all the ones the Empire will kill in relation if you do this wrong?
Twilight..... let us hope you never encounter Rincewind. You have fate screw you over enough as it is.
I'm liking this goodnews, bad news, good news, thing.
I'm with her..... alright so... 'Alicorns' Another Twilight Sparkle stop by at some point? not one of the Red Queen's beings? Maybe secret sects of pegasi that worship the 'demons' and see them differently? Ohhhh damn.. umm could talk and theorize and all that but, well looking like we will finally get some answer now so.. YAY! Also 'Following' so not them following the ship, but that plus Twi finding out she has her own cult out here?
interesting, very interesting so... factions among the pegasi and possibly more allies.. this is a quite unseen turn of events. Hopefully a good one.
YAY! you are learning!
So find a way to get down without doing that, or get ballast up here.
Where's Celestia when you need her, her rump based cake reserve should count as ballast right?
Makes sense, goo thinking.
YAY PLANNING! Also yay getting just what you need.
.... Your are so damn close to being Rincewind Twilight.. keep getting screwed over because Fate seems to hate you, but keep lucking out. Though ot be fair, you make a lot of your own luck.
Be stupid enough to do that? At least, in a ship less awesome then yours.
Exactly, Twilight is many things... 'sane'.. only applies on an intermittent basis.
Flurry! Stop being petulant and belligerent! Work this out, but without the snipping.
So they do that in Equestria... damn.
Okay, I really like this, it's less about if they SHOULD but about how they do so. Twi is right, the big, bold, swoop in and kill the leaders type thng.. it won't work, it'll not have the backing, by to grand, just, to many problems unless you have the might to follow it up.
You need to deliver a more subtle, yet deadly strike that they don't see coming and that takes them down from below. That sweeps away the organs supporting the heads and leaves them powerless. Very, VERY great comparison.
You're famous Twilight. No give them a nice BIG Grin!
Fine, good point and fair enough.
Wow she approaching Lord Foul levels of impressive titles. Also that one is.. ummm. ohhhh fuck. So... one of the other Nightmare Sparkles stop by? But, so long ago nopony but them remember and it's just tails? Okay... or, is all this a lot newer then they think?
(A few of his names. Lord Foul the Despiser, Statansheart, Soulchrusher, The Grey Slayer, Fangthane the Render, A'Jeroth of the Seven Hells, Corruption.....)
They really really REALLY don't like you. At least most of them. Now stop teasing us story and get to the good bits.. oh right I'm delaying through typing.. oops. Stop giving me stuff to respond to!
No wait don't stop being awesome.
Yeah, just to say, i am LOVING how this is playing out so damn good, getting just a bt more info each time.. SO GOOD!
Okay, so not a secret cult of good pegasi that know the lies of the rest are just that and venerate the true Twilight. But a secret cult of demon worshipers that praise one of the evil Twilights.
She's gonna pass out through shear joy, isn't she?
Called it! also
..... wow... just.. wow...
Ohhh yeah, some pony smart and that does a lot of writing and reading and study? Perfect!
Even for Twilight... this is a bit extreme... then again ALL HAIL WAIFU PONY!
I FREAKING LOVE AO!!!!!
Teasing us... making us wait for the story till next chapter... I HATE YOU!.... baka
Well now, plot twist and.. she didn't really seem like the 'follower of an evil demigoddess type.' But still this will be one hell of a story.
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But ohhhh good point on the Cutie Mark thing.. how does this explain all the other worlds with them? Ones where, Red Queen didn't exist, or ones like this without enough magic or just... yeah that is a good point, forgot about that.
Nice pile of titles there Twilight. One of these days you'll have to list all of them you've earned in your journals.
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Ao is correct. Finally a worshipper worthy of Twilight Sparkle.
Heh, black lip. Cute.
Having just gotten a quill to toy with, I can sympathize.
I swear, if this turns out to be a stealth time travel story.
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Fun fact: I am not generally a fan of time-travel stories. Too easy to cheat.
8186749 Fun fact: this doesn't actually tell us that this doesn't have time travel in it. Oh, it certainly implies this doesn't, but we never really know, do we?
I don't think this is going to involve time travel, personally. Also, I agree with you on cheating possibilities.
This desperately needs a Joe Hisaishi score.
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Replenisher of Graves?
Seriously?
There are so many "would - like - to - be - demon" titles, like Mistress of Malice, Avatar of Endless Dark, or even the basic Devourer of Souls...
But seriously no self appointed ancient deamon with speck of self - esteem would call itself Replenisher of Graves. That just does not roll of tongue properly
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I lifted it from an ancient Persian story, actually. Probably sounds better in the original Farsi. They had even stranger names for Death.
I'm thinking that Starlight Glimmer has a book somewhere that summarises all the religions, cults and fanatic extremist sects that in some manner either revere Twilight or have her as their devil-equivalent. It's a thick book already.
Whenever Twilight sees the book being updated, she gets another one of her headaches. What makes it worse is that Luna and Celestia think it's hilariously funny.
Sorry I'm running late this chapter. Also, I'm writing this while tired, so there's no guarantee on it being comprehensible.
As far as things go, that's kind of promising. If the Imperials had taken her on the ground, they wouldn't have made such an abrupt takeoff. Let's just hope the crew's counter-boarding training has paid off in the air.
I don't see the Equestrians suddenly filling the hold with heavy cargo, so orderly but speed and (probably) inexperience leading to a heavy hoof.
If you didn't take most of the native rebels along with you, I'd be a bit more worried. Their plans don't involve opening dimensional gates.
I know enough to spot the G1 reference, but not enough to know who he is... Ah, "what". Still, having read Reformation of the Hives, Grogar's name (and therefore city) has quite some weight to it.
I can only see that ending well.
Also, let's hope they find that declaration of war in the cabin before doing anything too visible.
That's your subtle way of saying Seraphim's vision of the Empire is more correct, isn't it?
Ah, the realities of war. I know Flurry would have had a broader education than most (in a place with a more troubled history than most), but even so, I'm not sure you can really blame her for not thinking of that given the general state of near-eternal peace in Equestria. Every ruler needs ponies like you to catch what they miss.
"It helped that I did not have to put as much care into my image as when I was being one of the most infamous pirate captains of the seven skies."
The gun has been cleaned, loaded, and set on the mantle to await Act III, eh?
That's going to dictate how you present your piracy-cum-revolution just a bit.
On the one hoof, that solves the immediate problem. On the other, you aren't going to be keeping them locked up indefinitely, so it introduces a whole other set for the future. And the way Swift said that... I can only think they intended infiltration, want to join up, or are strongly and unprofessionally attached to the one you caught.
Huh. Or that. Who in Equestria would be from Equestria?
Technically still doesn't invalidate the third option.
I know you have some pegasi on board (even before the new guests), so harvesting them for rain would be too much work for too little reward given the lower magic?
All the ponies I know are crazy!
You can also cauterize the neck stumps after cutting off the heads if you're quick enough, but that would undermine your stance against collateral damage. Probably best you didn't mention it.
She also didn't put on a later-season Fluttershy act for exactly the same reasons.
Ok, that is A) a rather intriguing slur, and B) an very curious look into the legends. Unless he's just assuming she knows the right name, that implies "Twilight" and maybe even "Sparkle" are part of the tales. Some sort of spillover from working with the world mechanism?
Ah, the beauty and confusion of pony names.
Maybe not a slur, then. Makes me even more curious about everything else, though.
The demon Fluttershy act does, however, apparently work for ponies who are receptive to the ideals she represents. Right now, I'm imagining Nightmare Moon's following.
Now that is a nice etymology. Also interesting is that the pegasus lore-keeper doesn't use feather pens.
Luna still needs to meet her. Twilight's not going to be the one instigating it.
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Me too, actually. Were they just so heavy-hoofed that, in trying to order their world, they wound up affecting everything surrounding it? Equestria Girls must have been on the far border of the ripples at that point, since their marks are just iconic pieces of jewelry. Or maybe everything's much more intimately connected, and changing one world necessarily changes the others? I need to read Enigma again.
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It's one thing to swear on Celestia. It's another to swear on your lover.
That was a couple lines in one of the early chapters: ships' crews get named after their ship. Twilight's unhappy that they aren't "The Nebulae", but couldn't argue against tradition and general ignorance.
I've been rewatching Sherlock in preparation for the new season. I'm thinking I need to track down some (well-done) crossovers.
I'm still getting used to doing this myself (never added to the Project Horizons commentaries when that was still going on), and I didn't even realize this was a shorter chapter. It really is a nice way to be sure you don't skim over anything.
I whole-heartedly agree.
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The Big Book of Sparkle is one of Glim-glam's pet projects. It also comes in handy when ponies refer to those times she enslaved a village or broke Equestria. "Oh, you think that was bad? Well..." (She has several entries bookmarked.)
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Ooh... Reformation of the Hives has Grogar in it? I'll have to check it out! Present Perfect did an awesome guide to G1 on his blog. He suffered through it all, so we wouldn't have to!
OMFG! Nooooooo! They would so gang up on poor Twilight!
8196740 It's unfortunately the weakest in the series in my opinion, but Grogar at least seems pretty well-written. If you haven't read what all leads up to it, though, you'll definitely be a bit lost. Enjoy!
And in the mean time, I'll check out that guide. Thanks!
Aww yeah, easy prediction points!
Also, aww shit. What was this Twilight Sparkle up to?
You paint the most wonderful pictures.
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Belay that belaying pin lest you act the fool
Kirt took out Khan with a belaying Pen. That is a confusing Easter Egg making sense only as something Starfleet puts in Engineering because of continuity with sailing ships.
A belaying pin is a little blunt for throatcutting.
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Really? I must have missed that... or blotted it out.
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