I opened my eyes and looked across the table at where Sunset was sitting, a book floating ahead of her. “Sunset?”
“Hmh?” she asked and looked up from it, turning the page. “Welcome back.”
“Thanks. How do you feel about griffons?”
That earned me a strange look. “…Does being cryptic come with the entire alicorn thing or something?”
I rolled my eyes. “I just found out I rather dislike them, is all,” I sighed and then explained to her what Luna told me.
“Oh… Sorry to hear that. I guess you have to make do with little old me,” she commented and smiled, fluttering her eyelashes at me.
I tossed a cookie at her. “It’s a state visit, not a vacation, I’m mostly bummed I can’t come along. I miss her.”
Sunset flicked an ear in thought before she finally nodded. “I know. Not like you could commandeer another airship or something. We don’t have enough of them.”
I nodded. Equestria only had like four of that class.
“So, what’s the plan when we get back to Canterlot? Starlight Glimmer?”
Considering that, I then shook my head. “No… not unless Celestia asks me to talk to her anyway. I plan to leave that entire thing to Twilight if possible.”
“Yeah, I can see that. Well, I plan to take a long, deep soak at the spa. There is one rather close to the castle,” Sunset said with a smile. “Expensive, but well worth it when I can afford it.”
Grinning at that, I nodded. “Well, you deserve it. Thanks for coming with, Sunny. You did a good job. Actually, bill it to me. I’ll pay this time.”
“Welcome and thanks!”
I shook my head. “I’m serious, Sunset. You are good, better than you used to be. As good as me… almost.”
“Almost my perfect tail!”
I grinned at her. “I seem to remember winning… almost every time. But less often than before… Apprentice.”
Sitting up from where she had been laying, Sunset stared at me. “What?”
“Congratulations, Apprentice. You are a Warmage.”
Sunset Shimmer just gaped at me. “I’m a what?”
“If you want to be,” I explained. “You helped take down a major threat to Equestria with Tirek.”
“I barely did anything but run in fear!”
“…And then you now defeated Starlight Glimmer,” I continued, ignoring her interruption. “Your training is going well, you are fast, accurate and powerful.”
Sunset just stared at me. “So you want me to join this special order? With only you in it?”
“Well, technically Luna is in charge. But it makes sense,” I said. “Equestria is under constant threat. Even with the Guard and the Elements, something more is needed. Why not breathe some life into an old idea? I discussed it with Luna, she thought it was a great idea.”
“So, you are just going to… what, rebuild the Jedi Order? And yes, I did notice you copied a lot for those books. You better hope the portal between universes never becomes public knowledge or you will be sued so hard.”
I shrugged. “Eh, fair enough. I think they are more adaptations than anything. But no. Honestly, at this point I’m mostly thinking that you are doing the work and learning the stuff, you might as well have the cloak. You have earned it from my point of view, especially for how you handled Starlight Glimmer. Luna agreed.”
Sunset swallowed and then nodded. “I… I… I need to think about it.”
“Do that,” I said with a smile. “Just remember that I would outrank you. Which means I can order you to fuck off when you are being a pain.”
She just stuck her tongue out at me. “Like you don’t already. How is that going for you?”
I just snorted and tossed one of the apples on the table at her. She caught it in her magic field with a grin. “So… What now?”
I shrugged. “Now we get to Canterlot and take a week of doing nothing.”
Sunset nodded, “Sounds nice,” and took a bite from the apple before she grinned. “Honestly, I didn’t think the entire ‘Warmage’ thing was real. I mean, I know it used to be a thing far in the past, but I always assumed starting it again was some kind of roleplay thing between you and Princess Luna.”
That was a lot closer to reality than I'd like her to know about. The main reason Luna did this was because she liked the uniform. The fact that it renewed a tradition was just a side effect.
Sunset stared at me. “…Seriously?”
“No!”
She giggled. “Seriously!? That’s why!? It really did start as some sort of roleplay thing!”
“… She likes the uniform,” I grumbled. Damn it, Sunset was getting way too good at reading me.
Sunset grinned at me and then looked out the window. “No worries, I’m not judging.”
I just sighed and leaned against the backrest.
“…Though, wouldn’t the cloak and belts get in the way when…”
“Freddy fucking Krueger, Sunset!”
She just grinned. “Oh come off it, you know I’m just teasing. It ‘does’ look good on you.”
I shook my head and sighed again. “I know. Could you just… tone it down a bit, okay?” I asked. “Please?”
“…Okay.”
We sat in silence for a moment before Sunset frowned. “Page?”
“Yeah?”
“…Sorry. I didn’t mean to… you know?”
“I know. I don’t really mind, it just gets a bit much from time to time, you know?”
“Sorry.”
But who else does he know that can cook him a proper fish?
Glad I stayed up!!!
Woooooooooh. Sunset needs fan art now!!!!
Another cloak and another chakram, Luna's gonna need to dust out the storage to search for more
I got so many cinema sins vibes during this chapter...
So, I guess the Equestria girls universe in this has all the exact same movies and stories as the real earth.
I don't know, there are so many things that resemble things from Earth but are ponified already, a case of parallel development could be made. Or Equestria had been stealing ideas from Earth for awhile, either through spying or other immigrants.
Oh I forgot all about the Warmage thing...rebuilding it would be fun! Celestia technically has the Wonderbolts so Luna having the Warmages as an equivalent would show more equality between the two sisters. (Though for publicity sake, Luna might need to change the name to something less violent like Starmage or something...) I can't wait for this to develop!!
I have a few suggestions for who else to join the Warmage order:
Prince Blueblood (the comedy writes itself!)
Trixie (We need to keep an eye on her...tho I forgot if she did anything in your AU...did she??)
Any changeling character (because DIVERSITY!)
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Wrong planet, Page already wrote in the book that it was adapted from a story from Earth. Earthquestria could cry that they had a George Lucas too but at most they could fight for publishing rights on thier side of the portal. That is assuming the claim can even be made, Bollywood does a number of adaptations of other films and it's hard enough to fight international copy right but interdimensional?
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Celestia and Luna can probably make a law that protects it or come up with some reason that the lawyers can't argue against.
7977442 Ooooh I could see Trixie! And Sunburst!!
Wouldn't it be wild if in this universe he and Trixie hooked up and Starlight and Trixie became enemies instead of friends?
7977522 theyd technically have to have a copyright treaty in force between the US and Equestria to get sued. this happened in the past before the global protections we have today where spain didn't have copyright laws and anyone who wanted to just went there to copy stuff
also i'm predicting trixie the great and powerful shall be offered to add her services to this order of war mages
7977664 Here here! For Trixie that is, Copyright law is boring.
7977649 Eh...I don't want Sunburst that much. I personally find him too bland. Plus too many Suns on one team...too many suns...
7977769 Well unless pegasai and Earth Ponies are welcome, I can't really think of many candidates that wouldn't be OC's
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As far as Page was concerned, he had no direct involvement with the Mane 6's canon unless it involved Canterlot or conveniently being near an event. ie: Canterlot invasion, Sunset's theft of the element and Tirek.
He'll have no personal gripes with Trixie until they meet, so it's up to the author in how their encounter will go
Probably.
I like this idea!
And it'd probably be far better than Star Wars VII too.
Sunset is now gonna dream of Page taking her during training session while wearing that outfit... oh boy.
Luna better let Sunset know that Page is hers.
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Plus even nowadays there are countries that just ignore it. China's auto industry is/was rife with blatant ripoffs of other car manufacturers, but when those companies tried to claim copyright infringement the Chinese government just said "Nah, they're totally not like your product" and no one could do jack since their government refused to.
International copyright enforcement is very tenuous and relies on the countries cooperating with each other and international agencies. If a country decides to, they can do whatever they want within their own borders. It's only enforceable by Interpol, UN, other countries, etc. when it crosses international borders and even then only with the stuff that crossed, they can't just go into the country of origin and arrest/fine the producers without that Gov's permission.
Sure sanctions and embargos are an option but no country is going to do that just to show their disapproval over a copyright issue.
7978964 Page you got to introduce her to Cloud, quick!
7978813 Until Page and Luna's Son destroys the order when he falls to the dark side.
7979205 As long as he turns into a 'proper' sith villain, and not 'Darth-Emo-the-Disappointing', I'm okay with it.
7979204 I actually dig that ship too...
Real talk. Even though they are joking, this is one of the most terrifying threats ever. Can you imagine pissing off someone with the power to leave you a shivering, exhausted, bed-wetting mess?
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Would you two just make out already?
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But Luna have a thing for the uniform. That specific one. And Shimmy going to wear it sooner or later...
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I have an idea...
Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork!
Me: *looks up from plans for the next E.L.E. happening as soon as they show up* "Meh, I might give them three days."
I mean, 50 Shades of Grey was originally Twilight fanfiction, and most of the work down to convert Master of the Universe into 50 Shades of Grey was just to change the names of the characters into original names rather than the names from Twilight. As far as I know, the creator of 50 Shades has not been sued by the writer of Twilight.
Ah, but the Foreign Sovereign Immunities act of 1977 states that you cannot sue a foreign government official. Becoming an Alicorn was all part of the plan to get diplomatic immunity!
You know, considering the already blatant copying of many cultural things from earth through ponies who don’t have a connection to it, i think there’s leeway to pretend that it’s simply Equestria’s version of the stories.
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You sON OF A-
You have no idea how many guards and orders started that way... :D
Kinky Luna and Page
Warmage's... Good to have and not need, than needing it and not having them...
I want a picture of this. Sue me
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Look no further than reading lead us not but replace twilight with blank page and sunny with sunzet
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Please tell me
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Please do tell us
You're a
wizardWar Mage,HarrySunsetHahaha!!! I love this Sunset!!!
HagridPage: "A Warmage"Man re-reading this series is fun.
Where's the shipp?
Fucking love the humor and references ♡
Adulting! Page and Sunset can do it after all!