Interdimensional travel can be a dangerous thing. Especially when there’s a jumpy wedding planner just beyond the event horizon.
Entry in Jake's Horse Word Extravaganza "Obscure Shipping" Contest.
Finalist in June 2017's "Under the Sun" WriteOff - Winner of Best New Entrant!
Historian’s Note: Unexpected Hazards of Interdimensional Transit occurs a month or two after the events of Legend of Everfree, when those contractors finally get around to fixing the Wondercolt Statue.
Cast: Sunset Shimmer & Amethyst Star
Co-Starring: Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Honey Blossom, Cranky Doodle & Matilda
Cover Design and Section Breaks by Novel Idea
Sunset Shimmer Vector: Xebck
Amethyst Star Vector (Recolored by Novel Idea): Punzil504
Amethyst Star Cutie Mark Vector: The-Smiling-Pony
Daisy Cutie Mark Vector: The-Smiling-Pony
Starflower Vector: KibbieTheGreat
Beta Reader & Editor Credits
Ebon Quill - Audio Director & Quest Designer on The Manehattan Project
Little Tinker - Master of Systems at Poniverse & Scripting Engineer on The Manehattan Project
Beltorn - Commenter-at-Large on FimFiction
Cursori: Reader of Many a Pony Word
Oroboro: General Conspirator of Sunset Madness (and helped inspire the original story)
Word Count: 12,000 Words
Version: 2.9
A beautiful and funny oneshot between two characters that you wouldn't expect.
10/10 author!!! 10/10!!!
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Thank you kindly! I had far too much fun with these two and I'm glad you did as well!
My little secret is that I have two favorite parts in this story:
The rehearsal and the part with the ears.
The rehearsal is easy to pin down - amid all the little jokes Sunset throws at Amy and Amethyst's growing realization of what exactly she is doing, it's the part where the characters of those two come forth most strongly - Sunset is slowly but surely growing into an embodiment of Harmony and specifically her own element and Amy's rather strict and plan-driven persona.
While the ears, hmm, well that little off-hand description is just plain delightful as well as the implication it throws at us. Though, it's actually all the little details Novel has woven in, like Sunset smelling of cinnamon and roses, her love of Dahlias and the fact that they are edible that add a lot to better imagining of the characters.
All in all, this story was a treat and came at the right time (and Novel's Nook is always the right place for anything Sunset-, RariTwi- and AppleDash-related). Thanks, Novel!
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Smirk-intensifies.
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Huh. The ears, huh? Never expected you to love that part in particular.
Hmm...hmm...definitely cute, definitely well-written, and certainly unexpected. And with an amusing shampoo-based origin story to boot! But, hmm, how do I put this...something about shipping Sunset with a character who has such little characterization feels kinda off to me? I don't know. It's kinda like shipping Sunset with an OC, just one that's meant to be a canon character. It's nothing against you or the fic, it just feels off to me.
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Well, it's more that she's being shipped with a character that's existed for quite some time, but without any development whatsoever. In fact, the only lines we've had from her is her calling Rainbow Dash on the whole jar opening thing and her being the Best Organizer before Twilight showed up. She's a pretty blank slate. So, I went with what we knew and tried to build her from there!
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Yeah, I know. Heck, I even rewatched that particular scene before I posted my last comment. It still just feels weird to me, which in turn feels weird for me for a completely different reason (I like to think I've made something of a reputation for myself in another fandom for giving underused characters the development they deserve). I don't know, maybe I'm just too much of a diehard Sunlight shipper?
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Hey, nothing wrong with having favorites. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
Of course it counts. And it's more fun this way anyway. Magical shenanigans are the best.
Thunk
Oh, did you hear that? That was the sound of the title dropping directly onto Amethyst's head.
I...have several idea as to the direction I think this fic is going to go. Most of them are hilarious.
Welp. That was not one of the directions.
What an incredibly silly question. Besides, just blame magical shenanigans if she wakes up and doesn't like what she sees. It'll probably work. Unless you gave her lesser amnesia and she reverts back to how she was earlier in her life. She'd still probably believe you, but...it wouldn't really help matters.
Also, well done on knocking out the most beautiful girl in school and dragging her back to your bed, if my approval wasn't clear from my earlier comments.
Smack
Oh, Harmony. I panicked and did it again.
Sunset's unconscious form and double glowing red welts stared back accusingly.
If she were a guy, something somewhere el--
OW! Oh, it's a binder, now is it?
Buffs nails on shirt. "I may have critted. While wielding one of the few weapons I'm proficient with. The surprise round flat-footed vulnerability definitely helped. Also I may have spent some plot points. Not to brag or anything."
And if she were a pegasus...
"I may have...uh...gotten hungry on the way out my, first time coming here. And I may have been angry. And I may have stolen Princess Celestia's cake before high-tailing it out of Equestria."
"Oh, yeah. That's bad. Principal Celestia really likes her--Wait did you say 'Princess'!?"
Vegetarian!? But-But-But-Bacon Horse!
Which now that I actually examine that phrase out of context sounds more like bacon made from a horse. So maybe not.
Huh. So Amethyst has something close to Pearl's personality and Garnet's gem weapon? Interesting.
It's nice for the good guys to have the smirk on their side every once in a while, y'know? I mean, pretty much only villain-type characters have that passive, so you have to catch one in the wild and relearn all its abilities to get it to mesh with the rest of the party.
Are you sure you don't want that? Cuz I sure want that.
An admirable attempt.
Really? None of you? None? None? None? None?
(This isn't going anywhere, I just figured maybe if I ask enough times, the answer will change.
"Besides, big heroines are prisoners all the time! Don't you ever read anything!"
"What kind of...reading material are you talking about?"
"...Irrelevant! Heroines are imprisoned frequently in more literature than just...In all kinds of literature!"
I know it's kind of a ruff Spot to be in, but at least you aren't in the doghouse alone.
Seems to be going pretty well to me.
Okay, I'm not going to complain about another Sunlight fic, but seriously, it's a pretty thin veil.
Kinky.
Finally you begin to recognize the wonder of Magical Shenanigans.
Pffft--I--She--but it--...yeah. But she's a good bad influence!
~This day is going to be perfect,~
~The kind of day of which they've dreamed since they were...uh...chillun's~
Everypony will gather round, say they look lovely in their gowns,
What they don't know is that MAGICALSHENANIGANS
See? That rhymed.
What? It's literally a Canterlot Wedding. If the twist at the end of this story is that there are no magical shenanigans I'm going to be sorely disappointed.
Well...Not that I explicitly approve or implicitly disapprove... But you're not wrong.
I'm not sure I quite understand how you can make raw fish vegetarian, but whatever.
This Day Aria is more appropriate.
The correct response is turnabout. "It helps to know that you'll be there with me." You'll probably get a flicker from her expression, and then she'll hold her deadpan longer than you. But a flicker is a win!
Ha! Who hasn't seen those? Not me, obviously, because then I wouldn't be making this incredibly incriminating statement.
"Tell me which instance of that word was uncalled for!"
"Uh...Well. Most of them aren't doctors of magic, they're medical doctors...who use magic...Fine."
Yes, Sunny! Give her all the ideas!
I mean, it's going to happen regardless, maybe this way, you'll get it over with at the rehearsal, rather than the real thing.
Just remember, Amy, it's all your fault. If you hadn't overreacted to a freaky earth-quakey inter-dimensional shadow-creature with immediate hostility and a crit, you wouldn't have this problem. So really Sunny's completely blame-free, here.
Teenagers. Never can tell.
That is a damn good task to have on your checklist. Here's hoping it is on there every day from now on.
's a good phrase.
All of the ideas.
Just be happy she stopped her narration of events at that point. She could have said one more sentence. Like "Then I woke up as a prisoner in Amethyst's bed." Although perhaps that would have been met with more approval...
I know, right? She can't be the Element of Snark and Empathy! That's just not fair!
I can safely say that, never in my life have I ever actually wanted to try eating a flower. Not even when the ponies did it. Now I kinda do.
...It really wasn't. And that was low bar to begin with. But the waggled eyebrows help sell it, so I'd put them about even.
"Alright fine, you caught me, I want to keep you as a pe--"
"..."
"Or girlfriend. Girlfriend is good."
Uh. If you were a scientist, there's something else that would go 'boin
gk'.Look, I'm out of tasteful sexual innuendo. Not that I had any to begin with.
Only when one of the party members has mind-powers...
Oh, wait, it's a joke about love. Yeah, that too.
Dogs: A human's best wingman.
Both? Wow. Love does make random things weirdly contagious.
Hey, now. At least you'll be able to check off "Get teased by Sunset" every day forever.
You need two special binders. One for information on magical shenanigans. One for information on more mundane, more metaphorically magical shenanigans. You already have several entries for that second one, courtesy of Sunny herself.
Yeah! Sunsets for days!
Yeh, but it's okay. The Element of Snark brought her A-game.
And on one final note:
What!? No magical shenanigans!? I was implicitly lied to! And Love doesn't count! Unless Cadance was involved. I guess Empathy was involved. But still!
Although I guess the last few stories have been pretty heavy on the magical shenanigans.
Alright fine. Maybe we can lay off the explicitly magical shenanigans for a while.
But only because I got to say shenanigans so many times.
Shenanigans.
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Well fuck me, this story was funnier and more creative than I anticipated.
There will surely come a day when I don't absolutely love a story you write, Novel
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And while Snarky-Shims will always be best Sunset, I think flirty!Sunset is now solidly in the #2 slot.
Wasn't this an entry in the latest Write Off contest? https://writeoff.me/fic/5448-Unexpected-Hazards-of-Interdimensional-Transit It was even a finalist, but this story is far longer and I see no mention of the write off, just another contest I wasn't aware of. Is this the same story?
Oh, this was a delight! Funny and sweet, with a totally great Sunset. Loved it!
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Eep! I spaced! Fixed!
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Now I wanna know what they were!
I don't know... being subjected to emphathic magic is some pretty big shenanigans. Big, but subtle.
...God, I love these comments. SO MUCH.
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Hell ya.
I'm just stealing from Oroboro.
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See picture above.
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Thank you much!
I loved this. I won't leave a sprawling message picking out all the little things I loved, because dangit I loved it all. I reached the end and my second thought was, 'I want more…'
(My first thought was Squee! So cute!)
Daw. This was cute!
Bwheheheh
Well, I suppose that if you can't be with the checklist-obsessed unicorn analogue you love, love the one you're with. Also, Sunset is surprisingly flirtatious when concussed.
In all seriousness, this was a delightful tale of fate and/or chance conspiring to bring people together. Even the one-scene lover's spat works well given how high-strung Amethyst was at the time. Great work all around. Thank you for it and best of luck in the judging.
(Also, when can we expect Crisis of Infinite Sunsets?
)
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And my first thought on seeing this was "Squee!"
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Oh stop cackling, get over your burnout and write something, ya slacker.
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Seems legit.
I added that scene, too! The original WriteOff version didn't have it. It was all fluff, all the time! But I decided I wanted something with a little substance... and then ten thousand times more fluff with Honey Blossom!
Blizzard Soon(TM)
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But seriously, for the best organizer in ponyville before Twilight, she spent Winter Wrap Up on the ANIMAL team? What a waste of talent.
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A story by Timaeus gives the idea that something went wrong the year before, so she got put in charge in the Animal Team instead of running the entire thing. It's an interesting concept...
Nice to see that I'm not the only one taking advantage of the figurative blank slate that is Amethyst Star in the EQG world. Granted, I'm going in a slightly different direction with her, but still...
Anyway, nice story, very sweet. And I've got to get to reading the two Oroboro stories you mentioned - they do good work.
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Blank slate characters with a little bit of definition are some of my favorites to work with. It gives you a basic framework, but the rest of it can be designed originally. From limitations comes creativity!
Glad you enjoyed Amy and glad you enjoyed the story!
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Exactly!
Alright, this was a really good one!^_^
I liked it!^_^
Though I usually ship Sunset with myself.^_^
this was a wonderful read and i loved every moment! i do have to wonder how Amy's parents will/would react to Sunset and the tale of how she and Amy got together. XD
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"For the last time, Amethyst, you are only permitted to put girls you knock out on the couch or in the guest bedroom. No more putting them in your room!"
"Sorry, Mom."
"Wait... how many girls has she knocked out?"
"Uhhh..."
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LMAO! That made me laugh out loud.
Fun fact, I use Suave's Amethyst Sunset
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That's not what I want to know.
What I want to know... is it AWESOME?
D'awwww, this was really cute. Not usually one for ship-fics, but this was very well done and enjoyable. Things felt natural, started from a good spot, Amy being a bit in love with Shinny-Shins already because.. lets face it it's true, EVERY one is at least a bit in love with the Shim-Shims. And Flirty Sunset was so adorable. Maybe not some grand, destined love to echo throughout time, but those are massively overrated anyway. Far better to go with the much more realistic "Eh, wanna go out for a bit see how we work?" "Why not?" Especially since we are in the bizzaro ship-pairing EQG-Verse anyway.
Plus, very nice little shout-outs to other fics that worked well and were, just amazingly well done. All I'd say it was missing that I kept hoping for was a mention of a Sunburst Rose and Sunset sending Amy blushing with some vague allusion to something regarding a weather vane.
Overall, fun little ship-fic that actually works and makes the ship make sense, and was just really fun to see unfolding.
I want to read "Amethyst Touches Sunset's Pony Ears" now :blush:
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I've read it! It's mostly every blush emoji known to human and ponykind. ^^
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Is this some time travel voodoo to compel me to write it? Because it's low-key working but it'd be Sciset or Rarishimmer most likely
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Ship all the things.