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Caffeinated Pinkie


"Caffeine and sleep deprivation do a good story make."

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I had originally unpublished this and didn't plan to come back to MLP fanfiction. However, by request, I am at least making it public again. This story is dead! Sorry!


Do you ever have those days where you nearly die and are teleported to a far away land full of horses? Didn't think so. Unfortunately for me, my repertoire of bizarre experiences is only growing bigger by the minute.

Now it's time for me to learn how to survive in a world that I don't know the first thing about.

If only it didn't feel like I was going insane.

Twilight is dead. Hello, my name is Twilight, but I'm not the pony you are thinking of. Twilight is dead. In fact, I've never been a pony for as far back as I can remember. Twilight is dead. I'm not sure who I am. Twilight lives.

I am Twilight.


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I did get a fair bit of inspiration from axelsempai's My Twilight Facade in terms of setup, but don't worry. This story is going to be way different. :trollestia:

Chapters (5)
Comments ( 53 )

Ah like this! Very promisin :)
Hopefully there's more updates, cuz yer cool! ^_^

Before I read this, what is the Dark tag for ?
And how bad does it get ?

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It's pretty light on darkness, at least so far. It'll never get too bad for too long, but there will be some fairly dark moments in the future. The majority of the story will be more slice of life and comedy though.

I was an ugly, hideous, and perfectly normal human, I got to live in this beautiful place called Earf,

Humans in this story wouldn't happen to be green skinned, covered in ridiculous amounts of heavy artillery, and constantly going on about moar dakka? :unsuresweetie:

intresting I;ll say that at least please continue

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Why do I think that your description tells of an Orcish land from Warhammer 50k...?

Nice story so far.

One thing I always wonder in stories like this..where is the real Twilight? Dead? Banished? Or in someone else's body?

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Ah just got whiplash.

Like... how she got to Nightmare Moon was just sudden.
Well, thanks fer the update!!

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All that will come in due time. Don't worry, there is an actual explanation for that coming at one point, and will be fairly important to the plot. :derpytongue2:

Glad you enjoyed anyways!

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Well, I hope you were wearing your seatbelt! I'd like to imagine it was the good kind of whiplash though. My apologies if some parts felt rushed, but I figure it can only get better from here!

Where did... the others come from? Were they ahead of Twilight? What are they even doing out here?

...how did she know they were her friends? :unsuresweetie:

This could use a little um... time spent making sure your story is headed in the direction you want it to go. The writing is good, it just seems like it's... missing pieces.

The last thing I feel is my horn exploding with pain as I hear the terrified cries of my friends behind me.

....friends? Looks like a plot hole. (hehe, plot)

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In terms of calling them her friends, it was a not very good attempt at implying that Twilight now sees them as her friends. I realize that now that it wasn't good, so I'm probably going to fix it. Thanks for the feedback! :pinkiehappy:

Also, I have had a problem in the past with pacing and really describing everything going on as well as I should. As this story progresses, I am going to try and improve on that. But I do have a good idea of where I want the narrative to go. :twilightsmile:

I'm curious about what will happen in this team against Moonie and also what kind of reaction Celestia would have when she will learn about everything.

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Well, Chloroforme, I guess you'll just have to wait and see...

Over halfway done with chapter 4!

Hope yo continue this :p

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Don't worry, I will. I'm just a little stuck on the next chapter.

Bit of a continuity problem here with this paragraph:

“Hey, Spike!” I call out.

“Yeah?”

I tap my hooves together awkwardly, nearly falling over as I do so. “Do you think I could read over the letter the Princess sent us and see if… um… I forgot anything else?” He looks at me quizzically. “Always better to be prepared after all!”

He sighs, shoulders slumping slightly. “Good to know you’re still as neurotic as ever.” He reaches into my saddlebag and retrieves the letter. “Here you go, Twi.” He begins walking off before waving me to follow him.

Which is then followed soon after by this one:

One: I’m apparently the student to this Princess person. Two: the little purple guy I’ve been following around is named Spike.

How did FakeTwi know what to call him? Or is that a subtle hint of the real Twilight inhabiting the same body and ingrained instincts from her just took subconscious control?

Regardless, it's an interesting start to a story.

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Good call, she only learns his name after reading the letter. I'll go fix that.

Wonder if NotTwi will explain to Celestia that she isn’t who she appears to be.

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Hmm... I wonder...

I guess you'll just have to see! Although, no one can keep a secret forever... :rainbowderp:

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Weirdly enough not caring about other people helps. That and rampant egomania.

I did get a fair bit of inspiration from axelsempai's My Twilight Facade

Is this story also based off of Alienation?

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It's not based off any story in particular. That being said, I wrote this story with some inspiration from My Twilight Facade in the beginning and just wanting to live up to that memory. However, this latest chapter is written far more in what I would say is a stylistic nod towards The Celestial Code.

I actually just bought a print version of that the other day after getting back from the convention. I recommend the read.

In a sense, not!Twilight shares some similarities to the Twilight from that story in how she views the world around her and describes it into her journal. Also, there are hints towards what the future holds for not!Twilight in the comments interspersed.

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Tons of fun as a matter of fact! There may be a video of some of our experiences eventually and I'll post a link if that's the case, but I got to meet a bunch of awesome people. Check out my Twitter if you want more information on that.

https://twitter.com/CaffeinatedPink

Also, no! This story isn't going to die as long as I have a say about it. I'm not about to let it go quietly into that night or whatever. It won't update fast though.

Seems odd that Celestia wasn’t there. I would think her student suffering such an injury would cause some panic. Unless the earlier dream indicates this Tia is a bit more heartless chessmaster than compassionate idealist.

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I believe that Princess Celestia was awfully busy at the time, what with Nightmare Moon returning, huge magical battles, Princess Luna coming back, assuring her citizens that everything is fine, and just generally running the kingdom.

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Fair, I just assumed she would likely have popped in as soon as her student came to.

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Who's to say she didn't? Twilight passed out almost immediately after defeating Nightmare Moon and didn't wake up for some time afterwards.

*pops in*
*looks left, then right*
*notices hiatus*
...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

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I'm rewriting it and changing up the premise a bit.

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ooh interesting...

Well, whenever those rewrites get done, I'll be here!

Have a good one!

Wait... she never meet anyone but the pink one before, how they can be friends?

No mention of the Elements if Harmony to your new friends?

This chapter actually works as it is.

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Well, alright then. One of my favorite authors just created a trail of destruction through my story. Rude.

I also practically forgot I wrote stuff. I just started classes and I'm betwixt two contract jobs at the moment. Not to mention YouTube. I'm not sure when this will ever get done. :(

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The same story you canceled to rewrite later?

One easy fix is for the surprise party to still happen and for not Twilight to meet the mane six there.

Last chapter, it mentioned Twilight's horn exploding. Does she still have a horn at this point? Has she ever realized she had one?

Seems like the search never started :rainbowlaugh:

Sad to see such a wonderful story cancelled would have loved to see more. :ajsleepy:

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