Beast Night Ever, Epilogue
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Beast Night Ever,
Epilogue
Princess Cadence sat down hard, water running down her form, ruining her dress and mane do and soaking her to the bone. Her makeup ran down her face in streaks as she turned her head to survey the carnage going around her.
Most of the other guests were running around in a panic, there were screams, sobbing, and complete breakdowns.
There was also a few ponies engaging in food fights, slinging water on one another, and Fancy Pants' date, Fleur-de-lis, was currently trying to out sing Pinkie Pie.
Animals surged around the room with Fluttershy and the Ranger with her trying to corral them and get them to go back outside. Of course with the panic of the Gala most of them were getting excited and running around even more, either trying to hide, or just eating everything they could scarf up.
A trio of nobles had scrambled up a curtain and were peering over the edge of it at a white beach ball with rabbit ears, that was growling up at them and had chased them across the room.
Granny Smith and Auntie Celestia were on the balcony overlooking everything laughing at the goings on below them. At least they were until Celestia got hit with a flying cup cake. After that the pair came down and joined in the food fight, the two of them were offered a plate piled high by a caterer who had gotten a yellow rain slicker from somewhere and was using a umbrella as a shield as he resupplied every pony.
Cadence briefly recalled the caters had been forced into a deal by some noble or another that they would paid by the amount of food they made, not by time spent, this year. They were going to make a killing with the bill and a royal accountant was likely going to have a heart attack.
The musicians were currently sitting under a large umbrella with their instruments tucked away to prevent damage. The four of them seemed completely unphased by the goings on around them, focused more on what ever they were discussing at the moment.
The trio of fillies she had seen earlier were having more fun now than they had the entire rest of the party, running around all over the place and getting into everything. Their dresses and manes were ruined but they didn't seem to care as they bounced about doing all sorts of random things in attempts to get cutie marks. Of course Auntie Luna was running right along with them.
Rarity was screaming bloody murder and was chasing Prince Blue Blood around the main floor attempting to smother him in a massive four tiered cake she had grabbed off the buffet table.
Cadence would have gone to help him, but she couldn't miss the smirk on his face as he dodged Rarity's attacks and kept a good pace ahead of her, throwing back insults, and boorish complaints every so often to keep the mare egged on. Cadence recalled the time he had invited her to Ponyplona to participate in The Running of the Cows and shuddered. Her cousin was unfortunately a thrill seeking sort of noble. With how his parents sheltered him growing up it was little surprise he turned out the way he did, the sort of pony who jumped off perfectly good airships and tried to miss the ground.
Cadence let out a small sigh as the Guards finally showed up and were completely useless in getting anything under control.
Auntie Celestia and Granny smith drew some into the food fight, some helped Fluttershy and the Ranger scare the animals more. A few others were brought into whatever the foals and Luna were doing, which was a mistake as whatever they were doing then exploded. Twice.
While Pinkie Pie had convinced one Guard to enter her karaoke contest, most were just milling around in confusion, shouting commands and orders that were largely ignored by every pony else.
Not for the first time she wondered where Shining Armor was. He was probably taking charge of the Guards here and trying to get them organized or something.
It was a pity, because she really wanted him here with her. She hadn't helped any pony find love tonight and the feelings she had been following all night were so skewed with what was going on she doubted she could find anything at all to help with now.
Her whole plan to help pony’s fall in love at the Gala was ruined, all she had done was cause anger and rage. That huge potential love that she had felt teetering on the brink was gone too, either run off, or masked behind the oddly flaring love of Chaos she felt from some where.
She was glad that the sprinkler system was making it rain indoors. Her first Grand Galloping Gala had been a disaster, at least with the water no one would see her cry.
“Cadence.”
Her ears perked up as she turned her head, looking back over her shoulder.
A panting Shining Armor stood behind her, his suit a mess and it looked like it had been clawed up by some of the animals. He also had a sloth clinging to his back that was trying to eat his mane, very slowly.
“Shining?” Cadence sighed as she turned to face him wiping her eyes with a foreleg. “Shouldn't you be trying to help them fix this?”
“If Princess Luna and Princess Celestia are involved, then it's still my day off.” Shining sighed with a roll of his eyes. “I've been looking for you all night after you ran off.”
“What?” Cadence blinked having been certain he had been the one to run off.
She watched Shining sink down onto his fore legs his horn glowing as he pulled out a small box.
“It may not be the most romantic setting I could find, but just pretend it's a spring rain shower or something.” Shining Armor sighed ignoring the sloth and the rain as he opened the box showing off a gold horn ring studded with a large pink diamond set in the center ringed by a number of smaller diamond shards.
Cadence's eyes widened, the feeling of love on the edge she had sensed earlier was practically blazing before her and she had missed it all night.
“Cadence, will you marry me?”
Everything seemed to pause in that moment. Shining couldn't quite meet her gaze as she stared down at him, the water falling from the sky seemed to slow as Cadence felt her own heart beating in her chest.
In the next moment, there was a sudden flap of wings and a blur of pink propelled itself forward with enough speed to leave an after image of water in the air where she and Shining had been. There was a loud thud of impact, and a confused sloth went sailing through the air only to quickly be caught by Fluttershy.
The yellow pegasus winced as she noted where the pair had wound up, across the room with a good bit of furniture rubble around them and with Cadence wrapped around Shining Armor, who had some how managed to keep hold of the ring.
“I think that is a yes.” Fluttershy offered as the sloth squeaked in agreement.
[ The Day after the Grand Galloping Gala, Ponyville]
Golden Oaks library was filled with laughter.
Frankly it annoyed Twilight and made it hard to focus on her reading.
Rahs, Rainbow Dash, and Spike were all cackling over the photos of the gala that Pinkie Pie was showing them. Rahs and Dash had both fallen over onto the floor clutching their sides from laughing so hard at the cake splattered nobles.
“........ and here's a picture of one of the noble mares who had been mean to Matilda early on seeing that she was the only one in the gala that hadn't been hit with cake. Matilda was wandering around a bit looking for her friend and I think she was in the kitchens when everything went crazy.” Pinkie offered showing another photo.
Rarity and Applejack sat at another table along with Twilight. The pair of them had been listening to the white unicorn mare rant for nearly as long as the other group had been laughing.
“.... and then he tore off a scrap of my dress to wipe his lapel. He didn't even ask, he just did it!” Rarity whined.
“Did yah ever git him back?” Applejack questioned.
“No, the arrogant coward managed to slip away from me before I could drown him in cake.”Rarity growled. “How that one managed to become a Prince is beyond me. He was nothing like any sort of royalty should be.”
Twilight took this moment to look up from her book.
“Princess Celestia got drunk and juggled the moon and sun sending every pony into a panic, and have you MET Princess Luna?” Twilight demanded. “That seems pretty par for the course for royalty. Besides you must have done something for him to crank it up to eleven like that. Even given you were on him like a barnacle most of the night.”
Rarity frowned though Applejack's ears perked up.
“What do yah mean 'crank it ta eleven'?” Applejack asked.
“Prince doesn't like the types of mare he usual attracts, so he acts like an arrogant snob to drive them away. Though he tends to follow a set of rules for trying to drive mares off. One of the main rules is he doesn't do anything to harm them or their property. If he tore your dress and held you up to intercept a cake, he was past what he was willing to put up with. Cadence makes sure he follows those rules as being the Princess of Love she doesn't like that he tends to break hearts with his way of driving mares away.” Twilight explained.
“Well she didn't try and stop him last night.” Rarity scoffed.
“Ya said Cadence talked to him alone for a bit. She might have been tha one who told him tah go fer it.” Applejack offered.
“But surely the goddess of Love wouldn't sabotage me? She should have seen how I was meant to be his true love....” Rarity bemoaned.
“You're not.” Twilight stated flatly. “His true love is a Pegasus.”
“What?” Rarity demanded getting completely derailed.
“He met a mare at one of his birthdays and fell for her, though she skipped out before he found out who she was. So he's been looking for her since. And given that he doesn't want to start a Cinderella hunt he's kept it under wraps save for a few ponies he hired to look. But with how he's expected to show up at fancy parties and such he's still got mares clinging to him like leeches. So he does his best to drive them away with over the top and very fake horrid personality.”
“What?” Rarity demanded again.
“Translation, he acts like a ponce tah drive off tha mares he sees a gold diggen harlots.” Applejack chuckled. “ And given yer description of how things went down, that's exactly what yah looked like to him yesterday. Stallions only got eyes fer one mare and all others are tah be run off.”
“How do you know all this!?” Rarity questioned.
“Prince and I are pen pals and I dated him once before he met the mare he was after. The four of us used to hang out back in Canterlot too. So I found out about the mare he's after, but he's mostly tight lipped about what he knows of her, all I know aside from her race is that he's got it bad.” Twilight smirked as Rarity stared at her. “He's usually a very nice guy.”
“But, but, but … why didn't you warn me?” Rarity whined.
“I plead ignorance of the whole deal. Please direct all inquiries to the one who gave you his ticket.” Twilight offered looking back into her book.
Rarity turned to look at Spike who was still giggling at the photos.
“Spike?”
“Yeah?” Spike chuckled looking over at Rarity.
“Did you happen to know about Prince Blue Blood's way of dealing with mares he has no interest in?” Rarity's tone was cold enough that Rahs and Pinkie Pie paused to look over at her.
“Yup.” Spike admitted.
The rest of the room got quiet as Rarity glared at the oblivious Spike.
“You knew!??” Rarity growled.
“Yeah. I mean, I didn't know you were gonna go after him. I didn't think your prince was Prince til I saw the pictures Pinkie took, but I knew he wasn't interested in any mares other than the one he's after.” Spike shrugged picking up another photo chuckling.
Rarity glared at the little dragon, while Applejack narrowed her eyes. not buying a word of Spike's story, but not wanting to call him out and be a accessory to a murder.
Any further conversation was cut off by a bright flash of light as a figure appeared in a large square of caution tape laid out on the floor. Everyone but Twilight and her brothers looked up at the flash, Twilight simply turned a page in her book.
“Good afternoon Princess Luna.” Twilight offered as Spike and Rahs waved. “You're up late.”
“Greetings Sparkles. We have double duty as our sister is still passed out after too much ale.” Luna muttered stepping away from the teleport square. “She is quite the light weight.”
“So what brings you here today?” Twilight questioned.
“We were told by a rather strapping handsome red stallion at Sweet Apple Acres that Applejack was present here.” Luna explained.
“Ah'm here, but ah gotta warn yah.. Ah wouldn't try and cozy up with Mac. Twi's got a claim and she ain't exactly playing fair.” Applejack frowned at the purple unicorn who ducked a bit more behind her book.
“I apologized to Rose Luck and her tail will grow back.” Twilight muttered.” Honestly it was her own fault for trying to ask him out in front of me.”
Luna slowly blinked looking at Rahs and Spike who nodded.
“Noted.” Luna swallowed recalling how Cadence had reacted to her flirting with Shining and decided to give up her planned attempts at wooing the stallion. “But we are not here for you. We have already spoken with Fireball and Mrs. Reignolds, but we wish to inform you that the girls will be allowed to stay the weekend if they wish after their class trip. Tia owes us a few days off for dealing with her court and duties, as well as playing with our moon without permission.”
Spike raised an eyebrow at that. “ Wait you mean Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetiebelle?”
“Indeed.” Luna nodded. Thou are welcome to come along as well Spike.”Luna offered.
“Hmm could be fun.” Spike pondered. “I wasn't really looking forward to going to all the touristy spots with the others on the field trip any way as I’ve already seen them all.”
“Applebloom said they was gonna stay at Rarity's next weekend.” Applejack frowned.
“She actually asked if they could stay at Sweetie's sisters house, which is an odd way to say Rarity.” Pinkie Pie chimed in. “ I was there remember, you asked me out there to see if I could help with her tummy ache.”
“Indeed, they will be staying with Sweetie's sister. Us.” Luna smiled.
“What?” Rarity demanded looking up at Luna who stared back impassively.
“Thou acts surprised that such a sweet filly would be adopted as such after thou abandoned her to her fate while thou acted the part of a trollop?”Luna raised an eyebrow before looking back to Applejack. “No matter, please inform young Applebloom of this Applejack, we must return to Canterlot, perhaps we should draw a phallus or three on our sisters face for her to enjoy when she finally wakes for all the additional labor she has hoisted upon us.”
There was another flash and Luna was gone.
Everyone in the library turned to look at Rarity who seemed completely flabbergasted as to what happened. Getting no response from her, they all turned to Pinkie Pie who smiled holding up a photo of Luna and the Cutie Mark Crusaders swinging by a rope over the gala.
“Rarity ditched Sweetiebelle and Princess Luna adopted her as a younger sister.” Pinkie Pie smiled.
They all stared a moment more looking back at the sputtering Rarity before Rahs finally spoke up.
“Woof.”Rahs grumbled.
“I'm pretty sure Sweetiebelle wouldn't want you to call her auntie either Rahs.” Pinkie Pie shrugged before telling the story of that part of the gala.
[2 days after the gala.]
Celestia woke with a jerking start and a wince as sunlight struck her face. Her head was still pounding and she wanted nothing better to do than to remain in bed. Though the light was very insistent.
Celestia's response to that was to lower the sun so it got dark again.
A moment or two later the sun shot back up and seemed to be even brighter.
The Princess of the Sun, cursed her younger sister as she slowly cracked open one eye and noted some psycho had pulled open the curtains wide open.
A brief headache inducing spell, and they were closed again, with the room delightfully dark. Celestia was then faced with a new problem.
Drinking her body weight in booze left her really needing to go to the bathroom.
Weighing the options on whether or not she could explain away peeing the bed to the maids, the white alicorn simply groaned and slipped out of the comfortable place. If Luna had still been on the moon she might have done it and simply outlived the maids' gossip. With Luna around she'd never hear the end of it if she wet the bed, so she slipped into her bedroom lamenting the loss of her warm comfy place.
As she was washing her hooves in the sink Celestia's brain began to finally start waking up to notice things. The first was that she really shouldn't drink her weight in alcohol, particularly not as a chaser for a flask of Zap Apple home made whiskey from Granny Smith.
Second was that she had a number of scraps of paper speared on her horn. Pulling them off she noted that several of them were 'You owe mes' from Luna for being stuck dealing with the sun and her Day Court.
The rest were from her assistant Flower Text, with various things of note that needed to be brought to her attention. Mostly complaints and Gala bills, though there was a application to hire a few of the caterers on full time and a reminder that Friday would have a school trip from Ponyville and she was expected to make an appearance, sober, clean, and not hung over, nor wearing the gorilla mask like last time.
Tossing the lot of the papers aside Celestia stomped back over to her bed planning to sleep a few more days when she took note of an odd shaped lump on the other side of her bed.
Celestia blinked and frowned. The lump wasn't moving so she probably stole the statue of Starswirl from in front of the library again.
Yanking the blanket away her eyes snapped open wide and she staggered back with a shriek.
Laying in the bed was the head of a horse.
Celestia was on the verge of panicking when she took note of two things. The first was that the room now smelled like ketchup. The second was that the horse head looked very familiar, and that it had two mismatched eyes and two very different horns on it with a snaggle tooth fang in it's maw with a short cropped mane that was almost zebra like.
“What....?” Celestia began as the horse head vanished.
“Oh dear, panic and confusion? And here I thought you liked being woken up with surprises. Though I suppose the movie reference would be a little confusing for you.” A voice chuckled.
Celestia narrowed her eyes as she whipped around not seeing any one.
“Show yourself!”
“Ah ah ah, it's not season two just yet. But I am more than eager to make my grand reveal after seeing all that chaos that three little tickets caused. I truly want to meet the fine individuals with that much commitment to the cause.”
There was a brief silence before a note appeared in the air above, her sticking onto her horn before a mocking laughter filled the room briefly before fading off into nothing. Yanking the note off her horn to read, Celestia's eyes widened.
'See you soon Celly.
~Hugs and Kisses, the chocolate kind,
Dissy~
“Oh shit......” Celestia winced.
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Ooh! Discord a bit early, kinda makes sense, why WOULD the Gala not wake him up but three filly's fighting in front of his statue would? Also, first comment I've made on this story, a true work of art with wonderful alterations, updates and more! Can't wait to see the wonderful chaos to come!
I find it amusing Rarity hasn't connected the dots about how her ditching Sweetie Belle led to both Blueblood's abhorrent behavior being cranked up to 11 on Cadance's order and Luna's adoption of Sweetie Belle as a younger sister. I'm sure Twilight, Spike, Rahs, and the rest of her friends figured it out, but I wonder which of them is going to tell Rarity.
On a follow up note: I wonder what Angel Bunny has been up to for the last couple of days...
Looking forward to discords arc.
And....here....we....go.
I'm crying right now from laughter.
That guy deserves a raise
You missed what was right before your eyes all night... or well, right next to you at the start of it anyway
I agree with that sloth
Have you meet Equestria's royalty... they're all insane in some way, frankly Blueblood is one of the more normal ones in this story
SEE, even Twilight agrees with me
Ditzy/Derpy/Muffins ?
A wise choice
A perfectly reasonable response
A perfectly reasonable counter response
Well, Spike should be with the school group that is scheduled to drop by the garden, Celestia will probably ask Twilight to come to Canterlot to use the EoH and Rahs is no doubt going to come along, sooooo... have fun
and we learn during the next few chapters that discord is twilight great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather, and use to date the princess
I find the idea of other ponies spearing small pieces of paper with notes on them on Celestia's horn for her to read later HIGHLY amusing.
Also, woot, can't wait.
Heh, I wonder if Discord'll give the CMC matching eight-pointed star cutie marks.
I would put in the clip of the Joker laughing but it doesn't nearly have the crazed vibe that is needed
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think she jsut did. At the end of this chapter.
Also love the story and look forward to Discord Arc.
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certainly fits their collective talent. It'd have to look like a tree-sap drawing, though.
Cue the music!
Why would Celestia wake up with a hangover, and then GIVE herself a headache?
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Because closing the curtains without getting out of bed is worth any pain
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....Huh. I didn't read it like that at first, so I thought she cast a headache inducing/reducing spell. If it was as you say, and the spell merely made it worse, I'd edit it to be
Shit like this is why I loathe English.
Edit:actually, I still don't understand.
Most depictions of hangovers involve a massive headache. Now, my friends have accused me of having a hangover, but I've never had a headache after drinking(though there was one time I drank half a bottle of vodka and the next day feared that I'd have to go to the ER since I couldn't hold down food/water).
So why is this spell GIVING Celestia a headache and not REDUCING or EXACERBATING it???
'See you soon Celly.
~Hugs and Kisses, the chocolate kind,
Dissy~
“Oh shit......” Celestia winced.
I think a more apt reaction from someone who is hungover and dealing with more shit than the guy who walks behind horse drawn carriages would be...
Skip to 1:05
Yeah, Spike was a bigger asshole than Rarity, honestly. "Let's let the fashionista make an ass out of herself in front of the elite, ruin her romantic dreams and then make her feel like an idiot for not telling her sooner". That could potentially damage her fashion career for good, were it not for the chaos in the gala. "So yeah I made your professional life harder because you're not a perfect being capable of ignoring traumas" is NOT something a decent person does. Yeah, that didn't happen, but it was more by luck than anything else.
But yeah she deserved some retribution from ditching Sweetie. Shouldn't have taken her in the first place if she planned to pursue Blue Balls.
Also holy shit Sparkle and Bluey dated? I wonder if they got to... wait, do ponies have three bases too?
Well I didn't expect it to wake him up but I truly should have. In all honesty this probably should have been what released him anyway in canon or at the very least it's explained away as the main thing that weakened the seal and the crusader's fight was the cherry on top that broke it. Still he'll probably give Spike, Twilight and Rahs a gift basket for the sheer level of chaos they caused by whom they gave the tickets to.
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Yeah, they dated. Once. It was close enough to the start of the fic where you see it, and though it didn't make them a relationship, they're still good friends.
Wow, things escalated so much and so quick that I barely have time to comprehend all of them. First, the wedding is coming soon, and then Rarity is having sisterhood crisis way faster than the canon - and with tougher opponent this time. Not to mention the chaos in this party was big enough to let Discord out of his prison.
Is this who I think she is? Can't wait for Rarity's reaction when she find out.
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And in a plot twist the pegasus is Rainbow Dash instead of Derpy.
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Derpy is a pretty common choice, I've seen a couple fics with that pairing, so she is my first guess. Rainbow, I think I've seen a least one or two with that pairing, so she is second. Fluttershy was there at the Gala so she is out. Same with any wonderbolt ponies. The only other mare I can think of as maybe being his crush is Cloud Kicker. No real reasoning, I just tend to like fics where Cloud Kicker is present, because she tends to be hilarious.
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Wouldn't call it a plot twist, but then I did predict it would be Dash back in Best night ever, part 4. Made quite a good argument for it too if I say so my self, but it feels like everyone ignored it for being a small wall of text. And consedering the small detail added in Bluebloods part in part 5 I'm 100% sure it is
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Called it.
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Really sister hooves social is the 4th or 5th episode in season two and since Beast night ever flows pretty much right into return of harmony with only a week elapsed its not that far. And the wedding still wont happen until the end of season 2
I wonder how you’ll deal wth climate and flam
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A pegasus that would match up against a thrill seeker like Blueblood? I'd say that the mare Blueblood is looking for is Cloud Kicker.
Luna: "Now I am the big sister! Mwa-ha-ha!!!"
Celestia:
In all seriousness, Luna is likely find out that being a good big sister isn't easy, and gain an understand of how Celestia treated her pre-NMM self.
Possible silliness if Luna is the only one who can stomach Sweetie Belle's bad cooking. Medieval society often suffered from food shortages and famine, so Luna might have a severe aversion to letting any food go to waste. My grandmother had a similar mentality due to living through the Great Depression.
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Got fought up on other stuff and couldn't read until now ...I wonder if dischords chaos magic tastes good like chocolate covered tomatoes or spicy peanut brittle (I'm willing to bet that's what my magic would taste likeXD)
Clicked to start reading again and realized 120 chapters to this story so far and it is GLORIOUS!
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chocolate-coated crunchy frogs, a Flying Circus delicacy. particularly the ones containing miniature reverse beartraps.
I enjoyed The Godfather reference at the end
Oh S
Indeed.
Hmmm...Discord here seems to have a more personal iron in the fire than in canon. How he's handled is gonna be interesting, since unlike canon this Discord does seem to have had and valued relationships once...and his displeasure with Celly is more personal. Bad break-up and all that.
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Because she is a lightweight of the feathery kind. Granted, two beers make me sleepy, and I haven't ever drank enough to be hungover, but vodka made my moms drinking buddy stop. She quit after vodka. Then to, vodka is Russian, and in Soviet Russia, vodka drinks you.
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Most likely the third one.
Another overall fun episode, if feeling a bit.... odd to me. The individual sub-plots were all really damn fun, and it had a lot of great stuff, but somehow... when it all came together it felt... odd is the only way I can describe it. I look between this and the actual episode and just, again hard to explain the feeling. Each part works and is really damn funny, but somehow the big final, everything goes to Tartarus disaster where it all comes together doesn't feel as big. Yeah not sure what I'm trying to say. Was still my laughing my ass off at a lot of this, and the payoffs were damn good overall for the set ups. Might be residual iffyness over how things changed.
As to the sub-plots. Pinikies was insane, as Pinkie deserves, the Granny/Celestia one is by far my favorite, The CMC try to find a new Sweetie sister was the one the felt the oddest, but think that's more about how it felt like also trying to do Sisterhooves Social at the same time as Best Night Ever. Fluttershy's felt the most like it could have used more screen time to build up it's part in everything going to manure. And I freaking loved the random cutaways to the siblings jinxing everything from well outside the blast radius.
Poor Twilight, outsmarted by your own attempts at loophole abuse.
I refuse to believe that any version of Equestria is such a dark and hopeless place wherein something as atrocious as... that book series... can exist.
That set up for the song.... well played, very well played.
Heart Song- This is such an odd (for me) term. It's apparently fairly common in use in pony fics, yet somehow I've managed to miss most of them, this being only the third I've seen it in. The first was a Mass Effect crossover, and the second one of Admiral Biscuits fics where he called out using it becuase it was so common. And yet, it fits so perfectly I can also see this not being a case of one fic using it and it picking up, but something multiple people came up with on their own for how perfect it fits things.
As to this being the result of a spell, I have mixed feeling on that. It is a fun idea, and very Celestia, but I can't say I like these being forced rather then natural.
And Celestia is loving having a pony in line that treats her just like another pony. I really love the Granny/Tia parts. Even if I hate you for that Simpson's bit, and love you for going all in on it and making it even more freaking epic. Weaponized Grannyness FTW!
Gotta love how the Power of Bacon is eternal, none can resist its allure. (Also Bacon Hair, all hail the great Shimmy Shims!)
Okay, those snacks.... Cheddar wrapped fries sound freaking amazing, but sweet potato fries are an unholy abomination,why would you do this to me story! I want, but don't want equally! Also, how do you have 'sweet potato hay fries? Are they made out of hay, or yams?
See, Ponyville is breeding better survival instincts. Spike can detect CMC shenanigans at great distances now.
And Twilight invoking Marephy on the Gala... so so freaking nice.
"Haw-waiian"? Really? When Haywaiian was right there? Also, oh hi Rocko!
And perfect response, no wanting the poor wounded, traumatized predators in the preserve getting hurt by messing with a bun-bun. Plus anything that reminds me of lines from Sir Pterry is golden.
Colt band ponies.... story, I hatelove you. Also, smart aim on the one dude, go for the moms.
Why am I not the least bit surprise Cadance has guards who double as exotic dancers? The question is, did she recruit them from their day jobs, or did they take up the day jobs after joining?
And I love Silver Platter, plus I can only see Angel's reaction as this.
Yeah, sorry Cadance, but Luna wins that 'best entrance' award.
And then, Granny's bit gets even more freaking amazing with the Cant talk.... I so freaking loved this part.
And I want that story of the last time Tia and Granny partied.
Luna, I think we've seen enough by now to know that Cadance might be willing to share if you ask right.
Still not buying Cadance as pinker then Pinkie.
And Twilight and family enact "Stable Protocol" Stock the Tree with essentials, including some hunkyness for Twilight, and seal it up till the fallout is over.
Good priorities. "Are the stuffy idiots the fucked with the Death-Bunny alive? Yes? Meh their own fault then."
Also, Sweetie Belle is two words.....
And some hints at the past, Him, hmmmm......
And now the Rarity thing. Not a bit fan of this sub-plot. One, I'll admit I much prefer a snobby, unsympathetic asshole Blueblood. But 2, how bad it handles Rarity. For one, she is not a 'Gold Digger' at all, and sing the "This is what the character think from what they've seen" argument is valid, but you also have to keep in mind the overall story as a whole and how it portrays things. It can be hard at times to tell what is meant as just in character thoughts, and what is the story as a whole saying these things, especially when nothing in the narrative ever counters what they are saying and everything acts as though Rarity was some horrible monster for this.
Now yeah, not saying she's in the right, but her motivations are actually quite different from being a 'gold digger' or anything malicious. She's not after Blueblood for his title, or wealth, or any type of personal power, but rather Rarity is an utter romantic. She really doesn't care about Blueblood himself, she's in love with the idea of a fairy tale romance with a dashing Prince. Which again, isn't right, but is something wholly different in both scope, and proportional response then she gets. Rarity gets too attached to her ideal vision of how things should go, and has trouble altering that to account for such silly things as 'reality' at times. But it's not wholly a bad thing, as having a vision and making it be reality is a major part of what makes her such an amazing artist, she just needs to learn when to not be like that.
Adding to this, and a lot of the fix fic stuff for the first season, is having to adjust and realize some meta issues going on that look pretty clear when you see the season as a whole, and some of the early things the staff said. It's pretty clear that for the first season at least, there was uncertainty among the staff at just how old the Mane 6 really were, leading to a lot of plots where their actions seem kind of stupid if you judge them as the young adults it was finally settled on they are, but do fit a lot better if they were written assuming younger characters, Rarity is a big one for this with her storybook romance ideas.
However, do not piss off Cadance........ this is going to go badly.
Pinkie..... that is beyond epic...and i have no idea what the duck and cat reference was.
And..... well, you went too far there Blueblood. Rarity might need a bit of a reality check, but ripping her dress? You just earned the severe beating she is going to levy on you.
Oh hi Lion!
And for once 'We didn't do it' is actually true. And this, major props here story, managing to have everything go to Tartarus, and not have the CMC at all behind it. They just joined in on the fun afterwards.
Also, Luna is best Princess!
And then, that last line from Granny.......... Oh I so damn love her in this story.
Hmmmm, odd to see a non-adrenaline junky Cadance. Maybe that's something that doesn't pop up till after the boredom of running the Crystal Empire kicks in.
And yay! Cadance gets a happy ending! Was starting to feel really bad for her.
Have I mentioned best Princess=Luna yet? If someone is stupid enough to drink themselves unconscious they earned the dick faces.
And wow..... "To bright, night time now."
Okay, odd thought but, why wash their hooves? Given how their anatomy is arranged, nothing they do would involve their forehooves, even more so for unicorns.
And a long, pointy horn is so useful for a note holder.
Not a fan of early Discord, but see how it plays out. I get it wa the chaos of the gala but, it was just as chaotic last time as well.
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Or the fourth, because DISCORD!! And why are there no discord emojis?
You know what would be sad. The pony Blue Blood like looking for was a changeling.
Back in one of the early chapters I said that I was surprised that discord did not break out because of all the lovely and wonderful chaos.
Yeah I now completely rescind my statement, our chaotic boi it's going to be up to no good.
And yes Celestia you do owe Luna a whole heck of a lot.
Earlier she was his wife.
Dere, now it’s safe for the audience.
Huh... Discord following the script is quite admirable!
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O shot?
Why not scheise? ( shit )
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I think with all the flack and bull I give Blueblood in a couple of my stories, if that were the case of Blueblood's one and only true love being a Changeling in disguise...
Could Blueblood learn to love a bug?
the angel bunny beach ball all the rofl
I wonder how Discord will use his free time until he is suppose to be making a apperance...
At least Celestia has time to prepare