Swarm of 456 years. Epilogue
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Swarm of 456 years.
Epilogue
“Pinkie Pie.......” Twilight said with a calmness she didn't feel. It had taken her several hours and a nap to calm down from her last episode, though she took some joy in knowing that it didn't take as long to stop freaking out as it used to. Spike said seven seconds less wasn't a reason to party just yet, but he was cranky and any improvement was good in her eyes. Rahs considered it an improvement too, though he was grouchy as well because of Applejack for some reason he wouldn't explain.
“Yeeees Twilight?” Pinkie Pie grinned.
“Explain this one more time. How did you know about the Parasprites?” Twilight demanded.
“We used to get them back on the farm. They ate everything and every pony went hungry until Grandma Pie showed us how to get rid of them.” Pinkie Pie explained.
“ Right music...”
“Polka.”
“What?”
“It has to be polka, they don't like other kinds of music.”Pinkie Pie added seriously.
Twilight stared at the pink mare a moment before looking up at Rahs who simply wrote that down.
“Okay.... and a swarm that size won't mess with the forests ecosystem?” Twilight questioned.
“Nah too many things eat them as snacks, that's why they reproduce so fast.” Pinkie pondered.
“Right and you were going to tell the rest of us about being able to get rid of them when?” Twilight rubbed her the bridge of her nose.
“I did try to tell you.”
“No you only said you needed to gather instruments, not what for.” Twilight corrected.
“Well duh, they were to take care of the parasprites, what else would I need them for?”
Pinkie Pie didn't seem bothered when Twilight lunged for her throat, her hooves reaching out to strangle the mare. Though that was mostly due to this being the third time since she had shown up to talk to Twilight. Rahs had caught her by the tail each time, and this time was no different. So like before Twilight's hooves were stopped just short of the pink pony's neck.
After a moment of frantic forelimb waving Twilight settled back down with a sigh and Rahs let go of her tail.
“Pinkie Pie... I must ask that the next time you know of a danger of ANY KIND of danger, that you be a little more forthcoming with the details of why you need things or to do something.” Twilight explained after catching her breath.
“Okie Doki Loki.” Pinkie Pie chimed. “ Will do, except when I can't.”
Twilight and Rahs both stared at Pinkie slowly blinking.
“Any way I need to go and help the Cakes with catching up with their baking, we've gotten super busy as most of the other shops in town are shut down.” Pinkie Pie hopped up and pronked over to the door with a wave .” See you guys later.”
Twilight and Rahs stared at the door as she shut it behind her.
“The ponies who live in this town are crazy!” Twilight screamed suddenly.
“Bork.” Rahs smirked looking down at his sister.
“I know I live here what are you.... Shut up.” Twilight growled as Rahs snickered.
[Elsewhere]
“ Are thou sure this is them?” Luna asked curiously, the figure beside her offering a small nod.
The Princess of the Night looked over the pair before her curiously. The room was lushly furnished with a delightfully antique apple wood desk, while waiting for the arrival of the pair before her she had amused herself for some time with the drinking bird on the corner of the desk.
“What are thine names?”
“Cosma and Blink, Princess.” The gray furred aside standing next to Luna offered. Luna fanned a wing at her assistant urging her to let these two answer her.
“Thou has six children?” Luna questioned the pair.
“That is correct Princess.” The female stated.
“No it is not.” The male interjected. “We have seven.”
“Cosma, we have been over this.” Blink winced looking between her husband and the Princess. “ We agreed to let it go...”
“You agreed. I agreed with nothing. No body, no trace, he's not dead.” Cosma snarled.
“Would thou care to explain.” Luna asked calmly not seeming bothered by the outburst.
“Our second child, the first son... vanished one day a long time ago.” Blink offered curtly as if not wanting to tell this story again.”No sign, no trace of him was ever found. We believed something got him, but there was no proof, he simply vanished from our home. It was unheard of. We are the apex here Princess, we are born ready to do our jobs, there are no threats.”
“And after that the incident started?” Luna asked.
“Yes.” Cosma spoke up again. “ Two of our charges vanished without a trace, the other charges however were not concerned, they didn't have nightmares of any sort of tragedy or what expected for such a loss. Our charges were still alive but we could not reach them.”
“Nothing like this has happened since.....” Blink trailed off as Luna lowered her ears. No one liked to think of that time.
“How old was he?” Luna questioned.
“Six. He was six when he vanished, the same age as his charge. That was considered a lucky sign, they were born only a few days apart.” Blink offered.
Luna closed her eyes, a number of pieces had been put into place by this meeting, a meeting that was long overdue. She exhaled lightly before asking her next question. “What was his name?”
“Shar.” Cosma stated.
“Shar of the line of Mánagarmr. Quite a linage thou has, it can be traced back to the first pack.” Luna offered noting the pairs slight burst of pride at their pedigree.” And a interesting choice of name, the realm is truly seen backwards as theorized.”
Cosma nodded, though both of the parents ears flattened as Luna chuckled.
“Princess?” Blink frowned wondering why the mare before them was smiling after they were forced to remember what they lost.
“We apologize, we forget we are privy to things you are not yet” Luna placated. “Foremost your charges are not lost, though a incident has happened which makes them untouchable even by us. There are three in total in that blind spot, all of them siblings, though one is adopted. We are unsure as to why, but we have theories.”
The pair before her perked up their ears, the long, navy blue furred lengths topped with small glowing points of light that resembled the moon.
Luna smiled at the Moon Dogs before her in the dream scape.
“Secondly, the name thine son goes by now, is Rahs...”
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Neat.
Rahs' parents! Oh sheet, this is gonna get interesting. And that's a curious factoid about his name being reversed. Does that mean his parents will go by Knilb and Amsoc?
godsdammit Pinkie. Rahs, just let your sister throttle her for a few minutes. She'll be fine of she only goes unconscious.
Cool .
The two charges that disappeared: Twilight and Spike and Twilight was to be Shar's pony to look after. Which does KINDA explain how Rahs appeared, she pulled on the connection.
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close Twi and Shiney
Glad to see Rahs' parents appearance at last. Maybe they should visit him on Hearth's Warming Day. I'm sure Fluttershy would love to meet the Moon Dog family.
Remember, Twilight. If this is the state everypony in this town is, then you are the only crazy one.
I would just like to quote Alice and Hatter from TB's Alice in Wonderland, "Am I going mad?" "Oh yes, positively bonkers, but let me tell you something; all the best people are."
Or in this case all the best pony's are.
We learned where his name comes from. Rahs is Shar backwards.
THE PLOT THICKENS!
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Its from something i read a long time ago about how words in dreams were seen backwards. I think it had something to do with the oddity of prophecies
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I was about to say how that would include Rahs in a double-edged sword there till it occurred to me that it doesn't include Rahs.
Shar
Rahs
... Son of a-
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Well.....he is....
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I admit that I didn't see that when I read it.
When I first read this it made me think of Shar from the Forgotten Realms D&D campaign setting. Intentional?
8737477 Yep. Honestly surprised any one got the last unicorn reference. Mentoks mind taking is from Harvey Birdman Attorney at law
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Close Shar was an old D&D char i had for the Warcraft setting. Rahs was the name of another char i played as well. I even did a story on that on a forum called Rahs' Journal, chronicling the game.
8733246 Are you thinking about the old Schwarzenegger film End of Days? Only place I can recall seeing it actually used, but it does seem to be a common idea.
Okay, this episode.... I freaking loved it. Great humor, god recap of events, with the changes being natural to the set up and all making sense with what's gone before and changed due to Rahs, and ending it up some great worldbuilding that answers so many questions.
So notes time.
Well, mostly, okay only one bit that I dind't love, and take a wild guess what it was, yup, Spike seemingly trying to keep up the whole forced drama around Celestia, especially when Twilight's acting so much better and way more likeable about it now and just, forgotten all about that.
That said... Celestia eating a cake from the inside out..... I can fully believe this is a thing that has happened, and I love it!
Okay, back in the karaoke bit, one thought I forgot to comment on, was how much the story now needed all four of the siblings up on that stage singing Ponehemian Rhapsody, and then you give us this... story, I may have some issues with your attempts at added interpersonal drama, but I'm still loving you.
Just, this is the best Twi in the fic since Filly Twilight, so, dorky, yet sincere, and neurotic, and amazing and just, so Twilight, but still with her own little twists. I can SO see this Twilight going full on Mad Scientist far easier then Canon!Twi. Because yeah, her first thoughts on seeing that things was totally "I must do SCIENCE to it!"
To be fair Twi, they do both have a connection to you, or at least a path for connection to you, so, maybe the sarcasticness rubs off Or, is just a product of growing up dealing with you.
Silly Rahs... why do I have this picture in my head of him sitting down to a movie, with a popcorn bucket full of mini Parasprites to snack on after this?
I am 100% behind Spikes idea for the guide's name.
Hmmm, her thoughts on the burn out. I get what she's saying, it does all make sense, but really, it could be anything along those lines. Not a lesser mana pool, but a larger one still, or even the reverse, normal generation, huge storage, or even both. It all comes down to how fast Rahs drained your power. Burn out seems, unlikely just from reserve being depleted, but feels more like over taxing your ability to generate it as well, so, I'd say it does feel like it was a case of Rahs simply pulling it down faster then you could produce it period.
I freaking LOVE Angel here. Smart bunny, knows how to utilize DR bypassing weapons.
Yeah, you can't yell at Fluttershy, it's just.. just wrong...
Hmmm, I like the expansion on their reaction to Pinkie, and AJ's logic. By now, they know Pinkie can't be understood, so, just don't bother arguing with her, let her do her think, and see what happens.
Well, "Let Twilight solve it" really does fix most issues.. a good 9/10 at least. Now that tenth one, that's the tricky spot.
"Suns going down, better drink my pee." "I got a splinter in my thumb, better pee on it, then drink my own pee." "I'm in the middle fo a raging forest fire, better drink my pee." Yeah... I'm with Twi on not quite counting his advise.
And, I do love Twi here, differnt, but still Twilight. Mad Scinetist, with going full on Evil about it. Her logic is sound, if a bit cold for somepony like Fluttershy when it comes to seeing them as test subjects, but not without being clear she holding to rather good moral and ethical guidlines about it. While still just being full on Mad Scientist and having fun. Also I'm sure Pinkie could find you a watermelon. Cuase yeah, I'd want to see that.
But yeah, I bucking loved these scenes, and the whole exploration of Parasprite biology worked really well. And it gave a good reason for why Twi wasn't involved and changed the flow of events, being more into dissection and willing to experiment thanks to having gotten over any squeamishness dealing with Rahs.
Nom Nom Nom, Moon Dog makes good biological sample disposal.
Gotta add the caveat of using Fluttershy doens't count as pleading for it's own life.
Twi needs to work in Eureka, that place has disaster plans for everything. Including invasion by super intelligent ferrets. Any city bureaucracy that has a standard form to fill out in the case of resurrection, is ready for anything. Twi would fit in well. Also, them having these level of plans, and counter plans... ALL THE YES!
Do like the Danger Scale thing, but wouldn't having the two use the same numbering be, well confusing?
Almathea's Plight.... I see what you did there Story.
Okay, point of debate, just, passing off the whole, make them not eat food, as it seemingly being obvious what that would do.. no.. just no. It is not a clear, obvious path between "Don't identify these thing as food' to 'Now identify all that was not food as food.' without the benefit of hindsight. Not based just on what Twilight said.
Thank you for keeping the Blazing Saddle reference, and making Twi just so adorkable about it as she as.
Yeah, calm down at it being fixed, freaking out over Pinkie seems right.
I.. it... just... how...why... i.... just... Scarecrow Rahs......
I'm sure Pinkie is used to ponies trying to throttle her, it likely just makes a calming squeaking sounds when you do.
Yeah, Twi fits right in in Ponyville.
Luna playing with Mister Bobbers... all the yes!
And then the info barrage, so, yeah, this was awesome, well set up, and, just works so damn well, while quickly and simply setting up a lot of world building. So the Moon Dogs are the ones that guard dreams, I'm guessing they handle most things, and call Luna in for major issues, like a pony having a reoccurring nightmare that indicate some major problem IRL. Or she just drops in on random dreams, or monitors a few close to her, like the CMC. They are assigned a small number of charges they take care of, which makes sense, lets them become familiar with their quirks and needs. Rahs was bonded to Twilight and Shiny. Which explains the whole, channel dug my Luna's magic. It wasn't her directly, but an effect of older magic she'd done on Moon Dogs in general that Twilight managed to pull on to call Rahs out. And a bit of the blowback added a bond to Spike through that.
Also interesting note that this implies even Luna can't access Twilight's dreams, or Spike and Shiny's and yea that flipped name thing, very neat. So great answers to the questions.
Yeah overall, aside from the bits it's standard I don't like, which were only like, two small bits, loved this.
Aaaaaaaaaawwwwwww sheeeeeeeeeiiiiiit!!!! Luna found his parents!!!!
This is wat i imagined rahs looked like in this scenario
Some plot is about to get twisted into a brezel...
Looking forward to more!
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Can't open the link but i am asumng it is Muttley.
Familie Reunion are always nice things. Unless they are not...
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Yup
Oh you MOTHER-
*inane German ranting*
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Explain
Please
Rahs lives!
[I think Simba lives is a fitting reference
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Not sure why he mentioned German, considering the source is Norse Mythology, but Managarmr is the dog that eats the Moon. Translated it means "Moon-Hound" or Moon-Dog".
It's true