Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Feeling Pinkie Kennel,
Epilogue
[ Canterlot, Sunday ]
The hustle and bustle of the city was little more than a dull thrum of movement and noise as countless ponies went about their business.
The restaurant at the end of the Universe Market was a quite out of the way place situated at the top of an old apartment complex that had been converted to a vertical mall by some mogul years ago. While the food was decent, the view and the relative seclusion of the little diner brought in more than enough business for the eatery to remain in place when many other shops cycled in an out of the market.
At the moment the clientele was rather sparse, a trio of business ponies having a late lunch and a couple of students who had already eaten but were hanging around talking still.
The only other pony present was a pink earth pony mare with long flowing lilac hair. She was sitting by the edge of the roof gazing out at the city.
Her ears perked up at the sound of hooves approaching her, she turned slightly looking up at a white unicorn with blue hair as he came up to the table.
“Hello beautiful. Is this seat taken?” the unicorn smirked.
“Mmm it is....” the mare smiled.
“Oh, any pony important?”
“My colt friend.”
“Ahh well pity that, is he as charming and dashing as me?”
“Oh no he's awful, but I love him anyway.”
“Owch. You do know how to hurt a guy Cady.”Shining armor chuckled.
“One of these days your going to tell me how you always know it's me.” Cadence sighed.
“What and spoil my fun? Never.” Shining Armor smiled taking a seat across from her noting she had already ordered drinks.”Know what you want to eat yet?”
“I've already ordered for us.” Cadence smiled.
“Really and how is it you know what I want to eat?”
“It's not hard. You always order the hay burger with mushrooms and cheddar cheese.” Cadence giggled.
“What can i say it's a great burger.” Shining smiled. “ So how was your yachting thing?”
“My what?” Cadence asked.
“Huh, Twi said it was called yachting, or boating.” Shining pondered. ”Or am I wandering into another code phrase with this shipping thing you mentioned?”
“Oh that. It went fine, I met a rather interesting mare and Luna only traumatized her a little.” Cadence giggled.
“Well, that explains why the Night Guard are still out in the middle of the day. They only tend to move when Princess Luna does.” Shining pondered.
“So how was your trip to Ponyville.” Cadence perked her ears up.” Better still, how are those three doing down there?”
"Not bad, it seems Spike started school at his own suggestion for some reason. Rahs is as annoying as ever, and Twi doesn't seem as on the verge of a meltdown all the time like she was here.” Shining took a sip of his drink. “ You lost the bet as only one of her new friends hit on me and she wound up being locked in a trunk.”
“A trunk?”
“She got on Twi's nerves hitting on me, evidently she did the same thing to Rahs during that whole Poison Joke thing. I think she was till locked in the trunk when I left.”
“Better that than if I got a hold of her.” Cadence harrumphed.
“I don't think Rainbow Dash means anything by it, it's not like you have anything to worry about any way." Shining Smiled." Let's see, Spike spent a few hours showing me what he has set up for his O&O game. I met Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy. Nice mares, I can see why Twilight likes them, though Spike and Rahs both threatened me with old blackmail material to not tell Rarity anything about Prince Blueblood.”
“Really? That's odd, they must have something planned.”
“Might almost be worth checking out the gala this year just to see. I think Rarity is going to be there.” Shining stated. “ Along with Pinkie Pie and a few others from Ponyville.”
“I probably have to go anyway this year. Luna wants to attend to see what all the fuss is about.” Cadence smiled.
“Okay now I really am curious.”
" I'll be sure to add you as my plus one if you want."
" Let's see if Guard Captain Moskau will let me have a weekend pass again first."
“So how is Pinkie Pie? I've heard stories.”
“Well she threw me a party, drove Twi insane and inadvertently caused me to fight a Hydra and made Rahs explode.” Shining Armor sighed.
“What?”
“Yeah I’m still working on that. Seems she has this twitching thing....... I don't know, that she can sense danger at times is the most I got out of it. It went off and Rahs, Twi, Pinkie ,and I went to Froggy Bottom bog to check it out as Fluttershy was there turning loose frogs.”
“Frogs?”
“She's the animal one.”
“Oh.”
“Long story short Hydra showed up I drove it off and Twilight got mad at me due to my duty assignment.”
“Just like your mom did.”
“Yep, and of course I put my hoof in my mouth and told her she sounded like mom. She then turned pure white her mane caught fire and then Rahs exploded and had to dive into the bog to put out his new coat.”
“Lovely an emotional surge. She hasn't had one of those in years. Though this one affected Rahs too, hmmm.” Cadence considered. “Still it's kinda sad she still is mad at your mom.”
“Hey I’m not thrilled with my dad.”
“ And it's still sad, your mom only made one mistake with that party....”
“One big one and then seven more years of trying to fix it and making the rift worse.” Shining sighed. “ Still better than my dad who washed his hooves of everything and didn't even try.”
“Shining.....”
“Please don't bring this up again, you know we both still love them, but neither of us really want to deal with them more than we have to. “
“You know why I’m not comfortable with it.”
“Yeah I know.”
“So then subject change did you meet the Pony Twilight's crushing on?” Cadence grinned.
“Did I what the what now?”
“Spike didn't tell you? Twilight's got a crush on a stallion in Ponyville.”Cadence explained watching her colt friends expression change to wide eyed horror.
“I need to go back, i completely forgot about him....” Shining muttered.
“You have to work in the morning.”
“I'll be quick.....”
“I won't be your alibi...”
“Dang it.”
[Somewhere else]
“And that is everything?”
“Yes, he's very strong, though so are his siblings. There is also a connection between all of them that I have not figured out yet. It goes beyond basic family ties given it seems to cross species.” the shadowy figure spoke into a crystal mirror.
“Hmm. I'm sending Thorax, Bees, and Kevin to you for a debriefing. I've got a team watching over the main target. You stay in Ponyville with the ones i'm sending and watch the others. Perhaps we can make use of this somehow.”
“If you wish mother, I will see if I can get closer to them.”
“You do that Saturnia. Perhaps if all goes as it should I will let you have them to start your own hive.”
The shadowy creature in the darkness smiled at the mirror as it cut off. The conversation was clearly over even without another word. There was still much to do, but there was plenty of time.
“Rahs Sparkle.....what a interesting thing you are......”
I can already hear the gears turning in the minds of all the shippers out there. Me personally though, I prefer the Rahs x Trixie pairing.
Now he has every reason to request a duty assignment in Ponyville. And yes! Thorax!!!
Even the Changlings are interested in Rahs
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They're starting to add up now, aren't they? All he needs now is to be cursed to swap between male/female forms and the hilarity can really ensue as even stallions start chasing him.
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I always had the nagging since the beginning that the author doesn't like trixexRahs, when Rahs mentioned the predetor instinct, and how kind of attracted he felt about Gilda, the author was silently telling us that Rhas will date a predator, a changeling may be one, or ember, but not trixie.
Hmm. Maybe this Cadance is naturally a changling, and gets kidnapped for changling politics as well as chrysalis's thing. I've read some stories like that that were pretty good.
Rahs gets all the ladies.
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All the single ladies! All the single ladies!
Editing's a bit rough on this chapter. Third personal pronoun I is lowercase, and a few places need a bit more punctuation to make sense.
Bold emphasis mine. Shouldn't use super-ellipses like that. Stick with three. Try:
Also, commas. "Rahs, Twi, Pinkie, and I" and "Froggy Bottom Bog" is the name of the bog, not "Froggy Bottom"
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Rahs ½ — I like it!
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8858031 It's not that i don't like the Raxie [ Heck you got me doing it] Ship, it's just that it's one that wasn't in the original plan. They were only supposed to just know each other at first and it sorta blew up. Then the Granny Luna thing came to mind and now it's gone from one idea in mind to several. And right now i'm not even sure which is going to be the end result. That plot thread got away from me.
Also keeping with the Changeling bug theme, Saturnia is a type of moth.
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I am not doing Rahsma 1/2........ i always liked Ryoga better any way.
Why Trixie suddenly feel a great distrubance in Trixie's love force?
Changeling or not, this will end in a disaster.
So...how many body bags we talkin here?
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Now now. This is a Comedy fic.... so maybe three or four.
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I LOVE your profile pic! <3
Oh for the love of... you silly 'Lings! Rahs seems like a bigger "parasite" then you lot will ever be, he eats MAGIC... and if Friendship is literal magic. What is Love?! ( classic song that..)
Sorry, just had an idea of a Superpowered Rahs, curb stomping quite a lot of them before the story plot drags them all back to Queen Bug-Face, so she can gloat... I mean, all villains like to gloat right?
It'd be hilarious if Twi, Rahs and Spike had read the "Evil Overlord List" and began to point out where Chrysalis dun goofed...
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The plot drags them to Chrysalis, but not in the way she expected, so when she starts gloating they're just looking at her like "you do realize we just curb stomped your whole army, right?" .
Been looking forward t this one, seeing this Twi deal with trying to make sense of Pinkie. Quite fun, though not quite as hilarious and insane as I was hoping, still solid as usual, but get into notes for more.
The wha....... Celestia... did what... how.. that.... what..... Neither Princess ever tried to hide what Luna did or what was going on so... where is this coming from? More then anything, the 'she was just on vacation' thing reminds me of Friendship is Witchcraft... that's not a good thing. Just, why? How? That makes no sense.
Hey, Shining isn't whipped, he's smart. He's getting to bone a literal Love Goddess, you do not do anything to put that at risk, and kind of hard for other mares to really be tempting at that point.
The Pinkie Pic in the dictionary..... I can fully buy that has happened. Headcanon accepted!
And of course the CMC's destruction of all things is the root cause behind things going bad.
I love the exchange between Pinkie and Rahs about Shining just, shows how serious she is about Parties, while still being utterly random and fun about it.
1. Damn it story, I wanted to have to google something, and go and give the answer anyway. 2. Hmmmmmm, well.... I guess I could see it in a stereotypical nerd way, maybe. That said, she's helping him get over it..... I can only imagine how she's doing that.
Yeah, avoiding Ponyville is a good reason not to come buy. That place is worse then Derry and Arkham (The Lovecraft one, not the Batman one) combined.
I would love to see Shining trying to pull the 'Protective, intimidating big bro" act on Big Mac. Give him about two minutes till he gives up, and those two and Spike just end up in a game session.
I...I freaking love Rahs and Shiny being a peanut gallery to Twi dealing with Pinkie, needed more of this.
"Soap box" still one of the best visual gags ever. Nice job keeping it.
So, did those numbers work out? If so.... well we know how Pinkie is funding her parties.
But, but Shiny, Mad Scientist Twilight is best unhinged Twilight! Why would you want to hide from it? Assuming Rahs would even let you of course. Which he won't, because he's awesome.
Ham-Burg? Really? When Germaneic is right there?
Ehhh still quite a bit different between the Wild Magic and Pinkie Pie being Pinkie.
C&D effect..... really? One, nice pun, two, kind of.... feels like a cop out to invent this just to make Twi stop trying to figure out Pinkie. Interesting idea but, ehhh implementation feels contrived.
Like with comparing it to Twi pulling in Rahs, that was at least partially explained how and why she was able to do that. Now why that effect itself happened, yeah some things you don't know, that does not mean there is not a logical reasoning behind it, just that you you don't understand enough of the facts to see it. Even 'Magic' as shown in the show is not seen that way. There is an underlying logic and framework of rules to it. The inverted Clake's Third Law: Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science.
The issue with the Pink One, is she breaks SO many of those rules, goes against everything anypony has ever seen as possible. With no way of working out how, she is a singular anomaly that even compared to everything else in this world, defies all logic and reason. But, clearly still has some underlying order to herself, the issue is finding and understanding it.
Can confirm, being in the military will get you in the habit of eating as fast as possible, both due to time constraints on how long you have to eat, and just to taste as little of it as possible.
Excited cute happy Twilight is adorable!
Skittish pony with green eyes..... Story..... are you doing what I think you are doing?
Well, no, wolves have incredible stamina and ability to keep going for a looong time. It's one of the main reasons they were domesticated so early in human history, they were one of the only animals able to keep up with human hunters when running a prey to death. So yeah, it's just Rahs enjoying a few too many sweets.
Also, Drama Wolf is Dramatic, and hilarious.
Also Bubbly the Vampony Slayer? Really? I am at once grinning like mad and facepalming at that.
Never skip leg day, but true not a big help for this, need more cardio for that.
Love his reaction to the Hydra. "Oh, a Hydra, meh." And then..... once hell of an epic battle, just, damn.
And YES kept Twilight evolving into Rapidash! Though for a wholly different reason that... ehhhh do not think works as well as the original. Though Rahs doing it too was freaking awesome. But the event... First off, I'll flat out say this one one ep that really could stand to have some rewrites and needed a bit of alteration of things to work as well as it could. Other eps, sure they might have issues if you look at them a certain way, but they work for the overall tone and meaning they are going for. This... good idea, the execution really flubbed it near the end. Bad enough even the writer admits it was a really muddied message not delivered well. So yeah, all for the kinks that turned a "Trust your friends, even if you don't fully understand their reasoning" Aesop, into something that comes off more as "Just believe things without question, having faith is more important then scientific facts." to some being ironed out.
This, really didn't, it aborted the whole Pinkie Pie arc part way through tossing in the C&D field idea to explain it away in a means Twilight would just give up and accept, then kept going with the rest of the plot. Which sure, the fight was awesome, but it makes another part really out of place. the "Doozy" pinkie was sensing. It was never Twi bursting into flames, it was Uber-rational Twilight finally accepting that she can accept something as true, even without understanding every single detail about how it works, while seeing the fact that it does. It was Twi's massive paradigm shift that was the doozy, not Twiladash.
This, while fun and well done for itself, feels... a bit lacking compared to the ep.
Cadance, I'm guessing the color scheme helps him figure out who you are.
Riiiiigh, Cadance, what would you have done for RD flirting with him? I prefer to think, just called her bluff and tried to push things even further till she bailed.
Threw a party, drove a pony insane, and caused a massive fight with a monster..... huh Pinkie really was having a slow day.
And, like last time, been over how I don't like the whole family drama between them and their parents, and think I've worked out more why. It feels so... unneeded. It's not feeling like a major plot point, like it's going anywhere, meant to lead to any development or to effect the story, it's just there... for it's own sake. And, yeah I don't like unneeded drama for the sake of drama.
So, hints say we are meant to think Chryssi but... seems a bit..... off for that. But, more original story coming in, YAY! As established, that is where this fic shines the best.
Also, Rahs gets ALLLLLLL the ladies. Go dude!
So yeah, another overall solid arc, few issues per usual with changes, but still really damn fun.
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Not sure if i explained before, the parent thing is there because i wanted a valid reason for the pair of them not to show up til what season 7? missing a wedding and the birth of their first grand foal and the elevation of their daughter to princess. You see them as back ground ponies at the wedding and that's it.
So this was my reason for explaining them away. I tend to over explain things that don't need it some times.
I am shocked nobody caught this reference. Remove the "Market" and you get the title to the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy sequel! And the wording was clearly intentional here!
Kevin!!! :)
Thorax and Kevin on the same mission? How delightful... Chrissy is gonna have fun with this mission
Huh... In this story Kevin and Thorax are different individuals... Neat!
Shining done goofed getting to know Big Red.
My favorit race makes a apperance! CHANGELING ♡
Priceless and worrying, Shining is badass so Big Mac might yet get in trouble
Kevin
Did Shining win the lotto?