Schadenfreude looked up from his desk, glancing at his boss. "So... Bluey, I though you told me that you weren't going to be giving me any more "off the books" paperwork to deal with."
Blueblood groaned, massaging his temple. "I wouldn't, but something rather drastic has come up. It turns out my cousins have been keeping an eye on a girl whose origins aren't recorded anywhere, and she's found her way through some trouble. They have exhaustive documentation concerning her middles school and high school careers, but she doesn't have any elementary school data, or any personal information."
His subordinate rolled his eyes. "First, I don't know if I can fabricate a backstory for this girl without more details. And I know you won't tell me anything, becuse-"
"She's a former magical prodigy from another world, whose face was all over those videos I had Chrissy cover up last year." As Schadenfreude stared at him, he shrugged. "You're right- I can't keep secrets from you anymore. We're reaching the end of what we can do subtly, and we'll soon be managing far worse."
Schaden looked at his boss blankly, then allowed his gaze to settle on the files nestled under Blueblood's arm. "Magic? Really? Bluey, I saw the video, but it seems so-"
"Insane? Yes, it is, in many ways." Blueblood scowled. "However, from what little Celestia has shared with me, the civilization this girl hails from has enormous amounts of power in individual hands, and little technological development. If someone finds out about this before they're ready, I can see a thousand and one ways for it to end badly. And that's not even going into the fact that the girl in question- Sunset Shimmer- is currently legally vulnerable, with potential powers and intelligence that would make any security analyst wet themselves."
"Which way?" Schnadenfreude snarked.
"Both, depending on the situation." Blueblood drew in a deep breath. "Granted, I doubt any of them would try anything so overt as to try and kidnap her right now. However, there have been incidences- both magical and non-magical- which have brought her to the attention of the law. If she became a person of interest and another event like that occurred, it would be far too easy for someone to put her in protective custody and isolate her."
"Which is why she needs a legal background." Schadenfreude's normally abrasive attitude vanished. "If we do a shoddy job with these fake files, theat would be worse then no protection at all, though."
"It's not going to be fake." Blueblood pulled the first file from under his arm. "This is documentation for one Sunset Shimmer, orphaned at age 5, who would later be placed as a ward of Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns." Cutting off Schadenfreude's response, he nodded. "Unicorns. Celestia doesn't just run the school in the other world, either."
Blueblood stared at Schadenfreude, then shook his head. "You don't need to fabricate anything. I know you; you can be a blatantly obstructive as you need to be to annoy someone. I want all of these files, which have finally been transferred to our care under refugee protocol 52-c, to be added to Sunset's files. I want the truth plainly stated in her documents, then buried behind so many legal protections as to keep them obscured. I want them added to the files by the book."
Schadenfreude looked up at his boss and nodded. "That, I can do. But, you mentioned that it's only going to get worse?..."
"Sunset's the only immigrant, thank god, but there are more visitors coming and going; and Celestia thinks it's only going to get worse. She's letting me use the Faust files to lean on people if necessary, but we can't do this alone."
Schadenfreude's face snapped up. "She's letting you- she must think this is really important."
"Yes. Too important for just the two of us. Get ready to share your office, you little wanker; I'm getting the A-team together."
Schadenfreude grinned. "The Auditor-Team? Wonderful."
I sat up and took notice at the mention of "Chrissy." And then I sat up again at the mention of "Faust files". XD Great work!
Also,
Perfect ending!
Don’t think I’ve seen human Blueblood who wasn’t a tool.
Oooh, a competent and nice Blueblood? I love it when fics do this.
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Yeah, well- he was once. He got better.
We'll see more of his backstory later.
I'm liking your version of Blueblood, Tale. You have my attention.
Mainly because you write your Bluey much the way I do mine... as an actually caring, intelligent person, and not a stuck-up spoiled brat or buffoon.
He, Rarity and Applejack are actually very good friends in my l'il headcanon 'verses.
Well... after he does a little groveling and apologizing to them both for what happened at that first Gala, of course.
And the crack he made about AJ's fritters and treats at that first GGG that they and the other girls and Spike went to in Season 1?
Totally and completely false.
He absolutely adores Apple Family food and is (not-so-) secretly addicted (but not in a bad way) to Granny Smith's fritters, and has a standing bi-weekly order for several dozen of them.
He also has a weekly standing one for at least three dozen of ones that AJ herself has made.
He also makes a secret trip at least twice a week to Sweet Apple Acres to help out around the farm and have dinner with them afterwards.
And Apple Bloom adores her honorary "Big Brother Bluey" as much as he does her.
Looking forward to the later chapters, and I'm looking forward to that!
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Too be honest I don't even mind when he's portrayed in a negative way the problem is when he's portrayed as an idiot to such cartoonishly ridiculous extremes just so he can be served up as an easy win for the protagonist.
8823925 Okay, cool.
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He's working with Schadenfreude. That's already all the backstory needed to understand.
On that note, you're really making this your personal playground, aren't you? Discworld, Schaden and who knows how many more hidden and less hidden references... I'm looking forward to seeing how deep this rabbit hole goes.
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Your mistake. The rabbit hole doesn't just lead down to a single cave.
Welcome to the Warrens, my friend. You'll lose yourself down here, if you'e not careful.
Oh hey, you finally used Schaden! Neat.
I just noticed that Sci-Twi is wearing a proton pack.
Shit hitting fan, prepare the wetsuits and shovels.
This chapter adds so much interesting potential.
I see that this one's Bluey is both competent AND not someone to mess with. This should be good.
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Indeed.
Although a certain prat by the name of Whyte Stayn (I hope that's how it's spelled) seems to think our dear Bluey is a "pansy" and a pushover.
Oh, it's gonna be a HUGE amount of fun watching THAT particular assumption blow up in his smug face (AND Cinch's, too, come to that) with all the force of a combined eruption of Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Mt. St. Helens and whichever one it was that popped its cork on the Big Island of Hawaii recently.
8824273 Bit late, but.......
You say that like it's a BAD thing.