The confused Human Twilight just looks at you flabbergasted at your declaration. It’s a look that screams, “Blasphemy!”
Oh right, Twilight in any world is a learning nerd…but they say honesty is the best policy, you shrug.
The only one who says that is that hick cousin of yours who’s tried to kill you since day one, Selena grumbles, upset at your stupidity.
Oh yeah…Well it’s too late now, she already knows too much.
With that, you cough nervously into your filthy hand and explain,
Down With Chrysalis’s Comment
"Well, you see Twilight, I need to sneak into the school after hours-" Twilight shakes her head back and forth interrupting you.
"No no no no! Why do you need my help to break into the school!? Actually, a better question is why do you need to break into the school in the first place?!"
You chuckle nervously at Hu-Twilight's outburst, and as you do you can hear Selena sighing in your head,
Did you honestly think she wouldn't react like this? Given her personality it’s a surprise she didn't immediately go to another faculty to rat you out.
Hey, Humie-Light's a lot of things but she isn't someone who would rat out a person in need...I think. Besides I already have a back up plan in mind!
And what’s that?
Stromboli! How do I convince an outraged party to do my bidding?
Ahahahahahahaaa, Sombra continues to laugh as he has for the past few minutes at your doppleganger’s misfortune.
…That was your plan? Selena says exasperated.
No, that was my backup plan, and clearly it’s failed! You panic as Hu-Twilight looks to you for answers.
“Uhhh…” you stammer before you catch out of the corner of your eye the disheveled, and still frightened looking bullies from before. Whatever Twilight did to them at that haunted animatronic house clearly left a mental mark.
That’s it!
“It’s simple really kid. I need to prank those bullies too,” you lie as you point to their retreating forms.
She looks confused at that, so you continue.
“Puppy endangerment doesn’t just deserve one mentally scarring prank Twi, it needs several. Those girls have to go through enough trauma that when they even think about you, the blood drains from their faces and they have flashbacks.”
She blinks and slightly backs away from your enthusiasm over mentally scarring teenager.
“That sounds…rather intense…” she sputters, but you press on with your lie.
"Look Twi, I do not like bullies, at all. In fact if I were to compare bullies to the worst thing you can think of, the level of hate you would have for that thing wouldn't even compare. So while you may have gotten revenge on them, I still need to teach them a lesson!"
Surprisingly, instead of looking at you more like a crazy person for your sense of logic, Hu-Twilight just nods her head slowly at your explanation.
"I...I guess that makes sense Mr. Bugze, from an emotional standpoint at least," she rationalizes which causes you to blink in slight surprise.
Huh, weird, I figured she would have yelled about morals or something like the real Twilight usually does and I’d have to wear her down by reminding her of past bullying sessions.
I truly am starting to believe that you are a bad influence on this human girl.
What's that supposed to mean!? I'm a perfectly good influence, just look at how nicely Nightshade turned out, you shoot back.
In Horse World
“So are you bucking telling me that Applejack and Daddy have been cousins this whole time?!” Nightshade shouts in disgust, waking up several folks on the train.
“Yeah, your Grandma and Granny Smith’s eldest son were half-siblings,” Grandbuggy nods.
“But…But…Applejack is one of those crazy stalker mares! She’s KISSED Daddy before! BLEH! Oh cheese and rice WHY?!” she starts gagging and shaking her head.
“Because lazy anime tropes don’t translate well into real life kid. Something your Dad hasn’t quite figured out yet,” Grandbuggy shakes his head in disappointment.
“Oh gods! That means Braeburn’s my cousin too, and I thought he was handsome! I also used Big Mac as Mare Kryptonite in my revolution…AAAAAAHHHH!!!” Nightshade screams as her eyes turn white and she rushes out of the private room. Ahuizotl wakes up from all the noise and looks to Grandbuggy.
“What is all that about amigo?”
“GIVE ME THE BUCKING PASTRY CART! I need a bunch of sugar to scrub my mind clean!!!” her voice yells from further down the train.
“Alright alright, please don’t hurt me, I have a family,” whimpers the no doubt bewildered train employee.
“Don’t say the word family to me right now! It’s unclean at the moment and needs fixing! Omnomnomnomnom!!!” come the unmistakable sounds of a pig out session.
Grandbuggy just facehooves before putting on his pony guise and walking out the door.
“Just some mental trauma that’s been a long time coming because of my boy’s stupidity. Just go back to sleep Ahzi, I’ll deal with this before she eats the hole train dry.”
“Pie for the Pie God! Cakes for the Cake Throne!” she screams, stuffing said two deserts into her mouth.
Human World
You decide to ignore the heavy feeling ironic dread that suddenly hits you, but you do let out a tiny shudder.
I’ll deal with whatever that was later, you think in slight melancholy.
Human Twilight then puts her hand to her chin in thought.
“But Mr. Bugze, if you sneak into the schools after hours, even if I helped you, there’s still the risk of you getting found out. You just talked to Principal Cinch, so you know you don’t want to get on her bad side.
“Oh right, her…” you nod and fumble for an excuse. “Well, I, uh…Pranking those whorses is one thing, but I also need to make sure Cinch doesn’t have any blackmail on B2-I mean me!"
“Huh?” she raises a brow. “What do you mean by Ms. Cinch might have blackmail on you?"
At Twilight's innocent look you can't help but chuckle awkwardly.
"Ah, well let’s just say she dug up some things from his-MY past that I’d rather not get out, and I'm not exactly comfortable with her having said information on hand."
Who knows what will happen if I step out of line and she decides to use B2's past as a way to make me do something. I've yet to be blackmailed into doing something so far in my life, and I'd like to keep it that way thank you very much!
I do believe you just jinxed yourself.
…Oh Gorammit!
Twilight seems a bit taken aback, but her more rational persona takes the front.
“Okaaaayyy…I’m not going to ask about what THAT entails, but unless she has a big folder with all your secrets in it like in a movie, you’re not getting rid of that info by sneaking in.”
“What? Why not? And why wouldn’t she have a large folder?”
“Because she has a computer?” Twilight says as if it’s obvious.
“What? You mean the magic cat video box? What’s that got to do with anything?”
“…Are you serious?” she asks befuddled, but at the look on your face she comes to understanding. “You are…how are you so behind technologically-wise?”
“Because my world hasn’t gotten off it’s lazy flank and made the interwebs I guess,” you respond.
“What?”
“Nothing! So wait, the Inter-computer thing has more than funny videos?”
“Yes! It’s a global network of information sharing that’s steadily progressed over the last 30 years. You have an E-Reader for heaven’s sake, how do you not know this?” she demands.
“I thought it was just for books,” you shrug and wilt back. “But if what you say is true, then I guess dismantling the entire Compu-Net is out of the question?”
She just gives you a blank, dumbfounded stare.
“I’ll take that as a yes…Gorramit!” you spit.
Stupid hummies, always muddling up my ingenious plans.
The plans you came up with not 30 seconds ago as an excuse to look for a magic portal? Selena rolls her eyes.
…Okay, they weren’t ingenious, but still, it’s the principle of the matter!
“Well if that plan is out, I’m still going to break in, and now you’ll have even more incentive for helping me right? So that I can prank your bullies and not get fired and have my past smeared over the school?”
“I…I guess I could still help,” she mutters looking away. “But I myself don’t want to be on Cinch’s radar.”
“Oh you’ll be fine. Just science me up something to get past the cameras and electronic locks, and they’ll never know it was you.” She looks to you and raises her brow again.
“You want me to make some sort of portable electrical disrupter device by tonight?”
“Ummm…Yeah?” you guess. She then looks up in thought, doing mental math.
“I suppose I could crank that out, though I’d have to cannibalize parts from Dad’s ham radio and the drone Cadence gave Shiny for his birthday…”
“Cool, so yeah, make that up, show me how to work and I’ll get those girls good for you,” you smile.
“OK,” she nods, “But you are going to take other precautionary methods right? Like gloves?”
“Why would I need gloves? It’s not cold,” you ask confused.
“So you won’t leave fingerprints when those girls no doubt complain about whatever you’re going to do?”
Master of Shadows’s Comment
“Finger Prince?” you ask in slight disgust, imagining a human with crown in a room surrounded by hands.
Oh gods, it’s Lyra’s fantasy come to life, you shudder.
Again, Twilight gives you that look as if you’re the most sheltered person in the world.
“Uh, yeah? Fingerprints? The unique identifying marks at the end of your fingers?”
“Wait, for real?” you say as you bring your wriggly appendages up to your face and look at them closely. Sure enough, on the tips of each one are unique swirl patterns you’ve never noticed before.
“Wow…these things get more and more disgusting the longer I stay here,” you gag and pull them downward while Twilight just stares at your antics.
“So what you’re saying is these things can be left behind if I don’t wear gloves?”
“…Yes?” she says, still mystified.
“Well alright then, I’ll just burn everything I touch,” you say rationally.
“What?!” Twilight gasps.
“I don’t like the feeling of gloves on these spidery things, so if I just burn everything, then there’s no evidence left behind, easy peasy.”
Twilight looks perturbed by you now and you hear Selena sigh heavily once again.
Ugh, when will people in ANY universe recognize how beautiful and natural fire is? You complain.
“…Ok, I’ll help you break in after hours, but on one condition,” she says after awhile.
“Yeah, name it,” you say happily.
“You have to take me with you.”
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What!?
A FEW HOURS LATER
Twilight went on to explain that she didn’t want you burning down the school, so she was going to help you make your job easier by going with you. You didn’t really have any room to negotiate, though it did bring up an interesting point when discussing this with B2.
“So wait, that kid is going to tag along with us?”
“Yeah,” you nod.
“Dude, how are we going to keep up the ruse of being one person if she finds out? She’s smart, I bet she’s already figured it out,” he panics.
“Don’t be so sure, with the power of disguises, anything is possible.”
“Disguises don’t hide voices and physical traits well, especially when we’re side by side,” he points out.
“You’d be surprised,” you smirk and tell him about all the times you’ve become a new person with just a few random clothes.
“…Are the horses in your world just that dumb?”
“Generally? Yes, I do think so,” you nod. “So we’ll dress you up, and I’ll meet her and you’ll be an acquaintance or something and-“
“I don’t want to,” he says crossing his arms.
“What?”
“I said I don’t want to. I’m the human native in this world, you’re the visitor, why don’t YOU dress up?”
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“But I do that ALL the time, I was getting used to walking around normally, even if I do look butt ugly.”
“You’re wearing some anime character clothing right now.”
“Shut up, this coat is awesome!” you defend.
He crosses his arms again and gives you a defiant look.
“My planet, my rules. If I’m going to risk the first job I’ve had in a long time trying to find your stupid portal, then I call who goes in disguise.”
“Ugh! Fine!” you huff and thump yourself onto the couch angrily.
Stupid B2. I’m not going to tell you that info about Cadence now until I’m less upset with you.
That’s pretty petty Bugze.
Yes. Yes it is, you agree.
Your mood doesn’t get any better when B2 produces the disguise for you.
“You’re kidding right?” you ask.
“Nope. Found these for cheap at the Goodwill since you decided to blow almost all our dough on that stupid campsite!”
“I had to screw over Human Filthy Rich, and I felt bad for beating up that lady!” you defend.
“Well, either way, here’s your punishment,” he says with a smirk as you look down at the clothes.
…Dear Luna I am petty.
AT THE SCHOOL ENTRANCE
We now find you and B2 in front of Crystal Prep at night, waiting for Twilight while you wear your new “disguise.”
It’s a black bandana with green leaves on it, similar to a cutie mark you saw at the hippie camp, and it is being worn around your gross human mouth.
Come to think of it, it smells like hippie too. Bleh.
On the rest of your body is a thin dark green rain coat with a hood that can easily be folded up and put into your pocket in case you have to run and disguise yourself quickly.
“I look like a freaking serial killer,” you complain.
“I know right?” B2 chuckles and you role your eyes.
“Alright, I get it. Jokes on me,” you huff. “Now focus. You’ll be in charge of pranking those bullies’ lockers and distracting Twilight while I look for the portal.”
“Oh, you don’t have to tell me twice,” he says holding up a dufflebag full of shaving cream, glitter, and some sort of small improvised explosive device.
“I’m going to have a field day cleaning up this mess tomorrow, but it will so be worth it,” he chuckles.
“Alright good, but remember what I told you. Stay away from the Cinch lady. She’s terrifying,” you warn and he hand waves your concern.
Oh, he’ll find out soon enough, Selena reassures you, sounding a little snarky.
After awhile of waiting, and B2 taking pics of you and laughing, Human Twilight finally appears…and what she’s wearing catches you both off guard.
Kichi’s Comment
“Uh, Twilight, what the heck are you wearing asks B2.”
“Well since we’re sneaking in, I felt I needed a sneaking disguise, and this was the closest thing I had,” she says gesturing to herself.
“That’s a Catwoman outfit,” B2 points to the black outfit with a mask and cat ears on top.
“It’s the only dark clothing disguise I had,” she harrumphs. “It’s from when me and Shining went to comic con when he was Batman and Cadence was Robin.”
Puppy Spike then takes that moment to pop his head out of her bag, and he’s also disguised with a mask.
“…OK, I’m not even going to touch that one,” B2 shudders, and you can’t help do the same.
Catwoman? Selena huffs in disgust. It’s CatMARE you filthy peasant. Catmare!
Not on this world it isn’t, Sombra chuckles.
I took my name from that wonderful character, and I will not see her sullied by…whatever the Tartarus that is.
Am I the only one creeped out by the implications of Shining and Cadence being Batmane and Robin together?
…Well now you’re not, Selena gags.
“Um, who’s this?” Twilight asks nervously pointing at you and you pull yourself from your internal conversations.
“Oh, that’s my cousin, Smokey Joe,” B2 says with a chuckle causing you to glare. “He’s going to help us out.”
“Oh…OK. Do you always dress like that?” she asks.
“It’s a disguise kid, and quite frankly it’s more subtle than yours,” you point out, changing your voice slightly.
“It’s all I had!” she repeats before looking to B2.
“But at least I am disguising myself, what about you Mr. Bugze? I don’t think the fake beard will cover you much since you wear it to work so often.”
“Right…fake beard,” B2 ruefully scratches at his lush full beard. “But don’t worry, I got that covered.” He then pulls out a set of fake oversized glasses and puts them on.
“Really? That’s it?” Twilight asks in deadpan.
"Well, if it works for Superman, it can work with me" he declares.
SuperMANE! Ugh! Selena growls, echoing your sentiments.
“But this isn’t a comic book,” Twilight argues.
“Again, you’re dressed as Catwoman,” he responds.
“Ugh, fine,” she huffs and reaches into her bag pulling out some sort of weird science fiction looking gizmo.
“Hopefully these disguises won’t be needed though with my latest invention. Are you two ready?”
You both nod and she leads the way to the front entrance. She then presses several buttons on the device, and the electronic lock sputters out and dies. Looking through the door into the hallway, the red light on the closest camera is also dead.
“We’re in,” Twilight says mischievously before giggling. “I always wanted to say that.”
You all then go in, and while B2 and Twilight head for the lockers, you start examining every nook and cranny of the school that you can. You even hold aloft the Magic rock sliver you took from Gloriosa, but nothing happens.
“This is such Bullspit! Where the buck is that portal?” you grunt as you slam closed the refrigerator in the cafeteria.
Bugze, it might be time to consider that perhaps the portal isn’t here, Selena chimes in.
No, that’s impossible! It has to be here! You shoot back. Otherwise I have no idea where to look for it.
I understand that, but it might be the case.
But Jack said that things mirror our world. Simba had it in the Crystal Empire, so it HAS to be here in Crystal Prep. Wait…I never checked Cinch’s office before! You perk up and rush towards the Principals office.
After entering the deactivated door, you flip on a light and view the interior of her office.
“It’s gotta be here! It’s got to!” you say in determination as you start pawing through her stuff. You handle all the trophies and certificates, but nothing seems magical in nature at all.
“…WHY ISN’T IT HERE?!” you shout and stomp your feet.
A thought occurs to me, Sombra speaks up.
What? What amazing thoughts do you have you dang Hummie?! You ask aggressively.
I took the mirror in my secret conquest of treasures before I was banished. In this world, I was apparently a musician, so the other me had money. Perhaps my doppelganger might have it if he lives.
“…That’s actually a very valid point,” you say in shock.
Indeed. Why did I not think of it?
Because you’re too busy swaddling the idiot to think for yourself, he says jerkishly, which ruffles her feathers.
“Alright, calm down,” you reprimand. “I’m trying to compliment you here Smokey, no need to be a jerk. But yeah, if the mirror isn’t here then maybe your washed up rocker self might have it…but that just begs the question of where the heck he’s at.”
The only lead we have is your human self. He would know him better than anyone, Selena exposits and you nod.
“Right…hopefully B2’s up for searching for his former band mate. I just don’t know about meeting another Sombra though, will this one be all annoying as well and be a big fan of ponies or something?”
Hey! He barks and you chuckle.
“But yeah, looks like we gotta look for Smokey’s double if we want to find that mirror…let’s get out of here before we get in trouble first though.”
You then gingerly make your way back to the row of lockers you left Twilight and B2 at, and judging by their smirks, their prank booby trap has successfully been set.
“Hey man, you missed the set up. Find anything?” he asks.
“No,” you slump your shoulders and he looks concerned. “But I do have another possible lead. I’ll let you know about it later though.”
He nods before looking back to Twilight.
“So the cameras and locks will just come back on once we exit?”
“Yup,” she nods enthusiastically. “Once I press this button, the systems won’t even register that anything was wrong.”
“Well alright then, let’s roll,” B2 takes charge and leads you all out the door.
Once outside, Twilight activates her device, and the electronic locks come back on line, as do the cameras, just like she said.
Hmmm, you ponder and look at the magic stone in your hand.
What are you thinking my bug? Asks Selena.
Just an idea. This Twilight can put together some nifty contraptions…maybe we can get her to make a magic finder or something. We’ll have to look into it later.
After bidding adieu to Hu-Light, you and B2 hop on the back of the motorized scooter and head back to your library “Home.”
“So, you didn’t find the portal huh?” he asks.
“No, unfortunately.”
“Well that sucks…but you said you had a lead?”
“Yeah, and really I’m going to need your help finding it.”
“Oh?” he asks intrigued.
“Yes. Do you know where your Sombra is?”
He nearly swerves off the road with that one, before righting himself and gritting his teeth.
“…I know where that SOB was last when he refused to help an old friend off the street, yes…Oh God, don’t tell me he’s your lead?”
“Well…”
He groans and shakes his head.
“Damn You Lady Luck,” he mumbles.
IN EQUUS
POV CHANGE: Nightshade
After two days of train travel, you are dealing with the revelation that your extended family is much bigger than you thought relatively well.
“Stupid Daddy for not telling me!” you grumble. “We could have had Hearth’s Warming celebrations with the rest of our kin.”
Greta is still stowed away in your Inventory so as not to be kicked off the train, and Ahuizotl and Grandbuggy look out the window in earnest for your next stop.
“Shouldn’t be long now kid,” Grandbuggy speaks up, pulling you out of your pouting. “End of the line’s coming up.”
“Oh goody,” you grumble and cross your arms.
“Come on kid, don’t be like that. It’s been two days.”
“So? Dad didn’t tell me the truth, of course I’m gonna still be upset. What makes it worse is that I can’t write to Spike to tell Applebloom because that would blow our stupid cover. Ugh!”
Ahuizotl looks to Grandbuggy nervously and mutters, “Yikes.”
“Alright I get it Shade, but don’t just Grumble in self pity, chew your Dad out when we see him again. Right now we got focus on the mission.”
“Fine…” you roll your eyes, though inside you are still very upset. “What’s this dumb place called again?”
“Well, it’s a fairly new settlement that doesn’t really have a name yet, built by a bunch of ponies living off the grid. So probably your typical hippie settlement.” He punctuates that last statement with a spit to the ground.
“It doesn’t have a name?” you ask in actual curiosity.
“Well, not a proper one anyway. The food and lumber suppliers said these hippies kept referring to it as “Our Town.”
“R Town?” Ahuizotl asks.
“No, O-U-R Town. Stupid name if you ask me,” he shrugs.
And as he says that, the train pulls to a stop at a lonely platform in the middle of nowhere.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
CREEPY WELCOMES FOR EVERYONE
I have a feeling that a cult of equality might not like alicorns...
I have a feeling that there is going to be a battle
and a search
Nightshade was not scared easy, yet when she walked in that town, a strange feeling covered every hair from her head to her tail, and the worse was it the feeling was stronger the more she approached the center of the town and looked at ponies.
"Welcome" Say one pony
"Welcome" Say other pony with a identical cutie mark
"Welcome" "Welcome" "Welcome" "Welcome"
With all many shivers, Nightshade could not help herself to mutter "I need a adult" as she looked at the smiling faces of everyone.
"Why I feel as if I walked back in the changeling hive" Commented Grandbuggy as he was also looking around
"This is most scary that any traps and things that I found in any temple" Say Ahuizotl as he was also looking
"Why is that this village make me remember Sunny Town?" Asked Nightshade to herself.
Not only the adults, Nightshade noticed that even the foals she could see were very creepy also with their smiles.
"Raise your hoof if this town make you want to run away" Shout Nightshade to the group but before they could do anything, they are found by a strange unicorn that interrupt them.
"Welcome to our town, my name is Starlight Glimmer I hope you like this town, where everypony is equal to others" Shout the unicorn with a even more creepy smile that the others
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Not very inspired, maybe later I add something more.
As the four of you get closer to the town, Nightshade's eyes suddenly widen in realization as she says,
"Oh buck, I almost forgot!"
While Grandbuggy and Ahuizotl give her weird looks Nightshade quickly opens her inventory and pulls out Greta...whose face is once again covered in markings, courtesy of one mechanical fox.
"Sorry Greta, I almost forgot you where in there!"
Greta just sighs as she brushes off herself before she says,
"It's no problem, that place is really comfy for some reason so I got to take a pretty good nap."
Nightshade nods her head in agreement at that, but soon has to hold back snickering when she sees the markings on Greta's face. Grandbuggy and Ahuizotl also hold back their laughter at the sight of her drawn on face.
Greta, no doubt confused by their slight snickering, looks at the group and asks,
"What's with the looks? Something on my face?"
The group look at each other before they calm down and shake their heads as they say,
"Nope!"
Greta just shrugs off their odd behavior as she begins to walk ahead of the group,
"Whatever, come on this town ain't gonna lost its treasure by itself ya know!"
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Nightshade and the others are now on the outskirts of the town, and from what they can see the town is creepy with a capital "C."
But that's nothing our various hero's can't handle, so with a brave step forward they begin to-
"Nope."
Grandbuggy, who was doing the previous narration, falters in his step as he looks back to Nightshade and asks,
"Nope? What do you mean by that!?"
Nightshade just points at the smiling ponies with a deadpanned look as she says,
"Nope."
Grandbuggy just gives his own deadpanned look as he says,
"Really Nightshade? Sure their smiles are a little creepy, but I doubt it'll be that bad. I mean when you think about it real-where she go!?"
Indeed, while Grandbuggy was talking Nightshade had started on her way back to the train stop. When she noticed her Grandbuggy watching her she merely stuck her tongue out and shouted a loud,
"NOPE!"
Grandbuggy could only stare at her retreating form for a while before he sighed and said,
"I guess we have to do things the hard way after all..."
Needles to say the ponies of "Our Town" smiles faltered only slightly at the sight of a tied up filly struggling to get out of her grandpony's hooves while repeatedly shouting 'Nope.'
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Starlight look at Greta and Greta look at her.
"Wow, I can't believe it... Typical Griffon war paints... I read about them but I never managed to see them, they... uh... look good in you" Say Starlight looking at Greta
"War paints? What war paints?" Ask Greta confused
Meanwhile the rest of the group disimulate as they try to retreat while Starlight offer the griffon a hand mirror.
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It's not much, but if someone want to extend the idea, is free.
When starry tries to remove thier marks, because they are part changeling, They just redisguise.
Also Either starry ends up as pasrt of the fellowship of the hood/nigth/young alicorn, Or a forward base is set up there.
Also make a joke related to starlight and time travel and a ertain equality
And finaly nightshade gets the sudden urge to do an inventory check
DO THE INVENTORY check pleas
Also FILLLER YEAH
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On with the show!
As your group stood in the town you could swear you heard the faint sound of eerie music.
"Now not to intrude on but why do you have a filly strapped to you back." Starlight glimmer asked with confusion.
"Oh right, my great granddaughter here was a little scared of your town. She had seen a horror movie a week ago that she wasn't supposed to. It had a spooky cult town out in the middle of nowhere and your kind little village reminded her of it." Grandbuggy lied, however the more he thought about it the more he realized Nightshade actually does watch too many horror films.
"Oh! Um no worries here, I can see where your coming from. No cult like things here just a village following there beliefs of equality!" Starlight smiled. Though she had a noticeable sweat drop running down her forehead.
"No cult things my hoof, this place is reeks of it!" Nightshade spoke, but was muffled by the rope in her mouth.
"Oh but where are my manners madam, my name is Quick Fix." Grandbuggy said, trying to use the old charm on this mare. Not before being kicked by the foal strapped to his back. "Gah! Uh erm and this is my great granddaughter Shade and the two behind me are my friends Greta, and Zotal." Grandbuggy said motioning to the rest of the group. Starlight looked over to the giant creature and griffon behind them.
"Greetings." Ahuizotal said with a bow.
"Sup." Greta said bluntly.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all, now what brings you to our fun little town?" Starlight asked.
"Oh just passing through, seeing the sights." Grandbuggy lied. As he continued to talk to the mare, you decided to look around from your bound position and see what the town actually looked like. The houses were simple but looked sturdy. Brick walls with wooden roofs. But it unnerved you how they were all exactly the same with no brick out of place. Down the row you saw a couple small shops, one was selling muffins but they looked like there wasn't an ounce of sugar in them. On the other side of the street was a vendor selling cloaks, poorly made brown cloaks, they looked like hoods more then anything. And further down the road sat a lone house, slightly larger then other houses. That must of been either the town hall or the leader's home, probably both. You also noticed a familiar white earth pony walking over towards Starlight. He marched up and coughed to get Glimmer's attention.
"Huh oh excuse me my assistant needs me." She said before walking to the pony in question. Ahuizotal and Greta came up and pulled you two into a group huddle.
"Alright amigo you know this place is off right?" Ahuizotal whispered as to not be overheard by the villagers.
"I can clearly see that, this place reeks of something foul." Grandbuggy said.
"And it ain't their awful cupcakes either blegh! These taste worse then the ones back home." Greta said tossing one she bought aside.
"Mt's ma Mult! Ma Mult!" You say only for your words to be muffled by the rope in your mouth.
"No Nightshade I don't think they have malts here" Your grandbuggy says.
"You know I think this place might actually be a cult." Ahuizotal said, you would face hoof but your arms are still bound up so you reside to groaning in annoyance. Before your group could continue, you heard Starlight gasp. You turn your head to see she's looking directly at you and her assistant kept looking at you with a serious look.
"Mm Muys?" You say getting the groups attention, you simply motion your head to Starlight who walks toward you with a serious look.
"Excuse me can you untie your great granddaughter so I may talk to her?" Your grandbuggy looks to you with a worried look, but you nod to him telling him to put you down. After he unties you, you walk up to Starlight Glimmer. You also notice you seemed to draw a crowd, the villagers creepy smiles gone as they look on in confusion.
"Um yes miss Starlight what did you want to ask?" You meep out as her glare at you makes you feel tiny.
"Are you the daughter of Kersey?" She says with glare. All you can think is
"What?!"
And that's all I got...for now.
Seeing this Greta starts getting flash backs.
"This reminds me of Magictechnology ya know."
"You went to that crap?" Ask Grandbuggy in shock. "Never took you for a coo-coo"
"I didn't, my neighbor is." She defenses. "I had to look it up.
"Well, seeing that their founder is alive, it's a cult."
"That's the difference between a religion and a cult?" You ask.
"Now that I think about it." Says grandbug. "Yeah..."
Not trying to offend I just thought it suited at the moment.
A thought occurs. Has ever Bugze ever celebrated his birthday? Has Nightshade? Or am I being dumb and forgetting a chapter where they did? Please someone answer. Pinkie is giving me the death stare.
(Also it’s really bugging me)
I got nothing other than the fact that I still think Starlight got off way too easy initially. Time for some pre-venge Heh- heh heh.
Running Gag Idea: Nightshade and Grandbuggy keep unwittingly causing accidents to happen to Starlight;
-Nightshade tries one of Sugar Belle's muffins. She is so disgusted that she violently throws what's left of it away. Given her angry alicorn strength, said "Muffin" travels at high velocity speeds and hits a far away Starlight Glimmer (just coming out of her cave) in the face so hard it knocks her down a short cliff into a puddle of mud.
-Ahuizotl (on Grandbuggy's "insistence") tries to use an artifact he had on him to help with local construction, but it backfires causing a paint can to get launched away and land on Starlight's head.
-Grandbuggy eats a banana and tosses away the peel. Starlight almost steps on it, but notices it just in time ("Almost walked into that cliche.") and disintegrates it with magic... then a piano comically falls on her (smash cut to Pinkie saying her Pinkie Sense just said somepony dared to avoid and mock a classic gag inviting the wrath of the comedy spirits... or that the muffins were done, both Pinkie Sense tingles are very similar)
"You're really lucky you know."
"What do you mean?" You ask Starlight.
"You don't have your cutie mark yet."
You raise an eyebrow at that. "How does that make me lucky? I thought every pony desired a cutie mark, and this village always talk about the Equal Cutie Mark."
"The Equal Cutie Mark wasn't originally ours you know."
"It wasn't?"
"Nope. I had a unique cutie mark like every normal pony does. Some say it's a blessing, but it also hurts ponies..."
You notice the sad expression on her face. "Well I still have to get my cutie mark, it's not like I can avoid it forever."
She looks at you with... sympathy? She is really confusing you with her own beliefs. Every pony you've met before her always loved their cutie mark or desired one if they didn't have their yet.
"I know! I could help you and your grandpa!" She exclaims.
"Help us? With what? We are trying to find this magical artifact, do you know where it is?"
"Not with that silly! With your cursed cutie mark! All you need to do is come to me when you finally find your talent and I'll take care of the rest!"
"And what's that supposed to mean?"
"Remove that and make you one of us of course!"
"What?! Why?!"
"So we can all be equals and nopony will get emotionally hurt sweetie!"
"But I want to keep my cutie mark! It's who I am!"
"You won't be saying that after you get left alone!"
"Listen lady! You can't tell me whether or not I get to keep my cutie mark or change it!"
"Maybe not, but when the time comes you'll understand."
"What's wrong with this mare...!"
god it's been a while. caught up today and read everything, and will be contributing again starting with the next major Bugze part.
... just realized i did not have this one marked cry well time to play catch up
Nightshade has a conversation with star light glimmer about cutie marks and how there evil and every time she says evil nightshade hears bugzee from the other dimension with the crazy EVIL! shout and she says that. It doesn't matter what you want as long as there are marks
Which prompts nightshade to tell mangle to HIT IT and she starts singing a song about cutie marks awfully similar to this
While owy granbuggy and Samus comedicly run from the town after finding the relic angering everyone more as they escape through sheer idiocy until. They crash through the door landing in a dogpile involving the gang
Citizens 12 clowns Dr quacksalver a d&d style wizard pyramid head and a pinkie that forgot to get off at appleoosa
Side note: totally worth spending the last week and a half binging every season straight
Ps. CAN WE PLEASE MAKE SOMBRA A STONER OR A DRUGLORD OR A STONERDRUGLORD just sayin 😝
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Or a stoner who watches WAY too much Breaking Bad
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Yes! THAT! SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE THAT HAPPEN!
Woot i caught back up
Might I recomend tthat bugze learns a verion Of the OD AH VIING thuum that makes the nearest dragon aid him in battle, Might be stupid, but iumagine the potential
Hippies.. ahh that slight bit of hippie racism
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Well there was that one time in Ponyville but I think that was for a different reason; there might have been an short aside for it, but I don't think it was a thing. If it was a thing then it would have been a pretty small affair; being on the run has only so much break time
Ahhh fk
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My reaction if when I find out about the town:
https://youtu.be/D4WO0mirjlQ