From Far Beyond

by Jade Dawn

Prologue

From Far Beyond

A “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” Fanfiction

Written by Jade Dawn

“My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” is owned by Hasbro. I own none of the characters except the ones I have created for this story.

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Equestria, 1,008 A.N.M. (After Nightmare Moon)
2018 A.D., according to Earth's Gregorian Calendar.

The Storm King and his army have fallen.

All over the land of Equestria, the joyous news rings loud and clear. A hundred cities and towns, paralyzed with terror by the stories of the Princesses' capture and Canterlot's enslavement, now spring forth to offer aid and relief to the great capital city.

And for celebration as well. For Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship, along with her faithful companions, the Elements of Harmony, have once again saved their homeland–and to a greater extend, the entire world–from being overrun by the forces of darkness.

But even in this time of recovery and jubilation, there is still fear and doubt. Fizzlepop Berrytwist, once known as Tempest Shadow, the Storm King's most terrifying enforcer, has been given a chance for redemption. Twilight has seen her hurt and remorse, and, taking her in as a new apprentice, seeks to give Fizzlepop the chance to full return to pony society. Unfortunately, not every pony is quite so forgiving, and the once wayward mare has a long and difficult journey ahead of her.

Now, however, something new–and dangerous– is stirring. As Twilight and her new protégé are summoned to Manehattan on an urgent appeal, neither is aware of the implications of what they will find, nor that it is the beginning of something much more strange and incredible than anything any pony has ever encountered before...

Author's Note:

Hello, folks!

For those of you who are just starting to read this, welcome! I hope I've piqued your interest, and that you'll read what else I have to offer. And leave comments. Seriously, I really like it when people leave comments.

For those of you who have read this before, this is the revised prologue that I decided to come up with just on a whim. As you are all now doubt aware, in the original version, some extra-dimensional force was watching the characters and planning some kind of intervention. Well, let me explain that. In the original draft of the story, there was a much bigger Christian theme to the whole thing. The creatures in the original prologue would be heavily implied to be angels.

But after a lot of thought, I decided to cut out that angle entirely. Not only would it turn some people off right away, but I also felt it bogged down the story too much.

So there. See you around for the next chapter, and have a great rest of the day/night/whenever you're reading this.

P.S. Before you ask, no, I am not trying to copy the Star Wars title crawls. I just got sick of seeing this abandoned prologue sitting here whenever I worked on the story, and I wanted to refit it a little bit.

Comments

[TheMysteryMuffin]

I enjoyed your story, bro. Keep up the good work and I'm sure you'll go far.

[Jade Dawn]

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Thanks. It means a lot to hear something like that. :)

[Bloody_Tofu]

Ohh. Tracking.

Very interesting start.

[Jade Dawn]

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Thanks!

[Theboxcatgamr]

You have my attention:3

[GundamBrony]

I'm impressed of this story please continue with this one.

[Jade Dawn]

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Thanks! I'll definitely be working on this one some more, although I can't really promise a consistent update schedule. They'll come when I manage to finish a chapter, but they will come.

Thanks for the support and the comment!

[NicLove]

p.s. Does Eric Colby have AS ?

[Jade Dawn]

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Do you mean Asperger's Syndrome?

[NicLove]

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Yes

[Jade Dawn]

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At this point, I don't know. I based a lot of Eric's personality and mindset off of myself, so I might put in a couple of brief mentions about it at some point in the story. It won't be a major factor though. I mean, when you've been hurled halfway across the galaxy and genetically transmogrified into a unicorn pony, you're kind of gonna have bigger things to worry about. :)

[NicLove]

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Do you have AS ?

if so, post the story hereMade by a Autistic/Author, but no Asperger/Autistic character

If not, post the story here
Anything you want to put

[Mix-up]

nice story so far I will be looking forward to see what will happen next to this story. So far I think your are setting up for an interesting epic story by the tone of it. I hope you keep on writing. Good luck

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[Jade Dawn]

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Thanks for the support! I'm working on the next chapter right now, and I hope to have it out soon.

If you're looking for some more of my work to hold you over until then, I've got another HiE story here.

[Sipioc]

You have set up an interesting start for a story often told. But I am I interested to see where you will take this. My advice, put some chapters out there, gain some momentum, and see where it leads.

[Jade Dawn]

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Thank you for the support! I really appreciate it, and I hope to have the next chapter out in the coming days, if schoolwork doesn't bog me down.

By the way, if you'd like to see more of my work, check out my other fanfic, Nightmare Moon is Coming to Town. I actually wrote it during a period of Writer's Block while writing this story, and I'm pretty happy with the results.

Again, thank you for the support, and I hope to have more coming soon.

[Whinifree]

Hmm, from the get go, is this story available outside of the mlp fandom? I ask because the franchise info and the disclaimer.

[Whinifree]

Can’t say I’ve seen many behind the curtains events of someone getting displaced. A lot of the fics I’ve seen it just boom happens. Refreshing.

[BradyBunch]

Concept alone looks promising enough...I'll follow along. I'm interested.