Market Street Mad Dash
“Catch me if you can, girls! I'm no gingerbread man but I'm still faster than an eight-legged pony pair!”
“Get thine flank back here this instant, Nicholas!”
“Fat chance!”
Nick had the lead by a decent margin, but the two princesses hot on his heels were gaining fast. Granted, both had their rumps glued to a bench, but years of charging into battle allowed them to gallop in sync and gain ground. It also looked ridiculous, as they weren't moving at top speed due to the awkward moves they had to use to run while sticking their butts in the air to avoid dragging the bench along.
So naturally, Nick did the one thing he knew the princesses couldn't coordinate: he grabbed a light post and used it to make a u-turn, dashing past the shocked princesses as they tried to skid to a stop.
“Sister, we must turn around! Nicholas is getting away!”
“I'm trying, Luna! But you're trying to turn the other way!”
“Enough of this! Let us see if we can still do this…” With the grace not many ponies could manage, Luna leaped into the air and spread her wings out for one of her old combat tactics: the instant mid air u-turn. Unfortunately, while she had done it in full plate armor dozens if not hundreds of times on the battlefield, she had never done it with another pony glued to her. Having a weight throwing her off balance, she and Celestia flipped over, landing helplessly on their backs with the bench sticking up in the air.
“Sister! Why didst thou not flip with us? We taught thee how to do so decades before we were consumed by Nightmare Moon!”
“Luna, I haven't needed that move for over 600 years, I'm out of practice. And you didn't warn me!”
“Well, we suppose this will have to be done the more direct way.” Luna lit her horn, and in an instant the bench was reduced to splinters. “We are willing to play along with Nicholas's pranks for a little while, yes. But ‘tis always fun to, as they say, turn the tables?”
“Oh, certainly!”
Nick, meanwhile, was running down the street towards the center of the market, hoping to lose is bench-bound pursuers, when he felt the form of a small equine land on his back and grip his shoulders for an impromptu piggyback ride.
“Hello strange creature! Why are we running?”
“Gah! What the heck!?” Nick staggered to the left from the impact, but kept running. “I'm running away from the princesses! I might have pulled a prank on them, and they might be mad at me for it!”
“Oh, okay! Need any help? I know this city like the back of my hoof!”
“Sure! Know any shortcuts?”
“Take that alleyway to your right! We can hide there, then take the other alley to jump over to Second Avenue!”
Nick dove into the alley and not ten seconds later, two VERY pissed off alicorns scurried down the street, screaming for Nick to surrender or face a second swim in the moat. Nick and his impromptu passenger darted across the street and through the narrow passage to find himself hidden in the shadows of the buildings along Second Avenue. Nick stepped back and plucked the pony off his back.
“I've never seen a creature like you before. Are you that hyoo-man I hear about on occasion?”
“Yup,” he replied setting the pony down and ruffling his bright purple mane. “It's pronounced ‘human’, though. But don't worry about it, everypony messes it up from time to time, even the princesses used to.”
The pony nodded enthusiastically. “Well, I'm glad you aren't mad! I know a few creatures who get really fussy if you pronounce their species wrong.”
“Oh, yeah! I almost forgot, thanks for the save back there. I'm Nick. Who are you? And… while I'm at it, what's with the getup? I don't know many ponies who wear clothes.” Nick extended a hand in greeting.
The orange unicorn adjusted his lab coat and shook appendages with his new friend. “Nice to meetcha, Nick! I'm the royal alchemist, Arcane Catalyst! But you can call me Arca!”
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Soooo, Arca, what happens when you mix poison joke with heart's desire? Just wondering, y'know?
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Soooo, Arca... what happens when you then mix the CURE for Poison Joke with water from the Mirror Clone Pool?
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Holy floof... Shit, fan, fan, shit. You two get to know each other, I’ll be in Yakyakistan. In a nuclear
bunkervault that actually works, Bethesda!9393908
Why is everyone so scared all of a sudden
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Nick and Arca teaming up... why else?
oooooh ... this gonna be guuuuud ...
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I'm so lost. Who is Arca?
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That not enough.
Now, where did I hide my shuttlecraft? Orbit should be a safe place to watch this from, yes?
OH boy will Canterlot still be standing.. Royal Alchemist well there's a title I'm sure at least 1 person will be shocked to learn Acra holds then again she seems to be superficial only concerned with looks
9393997 As long as its not directly over the location Acra and Nick are located. maybe a lunar obit might be safer
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You haven't read my other story, The Potion Shop, have you? He's from there.
Need I say more
Oh no...
Yes! YES! YEEEEES!!!
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It has begun, I have a feeling celestia called Arca in for his [redacted because of Arca List] potion... that would be awesome...
For those of you not in the know the Arca List is a list of warnings presented to creatures who go to the rainbow falls town and trade fair concerning Arca and things to not let him do or ask him for.
The potion in question is a fur or mane growth potion hopefully he doesn’t hear or see this message...
NNNNNNNUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THE END IS NIGH! YOU MONSTER! LORD SAVE US! NNNNNOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!
New pony like always
Funny chapter
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READ. THE. POTION. SHOP. NOW!
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Arcane Catalyst, or Arca as we like to refer to him, is the main character of another one of my stories taking place in the same universe.
He's a bit of a cross between Doc Brown from back to the future and Dr Bright from the SCP foundation, personality-wise. Better known as clinically BONKERS
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes!
This will be glorious and hopefully not involve the ... wait Arca reads these toos so better not mention it
Pffft, what are y'all so scared about? Its just Nick meeting Arca. What could possibly go wrong?
*distant horrified screaming*
Did anyone hear that? Huh, must've been my conscience again...
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Was this chapter based off the comment I made last chapter?
How much you wanna bet The Duck is finally going to make an appearance?
Time to see how many different things the moat can be full of before Nick hits it!
Welp time to move to another reality... again... seriously what is with the realities I'm in always getting destroyed.
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Wow, that story is something... So I guess Nick will start ordering those hair grow potions right?
Soon, the chaos and pranks of epic proportions will commence with this meeting of two delightfully insane masterminds of wonderful science and laughter.
:pinkiehappy: Did sompony say laughter?
Gah, Pinkie Not now; I’m busy.
Awww I wanna play too
Later Pinkie, here chase this bouncy ball.
Yippee,
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5 days
I’m so buckin’ excited for this crossover!
And that day, the funpocalypse began.
Oh No! Ohhh Noooo!
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Read https://www.fimfiction.net/story/426477/the-potion-shop the potion shop
oh no this is going to end badly
So...
Not to be that guy, but...
Who’s Arcane Catalyst? I’ve never heard of ‘em. Can someone fill me in?
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He's the main character of my other story, The Potion Shop, which is VERY similar to Prank war and updates on days this story does not.
Oh. Sometimes I realize way too late that the same person writes multiple stories.
Ask me how long it took me to realize that the dude who wrote The Maretain was the same dude who wrote Changeling Space Program.
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Hey boss, you should probably add a little link to The Potion Shop to the end of that last chapter, so people will stop asking who Arca is.
ARCA!
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OHHHH o:
And so, Nick and Arca meet.
Discord gets a very cold chill. "NOPE!!" he declares suddenly and flees the universe, popping back only briefly to grab Fluttershy.
YES.
JUST YES.
THANK YOU.
ALREADY.
Yessssssssssss........!
SO ADORBS! <3
Seems i missed to read a story to know this character. They still have to unglue the remains
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Please turn your eyes to The Potion Shop, my other story