Twilight Sparkle, the Element of Magic and hero of the Nightmare War, wants nothing more than to return to a quiet existence as a high school student. However, not every ending is final, or happy. A new foe rising in the darkness will force Twilight to rejoin the very organization that tore away her hope for normality, rebuild her team of other reluctant Elements, and save Equestria once again.
But first she has to learn how to make desserts and defeat a series of increasingly evil waifus.
A crossover with Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka.
Editing by Backslasherton. Prereading by Kamikakushi.
Chapters (18)
Applejack: *treestrides behind u* "Nothin' personal, kid."
Seems like an interesting story. I'll look forward to seeing where you'll take it.
So I have to ask, what was Surprise the element of?
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Surprise, actually.
Yes, that's partially why Rainbow picked her.
Does Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka really have a series of increasingly evil waifus in it?
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I thought about it, and yeah, it kind of does.
Interesting mapping of the show characters and events to the Spec Ops roles for them. Twilight with a dead family is a particularly good match for Asuka, IMO.
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It gets a little difficult considering six ponies but only four MG's appear in Asuka
Rainbow, Spitfire, and Soarin as those three, that fits remarkably well. I had been thinking AJ as that character, though for no reason other than appearance.
Hah!
Oh my god, Rarity.
Oooo, nice. Rarity always gets a great look.
That's a slightly creepy pen.
Nice.
Hey, Sunset.
Interesting, shades of both EQG and the way the magical girls worked in Spec Ops.
Looking forward to the inevitable scene of Fluttershy torturing Trixie.
A bit, yes.
Oh hey, Trixie and the
Russiangriffon mercenaries.Woah, on the other hand probably no Trixie torture. Well, aside from this bit at least.
Good idea to forewarn on that surprise.
Interesting, I was wondering about Cadance and if she was still an Element Bearer.
Hey, sorry if anyone got a notification about CH8, I accidentally put it up too early.
That seems like probably a bad thing, particularly if the Rainbow connection is also there.
RIP Gilda.
Peace, pieces, similar difference.
Ahhh, here's the first Fluttershy interrogation volunteer. That makes sense with the limb removal.
Zombie Apples, now that's probably a good prompt to get AJ to sign back up.
Living in the Everfree was probably a really bad place to be once the Shadows rose and attacked.
Applejack's hat laughs on the inside.
That seems bad.
I'm suddenly getting Starlight vibes.
Spike probably appreciates the permission to look.
Starlight, I knew it.
This proposal feels like a trap.
Good job being explosion proof, Spike.
So if she's working for them, are they going to make her the element of air superiority?
Airship vs magical pony combat, I like the sound of this.
Smart idea if you plan on picking this particular fight.
Tempest in this outfit, another good parallel.
Mascot combat! Kick his ass, Spike.
Nice to see a capture this time.
The argument that good and evil are the same thing because sometimes evil lies and calls itself good is not a particularly good one.
And there it is.
I hope this means we just got a Tempest.
Hey, free airship.
...wait, a thimble? How would she even use a thimble?
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I want to see the chewing out if that was the only reason.
I had look up Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka to remember that I read the manga a long time ago.
yesssssss twilight cave worst ponies skull in
She kills an awful lot of people for wanting information so bad.
And this cuts the commander down to Sombra, the Nightmare gone bodyhopping, an OC, or something weirder.
If Night Flyer and co actually died, though...
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Don't forget Grogar as a possibility.
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Y'all are missing a much closer answer
oh my please ship cadence and twilight together, but for some reason I think once Candace get love back she get her wings back
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Sunset Shimmer?
Well that was abrupt. I figured it would be who it ended up being, didn't see the twist, though the glasses really should have given it away.
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Is there a chance that you’d be willing to post a blog with all the elements and their weapons?
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Already did.
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Heck yeah!
Ok, that was fun. Now I'm off to watch this anime, You have gotten me pretty hyped.
Ha! I was half right.
That twist was really interesting and unexpected. I could say that the fight was brutally short and abrupt, but is was really well executed, in retrospect. Specially the way it ended, suddenly and without fanfare. I bet she wouldn't expect that in a thousand years, all that work and killing for an inglorious ending. Poetic, maybe, but still sad.
I wonder how much it hurt for Celestia to see it happening before her eyes.
And just like Cadence, I totally ship TwiPest
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I actually toned the shipping down from the source material. Part of why I liked Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka was how many genres it parodied, eventually including harems.
The Sparkle family does nothing by halves.
Okay, unless Starlight has been using a stand-in she's probably not the Commander.
Twilight, waking up in the library is very stereotypical of you and Cadance should not be encouraging it.
Using the Alicorn Amulet to replace Tempest's horn is an amazingly terrible idea, but hell, why not.
They really should have found and censored this picture.
Fancy Cadance is fancy.
The No Fun police have arrived.
Lewd.
I like this plan.
That sounds like it'll be incredibly painful. Good thing Tempest is a badass.
Nice.
Now that's just bad luck.
She sure isn't the Element of Subtlety.
Of course she did.
Close enough for government work.
It does end pretty abruptly but it was a fun read, thanks.
She even does paperwork!
I feel like this might go far worse for Starlight than in the show.
TMI
Oooo, kite theme.
Hah, nice.
Oh dang, I was hoping we could keep her like we did Tempest.
This feels like a bad idea.
Nice.
The what?
Maybe.
Maybe!
Tactically speaking, a ballistically delivered dragon probably has a different impact then one delivered by teleport. Different need, different delivery system.
I was wondering what direction that scene at the end was going to go, and it turns out Cadence and Twilight were also not on the same page.
Yeah, best take hold of the random extra schoolgirls who have wandered into the situation.
They're doomed.
Oh Sunset.
Hah, nice.
Turns out the pen was pretty mighty.
Tuba player Twilight, the natural conclusion.
That was fun.
Best compliment I can give for a story like this; I have no familiarity with the source material and still found this highly engaging.
So... sequel?
What level of broken do you have to be to see your dead family, whom you held so dear, get raised from the dead and then immediately set a flame, along with the rest of your life's work, by your former comrade and all you can say is: "I see you're back with the group."
If there is a Judas among them the most logical person is Kadence. Her husband was killed and without him she has no power. The commander (why call yourself that of all things?) probably offered her the shining armor from the other world or something similar.
Good story... any chance for a sequel?
I feel the final battle with Sunset a little rushed, also there are still other like Discord or Tirek or Cozy Glow
It seems that Twilight is being persuaded WAY to quickly for somepony that just wants to live a normal life, even with the explanation of some unknown enemy trying to counterfeit the elements(Seeing that we had a Changeling shown, I`m pretty sure everyone is guessing that its Chrysalis doing it.). Not to mention it IS Cadences fault for not telling Twilight WHY she wants her back.
Also I`m assuming when you say Elements, your not just talking about the original 6 elements, but rather just elements of any type of emotion or object like the Element of Rock/the Element of Stone/the Element of Patience etc.