"Page!"
I stopped halfway down the corridor to see Midnight galloping towards me, "Midnight? What's wrong?"
She almost slid to a half as she stopped with a grin, "Nothing's wrong! We think we got it!"
"You found a way to get back home?" I asked, looking at her in surprise.
Midnight nodded, "Yes! Twilight and I spent the last couple of weeks on the calculations and spell matrix equations, but we think we got it!"
"I would have thought you'd be halfway home already, what are you doing here?"
Midnight shifted her wings with a grin, "Packing."
D'oh. Of course.
"And, I wanted to invite everypony to come see me off," she said with a smile, "I was on my way to Princ- to Celestia when I ran into you. Do you and Luna want to come?"
"Of course we'll be there," I told her with a smile, "And Sunset too."
"Thanks," Midnight said and sighed softly, "...I'm going to miss this place."
"But home is better," I told her, "You have friends waiting for you back home."
"I know," Midnight said, "But I'll miss everypony here too. I think I found a way to send messages back and forth, but… without testing it, I can’t be sure if it will work."
I nodded, "You have been here for a while now... year and a half?"
"Almost," she agreed, "I wonder what happened at home while I was gone. Did Starlight win? What happened?" she asked and then shook her head, "I can't worry about that yet. I just have to fix it when we get back."
"Maybe asking Celestia for one of those alicorn sets of armour for you before you leave wouldn't be a bad idea," I said, "Just in case... When will you end up? I mean, you were in the middle of time travel when Discord snatched you from the timestream. Do you end up when you started, when it ended, in the middle?"
Midnight shrugged her wings, "According to the calculations, I should be dropped back at the start of the original spell, just before the scroll, me and spike was sucked into the vortex and then we'll go through it again. But... I wouldn't hurt to be prepared," she then admitted, "I'll ask when I meet Celestia."
"Doesn't hurt to be careful," I said and flicked my right ear.
Midnight nodded, "I have spent quite a bit of time talking with Starlight too," she said, "Try to find some way to talk her other self down. I have some ideas I think might work."
"That's good. But just to be sure..."
"Wear armor, I know," Midnight agreed, "And Twilight has taught me a bit more about how to defend myself if necessary."
"Always a good thing to know, just in case," I said with a smile, "So, where are you doing the spell thing?"
"At the library and the crystal map," she answered and shrugged her wings again, "only place it can be done, really. It uses the metamagical frequency of the maps-"
I held up my hoof, "You lost me at metamagical," I said, "I'm not bad at spells, but I'm nowhere near your or even Sunset’s level when it comes to theory. I can follow a spell casting diagram and that's pretty much all."
Midnight flicked her ears in question but nodded in acceptance, "...To be fair, that's about all you really need," she said, "But it's so much fun!"
I grinned, "I'll get into studying advanced magical theory the moment Sunshine extends the day to be forty eight hours instead of twenty four."
"Busy?"
"Oh yeah," I sighed, "There is the batponies, dream patrols, whatever is going on with the 'lings this second, and then to try to make peace between Sunshine and Sunny, I think Sunny is still pissed Celestia blasted me off the tower... then getting ready for Hearth's Warming, and I have a gift for you to bring back home, by the way. and a million other things. Not to mention that my publisher is riding my tail about actually getting the draft finished on the new book."
Midnight actually cringed, "...And here I am, taking up even more of your time."
"Oh no," I told her and quickly shook my head with a smile, "There is always time for friends. I'll make time if nothing else."
She smiled and flicked her ears, “I know what that’s like,” she admitted with a small sigh, “From back home… and here I suppose.”
I nodded, “Sparky is the same.”
“Speaking of busy,” she said, “...I should likely go find Celestia and then get packing.”
“And I need to go find Sunset.”
...And raid the kitchens for mangoes, but let’s not tell anypony about that. I need to find out where they get their hooves on those too, it’s the middle of the winter!
Do they have hidden magical mango farms? Or are they imported? Or kept somehow in magical stasis?
Whatever it was, I needed to find out because a steady supply of mango was critical to the running of Equestria.
Clearly.
And not just because I liked to snack on them and because they have turned into my favorite fruit lately.
Not at all.
I glanced off towards the way Midnight left in. As glad as I was that she and her Spike is going home, I’ll miss her.
We had just started to become friends.
I'm sure this will go perfectly fine and there will be no complications of any sort.
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Uh-huh. The spell misfires and Page gets transported in the canon!universe while Midnight stays behind. And he has to start everything over again, this time as alicorn.
Glad to see Midnight able to go home in this series, and hopefully BP will be able to get the thestral movement going to gain steam in the good way soon.
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And then you jinxed it and MOAR Chaos happens!
I like it, but they are too short chapters, is there any possibility that you will make them a little longer in the next chapters?
Oh cool
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I afraid, that Page is too savvy for staying too close to such spell matrice, so such accident would happen. Still it would be nice twist, if not for main serie, then for some new small alt-story. Of course, we don't know how time connections between Canon-Equestria and Page-Equestria work, if it's linear, then it's serious risk that right now Canon is seriously fu***d, due to lack of Midnight (about this name, she gonna confuse her girls a lot, as she probably is pretty used to this name at this point) in this.
Also I wish to know, how will Midnight resolve her next meeting with Canon-Starlight. After all she learned a lot of about her from Page-Starlight and she, if she will want, can really grind her with this.
And we can still call this Canon-Equestria? In Canon Twilight never dissapeared in other world for 1,5 year.
Edit: I also really wish for this connection between universes to work, as I wonder about reaction of Canon?Luna to fact, she has husband in other worlds.
Another edit:
I forget about this part, so basicly Midnight get bonus 1,5 year of foreknowlegde and additional growth as alicorn princess for her world, along with some lessons from this world, she may become little alien for her own friends due to this.
You know, page should write a book. That involves Batponies, and while I shudder saying this if he makes it a love story it will really bring people into the idea that Batponies are good. I swear to god though that if he writes Twilight (book) I wont know if to smack him or praise him for his diabolical plan.
Also little idea:
BP: So you are saying, that you can't take anything from this world to your?
Midnight: Unfortunally no, only things from my original world and these, that are, well, part of me or my Spike can move back, but I believe I can take one other thing with myself. And only you can give me it.
BP: What do you mean?
Midnight: Well, childrens before their birth are defacto part of mother, even by magical factors, so...
BP: I don't know, if I'm blessed or cursed, to be honest...
We think is the critical part here so the question isn't if it's going wrong, just how bad will it go wrong?
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I don't know if I want to find out how here family reacts, if they are never able to meet the father.
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Been a while since I last seen that video.
What’s with that slip up?
Tia, you getting friendly with the other dimensions?
Thanks for the new chapter! Looking forward to the update!
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My "murphy's law is going haywire" detector is reacting like crazy to this entire chapter...
Maybe it's just that page is gonna get caught mid-kitchen-raid.
You ever stop moving so suddenly that you are cut in half by a weird quirk in the quantum mechanics of the entire space-time continuum?
I hate it when that happens.
One hell of a adventure for Main Story Twilight Sparkle. Luna will be displeased she dont get a Alicorn Stallion to marry...
Poor Main timeline Royal Sisters... No snu-snu for them in the near future...
Did Midnight will take a event-log from this universe? Stormking is a bitch of a event to prepare for...
Page be like:
Keep the Mango coming!
Lol the mango addiction begins
Short chapters every day v. Long chapters once a month? I’ll take the short chapters every day, thank you. Why? I read the funny papers. Need that fix every day. Stories updated every day you don’t forget what’s happening because your mind is literally refreshed every day. I got into this series late. I read all the rest when they were already finished. A day is really too long to see what happens next.
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“Corporal Iron Shine, of the Royal Legion, reporting for cross training Lieutenant.” Iron Shine recited, standing tall, which in it of itself was already impressive.
So much so that she dwarfed the two stallion Guard ponies that stood before her.
The sergeant, a Pegasus, looked on in a mix of awe and a twinge of horror, while the Lieutenant offered and crisp and professional salute in return.
“At ease.” He smirked when even this command failed to shrink the massive mountain of a mare before them. “They make them any bigger where you’re from, Corporal?”
“Not many, sir.” She smirked herself, once again going through the familiar routine of stallions being put off by her size. “This won’t be a problem will it, sir?”
“Quite the opposite.” The Lieutenant said under his breath, before shaking himself back to his senses. “We have rounds to get to. Sergeant.”
The Pegasus, jolted for a second before offering his own salute and took off to see to his own duties.
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Nice!
I imagine they have a tiny little magic mango tree somewhere that grows enough normally for one meal a day
same with coffee, it grows just enough for a cuppa
hope he mentions to her a thing or two about the storm king, bat ponies, the changelings...omg he has sooooooo much to prepare her for
1.
Meanwhile in Midnight's world(if the spell won't transport her how it was supposed to and she will end up in her world and 1,5 year passed without her ):
Meanwhile........... Somewhere.......... Maybe future? :
2.
Well....... it cant be more obvious than it is
Page, you are fucked and are going with Midnight on a trip to her world
MEANWHILE...AT THE SHIPPER PITY PARTY
Discord: ugggh I can't believe we drank cider non-stop for the past four chapters!!
Cadance: Shut up! My head hurts like a---
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
Cadance: *suddenly sober* The Ship-o-Meter is going off! *looking at the graphs* There's a high possibility of a development shift for Midnight Sparkle within this week! DISCORD...Get up! We have work to do!
Discord: Aww but do I have to be involved?! It's the other Twilight we're talking about...ponies are still mad at me over that!
Cadance: Discord! A true shipper faces the challenges no matter how uncomfortable! For our ships to sail into glory, we must shelter them from the storms until the ship reaches its destination! You and I may have different priorities...but Page's growing herd must be nurtured and protected! WE MUST WORK TOGETHER!
Discord: ......Teach me Cadance-senpai!
Cadance: I will teach you the ways my kohai!
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This video links... I could kiss you ♡
...I totally forgot who Midnight was...
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Other Twilight who was brought with another Spike to this alternate dimension by Discord.
"Wear armor, I know," Midnight agreed, "I’ll be taking Twilight’s Mark XXIX Ironmare FlutterBuster armor."
“Isn’t that a bit of overkill?” I asked.
“Starlight suggested I take it.”
“....Well...she’d be the expert on how to beat herself, I suppose....”
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I think Timber Buster(Timber wolf) would be better. Or Rage buster(Saddle Rager). Also, did you reference an Iron Man armor?
I tried dried mango once. Tasted like shit.
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Take a fresh mango, cut it up into slices, and place it in a dehydrator. It's the best homemade snack I've ever tasted.
Otherwise, I find your lack of faith disturbing...
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Don't worry, Twilight will fix it.
Nuclear option engaged.
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What the fuck did I just watch start to finish?
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I do believe you mean what the actual fuck.
BECAUSE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
Did Midnight ever read Page's novels?
There is probably a 'Gray Market' of legal but limited access. Royalty, Nobility, rich clients and special groups probably have priority items there for slightly inflated prices.
I know a few people who work in gray markets.
All strictly legal, but having access to higher quantity, quality or simply a 24/7 access all year around is worth a lot of money!
There are people that want all year certain fruits or other consumables, having greenhouses bridge the usual gaps in the year supply line?
Literally how how can become very wealthy.
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The usual shelf stuff or the gourmet ones? Because that is the difference between a random person cooking and a restaurant professional cooking.
Of course the price is equally higher.
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Absolutely priceless, everyone around me just wondering what was so funny.
Priceless 👍
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Still the best mlp royal fan video vs villains ever ♡
Girl you are using a time travel spell, just return to your timeline at the time just after leaving it in the first place or even early...