Year Not-Even-Six-Months in Equestria.
Two days after the Cult of Discord had been put down and a day after Mous's trial. You haven't moved from your bed since you and Rainbow came home from the trial and all but collapsed into it.
These last few days, man...
It wasn't common for you to spend a week planning to put your best friend down because you thought he's destroy the world.
It took a lot out of you.
So you'd just lay here and take any rest you ca- Something is poking you in the ribs.
"Nuuuuuhh..."
"Anon, wake up." a familiar voice says.
"NUUUUHHHH!"
"Anon it's almost noon!"
You reach out and put the pillow over your head. "Daaaaash, I was pulling late nights for the past week trying to fix this Discord mess, let me sleeeeeep."
Rainbow boops the pillow off your head. "You've been asleep for hours, Anon! Any longer and you'll get stuck there."
You look at your clock. Sure enough, it says noon. You'd been asleep for sixteen hours.
"...Buh."
"Oh don't be a filly."
With great difficulty, you push yourself off the bed and up into a seated position, stretching and letting your joints pop and snap in protest.
"I don't know why you woke me, do we even have stuff to do today beyond being glad we're alive?"
Rainbow flutters over to you and up to your eye level. "SOMEONE has to help the town get back to normal."
You look at her with your groggy eyes. "And because I helped the Princess and you're and Element of Harmony, that means us, doesn't it?"
Rainbow crosses her hooves and nods.
BUH.
After some more prodding, Rainbow rolled you off the bed and into the shower. After that you scarfed down some toast and juice before throwing on whatever didn't smell and headed out.
You hold your hand in front of your face to shield your eyes as you step out into the early afternoon sun.
"Nnnngggg...now I know why Mous complains all the time."
"I thought that was just because he was a grouch."
You join Rainbow on the road into town. "That too, but I think I see his point here."
The two of you walk for a bit and you happily enter the part of the path with some trees for the shade.
As you do, a question forms in your mind.
"So...is the town all wrecked or something?
Rainbow turns to you as she flutters forward. "Huh?"
"Back at the house, you said we had to get the town back to normal? What changed?"
Rainbow rubs the back of her head. "Well, they did kinda interrupt the Winter Wrap Up ceremony. Some stuff got wrecked in the chaos. Not to mention that we've got a couple hundred ponies who are being held by the guards and waiting for trials."
"Oh yeah...leave it to him to bring 300 sum odd people with him when he surrenders."
"Yyyeeeaaaah...that's another thing."
"Huh?"
Rainbow's face falls a bit. "The last thing a lot of ponies in town saw was him siding with those cultists and running away, or the trial if they were there. They're not gonna have the best opinion about him."
Oh shit, you totally forgot about that.
"Well...guess we know where we should head first."
Rainbow floats up to you as you walk ahead. "Where are we going?"
"To tell the truth, I have no idea."
Where the hell DID Aloe and Lotus live, anyway?
Turns out Aloe and Lotus lived on the North end of town.
"See? I told you we'd find it."
Rainbow grumbles next to you. "Only took getting lost five times..."
The market was a confusing place.
"Hey, I got us here eventually."
You knock on the door three times. From inside the house you hear somepony moving about as well as a few saucy words in another language.
The door to the home opens and Aloe stands on the other side. "Ah. Anon, wasn't it? What can I do for you?" she asks.
"Hi Aloe. I think you have something of mine here?"
She sighs and steps aside, pointing her hoof upstairs. "Third door on the right, but good luck."
"Thanks."
You and Rainbow head up the stairs and find the door. You reach your hand out and knock three times.
"Go'way." the voice on the other side says.
You sigh and knock again.
"Fuggoff."
Three more times.
You hear someone moving around on the other side of the door before it's thrown open and Mous' head gets thrust out.
"WHAT DO YOU-oh hey."
"Hey man."
"I'm busy, what do you want?"
From the bare shoulder and his head you could see, you can imagine what. "We're going into town, we need to fix some stuff."
His face hardens. "Please tell me what needs to be fixed so bad that you're here right now at the WORST time."
"Your reputation."
Mous winces and looks away. "Yeah...yeah okay, hang on."
He shuts the door a bit and you hear more ruffling of fabric through the small crack left open.
The door's weight lets it creak open and you see Mous bare backed and manticore scarred and rooting around behind a bed with a lightly dozing Lotus under the covers.
"Where the fuck is my fucking shirt?"
You point up. "Dude."
Mous follows your finger to the ceiling fan where his shirt is hanging off of.
"Oh."
You wait outside for Mous to get dressed. After a few minutes time he walks out the front door, Lotus walking next to him.
Mous leans down and gives Lotus a peck on the lips before whispering something that sounds WAY too close to "I love you." for him and joins you.
Oh well, ask about that later.
"Can we make this fast? I've been wearing the same damn clothes since Winter Wrap up and they smell terribly." he asks.
"Are you sure that's not just your natural odor?"
"I saw that coming, fuck you."
You smile as Mous steams and Rainbow flutters ahead shaking her head. "I've known you two for months and you're still weird."
You and Mous fall in behind her and head into town. Upon reaching town, you catch sight of everyone. They run this way and that on their errands and shop at various stalls.
Interestingly, the shoppers were 90% royal guard, it seemed.
"What's with the security?" you ask.
"All the guardsponies are responsible for taking care of the prisoner Mous brought in, they're probably just trying to get food and blankets for them all." Rainbow says.
Mous sighs. "Greeeeeat."
The three of you walk into the town square and all activity seems to stop for a moment as everyone looks at Mous before going back to their things a bit more cautiously.
"Jeeze, it's like our first day here."
"Only weirder."
You hear Mous take a few steps back. "Look, if this is gonna be weird, I can leave..."
Oh hell naw.
You reach out and put your hand on his shoulder. "Dude, the journey of a thousand mile starts with a single step. And you having a rep around here that isn't hostile is a bit farther than a thousand miles away."
Mous sighs and runs his hand through his hair, then walking ahead of you. "Come on. Show me where these prisoners are being held so I can get this over with."
"Here, take these twice a day for a week and everything'll be fine."
The colt takes the pills and cup of water in his magical grip and nods. "T-thanks mister."
As the boy trots away back to his friends, you lean back and stretch out a bit. You had taken a seat at the medical tent and just done what the nurses told you to do. Turns out that a lot of the ex-cultists were suffering from exposure due to inadequate shelter.
It felt good to help them.
"Hold the damn thing up!"
You turn around and see Mous helping a Minotaur in cultist colors haul a large box towards a tent. Well, "help" is an operative word because it seemed to be crushing him as he held it over his head.
"Sir, I can carry this fine on my own." he says.
"How many times have I told you to cut that sir crap, Crete?"
He strains a bit and holds the box up higher. "Now where do you want it?"
The minotaur points out a spot and Mous drops the crate with a yelp.
"Are you alright si-"
"Crete, call me sir one more time." Mous says cracking his back.
The minotaur exhales through his nostrils and walks off to go do something else.
"Working hard?" you ask.
"Eat shit."
You flip him off and lean back to relax a bit. "How are they?"
Mous walks over and practically falls on his ass down next to you. "Still calling me sir, I hate it."
"They'll stop when they're ready."
"They need to hurry the hell up and be ready now."
You pat him on the back.
"I know it sucks, man. But remember what you told me in tenth grade."
"If you kick your locker it opens without putting in the combo?"
You reach out and flick his face. "No dingus. It was after I kissed Mark and everyone was calling me a fag."
Mous taps his head a bit. "Uh...was it "If I go to juvie, break me out."? I remember I punched a lotta people that year."
You chuckle at the memory.
"Close, but I think your advice was more "Fuck 'em, they're assholes and won't even care in a week."
Mous leans bag and slowly nods. "I think I remember..."
"It'll probably take a bit longer than two weeks...but people will come around."
From behind the two of you, the group of colts you helped treat earlier run past chasing a ball and laughing.
The ball bounces off Mous' foot. The boys gasp and look to one another before one of them braves up and walks over to Mous.
"That's uh...that's my ball, sir..."
Mous, despite the title, smiles and picks up the ball. "That it is."
The boys smile and come closer, still looking a bit unsure.
"What's wrong, little guys?"
They rub their hooves. "Well...Our parents are scared."
"Of what?" Mous asks.
The boys look at the two of you. "They said we all gotta go to Canterlot and get "tried" and that's bad."
Now you and Mous exchange a look.
One of the boys steps forward. "Sir...nothing bad's gonna happen, right?"
Mous sighs and rubs the colt's head. "No, kid. Nothing bad'll happen if I have my way." He picks up the ball and tosses it to the kid. "No go on, get out of here, go play."
The boys run off laughing again leaving you and Mous alone.
You wring your hands together. "Well..."
"That's three."
"Only got, what, a couple hundred more to go?"
Mous smiles for the first time today. "Pfffft. Easy mode."
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Nope. If there's one criticism I always get for this fic, it's the time jumps. Problem is that I've no idea how I could have done the immortality thing without time skips.
yea a past chapter! now im happy.
now only needs dash and anon's kid more and happy chapters...
2837139
But Thunderstrike doesn't have a personalityyyyyy...
2837164
then give him one!
2837176
But he existed so I could make a jooooooooke...
2837182
you did what!?
thats wrong! make a chapter just for him with dash and anon, give him a damn personality!
dont make me get pinkie on you...
Man, am I glad of this fact!
2837189
No really, I wrote him so I could do the Thunderstruck joke later on.
2837241
Been over a year...
How long do you intend to continue this? And when will you continue their multiverse shenanigans?
2837300
I will continue this until one of three things happens.
1: I TOTALLY run out of ideas.
2: I stop writing.
3: Reactions to my continued writing of this become so hostile that I do more harm than good.
And they do multiverse shenanigans when I get ideas, same as all the other bonus chapters.
So, this gonna be a new arc or something? Cuz I'd love to see more of this, this is one of my favorite fics on here.
2837322
*Hand waver*
Eeeeehhhhh...
2837314
Hmm... parallel universes?
I can only imagine the political chaos if those two got dumped into say... Diaries of a Madman?
2837339
Nav's gotten on my ass to read that thing a half dozen times and I've always turned him down , >one million words is not in the cards for a dude with a job.
2837339
Dude, I love that story. And they would... I don't know. WhatmustIdo has a way of making the terrible and impossible happen.... and at the end you think that maybe it just could.
2837449
Nav doesn't have the best reputation over on the threads...
2837494
What do you mean?
I was going to read...but 95 chapters is too much >.<
2837509
He has a reputation for being a bit of a dick about things, his story in particular. And the rumor spreads that he sockpuppets to praise himself.
2837542
You can take it in chunks like a lot of people or all at once like one guy I know. If you do all at once, it'll take about 5 hours. Also, only about 84 chapters are of the story proper, the rest are bonus stuff.
2837739
So getting out of bed is an endeavor suited only for the gods, but getting hundreds of ex-cultists who view you as their superior to treat you casually is easy mode?
Mous still confuses me.
2837770
He confuses himself.
2837770 the bed loves us. it warms, protects, and calms us. when we try to get up, not only do we not want to the bed doesn't want us to. so only those with the strength of gods can do it
2837731
I read it all at once and it took me several days of non stop reading.
Huh. I don't really understand why people whine about time-skips. It's just something that has to happen, we don't need every single detail of everything. I can't say I felt like I missed out on anything when reading this, and that's both times.
We got everything that was important or funny. The only thing I miss is a 'sequel' where they 'canonically' die happy after preferably doing something stupid and awesome for a while. Throw in some feels and I'm down with it, whatever that actually means. Heh, maybe even throw in a visit to the season-threeiverse with Twilicorn. I'm sure Anon and/or Mous can come with some witty quips about how silly the way Twilight was coronated, and how much more awesome 'their' Twilight story was.
2838522
I'm not touching Twilicorn until I see how it's done for more than ten minutes.
2838698
Thank ya, sah.
2838709
Hopefully we'll get some interesting material in the next season.
I don't really mind Twilicorn myself, I just miss the good old 'Alicorn Twilight' stories that seem to have gone out of style. I suppose it's not as fun to speculate about what she'd do if she suddenly found wings on her back when we now have the 'canon' answer. At least five minutes or so worth of it.
hmm what's the worst world they could end up in? or the best (besides equestria) ....i can just imagine them two in the halo universe right now
2838050 That was an answer of most grand caliber beauty.
It matters not whether you were the original crafter, for it still peacefully touches me all the same.
Thank you for gracing my being with such a poetic response, this, I am sincere of.
2838885
I have a joke with a friend of mine that if Mous ever ended up in the 40k universe, he'd turn into an Ork due to sheer gumption.
Yo Mandriod. Always glad to see new chapters.
Started reading this from /mlp/ then to paste bin then to here. It's actually what brought me to this site.
Love it.
Another good chapter, I love reading your work!
2837291 A fucking awesome year.
I mean, I only read this after you had finished the main story and were into the bonus chapters, but holy shit what a read.
Fuck yeah you wrote a hundred chapters of this thing. Wassamatta? You wanna start something about? DO YA?! PUNK?!? Well, let me tell you EXACTLY who would win: bspsociety.fr/sites/default/files/images/weneedyou.jpg
Bish, you went and crushed my feels throughout the course of this story. I get the feeling that you would be able to do on the spot, rendering me down to the same level of a heart attack victim. Fuck you, You're awesome.
2850703
Woo woo! Praise! I can put the noose away for another night!
2860930
Definition of a psychopath: Someone suffering from a mental disorder of some kind, and is prone to either violent OR abnormal social behavior.
Pinkie is not normal. Her mind clearly doesn't work anything like ours. I'd be hard-pressed to say she doesn't suffer from something. Whether it's bad or not, is irrelevant.
I'm not saying I don't like Pinkie. Far from it, she's one of my favorites.
I'm just saying that finding her in a dark alley is most definitely going to be a reoccurring nightmare for me, and there's a reason for that.
2860930>>2861038
There are times when I actively forget what parts of the fanon are fanon and what parts are canon.
Wingboners are fanon.
Lyra and hands is fanon.
Derpy is entirely fanon.
And serial killer Pinkie is fanon, a fanon I in particular don't like. The "personality" if you can call it that of Pinkie Pie being a serieal killer spawned out of Cupcakes (A poorly written fic intended for shock value) and Party of One, with the parallels drawn between the two.
In short; I really hate Pinkamena Diane Pie and will never write it. And it's not canon, so I can get away with that.
2861163
I never called her a serial killer, dude. I would never think that, she's too fun and playful.
I just think she's a little cuckoo.
WOOOOOOOO!! Triple digits!
2865794
No, I sang it in the shower while I was thinking it up.
The first AiE story I read.
2877213
That's pretty cool.
I relish in knowing that you aren't dead.
Yet.
2877248
That what is not dead may eternal lie and in stranger aeons yadda yadda yadda.
2877313
The strongest human emotion is fear, and the strongest type of fear is being in a room with snakes because fuck you they're scary.
2877364
>Room full of snakes.
You're forgetting someone.
i.imgur.com/kKf4f.jpg
2881208
I loved your story it took me 3 days to read seeing how good it was when I start reading I didn't stop, here have a moustach
2937132
I'm gonna fuck this up.
Gracias por sus amables palabras y deseos amables!
And a narration or animation? That'd be so friggen cool. But I'm not holding my breath.
Flash animation is HARD.
2939034
Can always use more of those.
2942595
We call those "Thematic bridges" or in Mandroid talk "Happy accidents."