Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 5
By TDR
The Mane Abracadabra,
Part One
[ Ponyville, Seshat Castle]
“Wait, you know Countess Coloratura?” Rainbow Dash demanded.
“Ah dunno, ah had a friend as a filly named Coloratura, but she wasn't no Countess.” Applejack offered.
“It is most likely a stage name.” Trixie offered.” Most big stars use one.”
“Maybe... why are you here again?” Applejack demanded glaring at Trixie.
“Pinkie hired me to run the fireworks, and since she's not here Twilight took over the organization of the event.” Trixie pointed out. “And since Twilight is in charge of everything now I need to talk to her about where I'm supposed to set up as soon as she's done writing her lists. Helping some one else look good isn't usually my thing, but a paycheck is a paycheck and this one isn't bad.”
“Still surprised is all.” Applejack offered. ”Specially since Rahs ain't here.”
“I was hoping to see him but Trixie didn't know he was going to be sent away by a tree!” Trixie snapped.
“Sorry.” Seshat offered. “But he was needed.”
“For what?” Trixie demanded.
“Huh guess you didn't get the story.” Rainbow Dash offered.
“Rarity told me some things but I may have missed it due to the Princesses being here.” Trixie offered calming back down.” While we wait for Twilight I wouldn't mind being filled in on everything.”
“Yer being awfully civil fer some reason.” Applejack muttered. “ Specially with me here.”
“Please, Applejack, Trixie is always civil while on the job. And in truth while I am not happy with you also chasing after Fuzzy, given your condition we understand it. While we do not fault you for your interest, we are most certainly not going to let you win. But it is pointless to fight over some one who is not even here.” Trixie explained. “Besides, most of my issues are with the bug and the other bitch, not you or Sunset. Granted Sunset and Trixie have multiple other things to argue about that do not involve Fuzzy after Trixie's time as Princess Luna's student. In any event something was brought up to Trixie that almost guarantees Trixie will win Fuzzy.”
“Oh this ah gotta hear.” Applejack huffed.
“Hey I wanna know too, I might need to change my bet.” Rainbow Dash offered.
“It's simple. Fuzzy is the god of theater.” Trixie began.
“Oookay.....” Applejack frowned.
“I'm gonna need more than that to change my bet.” Rainbow Dash demanded.
“Trixie is a show pony, a student of the theater. However Trixie is just that, a pony. Trixie is not the daughter of a goddess like Sunset. Trixie is not able to shape shift into anything he might desire like the bug, Trixie is also not cursed with a form that is enough to make him drool like you. And Trixie most certainly isn't a bitch that is the diamond dog ideal form of beauty and power.” Trixie explained. “ Trixie is just a pony. Trixie is the one with nothing that puts her ahead of anyone else.”
“Ummmm” Applejack blinked then narrowed her eyes as she caught on.” Oh you sneaky.....”
“What?” Rainbow Dash demanded.
“ Trixie is the underdog in this battle for love Rainbow Dash. “ Trixie grinned. ”Which means Trixie's victory is all but certain as underdog wins are the most dramatic sort there are.”
[ Bayston]
“Nah, ain't nothing unusual round here ah've seen” The guard stallion shrugged looking to the large blue diamond dog and the pink mare with him. “ But if yer looking for something crazy, the club scene down town is always nuts it's like we gotta break up a fight every night.”
“What about the long pigs?” the other guard with him offered.
“Pfft. There ain't no such thing. Next you'll be telling me there are gators in the sewers, and that PETA group proved that was false. There's no gators in the sewers, just nest of huge rats down there, and they want to be part of the city council.”
“Not sure I'd want a rat on the city planning board, no matter how smart.” the other guard muttered.
“HAH, how could you tell the difference from what we already got?” The first guard offered as they both laughed.
Rahs raised an eyebrow at that before he looked down to Pinkie Pie who shrugged.
“Any luck?” Sunset asked trotting up to the two pair as the Guard moved off to continue their patrol.
Rahs sighed shaking his head.
“Not even a little lead. We've talked to the Guards, to locals, to shop keepers and bakers and grannies in the windows who watch everything and we haven't found out anything except Gummy doesn't have any family here.” Pinkie huffed.
“Well I've got good news then. Because I think I found why we're here.” Sunset grinned magically floating a bar flier up for the pair to read.
“Tonight at Cheers, five bit cover and mares enter for free. Live bands on stage. The metal band Mega Dog headlining, also including Days of the Gnu, Iced Equss, Katty, and Clench.”
“What, no not that part!” Sunset huffed.
“I should hope not, those bands all go hard except for Days of the Gnu. Their fastest song is at best considered slow rock. Everyone else is gonna fire up the crowd and the mosh pit, when they play , everyone's gonna wander off and take a nap.” Pinkie Pike explained
“Pinkie Pie read the bottom.” Sunset growled. ”That concert was yesterday.”
“Oh. Let's see then, Wednesday night's live band is..... The Song Fishies......” Pinkie Pie frowned. “ They can't be that dumb.”
“I asked, they are, the descriptions matched.” Sunset smiled.
“Woof.” Rahs smirked.
“Yer, gods damned right.” Pinkie Pie growled.
“Hope the club owner has insurance.” Sunset cackled.
[ Ponyville]
“So is that enough to change your bet Rainbow Dash?” Trixie grinned.
“Nah.” Rainbow Dash offered.
“Really?” Applejack questioned.
“Yeah. See I might not be as into theater as Trixie and Rahs, But I've seen a heck of a lot of plays in the last few years. And I've seen a lot of narrative tropes.” Rainbow Dash waved a hoof. “ Took me a minute to understand what Trixie was getting to there though.”
“No offense, but Trixie is surprised you know the term, narrative trope.”
“Whatever, any way, the underdog winning is one thing, but then you've got the 'cursed mare' trope that Applejack fills. Heck that's more beauty and the beast than your stuff. Granted it's sort of a reverse of that trope since both of them would be the beast, but whatever. Then there's Jynx which fits the whole 'Princess of an enemy tribe turned friend' thing. Then you've got Sunset rocking the bad Princess who needs to be set straight trope, though that may be from porn, I dunno.” Rainbow Dash offered her wings fluttering. “ Then we have the monster princess trope from Saturnia. Really all that equals out to the dark horse thing. Cause all of them are pretty drama heavy and boring. The only one missing is the evil overlords daughter turned good from the power of love and we'll have a whole set.”
Applejack and Trixie stared at Rainbow Dash.
“Is it a changeling?” Trixie demanded.
“Ah dunno.....” Applejack offered.” Ah ain't never seen her go full nerd a'fore.”
“Oh screw you both. Do you have any idea how many plays and operas and shit I've been dragged to by Prince and his parents? Mostly his mom, it's like she's trying to force' culture' into me. At least when it's Prince bringing me the play tends to be interesting if it's not part of his job, or it's so boring we can have some fun in the booth.”
“Trixie does not like the 'cultured' Rainbow Dash.”
Definitly a changeling *nods*
Very soon, if I read the story's mood right.
Then what would Trixie think of 'Rainbow Dash always dresses in style'?
... so given the blatant teasing, which fishy will Rahs accidently catch...
“The only one missing is the evil overlords daughter turned good from the power of love and we'll have a whole set.”
Hello Tempest Shadow.
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So has Luna adopted anyone else aside from Rahs and Sweetie Belle into her family lately?
I think Sombra needs a siblingor three.
Sunset is his cousin. Technically Sweetie Belle is his Aunt and Rahs is his nephew… he needs a brother/sister figure in his life.
I wonder if Luna will adopt Trixie…
So when do we now find out about Trixie's secret backstory? Something like her being an unknowing princess of a lost civilization?
To many tropes, not enough characters to to help the troped females.
Oh, Trixie, Trixie, Trixie. You had everything going your way, and were genre-savvy enough to know it. And then you had to go and throw it all away by SAYING IT OUT LOUD! You of all Rahs’ suitors should know that one should never tempt fate — especially when there are three literal Fates to tempt into joining the betting pool!
That — is a surprisingly cogent analysis, and from Rainbow Dash, no less. Are we sure she hasn’t been replaced by an alien robot, or hasn’t been one all along?
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In this story, I’d love to see an old acquaintance quickly recognize her and call her out as Fizzlepop Berrytwist, immediately ruining the whole emo vibe she had going for most of the film.
*Shudders at the 'long pig' comment*
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Could also apply to any of the sirens...especially Adagio since at this point she's the only one I'd actually consider evil...
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Of course there are enough Characters. There's Rahs. Good enough.
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I'd say she was more edgelord than emo.
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Klytus, Im bored. What do you have for me to play with today.
The Singing Fishies? Forget the club having insurance, theyre gonna burn Sludge out of his sewer pit and turn the city into Fallout central ifif they go all out.
Correct Applejack, Trixie is indeed the underdog in this story and theater adores a good underdog story
Ahhh, well, this should be interesting
Though theater also adores everything Rainbow just brought up as well
I hope the Dazzlings don‘t get hurts too bad.
Rainbow Dash is about as cultured as yogurt.
i like it and i really like were this is kind of pointing.
While Rainbow Dash has had a surprising level of character development (or has she just wound up on Tvtropes ?) thanks to her relation with Bluey, what I'm really curious about is what power up/transformation she is going to get.
Since Pinkie is Pinkie, and we've had Twilicorn, Flutterbat, Witch-Jack and Mightmarity.
The latest of which still feels incredibly appropriate, since both of Sweetie Belle's sisters have gone Nightmare, and what does Sweetie turn into when under Poison Joke ? A Nightmare.
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If things go as original, Tempest will run into 5+ gods/goddesses, None of whom will be inclined to hold back. She'll be lucky to be conscious more than half-a-minute after issuing her demand for surrender.
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Females!
They might not be, it could be some other song fishies. In unrelated news, shoo be doo, shoo shoo be doo.
So this is likely the point where another girl joins the race for Rahs' heart. I still think it'll be Aria. I believe that she has skills that would complement Rahs such as her mechanical knowledge. Plus, among the three, Adagio may be too power hungry and is likely to become a major threat somewhere down the line while Sonata is...Sonata and she wants to go home without feeling worried about her sisters' well being. Aria seems to fit the bill of 'Evil Overlord's daughter turned good through love' especially when you consider Discord as the 'Evil Overlord' even if you add 'former' to that title. Aria just seems to be the more likely one among the three to find love in my opinion.
In this story, I’d love to see an old acquaintance quickly recognize her and call her out as Fizzlepop Berrytwist, immediately ruining the whole emo vibe she had going for most of the film. can we please have this happen even in an omake will work.
Every time I hear Blueblood being called prince I can’t help but imagine him speaking in Will Smith’s voice.
Was that a gw2 reference?
So far, all of the Interested females all have some sort of Group Culture behind them. My bet is that Rahs is going to get the whole Play with all acts and scenes. He may not Quite understand what exactly just happened when it goes down, but he'll probably be happy with all of the girls getting along.
...I think Dash just gave the confirmation that one of the Sirens is gonna be love interest number 6
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I've been saying this for MONTHS, but it is gonna be Aria. He's actually had SOME Interaction with her, as opposed to the other two.
Assuming no harem scenario, yes, exactly this. I disagree with Rainbow that the others' tropes balance this out. Trixie is also a showmare and so magically, she's aligned with his portfolio which I think still gives her an edge.
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I still stand by my answer.
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Ahh but so are the others.
Jynx is a god now, that matches, plus the fact anopther tribe of DD tried to kill him. Drama
Sunset is all about the drama
Saturnia 's mother is more drmatic than rahs almost
And Applejack is his own species though a over convoluted and drama ridden means.
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I don't.
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Only yogurt? Come on, man, she's at least a sauerkraut.
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You caught that too? Glad it wasn't just me.
So... is there going to be another summit? As far as I can recall, Jynx and Rahs still haven't been introduced to the rest of the Gods. Jynx I could understand since she became a God very recently, but didn't Rahs become a god the same time Twilight did? It feels like some time has passed since then.
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rahs has been avoiding a summit because he wants to plan a massive dramatic reveal that he's a god
let’s be real, the true drama of whom Rahs will date is never gonna be resolved; the drama of it going on is juicier than any individual drama brought by one person in the chase.
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So… his eventual wedding to all 6 members of his harem.
Cause nothing will be anywhere near as dramatic as a royal wedding of six suitors to a prince of Equestria.
Not that Chrysalis didn’t try to make Cadance’s wedding the most dramatic in history.
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oh no . trust me there's something FAAAAAAAAAAAAAR more dramatic than a wedding to six girls by a Prince.
The mantra of everyone whose job requires dealing with others.
Not enough to just be a showpony and expect him to fall for you because of it. But this is Trixie so..... I'm sure she believes that's all it will take.
............. I want to fight her on this... I really want to argue and yet.......... she's not wrong........ However, you do have the that 'known him longer then any of the others and already forged a connection to him.' on your side so it does give you an edge the rest lack.
How would you tell the difference between the rats and the politicians?
Some jokes are just obvious.
When freaking PINKIE PIE! Is saying you can't be that stupid...... you fail at everything... forever. Yes, yes they can be and are that dumb. And.. a good group to deal with them, Pinkie is an eldritch abomniation that nothing knows how to deal with, Rahs just noms their mind control, and Sunset..... well she's around in case in case this calls for a little cook out.
I very much doubt Sunset would mind at all if it went that route.
Oh damnit he's collecting Sonata for his harem..... Also..... damn that was spot on RD. Just...damn.
I'm sure she means flicking refreshments at other snooty ponies and playing cards... yes that kind of fun.... Oh, wait, this version isn't Y7.... yeah they haven fun.
So moving things along, we see what the threes mission is, and more hinting at the further insanity of Rahs Harem. Nice.
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Eh, then that would make her legally Rahs aunt which would mess with Luna pushing for her to win him over.
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Now I have the mental image of the Fates joining the Ponyville betting pools, because things are so chaotic and nonsensical there, even they aren't sure how some of his will play out and they love that.
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*Tempest strolls down off the airship all imposing and makes her demands then stops near the end, baffled at why half the crowd is ignoring her and just going on with the festival, the other half are busy gathering together with bits trading hooves seeming placing bets on something*
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It's going to involve a massive, over the top death scene, isn't it?
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Oh no.... It's going to be six individual weddings, each trying to outdo the rest!
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Sonata maybe, but my money’s actually on Aria. She said she’s been waiting for someone who’s worth her time, and I’d bet she’d get a kick out of the fact that Rahs beat Discord up. Plus, so far Sonata’s shown absolutely no interest in anything romantic up to this point
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Dude... Cook out? You had the fish fry joke right there arrrrgh.
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Should we tell her it's working?
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I hope it's intra-harem shipping
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I agree that might be one of the sirens. Remember the music competition in Ponyville last season? The sirens only got 2 votes while all three of them casted the vote. However, I highly doubt it would be Adagio.
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I dunno, if we're measuring his suitors by drama level, which one of the Song Fishies is the one causing the most?
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And they are all planned for the exact same day at the exact same time.
And Rahs is marrying all 6 of them. :P
I like genre-savvy Trixie.
Loved this whole part.