Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 5
By TDR
Alakazam's Most Wanted,
Part 2
[ Ponyville, Seshat]
“Why am I here again?”Saturnia sighed glancing between Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer.
“Simple, I'm looking to study the changeling transfer thing that your mother used to give me the portfolios of the princesses.” Twilight spoke up. “I'm thinking it may help with figuring something out with the familiar spell.”
“Umm.” Saturnia narrowed her eyes, having been warned a few times to avoid Twilight when she was studying something.
“If you help Twilight with this, she'll use it on her brother and helping the eldest Sparkle sibling will get you points with Rahs.” Sunset sighed.
“So what do you need?” Saturnia stated immediately.
“I need to understand how changelings do something like that.” Twilight offered.
“They can't” Saturnia pointed out.
“Hold on, I've experienced it first hoof...”Twilight frowned.
“No no. A regular changeling cannot transfer power, they can do a bit with energy as it fits in with the feeding, detecting, and siphoning emotions. But that just at best adds up to a jolt of energy like a triple strength coffee, or a burst of emotion, or the love honey some can produce.” Saturnia explained.
“Love honey?” Sunset asked.
“There are bug like traits changelings have, mothers in particular produce love honey rather than milk to feed their offspring. It contains both emotion of love as well as actual nutrients to help the pupa grow. “Saturnia explained further. “It has a rather .. interesting effect on non changelings as well, but it's rather hard to gather in large quantities for obvious reasons.”
“Alright, back to the power transfer.” Twilight stated.
“Yes, that's something mother can do because she's the god of change, and changing a gods portfolio to another god is still change. That's why she was able to move the princesses powers to you.” Saturnia offered. “I can do that to a limited degree, but in my case it's mostly moving the magical energy from one subject to another. There's no other changeling who can do even that, and I suspect I only have that ability because I'm a demi god.”
“Hmmm, still it's something to look into just in case. I might need to study this ability of yours later.” Twilight considered.
“Yeah, that should be for another day though Twilight, better to have your brother here in case of any mishaps.” Sunset offered standing up from the table. “Besides I need to talk with her any way.”
“Remember the rules.” Twilight offered.
“Talk does not mean set on fire.” Sunset snapped, her ears drooping a bit as Twilight and Saturnia both stared at her in disbelief. ”Most of the time.”
[ Appleoosa, Woods.]
A flash of lightning cuts across the sky with a massive peal of thunder that seems to shake the very trees around them.
“Meh, I give it a four.” Spike offered.
“A four?” Firefly asked, Scootaloo having yelped at the crack of thunder and immediately clung to the disguised changeling.
The other girls and Spike were not going to say a damn thing about Scootaloo getting scared on something, as they didn't want a shouting match, and Firefly wasn't going to complain that his filly friend was clinging to him.
Of course he wasn't sure how he even got a filly friend, but he just rolled with it.
“Yeah, given where we are and everything else, the fact it's starting to get dark while we're hunting for a bad guy, the storm is just dramatic overkill. This would have been a much more tense encounter if it was just dark, with odd noises coming from the trees. “ Spike explained.” A storms going to drive off most of the possible threats and now we're probably gonna find our guy in his hide out, off guard because what idiot comes out in a storm? Actually that might work in our favor.”
“I don't think real life works following dramatic timing and story.” Firefly frowned.
“You would be surprised.” Spike nodded sagely.
“Come on you guys, ah found another giant hoof print.” Applebloom stated.
“ What does that make. Three over the whole trip? Does this guy float?” Sweetiebelle asked.
“What worries me is the size of the hoof prints.” Spike frowned. ”Any luck yet Firefly?”
“Hmm.” The changeling colt considered looking around.
“There's a couple of content bears over that way. I think they are bears, the emotions are simple and not too filling. I can feel something akin to... depression? I think, that way.” Firefly pointed a hoof, now that Scootaloo had untangled herself from him and was trying to pretend she hadn't been scared.
The others continued to ignore it.
“Alright, so we go that way.” Applebloom nodded.
[ Ponyville, Le- ho Foxes]
“So what is it you want?” Saturnia asked regarding Sunset with a bit of worry. She hadn't had too much interaction with the other demigod. To be asked to lunch by the mare was quite worrying. Still she had heard the beet chow mein in this place was delicious.
Sunset snapped a pair of chopsticks apart expertly guiding them with a hoof to gather noodles. Saturnia didn't even try to figure out how she knew how to do that, even the changeling had to take a form with fingers to use chopsticks.
“It's fairly simple. I want to make a deal.” Sunset explained as she clicked the sticks and gathered up the noodles, the kitsune shop keep was a little surprised that the pony ordered a meat dish with chicken.
“A deal?”
“Yep.” Sunset offered slurping a noddle. “The two of us are the ones who are going to be around the longest as such we are the ones who are likely going to have the best chance of hooking up with Rahs. Even if it's after some one else dies of old age. As such I'd like to make a deal with you.”
“And what might that be?” Saturnia asked gathering a forkful of food.
“Simple, the two of us don't fight each other. Hell, we might even be able to team up and ensure that we get him by working together.“ Sunset offered before downing another bundle of noodles from her chopsticks. “It's not as if something like that is unprecedented with the Sparkles, look at Cadence, Shining Armor, and Chrysalis. Maybe it's something sort of ingrained into their heads?”
“Neither Spike nor Twilight have more than one they are interested in.” Saturnia pointed out.” And besides, my mother and her mess are a special case.”
“Not hardly. There's quite a few gods out there with multiple partners, granted not many of them are married to any of them, but still.” Sunset offered. “Besides I expect you'd be willing to share if you get what you want. I may not be into mares that much, but if it takes something like that to ensure victory, I'm down.”
Saturnia frowned a little as she ate, not liking the fact the fire bug was making sense.
“Heck, it seems to work out well enough for your mom, and the married couple.” Sunset offered.” I mean, what does you dad think of that, or is he still around?”
“She is quite enamored with the arrangement.” Saturnia sighed. “Cadence is my sire.”
Sunset paused a moment tilting her head a little before she swallowed what was in her mouth.
“Cadence is your father?”
“Yes. And yes, I know it's weird....”
“Pfft, welcome to the club, Celestia isn't my mom.” Sunset chuckled.
“What? Wait....” Saturnia blinked.
“Yeah, Cadence had to have learned that spell from somewhere.” Sunset offered with a shrug.
“Eww.”
“No kidding.” Sunset agreed as she considered. “Huh. I just thought of another reason for the two of us to join forces.”
“And what's that?” Saturnia questioned taking a moment to get back to her food.
“Think of how pissed off Chrysalis and Celestia would be if the two of us worked together, let alone their reaction if we win and the pair of them suddenly become related by marriage.” Sunset grinned.
Saturnia considered, then laughed at that.” Alright, I do like that mental image. We'll work out the details, but you have a deal Sunset Shimmer.”
“Sweet. Then maybe you can help me with this other spell I've just seen in action, Rahs seemed to enjoy the result of it so I'd like to duplicate it.......”
[Crystal Empire]
Cadence frowned, standing on the balcony of the rebuilt palace staring southward.
“Shenanigans are at hoof.” Cadence uttered as she narrowed her eyes.
“Get back in here already or close the door, you're letting out the heat.” Chrysalis shouted.
[ Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaapleoosa, woods]
“I don't suppose you know where we are?” Sweetiebelle sighed.
“There's too many random jolts of fear from all the animals every time there's lightning or thunder. Every things drown out, and we're too far from town for me to feel that.” Firefly sighed.
“Great.” Applebloom sighed.
“It's not that bad. Soon as the rain lets up Scootaloo can fly up over the trees and either spot the town or the mountains and we know to head north from them to get back to town.” Spike explained.” Our biggest issue now is finding some place to shelter from this mess.”
“How about that?” Scootaloo pointed out from her new perch half wrapped around Firefly.
The group looked to where she was pointing and in a flash of lightning they could see an old gypsy cart broken down under a tree.
“What was that about real life not working by following dramatic timing and story?” Spike asked.
“Stuff it lizard.” Firefly sighed as the rain poured down on the group.
An excellent chapter, thank you once again.
Been hanging around Rahs too long. Then again, probably helps when he's DMing.
Sunset you little shit
What's Trixie doing out here?
lol
Cadance: “Somepony is shipping and it’s not me!”
Shining: “Was she like this when you two met?”
Chrysalis: “Worse. And before you ask, where do you think the legend of Cupid’s arrow comes from.”
Cadance: “HOW DARE THEY OFFER NEXT DAY DELIVERY!!!”
Chrysalis: “though being obsessed with the postal service is new.”
Shining: “Blame Twilight, an oversized box, a torn Smarty Pants doll, and a nat 20 during an epic LARP O&O campaign for that one. By the time Cadance found me I was halfway to Stalliongrad.”
Spike the better response is "Have you meet my brother?"
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i kinda want to see more of this tbh.
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That's not Trixie's cart, it's (of course) Trouble Shoes' one.
This had me reflexively going down to hit the "like" button. Pity I'd already hit it long ago.
Cadence is always funny when her shipping sense is going off.
Wait forit rahas is gonna end up with a harem and confuse the beep outta everyone
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no one would be more confused than him.
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How about every royal being realted by marriage in four kingdoms
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Sunset may be a little shit, but she's our little shit. And I wouldn't have my bacon horse any other way.
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The House Of Whinnysore?
Thing everyone gotto watch out for, is if the Sparkles decide to make things their buisiness, and they set up The Firm.
Spike on the cover all like "Wanna make something of it?"
Yeah, about that
Now that's a reason to work together
And you're missing out on all the fun
Love the name of the noddle joint a very werewolf of london refereance
The cutaway to Cadance on the balcony had me laughing. Good stuff!
Also, I am on Team Saturnia and Sunset now. A pair of demi gods with messed up genealogy!
I ship it
And this time I mean SunTurnia. Sunset might not be that into mares, but for that to be the case she needs to be somewhat into them, at the very least. I can see those shacking up just to screw with Sunbutt and Chagebutt and then just gradually falling in love.
Sunny would be the mother of their foals, obviously
I want to see these two's reaction when they know that another has just joined this marathon race.
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At least until Spike points out his romantic life has become the living embodiment of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.”
Rahs would then argue that he only has two brothers, two which Spike would respond: “I’m engaged to Apple Bloom. That’s one. You act differently for each of your suitors. Like each of your suitors gets to see their idealized version of you as opposed to all of you. Which could be argued that there are six different personas of you running around with your six brides.”
Rahs: “I did this to myself…”
I’ma just throw this (back) in here as it seems to grow more relevant with each season.
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Also
Preach it love bug, PREACH IT!!!!
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If the sparkles went political it would be officially known on the planet don’t piss them off/thieves guild warming on a global scale
Huh, okay, thinking transfer a small portion of the deity's power to the familiar? Just enough to make them at least ageless, if not as outright immortal as a god?
Sunset knows how to motivate somecreature. An Twilight knows how to terrify even a semi-divine pyromaniac into using that talent even when she might not want to.
Make sense.
Sunset..... there is NOTHING the comes out of your mouth that you could not find a way to make mean 'set on fire'.
See!?
Drama Dog's influence is strong on this one. He is quite savvy in the ways of the genre!
It does when your brother is essentially the literal God of Drama. Or your entire universe is built of Narrativium.
Commence Harem construction? Or just work out a time share deal with Rahs? You each get him one day a week?
Heh... hehehe..... heheheheheheeh HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! oh, oh Sunset, at this point, the only one that has any real assurances of not sticking around as long as you is Trixie.
The power of threesome will compel him!
Spike is just hitting puberty and Twilight is Twilight.
....... That alone makes me want this to happen all the more. Just add Jynx to the mix, because I'm still on her side! Plus she knows how to cook meat, so win for all three of you.
"If the power of threesome won't work, we'll try the power of boobs!" Leaving Trixie as the only one without that advantage at all.
"I felt a dark tremble in the Shipping Force!"
Deal with it bug. That's what you get for hanging around with the CMC AND a Sparkle!
Yeah I am loving this... what else is there to say?
So Jynx has the Dramatic Twist of being a God and Increasing Rahs's Dramatic reveal from one God to Two and now Sunset and Saturnia pulling the Two Rivals setting aside their differences to achieve a common goal. What Cards will Applejack and Trixie play to even this playing field and what will Aria do to catch up when she officially joins the fray.
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Hmmm… let’s see:
And then there’s Trixie. Having Jynx become a goddess may have actually improved Trixie’s odds of success in the short term, as she is now the only provable mortal in the group of suitors. This enhances her underdog status by putting the “doomed love of an immortal for a mortal” trope in play, but also paints a huge target on her back where fate is concerned.
If Twilight succeeds in developing her familiar spell before Rahs comes to any kind of decision, however, the trope will then be negated.
I think you mean pyrophili- *gets hit in the face with fireball*
Not specific to this chapter, but reading back over the older seasons, Firefly has been around since Season 1, as he's taking bets on how the fight between Rahs and Angel Bunny will end.
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That and Big Mac is clearly the side pony in the relationship. Twilight’s first romantic interest has always been her books. Millions upon millions upon millions of them.
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I’m currently waiting for the next round in their epic fight. It’s been far too long since those two went at it.
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Who says it’s going to end? Angel is a descendant (ancestor?) of White IIRC, and “eternal rivals” is a long-established trope. Plus rivals are not always enemies, though that status can evolve back and forth over time.
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That specific fight.
Life is a stage and Rahs is the god of Theater sooo...
Time to play the part and turn the entertainment to Eleven 👏
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Narritivium? That's a new one... I like it
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Not mine though, it's from the genius of the late and so very great Sir Terry Pratchett.
For potencial devine orgys
"You're letting the stank out!"
Celestia and Chrysalis become familie after fight because of it. The Irony
Celestia & Chrysalis would start killing one another on who is allowed to spoil the little ones
Everyone's life is a story of another multiverse fanficion.
I just hoped I be the rich, the powerful or the famous one. But at least I am not from one comedic drama one