Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 5
by TDR
Crusaders of the Locate City,
Epilogue
[ Two Weeks later, Ponyville]
“Well this has been a thing.” Applebloom sighed as she looked at the boarded up store front of Barnyard Bargins. The building was empty and stripped of any signs it had been anything in just a few days.
“Well you can't really blame her for wanting to leave this place.” Spike shrugged.” Though closing up the family store here, selling the manor and canceling the deal with the Apples was a bit much.”
“Meh, that part ain't gonna hurt us. Granny's been turning down other deals fer Zap apple products for years cause of the agreement with Mr. Rich.”Applebloom offered. “ Closing down Barnyard Bargains don't sit right due tah all tha ponies who are now outta work until some one else buys tha building.”
“Rarity says that she didn't close all the stores just this one because it under preformed. Mr. Rich supposedly only kept it open as it was his first store and this is his home town.”Sweetiebelle explained.
“Also she's not selling the manor, she's having it bulldozed and selling the land.” Scootaloo pointed out. “The demolition team has already put in a request to have the weather team hold off the scheduled storms for a while. My aunt is rather annoyed at the extra paper work.”
“I really can't tell if this is bothering her or not.” Firefly offered as the group walked past the closed down store.
“What do you mean?” Sweetiebelle asked.
“Well, I've run into her a few times around town and all I get out of her is anger, there's not even a hint of depression or sadness.” Firefly shrugged.
“Well she did tell Silver Spoon to buck off when she tried to talk to her.” Sweetiebelle offered.” I don't really see any change in her really either.”
“Sweetiebelle,Firefly, shush. Much as we dun like her Diamond had something horrid happen to her and we ain't gonna say anything bad bout her.”Applebloom huffed.” She's gone any way tah live out in Detrot, so it ain't our problem.”
Spike winced a little rubbing his filly friend's back as she pressed against him. Diamond wasn't the only one that went through something like this after all. Even if Applebloom barely recalled her own parents.
[ North bound train.]
“I expected to see you sooner.”
“It's not as if I can travel as easily as you, there are far too many creatures who might notice me and they would not take kindly to my continued existence.”
“Like that stupid tree?”
“That was unexpected, but it seems so yes. I received your message and was there. Forgive me for not revealing myself at that point, but with as many gods as were in town I certainly didn't want to be seen, thankfully they were all distracted.”
“Well?”
“Hmmph. While not what I expected from you, it was certainly something. But I am hardly impressed with pointless death.”
“It was hardly pointless. Though it was far too easy given she was going to poison my father's drink any way, I just expanded the targets making it easier to pin on her. Poison is easy to understand when you studied alchemy to keep ahead of one of your rivals, though i'm far behind her now that she's studying with a zebra.“ the young mare huffed. "Their deaths mean that everything on both sides of the family's empires are mine. The wording on the form for my mother put all she owned in my name before hers' was erased from the records. My grandparents on her side don't have any sort of claim any more either."
"Impressive."
"It's like my mother used to say, 'if there is a problem, do whatever it takes to remove it and come out on top'. Backing your project will not even be questioned now.”
“True, true. I suppose I should give you this for now before I tell you anything else.”
The pink maned stallion offered the young mare before him a braided bracelet made out of some black fibrous material.
“A friendship bracelet? Seriously?”
“Hardly. I've been cultivating a particular type of vine that has very interesting properties in regard to gods powers. It will only last a few weeks before you will need a new one, but it will keep beings like Luna from snooping in your dreams and the gods won't be able to scry you, or in some cases even see you. However it's a temporary thing. While it will allow you to move unwatched by the Fates and a particularly annoying rabbit, it will wear out as the vines dry out. It doesn't seem to work that well on the tree either, though perhaps my bracelet had gotten old.”
“Whatever, so then is this enough?”
“Very much so. With your money and cunning, my research should progress much faster, particularly as I no longer need to hide in questionable locations to set up shop. Constantly having to move has been quite annoying. Once everything is set up, then I can start to keep my end of the bargain. And better still I will be able to show you the progress I've made thus far.” The stallion smirked. “That should remove any fears you have about me.”
“I expect so, all you've made thus far are promises, and until I see proof, I very much will worry about you Jedidiah .”
“Please Miss Diamond Tiara, we are going to be working together and need to trust one another. “ The stallion smiled. “Call me Solomon.”
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Well, it was what happens in a game where you don't pay attention to how things interact. It was basically using metamagic feats in 3,5 edition AD&D that would turn a 1 mile radius / caster level spell designed to detect villages and towns, and turn it into a 1 mile radius / caster level spell that could do hundreds of D6 damage to any creature in that area. Seriously, "Locate City Nuke" will take you straight to several variants on Google.
huh, I had actually forgotten that Sombra's (Insert vile enough curse here) of a 'Father' was still around, I was actually hoping Rahs accidently snuffed his undead ass by accident during the Triek fight.
...ok I finally get to do this.
HA, CALLED IT!
Welp, turns out it was her after all. This could be... a problem.
It's been a while so I really gotta wonder... what caused her to go this off the deep end? Is she just a crazy angry filly that just kept getting worse?
What the fuck? So, DT went from mildly annoying bully that sometimes says mean words to psycho mass murderer? How the fuck did you manage this leap? Seriously, this makes Anakin's sudden shift into child murder look reasonable. I really hope there's some flashbacks or something showing how this happened or some other explanation.
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Bingo. Despite my attempts to make it a comedy, TGaP is not a story for little girls like canon. DT was never gonna magicaly be friends and be a good filly. Adding Spike to the mix made it even harder for her to vent by picking on the crusaders. And Spike tellingher exactly how she dun fucked up was a breaking point.
10756566 There won't be much back story in this. She is also not Pysco or really a mass murderer[ despite the body count] She was taught if there was something you want, you take it, and her anger at failing to get her 'revenge' on the crusaders pissed her off to the point , that despite her now beeing a teenager when an opertunity to get what she wanted came about, she took it hence the deal with Solomon.
She was the one on the cliff face after Tirek wishing the Sparkles had lost, she was the unnamed one solomon spoke with about the deal. She has been building to be like this for a while, and she couldn't do anything with her parents still around, and she didn't feel like waiting until her mother poisoned her father and expose her then. So she simply moved to take what she wanted, like her mother taught her.
As Silver Spoon warned Spike, Diamond is not one to be trifled with.
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That was my major issue with Lost Mark (aside from the horredously bad copout of "The CMC's special talent is...helping find other people's special talents"). DT was the longest running antagonist of the series to that point and instead of maybe it being the START of a redemption arc, they just threw up their hands, blamed all her problems on mommy issues, and made her all better over 1 musical episode (and you'd think they'd have known better considering fan reactions to what they did in the last musical episode before it...) and then DT was relegated to background shots for the rest of the show.
For all the horror this sub plot promises, it's still tons better than the canon episode.
I will admit, while not what I expected, I can't say I'm too suprised seeing as Diamond has been getting progressively worse over the course of this story and there is no way Spoiled would have killed herself.
So now we know who Jedidiah is, again, something I did not suspect but am not too suprised about, we did know that his spirit was still around accumulating power
I thought DT was supposed to have loved her father, and that he was not a bad person, but rather, whipped, or something.
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The start of it: 10756567
I'm going to guess that also having a mother that only cared about status and money, combined with a father that didn't really seem to put much effort into being an involved parent (that we can see) or was move focused on business, kind of affect DT's mind-set in a very bad way.
Spoiled Rich's influence being: 'It doesn't matter what happens to others, so long as you get what you want', mixed with 'everyone else is beneath me, even you DT' put her in a bad place that Filthy Rich didn't seem to help her out of.
Also, Solomon seems to have had long term interactions with DT which probably pushed her further into an "Extreme Personality Disorder" since I see him very much manipulating foals into a certain mindset and using them as means to an end (see Sombra).
I can only hope that Crazy Glow doesn't appear since it would be a bit redundant (read as "horrifying") since DT seems to have stepped into that particular set of horse-shoes.
Rant/thoughts over, love the story and can't wait to see where this goes (and how badly Solomon gets curb-stomped at the end of all this [Luna needs a bigger moon to hit him with]).
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https://youtu.be/HsqmU3v0hVA
Cooler was Freezer, but Freezer was cooler.
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That's still a hell of a leap from just saying mean words to full blown murder of multiple ponies. As for those interactions with Solomon, that wasn't exactly made clear. Sure, your reply helps clear things up a little but for me and anyone else reading this, but I would still very much recommend a little something in the actual story, as not everyone reads comments.
Plus I would still like a bit more to really explain how DT went from teasing to murder. Something with Solomon guiding her toward the dark side before that first scene with them, for example, would go a long way.
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Jimbo got it pretty spot on. How she was raised made her think everyone else was benieth her and she could do what she wanted. Her mothers teaching and what her mother planned to do opened the opertunity for her to take control and not have to answer to anyone. So she took it. Solomons supposed deal was just what spured her to do it before her mother could.
Solomon didn't corrupt her, she was just raised that way.
Okay, I stand corrected.
Angry comment
Called it i bucking called it diamond killed her parents
So she kill her mother because Spoil tried to kill her father? I rather question why didn't she try to save her father in that case.
In either case, I still don't see why she did all these things. Or she would replace Cozy Glow in this universe?
....so much for you not takeing the predictable route, would it really have been that hard to make it silver spoon that did it, or some other charicter *sigh* oh well it is what it is, and its not a bad plot point just ya know, easy to guess and i suppose thats not always a bad thing, not every plot point has to be a twist or some moment of supream drama (don't tell rahs i said that though)
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She did it so she could take control of the Rich fourtune and bussiness empire in order to support Solomon in his plan. Her mother was already going to do that and Diamond just beather to it usingher own game.
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Well, just hope she won't get 'delete' in the end. I doubt he would let any witnesses live once he is done with them.
For some reason, I'm looking into the distant future of this story series and I envision Diamond Tiara and Solomon in the places where Chrysalis and Discord (disguised as Grogar) used to be. I can practically see Diamond Tiara and Cozy Glow bumping hooves.
This leaves me excited for the future.
Won't that be extremely suspicious though, if Luna can't find the dreams of a child she knows lost her parents in a rather horrible way?
And what about non-divine entities such as the Moon Dog that is supposed to be watching her dreams?
And what if someone who's not a God feels like checking up on her, or what if a god that knows of her decides to check up on her and can't find her even with scrying, won't they find that suspicious and look into it?
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Or Diamond and Cozy being one and the same - with Diamond inventing fully functional artificial wings and using different colored and style mane and a really good fake cutie mark sticker to disguise herself (and good quality make up so that she looks ten years younger) after dropping out of sight for two or three years. (that could also be why "Cozy" isn't bothered much by trying to remove all the magic - her wings are mechanical, not magical). Straight up full on female Expy of Lex Luthor. And Diamond/Cozy being eighteen or nineteen also makes her future banishment to Tartarus make even more sense - Diamond/Cozy actually being an adult (albeit a young adult) makes that punishment seem slightly less harsh (though no less deserved).
O this sure leaves things open.
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now im intrestid in seeing if or how you do cozy glow
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Frieza did it
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A good point. Also, I can imagine Rahs would have asked the relevant moon-dog to keep tabs on her.
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Sorry but who is Solomon? I know him but gotten lost on remembering him fully.
Plunder Vines?
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Well, kids who went though that sort of trauma naturally have trouble sleeping due to the trauma, so it likely would be chalked up to shock and PTSD that they aren't sleeping. Long term though, it would raise eyebrows and people would check up on her.
Huh so Solomon is still around
Should be a laugh seeing Luna and Sombra react
Or maybe not actually given how Solly is almost certainly up to something evil
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I think that was Sombra's father, but I assumed he was dead.
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https://ihititwithmyaxe.tumblr.com/post/22331104288/breaking-dd-35-the-locate-city-nuke here ya go a page about how to make the locate city nuke spell.
Yeah, that's not a red flag or anything.
Yup, saw that coming from the start of their talk...... oh this is so not going to go well and I get why not seeing more of her being pushed to this length makes perfect sense. Okay then...... did not see this coming till now and...... at least we have hints of Seshat being able to interfere in some ways.... wait was the quest to Manehatten where they met the Sirens really her being triggered by Solomon?
And yeah, no Glim Glam involvement in this but, this is still not going to be good at all.....
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Luna/Sombra: Oh Good. We/I didn't vent NEARLY enough of our/my frustrations on you last time. Let's fix that shall we?
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Solomon is the pony who turned luna into Nightmare moon, Started the war of shadows, enslaved the crystal empire and he's also sombra's father. His wraith form was seen at the end of the Crystal Empire arc and he's popped up from time to time since gaining a form once more, though how has yet to be explained.
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Yep. Solomon did collect a few seeds.
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Luna didn't , Sombra supposedly killed him.
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Good memories. And players wonder why their DMs don't hesitate to do the "well technically" stuff when they cast wish.
Oooooh. This is good
DT kinda went off the deep end a while back and lets face it ppl have done worse for the same or even less reasons
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AH. I had thought they'd worked together, with Luna as Nightmare Moon, to kill him.
I hope Sombra is sharpening his latest swords.
He needs a second chance to make sure his first count of Regicide actually sticks this time.
And I was wrong interesting
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Feels like the further we get into this the more I need a timeline of important events for each character. :P
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And just think it's only season 5 there's 4 more left
...really?
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When ya use a wish the DM/GM has full right to abuse how you word the wish, if ya don’t do it carefully the DM/GM can get ya with a badly worded wish.
Man, Solomon is really acting as the overarching equivalent to Adventure Time’s Lich in this series. Ancient, manipulative, unquestionably evil. I like it.
Space between Sweetiebelle and Firefly.
I'm
Why do I feel that Solomon is gonna sacrifice DT and CG to make himself an alicorn?