Twilight and her friends know the routine. The Cutie Map summons one or more of them by making their cutie marks glow and flash. They come to the castle to answer the summons then depart to some distant part of Equestria to solve a friendship problem. They've all done it many times before.
But whose cutie mark is that? It's not anypony in Ponyville. Or anypony Twilight's friends have met.
What's a pony to do when one morning their cutie mark starts glowing, and they have no idea why?
Chapters (5)
great chapter
Cute start to a story. I wanna see where it goes.
this is kinda on twilight for not informing the public that this can happen and what to do when it does. also canot wait to find out what he called for
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She was supposed to know this could happen to random ponies she's never met HOW?!
Jane...Horsekins
Kudos on the pun and correct location
WAAH! I've said it before, but Dusty Rose is probably one of my favorite OCs ever.
I'm ready for Chapter 2 already
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fair. at least she will now know that it can and will likely plan for it. gonna be funny with our mc trying to figure things out that and twilight serching for a random pony
This is nota that creative, but is sonewhat new, and it's interesting, it could be better later on, si i Will he reading this :D.
I wonder where this will go.
Classic punchy set ups with specialists bring a smile to my face. Have fun with this one! I wanna see what you can do with the premise.
I can see that on the specialists it would be like being referred to a foot doctor for brain surgery.
As to the fact the map indicated a random pony till something happens or there are indications it can happen its generally assume what happened before is what will continue to happen
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gonna guess twilight will try find the pony being summoned. mabey she will think the map made a mistake and go where the map is pointing herself and make whatever is the issue worse?
That was pretty fun. Fave'd!
A whole week... Oh boy. Better hope that friendship problem isn't urgent!
The opening lines made me think this was a mock mmo late into mlp g4 or a video game to capitalize on its success.
Well. Lets git this truck on the road
Can't wait to see what happens next
Huh, I thought the title refers to me being summoned, as in the reader... Well, not what I expected, but consider me hooked in this fic by the first chapter alone
Wonder what's the friendship problem is all about that the map chooses a seemingly random pony from Baltimare? Kinda curious to know~
A new hand has touched the beacon!
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prolly should have read the tags lmao
You have my curiosity and my attention.
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It did happen to Sunburst while he was in the Crystal Empire once. To be fair, we don't know if this story is set before or after that.
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but in the case of Sunburst, he was summoned along with Starlight. And Starlight knew him. so there wasn't much confusion as to the "who" of the situation.
11086986 That's true, but Twilight should have realized at that point that the Crystal Map was capable of summoning ponies without any direct connection to the map, and doing so from across Equestria. That would have been the time to take out ads in all the papers "Hey, is your butt glowing? Get on a train to Ponyville!"
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Fair point.
Our small equines don't always think ahead, though. Not even Purple Smart.
Well I'm hooked! Glad to have seen its evolution from its more beta form!
Keep it up!
is more comming?
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Yes, more is coming. I've encountered a slight delay from RL and too many other stories pressing on my brain. My plan for this is a minimum of four chapters, likely six or seven.
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cool i look forward too them.
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She might have made the same assumption I did - that the Map spreads it's connection via links of Friendship, and therefore no-one not already close to somepony who had already been called would be affected. (Of course, if that was the case, she seems to have miscalculated.)
No, your problem is you can't STOP glowing everywhere.
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so the elements are using their network of freinds to try find him while he is about to go looking for answers. i wonder how long it will take
Will you be using all of the lyrics from that song as chapter titles?
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Of course not!
... I'm using lyrics from a bunch of different songs.
Great... Now I'm just imaging this happening to Radish from The Only Mark That Matters
damn I'd call this dude unrealistic and a dick if this isn't how I acted.
What kinda past trauma he got
Now I'm curious if your gonna have him meet twilight/mane6/glimmer with no fuss or more likely they'll play a game of musical doors(cities) until they finally meet after he's accidentally solved the friendship problem.
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He sounds like a workaholic than anything else.
Stumbled across a minor typo:
Pretty sure that asterisk should be a quotation mark, and the “asks” “asked” because the rest of the story is kind of in past tense as well.
Besides that, I’ll be following this. Eventually the initial shenanigans are going to come to a close (either from Comet Tail’s eventual letter making the connection or because someone in Canterlot is in fact running some sort of cutie mark registry for all of Equestria, I’d expect) and the story will have to switch to addressing whatever the actual friendship problem even is, but I can certainly enjoy them while they last and then see what comes next.
Huh. I don't remember tracking this, but it seems interesting so far! Hope another year doesn't go by before I get to see more!
Poor dude, he's fortunate he's got such a lovely friend.
It'd be funny if the friendship quest somehow resolved itself before things cleared up, leaving the signal to awkwardly peter out, or perhaps the problem is in his hometown and he incidentally fixes it unknowing.
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No matter how many proofreading passes I make, one always seems to slip through. Fixed. Thank you.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that this story had updated. I look forwards to seeing where it'll go.
A few questions:
What about that thing where the CM leads characters to the castle map?
Have the mane 6 tried visiting the location the CM is hovering over on the map?
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If he keeps looking in his pillow, it could take a while
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Hmm, yeah, the map does do that sometimes, but hasn't here. Weird.
Not yet. That might depend on how desperate Twilight gets. We'll see.
Oh boy...
cancelled?
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While I appreciate Harmony's minimalist aesthetic in solving the friendship problem by butt-dialing the friendship problem, I hope this poor stallion has an apology coming to him.
And Dusty for that matter, she's doing her best.
How much would anyone like to bet that this "friendship problem" gets resolved without any of Twilight & Co. finding out who he is? I'll laugh so hard.
I guess he was polite enough not to eat the roses.
If this continues, Dusty's cutie mark is going to start flashing, too.