The Cyndering, Part 1, Prologue
Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 6
By TDR
The Cyndering,
Part 1, Prologue
[ The Tuesday after the prank war has been declared. Ponyville, Seshat]
“I am not comfortable with this.” Seshat stated her voice sounding like she was frowning.
“Why not? There's nothing going to happen to you.” Twilight stated before she vanished along with Spike, Sweetiebelle, and Trixie, the group popping back a second later.”Celestia doesn't splash targets and right now it's only me, Rahs, and Spike who she's targeting.”
“I regret that personally.” Spike sighed as Twilight, Scootaloo, Sweetiebelle, and Firefly vanished with Scootaloo's cutie mark having an illusion covering it to make her a blank flank. They all returned a moment later and Twilight grabbed a wig from the box of theater props Rahs brought into the map room. “ I recall what happened last time a prank war hit Canterlot. Half the Guards retired and some are still in therapy.”
“Wuff.” Rahs shrugged as Trixie, Saturnia, and Thorax all joined Twilight who quickly cast an illusion on herself to look like Trixie as the changelings matched as well, Trixie however was the only one wearing her hat and cape, and she refused to allow the others to wear one. There was only ONE proper Trixie after all
“Yeah, yeah, I did agree to join in.” Spike sighed as the process was repeated, only using Sunset this time.”Even with the risk this plan was too good to miss, and her expression was priceless.
“And you are sure there will be no repercussions for my help?” Saturnia asked with a hint of worry as Twilight used polymorph to turn into a nerdy looking Diamond Dog and vanished with Jynx and two other dogs.
“Nah. Rules were set up for this sort of thing and will be highly enforced.” Spike nodded as Aria, Sonata, and Rahs, vanished with Twilight, who was wearing a 'Twilight is the best Not a Princess' ball hat.” Only those who are in the initial conflict are eligible for repercussion. So it's pretty much just me Rahs and Twilight, and Celestia and Luna who are targetable.”
“Kinda surprised you're not bringing in more than this. I mean Rahs just had to ask to get the five of us involved, Applejack would be here, but she's still with her parents.” Sunset pointed out as the changelings all switched to three copies of Twilight and vanished with her.” I'd be there as well, but they need to recover from all the other shocks before I drop that they are related to Celestia on them.”
“Well Shy is out cause she doesn't do this sort of thing, and do you want more than one Pinkie Pie to exist at any point in time?”Spike explained as Twilight, Rahs, Big Mac, and Tempest all vanished, all of them dressed with costumes Rahs had from some musical about aliens and Transylvania and fish net stockings. That costume had all five of those interested in Rahs staring at him distracted for a moment.
“Valid point. Sunset said putting her tablet down after the other girls demanded a copy of the picture she took. She sighed and put on a Sombrero and black vest as she picked up a trumpet to join the next group to poof out dressed as a mariachi band. She continued as she popped back in.” Doesn't make this any less weird.”
“Weird? This is AWESOME.” Rainbow Dash called as she, two changelings Copying her, and Twilight now in the pegasus' colors vanished, and appeared a moment later.
“HEY TWILIGHT, don't forget we have a train to catch in an hour or two.” Spike yelled at his sister before she, Rarity, Sombra, and Starlight all vanished, the four of them transformed to look like breezies. Sombra was not happy about that.
Sunset took pictures of that too.
“Trixie regrets she is unable to join you, but she has a show in Canterlot tonight.” Trixie sighed as Twilight vanished with the changelings , all of them looking like Fluttershy colored trees.”Still, Trixie would very much like to know more on how a sixth has joined the war for Fuzzy's attentions.”
“I got used to bipeds and he's got a nice ass, what more reason do I need?” Aria questioned as three 'moon dogs' and Rahs vanished to reappear a moment later.
“Rahs does not have a donkey.” Jynx stated looking curiously at Aria, as four 'donkeys' vanish.
“It's a figure of speech.” Sunset sighed as four turtles all with a different colored bandanas vanish.” She means he has a nice butt.”
“OOOOH.” Jynx, Saturnia, and Trixie nodded, fully agreeing as Twilight vanished, looking like a pile of abstract shapes and eyes.
“If she had not already done this I will be very cross.” White snorted as he and three other white rabbits vanished.
“So why aren't you going with us Spike.” Sunset asked as four Discords vanished. Twilight looked confused at that one.
“To be fair I really don't have much interest seeing the foals. I'll have plenty of time to do that later and every time I show up in the Empire everything tends to shift to focus on me with the Crystal ponies. They should focus on the new royal foals this time.” Spike explained as four versions of Celestia vanished.
“How selfless of you.” Sunset smirked as Spike, Starlight, Rahs, and Twilight all vanished, all of them reverse gendered. ” So it's just me, Rahs, Saturnia, and Twilight?”
“I am going as well.” Jynx stated as four cat versions of Twilight vanished..”I need to check on the dogs I brought up there.”
“And Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are going along with Bees and Thorax. I am also certain that Starlight and myself are being brought along.” Tempest added as she, Grubber, Sunset, and Twilight vanished all dressed as pirates, popping back a second later. “I believe Rainbow Dash and Prince are going as well.”
“Sonata and I are headed up there as well.” Aria sighed as four griffons vanished.”Mom wants us to see if there's a suitable spot for an embassy, and told us to check out the crater lake that's forming up that way. She's trying to let us do our own thing at least.”
“ I am highly displeased with this company.” Saturnia muttered as four versions of Luna, human, anthro, normal, and Woona popped away.
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“So this is it? Hurry up and wait?”Adagio grumbled.
“Sometimes this is what happens.” Solomon offered looking at some odd swirl of magic in the air in front of the tube he stood before.” The old goat told me to stay put, so for the moment I am, and since I am, so are you.”
The room was full of such tubes, all filled with some odd, neon orange liquid that bubbled and gurgled like lava lamps. Each of them was filled with a body as well. The bodies all seemed the same, male unicorns, though the growth, and coloration of them was all different, some were rapidly growing out of their foal stage, while others were barely embryonic, a few were full adults with various cutie marks emblazoned on their flanks, likely the work of the large tattoo gun sitting on another table in the room.
“What's with all the corpses?”the teams resident walking corpse asked.
Solomon sighed and glanced back at Squall, the yeti demi god was sitting off to the side of the room on the floor with his arms wrapped around his massive sword the cold metal pressed to his furred cheek. His eyes glowed red, though that was the effect of the spell keeping him alive rather than anything else. The hole in his chest had been repaired, though his heart was still destroyed from the black crystal spike that speared through him.
Why the old goat had given him a scroll to create what amounted to a revanant Solomon had no idea. Squall was pale, which was surprisingly noticeable on the yeti, though he still moved and acted as if he was still alive. He did however have to obey those in control of him. Solomon had made the spell included Adagio, himself, and Diamond, just to ensure that yeti didn't try to back stab some one not covered by the spell. In the end though, Solomon shouldn't have bothered with the added layers of an already complex spell. The yeti had an honor code of some sort and he was highly focused on killing Sombra for cheating in a duel more than anything else.
He also seemed a little annoyed that Adagio oft had him waiting on her hoof and tail. Solomon didn't care as it kept both of them out of his mane most of the time, unlike now. Still he couldn't help to enjoy explaining his work.
“They are not corpses insofar as they were never alive in any real sense of the word. You are not the only dead creature here Squall. “Solomon sighed walking over to another tube this one filled with reddish liquid. “My initial plan failed and I was only able to return as a specter of sorts. Not unlike that annoying Diamond Dog god in truth. Still I should be able to make something at some point that won't completely degrade when I posses it.”
“Is that why you wanted my father's blood?” Squall asked glancing at Adagio who was clearly listening though not asking any questions herself.
Solomon took note of that, wondering if the two were conspiring against him. Highly likely, but he doubted either would try anything, at least not yet. Adagio didn't have the capacity to end him, and Squall couldn't even try. But the pair clearly were digging for information. Adagio was a clever fish, and it showed by how she let Squall ask the questions, despite his knowing they came from her.
“Something like that if I wanted a yeti body to clone any way. I'd prefer a pony god and there seems to be quite a few of them around lately. Cloning from a demi god gives me a body that lasts much much longer, though not long enough.” Solomon answered. It was not as if he had not told Diamond of all this already anyway.
“So why's the filly in a tank?” Squall asked finally, gesturing a hand to the red filled tank, where a pink filly floated, her eyes closed..
Solomon wondered when he was going to get to that part.
“Because she wanted power, and we are finally at a point where I can give her the first taste of that. She was seen after all, and even if she wasn't identified, keeping her out of the public view for a while is always good.” Solomon nodded looking at the magic readout floating in front of Diamond's Tank..
“ And having her pass all her families wealth and connections to you was just icing on the cake?” Adagio questioned.
Ahh. There was the meat of it.
“Not entirely. I'm mostly a place holder, once this is finished I will be passing the leadership of the Rich empire back to her and letting the fake name and pony I created to 'buy' the Rich empire so Diamond Tiara could 'retire' fade out of existence. I have no desire for wealth and fame like that, my skills are not in number crunching and micro managing. That sort of power is just a pale imitation of what I seek.” Solomon paused considering. “She will be in here for some time unfortunately. However that does not mean we do not have things to do still. I have a few tasks for you two to complete for me.”
Adagio and Squall looked to each other then back to Solomon who had yet to look at either of them as he checked his experiments.
“Well, it beats sitting here counting the bubbles.” Adagio shrugged,.
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What exactly is that thing in the cover art?
Love the Spyro reference in the title. Spyro x Cynder, one of my OTPs.
Wait a fricking second
Does that mean that Diamond Tiara is going to become Cozy Glow ?
Also, I suspect that the demi-god being talked about is Sunburst...
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that is Witch Jack, AJ in her Witchwolf form...
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Witchjack. Non magic amped.
Currently a place holder for this season as i'm still looking for an artist whose work i like, and is available to do commisions.
Nice to see how not only the first prank came about but also the preparations for this new *League of Doom* , especially in regards to DT! Guess we'll be getting a different version of *Cozy Glow* for this tale!
Great chapter! So will the prank war go into the history books? I love to read that detail
Wonder what is worse...
A war to kill eatch other between mortals
or
the prank war between imortal's...
Oh this is interesting
That is a LOT of effort to go through for a prank. Fun times!
Meanwhile, while our heroes are goofing off... the villains were studying the blade.
and then they jumped to the left...
wonder hows the Apple parents adjusting to hmm.. how many years had they been gone? In some fanfics i read, Pear is friends with Mrs Cake before she got married or just about to get married.
Nice chapter.
Well, that's intriguing. Remind me, when Solomon refers to "the old goat," he's talking about Grogar? Like, the real, genuine article?
Twilight what did you do?! Why do I think Celestia has plans in place and everyone who participated in the set up of the prank will also be fair targets? Now we see part of the plan with Diamond Tiara and I wonder how she will blow her identity in the long run?
Ah yes! Here we go!
I don't know if I said this already, but this story is worth rereading forever and deserving of a VA or animatic.
Keep up the good work!
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I'd guess 10-13.
Ahh so she thinks that obtaining "power" will somehow make her greater than her rivals, even when she has already proven that she will forever be their lesser
great chapter
So we have the Sparkles setting up the prank war by doing the Time Warp Again and again.
Just about everyone but Spike is heading up to the Empire to see the not-quite-twins.
DT is getting a makeover that I'm certain involves pegasus wings and blue curls.
Good thing this time we have Luna to steer the country while those parties enact their childish war.
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Why make it a place holder? It's working quite well so far.
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Except, as noted, Luna's involved too...
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And they stepped to the right.
I'm guessing that this season is going to be either "dragon puns" or "video game puns", but yeah.
I can certainly see where the "prank war" between Twilight and Celestia could get bad enough that Chrysalis could decide to pull the mass kidnapping not for any malicious reasons (well, maybe in Celestia's case, given their own feud) but to protect her fellow Changelings (ESPECIALLY her most recent child) after they got too close to getting caught in the middle a few times too many and might fully intend to release them unharmed (except for maybe Celestia) after they've all had sufficient "time out". Heck, Shining and Cadance probably go willingly (and could have given Chrysalis the idea of a "fake kidnapping" just because they were feeling a bit kinky).
And, yeah, the set-up for the future "legion of doom" in later seasons is really well done too. And, unless I miss my guess, the set-up for Diamond literally becoming Cozy is a really good detail.
For the "Gauntlet of Fire" analogue:
Spike: Now, Bloom. There is no need to get jealous. Unlike my brothers, I am strictly a "one gal at a time" kind of guy. And you're it.
Besides, Torch is basically my half-brother, that would make Ember my first cousin. I've got my eccentricities like my siblings, but incest isn't one of them.
Apple Bloom: Well, all right. Those are good points. Though that won't stop Sweetie and Scoots from trying to play matchmaker for her. Well, mostly Sweetie, but Scoots is going to get roped into helping out with that and so will we. We all already know that.
Spike: Point taken. Unless we head them off at the pass and try to find a decent guy for her ourselves.
Apple Bloom: Head them off at the pass?! No offense, Spike, but I think you've been hanging around my family TOO long.
Sorry about that last one. Got a bit carried away.
That’s just him. No way he’s passing this up.
I need a short pick up:
What was Scoot's CM again?
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A laural wreath of green flame. She got it back in season 3 thanks to Sunset.
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Ahhh Thanks
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Put their appendages on their hips
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They brought their knees in tight
Big Mac as Eddie?
RIP Meatloaf.
Im gonna need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.
This. This whole section from the beginning. What just happened?
Is Diamond Tiara gonna turn into Cozy Glow? I feel like that's the direction this is going.
I'll be honest, I don't actually understand what's up with the multiple Twilights and stuff. Could anyone explain? It's giving me a headache.
I KNOW we're not going to let Rahs in a fishnet stockings slip past us right?
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Time travel….
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I gathered that much when White appeared. I just still don't understand...
Wait... Season five?! Hell yeah! I can go binge the rest of season four where I left off from!
edit: wait... I never got to season five. I only ever got to season four... Well, see you guys next year.
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In season one of Canon Twilight went back in time to warn herself not to stress over next Tuesday. In this she is using that same spell repeatedly over and over to prank Celestia.
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No sir, I will not. For shame.
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Ah... That's actually super clever, I love it.
Lol no clue what happens. Also would be funny if this DT turns into cozy glow haha
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Don't try to understand time travel. Trust me I've tried to wrap my mind around it and I've gained a decent understanding. They are doing some sort of time jump bullshit. Time travel is strange to the point where the Doctor has to explain it with Wibbly wobbly timy wimey. Save your brain the trouble and just roll with it. And as I always say!
THIS IS WHY WE DON'T TIME TRAVEL!!!!!!!!!
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But it was the pelvic thrust
So far for the Legion of Doom, it looks like we've got Grogar, Solomon, Diamond Tiara, Adagio, and Squall. Assuming that they represent the Prophecy (which given this fic's propensity for double subversions I'm not sure they even are), that's Magic, Madness, either Greed or Envy (not sure which for DT), Lust, and Pride covered.
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That would be "But it was the pelvic thrust" GET IT RIGHT!
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That's only five out of six. I think Cozy Glow will be the sixth. If she is, she's probably lust (for power, you pervs).
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Cozy's a possibility, but honestly I find her goals much closer to Envy than to Lust. Plus, the only two that really fit Adagio are Lust and Pride, and Squall's definitely got Pride covered. Come to think of it, if Cozy does show up and represents Envy, then that frees up the ambiguity with DT and puts her solidly as Greed. Then the only real ambiguity is, of Solomon and Grogar, which is Magic and which is Madness.
Of course, there's so many layers of subversion in this fic that it's nigh impossible to fully predict this far out. Grogar, being mostly detached from the group, might not even be part of the prophecy. This universe's Cozy Glow could be DT with plastic surgery. Or all of the Legion of Doom could simultaneously represent all six facets of the prophecy simultaneously. It's all speculation right now for everyone except TDR.
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What you talking about? That was always what I said, double check.