For the Sixth Annual Equestria at War Writing Contest...
and an Express Ticket to Horse Hell.
The year is 1023.
The world burns. Harmony has been forgotten in the fires of war. Guns, tanks, planes... technology outpaces magic and cruelties hitherto unknown are daily occurrences. One of them is Chiropterra, the last remnant of Nightmare Moon's rebellion. A thousand years ago, her loyalists fled across the sea to Zebrica, and their offspring have built a millennia-long legacy on fear and suffering. The beleaguered Hippogriffs of Aris have been pushed back to their home islands, as they were decades ago under the Storm King.
But no longer. Equestria and the Crystal Empire have withstood the invasion of Queen Chrysalis at great cost. They have rebuilt, and now the Princesses turn their eyes to their last mistake. Across the ocean, the Griffonian Empire, reforged and reformed, sees an opportunity to thaw relations between three species.
The greatest expeditionary force ever assembled, bearing weaponry never used before in war, descends upon north Zebrica to end the long night of terror. Two of the leaders find themselves at one of the first landings: Flurry Heart, the Crystal Princess and heir apparent to the Crystalline Throne, and Grover VI, the constitutional Kaiser of the Griffonian Empire. They are barely adults, and this is their first war.
Everyone wishes they took it seriously.
FLURRY HEART DO IT AGAIN
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The Crystal Ponies are very angry, but they love their Crystal Princess! And she loves them!
Now this... This brought a smile to my face.
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Glad you like it! Tell your friends!
It's the first submission for the Sixth Annual Equestria at War writing contest!
I'm hoping it sets
the lowest possiblea high bar!I hope you win the contest solely through the power of this amazing shitpost.
Average HoI4 multiplayer game
Well, Cadence did start the ball rolling, and only now does she get to start seeing the results.
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I hope not.
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There would be far, far more swearing on both their ends, with a great deal of innuendo.
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I mean, they weren't completely wrong. They just might have underestimated the overall compatibility.
And vastly overestimated their empathy.
As the first entry to the contest, this is a funny entrance. That ending was what sent me.
Lmao, burning the bats
Sadly my last EaW had Nightmare Moon conquer Equestria, so it'd be a much different situation to all of this, Good story though.
This is cursed and blessed, and I'm all for it. Never thought I'd read an actual beach episode for Equestria at War. Very fun read.
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I'm hoping it sets the tone for the rest of the contest. Not a good tone, mind you.
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Didn't you hear the news report? They're gonna limit civilian casualties! Ignore the balefire.
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This is the good timeline. Equestria defeated Chrysalis and Grover reformed the Griffonian Empire. Everyone's "harmonist."
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This year's contest seems tailored for a "beach episode." I might have done it differently than intended.
I see no issues with what the future holds. Did feel bad about the foal that lost her stuffed doll collection.
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If this was The Princess and the Kaiser, there would be a long discussion on the morality of justice, revenge, and the acknowledgement of the societal conditions that led to Chiropterra being an awful slaver state.
This is not that story.
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Why sadly, how great glorious empire dominating world can be a sad thing?
Oh, this is gonna be glorious.
Flurry Heart, probably:
Do it again, Auntie Flurry!
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Flurry and Grover understand the inherent fun of painting the map.
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This story exists solely because I checked and no one took Apocalypse Neigh as a title.
It's Anthro because I want it to hurt more.
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Well seeing that this story got on the featured section that means one of two things.
Either this is a damn good story or we need to question the current mental state of those who read it...I mean I'm a lost cause but I digress.
I know you wrote this for the writing contest but honestly I’m totally happy with a multi chapter story of this alternate universe, if purely just to see the funny scenarios and sexual tension between Flurry and Grover.
This was a fun alternate route.
How does it manage to be so light-hearted against such a dark, slave-taking, civilian-casualty-ing, child-endangering backdrop as EaW?
Was it the fun absurdity of the whole blaring-speakers battlezone-beach-volleyball scene (not unlike the scene to which this pays homage)?
Was it the low stakes of having an OP alicorn warlady nearby the whole time, both characters encased inside her shield no less?
Was it the promise of future imagined offscreen fun (teleporting supertank with occasional lasers spewing from the viewslit when?) to fill in the gaps?
Was it the genuine-bantering, peek-sneaking, sexual-tensioning, ship-teasing bonding time?
Even the two conniving matrons blowing holes in my ship at the end was subverted by a well-developed punchline.
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That's The Princess and the Kaiser, which is the serious attempt to make it work.
This is a shitpost.
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And even my shitposts have effort.
Crystal ponies Canadians confirmed? Also, fucking based, John Brown himself would shed a tear at the sight.
LMAOOOOO. I'm dead.
Ponies:the enemy is pushing back to village ten kilometers ahead.
Griffons: WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETEEEEEEEEEEEE 💥💥💥💥
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kilometres are european and griffons are mostly euro expys tho
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Bullshit ,
I bet if it comes to freedom, they drop it better than anyone, especially with they're hots for resour.... uuu helping out others to get rid of terrorists and crap you know.
And one more thing don't tell me changelings are not German trying the same thing twice, to get they ass kicked in both.
*Inhales very loudly through the nose* “I love the smell of warcrimes in the morning.”
Do you hold a grudge or something against the mod team? Becouse between this glorious aneurysm inducing shitpost, what was said on discord and your responses to the comments this is the energy that I'm getting from it.
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Not at all. This was written with love.
DO IT AGAIN BOMBER FLURRY
Disturbingly happy!
Amazing story. So many references (the tank!), so many details. And the contrast between what they do out of spotlight and what they do when seen by reporters, perfect. No surprised the Princess of Love would get suspicious at what she saw in the end XD.
Like Mother, Like Daughter.