Perfect Run
Perfect Run
I rise from the floor before Spike can say what I know he’s about to.
I have a good feeling about this loop, but I need to get started right away. I’ve put a lot of thought into this over the last few loops, a lot of time making little tweaks and changes just to see what will happen. There are lots of ponies who I need to say the right thing to at the right moment, and lots of odds and ends I’m going to need for supplies.
I flit through the palace teleporting from place to place laying the groundwork. A half hour of intense work later I’m winded but satisfied. I wish I’d been able to build up my physical capacity for magic a little over all those loops but the workouts never stuck. I guess that’s the tradeoff for being able to shrug off the bad stuff.
I head for Luna’s room. There are those four changelings again. I remember when they were anything other than a speed bump for me. My magic takes care of them so quickly I don’t even have to break stride. I throw open the door to Luna’s bedroom.
“Hey, Luna! Wake up!”
I don’t actually bother to go in. That whole shroud of darkness thing is really creepy, even after this many repetitions.
Luna emerges after a moment, yawning.
“What is it, Twilight?”
“Time loop, changelings attacking the city, kind of a long story.”
Luna’s eyes go wide as she catches sight of the unconscious guards. I’ve found that leaving one of them laying directly in her line of sight speeds up this whole exchange rather effectively.
“No!” she cries. “I will accompany you, we must warn Celestia.”
“Actually I need something else. I need you to fly out to meet the train my friends are on, and fly them back here.” I’ve worked this out. If I send Luna to meet the train she can get my friends here before six, but only if I get her to leave now.
“I’ll tell Celestia, you need to go now.”
“But how do you know that-”
“Time loop! Go!”
It’s pretty impressive what kind of things you can get a pony to do if you tell them you’re in a time loop. I should remember that if I ever get out of this but need a favor done sometime.
I practically push her down the hallway until she gets the idea and takes off. She can really move when she wants to, and in a minute she’s just a spot on the horizon. Problem one dealt with. Moving on.
Celestia’s room is next, and I’ve got seventeen minutes until Chrysalis overpowers her for good, which obviously I’m not going to let happen.
The dozens of guards are still there. I remember all the trouble they gave me when I started all this looping business, and how I thought I’d never get past them without the power of a Goddess at my back. I’m not the same mare I was back then, not really. I’ve learned a lot and paid for those lessons in blood, sweat, and tears. I’ve learned even when she’s pushed far beyond the point where she should break down, there are some convictions my mentor will never abandon and that’s given me strength when I needed it most. I’ve learned that I have an incredible family who loves me and accepts me, and that love is helping me to accept myself in turn.
On a much more practical note, I’ve also learned about a dozen ways to mix household cleaning supplies into small explosive charges. For the record, I wouldn’t really recommend learning explosive making via trial and error. The error parts tend to be as painful as they are visually impressive.
I touch my horn to the magically sensitive cord that serves as a fuse on a half a dozen of my homemade devices, one by one. Once they’re all sparking and hissing I wait for just a moment before flinging all of them into the hallway and ducking behind a corner.
I experience the explosion as a wave of pressure forcing its way through me. I think I might have mixed this batch a little on the strong side. When the dust starts to settle I step into the hallway, stepping slowly and carefully over the now torn and uneven ground. There’s a few stragglers left alive, but none of them are in any condition to get in my way.
If I survive this, I’m going to have to answer to some very angry maids.
I open the door to Celestia’s room, and there are the two of them locked in combat. Chrysalis doesn’t even get to begin her little deception before a bolt of my magic to her gut causes her to gasp out the breath she’d been planning to twist into a lie. Celestia seizes the moment, and the changeling queen is defeated.
I wish I could just kill her, but for now I need her alive. My working theory is that the Elements will be able to operate on the entire swarm through her connection to them, otherwise this whole plan is going to be a bust.
“How are you feeling, Princess?”
She rises to her hooves, a little bit weak but unbowed. While she’s recovering I take the time to bind Chrysalis with the ropes and chains I brought along for just that purpose. “I’ll manage,” she says once she’s ready. “What is going on?”
I fill her in on everything. The invasion, the Elements, the time loop, everything I’ve tried so far to fix it.
“Interesting. I did not realize Starswirl had developed such a spell. I will attend to the Elements, then. They can’t be allowed to destroy the city,”
“I know that’s your first instinct, but it’s not the right one. Do you think you’d be up to projecting the shield spell over the city? Otherwise the changelings will wreck it before the Elements get the chance to.”
“If I must, but I do not believe I would be able to do both at the same time,” says Celestia.
“Trust me Princess, the shield spell is more important right now. I have a plan. Just make sure you leave an access point in the shield Luna will be able to bring my friends through.”
“How many times did you say this plan has worked over all these loops?”
“Oh, it hasn’t ever worked yet, but this time line feels lucky.”
Celestia doesn’t look all that reassured, but her magic lights up her horn and a glance outside confirms that the whole city is wrapped in the safety of a giant bubble, tinting the outside world a golden yellow as opposed to my brother’s purple barrier.
The magic continues to flow from Celestia’s horn as she maintains the spell. “It is done. Luna will be able to enter at the usual spot near the train station without disrupting the shield’s integrity,” she says, voice a little bit strained by making the effort so soon after her battle with Chrysalis. “We can keep the changeling queen here at the palace. I’ll bring her to the throne room and keep an eye on her from there.”
“Thank you Princess. I’m heading down to the vault to bring the Elements up, then I’ll go meet them there.”
We go our separate ways, and I’m able to open up the vault without incident. The Elements are right where I know they’ll be, nice and quiet with no invasion getting them all riled up yet. When the changeling who are already inside the city reveal themselves that will start to change, so I’m still on the clock.
I leave the Elements with Celestia, along with the bound and struggling Chrysalis. Outside, the first edge of the changeling swarm has discovered the wall in their way, and are battering at it with all their fury. The shield is holding.
It’s nearly five by the time I get to the train station and see Princess Luna approaching in the distance. My heart soars when she gets close enough to make out that she’s carrying five different colored ponies along with her. She dips low under the mass of changelings slamming into the shield and opens a way through, sealing it up again after she enters.
Luna glides over and lands, dripping with sweat and panting. My friends drop off of her back and rush up to me. There’s always time for a group hug.
Applejack is the first to speak. “Twilight, what the hay is goin’ on around here? A whole buncha’ changelings come swooping in out of nowhere while we’re riding the train, and just when I’m thinkin’ we’re done for who shows up to help us but the Princess here. Pulls our hay bacon outta the fire and tells us you sent her ‘cause there some time thingy going on?”
Rainbow Dash interjects herself into Applejack’s explanation before I can reply. “Then she grabs us all and she takes off and we’re flying, like, super fast and believe me I know fast so when I say it was fast you know that it was fast. We went like a hundred miles in forty five minutes.”
“She made me leave my party cannon on the train, though,” says Pinkie, clearly disappointed that she’s not able to throw herself a ‘Welcome to Canterlot’ party on the spur of the moment.
“I am sorry that we could not bring it along, but the weight would have been too much,” says Luna.
“It’s fine, Princess. While we were flying I got out a book and wrote down everything I remember about every party I’ve ever thrown, see?” Pinkie pulls a giant book bound in false leather. The title on the cover reads Pinkie Pie’s Party Canon. “Unfortunately I accidentally ripped out one of the pages when we hit some bumpy sky, so that brunch we had last week retroactively never happened.”
“Girls, I am so glad to see you. You have no idea. But we don’t have time to talk or for me to answer all your questions, we need to get to the palace. So...” I take a deep breath. “A time loop, three hours, whenever I die, changelings, Chrysalis, I think about a month, somewhere around a hundred, yes, yes, no, 5:57, all of them, yes even the squirrels, Spike’s fine, no just me, you don’t want to know, the Elements of Harmony, I don’t know, yes, no, yes, and three tea kettles. Those are the answers, in order, to the questions you were going to ask.”
My friends are too confused by that to ask anything else, even Pinkie Pie. I gesture for them to follow me and they do, but as we leave the station changelings begin to crawl out of the woodwork. Chrysalis must have figured out what we were up to and is making her last ditch attempt to stop us.
This is where it’s all fallen apart on the last couple of loops. The swarm of changelings manages to take one of us out, or bog us down long enough that the Elements overload eventually although it usually does take longer when only part of the invasion force is attacking the city from inside.
The seven of us charge the changelings, and I focus on playing support. I’m always in just the right spot to lend a hoof, or block a strike, or knock out an attacker coming at my friends from their blind spot. Still, the numbers are against us. Every changeling in Canterlot seems to have us in their sights.
Then before I know it we’re standing in front of the palace, having come through the whole mob and out the other side unscathed. Luna sends us on ahead, joining the squadron of royal guards in the courtyard to hold them off.
We sprint into the throne room, and Chrysalis is right where we left her as are the Elements. We each grab the one attuned to us.
“Well, I can’t say I understand exactly what your deal is with that loop thingy you were talkin’ about, but looks like it’s all workin’ out pretty well for us. If you’re right it’ll all be over, hope ya did everything ya were hoping to with the extra time,” says Applejack.
Hmm...
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I wonder if I’m a terrible pony.
Do all those timelines I died in still exist? I’m not egotistical enough to believe the universe revolves around me after all. Is there a timeline out there where right before my moment of triumph I ditched my friends, leaving them confused and getting them eaten by changelings? Did I create this whole universe I’m in now when I did that, including all the ponies who are going to die when the Elements blow up again? Am I responsible for that?
Then Princess Luna rolls over draping one of her legs across my side, and nibbles on my ear. The philosophical quandary seems a whole lot less pressing than it did a moment ago.
“Well Twilight, that was unexpected. Although not unwelcome,” Luna whispers.
The mattress we’re sharing is bare; in the low light given off by the blue flames in the lamps I can see the sheets and blankets we tossed and scattered around the room. There’s even a pillow stuck to the ceiling, and I haven’t made up my mind about whether that should be physically possible or not.
I roll over to bring our chests together and snuggle as deep as I can get into her furry coat. The pounding of my heart is in contrast to the quiet and steady rhythm of hers, and I lay against her for a little while as mine slows to match hers beat for beat, the timing just a bit off so each one is its own little call and response. Then I look up at her face and wordlessly press my mouth up against hers. The first kiss is gentle, appreciative, but as she kisses me back I start to amp up the passion to let her know that I’m not finished with her yet.
When she figures out my message she breaks the kiss with a laugh. “Twilight Sparkle, you are positively insatiable! It’s five thirty, you do realize that I need to get up to raise the moon shortly, correct?”
She’s not getting away that easily, not when I’m running on the better part of a decade’s worth of repressed lust. My mouth moves to the little sensitive place on her neck that I’ve been putting to such good use for the last forty five minutes or so and she gives an involuntary little yelp.
“I want you to show me another trick first, Princess Luna.”
“I think it would be fine if you just call me Luna, Twilight.”
“Luna it is then,” I say. I’ve addressed her informally before, but I take a moment now to enjoy the way her name feels against my tongue. It’s almost as much as I’ve enjoyed the way all the rest of her feels against my tongue.
“I suppose we have time for one more. Which trick have you enjoyed the most so far?”
“I think my favorite so far is the one with the weather vane,” I say and blush at the memory. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to look at one of those the same way again.
“I know just the thing then,” says Luna as she leans back down to begin kissing me again.
Am I a terrible pony? Maybe, but even if I am this was worth it.
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“Applejack, there’s nothing I want more than to finish this now,” I say. I'm right back where I was two loops ago, standing with my friends wielding the Elements and staring at a bound and gagged Queen Chrysalis.
There’s only a few minutes to go until six, and I can feel the energy in the Element of Magic boiling right up against the breaking point. All six of us nod to one another and a rainbow of light weaves through the Elements, connecting them and us to one another, the other five begin to glow and are lifted off the ground, wearing expressions ranging from Fluttershy’s look of serene peace to Rainbow’s wide grin that manages to make her look cocky even with her eyes closed. They’re working just like they always have.
Mine though... mine has changed.
Every time I’ve used the Element of Magic before it’s been like floating gently on a river, feeling a powerful current propel you towards wherever you want to go. But this is more like falling into raging rapids that yank me from place to place and throw me into jagged rocks. And also the river is made of fire.
I try to scream but I can’t open my mouth under the enormous pressure. I start to feel and see pieces of all of those other time lines, all of them pausing just long enough for me to remember them before the pieces stab themselves into my body like so many shards of glass.
This can’t be happening. I remember when Celestia said back in that other timeline, about how I wasn’t quite real and a piece of me was held apart. If I’m not in harmony with my own body and soul, could it be that the Element of Magic is rejecting me?
No. This cannot be happening. This isn’t fair. The Elements are supposed to mend and fix things, but this feels like being torn in half. I should be bursting apart as the time lines continue to fill me up, even as I think there’s no way I could contain any more. They build on one another like notes making up an impossible chord until just when I think that the pain is about to drive me into total madness there’s a final thrum of power and the chord resolves.
The pain stops in an instant and I’m falling into darkness. I can’t die now. I can’t go back without the hope of this loop ending someday, the hope that the Elements might be my salvation.
I can’t...
Darkness takes me.
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“Twilight, it worked!”
Here’s the other thing about pain.
It’s not the most pleasant experience, but there’s no better reminder that you’re alive.
When I sit up I’m not in the library but instead still in the throne room, surrounded by Celestia and all of my friends.
“Wow, what happened with your Element there Twilight? You look horrible,” says Rainbow Dash.
“Rainbow Dash, there’s hardly any need to add insult to injury after what she just went through,” says Rarity. “Although you certainly do look like you’ve seen better days, darling.”
“Yeah! All of our Elements were like whoooosh but yours was all errerrerrerrerr whammo kablooie and then giant rainbow explosion!” says Pinkie complete with sound effects.
“Can you show me how to do that with mine?”
It’s hard for me to put into words, and a lot of it I don’t really remember. The parts that I do remember make me suspect that’s a blessing.
“But it worked? The changelings... where’s Chrysalis?” The spot where she had been tied up is scorched and charred, and there’s no sign of her.
Celestia shakes her head. “Nothing more than ash now. The full force of the Elements was too much for her to withstand, but it flowed into her and through her connection to her swarm.”
“What happened to the rest of the changelings?” I ask. The distinct lack of panic around me makes me optimistic.
Celestia smiles. “Something amazing. Many of them were blown away again, and I have ordered a search team dispatched to discover where to. However the majority were transformed. Those that had been imitating ponies became the mask they wore. As far as we can tell they are as much ponies as if they had been born that way, though of course we’re investigating it more thoroughly. They remember their life as changelings, but no longer have any of the same biological or magical properties. Quite a few of my little ponies will wake up tomorrow morning to discover that they suddenly have an identical twin brother or sister, and I am inclined to welcome them into the herd with open arms.”
Wow. I didn’t know what the Elements would do but I hadn’t been expecting that. That’s actually kind of dubious, morally speaking. Forced permanent magical transformation isn’t exactly smiled upon under most circumstances. Still, if the alternative was genocide...
Just another reminder that there’s a very good reason they aren’t called the Elements of Niceness.
“Oh my goodness, I’m going to have to throw like a million billion ‘I’m Glad You Aren’t An Evil Bug Monster Anymore’ parties! This is gonna be epic!” says Pinkie Pie. Always focusing on what’s really important, that one.
Celestia goes on. “I am a little concerned about you, however. You were out cold for almost an hour. Whatever the Elements did to you was powerful and completely unfamiliar to me.”
No... They didn’t... Did they? Did they really?
“Princess, can you tell if I’m real?”
“Twilight, have you been reading philosophy books without proper supervision again? Because we’ve talked about that.”
“That isn’t what I mean. In another timeline you told me that you could feel the spell that was causing the loops. You said it made me a little less real, or like a part of me was separated from myself. Can you feel anything like that now?”
Celestia walks around be, examining me carefully from every angle while my friends look on. She even goes so far as to prod me with her horn a couple of times.
“As far as I can tell you are completely, entirely real and every bit of you is right here as it should be.”
They really did. The nightmare is over. No more loops, no more deaths, I’m just plain old Twilight Sparkle again, just as I should be. The joy and relief I feel propels me to my hooves.
“I can die! Did you hear that, girls? I can die now! If I’m in an accident, or somepony murders me everything about me will just cease to exist forever. Isn’t that great?”
My friends don’t seem to share my enthusiasm for some reason, and all five are glancing at each other hoping somepony else will say something first.
“Um... well... If you’re happy about it, then I’m sure all the rest of us are happy that you’re happy. Isn’t that right?” prompts Fluttershy. The rest of them all nod and agree.
I really hope Celestia’s not wrong about this. “You know, I’d like to be sure. Maybe I should die again just as a test.”
“NO!” shout all five of my friends in unison.
Oh, right. I guess I didn’t really think that through all the way.
My stomach rumbles, and that reminds me that there’s somewhere I need to be for dinner. Somewhere I’ve been trying to get to for a very long time.
“Well, we’ve all had plenty of excitement for today, but if you girls are still up for it I think we should head over to my parents’ and get something to eat. Mom’s roasting beets, and I know they can’t wait to meet all of you.”
They smile and nod, and with a goodbye to Celestia we all leave the palace as a group, chatting away and laughing as we talk about all the things that happened that afternoon, as if we weren’t all together for the whole thing. They fill me in on the fight between Luna and the changelings on the train, and I give them a few carefully cherry-picked details about some of the other loops I went through.
Someponies think the future just happens, but I’ve found that not to be true at all. It’s something we grow and shape with every choice we make. Sometimes, if we’re really lucky, we manage to get one where everything turns out OK in the end.
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I love this story.
yeah, I'm not gonna read the alternate ending. I perfer this one here. Don't really know why it needs an alternate ending anyway... (also, I'm going to assume that Twilight makes a move on Luna while not in a time loop with her newfound courage.)
Clock's ticking, people to save, and it's just one big puzzle. Reminds me of Ghost Trick.
That bit about bedtime Luna? Brilliant.
time loop benefit.
I wonder if she'll have the guts to do this without the
You could have probably had this go on for a bit longer.
... It's done?
Bu-bu-but there were so many time-travel cliches and stuff. Gwaaah!
It could have ended with a scene where Twi enters her home yelling "Mom, I like mares!"
:D
So... Twilight now completely mortal? Why's Twilight glad about that? That sounds dreadful...
That was a nice story. I'm gld that Twilight is free of the time-loop spell and everypony is saved. Twi definitely deserved some good time and rest after everything she went through.
I have read the alternate ending, and I personally considers it as the outcome for an impossibly too much evil Twilight.
Seemed kinda mundane. Like it was just a formality. Victory in Groundhogs Day is a matter of personal growth; in this there needs to be some specific challenge to overcome for a more satisfying end, i think.
Best day ever? two updates on mah fav story!
Sorry, need to squee
I wuv this story!!
Wait, what? Did Twilight... Run away from her friends, leaving everyone to die, then made a timeline where she seduces Luna, then redo the perfect timeline?
This needs a comedy tag. It really does.
"Maybe I should die again just as a test."
Only you Twilight. Only you.
...
Oh, that's great. Love it. Now, on to the alt ending...
That "but" supposed to be an "and"?
And you turn a queen to ash.
... And that's the end? Already? I understand not wanting to drag this out, but being left feeling like you skipped a bunch of the story strikes me as just as bad.
Oh well, it's still a great ending. I wonder what parts she couldn't quite remember? Probably the parts between the last chapter and this one. 
This. Hilarious Sir. Just. This.
Can we have a sequel about how hard it is for Twilight to adjust to going back to Ponyville? That is definitely not the same Twilight going back home as the trouble with the element attests.
This has been great. I know some people are complaining about the incompleteness of the story, as in, not talking about every loop, but I personally think you did a very good job of deciding what to leave out. It gives the impression of a long story without the drawback of an actual long story.
Just a couple of errors I noticed:
And my read-through reactions:
This story has been awesome, and after I read the alternate ending for this one, I'm going to go back and read your other ones.
2030346 read this, I think it will help you understand
I really really don't understand that scene with Twiluna. I can't figure out what prompted it...
Dat interlude! I must say I did giggle at the fact that Twilight reset everything to get some from a goddess. To be fair that would be something you could not pass up. I am hoping your next story will be about Twilight trying to pick up mares with varying levels of success (you write awkward Twi well). The Luna sequence and the talk with her mother in the last chapter were so funny they hurt.
Great story - thanks for writing it.
Loved the comment about reading philosophy books under supervision.
2030160 we can only hope
I think the one main thing this ending is missing is that the ending doesn't really acknowledge the major changes that Twilight has gone through over the course of the story. Yes, she 'solved' the time loop, but in the process she's been fighting and researching and messing around for hundreds of days...
Mentally, she's going to be a significantly different pony. Showing us at some length how Twilight is different after the time loop would make for a better ending. She's probably suffering from combat fatigue, has a whole new skill set and a whole lot more self confidence... (At least in some areas), and I would be greatly surpised if the new Twilight doesn't shock the heck out of her friends more than once in the near future.
Sure, you could assume that she'd initially just want to let things get back to normal, but what's the fun in that? Even if that's Twilight's motivation, the changes she's gone through should make things interesting...
It would be very interesting to see that sort of extended ending.
I have a feeling there is a very interesting story behind that.
I don't quiet feel like her happy ending was earned, but it's a good happy ending nevertheless. I have some nitpicks about Twilight sleeping with Luna because the topic of Luna and Twilight's sexuality is never brought up in the slightest besides those two scenes, but it is overall a good story. i liked it.
Mr. Bones says: the loop can end now!
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I disagree with some of your other commenters that the lesbian reveal in ch3 was a bad one. The complaint I'd have about it is that it could have benefited from some foreshadowing — it kinda came out of nowhere — but once it was introduced, you handled it well. And the way that it set up the abandoned perfect loop in the last chapter ... BRILLIANT. Oh gods.
If you plan on doing any editing, though, the ending here feels ... abrupt. It's not that you need to add more content, necessarily, but the way it leaps straight into her moral seems a little artificial. I was surprised to see that she didn't talk about her future plans (she's going to go seduce Luna again, right? It worked out pretty well for her the first time
) or go buy herself those earrings or something. It really should more explicitly call back to how her experiences changed her.
All in all, though ... very well done. This has transcended my favorites list to become one of those stories I will be recommending at the drop of a hat.
Congrats on wrapping up a greatly entertaining story! I read the alternate ending as well, and while interesting I prefer to leave this canon happy ending as my last impression of the fic. I suppose if you're looking for that elusive 15% difference I would note that emotionally this one doesn't hit as hard as the ending of the last chapter, despite being the big finish. I agree somewhat with the idea that coupling Twilight's victory with a personal lesson learned could strengthen the resolution to things. Perhaps expanding the scene where her Element is tearing at her... is there a epiphany to be gained from reflecting on all that she's been through that allows her to be at harmony with herself and activate the big nuclear rainbow? She's been a martyr, a hero, a coward, a hedonist, selfish, selfless, vengeful, forgiving, petty, cruel, loving, honest, duplicitous... you name it. She has lived those few hours in almost every way a pony can, and it seems the Elements want her to pass a final test before graduating her. So what has the perfect student learned? What does she take away having seen the best and worst she could be to carry her over that hump and escape?
And then perhaps as a follow-up in the epilogue after escaping the loop, are there any reflections on moving forward and only getting one chance at decisions from there on out? Of never again knowing the path not followed, or being able to erase a mistake so that it never happened? Is it hard to let that power go, or is she like a kid who was forced to smoke a carton of cigarettes in order to be turned off of them for life, and is now happy to simply let fate unfold, no longer stressing about every major decision or worrying that she did something wrong?
It's a great story, and the mechanics of this final chapter work well... If you feel like it needs a little something extra, there's certainly plenty of room for it to turn inward and reflect a bit now that you've let poor Twilight reach the end.
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Come on. She's just being a scientist. I know I'd consider it.
This is Australia...
You know what the worst part is? Literally a paragraph or two before she suggested it, I though:
'Is she really out of the loop now? Hm, maybe she should kill herself and find o- ... wait..."
I congratulate you on a dark and humorous read, good sir! Now to the alternate ending...
Hmm, looks like I didn't upvote this yet. Time to fix that.
Not a bad ending, though maybe a tad quick.
I loved the little interlude with Luna.
"maybe I should die again to make sure it worked"
>>>On a much more practical note, I’ve also learned about a dozen ways to mix household cleaning supplies into small explosive charges. >>>
Concentrated bleach + urine = hydrazine, an explosive rocket fuel and on its own can be turned into a highly toxic gas.
You can also use another simple formula with fertilizer and urine to create urea nitrate, another high explosive.
Why is everyone looking at me funny?
>>>Forced permanent magical transformation isn’t exactly smiled upon under most circumstances. Still, if the alternative was genocide...>>>
Oh Twilight, you really need to be introduced to humanity. We have that perfected!
What question would even illicit the answer of "three tea kettles"?
2067255 Pinkie Pie
Luna flew at 133 Miles per hour
So...Twilight finally makes the Perfect Run, ditches everypony in the last cutscene and dies on purpose, takes a loop off to have mind-blowing sex with Luna, then does the Perfect Run again to make it stick.
Presumably she goes on to play I Wanna Be The Mare.
2030323 Oh, but is it? Time spells are insidious little annoying things that don't always appreciate being sorted out.
Starswirl, I think you might find yourself confronting a very irritated lavender unicorn who's had a really, really bad day ... and blames you for it.
i died of laughter, and because i died i had to read everything again... time loop, dont ask.
ANYWAY I knew you where gona have twilight screw somepony at some point, having it happen RIGHT in the middle of the epic battle (err before it, it never happened... fuck logic...) with luna no less! that was hysterical, and then it picked up right after right where the other loop left off. lol i guess twilight needed a breather from trying to save the world. that plain failed, so she screwed luna, then tried again later. ROFL i love you and i love this story, you should feel very proud.
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... Except from laughter, too. SOMEPONY SLAP DOWN A DEATH COUNTER, PLEASE?
I think I'm in a time loop, too. I overslept this morning, woke up to Pinkamena with a knife around my neck, saying,"I'm working with the barrels". Then I died, too gross to go into detail. Then I got up early and kept my pocket chainsaw in hand. Ended up in a chainsaw duel with Buck Norris. Overpowered me, then , you know. Then I started out the same, locked all my doors and stuff, then read ch 1-4 of this, and then Vinyl misfired her bass cannon and killed me. Had to read it again. I stepped to the side with my laptop in hand and I haven't died since. Well...
(I referenced to a certain Swedish 3mil subscriber YouTuber fan image on DeviantArt)
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... Except from laughter, too. SOMEPONY SLAP DOWN A DEATH COUNTER, PLEASE?
I think I'm in a time loop, too. I overslept this morning, woke up to Pinkamena with a knife around my neck, saying,"I'm working with the barrels". Then I died, too gross to go into detail. Then I got up early and kept my pocket chainsaw in hand. Ended up in a chainsaw duel with Buck Norris. Overpowered me, then , you know. Then I started out the same, locked all my doors and stuff, then read ch 1-4 of this, and then Vinyl misfired her bass cannon and killed me. Had to read it again. I stepped to the side with my laptop in hand and I haven't died since. Well...
(I referenced to a certain Swedish 3mil subscriber YouTuber fan image on DeviantArt)
Now im sitting here cracking up and trying to not remember the episode of Stargate:SG1 where Teal'c and O'neill got stuck in a time loop..though this was way better!
Why do i have this itchy feeling that the other mane 6 are changelings...
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Another one, I thought that too! Seriously at first I thought he based it off of the Daniel and Teal'c against the anubis badass army, it seems awfully like it. Like when she sat in a corner or committed suicide and died, I remembered the time where he got bored and just sat there and the anubis bitch just looked at him and continued his genocidal campaign.
"Am I a terrible pony? Maybe, but even if I am this was worth it. [read: stupid as hell]"
Story sucks horribly, leave crappy romance out of this, goodbye.