Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
"Impossible!" Trixie snarled, her cheeks red. "Trixie checked and re-checked every facet of the experiment! So did the pony assistants from Trottingham! So did you!" She pointed a shaking hoof. "You were there with Trixie!"
"Look, I know I was there!" Rainbow exclaimed, standing across the library. "But..." She glanced aside. "Could it be possible that we overlooked something?"
Twilight Sparkle's muzzle still hung agape. Her lavender coat was a few shades paler than normal.
Rainbow leaned forward, waving. "Psssst. Twi...?!"
"I... I-I..." Twilight gulped. "Anything is possible, Rainbow..."
"Twilight!" Trixie gasped at her. "Surely you can't believe that what we did at the Castle of the Two Sisters caused—"
"We chose the center of the Everfree Forest because we felt that the location was distant enough from civilization to not cause harm to other ponies," Twilight said. "What we didn't take into account is that the true nature of the Everfree Forest may have interfered with the experiment."
"Interfered with the experiment?!" Trixie growled. "In what way?"
"Look... calm your cloak," Rainbow muttered, waving at Trixie. "I'm not attacking you two or your egoes." She gulped. "I'm just trying to figure stuff out so we can help Apple Bloom. All of us."
"Apple Bloom..." Twilight held a hoof over her muzzle while her eyes watered. "I... I can't believe it..."
"Twilight..." Rainbow leaned in. Her limbs were starting to tingle, but she ignored it and said, "Just what is the essence of the Everfree Forest?"
"Why..." Twilight blinked. "Chaos, of course."
"Hmmph!" Trixie folded her forelimbs.
"It's factually true, though!" Twilight dragged a board over and drew a sketchy map of Ponyville and the neighboring forest with a stick of chalk. "Centuries of experiments confirm that this world is inherently chaotic. However, the essence of life manifests harmony which resists chaos. This is what allows our world to survive with a sun and moon in what is otherwise a chaotic ether—"
"The Clop Notes version, egghead, please," Rainbow wheezed. "Nopony asked for a doorstopper."
Twilight drew several overlapping circles across the map. "Equestrian civilization functions by magic—and all ponies have magic: earth, unicorn, and pegasi. Even in small amounts. However... there are parts of this world that form impenetrable bubbles over time because harmonic resonance has not been present long enough to set a new paradigm." She pointed at a large gap between the circles. "The biggest known 'bubble' in our continent is Tartarus. And it possesses a chaotic field so strong that it bursts into remote, outlying areas... one of which is the Everfree Forest..." She turned and gave Rainbow a worried glance. "...where nature runs unchecked by ponykind."
"Funny you should say that." Rainbow pointed. "According to Noir and Zecora, the snake that bit Apple Bloom was a Tartarusian Venomancer."
Twilight leaned back as if dealt a massive punch. "A Tartarusian Venomancer?!"
"Wait..." Trixie squinted at the board. "Is Trixie to understand that the Everfree Forest can act as an escape route for denizens of Tartarus?"
"It... it's been known to happen," Twilight remarked, still dazed. "Uhm..." She brushed her bangs back. "Timberwolves... hydras... manticores—they're all descendants of beasts that once roamed Tartarus only to have bled through the nebulous pockets between the underworld and Equestria." She gulped and glanced Rainbow's way again. "Only... a Tartarusian Venomancer?!?"
Rainbow nodded. "That's what they said."
"But... they've been extinct for—"
"For forever. Yeah. I know." Rainbow nodded. "But somehow, one landed on Sweet Apple Acres soil. Noir, Zecora's sarosian buddy, thinks that it was teleported there. He said that its blood was enchanted and bubbling when he carved the gland out."
"They're trying to form an antidote?" Trixie asked.
"Yeah. As we speak."
"Hmmm... Trixie will try to help out any way she can." She looked over at Twilight. "Sparkle?"
Twilight sniffled, her eyes boring tearful holes in the ground. "The... chaos must have reacted to our manafeedback. The buffering system wasn't enough to contain the leylines. We... we caused this..." She looked up, muzzle quivering. "I caused this! I-I killed Apple Bl-Bloom!"
"Whoah whoah whoah... girl." Rainbow placed a hoof on Twilight's shoulder. "Let's not jump to conclusions."
"What's to jump from?" Twilight bit her lip. "It's the only logical assumption."
"I didn't friggin' come here to blame you, Twilight. I came because I need your help." She pointed out the window. "Stu Leaves has gone to grab Nurse Redheart and as many other doctors as he can. Then he's gonna swing by Fluttershy's cottage to borrow her freaky knowledge on forest critters."
"Of course Trixie and Sparkle will help in any way we can!" Trixie nodded at her mentor. "Right?"
"I... I-I..." Twilight choked on a sob.
"Look, I can't book well," Rainbow said with a growl. "So dry your weepy eyes and come with, Twi! Right now, we need Ponyville's resident egghead. The egghead!"
Trixie cleared her throat.
Rainbow rolled her eyes. "And the egghead's sidekick."
"Eh..." Trixie waved a hoof. "Good enough." She hollered over her shoulder. "Spiiiiiike!"
Just then, Twilight awoke from her funk. "No, Trixie! Rainbow's right!" She stared at the mare with a hardened gaze. "Whether or not our experiment caused this, it's up to me to undo the damage. So let's do this my way, alright?" A few seconds passed. She hollered over her shoulder. "Spiiiiiike!"
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goddamnitspikegetoverhere
I have a feeling that the damned snake was teleported by someone else y'know, attacking that which rainbow loves to get at her (obviously hurting applejack by hurting AB)
Just a thought Onward!
6104739 Hmmm, you could be right about that.
Especially since we now know that one Sunset Shimmer is now in the Big Bad Guy Mix.
And I would say that, knowing what we now know about her, she does have the power to teleport one og the things where it would be need to cause this kind of trouble.
Yes! Onward and upward.
Hmm. I kinda like this explanation for the Everfree. In the show, it's just kinda there.
...Twilight doesn't actually do any of the book work, does she? She just makes everyone think she does, but actually Spike does it all. Alas, Spike. Your pain doesn't go unnoticed. But we probably shan't do anything to help you either. Just wake up from your nap and get to helping!
So... Twixie caused (allegedly, I should say that for legal purposes) the Tartar sauce snake to /tp to AJ's farm. Hmm... It would make sense, analyzing what the show already gives an impression of the Everfree forest, and the background that we just got in this chapter makes it even more likely... but I think we all know in the back of our minds that this just REEKS of the Super Bad Guys Group. I think I'll call them that now. Anyways, the SBGG is definitely suspect in this, since the Tartar Sauce snake seems to be too convenient to have just been because of a science experiment gone wrong. I mean, it just so happens to be teleported to the exact location of a certain little filly who just so happens to be the little sister of a certain somepony who is the love of a certain awesome pegasus who just so happened to completely humiliate everybody in the SBGG? Yeah, probably just a coincidence. Right?
6104585
Well, not yet...
Now they've asked for a doorstop.
So, the world floats in a cloud of chaotic ether? Does it look like 1/12 of a ring?
6106267 Tartarus is underground, right? Does it bump into a mysterious layer of machines?
They seem to just kind of happen on their own, really.
Yay, I've caught up!
... crap, now what am I gonna read?
Heh, that ending was brilliant.
That joke at the end was a bit immersion breaking. I oddly feel like I'm taking this situation more seriously than the story is.