When Twilight came to, she found herself somewhere in the dark, rocky, slime river filled landscape of Reepor. "Ugh...what happened?" she asked as she rubbed the back of her head. "...Mom? Dad? Is Qwark okay?" she called out, shaking her head. When she got no response, she looked around quickly. "Mom? Dad? BBBFF?" she called out worriedly. She found no sight of her family. "A...Anybody?" she called, panic slowly creeping into her voice.
She huddled in on herself as a terrifying realization sank in on her mind. She was alone. She was all alone on a strange, desolate world where everything was probably going to be trying to kill her, if not worse. She tried to shy away from the 'worse' part, but her own experience had given her too many ideas of what could be worse than death, and her imagination had always been too fertile for her own good.
As she shook, her whimpers and moans slowly changed. All of a sudden, her mane sprang up crazily, and a mad grin crossed her face. She began to giggle crazily, her pupils narrowing to pinpricks, her irises not much larger, and her eyes began to twitch. "Gotta find 'em, Twilight!" she cackled. "Gotta find 'em before they're gone forever! Clock is ticking, Twilight. Clock. Is. Ticking!"
Two of the larger Cragmites - looking like a somewhat successful crossbreed of a gorilla, a raptor, and an angler fish based on the shape of the jaw - were on a rampage as they readjusted to their old world, their pale spotted skin looking unhealthy against the dark coloration of the world, but was actually healthy as far as they were concerned. Having just escaped where they'd been banished to thanks to Tachyon, they were limbering up for a real war.
"Craggy!"
At the sound of that voice, both Cragmites turned, coming face to face with a crazed looking winged purple pony. "It's Craggy the friendly Cragmite!" she called out giddily, giggling like a loon. "You're gonna help me find my family, right?" She flew right up in the face of the first Cragmite as she called this out.
Snarling angrily, the large Cragmite took a swipe at her.
She floated back out of the way. "Oh...you aren't Craggy at all! My bad!" With a mad giggle, she launched a blast from her horn into the Cragmite. It screamed in unbearable agony as he was slowly torn apart at the subatomic level.
The other Cragmite stared in horror as the fate of his companion slowly played out. At the end of it, the pony was in his face. "Are you Craggy?" she asked wickedly.
Terrified out of his wits, the Cragmite nodded vigorously.
Laughing, the pony cast out energy bonds that wrapped around the Cragmite as she sat on its back. "Good Craggy!" she praised, grinning madly. "Now...if it isn't a Lombax, a Markazian, a robot, or Captain Qwark...kill anything that gets in our way. Now mush!" Conjuring an energy whip, the pony cracked it over the Cragmite's withers.
Bellowing in terror, he mushed.
Twilight continued to cackle madly, her perception twisted as she hid from loneliness in madness. She laughed as she saw the Cragmites fall to one of their own, adding to their terror and fear by blasting them on occasion, whether with magic or mundane weaponry. Her laughter obviously terrified her mount, and she reveled in that. At one point, she levitated up one of the smallest Cragmites. "Good Craggy!" she praised, then hurled the Cragmite into the acidic lakes below. "Fetch!" Her amusement tripled when 'Craggy' nearly lunged into the pools after the doomed Cragmite.
Before too long, 'Craggy' was in sight of Aphelion...and Twilight caught sight of her family.
Ratchet was startled, to say the least as a large Cragmite leapt down from the cliffs, practically landing on Qwark, who was being treated for his injuries by Talwyn. He was even more startled when Twilight leapt off the Cragmite's back and into his arms. "Daddy!"
"Twilight!" Ratchet called back, pulling her into a tight hug. He barely noticed the Cragmite racing off, howling in terror. "You're alright!"
"I am now..." Twilight whimpered, snuggling into him as her mane returned to normal. She buried her face in his chest as she cried in relief.
Clank stepped up to hug her as well, and Qwark - despite Talwyn's scolds - reached his unbroken arm over to pet her head. Talwyn managed a smile. "Good to see the brains of this outfit is in one piece."
"Hey!" Ratchet and Clank both snapped defensively, causing everyone else to giggle.
"While I am as glad as everyone else that the family is whole again," Aphelion piped up, "I'm afraid I must interrupt. My sensors are detecting a massive Cragmite Armada rapidly approaching Meridian City."
"That's the capitol!" Talwyn shouted out. "Ratchet, you and yours need to head there immediately to help suppress the invasion! We'll catch up as soon as we repair Cronk."
It was at this point that Twilight noticed the old warbot staggering around headless, only to collapse to the ground. "But...but what about Qwark?" she asked, looking towards her BBBFF.
"My inertial dampeners are not up to properly shielding a broken arm," Aphelion indicated. "Even one already in a cast."
"We'll bring him with us," Talwyn promised. "I have a med-table in my ship, where we can strap him in."
"No need for that!" Qwark proclaimed. "Twilight needs her whole family with her now. If a broken arm keeps me from joining her, then I simply won't have a broken arm!"
"Hide all the blades!" Zephyr called out worriedly.
Qwark laughed. "Oh, silly bot, I would not mar myself. I have something much more elemental in mind!" Turning his head towards the immobilization cast on his broken arm, his face scrunched in an effort of concentration.
As everyone watched in amazement, the cast burst off his arm from the sheer force of his flexing muscles. He then moved his arm back and forth, no sign of a break visible.
"H...how?" Talwyn gasped, stunned.
"Behold! The flexing of my muscles and sinews are too powerful for mere bone!" Qwark struck a pose. "I have flexed my broken bones mended!"
Talwyn glanced from Qwark to the others, completely stupefied.
"It's Captain Qwark," Ratchet offered helplessly.
"Safer not to question it," Clank added.
"Less headaches that way," Twilight agreed.
"Setting course for Meridian City," Aphelion piped up.
Quark is this universe's Pinkie Pie....
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Pinkie Pie and Quark must never or logic will never be the name and World is doomed.
... he healed his broken arm with sheer willpower..... that's almost as scary as twitchy Twilight....
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Based on this.
Movie comes out in Autumn next year current fic is a good Kooky rep of the series
6675162 NOTHING even APPROACHES "Almost as Scary as" Twitchy Twilight... Except maybe Alicorn Pinkie and/or Alicorn CMC...
DEUS EX MACHINA!
6675153 You missed a few words there, but I can understand do to the sheer terror you must be facing.
what about craggy
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I love you! Dah-I mean...pfft, what movie reference? I didn't get it! I plead the fifth!
6675153 Well, let's just hope that Pinkie and Qwark will take it easy on everyone...
Abother enjoyable chapter. Well done.
6675190 Alicorn Pinkie i can almost deal with...Alicorn CMC? R U TRYING TO DESTROY THE MULTIVERSE??!!
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You haven't read 'The Great Alicorn Hunt' by Reality Check yet, have you?
Alicorn Mane 6, plus Apple Bloom recently ascended. With a hint of Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell having ascended.
6675274 i agree
now i going to go run and find a spot to hide before THEY find me, see ya. (runs to the nearest TARDIS and places it in siege mode)
If you didn't show that movie clip I would have thought that little scene was inspired from undertale. Quark outFLEXed his broken bones. The group gained 0 exp and 0 gold.
6675190 What about both?
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/92077/the-great-alicorn-hunt
Scared yet?
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*Random incoherent squee-cheering.*
Hmm... sounds familiar...
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No, no. Scratch that, it's not the same. Qwark can do it if he doesn't know it's impossible. Pinkie...
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Well, yeah.
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Well, wheni saw that flash and them rising in the air (then bam! cutie marks), i thought for a moment there.... But really, Apple bloom (before that episode) would have totally been like...
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QWAAAARK!
So...is Craggy gonna come back?
6675418 what quark doesn't know helps him
Because. WHY THE HELL NOT
I saw Craggy and immediately thought of Fallout is Dragons and Craggy the Cragodile... Now all we need is a Flot in a Box and the reference will be complete! Good thing I've got a link for that.
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6675430 Read the latest chapter of The Great Alicorn Hunt by Reality Check. He manages to execute that ascension, as well as the aftermath, pretty well.
Out of unfortunate personal experience, it pains me deeply to see any good person snap like this under great pressure and sadness.
If you break out the Goku lines, "Naked time!", "No he wouldn't. And he's smarter than me!" or, "I'm going to break you! Like a kit-kat bar!" then there'll be no more TFS for you!
...
'Muffin button' is fine, but only if you have Derpy make an appearance.
Ha! Twilight "Clock. Is. Ticking!" Sparkle strikes again! It's awesome seeing Twilight become unhinged like that. It usually means the bad guys are about to experience intense migraines that register on the Pinkie Pie scale.
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6675330 6675370 True, but that world is aiming for "You're an alicorn, and you're an alicorn, everypony's an alicorn!" That kinda takes the edge off the Fear Factor. I'm talkin' on their own.
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A world where that happens is in a looping multiverse..... MLP Timeloops
So he is basically a male human Pinkie Pie?
6676480 True, but everything is OP in the Loops, it would be weird if they didn't at some point.
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True and all but one looper has accended
When Qwark flexed his cast into nothing, I heard the musical sting of 'HE-MAN!'
6676433 No, it's "You're immortal, you're immortal, everypony's immortal." Only a select few will become Alicorns, the rest are just immune to aging.
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indeed...
Dang, and I thought Twilight was bad during the Smarty Pants incident... but at least here she has a much better reason to go crazy here. I almost feel sorry for her chosen Cragmite friend and steed, he's probably huddling in a cave crying.
Well, shit. Concentrating Quark=Pinkie Pie on a normal day.
I shudder to imagine how he must be when he REALLY concentrates.
Crazy Twilight strikes again!
I can imagine Craggy returning for Tachyon's last line of defense, only to see Twilight and run screaming.
And that such actions cause him to be one of the few Cragmites to survive the aftermath.
Afterword, we could see him trying to reform so Twilight doesn't come after him.
Quark.... that... actually makes sense.
With how muscular he is, flexing can actually force the bone together, which would make it set properly, IF it connects at the right point.
Add in his reality bending powers, and that means if he wants it to heal properly, it will and at an accelerated rate.
Will anyone else ever learn of Twilight's cragmite-terrorizing rampage? That was all kinds of scary and unsettling. That poor filly still needs help.
6678927 Forgive my ignorance but, who is Uncle?
... Is it alright if we send that poor cragmite to a therapist? Just so we have the paperwork to say he has Twilight induced PTSD? Just for the sake of keeping it legal when he asks for a restraining order on her?
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Jackie Chan Adventures.
6676210 squeaky-ball ribcage.
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I laughed at the thought of Derpy raised by "Abridged Goku"
6683272 ...OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!!!
THAT!
SOUNDS!
EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!
6683302 Meh, Derpy may have a rough time since Goku isn't really a good father... Piccolo would be a better choice...
OH GOD.. with Nail and Kami to comment what he's doing !