When Sunset steals alien Princess Twilight's new nanotechnology invention, some of the consequences surprise everyone.
A lonely girl might even find true love (or maybe not.)
(Also, we learn why Twilight Sparkle was so terrified of having to go back to Magic Kindergarten.)
Mood: science fiction AU with comedy and shipping elements.
Prereaders: LysanderasD, Logarithmicon, Carlos S., Shirlendra. (The prereaders are not responsible for my own mistakes and shortcomings, though.)
This story might or might not be an entry in Science Fiction Contest II (link), at least under the current rules that accept a wide range of AUs with science fictiony stuff.
... Huh. Fascinating initial concept, though what you chose to do with it is...
Daring. Let's go with "daring." Best of luck in the judging.
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Did you see how many 'sovereigns' I threw in before the end of the story?
This story represents my attempt to comply with EVERY fimfiction.net story contest of the last few years, all at the same time. T AND M rated contests.
I can already picture Wallflower as a human-rabbit android. Actually, I won't be surprise if everyone who was at the incident begin to transform into hybrid android version of their Equestrian counterparts.
Cyborg, nanomachine, clarkes law EQG is something I never knew I wanted till now.
(Test comment)
this makes a lot more sense than all animals in the EqG world being clearly intelligent and sapient creatures while human civilization develops pretty much exactly how it did here
oof! that definitely adds a lot more horrifying weight to Twilight’s recurring nightmare
ah, that kind of AU! very fun
a very robust explanation for why magical powers seem to be dependent on singing songs together
so true actually, very Wallflower
love this alternate use case for the Memory Stone
well, that just makes too much sense!
humanity w
ooh, love this analogue for the Memory Stone!
very convenient exposition, now it won’t be weird at all for Wallflower to make out with him, and writing about them going even further than that would be perfectly okay. well done, birb!
i hate how well this works. i can’t believe you’ve done this
i can’t believe you’ve done this
okay you have completely lost me here
so maybe i am missing something, but i am reading this as yet another Mockingbirb contest entry that follows the letter of the rules of a contest but in a way that would only let it barely qualify on a technicality. it’s a pretty central Sci-Fi story, though, so the rules you are skirting are really Spring Fling’s, and i must say that it was the most impressive out of all of them, you whatever gender-neutral form of “bastard” there is.
i feel like i need to both read and write a few stories where Wallflower is a normal person in a normal relationship as penance for enjoying this one.