This story is a sequel to No Rest For The Traitor
It's been a long ride, it really has, and even heroes need a break from time to time. Unfortunately, some heroes are just so hated by fate that even the most innocent of days have to turn into an experience leaving lasting wounds.
After the events in Manehattan Mistake has to get used to a life of blindess and the reliance on the help of his friends who decide to make things more bearable by leaving Equestrian winter and visiting a sunny beach in the Griffon Empire with all expenses paid by the crown.
NOTE: Readable as a sequel or a single story with a reeeeeally long prologue summarizing what has happened until now.
Chapters (25)
... huh.
5290705 Very... descriptive
5291937 i aim to please
dat cliffhanger
5390945 Totally not completely spoiled in To The Skies!, no sireeee.
Damn... true to form from start to finish.
I won't lie, I was hoping for something a little different, but that wouldn't be the choice of a guy who chose to live a life under the name "Mistake". Honestly, he deserves a little R&R. Crawling through waist deep shit really takes it outta a guy.
Anyway, loved the story, shall be keeping an eye out for further horse words.
5631791 Don't worry. Peaceful rest is something my little punchhorse will have to work for.
5631853 I'm guessing that he will have to fight for it.
5631857 There will be some fighting, mostly of the catbird variety. Also, massive minotaur mammaries and a loooot of introspection.
Near the end you start calling Mistake, Blazing again confusing things slightly, when Heavy, Cromach and Chokey go to the mirror world you put Blazing, Cromach and Chokey instead, there's also no mention of the linked journals but that's not exactly necessary so it's fine and you also don't mention Chokey getting her memories back.
Just thought I'd help out a bit here, other then those points and maybe a few I've forgotten, really like this recap and loving these stories.
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Fixed some minor issues you pointed out and I noticed. Hopefully, I didn't make it even more confusing.
Uhh... can I just say, TL;DR..?
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Totally Lovely, Definitely Reading?
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I screwed myself over with that one... Welp, see you in an hour... or a week.
Correction, Drill Sergeant. They only split up the Sergeants into specific specialties after the invasion...
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Maybe you'll find some more holes in this changeling of a storyline.
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This is a recap, not an accurate depiction of events. The accurate depiction of events, in fact, are the stories themselves depicting the events... somewhat accurately.
Should probably mention how Blinding is the leader of the order of the Silver Sun... I can see how that bit is going to be confusing without some more clarificagion.
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•Heh, I don't think I want to... Plot hole infestations are serious business, barely escaped from the library in one piece the last time.
•Shouldn't a recap be accurate too?
Okay, here's a plothole... I thought the hive was originally in the badlands, and they just moved to the Everfree... maybe to get closer to their prey as they were starving to death, or something, but I do remember it being said that the hive was in the Badlands when Blaze escorted Chrysalis... let me check...
...I guess not. Well, I know the hive at least used to be in the Badlands, due to Management, but that was pre-failed-changeling-invasion. Must have mixed the two up somewhere along the line...
Oh. All this time I thought the lack of wings and only being able to turn only into one form was due to Blaze only being a half changeling, so his daughters only had half of the ability 'normal' changelings had.
Heh, learn something new every day, I guess...
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Pff, I fixed that immediately by making it worse but less plotty!
In what happened? Yes. In how many freckles were on the face of the moon that time? Not really. It's a quick recap, not a history book.
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No, no, you're right on this one. But for once this isn't my fault, I thnk. You see, at the time the series hadn't said where the hive was yet, that was revealed years later. This weill need a revision along with the relevant Imbalanced chapters. Rewrite list on this one.
EDIT: It wasn't that bad. Few changes to "an abandoned outpost near the hive" did the job, both in Imbalanced and the recap.
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I'll have a look at this one if I don't forget. It won't take too much effort, and is somewhat relevant.
EDIT: Easy, done.
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Same principle applies much later for The Corrupted, only with a different and somewhat less successful god.
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•Mhm... Problem is this library will never pass a saftey inspection in this state...
–Okay...
•You could just say the Hive in the Everfree was a backup hive, one that Chrysalis&co retreated to being far closer than the main hive, especially in their weakened state after the invasion...
Kind of like how some rich people have a summer home to go to nearby some fancy beach resort that they own... Except instead of a summer retreat, it's either a backup hive, or what used to be a hive for some different changelings, before its inhabitants fled... or something. See? I can come up with semi-credible bullshit too...
•Okay.
•Guess I will have to see that bit for myself... when I get to it.
You don't say...
This wasn't happening during Nightmare's second attack on Ponyville. This happened near when Icy Gaze was sent out. Though you aren't giving that impression by implying that when Nightmare attacked Ponyville is when Blazing with amnesia woke up...
...now all you have to do is rewrite a new, completely accurate recap which details all the events in all the stories you have ever written... just to keep up to date.
I just wonder... did anyone ever tell him he was wearing pink?
Whom could that voice be... Nightmare perhaps, wearing down Mistake so he will be easier to possess... My theory comes to mind as well, Blaze's alternate personality...
Or I could be wrong.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Okay... What the Frank did I just read..?
*gasps in shock*
You wouldn't!
...I swear I didn't read that until after I made my last comment...
Oh, does Mistake still have his tongue? Or did the tentacles replace it?
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Shocking revelation, I know.
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Once again, I'd blame this on the recap, which is supposed to give an overall picture, although you do have a point. The mental battle happens overall during HaW, not exactly during the real time of the chapters they are in. There are only few points where the events are close. The Second Diary (the 3 stories) is a rewrite candidate, I know.
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Oh yes, I will definitely postpone all ongoing updates and lose everyone waiting for the finale of Management for that. I'll lose them anyway once I get back to updating only Legacy of Light, so at least give me my last 2 weeks of success. :D
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M-Maybe...
...
...
...no.
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I'm not gonna read ahead so that I can't answer correctly, because I genuinely can't remember. Or more accurately, I don't recall exact timings for certain future events.
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It's important to have fun in whatever little moments of peace you're allowed.
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I spilled alphabet soup and uploaded the result.
Haha! You just did!
...Honestly, with your stories, I never know what to expect.
Welp, I'ma go on a couple chapters of Skies.
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That could have been an interesting response leading to more cute and sexy times.
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As I always say - horrible sex jokes and depression, there's not much more to it.
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And for me it's "To the workplace!"
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•Why, it's so shocking! Who knew!? Why, I must spread this gossip at once!
•Okay... nothing more to say on this subject.
•No! You musr suffer as you rewrite the recap! SSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUFFFFEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!
•You are evil.
•Whatever...
•Rule #32; Enjoy the little things.
•Ehh... maybe you should stick with making sandwiches...
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•Heh.
•Well... the combination of which can vary from time to time...
•Which will later be, "To the money!"
Caaaaallllleeeeeed iiiiiit!!!
Huh.
Chicken wings... griffons are half bird... is this cannibalism?
Piss off, ghost!
You didn't screw that one up... It was the element of suffering whom cut her wings off.
That pirate attack... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
MurphysLaw.exe activated
BEEP BOO– Oh, wait, wrong story.
You know... for once I have to agree with the creepy voice.
Longer fangs..?
...am I the only one thinking something is off here?
...you know, I should be shocked... I should say something about it... but the only thing I can think of... is how this creates a plot-hole for the scene in 'Tirek's rampage'... Why wouldn't he have had the power to drink blood, if he really should've been able to...
In other words, what was the line "Tirek the mango craving" about then?
...not to mention how this was never hinted at up until this chapter...