Twilight is on the cusp of leading Equestria for a year. It's been an easy year with no major difficulties. No wars. No natural disasters. No villains.
At least until a villain from the far, far future appears in Twilight's throne room. She's escaping defeat at Twilight's hooves, with one thought in mind: she won't be stopped if Twilight doesn't exist in the future. And here's Twilight's past self, right in front of her. Easy.
Unfortunately, she's not the only villain with this idea.
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this was wonderful
This was really funny and well written.
Also, I think a Triple Diamond Dog Dare is an even more un-Celestia-like think to do than a Triple Dog Dare, but only because Raven thought she'd never be able to be friends with the princess.
Princess Moondog, eh? Eh?
You meta son of a
This was beautiful. That trolling, oh that trolling
That was amazing.
I love that Twilight managed to schedule even her time travelling villain attacks.
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That... Is an extremely Twilight thing to do.
Past Twilight is probably annoyed it wasn't on the checklist and Future Twilight probably did this to teach Twilight to be less by the book.
That was amazing. No surprise coming from you, though.
First off, you have to acknowledge the fact that Diachrony at least wanted to kill her for the sake of science. Twilight surely should have appreciated that.
It's official! Princess of Dreams! Also:
I love how Moondog's name replaced 'Sweet Celestia.' Guess working with dreams really earns you that respect.
Woah. I wasn't surprised by a Moondog reference, but a Hinterlands reference? Damn, props for that.
Awesomeness! Faved!
Poor Amanita, maybe she wouldn’t have to deal with crazed fellow necromancers if she stays in prison forever and then some more.
Now that was hilarious! I especially loved all the little references the other fanfics strewn throughout. Well done!
Dang it, I wish I'd thought of this!
Very well done.
Oh man that was amazing. I especially loved the moondog references. Well done.
This was pure GOLD! I do wonder how Sparkle is going to deal with her time traveling troublemakers
yes but you forgot the antiheroes that have to also show up to stop the villains! can't have a good temporal assasination without the antiheroes
Sheesh. That much tying all this timey-wimey stuff together, they probably fragmented the timestream a few times for good measure.
Ah well, Sparkle snagging them all should fix it. Mostly.
And then there's that one villain Sparkle forgot, who upon seeing the destroyed throne room decides "Hey you know what? Maybe this friendship thing ain't so bad! I'll uh... I'll just see myself out yeah?"
.... Or did she?
Hmmm, did Future Twilight tell her that so that Voyager would appear at this specific point in time?
Definetly starting to suspect that Future Twilight told Voyager what she did so that she would appear at this point in time
Yeah, future you definitly tricked them all into appearing at this point in time to interfer with each other
Well now i'm just curious about you're great-grandpa
Isn't it though
Of course it is
I'd imagine so
Yes *sniff* yes it is
I agree
Absolutely worth reading!
Thoroughly enjoyable!
References!
Fourth wall skullduggery!
So Beautiful!
Twilight, you crazy genius you. Time travel is one of the hardest things to circumvent and you made it looks like a foals game. Brava
This is absolutely wonderful. Such beautiful chaos...
You should do a sequel on sparkles end
Lovin' it!
This reminds me of an SCP story I read once where a guy goes back in time to try and kill Hitler, only to find another dude already there who is like "You're here to kill Hitler. too?". They then proceed to get into an argument over who had the right to kill Hitler, only for another time traveler to show up at the end having already done so, saying "Ha. Were you guys here to kill Hitler?"
Great story with some great comedy, and some sly little references to other fics as well.
Brilliant
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There was also a recent SCP story about killing JFK. With so many people trying to stop him from dying, the Foundation had to keep killing him to make sure everything stays the same
Big-brain
A mad sociologist. You beautiful monster, you!
Not only is that quote pure gold, but this is the best one-shot I've read, possibly ever.
Normally I stay away from the one-shot format, but this is one short story that actually is a complete idea rather than one that feels like it could be better if it were a full length fic. (I know why there are a lot of one shots like that, because I have about 500 story ideas that I can make a short, entertaining blurb about, but not have the time/motivation to actually complete them. But the point stands.)
And all of your little references are exactly the way references should be in any medium - perfectly understandable to those who won't get the reference. (If it's of the pop-culture variety, it future-proofs it. If it's the "other media" variety, it doesn't require external reading for those less familiar.)
Everyone knows doing a Triple Dog Dare without the Double Dog Dare first is right out.
"Yes, but nobody pays any attention to the non-hard mad sciences! All of the funding goes to building flashy robots and death rays! It's so unfair! I keep telling people, give me a thousand orphans, a hedge maze and enough cheese, and I can-"
Noted: If I ever get sucked into Marvel, I’ll use that stratagem.
This was hilarious and I doubt those villains have enough brains together to figure out this was planned.
Oh. Oh this....
This is brilliant!
I like.
Twilight's right.
You don't just jump to a Triple. Gotta work up to it!
Basic etiquette!
~Skeeter The Lurker
You know, of all of them, Diachrony can just go die in a fire. I hate villains who decide to wreck a peaceful society just "to see what happens," or "because I'm bored." And yes, trying to claim For Science! when you're wrecking civilization as a sociology experiment definitely counts as one of the above.
At least Discord had the excuse of being a literal chaos spirit, who had to rock the boat or die.
I was kind of hoping a bunch of time traveling vigilantes would also sporadically arrive.
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Which is why doing it will short circuit Ravens protocol-driven noggin like giving someone a double wet willy.
Mad sociologist? Now that's a mad villain I can get behind!
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Well, Kang the Conqueror is supposed to be the next major story arc now that Thanos has finished.
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Well, if that is Twilight Sparkle from after reigning for centuries, I suppose ruling Equestria turns you into a troll after a while. Just like with Celestia.
Time travel, it causes more issues than it could possibly ever solve.
Chrono Trigger, Radiant Historia, Zelda, Invader Zim and a few other things have time travel shenanigans that all show where it can all go horribly wrong.
Anyone who messes with time will most likely make themselves cease to exist by doing something that is as seemingly inane as picking up a penny on the sidewalk.
The only way this wouldn't happen is a history forking timeline, which means you created a new time line and the previous one is still going on without you. In this case you would have time travel immunity and could take out your past self, because you came from a timeline where your future self never went back into the past do just that.
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Here y' go. Girl Genius has just what you need...
(Double-checks author)
Yeah, that checks out.
Exquisite.
As was the story as a whole. It's hard being the grease trap of history, but at least Twilight only has to go through this part of it once. Plus, it gave her a preview of what's to come... assuming she had enough presence of mind to take notes. I can hardly blame her if she didn't. In any case, thank you for a delightful bit of Twilit cunning.
Ouch...
She might as well be one at this point.
Good story!
I enjoyed reading it.
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Ha! I knew future Twilight would be behind it the moment i saw the premise! Such a Twilight thing to do!
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So evil...that just might work.
He doesn't even have control group
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