For the first time in recent memory, a regional reservoir is chosen two years in a row to provide additional water for Cloudsdale’s important rain clouds. Rainbow Dash sees this as her chance to really shine. It’s gonna be big, it’s gonna be powerful, and it’s gonna blow everypony away. Unfortunately for Rarity, things become a little too literal. She finds herself dropped into a strange facsimile of her home, and she'll need all of her wit, charm and fabulosity to get back to Ponyville.
Based on the works of L Frank Baum and the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz
Rarity vector courtesy of *BobtheLurker
Illustrations by Heather Biggs of LolliPengu Graphics
Chapters (11)
This looks like it'll be a lot of fun.
If you, Mr. Random-bloke who is browsing through fimfic, do not read this story, you have no appreciation for the classics and perhaps no soul.
You're also probably racist.
Who knows, I bet you're Hitler, too.
Ah, this gonna be good
aaaaaargh, the old fork in the road gag
3687563 Shit, they found me!
I get the feeling this is going to be confusing.
The growing friendship between Rarity and Smartypants is vividly sketched in this chapter, and Smartypants' questioning nature gives the chapter a gentle sense of otherworldliness that works very well to show her nature.
Twilight/Smartypants as the scarecrow, I love it.
3806472 I agree completely with this. The stitching scene was especially well done.
I rather like Opal's characterization as well. It feels like she is being written by someone familiar with cats.
3824374 What's particularly funny is that I have never owned a cat, nor do I work with them a lot. What I know is based only on second and third-hoof stories and far too much time loling at youtube videos at 3 in the morning
I don't know why but that line made me grin like an idiot.
3831919 Same here. I had a feeling that this was going to be the tin mare reveal, but even expecting it it was still very well done.
Have you been changing the formatting? It's weird.
Didn't expect the lion to be a gryphon. And not a mirroring of one of Rarity's friends. That's pretty cool.
3868065 I was assuming that she was Dash, actually, since she was introduced as having light blue plumage and rose colored eyes.
Oooo, way to step up, Argie. Nice fighting.
Leaving us with a cliffhanger eh?
I love that Smartypants is managing to bond a bit with Opal.
Lilies? Seems odd that they would have the same effect as the original poppies.
Been trying to imagine a fearful pheasant and now I'm in the mood for poultry.
That line right there, so wonderful.
This story is not neat - it's wonderful!
As an aside, I've been listening to several of these chapters using a text-to-speech app, and the pronunciation of Argie is fairly funny: RG, which half the time I hear as RD and forget she's not precisely along with for this story.
Interesting reaction between the shoes and the gate, they are magic after all.
Yay, it's back!
So, that pesky Hiatus tag… we shan't be needing that anymore, right?
... this story is back ...
This story is absolutely amazing. I happen to be an expert of L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz books, and of the Oz Franchise, and I can say that this is a fabulous pony retelling of the story. I also like Rarity's diamond shoes. They are the perfect compromise between the silver shoes and the ruby slippers.