I slowly started to drift out of sleep, to my regret. After the wedding, we went to bed and fell asleep almost at once and I just cuddled up beneath Luna's wing. No energy for anything fun.
Not that it meant that the day was over. As soon as we were asleep and in the dream realm, we had shared a quick kiss and then we headed our separate ways and got to work with all the nightmares stirred up by the invasion.
I wasn’t completely sure how long that had taken as dream time wasn’t the same as real space time.
But once we were finally done, slipping of to sleep outside dream space felt like it was about two minutes before waking up.
Suppressing a groan, I nuzzled closer to the pillow. Didn’t want to wake up. Really, really didn’t. Going back to sleep sounded really, really good right now.
But the sun shining in through the blinds had other ideas, shining right at my eyes. Rolling over, I scooted a bit closer to my Luna.
Couldn’t Celestia move that damn thing a bit?
Luna shifted, pulling me closer with her wing and I closed my eyes again as I slowly drifted off back to sleep.
I wasn’t sure how long that lasted. But when I finally woke back up again, it was from a poke to my back. No. Go away. Wanna stay right here.
Poke. Poke.
Fine.
Shifting, I poked my head out from beneath the star filled field of Luna's mane to see Amber poke her head up from the edge of the bed, her hoof reached halfway to me.
Her slightly glowing eyes blinked twice and she pulled her hoof back. She wanted something and it would be important or she wouldn’t be waking me.
Suppressing a groan, I nodded and carefully extracted myself from beneath Luna's wing, sliding out from beneath her mane. Silently, I rolled off the bed and dropped onto the floor. Stretching, I then folded my wings, following the changeling outside of the bubble of silence, closing the door behind us.
“Good morning, sir,” Amber said, a small buzz in her wings.
“Good morning, Amber. What can I do for you?” I asked, rubbing my eyes with a hoof.
“There is going to be an attempt to reverse the petrification spell, sir,” Amber said, “The Princess Sparkles discovered a cure early this morning and has been preparing. Sunset Shimmer thought you would like to be there.”
Okay, yeah, that’s fair to wake me up for.
Rubbing my eyes, I nodded again, “Yeah, thanks Amber. Lead the way?”
When I next looked, she was floating a cup of strong tea before me in her magic. Amber, you are the best. Marry me.
The idea of marriage made me smile and I took the tea while looking back towards the bedroom. Luna. Wife.
“Thank you, Amber. You’re amazing,” I said as I gave her a quick hug with my wing, “But you better be careful or you’ll end up fat. Or a Princess.”
Amber blinked and then scooted away with a buzzing of her wings, “No thank you, sir. I don’t want that. I deposit most to the Hive.”
“Just teasing, cuddlebug,” I told her with a smile, sipping my tea, “Lead the way, okay?”
Amber buzzed her wings and nodded.
It didn’t take long to make our way across the castle to a scene I didn’t expect to see. Skitter was standing before Celestia, the two Sparkles and Sunset Shimmer, seemingly protecting Queen Chrysalis from them,
“-o! You aren’t doing it!” she yelled as I walked inside with Amber.
Amber instantly buzzed over to stand next to her, facing down the Princesses. I just watched the scene for a moment before I sipped my tea, “I don’t know what all this is about, but whatever it is about, it’s way too fucking early for it,” I said as i moved past the Princesses and Sunset, “Skitter?”
“They are not trying it on Queen Chrysalis!” she exclaimed, “They aren’t!”
“They aren’t doing it to Cadence!!” another voice cut in to see Shining Armour standing before his wife, “Not until we know its safe!”
I looked between them for a moment before I glanced down at my cup, suddenly wishing it contained something stronger.
Much, much stronger.
And this is why we went proactive and replaced Shining Armor with a Rob the Robot with his image and the ability to cast his shield spell as long as nightmare moon wanted her night to last... Too much hassle...
Simple solution use one of the Petrification balls on an enemy prisoner and try the reversal spell on them.
I’m sure Tempest must have had some left over.
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Hate to say it, but either this or animal testing are the most pragmatic ways to resolve this issue There should even be two or three unused stones available to use for this purpose.
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It's the obvious solution... so they probably won't do it
Don't tease us
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Yes, it's indeed most pragmatic way of resolving this problem, but remember, that Page, and others wants to be good persons. And being good mean doing good things and not doing evil things. And using sentient being, who is also POW, as laboratory rat for very potentially harmful experiement against it's will is almost certainly evil thing. So here we have decision between idealism and pragmatism.
Also it may be unreliable experiment, as Storm Creature and especially some animal possess much lower magic profile than Alicorn and Royal Changeling, so something working on them, may not work on Cadance and Chrysalis in same way.
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Or one of them (most likely Page himself) would use the petrifying orbs on himself, forcing them to use the spell on him first.
lol poor Page. just do the spell at the sametime on both statues. ^_^
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It could backfire spectaculary, as counterspell may not work and they will end with three petrified royals instead of two. Remember that they still need to deal with Storm King, so they can't risk such massive power loss.
“Dudes! Weren’t one of the Storm beasts changed? The one that tried to get Luna?”
“...yes...but we can’t experiment on him.”
“Way I see it we’re are trying to help him.”
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i was just thinking the same thing.
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Yeah, but I said one of them, which means anyone could bite the bullet for the counterspell. I only mentioned Page because not only would he have the foresight to do it, but because he had the balls to do it. (Not to mention he was frustrated at the lack of a solution at hand.)
Besides, even if he volunteered himself, Skitter or Amber would jump in and take his place...
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I forgot about this guy. So it's setted, they have test subject. And this moral excuse would be so Page-like.
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Page: "Screw that!"
Skitter & Shinning: "Wha--? Why?"
Page: "First thing's first! And I don't care if Celestia made it a royal decree against it in the past or not--but I'm going shopping for some decent DRAPES to hang in Luna's room! Then I'm going back to bed."*Page walks off*"So fuck Celestia and the sun she rode in on... This is like the fiftieth story in the site where her bloody ball of fire constantly fucks with everypony's sleep--and the bitch won't do the decent thing and move the bloody thing..."
Twilight: "Wow! That was .... something. "
Celestia: ".... well, actually, there is a royal decree against owning decent drapes. He's going to have a hard time finding any, since they're illegal."
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I've no doubt he'll be married to all the mares and a few stalions befor we are through.
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Adds something stronger to the coffee...
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gotta go with shining on this one, Chrissy is replaceable, the Princess of Food is not.
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fortunately, Luna's royal drapes match the curtains.
i'll see myself out.
Wait... twilight has the spell. Just cast it on tempest and then use the spell reversal. I'm guessing the balls are just a delivery medium for the spell like crystals are for holding spells.
Well... SHIT! That cant end without someone getting his important one beeing first
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Simpel but genius
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O fuck... Derpy is stoned... Since her cuteness is stronger than plot armor she would be perfect BUT SERIOUSLY fuck the prisoners, willing to pillage and killing. If they survive we might go from live long jail to something lighter... Win-Win
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I think its almost perfect
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ONLY Cuddelbug Princess is good enough
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Meh... To risky plus to difficult. You need to double the users number for that. Simpel math: 1 Stoned need 2 or more Alicorns so two Stoned need 4 Alicorns or more. Otherwise the 'need more than 1 Alicorn' would exist...
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Purrrfect
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PRICELESS
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*comes running after you shouting* " Wait i buy you a drink for that one!"
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I agree and do the same thing, your best bet be go to the movies unless you have an fire stick you can watch it from there
That's still adorable
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I'd pay to have someone do a commission of that!
I feel SOOOOO bad for him. (Why can’t I stop laughing?)
Snuggelbugs have kitty traits, when they paw - we daww in awe.
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Like a cat pawing for attention ♡
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Don't tempt me, I know a artist (same that did my commission).
Storm Soldier get tested on.
If he survives, 100% jail free time after deportation.
If he dies... 100% free of jail time after getting feed to Fern after we made sure its safe for consumption.
Problem solved
Wait a minute.
Does anyone else remember this guy from a few chapters back?
Why not test the spell on him first?