Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 5
By TDR
Blizzaga and Gloom,
Part 1
[North bound Train, end of fall]
Spike flipped through one of his gaming books, his head laying back against Applebloom's side as she flipped through a magazine.
Scootaloo and Firefly were playing a game of stacking blocks on the table, the game was cranked up in challenge due to the occasional shaking of the train car as it rolled along the tracks.
Sweetiebelle was currently napping in her room.
This would be the second year Spike had been invited to the Crystal Empire's gaming con, developers were rushing to the new convention as the Crystal Ponies were fast becoming the highest purchasers of leisure items like games and so forth. His own popularity and enjoyment of games clearly spurring it on, and due to his popularity with the Crystal Ponies, he was pretty much a guaranteed invited guest to the con for the foreseeable future. He was also highly amused at how many publishers sent him copies of their game to test out in the hopes that he would give good reviews of it at the convention.
It was a good thing he was a demi god, because it would already take more than one mortal life time to play all these games.
This year however it seemed nearly everyone was going. Twilight, Rahs, Applejack, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rarity were heading up there for a bit of relaxation after the last few months. Heck even Rainbow Dash and Prince were tagging along.
Sombra still had a restraining order, but he was okay with staying home.
Of course, most of 'Rahs' Angels' as Sunset had taken to calling those interested in Rahs, were coming along too. Trixie was already in the Crystal Empire on a job, Jynx was coming along to check up on the dogs she left to run the mines, Saturnia was showing up to visit her mother and father, and Sunset didn't bother to come up with an excuse to go, she just joined them.
“Hey Spike..?” Applebloom asked.
“Hmmm?”
“Do yah think there's such a thing as a bad cutie mark?”
“Is this one of those hypothetical situations mares ask with no right answer, like 'would you still love me if I grew a dick?”
“that's a question?”
“So I've been told.”
“What even is the answer to that?”
“The popular response seems to be 'is it bigger than mine'?” Spike offered.
“But you have two.” Applebloom considered.
“So would the proper response be, 'Do you have three?” Spike considered.
“No, wait, we're off topic with adults weirdness, back to the cutie marks.”
“Well. What do you mean then?”
“Like Trouble Shoes. His cutie mark was causing him a disaster.”
“Trust me when I say it wasn't his mark causing the problem.” Spike sighed.
“Yeah, but what if I get a bad mark, something that I dun wanna do?”Applebloom huffed.
“You think that would be worse than not getting one?”
“Well no.... maybe...”Applebloom admitted. “ What if I get... , I dunno a bug busting cutie mark?”
“Don't worry about it. I doubt there's a bad mark. I mean if it's something you don't want to do just spin it so works for you.”
“Huh?”
“Okay, look at Miss Cheerilee. She has some flowers and she says it's a teaching cutie mark. Rarity claims hers helps with her fashion stuff but it's a couple of gems and she doesn't use gemstones on everything she makes.”
“Well ah guess yer right...” Applebloom frowned.
“I might not be, but it's what makes sense and since as far as I know Discord didn't make cutie marks...”
“Nope that was all Law she though ponies needed more structure in their lives.” Discord huffed floating above the two.”Bleah.”
“Sup Discord, haven't seen you in a while.” Spike offered non pulsed at his appearance.
Firefly however was a bit freaked out by the chaos god appearing, but that was mostly due to the block tower game he and Scootaloo were playing having all the pieces suddenly turn into bananas.
He was even more upset that Scootaloo didn't seem to care and had managed to remove one of the bananas without the tower collapsing.
“Oh I've been around, it is a great big world after all and I can't hang around Ponyville all the time.” Discord offered.
“Ehh makes sense.” Spike shrugged. “ Oh, I've been meaning to ask, did you want to join in one of my O&O games?”
“Spike?” Applebloom asked as a pile of bananas tumbled over the table to Firefly's annoyance.
“What, I'm morbidly curious as to what he might do.” Spike offered.” Granted it doesn't have to be O&O I have tons of games now.”
Discord considered for a moment. “I may take you up on that, though I've got far too much on my plate right now.” Discord nodded.
“It's cool, we generally meet on Saturday nights during the school year.” Spike offered.
“Playing games on Saturday night? As young as you are, you should be out living the night life.” Discord pointed out.
“Okay first off both of us have over protective siblings who can sniff us out anywhere, literally. Second Twilight and Big Mac usually go out on Saturday and we have the whole place to ourselves. And third I can call the game early any time I want just to stay with Applebloom.” Spike smirked as Applebloom blushed.
“Ahh, you are a clever one.” Discord nodded. “ Be glad you're not a pony, or calling you clever would be much more disastrous.”
With that Discord snapped his fingers and vanished, the banana block tower turning into a pile of frozen fish sticks.
“Seriously!?” Firefly snapped. “What is it with him and food?”
[Crystal Empire]
In a dark corner of the rebuilt Crystal Castle something was happening, beyond dust bunnies breeding in the corners.
No, they were not related to White.
There was a faint sound in the room, like a large drop of water hitting a still pool in a large cave system. The sound died out rather quickly turning to a faint hum as something magic activated in the mithril room.
Most of the artifacts in there were dormant, subdued by the materials that constructed the room.
The tall horseshoe shaped mirror on the other hoof, glowed in defiance of this place. After all, magic nullification was something that happened to other ponies creations, not things made by the Great Starswirl the Bearded.
A figure emerged from the glowing mirror with a sound like a bit striking the pool at the bottom of a wishing well, the air was filled with the faint whiff of ozone and clear water.
The figure then fell on their face as their new hooves slipped out from under them.
There was a groan of pain before the mirror flared and dumped a whole bunch more figures on top of the first with a painful sounding crash and a good bit of whimpering and fussing.
The largest figure of the group stood up shakily on two legs and looked around curiously before noticing it was wearing a bluish black long coat over navy fur.
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!" no longer a bird Rahs exclaimed.
Well frick.
Well then….
Great. A magical artifact that has an ego.
And the ending, hoo boy.
Well Schieße, how bad will this go.
If this contains humans in Equestria I'm out...
If human world Rahs is there, then I suspect that Sci-Twi and no-longer-a-dog spike is with him. Can't wait to see if I'm right.
I wouldnt have been suprised if a certain Ponyville Earth Pony had appeared holding a bowl of custard with a Baltic Pictsie stuck in it.
Accidental mirror operation? Or someone decided to have a vacation?
YEAH, Sci-Twi is in the Empire.
This should be good
Ooh baby
Hilarity incoming
Not paid much attention to EQG, so I'll let other people call this.
Ooooohhhh mmmmmyyyyyyyy......
Well... I do believe the Crystal Empire is a goner
so another ravs, shining and twilight? anyone else those are the only ones i can assume
Was.... was that a Murky Number Seven reference? Or is that another.......... Oh. Right. Duh.
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Well it did say 'a whole bunch more figures', so yeah, she brought some friends.
10759320 maybe not Shining he is the mature one with a job. I see him showing up later hunting for Sci-Twi and the missing girls. Wonder if Spike came along as well and how he changed
Ohhhh yes, this should be VERY amusing.
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counter point! he knows about the portal and likely wont let sci-twi near it without his supervision. as you said he is mature and knows his sister is definetly going there with or without him so he proberbly knows he better come along. maby cadence joins?
this is going to be a amazing story line.
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two cadys, two shinings and only one chrysalis?
that image wont leave my mind now.
oh, boy...
I'm still calling it that Solomon and Starswirl are either the same person or at least related. Some god told them no once and he was like, "Whelp, guess I need to kill them all."
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dont forget that chrisalis is a shape shifter so its not off the table that this could be seen as something else by cadence and shining of equestria
10759413 Did sci-Twi tell her brother I'm wondering if she told the other girls or did they just follow as we've seen happen before
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i might need to check but i think the girls and shining where present when they went back through the portal
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No, the mirror portal doesn’t have an ego of its own. But its creation did require it be imbued with the merest speck of its creator’s ego.
Well, at least it's not gonna to waste.
Sunset: Two Rahs? Can I borrow them a bit? I need to run some experiments~ ...yum
Saturnia: Like Tartarus I am going to fall for that! Bees, do not let them out of your sight!
Trixie: Trixie is intrigued. Maybe she can recruit her double to pony up her team.
Jynx: He doesn't seem to be fit. Not exercise enough? Maybe I could help with that.
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Starswirl is very arrogant. He wasn't speciesist like Neighsay.
He is hungry and for what I don't know
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Much easier to deal with as well. Just need a newspaper or two... Or dozen... Or hundreds of dozens...
Blizzaga + 2x Ice Rod + Chainspell + Brave x4 = MAELSTROM OF MAGIC ASSAIL YOU!
And now we wait for the issues to kick off. Fortunately not that long of a wait as TDR updates rather frequently. We'll be seeing how the Crystal Empire reacts to doubles of their saviors. That aren't changelings. Also like some others I expect Human Shining Armor to follow up his sister shortly after noticing her absence. Whether Human Cadence follows and potentially a Human Chrysalis if she exists(Not familiar with EQG so unsure if she does even then this is Fanfiction so that's up to TDR.) following after to cause more shenanigans is also up to TDR.
I believe the expression is "The fun has been doubled!"
And I just noticed there is no Luna emoji! Blasphemy!
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Seriously, after all these years, still no love for best princess contestant.
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They've never been updated. Instead they got lazy and added normal boring emojis, but never updated or expanded the mlp ones.
wait, it has been 2 years already? huh... so what happened to the rainbooms anyway? Did they still avoid each other until friendship games or what?
This is going to be so much fun!
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Yeah, what's up with that anyway? Is it really that hard to do? is there some limit or just one of those things the important ponies running the site never got around to it?
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It's just them being cheap and lazy. To get more, they most likely would have to pay someone to commission more, or something like that costing money. And choose not to. They also don't care at all about the Users or Writers, having made many changes over the years, forcefully, even against the community's wishes and backlash. They never interact with us, they don't write stories, rarely do people break the rules. So why would they care about us at all?
So, now that DT has gone full supervillain and teamed up with the single greatest threat to all of existence in Equiis.. back to silly shenanigans?
JENGA hard mode activated!
Enjoy that Crystal Horse Fame! I'd also love to hear him give an utter eviscerating to 4E....
To the surprise of noone. Still.... plus side of Solomon being around, Sombra can actually put some of those parentacidal impulses of his to use and enjoy it!
Eventually, the portal will reopen and a bunch of the others will head over just to try and get a quick crash course on these references Sunset keeps making.
It's Sunset, when has she ever needed an excuse beyond 'I want to.'? "Why did you set that building on fire?" "I wanted to." "Why did you teach the CMC how to make thermite!?" "I wanted to." etc....
Well... that was a conversation. Yup that was a thing that happened.
Though....is anybeing overseeing those at this point given Law is MIA?
Pretty much everyones reaction to anything involving Discord.
........... I WAS JOKING ABOUT THE MIRROR!!!! How the hell did I call that!?
Oh no.... ohhh nooooooo...... Crystal Empire is about to have Sparkle Overload! That place just cannot catch a break.
Oh.. oh no no no no.... is Human-Shining Armor with the group? If so, ummm, he might want to start running before Chryssi and Cadance start getting ideas.
Well, short cut the actual story of the ep into a quick little hypothetical discussion that gets derailed by talking about penises and then onto something that is going to be interesting.... mostly likely in the Chinese proverb sense of the word.
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Ehhhh no... Starswirl is a smug, egotistical, head up his own plot with his own brilliance, irritating, short tempered, jerkass. But he's not outright evil like Solomon. Solomon is a full on super villain level psychopath. Starswirl is just a grumpy, anti-social mad scientist. While the stuff Starswirl creates or does may end up hurting ponies, it's always an unintended side effect or due to a lack of proper caution. For Solomon, it's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Solomon is actually the worst sort of villian. He follow the rules.
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If anything, they'd be the same species as their counterpart in Equestria. So EQG Rahs is a Moon Dog here, or at least a close approximation.
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Again
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If all four human world sparkles show up and they've shown almost exact personalities, Lyra, Bon Bon, flower trio, you may want to deepen your bunkers to almost mantle, you'll be safer there.
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To be fair.... none of the EQG Sparkles will be outright gods, and none of them have the knowledge or training to actually do anything near the stuff the Equestrian ones can.
Both Puppyverse baseline Twilight and Shining are stronger then the canon versions due to having grown up with Rahs pretty much acting as endurance training for their magic usage their whole lives. Something the humans versions won't have.
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but the human ones have birb rahs
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I was just theorizing if the sparkles all were in the same room, without seeing each other, and something made all of them angry.
I guess he likes bananas
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You forgot a fez
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BIRB OF THE BIRB GOD!