Timeline

This list is to provide essential, boiled down basics of major events occurred during every thread. This list is to allow a quick scanning of what has happened to get new readers up to speed. If you want more specifics on any single character, it is advised you use the individual pages dedicated to them, or if you want expansion on a story in particular it is advised you use either the pastebin, or ask in the current thread for an archiver. These are the barebones basics of what happened every thread.
== Thread 1 ==
* Everything is wrong with Equestria, and it's all Celestia's fault.
* Applejack becomes a princess after Celestia reveals that Equestria is in disarray, and needs a down to earth outlook to make things better
* It turns out Luna is also avoiding doing any political or economical work.
* All of Canterlot's guard are horribly incompetent, due to Shining Armor being very lax in their training and discipline
* Blueblood's insane level of spending is discovered, and severely reduced after Applejack demands such.
* The Crystal Empire is in a likewise state of disarray, with Cadence overspending by the boatload for haircare, hoofcare, spas and other such treatment to look good. Also, she cannot count.
* Shining Armor is currently neglecting his own duties due to the fact he is currently feeling neglected, he is not very respected in his kingdom, nobody else even considers him a prince, he feels belittled by his wife and sister being an alicorn while he is not, Celestia is being hostile towards him, and his wife is ignoring him to the level she did not notice when he had been gone for over a week, and neither of them had been 'intimate' in months.
* In desperation, he decides what he really needs to get respect is some wings, and begins a long journey to become an alicorn... it just keeps failing.
* He also spends most of the thread being put down, beat up, and other such things.
* The one exception is Twilight, who has an almost obsessive, overly-critical need to watch out for him and make him happy.
* Sombra returns and demands to see the ruler of the crystal Empire! Shining Armor confronts him... and is immediately told by Sombra that he wants to see the REAL royals. When Shining Armor points out that he's the prince, Sombra points out he counts one throne up there, and Shiny doesn't seem like the 'pink and glitter' type. Despondant, Shining points him towards Cadence, and decides he might go... 'shave' in the tub a bit.
* Following this, Sombra is very easily destroyed once more.
* Fluttershy, feeling left out and helpless, is made an Alicorn by Discord, and is given the ability to "Counter" and end his magic. She mostly just uses it to make hims stop causing chaos.
* Initially, they tell Discord to knock it off, so he briefly shoots around his powers and makes random ponies, and one time Spike, alicorns before stopping abruptly and solemnly swearing to make nobody else and Alicorn ever again.
* Coincidentally, Shining Armor shows up right at that moment... and reconsiders shaving in the tub.
* Rarity is randomly made an Alicorn simply to spite Applejack
* Shining Armor starts distracting his wife with a life-sized doll that looks like him, only it has red hair. So wrapped up in her own stuff, she doesn't even notice.
* Twilight asks Celestia about Spike's legal parentage for tax reasons and she vanishes in a bust of smoke, declaring she'snever going to give a straight answer on that one.
* Chrysalis returns, and attempts to capture the 'weakest' of the group, Fluttershy.
* Discord, who was with her at the time, easily defeats the Queen and her entire hive is locked in the ballroom for containment, since they lacked extra space in the dungeons.
* Applejack decides, instead of exiling them or attempting to keep them locked up, to try and merge them with pony society.
* She learns that A, there is no 'changeling government', none of them have names, Chrysalis has a terrible vocabulary, and this is the last remaining Changeling hive.
* She also feels regret.
== Thread 2 ==
* All of the changelings take the name Applejack with various numbers
* They mostly cause havoc and destruction with little guidance and.
* Chrysalis reveals she can't read pony, and when pointing out she's speaking it corrects Applejack and points out Applejack is, in fact, speaking Changeling. Also, it turns out her name means a lot in changeling languages.
* Applejack briefly asks if the can just toss them into the sun. Celestia says no.
* They're mostly left to their own devices, which drives Applejack mad.
* Shining Armor points out that, hey, his wife's kidnapper and his own assaulter is currently running around unsupervised in the castle. He is coldly brushed off by Celestia.
* Applejack tries to make Shining Armor let the changelings live in the barren wasteland out in the snow around his Empire. He... disagrees.
* First appearance of Applejack 42, after he and nine other changelings face 100 guards and defeat 99 of them.
* Deciding to cash in on this, they have her battle other monsters and such for sport. She does so... and eventually slips away. Whoops.
* Declaring this her fault, they demand Chrysalis send someone off to find her. Which she does, and allows Applejackto recapture her. Turns out he was sick of being used for bloodsport and was more interested in defending his Hive. Applejack apologizes and all is well.
* Shining Armor, desperate to become an Alicorn, engages a 'bet' with Celestia that if he can defeat 42 in hoof to hoof combat, she'll ascend him. Not serious and just wanting to watch him get hurt, she agrees.
* 42 then proceeds to beat the stuffing out of him, with his months of inactivity and lack of training coming back to bite him, hard.
* Looking for her one day, Applejack stumbles across said punchbug, and discovers a strange secret. 'He' is actually a 'she', and she had been hiding herself by disguising herself and using male pheromones. When she reveals there can only be one female in the hive, Applejack assures her they wouldn't let Chrysalis attack her.
* ...Turns out they didn't need to, Chrysalis doesn't care.
* First appearance of Applejack 2, who would later become a major character, occurs during a flashback to how 42 was found, where it turns out the one who found him was a drone picked by Chrysalis at random who couldn't decide on their number. 42 was located in Shining Armor's room, which 2 stumbled into by accident, where the prince had been whining to the soldier for a while while she gnawed on his helmet. She was ignoring him.... he knew.
* After that, 2 accidentally says something to anger Chrysalis, and rushes back to hide with Shining Armor, who reveals he knew she was a she the whole time as well. When asked why she came back, she declared she liked him, and Shinning Armor, desperate for some attention, lets her stay. After this, she begins hanging around Shining Armor and following him.
* Time passes, and she ends up spending more and more time with him, and at first it seems like the very adult looking changeling has an attraction to him. However, as time goes on, it becomes obvious her requests have a certain bent to them. A bent like playing boardgames, building blocks, drawing on papers and just walking around getting sweets.
* The Gryphon Queen Gwendolyn(not named until thread 11) stages a covert invasion of the Crystal Empire to test the new kingdom. They are defeated off-screen by Two with a bunch of caramel, even she doesn't know how that worked. As a result, the Queen is now terrified of her.
== Thread 3 ==
* First appearance of 18, an infiltration specialist sent out to 'seduce' Shining Armor. It doesn't work. Over, and over, it does not work.
* Someone notices Applejack 2 is starting to... shrink?
* First appearnce of Applejack 56, the plot-loving booty hungry changeling who attends Ponyville Elementary. On his first day of class, Diamond Tiara immediately demands the guards come in and arrest him. They do not. Worse, Silver Spoon doesn't seem to want him to go.
* Taking the matter into her own hooves, she decides to get rid of him, permanently!... No, really, permanently. She starts chucking chemicals she's mixing in chemistry class at him, and gets more and more destructive when she notices he's practically invincible.
* The Tournament Mini-Arc begins!
== Thread 4 ==
* 18 begins helping with the paperwork due to Shiny showing her kindness, starting her journey into helping the Empire.
* First appearance of Applejack 12, the ever-job seeking but constantly failing changeling.
* First appearance of Applejack 29, a changeling who is out to seduce any royal he can find. Think a wimpy, Shakespearian Johnny Bravo who only goes after royals. He goes over to the Empire to assist with 'seducing' Shining Armor and Cadence, with painful results.
* The Tournament Mini-arc comes to a close, with Spike and 42 forfeiting the match together rather than fight.
== Thread 5 ==
* First appearance of Changeling 77(NOT Applejack 77), the only survivor of a failed infiltration mission that was sent underneath Canterlot, and discovered horrifying things down there.
* After learning of his hives defeat and current status, he begins recounting his tale to 12 wherein he describes the horrors beneath Canterlot.
== Thread 6 ==
* First appearance of Applejack 10, the would be reporter. She arrives hoping to get an interview with Shining Armor, but is told her camera is actually a box of cereal on a stick. He gives her a real one, and she runs off. She never did get that interview.
* Turns out, 56 is the one who gave her the cereal box.
* She tries to interview 77... it doesn't go well.
== Thread 7 ==
* Cadence joins the DnD games despite knowing absolutely nothing about them, with expected results.
* During one of said games, 42 gets the seduction spell with Shining thrust upon her, and spazzes out like never before.
* 18 tries strip-dancing for fun, and makes 42 hold the bar. Then Cadence walks in and joins them, then Zecora walks in and joins them, then Celestia and Chrysalis notice, and after some heated words decide to have a dance off which eventually snowballs until they have a full blow, massive competition. But, sadly, cannot declare a winner, as Cadence and Zecora would vote for Celestia and 18 and 42 have to vote for Chrysalis!
* Luckily, Shining was there the whole time... Celestia won due to technical details which everyone agrees on.
* They all leave... he needs a minute.
* 2 is officially adopted!
* And shares a heartwarming scene with Applejack when she learns about the death of Applejack's parents.
* A family heirloom is passed down to Shining Armor from his father, which has been sent down from generation after generation in their line, and every new recipient was encouraged to upgrade it and make it their own. In times long past, it was a big stick.... now it's a shotgun.
* Sombra and Shining play Hyperspace Hyperwars, wherein Shining is easily and frequently defeated.
* However, the specter is no match for the ultimate player... Two.
* Awkward changeling asks for a job, and gets one working for a crystal polisher, Miss Glitz.
* Sombra has a nightmare about his past, and rejects it.
* A princess meeting goes off without a hitch!... Because Cadence, Celestia, Chrysalis and Luna were not present. Depressed, they all get drunk.
* And then go bug Shining. Multi combo puke follows.
* Movie night again! This one turns out badly when they rent a monster movie, which involves the a creature living inside of a changeling chitin. Everyone save Shining freaks out.
* The rainbolts arrive and are named! A group of five changelings who act like sentai heroes, and even take on the colors of red, blue, green, yellow and INDIGO, not violet, because violet sucks.
* Applejack discovers that 29 rejected a job offer from the Mayor of Ponyville to be her secretary, because he would much rather be lazy. She responds about how you would expect her to, and explains to him if he does not get down there and does a good job, she is going to send Spike with his gun and a body bag, and chucks him clear to Ponyville.
* He turns out to be pretty damn good at the job, despite his endless complaining.
* 29 complains to 12, who is... unsympathetic, to say the least
* It's also revealed that 29 is 56's 'cousin', though what that means is never explained.
* Spike visits the mayor again, and takes back all his previous threats, and apologizes.
* Finally upping his game, Blueblood makes an assassination attempt on Applejack, only to be thwarted when Spike pushes her out of the way and takes the hit instead. This causes a lot of turmoil as Spike is badly wounded.
* It also causes a lot of antics while ponies visit him in the hospital.
* He frequently tries to get out and get back to work. Twilight, freaking out juuuuuust a bit, ends up making a walking tank for him called a Juggernaut. He decides that rest is probably a good idea.
* Blueblood attempts to kidnap Applebloom, but is thwarted by Diamond Tiara and her rocket launcher... and for some reason she thought this was 56's doing. His innocence does not dissuade her from returning to trying to kill him.
* Spike comes down and thanks her, and offers her a chance to join himself and some others for a special club for weapons enthusiasts.
* Applejack flips off at her guards, but it's useless.
* In a surprise attack, a mechanical Spike breaks through the shield and makes it into the Empire. Shining Armor and Sombra are near the landing sight, and the prince engages it in battle before destroying it. Sadly, he is badly wounded here.
* Thankfully, he is okay, much better off than Spike, and is forced to recover in the hospital with his family surrounding him. Well, except for Chrysalis, who seemingly brushes off the incident, but everyone else can tell she is secretly raging.
* In a surprising move, 18 goes to confront her and comfort her, but ends up being comforted by said Queen when she breaks down.
* 2 tries to cheer him up by dressing as a nurse, and gives everyone heart attacks
* Having that Juggernaut lying around, Twilight gives it to them for protection... it mostly ends up as a glorified SUV, and Cadence nearly kills everyone trying to drive that thing.
* Spike can't take it anymore, and wants out of the bed! So, being a kind soul, Discord snaps his fingers and easily repairs all damage... and everyone's annoyed he didn't just do that in the first place.
* 10 stumbles across a robot Blueblood double who had been trying to steal information, but fooled absolutely no one because if it's shoddy production, and was tossed in the trash. In it's malfunctioning to wipe it's own memory, it accidentally sets 10 as it's "owner" and follows her commands. Thus, the duo of 10 and BBB is born.
* Rarity decides to stop living in decadence and try to be her old self again.
== Thread 8 ==
* Flash, who was altered by Twilight with robot enhancements to try and bolster the guard, joins up with Blueblood
* Blueblood robots arc officially begins!
* Spike, 42, 77, Twilight and Diamond Tiara begin the assault on Blueblood's airship, but something is not what it seems with dear 42...
* In the Crystal Empire, everyone is relaxing and Chrysalis is having fun, until she out of the blue goes stock still and declares the robots are coming, terrified.
* Airships upon airships descends upon the Empire, and the invasion begins...
== Thread 9 ==
* On the hunt for Blueblood, 77 and CS were captured by buffalo then promptly released.
* Chrysalis and Shining are panicking while assembling the troops, and all of the Empire is losing their minds at the thought of invasion. Shining Armor tells her to stay back and if she finds any of 'them', lock them in the castle regardless of whether or not they fight her. With one last declaration he forgives her, he takes off.
* Alone, Chrysalis just smiles, and vanishes...
* Cadence was outside the shield went it went up, and now finds herself totally surrounded by robots. Rather than attack her, they play a pre-recorded message from Blueblood, who comically fails in trying to hide his identity. He explains he's merely doing this to return things to the way they were, and he has no intention of harming her, just that her Empire was 'flying a little too high' and 'shaming Auntie Celestia', so he must knock them down a few pegs. In addition, he must remove the unfortunate 'intruders', the changelings. He warns her this is not an extermination, but if they fight back there will be... collateral damage. She remains trapped in the sea of robots, unable to get to the shield.
* Rainbow Dash and the other Wonderbolts prepare to mobilize to help the Empire, getting ready to take off.
* Alone, Spitfire is confronted by a robot who offers her a chance back at her position as captain and a chance to regain what she lost. Though tempted, she turns him down and destroys it. Proud, she and Dash join the other Wonderbolts and take off for the Empire.
* In a shocking twist, the one assembling the Crystal Guard is... 42!?
* It turns out, she had wished to assist in taking out Blueblood to secure relations with the ponies and assist in overall protection, but first and foremost wished to defend her Queen. As a result, she mind-melded with another changeling 007, an Infiltrator with combat skills, and had him pretend to be her. With her memories, he could keep up the con, and assist them in taking the airship down.
* While the Crystal Guard assemble and use their rockets to powerful effect, she just uses punches.
* Shining Armor joins her, and the battle reaches a fever pitch as the two battle inside the robot horde.
* Two is revealed to be with Sombra, locked away in some unknown location.
* Outside in the robot horde, Cadence is doing her best to wade through the robots that still will not attack her to little avail, when some of them suddenly spring to life and seem to be shooting at her.
* But instead, it turns out Chrysalis had disguised herself as a robot, but they could detect she was secretly organic. She destroys the robots, and is left alone with Chrysalis.
* With nobody around, Cadence out in a dangerous area she would have been spotted heading to alone, and no trace of Chrysalis herself there, the Queen declares this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to get what she wants, and Cadence, horrified, begs her not to attack, to no avail.
* There is a flash of green... then silence.
* The battle is going poorly for 42 and Shining, who while are able to destroy the robots in droves soon run out of stamina and are forced back behind the shield.
* Chrysalis suddenly arrives, declaring she has found the answers to all these problems, but it will require both Shining and 42 for it to work.
* Though suspicious, they realize they have no choice and follow her to the Vault, where she says she has set up a way to destroy the robots, but it will risk 42's life.
* But the moment Shining steps inside, Two rushes up to hug him, and Sombra declares it's a trap! Chrysalis smashes 42's head into the ground, declaring that "Loyalty Vs Love... rarely goes well for the former." And chucks her inside, locking all four away. With nothing to stop her, she makes her way off, the wounded Forty Two calling her a damn fool... who will bring the whole Empire to the ground.
* Terrified, Shining Armor begins drilling his way out. It is slow, and he does not think he will make it in time.
* 18 attacks the two guards defending the doors to the Crystal Heart, demanding she be let in to use it's power to save her Empire. They reveal they cannot, only the royal family can access the DNA scanner to find entry. Chrysalis arrives, and 18 breaks down, declaring she had come to love this place, this magical city, and that she would rather die than see it destroyed. Annoyed, Chrysalis knocks her out.
* The guard points out she still can't enter into the room, and she just smiles.
* "Welcome, Princess Cadenza Mi Amore"
* While he's reeling in shock, wondering how she got the Princess's DNA, she just tells him to put 18 on his back... and run.
* She tells the guard to pick up 18... and run.
* Down below the castle, all of the citizens are gathered around, terrified of being invaded again, only clinging to the hope of survival thanks to the fact the Crystal Heart shines brightly.
* Despair overtakes them when and explosion goes off on the top of the castle, that light goes out, the shield is gone, and the Heart is tossed to the ground, a crack along it's side.
* At the top, in the shattered wreckage of the castle spire, an eruption of emerald fire sweeps up into the sky, and a booming voice declares "I. AM. YOUR. GOD. NOW."
* The wonderbolts, who have just arrived, can only watch in horror as Chrysalis becomes an inferno of power, beyond anything they had ever seen before. The love in the heart provided her the boost she needed, and she was now on a level all on her own.
* Single-handedly, Chrysalis wipes out the attacking robots, using massive beams of power to destroy the entire army and tossing the airships into each other like toys, with no effort at all on her part as the shockwaves rattle the entire Empire.
* She leaves one last airship remaining, sensing life within it and thinking it Blueblood. She phases from reality, not described as teleporting, and is suddenly inside that last airship, where she indeed discovers someone who looks like Blueblood. She prepares to kill him, and end this.
* Suddenly, Shining Armor shows up on the scene, and begins interrogating her when he notices her mind is slipping and she is becoming deranged with power. When she mockingly says she did all this for him, he declares she only did it for her own power, which she cracklingly admits is true, she only did this so she could become a god. Still, he should be happy, because she's going to end this.
* With one last desperate plea, he asks her to spare his life.
* After a moment of thought... she agrees. Letting him live.
* It turns out he's a body double, just paid to look like Blueblood. Nonetheless, Shining declares he will be tried for his part in the invasion.
* But he is given no time to take him into custody. Chrysalis's burning form suddenly begins to waver, and her skin begins to grow cold and grey. The color leaves her, and she realizes she had burnt out on an overdose of too much love, and could not handle the power, and it's all slipping away.
* As she lay dying in his arms, Shining Armor begs her to drain him. But she says she can't, the only way to gain it now would be if he gave her love, the love he feels for Cadence. Admitting that she knows he couldn't do that, she realizes the last few months had been the happiest time of her life, and she was happy she got to spend it with him as the life leaves her.
* Shining Armor desperately tries to rouse her to no avail. Seeing no other option, he closes his eyes, braces himself, and then blames Celestia for this part.
* Then he kisses her, right on the lips.
* Shortly later, he's seen walking back through the Empire, Chrysalis on his back, very much alive, even if she was barely so, and laughing all the way.
* 18, 42, Sombra and 2 rush up, 2 declaring she knew Chrysalis wans't a bad guy and was just saving them. 18 is mad Chrysalis punched her, but 42 holds her back.
* Then another arrival comes along. It's Cadence! Still also very much alive, albeit with a cut on her neck. Turns out, Chrysalis merely cut her and used her DNA shifting ability from Larvesta to mimic Cadence's blood, she just needed a sample to pull it off, then took Cadence to a safe place.
* When Cadence, shocked, asks why Chrysalis didn't just kill her, the Queen just laughs and says she didn't feel like it, nobody buys that.
* But there's still one thing left. The heart is still barren, and after watching it be drained before their very eyes, the Crystal Empire cannot bring themselves to feel love again. For what good is it, if it can be taken away in just an instant? The adults look on in despair, not knowing how to fix this.
* But someone has an idea! Little Two hops down, going over to the heart. When Shining Armor tells her it would take so many to feel love, everyone from the Empire, Two just smiles.
* She points out that she has love from everyone in the Empire, inside of her, because of changeling. With that, she points out... she just has to give it back.
* She pours the love the Empire had given her back into the heart, and right before their eyes it is returned to it's natural splendor! Love fills their hearts once more as they realize that despite how all may try to drain it from them, in fact...
* Love remained... and it will never die.
* They all join together, every one, and look on, knowing that the Empire is safe.
* ...And then the robots begin their invasion of Ponyvile and Cantrelot.
* Shoot.
* Canterlot relies on the power of it's princesses and magic users to fight back, while Ponyville uses comedy slapstick.
* The A-team continues their infiltration, fighting through level after level and fighting a variety of battles as the all split up.
* Chrysalis is still recovering from her draining of the Crystal Heart, and is being watched over by Shining Armor and Cadence
* Shining Armor and Cadence have a moment where they muse about his mortality.
* Chrysalis's dreams are invaded by Luna, who poses as Applejack and confronts her and tortures her for information, wherein she admits that she drained the Heart not to save the Empire, but for it's power. She also reveals she knows this is a dream when Shining Armor does not come to save her, but does not tell anyone what transpired after she awoke
* 77 and Cheese save the buffalo and defeat the mechanical beast, before heading off to help on the airship
* The robots attack ponyville, and are comically defeated by various citizens including Big Mac, Mayor Mare, 29, Vinyl, Octavia and 10/BBB. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are totally useless.
* Spike faces off with Flash, but is defeated after a brawl, but escapes his cell thanks to Rarity's help.
* Flash engages Diamond Tiara in a brawl, with the filly coming out on top.
* Spike, after wrecking his way to the top, faces off against Flim and Flam with their new contraption, which he easily destroys. Even though they immediately surrender, he shoots them. It turns out they survived it.
* Finally at the top, he confronts Blueblood who attempts to shoot him with a multiple of weapons, only to be disabled when Spike shoots his horn off. After a chilling game of russian roulette, Spike admits he doesn't want to kill anyone anymore, just in time for everyone to show up thanks to Discord and help... mere seconds before Diamond Tiara declares she's set charges, and the place is going to blow.
* And blow it does. With Blueblood and the still very much alive Flim and Flam taken into custody, it looks like all is well.
* Only... Flash too survived, and delivers the plans for the robots to none other than Fawntaine.
* In the wake of the destruction, Twilight talks with Chrysalis, and tells her that her burnout of the power has permanently crippled her ability to use that much love. If she tries it again, she'll die.
* But later, to Celestia alone, she reveals that the opposite is true. Her survival has made her more capable of containing that power, and now it's entirely possible she won't suffer a burnout. Still unsure of her loyalty or caring, they both decide to keep quiet on the matter.
* DT crawls home at three in the morning exhausted to a still awake Filthy Rich who had been waiting patiently for her. Still a bit in denial, since he thinks she was at a 'club' with her friends.
* With that out of the way, shenanigans re-ensue... starting with Cadence and Chrysalis singing This Day Aria in perfect sync without meaning to, and declaring the other a witch before running off.
* And more Rarity Vs Applejack for Spike wherein they completely ignore him halfway and go do their own thing.
* And it's revealed Celestia's mother has been cockblocking her for her whole life, and won't let her have sex until she's married. Also, when she swears at her she tosses soap bars into her mouth from heaven.
* Flim and Flam, totally alive, now have to suffer as Cheese throws them a birthday bash that lasts for days.
== Thread 10 ==
* 32, one of 77's crew, survived the caves, is now chief of the morlocks and aquired a robot head that fell through from the invasion
* Celestia joined in D&D, characters are OP and out of date
* Rarity and AJ are having serious relationship competitions to 'win' Spike. Very serious. Super, super serious.
* This is why they mostly get sidetracked and spin out into the two going on random adventures sans Spike.
* 85% of the WB are discovered to be on drugs. RD is not pleased, and boots out any of them, leaving next to nobody left.
* Twi continues to struggle with changeling history
* Apparently Cadence can't swim either
* Sombra takes up a new hobby. Creating dioramas of battles.
* SA really wants to be an older brother to Spike, but it's still just weird
* Chrysalis manages to pass a law (8174) without anyone noticing. Still screws it up. Doesn't apply in CE. For those wondering the specifics: "married stallion getting a blowjob from someone other than his wife does NOT count as cheating"
* Four guards got blind dates with changelings. Don't go all that badly.
* Chrysalis tells 2 a bedtime story - abridged, and heavily censored history of her mother. This is the first in the "Momsie' side stories.
* Mane6 finally get together to reflect on past - realize it was pretty terrible
* Chrysalis makes a poor decision of haggling GrannySmith. AJ is most unhappy.
* 29 blackmails MM into filming 56's school play
* 12 finally gets a job at a cafe, turns out to be temporary
* Spike has semi-forced playdates with 2. They are adorable. Also disney songs and hoverbikes.
* SA and Celestia have fun together.
* AJ dreams of home, and family
* Discord drops in on 29, makes some warnings about bothering Fluttershy, 29 gets the hint.
* 32 beings plotting from the caverns.
* Gun Club begins a battle royal
* Cheese Sandwhich has been partying with FlimFlam for quite some time. Both rather traumatized.
* Celestia announces that the gala is going to happen again! Everyone, remembering how it went last time, bails.
* But then they still agree to go, and preparations begin to be made with Cadence taking 18 and 42 out shopping.
* WB's are already planning to ditch going, Gilda has no idea what a Gala is.
* Spike gets a date problem when, in order, he is strong armed into taking Diamond Tiara, 2, Rarity, Twilight and even Potatojack into spending time with him at the Gala, and is too embarrassed to tell any of them no.
* As a result, Spike is forced to call on some backup. Specifically, The Rainbolts! He tells them to look like him, and that they would all swap out over the night so he could spend time with everyone.
* Pretty much everyone sees that this is going to go well.
* Vinyl/Octy fight each other for the right to play on stage to Celestia's amusment
* Chrysalis uses the fabric stretching Changeling ability to make a dress for Celestia.
* After the preparations, the Gala Arc officially begins with everyone's arrival!
* ...Except for the CMC, who were left back at Ponyville with Granny Smith, who fell asleep, giving them free reign of PV.
* Discovering unattended minors, the only other one left in the town, 29, got caught in the chaos and suffers.
* Also, as he discovers, Sweetie had a gun. He finds that one out the hard way.
* 32 kidnaps, and takes the place of one Lord Tourmaline, a guest at the party.
* Night gets crazy with Spike using the Rainbolt/ColorChangelings as his stand-in, and is swapping out every so often.
* Rainbow Dash and Gilda spike the punch. No puns here.
* Chrysalis, Cadence, and Celestia are having invisible magic discussions about SA's butt
* Really, Celestia just wants chaos.
* Spike's plan isn't unnoticed, and is starting to unwravel
* The Griffon Queen from thread 2, shows up, is revealed to be named Gwendolyn, or just Gwen, and is deathly afraid of 2
* Guests bring up "that law" to AJ
* Sombra knows what's going on everywhere, and is suspicious of 32/Tourmaline
== Thread 11 ==
* 42 finally gets her dance w/SA
* Rainbolt shennanigans continue
* 29 takes control of the shit in PV - demons included. "The children are trying to sleep"
* SA almost gets torn apart (literally), by the girls competing for dance rights
* AJ gets some of her folk up on stage, song of AJ's people begins
* 77 and Cherilee have a dance
* Sombra continues following 32.
* Apple Band causes dance for everyone
* Discord is organizing chaos in the background
* Sombra is discovered.
* Twi gets a dance with SA.
* Rainbolts start to mess things up proper
* 32 reveals his plan. Not all is as it seems
* Chrysalis gets Cadence semi-un-drunk by mind-controlling her into thinking she's not drunk.
* The spiked punch starts to have an effect on the party as a whole. As in, they are all inexplicably drawn to Shining Armor.
* After being harassed and semi-molested by the massive crowd, SA gets thrown up on. A lot.
* After literally being covered, he panics and teleports to the only bath he remembers right now, Celestia's.
* She goes up and helps clean him, and we get to learn of when the two started to become friends when, one Summer Sun Celebration Celestia was feeling sad, but hid it. Only Shining Armor saw through her and decided to cheer her up by making a funny face, giving his Superior Officer a heart attack in the process.
* Spike's plan starts to unravel.
* After a meeting with a drunk 42 wherein he is punted out the ceiling, SA is blocked from finding out about Spike's plan by Chrysalis sitting on him.
* It turns out that during the blind-date gags, a changeling male and a nightgaurd female hooked up.
* And she is now pregnant.
* After some choice insults being hurled at the newly dubbed "Bat-mom and Dadling", a fight starts between several guards
* 32 confronts Chrysalis. It gets very emotional.
* Afterwards, while she is ranting, SA shows his support for her, which stuns her completely.
* 56 also has a talk with her.
* Finally, Spike's plan begins to fall apart as his dates discover the truth.
* Bored with how everything is going Discord gives a drunk 2, who had gotten into the punch, a katamari marchmally that gets bigger the more she pushes it.
* Slowly, she absorbs every single single patron into the giant ball, taking over everyone while chasing down Shining Armor, who she is drawn to due to being drunk.
* After some quick thinking and teamwork from Shining Armor, Celestia and Chrysalis manage to explode the giant marchmalley without hurting anyone, but sticking them all to the wall in the process.
* The fallout finally catches up to Spike
* AJ gets the last dance
* PVstuff is wrapped up, and 29 finally gets a bit of peace, 'cos he's got friends on the other side~ This is the start of the "29 ghostkids" subplot
* Spike starts to repair the relationships he messed up with his plan
== Thread 12 ==
* The Gun Club tournament mini-arc begins!
* First up, Twilight VS Potatojack, which ends in a draw
* Second, 77 vs 42, 42 comes out the victor!
* Third, DT Vs Spike, Spike wins!
* Final round, Spike Vs 42, 42 wins!
* 29 finally meets with Zecora about the ghost kids. Turns out he's got... a bit more than she expected. As such, she tells him to go off and just try to live his life while she looks for an answer.
* Spike does stuff to make up for the Gala to everyone
* Twilight becomes Bat-mom's Obstetrician
== Thread 13 ==
*Celestia joins in on OnO, much to Chrysalis's annoyance.
*Chrysalis tries seducing Shiny, but rolls a critical failure.
*So Celestia makes the same attempt.
*She rolls a nat 20.
*before she and Shiny can go at it, she realizes that nothing is stopping her.
*Freaked out, she runs off.
*"YOU WON'T GET ME THAT EASILY, MOTHER!"
*"I'M ONTO YOOOOOOUUUU!!
*Shiny was okay with it.
*Sombra uses the reality simulator to experience past battles.
*Celestia joins in, opposing him.
*Dadling knows batmom much too well.
*She's okay with it.
*He gets extra snuggles for it.
*USELESS CHANGELING POWER AQUIRED!
*Chrysalis can stand on water that's less than four inches deep.
*Also She can waterskate, but not iceskate.
*Somehow.
*Rarity upgrades Charity.
*Now it regenerates it's magical ammo.
*She suggests training with Pinkie Pie, learning the art of Jeet Kune Doe.
*He reiterates that training with 42 is fine.
*She worries that she's too soft on him.
*"...I'm such a marshmallow."
*The ghosts know not to bother 29 when he's working, gotta pay the rent somehow.
*They also like to fly with 56, somehow.
*Shiny and Celestia have a legendary secret handshake that took years to perfect.
*"Time. Well. Spent."
*Bulk Biceps... is NOT on any kind of enhancer.
*He's just a really enthusiastic weightlifter and flier.
*Dash feels bad after five drug tests.
*She's secretly glad Spitfire also came up negative.
*Her and Applejack hoof wrestle for old times sake.
*Cheese sandwich and Pinkie Pie bought hundreds of acres of land, robots, and ther own version of the reality simulator for their newest project:
*...PARTYLAND!
*Where the party never stops!
*At twenty bits a pop.
*..."PARTYLAND!"
*The idea came to them in a shared hallucination where an arch-alicorn decended from the heavens and showed them a place where they could unleash their full potential.
*they have a lot of plans to make PARTYLAND the happiest place on earth
*including ignoring patent laws, breaking into twilights lab, binding spirits to a haunted house, and removing tags from matresses.
*they also have a futuristic themed area named after Twilight.
*They also secured the rights to make a Daring Do ride.
*Twilight apparently wears a Daring Do costume underneath her princess outfit.
*USELESS CHANGELING POWER AQUIRED!
*Chrysalis summons the imperial march music from Star Wars when she walks a certain way.
*It's very loud.
*She can't turn it down, her amps only have one setting: Eleven.
*Luna and 77 comb through 77's mind, looking for death dreams that he wants to 'delete'.
*Luna finds one where Pommel trips and accidentally stabs him with scissors.
*Finally, he finds the vision he wants:
*a vision of himself lying in bed, old, and gray.
*An older version of Cheerilee standing beside him.
*Two younger changelings enter the room.
*They both have Cheerilees' eyes.
*the light in vision!77's eyes dims, and he dies.
*Luna thinks this is a good argument for laying down ones weapons.
*77 disagrees.
*Luna won't watch him delete this dream, and leaves.
*77 tries to get rid of it, but can't.
*he tells himself that he'll delete it later. but displays it prominently.
*Everyone dumps the children off with Spike.
*...That's why he's in a gunclub meeting with two, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo.
*...CUTIEMARK CRUSADER: SPECIAL OPERATIONS AND DEMOLITIONS AGENTS! YAY!
*Shining Armor needs a new matress.
*He needs a big one.
*A BIG one.
*He's sick of Chrysalis screaming when Celestia pushes her out.
*He custom orders the largest bed ever sold in the empire, and pays the salespony to mindwipe himself to keep the sale out of the tabloids.
*32 and pommel plan a trip into town to imbibe a copious amount of liquour.
*...77 is invited, and he agrees in order to keep 32 from doing anything else too stupid.
*APPLEJACK IS ON THE WINDOW SILL, PREPARING TO JUMP!
*Celestia is terrified at the reality Applejack would want to jump.
*The newspaper heading for that day was:
*“Massive pet rock shortage hits ponyville! Many saddened, hundreds suicidal!”
*Applejack is pushed to the side by Celestia, who jumps past, right out the window, pulling off many eye-catching maneuvers. She is overjoyed at the fact that-
*“IT’S! NOT! MY! FAUUUULLLT!”
*Cadence and 42 try to assist 18 in getting cadences' look right.
*She still can't get the hair quite right.
*Even Chrysalis couldn't do that which is why she replaced all of cadences bridesmaids with changelings during the wedding.
*No one noticed their bad behavior because they were really after money or prestige or entire wings of the castle to themselves.
*42 does a funny joke!
*If there's anyone Cadence can trust to simply be themelves and not hide their true nature, it's... changelings...
*Huh.
*The gun club takes to the children well.
*42 shows that you CAN, in fact, defeat foes with hugs.
*Chrysalis lights a bonfire in Applejacks garden.
*Shiny complained about the clogging mail system in the empire, and tells her to get rid of the HP proposals.
*...HP stands for 'harem proposals.'
*She's been burning requests to join the various royal figures' harems.
*None of them have got jack on Luna.
*Spike joins in with Applejacks own.
*Shining Armor is VERY protective of Twilight. Enough to threaten Chrysalis.
*Canary Gem makes another appearence!
*Spike attempts a spur of the moment spar with 42.
*It does not go well.
*32 regails Pommel and 77 with his exploits concerning the Morlocks.
*Spike has to eat some of Cadences' cooking.
*Cadences' cooking tries to eat Spike.
*Celestia forgot how to swim, so shiny teaches her.
*Batmom cleanses a room filled with green goo made by Dadling the only way she can: with fire.
*32 recreates his troubles in the caves under Canterlot within the reality simulator, deciding that showing was better than telling.
*Momsie Story! "The tale of Momise and the stupid Swordspony."
*Celestia dreams of turning the planet into a sun, and escaping with everyone she likes to the moon and starting over.
*77 treats Cheerilee right.
*Two explains to the CMC that shiny is special.
*"Thank's fer lettin' me stay."
*..."Thank you for coming along, Two."
*Fluttershy tries seducing 29.
*"Happiness, you foreign lover you, we meet again at last."
*-And then a ghost child appears in the corner.
*Split, he eventually deicides that the child is more important than his desires.
*When fluttershy suggests the ghost child join in, 29 blasts her so hard it takes her head clean off.
*And then she explodes into sparkles.
*Turns out it was a clone.
*An ultrasound can't see batmoms baby at all, prompting freakouts.
*Twilight explains that the baby is there, and perfectly healthy, but hidden by goo.
*Sombra helps Mane-iac on her rampage of pg crime.
*Applejack and Shiny bond over how normal they imagined their life to be.
*...While surrounded by queens and heads of state, fighting over the limited spots in the hot-tub.
*Dadling gets a letter from chrysalis, and is ecstatic that she even knows that he existed at one point.
*Batmom gets a name! Glimmer!
*And Luna finds out that she's pregnant!
*"EEEEEEEEEEEEE"
*USELESS CHANGELING POWER AQUIRED!
*Chrysalis can glow from the inside, and it looks... really beautiful.
*Downside? She's completely blind.
*Batmom and Luna are best friends, akin to Shining armor and Celestia.
*The CMC try becoming bureaucrats. They're... wierdly competent?
*42 IS NOT HAPPY THAT PONIES AND CHANGELINGS ARE COMPATIBLE, SHUT UP!
*55 is the Demon rider!
*By which I mean he just sets himself on fire to fight crime.
*Gwen, the Gryphon queen, comes to argue with Applejack, but is interupted by 56.
*She is... oddly receptive?
*32 Meets two.
*believing her a pet for the royals, he is a little incensed.
*Shining armor appears.
*Tension Intensifies.
*32 finds out that 2 has been adopted by Shining armor and Cadence.
*Shiny offers to show 32 his shotgun, but 32 declines, almost speechless.
*APRIL FOOLS DAY, Y'ALL!
*Celestia and Shiny prank Chrysalis.
*"...Soon."
*Dadling was given a knife.
*Very violently.
*As in it was thrown at him by an off-duty guard.
*Batmom is not happy.
*29 throws a bag of explosives at Sombras face in order to appease an orphan that died mining crystals for Sombra.
*Sombra isn't angry, and Shiny is more confused than anything, so 29 is let off.
*When Celestia and Chrysalis have a prank war...
*Shiny loses.
*77 is more than content with simple tricks.
*Rainbow Dash locks spitfire in a building laced with stink bombs.
*Two tries pranking 18.
*It works, adorably.
*Luna still doesn't like Shining Armor.
*USELESS CHANGELING POWER AQUIRED!
*Chrysalis can grow a jagged horn out of her nasal cavity.
*it's... useful? for fighting? But it hurts like hell to use.
*Spike, Gilda and PJ lament the closure of a carnivore restaurant they enjoyed.
*The CE crew critique a childrens show. 42 Enjoys it.
*42 doesn't want 32 spreading his toxic mentality to pommel
*56 doesn't know where he comes from, 77 doesn't want to let him know.
*Discord turned Bronze Pommel into Coco Pommel as a prank.
*Celestia, shining armor, and Chrysalis disguise themselves as children in order to raise money for castle renovations
*29 reveals his absolute bro-tier nature to 77.
*Dadling is worried about being a father when the word means nothing to him. Batmom to the rescue.
*Sombra uses a horn extender.
*Chrysalis ordered a cake shaped like shiny's dong. Celestia wants a piece.
*USELESS CHANGELING POWER AQUIRED!
*chrysalis can change her legs to be able to jump really high.
*she tried to show it off indoors.
*Cadence launches applejack through a wall.
*56 finds heaven on the other side.
*Chrysalis has her papers messed up by Shiny.
*PJ tries to knock some sense into 32.
*10 lays down some gryphon history on Applejack.
*Mane-iac tries to join Shinys' harem.
*Gaffer inadvertantly aides in the protection of the castle. Sombra is scared of him.
*Two finds a thong. Shiny is overloaded.
== Thread 14 ==
 
== Thread 15 ==
* Twilight, investigating strange activity from her brother, travels up into the snowy mountains and discovers, of all things, Queen Chitania! After digging her way deep, deep, deep into the ice, a mistake on her part awakens the long thought dead Queen, and inadvertently released her.
* Twilight tries to stop the Queen, but is buried by an avalanche caused by the Changeling when she grows to her Titanic size. It is only her magic that keeps her from being killed, but she is unable to stop the Queen as she leave.
* Chitania's mind still living in the days long past, she declared her need for revenge, and rampaged across the land.
* Chitania arc officially begins!
== Thread 16 ==
* Chitania continues her rampage, destroying a gryphon village in the process (six gryphons died in this action, but this was not revealed till much later) and several dozen other places along the way.
* She nearly hits Ponyville, but is distracted by 29, Mayor Mare and Zecora. This action points her towards Canterlot.
* Pommel and 32 attempt to stop her with a poisonous mushroom, but this fails and Pommel is swallowed.
* Several attempt to stop her from reaching Canterlot, such as 77 and the Rainbolts using experimental robots(Which instantly fall apart), but they all fail.
* In a desperate attempt to keep her citizens safe, Celestia begins long-range teleporting them to safety, an act that strains her and drains nearly all of her magic.
* Unsure of her motives or abilities, Applejack locks up all of the changelings in the ballroom out of fear they could be controlled, or that this is some plot on Chrysalis's end.
* Spike, 42 and Diamond Tiara engage her in the Highwind. While initially they seem to be making progress, she soon turns it around and destroys the machine.
* On the ground, Spike detonates a warehouse filled with Blueblood's munitions in an attempt to kill her. This, unfortunately, messes up Luna's own sneak attack of a divebomb, and leaves the lunar princess vulnerable to be punted through buildings, and have a house dropped on her.
* Shining Armor manages to fix the portal, and he, Chrysalis and Cadence all walk through, discovering the havoc. Chrysalis, enraged, goes off to stop her, while Cadence and Shining Armor split up to find 2 and get her to safety.
* Sensing the portal is working again, Two leaves her kindergarten to reach it.
* Cadence meets and attempts to stop Chitania first, but ultimately only helps the beast recover before being kicked away.
* Chitania reaches the ballroom, and nearly kills one of the changelings(13) while trying to extract information
* Chrysalis arrives and takes them both underground, to the area she placed Cadence back at the wedding.
* The one sided battle begins, heavily in Chrysalis's favor as she uses sneak attacks and tricks.
* Here, while attempting to convince the Titan to join her side, Chrysalis learns Chitania is infertile.
* Becoming unfocused, Chitania nearly has her mind taken over, only managing to stop it from a desperate attack, which is later revealed to be her flooding Chrysalis's mind with her darkest memory, the day her hive died.
* Dazed, Chrysalis can't react in time before Chitania drops the whole cave on her head.
* Teleporting back to the surface, she takes Celestia off guard while pretending to be a guard, and suckerpunches her out her balcony.
* Chitania expects her to get right back up and kick some ass, and is angered when she does not, thinking she had been lied to all this time about the powers of the great 'sun raiser'. In that anger, she prepares to end Celestia.
* Only to be stopped at the last moment by a giant bubble.
* In a bit of cleverness, Shiny picks up every explosive he can find in a massive ball, and drops it on her. The explosives do nothing to her.
* But they do a lot more to her air supply. Soon, she is suffocating, and what little energy she had left is sapped.
* Instead of finishing her, SA offers her a chance at redemption.
* In disgust, she spits it back, and reaches out for a body to regain her strength. To everyone's horror, the one she grabs... Is Two.
* Shining responds rationally. By hitting her with his Juggernaut, and shoving her clear out of Canterlot and through the skies.
* Right when he is over a volcano, he grabs Two and detonates the machine leaving it to explode in her face and tumbling down into the cone, Two right along with him. When he lands, he finds her unconscious and tries to rouse her back into consciousness, but can't. He hoped that Chitania would fall into the lava.
* She didn't.
* The final battle begins, with Chitania Vs Shining Armor. She has size and strength, but Shining is able to turn the environment to his advantage, pummeling her with shields warped into spears filled with lava. This does not stop her, but with some quick timing he is able to push her right into a massive plume of lava. Seemingly defeated, she is covered completely, and he prepares to leave.
* "Yeah... not dead."
* She emerges, reduced down to her 'normal' size, and the real final bout begins.
* Over the fight, his own rage bubbled to the surface, allowing him to hold his own against her. At the end, when he seems defeated,a simple mistake on her part she was soon dangling over certain doom, only his hooves there to hold her up.
* Having had quite enough of her hurting his family, he mocked her, and dropped her.
* And then caught her when he thought Two had awoken, and he realized what he was doing, and was horrified at himself.
* She gets pulled back up, and neither wishes to continue the fight... and then the volcano started to erupt.
* They just barely make it out in time.
* Shining admits he's not ready to forgive her and help her yet.
* She says she doesn't care, she's found a new goal. She's discovered the supposed 'gods' she fought were all fakes. Thus, if she can take them... maybe she can take the real ones. She runs off, alone.
* Tired, Shining begins a long trek back home.
* Two wakes up, and they have a heart to heart where he explains that doing the right thing, helping her, is more important, and they bond.
== Thread 17 ==
* All hell is about to break loose.
* Chrysalis emerges from the ground, and they're about to fight.
* Shining Armor arrives just in time and breaks it up. Everyone, from him to Celestia to Applejack to Chrysalis admit fault in what happened.
* And then Shining Armor collapses because a giant bug monster beat him until he saw through time, and that hurts.
* When he wakes up, it is revealed that Chitania's attack showed Chrysalis one of the Titan's memories. Specifically, the memory she remembers most.
* The memory of when her hive died.
* Chitty's backstory is revealed.
* She throws up Pommel, and Pommel's Adventures begin.
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* Spike decides to head down into the catacombs.
* After a discussion, Blueblood agrees to come.
* 77 wants to go... Chrysalis, uh, disagrees. A lot.
* 42 tries to talk him out of it, lets him fight for the right to go down there, and Spike wins.
* They meet up with Rekulk, who promises to be their guide.
* Rarity joins them.
* Arana-Retrival Arc begins.
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* Partyland begins!... Strap in, it's going to go on a while.
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* Fluttershy's chaos magic goes out of control, and consumes all of Partyland, bringing rides to life, spawning monsters, things like that
* Celestia, searching for answers, is nearly grabbed by the chaos, but pushed out of the way at the last moment by 007, who is grabbed by the chaos instead and taken off who knows where, not seen for the rest of the thread
* Opposite of this, Chrysalis is nearly grabbed and taken off, but through her own cunning escapes, and finds that Jetset nearly managed to escape with her hair and left her for dead. She takes the hair back, and sends him on his way.
* After scrambling for a bit, the rest of the Main Six and Spike all come together and begin searching for Fluttershy.
* While fleeing, Shining Armor, Cadence, 2, Poindexter and Mane-Iac run into a disguised Chitania, who Cadence insists comes along with them to keep safe. 18 and 42 meet up with them shortly after.
* Several toys of Chiatnia's toyline, called Chitania's Crushers, come to life, and nearly fight the main six, but are distracted by the Rainbolts. Twilight and company use the distraction to escape, and the rainbolts are soundly defeated afterwards.
* The Crushers then meet up with Shining Armor and crew, and engage them in a fight after spotting Mane-Iac with them, and thinking them villains. With some backup from 55, they manage to calm them down long enough to clear it all up.
* And then a giant robot brusts from the ground. Mr Popcorn, infused with the chaos magic, came alive and combined the various rides together in order to form a giant mech.
* The Crushers grow to full size and try to fight, but are easily defeated.
* Shining Armor and Two are nearly crushed by the robots giant hammer, but in order to save her own life Chitania was forced to reveal herself, and inadvertently saved them as well. Angered, she grows to her Titanic size and begins to fight the robot, having much better results than her fakes.
* Diamond Tiara, not to be shown up, grabs 77 and 42, and they all infiltrate the robot. After a battle in the core of it, and having a hole out punched by Chitania, she plants explosives and destroys the robot.
* Unfortunately, this causes Partyland's thrusters to go haywire, rocketing them up clear into the stratosphere before beginning to slowly fall back down.
* Now in a freefall, the chaos effects the shield meant to keep ponies from falling off the side, and turns it on, ensuring none can escape. Except Chitania, who easily punches through it.
* The Crushers, inspired by Poindexter, break out as well, and attempt to hold up the falling island, failing rapidly as their Chaos magic leaves them.
* Chitania, while fleeing, gets a magical call from Arana. Remembering Sciderella's fond love of the changeling, she eventually turns around, and unknown to any grabs hold and keeps the flying island afloat as the Crushers lose their magic and fall to earth, toys once again.
* Off of Partyland, Chrysalis attempts to convince Discord to stop, infiltrating his mind while disguised as Fluttershy. After it fails, Celestia reveals it was her plan, and she gave the magic needed to pull it off. Still, while in his mind Chrysalis learns the real source of the chaos, and before any can stop her she sets off to 'deal' with it.
* Finally, the other five locate Fluttershy, with Spike staying outside to fend off the monsters. There, they learn the truth, that she did not counter Discord's magic, but absorbed it. Now, it's out of control, and she cannot stop it.
* Behind her, Chrysalis appears, and delves into her mind before the others can stop her, freezing them in time.
* Chrysalis finds the leftover bits from the clones driving Fluttershy mad, and deletes them. Then she moves on to the real thing, and attempts to control her.
* Fluttershy attempts to fight her off to no avail, and in desperation calls her friends.
* The fight reveals Chrysalis merely wanted to 'dull' her mind so that they would not have to seal her up, attempting to help in her own twisted way.
* The others, desperate, convince Fluttershy she can control this, with their help. Moved by their willingness to risk themselves, she agrees to try to fix it.
* With help from Chrysalis to keep her from going out of control, Partyland is repaired, back to as good as it had been before this started, with the only negative effect being Chrysalis receiving a terrible backlash and being knocked out.
* Together, they declare they will be there for her, and Partyland ends.
== Thread 41 ==
* Everyone gets off Partyland
* PJ, Blueblood and Winona finish the fight against the dolls, slicing Dolltainia in half.
* Everyone goes home.
* 18 defeats the giant paperwork monster that had spawned by asking it nicely to go back.
* Fluttershy begins training to control her flying magic
* Dash makes AJ take a more active role in learning to fly
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* Cordies have spread over pretty much everywhere
* 88 remembered her original mission, and the cordies set out for Canterlot.
* The gryphon kingdom was invaded, and it was down to just the royal family and a single handmaid.
* Surprise! The handmaid was Chitania, infiltrating the kingdom. Desperate, the eldest royal son asked her to stick around in exchange for the poisons she was trying to steal. She has not moved yet.
* Applejack was infected after running away.
* Rarity, while out looking for Vekir, stumbles across Chrysalis. Both of them snipe at each other before spying the corides. Chrysalis runs off, screaming for Cadence.
* Applejack goes back, locks herself inside her office with Arana. Said spiderling stays in the office, recognizing the infection.
* Chrysalis finds Cadence, along with everyone else of the CE crew, and even though she kept asking Cadence to throw up her shield, Cadence was too confused to do so.
* In desperation, she mind controls Cadence and forces her to throw up her shield.
* Goes off afterwards to help Twilight
* Inside Twilight's lab, said princess talks with 32 for a minute, before said changeling is removed via fire teleport. Chrysalis arrives immediately after with an infected guard and Twilight's research in tow.
* 32 is sent down to the dungeon, but discovers the door is not locked. Seeking to 'do the right thing', he heads out.
* Shining Armor joins up with Celestia and reveals he will be taking over for the captain of the guard.
* Spike heads out to try to get 42, but the soldier bug is stuck guarding Cadence.
* Instead, he offers 007 his old spot on the A-team. He accepts.
* There is a confrontation between the two and 77 when he goes off to arm Diamond Tiara, but it's a moot point, she's already gone. The three join together all the same.
* 29 and crew are out in everfree when the cordies arrive in ponyville and take off
* Trixie gets infected and buys them some time
* Dash and Pinkie meet up with Fluttershy, who is sitting on the edge of Canterlot calling for Discord desperately. Due to the previous thread's events, Discord is still unable to help or answer her. She gives up, and they all go off.
* Blueblood finds PJ attempting to leave through the portal, leaves her there without seeing if she uses it.
* Cordy gets mad because Applejack is fighting it, speeds up 88 getting there.
* Screwloose is finally free of her straitjacket thanks to Tinsel and is currently examining an infected AJ12 who has spores on his leg
* High Roller and his accomplice, Blues Noteworthy are after Screwloose. Roller undergoes a process to change his body and mane color in order to mimic a generic guard. The two set out just as the Cordies begin to overtake Ponyville.
* 18 informs the Changelings what they're supposed to do, which is stay in the ballroom, and then leaves. In desperation, they look to Actarius, who has no idea what the fuck to do.
* In desperation, Applejack sends Arana off to get Twilight. To her dismay, the door to the lab is gone, unknown to her via Chrysalis. Through this, Chrysalis learns AJ is infected, but does not tell Twilight.
* Shining Armor gives a rousing speech to inspire the troops. They all get pumped.
* And then 88 arrives and blows the shield apart.
==Thread 50==
*NC break where characters meet their past selves for shenanigans, nothing connecting to main plot.
==Thread 51==
*Pommel finally engaged in the final battle with Baramos! It ended with lasers.
* Cordy started swarming Canterlot
* AJ continued fighting the infection
* Rarity saved Vekir
* SA and Celestia fought off what they could with impromptu Magic Love Bombs, it didn't work as well as against the changelings
* Dash, Pinkie and Fluttershy are still fighting
* Flash and Fizzle made their way onto PD's airship. She is PISSED, but hasn't kicked them off. All are annoyed when they find out the Xtreme droids were on the airship.
* 42 is trying to get Cadence to the portal
* Poindexter is trying to work up the courage to ask Mane-Iac out, the Empire has no idea the world is under attack
* 32 met up with Arana in the Gun Club room, after talking with her for a bit he sets out with Q and left the two of them together
* High Roller snuck up to the hospital, and after he reached it Blue's part was done and he tore off, zombies in pursuit.
* Twilight and Chrysalis continued trying to devise a cure, and Chrysalis eventually revealed that Applejack was infected. No cure in sight yet.
* Spike had a heart to heart with AJ through the door and then ran off, never learning she was infected.
* Actarius, JJ and the Lings are still holed up in the ballroom
* It's revealed that the Cordy has a looser control on 88 than the others
* Jetset spots Shiny and Celestia fighting together and realizes he is not needed, and sets off
* Blueblood meets up with Haymaker and asks for his help for a plan. The plan as it turns out is to break out Flim and Flam, and go activate some robots he squirreled away.
* Unfortunately, someone else beat them to the punch and tore the robots apart. Flim and Flam shrug it off and start assembling a new robot out of the scrap. They also sing, because of course they do
* Screwloose fails to stop the spread on 12, and eventually is forced to use herself and some... drastic measures. She is now barely conscious after blood loss
* Luna is currently fighting the cordies while her guard are picked off
* 29 and crew make it to Zecora's hut, and she uses stuff to make an illusion that the cordies run around and miss them entirely. They are now holed up and waiting
* While fighting the zombies, Spike, 7 and 77 discover a guard who had been knifed in the back with a cordy blade. 77 notices a marking on the blade and runs off, with the other two in pursuit.
* Eventually, 77 catches up to the source, 88, and breaks down when he sees her again. She almost infects him, but he is saved by 7, who flew ahead of Spike.
* This actually enrages 77 as he cries for 7 not to hurt her before being forced down.
* 88 takes off, and after breaking free from 7, 77 follows her. 7, strangely, chooses not to pursue, and lies to Spike when the dragon finally catches up, and both leave.
* Silver Spoon tracks, but looses the trail of, DT. She does, however, meet up with Filthy Rich, and the two are now running from zombies.
* While chatting, 7 brings up the concept of Pure-Hive. Essentially, original, non straggler changelings from Momsie's hive. He also brings up Flakes, which are those stragglers. Seven is DEFINITELY a little racist.
* The Wonderbolts arrive
* The scientist from when the cordies learned the insta-heal trick makes his way at last to his ex-wife's labs. After a confrontation with gunfire and stuff-tornados, he finds out she mutated herself while trying to make the Changeling Infusion viable, and now has changeling bits.
* They both also discover PD played them, that neither actually got rid or betrayed the other, and this whole mess was to increase their productivity. They reconcile after that.
* Applejack starts thinking about her family and everyone she's letting down, and now is in full breakdown mode
* Spike at last confronts 007 about all the stuff that's been going on, and offers him a chance to switch sides. While it looks like 7 might take him up on the offer, it turns out to be a trick, one Spike sees through and puts him at gunpoint.
* 7 continually tries to explain this isn't what Spike thinks, but the dragon is hearing none of it and repeatedly cuts him off. Nonetheless, 7 manages to get off a spell to knock Spike out before he could get shot.
* Suddenly, Jetset outta nowhere! The two agents fight back and forth, with Jet attempting to break the other's neck and making liberal use of Teleport spam.
* Eventually, 7 gets the upper hand and wins, draining Jet until the pony can't stand. He starts heading towards Spike with a strange disk...
* And gets shot. A LOT.
* He still keeps trying to talk and crawling towards Spike, Spike keeps shooting him.
* Rarity, who had just arrived, suddenly says "LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!"
* Turns out, he was warning Spike about the Manticore cordy. Whoops.
* Spike is bitten, 7 uses the device, which turns out to be a teleporter, and him and Jetset disappear
* Converted, Spike sets his eyes on Rarity, and the pony tears off, zombie-dragon in hot pursuit.
* The cordy is VERY interested in his new acquisition.
==Thread 52==
* AJ is still losing to the infection
* 42 tries to get a magically drained Cadence to safety, but just one bad meetup ends up with her blowing up a hoverbike in her own face. In desperation, she finally uses fireflight!... And ends up even further away than before. Whoops.
* Cadence prods at the badly wounded changeling, and eventually forces her to come clean about her feelings for Shining. Tearfully, 42 confesses she does have them, but tried to stop them so Cadence would have one friend who wasn't like that.
* Monsters coming there way, 42 throws her towards the portal and sacrifices herself,which would later be revealed that she used her bomb and teleported to safety, but thought it was a suicide bomb.
* Cadence reaches the portal, but it's totally drained, and she can't go home. She breaks down.
* Rarity runs from Spike and meets up with Vekir as she does so. When she gets cornered, she tries to reach him by reminding him who he used to be. Sadly, this doesn't work, and he has to be shot away by Pinkie. Her, Dash and Flutters meet up, and they vow to try to help out.
* High Roller meets up with Screwloose, and tries to get her to join him. Eventually, he watches out for her and tell 12 to try to convince her as well. He does so to keep her awake.
* Coco and Lucky Strikes are cornered and the former is crying her little heart out. She reveals she's not really a guard, and is about to be eaten, but 55 arrives on the scene... it takes him a bit to put together zombies are around.
* SA and Celestia meet up with the Wonderbolts and after its revealed Spitfire and SA have a past history and are very hostile to each other the others are sent off while Spitfire helps him and Celestia fight.
* Fleetfoot and Soarin' wonder if they used to bone.
* Blueblood, Haymaker and FF brothers reveal their Frankenstein robot and save some guards
* Apparently Pommel/Daw managed to find their way to the Gryphon kingdom, and are over with King Idris's brother, lord Ignus, and are helping him fight off the Cordies
* Luna put an enchantment on 56 to protect him
* 13 fails horribly trying to fulfill her Queen's mission
* 32 meets up with 88 in the air while searching for the Gun Club. He narrowly avoids being taken over when she destroys his hoverbike and thinks she's a fake until she reveals she knew about the river, then leaves. Afterwards, 77 shows up.... 32 is a bit mad.
* 32 knocks him into an empty dining room, and initially looks like he's going to kill the shellshocked changeling.
* However, his words snap 77 out of his funk, and the two decide to settle things.
* They battle, with 77 breaking down 32's hatred of Chrysalis and revealing he was never really trapped at all, save his own demons. 77 wins, and leaves 32 pinned to the wall as he goes to confront 88.
* 32 has a breakdown when the voice in his head stops talking to him, and eventually asks for the power to save 88 this time. He is granted it, and is off to go help.
* 29, MM and Zecora go meta, realize they're completely useless in stopping this, and decide to get high until this all blows over.
* Breaburn arrives at SAA, and joins Granny, Big mac and AB in fighting off the zombies.
* 41 disobeys Chrysalis's orders to use her teleport bomb and save the EOH, and instead saves Suckerpunch
* Silver Spoon and Filthy Rich grab TBDRLIATU from SS's room, and while looking for DT they get caught by Spike.
* They nearly lose and get infected between him and a horde of zombies, but DT shows up in power armor and kicks some ass.
* The Cordy finally figures out how Spike's biology works, and makes him grow.
* DT detonates her armor to try and stop him. Doesn't work, Spike goes full Spikezilla
* The guards decide fighting Spikezilla is bullshit and resolve to resign when this all ends
* AJ is almost broken when the Cordy shows her family with the promise they'll never be hurt again, and even says it can bring back her parents, but Spikezilla's roar snaps her out of it, and she gets her ass back in gear to fight.
* She collides with 88, and accidentally reveals where the changelings are. After a brief talk, 88 deduces a better way to spread, and also directs Spikezilla to go after them. AJ runs off ahead to warn them.
* In an effort to stop Spikezilla, Fluttershy uses her chaos powers. During this, she realizes it can absorb her magic, and that Discord didn't abandon her. Then she gets backhanded and infected, and proceeds to chase after Rarity and crew.
* Arana finds the newspaper when Chitty saved Partyland, and rushes off to tell Applejack something.
* AJ goes to ballroom, tells them to leave. They say no, says Chrysalis told them to stay put. She gets mad and calls Chrysalis an idiot and says their Queen didn't plan for shit. They're about to leave but don't when JJ says not to.
* Spikezilla shows up and tries to grab them, but AJ magic shoves them out the back. Sadly it turns out, there was a plan in place, and a super-huge teleport goes off but nobody is in it. Changelings are about to become crispy flavored with extra spice.
* Shiny and Celly show up just in time, save the day, and lure him off. Changelings run
* AJ, while depressed at her failure, is confronted by Arana, who tells her she's the one who called Chitania back to PL.
* In desperation, she asks AJ for the magic boost so she can call her again. Reluctantly, the Applejack does so.
* Chitty's still with the gryphons, and gets the call. After a back and forth with Arana where she says she won't leave to save her, she talks to AJ. AJ makes her an offer she can't refuse.
* Chitty offers to protect the gryphons, if they give her full amnesty and a pardon. Zephyrious wants to accept, but Gwen backhands him and tells Chitania to go fuck herself, essentially.
* Chitty shrugs and leaves, and the gryphons now have to fight off their entire populace alone.
* 18 finds Cadence and tries to get her out of there, but almost gets crushed when Spikezilla show up. Both are saved by SA and Celestia, but the portal is buried in rubble, and they run.
* Luna engages Spikezilla and seems to knock him out, but it turns out even someone of his size can instantly recover, and she gets infected by Spikezilla. Afterwards, while they are distracted with grief, he backhands Shiny and Celly into a tower.
* After a heart to heart where they both decide to stay and fight and destroy their teleport stones, 88 shows up.
* Long story short, there's a giant mushroom over Canterlot now, and Shiny and Celestia got caught up in its stalk.
* Throughout all of this, Twilight and Chrysalis are trying to find a cure, with Chrysalis sure all of her plans to save only those she cares about is going off without a hitch.
* She finds out not a one of them have, has a fit.
* Then she watches Shiny get consumed by one of the musrooms roots, and she doesn't just lose her cookies. She loses those cookies, goes to the store to buy more and loses them, bakes two dozen more and loses them, sets out on an epic journey to the land of cookies just to lose the whole damn continent, and then she turns reality into a cookie and promptly loses time and space.
* ...She freaks out, to put it shortly.
* AJ and Arana are about to be turned by Spikezilla, but Chitania shows up just in time!
* Talk reveals she gets a full pardon if she can stop Spike without killing him. She easily beats him down without any effort, and prepares to walk off, much to AJ's horror.
* But as it turns out, he's fine. Worse, the Cordy decides it needs more information, and finds out about fighting from everyone else.
* Spike now knows kung fu.
* ... and he beats the black right off of Chitania
* After the beatdown of her life, she tries to attack him from the air. He grows wings and beats her down to earth.
* Annoyed she won't stay down, the Cordy decides to take the fight out of her by making her relive her worst memory, just like 88. AJ and Arana try to stop him, and get to watch.
* Chitty's backstory when her daughter 'died' is revealed... it's sad. So very, very sad...
* But apparently she figured out something about this event later, because Chitty gets very, very, very mad.
* How mad?
* She breaths fire to suffocate Spike.
* It works, and the Cordy feels it all over, just like when PD shot off their shoulder. It's forced to brick Spike just to keep from dying.
* Turns out, though, breathing fire is bad. As in, Chitania's larynx is now charred and burned bad, and she is dying.
* Aj tells her off for a bit, then tells her if she wants to be saved she's going to have to help stop this thing.
* Needless to say, Chitania agrees.
* ...And thus, AJ rode atop Chitania as they both charge headlong at the base of the giant mushroom, zero fucks given.
==Thread 53==
* AJ charged the cordies while riding on Chitania, it is still metal.
* Coco is an adorable looter
* 007 and Jetset are in the cave when 41 arrives. Several racist comments follow. Then 42 follows. Then an infected follows. It's a mess.
* 32 joins 77 to infiltrate the mushroom.
* Shiny and Celly wake up inside the mushroom, protected by his shields. They make their way up the stalk.
* 18 is still optimistic
* Cordy starts making a bomb with the intention of setting off a spore nuke and consuming the entire world
* Spitfire is helping ponies
* Bluebloot Bot returns to canterlot, and finds 10 is infected. Heartfelt talk follows, and then she orders him not to use his weapons and just report.
* Instead, he loses his shit in the only way a machine can and decides to EXT-ER-MIN-ATE! 88.
* Dash, Pinkie, Rarity and Vekir are running from Fluttershy. Eventually, Vekir uses a secret technique for stopping her. It's disgusting.
* DT does some slapdash repairs on TBDRLIATU, and worrying about SS and Filthy Rich glues them to the ceiling.
* 88 sicks the infected on Chitania
* 77 and 32 charge the mushroom, and have to fight a sky of infected.
* Bluebloodbot breaks his way into the cap of the mushroom and fights 88 while demanding she "Return 10". He gets torn apart shortly after being easily defeated, but he his actions opened a hole for 77 and 32 to make it inside.
* Scootaloo and the junior wonderbolts fight the cordies
* AJ and Chitania get stopped by the Cordy surrounding it and using magic. They get pinned down beneath a hail of magic fire.
* Actarius sees this happening while he and the other changelings are running, all of them very pissed at Applejack. He gives a big speech why they should help Canterlot. The changelings left way before he got going, and go off to help.
* Twilight breaks down when she realizes she can't cure the Cordycops, and Chrysalis becomes quite brutal in trying to convince her to keep trying to save Shining Armor and her hive. Eventually, Twilight physically beats her back and destroys her illusion, revealing she was breaking down the whole time.
* Sadly, Twilight reveals there's a way to KILL the cordies, but no way to save the others. However, even knowing what's at stake, she knows there's no way she herself could ever go through with it.
* She tells Chrysalis she could, at last, rule Equestria, as since not even Celestia would survive, meaning Chrysalis would be the most powerful being on the planet, and most of her hive would survive. But she couldn't save Shining Armor, or any infected changelings.
* She offers the knowledge of how to pull this off to Chrysalis.
* Chrysalis, after some soul searching, responds by giving her different knowledge instead.
* Now, Twilight knows every ability the Changeling Queens know, at least the ones Chrysalis knows how to do.
* Twilight, blankly, declares it's time to end this.
* BIG FINALE where, in order, AJ and Chitania are helped by the changelings, Diamond Tiara, Blueblood and Flim/Flam, 55, And the other three EOH still functioning while charging the mushroom
* 32 and 77 battle 88 up in the cap above, trying their best to reach her, and slowly giving her the will to fight again.
* Desperate to fire off the bomb before Chitania and AJ arrive, 88 tells the Cordycops to use the same power source that changelings use, draining them of love.
* All of Canterlot is dying.
* SA and Celestia, still inside, decide there's only one way to stop it. Fool it with another power source, themselves.
* They use magic, and are drained of their love.
* Chitania runs up the side of the damn mushroom.
* 88 is in a pit of despair as the bomb is shot into the air.
* Chitania flies past, but is caught when the mushroom cap becomes a giant mouth and bites her.
* FASTBALL APPLEJACK!
* Seeing her fly, 88 regains the will to live again.
* Applejack chases it into the upper atmosphere, and stops the cordybomb with her bare hooves, keeping it together with magic.
* Then she pushes it back to earth, and it gets burned up.
* Is about to go splat, gets caught by Chitania.
* Giant mushroom turns into giant monster, and they're about to fight it.
* TWILIGHT AND CHRYSALIS OUTTA NOWHERE!
* They get the spores out of 88, and using their combined magic figure out a way to completely reverse and cure everyone in an ironic twist by using the Cordy's own methodology.
* Everyone is fixed.
* Cordy bits turns to ash.
* Day is saved.
* ...Giant mushroom starts falling.
* Chitania tries to catch it, and when that doesn't work she punches it.
* "This is the dumbest thing I've ever done."
* Ash falls on all of Canterlot
* 88 still wants to live.
* Cleanup time!
* AJ tells everyone to start digging.
* Everyone who had Cordy is drained of energy.
* Changelings are digging where they think 77 and 32 are. Chrysalis finds them, but they can't get past a rock and get to them. Despite having no power, Chrysalis still has her head.
* By that I mean she headbutts the rock until she can pull 88 and the other two out.
* She has no idea who 88 is, and wanders off
* 18 and Cadence go looking for Shiny.
* Celestia digs her way out too, dragging Shiny with her.
* He's a shriveled prune, and not breathing.
* She tries kissing him back to life, it doesn't work. So does Cadence and 18, this also does not work.
* Chrysalis arrives, and the Shiny is saved!... Chrysalis is now doing her best raisin impression, and both her and Shiny are unconscious.
* POMMEL FINALE DROPS!
* Pommel confronts evil thing in gem at last.
* Evil monster reveals past.
* Tries to take over Pommel.
* A battle of the minds take place, and after a heated near-death conclusion Pommel wins, and the city sinks, and all the monsters fall dead.
* We check in with Screwloose and the crew, and she's mad because she figured she could use Cordycops for her own means.... because she's crazy.
== Thread 54 ==
* The EOH and Celestia reunite! And all is happy and great...Oh, except the Chitania thing.
* Applejack has to reveal that she made that deal with Chitty, and very reluctantly the others decide to honor it. Chitania is now crime free.
* Applejack then reveals that hey, just because you're free of charges doesn't mean you don't get new ones. And now, Chitania has to follow the law, or bring it down on her like anyone else.
* After a trying event, AJ decides to go home to make sure everyone is okay.
* Unknown to her, Jetset follows.
* There's an emotional reunion when she goes home.
* After telling her family what happened, she decides to stick around for a while.
* Applebloom gives her a new hat. It is heartmelting.
* Pommel's journey at last comes to a close, and after some emotional goodbyes Daw comes with him.
* 10 finds BBB, there's an emotional reunion, and then Featherweight tells her he recorded that whole thing with the Chittyfight. She now has footage of what happened inside AND outside the mushroom.
* Oh, and BBB apparently runs off a prototype love core... that 10 stole from Twilight.
* Dadling and Batmom show up, and Batmom is WAY more pregnant than she should be thanks to continuity. She is set to deliver any moment now.
* Spike decides to wait for 7 to wake up to talk to him, and has an emotional moment with Rarity.
* Flim and Flam get sent back to prison, to their dismay.
* Various "Chitty in Canterlot" stories, one of which is where she meets Vekir.
* Pennydrop is pissed again.
* Idris goes to visit his brother. Said brother, learning he is coming, freaks out.
* 18 goes and finds 42, 7, 41 and SP. Also, turns out Steam Gash was the infected pony. They all leave the 'safe' cave, 42 going with 18, and 7 going into surgery for all of his numerous bullet wounds.
* 29 emerges unharmed with MM and Zecora, and goes to check up on 56. Gets the crap kicked out of him by Luna's leftover magic.
* Actarius gets chewed out by his mother, an Ex-guard who returned to duty to fight the zombies and is enraged he didn't use this opportunity to get back in the princesses good graces.
* Feeling bad for what the Changelings lost, Actarius and JJ hatch a plan.
* The various Canterlot citizens finish digging everyone out, and 55 decides to go home. Rarity laments she feels like there should be some big celebration, but Pinkie points out they should just be happy everyone is allowed to go home.
* The wonderbolts meet up again with Dash. After a heated discussion, Spitfire quits.
* 41 frets over the fact she's about to die.
* Celestia wakes up, and after discovering Jetset left without telling her becomes a bit annoyed. Celestia now knows that Chrysalis shared the Queen's powers with Twilight, and Twilight knows about 18.
* The CE crew are brought home, to everyone's horror. Well, everyone except 2. The poor thing had a terrible day, and didn't even notice everyone else was hurt. She remembered her package came, and then ran off happy. Nobody had the heart to stop her.
* After everyone is moved to the room with the Heart, 18 learns there is another changeling present in the Empire.
* Flashback to before the shield broke. PJ stepped through the portal, immediately had a crisis of conscious, and tried to go back, exhausting herself in the process and putting herself in a coma.
* When she wakes up 18 is waiting for her, with a strange proposition...
* 42 wakes up, and then immediately puts herself back to sleep with head-bashing when Cadence tries to talk about what happened.
* Cadence decides not to bring it up after that...
* Chrysalis awakens, and her and Cadence have a nice talk. Chrysalis now knows about the events with 18.
* Two joins them, and family hijinks ensue.
* Shiny wakes up, and everyone is happy while he is filled in on the fact he almost died.
* He's not too bothered.
* They have a family movie night. Even Two thinks it's bullshit.
== Thread 55 ==
 
== Thread 56 ==
*A whole lot of ponies asked AJ questions in a mirror to her questioning Celestia, and it hurts her so. This takes up most of the thread, and is great.
* DND!
* Breakfast!
* Table Manners!
* Movie Night!
* Pommel, AT LONG LONG LAST, makes it to Canterlot!
* He meets up with Vekir, and after taking her to Twilight's lab he sets off to finally get that death certificate nulled.
* Chtiania and Twilight have a spat, where it is revealed nobody but Pommel died in her attack... or rather, nobody did, as Pommel points out.
* Twilight freaks.
* Celestia has a heartwarming moment with him, and after bringing him up to speed sets him off to be with his family.
* ...Which means Vekir and Daw are alone in Twi's lab. Oops.
* Rekulk and his apprentice, now named Sabjek, are looking for Vekir.
* 77 keeps bringing 88 up to speed while various others come to say hi.
* 29 visits 32, and they have a little moment.
* In a shocking twist, 32 can see the ghostkids, but does not know the kid was a ghost.
* Discord comes back and says he's sorry to FS... things get adorable after that.
* 12 is taking Screwloose to get temporarily let loose.
* Luna tries to make it up to 56 for scaring him.
* Celestia learns from Arana about Chitania's kid.
* Actarius decides to make a get well card for 77, confusing the changelings. Nonetheless, he's wearing the red suit, so eh.
* Diamond Tiara meets up with Pennydrop and Gwen, they decide to work together.
* SA and 18 finally talk about 'the incident', and after a bit of ranting he asks if she wants to go on a date. When 18 says they should ask Cadence, SA says this is a brilliant idea!
* And that she should do it.
* ...Cue 18 spilling her spagetti all over Cadence like a pasta chef with parkinsons.
* Jetset gives his nurse a means to contact him.
* A new shop sets up in Canterlot, Coltsly Security Solutions... owned by Pennydrop.
* Who clearly needs to fire her naming department.
== Thread 57 ==
* 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION!
* 77 finishes telling 88 about what has happened so far, and she's horrified at the prospect of leaving. Worried that she will be forever hated by her hive, she wonders if she should just stay.
* Suddenly, changelings outta nowhere! They pour in with a MASSIVE get well soon card, written by none other than Actarius himself. It... doesn't go great, nobody knows who the fuck anyone is. Still, it does the trick, and 88 is ready to see the world again.
* Goes off to the ballroom with her the hive... and after about a minute past opening the ballroom she decides NOPE, and to go off and 'see' the castle.
* Blindjokes follow.
* 18 has various trips asking others how to ask Cadence to come along on the date. Finally, Celestia gives her some hard truths, and she stops procrastinating and runs off to ask.
* Idris sends Siegfried to Canterlot to 'survey the land' and make it known they're not happy with the recent decision.
* Siegfried, upon seeing all the new things in Canterlot, including Chitania, decides this is the 'city of weird'.
* Chrysalis confronts Chitania, and shows off her power. Before she leaves, Chrysalis asks how Chitania was able to do the mind trick, Chitty reveals Variolus showed her.
* The other EOH and Spike realize Applejack's been gone too long, and decide it's time to take action, heading down to SAA to confront her.
* ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY MEGA STORY!
* All of Applejack's friends come together, showing their support to her and assuring her she's doing a good job. Still unconvinced, it takes the love of her family and some honest, heartfelt words from dear Granny Smith to make her see the light.
* At last, she leave the farm, and goes off to ask Celestia a question, "Do you regret making me a princess?" Celestia shows her that... no. No she does not. Deciding that's good enough, Applejack gets ready to go back to work.
* Turns out Arana has been feeding Winona, and that Winona still bites her.
* Resigned, Applejack gets ready to swamp herself in the paperwork once more.
* NOPE! DESKS FROM THE SKY!
* Other main 6 shoot their desks into the room and divvy up the work, at last deciding they're ALL going to tackle Equestria's problems, together, as friends. ...it turns out they're mostly going to be dealing with stupid stuff, of course.
* Shining and Chrysalis reminisce about when they first saw each other in story, and how far they've come since then. Slowly, all of the extended CE family gets together, and go off to get waffles.
* Hilda and Zephyrious have a talk.
* Chrysalis tells 13 she's not mad, has a nice moment with her.
* Pommel says hi to his family. Accidentally goes on adventure with little sister and uncle to a land of moleponies when he tried to get his helmet back.
* Vekir breaks out of Twilight's lab in a robot, with Daw riding and screaming all the way.
* Pommel and Daw meet back up, and she chews him out for not taking her to see his parents.
* Pommel tries to get back into the Guard, and makes a stunning discovery.
* Heartbreaking story follows as he goes down and visits a still fairly delusional 32. During the talk, 32 makes Pommel promise not to spring him, Pommel declares he'll get him out legal, and takes his place in the LOOOOOONG line to the main six.
* Blueblood prepared a huge folder and speech to convince the princesses to let Flim and Flam out of the dungeon. Turns out, Applejack just forgot to tell the guard to let them out. Oops. They get moved up to Blueblood's old place.
* Jetset has a back and forth with 007, who is still injured.
* 42 meets Spike, who is back to being an assistant. She wishes him good luck, and says "you go on... I'll handle it."
* Seigfried has a talk with SA and Cadence, discovers that 42 is a bit stronger than anticipated in a rather sneaky manner.
== Thread 58 ==
* HO SHIT IT'S A BABY EDITION!
* Pommel finally makes it to the end of the line and is about to talk to the princesses!
* NOPE! GLIM-GLAMS WATER BROKE! Nobody knows what's going to happen! Cadence gets nauseous around births! Twilight is freaking the fuck out! BAM! Celestia outta nowhere for moral support... and ONLY moral support.
* Guards go to see cause of Glimmer, changelings start to form because of Dadling. They start arguing. It's about to get ugly.
* HO SHIT GLIMMERS DELIVERING! And it's a... GIRL! ... A mutant, half-pony half-changeling looking monstrosity, to be precise. Glimmer and Dadling talk, and decide they'll love it no matter what.
* Outside, a fight has finally broken out, and nobody can stop it!
* BAM! Chrysalis lands on the scene, having learned of the baby from JJ. She forcibly separates guard and changeling, and makes her way in, despite AJ's protests. Infodumps how changelings work, and reveal the baby just looks freaky because of disguise magic. Twilight beats her over the head for not telling her sooner.
* New family gets some rest.
* ELSEWHERE, Chitania is reaching her destination, and meeting Fancy along the way.
* Bad stuff goes down in Stalliongard. PD learns of this and is not happy.
* 29 and Luna connect over 56.
* 29 met Arana again, went better than expected
* Trixie burned down 29's apartment
* Daw talked with 32, they don't like each other.
* Shiny gives Dadling dad advice
* The next day, Pommel gets to talk to the princesses/EOH to get 32 out. They tell him there's nothing they can do while Chrysalis wants him dead. He decides he's going to go 'convince' her, Daw joins him. It's probably not going to go well.
== Thread 59 ==
* SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION EDITION!
* Dadling is really overprotective.
* Mane six keep hearing problems.
* 88 working on her sensy powers.
* Siegfried makes his way to the Mane Six, and makes the Gryphons displeasure at the recent events known, and wants AJ to reconsider. She won't. He says okay, and decides to stick around for a day or two.
* Vekir gets her ambassador test, to get as many dignitaries and heads of state to sign her paper as she can! First goes to Celestia. But Celestia says no, says that she has to actually earn it. Vekir decides the first step is getting to the Gryphon Kingdom and setting up trade.
* Chrysalis talks with 18, turns out they don't hate each other.
* DT continues repairing TBDRLIATU
* Shiny and Celly have a heart to heart about what happened in the mushroom
* Chitty subplot concludes with a rashomon-esq ending when she bursts into the room with the main six, chained up to a guard and a prostitute. It's not what you're thinking. She just needed some recharging, and the guard got confused.
* Now the main six are wondering if it should be legal to pay someone to let you eat their love.
* Also, all of the papers are showing Chitty dragging a prostitute and a guard through the streets after clearly having been arrested. The paper details out what happened... and exactly nobody is reading it. Also, there's a quarantine on the place they just left, so the prostitute is stuck in Canterlot... with Chitania...
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Pommel and Daw set out to confront Chrysalis and get her to release 32! To do this, they go to the Empire, where Daw promptly tries to rob everything not nailed down... including a guard. Pommel tells Daw to wait outside and has a face to face with Chrysalis! It... goes about as well as you'd expect. And of course Daw doesn't stay outside, come on. Sadly, this is of no help to anyone! Mane-iac comes in afterwards, and they have a nice moment.
* 88 finally just asks Chrysalis what the holdup is. She says she'll do it, at last. And also teaches 88 that echolocation technique from that one Queen.
* 29 visits 32, and after a big of back and forth he mentions word is going around that Chrysalis might show up. After a bit of thought, 32 gives him Q and Reggie, and asks him to take care of them. As soon as 29 is gone, he sets everything on fire so Chrysalis can't put together who's been helping him.
* Chrysalis is hesitant to go down, Shiny shows up and gives her a bit of moral support, but says he can't do this with her. She asks if she comes back up and says no, will he hate her? He says no. Resolved, she goes down.
* CHRYSALIS VS 32 AT LONG LONG LONG LAST! Ideologies flying! Insults going! Secrets coming out at last! Emotional moments on both sides! Chrysalis says she's sorry for leaving him down there! Finally, 32 puts it all on the line when Chrysalis offers to unblock his mind!
* She does, and his mind-battle returns! He says he's sorry and offers to work WITH her! She can't leave him down there... but she has a plan! AND HOLY SHIT SHE ASKS FOR HELP WITH IT!
* Long story short, 32 is free and talking with 88 and 77!... But he has to wear an 'explosive'(not really) collar. And everything worked out for everyone!
* ...And now there's just 41 left...
== Thread 60 ==
* ROMANCE-DAY EDITION!
* Dadling is REALLY overprotective, and should not be allowed proximity mines.
* Princess meeting where they discuss changelings getting love from someone not-Shiny in the event he can't give them it. Eventually agree to test effects, and Celestia decides to start monetizing it when they finally figure it out.
* Screwloose is free! Tinsel moves on, it's heartbreaking
* Vekir gets her suit upgraded
* Applejack is steadfastedly avoiding magic training.
* A mysterious pony in a suit is looking for JJ and Acty
* That guy that almost got infected in Cordy gives a thankyou cake to AJ... It's of her 'applebottom', hint hint. Spike likes it.
* Idris and Gwen ask some hard questions
* PD is evil... obviously.
* 7 confronts 42 about Chrysalis not dealing with 41. After running off, he decides to investigate 32's old cell to look for something susupicious.
* Long story short, he is sleuthing down in ponyville, mind controlling and seeking, and is now closing in on 29, and it's not looking pretty. He is also really bad at codespeak
* 42 is training with her FireFlight
* Fleetfoot and Soarin' are depressed
* Siegfried tries to get pics of Chitty and the prostitute... uh, turns out said prostitute 'recognizes' Siegfried.
* Arana and Blueblood meet up again.
* Pommel and 32 are reunited at last! A heartwarming reunion where they decide to go talk.
* ...Except 32 was supposed to be watching 88. Who is now wandering around, blind. Whoops.
* Chrysalis is still helping Fluttershy train with her chaos. Mane-iac has fun with it.
* Flim and Flam like their new abode
* Chitania and Celestia at long, long last have a talk. Many things are revealed.
* Celestia might think it's not too late for Chitania... Chitty also got her autograph for her friend, and there was smiling.
* 2's teacher is NOT racist!
* Lots of valentines day stories of everyone hanging out with each other.
* IT FINALLY HAPPENS! 18/SA/Caddy three way date kicks off!
* With the restaurant being on fire before they even get there. Sooo... good start.
* Also, Mane-Iac is going off to meet someone.
* 42 is babysitting 2, and it's going as well as expected.
* Also, Gaffer and 8-bit walk in at the WORST time
* 55 has a heartwarming valentines day story with his lady friend
* Spike and Chitania talk, and it's revealed she thinks his growing ability is the same as her Titan power.
* Spike gives DT another rocket launcher, she gets ideas of TBDRLIATU wielding a rocket launcher... while still being a rocket launcher, because she is nuts.
* 88 is afraid of Arana
* Lyra tries to taunt 56, it backfires
* 8-bit and Gaffer meet up with Spitfire in a bar, they realize they all don't like SA and hang out.
* Vekir learns about 32 and is running off to go see him.
== Thread 61 ==
 
== Thread 62 ==
* HEARTS ON FIRE EDITION!
* Princesses continue to see ponies, there is discussion of ninjas.
* 42 continues to watch over 2! Much pain is had as she is outwitted or made a fool of by the miniscule bug.
* Also, Cadence bought her a 'fuzzy hole cleaner' which... is exactly what you think it is. Cadence and 2 have no idea.
* Eventually, 2 gets put to bed, and makes 42 tell her a story... two stories.
* 88 accidentally pisses off Chitania, said chittybug now knows 88 can do the sonic screech
* Spike and Twilight continue to hang out.
* Curious about his last name, Spike goes to Celestia to see his birth certificate. After she shows him all of the stuff from when he was a baby, it turns out he has an absolutely monstrously long name... just because.
* Speaking of, changeling babies can climb on walls, apparently, and Dadling is going to have several heart attacks before she says her first words at this rate
* PJ at last returns! After spending forever running from her problems, she tries to make it up to Haymaker and Blueblood with potatoes... they're more of the "Hug/Choke" kind.
* DT tries to help with the guards!... It uh, doesn't go so well.
* Sunset Shimmer has arrived! Coming back from the human world, she is now on her way to see the princess! And being freaked out at all the many, many changes that have happened.
* 18's date continues! At last, long last, in the middle of a romantic stroll it looks like she's about to get her kiss! So of course it gets interrupted. By Poindexter... and Mane-Iac. Who are also on a sort-of date. Naturally, Shiny gets angry. But PD flips it on him! Calling him out for not helping him instead of Chrysalis, and saying he was tired of waiting!
* Just when you wonder if it can get worse, 8-bit and Gaffer show up. And so does Spitfire. Arguments all around mixed in with some insults, and she can't take no more! Spitfire tackles him and the battle is on!
* Massive fight takes place, ending when Spitfire does her own version of the rainboom and fire-tackles SA clear out of the Empire.
* But it's not over yet! Outside, they finally break down and reveal why they hate each other so much. They used to be close, until the Wonderbolt Scandal broke out, and each one felt betrayed by the other when it was revealed they were taking drugs and Shining Armor refused to help her keep her job, respectively. Heart to heart happens where they both realize they made mistakes.
* They reconcile. Shining Armor has a plan! To convince his populace to let him put her in the forever vacant airforce captain spot Long story short, with help via an impassioned speech from a still disguised 18, they accept it!
* Spitfire is no longer unemployed!
* That resolved, SA wants to talk to Poindexter, but he has already walked off. So, that's not over yet.
* They all go home, deciding tonight needs to just end already.
* Cadence, despite her still hidden misgivings, cheers 18 up when she says the NEXT date will probably go better, and leaves.
* Alone in the castle, it looks like 18's finally going to get her kiss!
* KA-SLAMMA! Chrysalis is back baby! And she's decked out in her royal best for... reasons After a brief talk, she's off to Canterlot!
* 18, deciding the universe will kill her if she tries this again, decides to go to sleep. "Screw it". Turns out, Shiny beats universe, and FINALLY kisses her. She goes to bed with a smile on her face.
* But after he goes to bed... Cadence hasn't gone to sleep yet. In her desperation, she wonders if she should just... 'check' him real quick, just take a peak at his love to make sure he's not draining himself. She pulls back just in time.
* In a bout of madness, she decides she needs to get back in the princess game! She needs to train! She decides when she wakes up, she is going to Celestia! ...She's just a liiiiittle crazy right now...
== Thread 63 ==
* BALLROOM BLITZ EDITION!
* Chrysalis, still in her dress, meets up with Celestia and we find out where she went! DUN DUN DUUUNNN... It was to visit 55 and make sure he was okay. But that's not all! She has a proposal for Celestia!... Not that kind. Celestia says no, but she can ask Applejack. Chrysalis... is less than thrilled at the idea.
* Breakfast chronicles! With special guest star, Spitfire!... She's confused.
* DOUBLE breakfast chronicles! This time with the Catnerlot Crew!
* Spitfire is having just a biiiiiittt of trouble adjusting to training the crystal Pegasi, mostly because they all super-suck at this.
* SUNSET SHIMMER HAS LANDED! After sneaking her way into Canterlot, she confronts Celestia head to head, and reveals she is seeking redemption and wants to be a student again! Feeling her chance has passed, Celestia instead assigns her to be Applejack's student to better teach her the joy of being a princess! And also so she doesn't have to deal with it.
* Sunset... is not sure what happened to Canterlot, but she does not like it, no sir. Such as when she goes into the ballroom to find something she hid away ages ago and instead discovers it's full of ALIENS! She is later delivered bound and gagged to Applejack by some very pissed off and singed changelings. This is only the first of many, many gags with her.
* 12 and Screwloose continue heading off to ???
* Vekir and 32 talk
* Coltsly solutions are going to try to give Celestia an offer they can't refuse.
* 7 has a fantasy about his Queen loving him for doing a good job, it's adorable.
* Dash, Spitfire and Soarin' find out about Spitfire, they're pretty damn shocked.
* 41 once punched a baby in the face...
* AJ has a talk with Sunset about vices.
* Chitania forgot she can fly.
* 29 finds 32's cell, and sadly laments his lost friend, thinking him burned to death. Thankfully, a ghostkid clears that up, and they rush off to go see him. The spot him still in the restaurant with Pommel, and 29 comes up with a plan! So he isn't seen tailing him, he disguises himself as Jugglejack, who is also in the restaurant with Actarius, with the intention of following 32 when he finishes. This way, he has an alibi, and since JJ will be seen in two places they won't be able to pin anything on him. Yes, everyone calls this plan as dumb and needlessly complicated as it is. Nonetheless, they go with it.
* Turns out, 7 followed them the whole way. When 29 goes into the bathroom, 7 takes this as his chance and prepares to end him. Only to find out someone beat him to it. The suited pony from several threads ago, thinking 29 is Jugglejack in a stunning lack of racism and being able to tell them apart, tries to abduct him.
* 7 reveals himself and they square off. Jetset pops out of nowhere, having spotted 7 while getting Celestia a bear claw, and reveals he knows the suited pony, who's name is Slate, and that Slate trained him back when he started by left for... "a more 'rewarding' profession". Sensing trouble is about to start, he decides HE needs to take 29 into his custody. One insult too far, and Jetset goes at Slate and tries to attack him from behind, but then Slate does the same. Long story short they keep appearing behind the other, and are soon gone.
* Before 7 can breath a sigh of relief, a whole mob of suited ponies break into the bathroom. AND THE MARE IN THE BACK SAID EVERYONE ATTACK AND IT TURNED INTO A BALLROOM BLITZ! The brawl spills out into the restaurant, and when no guards show up (causing Pommel to lose his mind with anger that nobody is coming to help) several patrons tell their robots to open (TASER, notbullet)fire... which mostly just hits 7's meatshields and random patrons. Yes, one of them does point a gun at Zecora.
* Actarius and Pommel work together to get everyone out while Zecora makes a smokebomb. Having enough, Seven fries the lot, breaking all the machines. Just before he can breath a sigh of relief, Jetset and Slate come back... and Jet promptly gets himself tangled in Seven. After a tense confrontation, a three-way beam-war ensues... which solves absolutely nothing as none of them are hit. So they start punching each other. In a shocking twist, in the midst of one-upping the other 7 and Jet work together in perfect harmony and take out Slate... after Jetset totally kill-steals. But while they're arguing, Slate reveals he is still standing, and prepares to leave.
* CHRYSALIS OUT OF NOWHERE! And the shocking reveal to Slates Employer is... THE EQUESTRIAN CHARITY OVERSIGHT ORGINIZATION! ...So, yeah, he's a charity auditor who deals with cases of fraud, which JJ and Actarius committed when they raised funds without telling anyone it was going to changelings, who takes his job waaayyyyyy too seriously. All the same, it looks like JJ and Acty are off to prison.
* NOPE! Turns out, Chrysalis has been slipping in addendum in laws for months, and one of them covers this. Slate apologizes, Seven lies and gets told he did a good job, Jetset leaves and all is well! ...Except that Seven doesn't get a pat on the head. And Chrysalis chews out JJ. And AJ now knows that stuff has been getting past her. So, not so well.
* AJ calls Chrysalis to her office, and spends a bit yelling at her before Chrysalis stops her and instead we find out what that offer was she gave Celestia. She wants to give Applejack a new guard... made up of Changelings. Taking into consideration it would solve a lot of problems regarding them, but would also require a lot of trust put in Chrysalis, she's totally unsure what she should do and how she's supposed to figure this out by herself.
* Oh, wait, she doesn't have to, she's got friends now. "Think it's time for another princess meeting..."
== Thread 64 ==
* THE GREAT DEBATE EDITION!
* Spitfire continues to utterly fail to whip the Crystal Air Force into shape
* DT resumes training the Canterlot Guard!... mostly with musicals.
* Cadence has all she can take and she can't take no more! She tears off, flies her flat rear to Canterlot and breaks down with Celestia where she reveals that she knows NOTHING about how to run a country, sign bills into law or anything! Feeling completely useless, she begs Celestia to help her.
* Which Celestia agrees to... That was easy.
* Chrysalis wrecks Shiny's papers to try to make herself feel better, it doesn't work. She and him have a heart to heart talk where she laments how much better it would be if she could just bring her Hive to the Empire, and he agrees, but there's just no room. They have a nice moment together.
* DT made a recruitment commercial. According to Steam Gauge and Quicksilver's conversation, they got an influx of new recruits because of it. Plus Coco was pressed into enlisting.
* They managed to have success in their training by facing stuffed animals again and successfully recovering the cakes.
* During a Karaoke night with Silver, DT shows she's still angry at AJ and smashes the machine.
* Silver Spoon tells Spike she's worried about DT and that DT needs friends. She asks his help to get her to bounce back.
* More 'Chitty and the past queens' flashbacks
* Sunset wants to learn about Changeling Queens, and when Twilight refuses to share any of her research she heads off to go get it herself from the source, AKA Chitania.
* It fails spectacularly, but Chitania gets to throw some barbs in the meanwhile. Also, Chitania isn't just reading about gods and the means to reach them, as it turns out. She's been slipping in something... else.
* Vekir finds her bodyguard at last, Handydog!
* Haymaker, Blueblood, PJ and Arana hang out
* Jetset meets with his old 'professionalism' teacher, Harshwhinny, and mentions he met Slate again. All she cares about is that he 'won' due to the fact he got the last hit.
* Ms Coltsly makes her move, and offers her own replacement for the guard, Pennydrop's robots.
* With the stage set, the great debate begins! All the mane six, princesses, Spike and Sunset get together and debate the merits of either the changelings or the robots, since none of them want to give the current guard another shot.
* While initially having a little support, what little the changelings had turns on them when AJ reveals Chrysalis still wants to be in command of them.
* Twilight pleads with them desperately to give Chrysalis a chance, but after a lengthy speech Applejack just simply declares she doesn't trust her, and asks Twilight, as her FRIEND, to let it go. Backed into a corner by that, Twilight relents, and it looks like the robots are going to be the new guard.
* But all is not lost! Pommel bursts in at the last moment, and finds out he was elected captain of the guard in a sham election. Still, he decides it's a now or never thing, and that it's up to him to save the guard!
* With an impassioned speech that points out the flaws of having an uncaring, unfeeling guard overlooking them, he convinces the princesses to give the guard one last shot.
* Applejack, always one who appreciates hard work and natural order, offers him one month to get the guard recruited back to not-terrible levels, and if he can't manage it they're going with the robots.
* Now, Pommel has to fill the ranks of the guards, or its all over for them.
* Meeting adjourned.
* Chrysalis learns her plan fails, and while she is in despair that her last real chance to make headway in Canterlot has slipped away, she has a meeting with Chitania where the other queen details exactly why this is all going to fail for her, her people will be wiped out, and she'll be all alone, and she can't stop it. And it'll all happen the moment Shining Armor dies.
* ...Only, turns out, Chitania was never really there at all.
* Chrysalis might be a bit unhinged at the moment.
* In the aftermath, Sunset goes to see Twilight to cheer her up, and tell her she understands the importance of second chances, obviously. This works and they decide to start working together.
== Thread 65 ==
* THIS CANTERLOT CLUB CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THESE CHANGELINGS RIGHT NOW EDITION!
* Canterlot Breakfast chronicles guest starring Luna, wherein' we learn she has terrible social skills
* Fluttershy talks with a still raging Chrysalis! It doesn't work.
* So does Pinkie, it also doesn't work.
* Dash has a Wonderbolt meeting, it goes about as well as expected.
* Speaking of, Wonderbolt Recruitment is... not going well.
* Rarity sees Cadence struggling to learn tax codes and decides to team up so they can help each other be better princesses! Cadence being taught by Celestia and Rarity is now a thing.
* Pinkie goes and visits Shiny, comedy ensues.
* Spike and Sunset can't stop laughing at 'sparklejoules'
* Chitania and Prostipony mull about Canterlot.
* Twilight brings Daw into the lab to fill out her Subspace magic room with all sorts of monsters for a new game!
* Sunset confronts AJ about her not using her magic, AJ rebukes her.
* Sombra mini-arc is back!
* Primrose, the robot Coltsly gave AJ, is now being used as a cake serving tray.
* Pommel takes command of the captain of the guard and give a rousing, heartfelt speech!
* ...It doesn't do jack, since nobody is in any way impressed due to the brutal training they underwent with Diamond Tiara now feels pointless. Much work is to be done.
* Screwloose is still in route to PD and High Roller strikes a deal with her that clears an old he owes to her, in exchange for him ensuring 12's safety. That deal in turn will leave him in Pennydrop's service a while longer. He's a debt-clearing kidna guy.
* 77 and 32 find 88, and with them Rekulk and Sebjek, who talk with their long missed 'zhetri thul'. Rekulk can be oddly cute.
* DT's shipments of robots arrived and she wants to give them away to the guards. She asked Spike if he can get them approved for storage with the Guards. Spike, remembering his earlier conversation with Silver Spoon, agrees to get them approved only if DT would start meeting with Twilight.
* She also mentions that new recruits are arriving for training thanks to the recruitment ad campaign.
* Chrysalis goes to check on the hive and notices 12 is missing, goes off to confront Applejack about that.
* Applejack enters her office and finds, weirdly enough, 29 in there being harassed by Winona. After a bit of talking, she gleams that he's obviously fearful for his life, not knowing that 7 is after him.
* He leaves and AJ decides to have Jetset tail him in order to make sure Chrysalis isn't trying to kill him for something stupid, unaware that Chrysalis doesn't even know there's a problem.
* MAIN EVENT BEGINS!
* Chrysalis confronts Applejack about 12, and learns AJ has been convincing 12 to ignore her orders and has been granting him stuff Chrysalis didn't approve of.
* A bit of banter happens, then AJ decides to lay down the law and say she's not going to tolerate Chrysalis threatening the lives of one of her subjects.
* Chrysalis thinks she's talking about 41, Aj is in fact talking about 29, neither know this.
* Offended that AJ thinks she can control her hive or herself, she tells the alicorn she is powerless against her, and she was going to show her what a TRUE Queen was! In a flash of fire, she's gone. Panicking, AJ takes off in panic.
* She tries to go get Twilight, but unfortunately for her Twilight is visiting her brother in the Empire.
* And Celestia is off with Rarity and Cadence in the Empire's library
* And Fluttershy is gone off to a tea party with some chaos creatures
* ...Whoops.
* On a warpath, Chrysalis finds 41 with Suckerpunch and Six other guards, fully intending to outright kill her right there. She freezes Suckerpunch to prevent him from intervening, but does not need to with the other terrified guard. The inaction by both the Guard and AJ disappoints her.
* Enraged, she prepares to take off 41's head. Only to be struck at the last moment by the realization that 41 only disobeyed her for Sucker Punch, who she only likes because they fought. Which they did only because of... Applejack.
* She starts mentally going over every other one who disobeyed her and notices they all did so because of something Applejack did.
* She's floored, thinking that she'd been played for a fool by Applejack to subvert her authority, and that she hadplanned to use her rage against 41 to further this goal by offering any frightened Changelings asylum in the wake of her death.
* Deciding she needs to outplay the player, she puts on a disguise that makes her look bored, and says "Well that didn't work!" before vanishing in a wash of fire and appearing in a room adjacent to the ballroom with 41 in tow.
* She wipes 41's mind of the last month, and pretends that all of this, the disobedience and denial of orders, was part of her plan to gauge what it would take for the guard to accept them in the wake of her attempt to take it over.
* All of the changelings overhear this, obviously. Chrysalis planned for this.
* 41 is safe, and everything looks fine!
* ...And then an explosion goes off.
* ELSEWHERE! 7 is tracking 29 and is about to make his move, only to be stopped by Jetset!
* They banter and 7 reveals this isn't a sanctioned assassination, just an expected thing, and then they battle.
* Jetset seems to get the upper hand, thinking 7 still drained from the earlier battle after having seen his Queen did not refill his power, mocks 7 and prepares to stab him in the eye.
* But 7 had drained every single hidden love-harness his Queen had stocked in the year since they arrived and is now quite charged. He takes Jetset down and starts mocking him right back.
* Then Jetset points out his goal wasn't to beat 7, and that 29 is long, long, long gone. In a rage, 7 threatens him, but can't bring himself to actually kill Jetset.
* Not that Applejack, who stumbled across the two due to their battle, knew that. She pours all of her magic into her hoof, unable to control the unstable power, and punches him clear out into the street. Overestimating his durability and thinking she didn't hit him hard enough, not knowing 7 is quite unconscious and likely has a serious concussion, she prepares to hit him again. She realizes her mistake a second too late, about to smash 7 into smithereens.
* Only to be blocked at the last second... by Chrysalis! The Queen takes all that unstable power right to her shoulder as she covers him, and that damage is quite severe. Not severe enough to stop her from looking like she's about to tear this place apart, but she is visibly bleeding.
* Just when it looks like a fight is going to break out, the Guard show up!... so yeah, that does nothing.
* But then a whole bunch of robots, some from citizens and most from Coltsly, join the fray! This also does nothing.
* THEN the Wonderbolts show up!... All four of them! So, yeah, nothing.
* But then LUNA shows up! And this is something!
* But then the whole HIVE shows up, so that something is not something enough.
* Now, it looks like another full battle is about to break out, and AJ completely instinctively tells Chrysalis to back the fuck off. She instantly realizes this was a very dumb idea.
* But instead of further escalating things, Chrysalis looks around, to all her assembled hive ready to fight, and... she does back down. She says this all must be some kind of misunderstanding, tells her hive to stop, asks Applejack nicely to tell her side to back down, and then she literally limps away, back to her ballroom, leavign a trail of blood down the street.
* Canterlot is now in a swing of patriotic pride after having 'defeated' the changeling forces! Both the WBs and the Guard are seeing new recruits because of it.
* Chrysalis meanwhile, after dropping off 7 and the others in the ballroom goes off to her quiet place to be alone, and lets it all hit her.
* It hits her that its not going to work, it's not getting better, and that this ballroom isn't a home.. it's a prison.
* She breaks down when she realizes she was moments away from possibly losing her whole hive, and that she backed down out of fear that they would suffer the same fate as Chitania's hive and leave her all alone.
* No matter how hard she thinks... she can't find an answer for what to do.
* But when Cadence and Celestia come through the portal, that changes.
* After finding her, Cadence and her have a long, drawn out talk where Chrysalis at last reveals her fears, and Cadence decides that maybe... it's time for a change. Maybe it's time for her to be a real princess, and finally make a real change.
* AJ talks with Celestia, and she tells her exactly what happened out there, or at least what she knows.
* After calling the wounded Jetset into the room, Celestia learns of the miscommunication regarding 41 and 29, and that the fight was pointless.
* Celestia also learns that Applejack never even asked why Chrysalis was angry with 29, which would have prevented all of this.
* But instead of getting mad or criticizing, like expected, Celestia just shrugs and walks off.
* Applejack is surprisingly unbothered by all of this, thinking things are going to go back to normal now.
* But when Celestia finds Chrysalis... she learns that's not at all true. Chrysalis has an announcement, and she needs all the changelings in Canterlot to give it.
* After an impassioned speech where she points out how they had been going about this all wrong and needed to make a real change with Canterlot, she tells them, openly and honestly, with all the heart she can muster, to speak as one with her...
* "AND GIVE A FUCK YOU TO THESE ASSHOLES!"
* "PACK YOUR THINGS AND FUCK THIS FUCKING BALLROOM! WE'RE GOING TO THE EMPIRE!"
* ...Neat.
== Thread 66 ==
* THE GREAT CHANGELING MIGRATION EDITION!
* Flashback occurs where we get to see how Cadence convinced Shining to let them come over. Seeing as he wanted them allowed over there originally, this wasn't very hard.
* The changelings all react in various ways to Chrysalis's announcement. Most good, some, like JJ, bad.
* Celestia, who is in the room, is sad by this and wishes she had talked about it with AJ first, but understands why she didn't.
* 56 openly declares he's going to stay anyway, and everyone kind of just lets him walk off, because it's 56 and nobody takes him seriously.
* Dadling says he has to stay for the baby, and Chrysalis accepts.
* JJ and Actarius have a tearful goodbye, and Actarius realizes he's homeless again.
* 32 asks Chrysalis to stay as well, which she openly accepts if only to get him away from her, because he wants to become an 'ambassador' between changelings and Caterlot to hopefully keep their relationship from deteriorating.
* 42 and Chrysalis muse about the move together, and lament how much different their own relationship has become.
* After taking one last look, Chrysalis gives a "Fuck this place" and the changelings begin to march.
* Canterlot reacts as they march through in various ways. Some, like Siegfried, look on in interest, some like Coltsly use this to sell some more robots, while Applejack just shrugs it off without a care, thinking this is all one big temper tantrum.
* Every changeling marches to the train station where Shining, Cadence and Two are all waiting for them to eagerly accept them, no guards so it doesn't look like a transfer of prisoners or something like that.
* Shining, Celestia and Chrysalis have a bit of banter, showing they're still friends, but the time has come. Slowly, all of the changelings begin to board the train that will take them to the empire.
* Back in her office, Applejack is still stubbornly refusing to move, despite Spike urging her to. She still thinks this is all one big show and that everything will go back to normal soon. When Twilight arrives... she informs her this isn't true.
* Applejack runs off at full speed, tearing down towards the train station to see for herself, but arrives too late. She doesn't make it in time before the train leaves the station, and she can only watch as they're all gone.
* Needing to confirm, she rushes back to the Ballroom, finding it totally empty. She can only look on, shocked, as it all sinks in.
* Celestia arrives shortly, and they begin to talk about it. Gently, Celestia explains while she did fail her first test as a princess, helping the changelings, that it is not the end of the world and she should not give up hope.
* Applejack, being Applejack, agrees, deciding not to let her failure weigh her down and continue on helping Equestria, even musing that this might have been the right choice all along. Sadly, both of them leave the ballroom behind.
* The changelings arrive in the Crystal Empire! Chrysalis's very first time giving a public speech wherein she wasn't allowed to just shoot anyone who annoyed her has some rocky starts, but eventually she is openly welcomed to the Empire!
* She then promptly takes a nap... on Shiny's desk.
* The changelings move into the stadium! It's not like they were going to use it anyway.
* 42 is assigned a helper to help them get moved in, Citrine, a yellow Crystal Pony.
* Spitfire quickly accepts them, understanding a thing or two about needing to beat past perceptions.
* It looks like things are finally looking up!
* But unknown to all, Sombra strike a deal with Maud... who, yes, is still in the Empire. No, she never left. Because of reasons.
* Back at Canterlot, Diamond Tiara hands out the robots she asked Spike about earlier, which very closely resembles her mother, but declares they can only keep them as personal property if they use them in the field... nobody points out that's actually illegal. Because it's Diamond Tiara.
* But after that, Diamond Tiara learns from Silver Spoon that the changelings, including 77 and 42, have left the Empire! She has a bit of a childish breakdown wherein she gets upset they didn't even say goodbye, eventually running off to her daddy to have a little cry.
* Daw is trapped in the subspace room! Accidentally deleting the fences... somehow. She's now at the mercy of all of the creatures she has to frantically 'delete' while Vekir rushes off with Handydog to get Twilight!
* She is eventually confronted by a resurrected Brahmos... who she deletes. Not very hard.
* Twilight saves her, says she's got what she needs and then sends her off.
* That done, Vekir asks Twilight to fix Handydog's many problems in exchange for him being her bodyguard, which she accepts.
* Librarian is happy, until she learns that Chitania didn't go with the other changelings. Chitania takes the news of Chrysalis's departure very oddly.
* The ballroom free, Sunset makes her move. She goes into the ballroom and finds a hidden stash of old items she left there forever ago, discovering them still in tact. Among them a talking Celestia doll she had enchanted, and also a certain crystal.
* One which is supposed to capture dreams. In a room with changelings.
* It also tries to take over her mind, but this does nothing to deter her.
* Investigating it later, she finds an odd black energy absorbing the dream-magic inside it, and she begins to wonder just it means...
* Fluttershy gives AJ a "Bad Applejack" and leaves.
* Chrysalis wakes up, and it looks like things are finally going back to normal!
== Thread 67 ==
* ARTFIGHT EDITION!
* Chrysalis awakens! Finally having slept off her wound, she stumbles out and has a moment where she gets to watch her hive walking around, free of hated.
* Shiny walks up to her and reminisces about the first time he got to see everyone be happy after Sombra's influence. After a shared moment, Chrysalis is back to teasing Shiny.
* Screwloose and High Roller finally near the end of their journey, and 12 is forced to wear a blindfold after being drugged. He just has no luck.
* 88 is having trouble adjusting to the new setting, and her sonic screech is a problem.
* Round table discussion continues!
* 18 laments the fact she'll have to do all the changelings paperwork, until Cadence pops in and says she let them in so she'll handle it.
* No matter how many times she slaps herself, it will not go away. That actually happened.
* Cadence seeks out Rarity's help.
* 007 awakens and Chrysalis gets a full report of what happened. She's a bit intense about it.
* Pennydrop savors the fact the changelings are gone.
* Gwen and Idris have a discussion on that. Turns out, while Idris thinks that Canterlot won, Gwen is convinced this is all one big plan on Chrysalis's part. One she is... prepared for.
* Canterlot Breakfast Chronicles!
* 32 meets up with Sebjek and Rekulk, and it turns out they're fucking loaded with diamonds.
* Celestia and Chrysalis go back to having fun with skiing. They drag Cadence, Shiny and Pinkie along.
* Twilight works on Watchdog.
* Chitania ain't going nowhere.
* Movie night at the Crystal Empire! Guest starring Spitfire
* Gwen shows Idris a robot, he likes it for all the wrong reasons.
* 42 and Chrysalis talk, discover they always sound ominous.
* Jetset can't find 29
* Surfing Zebra and surfing bro return and give Chitty a letter!
* Dash finds out that just because you have a lot of recruits doesn't mean they were any good.
* When Twilight and Sunset talk about technology, Chrysalis shows up and shows she's still friends with Twilight.
* 10 has missed a lot.
* Spike gets 'tested' by Twilight to examine his dragon-growth in the hopes of understanding it and using it to fight Chitania should the need arise. After some deliberating, she decides she can't figure it out, and he shouldn't worry about it. He accepts, begrudgingly, and after he's gone she reveals she didn't look that hard.
* Chrysalis shows up and confronts AJ, essentially calling her out when Applejack tries to threaten her and rubbing it in her face that Applejack is powerless against her without her hive to hang over her head. After some posturing, she tells Applejack everything has changed, and she no longer considers her an enemy, just a 'nobody in a crowd' she doesn't care about.
* All Applejack takes away from that is that she doesn't have to deal with her anymore or treat Chrysalis any different than she does anyone else.
* Pinkie throws the Changelings a welcome party, no matter how much Shining protests.
* Chrysalis is back in the game and doing wacky stuff with Twilight, Fluttershy and Pinkie.
* And for the main event, SMARTY BELLE!
* Sweetie Belle has been seeing chaos creatures ever since the plushies, a side effect of a zotzing that Discord gave her long ago that granted her intelligence, and said advanced intelligence has also remained. She notices Scootaloo failing to fly again, and wishes she was back to being dumb so they could all go back to being adventurers. Pissed, she seeks out Discord.
* 56 is wondering why Sunset Shimmer telling him off made him feel so bad while he was walking through Canterlot, when Discord appears. Discord tells him something is blocking his memories, and it's starting to slip
* 56 decides he doesn't want it put back on.
* Sweetie Belle arrives, and demands Discord remove her chaos stuff. Discord claims he can't, but there is a way to get rid of it and use it to repair Scootaloo's problems and allow her to fly. Desperate, she goes through with it.
* She punches SL, it works, SL can fly again and Smarty Belle is no more.
* 56 resigns from the junior fliers and writes an apology not to Sunset Shimmer.
* Goes to see Luna and says he wants to be a nightguard. She gives vague hints at the... 'eccentric' captain of said nightguard, but otherwise doesn't help.
* Now, he's about to confront Chrysalis and stop her from just picking him up and taking him home, which is what she's most likely to do.
* And the CMC are back together.
* Two things, Snake Eyes actually intervened about the Blindfold and 12 didn't have to wear it after all.
* And 32 now has Fancy Pants' address courtesy of Primrose, who is programmed to try and convince changelings to drink insecticide and has a built in 'Drama Enhancemenf Program' courtesy of Rarity.
== Thread 68 ==
* SOMBRA'S GOING DOWN TO SOUTH PARK EDITION!
* Princess Round Table! They've had enough of this shit.
* SA, Cadence and Two go to the park for family time.
* Silver spoon covers for DT at school. Fools no one.
* 41 wants to go back to Canterlot to visit SP and talk about what happened. Chrysalis takes her with her.
* Suckerpunch, marching towards the portal to get some answers from 41, stops when he finds Actarius sleeping on the park bench. After some back and forth, SP makes it rain. Rain punches, that is. And while Actarius can take a hit, he can't give it back, being too slow. This gets worse when 41 decides to join in, and they smash his face.
* 41 explains the situation to SP as best she can, and while SP is angry, eventually the two make up and go off to get pizza.
* ...But not before punching Actarius for ruining the mood.
* Cadence and 18 go to the spa.
* Chrysalis as dungeon master is... exactly what you'd expect.
* Jetset is off to give AJ some hairties for her (still slightly short) hair. Spike gets jealous.
* Cadence, feeling useful again, finally confronts 42 about what happened back at Cordy, and her confession. After a longer confession and explanation wherein 42 asks her to remove the feelings and Cadence denies her, Cadence says it doesn't bother her how 42 feels about Shining, removing the feeling of guilt from 42, and then decides this fixed everything.
* It did not. 42 is now more confused then ever, because she doesn't know what "It's okay" means.
* ...Oh, and it hits her that she has feeling for Cadence as well.
* Just once, for old times sake, she wants to hit her brain.
* Poindexter and 18 make up after he ruined her date.
* 2 pretends to be the shark in 'jowls'. Not-mom didn't tell her to do it
* Chrysalis is blunt with 88.
* 32 gets some real estate to work on that ambassador thing from Fancy Pants, then goes to speak with Spike looking for Applejack. Spike... does not let go of a grudge very easy.
* Sunset won't stop bugging Chitania.
* Chrysalis asks the changelings if they have any questions, goes as well as expected.
* Daw spots the guards with the peacetrotters, decides to call them out and prove Pommel isn't as lame as they think by showing them things Pommel fought in the simulator.
* Pennydrop is spying on Highroller, 12, and SL
* MM, Zecora and Trixie are still looking for 29.
* Celestia goes to visit 7 in the hospital, thanks him for not trying to kill JS even though JS tried to kill him multiple times, points out he's not a monster, then heals him while giving him a cryptic suggestion to visit someone instead of pursuing 29.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Sombra, at last, is ready to go!
* They go down to Ponyville... nothing much happens but some reminiscing and wondering if they should come back.
* Going into Everfree, Sombra gets a taste of it's insanity while everything else tries to get a taste of him, literally.
* Lots of discussion about how dangerous it is and how many terrible things are right outside the town.
* Pinkie and Sombra wish they had brought SA, and reminisce.
* ...oh, and Pinkie makes noises when she flies on someone's back, and it's annoying.
* Now they're nearing the Tree, and the next part of Sombra's arc is coming!
* ...Oh and MOMSIE STORY IS BACK! WOO!
== Thread 69 ==
* OH WHAT A FOOL EDITION!
* Sombra continues his journey through Everfree joined by the main six! After some nostalgia, some mishaps, and some questions they eventually reach the tree of harmony!
* After doing some competitive hoof-holding, Sombra gets a glimpse inside and gets to speak to none other than the Tree itself! He details his mission, and after a revelation from the tree he now has the means to finally get his body back. One problem... he's running out of time!
* Determined, he's heading back towards the Empire.
* Screwloose,12 and High Roller at last arrive at their destination! A hidden underground lair devoted to EEEEVIL science!... or actually just regular science.
* More useless changeling powers!
* Two questions political procedures for a class, gets wildly different answers from the various leaders in the Empire... mostly unhelpful.
* 32 introduces himself to his neighbor, miss Coltsly
* Siegfried talks shit about his mom.. so of course Gwen shows up right then.
* Afterwards, she goes and tries to confront Chitania, doesn't work.
* Daw decides to show the guards just what Pommel went up against... if she can ever get the damn thing working.
* Spike talks with Pommel about the robots... it doesn't quite work out as he thought.
* Angry, Diamond Tiara confronts him, and after some posturing a wager is met. Either Pommel figures out how to convince Applejack to let Diamond Tiara  help train the guards, or he has to let the robots stay.
* Training the crystal pegasi is... not going well.
* 56 talks to sunset
* Chrysalis messes with Shiny
* Sunset learns that Pommel was eaten, Chitania shrunk down, and then he came back alive and with no side effects. Realizing the benefits this could bring, she sets off to crack Chitty's code.
* When brute forcing it doesn't work, Chitania points out there's nothing in it for her. After cycling through all her options, Sunset declares there is SOMETHING Chitania wants, and she's going to find it.
* Chitania's companion asks her why she doesn't want anything, doesn't get a good answer.
* 7 is healed and returns to his previous mission... or does he?
* BBB cheers up 10
* Chrysalis wants SA to ask AJ where 12 is.
* Jugglejack is off to see Actarius
* Twilight finally fixes Handydog
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN-ISH(sorta) EVENT!
* Sunset continues researching the item taken that held magic of the
changelings, and when pushed to the limit by Chitania's refusal she 
conducts a dangerous experiment
* Due to some negative side effects from Discord, she gets a hole blasted in
her chest, but instead of dying she finds herself INSIDE THE HIVEMIND!
* In it, she can see the memories of other changeling Queens, and their different feats. But one in particular catches her attention...
* Variolus's memory, of the day Chitania's hive died.
* She wakes up, seemingly healed... but something is off.
* Her hair is pale, she's acting odd... and there's green in her eyes.
* Sunset saw beyond and made it back from the hivemind... or did she?
== Thread 70 ==
* BUNNY DAY EDITON!
* Actarius is still under that bench, stuck due to it being caught on a root, and after some self struggle wherein he doubts his choices he finds his resolve and tries to break out... Doesn't work.
* But, thankfully, Chrysalis helps him out, and after some talking she gives him some money to clean himself up at a hotel.
* Dash is still having a lot of trouble with the new Wonderbolts, and her current crop are hinting something about their LEADER who is TOTALLY THERE ALWAYS.
*she can't put together.
* 2 continues to be cute. That is all.
* Movie night, wherein it turns out Chrysalis likes puppets!
* ScrewLoose is now in the lab with her buggy companion, an she is going to do some SCIENCE!
* Sadly, High Roller isn't out of it yet, and he's heading off to a certain... familiar country.
* Chitty and Prostimare continue to have wacky adventures in the library.
* But that's not all! After dolling up PM, she is sent out on a certain mission. To... retrieve a robot.
* Chitania is now learning how robots work, because she wasn't horrible enough, clearly.
* Also, it turns out Chitania is fantastic with makeup.
* Due to this PM takes a liking to looking high class, and after some whining Chitania eventually breaks down and makes her look good.
* PM is now fearing when she has to go home.
* The changelings are having a hard time adjusting to the CE.
* SOMEONE who is not revealed did the Main Six's paperwork while they're gone, and they now owe them one.
* Also, Pinkie is not where she should be, and nobody has noticed yet.
* Celestia confronts Applejack about what she did to 7, revealing her out of control power nearly killed him. After breaking down, Applejack finally agrees to magic lessons.
* Feeling terrible for having to be so brutal, Celestia goes over to Shiny and messes up his paperwork to feel better. It works. After sharing a moment, they both wonder what things could have been like, if things went different...
* 2 invents easter... don't ask.
* Cadence finishes up the moving in paperwork, and declares the changelings done!
* ...Nobody has yet pointed out she needs to do more than just that.
* Spitfire and 42 talk about the military.
* Gwendolyn confronts AJ about any changes to their policy after kicking out then changelings. There is none, but there is something going on besides that.
* Twilight discovers someone went through her database. After some investigating Via Chrysalis, she discovers it was Sunset. Chrysalis knows she knows about changelings now.
* Diamond Tiara meets up with the Cabal! Her, Gwen and PD talk, and everything seems to be going swimmingly.
* Vekir and Watchdog meet up with Gwen!
* Arana meets up with Applejack, and after some talking gets her to confront Chitania about what they both saw in her head.
* 2 invented a new kind of monopoly.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENTS!
* Sunset, with that rock still lodged in her chest, is starting to feel the aftereffects. Notably, she's growing weaker, unless she can absorb love. She's becoming like a changeling.
* But that's not all! Something came back with her, or rather... someone
* Variolus speaks to her from beyond the grave, and after some discussion Sunset is offered something quite grand if she can let Variolus speak to 32 and Chitania. She promises her the one thing she's always wanted Sunset... the secret of the Titan herself.
* She is also occasionally bugging her, because she is still Variolus.
* Across the world, Idris is suddenly confronted! Flanked by his worst enemy and his brother in law, a Seer approaches the king, and declares to him that the gods themselves fear he will bring ruin to the Gryphons. The lords are gathering, and it is up to him to prove he is worth his kingship!
* Back in Canterlot, Gwen reminisces about Hilda while talking to Vekir, remembering her past, when the messengers arrive.
* It seems Vekir is now heading with her back to the gryphon kingdom!
== Thread 71 ==
* APPLEJACK IS A TALKER EDITION!
* AjJ bugs Celestia some more, just like old times.
* More useless changeling powers.
* 18 is sad the changelings are in the Empire, she will never escape them.
* A guard tries harassing Prostimare, Chitty makes him shit himself.
* On that note, PM is now looking a ton more fancy due to Chitty's makeup abilities being crazy good, and is worried when she has to go home.
* Watchdog and Vekir, after talking with Celestia, are headed off to the gryphon kingdom!
* 42 gets a robot to help with the guards training to shoot. It tries to shoot her, because of reasons. Racist reasons.
* She's not getting rid of it.
* SA asks 2 if she has any opinions on the 18 thing. She does not. Prefers, instead, to do shark stuff.
* Because sharks.
* SA goes off to see AJ and confronts her about 12. After a stark realization that she never sent any guard to go get Screwloose with him, and with the knowledge he has likely been abducted, she lies to assure SA and sends off Jetset.
* 29 is using the ghostkids to avoid anyone chasing him.
* Chrysalis is looking at the Crystal Heart when Cadence arrives and asks her what's up with that. She reminisces about the old days when she had a plan to conquer the Empire, and how everything changed when she got her power.
* They come to an understanding.
* Spike and 42 are on iffy terms now.
* Sunset and Variolus continue to talk, with Sunset now trying to make her way to the Empire undetected, since that's where she thinks 32 is.
* Mostly is having back and forths with Variolus about how things have changed.
* Sunset gets a complete make-over to blend in, courtesy of Variolus, then goes hunting for 'prey' for the first time.
* AJ finally confronts Chitania about what she saw back when they connected during Cordyceps, and says Arana wants to tell Chrysalis the hidden thing they both saw.
* Chitania, after a bit of a fight, strangely agrees, and gives her full permission to tell Chrysalis the secret not yet revealed.
* Flashback to when DT bought the peacetrotters
* The peacetrotters are starting to talk to each other, which might be weird or might not be.
* DT gets her upgrade for TBDRLIATU, salivates at the thought of wrecking Chitania.
* The changelings join 2 in staging a re-enactment of a giant monster movie... life sized.
* Bat-mom finally has to go back to work.
* 29 senses Varilous, but he doesn't know he does.
* Pommel finally talks to AJ about DT! After much debate, AJ agrees to talk to DT and see if she can stay on, but nothing else.
* Daw's still trying to get the simulator to work
* The changelings are moved in... now what?
* 2 goes to see Aj, and there is much talking of hairclips and bakings of horrible concoctions to be had
* It's all adorable
* 32 is moved in and am ambassador now, fully!
* Chrysalis's many agents can't find 12
* Or 29
* ...She's taking matters into her own hands.
== Thread 72 ==
* OH SHIT MOMSIE WHAT DID YOU DO EDITION!
* 18 is still getting 'progress reports' from 55.
* Zephyrous is back on his feet and talking with Hilda, they both have a moment where they reminisce before they soldier on, ready for the kingsmoot
* Sunset continues to chat with Variolus, while unknowingly being manipulated by her as she occasionally stuns and drains ponies, and by a completely random stroke of luck she manages to come across 32 as he is getting fitted for a suit. After a bit of flirting, she manages to convince him to come see "Shimmer" in the castle.
* 10 interviews Colstly, she's a little on edge.
* Shiny is confused when Idris has to cancel their meeting due to Kingsmoot.
* Chrysalis thinks it's political maneuvering, and gives very creepy suggestions on how to respond.
* After a back and forth with the librarian about her never doing anything, PM is at last encouraged to start reading some books. She decides to do so.... for revenge! The Librarian immediately regrets this choice.
* Rarity finds Applejack sitting on a bench worrying about her inevitable talk with Chrysalis. She reveals what she saw in Chitania's head concerns Chrysalis's mother, and it might make her think less of her. She admits that while she doesn't like Chrysalis, she would never intentionally ruin her memory like that. After some support from Rarity, she decides to go do it.
* 88 is getting better at being blind.
* After finally saying goodbye to everyone, Vekir and Watchdog join Gwen on the train, and they are off to the gryphon kingdom!
* But they're not alone. Pennydrop has sent two agents of hers onto the train with them, and they're preparing one hell of a demonstration, with a little help from some bandits.
* Spitfire is failing at making the Empire Pegasi better, but making friends with 18.
* Pommel shows the guard those fish ponies he fought.
* 2 has learned bad habits.
* Dash messes up the Wonderbolts paperwork, causing 18 to devolve into screams, and finally admits nobody showed her how to do this.
* AJ arrives on the scene, and decides this has gone on long enough. She hands Dash the manual to do this stuff, and says they're both gong to get it all done, no more letting her handle it on her own. And she sticks to that.
* 007 notices Jetset is missing, and goes off to find him.
* Twilight is searching for Sunset
* PD decides to get involved in the Kingsmoot to keep Gwen in power.
* Spike asks Shining to help him convince Twilight to help him with his 'size problem'. Shiny takes this the wrong way, hilarity ensues.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Applejack meets Chrysalis at the Empire, and she knows it's not going to be pretty.
* She reveals that she saw 'an event' from Chitania's mind, and that Arana was planning to tell her. Knowing she would only use it to rub in Chrysalis's face, she opted to tell it herself so she could hear it from someone who understood.
* After an impromptu magic lesson from Chrysalis to show her only that memory, the past is revealed.
* During the fight with Variolus in the past, we get to see how Chitania learned the memory trick she used on Chrysalis. We're taken back to the fateful day when Chitania's daughter ran off, and find her poised on the cliff
overlooking the valley of giant monsters, deciding whether or not to jump. All the while, Variolus is watching.
* But is it not Variolus who speaks, but instead none other than Chrysalis's mother! After some shared words, Chrysalis's mother reveals this is her choice, and she will not bring her back to Chitania nor tell Chitty where she went.
* After some deliberaiton, Chitania's kid jumps.
* Variolus asks her why she let that happen, considering how much Chitania protects her own kid.
* Chrysalis's mother reveals she has a vision of a single, unified hive, one that needs Chitania to be it's guardian, not that weakling. She let her die so that they never have to fear Chitania being replaced. She did not do it herself, but she would not stop it from happening.
* One life, in exchange for countless others.
* After she leaves, Variolus turns back to her drone, and tells him to go watch it happen. Not to kill her, but to watch Chitania's child die.
* We never get to see what happens after that, as it returns to the fight, and... well...
* Lots of roaring, then things get fuzzy.
* Back in present day, Chrysalis rages at AJ, thinking this is her trying to get in a low blow now that she doesn't have anymore power over her directly, and reveals she won't let this information be used as blackmail.
* But despite all that, she won't turn to insulting Applejack's own mother, because as it turns out she didn't know anything about her.
* Including the fact she was dead.
* Applejack breaks down, saying she understands what it's like to lose the most important person in your world and be left with only a memory. She knows what it's like, and that's why she said it. She knew that if she information was to be said, even though she would rather it be kept hidden, it had to be from someone who understood what this meant.
* After a moment, the two come to somewhat of an understanding. Chrysalis almost reaches out to her, but pulls back. Likewise, Applejack ends on a bit of a sassy note.
* Alone, Chrysalis realizes that despite it all... her mother succeeded.
* BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!
* Fresh off that nightmare, Aj goes to confront Filthy Rich about DT's recent actions.
* After a talk, Filthy reveals he knew, he just couldn't stop her.
* After a long, drawn out talk where he explains his motivations for bringing DT to Ponyville in the first place was to keep her safe, he admits he's happy that his daughter will be a fighter instead of a victim with all the invasions, but still blames AJ for what went down. He wanted to keep her to be the biggest force in ponyville because he knew she might reach a new height that would consume her, but Applejack pulled her to it when she let her join in on the assault of the airship. His daughter could never go back, and it's Applejack's fault.
* She agrees, knowing this is all her fault and decides to defer what happens next to him.
* Defeated, she leaves him to his brownies, which as it turns out he's allergic to.
* But oh, DT loves them so, and he'd do anything for his daughter.
== Thread 73 ==
 
== Thread 74 ==
* SUNSET PULLS OFF HER MASK TO REVEAL OLD MAN VARIOLUS EDITION!
*Shining Armor is stressed out dealing with the changelings, bugs Celestia to chill
*Dash wishes she could help out Fluttershy with her chaos stuff, and feels bummed out. Until Chrysalis shows up and then they all go have some fun.
* Chrysalis laments how cool it would be to have those powers, Fluttershy vehemently disagrees. Nonetheless, Chrysalis gets her out of her funk by bouncing on a floor of jello.
* Chitania and PM meet up with Dadling, who understandably freaks out that they're near his baby. Chitania scares the kid, apparently.
* Watchdog continues on the train ride, meets a bunch of robots in the back, thinks this is going to be fun.
* PD pays Coltsly a visit. Makes several insinuations that goes right over her clueless subordinate's head.
* JJ and Actarius are back together.
* 2 continues antics with her class.
* Vekir learns of the first Kingsmoot from Seigfried, an event wherein six gryphon royals went to fight a dragon, two came back, and his great great whatever got elected.
* Jetset has a lead on the conductor who ferried 12 away, is off for a 'visit'
* Slate, Jetset's old teacher from the Diner Rumble that tried to arrest JJ and Actarius, comes home to an interesting surprise.
* Namely, Seven is there waiting for him.
* A battle breaks out, only ending when his wife arrives home, and due to his own hesitation Slate learns that Seven likewise has problems finishing the job.
* Slate tries to talk with him, but Seven just blows him off and leaves.
* In the simulator, the thing from the gem, now called Red, takes over the memory of Brahmos, and goes to attack Pommel and Co while 41 is running off to go get help. Stuck in there while help arrives, Pommel and the guard uh... well, mostly panic, but they're trying.
* Daw wants to join the gunclub.
* 2 adorably ruins her school play
* Cadence reports to Celestia that everything is going fine!
* 42 goes looking for Twilight, finds AJ instead and has a terse standoff with her. While she initially tries to remain entirely professional, at the end she can't help but snap violently at Applejack for hurting someone she cares about before running off. Alone, AJ laments the loss of one of the few changelings she trusted.
* After that, Arana tries to cheer her up with some... unfortunate methods. Mostly trying to explode her so she'll be happy that she isn't dead.
* While she eventually does cheer her up, it sadly comes after she drops a mindcontrol thing on her head and sends her off for some cider. Whoops.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT/S/
* Luna stalks out Chrysalis looking to speak with her, but stumbles across something quite strange instead.
* Chrysalis... actually studying so that she can help her changelings out for once!
* A bit of a back and forth ensues as they constantly try to one up the other, but don't really manage any firm grasp, and eventually the topic moved to 56.
* When the question of his demise comes up, Luna gives a rather cold answer that if he went, she would merely assuage her feelings with cake and light a candle for him, no more.
* This causes Chrysalis to react rather bitterly about it, and soon, Luna leaves, wherein it's revealed that was all just grandstanding to keep the edge over the Queen, and the thought bothers her a lot.
* Chrysalis remains oblivious.
* BUT FOR THE OTHER MAIN EVENT!
* 32 meets up with Sunset in the castle, having deduced quite easily who 'shimmer' is, and they have a talk.
* Well, sort of.
* She reveals that Variolus is withinher, and 32 instantly tries to run. Doesn't go fast enough.
* After revealing herself to the trapped 32, Variolus and him have a back and forth wherein she reveals she has a need of him.
* Forcibly, she shoves a memory in his head, a very particular, shocking memory.
* It turns out, Chitania's child... is still alive.
* He conks out before he can think too hard on that one, and his memory is suppressed by Variolus 'until the time is right'.
* When he wakes up, Sunset sends him on his way after implying they had some 'fun' to keep him suspicious. Here, she reveals to Variolus that she too caught glimpses of that memory, thanks to the memory being brought from the conduit of the hivemind she is connected to. However, she's under the mistaken impression Chitania was trying to kill the changeling, which she does not know is related to her, because they knew something.
* Nothing more to do, she needs to go back to feeding.
* Twilight, while looking for Sunset, stumbles across a very odd thing in her room. A little doll.
* A Celestia doll.
* ..One who tears off running before she can be interrogated.
* And they're off!
== Thread 75 ==
* CHASIN' THEM DOWN EDITION!
* Twilight is still in hot pursuit of the Dollestia! It's not going well.
* Chitania continues studying robots
* 88 continues training, and is improving.
* Pommel and crew evade the combination of Red and Brahmos while bantering.
* They're almost finally caught by that unspeakable monstrosity, only to be saved at the last minute by Spike, brought there by 41 with th others, turning the machine of.
* Red and Brahmos-memory remain in the system, and are trying to find their way out.
* Chrysalis wants to show the other changelings how to use guns. There is no chance this is going to backfire, none at all, will totally be safe. Yep.
* AJ smashes through the chef's kitchen to get the cider, still under the influence of Arana's Weave.
* Sunset tries out her magic of disguise, using it to imitate and mock multiple characters
* 18 is mad at Applejack for sending the changelings over there
* Soarin and Fleetfoot remain angry that Dash is neglecting them, Fleetfoot takes the WB's to a nightclub in revenge.
* 10 interviews the Crystal Empire to get opinions on the changelings, it's mixed to say the least
* The changelings are doing their best to avoid asking Chrysalis what they're supposed to do.
* Batmom returns to active service, gets a warm welcome home.
* 56 and Chrysalis have a long discussion about whether or not he should stay. Eventually, she agrees to let him pop back through the portal on occasions if she can wipe out the last remnants of his past life in his mind. Eventually, he agrees.
* Sunset tries to get answers on Chitania from Variolus, only to be toyed with and ignored.
* 42 knows nothing of date etiquette
* Aj knows nothing on how Changelings react to cold
* Blueblood knows Potato speak
* 13 continues to be suffering
* The Libaraian has had enough, and demands that Applejack kick Chitania out of the library so that others can come back in without feeling afraid.
* SA is not to be used as target practice.
* Spitfire and Cadence talk, she's starting to have suspicions about how much Cadence actually does around there.
* WINTER IS HERE!
* 2 is playing in the snow with Mane-iac
* Variolus is reminded of what happened before, when she died in the snow
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* 29, searching for Twilight to hide behind when his Queen come calling, is found by Mayor Mare, Trixie and Zecora thanks to Zecora's ability to somewhat feel the ghostkids!
* Happy reunion?
* NOPE! CHANGELING TO THE HEAD!
* Seven had been following the trio in the hopes they would lead him to the prey that eluded him, and it paid off.
* After beating on 29 for a bit, Trixie tries to intervene, does surprisingly well before Seven pins her
* But before he can beat her, Zecora douses him with some drugs, and he sees the colors of the wind. Can't paint with them, though.
* He's almost beaten down, but Trixie's ego causes their downfall, and he manages to snap out of it.
* 29 tries to stop him from hurting them, immediately regrets it.
* His beating is only stopped when another someone shows up, 56 to the rescue!
* He gets drained into unconsciousness in seconds. Whoops.
* This does set off 29 in a rage, however, and he nearly beats down the better trained agent.
* The only thing that finally stops him is when Seven goes all out and love punches him for a loop.
* Time to finish him off?
* Nope! Here's Mayor Mare... and she's not alone.
* Seven is forced to endure horrific visions of ghostly children and just barely manages to break the mental control... and then he notices Luna is one who did it.
* "Oh... shiiiiiitttt..."
* Thankfully, he collapses from exhaustion immediately after, and is unconscious before Luna can rain hell upon him.
* Day is saved?
* NOPE! CHRYSALIS OUTTA NOWHERE!
* The Queen grabs 29 and a back and forth with Luna ensues, and Luna can't make a move to stop her without a battle breaking out.
* After insulting him a bit, Chrysalis asks him why he did it.
* 29 backstory revealed! It turns out, when he found 56, he came across a hive that had starved to death, and had watched one of them fade. He couldn't bare to see something like that again, so he had to feed 32.
* A debate goes on between Luna and Chrysalis, where much is revealed to the other, particularly that even now, Chrysalis does not want to kill him, but she insists that this is what has to be done to prevent anything else from
happening.
* Until mayor Mare pops up, and she has a counter offer!
* She whispers something to Chrysalis, and success! Chrysalis says she'll let him live, so long as Mayor Mare can pull off this... something.
* She disappears in a ball of flame, and the matter is resolved!
* Except, as 29 puts it..." I HAVE TO *WHAT*!?"
== Thread 76 ==
* Mane six tribunal scenes
* PINKIE IS BACK
* Hangs out with Chrysalis and Fluttershy, she shows the Zotz
* Wonderbolts were always terrible
* Twilight finally catches up with Dollestia, who lead her right to... Sunset! And then runs
* She chews her out for breaking into her files, but Sunset pleads her case, only managing to make it worse when she won't take responsibility for what she did.
* Twilight becomes more and more enraged, and it reaches a breaking point when Sunset hints that she
needs to know this so that they can deal with the changelings, just in case.
* Being thoroughly done Twilight says she's not going to deal with her, but rather that she was going to leave her punishment to Applejack. She orders Sunset to tell Applejack everything she did, and to let her decide if it was right or not.
* Regardless, she bans her from the lab.
* Alone, Variolus speaks to her, and tells her that she needs to go to Applejack with something real, or she'll just be cast out again.
* Sunset believes her, and goes off to find Chitania.
* Cadence and Rarity talk economics, it's... not good.
* Pinkie tells Dash that the Wonderbolts have been partying while she's been studying, and Dash goes off in a rage.
* Luna speaks to Mayor Mare, Trixie and Zecora about 29 and what transpired. Through them, she learns about the ghostkids, and takes a vested interest in 29's abilities.
* Shortly thereafter, she decides she wants to take on 29 as a student to hone his powers, but learns from Celestia that you actually have to ASK first, which puts a damper on her plans.
* 29 has a heart to heart with 56, convinces the little one to stay on the path to being a nightguard, and shares a heartwarming moment with 56 over it.
* 29 and crew go home, realize they forgot to even talk to 32, which was what that whole trip was all about.
* Luna visits MM's house in the night, turns out she's sleeping on the couch.
* Luna's going to need a minute before she asks 29 to be her student...
* 7 wakes up, Chrysalis lets him have it and threatens him.
* Said infiltrator goes...a little crazy now that he's not on top anymore.
* Screwloose starts working, but a discussion with 12 reveals that the changeling infusion is impossible, at least the way PD wants it. But she is, however, about to wreck someone's day.
* 32 opens up the emissary and puts up a sign promising to answer any and all questions regarding changelings.He has to break out the good wine to get anyone interested in it.
* Then he mostly answers crazy questions by drunk ponies.
* Mothers day stories!
* Cadence asks 2 why she doesn't call her mom all that often, 2 reveals it's because lots of ponies and changelings have moms, but only one of them has a Caddy. The word 'mom' doesn't mean much to a changeling, but Caddy means something special.
* Chitania remembers her own mother and daughter.
* Shiny, Twilight and Pinkie visit their folks and find them all in compromising positions.
* Applebloom sees Applejack, and the two catch up. After some musing on whether or not she's missing Applebloom growing up, the filly reveals she didn't come alone! The entire apple clan come down to say hi to Applejack again!
* They mostly party and get drunk and cause chaos all throughout Canterlot.
* Spike talks to Daw about the bad first impression she made, she reveals it's just because she's used to rough and rowdy folks acting a certain way, and didn't understand how close they all were. Sunset, while running around, meets up with a drunk Applejack. Doesn't get a word in.
* Applejack finally confronts Chitania about her driving folks off from the library. She demands the Titan move to a private room to stop scaring everyone.
* Chitania says no.
* She puts more pressure and threats on, Chitania still says no.
* Out of desperation, she turns to Prostimare, who is utterly destroyed by what Applejack is asking to do.
* Due to her 'profession', she's used to requests like this. That the rich and powerful don't want to 'see' certain members of society because it bugs them, so they demand they be pushed away and hidden away.
* But it never stops, and they just get pushed further and further until they can't be seen anymore.
* She knew Canterlot was like this, but she thought Applejack, as a former earth pony, was different. Applejack tries to plead her case, that she wouldn't let them do it to 'her', but accidentally lets it slip she doesn't even know PM's name.
* It's revealed to be Sweet Note.
* While she understands their stance, Applejack makes it clear Chitania HAS to move, or she would force her out entirely. Everyone deserves a chance to read. Since the library is owned by Celestia, if Celestia gives the okay she better either move, or a fight is going to break out.
* Chitania tells her to bring it.
* Later, after Applejack leaves, the Librarian is in a state of depression because she knows if a fight does break out, the library will be destroyed regardless of who wins. This was her passion, to see others read and grow, but now it's useless.
* Sweet Note pleads her case, but after seeing how much it hurts her she eventually asks Chitania if a fight breaks out to take it away from the library.
* The librarian is shocked that Sweet Note stuck up for her, considering her past abuse, but Chitania reacts differently.
* Declaring she's not one for schemes, she's decided she's going to wing this one.
* She leaves, Sweet Note right on her tail.
* All the while, a guard is benefiting off fear of the library by charging exorbitant prices to rent books by proxy.
== Thread 77 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, CRAZY TRAIN HAS NO BREAKS EDITION!
* STARTING OFF WITH THE MAIN EVENT!
* Jetset has found the conductor who transported 12 and is 'interrogating' him, unsuccessfully.
* But just as he's about to get more extreme, a pair of changeling hooves grabs hold and zaps the brain out of him!
* Thinking it's 7, Jetset attacks, and is swiftly put into a wall with one punch. One punch from Punchbug herself, that is.
* She rushes off, but while Jetset thinks he can get ahead of her, he doesn't know she's gotten the hang of teleporting, and makes it to the portal first. She tells Chrysalis about 12, where he's at and what that place normally does to others, and well... she takes it well.
* “APPPPPLLLLEEEJJAAAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK!”
* Cue Chrysalis losing her everloving mind and going on a rampage unseen in all of Equestria. She tosses Jetset through the ceiling and chases Applejack all through the castle, leaving destruction in her fireball-like wake.
* The guards try to step in, and are knocked away by her ROARING at them.
* Spike tries to swoop in and be the hero, and straight up gets punted across the sky.
* But then Shining steps in, determined to end this!... And then she outright force-pushes him away without even slowing down.
* "Can we talk about this?"
* And then Chrysalis starts strangling Applejack.
* All hope seems lost and air long gone, but from nowhere she is saved by a glorious slow-mo punch that sends Chrysalis flying!
* A punch from a very, very big hoof... full of holes.
* Chitania has apparently decided to go with plan C for that whole issue with Applejack, and starts calling her "AJ" and acting like they are the best of friends.
* Chrysalis gets more angry. So angry, she literally shoots lasers. She shoots lasers from her eyes out of rage.
* Applejack pleads with her, trying to explain that she never meant for it to get this bad, but Chrysalis is hearing none of it. She demands her changeling back, and is enraged when Applejack can't deliver.
* She prepares to attack again, but Applejack receives more reinforcements in form of her family! Her entire Apple Clan surrounds her and vows to protect her.
* Chrysalis doesn't even slow down.
* Seeing that not only could she easily break through them, but that she likely could incinerate them in the process, Applejack begs and pleads for Chrysalis to stop and not hurt her family. She offers herself, anything that will prevent her from hurting them.
* Eventually, Chrysalis does stop, and gives a chilling declaration that Applejack had 24 hours to return her changeling or there will be consequences.
* Before Chrysalis leaves, she is confronted by Celestia, who surprisingly offers a sympathetic hoof and tries to reassure the Queen he will be brought back alive. Chrysalis does not acknowledge it, but understands.
* After she's gone, Celestia gives an equally chilling decree. When 12 is returned, Applejack will decide her own punishment, with one twist. She will decide the case as if it was Chrysalis who went behind her back and endangered one of her family, and the severity that Applejack herself would demand as punishment to her will be used.
* After she leaves, Applejack notices she's still being held by Chitania, and demands to be put down, which the Queen obliges.
* Strangely, Chitania immediately switches gears. Acting harsh and suspicious to Applejack while also trying to 'subtly' gesture
* They find out why a second later when reporters spill out! Turns out, they got it all on tape. Chitania saving her, declaring that AJ is her buddy, everything. It looked like they're friends.
* Ironically, Chitania goes completely honest, explaining that she and Applejack are not friends and that she was pretending, twisting up Applejack all the way. But despite this, nobody buys it! Everyone thinks she's lying and that they are secret friends... just as Chitania intended.
* She whispers to Applejack she's not going to lie, but that she knows they won't believe it.
* She leaves, her family remains.
* Then Applejack faints.
* Applehorse out.
* Elsewhere, Chrysalis finds Shining stuck to a wall by her green goo. Though he's mad, he softens up immensely when she honestly and earnestly apologizes, and decides to support her because he too has gone insane when his loved ones were endangered.
* Twilight finds them both soon after, starts to rage, gets explained, rages no more, starts to rage again when it's revealed Spike was knocked off Canterlot, rages less when it's revealed it's Shinings fault because he tried to catch him and Spike rolled, decides to wait and see for the raging.
* Some reporters debate the ethics of revealing Chitania and AJ are friends, decide money is worth more.
* Applejack wakes up, and her whole family reveals they're not leaving until this matter is settled, no matter how much she wants them to.
* She immediately calls a meeting with the other Mane Six, groans are heard, she declares she needs to get him home.
* Chitania goes back to the library, while Sweet Note is stoked about her being friends with Applejack, and finds the librarian expecting a war. She's relieved when that wasn't Chitania doing the wrecking, and to the Librarian's joy Chitania's plan worked! The ponies think she's friends with Applejack and at last return to the library! All is well... or is it?
* Sunset is still preparing for their confrontation.
* 32 remembers what Variolus tried to hide from him, and sets out to find Chitania's daughter.
* Chrysalis and Celestia talk, the former reveals she feels bad she hurt some others, but not that she caused this destruction. Celestia understands.
* 42, after keeping Cadence out of harms way, goes to the hive to gather an army, but Chrysalis orders her to wait, fearing this may be a trap on Applejack's end. She says none of them are to go.
* Still, 42 bends some words and realizes she said none of THEM are to go.
* DT, Daw and SS find Spike and fish him out.
* Screwloose reveals her plan, which is to sabotage a demonstration and go right for Pennydrop.
* Cadence wants to think everything is fine.
* Thirty Two talks with 18 about what happened, and says he wants to talk to the Hive.
* 88 asks 77 if he wants to go. Much dancing around the issue, but he admits he does because 12 was the only one who listened to him back in the day, but he doesn't want to leave her alone.
* She makes him go off, he promises to bring 12 back.
* 42 arrives in Canterlot, intending to pass through quickly, but is confronted by Applejack.
* They have a back and forth, and eventually AJ begs her to let her help make this right. 42 agrees so long as she can use the A-team.
* ALL of the A-team.
* Past AND present members.
* Reluctantly, Applejack agrees, and the race is on.
* MEANWHILE!
* Luna goes down to Ponyville and informs 29 she wishes to take him on as a student! At first he's for it, then he learns it doesn't pay and is against it, but eventually comes back around.
* Her teaching methods are a liiitttle off, and there are some... struggles.
* Lots of struggles.
* She is not good at this.
* But 29 wants to learn, so what's the worst that can happen?
== Thread 78 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SNAKE? SNAKE!? SNAAAAAAKE EDITION!
* 42 assembles her team! But when Applejack brings her to a mysterious hanger, she gets more than she expected to.
* The other main six are there, and they're joining in the fun! 42 attempts to argue for a bit, but realizes pretty quickly that having the greatest heroes in Equestria on your side is a boon.
* The rest of the A-team is assembled, with DT rushing off with Spike and leaving SS with Daw. Alone, the latter two try to hang out, and it is hilariously awkward.
* Soon enough, 77 is also located, and that's not all, as another changeling joins their group...
* Well, 7 IS still technically a member.
* 42 attempts to take charge, and is comically undercut by Twilight at every opportunity. At the same time, Twilight tries to help repair 42 and AJ's broken relationship.
* They all hop in the new and improved stealth capable Highwind, and they are off like a rocket, literally, making quips and interacting all the way.
* Back at home, PD learns of AJ's "Alliance" with Chitania, and suprisingly reacts oddly cold about the matter.
* Batmom is back to being on patrol with her Nightguard friends, showing the camaraderie they all have and the dedication to their work. They're a tight unit, and they look out for each other.
* Or, as Dadling finds out when some frat boys consider throwing tomatoes, they look out for each other's family too.
* Sunset goes looking for Applejack, being told by Pommel that she's left and can't speak to her. Distraught over being 'abandoned', she's put under the thrall of Variolus when she sleeps as the Queen sets out to follow her 'child' and take control of Chitania's offspring. What this means is still up in the air...
* Discord abducts Pommel and explains to him using his trademark visual style exactly what it is he has trapped in that machine, including it's origins and how to properly contain it. One little problem, they need Twilight. Sooo... * Pommel is now hunkering down and hoping that the danger room doesn't kill them all.
* Pommel informs Celestia of this. She takes it... well?
* While looking for 42, Two stumbles across Applebloom, who had been taped to the wall by her overprotective brother. * Joining up with her and the other two CMC, the four go off and have their own adventures, mostly centered around the fact 2 can fwoosh bigger.
* Down in Ponyville, oblivious to all of this, Luna continues to 'train' 29 and talks with Zecora, Mayor Mare and Trixie, leading to political misunderstandings, swindlings and egobusting. Not in that order.
* Also, Luna can cut a ghost. That is a thing.
* Chitania is scaring the other ponies less and less.
* Chrysalis is worried back at home. Celestia promises if 12 isn't in one piece, she can punch Applejack.
* On the airship, AJ talks with Seven, who reveals he's not mad about the 'nearly got killed' thing. She doesn't know how to take that.
* DT muses that this is the first time all the A-team was on a mission.
* Pinkie, Dash and Fluttershy make weird observations.
* And 42 should not be driving that thing.
* Upon arrival, and once 42 points out they need stealth, they come to a problem.
* ...They're not a stealthy group. What with being national heroes and/or weird species.
* Good thing three of them are changelings.
* Seventy Seven breaks into a scientists home, and attempts to interrogate him, alluding to the fact he is willing to torture him to get the information.
* ...Then Seven points out this is dumb, and then just reads his mind. Because changeling.
* Seventy Seven doesn't know how he forgot about that...
* Seven is chosen to go down, and the rest prepare to get going if something goes wrong. Aside from that, they're going to remain cloaked in the airship.
* Taking on the disguise of the scientist, Seven infiltrates the base... and then is immediately roped into a birthday party.
* After partying for a bit, he escapes that, and realizes this place is a maze.
* While trying to find SL and 12, he realizes none of the scientists are being held here. Just the opposite, they're happy to be there, because PD lets them cut loose and experiment without regulations. Stuff goes wrong, but nobody is being held back.
* Eventually, Seven manages to find a way to get to both SL and 12 while the former is experimenting with the changeling blood, and making a note of the strange capabilities of it.
* He reveals himself to both when SL notices he's not scared of her, so thus he couldn't be the scientist he was posing as, and he says he needs to get them out.
* Needless to say, 12 is stunned Chrysalis sent not only an agent, but the A-team and the Elements as well.
* Screwloose is less impressed, and dicks around with Seven.
* Growing tired of it, Seven says they need to go.
* BWEEEEEEE~!
*...and then Screwloose has hit the alarm, and now the whole base is converging on them all.
* Because she is a crazy person.
* "Of course it wasn't going to be that easy..."
== Thread 79 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, MICHEAL BAY IS FEELING FUNNY IN HIS PANTS EDITION!
* While Luna continues to train 29 and 2 continues to hang out with the CMC, everything else starts going terribly wrong!
* With the alarm sounded, 7 gets angry at SL and demands to know what the hell is wrong with her!
* But he's beaten to the punch when 12 ALSO demands to know what's wrong with her, but with more shaking!
* After some back and forth, she lets it slip she's not ready to go yet, because she's not sure she'll ever get another shot at Pennydrop.
* He's saddened by this, pointing out that even if she gets that shot, she probably won't make it out alive, and eventually decides he's had enough. He tells her if she wants to stay, that's fine, but he's leaving.
* While appearing strong at first, she breaks down shortly afterwards, telling him he promised Tinsel he would stick around. He shoots back he did, he followed her till the very end, but he did it so he could help her, not let her throw her life away.
* When he and 7 leave, she had a relapse into her dog phase before breaking down and chasing after them. He was waiting the whole time. She says she'll go with him, and it's heartwarming.
* ...for about half a second, then come the soldiers.
* 7 is worried he's going to get shot again.
* Outside, the others put together that stuff has gone terribly, terribly wrong, and decide to break in. They pair off into teams and all go into a different entrance.
* A-team crew of 42, 77, Spike and DT go in first.
* Then goes Dash and Fluttershy.
* Pinkie and Twilight.
* Then finally, AJ and Rarity.
* Annnd, then AJ forgets to set the autopilot on the Highwind. Whoops.
* All four groups get into various fights with the security systems and personnel, discovering just what has been going on down here, and it's not good.
* AJ repeatedly tries to get them to surrender peacefully, but they never do due to random attacks.
* Fluttershy finds the animals they experimented on, and she's quite irate to put it mildly.
* Twilight keeps trying to download data, but keeps getting stopped.
* Pinkie brought the Harmony box.
* Seven briefly gets infected by a worm before Screwloose stabs him to get it out.
* And then Pennydrop, under a mysterious disguise orders the scientist in charge to "Make it so they never get out"
* ...It's not a good day.
* And it gets even worse at Canterlot!
* Variolus, possessing Sunset, makes her way to the portal, and very violently knocks out all the soldiers stationed to guard it.
* She breaks through to the other side, and then begins planting strange red crystals all throughout the Empire.
* Using her unique abilities makes it into the room with the Crystal Heart. Using her special circumstances, she tethers her stone heart to it, and slowly begins siphoning off it's power.
* ...And then she goes Titan, even larger than Chitania normally did, and begins attacking the Empire.
* The red crystals turn into faux-Changelings, which look identical to the real thing, and begin attacking the Empire citizens.
* Pommel is trying to debate if he should go help at the CE or not because it would leave Canterlot totally unprotected from the possibility of a resurrected Red.
* The soliders are quick to start firing, but can't hurt her, and what little they do is instantly regenerated.
* Chrysalis has a crisis when she realizes history is going to repeat itself one way or another. Either she orders her Hive to go attack and protect the Empire, risking a redux of what befell Chitania's hive, or she flees and her last bastion of safety is taken away, and her and her Hive go back into hiding and sapping love that way.
* She comes to a choice, and declares in her booming voice, "CHANGE!"
* She transforms her hive, putting them all in Armor, and branding that armor with the mark of her Hive. She orders them to go out and tear the imposters apart.
* She looks to Variolus, and declares she is not Chitania, she is CHRYSALIS, and she is the greatest Queen of them all!
* Shining Armor and Cadence attempt to stop Variolus with the suffocation trick Shining used on Chitania. It fails to work because Variolus doesn't need to breath, and they're knocked away.
* Heading towards the Empire at this moment, Chitania is talking to herself and musing that what she is doing is really stupid. She knows it's a trap and it's impossible, but she's still going. She stops just before she crosses the final border to the Empire.
* Celestia, who had been following her, questions this.
* After a back and forth, Chitania reveals what she heard in her mind. Celestia, also believing it is a trap, is utterly disgusted that anyone would do that.
* Even still, while knowing it's being stupid, Chitania can't help it. She says it doesn't matter how long it takes for her plan to go off, before declaring she is going to rip the head off whoever is using their voices.
* Truly sad that someone would manipulate her like that, but understanding, Celestia follows if only to lessen the damage she will cause.
* Chrysalis confronts Variolus, and after a pitched battle Chrysalis very nearly has her plan go off, and was mere seconds from wiping out Variolus's mind entirely.
* Utterly beaten, Variolus has to do a last resort and put Sunset's mind between Chrysalis and her own, and hope she hesitates. The Queen does, and Chrysalis is knocked away into the snow. If not for her love-harness she took from Twilight, she would have been broken entirely.
* Chrysalis takes it well, deciding to go for plan B.
* Mane-Iac, the Airforce, the Soldiers, and Spitfire all give it their best shot to bring down Variolus, but can't stop her.
* Chrysalis meets up with Shining and Cadence, who she had caught earlier when they were hit, reveals Sunset's whereabouts, and goes over their possible plans. After revealing she has two, one of which would end with Sunset dead as well, they decide to take the riskier option if it means saving her.
* After she's gone, Shining and Cadence share one last moment.
* 32 is struggling to defend 13 from the golems, but doesn't think he can manage for much longer because 13 won't run.
* In a bout of rage, 13 reveals that no, she's not strong like Chitania is... but she has her own strength.
* She unleashes a mind-control spell, and actually manages to take over the golems for a second, despite the fact that 32 declares nothing short of a Queen level mind could do that. Interestingly, when she makes them bow to her, they all have the mark of CHRYSALIS'S hive on them.
* She laments she is strong, but never in a way that would make Chitania love her, and then they turn to dust.
== Thread 80 ==
* Pommel, Lucky Strikes and Haymaker hunker down in front of the machine, despite Pommel's reservations that this makes him look weak.
* Inside, a copy of the Cordyceps tries to take over Red and Fake-Brahmos, to no avail, since it is a program.
* Desperate to fulfill it's need to spread, Red comes up with an idea, and starts printing it.
* Copyceps takes over paper, aaaannnd... it's going about as well as you expect.
* It's not exactly a problem.
* Just as little is the problem of 56 getting confronted by an irate Lyra and confused Bonbon
* Way, way MORE of a problem is when those bandits finally make their move on Gwen and her crew! They attack the train, all a ploy to 'kidnap' the prince and Queen.
* Thanks to some stalling from someone TOTALLY not doing this on PD's behalf to drum up sales for her robots, some quick thinking from Vekir and a whole lot of Robo-Dog punches, the bandits are soundly defeated and the leader is punched right out of the train via Handydog!
* ...Turns out, he was the only one who knew who they worked for, so they can't find out who ordered the attack now.
* Whoops.
* MEANWHILE The A-team and EOH battle through the fortress, fighting monsters and security and scientists of all shapes and sizes and kinds!
* The A-team decimates their droids, Fluttershy turns their monsters against them while Dash helps out, Rarity learns shocking truths about her beauty products, Twilight out sciences the scientists and Pinkie has a ball!
* All the while, Applejack keeps trying to convince them to give up... it never works.
* All of them are incredulous that any of the security would point weapons at national heroes, but there you go!
* Desperate to get out without getting arrested or mind controlled, Snake Eyes hatches a plan to force the EOH to accept a deal of his.
* He is going to let out a bunch of crazy monsters in order to distract the changelings, and hold hostage the reveal of who is REALLY behind this!
* Still, while this is going on 7 is battling his way through the place, desperate to keep 12 and Screwloose out of harms reach!
* It works out pretty well, and they even smell the exit, possibly, things are looking up!... Until they're confronted by a giant centipede.
* A giant, armored, electric spitting super centipede.
* ...And 7 just happens to be low on love.
* After a bit of banter, he also realizes they're almost certainly pulling out all the stops to keep SCREWLOOSE, not him. He could have just forced 12 to come, he didn't have to bring her, and he could have probably been out already.
* He hates his job.
* But no matter! He still protects both and tries run along the centipede, and gets electrocuted for his troubles.
* On his last legs, literally, he puts himself between 12, Sl and the centipede and tells them to run, but they won't.
* Not like they need to, because from the roof come the A-team!
* And from the wall the Cenitpede didn't explode, it's Twilight and Pinkie!
*And there, coming up from the floor like a demented gopher, it's Rarity and Applejack(who proceeds to hug the life out of 12)!
* And who's coming down the hall? Fluttershy and her army of animal friends, pulling her chariot while Dash holds on for dear life!
* Everyone is all together again!
* ...And then the head scientist calls in literally everything to their position, including the ones Snake Eyes let out.
* This doesn't go as badly as expected.
* With everyone there, it's a curbstomp! Nothing stands even the slightest chance with them. The combined power is such that, after they've decimated all the others, the giant-dragon-sized Centipede gives up.
* Literally, white flags and everything. 98 of them even!
* It's time to go home?
* Not yet, one more thing.
* Applejack at last confronts the head scientist behind all of this!... it doesn't go as expected.
* The scientist reveals she didn't do all of this because of lust for power or reckless abandon. She reveals she was a medical doctor at the head of a wing that treated incurable diseases. After years of fighting with Equestria's backwards system for approvals for experiments, she grew tired of watching them perish while crawling along looking for a cure.
* When her 'mysterious benefactor' came to her with money and no regulations or forms, she took the chance, and has been making way more progress than she ever did in that system.
* She calls out Applejack for being a hypocrite, praising selfless heroics when there is a big opponent to fight, but not when someone puts their body up to be used for science, even though it's just as dangerous and noble.
* Applejack slaps the shit out of her.
* The princess shoots back she didn't ever doubt their bravery, but those regulations aren't to hold anyone back, it's to keep anyone from going off the deep end, and making sure nobody takes advantage of those brave souls who would do that. More than that, it's to keep those who are down on their luck from being used and abused.
* She points out that, while everything they made in here had a good reason to be, but every single one of them were used to fight her, not for good.
* Despairing, the scientist can't argue she lost her way.
* Still, Applejack is oddly understanding, and comforts her as best she could.
* ...That's when the proximity alarm goes off.
* Turns out, Highwind is about to crash into the site!
* And it would have too, if not for...
* SNAP!
* Fluttershy saves the day with chaos magic! A giant spring stops the Highwind!
* And then crashes it.
* ...Good news! That giant centipede is actually a train.
* Whelp! All that's left to do now is round up all the scientists and head home. But Applejack and crew decide... let's take our time. No rush, plenty of time left.
* All's well that ends well, in the 12 rescue arc!
* ...meanwhile, the Crystal Empire is getting DESTROYED.
* Variolus watches the carnage, and reminisces about when this happened before, how the ponies didn't fight back against her and relied on Chitania's soldiers, even as they feared and loathed them.
* She admits that she hated them, but none of that matters now. All that matters is finishing the fight with Chitania.
* The changelings have no idea what that symbol on themselves means.
* They DO however know how to use guns.
* Chrysalis finds 18, and reveals she has a plan.
* Sombra tries to distract her with some fake armor ploy, it doesn't work for long.
* Even the paperwork monster is ineffective!
* But soon, Variolus detects a presence going about the Empire, setting 'something' up.
* Sunset pleads with her, no casualties, and reluctantly she agrees. Still, she does stress she will let nothing stand in her way from her goal.
* When Chrysalis finally reveals herself, Variolus grabs her and mocks her, destroying spires made of green, strange symbols on the ground, everything the other 'set up' to take her down. She has won?
* "Aaaaaaccctttaullly", said Chrysalis, and not the one she was currently holding with magic.
* Turns out, they decided to forgoe that whole intricate plan thing and just combined her powers with Shining and Cadence to create a giant, supercharged love spear.
* 18 lets her disguise drop just an instant before Variolus takes it right to the chest.
* ..."Missed"
* Indeed. Hoping only to subdue, but not kill her, they missed her stone heart.
* But what they didn't know is that the stone heart lets her regenerate, even that level of damage.
* Now the second time she was nearly defeated, Variolus decides she can take no more risks, and drains as much as she can from the Crystal Heart and prepares to wipe the three out, not caring that it will kill anyone in it's path of the coming blast as well!
* In a moment of desperation and determination, Chrysalis stands her ground, and fires with everything she has!
* Cadence digs deep into her own well of power, and charged Chrysalis to a new level while Shining Armor shields those down below!
* The blasts meet, and it is blocked... but it did not make it past the shield.
* Chrysalis suffers another burnout, and nearly dies, only to be saved by another kiss by Shining Armor. It looks like they won!
* GRAAHHHHHH!
* Of course they didn't.
* Now out of options, they're at her mercy... or so they thought.
* With a thundering BOOOM! CHITANIA HAS ARRIVED AND SHE IS READY TO FIGHT!
* Celestia goes down to speak with Shining Armor, who is surprisingly bitter that Chitania is here, willing to fight that other monster.
* Celestia slaps some sense into him.
* They all watch as they approach each other, Variolus preparing to let out a big speech at last.
* And then Chitania breaks her jaw off with one punch.
* yes, breaks it OFF.
* Then comes the beatings.
* During the beatdown of her life, Variolus goes inside her own mind to see what is going wrong, and finds Sunset in there. Sunset, and a whole lot of mental chains.
* Variolus's last attack had been too much, she would not allow her body to be used as a murder weapon.
* Left with nothing else, she bound her souls to the chains that now hold Variolus's mind. If Variolus breaks the chains, she will wipe out Sunset as well, and with her the stone heart shall break and Variolus will be pulled into the void.
* There will be no escape for either of them when Chitania finishes her off.
* Chillingly, Sunset declares... “We are already dead.”
* ... And Luna has no idea any of this is going on!
== Thread 81 ==
* With Variolus pinned down by Sunset's magic, she's unable to fight back as Chitania literally tears her apart.
* Desperate to get back, she reveals her plan to Sunset at last. Which was to find Chitania's still living daughter, attack where ever she was, issue a mental challenge to Chitania to make it look like Chitania was coming to the Hive's defense, almost win, then let herself be defeated by Chitania's daughter to repair the bond broken between them. This would reunite the pair, hopefully fix Chitania and Chrysalis's relationship and return Chitania to previous status as defender of the Hive.
* When Sunset still will not budge, she gives into one last ditch effort, and tells Sunset to simply absorb her soul to prove she wishes this to happen.
* Sunset says no, so Variolus forces the issue by trying to absorb Sunset's soul.
* Faced with oblivion, Sunset relents, and finally defeats Variolus once and for all, and gains all of her memories and powers in the process.
* Back in reality, Chitania has reduced Variolus's Titan form to rubble, and is about to finish her off, when who emerges from her carcass but Sunset herself!
* More specifically, the fiery red demon Sunset.
* Thanks to the potent mixture of Chaos Magic and draining what remains of the Crystal Heart, Sunset is able to fight back, and blows a hole in Chitania's chest, exposing her heart.
* Before she can be killed, 13 comes to her defense, and with her mental powers subdues Sunset and returns her back to pony form.
* Initially, it looks like she is prepared to leave her mother again, uncaring even as Chitania offers her heart again to be devoured.
* But, eventually, her pleading gets to her, and 13 returns to her mother to reconcile at last.
* To the shock of all, Chitania actually start bawling.
* Sunset smiles going unconscious, and the day is saved!
* ...aside from the whole... destroyed thing.
* And that's when Awkward Changeling comes home!
* Sunset is sealed up by a LOT of magic, as they are taking no chances, and forced into a magical coma to prevent her from going Titan again.
* Chrysalis tries to stomp forwards to demand answers, and then promptly collapses and goes into her own coma as her draining and exhaustion overdo it, and she goes down.
* Celestia initially tries to take Sunset, but Shining Armor won't have it, insisting that they keep her in the Empire so that they, not Equestria, can deliver judgement.
* Defeated, Celestia instead chooses to bring Chrysalis back to Canterlot to be treated, to which Shining Armor agrees. She does so, and after dropping the Queen off to be treated begins assembling everyone she can to go help the Empire. This mostly concerns yelling at Pommel.
* She's a little stressed out.
* Seeing that Chitania is still very much still there and needs to be dealt with, Shining Armor decides to handle it alone and breaks off from Cadence. Internally, he's warring with himself, noticing he's a lot more angry at her than he should be, and grows concerned about it.
* Still, he manages to keep... mostly cool when talking to her, and thanks to a request from 13 Chitania is cleared of all charges, and free to go between the Empire and Canterlot now.
* With that settled, they begin to look through the wreckage, and begin the rebuilding.
* ...It's about two minutes in before the stress gets to Candece and she swaps out with 18, while she herself goes and repairs the Heart. Shining Armor is not amused.
* On the way there, Applejack and crew are having a rocking time! Riding on the back of the Centitrain, having fun and listening to some jumping beats while they transport all the scientists and monsters with them.
* For once, everything seems to be going just great, except for Snake Eyes, who is realizing the whole world is going bad for him. Him aside, everyone is in full victory swing!
* ...and THEN they pull up to the Empire.
* Twilight, 42, 77 and 7 all tear off in a panic in search of their loved ones, the others eventually get their heads in gear and do so as well, and Rarity is left to bring the scientists back to Canterlot.
* Twilight finds, tackles, and interrogates Shining.
* 77 finds 88, and she's okay.
* 42 decides to stick with Cadence as she repairs the heart and is moping.
* 7 is... somewhere.
* Applejack finds Chitania and confronts her, but learns she had nothing to do with the wreckage and that 13 is her daughter. After that, she learns about Sunset, and shortly after she tears off Chitania and 13 decide to go back to Canterlot. Mostly so 13 can see Chrysalis, who she is still worried about.
* Applejack goes to where Sunset is being guarded by both Crystal Guard and Changelings, completely locked in a room and surrounded on all sides with no one there in with her.
* No matter how much she yells, they won't let her in, due to the fact they don't even know if it's Sunset in there.
* Depsondent, she leaves.
* 32 realizes his mother is gone-gone, and has a little moment of reflection before he goes back to Canterlot
* None of the doctors know how to treat love-burnout, and panic. Twilight arrives in Canterlot to treat Chrysalis and kicks them all out.
* 10 and BBB finally arrive and are pissed they missed the action.
* While she is barking orders at Pommel, Two comes up to ask Celestia if she can use the portal and go home. Celestia... is a little unnerved.
* So she sticks her and the CMC with Cheerilee, who happened to be in Canterlot.
* Having exactly one place still in tact, all of the CE citizens are forced to go into the stadium with the changelings to keep warm.
* There's no room now, and most of the lings are on the ceiling.
* Everyone's a little on edge.
* Sombra puts his plans on hold to help with the rebuilding.
* Mane-Iac is wondering why it's not back to normal already like in her comics.
* Fluttershy should not use her chaos magic to solve problems.
* Celestia is angry when Rarity gives her the scientists, because she doesn't have anywhere to put them. All she can do is order them to go inside of a giant warehouse.
* Shining puts the shield back up, so at least they won't freeze.
* Him and Cadence talk and muse there's not enough room for everyone while they rebuild, and that 42 is going to be moping for a bit.
* MEANWHILE! Paperceps is defeated, because they just unplugged the printer.
* On the road, Gwen and the others come across Gryphonstone, and are robbed blind.
* At least, until Vekir shows them who's boss and robs them right back.
* "Kid, you scare me sometimes."
* Back with Idris, his sister comes to visit, and she brings her sickly little child! After having been sent off to be married for political reasons and gave birth to a single sickly thing before her husband died, she's not bitter.
* Not at all.
* Chrysalis wakes up, and her and Twilight have a talk. While the alicorn congratulates and thanks her for helping, and praises her for spitting in the face of a dark history, she is sad when she won't forgive Applejack.
* She breaks down and points out how it's just getting worse and worse, and that eventually one of them, if not both of them, are going to hurt someone innocent in the middle, just like Chitania and Variolus did. It doesn't matter who's right or wrong, only what they're doing.
* And she doesn't want it to happen because BOTH of them are her friends, and she will be there right till the end. She's sure Applejack would be her friend too if Chrysalis gave her a chance.
* Still, Chrysalis doesn't believe her, and Twilight leaves defeated.
* After her, Celestia comes in looking for answers about Sunset, and she gives them as best she can. She too wishes that this fighting would stop, and points out how self destructive it is to both of them. How one of them always has the 'edge' until the other does something, and then they lord it over the other and use it as proof they should never trust the other, and things never get better.
* Still, Chrysalis remains unwilling to move, and says it's on Applejack.
* Finally, Applejack brings in 12 to show Chrysalis he's okay. She has a brief dialog with him, and sends him on his way.
* Applejack stays behind and asks if that made up for it, Chrysalis doesn't even pretend to say yes.
* She breaks down, admitting that this time she messed up, and she'll never be allowed to make it better because Chrysalis gets more mileage out of it that way. She gives up, ready to finally call it quits and let Chrysalis do whatever she wants.
* Chrysalis could just let this go, and finally, FINALLY have a perfect win against Applejack, but instead...
* "I mind controlled you once."
* After the initial rage, Applejack realizes she too could use this for a win, as even Shining Armor would be hesitant to forgive something like that. So when Chrysalis offers to show her what happened, she is faced with her own choice.
* After she gives Chrysalis the magic, she learns of the time Chrysalis made her a puppet so she could talk to her.
* Anger is had on both sides, before Chrysalis finally just tells her they should call it square, even though she feels what Applejack did was worse.
* There is talk, deliberation and questioning...
* And then Applejack agrees.
* It's square. It's now, one hundred percent, even. Past experiences don't count anymore, it's square. Nobody is more right or better off than the other now. No rageing, mind controlling or punching counts.
* For once, Chrysalis and Applejack are on one hundred percent even terms.
== Thread 82 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAAAAIINNNN!
* Chrysalis is still hospitalized.
* Flash and Fizzle try to break out the scientists!... And fail! To the surprise of nobody.
* The rainbolts help clean up with explosions because they're bad at moving stuff.
* Jetset, after being fixed by his nurse friend, decides he has to get stronger.
* Chitania comes home with 13 and meets up with Sweet Note, they decide they have a lot of talking to do.
* Pommel is clueless 18 is not Cadence
* 7 brings his 'report' to Chrysalis. She's angry he went off like that on his own, and 7 feels disparaged he couldn't make her like him again. He leaves just before she can tell him she wasn't mad, she just didn't want him in the hospital again
* Pennydrop learns of her losses, they're big. Decides to 'recoup some losses'
* Gwen learns about the events that happened, is horrified.
* Sleepover with Celestia!
* Twilight finds out about Red, freaks out, hatches a plan and gets going!
* With Pommel's help, she tricks Red, Brahmos and Cordyceps into the mainframe of Primrose by making them think they were going into a juggernaut. They're trapped in him now, and cannot escape... probably.
* Applejack learns of Applebloom's antics, is not amused.
* Neither is Rarity to Sweetie Belle, but she is easily distracted.
* Shiny visits Chrysalis in a dream to talk about what happened. He learns from her that the recharge save after she burnt out was a lot stronger this time, and he's not sure what that means.
* Actarius is now working for 32 at the changeling embassy. JJ helps by distracting them with terrible juggling
* 32 visits 29, and he thanks him for looking after Q and Reggie, who he takes back.
* Silver Spoon and Daw got dodging lessons from PJ
* Filthy Rich is planning something.
* Pinkie discovers Maud in the Empire. Yes, she's still in there.
* Luna asks if she missed anything, Celestia hits her a lot.
* Spitfire is crazy happy her guys didn't suck.
* Dash is a little sad she only found happiness away from Equestria.
* AJ's family wrecked her desk.
* The other leaders of the rest of the world are worried the Empire has gotten too powerful, like Equestria.
* Spike meets 88, talks about his balls.
* The changelings decide to start singing "Cider on the walls in wait", the CE citizens join in.
* TIME SKIIIIIP
* One month later, Chrysalis is finally out of bed. For real this time, as she tried three times earlier and collapsed.
* Learns it's almost Hearth's Warming.
* She hadn't been paying attention.
* Luna has been training 29 wrong because she too did not pay attention.
* It turns out AJ has been coming down to see Sunset every day for that month, worrying Spike and Rarity.
* Empire is back to normal, except the stadium... more on that later.
* 42 has been shopping with Cadence while Sombra floats behind her and mocks her.
* Chrysalis goes to see Twilight, learns about Sunset's present state, reveals she hasn't seen Applejack since the reset, and also that OnO is being prepped. She also learns...
* Chrysalis bursts in on Celestia, where she demands to know why her changelings are back in the Canterlot ballroom.
* Celestia reveals a convoluted series of events that happened during the timeskip. Long story short, stadium be wrecked, and won't be fixed for another week.
* Chrysalis is pissed.
* The wonderbolts are doing better, but sadly no thanks to Dash.
* Glimmer and Haymaker are looking after Screwloose.
* Everyone goes to see Chrysalis fix Sunset
* She and Cadence go in alone, tells everyone to stay out of room. They pass the time by asking about Shiny's sex life.
* Chrysalis goes into Sunset's mind and finds a barrier. Inside her mind, Sunset has become a twisted mix of herself and Variolus due to the fusion.
* She thinks she can keep Chrysalis out, and declares she's going to give the whole world all of the changeling's secrets and reveal how to fight them and kill them.
* So, Chrysalis gets a charge from Cadence and brute forces her way in.
* Sunset tries to fight her, but it doesn't work.
* Chrysalis thinks it's Variolus in control, and that Sunset is being consumed, not the other way around.
* Chrysalis does magical brain surgery to remove all of the parts of Variolus in Sunset's brain.
* Comes out, has an orb now containing all of Variolus's memories, and Sunset has had her brain scrubbed clean of all the magical techniques she learned under Variolus.
* According to Chrysalis, anyone who holds the orb will know what Variolus knew, but when you let go of it it all leaves with it, to prevent Variolus's mind from leaving a 'surprise' behind when you touch it.
* Cadence and Chrysalis learn of the thing keeping Sunset alive, and that she has no heartbeat.. or heart.
* Sunset starts to talk, damning the changelings, and Cadence thinks she's talking about Variolus.
* Chrysalis figures out Variolus knew not only the Titan magic, but also that the Hivemind is real, and she might be able to access it now. She goes a liiiiitttle power mad, and Cadence is worried.
* She should have been more worried about Sunset, who drains her dry.
* This makes Chrysalis very... very mad.
* The two begin to battle, and Chrysalis won't let the orb go. As the fight grows on, Chrysalis becomes more savage, more cruel, due to the orb she holds and won't let go of.
* It goes back and forth, sometimes they are equal, sometimes one is utterly dominating the other, sometimes they switch
* But eventually, after being drained by Sunset and then getting that back by turning Sunset into a giant chew toy, the two are separated, but Chrysalis reveals she has one last trick!
* THE POWER OF LOVE!
* ...I said, THE POWER OF LOVE!
* ...POWER OF GODDAMN- There we go.
* Shining punches her right in the face, and embeds her in the wall. Everyone else rushesin soon after.
* Chrysalis is... surprisingly relaxed despite the fact her horntip got shot off in the fight. Why is that?
* Might have something to do with the orb being held by... Applejack.
* Uh oh.
== Thread 83 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP PUNCHES AND SPEECHES EDITION!
* Applejack has the orb of Variolus in her hooves, showing her all the secrets of the changeling races! Including how they ascend!
* Be it from Variolus's influence or her own anger at what she learns, she becomes hostile, screaming that Chrysalis is a murderer and bucking her in the face when Chrysalis tries to take the orb.... she does not take this well.
* A brawl breaks out! The others try to stop them, but are conflicted as to whom, exactly, they need to stop, and if indeed AJ is being controlled or just learned something that means they should be helping her beat her head in.
* The orb grants Applejack not only changeling powers, but also the knowledge of any powers used by Sunset while Variolus was with her.
* Which means that she can now teleport and throw fireballs... everyone is a bit confused.
* Spike picks a side, Applejack's of course, when he prevents her from getting the orb.
* 42 also picks a side when she beats Spike into the floor.
* Rarity responds to this with jumpkicks.
* Sombra, who was beneath them when Spike came in through his ceiling, takes one look at the chaos, makes a halfhearted effort to help before tearing off.
* Twilight and Dash notice AJ being smarter than she should. Dash still wants to help AJ, Twilight ices her to the floor.
* Fluttershy can't help because chaos.
* Pinkie just isn't getting hit.
* Celestia tries to step in and gets wife-tossed into Chrysalis.
* Drained and hurt, Chrysalis can't do much as AJ starts beating the crap out of her.
* Finally, Shining Armor steps in between the two, and demands AJ stops.
* "Or what."
* He tells her or what. Which is he'll hit her.
* Possessed by the orb, she mocks him, calling him pathetic, pointing out she'd never let whatChrysalis did to him slide if it was her.
* He says he doesn't care, has moved past it, and is done with it.
* So, she hits him.
* He responds by turning her into one of those bopper-clown things.
* She gets up and prepares to beat him
* Chrysalis asks for help, but 42 and Rarity are being tangled up in vines made of hamsters.
* Goddamn it Fluttershy
* Celestia tries talking her down, it doesn't work, so Celestia is forced to bodyslam her. Like a boss.
* This does not stop her. She gets back up and starts ranting to Celestia for trusting brain-eating bug monsters, and asks if Celestia really isn't worried about them. She says no, this blinds Applejack with rage.
* While she's ranting, a certain someone tries to grab the orb... and is spotted.
* "Snickerdoodles."
* Pinkie gets punched in the face, and she leaps up to finish her off with a punch, only to have Chrysalis get in the way in the last second.
* She stops, and realizes that orb is probably making her a little crazy, and that Chrysalis should probably take that right now.
* She reaches out to give it to her-
* NOPE! SUNSET!... Who everyone forgot about.
* She's panicking a little bit as everyone is bearing down on her, getting ready to utterly ruin her for causing all this bullshit. That's when they learn what the orb is and that Sunset's heart is a rock.
* Shining Armor is especially pissed due to what she did to Caddy, demanding she surrender now or else he will beat her within an inch of her life, and if she tries to escape his guards have orders to shoot to kill.
* But she won't, because she's afraid that he'll give the orb to Chrysalis, which he totally would. She tries to explain her case, that she just wanted protection from changelings, and that's why she did all of this, which was to learn about them to better everyone, not just them.
* She pleads with them that changeling queens cannot be trusted, that they will lie to you and use you and manipulate you. She has seen Variolus and what she and the other Queens are capable of. She then explains what happened in her mind. Being taken over, having to watch, being helpless, all that.
* Shining Armor clams down immensely with this, stating he understands what it's like to have yourself taken over, to be a puppet, but she was letting her fear of Changelings decide everything, and damning the consequences.
* He explains that, regardless of what has happened, he trusts Chrysalis, and likes her. Sunset doesn't understand.
* Applejack tries talking to her, explaining she understands her fears, but that she couldn't let it control her like it did. Sometimes secrets aren't meant to be used as weapons, but because they're just not ready to be shared.
* She admits her own failings to teach or to help her, and that they've both failed.
* Finally, she asks to give up the orb.
* Reluctantly, Sunset does.
* ...But thankfully nobody is stupid enough to touch it, and it gets sealed up six ways from sunday beneath Canterlot, with only Chrysalis and Celestia able to access it. And Celestia only because she called out Chrysalis on being a hypocrite of the thing.
* And it makes a scary eye when activated because Chrysalis is secretly a four year old inside.
* Applejack asks what ShiningArmor is going to do, he needs to think about it, so he takes thestill unconscious Cadence out with him.
* So, Twilight starts experimenting on Sunset while they wait. Many a question is asked and answered.
* Everyone finds out about what the stone is, how it was made and what the purpose is... and that it might contain Chaos Magic, which could only mean one thing....
* Also, Mane-iac is sad she missed the brawl.
* And Dash does paperwork to classical music.
* And Rarity inadvertently sets off a gift-war.
* 18 spots SA/Caddy, freaks out, learns she was drained of love, 18 kisses Cadence to restore her love while disguised as Cadence, Shining Armor feels funny things.
* Spike starts a secret santa thing with the gunclub.
* Two wants to grab the ball, is denied. Musings of "Titan Two" are had."
* SA beings Cadence and 18 up to speed on what happened, and asks Cadence what she wants done.
* She doesn't know.
* Both SA and 18 point out the nuances of the situation.
* She doesn't know.
* SA finally just asks her if she wants her to pay for hurting her like that.
* ...She doesn't know.
* She says that Shining Armor can handle it and leaves.
* Alone, 18 and SA talk about it, with 18 giving her own opinion when asked by saying she would lock up Sunset forever, and only let her out to polish the Empire by hoof. But she admits she's biased, and will support what Shining Armor says. She leaves.
* Shining Armor, alone, tries to come to grips with the situation, warring with himself between being a prince who must look strong, a soldier who must look just, and his own personal anger that Sunset dared to hurt Cadence when she was trying to help.
* Enter Celestia, who talks with him about it, but tries to only listen because she feels she's failed enough with this one.
* Shining Armor debates with her, explains his problems, and even cheers her up when she gets down. Heartmelting as that is, at last, he comes to a decision. He's not going to look at this like a prince or Soldier, but Shining Armor. Emboldened, he leaves.
* Behind him, Celestia realizes she might be getting another shot with Sunset, and is going to make it count.
* 42 meets up with Cadence, who urges her to talk to Spike.
* Snake-eyes is pretending to be someone else as a janitor.
* Discord thinks he got away with it, Faustmom is PISSED
* Chrysalis and AJ talk again, with AJ confronting her about that 'murderer' thing. It looks like it's going to end with them being angry at each other again, until... Chrysalis asks about AJ's dad.
* She has nothing but praises for him, obviously, and asks Chrysalis about hers.
* Her one interaction with him when she was four is... less than sunny. And AJ manages to read between the lines on that one and puts it together.
* ...Then they get into a 'which mom is better' fight, before leaving on good terms.
* FINALLY! At the end Sunset is being tried.
* Long, LONG and very inspirational speech debating all points is had, but short of it is that Sunset is punished like Twilight was, being banned from engaging in Changeling magic, is confined to Empire and Canterlot and must work to better the Empire, Equestria and the world. She is not a prisoner, and she is given a chance to prove herself again, like Twilight was.
* Joy is had.
* Something something love.
* Party breaks out.
* Applejack and Sunset promise to get it right this time.
* Everyone gets cake.
== Thread 84 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, HOLIDAYS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FUN EDITION!
* Everyone gathers around Sunset in the wake of her freedom, and one by one they give their own decrees. Twilight tasks her with a journal and checkups. In addition, certain restrictions on magic are placed, but they are very light.
* Applejack tells her to write her letters to keep her informed, and that she will be taking magic lessons from Sunset.
* Celestia orders her to come see her once a week and converse with her for at least an hour, and that she believes in her.
* Finally, Sunset realizes how lucky she is, and that she hurt Cadence. Unknown to all, she wants to make it up to her.
* With that, Sunset is 'free', in a sense.
* With that, Hearth's Warming is upon us!
* 41 and SP have a talk where SP reveals he's uncomfortable with the fact Changelings can just read minds. 41 brushes it off to go have fun.
* SA and Cadence question is they should celebrate Hearth's Warming considering they don't live where anyone else would. Cadence insists they do because presents.
* Luna, 29, MM and Zecora are playing board games, Luna decides to pull out the Mahjong. It uh... turns out MM plays. And is rather intense about it. We never get to see the game.
* Which is a pity, because it turns out Luna is rather good at it, which she shows when she does trade negotiations via overly-intense Mahjong game.
* Spitfire is investigating how Cadence can be in so many places every day but still do all the kingdom managing, timing how long she spends out on the town. While looking it over, she is scared off by a voice. Said voice picks up the paper and it turns out it was none other than... Sunset Shimmer.
* She hasn't made a move on this new information yet.
* Two is angry at Sunset for hurting not-mom mom and pelting her with hard marchmalleys. Applejack asks if she's apologized yet, and after realizing she hasn't she does apologize as best she can, calming 2 down and leading to instant forgiveness and marchmalleys.
* The nightguard are following 56 to see if he's a viable candidate, and noticing that despite him trying not to touch the booty, the booty finds him.
* Chitania's scar is worse than expected. More than just a mark, it didn't heal right and thus anytime she attempts to go into Titan mode she is overcome by pain. It would be a simple procedure to get it surgically removed, but she doesn't know any surgeon she would trust with her heart exposed, and thus she has to suffer with it until she can figure something out.
* Chrysalis is angry because Twilight is too swamped to help her examine the orb, and she promised she wouldn't until Twilight was around. But between helping to restore Sunset, her OnO project and holiday shopping, there's just no time. It's here she reveals she gave Celestia access to it too. Twilight orders her to relax and enjoy the holidays.
* Before she leaves, she runs into the possessed Primrose, and it's only some logic from Twilight that prevents her from blowing it up.
* It turns out the changelings have been hiding out in the ballroom because they're afraid Chrysalis is mad at them after one of them punched Quicksilver in the face and had to spend a couple days in jail. They've been doing their best to wait it out, so Chrysalis doesnt' care.
* After she's gone, they decide to send out a 'scout' by tying a rope around him. Said scout is the guy who did the punching, 38. He protests, but is gone out with the knowledge they will pull him back if they need to.
* His rope gets cut off by the door. Whoops.
* But for the most part, everyone is pleasant. Be it from guards who just wish to be nice or a couple chefs who got a light nudge from Applejack, he finds it's not all bad, even if he remains unsure.
* Pinkie accelerates the Gift-Arms-Race, and Rarity rises to the challenge.
* Fluttershy is stuck in line in the holiday rush, Chrysalis decides to be a good friend and waits with her.
* Applejack, Sunset and Rarity work at a soup kitchen to help Sunset's public image and to bring some attention to the less fortunate. Rarity enjoys making them look good while they work.
* 18 and Celestia have a discussion about things with Shining, turns out things are moving forwards now and Celestia, after the talk, is okay with it and wishes her well.
* The gryphon royals plus Ignus and Isabelle get together to decide what to do, and come to the conclusion they need to split up to sway the votes.
* Applejack finds Jetset and has a talk with him where he reveals he doesn't care if she's perfect, he protects her because he believes in her. Then he declares he needs to get stronger if he is to do so, but will need to find a certain 'someone' to pull it off.
* In Everfree, Seven has been training for a whole month, but despite this is not any physically stronger than he was when he started. He realizes his limitation as a Changeling is that he is entirely dependent on Love in order to be strong, and it doesn't matter how hard he works besides it because he'll always only be as strong as the amount of love he has.
* Some of the new guards try to cheer up the changelings. It backfires.
* Applejack confronts Screwloose, and lays down the law.
* Movie Night at the Crystal Empire! With a very special showing... Shining Armor's grand "Epic" movie... which he made in his edgy teenager phase.
* Many forced ice puns, bad special effects and cringey story follows.
* As does many, many laughs.
* Two and Maney think it's cool.
* Haymaker and Batmom shoot barbs at each other.
* 29 has been feeding 32 love, and continues to do so to this day. While 32 makes a joke out of it, it's revealed that 32 is also doing favors for 29 at the same time.
* Despite his best efforts to make it sound sexual, Actarius remains completely un-phased or lead astray by any of it, seeing through it with a blunt naivety, which angers 32, and makes 29 laugh.
* Applejack visits Shiny. Somehow ends up with a mousetrap on her ass.
* DT tries to force Spike to cut 42 some slack after she punched him into the floor, it doesn't work.
* While walking off, she boards an elevator with Trixie and Chrysalis... goes about as well as you'd expect.
* Derpy delivers a package to Discord. He skimps her on the tip.
* Don't feel bad, it was a bomb.
* Pommel,after some freaking out with Daw, finally tells Celestia he's sorry for sleeping in. She forgives him and gives a speech where she details how lackluster her old guard used to be, how good it was he kept trying, and that more than anything they need a leader right now.
* Pommel has a talk with the changeling wandering around, 38, where he points out the mutual hate on both sides is only making things worse, drawing a parallel to the Hearth's Warming Eve story, where their fighting almost wiped out everyone.
* Chrysalis and Mane-iac love the holidays. Funny comic time is pointed out.
* Spike and 42 finally talk, with Spike bitter she chose Chrysalis over him and that she remains loyal to her. They start to think that they can't be friends anymore, since 42 will not trust him with anything and he feels like she won't believe him if it comes down to it, so out of desperation 42 does reveal a secret.
* That she's in love with Cadence.
* Spike decides to 'help her out', though what that means is still unknown. Because hey..."What are friends for?"
* Cadence overspends on gifts.
* Dash forgot about Hearth's Warming shopping.
* Watchdog is having fun tossing Vekir, Siegfried less so watching Anton... and even less so when Anton joins in the tossing.
* Arana gives a Hearth's Warming gift to Chitania. Chitania returns the favor with tales of Arana's mother, particularly how she met her father.
* Sunset is feeling bitter that she lost all that information about Changelings, and feels it unfair that the info is being kept from her. Applejack arrives shortly and the two have a heart to heart, with Applejack explaining that her biggest problem is her impulsiveness and inability to see things as anything other than a scientist, using a dying apple tree sapling to show her point.
* At the end of it, she tasks Sunset with the apple tree sapling to give her some perspective, and leaves her hopeful that she can be restored to normal.
* Chrysalis looks on at the Orb, and begins to think of all the possibilities it can hold. In particular, if it could be used to create more Queens from her Hive.
* More Queens... all under her.
* Because that won't end horribly.
== Thread 85 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, SHOPPING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS EDITION!
* Rarity and Pinkie's gift war has reached terrifying levels.
* 42 has no plan with that reveal to Spike, she just wanted to show him she trusted him.
* After she leaves, it turns out he wasn't the only one who heard. Spike accidentally left Charity's voice thing on... whoops.
* Rarity, after managing to hold it in and not gossip via headbutting a table, decides to do something and play matchmaker, because 42 is special to him. He is reluctant to agree, but comes to the conclusion that this isn't very healthy for punchbug.
* Thanks to some clever conversations, the idea of mare-kissing practice is now in Cadence's head, and she's considering it.
* This is probably going to end well
* Chrysalis speaks with 13, and reaffirms her loyalty, and then promises to talk to Chitania.
* Spike and 55 teamed up to stop some robbers who were stealing orphan toys.
* Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and 2 don't know what a Hearth is.
* Chitania learns from Sunset about the orb.
* Soarin and Fleetfoot do not respect Dash.
* SA and 18's shopping thing turns into a date.
* 32 is passing out Heath's Warming cards that are weirdly on the nose to all the changelings, first stop, Chrysalis!... She mostly annoys him.
* Dadling and Batmom meet the Cakes, they share stories about how unmanageable superkids are. 13 and Sweet Note are shopping and having fun.
* Screwloose continues to bug Haymaker, while 12 makes her stop.
* Sunset and Twilight, growing bored with experimenting, decide to make a bunch of classic book references.
* It's surprisingly adorable.
* Luna joins in, it gets less adorable.
* Luna tries to make MM, 29 and Zecora put on a show, it goes badly.
* Applejack asks Chrysalis to stop being a dick about letting Arana near her hive. Reluctantly, she accepts.
* And then Arana hugs her.
* Chrysalis is still very much afraid of her.
* This does not go well.
* Potatojack should never pretend to be Silver Spoon...
* Actarius continues to work with 32.
* Things get out of hoof with a snowball fight with Celestia and Luna, with Shining Armor getting caught up in it.
* Luna now has to do an as yet unrevealed humiliating thing because she lost.
* Hilda is a very mean sister.
* Flash and Fizzle meet up with PD's agents in the Gryphon Kingdom, and are now off to be glorified thugs.
* Quicksilver is trying on makeup, Steam Gauge is quite amused.
* After an accidental run in, Celestia has to hold 56 under the water for a long time.
* Shining Armor does not question this, and neither should you.
* 88 has a new battle tactic, flashbangs!
* Haymaker thinks AJ is best princess.
* Suckerpunch is a dick to Actarius.
* Sweet Note thinks 13 should start suing when she gets set on fire, 13 had never considered this
* Zecora makes Trixie do her shopping, because shopping in rhyme is hard.
* ...That is totally the reason.
* DT sets off fireworks to say "Hi Silver Spoor"
* Silver Spoon knows what she means. Cutie bump!
* Chrysalis and AJ talk about family
* SA got an antique WB costume for Dash, Twilight had to try it on.
* SA, Cadence, Chrysalis, 18, 42 and Celly have brunch, the discussion of Spike's lovelife comes up and nobody has any self awareness.
* 10 is worried about Trenderhoof
* Chitania is being awkward as a mom
* Cadence considers Twilight for her earlier thing... decides against it, and leave Twilight confused.
* Twilight keeps working on the upcoming OnO adventure.
* Pinkie parties with the changelings
* Applejack battles 29 for a doll for Applebloom, eventually gets it from him and they have a moment
* Chitania is not okay with 13 playing facepunch
* 2 convinces Chrysalis to get Applejack a gift
* Celestia attempts to blend into the snow. SA is all for this plan
* Then Rarity gets involved, and Canterlot is left in confusion.
* Also, snow Rarity.
* And finally... CADENCE MAKES COOKIES. GOOD COOKIES.
* The end is neigh.
== Thread 86 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, HEARTHS AND HEARTS GETTING WARMED EDITION!
* "IT'S HEARTH'S WAAAARRRMMIIIINNNNNN!"
* All around ponies and changelings are celebrating, having fun and spending time with their loved ones, from the CE's crew enjoying Shiny's parents visiting in between having a heart attack when Twilight gives Two a hoverbike to Rarity giving Sweetie something to burn down her parents house to Twenty Nine and crew bonding simply in Zecora's hut to Pennydrop lavishing in her own increased wealth.
* It's a nice day.
* Except for one house.
* Applejack, Applebloom and Big Mac descend the stairs and prepare to open their gifts, but there's one problem.
* Granny Smith is missing!
* As it turns out, last night Granny got ran over by a... something
* So when she wakes up, she's not taking this lying down, and sets out to find whatever it was that ran her over!
* Applejack the others find the tracks and follow them to investigate!
* Meanwhile, Pinkie has hired the changelings to pretend to be her and spread holiday cheer in her place to any who are not spending time with their families.
* Spike goes over to Applejack's house to try to give her a gift, but sees her gone and none of the presents open, which means only one thing.
* Getting his gun, it's on!
* After some following, he stumbles across Fluttershy's cabin while monologuing to himself. Needless to say, they join forces.
* Also, shortly after, he calls Rarity, who while desperate to escape her families home also comes over to be with the pair.
* Also, unknown to her before this moment, Sweetie Belle had dyed her hair white, and Rarity is now completely invisible in the snow.
* Granny, meanwhile, is either making squirrels vomit with her stories or ticking off strangely intelligent cragodiles.
* Dash comes across Soarin and Fleetfoot in WB headquarters, everyone else is off on vacation, but they're there for... reasons. She gives them a gift and they feel bad about it for a bit.
* She also comes across Lightning Dust in her office, and seems really oblivious before she heads off to go spend time with the others.
* JJ and Actarius meet his parents for Hearth's Warming. Goes about as well as can be expected
* 56 gets the Delux Chitanita toy with memory foam plot, curses his cousin for tempting him again, even though he begged for it for months, and it cost a small fourtune
* DT gives her Secret Gifter gift to 77. It's a Ballistic Sniper Knife with a DT seal of approval for safety. 42's gift were rocket power hooves which made her fly uncontrollably though a wall.
* Twilight, getting away from the CE for a moment, stumbles across Pommel who tells her where Spike went.
* He's also wearing a ribbon... guess where.
* She goes off to find Spike every bit to get away from that.
* Chrysalis and Celestia have a talk about Applejack and second chances. Celestia also finds out Chrysalis was rather 'new' when she got with Shiny back at the wedding, so to say.
* Maud is STILL in the Empire, tasting the crystal.
* 29 delivers a letter to Luna from 56, it's adorable.
* Everyone is either panicking or enjoying Two's hoverbike antics.
* 29 and crew get into a snowball fight.
* Pinkie is off to deliver gifts to her friends, how you ask?
* By putting all the gifts in a sled and having it pulled by changelings.
* ...And she's wearing a red suit, because Pinkie is as subtle as an exploding middle finger.
* Primrose tries to explain Hearth's Warming to Brahmos, Red and Cordy.
* Red remembers the Wendigos fondly...
* 10 gives BBB a gift, he feels bad he didn't get her one, she declares he was gift enough.
* CHITANIA IN A CANDY CANE HAT... that is all.
* Granny Smith finally finds the rascals that ran her over!... And then tears off running.
* Right into Applejack and her kin, and thus all three get to discover her assaulters were none other than, as Applejack put it-
* "WENDIGOS!? HOW!? HOOWW!?"
* Thus a battle begins! Or, more specifically, Applejack and family getting beat to bruises by really violent wendigos.
* They realize they should just be able to be nice to each other and fix it...doesn't work. Really, really doesn't work.
* But that's okay, because Spike, Fluttershy and Rarity join the fray!
* And they too all get beat to hell, except Fluttershy of course, who is unhurt as they create twisters and the like to batter them.
* But out of nowhere, more help arrives! DASH is on the scene, and she makes a giant twister to suck them up and toss them away! The day is saved!
* For about four seconds, then she notices they made a bigger one, and theirs hurts a lot more.
* But that's okay, because TWILIGHT is on the scene, she'll save everyone!
* ...She doesn't!
* The wedigos seem to open the sky and pour down the snow and frost to painful levels, trying to hold the heroes down. But they can't keep Applejack from getting to her family to cover them.
* Even with that, they declare she needs to stop, and go help the others, that she doesn't need to protect them all the time.
* Reluctantly, VERY reluctantly, she says okay.
* And THEN all four get grabbed out of the waterfall of snow and ice, and onto, of all things, a sled.
* A sled that is tearing through that icy stuff thanks to the fireball on the front of it.
* The LIVING fireball.
* It's 55, come on.
* Pinkie Pie has arrived, and she and the Apple Family is going to bring this action scene to a close! The go up to the top, fire off some magicy science via Twilight's present to be to make them whole, and one great big Apple Family Apple Buck happens! The Wendigos are defeated, the day is saved, and everything is a-okay!
* ...And then everyone puts together that this was probably Discord, and they get mad.
* But they're going to deal with that later! For now, Arana FINALLY got her big butt off the button holding the portal closed and the CE crew from joining in, and now it's time for some Hearth Warming Apple Home Party!
* Cadence is weighing her options for her 'practice' but her contemplative stare keep sets both 18 and Celestia off into a confession panic, so they're out. The hunt goes on!
* Sunset feels very alone and lies in herroom, telling Dollestia there's no point going out in the vain hope of enjoying the festivities, since she's...well, medically dead and very unliked around town
* Pinkie brings out her gifts and wows the crowd, but a challenger approaches!
* A challenger who made her little sister pull the massive cart from one side of Ponyville to the other, because Rarity can be vindictive sometimes.
* But no matter, because after several stops, she hands out her gifts, and even Pinkie concedes she's got the best ones this go round!
* But it's not over yet, there's still one individual who needs to hand out her own gift.
* Chrysalis gives that gift she promised Two she would give to AJ.
* It's a strange, marble-sized green ball.
* According to Chrysalis, it lets her copy one memory to it, just like a small-scale version of the Variolus Orb. Only this one will project too.
* At first, Applejack is very suspicious and reluctant, which offends Chrysalis enough she just stomps off. Still, Applejack admits there's a possibility here.
* So, she uses it, gives it one of her memories, and...
* Everyone gets to watch Applebloom's very first Hearth's Warming.
* And Applebloom gets to really see, and hear, her parents for the very first time.
* It's a time for looking back, but more than that, a time for new beginnings.
* And she's going to make the most of it this time.
== Thread 87 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP! The holiday that was over six months ago is over again!
* SA Thinks what Chrysalis did for AJ is nice.
* Cadence considers Chrysalis and others for her practice thing, decides against it.
* Applejack noticed Sunset wasn't with the CE crew, learns from Applejack she just hid in her room.
* So she flies to Canterlot, breaks down Sunset's door and drags her to Ponyville, because that's how she rolls.
* Luna begins to have fun pranking her students.
* Pinkie laments she didn't win the gift war.
* 32 continues to hand out his cursed cards, each one more insulting than the last. The only one spared is 2.
* Spitfire blows off Dash when she tries to talk to her.
* Ignus, Sigfried, Watchdog, Vekir and Anton go off on their political trip.
* Chitania hates that there is snow. Gets rid of it the only way she knows how.
* Blueblood spends Hearth's Warming with Arana, PJ and Haymaker.
* 77 and 88 come across Screwloose, who takes an interest in the blindling.
* Rarity notices Cadence isn't moving forwards towards 42 like she plans, decides to step up her game and drags Spike along with her.
* 18 is still bitter at Sunset.
* Celestia and SA decide to go after Luna.
* Sweetie Belle is bad at standup.
* Cloudchaser decides to file a complaint about the WB's, but when she confronts Fleetfoot she is quickly made aware there is nobody to file a complaint about Dash TO, as all of them are either lower on the totem pole or are her best friends/owe her one and thus she gives up.
* This is not the first time Fleetfoot has had to do this.
* Chrysalis looks creepy for a second, so AJ harasses her with a squirtbottle. Thus begins a squirt fight that will be remembered for all of time.
* Celestia and SA pull pie-pranks on Luna an eventually force her to go to Sweet Apple Acres to spend time with the others.
* They themselves are delayed, because they are in a cake.
* Do not ask.
* Rairty and Spike fail hard at that whole plan.
* Two tries to warm the hearth... with gasoline.
* AJ is amused that Luna is a teacher.
* DT swims in her presents, while SS makes bad puns.
* Shining and Big Mac have nothing in common.
* After several more failures, Rarity and Spike ready to call it quits, but no need. Cadence's stares of judgement does nothing to 42, and she realizes she's perfect for this so rushes off to go ask Shiny.
* Rarity considers this a win.
* While talking to Shiny about it, she inadvertently reveals the reason she's not just going to 18 is that her biggest fear is that she's not living up to her Princess of Love title, and wants to experience what's coming next without fear of ruining anything for Shiny or her. After a lengthy talk, Shining eventually decides if this is what she needs to feel back in her groove, he'll go with it.
* Witnessing his repeated failures, Shining offers to take Rarity to task if Spike needs him to.
* But not Applejack. Sunset reveals to Spitfire what she found, but Spitfire immediately backs off and decides the whole thing was stupid, not wanting to strain her relationship with anyone else over there. She advises Sunset to do the same.
* It's disheartening, but she realizes she'll have to go talk to Applejack about it.
* Sombra gives Shining Armor a Dreadnought
* 32 discovers the notes are actually cursed and goes off to search for the culprit.
* When Discord reveals it was him despite 32 wishing really really hard it wasn't, 32 just gives up and decides to go home, which makes Discord angry as he wanted 32 to challenge him or complain about him.
* Chrysalis is a shrewd businessmare.
* Rainbow Dash is apparently loaded.
* Celestia reveals she didn't buy any gifts on Luna's behalf, so she has to hand out dream vouchers.
* Twilight discovers she can make a jacob ladder with her and Rarity's horn. The world is not ready.
* Chrysalis seems unimpressed with the party, but says they need to invite everyone to their place next year.
* Applejack and Granny Smith think about how their 'family' has grown.
* SA and crew decide to leave, but not before he points out to Applejack that her accepting that gift meant a lot to Chrysalis, even if she doesn't show it.
* Back at the Empire, Shining Armor finally gives his gifts to the other mares...
* POLE DANCING!
* Chrysalis, Cadence, 18, Celestia and 42 have a ball.
* Twilight walks in, is horrified... can't seem to leave.
* Everyone else leaves soon after, everyone except Applejack and... Fluttershy.
* Time to get some answers.
* They call Discord, and chew him out for what he's been doing.
* He bites back, obviously feeling neglected, but having a harder time justifying it when they reveal he had gifts and an apple fritter waiting for him here, he just didn't show up.
* He gets into how forgotten he's felt here recently, due to the fact he can't last very long around Fluttershy.
* When Applejack tries to lecture him, he vanishes, leaving behind some gifts, and goes up to the moon to watch the planet below.
* He took the apple fritters with him.
* And, he realizes...
* "I may have gone a bit overboard."
* Twilight returns to Canterlot to a waiting Spike, and after shaking off her previous problems decides...
* O N O MOTHERFUCKERS!
== Thread 88 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, A MAGICAL ADVENTURE FOR YOU EDITION!
* Twilight, while cackling like a lunatic because of course she does, sends out the call, and all of the various ponies and other such species begin their gathering process!
* First up, breakfast with the CE crew!
* Chrysalis, sadly, cannot see why kids love Crunchy Cinnamon Toast.
* Dash leaves the Wonderbolts all alone, thinking she's just giving them another day off post Hearth's Warming. Enraged by her actions, Soarin' and Fleetfoot begin to plot.
* This plot involves Fleetfoot annoying Pommel until he chases her with a butterfly net, and Soarin' turning on the sprinklers over the changelings heads and ticking them off until they chase him.
* The two plots intertwine when said changelings run over Pommel in their blind rage. This is only the beginning...
* Meanwhile, Daw does not know what a condom is. So... that's probably going to end well.
* 77 and 88 find 32 passed out and smelling of hangover, so they decide to help him get cleaned up.
* Haymaker is annoyed his boss is chasing Fleetfoot instead of training them.
* Twilight and Celestia assure Applejack nothing is going to go wrong while they're in the simulator... so of course it is.
* Shining drops off Two with his parents. Oh, and Sombra too, but he forgot to mention that to them. His father is not appreciative.
* At the Sparkle house, Sombra slinks down into the basement with Two in tow, discovering Shining Armor's old stash of figures from the old days. Also a magazine, but we'll never know what was inside of it, because of the fire.
* Chrysalis discovers that Succubus is no longer a class, and is actually a race now. More specifically, an NPC enemy race. An NPC enemy race that, if picked, has some huge handicaps. And is always evil. And also gives bonuses if you kill them.
* In short, the creatures with her powerset and sort of her appearance got redone to be snarling, evil monsters you're supposed to kill.
* She is not happy, but hatches her own plan.
* Primrose goes reading at Brahmos's suggestions.
* DT accidentally gets drunk on some leftover eggnog.
* Screwloose wonders if she can fix 88's eyesight.
* Spitfire, back at the Empire, takes command of the airforce to train them better.
* As they're gathering, Twilight reveals a very important fact. She invited someone else to come along, none other than Poindexter! Who is still on iffy terms with Shining, but nevermind. Now they're perfectly symmetrical, seven on Twilight's side, seven on the CE side!
* One problem, that means there's nobody left to DM.
* So, Celly has a suggestion. Her sister!
* Luna, after some convincing, agrees.
* With their teacher gone, 29 and crew got into the strong stuff, and yet again wake up with very little recollection to where they have been.
* Long story short, Luna is letting the power go to her head again as she takes control. With that out of the way, it's merely time to gather everyone together and get ready for an adventure! They all go in, turning the thing on and transforming into their characters!
* And then promptly vanishing. Because Twilight wanted it to be a surprise when they all met up. All of them are sent to different parts of the world, and have their own adventures.
* Spike, a Knight class fighter, gets dropped in the middle of a fuzzy thing nest much to his irritation. Then he discovers, after killing them all, that those fuzzy things were babies, and that Luna had intended for him to befriend them and go on an adventure, and this kind of messed up her whole plan.
* Long story short, after a few more scenarios, a lot of anger from Luna and no less than three species genocided, Spike is now wearing blooddrinker armor and wielding a cursed sword, no matter how much he protests.
* Shining Armor, a Paladin, initially lands in a land of fairy princesses. Pink fair princesses. Who look like ponies... and his wife, coincidentally. After he escapes from that throwback to DnD origins, he is attacked by harpies, but is saved by the whip of a succubus!
* More specifically, a tall, WHITE, succubus.
* Celestia is trying out a new race.
* Speaking of, someone else is also trying out a new race!... Sort of.
* Chrysalis, now an Angel, wipes out the Harpies in one blow. After wards, she reveals that she's an angel who is, due to following their works, SUCCUBUS class once again! Luna, on the other hand, reveals that this left her charisma score a mite... low.
* As in, she couldn't talk, and had been following Shining for hours killing small animals to level up enough that she could speak.
* Both mares muse about a little 'advanced seduction', but Luna is having none of that and makes it known with stampede of bladed rhinos.
* 18, an enchantress class, gets spawned in a lich cave, and of course lich's are immune to enchanting...
* Cadence, a Fairy with an unrevealed(but stupid) class, learns her prospects for survival are not great.
* Poindexter, A rogue, is running circles around all of Luna's traps while she tries to monlouge at him.
* 42, a solider class, is stuck in the middle of a slime pit. She uses her wits to outsmart one, but... there's a lot.
* Dash, a pegasi warrior(?) is annoyed because Luna won't let her fly.
* Pinkie, a bard, is enjoying being in a candy trap.
* Rarity, and Ironshod(think old timey robots) Monk is enjoying her new kung fu.
* Applejack and Twilight, however..
* Luna decided to be 'helpful' in light of AJ's failing magical powers, so she... switched them.
* Now AJ is a mage and Twi is a barbarian. Neither is working.
* They start to meet up, Cadence with 42, Dash and 18 and later Pinkie and then AJ, Poindexter meets up with Rarity when the latter pretends to be a ghost to freak him out.
* Oh, and AJ can make cider out of a couple sticks, a rock, a wheel and a single apple... do not ask, even though she was watching Luna doesn't get that one.
* After a few more adventures, they all meet up in a town square, and Luna prepares to send them on the real adventure! Only, one problem... where's Fluttershy?
* Oh, right there... turns out she was a peasant class pony the whole time, everyone just thought she was an NPC.
* Well, with that done, TORNADOS FROM THE SKY!
* Now the mission is set! Two lords, one of fire and one of ice, are threatening the land, so two teams are needed to stop them! CE crew and the Main Seven, off on their adventure!
* One little snag. There was a... mixup.
* Poindexter and Twilight are exactly where they should NOT be.
* And thus, Luna loses her mind for a second.
* Unaware to all, in her hidden room, Pennydrop notices that the game has begun, and is now hatching her own plan to get at Twilight's computer.
* The real adventure, both inside and out, begins!
== Thread 89 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, ADVENTURE HO EDITION!
* The parties are now split up, and are having issues.
* On the Main Six side, they are not happy with being stuck with Poindexter and vocalize it to a very hurtful degree.
* Tensions begin to rise as each one wants to take the lead, but none of them end up doing so. As a result of lack of leadership, they mostly just destroy stuff.... a lot of stuff... so much stuff.
* So much stuff...
* Back with the CE crew, things are going smoother... except for Shiny shaking his ass where Twilight can see, that was a problem.
* Celestia, Chrysalis and 18 try to get them away from each other long enough they can tease Shiny, to no effect.
* That aside, each one is fantastically capable, which leaves Twilight feeling like she doesn’t matter much because she can’t take the lead.
* With that said, they progress rapidly and quickly, far quicker than the other side. They go after the ice lord, while the main six crew choose the fire one.
* As a result of one side fighting and the other being overly confrontational, Luna’s plans rapidly fall apart and she finds herself in despair. But it’s not over yet…
* On the Wonderbolt Side, Pommel gets up after the trampling, and decides he’s done playing. He stumbles across Bulk, and realizing Bulk is a WB he enlists his help to catch Fleetfoot
* While Soarin is still being chased, a wonderbolt mare(Unknown if it was Fleetfoot) tells the guard their boss got trampled, and they charge off to go fight.
* Meanwhile, Gilda slaps the Peacetrotters in the face and eggs them on to all charge her.
* Long story short, the three rampaging crowds collide while the WB's and Pommel look on.
* And then there is punches.
* ...And then there is threats of lasers.
* And then there is almost lasers and Pommel being forced to shove everyone to fire off into nothingness.
* And then that nothingness turns out to not contain nothingness.
* It contains Chitania.
* Who is PISSED
* Thus begins a desperate battle with the PT's, Guards and Lings fighting against a very, very angry Titan. It goes as well as expected.
* Or, as Fleetfoot put it, 'better than expected'.
* Pommel, seeing his crew and others in danger, joins with Daw and snaps into action with good old fashioned adventure plans!
* They do not work. They do not work a lot.
* But on the positive side, a changeling and guard pair have discovered a passion for annoucerwork. So... that's something. Fuzzy and the Buzz have begun!
* Meanwhile, thanks to the destruction, Pennydrop has found her way into Twilight’s mainframe and begins downloading the stuff on her computer. One problem, if Twilight notices she’s fucked. So she peers in to make sure Twilight can’t see what she’s doing, and spots Luna in despair. A mistake on her part leads to her being heard, so she panics and makes Luna think she’s a computer program.
* Then she learns what Luna is doing.
* Realizing the game is almost over and she needs to stall, Pennydrop decides to help.
* We learn that, underneath her terrible exterior, Pennydrop is a hardcore OnO fan, complete with fake crown and old memorabilia.
* She and Luna join forces and proceed to torment both sides, even flipping around what the CE crew thought would be the final battle and instead gets them lost in an ‘endless’ maze.
* With that, Applejack’s crew begin to eventually get it together and continue on.
* MEANWHILE, Mayor Mare and 29 actually do work!?
* 32 gathers up 77 and 88, and after hiring someone to clean up his office he sets out to ponyville with them do to… something regarding him and Cheerilee
* Speaking of, Actarius discovers said office and… well, he is probably still screaming.
* On orders from 18, Potatojack sets out to find 7, discovering him clear out and alone in Everfree forest, doing… something with a bunch of animals in cages. The one she sees is a Manticore, which appears near death.
* Seven reveals he’s working on ways to get love outside of ponies, so they aren’t so dependent on them.
* After beating him around for a little bit to reveal he’s low on love and chiding him for missing Hearth’s Warming, PJ reveals there’s no way to really get enough from animals. He says he’s made progress, she says she can’t see it.
* ”Looking in wrong direction.”
* What follows is PJ getting the snot beat out of her by the very much not near-death Manticore before being beaten into unconsciousness. Before she passes out, she sees that indeed said manticore was talking, and has green eyes.
* She only hears one more thing before the world goes black.
* ”Her name is Buttercup.”
* When she wakes up in a potato field later, she can’t remember a thing, and believes she just got drunk and blasted off a couple rounds before crashing, which is why she’s out of love and hurts like hell.
* Jetset watches the whole exchange, but does not intervene. He had originally been looking to find 7 so they could help each other get better, but decides against it, and that he will get stronger on his own.
* Ignusand Siegfried arrive at their location, a land of partying and low standards… so he orders Watchdog to carry Vekir and Anton and for the love of god don’t let them touch anything.
* Sombra sets up all “Safe for Two” figures and he and two begin their own game! What adventures will they have? Find out!... After he fixes the table!
* 32, 77, and 88 made it to Cheerilee's, briefly ran into the...thing called Mr. Foalington from Partyland and set the stage for what's about to go down.
* It's a big going down.
== Thread 90 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, YOU GET AN ARMY! AND YOU GET AN ARMY! EVERYONE GETS AN ARMY YAAYYYYYYY EDITION!
* In the OnO world, things are going... badly.
* The CE crew are still lost in the endless maze, being attacked by all manner of creatures and not able to pick up armor thanks to 'Luna's' trick from last time.
* Twilight, thanks to feeling useless and unable to help, unlocks the berserker rage against a slime monster, and is now very angry.
* Shining Armor keeps asking meta questions, and Cadence keeps giving him plausible but horrifying answers.
* Celestia's outfit is rapidly losing what little room it had.
* Chrysalis, upon challenging Cadence, orders 42 to back her, but the soldier-ling responds 'no', and backs Cadence. Nobody is quite sure what to make of that yet.
* Cadence is still looking for a chance to bring up the kiss thing to Forty Two.
* 18 is just trying to out math that which cannot be mathed.
* But, despite their setbacks, they eventually manage to get back up to the Ice Witch, causing a panic with Luna. Pennydrop, however, has a plan.
* Long story short, she makes a big song and dance with the Ice Witch where the Witch reveals that it does not matter if she won or not, the battle would mean her foe the Fire Lord would defeat her even if they did not. So, in order to save her kingdom, she gives her power, her armies and her throne away...
* To Cadence.
* Who is DAMN sexy in her costume, to the point where Shining Armor might need a minute.
* So, off they go to fight the firelord!
* Concurrently with this is going on, AJ grows tired of being forced into situations where she has to use her magic and finds ways around them, until she is eventually guilt-tripped into it by Pennydrop.
* Spike rapidly gets fed up with being hounded by PD and Luna, and declares they're going off the rails so to speak.
* This... fails spectacularly within the first few minutes, and all Spike manages to do is more destruction. And Spike is now undead.
* In a moment of desperation, Fluttershy somehow ends up party leader.
* They also gain a tentacle ridden dragon named 'hats' as a pet... because.
* Repeatedly, Spike tries to go off rails, but it never works.
* Finally, they all reach the firelord, who is killed thanks to Fluttershy's batshit high charisma levels and said tentacle dragon.
* He too passes on his power, over to....
* Poindexter.
* Who might be going just a liiiiittle crazy with power.
* MEANWHILE, out in the real world!
* 32, 88 and 77 visit Cheerilee, and after a heart to heart, 77 PROPOSES! YES! PROPOSES!
* 29 learns that Ye isn't a word, and his life is shattered.
* Sunset goes over to the Empire with the interest of getting to the bottom of this whole thing with Cadence, and after some persuading she get Spitfire to join her.
* Jetset is trying to take his teleporting to the next level and make it about phasing through stuff, but can't manage before he's picked up.
* 7 gets with a scientist working with Fawntaine's bio-research and gets notes for his still forming plan.
* The Lunar Guard continue watching over 56 and reporting on him.
* Screwloose senses something.
* Sombra tries to fight the living figures with more living figures... yeah.
* Things go awry, to put it shortly.
* MEANWHILE! With the current Chitania-brawl, things are going poorly.
* Several daring attacks by Pommel manage to do a jack load of nothing, and the Wonderbolts, outside of saving anyone from getting squashed, are unhelpful.
* In desperation, Daw goes off to get help. She gets it, in the form of a giant hundred legged backup.
* Centitrain is on the case! And after a larger than life battle... it doesn't go so good.
* Long story short, Centitrain is going to need to sleep a couple bruises off.
* Several more attacks and plan after plan of Pommel's is tried, but to no avail with any of it.
* Finally, after getting punted through a wall one too many times, Pommel decides to try to trap her with that there army he has.
* A plan it hatched, but for this one it's going to take more than just his army. His army, and the Changelings, are going to have to do the unthinkable and join forces if they want to win.
* Reluctantly, thanks in part to many interactions during the beating, they do so.
* The plan goes off, she's entangled by all sides and frozen by Peacetrotters, to everyone's surprise they hold her!... For exactly one second. But they DO hold her before her rage becomes unstoppable and she blasts them away and makes them hurt.
* And then she strangles Pommel and is about to knock off his head.
* But it is not the end! Two others come to save Pommels Pompoms, none other than Sweet Note and 13!
* Then Chitania roars at them, and watching her daughter and friend be afraid of her again makes her, at last, stop.
* They forgive her right away though, so it's all cool.
* Then we learn what all this as about. Technically, thanks to Fleetfoot and Soarin', this was a TOTALLY SANCTIONED by Dash training exorcise. One that wasn't supposed to involve Chitania, obviously, and was being filmed by 10 the whole time.
* Pommel gets really angry, Sweet Note wants to sue, Chitania is just happy her kid isn't afraid of her.
* But that's not all. The guards and changelings are... getting along? Whaaa?
* Fleetfoot and Soarin go off, sure that they've won...
* Or have they?
* In Dash's office, they're confronted by Lightning Dust, who reveals she knows all about their plan.
* Specifically, that this was just about getting the public to turn on her, since none of the higher ups would. But she reveals she recorded their plan, and while they can't arrest her they have been conspiring to humiliate Dash, which is either fireable or Dash can punish them
* She did this to prove loyalty to Dash, and now she's going to use this to become second in command
* Fleetfoot and Soarin realize they've lost, and that they never stood a chance.
* ...And nobody in the OnO world has any idea any of this went on.
* Dun dun duuuun.
== Thread 91 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, I LOVE THE SMELL OF WAR IN THE MORNING EDITION!
* Pennydrop muses about it, and can't really figure out why she let the weak, powerless, big dreamer earth pony gain ultimate power... go figure.
* Poindexter has now gone full supervillain, costume and all. Everyone's a little worried about him. Yet, strangely, their kill rate has dropped to zero...
* After a talk, they decide to let him stay in charge.
* On the other side, Cadence has gone mad with power. Being carried around on a giant golden slab, making Celestia and Chrysalis act like statues, dressing up Shining and 18 and 42 to be her personal dancers, that mess.
* Oh, and she also makes the army fight for her amusement while marching towards the fire lord... that's a thing.
* They don't have a choice about whether she's in charge or not.
* MEANWHILE, outside, the figurines are still wreaking havoc. The changelings and guards are trying to destroy the little buggers, but it's not going well.
* Actarius is getting his shit kicked in, but not going down.
* Chitania gives no fucks and ain't helping.
* Bluebloodbot gets really annoyed and goes full on EXTERMINATE
* Coltsly, thanks to an idea from a disguised Snake Eyes, decides to hand out lightning bolt infusions.
* Pommel finally gets on the scene and starts commanding.
* And Sombra has had enough, leaving 2 in the care of Jugglejack while he personally goes off and disenchants these things.
* In the Empire, Spitfire and Sunset stumble across Shining's Desk. Also, that it smells like ass.
* Not pony ass.
* ...Spitfire does not want to know, Sunset does not want to know how she knows.
* Also, they don't learn the deal with 42, just a lot of wink-wink-nudge-nudge. That's confusing.
* But back at the OnO session! The two armies meet, and... pretty much decide to get along, no reason to fight.
* That is, until Poindexter makes fun of the fact it's CADENCE in charge of the army, Applejack joins in on pointing it out, and Spike drives the point home by saying CHRYSALIS would be a better choice.
* Chrysalis starts laughing, but surprisingly not at Cadence. She starts jeering their side, pointing out how much better her side has been doing and then when they're at their most angry Forty Two seals the deal
* "Don't be mad that Cadence is better than any of you at this."
* Long story short, fighting breaks out.
* Oh, and Twilight has been in a blind berserker rage this whole time, which is why she hasn't commented on the matter. She's unleashed, and all hell breaks loose.
* Friends start fighting friends, Rarity is pretty much punchproof but very vulnerable to encanting,
* Chrysalis's character(not the real her, to note) is discovered to be lactose intolerant when Spike sprays her with goat milk, Spike is punted by Chrysalis so far he impales Shining Armor by accident, and Applejack's attempts to stave off a berserker Twi only result in her covering herself in flowers, and unable to move.
* But the real main attraction is Poindexter Vs Cadence! Fire Vs Ice! Boss power Vs Boss power! It... turns out to be a lot of childish trashtalk and nagging.
* But Poindexter has a plan, it turns out! He was merely luring Cadence over Celestia and the now healed Shining Armor, and then he summons a giant spear!
* Chrysalis and 18 show up on the scene, and he prepares to throw it. Instinctively, they all defend Shining because they assume Poindexter will aim for him.
* Nope, turns out he was aiming for Cadence for REVENGE! To make Shiny watch the love of his life be hurt while he couldn't protect her.
* ...orrr, turns out he had had an epiphany before he threw the spear, figured out why Mane-Iac was never really mad or held a grudge, finally fully embraced the real supervillain nature and decided to change spear at the last second, so it's just a spell that can be broken by love's kiss.
* Shining Armor, remembering the post-Hearth-Warming Party talk with Cadence, decides to use this to his advantage, gives reasons he and everyone else can't kiss her, and then gives that job to...
* Forty Two! Who is about to blow a gasket at the thought.
* But still, she does it, and while she does Chrysalis is feeling a little... jealous? She wishes it was her, is how she puts it.
* Forty Two lays one on her, and lights up the sky!
* And then does her very best to pretend like it wasn't even a thing because she has issues with this.
* But Shining Armor saw through that, indeed, Poindexter was sincere, and the first step to reconnection is made! Now they just have to wait for Luna to go on to the next part!
* ...Wait for Luna.
* Luna?
* It turns out, Pennydrop had been drinking her coffee at the WORST moment, and when the kiss happened she literally spit it out all over her monitor. Now, she can't talk to Luna, and without her helper the princess is lost and adrift!
* What a terrible thing...
* She's ready to start the finale.
== Thread 92 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, GAME OVER EDITION!
* Luna is lost without her "Computer" to help her out thanks to PD's coffee shorting out her system. Nonetheless, she soldiers on.
* Applejack is still tangled up in vines from her misfired spell. Twilight watches on, but doesn't help. After Chrysalis arrives and is particularly malicious with her taunts, dues to her still being sore with Applejack about what she said to Cadence, Applejack goes full rage, rolls a Crit and magic missles the hell out of them, then takes Twilight's axe while they're smoking on the ground.
* In the aftermath, Chrysalis and Twilight muse about the situation.
* SA and Cadence talk about the kiss with 42, and she's appreciative he's so okay with it.
* SA and Poindexter have a moment before they split.
* The Main Five plus Spike and Poindexter eventually meet back up after hurting each other a lot, and a giant chunk of metal falling on Applejack for no reason.
* Same with the CE crew plus Twi.
* Then Luna summons a giant storm above all of them from the remains of heat and steam that came off Cadence and Poindexter.
* Then that heat and steam magic combine, and all get to watch as the final boss is revealed. It's a giant fucking ice/Lava monster that is literally as big as a mountain, because Luna does not go halfsies with this.
* It states that it was a being that had been split into two parts because it was a being of nothingness. It was to be re-created with the emotions that prevailed when it was recombined. It could have been anything, an alliance, friendship, whatever, as it's primary emotion when it recombined.
* But they chose war, soooo..
* Yeah.
* Only one problem, it seems to be putting a strain on everything, and the world is struggling to accept a character as big as a mountain, but no time for that.
* Final battle start!
* Outside, the other battle keeps raging. Guards and changelings VS robots, with Sombra joining in and Pommel in command of it all. But still, it's not working out so well.
* Then the kindly old I'm-Not-Snake-Eyes janitor gives a frantic Coltsly, who in an odd departure from the norm actually is just genuinely worried about the city, an idea!
* She starts handing out the 'free samples', and thus the guard start shooting lightning at the robots.
* With their and Sombra's help, eventually the robot uprising is quelled, and all the figures are destroyed.
* Shiny's not going to be happy about that.
* Perhaps anticipating this, a genuinely remorseful Sombra decides to give himself in once he makes sure Two is okay for punishment.
* Two is, in fact, okay. Actarius, not so much. He took some damage and is now in the hospital.
* Pommel has had a very rough day...
* But hey, the guards are just as shocked as he is that they and the changelings succeeded without a super-being to save them.
* Further away, in Ponyville, Mayor Mare knows how to Chess-box and she loves it. 29, not so much.
* Further FURTHER, in the Crystal Empire, Sunset and Spitfire end up in various rooms by accident, each one eliciting some surprise. They can explain away some, like how Chrysalis's bedroom doesn't look used, but uh... it's harder to make up stuff for why Shining and Cadence have a fuckhuge bed that multiple ponies, and not ponies, clearly sleep on.
* Including, as Spitfire is quick to notice, Celestia.
* They try their hardest not to question that one.
* 7 hits a snag in his weird experiments with another unrevealed creature, named "Blossom". He realizes he needs to go see an old acquaintance or risk hurting them. We don't know who this is yet. Seigfried and crew go to meet up with the leader of the Pit of a Thousand corpses, managing to spy their newest possession, a Kelpie, in the meanwhile.
* They don't like this place.
* Back in the game, it's all coming down.
* Both sides scale the side of the monster opposite of each other, with the non-fliers being carried on fliers backs except Shining, because apparently they just need to make that a point sometimes.
* Both groups spot each other, and begin to race! Only this time, the animosity is gone and it's down to a friendly competition. They even help each other out scaling the thing! Everything is working out!
* ...and then the world starts fucking up because the club, and subsequently the fake reality, can't even handle this right now.
* Alarms start going off, everything's blaring, it's the end of the world as they know it and they don't feel fine!
* Neither does Luna, who in the middle of all this is feeling like a failure because they're SO CLOSE to the end!
* With the code becoming corrupted, it looks like the end...
* But, hark! What is that swearing up a storm? None other than Pennydrop herself! She's back baby!
* And she is freaking out because everything is going wrong!
* She has a bit of a moral dilemma, feeling bad for Luna because of totally-not-similar-feelings-she's-had but not wanting to admit weakness.
* So she makes up some bullshit to herself about 'this is her campaign, really', and she gets her ass to work.
* Using the power of 'typing really hard', she manages to fix the broken code by filling in the gaps. How, you ask?
* By taking other games Twilight programmed into the room, and putting them in the broken parts. The result?
* It becomes a free-for-all with dozens of different game genres and assets being used by our heroes, handwaved in the game by stating the giant rock monster is a mulitversal being that they are powering up who is now threatening reality itself, and we get to witness everyone play with the rules of their favorite genre, from FPS to Tank-Command to Platformers, and everything in between.
* They reach the top, and the rock monster calls them out for their behavior. They realize that yes, they took some things too far, weren't very sporting sometimes, and just all around needed some improvement.
* But, as they point out, deep down they also never changed the fact they always, always want to be friends, so...
* FRIENDSHIP END!
* "The world" is saved.
* Story is over.
* The end.
* Just one last thing, Twilight wants to know how Luna did so well.
* Just after Pennydrop gives one last ominious words to Luna "It was... fun... and it'll go better next time", she's gone, leaving Luna alone just before Twilight enters.
* She confesses to getting help from Twilight's "Computer" AI
* One problem, there's no AI on that thing.
* Luna freaks out, Twilight not so much. Why?
* There's no sensitive information on that console, for a lot of reasons. They could have gone after other info using a connection, but they finished their download over two hours ago, before Poindexter got the firelord powers, and never went for it.
* Luna takes this quite well, and now believes someone was watching her in her darkest moment and helped her out, asking nothing in return.
* Twilight points out this is still super illegal and they need to arrest them.
* ..."Mmmmhmm!"
* It's not looking good.
* Celestia appears on the scene and has a moment with Luna, saying she's proud of her. And all is well.
* ...then they see what's happened outside.
* Freakouts happen, Changelings are grounded, Pommel is both punched and hoof-shaked, and Dash learns of the Wonderbolt's actions, and is now off to take vengeance.
* And this is why they don't take vacations.
* Like, say, DT and Silver Spoon, who arrive after a day of fun to have found they missed everything. The former is not happy.
* But still, cleanup aside, all's well that ends well.
* But one last thing... 18 wants to know why 42 did the horn-beam thing when she kissed Cadence.
* When Cadence points out that 18 did it too when Shining kissed her after the date, 18 says that's because she couldn't control her own love. So, 18 comes to the conclusion it was just the spell.
* Cadence agrees until 18 walks off, then realizes that, as a soldier, it should have come out of her hooves in game. Answer solved!
* ....wait....
* ....Wait..
* .....waaiiiit...
* .........WAIT A MINUTE!
== Thread 93 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, Findings, friends and firings edition!
* Luna sends her nightguard off to go find info on who hacked the OnO game, at the end they get a lead.
* The changelings are quite irate at being 'grounded' by Chrysalis, yet none of them have the moxy to say anything to 42 about it.
* 41 is dragged back to the ballroom after being found by said punchbug classic, that's everyone
* Except JJ, who is allowed to stay in the hospital with Actarius who is suffering from a LOT of concussions.
* While they're locked up, despite what 42 says Chrysalis firmly believes that this didn't change anything with the ponies. However, some awkward pony does show up to give them a credit card...
* Yeah, he's a little weird.
* 18 also thinks she's going crazy, and we get to learn that there was a 3000 year old changeling... that Momsie killed. Yeah...
* SA and Celestia discuss the previous event with 42 kissing Cadence, with SA pointing out he recognized that flare from being when a changeling is too pent up on love. Celestia muses that it's entirely likely it was just the simulation, and he can't argue her.
* Then she starts whipping him with a towel, because he's forever her whipping boy.
* Chrysalis briefly joins in because of course she does.
* Sweet Note thinks it will be easy to get a lawyer because this is a slam dunk case, 13 isn't so sure.
* Applejack fears a mountain of paperwork, but thankfully 18 is there to kill everything except the legal work, because she's just that damn obsessive-er, that good.
* Still, legal matters are needed, and after some questioning, Spike and Applejack realize they don't know if they have a legal team to handle matters like getting sued because you shot a superbug in the face.
* They question Celestia, hoping to see a freakout, but Celestia just points out that she wrote most of these laws, so there's never been a case she can't handle personally.
* Then she shoves the responsibility onto AJ because AJ hired Pommel, and that's totally fair.
* 29 gets a letter from 56 detailing what happened at Canterlot... he's strangely unmoved.
* Gilda points out to LD that this is all messed up, LD is just drinking in her victory.
* Twilight and Rarity fix the hallway thanks to the power of MONTAGE!
* 32 and 88 come back to Canterlot to find it in ruins. But at least the janitor made out like a bandit.
* Spitfire and Sunset FINALLY make it to the office, and begin their investigation. A preliminary scan reveals nothing, except that 'Cadence' does way more city works than is sane. But everything on the desk points to it being her.
* Oh, and then they come across "Two's" desk, and Spitfire has a little moment.
* Still, they're ready to leave... until Spitfire notices something in the stacks
* They discover "Cadence" has been doing Wonderbolt paperwork, a LOT of it.
* Spitfire... does not take this well. She rages for a while, declaring she's going to expose all of it to everyone, and rants and thrashes her little head off, letting slip to Sunset she used to have to wear a maid outfit and clean Dash's underwear with her tongue.
* But when she realizes it would implicate Cadence, she immediately backs down, and brushes it off.
* Immediately after this, Spitfire sits in the big chair, and realizes that's not Cadence... Because she tried on her underwear once, and it didn't fit, then she saw Cadence when it on and it fit fine
* Try not to ask how that train of events happened.
* But, with that out of the way, more investigations reveal that it was, indeed, 18 all along!
* And, as Spitfire puts it. "Oh... okay."
* Sunset has a bit harsher a reaction. Mostly with screaming, declarations of takeovers, freakouts and probably a lot of thoughts of changelings hate that went mostly unsaid.
* So, Spitfire slaps some sense into her, literally, and then explains 18 does not give a fuck about Chrysalis, and that this isn't a plot, and explains to Sunset why this all makes sense to her now.
* This actually makes Sunset MORE angrywhen she realizes that Cadence is running around being a celebrity while someone is toiling away, working her ass off to make the Empire better, and generally being not-a-real-princess.
* She decides she's going to tell everyone about this one.
* Spitfire, realizing that this would screw over Cadence, tries to stop her. She gets magic-shoved into a wall for her troubles.
* Back and forth ensues, until Spitfire gets the upper hand and has her pinned.
* Debate ensues where they realize they both know this is wrong, Spitfire just isn't willing to hurt someone in the process. Sunset, eventually, agrees with her, and declars she'll only tell it to Applejack.
* Spitfire risks trusting her, and then they both go to Canterlot.
* They share a moment, and both go off in their own ways. Sunset to confront Applejack, and Spitfire to admit her failings to Shining Armor.
* Meanwhile, Dash calls Fleetfoot and Soarin' into the room.
* She brutally chews out Fleetfoot, all the past year of problems finally rising to the surface and allowing her to finally get revenge for the drug problem Fleetfoot totally 'wasn't' involved in.
* Despite her pleas, she fires Fleetfoot.
* She is much softer on Soarin', reminding him of all the good he's done, and is seemingly ready to give him another chance.
* He declines, and quits, saying he abandoned one friend, and he's not going to do it again, and goes after Fleetfoot.
* The age of a wonderbolts without any senior members has begun.
* Spitfire talks with Shining, admits what she did with the investigation, putting Cadence at risk, and letting Sunset know of state secrets without making an excuse for herself, and...
* He's fine. Seems to blame himself for not telling her about 18 more than anything.
* They are both worried due to Sunset's actions against Cadence, but there's no blaming.
* Spitfire, who had been considering quitting, decides to stay in the Empire.
* They're back to being friends, and it's sweet.
== Thread 94 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, APPLEJACK IS MAGIC EDITION!
* Pommel make a request to Chrysalis to be able to thank the changelings for their help. Reluctantly, she agrees.
* Applejack confronts Coltsly about the issue, the latter apologizes and wonders where Applejack was.
* Rarity goes off to find Cadence, does so when she discovers Caddy examining the residue left behind by 42's flare. It confuses her, and Rarity almost lets 'the secret' slip.
* Spike and the gunclub hand out and try to find out where everyone's been. 42 leaves an obvious scarecrow to cover for her guarding the changelings... nobody has the balls to see if it's real or not.
* Spike tries to pry into the Cadence situation, gets put in a headlock for a completely unrelated reason.
* Luna convinces Applejack to take 'a walk'.
* Surprise! It was actually leading her into the garden so she could run a gauntlet so she could learn magic.
* It... does not work. Applejack mostly just tells her no and figures out how to solve the puzzles with earth pony ingenuity. All the while, Luna stresses that this will make her 'better' by showing her new perspectives that will allow her to see things and think of things like a non-magic user never could.... this angers Applejack just a little bit.
* Just a bit.
* But eventually, Luna grows frustrated and snaps, sealing her off in a magically conjured hallway. Applejack will have to overcome four tests if she wants to walk free!
* Orrrr, Chrysalis could just burst in through the other side because she's looking for Applejack to chew her out, and then use the previously thought Useless Changeling Powers to overcome all of the obstacles.
* Luna rants at her, Chrysalis does not care, Applejack is annoyed she proved Luna's point by using magic, and Luna flies off.
* But that's not all. A short discussion with Chrysalis reveals that none of those powers was her own, and she reminisces about how she learned them.
* Through this, perhaps inadvertently, Applejack gets the idea about learning from family, and later talks about the subject with Applebloom.
* After spotting Shining Armor leaving his old room with Spitfire, Celestia and him have a talk where they discuss Sunset's recent actions. While at first Shining Armor is quite critical of her and thinking she needs to be severely dealt with, eventually comes around to being more forgiving thanks to Celestia's insight.
* They decide to talk to Sunset together.
* Sweet Note can't get any lawyers to take the Chitania case, so thinks about doing it herself. Chitania says she will handle it and goes off.
* Spike order a 'special cake' from the Cakes... it causes family problems.
* Also, apparently Chrysalis tastes like emeralds...don't question that.
* Actarius reaps the joys of morphine!
* A kindergarten class gives the changelings a picture and a banner to thank them for saving them during the invasion.
* 42criticizes their robot-drawing skills, because she is Punchbug, and her social skills suck.
* Luna crash lands in 29's house, and declares the REAL training starts now. She's still a little angry about the Chrysalis-Applejack thing.
* 32 and 88 give Chrysalis the good news, 77 is getting married! She takes it well.
* Then they tell 42, she spazzes out a bit.
* Aj talks about learning magic with Winona, who is a huge help of course.
* Twilight tries to help Fluttershy be calm and it does not work.
* Finally, Sunset confronts Applejack about what she's learned, and braces for the explosion this reveal will no doubt cause.
* "...and?"
* Not what she expected.
* Reveal after reveal is had wherein Sunset learns that everyone was in on this, everyone. Celestia, Twilight, EVERYONE.
* The more she learns, the more stress is placed upon her, and she's beginning to snap.
* Dash was hired by Applejack, and ONLY Applejack, and Applejack passed over any possible alternative, notably Soarin', in order to put her at the top. Despite this, Dash had zero knowledge of anything remotely regarding the Captains regulations or how to do the work before she was forced on.
* More and more is revealed, and the worse it gets. When Applejack tries to claim she didn't really dislike the changelings, Sunset points out how she taught her the exact opposite for as long as she's been here, and the lingering hate from Variolus's events crop up when Sunset remembers her time under her.
* Eventually, Sunset brings up that she's going to tell everyone everything, just like she did with Spitfire, and Applejack says she won't let that happen.
* When Sunset tries to bring up being killed by the rock, Applejack stops her, pointing out she knew full well what that entailed, and it doesn't excuse what she's doing.
* It looks like it's going to cometo a confrontation, when suddenly Dash comes in, quite despondent at having to have had to fire Fleetfoot and Soarin'. She needs some drinks, and AJ provides.
* Seeing her friend like this calms Applejack down immensely, and she tries to help her through it while also trying to stifle Sunset's cutting remarks.
* Dash admits how hard it's been and that she couldn't have asked either of them for help because they already didn't think she deserved the position, and she had to prove it to them.
* When Sunset brings up Dash only got promoted because of AJ, Dash wonders if this is true, citing other instances when AJ had been a little too favorable to her friends. She also points out that Applejack makes a lot of choices on her own, because she's sure she's right.
* She says Sunset can tell the world about her if she likes, but leave Cadence out of it.
* Sunset prepares to leave again, out the door to tell the world, but Applejack stops her one last time.
* She can leave, tell anyone and AJ won't stop her... but she is forbidden to return.
* Sunset remembers the last time this happened, the last time this event unfolded, and how badly it ended.
* She asks Applejack what exactly she should do instead.
* Applejack says to come over and let her teacher finally do her job.
* Sunset, reluctantly.. does, and joins them at the desk.
* They all go over what they've learned this past day, how they weren't what they thought they were, and things weren't what they expected. So... What now?
* Fix it, of course.
* How?
* They have no idea.
* ...But they're gonna try.
* And maybe not so alone this time.
* Finally, Pennydrop receives a telling report. One of her agents has gone missing... the one who planted the machine that let her into the OnO game.
* In Canterlot, it's revealed he's been caught by the nightgaurd, and about to be asked some very hard questions.
== Thread 95 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, HE'S HEEEEERE EDITION!
* Luna continues to torture 29, putting him through extra terrible paces in order to vent her own problems.
* However, that night, she enters into his dreams, finding that he's rather creative in his mindscape, if a little lifeless color and occupation wise.
* She offers to teach him the art of connecting with dreams, but he will have to allow her to see into his mind. He accepts.
* 42 feels bad for hurting Spike by over-reacting... for two seconds.
* Chitania enters into the room AJ, Dash and Sunset are still recovering in after their dramatic talk, and makes her demands. Either Applejack agrees to a strange request that she claims will leave nobody unharmed, or she pays out an absolutely monstrously high, yet still totally reasonable due to the case, amount.
* It's later revealed that the request is, Twilight agrees to an unrevealed to them medical procedure, alone, with bomb collars on the necks of herself, Celestia, Luna and Applejack to go off in case she dies, or she goes ahead with the case and bankrupts Canterlot. There's no guarantee Chitania will keep her word and not just blow their heads off when it's done, and worse they don't even know if they're doing something that will make her more powerful, as none of them know she can't go into Titan form yet. But the alternative is putting an ungodly strain on an already on the edge city, and making life very hard for her little ponies.
* Applejack has to make a hard choice...
* Chitania is sure they'll make the 'right' choice.
* Sunset leaves the room, and stumbles across none other than little old Two! Two found out she accidentally left her plant behind, and that wasn't going to stand. So she brought it to her!
* In the discussion, Sunset muses how she just keeps failing when she's trying really hard. Two brings up that she too tried really hard on her math test, but failed too. But that's okay! Because with Mommy's help, she was able to bring that F up to a B. So, Sunset just needs her friends, and soon no more F's.
* Chrysalis looks over the Orb, lavishing over all the possibilities she has now.
* 18 is having a bit of a breakdown because someone touched her papers. Shiny has to fix this with cheeksmooches.
* It works.
* ....attt least until they meet up with Sunset, when 18 loses all sense of sanity and literally starts tearing into her like a dog.
* Literally. Picks her up by the neck with her fangs and then starts shaking.
* Efforts by SA and Celestia prove fruitless.
* As does AJ's idea of 'cheese'
* "WELL IT WORKED ON WINONA!"
* It is only threats of doghousery that gets her to let go.
* After literally chewing her out, 18 moves on to verbally doing such, and threatening her before leaving.
* SA and Celestia decide not to further compound the issue.
* However, Sunset notices something... off, with SA, that neither of the others seem to... Dash finally talks to her Wonderbolts, and clears some stuff up. First and foremost, Soarin' and Fleetfoot are gone, but more importantly, they, the Wonderbolts, can talk to her! Easily! And no backlash!
* Needless to say, they have many questions, but thank goodness Second in Command Lightning Dust is there to help!... This is going to go well, she looks trustworthy.
* But don't worry too much for Soar and FF, for it turns out years of rule violating private airshows, gambling, and... a-hem... NOT drugs? Has left Fleetfoot very well off. But, alas, all she wants to be is a Wonderbolt...
* Screwloose gets a surprise visitor, Seven, and he even brought along Buttercup!
* So, lots of scalpels thrown, some medical talk, strangling and threats, same old. But it turns out Seven is looking for help! Brain help!... And Screwloose gives it! We also learn of an old experiment of Screwloose's she thought lost. He's named her Bubbles, much to her distaste.
* She then tries to blackmail him by threatening to reveal his existence, only that sort of doesn't work because... he signed in, and was allowed to be there.
* Whoops.
* Chrysalis is befuddled by the banner the kids brought the other day.
* Harry the bear started an armed militia group... I don't even know.
* 32 visits the gunclub and tells them the good news about 77!
* He also visits Acty, and 88 is irritated at his and JJ's... themness.
* Spike origins! Turns out his egg was supposed to be an ingredient for a cake... huh.
* 56 has a moment with a split personality.
* Chrysalis and Spitfire become bros.... that is all.
* Pinkie tries to help the lings find jobs! Runs into an issue when none of them have cutie marks...
* Zephyrious and Hilda go visit one of the royals they need to convince for the Kingsmoot, meet up with the prince and Princess of a the land and banter and have a discussion.
* Rarity stops by the gun club, she has her own upgraded pistol.
* Lavan, being of destruction and... well... lava, obviously, at last slips past the celestial being Craig, yes, CRAIG! THE GOD!... CRAIG!
* He slips past him and makes landfall, just outside of the Crystal Empire!
* However, as it turns out, he's not so much a being of unholy destruction, as his distortions and fie would imply, mostly... he's just bored.
* He's been in space for who knows how long, occasionally catching a glimpse of a planet, and now he's bored.
* Booored.
* So he goes to the Empire to see something interesting, but they won't let him in.
* He talks with Cadence, and after a pleasant conversation where she asserts she won't let him in because of random fire, he decides to go off, because watching is boring, he wants to be in the thing.
* Thus, our heroes have no idea what to do, as he's clearly powerful, but not hostile, so they can't just shoot him.
* ...huh.
* ...LAVAN! THE BEING OF FIRE! HE'S KINDA BORED!
== Thread 96 ==
* LAST THREAD RECAP, 42 IS A LOVEBUG EDITION!
* Lavan continues his trek across Equestria, meeting many a random character, including a Stalliongrad national and even Surfer Zebra!
* He also sings, because ponies.
* The main six, discussing him, aren't quite sure what to do, since he's not violent so they can't just shoot him. They decide to leave him alone until he does that
* Pommel is put on high alert, and laments he's only been there a month.
* Spitfire is proud because her pegasi handled everything well.
* Red, inside of Primrose, is VERY happy with these turns of events.
* 29 has become strong in dream powers, carrying a ghost child into a fantasy theme park of beauty and wonder before sending her away.
* It's so beautiful, you'll forget to ask how a ghost is sleeping. But it works, a lot!
* Later, Luna decides to use this to show MM, Zecora and Trixie the ghost kids, it is implied the process yet revealed will be painful.
* Chrysalis busts in to the construction workers working on the stadium and tell them to kick it into gear.
* Applejack makes her choice, and Chitania gets her heart surgery from Twilight. During, Twilight has a nice long rant to tell her that this whole damn thing could have been avoided a month ago, and that she was an idiot for dealing with it for so long, and that she could've had both the money and been fixed forever ago.
* But no matter, Chitania is fixed! And Titans again!
* Applejack decides enough is enough, grabs 56, and decides to have herself a chat with Chrysalis about the changeling situation in Canterlot.
* Most importantly, that they have both made a lot, a lot, of mistakes.
* Admissions are had, Chrysalis finally starts to think that maybe Applejack isn't out to destroy her, and Applejack says she wants to try something with the changelings. Chrysalis, without knowing what it is, agrees to it under the condition Applejack has two days to pull it off.
* Later, internal monologues from Chrysalis reveals she doesn't think that Applejack can pull it off, but is willing to let her try to end this headache she has. Because she needs to focus on squashing all disloyalty in her hive before she moves on to the next step and attempts to ascend some of the drones.
* As an aside, she also notices she's still bothered by the fact she was slightly jealous about Forty Two kissing Cadence instead of her.
* Applejack, internally, muses she was right in that the way to disarm Chrysalis from the powerplay she loves was to bring 56, as Chrysalis wouldn't be willing to toss him across the room in a show of power. With determination, she declares she's going to get it right.
* Rarity makes the Wonderbolts lightning proof clothing, but it's rather expensive, so they might need to do a charity thing.
* Coincidentally, when Dash laments all the elite hate them for blowing off their parties, Lightning Dust suggests, of course, charities on the same day! That way they're not 'blowing anyone off', official duty.
* This pleases the Dash.
* Shining writes a note telling them to let Sombra out of the pen, but it's not quite... official enough.
* 7 goes back to visit the scientist mare from a while ago with the bio research, gets her drunk at a bar.
* Soarin' and Fleetfoot try to get up, fail.
* Zephyrious finally gets his audience with Lord Niall, and many a debate and accusation about what he did with Chitania was had. Eventually, the gryphon lord sees it his way.
* Siegfried also finally gets his audience with the Cloudwings
* AJ won't let DT go after Lavan
* Spike is still haunted from being unable to stop Chrysalis, and decides to take a leave of absence from Ponyville to go get stronger.
* Cadence, at last, confronts 42 about the burned ceiling and the residual sparklejoules.
* She of course denies it, but due to her knowledge on the subject Cadence shoots that down.
* 42 starts to panic while she thinks Cadence is unraveling her secret, while Cadence just thinks she was picturing Shiny when the kiss happened.
* One bad move, and Cadence catches on to the truth.
* ”I'M SORRY SO SORRY PLEASE FORGET!”
* Cue 42 teleporting off in a panic while it all sinks in to Cadence, who of course treats this with the upmost respect such a reveal deserves.
* "...In your FACE SHINY! I CAN DO IT TOO! IT'S NOT JUST YOU! WOOOO! WHO'S SEXY NOW!? WHO'S..."
* "OH CRAP FORTY TWO I'M SORRY COME BACK!"
* So much respect.
* She tears off, interrupting yet another almost kiss between 18 and Shining in her frenzy.
* She finds and rants at Chrysalis, who promptly slaps her until she stops being crazy. When Cadence tells her all about what happened, or at least the vague outline that she said something and 42 tore off and might be outside of the Empire, Chrysalis is off, noticing right away that 42 has one hell of a lead on her.
* 42 literally bamfs-flies across Equestria, before ending up over Canterlot but fully intending to pass over it. No such luck, as she is snatched right out of the sky by none other than Celestia and brought to her room, who thinks she is Chrysalis due to the teleporting and was merely playing a game, and is quite shocked when this is not the case.
* Things are said, panicking is had, long story short 42 ends up under Celestia's bed completely out of magic.
* The pair have a heart to heart where 42 finally reveals her affection for Cadence, and have a long discussion about the matters of the heart being immovable, and not something you can punch out of you... but this doesn't mean it has to change or define you, what you do with your actions defines you.
* 42 reveals that she hates the fact she is a changeling, and has a built in deceptive nature to her, so it makes others hard to believe when affection is genuine.
* Celestia agrees with this, but assures her Cadence does not distrust her, and nothing needs to change. After a long speech, 42 comes out, and apologizes to Celestia who brushes her off... but it's not over yet. She leaves, and someone else takes her place.
* Chrysalis arrives on the scene, and at first it looks like she's going to go full Queen mode... then she eventually breaks down and just starts talking to her like normal, chiding her for freaking out Cadence and wondering what the hell is going on.
* Eventually, 42 reveals her secret to her as well. At first, Chrysalis brushes it off, pointing out that she too used to have dreams wherein she married both Shining Armor and Cadence, referencing a story VERY early thread, and that this was likely just her being an asshole, and that she would kick Luna's ass.
* 42 reveals that's not the case, and her fears about being a changeling. A long heart to heart between Queen and soldier occurs, and eventually, Chrysalis is able to put her at ease by sincerely declaring that she too, is not deceiving them. With her choice made, 42 goes back to the Empire with Celestia and Chrysalis, and find a whole lot of worried ponies and or other species waiting for her.
* She and Cadence FINALLY have a talk about it. Things are said, secrets are revealed, and Cadence gets to see that 42's affections are genuine, but they are not the reason she kept defending her, as 42 truly does believe her to be as special as she had said.
* Eventually, Cadence gives her own declarations that 42 is indeed special too, and that's why she trusts her, and thinks her one of her closest companions. Something... else passes there too, but for now, they agree that no, it doesn't HAVE to change anything between them, and they can go on knowing of the other, finally understanding, and moving on.
* At long last, Punchbug's secrets are out in the open... including Fireflight.
* Things don't HAVE to change.. but they're gonna.
== Thread 97==
* Lavan is still floating. Visiting old friends like Rat and the pirates, and then finding new places to enjoy like Angel Bunny... who he does not want to be near anymore.
* Spitfire collects recon on him, being spotted only once, and then Chrysalis gets a grasp on his location, noticing he's moving in the vague direction of Catnerlot.
* Spitfire also points out Chrysalis talks evil when she's not, but 'nuh uh' is all she gets.
* 18 and SA wait to get filled in on what the hell just happened, 18 gets another cheeksmooch.
* Twilight is getting ready to examine the orb, but Rarity feels nervous about the whole deal.
* LD is letting Dash take all the credit for the charity idea with Rarity, even when it's a huge hit. This worries the Dash.
* DT and Pennydrop talk again while DT is preparing for 77's wedding.
* Screwloose while working on changeling biology, comes to a conclusion. A strange conclusion. She asks 12 if they kissed whether there would be love in it.
* At first, he thinks there wouldn't be.
* She kisses him.
* He is wrong.
* Spike continues looking for a way to get stronger, isn't finding much.
* SA and Cadence have a sweet moment in their bed when they talk about what's changed with 42, and how much they don't want to change.
* They also conk out almost immediately, because they had the bed to themselves for once and they are going to motherfucking SLEEP.
* Chrysalis is disappointed to learn that, rather an instant powerup that took only a week to master, 42 has been training to unlock her fireflight for the better portion of a year. Despite training hard and being already well versed in their magic and how it works, she still doesn't know if she'd have it now if Cordy didn't happen. And, even then, she had to train every day to get it up to where it is now.
* Still, Chrysalis tells her to begin a special training class to try to unlock it in others. Reluctantly, she suggests putting in 41, even though she is quite lacking.
* This is due to the fact she wonders if heirs are capable instead, and no other ones volunteered to be soldiers.
* Chrysalis also realizes she has no idea who 41's mother is. Neither does 42.
* She also bans PJ from this, making the potatobug quite irate. She vents this irateness at 42, completely muffled.
* At first it looks like Arana is terrifying Quicksilver, irritating Steam Guage, but it turns out it was actually a spider on SG that was scaring him! Ha! Mistaken identity- oh wait a minute.
* 41 is SO HAPPY that she gets in the class she has herself a little cry then mails Chrysalis a thankyou drawing, it's not as much as 18's stash from 55, but it's a start.
* MM, Trixie and Zecora finally get to meet the ghostkids face to face in the dreamscape! They also get to do their own dreamwarping abilities to send them on their way. Some are more effective than others.
* 29 is also mauled by a strange being in a panda suit. Because reasons.
* Flash and Fizzle go to help the gryphons!...The blackfeathers to be precise, in an ambush against Siegfried. This is going to end well.
* Chitania goes and gets her hair done with 13.
* Gwen and Isabelle go see Falconstein, a frankenstien Homage that is obsessed with creation! Like his gun... which is a basic gun. Or his greatest creation, that's essentially a nothing version of a Fawntaine robot.
* He doesn't get out much.
* He agrees to side with them when Gwen offers him a deal to meet with Fawntaine.
* Pommel speaks with the guards about AJ's as yet unrevealed plan to help relations with the changelings, they're not happy.
* It's only after a lengthy speech that Suckerpunch, Haymaker and Lucky Strikes join in on the plan, and the budding hint of better times shows in the rest of the guards.
* Fleetfoot tries to sneak in to see a WB show, Dash catches her in the act and chews her out before telling her to leave. She expected FF to put up a fight, and was thus disappointed when the fight seemed just gone from her instead.
* With her gone, Dash begins to question her actions.
* 18 and 42 are, and ever shall be, bros.
* Pennydrop goes and sees Coltsly, who is completely oblivious to evil-speak.
* Twilight and SA reminisce with some dark humor.
* The Buzz goes to see 32 about a work Visa. Turns out he can't get one while in Canterlot, but there's no way for him to get one outside Canterlot.
* This is a puzzler.
*Sombra is still locked up
* 7 runs into Applejack in the hall, said mare has been worried about him. She also makes herself look like a silly pony in front of Buttercup by accident. Buttercup does not like how close she was to 7.
* After they leave, AJ wonders if she should send Spike to go see if 7 is okay.
* SA and Celly have a heart to heart about recent changes, it's as sweet as ever.
* DT and SS prove that earth pony moxie is no match for a rocketsled.
* SA tries to hint he wants to have sex with Cadence to her, she doesn't catch on.
* Sunset gets the bad news from Twi, she can't remove the heart-stone because it's all that's sustaining her. She also turns down the idea of using the changeling magic to turn her INTO a changeling so things like touch work.
* Chrysalis is going down the list of who she would ascend, can't decide on if she should to 42 or not.
* Chrysalis, Twi and Celestia examine the orb to get ready for it. Chrysalis at first tries to play coy and evil, but neither of them buy it. Then the topic turns to Sunset when Twilight wants to bring her into this, but gets heated when Chrysalis shoots her down, hard.
* Eventually, Chrysalis just tells her she trusts Twi, and she trusts Celly, but she doesn't trust Sunset, and this might be her last shot.
* What that means, Twi has no idea.
* Finally, someone is asking a lot of questions that might lead them to Pennydrop, and whoever is asking them is too intimidating for anyone to tell her who. She goes on high alert.
* Miles away, a shadowy figure grabs a Fawntaine worker, stating her princess has questions, and she's gone.
==Thread 98==
* Robert, the gryphon, meets Barnabus, the Blackfeather, to plot their next move against Idris and Gwen.
* Spitfire will not make a fire hurricane for Chrysalis... when others can see it.
* Also, Spitfire learns Chrysalis is not the jealous type when it comes to someone else and Shiny.
* Applejack and Fluttershy discuss how Chrysalis is helping her.
* DT tries to bribe Applebloom to help her with AJ, it does not work.
* Later, DT tries to be more adult at an artshow exclusively for adults, only to have her day ruined when AJ shows up and treats her like a kid. DT vows she will prove she's not a little filly.
* Chitania, while researching the robot, gets an unexpected visitor in the form of none other than Discord, who explains to her Lavan is coming, and is as close to a god as she is going to find. They back and forth for a bit, with Chitania mostly in fear even when it's revealed she has something to stop him. She claims that this is obviously a trap to have her killed against Lavan, before Discord calls her out and says if she really does want to play in the big games and overthrow gods, it's time to put up or shut up, and leaves.
* 18 wants to go on another date, Shiny says okay.
* Discord bugs both AJ and Rarity.
* Applejack spots Sweet Note all alone, and finally confronts her about if Chitania is doing anything dangerous. Sweet Note calls her out for trying to make her turn on Chitania and clams up. Applejack finally asks why SN has such a problem with her, and SN reveals that AJ is just the same as any other Canterlot Elite. She only cares about fixing the important places, the visible places, while places that she came from remain something that it's just too hard to deal with. She says when she was a kid, she dreamed of being a princess just like AJ is now, and fixing all the bad places, but now she doesn't think she'd be able to do it. If Applejack, an earth pony, would turn out like that, she has no hope.
* AJ asks her where she came from so she can look into fixing it, but SN just calls her out that it's not just her place, it's lots of places. She didn't want to just fix her home, but for everyone like where she grew up.
* Applejack pleads that she's trying, but she's just one mare, she can't do everything. Sweet Note seems to accept this, albeit sadly, and resolves just to look out for her and her own.
* Applejack decides to prove her wrong.
* 41's first day of teleport training goes well. And by that I mean she gets punched in the face a lot.
* Discord is needlessly invasive as he scans Spitfire for any residue magic from Lavan.
* Nobody will sell or take Soarin' or Fleetfoot's money, and they must wear disguises.
* MM, Zecora and 29 have so much fun with the dream stuff.
* Until Luna tests them with nightmares, that is... but only so she could advertise LIGHTSPEED XV 2 PANTIES!
* She needed the bits.
* 10 is expanding her media empire.
* Aj is working more on her magic.
* Chrysalis is waiting on Celestia's bed for AJ's plan to go off so she can laugh when it fails. Celestia joins her.
* The monopony box lied to Chitty and 13, it is not fun.
* The crystal pegasi are still a work in progress
* The kidnapped scientist from last thread is being held in a warehouse and interrogated by two nightguards. She is not very helpful.
* But, as it turns out, this scientist is none other than the one that Seven has been seeing! He comes to her rescue... And promptly gets his ass kicked six ways to sunday by the two guards, due to him being so low on love he cannot shapeshift, fly or shoot lasers. The nightguard, now thinking this is a plot from Chrysalis to infiltrate the princess, hold nothing back as they savagely beat him, interrogating him all the while. This is not how the scientist expected this to go.
* Not only that, but he cannot even drain the nightguard, for they are now wearing mesh clothing under their fur that prevents direct contact. He is very nearly beaten half to death, but due to quick thinking, some green goo to a ponies face and a well placed hoof between the legs and then into a screaming mouth turns the tide, and he eventually wins!
* Then it turns out this whole thing was a misunderstanding, and the guard get their next lead while Seven flies away.
* However, someone else was watching. Buttercup, interested in the guard, decide to follow them when they say they will report this to Luna.
* Lavan, after several trips wherein he meets many of those who Chitania once stomped, meets Fluttershy, and reminisces about Discord before spotting Canterlot, and wondering if he should go visit.
* Chrysalis asks Celestia if it's normal she was a little jealous when 42 got to kiss Cadence and not her.
* Celestia says no.
* Next comes laser horns.
* Haymaker wonders if it's nice that Glimmer has someone to go home to. It is.
* Spike talks about his problems to SA, who thinks he's being silly.
* Rarity has a package for 32, and JJ and Actarius discuss packages.
* Cadence now has 18 by the... ovaries?
* She gets what she wants when she wants to sparklefy the guard, is the point.
* SA walks in on Chrysalis smothering Celly. Asks no questions, just separates them and waits.
* Applejack calls Celestia over, and asks her a question.
* They reminisce about back when the changelings arrived, and how much AJ wanted them gone more than anything. She muses that she wasn't the best to them, and because of this everyone else just sort of followed her example. She accepts she did wrong when they were here and it just never got better.
* So, instead, she wants to take the changelings on a field trip!
* Yes, a field trip. To bolster their image in Canterlot and Ponyville. So all can see they're not all bad. Celestia just knows it's going to be magical.
* 77 asks Chrysalis to see if she can find a banner underneath Canterlot that he left behind when he was in the caves.
* Mane-iac is a good teacher to the pegasi.
* Dash investigates a strange disturbance on the back of Canterlot, finds a giant hole
* The hole contains a strange, green eyed Quarry eel.
* Dash kicks it.
* Long story short, the eel is sent off, but is acting strange.
* Celestia returns to her room, finding Shiny has left, and only Chrysalis is still on her bed. At first, she praises the Queen for being so open to this idea, but changes her tune when she learns that Chrysalis doesn't even know what it is.
*Further interrogation shows that Chrysalis doesn't care, because due to past events, none of them will go with it.
*She won't stop or challenge it, just like she promised, but she doesn't think it will work.
*After a bit of back and forth, Celestia decides to tell a story. About a clean pony on the top of a hill, and a bit of mud someone brought up.
*Long story short, it's a metaphor for not letting your own sticking points with someone trickle down and grow over the subjects you rule.
*Chrysalis seems to understand, if nothing else, and leaves.
*But not before setting Celestia's bed on fire with her teleport, because it is still Chrysalis.
*Speaking of, Chrysalis takes the words to heart, and begins to plot...
*AJ, alone, prepares to go in, and see the changelings.
==Thread 99==
* AJ finally confronts the changelings, and apologizes for doing them so wrong thus far.
* She promises things are going to be better now, and she'll work to help them along. After she finishes her massive speech, she lays out her plans to go city to city to prove they aren't monsters, and hopes they will join.
* Absolutely every one of them reject her, some of them angrier than others. The buildup has been far too much, and they just plain don't believe her. It all looks hopeless.
* Until Chrysalis arrives! And... just kinda hangs out a bit.
* Doesn't do anything special, just hangs around.
* But this actually puts the changelings at ease, since their Queen seems to no longer be fighting Applejack. And if their QUEEN is okay with her.
* Long story short, Applejack now has 15 changelings who are joining in. Arana and 41 are included, with 41 being given a 'special mission' to 'gather sights' for teleport practice.
* AKA Chrysalis felt bad for her... weirdly.
* SA finally remembers Sombra is locked up... during the date.
* 2 beats him to the punch, giving up her piggy bank as 'bail' and Sombra is 'released into her custody' he's free now.
* Discord is musing to himself about Lavan, doesn't notice Winona talking to him... I dunno either. Celestia convinces Lavan to go bug the gryphons for two days so Chrysalis doesn't pull out the lings too soon. He does.
* Chrysalis later reveals she knew he was almost in the city and had a plan to pull out if the need arose. While she herself would fight Lavan, her hive would not. As such, she moves up the timetable to get her lings home. Celestia pleads with her to at least let AJ have the fifteen that volunteered, and after some debate Chrysalis agrees. 29 wakes up, finds MM and Zecora in the bed... because dream stuff, not the the other things... and says a little thanks he got such wonderful friends.
* Shiny hears Chrysalis did a good thing. He gives her hugs... she likes hugs.
* Screwloose baked a cake!... With metal scalpel shavings in it...
* 12 knows she didn't mean it.
* Fleetfoot, after being turned down by literally everyone and afraid she will never fly again, gets an idea! This idea is to leave Soarin' behind, go to Spitfire's mom's house, get maced(not part of the plan), bribe a bunch of guards, get over to the crystal Empire, and reunite Spitfire and Stormy Flare!
* ...IT WORKS!
* Mother and daughter have a tearful, heartfelt reunion wherein we learn Spitfire hasn't even talked to her for a year for... obvious reasons... but after many a shame and apology from Spitfire, all is well and mother and daughter are reunited once more!
* Then Fleetfoot reveals it was her, and gets maced again. And kicked.
* But, after some talk and apologies, it looks like Spitfire's coming around.
* That all goes to hell when FF implies she wants to move to the Empire, and Spitfire see's through her and gets real mad.
* Desperate FF begs she'll do anything to get another chance.
* Spitfire, strangely, says there is something she can do, something that if she does it, FF is forgiven, and whispers it to her.
* FF says she can't, whatever it is, and Spifire isn't surprised. FF walks off and mother and daughter catch up. Dash muses fashion, claims Rarity is getting into her brain.
* Discord and Fluttershy discuss Lavan, with Fluttershy saying he's not so bad and Discord claiming cosmic beings don't change. She does not point out the irony.
* 18 gets bummed her date got interrupted, and Cadence cheers her up. Turns out, kissing practice worked!
* 29 goes up to visit 56 who is training because guardstuff. Or, better put, he's being tossed around a lot on a mat.
* 29 laments his lost bits, for he's already paid a YEAR in advance.
* While he's away, 32 goes to Ponyville looking for him, but only finds MM/Zecora/Trixie. He wants to expand his embassy to include Ponyville, and MM seems for the idea.
* Chrysalis is troubled due to lack of changeling candidates for her Queen scheme, walks into Shiny's office but can't seem to manage a hah, let alone mess up his papers.
* This disturbs Shiny more than expected. He finds he misses her messing up his papers.
* He calls in Celestia, 18, 42, Spitfire Cadence, even APPLEJACK, but none of them can sate his paperwork destroying needs.
* Finally, he breaks down, calls Chrysalis back in, and it turns out she misses it too.
* MESSING UP SHINY'S PAPPPPERRRS!
* All is right with the world.
* DT sleep eats, apparently.
* Chrysalis is proud her ass is bigger than AJ's.
* That jivetalking dragon from when Twilight was searching for Chitania shows back up.
* Applebloom wants to go on a trip. AJ, not paying attention, accidentally gives her permission, and tells her not to pack anything, for a trip to Bisongard.
* Chrysalis and Discord critique Rarity's fashion for SA.
* End up sad.
* Don't ask.
* At last, Chrysalis gets ready to send her lings back to the Empire, except for the fifteen going off with AJ. AJ meets them at the train station, and they both have a much more amicable farewell to the other than last time, to put it lightly. Both know the stakes, and the risks, and accept them.
* For the first time, AJ and Chrysalis hoofshake, and seem to have some respect.
* Chrysalis leave.
* Applejack prepares her trip with the lings, and
* "This time... Ah'm gettin' it right."
==Thread 100==
* NC silliness where the characters reflect on how much changed by meeting their past selves.
==Thread 101==
* AJ'S JOURNEY BEGINS EDITION!
* Breakfast in the Empire! Maney learns not to reach over a stove with hair and Spitfire has officially given in to the madness.
* Applejack's journey with the lings begins! And it's going as well as can be expected. The lings are being crazy and the guards are being no help, defeated by a mere nacho macine.
* Also, one of them Quicksilver, is apparently cursed with a new level of unluckiness.
* After a talk with a changeling who is trying to grow a plant inside of a pot, Applejack is inspired to bring in some backup! That backup? Sunset Shimmer!
* The first thing she does is accidentally irradiate SS's plant... whoops. We also learn that Shimmer got drunk somehow and sent a love letter.
* Because even being a corpse will not stop some ponies from getting drunk.
* Later, Sunset realizes that the changelings calm down and pretend to be docile normal ponies when they are disguised, but go back to being rambunctious and crazy when not disguised. Also, they know how to sing with ponies... somehow.
* Daw borrows SA's kung fu tapes.
* Pinkie tries to cheer up Twilight by doing doughnuts around her, only breaks things.
* Chrysalis is worried due to the fact she doesn't have any trustworthy heir-changelings she'd trust with becoming Queens. SA supports her in a heartwarming moment.
* Chrysalis, Discord and Fluttershy blow up FS's cottage and make video game references.
* Stormy Flare talks with SA, much embarrassment on the part of Spitfire is had.
* Rarity acts very weird around Spike and AJ
* 29 singing bad 'rock' is a bad idea.
* The CMC continue their journey, ending up talking to a hippy BUFFALO, not bison, on their way to bisongard.
* He's also racist, as it turns out.
* Shiny does not let Twilight get mopey, drags her out for a day of fun that just plain makes everyone uncomfortable.
* Spitfire discovers FS's chaos powers, an odd discussion with Discord and Chrysalis about Shining not wearing anything ensues... do not ask.
* Luna throws 29 into a pit to be attacked by a monster. For... er, training.
* It doesn't work the second time, and Luna blows off Trixie because of it.
* Spitfire had fun with Mane-iac and Sombra
* Dash has a freakout when nothing is going wrong.
* SA wakes up to caddy cuddles... only, they're not caddy cuddles.
* They're 18 cuddles.
* ...He does not want them to stop. This brings out conflicting feelings, even though he does make them stop, and takes himself a nice long shower.
* Chrysalis and Spitfire are tempted to bomb Lavan.
*Fuzzy and the Buzz are reunited.
* 42 and Spitfire discuss if the Crystal Pegasi are retarded, it ends in hooficuffs.
* Later in the hot tub, still thinking about the 18 thing, SA is pondering.
* Celestia joins him in said hot tub, and a heart to heart discussion is had about how things have changed, and how she doesn't like seeing him second guess himself instead of just being happy.
* He says he's still not sure, but if she believes in him, he trusts in her.
* They both feel better.
* Rarity tries prodding into Cadence's sex life, even though Caddy isn't interested in talking about it.
* When Rarity accidentally implies that Shining only looked to 18 because she was neglecting him, Cadence gets... angry.
* Cold, simmering, angry. Not yelling, very cold angry.
* She points out Rarity is just trying to find a roundabout way to connect her issue and Rarity's own with Spike, but that she won't find any answers there. Because unlike her and Spike, Cadence knows she and Shiny were meant to be.
* Finally, Chrysalis is out in the snow around the Empire, looking at the desolate wasteland it would be impossible to build something on.
* With the new possibility of new Queens and new Hives and a new kingdom, she's coming to terms with one more chilling possibility.
* That she'll have to leave the Empire... and everyone in it.
* She has a vulnerable moment when she realizes...
* "...I don't want to go..."
==Thread 102==
* OH SHIT MAUD'S STILL ALIVE EDITION!
* AJ continues her trek across Equestria, now backed by Sunset. She deals with bad gambling habits(Quicksilver is probably going to need a loan here soon), rampant punching of faces and trying to convince everyone they're not what they seem... and Sunset setting them on fire once or twice.
* Thankfully, Sunset gets some sense sunk into her head, and she eventually learns the ways of facepunch in public! Though afraid at first, her insisting everything is okay helps the other ponies let their guards down.
* While this is going on, Applejack is working on an unrevealed side project.
* Trixie tries to convince Cheerilee to let her work with the demons to get necromagic... during class.
* Dadling had a rough day, Batmom makes it all better.
* Two holds a magic show with SA and Spitfire.
* Cadence is using her relationship with 18 for buy-stuff leiancy.
* Chrysalis confronts the Orb, musing about how it holds both the key to her future and the possibility she will have to leave the Empire behind. Thinking it might still have a connection to the Hivemind in it, she talks in the hopes her mother can hears, and tells her she's still the best mother ever... but Chrysalis asserts she's the greatest Queen who ever lived, and she needs to prove it.
* Rarity begins her battle with Buttercup, one that takes her and her foe from rooftop to rooftop as Rarity uses smarts to match brute force. Even still, it seemed she is going to be overwhelmed, at least until Spike arrives and shoots the disguised manticore in the shoulder, and seemed to take her out.
* Then its revealed that she was just playing dead again, and strangles them until Rarity blasts all of them to the street.
* They fall into a middle of a crowd, and in a shocking turn Buttercup demands the guard arrest THEM, because Spike was sneaking around and holding up a gun. Which was... pretty understandable, actually.
* But it seems that even the common folk won't fuck with a princess, and after some hasty coverings Spike is let off the hook, and Buttercup shuffles away, defeated, before collapsing somewhere in the woods.
* Alone, the two muse about what just happened.
* Seven meets Buttercup in the woods later and chides her for getting into a fight, saying they were supposed to be avoiding confrontations, and then nurses her wounds. She is forgiven after that.
* She also wants a big gun, Seven says he'll consider it.
* Another useless changeling power is revealed! Looking like leaves... and also smelling like peanut butter.
* Because nature is weird.
* 18 won't take over for AJ's absence.
* Discord doesn't know what Lavan is up to.
* Chrysalis is updated that the lings are doing okay since they've moved back, but is distracted enough to worry 42.
* JJ didn't want to go with the others.
* Chitania doesn't want 13 to go...
* Cadence is not very wacky.
* DT starts trying to be more adult, gets distracted by heavy weaponry.
* 18 is happy Shiny cuddled with her and tells 42 about it. Shortly, said paperbug thanks her for essentially being the whole reason any of this happened after she decided not to force 18 to give up the 'mission' back in the day, and that she thinks of her as her very best friend.
* While happy, 42 sticks on that 'it's all because of you' thing after she leaves, and decides she needs to talk with Cadence about this.
* AB, SL and SB on their trip meet up with a fork in the road and a Caribou, named Cari, last name Bou. He points out that one path is a scary forest, but short, the other is a safe path, but long. But he has a cart he would be happy to bring them along in.
* They're skeptical, of course, until he shows he has candy, and SB jumps in. AB and SL freak out and run down the scary path, but Sweetie Belle is with him for the trip he says will be 'interesting'.
* So... yeah.
* SL and AB regret their decisions when attacked by various creatures.
* Luna wants to get back into a pranking mood.
* Pinkie makes lethal sugar laden breakfast.
* She also questions how good AJ is with money.
* Big Mag and Granny wonder what AB is talking about going to Bisongard, but muse AJ wouldn't let her go off on her own.
* SA takes Celly's words from last THREAD to heart and asks 18 if she wants to go out again. When 18 points out Cadence may not have the time... Shining says he'll see if it'll just be the two of them.
* 18 promptly shorts out in joy.
* Fleetfoot is still moping, but Soarin won't leave her.
* AJ is determined to make things right with the lings.
* At the Empire, Maud is revealed to still be there. And also has been speaking often with the Rainbolts, Mane-Iac and Awkwardling. She also thinks SA knows she's here, despite Pinkie telling her otherwise.
* At last, she confronts him, much to his shock, and asks if he has any spare time. When he reveals he does have it, she says they're finally going to have their fight.
* So, that's going to happen.
* And Maud still has no idea he didn't know she was there.
* Finally, PD is getting antsy with Luna's forces getting close to finding the truth, and decides to step things up a notch.
* She's setting sail for the Gryphons, and god help whoever is in her way.
==THREAD 103==
* LAST THREAD RECAP! YOU GET A FIGHT! AND YOU GET A FIGHT! AND... THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT, WE'RE DONE EDITION!
* 42 is not worried about the fight with Maud... but she subtly hints that if she breaks anything of Shining's, she's caving the earth ponies face in. Subtle for her, at least.
* Chrysalis continues helping Fluttershy get a hold on her powers, and laments that soon, FS won't need her anymore...
* Chitania misses 13, and is experimenting on herself.
* Celestia, swamped from the paperwork, seeks out aide... but then decides to just abduct Shiny.
* Sunset is doing better, but still wants to set the lings on fire.
* Chrysalis goes into disguise to walk around with ponies and play some pranks, laments how easy it would be to take a place over so she wouldn't have to build her own land, but accepts she wouldn't do that anymore.
* Big Mac comes looking for AB... in a dress..
* Luna decides it's time to take 29's training to the next level, consumes him in darkness and puts him in a sensory deprivation area.
* So it's off to a great start.
* Quicksilver fails to get out of his debts.
* Haymaker doesn't want to join in facepunch, for fear he'll set off an international incident.
* Buttercup buys a gun. This can only end well.
* Finally, the battle between Maud and Shiny begins!
* There is punching! There is bubbles! There is getting bounced up and down and Boulder making a shocking appearance! * BUT-
* Shiny eventually wins.
* And then it's revealed Maud only wanted to 'test his might' because she really wanted to hit him because he hit her little sisters back at PL.
* It was a treat.
* While AJ was watching, the lings tried to juggle molotov cocktails. Why? Because they want someone like JJ and Acty.
* On that note, JJ somehow knows. Acty is not his coltfriend.
* Oh, and Sunset isn't a virgin... take that as you will.
* 42 thinks they should've gone in the magic room so Shiny could kill her.
* Luna catches Blueblood napping on PJ, PJ makes a break for it and ends up eating a squirrel... don't ask.
* Spitfire and SA wonder if the earth ponies are just lying in wait.
* It's revealed that 13's bad luck isn't quite as luck based as we've been lead to believe...
* There are costs for ridiculously good mind magics when you are a drone, it seems.
* Spike and the Gunclub wonder where to go to eat, hijinks ensue.
* 41 is failing at memorizing, of course.
* Applejack is doing so well, she moves on to phase two of her plan... split up.
* This will end well.
* Two set something on fire. It was a giant monster... this was best case scenario.
* Maud joins for dinner, discussions about bigger castles are had.
* AB and SL almost get eaten by a egalitarian based bear and tiger group.
* Until Winona stabs them with a sword.
* ...this got weird fast.
* Chrysalis is worried because Twilight is almost done with her experiment to let them use the orb.
* 18 wants a ton of kids.
* SA, after a tired day, curls up in Celestia's bed as revenge for all those times she did it to him.
* It's adorable.
* MEANWHILE!
* Fluttershy starts investigating Everfree when she realizes none of the non-carinvores are around, and the herbivores are wandering free without fear. As much as she likes this, she realizes it's a bad sign. None of the monsters are around.
* Her investigation takes her into the forest, where she's ambushed by one of said monsters, who chases her for a while.
* Cornered by a mountain, she finds out it was a giant timberwolf. Who she then informs that, well... she wasn't running because she was scared of IT.
* She was scared of herself.
* It doesn't listen, and gets a chaos level beatdown as a result.
* At the end, she can clearly see it's been abused and experimented on, and despite it being a timberwolf, it's not healed instantly like it should.
* ...also it's fucking talking and it's name is Bubbles... that's a red flag or two.
* Even after it admits it was just trying to scare her off, not hurt her, she is angry that someone had hurt it, she demands that it show her what it was protecting.
* Hell hath no fury like a pacifist near a wounded animal.
* Also meanwhile, PD arrives in the Gryphon Kingdom, and it seems the show is about to start...
* OOCO, Spike and Chrysalis continue their trek down into the catacombs, hating each other all the way. When Spike gets a little too smug, Chrysalis lets out a screech to attract more monster, and Spike... pulls out a goddamn grenade launcher.
* In a cave.
* Meaning if Chrysalis didn't go all out, they'd be dead.
* Oh Spike!
==THREAD 104==
* WING THINGS GETTING ALL THE LOVE EDITION!
* OOCO, Spike and Chrysalis are trapped underneath the rocks. Spike thinks there's a way out, but there's only one problem... water.
* Chrysalis doesn't do water, because she will fucking sink.
* Cadence and Rarity are sad at their jobs.
* Quicksilver apparently has a crush on Screwloose... weird. Sunset is a little miffed.
* SA finally just asks Cadence if it's okay if he and 18 go out on a date without her, as she can't make it. Outwardly, she's fine with it, and he learns to stop double-questioning her and just trust in her.
* 18 is elated, only one problem. It's ten in the morning, and the date isn't till the night.
* She's slowly going insane.
* Spitfire still hates Dash, despite 42's efforts.
* The lings have a rave with the guards.
* Trixie is still trying to learn demon magic from Cheerilee, it is not going well.
* Two should not be allowed to touch stuff in Twilight's lab.
* There is a weirdly long debate as to the merits of each in the film series, Hoof Hold My Heart.
* Rarity ends up hospitalized and Chrysalis is the voice of reason. Things that are real are questioned.
* Dash looks at an old picture of the WB's and wonders if they were always terrible, or if something went wrong. She questions if there was still good in them, and if she could have brought it out if she only tried harder. She realizes for all her abilities, she hasn't really inspired anyone to do better or reach better heights, just knocked them down.
* She comes to the conclusion she's not a very good captain after all.
* Later, she receives a note to come to Canterlot Square. To her surprise, she finds a mess of reporters... and Spitfire.
* Her questions what this could mean are answered when Fleetfoot comes down, Soarin' in tow. To everyone's surprise, Fleetfoot comes clean about her drug selling.
* She admits fault, that Spitfire had nothing to do with it, and pledges to give up her surprising fortune to get those who had used her stuff back in the air. By doing this, even though she can't be arrested as the drug used was merely imported and there are no regulations for it in Equestria, she loses all her records, essentially wiping her out of anything with the WB's totally.
* After the reporters leave, Dash asks why. Spitfire reveals that the thing she had told her to do earlier was this, and if she did it, she could join Spitfire's team. With this, Dash realizes that all the wealth and all that didn't mean as much to Fleetfoot as simply being able to fly again.
* Fleetfoot tells Soarin' to go with Dash, as she knew about the offer, and moves to go with Spitfire, who admits she's going to run her ragged as revenge for how she herself was treated.
* Understanding her for the first time, Dash stops her, and, shockingly, offers Fleetfoot a chance to come back to the Wonderbolts.
* At first, Fleetfoot tries to say she'll still go with Spitfire out of loyalty, but Spitty rebukes her and tells her if there's a better offer than scrubbing the toilets, take it. Then she leaves.
* Tearfully, Fleetfoot says she'll be five minutes early, and can look to the sky and dream again.
* Gambling might have a job!
* At the Kingsmoot, Pennydrop makes her grand entrance, breaking tradition and the sacred ground as she lands her airship.
* She ignores the Seer after blasting the other kings, walks right up to Gwen, and reveals Lavan is on the way.
* She calls out the Seer, telling her that her gods were merely using their citizens as puppets for some test, uncaring if they get sacrificed like they did against Chitania. She makes her case to let her and her company handle it.
* She declares she stands with Gwen's family, and nobody else, so if they kick her off the throne, she will not use her machines to help them.
* After some strange force overtakes her, the Seer reluctantly allows this. She declares that if Pennydrop can manage to stop Lavan from killing anyone or wrecking anything, Gwen's rule is assured. If not, she is to be cast out.
* Pennydrop Vs Lavan for the fate of the gryphons has begun!
* The changelings arrive at Ponyville, to no fanfare. MM didn't even bring out the banner, because AJ said to understate it, and forgot just how understatey they can get.
* Thus, AJ becomes the element of asshole.
* Celestia and Luna haven't seen Jetset, and wonder if that's how it's supposed to be.
* SP wants to know who 41's old Queen was, since 41 doesn't know. Apparently, only Chrysalis will know, but he doesn't want to ask her, she's scary.
* Acty loves blindjokes
* AJ realizes she forgot to put guards in Ponyville again
* Luna tries to force-teach 29 lessons. After he outdoes her, he gets a liiittttle too big headed, so she gets pissed and decides she needs to take it up a notch.
* A lot of notches.
* A Changeling eats one of AJs apples. She makes him regret it.
* By making him an apple.
* Seven comes home to his base with Buttercup, who now has her gun. He also comes home to a special surprise, Fluttershy!
* Who is PISSED!
* A battle ensues, which mostly consists of Fluttershy using unbelievable chaos powers against someone in no way capable of defending himself against it. This also escalates thanks to Fluttershy telling BC she needs to load her chaingun.
* At the end of the fight, she learns it wasn't Seven who scarred Bubbles, the Timberwolf from earlier, and realizes she went too far. Still, she demands to know what is going on, and Seven is going to have to show her.
* Chitania signs the Librarain's kid's comic. Moms gotta stick together.
* 42 does not believe Cadence used to be a babysitter.
* OOCO Pinkie starts her own show where she crashes parties!
* AB, SL and SB meet back up again at a cafe. Sweetie Belle is dropped off out of the Caribou's cart, and she looks... normal?
* She claims he has a shower in there to clean her off, since she got sticky, and that she's stuffed so full she can't walk straight, and he also let her keep his fancy pillow.
* ...Applebloom and Scootaloo do not question this any further.
* Movie night gets weird fast.
* Finally, Chrysalis heads down to PV to check on her lings, and notices that they're actually mingling pretty well. She muses that, at this rate, her lings could be absorbed into Equestrian society pretty easily.
* Reluctantly, she praises Applejack, but has one more thing...
* She brings up the hypothetical scenario of if Chitania regained the ability to have a hive. In this case, would it make her efforts harder? Make ponies more afraid?
* She gets the answer of 'yes' pretty quickly, but AJ admits she wouldn't stop it. She remains oblivious to the fact Chrysalis is talking about her own plans to make more Queens.
* Chrysalis praises her again, and leaves, wondering how much more time she has left to decide...
==THREAD 105==
* Big Mac and Granny, after getting spooked by the changeling still being an apple, confront AJ about not visiting them.
* That's when AJ learns that Applebloom has not, in fact, been at the farm. She panics, naturally, but after she remembers she was supposed to go camping this week, reasons that Applebloom is just moping in her room back in Canterlot since she cancelled so abruptly, and feels bad about leaving her behind.
* Speaking of Applebloom, she and the other two come across a spooky house in the middle of nowhere during a thunderstorm. Naturally, they decide hypothermia death is probably preferable to going inside.
* Until the house drops a bowl of candy for them, of course, in which case Sweetie is now all for this shit.
* After she's snapped up, they feel that leaving Sweetie to die is more preferable than going inside, but it seems Winona has a moral compass. They all get locked in.
* 29 faces more trials that Luna hopes will teach him lessons. Unfortunately, all they do is confuse and make him annoyed, since he can't follow her string of specific logic, which makes her angry and annoyed.
* Also, 29 kills a chipmunk in one such 'test', thinking its an illusion... it uh... it probably wasn't...
* GambLing doesn't know if gambling is illegal... if that makes any sense...
* Dinner at the CE house with special guest, Stormy Flare!
* Mane-Iac cheers Chrysalis up.
* LD is worried about Fleetfoot and Soarin' being back on.
* Fluttershy finally learns what Seven is doing. It turns out, he's using changeling mind-magic to stimulate parts of the brain of predators in order to give them sentience to understand the concept of 'love' better, hoping to turn them into a farmable resource so that they do not need to drain ponies anymore. He tried with smaller animals like rabbits or the like, but couldn't manage, predators are all that work. We learn he managed this because Bubbles, the Timberwolf, had been experimented on previously for this exact same thing, and that allowed him to move forwards.
* However, it currently isn't working as planned, he's putting in more love to make them think and advance then he is getting back, which is why he is so frequently sickly.
* Now, Fluttershy is faced with a dilemma. He is clearly upsetting the natural order and giving minds to things not meant to have them, but he is not hurting them or the like. He asks her if she wants him to shut it down and make it go back to normal, and she flees.
* She goes to the moon, where she meets none other than discord. During an argument, it's revealed one issue she has with this is that he's changing someone who can't give consent and granting them abilities they may not even want... just like herself.
* Discord is still bitter because he thought he was helping when that happened, so he doesn't see why everyone is always on his case about that. He brings up a planet to prove the point that chaos is just plain better than order, and that Twilight certainly brought chaos into Fluttershy's life as well.
* Fluttershy comes to a realization that some chaos IS good, but when it came all at once, she couldn't handle it.
* Discord admits that he was just trying to help, and she consoles him. Together, they both come to a realization
* At last, she understands what she needs to do, at least partially, and thinks she needs to go talk to someone.
* SA and 18 go off on their date, AND... nothing is going wrong. Nothing. Everything is fine.
* Eighteen is going crazy waiting for the earth shattering kaboom.
* Applejack is putting the changeling to work down at Ponyville in hilarious ways.
* Twilight is almost done with her orb-reader thing, and thinks Chrysalis is going to be just so happy about it!
* OOCO event, Chrysalis and Spike are still under Canterlot, and Chrysalis does not want a gun.
* AJ has a tender moment with Big Mac
* Chitania goes down to Ponyville, gets lost.
* Cadence, without telling anyone, cancelled her plans for the night that prevented her from going out with Shining and 18 because it hit her that she doesn't know if 18 is in disguise, and if two Cadences get seen the jig might be up. She muses that she's been feeling more and more useless lately, and the idea that this could take away her one good thing, that she beings happiness to her subjects, by making them wonder if it's even her helping them is too much.
* Chrysalis sneaks up on her, and Cadence reacts reasonably... by shooting and then biting her.
* However, with some prodding, eventually Cadence starts to spill about some fears she's been having..
* Back at the Gryphon Kingdom, Pennydrop begins her final plans! Just before Lavan can reach the kingdom, she reveals what she's been building this whole time, METAL DEER HAWK... which is odd because it's a giant mechanical gryphon...
* She engages Lavan in battle, why slyly implying that there was nothing else interesting for him to see. She pulls out all the stops and weapons, none of which manages to actually damage Lavan, but during the course of a desperate act they find out Lavan really fears rainbows for some reason.
* After a long, drawn out battle, she forces Lavan out of the kingdom with one final, explosive attack, which also doesn't hurt him. However, he understands that's all she had, and decides he's seen everything interesting here and decides to leave.
* Gwen is overcome with joy to the point of tears that they protected her subjects, and as one the other kings hail the forever more king and queen of Af Gryphonia!
* Beside them, Pennydrop can't help but feel like it's actually her she's cheering for...
* Unknown to the royals, they weren't the only ones there. Several airships, hidden from each other too, carrying the dignitaries and royals of others in the world, including Saddle Arabia and the Yaks or what have you, watched the battle, and ask if they want to sign on.
* Needless to say, they all do, and thus Fawntaine Futuristics gains a lot more customers, and Pennydrop's power... grows.
* The world is changing.
* And all the while, Applejack is having fun.
==THREAD 106==
* LUNA'S A SEXY TEACHER EDITION!
* 18 and SA's date isn't going wrong.
* PD is partying with Gwen and Idris.
* Vekir comes up to them, and mentions her current quest. Sensing an opportunity to get under Canterlot, PD offers to help Vekir get more signatures.
* Actarius still does not get 32's innuendo.
* Applebloom and Scootaloo are quickly captured in Spider web, the walls of the house explode in, other things happen, they end up on a roller coaster through tunnels of horrors, annnnd-
* It turns out it was all fake, just a haunted house that was supposed to be out of commission but they activated. Sweetie Belle has been hanging out with the guy in charge of it.
* Everyone laughs it off, and has a good time, content there were no ghosts.
* ...at least until the house vanished when they left it, so it was totally ghosts. Or aliens, probably.
* Applejack thinks everything's going too well with the changelings, so of course something bad happens.
* Chitania shows up with 13 on her back, since the latter apparently wants to visit the others.
* Ponyville reacts by running for their lives, of course.
* This is the grave she chose.
* Chitania, of course, will not leave.
* 7 reveals to Buttercup he has a plan in case Fluttershy makes the wrong choice.
* But it proves not to be needed, Fluttershy says she'll let him keep going, but explains that he threw off the balance of Everfree by removing all predators, there needs to be at least some for balance and he must send some back.
* Seven has a better idea.
* That better idea is finding a lab where they run unethical/illegal tests on animals, and just freeing them. Fluttershy is for this idea.
* Chrysalis listens to Cadence rant about feeling unneeded and that she feels selfish for wishing things would go wrong if she wasn't there, but can't offer her any help on feeling better, not knowing how to approach this, and dealing with her own problems.
* So, she offers to set stuff on fire... that works.
* They spend the rest of the day blowing up the barren wasteland around the Empire.
* Pinkie throw a pie in Chitania's face, this works in making her too numb with shock to even get mad.
* Pommel tries to make Chitania leave his princess alone... it doesn't work.
* Twilight goes to the Empire to find Chrysalis and tell her the good news that the device is done, but she has already left. She finds 42 instead, and the two are now waiting for her to return.
* Nothing is going wrong on 18's and SA's date.
* DT is looking for Twilight to do more Twience stuff, but Twi is already gone. A little put off by being left behind with barely a note, she stomps off, only to be confronted by a well dressed delivery man who gives her a note from Pennydrop.
* The Nightgard captain at last reveals herself to 56! It turns out she was that super expensive instructor 29 paid for. She says she's considering letting 56 try out for the lunar guard, if he can find the common room!
* She also needs to hire better effects crews.
* Dash and Gilda got drunk preparing for drills.
* Suckerpunch realizes that Chitania would know about 41's mom, and being crazy decides to ask her.
* Surprisingly, it works. She does know, and will tell her. One problem, 41 doesn't know her moms name, or her real name, or even her power, so Chitania has no way of knowing.
* So, Chitty tosses her into the air and guesses off the scream... this works.
* After learning that her mom was Titania, Chitania's rival and frequent giant-monster-brawl partner, 41 is a little... weird, and goes off to sulk a bit.
* AJ, Pinkie and Chitania get into a banjo duel... yes, you read that right. Those three get into a banjo duel.
* 12 might be a sociopath.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* The teaching lesson with 29 and Luna breaks down as more and more she contrives situations to teach him, but he never sees it as she does.
* He continues to belittle and mock her attempts, angry due to her continually putting him down and forcing him into these situations.
* Eventually, it gets to her, and she realizes none of this is working.
* In a bit of sadness and despair at failing yet again as a teacher, she goes off, leaving 29 alone.
* He begins to be haunted be strange shadows, showing him horrible events like everyone leaving him behind. He gets angry at her, demanding to know why she would show him these things.
* It turns out, she didn't.
* ...Tantabus did.
* In her sadness, she felt guilty for what she had done again, and accidentally let it out.
* The being starts to more directly attack him, battering him in a bout of bug related slapstick, all the while Luna can't bring herself to defend him.
* He remains strong for a while, but eventually Tantabus gets to him, and uses it's influence to make him wonder if anyone ever actually liked him at all. Luna listens to his words, noticing quite a lot of similarities over his guilt at being part of the invasion and her own as Nightmare Moon. Draining him, Tantabus is almost ready to leave.
* Seeing her student in peril and the being about to escape at last breaks Luna out of her funk, and she rushes to defend him, trying to convince him Tantabus's influence is a lie and he isn't hated. He doesn't believe her.
* So, she brings in backup, in the form of the ghost kids. They help 29 out of his state, and break Tantabus's influence long enough that Luna can do battle with it, and at last put her guilt behind her and reabsorb Tantabus.
* With this behind her, she feels like at last she can teach him a lesson.
* That lesson? Give him exactly what he wants.
* An gorgeous Empress who wants his 'services', a life of luxury with her, and no tricks. He is given exactly what he wants.
* Just one hiccup, he'll have to quit his job with Mayor Mare, and leave Ponyville and everyone in it behind, including 56, as travel would be long and costly, and hard to do with his 'job'.
* Given everything he wants but realizing he has to give up everything to get it tears him apart inside, as he had believed for so long this isn't merely what he wanted, but what he deserved.
* When Luna returns him to Ponyville to hand in his letter of resignation, seeing MM, Zecora and Trixie worried about him is the last push he needs.
* He burns up the letter, and laments that he just woke up from a dream.
* The dream was nice... but reality is better.
* Luna, at last, taught her very first lesson.
* ..And nothing is going wrong on 18's and SA's date- no, wait, Cadence just walked into a liquor store.
* Shit.
==THREAD 107==
* RARITY PULLED OFF THE MASK TO REVEAL... OLD MAN CADENCE!? EDITION!
* The residents of Ponyville continue to be terrified of Chitania's presence, even if she is occasionally helpful with rabbits. Because she hates rabbits, not because she wants to be helpful.
* Also, Chitania can't play electric guitar.
* Mr and Mrs Cake's business is saved by a proud Celestia
* There's a mob outside Mayor Mare's office that want Chitania gone. Racist comments are made. They eventually are gotten rid of via bribery of wine, cheese snacks and guessing which lotus sister is which.
* MM and 29's attempts to be rid of Chitania to meet these requests are, sadly, met with failure.
* Celestia learns about Fluttershy's recent 'activities', and is not pleased.
* Everyone has their eyes on Chitania, which means the other changelings are free to wander about and get into raves.
* Yes, raves.
* 88 is now hitting on Actarius. He still doesn't notice.
* 10 is off to Stalliongrad!
* Pinkie throws Chitania a welcome musical.
* 41, still reeling from her previous discovery of her parentage, is moping in the woods. In there, she is confronted by the mysteriously absent until this point 13.
* She laments to the unluckyling how lacking she is in comparison to someone who could face Chitania, and that Titania's legacy is the dead last soldier.
* They have a talk, wherein 13 lays down what she thinks of 41's focusing on her mom and moping about. It is not a good thing.
* She insists the need to remain strong for her hive, and to be happy that they lucked into a Queen who will accept her despite being a female. 41 shoots back that at least she still has her mom, and 13 gets irate when 41 calls her a princess, declaring she is NOT an heir anymore, she is a member of Chrysalis's. She loves her mom, she will never leave her mom again, but she is an heir no longer.
* 41 is confused that she doesn't want to be a Queen. 13 brushes this off.
* 13 points out that her mother was never really a winner, and 41 needs to be better. This, at last, convinces 41 she needs to be more.
* OOCO, Spike and Chrysalis stumble into a monster nest with a fanged, tentacled monstrosity. Because of course they do.
* A short battle leaves them trapped, with only one way out. Spike is the distraction, and Chrysalis runs for the exit.
* But when she gets there, Spike is trapped and about to be eaten since his mega-laser won't go off. Seeing only one chance, she uses the last of her love-stores and shoots it's base, allowing Spike to shoot the thing and kill it.
* Afterwards, she fall unconscious, completely drained.
* AJ and Zecora rhyme-off and brohoof. Just because.
* Spitfire is now tormenting Dash.
* 56 can smell plots... don't ask.
* Dadling will wreck a wall to kill a single spider, as he should.
* 7 consoles a worried Buttercup, who is still afraid she will be forced to go back to 'normal'
* Applejack goes to visit the farm, spending some time in her old room and reminiscing on how she thought her life would be and the fact she had to leave it so suddenly, she couldn't even grab anything. She finds it covered in dust and old.
* After a bit of thinking, she decides that maybe a bit of work down there would help out somewhat.
* She's gonna need another desk.
* Two can't sleep, because she's starting to worry what might happen if another kid comes into the picture.
* Still, Sombra calms her down.
* Sunset wonders what a human Chitania would be like.
* 77 visits Aj to tell her about his proposal, and Chitania keeps annoying him.
* Speaking of, Trixie annoys said megabug right back, so... that's a thing.
* The CMC are race traitors, according to a zebra.
* Don't ask.
* 29 goes up to check on 56, who is still looking for the common room. He is at first angry, thinking that 56 gave up on his promise to train hard again, but when he finds out he might actually get into the Nightgaurd he gets a little... worried.
* 56 is in such a rush, he doesn't even have time to hear about the events with Luna, and rushes off without saying goodbye. Leaving behind a sad, yet proud, 29.
* But someone is watching all of this...
* No matter how much AJ and Chitania say nothing is going wrong, nothing is going wrong.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT, EVERYTHING IS GOING WRONG!
* 18 and SA confront 'Cadence' in the wine shop, and make a stunning discovery! It's not Cadence at all!
* It's Rarity!
* ...Yes, that Rarity. She and Twilight have been working on illusion spells that will let them pretend to be each other in case they need to be in two places at once, and she decided to test it out when Cadence left the Empire to get a feel for what the populace feels about Cadence. She wasn't worried about being seen with her, as if Cadence returned she would be able to detect it and find a safe place to drop the disguise, leaving none the wiser.
* Though 18 and SA are upset, they can't have her drop her disguise. So, they all decide to head back to the castle.
* ..and that's when Chrysalis teleports in from the snow outside to get herself some alcohol, and guess who she has with her?
* Cadence! Who is now looking at not-Cadence!
* In front of the Crystal Empire!
* That's when everything goes wrong.
* Cadence's first idea is to tell Chrysalis to 'do something'. Chrysalis, and everyone else, thinks she means 'the thing'
* The brain thing.
* She didn't mean that, but too late! Rarity is now in righteous indination mode at the idea Cadence might have been considering brainwashing her subjects to hide her secret.
* Anger is had on both sides, which almost gets out of control when Cadence thinks it's 18 posing as her.
* Thankfully, 18 is there to clear it up... and she is accidentally now looking like Cadence.
* Damn changeling powers.
* Three Caddy's confuse the Crystal Ponies something terrible.
* More aruging is had, with Cadence insisting she's the real Cadence. Nobody is sure, but a Crystal Pony has an idea!
* Because this morning, the REAL princess helped him file paperwork and figure out zoning regulations! Surely only the REAL princess would know what and where that was!
* Thus Cadence shuts up real fast.
* Things go from bad to worse when he realizes that EIGHTEEN is the real princess! How?
* She still has the gum he stuck in her hair, that has been hidden because it's the same color as said hair. Nobody else noticed.
* Eighteen immediately tries to spin this, and almost has the CE convinced, but Rarity is having none of that!
* She makes 18 drop the disguise, and then reveals herself! Now all of them know that it wasn't Cadence who did that!
* Cadence panics a bit and tells Chrysalis to bail, so she does, bringing everyone with her.
* Then comes a whole lot of yelling at an unrepentant Rarity.
* Rarity explains she chose Cadence for a reason. After the events with Buttercup she realized that the public has a terribly skewed perceptions of royals, and she needed to know how bad. Since she knows how much, or rather how little, Cadence does, she needed to see if there was any indication anyone thought she didn't do EVERYTHING herself. There was not.
* So, when Cadence tried to rehide the secret, Rarity was having none of that. She wanted to give credit to who deserved it, 18.
* Who is also threatening to murder her, and meaning it, if this ends up with the CP thinking she's infiltrating the CE and gets her kicked out, which Rarity had not considered.
* Before the strangling can begin, Chrysalis tosses her down into the pen that Sunset used to be held in so she can't fuck everything up anymore, then she says she has a plan to get things back to 'normal'.
* But, to everyone's surprise, Cadence says no, they're not going to do that.
* Chrysalis tries to insist, but Shining says they can manage if she just wants to come clean. After some debate, Chrysalis still thinks her plan is right, but will go along with everyone else. Cadence decides not to cover it up.
* After Twilight and 42 arrive an get brought up to speed, she says why. She doesn't have a plan, she just isn't bringing anyone else down with her. The others realize this might end with her gone, and Chrysalis agrees that if she goes, then her and the changelings sure as hell aren't staying.
* All alone, Cadence goes off to face the music, with the CE crew, and a very sleepy 2, left to wait.
* She goes off to face her destiny, and all of the others just have to.. believe.
==THREAD 108==
* RARITY WHAT DID YOU DO EDITION!
* Cadence, despite her wishes not to, is at last forced to speak to all the citizens of the CE about what she's been doing. She admits everything, from how little she's done, to how much 18 has done, all the while insisting that she hasn't been replaced or mind controlled. She admits, to everyone's horror, that she doesn't know how any of this works.
* She pleads with them not to lose hope or trust, but it seems not to be working. They start talking and seem to be leaning towards kicking her out, and the changelings with her.
* Until, out of nowhere yet again, Rarity shows up!
* She tells the crowd she didn't reveal this so they wouldn't believe in Cadence, but to show that they weren't gods, or special, or anything like that. They're regular ponies, who struggle sometimes and need help. She admits that she did it the wrong way, but her intentions were real.
* She points out that, despite their fears, their lives have been getting better and they've been in more comfort than ever before.
* Eventually, her words get through to them, and the ponies decide not to impeach her or retaliate.
* But the trust is gone.
* Resolved, Cadence decides right then that if they needed her to be more... she was going to be more.
* During this, Chrysalis insists she doesn't want to go anywhere that Cadence and Shining aren't.
* Afterwards, while debating over what it is they need to do, they all realize that, right now, they don't need to do anything as nobody has made any requests, and acting in preparation for windfall or the like would be an accidental admission of guilt.
* So, they can't do anything but wait.
* Celestia then shows up, happy because she has a lava cake big enough to ride... and of course, now has all that ruined.
* This is why she is never happy.
* Rarity isn't sorry for what she did, and Twilight isn't mad at her.
* Cadence puts Two back to bed, and explains to her what happened. When Two says she's a good princess, Cadence resolves to prove her right.
* 42 speaks to Chrysalis, revealing that she knows Rarity was right, but she still wants to hit her.
* After she leaves, Chrysalis is confronted by Shining to make sure she's not doing anything for revenge. She's not, but she is looking at the orb and saying she's going to protect her lings...
* Chitania almost gets called for jury duty.
* Actarius is still oblivious to 32 and 88.
* 29, still moping from his interaction with 56, meets up with 32, who points out that the real reason he is sad is because he did too good of a job as a 'cousin'. 56, despite being a scatterbrained ninny, somehow found purpose and guidance thanks to him, and now 29 is worried he won't be needed anymore.
* 32 has a long talk with him, eventually putting those fears to rest, all the while hitting on 29, and 29 heads back to Ponyville.
* Back in Ponyville, Sunset and him meet up, and find they have a mutual love of the fine arts, a rare thing.
* A budding friendship begins. A friendship wherein Sunset asks him to look like a human, just cause.
* Spitfire is driving Dash crazy, as she says to AJ.
* Some of the changelings get a little tipsy thanks to Treehugger.
* 7's experiments continues with Fluttershy's help.
* the CMC come across an old guard who has been fighting 'droids' for years. Instead of being crazy, he's actually fighting golems and has just been calling them the wrong name... yay?
* Back in Canterlot, Fuzzy and Buzz accidentally are the first ones to break the news of what happened in the CE. Things... do not go well.
* Canterlot is freaking out.
* Then Ponyville is freaking out.
* Then a Wonderbolt tells AJ, while freaking out.
* Then AJ muttering 'fuck' to herself.
* Then The Wonderbolts are dealing with Canterlot freaking out, while dealing with their own suspicions
* And Luna has no idea what's going on.
* Then AJ stops saying 'fuck' and starts freaking out
* Then 29 points out that Ponyville is going to freak out.
* Then the Wonderbolts get worse all while wondering what it would be like if DASH had to get help like that
* Then Spitfire is freaking out despite the CE not freaking out
* Then a mob goes up to eh changeling embassy while freaking out and freaking out Actarius
* Then Screwloose is not freaking out, just finding it impressive a changeling ran a country
* Then Pommel and the guards are freaking out and Pommel wants the guards to guard the changelings from those freaking out.
* Then Spike wakes up and sees the freaking out
* Then Discord is enjoying the freaking out
* Then the CE changelings are noticing the freaking out and bro-hoofing
* And, finally, AJ's freakout reaches max freakout and she snaps.
* It's going to be a long day....
* OOCO Chrysalis wakes up, and an irritated due to love drain Spike brings her to the Morlock village, where they find the graves of the old changelings who were sent down there. She has the bodies dug up and burned, despite Spike's protests, in order to preserve their changeling tradition, and then they reclaim the banner. Afterwards, Spike reveals that he had already been in contact with the others and gotten hold of some supplies, including a love-harness. Using this, they head back to the surface.
==THREAD 109==
* LAST THREAD RECAP! PANNIIIICCCC EDITION!
* The Crystal Ponies are lamenting their lost trust, in strange ways in some cases.
* Spike using a gun does not calm down anyone. Nor are his debate skills up to par, as he is ran over.
* Also, his manners need work, as was silently told to him by private... FUCK!
* But no fear, for an old friend is here to help! DIAMOND TIARA has arrived! And she has a giant set of power armor!
* Because heavy artillery just plain wasn't enough.
* She then abducts him to go tell Silver Spoon, because deep down she is still DT.
* 42 speaks to the CE guards, saying that she understands if they wish her to take a sabbatical or feel betrayed... forgetting that they all have known this whole time.
* Sunset and Chitania talk about the current situation, with the former musing about how she almost caused this exact scenario, and the latter musing that she doesn't care what happens to the rest of the lings anymore.
* One of the temps from Partyland return to talk to 18. She describes how she used to think Cadence was beyond reproach, even going so far as to join a fanclub, after that day. To the point that she quit her field, thinking she just couldn't match up to a princess like that.
* Learning 18 was 'just' a changeling has changed her ideas slightly, and she now wants a job.
* Everyone in the CE Crew is sad, so Chrysalis cheers them up with tapdancing... yes, tapdancing.
* Daw finds a sword in Pommels study. OOCO it's revealed to be a gift for her that she wants to enhance.
* Pinkie tries to cheer dash up. It works.
* Jugglejack wants to be in with Actarius, but a mob is blocking the way. There's only one thing to do..
* BECOME THE JUGGLE BALL AND BE JUGGLED INTO THE BUILDING
* Yes, he makes it in. No, nobody is sure how he gets inside a sealed building. His explanation? "Fucking holes". That's it.
* 32 starts to feel better, so of course ponies mob him. And 88 won't let him in.
* Over in Apploosa, they hear news of the reveal!... And do not give a FUCK.
* Cause 55 wanted them to eat a big old meal with the buffalo as friends, and they're eating a big old meal with the buffalo as friends, and anyone who thinks he's trying to infiltrate anything is right stupid.
* AJ is lamenting the loss of all her hard work, Chitania meanwhile rubs it in that she saw it coming.
* Aj snaps, chews her out and punches her. Yes, punches her. Then she tells her to fuck off so she can fix things.
* After the requisite punch back, Chitania does indeed leave to go get her daughter, and AJ vows to prove her wrong.
* PJ and Blueblood are sticking together.
* When Ponyville is ready to chuck out 29, it's up to Trixie to distract them! With a show!
* When that fails spectacularly, she switches tactics. As in, she starts hurting herself... a lot.
* It works.
* OOCO Spitfire tricks Dash into eating her underwear.
* Applejack panics just a bit more, and granny tries to calm her down to no avail.
* Luna tries to tell Canterlot to calm down, feels bad instead.
* Cadence is trying her hardest now.
* Pommel and Haymaker talk about how this is bothering them just as much as the regular ponies, but they have a job to do anyway.
* Applebloom, Sweetie Bell and Scootlaoo are now in a massive war featuring pretty much every hooved animal except ponies in a grand battle against living golems.
* ...Yep.
* Winona is there too, and tells them to stay back while she fights them off with her sword.
* There is communication error, and now the CMC are charging supergolems in a war... yep.
* 42 tires to cheer up 18. Succeeds.
* Chrysalis tries to cheer up Shining by messing up his papers. Succeeds.
* Gwne and Idris head off to the CE after learning about 18's deal, and they are ticked.
* Meanwhile, Vekir got drunk and is now in a barrel heading off to... somewhere.
* Chrysalis realizes the world is changing, things are no longer going uphill as they had been, and she needs to change with it.
* Chitania notices that things are happening like they did before. Only this time, she's ready for it.
* The Wonderbolts are now suspicious about each other.
* Big Mac needed to check to make sure AJ was AJ.
* Spitfire is assured she's not getting fired.
* Celestia and Luna see the mob seeking answers, but realize the truth might do more harm.
* Applejack is totally lost on how to deal with the mob surrounding the changelings, she doesn't know what to do at all.
* And, finally... Pennydrop has arrived in Canterlot.
* OOCO, Spike and Chrysalis make it out of the cave, and learn that this was all a big trick to get them to be nice to each other. They are, understandably, ticked. They leave, deciding to go to Pony Joes, and then have a talk. Afterwards Spike talks with AJ and Celestia about his problems, and they help him along. Finally, Spike decided to be more optimistic, and shoots his mirror... don't ask.
==THREAD 110==
* AJ HAS HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR SHIT EDITION!
* Chitania goes over to retrieve 13 so she can leave, but her daughter is unwilling to leave her hive behind. Reluctantly, Chitania takes 41 with them and decides to go collect the others.
* 32 makes it inside the embassy, where he's greeted by JJ, Acty and a 88, the last of whom is still making blindjokes. They decide to hole up and wait for this to pass by playing monopony, the fools.
* But they get an unexpected guest! No, really, really unexpected. It's Lavan.
* Lavan comes in and wants to play.
* Then he wants to know about changelings.
* Poor bastards.
* Shining Armor, after having a moment where he is forced to go over 18's work to see which ones were Cadences, decides to look on the bright side of life!
* Long story short, everyone tells him to get out of their places of work... don't ask.
* The Crystal Ponies don't know who they go to for outside investigations.
* Trixie runs out of things to hurt herself with, but that's okay! Because everyone got bored and left a while ago... yep...
* 29 laments that he's going to have to bunk with Zecora at this rate.
* Tonight was a bad night for Batmom/Dadling roleplay night.
* Soarin' proves he's not a changeling by whinnying
* 2's teacher needs help.
* 7 and Fluttershy discuss how he gets his love, and it's revealed Buttercup knows what sex is, which makes sense, but still
* Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootlaoo accidentally turn an already giant war into something worse by activating a super robot.
* The fillydelphia mayor is happy.
* 10 infiltrates Stalliongrad!
* Dash finishes reading the crowd control handbook, but everyone except Bulk left.
* Twilight asks Rarity if this is what she was hoping for, Rarity bluffs and says she knows it was right.
* DT can't use any of her cool new toys.
* Jetset finishes his training, even if he didn't quite get what he wanted, and goes off to go help with Canterlot
* Arana ran up to Canterlot to help Blueblood
* Up in Canterlot, while Coltsly is selling so much she can swim in bit and having ethical dilemmas, Pennydrop lands and takes control!
* She subtly influences the mob, playing on their need to seem high class, to turn them into a more focused force who go off to demand certain answers out of Celestia, the answers they want.
* Celestia sees them coming, and immediately recognizes something is off. She orders all her guards to stand down so as not to give any impression of oppression, and goes off to meet them herself.
* She engages in some talks with the mob, carefully thinning the herd so she can determine who is the leader of it all.
* Through this, she's able to narrow it down to one pony to invite in and discuss these 'requests'.
* "Miss Pennydrop, would you like to come in for some tea?"
* ~I would be delighted.~
* Celestia Vs Pennydrop is go.
* Back in ponyville, some of them don't even know why they're mobbing, but they're mobbing.
* Applejack has no idea what to do. Every option seems like a bad one, one that will either end with her exposed and none of her hometown trusting her ever again, the changelings being banished, or even worse. Sunset wants to know what AJ wants, and a desperate AJ asks her what to do. When Sunset cannot answer her, she becomes enrages and demands that Sunny go help watch the lings. Bitterly, Sunset points out that when she left, the thing that hurt the worst wasn't that Celestia hid stuff, it's that she didn't think she could handle it, as right as she turned out to be it still hurt.
* AJ keeps panicking, keeps trying to think of ways to both protect her hometown and keep her promise to Chrysalis, but can't manage anything while the mob gets worse.
* She waits too long, and someone else steps up instead...
* Chitania
* Chitania mocks the mob when they try to stop her and/or declare that this is proof of an invasion, taunting them by asking what they would do if this was an invasion, since none of them could actually fight her.
* Eventually, she orders the changelings to come with her, demanding it so they can be taken home. This finally makes AJ snap into action to protect them, but she finds her determination wavering when 13 steps forth and says this was her idea, and that she just wants to get them to safety since Applejack isn't doing anything. She doesn't want to, but if she has to she'll mind control the mob and make them move.
* The mob agrees to them leaving and says to get rid of the changelings, but Applejack realizes if they get kicked out now, there's no hope of them ever coming back and being accepted.
* Pommel asks for orders.
* Sunset asks for her to say something.
* Chitania demands she do something.
* Ponyville tells her to do something.
* The changelings tell her to do something.
* Then she snaps.
* Applejack lets out a SHUTTTT UPPPPPPP, goes off into a massive rant wherin she details that all of them are idiots and for various ways, goes into how she didn't even want to be a princess, rants that every choice she makes is wrong and makes everyone hates her, and rants that nothing she does with the changelings works.
* She declares that since none of her ideas is right, they can decide, and flys off, leaving behind confused and unsure remains.
* She lands in Everfree, the only option she had left thanks to avoiding her family and Canterlot, and aimlessly wanders until she reaches the old castle.
* Desperate for something, she heads towards it, figuring that since it had all the answers before, maybe it has one last miracle in there...
* OOCO, Spike works on his weapons with hilarious results.
==THREAD 111==
* AJ CRASHES AT CELLY'S OLD PLACE EDITION!
* Lavan is slowly driving everyone insane by asking about changelings. Or just by being there. Or accidentally being nice that one time!
* 18 wants to know if Chrysalis has a plan in case something goes wrong. She does. This, inexplicably, makes 18 feel better.
* In Ponyville, things are... not going well.
* With AJ gone, Chitania and 13 makes a move to take the lings. Initially, Pommel and Sunset tries to out talk her, but this utterly fails. After they ask the lings and get from them that they want safety, it looks like they're about to leave.
* Until Sunset has a brilliant idea, and points out that 29 still isn't there! Despite his nature, 13 does want to protect the entire hive, and that includes getting him to safety. Unable to go off herself, or send her mother, 13 is out of options when Sunset offers to get him herself, even though she knows this is just to stall.
* 13 says she has one hour to 'find' him before she just sends Chitania after him, and Sunset runs off.
* Cue a whole lot of awkward small talk from Pommel and Chitania.
* Also, Chitania is not a fan of Monopony, to put it mildly.
* Spike and DT have a bit of an... issue.
* Shinings attempt to hang out with 2 does not go well when Gwendolyn's airship arrives.
* Cadence, however, is too caught up in trying to be a better royal to go do the diplomacy thing. The thing she's really good at.
* She sends Shining instead. This is not a good idea.
* Instead, Gwendolyn bursts in, sends Idris out of the room and starts screaming her head off and insulting Shining for making her trade with a changeling.
* Then, out of the blue, Chrysalis appears, and asks if that would really be such a bad thing. Since she's been considering staking it out on her own, she outright asks if they ever did if Gwen would ally with them like she did the CE.
* To her dismay, Gwen vehemently says no, outright comparing Chrysalis to Chitania at her worst and openly declaring she will never ally with changelings.
* When Shining, a little angry to say the least, asks her what she wants to achieve, she replies she wants every changeling out of the Empire's castle, now and forever, or else she's cutting off trade.
* Shining absolutely loses his cookies, screaming right back and getting so angry he splits his table in two. He tells her off and orders her to get out of the Empire, and that's that.
* Chrysalis leaves this abrasive, heading straight for the portal as soon as they're gone while pondering that this would be the case with everyone when she strikes it out on her own. She starts to get into very harsh thoughts, when Shining stops her just before she leaves to Canterlot.
* He pleads with her to stop, outright begging her not to make the situation worse. Because while he can mitigate the Gwen thing, if she makes it worse, if it gets bad in Canterlot, then he might not be able to do anything. His people might ask her to go, and, as he puts it.
* "I don't want you to go."
* Chrysalis is touched by this, calms down immensely, but insists she has to go to Canterlot. But before she does, she promises she won't make the situation worse. All she asks is that he believe her.
* He believes her.
* Screwloose knows about Pennydrop entering the castle... somehow.
* Pennydrop does indeed go in, and a back and forth with Celly ensues when Celly sees through her almost instantly after Pennydrop states she doesn't want to helm the investigation herself. Despite this, Pennydrop plays it off, makes her demands for the investigations and barring all the changelings and changeling associates from the castle, and keeps up with Celestia's verbal sparring. Outright challenging her in one instance, which Celestia doesn't take her up on.
* But, sadly, Pennydrop gets the upper hand when she says she's going to go out there and tell everyone she agreed to everything, since if Celestia suddenly backed down after that it would look suspicious.
* Outside, Pennydrop's plan goes off, for a bit. At least until a certain someone steps up.
* Fancypants takes the reigns! He declares he'll be heading up the investigation, and Pennydrop is forced to agree, despite her wanting someone a little more paranoid. Fancy declares he won't hold back, but Celestia isn't worried.
* The mob is dispersed and clear, leaving only Pennydrop and Celestia, who shoot barbs at each other one last time, with Pennydrop wishing her a happy vacation.
* ...Well, the beaches are nice that time of year...
* 29 tries sneaking. Gets Mission Impossible instead... yep.
* The CMC fail to stop that thing they did, and A strange new challenger appears!
* 7 meets up with his last beast-thing, Blossom, who is quite a lot smarter than the others and tailing... something.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Applejack is in Everfree Castle, going over the events that transpired and what brought her here.
* She has a hallucinatory conversation with Celestia, just like old times.
* She thinks back to her parents and if they would be proud of her.
* She questions what brought her to lie in the first place, and for so long
* And, finally, in desperation, she turns to the Tree of Harmony, the thing that helped her out so long ago, to maybe have an answer to solve this situation.
* One problem.
* It's not talking to her.
* ...Because it's a tree.
* Didn't think this through all the way.
==THREAD 112==
* APPLES SOLVE EVERYTHING EDITION!
* Jetset on his way back to Canterlot meets up with a most unexpected guest. None other than 56, booty lover himself!
* Jetset, his phasing powers still quite unstable, tries to escape him to no avail, and while being caught he hears from someone else who he would rather not see. Someone most... 'Professional'
* Lavan continues his quest to make everyone crazy!
* After they throw a paper airplane into her eye, Chitty and the others have had enough of 41's and SP's shit, and tie them up.
* 29 is worried about 56
* SA lays the bad news on Cadence about their trading partners, while Cadence assures him he probably did all he could.
* Lucky brings up to Chitania that she should be getting paid for her comic.
* Also, Chitty never wondered if she can shrink down.
* Chrysalis is determined not to make things any worse.
* Celestia fills everyone in that they will be having some time off. They all wonder what they're going to do in their time off.
* Luna doesn't know, but she's taking her bed.
* Idris, on his way home, discovers that his two eldest children have stowed away on the airship, leaving Siegfried behind to be harassed by Handydog
* Many jokes ensue about them creeping out him and Gwen.
* DT blows up Celestia's front lawn with her landing, prompting the princess to blow the thing up.
* DT's attemtps to put it back together go poorly, and long story short Spike becomes a bomb.
* The CMC make the giant golem situation worse. Yes... worse.
* Spitfire assures Shiny if they ever get kicked out and she gets elected, she'll let him live in her house. Clearly, Shiny is appreciative.
* 7 finds out about the goings on. Finds it unfortunate.
* Sunset finds 29 and crew, stuffs them in a shack to wait out AJ's return.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Applejack speaks with the tree, pleads and begs it to give her a means to fix everything in her desperation. She asks, and asks, and asks, but it doesn't answer.
* Because it's a tree.
* Eventually it gets too much, and Applejack bucks it.
* That's right, she bucks the Tree of Harmony. She bucks it.
* And it drops an apple. A red, slightly off color, glowing apple.
* Before she can even process how crazy that is, someone speaks to her!
* "Where... are my... changelings.."
* It seems Chrysalis has found her.
* Despite her pleas and attempts to explain, Chrysalis nearly hits her, until Applejack says one particular thing
* "It's not that bad!" and with that, Chrysalis stops.
* She just stops, seemingly no longer caring. When asked why she's not angry, the Queen says she is still really angry, but it's not that bad so she shouldn't make a deal out of it.
* After some testing, Applejack puts together that the apples magic is to make anyone who hears her words believe them to be the absolute truth, even though the apple doesn't change reality itself. Anything she says, Chrysalis will just outright believe and never question.
* She discovers this by telling her that she's not the greatest Queen. Bit harsh.
* Instantly, Applejack's mind is going, and she says to herself that at last she can fix Equestria! She reasons that with this, she can make all of Ponyville, nay, all the world know the truth that the changelings just want peace, and they'll believe it. She even reasons she can make them believe pretty much anything, including telling the changelings that all they want is peace.
* But the Apple can only make you believe it, not change who you are, so Chrysalis snaps back into thinking of all the things she needs to do to become the greatest Queen, which Applejack shoots down every one with her truth apple. Despite this, she never stops.
* When Chrysalis finally asks her what she does need to do in order to be the best Queen, Applejack has to think about that, realizing all the good she can make Chrysalis do if she just focuses her. She ponders, and thinks, wondering just exactly how to make the Queen do what she wants.
* But when Chrysalis pushes her too far, she realizes that the thing she needs to do is make Chrysalis change, and the only way to do that is to stop her from having someone to run back to.
* She needs to get rid of her enabler.
* So, she tells Chrysalis if she wants to be the best Queen, she has to move out of the Crystal Empire.
* "Fuck you"
* It seems that the Apple stopped working, or something to that measure, as Chrysalis brushes off this 'truth'. Applejack stops paying attention to her, now focusing on how to make the Apple work again, and what it's limits might be.
* Chrysalis tries talking to her, but she won't answer. When she gets annoyed with this and reaches for the apple, Applejack snaps, desperate to keep anyone from taking her apple again.
* And by that, I mean she punches Chrysalis with everything she has.
* "That was very stupid."
* Things have gotten really crazy.
==THREAD 113==
* CHRYSALIS BEATDOWN EDITION!
* Screwloose and 12 celebrate their two week anniversary. It's... weird.
* SA and 42 talk about Cadence's progress, and SA reminisces about when she was younger, wilder, more full of energy.
* 42 wants him to go on.
* He will not.
* LD is put in charge of the Wonderbolts while Dash is on leave.
* Quicksilver likes comic Chitty better.
* 29, still in the shed, notices Sunset is rather cold. She fills them in on her state, he fills her in on dead orphans.
* Luna is curious as to what is happening in Ponyville, but is calm when Celestia tells her that Ponyville is more accepting. Still, she heads off to check on something.
* That something, coincidentally, is Chitanias home. Only, she's not there, it's just Sweet Note behind a bunch of security. SN tells her Chitty will be back in five minutes, but Luna doesn't wish to wait that long. Instead, she's more focused on the disrespect SN gives her thanks to her authority problems.
* Derpy gives Chitty jury duty via paper airplane. Chitty claims she can't read. Nobody argues her.
* 42 realizes she hasn't punched anybody in a while, and decides to fight Mane-Iac, because.
* Daw finally gets her confirmation that there are pony pods. And they are cool.
* The CMC discover a possible tactic to stop the golem, pulling out the spears! But before they can, a Zebra named Zebrata beats them to it. A zebra with a terrible secret... SHE IS HALF DONKEY.
* Yeah, nobody cares
* Then she gets zapped because a shield is protecting the spears.
* Neat.
* Back in ponyville, time runs out, and Chitania sets out to find 29, Pommel right on her tail.
* 29 hears her coming and welcomes death.
* OOCO, Spike continues to test Twilight's flying apparatus with hillarious results that end with him in pain.
* He reveals that he's only doing it to spend more time with her, which is adorable.
* BUT SCREW ALL THAT BECAUSE IT'S THE MAIN EVENT
* Applejack regrets hitting her, but knows she had to do it in order to save Equestria.
* But when Chrysalis advances on her, all bets are out the window, and she goes full defensive. To the point when lassos and bucking rocks at her don't work, she turns to another means of attack.
* In desperation, AJ uses magic, getting in a devastating blow to Chrysalis' stomach before shooting her against a wall.
* Thanks to this moment, she manages to learn via winging it how to manipulate rocks and dirt, and eventually even 'call' to roots and vines in the ground in devastating earth based attacks.
* When just relying on magic doesn't work and she gets cornered, she uses something else, flight. She's unsteady, she can't fly very well, but with Chrysalis on her tail she figures out how to go fast!
* Thus begins an aerial battle, with AJ using her skills together for the very first time!
* Despite the massive struggle and devastation, she's no match for Chrysalis one on one. She's forced down after a terrible blow, and it looks like Chrysalis is going to take the apple.
* At the last second, Applejack tells her she can't take that apple, and to her surprise Chrysalis doesn't! It seems the Apple is working again!
* After a quick shot to get her away, the tides completely turned. Aj uses the truth powers to devastating effects, forcing Chrysalis to miss every shot, ram into walls, all while she batters her with spells and attacks big and small!
* Eventually, she even takes away Chrysalis's ability to fight back, when she tells her that her magic will set off a methane leak, and her wings will pop off if she tries to fly, which Chrysalis accepts as truth.
* After a furious beatdown, Chrysalis can just barely stand, and AJ puts the final nail in the coffin'.
* "It's pointless to keep fighting. You want to give up."
* "...It's true."
* It looks for a second like Chrysalis might quit, might give up, but instead... she charges her!
* Even without her wings or magic, she fights on as Applejack unleashes magic like she's never done before, roots and vines and stones and even a giant hammer made of root and stone beating the Changeling blue, but she never gives up.
* Never, until somehow, some way, she catches Applejack at a weak moment, and steals the apple.
* Only, after all the attacks, Chrysalis does not even have the strength to shoot the apple and destroy it.
* Angry at her, Applejack makes a chilling demand to the downed changeling.
* "Chrysalis... either you give me that apple right now..."
* "Or Ah'm gonna kill you."
* It's almost over.
==THREAD 114==
* THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN OF ULTIMATE DESTINY EDITION!
* Luna is offended by what Sweet Note said, but drops it when she sees Celestia packing a swimsuit while talking about going to the Empire. That seems more important. So she goes off to confront Shining about this.
* To her dismay, the portal to the Empire is closed. Still at least she gets to see Celestia with her hoof stuck in a pickle jar.
* Discord talks to Twilight about just snapping his fingers and giving Spike wings. He refuses, for chaos reasons
* But it seems Twilight has a solution, a mutagen of some kind, but she won't use if for way more obvious reasons.
* Chitania, while using her changeling detection abilities to search for 29, finds a changeling alright, just not the one she was looking for.
* 77 is not amused, it's the middle of the damn night.
* Also, he missed all of that, because he is a heavy sleeper.
* Chitania brings him to a less than enthused 13 before setting out again.
* Red is happy everyone else is leaving, but convinces primrose to stay.
* 42 and SA spar and talk about the populance being worried. Along the way, 32 mentions that if SA were being mind controlled like they fear, she'd punch Chrysalis.
* Twilight tries to cheer up Rarity to little effect.
* Dadling cheers up an upset Batmom, who is being kicked out during the investigation, with promises of beach sex.
* Chitania can't divine 29, likely due to Sunset, so she picks another method to find him, turning into a bloodhound to sniff him out.
* Yes, she still has terrible stupid colors.
* Cadence still won't pay attention to Shining.
* Fluttershy leaves 7, promising to tell Chrysalis he's alive.
* Lavan agrees to go fix 88's eyes, but he needs to take her somewhere else to do it.
* Chitania finds 29, but is blinded by Trixie's lights.
* A chase ensues throughout Ponyville, with Pommel and Sunset trying to stop Chitania in her Titan form from catching 29, to little avail. They can't phase her, and Sunset can't drain her.
* But it all proves pointless, as she accidentally herds him into the mob. Or not accidentally. Just mobs are involved.
* Fluttershy meets back up with Twilight and Rarity, and hears what happened.
* The CMC's adventures come to a close! After a long, hard, fierce fought battle, theyyyyy... completely fail to pull out the spears and stop the golem before it prepares it's earth destroying attack.
* But thankfull, they don't have to! Because none other than the greatest their of them all VEKIR is there to save the day and run off!
* The Golem collapses, and the day is saved!... And it turns out the CMC have been going the wrong way this whole time.
* Because of course they have.
* Oh, and Vekir runs off with the legendary spears, because of course she does.
* Finders keepers.
* Jetset has a... phasing accident involving a branch, let's just say.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT AND HOLY SHIT IT'S BIG!
* Applejack's threat of killing her carry's over, even if she didn't think she actually could do it. She knows how bad it sounds, but also accepts there is a bigger picture to this than just the Queen.
* This comes to Chrysalis's dismay. She had been hoping that Applejack would snap out of being crazy without the Apple. Even as Applejack continues to threaten her, she knows what she has to do now.
* Which, to AJ's horror is stick the apple in her mouth to bite it, but she stops from biting down when Applejack screams in horror and declares to Chrysalis that she just destroyed Equestria.
* Despite her thoughts, she asks Applejack to continue. AJ tries to be vague about it and tells Chrysalis just to trust her, but she won't no matter what is said. She tries enough she becomes angry, and in a fit of that anger she lets it slip that the changelings aren't safe.
* Chrysalis puts together what the Apple can do soon after that.
* While initially horrified she was mind controlled, Chrysalis eventually begins to think of all she could do with a magic that lets anything she say be taken as absolute fact. Her dreams grow bigger and bigger, until she has thoughts of a world as she envisions it.
* But, when she gets to Shining Armor, something happens.
* The thought of using it on him, or any of the CE, honestly seems to disturb the Queen, to affect her so much that she loses focus for just a second, and loosens her grip on the Apple long enough for Applejack to strike it out of her mouth.
* "Ah' believe this is mine"
* With that settled, she drags Chrysalis into the cave with the Tree of Harmony to keep her safe while she goes to 'save Equestria'. But Chrysalis won't stay down, unwilling to let Applejack use the apple on Shining.
* When Aj argues her, Chrysalis says there has to be another way.
* Applejack is enraged by this, asking her why she always has to take the hard road when it clearly doesn't why. Why not take the easy road that would fix it once, fix it forever for sure, instead of the slow way that keeps getting sent back to square one all the time?
* More to the point, Applejack brings up that all of this, the suspicion and fear, is because of Chrysalis. Without the invasion, this wouldn't even be an issue.
* She does not deny that, instead accepts that it's her fault. Still, Chrysalis can't give up, because Shining believed in her when she said she would not make it worse. When Applejack asks why that's so important, Chrysalis claims she can never understand.
* The argument rages, but eventually Chrysalis declares that if she wants to leave, she had to knock her out by hitting her in the head. She grabs on and will not let go otherwise.
* AJ says that every second she holds her, the changelings are in danger, but she won't let go.
* We don't see what happens, but AJ later walks to Ponyville, alone, still thinking she needs to use the Apple to make everyone understand.
* She comes to the town to find them in the middle of accusing Twenty Nine of being an infiltrator and forcing him with the others despite his protests.
* Seeing such a familiar place with such familiar ponies acting so teribly wrong strikes a chord in her, hitting her deeply when she realizes that all that fear, all of it, was her fault, and it was her fault because they can't believe in her anymore.
* She eventually speaks up just before the changelings can leave, asking them to stay just long enough for her to say her piece.
* She talks to the town about how much it meant to her when she was the dependable one, when she was someone they could always count on no matter what. When she became a princess, she was always afraid of changing, and at some point, she must have.
* She admits she knew about the thing with 18, and didn't care. It was working, taking some of the burden off and making her life easier. That was all she ended up caring about, getting it done so she could move on because otherwise it seemed like the work would never stop.
* She admits her fears about the changelings, and her disgust at herself for waiting so long to help fix their reputation.
* And, finally, she admits that if they don't believe in her, this isn't going to work. Being a princess is built on them trusting her, that's why they pay taxes and the like. If they don't, then she needs to call it quits.
* And, throughout all of it, she never uses her words in a way that could set off the Apple.
* Finally, she asks, if they can believe in her.
* Some do.
* Some don't.
* There is no one belief.
* ...and that is fine.
* Afterwards she asks the changelings if they can forgive her for abandoning her, if they still think she can help them or should she just give up.
* Some still believe in her, some don't. There is no one thought.
* And that is just fine.
* But, they do concede that maybe they should just wait until the Queen says something. They can give her that much, at least.
* She didn't fix everything in an instant, it's not all done.
* But Applejack has won.
* She's planted her seeds, and she's going to help them grow.
* Afterwards, she meets up with Chrysalis, who is revealed to have dragged herself clear from Everfree.
* They talk, and Applejack reveals that all through it, she wanted to just stop and use the Apple, to get it over with and be done. She reveals the temptation was so strong, and it still is now. Finally, she asks if that's what it's like for Chrysalis.
* Chrysalis responds "...Yes. Every Day."
* They both conceded they need to get rid of the Apple, only Applejack accepts she can't do it. It's too tempting, and she wants to use it still even now.
* Chrysalis understands, and Applejack asks her how she gave it up.
* The Queen admits she couldn't... not alone.
* They burn the apple away, Applejack giving the Queen magic to do so, and Aj prepares to leave.
* But Chrysalis stops her, and reveals that inside of the Apple had been strange seeds. Ones that were glowing like the Apple was, but seemed less... malevolent.
* AJ aks her why she revealed this, and Chrysalis said it might just be best sometimes to be a little... 'honest'.
* When she gets them, a strange 'something' passes by AJ's vision.
* Thanks are had, and the princess tells Chrysalis that Shining was right to believe in her.
* They shake hooves and it seems like something has changed.
* Aj sets off to get the changelings to the Empire, but Chrysalis is going to just fly home, leaving the lings in her care. Before she leaves, however, she has to point out that Applejack's armor is a little late for Nightmare Night.
* That's right, she was wearing the armor the whole time.
* They both laugh, and set off on their ways. AJ to get the Armor off and get the lings home, and Chrysalis...
* To the place where everybody knows her name.
* The hard part isn't over, Applejack knows it, it's going to be a long road...
* But she won't walk it alone.
==THREAD 115==
* ON THE TRAIN AGAIN EDITION!
* AJ, despite her efforts from many, cannot get her armor all the way off, and decides to live with it.
* Refusing to let that get her down, she resolves that, instead, she's going to be a better princess! To try harder than ever before, to be the mare she was always meant to be! She was going to march up to Canterlot, and-
* CRASH
* ...And learn from Dash that, in fact, that's not happening.
* And then she must scream.
* Meanwhile, SA questions what could have happened to the unconscious Chrysalis, getting zero helpful answers from anyone.
* 41 and SP lament they missed the lucha show.
* 13 walks in when Chitania hires a certain mailmare to fly to Canterlot to go tell Sweet Note to get on the train that will take them to the Empire. She learns this is because Chitania isn't willing to leave her even for a moment, and the two bond over it.
* Chrysalis wakes up and is immediately questioned by Shining Armor. She continually asserts she didn't make it worse, but Shining cannot care about any of that. He openly admits that he never cared about it for them, but because he was worried something was going to happen to her. Again and again, he questions Chrysalis who hurt her, but Chrysalis merely dodges the question and blows him off, acting as flippant as ever.
* Still, eventually she convinces him everything is okay, and he admits he doesn't need to make her promise not to mess anything up intentionally anymore, he trusts her now.
* Later, 42 asks if she requires an assassination.
* 32's embassy is being shut down, so JJ convinces him to go to the Empire to show he's okay, never knowing that Chrysalis sent a spy to go make sure of that already.
* Quicksilver is not cleared of his debt. In fact, he somehow makes it way worse.
* Lavan takes 88 on a wild adventure! While trying to fix her eyes in a desolate wasteland, they literally pop right out of her head and roll off...He's not very good at this.
* Blind and reliant on Lavan to direct her, she gets into all sorts of strange situations when Lavan's magic makes it grow giant mushrooms everywhere the eyeballs land.
* She bounces around and eventually ends up underground, where she meets up with a strange mole... who is talking.
* This is gonna be a weird ride.
* 56 learns from Harshwhinny that the Lunar Guard captains name is Mourning Mist... yes, you read that right.
* Yes, she is a complete fruitcase.
* AJ feels sorry for herself for about half a second before Dash knocks her out of it by pointing out that she went full Rarity.
* Sweet Note is so happy she's going to the Empire that she is literally swinging on Chitania's horn.
* She is literally doing that, swinging on her horn.
* Also she is super catty with 32.
* 2 tries to keep Cadence company, but can't sit still.
* Twilight lost the keys to her tanks.
* Mane-Iac is mad that Chrysalis was in a battle and didn't invite her.
* Pommel wonders if he should say something to a sad 29, 77 tells him not to bother, as he'll only make it worse.
* Celestia bursts in while Shiny is lamenting what a terrible day he had, ready for fun and excitement!
* Then he has to tell her about Chrysalis.
* She is not happy.
* Pennydrop sends Flash and Fizzle on an assignment to go force the mare who's seeing 7 to break up with him.
* LD tries to be intimidating, Bulk makes this hard.
* The others, not including AJ, wonder what to do with their free time, and Pinkie insists they go have fun.
* Even though Celestia tries to chew out Chrysalis, the bug queen laughs her off and won't tell her what happened. She gets up despite Celesita's protests, and says she's going to meet the lings when they arrive.
* Shining is less than thrilled about this, and tries to take her back to be via force, but she convinces him not to.
* MM is wallowing in the pity of not being a good mayor.
* Then Trixie jinxes it and now MM is being investigated since, you know, her situation is eerily similar to the CE's one.
* She cries harder while Zecora stangles Trixie.
* Rarity and Spike talk about their relationship, and Spike admits he never really moved past her, and Rarity admits she wishes things had been different before resolving to go talk to AJ.
* The Crystal Ponies are worried about 18 or the royals being influenced in some way, but don't want to look like dicks by kicking out the guys who keep saving them to find the answers.
* So, they hatch a plan...
==THREAD 116==
* TO THE BEACH WE GO EDITION!
* AJ considers trying to use her magic some more, but keeps getting interrupted.
* 88 continues her wild trek, following the mole Clay into a weird underground city, where he takes her to meet the mysterious 'Birdie', who oversees it all.
* But when the group arrives in the stalactite that houses her, they find that unlike what you would expect, she's not a bird at all! She's a pony!
* More specifically, CANARY GEM! She's the one who 88 replaced when she awoke after being taken over, and Canary is none to happy about it, attempting to kill her with a trap door!
* ...But 88 can fly.
* So, instead, a fierce battle begins between the two while Lavan and Clay look on! Their anger keeping them going while Raging on!
* And on... and on... and on... and on... and- we'll come back to that one later.
* Two notices all the Crystal Ponies marching and bugs Cadence about it.
* 56 continues his time with Jetset while making his way to the castle, noticing it looks quite weird from here.
* But, before they can make it, they are confronted! By none other than... A CHANGELING...Just a changeling infiltrator, not named yet.
* They say they're going to take 56 to the Empire, but he's having none of that! He kicks that ling right between the legs... and it turns out it's a mare.
* Even Jetset calls Bullshit.
* A battle begins with 56 struggling not to be caught so he may reach the castle and find the Common Room, but just when all seems lost, he is saved by none other than the Nightgard Captain herself with a dynamic kick! Mourning Star!... Who's real name is Potsticker, but she felt that was not befitting a night gaurd.
* She brings Jetset and Harshwhinny up to date with the goings on, and then realizes she's made a terrible mistake when she finds out the changeling she just beaned in the head wasn't an invader...
* And is pissed.
* SA helps Chrysalis make it to the train station to meet the others, and all watch with bated breath for them to arrive! Chrysalis's eyes go narrow, and she hungers for-
* CRASH! CRASHCRASHCRASH!
* ...It turns out Shining forgot to turn off the shield for Twenty Nine, and terrible things have happened.
* After that mess, AJ and Chrysalis confront each other, and bicker like AJ was her roomate and she brought back a scratched CD, instead of foes. The others are not complaining.
* Chrsysalis asks her to take the changelings back to the Stadium, as she's not up to talking to them right now because of rockpunchrealted reasons, and AJ agrees, both leaving amicably.
* While doing so, AJ is confronted by the changeling with the potted plant, who asks her if this is the end, since there's no room in the Empire for his plant with all the land taken. AJ assures him, and insists if there's no land here, he'll have to set out and find it, wherever he can to let his plant grow.
* And she's gonna help him.
* Back at the train, Pommel, 32 and 77 are helping the now slightly depressed 29, who will not blink. He just won't.
* In helping him, they have him run over by rampaging ponies, dropped in front of a train, and then face down in a fountain.
* They are not good at this.
* But Sweet Note is having fun with Chitania and 13 and having a ball in the Empire, that's nice.
* While walking away with Chrysalis, Shining is confronted by his entire populace, who all have something to say.
* And that is that it's a very special, totally not made up holiday! Yep! This absolutely real and in no way made up so they can have Shining and co out of the castle holiday is how the CE ponies show their royals how good a job they're doing by sending them all on a trip, and if they did a good job they go to a nice place! That makes sense!
* This holiday that is SO REAL means all the upper CE government get the time off, so everyone has to go! Everyone! Including Chrysalis who they are including to show they consider her one of them and totally for zero other reasons! It's so real!
* Having no choice, Shining humors them, and decides to take the time off, thinking they just need some time to assure themselves their royals can be trusted.
* It takes some convincing, but he gets Cadence and Chrysalis to agree to go, with the others including Celestia needing no argument.
* Pinkie seemingly gets impatient as one by one the main six arrive to get on the train, but it always turns out to be something else.
* Until the end, that is, when it turns out she was being impatient. Huh.
* Long story short, she got a hearshy kiss, and now it she and the other four traveled to the Empire on Centitrain and picked AJ up... yep.
* Fancry begins his investigations! First off hiring some assistants. Such as a Mrs and Mr Hackaway.
* Who are totally not 12 and Screwloose.
* He is then called down to the cells, where he is spoken to by Flim and Flam, who try to pitch their sorting machine to speed up his search. It's good in theory, not so much when they realize they can't get it out of the cell
* Their breakdown realizing is interrupted when a certain someone is found in the castle, someone who scrams "SPIDER NOISES!" a lot.
* Arana and Blueblood are questioned, and it's determined they're officially POI thanks to where Arana lives and what she's capable of.
* So, despite the fact they're terrified with her, she's rooming with flim and flam!
* 32 tells Chrysalis all about the new ally he's made!... And the fact he let Lavan take 88 to restore her sight.
* When 77 goes to tell Chrysalis he's okay, she is using him like a basketball, and 77 is not mad.
* BUT! 32 convinces them both to give Lavan a chance, and if she does not return, Chrysalis can punish him however she wishes, but if he does, Chrysalis has to provide a cake... that 77 and Chrysalis has to make.
* Nobody remembers Actarius, except 41 and SP... who punch him.
* Applejack does not question it when the other main five and Spike arrive, and have her bags all packed and ready for a trip.
* She just gets on the fucking Centitrain.
* Chrysalis tells the changelings not to fuck up.
* After finishing packing, Shining, Cadence, Two Chrysalis, 18, 42, Spitfire, Sombra and Mane-Iac all head out to the train station!... Two gets a hold of the controls.
* This isn't going to end well.
* But, left behind, all the changelings and Crystal ponies aren't sure what to do at first, giving each other a stare down for a little bit as they assess the other.
* Then they realize their royals are gone.
* And decide to party.
* ...it's gonna be fun.
==THREAD 117==
* SUMMER FUN IS SERIOUS BUSINESS EDITION!
* Applejack never had to do paperwork to update her status when she became a princess... yep...
* On the first stop, Spike gets everyone snacks... it goes really poorly.
* 88 continues her wild journey, battling her old persona Canary Gem, and coming to the conclusion that because of what she did, her family never got any closure or a proper burial.
* So, in exchange for helping her, Canary wants her to go and get her body and tell them everything, and then pay them bits. Lots of bits.
* Things get weirder when she is sent back on the journey and learns that, of all things, changelings are awaiting her on her next stop!
* Only, when she meets facsimiles of 32 and 50, her old hivemate, she learns they're not quite the same.
* Mostly the fact they are very tiny is a red flag.
* the Main Six and Spike arrive at the destination Pinkie was bringing them to at last! Behold! A beach!... A great big, empty beach, with nothing on it but a tiny little shack.
* Before they can protest, Pinkie sends Centitrain away, and they have no way of knowing which way civilization was or where they are. But that's okay, because they have each other!
* They don't have their bags, or anything they brought, but they have each other!
* And the all have to sleep in the same room, because the shack only has one, with Pinkie on the top looking out for seawolves... which are a thing.
* A thing that attract seabears, which are a worse thing, apparently.
* So, they all have to sleep cuddled together on the ground with no sleeping bags.
* Spike is finding it very hard to keep it in...
* It's going to be a long trip.
* Back at the Empire, a crystal pony wants Chitty's autograph on her comic book, but laments that Chitania acts too much like Titania. Try to wrap your head around that one.
* Pommel and Sunset are not happy when they find out they got left behind.
* Having had enough of this, and 29's(perhaps justified) moping, 32 says they need to go on a trip of their own! Him, Pommel, Daw, 77, and 29, and of course their friends, to Puerto Burro, a tourist trap. Reluctantly, or not at all but disregarded in 29's case, they agree, and Daw heads off to Ponyille to invite Cheerliee and MM's crew!
* Meanwhile, the CE crew arrive at their place and find it's actually freaking amazing. A massive beachside villa filled with all sorts of amenities and cool things, even a theater. Without question, they all rush to go have fun with it.
* All except for one, Cadence. Who remains on the train, focused on her task of learning.
* Forty Two is tasked with getting her out, but rather than do the social situation, she instead opts to rip the room out of the train and carry it.
* Speaking of rooms, everyone picks theirs! Cadence is first, running into the office the Villa has and locking/barricading the door after literally slamming it in Shiny's face. Then Chrysalis picks a room, and Celestia, and Eighteen, and Forty Two, and Spitfire, and Two, leaving only one room for Shining and Sombra.
* Sombra reveals his hidden secret, mouthsand, and steals the last room.
* Looks like Shiny's sleeping on the floor this vacation...
* But no matter, because Two wants to see the fishies! By... flying over them.
* Celestia is forced to be the one to bring her back in, when Shining can't, because... yeah.
* When daylight comes for the Main Six, Pinkie has created a giant sandcastle, and wishes to have all know of her amazing land which she now controls.
* Needless to say, war is on, and the greatest battles for ponies begin, with many a water balloon or squirt gun related scuffle to follow in between naming problems.
* Back in Canterlot, Lingmare who looks like a dude has lost her cookies.
* A back and forth ensues with the Nightguard captain, until she breaks down at last and grabs hold of her with magic.
* BUT! The NGC has brought backup!
* BUT! The Ling knows she beat up most of them(and may have slept with one of their wives) anyway!
* BUT! Another changeling arrives and points out the first changeling is being stupid. He reasons with 56, pointing out if he goes to the castle he'll be arrested, and guard's can't have criminal records, so 56 decides to wait on his search for the common room, thanking Jetset and Harshwhinny and promising the NGC he'll return to this exact spot so it's not cheating.
* And the changeling... has herself a little cry.
* In Ponyville, Daw arrives to tell 29's friends and 77's fiance about the trip! And she totally knows about who those are despite never meeting them!... right?
* She does not. They didn't tell her. Whoops.
* However, it does not take long before she gets the information, and after a terrifying visit to the school she finds out MM and crew are already on a train heading to the CE! She chases their train down, and taps on the window... and then Trixie shoots her.
* Then when she comes back Zecora judo flips her
* Then MM just tosses icecream into her eyes.
* Then the whole mess gets cleared up and they all agree to go on a vacation... because that's how that works.
* Spike is about to go fishing with his gun, when up from the depths! Thirty stories tall! It's Nicezilla!... Who would rather Spike didn't shoot her babies.
* Spike, wisely, agrees, and she gives him a soycube.
* Do not ask how Nicezilla gets soycubes in the ocean.
* The changelings do not know why they are on a fucking beach...
* Sunset hangs out with chitania, it gets awkward
* Applejack cannot into magic.
* Cadence is really struggling with her studies, only managing two forms after several hours and a lot of inner turmoil, as she very much wants to go out and have fun...
* The CMC may have gotten into illegal pitfighting..
* Applejack discovers she has a candy bar, and with only pickled vegetables to eat besides... there are gunshots, let's just say.
* Chitania is not happy when she learns that she is banned from the library from Pommel, making it very clear if this is not lifted, she will have no reason not to attack.
* Pommel actually stands up to her, saying he's faced scarier, notably Brahmos.
* She laughs him off, but he points out the real reason why she's not going to attack, and it's because if she did, the CE would help in the fight. If they helped, then Chrysalis would want the Hive to help out her allies. If they helped, and Chitania killed a single changeling... 13 wouldn't forgive her and hate her forever.
* He says Brahmos wasn't scarier because of what he could do, but because unlike her, he would have done it already, and not cared. He's not worried, because when push comes to shove, she won't attack if it means 13 might hate her.
* Later, Pommel finds Sweet Note, and shockingly they both realize they come from Baltimare.
* Only difference is, SN comes from the... less sunny side. Pommel, on the other hoof, doesn't even believe her when she says how bad her place was, thinking that Baltimare didn't have anything anywhere near that bad, and no chance were the guard as bad as she says, he never saw anything like that, and it couldn't have had anything to do with him not going to those parts.
* Still, when he leaves, he has some doubts...
* FUZZY AND THE BUZZ RETURN!
* 77, while preparing for the trip to Puerto Burro, stumbles across something very... odd in the train.
* Cheese sandwhich.
* He is there, he has been there the whole time, he keeps missing the stop to Canterlot...
* He decides to go along when he learns Pinkie isn't there.
* Meanwhile with the CE crew, weird things are happening in the villa...
* And with the Main Six, the battle comes to a close after a long day's work, and they decide to rest for the evening as the sun sets.
* Which is when the shack collapses from all the damage, of course, leaving them nowhere to sleep.
* They may have gone a bit too far.
* This is only the beginning...
==THREAD 118==
 
==THREAD 119==
* TWO YEARS EDITION!
* 88 sets off with mini-77, mini-32 and Lavan on an adventure down a stream! Surprisingly, she does not freak out in the water.
* It's not long before they stumble across their targets, the Morlocks! Only, things are a little different here. For instance, Vekir is now as tall as Celestia is... so that's a thing.
* OOCO anniversary stories.
* Applejack has a crisis of conscious following her... uh... 'event' with the apple, but a dream visit with Celly puts that all to rest!
* She wakes up hung over as all hell thanks to the rum they found, and her and Dash return back to the hatch to find that in her sleep, Fluttershy summoned exactly 62 giant crabs.
* Mane-Iac tried to cook... it uh... it did not go well.
* Cadence continues to work her ass off to better herself, and remains away from the work outside.
* A discussion on what is healthy for a changeling yields shocking results.
* Chitania is harassed by a super edgy pony.
* Fluttershy feels bad about the crabs, but AJ cheers her up.
* Fancy discovers many shocking things about the castle. Such as, for instance, Coco's story. He's not sure if this counts in his investigation or not...
* He also learns about the killer robot, who he sends down with Flim and Flam, Blueblood, Arana and the Morlocks. It's getting crowded down there.
* Fuzzy and Buzz take calls
* Chrysalis and 18 hate the ocean, but surprisingly not each other.
* Fluttershy almost gets a hold of the crabs, just one little problem.
* That problem is a big crab, who escapes, and makes it's way to the CE crew, who it turns out are on the same beach! Of course, Two names it Pinchy and tries to befriend it, despite it being a giant monster crab.
* This is something that Pinkie finds out or herself when she goes looking for the crab. Upon discovering the others, she... freaks out.
* Just a little.
* In that she tears off back, panicks, and shoves everyone inside of the mystery door in her bunker. Which, as it turns out... was hiding a bomb.
* A really, really big bomb.
* Pinkie has no explanation for that one.
* Still, she forces everyone to stay inside, making up bullshit reasons why, for as long as she can. Eventually, though, it gets to her, and she starts to break down.
* She admits she just wanted it to be like it was in the old days, just them, no big events or princess duties or captain of the WB stuff or whatever, just them, having fun. No adventure, no giant monsters, no Chrysalis, no nothing, just them.
* She points out they haven't been doing it all together like they did in the past, they handle so much of this solo now, and get caught up in stuff without getting any help, and it's terrible.
* She realizes it was stupid, but a part of her just wanted to stay there, away from it all, forever. Just them, being the friends they always were, together.
* One by one, they admit that yeah, they haven't been as together as they were before. However, she was wrong about them doing it alone.
* They bring up how, even when they were apart, they were never really alone, because a part of their friends was always with them. They could keep fighting only because they knew that someone who cared about them wanted them to fight on.
* The muse what would happen if they really did decide to leave, how they could, they deserved it. They mused that, if they wanted to, they could just leave it all behind.
* One by one they realized they would... if the others left. Because they couldn't do it if they weren't together.
* Which is why they admit, they have to stay, and keep making the world better. But they're going to do it like they should have... together.
* After...maybe a bit more vacation.
* Speaking of vacation, Pommel, Daw, 32, the other five guards, 29 and crew, 41, Acty and JJ and Sunset all head off to Puerto Burro!
* Their reception is uh... both expected, and unexpected.
* "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING!?"
* Turns out they've never seen a changeling before, how about that.
* This looks like the end for the CMC and Vekir! All of them, sans Sweetie Belle, dangling over a pit of acid does not look good! Especially as that crime boss has had enough, since it took an hour to get them up there.
* But all is not lost! At the last second, the stallion Sweetie went off with bursts in, guns blazing, and saves the day!
* It turns out Sweetie showed him the magic of friendship or... something... and he has seen the light!
* ...The CMC and Vekir decide to get the heck out of Detrot, but only after Winona gets one last bite in the nads to the boss.
* A pity, as Siegfried and Watchdog JUST miss them.
* Filthy Rich is the one heading the Ponyville investigation, which Luna discovers but doesn't realize she did.
* Flash and Fizzle make it to their targets house! Only they're not home. So they decide to wait... and wait... and wait... it's going to be a while.
* When the rest of the crabs attack, Shining and Celestia have a way to solve the problem. A hose.
* A hose that spits fire. All of them have the time of their lives as they burn up every single crab.
* Except Pinchy, obviously.
* But no time for that, as another surprise has arrived! The main six and Spike show up at the CE villa, and there is much hugs and rejoicing, or glaring, whichever.
* They decide to hang out, but once the CE leave the main six get an awful, wonderful thought.
* The prank war has begun.
==THREAD 120==
* LAST THREAD RECAP PRANK WAR EDITION
* The prank war has begun with everyone calling dibs!
* Absolutely none of these dibs take.
* A certain someone finds himself in Puerto Burro. Needless to say, Snake Eyes could not have picked a worse time, as 32 is quick to inform him. He's gonna get messed up.
* 29 tries moping, absolutely nobody lets him mope.
* He gets dragged around, poked by the locals, face scraped off by Trixie, but it's no use. Even the Ghost Kids won't leave him alone. Sooner or later, he ends up on a boat with the other four when they lure him aboard.
* No, he can't swim. He realizes this shortly. This is the worst.
* Quicksilver tries to gamble, Lucky stops him.
* Fancy is about to blow a gasket learning all of the goings on of the castle. Everything from DT's involvement in the A-team, to how the guards have been overseen, or rather not overseen, to how much the Princesses spend on Cake make him wonder if he's in over his head.
* Two puts flame stickers on the side of Pinchy. This makes him fast.
* Chitty muses that nobody is around to stop 'a threat' if someone tried to wreck Canterlot or the CE. 13 hits her with a newspaper.
* But no time for pondering, for an old foe from Chitania's past returns for battle!
* Yes, of course! OCTAVIA emerges for a battle! A Cello battle!
* Because they had that contest one time in Partyland and Octavia cannot let shit go.
* This somehow ends up with a several hour concert between the two and Sweet Note and Vinyl getting into a fight, because of course it did.
* DnD with everyone! Aj tries advanced seduction on Shining's character and Spike is having none of that.
* 56 is still in Canterlot and anxious, because he wants to get back to looking. Originally he wanted to go back to 29, but then when he realized it would look like him giving up he reconsidered, too stricken by the idea of making him sad at another failure.
* AJ and Chrysalis talk about the seeds, they reveal that neither has spoken to the others about what happened.
* But Shining put it together anyway, and confronts Aj, but he doesn't go too hard on her due to their history.
* Shining tries to have a nice dinner with everyone.
* It devolves into a chaotic food fight in seconds.
* Thus begins the war in earnest, with both sides going nuts.
* It only stalls when Shining mentions who is going to clean up the place.
* Of course, the only one who stays and doesn't bail is 42, because she is bro bug.
* All the while, Cadence is keeping on.
* 32 discovers Q and Reggie!
* The CMC's train is stopped by a dragon! Turns out, they're searching for Chitania for revenge.
* Scootaloo saves the day with Jive.
* Pinkie and Mane-Iac want to hang out more.
* There is a war of leadership among the main six. It ends with horn envy.
* Nobody in the CE crew try, they just do their own thing.
* Pommel meeting Cheerilee is weird.
* 88 continues on her wild ride! Traveling with Tall Vekir to eventually meet mini versions of the Main Six and Chrysalis, all of whom are greatly flanderized due to 88 not having much of an impression of them, or thinking badly of them in Chrysalis's case.
* She is eventually directed to the 'mushroom bug', which as it turns out is a version of herself that was regrown from her eyeballs.
* Instead of a battle, they merely talk, and Nu88 reveals she can have her eyes back... at a cost.
* She will have to remember every single thing that the Cordyceps did. All the sights of what it saw in it's Hivemind state will come back to her. Every kid who attacked his parents, every loved one turned against the other, she'll see it.
* Eventually, 88 takes the deal, deciding for herself that she can just make good memories to push them away.
* Thus, she can finally see again-
* "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU!? WHAT THE FUCK!?"
* And realizes what she's been wandering in and with who all this time. She takes it... well?
* Then she ends up back in Puerto Burro, and 32 is happy.
* Back with the others, Chrysalis hatches several prank schemes, and all of them backfire in her face.
* Chrysalis is seen outside Caddy's door. Shining thinks she's worried about Cadence, in reality Chrysalis just wants to mess up her papers.
* MM and Pommel talk. It's awkward.
* Cheese gets no party.
* AJ tries to have breakfast with SA and crew, causes him to lose his mind when she doesn't like blueberries.
* Actarius tries to have fun with JJ, but this gets complicated when he discovers... his parents. His mom in a thong causes screaming.
* Do not fucking touch Centitrain's bags.
* The changeling growing the plant is waiting for AJ to come back.
* Aj wants to know how to make Bubbleshields. SA is just happy someone wants to know.
* Suckerpunch, with much reluctance, asks his Auntie Aftershock for a favor. What favor? We don't know.
* Finally breaking, Fancy asks how any of this is okay, the guard asks back why he doesn't wear pants... that settles that.
* The CE ponies haven't really been doing much investigating...
* Shining and Spike have a heart to heart about relationships.
* The chaos reaches a fever pitch in an all out prank war, with both sides going so crazy even Pinkie needs a break!
* She goes down to the hatch, gets herself a drink...
* And realizes that the bomb is gone.
* "FUUUUUUU
==THREAD 121==
* THE BEACH IS HOT EDITION!
* Suckerpunch asks for more time off... while on vaction..
* 42 and Spike engage in diversionary tactic, Spike wins.... kinda?
* Fleur goes to check on Fancy, finds him curled up under his desk after getting a first hoof account of all of Equestria's ills.
* They then proceed to go mess around with everything, because of course. It also turns out that when Fancy puts a helmet on his head, Fluer can't recognize him, prompting Fancy to wonder about cloning.
* The prank war gets crazier, with both sides going back and forth, but mostly managing to hurt themselves. Chrysalis especially.
* Twilight needs to make sorry cake for Shiny.
* Cadence, tired and drained due to lack of food, thinks she finished her paperwork, and goes out to celebrate.
* Octavia's and Chitania's battle still has not ended, with so much time passed both are on the edge. When Chitania makes Octy trip up thanks to calling SN food, Chitania is the winner!
* And then Octavia smashed her cello into Chitty's head.
* Chitty then begins chasing Octavia, and nobody can stop her.
* Snake Eyes prepares to leave, thinking that 32 is closing in, it turns out 32 really was just being friendly, and he stops him on his way out. SN's is almost in the clear, until Reggie recognizes him.
* Then 32 gets very, very mad.
* Then begins one wild ass chase, which brings in Daw, 77, Pommel and Sunset as they go after Snake Eyes as he goes all over Puerto Burro and eventually ends up in the water.
* Eventually, after an... odd interlude when Rat and Crew arrive and Lavan's magic wears off, causing them to fall on 32's head before he tosses them to Canterlot, only to have them tossed back, Snake Eyes is caught!... And he is playing the lying game to try to get out of this.
* 29 is relaxing on the boat eventually with the others, having put aside his fear. When he asks for one of then to oil him up so he tans right, and don't ask why he's tanning chitin, Trixie steps up to the plate!
* Long story short, he ends up in the water. Longer story short, there's a bunch of ghost children down there. Longest story short, he goes full cold determination, drives the boat to the shore at reckless speeds and nearly crashes when he arrives, and then disguises himself as a random pony, and tells the other three to stay put.
* They don't.
* Lucky spots 29 going crazy and 32 trying to burn down the ocean, flips a bit, ends up going off to deal with the 29 thing and takes Quicksilver, SG and Suckerpunch with him.
* Mane-Iac and Fluttershy want to hang out.
* Cadence collapses looking for food.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz get a weird call
* Screwloose makes it to the Gunclub room, recognizes Blueblood's gun... somehow.
* SA senses Cadence needs him and floats off. Chrysalis has no idea what just happened.
* 88 finally can go home! But learns she can't take any mini-changelings with her, they can't leave the valley. She promises to return, and her and lavan leave.
* And then said valley is stumbled upon by none other than... Diamond and Party Favor... from Glimmers village. Huh.
* SA comes across the office, and Cadence's work. To his dismay, he finds that without food, Cadence became a little... off the longer she worked. To the point where she was drawing kitties at the end. Yes, Kitties.
* PJ, who had been hiding until now, notices Jetset having trouble down below, and goes off to say hi.
* Cadence dreams everyone is telling her she did a good job.
* The CMC's train is out of control because Vekir knocked out the conductor, and about to crash at a fork in the road. While Winona wants to do a completely improbable and stupid move to escape, instead Sweetie offers they just let the train run out of steam and not add any more to it. They go with option B, and end up somewhere they don't recognize.
* Applejack, looking for a snack, stumbles across Cadence knocked out. While she just wants to get her food and go, she accidentally wakes Cadence up.
* Trapped, her and Cadence begin to talk, and soon they're having a heart to heart about their failings as Princesses. Cadence on her paperwork front, and Applejack on her magic front. They both wonder why the other took to what they were lacking so readily, and wonder if maybe they just can't improve on them.
* Even so, after revealing that for once she doesn't have an answer to it, Applejack says that regardless, she can't give up learning. Not because she needs to or it's vital, but because all her friends think she can, and she doesn't want to let them down. She leaves after telling Cadence she believes in her too, and Cadence has to decide if she wants to keep trying.
* She does, when she goes back to the office. Shining soon finds her, and he's not going anywhere.
* Twilight and Spike try to get 42 drunk, it backfires.
* Flash and Fizzle are still waiting, talks get... weird.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Pinkie get crazy in her search for the bomb. Really, really crazy.
* But soon, crazy pays off, and she stumbles across... something.
* Despite her knowing it's crazy, she decides to handle it herself.
* Long story short, she could not handle it herself.
* Out of fucking nowhere, a giant spider-crab the size of a building attacks the Villa and everyone there, and he's carrying Pinkie Pie!
* The crab can talk too, and summons the various denizens of the ocean to rise up and take the surface world.
* Thus, the battle is on! A war wages between the main seven sans Pinkie and Fluttershy with every one of the CE crew sand SA and Cadence, and the creatures of the ocean... except Pinchy, he decided to stuck with Two, because wibbles.
* It's a total curbstomp for the ocean army, who can't even scratch the protagonists and their various teamup moves.
* All the while, Pinkie gets a little sad this means they're probably gonna go home. But a pep talk from Two eventually gets her out of her funk.
* The crab's plans falling apart makes him go drastic. We're talking whalebombs and sand sharks drastic.
* Neither of these work.
* So the crab threatens Pinkie, who manages to hit him in the eye with hot butter thanks to cute changeling delivery service, and is free.
* Then, he decides he's going to detonate the bomb, which might work!
* BOOM! CENTITRAIN OUTTA NOWHERE!
* Kaiju battle goes on, with Applejack joining into the fray at one point, and the crab is defeated when Centitrain remembers that Electric Types are super effective against Water Types.
* Broken and defeated, the crab shuffles off into the water... but he has one last trick up it's Pincer!
* It summons a giant tsunami that will rain devastation upon the land! Destroy everything! Wreck the coast for generations to come! He will-
* "That's enough"
* And now it's all gone.
* The answers why everything, bodies included, all vanished become pretty apparent when they all spot Fluttershy down at the shore, and sure enough, it turns out it was Discord! Just causing a little bit of chaos. Because he does that.
* Still, it looks like everything's fine... until they notice the bomb is active. And Discord can't poof it away because Fluttershy overdid turning off his powers.
* Everyone panics, and after a failed attempt where she makes the bomb BIGGER, Flutteshy sends the bomb off!
* Toooo Pinkie's Aunt's old hatch, where it blows up the rum... and everything. And then launches the shack into the villa, which it destroyed.
* Finally, they get around to asking Centitrain why it showed up, and she spits a note in AJ's face.
* It turns out.. it's time to go home, and everyone is sad. They have to leave...
* But mayyyybe after one last wild party.
* The beach arc... is over.
==THREAD 122==
* WE'RE BACK BABY EDITION!
* Snake eyes almost wrangles his way out of being caught. Almost. Then he slips up.
* Hey, it's his first time, he's new to this.
* The guards worry that the princess ran off.
* Fancy wonders if Appleoosa is nice this time of year.
* It actually is, as the Sheriff proves when he laughs off someone asking if they investigated the changeling over there.
* Pennydrop is happy it's all back.
* Filthy Rich finishes his investigation, and pays off a guard to keep quiet about what he did.
* JJ juggles in the shower... it's weird.
* 10 continues her infiltration of Stalliongrad.
* 88 plots to get nieces and nephews, because she is still a little crazy.
* Cadence is happy she managed to fight temptation, even if she lost spending time with everyone. Still, she's happy. So happy, that she requests that Shining and her go on their 'own' train.
* This is now Shinings favorite vacation.
* Pinkie misses her shack
* Arana isn't allowed to stay in AJ's office until she gets an okay, so she has to sleep with Blueblood... not like how it sounds.
* Q secured evidence. That evidence? A shitload of bits.
* After many chases, Chitania finally has Octavia cornered, and it looks like she's going to start smashing. Except then out of nowhere, 13 chimes in! And starts yelling her head off at her mother for being so quick to anger.
* A tense scene unfolds where 13 demands she stop, and Chitania tells her to never talk to her like that again, before leaving both on sour terms, and saying they will talk later.
* Sweet Note asks if she needs to bury a body.
* 2, sadly, cannot bring Pinchy with her, for he is a giant crab, and they live in an icy tundra with no salt water anywhere.
* Tearful goodbyes are had, for both of them.
* 29 finally crashes his boat and arrives where he had been seemingly mindlessly charging, and it turns out he was heading towards a seemingly barren shack that had a hidden passage to it. He disguises himself as a pony and tells the other three to stay up top.
* They don't.
* After fighting his way through far too many guards, 29 eventually finds what he is looking for, which as it turns out is a bunch of kidnapped children!
* Reluctantly, they follow him, but unfortunately are still children and thus annoying.
* He also gets lost, because ghost kids are silly.
* Finally, he seems to reach the end... only to be stopped by, of all things, a camel. Yes, a camel. They can talk, you racist.
* Said camel sicks his guards on him, but they are defeated in a flash of light!
* Yes, they have been saved by the GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE! And now the final battle can begin!
* Pennydrop is informed by her scientist that it's not possible to do a changeling infusion. Instead, they're beginning work on the 'synthesis project'.
* Luna finally found Celestia!... Just when the trip is over.
* Rarity wants to talk to Cadence, but seeing the look she's giving Shiny, she thinks the better of it.
* The CMC and Vekir get lost in a forest, and encounter a strange pony in a nice suit... so of course Sweetie Belle immediately rushes off to go see them.
* The CE crew, Celestia and Twi talk about why Shiny and Cadence got a train all to themselves.
* They all hop on to Centitrain to head out! Only, there is a clash of who gets to drive, and battles are had.
* Long story short, Rarity is conked on the head and talking funny.
* Also, biting Applejack's ass, because she wants apples.
* This also sets off a chain reaction that ends with everyone except Twilight and Spike biting said ass. Yes, everyone includes Centitrain.
* Celestia is with the CE crew instead of Centitrain. Why? Because she wants to race said Centitrain, obviously.
* Despite the race, both parties stop at a fast food chain called Haydee's Burgers... that serves everything except burgers. Everything.
* Taking Two to a fast food place was a mistake.
* The Ponyville residents hear the Mayor is coming back, and must shut down all the illegal shit they've been doing, which is a lot.
* Also, demons decide to put off taking over the world when they hear Cheerilee shall return.
* Celestia laughs when CE train pulls ahead of Centitrain, and it looks like victory is assured!...Then Centitrain turns, but they don't.
* Because Centitrain is going to Canterlot.
* They are not.
* This JUST hits Celestia.
* She makes a dive for it before she remembers she can fly, and eventually catches up. Only when she lands does she remember she forgot something.
* That something is Luna.
* ...this is not Celly's day.
* But, eventually they made it home! Back to Canterlot!
* There is only one person waiting for them when they do. Fancy Pants is waiting on the edge of the train station.
* They expect all charges to be dropped and the investigation to be over... right?
* "Miss Rainbow Dash? I have some... questions."
* Shit.
==THREAD 123==
* OH THE LOVE EDITION!
* The morlocks being on Rats ship prove to be a problem. The solution? Rocket them into a train to send them home.
* This, somehow, works.
* The CE crew come back to find the citizens partied too hard.
* Celestia runs from Luna, runs into Lavan, then decides that running is the best option.
* Dash is worried about her investigation. A little too worried.
* Pennydrop, on the other hoof, is laughing her ass off.
* Jetset at first decides to guard AJ's desk until she returns, but then ends up phasing through it, and ending up in the kitchen. Harshwhinny gives no fucks.
* 13 is pissed the stadium isn't clean yet.
* The rest of the CE crew arrive and disembark, but the citizens are so embarrassed they don't notice Shiny and Cadence aren't with them.
* Said pair sneak back in later, and resolve to have 18 put showers on the train, because reasons.
* AJ forgot about Sunset again.
* 29 is thankful that Trixie followed, and MM and Zecora with her. He's less thankful when the Camel brings in a literal mob to take them all down in that hanger.
* But all is not lost, because from behind the Camel came the royal guard!... All five of them!
* Thus, the battle is on, between the Camel's thugs and the soldiers. They're doing pretty well, and a shocking discovery is made!
* THE ARMOR ACTUALLY WORKS.
* After a long battle, during which Zecora and 29 joins in, with the latter going to town with his favored weapon of 'pipe', it looks like the heroes have won!
* But it's not over yet, the Camel has one last trick up his sleeve, a giant stone dragon with the body of a lion!
* The final battle is on!
* 32 is weird.
* 18 culls the Paperwork monster back from whence it came
* Vinyl is happy Octy isn't beaten to a pulp, even if she shows it weird. She thinks Octavia should apologize, the concert pony disagrees.
* 42 and Spitfire find some of their number passed out, so they get those soldiers back on track.
* LD is smug because no matter how this Dash thing comes out, she wins. Gilda is worried.
* Gwen hears of the news thanks to PD's agent, and sets off to confront Dash. On the airship enroute, Pennydrop pays her a visit, and gives her a new Gryphon mech.
* Snake Eyes has inspiration on how to get out of this.
* Fluer is worried that Fancy might be putting himself in danger, resolves to burn the castle down if they try anything on him.
* Sunset and 77 talk about what they lost, and what they would give to get it back.
* Cadence gets to work on real paperwork.
* Chrysalis starts to mess with the Orb out of desperation
* Fancy finally interviews Dash about all that she's done. During it, he goes over all her events, from her promotion right to now, and points out how suspicious some of it is. At the end, he makes a vague comment about if there would be any reason talking about this would be dangerous, and Dash realizes he's implying he'll back off if threatened. She takes the high road though, which pleases him, and takes down all of her explanations for why this isn't what it looks like. This will be sent off to be judged, as Fancy only investigates, not pass judgement.
* Rarity and Coco reunite!
* Spike talks to Silver Spoon, who mentions DT is missing.
* Daw and Sunset find Snake Eyes dyes that he uses to impersonate ponies.
* Valentines day stories with all of the CE crew, 29 and co, Acty and JJ, Luna and 56, 55 and Ingrid, and of course Applejack and Spike
* The CMC and Vekir are looking for Sweetie Belle, but are instead attacked and knocked out by a mysterious pony in a suit with no face.
* Twilight decides to investigate why ponies can grab things
* Spike knows someone has been in the Gunclub room, and goes off to find them. He also accidentally trips and shoots himself.
* And finally, Fuzzy and the Buzz break the news about Dash to all of Canterlot!
==THREAD 124==
* I AM SO LATE EDITION!
* AJ and Celly talk about the dragon migration, and that it's a bit of a missed opportunity.
* Cadence gets ice cream
* Discord bugs Fluttershy
* Chrysalis can cook an egg, so long as there's no fire... somehow.
* 10, still infiltrating, discovers the room Trender is being kept in!
* Trender's friend who he works with has lost hope, but he hasn't. A well timed explosive proves him right
* 13 got the lings to clean up the stadium.
* Spike isn't helping the castle staff.
* Aj and Arana reunite, with the latter talking about how she can't go back to the office until AJ gives the okay, but that's okay because she's sleeping with Blueblood and showing him what her legs can do!
* AJ speeds up getting that fixed.
* Screwloose shoots herself in the throat... somehow.
* Lavan finds the robot containing his brother, but ignores it.
* SA and 18 are encouraging Cadence.
* Chitania misses Mr Popcorn, and Discord calls her out for not going and fighting Lavan like he told her to. She acts strange about this.
* 42 is silly with teleports
* Ordering a pizza in the CE causes chaos
* As does Chrysalis attempting to make Dash a hero.
* 88 has bad memories about the Cordy incident, and has nightmares.
* Lavan finds her in one and muses about his own past.
* Timewarp discussions are had
* SA is stalking Spike and taking notes on his lovelife for... reasons.
* Gwen and PD, bored when refueling the airship, try smalltalk. It doesn't work. Instead, they settle on boardgames.
* This spirals into full on sleepover antics.
* Pommel and crew finally arrive home with the prisoner!
* They only now realize they left behind Cheese and Cheerilee.
* 7 has had a productive week.
* The Blowjob Bill is still a law, and Celly will never let it leave. Applejack gets cake for this from a very happy user of said law.
* The CMC and Vekir wake up in a strange room, and come up with a disguise plan to get out! It proves pointelss as alarms start blaring and something terrible happens outside.
* Chrysalis still can't swim.
* Two's play is less entertaining then the CE crew trying to watch it.
* The battle between the guards and the Camel's dragon-lion golem rages on! It's not going well for them, and they're being beat within an inch of their lives.
* With them being battered and the children terrified, Trixie steps up to the plate! She lets out everything she has in a dazzling display, but it fails, and she is struck in a devastating blow.
* Likewise, when 29 tries to defend the children, he is attacked as well in a blow that breaks his chitin and nearly takes him down. He manages to get back up, and puts himself between the children and the Camel again. The claw comes up to kill him...
* And is stopped, by a chain. Lucky Strikes holds on, giving a speech about how much they have to do every day, and that they're not decoration. In return, he is whipped around and battered like a cat on a string.
* He is joined by the other four guards in turn, each one wrapping the thing in chains until it is held down, albeit temporarily. Realizing they won't last long, the guards plead for the other to run.
* They realize that even if they did, they wouldn't make it out, they simply can't hold him long enough. So, instead, 29 proposes a risky move to Zecora, who is reluctant due to the fact this will likely kill him in his weakened state. She agrees when Mayor Mare forces the matter, even if she doesn't want to.
* Soon enough, Zecora assembles a makeshift childs cornpopper toy out of the scrap, marks it with her magic symbols, and gives it to 29. The changeling gives his final words to the others, sure this will be his end, and tells the guard to hold on.
* They do, and the light that has not been seen since he used it to move Chitania's gaze returns, and it threatens to consume him!
* But he's not alone this time. The other three join in, holding on with him, and focusing the blast. They channel the power of the ghostkids, and let loose a blast that blows a solid, clean hole in the golem! Afterwards, they go down, not breathing.
* But it's not over! The Camel survived, and his golem did too! Albeit with a giant hole in it. He prepares to finish what he started, but the chains wrapped around him rip his golem to shreds, and he's left without.
* The guard emerge from the smoke, and finish him off, with Lucky jamming a bar of soap in his mouth for cursing in front of the children.
* Lucky takes charge, ordering everyone to secure all the prisoners, and get help, and checks on the ponyville crew... they're alive!
* It's finally over, and the kids are returned back to their parents.
* Afterwards, everyone reflects on what happened, feeling the pain of what occurred, but feeling accomplished too.
* Though he complained, Pommel's tune quickly changes when a newspaper comes in and tells him what happened.
* The Ponyville 4 wake up, and after some talking to each other and reflecting on their survival, the three mares make a stunning discovery when they realize the kids in their room aren't quite alive!
* "Welcome to the club."
* Back at Canterlot, Applejack sees the airship in the distance, taking it's sweet time to make it to her. She stares on determined, ready to fight when it arrives. Just as soon as it gets here...
* Which will eventually be after Pennydrop and Gwen get the silly string and chocolate out of their coats, as their party got slightly out of control.
* "...what the buck is takin' them so long!?"
* She's going to be waiting a while.
==THREAD 125==
* AJ SUCKS AT POLITICS EDITION!
* Chrysalis messes up everyone's papers.
* Aj calls a princess meeting before Gwen arrives, it solves nothing.
* The Ghostbusters wake up, and revel in the fact they can talk to ghosts. After confirming their previous enslaver is going to be locked up forever, the ghost kids pass on peacefully.
* And by that I mean they blind them all.
* Afterwards, they get visited by the very alive kids.
* The changelings talk of musical tastes, it gets weird.
* OnO gets sad...
* Things get heated at Stalliongrad, with everyone outside the compound panicking when they stumble across random explosions. In their search, they find one of their robots hiding in wake.
* BZZT! SUCKERS! It's not their robots at all! It's BLUEBLOODBOT!
* Inside the compound, the guards put the prisoners in front of the only entrance, hoping to use them to absorb the bulletfire, because they suck.
* But what they weren't expecting was a shot from behind! Changeling disguise is OP, and Ten takes out all of them without hurting a single prisoner. Chipper as a schoolgirl, she tells Trender they're going home!
* Gwen comes down out of her airship, and meets only Celly and AJ for talks, a powerplay on Celly's part. When she departs, they notice she has a metal gryphon right there with her, and she insists on bringing it. Reluctantly, they agree and go off to talk.
* A back and forth debate occurs, with things getting more and more heated about the recent reveal. In the end, thanks to some poorly chosen words from Applejack, who just could not keep her mouth shut, Gwendolyn lays down a decree. Either they fire Rainbow Dash from the Wonderbolts, or ties between Equestria and the Gryphons are cut.
* Celly gives her a D- for that one.
* Changelings find out pies are not viable weapons.
* Lucky and the other guards, plus 41, load up the Ghostbusters onto the train and decide to head home, with the latter and Cheerilee heading towards ponyville.
* Oh, and Cheese is coming, and he's not taking no for an answer.
* 41 gives a report on the goings on of what happened to a oblivious 42. She freaks out a little.
* Ponyville tries to pretend to be normal.
* 2 and Sombra do standup.
* Fluttershy looks for Seven, but he's not with the animals. Also, her powers are sparking up, and for some reason she can hear Discord, but can't see him...
* Celestia helps Jetset fix his phasing problem.
* Chitania waits for 13 to show up so they can talk, but 13 never comes. Instead she leaves Sweet Note all alone, stating she has somewhere to be.
* Mayor Mare didn't ask who was investigating her or even watched who went into her office. She blames this on 29.
* 32 drops off Snake eyes, and only right then learns what happened to the other guard and the ghostbusters
* JJ and Acty notices that 88 has eyes, puns ensue.
* Chrysalis blows her own mind with a cookie bowl.
* MM rants about a lack of proper medical facilities in Ponyville, then realizes she could have gotten them built and feels silly.
* Dadling and Batmom come back home. Apparently some crazy shit went down.
* Cheerilee gets a warm welcome home.
* The CMC escape their cell, but find themselves in a facility fighting weird creatures with guns a faceless pony gives to them. Vekir is having fun.
* The Nurses close up Screwloose's neckwound, and are not happy that they had to.
* 32 and 77 find out Lavan is back and 88 can see.
* 32 is now very, very, very happy.
* SA notices that they're low on lager, and alcohol in general. 18 points out they normally got that from the gryphons...
* AJ assembles the other EOH sans Dash to talk about how to get themselves out of this mess with Gwen, leaving Dash out of it because AJ feels like it's her mess
* The answers they get are decent, but not overly helpful, and mostly crazy.
* Pommel salutes the sideguard who arrive home, and says he's proud of them.
* Mayor Mare is mad ghost powers don't let her fly..
* Luna is unhelpful with her opinions.
* Spitfire feels like laughing and she doesn't know why.
* Sunset tries to talk to the Main Six, mostly AJ or Twilight, but gets turned away by the guard as they keep talking.
* Still, Arana hugs her, so it's not all bad.
* At least until she breaks into Twilight's lab yet again, knowing full well there's no way to cover up the fact she was there, and as a result learns that Twilight has made zero progress on her 'condition' and that AJ hasn't even looked into it.
* Feeling like she has no other options, she takes up a certain 'offer' made not that long ago...
* "Fix me, please."
* Spike is a dick to Haymaker when the latter calls Aj best princess.
* Pennydrop learns from a scientist they may have a way to recreate the Subspace magic room...
* Chrysalis tries to not talk creepy.
* When they hear Aj is coming, Pennydrop and Gwen muse about how this is all going to go down... then have trouble getting out of the hot tub, because it is cold.
* AJ comes back for round 2 of the debate, firing off a bunch of reasons Gwen should back off from her demands to the gryphon. Sadly, they all fail, and Gwendolyn gives off a final warning that either she abides by it, or the gryphons cut off ties.
* Angry, Applejack leaves, and Gwen muses to a hidden Pennydrop that she was right. The gryphon asks if she wants to accompony her back to her kingdom, but Pennydrop merely tells her not to leave yet., because the real fun has not yet begun.
* Get a good seat and some popcorn, the real show is about to start
==THREAD 126==
* ROCKY THEME EDITION!
* Sunset joins up with Chitania, who takes her back to hotel room in order to work on the thing to 'fix' her.
* Confusingly, Chitania spends most of her time writing something on a chalkboard over and over, and trying to do something with rocks in a bowl. Every single time, she fails at whatever it is she's trying to do, and grows angry.
* Even so, she does not give up. Moved by this, Sunset let her continue
* Watchdog and Siegfried try to procure a hot air balloon. When an embarrassing moment from Siegfried's past comes back to haunt him, he dons and disguise and repeats "Omelette Du Fromage!", pretending that's all he can say.
* With this, he brings terror to the land.
* PD and Gwen nearly burn their airship down making popcorn.
* MM's office is destroyed, and yet nobody even remembers she was being investigated.
* Aj gives everyone the bad news. They talk about Batmare.
* Chitania continues to try to achieve whatever it is she's trying to do, but it's getting to her. Slowly but surely, she's breaking more and more, and she's running out of rocks, and Sunset is getting impatient. All the while, Chitania is lamenting that magic is so hard to do.
* Two is a tower. It is cute.
* 32, after a drunken talk with Actarius, decides to go bury the hatchet.
* Yes, all while drunk.
* Success! He manages to do pretty good with Chrysalis and 18, and even manages to get on 'neutral' terms with 42!'
* Not so much Shining Armor, who he keeps blarghing all over.
* 88 is quite happy she has her sight back, and keeps hitting on Actarius. He doesn't get it.
* 77 is sleeping on the couch.
* AJ laments that she has to tell Dash the bad news.
* Cadence and 18 hug, it intensifies.
* Jetset, talking with Raven, realizes he can't teleport anymore.
* Lucky gets to brag about his day.
* Spike tries cloths from another store, Rarity is betrayed.
* Chrysalis should pay attention while snowboarding.
* Sweet Note talks to 13, and convinces her to go see her mom.
* Fluttershy finds Dash relaxing on a cloud, and they start talking about said clouds. How they look nice, but ultimately are very fleeting. It looks big, but it only takes five minutes to be made, and is gone just as fast. She compares her Wonderbolt tenure to this.
* But Fluttershy points out clouds also bring the rain, and without it, how will anything grow?
* Two hugs Chrysalis so she doesn't do anything stupid.
* It backfires when Shiny wants a hug.
* MM wants to know what being a ghostbuster means, and it turns out to mostly be listening to crazy kids.
* The CMC make it through the waves of monsters, even if Vekir refuses to fire a shot because she's saving her bullets, and stumble across... a tickle-me-sweetie belle doll?
* AB is just done.
* Chrysalis uses a placebo 'mind control' to help the Crystal Pegasi fly in formation, gets a kiss from Shiny.
* AJ finds Dash walking through the halls, and her heart breaks when she tries to give the news. But, strangely, Dash isn't at all bothered. If anything, she's... cocky?
* It turns out, she's got a plan.
* Yes, it is crazy.
* Yes, AJ is totally onboard.
* And yes, so is everyone else.
* 13 and SN can't find Chitty, because changeling.
* Daw is mad they didn't get to fight the golem.
* Actarius has to drag his boss back. 88 makes fun of him.
* Twilight makes a new beer. Because.
* At last, Sunset has had enough of Chitania's failing, and demands she show her what it is she's trying to do, despite Chitania's insistence that she knows what she is doing, magic is just hard for her.
* When asked why she won't just reveal it, Chitania admits that, thanks to Sunset's body having changeling magic, she is worried that Sunset will merely do the procedure she plans herself, and the the Queen will not get what she agreed to give.
* Sunset loses her mind, furious that Chitania would do that, that she would hold back just because she thought Sunset would backstab her. In a breakdown, she claims she would give, or do, anything Chitania wanted if it meant she could just be alive again, as that's all she cares about. If she can do that, she'll do whatever Chitania wants, regardless if it's her directly that does it.
* Reluctantly, Chitania shows her the Queen's Power she is trying to use.
* When finished, Sunset is taken aback by how easy it is, to which Chitania bitterly points out that magic has always been very difficult for her, a concept Sunset-a prodigy-struggles to grasp. Chitania reveals that she knows a great many other Queen's abilities, but can't use any of them despite training to do so. When asked if they will go to waste, Chitania laments that she was going to pass them on to her daughter, so she could be what Chitty could not.
* But that doesn't matter anymore. Afterwards, both reflect on how they left behind other worlds, and cannot go back to them anymore. Chitty with the life she had with the Queens, and Sunset's human world.
* Still, Sunset points out the technique will not be enough, to which Chitania replies that 'the power of Necrophorus is only the beginning'.
* Resolved, Sunset acknowledges there's no going back now.
* Zecora and 29 think about how everything changed, and how they will have to help Mayor Mare adjust. Then they get high.
* 56 at last finds the rec room! Oh happy day, it's all over!
* But, out of nowhere, he's suddenly hit with a newspaper in the head. Upon reading it, he finds the story of 29s clash with the Camel kidnapper and the subsequent injuries he sustained. But, to his horror, the newspaper has been clipped to not show what happened afterwards, only implying he was badly injured and moved to Ponyville for treatment.
* All of a sudden, he is torn, no longer sure what to do. He doesn't want to give up and leave, but he has to know if his cousin is okay. He's sure 29 is fine, and knows he will be mad at him for quitting, but at the same time if he does need help, there's no changelings in ponyville to give him some love, he might need him.
* He's ready to break down, knowing if he leaves the Nightguard captain will call him a quitter and he'll never get the training or get to spend time with moons. At the same time, he realizes just how much 29 did for him, and not just saving him back in the day. He finally understands just what he had to go through for him.
* After a debate, he can't take it anymore, and runs off to go see his cousin.
* After he is gone a voice in the shadows declare 'he has passed his first test'.
* 10 gets Trender out of the warehouse, but they are nearly attacked by robots.
* BZZT!
* They're not worried.
* SA/Cadence/18 decide to go on another date night.
* A ghost kid points out Trixie is doing nothing.
* Two misses Pinchy
* And finally, Dash, at last reveals her plan.
* She calls an assembly and admits all her faults to Cantrerlot, and Equestria. Admits that it wasn't AJ's fault this happened, but that she herself couldn't handle it, and she didn't let AJ know. She cared more about the dream than if she could pull it off.
* She finally admits she hasn't been the very best they deserve, and is stepping down.
* ...buuuuuutttt..
* Rather than leave it at that, she points out they deserve only the best, and nobody is sure who that is right now. So, they're going to prove it.
* She declares that in one month's time, every single Wonderbolt, present and no longer a WB, get a chance to take the captains chair. She announces an event that will test all aspects of being a captain, and it's winner take all!
* For one month, Lightning Dust is in charge. At the end, they'll be put to the test, and the real best captain will be chosen!
* It's winner take all, and it is ON!
==THREAD 127==
* SHE'S WALKING ON SUNSEEETTT! WHOAOAOA! AND DON'T SHE FEEL GOOD-EDITION!
* Lavan continues his chats with the various pets of Equestria, it gets weird.
* 42 may have a problem... she's addicted to teleporting!
* Everyone confronts her on this, but she insists it's not an issue.
* PJ hits Haymaker and finds out about the events in Puerto Burro
* Celestia learns about Stalliongrad and she needs some rum cake to stall the headache
* Twilight and Pommel confront Snake Eyes, but won't make a deal with him
* Cadence teaches Two the wonders of a blender
* Chrysalis finds Spike on the way to cheer up Applejack, and decides to mess with him a bit, noticing that despite them being in a relationship, things between the two are pretty bland.
* On the way to Aj, Spike is stopped by 88, who decides she wants to be a detective! She needs AJ's permission, but Spike convinces her to wait until he's done first.
* Gwen learns about the infamous 'bill' Aj signed, and loses her mind laughing.
* 29 meets with Luna again, who pretends not to know about the events abroad, and instead goes back to teaching. Teaching him to dodge, that is. He needs work.
* Idris and Cheese talk, and he reveals he liked Partyland despite it almost killing him.
* The Nightgard captain makes the other nightgaurds fold Wonton wrappers... because.
* Dash starts to catch on to Pinkie's weirdness, and gets mindwiped for her troubles.
* Shining realizes why everyone likes horror movies
* Gwen and PD get drunk
* Luna shows no mercy in Mahjong
* 007 has a chat with a bartender about the difference between animals and sapience
* Then he goes home with the scientist lady, and the pair make an interesting discovery. A discovery who bring out flame claws and chainsaws.
* Flash and Fizzle are back.
* Idris's captain flees, and he doesn't seem to mind.
* Trixie thinks Luna will be more interested in her now that she has ghostsight. She's not. She IS more interested in Zecora, though!
* Chrysalis, SA and Cadence are bored, so they go set stuff on fire.
* This ends badly for Shining
* 32 wants no part in the commotion outside.
* Applebloom still doesn't care, even when a reality warping monster is outside the cafeteria
* Lavan gets trapped with Angel Bunny
* Jetset finds a morose Spike, and tells him that Spike might have to take over for him until he gets his teleporting back.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Sunset keeps thinking about what Chitania said, that there was chaos inside of her, and realizes why everything went so wrong. She vows to get Discord, whatever it takes, but is stopped from doing anything rash by Chitania, who forces her down so they can continue.
* After Chitania explains the procedure, Sunset has an odd request for her. She asks that if something goes wrong, that Chitty not just hide the body and forget about it, even though it would be in her best interest and she has no reason not to hide her involvement.
* After remembering her own events with being 'dead' and what that did to the Queens, and her personal experience of losing someone and never knowing of they're dead or alive with her daughter, Chitty agrees, and Sunset is put under, dreaming of a better day.
* During the procedure, we look into all the previously thought useless techniques Chiania uses to pull it off, and she reminisces about the days long past when she learned them from her fellow changelings.
* Then something goes wrong, of course.
* "Well, fuck."
* Twilight suddenly remembers that whole orb thing, and rushes off to her lab to get the device to let them peer into it. However, when she boots up her computer, something else distracts her. Something that makes her very, very angry.
* Sunset, in a seemingly endless white realm, goes over all her failures and what brought her to this point. During this, she suddenly gets the ability to feel again, but something is wrong. Inside that realm, it seems like something is trying to grab her, even as she begs and pleads for it not to take her, and that she's not ready to go. It continues anyway, but she manages to fight back long enough to destroy all said white of the realm, and then is grabbed by something else in the inky blackness that remains
* Feeling like this the end, she says she's sorry, and begs for forgiveness, as the end consumes her, and a motherly voice tells her to come along.
* Then it tells her to wake the fuck up.
* She jolts up, not dead as she had thought! Not only that, but as Chitania needlessly points out... she's fixed!
* Or, as she puts it...
* "I'M ALIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVEE!"
* She runs off before Chitty can say anything, or collect on their deal, leaving Chitania to realize she essentially is left with nothing, no way to force the matter or collect.
* Sunset runs away, screaming as loud as she can.
* Elsewhere, Aj and Spike hear screaming, and can't quite believe who they think it is. When Spike goes to go check, he gets a facefull of door.
* But it's Twilight who enters in, ranting to AJ that Sunset broke into her computer again. AJ tries to apologize, and say she'll handle it, but it only does so much to calm her down. Twi still insists she's going to kick her ass
* However, that sentiment doesn't stick when they both hear a certain... something, and teleport off.
* Spike's okay, by the way.
* Outside, Sunset is going nuts with sensations. All her body working as it should is overloading her, and she's desperately trying to stimulate it all. Eating whatever she can, touching what she can, breathing in smells, it's all a whole new world for her and she wants every bit of it. After diving into a fountain to feel the rush, she has to slow down, her body weak again.
* That's when AJ and Twi appear on the scene, and stare in shock.
* Instead of being angry at them, she giddly tackles AJ and swings around with Twilight, happy as can be. She keeps chanting she's alive and enjoys herself, with the only thing that can stop her being a gasp from Princess Celestia herself. After wordlessly confirming that Twilight didn't do this, she's as confused as the other two, and they all wait for Sunset to say something. She says something, alright.
* "Go fuck yourself, Applejack."
* She tears into them all, loudly declaring that none of them ever really cared about her and listing all their failures and neglect. They all try to argue it, but none of them really manage.
* Applejack, who is hit the hardest, lets slip one last ditch effort that she didn't even ask to be Sunset's teacher
* "It showed."
* having had enough of that, Twilight and Celestia grab her, and after she chews out the both of them, Celestia prepares to take them to a more private place to talk.
* However, as Sunset points out, someone has a problem with that.
* Someone very big and angry.
* Chitania appears on the scene, and stops that teleport with one swing! She then declares she's after Sunset.
* The other three rush to defend her, but it proves pointless.
* Mostly because Sunset has already rushed out and grabbed on to hug her leg like a cat.
* Attempts to shake her off or look cool prove fruitless, and Chitania starts to walk away.
* But, of course, AJ is having none of that, summoning a giant wall to stop her. When Chitania asks what she said to them, Sunset replies she only said this
* "Go fuck yourself, Applejack."
* Then someone throws a rock.
==THREAD 128==
* AJ FEELS THE BURN EDITION!
* Lavan continues his confrontation with Angel Bunny! He realize he's trapped, but can't figure out why, even when AB repeatedly tries to kill him.
* Spike helps 88 become a detective with Rarity's say.
* Trixie busts into Cheerliee's class, and after being forced to apologize on the chalkboard a million times she starts to talk to Cheer like she's a psychologist. Cheerliee gives no fucks.
* 32 reasserts why he's glad he stayed home to JJ and Actarius
* 29 decides he's going to have words with Potsticker, the Nightguard Captain. He and the rest of the ghostbusters plus 56 go up to Canterlot. Sadly, he does not get to talk.
* Instead, they start fighting.
* 13 is gonna blow her lid with Sweet Note
* 42 gets a pie in the face for fwooshing around.
* SA, Chrysalis and Cadence agree that whatever the fuck they did went wrong.
* Idris talks about messed up family politics to Cheese, who would rather not.
* Movie night will never end if they keep making those stupid dinosaur movies.
* SA and 18 have a nice talk and do paperwork together.
* Dash is out to break WB records.
* Bronze Pommel's Uncle requests to go into the caves with Rarity, who does a princess thing.
* The doctor is having none of Screwloose's shit.
* 41 and SP remember what they were gonna do.
* PD is happy
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* The rock Applejack threw by mistake, and it was revealed to be just a wild power surge, hits CHitania, and she thinks that AJ wants a fight.
* Instead, AJ begs her to tell how she fixed Sunset. Instead, Sunset simply asks "Why does it matter?"
* Having no answer to that, instead she demands that Chitania give her back.
* She begins a desperate battle, throwing everything she has at the Titan, but none of it works, and she's easily batted aside. Twilight tries to intervene, but Celestia forces her not to in order to prevent escalation.
* Applejack breaks down, pleading with Sunset to tell her what she agreed to do with Chitania. Instead, Sunset happily declares that she has no idea! Nor, does she care.
* Realizing just how deep Sunset is in, Applejack begs instead "Me instead"
* Twilight tries to stop her, but is again held back by Celestia, who declares that Aj must do this on her own.
* Despite all she offered, Chitania turns her down. She says AJ has a lot, just not what she's looking for. AJ tries again and again, but nothing works, and she is heartbroken.
* In the end, she breaks down, wondering why Chitania couldn't be like te other Queens, and just lied. She admits she would have bought it, hook line and sinker, if she did. She would have called her friend.
* Chitania honestly ponders this, pointing out it wouldn't have been real. AJ agrees, but points out... wouldn't it have been a nice lie for a while?
* Shocking, Chitania seems to be considering this. In the end, she admits she's just not a very good liar, which Applejack agrees with. But...
* "It's never too late to learn, is it?"
* Yes, it is.
* Sunset cutting in breaks her thoughts, and Chitania ponders it no more.
* Applejack tries one last time, in vain, before both Titan, and former student, leave. All of Canterlot got to witness her fail. At last, Twilight gets to hug her, and she admits to Celestia that she messed up, and she failed Sunset.
* Celestia agrees, but points out... she's not the first one.
* Applejack admits she can't give up
* Celestia tells her... don't.
* With Sunset and Chitania, Sunset is happy again, and points out Chitty didn't need to come get her. She agrees to do all Chitty asks, and more, if she agrees to one more thing.
* If Chitania is killing gods... Sunset wants in.
* She proves this, when she goes to her old home, realizing along the way she can no longer remember her parents faces or anything about them, and destroys the Celestia doll so she can take out the prototype stone that she based the one in her chest off of. It is revealed to contain an essence of Celestia and as such, she says they might not have to break their way into heaven.
* They have the key.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz Report on Sunset's weird happenings.
* SA learns of these events, and he feels... unfortunate. He hides it, of course, and none of them are all the wiser.
* Well, almost none of them.
* Chrysalis knows, and she is bound and determined to prove he's actin weird, no matter how crazy she looks.
* Twilight is broken up by not knowing how Chitania pulled it off, and in desperation, she admits she's about to do something regrettable. But... she has to know.
* Celestia is more internally bitter.
* The CMC's world is falling apart, literally! The giant being from before has begun the "Cosmosis", and is merging the worlds!
* AB gives no fucks.
* The thing of stars and tentacles prepares to wipe out them and all they were in the timestream!
* AB gives no fucks.
* But they are saved at the last minute by a heavenly stallion, the beasts immortal foe that has faced it in countless eons!
* AB gives no fucks.
* Oh, and Sweetie Belle is with the stallion, and they went on an adventure! She's found at last!
* AB gives no fucks.
* But when the beast admits why he does what he does, in search of the meaning of the mark on his side... AB cares.
* That's a cutie mark.
* And thus, the CMC help a star beast god thing figure out the meaning of his cutie mark!
* That happened.
* Mane-Iac is best flier.
* 007 continues his battle with Flash and Fizzle.
* And finally, 42 teleports in on Cadence... without her makeup!
* Annd, down she goes.
==THREAD 129==
 
==THREAD 130==
* TWO FOR ONE EDITION!
* Chitania and Sunset arrive at their destination, which is a brick building on the outskirts of town. There, Chitania shows why she needed Sunset's help, sort of. She reveals a case with something glowing inside that she got after battling a 'golem', but can't make work with herself thanks to compatibility issues. Sunset declares she'll make it work.
* Then the door slams open and an irritated 13 stomps in, demanding to know what Chitania did.
* Yelling occurs, intercut by Sunset having fun with the whole situation and screwing with 13, before Chitania eventually decides to tell her the truth about what happened at the square.
* Though 13 is despondent due to how little her mother cares what her actions caused, some fast talking by Sunset puts her at ease, and convinces her that Chitty actually did a good thing.
* Reluctantly, she asks if Chitania wants to spend some time with her, which she is all too excited to do.
* Sunset joins them, saying she wants to get the hottest, spiciest food she can find. This proves to be her downfall, bathroom wise.
* Dash tries training with Fluttershy, who's only job is to hold the watch. Chaos ensues, because of course it does.
* Mr and Mrs Cake get a big payday when Celly needs her cakes.
* AJ breaks down, and admits she messed up. After letting it sink in a bit, she realizes the only way to make this right is to get close to Sunset again, but she won't be able to while Chitania stands in her way. After a bit of thinking, she comes to the conclusion that maybe a certain someone will know...
* Pinkie later stumbles across her trying to fit into the vent, and thinks shes committing suicide. Weird suicide, at that. After explaining her situation, they try fishing in a vent, obviously looking for Arana,. This goes on for a long time, before Pinkie points out that AJ never filed the forms saying Arana can come back and live there.
* After a short search they come across her eating a sandwich, and Pinkie tries to be the bad cop for interrogation. When that's settled, Applejack asks her about Chitania, but instead Arana points out she doesn't know much, as she was just a little kid when they talked, and Chitania never really took her seriously. She also reminisces about her mom, pointing out how everyone gets mad when she tries to bring up her good points, so she doesn't want to do the same with Chitania. Instead, Applejack says she can talk about her mom however she likes, and that if anyone says different she'll straighten them out. With violence.
* This makes the skitterbug happy.
* AJ and Pinkie prepare to go, but before they do, Arana remembers one thing that might help them. She overheard that Twilight has a certain thing...
* Chitania's diary.
* Pinkie finds this cute.
* Actarius inquires about 32's shelter, particularly how he funded it, and gets no answer.
* Trenderhoof wants to get back to work.
* Chrysalis tries a great many tricks to learn what is ailing Shining, all of them fail.
* She puts together some grand plan again, but like always, it goes awry, thanks to 48, the ling with a gun and a banana, not being where he needed to be.
* One job, 48. One job.
* 29 continues his battle with he Nightgaurd captain, Potsticker. It intensifies, even if the fellow nightgard seem to not care, and Mayor Mare and Zecora enjoy the show, until they break through the floor.
* Finally, they get down to the basics of what the issue is, that is to say 56 failing his 'test' and not being allowed in, and Potsticker says if 29 lets her hit him in the face, she'll let him try again. Without any hesitation, he does.
* Only, 56 intercepts the attack intended for 29, an attack that is just barely stops in time. He points out that any place that would make him watch his family get hurt for a test is a place he didn't want to be in, so she can shove the job!
* And, he passed.
* Potsticker reveals this was all a test. The Nightgard are like a family, and they would never work with someone who would ignore their family being in pain just to get stronger, or let them take the fall for them. She also points out nobody else ever took her up on the offer to fight her, 29 is the first. He snobbishly tries to blow her off, until she points out he did a good job with 56, and he loses composure.
* She says he's ready to start the long training to be a nightgard, right away.
* 56 and 29 have a tearful goodbye, even though it will only be temporary, and after telling 29 he will make him proud, 56 leaves to begin his training.
* 29 watches him go in tears, and says aloud he's already proud.
* Twilight tries to research something involving Marechiveli. When Spike finds out, she bribes him with pictures of AJ in underwear.
* Don't ask.
* Lavan continues his search for whatever the chaos is trying to keep in, but while doing so someone gets the idea to roast marshmallows on his flame. After consuming a large number of these marshmallows, Angel Bunny realizes he can talk! After eating a few more, he gains powers, enough he can escape.
* Lavan chases him down, eventually finding him now in control of the forest with the creatures bowing to him. When Angel Bunny begins to feel pain from the powers, Lavan reveals that's how he feels all the time, as he is a being that reality is trying to unmake every second, during his rant he grows several new parts of his old body.
* Unable to cope with it, Angel Bunny gives the power back, and goes back to being normal, before Lavan puts him back where he was.
* Berry Punch tries to get Mayor Mare's attention, despite the fact she's not around.
* Shining Armor finds it very weird that only Chrysalis seems to be trying to discover his 'problem'...
* Lightning Dust is rising to the challenge of her rival.
* So is Spitfire
* Rarity and Rainbow Dash learn of what transpired, and Rarity is positively livid that Sunset said such things, declaring she is going to give them a piece of her mind when she finds them. After some searching, they stop for some spicy food, despite Dash's protests and insistence that such went badly for Rarity last time, and they stumble across none other than Chitania! They're going to confront her, just as soon as Rarity gets that food. Priorities.
* Luna won't notice Trixie.
* Or leave Cheeirlee alone.
* Suckerpunch and 41 make it to the wrestling event! But... no hotel. Whoops
* Idris and Cheese missed Canterlot
* PJ and Haymaker chat about jobs.
* Chrysalis gets an update on 29 and 56
* Screwloose is being held by some... unorthadox means.
* After a song and dance number, the CMC explain to the star being just what a cutie mark is!
* And... he's totally lost. The cutie mark is so vague it can mean literally anything. A flower can mean a teacher who helps students grow, or just... flowers.
* Not knowing the answer, being even further off even, enrages him, and he prepares to wipe out the world, to which the shining knight from earlier prepares to meet the challenge and battle him. But then Applebloom notices his mark, which is a galaxy, makes a little heart. He too notices this, though he never has before. Using this, the trio explains that sure, it looks vague to most, but that's because to most it's like a star in the sky, just a bit of light among a lot of others. But if you look close enough, you'll see to whoever it belongs to, it's their whole world. A cutie mark can mean anything, but to whoever it belongs to, it means everything, and he can understand that too if he just looks close enough.
* He understands at last, and his journey has ended! He hugs the CMC, Vekir, Winona and even the Sweetie Doll, and calls them his friends. He asks if they have any wish, and Applebloom says turn everything back to normal, despite him pointing out he can give ultimate power. She sticks with it, and he relents.
* At the end, she even invites him to come to Sweet Apple Acres, before he leaves and everything is back to normal.
* The Knight is joyous and happy, and tries to reward them, but Applebloom cuts him off and says she wants everything to go back to normal, and him being there is stopping that. He keeps trying to tell the backstory of the massive being and himself, but she's having none of it, and says she wants it back to the way it was. Eventually, he accepts this, and the invitation to join in at SAA on a later date as well, and leaves, sparing one last look to Sweetie Belle, who he had the most fun with.
* Vekir, Winona and the Sweetie Doll don't know what to do now that everything is normal, and are afraid.
* That's when a mare, who has a suit and was wearing one of those faceless masks before they were shredded, bursts in and asks how everything is normal and why isn't she dead and where's the cosmosis and did they always have those cutie marks?
* The CMC look down, and she's absolutely right.
* "Neat"
* Everything had changed.
==THREAD 131==
* SPICY FOOD IS DELICIOUS EDITION!
* 42 thinks Chrysalis has gone too far with her actions, Chrysalis disagrees.
* How did 32 know they would end up at that restaurant? Because the universe hates him.
* Pinkie and AJ go into Twilights lab in search of the mysterious Diary of Chitania! Sadly, she's not home. So, instead, they decide they're going to look for the answers on her computer!
* Much tapping and random videos on said computer ensue.
* Gwen and Pennydrop randomly decide to sing. It's adorable.
* 18 is slowly but surely adding more assistants to her work.
* Two's teacher may or may not be training her class to fight Chitania.
* Twilight has.. something in a box. She will not show Spike.
* Cadence is doing a lot better with the paperwork, and begrudgingly admits it only happened because of the reveal and wonders if she can thank Rarity.
* Shining finally confronts Chrysalis on what she's doing with the plans, and unable to take it anymore, she breaks down and admits that there's just something wrong with him, and she doesn't know what it is.
* Unable to deny it any longer, he harshly confronts her, asking if she has been reading his mind, which she vehemently denies. Thanks to this, she's able to finally break his barrier when he can't lie to her anymore, and instead of admitting, he just begs her not to let any of the others know, not wanting Cadence or 18 or Two to know how he feels.
* Even though he doesn't say exactly what that is, she understands, and after more pleading from him, she says she won't and abruptly leaves, leaving Shining to wonder if this changed how she sees him, and steeling his resolve not to let anyone know.
* But in truth, just the opposite has happened, after some thinking and soul searching, she realizes that deep down, all she wants to do is help him. Even if he's not exactly as she thought, she still cares about him the same way.
* Doing the only thing she can do, she begins to plan.
* Shining Armor took it the wrong way, though, and is now more determined than ever never to let anyone know.
* The CMC decide to finally go home, giving no cares when the agent tries to tel of any backstory nonsense. They take Sweetie Doll with her, again not questioning why she is a doll of Sweetie Belle.
* When SB implies she wants to take a shortcut, she gets a resounding NO.
* They're going home.
* Ms Coltsly, the seller of the mechs for Canterlot, gets a letter from her boss saying to go on the escort mission down to the Morlocks to sell robots to them. She does not want to go.
* Spike confronts 12, who has been mislead about his name and the name of Charity by SL, and returns the gun after turning down an invitation to join the Gun Club.
* 12 then confonts SL about this, and she may or may not have been fucking with him.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz get calls, and remain unfazed despite any weirdness
* 42 is not questioning Chrysalis's plan.
* 88 finally gets a case, getting a comic book back for fifty bucks. Sold!
* She goes to the house and after some talk with the terrible owner, the house droid decides to get the book back for free.
* Suckerpunch and 41 meet SP's aunt! She's an oddly dressed, tall mare who looks like one of Chitania's worst disguises. She's also very, very into her wrestling persona. 41 asks if they can stay with her, she says yes.
* Sp regrets this choice, a lot.
* Bonbon ends up at the train station with Idris and Cheese. She wishes she hadn't.
* PJ almost chokes on a watermelon, while Blueblood and Haymaker look on without pity.
* 29 thanks MM and Zecora for coming with him to help get his cousin into the Nightguard, and they reveal they actually have stuff they want to do. He insists he does too, and totally has friends up there. Totally.
* He may only have 32, but it's something! So he goes to visit, and finds a hot tub.
* A very... nice looking hot tub. With a certain 'shark' in it threatening to gobble him up. He dives in anyway.
* Spike questions why 77 is under a table. 77 does the same. The answer is "Magical horses are weird."
* MM meets up with them looking for Pommel, and they have a nice talk, up till Spike pulls out Charity to talk to Rarity, and MM has PTSD flashbacks and runs off.
* Luna notices Trixie, and has to teach her now. That's the rule.
* 42 is having fun with her teleports.
* 10 gets up to speed on what happened. It's... a long list.
* BB and PJ visit Flim and Flam, who's cell is still destroyed, despite neither of them leaving.
* Zecora is hanging out with Treehugger, Who just now notices she rhymes.
* Chitania is actually almost happy spending time with her daughter, Sunset and Sweet Note, and is enjoying their conversation.
* So of course, Rarity has to go mess it all up.
* Said pony gets into a shouting match with Sunset, though due to how she says it it's impossible to tell who she's insulting or calling out specifically, as it fits for all four at the table equally, while Sunset throws back the barbs just as fast.
* When it gets to a point where it looks like a fight might break out, Chitania realizes that if one does, her daughter is just going to run off again, probably back to the hive where she feels safe, and she might not ever want to try this again.
* So, in desperation, Chitania tries the one thing nobody would ever expect.
* "Can we talk about this later?"
* It's revealed that the whole time, Rarity thought she was playing everything out exactly as she wanted. She saw the event like a noir novel, and had played it out in her mind, and the whole time she was trying to focus on making Sunset snap and do something rash so she could lock her up and let Aj confront her former student on her own terms, not caring what it would do to her reputation.
* But now, thanks to this, the whole script got flipped, and if she pressed the matter she would look like the bad guy, and she thinks Chitania played her.
* "Well, fuck."
* Back at the lab, AJ and Pinkie run out of videos, and they never found Chitania's diary. That's when Pinkie points out it probably wouldn't be on a computer that got broken into anyway, and then deduces it's in the vault.
* Then Aj starts hitting her... a lot.
* "IT WAS WORTH IT!"
==THREAD 132==
* RARITY WHAT DID YOU DO EDITION!?
* Pinkie Pie and AJ, now having access to Chitty's diary, decide to start flipping through the entries.
* Many a short, darkly funny stories commence.
* 88 gets the comic, only to learn it actually does belong to the owner of the house, and she's been betrayed! The one who hired her zaps the owners robot and runs off with the comic, leading to a massive chase through Canterlot during which she repeatedly forgets she can fly.
* Zecora, while hanging out with Tree Hugger, spots MM running through town, and gives chase after her friend.
* SA gets a staredown from 2, and he thinks it's because she caught on or Chrysalis told her whats up. Instead, he just has a booger... not a big deal.
* Luna is screwing with Trixie.
* Harry the Bear is apparently an effective peacekeeper.
* Celestia goes out to actually do something about Sunset, and finds the torn up remains of the doll version of herself.
* Devastated that Sunset no longer wants any part of her in her life, Celestia brings the doll's consciousness back to it's head, to learn of what transpired. Sadly, she doesn't remember much, but she does reveal that Sunset is working with Chitnia willingly and took the stone from her.
* Resolved, Celestia decides to get off her ass and actually do something.
* 29 is relaxing in the tub dead to the world, and Acty and JJ notice that 32 stopped pulling on them. Worried with how long he's been down there, Actarius finally breaks down and asks what he's doing under there. 29 obliges, lazily pulling the other ling up from where he had been, somewhere around 29's lap, and with a sashay 32 creeps over to Acty and JJ and reveals what he has been doing this whole time.
* "I'm pulling your legs."
* Actarius and JJ have a good laugh, and then leave. 32 huffs that the first part didn't get a reaction, and blames 29's lack of acting. 29 gives no fucks, he's chill.
* Still, 32 says he can help work on said acting skills...
* At least, until MM races in screaming, and lands right on him. Zecora comes in soon after.
* A heart to heart happens where 29 and Zecora hugs MM and tells her she shouldn't be afraid of stuff like that anymore, she does a good job, and if anyone tried it they'd kick their ass.
* MM feels safe again.
* 32 just gets annoyed he almost drowned, and stomps off with a huff. Upon learning of certain activities going on outside, he decides to go 'be an ambassador' and protect his hivemate.
* Nothing to do with revenge, no sir.
* Idris only notices Bonbon left. And when Lyra shows up on he scene, she is quick to leave, via flashes and jumping onto a train.
* The CMC, on their way to canterlot, realize they're bored, and wish something would happen. Then something happens, and they regret.
* SA sadly has to tell 2 her idea of marchmalley roads is not to be. But, after a talk about responsibility, she gets an idea...
* Blueblood might be racist.
* 42 goes crazy with the teleports in training, and punches.
* That's when the guard has a brilliant idea, cadence plushies!
* This actually works, and they get some hits in. She still 'claims victory', though. Victory in this case meaning plushies.
* Twilight tries to bribe Chrysalis with a cake. This cake is apparently a sculpt of Applejack's ass.
* Twilight has a great many questions for Spike now.
* 10 wodners if the Hive Gazette needs her anymore, BBB puts that to rest.
* 12 somehow knows everything is going wrong.
* NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENTS
* Sunset thinks everything is going swimmingly, until someone says "Screw this"
* It turns out, the one saying it is one of many. Those many are the entire population of the restaurant they're currently in.
* The Canterlot Elite all arm their robots and activate their infusions, and one by one join Rarity's side, to help her like they did Applejack back at the Arm-Break incident.
* Rarity is emboldened by this, and thanks to being relieved she no longer has to fear being thought less of, challenges Sunset in the hopes she'll jump.
* Instead, Chitania thinks Rarity is after her, and upon seeing her daughter banging her head against the table and grumbling actually tries to end the fight before it begins, so that 13 will not run off.
* However, she doesn't get more than a "I'm not" out, before one of the Canterlot ponies panic when she moves towards them and shoots her right in the eye. When she actually feels pain from this, the others lay it on in an attempt to put her down.
* It doesn't work.
* And now she is very... very mad.
* Sunset is happy though.
* During this, Sunset has a mental conversation with 13, who is preparing to leave this before it gets bad. She points out that her mother was trying not to fight, that they started it, and that the shot to her eye was a magic that would have been lethal to anyone else, and could have been lethal to her mom. Despite this, when she was weak, they tried to finish her off.
* Reluctantly, 13 comes around to seeing what she means, and begins to doubt that the ponies are as good as her Queen claims them to be. If for no other reason than that, she joins the fray.
* Sweet Note doesn't need pushing, she just gets to showing them how they do it down at the docks.
* With the occasional help from 32 who is 'looking after his hivemate', of course.
* Things are going badly, as nobody can even slow Chitania down, Rarity and Dash included.
* The Titan is overcome by rage, as she is now sure that her daughter will never want to spend time with her again like she just did, and she doesn't know if she should anyway, and this is leading to a lot of punches.
* As a last ditch effort, Dash tries to hit her with a Rainboom, just like she did back at the train, but this time Chitania is prepared, and blocks it, badly injuring the pegasus.
* When Sunset starts mocking her, a frantic Rarity tries to shoot her, but Sunset dodges ever time, until it ends when the Queen hits Rarity.
* She's not down, but she might be out...
* With Pinkie and AJ, after getting frustrated reading page after page, AJ starts frantically flipping through them.
* Pinkie tries to stop her, and she does when Aj breaks down and reveals that the reason she's so desperate is despite Chitty being here all this time, she didn't learn anything. She knows nothing about her foe, and when she tried to stop her from taking Sunset, she couldn't, and it was all her fault.
* Pinkie cheers her up and gives her support, because that's what Pinkie does.
* And just in time, because in her frantic flipping, it seems they landed on exactly what they needed to...
* Chitania's diary entry that say "I'm pregnant".
==THREAD 133==
* RARITY DONE DID IT NOW EDITION!
* Two rolls on the ground going Wabba. Spitfire does not question it, nor should you.
* Sweet Note is wrecking it in the fight
* 13 goes through the crowd to meet the one who supposedly shot first, never attacking, and never needing to, because everyone who tries to attack her 'slips' or has some other misfortune happen.
* After interrogating him, she gets no answers, he just tries to shoot her a whole lot.
* She finally accepts she's not going to get anything out of him, and with one little push, she sends him on an adventure. An unlucky adventure where everything goes wrong until he's plopped out on the street in pain. Afterwards, she realizes it doesn't matter if Sunset was right, everyone wants her mom dead anyway.
* Luna is probably screwing with trixie
* Twilight asks Chrysalis to ask 13 to ask Chitania how she did the heart thing with Sunset. Chrysalis tells her no, but is proud of her.
* Celestia, with Dollestia, decides to buckle down and really get at being a princess again. She can't confront Sunset yet, so in the meanwhile, she's going to try to reconcile her problems.
* First off, fixing Jetset, after pointing out she's been a terrible teacher.
* Shiny tries to help the others with their addiction problems. When they up all the stuff he does, he thinks the better of it.
* Batmom and Dadling decide to go out to eat. They choose poorly.
* Rarity is being used as a punching bag while Chitania wails on her, Sunset taunts her, and she can't fight back.
* 56 bonds with the Nightgards over spices.
* Featherweight and a reporter argue over who has to cover the fight.
* Spitfire thinks it's too quiet, Mane-Iac fixes that.
* The changelings keep doing whatever it is they're doing. Even they don't know.
* Actarius decides to go out and help the others, much to JJ's annoyance it does not end well.
* 32 watches as he's mostly shot because everyone wants to shoot JJ.
* Rarity stops Chitania for half a second with cabbages.
* Spike and 77 talk about carpet
* the Thief escapes 88's grasp!
* Rarity keeps trashtalking to keep Chitania's attention, all while getting the marshmallow beaten out of her. But it's proven to be a ruse! As Dash finishes what she's been doing unseen, and gets the last of the crowd out of harms way, leaving only Rarity, Chitania, Sunset and 13 behind in the bar!
* Which Sunset and Chitania both knew was happening, because of the less blasts shooting her, but nevermind.
* Sunset mocks her on that one, of course. And then points out that this just means Chitty doesn't have to hold back.
* But Rarity has a plan! Her whole idea was to get all the ponies clear, stun Chitania and Sunset, and then leave, trapping the four inside the building which is currently surrounded by the royal guard! They and Dash are just waiting for Rarity's signal. If Chitania wants to fight, she'd put her own daughter in danger of the building collapsing, and has no bartering chip. Rarity admits it's cruel to leave her and Sweet Note inside to be used like that, but sees no alternative. Her plan has worked flawlessly so far!
* And now it's not working at all!
* Realizing that her previous blasts, no matter how much she forced it, didn't even make the Titan blink, she decided to dig deep, deep, deeeeep down into her new alicorn magic, to hit Chitty with everything she has!
* One little problem... she can't control it.
* She accidentally taps too deep, and is completely overwhelmed. Her entire body lights up with magic, and she's about to explode!
* As a last ditch effort, Chitania grabs her, and Sunset tears off, fearing for her own life and just barely remembering to grab 13 and Sweet Note on the way. 13 begs for them to go back, but they won't.
* Outside, Pommel has gathered the Royal Guard in an impressive perimeter, and think they are ready for anything. Knowing that Rarity's signal will come any second, Dash claims there's no time to explain what happened, and to wait.
* They wait for about a second before Sunset breaks out, running full tilt and screaming in horrified terror at the thought of dying again
* Then everything explodes, and a light shoots up into the sky.
* Surprisingly, most everyone is fine! The blast was mostly contained, and everyone should make it out okay!
* Except Rarity, who's limp body is tossed in front of a shocked Dash.
* Chitty's fine, by the by. Scorched, but fine.
* And angry, very angry.
* And even more angry after Celestia bolts down from the sky, and nails her right in the head, sending her THOUGH Canterlot's floor, and out the bottom.
* Chitty responds by punching her into a building.
* Then Pommel tells everyone to shoot her already!
* 29 is reluctantly forced to check things out.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz aren't letting the end of the world stop their show.
* AB, SB and SL's train is out of control.
* Cadence freaks out seeing 2 in her wedding dress, until Two fwooshes smaller, then she finds it cute, then freaks out when 18 implies she will have her own kids someday. It's a mess.
* Pommel laments how bullshit it is that the crazy stuff only happened this century
* Fancy and Fluer are going to investigate the light
* Chitania is very angry
* Nurse Redheart is going to go help
* Sunset finally stops running, and lets 13 and SN drop. The latter two are worried that the explosion actually managed to kill Chitania, until they hear her roar.
* Sunset snaps at 13, asking her if she finally believes what was said before, 13 can't deny it.
* Sweet Note tries to intervene, but gets shoved aside, and Sunset presses further, and 13 breaks further down.
* After 13 sees Celestia attack her mom again, her mind is made up.
* 13 turns around, and starts to head towards the battle, declaring that if they want a fight, Chitania can bring it. Because she's not just her mother, she's Queen Chitania...
* "...The Titan"
==THREAD 134==
* CHITTY DID A SEXY TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE EDITION!
* 2's teacher starts by questioning this "Momsie" character 2 has shown. Then thinks the better of it.
* Lightning Dust sees her chance, and she's going to take it.
* JJ chews out Acty then cheers him up with juggling.
* Idris is suddenly very unwilling to go to Canterlot.
* Chrysalis says she's not going to do what Twi asks because what she needs to do is way more important and will make her mad. This makes Twilight very worried, but Chrysalis asserts it's worth it.
* Blueblood tries to convince PJ not to go out there, unsuccessfully. When she leaves, he decides he can't stay either.
* Celestia is a little angry.
* Berry punch saves the hooch. The hooch is Lyra... go figure.
* Trixie sees the light from Canterlot and tells a previously napping Luna, who didn't see it and doesn't believe her when she says it was there. Trixie thinks this is a test, but Luna bluntly says if she runs off she's not teacher her anymore.
* After some deliberation, Trixie chooses to go help her friends, leaving a confused Luna to think it was just too much for her.
* Annoyed, Luna goes to the spa to get a treatment, and runs Aloe and Lotus ragged with her confusing requests.
* Lucky Strikes is way too excited to be in this.
* Two calls Spitfire "Spitty", which she doesn't like. After implying there will be punches in the future of anyone named that, 2 asks if she should call 42 spitty, which Spitfire does like. A lot.
* Tree Hugger is chill.
* Pommel is despondent when the guard are doing everything right, but they just don't have the firepower to put Chitania down. Sadly, he admits they just have to wait until a princess arrives.
* Dash tries to draw her attention, daring her to come at her and implying it's her that Chitania wants. This works, and Chitania prepares to hit her, a move Dash knows she can't dodge but will hopefully quell her rage.
* Chitania is struck at the last minute by a beam of light that grazes Dash's head and knocks her out. It is revealed to be a calculated strike by Celestia, one that sends Chitania clear out of the city with minimal damage. She regrets hitting Dash, but an inch or so change would have resulted in more damage.
* Chitania does not fly back, instead just jumping and trying to smash the princess. Said princess is revealed to be an illusion, one made of bombs.
* Pommel is enjoying the show.
* A Crystal Guard grills the changelings about an 'incident' upstairs. They respond by mocking his inability to pick out who is who. He says he knows it was 46 and just didn't want to reveal he wrecked the toilet, before running off in tears because none of them knew who he was.
* Shining discovers how the guard kept getting hits in on 42. He does not take the fact they're using effigy's of his wife well.
* YOU GET PUNCHES! AND YOU GET PUNCHES! EVERYONE GETS PUNCHES YAAYYYY!
* When they switch up to 42 dolls, it's less than effective.
* 18 feels like she's missing something, which is when Two sets stuff on fire.
* 29 starts to chew out MM for doing something so stupid, but when she feels bad Zecora lays into him, and he takes it back and apologizes for being a dick. Then he gets forgiveness hugs... then the building collapses, because that was related.
* That restaurant owner isn't getting his money back.
* 32 finds a lot of these things suspicious...
* the Canties suddenly realize shooting Chitania was dumb... just now.
* 88 realizes she got duped, and meets up with Lavan, who is noticing the battle. She advises not going near Chitania, due to her attempts to slay gods.
* The train with the CMC is still out of control, and a bison is, bluntly put, unhelpful when he suggests, and goes through with, jumping off the train.
* Chrysalis and Twilight banter before Cadence, 18 and 42 arrive, and all together they go into Shining's office, where Chrysalis says that she was right, there was something wrong with Shining, and she knows what it is. She ignores both the other four mares freaking out and Shining desperately trying to stop her and talk, and simply says there is something wrong...
* "And it's all my fault."
* Sweet Note confronts Sunset about sending 13 off and tries to call her out, but Sunset rebukes her and turns it around on her, convincing her that she really does only want Chitania to make it out alive.
* Left with no other options to save Chitty, Sweet Note has to sit back and let it happen.
* Pommel is noticing something weird about the blast where Rarity was, and needs answers.
* Chitania gets beat down hard by Celestia, who unleashes her full magical abilities on the Titan, beating her across Canterlot until she is far away from anyone else while using illusions and trickery to prevent a return attack.
* By the end of it, even when Chitania tricks her back and gets a solid hit in, it's not enough to bring Celestia down, or even knock her down. She is soon battered and about to be finished off by a final attack when she hears a voice in her head...
* ~Mother... I'm sorry.~
* Thirteen has a one-way psychic conversation with her where she finally has a good heart to heart on how little she understands Chitania, and how little her mother understood her back. She reveals that the day Chittty hit her was the day she finally saw the monster everyone else claimed she was, and she feared if she ever ascended she would become just like her.
* She reveals that there is a block in Chitania's mind that prevented her from going all out, enough she would never kill any pony. In a twist, she reveals it was something Chitania herself put there, either intentionally or subconsciously with the same latent powers that she passed down to 13, ones that never developed, because she knew 13 hated such violence.
* After seeing what she was willing to give up and do, 13 understands, and says she knows that deep down, Chitania really does love her, and she loves her back. Which is why she breaks that limiter, because it looks like the princesses really are out to kill her, and she doesn't want to lose her mother again.
* She says she loves her one more time, and cuts the connection.
* The Titan is back, in all her giant glory.
* Celestia tries talking to her, but is interrupted by missiles. So many missiles. Celestia curses Pennydrop for this.
* Shockingly, it's Gwen doing it, and PD is trying to convince her not to.
* When they run out of missiles, Chitania is fine, and heading right for them.
* "...well fuck."
* This is going to hurt.
==THREAD 135==
* WE KAIJU NOW EDITION!
* Spitfire is stuck on babysitting duty for Mane-Iac and 2. Things do not go well.
* 29, MM and Zecora are dodging the attacks.
* Chitania continues to advance on PD's airship while she desperately tries to fix it. Unable to stop her with lasers, Celly goes drastic.
* That drastic is a Juggernaut.
* Which she explodes.
* Again.
* 10 makes Featherweight sit the reporting out, because she's worried about him
* PJ tries stringing up wires between buildings to trip Chitty. It doesn't work. Haymaker punches her.
* Chrysalis admits fault when she reveals Shining's current issues with murderous feelings, stating that it was residual magic left over from the zombieification during the wedding.
* Cadence and the others are understandably upset and demand she fix him by removing it, when she states she can't because the magic would have faded, everyone blames her. Abruptly, Shining tells everyone to leave.
* They do so, and he throws up a shield before laying into her, calling her out for all the lies. She admits they're lies, but they're ones that let everyone see him as the stallion they all think he is, and she takes all the blame for making him act different. He tells her they'll all hate her for this, but she just accepts it and says she's willing to be the badguy again, if it means he gets help. He asks her to take it back, but she says she can't, because he's getting worse, and this is the only way to help him.
* Reluctantly, he drops the shield, and Chrysalis goes to let the others back in. That's when it turns out it wasn't a soundproof shield, they heard everything.
* He says they need to talk
* Bonbon is not who she says she is... sort of.
* Lucky strikes muses the fact that they don't have anti-dragon weapons
* In desperation, Celestia has to let Chitania go at the airship, as she can't keep stalling her and saving everyone. She knows this means Chitty will tear them apart, but there's no other way.
* Someone down below sees this, and records it.
* PD finally gets the thing working, and her airship transforms into Metal Deer Haw... moth.
* It looks like a giant metal moth, as Gwen points out.
* But that's not trademarked, so it's still Metal Deer Hawk.
* Everyone outside sees it's a moth.
* While that's going on, Lightning Dust arrives with the WB's and they go in formation to get everyone out of danger. Celly is impressed.
* Fleetfoot and Soarin resent that they're making her look good, but have to do it to save lives.
* Harry has a gun... that is all.
* Donut joe comes back from 'lunch', and is arrested.
* Moondancer is out of the loop
* OOCO OnO match, where Celly gets her figure back via strange means...
* Jetset's nurse friend gets a loan from some shady ponies
* Blueblood pops off a couple shots with an anti-tank rifle to keep Chitty distracted, but it fails
* The changelings don't know what to do now that the plan is over.
* 8-Bit and gaffer admit they wish Shiny was there
* Batmom and Dadling picked the wrong time to leave
* The CMC resign themselves to their fate, and Vekir does not question the giant mecha moth.
* Poindexter comes to help Spitfire
* The battle between mecha moth and Chitania comences! Full Kaiju battle in the sky goes off, with the moth pulling off an impressive array of abilities, most of them magical in nature.
* Chitty is struck several times by hit and run tactics and the moth's far superior speed, but eventually manages to get a hold on the moth after it tries a big finisher attack, which Chitty dodged by shrinking down just in time, and is about to punch them to scraps.
* But they're saved at the last minute by a rocket to Chitty's eye! Once they're clear, she's struck again, this time by a familiar bomb so big it covers half of the airspace above Canterlot! It knocks Chitty out of the sky and scorched her bad, but she gets back up to find her opponent is waiting for her.
* It's DIAMOND TIARA! She's back, and she's sporting new black tactical gear, with TBDLIATU adorned with new stripes. Not only that, she seems to be in direct contact with... her mother!? Said mother makes her spout stupid catchphrases for some reason.
* After that blow, Chitty notices she's starting to slow down.
* With all the damage she's taken, it's hitting Chitania that she might not win this fight...
==THREAD 136==
* HANGING BY A THREAD EDITION!
* Acty either wants a filly or a rocket launcher, JJ isn't sure...
* Sunset, while running towards the battle and seeing Chitania attacked, is saved from a tiny rock from none other than 29! He's happy when he realizes that she is back to life, having not known this or any of the circumstances about it. Sunset, a little annoyed at him but willing to talk when he reveals he kept writing to her, but since she wasn't home she never wrote back, reveals what happened to revive her, and to her surprise he actually gives Chitania the benefit of the doubt.
* She has to leave, but gives him one warning not to hang around the princesses too much, and if things go wrong 'he'll be the last'.
* Celestia confronts Diamond Tiara about the bomb she used, the Castle Crusher. When the filly refuses to reveal how it works or what's it made of, she gets suspicious, only to have DT call her out by pointing out that she was more than willing to share everything with her when she was on the A-team and risking her life for them, and Celestia never spoke up when AJ kicked her out. DT gives one last bitter word that Celestia blew her chance before she flies off, and Celestia admits it's not the first time.
* Mane-Iac sets Spitfire's hair on fire... don't ask.
* Pennydrop and Gwen get a call from a surprising ally, DT's mother! Spoiled Rich goes on to talk about toylines and such things, making it obvious all she cares about is marketing DT's new fame. She herself is in Trottingham, with Silver Spoon. Said filly is wishing for suicide.
* Chitania, pushed to her limit, starts to wonder if there's a way out of this, and the ground seems very tempting...
* PJ attempts to go after Chitania again with explosives despite Haymaker's protests. Blueblood also protests, only his version involves shooting her line just as she starts flying, and her ending up face first on the ground.
* Watchdog and Siegfried, heading towards Canterlot in the baloon, finally notice the airships and try to turn around to no avail.
* Celestia starts to get excited because it looks like it's working, and every civilian in her path has been cleared. But when Lightning Dust points out she's headed for the edge, a chilling thought occurs to her...
* Sunset notices everything is happening too fast, and tries to get to the battle quicker. But along the way, she's stopped by Pommel, who is looking for some answers as to what Chitty is 'planning', as he is still going off the idea that she started the battle and used some strange magic to blow up the restaurant. He reaches out to the side of her that grew up in Canterlot to help bring her down.
* Sunset mocks and rebukes him, and when he finally has had enough, he threatens to arrest her. She rises to the challenge, but it proves pointless.
* out of nowhere, he is hit in the face by a detonated pepper spray canister, and Sweet Note charges him and distracts him long enough for Sunset to make an escape. After he pins her down, he switches gears to ask Sweet Note for information, promising her protection, money, and a lighter sentence after all the assault she did in the bar brawl. He pleads with her to help him and that he's on her side, but all he gets in response is her biting her ear, and that's not all.
* After a speech where she details the rules of the street to never trust guards, she also reveals something that hasn't been seen since her first day with Chity. That is, that she's actually really strong. She takes him by surprise, powerbombing him and keeping him from fighting back, all while admitting she doesn't care if she gets locked up this time, since she has someone worth protecting.
* She suddenly jerks forwards, and it's revealed that Daw hit her with a magical burst of her sword. The attack was too severe, and now Sweet Note has a bad wound on her head and is unconscious. Daw is apologetic, having truly not meant to do that, and Pommel sends her off to go get some help.
* Shining is not going to therapy, until his wife pulls out the wife card. He's doomed.
* A changeling is offered a 'position' by Photo Finish, he takes her up on it.
* 12 keeps SL distracted with ice cream. He sort of regrets it.
* Roseluck starts a band, it does not go well.
* Zecora imagines going giant and fighting Chitania
* Chitania decides to end this as soon as she's sure everyone she cares about is clear, and Applejack finally emerges from the lab!
* She also thinks about going back inside with Pinkie, but doesn't.
* Spike finally notices Charity has been going off all this time, and he and 77 leave.
* Two annoys Spitfire in the quiet chair.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Everyone thinks they have Chitty on the run when she reaches the corner of the city, and are planning to unleash everything when she's clear of the city and they can nuke her.
* To their surprise, she abruptly stops, and starts fighting back, effectively defeating the guard and Wonderbolts in one attack, and even managing to get the better of DT and Celestia, the latter when she takes a blow that would have blown up in the former's face.
* When Gwen and PD charge her, threatening to finish her off, she pulls off one last trick. Her size magic.
* Only, she doesn't shrink like before, but thanks to her training from long ago goes even further beyond what she ever had previously, and is tall enough to literally catch and hold the Mecha Moth like a toy before tossing it into the mountain. Though she is not out of the fight, the airship is badly damaged.
* Then, to everyone's horror, she flies up, and then places her hooves down on the side of Canterlot.
* And begins to press.
* Everyone panics as Canterlot is nearly ripped clear off the side of the mountain and tries their best to stop her, including DT and Celestia pulling off a combo attack that just barely fails.
* In despair, they realize they can't do anything, and Chitania thinks she's won, while lamenting that she actually liked Canterlot, but still decides to bring it down, and all looks lost.
* Only to have herself run out of power at the last moment.
* All the battle had proven too much for her, and the strain of her new size too great, she can no longer stay in her more massive form, and when she shrinks down to Titan size, she's out of juice.
* Then the counterattack starts.
* Canterlot joins together and utterly batters her, with everyone from the Wonderbolts to the Guard to even the normal unicorns laying down severely damaging fire on her.
* Eventually, after a finishing blow by Celestia she can't even handle her regular Titan form, and shrinks down to normal size. Everyone prepares to fire, only to have one last attack land. That attack is a speeding train, the CMC's speeding train specifically, that does the last blow.
* She's barely standing now, but still tries to challenge them. Celestia gives her one last chance to surrender.
* Knowing that if she does, she'll simply be killed in prison after they make a mockery of her, Chitania connects with 13 mentally, and tells her she is going to go down fighting, doing this to prove to 13 that so long as you keep fighting until the very end, they can't take what makes you strong.
* She finally, at last, tells her daughter 'I love you', and then she charges.
* And Chitana is gone... literally!
* Everyone is shocked when she just straight up vanishes, looking like she teleported away at the last second. Everyone is at first sad they didn't get to finish her off, but eventually, everyone begins to cheer! They won! They defeated Chitania and brought her down, finally getting back at her for what she did back at her first arc!
* Everyone celebrates, and things are going good!
* "WHAT IN TARNATION IS GOING ON!?"
* Applejack arrives at the scene, and DT, Gwen and PD are more than happy to take some potshots at her absence. Only, Applejack has a few questions. Specifically, why Chitania went crazy.
* It turns out, nobody can actually answer that, everyone arrived well after the fight had begun, and the only accounts they heard were second hand saying she started a fight that got out of control.
* Though AJ brings up possibilities, they all get brushed off, and Canterlot as a whole begins to party!
* Only AJ is not getting into the swing of things, and as she looks out over Canterlot, Celestia asks what she's looking for.
* AJ replies "The truth"
* After everyone leaves, it's revealed that Chitty didn't teleport at all! Sunset Shimmer cast an illusion to hide their presence, which entailed staying perfectly still, until they were all gone, and after a mental confirmation with 13 that her mother is alive, Sunset takes Chitania and leaves the city.
* But she promises they'll be back, someday.
* Even unconcious... Chitania smiles.
==THREAD 137==
* MARE ON THE RUN EDITION!
* Treehugger has missed some things
* Acty and JJ join in the party.
* Lavan talks with 88 and decides he wants to help. The reality warper does this by taking a little broom and dustpan and sweeping up.
* Trixie arrives, and has several questions. When she finds 29 and co partying and learns she was too late and couldn't have helped anyway, she punches the prissy bug and stomps off, leaving 29 confused.
* Pinkie tries to cheer up her hurt friends, but Doctor Debbie Downer wants them to have some rest. That's seriously her name.
* Aj suggest farming out the load of paperwork to 18. She does so, and nearly crushes her.
* 13 is bitter about what happened, cursing the ponies as she walks to the castle and mockingly telling them to cheer, because her mother will come back someday and destroy them all for this. AJ catches her just before she reaches the portal and tries to talk to her, but 13, still thinking that the Princesses are out to kill her mother, blows her off and uses her mind control to make AJ forget she even saw her and leave. She lets a guard see her go through the portal so he can tell everyone she's gone, and she heads back to the Empire.
* Where, coincidentally, she finds Chrysalis thinking everything is going good. Poor girl
* Shiny, Twilight and Cadence go through the portal because the latter 2 think Shining needs to see his mother right now. What they find does not help Shining's condition at all.
* LD breaths in her success.
* AJ insists to Celestia that something isn't right, even as Celly brushes off the idea and is more content with how happy her citizens are, and that they feel like heroes because for once they got to join in and not just rely on the 'chosen heroes'.
* Despite Celly's words, Aj decides she's going to try to find the truth anyway.
* Speaking of, Lucky Strike and the others are feeling pretty pumped.
* When Shining learns it was Chitty who wrecked the city and Sunset Shimmer was helping her, he gets a little mouthfoamy.
* PJ rants that Blueblood kept her out of the fight, while Haymaker points out while that was a good idea.
* AB and the CMC finally make it back to the castle just in time! AB says to just pretend like they were camping, but Scootaloo points out that's stupid, and with how long they've been gone AJ must have turned Equestria inside out looking for her, and they should just come clean. AB shuts her up and plays it cool.
* And, surprisingly, it works! Aj didn't know they were gone, and just thinks they hid in the castle during the attack. She even brushes off Vekir's presence, and doesn't notice Sweetie Doll's at all! She apologized to AB that she hasn't been around much and for cancelling their trip, and promises AB that she's going to do better this time after she's done with her investigation.
* Winona tries to be honest, but it fails. Because dog.
* AJ leaves, and the CMC finally can rest.
* Outside, Aj thinks something was different, but can't put her hoof on what...
* Only one guy in Canterlot is noticing everything is awful while Canterlot parties.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz chime in.
* 42 goes to assist Spitfire, and encounters child logic.
* Twilight asks Celestia how this happened. Celestia replies she knows how Canterlot can be.
* 42 asks 10 if their reputation is going to take a hit from this. She says it won't go lower than the bottom, and 42 needs crying corner time.
* 55 gets panicky without gas.
* A dark presence finds a book in the bottom of the catacombs.
* Honeyheart, Jetset's nurse friend, can't make it to Canterlot.
* Chitania finally wakes up and finds Sunset waiting for her. Said changeling is so beaten she can't move, but when she realizes Sunset saved her she implies they're even. Sunset rebukes that, saying that she is far too indebted to Chitania to let that happen. She says she owes Chitty too much, and they're in this together
* When asked how long it'll take her to get back on her hooves, Sunset gives two options. Dripfeed until Chitty is better natually, which will take months and not work perfect, or Chitty gives her some changeling magic despite how much it hurts, and she gets her back in no time. Chitty picks the latter.
* Sunset leaves, promising she'll come back, while Chitty can't move and can only lament that they're going to regret not killing her when they had the chance.
* 32 finds JJ and acty dancing, and makes implications. Said implications go unnoticed.
* Spike finds Blueblood returning his gun to the Gunclub room, and is bitter that even Blueblood got to help out, while he didn't. Blueblood points out he didn't help, all he did was keep a friend from joining in, and then brings up that Spike was better off not helping. He says Chitania is just too far beyond them, pointing out that Spike knows he's weak, while she has no such illusions, and worst case scenario he would have gotten in the way.
* He says if Spike wants to challenge her, he's going to have to 'unlock' himself, whatever that means.
* Quicksilver lost another bet, and the changelings are assholes.
* The morlocks are learning
* While staying still, Chitania talks with her daughter. If it's a hallucination or not, she does not know.
* Arana remembers her mother.
* Daw is trying not to think about what happened while Pommel reassures her
* PD, DT and Gwen celebrate and share drinks, and talk of the future
* Applejack wonders if she's doing the right thing, since the truth might take away from what Canterlot feels, but eventually reassures herself that she has to.
==THREAD 138==
* BRO TIER EDITION
* Filthy Rich gets a call from his wife and regrets that she started talking to DT again,
* Spike meets with Rarity, who is unconscious, and after a pep talk with said pony via telepathic Chartiy, he decides to be a protector again, and not be so down.
* Chrysalis starts banging her head on the wall. She doesn't know when she'll stop.
* Chitania gets the downsides of being unable to move.
* AJ learns about Sweet Note and isn't happy.
* We finally cut back to 007, where we find out not only what happened to him, but where Fluttershy's been! Turns out 007 had one of his animal thralls call her for help, and she swiftly defeated Flash and Fizzle. After some accidental torture to Fizzle due to her powers, they say they'll tell 'their boss' they were successful so they'll leave the scientist alone, and everyone leaves.
* Honeyheart, after being harassed a bit by a guy, calls for Jetset via the vial he gave her.
* Twilight and Pinkie are mad they missed everything.
* Rekulk wants to party.
* PD and Gwen were wearing sparkly hoof polish this whole time.
* The Canties wonder why they don't just move.
* 55 has some thoughts about clones that go awry.
* Twilight feels like she's fallen behind in the tech wars.
* Chrysalis dumps 13 off with 42 and goes to get to the bottom of this, ordering her to punch anyone who tries to get close to her, Celestia included.
* 13 and 42 decide to play Candyland.
* 2 and Mane-Iac keep driving Spitfire nuts
* Cloudchaser orders Derpy to stretch the glutes. Many a story with the pair follow as CC tries to be the best Ponyville Weather Captain ever.
* Celestia goes back to her room, and the head of Dollestia asks how the meeting with Sunset went.
* Acty wonders if he's supposed to sit with 32 or not.
* Aj tells Pinkie she hasn't found anything and is ticked.
* The CMC debate getting a cutiecenera or even telling anyone, and decide to just wait for someone to notice they have cutie marks.
* Applejack is ready to give up, when out of nowhere Chrysalis arrives and says she needs to talk!
* Chrysalis is, surprsingly, blunt. She cuts right to the chase and tells AJ to be honest with her if this is some plot to kill Chitania, or if any of the others might think that, or if Rarity was trying to do that.
* AJ tells her no on all counts, and finally she hears the story from 13's perspective. Although she's weary of taking 13's word for it, She also learns that Chitania really does think they're out to murder her, and she did try to stop the fight back when it started.
* Eventually she puts everything together, and Chrysalis agrees they need to fix this.
* In a surprising show of friendship, Chrysalis opts not to stay out of the whole mess, and says she'll help AJ fix what happened, even if it seems impossible. Aj is likewise touched Chrysalis came to her first, and Chrysalis said she just needed some honesty.
* Even as bad as it seems, the two join up and get ready to find the whole truth and bring it to the world!
* Trixie is still being a dick as 29 and co head back to ponyville.
* Sunset flirts with just leaving Chitty behind like so many did to her, but decides she can't do it, and goes into an unnamed town in disguise.
* DT talks with 77 again, where we learn it was her that wanted her armor to be black, instead of pink, because it felt more right for a fighter.
* Poindexter ejects after 2 finds his 'books'
* Luna is still at the spa.
* Rarity was having such a nice dream... until the screaming started.
* "RAARRRIIITTYYYY!... WHAT DID YOU DO!?"
* Applejack is not happy.
==THREAD 139==
* THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE EDITION!
* Idris is a little miffed he didn't know about the mechmoth.
* OOCO Twilight makes a simulation where the world ended and Morlocks are the only survivors.
* Derpy and Cloudchaser get in to many an antic.
* Lucky, QS and SG are cleaning up the destroyed restaurant when Quicksilver falls through the hole Celestia made.
* Actarius stays with 32 while he sits in the destroyed building. Him and JJ keep making innuendos, and 32 is having none of it.
* PJ, angry that BB kept her from fighting, gets her revenge by shoving spuds into Blueblood's mouth.
* Arana does not like this, and webs her up until she apologizes.
* Fluttersy finally arrives, and it's revealed Discord saw the whole thing. She runs off to see her friends.
* Honeyheart and Jetset have tea with the harassing stallion from earlier. He is a little worried.
* Chitania has many a scene where she hallucinates from hunger.
* BBB is worried when 10 publishes that Celestia left PD and Gwen to go save others, but 10 says she has to tell the truth.
* AJ confronts Rarity about what happened, and after she learns nobody died and what went down, Rarity confesses to everything. She then laments how she used to always want to be a princess, and how that dream has been tainted. AJ says she understands, and knows what its like to try to do what you think is the right thing and everything goes wrong.
* But she won't let Rarity give up, because Rarity is her friend. Reluctantly, she accepts.
* Its' then revealed the entire conversation happened in Rarity's head, as AJ was put there by Chrysalis so she could talk to her without waking her up or hurting her.
* SA wants to know if they have ninjas
* Celestia, unable to take the day anymore, tries to curl up into bed. It doesn't work.
* Then shining comes in with backrubs and cake, and she feels happy again.
* So of course, this is when AJ comes in to tell her the truth.
* Her and Shining try to dive into the cake to escape, it does not work.
* 18 has missed a lot.
* And they still have to help rebuild.
* Spitfire can't take it anymore, and is losing her mind. Fortunately, 42 arrives to take 2. Unfortunately, she leaves Mane-Iac.
* 29 and co try not to think about the fact nobody realized they were gone.
* Weird stuff happens around 2.
* Sweet Note wakes up and realizes she's going to jail, but still does not talk when the guard comes in to get her statement. Afterwards, it's revealed that she really had to struggle not to talk.
* AB confronts DT about her sending a congratulations note on them getting their cutie mark, but DT has no idea what they're talking about.
* Wildling stabs a guy.
* AJ, Celly, SA and Chrysalis all talk about what to do now.
* Dash stops pretending to be unconscious.
* Pinkie and Fluttershy both admit they missed a lot.
* Spike cheers himself up after reading the paper.
* Immediately following this, a thief steals some lady's purse, so Spike gives chase... on a big wheel.
* He's successful, and now decides he wants one, so he goes to a 'dealership'.
* Sunset muses that there has to be an easier way to get a lot of love quickly, but it would be so much riskier.
* PD and Gwen wake up in bed with no recollection of what happened last night. Upon learning Gwen does not drink coffee, PD opens fire. She misses.
* Awkwardling, Maud and the Rainbolts all putz around and hang out.~
* DT goes to get ice cream with her dad.
* Bat-mom and Dadling notice that there were no nightguards who fought Chitania.
* 29 and Trixie go home, where Trixie immediatly locks herself in his bedroom. Fortunately, he learned from previous times, and had a spare bedroom installed. When he goes inside, however...
* ~Hello, Twenty Nine
* A lot of screaming follows, before he realizes it's Sunset.
* They talk, with Sunset trying to act mysterious and powerful to coax him into freaking out when she reveals everything that happened, but he stays mostly passive during it, much to her annoyance. To her surprise, he doesn't turn on her, and is willing to let her stay with him until the 'heat dies down'.
* He even offers to have Zecora or Trixie make a disguise for her, and when questioned he insists they'd do it and wouldn't turn her in.
* When she says she can't stay, and that she can't let the princesses get away with this, he sadly admits he knows, and understands. Still, he gives her some wine for the road, and asks her not to drag Luna into it, as she had no part in whatever happened with Sunset. Reluctantly, she accepts.
* When he finally asks why she came to him, she say she needs something.
* Love.
* For some reason, she's annoyed when he just holds out his hoof.
* She turns out the light, and he points out they just need to hold hooves to transfer the magic.
* "Let me be mysterious, damn it!"
* Finally, AJ gathers her friends, gets up onto her podium, and prepares to tell the truth.
* Citizens of Canterlot... you ain't gonna like what Ah' got to say, but... Ah' gotta be honest.
==THREAD 140==
* BEGINNING AGAIN EDITION!
* 13 muses how lucky she is to have both a queen and a mom.
* Aj finally comes clean about the whole affair, and Canterlot reacts like you'd expect.
* "BULLSHIT!"
* Accusations are thrown, denials are said, but AJ sticks to her guns, and to their distaste she declares that due to the circumstances, she's pardoning Chitania and Sunset of their crimes.
* Nobody likes it, and AJ knows they'll probably just think it's a trap, but she has to keep fighting for the truth.
* After this, 32 is shot at the Embassy by a seemingly enraged pony fighting back. The shooter is tackled by the guard, and JJ/Actarius get him medical attention.
* After being led the the dungeon and getting a threat from 77, his neighbor in the cells, Snake Eyes, sees through his charade, and sees this is all a distraction of some kind.
* A distraction that involves the now smashed favored pizza joint of the guards, somehow..
* Cloudchaser gives up on her anti-dragon thing after a talk with derpy, and many an adventure with animals follow.
* 2 brings up the question of if there is an Applejack/Changeling One. Forty Two, interested, looks into it.
* Turns out there is. The name, at least. Applejack one is trademarked by Chrysalis.
* Who leased the trademark out... to a toilet factory. They make up most of the castles toilets.
* Aj, Chrysalis, Celestia and Shining banter after the speech.
* Chitania wonders what happened to Mister Popcorn.
* Spike and DT meet again, it ends with Spike getting missiled in the face.
* Chitania's hallucinations get weird.
* SA makes some comments about how he wishes there was a magic turnip that could just make everyone believe the truth. Chrysalis tries not to say anything.
* 10's printer is mad that he keeps having to start over every time thanks to new events happening.
* Spitfire is going crazy with Mane-Iac.
* Gambling realizes that Quicksilver hasn't arrived yet, and worries he might be dead. He vows if he's alive, he's getting his money out of the stallion just in case.
* Aj is least popular on the princess list according to the recent polls, everyone else wonders where they land on that.
* Cadence and 18 think it's probably not a good idea if Shiny were in charge of the army right now.
* Honeyhart tells Jetset about how she feels and why she's not bothered when guys like the previous one bother her, because she's not a princess, and she's used to the easy way. She lies to Jetset and tells him she didn't mean to summon him but he sees through her, and gives her his shades before he leaves. She learns they're magical, and can do quite a lot of really interesting things.
* When she tries hiking to Canterlot, she has to stop and rest in Everfree, where she sees a glimpse of how he got them.
* Lavan repairs the embassy as a favor to 32, but accidentally turns the whole thing crazy.
* 32 joins him, and after a failed attempt to smash it and try again they find out the rooms are mixed up every which way.
* AJ is not affected anymore by Chrysalis's creepy talk.
* Chitania starts to think she really might die in the cave, and the realization sinks in she might not get out of it.
* Instead of giving in to the hallucinations and thoughts of despair, she declares "Fuck this, I'm not dying like some loser", and gets up and starts dragging herself to the entrance, even though she's fading fast.
* Sunset, thankfully, arrives before she actually does croak, and fixes her with the love she got from 29. Somewhat repaired, they work out a plan of attack.
* First step... get their shit back.
* OOCO morlock thing continues.
* SA arries home and goes to take 2 back. Instead, he finds Spitfire, Mane-Iac, and no Two. So he leaves her there.
* Chrysalis is mad because her embassy will be costly to fix, and no lings will want to work in Canterlot now, and not at all because of 32 getting shot.
* Chrysalis then goes back to the Empire and gives the news that 42 can stop guarding 13, but she needs to go guard 32. 13 also gets informed that her mom is off the hook, but reasonably doesn't believe it. While she at first feels betrayed when Chrysalis insists, but after Chrysalis tells her not to go near Canterlot in her voice, she figures that Chrysalis has a plan, and she doesn't worry anymore. Chrysalis sends her off, and 42 resents having to guard 32.
* Spike and Jetset talk, and when Jet says he's going to Celestia to unlock something, Spike insists he comes to. When Jetset denies him, Spike tasers him and drags him off.
* MM finds 29 on the ground, drained. She's telling Trixie.
* The changelings learn of 32's shooting, and some imply they should get guns. Turns out one has a gun, we just never saw it because he used it responsibly.
* The Doctor has to triple check 42 knows not to punch him, 32 made that clear by writing a note. On the Doctors coat.
* In blood.
* 2 convinces Shining to let her go to Canterlot to give 32 a gift. Many an inconvenience follows.
* 18 is worried, but a sweet moment with Shining puts her at ease.
* Chitania calls Sunset's plan of infiltrating Canterlot stupid, but gives in anyway.
* Chrysalis and AJ find the embassy mysteriously not destroyed, and investigate.
* They find from Celestia it was wrecked, and muse that they should have probably asked someone there how it happened. Instead, they steal Celly's cakes.
* Winona engages in her most hated foe, Opal.
* Aj finds out that one of the changelings has been taking care of Sunset's magically irradiated plant, and wonders if Farmerling would like to study abroad.
* 42 thinks guarding 32 is humiliating, and gets a fun response from someone who used to guard Blueblood.
* She's bored, but soon gets cheered up when Cadence comes to visit her.
* 29 finds out 32 got shot, and starts screaming.
* Sunset, while infiltrating Canterlot, stumbles across the newspaper detailing the pardon, and laughs it off.
* Pd and Gwen also see the pardon, and are a little upset.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz chime in.
* AJ and Chrysalis investigate the Embassy, and find it was Lavan.
* Chitania learns of the pardon as well, and actually is tempted just to give up and go give in just so she can go back to seeing her daughter, but her senses telling her it's a trap just won't let her.
* That won't keep her down, however. She resolves she's going to get it all back... on her terms.
==THREAD 141==
* POLITICS EDITION!
* Thirty Two, at the request of 42, gets put on morphine.
* You pretty much know what happens next.
* Two, 29, JJ/Acty and many others all get an earful of Crazyling.
* The construction pony, still angry her wrecking ball was broken, attacks the embassy to get money for it. In desperation, 88 has Lavan fix it. It works, but now instead of destroying things, it teleports them to the bottom of a deep trench. Which means it works... better?
* After this, 88 heads out to see what 32 is up to, still unaware he was injured.
* Also, there are singing bits invovled.
* The changeling who went off with Photo Finish earlier is now starring in a movie of some kind, and his co stars, a dragon and a griffon, are making it interesting.
* 42 is holding up alright, despite how she rants to Shining.
* Twi asks Pinkie what videos she saw, and Pinkie's attempt to cover up the answer fails spectacularly.
* DT tries to get into the subspace room, but is rebuked by someone using it for random stuff.
* Pinkie's reasoning behind wanting to make Chitty and Sunset form a band so they won't be evil has some holes in it.
* As does her thought to throw Chitty a birthday party to lure her out.
* After deciding to no longer question the embassy thing, Chrysalis and AJ resume running from an angry Celestia.
* Derpy and Cloudchaser make a giant out of control stormcloud so they can stop it and be heroes.
* This plan falls apart when they cannot actually stop the thing.
* Sunset swipes all her and Chitty's stuff, having mindzotzed the guards so they never saw her coming.
* Snake Eyes tries to get information out of the assassin, and he succeeds. After boasting such to a guard, he demands to see a princess.
* Chrysalis has no backup plan in case she dies, and this is worrying to AJ.
* Luna skips out on her bill of paying the spa twins after her treasury bond is revealed to no longer be legal.
* Dash hears that LD is currently the favorite for Wonderbolt Captain, and gets back in the game.
* 18 turns down the lings when they ask for money to buy guns.
* Aj has Derpy deliver cake ingredients to the cooks, and she pulls it off this time.
* 2 tells Mane-iac she and Spitfire can leave, and MI says that Spitfire is taking a nap. After putting a pillow on her face... for a long time.
* It turns out, she's not dead, but when she finds the Crystal Airforce on fire, she wishes she was.
* Aj is looking after Dash this time.
* Daw tries to get in to see Sweet Note, but is rebuked by the guard. She's despondent, until she gets invited to a lunch by none other than Seventy Seven.
* They have a heart to heart, and talk about their troubles, and 77 helps clear up some misconceptions about first impressions.
* Celestia catches AJ, and tries to take her cake, but it gets destroyed.
* A changeling wants to hit witches with a super soaker while they wear shirts... everyone is confused.
* Honey Heart is tricked out of her tree place by a diamond dog, who captures her.
* Aj and Chrysalis talk, and come to the conclusion to make Love the official currency of the changelings, and set up an exchange rate so they can actually get some bits/paid for their work.
* This requires help. Loud, very happy help from the mare who knows love better than anyone.
* Cadence is so very, very, veryyyyy happy she gets to do political math stuff.
* Shining doesn't believe it, but he doesn't want to wake up either.
* Sweetie Doll tries to make her own friends. Somehow, she ends up with Pinkie's old 'friends'.
* The Crystal Ponies, needing questions answered but unwilling to wait for the royal couple to come back, ask the only other one who gets anything done to deal with them.
* 18, after MANY times reiterating she is not Cadence, accepts.
* Celly has fun messing with Spike and Jetset, the latter is not appreciative.
* The Nightguard are off to do something as yet unrevealed.
* Spoiled Rich and Silver Spoon talk, where we learn Spoiled Rich was away because she was 'sick' and 'needed treatment' that Ponyville couldn't supply, SS doesn't buy it for a second.
* Suckerpunch and 41 knock out their opponents by accident
* Screwloose and 12 have a talk, where SL admits that 12 aside she wants to kill all the changelings because of how little they make her feel, and they debate what would happen if all changelings died. 12, strangely, is very accepting of the idea of his species getting wiped out, and thinks Screwloose could pull it off if she put her mind to it. In the end, 12 jokes that the only way to keep her from doing it would be for her to have his kid, as she wouldn't hurt her own child.
* Also, 12 finally finds she has love for him.
* 007, at a dead end with his investigation, decides to do something rash, and gets the item he had the Quarry Eel get so very long ago, and Blossom, still hidden, gives him a map to somewhere.
* Chitty is angry she keeps getting left behind.
* The changelings get guns. All is lost.
* Sweet Note, still terrified, gets a visit from Applejack, who first tries to trick SN into talking, but when that doesn't works she switches gears, and instead says she's going to find Chitty and Sunset anyway, and when she does, she's going to tell them it was Sweet Note who lead them to her.
* The mare is horrified, but AJ just keeps going, telling her that locking her up is nothing, and helps nobody, but if she puts out an announcement that SN pointed them in the right direction, they'll get sloppy, mess up, and then she can strike. Sure, Chitty will come after her, and SN knows it, but risking one life to save a thousand others is worth it.
* Since she's going to do it anyway, SN might as well give what she knows, since that way at least she'll get something out of it.
* She's scared, she knows she's doomed, and she knows there's only one thing to do.
* "Go fuck yourself"
* Aj is shocked, admitting she thought she'd crack. Strangely, her accent drops right there.
* That all makes sense when her disguise falls away, and it's revealed to be Sunset, who is there to get SN out of there.
* Just before she can, someone comes in the door.
* THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE... has the wrong room.
* Sunset is not amused.
* After she tells Trixie to stop talking in third person, neither is the show mare.
* It's on!
==THREAD 142==
* TRIXIE TIME EDITION!
* 42 is shocked how many visitors 32 has.
* Lightning dust reaps the benefits of her position.
* AJ and Chrysalis, after finishing up the basics for their idea for love as a currency, which much to Chrysalis's dismay entails leaving a sizeable portion of her treasury and every bit she owns in the Embassy with 32, realize that they have no way to propose this to other countries, as they both suck at politics.
* Cadence, happily, does not, and begins training them.
* ...It goes badly.
* Actarius and JJ, going into the embassy, realize it's a madhouse, with rooms connecting randomly, and quickly get lost.
* Rarity gets up, and gets to work.
* Chitty gets bored without Sunset.
* PD and Gwen blow off some steam.
* 18 solves CE problems, and grows more insane as time goes by.
* Siegfried, with some insistence from Watchdog, finally gets the courage to get out of the hole he's been hiding in, only to find his mother gone.
* The go out searching for Vekir, and shockingly manage to stumble across her.
* SA and Pinkie meet up, realize they haven't hung out in a while, and decide to have fun. And oh, the fun they have.
* While messing up with the Celestia-Rocket, they also stumble across Quicksilver, still down beneath Canterlot. After some mishaps that leaves him injured, they get him back to safety.
* 42 is having none of 29's shit.
* The would be assassin tries to convince Snake Eyes to help him get out of this, as he still has to buy his guys some time, but Snake Eyes is having none of it. In fact, he turns it on him, and gets ready to deliver everything to the princess.
* One problem, it wasn't the princess he expected.
* Worse than that, Luna accidentally messes up who the accused pony is, and takes Snake Eyes off to Celestia. The confusion is cleared up shortly after SE's gives some helpful advice, and Snake Eyes is tossed back in his cell, with the assassin back to being taken away.
* Farmerling does not like it when you shoot at his crops.
* Dash and Twilight do not question SA/Pinkie.
* Honeyheart wakes up after seeing another scene of Jetset's training with Shining. When she wakes up, she's surprised to find she's not kidnapped, nor is the diamond dog, named Zanta a bad guy. The reason the glasses gave off a warning sign had more to do with the fact they're completely surrounded.
* Uh oh.
* Awkwardling discovers that the Pie Family mostly messes with their guests with the rock soup.
* Cloudchaser makes Amethyst take the fall for the town hall thing.
* MM, having had enough, finally insists to Twilight she get some guards down in Ponyville. Reluctantly, Twilight agrees.
* She's quick to find out she would need to appoint a captain of the guard down there, as Pommel obviously is only the captain in Canterlot, but one problem... nobody wants the job.
* Nobody.
* Zecora and 42 reminisce about the poledancing.
* 13 gets a gun, and names it bangy shoot shoot. She is not good with names.
* BBB has revolutionary ideas about an orange cat.
* 007 finds the cave leading to his target, and after debating with himself about it, decides he's not going to fail the hive again.
* Rarity struggles to find a way to hold the princesses accountable.
* 42 and 32 banter.
* After this, they have a long discussion about the current and future state of the changelings, debating each other, and seeing the others point.
* SP and 41 see an oddly familiar wrestling show...
* Two's teacher is confused why she knows how to spell assassin.
* Nobody seems to listen to Fluttershy when she says she's not a princess.
* Including Zecroa
* Chitania tries to move the sun. It doesn't work.
* Dr Hardlove, after a lot of bantering, releases Screwloose.
* CC and Derpy set up an obstacle course for Dash, and Derpy does not understand offensive words.
* Sweetie Doll wants to be a real filly.
* DT meets up with her mom, Spoiled Rich, in Trottingham. Despite the obvious signs she's being used, she's just happy to see her mom again, and happy to see Silver Spoon again, who though concerned won't push her.
* Trixie, having stumbled into the hospital room and thinking that Sunset is about to kidnap Sweet Note, engages Sunset in battle. Sunset, meanwhile, holds back and merely attempts to erase her memory.
* Though she can't match her in magic, shockingly, Trixie's able to outtrick her. To the point where, after being battered particularly hard, she manages to fool Sunset into thinking she's escaped, then actually escape.
* During the battle, Sunset slips more and more, until Trixie's escape has her outright livid. She recklessly chases her down the hospital hallway with Sweet Note pulled in tow, firing off mind-wiping spells in a frenzy as she goes to anyone who spots her.
* Eventually, she thinks she's caught Trixie in a long stretch of hallway, but Sunset was tricked yet again! Trixie substituted in a passer-by, and Sunset mind-wiped then.
* A back and forth ensues, with Trixie tricking and outsmarting Sunset to hit blow after blow, but never managing to keep the prodigy down. After she gets the advantage and a bad blow, Trixie thinks she's won, and awaits Sweet Note's praise. It was only here that she learns Sweet Note wasn't being kidnapped, and she wanted to leave. No time to ponder it, as out of the blue Sunset attacks, and catches her!
* Finally, it looks like Susnet has her. Until, it turns out, there was someone who wanted to see Trixie get beat up.
* A not-alive someone.
* FLASH! When Sunset is blinded, Trixie unleashes everything she has, and unleashing a fireworks display without peer right into Sunset's chest.
* Though the mare is alive, and still standing, Trixie won all the same. The guards are coming, brought by the display, and there's no time to fight. Mockingly, Trixie declares she was holding back the whole time, and when Sunset prepares to leave Trixie gives on final warning about ever doing what she did to her friends.
* With no time left, Sunset Teleports with Sweet Note in tow and Trixie takes a bow.
* The guards arrive soon after, but it doesn't quite go as planned.
* "TRIXIE LULAMOON, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!"
* It takes Trixie about a second to realize everyone else got mindblasted.
* "Well played, Sunset..."
==THREAD 143==
* MAFIOSO EDITION!
* Actarius and JJ, despite their best attempts, cannot escape the embassy. They're probably going to die in there.
* Interrogation of the 'assassin', who's real name is Tubbs Canoli, goes well, despite the fact that 88 and Lavan threaten him. After a bit of pressure, eventually he cracks and admits that he works for the Palaminos, who run the pizza shop. He also reveals why he's been covering for them, they're importing... SUGAR!
* Yes, magically cut, super unhealthy, sugar.
* Celestia is not happy.
* A fried stick of butter is not healthy, but Shiny's still going to eat it. To mortality!
* Cadence wants to setup a meeting with the Maretonians to train AJ and Chrysalis in politics,, despite both of them knowing that this is a bad idea. Though she can get Chrysalis to agree thanks to 'playing the card', Aj is a little harder. So, instead, she plays the Celly card. That works.
* Dash trains with the rainbolts. It goes poorly.
* Two comes home from school to find Eighteen on the throne, and is confused.
* The guards bring Trixie down into the dungeon, despite her loud protests, and lock her up.
* Chitania is talking with socks.
* Twilight's offers for a new guard captain go nowhere.
* They keep coming to Fluttershy, she still isn't a princess.
* Rarity gets an odd opinion from the Canties.
* SA decides not to go bug Cadence when he spots her skipping off with AJ and Chrysalis in tow.
* Someone keeps trying to put Silver Spoon in spandex.
* Lightning Dust gets an interesting offer in the form of a letter
* Sunset finally makes it back to Chitty, and she's not happy. She ignores the changelings questions and the two of them and Sweet Note set out with all of Chitania's stuff. Sweet Note, still being weak, has to be carried by Chitty.
* Celestia is busy, but that won't stop Cadence.
* Centitrain is scary to feed.
* Aj wants to know how to eat at dinner, and it triggers table manners flashbacks.
* Spike and Jetset find themselves in the magic room for Celestia's special training
* SA and Pinkie find the 'hottest club in Manehatten' isn't so great.
* 29 and co find out about Trixie's imprisonment.
* Cloudchaser crahses into Octavia's shower while she's making tea. The latter is the least weird part of this.
* Some stranger is cutting down flowers and breaking pots, but who? Let's ask this fellow with the green pointy hat!
* 32 is well enough to be left alone, and 42 and him leave on good terms.
* Sunset, Chitty and Sweet Note ride on a train without knowing exactly where to go, until Sweet Note gives them a location thanks to something she heard from a friend.
* SA and Pinkie bring Two along to test rides. It goes well.
* 42 comes home to find 18 on the throne and isn't sure what to do.
* Instead she leave to find all the changelings have guns, and gets more confused.
* Two is afraid of mimes. Don't ask.
* Dash is finally ready to carry the weight.
* Lyra's attempts to get noticed go poorly.
* Cloudchaser almost builds a fence but decides against it.
* AJ learns of artificially grown apples, and breaks down crying.
* The CMC can't find Sweetie Doll, but they can shake their booties.
* Rarity admits she made a mistake and decides to start fixing things.
* Twilight, reluctantly, decides to do an 'outreach program'.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz give an update.
* 29, MM and Zecora go down to see Trixie, and after meeting a racist guard, who is surprisingly racist to Zecora instead of 29, they ask her what she was thinking. Trixie claims she was framed by Sunset.
* And... they believe her! Without a single doubt, the believe her, and swear they'll help her out. When the guard refuses to let her out, they say they're staying down there until she's free.
* Trixie tries not to let them see her cry.
* Vekir is sad to learn you don't become an alicorn by eating cake, and Siegfried gets his beak broken for saying Omlette Du Fromage.
* Quicksilver is, reluctantly, alive.
* Buttercup and Bubbles worry about if 7 will come back, and wonder what will happen if he doesn't, and if they'll go back to 'normal', something they very much don't want to do. Their fears are not realized, as with thunderous steps, he's back.
* AJ, Chrysalis and Cadence wonder if they should examine Infusions and their distribution more.
* Gwen and PD head towards Trottingham.
* Turning a blimp into a battle cruiser isn't illegal
* Gambling learns Quicksilver is alive, and goes after him.
* Dash left all her porno in her desk.
* Aj points out if they go after the cake budget, Celestia will kill them all.
* Rarity learns nobody is near the round table, but a guard has been standing there the whole time.
* Derpy is racist... or sexist... or.. something?
* We suddenly cut to a grey haired mare sitting at her desk, one that's at the top of a skyscraper high rise, the sounds of battle nearing her and she keeps lamenting that it wasn't supposed to end like this so soon.
* When the battle reaches her door, she declares she's not going down fighting, and whips out a magical cannon of some sort and nukes her door.
* But, alas, it doesn't work, and a white unicorn marches in unharmed, and takes her out. In a flash, it's all over.
* And then Sunset complains to the 'unicorn', obviously Chitania, about breaking everything, and Sweet Note apologizes and admits she didn't know the mare had a weapon that powerful.
* Chitania grouses about not being able to kill any of the higher up bodyguards, but Sunset says they have to be kept alive, so operations look normal while they take over.
* Due to her inability, Chitania has to give yet more changeling magic to Sunset, so she can brainwash the mare in her stead. She does, and Sunset proudly declares that Chitania is now the head of a crime family!
* As Sunset gets to work, ordering the mare revealed to be named "Deep Pockets" to purchase several things, Chitania begins to wonder if that's true at all...
* But she decides to deal with it later, for now, all that matters is becoming more powerful.
* This is just the first step
==THREAD 144==
* LAST THREAD RECAP! OH MY GOD IT'S A BEAR EDITION!
* 12 and Screwloose go to the castle, and after some bantering with the guard Haymaker decides to let them in.
* Once inside, a certain someone drops a certain toy with a plush rear in front of them. 12 quickly says he'll get the Chitania toy back to 56, who SL does not know.
* Treehugger is not getting caught.
* The changelings run out of bullets, and proceed to panic.
* Except for 13, who mindzotzes anyone who tried to take her guns.
* 42 continues to bomb at standup.
* Coudchaser and Derpy continue to fuck up.
* 18 finally loses her shit, just in time to learn that she's out of ponies to see for the day. Unfortunately, another threat arises, the paperwork monster is back.
* When Acty is ready to give up JJ finally finds a way out! Right into the caves.
* Needless to say, he goes back in, and he's got a giant monster worm on his tail.
* Cadence finally sees Celestia and tells her about her plan to invite the Maretonians over to train Aj and Chrysalis. Celestia says no.
* After some convincing, she changes her mind, but only because Cadence promised that AJ and Chrysalis would write a friendship report like the good old days.
* Pinkie finally reveals why she's been testing all this stuff with Shining, she wants to build a smaller Partyland 2.0 out in the Empire, away from the city.
* Reluctantly, after much convincing, he agrees.
* Lyra still can't get noticed.
* Dash can't go inside, her office.
* Two makes a powerful projectile.
* Trixie passes the time by helping out ghostkids.
* Quicksilver is happy to be alive, until Gambling comes for him.
* The nurse is disappointed that 32 didn't try to hit on her.
* Maud is jealous of Pinkie.
* Twilight goes down to Ponyville, and sees the one she resigned to talk to about becoming the captain of the guard, 77.
* After a long talk, she asks him if he wants the position, and he starts to answer.
* Then he gets punched in the face.
* By a bear.
* Harry the bear.
* A battle quickly begins, and Twilight is forced to ask "Why bear, tho?"
* The two go back and forth, 77 using his wits and skills to match Harry's strength. When that runs out, he shapeshifts into a bear, and the two start wildly punching each other.
* Eventually, the bearpunch runs out of steam, and the both collapse.
* Right about then, Cheerliee arrives on the scene, and when told why Twilight was down here asks why she didn't ask Harry first.
* 77 in turn asks "Who the fuck is Harry!?"
* Sunset realizes they need more for their Empire, and sends Chitania out into the mountains to destroy a competitor in crime so they can take over his business and brainwash him to open up routes to get more stuff.
* After easily defeating him, Chitania continues to wonder who it is pulling leading this charge against the gods, but is sure it's worth it for the power.
* The changelings, out of bullets, play 'pew pew' with the empty guns.
* Trixie learns it was 29 who charged Sunset, and starts strangling him.
* She releases him when the point out the logic in that.
* Dadling and Batmom have no alone time thanks to baby.
* Derpy should not chase waterfalls.
* A debate about who is prettier, AJ or Chrysalis arises.
* Spitfire's attempts to motivate the airforce goes poorly.
* Pinkie cannot own an elephant.
* Barley Sheen gets into the 'sugar'.
* Lightning Dust goes beneath Canterlot to answer a call.
* 10 learns of the princess meeting, and declares the whole world is going to be watching.
* 42 spends non-violent time in the magic room.
* The CMC lose Sweetie Doll when she ducks into a toyshop, and they have no money. So Sweetie Belle takes an older gentleman into an alleyway and gets money.
* By kicking him in the shin and robbing him, obviously.
* Zephyrious has been revealed to be running the Griffon empire while his parents are away.
* Shining helps out with building Partyland with 'incentives'
* Pommel laments he knows nobody's name, except for Coco, who is still a guard somehow.
* Shining learns of the Maretonian meeting from a paper.
* Fluttershy realizes she hasn't seen her animals in a while
* 42 plays in the simulator with giant bugs.
* Gambling catches Quicksilver, but before he can break his legs, QS has an idea how to get him money.
* Shining hears 18's call for help, and she's off!
* Silver Spoon calls out Pennydrop for looking suspicious when she, DT, Gwen and said businessmare head towards a big elevator, much to Diamond Tiara's horror.
* She keeps going, calling out everything that looks off about this, and as a result PD doesn't know if she can be trusted to keep what's down there a secret. DT says she can, but SIlver Spoon makes it worse when she asks if DT wouldn't say something if whatever down there was illegal.
* Finally, PD says that as a compromise, DT can go down there without SS, and if she feels like SS can handle it and not blab, then she can go get her.
* SS, as an alternative, says they could just go back to the room and keep having fun.
* After some back and forth debate with herself, DT picks Pennydrop and Gwen, and Silver sulks off, even when DT is promising her she'll come back in just a minute.
* The three go into the elevator, and descend down into a new world.
* SA is unfazed by the paperwork monster, when he really should be.
* Chitania comes home, tired after destroying the rival crime boss, and Sunset is waiting for her. When her doubts become apparent, Sunset calms her by explaining all the ways she's going to make Chitania strong.
* Her fears go away, when Sunset says she's going them all pay, and she smiles.
==THREAD 145==
* EVERYTHING IS BURNING AND WE FEEL FINE EDITION!
* 32 gets no love from a nurse.
* AJ does not want to dress up for the maretonians
* Fuzzy and the Buzz give an update!
* Idris and Cheese aren't moving.
* Actarius and JJ continue to flee the worm until some quick thinking from JJ puts it down! That thinking? Lasers.
* He uses lasers.
* 18 and shiny almost have a nice moment, until Pinkie makes him think it's a trap and he jumps out the window.
* Rather than being shocked, the pair do Cheeks and Gong impressions, while Spitfire catches Shiny.
* She also drops him thanks to 42, but that's neither here nor there.
* Derpy does not understand the sodium count of shellfish.
* Rarity finishes her proposal, and after getting yays or nays from an empty room, puts it forward to be voted on, and hopes the others won't be too hard on her
* Dash needs to know if Griffons are magical.
* Twilight clears up the matter with Cheerilee, learning Harry was a volunteer guard and was just mad he got passed over for Captain. After some debate, Cheerilee points out he has no commanding or training experience, and Harry reluctantly accepts the second in command position. Twilight, completely gone by this point, simply throws up her hooves and goes OKAY! 77 continues to be baffled.
* Now, 77 and Harry are working together, and it's kind of working out?
* Luna, after some talking, gets Trixie out of prison.
* They immediately go drink, and after fending off some ageism for Marey, get drunk. 29 was going to be the sober one, but misunderstood what a long island iced tea is.
* Drunk off their asses, they try to make it back home, while trailed by a nightguard. Eventually, they need help, and Luna has to step in.
* Long story short, they end up lost in the woods, nearly eaten, and 29 is currently drowning.
* Centitrain is going to starve at this rate.
* AJ, Chrysalis and Cadence get bored waiting, and Twilight walks past them uttering a single word.
* Bear.
* They don't get it.
* 18 is as shocked as anyone that Pinkie wants to make another Partyland.
* The changelings are feeling a little depressed.
* Celly doesn't care if this all goes bad if she gets letters.
* Fluttershy and Dash find the animals at her cottage made a mini society.
* Celestia, or rather her recording, tells Jetset and Spike their faults, and says she's going to put them through a test now to get them back on track. Reluctantly, they accept.
* 18 has some reasonable problems with AJ and Chrysalis meeting maretonians.
* Aj's attempts to be smooth go awry.
* Screwloose has some... rather interesting opinions when it comes to backdoor fun, and thinks 56 is sick because of it.
* Pennydrop loves watching the others look on in shock.
* OOCO Spike goes off to get a rare Eagle Parrot back. It ends with dead bodies and a smoke buddy.
* The changeling used to be cooler.
* Pommel does a last roundup before going after the illegal sugar distributes, noticing that someone has been painting on a Peactrotter, and think's it's weird.
* The changelings admit they suck, they used to be cooler, and that they're doing nothing now. So one of them proposes a revolution!
* Not that kind.
* He just wants to tell the queen to make them cool again. Really.
* The others let him go and vow never to speak of it again if he ends up dead.
* Twilight, looking for Spike, find a guard with the worst time schedule ever.
* Dash, needing to break into Fluttershy's cottage, has a terrible idea she thinks is brilliant.
* Long story short, after she uses FS as a battering ram and Rainbooms her into the shield, it releases a wave of chaos, knocking over a fillyscout and turning her giant.
* Now, Ponyville has to band together to fight them, and Dash is at the helm with something to prove.
* It's all going poorly.
* SA and Spitfire confuse 42.
* 10 learns of Ponyville being attacked, and rides BBB over there.
* In order to calm Ponyville, 77 announces his new captainship, to some understandable confusion. Revealing Harry is his SOC does not help matters.
* But still they accept it, because what else are they going to do.
* SA needs to get back up to the window. Mane-Iac helps... goes about as you expect.
* But that's okay, because he's healed with the magic of Two Hugs!
* AJ and Chrysalis really do not feel this, but Cadence tells them not to panic and just take it easy, they have plenty of time to prepare.
* Right on cue, a massive peacock airship arrives, and it's carrying not only the maretonians, but Saddle Arabians as well!
* Now's a good time to panic.
* 77 and Harry trying to form a plan goes poorly, so Harry leaves.
* Actarius and JJ, at last, are out of hope. Sure they're going to die, they resign themselves to starving, and are ready to let it happen.
* Then 32 opens the door, and they bolt in joy. But before they can warn him, he shuts the door and goes through another!
* Only for it to be fine and everything is normal.
* The Embassy is completely normal.
* Unsure if it's a dream, one thing they know for sure is nobody will believe them.
* The CMC somehow flooded a toymakers-who sounds weirdly like Mario-shop, and are now heading towards a light fixture. This will end well.
* AJ calls bullshit when Chrysalis hides behind her disguise.
* The first meeting, after that, goes poorly, with Cadence having to make stuff up to explain Cadence being weird, and Aj being nervous.
* Buckler gets access to the hatch, and the guard raid begins.
* Partyland is approved, and everything is wonderful!.. for them!
* Celestia can't wait for a letter.
* Sunset and Chitania's experiments aren't producing as much fruit as she hoped, and they need to get more materials. When she learns they were only low due to a rival gang, Chitania reluctantly accepts to go deal with them, and begrudgingly thanks Sunset for helping.
* When she leaves, Sunset says aloud she knows Chitania won't leave, she still needs her.
* Sweet Note, meanwhile, enjoys the fun of the new digs.
* Rarity remembers why she was so hesitant about helping the Canties when she talks to one.
* Twilight realizes she is a bad princess of friendship when she remembers her Canterlot friends, and vow to do better.
* 2, 18 and Pinkie are clearly just messing with Shiny now.
* Silver Spoon is bored and angry, but she won't give up on DT yet.
* After the royals go to a meeting room things get awkward.
* When they bring up if the changelings are influencing A and co again, things get real awkward.
* With screaming.
* AJ lets it all out how sick she is of everything she does being questioned and how much everyone assumes it's a changeling whenever she does something they don't like, and tells them to cut it out.
* The Maretonian and Arabian snaps back that this means it was her who pardoned Chitania, meaning they couldn't get at her and deliver justice for all she did to them, and then did it again after she stomped Canterlot
* Nervously, AJ has to admit yes to this.
* So they begin to wonder if she's gathering something. Namely, power. And if in this gathering, it was this lack of power on their end that prevented them from getting more out of the relationship between nations.
* Bluntly, they ask if they had invaded Canterlot, would they be as forgiven as the changelings are now?
* When AJ stumbles, trapped, Chrysalis cuts in and says they would "If they were sorry"
* So they ask if she was sorry, and regrets what she did.
* When Chrysalis stumbles, AJ tells her to be honest.
* So she admits that she doesn't regret it, because if it hadn't she wouldn't be here, but acknowledges it was bad and she shouldn't have done it.
* This confuses the royals.
* BUT SUDDENLY! The back and forth bantering from the Equestrian Trio is interrupted, by none other than Rarity!
* After one or two false entrances, she steps forwards, and lays out her proposal!
* Which AJ immediately calls stupid.
* The two maretonians, two saddle Arabians, one Empire princess and one changeling Queen get to sit back and watch, as bickering begins.
* Sadly, Cadence gives Rarity heart when she bluntly says she's still the princess of bad ideas.
* This is pretty good proof of that.
==THREAD 146==
* LET FREEDOM RING EDITION!
* Twilight's musing is interrupted by PJ, who says some uncouth things about her mother, and summarily gets covered in potatoes for her trouble.
* PJ's words about Blueblood and Arana's mother does not endear them to help.
* Dinner with SA, Pinkie and 18 goes weird thanks go 42
* The nightguards aren't going to do shit unless Luna tells them to, explicitly.
* JJ and Acty's attempts to get 32 to believe them fail, and the house never stops tormenting them.
* QS's attempts to get Gambling his job back goes poorly, and he ends up running again.
* Celly realizes that even when she wins, Applejack wins harder. She starts to worry, So she sends a guard out to get her bubblehorse. The guard has no idea who she's talking about, but goes anyway.
* CC and Derpy continue to be silly.
* Dash and Harry clash when he refuses to move, it somehow ends with them thinking about making a movie.
* Turns out Velvet has been giving Cadence fertility stuff to get a bunch of grandbabies, it hasn't worked because no sex.
* Igneous and Cloudy wonder if anyone ever questioned the matchmaker rock.
* Lyra wonders if Bonbon is too old.
* SP and 41 are tired of the wrestlers talking.
* Several one shots with the staff, which culminates when the guard from earlier comes looking for 'bubblehorse' and they all realize she only ever calls them by nicknames like 'painthorse' or 'mophorse' or something.
* So, naturally, they revolt.
* The changeling from last Thread who charged up to go tell his Queen to be cool again manages to get past the guard in front of the portal, who turned out to be an escape mental penitent, and gets caught up in said revolt.
* He does not get to join in the musical, no matter how much he wants to.
* 29 does not drown, no matter how much Luna wants him to.
* When everyone falls asleep afterwards, she decides she's bored and goes into his dreams.
* Pinkie makes a racist ride, which is defeated by wigs.
* 77's attempts to gather up forces goes poorly, and he learns the truth of the clones.
* Fluttermom and Dad wonder why their kid hasn't written before deciding to go and cuddle a bit.
* That's not euphemism, they just like holding hooves and cuddling. It's weird.
* 42 wants a ferris wheel for PL because she liked it when Shiny took her on it.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated.
* Chitania, while destroying another gang, muses that she failed to really raise her daughter to be strong, 13 was strong in spite of her, not because of it, and as a result she wonders how much time she's missing with her now.
* Twilight's attempts to search for her friends starts with fire. It's not her fault, but she really shouldn't be happy about that.
* Spitfire says clearing the clouds would be impossible even for Celestia and Luna, cue the laughter.
* Fluttershy, seeing the Fillyscout's destruction, wonders how much longer she has left before she becomes like Discord.
* 42 gets a recap of all the lings who have left, but stops when they get to the one who went to go work with Photo Finish, seemingly on a porno.
* Twilight tries the first house, Twinkleshine's, and it turns out she's left. Same for Minuette. Both have really weird new residents.
* Dash and Harry on are the ropes when they're suddenly attacked by a mass of Lice, which had been on the scout before she supersized, and now were trying to eat them. They're almost overwhelmed before they get help from none other than 77!
* Berry Punch needs a drink.
* Celestia, bored, starts talking with the doll version of herself.
* Pinkie's plans for Partyland ruin's Shining's walls. Don't ask how.
* Dash asks if 77 is winging this, but he has a plan!
* he needs to get to the top of the filly and take over her mind. Then he can tell her to stop. Agreeing with this, Dash clears the way with a sonic boom.
* When Harry asks why they don't just fly, 77 says this is more fun.
* They make it to the top of the Scout, and the mind control seems to be working! All is well!
* "A-CHOO!"
* Cue the Filly now being something out of a boss battle, complete with superform which she outright says isn't her final form.
* Pinkie's fireworks for grand opening get used early.
* Hat shopping with 2 and 42 is weird.
* Mane-Iac wanted to be a part of Partyland, but Pinkie informs her she can't because she doesn't own the copyright. Shining also can't, which confuses mane-Iac, so she decides to go find this holder of copyright herself!
* AB, SB and SL think they're dead for a second and lament their lives, before it turns out they just got pushed into the ceiling. Strangely, the rising water should still be headed towards that cable-
* ZAP!
* A changeling steps forwards to begin a study program with Applejack!
* The changelings confuse themselves about law and one runs off to go be a lawyer
* The servants reach Celestia, still chanting, and she laments she's going to burn everything to the ground.
* Sunset, while working on the stuff for Chitty, gets visited by Sweet Note, who begins to talk to her. Shockingly, Sweet Note considers Sunset a friend, which shocks her, and she wonders what Sunset's going to do when she rules the world, thinking that's what her and Chitty are doing. Sunset says she's not, but asks SN what she would do. SN just says she wants to keep having fun, she doesn't want anything else than what she has now, which Sunset doesn't believe.
* The mare decides to wait for Chitania, while Sunset whispers to herself they're not taking over the world, but doing something much... bigger.
* BUT NOW FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* AJ calls Rarity's proposal dumb, and stretches out explaining what it is while arguing with her.
* When she finally says what it is, it turns out to be Rarity wants to open up their doings to a third party to ensure they are held accountable for their actions.
* "They" meaning all of them. Chrysalis included.
* Cue "HAH!"
* The Maretonians and Saddle Arabians start taking bets on who is going to punch who.
* Chrysalis goes off on her cackling, blowing off Rarity hard despite AJ's attempts to calm her down, and Rarity's insistence she needs it more than any of them.
* The Maretonian Duchess agrees, and Chrysalis does not take that well.
* Worse, the Saddle Arabian mare delegate goes off her rocker right there, no longer putting up with Chrysalis's intimidation. She's so angry and sure of herself, she commands the peacock airship to move to the window and arm it's mouth cannon.
* She smugly tells Chrysalis her days are number, and charges the weapon, threatening Chrysalis when the Queen mocks her.
* The threat falls flat when Chrysalis uses her magic, and rips the things head right off, chucking it straight up into the air.
* Needless to say, now the four foreigners are horrified, and fear for their lives when Chrysalis advances on them.
* So AJ hits her with cake.
* ...Cake.
* And then a foodfight happens between the two and Rarity, because of course it did.
* Cadence explains this is their first day.
* They descend into madness and accusations, flinging cake and insults everywhere.
* Eventually the delegates get ready to leave, and AJ and Chrysalis can't think of anything to stop them. When Chrysalis asks Cadence for help, she finds her despondent and thinking herself a failure, and the princess can't get up.
* It's right around here they realize they never even told the delegates what this was all abut, and to be frank they don't care anymore.
* In desperation, Chrysalis says to Cadence to tell her what to do, whatever it takes, and she'll do it. She says she trusts her, and she'll do whatever it takes. When Cadence says she can't, do anything, Chrysalis replies she still believes in her, like Cadence did to her.
* Cadence finds the fire back, and gets an idea.
* She tells Chrysalis... to be herself.
* Strangely, this doesn't backfire!
* Chrysalis does as told, and says aloud how much a shame it is they don't want to know about it, but they'll find out soon enough.
* After she says this in the most creepy way possible, the others stay, and listen, but take it as a threat.
* So, Cadence tells Applejack to forget where she is, and be herself.
* Cue Applejack cutting in every time Chrysalis speaks to give the "Not Creepy and actually Honest" version of whatever she's saying.
* With both of them working together, the other four eventually understand their plan to sell Sparklejoules, contained in a Love Harness, in order to provide competition for Unicorn Magic, and also provide jobs to earth ponies or pegasi who otherwise couldn't, as Changelings can get love from anyone.
* Finally, after a long debate among themselves, they decide they'll consider it. All talk of war is gone, and instead, they're actually considering opening up trade with the changelings for this resource, seeing the pros it has to offer.
* They leave, and everyone can finally relax, allowing Applejack to declare "It could have gone worse"
* Finally, in the end, they know who to 'blame'
* "Cadence? This is all yer' fault."
* The princess has never been happier.
* At least until Rarity mentions her proposal again.
* "OH COME ON!"
==THREAD 147==
* OH SHIT IT'S A CUTIE MARK RUN EDITION!
* Mane-Iac wants to go through the portal to find the holder of copyright, but the guard won't let her. So, she gets Poindexter to go with her.
* Cue inexplicable, offscreen traveling of the world and Poindexter going crazy.
* 10 and BBB cover the Fillyscout going bananas, and occasionally save a pony or two when they do it.
* Lyra and Bonbon watch the scene unfold, and mostly banter.
* Pinkie might be controlling SA.
* The canties get guns, it goes as well as the changelings.
* 42 demands to know about the CE sewer system
* CC discovers life is a game. Mind blown.
* Rarity insists on her proposal, and insists that it will include Chrysalis too thanks to an addendum about anyone who spends a lot of time with the royals, which make things get a little heated between them.
* So, Caddy intervenes with hugs, and it diffuses the situation. AJ, meanwhile, is ready for a dang vacation.
* After Rarity and Cadence leave the room, Chrysalis and AJ have a debate about the matter, specifically if Rarity is targeting her. Chrysalis insists she is, AJ denies and defends her friend up and down. Eventually, AJ admits the proposal is stupid, but Chrysalis shouldn't be harsh on Rarity, and instead of fighting to just give her a chance and talk to her, since the alternative would probably be a sparkly hammer to the face.
* Chrysalis leaves, but seems to be considering AJ's words.
* Afterwards, both have a moment of reflection about where they ended up.
* The Castle Staff continue to be silly.
* Pinkie's rides are questionable.
* Berry gets no medical alcohol, does get bucked.
* Luna visits the Ghostbuster's dreams, and they're kind of nuts.
* Pommel finally begins his attack on the head mobsters, and after a battle he manages to capture their leader.
* He also has to give bits for a swear jar, but that's unrelated.
* The Fillyscout is wrecking Dash, 77 and Harry, and all looks hopeless.
* Until, in a moment of desperation, Fluttershy calls out, and someone answers.
* That someone? Dominatrixshy.
* Yes, that clone from the early THREADs who's theme was dominatrix has returned, and she proceeds to kick the Scout's ass, while simultaneously making Dash and 77 feel very, very uncomfortable.
* Even when the Scout goes Silver Mode, she still can't find victory after Domshy summons a Discord Clone and sacrifices it to stop her attacks. So, she goes to her ultimate form, GOLD MODE!
* This only makes her excited!
* Shining and Pinkie take a ride on the Pinkie Copter, a hugely unsafe contraption with no roof and blades exposed, up to the clouds. There, Pinkie points to a seemingly random spot and asks if Shining can see it. Surprisingly, he can.
* They share a nice moment where Shining asks her if this is about 'that', and she says yes, hinting that the reason she wants to build a new PL is to leave something behind just in case, something Shining very much understands.
* Berry decides to hide from the scout in the library.
* Celestia tries to scare off the rampaging staff with Dollestia's head, it doesn't succeed.
* Reluctantly she exits, and talks to them, confessing to a lot of awful things before she realizes they think she doesn't know their names. Which she does, she signs it on their paycheck every week. She just does it because it's fun... and because she accidentally called someone the name of a worker who had been dead for twenty years and felt terrible about it.
* They liked the first explanation more.
* Problem solved!
* And they realize there's a changeling there, in their midst, and are having none of that.
* 42 is relieved when she learns water comes from the snow.
* Pokey Pierce going to children's parties is suddenly very suspect.
* Big Mac ain't gonna fight anything, but he does have a beard.
* Shining gets a monster hug from an excited Caddy, so strong he gets knocked out into the snow. He does not mind, even with broken ribs.
* Neither does Pinkie, who wants in on the hugs.
* Then comes the party.
* 42 asks if any of the changelings did anything productive. Turned out, one had! And has been for months!
* After Hearth's Warming, Chrysalis ordered one of the lings to make more of the memory balls that she gave to AJ, and he has been. He made dozens, over months.
* They're hard to make.
* Still, he gets a headpat, and everyone else gets punched. Now, one problem, they need to distribute and market it.
* So, 42 goes to 18, and tells her she needs to get in contact with a marketing team, which she agrees to, but 42 leaves before she can learn what exactly is being marketed.
* 18 goes to Pinkie, who also agrees before she knows what it is, and then 18 goes and joins the SA/Caddy party with them.
* Cue Pinkie/SA/Caddy/18 party, it's fun.
* Sunset says they finally have all they need to power up Chitania! One problem, Chitty doesn't have enough power. There's only one place that has a powerup strong enough to handle the new enhancements... the Empire.
* They're going to get ready, and the Empire will never know what hit them.
* Rarity, insisting she's doing the right thing, gets tackled by Twilight, who is despondent that all her old friends have left Canterlot.
* Rarity agrees to help find the one let that might still be there, after they get ice cream, because they both feel terrible.
* F/B bring you up to date.
* JJ and Acty's attempts to film the strange happenings of the Embassy fail.
* Derpy herps, CC derps.
* Two, visiting her grandparents, accidentally makes Velvet feel old.
* Cup Cake and Carrot Cake are not swingers.
* Blueblood cleans the floor so well you can eat off it. Long story short, he's now biting PJ while Arana and Haymaker look on.
* It's easier than explaining what PJ meant when she said he could eat her off the floor.
* Bon Bon takes Mares in Black seriously.
* Celestia learns that the meeting is over, and goes off to get her letter.
* Frieghter and a lunar guard watch 56 drown his sorrows in water, despondent he lost his action figure.
* The CMC survive the flooding when the wall breaks, but when they hear a familiar country voice, they might wish they hadn't.
* AJ chews out AB for being reckless, and AB doesn't make things any better when she shoots back with how neglectful AJ has been. Things get really terrible when AB mentions that she hasn't been to school in months.
* AJ decides to show her what happens and prepares to spank her, but never quite makes it due to freezing up and going 404 when she sees a certain cutie mark.
* The CMC run, leaving a still frozen AJ behind.
* When she comes back to reality, AJ snaps and declares she's never going to let AB out of her sight again.
* The hunt is on.
==THREAD 148==
* ARMED TO THE APPLE EDITION!
* Applejack finally snaps, and starts chasing after Applebloom, running over a ton of others in the process.
* Among those others, Celestia herself, who was out to demand her letter. After being run over, she decides to just kinda sit there, and lament burning everything to the ground.
* The SA/PP/Cadence/18 party continues, until Shiny senses Celestia needs him and floats off. Yes, floats. No asking how.
* They continue to party after that, and are soon joined by Maud! Also, licking happens. Don't ask.
* The Embassy continues to harass JJ/Acty.
* The changelings can't make money.
* AB senses Aj is after her, and tells the other CMC to run after she herself does.
* SB and SL do just that, in the other direction.
* The fillyscout reaches her final form, GOLD MODE! The super, ultimate, greatest power who has ever been easily and quickly defeated.
* Long story short, Domshy wrecks her, and turns her back to normal, leaving her with no memory of what just happened. Domshy understands she was just inexperienced, and says she'll wait to add her to the harem when she runs off.
* But it's not over yet, because the moment Domshy let's her guard down, she's attacked! By who? None other than Discord himself!
* The battle is on, with Domshy deflecting or absorbing all of Discord's attacks, strangely never using her magic to stop anything physically trying to hit her. He ends up pretty much reshaping the landscape with massive bombs and explosions, none of which land on her.
* The hint why this happened comes when a hit if finally landed on her, but not from the chaos god, but rather Rainbow Dash!
* She knocks her into the ground, where Harry is waiting, who uses a sledgehammer to rocket her right into the sky, where 77 is waiting to finish the combo!
* With stabs. He stabs her.
* Dash is not happy, since she's not sure that's not actually Fluttershy, and just wanted her incapacitated.
* But no fear, she's not hurt, or even bleeding. In fact, she's so impressed, she offers to add 77 to her harem and show him such wonders. Interestingly, when he turns her down, she completely accepts this and just moves on.
* The battle is about to reach it's peak, with Discord about to summon a final 'something' that will destroy her, but he's cut off by the real Fluttershy! Who, even more shockingly, actually lets Domshy go, and even thanks her for helping out!
* Reluctantly, Domshy does so, even though she thinks it's a trick. And with that, the day is saved! Minus all the craters and destroyed fields, of course.
* Also, 77 thinks he should arrest either Dash or FS for, even despite them saying they'll 'turn themselves in', and it's only when Dash reminds him Discord is right there that he thinks better of it.
* The day is saved!... Or is it?
* Back at Canterlot, Twilight and Rarity won't leave Moondancer alone. Shockingly, she actually doens't care about the party, which is what Twi thought was the problem, but more thinks Twilight brings chaos everywhere she goes, which is kinda proven when the rabid Aj runs by.
* Scootaloo makes herself sad.
* Lyra and Bon hug.
* CC takes credit.
* Luna finally grows bored of the foursome's dreams and wakes them up, cue massive hangover pains, which she takes great pleasure in. Fortunately, 29 cures them with mind magic. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on himself, and Luna needs her amusement somehow.
* Afterwards, the foursome make it back to Ponyville, and... well, they react as expected to all the damage, and MM's attempts to find answers and learning that 77 is the new guard goes as well as could be.
* As does 29's attempts to get cured by Zecora, who just wanted him to eat a spider.
* While Celestia is preparing to burn everything to the ground, it's Shiny to the rescue! How? Chucking Two at her, and having her give Celestia a letter.
* It works, and she gets back on her hooves and hugs are shared.
* Afterwards, Two has to get back to her grandparents, lest Shiny incur the wrath of Granny time.
* Shiny and Celly part ways, after a touching moment where they say they'll be there for each other.
* Zanta, the Diamond Dog with Honeyheart, the nurse, finishes killing all the 'nasties' and burying them, leaving the nurse shellshocked. But sadly, this kind act seems to have a sinister undertone, as he insists that she take him to the Crystal Empire now, and his reasoning for why is unclear.
* Applejack finally catches Applebloom! And... she just kinda hugs her really hard, and apologizes for letting her get this bad, and promises to never leave her alone again. Nothing is going to ever hurt her again, nothing.
* Ab is not appreciative, but is unable to stop being dragged off.
* Beneath the caverns of Mount Canter, a strange creature is carrying a seemingly sentient book. One which seems quite bitter about something.
* The Staff continue to have wacky adventures.
* 32, JJ and Acty get a strange visitor, an actual changeling! One who even more strangely needs actual embassy work done! He needs a license to sell his memory orbs in Canterlot for market testing.
* Most shockingly of all, they actually get it done, and efficiently at that! 32 celebrates by cutting all all innuendo and just enjoying his win.
* Applejack demands the guard drop everything to watch her sister.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you educated.
* Time Turner's house got turned into a blue box that's bigger on the inside.
* 42 makes herself sad.
* Surprisingly, the memory orbs are a huge hit in Canterlot!
* Pom goes over the after-mission briefing, and when he finds out some peacetrotters may have been fried, he realizes he doesn't know where they came from, or how to get in contact with whoever built them. He instead resolves to go see some old friends.
* Shockingly, he's not the only one worried about the peacetrotters. There's also some concern from the machines themselves! Each one has been growing a personality, and the wounded one is afraid of 'dying'.
* AJ abducts Twilight from her mission to befriend Moondancer in order to build her a giant mech to protect Applebloom. Big ideas, way too much firepower, unreasonable expectations and so very much Smacking ensues.
* SP and 41's wrestling match got weird.
* 88 and Lavan finally just ask if 32 was checked out, find out he was, and realizes he's in the crazy embassy. They're off!
* 55 has something amazing to show braeburn! A clay that burns a bright red light that lasts a long time! What's he using this for? Fireworks? Selling it? Showing it off?
* Nope, he uses some designs for paper lanterns Ingrid showed him and has accidentally created signal flares, and he wants to give them out to everyone in case they get lost in the desert, like an unfortunate pair of mother and daughter did before. Though the two survived, 55 was devastated he didn't find them sooner, before the exposure and heatstroke got bad, and now wants to give a way anyone lost can be found, day or night.
* Braeburn, understanding, tries to nonetheless insist he can't save everyone. 55 actually agrees, and says he understands. Back in the fire when his old hive was stuck in trees, he tried to catch as many of his hivemates as he could. He couldn't catch all of them, but he caught some. But, more importantly, his Queen didn't try, and she didn't catch any of them.
* Breaburn stops arguing, and when 55 goes off he asks if the changeling is out to save as many as he can. This actually confuses the dim ling, and he wonders if Brae was listening. The point of the story was he doesn't have to catch them all by himself anymore.
* When he flies off, Braeburn understands, and agrees, and says all of Appleoosa will help, and be there to catch him too.
* Sweetie Belle meets up with Babs Seed!
* One of the guards waifus his peacetrotter. The peacetrotter insists PT's are not for waifu. Also, the guard has issues with the PT getting shined.
* Flitterneeded to stretch.
* Nightlight is feeling old.
* Blueblood and PJ learn a lesson, to invite Haymaker next time.
* FS wonders if her friends will be mad, Dash and Discord laugh it off.
* Pinkie releases bubbles into the party, but much to her horror, the bubbles have point one one one percent alcohol in it.
* Which means Caddy is getting smashed!
* Chrysalis is seen again, out in the snow just beyond the Empire. She keeps trying to use her magic on the snow, to make it 'change', but somehow she can't manage it, even with all her power. Though her home is tempting, she resolves to stay, declaring she will have her kingdom, and goes back to trying.
* Twilight finishes the mech! A marvel of weapons, abilities and comfort! The greatest of all her creations!
* AJ thinks it's neat, which nearly breaks Twi.
* What she doesn't think is neat is that Applebloom is gone! Where could she have gone?
* In the mech, is the answer. AB is in the mech.
* And she... is... ticked.
* Run Applejack Run.
==THREAD 149==
* APPLE WAR EDITION!
* Jetset and Spike continue training, with Spike surprisingly able to get the advantage during most of the fight. Even so, he won't pull the trigger on JS, simulation or no.
* With this, Jetset finally points out what Celestia meant when she claims he hesitates too much. It's not that he hesitates before he pulls the trigger, he really doesn't, it's afterwards. He broods too much after he does what he needs to do. JS steals Charity, which makes Spike go into a rage. But he manages to calm down, and instead resolves to go and spend some more time with everyone else, wanting to get away from reacting so violently or brooding.
* Begrudgingly, Jetset admits he passed the test, and Spike leaves the training room with some mutual respect, but Jetset says she still needs more training.
* AB continues chasing AJ in the mech, and she's not stopping.
* While she does so, the castle staff weep at what they've lost. Mostly time spent repairing the damage AB is causing.
* The changeling mind orbs are a surprising hit, and now 42 has to figure out how to tax that stuff.
* Celestia tries to get her letter again, gets run over again.
* Vekir finally gets dragged to the castle by watchdog and Siegfried, only for them to realize that's exactly what she wanted and WD was being ridiculous not telling her.
* To keep Two distracted, Velvet says to play... monopony. There is no help for them now.
* Cadence is now ever so slightly drunk, and causing a lot of problems for the trio of Pinkie, 18 and Maud.
* Among them, running off when they weren't looking and vanishing.
* Cue panicking.
* 12 is trying to get the toy back to 56, much to SLs chargin.
* 77 comes home to a weirdly relaxed Cheerliee.
* Shiny's Shiny sense is pulling him in two different directions, so he picks neither.
* MM comes home to Ponyville, but something's happening. That something?
* Filthy Rich is running for mayor.
* Cue the rage.
* The guards are having odd times with their peacetrotters
* Cloudchaser thinks flying through rain is swimming... somehow.
* Rarity fails to convince Moondancer to be her friend.
* A shadowy someone gives LD pictures and notes of the recent events with Rainbow Dash and the chaos filly, and Lightning Dust thinks it might just be exactly what she needs to take her down.
* The book is finally delivered to it's master, a skeleton! One who was defeated by Starswirl a millennia ago, and now seeks revenge with his old master, the creature inside the book, the Witch!
* The book says no.
* After getting over the shock, the skeleton says he'll free the being inside the book if it helps, and the book replies it likes it better in the book, it's way nicer than dealing with creation. So the skeleton threatens to let it out instead, which convinces it.
* How do they escape? Convoluted plot? Nope, the Embassy, trying to kill JJ and Acty again, open up right beside them.
* After mindcontrolling Actarius to tell him about where he is and what's happened, the skeleton, who's real name is Twinklejinx much to his chagrin, escapes to the real world with the book in tow, and nobody knows!
* Chrysalis, out in the snow, uses all of her power to try to do something to make her kingdom, and... it fails.
* She tried her very best, gave it her all, and it failed. Desperate, she realizes she needs more power, and the Crystal Empire is right there.
* She ends up hiding when she makes it back, cloaked in the shadows even though she knows it's pointless, and heads straight to the castle.
* 29 has a heartwarming moment where he explains to the ghost kids he's not sending them away because he wants rid of them, but so they can be happy.
* Applebloom, not knowing her own strength, chucks AJ across Canterlot.
* 42 meets with the newly appointed Minister of Energy Trade to discuss the new power supply trade and taxation and distribution.
* Dash learns ghosts are real, and she doesn't take it well.
* The Peacetrotters find personality is hard
* AJ is not happy about being chucked into a wall. She's even less happy when something shoots across the sky and lands right in her sister's mech's chest, knocking it back.
* The Canties are just as confused as anyone.
* AB is surprisingly completely unharmed by the attack, if anything she's downright pleasant. She's not even rattled.
* That is, until she sees who it was who attacked her. A certain pink bully from her past, and her beloved TBDRLIATU
* She's not going quietly.
* Guards misinterpret AJ.
* The mystery pairing show up again.
* PJ doesn't want to try to fight the mech until Blueblood tells her not to.
* MM is angry, Luna does not care.
* Honeyheart collapses from her head wound, and Zanta is forced to carry her. But not until after he eats a bunch of her bits.
* DT is on the ropes against AB, which isn't helped when her mother forces her to do poses while fighting, but she does it anyway to make her proud.
* When her renewed efforts manage to none of that to the non-lethal mech, because Twilight would rather punch her own face off than give AJ as she was a mech with lethal weapons.
* Still, it's dangerous enough DT has to call PD, and tell her 'it's time.'
* In Fillydelphia, Spoiled Rich watches whatever she called fly off into the sky while blowing off Silver Spoon's concerns.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated.
* 42 tells the Changelings to gather and says she needs drones. Odd, since drones are mostly the most useless, but because she needs living converters and batteries, which drones are great at, they're now the most valuable.
* The infiltrators and soldiers proceed to cry.
* 29 is at peace until MM slams a door in his face.
* Time Turner is curious as to what strippers stripe off.
* 77 tells Harry they need to recruit, Harry just laughs him of.
* Cadence is wandering the halls of her castle alone and reminiscing about her wedding while drunk, never noticing the eyes in the darkness behind her.
* MM is racist.
* Two stallions working on a tower for the Evo corporation give an outsiders look on Sunset and Chitty's recent takeover. Both of them, being from bad parts of different towns, got to see their towns transformed seemingly overnight by the sudden change to the crime families they served, and thought they would die under.
* They talk about how the necessity to advance changed things, and how EVO is spreading everywhere.
* But, they also realize that things are changing, and you can either go with it or get left behind, so get back to work.
* The PT's are catty.
* Babs Seed and Sweetie Doll get into a knife fight while singing "Bad" until they almost roll out into the road and are scolded into saying they're sorry, and after they apologize they get a lollipop.
* SA finally can't wait anymore and runs off to see what all the explosions are about.
* Trixie is mad at Luna, and Luna learns her life is a lie.
* Flash and Fizzle, still wandering after their defeat via Fluttershy, have things go badly when Flash runs out of power and shuts down, leaving Fizzle to have to drag him off.
* The fight between DT and Ab reaches it's peak, with AB effortlessly crushing her most times. She reminisces about how DT used to treat her, how her wealth and status and Cutie mark was used as an excuse to put her down again and again, and how finally she can fight back.
* After toying with her for a while, she very nearly has DT beat, trapping her in a ray of light that paralyzes what it touches. But DT manages to pull off a last minute save by covering her in oil, and only getting grazed by the paralysis in the process.
* The oil is being cleaned off, but it's too late, the thing sent before has arrived, and DT welcomes the flying projectile with open arms.
* Only to be pushed out of the way at the last second.
* While DT curses the very heavens themsevles that this was supposed to be her moment, Applejack admires the new power-armor she just got wrapped in, sent straight from PD.
* With this power armor, she gives AB one last chance to back down and apologize.
* Applebloom, instead, rises to the challenge, and tells her to bring it on.
* One thousand years later, the war of sisters resumes, FIGHT!
==THREAD 150==
NC fun where previous THREAD version of themselves meet their current counterparts.
Non-canon Recap:
LAST THREAD RECAP, CANON DO, WHERE ARE YOU!
* Celestia would have gotten laid, but then she realized she had standards, and Zephyr is considering suicide.
* Twilight created the elixir of immortality, but nobody would drink it because it tastes like Mountain Dew Code Red.
* Cadence had twins, and they both destroyed then resurrected the world, so it kind of evened out.
* Pinkie popped a balloon, she got life in prison.
* 18 figured out there is no god, mathematically, and Luna suddenly vanished.
* Dash lost a race when she broke her hoof. Nobody can figure out why she couldn't fly.
* 42 punched so hard she punched herself back in time, enraging her past self and bringing her to vow to punch better than anyone else in the world.
* Fluttershy lost her chaos powers, they were under the couch.
* Chrysalis finally came out of her shell and was a beautiful butterfly.
* Rarity found out she's pretty cheap, actually.
* Shining Armor did not live up to his name, and the funeral is on friday.
* Applejack asked why she was a princess too many times, and Celestia took back her wing and horn. She doesn't mind.
* What will happen next time? Find out, on REGULAR APPLEJACK!
== Thread 151 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ROYAL SISTER RUMBLE EDITION!
*Celestia wonders what happened, but when Shining finds her she isn't very bothered. She deduced it wasn't an invasion due to nobody being hurt, so after playing around the two decide to head out at a leisurely pace.
*The guards know better than to fight the robot.
*Twinklejinx and the book manage to avoid detection by 32, for a little bit. But when Actarius holds a changeling learning class, where four other changelings sit in a circle and he teaches them to read, with 32 helping after some reluctant acceptance by the lings, TJ is forced to hide in 32's closet.
*There, he comes across a 'disguise', which consists of a big wide brimmed purple hat, rainboots, a bunch of scarves, and ski goggles, all the stuff that was left over from when the Embassy was a clothing shop that 32 couldn't get rid of.
*One of the lings, 47, finds him, but when said ling asks why 32 has a skeleton in his closet, he's blown off.
*Afterwords, TJ is forced out and into the class in a case of mistaken identity. After the real 47 comes back, he's forced to jump out the window in an attempt to flee. He gets away, leaving an oddly nonchalant Actarius and JJ, and a very chalant and freaked out 32 behind.
*Outside, he discovers how things have changed, and promptly freaks out before thinking of a way to use it for world domination. In one such idea, he realized he needed a different name than Twinklejinx, and he gets offered suggestions from none other than Rekulk, the morlock! After which he promptly flees... again.
*FS and Dash fail to make it home due to something standing in their way. That something? Fluttershy's brother Zephyr.
*It's not a happy reunion.
*77 encourages Harry to vote.
*Canties wonder when the EG are going to start.
*Two guards try to find out who's PT could kick the other PT's ass. The answer? Taser. Very polite tasers.
*Berry is going to vote for AJ, don't ask why.
*Aloe and Lotus are going to vote differently because they want others to be able to tell who's who.
*Also, maybe themselves.
*CC and Flitter share a same problem, and also the problem of getting into overblown fights.
*Mayor Mare calls 29 into his office, reminds him of that time she made a deal with Chrysalis to save him from getting his head blown off, and then reveals... something.
*OOCO Two is very good at diplomatic meals.
*OOCO DT has a woodchuck, and after much debating and betting with a host of others, finds that a woodchuck can chuck 499 wood, Why? Because it's Pinkie's woodchuck. This all makes sense.
*Silver Spoon is enjoying Spoiled Rich and PD losing their minds.
*AJ finds she likes her new armor, which augments all her abilities. DT dislikes it, since it was supposed to be for her.
*It makes her stronger, faster and all around more powerful, with two little catches. One, it's near impossible to control, resulting in her hitting the wall over and over, and Two, It was designed for DT, including when she would grow up, which means it's made to go as big as she can possibly go. Which is why it's a little saddening to DT when AJ says it's really tight in the rear.
*Even without the armor, which AJ refuses to return, DT still charges the mech with TBDRLIATU.
*AJ is having none of that, catching her in mid air and carrying her off away from the battle. There, after trying to reach her by telling her of how dangerous it all is, and getting nothing but threatened for her trouble, AJ has had enough, and makes a choice.
*The choice to rip off it's jumpjets, and then hurl TBDRLIATU over the distance, respectively.
*This utterly breaks DT, who is now convinced she's letting her mother down, and despite how much it hurt to do, AJ doesn't apologize for it as she walks away.
*Lightning Dust finally meets the battle, and is confused nothing is happening. Likewise, Pommel who is also there does not seem to have any idea, and is unwilling to attack the docile mech. So they sit around and chat.
*Filthy Rich reveals his real reason for the mayoral race, bringing his family back together!
*Daw finds DT in a despondent state after watching the rocket launcher get tossed, and when she hears DT apologize to her mother she decides she's had enough of that, and goes down and tells DT to get on her back. After a pep talk, she agrees.
*On the flight, Daw tells DT it's okay if she wants to cry, no matter how much she denies it and insists only children cry. Daw points out that her own father figure, one of the strongest shes' known, cried too, for the same reason she did when he died. Afterwards, DT admits she's afraid of letting her mother down, who was the only one who actually let her do all this stuff without referring to her as a kid.
*Daw understands, and when TBDRLIATU flies back into her hooves, after firing off in a way even Daw can't figure out, they turn around and get right back towards the battle.
*Gambling and Quicksilver, who TBDRLIATU had been watching this whole time after he landed in front of them, get blasted.
*Scootaloo and a changeling have a chat.
*10 is so excited she gets to cover the mayoral race, because nothing is happening in Canterlot... right?
*Pinkie, while running around and slapping ponies to find where Cadence is, makes a terrible mistake, and slaps Jokey Chan.
*She's doomed.
*Spitfire looks at the form for the Wonderbolt Captain contest for a while, declaring she doesn't need it, but when she leaves it's untouched.
*Luna's teaching technique needs work, but don't tell her that.
*A Peacetrotter wishes for a perp to reconsider the cookies. He does not.
*When a Cantie says aloud he 'wants' a princess like AJ, Spike does not take kindly to it.
*He takes even less kindly to it that said cantie doesn't recognize him, but knows Sweetie Belle right away.
*Though Spike wants to help AJ, when SB runs off talking about living dolls and he hears Babs scream, he decides it's worth looking into.
*AJ tackles Applebloom, and initially freaks out that she hurt her, not so much when the battle resumes.
*Shiny and Celly are bantering when they almost make it to the fight, with Celly declaring she will drop him in a heartbeat if he keeps sassing her.
*That becomes way less funny when he falls through Canterlot, through a hole in the floor AJ made, and she freaks out before catching him just in time.
*After that, she.. needs a minute.
*Cadence worries about it too.
*Rarity, out of options, says that if Moondancer lets her do a makeover, she'll leave. Reluctantly, she agrees.
*42 is noticing something odd in the Empire...
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated.
*The Changelings begin to wonder if they can just leave.
*Velvet accidentally makes Two cry.
*The battle between AJ and AB heats up, with AB pulling out all the stops and being completely invulnerable, and AJ trying to figure out how to use her armor. Just when AB starts to get the advantage, she's suddenly blasted by a giant missile, and nearly knocked down. Seeing DT riding on Daw and getting back into the fray, AJ is ticked.
*Worried, Daw admits that she hopes DT has a plan, and said filly does. That is, just stay ahead of her, since she needs to charge every jump. Then she'll blow her up. It's not a complicated plan.
*But more importantly, this is bad. Why? Because it has made AB a very, very, very unhappy filly. Seeing AJ charge off again, she feels like she's being ignored, again. That's not going to stand.
*Enraged, she hits the biggest, most dangerous looking button she can find, and lets it all out.
*~Berserk mode activated~
==Thread 152==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ROBATTLE EDITION!
*Twinklejinx is on the run from Rekulk, and no smooth jazz helps!
*He eventually loses the morlock, only to be attacked by a certain familar fuzzy face. One who just loves bones.
*Winona is a very good dog, even if she threatens him with swords.
*When she's called off, TJ needs a drink, skeleton or no.
*Pommel can't intervene in the fight due to LD threatening accusing him of treason, since AJ is against Daw technically.
*She tries to play it off later, to mixed results.
*The night guard sleep through all of this
*The Canties are unfazed.
*The changelings fill up the battery,p but there's an issue. Mostly, that now that the batteries are fully, they're empty. So, they have to wait until Shining comes back or starve. There's a flaw.
*Still, after filling them up, they find another flaw. That they don't know where 42 wanted them put, and now they're in a room all alone with a bunch of blinking lights. The temptation, it is strong.
*It's broken because short attention spans.
*Cloud Chaser may or may not be running for mayor.
*Spoiled Rich is not calling back DT, even with the battle going like it is, because she refuses to accept that DT will fail. Instead, she dreams of everyone knowing she made her little girl a star.
*77's recruiting did not go great.
*Elsewhere, the current heads of the new "EVO" corporation, IE the mostly ponies but various species of crimelords that Sunset brainwashed and took over, discuss their new expansions, how to deal with Pennydrop using subterfuge, and how they're reconstructing cities like Baltimare.
*But one of them has an issue, a crime lord who hasn't quite given in to the brainwashing yet, who calls out the others for letting themselves be controlled like this and asks their current 'head', Scarlet Cherry, how she feels to have her every thought chosen for her. Her response?
*"I feel safe."
*Blueblood successfully stopped PJ from entering the fight by sitting on her. She's about to turn blue.
*The Canties muse on abusive relationships.
*Pinkie's fight with Jokey Chan ends, he just didn't want any trouble.
*Forty Two is finding everything in th Empire odd.
*Luna wants Zecora and Trixie to stop talking.
*JJ and Acty drive 32 up a wall.
*Potsticker arrives and tries to ask what happened to the new guy, 56, but all she gets is talk of a calendar.
*56, looking for his toy, is joined by Arana in his search, to little avail. But then an unexpected guest stumbles across them, Screwloose, who takes one look at Arana and is utterly terrified. She's completely frozen, barely able to stand, but still somehow manages to convince 56 to come over to her and protect him, with her plot of course. After that, she slinks away in horror, much to the hybrids confusion.
*The Hive Gazette is rather quick.
*10 is not having the best time when she learns what she missed.
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated.
*OOCO mystery pair revealed! It's a look into the possible future of Flurry Heart and 77's to be kid, junior, as the latter tries to be a guard, adorably.
*Fancy Pants learns of an interesting proposal by Rarity.
*Spike joins SB and Babs in the fight against the doll, who due to a stray shot from the mech now has a grenade lancher. Sweetie's bubblewand is useless.
*As is Spike's attempts to fire back, as a one in a million shot ends with him eating a grenade, literally, before being knocked for a loop while an unbothered Babs and Sweetie chase after the doll, and Spike regrets his choices.
*Fluttershy has had enough of Zephyr's shit, and Discord is scared.
*Dash is fine.
*The changelings need buckets. The reason is dumb.
*FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*With the robot in Berserker mode, it unleashes a new ability! It can fly!
*Things go downhill from there.
*Soon, AJ is pinned down against the wall, and a barrage is about to take her out of the fight, only to be saved by a scatterbomb from Diamond Tiara!
*Instead of being appreciative, the princess continues to try to get DT out of the fight, with the filly having to shoot her.
*The save is eventually paid back when AJ takes a direct hit meant for DT, and knocks her off Daw's back when she's pushed forwards. Even though AJ immediately tries to save her, it's pointless as DT saves herself.
*On the ground, AJ tries again to disarm her before being rebuked, and after a tense moment where it looked like the rocket did some permanent damage, the mare asks her what it will take for her to get out of the fight.
*She offers to do anything, up to and including a public meeting where she admits DT is better than her, if she'll quit, but DT refuses.
*Instead, she bitterly calls out Applejack for letting her get this far, believing in her, and then trying to take it all away. She reveals she used to be proud because the princess believed in her, and after being ignored it truly hurt.
*So, instead, she found others including her own mother who appreciate her, and she's going to keep fighting for them. With that, she get back into the battle.
*After a moment of reflection, AJ joins her, vowing to fix this.
*Back at the fight, the targeting system won't leave Daw alone, seeing her as the 'biggest threat' due to currently being the only one active.
*DT gets back into the brawl, just in time to save her, but ultimately can't find a way to actually take AB down, and her and AJ nearly get crushed for their troubles.
*AJ stops her, once again calling her out, but things are different this time. Instead of calling her out for fighting at all, she's calling her out for relying on just her technology, not her head. She makes DT remember back how this all started, when she was just a filly who wanted to protect her town, and it wasn't all about the best tech or the biggest boom. Slowly, it begins to reach the filly.
*Finally, AJ challenges her, since it can't be destoryed by normal means, she has to use her head to actually innovate and figure out a way to keep it from moving.
*She does.
*After a double attack that leaves AJ's armor in tatters, DT pulls off a dangerous maneuver, much to AJ's ire as the filly had promised to let her handle the dangerous stuff, that ends with the robot beneath the ground, and unable to retaliate lest it fall through Canterlot onto the mountainside.
*This does not stop Applebloom, who gets out of the mech, much to both DT and Daw's surprise as they did not know it was her in there, and starts beating AJ with a lead pipe. Said princess lets her to get it all out of her system.
*That isn't nearly the worst that the filly hurts her with, as she starts screaming about everything AJ did wrong, and saying she hates her big sister.
*When she's tired out enough she can't fight off a hug, AJ truly and sincerely apologizes, and says nothing she can do will hurt worse than not being there when she got her cutie mark, and their parents would be proud.
*After a tense moment, AB breaks away, but AJ tells the others not to chase her, realizing the filly needs her space for a bit, and the filly leaves.
*It's finally over.
*Cue Twilight showing up, musing about how it's not as bad as the last sister fight with princesses.
*AJ gives the armor back to DT, by ripping it off and giving her the shredded remains. The filly isn't too bothered, and her and Daw go off to get milk shakes, finally friends.
*Twilight muses about how hard it will be to get the mech out, just in time for it to fall through the ground and hit just right to explode into a billion pieces. Twi calls that one divine intervention. Jokingly, Twi asks AJ never to ask her to build a robot again, and AJ agrees.
*After all, she has a lot of work to do.
*Lots to fix, after all.
*Back in the Empire, something is happening. The drunk princess finds herself being slowly surrounded by darkness, and something influencing her mind.
*The answer comes when she's finally frozen in place, and notices the green eyes that have been following her.
*Queen Chrysalis steps forth, and smiles with wicked intent.
*..."HI CHRYSSSYYYYYY!"
==Thread 153==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BREATHER EDITION!
*AJ might have trouble paying back the damages.
*Luna made poor choices buying crystals.
*Spoiled Rich is disappointed.
*DT and Daw read a letter from Pommel, and realize they can forge his signature.
*Twilight suddenly realizes she left Moondancer and Rarity behind.
*Rarity is pretty sure she has the right gun.
*After they meet up again, Moondancer and Twi reconcile.
*Actarius tries to teach multiplication, it goes poorly.
*Twinklejinx and the book discovers the joy of milkshakes.
*Less joyful is when they themselves are discovered by Lavan and TJ is revealed! Shortly after the being inside the books name is revealed to be Hydia, she resorts to stabbing Lavan in the eye so they can run.
*The staff have odd uses for the hole in the floor.
*Celestia takes a minute to collect herself after realizing the battle is over, and decides to take the scenic route so Shiny can fly with her.
*Blueblood's methods of pinning down PJ are in question.
*Twilight and Rarity call out AJ on her behavior, but that gets a little hard for the latter when she learns Sweetie Belle has a cutie mark too, and she missed it.
*Thankfully, AJ ties her up before she can run off and hurt herself.
*What MM whispered to 29 is revealed! It seems that the deal she made with Chrysalis so long ago was... she would help 29 get elected as mayor next re-election. He's reluctant, but agrees.
*When they tell Trixie and Zecora, they don't respond as intended. Instead of joining him, the pair decide that if MM isn't running again, than the seat is up for grabs! Both of them join in, and the race is on!
*Meanwhile, Luna learns she missed yet another event, and is beyond angry.
*18 and Pinkie have way too much fun imagine reactions to Cadence being dead.
*Twilights old friends learn moving from Canterlot didn't work.
*Changelings learn that ballpit=happiness, but pranks=what?
*AJ, and Twilight find out that Fluttershy has a little brother, and Twi knows what it's like to be taken off guard.
*Cloud Chaser also joins the race for mayor.
*The construction workers ride to the challenge!
*Zephyr tried to run, but Fluttershy was faster. And now, he has to deal with her yelling at him.
*And also picking up Dash's dry cleaning, because that's important.
*Applejack locks herself out of her room, and hasn't even been in there since before the vacation. Thankfully, she didn't leave Winona in there.
*She did have a gold fish, though...
*With no other options, she starts trying to burn through the wall, but doesn't make it very far. Because during it, the roof opens up, and Celestia arrives. She is not happy.
*After learning what transpired, Celestia gives an absolutely blunt and brutal verbal beatdown to Applejack and Twilight, and even rebukes Rarity into silence when she tries to intervene. Only when she's finished does she admit she's not going to punish them, for no other reason than if she has to, they don't deserve to be princesses. After that, she takes off.
*Left behind, Shining tries to defend her and say Celestia is just a little frazzled he almost fell to his death.
*That does not help.
*A little on edge, Applejack immediately tries to get back into her room, but pushes too far and her magic wipes out her entire room, and then some.
*But her fish, which is shockingly alive, is okay!
*With no more room, it's time for her and Rarity to become ROOMIES!
*Zecora uses the ghostkids for her mayoral race!
*Trixie tries the same, but it turns out Snips and Snails aren't dead.
*Luna arrives at the "battle" and goes into full roaring mode!
*Only, nobody is there, except for a very terrified construction worker. She's pretty much reduced to trying to sing him to sleep.
*Idris and Cheese finally arrive!... at the Gryphon Kingdom. Cheese was not happy.
*They sure as fuck weren't going back to Canterlot.
*32 is about to lose his mind with JJ and Acty's accidental innuendo and them not understanding his innuendo and asks the sky for help. Shockingly, someone legit answers, and 29 arrives.
*Celestia waits for Luna to arrive, and her banter is lost when she realizes Luna is still carrying the sleeping pony.
*They both need cake and history is weird.
*Twilight needs drinks, but SHiny will only give hugs.
*Rarity has an awesome room because of unpaid spiderling labor.
*When bantering, Maud suddenly acts very strange and chucks 18 out the room following a dialog tangent that makes no sense. 18 responds in kind, with lasers.
*The battle between Babs and the Doll reaches it's peak, literally, when they and Sweetie Bell climb to the top of a roof!
*And then Babs messes up and falls down. She's probably okay.
*But SB is cornered, and the doll starts threatening her. Who will save her?
*Spike to the rescue on his big wheel!
*Which immediately falls, but nevermind, because the battle is on! With him distracted for a second, the doll strikes with a flurry of punches!
*Which do nothing. Because she's a doll. A doll-doll, not a thing that looks like a doll.
*This suddenly feels unfair to Spike.
*DT offers to upgrade Daws' sword.
*Fancy and Fleur answer a call to the elite to gather, and it seems Lightning Dust has something she wants to share.
*Back at the Empire, Cadence ignores the fact she's surrounded in darkness, mostly because she's drunk, and tries to hug Chrysalis.
*Instead, the Queen mocks her, pointing out how vulnerable she is, but Cadence replies she's unafraid, because it's Chrysalis.
*When said queen says that anyone could take advantage of her, Cadence confidently shoots back she's not worried now, because Chrysalis would protect her.
*When the changeling points out her intrinsic nature, Cadence admits She used to be afraid of her, because she thought her a monster, but she's not afraid of monsters anymore.
*When the princess reaches out, the Queen grabs her hoof painfully, and admits that a part of her would rather not do this. But she needs power, and she's going to take it.
*Or she would, if sudden green flames didn't appear. When she demands an answer, she's shocked to see 42 at the other end of the hallway, and said punchbug says in no uncertain terms that she knew there was a possibility someday she would have to fight her, someday she would have to be the one to stop her, and she was ready for it.
*She is prepared, and she gives one final ultimatum.
*~If you do not release her and step away from her right now, I will kill you... Queen Chitania.~
*The Titan smiles.
==Thread 154==
LAST THREAD RECAP, GOING SUPER EDITION!
*AJ is pretty sure Granny Smith is going to kill her.
*Twilight tries to get to the bottom of why Celestia was upset, and gets worried when she learns the reason. SA brushes her off, listing all the ways he could have died by now.
*Unfortunately, someone overheard, someone with very small ears. Two is a little upset, and runs off.
*32's advice is bad.
*Spike learns the truth of how SD came to be, and realizes that fighting her was pointless, instead chiding SB for trying to lock her up before heading on his way.
*Straight off the side of the roof he was on.
*And on the other side, AB steals his big wheel. It's not his day.
*AB has fun with the big wheel until she realizes it has a magic motor, and nearly goes off the side of the city. Luckly, AJ catches her, and after some reluctance they both head off for home.
*The construction workers find yet another hole that needs patching.
*Luna is worse at cooking than Cadence.
*Flash's repairs with the mystery mare continue. Said mystery mare laments over all the things he's been through, becoming less and less of a pony, and how hard it is to fix him. Upon questioning, Fizzle reveals he does care if Flash dies, because he's his buddy, even if he mostly hates ponies.
*The repairs get more invasive, and strange things start happening from Flash's POV.
*Hydia's attack on Lavan's eye has a weird effect, the eye comes alive and skitters off.
*Vekir finally makes it to Celestia, and proudly shows her the book with all the names filled out. It looks like her journey is at an end! But something is missing.
*She forgot to get a name from the CE! Before Celestia can stop her, she runs off, with Watchdog and Siegfried in tow.
*She'll probably figure out Shining is in Canterlot...
*Derpy is not a political mare.
*Nightlight has good advice.
*Why does Winona have a sword? Who knows!
*77 deals with sudden bears
*Honeyheart gets another flashback to how Jetset made his shades, and his infiltration missions. The sight of him not giving up emboldens her, to the point where she's ready to finally stand up to Zanta. When she realizes her bag of bits is gone, she does far more than that, and punches him in the face.
*It's on!
*Spoiled Rich and Silver Spoon leave for Ponyville.
*Zecora, Filthy, MM and Trixie all lay out their platforms and get varied results.
*SA is sure Cadence is having a wonderful time.
*Rarity learns of Sweetie Doll, and decides she's joining AJ and AB towards Ponyville.
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated.
*Nightlight and Velvet feel old.
*The fight between Maud, Pinkie and 18 escalates.
*A certain upset changeling knocks on Celestia's door, and she is ready to destroy them, until she realizes it's Shiny. That complicates things.
*AB only agrees to go back to Ponuville if conditions are met.
*Spike pays off some debts by advertising with Luna.
*Something looks off about Ponyville from a distance
*How does a living doll function?
*The vote for Rarity's proposal finally takes place!
*Hydia tells TJ to flee, and flee he does
*Canties don't know how long voting takes
*Luna and Spike get milkshakes
*Twilight deduces Two is with Celly, tells SA to hold back.
*Dash found some money on the ground and celebrates with FS, but the bit got stretched.
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*Chitania is revealed, and is curious as to how 42 knew it was her, but the punchbug isn't feeling very talkative.
*42 threatens her to release Cadence, but after a seemingly failed attempt to get the princess free instead tries to bargain with the mocking titan, noticing right away that she's not draining or kidnapping her, so Chitania must be after something else. 42 promises to help her get it, if she lets Cadence free.
*Chitania says there is something she can do... get Cadence to a hospital. With that, she punches.
*And misses, as it turns out that failed attempt wasn't failed at all, and 42 had switched places with Cadence in the attack, having just wanted to get info from Chitania. With her plan foiled, she takes Chitania out of the city with her fireflight, much to the shock of the Queen. Out in the snow she tries to battle her, but quickly comes to the conclusion she couldn't even hurt her if she tried.
*Left with no other choice, she briefly distracts the Titan and zips to the castle and back, returning with a bunch of Love-Harnesses, all of them full to the brim.
*Knowing full well she likely won't survive this, she accepts that, and flicks the switch.
*With the love in her, she goes into burnout form, and can finally stand on equal terms with the Queen, who revels in the challenge. A straight up brawl ensues, with the two eschewing magic or fancy tricks or banter to instead engage in a raw, silent battle.
*With one final, devastating attack, 42 lands an orbital strike, and it seems she's won. But, of course, Chitania can't be kept down, and she manages to get back up out of the crater just as 42 burns out and falls. After admitting she had fun, Chitty almost heals her.
*But it was all a trap! It turns out that massive attack was just to lace a spell in her body, preventing the Titan from teleporting. With the signal lit, the CE guard unleash hell, firing off missiles that 42 claims will completely burn away, if not Chitania then the air she breaths, and suffocate her in fire. Either she'll be boiled from the inside, she'll burn from the heat, or she'll suffocate. Regardless, Chitania has no escape, and neither does 42. In her last moments, 42 asks why she never went Titan mode.
*Chitania reveals why when she pulls vials out of hooves, and suddenly is able to stop all of the missiles in the sky with magic. She didn't need it.
*Their attack a failure, Chitania calls to the city in challenge, and they answer the call. Even as she's fading, 42 is proud they kept fighting.
*Their attacks don't work, so it's down to only one left to meet the Titan in the snow, Cadence.
*She comes alone, as it turns out someone has run a sword through the portal, and now there's nobody left to defend the Empire but herself. She sees that 42 is still alive, and resolves to save her in time.
*Against the Titan, Cadence stands alone.
==Thread 155==
Missed
==Thread 156==
LAST THREAD RECAP, CADDY SHINES LIKE THE SUN EDITION!
*Mayor Mare has a existential crisis.
*Granny stop yelling at AJ, and AB finds it less fun than she thought she would.
*The portal doesn't work, the changelings decide to hang out with JJ and Acty some more.
*SD doesn't know why they call Scootaloo a chicken, but she wants to pet it.
*DT and Daw have a nice goodbye.
*Rarity and Aj have a nice moment
*Spike and Luna start hanging out, mostly to annoy 29.
*Lyra lives for mistakes, she does not regret them.
*Dash learns about Lightning Dust's reveal, and is understandibly angry.
*While LD is still internally gloating, Dash arrives on the scene.
*Celestia and Two have a long talk about mortality, where Two expresses her fear that she will lose everyone again and forget about them, like she did her old hive.
*Celestia manages to assuage her fear by helping her understand how to remember them, and Two accepts this.
*32 abandons 29 when Luna and Spike arrive
*Spoiled rich is very disappointed, and DT feels very, very bad. At least until she arrives in Ponyville, and Flithy is there.
*Pommel learns he's very, very behind on paperwork
*Harry's idea to bring in bears for the army goes badly, according to 77.
*Because they try to eat him.
*After he kills them all, Cheerilee gets a wonderful, terrible idea, and summons her demons. 77 weeps.
*Jetset, still in the simulation, gets a surprise visitor. 42.
*Acty teaching microbiology goes badly.
*Twilight is sure Celestia is being profound. She's actually just shoving marchmalleys in her mouth.
*Spike and Luna begin to torment 29.
*Big Mac brought home a float of him as a princess. No, he's not talking about it.
*Rarity hugs AJ to make her feel better.
*A guard tricks out his peace trotter.
*10 learns the awful truth about elections
*The changelings missed playing facepunch with Acty.
*There can be only one sweetie.
*56 learns tugging on SL's tail has weird effects
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*With her deception revealed and Sunset now aware she's out of power, Chrysalis is forced to go on the defensive against Sunset. Pushed to her limit, she relies entirely on her previously thought useless changeling powers, which prove effective.
*Strangely, during the battle Sunset grows intense, declaring that this is the one chance she has to stop Chrysalis.
*She taps into her power fully, and the influx of magic gives her a white, shining look, with two streams of magic reminiscent of wings on her back.
*Meanwhile, inside the castle, the fight between Maud, and Pinkie against 18 intensifies, and she is badly beaten. 18 uses her mind control, but though Maud turns on Pinkie as commanded, that weird sensation forces her to keep beating 18 along with her.
*Outside, the still sane guards watch Cadence uselessly try to reach 42 and defeat Chitania, to no avail. Rapidly, they begin to lose hope for her winning.
*Back with Sunset and Chrysalis, Sunset has her on the rope, savagely beating the life out of Chrysalis, all while said queen continues to let out her trademark "HAH!' and laugh her off. When she finally has enough and tries to finish her off with a shining spear, Chrysalis reveals her last trick.
*As she said before, she is never without power, and that power comes from the very walls all around them. She absorbs it from the traps she laid to protect the orb, and regains her strength.
*The battle turns into one of illusion, with Sunset trapped in an ever expanding room, until after a time she figures out how to break it.
*She forces Chrysalis to absorb the last of the magic, and challenges her to a final charge. Both run, but vanish att he last moment.
*Chrysalis thinks she's outsmarted Sunset, but it turns out Sunny was counting on this, and used this opportunity to grab the orb, now free of any traps.
*Except one, as it turns out. A bear trap.
*Locked in place, Sunset holds on as Chrysalis attacks her shield, and taunts her. When Sunset lets it slip that it'll be worth it just to watch Shining come home to a beaten wife, Chrysalis stops, now realizing that Cadence was in danger, something she had been unaware of up to this point.
*Sunset, seeing this, taunts her, and when a strange sensation passes over both of them, she says Chrysalis must choose. Cadence, or her new Kingdom.
*Chrysalis makes her choice.
*Outside, Cadence's futile efforts get little more than mocking from Chitania, finding herself totally unable to even get close to the rapidly dying 42, and it's starting to eat away at her.
*After lamenting in despair for a while, something breaks in her, and for the first time Cadence uses magic laced with hate, not love.
*Even still, Chitania is able to absorb it. After that, she mocks her and tells her to run and go get someone who can actually save the day, and feeling useless, Cadence considers it.
*Instead of running, she calls the Crystal Heart, and through this connection calls to her people, and tells them to trust her. They do, and she pumps all of the CH energy into Chitania, who readily accepts it.
*She grows bigger. and bigger. And Biiiiiiiiigggger, until a single one of her hooves is as large as the Empire. Down below, the Crystal Ponies start to waver, but another speech keeps them strong, and they keep pumping in the magic.
*Finally, Chitnaia reaches up so high she's past the sky itself, and can see out into space. Out there, she sees something, something only she can see. She calls out "I can see you!' again and again.
*When Cadence uses her love heart, Chitania sees something else too. She sees herself, in golden armor, regarded as a protector.
*She dismisses the thought, and mocks Cadence for putting that in her head, who reveals that she doesn't know what Chitania sees, it only showed what was in her heart. Chitania dismisses it, and goes back to looking at 'them'.
*She challenges 'them', stating she doesn't need anymore tricks or spells or magic, and instead is ready to fight them right now. She feels immortal, invincible, unbeatable.
*Cold.
*The Crystal Heart runs out of power and leaves her cold. She desperately tries to tell Cadence to give her more as she starts to burn out. Cadence delivered.
*She gives her love, but the Titan's body is too busy trying to get rid of what it has. Her body overloads when Cadence shoots it in, and it burns. She fires, again and again, until even the princess herself is drained to near-unconciousness.
*Eventually, the Titan burns out, and falls. She begins to wither away on the ground, while Cadence floats down.
*Bitterly, Chitania asks if she's going to kill her. Cadence reveals she could, if she wanted to, but she doesn't have enough power.
*She can't kill chitania and save 42.
*She admits 42 will be angry with her, and it would be better if she just finished Chitty, but she can't let her go. 42 believed in her no matter, what, and it was time to return the favor.
*She kisses her, and life comes back to the changeling.
*With that, the last of her power is gone.
*Cadence asks if anyone will save Chitania, as she's dying too, and it turns out Chitty has something for this. Though she doesn't know who gave it to her, the Titan has a love-harness that gives her true, honest love, and one that was directed to her alone. She's saved, and the fight is over.
*That's when someone calls her horn, and tells the changeling to burn the princess.
*Chitania admits she'd much rather just go, but the insistence is too much. She breaks another vial on her limbs, and shoots a fireball at the defenseless princess before using one last infusion, this one with a teleport spell.
*But the fireball never hits, it's blocked.
*By Chrysalis's body.
*"I chose you."
*The battle over, Cadence falls unconscious with a smile on her face.
*Inside the castle, the battle isn't yet done. It turns out, Chitiania was more than just a distraction for Sunset. Two others were there.
*In the middle of an all out war between guards, Flash and Fizzle race through the halls. On Flash's back, a strange miniature tower, which emits an odd signal. On Fizzle's, something else, and much bigger.
*They're stopped by the sudden appearance of Spitfire, or rather re-appearance. Her wing is broken and her body battered, and it's revealed she had been trying to stop them to no avail. It's shown how when Flash uses his new augmented body and one shots her into a wall, breaking the other wing. She can't move anymore, and they run off.
*After they've gone, 'help' finally rolls up, and Spitfire bitterly tells the new orb that he was of no use. Inside, Sombra is none too happy, even when she takes it back.
*Flash and Fizzle make one last stop, checking on the changelings under orders from Chitania, before they make their escape and fly out free as birds. They won, all of them won.
*Sunset got everything she wanted. The chaos, testing Chitania's magic, her orb...
*And the mirror portal.
*The Empire survived unscathed, but Sunset won the day.
*Finally, back in Canterlot, Two emerges from Celestia's room, feeling better.
*Just in time for a crystal guard to break in, and scream the Empire has been attacked.
*Son of a
==Thread 157==
LAST THREAD RECAP, RECOVERY EDITION!
*SA, Celestia, Twi and Two rush back to find the Empire surprisingly in tact and briefly hope this means nothing bad actually happened.
*It did. Something bad happened.
*When told the news, Shining is justifiably angry at the bad delivery by a guard, but gets over it.
*He finds everyone in a sad state, and though Twi gets to work fixing the portal and Two gets to work trying to cheer the injured up, he finds himself wondering if they need him anymore.
*It takes a heart to heart from Celestia to confirm they still do.
*AJ wonders if her brother is running for mayor.
*Sunset Shimmer gloats as she and Chitty make it back to the lair, promising that even Chitty's impressive feat was nowhere near what she will become.
*Twinklejinx holds up in a library
*Acty teaches the lings how to put out a fire
*OOCO AJ puts up a sign for the giant monster from the Beach Arc to stop anyone fishing her children
*The CE guards are recovering from attacking each other.
*Cadence wakes up just long enough for 18 to tell her she saved the day
*29 seeks asylum with AJ from Luna's and Spike's pranks. The fool.
*It's here she learns about the mayor race situation
*It turns out Gambling needed a date for a party, and that's what he forced Quicksilver to do.
*Maud feels bad about hurting Pinkie
*SP and 41 finally end their wrestling thing
*Spitfire has been awake the whole time, and is angry because her wings are broken
*After fixing the portal, Twilight decides to delegate a guard telling everyone rather than leave her brother.
*The mayor race between Filthy, Trixie and Zecora gets downright silly
*Chrysalis finally confronts 13, who insists she's loyal.
*She orders 13 to tell the others to get to fixing the walls, because they have no choice now.
*Afterwards, she leaves and finds herself in the hospital waiting room with Shining, who sees she's in a bad state, and that's before it turns out even her battered look is a disguise
*When her disguise drops, it's revealed that in addition to the bruises and such, she's also badly burned on her sides.
*Shining tries to get her to go to bed and recover, but she won't. She's too shellshocked at the choice she's made, reeling from choosing Cadence over the orb, and as a result after speaking with Shiny for a brief time she vanishes, and leaves him behind.
*She isn't seen after that.
*Sombra declares he will never again let the ones he cares about get hurt, and speeds up his making of a new body.
*This backfires, as when he creates it and tries to take it over, it summons strange things around him and goes wild before exploding.
*A still doglike screwloose finds and slobbers over 12.
*Zephyr stands up for his big sister.
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated
*Sweeite Belle may or may not have cloned herself.
*Jetset and hologram 42 have a polite discussion over tea
*Rainbow Dash finally confronts Lightning Dust, but surprisingly doesn't go into a rage. Instead, she desperately pleads to know that the only reason LD revealed what RD said about being untouchable was as a friend who knew she needed stopped, not power.
*When LD shoots back she doesn't have to asnwer to her, RD flies off in sadness.
*Two makes a giant marchmalley effigy.
*Rarity ends up drunk in depression, because her parents are dumb
*She ends up getting taken to her old boutique to sleep it off
*Some questioning from SL ends up with 12 bugtossing 56, then himself. Don't ask how.
*PJ is a cheater at cards.
*Pommel is getting more paperwork, and weeps
*Mayor Mare joins up with 32 and they both search for 29
*Arana catches 56 in a web
*Speaking of, Bulk is also in said webs
*The changelings are mad they have to fix the walls, until one of them remembers Chrysalis can kill them
*They sing while fixing it now
*The Speyedre, Lavan's enchanted eye, finds the crazy-embassy, and attacks JJ, Acty and the lings
*10 is depressed
*Sunset and Chitania come home to find themselves greeted by all the crimebosses they've controlled in the place they've repaired.
*Chitania asks if her little excursion was a success, and Sunset replies that she's going to need a little bit of time.
*They arrive at the top, where Flash and Fizzle are waiting
*With the portal mirror.
*Sunset smiles, and muses she's about to leave the world behind.
==Thread 158==
LAST THREAD RECAP, MAGIC LESSONS EDITION!
*Filthy Rich thinks there's too many unicorns
*13 insists she's still loyal
*Bulk decides to help Arana with a job with the Spa ponies. It goes badly.
*Luna and Spike spot 77 being chased by bears.
*Cheerilee accepts she fucked up
*Twinklejinx is having fun in the library
*AJ spots Luna and Spike battling the demon bears, and joins in the fray. After kicking one of them in half and narrowly catching it's still living top half from landing on a hapless pony with magic, Luna is impressed and wonders if it's time to begin magic lessons again.
*AJ is obviously against the idea, and Luna understands. Luna apologizes, stating she understands how harsh she was before, and that AJ didn't have to learn magic, but she should, because it's wonderful.
*Instead of trying to force her, she tries to convince her by saying how much fun it was with her sister, and AJ sees that she needs this to feel appreciated.
*Reluctantly, AJ agrees to magic lessons, and Luna is ecstatic.
*77 is less so, because the bears.
*After a mishap where a spell misfires and instead of making them more powerful, AJ turns Charity's bullets into seeds, the three join in the fray, laughing all the way.
*77 thinks they're crazy.
*Derpy might have solved the reason why Cloudchaser is acting crazy!
*The first magic lesson gets off to a rough start when AJ doesn't want to learn dream magic or illusions, but they come around.
*Off in the snowy depths of outer Equestria, a pony named Stonecutter reveals that he, as one of the ones freed by 10 when she saved Trenderhoof, was not released by chance. He finds 'something' in that snow, and calls his 'glorious leader'.
*Despite trying for other things, AJ mostly makes plants.
*In the wake of his body’s destruction, Sombra is having a hard time pulling himself together. The guards are worried, and that only gets worse when he starts screaming ‘they’ are everywhere.
*He tears off, being chased by the beings of light all the way that only he can see, screaming his head off when he goes through the newly fixed portal,
*Even crossing continents isn’t enough, as the strange beings that chased him across that time and space and hunt him down with restless abandon.
*He eventually breaks down in Everfree, and the light beings continue to taunt him, saying he can’t escape, while he screams how sorry he is to them, even if he doesn’t know why.
*He’s saved at the last minute by someone screaming ‘BEGONE!’ and casting them away. Shockingly, it turns out to be Twenty Nine! His interactions with the ghostkids means he’s the only one besides Sombra who can see them, and his magic works on them for some reason.
*Left with little choice, Sombra begs 29 to help him, and the changeling accepts. First stop, Ponyville and Zecora!
*Discord and Zephyr decide to hang out.
*SA and Celestia learn what happened with Chitania, but are still lost as to who Chrysalis fought
*The Speyeder has moved on to devouring changelings, kinda.
*Chitania is impressed watching Sunset work, but Flash and Fizzle are more interested in Sweet Note, which neither of them can explain.
*Chitania also learns from Sunset that after her burnout, her cells are more able to hold love energy, and if it happened again she could hold more and it would be less severe afterwards
*Screwloose finds a secret room, what it means is a mystery
*18 and Spitfire are bored, weird things happen
*Honeyheart explains to Zanta why him eating her bits was so terrible, he just laughs it off, but decides to stick with her
*SA and Twi learn about Sombra and are confused
*Celestia’s sexjoke backfires
*Dash keeps flying until she reaches a most unlikely destination, Fleetfoot
*She point blank asks if anyone was actually loyal to her, and the response isn’t good.
*OOCO AJ and Chitania do a concert. Don’t ask.
*Rarity finds out about all the magic lessons and is pissed
*When the walls are fixed, the changelings realize they don’t have anyone in command of them anymore
*Sombra learns about the mayoral race and is confused
*DT and SS discuss mayoral titles
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated
*The Sweetiebelle/Sweetie Doll thing resolves itself
*The changelings decide they need to go get ‘the idiot’
*Two is back at school and everyone is shocked
*Berry doesn’t know if Ruby is her kid either
*Sombra worries he’s not scary anymore
*Chrysalis finally arrives at her destination. The one place that can give her a chance to get her kingdom back. The Tree of Harmony
*With the power to do anything, achieve anything, make anything, she only has one question.
*”Now… how the fuck do I make this thing work?”
==Thread 159==
LAST THREAD RECAP, TREE YOU'RE DRUNK GIMME YOUR KEYS EDITION!
*Pommel delegates the CE problem to work on paperwork
*Cadence finally wakes up feeling like a princess.
*88 and Lavan reach the embassy, where the Speyeder is wreaking havoc.
*Pinkie wants to throw a 'you just woke up' party.
*Sombra isn't scary anymore, but bunnies are, and 29 uses this to scare the crowd off.
*To everyone's surprise, Cadence joins in the sex jokes. Everyone is afraid.
*AJ and the others fear the rabbits that aren't there and prepare to attack. Luna is confused.
*She's despondent that unlike the ponies, she didn't get the easy answer, and lays down to rest.
*The CE crew talk to try to put together all what happened, finally able to put the last pieces together thanks to Cadence's words. They're shocked to learn Chrysalis didn't get her wounds from Chitania, like they had assumed, and must have fought someone else in the meantime.
*Just then, Twilight bursts into the room, and declares that the Orb is gone, and Chrysalis with it, and it all becomes clear.
*A peactrotter finds a guard's stash of porno, and says the father must set an example to his dismay.
*SA is now in a panic thanks to being unable to find Chrysalis, and has to be assuaged by Twilight and Celestia as they both keep looking.
*Discord and Zephyr have fun together
*Sombra and 29 reach Zecora, and ask about Somrba's condition. He's doomed.
*Twinklejinx enda up in the self help section
*With the rabbit threat 'gone', AJ/Rara/Spike decide to shoot cans.
*Chitania accidentally gets some bad drugs, and goes on a bender.
*Flash and Fizzle are rather scared.
*This ends with Chitania drunkenly laying on top of Sunset to protect her. Sunset is irritated, for a little while.
*Pinkie realizes Twilight doesn' know she's here.
*A hitpony comes for Honeyheart, and Zanta is having none of it.
*Arana tried to make towels. She made bombs.
*JJ and Acty curse crazyhouse.
*Trixie gets into an arguing match with Filthy Rich
*Fluttershy feels left behind.
*Jetset fights fake-42, and is still hampered by his mare problem. Things get worse when Forty Two changes into a more familiar, taller changeling shape.
*Pinkie tries to cheer up a guard, it doesn't go well.
*The changelings got lost in the castle.
*MM makes 32 sad.
*Dash learns from Fleetfoot that pretty much nobody was truly loyal to her in the WB's except for Bulk.
*Despondent, she doesn't know how to make things right, so Fleetfoot suggests to do what she did, start with the first person she hurt. Spitfire.
*Cadence, still in bed realizes that Chrysalis is not in the Empire, and despite 18's and Spitfire's assurance that Shining will find her, she insists he won't no matter how hard he tries.
*To the pair's shock, Cadence gets out of bed, and insists she's going to be the one to find her.
*Though they all try to stop her, including the guard, her newfound confidence prevents them from doing so. She gives 18 and 42 a goodbye kiss, and leaves.
*She reaches the portal, having deduced that if Chrysalis waited, she wasn't going after their tail, she was heading them off, and she goes through to Canterlot.
*She takes off into the sky, and prepares to find her.
*Actor-ling returns with an update! And it turns out he's going to be making sequels!
*DT realizes her rump isn't actually smaller than SS's
*AJ tries to make a fence, and it fails
*Scootaloo makes a heck of an entrance
*Fluttershy and a guard talk
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*Chrysalis, shockingly, doesn't ask for any sort of superweapon, but instead only begs the Tree of Harmony for her orb back.
*She points out she saved Cadence, just like everyone wanted, just like everyone insisted was the right thing to do, but she feels like she has lost everything because of it, and can't handle it.
*She insists that's all she wants, to get back what she gave up to save Cadence, but it won't grant it to her.
*After crying at the base of the tree for a bit, and reflecting at how unfair it was she had to make the choice, how unfair it was she didn't get the easy answers, and what this meant for her Hive's future, the Tree of Harmony does something, and she feels something happening.
*Desperately, she opens her eyes and... She's a pony now.
*Yep. She's a pony.
*After getting over the shock she had become a pony and raging to the Tree and demanding it change her back, she finds out it actually turned her into an Alicorn.
*Being Chrysalis, she instantly begins to think about all that she could do with it, what kind of new power structure she could create, how she could make a legitimate grab for a spot of land for herself, and how easy it would be to reign over a city that would die to have a real alicorn princess ruling them.
*Then she thinks of the magic and the power and the freedom she would have, and the possibilities are endless.
*She still decides she doesn't want it, and demands the Tree change her back.
*She rages, spits and insults when it doesn't, and something very strange happens in response.
*The Tree sets on fire.
*Something comes out.
*~Chrrryyyyyysalissss.~
==Thread 160==
LAST THREAD RECAP: SHE FELL INTO A BURNING TREE OF FIRE EDITION!
*Zephyr and Discord cause chaos in Equesstria!
*DT wants to build a device and strap it to Sexy. Don't ask.
*The crazy house is messing with JJ and Acty
*Fuzzy and the Buzz get opinions from callers, and learn there is always hope
*Spike's prepared in case anything is happening. Anything explodes in Canterlot? He'll know.
*AJ likes laserbeams.
*Pm won't tell Fizzle who she is.
*Maud introduces her friends to Pinkie. Awkwardling is not so happy about that, but the Rainbolts love it.
*Speaking of, PP finds a use for the bolts.
*Blueblood and Haymaker watch Screwloose hurt herself, it's fun.
*Buffer can never take away her shame
*AJ has questions about her horn and things go weird.
*Bulk finally shows up and Soarin' is relieved, but is also ticked because the WB's didn't mobilize when the CE was attacked.
*He resolves, with Bulk, to get back in gear.
*Filthy and Trixie argue after the debate got interrupted, and Spoiled joins the argument. Then she starts talking about how good Filthy looks and asking if his podium is soundproof and Trixie decides to leave.
*Guess it doesn't matter how spoundproof it is now?
*Derpy and Cloudchaser missed some stuff apparently.
*MM and 32 missed some stuff too.
*2 spends time in class.
*Arana helsp get a frisbee down... that is all.
*Dash is taking some confusing means to keep herself safe from Spitfire's rage.
*The librarian that used to hang out with Chitania is spending time with her kid in a fast food restaurant, and the kid is sad. When she presses, he asks if the royals really were trying to kill Chitania, and if she was really a bad person.
*A long talk ensues, and by the end of it, all she has is this. That when the damage was done, and the dust settled, her library was still standing, and she knew Chitania knew she was working that day.
*They both look at his backpack, which has a very special, signed autographed comic book in it and there is always hope.
*AJ spots sombra and everyone is confused why he is here.
*Lightning Dust thinks to herself she won, but now she doesn't know what to do.
*Sombra is sad at first when Zecora says nothing can be done for him, but after 29 gives more information, there might be hope. But they're going to need a magic user.
*The GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie is on the case! Sombra is doomed.
*JJ and Acty end up outside the crazy house.
*88 and Lavan finally confront the Speyeder! And shockingly, it has words for them.
*Specifically, to Lavan 'Your magic would like a word'.
*Flutermom and Flutterdad have tea with their child, and they're quite nervous about recent developments. Specifically, if someone is going to get hurt.
*Not to worry, she insists they'll all enjoy it... when they're in her harem. Domshy is sure of it.
*Lyra is excited about Arana. Specifically, her legs.
*CC tells Derpy to get explosives from a grenade with a butterknife. It shockingly doesn't go so bad.
*Scootlaloo's plan of charging the wreckage on SB's back doesn't go so well. Thankfully, nurse Redheart is on the case! Even if she doesn't want to be.
*Twilight is trying to loosen up when someone comes at her, screaming. Shockingly, it's not the guard, but the other doctor, the pediatrician, who is helping her take care of the injured CE crew. After a bit of screaming and babbling that something is wrong with Princess Cadence, she takes the notes from him, and sends him on his way.
*She brushes off that he's probably insane at first, but then she sees the numbers.
*Oh FU-
*MM and 32 join the others
*FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*Chrysalis is terrified as the green fire keeps spreading. Changeling Horns start sprouting out of the ground and turning into trees, and when the ground opens up in four points it makes a Changeling Queen made of fire.
*The hivemind has been accessed, seemingly.
*In terror, she asks what the Queen wants, the Queen replies Chrysalis begged for them.
*More and more sprout up, the inside of the cave turning into a strange place where horn-trees summon more spirits composed entirely of fire in creative ways, until dozens arrive. Chrysalis calls them liars, that he did no such thing and she only wanted her orb, but when they point out why she wanted her orb, she a relents and accepts that one way or another, she did get to talk to the Queens of the past.
*So instead, she just asks if any of them know a way to build a kingdom.
*After the initial and expected results of them offering ways to kill everyone and take over, a regal changeling that seems more powerful than the others arises, and details exactly what she needs to do to utterly eliminate every one of the royals, without being at fault, and ruling over the land legally, and at the ponies behest.
*Annoyed, Chrysalis clarifies she wants to build-one-build-one, no killing or maiming or replacing at all. She just want ways to build castles or something.
*None of them have an answer, all of them only know how to backstab and kill.
*Chrysalis has a crisis when she realizes this, and while all of them demand she get back to killing she instead wonders if this is why the Tree changed her, if there is something inherently broken inside of her.
*She brushes it off, going back to screaming at the Tree to change her back, because whatever lesson it was trying to teach her is useless.
*Proudly, she points out that she doesn't need to learn that she's got good inside, because the only reasons she's in this situation at all is because she chose Cadence over the orb!
*The response of "Well duh" from one of the Queens is not what she expected.
*When she doesn't understand, they start laughing at her, hard, and it enrages her. They just laugh harder.
*Finally, they answer that she doesn't know the truth.
*"It was never your choice."
*Once the others finally stop laughing at her, the Queens reveal a terrible secret.
*Changeling Queens make sure their legacy, and what they wanted their heirs to act like, is ensured. They do this by putting mind control into their hearts.
*When consumed, the heir no longer makes choices of her own, only what the Heart would allow.
*they mock Chrysalis, pointing out of course she went after Cadence. If she killed Cadence and took her over, she would get all kingdoms, not just the one pitiful one the Orb could possibly give. Instead of building brick by brick, they would have everything all at once, the faster and easier option, and the Heart demanded it.
*Chrysalis is blown, no longer sure if any choice she ever made was her own. Everything from being unsure about using the orb to make more Queens, which could one day challenge her, to spending time and being nice with Shining, to get in good with the royals, is now in question.
*At her weakest, and her lowest, the regal Queen asks her what, exactly, shes' going to do now, for the Hive, and herself?
*After much debate, Chrysalis tells her, she's going to go to the river, and stick her head in.
*Then she's going to drink up, get full, and come back and put out every one of them.
*They don't take too kindly to this.
*She however, can't stop smiling.
*Even when they start to close in.
==Thread 161==
LAST THREAD RECAP, DOOMED US ALL EDITION!
*Twinklejinx finds out a spell that lets him take over a pony. Or, rather, an owl.
*Owlowicious should probably run
*The ghostbusters abandon the debate that is no longer happening to go help Sombra, who along with 32 is really offput by how nonchalant they are about lightghosts that want to kill him.
*AJ and the others stop approaching them, because now they're all together, and annoying.
*Luna tries to point out their good parts. She tries.
*Derpy actually got the stuff from a grenade.
*Cloudchaser divebombs the debate.
*Dash gets surprising backing from Fleetfoot when she gets ready to go see Spitire, only to be interrupted when she notices the guard panicking.
*Twilight finally stops screaming, and after checking a million times, she did read what she thought she read of the paper in front of her.
*So, coincidentally, did Pinkie, over her shoulder.
*It turns out the Speyeder is Lavans' magic made physical, and it wants to absorb the rest of Lavan and go back to the way things were, destroying all things. To prevent Lavan from destroying it, it constantly shifts the changelings in the way, and challenges Lavan, who can't fight it.
*But the Canterlot Defense League can! Which is just Upper Crust... that's it
*She gets absorbed shortly after, and 88 runs off with a plan.
*Discord and Zephyr continue to have fun.
*An electric harp is not the same as an electric guitar, as Arana finds out
*After the explosion, AJ confronts CC and Derpy, only to learn she's running too, and is lost at how crazy she's acting. With the debate over, and noticing Sombra has gone off AJ and the others leave
*CC counts that as a victory before Flitter attacks her
*Fuzzy and the Buzz get opinions
*Applejack and co try to get a hotel room, and get way overcharged thanks to the previous princess visit.
*In the wreckage of the explosion, Berry Punch provides a distraction for Filthy Rich and Spoiled to sneak off before anyone notices what she was doing under his podium.
*The ghostbusters with Sombra and 32 make it to Zecora's hut, and it turns out Tyrannical despots are 32's one turn off.
*Nurse redheart breaks the changeling that came with Scootaloo to get him out of the wreckage, then puts him back together
*In a very corrupting way
*Two's PE teacher is a jerk
*Sweet Note is stronger than Fizzle expected and doesn't know prostitute slang
*AJ and Rarity and Spike notice something is amiss with Ponyville, now that things are calmed down enough they can look at it.
*Things, much to their utter amazement, are, well, better.
*Everything is better, and they're shocked
*Luna is confused
*Arana becoming DJ Spyder hits a snag
*Chrysalis laughs at the Queens when they imply they could control her, and wonders if the Tree changed her to save her, and feels new confidence in her new form.
*When the Queens threaten her, Chrysalis decides to see just how powerful she really is.
*The answer is apparently not, because she can't cast any magic. At all.
*Or fly for that matter.
*She's an alicorn with nothing.
*USELESS ASS TREE!
*Following this, the Queens play cat and mouse, opening a labyrinth to chase her around and play with her. During the chase, she wonders if this wasn't a test, but an execution, or something else.
*She decides to get back into action, and puts her new body to the test where she can, by running fast and breaking everything they put in her way. Shockingly, it works!
*She manages to knock over one of the Horn Trees, and uses it to stay safe above as a sea of fire rolls in. For a little while, at least.
*She banters with the regal one on her new log when the other Queen uses the others as a stepping stool, where Chrysalis taunts them for thinking her their puppet. They clarify she's not a puppet, but a vessel for ideals and it only takes one idiot steering wildly to make the whole thing go wrong.
*After much talking, they decide not to let that happen again.
*They're going to take her over.
*Chrysalis screams and tries to fight back, but it's all useless and soon she's consumed.
*But nothing happens, the fire just rolls right off her, and she's fine.
*She laughs, and taunts, but the only thing they say is 'what have you done'?
*She continues to try to make fun of them, but none bite, all act sad and morose.
*When she's had enough, she demands to know why they won't speak to her, and they deliver this haunting message.
*"You've doomed us all."
==Thread 162==
LAST THREAD RECAP, GOING HOME EDITION
*DT creates a dodgeball mechanism, but Filthy and Spoiled are too preoccupied rushing off for 'things' to look, which leaves her sad until she realizes what they were doing
*It's taking some time for Zecora to brew potions, leading to many a discussion on a wide range of topics
*The battle inside of the Speyeder and Lavan running intensifies! And Upper Crust and the changelins are not getting along
*Vekir, Siegfried and Watchdog make it to the Empire
*AJ, Spike and Rarity feel left out because everything in PV is better, and Luna is confused
*Arana gets caught up in Vinyls wub fight
*JJ and Actarius stay put, despite how little they want to
*The guards aren't stopping no spider.
*Zephyr and Discord are EVIL
*The ponyville 4 feel like they're missing something.
*And also realize they haven't been doing anything
*Maud helps Awkardling escape
*Applejack, while the others are enjoying milkshakes, reflects on her feelings on Ponyville's changes. She realizes she's not jealous, or mad, but there is a sense of something in there.
*Something like, responsibility?
*She loses herself deeper, and starts to wonder what they did different.
*And did she do anything at all?
*While Spike collapses from brain freeze and AJ gets lost in thought, Luna and Rarity chat
*Fuzzy and the Buzz get opinions.
*Twilight makes sure Pinkie won't tell anyone what she read
*Harry stops a pedophile bear... we think
*Shining Armor learns of where Cadence went and is... not happy. Celestia is going to try her best to hold him back
*Everyone in the Empire heard it, and is terrified
*Scootaloo and the new changeling friend have some odd opinions about where things went wrong.
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*Chrysalis watches as all of the Queens react with devastation to her words, confused.
*They reveal she wasn't just changed in body, her new form completely cut her off from the Hivemind and she's completely become a pony.
*She realizes she's completely free, and the Queens think she chose this.
*One of them declares 'good!' and she is joined in by a number who think it's better she turned into a pony
*This doesn't go over well with some of the others, who attack the ones for her change, and a giant civil war ensues.
*Chrysalis mostly focuses on her change, and the new freedom she has. She can go anywhere, do anything, and she's finally completely free, and al the benefits ponies get are now hers.
*"Leave" one declares, and the war stopped.
*Reluctantly, she starts to do just that.
*She almost makes it out, but just as she reaches the edge of the cave, she stops, and concentrates on something.
*Looking deep into her heart, she realizes 'it's the same.'
*How she felt about the others didn't change.
*Which means everything she felt as a changeling was real.
*She turns around, and goes back to the Queens, who instantly try to take her over.
*She laughs as they burn her skin away, revealing her true Changeling form underneath, and she uses her newfound power to hold them back.
*They continually try to attack her, only to be rebuked by her power, and cast aside. She declares there's nothing wrong with them, they're not monsters. They have flaws, things that need fixed, but they can improve, they can get better, and most importantly, they can feel love.
*She is QUEEN Chrysalis of the New Hive, and she'll decide what that means.
*When she reduces the wave of fire to embers, she orders them to give her answers but they refuse.
*Instead, they declare that if she wants this, she will have to prove it, and see them again. She accepts this challenge.
*Just before it goes out, a blurry figure appears, and Chrysalis asks her why she didn't show up sooner.
*The figure says she trusted her, whatever her choice was, and leaves.
*Chrysalis watches her go, and answers back "...love you too."
*Finally understanding why the Tree changed her, opened up the gate to the Hivemind, and what she really needed to know, she wryly comments to the Tree before collapsing in exhaustion, and needing a nap.
*~Chryrrrysalis~
*She is not amused.
*But cut away to Cadence, who is currently flying over Canterlot
*She declares she will find Chrysalis, and she knows just the way
*She has a spell she developed but was always too afraid to use, one that lets her see the love in others heart, really see it.
*It feels like an insult to peer into ones heart like this, she feels, but she uses it anyway, and spots the love she would recognize anywhere, Shining's.
*She flies over, and sure enough, it's Chrysalis, who's still half burned despite what she saw before and who's asleep at the base of the tree.
*She gently wakes the Queen up by whispering ~Chryrrrysalis~, and after the changeling is standing,s he smacks the hell out of her.
*Then she keeps smacking her harder and harder, until she's knocked over.
*She chew her out for what she's done, and really lays into her for all her failures.
*Then Chrysalis gives a 'witty' comment, and she deflates a bit.
*The two share a long talk about things, including Chrysalis revealing she wants to build a kingdom. Cadence, strangely, is hurt at the idea Chrysalis will leave, but calms down when she reveals she was trying to do it out in the snow, and her power wasn't enough.
*Though Chrysalis says she wants to do it on her own, and Cadence understands, she still gives her support if it's needed.
*Finally, the two can relax.
*For a minute, at least until they realize they have to get home, and Cadence it too weak to fly, so is Chrysalis.
*Which means they're going to have to walk.
*Through EVERFREE
*"Snickerdoodles."
*Back in Ponyville, Applejack has wandered off from the others in thought. She keeps noticing improvements, and other things in Ponyville that are just plain better, and starts to question just how much she missed.
*Not just here, but in the whole world.
*What didn't she see? What else is changeling without her knowing it?
*She realized her time in the office had been with her planting seeds, but she had never come down to see those trees bear fruit.
*She had never really made sure anything was working.
*She trots up to the train station, and wonders if it's more than just Ponyville. What if it's like this the whole world over, she wonders?
*What if she missed it all?"
*"Hey, Applejack."
*After screaming her head off, she notices a very... peculiar pair at the train station.
*Naturally, she has some questions as to what happened to Chrysalis and Cadence.
*Her response?
*"Magic Trees are bullshit."
==Thread 163==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SUPER SHORT EDITION
*The Speyeder keeps attacking
*AJ helps Chrysalis and Cadence onto the train and heads to the Empire
*Has a nice chat with Chrysalis after Cadence falls asleep
*When they make it to the Empire something explodes
*It's a mad Shiny
==Thread 164==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SHINY RAGE EDITION!
*Sombra gets angry that it's taking so long to get his potion, but after venting his frustrations the Ghostbusters and 32 understand. Since the next one will take a long time to brew, they decide to play cards.
*Rarity reads AJ's note to Luna, who is thankful AJ did not abandon her. They then discover that Spike is gone.
*Spike, on the lookout for AJ. Also, he randomly decides to make a stock barrel for his gun.
*Discord and Zephyr continue to have fun at the expense of others.
*The explosion worries Spitfire and 18
*Two's teacher isn't letting her leave.
*Sunset finally wakes up, and Chitania fills her in on how long she's been out, while Sunset fills Chitania in on what happened.
*After Sunset admits it was comfortable under her, she waits for something, and seems irritated when she doesn't get it. Seeing another disgruntled figure walking away from her, it strikes a chord in Chitania, and she tells Sunset she appreciates her. This brightens up the pony.
*Then she decides to get back into the groove by training with Flash and Fizzle.
*Good training, Flash notes though Fizzle's beating would make him think otherwise.
*JJ and Acty are waiting for the Speyeder to be dead.
*We see over in the Dragon realm, where Torch is unnerved due to the frequent attacks against the dragons, and despite Ember's insistence he will not call for the Dragon Gauntlet.
*Lightning Dust is losing her mind.
*Twilight freaks at the explosion but Pinkie knows, somehow, that it's just Shiny. She's not worried, until Twilight points out he's probably going to hug Cadence really hard. It takes a bit for that to sink in.
*Sombra, the GB's and 32 all have fun with cards and begin to bond.
*Spike is suddenly abducted, net wise, by DT. 77 is annoyed she didn't hit him with a dodgeball like she did him, so she fixes that by knocking him out.
*Lavan gets an idea of how to deal with the Speyeder after a changeling annoys it so hard it shoots him out
*Shining is... upset.
*We're talking warping reality upset.
*Celestis tries to stop him, oh how she tries, but nothing is stopping him. Not physical matter, not reality, not nothing. He literally tears through the Empire to the train station and makes things there that are not there.
*Long story short, he ends up at the station, and Cadence and Chrysalis have to explain themselves, and though he's mad at them and calls them dumb and bops them instead of hitting them, he's just happy they're both alive, and hugs them.
*All is well.
*Which Twilight confirms when she 'checks for internal injuries', and finds everything is alright. But before she can say that, someone has a question.
*"IS THE BABY OKAY!?"
*Pinkie has made a terrible mistake.
*A lot of crying blood, some intense emotions, and one more reality distortion, and suddenly everyone, including Applejack, is now in the Empire's infirmary. Everyone.
*"BED!" he declares, and everyone is now in bed and not coming out. Nobody is, if all the shields he throws up is any indication
*Including Celestia, who held on through all that, and is not in the best of shape.
*At last, everyone is home, and it's over.
*Everyone is shocked about the baby thing, and most of the discussion goes around that.
*Two gets abducted from school and joins in the fun.
*Cadence is less than thrilled, as her strangling Shiny and declaring he should have just gotten a condom points out.
*Lavan enlists the changelings and Upper Crust to make the Speyeder mad.
*DT has trouble finding a card, she settles on a fruit basket.
*The Crystal Guard deal with the fallout from the event.
*Rarity and Luna learn of where Spike went because of the jelly pony
*Spitfire and Applejack are tense.
*DT and the Gunclub argue over train tickets
*Screwloose proudly shows her Best Hooves trophy. Blueblood is impressed.
*AJ is looking at the group gathered together, and during some internal thoughts realizes something is missing in her life.
*DT is assaulted when Luna comes to save Spike.
*He tries to explain her actions, but there's no explaining that.
*Lavan, through encouraging the others to insult it so it will through it's captives, manages to free all the lings trapped in the Speyeder.
*With nothing standing between them, he attacks. And promptly gets his arm bitten off.
*He keeps feeding the Speyeder more of himself, over and over, while telling him why he chooses not to raze havoc like the Speyeder wants. The truth is, he just sees that his kind never really wins, not for long, and he's learned enough that he doesn't want to get locked up again.
*The Speyeder dismisses him and rants harder, only to be blindsided by 88 with the wrecking ball that teleports stuff, and with one swipe he's sent off and defeated! The day is saved, sans a bit of the embassy of course.
*Lavan rejoices for a bit before falling down in exhaustion, and 88 is worried.
*But Q and Reggie are okay.
*Twilight's attempts to explain basic pregnancies stuff fails.
*Soarin and Bulk are surprised
*AJ's internal thoughts take a hard turn and force her to start examining her life and what she's feeling right now. She goes through a gauntlet of questions as to why she feels this way, feeling really bad about looking at Cadence be so happy, and she eventually lands on that it's the fact she's looking at love.
*She examines her own love, and realizes something is missing in her life. Something is different.
*Pommel is finally caught up! And Brass Pommel finally wakes up. When his uncles suggests an expedition, Pommel NOPES and drops him out the front door.
*Fluttershy rants at a doormat.
*Sombra does not believe 29 actually fought the Nightguard, but he did.
*AJ's whole world starts to get shaken up when she re-evaluates her relationship with Spike, how lacking and stagnant it is, and how she had preferred it that way despite how empty it made it feel.
*Her ponderings eventually lead her to wonder if he'd stick around if she changed like she did when she got the Apple, all the dark things that came with it and everything.
*She wants to say he would stick around, stay by her, and never leave her, but she can't.
*Because she realizes, much to her horror, he might actually leave if she changed from how he thinks of her, and would give up rather than try to bring her back to how she used to be.
*After all, it wouldn't be the first time.
==Thread 165==
LAST THREAD RECAP OH SHIT I'M SO LATE EDITION
*Applejack internally debates her relationship with Spike and finds it's lacking, that she never feels safe that he won't leave
*She eventually comes to the conclusion that she herself has failed and that there isn't a lot of fire in their relationship
*Eventually, she decides to talk to Spike, and walks off, breaking Shining's shield in the process.
*Chitania and Sunset discuss matters and brush each other's hair
*Flash and Fizzle fight with Sweet Note
*The CE crew make baby jokes
*Fluttershy finds out what Zephry and Discord are doing, gets pissed, flies off and slaps Discord hard while ordering him to "TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS!
*the Ghostbusters and Sombra bond
*Lots of little actions in Ponyville, Canterlot and the CE
*Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich find out that DT is gone
*Finally, even while debating herself, AJ resolves to find Spike, and one way or another she was going to talk to him.
*Until she hears him coming down the hall, and panicks. This is going to be hard.
==Thread 166==
LAST THREAD RECAP, LOVE IS NOT IN THE AIR EDITION!
*Two is not getting off school, no matter how much she wants it.
*Fluttershy, after smacking Discord hard across the face, has a moment of realization of what she did, but accepts that she did it.
*Zephyr, rightly terrified, tried to apologize, only to have FS lay into him for his irresponsible actions.
*When he admits he really is sorry he hurt her, she accepts that he does care, and softens up on him, realizing it was just as much Discord pointing him as his own actions.
*But Zephyr instead insists it was his idea, and that he honestly had fun with it. He realized he was wrong, but more importantly he hurt her, and that wasn’t acceptable.
*He wants to be better, and FS believes in him.
*Then a certain someone who had been punched into a crater wonders, “What about Discord?”
*Filthy Rich realizes half his political opponents are just gone.
*10 caught Shining’s run on camera, and with that out of the way, next stop EVO corp! This will end well!
*Dash looks for Fluttershy. In bars… lots of bars.
*The Ghostbusters, Sombra and 32 are having a good time talking, when Sombra accidentally asks why anyone would even hang around with 29, since he only remembered their past history.
*One by one, Zecora, MM, Trixie and 32 all admit why, and point out they all are much happier now that they’ve been accepted as well, and accept Sombra in.
*Finally feeling part of a group, Sombra feels welcomed, and they have a toast.
*Afterwards, he laments they should hang out more, if only he could not be killed by giant glowing specters.
*Considering what 32, yes, 32, just saw in the window, that might be a problem.
*No time to think about that revelation, the specters break in, and the battle is on!
*Spike is unsure about a lot of things.
*JJ and Acty wonder what’s next.
*Aloe and Lotus advertised something they shouldn’t have with Arana.
*Celestia reminisces about when SA and Caddy were more ‘active.’ Chrysalis I not for this.
*Filthy Rich is sleeping on the couch tonight.
*Twilight, though flattered, has to turn them down when the pair of parents-to-be want Twilight to look after her during pregnancy. Instead, she says they should, you know, get a doctor.
*Shining questions how his child will be a princess if it’s a girl. The fool.
*Spike feel odd, and he doesn’t know why.
*His internal thoughts about recent events and his jealousy and regret at his lack of actions is interrupted by AJ.
*She wants to talk.
*About them.
*Fluttershy is upset, and she’s angry, but she’s done running away from her problems, this includes a very angry Discord.
*She rises to meet him when he advances on her, but her brother tries to get between them and talk them both down
*This doesn’t go so well when Discord sends him into another dimension.
*This makes the Fluttershy RAGGGEEE.
*She charges Discord, who warps his features as he becomes more unhinged, talking in loud and distorted ways.
*He proclaims he was the one who gave her the power she tires to use against him, and he can take it away too.
*She says she’d be fine with that if that was all he wanted.
*But he will not make her tame again.
*She charges, and they clash.
*Their battle unleashes chaos in the world, leading to multiple instances of Equestria random craziness!
*Among them, Twilight and her mother, Twilight Velvet, switch places!
*And Nightlight, unaware, promptly kisses her, and she passes out in utter disgust and horror.
*There’s gonna be some therapy in this future.
*Also, Pommel and Daw get trapped on an endless staircase.
*And kinda ruins 88’s attemtps to drag Lavan home.
*And there’s a ton of others.
*In response, Lightning Dust mobilize the Wonderbolts, everywhere! This isn’t going to end well
*Chitania is rocking a new hairdo! Smooth! And she hates it.
*She likes Sweet Note’s Cinnamon buns, though.
*She and Sunset discuss matters while messing with Flash and Fizzle and eating breakfast.
*When one of their mindcontrolled subjects warns that chaos is afoot, Chitania is first keen to rise and fight it, but as Sunset points out, they have help now.
*Applejack and Spike finally have their big talk!
*Applejack goes over her discoveries of their relationship, and comes to the simple conclusion it isn’t much of one.
*Spike is of course blindsided and doesn’t know how to react, leading to some back and forth babbling, but eventually Aj cuts in and tells him of all the things she realized. Their lack of connections, lack of interactions, and most importantly lack of being there when things got bad and their own stagnation that not only do they know about, but might encourage.
*Spike wonders if he should have tried more, because he did, and he says he wants to make it up to her.
*AJ stops that by asking him why he never wondered why she never ran up to him and asked for the same, sporadic fun, random dates, whatever.
*He’s blindsided, and can’t come up with a good answer, but she has one, it’s what Rarity would expect.
*Though they both admit that they wanted this, AJ realizes she wanted so much more after what she saw today.
*Finally, when Spike tries to plead once more, AJ asks the big question.
*After what happened with Rarity, how can she know he won’t do the same to her if she changes?
*His answer?
*”Because it’s different”
*Wrong answer.
*But for the big show!
*The battle between Discord and Fluttershy Rages!
*Chaos against chaos, battles tearing the landscape apart, sending ripples out everywhere and warping the place beyond recognition!
*All the while, Fluttershy is tearing into him in another way, pointing out his ways only hurt, and only make him happy, nobody else.
*She’s furious that he pushed her to this, and demands answers to why
*His response shocks her. He claims that all of this was the end result of a massive stroke of chaos orchestrated by him. All of this, starting with a single fruit.
*An apple
*He points out how unlikely it was she ascended, how much came from a random thought, given to Celestia when she was at her most susceptible.
*Fluttershy instantly denies his implications, but when he points out how much it changed, she starts to slip.
*He kept going, on and on. Pointing out that a mistake from Twilight unleashed Chitania while she was chasing an old fairytale, quite unlike her! And the result was a host of chaos from her fallout!
*How Blueblood suddenly got it in him to try to assassinate Applejack for the throne, which was already his for the taking!
*Partyland, Cordyceps, all of it he claims credit for, and Fluttershy falls into despair.
*She hits her worst when he claims his greatest achievement.
*The murder of Sunset Shimmer.
*He says even he marvels how much that did.
*He claims to hold all the strings, all the power, he can do anything he wants, and Fluttershy is ready to collapse.
*Finally, feeling defeated, unwilling to fight anymore, she doesn’t do anything when he grabs hold of her horn, and prepares to tug.
*But just as all seems lost, she hears someone call out her name.
*”Rainbow Dash?”
*She feels a yanks on her horn, and a sharp crack
*It didn’t hurt anymore.
==Thread 167==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ROMANCE AND CHAOS EDITION!
*Multiple chaos stories are going off.
*Twinklejinx sees the chaos going on outside and is afraid. He’s more afraid when he is turned back into a whole pony, with a jester hat just like he used to be.
*Time Turner asks pokey, Blues and Roseluck if the princesses are fixing it, and gets an unsatisfactory answer regarding musical taste.
*That would be the end of it, but strangely, that same scenario seems to be repeating…
*Shining has impeccable bubble related logic.
*Guards VS living paperwork does not go well.
*A Taltzworm can talk, which is cool.
*Spitfire tries to get Pinkie to talk again, with mixed results.
*AJ, stll reeling from Spike’s last words, openly challenges him on it. He gives some standard answers about how great she is, but it’s not enough, and when she can’t take anymore she tells him all about what she did during the Apple-Arc.
*He’s shocked, but of course tries to say he would still thinks the same about her, but she cuts him off.
*She outright says that after Rarity, she believes he thinks he’d never doubt her, but she no longer is sure if that’s the truth, or just what he thinks of himself. Finally, she asks him why ne never wanted anything more from their relationship.
*He can’t find the answer, and when she points out that they weren’t there during the good times and the bad, only when things were alright, and they only found each other again when the chaos died down.
*She says she knows why she needed this, it made her happy to know someone believed in her when the world was against her, but she doesn’t know what he needed.
*He says he needed something to stay the same. With the world changing, and him not sure of who he was or his place in the world, he needed something to stay the same and be consistent, and she was.
*They both admit they made mistakes, they both needed each other to be something, rather than a real relationship.
*When she asks him one more time if he’s sure he’d stick with her if she changed, he admits he doesn’t know.
*When they both admit they don’t know if they could love each other if they weren’t that, they have their answer.
*It’s a hard choice, but eventually, they go their separate ways, and at last, Spike and AJ are broken up.
*Back with the rest of the world, Vekir, Watchdog and Seigfried get affected by the chaos.
*Two has many questions about the new baby.
*With 29 and co, the light things start attacking, and they fight to fend them off. The Ghostbusters can hit them, but Sombra and 32 find their attacks don’t work.
*Just when it seems they’ve foght them back, they realize they’re surrounded.
*Spitfire asks 18 to help her with Pinkie, and things get silly.
*JJ and Acty can’t find 88
*DT doesn’t know what some things are.
*Spike, still broken up, soldiers on to go see 42.
*Couldchaser is normal again.
*The CE crew are not worried about Two getting jealous
*Luna finds there is a shield blocking her. Challenge accepted
*Saddles Arabians are impressed with their peacock
*Spike wants to be let in to 42 past the shield. DT wants to nuke it, but Spike has a better idea, knocking. His thing works way better.
*WITH THE MAIN EVENT
*Discord’s grip lets go o Fluttershy’s horn. Why?
*Because Dash just punched the everloving chaos right out of him. She did this while slightly drunk too.
*This act shakes him up so hard, Zephyr is brought back!
*Rather than be shaken up by his out of nowhere assault, Discord seems enthralled, and laughs it off. But to their surprise, afterwards, his laughter stops, and he seems confused.
*He confusedly asks where the others are.
*Finally, with a moment to think to herself and take in the situation, Fluttershy notices the chaos storm and wonders how he even managed to do that.
*She realizes she should have been able to stop it, and with it comes another realization
*She snaps, not into anger but perfect calm, and tells him to make it stop.
*He tries to deny her and fight her for a bit, but eventually he relents, and snaps his fingers.
*Finally, everything goes back to normal, and she asks him how long he’s been holding it in.
*His answer? “Too long.”
*Thoroughly confuses, Zephyr would very much want to know what’s going on right now.
*She tells them to go down to a quiet place, and she’ll reveal it all.
*All around the world, they notice the chaos stopping, from short stories to LD realizing she did good and not knowing how to deal with that.
*After she gets them down there, Fluttershy begins to explain what went wrong. She goes over how she became an alicorn, and how she had to start dealing with the chaotic nature of it.
*Discord admits he partially changed her because of how little he wanted to outlive her.
*She continues, pointing out how much problems the chaos caused because it was unpredictable. Dash insinuates she could have just bottled it up, but she say that’s the problem, it can’t be. When she tried to keep it inside, Partyland happened.
*Finally, she corrects Discord on his earlier statement. It wasn’t his doing, it was all her.
*She then reveals that Discord going off with Zephyr was another way for him to blow off steam, because he couldn’t bottle it up either.
*When she brings up the events he claims to have orchestrated, Dash denies it, and Fluttershy agrees, that there was no way he would follow through on something that intricate, and not make a show of it.
*Fluttershy realized that her powers should have nullified his, but his words and actions had caused her own chaos to be let out and clash with his, rather than the zero sum game it should have been.
*Zephyr apologizes again for his hoof in that, and Dash agrees.
*Fluttershy goes on to say another reason she was so affected was that she was worried they left her behind, and she couldn’t handle the thought.
*Zephry reassures her, and promises to try to be better, and she still believes in him.
*At long, loooong last, Discord admits everything that happened with Sunset Shimmer, and the accident that caused where she is now.
*He even muses that his chaos infusion might be what caused her current state of mind, though he has no way of knowing that.
*When he admits it was his chaos that made the rock strike her, Dash loses her shit.
*She would lay into him if FS didn’t hold her back, but that doesn’t stop the screams and threats and hate.
*Even when Zephyr points out she’s a terrorist, Dash has none of that, and lays into him just as hard, calling Discord out again for murdering her and ruining her life.
*Discord insists it’s an accident, but it’s not enough, and one slipup means Dash’s punch goes through.
*And hits Fluttershy, much to Dash’s horror.
*When FS points out how easy it was hurt a friend even when you didn’t mean to, she backs off.
*When Dash threatens him again after he admits he fled when Sunset ‘died’, Discord thinks that his chaos might be causing it’s own buildup in her, and it’s only going to get worse. Everyone touched by chaos has different effects, and none of them good.
*With it all out on the table, FS says that he has to go tell Sunset. Not go beat her, capture her, or bring her to Applejack, but speak to her, and he has to help her.
*Discord agrees to try.
*When Dash feels pain, she suddenly notices that she knocked a scale out of Discord, and he says she can keep it.
*With that, he’s gone.
*Afterwards, Zephyr thanks his sister for the wakeup call, and gives her his Bodkin, the thing that keeps up his hair, in thanks. There seems to be a strange power about it…
*He says he’s going to see his parents, and she affirms she believes in him when he leaves.
*Dash prepares to leave as well, but FS stops her.
*She thanks Dash for always being there when she needed her, for giving her hope and never abandoning, and she means so much to her that if she can do anything to help, she needs to.
*Faced with this and all the weight of recent betrayals and reveals, Dash breaks down and cries, begging Fluttershy to help her.
*She does this so long she falls asleep, waking up to FS holding her, and feeling better.
*Both of them are going to face the future, and they’re not going to do it alone.
==Thread 168==
Missed
==Thread 169==
LAST THREAD RECAP, OH MYYYY~ EDITION!
*18, Pinkie and Spitfire are not being noticed
*Big Mac wakes up and realizes he broke into Caramels home and forced him into a tea party to discuss politics. The discussion does not end. Nor does Mac end wearing the dress.
*AJ, frustrated, tries to get the changelings to go back to their home, but has to stop when she learns from one of them that they’ve been having classes with ‘the idiot’
*Nightlight, freaked out by “Twilight’” behavior, calls a priest. It does not go well.
*Rarity and Cadence makeup for that altercation a looong time ago… maybe.
*Time Turner and crew get caught up in wubs, Then they’re gone.
*Lyra is sad she missed the chaos.
*Filthy Rich comes homes to find bats. Or rather, batponies. Oh no.
*They’re not naming the baby after Luna
*Rarity just noticed Pinkie.
*Canites try to make a sign to apologize. It does not work.
*After the explosion of the portal, Sunset thinks she’s dead, and is resolved that her end has finally come. Turns out she isn’t.
*How did she survive a point blank chaos portal splosion? Chitania covered her at the last second. Her, and Flash, Fizzle and Sweet Note as well. The three show concern for her, but aside from a single puncture wound, she’s completely okay.
*Not so much Chitania, who now has a giant piece of shrapnel going right through her hoof. It hurts. Ow.
*Fizzle tries to thank Chitty for saving them, but she reacts violently, thinking they caused the boom. Only when she learns they didn’t does she calm down, and Flash slyly points out if that was all she wanted, she didn’t have to save them both.
*Chitania doesn't deny this.
*Sunset is stunned for a moment, looking at the thing that almost killed her in the changelings hoof, and everyone worries, but a quick insistence by Chiatnia puts them, and Sunset, at ease, and she goes back into commanding everyone. The trio clean up, while Sunset and Chitania take the still intact portal and the Orb with them as they leave to treat her, Sunset clinging to her all the way.
*Chitania says Sunset was lucky she was there.
*And Sunset agrees, she’s alive… because she was there.
*Raven finds Jetset unconscious and injured, and chides him, before lightning up when Jetset actually jokes with her, before falling asleep.
*Blueblood continues talking to Screwloose, and finds some odd connections with her.
*She’s also trying to suffocate Hayamaker by sitting on him.
*PJ annoys the crystal guard by flying around with her thingy.
*Everyone has a special power, Shining Armor’s is hugs.
*AJ is reeling from the reveal that several changelings have been learning to read under ‘the idiot’ and for so long. She’s furious, demanding to know what he did that she, who tried so hard, didn’t.
*Turns out, he just asked a bunch of times, that’s it.
*AJ’s response? Pull something alchoholic out o her hat and start drinking!
*Fleetfoot worries Dash isn’t coming back.
*When Celestia does not help Luna, the pillow battle begins!
*Pinkie is alright, totally. She just needs the power of love for everything.
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated
*AJ drinks until she’s unable to stand, then she says she’s had enough, then she says she’s going to do something, then she collpases.
*But before someone can point out they called it, she runs off, her face still on the ground, towards something
*DT and Silver Spoon are lost
*Cloudchaser has an odd way to deal with being arrested.
*Zephyr comes home to find a surprise.
*The pillow battle comes to an abrupt end when, with one swing, Celestia vanishes! Luna instantly accuses the pillow
*But it’s in vain, because in reality, she’s been pulled to the chaos world! Who did it? Who do you think?
*After stalling, Discord finally admits what he did to Sunset Shimmer.
*Celestia’s response is… not nice.
*She is so furious that, even though she cannot strike him as he far outclasses her, she brings a lightshow and declares this is the worst thing he’s ever done, and she will never forgive him until the one he has hurt does as well.
*When she is finally sent back, she has some terrible news to deliver to everyone.
*88 gets Lavan to Twilight’s lab
*The CMC drop in the middle of a sheep pen… Applebloom‘s sheep pen. She is in so much trouble.
*Lightning Dust is bored.
*Cup cakea and Carrot roll the dice.
*Spike is ready to finally start unlocking himself. “Spike want change.”
*77 lands at the crime scene, Zecora’s hut, and witnesses the devastation.
*After being briefed on everything they know and going over suspects, he’s forced to talk to 56.
*Despite trying, he can’t find a way to prove 29 will be okay, and he can only resolve to try to bring the all back, in whatever state. 56 does the same.
*77 sighs when he realizes he has to call the Queen, this changes things.
*HoneyHeart treats Zanta for his wounds, but depite protecting her he is still labeled a ‘nasty’
*AJ figured out what was missing, and wants a change.
==Thread 170==
LAST THREAD RECAP, IT ALL FALLS APART EDITION!
*Nightlight, after many failures, figures out how to fix his 'wife'. The kiss of love!
*Twilight is not appreciative.
*So not appreciative she actually nopes back into her own body. Success! Then she walks off, needing to be alone a bit. Everyone thinks it's about Sunset.
*10 interviews a worker about Evo-Corp, and finds some interesting things. But, more importantly, some warning signs are making themselves apparent.
*JJ and Actarius are confronted by the Nightguard.
*Two sets up traps in case evil shows up. Her bait? Dark chocolate, because dark things are evil. Shiny is worried.
*Potsticker meets 77 and 56, being normal for once, and they both share what they know about the incident.
*They go through possible suspects, but the one that sticks out most to 77 is that a whole lot of coincidences happened after Sombra was sealed up by Sunset, and it's pointing a lot of things towards her being responsible.
*All three resolve that regardless, whoever is responsible, they will make them pay.
*Off in the Empire, 13 suddenly gets an odd call from an unexpected source, Sunset.
*What does she want? Just to talk.
*Sunset is beginning to strain beneath the multitude of spells she has to keep going.
*Chitania's training is violent.
*After dropping the bomb of what happened to Sunset, debate erupts by the royals and the others in the hospital about how they should react to this and what it means, with some surprising individuals taking surprising sides.
*Just when it seems like Chrysalis can't take anymore, 77 enters the room.
*They have to restrain her so she doesn't jump out the window.
*Batmom grabs Dadling and peaces out.
*Actarius is nearly dragged away, but some intervention from his parents forces the Nightguard to explain what this is all about.
*After getting the explanation, the guard try to take him away again, which goes over badly with the Changelings who just arrived.
*Chrysalis, after learning what happened to 29, The GBs, and 32, does what she always does in situations like this, and tries to order back all changelings, ALL changelings, to the Hive, whether they like it or not. Obviously, some try to object, but she's having none of it.
*She nearly gives the command too, until a certain pony straight up rams into her.
*That pony is Applejack, who finally arrived.
*She says she has an objection, but sadly Chrysalis can't hear her, what with having been blown through the wall.
*She tells her to reel bugbutt back up, she's not doing this twice.
*Honeyheart, desperate for food, reluctantly has to try some of the meat Zanta offers her.
*She's getting a surprise later.
*Dash and FS arrive in Ponyville to find it swarming with NG.
*Flim and Flam learn of Fuzzy and the Buzz, and wish a challenge.
*Filthy Rich does not like the Nightguard treatement
*Cloudchaser is fine.
*Applebloom is on the run from Granny Smith, while being left behind by two TRAITORS
*AJ learns of everything that happened up to this point, all the reveals that have been revealed, mostly what happened to Sunset and the GB's.
*After Two super-adorably brings Chrysalis back inside the room via fluttering and being cute, Chrysalis reaffirms her intentions to bring the changelings back, and Applejack clarifies.
*She has an objection.
*And the others were going to hear it.
==Thread 171==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BEFORE THE SKIP EDITION!
*Sunset continues to talk to 13, and eventually whittles her down into talking back.
*After she undoes whatever she breaks when 13 calls her of course.
*When Dash and FS head over to the empire, they run into Twilight who is mid stomp out. Things get revealed on both sides.
*Time Turner, Pokey, Roseluck and Blues are still trapped… somewhere. Somewhere chaotic.
*An insult match happens between Rarity, Pinkie and 18, everyone feels terrible.
*Applejack, at long last, gives her heartfelt speech.
*When pressed by Chrysalis to explain why she shouldn’t just pull back the changelings, said Queen is remarkably open to listening.
*Simply put, AJ says “They can’t do it again.”
*When this proves unsatisfactory, Chrysalis nearly calls for the recall, only to be cut off when Applejack points out she would just be starting all over again, like they always do.
*Every time they try to move forwards, and they keep trying, something happens and they just roll back.
*And this, Applejack has finally realized, is why she failed and others succeeded. She messed up, they messed up, but unlike her, they kept trying, and they changed things. They never gave up.
*She actually praises Twenty Nine and the others, saying that they kept going and they fixed stuff, and if indeed they are dead, they’ve left something important behind, and that’s what was worth the risk.
*She details how their fighting back in the day kept them from moving forwards, and how it could stop them again.
*Finally, she begs Chrysalis not to stop trying again, even for just a little bit. To keep going, and keep growing.
*The Elements of Harmony join in, each one giving their own failure that they let hold them back, and telling her not to make the same mistake.
*When Chrysalis asks what if they all should fall, they tell her as one, they’ll be there, all of them, because none of them are alone anymore.
*It’s time to move forwards, and when Chrysalis asks where they should start, AJ has an idea.
*Since 32 is gone, it all begins with naming a new ambassador, and she has just the idea. A certain white earth pony named Actarius.
*Finally, Chrysalis joins in, and agrees to keep moving forwards, and take down Sunset and Chitania together.
*Applejack, proudly, declares “Let’s bring those Knuckleheads home”
*Back in Ponyville, Lyra and Bonbon learn not to mes with spiders.
*We also saw how the changelings grabbed Actarius and ran in a flashback.
*Back in the present, Chrysalis tries to argue against Actarius, but her arguments are eventually shot down, and she offers him the job, which he accepts.
*…After pointing out the embassy is wrecked, of course.
*Shiny is jealous he didn’t get to do the speech.
*Dash and Fluttershy are still missing some pieces
*The guards are glad Arana is gone.
*Luna is insistent her students are not dead.
*Chrysalis is mad that her embassy is gone until she realizes magic can fix it.
*SA and Caddy asking Twilight if ‘vigerous bouncing’ is okay for the baby gets… mixed results.
*Back with Sunset and Chitania, Sunny is still in shock that Chitania saved her life, and that she was there when she needed her.
*Chitania picked this moment to walk in, and after a hasty brushing off, said megabug asks how the portal works, and what the plan with it is.
*When Sunset points out she knows the plan, Chitania clairifes, the ‘real’ plan.
*This worries the prodigy, and it only gets worse when Chitania points out she knows where the portal can go, and where Sunset came from.
*Sunset doesn’t deny the accusation that she thought about it, but she points out she’s still here, and when that doesn’t suffice asks if Chitania trusts her.
*Chitania points out everyone she’s ever trusted has turned on her, which gets no sympathy from Sunset, who says “Poor you.”
*Chitania shoots back that isn’t true, all of them had their reasons, and understanding them is important. After laying out all their reasons, she says she understands why Sunset would betray her and leave.
*Sunset gets hostile and asks her what she plans to do if that’s the case, attack her or fight her?
*Chitania points out she could easily break or detain Sunset, and Sunny is ready to fight, but then she says she’d just let her go.
*Recent near death stuff made Chitania realize Sunset, in a bad moment, could kill her, and since she’s immortal she’d rather a sure thing, she wasn’t going to force her and risk to be betrayed at a bad moment.
*Sunset asks Chitania if she can trust the Queen. Said Queen says, she wants her around, and she wouldn’t have made it this far without her.
*Most tellingly, she pokes Sunset’s chest, and tells the pony all this was worth it, even if she left right then.
*Sunset, when pressed, says she can’t go back.
*She then brushes it off, moving to humor, and becomes a thousand times more lighthearted. Strangely, so does Chitania.
*Happy again, Sunset declares they’re going to do a lot of wonderful things together, and none of their foes will know what hit them.
*Back with the Empire, AJ and Chrysalis almost get out of talking with delegates, but Cadence is having none of that shit
*Chrysalis and Luna trying to be darkies does not go well.
*HH wakes up to find Zanta messing with her shades, which she does not like, and that the DD brought them to a hotel room. The two chat as to why she’s like that, sickness from the meat, and then wonder what’s going to happen next while ‘baddies’ are slowly closing in.
*Lightning Dust and Soarin’ have a confrontation, LD thinks it will be interesting.
*With the CMC, Applebloom is being chased, Sweetie Belle returns and brushes off being abandoned, and everyone just kindly ignores the large battalion of guard headed their way.
*Sweet Note should not be a nurse.
*Pinke Pie is never getting her pink pony show… wink.
*Fluttershy thinks oddly perverted things abut her friends and also Dash can interpretive dance in rainbows
*Celestia suddenly realizes that it would be weird for a pony with Equestrian citizenship to be an ambassador for changelings, so Actarius decides to ‘immagrate.’
*SA and Cadence insist on going out on a date with 18, despite the world almost ending every time they try.
*Suddenly cut over to, of all places, the middle of a frozen wasteland, not the Empire.
*A few threads ago, that pony that was ‘freed’ by 10 from Stalliongrad, Iron Hoof, and called for his ‘Commander’, with his intentions is revealed! The commander in question? Antlers, and he brought with him an airship, a mass of workers, and a ton of robots. The thing he called them for? Something super big in the middle of the frozen nothingness that the workers are digging out.
*At first, it looks celebratory, until Antlers has doubts about Iron Hoof being who he says he is, and when the pony fails to answer a question he’s shocked to seeming death.
*When Antlers turns his attack on another minion, it’s revealed that’s no minion at all! It’s Changeling 007!
*The two back and fourth, revealing how much they know about each other and how little they do, and a battle ensues.
*During the fight, Buttercup, who is now rocking two chainguns, and eventually Bubbles, the giant Timber Wolf, enter the fray and destroy the robot army Antlers sends against them.
*However, when Antlers calls down a Metal Deer Rex, all seems hopeless for the two, so 7 “Calls the Storm.”
*A giant storm rolls in, one that can’t be seen through but apparently has something inside that tears the Rex apart, and then leaves.
*Desperate, Antlers tells his airship to fire down on the crater holding the thing they’re after, forcing Bubbles to carry off Buttercup and 7 to use his mindpowers to call something else.
*The attack works in dislodging the massive block of ice, and Antlers cheerfully rides his airship into the sky, revealing that he, and all the other world leaders, got a letter from a friend, Pennydrop though he does not reveal her name, and he’s got a way to solve her ‘changeling problem.’
*7, sadly, cannot follow, as he’s too wounded from being so close to the blast, but when the other is gone, it’s revealed what he was doing. The Quarry Eel, along with the other predators, got the workers out in time before the blast hit.
*When Buttercup asks what he’s going to do now, 7 lays his hoof on IronHoof, who is not dead and begins to stir, and says he needs to send a message.
*Something big is coming
*Back at the Empire, one by one, everyone has to go. They all reflect on their challenges they’ve faced, and how far they’ve yet to come. They all have work to do.
*But they’re not doing it alone.
*Finally, they all leave, but they have one more thing they need to do, together.
*”HAPPY CUTIE CENERAAA!”
*it’s time to move forwards, and make a better world.
*Yes, that includes Fleetfoot, who was not forgotten, and gets cake.
*Everyone takes Dash so literal sometimes
== THREAD 172 ==
* We cut back to the story months in the future near Hearth Warming.
* AJ doesn’t know what to get Celestia for Hearth Warming.
* Cadence is now super pregnant and huge. Forty Two woke up, but finds herself weak and slow to recover despite everyone trying to help her.
* The Changeling Embassy is completed! And it’s scaring the piss out of the canties, even if the only one in it is Acty.
* The changeling castle construction is taking a lot longer, with major sections done but others straight up sinking into the ice.
* Lighting Dust is shocked nothing is happening.
* Spitfire is shocked her guys aren’t terrible.
* Pinkie needs more money to finish the last leg of Partyland 2.
* Twilight and Spike have been running simulations to figure out how to stop Chitania
* Arana jumped the gun on presents.
* FS might be dealing with Angel Bunny’s ‘powder sugar’ problem.
* Jetset, Spike and of all people Zanta have been training these last few months.
* Turns out Jetset found Zanta, they fought, then after being broken up they took down the hitpony ring in Ponyville together. Since then, Zanta found his brother, became an ambassador for Diamond Dogs, and has been working with them ever since, much to Rarity’s displeasure. In that time, Honey Heart has become a nurse, utilizing special gems the DD mine in order to heal faster.
* After a training match, Jet reflects on how much he’s changed.
* Bathroom Chronicles, in non-ooco form resume! To catch up, Shining Armor one night in a dazed stupor stumbled into Applejack’s room, thinking it Celestia’s, and she didn’t have the heart to kick him out. Then a couple dozen stories of the three having misadventures followed.
* Turns out, Cadence kicked Shining out because he made her fat.
* The Memory Orb selling changeling has apparently opened a small shop, and is doing well.
* Fancy and Fluer are worried from the new embassy.
* Shiny is super protective of Cadence.
* Vekir has an embassy of her own! It’s a tiny tent in the middle of a massive area.
* Dash has been asking for forgiveness from everyone, and just finished up Bulk, leaving only Spitfire, Gilda… and Lightning Dust.
* Fluttershy is sticking with her.
* Luna and Potsticker are still looking for 29 and co.
* Pennydrop is happy, as a brand new project is being worked on. Diamond Tiara is there with her.
* Farmerling is currently tending to his new crops in the Empire’s snowy tundra, testing a new shield.
* 42 tries to act tough, but Shining is just gonna hug her.
* AJ comes back from another trip trying to find Sunset unsuccessfully, which she has been doing this whole time, and comes home to Applebloom waiting.
* Two wants to pretend her toys can talk.
* Big Mac will not shave!
* Shining Armor and Applejack disagree about policies
* Spike tries to get Shining to play OnO, but they’re down a fourth. When Shining tries to think of one, he strangely blanks out, and his nose starts bleeding, but he brushes it off.
* Cadence is a weird pregnant mare.
* Dash’s attempts to go see Spitfire does not go well.
* Twilight sucks at gifts.
* 77 is having trouble with the guard thing.
* Nightguards are helping but not seen
* Flim and Flam start a cheap gossip radio show to combat Fuzzy and the Buzz
* Applejack’s gifts are apples.
* 56 gets a special book for his cuz, even if he’s not there to get it, because he finally understands how much 29 did for him.
* We finally find 29 again! He’s in the middle of a dream state where everything is perfect, but eventually pulled out of it by Zecora.
* Acty and JJ talk about how to get ponies in the embassy.
* Chrysalis doesn’t want help building from Applejack.
* Spike wants to test non-lethal stuff on Shiny, if he likes it or not.
* Ends up shopping as punishment.
* Breakfast Chronicles and movie night retrun!
* The canties and guards we always see double-date
* Pinkie goes and sees her family who don’t care, but MAUD!
* Spike and Dash are silly
* Tank is now rocks… because Dash can’t into hibernation
* Twilight wants to make everyone robots, but the idea doesn’t go over good with anyone but Cadence
* Discord has been searching all this time without avail!
* AJ is forced to carry Rarity’s stuff
* Shining Armor is freaked when Fluttershy bursts through his dorr, because it’s her, and they never talk.
* Then they talk and it’s nice.
* Until he offers to hear her problems, then it’s awful.
* Spike tries to cheer up 42.
* Applejack finds 18 who then collapses.
* Finally, back with Sunset, she’s nearly finished with her work on the portal, it’s almost done, but she’s run herself ragged over the months. Chitania shows concern over her state, and insists she goes to rest in the lab, and doesn’t take no for an answer. She tucks in Sunset, who warmly accepts it, and then when Chitty leaves Sunset can’t help herself and calls 13, who she tells about her current changes.
* 13 is concerned about the danger, but Sunset isn’t. 13 wonders if she hurried for a particular ‘reason’ and Sunset just casually mentions it might be over before the holiday.
* After wishing her luck, 13 cuts the connection, and Sunset falls asleep.
* Or at least she tries to, before that portal suddenly explodes to life, and starts charging up with chaos power.
* ”Oh fuck-“
* And then it all exploded.
== Thread 173 ==
* Applejack has a question!
* But, unfortunately, it’s going to have to wait, because Applejack has a question! She wants to know why Equestria is so awful!
* That is exactly what it sounds like.
* Alterjack first appears!
* Shortly after spotting this new, mostly accent-free, hat bereft, vest rocking, glasses sporting version of Applejack next to the real one, Celestia confirms the universe hates her.
* A quick questioning reveals that this new Applejack was in her world, minding her own business, when a portal suddenly opened and sucked her in.
* The last thing she remembers is waking up in the middle of nowhere, bruised and beat up, and not remembering anything in the middle.
* Also, they find this Applejack is much more, bluntly put, intense than regular Applejack. Their timeline split off just when Applejack became a princess, but this one reacts much more harshly to events that transpired. She took the reigns away from Celestia, and she went full hog into her new position, and she is subsequently disgusted at how little progress was made in this universe.
* Shockingly, this change seems to have occurred because she actually got the fence made.
* For instance, she dealt with Blueblood swiftly and brutally before imprisoning him, and a host of other issues, such as imprisoning Spitfire for criminal negligence.
* We learn that Twilight has mostly been relegated to her lab, and almost never comes out anymore, always producing a new invention for the bettering of Equestria.
* Dash has been relegated to the Weather patrol, much to her anger, and she and Alterjack are not on the best terms.
* She was never in a relationship with Spike and is horrified that Applejack-Prime was, in her world he’s still just chasing a non-ascended Rarity, who never became an alicorn because AltJack smacked the stupid out of Celly.
* Rarity in that universe instead opened a dress shop in Canterlot, and Alterjack never sees her. When the current universe one pops in, Alterjack takes her to task for never accomplishing anything and wasting her wings, sending her running off crying.
* When Fluttershy goes to investigate why her friend was crying, we learn she likewise never became an alicorn, and their relationship is mostly empty. Alterjack drills into her for not using her powers more often, and Fluttershy flees.
* Pinkie Pie’s and her relationship is not yet expanded upon, only that Alterjack considers her a bright spot in her life, and she vetoed Partyland before it ever became a thing.
* Celestia mostly just lets her do whatever.
* Luna tried but mostly is forgotten.
* She finds a lot of grievances with the current Equestria, such as the non-regulated giant robots, not mass marketing hoverboards, the entirety of the A-team and everything about it, how they chose the captain of the guard, not just firing most of the lazy guard, the hologram room, the lack of airships despite building them, Dash being a Wonderbolt Captain-or rather was a captain, the amount of Wonderbolts, the portals not being used everywhere instead of just the Empire, the guards not being armed with guns, Applejack not learning magic, no coffee, no base beneath Canterlot to hold it up, and so very many other things.
* As they’re discussing the changes, Chrysalis bursts in, and Alterjack wastes no time for explanations and snaps into action, literally! She attacks Chrysalis, forcing her out of the city with a plant-ball and teleportation, and when she reaches Everfree she immediately uses an advanced and very powerful sealing spell that creates a new massive tree out of nothing.
* Chrysalis breaks out, thinking Applejack had been replaced or mind controlled or something, and challenges her, after a taunt the battle is on.
* It’s here we see that Alterjack relies almost entirely on magic, and it’s implied that the Chrysalis in her world had been ‘dealt with’, what she did to the changelings is never said, but implied to be horrible.
* Alterjack finds herself shocked at how powerful this Chrysalis is, as she is far beyond her own, and Chrysalis agrees, pointing out she's well above what an Alicorn should be. AUJ says she’s taking the gloves off, and prepares to touch the apple necktie on her vest.
* The battle is broken up before it can go off, thankfully, and the misunderstanding is cleared up.
* Alterjack is not happy, and lays into her current universe self for letting the changelings stay in the ballroom, or wander around Equestria, and every answer she gets for every question makes her very mad
* When she asks how she tried to integrate them, she gets verrrryyy mad.
* She then learns about 10, and that the newspaper isn’t regulated.
* When she learns they’re in the Empire, Alterjack loses her mind.
* But she never gets a chance to go off, because something strange happens next.
* Shining Armor walks in, worried from Twilight’s alarms about magic being thrown around, and she goes dead quiet.
* While Shining gets caught up to speed, she speaks very little, just looking at him mostly before he announces he has to get back to calm Cadence down
* Right before he leaves, she finally speaks to him, and says “Bye… Shining Armor. You uh… you look good. Look… good.”
* He’s confused by that, but leaves. When questioned if he’s different with her, she explains he doesn’t rule the Empire, she annexed it when it was being mismanaged and took it away from Cadence and Shining Armor, even though both protested. Subjects or them weren’t happy, but they saw it her way, nobody got hurt and it’s doing better, and the Empire is a vassal state now.
* When asked about the pair, she says Cadence doesn’t do a whole lot anymore, and she hasn’t seen her in forever.
* After that, they ask about Shiny, and she goes quiet for a long time before brushing them off.
* She tells them to be thankful things are different here in a sad tone, and that one thing was better here, before laying into them for more problems.
* Afterwards, she learns Cadence is doing paperwork, but that most of it was done by an ‘Eighteen’. She thinks that’s a nickname, and neither Celestia or AJ will correct her.
* She’s still suspicious of the changelings.
* While in a bathroom break, she meets none other than our favorite changeling, AJ TWO! Jumping through the halls!
* She gets a marchmalley, and Two is none the wiser before she bounces off again. Alterjack is, understandably, horrified when she learns from the bug that Shining Armor is her father.
* This is followed by a lot of screaming, and Chrysalis leaving for cake.
* Mr and Mrs Cake are not amused.
* When Alterjack stops screaming, she finally expresses her horror that Shining Armor and Chrysalis, apparently, made some sweet bug-pony music and had a child.
* She calms down immensely when they explain what Two actually is to them both.
* She’s super relieved, because she was terrified what a pony changeling hybrid would look like. Could you imagine?
* They, uh, they don’t react well to that.
* SA gets home and is immediately sent out for cakes seconds after telling an unbothered Cadence about an Alternate Applejack.
* Cadence is also acting very… odd.
* Spike and Dash are way behind on the heroic entrance.
* Luna is still in advertising.
* When Alterjack meets the current Twilight, said bookhorese points out she can’t make a portal to send her home, because that wouldn’t fix the problem of a hole in the universe being open, and Alterjack reluctantly agrees to wait until their find it, and that Twilight will find the answer.
* Just kidding, she blows off this, as she feels, ineffectual Twilight and says her Twilight will have it fixed in no time, so don't worry about it.
* SA and Chrysalis bug the cakes.
* AJ is suddenly worried Alterjack is going to miss Hearth’s Warming, but Alterjack doesn’t care, for she never celebrates it anyway.
* When AJ asks if she wants to come stay with her for Hearth's Warming, she says maybe.
* She also has a lot of questions as to why APPLEJACK TWO, the pony with HER HAIR, is the child of Shining Armor and Cadence. AJ has no answer.
* Alterjack learns the joy of Marchmalleys.
* Rarity cries over being worst princess, but Fluttershy makes her feel better.
* SA, Chrysalis and the Cakes discuss being attractive in old age.
* Vekir is not happy that someone is in 32’s seat, and Actarius feels her rabid wrath.
* PJ has been training, and tracks mud all over Blueblood’s rooms. He lets her for personal reasons.
* 12 and Screwloose are now working for the princesses as part of the agreement for her parole.
* Pinkie visits her family for the holdays!
* AJ insists Alterjack come for the holidays, but she is still reluctant, until three certain fillies fly by, having a fun race on hoverboards.
* It’s then that she notices a certain apple-named one has, of all things, a cutie mark, and is stunned.
* When Applejack-Prime asks her if her sister had a cutie mark too, Alterjack admits she doesn’t know.
* After a pause, Alterjack relents, and says she’d like to go, just to see what’s different.
* AJ says Granny is gonna flip.
* Alterjack hopes so.
== Thread 174 + Thread 175 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, 2 FOR 1 EDITION!
* At the party, AUJ is having trouble adjusting, and some shocking revelations are had about other universe versions of the main cast, particularly big mac, but mostly just having talks with everyong.
* Chrysalis talks with Caddy about the new arrival, Cadence is having fun.
* Lots of partying happens in the leadup to the "new year" after Hearth's Warming, and after witnessing the massive crowd and their cheers, some internal thoughts stir in AUJ
* Unable to take anymore, the moment the celebrations are done, she heads over to regular AJ, and the gauntlet is thrown.
* She declares that she's tired of all the problems that AJ's world has, and one way or another, it's getting fixed, whether she likes it or not.
* AJ risies to the challenge, and they welcome in the new year with the declaration that this time, they're going to fix it right.
* With her declaration thrown, AUJ heads off to Canterlot, openly declaring she's going to fix the issues even as AJ points out it would be super illegal.
* AJ at first wants to call her bluff, but as time goes on, she gets worried, and Twilight says the same.
* As well they should for back in Canterlot, AUJ wrecks Twilight's defenses and destroys them before taking her seat at AJ's desk.
* Celestia might have forgotten to tell the guards about AUJ.
* Said guards got forgotten to be told about AUJ.
* AUJ finds some very odd things in the bills.
* 29 and Zecora are floating in the white world, feeling very happy and trying to figure out if they're dead or not.
* Shockingly, they discover they can't be dead and in 'the happy place', because the other two aren't there.
* Cadence wants everyone at the party gone, now
* The chuckening begins.
* Pinkie might have inherited her pinkieness
* AUJ does not like what she's finding.
* 77 got a gift from Cheerliee, a six headed skinless dog that can smell drugs. He's strangely effective.
* Speaking of, Ponyville has a drug problem, even if none of them know it yet.
* Spike and Rarity say goodbye to each other.
* Flim and Flam chime in with the weird AUJ happenings.
* Twilight and AJ go home to deal with AUJ, but it turns out everything is quiet. It's not long before they put together it's quiet because AUJ has already won.
* Luna, Celestia, Cadence, Chrysalis, 18, 42, and Spitfire get a poledancing show from Shining Armor. Luna likes it. A lot.
* Twilight senses a corruption in the force.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated.
* Luna does a politics, and they're proud.
* Potatojack, Blueblood and Haymaker wake up on the ceiling tied up in twizzlers. Arana apparently has some odd dreams.
* The canties do not question everyone going crazy.
* Forty Two enjoyed the show a little too hard.
* AUJ summons Pommel to have a one on one talk, and we find out not only has Pommel not been in contact with the other captains of the guards across Equestria, he doesn't even know their name.
* Screwloose, 8-bit and Gaffer continue to work on whatever they're working on, with more bleeding involved.
* Actarius gets an odd request from Vekir, a meeting of the Ambassadors!
* The changelings who were building the castle learn about the Red Spirit's arrival. They're not waiting anymore.
* Cup cake and Carrot Cake get some odd visitors from the royal sisters, and some odd thoughts about Pound Cake's name meaning.
* Spitifre and 18 talk.
* SA gets an odd visitor from none other than Discord.
* Lightning Dust and Soarin' talk before she's snatched away by AUJ's vine, and AUJ grills her while LD fights her right back.
* A guard's peacetrotter got him a gift.
* Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo go see Stellar battles. It's porn, the punchline is porn.
* Chrysalis wants to make a tunnel between her kingdom and the Empire, which Shiny happily agrees to.
* Jetset has a talk with Potsticker about his 'other' princess.
* 
* FOR THE MAIN EVENT
* Twilight finds AUJ's destruction, and is not happy. A rare opportunity to cut loose has made itself known, and she's going to have fun with it.
* Or not, since AUJ is apparently better at magical defenses than expected, and magical vines thwart her.
* The plan to set herself on fire to defeat it does not go well.
* Neither does the plan to have AJ go in and disarm the traps, since she's got the same magical signature.
* Or the plan to call Dash, which leaves her paralyzed.
* Or Rarity.
* Or Fluttershy.
* Or Pinkie, mostly because Pinkie has no plan, she just walks up to it and knocks on the door, since there's an obvious path.
* Everyone laughs.
* Pinkie is not laughing.
* She's very worried.
* Back at the Empire, Spike is feeling just a bit bitter, and like he's not living up to his potential in his inner thoughts, when he gets an odd call from an old ally, stating he's found a lead on their mutual foes.
* Filled with determination, Spike tells the caller, Seven, to head for the badlands.
* The A-team is riding again.
==Thread 176==
LAST THREAD RECAP, IT'S ON EDITION!
*Pommel is writing a sternly written letter about how he was treated
*77 goes on an arresting spree, though half the time he wouldn't have to if he hadn't shown up.
*Luna makes a giant hollow cake, and Celestia gets a cut of her jib. Surprising Shiny because he did it for them, right?
*Yes, Luna agrees, and is totally not trying to hide disappointment that it's not getting filled with stallions instead.
*AJ and the others make it to the door. It's locked.
*So they knock... that works.
*AUJ is mad they have no mass prisons.
*18 is already making laws regarding trans dimensional beings
*The cake idea goes poorly when Celestia and Luna fight inside of it, and Shining's reaction to it does not help matters.
*Spike slips away from Canterlot without being noticed, and reflects on how far he's come before landing in the old crash sight of the first assault. There he meets 007, who has intel on Sunset and Chitania's locations. When asked to verify, 007 simply states 'she can be trusted to tell it like it is' right before 10 and BBB appear.
*Spike is ready to be a hero again.
*The castle staff are not having a good time with this.
*Chrysalis' castle is almost built, and she admits AJ was right.
*The EOH burst in and immediately try attacking AUJ, who manages to hold them off for a bit, before offering that she'll leave the office peacefully... if they can answer some questions.
*Applejack wants to shoot her.
*The others say no.
*What follows is a lot of questions that tear into the EOH's failings.
*42 gets addicted to video games
*The A-team starts arriving one by one, DT first, just in time to see Spike mess up his and 007's cool drop down.
*She brought with her Silver Spoon, Daw, and PJ.
*Oh, and after they talk about why they're there, there's one more individual she forgot to mention.
*Pennydrop.
*Uh oh.
*The very first ambassador meeting of Canterlot happens! Acatrius, and Zanta meet up at Vekir's "Embassy"(Read, small tent in the middle of a large plot of land)
*It goes as well as expected
*Chrysalis is having trouble looking 'regal' so Shiny helps her out.
*Two's idea for a marchmalley pillow hits some snags
*We find Mayor Mare's vision in the other world, of her and the other four adopting all the orphans and raising them as a real family
*When she's forced to wake up, she apologized to them that she wasn't there to help them when they needed it, that she couldn't protect them from the fate they never should have experienced, and sorrowfully wakes up.
*Spike freaks out a little bit about Pennydrop, but then realizes he could hit two threats to Equestria with one stone, and accepts her help.
*With that settled, the A-team rides again!
==Thread 177==
LAST THREAD RECAP, THREE YEARS EDITION!
*Applejack wants Celestia to know she appreciates her.
*The changelings like it better when they’re silly
*The guards don’t know if they have names
*Filthy Rich and Spoiled Rich think about DT’s progression
*Spike remembers how the Gun Club started
*Spitfire thinks she looks good
*Fleetfoot and Soarin’ remember the good old days
*Actarius remembers how he met JJ
*AUJ asks Pinkie, Dash, Rarity, Flutershy and Twilight about past events they’ve done
*Arana asks Blueblood why he’s still scrubbing the floors, and he responds he’s not made up yet for what he did, and he won’t be until the entire castle is cleanr. Encouraged, Arana sets out to help him do exactly that, and the castle staff soon joins
*Shining and Chrysalis think about their future
*Suckerpunch and 41 talk and be silly
*10 and BBB are still the best
*Fuzzy and the Buzz are still the best
*And when Alterjack has had enough and lets loose on Applejack and her friends for all she’s done, she asks them why are they all princesses, again?
*That’s when they show why they’re still the best.
*They admit their faults, admit they messed up, and admit they could have done a lot of things better
*But what’s important is that they learn.
*They always are trying to do what is best, and would never have made any of their bad choices if they’d thought for a second it would have hurt a single soul.
*But they don’t get the instant answers, they don’t get it easy, so they just keep going.
*They ask if AUJ wants to know why they were there, and they reveal it’s because they used to do nothing but stop the world ending threats, that’s all.
*But that’s at an end.
*They have work to do.
*And with that, they get back in their desks.
*AUJ takes them to task, saying that for now, that speech was just that, a pretty speech, nothing else.
*And if they can’t really fix the world, she will.
*Challenge accepted.
*They get to work.
*Outside, the guards feel motivated
*Construction on Chrysalis’s castle is going badly
*Velvet is bad at crib making, or great at it, depending
*77’s string of arrests continue
*Two wants to know why you don’t just teleport the baby out, Cadence is tempted.
*Pommel finds out Daw is gone
*Chitania, Sunset, 13, SN, Flash and Fizzle get cleaned up in a cute and funny moment.
*Two tries to saw her room in half.
*AUJ grills AJ about the gaff in the series, but helps her get an idea of what to do next
*Same with Twilight and her never working with professors
*The second Ambassador meeting goes as well as the first. That is, not well at all. They also realize there’s no pony ambassador.
*Rarity gets an idea of how to really be a ‘princess of Spite’ while talking with AUJ, who apparently she was on good terms with in said altverse
*Luna is planning to hold a press conference
*AUJ doesn’t want to crit Pinkie, she’s her favorite back in her universe.
*SA and 18 realize they don’t know where all the paperwork comes from, and off they go on an adventure!
*Before they go, they put Cadence in a bubble, much to her anger.
*On the airship, the A-team discuss their location and what they’re probably going to be dealing with, as well as arguing with each other.
*After that, they all swear this is the time they take down Chitania
*When they wonder how they’re going to get in, 007 reveals there’s a tunnel.
*They decide to make up the plan on the fly, and Pennydrop finally reveals she had a ton of weapons waiting for them.
*All except Spike and 007 rush in, and when PD says they’re all going to be heroes, nobody doubts it
*PJ is angry at laser sword patents
*Screwloose fixes Gaffer, tormenting him just a little too much while doing it, and after a chat with them reveals that she secretly has come to like them, a sentiment they brush off far too quickly, and leave her alone to curl up like a dog and take a nap
*SA and 18’s adventure, with matching jumpsuit, continues! We also find out their mode of transportation, a scooter, belongs to a certain filly
*77 gets a summons to meet with Pommel
*The crusaders wish they didn’t know what the crusades were now
*Two is not tricked into letting Cadence out of the bubble! Don’t ask.
*Finally, with the talking done, AUJ says it’s time they get to work
*They declare ’let’s do actual princess work’
*The anniversary ends
==Thread 178==
LAST THREAD RECAP, INFILTRATION EDITION!
*Applejack asks if Celly has a daycourt, and she wants to join in.
*But when AUJ insists she goes into Foreign relations, AJ has some understandable reservations.
*SA's and 18's searching for the answers of the paper mystery illicit some shocking results.
*Twilight grills the professors of Canterlot, and isn't exactly blown away by what she finds.
*42 finds Cadence in the bubble, and after sending Two away tries to punch into it. It does not work.
*Luna is holding her press conference at night and nothing is stopping her!
*Emergency princess meeting! It goes badly.
*The night guards are way too excitable.
*Rarity puts her hoof down on the businesses of Canterlot
*77 does not have a jail and it's causing strife between him and Harry
*Screwloose finishes sewing on 8-bits arm and reveals she likes the pair because of their work ethic, before curling up like a puppy
*7 needs to know if the Queen asked about him, he needs it
*Chrysalis sends her changelings off to Griffonstone on a mission of peace
*007 and PJ have a talk, and after some back and forth the two come to an agreement to look out for each other and ensure they make it back home alive.
*Spike wants a second opinion on his outfit
*Pennydrop and Daw have nothing in common
*Fluttershy makes her animals do an animal thing
*AJ was trying to write a letter to mend the relationship with the griffons
*Spike and DT talk in perpation for battle
*Pennydrop finds the tunnel 007 mentioned, but it wasn't quite what she expected
*The animals are acting odd, but Fluttershy doesn't notice
*AUJ, while on a stroll through Canterlot, comes across the Changeling Embassy, and thinks it's a hidden way for the changelings to attack. When she goes inside and finds Actarius at the head of it, she has questions.
*Trixie, in the light realm, is living her dream, the grandest show in Equestria, and more importantly all her friends are there, and she can make fillies and colts live their dreams, before she is pulled free by the others
*AUJ wonders why Acty isn't being used as a double agent, and AJ isn't very happy
*SA and 18, after finding the information of the stores the paper gets shipped to, go to said stores. However, the first one they find has a problem, namely that those inside know 18, and are very caviler with her. Verrry much so.
*The reaction to Rarity investigating them makes a lot of businesses scream
*007 and Daw realize they're supposed to be enemies.
*Pennydrop gathers everyone to show them 007's 'tunnel', which turns out to be massive.
*When asked, 007 claims he didn't make it, he just found it and made sure nothing was inside.
*The others point out that nothing that big would do that much effort just to leave normally and 7 agrees.
*He points out the crater with the forest, a sign of a huge battle, and insists that it looks like whatever made it was scared off by the fight, which few can argue with
*Though they're not sure if this is a trap, after some debate they concluded time is too precious to wait.
*They're going in, together.
*Whenever DT stops wasting time, that is
*JJ and Acty talk about racism
*Pinkie needs a title
*The canties are finally caught for stalking the princess
*PJ is left feeling inadequate
*Pommel knows Daw is gone, and 77 arrives
*42 somehow ended up in the shield with Cadence
*7 isn't getting any gear and him and Spike are a bit tense
*AUJ meets Vekir
*Pommel and 77 talk
*18 is Queen of Paperwork
*Celestia meets Two hoppoing out of the portal, and learns of Cadence's trappings
*The changelings reaching out to the yaks does not go well
*Pennydrop is weirdly worried about DT
*The idea to rocket themselves to Canterlot is one the CMC regret
*Finally, the A-team give one last talk to each other, and go into the mouth of the canvern, and towards Chitania and Sunset
*The infiltration is on
==Thread 179==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SNEAK AROUND EDITION!
*AJ prpobably went too far.
*Jetset’s fading gets him in trouble when he splats Ms Cake
*The other guard captains arrive, and after a failed entrance so does the Nightguard Captain
*AUJ hasn’t baked an apple pie in a while
*Canties wonder what the princesses do all day
*No, the A-team are not lost, it’s a straight line
*SA and 18 finally find the last piece of the puzzle, and it turns out..
*That all the paperwork was going right to them! Yes, it turns out they never actually hired any lower level administrative employees
*How they never realized that they were liteally doing everything of an entire country escapes them
*Or that most top level administrators don’t do this.
*Mystery solved! And they go home
*Just in time to stop Celestia from using her superpowers on the shield holding Cadence and 42!
*Shiny’s reward for solving this mystery?
*A kick right to the dick.
*Twice.
*Eighteen doesn’t get kicked because that would be weird.
*But she is allowed to kiss it to make it better if she wants.
*Best not to question that.
*The A-team make it into the building, the bathroom to be precise, and after some debate as to what they should do while they don’t know if anyone is willing or mind controlled, they decide to send 007 in disguise to find some answers before they go in guns blazing.
*He finds a security guard mare, and does his ‘infiltrating’.
*Twilight whips the professors into shape!
*Thanks t some letters AUJ sent out, the Gwendolyn and Zephyrious are on their way, if AJ likes it or not!
*Vekir gets an odd offer from Actarius, and takes it the wrong way.
*Chrysalis’s attemtps to reach out to the other nations continues to fail wildly.
*Same with the construction.
*Flim and Flam chime in
*Rarity gets a violent response from those who don’t like her new taxes.
*The captains meeting soon dissolves into chaos and racism
*Spike and the others wonder what it would be like to be the Elements of Harmony
*Trottingham’s captain of the guard is a silent badass, or so the others think Turns out, she’s just so terrified she can’t talk.
*007 returns and leads the others to a discovery he found
*Screwloose,8-bit and gaffer continue to bon
*AUJ is confused by some of those laws
*The guards attemtps to be competent backfires
*Dash tries to sneak out to head to Griffonstone alone, but Pinkie catches her and joins her
*Acty and Zanta talk
*An emergency princess meeting falls apart
*Pennydrop does awkward small talk with her pilot
*Luna tells the reporters when the announcement is, and they don’t like it
*Two talks to Rarity and makes her sad
*The CMC are alive, but since they’re dangling off the side of Canterlot Cliff, they might not be for long
*007 shows them what he found, a massive empty room.
*This isn’t as useless as it sounded, since clearly something was there before it left
*Something very, very big, and that’s not all.
*While he tries to sound smooth, everyone gets fed up and tells him just to cut to the point, and he reveals there’s an airvent that will lead them to the elevator they could use to get to the top floor.
*They all head in, and eventually leave, not noticing a strange glow is following them
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated
*AJ discovers AUJ hasn’t been down to the farm at all, and her accent is slipping
*Dash is embarrassed from going the wrong way.
*Mr cake and Misses Cake don’t wonder what happened down in Ponyville anymore, the demon tells them
*Rarity and Fluttershy discuss her using ‘darling’
*Celestia comes back from the empire to discover something shocking, the entire castle has been cleaned! All of it, top to bottom!
*It doesn’t take her long to discover the cause, as Blueblood, Arana, Haymaker and every single staff of the Castle are waiting behind her, looking dirty and worn but satisfied.
*Celestia asks Blueblood why he did this, and he’s confused, as he thought this is what she wanted.
*She says no, she didn’t want a slave to clean up after her, she wanted him to see ‘this.’, and points to the staff that worked so hard to help him.
*She says he never needed her forgivness, she would give it to any who was sorry, but he needed it from those he’d hurt every day.
*Blueblood breaks down, and finally understands, as he says he’s sorry.
*Celestia forgives him, and finally, says he can come home.
*He replies back “I already am”
*Blueblood is free
*The A-team make it to the top of the elevator, and to their surprise find six different vents waiting for them. Six directions, and it doesn’t escape them that six isn’t exactly an uncommon number for teams.
*After some reluctance and promises to hold back and go all out if they hear anyone in trouble, they all split up, each taking a different vent.
*They’re in the heart of the tower now, and they leave just an instant before the elevator glows as well.
*It’s too late.
==Thread 180==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BANG EDITION!
*SA is not okay
*AUJ hasn't seen Alterfluttershy in a whikle
*Spitfire wants a hug
*Vekir and Rekulk think Thirty Two would be proud of them
*The other captains are having a hard time believing the crime families are going legit
*AUJ calls out AJ for thinking she's a facist, but then immediately vanishes when Shining comes into the room. Literally, with camouflage. When AJ presses her she dodges the question.
*The peacetrotters are acting really weird
*Celestia does no do hypothetical debates
*Magic lessons with Luna goes awry
*Dash and Pinkie find what they least expected in Griffonstone, five changelings on a mission of peace and a whole lot of suspicious griffons.
*They then proceed to make everything horrible by arriving
*The mob is initially stopped by changeling magic, but one fuckup means it's now all five changeling plus Dash and Pinkie VS the griffons
*Rarity is sassy
*In Evo Corp, inside the air vent, PJ is chilled when she realizes there's nobody there on the top floors, she keeps searching and not a soul to be found. She realizes either they saw them coming, or it's too late.
*SA and Fluttershy hit it off
*Daw wonders if she's doing the infiltration right, somethings wrong, or if she's just awesome
*Actarius and JJ realize that Celestia just hires whoever to be the ambassador, there's no set pony
*Cadence is aching
*Twilight is making the professors do work
*Silver Spoon is trying not to freak out
*Celestia is worried about AJ
*Cheerilee's students are really desensitized
*SA and Rarity are Whiteys and they love it
*Actarius brings up the Ambassador thing to AJ who is going to look into it
*Twilight does not like Rarity bro-hoofing her bro
*DT is worried about the others and is ready to bust out if she hears them in trouble
*SA and AJ talk about ambassadors and realize their policy sucks
*Vekir wants Fancy Pant's stache
*Forty Two is having trouble brushing her teeth
*One of the 'diplomatic' changelings somehow ended up in a mad-max scenario
*AUJ thinks she and LD would get along great anywhere else
*It turns out 007 was looking for more than just Sunset, and he found it
*Two is good at distractions
*AJ might be crazy
*Derpy and AUJ meet. Strange things happen
*The Las Pegasus captain arrives and he's Elton John Pony
*18 and Caddy talk about the celebrity exception
*SA should not call Luna "Lulu"
*AJ gets fed up with AUJ and goes to see her sister
*We get a look into 32's Light-hell world, and it's pretty much the same.
*Except all the ones in the cave who died are alive
*AB gets saved by an angry AJ. SB and SL, not so much
*AJ and the family talk
*Spike, searching through the vents, is ready to kill Chitania, after a long debate within himself, recognizing her to be a monster who has to be stopped, and knowing the other royals can't do that.
*But when he finds Sunset, not Chitania, he suddenly freezes, and a massive debate begins inside of him if he can go through with it.
*After flipping back and forth, he eventually points his gun at her, and makes a choice.
*Bang.
==Thread 182==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BANGS AND BOOMS EDITION!
*SA misjudges AB's age.
*Luna does not answer what she does.
*SA and Celestia have a nice talk in the hot tub
*AUJ meets Cadence and things are awkward
*Fluttershy and Luna go down to Treehuggers to relax, things get weird
*AJ and Rarity wonder where Dash went
*Cadence and Rarity talk and Cadence might be losing it
*The guards can't escape
*Celestia shakes on AJ's papers
*The Captain Meetings reveal some odd revelations
*OOCO Hearts and Hooves day stories
*Shiny hugs Chrysalis when she needs it
*55 and Ingrid spend the day together
*42 can teleport punches
*Celestia and Rarity are good sisters
*Chrysalis is questioning if she's a good queen.
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT
*Back with Spike and Sunset, it turns out Spike did NOT shoot Sunset, but the bang was the metal grate hitting the ground
*He holds her at gunpoint, threatening to shoot her if she tries anything, and when asked if he plans to kill her Spike shoots back that's up to her.
*He reveals he was at war with himself what to do with her, and if she should be given another chance, so he came up with a way to decide.
*He tells her to call for Chitania to bring her inside, and if she does, he'll let her live and bring her back unharmed.
*Sunset laughs him off, and reveals something. She didn't come in for wine because she was thirtsy. It's her celebration wine.
*Right on cue, the strange blue glow that had been very slowly following them reaches them.
*While Spike reels, Sunset mockingly tells him he can shoot if he wants, nothing will matter after this. She's won.
*Just after she says this, the door to the room opens, and Chitania comes in looking for Sunset.
*BAM!
*A one in a million shot lands right in her mouth, and the Titan falls over, still and unmoving.
*Spike's only response, "...Was that part of your plan?
*This apparently sets off a chain event of some kind, as in another area away from town, an ex-criminal griffon worker named Blackbill is finishing up when a strange reading draws her away, and she's locked up in a tunnel that's not supposed to be on the map yet
*Despite her friend Peppermint's protests, she goes further into the tunnel.
*Eventually, she comes across a strange device pulsating with energy, and she can't escape before more energy comes in.
*Peppermint has to listen as something tears her apart, helpless.
*But back with Sunset, Spike is stunned it actually works and he has seemingly killed Chitania. Sunset is broken into a dead shock, unable to believe her eyes.
*She meanders forwards, completely stunned, while Spike demands she turns around before it's too late, but she never does.
*She finally gets up to Chitania, finding her face filled with black viens and her mouth dribbling a black sludge, unmoving and cold
*Sunset, not believing that Chitania is really dead, demands to know why she didn't just get up and kill Spike when he was distracted. She questions why Chitania doesn't move, and finish this.
*Spike pleads with her, repeating that Chitania is dead, but Sunset will not listen. Instead insisting that Chitania could not have let something like this kill her so close to victory and demands she get up.
*She breaks when she realizes that the one time she didn't want someone to look for her, after a lifetime of being ignored just when she needed them the most, Chitania came. The one time she would have been better off forgotten, and Chitania didn't even check the door, because she wanted her to be around.
*Finally, she breaks, and demands Chitania gets up.
*Spike, realizing there's no chance to sway her back, takes aim.
*Get up, Sunset cries, and ignores Spikes' pleas.
*Get up she says again, and Spike admits defeat, "...I'm sorry, Applejack...but this is for everyone."
*He takes aim.
*She cries one last time for Chitania to get up.
*He fires.
*"...it's about time."
*Gurgling black goo and pissed off, Chitania can't comment on that, or the bullet that just blew off chunks of her leg that protected Sunset.
*Sunset, relieved, throws up a shield to protect them both with the momentary lapse of Spike's concentration, and starts to take Chitania off to finish what they started.
*Spike tries to stop her, Sunset is having none of that.
*"Ahem... would you kindly beat this dragon to death?"
*Someone answers her magical call, and promptly beats Spike through the walls with inhuman speeds.
*Flash informs Spike that this one's going to go even worse than last time.
*Sunset, content, sends out a magical message for the others of the intruders, and to kill them, then carries Chitania off, and tells her to stay alive.
*Stay alive, until they can be so much more.
*The rest of the A-team hear her message, and realize they are so screwed. 
==Thread 182==
Missed
==Thread 183==
LAS THREAT RECAP, BANG EDITION!
*SA and Celly introduce AJ to Steller Battles. She’s unimpressed
*Luna, still stoned off her mind, is reminded she has a press conference.
*She still gives it anyway, and it confuses everyone.
*The changelings don’t think they’re missing anything
*Cadence demands strawberries
*Two’s shcool gets weird
*The captains meeting does not go well, but they figure out things about gift loopholes that some would rather wasn’t mentioned
*Harry is doing a good job back at Ponyville
*18 and Rarity are the classy ones of the group
*A changeling got the closest thing to success in diplomacy Chrysalis has gotten so far.
*The guards do not escape the jails
*Two and AUJ talk
*Shining misses Chrysalis
*Rarity will not make AUJ a dress
*42 is not good for training
*AUJ insists that Chrysalis will kill AJ someday, bringing up what she did to Shining, but when AJ points out that Shining lets her sleep in the same room as him, she does not take it well.
*For once, the vomit doesn’t go on Shining Armor
*Shining likewise doesn’t know what she’s talking about, AUJ is nice to him and Cadence
*The situation with the griffons gets way worse, escalating into a full battle
*After blasting through buildings and putting Gilda through a roof, Dash needs a minute to think of a plan. She won’t get one.
*18 doesn’t miss Chrysalis, really.
*AJ is tracking AUJ and it worries everyone
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated
*Octavia drops the Bass
*Celestia finds Luna after the press conference, and they play with candy. Things go sour when Luna introduces wrestling into the mix.
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*PJ continues her battle with Fizzle, finding herself chased through the halls by a wild dragons rage. Her attempts to stab him in the back go poorly, and she loses one of her gears
*He almost has her, until she reminds him that she has lasers, violently.
*He then reminds her that he has electricity, and things go bad for the bug.
*Daw calls out to her friends, but doesn’t get a response
*Left with little choice, she exits the safety of the airvent and joins the fray
*Silver Spoon flees in her airvents, repeating to herself that she wants to go home over and over. She gets lost in the vents, and accidentally manages to fall through one of them.
*Waiting on the other side? None other than Sweet Note, who now has a gun pointed at her.
*She’s ready to go home now.
*Back with PJ and Fizzle, PJ is on her last legs. She tries to goad him into turning on sunset, but to no avail. However, when she starts implying he’s gay, he loses it.
*He lets it all out in a giant blast that tears the side of the building apart, but she’s too fast.
*She comes up behind him, ready to swing, but it turns out the rage was a trick. He catches her with a TK infusion, and prepares to finish the job.
*Left with no other option she finishes it first, by throwing a bomb into him. Both are consumed in the blast.
*Later Daw finds the destruction left in the wake of the various battles, and fears she’s lost another friend. After growing so used to life being easy, this hits her hard.
*But when she finds a wash of destruction, including a pony sized hole leading straight through the outside of the building, she really worries.
*But to her relief, she finds Spike! He’s broken and bruised, but not dead. She quickly gets to healing him with the devices she brought.
*But when he gets back up, and after he makes sure he’s completely healed, he’s acting odd. Very cold and chilling.
*He keeps insisting that they need to summon the others, even getting angry at her for not knowing which direction they went.
*Finally Daw notices something odd about him.
*”Where’s charity?”
*He response back he just said he didn’t know where the others are, and she swings her sword at him. He catches it.
*She first curses herself for forgetting Chitania was a changeling, but the truth turns out worse than that.
*Fizzle steps out of the flames, and mocks her for not realizing if Sunset can give pony magic infusions to changelings, she can figure out the other way around too.
*That’s when he points out that the hole leading outside? It was one of her friends
*When he can’t remember which one, she snaps, and tries to take his head off
*The battle is on.
*Around the city, the citizens are one by one being lead into shelters and put into safety. The sign above says “Trust in EVO”, and they do.
*Back with Spike and Flash, the battle rages on, mostly with Spike being punched in by a flurry of blows.
*He tries to convince Flash to help him stop them, but he won’t be moved. They both point out they’re endangering others with this fight, and Spike wonders where Flash’s life went so wrong.
*All discussions suddenly end when they hear a distant scream of a mare, or filly. With that, their final charge begins.
*With some fancy trickery, Spike manages to nail Flash in the side of the head with a special bullet and it tears his synthetic flesh right off
*But even with half a face and leaking blood and alchemical fluids, he can’t be stopped. Flash pulls out a hidden blade from his side, and stabs Spike right in the chest.
*It’s over, and Spike falls against the glass of the window.
*After one final exchange, Flash promises his end will come quickly.
*Spike’s response, “Bang.”
*Flash is sorry it had to be this way.
*Spike agrees.
*With one final kick, the dragon is sent out the window of the highrise, and through the air.
*”Goodbye, Spike.
*After one final moment of tranquility, Spike falls, and halfway down the building, where the smoke is pouring out, and there is the dull impact of something slamming into the white stone, cracking it irreparably.
*Another battle had been lost.
*Things are not going well.
==Thread 184==
LAST THREAD RECAP, IT GETS WORSE EDITION
*42 should doublecheck her papers before she gives them to AJ.
*It turns out the escaping guards did a lot of stuff
*AUJ continues to feel fatigue
*Polygons are legal!
*AUJ and AJ argue
*Shiny gives hugs for Celly's bad day.
*SA and Twilight have an interesting talk about sibling love
*AJ agrees, everyone else is weird
*The professors want to study FS
*AUJ does not want to talk to Luna anymore
*The captains meeting is over-no wait, it turns out they just argued a lot, and didn't solve anything.
*Moondancer did not kill herself
*SA will not be able to name his child Chad.
*It's a hyper space reference.
*AUJ asks Rarity if she ever fucked Spike. Rarity's response is not happy.
*The Twilight/Rarity/FS princess meeting is a bust.
*AUJ and Twilight have an intense discussion regarding how AUJ is so damn powerful, which AUJ never reveals.
*When AUJ threatens Chrysalis, Twilight manages to turn the tide and put her on edge
*AUJ reveals that she hates how Equestria is run, and says she'd tell Twilight the secret to her power if she was willing to tel her friends off if they're not serving Equestria to make it better, which Twilight denies.
*With nothing left to say, both break off cold.
*Luna is not hung over, but Celestia is mad.
*Twilight gets budget for education!
*Two and Fluttershy talk
*AUJ wonders what happened to Angel Bunny, which Fluttershy is quick to show her.
*Celestia gives Treehugger a talk.
*Glue is not marchmalley, and hiding marchmalleys is a bad idea.
*This event worries AJ, who thinks Two needs to play with someone some more.
*Shining asks who, AJ has an idea.
*One long debate later, Rarity auctions off her sisters time. It's not as bad as it sounds.
*Long story short, Two and Sweetie Belle play in a giant castle with shapeshifting doors
*The Ghostbusters go inside of the black void to find strangely enough the Empire, looking perfectly fine.
*At first, they think this is merely Sombra's happy place, and maybe they should just leave him to the afterlife.
*Then they notice a certain someone in chains and looking quite emanciated, and think the better of that. They charge off.
*AUJ watches Applebloom play, and laments to herself how much harder her life is going to be when she grows up because of her sisters ineptitude.
*She grinds and the thought of the filly having to waste what little time she has comparatively fixing her sisters mistakes, and this spurs her into thinking she needs to figure out how to fix this for her.
*SA comes in on AUJ in the bathroom, not knowing it's her. Uncomfortable moments ensue.
*Blueblod enjoys some hayburgers
*Rarity can't contact Spike through Charity, and this worries Twilight
*The situation with the griffons gets worse. Dash ends up beaten up like a pingpong ball and after a badly worded motivation speech from Pinkie, the Changelings go into full Invasion mode and turn the tides. Things are awful.
*Two gives AB a theme song.
*Celestia is fatter in AUJ's world
*AJ is tracking AUJ
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*Silver Spoon, in fear, will not stop screaming at Sweet Note.
*Then come the bullets.
*Sweet Note dodges, and is about to retaliate in kind before she sees that SS is just a terrified little girl.
*Instead, SN agrees when SS says she wants to go home, and takes a seat next to her.
*Both of them talk about how little they want to be here, and eventually ask why they're even here at all.
*Sweet Note eventually replies "...Because my friends are here, and there ain't no place in the world I'd rather be."
*Things go a lot worse with Daw, who in her fury at PJ's death goes all out on the dragon, even though she can't land a single shot on him.
*During the mostly one-sided fight, Fizzle manages to get the upper hand and pins her down, and during his debate with himself admits that Chitania would probably let her live so she could fight again, and accidentally lets out how much seeing Chitania weakened got to him.
*He decides he's not like them, and is going to kill her.
*Before he does, Daw asks him who he killed. More specifically, if they had any balls
*She helps with visual aide by stabbing the dragon just beneath his stomach. Not quite there, but he gets the message.
*Now he's pissed.
*Flash, while walking down the halls, thinks about what happens and really wars with himself if what he did was right.
*His thoughts are interrupted by none other than the sudden appearance of Diamond Tiara!
*Time for a rematch.
*Sunset thinks to herself in fear as she drags Chitty across the floor to the top of the tower, wondering how they found out.
*She blames herself that Chitania got hurt, saying the changeling did perfect like always, and that's why it has to be her for the next step.
*it's time to finish this.
*She opens the doors to her final room, the very top of the tower. Up there, in a massive and mostly empty white room, there are only three items.
*The mirror portal. A console connected to it. And a giant green oblong thing that mostly resembles an egg. Strangely, it's the last one that really excites her.
*After putting Chitania in a magical diamond shaped shield and stabbing it into the floor,s he begins the final act, "Hells Call."
*Almost, at least.
*At the last moment, she notices the computer says there's three individuals in this room, not two.
*Initially, thinking it was 13, she asks "Why are you here?", as she wasn't supposed to, and more worryingly why she bothered to hide herself and where.
*But when a call from above states 'I thought that was obvious", it's revealed it's actually 007, who had been following her by coloring himself bright blue and glowing with his magic, blending himself into the ceiling above and following her every step of the way.
*Initially misreading her questions of why he bothered to hide himself and her lack of concern or surprise, he thinks she's willing to talk and is open to that himself.
*When she charges up her most deadly magic, he dryly shoots back "You could have just said no."
*Back with Silver Spoon and Sweet Note, SS is taken of guard by SN's response, thinking it stupid.
*They get into a long argument with each other about why they're here, and both admit they're the ones with no powers to speak of.
*During this, SS reveals DT had ordered her again and again and again not to come with, and this last time she said if DT left her behind, she wasn't her friend anymore, and that's why she's here.
*When SS says they're here to stop Sunset and Chitania, both sides wonder if they're the badguys.
*At the end of their talk, both SS and SN look at the door, and debate what kinds of friends they are.
*The kind of friends who stay out of the others way so they don't need protected,.
*Or the kind of friends who give their best to help out.
*With Fizzle wounded, he's on the ropes as Daw pushes forwards, hammering in her sword with everything she had, her slashes against his energy-claws sending sparks around the room that eventually become flames.
*Both sides roar that they're not going to let the other kill their friends, and the battle gets even more intense.
*After an opening from a lightning shock, she manages to stab him with the tip of her sword into the knife wound, only prevented from running him through by him catching it.
*He tries to use the close quarters to burn her, but this is what she was waiting for. She pulls back her sword and with a flick, it suddenly sprays ice magic now. She shoves it into his mouth, stifles the flames down his throat and keeps him from breathing, and he goes limp.
*She think she's won, and she takes a breather as the room around her is completely engulfed in flames.
*Only to be corrected by a SNAP as he bites down, and breaks the sword, and after choking up the mostly melted ice reminding her of his dragon teeth. After she expresses anger that he broke her gift, she tries to stab him again, and he reminds her of the other thing Dragons can do.
*He shoots up, and grabs hold of the burning ceiling, and calls out that he's fireproof before bringing down the entire ceiling on her.
*Back with Flash and Diamond Tiara, DT is mocking his current awful appearance.
*After a bitter back and forth, DT asks where Chitania is and Flash lets it slip Spike shot her.
*He's horrified when she's actually excited by the prospect, and even more so when after asking if she's dead, DT makes it clear she's ready to finish her of.
*When Flash asks about Sunset, DT admits that she was just going to drag her back to AJ, but when she learns Spike tried to kill her, it becomes less clear.
*She resolves to figure that out when she gets there, and instead orders Flash to start talking. She's going to count to three.
*At the last one, Flash can't take anymore, and screams if she wants to die like Spike did.
*After a moment of her shock, he charges.
*Everyone around felt the blast that shook the world.
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*Blueblood seeks friends
*Two does not want in the bath
*Pinkie and Dash play ball
*Following the actions of Mecha-Chitania, which lead to the collapse of the tower and the inability of Chitania to save Sunset or the others before it went down, Celestia and Luna are struck by a sudden calling in their mind! They receive flashes of warnings from Discord as he struggles to contain Blue Luminescent, the chunk of the almighty left buried beneath Hoofington!
*With this knowledge, they know something is wrong, and after pulling Pommel and Potsticker from their placements, they put the guard on high alert and charge after AJ's chem trails!
*The griffons are miffed about this, a little bit.
*They won't arrive in time
*The scene directly before the building's collapse plays out, and we watch how the A-team survived. 7 dashed through the crumbling building with PJ and Spike in tow, finding Silver Spoon with Blossom's Pheonix sight, eventually going to just shooting in every direction and following the screams, and after grabbing a wounded Daw and DT he broke free of the building an instant before it collapsed.
*But something is wrong
*He understands what it is, when he watches the scene with Chitania unfold. The horror, the sadness as she calls and searching for Sunset, anyone, tells him that this is no lie.
*Sunset and the rest were still inside, and 7 regrets it.
*There is no regret inside of Mecha-Chitania, as Pennydrop feels the full power of the love she sapped putting her machine's power off all the charts. She's more powerful than she's ever been, and ready for a fight.
*With a roar that shakes the heavens, Chitania unleashes all of her rage. Strangely, she does not go for her metal doppleganger just yet.
*She smacks the ground with all her hate, and her anger, until she starts to break the ground free.
*All around the city, cracks begin to appear. From there, comes the light.
*The thing beneath the city is nearly unleashed, and Chitania prepares to confront it.
*Only to be denied at the last moment when, before it can emerge, the plaid magic of a certain chaos user comes up, and pulls it back in.
*Chitania is left despondent as it is sucked away, and sealed off. Even the confrontation with the god is denied her.
*She sits there, silent and broken, until she hears a noise.
*When Mecha-Chitania tries to attack her, all her rage, all her hate, breaks loose, and she charges them, delivering all her anger out on the one who took everything from her.
*The first blow knocks them out of the destroyed city, and in fear all of the Airships crew flood out of MC and run away.
*The next blow Pennydrop takes punts her across miles. Literal miles.
*While she is afraid at first, Pennydrop gives into her own rage, matches Chitania blow for all powerful blow.
*With nothing to lose, they both go all out with all they had, and the battle to end all Kaiju battles begins!
*Their over the top bout takes them across landscapes, each blow able to send them flying.
*A dazzling array of powers comes from MC, and always keeps Chitty from getting the advantage.
*Destroying mountains, landscapes, battling in the sky, they eventually bring their fight to the inside of a massive storm cloud.
*They come down to earth with a boom, and rise up far above it as they fight on! Going to even greater Titan Heights, the two cross vast distances with just their steps in the storm, eventually reaching the edge of the ocean, until a tactical move brings Chitania back down, only to feel the switch herself when Pennydrop cuts into the back of her neck with a blade and nearly takes her whole head off!
*After they both sustain a major blow, Chitania sees something. A vision, of someone not there.
*Her daughter.
*She gives one final heartfelt speech saying how much she understands her now, and gives her one last piece of advice.
*Live long, and when death comes, give it the greatest fight in eternity.
*Final round, begin.
*Down to just punches, Chitania and her mecha counterpart give blow after blow after painful blow, punching and punching and laying it all out in one final all out assault.
*Then it all ends with a slip.
*One mistake from Chitania, and it's too much. She is knocked into the sea, and she can't muster the strength to get back.
*After one final roar, Pennydrop lays it all out.
*Nothing held back, she uses the full arsenal of Mecha-Chitania on her, blasting her with every single weapon she has. Chunks are blown off under lasers, missiles, beams and rockets, until at last, Chitania falls.
*She shrinks, and sinks beneath the sea.
*Pennydrop gives her one hundred and twenty seconds, watching the waters, making sure she doesn't come up, making sure she drowns.
*Then she opens fire again, just to be sure.
*All the while, she cackles with glee. She'd won.
*All of Equestria can see with her machines eyes, she's won.
*A joyous cheer fills them all, except for six.
*The A-team sits in silence, harrowed by all they'd been through, and give a weak speech.
*"We did it, guys."
*"...we won..."
*It was time to go home.
*But... it's not over yet.
*Down further away, a monster has not been killed.
*Breaching from the ocean, Chitania laughs to herself. Gryinidae, the changeling who claimed she could swim with her technique only to drown, had been right.
*While all were sure no changeling could swim, they'd been right, save for one. Chitania, broken, beaten, bleeding out, survived.
*Yet as she gets onto the beach, she wavers. After realizing they're all gone, she'd lost everything again, she wonders if she should just let the sea take her back, and give up.
*She doesn't wonder for long.
*She claws her way up the beach, determination in her eyes.
*She's going to try again.
*She's not dead.
*She's not done.
*And she is... horrified, when she hears a voice.
*“WHERE IN TARNATION EVEN ARE WE!?”
*It seems in her battle, she hit a very specific airship in the depths of that storm. Her pain had only begun.
*"...bring it on..."
*The battle had ended.
*The battle had just begun.
*Elsewhere, Celestia and Luna come across the destruction that had unfolded, all that had been ruined in the wake of the battle, and the scars on their land they're never sure would heal. With little to do, they do what they can.
*All around Equestria, these problems are seen. From a lumberjack who's home was destroyed to a lake long loved now gone, to a dream of climbing a mountain literally shattered, the scars of Equestria lay deep.
*And around that world, the word of what happened is spread.
*With the words, the cheer is spread, the knowledge of the monster is slain is spoken.
*To one, they cheer, "Thank you!"
*But Pennydrop only has eyes for the ocean, where her foe was slain. To herself, she whispers
*"I did it."
*"I made them all obsolete."
*A new era had begun, and this was only the beginning.
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*Gwen and Zephrious deal with a self-important guard who acts a little too cocky for their tastes, having his ego slightly inflated when he managed to convince Celestia to add more titles to the guard and gained the name Sergeant First-Class but when they hear news of Chitania’s defeat, all is forgotten.
*Instead, Gwen leaves Zehprious to deal with Canterlot while she heads home. Or rather, deal with… King Zephyrious! That’s right, at some point, he took over the crown.
*That’s one weight off Idris, but when Gwen arrives and she’s in the mood, that’s the only mercy he’s getting!
*Spike doesn’t regret what he’s done, until he hears Twilight descending down on him. Then he regrets everything.
*So does Rarity and Fluttershy, who really should not have hitched a ride with her.
*But when Twilight actually lands, it’s not so much strangeling as hugging him and saying she’s sorry for ever letting it get this far.
*Crying is had.
*Daw has a heart to heart with Pommel where she talks about feeling isolated in Equestria, and how this finally felt like coming home again even if it all went wrong.
*DT and Silver Spoon talk until Filthy Rich arrives. DT is so grounded
*The CMC feel like they’re not living up to their potential, and discovering the formula to fire isn’t helping!
*Derpy doesn’t regret punching anyone.
*Pennydrop, while celebrating, is called back to base.
*Pinkie forgot it was winter.
*77 saw some weird stuff with Cherry Berry
*Twilight agrees to help DT.
*Applejack and AUJ find themselves stranded in the middle of a storm. After a long chewing out, it’s revealed ‘something’ in the storm caused their ship to crash, tearing off a huge chunk and sending it down. Only now did the spell on AUJ break, and with no way out she’s begun working to get contact to the outside world.
*To AUJ’s dismay, she only grabbed the receiver, not the transmitter. She can see what happened, but not call anyone.
*That’s when both witness Chitania’s fall.
*While AUJ is confused, AJ tries to brave the storm and get back to civilization, but can’t manage. Even giving it her all, she can’t get rid of the storm.
*Broken, she declares it isn’t fair, and breaks down.
*Back in hoofington, PJ and 007 have a heart to heart, where PJ admits she and everyone else expected 7 to screw them, and she apologizes. She also regrets not being able to look after him like she promised, even if he did, and she promises to make it up to him.
*But before they can dwell on it too much, Chrysalis arrives, and she is ticked!
*She gives PJ the option of who to punish her, her or Celestia, and PJ picks Celly.
*After that she lays into 007, tearing him apart verbally and leaving him broken before moving on.
*She, Celestia, Luna, Twilight, Shining and Cadence all gather around Hoofington’s remains and discuss what it could be. Twilight had no idea, none of it showing up on any part of her systems. After Fluttershy reveals Discord is holding it back, Celestia breaks down and admits she has a theory. Of a battle a long time ago, when the force for good overcame great evil, but during the battle, she was wounded.
*Twilight asks if she’s sure, and she admits she’s not, it was before her time. If it is that, then releasing it, even to get the others out, could mean the end.
*At first, they despair, but when Shining Armor puts up a barrier little by little they join in resolve, and add to his shield to wall off the city from the rest of the world.
*At the end, they realize they need to find some way to figure out Twilight’s theory, and she has a possible way.
*Just ask someone who was there.
*Far, far away, two eyes of fire opened wide.
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*Twilight's airships are having problems reaching her. Dragon related problems.
*Cadence is shocked she missed everything.
*DT is annoyed Twilight wants to "Fix" her.
*Twilight wants to legally ground Spike forever.
*Back with Sombra, he continues to toil away beneath the haunting gaze of the ghostly crystal ponies, while his rescuers are stuck in an endless time look that prevents them from assisting him.
*Until the end, at least.
*42 denies seeing Spike and the others at first, before going off on a magical teleporting journey of pain and speaking to everyone.
*OOCO adventures of Gwen and the guard continue
*Chrysalis regrets requesting the tallest airship Also that thing on her back isn't armor.
*Fluttershy is not going to teleport everyone. It ill end badly.
*The airships finally arrive, but not the ones they expected! Rather, it's the ten airships of Queen Chrysalis.
*Why ten? Because she left someone in charge of her military budget. No, not Forty Two. They're hopefully not armed.
*Fawntaine employees are reasonably concerned, but get on anyway.
*Celestia and Luna vow to save as many as they can.
*The changelings are not sure they can fly.
*Pinkie is mad Dash flew off with Rarity, and seeks to get her back for adventure buddy betrayal.
*PJ tries to talk to Luna, doesn't go well.
*Before they leave, Chrysalis reveals there's something wrong with the thing beneath Hoofington. IT's almost warm.
*Celestia promises to see 007 later.
*Changelings take flying very seriously
*Spike's straps aren't nessecary, but he's going to get them all.
*Pinkie is going to the CE with everyone.
*Shiny claims to be gender neutral who he bubbles. Cadence says "LIES"
*Back at her lab, Twilight preps Spike for the real doctor, which she is not.
*While she's doing that, she decides to get all the informaiton, every bit from moment one, from Spike
*The CMC are a little mad their sisters aren't coming home
*Spoiled Rich has a deeply pained reaction to seeing DT likes this, and for once actually blames herself for it.
*Two is going to learn the Hugpunch.
*Partyland has strange attractions
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*AUJ continues her hunt for Chitania, following her without disturbing a single leaf. The Queen had given away her approximate location thanks to absorbing part of AUJ's magic sonar move in order to be able to walk again, and she can't have gotten far.
*Deep in the forest, she speaks, offering Chitania a chance to end this peacefully, and with a trial. The Queen doesn't take her up on it.
*But she never gets a chance to do anything with it, when out of the blue, AJ arrives!
*Things go south quickly when said mare steps on a snare that AUJ had easily avoided, expecting it.
*After a bit of back and forth yelling, AJ comes to a shocking conclusion from AUJ's behavior.
*"She's alive..."
*She tears off in a rush, running though the forest and begging for her to come out, offering safety and saying she knows how afraid and hurt she might be, but she can't leave her out in the rain.
*AUJ follows her though the forest as she flies, begging her to stop, but unable to make that happen.
*She finally stops AJ physically, and demands for her to stop. AJ reacts violently, accusing her of already attacking her, tearing loose verbally and physically.
*After trying to deny her claims that someone is out there, AUJ eventually slips up due to AJ's mad ramblings and reveals someone is out there.
*When AJ and AUJ both have different opinions on who should handle the matter, AJ thinking herself and AUJ claimingshe had her chance and blew it, it looks like a fight is about to break out.
*And it would have, if AUJ hadn't accidentally said the name of the one she's following.
*When AJ hears Chitania, everything falls apart.
*Eventually she admits she thought it was someone else, and when pressed why it was so important, AJ admits why.
*...Ah' need one more chance to make it right.
*AUJ Slaps her for that one, and declares she doesnt' deserve to be a princess. When AJ tries to fight back, she easily overpowers her and declares she doesn't deserve that power. She doesn't know what it means or is capable of.
*More importantly, she can't see the big picture.
*Thus follows a long chew out where AUJ tells her about how many are counting on her, what it means to have that kind of power and position, and how selfish and stupid she's being.
*She accuses her of just letting it slide and monologues about how important it is to put her personal cares and family aside.
*Finally, when asked what AJ plans to do, AJ just says she doesn't have all the information.
*AUJ thinks she knows enough, and so does she.
*She drops AJ, and heads into the forest, declaring that she'll show her what justice looks like.
*On the walk there, AJ deeply introspects with herself as to what Justice means, and goes over all the aspects of it she'd ignored so far.
*She wonders if AUJ is right, and how right she is.
*She questions what she'd done before, and if she was wrong to do it.
*She questions a lot of things.
*At the end, she realizes something.
*She doesn't know what to do.
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*The chefs are going to revolt against Cadence.
*PJ has to write letters to everyone of the family effected by Hoofinton for her punishment
*SA and Pinkie fiddle with Partyland
*Chrysalis and Spearhead do not get along well.
*Cadence proclaims 42 hugbug and it is so.
*Two’s investigation continues
*Dash and Rarity continue their hunt for AJ, and end up stranded up a beach when their path lead them too close to the massive storm.
*18 wants airships
*42 is bad at comedy
*The doctor has issues with Spike’s scales.
*Angel Bunny did not do a good job watching the place, but he does a good job cheering Fluttershy up
*Rarity and Dash, unable to proceed, hunker down in a sandcastle.
*42 inally questions why Chrysalis isn’t looking into 13. She reveals she doesn’t want to seem she is implying anything is her fault, but 42 sees through that she wants 13 to come see her. 42 decides to go see her anyway.
*42 says she’s disappointed in 007
*Pommel and Daw are waiting.
*Twilight takes Diamond Tiara away from Filthy and Spoiled after learning DT didn’t reveal her state to PD, and starts working on her.
*DT is reluctant at first and afraid, but gives in after some pushing. Twilight swears she will make DT better, and after putting her to sleep begins the arduous task of fixing all the damage.
*She’s beyond angry at what she finds, and she feels a growing resentment for Pennydrop
*The guard with Gwen accidentally ends up staying on Gwens airship due to a mixup, and Gwen realizes this will look like she kidnapped him. After some stern words, she decides to just take him to their kingdom and make up something about him escorting her.
*Silliness ensues
*Ponyville has seen better days, as Harry is a bit of a problem
*MM, Zecora and Trixie snap out of the time loop, and begin to battle the faux Crystal Ponies
*Changeling 66 has some issues
*Pinkie is allowed to steal Shiny
*AB, SB and Scootaloo’s attempt to build a rocket goes awry
*BUT WITH THE MAIN EVENT!
*AJ has utterly lost her mind upon finding the message declaring Sunset Shimmer is dead, and she was next.
*She tears off looking for Chitania, thinking that Chitania was the one who killed Sunset and swears revenge.
*She tears the place apart, unsuccessful, and eventually breaks down, crying when she realizes that she lost her chance to save Sunset.
*She takes the blame on herself, but still declares Chitania needs to die for what she did, so when she spots a figure that might be Chitania, she summons a spear to end this once and for all.
*After declaring she is going to settle this and regrets ever giving Chitania freedom, she prepares to strike, but hesitated.
*AUJ does not, and shoots the figure before anything can be done. Then she explains she understands the hesitation, and that AJ needed to be thinking straight to make that choice anyway.
*That’s when they find out it was just a dummy, made of broken wood and only able to fool them due to the rain and shadows.
*That’s when they realize they’re surrounded by those figures, all of them hanging from the trees.
*AJ realizes this isn’t like Chitania’s previous actions and something is wrong. She also puts it together this means Chitty’s been following them
*After some traps are set off, AJ tries to talk to Chitania, only to be smacked down by AUJ who chastises her for trying that
*After bluntly putting her down and showing why letting her go is no longer an option, AUJ asks her for her magic, and after some debate AJ sees it her way, and they join together with magic.
*At first it’s beautiful, AUJ is able to make the forest grow and look wonderous.
*Then she explodes everything
*Someone screams.
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*Spitfire’s attempts to fit into her old Wonderbolt’s outfit goes poorly.
*42 does not do well with sexy roleplay
*Pinkie and Cadence want to talk as Pinks
*The doctor finally finishes fixing Spike and rants a bit
*Pennydrop has a wild time flying around in Mecha Chitania
*The guards finally notice Delight is gone
*42 is preparing to talk to 13, with notecards. That’s when she learns 13 isn’t around
*32 breaks out of the loop finally and notices that the others are currently engaged in battle. Though the Crystal Ponies offer him a way out when he points out he barely knows Sombra so risking his life seems silly, he still reluctantly gives in and decides to join in the fight if only because he knows 29 and the others won’t stop.
*88 drinks at her favorite bar and waits for some news.
*Pinkie did something on Shiny’s desk. It’s better if we don’t ask.
*Rarity and Dash continue to try to wait out the storm with mixed results
*But along the way, they hear something out in the ocean…
*Spike begins dreaming. He can tell because of the giant Spike telling him so.
*18 and Chrysalis are still friends
*Pinkie ends up hiring strippers
*After some fun and mishaps, Pennydrop heads to Canterlot
*The CMC find themselves stranded
*77 does not deserve this pain
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*”WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?”
*Following AUJ’s explosion, there seems to be nothing left. AUJ deliberately stretched out the blast as far as she could to ensure there was no escape.
*Though AJ is furious at the beginning, she begins to wonder if it really was for the best now that it’s finally over. Everything is finally finished and they can rest
*When AUJ offers a way to finally be the princess Equestria needs, it’s a very tempting offer.
*She might’ve accepted, if a sudden noise didn’t startle them.
*Chitania lives.
*Both set off, AUJ trailing behind AJ, as they follow the path, and all the while AJ is at war with herself if she should finally finish it, finally kill Chitania for all she’s done, and what it will mean if she doesn’t.
*When she comes across a body on the side of the river, she hefts her spear and prepares to avenge Sunset.
*But then she stops, to AUJ’s annoyance.
*Turns out that isn’t why she stopped, it was just that the ‘body’ was another of the puppets. The rope that was pulling it lead right into the raging river, with nothing on the other side.
*Again, it seems like it’s all over.
*Only SURPRISE! It wasn’t a puppet, it was Chitania!
*The bug grabs AJ and pulls her beneath the water, and though AJ tries she just can’t escape before she goes down.
*AUJ splits the entire river downstream to grab them, but to her surprise there’s nothing there.
*Nope, with her newfound swimming, Chitania is UPRiver, and with a cackle she escapes into the woods.
*AUJ pursues her but can’t get close enough in time.
*Too late, she’s brought to an open field and AJ is dropped before Chitania vanishes.
*They hear an earth shaking roar, and see a great big shadow in the distance.
*Thinking it Chitania’s Titan Form, AUJ gives a grand speech about justice, and then sentences Chitania to death. With one blast, she tries to end it all
*But it was a trick! The shadow was just an outcropping of rock, and before AUJ can react Chitania is behind her, and punches her in the chest!
*At first AUJ laughs it off, due to it not hurting her at all.
*She stops laughing when a ‘clink’ goes off.
*From that mysterious apple emblem AUJ has around her neck, something comes out.
*Cadence’s Cutie Mark!
*Chitania reveals that during their first battle, Sunset slipped in a way for her to get it just in case, because she didn’t know if this AJ was better than her own, but unwilling to fully believe she was.
*In pain, AUJ can do nothing as Chitania brings the mark to her shattered armor, and then can do nothing when it’s healed and reformed in a new, more powerful way!
*Chitania is BACK, and the final battle has begun!
*Meanwhile, back at Canterlot, it’s revealed Lavan has been stalling this whole time.
*The reason why, he’s reluctant to get into it, because he realizes that if it is as he fears, then this is the end.
*The end of all things
*To show Celestia and Luna what he means, he must take them back to the beginning of all of it.
*Then, they will understand
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LAST THREAD RECAP, NOT DEAD EDITION!
*A guard’s attempts to find out what the deal with the CE crew doesn’t phase Cadence
*42 does not gives hugs, and this makes a changeling sad
*Spike continues to dream after shooting his dream bigger self, and said bigger self continues to be dead, that is all.
*After some musing about eating meat and the like, the long passage gets to him and he eventually puts the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Things get more anime very fast.
*DT continues her own dream adventure, even being confronted by her mother on the dreamscape before finally telling her off once and for all!
*Chrysalis learns the 13 is not in the hive or stadium from a changeling she sent to tail 42, for completely non-if 13 gets violent reasons. Worried, she sends the changeling back out, and he seems to turn around for a second before leaving again... or does he?
*Said changeling promptly loses 42 and heads off to Canterlot to track her down
*77 has to put up with some crazy stuff.
*Two is a flier and Spitfire is proud.
*Pinkie has a punchline
*Cadence will only swap jobs with 18 if 18 can swap baby
*Two gets ants.
*Twilight at last finally begins her surgery to repair Diamond Tiara. After listing all the things wrong, she gets to work.
*She first has to repair all the damage and take off the badly healed sections, but runs into a problem.
*Undeterred, she uses a magical spell to see and act literally on the smallest possible level and repairs the body from there, because Twilight isn’t playing.
*She does everything she could, but in the end couldn’t fix everything, DT is still going to have to heal and won’t be able to walk for a bit.
*Exhausted, but happy she could do that much, she walks off and collapses.
*The CMC got saved by winona who is a good girl.
*JJ and Acty feel like celebrating
*Fluttershy had fun with portals
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*The final talk with Chitania and AJ begins, and it begins with a strange offer! The Sun!
*Yes, that one special spell that lets any pony raise or lower the sun, or in Twilight’s case bounce it around, is now up for grabs according to AJ, if Chitania will answer some questions. She can finally fulfill her childhood dream!
*Chitania is of course shocked, wondering how AJ could have possibly known of her childhood fancy, and AJ comes clean, admitting she read her diary. Chitania is furious, but doesn’t attack.
*Instead, she wonders why AJ thinks she still wants it, and AJ is shocked, thinking this was all Chitty ever wanted. In fact, she seems to have grown out of it, and thinks it silly.
*AJ is disappointed, admitting that she doesn’t have anything else to give and no other offer to make, she can’t stop the Queen.
*Despite insisting she no longer needs it, Chitania hesitates before leaving, and after some musing she decides she wants to put it to rest, and accepts to answer AJ’s questions.
*AJ’s first question “Why did you kill Sunset”, does not go as planned. Mostly due to the sudden fury and choking.
*That’s when AJ learns of what really befell Sunset, and finds herself horrified at what Spike has done. Both the initial attempt and subsequent ordering to glass the building.
*This is when Chitania also learns AJ didn’t order the attack, and that she was the cause of the airship going down, so AJ couldn’t have known where she would end up in the battle.
*Applejack breaks down, blaming Chitania for what happened to Sunset and angrily calling her out for turning a good pony wrong by exploiting a bad moment. When pressed, she admits she tried to find a way to fix Sunset, but couldn’t figure out how the biology stuff even worked, let alone how to do something so complicated.
*She also reveals Twilight didn’t stop, she hit a roadblock out of fear of killing Sunset, or worse, making her a monster like she’d done Flash.
*After a few choice words, AJ admits it was all her fault, and when she asks Chitania what spell she used to fix Sunset, she realizes it didn’t matter at all.
*Chitania tries to take her prize with the question answered, but AJ managed to pull a fast one on her, never saying that was the question for the bargain.
*Though angry and suspicious, Chitania accepts when AJ asks them to move locations, and both go up into the clouds.
*Up there AJ asks what she’s going to do next, and is stunned when Chitania says she’s going right back to her previous goal. Thinking she really is a monster now.
*Angry, she demands to know if Chitania ever really thought Sunset was her friend, and Chitania will only answer if it’s the final question.
*Though tempted when Chitania offers anything else, including the spell used to fix Sunset, she sticks to her guns and says that’s the final question.
*Reluctantly, Chitania says she was. And when pressed, she says Sunset was happy.
*Driven to tears, though not just sad ones, AJ admits she’s glad that Sunset found a friend, she’d tried to be that friend but hadn’t managed.
*AJ asks if Chitania misses them, and despite her attemtps to brush it off she pushes forwards.
*Chitania declares it’s pointless, because what could have been doesn’t matter, so why ask it now?
*AJ says because she wants to keep trying.
*When Chitania is obviously baffled at her doing that now, of all times, and that it’s too late, AJ just insists, saying there’s still time and neither of them are dead yet.
*When Applejack implies she wants to make it right, Chitania asks if she can raise the dead, to which she says no. The Queen implies she’s going to take her revenge instead.
*AJ asks if that will make it okay, if that will be justice, which the other thinks is a silly word and means nothing, but the pony insists it means a lot to her, because she’s been chasing it this whole time and thinks she’s found it.
*Chitania insists she wants vengeance, not justice, AJ asks what’s the difference to her? If Chitania hurts them, they hurt back, and so on, and nothing gets better.
*Finally Chitania can’t take it anymore and asks what AJ wants to do if that is not justice, lock her up? Kill her?
*Applejack admits the former wouldn’t work because eventually she would get out, and while she could likely do the latter someday, always another weapon after all, it would only continue the cycle.
*Chitania asks what is her justice then, and AJ finally spells it out. Understanding.
*She says Chitania finally understands what it’s like to be one of her victims, what it’s like to lose everything on a whim, what it’s like to lose friends and family to something that couldn’t be stopped or defeated, and so on.
*What Chitania wants is not justice.
*The Queen rages, punching at AJ and declaring that the words mean nothing, and it will not stop her vengeance or keep her from getting back at those who hurt her. Enraged, she demands to know why AJ thinks she’d let them go.
*AJ says she’s not letting them go, she wants something else instead.
*Let her do it.
*Of course Chitania laughs it off, but eventually some choice words get to her, and she wonders if she should let AJ try to prove it.
*Weakened, she asks why now, of all times. Now, when she’s lost everything.
*”Even if they’re gone… you’re not. Not yet.”
*Chitania asks if she tried to reach heaven, will AJ stand in her way?
*She says maybe, if she thinks it’ll hurt someone… but she’ll try to understand.
*Chitania is about to say her response, but runs out of time.
*Her Love Armor falls off and falls apart, and the source of her power leaves her. Naked and exposed with AJ, nothing but her crown remaining, AJ points out this is her only chance to stop her, and Chitania readies to fight
*Instead, she offers a hoof, with a glowing orb.
*Chitania takes it, and the power of the Sun with it, and after a parting word she leaves the pony behind.
*Alone, AJ resolves to make a better future, and looks down on the ruined landscape below.
*With this newfound optimism, she finally reaches deep into her power, and tried to make it right.
*A new rain falls on the barren landscape, that of seeds. They don’t instantly grow, it’s not an immediate fix, but it’s a beginning.
*A new beginning, for a new age.
*She’s going to fix Equestria with her understanding.
*Her Justice.
==Thread 200==
Anniversary thread. Non canon stuff.
==Thread 201==
Missed
==Thread 202==
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==Thread 203==
*Wowie, Zowie, what a mess everyone found themselves in this time! After the fight between AlternateUniverse-Applejack and Chitania, the former limps back to Canterlot, determined to shoulder all the blame. As the princesses are trying come to terms with the revelation that the unknown entity temproarily trapped beneath Hoofington might be, at least in part, be their Mother, poor AUJ gets the chewing-out of her lifetime!
*But, to make matters worse, Chrysalis' and realize that with her mother gone, chances are high that 13 will go rogue. With the silent alarm sounded in Canterlot due to AUJ's commands, things begin escalating in silence, until 07 steps into 13's way and finds out she has been in recent contact with her mother! Unwilling to stop and be found out, 13 takes control of 7's mind, unaware that something darker slumbers within his psyche!
*"FuuuUCKING FLLLLLAAAAAAKE!"
*How will the possibly frailest and most unlucky Changeling alive fair, confrotned with a beast immune to her powers? What will the royal sisters do, forced onto a wild goose hunt to track down the remnants of the Darkness that their own progenitor severed into individual beings strewn all across the world? And how will Equestria handle the revelation their greatest enemy now controls the Sun?
*Find out next time, on Thread 204: The sun sets over Equestria! See ya there!
==Thread 204==
Missed
==Thread 205==
Missed
==Thread 206==
Missed
==Thread 207==
Missed
One line recap
*Applejack just won't let Pennyrdop escalate the situation and resolves it without a fight, but when a strange light shoots up in hoofington, the AJ's, Shining and Twilight are off!
==Thread 208==
LAST THREAD RECAP, OFF WE GO EDITION!
*Pinkie and Fluttershy and Domshy are missing something
*SA, Twilight, AJ and AUJ have a breif break before they head out again
*Discussions of food turn non-sitcomy.
*Discusssions of getting lost are much better.
*They'll get there eventually.
*Pennydrop gets a moment to appreciate her actions with a guard asking for selfies.
*Celestia is rather miffed Chrysalis is still gone
*The foursome get there, eventually! They land and are stunned by the sheer devastation of Hoofington
*Their first attempts to get the guard in order go poorly, until Shining takes charge! He keeps them from running and then tells Twilight to go fix it.
*Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated
*Outside hoofington, AJ and AUJ talk about how this slipped through the cracks. AUJ gets so mad, she pushes AJ off the cliff. In turn, AJ gets so mad, she starts beating AUJ. Shining watches, because.
*Rarity and Dash grouse about being left behind.
*Pommel and Potsticker freak out, Lighting Dust is jut annoyed.
*Lucky Strikes assembles the guards and gives poor advice
*Cadence says it's fine
*Delight is having some trouble seeing straight after the shots.
*56 wants none of what SS is offering.
*Celestia's attempts to trap Chrysalis do not work.
*Coco is still best drill sargent
*Celestia's attempts to intimidate a changeling into telling her where Chrysalis is goes very badly!
*The giant spider beneath the CMC tries to eat them, and the trick from Winona fails to make the Dread Knight kill that one too. They're desperate and running out of time.
*Eventually, they offer Sweetie Belle for a whole week if they get out of this alive.
*The Dread Knight doesn't know what that says about him that he agrees to it then.
*With that said, the dread knight then points out that the Spider can't reach them anyway or it would have already, and sure enough the fact it's eyes reach one side to the other should have clued them in sooner.
*They relax, until the Spider suddenly pushes both sides of the hole and splits it wide open.
*Shit has gotten real.
*Domshy is really candid about sex talk and also Zephyr is there what!?
*Someone is dreaming, and it's a scary dream.
*AJ and AUJ talk about Sunset, and weirdly AUJ tries to help AJ.
*Shining annoys Twi.
*Twi eventually comes to the conclusion that despite shooting a glowing light into the air, nothing is really worse off than before. None of her equipment can detect anything else going wrong, and Blue isn't coming out.
*Even so, it's kind of worrying since the light is apparently reaching up into space and beyond.
*With that in mind, she takes as many samples as she can get and decides to scan them in her lab where it will actually be useful.
*Despite AJ worrying that Twilight is still distracted by Diamond Tiara, Twilight assures her that she is fine and can handle it.
*She leaves, but Shining, AJ and AUJ decide to wrap it up there before they go first.
*After Twilight leaves, Shining suddenly realizes that AUJ never told him what he was like in her world!
*There's no face hoof strong enough.
*AUJ shuts him down immediately and gets hostile when the issue is pushed.
*Having enough, she stomps off, leaving the pair behind. AJ decides to go after her while Shining declares he's going to do some last minute work with the guards, and they decide to meet back up in a bit.
*AUJ meanwhile is bitter as she stands alone, wondering why her Twilight hasn't brought her home yet.
*AJ finds her fact enough, and after a breif talk about how she acted, AJ cuts right to the chase and asks AUJ a simple question.
*"Why don't they want you back?"
==Thread 209==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BABY EDITION!
*Rekulk askes Sebjeck about the above world
*DT's dream continues to battle on, and she continues to grow!
*Twilight tries to get her head in the game
*PJ wants to invite 7 to poker
*Shining Armor worries that he's dead in the other world
*Potsticker is unhelpful
*AUJ is ticked AJ thinks they don't want her, and after some arguments, some choice words that stops AJ from asking anymore about alternate Shining, and revealing it's been some time since she'd had fun with her friends, AUJ admits her real fear, that something is stopping them from getting her back.
*Shining, while searching and thinking about his problems, comes across an odd hooded unicorn on the edge of the the city.
*Siegfried and Delight talk about the time with Gwen, and things go wrong.
*Shining confronts the unicorn, but after finding out it's not Sunset, he offers to take her out of town. Along the way he lets loose his real feelings about Sunset's death which shocks even him, and both of them talk
*At the end, she gives him her name.
*Starlight Glimmer
*Pennydrop meanwhile muses about the beauty of Blue.
*AUJ finally lets it all out how much she's panicking at all the things that could have gone wrong over at her world, and is terrified they are all suffering now that she's gone. AJ tries to comfort her, to no avail, as AUJ knows her Twilight wouldn't leave her behind.
*AJ finally grows angry when AUJ also hints at something else stopping Twilight and finally breaks, angry that she's being so vague and hiding so much that she reminds her of Chrysalis.
*AUJ takes offense, but reveals the reason she tries not to talk about it is that AJ would doubt.
*Being fully honest, AUJ says what happened in her world had to happen, there was no stopping it, but in this world it could be avoided. But if AJ knew, she'd always doubt if it was supposed to happen or not, she'd spend her whole life wondering if something was wrong, and she didn't want that.
*Reluctantly, AJ finally drops the matter.
*But, AUJ says if it'll save some trouble later, she'll tell her everything.
*After a bit more talk, they come to the conclusion the only way to get her back home is this universes Twilight, and Auj has to agree, accepting if she can, AUJ will admit she's a better princes than her, and will show her how to make the amulet.
*Things are finally looking up.
*That's when they both spot something off in the distance.
*Fluttershy is not happy about Zephyr working with Domshy
*Celestia and Luna are confronted by Rarity and Dash
*Pennydrop discovers Super Ponio brothers.
*Shining Armor apologizes for yelling at Starlight earlier, and she waves him off.
*She talks about how a vacation might do him wonders, which he agrees to.
*Both of them then muse that both are hiding something they don't want others to see.
*Starlight reaches a safe point and mentions her village, which might be a nice place to visit when she also spots something.
*Serene, she tells him to lift his forelegs, which he does.
*BoomCRACK
*Flashback a bit, and we see Cadence, sitting in her bed, calm as anything when she asks Spitfire to come close.
*That's when she very calmly mentions that her water just broke and-
*SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNG AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR!
*Back with Shining, now being carried by Spitfire and the problem is BABY! IT'S BABY! BABY IS COMING!
*BABBYYYYYYY!
*Everyone feels it.
*EVERYONE.
*Lots of reaction stories.
*When they can't find a doctor who can help, they grab a random pony off the street.
*HIM! That pony shall work!
*Thus begins a point and click adventure game.
*Because.
*But on to the final event!
*42 cofronts 13 and they talk about how she found her and why 13 needs to come home.
*There's a back and forth discussion on the nature of Hives and how their lives could have been so different.
*13 point blank asks if the princesses wanted her mother dead, and she can only answer that Chrysalis did not.
*13 muses about being a coward, before she finally tries to leave, casting a mind spell to stop 42.
*But she's prepared! 42's body lights up with runes of some sort, and though she won't reveal how it works yet, she will tell 13 all about it from a holding cell!
*She teleports and punches!
*It does nothing
*Shocked at how weak she is, 42 keeps trying to no avail.
*Both are equally matched and exhaust each other
*At least, until 13 pulls out her laser beam, which 42 can't dodge.
*Chrysalis rescues her at the last moment! Taking the hit without a flinch.
*13 is flabbergasted and unable to speak when Chrysalis lays into her.
*Yet, she still offers her a way out.
*But 13 doesn't take it.
*She just says she's sorry, and she never wanted Chrysalis to know she could do this, and then everything goes green mid dive.
*When 42 hits Chrysalis's legs, everything has changed.
*For instance, it's no longer early morning.
*Up above, a voice cries out! It's Twilight!
*She's shocked when Chrysalis points out she just saw twilight go into the castle, saying she's been across the country and back!
*13 somehow made them completely stop in time, enough they're now covered in dust!
*Chrysalis is striken, unable to even think in horror of what this means, that she, A Queen, was bested in mind magics.
*It falls on 42 to reveal the threat of Chitania's lineage is not yet over...
*And it falls on Twilight to get off 7, who's not dead.
*A new foe has emerged!
==Thread 210==
LAST THREAD RECAP! CADDY GONNA CHOKE A HUBBY EDITION!
*18 thinks the doctor is weird.
*The Crystal Guard realize they're idiots
*Chrysalis is not okay
*The doctor is not sure what to make of Cadence's scream
*Fluttershy is going to hit her other self but no time for that! Pinkie realizes what the twitchy tail means and is off for balloons!
*The Rarity-Celestia-Dash argurment continues until a guard comes in with a special announcement! BABEH!
*Nobody believes Seven beat Sunset
*The snow is further than it should be
*Celly, Luna and Rarity all trying to fit through the portal at the same time is a bad idea.
*Chrysalis doesn't feel like talking.
*Mares don't understand, says Blueblood
*Cup and Carrot Cake missed Pinkie
*Fuzzy and Buzz tell everyone about Cadence
*Twilight finally brings the lings to her lab and there's much work to do.
*She wants to examine Chrysalis for any sign of mind control residue, but Chrysalis will not have any of it and Twilight relents.
*Seven is not put in a tube to recover, but a dome! A DOME!
*Forty Two accepts her help without complaint and offers her mind to be looked at instead.
*After Twilight goes off to look at Spike, 42 and Chrysalis talk, with 42 reluctantly as to give praise to 7 for finding 13 in time.
*Alone, they ignore the guard Chrysalis needs a minute.
*Twilight goes to check n Spike, and is very curt with him as she gives him a tablet with some stories on it to read while she fixes everything else.
*She doesn't tell Spike about Blue
*The Doctor's Point and Click adventure continues! He traverses around the area and apparently after some talking stumbles across a room containing all the most girlish parts of every mare in the castle. It's littered with pink stuff, posters of boy bands, and some very questionable diamond dog reading material!
*After getting a blanket which takes some clever defeating of a guard by pushing, he gives Cadence an item he scrounged from the room! THE REDHEAD SHINING DOLL RETURNS!
*Nobody is sure who dug that thing up, but it makes a perfect distraction while Cadence chokes the life out of it.
*Still, he needs Cadence to slow down, so he thinks of the only thing he can, a story!
*The power of shipping fuel works!
*But his adventure isn't over yet...
*Celestia tries to lay ground rules but it's pointless, everyone agrees giving birth is gross and don't want to see it.
*EVERYONE.
*Shining and Spitfire arrive at the Empire! Shining has second thoughts about entering, so a magical choke hold brings him through the door.
*Through the door.
*Spitfire gets updated.
*DT continues her dream battle, only her foes are still growing bigger and stronger every time she wins, and seemingly without end!
*After hearing from Fuzzy and Buzz about the baby, Domshy poofs Zephyr and Regshy to the Empire! Her teleporting needs work.
*Shining suffers.
*Back at Canterlot, that guard is still banging, and Chrysalis is still ignoring him.
*Instead she focuses on the fact she can't believe anything 13 said anymore, or herself, and doesn't know how long 13 has had the power to control her. After all, changelings don't leave traces behind.
*But 7 then chimes in about all he learned at Evo tower and from his talk with 13 when he gathered all her information.
*Chrysalis and 42 have to reluctantly admit they didn't figure that out either, and wouldn't have without him.
*Frustrated now, Chrysalis can't take it anymore, and answers the door. He says one word.
*Baby.
*AND SHE'S OFF! Rapidfire teleporting away with 42 and leaving 7 behind!
*Even the dome doesn't want him either.
*Back in Zecora's hut, it seems someone has forgotten something. A pair of shadowy, unknown figures slink in, and steal the Alicorn Amulet!
*Back with the CMC, the Massive Spider closes in, and nobody can figure anything out, even the Dread Knight is pretty useless!
*At least, until they point out the simple fact that for a dread knight, he's not very dreadful.
*Why, it seems the Spider is more dreadful, but not a knight?
*Not until Applebloom and Sweetie Belle knight it, and it's legit!
*Not-as-Dread Knight can't stand for this! So he does something crazy!
*Jumps right into the center of the web and pushes it right in the Spider's face, who's so taken back it moves backwards!
*JUST AS PLANNED!
*Winona cuts both of them free at the last second and the web springs them to the top.
*Both combine their weight/sword into a hurricane stab, and blast right through the Spider!
*And then promptly pull the CMC down further into the hole.
*The journey continues!
==Thread 211==
LAST THREAD RECAP, HELLO FLURRY EDITION!
*AJ arrives and instantly has a question for Celly, nobody is happy
*Chrysalis charges to the Empire dragging Forty Two for the ride, until she comes to a dead stop in Cadence's room. Though Forty Two hits the wall, Chrysalis bounces right to way too damn happy mode.
*Cadence gives no fucks and continues to strangle Shiny
*OOCO Shiny flashback with Jetset happens
*OOCO Cheerilee and Snails moment happens, Cheerilee is not so cheery, lee.
*18 and 2 don't know why Chrysalis is happy.
*Rarity is prejudice
*AJ has issues with kids growing up not knowing their dads
*Celestia reluctantly goes in the birth room
*AUJ get left behind
*Nobody is sure where Pinkie is
*Out of order chronologically, Diamond Tiara's dream battle continues on, growing more intense, and the monsters more powerful. Then, when it gets to the absolute peak, someone shows up. Luna admits she should have come sooner.
*Back at the Empire, Luna will not be ignored!
*Everyone of the CE Crew's reactions to Cadence is unique.
*Forty Two doesn't want to admit who she lost in a fight to.
*Nobody is sure what the doctor is doing
*Or if that's really Chrysalis, until the HAH
*The baby is not Celestia Two
*The main six ponies are sure 18 is going to get pregnant next
*Also AJ is prejudiced
*Pommel and Potsticker are shocked the princesses left again
*Discussions of flanks happen
*Shining Cannot escape anymore, because it's baby time
*As the birthing sack finally crests a huge blast of magic wipes out everyone except the doctor, Shining, and Cadence from the room.
*A tense emotional moment happens when Cadence admits she's scared, but Shining helps her though
*After a huge moment, the baby is out and.. AN ALICORN!
*All is well!
*The doctor comes out to tell everyone the news, and they're all super muted about it.
*But no time for that, because the cloaked pegasus who's been talking with the doctor says good job!
*Specifically, "Well done, Sunburst." Yes, twist, the doctor was sunburst all along!
*Everything is okay!
*Except the other CE crew, who are out in the snow and cold
*AJ/Rarity/Dash/Luna/FS discuss the baby, and Dash is a little more freaked out then the others.
*Turns out they thought he said unicorn.
*FUUUU
*Domshy and Zephyr see this and decide to go get lunch.
*The CE Crew are laughing about bets won, while all of them think the baby is a unicorn.
*Also, Chrysalis had no idea her teleport goes fwoosh.
*The Main girls calm down when they realize they were only screaming because Luna screamed and Luna only screamed because everything snowballed
*>ack in the room, Shining Armor is talking with his daughter, and both he and Cadence share a single, wonderful moment.
*That moment is broken by polka music.
*PINKIE HAS ARRIVED! And she brings songs!
*And allsooooo-
*BIG SISTER TWO!
*She gets to meet her new sister, Flurry Heart! The family is back together!
*Or rather it's back together when there is a FWOOSH!
*Chrysalis thinks it's cute.
*Celestia, not so much when she realizes what it is.
*Everyone else gushes over the little one, even Chrysalis gets a nose boop.
*But alas, baby has to go to special... baby... room? Baby farm? Cadence has to rest.
*Once they're clear, Celestia lets out her FFFUUUU
*Pinkie got left behind with Cadence and can't move
*Luna thinks this is probably fine
*Fluttershy is not amused by Luna's other comment
*Celestia stops her UUUUUuukay.
*Everything is okay, probably. Even though Celestia now has to throw out everything she knew about ascended genetics. Because she didn't study them very hard.
*Please don't say it's her fault.
*The Mane girls and luna gush over the baby.
*Shiny is still not being an alicorn
*OOCO Dream-Luna tries to help DT confront her problems, but DT is having none of it.
*AUJ is doing temporary paperwork duties
*Everyone feels sympathy pains for the wings... and Cadence.
*the Ce Crew continue to look at sleeping Flurry
*the CMC hit rock bottom, not literally. More Fur Bottom. Because all that spider-food had to go somewhere. They survived! Somehow!
*And have to acknowledge the Dread Knight won.
*However, when he cracks the floor, they're about to revoke everything, but no such luck! Becuase instead of going down, something comes up!
*Fire! It's fire!
*(I...AM...RISEN!)
*And as it turns out, this shape in the fire is none other than the Dread Knights MASTER!
*Things have gone south
*Back at the CE, something happens.
*Applejack, looking at the CE crew talking about Flurry, feels that pain again.
*The same one she felt when she found out Cadence was pregnant, the need to be loved like that and missing not feeling that kind of love.
*It's during this time that she feels the want, and congratulates Shining.
*But then, she wonders...
==Thread 212==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SHOCKING RETURN GO!
*Flurry is asleep and cute!
*Everyone discusses the ramifications of the fact they can make Alicorns.
*Flurry has an inner monologue, it's mostly about revenge and when she doesn't see something it ceases to exist and she does not miss them.
*Twilight finds out about Flurry and she is not happy
*Everyone wonders about what the criteria is to make Alicorns now
*Twilight sees Flurry is an alicorn and goes science crazy
*Fuzzy and the Buzz tell the world about Flurry
*Luna doesn't want Blueblood
*Spitfire is sad
*Sunburst and Tiempo talk about the mortality of Alicorns, which the princesses do not like
*Pennydrop learns about Flurry and super doesn't like it.
*Cadence wakes up and thinks about baby, Pinkie takes this opportunity to run
*She has to use the bathroom and she's not sorry
*AUJ works in Equestria
*Golden Harvest gives no fuck about the baby
*77 and Cheerliee are worried when the demons start celebrating
*Sunburst wants to see Flurry again
*Dash is told she can leave, loudly, by Spitfire
*Turns out while all this was going on, Actarius actually managed to set up the proceedings of a viable trade deal with Zephyrious between the griffons and changelings
*What
*AJ learns that the griffons were wandering around unattended and it was all her fault
*Two makes a bunch of others sad
*But it looks like everyone is ready to go home.
*Until Flurry sneezes and blows up the Crystal Heart
*Whoops
*OOCO, Luna continues her dream talk with Dimaond Tiara, trying to convince her that there's a problem but DT is having none of it. So, Luna takes her back to the start of it all...
*Back in current time, Flurry officially is off the chain
*She flies, she shoots lasers, everyone who tries to stop her is ruined
* Celestia and Luna and Rarity get curbstomped by snow in the meantime, because of course.
*Pretty much half a thread of Flurry just utterly destroying everyone and reactions to it, or the blizzard outside.
*But it's all leading to the big finale!
*Flurry is lead into a room by a glowing orb, and who lies in wait for her?
*Why, the only one who didn't try fighting her or the storm... Chrysalis!
*It turns out, she's got something for the little one...
*STORY TIIIIMMMMMMEEE!
*Yes, Two and Flurry get their first together MOMSIE STORY
*MOMSIE IS BACK
*Flurry and Two, entranced by the story, are put to bed and go to sleep.
*The day is saved!
*...if you don't count the blizzard outside.
*Mostly saved!
==Thread 213==
Missed
==Thread 214==
LAST THREAD RECAP, THE FORGOTTEN EDITION!
*Aj has a question about princesses
*The fire from last thread turns out to be just a random panel exploding, nothing big.
*Now, the cults who cropped up because they were lost without their princesses, that was another matter entirely.
*AJ talks about Spike
*18, Spitfire and 42 get drunk
*Celestia and Luna check up on Pommel.
*10 and BBB spot 7
*Celestia and Luna tell Blueblood NO. For no reason, just NOOOO
*Lighting Dust is still WB captain
*Pinkie wants a cagematch
*After making a very odd agreement with Vekir, the Griffon Guards are worried about the still sleep deprived Hilda who won't go to sleep.
*Zephyrious finally comes home much to the very tired Hilda's childlike glee. He carries her to bed, sure that the world won't explode if the throne is empty for a minute.
*AJ and AUJ talk
*Twilight comes up to find the guard still banging on her door
*AJ asks AUJ who she's fucking
*Celestia and Luna find SO MUCH PAPERWORK
*The guards tell AJ what went wrong
*Rekulk tells AJ to stop being so noisy. By that he means all of Canterlot
*Celly and Luna run from paperwork to bug Twi
*Rarity and AJ talk about making family
*Screwloose and 12 continue the battle against the unholy creation and learn about Flurry. They finally manage to pull out 8-bit and Gaffer and altogether destroy the thing in one epic final attack!
*56 tells Silver Spoon what his Cuz used to do when he was scared. It doesn't help.
*Pinkie gives AUJ props for a good joke
*Celestia and Luna are concerned what them walking down the hall looks like.
*Flim and Flam's talkshow is back!
*Maud, Awkawrdling and the Rainbolts notice the storm has gone
*Blossom looks for 7
*Celetia and Luna want cake, and Pinkie gets it from the Cakes
*Luna has a need for Twilight, BUT WAIT! There is one who needs her! To the dream realm!
*Which means standing in the middle of Twilight's room.
*Twi is not happy.
*Everyone pretends she's not there.
*OOCO Tiempo talks to Sunburst and then explains the basis of his seemingly impossible gloves to Rarity, who doesn't notice there's some rather large holes in his story.
*Gilda gets lost and ends up talking to Farmerling
*Gambling and Quicksilver are missing shrimp
*Celestia tells Twi to leave Luna alone or she won't pardon Pinkie again
*88 got smashed waiting for 7
*AJ is pretty biting to Rarity
*Bonbon is having none of Lyra and Cloduchasers shit
*Zanta approves Arf Kelly.
*Rumble gets a muffin and maybe a balloon
*Spike gets a gift from Arana
*FOR THE FIRST MAIN EVENT!
*OOCO Luna continues her talk with DT, telling her about 56's past in order to bring up how DT's own actions cause widespread destruction not immediately visible.
*DT tries to turn the conversation to 56 also being a soldier, but Luna admits that while there were similar things, there were some things different about it, specifically what dragged him to do it.
*From there she moves on to speaking of another who has been hurt by DT's actions, Silver Spoon
*Before she can talk DT screams she didn't want Silver Spoon involved, but SS forced the matter by saying she wouldn't be her friend anymore.
*But then Luna points out if she devoted herself entirely to battles and Silver Spoon wasn't allowed near them, where did that leave her friend?
*She points out that the more dedicated DT became to being a warrior, the less time she had with Silver and left her feeling useless.
*If DT won't let her be with her in battle, what is Silver Spoon supposed to do?
*DT admits she doesn't want to lose her friend and is confused.
*She wants her to afraid and safe, but what's wrong with wanting her to keep up?
*So, Luna brings up the orphan ghosts 29 deals with, and how they had to adapt and persue tragic lives before their end.
*DT asks what that has to do with her, Luna points out that every battle leaves something like that behind.
*She talks about Hoofington, and how many orphans just like that have been created, how many are lost and now left behind.
*Even if she did not directly cause the destruction, she helped cause it and now the weight of the world still bears down on those left behind.
*They cannot be the burdens of ones like DT and SS, because then they wouldn't know what is good in life.
*DT asks if 29 really helps them.
*Luna says he was, and that he was the one who sent the wayward children to rest.
*She points out that he only sought to help not fight, and he did so knowing that he wouldn't be praised or rewarded for it.
*Luna points out that his actions were all something DT sorely neglects, which is making sure others are taken care of between the battles.
*DT admits she doesn't help much without fighting but doesn't see the problem since nobody asked.
*Luna points out that, much like herself, DT comes off so abrasive nobody would ask, even if they need help.
*DT is always preparing for the next fight, getting ready for bigger battles, but she does nothing to prevent those battles from happening at all. She's making things worse all the time.
*Luna points out that if that same mindset had prevailed back at the start, that 56 was an invader and there was a war that broke out, there would be fights, and there would be victors and losers.
*If the battle had gone as both sides had wanted, there would be many left dead, and the only reason it did not is many, not just one, tried their best to make sure it never happened, and as a result the war never came and Changelings and Ponies live peacefully
*DT is faced with a choice. She can let the preparation consume her until one day she is untouchable and none could hope defeat her, but if she does none will be able to keep up with her and she'll lose her friends
*Or, she can seek antoher path, and find a balance.
*DT asks how she finds the answer, and Luna says it's just her dream after all.
*Though she's still a little worried, she's somewhat at peace when she lays her head and goes back into a peaceful slumber, with Luna declaring she will watch over her dreams from now on.
*DT rests and Luna wakes up.
*Tis done.
*FOR THE OTHER MAIN EVENT!
*The final battle between 29, Trixie, Zecora and Mayor Mare and the conglomerated light ghosts of the Crystal Ponies begins!
*Only, it doesn't go as expected.
*The giant beings comprised of dozens of souls are all in trying to attack the others, but the four instead trick them into hitting inflatables, dancing, or showing them shows.
*They're not in it for the giant grand battles, they just want to finally send them on.
*This makes them hesitate, until they hear Sombra struggling to get out of 32's hold while said bug was trying to sneak the guy away.
*This enrages the light beings and they go all out, trying to trap the six in their faux Crystal Empire city.
*But instead, they four are so powerful in this realm now that they know it's a dream they're able to free themselves and break the entire city in half.
*So enraged the ghosts combine themselves into one horrifying misshapen entity and attack again with their full power.
*The ghosts are relentless and try to attack them with the shards of the broken city, breaking down and losing composure during the attack which proves ineffectual.
*29 stops them and breaks apart, explaining this world they're trying to make is not as the Empire is now, it's just what it was before.
*They maintain they have to keep Sombra there for what he did.
*The others sans Sombra explain that it's more important they let go and move on, because they're holding themselves there too.
*Though the ghosts keep repeating they'll be happy just to see him suffer, the others talk to them and point out why they're wrong using their own experiences.
*When that doesn't work, Sombra finally steps forwards and says he'll stay and they can go on. He'll remain in that world forever if it means they can leave.
*They still rage at him, asking him why when he can never be forgiven.
*Sombra says he accepts that, but he wanted to do what he could to make the world better. If this is the way, he'll pay it.
*The still say they can't leave, or this place will go away.
*"As it should"
*The others point out why locking Sombra up forever would solve nothing, how if he wants to make the world better, they're stopping that for petty reasons that hold them back just as much as they do him. They can't move on until they accept that he wants to do good with what he has left.
*They're still unsure, what if he does it again?
*The five say they'll look after him and make sure, and if he breaks his word again they'll take him where he needs to go.
*The burden is now theirs, and they can move on.
*Reluctantly, the ghosts all agree, and one by one all are taken into the light.
*All except one, a child who's not ready yet, not until Sombra gently pushes him on and the child understands.
*A voice talks to them and thanks them for finally bringing the others home.
*Sombra hears another voice, one very familiar, telling him he has another chance, and to earn it.
*When the last soul leaves,It's finally done.
*They go home.
*Sombra is the last to wake up in the broken hut they all started in, and finds something shocking. He has his body back!
*But it doesn't stay. Before he can even enjoy it, his body turns to crystal. He can still move and feel pain, but aside from faint feelings that's all. He says it's what he deserves.
*But when 29 puts his hoof on Sombra's shoulder, something amazing happens. The crystal goes away, and his body is back! But when the hoof is released, it's back to Crystal. When 32 tries it, it doesn't work.
*They're confused why until that voice from earlier explains.
*With every act of kindness and exposure to 'the light' the crystal will break. When he's earned it only then will he be free.
*Now, he must earn his way back to a body and find peace and rest.
*Sombra thanks everyone for what they've done and says he can never repay them. They respond he can, and hug him back long enough for him to feel the warmth.
*It's over... right after Zecora notices her hutt is completely trashed.
*In the epilogue, a certain someone in a certain barracks gets a surprise from a certain 'cuz'.
*Nobody will ever speak of the noise 56 makes, but the hug will never be forgotten.
*They're finally home!
==Thread 215==
LAST THREAD RECAP, WHO WHAT WHERE EDITION!
*Everyone reacts to the Ghostbusters being alive, and they find out they've been gone for months.
*Sombra returns to the empire and finds out about Flurry
*29 reunites with 56 and it's adorable.
*The moon suddenly turns blue, and nobody is sure if they GB's are connected. Luna attempts to strangle it out of 29, only to find out no.
*Everyone panics as they attempt to find out the cause.
*29 meanwhile learns about Sunset and is devastated
*Chitania is out in the wildernes trying to figure out her next move.
*But elsewhere, in the bad side of Baltimare, we learn a shocking truth. 13 goes into an abandoned resteraunt and it's revealed that Sunset and the others are alive! They were saved by 13 after she turned around from 007 nearly spotting her.
*But they're not okay. In addition to Flash being barely functional and Fizzle being still badly beaten, Sunset has lost one of her legs and replaced it with a robot leg!
*More importantly, it was none other than herself that did it, despite the broken leg she removed and placed in a vat being fixable with just a few weeks of recovery.
*But she can't afford to slow down, not now. She has to get Chitania back from the hivemind, after all.
*And the portal, still sporting Variolus's orb, is the way to do it.
*The battle begins anew!
==Thread 216==
LAST THREAD RECAP, DEATH STAR EDITION!
*Twilight thinks they’re all going to die.
*77 hugs 32
*MM and Zecora head off to City Hall
*When Twi, Rarity and Fluttershy arrive and notice the not-deads, AJ is plum sick of explaining shit.
*She’s not explaining shit, so she jumps out the window.
*Lucky her! Dash is waiting for her and catches her. Then she wants an explanation.
*Celestia feels the karma.
*When everyone starts babbling on, Fluttershy takes control of the situation and gets them all back on track. By turning them to plants.
*She changes them back calm down.
*Back on track, Twilight tries her best to explain the situation and how dangerous the moon could be.
*Extinction level, to be precise.
*Luna explains that she can control the moon, and it moves like it should, but she can’t turn of the blue, and something is singing to her.
*Celestia wonders how sunset was able to contain it, thinking it shouldn’t be able to be contained, but she pulled it off.
*Something is missing.
*Suddenly, AUJ pops in! The castle is burning to the ground!
*Their response?
*GET HER!
*The chase begins!
*MM and Zecora find that town hall moved, and Cloudchaser is the mayor!
*Also they got Q and Reggie back! And Reggie isn’t dead, somehow.
*Sombra is worried about how smart Flurry is.
*And how weak 42 still is.
*29 is shocked about two AJs and wonders if she’s single. He reconsiders when he learns what happened to her changelings.
*They castle is burning down and the only ones who immediately try to stop it are JJ and Actarius, nobody knows they’re doing it.
*Vermillion, one of the guards, joins in later and present the castle from becoming rubble before wondering about Delight.
*Those two guards who talk all the time decide to leave
*Chrysalis has not gotten with Shiny, to Sombra’s unsurprise.
*The CE girls find shiny very cute when he’s fatherly. Or in some cases, unf.
*Back at Ponyville the town hall is a mess, and Cloudchaser is as crazy as ever.
*The group finally catch up to AUJ and tell her why they need her to let Chrysalis probe her memories for any information Sunset left in her before she was mindwiped.
*AUJ gives a hard no.
*Twilight gives her a hard response, and calls her out on her racism, especially when the Chrysalis of this world is such a good friend.
*AUJ hints at something much darker happening with the changeling in her world than was ever thought before.
*Twilight pushes more until AUJ is ready to snap, so hard she does the Apple Family Tradition.
*And, despite not meaning to, accidentally called her vines and destroyed a statue.
*AUJ is ashamed of that, and Twilight is ashamed of her actions.
*Despite this, the other Elements gather around and try to give some support to a clearly mentally strained AUJ.
*But still, even though she blows them off, she accepts that she’ll think about the request.
*But first, AUJ wants an explanation.
*While she gets that, the castle staff declare revenge or laugh at their own power.
*And the maid and bulter brother and sister from forever ago start making out.
*Things get weirder from there.
*Pennydrop wishes she had a toilet in MC
*SA decides to ask about the moon thing, if only to get away from Flurry shooting him.
*13 and Flash talk.
*Two is doing well in school, though that’s not hard.
*Celestia is the wrong alicorn
*Luna is spacing out
*13 asks Sunset if she’s okay, and if she can really bring Chitty back. Sunny says yes.
*13’s all in.
*Fizzlepop Berrytwist goes to see a movie-wait what
*Rarity wonders if AJ can do vines.
*SA arrives to find the castle in chaos.
*He searches, but only manages to find 29, who he’s just so ‘excited’ to see and totally not waiting for him to fuck it up. 29 asks if he can get a pass go to the Empire Castle, and after explaining why Shining agrees.
*He didn’t fuck it up.
*Siegfired and Delight notice something odd going on down below in the griffon kingdom, and Delight decides to go check it out.
*AUJ doesn’t trust Luna’s actions, due to her own magic not being affected as strongly
*She pushes until everyone snaps back then she and Luna leave
*The girls talk about that in her absence and voice their concerns, mostly about the sun going wrong
*AUJ walks down the hall bitter, until a familiar face says hi. Shiny is just eager to find out what happens and she can’t say no to him.
*But when he asks if she is tired and wants some tea, she abruptly spins on her heels and silently walks away, leaving him confused.
*Luna struggles when she tries to put the moon down, the voices keep calling to her.
*But when she forces it, it fights back and she nearly breaks at the sounds she hears
*At the end she’s feeling unsettled and it’s hard to move, but the moon is lowered, and she retreats to her room and locks the door.
*But down below it’s revealed it wasn’t her actions that lowered the moon, but a certain orange alt princess with a glowing blue magic.
*Said princess is the only one who notices, something is very wrong.
*Twilight tells the Elements the only way to save the day is research! She’s so happy.
*Dash is not.
*AJ, walking towards the library to get with the others, is suddenly struck with questions of an uncertain future.
*As her mind wanders, it also hits uncertainty regarding another part of her life, one she’d pushed aside for too long, and with the current events has reared it’s ugly head again.
*Her love life that she craved so much to have, but misses.
*Right on cue, a voice calls out to her, and it’s time to confront it.
*Shining wants to talk, and she’s all for it.
==Thread 217==
REAL SHORT RECAP!
*29 heads home and Sombra tries to do good deeds
*MM and Zecora talk to CC
*The Main Six hunt through the library for any way to stop Blue
*Sunburst and Tiempo put a restraint on Flurry to try to keep her from zapping everyone.
*SA and Celestia have a quiet moment
*Flurry is getting increasingly attached to Chrysalis
*The sheild starts failing at Hoofington, which leads a guard to head off to warn the others, but Pennydrop is having none of it, and radios in someone to "I need you to shoot down a little singing bird for me"
==Thread 218==
LAST THREAD RECAP! OH WHAT A WORLD EDITION!
*Twilight is not having a good chance finding anything
*The Maid and Butler are gone
*Two's schoolday gets clingy
*The Empire want an update on the Moon
*It turns out the one Sweetie Belle called was the Luminous Knight from the battle with the Cosmic Horror back in their first Oddessy, and he's here to help!
*Or rather he wants to be, but when a very simple move nearly kills the dragon, he worries he's a bit overkill.
*When said dragon confirms 'conquered universeS was hyperbole, he realizes he's gone too far! The Knight wails in dismay as his light goes out and he declares he's unworthy of the light
*Everyone else just kinda stares when he hits the ground, baffled
*Lightning Dust gets a brutal report on her hair.
*Good news! The Ghostbusters still have all their stuff. Bad news, it's all in 29's apartment, and there's little room left.
*Pinkie is bored
*Lyra is digging a bomb shelter
*29 has a cry on the trainride home for being unable to help Sunset, but has to put it aside when the ghost kids arrive. Strangely, none of them can recall seeing a ghost like Sunset leave Hoofington...
*Sombra declares he's off to do good deeds!
*Long story short those good deeds do not work
*Spike and 42 arrive in DT's room, and while Spike comes to grip with how bad she is, something he didn't know, 42 has some questions.
*Sunburst and Tiempo talk about dates and magazines
*Flurry does not like it when Chrysalis goes away, and Cadence is noticing a pattern
*18 wants in on this, and after disguising herself as Chrysalis things get weird with object permanence
*Cadence is about to put her hoof down and take charge, but Velvets sudden arrival puts that on hold
*29 comes home and gets stabbed. The end.
*Shining finally comes back to all out chaos as Velvet is strangeling Chrysalis thinking she 'did something' to Flurry, which is why she's so attached.
*Long story short things get destroyed, Velvet gets tossed out a window, who is caught by Nightlight who knew not to go upstairs, and Shining is trampolined back up, Shining brings everyone up to speed, Chrysalis knows 'ball' better than Cadence which hurts her and makes her go to bed, and Chrysalis feeds the baby before Velvet comes back in and almost sets everything off again.
*Instead they have a funny face off
*The GB's do some dream orphan helping
*Sombra gives up and heads off towards Ponyville
*Pennydrop is ready she thinks
*Halfway between Hoofington and Canterlot, a squad of hitmen prepare to stop the pegasus from warning the others.
*Not by killing him, no matter what that one pony says! They just need to stop him, and the all out war they start certainly does that!
*No the songbird they need to silence is none other than... FUZZY AND THE BUZZ'S TOWER!
*Everyone goes into a panic at the explosion and runs towards it.
*Just before that, Celestia is trying to talk to Luna and convince her to drop the moon, which she does without ever opening the door, and for good reason! It turns out, Luna is sick, very sick! Her fur is peeling, her mane is turning black, and light is shining out of her skin
*The explosion is heard b Celestia, who sets off to find the answer, and she leaves at the worst time!
*Second later, there's a bloodcurdling scream
*AUJ sets off to help
*The Main Six also do that, and hope it's not a meteor signalling death
*In more peaceful places Two tells her little sister about her day, and Flurry has a hard time with perception
*Fuzzy and the Buzz aren't dead!
*18 and Spitfire are worried about Sombra going to 29
*Sombra, who's already on a train and too far to see the explosion, meets a hobo with attitude
*Who might be dead?
*Celestia gets the news from Pommel, no casualties thankully
*Two is wondering where Sombra is, but SA promises he'll be back, but Chrysalis distracts her and puts her and Flurry to bed with a story
*Twi's relieved it was just an explosion
*42 stops before she hits the switch to wake up DT when she hears the noise and leaves Spike with DT
*77 and 32 grumble
*The Main Six don't know how to help
*SA, Spitfire and 18 decide to go to bed and 18 almost gets her Shiny Snuggles, but surprise! Explosion!
*Lyra gets Berry onboard witht he shelter
*Twilight and Celestia talk and it turns out the explosive was just a magical battery that they use for the mechs.
*There's no way to trace it back to anyone, and it seems to just be an act of negligence of ponies not disposing of batteries properly.
*Something smells wrong
*Maybe it's 42, who teleported onto fire
*Back in Hoofington, Pennydrop's special forces, nameless and faceless, move in on Hoofington to secure what they can, noticing someone already heading inside.
*All the while, Pennydrop muses about what it will take until she can contain god just like Sunset
*Two maids outside of Luna's room clean up and grumble when out of nowhere Luna bursts through her doors and tears off into the night towards Hoofington before they could do anything
*The Nightgard appear afterwards, and need answers
*The Special Forces in Hoofington move through the city, heading towards the splits in the ground Chitania caused
*While they do this, guards head towards the city, and those same ponies note that Mecha Chitania is heading off to intercept them, and can't or won't interfere as they go down the crevasses
*Back at Canterlot AJ and Twilight dream of a better tomorrow
*Sombra arrives at Ponyville
*A griffon working for a Diamond Dog begins securing the old Evo towers
*And finally, Shining Armor steps into Canterlot, and has one thing to say.
*"...I WAS GONE FOR LIKE TWO HOURS!...The FUCK!?"
==Thread 219==
REAL FAST RECAP
*Pennyrdops goons go underground and things go wrong
*Pennydrop confronts the guards heading towards Hoofington
*Shining meets with AJ, they talk.
*AUJ heads off after Luna
*Chrysali calms the CE
*Celestia meets up with everyone + Shining Armor and Chrysalis
*They all go after AUJ
==Thread 220==
LAST THREAD RECAP: Unlimited Power Edition!
*18 and Spitfire vent their frustration on a Guard
*Zephyr and Hilde realize their rioting lower class may have been roused due to Siegfried being an idiot
*Siegfried and Delight, meanwhile, escape to the roofs... in a town full of flying gryphons
*Pommel and Daw discuss the logistic of a princess orgy
*77 has had enough enough HAPPENINGs, and swears to not move his buggy ass away from Cheerilee tonight. Harry the Bear, meanwhile, fights Blues
*Two has Flurry-related nightmares
*The Mare formerly known as Mayor Mare can’t help staring at Zecora’s butt, who is trying to find a way to stop the crisis from happening
*Spitfire talks 18 into telling Cadance Shining Armor left the kingdom... again
*Silver Spoon has yet another PTSD episode and an exasperated Guard is trying to talk her out from under the bed of Mr Big Bucks
*Fancy Pants and Fleur regret not building rockets and decide to spend their last moments in bliss
*Shining Armor is feeling cold on the flight towards Hoofington
*BonBon and Berry Punch realize Lyra has no dick-giving magic. They feel cheated
*Lucky Strikes, Steam Gauge and Haymaker trx to mantain peace in a place where everyone is beter armed and protected than them. Canterlot.
*Mid-flight, Twilight and Chrysalis discuss how to stop the thing in the moon and help Luna. Twilight doesn’t want to risk ehr friend, Chrysalis is moved
*The Guard tries to calm ponies down... by screaming. It worked. Until they started screaming
*Pinkie wants to know why everyone is mumblign to themselves, and climbs from flying pony to flying pony in death-defying bravery... or stupidity. It’s propably the latter
*18 tells Caddy, who promptly de-exists a door, then re-exists it, much to 18’s horror
*Spitfire feels vindicated by this
*Cloudchaser pays Trixie to fix the moon
*Derpy is heart-broken about this
*Shiny is riding Celestia since he can’t fly, to the amusement of Dash and Shy
*The Changelings realize they already are spooky as all fuck
*A pony without name, figuring they may as well try since thw world is ending, attempts to summon Maxwell the Demon. It fails, of course
*Two has even more Flurry nightmares
*Spitfire wonders why 18 is running away, only to find Cadance can now materialize out of thing air, fueled by rage and depression. It’s as horrifying as it sounds
*Cloudchaser feels cheated after Trixie wasted an inordinate sum, just toc rash a rocket into the ground. Plan B is hatched
*Pinkie is bored during her cross-continental flight atop Rainbow Dash and wants to bounce hard
*AND A WHOLE LOT OF HALLOWEEN-RELATED FUN STORIES!
*But, onto the main event!
*Luna is standing at the edge of Hoofington, remembering what matters most to her and wondering if giving in to Blue was really worth it, when “Seal.” BAM!, sudden Sealing Tree out of nowhere!
*We change perspectives, and find AUJ landing before the castle-sized tree, muttering ‘This never works’ to herself
*And she’s right! Luna smashes out of the tree in an inferno of black fire!
*Face to face, AUJ tells Luna that she will take her home, by force if necessary, and won’t let ehr get corrupted again, but a crying Luna tells her its already too late for that
*AUJ threatens to fight and break Luna, should she resist
*But Luna only smiles, and tells AUj that nothing can break her with her mother supporting her
*She will free her, and they will be back together
*AUJ doesn’t take that too well and screams at her that the thing in Hoofington isn’t her mother
*”My mother would fight to see me again. She cares, unlike yours.”
*AUJ reacts violently, wrapping an unresponsive Luna in vines that choke her
*But Luna only laughs, telling her that her own mother wouldn’t recognize the amre she had become
*AUj chokes off any further words with the vines
*”Ahm takin you home.”
*Before AUJ has a chance to entomb her with her special spell, Luna’s cry makes somethign within Hoofington react!
*The Moon becomes pale white and enormously large in the sky
*But, horrifically, the thing that floats down to her is not a pony any longer. A horrific amalgam of charred flesh, bone, darkness and nightmares confrotns AUJ
*“ CAN YOU HEAR THEM DREAMING, APPLEJACK? “
*Luna’s voice, in four different variations, tells AUJ that everyone is waiting for her
*Desperate and at the ends of her wits, AUJ’s old self briefly emerges for a moment to plead, beg and bargain with the horribly entity, spurring Luna on to fight it and come home
*”PLEASE!”
*Luna hestitates, but...
*"I AM HOME. “
*And AUJ gives up. Something isnide her breaks, and she unleashes the alternate universe Luna’s magic, making it turn her into a wicked Nightmarejack
*One last ultimatum is posed, in which AUJ tells Luna that she will strip her of her power and position, that she does not deserve this power and that nobody should have to live fear of her anymore
*“So be it.”
*And the fight is on! 
==Thread 221==
Missed
==Thread 222==
LAST THREAD RECAP, INTO THE MIND SHE GOES!
*Celestia arrives on the scene just seconds after witnessing Luna's death, screaming at the top of her lungs.
*Needless to say, she's lost her mind.
*She loses everything in fire and attempts to burn AUJ to ash.
*She would have, had Chrysalis not stepped in.
*It takes some work, but eventually Chrysalis holds back the flame, and Celestia breaks down.
*Everyone tries to comfort her.
*AUJ tries to be dismissive, but Chrysalis calls out she's afraid to die and demands answers.
*Initially AUJ gets ready to just tell her, but that's not good enough.
*Chrysalis says she wants inside AUJ's mind to make sure what happened to Luna was needed.
*Though she fights back at first, eventually everyone turning on her sways her choice, and Chrysalis goes inside.
*Shockingly, Pennydrop regrets Luna's death, still remembering that time they played OnO and wishing they had a chance to play again like promised.
*But no time to dwell on either, because above Equesteria, something happened!
*The moon vanished! Literally gone. Nightmares are freed in the dream world as the moon is swallowed up by sheer black lines as it turns into an eye and gives a single tear. From that tear comes a meteor, which falls to earth and gives birth to the awakening of Blue.
*She absorbs the souls she had guarded until now, the ones taken from Hoofington and otherwise, and Luna's own soul joins them as she finally fully awakens from her containment.
*When Mohter remains silent, Blue reaches out in it's full being, a featureless Aliocorn of monstrous size so massive that it could easily swallow Canterlot in it's mouth.
*It takes only a single beat of it's wings to reap the guards that had been helping before, and to the world it sings a sound that tears mountains and rips apart forests.
*LOTS of stories of reacting to this
*Including DT being retaken by the nightmares
*Mayor Mare and Zecora feel the change in the dream world and head off to find the others
*Rainbow Dash is outright ready to give up at this point, feeling she's unable to do anything to it.
*Eveyone tries to assure her, and they get her to at least not fly off.
*The Main Six try to figure out something to do against it, each of them giving their own ideas but none of them figuring out anything concrete.
*With little options, they decide to pick up Chrysalis and AUJ and take them to safety.
*Inside AUJ'S mind, Chrysalis finds herself in a colorful Apple Orchard, representing AUJ's brain.
*AUJ tries to dissuade her with a maze, but she flips the world. Literally. Now it's nothing but upside down roots.
*She summons false changelings and has them farm for memories, beating AUJ's attempts to stop her.
*She's able to see strong emotions on certain memories, which let her figure out the most important ones
*She starts seeing AUJ's memories one at a time, little snippits like her arguing with her brother, fighting with Twilight over what happened in the Empire, and so on.
*But when AUJ can't take anymore, she blasts Chrysalis in her mind, which proves to be a mistake. Chrysalis flies through the 'root's seeing memories in rapidfire succession, some big, some small.
*Angry come the end, AUJ shows Chrysalis 'one of her favorites', the night the Changelings fell.
*Chrysalis just laughs it off, sees another memory, and takes it.
*It's the night AUJ called out Luna.
*Another one afterwards, a late memory with Celestia, where the alternate pony is just sounding defeated and deferrs everything to AUJ.
*Chrysalis is about to grab another one, but AUJ finally stops her, and shockingly begs her not to look at it.
*She admits it was a past relationship with a guard, and is surprisingly, noticeably open in telling her about it and how it fell apart.
*But when Chrysalis asks for a name, AUJ suddenly clams up and gets angry.
*Chrysalis says she'll leave the memory alone if AUJ gives her the Luna one, but AUJ snaps and says she has no idea how to give her that memory, or she would've anyway.
*Chrysalis calls her bluff and reveals there's a 'hidden' memory.
*But, shockingly, AUJ had no idea about it!
*Curious, Chrysalis opens it up.
*It's fragmented and breaking down, but it is revealed to be the memory of when AUJ first arrived!
*Upon arriving in Equestria in front of Sunset, she grabbed the unicorn to demand answers, and got a face full of raging Chitania hoof for her troubles.
*A battle happens, and eventually AUJ loses, but the last thing she remembers before the memory cut out was Chitania and Sunset discussing and looking at a 'core' that they worried being damaged in a fight.
*A "Core" that they worry will "Get out."
*The last glimpse Chrysalis gets is them discussing one thing.
*How to kill it.
*Chrysalis forgets about the Luna thing, wakes up, and smiles.
*"I hear your heartbeat."
*"And I know how to end it... WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING!?"
*Back in the real world, AJ and Rarity share a moment of worry and support, promising they'll make time for themselves later.
*It was a small thing, but it helped.
==Thread 223==
LAST THREAD RECAP! MOOOOOON EDITION
*Cloud Chaser begins the battle with Lyra
*77 and Harry aren't breaking it up
*Chrysalis wakes up confused and seemingly horrified, asking what that thing was, but soon slips back into being calm.
*She tells everyone the 'truth' about Luna, despite not knowing it, and then tells everyone she knows about Blue, and more importantly how to kill it. She tells them to gather and say their last words, they've only got one shot.
*Griffons rethink their gods
*Fluttershy doesn't know what Chrysalis means
*Pinkie does, supposedl
*Trixie is abruptly grabbed and forced to go find Twenty Nine by MM
*Lucky Strikes tries to calm everyone
*Berry Punch thinks 77 is a diversity hire
*18, 42 and Spitfire do their job but don't know what to do next
*007 comes across his Predator Village, and it's pure chaos as Blue's influence twists them.
*He tries to take back their power with mental magics, but is overwhelmed by the collective song. He is almost consumed, but thankfully PJ followed him and wakes him up by kicking him.
*Just when it seems it's as bad as it gets, a dual wielding Buttercup shows up. So, worse.
*Time Turner tries to figure out answers.
*Blueblood tries to comfort Arana, who meanwhile has been trying to contact... someone.
*Dash wants to know how Twi is going to fix it.
*AJ and AUJ talk about the mind dive.
*MM, Zecora and Trixie return to the apartment, and find 29 showering. In the middle of the night. For... some reason.
*But no time for that! Dream world is messed up!
*29 suggests Luna, and reveals he had no idea what's been going on with the Moon so far. Also, Luna's gone, status unknown
*This devastates 29, but there's no time for it.
*They want to go into the dream world, but 29 points out they don't have the Alicorn level power needed to do so.
*Zecora reveals she'd carved a special symbol into the apartment floor, which annoys 29 but there's no time for it!
*Still, even with the symbols aide, it's not enough. They need... the bubble popper.
*The others point out to Zecora that this is insane, as it almost always fries their mind after a few seconds, and they'll need longer to save everyone.
*They debate if it would be better just to let it happen for one night, instead of risking their very being.
*Eventually, they decide to go through with it, stating they love each other before they light up.
*Elsewhere, DT is miserable, under the pain of nightmares, feeling bitter at Luna for lying to her again. When, suddenly, she hears a call.
*THE! CHILDREN! ARE! TRYING! TO! SLEEEEEEPPPPP!
*CLANK!
*Back at the apartment, a certain crystal pony walks out of the shower.
*Sombra gets the all clear, and decides to head out after promising 29 he would return.
*"Maassstterrrrr."
*Cue a bunch of dream stories with the GBS
*Back with the main six, Pinkie wonders if it's hungry.
*With Sunset and the others, 13 notices it's getting worse.
*Despite others protesting, 13 decides to talk to Sunset.
*Even though she's been inside, Sunset is keenly aware of what's been going on outside, a fact she reveals with magical scrying circles that show her all parts of the world. Each one connected to her towers that are still quite active.
*Despite the panic and chaos, she is unbothered.
*She muses the Princesses with either defeat it, or lose to it, and neither matters.
*13 is worried others may die, but Sunset just tells her to give their names, and when this is all over she can simply bring them back. She herself is proof death isn'tt he end.
*Once her plan is finished, heaven hell and limbo will no longer belong to the gods.
*Sunset even uses her portals as an example of what could be and how much power is flowing through them.
*13 asks if that power is so great why isn't she stopping it, since it's her fault.
*Sunset doesn't take kindly to that.
*She rants about how she will be remembered and how everyone fucks her over.
*Finally, she breaks down, and 13 asks what happened to her, reminiscing about their past.
*13 spells out the things she's observed and how Sunset walled herself off so nobody could hurt her again, and she focused on one thing she thinks will fix everything.
*But right now they need her.
*Sunset tries to explain what her thing can do, but 13 won't let her.
*She needs Sunset to be her, and give them all a chance.
*That chance?
*She fixes the towers, boosts the signals, and all around the world, there is a call.
*COMING AT YOU WITH BREAKING NEWS! IT'S FUZZY AND THE BUZZ!
*They tell everyone what's happened, the size of the thing they're up against, the fact it zapped the guard into nothing and what that means.
*They tell everyone this might be the last chance to save the world, so gather together, everyone.
*Saddle Arabians, Minotaur, dragons, all species hear that call now thanks to the towers.
*And they're not gathering alone!
*Out of a giant balloon that comes out of their 'base' even Fuzzy and the Buzz join in heading that way.
*They call out.
*The world answers.
==Thread 224==
LAST THREAD RECAP, TURKEY DAY EDITION!
*There is no threesome for Berry.
*Actarius and JJ head out as well
*Pommel mobilizes the army
*The diamond Dogs mobilize as well.
*Zephryious and Hilda also fly off
*Igneous gets the call as well
*Changelings do not go off.
*Peacetrotter ain't got no soul
*The librarian sees off her guard wife.
*Chrysalis is finally ready to go inside, having been using her powers to divine a safe spot, and tells hte other to go along. Celly says wait.
*Celestia tries to force Shiny to go home, up to and including attempting breaking his leg, but he won't go, citing that even if he could spend a day more with his family, it won't matter if there's so much as a one percent chance he could help them win the day.
*The others eventually back him, and after one last pleading question Celestia relents, and they all go underground.
*The minotaurs join in the assembly.
*The Morlocks will too, when they finally figure out where to go.
*The Saddle Arabians arrive
*So does 77, Cheerilee and Harry
*Pommel and Daw are gobsmacked when they arrive and see what they're up against, and without the princesses Pommel has to take control
*Pennydrop is currently beneath Blue, trying to be unnoticed.
*Idris, Gwen, and shocking guest Cheese Sandwhich heads off to fight!
*>Down below, the group gets shot at as the 'safe' space wasn't so safe.
*It isn't that dangerous since Celly is in melt everything mode.
*AUJ and AJ talk about that.
*Pommel can't call the other leaders of the nations due to them all using Pennydrop's radio waves.
*They talk shit about them.
*Finally we get a look at Blue's internal thoughts, and it turns out it's not moving because it thinks everyone is gathering to willingly become a part of it and it's conent to wait for them to make that choice.
*After a silly moment with Pinkie and assuring Celestia, Twilight and Shining break off from the others to try to find a path through the maze.
*There are guns there, and the bro-sis combo have to deal with that.
*The CMC have been screaming at the not there moon this whole time, which makes the Dark Lord reconsider his amount of reconnaissance. He decides to end them... as soon as he gets out from under that spider.
*Big Mac tries and fails to stop Granny from going.
*AJ thinks about hitting AUJ while she's weak.
*Twilight has... issues turning everything off.
*Blue gets eager for them to finally move.
==Thread 225==
LAST THREAD RECAP, POST TURKEY HIGH
*Awkwardling and Maud join the fray
*Twi and Shining admit the world likes her better
*Pinkie wonders if Celly will kill them all
*Rarity and Appleack discuss matters of importance
*Chrysalis tries to make Celestia calm down
*Vermillion decides to try to talk to Big Blue using a construct
*Pommel has questions about her title
*Twilight and Shining are about to head back to the others when something appears. Something with bone breaking noises and lots of darkness.
*The other races see Vermillion go out and worry
*Sombra can’t get home
*Celestia hears the other noises and starts to freak out, and would have charged in after them.
*If there wasn’t a sudden CLANG, then explosions
*Daw wants to draw a dick on Vermillion
*Lyra, Bonbon and CC head off towards the monster
*Twilight and Shining continue to try to fight the thing they can’t see, and after dealing with some insanely strong battering against his shield they find out that the creature trying to break them is…
*A pony. A completely normal looking earth pony.
*Lucky and the others don’t know what to do
*OOCO, Cadence tries to calm the Empire after the moon vanishes, promising them everything will be alright.
*Then the moon vanishes, and what little sanity she had left breaks.
*She grabs Tiempo, who had been nearby, and starts accusing him of breaking the moon with magic. Then when she realizes a Pegasus couldn’t have possibly done that, she assumes he had help. A lot of help.
*By that it means grabbing everyone she can find.
*By the end of it, she has a small group of ponies who are forced to hear her utterly break down, screaming how unfair it is Shining gets to have all the adventures, and she gets left behind.
*The group tries to calm her, but it does no good, and when a particularly bad comment about Chrysalis sets her off, she uses her full magic to show the power of love, and creates a false moon in the sky above made of love magic.
*Still quite crazed, she grabs hold of the group, and one by one turns them into her ‘crystal couriers’ now all wearing sailor scouts and named after the planets of mars, jupiters, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and pluto. Later, Sunburst is Earth. She herself is Venus.
*She declares them her new emissaries of love, and sends them off to get help.
*Cue several stories of her training the others, before hearing the broadcast from F/B while the CP’s think her insane.
*Back with Celestia and the others, the clanging and destruction was casued by a pony in Fillyboom Armor, like Diamond Tiara’s. Coupled with the blue magic filling it, it’s massive size is as big as Celestia, and the battle is on.
*42 and 18 and Spitfire heard the broadcast and saw everything as well
*29 has to help some odd ponies sleep
*Zephryious and Hilda arrive on the scene, confused.
*Shining and Twi continue the battle against the Earth Pony, who keeps telling them to hear the ‘song’. He speaks with multiple voices all together, and he fights with more than his own strength.
*After a tense fight they defeat him, but he is not alone
*Back at the Empire, Cadence calls to ‘gather their forces’. Which means the Crystal Couriers and nothing else. 42, 18 and Spitfire arrive on the scene, and find the manic Cadence stuffing them all in a heart shaped airship waaayyyy to small to fit all of them. Instead of stopping her, like intended, the trio are made into ‘stars’.
*42 is Star Fighter, 18 is Star Healer, and Spitfire is Star… maker?
*She doesn’t know either.
*It’s almost time to go, but oh no! Little Two has woken up, and she brought Flurry with her! Cadence has just the answer.
*Moon.
*And Mini Moon.
*Flurry may not like her new pink hair, but Two just accepts her twin pigtails. She has lots of questions, and gets none.
*Leaving the entire army behind, theyr’e off!
*Sombra comes home and missed everything.
*42 makes sure Tiempo doesn’t hit on Cadence.
*Back with Celesita, she’s currently beating the metal monster into submission with pure rage.
*She speaks to Blue, not it and warns it that she is coming to burn it aloive for what it did to Luna
*So caught up in the attack, she’s taken off guard when a whole hoard of the things rush her. She’s punched back, and it’s only Chrysalis teleporting her out f the way that keeps her from being hurt more after a battering.
*The others join in the fight, each one offering what they can, but it’s not enough, and the’re nearly overwhelmed.
*They all look to Fluttershy to stop them with her chaos, but she can’t.
*Then, suddenly, everyone stops.
*EVERYONE.
*The only ones still standing are Chrysalis, and the one causing all this. Celestia.
*She uses her magic to increase the gravity so much the hoard of armored ponies are broken and can’t get back up. Only when they’re totally crushed does she let everyone go, and declare she’s going to go get Shining/Twi.
*That’s when the floor breaks, because she broke it.
*Everyone save Chrysalis falls, since she’s the only one who’s wings didn’t get damaged by the gravity.
*Even still, as strong as she is, she remembers when the attack first happened.
*And how she couldn’t move, or break it.
*Back with SA and Twi, they’re overwhelmed and chased through the rooms by the group, eventually get cornered. They’re about to be overtaken, when the get a brilliant idea! Bouncing shield!
*BOING!
*They blast past the others, rocket through the halls and eventually come to a stop… somewhere safe!
*One problem.
*They don’t know where that is, or how to get back to the others.
*Whoops.
*Finally, we see Glimmer, watching all this unfold, controlling all those ponies though the power seeping through the halls. It turns out she’s the one controlling the hoards, not Blue.
*She has plans to break everyone, and bring them.
*She’ll bring them to Blue, and all will be equal…
==Thread 226==
Missed
==Thread 227==
*Twilight and Shining Armor battle a unicorn that has far more magic than it should!
*After an amazing teamup, they overcome the power by working together, and the unicorn explodes!
*...and takes Shining Armor with him
==Thread 228==
LAST THREAD RECAP, NEW YEAR EDITION!
*Sunset and the crew arrive at the battle sight, and it's as bad as they expected.
*Nevertheless, Sunset thinks she can recontain it if she can just figure out the calculations to destabilize it.
*She tells everyone to sit down, stay quiet, and let her work. They ask why they brought Flash, but she doesn't answer.
*Nor does she realize he's left the ship before it's too late.
*Pinkie has cookies
*Pommel wishes he was home for the holiday, because he's not seeing the next one.
*Rarity and Applejack find the commissary and everything is fine.
*Spitfire taunts 42.
*42 wishes 18 would stop being Cadence for a minute
*Pinkie and Dash talk about Shining and Twi
*Idris, Gwen, Siegfried, Cheese and Delight all have a funny moment.
*77 wonders why they can't send in the peacetrotters, turns out when robots look at the thing they fry. He's not happy about that.
*Rekulk and Sebjek relize that not preparing for war was a bad idea.
*The minotuars ar freaking and decide to set up the BIG bomb
*Blueblood says NO to Arana a lot
*A Saddle Arabian can't take it anymore and drives his ship right into Blue
*Pommel and 77 realize the're useless
*Chrysalis realizes she's running low on love
*The guards think they're dumb
*Zephyrious and a diamond dog muse about the frailty of life
*Fluttershy's chaos is effective but terrifying
*Flash, unafraid of dying, managed to slip past Blue and get underground, and after breaking everything in his path, living or not, he hacks into the security systems and finds. HER.
*He knows he's dying and he's taking Twilight with him.
*Spike gets no porn
*Fawntaine is somehow not liable for any of this
*AUJ and FLuttershy debate if anyone needs therapy
*Celestia is a little crazy
*Harry cannot cheer up anyone
*Pinkie shouldn't have tried to hide her fart
*Velvet is despondant no grandbebah
*Pinkie and Dash notice things are getting brighter
*Chrysalis's previous cocky attitude is beginning to show cracks
*Pommel's crew are bad at plans
*18 and Tiempo fundamentally disagree
*Fawntain's shareholders are wondering why Pennydrop hasn't fought yet, and are demanding she get in the game even if it's futile to make use of their investment
*But the same mysterious figure Pennydrop was talking to before appears and calms them all by implying that Pennydrop will break soon enough, but it won't matter. She won't even be able to make the thing notice her.
*Which mean that either the princesses will stop it and nothing matters, or the world will be left powerless and looking for someone to make them powerful. Hence, them.
*He leaves, and they realize they are so fucked.
*Glimmer sees someone is growing closer, and that won't do. She decides she has to do her last ditch effort, and summons others to her call.
*Then, she gives them raw light, and sends them away.
*The Angels have come. 
==Thread 229==
LAST THREAD RECAP, DASHYDOO EDITION
*OOCO the saga of Upper Crust, now known as the Scarlet Specter, off to help Equestria by making the world less evil by being slightly evil, begins
*The griffons and Cheese are really disturbing about their bets
*Pinkie owes Dash a cake
*Chrysalis realizes something is wrong, and before too long she sees light, and screams NOOOOOO
*AUJ and Fluttershy hear something coming, and from the distance they hear a hum and see light
*Flutters needs to work out some feelings
*Lucky Strikes, Steam Guage and Haymaker shoot Blue from atop the ship
*Sombra is not taking over the Empire
*AJ and Rarity find candy. Everything is great.
*Celestia defeats all the underlings, nobody is left to fight her. Alone, she becomes desperate for someone, even someone to fight her, but gets nothing.
*She becomes despondent, until a strange light appears in the distance...
*77 wishes Cheer was there.
*Fizzle gets a very brutal answer from 13
*AJ and Rarity continue on, beginning to hear noises just off in the distance but never finding anything.
*Worried as to what this means, the two of them begin to debate what to do if it's more of those mech things. Both realize they could take a couple, but if they get overwhelmed again they're in trouble.
*They didn't have anything else. So, the best option is probably to run.
*Finding the others it the best option they have.
*After more discussion on the matter, they become increasingly pessimistic, a situation that only worsens the more they talk.
*They realize how much Sunset had to do in order to make the place they were in, how much the missed in paperwork, and how many other mistakes they've made no matter how hard they tried.
*They trace back their failures further and further, getting worse and worse, until they can take it no more and fall to the ground in anger and sadness.
*For a long time, they're simply broken, and fall asleep before waking up shortly, confused at what has happened.
*They don't know what's causing it, but they both still feel horrible, and have to force themselves to continue on.
*Zephryious and Hilda try to keep going.
*Pommel and Daw realize they only have five ships left.
*32 steals a ship and leaves 88 in the dust.
*18 asks Cadence what's wrong and gets slapped.
*Blue is slowly realizing something is off.
*Quicksilver and Gambling wonder if they missed anything.
*Suckerpunch thinks his alarm is broken.
*Glimmer is pleased with her Angels after they leave, turning her attention back to the Orb, and thinking about how she ended up, her motives, and why this is so important to her.
*Then she realizes she made a mistake.
*She left the door open.
*And there's Rainbow Dash.
*"KICK HER ASS DASHIE!"
*Celestia is moved to tears by the white light, seeing three figures within it who beckon her closer, nearly compltely in their thrall, until they make a mistake.
*They call her "Sister"
*This breaks Celestia out of the trance and and she thinks they're illusions, but that turns out false.
*There are three Alicorns with very familiar colors in front of her, and they are very real.
*Celestia is very mad.
*The battle between Glimmer and Dash begins. Glimmer is more powerful than her and Dash is unable to break through her shield, but Dash uses her speed well to blind her with rainbow trails and keep her off balance.
*Even when she tries to lock everything down it fails, and Dash lands a devastating blow.
*It's almost over, but before Dash can finish her off Glimmer reveals she can fly using magic, and catches Dash in a magical hold.
*Instead of ending it, Glimmer preaches to her, tells her she understands that Dash feels like things are unfair, that her and her friends are not 'equal'. How one side gets more no matter how the other works, and that The Light offers a way around this.
*As she talks on, it seems to be connecting with Dash.
*By the end, she lets Dash go, but Dash does not attack.
*IT seems like she's ready to take Glimmers hoof.
*BOOM!
*Tricked! And here comes a Rainboom level blow. Glimmer is prepared, but Dash isn't aiming for her.
*She breaks all the equipment, shutting off the lights to the facility.
*Even though she's broken and Glimmer is beyond angry, Dash smiles when Glimmer gets ready to blast her.
*At the last second, Pinkie suddenly appears, putting a cone of metal over Glimmers horn and forcing all the gathered magic back down.
*There's a loud boom, and everything goes quiet.
*Then, the lights to the facility come back on.
==Thread 230==
Missed
==Thread 231==
LAST THREAD RECAP, FLASH! AHHHHH EDITION!
*Pommel and Daw watch as Steven Magnet loses, they don't know who he is.
*Alterjack and Futtershy have a very tense conversation regarding Alterjack stealing chaos power, with AUJ revealing how she convinced Luna and Cadence to give up their magic willingly.
*OOCO, Upper Crust brawls with Garble and Watchdog, eventually finding victory with the aide of Suri, who joins in her quest. Watchdog ending up arrested, but they slip past. Though they get away, it's not over yet, and Garble is tracking the pair down.
*Everyone is almost out of resources.
*the Ghostbusters continue to fight off the nightmares and maintaine the peace, but they notice something else is growing still while they fight...
*Yaks are not related to minotaurs
*7 and PJ try their best not to be killed by Buttercup while 007 fills in what he's been doing as best he can under gunfire.
*Applejack and Rarity are still on edge, thinking something is coming towards them but never seeing it.
*They're right.
*A dark blue pegasus, Night Glider, suddenly appears in front of them, and while she appears normal, when the pair see her eyes glowing they decide not to take a chance and bolt.
*Running is not helpful.
*The pegasus is so rocket fast they can barely keep away from her, and has so much power behind her that she's able to tear up the walls. Even Applejack hitting her offers no stopping her.
*She tanks the hits without even flinching.
*They eventually get cornered in front of a massive security door with little room to escape, so Rarity volunteers to make a shield to hold her back while AJ tries to lift the thing.
*After a lot of struggle, Aj just barely makes it enough to fit inside, but can't make it through. Meanwhile after repeated battering, Rarity's shield is broken.
*The Pegasus seems to mostly be focusing on Applejack, something Rarity picks up right away, and in a moment of clarity she thinks that the reason is that somehow AJ can stop all this, and the creature realizes it, and she realizes what she has to do.
*She admit's she's made mistakes, been of little help, and failed to save anyone.
*She would this time.
*She magically shoves Applejack through at the last second before the pegasus can reach her, and seals the door.
*Left alone, Night Glider looks to her and simply says 'you'll do'.
*Rarity doesn't even get a word in before NG shoves in one of Starlight Glimmers twisted mushrooms, and everything disappears in a bunch of blue dust.
*On the other side of the wall, Applejack is injured along her back, despondant and heartbroken when the last of the blue dust comes through the floor
*She cries and begs, but eventually she realizes she has to get up.
*Reluctantly, she does.
*Right before Night Glider casually tossed the security door up like it was nothing.
*Applejack loses what little sanity she had after that.
*When she comes back too, the room is completely destroyed, there's nothing but dirt and broken chunks everywhere, vines coming out of the walls, rocks and morass bending the metal plates, and no sign of the pegasus.
*After a moment, she gets up, and keeps walking.
*Back at the battle, Foalington returns somehow!
*And Cheerilee's demons are having none of this!
*Zephryious and Hilda take stock of their dwindled forces
*Spike gets nothing from the computer
*A changeling reinforces the walls too much
*32 goes to join the others on the airship
*Though she's beaten, though she's broken, though she's in pain, Applejack repeats to herself.
*Keep going.
*And she won't stop.
==Thread 232==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ALICORNS AND METALBORNS EDITION!
*Twilight begins frantically looking for her brother, becoming more crazy and even more sad as she tries to find any trace of him.
*Just when she's about to break down, she hears a thumping beside the wall, and becomes relieved, Shining is alive!
*Or not.
*SURPRISE! It's Flash!
*And he swore an oath.
*OOCO, Suri and Upper Crust slip away after Suri gives the guards a false lead to her old boss, and Upper Crust thanks the little kid who suggested where she got all her prank stuff from, giving him conflicting messages about villaindom.
*32 arrives on the airship and things are not going well
*Tiempo tries again with Spitfire and bombs it
*Uranus wants to know what he's getting on his taxes and 18 hates that she knows
*Zehyrious realizes the DD are wildly unprepared.
*Meanwhile, the Morlocks are improvising and it's not working.
*Cloudchaser thinks her first year as mayor sucks.
*Sunburst is happy he's a royal scribe and Flurry is evil
*Stalliongrad is having trouble keeping them from defecting, but alcohol solves all problems!
*Pommel learns where 32 was before and he's not thinking about it anymore
*The japaneighs pony's should've been paying attention while everyone else got weapons
*The Guard Trio realize they're out of bullets, so they shoot insults instead.
*Idris loves bad jokes
*Sombra wants a baby
*Pommel asks for ideas and hurts himself
*Blueblood attempts to help everyone keep calm, and after a time or two involving pitchforks decides to enlist the help of Flim and Flam
*AU and Fluttershy are lost
*Back with the battle between Celestia and the three alicorns, things are not going well.
*Celestia has a starting advantage, but that quickly gets lost when the alicorns shrug off whatever she throws at them.
*Every time it looks like she's about to get a leg up they move in tandem and brutally beat her down with a power equal to her own by themselves. Together they're just destroying her.
*After breaking through several hallways, she gets knocked down into a deep wearhouse like room of the labyrinth.
*She has a moment of zen as she falls where she feels at ease, she comes crashing down back to reality and has to hide.
*The other three alicorns chase and light up the massive room, revealing it to be a hanger where a bunch of the giant mechs used for loading and drilling were kept.
*Rather than search for her inside, they just start lasering the room apart, blowing everything up left and right.
*They think they've won.
*That's when Celestia finally responds.
*Having had a chance to catch her breath and actually prepare, the tide of the battle turns.
*Celestia summons a giant pillar of flame to herald her unseen arrival and starts talking about the difference between raw power and a lifetime studying with the greatest minds of countless generations.
*She starts using unique spells and different abilities to keep the raw power of the three from taking over, and one by one she begins picking them off.
*She has one eaten by a monster of dirt with twisted metal for teeth, another put at the center of the drilling machines blast, but the last one she deals with personally.
*The last one she grabs hold, and summons her flame to burn her away.
*She'd come to regret that.
*Because just as the fire is consuming the last one, her face turns into that of Luna.
*She speaks softly, accepting what happened and insisting that she still loves Celestia even as she's literally burned to a crisp.
*Celestia can only watch, helpless, as her sisters face turns to dust.
*That's when she loses her mind.
*In the state she was, she starts screaming, which then turns into crazed laughter.
*She's completely lost it, realizing she can't change the world, return the dead, or stop fate anymore.
*But she could do one thing.
*Burn it all.
*She very nearly does just that, building her power to insane levels and preparing to wipe out everything, only to be stopped at the last possible moment.
*"CELESTIA!"
*SPECIAL MENTION! This thread has the last official LNPP before hiatus!
==Thread 233==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ON MY OWN EDITION!
*Zehpyrious realizes nobody tried to call the ponies
*OOCO, Trust fund finds out about the fallout of his losing his bag, and it's not pretty. Meanwhile Garble tries to follow and sneak attack Upper Crust, but unfortunately only finds her neighbor, Centitrain. It goes badly.
*OOCO meanwhile, Suri discovers what Trust Fund had in his bag, a map to a large stack of money hidden away on the other side of the mountain, she and Upper Crust decide to go and get ready for the heist!
*Sunburst does not have to fight, or has ever kissed a mare
*Harry is not going to toss Cheerliee
*Blueblood accidentally started a unicorn supremacist army.
*Alterjack and Fluttershy argue
*Two tries to show Flurry the outside world, Flurry will burn it all
*The diamond dogs realize the world moved too fast.
*Fluttershy wants AUJ to stop talking, AUJ tries asking about Zephryious, makes things worse
*Pommel is out of ideas
*A whole lot of really strange interspecies flirting happens
*Applejack is trying to fight back from the reverberating voice telling her it was a mistake,and the strange weight that tried to bring her down before keeps doing it.
*All the same, she has to keep going
*Pommel realizes Blue isn't even slowing down anymore
*The Zebra's aren't missing anything important.
*Pommel is so desperate he wonders if Blue is the good guy
*Blueblood's new Unicorn Supremecist Army moves on Blue
*He's sorrry
*Fawntaine is not liable!
*Rekulk regrets flinging his soliders at Blue, and Sebjek is not being kind about it, right until he pushes Rekulk out of the way of Blue's attack. Sebjeck is not so lucky.
*Zecora and MM are sure the EOH have won by now. Surely.
*32 is not happy about the Morlocks going to war.
*More reinforcements come from the most unlikely of sources, the pirates! Rat leads the whole crew with cannons they had to drag all the way there.
*Blueblood despairs at his armies 'ideals', and it turns out Flim is a mare supremecist too, for some reason.
*Flurry's solution of 'look away from blue' makes sense to her.
*Limestone and Marble note their dad has been chiseling at something for a long time...
*29 is having trouble with bad dreams
*Spitfire is not scouting.
*007 is despairing as his research being damage via lots of bullets, but has to instead focus on not dying. He and PJ out run Buttercup, trying to leave the forest while reasoning that they'll be far enough away from civilization that none of the predators will attack anyone.
*That's when a surprising new addition shows up, science mare!
*007's lover is really, really, really happy to see he brought another female changeling, and is not so happy when she learns it's not a sex thing.
*None of them are happy when Buttercup suddenly catches up to them!
*BLAM!
*But one of them is prepared! Science mare has tranquilizer guns, specially prepared and ready just in case, and down Buttercup goes for a nap.
*Time to clean house.
*AUJ has had enough and tells Fluttershy to stop fucking around.
*Even though Fluttershy points out she explained why she cant give the power, there's no reason she can't start using it to clear a path.
*Fluttershy shoots back she doesn't want to use all her power like a certain someone, and the two get more heated as they argue their points.
*When AUJ brings up her friends might be dead, Fluttershy gets less sure and more slapping when AUJ presses the matter.
*Fed up with it all, AUJ asks Fluttershy to give her the power.
*Though FS brings up what that will do to her, AUJ readily accepts it. Even though she knows she won't last more than a day thanks to her need for order, she's still willing to face that if she can stop all of this.
*She's not willing to let anyone else die, even if it means she fades away.
*For a second it seems like FS is going to take her up on it.
*Instead, she glues AUJ to the floor, and starts to walk away.
*Though AUJ screams at her, Fluttershy just sadly says that AUJ has a home to go back to, and she can't take that from her.
*The screams are ignored and she phases through a wall, leaving AUJ behind to chase after her after some time.
*Finally having seen her friend in there, Fluttershy finds she's not afraid anymore.
*She reaches towards one of the lines of blue powering the underground, and a great clash unseen begins.
*"I won't be useless this time."
==Thread 234==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SHE'S BIG EDITION!
*Tiempo wonders how many kids a changeling can have.
*Cadence starts to wonder how long they'v flown.
*OOCO, Garble wakes up and Upper Crust has a promotion she made just for him to explain the joys of villainy, while Trust Fund meets up with his 'business partners'
*Pommel missed something.
*Tiempo realizes Cadence is a mom now.
*29 discovers something is wrong and that he is not alone in the dream world. Some creature comes out of nowhere and attacks him, forcing him into a bizzare battle of the mind in the dreamscape.
*Pommel reunites with Rat and Doc.
*Blueblood arrives at the battle and doesn't know what to do.
*Soarin get a boost from Bulk
*Fancy and Fleur are trying to make the best of the situaiton
*Pommel realizes that Blueblood is technically in charge.
*The crystal ponies and changelings have nothing.
*Cloudchaser, Derpy, Lyra and Bon arrive.
*The Fawntaine salesmare in Canterlot doesn't kow what's going on but she sold a lot of robots!
*Pommel can't call Blueblood
*29 battles a hoard of nightmare creatures while the strange entity has a ball
*In the not-dream-world, his landlord finds him and the others and asks no questions
*Nurse Redheart should not be here.
*AUJ finds some distrubing things.
*Blueblood finds out the Unicorn Supremacists include changelings in their club.
*AUJ gets a little angry
*Soarin realizes they're out of weapons
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
*We cut down to Pennydrop, who's hiding in Mecha-Chitania.
*She tries to drown out the sounds of everyone losing, but can't.
*She knows she doesn't stand a chance if she goes to her absolute biggest, so she can't do anything but hope it doesn't notice her.
*So she's sitting in her mech, crying.
*But then out of nowhere, something reaches into her mind, and tries to take control!
*Barely, she's able to fight it off and force it back
*But when she does, a hatch below her opens up of it's own accord.
*She follows it down to the main core of MC, which is revealed to have two sources of power. One that absorbs ambient magic in the world, the other the love she stole from the tower.
*The ambient one isn't used, the love stores are more than enough, but she knows all of this so she's not sure what the point is.
*That's when a console comes out of the floor and reveals that MC has limiters on it for how much love it can use at one time. Limiters she did not put on it, or authorize.
*By itself, the console offers to unlock the full power, but she hesitates when she realizes that if she does unlock it, there will be no more hiding. Even if it's not enough, she'll be forced to the forefront.
*A back and forth ensues when she's not sure since she doesn't know what it will do.
*We cut to outside and everyone is out of ammo, Pommel despairing that he can't offer advice when most of the airships had fallen.
*They realize it's been too long since the princesses went in.
*They must have failed.
*They give in to the hopelessnes, it's the end.
*Boom!
*From the ground a nuclear blast level bomb goes off, creating a massive mushroom cloud of pure green fire.
*They can't see what's in the smoke, but that doesn't last long as with one massive uppercut, Mecha-Chitania burnout mode emerges!
*She's every bit as tall as Blue, covered in green flame and ready for battle!
*In the center of it all is Pennydrop, now surrounded by the emerald flame and floating in it's fire, fully in control of herself and ready to fight!
*Blue attacks her with her song, but it fails to knock the mech down, and MC has her own roar back!
*Their attacks are enough to wreck landscapes for miles around, just from those noises alone, and they've barely started!
*Watching Pennydrop match her, the others begin to feel hope, even if they are annoyed she could've done that the whole time.
*She follows it down to the main core of MC, which is revealed to have two sources of power. One that absorbs ambient magic in the world, the other the love she stole from the tower.
*The ambient one isn't used, the love stores are more than enough, but she knows all of this so she's not sure what the point is.
*That's when a console comes out of the floor and reveals that MC has limiters on it for how much love it can use at one time. Limiters she did not put on it, or authorize.
*By itself, the console offers to unlock the full power, but she hesitates when she realizes that if she does unlock it, there will be no more hiding. Even if it's not enough, she'll be forced to the forefront.
*A back and forth ensues when she's not sure since she doesn't know what it will do.
*We cut to outside and everyone is out of ammo, Pommel despairing that he can't offer advice when most of the airships had fallen.
*They realize it's been too long since the princesses went in.
*They must have failed.
*They give in to the hopelessnes, it's the end.
*Boom!
*From the ground a nuclear blast level bomb goes off, creating a massive mushroom cloud of pure green fire.
*They can't see what's in the smoke, but that doesn't last long as with one massive uppercut, Mecha-Chitania burnout mode emerges!
*She's every bit as tall as Blue, covered in green flame and ready for battle!
*In the center of it all is Pennydrop, now surrounded by the emerald flame and floating in it's fire, fully in control of herself and ready to fight!
*Blue attacks her with her song, but it fails to knock the mech down, and MC has her own roar back!
*Their attacks are enough to wreck landscapes for miles around, just from those noises alone, and they've barely started!
*Watching Pennydrop match her, the others begin to feel hope, even if they are annoyed she could've done that the whole time.
*Blue tried to attack from time and space all around MC, but whispers in the green flames around her warn PD of the attack before it comes, and with a move that's either so fast it's a perfect illusion or growing a bunch of arms, MC blocks them all, and the followup that would've came through thousands of tiny feathers!
*Even Blue is confused by the attack and gets ready to fight back, when the unexpected happens!
*MC lands a devastating punch right onto Blue's cheek, and knocks her back!
*In reality, said punch never touched Blue. The magic that is currently around MC seemed to outright reject Blue's power and very being, but none of those down below could see that.
*All they saw was Blue stumbling backwards for the first time, and they cheer that they might finally win!
*Blue, enraged, attempts to end the entire world with a doomsday attack! Though Blue's next song keeps MC from reaching her with her metal hooves, even Blue doesn't see it coming when MC's wings with blades carve over her side and cut her majestic wings! Even better, it seems to work, and Blue's power is cut off, she can be beaten!
*Mecha-Chitania uppercuts Blue, landing the blow this time, and with Blue's chest exposed she begins to gather energy in her center cannon to finish the job.
*But she can't.
*Pennydrop sees that inside Blue are the souls of those who've lost, and she decides to forgo blasting her in favor of punching inside Blue, reaching for those souls to save them!
*As she reaches inside, she meets a particular soul.
*Luna's soul.
*Said souls tells her without words she has made a terrible mistake, and should have destroyed them all instead.
*Pennydrop understands, and in one desperate moment she calls out mentally to the rest of the fighters to give her their power so she can win the day!
*One problem
*They don't know how.
*They scramble trying to figure it out and help her, which they all want to do, but it's too late.
*MC runs out of power, and falls to the ground, utterly melted on the inside.
*Everyone feels despair, but no more than Pennydrop who tries to make her mech move to no avail.
*She realized too late she never told anyone how her machine was powered, where it got the energy from.
*Her secrets cost her, and she could've saved everyone if they'd known.
*In despair, she calls out to Blue, screaming she's still there.
*Blue ignores her
*She's left alone crying, and wondering what could've been.
*Blue, meanwhile, will take no more, and begins her warpath.
*The end has begun.
==Thread 235==
LAST THREAD RECAP DOOOOOMED EDITION
*Things go bad for everyone up top.
*With Mecha-Chitania's defeat, Blue stops moving so slowly and methodically and just starts wiping them out en mass.
*Rekulk decides to tell the morlocks to flee, while staying behind personally
*The Griffons are wiped out
*Blueblood starts panicking
*Rat runs for the ships
*The Fawntaine employees get blasted
*The Saddle Arabians are wiped out
*The last Stalliongrad commissar gets drunk and does nothing
*The changelings and crystal ponies are chilling
*The dragons are blasted
*OOCO, Upper Crust plays a video explaining her plan, which is to use small amounts of evil to 'slowly let out' the evil building up in the world so that no more big booms happen. Garble is not convinced until money comes into the equation.
*OOCO Meanwhile, Suri decides not to rob the Boutique when she sees the giant spider thing, and instead swindles Arana by claiming to be for a charity. After making a hasty escape, she stumbles upon the secret meeting of the Palaminio and Trust Fund, where the Pals explain that they really needed that funding in order to return back to glory after many Titan based setbacks, and as a result they're very not happy that Trust Fund lost the means to get it back. Thankfully for him, Trust Fund explains the money is just in his vacation home, he knows the way and the combinations to get in, and they decide to meet later to go retrieve it.
*OOCO All the while a certain cat watches it all with Suri. A cat who, after being tossed into the river by a despondent and fearful Fund, reveals herself to be none other than 88! She's off to report it to Pommel as soon as she can, and Suri likewise rushes off to tell Upper Crust
*Cadence has to feed Flurry while flying and makes Tiempo help, he doesn't like the idea much,
*The yaks get wiped out
*Pommel and the others start screaming in despair
*Cloud Chasher, Lyra and Derpy thought that fight was cool
*The Japaneighs ponies get bombed
*32 tries and fails to summon Variolus to stall
*Back with the CMC, Sweetie Belle keeps congradulating Scootaloo on having grandparents, despite Grand Pear battling a giant dragon right in front of them. Applebloom begins to despair at their stupidity
*Siegfried makes a bad joke
*AJ continues to be haunted by the voices in her head, the ones that force her to finally start asking 'why'? Why was this happening? Why was it doing this? A thousand questions why.
*Hondo Flanks and Cookie Crumbles upset Windy and Bow. It's on.
*Lightning Dust wakes up, nobody is quite sure how to explain everything that happened to her.
*Sunset admits they're all doomed.
*Though this freaks out Fizzle, Sweet Note and 13, Sunset remains cool about it, being blunt when she points out that Blue has reached a speed and power she can't contain with what she has in front of her. The recent battle awakened her in such a way there was no possible means of keeping her down.
*She stops trying, realizing she can't win without Chitania this time, and decides to just watch the world burn.
==Thread 236==
LAST THREAD RECAP, LIGHT OF LIFE EDITION
*The Crystal Ponies are impatient... for hayburger
*Chrysalis's battles against the creatures blocking her way seems endless. She keeps reassuring herself that just around the next corner is the end.
*She deliriously just keeps repeating it even as her love stores get smaller, and weaker, and weaker. She keeps going, keeps fighting, until she can't anymore.
*She falls over, completely out of power, and the final wave of the hoard charge her.
*She sadly accepts her fate, and closed her eyes.
*That's not the end.
*BOOM, the ceiling above suddenly caves in and crushes the monsters.
*Delirious, Chrysalis looks up and sees her savior.
*"...Oh. Hi, Auntie Chitty."
*Chitania has arrived!
*She chastises Chrysalis for being so weak, mocking her brutally before coming closer.
*Despite Chrysalis wondering such, Chitania doesn't kill her, and instead gives her enough power to get back on her hooves.
*Chitania insists it's just because she can't waste valuable assets on a whim, and that she only came down because everyone was taking too long, so she was going to do it herself.
*When Chrysalis asks if she could do it 'too', Chitania seems interested and wonders what Chyrsalis knows.
*She confirms she knows what's being held and how to fix the 'problem."
*Curious, Chitania decides to let her try.
*After confirming it's impossible to teleport inside, Chitania admits that time is a factor, so she'll speed things up.
*She has a secret, you see. A hidden form she doesn't much like, because it doesn't have her durability or staminia.
*However, this situation requires something a bit more... raw.
*The Titan steps into the darkness, there's a flash of fire, and a roar.
*The Titan had fallen, and something much worse took it's place.
*Elsewhere, a vendor pony wonders when his customer will pay for her popcorn, and if he has to add another strangely garish colored pony to the wall of shame.
*Fluttershy finds herself in a world of color and magic. Inside, she senses a presence, and tries to speak with it.
*It immediately tries to kill her, screaming CHAOS
*Things escalated quickly.
*OOCO, Upper Crust gets choked out by Suri for stealing from the Palamino's, and meanwhile 88 meets up with 32 to discuss what she learned. Pommel also learns of it, and gets a facefull of 88
*Flurry likes deserts... alot. Too much.
*29 continues is battle against the strange foe, killing all of the monstrous creations that come at him and reducing them to pulp.
*But he's most insulted by the clown.
*It's a very low quality clown, is the gist of it.
*The clown says sorry which somehow shocks both 29 and the strange entity, who insists he has nothing to do with it.
*As the clown sadly says he didn't mean to be a bad clown and only wanted to make children happy, 29 eventually breaks and reaches out for him.
*And then the clown splits open and tries to eat him.
*The entity laughs.
*AUJ doesn't feel lost.
*In fact, it feels like she's being pulled towards something, called even.
*She doesn't feel tired or worried, just knows she has to go to the thing wherever it may be.
*She'll see it through to the end.
*The canites can rob places and not get caught
*Tiempo helps burp the baby, who is please before she spits up on him. He's not.
*BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT
*We come back to Celestia at last who was broken from her world ending magic with a voice.
*A voice she recognized instantly, and who's begging her to stop.
*It's Shining Armor! Surprisingly not dead!
*He advances on her despite the obvious danger and massive flames, and continues to ask her to stop.
*She asks why.
*In her state, she wonders why it would matter, and informs him that it will not, that his acts will be distorted if they become legend, forgotten if they are not, and that no matter how many times greatness comes and falls she can't stop that most deadly foe.
*time.
*She can keep the lucky ones alive from being attacked or sick, but not from time. Everyone will eventually fall.
*Everyone she loved is gone.
*But darkness always comes back. No matter what she does, the good fade, and evil returns.
*For a time she'd thought she would break it with Luna, but when she too fell it had been too much.
*Now, she's left with only one choice, burn everything before that thing can take them.
*She admits her mistakes brought them to this point and accepts all that comes with it.
*She says with his last breath, let everyone know the truth throughout time.
*"It was all m fault-"
*She's stopped by a sudden blast to the face, as Shining won't give up.
*She tells him she wants it all to stop.
*He admits he can't give it to her.
*No shield can protect everything.
*He can only be with her as long as he can.
*He wants to protect her, even from herself as long as he can.
*She tells him he will burn if he comes closer, he does so anyway.
*Even if she doesn't mean to, the spell is too far, she can't turn it down or turn it off, death will take him one way or another.
*He knows, and admits death is natural, but so is fighting against it. Keeping it back for a year or ten thousand years is the same.
*He wants to protect all he loves.
*She pleads with him, telling him he will burn and be lost, he won't come back, like Luna won't, like everyone else she loved won't, letting the spell go off will bring them all together. She just wants to be with them all again. She just wants it to stop.
*Shining admits he doesn't understand what it's like to be her.
*He can't, he simply hasn't experienced life like she has.
*But he understand what she's shown him, that life is worth fighting for.
*She showed him even if he couldn't protect them all he had to be something more.
*Now desperate, she pleads with him to go away before he gets any closer.
*He doesn't. She can't control it and keeps attacking him accidentally, but he moves forwards.
*She finally breaks down when she imagines him dying and says she can't take it anymore, she's not strong enough.
*He says she is.
*He touches her, just his hoof against her chest.
*“And I will always believe in you.”
*She screams when he drops his shield.
*She stops when she realizes he's hugging her.
*This is her fire.
*It would never hurt him if she didn't want it to.
*She finally breaks down in tearful sobs, crying her heart out while clinging to him, destroying the remaining of the room with her wild power, until little by little it goes away, and the room is returned to normal.
*She keeps crying, saying she's a monster for what she almost did.
*He tells her, “You are my Princess." and kisses her.
*After she is calm, he tells her she has to save them, shes the only one who can.
*She says she will, just let her have this a moment longer.
*Let her remember why she raised the sun.
*He accepts it and would hold her until then.
*Not even moving away from the mane that's still burning like fire.
==Thread 237==
LAST THREAD RECAP, END BEGINS EDITION
*Pommel notices the heat spike from Celestia, but then it vanishes
*OOCO, Upper Crust and the others begin to prepare for their event by enlisting Centitrain for transportation, meanwhile Trust Fund gets two very interesting 'bodyguards'.
*The battle between Twi and Flash resumes
*She tries to talk to him, but he will have none of it. She can see he's heavily damaged in areas, enough to make it obvious he's not going to last much longer.
*He immediately attacks her, but she tries to ask what happened to Sunset and the others. He insists they're all gone and he's the only one left.
*Twilight begs him to let her fix him, saying he'll die, but he insists that he's going to die and is taking her with him.
*His attacks are only killing him faster, but Twi can't fight back.
*When he recounts what he saw, notably Sunset's broken and twisted leg, she goes more into despair.
*It's not until she's nearly broken she finds the resolve to fight not for herself, but her friends.
*She insists she will fix him, whether he wants to or not. She can't do everything.
*“We're just going to have to settle for what I can do"
*The guards hear something and it's not fun.
*Siegfried gets some bad condolences from Delight
*The battle between Grand Pear and The Dark Lord keeps going on with both at a stalemate, leading the CMC to be lost as to how to help.
*Bored, they insist he wraps it up, and he tries, but no such luck.
*It's going to be a long night.
*Spoiled Rich wants to make money off this.
*Sunburst thinks he should leave certain phrases out of the book of history, notably how everyone wants to use his cape as a diaper.
*the other Sailor Scouts want to break for snacks, and Cadence reluctantly agrees.
*The battle between Blue and Fluttershy continues, with all of her chaos powers being for naught against the thing.
*In the world of it's creation she is simply unable to fight back and easily defeated over and over again. She manages to pull out new levels of power over and over again, but it's never enough.
*The difference in power is just too great, she can't win.
*But as the battle drags on and she refuses to go down, the real intention becomes clear.
*Blue has all it's attention on her.
*None on everyone else drawing closer to the center room.
*Pokey wants his chocolate cake!
*The pitstop goes bad for Cadence, as everyone starts wandering off and slaying vending machines.
*MM is not charging for dream help and getting no tip!
*Cadence is going to lose her mind.
*Pommel realizes they're down to just dragons and Lightning Dust forgot she could fly
*Lightning Dust realizes it's too late to say what she wanted to say to someone.
*Two's attempts to stop Flurry end badly.
*AUJ is the first to reach the final room, discovering that everything is destroyed and there isn't a single trace of whoever was fighting in there. There's no body, no blood, nothing.
*She goes up to the dark egg and examines it, realizing it's the source of all of the problems and resolves to deal with it.
*But before she can, she realizes she had no idea how to approach this, since she can't understand what this thing is made of or how it acts.
*She doesn't even know if the egg thing is an actual egg or just a prison that will let the thing out if she should destroy it.
*She can't move it because she doesn't know what the wires going into it does and she can't attack it because she doesn't know if that will hurt it at all.
*After fighting with herself for a while, she has to begrudgingly admit she had no idea what to do.
*This is simply a matter she doesn't understand and she can't do it.
*She needs help, she cries.
*And help arrives!
*Coming in through the opposite wall is Celestia! Her hair is still on fire and she's giving off a radiance of power, and she's here to help.
*And with her, Shining Armor, who gives a hug to AUJ.
*Together, the three of them decide they have to kill this thing.
*For Luna.
*Just as soon as they figure out how...
==Thread 238==
REAL FAST RECAP
*Nobody runs away from Blueblood
*Cadence and the others are stuck in the town and are making thrones for Flurry
*Celly, AUJ and Shining try to figure out what to do but can't come up with an idea before it's too late, The Egg is hatching.
*Centitrain is still in Canterlot
*OOCO Upper Crust and Suri arrive in the mansion and avoid the overly complicated means to reach the key, Trust Fund is arriving at the same time as the guards making their move and things slowly begin to unravel
*Mayor Mare deals with a sad filly
*Despite the best efforts to stop it The Egg cracks open enough to let out a malformed half baked representation of Blue. Celestia, AUJ and Shining fight it with the first two taking point and Shining offering help via creative bubbles but they can't touch it, it's simply too powerful for them.
*It almost blasts AUJ, but she's saved when Celestia takes the hit instead and doesn't get back up.
*It then goes over to AUJ, declaring her CHAOS. Shining steps in front of her to protect but it seems hopeless.
*That's when the wall collapses and it has nothing to do with Blue.
*Chitania, in her speed based Battle Form, arrives at last and crunches the last of the creatures in her jaws. Even so, she doesn't fight the apparition.
*That gets left to Chrysalis, who teleports into the room with fire.
*Chrysalis is completely unafraid of the being, brushing off any concern and walking without a care while she makes sure Shining is okay.
*When Blue tries to attack, it's revealed why Chrysalis is so calm.
*The thing is stopped by a wave of her hoof, one that begins sealing the Egg back up and removing all the cracks.
*It's revealed the Egg is made of magic from the Hivemind, magic specifically made to reject Faust, and thanks to the Hellfire mini-arc with the Tree of Harmony, Chrysalis can control that magic.
*Despite the best efforts to stop her, the thing is sealed up, Pommel and Daw watch as the massive thing above vanishes from the world, and the day is saved!
*Chrysalis saunters over and kisses Shining to 'power up', and they all finally relax, safe and sound.
*Until a beam of light shoots out of nowhere and breaks open the top of the egg, that is.
*"IT WILL SAVE ALL"
*Starlight Glimmer, with a broken horn and glowing with the same power that had just been in the apparition they had fought, had destroyed the prison.
*It is free
*All saw the light.
==Thread 239==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SHE'S LOOOSSEEE EDITION
*OOCO with Trust Fund, Habeas realizes that's a guard Upper Crust knocked out. And that's when the SCARLET SPECTER reveals herself. She also reveals there's only 150 grand in the vault, not 3 milion like there should be. This doesn't go over well. When the threats of death escalate, they call in some help. Garble in the house and ready to fight!
*Cadence helps with the throne via making it pink. Pink is helpful.
*Bluebloods hopes were very well dashed.
*Canties are having fun while they wait for the end of the world
*Tiempo wants to know what the sex life is like, and comes to a horrifying conclusion when he learns there is none
*Two tries to explain bits. It doesn't go well.
*Blueblood wonders if this is on them, and growing wings is harder than it looks
*FOR THE MAIN EVENT
*Glimmer looks on in wonder at the thing that has emerged.
*She has tears in her eyes as she walks towards it, revealing the previous illusion that had fought the others had taken her over and brought her back from being incapacitated.
*She had figured out how the egg worked when Chrysalis fixed it, and now it's completely unleashed.
*The others don't bother trying to stop her, even though they're losing their minds trying to figure out how to save the day. Their spirits are broken.
*With one last plead to "Make us all equal", Glimmer and the power she had been granted rejoined the being.
*The being becomes whole once again, and a new light emerges.
*At last the world will become one in mother's grace.
==Thread 240==
LAST THREAD RECAP WARS AND WORDS EDITION!
*Tiempo wants to be released from Cadence's services, but she says no and 'punchy' won't help, overruling poor 'timmy'. For Cadence, has a plan!
*Jupiter found the winery.
*WITH THE MAIN EVENT!
*Blue, completely unleashed, creates a giant pillar of light that completely surrounds the entire remains of the city.
*Blue and the other five remaining lift up into the air with it, until they surface above the maze and find themselves inside the pillar, an area that seems to be a never ending world of light that's far bigger than it is outside.
*None of them can stop it as Blue, at full power, cannot be stopped any longer and prepares to destroy the world!
*But it's not over yet!
*Before she can cast the final blow, up above in the sky, somewhere on the boundaries of reality, a horribly chaotic looking manglebody Fluttershy is giving it her all to stop it, but it's just not enough.
*Even that glimmer of hope seems to be for naught, as even though she's completely given in to the chaos, Blue is still preparing to destroy her and the world with it.
*All seems lost once more.
*Snap.
*Out of nowhere, in the sky above with her, Domshy finally arrives!
*Muttering that this is the moment 'he' said she had to help, Domshy flows her Chaos through the whip into Fluttershy, and tells her it has to be now!
*That last tiny push, despite being infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, is the last push she needs!
*Fluttershy overpowers Blue at last, and binds most of it's very being in chaos!
*This leaves only an alicorn made of light in the center of it all, very similar to the giant version that destroyed the armies, full instead of the misshapen thing they'd fought.
*Fluttershy's voice tells them they have one chance. That thing in the middle is the core, the very essence of what Blue is. If they can destroy it, they can stop it.
*"I SHALL!"
*Back from when she had been knocked out, Celestia rises back up again.
*Even more powerful than she was before, her flaming mane had been replaced with a multi-colored inferno that had grown, her coat became brighter and seemed prisim like, and she's back to full power.
*She gives a speech, and reveals the folly Blue had in creating this world. It is made of the divine, the light, and that is something Celestia knows all too well.
*That power is a part of her, she was born in it, this is the light of her family.
*With that power, she charges Blue, and gives it her all!
*Even with the near apocalyptic power, it's still not enough.
*The others realize they have to join in the fight, though none of them know how.
*It's only when Shining says that Celestia called it 'fausts love' that a thought comes to one of them.
*Chrysalis, desperate, decides to see if that is indeed love itself.
*Fortunately, it is! And she becomes her Burnout form once more, just like she was during the invasion.
*Only this time, she's sane.
*Alterjack wonders if this is compatible with Celestia, then perhaps...
*It works! The power she had taken from Luna in her world makes her just as strong as the solar sister, and gives her a cosmic new form as well.
*Chitania tells them to stop making a show of it and slams her hoof down, becoming her own Burnout form like she was when she invaded the Empire.
*Together, they knew they didn't have any love for each other, but they have to work together. For the world.
*Together, they joined the fray!
*But even all together, it's still not enough. They can't hit it.
*They try multiple combination tactics but nothing seems to work, ending up with them damaged instead, until they land a lucky hit.
*This doesn't make things any better.
*They realize that just like them, it can instantly heal from any damage.
*Even when they all strike it at once, it just heals and retaliates.
*Though they're in despair, they resolve to continue to fight, and proclaim they can still win.
*It prepares to do it's end of the world maneuver with curled wings, and defiantly they said they could still win.
*It's stopped, not by an attack or any of them.
*But by the giant black sphere that completely covered it's face.
*They attack it in that moment, and realize it couldn't see them.
*They find out it was Shining who did that attack, having gathered up the shards of the hivemind egg in his shield.
*They lay into it, damaging it again even though it heals, until it takes no more and retaliates.
*Celestia, AUJ and Chrysalis hide with him behind the shield he makes, which blocks the entirety of the attack and reveals that it still can't beat the Hivemind core by itself.
*He tells Chrysalis he can't manipulate it like her, just carry it. He needs Chrysalis to keep it charged and help him move it, he can't do it on his own.
*She says she couldn't do it alone either.
*Still though, they realize they've got to do some actual damage, hitting it with magic isn't working.
*Shining says, as his sister would say "They need to do some twience."
*That twience? Chitania hitting it with a shield-covered hoof.
*It works.
*Their counterattack begins!
*Their combo attacks rejoin with everyone giving all they have and helping each other out, saving each other multiple times as they're attacked.
*But when it gets the upper hand , it nearly ends the world by joining it's wings once again, with only Celestia still close enough to try to stop it.
*It's stopped again.
*Permanently on that one.
*Celestia is stunned when she sees a black spiked ball shoot past, and take off the wing entirely.
*Shining, having used himself as a cannonball and tossed via Chitania, is the first one to permanently damage it.
*It's wing is gone.
*With a cheer they declare "WE CAN BEAT THIS THING!"
*The desperate battle continues.
*A host of clever moves, unique combos and risky attacks ensure, culminating in Shining and AUJ getting in a slash on it's back before being caught by the giant sized Chitania.
*They grab each other and join their power in her hooves, Shining providing the shield and AUJ the power to form a giant blade made out of the shards.
*With one swing, so powerful it carves through the light room they're inside and destroys the remains of the airships outside, the other wing is taken off.
*Broken, furious, and beyond rationality, Blue loses it's mind and unleashes all of it's power in an unbelievable barrage.
*So overcome they have to hide once more, but even that is proving not to be enough!
*The shards are breaking, becoming more useless, leaving them with little left to use.
*At this rate, Chitania cannot hide anymore, and it seems they'll run out of the core to use!
*NO!
*Celestia is having none of it.
*She launches herself through the barrage, taking serious damage all the way until she can reach the thing face to face, and with the last little bit of her shards she begins to beat the thing's face in.
*It's still not enough, and everyone is almost out of power, out of time, out of everything.
*With one final desperate act, she grabs hold of it, and declares of all of them to hear
*"END IT!"
*They understand.
*Chrysalis and Shining use every single shard they have left and form a simple spear.
*AUJ grabs hold of the things legs to ensure it cannot escape.
*And Chitania, the only one who will not hesitate, take the spear in her hooves and with glowing wings rushes towards it.
*There's no escape, no avoidance.
*It's over.
*Just not in the way anyone expected.
*Time had stopped.
*Literally.
*Blue, realizing it's end had come, decided to simply freeze the world, and wait for the end. As her power isn't strong enough to reach the rest of the universe, only Earth is frozen in time.
*Meaning if it's by a meteor, a gamma radiation burst, the sun exploding, whatever the world will end.
*Then it simply has to gather all of the souls and go to mother's light then.
*It doesn't matter that it can't move, can't attack, can't do anything, it just needs to wait.
*Wait... wait...
*Tap.
*No.
*Something is coming.
*Something is still moving.
*Something that...
*"Ah've gotta question."
*Slight flashback occurs, where we see what Applejack was doing during the battle.
*She had been walking, aimless, until she'd come across the others frozen in time.
*At first, she'd been frozen too, only to be freed by the power of Harmony.
*The Seeds of the Apple that had let her control minds from before had come out of her hairtie where she'd kept them all this time, unwilling to let anyone else even possibly get their hooves on something so powerful.
*They form the outline of three apples around her, like her cutie mark, and protect her from the timestop.
*With the freedom to move, she walks above the maze and finds the others still in the midst of the final attack.
*When she sees blue, she realizes how close it is to ending this, all she needs to do is push the spear forwards and it's dead.
*She almost does, flying up to them and laying her hoof on the spear, but it's the reminder that not everyone would be saved that keeps it still.
*She thought about all that had been lost and taken, and all of the mistakes shes made.
*"Ah've got a question."
*She tries to ask it about why it's doing all of this to no avail.
*It doesn't seem able to answer her.
*She begins to break down, asking why it had to do this, why her friends had to go, why couldn't she save them.
*That's when she gets something in return, a feeling.
*Only a feeling.
*She realizes that thing can't understand her, or answer her but it can share it's feelings with her, and she with it.
*It's afraid.
*It was genuinely afraid of dying.
*Applejack asks it why it shouldn't be, why should it have a moments peace after all it's done, why shouldn't it suffer
*Why should it get a chance when they won't?
*All it knows is fear
*It had never once thought about it's own non-existence, the concept was just alien to it, so now that it faced it, it was afraid in ways it can't understand.
*Applejack asks why it should get a chance, when an idea comes to her.
*Could it take it all back?
*Could it send her back to the start of it all, back where it all went wrong?
*How far back, before it's limit was reached? Could it go all the way to the very beginning?
*If she saved it, could it send her back to the moment it all went wrong and let her do it all over again, right this time?
*It could.
*Blue only barely understands what she means, thanks in part to the feeling of longing and the need that seems familiar to it.
*IT could send her back to alter the world, even if it itself could not go with her, as the universe could not reconcile two beings like itself in the same plain of existence. To go back to when it had existed would mean causality would send the world into chaos.
*It could.
*It won't.
*Instead, it screams in rage, and Applejack doesn't understand why it won't.
*It screams until at last she hears a single word "CHAOS!"
*It keeps repeating this and Applejack notices that it's trying to cover it's chest.
*That's when Applejack notices the souls at last, and realizes it's trying to protect them.
*That's when she touches Blue and finally understands.
*Sending Applejack back would mean the souls inside of it would spend more time in the world filled with chaos, hurt, pain.
*It could not fathom letting them suffer a moment longer in a world where it could not protect them.
*It must save them, now, even at the cost of everything.
*it loved them, all of them.
*It would protect them from chaos.
*Applejack is tempted.
*Maybe it would be good to let it all end.
*Is it really saving them from all the pain in the world?
*She ponders it for an unknown amount of time, looking to all the others and thinking about the ways they've suffered.
*But she wonders, if this is so bad, why are they here?
*She asks it if it thinks it can give them everything.
*Just as Blue forced it's feelings on AJ, AJ gives them right back.
*She gives Blue every memory she has, all the good, all the bad, and there's a lot.
*"Why are we still here?"
*It begins to wonder.
*Why had Mother simply not taken all of them when the world was young, if this world is so terrible? Why wait? Why not do it herself before?
*Chaos had nearly wiped out reality before, why not save them all then?
*"Maybe... we're here for a reason?"
*Unable to resist, Blue looks inside to the souls it had taken, the ones now placed in a world of eternal light and love.
*They were fighting.
*They still wanted out, they wanted to be free.
*They fought.
*So did it.
*It fights back against the truth, the feelings it was experiencing
*Fights back against all of it, until Applejack tells her the truth.
*"You weren't supposed to be here."
*The Apple Seeds force it to accept that this is the truth, no matter how it wants to fight.
*Applejack says it being left behind was a problem that should have been fixed, but wasn't. It wasn't the world's savior, just left behind, it was a mistake.
*And it needs to go home without them.
*“You need to fix this.”
*Applejack breaks the spear.
*The world of light shatters
*The five who had fought suddenly find themselves without the power they'd been using and fall back into the depths of the maze they'd risen out of.
*it break loose of Fluttershy.
*And finally, it cries.
*For all those it must leave behind, cannot keep safe or protect, it cried.
*All the terrible things they'd face and innocent who felt senseless pain made it cry.
*Applejack hold on, and with her, she cries.
*That things could not be changed, different, done right, that it was wrong, she cried.
*Until the last drop is given, and Blue ascends.
*It asks that Applejack protect them.
*Help them.
*Love them.
*“Ah’ will.”
*The last light goes out.
*Darkness returns.
*Until, from the sky, lights fall like snow. Tiny dots that dift towards earth.
*In flashes of fire, it's revealed to be them!
*The souls!
* 
*Those who had fallen, all of them, are returning!
*Everyone is back, everyone is okay.
*Including the light that falls down the hole into darkness, where the five warriors remained.
*The light that reveals itself to be a certain sister, who brings Celestia to tears.
*Luna always believed in her.
*They're all back.
*Finally... “It’s over.”
*That was the honest truth.
==Thread 241==
LAST THREAD RECAP, CLEAN UP EDITION!
*Fuzzy and the Buzz give a shoutout to all the world that the danger has passed!
*Which is a problem back at Canterlot, where quite a lot of looting had taken place. Including from the guard.
*Velvet and Nightlight knew everything would be okay, totally.
*The Diamond Dogs are bitter.
*Applejack finally sets down after Blue is gone, realizing that while most of those returned seemed just confused and safe a lot of species who had been taken during the EVO battle were outright lost and would need help.
*She wants to say something, but before she can she spots Rarity in the crowd and tiredly walks over to hug her. They begin to cry both in relief and in seeing each other again.
*Rarity points out that AJ did it, but Applejack just insists she couldn't have without Rarity's help, despite the other trying to deny it.
*They have a soft moment and declare they did it, 'together', and walk off just like that, together.
*Fluttershy at last wakes up after being knocked out from her fall, and weakly opens her eyes when someone keeps prodding her and trying to wake her up.
*It's Discord! He's back at long last!
*They hug and talk about how much they missed each other and how dumb Discord was to do what he did, but that's all in the past. Fluttershy thanks him for catching her, but he reveals it was Domshy who actually did it. On top of that, she notices something else about her doppleganger.
*Her horn is gone!
*And so is Fluttershy's! Mostly. It's down to being a bump that might not actually be a horn at all, and Discord reveals his own powers have been drastically reduced as well, and he's not sure if FS's will ever recover.
*But none of that matters now because they're together again, and after figuring out how legs work without hovering, Discord carries her off to her friends.
*Leaving Domshy behind to bitterly mention they could've asked her to come too. Or offered a ride.
*Yay.
*Pinkie and Dash joke about being blown up.
*OOCO, 77 and Garble 'fight', if you can call it that. It's mostly just 77 shooting garble a lot. At least, until Garble tosses a goon at the changeling, and with the brief upper hand manages to batter him badly. But hope is not lost, Pommel arrives and pulls the rug out from under Garble, literally! The battle is on again! Meanwhile, it turns out Upper Crust left a lot of surprises for her pursuers. A lot of buzzing surprises, hidden in the ground. "Happy Trails" does not feel very happy on this trail.
*Siegfried doesn't know what happened and wants alcohol. Delight would help him but he's stuck between his dad and his mom, and thus Siegfried needs way more alcohol.
*The saddle arabians are upset.
*The diamond dogs aren't as upset but are still upset.
*The guards aren't upset at all and are happy they're alive.
*Back underground, Shining Armor makes a shield to protect Celestia and Luna from being seen in the previous Egg-room, so they can have some privacy, while he, Chrysalis, Chitania and AUJ head down the hallway.
*Chrysalis, meanwhile, may be battered and bruised but she is certainly alive enough to pick up Shining and hug him as tight as she can to her chest.
*He's content to let her and even return the gesture.
*Though AUJ, uncomfortable from the sight, insists they should get back to the others, Chrysalis just brushes her off, pointing out there's no monsters left underground and everyone else is alive up top. She wants to hug Shiny.
*On that note, AUJ gives Shining some praise saying that even without their power boosts he held his own, and she wants him to know he's got her respect.
*Likewise, Shining praises her for helping out like she did despite this not being her world. He offers if this thing showed up in her world, they'll be there to help. Chrysalis adds in her own thanks, in her own ways.
*Everything seems alright, but there's an elephant in the room, Chitania.
*AUJ wonders how lenient they should be, and despite previous times insists Chitania shouldn't be allowed to run away again, and points out their last bout as proof. One call to Celestia, Luna and the armies, and she's done, and she knows it.
*AUJ is in the middle of telling her to give up while she did the right thing when Chrysalis cuts her off.
*"Later, Chitty! Thanks!"
*In a fwoosh, she's gone, and AUJ wants to know why. Chrysalis points out she saved her life, and she owed her aunt that one.
*AUJ walks off furious, and Shining is a bit irate, but he puts it away when she says she really did owe her life on that one, and she would've been doomed without it.
*So with that put aside, she hugs him, he hugs her back, and she says thanks for being her shiny.
*He doesn't need to say a word.
*But one last thing doesn't make sense, if she was saved in the maze, how did Chitania find her?
*"I guess she was still listening."
*Miles away, out of sight of the armies, Chitania sighs and bitterly replies. "It's your fault for being so loud".
*Chrysalis chuckles, and Shining will never know why.
*Rat declares another day saved, and that nobody will believe otherwise.
*Canties aren't done partying yet.
*Zephryious wonders if he was right to call his mother a fool or not.
*Discord and FS meet up with RD and Pinkie, and they all joke around.
*Blueblood celebrates and uses the pride of the Unicorn Supremacists to his advantage.
*Torch tells everyone not to mention this.
*The business ponies are revolting.
*32 and 77 are dazed after their return and 77 goes off to find Cheerilee and Harry
*Rainbow Dash and Pinkie learn Discord and FS are out of power.
*29 is at his wits end with the annoyance of the thing he's fighting. It keeps trying to psychologically attack him by tempting him with thoughts of his friends being hurt or innocents being hurt, but 29 won't fall for any of it and it's grown stale.
*But this turns out to be a bad thing when the thing grows tired of playing with him and outright attacks him, shoving him into hellscape and battering him badly before trapping him in a flaming spiked cage. All in song.
*He sings as he shows off the real power of the dreamworld's might, and almost ends him, but when the song ends 29 pulls off a sudden burst of power aided by the souls he'd helped, and he manages to fight the thing back for a second.
*Even so, this second drains him and makes him weak, but the being is still at full power.
*The thing is about to end him when it suddenly stops and realizes something.
*The Dream Mistress is alive.
*It screams in rage and insists he had felt her soul leave this world, angry that his plan is foiled as he's no match for her now.
*He curses 29 for stalling him, thinking it was all intentional, and pulls back the Nightmares into the void, vowing revenge all the while.
*29, pained but giving one last barb, collapses with the others out of exhaustion. The night is saved.
*56 meanwhile has been revealed to be helping keep the peace in Canterlot with the night guard, specifically one who needs to keep him on a leash.
*2 is thinking Sissy needs tickles. This is a bad idea.
*Zephyrious finds his brother, Siegfried, looking for some booze in the wreckage, and wonders why he was there.
*Sieg explains he followed his parents, and decides to follow his two siblings as they venture off to find them, smiling all the way.
*Hilda is unsure why he's smiling and threatens him, as she does, and he and her have a discussion about the implications of their armies decimation and the moral hit. Even so, Seigfried seems eager to see Zep succeed in gathering them all back together.
*Hilda appreciates his honesty, and he reveals that he was just stalling her so-
*"WARK!"
*So she couldn't stop Zephyrious from seeing a royal pony sandwich.
*Her stabs were worth it.
*Cadence needs to spread love
*Vermillion wants to go back
*Finally, Starlight Glimmer finds herself in a bad position.
*When she came out of the being she has no idea what happened between the first contact and now, only hazy memories. She had no idea how she got her or where she was.
*Worse than that, her followers all got out too, and they have something else.
*A feeling, leftover from their time inside Blue, where they feel more individual and unique. Applejack's feelings stayed with them and they realized they shouldn't be equalized.
*They all have their cutie marks back too.
*They're free, and they're in the middle of several armies, and they want to go tell the princess what happened at the village.
*Starlight, on that note, decides to leave and quickly.
*She declares it's all ruined, that her beautiful vision of equality was shattered. It was so perfect, and now it's gone.
*She vows to find who is responsible, and make them pay.
*Teleporting off into the night, she will make them PAY!
==Thread 242==
LAST THREAD RECAP, GET US OFF THE ROCK EDITION!
*OOCO, 'Happy', after walking on too many shock buzzers is forced to reveal she is none other than 88 in disguise so she could use her changelin screech, afterwards she and 32, who is 'sunny', mindblast them to make them forget.
*OOCO Meanwhile, back with the fight against Garble, things go bad pretty fast when one of the guard accidentally use a bug summoning infusion, allowing Garble to knock 77 out the window. Fortunately, he can turn into a bugbear, which can control bees. This does nothing to Garble. However, he is in fact, a giant bear who can fly and then comes the pain for the dragon.
*OOCO Lastly, while Suri tries to open the vault, Upper Crust offers to stay watch. She probably should have done that instead of talking, that way she could've seen Trust Fund BEFORE he arrived!
*JJ and Actarius celebrate being alive!
*The Saddle Arabians regret their loss of ships
*The minotaurs also realize the don't even have swords.
*Over with Cadence and the others from the Empire, they receive news that Uranus is on his way back! Not everyone is excited to hear this.
*However, Cadence is quite excited, and she tells her warriors of love, IT! IS! TIME!
*That's when 42 lets out a sigh of relief and sits down, giving thanks that they can finally go home.
*Cadence is, understandably, offput and confused about this. 42 just informs her that since Uranus is coming back, that means the danger is passed and they can all go home.
*When Cadence asks why this doesn't just mean he's informing them of danger, 42 says it wouldn't be a very good mind control spell if he came back then.
*When the others ask for clarification as to what mind control spell, she shows them.
*By dropping the one she had over all of them.
*They all suddenly realize something at the same time, why are they still there? And why are they in a city that's in the opposite direction of where they were going?
*Things become obvious pretty fast.
*Cadence asks for an explanation, Forty Two gives her official 'confession' that she knowingly and deliberately mind controlled everyone to keep them from asking why they shouldn't leave without their consent. She acknowledges in addition to being very illegal, it was a pretty terrible thing to do, but she's not sorry.
*18 is shocked most of all because 42 somehow did it to her, an infiltrator, and 42 discloses she's been examining the weakpoints of those around her for years.
*Everyone else is some level of disgusted or angry that she invaded their mind, Cadence included, and she wants to know how.
*42 explains her spell just kept them from thinking about their location or how long it had been, or why their 'scout' would take so long. She didn't have time to completely mind control them, so she just 'nudged' them a bit.
*This is not better.
*Cadence asks if she thought she would let her off, but 42 responds no, in fact in her present state there was a possibility she'd snap and kill her, and she was ready for that.
*She had no idea what she's going to do, and she's ready for it. Cadence asks why.
*The 'official' reason is that 42 is pretty sure a mixture of painkilling drugs, physical stress and the moon thing have caused Cadence to lose her mind and she would rather do this than see innocent individuals thrust into battle against something beyond their capabilities due to her being crazy.
*Spitfire actually thanks her after that, and outright tells Cadence yes, she's being crazy, and if 42 wants she'll fly her out of there. Punchbug denies.
*Cadence does not take being called crazy well, and goes Crazy.
*She starts screaming about this being her chance to be useful and show the power of love, all while shooting a giant beam out of her head that continues to destroy the town they're in.
*In her rage, she asks why once more, and unafraid of the blast, 42 goes up to her and tells her.
*"Because I don't want to see the ones I love getting destroyed when they're not themselves. I'd rather protect them, even if it means I don't get to see them ever again."
*42 accepts that none of them will be able to trust her after this, or that she could've possibly just told everyone else and they'd all fool Cadence, but she wasn't willing to risk it. She took the safe, sure route even if it made things difficult for her and other changelings.
*She's ready for whatever cost.
*Because love is worth it.
*Cadence finally stops shooting.
*42 insists she knows something is wrong because she would never bring her children into harms way.
*Panicking when she realizes she didn't know where they were, she starts breaking down when she sees them behind 18, who had been guarding them this entire time.
*She starts to stutter, insisting that they would've been far back, enough they could see their mommy was useful.
*Far back enough to be hit by a stray blast, 42 points out.
*Or any other number of things.
*Cadence says she just wanted them to see her be useful, 42 says she is, but she just gave birth and is in no way in the right shape for this.
*Everyone starts insisting they go home, and Two says she's tired, so is Flurry. They need to go to bed.
*She asks if Cadence can take them home and tell them a bedtime story.
*Cadence breaks down, hugging them both ad saying she's sorry, questioning what she's done, what she was doing or why she's here, this was all wrong.
*They're not supposed to be here, they need to go home, it's their bedtime.
*She's carried off by 18 and Spitfire towards the ship, still holding both Two and Flurry.
*After she's gone 42 insists to the others that what she said isn't for show, if they decide to press charges they are in the right and she deserves it. She is willing to face an impartial judge.
*Everyone says no for a lot of reasons, mostly thankful they're not dying and, most important, kids weren't put in danger.
*They still have the matter of the destroyed town though, and how it's going to be fixed.
*Short answer, it's not.
*She quickly points out that, aside from one or two ponies who 'mysteriously' vanished, nobody came to stop them or complain about their houses being destroyed or anything.
*Also, would be odd to be able to mind control someone to land anywhere and then put them in danger from a laser-alicorn, and she doesn't just mean Cadence.
*The town they were in was infested with 'terrormites' and as soon as they can scorch earth the place so they don't infest anywhere else it's up for demolition.
*Done with everything, 42 heads towards the ship, and Tiempo asks why she did all this.
*"The power of love."
*That's it, it's time to go home, and the ship takes off.
*=GUYS! Good news! The monster's gone! We can finally... guys?... Hellooooooo?... Where'd the ship go?=
*Back at the Empire The Crystal Soldiers get into a fight.
*Pharynx is sad his perimeter never got tested.
*Sunburst and Tiempo discuss what just happen and that the don't hold anything against her, but Tiempo would like to! A beautiful person sticker, you jerk.
*Jupiter is just happy he's going home.
*AJ missed the girls.
*The guard decides to hit on a griffon. It doesn't go well.
*AJ does a headcount of who got exploded or not.
*Everyone is shocked to find out Shining Armor was there in the final battle.
*Lightning Dust thinks she's fired.
*AJ finds out about Glimmer.
*The changelings don't want to go back.
*Dash and Pinkie are nonplussed from exploding.
*Fleur and Fancy Pants celebrate surviving another horror show!
*A Diamond Dog from Hoofington freaks out her house and all her things are gone, while a pegasus from the same place... mostly does?
*Dash and Pinkie talk about big armies.
*Sombra tries to blow on a party favor. Instead, he cries.
*AJ, looking over the armies, suddenly notice a strange group moving through them and offering healing spells and little containers of water.
*While chanting.
*Chanting very strange things involving magic and them being perfect.
*The unicorn supremacists move past her, still chanting about their superiority while also being weirdly helpful. Blueblood, following them, says hi to Applejack, and Arana soon after, and AJ wonders how long they've been there.
*That's when Flim and Flam pops up. She finds out from both of them that they've been at the battle for a while, and that they didn't get exploded. Somehow they managed not to get killed during all that.
*AJ is impressed they helped out, little as it did, when the Flim Flam brothers become weirdly insistent they stayed despite the danger.
*She tells them good job, but they want more.
*After some fast talk, they cut to the chase and want to be freed.
*AJ pretends she didn't even know hey were prisonsers and pardons them
*FLIM AND FLAM ARE FREE!
*And they get to keep the radio equipment.
*She reveals to Blueblood she knew they were, she just didn't trust them yet.
*She also finds out about the unicorn supremacists that Blueblood is keeping in check, and wishes him well.
*Things are still worth fixing.
*The Griffon Royals, plus Delight, have a talk, mostly about Zeppy being embarrassing with his squaking, barbarian rituals, and that Siegfried finds his GreatX4mother hot, just to annoy his mom.
*They're also super alright with being exploded, pointing out it wasn't as bad as Cordceps.
*But there is the important matter of Siegfried not staying put at the castle, meaning nobody can trust him now to take up the title should things go bad, so Gwen tells Zephryious and Hilda that an heir is needed.
*They both say they'll work on it.
*Delight has several questions and he finds out, yes, ever griffon's name starts with G, Siegfried's real name is Grá Síegfried, and that Idris is just Idris and he doesn't want talk about why.
*Also, his army is like right there and he can finally go home!
*He thanks them for their hospitality, they point out they mostly weren't hospitable, and off he goes.
*They all deduce ponies are weird.
*Dash wants to fly home but it's too dark.
*They all decide to wait for Celestia to be done and raise the sun, then they go home.
*Finally, Alterjack, down in the maze still and using her earth pony powers to 'feel' the way out, muses to herself about how maybe asking for help sometimes isn't so bad.
*She needs to, after all the bridges she's burned.
*Still, Ever Pony in this universe is crazy!
==Thread 243==
LAST THREAD RECAP, WE NEED TO STALL EDITION!
*Pinkie asks Fluttershy about her powers, and makes a mistake regarding her mother.
*Pinkie also seriously wants to sleep.
*Grehem is happy to be alive again, Sebjek is a little more irritated.
*AJ wonders if it's normal for Shining to hang out in her bathroom.
*Griffons and DD's find normal animals weird.
*OOCO 77 accidentally tossed Garble into a pile of Infusions and he gains all of their powers. Luckily, he's really terrible using all of them and can't hit them, and 77 is not terrible at shape shifting. He turns into a cave troll and knocks him into a greenhouse, leaving to finish him while letting Pommel and the others clean up.
*OOCO Back with the others, Trust Fund gives all he has to try to knock out Upper Crust, and... he's pretty bad at this. Habeas meanwhile realizes that he's been going almost suicidally towards the money that just plain isn't enough for what he needs and questions why. Luckily, someone is there to answer that with a hint at mind control, a FWOOSH and a "SUP MOTHERFUCKERS!'
*OOCO Yes, it's 88 revealing herself as a private investigator and do gooder! She's been subtly influencing Habeus to keep going loooong after it would have made sense to stop. It looks like the jig is up, but where guns and even the legendary buzzer fails to stop her, the stink bomb prevails!
*Dash is going stir crazy and wants a nap.
*Canterlot is in bad shape.
*Spike gets burned.
*AJ missed Discord
*The griffon wants the guard to come back
*Blueblood did not intend the unicorn supremeciest.
*Cadence and the others arrive back home, and after quietly shuffling the princess off out of sight, 18 gives an impromptu press conference where she pins most of the blame on Cadence's actions as a result of medication, stress, and magic. The Crystal Ponies buy it.
*The CE crew go home while the Sailor Scouts, plus Sunburst and Tiempo, are sent to their own homes and the castle is locked.
*With the kids, Cadence attempts to read them a bedtime story. One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish. Love help them all.
*Delight meets back up with Vermillion and Dazey, and gives them the lowdown on what he's been up to. Also, his real name is Miles Delight
*Shining and Chrysalis haven't moved, mostly from being too tired to actually walk, and have a nice talk together where they discuss survival, each other's health, and the future.
*They agree to go somewhere later, just the two of them, and think about how anything can happen...
*Dash suggests a bet to get dates, and nobody goes for it.
*Except 32.
*Pinkie wonders if they should go get Celestia but AJ says no, and none of the others can raise the sun due to it being such a strain it could break their magic forever. Pinkie wonders if that's why AJ gave Chitania the magic. Her response? "Whoops."
*Sombra welcomes everyone home and gets the lowdown on what's been going wrong. It's also revealed the others can't take the sailor scout uniforms off.
*Tiempo and Sunburst go out for a drink
*18 wants some uh... private time with Shining.
*The guard and griffon begin to talk to each other, the guard is oblivious and the Griffon is a bit pushy but doesn't want him to leave
*Their buddies are horrified, or not?.
*AJ talks with Cloudchaser and Muffins. Correction, MAYOR Cloudchaser and Derpy.
*Lyra and Bon had fun, or not.
*Everyone is sure Canterlot is doomed
*Pinkie won't throw a party because it's not fun
*18 wonders if she should go in and check on Cadence, she should not.
*Two tries to keep Flurry from waking Cadence, who is now draped over the crib asleep after collapsing. Somehow, Flurry knows, and savors her fear.
*With all the armies like they are, segregated and suspicious Rarity feels like someone should say something. AJ says to go for it, but Rarity feels that, having not saved the world and not being remakable among the royals, she wouldn't inspire much reaction, unlike AJ.
*AJ says she has noting to say, but the other Elements insist that she say something. Even just empty platitudes would be fine.
*She's still unsure until she gets forced into it via Pinkie Cannon that shoots her above the crowd, and she has to try her best. It's not very good.
*Still, she eventually suggests she and the other leaders talk, and to her surprise, someone actually goes for it! It looks like she has an audience of the greatest leaders of the land willing and ready to talk!
*One problem.
*The greatest leaders of the land are willing and ready to talk. With her.
*Specifically her, and all alone.
*She had made a terrible mistake.
==Thread 244==
LAST THREAD RECAP GET US OUT OF HERE EDITION!
*Sombra makes innuendo, accidentally.
*Rat wants to be in the diplomacy thing.
*OOCO Garble squares off with 77, who admits he wants to vent a little bit thanks to a certain previous event with a friend of his and dragons. 77 has him mostly beat and his mouth sealed, but a quick thinking on Garble's part allows him to escape at just the right moment, and head down to Centitrain, who treats him with contempt.
*OOCO Meanwhile, Upper Crust has the advantage over 88, but stops Habeas from killing her after he shoots her low enough to burn down her love stores. Using the time honored tradition of 'villain speech', she gives 88 a chance to retaliate and knock him out. Despite promising that she'd go easy on them for this, UC still knocks 88 out with an electric boop, and after a brief discussion Trust Fund decides to become her minion rather than be hunted by the mob after revealing he was just in all of this for kicks. Together, they escape.
*OOCO They all meet up with Centitrain, who has a new friend! A goat! Who is... sentient? A pet? He doesn't get a share is the point. Togehter they all sneak back into their warehouse with Centi, and leave Trust Fund to divide up the money so all get their shares, except him. Thus, the adventure ends!
*OOCO With one last addendum. For Suri left behind a 'peace offering' to them, the bag containing all of Trust Fund's dealings with the mob, which would allow the guard to once and for all take down the Palomino family! Though they're not letting them off, they agree, they have bigger fish to fry.
*The guard and Tsungriffon keep talking
*Discord cannot do diplomac
*The Main 4 immediately regret their actions
*Applejack is not good at diplomacy. Her attempts to talk to the others goes bad when someone asks who caused all of this
*The Main 4 can't do a distraction
*Steam Gauge, Lucky Strikes, and the others all want a week off.
*Applejack tries to explain what happened, but when she gets to the part about this being a part of a divine being, everyone calls bullshit. Thus begins a long rant about who's religion is real.
*The Main 4 have had bad experiences with this.
*Many smaller pockets believe the same.
*The unicorns under Blueblood have their own opinion, but he's occupied with Haymaker who needs a good cry.
*Things get worse when someone brings up Variolus and 32 points out she was just an angry bitch ghost. The implications are pretty dire.
*It's about to get out of control when AJ rapidly changes the conversation to trade.
*Pinkie knows nothing of trade.
*10 and BBB get the scoop.
*Applejack regrets yet again, ad trade talks go mostly to threats, except for Rutherford, who wants to talk about infrastructure.
*Talks of infrastructure, unsurprisingly, go badly. Torch also wants them to stop making up words.
*While they're ranting, Applejack suddenly notices something. She realizes they've been neglecting the Hoofington residents, a band of varied species from across the board, and she wonders what they're going to do with them,
*Though the respective leaders all reluctantly say they'll take back their own respective species in the bunch, Applejack is angered by this thought. She says this was their home.
*She points out how all of the armies came together and fought just as one, just like those varied species came together to build their home. She thinks they deserve to have it back.
*She know she can't build it on her own, Equestria's treasury couldn't handle it, so instead she says that all of them should come together to fund the rebuilding of the city. They're reluctant, mostly because they worked for Sunset. When Blackbill, the very first one to be taken, steps forwards and points out they're mostly 'not nice people' who were taken in, given jobs, education, a home and so on, they felt accepted.
*Applejack points out these are their subjects just as much hers, and they didn't want them when they were criminals. But now that they've done something right, they should help rebuild the place, together.
*And if they did, this would be a place for all races and species, and they deserve the right to come if they want to.
*Most are ready turn her down, until one voice changes it.
*Actarius, on behalf of the Changelings, promises aide in reconstruction.
*With that, the others can't politically say no any longer and one by one they all agree.
*It's decided, all will build supplies and help to repair the place, while those who lived there will stay in the Maze down below until they can rebuild so they don't have to leave.
*With that finished, Applejack formally welcomes them all...
*TO HARMONY CITY!
==Thread 245==
LAST THREAD RECAP, GOING HOME AT LAST, FOR REAL, NO SERIOUSLY THIS TIME EDITION
*Rat informs the others they’re going to build a city, and they’re excited.
*The griffons grumble about being forced into this.
*OOCO There is a discussion from Centitrain and a guard about if the goat is sentient. The results are inconclusive.
*OOCO Garble heads back to his cave with his loot and after some thinking declares his new companions his ‘gang’.
*OOCO Hayseed Turniptruck receives a strange bag as thanks for assistance in that very first crime, littering.
*At long last, Celestia and Luna emerges and the sun rises.
*LNPP briefly returns!
*Applejack grumbles that the sisters took too long, but they’re being very odd about what happened down there.
*When Applejack explains her city idea, they point out it will be a bureaucratic nightmare, she’s not phased.
*The topic moves to how to get everyone home, where Celestia learns there’s no airships, or even scrap, remaining. So most are going to have to walk.
*Just as AJ is about to give the bad news, something appears over the horizon. It’s Centitrain! She finally makes it, laying down pipes with connectors all the way.
*With her framework laid down, after everyone is loaded up, she can use her electricity to rocket back to Trottingham in no time, letting everyone use the train station there to get home.
*With that off, everyone realizes they haven’t seen Twilight yet.
*Tiempo tries to see Cadence in order to get the clothing off him, but no dice. That and he needed to point out the… other thing Cadence left behind.
*Spitfire is happy to see the light again, because she’s not allowed to hate Celestia. She can hate Dash though.
*The guard and tsundere griffon continue their relationship.
*The Saddle Arabians discuss what they must do in order to regain their forces.
*The sunlight awakens 007 in his nice comfy bed, and he realizes they made it through the night, and the day is saved. With his girlfriend on his side, he’s at peace. Just one problem.
*It’s not just his girlfriend in the bed with him.
*Much to his horror, PJ is also in the bed with him. While he keeps his eyes closed and pretends to sleep in horror, she and his girlfriend recount last nights exploits, and they are not ambiguous.
*Despite the fact they confirm it had no substance or coercion involved, and PJ very much enjoyed herself, 007 is nearly broken when they leave the room, rasping to himself that it was with a ‘flaaaaaaa…’
*Dash won’t fly Pinkie home.
*Everyone begins to be worried when they realize they haven’t seen Twilight.
*Chrysalis finally emerged from down below with Shining in tow, and is super casual about everything.
*When Shining finds out Twi is gone, he immediately sets off to go get her back despite being so weak he can barely move. He marches straight towards the entrance to the maze, but never makes it. Just before he reaches, the door explodes and a very familiar color scheme shoots off into the air and towards Canterlot. Shining is upset.
*With that out of the way, Shining reluctantly accepts he needs to go straight home, and after getting something whispered in his ear from Celestia he does just that, him and Chrysalis heading off while she declares "HAH! FUCK YOU, HOOFINGTON! I'M NOT COMING BACK!"
*Someone’s going to have to tell her about Harmony City, but later. It’s time to go home.
*Acty wonders if she’s going to be mad.
*Everyone wonders what she meant, but realizes she can weasel out of anything.
*Sebjek is upset.
*AJ and Celestia talk about Blue.
*Idris lost Cheese.
*Shining thinks Chrysalis is ridiculously comfy.
*Dash and Pinkie question why Twi left.
*The Diamond Dogs are happy with events.
*AJ spots Granny Smith and Big Mac in the crowd, but doesn’t recognize them at the distance. They hide in time.
*Blueblood makes everyone go home.
*Lightning Dust is worried she will be fired.
*Discord is rude.
*Luna did not like being dead.
*AJ and Celestia notices a whole lot of the leaders are doing the pose. It’s not a good pose.
*On the way home, Chrysalis has to make Shining stop trying to protect her from the bitter blizzard with his horn, knowing he’s already near collapse with his magic usage. She got some from AJ, but he’s down to near nothing.
*Without that option, he just hugs her to keep her warm as best he can, he can at least do that.
*He wishes he had wings once again, which leads to the discussion of immortality.
*Eventually it leads to Shining admitting he liked the idea of Chrysalis being around, so someone would be there for Cadence even if he’s gone.
*Chrysalis does not like the idea of him being gone at all.
*The discussion turns kids, wings, bribery and blackmail.
*Eventually they get home, and notice something… off in the sky.
*Cadence wakes up with a bent spine and terrible back, and slowly begins to remember the previous nights events. She is not happy.
*Rarity and AJ have nothing to talk about.
*Eighteen wonders how they’re going to explain all of this to Shining,.
*Pinkie thinks they should be paid.
*Hilda and Zephyrious discuss politics.
*Meanwhile, the rest of the family embarrasses themselves at a restaurant.
*Pinkie did not see Mad. PERIOD.
*Luna may have done illegal dream recruitment.
*With a burst of teleport fire, Shining arrives home and immediately checks the place. Upon seeing nobody is crying, aghast, or haunted, he realizes nobody is dead or maimed so nothing to worry about.
*When he notices Eighteen, Spitfire and Forty Two dressed up in their ‘uniforms’, he suddenly goes silent and starts sweating.
*When nobody speaks, he looks to Chrysalis who gets the answer out of them that this is not a sex thing.
*He’s… a little disappointed, but seeks the truth.
*He was about to get the low down when Cadence throws open the doors, delares she’s a terrible mom, and runs into her bedroom and locks the door.
*Shining is teleported into the room and tries to talk to his crying wife, asking her what happened.
*She starts explaining, and things only get worse.
*It’s great to be back.
*The last of the soliders finally get loaded up, and it’s just the Elements and two princesses left. Just before they leave, AJ turns back and heads to the entrance.
*There, hiding, is AUJ, who was waiting for the other leaders to leave so she didn’t have to explain anything.
*The two versions of each other share a nice moment, then AUJ breaks off in a weirdly cheerful way, racing regular Applejack to Centitrain.
*Time to go home, for real this time.
==Thread 246==
LAST THREAD RECAP LOVVVEEEE EDITION!
*Chrysalis doesn't know what this is
*Screwloose goes off for some cake with 12 in tow while discussing the recent events. During thier trek, they discuss their relationship and the concept of love.
*Along the way, they run into Jetset, who is preparing a cake for his "Queen", and they get into a heated discussion. Jetset reveals he's trying not to be as aggressive anymore, and Screwloose points out he's lost his 'edge'. He puts that down quick, before he leaves.
*Far away, the Storm King talks with one of his minions.
*The changelings don't know what to tell the Queen.
*We return to the CMC, and find them all sitting around and trying to soak in what just happened. During their battle, they experienced the Time Stop that Blue did, only they could still perceive everything even if they couldn't move.
*Their brains worked extra fast as well, stretching on a long pace even longer, and giving them time to 'think.'
*The Light Knight points out that it was probably divine in nature, but they don't care. This gave them way too much time to ponder everything.
*The Dark Dragon is done. He is DONE.
*With a rant about how crazy this world is, he flips off everyone and leaves while ranting that he's going to rethink his life of evil.
*The Light Knight decides his work is done as well, and tries to talk to Sweetie, who ignores him before he goes.
*Applebloom confronts Grand Pear that he's not Scootaloo's granpa, which he confirms, but dissuades her from going any further.
*He says they need to get home, and Sweetie agrees, realizing they will be punished if they don't.
*She tries to find a way out with the others, but can't manage it, even though Winona gets her sword back.
*That's when Minuette, who had been unconscious, wakes up and lassos a rock on the ground. Somehow, she knew it was on top of a pocket of some sort of gas beneath them, and they all jump onto the Dread Knight before it explodes.
*The Main Six and Princesses find their way home and find everyone is acting weird at Canterlot.
*They're just smiling, even though everything is on fire. Just smiling.
*AJ realizes they've got a lot to fix.
*The new Harmony City Citizens realize that it really sucks down there in the catacombs. Really sucks.
*They argue about if anything can be fixed at all, or where they're going to get food.
*Tensions begin to run high, but just when things get bad, help arrives!
*Riding on the electrified rails that Centitrain laid down, a pony arrives with provisions in record time!
*There is still some worries and fears, but eventually those who choose to stay feel like they're going to be alright.
*The Guard and Tsungriffon keep talking
*The Main Six plus Princesses try, to no avail, to see Twilight, who has sealed herself off in her lab.
*Everyone eventually concedes they can't get in, but put round the clock monitoring on the spot so the minute she comes out, they will grab her and force out answers.
*In the meantime, Celestia has a suggestion. Sleep. SLEEEEP.
*Everyone agrees, but before they go, AJ tries to talk to Celestia who admits they have much to discuss, but later. For now, sleeep.
*Rekulk learned War is good for Trade
*88 wakes up and realizes she missed something
*Chrysalis explains what happened
*Pennydrop finally gets picked up, but won't let anyone cut her out of MC. Instead she forces them to airlift her with the only airship they have left, the CEOs having sent everything else they could spare to fight, and uses the last of her internal magic to make the eyes glow as a sign her weapon still lives.
*AJ has problems sleeping anywhere but her desk
*Pommel goes to sleep
*Diamond Tiara is finally awakened, only there's no Twilight. She has to listen to a recording telling her that her spine is healing and it will be some time before she can walk again, but she will walk.
*Her parents pick her up, and she declares she's going to walk again.
*32 tries to chide his assistant but it ends up with more innuendo
*They sent a guard to watch AUJ
*Pommel can't arrest Jetset
*Cloudchaser comes home to no parade
*the Ghostbusters get a dream-visit from Luna, who looks like she's angry at first but instead is really just messing with them, she cannot get more proud.
*So proud of how they handled it, in fact, that she thinks they should do so for a while so she can take a break!
*Spike is whisked outside of his room, where a dermatologist is waiting. It seems Twi was having trouble with an infection in his wound, so instead of trying herself she got the very best on it and sent him out of the lab.
*Still, she didn't even show herself to him..
*Said doctor probably shouldn't insult Jetset or his nurse, Honeyheart.
*The longer the talk with Cadence goes on, the more Shining feels like something has gone very wrong.
*He gets more shocked and upset the longer she describes what she did, and can't even bring himself to make her feel better.
*When Cadence calls herself derogatory terms, he cant' refute them.
*Cadence admits she wanted that feeling of during the Invasion, when she saved everyone and felt unstoppable. Then it all went awry.
*She points out she understands that Shining has to wish she would be more intimate and that he has to hate all the waiting, and it's not fair. Nobody else would put up with this.
*At the end, she tells him he should just leave her to find someone who understands, and he gets up, declaring 'I can't fix this."
*Then he leaves, and Cadence can't stop him.
*She's sure it's over, it's finally over.
*"Everyone! In here, now!"
*Or not.
*Instead he brings everyone in, and declares they're ALL going to fix this.
*Together.
*Because they love her.
*So he asks her to tell her why she feels the way she does, and she says she doesn't know.
*After some forceful prodding from Chrysalis, she lets it all loose, admitting how bitter she is that everyone in the room is better than her at something. Better fighter, more powerful, smarter, ETC...
*Then she breaks down when she admitted the baby was supposed to be the one thing she does better than everyone, and Chrysalis took it away from her without trying.
*She admits that she knows she said she didn't even want a baby, and this is why she feels like Flurry doesn't like her.
*Anyone would have been better than her, anyone.
*Shockingly it's Spitfire who;s the first to speak up, admitting she sucks at paperwork.
*One by one the others admit their own failings and where they fall short.
*Then they tell Cadence where she succeeded in helping them, personally, and why that makes her special.
*She tries to claim it's different, because they don't have to be the best at those things. Where she really failed is she doesn't understand love anymore.
*She just doesn't understand what it is, or how to deal with it for all of them.
*This isn't how it's supposed to work, and there's a finite level of love, so if it spreads out...
*Finally, she can't compete with what they're offering, because they can be like 'that' much more easily.
*Shining finally speaks up, and explains to her she's wrong.
*He could never love her less than he does now.
*It doesn't matter how much they are intimate, if he took a spell to never feel lust again he would love her just as much. If she's a princess or a simple pegasus in a rural town, he loves her.
*When she tries to say there isn't enough, he shoots her down.
*He describes all he's seen love do, and what it's capable of. He can't believe that it can't grow, or there can't be enough for everyone.
*She cries and says she loves him.
*But she still doesn't understand the love she has for all of them.
*She doesn't understand how she feels.
*Turns out, none of them do.
*They all feel it, none of them understand.
*The others want to.
*He says they can explore it, or if she wants to say no, that's it. Everyone will accept it.
*Even Eighteen, who says she loves her enough she'll let it go if it will make her happy.
*Cadence... wants to understand.
*They have no idea what to call it, where to go with it, or what it means, but they want to understand.
*Tired, exhausted and ready for sleep, they fall together, and start their new adventure.
*It's scary, it's wonderful.
*It's Love.
*WAAAHHHHHHHH!"
*And it's off to a great start.
==Thread 247==
LAST THREAD RECAP, NORMALLLL EDITION!
*AJ's gotta question no matter how much Celestia wants sleep.
*The Tsungriffon and Guard head to Canterlot
*Two and Flurry continue to 'bond'
*AJ sleeping on her desk has consequences
*OOCO Vekir helps teach Morlock life while on "Work release" which means she teaches and Watchdog gets released, when she finds a bag of money left for her from Upper Crust
*OOCO Upper Crust meets with the kid who gave her the magazine and gives him a bag of money to invest, he has questions about her 'good deeds', she insists it's laundering money. After a discussion, she finds the evil in all the good she does.
*OOCO Suri loses all her money at Las Pegasus, but finds another avenue with an upcoming Chitania movie...
*Two cries after waking up until Chrysalis bursts into the room and cheers her up, which drives Two to decide to be a better sister
*They also find Flurry cries whenever she leaves Chrysalis's grip
*Cadence tries to do paperwork with Flurry and it does not go well.
*Pretty much nothing with Flurry goes well
*The other CE crew are having a disorented time adjusting to this new 'thing' but they like it.
*Various stories of them bonding
*Sombra demands Shining call it what it is.
*Celestia reveals what she needed to talk about with AJ, she and Luna are going on a 'vacation', needing some time to themselves after the 'events'.
*AJ wishes them well as they both head off, right before Celestia reveals that after this, everything that happens is "Her fault"
*She still wants them to come home.
*Spike's doctor reveals that it was a combination of things Twilight couldn't have known about that caused healing to be so delayed for a simple cut, and that he should be healed in no time.
*Delight 'grovels' for his job back, which he is very bad at, and as a result gets put on Paperwork duty since AJ doesn't really care.
*Lieutenant Darling, tries to get him fired to no avail.
*Cloudchaser makes a statement
*Lyra and Bon's house got hit by the riots
*The CE is remarkably riot free
*Pennydrop confronts "Antlers" about the power being sealed off to her and nearly causing her to be easily crushed at the worst time, he just changes the subject to how much money she will make now that everyone is desperate for weapons.
*She tries to change the subject back, but he insists that this is a bad time, as if one of the princesses were to hear how 'vulnerable' she is right now, it could end disastrously. She concedes, but it's not over.
*SA goes to talk to Twilight but finds out she's locked herself in. Despite the burning desire to break in, he finds out that will be useless, so instead he wants to tell Celestia, but finds her gone, and is rather upset. He calms down when he realizes Celly needed the vacation, but still feels sad. AJ gives him a gentle hug, and points out he probably needs some rest too, as he has had 0 sleep since the whole Blue thing started. And he does. He just falls asleep right there, and AJ is trapped. Poor thing.
*Jetset finds the two and hits Shiny until he lets go, because he might be a little jealous but it's totally because Shiny doesn't deserve it, totally.
*After a bit of fighting, Jetset gives her the apple cake he gained earlier, and the battle between them that mostly consists of namecalling begins.
*AJ just enjoys her cake.
*Celestia, on the train, wonders what's taking so long and asks Luna for the tickets. She does not understand. Apparently, Luna picked this train because it was pretty, and thought being royal meant she got taken to wherever she wanted, they have no idea where they are or where they're going.
*Celly tries to look on the bright side and tries to get cake, but it turns out this train is a diet train. It's made for dieting.
*Luna's happy at least.
*Rarity finds out AJ is desirable.
*Chrysalis finally opens up a little to 18, who opens up back, it's weird.
*SA and Pommel talk and Jetset stalks
*Sunburst and Tiempo are let back in the castle to see Cadence about getting rid of the 'outfit' they still can't get off, and learn about the 'thing'. Tiempo is excited until he learns the downside
*Pinkie learns the Partyland 2 crew, having no radios, kept working until the thing was finished, as a result they're ahead of schedule and she's way behind on payments.
*Wayyyy behind.
*So she has to hit up Shiny for a loan, which knocks off a lot of their 'bonus'.
*Celestia experiances the woes of dieting
*SA and Rarity talk
*Shining tells Zanta he cannot eat the ponies
*SA and 18 talk about Timepo, SA ending up being pretty chill about everything
*Sombra and SA talk
*Stalliongrad has a lot of ponies abandoning it
*The animals burned FS's house down
*Actarius tells Chrysalis about what he did, despite JJ declaring DOOOM will happen.
*Chrysalis actually praises him, realizing the strength of being the first to step forward and how much good PR this will bring. She gives them both a headpat and cackles evily to herself, but it's a good thing
*Cloudchaser and Derpy talk about abductions
*Fluttershy is not helping with paperpwork
*AB, SB, And SL all survived the explosion and are on their way home. Along the way they come to a fork in the road and get directed in the proper direction by Grand Pear, who leaves to take 'the long way' to Ponyville.
*But that's not all! They also run into none other than Big Mac and Granny Smith, who are about to lay the verbal smackdown. Only to have the tables turned when Sweetie Belle shows up and spins a story about them looking for the pair, which is why they needed the 'bodyguard' Dread Knight.
*Shamed and thoroughly humiliated, they all head home, Sweetie Bell pointing out AB owes her one. Totally worth it.
*Another job well done, Crusaders!
*Cadence apologizes to Tiempo and Sunburst about what she did to them, and offers anything at all, within reason, to make it up to them. Tiempo smugly wants access to the archives with information on artifacts, magical stuff, whatever that the average pony couldn't know. She accepts within reason.
*Sunburst is shocked he didn't ask for trying to be hooked up with one of the princesses, which he blows off saying she would never do that.
*Turns out she might've, depending on which one, and declares no backsies before he can switch. He looks to Sunburst who just wants his job back, and is left wanting.
*Sunset and the others finally arrive home, all of them despondant that Flash seems to be dead. Sunset carries on the strongest, but is obviously affected, and everyone else just wonders what they're going to do now.
*Before they can cry too much, they find Sunset's 'lab' has been trashed, papers everywhere, things tossed around, yet not a single one of her sensors went off. Someone was in that room and didn't come in from outside.
*More chillingly, she discovers when she looks to her portal that something is very wrong.
*"Something turned this thing on."
==Thread 248==
Missed
==Thread 249==
LAST THREAD RECAP!
*AJ got a chilling message from Pennydrop via experimental "Giant black slab"
*Turns out it works like a TV somehow and everyone watches TV for a bit, especially AUJ who comes to love soap operas and wrestling.
*Pennydrop is not getting it back.
*Celestia continues to have fun with her sister, Cannonball the fitness obsessed unicorn, the ever paranoid Fruitcake, the overweight and selfconcious Chunky Chew, and the accident prone Peach. The six soon become very close friends.
*Despite the strangeness of the mountain and the seemingly impossible topography of rapids, ski slopes, and deserts on a mountain, Celestia eventually starts to have fun and loves it
*But then it's revealed this was all a trick from the head councilor to gather energy for the Tome of the Elements, and the ritual completes giving her command over earth fire wind and water!
*Instead of fighting a desperate Celestia begs her to just let them have fun as it's been a huge help with getting over the trauma of losing Luna.
*Despite being shocked, when Celestia offers to be the figure to advertise this resort and get her a load of money, well...
*Applejack receives an advertisement from Celestia, yes, THE Celestia as she repeats, for this new health resort.
*She has a lot of questions.
==Thread 250==
Non-canon stories
==Thread 251==
Missed
==Thread 252==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SUPPPPER HERO EDITION!
*Shining Armor, after experiencing a serious headache and nosebleed while trying to remember OnO players, is sucked into a comic book.
*AUJ bugs Celestia.
*>Spike gets a visit from Diamond Tiara, who wants to play OnO. They're both soon joined by 77, PJ and Daw, all of whom cause havoc in the OnO world and massive death.
*Dash Pinkie and FS do nothing
*Luna checks in on 29 and makes him feel bad
*Chrysalis didn't do it, whatever it is Cadence thinks is wrong, she didn't do it.
*Spitfire suddenly freezes in the middle of an assembly, forgetting what she was doing for a moment and then abruptly flying off when she realizes she can't remember why she was there
*At the same time, Eighteen abruptly stops writing and asks "What the fuck am I doing?"
*Forty Two, in the middle of training with the guard, abruptly pauses as well, but unlike the others resumes barking orders to the guard to get back to work, because only the Princess could order them to stop. After they're gone, she senses something is very wrong.
*Shining Armor suddenly wakes up in a world very much unlike his own. One with impossibly tall cityscapes, sharp lines, and strange colors. A world that seems to be 'off' in all the wrong ways.
*A world with Mane-Iac and Poindexter, who declare they have finally found Luminous Shield, and they begin to laugh. Shining Armor has many questions.
*Pennydrop has nothing going wrong.
*Tiempo mentions to Cadence that Flurry is very forceful, and hopes it isn't her set personality that he got from her. Even so, he can't recall who the father was, and when Cadence tries she suddenly breaks off and walks away before ignoring it.
*Lyra and Derpy are becoming friends while Bonbon and Cloudchaser try to make them jealous
*One of the Crystal Guard is having a real problem with nosebleeds when he tries to think of something
*Forty Two starts searching
*OOCO Upper Crust talks with Marble to learn about her, Pokey explains to Stepson of Sam his methodology mostly based around subtly breaking down the cotton candy world most ponies live in and that his nemesis is Pinkie, and both resolve to do villain stuff. After some whacky explanations and hijinks to the train conductor, everyone gets home and Marble meets Centitrain and the... king? Regardless they get a letter from a 'friend' telling them about a big budget movie ripe for the picking off in Applewood, and they're off to villain!
*Eighteen realizes there's too much paperwork and she can't handle it, so she flies off.
*Two suddenly freezes in the middle of the hallway, unable to remember what she was doing and starts slipping back into her 'Chrysalis' voice from early threads when she feels disoriented and strangely alone. It's only when Flurry taps her that she remembers she was chasing Sissy and nothing else and everything makes sense again.
*Spitfire suddenly is overwhelmed by the feeling she's going to go down in history as the worst Wonderbolt and sets off to fix that.
*Jetset is suddenly struck by a painful headache when he tries to think of where he was going, and he can't remember it at all. Honeyheart finds him and distracts him enough to forget he was searching, but he knows something is terribly wrong.
*AUJ asks Celestia how her talk went, and is annoyed when Celestia asks like she doesn't know what AUJ is talking about and walks off. She doesn't want to know anyway.
*Two asks Teimpo to play with them. He should not have said yes.
*Luna gets annoyed lisntening to the others play OnO, so she goes off to find her camp buddies, and play OnO.
*Shining Armor is at first elated to find out that Mane-Iac and Poindexter are alive, then he realizes he hadn't even thought of them in so long.
*He didn't get any time to question that before they start beating him like they owed him money.
*Despite several blows that should have been crippling, he ends up mostly being okay after each blow and getting back up. He realizes quickly there's no time to talk, so he resolves to use his magic. Only, he can't. He can't make bubbles, he can't lift things, he can't use any magic except the ones of the Luminous Shield, which is creating glowing weaponry and armor.
*On the positive side, the armor is ridiculously durable to the point he barely feels a massive attack.
*Just as they start to monologue, and Poindexter prepares to kill him, out comes an attack to freeze it, literally!
*It's the Power Ponies!
*Still no discord power.
*Forty Two can't find anything different.
*Cadence is concerned Two and Flurry followed Tiempo but won't get them back.
*Applejack and her siblings found out they're half pear and that Mrs Cake knew their mom
*Everything is going great with the Harmony City rebuild
*Sombra also stops, and begins to wonder why he never tried to take back all that was his in this city. Thankfully Twenty Nine arrives before that goes too far.
*Two becomes increasingly clingy and worried about upsetting Tiempo as time goes on, as if she's missing something and trying to fill that void. Flurry is fine.
*Luna's OnO game has so much death.
*Cadence learns Eighteen left and realizes that she does have waayyyy too much paperwork.
*Eighteen is now at a bar, drinking milkshakes and complaining.
*Lightning Dust is weirdly intense.
*Fluttershy doesn't want to talk about her brother, but managed to get her sanctuary built.
*Pinkie and Dash are bored and destroying things, since Pinkie laments that nobody would help her fund Partyland.
*Spitfire, still consumed by her need to prove herself, leaves the Empire via Portal and stumbles across none other than Rainbow Dash.
*Shining Armor saved by the Power Ponies! And it's here we learn a secret he's kept from everyone, he has the biggest crush on Matterhorn. After a bit of banter, Mane-Iac and Poindexter escape, but fortunately did not get the thing they were seeking, the legendary Diamond Sapphire Ruby! This was imporant apparently.
*The police chief, who appeared at just that moment, thanked them for their work, and when Matterhorn invites 'Luminous Shield' back to the Power Tower, he accepts. They leave.
*Completely missing the police chief beginning to smile as he and his 'officers' cart the gem into an alleyway and disappear, laughing into the night.
*Changeling 60 goes around checking on the other lings and speaking in a robotic voice.
*Cadence finds out Spitfire left and doesn't know what's wrong.
*Grand Pear is confronted by Granny Smith.
*Two suggests playing Dodgeball. Pity Tiempo.
*Cadence realizes her home feels empty
*Forty Two meets with Jetset, who has not found anything amiss.
*Celestia needs her cake.
*Spitfire has a talk with Dash, and is about to blow her off, but Dash manages to convice her that she can get her a private audience with Celestia, and Spitfire reluctantly accepts.
*The Apple Siblings meet and talk with Mrs Cake, and after learning more about their family, they learn their mom was friends with Mrs Cake too, opening a lot of questions about nepotism.
*Shining Armor goes back to the Power Pony base with them and is taken back by just how amazing everything looks, how fun it is, and he tries to pretend he's actually Luminous despite knowing very little about this place.
*Here they review what they know of Mane-Iacs plan, that she is gathering together four very distinct gemstones. Though everyone else thinks it's another thing for her mane cannon, Shining knows the truth.
*And it scares him.
*He recognizes this storyline, these weapons, and what it means. He remembers a time when he was a kid, and the story that shocked him to his core.
*The day the Power Ponies had ended and started again.
*Now, it was happening all over.
*And he was trapped inside this doomed world.
==Thread 253==
REAL FAST RECAP!
*Shining Armor tries his best but cannot warn the others that the Comic Book World is about to reset before it's too late, and Humdrum is revealed to be a part of it.
*The comic book world resets to be a more grimdark version and Shining has to deal with that and his memories being changed.
*Back at the Empire, relationships are crumbling while Two vainly tries to make Tiempo take the place of the emptiness in her heart.
*Applejack and her family learn about her parents past, and rush back to Ponyville to confront Granny Smith before she can do something horrible to her grandfather!
==Thread 254==
LAST THREAD RECAP, TALKS AND TWISTS EDITION!
*AUJ has a question
*Bat-Mom and Dadling are weird.
*Luna spends time with her friends.
*Spike's OnO campaign is completely overtaken by hugs and love thanks to Silver Spoon, and there's no stopping it.
*007 comes across what Jetset wanted him to help with, an agent strapped to a chair and unconcious. It turns out Jetset wants him to probe his mind and see if he can find answers.
*Arana and Blueblood pretend they saw nothing.
*Celestia's Agents talk.
*Eigheen drank too much.
*Spitfire leaves after her reconciliation talk with Celestia, giving no pause to Dash. Even so, Dash agrees to help Celestia and Spitfire take down LD.
*Two teaches Flurry not to eat ice cream so fast while spending time with Tiempo.
*Lightning Dust is pretttty sure someone wants to get rid of her.
*AJ and the family come across a note from where they thought Granny smith had been. It turns out, she's been kidnapped by none other than the Tangerines! They're off to rescue them.
*Derpy and Lyra keep being friends.
*Bon and Cloudchaser still don't like it.
*Cadence learns that Flurry wrecked stuff and needs to pay for it.
*Shining Armor, still "Luminous Shield" has locked up his 'sidekick' in the back seat of his magic glowing jet because she came onto him, and keeps trying to get him to do rather uncouth things with her.
*She has a backstory he'd rather not get into but comics gotta comic
* Before anything can happen, they find The Mane-Iacs lair, a rusted metal version of her head as a ship, in the river and are subsequently captured by the metal tendrils.
*Celestia and Dash race to Fillydelphia
*Tiempo gets thrown up on by Flurry
*Rarity and Blueblood talk.
*Cadence is overwhelmed from all of this being too much and she doubts her ability to actually be the Princess of Love. Fortunately, Spitfire shows up and gives her a chance to prove it.
*Sombra's attempt to be nice is thwarted by lack of homeless ponies
*Pinkie's attempts to get into Twilight's room backfires.
*Then she shames a guard
*We cut over to Granny and Grand Pear who are suspended over a pit of acid by two villains, a tall and skinny mare and a short and fat one. Said villains exposit while Granny and Pear argue.
*Chitania finds very little information in the Las Pegasus library despite her efforts and misses her librarian
*Eighteen begins vomiting and does not stop
*Shining finds himself suspended in the air in a pitch black room. From there a female voice monlogues at him about his backstory, and before he can stop himself he shouts back further details about said backstory, despite never having heard of it. His memories are being altered and he's starting to remember those events.
*The voice mentions how they want Shining to break and go crazy, and Shining relents a bit that he does feel that sometimes.
*So he does cut loose.
*Luminous Shield's power activates and brightens up the room, and the Mane-Iac laughs.
*Thankfully though, it's not HIS mane-iac. It's A mane-iac, specifically Orchestra who has been twisted into a hobo version of the villain.
*That's when another Mane-Iac shows up, declaring they are THE Mane-Iac! Ahahahah!
*It's also not really The Mane-iac. It's a male.
*One who remembers the old world, and what was changed.
*When Shining asks him to tell him where the original Mane-Iac went, he says "No."
*The phrase he's looking for is "Oh SNAP!"
*And Shining's sidekick's body falls to the ground.
*He doesn't hold back after that.
*AJ and her family find a compound in the middle of the forest, surrounded by armed guards and fortified to the teeth. They realize they've got to get in there, and Applebloom suggest lasers.
*AJ has a better idea...
*Quicksilver finally returns!
*Cloudchaser starts a musical
*Spitfire and Cadence finally have their long awaited talk, and fears are spoken, regrets given, and the two finally come to a major understanding and connect like never before.
*In the end, Spitfire decides to stay in the Empire with Cadence, and afterwards Cadence needs help with all the others.
*They go and pick up Eighteen and leave the bartender to clean up the mess.
*10 and BBB fail to get an interview from Rarity
*Two tries to convince Tiempo to have a kid.
*Pinkie tries to do something but just ends up in the hospital.
*Rarity might be a terrible person.
*Coco is still a great drill sargeant.
*Tiempo starts to enjoy spending time with Two and Flurry
*Rarity gets sucked into helping AUJ with the paperwork
*Shining Armor feels good letting loose while he attacks the Mane-Iac, and that scares him.
*He fights so long he calls himself Luminous Shield, and begins to talk like the comic character.
*he begins mocking Mane-Iac with small attacks meant to drive him crazy rather than hurt him, which only manages to annoy the villain. He relents and admits he failed to help Shining "Unshackle" himself and be free.
*He's about to get into the fight again when a brand new set of heroes show up!
*DIGITIZE and Binder are here to save the day!
*Or, as Shining knows them.
*“…Eight Bit and Gaffer!?”
==Thread 255==
LAST THREAD RECAP GRIMDARK EDITION!
*The crystal pony doesn’t want to talk about being Neptune
*Spitfire and Cadence hold 18’s mane while she pukes her guts out
*Spike and the others hear Pinkie being wheeled in and listen to see what she says about them
*Sombra is upset Two is hanging out with another stallion
*56 takes 29 plotwatching
*AUJ tells Rarity to use magic, which is shocking to find out she does it for everything
*Pommel wants more for his guard and 32 is on it! So he goes to buy guns!
*It’s shockingly easy.
*His and Pinkie’s followup to use this is not so much
*Celestia’s pretty sure guns are harmless
*Rarity might have accidentally enslaved Arana
*DT starts imagining party based weaponry
*Pinkie learns Maud has a date
*Celestia gets stuck in a vent and 56 is happy
*It ends poorly
*Chitania makes it out of Las Pegasus
*Two seems a little down, but when pushed by Tiempo she puts on a smiling face and wants to talk about him, and why he’s here.
*He says he’s mostly in the empire to visit Sunburst, but also because he wants to study changelings. As an alchemist, one new way of creation method for magical items is to find the source of biological magic.
*When she gives a blank face, he tries to explain.
*Dash hides from her parents
*Eighteen gets a rude wakeup
*Derpy and Lyra hang out
*007 and Jetset keep working on the pony to find the cause of the ‘off feeling’, but it’s no use. 7 has to go deeper.
*when Jetset tries to reveal something it sets said changeling off, and a battle ensues, with Jetset having the strong advantage due to his phasing.
*But just before 7 can pull out his ‘trump card’, Jetset finds out why 7 was so angry. Somehow, someway, 7’s scientist girlfriend managed to get herself tied up into a rope and dangling from the ceiling. It was entirely her fault, and nearly breaks poor Jet’s sanity and composure.
*7 understands, and the three of them get to work.
*LD promises Scootaloo a place on the WB’s if she’ll help her.
*Luna has been to the moon, have you?
*Delight comes to drop off the paperwork and discovers a not-princess-Applejack Applejack.
*He gets more paperwork for his troubles.
*Quicksilver and SG catch up on what he missed.
*Tiempo tries to explain how the whole evolution thing works with examples that, at first, seem like too much for Two, but then he finds out are just full of holes and faulty logic. Two is smarter than she looks.
*But when he drops a logic bomb on her regarding changelings, she needs some thinking time and calms her sister down with Whammy.
*He’s a little upset she could have done that the whole time.
*Sweetie Belle hangs out with Dread Knight and Sweetie Doll
*Cheeirlee offends Harry
*AUJ and Rarity go get the paperwork out of Celestia’s room. When they discover her ‘secret stash’, she burns the whole thing down. The whole room.
*Luna isn’t surprised.
*DT and Pinkie loudly argue about science of parties.
*Granny and Grand Pear continue to scream at their captors that they won’t get away with this, but they seemingly expect Applejack to do something.
*She pronounces doom to all of the apples, which prompts Grand Pear to ask why he’s here. A bit of talking reveals she thought he was Granny’s husband and that ultimately he didn’t have to be a part of this, but he’s tied up too hard to get rid of now.
*Oh well, they just keep laughing.
*But then someone bursts in out of nowhere! It’s Applejack! GASP!
*And she’s not alone, she brought a guest… Uncle Orange! GASP!
*And he’s not alone! He brought some friends with him… THE TANGERINES! GASP!
*Granny has no idea what they’re talking about.
*AJ reveals that the pony is a MANDARIN!
*Still nothing.
*Turns out that the villain didn’t say she pretended to be a Tangerine to get Aj to attack them, because why would she mention that? It makes too much sense.
*Didn’t mention being mandarin either.
*Pretty much everything was vague and non-identifying for obvious reasons.
*They also have no idea why mandarins and Tangerines matter, which offends Uncle Orange who had written to Granny about a contest between the pair.
*Said Mandarin wants to know how they figured things out, and it turns out AJ just went down there and asked questions and Uncle Orange showed up, so everything got fixed.
*Convenient!
*Mandarin curses Uncle Orange, who apparently is the one she really hates.
*Everyone is lost.
*“take old ponies, young ponies break stuff” doesn’t help.
*Somewhere along the line a Tangerine mentions he doesn’t actually recognize this mandarin.
*All of them agree.
*All of them.
*Which prompts said Mandarin to realize ALL of the Tangerines came to help because family.
*That works out.
*After some questioning she reveals, in a villain voice, that the whole plan had been to stall the Tangerines in the contest long enough for the Mandarins to pull ahead and win the Tangerines deed to their land, which is what the bet was for.
*AJ realizes dumb is genetic.
*Things only get dumber when the Mandardin declares NOW daddy will love her and make her a real Mandarin.
*This tangled web now includes the fact said Mandarin is illegitimate, having been sired out in the back of a salt bar from the current head of the Mandarin clan, and her accomplice is the fiancé of one of the heirs to take up the clan’s head.
*The former was afraid of ruining relationships and the latter was really disliked by the family to the point that their grandpa threatened to cut ties if she wasn’t dropped, so they did all this to make the Mandarins accept them.
*So now this is apparently a legal part of the contest as neither have any direct ties to the Mandarins being at fault.
*Why did they do all this? Because even if they’re jerks, and they are, they’re family.
*Grand pear wants down and wants out now.
*So they say they’ll get them down… straight down!
*The moment one of them reaches for a lever, everyone panics! Applebloom tells Big Mac to do something, and it’s his time to shine!
*He kicks the vat and saves his grandparents!
*And then everyone else is consumed by the wave of whatever was in that vat.
*Everyone.
*Whoops.
*Inside the comic book, the superhero pair are less than happy to hear him and start screaming in horror that he’s there at all and that he surely will take all of the credit.
*The one upswing is that they seem to be angry at “Luminous Shield” not him
*They blow him off and try to attack Mane-Iac, but Orchestra gets in the way and they have to fight her instead
*When Mane-Iac tries to get him to go back to speaking like a comic book hero, he’s stunned out of that and left shocked he’d ever spoken like that.
*Mane-Iac is upset because he was so close to breaking, but alas. Nothing to do now.
*He says Luminous should have become a Mane-Iac, it’s a wonderful way to meet friends, and calls down his own to prove it.
*When he laughed, the Power Ponies laughed with him.
*They proceed to beat the tar out of him.
*Eventually his magic armor vanishes, and he’s left defenseless while Mane-Iac mocks him.
*He’s a little afraid of that now, not knowing what happens if he dies in the comic book. If he’ll be okay, resurrect later without knowing when it happened, be replaced by the “New” Luminous Shield, or just wake up.
*He can’t take that risk.
*So, he begs for help from his old friends.
*Throwing away his pride and his dignity to pander to the cheap readers of the comic book, reaching out as some culmination of an arc he had no part in. He gives up everything, and says he needs his friends.
*They blow him off.
*Whole Mane-Iac laughs, Shining Armor snaps.
*He’s a little upset.
*"Youuuuu ASSSSSSHHHHHHOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLEEEEEESS!"
==Thread 256==
Missed
==Thread 257==
REAL FAST RECAP
*Applejack is revealed to be alive! It turns out the 'acid' was, in fact, citrus acid.
*As in orange juice.
*Which makes the seemingly throwaway line from the Manadarin girl against uncle orange make sense. He's ruined, just like she said.
*Though she's a little relieved her grandparents weren't in danger of melting, Applejack is still mighty cheesed off, and knows just how to punish the pair of villains...
*She takes them to the Mandarins, explains what the patriarchs actions have caused in a calm manner, and eventually manages to reconcile the two issues both ponies had and reunite the family.
*And with it, she and the other Apples reunites with their own estranged parent, and Grand Pear is happy to be together again.
*OOCO Uppercrust and her motly crew attempt to infiltrate the current production of the Chitania movie while dressed in unconvincing disguises.
*Shining Armor, still in the book, is confronted by the Power Ponies turned into Mane-iacs, who promptly beat the everloving love out of him.
*Despite that, he maintains his strength and repeats that he wants to find the real Mane-Iac and Poindexter.
*When he lets it slip he remembers the old world, the current Nu-Maniac obliges him and 'kills' him.
*In the world of the comic book dead, which is more like a vacation for them, he meets up with a bunch of fallen heroes, including Chitania's Crushers, before he finally finds his friend.
*Shining tells Poindexter they need to leave.
*He simply says 'No thanks.
==Thread 258==
Missed
==Thread 259==
Missed
== Thread 260 ==
LIGHTNING RECAP
* Mane-sic explains to a shocked Poindexter that she loved coming back to her comic book and the safety it provided, but now she realizes that the stagnation, while good for some, isn’t what she wants right now, and she wants things to progress, which they just can’t do in this world. That’s why she has to leave.
* PD agreed, and he and Shining Armor return to fight the new Mane-oaf!
* After Jetset and 007 figure out what happened to him, they find who took Shining Armor and imprisoned him within the book! It was none other than... Foalington!
* That horrifying thing that talks in weird sounds and is a standin for EA/terrible media business in general
* They try their best but before they can get him, he summons comic book characters to fight back!
* That’s when 42 enters the fray!
* And then Cadence and 18 and Spitfire!
* Who are all quickly overwhelmed by the endless comic heroes and villains!
* But it turns out the CE trio weren’t here out following 007 or Jetset, but instead...
* Chrysalis! Who then burnifys the heroes and monologues for a bit about how she totally beat Foalington's mind control.
* Which was undercut just a bit when said guy used his mindpowers to show her memories of how she came to think of this, which is that she messed up Shining's papers with her rump and it triggered it.
* She wants Shiny back.
* Back in the comic book, New Mane-iac reveals he was from the real world and wanted escape, as did Mane-Iac, so they traded, but when PD got brought in it got thrown out of wack.
* Shining, just before he's freed, recognizes the character, but we don't get the name.
* Shiny, Mane-Iac and PD are freed!
* Turns out the whole world was thrown out of wack because Foalington is a hopeless romantic who couldn't separate Maney and PD, and he just kept ruining things so he could keep them together.
* Everyone is going to hurt him but don't manage before he, and his whole building, vanishes.
* The whole world now remembers Shiny, he's back, everything is good.
* MEANWHILE!
* AUJ makes Delight do more paperwork
* Tiempo plays Super Mareio bros with the kids
* AJ gets paranoid and sends Sebjek off on a little scouting adventure to Harmony City
== Thread 261 ==
Sunset is picked up into another universe, Applejack sends Delight to join Sebjek, and the Empire crew is getting married!
* ALL THE HAPPENING FIVE YEARS EDITION!
* Celestia is amassing her army for very obvious reasons.
* Delight gets back to work with AUJ, she is not appreciative of his drawing of her.
* AUJ gets kicked outside because she didn't tell anyone about Shining.
* She still gives paperwork to Delight
* Shining wished the place would fall apart with out him.
* He also has to apologize to Sombra.
* Sebjek gets dragged into attention with Vekir
* Spike is happy SA is back
* 42 tries, and fails, to make Shining feel better
* Lyra doesn't care what just happened.
* SA begrudgingly thanks Tiempo for watching the kids.
* Pinkie remembers Partyland
* Vekir brings Sebjek to watchdog and then they go on to show the city
* AUJ and AJ are not talking. Sort of.
* Pinkie fixes the PL issue.
* Chrysalis messes up Shining's papers.
* Flurry missed Shining, probably.
* Poindexter does the thing?
* Celestia is a little upset
* Sunburst returns! He's been.. working on figurines?
* AJ feels bad for sending Sebjek into a mission
* Her other self doesn't help.
* Rarity tries to make her feel better, maybe?
* Delight tries and fails at that.
* Celly thinks it's all everyone's fault.
* The sky moon in the Crystal Empire is still there.
* Pinkie got a loan from Shining before it all went down, so she's fine.
* Chrysalis did not try to take over the world
* Delight asks about AUJ's world
* OOCO Upper Crust and the crew see their target, the recreations of the EOH. Or at least they would if it wasn't being cleaned. It's okay, there's a lot to get angry about there, creatively.
* AUJ learns coffee is banned, leading to a wild chase after Delight, a lot of anger, and the stark realization that Dandelion Coffee is not real coffee.
* She falls asleep without her juice and real AJ has to take her back to her office.
* SA asks about Battleskirts
* 18 and Spitfire are closer.
* Twinklejinx, still in disguise, tries to be a juggler and fails.
* Pommel can't find Foalington.
* ANNIVERSARY TIME!
* Pinkie is preparing for something
* AJ gets a cupcake
* This is Sweetie Belles's moment!
* Actarius is thankful for his buddy
* Cadence asks Sunburst to watch the kids, and Two VERY reluctantly goes with him
* 29 is thankful for all he has.
* Cloudchaser too
* The mane six reflect on the stuff that happened to them this year.
* Cadence has a big talk with Shining about the other girls and all they've gone through, culminating in her asking him
* "Shining, let's get married."
* He says yes.
* The CE CREW IS FINALLY GETTING MARRIED
* Spike is not taking it anymore and asks Rarity out on a date!
* Sunset's laboratory suddenly explodes with power from the mirror, and something emerges out of it! Something... with a proposition
* To bring an end, to princess Applejack.
* Celestia has a question this time.
* Anniversary over!
* Delight gets dragged to the office via peacetrotters and Dazey
* Once there, AJ has a proposition for him to send him to Harmony City.
* Pommel wishes Dazey wouldn't use the Peacetrotters as enforcers.
* Discord feels the event with Sunset, as does Fluttershy, but brushes it off as merely Celestia being upset, and FS reluctantly buys that.
* Sebjek feels disappointed because the top world isn't filled with nice creatures.
* The CE crew celebrates getting married, but Shining has a request. They cannot tell ANYONE until he tells Twilight to make up for scumming her on the first one.
* They reluctantly agree and hide it even from Sombra.
* ITS HAPPENING
* Delight heads towards Harmony City
* Spike asks DT for help on his date.
* Sunset finds herself in another lab, in another world, and for the first time in forever, she truly feels wonder. So many amazing things, so little time.
* And the one who brought her here, still unrevealed, mentions bringing in 'backup' soon enough.
* The mysterious benefactor says to keep up the good work..
* And Sunset will see her again.
* The orb of Variolus glows green.
==Thread 262==
 
LAST THREAD RECAP, OH THAT PRINCESS EDITION!
*AJ asks how they deal with external threats, does not like the answer
*Spike wants a suit
*Delight writes his novel on the trip
*Sebjek notices a lot of fighting and learns of fight club
*Chrysalis is afraid
*42 is happy
*Spike needs help and asks SS for help
*Chitania finds Autumn Blaze and learns of the Kirin plight, resolving to help for reasons. Selfish reasons.
*There's a consipriacy about the ewes
*Delight searches for Sebjek and talks with a Diamond Dog
*Sebjek witnesses a fight between a minotaur and dragon, finding himself disgusted at the act. But he doesn't get time to think about it before hse's shoved inside the ring.
*Thirteen, in the other universe, doesn' like the place they're in. She's offput by the weirdly chipper and smiling guards who break into song. Not a pony thing, for once.
*Two gets the nickname Princesita from Tiempo
*Chrysalis is moonwalking everywhere, which is bouncing, obviously.
*Then she must go check on the changelings with future co-wife
*Aj worries about Delight and AUJ mocks her for it. The paperwork retaliation falls flat.
*SA worries about Twilight
*Sebjek tries hard not to die when the dragon attacks him, and barely manages thanks to his photo-memory plus his own survival skill honed in the base of Canterlot. The thing can't touch him.
*SA takes back the baby and Two
*Sombra is sulking
*Pinkie can smell a secret
*Rarity forgot to feed Arana and all that remains is a skeleton. Or not. She forgot to feed Opal and all that remains is a skelton, or not.
*The raccoon is happy to be alive though.
*AJ almost brings the pair back, but talks herself out of it. What could go wrong, really?
*Cloudchaser has dumb ideas to be popular.
*Two is willing to hit Pinkie
*Pinkie debates the morality of killing
*Princess meeting!
*Delight debates Diamond Dog
*Fuzzy and Buzz return!
*Fluttershy says no petting zoo
*Celestia wants Shiny hugs
*Pinkie wants the world blown up on her terms
*Sebjek's battle rages, and due to a trick from the minotaur the dragon almost maanges to crush him. Only to instead face, THE CRUSSHHHERRRRR!
*It's Delight wearing a sock.
*Zecora's potion fails, but Sombra find's other usesd...
*Derpy is weirdly good at healthcare.
*AUJ asks about Pennydrop, and AJ explains why she can't just mess her up.
*Pinkie tells Spike how to win Rarity's heart, videogames!
*He is bad at them
*Celestia is sulking, and AJ finally finds out why.
*It turns out she was going to ask Shiny something very important, VERY important, before she got mindblasts, and now that he's back it's too late and Foalington ruined everything.
*She doesn't want to talk about it.
*Eventually, after a pep talk, she thinks maybe she should do something! Maybe it's time she actually did it! Maybe things will finally work out this time, and she's going to do this for her!
*Its! Time!
*And then the door flings open, and they all know it's too late.
*The guard tell them there's a massive Airship. Huge, massive.
*They ask how long they have.
*It turns out... it's already there.
*~Deliver us Princess Applejack immediately... or face the consequences.~ 
==Thread 263==
LAST THREAD RECAP, INVASION EDITION!
*The airfoce response is not that good.
*Everyone reacts to the airship up above, but no one attacks.
*They don't have any airships to fight them either.
*The librarian wishes Chitania was here, her wife doesn't like that.
*Lucky Strikes had a date
*Dazey tries to warn Vermillion, who assumes its the griffons.
*Steam Gauge and Quicksilver are gonna do something!(they dont)
*The airship finally gets an opponent, Discord!
*He tries snapping the ship to beat it.
*Doesn't work and he ends up getting twisted for his troubles, the airship can counter him.
*Delight does surprisingly well against the dragon in a fight
*Lightning Dust asks for what she should do, Rarity has no idea.
*Shining arrives, bringing conflicting feelings with Celestia and hints that Cadence and Chrysalis are approaching the long way for a stealthy attack.
*Her and Celestia resolve to work this together.
*Delight, acting for the crowd, makes up a cheesy backstory during the battle between him and Sebjek, including making up that the armor is a limiter, not a benefit.
*Sebjek, remembering a movie he saw once, realizes he has to go all out, just this once.
*He makes a show of taking off his armor and does an act to look like a monster, terrifying the Dragon and minotaur into fleeing.
*They won!
*And set Morlock relations back decades. Whoops.
*Tiempo bugs Spitfire
*29 gives the others a massage.
*Valentines day stories!
*A voice speaks to the pilot of the airship, wondering why they haven't made a move. They say seeing Discord was supposed to break them, but alas.
*They deduce the city isn't under AUJ's control and they can't act without potentially hurting a lot of ponies, which they're unwilling to do.
*The threat of her escaping almost makes them reconsider, but a certain someone showing up via portal makes them back off from that and resume waiting.
*Chrysalis and Cadence are covert
*42 watches the kids, and is very serious
*Celestia isn't giving up AUJ
*18 is in command of the Empire.
*Sebjek and Delight are approached by a member of the Storm Kings army with an offering.
*AUJ grows tired of waiting, and after talking with the others breaks, tells AJ to hug Applebloom for her, and engages, the airship in direct combat.
*She uses various trickery and her magical powers to try and stay ahead of it, but the airship has a lot of very useful and very powerful weapons.
*She would've been broken and lost had it not been for a sudden arrival, Pennydrop!
*Mecha-Chitania punches through the side of the airship out of nowhere and tears through it's side.
*Unbothered, the airship argues with Pennydrop, who exposes AJ's denial of her weapons sales.
*They give some back and forth, but Pennydrop won't relent. As a result, the invader changes their airship into a giant claw to capture Mecha-Chitania. It won't work forever, but it'll be long enough.
*Out from the ship emerges Twilight! The one from another world!
*She engages AUJ in battle with an enhanced powersuit, but can't quite overcome her.
*With her defeat a possibility, another emerges from the ship.
*With glowing lights, songs played and grandiose fanfare, out from the ship rises another of that world, one so shocking that AUJ gives up the fight and flees faster than anyone can keep up with.
*That pony watches her go, with sadness.
*Another Shining Armor has emerged.
*And he spreads his great, white wings.
*Alternate Twilight, or Altwi for short, is furious that AUJ got away, but her brother won't let her dwell on it before he teleports them both to Celestia and Applejack, saying they have much to discuss.
*So, Applejack rants and tears into him without any mercy. Just one long furious chew out that holds no punches.
*They decide to talk it out, and there's another v waiting for them before they leave.
*“…Oh thank goodness, I’m not dead.”
*Finally, Celestia praises AJ not punching the guy.
==Thread 264==
REAL FAST RECAP
* Altwi and Salt talk to/get chewed out by AJ, and they reveal the reason they went all out is because in their universe AUJ had personally subjugated every country during the series that had tried to attack them, such as Gwen in the early threads, the Yaks, the Dragons, etc...
* Her power destroyed them and broke them, but when she was gone they started to rise up just to take back a little they had lost. They tried directly invaded Equestria as a single force in what would be called the "Battle of the Badlands", and they would have torn cities apart if Shining alone hadn't been there to hold them back long enough for Twilight to arrive with reinforcements.
* They can beat the bigger armies, but after being broken like that there's a lot of unrest and small bursts of violence that makes the pair worry they'll destroy everything if they're not pacified, and the only way they can think to do that is force AUJ to answer for it, and remove the 'figure' the rest are rallying around to fight. Without a villain to battle, they'll lose the drive to attack.
* AJ thinks there was a better way, which angers an already frustrated Altwi into teleporting away.
* Shining listens to what AUJ did against Blue, which makes him reconsider more harsh punishments and say he'll figure out a way to do both ending the unrest and not hurt AUJ, so long as they help him find her.
* They agree, and This-universe-Shining agrees to show him around.
* After they leave, both Celly and AJ think there's something off about Salt.
== Thread 265 ==
Missed
== Thread 266 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SHINY TWINY EDITION!
* AJ is kept up at night by questions.
* Spike learns of the underground market for coffee.
* Chitania is brutally honest.
* Dash is sure alternate her is important.
* Sweet Note wants portal guns
* Chrysalis is tempted to burn Pinkie and DT
* Celestia reluctantly raises the sun, or does she?
* Applebloom finds Apple Bloom and that's wrong, or something.
* Citrine tries to get everyone excited.
* Pinkie and DT wake up to find the CE Crew in a cuddle pile, and get Caddy out through unique means.
* They ask Cadence about the game reviews, but Cadence says she farms that out. For their quest, she gives them a keycard and changes their hair to her own, perfect disguise.
* Chrysalis admits they could've gone to their room,but the cuddle pile was more fun. Spitfire regrets sleeping like that.
* Salt finally arrives in the Empire.
* Quicksilver, SG and new arrival Meat Puppet discuss the ship, and hugs.
* Spike it twitchy.
* Salt notes the Empire is a little different than his, as if it was remodeled. Also that he hasn't been to his own in a while. It's also revealed AUJ renamed the newly vassalized Empire "The Crystal City."
* Forty Two entertains him with standup.
* Salt learns of the paperwork monster, and it's master. He has many questions.
* Chrysalis meets Salt and they banter, but it ends on a decent note.
* AJ wants to know how often Celly gets reports from her agents
* Buttercup is jealous, but Blossom encourages her
* Dadling and Batmom don't trust the sky thing
* Two is ready to smile! She put on her best dress, put on a matching one for Sissy as well, and is ready for the big meeting with "Mister Shining".
* Though he's not harsh or insulting to her, he very blatantly ignores her and focuses instead entirely on Flurry, seeming fascinated by the baby.
* He's able to snuff out her magic when she goes wild, and seems very interested in Flurry's wings.
* Two tries to make him smile again with her go-to treat, malleys! He reluctantly takes the bag, but that's it.
* The royal pair eventually have enough and send Two to calm her sister down for dinner, clearly annoyed at his actions.
* Two leaves, dejected.
* While the pair fume, the alicorn is smiling, thinking about what could have been.
* At least until he tries one of the malleys, and comes to a realization.
* "... this is the most amazing thing I've ever eaten in my life."
* Two takes her sister to Sunburst and Tiempo, the latter of whim is in denial that there are two shining armors
* Pinkie realizes her hair doesn't move and Diamond Tiara is angry
* AJ asks, nicely, for Altwi to move the airship because it's making everyone nervous. She does so.
* Delight tells Sebjek they should leave now that they know what's going on, especially when he realizes that Sebjek is NOT an agent, he's a civilian.
* But it's too late, they've arrived.
* The Storm King arrives.
* Chitty thinks the Kirin are stupid.
* 13 doesn't like the AU
* OOCO Delight asks AUJ if he could be a good secret agent, her answer does not inspire confidence.
* Applebloom, Scootaloo and SB are after the living Apple Bloom plant, and Scoots nearly gets run over by a train had it not been for the quick intervention of Vermillion!
* Or not, the stallions pulling the thing would probably have stopped, but the point is Scoots caught the thing. And she hungers.
* Fizzle talks with Sunset
* Cloudchaser doesn't want to get 'it'
* Pinkie's idea of knocking on every door until they reach the review place doesn't go over well with DT, who when challenged sends TBDRLIATU on a hunt.
* Altwi accidentally landed the ship on a hedgehog nest
* Spike begins his attempts to get into the lab, they are silly.
* Fluttershy tells Discord not to break anything
* Shining talks with Bigger-Shining about the thing with Two, which is pretty hard because he keeps snacking on the malleys.
* He explains, in great detail, why he understands why he acted like that, but that it was completely and utterly inappropriate.
* After being told how the Malleys are made and why they're important to Two, Salt relents that he was acting wrong and should apologize. He admits he was just afraid he'd act worse if he tried to talk to her, bad memories with changelings and all that.
* They reconcile, and Salt agrees to act better.
* They head off to dinner, but before they go, Salt brings up one more thing.
* The wedding was worse for him because he thinks after the wedding, Cadence "Changed" for him, but he insinuates the same isn't true for Shining, obviously, and makes his point with one of Flurry's feathers that he sends off in a flash of light.
* Shining, despite himself, begins to think about that.
* DT's meeting with maud goes poorly.
* Dash is straight, she insists.
* Acty's idea for a potluck went terribly wrong.
* Sweet Note made treats for Sunset.
* 007 and Jetset have a confrontation searching for AUJ, trading insults and barbs-and knives- before it's revealed that Jetset is following 007 because, despite all he points out is wrong, 7 is really good at tracking things.
* Thats the same for this case as well, since 7 has employed Bubbles who, as a giant Timberwolf, is uniquely able to sniff out plant magic like nothing else.
* They decide to team up, reluctantly.
* Vermilion tells the CMC what happened in Canterlot.
* In the Altu, Altwi finishes working on a 'side project' just as Sunset enters, hoping it's finding AUJ. But its not, in fact Altwi has more projects than just that to worry about as she points out.
* The two of them are very hostile to each other, Sunset more snarky and snide, with Altwi more suspicious and annoyed.
* Sunset brings up her work, and Altwi says "Shining's Pet Project" of using the portals to find dead worlds for resources is a good one, but she doesn't like Sunset's involvement, and that she should just accept Chitania is dead.
* Sunset, strangely, only reacts with a raised eyebrow.
* An innuendo joke between them about Altwi and Shining is cut off when a box suddenly is brought in via guard, and inside is a feather, and a note with instructions.
* Altwi is confused why Salt wants her to see how much of the DNA is "Part alicorn, part pony" and Sunset realizes she doesn't know about Flurry Heart.
* She enjoys that while leaving the room, laughing all the way before changing the letters on Altwis mug.
* “…Number one WHAT?!”
* All the way down the hall she laughs.
== Thread 267 ==
Missed.
== Thread 268 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, HAREM EDITION!
* Applejack asks a reasonable question, for once!
* Altwi reveals she's been spying on everyone using her communicator, and Sunset calls her out on it
* Sunset is bored because two ponies are already watching a movie in the theater and arguing, which brings great distress to Twilight when she figures out who they are, both of whom are in Salt's Harem.
* One of said arguers, who turns out to be the Alternate Luna, bursts in, and after some quick thinking Altwi puts the imperious on Sunset, who gets dragged off to settle the argument.
* Sombra says thank you that someone finally says 'harem'
* Nobody else is surprised that Salt has a harem.
* Except Tiempo, who is thinking dark thoughts
* Salt, continue, explaining how it happened was that after his previous bad relationships, he reasoned his relationships weren't quite 'rounded' and devoting himself to a single mare wasn't enough. He says he went on a journey he doesn't want to talk about, and realized the problem was he had too much love for one mare, and uses Chrysalis to prove that point.
* He finally says that he's happy this world worked out and everyone is invited to his universe when they want, and encourages them to ask about his world.
* All anyone cares about is what direction the toilet flushes.
* Vermillion dreams about Delight for some reason
* Salts parents just kinda smiled and hugged when he became an alicorn
* Sweet Note wonders if chitty will get jealous Salt has a bigger harem when she comes back to life.
* Sunset-who is believed by most to be a pony from a village named "Miss Sunshine"- gets dragged to the theater by Luna, who chats with her along the way. Mid-Drag, Luna mentions that her and the others aren't calling it a 'harem', they say they are Salt's "Divine", which he came up with because his love is just too great for one pony alone.
* Sunset is a little disgusted she bought that.
* She is distracted when she realizes the theater used to be the Observatory, and AltLuna explains they built a bigger one. But no time for that, arguments to be held! BEHOLD! The other pony arguing with her, Alternate Rarity!
* Sunset laughs at the thought of Spike's face.
* Sombra reveals AUJ dabbled in trying to understand the power of love with a Workforce who was not a harem, but little seemed to come of it.
* Sombra explains his 'shape' to Salt.
* 18 explains her hair.
* Delight wakes up post crash, with most of those in the cockpit having survived, and berates Sebjek for the act. Sebjek points out his reasoning, it doesn't help.
* It turns out they landed on Black Skull Island, whichis a bad place.
* Delight tries to grab the Staff, only to be stopped by a storm creature named Strife, a literal stormcloud, who keeps him from getting it and forces them to try to retreat. They fail to fly away before Tempest wakes up and hits Delight in the side, grounding them. Now they have to try to escape, while the Storm Kings forces wake up.
* Fizzle gets a run in with Alt-Spike, who is a very cocky bro and never lets him get a world in edgewise.
* Alt-Spike mentions trying to make his own harem, but different, and not including Rarity because she's totally not worth it. Even Fizzle thinks he's a wannabe dudebro, and misses the irony.
* After Sunset finishes laughing, the pair ask Sunset to settle a bet, because the winner gets cake. She just outsmarts both of them by using vague terms on a movie she's never seen, and gets them both to run out of the room by pretending she's going to get the cake.
* After they leave she tries to pick a movie, but never gets a chance to, someone else comes in.
* Alternate Celestia, and she's looking for bits.
* Vermillion arrives in a town called Tall Tale
* APRIL FOOLS EVENTS!
* Spitfire wants 42's cream.
* Blossom messes with Blossomforth.
* Alt-luna and Alt-Rarity fail to reach the cake, which is being devoured by Sweet Note thanks to Alt-Dash. Pranked!
* Both huff in anger while she laughs, complaining she's not doing anything.
* Alt-Dash, who is the captain of the Wonderbolts, just says she has nothing to do because Salt appointed all the ponies needed to run things while she does nothing, she's bored.
* They leave after she messes with them some more, and Sweet Note is worried they're retaliate. Alt-Dash isn't worried, because by then Salt will be back and he'll keep them in control. This is when she reveals she's also in a relationship with him.
* She tells the backstory how, and how he recognized her when AUJ didn't, and how she taught him to fly.
* The two then go off to prank some more ponies, because Sweet Note wants fun.
* Salt eventually leaves the Empire, after mentioning that he would like the others to come visit again.
* All of them are unsure what to make of him.
* When Salt goes back, something goes wrong. Instead of going from the Empire to Canterlot, the Empire's portal takes him right to HIS world. He surprisingly brushes this off and doesn't even mention it to Altwi.
* Speaking of, Altwi is worried about when they find AUJ, but Salt assures her that he'll handle it.
* Sunset talks with Altlestia, who is drunk and throwing up and all kinds of a mess. Altlestia doesn't even recognize her and elects to wait for Luna to come back so she can borrow bits.
* She subtly reveals she's already seen all the movies and elects just to go to sleep instead.
* Sunset tries prodding at her, and is gobsmacked when Altlestia goes on a cursing tear. A bad one, like a teenager would do to be edgy.
* She also dares the sky to do anything, nothing happens.
* After she flops back, Sunset realizes somethings missing.
* Celestia's Cutie Mark.
* When she accidentally says "Princess" Celestia, Altlestia loses it and goes on a tear about how done she is and how she won't help anymore, go get Shining.
* That's when AltLuna enters the room.
* "Heeyyyyy Lulu... big sister needs another loan."
* Luna frets, clearly worried about Celestia, who only asks her for bits again instead.
* Luna says she has them all, she took them yesterday. Altlestia says go get some more.
* Luna says she can't, she already did worse than usual, and it was enough to buy a large airship.
* Or, as Celly points out, a small ariship and a large amount of drinks. A small airship she crashed. She didn't hurt anyone, but its broken.
* When she tries pressuring her sister again, Rarity steps up for Luna and keeps her back.
* Celestia is a little bitter, and tries to call out Shining.
* Who hears her, and is there.
* He takes Celestia away and says he'll handle it
* He asks Rarity to handle preparing for a meeting tomorrow, and she's excited at the prospect.
* He says he has something to tell them both, and asks Sunset not to mention what she did to the portal, which confuses her, then he vanishes.
* Luna and Rarity ask her to keep this from Twilight, then they leave Sunset alone.
* She decides to put on a sad movie.
* Pinkie asks DT to let TBDRLIATU take her right to the top. She regrets this.
* Delight is a little bitter and ranting at Sebjek because he can't fly and is stuck on an island.
* Even though he admits Sebjek did succeed, he points out Black Skull Island, formerly Happy Sunshine Land, was a resort, that changed its name because the monsters roving around burn things. A lot.
* Sebjek is reminded of home.
* 007 and Jetset end up in Vanhoover.
* Vermilion meets an old acquaintance, who also used to be her teacher and hasn't let it go, and just so happens to know where someone who looks like Applejack is located.
* SA and Cadence talk about Salt, Cadence hates the whole 'harem' thing, specifically the word because it's all about physical, not love.
* Despite this, SA says he understand where Salt is coming from getting things under control, how scary things must be, and though he wouldn't give up his Applejack he'd be lying if he said he wouldn't think about it.
* This upsets Cadence.
* SA has entered doghouse.
== Thread 269 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SHINY GOT SOME EDITION!
* Celestia's has needs for backflips
* Applejack wants to do something
* Celestias friends defend her.
* 18 wants to know about Salt.
* Salt scolds altlestia for showing up like she did, cleaning her up and forcing her into sobriety.
* He's furious at her for wasting so many bits, and when she asks for more or threatens to go to Luna, he rebukes both ideas. He tells her to leave, but she notes he clearly wants something else out of her, and asks for more bits for it.
* He provides both.
* And 13 saw the whole thing.
* Fizzle complains about Spalt
* Spitfire thinks Salt gives her the creeps and 42 tucks Tiempo into bed.
* Pinkie lost 20 bits.
* Delight calls AJ and tells her the situation.
* SA needs help on fixing Caddy being angry at him.
* Salt, alone, is stressing out that his plan might not work when he's alone, but puts on a smiling face when Discord suddenly appears.
* Discord is upset with him for a device that was made to block A Discord, and tries needling him, but won't hurt him.
* He also brings up what AUJ did to Tirek, after he tricked and absorbed his magic.
* DIscord brings up two folders that hold Salts plans for the future in them, and mentions a third even he can't reach. He taunts Salt with revealing either to the others, but he brushes off such a notion.
* When Salt brings up Flurry, Discord reacts oddly.
* But its when he mentions Partyland and Fluttershy's absorption of chaos, Discord gets very angry, and mentions enjoying watching it all blow up in his face. He tries threatening Salt the moment 'She' doesn't love him anymore, but gets nothing for his troubles.
* Its right then that Alt-Fluttershy comes in and its revealed she's in a relationship with Salt, and that's why Discord can't hurt Salt.
* They're about to enjoy each others company but are interrupted by the castle shaking.
* Rarity finds out Spike vanished from the guard and runs away
* AJ has to tell Celestia about Sebjek and Delight.
* They decide to go get them, but accept they have no airships for the matter and might have to borrow one. But Dash, who had been listening the whole time, goes off to make sure.
* Dash finds out they are indeed out of airships, either destroyed by Blue or never replaced, but there is one...
* That's when Dash shows off her transportation, Highwind!
* ADVENTURE HOME!
* Harmony City is not in a good place.
* Altwi panics due to the event going on, which is revealed to be the Dragons arriving. Despite being dragons, the leader doesn't use fire to melt her defense, but a gauntlet that lets them snap and melt anything in the way.
* Altwi almost breaks thinking about all the ways this can mess up only to be saved at the last minute by Salt, who takes over.
* Vermillion stumbles on a wrestling event where everyone looks like one of the main six
* Salt talks with the dragon, who is revealed to be Ember and on his side. They reveal the previous dragon Lord was placed there thanks to AUJ.
* They talk about the state of the dragon lands, and how Ember has finally united them with Salts aide, and why its important no one can know they're working together.
* They also mention why they can't bring Altwi in on the whole thing, she's terrible at secrets and about to break at any moment.
* Salt brings up 'her part' in the big plan is coming up and if she's ready, and its at this point we learn Ember is also in a relationship with him.
* Ember decides to go to the other world and kick the hunt for AUJ into gear, despite Salts protests, but that can wait.
* SA has bad ideas for fixing Caddy being mad.
* Altwi, recovering from the whole events, sits to herself and tries to relax, but then that breaks when a certain someone shows up.
* Rarity!
* REAL Rarity!
* After revealing its her fault that Rarity could get in when Altwi shut off the alarms, they talk about the dragons.
* Storm King takes stalk of how many forces he has left.
* After that, he resolves to kill Sebjek.
* Vermillion decides to investigate the wrestling match.
* Luna is a little overguarded
* Altwi reveals how the gauntlet was made, her, and why they rigged the Gauntlet of Fire. They gave it to the weakest dragon, someone named Grunt, and gave him the glove so he could melt his way to the scepter.
* While Grunt ruled, the dragons defended them.
* Then she left and everything went to hell. Grunt had no spine and couldn't stop any of the dragons and very quickly gave into greed.
* Altwi doesn't know how Ember got a hold of it, but she did and now Ember is furious because they meddled in dragon business and everything might go south.
* Rarity tries to comfort her but its broken when Altwi has to go command the cyguards.
* Its there that she reveals her entire force is enhanced with magic and technology.
* Rairty is horrified, but when she tries calling out altwi, Altwi throws it back that Rarity wasn't supposed to be here.
* Rarity points out that she was let in, but says she knows Altwi didn't mean to let in THIS Rarity
* Altwi admits she did, because she misses talking to others.
* Rarity tries to motivate her to show Ember who's boss.
* ~And who, exactly, is boss around here?~
* Ember showed up right then.
* Sunset spies a familiar cyborg face. Seems no Twilight can resist.
* Twilight recites how she ended up in this situation.
* Delight and Sebjek worry about the island, Delight more because he feels the need to protect Sebjek.
* As it turns out...
* DT and Maud enter the Review office, and all of them have really stupid jobs.
* Celestia finds AJ's secret legos.
* Bojack is drepssing.
* AltFlutter is a weeb.
* RealFluttershy is a bit of a jerk.
* Ember is rather abrasive to Altwi and Rarity, even if she won't break anything because Salt's words.
* Instead she interrogates Rarity, and long story short things do not work.
* She almost fucks everything up, but Salt appearing to convince Ember to give her another chance.
* Once chance left.
== Thread 271 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BANNED EDITION!
* AJ wonders if they need to use the bathroom in tartarus
* Bunny day!
* Pinkie, Diamond Tiara and Maud harshly review games
* Salt, Sunset and Altwi show regret over Alt-Celestia's actions, revealing that Salt hoped she would get better seeing a more normal version. Disappointed, Twilight vanishes.
* Sunset is then chewed out by Salt, who cannot comprehend her revealing that and spying on him. He keeps trying to figure it out, but can't.
* He plans to do something, but is interrupted when the emissary of Griffonstone arrives, so instead he says Twilight can punish her however she likes
* Dread Knight wants to train Sweetie Doll
* Pommel tells the guard they can't tackle the princess.
* Starscream has a better idea.
* 007 and Jetset investigate the trial leading to Grand Pears home, and 007 ditches their intital plan to trick the guy and instead makes it clear they mean her no harm and ask if he has any idea where she went.
* His brief bout of common sense is rewarded with him and Jetset tied up in a cave.
* >Meanwhile, back with Grand Pear, its revealed AUJ is healing in a giant tree under his orcahrd.
* Harmony City's riots finally end.
* Vermillion investigates the room full of fakes.
* Rarity didn't mess it up but can't celebrate.
* Salt tries to figure out how Sunset spied on him.
* Spike and Twilight begin their attack
* Altwi interrogates Sunset, brushing off the latters attempt to make her question Salt
* Sunset is devastated that Altwi doesn't care Salt lied to her, because of how secrets destroyed her life. Altwi finally understands Sunsets intentions and her anger is gone, so instead she just orders a defeated Sunset to clean the toilets or something.
* Dejectedly, she ambles out.
* Cadence has Chrysalis watch Flurry, because she wantst to go to the other world and confront Salt about their relationship.
* 007 didn't tell Bubbles where they were, and gets kicked.
* Dash can't fly.
* the CMC go clinbing and it doesn't end well
* Strip-monopony goes wrong
* Fluttershy hides chocolate eggs
* Delight wonders if they should call the princesses
* Chrysalis knows babies
* Chitania spends some time in the rain.
* Alt-Flash helps Sunset scrub toilets
* 42 will battle Flurry one day.
* AJ attacks the Storm King by surprise
* Sunset and Alt-Flash talk
* Cloudchaser can't make a changeling tax.
* Fizzle talks to a guard about the dragons.
* Flurry messes up papers Tiempo's
* The battle with the Storm King, AJ, Dash and the Guard gets intense, but takes an unexpected turn when something lifts up the entire ship.
* And a dragon eyeball fills their only way out.
* Everything goes to hell fast.
== Thread 272 ==
Skipped
== Thread 273 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BABBAH EDITION!
* Celestia is haunted in her dreams.
* Chitania gets roped into a play
* Chrysalis is good with babies... sort of.
* Pinkie asks for too much and breaks Diamond Tiara
* Two wants no more babies, she can't handle another!
* Altlestia bugs Pommel
* Flurry shoots Shining, again.
* Alt-Luna and Rarity-Alt, henceforth known as Lunalt and Ralt, decide not to go to the other universe.
* AB wants to go on an adventure.
* Daw and PJ spar
* The Rainbolts should not dry clean.
* AJ decides to be more proactive getting out of the wreckage.
* Zephyrious offers to pay for the damage the griffons did.
* Celestia gets help from her fatcamp buddies in dealing with Altlestia
* Following the huge reveal of Salts plan to sire a host of superpowered babies with world leaders and various ponies in strategic locations, he tells Cadence she doesn't have to decide right now if she would want to give up her wings so the plan could be enacted in her world.
* Instead he gives her a magic crystal with the information for the cross species magic and tells him only to give it to Shining if she decides to go through with it.
* She's reluctant but is at least content with the idea Spike could use it if he needs it.
* Rather than leave right away, she says she still wants to talk to someone, her alternate self, and he lets her leave to find herselfl.
* Tiempo is touched Two thinks of him as family.
* Shiny needs all the hugs.
* Flurry has a riding crop and Tiempo has regrets.
* AJ wastes her last call on bugging Celestia.
* Cloudchaser calls the others aliens.
* 29 helps ghostkids.
* Altwi figures out who let Cadence in the Baby-magic-room, and is shocked but not upset.
* That's when Discord pops in, claiming she thought it was him, and after an argument about it Discord offers to 'speed up' the plan 'she' has, and does so with a snap of his fingers.
* Suddenly, right in front of Cadence is a new pony. She introduces herself, as Starlight Glimmer.
* Actarius looks on the bright side
* Flurry won't shoot Cloudchaser.
* The banker sees through Altlestia, no loan for her.
* Altlestia stabs Rarity
* Lunalt and Ralt have fun
* Cadence thiks the name sounds familiar but can't place it, Glimmer brushes it off, and ask her about the magic room.
* When she learns Salt told her what was inside, even though she doesn't know, she finds it interesting because the only other one who knows whats inside is Twilight.
* Caddy figures out pretty quick it was her specifically, but Glimmer admits it could've been Shining or Twilight who went through the portal and they would have worked. She was just the most effective, since the Cadence in this universe is impossible to find despite Glimmers best efforts.
* But Glimmer says it doesn't matter, Cadence not freaking out means there's no danger in the room.
* Glimmer thanks her and teleports off, and cadence wonders if she should just go home since finding Cadalt isn't going to happen, but can't leave before she's suddenly accosted with a loud
* ~Darrrrliiinnnng~
* Back with Glimmer, who's with Altwi, she brushes off any annoyance or concern, sure that Altwi isn't actually mad. She also reveals that Cadence's side track wasn't necessary for the 'real test' and it all worked out like she wanted.
* Now the fun is only beginning.
* Derpy is implicated in a crime.
* Cadence doesn't get to get away before Ralt grabs her and steals her attention, and she and Lunalt reveals they knows about Starlight too but dismisses her as a 'ruffian'.
* They also know she's not 'their' Cadence, but that's what they want because Ralt wants some advice.
* She wants to know how to be the princess of love.
* Back with Sunset, she asks how AUJ ran things, and Alt-Flash admits they're better overall, but not by a huge margin.
* He also talks about AUJ's rule and his choice to get 'enhanced', and that agents and soldiers like Jetset quit as they became 'obsolete'
* >We get to see this when Dash takes Sweet Note to see the Wonderbolts and we learn Soarin' is now just in administration, since he couldn't keep up with Magicraft pegasi anymore. This disappoints Sweet Note who wanted to see a show, and seeing the Wonderbolts from outside the stadium were her only good memories of any sport.
* He still gives her an autograph and she appreciates it, but chooses not to see another show with the new bolts, she thinks they lack the heart.
* Fizzle likewise ends up in a bar where a bunch of former soldiers are drinking their time away. He strikes up a conversation with one of them, this universes Lucky Strikes, and he tells them how they ended up here.
* None were tossed out or anything, they merely couldn't keep up and were left behind. Even so, they all insist Salt is a great stallion who 'takes care of them' because he's "One of us", and they don't go hungry. They're just sad.
* But hey, at least there's company.
* Jetset and 007 can't escape.
* Chitania finds out Kirin have popcorn.
* Scootaloo doesn't know where babies come from.
* Flurry 'does paperwork' and Shiny has a little moment
* Eighteen does not
* Applejack finally focuses her magic enough to get out of that airship and breaks it in half.
* Likewise Delight and Sebjek make it out of their wreckage and Tempest threatens them before Applejack emerges.
* AJ brushes it off as a piece of cake and is a little woozy, but wastes no time taking command of the situation. She's going to gather everyone, get on the plan, and take this thing down-
* THWACK!
* That dragon had not gone anywhere, but Applejack did.
* Quick dodging is all that saves the Storm King and Dash, for a little while. Next thing you know both are in tail and claw respectively.
* The dragon, now that they can see it close up, is 'not well', he looks very sickly or even rotting.
* As they come up with a plan, the guard take center stage.
* "PEACETROTTERS, OPEN FIRE!"
* Thus, they try to take it down.
* Back with Cadence and Ralt/Lunalt, Cadence tries to explain the Princess of Love power, and asks why. Ralt reveals Salt decided she would get the love magic when they found AUJ, since this Cadence wouldn't want it and they can't find her.
* So Cadence tells her what the job entails, or doesn't entail, and some past shames.
* The discussion soon turns heated, then insults come, then...
* Its pillowfight time.
== Thread 274 ==
Missed
== Thread 275 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, I'M A LITTLE SALTY EDITION!
* AJ might be a demon?
* 56 needs help hiding
* Changelings should not hold elections
* Altwi tries to apologize for the sex tape release to Lunalt and Ralt, they're 'angry', so 'angry' about having to go on a vacation to the other world, while disguised
* Now they have to see themselves and its just the worst!
* But, since they're preoccupied, it means that locating AltCadence falls to Altwi.
* Altwi might let the next disaster happen just to fix it.
* Ralt and Lunalt enjoy some sightseeing
* Mane-Iac and Flurry get into a laugh off.
* 41 and Suckerpunch ignore Lunalt and Ralt
* Celestia talks to Primrose
* Salt decides to set off for the Dragon Lands with Dash on a simple carriage, no airship. He also brings a portal with him in case something happens in Canterlot.
* When inside the carriage, he talks about the situation with Dash, mostly about why its so vital they put on a show for Twilight and the other countries, despite knowing full well Ember won't make a move.
* Dash tries to stick up for Twilight but accepts she has problems keeping secrets.
* Besides that, he's worried that these recent events have an odd feel to them, and either someone is trying to mess with the 'plan', or he's just being paranoid. Either way, he's setting up a just in case.
* That's when Fluttershy enters the carriage, so excited to go see the baby dragons, and they set off for the Dragon land.
* Rarity learns Chitty's comic is still going on.
* Autumn Blaze also made a comic about her.
* Flurry has a beehive.
* AJ and Delight spot a creature as they make their way back to the others.
* Changelings have Gaydar, in color!
* The creatures have nearly reached the guard and storm soliders, and Dash is panicking to find a way to save them.
* Storm King, after MUCH convincing, tries to free Dash so she can save him, but fails.
* Dash is in despair as they're about to be eaten, but out of nowhere Sebjek runs into the mist and trips them up.
* He keeps the few not tripped preoccupied personally, as a distraction.
* Pinkie needs more money.
* Magic of friendship is quite painful, in hindsight.
* Cloudchaser spends her money wisely.
* Arana tackles Rarity becuase someone is critiquing her dresses, both she and Fluttershy leave her behind when they go after her.
* Turns out the one critiquing? Its Ralt, who asks some questions that make Rarity rather sad.
* This leaves Lunalt and Flutalt outside the boutique while they talk.
* Lunalt tries not to look at Flutalt.
* Ralt and Rarity debate dresses, boutique placement and how much ahead of Rarity that Ralt is thanks to her free time and wealth.
* Rarity needs some ice cream.
* Rarity talks about her love life and thats... that's kinda sad.
* Flurry is a cute soldier.
* Cadence returns home while Shining is putting Flurry to bed, and after getting Two to watch her, both parents depart and begin go talk about things. Mostly, if Shining has every thought of having more kids.
* Meanwhile, Salt goes to see Ember, and despite the harsh treatement by the other dragons on arrival its peaceful when he gets inside with Fluttershy, Dash stays behind. Fluttershy of course goes to play with the eggs, which Ember has moved herself into a cave to 'watch over' keep them safe, and also brought in a giant block of Inferno Stone, a rare lave-proof stone, so she can make a statue of her future kid.
* Despite this, after some political talk and explanation, Salt thinks it would be better if he leaves, but when Ember tempts him and asks to move the plan forwards now, he has a hard time saying no. When Flutteralt joins in, he's broken.
* Autumn Blaze wants to invent things, which puts Chitty into despair.
* Grand Pear watches over AUJ while she recovers, and she wakes up soon enough. She's wrinkled and weak, barely able to move, but insists she will recover once her magic refils her. Its apparently not the first time she's done this.
* After some discussion on Alt-Twi, Grand Pear asks her what she'll do when she's better. AUJ's response?
* "I'm going to take my Equestria back."
* Lunalts attempts to educate others goes poorly.
* Ralt wonders where it all went wrong, Rarity says around the time she got fat.
* Ralt then gets to meet coco and Arana and its Coco that shocks her.
* Chrysalis tries talking to Shiny who's lost in thought
* We find out why education in Equestria sucks.
* Discord meets Lunalt and invites her for 'tea', after seeing how interested he is, Fluttershy agrees
* Everyone attacks Shiny, who's lost in thought and ignoring them.
* Chrysalis has a meeting to discuss it.
* Ralt is broken
* Then she's not when the princesses arrive, and the battle begins
* Sebjek dodges really well, but its just a distraction so AJ can summon rocks for Delight to roll into the mob, crushing them.
* This works until the dragon notices, implaes its broken hand on a tree, and tries to kill them with it. Falling with style ensues.
* 13 meets with an agent named Soundcheck that works for Salt, and they have a discussion on the recent transition of power and AUJ's old roles. They discuss the changing abilities and fears of loss of control with the newer agents, and how hard it is to keep up nowadays, but he manages.
* He also hints that maybe he's not quite as subservient to Salt as the others, and he might not be alone...
* He saw her enter the room with Salt and Celestia coming in after, but not leave, and he wants to know what she knows.
* She clears up what happened, but leaves some parts out and questions him. Mostly who hes loyal to, and why they don't get rid of him. After explaining his situation, he goes off on a bit of a tangent, showing his disdain for Salt and how unsettling he thinks he is.
* 13 promises not to tell
* After that, 13 decides to stay and think about some things. Things are changing...
== Thread 276 ==
Something somewhere is going on in Alt-Equestria while Spike and Twilight take down Harmony Prime as AJ and company take a tumble down Black Skull Island!
== Thread 277 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, THAT DARN BUG EDITION!
* AJ might be a ghost
* Pinkie's ideas get rejected
* Chrysalis is corrupting Flurry, sort of.
* Cheerilee is fine with the demons.
* 42 is not feeling better.
* Alt-Dash is gonna party since they’re at Cherry Jubilees anyway
* Actarius gets a teacher with breadsticks
* Celestia is bored
* So she and Luna see their friend
* Cloudchaser gets a hat.
* Pinkie cries to Shiny
* Applejack and the others are floating in a seemingly endless void of nothingness, on a stream of some kind of mist while surrounded by chunks of the earth. They’re under the island in a horrifying place, and arguing, because of course they’re arguing.
* They stop arguing when the creatures swarm around them, but do not stop to try and eat them.
* Thanks to Delight, who is now chanting in a strange voice and his mask is glowing, and with that he’s controlling them.
* Or rather, the mask is controlling them, and him.
* And the giant dragon that’s returned, in full health.
* The creatures swarm the dragon, becoming biting monstrous armor that surrounds him to protect him. Then Delight, holding the Staff, sinks into the dragon’s forehead until only the mask is visible, the staff becoming a “Horn” of sorts on the dragon.
* Tempest has regrets for what she called him.
* Altwi taks to Altpinkie
* Sweet Note, Sunset and AltFlash get stopped by Celestia, and thanks to the wonders of abandonment Sweet Note ends up looking after her.
* Sunset and Alt-Flash meet Fizzle mid-escape.
* The Cyguard's attempt to distract altwi from seeing altCelestia doesn’t work.
* Rarity and Ralt schedule a meeting with Celestia
* She’s confused.
* AltDash talks with Cherry Jubilee, who is rather lackadaisical about everything. More backstory is explained.
* Jetset is mad at 007
* Actarius fixes a reasonable complaint.
* Limestone and Marble have a misunderstanding with SA
* Celestia meets with Rarity and Ralt, a bit annoyed, and instantly shoot down their request to make Spike a prince.
* After some discussion, they leave her to try it at the Empire.
* Chrysalis gets a kiss
* Altwi screams at Luna because Altwi got tickets for parking.
* Luna also goes full Troll mode, and is only saved from a possible international crisis because Celestia comes to help, which awakens some terrible feelings in Altwi.
* Applejack’s battle continues with her barely staying ahead of the dragon
* She tries to fight it, ineffectually.
* The battle intensifies, until Sebjek notices something. Eventually they go back enough to notice that the skull up above, the island’s skull, is glowing.
* Something is waking up.
* Centitrain is addicted to cocopops.
* Chitania and Rainshine are in a play now.
* Altwi and Sunset get into an argument
* Maretalk happens.
* Equestria needs antitruse laws
* Altwi finds out where AltCadence is, and it floors her. When AltDash calls her, she hastily insists there’s nothing wrong, and sends her, Salt and Fluttershy off on a side mission across southern Equestria, that way she has time to go find Cadence and get back before he ever gets home.
* Reluctantly, Dash buys it, and Altwi heads out for a very funny named town.
* After all, “What kind of name is Our Town anyway?”
* Inbetween Ralt flirting with Shiny, her and Rarity ask SA to make Spike a Prince, for romance.
* This summons the Cadence
* Before they can talk about it, Shiny needs to go get roses. They’re vital.
* Vermillion gets roped into a wrestling exhibition match, meeting old acquaintances, family and friends from Tall Tale Town.
* Lots of wrestling jargon follows, along with a quite silly match.
* Sweetie has a bell that summons Wonderbolts.
* When SA gets back, they ask to make Spike a prince, and Cadence says no.
* Sunset should not be left alone
* Twilight and Spike begin the battle against the giant monstrosity of Flash’s creation, the amalgamate of all of Twilights work tries to stomp them and fires upon her with a host of weapons.
* Twilight dodges with Spike as best she can, but clipping the legs don’t work, so she has to go higher, which is bad because the room is destabilizing getting this big. It could wipe out everything.
* Twilight and Flash argue while she dodges, he asks her to die but she refuses, because he doesn’t know what he will do next. If his future isn’t worth this fight, then its not worth her life. She wants to do better.
* Before Flash can finish her, Spike bursts out of the things chest, having used the magical fuel powering the thing plus several spells Twilight shot into it in order to supersize just long enough to shatter the thing.
* Together, they decide its time to end this.
== Thread 278 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SHE'S BACK BABY!
* AJ might be psychic, a ghost, or Cellys nuts.
* Sunburst is hiding under the table, which Tiempo briefly finds silly. The fool.
* The game is going well.
* Fluttershy learns way more than she wanted from Lunalt.
* Derpy stops 88's investigation.
* Celly's jealous of Altlestia.
* Sunset and Sweet Note discuss the strangeness of this world.
* Flutalt learns Cherry Jubilee is a little racist.
* Babyling isn't possessed.
* Cadence uses Sombra as a prop against idolizing royalty. Ralt just freaks out.
* After being insulted, Sombra calls for backup with 29. He provides it... badly. But successfully!
* Chrysalis makes Flurry weightlift.
* Altdash tells Flutalt she thinks this whole situation is weird. Flutalt doesn't care, she thinks her friend is cting silly.
* After revealing ALtDash hasn't 'gone along' with the plan yet, she reveals her frustration as to the whole multitude of salts partners, and she goes into when she and him first connected back in more chaotic times for this world.
* The two were a dynamite pair back during the riots as Salt learned flight, and she reveals that though she felt something for him she intitially turned him down, and while thankful she got another chance to be with him afterwards, she wishes it was just them.
* This is all leading up to the reveal they're on the rock farm, and Limestone is getting revenge on her parents for their years of very loud "Activities", by being even louder and breaks them.
* Rainbolts advertise Pinkie's game, with explosions, which Celestia finds irresponsible.
* Tiempo and SA continue to throw roses.
* Flurry might be evil.
* Cadence offers an obvious solution to the prince problem, but Rarity is having none of it and loses it. Instead of getting mad, Cadence consoles her as she cries.
* Flurry can shoot lasers out of her eyes.
* Blueblood has a question.
* Sunset and Glimmer banter.
* Fizzle bugs Alt-Quicksilver.
* Autumn Blaze wants to do a whole big show with Chitania as the star, and though she's against it that takes a backseat to Autumn calling her "Chitty".
* Turns out she never made a fake name and Rainshine told everyone her real name, because she never thought to make it clear they shouldn't do that.
* She has to think fast and is now dubbed 'Cho' because she is bad at this.
* AJ bemoans everything getting worse, and her paperwork plans failed.
* Sweet Note gets cappuchino and times it just to when Altlestia wakes up.
* Altlestia, currently suspended in the air, wrapped in a cloth to prevent her from drowning in her own puke. She's mad when she wakes up.
* Sweet Note gives no fucks, hoses her down and gets her clean.
* AJ asks the thing to die, it doesn't. Instead it attacks her with spirits.
* Spirits that bounce off things?
* It turns out the ghoulsih things are, at least in some way, physical. As the fight goes on, more things start to be obvious, like the regeneration going on and how the giant thing the skull is attached to is growing bigger.
* But things go awry when Sebjek accidentally ends up on top of the dragons head. Unnoticed... for now.
* The changelings are bad at city planning.
* Altwi is bad at accents.
* Actarius has problems with the medical system.
* Salt goes to Las Pegasus to meet up with another divine, Trixie.
* Luna messes with roomkeys
* Harry is allergice to peanutbutter.
* BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Spike asks if Twi's ready to end this. She's not.
* They follow the cords into the depths of the lab, where the operating room was hidden.
* There they find the dangling body of Flash.
* He asks if they're here to kill him, which they deny but he doesn't believe it even when she insists she wants to save him.
* He's still hooked up and still in control of that room a control he uses to attack them.
* He declares he'll never stop, no matter how much she pleads, and the battle intensifies with seemingly no way to make him stop short of killing him.
* Twilight gets desperate until words from Spike moves her forwards, and with determination she has an idea and asks for Spike's trust.
* With him on the defensive she rewires the control panel, and...
* Flash drops down, disconnected.
* Twilight tries to give a speech, only for Flash to cut her head off.
* Then he turns and stabs Spike, ending it.
* Its over just like that.
* He doesn't know what to do afterwards, completely lost on how to escape until the door opens. Following that, he hears a recording Twilight made saying he must be allowed to leave and walk free regardless of what happened.
* Though the guard and Celestia look at him with hate, he's allowed to exit the castle, and with nowhere else to go heads to Baltimare, where he finds an empty restaurant and no trace of Sunset. He theorizes they went through the portal to the other world and set it to shatter behind them, leaving him completely and utterly alone.
* That's when a glowing figure asks if wants to try again, and despite his hesitation he says yes, and finds himself face to face with Twilight again. After killing her once more, he bemoans being brought back here rather than close enough to save anyone he cared about, or himself.
* He leaves again, finds himself alone again, and gets the same offer to try again.
* This repeats several times, every time he kills Twilight and Spike and after either messing up and nearly dying or being left alone, he tries again, and again…
* And out in the real world, Twilight and Spike watch him living out his life in Twilight's Sparkle's Sub-Space Alternate Reality Simulator. Or the magic room, as its better known.
* They wonder if he'll ever be in a stable condition enough to bring back again, but it will take some time. In the meantime, Twilight resolves to put him back together again, and brings up his old body parts.
* After that, it's finally, finally time to leave, and both step out into the light.
* They're home.
* “HOLY SHIT SPIKE THERE’S AN ALIEN AIRSHIP DOWN THERE!”
== Thread 279 ==
Missed
== Thread 280 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY PONE!
* Pinkie thinks she'll be a good mom
* Sweet Note denies Altlestia
* Alt-Dash has had enough after Salt comes back from another venture in Sire's Hollow, this time meeting up with a pony named Ever Essence. Though she understood most of the other Divine, a perfume salesmare is enough for her to start questioning how things got like this
* Salt gives backstory to explain, but it only seems to make her more sure that he's getting in over his head, not thinking about the ramifications of the long term of his plan, and she doesn't know how to explain it.
* She tries to tell him it'll go wrong, but he's sure about his own stance.
* In the end, she says she's not going to watch him set the world on fire, and if he doesn't promise to tell his sister the plan, she's out
* Reluctantly, he does promise her, and she accepts that.
* Pinkie missed Twi
* 42 has been saving a party popper.
* Griffon Buzzards have boundary issues.
* 18's happy Twi's back
* Chitania gets coffee.
* Spike continues to molt and its everywhere
* Actarius has scholastic concerns
* Trixie is bad at math.
* Casinos are not allowed in Harmony City
* Chrysalis points out the flaws in princess storytelling conventions
* Chitania does not sing.
* Lunalt and Fluttercord watch a terrible show
* Awkwardling voice acts
* Salt worries about telling Altwi
* 13 starts searching for answers regarding how Salt ended up in the right spot in the battle of the Badlands, what he was doing there at all
* She can't find any info and its annoying her.
* Chocolate sauce is not for bananas.
* Chrysalis suggests moving from the castle in a poorly thought out plan.
* 13's search in the libarary comes up fruitless, except confirming no books said he left after he got divorced, so Fizzle suggests talking to a guard.
* Mecha Chitania is fully operational.
* Flurry is a harsh tea crirtic
* Wind Tunnel cannot cure Spike's Smell
* 10 and BBB try to get interviews in Harmony City
* Rarity fears her kids would be too attractive if she had them with Shining.
* Nothing works for Spike, and they know it, but Celly and Luna want to look good.
* Ralt learns about Two, gets a musical, also her heart might explode.
* Spitfire is the only one doing her job
* Chitania's Crushers reprints are doing great bt PD won't let the Cyber Crushers go.
* Pinkie, eventually, hugs spike.
* Rarity is gonna miss AUJ
* Fluttershy can't take Lunalt talking about her sex life anymore and tries to flee.
* Spike and DT bro it out.
* With Flut gone, Discord drops the act and reveals he knows who Lunalt is and makes her reveal herself to Fluttershy too.
* She does not take it well and teleports them all out.
* Croquet is a thing with the Kirin
* BUT FOR THE MAIN EVENT!
* Applejack's attack caused the ceiling to start crumbling, not even coming close to the skull. Dash and AJ are forced to dodge.
* She tries to make a go for the Skull again, but the dragon stops her.
* After some fancy distracting talk from Gruber, Dash manages to move one of the floating platforms into the dragon, stunning the bone hand puppeting it and letting Applejack make another run at the skull.
* She's stopped again, by the other giant skeletal hand, they come in pairs. This one, covered in chunks of the Obsidian beasts, punched her right into the wall and prevents her from trying again.
* Through this attack they get a scope of how big the cavern is, it turns out that everything beneath the Island for hundreds of feet is gone, now just an empty gaping hole as the Scarlett Emissary absorbed all physical matter to rebuild her body. The top part of the island is barely there at all.
* While the Scarlett Emissary gloats, Sebjek has a terrible pain in his head with images. Or as everyone else calls it, an idea.
* He and Dash make a mad charge at the dragon, and after some fancy moves and some Suit-Assisted propulsion, Sebjek kicks the Staff of Sarachas into the Dragon's head and out the roof of his mouth.
* He swings into the dragons mouth, and grabs the base of the staff after, and with it he has a vision.
* He sees Delight, Silverhand, and the remaining image of the Dark Dragon in there, speaking to all of them and stating he wants his friend back.
* Delight tells him that he has the power for that, not them.
* Gripping the Staff, he's able to stop the flames that the Dragon tries to use, and with its power he's able to disintegrate the top of the Dragon's skull, slowly and without force so he can get Delight out without killing him.
* Once loose, he uses the Staff to absorb the magic from the mask, and Delight is freed.
* This attack came at a cost, Sebjek's suit is disintegrating and his foreleg is badly damaged. He collapses soon after, and Delight catches him.
* They're almost crushed by the SE's rage, but Dash saves them both. Enraged, the Emissary bemoans how long it'll take to fix her body, and that's wheen Applejack says she's really not going to like the next part.
* During that whole event, Applejack had merged herself with the soil and the earth, and after a lot of concentration and a lot of work, she was able to take control of the plants up above.
* And with it, she speaks a single word to cast her spell.
* "Grow."
* Every bush, plant and tree up above converges just like AUJ's spells, and springs up beneath the Skull, reaching all the way down to the bottom of the chasm.
* The Skull is broken off from the Skeleton, with falls apart without its aide, and finally the Emissary grows silent.
* And then the top of the Island promptly collapses, and AJ did not think this through.
* Thanks to some quick work by Sebjek, who uses the Staff to gather the souls and use them to bring the Guard and Storm Guard in their thrall, all parties are rocketed up to the top, Sebjek getting some heavy burns as he's touched by the sun.
* Up top, a giant palm tree now sits in the middle of giant chasm, sea water rushing in on all sides of the big black void.
* Everyone is saved, and it seems over. Or is it!?
* Nope! Storm King grabs hold of the staff in one last move, finally attacking again after so long pretending to be down!
* And then Dash promptly tackles him and just wails on him, just beats him senseless, because she is so done.
* At long last, the journey is over. And as a certain swimming figure in the distance rushes to inform her mother about the Storm Kings defeat, Dash is left to wonder...
* "Anyone remember where we parked?"
* Celestia starts to feel at ease and sings about it, just when Applejack comes home with a question.
== Thread 281 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, Ruh Roh Raggy edition
* Celestia mentions the effectiveness of Tartarus
* Celestia is furious AJ broke her castle, she blames Dash
* But nobody cares about that because they find out Twi is back
* Tempest is pissed because she's locked up with the Storm King and others.
* Twi gets a big hug
* Then she gets filled in and its just... hard to explain. She doesn't care though because it turns out major disasters happen even without her.
* Flurry is best alicorn niece.
* Twi talks about Flash
* The changelings see who's still an Applejack
* Fuzzy and the Buzz check in
* AJ plans to friendship speech the Storm Guys
* 13 and Fizzle ask Lucky Strikes about Salt, he fills them in on a lot of details.
* Among them, he didn't leave after the divorce, he went back to working as a guard in Canterlot, he worked for over a year and a half, and he had to guard AUJ personally. When 13 asks why he would do any of that, he collapses in a blackout drunk.
* 13 is angry.
* So, she goes to Soundcheck, and after some ranting asks him why Salt would do any of that, but Soundcheck has no answers, because he didn't even talk to the guy before he took over, let alone deal with him.
* So, instead, he points her towards an old colleague.
* Fizzle thinks she's being obsessive, and it might have something to do with Chitania's death.
* They meet the Jetset of that world, and though he's quite racist against them, very openly so, when she mentions her reasoning for asking him, he's intrigued enough to let her in.
* Chitania has the Kirin using their powers correctly, and the other two worry she made an army
* 13 cuts right to the chase with what she wants, but strangely this makes Jetset more reluctant to thought, he thought she wanted to ask how he rose to power and he was more than happy to tell her about that.
* But she insists, and eventually he caves
* He tells her the reason he came back and worked for Applejack wasn't for himself, but in the hopes Cadence could come back as a Princess.
* Altwi and Altlestia failed to convince AUJ of the choice, so he worked for her.
* His Captain of the Guard replacement even wanted to give him the position back, but Alt-Jetset talked her out of it. It killed him to be a rank and file guard, and she wanted to watch him for reasons Jetset could only theorize, but he did it. Cadence lasted a month after that before she gave up.
* Every agent was told not to track or follow her, so nobody knows where she went.
* When 13 puts together he kept working a year after that and left very close to the invasion, she wonders, but the idea he directed that is shut down by Jetset, who points out he worked tirelessly to ensure he wasn't involved, if there was even a chance he would have killed Salt himself.
* Turns out he just wandered around, got into barfights and blew it trying to sleep with a bunch of mares.
* He admits he doesn't know what happened the day Cadence left him, he says the only one who knows that would be someone close to him.
* So, 13 uses the power of friendship.
* Celestia tried to use 56 to distract AJ, 29 does not appreciate it.
* Fizzle asks what 13 meant by that and she just clears it up that she meant Sweet Note, who's still watching over Altlestia.
* Altlestia is, bluntly put, less than open to talk about the matter.
* The ponies in Harmony City are sad Aj isn't coming
* Sunset asks about when they first arrived and learns the creepy dance was a punishment.
* Chitania makes some barbecue and misses the problem.
* Awkwardling has range as a voice actress
* The CMC can't play the game, but DT can make it?
* The trio are bad sisters
* 13 isn't sure about Sweet Notes plan, but goes along with it, getting Altlestia fancy drunk, with overly expensive drinks.
* It works.
* With some quick cutting off and bribery, she forces Altlestia to tell them what happened.
* She says she doesn't know, AUJ didn't tell her anything.
* Sweet Note susses out her lying pretty quick, and threatens to give the drink to Fizzle. She threatens the former princess until she snapped, and snap she does.
* She goes off into a massive rant about the time when Salt came in post invasion and, according to her, made it sound liek she did nothing. She insists she tried to take control back when AUJ vanished, but the invasion happened in just two days after she was taken.
* She rants further saying that she tried when Cadence left him, she tried to make him feel better and now resents that fact. She tried to stop him from going into her office, but she didn't make it in time.
* According to AUJ, he went for her emblem, and somehow didn't get fired.
* AUJ actually didn't tell her this part, when she saw the destroyed office she just let him off the hook and he went back to work the next day.
* Altelestia honestly didn't get it, and doesn't know why he left.
* After she finishes, she gets the drink
* So, 13 decides to go find Altwi for more answers.
* Sebjek finally wakes up to discover Delight waiting for him, and many apples... many... many apples. Delight is relieved AJ didn't chew him out but feels like he doesn't deserve the praise he got.
* Sebjek also got a metal that says "Don't sue" on it a lot.
* The other girls find out about Sebjek and are distraught, because he's useful.
* Sebjek can't sue though because Celestia
* The Empire has a hot tub.
* 13 tries to get to see Altwi, but the guard won't let her in.
* Despite threats and pleading, they won't move, so they feel like they're stalled again. A certain someone doesn't take kindly to that.
* Discord appears and brings them into the lab, which 13 notes he shouldn't be able to do but strangely the shields blocking him aren't working, what a 'coincidence'.
* That's not the only thing off about the place, there's nobody there! Altwi is gone, not only from the room but the castle. Which means no one is in charge right now.
* Fizzle asks where she went, and Discord asks if they really want to know, getting ready to snap.
* They both reason there's no point in letting him do that, they can just rush the door, tell the guard what happened and they can get her back or recall Salt. They decide to do this, but Discord insists he won't do anything without their okay.
* Fizzle says "Alright" which is an affirmative, the fool.
* So they're teleported away.
* The CMC's attempt to get the game goes awry,
* Flurry might be evil or not know better.
* Silver Spoon makes fun of DT
* Sombra's attempts to help a child goes wrong.
* He should also wear floaties, forever.
* Sunset asks Atlflash if Salt is a good pony, he gives some unsubstantial answers as to what he's done.
* Cadence mistakes a sparkler for incense.
* Fizzle and 13 end up in a strange tow, called "Our Town'.
* A musical number is obvious to follow, telling them about the wonders of being equal.
* And a pink pony is there to tell them all about it. A pink unicorn pony who has a lot of knowledge of changelings and dragons, for some reason, and is sure her staff of sameness could make them just as equal.
* She makes a tempting offer but they both turn her down, and ask where "She" is, making it clear they're looking for an alicorn.
* The unicorn and her town act like they haven't seen ne like that, and they wonder why Discord would send them there.
* That's when they notice there are no changelings or dragons in this down, but the mare isn't surprised to see them, and she's not suspicious either.
* And, most importantly, she seems pretty sure her Staff of Sameness would work on them despite not having a cutie mark.
* They could try to figure it out normally, but 13 says fuck it and reads her mind. She's shocked, but before she can say why, the mare shoots her, burning off her Equal cutie mark and revealing her own beneath it. She claims the changeling messed with her Staff and caused it, but the town looks doubtful.
* Even so, she resolves to help them, and insists they can be... reeducated.
* Eslewhere, AUJ finally awakens from her slumber, and rises from the ground despite Grand Pear insisting she can stay. She resolves to take the fight to Salt and Altwi, and she will take back her country.
* But first, two someones are waiting for them as soon as she emerges. A pony, and a changeling.
== Thread 282 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, THE BEGININING!
* AJ is just messing with Celly at this point.
* Everyone wonders if Celly is bringing it on herself.
* Twi's inventing nothing.
* Acty field more sad griffons
* AJ asks why they're all standing in the Empire, the discussion turns to if Salt is evil or not.
* When Twi calls her out on the matter, AJ knows better than to attack that.
* Marey gets tricked by a dapper ghost.
* Twi knows about the Salt harem, Aj and Dash didn't. They all wonder who's in it.
* They discuss it and AJ reasons AUJ wasn't in it because she'd never let Salt take her harem. Yes. Hers.
* DT's game has bugs.
* Cloudchaser gets taxes.
* Delight asks for tips for his book.
* Back with 7 and Jetset, following AUJ's arrival she responds to their inquiry with a simple "No" regarding their request to talk.
* She asks how they knew she was here, and why nobody else was there. Seven insists he's here just to talk, but she denies him and tries to grab both with vines, much to his frustration.
* Jetset also tries, unsuccessfully, while dodging her attacks. He gets trapped and is saved by 7, though he's not very grateful.
* AUJ explains she's not talking because none of this matters to anyone in this universe, nobody needs to be involved but her. She insists she won't let them take her kingdom from her, and she will take them back by force.
* To do that, she has to hit them unaware, otherwise she can't win, hinting if 'he' sees her coming its all over.
* When Jetset points out they're already involved, she says she's going to make sure they can't come back, any of them.
* This intrigues Jetset, who agrees her world is of no concern and her world has brought a lot of trouble. He wonders if it would be better to let her go.
* 7 is less than thrilled on the idea, and asks what he plans to do when the princesses arrive. Jetset reveals he never called them, and tricked 7 into believing they had been specifically to have a discussion with AUJ alone.
* With that settled, AUJ asks if 7 has a means to contact them should he escape, and Jetset cannot confirm he can't.
* With that, AUJ won't leave things to chance, and prepares to seal 7 in one of her trees. She would have succeeded.
* If it hadn't been for two very large guns carried by a very large manticore cutting him free in time.
* "Get away from him you bitch!"
* AJ wonders what life would be like without Nightmare Moon. Twi's answer is... cold.
* Daw is very into the game.
* Celestia has a workout tape, the world must know.
* Flurry isn't allowed in Bucky Bees anymore.
* 29 pays Delight a visit to clear out the rest of his ghosts and maybe make him gay? Unclear.
* He also gives Sebjek fancy chocolates and with it, a terrible addiction.
* AJ realizes the paperwork is backed up.
* Fizzle engages with the mysterious mare in "Our Town", quickly discovering that her power is absolutely immense. Her magic puts most of his attacks to shame, even with Infusions. Their battle causes havoc in the town.
* During the battle he learns she can fly with magic, which is the least of his worries when she goes all out with her magic. She likely would have seriously injured or killed him, had he not pulled out his trump card.
* The growth magic.
* Now giant, she can't harm him in any way, even though her massive beams of magic do land blows he feels.
* After becoming frustrated at their inability to hurt each other, both lose it and decide to do one final blast between them. Just before they can unleash all their power, both of them raise up and fire off harmlessly into the air.
* Both can't move thanks to the mind control holding them, mind control by a very hurt but-much to Fizzle's relief-not dead 13.
* The mare insists she never was going to kill the changeling, and rages at them both for ruining everything. However, she discovers her town is already in shambles, mostly from her own attacks.
* Everyone is terrified of her, which makes her unable to fight anymore as she pleads with them that she was protecting them. Fizzle calls her out for that, and gathering the other nations, but 13 reveals it wasn't her. It was... the new arrival.
* Who remains unrevealed as all three are captured.
* AJ wonders why fall for nightmare night, Celly says because ponies are stupid. AJ tries to tell everyone, to no avail, none believe her.
* Pinkie wonders who owns skull island
* AJ asks for another god sealing thing, pinkie says just to use the elements.
* 42 ends up inside the claw machine, somehow.
* Sebjek should not have gotten that chocolate.
* Cadence suddenly wonders if she's still Cadence, because Flurry means her DNA changed. This wondering spreads.
* AJ and Celestia do some paperwork.
* The CMC fail to get the game again and Princess Carolyn isn't a real princess.
* Maximum priss from Ralt.
* Back with the fight, AUJ is a little confused at the sight of Buttercup and her weapons, and her talking of course.
* Buttercup tries to threaten her into getting 7 released, with non-fatal attacks of course.
* AUJ says no, and the battle is on, with 7 getting loose and him and Buttercup joining together to fight her.
* AUJ, while trying not to kill them or maim them, still is rather brutal in attacking them, is rather frustrated about their defiance, making it clear the seal on 7 would only last a day while she tried to find the portal. Jetset helpfully tells her where it is.
* She tries to seal them again, and the pair go all out, but can't manage to let a blow. 7 seemingly tries to escape into the trees while Buttercup provides cover, but despite her powers AUJ can't find him.
* What she does find, when it charges her, is a massive Timberwolf, with 7 hiding in her mouth.
* One combo attack later, and it seems AUJ is knocked out.
* While 7 chastises Bubbles for ruining the plan of just escaping, he accepts she couldn't leave Buttercup behind, and tells the others to run.
* She's not knocked out.
* AUJ's very, very mad, and she decides to get serious.
* Using the Lunar Alicorn power, she makes a tornado so powerful it can tear apart a boulder around her.
* Seven insists they only have one shot, and to that end Bubbles sacrifices herself by grabbing the pair and shoving them into the tornado, being torn apart in the process.
* The two charge her again, now in the tornado, but can't quite reach her before she prepares to wipe them out.
* Seven tells seemingly no one "Go for the eyes"
* She senses something trying to hit her from behind, and vaporizes it, apologizing for whatever it was she turned to ash.
* She prepares to strike them again, but seven's earlier words come back when that ash surrounding them reforms and blinds her with a brilliant light. Blossom wastes no time cutting into her face as a followup.
* All while 7 continually chants "One shot".
* She tries an attack with her hoof, but Buttercup snags it before she is tossed away.
* With seven near she resorts to a magic attack that never gets off, the floating head of the reforming Timberwolf bites her horn and puts a stop to that for as long as it can before she's blasted apart again.
* Finally, with one final move, Seven lands his blow.
* A kick, that's blocked by AUJ's hoof.
* She reasons he was trying to break her neck, and ruthlessly shatters his blocked leg and sends him to the ground, stating she doesn't even feel bad for that.
* But, strangely, she's unable to do a followup attack. She suddenly reasons somethings not right.
* Through her blurred vision, she figures out the answer to why.
* There's shattered glass coming out of one of the holes in Seven's broken leg, and a needle in her arm.
* Her last thought before going unconcious is that she hates changelings.
* Jetset, impressed, asks if his animal friends will be alright, to which Blossom insists they will.
* With that out of the way, he muses he should probably pick her up and shove her through the portal, but Seven replies with a syringe. It doesn't stick, so Jetset has to help it to allow himself to be knocked out.
* Not because he needs a story, he needs a reason for himself not to go through with his idea, and down he goes.
* Grand Pear's final attempt at helping is thwarted, and the battle is over.
* Seven's team is victorious, and he cheers to himself he did the right thing for once.
* ...right?
== Thread 283 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, BAD APPLE EDITION!
* Celestia can't have anything with AJ.
* The guard found out about jousting and everything went wrong.
* Chitania reveals she has a megaform, Ranshine regrets her curiosity.
* The Kirin do not question her running away.
* Celestia expects A Applejack to ruin her calm.
* The kirin learn Chitty can play most classical instruments, except a flute. Rainshine appreciates her sax skills.
* Everyone enjoys the quiet moment
* With Salt, he's currently in thought and worrying about the upcoming discussion after spending the night with two more of his Divine in Manehatten, Coco and Sapphire Shores, the former of which is asleep in the aftermath.
* After speaking a bit with Sapphire about the future, she leaves, and Salt is left to his thoughts.
* Until Starlight Glimmer shows up in his room without warning. Though he's kind to her at first, that changes when she suddenly teleports him to a snowy mountaintop. He's stunned she could pull something like that off, and very suspicious, but listens when she insists she didn't abduct him, he was always going to end up here.
* She asks him if he's happy being top dog, and if he would want something more. He insists he won't be taking the alicorn powers, but she calls those things silly and implies there's something more.
* Power beyond an alicorn is possible, but she can't elaborate on it. Not because she's being vague, she doesn't know herself. All she knows is there's one being in the world who can handle it when the time comes, and that's him.
* She tells him it'll come his way when he wonders about it. In the meantime, she says teleporting him here wasn't important int he grand scheme of things, its a "her" thing, and she gives him two crystals with the ability to go home, or one that tells him the situation
* All the same she says to head home when he's done, and leaves him to his thoughts.
* He gets to decide how it all ends.
* Sweet Note talks about the importance of jokes.
* Shining ends up massaging Rarity to everyone's confusion.
* Eventually Cadence reckons Rarity is as cooled off as she ever will be, and as a result Shining asks if they can go get Twi and tell her about "That".
* They don't need to get her, she comes in right then with Celestia and the other elements save Fluttershy in tow. When Cadence worries about telling her without the others there, 18, 42 and the kids come in right on cue. Then its revealed Spitfire's been outside for hours, nobody noticed her.
* With everyone there, Shining and Cadence prepare to give the big news, and...
* They're immediately interrupted by a Guard, of course, who insists they need to look at the doorway right now. It takes a while, but eventually they understand why.
* Seven drags himself by his stomach into view, one hoof pull at a time, while carrying a cart with the sleeping AUJ and Jetset in tow.
* He gets his headpats.
* AJ wonders why the guard didn't help him, and he explains Seven was very insistent.
* Very, very insistent.
* Everyone deals with the new event with varying degrees of shock.
* Tiempo tries to treat him, but it takes a health bubble by Cadence to get out all of the "Stuff" currently scraped inside of him, then he just applies a Two directly to the wounds and that starts fixing it. Twos, very useful in hug needing situations.
* Back with the gunclub, there's a lot of bugs.
* The CMC learn about ratings, and they are evil.
* Arana laments not getting to talk to Flutters.
* Celestia wonders the reasonable thing to do, and AJ says it would be to wait. They don't and zap Jetset awake.
* They interrogate him, even though he's reluctant to talk with Chrysalis in the room, and he tells them how they located AUJ and what happened afterwards. Though they ask what method 7 used to find her, Jetset remains mum on the subject and they don't press him so as not to betray 7's trust.
* He tells them about the battle and his own neutral actions, and they all reason 7 was justified in defending himself, but they need to be easy regarding AUJ when she wakes up. They resolve to let her wake up naturally so they can all have a discussion.
* That's when Fluttershy enters the room, having looked all over Equestria for them, and she has a friend in tow! A friend who's annoying her, a lot.
* And who promptly loses it, and like a feral animal bites AUJ.
* The ponies in the back can't see what's happening, the crowd is too big.
* Thus, a chase begins. Lunalt runs off, carrying AUJ by the neck and thrashing her about while the others give comical chase. Through a series of misahps, they get separated and due to a couple poor choices they lose sight of her briefly. Cadence if the first to find her but cannot act, for her moonwalking coupled with the Emblem absorbing any alicorn magic she throws at her makes her an unstoppable foe
* Shining tries a powerbomb, but it seems she's used to having him on her back and throwing her around, and doesn't miss a beat.
* It seems she is unstoppable, until AUJ wakes up and promptly blasts her down the hall.
* A rampage almost ensues, but it is quelled before it can start by a powerful blow from none other than Rarity!
* Alternate Universe Rarity, armed with a frying pan and no regard for head injuries, that is!
* AJ is starting to see Jetsets side of this.
== Thread 284 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, YA BROKE IT EDITION!
* This is not the time for questions, but AJ’s gonna ask it anyway!
* The Gunclub talks about how they qare.
* Rarity feels a disturbance in the fabulous.
* Blueblood is very irate that PJ told Arana about threesomes.
* Fluttershy’s random teleport goes badly.
* Sunset can’t find 13 or Fizzle.
* 56 learns about Sombra.
* Ralt tries to talk rationally while hitting AUJ in the head to keep her down. She’s actually trying, because she doesn’t want this to get things worse.
* She insists getting her in Altwis containment field will allow them to talk, and chides Lunalt for the attack.
* Though everyone is unsure, Ralt points out she’s literally going against half of Equestria trying to get this resolved peacefully, and a back and forth ensues when Pinkie and Fluttershy arrives. They come to the conclusion that the base intentions are fine but she’s doing it all wrong.
* That’s whe she reveals that she’s with Alternate Shining Armor, freaking out regular Rarity.
* But that has to take a backseat, because the lull allowed AUJ to wake up, and she’s not happy. That alone is bad enough, until Lunalt strides up and reveals she took the Emblem from around AUJ’s neck, and now has it on her tongue.
* AJ is now willing to listen to Rarity’s proposal.
* Pennydrop gets an update that she missed AUJ, and comes up with a wonderful terrible idea.
* AUJ insults Luna, trying to get her to drop the Emblem on her tongue, and when it fails she and Ralt get into an argument.
* AUJ feels betrayed by Ralt, that she left her to die in another universe and then got with her deposer, and Ralt is upset because of the mess AUJ left behind.
* In the midst, she fails to snag the Emblem, since its still absorbing Alicorn magic.
* Ralt fails to convince her to talk with Altwi or Salt, she declares she won’t give up her crown that easily, and offers a pretty lacking offer to Lunalt for the chance at her magic back, since she can’t open it anyway.
* When AUJ tries to get physical, Chrysalis steps in the way, and after some banter reveals that despite it all, she doesn’t think she’s a bad pony, and they want to help her.
* Everyone agrees with it in their own way.
* AUJ insists she can’t let Lunalt have the Emblem, since it gives them too much sway, but aside from that…
* Celestia considers it a start and tries to convince Lunalt to give it back.
* It probably would have worked, if Lunalt had been there at all and not an illusion made by Ralt when things got heated.
* After her, they chase.
* Through the Empire to the portal leading to Canterlot, where they’re sure they can cut her off before she reaches the other world. This plan ends badly when Celestia, all six Elements, Chrysalis, Shining and Cadence all jump through after Ralt and AUJ, and find themselves not in their Canterlot, but….
* "Miss Sunshine?... Why are we back home?"
* With Delight, Happy reveals he just drained the Storm Guards who attacked him
* Thirty Two goes to see Sebjek and finds him in the chocolate haze. His attempts to look into his mind and fix it backfire. Now both are screaming CHOCOLAATEE
* Spike feels like he’s missing something.
* Derpy is very sorry for her condition, being in a contract.
* The griffons have little cool history.
* Back in the other world, Sunset is reasonably freaking out that all of her worst enemies just appeared at the same time. Though none seem to recognize her, yet, she doesn’t know if that will last, and if they go at her nothing in the world could save her.
* While she’s doing that, Twilight figures out they’re in the other world, and that means the one who brought them here must be Sunset.
* But before they could press her, AUJ tackles Lunalt, and despite the protests begging her to stop she continues at it until she punches the Emblem out of her mouth.
* Before she can grab it, Lunalt calls for the guards, who come flying in and attack her. AUJ is shocked at their state, wondering what happened to them to make them cyborgs. She even apologizes for attacking them back with a burst to get rid of them.
* She insists she’s going to turn them all back to normal, or as normal as she can, and goes for the Emblem, only to have it snatched up by Chrysalis.
* While the Queen taunts her, she unfortunately leaves herself open to being speared by a spike from the ground, which gives the Emblem back to AUJ. Chrysalis blames herself, as well she should.
* Using the Emblem’s power, she searches for Salt and Altwi to get the drop on them, but finds nobody’s home! They’re both gone, so instead she grills the pair of Ralt and Lunalt.
* Lunalt tries to get the guards to attack her again, but they refuse. AUJ thinks this means they’re switching sides, but they refuse her too. Turns out, the Princess told them to stay out of her way.
* The princess that comes flying in after a crazy teleport and punches AUJ right out the whole damn castle.
* The battle is on! Altwi in her power armor Vs AUJ with all three alicorn powers!
* It’s a drop down all out war with crazy abilities and powers flying, but eventually AUJ gets in a devastating blow and sends Altwi into the throne room.
* They argue, lots of hurt feelings and Altwi throwing it back in AUJ’s face that she used her brother to get to him, which she doesn’t completely deny, only partially.
* But that’s the past, she’s insisting, and she actually does want to talk. She insists in the other world she learned something, right in time for the main cast to appear and listen to what she has to say. They don’t get involved, but they listen when she says that maybe trying to do everything herself wasn’t the best choice.
* She points out how much she learned in that world, which was a lot.
* Though she keeps repeating over and over again that she needs to be the one ruling Equestria, she’d like to give working with Altwi a chance again.
* Altwi asks what she would do if she would rather AUJ not be in charge, and wants her to give up, to which AUJ eventually accepts she’d fight her.
* Altwi asks if she’ll go through her to get to the throne, and AUJ hesitates, unsure.
* Before she can answer, the room is suddenly filled with light, and when it goes AUJ is hesitant no longer. Now, she’s terrified.
* ”Hi, Applejack.”
* Salt is holding onto her, and she’s utterly afraid of it. She insists he couldn’t be here, but he is. She gets desperate, begging him to go away, for the others to help her, anything.
* None of it saves her when Salt touches the Emblem, and it turns out he has complete control over it, even higher up than hers. Twilight calls forth that strange device she’d been working on, and surrounds Salt and AUJ.
* She cries and fights with all she can, but it doesn’t work, and its too late even for those trying to help her.
* It does not just take her magic, like the Emblem would. It took everything.
* AUJ is an earth pony once more.
* Altwi asks what to do with her now that she’s defeated, and Salt just replies that her punishment…
* Is finished, she’s free to go.
* Altwi is naturally shocked, but doesn’t argue when Salt points out all his reasoning why this is enough, from her saving the world to the other nations now being free of “Princess’ Applejack, he says he can think of no reason to hurt her more because “Its still Applejack”
* Still, he asked if she wanted more. She says no and accepts that this should be over. She asks again if its enough for him, personally, he says regardless of his personal feelings this is for the best, and everyone can go back to normal.
* AUJ doesn’t see it that way, and punches him in the face. A lot.
* Even though it turns out she still has her Earth Pony magic, he’s not bothered, and leaves her alone to talk to the others.
* He apologizes for them being involved, and eventually asks if he was too harsh on her. Celestia said they would have intervened if it looked like one would seriously hurt the other, and they don’t like how it all ended, but admits that she can’t think of a reason to fight again, since this is a completely bloodless and deathless option. She doesn’t like it, but she won’t restart a war.
* Still she asks if he doesn’t want her, maybe they could have her? Only to be gently denied.
* He insists they all go home so he can deal with the fallout, and they only agree on the condition they can come back early in the morning, to which he agrees. Its clear its not over.
* But still, its time for them to go home.
* ”WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I BROKE IT!?”
* Or not.
* Applebloom cries because orphan.
* And OOCO, Vermillion finishes her excursion with old friends and wrestling, getting some bits and some updates for her troubles as she follows a party on the way to Vanhoover, where they think AUJ might have gone.
* We update in the present time, when Grand Pear is waking up, Vermillion and a great many others at his bedside. They talk about the destroyed orchard outside, and he flips demanding to know where his granddaughter is and what they’re doing to her.
* When they ask which one, he doesn’t take kindly to it.
* They're the same dang pony!
== Thread 285 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, LUNA SUPER PRINCESS EDITION!
* AJ wonders how Sunset knew where she was.
* Salt wonders how he broke the portal, and Sunset explains he teleported while still mostly connected to it, and since its essentially a giant teleportation spell he ‘dragged’ the magic when he went.
* Its not a big deal, just a short on the side, all they have to do is put new parts in and calibrate them.
* Salt is upset, which unnerves Sunset and she wonders if he will sell her out, if the ones outside learn about her she’s pretty sure they’ll kill her. When askes, she says she can fix the portal in one day, by noon tomorrow.
* Salt turns to being more considerate for her, and promises he will defend her no matter what. She reluctantly is forced to trust in his word.
* When he tries to explain the situation to the others, he initially put on a bit of an air, only to be utterly shut down by the angry group. So, instead, he’s honest and tells them what happened, and they really can’t help fixing it. So instead he offers to put them up for the night, because he honestly has a lot to do and can’t put up with them.
* They accept it, eventually, leaving him to wonder if he should go to the throne room or keep his promise and go talk to Altwi.
* He makes his choice.
* Luna has had enough and decides to go find out what’s keeping her sister in the Empire. After discovering they weren’t there, she goes back and forth several times until at the last time in the Empire she pieces together they went through… and never came out.
* She starts screaming, a lot, and flies back to Canterlot the long way.
* Nobody is very fond of that.
* The others in the AUverse, including AUJ, get to sit in a cafeteria where shenanigans ensue. Notably when another Pinkie shows up, and they switch around.
* Now, nobody knows which Pinkie is which, and they’re not telling.
* Shiny doesn’t guess which one is which, under pain of ponkstare.
* Chitania starts a band and is ticked they’re not getting paid.
* Luna flies back to Canterlot, and tries to go to the other universe for ‘backup’ since she needs help. She finds the portal inside the dead airship is also inert, preventing her for calling for help.
* She despairs, crying that her sister left her, and she’s all alone.
* Mid despair, a reporter shows up, drawn by her stunning flight, and overhears they’re gone. In exchange for not telling everyone, Luna says she’ll call a press conference and that reporter gets first question. This satisfies her.
* Luna still needs to scream though.
* Pommel gathered the guard for defense for said press conference, and Potsticker does the same.
* Altwi gets a transmission telling her the “Package is secure”, and she orders it brought to Canterlot, with strict orders not to let Shining know.
* After that’s settled, she thinks about the battle, and how it feels for it to be ‘over’ now that AuJ is defeated. She wonders what happens now.
* But, while that’s going on, someone enters her lab, someone who unnerves her with just a look. She asks what is wrong.
* It was too late.
* Alt-Dash is heading towards Twilight’s lab at this moment, pretty despondant because she heard what happens, and figures this means Salt isn’t going to have the talk he promised. She resolves that she has to leave him if that’s the case, she can’t just watch him hurt himself like this.
* She wouldn’t leave him completely, but she couldn’t be a part of ‘the plan’.
* Still, it makes her sad right until she reaches the door, and finds a lot of broken shards on the ground. There seems to be a lot of broken stuff all around, and she is afraid when she doesn’t get an answer. She quickly opens the door and discovers…
* ”YOU STUPID STUPID STUPID-“
* Altwi absolutely beating Salt with her monitors, screaming and calling him an idiot the whole time. She even breaks one, goes and gets another, and resumes.
* Dash smiles, and thinks things will work out.
* Celestia wants to go sit with SA, Cadence and Chrysalis but won’t admit it.
* Celly wonders if AUJ is happy to see Pinkie again, and the bitter mare is defensive.
* While Shining is trying to make ‘bomb’ a thing, in enters in none other than Altlestia! A great many innocence is shattered
* Lots of uncomfortable things are talked about with her, and Celestia has to go help SA and the others.
* Luna holds her press conference, and the only one keeping her cool is 10.
* She then admits what happens, and in all the questions that ensues she goes full Royal Canterlot Voice and tells everyone not to panic before leaving.
* They panic.
* Altlestia messes with SA, and gets crushed between her and Celestia
* Salt tries to explain why his plan is a good idea to a very upset Altwi. After a lengthy discussion she walks off, admitting that she still remembers he was there for her, but she needs to do something. He resolves that he’ll be there for her.
* Luna freaks out because she thinks she’s useless, and she needs someone to do diplomacy, of which she knows literally nothing.
* She begs for anyone, anyone at all to help her, and she gets it in none other than Blueblood!
* She’ll take it, with one change! She puts him on stilts. Why? Well when assassins break in and give up immediately upon finding a ‘tall one’ waiting for them, that becomes pretty obvious.
* This seems to have fixed everything, but Luna feels like she forgot something, and then she runs off screaming.
* Spike assembles the A-team. Or tries, before DT cuts in front of him.
* Actarius and JJ reason nothing bad should happen, right before all hell breaks loose in Harmony City.
* Luna bursts back to the Empire, trying to warn them not to use the portal, even though the guard already told them and they’re on top of things. Eighteen has taken sort of command, with Two and Flurry sitting in as royals and 42 dealing with the changelings.
* Luna fails to get 18’s aide with the paperwork, and 18 mentioning Delight gives her hope so she tries to fly off. Only to fail from her wings being so tired, she’s taking the train.
* Luna burst into the infirmary where Sebjek and 32 are in a chocolate haze, and fixes Sebjek with Dark-Magic-Summoned-Chocolate. Yes, that. This also fixes 32, who after learning of the situation offers his services to find the missing royals.
* Luna does not offer cash, she offers a mug that says “Best changeling” and 88 bursts in through the window and carries 32 off to find them and get that cup.
* Then she gives Delight all the paperwork and demands he does them, but he points out he couldn’t even do half, its just not possible. So, she resolves to go find someone else, out the ceiling, much to the contractor’s chagrin.
* The chocolate is okay, Sebjek says.
* AUJ learns there are Shining-Armor branded apples and loses her mind
* Flutalt walks into the situation, and has a lot of regrets. She just wanted some milk and cookies.
* Still, she talks with herself, and the others and settles into conversation about differences between worlds.
* When the subject of her relationship with Salt comes up, AUJ does not take it well.
* When she asks for a list and Flutalt wonders if she’s serious, she takes it worse.
* Sebjek offers to help with the paperwork
* Luna goes to see the Ghostbusters, who are watching Flitter and Cloudchaser duel with mecha. It makes sense.
* Eventually they all go to the Empire, with Sombra as well
* 88 and 32 enlist Q and Reggies help with this
* Fluttershy understands why Flutalt picked Shining, and does not seem surprised at the knife in her stomach.
* Cadence and Twi don’t want a list
* AB and the others finally get the videogame! But then they learn of the Royals fate. What have they done!?
* Spike tries to calm everyone down to no avail, but DT playing up the cripple card works fine.
* Twilight wonders why everyone’s a cyborg and everyone is very hurtful to the cyborg guard
* Pennydrop learns of the power vacuum in Equestria, and reasons maybe its time to pay Canterlot a visit…
== Thread 286 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SPOOKY SCARY PONIES EDITION!
* AJ asks about old Nightmare Night traditions and wishes she hadn't.
* Halloween stories!
* Sunset wonders why they didn't recognize her
* Luna asks about Bluebloods nonexistent negotiations, Blueblood continues to use Arana to spook them
* Dash doesn't want to know if alt-her is in a relationship
* Jetset is so mad at 007, who's out of it.
* Chrysalis points out he makes it work
* DT suggests blowing up the portal, this does not go over well
* Rarity asks Flutalt about Salt, which leads her to reveal she undid one of AUJ's projects, something she doesn't take kindly
* Luna cracks the whip, literally, to keep the Ghostbusters and Delight working, she also gives a whip to Sebjek because she likes him
* Marey tells Delight about how she got good at paperwork
* Shining is confirmed adorable
* Pennydrop drifts
* Delight was sitting on Sombra, who decides to go get a drink
* Delight hallucinates AUJ talking to him
* Spike is a bit clingy
* AUJ finally breaks and asks Flutalt what happened. She knew the broad details but didn't know the particulars, so Flutalt gives her information on the attack, information on the dragons, and how Salt fought back the attack. She's understandably upset when she feels they're blaming her, but Flutalt points out they're mad because they tried to warn her it would happen.
* She also points out Salt and Altwi tested the other nations when they both left, and nobody attacked
* Flutalt learns about Two and mistakes it for Chrysalis's kid, they take it in stride
* Two won't let Flurry sign anything
* Salt makes sure "Everything is ready" before he goes to tell Alt-Dash he talked to Twilight, worrying all the way and fretting terribly. At least until he reaches her room, and she's waiting for him.
* He forgot what he was thinking after that.
* Altlestia tells Flutalat to dump salt, and it does not go where you think
* AJ worries about the paperwork
* Luna eventually checks on Canterlot, and its in full panic mode. Except for East Side, they're cool.
* She tries yelling at them to stop panicking, it doesn't work, but they do stop when Mecha-Chitania arrives!
* Pennydrop marches up to the castle to talk to Luna, who slams the door in her face and turns off the porchlight.
* When Blueblood asks, she says pretend they're not home... even though Pennydrop can see over the wall.
* Soundcheck "Infiltrates" the cafeteria to talk to AUJ, and fails at it horribly
* Luna wants PD to go away, but she won't. She's too busy signing comic books.
* PD points out she wants to discuss the matter of calming the populace and how much she would charge for it, Luna doesn't want her help. When PD walks over the wall, she is hit by many a paintball t make her pink.
* Luna's plan backfires when PD goes in her pool, and only afterwards does she shrink down.
* Flutalt tells Shining he's not an asshole
* Luna and PD continue bickering, with math
* Fluttershy regrets her choices
* Soundcheck continues to fail at talking to AUJ while Pinks give her hugs
* Luna and PD's back and forth escalates to full on Looney Tunes level fighting, and Luna snaps, ranting her head off at PD.
* And right on cue, a giant axe goes into the castle.
* An axe thrown by one of an entire Army of dragons, who have learned of their chance to stop ponies from almost destroying the world every other year, and are going to burn Canterlot to the ground.
* Luna goes off to face them.
* Pommel tries to mobilize his airships... but he has none.
* AUJ asks for coffee, and there is much panic.
* Luna learns the motivation of them being sick of stuff like zombies and their reasoning that no ponies equals no problems, and engages the Dragons in battle, mostly using lasers at first, but when the cluster gets too close she turns into mist and uses her voice to turn them against each other in a cluster fight.
* Unfortunately she's caught by Torch, and after a bit of a slapstick back and forth, Torch almost burns her, only to be intercepted by Mecha-Chitty who knocks out Torch while still Celestia-Sized
* Even so they're almost taken off guard by a whole mess of dragons, and are only barely saved by the Highwind!
* The ship rams into all of them, and then speeds off to ram the others. None of this intentionally.
* As DT screams at the pilots helm, it leans, and Spike is none too happy about that.
* None of the A-team are.
* Chrysalis gets a hold of the coffee, and brutally tears apart AUJ's entire life.
* Flurry is not allowed to cut loose
* Chrysalis continues to tear up her gaps in logic, and Pinkies can't distract her
* Neither do ghosts
* She also gives Flutalt candy
* The CMC are heartbroken
* In Canterlot castle, unseen figures realize the door to Twilight's lab has been left wide open, and a treasure trove awaits...
== Thread 287 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, TOKUSENTAI EDITION!
* AJ asks a good question.
* Luna watches as the Highwind continues a path of destruction in the dragons.
* The Highwind is not doing this intentionally, its leaning of its own accord, and unfortunately it has no weapons since AJ never refilled it after the events on Skull Island.
* They do pretty well until a bunch of dragons grab them, and Spike ventures out with nothing but his wrench to get them off.
* Luna and Pennydrop almost go help, but are hit by a giant tree and shot into Rarity's boutique before they could, they are then buried further by yet another giant axe.
* Then Arana's silk detonates.
* 56 is in despair until he learns Luna is alive, but wishes to check by snuggling her plot.
* The guard head to Harmony city, which in chaos, and despite Actarius asking for help they just move on.
* Lightning Dust is a little overwhelmed because she only has four Wonderbolts
* AUJ asks Dash to distract Chrysalis on her coffee high, it goes badly.
* The guards use Peacetrotters like Pokemon
* Celestia notices that herself, AUJ and AltCelestia have very odd commonalities.
* Pinkies cheer up AUJ
* 29 says not to check on what's going on outside.
* Two cannot declare martian law
* Chrysalis continues to hurt AUJ
* Starscream knows EXACTLY where Luna is buried.
* The Wondbolts attack
* Luna, buried under the rubble, tries to talk to Pennydrop who insists there are problems with her mech that prevent her from just getting up and fighting, even though its obvious she just won't get up.
* Luna threatens to blast her until PD reasons Luna doesn't know who's on top of them, and would likely kill the guard digging them out.
* So, Spike has to continue to fight alone, and its not going very well with just a wrench.
* The A-team cannot help, and the damage is getting bad, so Spike does a last ditch action and reaches out his claw.
* And to it, flies Chairty! The one and only!
* Finally he understands putting blame on it was foolish, and instead reasons that he can work with it and his wrench to rebuild, rather than destroy.
* Using both he non-lethally gets the dragons off the airship, and fixes a lot of the damage too.
* Things are going well, until Torch catches the ship and prepares to destroy it.
* Oh wow, suddenly Mecha-Chitania works again, coincidence! She bursts up in full Titan mode.
* And is promptly shot a thousand times over by a hidden dragon force, armed with a LOT of magical cannons. Pained and disoriented, she cries out
* "CUT THAT SHIT OUT YOU FUCKING WYRMS!"
* Understandably the dragons are absolutely devastated at such an unthinkable slur being used, and even those she's saving feel uncomfortable now.
* She tries to explain to no avail, and nobody feels bad when they fire again. Her shield is up but she's pinned down, and cannot move.
* Luna resolves to get Spike a different birthday card.
* 42 tries to deal with the Changelings, who are being controlled by Camp Councilor Citrine.
* 10 interviews the city.
* Now Pennydrop is pinned down and cannot move, or risk one of the many blasts being shot at her destroying the city. Not only that, the occasional stray one heads that way, forcing Luna to play interference on the one or two that hit wrong out of hundreds of shots.
* With Mecha-Chitania pinned down, the Highwind encased in Dragonfire and risking being melted, and herself unable to do anything, Luna despairs, and she needs... a hero.
* Cue Power Rangers theme, probably.
* Because out from the castle, quite literally, explodes five machines of righteous might!
* BEETLZORGS POWER, ONLINE!
* RAINBOLTS, TOKUSENTAI!
* The Hercules, Atlas, Stag, Elephant and Goliath Beetlezorgs race through the city all of them haphazard messes that had been hastily put together.
* They fuse, more like ram together badly, to form the Tank mode, and drive off many of the flying dragons!
* But they're not stopping at that, literally! They have no breaks! And off the edge of the city they sail!
* But instead of crashing into a junkheap, like they should, they fall just right to form the TITANZORG! The combination of all five powers ready to fight for justice!
* And fight, they do! Using their Kung-Fu to fight off several dragons before engaging the leader himself, Torch, in a one on one fight!
* But he's too much for them alone! They need the Power Horn! One of the many parts that fell off the badly made mechs!
* Luna sends it their way, and with a devastating strike they consume Torch in an explosion!
* But all this did was take off his "Restraining Armor", and totally didn't just break his armor and almost kill him, according to him.
* Now he's in the air, and they can't fight him, until they form... Titanzorg, Battle-Mode! Achieved by 'combining', with jagged spikes on their back, with the Highwind, much to everyone elses chagrin when they're nearly speared by the spikes shoved in the bottom of their airship.
* Their badly made weight stabilizes the Highwind and lets them get into a flying battle!
* It doesn't go well for Torch, so he reveals a secret he had been hiding for Mecha-Chitania the whole time. He has his own power armor!
* With it, he does some real damage to the Zorg, and it seems hopeless, so they call the Princess!
* She gets the call through the beetles, and when asked for advice she gets into character and tells them to 'unleash a great weapon', that meaning Mecha-Chitty, by destroying the weapons pinning her down.
* They do so... by being thrown into it, a lot.
* Pennydrop is unleashed! And then promptly ridden like a pony by the Titanzorg in its greatest form!
* Against her will she's shoved into battle, the steed to carry the Titanzorg in Battle mode as they charge Torch!
* Luna gives them their final weapon, a spear of darkness!
* ULTIMATE MOVE
* LUNAAAA... SPEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
* Torch is defeated.
* Equestria... is saved.
* Pommel followed none of that.
* The Highwind counts as a win.
* With Torch defeated, but not dead, Luna talks to him with the Titanzorg and Mecha-Chitania behind her.
* She demands he sign.. a peace treaty!
* He says no, because he has to read it.
* So they hash out a lot of the finer details, it takes a bit.
* Then when they're both happy, he signs, agrees to only come back to kill Equestria if they do something else world-threatening, and takes his dragons and leaves.
* Luna is done, she is just done.
* Though Canterlot is in a full party frenzy, she goes past them, goes to her bed, and ignores Mecha-Chitania waiting outside for her.
* She hopes tomorrow will be less insane.
* Chitania learns the kirin word "Whore" does not mean what it means elsewhere
* 18 just received news the battle is over, because no long range communication, her army turned around.
* Soundcheck tries again to get AUJ some coffee, its mocha, and its wrong.
* DT is mad but wants to be friends with the Rainbolts.
* Salt finishes up with Alt-Dash and they both get into their uniforms, Salt's being golden armor and Alt-Dash in a full body new version of the Wonderbolt suits.
* They talk about the future, and think this day will be perfect.
* Delight sees MM and Zecora sleeping and wonders if they're taking shifts, 29 explains they're not napping, but working.
* 29 explains ghost thing, and the dreamwalking, and Delight even gets to send a ghostkid to the happy place, turns out he has experience with kids thanks to volunteering.
* Curious about the dreamwalking, he tells Sebjek to copy it, who falls over asleep, nobody is sure if it worked.
* Then Trixie sets everything on fire.
* DT gets drunk, so does the entire A-Team save 77
* Flutalt gets called from the Cafeteria, with the guard explaining an "Event" is happening, and while SA, Caddy and the AJ's likely shouldn't go, there's no orders on any of the others. Twilight points out why it would be a bad idea, and the guard agrees with one exception.
* After some convincing Altlestia also leaves.
* Putting on a "Disguse", which consists of a sign saying "Fluter+Shiny 4 eva", Fluttershy volunteers to be the one to go out for the others. Dash points out that Pinkie should also go, when the guard reveals both Pinkies have been helping for an hour now.
* The cardboard cutouts fall over
* Delight tries to sneak out but Moondancer stops him
* AJ's double hat has become a single
* DT is on the chandliere somehow.
* Treehugger's attempts to stop the military industrial complex fail
* The CMC don't get their crying corner
* At the "Big Event", which has Canterot packed and dragons, griffons, Kirin and Buffalo in attendance, along with a certain hippogriff, Salt gives a speech about the events that happened.
* He says those times are over as he raises the sun for a new dawn.
* He returns Lunalt's power back to her, she causes a solar eclipse, though not a total one as its not completely dark.
* Then, he brings to them another announcement, and a new princess rises.
* The Princess of Love, Rarity!
* She summons a glowing heart in front of the eclipse, which bathes Equestria in a magical light.
* This event turns out to be her coronation, and a grand parade begins!
* it was everything she ever dreamed of, everything she ever wanted.
* This day... was perfect.
== Thread 288 ==
Missed
== Thread 289 ==
Last thread recap, day of the Turkey edition!
* AJ’s questions mean Celly is a bad sister
* On the subject if ghost kids can have ‘precocious’ requests, Twenty Nine says “Soap”, that is all.
* When pressed on the matter, he flicks Delight in the nose. Annoyed, the pony leaves and bumps into a mare who will be his future wife, and eventually grow old together with. Then he wakes up, and 29 explains that’s how he deals with kids who’s wish is to live a full life.
* Delight is… a little unnerved.
* Actarius and JJ wait for help
* Sombra couldn’t make it to the Empire because a train went down, and vents at 29
* Private Fireballs, known to his unit as Private Balls, is introduced into the guard by Specialist Knows It All, and helped along by the peacetrotter Hooah. It goes about as well as you’d expect.
* Rainbolt Red has suggestions
* Pennydrop begins talks with DT and Luna, and after an awkward moment she cuts to the chase, and showcases her line of Metal Deer! Luna doesn’t want any, and Penny just can’t handle it.
* Down in the dungeon where 13, Fizzle and the mysterious mare are held, Altwi asks for clarification on that statement. 13 tries to lie and say she didn’t mean Altwi when she said “Gather the other nations to attack”, but Altwi isn’t buying it, even if she insists she did not tell them to attack her home.
* Altwi is understandably furious that 13 went into her mind, even if it was an accident, and believes 13 when she says that, she only asks what she saw.
* 13 says she saw Altwi giving the other hostile nations, such as the Yaks, Dragons and Diamond Dogs, equipment, and that’s all.
* Altwi says she isn’t sure what to do with them, but “It” might be the best way.
* As soon as she leaves, three guards enter, and one prepares to attack.
* But at the last second the ‘guard’ throws off its disguise, and a changeling declare “SISTER! OUR REVENGE BEGINS NOW!”
* Elsewhere, Soundcheck finally talks with AUJ, sort of. It takes some discussion on attire first.
* They eventually talk about the Magitech, revealing how they came to be and how, while voluntary, the prodcedure was ‘pushed’
* Soundcheck vents his frustrations on being unable to stop others from willingly doing it, and how he doesn’t trust Salt.
* He learns about AUJ’s friendships, and is happy for her.
* But what they really need right now is Apple Cider!
* 55 brings a turkey to dinner. Berky Turkey is pretty good at mashed potatoes, apparently
* Delight and the others learn Sebjek eats meat… messily.
* Salt has a nice dinner with everyone, despite his injuries. Everyone else doesn’t have so much niceness for each other
* 18 hallucinates having a nice dinner, and its sad.
* Soundcheck brings the cider, and everyone is thankful
* AUJ gets a letter from home, and Apple fritters
* Cloudchaser had too much pie
* DT and Pennydrop talk about airhships, and apparently her designs suck
* During the discussion, Luna discovers Pennydrop knows of a really old book, and the two of them dork out for a bit before turning on each other for being on the wrong side.
* Blueblood talks with Rutherford, who’s terrified of the spider. No, not Arana..
* Pommel muses this was the least destructive invasion ever.
* Daw and Silver Spoon are cool
* Its not Yellow’s fault
* Nobody is sure if the black blotch is cutie mark or Luna’s rear
* The two halves of the Salt table bicker and joke with each other
* Zecora and MM wake up and shuffle off to get some recharge juice, prompting Delight to notice something curious between Zecora and him
* Though 29 insists its nothing, Delight worms him into admitting he can’t really bring up his feelings on the matter. They don’t get to dicuss more before both burst in, supercharged on Zecroa’s Energy Potion
* Harmony City is on fire
* Ralt is regretful, and doesn’t know half the table
* Chrysalis notes Soundcheck has high regard for AUJ, and embarrasses him
* >Sunset almost finishes the portal, just a couple more seconds, when Altwi bursts in and tells her about 13 and Fizzle. Specifically that they have stumbled across ‘State secrets’ that can never be let out, and if they are she’d have to have them killed.
* At first, Sunset is very hostile and doesn’t believe her, even when provided proof and the ability to find more, but eventually she relents enough to ask what Altwi is going to do.
* Altwi says she’s letting Sunset figure out how to make them forget.
* If she can wipe their minds of the incident, without being told of it herself, she’ll let them off the hook completely.
* Its worth it, in her mind, if it can be prevented, then she can let them out.
* Before Sunset can do anything about it, Altwi notices something curious.
* "...Sunset? Why is your wall beeping-"
* Outside, there is a great and powerful boom.
* Explosions cross the entire connection of Canterlot and the mountain, and the whole damn city starts to fall off its foundation. Buildings tilt, ponies slide off the edges, everything is chaos.
* ~Emergency protocol, activate~
* Salt arrives on the scene, and in a flash acts for it. Hidden rockets on the bottom of the city fire up, and right the tilting building. The Magitech move faster than can be seen and catch the falling ponies, and those on the ground save those from being crushed by each other.
* All the while Salt calls out to them “It’s Okay!” “I’m here!”, and puts a shield over the whole city
* In the meanwhile, Salt seals up all the other races in their own shields, despite their protests.
* It turns out to have been a smart idea, as projectiles hit those shields, sending the inner beings into a panic. They aren’t harmed, and Salt declares they are safe.
* Then, he goes of to end whoever is attacking his city.
* Back with Sunset and Altwi, who are alive, they dig themselves out and prepare to act. 
* That’s when they notice…
* "The portal's gone!"
* Short break for more fun shenanigans with Private Bals and Sgt Major Chode!
* Everyone inside the cafetieria panics, confused what’s going on but unharmed thanks to Chrysalis catching on and grabbing everyone. Well, mostly unharmed, Rarity fell into Soundcheck.
* Everyone prepares to charge, but Chrysalis stops them, and sends Soundcheck out to get intel so they can go join in.
* In the meanwhile, those who can go prepare, and that includes Twilight with an illusion spell of fake wings, Celestia in an illusion spell to make her look like a machine, Shining in covered armor and Dash with her hair dyed. Everyone else for one reason or another can’t, or shouldn’t go.
* Chrysalis notes her boost in intelligence is waning, and gathers everyone to leave when she gets the signal from Soundcheck.
* She is indeed slipping, and had AJ not caught her would have gone out without her disguise.
* Cadence wishes her husband good luck, and they teleport off.
* Rarity, left behind, smiles and says “This day wasn’t perfect”
* Back with the Divine, all are locked up thanks to Salt, and most aren’t happy about it
* Fluttershy is trapped beneath Canties, and can’t use her chaos
* The CMC are thankful for what they have
* Salt is a bit nostalgic for the riots as he swoops through Canterlot, saving who he can and bringing hope to those who need it
* He finds the one shooting projectiles, a changeling, and captures them. He threatens the Ling at first, talking about how he used to kill dragons by putting them in an orb and squeezing, but despite his threats he keeps the Ling alive and sends him to be held in the cells, he has use for them.
* He wants to find the ones puilling the strings, and leave nothing but ashes behind.
== Thread 290 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, OTHER EQUESTRIA ATTACK EDITION!
* Aj calls Tia and asks about flame messages. She learns why they're not exactly wide spread.
* Spike tosses PJ out.
* DT, Luna and Pennydrop argue about missiles, and the medical industry. During this, Luna outwits Pennydrop with the help of Arana.
* Atlestia looks on while "Cyber"Celestia helps out, and scoffs.
* Altwi's Wonderbolt programming has flaws.
* Spike finds Harmony Prime, who Rainbolt Red left alone. He can't fix him, since he knows nothing of magical consciousness, but someone else can! Its Screwloose, with 12.
* Twilight's Disguise is flawed.
* Acty hears out some problems in the riot.
* Salt realizes the others came to help, and Chrysalis confronts him. She tells him about what brought her to be by Shining's side, subtly pleading with him to show the changelings mercy.
* Salt just changes the subject to the leadup to the wedding, because he's like that.
* Salt meets with a guard who tells them they captured four changelings, all of them alive. He wonders why they would do this, since their numbers must be minimal with nothing to gain but some chaos. He wonders if they "Know what he found"
* At long last Pennydrop and DT/Luna only have one more thing to talk about, Fillyboom Armor! Though PD is enthused, DT is unexpectedly muted, which throws off PD's demonstration. Eventually she breaks down and starts ranting at the filly, as she thinks the reasoning for this is because she's mad PD tried to blow up the building.
* She also points out how hurt she is but DT doesn't respond, so she says DT can just go, and Luna agrees. They both wait, but first, DT has to ask the guard for something, a chair.
* Both PD and Luna then get to feel like assholes when her wheelchair is brought in, and she's wheeled out. They need a drink after that.
* Batmom and Dadling discuss strip joints, which is not what you think it is.
* Shining is impressed by two guards, who tell him he should get upgrades.
* Screwloose says she can't fix Harmony Prime, but she knows someone who might, so she requires... a letter!
* Spitfire sticks up for her Fellow Yellow.
* Dash falls behind the Wonderbolts, who easily outfly her, making her wonder how Other-Dash keeps up...
* Sunset freaks out when she reaches the dungeon, finding Fizzle first unconcious, but she's able to revive him. Even so, he seems to be brain blasted, and can't talk. With that done, she talks to the other mare in the dungeon, who she thinks is 13 in disguise which would mean she's okay.
* That's not 13, Altwi reveals.
* 13 is gone.
* Luna and Pennydrop eventually say screw it and drink
* The changeling brings an unconscious 13, and the portal underground, to the Hive of the last of the changelings. After awakening 13 is brought before the "Great Ones", the leaders of the Hive of changelings.
* the first, a very familiar face, Variolus, who recognizes her right away.
* The other, an even more familiar face. Another 13. A Queen 13.
* Soundcheck is visited by Chrysalis, who thanks him in her own way. Surprisingly, Soundcheck admits he feels uncomfortable around Salt, more so even than Chrysalis!
* Fluttershy is not okay.
* Salt, no matter how he insists otherwise, enjoys being thanked.
* Celestia and Twilight have fun a bit with robot noises, but then a filly comes up to hug "Celestia", before her mother drags her away pointing out she's a robot, and the Real Celestia is probably off being alush. They beep boop no more.
* Two loses her temper when Flurry won't sleep and the baby breaks stuff, causing her to scream in fury at the baby and terrify her before running off to cry.
* Private Balls continues his misadventures trying to get into the guard, and he's off to meet PT Yas.
* Yaaasss.
* Tiempo tried to help 18 with the crying baby, and learns about Two's outburst. She admits herself she doesn't know what to do if it takes months, or longer, for the others to get back, and Tiempo tries to assure her.
* Delight wants to help 29 and Zecora hook up so he can get ghost seeing powers.
* Salt meets with Shining, and learns he's an asshole.
* Finally the fighting winds down and Canterlot is put at ease by Salts words, and they cheer him on.
* The other nations are less enthused, but do not lash out when he returns their leaders to them and releases them.
* With their cheers, he smiles, and wonders what Twili is going to invent thanks to this one.
* Poindexter had been looking through comics since their disappearance for them, but found nothing.
* Letters take a long time.
* Celestia doesn't like Salt.
* Atlestia confronts Salt and chews him out, their back and forth is undercut by regret as to how things ended up, and both leave insisting the other is wrong.
* Luna isn't drunk but she thinks she is.
* Carrot Cake is bought... I dunno
* Cheerilee and Harry watch chaos in silence.
* Private Balls Beep Boops, and Yas is having none of this.
* The CMC rant to Babs Seed
* Alt-Flash is a little unnerved at his lack of control
* Silver Spoon can play Silver belles
* Salt insists everything is going to work out
* Altwi informs him, loudly... EVERYTHING IS WRONG
== Thread 291 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SALTY SOLO EDITION!
* Cyber Celestia does not dissuade Applejack.
* Twi and SA's competition is with love.
* Dash's numbers for saving people are skewed.
* Luna and Pennydrop drank wine too early, and when asked PD brings up that time she tried to save Luna from Blue
* Fluttershy is not hurt by fire.
* Spike pretends to leave so the universe will be mean to him, and he gets the letter when he 'left'. With it, PJ hears about 007's state and shoots off.
* PJ learns Sci-waifu has been taking care of the predators and goes to give 7 some love.
* Chrysalis asks if Polygons are legal to Soundcheck
* Salt learns what happened from Altwi, and takes command of the situation. He tells Twilight he might have a way to deal with the lings and tells her to go to her lab, and tells Sunset to deal with Fizzle. When both are gone, Discord comes out and taunts him, and Salt eventually manages to convince him to tell when they use the portal, since Discord can protect it.
* He assures himself, he can do this... right before magic screens with all the other delegates/his Divine surround him and they start screaming, a lot.
* The various reactions are pretty different, some being very angry, some being understanding but upset, some terrified and screaming at the top of their lungs, but he gets very little in and they are upset with each other, eventually reaching the point where the screens overload and break.
* 42 helps 18
* With the screens broken, the Divine start arguing.
* With the other delegates out with their respective clans, they start screaming at each other, and they start to leave.
* Salt learns about this and the other cities beginning to panic, and things are getting out of control.
* Everyone wants his attention and has things they want to tell him, but he can't focus, and it reaches its breaking point when Applejack marches up to him and demands they be let through the portal to get out of here.
* They want to leave for obvious reasons, Applejack in particular, but he tells her its gone, but has another suggestion on where she and the others can hide...
* Zecora doesn't know how to do paperwork.
* Spike trying to fix Harmony Prime was a bad idea.
* AJ has... interesting ways to summon Chrysalis so she can spread the word of where they're going.
* Pinkie and Pinkie have... odd swear words.
* Jetset is awoken by PJ giving 007 some love in a way that makes him... upset.
* Salt makes it to the throne room where the others are, and things rapidly devlolve into chaos when he drops the shield. First, Ever Essence runs off screaming in a panic, and that's just where it starts.
* Some scream, some are understanding but upset, some do very rash things, but one by one all of the Divine leave the room in some fashion, and Salt is left alone on a cold throne.
* Meanwhile SA and Caddy kiss.
* Once everyone makes it back to the cafeteria, the plan is made. AUJ does not take it well.
* But, despite her screaming, they're teleported from one city to the other, and despite many, many reservations, eventually AUJ goes up...
* And knocks on the door of Sweet Apple Acres, where she and the others are welcomed with open arms.
* There's dinner waiting, family waiting, and everything was exactly the same.
* Well, almost the same. Applebloom has started rhyming and wearing different clothing artciles.
* Two and Flurry gets presents.
* Luna and PD end up on top of the castle and get presents.
* It turns out Alt-Applebloom spends most of her time with Zecora
* Granny and Big Mac are up to date on the others being from another universe, they understand because Salt came down to tell them.
* The social order rapidly breaks down.
* The guards in Alt-Ponyville aren't cyborgs, and are called the Apple Corps. They use wooden golems to round out their fighting prowess.
* Private Balls continues to try and get accustomed to the guard
* 29 gave 56 a gift.
* Flurry is a lethal cook too
* AUJ does not like the changes in Alterbloom, but before she can get too into it, a wooden dog bigger than a pony but looking very much like a certain other dog from that farm bursts in through the window. Turns out these are the wooden golems, called Baels, which the guard use to help out.
* Luna checks on them to see if they're doing paperwork then leaves
* AUJ's choices made her relationship with Alterbloom strained.
* PJ returns with 7 in tow and deposits him, painfully, onto the ground.
* They explain their problem and he will reprogram Harmony Prime, for bits.
* Other-13, called Chrystania, tries and fails to get into 13' mind, painfully torturing her as she attempts to break through.
* During the conversation between her and Variolus, we learn that Varry's body is incapable of holding the Titan form for long, and it is not her body she in habits. She is controlling it from the Hivemind. She is also hoarding the Titan powr.
* Eventually Chrystania learns Chrysalis in the other world is alive, and it freaks out her and Variolus. So, desperate, they finally decide to just ask what is going on with it, and 13 points out they could have started with that.
* Citrine continues to help the changelings.
* 007 works on Harmony prime, surprising the others by how much they can do. He gets rid of the changeling and Zebra hate, but now he has an issue with Dragons...
* Dash and Big Mac talk, and she's not getting cider from it.
* Spike realizes why 7 hates him and doesn't argue it.
* The CMC forgot Babs birthday..
* Salt learns the Prime Ponies want a portal and gives the command to deliver one to them, along with the scientist working on it who will "Be mad at him anyway".
* Then he's bothered by Alt-Glimmer, who prods at his insecurities.
* AUJ learns about Cousin Peach coming down, and we learn the last time she was there. It... didn't end well.
* Discord and Alt-Glimmer talk about her prodding him and how she believes he can do "It'.
* Both agree that regardless...
* This will be the final year.
* But Applejack and AUJ think regardless, it was worth it.
== Thread 292 ==
REAL FAST RECAP
* Two is fighting with Flurry
* 007 finally fixes Harmony Prime
* 13 tells Chrystania(Queen 13) about life in her world and Chrystania asks about the orb
* Salt does "Something" in the lab with Altwi
* Dash is now infiltrating Alt Ponyville
* Dr Bright, the one who makes the Peacetrotters, Idea is now pitching to Blueblood
* Alt-Delight is captain of Ponyville's guard
* Alt Strawberry Sunshine is the mayor
* Sunsets mad at Salt
* Vekir finds Sebjek and Delught
* Lunalt finally tells Altlestia she's pregnant. She does not take it well
* The portal is finally delivered to Alt Apple Acres, and the one bringing it is...
* "Sunset!?"
== Thread 293 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, SIX YEEEAAARRRSSS
* AJ wants to know how old Sunset is.
* Gunclub meeting!
* Alt-Delight makes it clear Dash could not outfly the Magitech, and that Altwi was super insistent about the matter of his soldiers changing before being rebuked.
* Hours after entering, when its dark out Salt finally emerges from the lab all tired and hopeful.
* Then Alt-Spike confronts him, distraught, and says he "Royally fucked up"
* Dash notes polygamy is a little more common than expected, and Alt-Delight explains its mostly Salts fault, and its not a good thing because it often breaks down as they chase the trend.
* AJ sees Alt-Sunset who seems happy and alive, and AUJ is quite bitter to learn she's also one of the "Divine", but she and Twilight get to work with the portal
* Turns out they got together because of Romeo and juliet.
* Alt-Spike explains what he did, which was essentially woo the nation leader of the Yaks, the Minotaurs, the Diamond Dogs, the Northern Griffons and the Abyssians, these are Youna, Steel Sight, Daisy, Ceridwen and Pearl Pattypaws respectively. He managed to get in a relationship with all of them, without telling the others, thinking he could get them to accept the same situation Salt had once they were in love with him.
* Long story short, they did not. And now are fighting each other in a protracted war.
* The battle isn't coming to Equestria, as none of them want to incur Salts wrath following their defeat in the Badlands, but Salt is understandably upset and has to mobilize his guard lest the fighting spill out to the allies.
* Salt leaves a broken Spike behind to act.
* SIX YEAR ANNIVERSARY STORIESSSSSS
* Back to reality, Dash decides to visit her parents.
* AltFlash is very upset about Fizzle's state and 13's disappearance, blaming AUJ for not letting them help finish the job.
* He apologizes for snapping afterwards.
* Gunclub Gathers again to talk about PJ
* Rarity tries to talk with Alterbloom, who continues to rhyme at her.
* Dash gets cookies.
* Applebucking goes wrong!
* Luna and Pennydrop go bowling
* AUJ has missed some stuff with Alterbloom
* Salt gets an update on the other countries, and after ordering defenses for his allies, orders Altwi to be told everything.
* Celestia goes to the gym!
* And this sets off Alt-Delight's alert, who think she's that universes Celestia.
* She just wants to work her glutes.
* The Northern Giffons got letters.
* Cloudchaser blasted Cloudsdale
* Babs meets Nightmare Night and Sweetie Doll
* Shining destroys apple beer
* AUJ sees a Wonderbolt racing into town and knows "Its all his fault"
== Thread 294 ==
REAL FAST RECAP!
* Alt-Delight isn't sure Celly is Celly
* He also gets news to mobilize as many of his guard as he possibly can by sun up as they're being shipped out
* Alt-Celestia makes her way to Sweet Apple Acres and she gets into a brawl with AUJ, ending when both are too tired to continue and Celestia blames her for Luna's current "Condition". Upon hearing it, AUJ agrees
* Pretty much everyone tolerates Altlestia after that
* Ralt comforts a sad Lunalt
* Alt-Delight tries to arrest Altlestia but is interrupted by Alt-Dash telling him to let her go, which he has to.
* She sticks around to bother AUJ
* Alt-Sunset is part of the Divine
* Mane-Iac is good with Flurry
* Salt talks to Gilda, Ember and Skystar, then talks with Altwi
* Chrysalis reveals herself to Alt-Delight and Alt-Dash
* Babs meets Dread Knight
* Alt Dash has love questions
* Salt gets bothered by Glimmer who's revealed to be doing this on purpose
* Sunset hears a voice in her head
== Thread 295 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP LOVE DAY EDITION!
* AJ asks the wrong Celestia a question
* AUJ wonders why the Baels won’t attack Celestia while Winona plays with one of them
* Two wants to take Flurry back to the baby store
* Chitania learns about a love festival
* Gilda gets scared by Arana
* Tiempo talks to Poindexter
* AUJ learns no new laws happened in Ponyville
* Caddy flops in her first suggestion to Alt-Dash
* AJ asks Alt-Dash when she’s going to talk to other her
* Alt-Sunset and Twi are learning and Twi figures out more about their relationship
* Ralt talks to Altwi about finding AltCadence, and eventually decides to go “Check on Alt-Celestia” in Sweet Apple Acres, essentially so she can learn more about love magic
* Chyrsalis makes fun of Alt-Delight’s armor
* Alt-Dash didn’t have a threesome with Ralt
* Ralt arrives at SAA, and asks for love advice from Cadence, who agrees to teach
* Pinkie and Pinkie bug alt-Cake
* Chrysalis is whipped
* Ralt admits what she did to Cadence and Caddy makes it clear they are NOT THE PRINCESS OF LUST
* Ralt immediately messes up
* 29 ends up in a play, somehow
* Ralt keeps accidentally making love magic in the room
* Alt-Delight worries about said love, but Fluttershy doesn’t care
* Cadence doesn’t respond well to her and she might be evil
* Alt-Delight wonders why AJ doesn’t wear glasses
* Spike missed 42
* Sick bubbles for STDs. It makes sense
* Cooties are a real thing even if Twi disagrees
* Ralt tries to “See” love, and succeeds. The colors nearly drive her mad, and do make her vomit profusely all over herself.
* Shining can make washing machine bubbles to fix that
* Cloudchaser isn’t racist
* Ralt tries to talk about the colors she saw but Cadence informs her she can’t look at someone she loves with it, it would be the biggest insult
* Ralt sees in gangasta vision now
* Ralt and Alt-Dash fight
* Then they both vent their issues, so Cadence calls for Twi
* Tiempo asks 42 about love transferrance, and she offers a kiss, which he declines
* As a result, she wins a giant gummy worm as Dare or Dunk spirals out of control
* Tiempo tries to join, and gets dunked
* Chitania starts to feel at ease
* Two tries to talk to flurry, unsuccessfully
* Spike sees Velvet and NL
* Salt and Alt-Soarin talk about mobilization
* Alt-Flash messes with him afterwards
* LOVE DAY STORIES!
* Alt-Dash warns Alt-Delight not to arrest Celestia and he asks her for info on where they’re sending everyone
* AJ asks about how many soldiers Alt-Delight is sending, and we get more info on the background for the town
* AJ, confused, asks Alt-Dash for more info on where they’re being sent, and they learn Dash very briefly skimmed a massive amount of info she was given, and she is shamed
* Alt-SAA has a pool
* Delight failed in his play. Or did he?
* Sunset answers the call given to her before, and it turns out to be from one of the rogue changelings, it seems Queen Thirteen wants to talk to her but Sunset refuses
* She says she won’t be like her, and won’t betray them
== Thread 296 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, WHO WITH THE WHAT NOW!?
* Aj asks if Computers are a thing, maybe.
* Spike is not in the royal heirachy.
* Bright Idea does not have bright ideas.
* Luna asks about metal deers.
* Cadence brings in Twi for friendship help with Ralt and Alt-Dash
* AUJ asks Alt-Delight how things are
* Alt-Dash and Ralt are fighting
* Alt-Dash and Ralt talk about the riot situation, where everyone was, and why they both feel the other let Altwi down.
* Altestia should not punch Chrysalis
* Spoiled Rich still loves Filthy Rich
* Shining Armor is used as a friendship aide
* And then somehow they talk about dicks
* They piece together the relationship timeline
* Two wants to know how to deal with demon babies
* PT Yas is quite annoyed with the job
* Harmony Prime has the wrong Peacetrotter programming
* Alterbloom talks about Zecora
* Alt-Dash and Ralt finally get to the real problem with each other. Alt-Dash came to her for relationship advice and when she broke it off with Salt she told her the most how much she came to regret the choice later, but when the possibility to get with him arose, Ralt moved in herself first and then let Alt-Dash in, leaving her feeling betrayed and angry having opened up so deeply.
* During this, she lets it slip that the two of them are pregnant, and Dash walks in right... then.
* NOOOOOOOOOO
* Cloudchaser set the guard station on fire
* Dash breaks off from her sobs because a friendship needs fixed, she'll wait.
* Celestia is so damn happy that she's going to be an auntie.
* PV2 Balls joins Knos sections and learns the horrors of training
* Seven's animals are singing
* Dash somehow solves the friendship problem, and Alt-Dash and Ralt make up.
* Luna's attempt to get DT to forgive her go poorly
* Velvet comes down to see her grandbaby, and... she's gone. Hopefully Flurry will bring her back soon.
* Alterbloom implies she might try to get with Salt to get back at her sister, and a domestic dispute breaks out.
* Alt-Delight is at fault, somehow.
* Vermillion finishes up talking with Grand Pear and wants to head out, but the train is stopped.
* 29 is about to talk to Zecora about "Things", only for Luna and PD to kidnap him.
* Velvet returns.
* Alterboom is apparently good with potions.
* 29 is kidnapped
* Doughnut Joe does not question that.
* Ralt clarifies not to use love vision on her fellow Divine, but she uses it on Pinkie. She regrets this choice.
* Celestia may be excited, but she wished she didn't have to see Altlestia
* Salt and Altwi finally reveal what they've been doing all this time. They get a huge gathering of ponies in Canterlot to talk about the coming war, how everyone is being deployed, and why they need to fight.
* And one more thing.
* They introduce their new ally...
* CHITANIA!
* This Chitania pledges she will serve Equestria
* And the sun rises at last.
* Everyone is shocked.
* Sunset does not take the news well.
== Thread 297 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, MEET THE CHITTY EDITION!
* Why didn't Celestia put the Elements in the tree
* Pennydrop's toysales are doing great
* Flurry sneezes, all is lost
* Alt-Delight has no way to contact Twilight except face to face due to him trying to avoid her. He's also curious that both AJ and Celestia seem to know about Chitania, and is shocked to hear they're sure his army couldn't take her.
* That's when the airships arrive.
* Alterjack reveals Chitania beat her once. Altlestia enjoys the thought.
* Citrine notices some changelings are missing.
* Alt-Delight is informed from Fleetfoot that she's taking way more of his guard than he expected, and half his golems. He's a little upset with that. Alt-Dash manages to give him time to stall, and Celestia grabs him and carries him off to Canterlot.
* Chitania is mad at a white, blue haired unicorn for some reason
* Salt thinks the speech went well, Altwi isn't into it. During their talk its revealed the changelings they captured have already pledged their loyalty to AltChitania.
* When Altwi seems dismissive of his insistince things will work, Salt grows agitated and snaps at her.
* Shortly afterwards, Celestia arrives with Alt-Delight and Alt-Dash on her heels.
* When Salt notices Alt-Delight, and to change the subject, he happily greets the Captain and calls him Twilight's favorite guard. Delight, confused, tries to brush it off and talk about the new situation, so Shining insists he talk with Twilight about things because she's the one who decided on the number. Much different than he was expecting, Salt genuinely seems to like and appreciate him even if he doesn't know much about the guard.
* With that out the way, Salt, Celesia and Atl-Dash go to talk about Chitania, leaving Delight to realize his life is a lie.
* Altwi is a little upset with being left alone with him, but agrees to talk with Delight.
* But before that happens, he has to know if Salt really does like him, which Altwi confirms since he likes all the guard. 
* She also demonstrates what will happen if he tries the innuendo around him. He resolves not to.
* Salt begins talking with Celestia and Alt-Dash, trying to be cool and change the subject but she's not having it.
* Alt-Dash is upset Salt didn't tell her about Chitania, but he insists he was going to reveal her at the end of the dinner during the coronation, but everyone left. Then he tried to get her over to see, but Alt-Dash wouldn't talk to him. Alt-Dash doesn't totally believe it, but she accepts it.
* During this Celestia learns Salt found her, let her out, and easily defeated her thanks to knowing all of her abilities, her power being at an all time low, and even though she knew nothing of him he had the benefit of knowing the exact moves that took her down in the regular universe.
* Celestia notices said changeling has been frozen this whole time, and asks what Salt did to his mind. He's shocked and reveals he did nothing, she's quiet like that because Celestia terrifies her.
* Trixie Trixes Delight
* Bright Eyes talks about unionizing, subtly
* Alterbloom got her cutie mark like the show.
* Alt-Delight doesn't trust Altwi
* Celestia confirms she's the sun raiser of another world, and Alt-Chitania is terrified Salt can summon other sun-raisers. She muses she never even stood the slightest chance. She's utterly defeated, saddened at how little she could do, and still reeling from learning what happened to the changelings of this world. She reveals she has no intention to keep fighting.
* Salt wants to build something new with her, which surprises Celestia. He reveals its because in her world, chanelings aren't hated, and he wants that here. Celestia doesn't want to argue, Alt-Dash does argue, but relents, and even accepts Salts explanation for not telling her, making up with him and then departing. With her gone, as asks Celestia if she's ready to go, but she wants to talk a little bit longer.
* After all, they need to talk about him being a father.
* Altwi isn't sure what to make of Alt-Delight, and tries to get him to leave. Instead he wants more info on why they're shipping the troops out. He feels he has a lot of information left out, so she gives him a massive book with all the details.
* He would like to know why he didn't get something like that in the first place.
* Spike and 007 talk about mares.
* Celestia and Salt discuss how she found out about Lunalts pregancy and Altlestia's reaction.
* Salt is relieved that at least Celestia is happy to hear the news. He even reveals that Luna picked out a name.
* Celestia also talks about the hardships he'll face raising an alicorn if Flurry is any indication. It will be hard to raise an alicorn.
* Or three.
* He's shocked she knows about Alt-Dash and Ralt, but tries to keep his cool and talks about them both.
* The discussion ventures into how Equestria will take it, which makes Salt worry as it goes on.
* When he tries the "Wait and see" line with Celestia, she blasts it back and points out there's a ton he can do now.
* For instance, telling the populace, an idea Salt rejects but is shaken on when she points out he's supposedly doing this to make them feel safe.
* His plan is further shaken when she points out that while an alicorn can protect an alicorn baby, Alt-Dash isn't one, and she doesn't even know about the others.
* He manages to successfully change the subject to the magitech, only to have Celestia pick apart Altwi's ability to assume direct control with them.
* With him desperate, she moves it right back to the coming children, and asks if he can handle it.
* He says yes, because of love.
* But is less sure when she says to do that, and also be the ruler Euestria needs. He says he has no options, she says he can start looking for a successor now just in case. He dismisses that too, since nobody else could handle it with the state Twilight and Celestia in this universe are.
* Celestia muses about herself in a similar state, she wanted kids in the millenia alone but had no one to take over in case something went wrong, she's a little impressed Salt did it anyway.
* Salt talks about his past with Altlestia, and when Celestia points out he keeps changing the conversation he denies it, leaving her to wonder if he's doing it intentionally.
* She points out how he hides behind his shields, hiding everything from his populace, and one day it may come back to bite him. He asks for any advice she wants to give, and she says to get Twilight back to normal. She truly believes she can still be a great ruler, and if that doesn't work, maybe work with Altlestia again, just to try.
* When he's shocked she would imply it, she just points out that she too was afraid that seeing "Him" at his worst would make her love "Him" less, and it did not.
* With that, she leaves to go see Lunalt.
* Daring Do has a lot of movies, and Twi betrays the books
* Ralt can't do her love power, which makes her think she needs a 'recharge'
* The Griffons are NOT attacking Equestria, no matter what Gwen insists.
* Alt-Delight learns about what's really going on with the war and is shocked, demands to know why he wasn't told. Altwi points out the danger of trying to get him the book in the first place, and when he brushes that off she just points out he doesn't need to know at all, he's not going to be involved. Desperate, he threatens to go get her brother, which makes her reconsider.
* Salt talks about what just happened with Alt-Chitty, who doesn't care. So he gives her popcorn, that helps.
* Altwi insists that Alt-D can't talk to Salt, so eventually they settle for arguing again.
* Alt-Chitty is not impressed with Super Mareo
* Giving Pinkie love was a bad idea
* DT and Silver Spoon are eating at a restaurant when boom! Luna, PD and 29 come down from the ceiling, having been spying on them.
* They try, badly, to cover up what they were doing, so Luna throws 29 at them and tells him to fix the friendship, so he asks what the problem was.
* Long story short, PD learns DT wasn't crippled by the missiles, DT reveals she was ashamed at her state and didn't want to show PD weakness because she thought PD only liked her for her abilities, they make up and she joins the pair at the table. 29 thinks bringing him was useless, but he gets pizza so its okay.
* Lunas work is done...
* But she wants pizza too so she joins them.
* The Kirin's training is going well!
* Applejack likes orangejuice.
* Spike keeps building mechs for the Rainbolts.
* 10 gets an interview with Velvet
* Flash wants new upgrades.
* Celestia and Lunalt have a sister moment
* Sunset Shimmer does not take the whole 'Chitania' thing well.
== Thread 298 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ALMOST THE BIGGUN EDITION!
* AJ says Celly did good.
* 32 and 88's investigation is going poorly
* Diamond Tiara and Luna do not want a metal deer
* Two might be going crazy
* Scratch that for sure going crazy
* Flim and Flam update and sell crap
* 18 can't do the fire trick to message to spike
* Quicksilver is not prepared to arrest anyone but 29 so he does
* Altwi and Delight hash out the details about who get sent off, and the exact details of the war going on
* There's a lot of back and forth but eventually they come to an understanding, and even a little bit of respect for each other.
* They also talk about stupid names
* Delight manages to get 115 to stay in Ponyville, a stark contrast to the 50 Twilight wanted
* AJ is given hope from Twilight and Alt-Sunset that they'll be going home soon!
* Salt is sure that the war won't last more than a day, and Ralt and him make up in the most bombastic way possible
* Two weeks later, the sun rises over chaos of the other worlds Sweet Apple Acres.
* They're still not home yet
* AJ wants to go home
* Luna is tired but handling everything surprisingly well, even if she now takes anxiety medication
* Her system of A+ with additional plusses for good behavior is keeping her students high!
* Luna talks with her friends from fat camp to keep her sane
* Chitania gives a graduation ceremony to all the Kirin who are now in control of their Nirik forms, in the only way she knows how
* Twilight explains they don't know why the portal isn't working, it should, but instead of sending them home it just sends them to random locations with portals in this world
* Alt-Strawberry is sliding down in the polls, and must boost.
* She's also about to lose a lot of money due to her marketing the Baels, even though AUJ owns the trademark.
* Two wishes someone else would pick her up from school.
* AJ wonders when Salt is gonna come ask for help
* Shining, Cadence and Chrysalis go on a romantic Gondola ride down the river that leads to Equestria's scariest cave
* Salt, in Griffonstone, wakes up with Alt-Gilda at his side.
* He's become deeply stressed in the two weeks and increasingly dependent on "Alone time" with the divine to mitigate it.
* He's about to take some pain relief again when Chitania says something requires his attention. He steps out just in time to see the Northern Griffins drop airbombs
* 18 finally admits they might be in trouble
* OnO in the other world!
* Salt investigates the Griffonstone border, finding a Minotaur his soldiers captured when he ran to their side. The Minotaur is carrying a gun of some sort with heavy destructive capabilities, but doesn't use any kind of magic.
* Before they can investigate the Griffons attack the minotaur invaders closeby with some kind of lightning bolt attack that decimates their ranks, and the captured minotaur escapes.
* Now driven, Salt heads off to the Empire to investigate further this strange occurrence.
* Dash plays with Joshua the Bael, but then Alt-Scootlaoo comes in and she hides to not make things awkward
* Cloudchaser should not fly an airship
* Salt arrives in the empire to find Lunalt and Celestia there. Celestia tries to shoo him off, angry that he keeps dragging Lunalt off to de-stress himself. Salt confirms he's actually there to see Ralt, which delights her and she rubs it in before dragging him somewhere 'private'.
* Despite what she thinks, he's investigating the movements of the Yaks, which Ralt knows little about despite being the Empire's princess. While investigating it, something odd catches his attention, but before he can leave Ralt offers some stress relief and the weary Salt accepts it, even though he knows time is of the essence.
* Pennydrop is happy that all the Metal Deers have shipped
* Luna sees Blueblood and finds zombies
* Salt investigates the border of the Empire, where the yaks pass in order to reach the war, and finds tails deep down in a crevasse that apparently only moved at night, even though it should be too cold for it. 
* Once again, he finds no magic, and must investigate further, so he heads towards Mt Aris.
* Along the way Chitania reveals he hasn't been giving off nearly as much love, which concerns her.
* Dash listens to Alt-DT and Alt-Filthy have a talk.
* CMC destroy a time machine.
* Alt Mac talks with Alterbloom about AUJ
* Salt talks to Alt-Dash, who is angry being stationed here instead of griffonstone, about anything weird going on near Mt Aris, she reveals nothing has been seen around there for days, not even a fishing boat.
* While talking, Skystar appears and hugs Salt, and a discussion reveals there are "whales" outside of sight of Sequestria
* This is all very suspicious, but once again Salt gets roped into alone time since both of them feel very much put out that he hasn't spent as much time with them, and he can't let them down.
* Two is jealous of Flurry
* The changelings are not changing leaders.
* After his time with Alt-Dash and Skystar, Salt calls Altwi to discuss what he found, which annoys her. When she gets over it she brushes off most of the issues since she reasons they're trying to do a sneak attack that won't set off their magical detection, but now that she knows about it, they can prepare.
* It also turns out Salts armor tells Altwi everything, and he means everything.
* In addition, Altwi is once again not leaving her lab.
* She cuts off and Salt is about to head out, but as soon as he drops his shield an agent pops in. Soundcheck arrives with terrible news, the Diamond Dog capital has fallen.
* Alt-Discord tried to look into the future, and found something odd that he brings up with Glimmer. she laughs him off, and just says its too late to do anything about it.
* Nobody can stop it.
* But, as she says this, a certain orange pony's ear starts itching...
== Thread 299 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, TOSS THAT SALT EDITION!
* Celestia might be allergic to cats.
* Salt asks Soundcheck to clarify what happened, and he explains while on a mission to find alt-Cadence he ended up in the diamond dogs capital, right as its invaded by Abyssians using camouflage of the non-magical variety and tore te the place apart.
* Soundcheck and others were allowed in the fortress castle before it was overrun. While in there, he found a communicator, one only made by Twilight sparkle.
* Diamond Tiara checks on Spike
* Luna gets a report from Pommel and Potsticker
* Salt insists they don't jump top conclusions on the communicator and tries to explain it away, only to be shot down at every suggestion.
* Eventually the others just insist he goes and asks her. Reluctantly he agrees, but insists he can't confront her alone or with one of the divine, she'll likely need friends when this is all over.
* Rainbow Dash is running out of stuff to learn.
* SPC Knows and Private Balls end up locked in a vault
* Blueblood has concerns about laws Luna wants to pass
* Dash talks to alt-Delight about how he ended up as a captain, and how AUJ used to be
* Alterbloom shows up while those two are talking for payment and reveals a lot about what she does with Zecora as far as making potions. Then AUJ enters in, and things devolve quickly, spiraling yet further out of control when Sweetie Belle busts in. Turns out she's a singer, and Alt-Delight is a huge fan. Things go south quickly, and Alterbloom leaves in a huff.
* AUJ tries unsuccessfully to call after her, and Delight offers some advice as AUJ is desperate to reconnect with her sister.
* Salt heads off for "Backup" With the Altwi thing, which leads him right to Sweet Apple Acres. AUJ does not take it well, and attacks him furiously. Despite her reaction, Granny Smith is quite calm when Salt asks to see if she can find Celestia, Regverse Celestia, who's help he seeks.
* Knows and Balls end up trapping Marine with them, but Peactrotter Hooah shows up and they think they're saved. They're not. Hooah cannot enter the room due to programming, so they have to pretend one of them is choking to get her inside. This somehow works.
* Silver Spoon does not like the whole DT working with Spike thing.
* Luna wants to adopt orphans, it does not go well.
* AJ finds Salt being attacked by AUJ, and after a quick punch due to request, tries to figure out why he's there. She's okay with him requesting Celestia's help, due to weird logic.
* Alt-Sunset is happy to see him, at least, but nobody else is happy about that. Unfortunately Celestia isn't there, which sends Salt into despair, so AJ points out she's helped a Twi over there.
* Luna flew to the Empire for a changeling, but then remembers something and flies away
* Chitnaia is still raising the sun.
* The Luna Paperwork Crew are getting overwhelmed, and an unlikely ally in the form of Raven is there to help!
* Daring Do the movie sucks
* Luna was flying to Harmony City, which is no longer in riots due to Actarius talking it out with them. All of them. One at a time.
* Salt straight up denies AJ's offer to help Altwi, and is quite brutal about it.
* She tries to plead her case, but he denies her, even denying Alt-Sunset's offer because he doesn't want Altwi to hate anyone else who she might call friend.
* When AJ tries again, Salt snaps and asks her why she would care. She points out how bad Ralt and Alt-Dash were about this, and how much they said he helped, so she wants to prevent Altwi from getting mad at him.
* He's tempted, but insists its classified. When AJ asks why its different for her Celestia, he fumbles with his answers. When AUJ tells him to just say he hates her, he snaps again, yelling that he did hate her for a while, but he hasn't for some time because he "Won" essentially and moved on. 
* Alt-Granny Smith, of all ponies, inisists he's telling the truth, pointing out how much people hated AUJ and wanted her in chains or much worse after she was gone, and he never wanted that to happen. He always just wanted to depower her and get her home.
* When AUJ is shocked Granny's okay with her powers being taken, Granny screams that she's more than okay with it because those powers only brought headache and heartache and she hated them, she's happy they're gone, and Salt is fine in her house.
* AJ gives one last chance for salt to let her help, but he denies her, admitting that even the Celestia idea was dumb and he only did it because he's so drained and exhausted and without sleep he's not thinking straight. No, he's going to do this on his own...
* At least until Shining Armor walks in the room and Salt happily and aburptly abducts him because he's sure Shining will work, and AJ rushes after them, Alt-Chitania ambles in afterwards.
* After they're gone, AUJ asks Granny if she got into fights over what others said about her, and she admits she did. But she wants to try for the better now, and AUJ agrees.
* 29 sees 56 who is... mocked? By the nightguards
* Raven likes Sebjek
* 88 and 32 are running out lof leads
* Salt insists "This can work" while carrying Shining into Canterlot, and explains Shining needs to talk to Twi and she might hate him but not him, of course. In his rambling he lets it slip the diamond dogs had a communicator, and a bunch of other important information he got from Soundcheck. He's okay with it though, explaining that he only trusts Shining with this information, not even Celestia now.
* His rambling gets worse and Shining notices he's not okay, Salt points out how bad things have been.
* Eventually Shining agrees to help him, but is confused why he told AJ. Salt, of course, didn't know she had followed and looked ready to do something regrettable but Shining talked him down. 
* Despite the threat, AJ is completely calm as she explains she understands the situation now and now that she's in the know, she should help, and would never use the information against Salt like that. So both she and SA go off to confront Altwi, leaving a sad Salt behind knowing there's nothing he can do.
* Cadence and Chrysalis learn Salt took Shining, but can't go to canterlot for obvious reasons
* Delight learns from Nurse Redheart that things got infectious fast
* April Fool day stories, Corona Edition!
* Ralt laments not having an entourage
* Alt-twi and Alt-Delight talk right after she hung up with Salt before
* AJ and SA go inside the lab where Altwi is waiting for them, having known they were on the way the whole time. The door behind them slams shut, seemingly leaving Salt out on the other side.
* Altwi explains she knew they were coming but not why, because Soundcheck sabotaged Salts armor so she can't listen in anymore
* AJ and SA explain that they're there because Salt is worried about her, and she snaps. She thinks they're there because Salt thinks she's not getting enough time outside with her friends again, and tries to blow them off.
* They reveal that's not the problem, and show the communicator piece. She does not take it well.
* After a brief attempt at lying, she panics and tries turning them to stone. she would have, if not for Salt saving them. She's shocked because "Salt" is still outside the lab, and it clicks when can't find Chitania out there anymore.
* Salt confronts her, finally stepping up, and gets a blast to the check that knocks him out for his troubles. Broken now, Altwi is maddened and she spills the whole thing.
* She went behind everyone's back and gave the other nations communicators in hopes of them becoming friends, but instead all they used it for was to coordinate the assault on Equestria. 
* She natrually blames herself for the deaths it caused, and that's why she wants to turn them to stone so they can't tell the truth, Equestria would turn on her like they did Applejack and Salt would be alone, and she's sure he can't handle it. So she tries again
* Only to be stopped when AJ breaks the transformation guns with her plants, and the fight is on.
* Meanwhile we finally figure out what happened to Domshy, she and Zephyr opened a... salon slash adult store?
* PT Hooah wonders how much of her is real and programming after she "Saved" her friend.
* The three way brawl begins! Altwi goes all out to stop AJ and SA, who try to talk her down to no avail. The pair team up with devastating combos, pretty much the only reason she doesn't immediately overwhelm and defeat them.
* They have the advantage until she pulls out the power armor, and then they're on the run.
* But with teamwork and friendship, they manage to get the upper hand on her. She's still not done. She breaks down, screaming that they won't let her just win, even though the world finding out would only make things worse. Everything would only get worse if she was revealed.
* She needs to keep lying, she insists.
* They try to give a speech to bring her back, but she's too far gone. It seems like she's going to just take them all out with one blast.
* She's stopped by her brother, her real brother this time. Salt hugs her, ignoring her cries that she has to stop them, and trying not to break down as she tells him that he'll be all alone running Equestria, and he'll end up like 'her'.
* She cries, explaining she just wanted the other nations to be friends, to do things the right way like she was supposed to, not with subjugation and fighting, but friendship.
* She points out the world will hate her, like Applejack, and he's making that happen.
* She begs him not to let them tell anyone, and he says they won't.
* He will.
* This brings a full on breakdown from Altwi, feeling betrayed.
* She keeps saying he can't keep doing it on his own, and SA and AJ agree. They give him a speech of their own, eventually convincing him that his attempts to not be the bad guy or avoid being AUJ only made things worse, and that he has to make the others step up.
* And they're willing to help him. Despite everything that happened, they're still willing to help.
* He'a sbout to let them help him, when the speakers are taken control of. Through the castle, and all of Equestria, a message goes out.
* Someone reveals the truth about what Altwi has done to all the world, the deaths that were her fault, all the pain.
* And she is the reason Equestria is about to fall.
* Images show an invading force heading for Equestria right now, ready to bring it to its knees.
* The voice says to blame the royals and especially the Alicorn. For you see...
* It was all their fault.
* Deep within Canterlot, a shadowy figure turns off the controls, and asks another to lure "Him" to the throne room.
* Is time... to finally bring their story to a close.
== Thread 300 ==
Non-canon celebratory stories.
== Thread 301 ==
REAL FAST RECAP, FRENCH REVOLUTION EDITION!
* Alt-Chitania explains they missed the images in the sky revealing Altwi's part in the whole invasion at the Badlands
* Ponies across Altquestria lose their minds.
* Salt tries to calm them down with a speech and fails spectacularly, with ponies calling for giving him and Altwi up to appease the invaders
* Most Divine are shown looking for safehouses
* Alt-Delight saw the images and doesn't know what to think, but begins to mobilize the Ponyville in preparation for an invasion
* Blueblood mediates between Luna and Pennydrop
* Alt-Ponyville begins a mob that makes it way to Alt-SAA to confront Alterjack.
* Comminication in Altequestria keeps being cut off aburptly, it happens on screen with Ralt where it just ends. One by one all their cities go dark
* The mob in Canterlot breaks into the castle, Salt is ready to confront them.
* He beats them back, but then is attacked by his own guards.
* He doesn't want to fight, but after they beat him, AJ and SA, he snaps and starts tearing into them, literally.
* Before he gets too far, Altwi takes direct control of them, much to AJ and SA's horror.
* He says he has to look for Discord.
* Back in Alt-SAA, AUJ confronts the mob directly, and with help from her family including AUB, she manages to calm them down.
== Thread 302 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP GAME OF THRONE PONES
* AJ might bend time and space for questions
* AUJ talks with Alt-Delight about the guards shape
* AJ and SA tries to force Salt to tell Altwi to let the guards minds go, he brushes them off, he has another target.
* Discord.
* Discord is his normal flippant self, only being serious when he says he hid Fluttershy in his dimension.
* When Salt asks for help, Discord laughs him off, causing Salt to snap and argue with him, bringing up the past and finally revealing how Tirek was stopped in this universe. After all the second chances and sparing, Discord still says he's unwilling to help out, and after he mocks one too many times Salt snaps and punches him, Discord himself unable to fight back due to the Chaos Field.
* It looks like he's about to do something serious, but just before he could, Salt vanishes from the room, leaving Discord with Alt-Chitania, SA and AJ and unable to escape.
* Salt finds himself in front of his own throne room, where Glimmer is waiting for him. She has a proposition, inside the throne room is the answer to all his problems. She can't tell him what it is, but if he goes in, he can never go back to the way things were.
* He initially dismisses her, but is tempted. After a back and forth, he almost accepts, but before he can he asks if she can tell him what's about to hit Canterlot.
* She does, reluctantly, and when she does he breaks off from her, an act she predicted might happen.
* As he runs away, she says he only has two more chances to make the right choice.
* But to stop the threat coming, its already too late.
* Suddenly, a force passes over the city, and there's no going back.
* The magic of Canterlot was gone.
* Chitania worries Rainshine because she has a bad feeling.
* Luna can't bake a soufle
* Alt-Sweet Apple Acres is hit by the magic nullfier, leaving everyone confused and stranded. Alt-Sunset weeps as she had been mere inches from escaping, and inadvertantly reveals Kirin to the regverse.
* Everyone is freaking out, thinking themselves defenseless, until a boom goes off. Pinkie still has her party cannon.
* AJ, SA and Discord are left confused at their loss of magic, but Alt-Chitania finds hers still works fine.
* She turns a malicious gaze to Discord.
* Altlestia and Alt-Delight finally talk at long last, discussing her current state, what happened with Alt-Twilight and why she didn't join in helping in the badland battle. By the end of it, Alt-Delight finally has some closure, just in time for the magic wave to hit and his leg to stop working. He doesn't even have time to process it before Joshua falls over, lifeless.
* Back in the regverse, Pommel notices everything is calm.
* Dash realizes she can't fly, but Alt-Sweetie Belle can still sing!
* Luna wishes to fire a certain mayor. Eighteen. Don't ask.
* Protests against Cloudchaser goes poorly
* Alt-Chitania catches the fleeing Alt-Discord and brutally attacks him for his earlier torment, finally able to get revenge for feeling powerless.
* Midassault, AJ and SA distract her so she won't kill him, which proves to be a terrible idea as their attempts to fight back or flee don't work very well.
* In seconds she's got them both knocked down, bruised, and ready to finish them off. Salt crying out is the only reason she doesn't. At last, she can confront the Sun Raiser.
* Alt-Delight gets more or less kidnapped to go work on defending Equestria
* Alt-Chitania is excited that Salt is powerless, and he recognizes that means she knows what caused it. She does, a changeling Throne specifically
* She's ready to end it, but Salt brings up what he promised her before. A chance for the changelings to live in a world that didn't hate them. That time is now.
* He argues that if she were to step forth and fight for them, nobody would ever doubt her again.
* She points out the obvious, if the Throne is in use then her changelings already have a potential home. She asks him why she would pick him over that.
* He points out he was there for her, and she admits its true, but she counters that if the changelings control so much now, the future he promised would be nothing compared to that. They would rule.
* They argue back and forth, Salt pointing out all the good he did and she points out how he contained her and denied her using her own power until now.
* Eventually it seems like Salt has convinced her, she looks ready to leave.
* Then turns around and punches him right in the gut.
* Despite the attempts to help, neither AJ or SA can help as she beats him savagely, breaking his wing and hammering him with her might. Once he is unable to fight, she drags him to the window, asking if he remembers what he said before.
* "You said something about burning my world to ashes, didn't you?"
* The airship above the city prepares to fire.
* "Let me show you..." "That world of ashes."
* It fires, and explosions cover the city.
* ~TRUMP CARD IS HERE!~
* But don't touch it.
* ~HAH!~
* Meanwhile, someone is heading towards Ponyville to warn them.
* Twilight asks Alt-Delight if he thinks she betrayed Equestria
* AUJ comes with news that Chrysalis still has her magic. She proves it by pointing to Canterlot, where a pillar of green flame protects the city.
* 41 goes to get her mail and learns an awful truth
* The other nations leaders, Ceridwen the Griffin who is revealed to have won the war and now leads them, Steel Sight the Minotaur, Youna the Yak, Daisy the Diamond Dog, and Pearl the Abyssian are all shocked Chrysalis is alive and stopped their attack, demanding answers from a shadowy figure. Said figure is as shocked as them, as her "Associate" did not mention a Queen Chrysalis. The figure still says to press on with the attack, and when they challenge the idea that she would defeat them, the figure says they have not yet begun to fight.
* Nothing can stand to the power of the united Queens.
* She says get ready for battle, just before Chrysalis brings the whole airship down.
* Sadly the Throne isn't inside, but before she can go and end the entire fight herself, Chitania explodes from the castle and prepares to fight.
* Spike and Luna face an outbreak of mimics.. in mayo jars
* Dadling is a bug in the system
* On the edge of Alt-Ponyville, a guard spots someone coming down the tracks, trying to warn him.
* Too late.
== Thread 303 ==
REAL FAST RECAP
* Salt wakes up, brutalized but no broken limbs or internal damage, sparking questions as to why she went "Easy on him" when one punch could've splattered him. He denies Applejack's offer to talk it out with the other nations and goes off to fight.
* 29 says Delight can start training with dreamwalking
* Chitania and Chrysalis battle, ending up with them beneath Canterlot in the crystal cave again, and Queenteen shows herself
* As soon as they vanish the other nations leaders show up and begin the direct assault.
* Alt ponyville has some firearms. Some
* The attack on Ponyville begins, Rarity is caught up in it as bombs blow up Carosel boutique
* Spike asks Luna a question
* Spitfire and Two have a heart to heart
* AUJ feels responsible for the attack
* Twilight can't figure out how to get closer to their attackers in the treeline, but it doesn't matter shortly.
* What comes through those treelines is Tanks.
== Thread 304 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, AND WE’RE GONNA LET IT BURN EDITION!
* Applejack might be in Celestia’s head.
* Big Mac isn't allowed to fight.
* The guns are ineffective against the tanks.
* Said tanks continue to destroy Ponyville.
* The guards freak out at the metal griffon arrival.
* Shining and AJ struggle against one Minotaur, revealing how big the power gap is, but Salt’s much bigger size and prime armor lets him defeat multiple foes.
* Delight mocks the sexy talk, and has regrets
* Pommel makes Zephyrious sign paperwork for his sudden invasion.
* Alt-Delight realizes they’re going to win.
* Twilight despairs, unable to form a plan, but a pep talk and some help lets her come up with an idea. They’re going to use the Pinkiecopter to see the radius of the magic nullification and find the center.
* Dazey is sad Vermillion says she can’t shoot the griffons.
* Blueblood and Luna negotiate with them, which mostly consists of Luna and Hilda screaming at each other.
* Spike is easily able to kill the Mimics
* Alt-Starscream gets his immobile brother out of there.
* Alt-Soarin fights back and defends Alt-Fleetfoot, who's immobile thanks to her enhancements
* Actarius tries some spicy diamond dog food
* Rekulk won’t let Vekir participate in negotiations
* Rarity manages to get some chemicals and blind the tanks with white smoke
* Likewise, the Pinkie Cannon can blind them.
* Spike gets overwhelmed so the A-team comes in to help
* Two has a mental meeting, and a mental breakdown
* This worries the Tiempo, but Spitfire tells him to give her space.
* 42 is pretty hard on how to deal with it
* The discussions with the griffons heat up and Blueblood realizes the other royals knew about Pennydrop selling weapons to the world and let her
* Alt-Delight tries to rally the troops
* AJ realizes they’re not going to talk their way out of this
* Twilight and the others rush out into the battle and are almost overhwhelmed, but the guard show up to defend them so they can rush on.
* They make it to Sugarcube Corner and are almost attacked, but Altlestia shows up to break the line.
* Pinkie scares everyone away from the machine with a firecracker so only she could fly it and takes off in the Pinkiecopter, making it up super high, and then is shot down.
* She deploys her parachute and it slows her down, but she doesn’t make it to ground before the parachute is set aflame and sends her into the trees.
* Alt-Delight despairs, and is surrounded. In that moment, an Abyssinian general offers him a chance for unconditional surrender.
* Spitfire spits fire after tasting Two's cooking
* The CMC talk with Treehugger
* Citrine asks Actarius to help with schooling
* Alt-Delight tries to stall for time, and to do this he rants about how the Abyssinians had never been hurt by Equestria, so their presence made no sense.
* The Abyssinian General agrees. They would’ve left it be and minded their business, but the pony's Emperor “Couldn’t mind his own.”
* Gaffer gets attacked by mayo mimic
* The five invader leaders march through a small street in Canterlot with their armies in front and look out over the desolation, some having to steel their resolve due to how little they want to do it, even though they insist it must be done.
* Salt arrives, and loses himself in rage, angrily shouting down the army before calling to Equestria to fight for him.
* Ceridwen prepares to tell the army just to shoot him, a move that freaks out the others, but she never gets the chance.
* Someone answers his call.
* The forgotten, or the outdone guards who would not take the enhancements arrive, tossing in bombs and flaming bottles to scatter and confuse the lined up soldiers before attacking them head on.
* So close, they can’t use their cannons without blowing themselves up, leaving them to having to physically fight the attackers in all the confusion.
* Despite Pearl, the Abyssinian leader, pleading with Ceridwen to get reinforcements and easily overcome the attackers, the griffon won’t hear of it.
* She charges Salt head on, and the final battle for Canterlot had begun.
== Thread 305 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, PUNCH THE QUEEN EDITION!
* AJ knows where Celly goes.
* Pommel makes sure Spike doesn’t need help.
* Chitania plays toss the kirin.
* Alt-Lucky Strikes enjoys the battle
* Oakshield wonders if Alt-Delight is gonna surrender.
* OOCO where Lunalt talks about Salt’s relationship with Altlestia
* Daw burns the changelings, metaphorically
* The changelings are trying to be productive, badly.
* Raven finds Delight post sexytalk attempt
* Spitfire tries to be flirty with 42 and it all goes wrong
* Raven tells Jetset not to stab Delight
* 007 gets a call in the middle of the fight
* AJ10 interviews spike
* The abyssian general explains what he meant to Alt-Delight, but before he can force a surrender he learns the main six escaped
* The crystal ponies want it in writing from 42 and 18 that it wasn't a planned takeover
* Filthy Rich can’t keep Spoiled from shooting things, DT doesn’t mind
* Sunburst likes being in the Empire
* Spitfire points out to Tiempo that even if he wanted to woo her, he’d have to woo 18 and 42 first due to their ‘arrangement’.
* Tiempo proceeds to bomb at this.
* It turns out the reason the Main Six escaped was due to help from none other than Troubleshoes! He’d been the one trying to warn them from Appleoosa, and had gotten turned around fleeing the town. His massive size was key in escaping.
* They search and find Pinkie Pie, looking just fine.
* Said Pinkie Pie is looking at another Pinkie Pie, who is not fine.
* The one that flew the Pinkie Copter apparently was from this world, and she did not land unscathed. She broke most of her legs and suffered a lot of damage from the fall, so much so they can’t move her.
* But she got what she needed, and confirms the location is the Castle of the Two sisters.
* Though they’re distraught and none of them want to, they have to leave her behind in order to carry on. AUJ almost doesn’t go until she convinces her to move forwards, to save their world.
* Big Mac could’ve been an element of Harmony
* Two’s mally supplies won’t last
* Vermillion reminds Delight to stay away from the griffons
* Blueblood and Luna come up with a plan to deal with the griffons
* Zephyrious and Hilda are distracted.
* The Abyssian General scolds the soldiers for losing them, and it turns out they didn’t even realize AUJ was Applejack due to lacking horn and wings.
* Tiempo helps with Flurry
* The CMC demand cider
* DT gets grounded
* Twilight figures out the changelings are behind it, but they don’t know how
* 29 takes Delight into the dream world so he can become a dreamwalker
* Blueblood and Luna outdiplomacy the Griffons
* But just when it looks like its going to be a happy ending, the head of the Metal Deer Hawk comes through the roof.
* Turns out the mimics have now conglomerated into a giant mimic mayo kaiju.
* The Alt-CMC have hope
* Chrysalis confronts Queen 13, real name Chrystania, in the crystal caverns.
* They snipe back and forth, learning more about the other as the discussion progresses, and their situations. Chrysalis eventually offers a way for her to escape this situation/universe, and get her mother back to Canterlot’s good graces.
* The other Queen bluntly turns her down, despite the nice words given. She seems bitter about the whole thing and won’t let Chrysalis convince her otherwise.
* Their argument gets bitter, then it gets sad when Chrysalis is reduced to mourning that she can’t help someone avoid disaster once, even though bringing them to her world would come back to bite her and make others hate her. She was ready to suffer just for this, but she can’t even have that.
* When Chrystania attacks, Chrysalis easily overpowers her and mocks her for thinking she could be strong enough to face her. That’s when the smaller Queen smiles and points something out.
* ”You never asked how I became a Queen.”
* The answer comes with a hum.
* Up above Salt is engaged in mortal battle with the griffon leader, and while he does this AJ tries her best to talk to the other four leaders.
* Just when it seems like she might break through, something else breaks through.
* Chrysalis.
* Breaking through everything as she was punched clear to Canterlot, her foreleg broken and her body cracked.
* Chitania comes soon after, and right behind her, something worse.
* Variolus, in Titan Form.
* The sun no longer shined on Canterlot.
== Thread 306 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, WHO LET THE TITAN OUT EDITION!?
* AJ is bringing Celestia mental breakdown
* Chitania randomly says Rainshine is grounded
* Tiempo plays with Flurry and Two
* The Changelings are fine on money, thanks to porn.
* Batmom goes to war
* Dazey has to smash
* The ones taking over Alt-Ponyville freak out at the appearance of the Titans. The general is the only one keeping his head, even if he is worried.
* When Alt-Delight challenges him, he orders the Yaks to finish taking over the base, where the rest of Alt-Ponyville is held.
* Luna's attempt to stop the Mimic goes poorly
* 32 is not allowed back in any restaurants
* The Main Six and Atlestia spotted Variolus as she headed towards Canterlot, and wonder if there's more queens
* Bright Idea makes the fanciest pants
* The A-team's attempts to save the day goes poorly
* Private Balls has terrible dreams about Gloom, but is saved by a nightguard, named Nightfall
* Spike tries to call the Rainbolts to stop the mimic, only to find they're inside said mimic.
* So, plan Z, call Pennydrop. As soon as DT calls her, they hear faint music coming from the bushes outside the castle.
* Delight's ideas for a dream world annoys 29
* Starscream and Berry Punch get into it
* 18 wonders if they're here to suffer
* Two has plans in case she turns colorful, which Flurry promptly ruins
* The Main Six find the Castle of the Two sisters overtaken, and guarded by a mind controlled Torch
* Two wonders how long it'll take Flurry to grow up
* Cloudchaser misuses a dildo
* Variolus mocks the gathered forces, smugly talking to them while making sure Chrysalis doesn't get back up.
* She almost crushes everyone before Queenteen calms her down and tells her not to attack their allies.
* She and the Griffon leader talk it out, Queenteen cowing her with her power.
* She then tells the ponies to surrender, and points out that at some point, Salt seems to have run off.
* They won't surrender, and before she can respond Salt drops from above with a sword, having jumped from the second story to cut off Queenteen's head. He makes a futile attempt ti fight her, punching her with all his might, only to be easily knocked aside. Despite clearly being able to, Queenteen doesn't kill him or cripple him.
* Despite being constantly knocked down, Salt gets back up, and declares he's going to kill all the changelings.
* His words apparently angers Variolus, who muses that although "She" said a lot of things about him, she doesn't believe it, and tries to crush him.
* He's saved by a combination of Queenteen pushing him out of the way, and also... Applejack, doing the same.
* Queenteen has flashbacks and snaps, trying to burn Applejack, and only failing to because Applejack protected Salt.
* In a twist, Variolus also won't kill Salt because she won't take Queenteen's revenge on AJ from her.
* AJ pleads with her, telling her of her world where Changelings are not hated, which the Canterlot guard deny is true.
* Even so, AJ pushes on, trying to convince her to stop, giving a long speech before asking her just to talk.
* Salt is not a fan of the idea.
* Neither is Queenteen, who orders Variolus to kill Chrysalis.
* She plans to, but pauses, unsure if she's allowed to kill "That one".
* Queenteen realizes too late that Shining has snuck over to her Chrysalis and hugged her, giving her enough love power to fire a single bolt. One that, seemingly, missed Variolus.
* She did not miss.
* She implanted a single word into Alt-Chitania's mind.
* "Variolus".
* Caterlot shakes with rage, and Queenteen declares she can't control her.
* Back in regular Canterlot, Dazey nearly got eaten by the mimic but Vermillion pulled him out, musing that it seems she can freeze it.
* Flurry got the flamethrower.
* Luna gets annoyed because she can't stop the giant mimic, and when she asks for help, the A-team arrive!
* After some discussion, they plan to freeze it, which was totally Spike's idea, not Vermillions and Dazeys, shut up, DT.
* Luna breaks up any arguments about that and declares she will use a freezing spell and everyone should attack it. That includes Pennydrop, who she calls out to into the bush.
* When nobody responds, they open said bush, to find.. nothing.
* But, off from the side of Canterlot, someone is arriving.
* Its Mecha-Chitania, here to fight! She gives a speech to the monster, then shoots it. Right through it, splattering the others, because mayo. Blows the top right off a mountain too.
* Everybody is annoyed at her, so she asks what the plan was, and agrees freezing it is much better.
* Luna gives a speech, and they prepare to attack, but suddenly
* SHUMP
* A giant, really giant, mayo jar drops over top of the mimic, capturing it. While everyone is confused, Pommel tells Canterlot to resume their lives. The Wonderbolts then drop down and put the lid on it.
* While securing the jar, Pommel overhears guards saying they should have frozen it, and he chews them out for being a stupid idea since it requires -50 degrees to freeze something, and they could kill someone with just 20 degrees. Instead they use a giant spigot to get the ponies and others trapped inside out.
* It turns out the giant mayo bottle was made by none other than Domshy! She used her powers to conjure it, but couldn't drop it over the thing. The only payment she wants is the mayo for some lube.
* Zephryious realizes the ponies have a lot of defenses, and requests Pennydrop for a decapitation proof robot. Which PD reveals he already had, the head of the Metal Deer Hawk is just for show and more weapons, its not needed. the king confirms this by turning the thing on with no issues.
* So everyone decides to get pizza, ending the mimic subplot.
* Tiempo wonders why 42 doesn't get shot and learns about the subspace room
* He also learns its got adult locks
* Mane-iac is a great laser sponge
* The Abyssinians bring back the Pinkie that was shot down for treatment, which angers Alt-Delight to see her in her broken state.
* Pinkie is still making jokes
* Moondancer wants mayo, but its not worth the price.
* Nightfall chews out 29 for unauthorized dreamwalking, because he doesn't have dream paperwork
* The CMC start up The Church of the Three Sisters
* They quit after Cloudchaser points out that Rainbow Dash has no sister
* C17 checks on Actarius
* Delight and 29 almost get buried by dream paperwork, but since its the same in the real world, they have a secret weapon. Sebjek perfectly remembers the original and just recreates it.
* The Main Six make a plan in order to get into the castle, one they're pretty worried won't work.
* The plan kicks off with Pinkie Pie's distraction. What distraction?
* Setting fire to the other half of Everfree forest.
* With the dragon going to investigate, they break off into two teams. Altleastia and Troubleshoes go into the main opening.
* The Main six have a different target.
* Begin plan Unleash The Elements of Harmony!
== Thread 307 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, HUNTERS EDITION!
* Celly doesn’t know where that white place is.
* Half the Empire’s army has to go home, doing nothing.
* Pommel apologizes for undercutting Daw
* Spike isn’t impressed eating pizza with royalty, and learns why the griffon royals don’t go by their real names
* 29 gets his dream paperwork filed
* Jetset has been looking in the other nations for the lost royals
* Private Balls asks about Nightfall
* Queenteen can’t control Chitania even though everyone begs her to do just that, friend and foe.
* The only only who tries to stop her is Salt.
* With Chitania unleashed, the foreign royals try and fail to bring their armies in line
* Queenteen tries again to stop her, but Chrysalis stops her, and in a rage Queenteen tackles her and takes them elsewhere.
* As the other royals flee, AJ tries to make Salt take control of the situation so he can possibly fix things, but he ignores her and chases the other leaders into a building they were using to escape the panicked crowd.
* 29 and Delight talk about the dream world
* Tiempo learns 42 is a god teir masseuse.
* Altlestia and AlTroubleshoes break into the castle, and find no guards stopping them, or the guards that AUJ placed there. Just a lot of green walls.
* As soon as Altlestia steps through a door, she learns the truth of the new castle, the walls send the people within to random locations. She and he are separated.
* Hilda finds out DT is an average, normal filly.
* Sebjek makes a 1-1 clone of 29 in the dream world, so good even he’s not sure which is the real one
* Spike and Blueblood talk
* Turns out 007 pretended to be a griffon for a while and was on a team with Hilda, who pretended to be a commoner. Both faked their own deaths.
* They decided to play Beakball again, a terribly brutal game
* 42 finds the grandparents being weird
* Raven questions Sombra
* The Main Six manage to make it down to the Tree of Harmony and make a terrible discovery.
* The Tree of Harmony has been destroyed.
* And the changeling who did it was waiting for them.
* Lightning Dust isn’t getting replaced. Yet.
* Trixie attempts to escape raven.
* Lightning Dust made poor office choices.
* the CE Crew play the worst never have I ever
* C41 helps with goop duty
* The other leaders try to use the building to escape, but Salt cuts them off with a bomb. The griffon and yak turn and attack, leading to a brutal fight that only ends with Salt defeating, possibly worse, the Yak, and chasing the others inside of the now burning building.
* Berry Punch made poor relationship choices
* Harmony City is weird
* Alt-Delight and Pinkie watch the fallout and confusion the invaders have watching Chitania fight. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Everfree’s on fire.
* Scootaloo checks in on Sweetie Doll and Dread Knight
* Alt-Delight asks if Pinkie knows how the fire started, she has an idea.
* The Abyssian general breaks into the compound and takes out all the remaining Ponyville citizens
* Discussions about Flanks go wrong
* 18 talks with the guy who repairs the castle, a nice pony named Allotropy
* The sole changeling does some serious damage to the main six, who can’t seem to get a hit in, and she savagely beats Alterjack.
* She only is stopped because Rarity cut off her tail, set it on fire, and wrapped it around a chunk of crystal
* This only slows the changeling down, and they realize she’s not calling for backup. She wants all the glory for herself.
* When things are at their worst, Troubleshoes drops in, literally. He opened a trap door that lead to the Tree, either made by the princesses or the changelings, and falls on the changeling.
* He holds her down long enough for the others to go back up into said trap door, and barely escape.
* He can’t join them before the changeling gets back up, and is left behind.
* Meanwhile, Salt hunts down the other leaders, out for blood.
* He’s coming for them all.
== Thread 308 ==
Missed
== Thread 309 ==
REAL FAST REACP!
* Celly doesn't know sea serpents.
* Sunburst wonders about the Flurry Scale
* 29 sees Sebjeks memories
* Delight asks more questions of Top Cat
* Chrysalis fights and defeats Chrystania
* Alt-Variolus reveals she was letting herself gets hit to absorb love and defeats Alt-Chitania by punching her so hard she breaks off a quarter of canterlot on the way down.
* Morlocks learn to sing
* Everyone watches Alt-Chitania's defeat and reacts differnetly
* The Abyssinian Queen wanted to use AUJ's family as leverage but TC says no
* 18 got drunk
* Tea party with Flurry
* Alt-Sunset tries to hide
* An Abyssinian steals a cake from the Alt-Cakes
* Luna realizes she doesn't know how to contact the morlocks so bursts in to the dreamworld to grab Sebjek
* Chrysalis tries to stall Alt-Variolus with bargains
* The Main Six battle the changelings and Altlestia arrives to help
== Thread 310 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ASHES EDITION!
* AJ wonders about battle tactics
* Various OOCO stories with Salt and the Divine
* Two wonders why nobody gets poked by all the crystals lying around
* 42 wonders how Tiempo learned Alchemy.
* Alt-Nurse Redheart wants to treat Alt-Delight
* The Yaks want to shoot so they can get air conditioning
* Tiempo talks with Mane-Iac and regrets it
* OOCO stories about the creation of the Baels
* An Abyssian wonders if the General is being unwise not to bargain for the lives of AUJ’s family, but offers an alternative. A mare in the crowd who could be useful
* Two and Tiempo get flight training from Spitfire
* Zephyrious and Pennydrop talk
* 18 gets a package from Seven, the Commincation Scarabs. Now they can talk to Canterlot.
* She informs the others
* PJ, Blueblood and Haymaker catch up
* Luna finally arrives with Vekir in tow to talk to Zephyrious
* Blueblood is upset at 007 about the communicators
* Pennydrop and Vekir catch up
* Chrysalis continues her battle with Variolus, but cannot damage her. In her Titan form she’s just too durable, and unlike Chitania she can manage to keep her mental powers guarded.
* They go back and forth in the battle before Chrysalis questions what Variolus plans to do with her future, to which the answer is she’d just like to do whatever she finds fun for as long as she could.
* After a surprise attack, Chrysalis takes some serious damage, the attacks breaking her other foreleg before launching her into the rubble. Broken, she can’t fight back and Variolus prepares to finish her off.
* Down below, Shining finally reaches the fallen Titan.
* Though he’s extremely reluctant, still holding hate in his heart for her, he eventually pushes past his feelings and gives her all his love so that she may rise again.
* Rise, she does. Her body is still badly cracked, but she will not heal it. She puts all the love given into raw power, sending flames out every crack in her body.
* She returns back to Titan size and rises.
* Chrysalis blasts herself to get away from Variolus, an act that confuses her as it did a lot more damage, but she doesn’t get to dwell on it before Chitania Rises.
* She’s letting loose blasts of energy just by walking and radiating flame and power with every step, and despite her disbelief Variolus is overwhelmed and cannot fight back before she is grabbed.
* A combination of the exploding magic, that grip and wave of power shooting from Chitania’s mouth consumes her, and Variolus is turned to ash.
* She collapses when the battle is over, and Shining falls from her head. He’s drained completely, barely able to stand and unable to give her any more love. It seems like this is the end for her, before a single orb of love does just enough to fix her badly damaged throat and let her keep breathing. Content with that, Shining sets off to find Chrysalis. Even if he can’t help her, he wants to be there for her.
* When he leaves, another arrives, telling Chitania to give them… everything.
* The others in Alt-Ponyville watch this happen and hope there’s a chance for victory
* The soldiers in Canterlot, who had forgotten sides as they ran together in a panic stop running when the battle of Titans ends and they have no idea what to do now
* Salt steps up and tries to get the other side to end the fighting
* He almost has them before the other leaders, sans Youna, show up and demand the fighting resume.
* Both sides try to argue their points, but the invaders win in the end and they decide to fight to the last pony.
* It almost starts before a new arrival breaks it. Spike has arrived, and he wants them to know its all his fault.
* 32 wants Actarius to do the thing
* 29 and Delight resume training in the dreamscape, and 29 tells Delight of the time the nightmare being nearly killed him.
* 18 isn’t sure why babies are so strong
* Sweetie Belle checks on Sweetie Doll and Dread Knight and gets pulled into a death game
* Alt-Spike admits his part in this and he believes he’s responsible, but the invaders are shocked he ever thought they would do all of this because he cheated on them. It wasn’t because of that.
* At that moment, Altwi shows up, taking respoinsibility as well. She admits she never even tried to speak to them in the Badland battle and took family from them, so them wanting revenge is because of her. Again, they claim that’s not the case, and they even sort of admire her.
* Instead, they claim the real reason they invaded was… Salt.
* He naturally calls bullshit.
* Specifically, they claim the kids he’s trying to have would eventually make the ponies obsolete and themselves under threat, but the ponies don’t care for that considering the situation, they wished he they had more alicorns.
* They change slightly when the invaders point out he was giving an alicorn’s power to a dragon.
* The invaders repeat their problems, that even a single alicorn was enough to defeat them before, a horde of them could easily crush their armies. Pearl, the Abyssian Queen, even admits that she waited for Salt to speak to them on it or make her the same offer, which she would have taken. Instead he ignored them, and only sent Spalt. Even worse, when they fought each other he was content to wall himself off, showing he didn’t care for their lives and if the dragon did attack, he would not come to their defense. No way would he choose them over his own kid.
* Salt doesn’t care for their reasons, and they prepare to fight again.
* But, with AJ’s encouragement, Salt tries one last time to get the armies, not the leaders, to stop in the fighting. She helps him speak to them, and at least pauses them. But just when it seems things might look up, a new arrival comes.
* Chitania. Or rather, someone who looks like her.
* Someone who doesn’t sound like her.
* Back at the Empire they talk about various Momma names.
* In Alt-Ponyville, seeing Not-Chitania rise up, the Abyssinian General wavers, and Alt-Delight calls him out for his actions, bringing up he won’t even say what the ‘Super weapons’ they were sent to destroy are.
* At Alt-Pinkie’s prodding, tensions run higher as Captain Rustford and the Yaks get more angry at having to wait when their princess could be in trouble. He makes them back off, for now, declaring work to be done. In particular, one pony he just discovered is in the crowd.
* He reveals Alt-Sunset to the crowd and the soldiers drags her away from the group, putting her at his feet.
* Then he reveals why he’s there, to take out any and all of Salts ‘Concubines’ who are carrying a living weapon capable of destroying their army. And he intends to do that, it seems.
* Alt-Sunset begs and pleads, saying she’s not pregnant, but he doesn’t believe her.
* Back at the castle, Altlestia’s arrival turns the tide of battle, letting them get in better shots and more attacks. She starts off throwing a bottle at a changeling and managing to score a lucky hit.
* But with her arrival, they bring in their own backup, the dragon from outside. Torch nearly brings the building down just reaching inside, and as a result had to be content with guarding the Throne and swiping at some of the Main Six.
* There’s a battle back and forth, with both sides occasionally taking the lead, before the changeling from before scores a lucky hit. While she brags, Celestia likewise scores a lucky hit of her own, and with a clever combo they manage to free the dragon’s mental state.
* But rather than go on a rampage, he is froze. Solemnly looking at his curled fist, before crying when he opens it and finds nothing at all.
* Altlestia demands to know what they could have done to the dragon to make him respond like that, and she has an answer. She shows Altlestia with a mental spell, and it causes her to fly into a rage, even though she can’t manage to land a hit on the changeling.
* The changeling reveals this was all a distraction to get someone back in the circle and take control of the dragon again while he was broken.
* While she mocks Altlestia, the princess has a reveal of her own.
* The first bottle never broke, and she lost track of her changelings.
* Thanks to their callousness towards each other, they didn’t even notice their numbers had dwindled enough the Main Six could all get on a pillar and loop AUJ’s rope around Torch’s horn. They swing towards the throne, still guarded by four changelings, but before they could reach that same bottle breaks in their face and sets them on fire. It can’t hurt them, but it stuns them long enough that the Main Six can fly over their heads and all together kick at the throne!
* YEEEEHAAWWW!
* Back in AltCanterlot, Salt demands to know who the new arrival is. Its Chrystania, who reveals she used Larvesta’s technique, the DNA altering one, to turn herself into her mother. Just as she had with another Queen before in order to ascend the first time. Variolus taught her how to do it.
* While she’s revealing this, everyone notices she’s a little off. She’s more jittery, more wild. Gone is the calm collected Queen from before, and in her place is a slightly mad Queen. It seems the DNA shifting has had some serious consequnces, enough that when she tries to mind control the entire Army she injures herself.
* In her crazed attack, she notices Applejack and nearly kills her, but is quickly distracted by the other invaders by accident. She does another mental attack in her anger. They beg for their lives as she assaults them, but she dismisses them, claiming she read their minds and knows they planned to turn on her.
* She would’ve killed them if Salt hadn’t fired on her with a munitions. It bounces off her without a scratch. She challenges him to fire again and again, loving how invincible she is. A true Titan.
* She proves it, when she suddenly grows super huge.
* Queenteen gloats to herself, calling out that she’s now the greatest in might and magic, an unstoppable Queen Titan.
* She tries to get them to flee, but Salt will not. Even if he knows its hopeless, he will keep fighting her.
* He gives her a speech about how he’ll never stop fighting, and they will end this.
* She just says Okay and Goodbye and launches a giant orb of flame at all of them, sure it’ll wipe out the army.
* It would have.
* If their magic hadn’t come back in that moment.
* Emperor Shining Armor rises again.
* His sister shares her power with him, and into the fray he does charge.
* A knight against a dragon, in the final battle. In the end, the ponies grant their power to him, the Knight is victorious, and the dragon is slain.
* Salt manages to blow off her throat from halfway down her neck, and she’s defeated once and for all.
* He comes down victorious, and returns Altwi’s power to her, much to her dismay. He won’t hear of taking it back though.
* He seals up the opposing army, but at Applejack’s insistence he doesn’t do anything rash.
* They’re about to start fixing things, when the other main six arrive, brought by Fluttershy’s powers.
* And they come with terrible news.
* All of the Divine… are dead.
* Altlestia blames Salt and strikes him furiously, but he doesn’t fight back.
* The girls explain the changeling showed Altlestia what happened, when the Throne hit them, it just turned them to dust, as if it ripped them apart on a cellular level.
* The invaders admit they didn’t know that would happen, but they had always planned on ending the Divine. It is why they came, after all.
* They don’t even get a chance to react before Alt-Discord bursts from the top of the castle, growing to massive size and casting down terrible things upon them all, demanding to know “WHERE IS SHE!?”
* Fluttershy manages to counter him, and he insists he means his fluttershy, not her. 
* He forces the Griffon to speak the truth, and from her he gets that Queenteen planted a thought in Alt-Fluttershy’s head to use the emergency exit just before the invasion hit, meaning she was dusted like all the others.
* He breaks down, shrinking smaller and smaller, repeating to himself “She’s gone?” until he fades away.
* Thanks to this, Altwi realizes what happened. Her device that let Salt have children with the others and ensured the ponies would have alicorns must’ve changed them inside, and when the magic was stripped away, it tore them apart.
* Its right then they realize Salt hasn’t moved this entire time.
* When AJ looks into his eyes, she knows what he plans to do, and can’t stop him. She begs, she pleads, but its too late.
* With a strange pop, a shield rushes out from him and turns every single non-pony it touches to ash. Like the shield he used at his wedding, only more permanent.
* They try to reign him in, try to stop him, but before they can he grabs the portal in the castle with his magic and drags it over himself, gone in a flash.
* In alt-ponyville, the situation has gone terribly wrong.
* Everyone has their magic back and is aiming it squarely on one being, the Abyssinian general. The one standing next to a crater, where Sunset was. There’s not even a trace of her left.
* The Yak from before had fired upon her before he could even get clear, causing severe damage to his paw, but the Abyssinian isn’t daunted. He tries to smoothly talk his way into getting a retreat, with the idea being that if they fought now, many innocent ponies would be killed.
* Alt-Delight just says he’s not getting away. When the general points out that most would be caught in the crossfire, the captain clarifies “He’s not dead”.
* Salt arrives seconds later with a thunderous sonic boom.
* The general immediately gives up, praising Salt for the victory, and making it clear he has no intention to keep fighting. 
* He doesn’t expect mercy, but he thinks he can at least get away from torture by this method, and tries to offer his complete surrender.
* He doesn’t even finish his words before Salt turns him, and all the others, to ash.
* Alt-Delight is horrified at what he just witnessed, utterly disgusted at the act and declaring it a war crime as the stallion flies off. Sardonically, a soldier asks what Delight plans to do, arrest him?
* Salt does this to every single city with a portal. Popping in, ashing any not a pony, and vanishing before he finally ends at the Empire.
* They’re hopefull he can restore the crystal Heart, but instead he just makes them line up and leave the country behind.
* When he returns to Canterlot, AJ is devastated, asking him how he could do that. There’s no chance of peace now, none of the other nations will even talk to him.
* Sadly, Altwi admits it feels right that he did it.
* As they try and process it, another new arrival comes.
* Alt-Chitania, who is distraught over her child’s death. She says Salt said he would spare them if she saved him, but he doesn’t even need to say it for her to know she saved very little.
* AJ tries to push forwards and get Salt to at least be a leader, because they need that now.
* He answers her plainly.
* ”No.”
* And blasts off at full speed towards the castle.
* Altwi follows him after turning down the offer, and to them, Altlestia admits she would’ve done the same.
* Cheers, they’ve finally won the war.
* Inside the castle, a certain mare is waiting for Salt.
* Glimmer is so relieved he made the right choice, this was his last chance. She also tells him not to be sad, this was inevitable.
* Things always skew badly when you mess with time.
* But he is going to change all of that.
== Thread 311 ==
Missed
== Thread 312 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, DOOR TO HELL EDITION!
* Celestia is not a hologram.
* Twilight realizes there’s only two alicorns in the mainverse, again.
* Dash can hear and see things really far away.
* Twilight confirms its true.
* Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and Spike find that Altwi's airship is very complicated
* Alt-Canterlot might get a name change.
* Cloudchaser has another sister.
* 42 reminds everyone Flurry is, in fact, a baby.
* Twilight’s sure Shiny is fine and not in the middle of success sex. Surely.
* Silver Spoon encourages DT
* Alt-Redheart talks with Alt-Spoiled while Alt-Delight asks to see Pinkie
* AUJ has a conversation with Alt-Strawberry and helps her.
* 56 senses people discussing plots.
* Shining realizes they might get mobbed if they show their face.
* Cadence is respected.
* Dash is worried about touching other her.
* AJ wonders if they should break down the door.
* Zephyrious finally goes home and Pennydrop leaves as well.
* The CMC track down the death game maker.
* 007 tests the range of the scarabs and PJ makes it terrible.
* Alt-Delight finally gives the bad news to Alt-Pinkie.
* Salt is shown all the different memories of the times he lived before Glimmer reset everything. Several times he almost loses his mind but keeps together thanks to love.
* By the end, he understands.
* Glimmer leaves him in the orb to finish whatever task she set out for him and tells Sunset it’s time.
* Sunset thinks Salt failed, but Glimmer insists he’s doing as wonderful as she hoped.
* Both of them prepare their grand finale, musing they couldn’t have done it without the other. Had they never met, both would have failed.
* After one last thought on everything, they decide to go ahead with their plan, and bring down a statue of the two sisters swirling around each other and place it on the portal at the top of the throne.
* One last hesitation later, Sunset goes through with it.
* In the regular world, Spike is wishing one thing would work, one. He gets his wish when the whole thing comes to life and starts shifting, nearly crushing DT and Silver Spoon.
* All three of them barely manage to escape as the thing transforms, turning from an airship into something else.
* A giant portal.
* Then, just as the power begins to swirl, something emerges.
* The Orb of Variolus.
* It connects with the portal, and all hell breaks loose. Literally
* The Hivemind is opened with this portal, and a giant wave of Queens pour out.
* At last, the Queens are free.
* We see multiple reactions to this, mostly screaming, plenty of shock, some preparing to fight.
* This time, Canterlot is ready.
* The battles begin with one Queen trying, and failing, to burn Spike.
* Its revealed that most queens are quite unstable, some breaking apart with a single blow. Some hold together and are monsterously powerful.
* Canterlot is besieged with the guard and peacetrotters fighting back.
* Luna herself gets into the fight and defeats multiple before she’s challenged by a strangely powerful one, Queen Scarabaeoidea, the one who shoots lasers out of her eyes.
* Blueblood is hunted by the fastest running and thirsty changeling. Then he’s chased by the fastest flying changeling.
* Multiple confrontations, mostly comedy.
* A peacetrotter is being chased by Osmia who wants to take it apart
* Vermillion faces the puppet Exuvia, a golem made out of dead skin.
* Armadillidiidae can do her attack without crushing her insides.
* 007 tries to leave but doesn’t make it out when he and PJ is confronted by her mother.
* 29 senses a disturbance in the dreamworld, and he and Delight are invaded by Queen Dermaptera, who proceeds to easily overpower the pair.
* The Cakes and Doughtnut Joe must join forces to defeat Coccinellidae, who has the nefarious power to change the flavors of pies!
* Pennydrop muses she’s done a lot of horrible things on her flght back.
* the CMC talk with Necrophorus, who’s annoyed her mother is still so suffocating.
* PJ is confronted by her mother, Pyrrharctia, who taunts her and tries to get under her skin.
* Meanwhile, 007 discovers her lineage grows a giant fluff on their chest when they ascend, and he is interested.
* When her mother implies she’s going to steal him, PJ snaps and engages her mother in battle, doing poorly. During the fight, 007 learns PJ’s real name is Vulgare.
* Pyrrharctia steals 007 when PJ is in a rage, and vanishes.
* Spike and DT are running low on bullets, and are confronted by another Queen, Artistca, who has the power to turn white things light blue. DT is enraged.
* Derpy meets a Queen, Musca, who has similar eye problems.
* Actarius and JJ spot the wave heading towards Harmony City.
* Daw fights the pirate changeling, Orius
* Luna and Scarabaeoidea’s enjoyable fight is broken up by the “Heroic” changeling Arilus, who can turn herself into a sawblade.
* Sunset cannot find Chitania, and it enrages her.
* Glimmer, undeterred, talks to the nearest Queen who recognizes her thanks to the “Signal” they sent out.
* Glimmer asks her where Chitania is, and the Queen reveals that Chitania is not dead.
* Sunset is broken, thinking all of this was for nothing, but Glimmer corrects her that if she’s not in the world of the Hivemind, that means..
* With that, Glimmer asks the Queen if she would like to know why they were unleashed at all, and why its in their best interest to find Chitania.
* The queen replies “I’m listening.”
== Thread 313 ==
Last thread recap! Spooks! So many spooks edition!
* Celestia might've gone on a robbery
* The Queens think Chitty is cool
* Pommel can't warn anyone.
* Diamond Tiara continues to go berserk, but Spike puts together its an illusion. The queen making said illusion, Magicicada, congradulates him, and Spike engages her in battle while DT is distracted
* Bulk finds another YEAAHHHfriend by hoofwrestling
* Pinkie thinks it's a load of hooey
* 29 and Delight continue fighting against Dermaptera, but it seems hopeless. 29 just keeps using the same bubblewalker attack, which infuriates Delight, but 29 insists strength alone will not win.
* Luna battles with the "Heroic" changeling, who had chosen ponies to be her Villain because she couldn't imagine things ever working out with them. Luna mentions ponies and changelings get along, and Arilus promtly screams her life is a lie.
* Flitter wants Cloudchaser to stop being crazy
* Lighting Dust is having a problem
* Twilight Velvet and Nightlight are in the fight.
* Suckerpunch finds 41 in the chaos and is glad she's safe, but before they can be too far at ease 41's mother, Titania, shows up.
* 29 continues his fruitless attack against the Queen, and eventually it makes Delight snap and he breaks loose and attacks her with everything he has. His most creative and biggest attacks go off, to no avail. 29 says to get away, but Delight doesn't listen, and Dermaptera, growing tired of the whole charade, finally snaps herself and flicks Delight into the Dreamscape, out of his mind and into the dream world as a whole. Far beyond where 29 can retrieve him.
* Delight's attack failed, but it was not in vain. It hid 29's own attacks. Dermaptera mocks him at first and tries to break him, but finds she can't. Suddenly, hundreds of minds overwhelm her, as the Ghost Children prove too much for her mental powers. With too many minds to control, she's overwhelmed and broken when 29 finally truly strikes her, and forces her to pass on.
* At long last 29 wakes up, resolving to go get Luna as she's the only one who can find Delight's mind. But that will have to wait, as the Queens are there in the real world, and the fight is on!
* Spike is overwhelmed
* Blueblood gets yet another Queen chasing him when Gyrinidae, the fastest SWIMMING changeling, joins in.
* Actarius and JJ realize those flaming things are ghosts. It takes a bit.
* Vekir, Watchdog and Sebjek feel a disturbance above.
* 10 fails to get an interview
* Altwi looks for Salt, being allowed in the throne room thanks to her control of the castle. But before she can find him or make sense of what's going on, she's struck from behind.
* The assailent turns out to be the changeling from before who escaped, who moves on to the other world and finds it besieged by Queens. They're quite happy about this.
* Fuzzy and the Buzz keep you updated
* Limestone and Marble face off against the skinny Queen Sphecidae
* Cheerilee keeps her class safe.
* Cloudchaser and Flitter take stock of who's standing.
* 41 talks with her mother. Then Titania transforms and supersizes in her corpse armor
* Delight is cast through the Dreamscape, and ends up in one particular beings dreams'
* Skystar's nightmare, concerning the Storm King, almost had a savior fall in. Almost, before a certain pony crashed in and killed her hero. Whoops.
* Octavia plays music with the strange Queen Ensifera
* 7 is captured by Pyrrharctia, who ties him up and drains him of some of his love. But before she can move on to the "Main course", they're interrupted by Jetset, who moved through the multiple barriers she hid behind with his phasing.
* Maud and Awkwardling are attacked on a train
* Bright Eyes can't get a hold of Pennydrop, and recieves an offer from an old foe, Antlers.
* Spike decides to try shooing in every direction
* Titania is barely contained by the peacetrotters and bombers, but she's slipping lose. But just before she makes it out to fight, she's caught by none other than HARMONY PRIME, ONLINE!
* 29 gets an update on what's going on from the Ghostbusters, who are able to do serious damage to the Queens thanks to their unique properties with the ghost kids.
* Luna tries and fails to explain to Arulius how changelings got along.
* Big Mac defends his home from Queen Pomonella
* Carrot Cake helps the Flashback Queens in their quest to make a cake for Chitania
* Locasta tries to turn over a new leaf in Griffonstone, but accidentally sets it on fire instead
* Gilda is not happy
* Applebloom and Necrophorus talk
* Silver Spoon hangs out with Spoiled and Filthy. Spoiled is taking things "Well".
* Jetset fights Pyrrharctia to a standstill but ultimately is overwhelmed. Before she can finish him, 7 breaks free from his confinement and goes berserk on her, stabbing her repeatedly with his knives and turning her into a pin cushion.
* She retaliates, as planned, but it turns out all of this was to break down the walls keeping them from the castle. Jetset admits neither himself or Seven will finish this.
* "She will."
* PJ shoots in from outside, cutting her mother down to size, literally! Her legs are cut off, leaving her alive, but unable to fight back.
* PJ says she needs to talk with her before she can put her to rest.
* Raven defends Delight's prone body from some queens with very odd fetishes with the help of Zecora.
* Cloudchaser wonders if help is coming, and it does! The CMC arrive with help in tow.
* Dread Knight, Winona and even Sweetie Doll tear through the Queens, because one constant of Equestria, heroes will rise!
* Arilus finally understands and thinks maybe she should be a hero for the ponies too! And then Scarabaeoidea shoots her head off.
* Luna admits saw all of this in a dream, just before Titania bats her out of the building, and Scarabaeoidea is blocked from fighting again.
* Marble snaps... the Queen.
* Delight tries to help Skystar with her dream, trying to turn it back from Nightmare to pleasant dreaming through explanation and then conjuring a means to fight back. He manages to do some damage, but ultimately cannot overcome the Nightmare as the Nightmare Storm King shrugs off his attacks.
* The Changeling who escaped from the other world is found by a particular Queen, who notices something familiar about her. The changeling allows herself to have her mind seen, which confirms the Queen's suspicions that she's from another world. Eager to serve, she offers up other information as well, earning the Queen's praise.
* She even offers the changeling to join her, as she goes and pays a visit to, what was the name?
* ...the crystal heart?
== Thread 314 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ALMOST SPOOOK TIME!
* AJ asks about Nightmare Night
* 42 feels something coming
* Screwloose should not be studying right now
* 41 thinks her mom is a jerk.
* Pinkie's sure 18 took over the Empire
* Tiempo notices the goings on and goes off to talk to Spitfire
* The changelings are on alert, sort of.
* Lightning Dust is overwhelmed
* PJ confronts her mother, asking her why she left her behind that day, the one nice act that saved her life.
* She asks her mom why she was such a betrayer, but the answer is far too simple for her. PJ breaks down and wonders why her mom never got any better, even though she did what she wanted. Her mother response, how could she when PJ wanted to see her again? How could any creature who wants to see her again fill her with pride?
* With that she snaps and tries to bite PJ, only to have her head cut off. In the aftermath, Jetset and 007 give her comforting words, and she accepts she has no time to mourn. Its time to get back into the fight.
* Tiempo talks with Forty Two about what's going on, learning something is wrong from the Changelings, but they don't know what. They have a nice chat about survival capabilities and 42 points him towards Spitfire.
* AJ checks in with everyone, accidentally jinxes it. So she has to unjinx it
* Vinyl admits she can talk, but Queen Tympanum is deaf
* Two Queens are sending out a signal to the others
* Tiempo is annoyed that 42 is so flippant about possibly dying
* 56 tries to rouse Luna
* Blueblood is cornered by the three Queens, and it looks like its the end. But just before he's put upon by the changelings, a hero arrives calling out "HAYMAKER!"
* This does nothing and he's tossed next to Blueblood. But that's okay because another hero arrives! PJ shoots in and... misses.
* With hope gone, the three share a nice moment and resolve to fight, but just before the Queens attack they notice something.
* 'Is that a sock?'
* Boom
* Vermillion needs a cleaning
* Dadling needs to go find Batmom
* Luna might be cursed
* Lucky Strikes meets Anoplophora, a Queen with a giant horn
* The Queens talk about OnO
* Queen Mantodea talks to Foalington about royalties
* Starscream screams
* The Queens attacking blueblood regroup and try to shoot their assailant in the walls
* Blueblood, PJ and Haymaker move in to help, only to be easily defeated, but before they're finished off another new arrival appears.
* Or rather, two. Flim and Flam arrive on the scene with a cleaning contraption and briefly overwhelm and scrub the Queens with a song.
* It doesn't last, as the three Queens explode it. Sadly, due to the size of the machine, Flim and Flam accidentally blocked the exit, so it looks like the end.
* When a wet sock lands on the Queen's face, she finally snaps and forcibly rips out the entire vent system and pulls out a certain Spiderling.
* While Blueblood despairs, begging them not to hurt her, they have a very different reaction. The three Queens are utterly terrified, and in denial that it is "Her". Their fears are eventually confirmed with a song
* The itsy bitsy spiiiider just heard you scream and shout.
* They beg and plead, insisting they didn't know, but it proves for naught. One by one they're dragged off and ended in gruesome, unseen ways, except for the last Queen who self destructs.
* With all of them eliminated, massive Spider legs can finally reach down, and cradle Arana as gently as a mother would.
* Scideralla has returned, and they're saved. Right?
* Spitfire is on edge, grousing how unfair it is that something might happen when the ones they need the most aren't here. Tiempo goes up to talk to her, and they have a nice chat about various things. The past, why Tiempo likes Alchemy, how Spitfire feels about the others, and it relaxes them both as they wait for the signal. Red for bad, blue for all clear.
* But what does green mean?
* Arana and Sciderella reunite, with Sciderella feeling terrible for not being able to return, but Arana understands.
* 42 spots the danger in the distance, and is prepared. Before the waves of Queens can hit, they use the same barrage they once tried on Chitania, only it works this time. Briefly.
* She's as stunned as anyone when they keep coming, and she tells them to continue firing. It's just not enough, and soon they crash into the shield.
* Worried, she tells them to prepare to fight
* In the dream world, "Storm King" is untouched by the barrage, and he seems annoyed he tried at all. Undaunted, Delight attempts to fight again, only to be blocked once more. As Storm King insists he's untouchable, Delight points out Skystar could beat him if she put her mind to it. Taunting and back and forth ensues, before he leaps back into battle. Undeterred by Skystar insisting he's unbeatable, Delight keeps trying and keeps reminding her its all a dream
* It takes mutiple attacks and who know how many times getting smacked around, but eventually Delights words begin to get through to her. Little by little her confidence grows, and it clicks.
* With song!
* Yes with a musical teamup/insult fest, the pair of Delight and Skystar beat the figment and save her dream, and blast that sucker with the power of song!
* Chitania's head hurts
* 18 senses her mother in the crowd
* Musca is just hanging out with Derpy now
* Appleoosa is attacked, and 55 rushes off to defend it
* Sunburst ends up in the vault with Two, Flurry and a guard
* 29 and the GBs try to fight off the ghosts, and do really well, but everything changes when an incoming presence scares off their attackers. 29 recognizes what's coming right away, and freaks out, screaming they should run, screaming they must leave! But its too late! A Queen rounds the corner, and spots the poor Ling trying to hide against the wall.
* "...Well lookey over thar! It's mah' kin!"
* it's revealed to be 29's mother, Halyomorpha, who has quite the... accent. She's also rather nice, with just one flaw.
* "What's that smell?"
* Harmony Prime continues his fight with Titania, only to eventually be overwhelmed. But before she can press on, 41 hits her in the eye. She swings in retaliation, and "Misses", before another hit in the eye comes from a completely different direction.
* Skystar wonders if Delight is real when they talk, and they're able to learn a bit more about her situation and the current Storm King situation. With a final word of encouragement and a promise to see her again, Delight leaves into the dreamscape.
* Berry Punch's blood gets a Queen drunk
* Sciderella learns about Arana's life, and freaks out everyone so much PJ bails.
* Moondancer wonders why she lives in Canterlot
* CMC meet a NOT-Sciderella
* Chitania can't act. Or can she?
* Titania can't land a hit on 41 thanks to her teleports, frustrating the Queen. Before she can do anything about it, PJ appears, finally able to do what she always wanted and cuts the massive Queen apart. She does a good job until the finishing blow in the back of the corpse golem's neck, when she misses due to Titania's "Diet'. Titania mocks her and says she accomplished nothing, but a certain someone disagrees. Luna surrounds her in darkness, and little by little begins to tear the golem apart. Titania is reduced to nubs, but just before she can be finished off...
* 'PRINCESS, LOOK OUT!'
* Luna is struck again out of her own magic, and into the wall. When she can see again, she looks on in horror at the culprit.
* Titans.
* Three of them, to be precise.
* All of Canterlot shook.
* Back at the Empire, the changeling from the other world asks her Queen if it's time. Almost. The Queen plays the others as if she were the maestro of an orchestra, dancing as she directs them. Finally, she feels the moment she's been waiting for, and using a strange attack she focuses on a single point in the shield, blowing a hole in it and allowing Queens to slip inside.
* She calls this final song, "The Fall of the Last Queen."
* All Chrysalis has built, she will destroy
== Thread 315 ==
REAL FAST RECAP
* Applejack asks about Cadence's love magic
* Crystal Empire keeps the invasion at bay, mostly.
* Magicicada talks about past Titans and wonders where Chitania's mother is
* Sciderella learns about Arana's life up til now
* Delight continues going through dreams
* Chrysalis gets movies
* Big Mac engages in a chess battle until he out-logics Pomonella
* 29’s mom talks about his past
* The Titans get shot a lot
* Neptune arrives for love!
* Two is in a vault with Flurry and Sunburst
* Arana’s father was a dragon named Infernus, a great and powerful warrior
* Farmerling defends his crops
* Harmony City is not going good under the queen invasion
* Vermillion continus her fight with Angamiana
* The Griffon Kingdom is attacked, but the Metal Deer Hawk flies away without helping
* Hilda and Zephyrious are not happy about that
* The minotaur’s Metal Deer Sahelantaur also launches and leaves
* The Yak's Metal Deer Shaggyhood does the same
* Cloudchaser and Derpy are still with Musca
* Tiempo’s cart gets broken by a Queen
* Bright Eyes is freaking out when she realized what Antlers meant about having “Backups”. The backups in question were clearly the other mechs from the other nations that he now controls, and is bringing towards Equestria.
* He reveals this was always the plan, even if not for this specific scenario. That’s why he took over Mustangia and made it break off from Equestria, this way if the other nations survive they will be in chaos and furious at Equestria, and never do business with them again, but a distinct entity that broke off from them and headed by a non-pony? Perfect choice to build them more weapons as the situation escalates.
* Meanwhile Equestria will be reliant on Fawntaine, as the other nations will surely bring up arms against them. The only downside is Pennydrop will of course be thrown to the wolves. So, Antlers makes Bright Eyes an offer.
* How would she like to be the next Pennydrop? Up from assistant to the most powerful mare in business.
* She almost accepts.
* And then she notices Mecha-Chitania appeared on the radar.
* She isn’t slowing down.
* Snake Eyes gets attacked on his private island
* Citrine takes control of the Changeling situation
* NIGHTMARE NIGHT STORIEEEEES!
* Nightmare Night Applejack once more fails to give out candy
* The guard low on ammunition and the Titans are free to attack. In desperation, Luna hopes for someone to come help, and she hears a whisper. It tells her what to say.
* ”...I need Beetlezorg power?”
* Cue the rock music as the newly finished Beetlezorgs race from beneath the castle and into battle! They’re better than they were before, not just mere scraps slapped together. They come together smoother and they do a lot more damage!
* TITANZORG joins the battle!
* And that’s not all!
* Also joining them were the varius Metal Deers from around the world, dropping down and readying to fight!
* RAINBOLTS, TOKUSENTAI
* RAINBOOM!
== Thread 316 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP GHOSTS GOING EDITION!
* Celestia did mean to turn Discord to stone
* Pommel swears to order a giant robot
* Luna notes something off about the mechs
* JJ is quite cynical
* Skywarp heads to Doughtnut Joe
* Rainbow Dash thinks Non-Alcoholic Cider is wrong
* Actarius would get no votes
* The Rainbolts start fighting and are doing pretty well, but are confused why they can't contact the other mechs
* Tiempo uses some alchemy to great effect
* Pommel orders everyone back while Jetset arrives on the scene. Jetset realizes something worse is yet to come
* 42 wonders where her mother is
* Private balls discovers the electric room has been consumed by ants
* Spike and Magicicada finish their battle with Spike's victory
* 29's mom cheers him on and asks about his love life.
* Cocobombs do not exist in the altverse
* 42 checks if the Tiempo has a way to fix this, he does not.
* Derpy realizes the queens aren't looking for their kids and Cloudchaser's time has come.
* The Rainbolts are winning, a little too easily. Red comes to the conclusion they were a distraction too late.
* The other Queens, instead of hiding during the battle, had been going around town and finding every munitions wearhouse, and destroying them. Every stored bit of ammo not in use and the power supplies of the Peacetrotters goes up in flames.
* With their forces crippled, the Titans reveal their real power. It turns out that although the Titan form was taxing on their physical bodies, their ghost ones have next to no limits, and they promptly drastically increase their size.
* They think they've won, but Luna claims there is one being who can grow as tall, and who can beat them in a fight. That pony... is coming this way right now.
* And then Pennydrop promptly keeps going, much to everyone's shock. After a bit of convincing from Potsticker, Luna gives chase to try to get MC to turn around.
* This leaves only the Rainbolts and Metal Deers to hold off for as long as they can.
* The peacetrotters can beat the ants, but things go wrong quickly
* Delight's dreamscape flying gets weird when he runs into a Giraffe.
* 42 tells Spitfire to use up whatever bombs they have and to pull everyone back so she can begin her "Plan"
* Twilight sees Alt-Flash and feels off
* 13 and the others witness the Queens attack and wonder where it's all going.
* Chitania likes pineapple smoothies made by the Kirin
* Neptune and Jupiter fight together
* With the bombs spent, the Queens swarm the Empire. This time, 42 is ready for them.
* Up from the long forgotten wine celler rises another forgotten weapon, the JUGGERNAUT is online and ready to fight!
* Salt flashes back to more memories
* 42 is not having fun, totally
* The mysterious Queen makes her way to the Empire's castle, and with a bit of magic makes her way inside, past its defenses, with the otherwordly changeling on her heels. Little does she know she's being followed.
* Pommel wants to turn the moon into a battle station
* JJ can't find his momma
* The CMC realize Cloudchaser is evil
* 42 gets an earful of the screeching changeling, Queen Arctiidae
* 29's mom asks about the ghost kids and Delight
* Lyra doesn't know who to shoot
* AJ deserved to be a princess, right?
* Ponyville Ponies are.... not smart
* Moondancer has stockholme syndrome, maybe?
* Delight gets dream suplexed by Ember
* The mystery Queen feels the power in the air of the inside of the Empire's castle, and knows "That power" is here.
* She's distracted from that by 18 calling out to her, said changeling admits her disappointment that the Queen is not her mother. They both seem to recognize each other.
* But 18 admits she's not going to fight, oh no. Someone else will.
* "AHHHHAHAHAHAHAH!"
* That's right, the Queen now faces her true foes, the Maginficent Mane-Iac and the Prompt Poindexter!
* The battle for the castle begins!
== Thread 317 ==
REAL FAST RECAP
* The changelings, after much debate, decide to help out in the fighting
* Mane-Iac and Poindexter fight the mysterious Queen, forcing her to use a mysterious powerful technique
* 18, who watched the confrontation, is about to go off to help before she's stopped by none other than... her mother!
* Luna tries, unsuccessfully, to stop Pennydrop, reaching into her mind via the latent magic she uses to move through dreams. She's rebuked by a mysterious, changeling-like presence that's surrounding Pennydrop, making her drunk with power and new control over the machine. Before she can go further, Mecha-Chitania is suddenly under attack! 
* The assailent is revealed in a flashback to be Antlers, who's now riding in a mech of his own. He hid it beneath Mecha-Chitania's hanger, and following her destruction of the area he launched it to face her. The mech is a winged serpent like design called Metal Deer Star! With the skull of Chitania's mother at the top, powered by the Alicorn Amulet and weidling the magic of the Infusions, the mech combines all magic of the world into one terrifying force!
== Thread 318 ==
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== Thread 319 ==
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== Thread 320 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, 7 YEARS
* Main Six in the castle!
* Anniversary stories!
* Ember Vs Delight ends and she wakes up!
* Antlers Vs Pennydrop comes to a horrifying conclusion with Pennydrop's victory, and Antlers seemingly killed!
== Thread 321 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ONE MOMMA IS WORSE FOR TWO EDITION!
* Applejack asks about Starswirl
* Chitania smells something coming
* Potsticker is sure Luna isn't coming back
* Alt-Chitania chews out the lings
* Peacetrotters have weird names
* Delight continues to drift in the Dreamverse, and is being tailed
* Cherry Berry did not think the helicopter rescue through
* Alt-Delight deals with annoying citizens
* Spike wishes they'd armed with more castle crushers
* Spitfire gets an update on the fight
* Dash asks for anti-twi weapons
* The intruder makes her way into the vault, and after the guard and Sunburst's efforts fail, Two tries her best to fight her off with Surprise Sissy Lasers!
* When that and other methods fail, Two notices that the intruder, a Queen, hasn't fought back yet. The Queen is sad to see Two doesn't recognize her, and reveals who she truly is.
* She's Two's MOTHER
* Alt-Delight has a talk with Snips and Snails
* Alt-Pinkie and Alt-Spoiled talk.
* Alt-Delight stops Alt-Noteworthy and a mob from Ponyville from marching to the castle of two sisters, apparently having learned the Changelings and Chitania were holed up there. It takes some doing, but he talks them out of it, and goes on to find out who set them on that path.
* Silver Spoon weaponized Mean Girl Powers
* Alt-Cloudchaser might not be evil?
* Cadence wants to clean the wreckage.
* Alt-Delight ponders how to find out how to find the leak, and with a discussion with a guard vents a few things about Salt besides.
* Alt-Soarin brings food, and stories about Salt
* Alt-Delight asks Featherweight for help and he gives him clues
* Celestia gives a fun story about inflation and religion
* Trombidiidae tries to set the mood for Storm King, and reveals what happened to Strife!
* The Queens want to get laid
* Alt-Delight talks with Shattershield and gets closer to the answer
* The Main Six end up in the lab, and are set upon by the machines within
* Alt-Redheart gets a visit from Alt-Delight, who uses her to get a little closer to the answers, and gets an earful about her feelings on the matter.
* Alt-Delight finally confronts AUJ, thinking he found the answer, and after he learns her feelings on the matter, he lays out his evidence and how specific it had to be to be the right person. Applejack asks what that has to do with her, and he asks her a favor.
* To help him talk to the real culprit.
* They find Alt-Scootaloo waiting, ready to apologize for trying to trick the mob to attack, and the case is closed.
* Time Turner can't avoid a queen
* Moondancer wants to check on her delivery guy
* AB hates needles
* Despite the shock, Two is actually quite happy to see her mother, and gives hugs. What follows is a happy ramble that makes little sense, and only stops when Two wishes to show her mother her malleys, that she offers to her mother.
* Said mother does not respond happily. She bitterly demands to know why Two is acting as she does, and tries to make her act "Right". When Two reveals she has no memory of her, she is a little more sympathetic, and tries to turn her against Chrysalis to no avail. Two's just too innocent and the confusion regarding "Not mom" throws the Queen for a loop. The Queen also reveals that Chrysalis... killed her!
* Yeah, Two figured that.
* Again moving past the odd reaction, the Queen tries to convince Two to help her burn all Chrysalis has built.
* Yeah Two doesn't want to do that. Again, this angers the Queen, but Two deflects her by revealing she was adopted! And after telling her story, she explains how she put aside her anger at Chrysalis. The Queen calls her their pet, but she reveals she's actually... A princess!
* Two explains how much she has and how much she's changed, and hopes that her mother will be swayed when once more, she offers her a malley.
* The Queen simply responds, "...I don't care about any of that."
* She smacks away the malley and all but disowns her, only caring about her revenge and seeing Chrysalis's hive destroyed. She tells Two she is her daughter no longer, and to her she is Queen Imago.
* Two is heartbroken of course, bitterly snapping back that nobody will call her that because she's all alone.
* Suddenly, Two is attacked by another body, and Imago laughs off Two's words when she reveals
* "I've already found a better version."
* Two's attacker is... herself!?
== Thread 322 ==
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== Thread 323 ==
REAL FAST RECAP
* Celestia might be a mouse. It makes sense.
* The battle for Canterlot continues
* AJ10 meets her mom
* >UJ talks with a filly
* Cadence doesn't know how to drop the sun
* Alt-Zecora learns what happened to the world.
* The Magitech stuff can't be taken out by anyone but Twilight
* Alt-Delight and AUJ talk
* Alt-Delight and Alt-Strawberry talk about what to do with the lings
* Citrine talks with her lings
* Alt-Delight confronts Alt-Chitania
* AUJ tries to get the portal out of her house, only to see the blast from Canterlot and is forced to put it back and head off to get the golems
* Alt-Delight notices the blast as well
* The Main six start fighting with the strange "Cyborg-Chitania", and get beaten down badly. The thing does not talk and it does not relent, and it knows how to counter all of them.
* Things look like they'll turn around when Fluttershy gets in the fight, but her chaos get countered like Discords was back in the intital invasion, causing her great pain.
* The culprit of this is revealed to be Alt-Discord himself, who is there specifically for her. He admits he regrets doing this, but he has to take her out.
* But just when he's about to snap, another pair of fingers mingle with his and overload his Choas powers, causing him to explode.
* He comes back together and his attacker is revealed, Discord! The regular version!
* He tricked Alt-Discord and dragged him into the chaos world, and him and Fluttershy can now team up.
* While the others battle Cyborg-Chitania, the battle of chaos begins!
== Thread 324 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ONE BAD DAY EDITION
* Applejack asks about the pony statue of liberty
* They should just blow up Canterlot.
* AJ29 doesn't know where to escape to.
* Changelings are effective
* The Queens envy Cup Cake
* Ember learns what's going on
* Two is being battered by Flurry who's being influenced by AUTwo and can't make her stop.
* Two is annoyed because it seems like AUTwo thinks Two would blame Flurry, the baby, but it turns out that was just to weaken her so she could mind control her
* Alt-Delight talks with Redheart before heading towards the battle
* Alt-Soarin bemoans another attack and refused to be the leader of the remaining Wonderbolts
* The Main Five, now sans Fluttershy, get beat soundly by the Cyborg Changeling. They almost get beaten completely, but Chrysalis shows up to save the day. Powered by Shining and Cadence, she's able to easily turn the tide of battle and smack the other changeling around.
* Her almost victory is short lived, as the cyborg has a way to turn her own internal power against her, and she starts spewing green flame.
* The other seven join her in screaming in agony as a rune beneath them twists their own magic, making them unable to move. They're helpless as the cyborg prepares to attack, and that's nearly the end of it.
* They would be skewered, if not for a giant hunk of wood skewering the cyborg just in time. A quick investigation finds golems climbing up the edge of Canterlot, with AUJ in command.
* The battle is on.
* Chitania questions her training of the Kirin. Not because they're bad at it, but because they're too good.
* Alt-Fancy and Fleur giveup
* Flashbacks to Salt and Chitania
* AUJ and the Golems fight the Cyborg, and do a great job of it. They're able to tear her up something fierce.
* Things get better when the Baels arrive and it's revealed Delight had been using the gap in time to get the last few who stayed on Canterlot out through the portal.
* Things are going well, too well.
* Oakshield goes to check on the main five and the CE crew, and finds them in too much pain to move.
* Then, the dark orb begins to crack.
* Two continues to clash with AUTwo in the mental realm as AUTwo shows her the night AUJ attacked the changelings.
* She's terrified, broken down and finding it harder to argue against AUTwo's point. Then, at the end, a giant Flurry figure emerges, and consumes her in a terrible blast.
* Glimmer muses Salt is waking up, and it's all about to end.
== Thread 325 ==
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== Thread 326 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, WHAT A QUEEN EDITION!
* Applejack questions names
* Skywarp won't stop vanishing.
* Treehugger is a grammar stickler
* SA requires a new bed
* Dash wants to push the orb into the ocean
* Spitfire realizes the mysterious Queen is 18
* Rainbolt Red wishes he had some communication
* Cherry Berry has an attack helicopter
* Steam Gauge wonders why the army doesn't have mechs.
* The Ghosthuggers and the others join in the fight with 32 and 88 against the creatures and queens, and in the ensuing battle Lavan's tube is dropped into a tunnel the creatures had burrowed under the castle. They slide down into the depths of the mountain and eventually reach the end of their path in Morlock City.
* Morlock City is currently besiged by an entire army of the creatures and has been for some time, and the ones causing it all are none other than Primal Red and Hydia!
* AUJ notices that the cyborg isn't Supersizing.
* Sunset wonders if things are supposed to take this long.
* AJ and the others are clear about what to do if it turns out to be evil.
* Minuette checks on Moondancer, then joins her.
* 42 realizes who 18 is.
* Twilight doesn't know how to stop the orb
* Maar gives reports to the dragon lords, gets in a discussion about princesses.
* Braeburn is with Strongheart preparing in case 55 falls
* The battle in Morlock City rages, and 29 and the others are given information on what happened.
* Hydia, the evil book, invaded the outer rim with monsters and slipped in while the guards were busy, and set up a ritual site on the highest structure. Then she and Red set up a barrier and began an all out assault that has bled out into the city. Handydog, Vekir, Grehem and Sebjek are in the crux of the fight, with Head of Metal giving orders and Centitrain taking on the biggest of the group.
* Realizing what they must do, the group of changelings and ponies+Zebra decide to challenge the book directly, as they're the only ones who can due to being immune to their mental powers.
* With the aide of the morlocks and a last minute teleport from Halyomorpha, they make it inside the barrier, but are nearly killed when Hydia writes in reality that they perish. All would have, if not for one thing.
* The ghost children's light, and in 88's case the fire of Lavan, protect them. The only ones who cannot be harmed by them rise to the challenge, so Hydia sends out her last ditch effort.
* TWINKLEJINX! LORD OF THE DEAD!
* The battle is on.
* The CMC aren't checking on Canterlot
* Imago hungers for revenge.
* AUJ is frustrated the cyborg won't change, and that she never seems to run out of love. She has a theory on why that is, she just hopes she's wrong.
== Thread 327 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, ALL IS LOST EDITION!
* Applejack asks about moving, and regrets it.
* 29 wonders if the world should just end
* Spike can't do a detaching move
* Harmony City turned against each other
* Cloudchaser wants to do a bank heist, out of order.
* Oakshield asks if Chrysalis is going to be okay. She is.
* Mothers day stories!
* Batmom forgot mothers day
* Chitty doesn't want to talk to her kid
* AUJ doesn't need babysitting.
* Alt-Delight tries to keep it together.
* THE FINAL BATTLE FOR MORLOCK CITY BEGINS!
* The GB's battle against Twinklejinx, who has been granted magic by Hydia to raise and control the dead, turning them into a massive living form that he commands!
* They're not even able to damage it despite their best efforts, so 29 distracts him by playing to his ego, and they learn his backstory
* While he's distracted 88 grabs a hold of the book and tries to close it, but her mind is suddenly pulled into the books world!
* While Hydia is distracted, Twinklejinx is vulnerable and they try to attack again.
* A combo attack later, Marey is the one to get the final blow and rips his head off of the body, rendering him powerless!
* Or not, he can still control them with his mind. Fortunately, changeling.
* Inside the book, 88 passes through a chaotic world, looking for answers. All she finds instead is contradiction and madness, confronting the specters of Brahmos and Cordyceps.
* Her journey eventually leads her to Lavan and the others, who apparently have wrapped up a debate as to what to do next. To her joy, Lavan states that he has won the debate. To her horror, he clarifies that merely does not need to participate in what comes next, they only need his power.
* Lavan and 88 are expelled from the mind universe, and once gone the book shuts and goes into the top of the hole in the cavern, pulling RED out of Primrose with her. She also takes all the various monsters along with her.
* Sadly, 88 states its too late.
* Across the land, in the newly changed Skull Island, a war is taking place. The forces of Seaquestria are battling various monsters as they attempt to reform the skull Applejack defeated before, but are unable to before Hydia arrives. The Scarlet Emissary uses the forms of the monsters to reforge a skeletal arm, and using it calls Lavan's power back from the cosmos from which it was cast, forming a spear with Hydia and Red in the core.
* In an attack that destroys him in the process, the Scarlet Emissary launches the spear into the portal, where it then strikes Salt immediately as he emerges from the black orb, destroying the castle and consuming it in unholy flame.
* AUJ and the others watch in sadness as their last hope literally goes up in flames.
* OOCO Cadence was in an idol group for like three days with Pinkie ad DT
* Everyone is confused what hit the portal, with various reactions.
* Discord and Fluttershy battle Discord in a mind bending battle that ends with them being captured.
* Actarius tries to get Harmony City to work together
* A Queen catches the Flower Trio
* The CMC torture a Queen
* Imago uses her mega form, which is just her with increased mental abilities and armor, to force the other Queens to give her their power. With that power, she can match the Crystal Heart.
* Tempest wonders if they can escape.
* Chitania is having a nice moment with Rainshine and Autumn Blaze, talking about their time together and how little and how much they know about her. How much the other Kirin like her, and how much she eventually came to love those Kirin.
* Then, missiles arrives in the sky.
* Mecha Chitania has arrived, and once more brings fire to all Chitania loves.
== Thread 328 ==
REAL FAST RECAP
* Are the Tartarus creatures immortal?
* Spike's worried they're not coming back
* AJ10 gets encouragement from her mom
* Vermillion meets up with the others
* Pennydrop nearly burns the Kirin Village to the ground, only stopped by Rainshine and then Luna. Desperate to stop her, Chitania joins forces with those two and Autumn Blaze and engages her in battle.
* Just before it starts, Chitania recognizes her mothers voice.
* Raven talks to a still comatose Delight
* Eighteen battles Imago, but is overwhelmed. She's nearly defeated before 42 and Spitfire join the fight, and they challenge her together.
* Harmony City is finally starting to work together.
* Larvesta is annoyed Screwloose is trying to dissect her, Screwloose is more annoyed Larvesta squandered DNA TRANSFORMATION
* Applejack finds herself in a strange void of nothingness that is a lot of stuff
* After searching she finds Hydia, who explains that they're from her world and are here to make a final confrontation
* She reveals Glimmer's timetravel has pitted the versions of The Primal Four in this universe against others, such as the elements or even leaders like Ember or Celestia, over hundreds of repeats. Every time, either the Primal Four consumed them and turned them evil and used them for destruction, or the heroic ones managed to overcome and banish the four from existence. After doing it so many times, the AU Four, who can perceive the different timelines, no longer understand what universe they're even in and cannot be used again. Hence they had to be brought in from the other universe, for the final attempt.
* Applejack thinks they mean her, but they reveal the true source of their final confrontation. The alternate Shining Armor.
* She joins him, but is overwhelmed by the myriad of memories from the timelines being reset. Unlike her, the time in the Orb trained Salt for this and he can easily overcome it.
* He challenges the three of Red, Hydia and the Scarlet Emissary, and declares "I know what you are."
* Delight is stuck in dreamland
* The CMC meet Moose Lee
* Poindexter wakes up
* AUJ and the others continue their fight with the cyborg, and they're saved thanks to the intervention of none other than Alt-Pinkie herself, flying a Pinkie Copter without limbs. She had one of those.
* With a combo attack, it seems they're finally able to almost destroy the Cyborg. Almost. When they try carving her in half, they reveal the power source inside her core.
* That core? The other Twilight.
* The attack is reflected, and the Cyborg goes on the attack.
* Now, they must find a way to stop the cyborg without killing their friend.
== Thread 329 ==
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== Thread 330 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP MIND DIVER EDITION
* Fireworks regulations are questioned.
* Applejack sees the battle of the Badlands and it's aftermath
* Altquestria is mostly on fire
* AJ29 needs a way to the surface
* Ember needs a written history
* The memories continue as AJ sees when Salt finds out AUJ was taken and confronts Celestia
* The CMC defeat a Queen
* AJ continues to witness Salt's memories, learning more about the fallout and how he became what he was, and starts to witness the "Split" in timelines major choices brought
* Every time he made a major move, she could see dozens of timelines overlapping each other, and it brings her pain
* She sees Salt meet with others and the start of their relationships
* Tiempo treats Spitfire and Two helps
* Applejack sees Ralts first "Offer" and has a very strong reaction
* Silver Spoon's headpat business is booming
* Lyra might be an expert killer
* A giant sized Spalt batltes with the cyborg changeling, doing a pretty good job of fighting them for the most part thanks to his training. He almost spears her before AUJ manages to warn him that Altwi is inside, and the hesitation allows for the tide to turn. Had it not been for Sapalot's return he would've been killed.
* The two of them join forces and manage to expose Altwi, and he almost manages to get her, but both are blown away.
* A realization sweeps through those present that the princess does not want to be saved.
== Thread 331 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, EVERYONE GET IN HERE EDITION!
* Applejack wants to know how Celly stays thin
* There's some holes in the Changeling-Canterlot fight.
* Applejack is going mad in Salt's memories, but is learning quite a bit diplomacy wise
* Especially concerning Ember, too bad Luna beat her too it
* AJ learns how the "Divine" thing started
* AJ56 will help jerks, reluctantly
* One by one AJ sees how the "Divine" joined up
* Salt's flashback with Lucky Strikes explains some things
* Around the midpoint AJ begins to realize she can influence the memories shown
* Cloudchaser is right
* Tiempo treats Spitfire
* Spitfire and 42 have a silent discussion
* Two's hugs fix all
* AJ realizes its not Discord doing this
* AJ notices glowing objects near the time-flickers
* Poindexter and Mane-Iac have a moment
* Salt and Spike flashback
* Flashback to Salt confronting Celestia after he ascended
* And them starting a relationship
* AJ gets full control of the memory hops
* With this, she finds out there are some mares he could have ended up with, but the time-breaks stopped it from happening, completely destroying what she thought she knew
* 18 and Sunburst talk
* The Titan fighting the Rainbolts is kicking ass in Canterlot, with the BeetleZorg completely out of weapons.
* The other two are struggling against The Storm, so the youngest Titan proposes a switch.
* After a back and forth battle, she manages to finally destroy the Storms covering, revealing that it was caused by several Rocs making the tornado and underneath is a Infusion enhanced Ursa Major, and 007 on top of her.
* The battle escalates so far they fall off the edge of Canterlot.
* Just when it seems hope is lost for the Zorg, reinforcements arrive!
* The first one with a BRAINPUNCH that takes out one Titan, at least temporarily, and with her the army arrives for backup. The remaining Titan finds herself assaulted by Sciderella, Centitrain and missiles galore.
* The Beetlezorg is down, but Spike has an idea.
* He looks at the fallen Metal Deers and wonders how much core design changes were made. Because he bets not a lot.
* The final hope of Canterlot has arrived.
== Thread 332 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, MINDY DIVER EDITION
* Applejack wants to know how tall she's going to be
* 42 saves Lucky Strikes and Haymaker
* 18 and Pommel status-update
* Various fights in the city
* Two shows off her super hugs to Tiempo
* Applejack tries and fails to direct Salt's memory and instead sees when Salt saves Limestone.
* Spitfire saves Lightning Dust who's having a full on mental breakdown.
* Tiempo babysits
* Two's technically in charge, and her first order of business is soap
* 10 can't get an interview
* AJ has to see Salt with Ember as she loses control
* She also sees Salt have weird thoughts about various abilities of the divine
* Spike takes it all in
* 42 asks about Lightning Dust and learns she can hit on Spitfire
* 18 talks to 29 and his mom
* AJ sees Salt and Sunset, and has regrets
* 29 sees Arana and Sciderella, and the screams begin. Apparently Sciderella remembers him.
* Ghost mommas geek out about their kids
* AJ gets annoyed at the memories until Trixie's arrives
* The CmC try to dump a body that isn't dead
* Filthy Rich witnesses A-tier bullying
* Saturn comes to say hi to Tiempo and pitch merchandising
* Copyright is weird
* Pudding jokes are weirder
* 18 finds Sombra
* Big Mac is annoyed Pomonella won't die
* Applejack gets frustrated and pushes on against the memory blockade until she reached the time when Salt came up with the baby plan, something she'd regret. She's assaulted by hundreds of potential paths all going at the same time, only to end when Glimmer reveals herself and "Nudges" Salt towards the baby plan.
* After witnessing the event, AJ finally puts it together, and figures out Glimmer has something to do with all this.
* Now, she has her sights set.
== Thread 333 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP:CHITANIA X MECHACHITANIA EDITION!
* AJ wants to know how far Luna does her night thing
* Babyling is popular with the queens
* 42 talks to Daw about parents, things spiral from there
* AJ is sure Glimmer is changing things, but isn't sure how
* Two wonders if she's gotta save the world
* AJ waits during the memories for a weak point and forces them to move towards Glimmer
* Sunburst and Tiempo discuss potential losses
* Spike muses on copyright
* A Queen may have caused Angel Bunny.
* AJ witnesses the memory of Salt discussing the portals finds out Glimmer tried, in vain, to manipulate Salt into wanting AUJ dead, and notices her slip up and redo a line. During the conversation she hears Glimmer mention Luna, so strives to go back to when Salt first talked to her
* Dazey is breaking jaws and not caring about Delight, allegedly
* 42 steals another joke
* Alt-Delight notes everyone is taking the recent events really well
* AJ witnesses Glimmer convince Salt to woo Lunalt, and the multiple attempts it takes. During the speech, she reveals her real intentions and beliefs about Salt, and that she believes he can do things nobody else can due to what he is.
* Desperate now, AJ has to know what happened and forced the memory to the start of it all. Sires Hollow.
* Finally AJ witnesses it all from the start. Glimmer's first meeting with him that began a long term relationship spun out into literally thousands of timelines, enough to nearly break her for good this time. She was able to catch glimpses of them during a romance, and was able to see the end of it all as well.
* At the end of all the possible timelines, Glimmer stood in front of the dark orb just like she did in the one that stuck. Only this time, Salt wouldn't go in it.
* In a cruel twist of irony no matter what she did, she couldn't get Salt to abandon her after they fell in love. No matter how many Divine died or if it was just her left, so long as one remained he couldn't let go even to possibly save the world.
* She got someone who won't leave her, and it ruined her whole plan. So instead, with a sad goodbye, she brought the timeline back to the original meeting, and sent him off towards Ever Essence instead, knowing she would have to spend the last timeline without him loving her.
* All that remains for Applejack is one final question, what's it all for?
* The CMC join up with the Flower Trio and get kicked
* Citrine wants to go see the lings
* 42 wanted to say Hi to 18
* Spitfire can't get rid of Lightning Dust
* Chitania and Mecha-Chitania begin their battle, and it goes poorly for Chitania at the start. But this is revealed to be because she's trying to knock MC away, only to have it fail.
* Unfortunately, MC has a lot of magic on her side and is a better fighter than ever thanks to the combination of Chitania's mother and Pennydrop double-teaming her, letting them win pretty hard at the start.
* Chitania's mother chastizes her the whole fight, and is furious when she realizes Chitania mostly focused on getting them clear of the Kirin Village
* She tries to destroy it, only to have Chitania go into a berserker rage and get the advantage
* But even that, as her mother point out, has limits. Everything she does has limits.
* They don't.
* But before the magical barrage can end her, Luna swoops in to help out. Though she can't match her physically, nothing in MC's magical arsenal is nearly as powerful as Luna's alicorn magic. With the two of them together, they manage to beat the machine back.
* This compounds further when Rainshine assists against the fire attacks and manages to stop them, and push them back
* The three of them together manage to do some real damage, forcing Pennydrop to think fast on a means to fight back. But inside, she has her own problems.
* Autumn Blaze got to play secret agent and slipped inside! And once in there, she slips a necklace around Pennydrop's neck, allowing Luna to directly access her mind without being reflected as she had before.
* She learns Pennydrop doesn't really care much for the attempt, only on killing Chitania at last, and though forced prodding Luna finds out PD's backstory. As a child, she was harassed by a pair of unicorns and felt powerless, but rather than be bitter she merely took this as a sign to focus on becoming the powerful.
* But it turns out all of this was a distraction to let Chitania's mother attack Luna mentally. Though she's able to hold off the mental strike, she is vulnerable to a physical one that nearly breaks her from a flick.
* Autumn Blazer is ejected, and Chitania is solo once more, unable to do anything as the magic flies.
* Beaten for the moment, her mother tells Chitania about how much she learned, mostly from Variolus, about her "Decline", most notably, how she cried for a pony.
* Chitania finally wonders if that's actually her mother, and if so how did she escape the hivemind. Her mother brushes off the question, and laments that they're on a time crunch. She shouldn't drag out the fight any longer, even if she enjoys it, because she has to prove everyone should have given "Her" the power, whatever that means.
* Chitania is badly beaten thanks to being tired, unlike the machine who has no such problem, with a piece of her hoof sliced into by the same weapon that nearly cut off her head in their first fight.
* Chitania is about to be killed, only to be saved at the last moment by the Kirin, who join together and unleash their Nirik fire as one. Even Mecha Chitania can't take a full blast like that.
* So, she uses her ultimate attack, her chest beam.
* Chitania takes the hit, saving the village, but is badly wounded as a result. Rainshine rushes to her side, lamenting how she didn't have to do that.
* The machine was about to fire, only to suddenly try to move to the side. While Chitania's mother is willing to kill the Kirins to get at Chitania, Pennydrop wants to angle it so only Chitania dies.
* The changeling takes it in stride, and seals off Pennydrop so she doesn't stop her.
* With that second of clarity, Rainshine declares she's going to go out fighting.
* She calls to her Kirin to give her all of their fire, and they oblige.
* Mecha-Chitania powers up, Chitania gets up.
* The Titan clutches Rainshine in her hoof, searing into the wound the sword made, the love and magic mixing together to let her hold it. When Mecha-Chitania fires, she blocks it.
* She beats it.
* Cursing her daughter until the end, the burning hoof goes into the Mech's chest, exploding its innards and blasting out chunks, including a suspicously large metal piece, before melting the metal off of the bones themselves
* The bones, even still, try to attack, but are stopped by the maddened Titan. Lamenting her defeat, Chitania's mother asks her daughter if there's anything she wants to say, as this will be the last time they meet.
* She has one final thing to say.
* "I hate you."
* With that, she destroys every scrap of bone, and an explosion goes off, a final goodbye from her mother who had gathered up magic inside of them for just this occasion.
* Her mother got the last laugh.
* Chitania wakes up shortly thereafter, in pain and small but alive. She sees that the village was completely destroyed, and can't bring herself to look at Rainshine, sure that the blast was fatal.
* "It happened again"
* Chitania sadly admits to herself that it's just going to keep happening. She says aloud it was her fault for giving up in her hunt.
* Before Luna can convince her otherwise, they are surrounded by Queens, all of whom declare as one that there is no more question, it "Has to be her".
* When they go silent, something off in the distances calls to them, something beyond any of them.
* Autumn Blaze pleads with her not to go, but despite her hesitation, the Queen Changeling leaves off towards Canterlot. Unable to hear Rainshine's calls to come back.
* The Kirin Queen pleads with Luna to save her, as she saved them.
* Luna sadly says she can only promise to try. For she feels something n the distance.
* Something, she did not know if they, or the world, would survive.
== Thread 334 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP! TOKUSENTAI EDITION!
* Applejack is curious about graveyards
* Rainshine is not okay
* Hilda is ready to stab Pennydrop
* Guard and changeling finally work together
* Harmony City is winning
* Spike is gonna punch Twilight
* Sciderella is confused about Flim and Flam
* Angamiana helps Vermillion to keep her Family Line alive
* The youngest Titan battles the Ursa Major, whom 7 has apparently named Bunny.
* She’s disgusted at 7 giving her Sapience, declaring it to be the worst abomination any changeling can do.
* It’s a close battle back and forth, with the Infusions giving Bunny an edge in the fight, all the while the Titan grills 7 on his choices, further detailing why this was such a disgusting thing to her, and demands to know why he did it.
* He admits his initial choices were selfish, but he grew to truly care about those he gifted thought to, seeing himself as just the one who got them started and was quickly outpaced.
* This response infuriates her to the point she gains the advantage, but before she can win she’s driven back by intervention from the other Predators and 7’s beau.
* With all of them combined, they’re able to claim victory when Bunny drives her claws in the back of her head, dissipating her at last.
* But there’s seldom time for hugs and praise.
* Something is coming.
* The A-team wonder if 7 is immortal
* Delight finds himself in a strange dreamscape full of statues depicting bipedal, goatlike creatures, adorned with gold and riches galore.
* Up above, in the shadows, two red eyes and a formless body glare down on him, and he cannot tell if it is physical or not.
* In the middle of them, beneath the largest statue and surrounded by others, is a creature resembling those statues, but much, much younger.
* The thing giggles and coos like an infant, his words garbled and hard to understand, and after a near miss of being crushed Delight reveals himself to the child.
* The game is on.
* The child “Plays” with him quite violently, seeming to try to rip off his wings several times and forcing Delight to fight back with dream creations of his own, but it’s not enough
* What works instead is stern, adult speaking. By this, he’s able to cow the creature into stopping, and with a bit of patience he understands that the thing wanted the “Panwee gabba fatha”, pony give feather.
* With a bit of stern talking to, he gets the being to calm down and politely ask for one, which he obliges.
* It turns out the thing was using feathers for making more statues, and Delight opines that he seems to want them to be seen as he’s making many little ones instead of one big one.
* Tired from his adventure and no longer threatened by the thing, Delight rests, and his dream form begins to call an old memory…
* In canterlot at the same time as the battle, the eldest Titan is trying to smash everything.
* She’s only deterred by the unified forces of everyone in Canterlot, allowing Pommel to clear out everyone he can while others, like Sciderella and the Guard, are able to distract her away for a time before she regains the advantage.
* She’s about to finish them off, when the day is saved by none other than Torch of all creatures! The dragon engages the Titan in battle, knowing that the Ponies are to blame even if he can’t figure out how.
* A skillfull battle breaks down to raw headbutts to prove superiority to the other, and after it turns to blasts it looks like Torch is about to win with a point blank blast, but the Titan is saved at the last second by her daughter who has regained her senses!
* With the two of them combined, Torch is soon defeated and cast to the mountainside. The other dragons he brought with him try to intervene, only to be defeated themselves by their teamwork.
* Feeling that’s enough, the pair decide to end it by flying as high as they can and shooting down to punch the city into nothingness.
* They’re slowed by the quick intervention of the Busters, who use the Bubble Walker attack once more, but it’s not enough. Only with the sacrifice of Halyomorpha’s physical being are they able to deflect the Titans and stop the attack.
* But this is only temporary, and they rise again! But this time, someone is ready to challenge them.
* Using the parts of the destroyed Metal Deers, Spike and the others repaired their mech, and the BEETLEZORG, HAROMY FORM, er… HARMONY FORM is online!
* The mistake fits the one who spoke it well, as the mech is a complete mishmash of jagged pieces, welded on limbs, and jammed in magic cores. The Titans are a little insulted and the Rainbolts/A-team unsure, but there’s no time for doubts, it’s time for action!
* After a poor start, the Zorg actually manages to do some damage with its combination attacks, and utilizing their poor construction
* The Titans turn the tide in an instant, and their combo attacks almost destroy the Zorg like they had the dragon, but one last ditch effort changes it all!
* The Highwind comes to life, now sporting two arms that they had welded on from the Griffon and Minotaur Metal Deer
* Harmony Mode finalizes as the Rainbolts and A-team literally fight back to back, able to counter and outfight even both Titans coming at them from different angles.
* With the Queens nearly defeated, they turn to their last ditch effort, magic. Despite grousing about how humiliating it was, it provided the moment they needed to nearly destroy the mecha.
* They’re only saved at the last second by the intervention of Lucky Strikes and the other guards. Flim and Flam, after helping, need to be rescued as well.
* This sends the daughter Titan into a rage, and she prepares to smash the city with her own raw power, only to be caught by the Zorg who barely holds her back.
* They’re buckling, almost out of power, when they suddenly get a boost with a
* SCREEEEEEE
* Centitrain latches onto the Highwind’s Minotaur Limb, empowering it and them long enough to throw the Titan off and allow Spike to deliver one final, heroic punch that goes straight through the Titan!
* The wrong Titan, unfortunately.
* The younger Titan watches as her mother, who took the hit instead, fades away with the final words of “I love you.”
* With a blast, the Zorg is knocked back, and the younger Titan is knocked off the city
* Now, the younger Titan is angry beyond measure, and demands BIGGER, BIGGER!
* She grows outside of the city until she’s so large she could have touched the top of the mountain, and prepares to destroy the city with one punch.
* The Zorg tries to intervene, but fails, being knocked back without slowing her down
* The city looks hopeless, until the intervention of Titania, now wielding the ghostly Chitin of the eldest Titan, is able to stop it just in time at the cost of her own form, declaring herself a real Titan in her last moments
* The teams take this moment to charge again, unleashing every single weapon they have, but it’s not enough, and the Zorg is caught mid flight. It seems hopeless, until Red asks how many cores they have. Spike says they have four extras.
* Red then has the Zorg rip out every core in the Highwind, and rip their own lower half off to allow the airship and its passengers to fall away. Those inside are saved by 42’s teleporting, leaving only half a Zorg to fly at the Titan.
* The other Rainbolts figure out that their leader intends a “Final run”, and they have no regrets on the matter, willing to go with him until the end.
* Red has a different idea in mind, and ejects the other Rainbolts mid flight. No, he charges alone.
* Alone, until Harmony Prime comes back to life, inspired by the words Red speaks. He “Joins” with the zorg, becoming a makeshift blade that can channel all of the power of the Magical Cores, declaring his purpose is complete as his head melts away.
* With a final cry of HARMONNYYY BLADDEEE! The robot dodges every attack, aiming right for the titan.
* The Rainbolt assumes his pose and lets loose his final cry.
* ”RAINBOLTS!”
* ”TOKUSENTAI!”
* The mech stabs itself into the eye of the titan, and out emerges the most powerful explosion they had ever witness.
* RAINBOOOOOOOMMMM
* The head of the Titan is blasted off, a rainbow rising from the stump, and the day is saved at last.
* The others down below do not cheer like Canterlot does, instead mourning the fact he couldn’t possibly have gotten out in time. The A-team and Rainbolts cross their arms and prepare one last call in his memory.
* But they’re interrupted, literally, by the arrival of another Queen. One with rainbow wings, a fading form, and a certain very alive, if unconscious, Red Rainbolt in her grasp.
* The others are elated to see him alive, to which the the Queen says she couldn’t let it end like that and boasts she’ll be the talk of the hivemind for centuries. She gives her name, Queen Cerealis, and asks that they tell him that when he wakes up, as its important to her. With the promise given, she fades away, never to reform again.
* Just when they catch their breath, they declare they’re going up there and they’re going to destroy the portal.
* But their words come too late.
* Something emerges from the portal, something so powerful it cows all of the Queens and living changelings alike. Something who’s being is so well known it lives on in their subconscious, powerful enough they know it just from the feeling alone. The feeling of the first, the original.
* Spike, in horror wonders why it feels like they just lost, as the changelings whisper out the name that haunted their souls.
* ”Queen Devonia”
== Thread 335 ==
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== Thread 336 ==
LAST THREAD RECAP, DEBATE EDITION!
* Applejack asks about costumes
* Cloudchaser failed her plan, again
* Alt-D mentions they need to spend more time with their sisters
* None of the main six are good at debates
* 32 is humiliated
* Alt-Delight cannot be an element of harmony
* Librarian wanted to talk to chitty
* Sweet Note wonders if she should dress up for Devonia
* Delight continues his journey in the Dreamscape and is attacked by Dermaptera, who has returned from her banishment. Sure that the plan failed, Delight flees, thinking he can't defeat her, and manages to lose her. In his fleeing, he stumbles across none other than Silver Hands!
* Tempest and Grubber "Save" the storm king
* Nightmare Night stories!
* CMC play a very evil red light green light
* Lyra and Bonbon fight the dead things
* Citrine asks Tiempo for advice
* Cannonball, Fruitcake and Chunky think they've won, in reality every Queen just shot peach instead
* Mr Hasbro profits off pain to no surprise
* OOCO Flashback where Delight tells Sebjek about meeting Silver Hands in the mindscape before Sebjek rescued him with the Staff
* Sebjek finds an unconscious Delight and Raven
* Harry did a bad thing
* Applejack and Salt have their debate at long last.
* Despite the tension, they remain amicable and try as best they can to argue why working with/against Glimmer is the right thing to do. Every event from Blue to Cordyceps is brought up
* The back and forth continues until Applejack can't argue a point, and their time runs out. She tries in vain to call him back, but instead Salt finishes the fight with the Big Four and casts them out of himself.
* Applejack tries to ask a final question, "What would have happened?" specifically about Salt and the others, and she is shown a memory.
* A timeline farrr in the future, where Salt's children have destroyed the world and are in eternal conflict with one another, all of them showcasing insane levels of power.
* Applejack can't argue anymore, and Salt wonders what she saw, not having seen that memory himself.
* The fight is over and they're back where they started with Salt repeating
* "I know what you are"
== Thread 337 ==
[Missed]
One Line Recap:
* The battle between Salt and the Big Four comes to a shocking conclusion, with Salt destroying their minds and keeping their power! Chitania arrives at Canterlot!
== Thread 338 ==
[Missed]
One Line Recap:
* Chitania confronts Devonia and Salt emerges with new power!
== Thread 339 ==
[Missed]
One Line Recap:
* Salt and Chitania have reached ultimate power and seek to change their worlds!
== Thread 340 ==
[Missed]
One Line Recap:
* The worlds have been changed! But something from before still lingers, and AUJ confronts ALTWI over it!
== Thread 341 ==
* REAL FAST RECAP
* AUJ realizes something is wrong in the new world
* Chitania begins smashing the barriers of the reality
* Delight (and Silver Hand) finally battles Dermaptera
One Line Recap:
* AUJ tries to figure out the change of her world, Chitania attempts to break down the barriers of reality, and Delight faces the Dream Queen!
== Thread 342 ==
[Missed]
One Line Recap:
* Delight finishes the fight in the Dream Realm, and while AUJ reconnects with her friends, Salt discovers the voices and prepares for what's to come!
== Thread 343 ==
Substitute Recap
* AJ questions Celestia about the border of the Crystal Empire
* AUJ talks with her Alt-Friends about their lives
* Dermaptera starts to get cozy with and possesive of Delight, which makes him a little nervous and flustered
* She still vows to punish AJ29 and soon gets into an argument with Silver Hand, who wants her to release Delight so he can return to his body and keep his promise.
* Their argument is cut short as a strange reverberation overtakes the dreamscape, disrupting their forms yet leaving.
* To his surprise, Delight is unaffected even as the reveberations boom and boom and boom until CRACK!
* The world goes black. All that was in the Dreamscape has disappeared, leaving Delight alone.
* Looking about himself, he spots a crimson thread flowing out of his core.
* [ Oh! What's this? ]
* And is soon found by the Dream Entity that attacked AJ29.
* Before he can torture the pony, another CRACK! sounds throughout the Dreamscape and a torrent of dreams comes flodding back in.
* With the entity distracted by the sight, Delight makes for an escape and follows the crimson thread.
* Pushing through the relentless flood of dreams, Delight holds strong and makes it back to his body, finally waking from the Dreamscape.
* However, the world has drastically changed: destroyed structures have been restored and long dead changeling queens now roam Canterlot, in the flesh!
* Stranger still, they rule Equestria and everyone simply acts as if that's always been the case.
* After a brief run in with the "Hornet Queen", AJ29, Halyomorpha and Dazey, the world changes before his eyes with the same reverberation he felt in the Dreamscape.
* More reverberations occur, with one leading to him encouuntering Soarin, who apparently is familiar with Delight in this changed world
* Hoping for some sense of normalcy, Delight asks him who is in charge and learns that Princess Luna still rules in this world of Queens.
* With that knowledge pushing him forward, the pegasus heads toward Canterlot Castle
* The world changes several times before one leads him to encountering Soarin', who is actually familiar with him in that change's history
* The Crusaders and others feel something is a little off in the Regverse
* Spoiled wants to sell overpriced honey to the queens
* As AUJ talks with the Alt-Mane 6 some more, things take a strange turn as some of them blurt out protests of annoyance at the talk of their love life
* Fearing themselves possessed, Alt-Fluttershy, Alt-Rarity, and Alt-Dash use their pendants to call Salt...
* And end up summoning four of him.
* Back in Regverse, Delight briefly runs into C32 and C88 on his way to the throne room, in which he catches a glimpse of Luna.
* But his hopes are dashed when the world changes again and Luna is now away on business in the Crystal Empire.
* This leaves him surrounded by various changeling queens and their heirs, among them being Dermaptera and her daughter, Cimex.
* Delight bemoans how the changing world makes it difficult to pin Luna down, but notices something strange wihin the shifts: A shimmering rainbow in the distance.
* "Hey, you! You're not supposed to be in here!"
* Unfortunately, the latest change saw him not quite as welcoming to his presence in the throne room.
* "GET HIM!"
* Surprisingly, Variolus is alive in the Regverse. Unsurprisingly, she always feels like she's always stepping on Legos.
* Diamond Tiara plans to overthrow the changeling queens, but her bombs backfire.
* Roseluck tries to time travel with Time Turner.
* Pursued by changeling Queen and Guard alike, Delight makes a mad dash through Canterlot when one world changing ripple causes him to no-clip through the floor.
* This sends him crashing into a pile off papers, safe from his pursuers now stuck a floor above him, but likely suffering from a few paper cuts.
* "Is there a particular reason you tackled my paperwork?"
* Distracting him from the pain, a familiar voice catches his attention.
* Looking up, he finds Sunset Shimmer and is left speechless for a moment.
* "You're..."
* Serving as a reknowned mage and scientist in this world, as she humbly lets him know, the mare is curious praise and compliment he wouldlavish her with.
* "...not dead?"
* This piques her curiosity and she asks why he'd think she'd be dead.
* He hesitates, but at her encouragement, he lets her know about the strange ripples causing the world to change every other minute.
* She connects the dots between this and her "death," and Delight attempts to play dumb by claiming Sunset was strongly anti-changeling in his original world.
* In that case, she'd be the most likely to fight to the death against the rule of changeling Queens.
* The mare rejects this idea and fear seizes him as she reveals that not only does she remember the original world but she never died in the first place.
* C13 saved her - along with Flash, Sweet Note, and Fizzle - and she's been working in secret to prop up the very force causing the ripples.
* Though still affected by their changes, Sunset brags about the precautions she's set up that allow her to maintain a consistent memory throughout them
* Delight's existence piques her curiosity and, upon him letting slip that it might have something to do with dreamwalking, she vows to study him later.
* For now, she's content with explaining her methods and it is at this point that Delight learns about the war she'd whipped up against Canterlot:
* The Invasion of the Changeling Queens.
* Dots connecting, Delight is overcome with grief at the realization that Canterlot lost that war and everyone and everything he knew had perished.
* Sardonically, Sunset offers him a moment to collect himself or lash out at her-
* And with malice in his heart, he leaps at the mare.
* But it's no use.
* He's caught in the magic grip of her telekinesis and it's soon revealed that Sunset is not simply a reknowned mage, but an alicorn as well.
* Rather than enact any punishment, Sunset brushes off his rage and calms him a bit by remarking that she didn't kill his friend or family.
* Not that she even knows who they are, let alone who he is, but she guesses they're alive somewhere and tells Delight to not be so upset.
* He fires back that she erased his world, but points out that she's just as effected by the changes as everyone else, hence her regrown arm...
* Er... foreleg.
* Anyways, she reveals the real one in charge of all these constant changes is none other than Chitania.
* Why, Delight desperately asks.
* All Sunset can do is speculate that Chitania's attack on the bounds of reality has caused subconscious changes.
* An example of this would be Sunset's current state and status, as well as that of her friends, who she shows through video feeds are very well-off now.
* However, Chitania's lack of control/brute forcing is alos leading reality to "fit" every change together
* To punctuate this, she excitedly shows him a magic video feed of the Crystal Empire.
* Not only are Flurry and AJ-Two around despite their parents being booted from existence, but C18 is still a Queen despite her mother being alive.
* All this information she's relayed would seem insane to the average denizen of this every changing world.
* But not to Delight.
* He gets it and she's so very glad that she can finally talk to someone about all of this
* The best part? He can do nothing to stop any of this, so there's no harm in letting everything off her chest.
* For a moment, it seems Delight has resigned himself to hopelessness of the as Sunset summons various apparatus to restrain him for experimentation.
* "Did you see it?"
* Toward the Everfree, he points her attention.
* She summons a screen to view the area and Delight once again sees that shimmering rainbow off in the distance.
* Sunset, however, cannot despite it being in plain view.
* "What am I looking for?"
* "...the sun."
* For all her precautions, Sunset could not exist between the ripples of change like Delight could.
* As another one washes over the world, Delight throws himself back into the void.
* Ignorant of his ability, she turns back to find him gone.
* "...glitch resolved, I suppose."
* But still he exists and has now escaped Canterlot Castle, flying toward the light shimmering in the Everfree.
== Thread 344 ==
Substitute Recap
* AJ asks Celestia if she has a backup ruler in case all of them are out of commission
* Some changeling queens discuss Delight glitching through floors
* AJ-Two contemplates Flurry and her own existence without parents
* Derpy and Cloudchaser notice the changeling Queens are lazy outside of trying to bag high status stallions
* Annilies and Scaraba discuss all the downsides of being on top... namely all the assassinations to get high status males on top of them
* Spoiled beats back a Queen trying to molest Filthy
* Sciderella needs an apple try so Granny and Big Mac give her the whole West Orchard
* Arana isn't stunted, physically and emotionally, in this new world
* The Fillydelphia Mayor is popular with the queens and one that warns of screaming
* Back with AUJ and the Alt-Mane 6, Salt explains that the other three hims are due to time travel trying to fix the voices in their heads
* Unfortunately, as the girls slowly come to realize by the fact that there are four of him there, he has yet to succeed.
* To that end, he needs to make sure the othe hims don't know what he knows yet as not to create a paradox
* But he assures the girls that what's going on is nothing too severe him and Alt-Twilight are going to handle it
* Alt-Dash and Alt-Rarity don't buy this and insist he elaborate on what's going, with Alt-Twilight wondering as well.
* Salt refuses to do so and, with a heavy heart, remarks that knowing how this conversation would go doesn't make his next action any easier
* With a motion of his hoof, tapping on seemingly nothing, the world shatters
* Woken from a daze by Alterbloom, AUJ finds herself back home with no memory of what just happened.
* Something feels wrong and she wonders why.
* Applejack promptly informs her that Salt broke the world, so that's why.
* "Oh, okay... Wait."
* Meanwhile, Altwilight finds herself in her lab, working with blueprints for a mysterious device.
* She tries not to question what happened, though a voice in her head questions her
* Elsewhere, Glimmer comforts Salt for resetting the world and offers to speak to the others on his behalf.
* Delight recounts some old serials on the tales Sonambula, which keep him Hopeful
* Queen Annalis tries to challenge the queen that has claimed Blueblood as her mate... only to prompty NOPE out when that queen is Sciderella
* Sheriff Silverstar narrowly avoids a Queen's attraction
* Braeburn asks AJ55 if Carabidae is in charge now
* Still making his way towards the light, Delight wonders what could be waiting for him there, and most of all what he could even do.
* He thinks on the deeds of Somnambula and even Applejack when she was an earth pony: two normal mares that performed great deeds beyond their station.
* "You couldn't do anything about it if you tried."
* Plagued by doubts manifesting as the voice of Sunset Shimmer, he holds on to a hope that he can do "something".
* "Like yell at yourself?"
* To his surprise, this line did not come from his imagining of Sunset, but the Obsidian Beast: Silver Hand.
* The sttrange instability of the world had affected him, but Silver Hand apparently managed thanks to the rainbow light Delight is drawn to.
* How, exactly, isn't fully explained, but he remarks that the light is resisting the effects of whatever is causing all these strange changes.
* This let him link with the only other mind (empty as it is) he's familiar with: Delight.
* With a new 'friend' in-tow, Delight focuses on rushing towards the rainbow light.
* His tunnel vision, however, leaves him deaf to Silver Hand's warnings before the pegasus is tackled out of the sky.
* Pain surging in his midsection, Delight looks up as his assailant descends from the sky.
* "You can see the light too..."
* It was a changeling.
* "...and you're trying to use it."
* Determined to stop him from ruining this "perfect" world.
* Queen Beckii stakes her claim on Uncle Orange, making things very uncomfortable for Aunt Orange and Babs
* The CMC meet a green filly that wants to get with their sisters (and sister figure)
* Back to Delight's plight, the mysterious changeling approaches with killer intent.
* Playing dumb about the rainbow wall he sought, he attempts to stave her wrath, but his act quickly falls through and she renews her assault.
* It's only when he proclaims that he doesn't even understand why she's stopping him from reaching the wall that she pauses his beatdown.
* By her own admittance, they don't know each other, and he doesn't even know what waits beyond the rainbow wall.
* So, why is she eager to kill him?
* Because he knows the world has changed.
* But why does she know that? And who is she, really?
* To answer his question, she transforms into a little filly she's sure he knows well.
* "Howdy! Ah'm the bestest sissy in the whole world and Ah' like malleys and wanna share 'em with everyone!"
* Delight is horrified.
* Silver Hand gets the urge to give her sweets and headpats.
* "You think I'm stupid or something?"
* Immediately, he challenges her 'reveal': he'd seen AJ-Two in the Crystal Empire, safe and sound, no more than ten minutes ago.
* Dropping her faux happy-go-lucky demeanor, she simply shrugs at his words and confirms that AJ-Two is still in the Empire.
* Which only serves to unnerve him as she not only didn't try to lie, but knows where Two is to begin with.
* He pushes past that feeling and once again question who this changeling really is.
* But she maintains that the her he sees is the real her and things slowly begin to click for the stallion.
* Or maybe he could just deny what he'd known in the pit of his stomach since she first saw her.
* Not only is she from another world, but the similarities between her and Two are more than just just reused changeling assets.
* AU-Two stands before him and allows herself a moment to inform him of her old world and the role she has found for herself in this new one.
* A world she didn't belong in.
* As if the emphasize her point, another ripple of change passed over the world and she, too, remained within the white void, standing face to face with Delight.
* But even though this world is not her own, and it's usurper god has no knowledge of her existence, she couldn't be happier with what she's seen so far.
* Changelings, as she explains to Delight, are nearly extinct in her old world.
* And yet, Chitania the Wallbreaker ensures they thrive in Delight's, a thought that brings tears of joy to her eyes
* It was enough to move the stallion to sympathy.
* The bolt of magic she fired soon after moved him a different away.
* With renewed vigor, she once again moves to crush and destroy the stallion with a strength that easily cleared swathes of trees.
* How'd she get that strong, he couldn't but wonder aloud.
* To that, she reveals what he'd feared: she'd been to the Crystal Empire and took advantage of the shifting world.
* "I took the love right out of their heart!"
* Cornered, and with seemingly no way to avoid a killing blow as she closes the distance between them, Delight calls out in sympathy.
* He understands why she'd want to preserve this world, in her shoes he would have done the same thing.
* This stays her hoof long enough for him to ask how she feels knowing the people around her aren't really her people.
* He didn't know if he could abandon those who left alive in his old world to with people that weren't the ones he truly knew.
* Tears in her eyes, AU-Two prepares to fire another bolt of magic.
* But a desperate throw of sand blinds her long enough for Delight to rush past, full-speed towards the rainbow wall.
* He almost makes it through, his hoof reachi just past the wall's boundary, before the changeling grabs hold of his hindlegs to pull him away.
* Unfortunately for her, something within the wall pulls back, and Delight inches closer and closer to the wall.
* No matter how AU-Two lashed out, no matter how many bolts of magic she fired, a protective aura surrounding the stallion would let no harm come to him.
* She could only watch as Delight is continual pulled in until his head breaches the wall.
* "Hello there."
* Beyond which he comes face to face with the visage of Twilight Sparkle.
* "I need your help, please."
== Thread 345 ==
Substitute Recap
* AJ asks Celestia if Neighsay is a good teacher and wants evaluation records.
* Trixie wonders why she hangs out with Zecora and ex-Mayor Mare. 
* Because ghost kids, apparently.
* Necrophorus tries to get with Igneous before Cloudy breaks her.
* Back with AUJ, AJ's connection to her has grown stronger, allowing her to fully explain what's going on to her.
* Salt, unable to find a solution to the voices AUJ and the Alt-Mane 6 were hearing, reset time in hopes that that would fix things.
* It didn't, and AJ drives home the point that neither Altwi or AUJ's other friends were able to help.
* Instead, AJ begins to suggest they talk to someone else but is interrupted by a crack of magic.
* Before them, Starlight Glimmer appears, a wide smile on her face as she declares her desire to have a little chat with AUJ.
* Spike responds to explosions at Filthy's place.
* Diamond Tiara is to blame.
* Easter holiday stories!
* Flim and Flam have to tag-team queens because Flam talked up his status.
* Back with Delight, the stallion is more than a little excited to see Princess Twilight standing before him and eagerly asks her to fix the world.
* But the mare only fixes him with a sad smile as she patiently listens to his pleas.
* And that's when it dawns on him that she's NOT the Princess, leaving him with a tiring disappoinment as the excitement drains from his bones.
* “I was really counting on a magical super princess…”
* “I get that more often than you’d think.”
* He'd meant to keep the thought to himself, but it turns out she can read his mind.
* Yes, even THOSE thoughts.
* But that doesn't matter right now, as she once again, to his immense surprise, asks him for his help.
* She, too, is aware of the chaotic state of the world, but lacks the power to fix it herself.
* This piques his curiosity and, finally paying attention to the immense magic permeating the domain she pulled him into, he asks who she is.
* "You can just call me the Tree Of Harmony."
* A giddy excitement spreads within her when he reveals his own knowledge, however meager, of her existence and he lets out an excited gasp.
* "Am I going to be an Element of Harmony!?"
* He deflates a bit when she gently denies the possibility, though she had considered it.
* That leads him to question what, exactly, he could do to help when he lacks much in the way of actual power.
* But what makes him so important to her is not power, but the fact that he remembers the world as it was.
* Though she remembers as well, the Tree of Harmony's power is mostly diverted to keeping the world from devolving into impossibilities and paradoxes.
* Such as Delight's parents never falling in love and bringing him into the world, a thought that makes him keenly aware of how tenous his existence is now.
* With that said, his part in all this comes in connecting with her physical form.
* No. 
* Not in THAT sense, Delight.
* Once they've established a connection, he'll have access to a part of her magic that she can't focus on.
* This will allow him to channel it in defense of her while she focuses on finding the Bearers of of Harmony.
* At that, Delight is suddenly jerked forward into her grip, an act that surprises even the all-knowing Tree as she catches him.
* It turns out that AU-Two has released her grip on him as, through a read of his mind, she's heard everything they've discussed.
* In her fury, she takes to the skies and sends out a call to all queens across the world.
* All in defense of her perfect world.
* In the meantime, AUJ has a tense chat with Starlight Glimmer.
* The lavendar mare fixes her with a wide smile, her attitude like that of a shark circling its prey as she prods at AUJ with questions.
* Namely, about whether she's been hearing any voices in her head lately.
* Taking care not to betray her foreknowlege, AUJ scoffs at the thought. 
* She'd immediately go to Altwilight if that were the case.
* Starlight agrees that she would do that.
* "The first time."
* "First time?"
* Alarm bells sound off in AUJ's mind, but she maintains her cool and challenges Starlight's assumption.
* If AUJ were hearing voices, Twilight would definitely be able to fix it.
* "And if she couldn't?"
* They'd go to the Tree of Harmony, AUJ responds and cuts Glimmer off by saying if it couldn't fix things, Equestria is in pretty big trouble.
* This leads Glimmer to wonder why AUJ wouldn't go to her.
* Glimmer is, after all the Premier Mage of Equestria.
* Not that she's bragging.
* AUJ then delivers a massive hit to her ego by gently declaring her own bias towards Twilight. 
* But they're getting distracted now, and AUJ presses Glimmer on questioning her about hearing voices.
* Did she just want to see how a sane pony would respond to such a situation?
* "Tell me, Miss Starlight, what did ya' want ta' talk about, really?"
* A cold pause settles between them, broken only when Glimmer asks AUJ if she knows who she is.
* Of course AUJ does, and lists all her accomplishments and positions with a smile in hopes of placating the mare.
* Glimmer doesn't buy it, and again asks is she knows who she is.
* The jig is up.
* Her masquerade of ignorance broken, AUJ resigns herself to listening as Glimmer talks about the beauty of one of the nearby apple trees.
* "...you'd hate it if someone wanted to tear it down, and put a worse tree in its place, right?"
* In fact, she'd be angry, wouldn't she?
* Angry enough to attack the person trying to implant the rotten tree.
* AUJ agrees.
* Yet when asked if she would attack that person even if it made someone she loved upset, AUJ declares that she'd be more worried about hurting that loved one.
* Unfortunately, Glimmer would.
* In a flash of magic, unleashed in a mighty bolt shot skyward, the unicorn disappears.
* When it subsides, the truth of her form is revealed:
* Starlight Glimmer has long been an alicorn and the full brunt of her might is now turned against AUJ.
* All in preservation of her perfect world.
== Thread 346 ==
ONE LINE RECAP!
>Glimmer challenges Applejack and a massive battle ensues, while the Tree prepares for the final assault!
Substitute Recap
* AJ asks Celestia if she ever studied the Crystal Heart to use similar magic for defense against storms and the like.
* Moondancer tries to make small talk with Minuette and scares off a queen with a Mayo monster.
* Alt-Delight spends some time with ALt-Dazey in the new perfect-but-boring world. 
* Alt-Celestia and Alt-Luna think Glimmer is a bit smarmy.
* Carried by the power of the Tree of Harmony's Twilight Projection, Delight finds himself flying through an endless void at high speeds.
* Understandably, he's left a little apprehensive by this, but she's a good reason for their haste.
* Besides the ever deteriorating state of their reality, she informs him of AU-Two calling on the changeling queens for assistance.
* It's only a matter of time before they arrive to stop whatever ToH-Twilight had in store for him, so they needed to hurry.
* That still didn't explain why she felt the need bob and weave as she tugged him through the void of nothingness.
* "So we don't hit anything, of course!"
* He scoffs at, but she slows down just enough that he can see the void is actually the Everfree and they're one tree crash away from being turned into pancakes.
* "Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there."
* That thought leads her to muse on the Elements of Harmony: traits with tangible consequences, but no real form that anyone could see.
* "I wonder if that's why they became like they did... I wonder if they wanted to see it, once upon a time."
* Delight asks who "they" are, but ToH-Twilight merely offers him a smile before declaring they've reached their destination:
* The Tree of Harmony itself.
* Taken aback in awe of the sight, one which the artworks he'd seen at Canterlot Castle could do no justice, Delight is left speechless.
* But there's no time for gawking.
* Or the numerous tests ToH-Twilight would normally put him through to determine whether he was worthy to wield her powers.
* It's time to save the world.
* Delight reaches to touch the Tree, opening himself up to whatever power he could claim as hundreds of queens descend upon the Everfree.
* "COME! FOR ALL HIVES! FOR OUR LIVES! FOR OUR PERFECT WORLD!"
* Oakshield wonders why they're not investigating the pillar of magic Glimmer shot out.
* The Alt-Ponyville Guards still have Baels.
* With her true form revealed, Glimmer gives AUJ a half-hearted apology over the fact that she's about to kill her.
* For her trouble, AUJ lobs a wad of dirt into her eyes.
* It blinds the unicorn for only a moment before she promptly fires a laser that struck the fleeing earth pony dead.
* At least, that's what she hoped.
* Looking upon the devastation she wrought, Glimmer finds no trace of the mare.
* "How could I miss!?"
* She scans her surroundings to confirm.
* The barrier she placed to hide from and ward off any prying eyes held against her shot and she saw no trace of magic from Alt-Shining.
* With outside interference ruled out, she conjures a view into the past.
* "Well I'll be."
* She hadn't missed so much as AUJ managed to dodge her attack, allowing herself some time to sneak away from her assailant.
* Tracing the phantom viewing, Glimmer follows AUJ's path as to finish what she started only to find that the mare had looped around to where they'd started.
* And pulled out a rope from her stetson?
* Before the viewing could catch up to what she was doing, the earth pony sprung her trap and said rope was pulled taut like a noose around Glimmer's throat.
* It's completely ineffective, if not because Glimmer is magnitudes stronger than what AUJ can pull, but she can just fly if she wanted.
* That doesn't stop the earth pony, nor her further attempts to, surprsingly, fight rather than flee.
* Again, Glimmer fries a kill shot.
* And again, she misses and her anger rises as AUJ refuses to stop fighting her.
* Manipulating gravity to her whim, Glimmer takes a moment to compose herself and show off just how vast the difference in power is between them as she holds AUJ.
* "Iffin’ yer’ so mad then why ain’t you shootin’ me?"
* Glimmer explains that she's worried that her near-misses are by design.
* Specifically, that Alt-Shining might be using his power to protect AUJ because he is such a loving and kind God and yada yada, there's a whole spiel.
* To test her theory, she summons a mighty bolt of magic from the sky to strike AUJ down.
* With no ability to dodge, AUJ can only wait for certain death as Glimmer watches her intently.
* Visually slowing time just as the death blow is about to land, Glimmer sees the tell-tale magic of teleportation send AUJ out of harm's way.
* With a sigh, she waits in expectation of receiving a lecture from Alt-Shining.
* "GAH!"
* Instead, she's met with pain - a sensation she hadn't felt in what feels like eons.
* Turning her gaze skyward, she finds her assailant: Applejack.
* But not the one of the Altverse.
* Carried on ethereal wings with a horn to match, Princess Applejack has finally revealed herself.
* And Glimmer is ecstatic.
* They clash in the air, with Glimmer taking the advantage and sending AJ crashing to the earth below.
* But that's where she's at her stronges.
* Tapping into her earth magic and ties to Sweet Apple Acres, AJ assaults Glimmer with the power of her family orchard.
* Unfortunately, it's not enough as Glimmer easily avoids and neutralizes her attacks, deriding them as amateur hour.
* Her heart heavy, AJ realizes she can't hold back on what damage she's about to deal to her home.
* "Grow."
* And with a simple word, the very roots of the orchard shoot forth and bind Glimmer as she eggs the mare on.
* "Seal."
* Though her very being is being turned to wood by the roots' magics, Glimmer is merely giddy as she finally got to see AJ do her "thing".
* Satisfied, and taking mental notes of the magic of the "Seal", Glimmer casually blasts herself free and declares that she's seen all of AJ's best tricks.
* "Live."
* Except this one.
* Within seconds, the Tree Golems who never knew an existence in this new world come to life and gangup to tear Glimmer apart.
* Taking some damage, se manages to maneuver herself into a positiion from which she can conjure the power of a primordial, world-destroying flame.
* "HA!"
* Releasing her might upon the trees, Glimmer begins to reduce the lot of them to ash, all the while gloating about how she has the power of Ages on her side,
* "...and all you have is a bunch of apples."
* She's wrong, of course.
* Sweet Apple Acres is a place bearing the toil and dreams of generations of Apple Family members.
* In essence, it is their Life.
* "And ya’ll should’ve known better than to challenge an Apple on her home turf!"
* At that, Glimer becomes aware too late as a massive golem casts its shadow over her.
* Though unlike the others, their forms not that different from ordinary trees, this conglomeration of trees and roots resembled a pony:
* Bright Mac, the deceased Father of Applejack.
* Using its gargantuan size and generations worth of Earth magic, the golem strikes Glimmer like a hammer to the world below.
* She resists, conjuring thousands of versions of herself to push back against the attack in an attempt that surely would have ended in vain were she any weaker.
* But she turns the tide.
* With the aide of Time magic, she infects the construction and slowly turns it to crystal to halt her descent.
* Taking a moment, she laments that her show of power has broken the Veil she used to hide her actions and it's also affected the timeline.
* She begins muttering about "bribing" Salt to fix things, but is promptly punched in the gut and assaulted by a barrage of exploding apples.
* Finding herself disoriented from the constant attacks, Glimmer rewinds time to before the Father Golem was summoned and takes a moment to breathe.
* Dodging to the side, she moves out of the way of an attack she knew AJ would throw.
* An attack which never came.
* Instead, AJ attacks her at an unexpected angle, an dthough this prompts Glimmer to rewind, she just does it again and again.
* It quickly becomes apparent that, though AUJ herself doesn't maintain her memories through the rewinds, Princess AJ does.
* So, Glimmer decides to jump back to when she first contacted AUJ - before she'd be aware of Glimmer's intent.
* "Gotcha."
* Or so she hoped before getting socked in the face.
* Trying again, Glimmer decides to strike at night, right when AUJ would be in her deepest sleep.
* "Nope."
* Only to be struck by the hoof of Princess AJ.
* Again and again, Glimmer jumps through time for an opportunity to kill the mare, but no matter when she goes, Princess AJ is always ready to land the first hit.
* Glimmer is thrown into a panic by her persistence, losing track of her time-jumping shenanigans to the point that she'd landed to where she'd 'started':
* In the crater created by the Father Golem, just before AJ punches her in the gut.
* She recovers from the strike and, in a mockery of AJ's single-word spells, casta "Rot" upon every apple in the area from the fruit to the very root of the trees.
* With no more catalysts for her earth magic, Glimmer boasts of how she knows more than AJ ever will and even knows the mare herself better than she could.
* "I’ve lived lifetimes around you, I know everything you’re capable of, and everything you are!"
* But there's one thing she doesn't know:
* "Ah’m half pear."
* In an instant, a golem in the image of Pear Butter rises from the rotten field of apples and seizes Glimmer in her teeth.
* Captive, Glimmer watches in horror as the pears within the Mother Golem's "mane" start to glow with an intensity that could only signal an imminent detonation.
* But, tapping into more of her time magic, Glimmer freezes AJ and the detonation in place before summoning the darkest of magics to eradicate her target.
* And eradicate her she would have, if a rainbow streak hadn't torn through the sky and struck her with mountain-shattering strength.
* "YOU DO NOT TOUCH MY FRIEND!"
* In the nick of time, Rainbow Dash had arrived to help her friend, sporting her own ethereal form as she controls Alt-Dash.
* Unfortunately, it isn't enough to put Glimmer down for good.
* With her magic, she simply rewinds time, reversing the damage dealt to the environment as well as the certainly lethal blow Dash dealt her.
* If she were a normal pony, that is.
* And so AJ and Dash brace themselves for another round against the morally bankrupt time wizard.
* Vinyl, and Octavia, watches as a queen changeling suffers some alcohol related consequences.
* Rainbow Dash takes the initiative and tries to belt Glimmer with a flurry of punches, but none find their mark as Glimmer contents herself with simply dodging.
* Not because she can't hit her...
* But she literally can't hit her, what with Alt-Dash being protected from any and all damage due to a spell placed on her by Salt.
* A spell Glimmer is quick to point out she was also blessed with, as she is obviously his favorite of course, but one she disabled to not draw Salt's attention.
* Apparently, Rainbow Dash wasn't aware of this as she hasn't actually been communicating with Alt-Dash at all, choosing instead to just hijack her body outright.
* And with this admittance, Glimmer sees an opportunity as she realizes Reg-Dash is in complete control.
* She flicks her across the nose, eliciting a pained yelp from the mare that strangely left the body she possesed untouched.
* "Bingo."
* Her theory confirmed, Glimmer then hits Dash with a punch that seems to strike at her very soul.
== Thread 347 ==
Substitute Recap
* AJ asks Celestia what they're gonna do if Tirek says he's sorry.
* Autumn Blaze and Rainshine constantly find their favorite candies in their manes as if someone is giving them gifts.
* OOCO Losing consciousness from AU-Two's attack to get the Crystal Heart, Tiempo attempts to confess his feelings to Spitfire before reality warps once more.
* Alt-Dazey and Alt-Delight move to mobilize the Alt-Ponyville Guards.
* Back with Delight and the Tree of Harmony...
* As hundreds of changeling queens beat upon the barrier protecting him and the Tree, Delight pleas for more instruction on using the Tree's power.
* She encourages him to try to make something and, drawing on his recent experience in the Dreamscape, Delight conjures an arsenal of weaponry with his imagination!
* At least, that's what he aimed to do, only to panic when it became apparent that's not how 'harmony' works.
* "I don't have an Element of Heavy Artillery."
* "What do you want me to do, be Kind at them!?"
* Yes, actually. Or he could try tapping into the Element of Beauty, since he's "rather nice".
* Reeling from the realization that there's apparently a 'new' Element to the Six, Delight barely has time to question it as the first Queen breaks through.
* "FOOLS! You should have known the mighty Queen Goliatias would be the first to break through these pitiful defenses!"
* With her jagged horn pointed at him, the Queen charges Delight to skewer him.
* As he tries to summon something to his aide, frustration and panic building, Delight threatens to rip a tree limb off and jam it up the Tree's-
* WHAM!
* A wall of crystal light pops up between him and the queen, too fast for her to dodge, and leaves her briefly concussed.
* "Huh. Well, you were honest, at least." 
* Losing it at her strangely nonchalant behavior, Delight again asks for help unless she actually really wants to die.
* But the Tree calmly insists that she's given him all the tools he needs.
* Before he can get any clarification, another ueen breaks through: Cracentaurus, the equally powerful rival to Goliatias!
* Again, Delight loses his temper with the Tree as he tries to conjure a defense-
* SHOOM!
* Which turns out to be a laser that turns the queen's wing to stone, causing her to faceplant into the ground.
* Initially surprised, Delight is quickly reminded that turning(/sealing) things to stone is pretty much all the Tree is known for.
* But he can't petrify the queen in her entirety because he's only able to tap into one Element at a time.
* "You are only one pony after all."
* His frustration flares again - targeted at how the Tree is the most powerful entity in the land but it's functionally useless as he nor she can use her full power.
* It doesn't make sense and he pleads with her to DO something or just tell him exactly how to use the power he knows and FEELS she has.
* "Please… I can still fight…"
* The Tree holds steady with patience and she asks Delight to tell her "what" she is.
* He thinks on this and her repetition of being "one" pony.
* Harmony is the lack of conflict.
* No. 
* Harmony is the stopping of conflict. 
* How? 
* With Kindness. Laughter. Generosity... 
* But that's not the right question. It's:
* "With who?"
* Harmony is something fostered between people, and he was just one pony getting his first taste handling the Elements.
* But he knew someone with far more experience in that regard.
* As the walls protecting them finally broke down in greater chunks and the horde descended upon them, Delight sent out a call through the Tree's power.
* In a flash, a ball of light bearing the sigils of (presumably) Honesty, Loyalty, and Laughter bolted through the horde with a power that easily forced them back.
* Their assault given pause by fear of retaliation, the queens watch as the sphere of light moves to perch atop the Tree of Harmony before dispersing to reveal...
* Princess Luna!
* "I'm not worthy..."
* Who at last was given the chance to reconcile with the Harmony she cast aside centuries ago.
* Heartened by the sight of an ally, Delight makes another another call as the Princess of the Night engages the changeling horde.
* This time, Vermillion appears!
* "Regalia!"
* And not a moment too soon, as her construct easily bats away a queen attempting to attack her subordinate, something that greatly surprised the Lieutenant.
* "Bravery, huh? Strange, I would’ve expected Beauty."
* Startled, she looks for the source of the sudden voice.
* "Yeah, that’s the Tree of Harmony. She’s a lot more snippy than you think she’d be."
* The Lieutenant prepares to chew her subordinate out for his lie...
* Only to look back to see THE Tree of Harmony in all its jaw-dropping glory.
* And they've been tasked to protect her. 
* "Okay, so, why am I here," she asks.
* "The tree works off friendship, so… it let me call a friend."
* She feels a stirring in her heart, a warmth at the obvious implication, but there was no time to dwell on it as more queens rushed in to attack them.
* They needed more back up and, per the Tree's words, she needed to call a friend in.
* And call one she does as another queen nearly takes her head off with bladed-hooves.
* "Get your sorry bug ass back!"
* Dazey appears, delivering a punch of surprising power that sends the attacking queen flying.
* Her friends quickly catch her up to speed, namely on the fact that reality is basically collapsing, but it's not long before Goliatias and Cracentaurus continue their assault.
* Unfortunately, one of them maanges to grab hold of Regalia and, using mental magics, the devastating grip biting into it transfers over to Vermillion.
* Delight calls on the Tree to give them an Element they can use to defend their friend.
* But she claims that "an" Element is not hers to give, nor is it to be horded, but it blossoms from within and is to be shared with others.
* As shown when Dazey, tapping into the Element of Loyalty, beats back the queen holding Vermillion hostage.
* It's a temporary victory, as the queens regroup to attack the trio, but the guards stand by their injured Lieutenant.
* Bolstered by their preence and burning with a desire to protect her friends from the charging queens, Vermillion surges with power!
* "REGALIA HARMONY!"
* And her beloved golden construct transforms into the mighty image of a crimson dragon-like creature!
* With the magic of Harmony coursing through its veins, Regalia easily dispatches the queens with a flurry of punches and casts them away to the far reaches of the void.
* While the trio battles queens approaching from below, Luna battles them in the sky and easily repels them until twin beams struck the Elements that protected.
* The source is soon revealed to be Scarabaeidae, her mood that of elation as she finally gets to conclude the postponed battle between her and Luna.
* Strong as she is with the Elements, even Luna's power surprisingly began to waver under the optic energes of her foe.
* In her mind, the voice of the Tree of Harmony reminds Luna that Equestria needs the Princess..."
* "...but who do YOU need?"
* As she thinks on this, her opponent boasts that she cannot defeat the Hive.
* And she's right, something Luna openely gives her thanks for...
* Before AJ29 delivers a Priss Stomp that sends the Queen's optic attack veering off-course.
* With her student now aiding her on the battle, Luna declares that she wil teach him the most important lesson of all...
* About the Magic of Friendship.
* Delight wonders if the Tree of Harmony is intentionally letting in Queens they can handle.
* AJ29 wonders what he's supposed to do against the attacking queens with no Element himself.
* The Tree of Harmony tells him to summon a friend, which leads him to inadvertently summonig AJ56 to the battlefield.
* And there's no takebacks.
* Dazey summons Pommel, which means she considers her boss to be her friend, which means she gets roasted by Delight.
* Which means Pommel summons Jacqueline Daw, which means he avoids getting the couch if he kept her out of the fight.
* Back to the battle with Rainbow Dash and Applejack vs Starlight Glimmer!
* Starlight claims the upperhoof for a moment as she takes a few shots that force Rainbow Dash to the ground.
* But with the aid of a brief distraction by Applejack, Dash turns the tables on Glimmer and drags her face across the entirety of Sweet Apple Acres.
* Unfortunately, it does little except make Glimmer angrier and prompts her to simply stop "playing nice".
* Showing off a might that she boasts as unmatchedin all the world, Glimmer form an orb of magic brimming with destructive power,
* With no chance for either to escape and no care for who seems the attack, Glimmer looses the orb towards them...
* Only for it to detonate right on top of her thanks to intervention from Rarity!
* Glimmer quickly recovers from the backfire of her attack, only to get blasted by a confetti canonball from Pinkie Pie, which sends her crashing face first into a lava attack she intended to lob at her opponents.
* But even the flesh melting strength of lava isn't enough to stop her, and so the fight continues next time on Apple Pear Z!
== Thread 348 ==
Substitute Recap!
* Applejack asks Celestia about Grogar's Bewitching Bell.
* Pommel is hesitant to summon friends to the battlefield, but ones that are soldiers and like to fight?
* He can live with that, and so must Suckerpunch as he suddenly finds himself.
* Delight wonder what Element the new recruits embody and the Tree doesn't know.
* He also wonders why Dazey get superpunches but he's not allowed to create mecha.
* In the face of imminent death, AJ29 accidentally summons ex-Mayor Mare to the battlefield, who falls upon the attacking queen.
* This causes the laser said queen was charging to backfire in her face, drawing blood and causing her to realize her mortality.
* Delight feels it's awkwards calling the Tree of Harmony, well, "Tree".
* So, he goes with "Harmony".
* Suckerpunch and Pommel have a brief chat with Harmony over the bizarre fact she met AND helped Chrysalis once before Suckerpunch summons punchbuddy C41 to help fight.
* As Vermillion dispatches queens, she and Delight discuss the "forgotten Elements" and Harmony kindly informs Delight that "duodecim" is not, in fact, twenty.
* Saturnia and Geeridia learn that they can bleed now.
* C41 apologizes The Tree of Harmony for thinking Applejack was weird for whispering to trees.
* Suckerpunch is confused that he doesn't get an Element and superpunching, leading to an argument with Pommel over how easy the Mane 6 "embodied" their Elements.
* So, Pommel summons Lucky Strikes to get a second opinion.
* The Tree of Harmony claims she can't 'see' physical things, but only those aspects of themselves tied to the concept of harmony.
* Father's Day Stories!
* AJ56 is worried he might give one of his relatives a low "plot" score.
* Thinking on who to call next, Pommel resigns himself to summoning Quicksilver and Steam Gauge.
* Following this, Jacqueline Daw points out that Pommel needs to call in a certain someone that'd be absolutely down for fighting and killing the Queens.
* Though worried he'll go oevrboard and be hurt, Pommel relents and summons C32 to the battlefield.
* "Ahahaha... ahahahahh... AHAHAH... AHAHHHHHHHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHAH!"
* Who immediately taps into the Element of Laughter and goes to town on the invading horde.
* Thinking on what it means to be "Loyal", Delight tries to tap into the Element as he strikes a queen.
* His attack misses, so he switches things up and takes aim at a queen to fire a Harmony Beam that turns her to stone!
* Or would, if it worked, but at least it leads to him reminding everyone that that's literally the main thing the Tree of Harmony does.
* Satunia wonders why they're losing, but Cicadoidea points out it's more like they're just not winning.
* Delight figures out Harmony's mind-read-linking could probably maybe be sorta useful for strategizing against a force with superiors numbers.
* C41 finds out that Vermillion is related to her.
* Suckerpunch and Dazey argue about whether his Loyalty for C41 is actually Love.
* AJ29 and ex-Mayor Mare debate who gets to summon Zecora and Trixie, only to find out they're already there.
* Contacted through Harmony's mental-linking, AJ29 is ecstatic to find that Delight has escaped the Dreamscape.
* Trixie tries to tap into the Element of Magic, but can't.
* Zecora, on the other hoof...
* Marey thinks on who to call in next, and Zecora slaps down her attempt to bring in Mrs. Cake.
* Lucky Strikes and Steam Gauge argue about whether Peactrotters counts as friends, and summon Haymaker for a second opinion.
* Dazey wants Vermillion to give her a punchy-ghost.
* C32 enjoys smacking the Queens around so much that he summons C88 and C77 so they can share in the joy of causing them pain.
* Confused as to what's going on, C77 asks Pommel for a quick rundown and the changeling soon finds that he can tap into the Element of Hope.
* And use his knife as a conduit, which gives it a rainbow glow.
* C88 meanwhile gets a quick rundown from Vermillion, and lets slip that she thinks ponies all look alike.
* C41 and Dazey become quick friends, with her using teleportation to help Dazey reach far away queens.
* Zecora and Delight have a chat about his escaspe frm dreamland and her date with AJ29.
* C32 summons Rekulk to bask in the joy of beating up queens, too.
* Which has Harmony concerned about C32's mania.
* Rekulk catches up with Marey and learns, after being struck with and unharmed by a bolt of magic, that he embodies the Element of Generosity.
* AJ29 thinks to summon Sunset Shimmer, but Harmony has to veto that for reasons she doesn't have the heart to tell him.
* Seeing Delight and Suckerpunch trying to contend with several Queens, Trxie rushes in to Generously save them with the porr of the Elements of Harmony!
* At least, she hoped to.
* Instead, her power literally just tickles a Queen, leading to Dazey and C41 to jump in for the save.
* Maybe she'll get another chance with the other 11 Elements?
* Marey overhears that bit, so demands Delight tells her about all 12 Elements.
* Harmony finds navigating Rekulk's mind a bit difficult.
* Harmony calls on Trixie to summon a friend for a reward, so she summons Raven...
* Who quickly stops thinking of her as a friend since she brought her into a battlefield.
* Raven then proceeds to run around trying to avoid the explosions and fighting.
* Saturnia and Scarabaeidae discuss their mortality, and it turns out Scarabaeidae can't user her lasers with impunity anymore.
* Unfortnately for Raven, Queen Larvesta soon aims to take her life, but Jetset is summoned just in the knick of time to save her!
* Delight is glad Raven is safe now, but she's peeved he didn't try harder to save her.
* Harmony makes contact with Jetset, who thanks her for her service empowering his Queen (Celestia) and is unsurprised that he embodies the Element of Loyalty.
* Holdiay - 4th of July stories!
* Pommel tries to explain that the Elements of Harmony can theoretically do anything, but Haymaker just wants rainbow punches.
* Delight confides in Harmony his fears of summoning someone else to the battlefield, as he is reluctant to put non-guards in danger.
* The Tree of Harmony questions if he'll "let" them get hurt, to which he says he won't.
* "Then that's really all that needs to be said, isn't it?"
* With that, she goes silent andthe stallion heads back into the fray.
* Suckerpunch and Delight try to figure out how to tap into an Element based on what the Mane 6 did.
* Haymaker is also trying to figure it out when the Tree of Harmony suggests summoning more friends to increase harmony and the chances of activating an Element.
* Shocked to learn he can summon a friend just by thinking of them Haymaker quickly summons Potatojack (PJ), Flim, Flam, and Blueblood to the battlefield!
* Potatojack talks with Harmony, who she is surprised to find doesn't dislike her despite the fact that she's a changeling.
* With that in mind, she asks for some advice on, of course, tapping into an Element of Harmony so she can get superpunches.
* But Harmony is confused as to why she'd want that.
* PJ just doesn't striked her as the punching type.
* She's a duel-wielding, zip-lining, potato-loving changeling that used to prioritize her own survival above all else due to her mother's teaching.
* Yet, that is one aspect of her personality she eventually let go of, a fear she overcame after running from the fearsome Cordyceps.
* "All of that took something, didn't it?"
* Something inside of her...
* "Do you know what that was?"
* Hearing the cries of Blueblood, PJ springs into action, gripping her twin blades tightly as the voice of Harmony whispers:
* "Bravery."
* And as they struck true upon base of the queen's the wings, they shimmered with a rainbow light that turned the apendages to stone, sending her crashing to the ground.
* With his innocence saved (for the time being), PJ gives Blueblood a smile, grateful to have him as her friend.
* Delight questions a queen on why she's suddenly obsessed with Blueblood.
* Blueblood tries to enlist Delight to protect him, but has to settle for Pommel.
* Ember voices suspicions about the changeling queens suddenly disappearing, while Torch just wants to enjoy the peace.
* Spike and Diamond Tiara feel like they're missing something, so Silver Spoon tries to get them in on a scam.
* Tree Hugger gets saddled with some changelings who wanted a summer camp, so has to call up Citrine on her scarab for help.
* The CMC try to solve the trolley problem, and Sweetie Belle meets it halfway.
* Back on the battlefield, Delight is accosted by two queens, each shape-shifted into the form of bear and wingless dragon intent on tearing him apart.
* He manages to hold them off for a time, all the while trying to decipher Harmony's advice to improve his so-called Harmony Beam...
* "WHOA!"
* But it's only a matter of time before he slips up as the queens starts working together better.
* "SuckerPUNCH!"
* Luckily, the aptly named guard jumps in to assist, evening the odds enough that Delight begins to feel a spark of hope that they could defeat the queens.
* "GOTCHA!"
* Yet the odds once again fall out of their favor as two more queens join the fray, with one making to hit Suckerpunch with one of her own.
* Just as it seems the pegasi are done for, Dazey, with the help of C41, appears in a flash of fire and immediately downs a queen with a single punch.
* Given a reprieve thanks to her and C41's interventon, Delight unfortunately finds himself at the mercy of Dazey's ire as she lambasts him for the "Harmony Beam."
* It's not his style, she claims, and demands to see Delight fight like he really would.
* "Show 'em what Kid Dangerous can do!"
* Emboldened by the shout out to days long gone, Delight tosses aside his defensive tactic and aggresively attacks one of the queens.
* Though not strong enough to harm her significantly, he managed to draw out a hiss of pain and hit her with a suplex, topped off by a punch from Dazey that sens her flying.
* "Ain't that better than that beam nonsense?"
* Better than dying, sure, but despite Dazey's encouragment, Delight couldn't help but feel that the "Kid Dangerous" bit still wasn't "him" and brought him no closer to truly embodying an Element like Dazey does.
* Before he can voice these doubts, the faux-dragon changeling queen returns with a failed sneak attack!
* Left to deal with her own their own, what with Suckerpunch and C41 fighting off another queen, the guards manage to overwhelm her.
* It works, somewhat, as the 2-v-1 forces her to dodge more often than she can attempt to retaliate, but her agility makes landing a decisive blow difficult.
* Thinking on her claws, the queen manages to separate the two, tossing Delight away with her tail, and lunges to rip out Dazey's throat.
* In that instance, even as a part of him believed she could take care of herself, the very real fear that Dazey could die shook Delight to his core
* He reached out to her, too far away to beat back the queen, as desperate thoughts of mastering an Element of Harmony swirled in his mind.
* The stallion knew he wasn't worthy to do such a thing, to grasp the full brunt of one's power.
* But he didn't need to. 
* Just a slice, just a bit of power found in the "overlap" between the Elements, would do.
* For isn't there some Beauty in Kindness, Kindness in Honesty, and Honesty in Beauty?
* And though this blending (rather than combination) might be "weaker", with as strong as the Elements are when distinct, even that would be a blessing now.
* Because as selfish as he is, as dubious as his desire to claim an Element could have been called, above his own ego and life...
* "DAZEY!"
* He just wanted to help his friend.
* "GAH!"
* In a flash, a sphere of light shot forth from his hooves and struck the queen, sending her flying away from Dazey.
* Yet not due to any explosive force, but by the beautful wings that had suddenly sprouted on her back, bound by a plate-like object on her chest.
* Try as she might to tear it apart or transform out of it, her heart was bound by the magic and set aflutter as if struck by a 「Summer/Time Kiss」!
* Not only was she carried away by the wings, but she was afflicted by a sort of near weightlessness
* Taking advantage of this, Delight grabs hold of the queen and tosses her, hard, toward the queen Suckerpunch and C41 were fighting.
* CRASH! The force of the throw, combined with the returning weight of the faux-dragon queen, knocks both enemies out!
* As he basks in the fought won by him and his allies, Delight wonders what Ember would have to say about him beating a "dragon".
* "Let's find out!"
* And so Harmony brings her in!
* "...WHAT THE FU"
* To the surprise of her, Delight, and everyone else watching.
== Thread 349 ==
Substitute Recap
# Applejack questions Celestia... and the answer is "Forty Two".
# Harmony learns that Flim and Flam don't have any other friends.
# She then tries to sell Delight on the idea of a Friendship School.
# Pommel tries to figure out his Element with Jacqueline Daw.
# Jetset gets frustrated with Harmony when he fails to summon "bubblehorse".
# Potatojack calls on C32 to throw her like a spiny-top of rainbow-bladed doom!
# At Harmony's offer of another prize, Trixie summons Derpy!
# And now gets the chance to do combination attacks if either gets an Element.
# Jetset proposes a teamup with Zecora, but she gives him a restriction he must refuse.
# He then takes to wondering what Honeyheart is up to, which, to his dismay, Harmony immediately takes advantage of to summon her!
# Because she needs bodies around to keep her from dying.
# Delight gets dragged into a rant from Queens Nematocera, Saturnia, and Geeridae about "topping".
# Derpy learns she can summon friends, but is worried that Cloudchaser may make things worse.
# Jetset 'requests' that Pommel looks after Honeyheart.
# Delight figures Ember would have a lot of questions, like who he is and what's going on, but is surprised that she actually does remember him.
# "Aurochi!"
# Kinda.
# Well, better than kinda, since he didn't give her his real name in the first place.
# "The hell is going on here?!"
# He begins to explain the situation, but a surprise attack cuts him short as he pushes Ember to safety.
# Though his push was rather light, the dragoness finds herself literally flying off her feet as a changeling queen rams Delight like a meteor from heaven.
# Initially fearful for his safety, Ember is amazed that Delight instead is easily holding the queen back and marvels at the crystal-like wings on the queen's back.
# He tosses the Quen to Dazey, who easily sends the queen flying with a punch imbued with a prismatic power.
# For a moment, she was in awe of the sight, bit quickly took to trying to free herself from the strange cloth which seemed to be causing her to float.
# "Wha- grr- put me DOW-"
# With a thud, she lands snout first on the ground and is immediately attacked by a queen.
# She easily avoids the strike and pelts her for with a stream of fire!
# Which fails to even tickle her despite a straight-up bathing her in flames.
# "You guys are really inconsistent with this whole super-power thing. Which is great!"
# Again, she tries to attack, but a ball of light strikes and sends her flying on crystal wings.
# Weightless and confused, she's practically defenseless as Delight grabs hold of her and slams her to the ground, knocking her out.
# Ember is absolutely stunned by the sight, a pony beating what a dragon couldn't, but quickly learns that what she just saw is very real.
# And that the very delicious looking giant tree behind her is responsible for giving him the power to do so.
# He asks for her help, which she deigns to give because she wants to fight and not because they're friends or anything, and she finally learns his real name.
# Only to constantly butcher it because it's difficult to say...
# "I'll just call you 'Aurochi'. Or Rochi. That's way easier."
# Ember then proceeds to mistake several ponies for him and get all of their names wrong, too.
# She tries to burn up Queen Melanophila, but the changeling is just left cold.
# C41 has to explain that not all changelings are bad to Ember.
# Delight learns Ember has no problems remembering changeling "names".
# Looking for a fight to prove herself, Ember gets more than she bargained for as Queen Lunactias uses her as a punching bag for her grudge against dragons.
# Saturnia becomes "eye buddies" with Derpy and Musca.
# Jetset is worried Delight has paved the way for an international incident by summoning Ember, and knows all the guards' names.
# Suckerpunch and Lucky Strikes want superpunches.
# As Ember continues losing ground to Lunactris, Harmony calls on her to summon friends to help her... only to learn that Ember doesn't have any besides Delight.
# Ex-Mayor Mare and Rekulk wonder if they should help Ember.
# Delight tries to explain how he used (part of) the Elements of Harmony to Trixie and Suckerpunch, and magics some defensive clothes/gloves for them.
# C41, doing her best to distract queens with teleport punches and kicks, gets caught in the grip of her grandmother: Queen Molta!
# Zanta is still confused about what's going on.
# Back with Ember, she's still losing ground against Lunactris. Badly.
# Rushing to her defense, Zecora easily bats Lunactris away as Honeyheart runs in to help Ember as best she can.
# Which isn't much, as she was teleported with only her scrubs.
# While Zecora holds off Lunactris, Ember expresses confusion through her pain over why two random ponies are helping a dragon they don't know.
# Besides that, she berates herself for "using her brain" as her Father always pushed the value of physical might in dragons.
# But, Honeyheart points out that Ember didn't do anything a dragon wouldn't.
# Except team up, and with ponies of all creatures.
# She asks why Ember wanted to be different so bad, and admires that the dragoness reveals she wanted to lead her people to be "better" despite their jeers at her.
# It reminds Honeyheart of her own feelings of wanting to be a nurse, that is, to help fix "wrongs" that she sees.
# And, right now, that means tending to Ember's injuries, even at the risk of her own life as Lunactris turns her malice towards killing her.
# "Now you die!"
# Though fear might be expected, it is surprise Honeyheart feels when Ember rushes past her and tears into the queen's hide with her claws.
# The dragoness offers her thanks, which confuses the nurse for a moment before she notices the rainbow glow upon her, closing all her wounds.
# Honeyheart had gained the Element of Healing!
# Lunactris mocks Ember for her reliance on two ponies for help, but the dragoness proudly declares she doesn't care what she or any other dragon says about it!
# She's going to be Dragon Lord someday and show her kin a better way of doing things, because Hope keeps her going strong!
# In a flash of light, the Queen is blasted away, not by Ember, but Zecora's staff empowered by the dragon's Element of Hope.
# Together, with two new friends by her side, the trio move to finish off Lunactris, herself now backed up by a slew a Queens who've decided to jump in.
# Queen Culicidae gives TRixie a lecture on the ills of racism and prejudice.
# Despite constantly being swarmed by Queens himself, Delight is peeved with Harmony over her not telling him Ember was in danger.
# Ironically, he quickly finds himself in danger as one queen traps him in an unbreakable bearhug.
# But Ember swoops in to help!
# And so the two have a moment... which is ruined when it turns out, to Delight's embarrassment, Harmony let Ember listen in on their conversation.
# Harmony quickly excuses herself to give Pommel some advice.
# Ember introduces Delight to her new friends, but still has trouble with pony (and Zebra) names.
# Following that, she wants to see Delight's thing.
# Feeling good about herself, Ember tries to use her Hope power on Derpy...
# But it doesn't work on her since she doesn't have an Element.
# What she does have is a friend in Musca, the sight of whom confuses Ember as she thought all changeling queens were evil.
# Not this one, Derpy assures her, but she doesn't blame the dragon (who have their own publicity issues) as one time Lyra-
# BLINK!
# And with that absentminded thought, Derpy accidentally summons the minty mare to the battlefield.
# Then Lyra promptly summons BonBon by accident.
# Molta takes her time slapping C41 around and elaborates on... Queen "alliances", but Suckerpunch jumps in to save her!
# Derpy explains what's going on to BonBon and Lyra, who accidentally reveals her fetish.
# Lyra wonders why Harmony didn't give ponies powers, and Bonbon gets Jetset to stand down.
# Lucky Strikes talks rank and becomes guard buddies with Delight, who makes him a magic dress.
# Blueblood gets to deal with Ember's pony-blindness.
# Struck by an idea, Lyra summons DJ-PON3, aka Vinyl Scratch, aka the Master of Harmony, to the battlefield!
# Unfortunately, Vinyl is master of the wrong kind of Harmony, as the Tree explains.
# Harmony does, however, reveal that there IS an Element of Music, which is why ponies are so musically inclined.
# Excited by the reveal, Vinyl immediately summons Octavia so she can share this knowledge with her.
# Ember mistakes Vinyl for Shining Armor, and Delight goes insane trying to follow how she knows that name.
# Delight encourages Raven when she doubts her usefulness, and magics up some clothing to protect her.
# Raven wants to be dangerously sexy and learns that Jetset misunderstands what an "onichan" is.
# Lucky Strikes wonders if Harmony has precognition.
# Prompted by Lyra wondering if anyone knows any actual fighters, Derpy summons Marble in hopes of getting her Jeet Kune Do expertise!
# Unfortunately, Pinkie Pie's younger twin doesn't know it, but she does accidentally summon Limestone to serve as a possible fighter for the good guys.
# Limestone and Marble have to explain the hardness scales.
# Marble hears voices, but this time it's just Harmony.
# Harmony wonders if all ponies are insane now.
# Potatojack needs Blueblood's pony thing.
# Haymaker needs Flim and Flam to whip up a queen-killing machine out of thin air.
# They can't, but do something even better: summon Fuzzy and the Buzz!
# And as it turns out, the Tree of Harmony is a huge fan of theirs, so uses her power to broadcast their impromptu show to everyone.
# Teaming up with Zecora to take down some queens, Ember finds herself caught in the sticky-string of the definitely-NOT-copying-Sciderella Queen: Tetranychidae!
# Luckily, Rekulk stops her with a bite, so Ember only suffers a crippling fear of said Morlock due to the resulting convulsions and foaming the queen suffers.
# So fearful, in fact, she starts actively asking for help to escape the Morlock menance, which surprises Delight (on both counts).
# Flim and Flam are worried for Fuzzzy and Buzz, but the two hosts easily repel attacking queens with the Element of Honesty and Laughter while Harmony fangirls!
# Derpy learns Vinyl dislikes the "DJ-PON3" nickname, but HATES being called a "Cyber She-mon".
# Lucky Strikes wants a gun; Harmony says "No!"
# Luna learns want an Imp is and beats up a Queen that enslaves them.
# And now we return to: Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash vs Starlight Glimmer!
# Having gone into a frenzy, Glimmer taps into the very essence of "Wild Magic" and sends AJ flying with a tackle.
# Try as they might, AJ's friends could do nothing to separate the two as Glimmer mercilessly beat their friend to within an inch of her life.
# For a moment, the maddened mare relents her assault, but only to finish her foe off with an earth shattering attack primed with Wild Magic.
# "GRRRAAAGGGH...Uh?"
# But the shattering never came, and the desolation she was expecting was instead a picture of flowering greenery and renewed life.
# "Hey."
# Speaking of renewed, her attention shoots skyward, drawn by the voice of Applejack, her injuries fully healed thanks to manipulating the limitless possibility inherent in Glimmer's Wild Magic.
# She offers thanks for murderous mare's "help" and hits her with a punch that tears half of her face clean off with neck-breaking force.
# But even that doesn't kill Glimmer, whose mastery of time magic allows her to completely reverse the damage dealt before she renews her rampage.
# Rarity steps in to defend AJ, digging deep into the well of her power to hit Glimmer mare with the untamed magic she used against Chitania so long ago.
# The explosive magic, fueled not only by Rarity but her Altverse counterpart, tears at Glimmer's flesh but fails to do more than slow her down.
# So she throws all pretense away and engages the mare in a clashing flurry of punches!
# As she holds Glimmer's attention, Rainbow Dash rushes in to tag Glimmer with Pinkie's latest invention: Caughton Candy!
# For what soon exploded into a puff of pink smoke, soon solidified around Glimmer, holding her still long enough for all four mares to hit her with fatal blows!
# Unfortunately, even straight up decapitation isn't enough to stop Glimmer's magic from reviving her.
# Nothing they were doing was working and the quartet was running low on energy while Glimmer's reserves seemed infinite.
# And with that infinite power, cackling like a mad mare, Glimmer charges a spell that devastating spell sure to kill AJ and the others.
# Until a bolt of magic from an unknown source shoots toward Glimmer's Death Ball of Revenge and slowly begins to tear it apart.
# "Bout time you showed up."
# Alt-Twilght has arrived to save her friends!
# Enraged by the interference, Glimmer fire wildly upon the alicorn, but Altwi easily bats her magic away, using her affinity with Magic itself to divert it!
# Harnessing the Element of Magic, Twilight turns the Wild Magic coursing through Glimmer against her in an explosion that sends her flying.
# Yet as devastating as it might seem, it mostly just served to knock out of Glimmer who, now calm again, tries to explain that ALtwi is on the wrong side of things.
# It falls flat with the mare, who already knows what's happening, which turns Glimmer incredulous as, out of all ponies, she figured Altwi would agree with her.
# She doesn't, because, as painful as siding with AJ and the others might be...
# "...it’s the right thing to do."
# Back with the Tree of Harmony, Delight is feeling confident that they can win as he and his allies continue to hold out against the Queens' assault.
# But his confidence soon wavers, poisoned by an anxiousness as Harmony assures him a little too insistently that they have all the tools they need to win without her.
# Just as Delight moves to ask what she means-
# CRACK! A spike of black crystal pierces the trunk of the Tree of Harmony.
# In a rage, Delight lashes out at the spike, striking a veil of magic around it which dissipates to reveal AU-Two behind the attack!
# The effects of such a critical blow are immediate; the dome of magic surrounding the battlefield shatters and the Queens swarm in.
# He rushes the changeling, her smile wide and mad as she welcomes the opportunity to complete crush his attempts to ruin her perfect world completely underhoof.
# "...You have everything you need to win..."
# All the while Harmony's words echo in the depths of his mind.
== Thread 350 ==
50 Thread Milestone!
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