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Post by caelum on Feb 23, 2009 17:46:42 GMT -5
*muses* I should write a humorous, pointless short story some day wherein I'm attacked by all the ponies who are upset at me for what I put them through... GAH!!! PLOTBUNNY!!! *runs for cover, fails miserably, becomes bunny fodder a la Monty Python (where's the Holy Hand Grenade when you need it?)* Or . . . they have a CROSSOVER with Monty Python! Zounds! OMG...MLP/Monty Python crossover! Oh, the horrors WONDERS that would be unleashed!!! They are good! The best times to watch them are when you're really bored, or just need a lighthearted fantasy pick-me-up. Or when you're babysitting. It's especially entertaining when you have a couple logical, skeptical kids to watch with. I forget which one I was watching with my charges, but during the one romantic kissing scene the one girl mashed her head in her hands and screamed, "GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Yeah... Anyway, I suggest the Fairytopia ones, The Princess and the Pauper, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Island Princess, and Diamond Castle. (You might be able to find them on youtube...) They've also got A Christmas Carol coming out, which ought to be interesting, because Barbie is SCROOGE in that one. ...I just recc'd a bunch of Barbie movies. I have no life. ;D That blog is made of win. ;D BrightGlow--I haven't seen any of the Core 7 movies yet, and I'm not sure if I want to. They look really annoying. At least Runaway Rainbow and Princess Promenade had an actual plot. And yeah, I wish that Hasbro could spend more time on all their different characters... Ah, well, that's what fanfiction's for.
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Post by caelum on Feb 23, 2009 17:51:54 GMT -5
Part 9: Lights In which Rankle digs herself deeper into that ditch…
At the bottom of a cliff, they found something truly horrible.
“Sweet Rainbow,” Wondermint whispered. “Is he…?”
“Yeah,” said Secret Wish, looking shocked. “Yeah, he…he…”
They stared at the orange unicorn before them. Wondermint felt horrible. She’d never even seen a unicorn before, and here was one right in front of her face—dead.
Up on the cliff above them, the screaming continued. Secret Wish scowled.
“Rankle.”
“Her again?”
“Who else?”
“She’s…screaming?” Wondermint was confused. Secret Wish shook her head, looking sick.
“No, that’s not it. She’s making someone else scream.”
Wondermint froze. “What?”
“Come on,” Secret Wish said, going around the cliff to find an easier way up. “We need to get up there.”
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Lily Lightly could feel her mind falling apart on her. “P-p-please,” she whimpered, staring up imploringly at Rankle. “Stop.”
Rankle scowled down at the purple unicorn. “I’ll stop when I’ve gotten the information I need from you!” Another flash of light filled the air. Lily screamed from the pain. “How many more of you are there? Where are you living? Answer me!!”
Lily shrieked again. She didn’t want to be here. She wanted to be home…in the Crystal Rainbow Palace…with Windimoor, and her darling little Rarity…
“Rarity…” she whispered. Rankle looked at her.
“Rarity?” the yellow pony repeated.
“Rarity…”
“Who’s Rarity?”
“Rarity…” Lily Lightly frowned—who was Rarity? She couldn’t…she couldn’t remember, the pain was too much…
“Tell me who Rarity is, dear.”
She wanted to—she wanted to tell herself who Rarity was. She wanted to know why everything hurt. She wanted to know who she was, where she was, why she was in so much pain… Had it always hurt this much?
“Answer me.”
She couldn’t.
“Answer me NOW!!”
More light. She shrieked—the light was painful, the light was pain, it flowed through her, forced its way through her, until every single cell was screaming for mercy—
“Rankle,” someone said.
“What?” the yellow mare demanded. “Can’t you see I’m busy, you—oh! Blitzkrieg! What a…surprise!”
“Let the unicorn go, Rankle.”
“What? Why? I’m trying to get information out of—”
“The only thing you’re doing is turning her brain into a slurpee. Let her go. It’s the master’s orders.”
The pain stopped. Lily Lightly cried with relief, and curled up as best as her hurting body would let her. She didn’t hear anything else that the strange ponies said.
Rankle looked at Blitzkrieg. The dark purple stallion looked right back.
“Why…why does he want…”
“You’ve failed, Rankle. Again,” Blitzkrieg snorted. “All he wanted was for you to kill the countess. Instead, you get beaten up by an out-of-shape Shiner, kill four unicorns, and torture another to insanity. I know how much you enjoy bloodshed, but honestly.”
“But Blitzkrieg—unicorns! Think of what this means!”
“It means that you’ve ruined our master’s plans, he needs to rethink most of them, and you’re terribly out of shape if Secret Wish was able to knock you out so easily. He’s having you taken off duty for a while. You are to train hard and get back into shape so that you can be useful again.”
Rankle froze. Taken off duty?!? How embarrassing!! “But—”
“No buts,” Blitzkrieg ordered. He looked at the pink and blue ponies standing off to the side. “Come on. It’s time that we got back.”
“And…and the countess?” Rankle asked meekly.
“The Shiner is protecting her. We’ll let her live. For now. Let’s go.”
Lily Lightly didn’t see the strange ponies disappear. She was in too much pain to see much of anything.
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It was a gruesome sight that greeted Secret Wish and Wondermint when they finally reached the top of the cliff. The three dead unicorns were obviously beyond help, and Wondermint stared at them sadly. Rankle and her companions must truly be heartless creatures to do something as horrible as this.
A whimper drew her attention to a huddled, purple figure at the cliff’s edge. Secret Wish was already there, gently touching the terrified unicorn mare. Wondermint carefully walked to the pink pony’s side. “Is she…?”
“She’s terribly hurt,” Secret Wish stated. Wondermint looked over the purple body.
“I don’t see any blood.”
“It’s mental, mostly,” the glowing pony explained. “Rankle’s attacks focus on the brain and nervous system. She makes you feel pain, without really doing anything to your body. Your mind, on the other hand…” She trailed off sadly, looking at the cringing figure below them. “She’s probably lost half of hers.”
“Will she be okay?”
“Depends,” Secret Wish answered. “I might be able to help a bit…” She trailed off, and lowered her head so that her forehead touched that of the purple mare. Secret Wish closed her eyes, and a soft pink light enveloped both her and the unicorn. The mare shrieked at first, crying in fear, and then in relief as the light brought no pain, but healing, and she felt the agony slowly slip away.
After a moment, Secret Wish pulled back from the touch, and the light faded. “I helped her mind as much as I could,” she whispered to Wondermint, “but she’ll never completely heal, mentally.” Turning to the unicorn, she asked gently, “Are you alright?”
“I…I…”
“Do you feel okay?”
“Rarity…Windimoor…no…no…!”
“Shhh,” Secret Wish said, in a comforting way. She lowered her head and gently touched the unicorn’s brow. “It’s going to be alright.”
Wondermint watched the Shiner calm the purple pony before asking, “Now what?”
“Now?” Secret Wish asked, frowning. “Now you need to get to Unicornia. And you need to take her with you.”
“Aren’t you coming?”
“I’ll show you the way out of the mountains,” Secret Wish answered. “After that, though, I need to go find out what happened to Rankle. Don’t worry, though,” she added upon seeing Wondermint’s worried look. “I’ll make sure someone comes to help you.”
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Post by caelum on Feb 23, 2009 17:58:03 GMT -5
Part 10: Partings In which one of those perfectly lovely extra unicorns Hasbro didn’t see fit to name gets her due…
“This is it.”
Wondermint looked through the dim light at the path she was supposed to take out of the mountains. It had taken them the rest of the day to calm down the unicorn, and the sun was nearly completely set. “I just follow this?”
“Yep.” Secret Wish nodded. “It’ll lead you right back to Unicornia. And I’ll make sure someone comes out to help you before you get there.”
Wondermint looked at the purple unicorn mare standing listlessly beside her. There was an empty look in her eyes, and she stared at the ground without really seeing it. “You’re sure she’s gonna be alright?”
“She’ll be better once she gets home,” Secret Wish answered. “Trust me. We can’t just wait in the woods for a couple of days for her to get better.” After a pause, she added, “Just be gentle with her, alright?”
“No worries,” Wondermint assured the Shiner. The twosome stood there for a moment in silence.
“By the way,” Wondermint added, “thanks. I would’ve been glue by now if you hadn’t’ve helped me.”
Secret Wish laughed. “Yeah. That was a pretty nasty bush.”
“I wasn’t talking about the bush,” Wondermint smiled. “But thanks.”
“You should get going,” Secret Wish said. “It isn’t too far. You can get there by morning going slow, which you will be with her.” She gestured to the unicorn. “Good luck, Wondermint.”
“Thanks. Same to you.” She didn’t really know what the pink pony would be doing, but it sounded dangerous. Secret Wish smiled.
“I’ll see you around. Now get.”
Wondermint nodded and gently nudged the unicorn. They made their way down the rocky path, going slowly so that the unicorn didn’t strain herself. Secret Wish watched them with a smile on her lips.
When they were far off enough that they couldn’t see her, she disappeared in a flash of light.
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Whistle Wishes.
She looked around, frowning. It was another one of these dreams. This time, she was standing in a cloudy sky.
Whistle Wishes, the voice said again, and a glowing pony came into view. It was the orange one this time, complete with purple and red hair.
Yes? she asked.
Your queen needs you, the other answered.
She was instantly all ears. What happened?
A terrible accident. You must help the queen. She is in safe hooves, and is being guided back here, but her companion—a white earth pony with purple hair—has never been here before and could use some help. Send a troop up the mountain path to bring them here safely. Do not harm the earth pony, she is a friend in need of help, and can be trusted.
Whistle Wishes’s mind was whirling. What…what about King Windimoor?
The orange pony looked at her sadly. I’m sorry. Nothing can be done for him.
He’s…dead?!?
Take care of the queen, the orange pony ordered. She is the one who needs help. Do as I’ve ordered. The Earth pony will be able to explain. Treat her well. And with that, the sparkling mare disappeared.
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Whistle Wishes woke up. For a moment, she merely laid in her bed, blinking. And then she jumped to her feet and ran out the bedroom door, dashing down the hallways to Cheerilee’s room. Please don’t be asleep yet. Please don’t be asleep yet. The sun hadn’t set too long ago, and Whistle Wishes had only just gone to bed when the dream had come. There was a good chance Cheerilee was still awake.
She was. The purple unicorn looked up in confusion as Whistle Wishes entered the room.
“Hey, what’s up?”
“I had another dream,” Whistle Wishes said. “Something terrible’s happened.”
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True to Secret Wish’s word, they hadn’t gone too far when Wondermint heard the trample of hooves.
“Sounds like our help’s here,” she remarked to the purple unicorn. The other didn’t answer.
“Who goes there?” a new voice called out, and Wondermint looked up to see a red unicorn mare with about twenty soldiers behind her. The red unicorn—their leader, apparently—froze when she saw Wondermint’s companion. “Queen Lily Lightly!”
Wondermint froze—queen?!?
“My lady, are you alright?”
“She needs a medic,” Wondermint said quickly, sounding unfazed despite the fact her brain was whirring at a hundred miles per hour. This purple unicorn was their queen?!? “Something happened to her. We need to get her back to Unicornia as fast as possible.”
The red unicorn scrutinized her. “Wait, you’re an earth pony? How did you know about Unicor—”
“It’s a long story,” Wondermint cut her off. “I can tell you later…please, she really needs help.”
The red mare nodded. “Right. All right, everyone, let’s wink the queen and her companion out of here! We need to get back to the palace, now!”
As the other unicorns formed a circle around them to wink out, the red unicorn turned to Wondermint. “I’m Radiance, by the way. Captain of the Unicornian guard.”
“I’m Wondermint,” Wondermint answered. Radiance nodded.
“I’d be happy to meet you under friendlier circumstances. Alright, everyone! Wink out!”
The world disappeared in a flash of light.
Radiance is a background Unicorn in The Runaway Rainbow...and any other stories set in Unicornia. She's red, with yellow/cyan hair and a purplish/pink bubble symbol. I figured she was too pretty to go nameless, and then I assigned names to some other background unicorns, and knowing me they'll ALL have names by the end of this saga...same with the background Pegs...
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Post by caelum on Feb 23, 2009 18:03:14 GMT -5
Part 11: Truths In which Crystal Lace decides that sanity is second to friendship…
Crystal Lace stared at the room. “This…this can’t possibly be real…”
But real it was. There were books everywhere, and paintings, and scrolls—and it all seemed to be so very old…
She looked at one of the paintings that leaned against a table and a stack of books. It depicted a human girl, with long blonde hair and strange clothing, standing beside a pink pegasus with a blue mane and tail, and blue lightningbolts gracing her hips. The twosome had determined expressions on their faces.
Not quite knowing what she was doing, Crystal Lace picked up a book from the pile on the table. The number twenty-seven was embossed on the spine. She flipped to the last page.
It turned out to be a diary.
Seventh day of the Green Stripe, year 1987
They’ve been steadily pushing us back. I don’t know what to do. Majesty’s gone, and the elves have gone into hiding. No one knows what happened to the Princesses.
I miss Firefly.
Danny and Molly have been trying to think of a plan, but we see no way out of this that doesn’t end in death. I really don’t know what to do. I’d trust in the Rainbow, but even that doesn’t seem to do any good any more. Sometimes, there really isn’t another rainbow. We’ll probably be dead by the yellow stripe.
Though I’ll admit that, before I go down, I’d really love to tear Rankle’s eyeballs out for what she did to Firefly.
I’m rambling. There really isn’t anything else to do. This is hopeless. In the off chance that anyone ever finds this diary after I die—well, there’s really nothing to say that I haven’t already. We did our best. We really did.
Damn you, Tirak.
~Megan Lennox~
Crystal Lace set the diary down. Oh, Wundy… She had an idea, now, sort of. Kind of. Maybe.
Something was happening. Something that involved her friend. And Crystal Lace wasn’t the sort of pony to just let the world fly by her when her friend was obviously in trouble, and the answers lay right in front of her. She looked at the book again, taking in the number twenty-seven on the spine. Twenty-seven…
Sure enough, the rest of the books were numbered as well. Crystal Lace pulled out number one, and opened it to the first page.
June 10th, 1983
Dear Diary,
So I only just got off on summer vacation a little while ago, and you’ll never believe what happened! A pink flying pony crash-landed into the well! It was amazing! Even TJ thought so! Her name is Firefly, and she flew me over this rainbow to this magical land… Though it isn’t all happy and all…there’s this really bad guy who’s kidnapping ponies and turning them into his slaves or something… Right now there’s a meeting going on to try and figure out how to stop him. I’m really bored, so this nice pegasus named Paradise gave me this diary to write in. I can’t wait for Firefly and the others to come out of the meeting. It’s just really boring right now.
But I’ve seen the most beautiful ponies! Firefly was really pretty, and so was Paradise, and there was this other green pegasus and a bunch of normal-looking ponies in all sorts of colors…and then there’s Queen Majesty. She’s a gorgeous unicorn.
Danny and Molly are never going to believe this when I tell them. Heh, neither will anyone else who picks up this diary.
You got that right, Crys thought. There were no such things as pegasi or unicorns. There were no such things as humans.
But she read on. For Wundy.
End Part 1
Well, that's the end of Part 1! If you're a new reader, I hope you enjoyed it! If you've read it before, I hope you liked the reread! Comments are appreciated, of course. ;D I should have Part 2: Adjustments up soon, and I'll be working on Part 3 when I'm not taking care of my real life.
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Post by BrightGlow on Feb 23, 2009 18:05:02 GMT -5
Oh my good I need to read so mutch tomorrow. Well I need to go to bed now because it's 5 past midnight here.
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