Title: Thread 84: Stories 61-70 Author: PrincessApplejack Pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/ZgD3tXch First Edit: Wednesday 19th of August 2015 02:43:55 PM CDT Last Edit: Wednesday 19th of August 2015 02:43:55 PM CDT _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   >SA "Twilight" ~~~   >Heyyy, Twili. Just popping in to make sure that you haven't gone insane again.   "HEY SHINY HAVE YOU SEEN MY NEW ROOTS!? I'M FAAAAABULOUS!"   >OH DEAR LORD NO!   "Ha! Got you!"   >...No. You absolutely can't.   "HA!"   >You are banned from Chrysalis.   "Pfft..."   >So, be honest, what're you working on.   "Oh, just a Heath's Warming surprise."   >Is it Sunset getting a body back?   "Nope."   >Clones of me to hand off to Chrysalis so she has a Shiny of her own?   "That was be terrifyingly irresponsible of me and quite frankly horrifying."   >Yeah, creating life for the sole purpose of loving a tall immortal super-being and to give them praise is a liiiiittle morally... black. There is no grey, that's just fucking black.   "..."   >...Is it robo wings?   "...Do you actually want robo wings?"   >I do if you were planning to do that as a gift.   "And ponies wonder why Cadence likes you... no no, none of that, but it's a surprise. Something to help us take our minds off of things."   >Ahhh. Well, I certainly need that. You've always been the best at helping me relax.   "Well duh! Nobody knows my BBBFF like I do, you've gotta know intimate details to even try."   >Like there's anyone who knows that many intimate stuff. Even Cadence doesn't know as many ways about me as you do.   "Meh, I think she's worried to go to those places."   >But not you.   "Oh no, I like going to those places, they're fun."   >Couldn't agree more.   "..."   >...so is it a-   "You'll find out later!"   >Aww... well, I guess you're the best at surprises.   "Everyone's going to be surprised, trust me."   >E-everyone? I dunno if I'm okay with that.   "Awwww, don't worry Shiny! This is still special for us."   >Well... okay, for you.   "That's my BBBFF."   >...You ever wonder what mom thinks about all this?   "I think she's happier not knowing."   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   >Dash "Pinkie" ~~~~   >...   "...D-d..."   >....   "...D-do you think I went too far?"   >...Where did you get the giant diamond statue?   "Daddy, uh... made it."   >...   "...I feel like I might've overspent."   >Is that a sterling gold saddle?   "That isn't even remotely the most expensive thing here."   >...   "... Not good?"   >Not good.   "...I'm going to be broke forever aren't I?"   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   >Chrysalis ~~~~   >...I wonder.   Every clop of her hooves echoed through the empty room as she circled it akin to a shark, with eyes every bit as hungry as the predator in question.   >I wonder...   She did not know exactly, precisely what it entailed, but she knew of the word she had spoken.   The Hivemind.   >I wonder...   The Hivemind was something she often thought a fairytale, that a life beyond this where all could be one and yet not one was too contradictory to ever truly be. But, it appeared... the legend had some basis in fact.   How else could Sunset have called her forth? She must have tapped into it, into the very mind of the Hivemind itself.   The very being of the changelings.   >I wonder...   So many possibilities opened up with this. If, indeed, changelings could be resurrected via such means, if indeed they could be brought back at a power full enough to raise chaos upon this world... she dared not even try to comprehend what that would mean.   >I wonder...   The knowledge of those thought forever passed, the skills and powers yet to be gone... that was merely the tip of the iceberg.   There, in her hive, the last hive, were many.   Many many many cases of... unfulfilled potential. Unrealized dreams, untapped powers, so thick and pressed in it threatened to burst.   If she could do as had been done to Sunset, if she could bring them to be once more, even if only for a day, if she could give them a heart...   >I wonder...   They were loyal, all of them fiercely loyal, willing to fight and die for her as none other would or could. She needed not a single scrap of mind control for them, they would obey her as surely without. This loyalty with drones was useful.   But what of such loyalty were to go to one more....powerful.   What if she commanded not the last hive, but instead...   >....I wonder...     She could not keep the smile from her face, the thrill from her heart, the way her blood pumped in a speed that made her veins burn in a pleasant way. All she could keep back was the twitching hoof that wished to reach out and pluck that orb from it's perch, nothing more. She would hold back, she would wait. For now.   There was time. Time she thought quite limited was now opened up to her in a very... wide way.   >...I wonder... what they'll think, when we rise again?   She let out no cackle, she gave no laughter.   But it was there, boiling within her like lava. I was there, in her chest, in her own now forever preserved heart. It was there.   She had been granted a gift unlike any other, a way to once more bring back that which had been brought low. She could be so much more now.   For what good was a Queen if she ruled but a few?   She had asked this of herself not very long ago. But now...   There was every chance it was a moot point.   >Such a wonderful, wonderful gift...   She dared not touch it, dared not activate it, not till the time was right. Not a second before the time was right.   That time would come, soon enough. She could be patient, she could wait. For soon, it would all be worth it.     >I'll have to remember to go speak with that Sunset Shimmer girl, would be so rude if I did wish her well, wish her recovered. She deserves so much. Much like me, I very much hope she had a...   Such a wonderful, wonderful gift.   And she would let the whole world know what a gift it was, in time.   Soon would come the greatest gift.   Soon would come the reign of the true Queen of the Changelings.   All united... under her.   >Happy Hearth's Warming.   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   NCOMAKE! >Chrysalis "??" ~~~~~   >Soon... soon... SOON! SOON I SHALL COMMAND AN ARMY OF QUEENS! EACH WITH THEIR OWN HIVE! I SHALL REIGN SUPREME AS THE EMPRESS OF ALL! AN ALL SHALL LOVE ME OR DESPAAAAIRRRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!   "AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"   >...   "....Hi!"   >...Maney, how long have you been here?   "Since you came in. I was right behind you."   >Huh.   "..."   >...So uh...   "We still doing the supervillain thing?"   >What!? No!   "You sure? It sounded like that."   >IT DID NOT!   "..."   >...What?   "And they say I have problems."   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Omake! >Pinkie "SA" ~~~~~   >...   "...Explain this."   >I uh... I really need the money.   "So you brought me to Las Pegasus, got me drunk, then married me."   >I didn't get you drunk! You got yourself drunk!   "...So I did. And then you married me."   >LEGAL!   "That is all kinds of fucked up."   >Tell it to Applejack!   "...Oh dear Faust did we-"   >Had to make it official.   "OH FUCK! Cadence will never forgive me! She'll leave me over this! What is she going to say!?"   >I dunno. What're you going to say?   "..."   '...Hi, Shiny.'   "..."   >What? I had to get her in this too or it wasn't official. It's her money.   "EXCUSE ME!?"   >We all know who really owns the Empire, Shiny, don't play that game.   "..."   'She's actually right, I really doubt Auntie Celestia would have given you the Empire alone.'   >Yeah! Back me up, Celestia!   ~She's right.~   "..."   >Pinkie had a loooooottttaa debts she needed to pay off, and when Pinkie goes hard she goes HARD!   ~That she does. So do you, coincidentally.~   "...This is a dream, isn't it?"   (Nope.)   {Not a dream.}   [And I have no problems with this.]   "...Why. They have no money. Why. Whyyyy."   >Chrysalis because superpowers, 18 because she can help with the debt, and Forty Two because she packs a punch if you know what I'm saying.   "Anyone else in the bed I'm married to that I need to know about?"   =WHAT THE FUCK!?=   "............................T-................Twili?"   >Admittedly that one was more for me than you.   ~I was fine with it.~   (Me too, HAH!)   'Could've been worse.'   "..."   >Hey? Hey Shiny? Shiny? SHIIINNNNY?   "WHAT!?"   >It's Non-Canon.   "...Oh, fuck, really?"   >Yep.   "Well FUCK all that then! C'mon girls! HONEYMOON BEGINS NOW!"   ~'([{=HELL YEAH!=}])'~   >God I love silliness.   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   NCOmuhkeh! >AJ “PJ” ~~~~   “…mmprgh?”   >Where’m Ah’ goin’ wit’ this here cup’a coffee? Tuh' see yer’ lil’ bug leader.   “FNNGH! FNG FNG FNG!”   >Yeah, yeah, Ah’ know, she gets all murderously calm. Tha’s what’m lookin’ fer’.   *ptoo!*   >…Ah’ know it’s yer’ thing an’ all but spittin’ potato peels all over the floor is one shade unsanitary, one shade disgus-   “FOR FUCK’S SAKE WHY?”   >Why? ’Cause smart as she thinks she is, it ain’t apples tuh' when she’s on the bean. An’ Ah’ got a few questions that need askin'. Questions ‘bout her future, goals… intentions. Drop a few lines o’ battery acid down her throat an’ Ah’ll get some no-nonsense answers, somethin’ other’n that insufferable laugh o’ hers.   “…I’m just gonna go on record and say that I am against this plan. This plan right here? I am against every bit of it. And you know why? ...Because it was always one of my biggest nightmares that she would get stuck that way, unable to switch off the merciless switch and go back to… to normal. Go back to laughing... and getting ass cuts... and not killing those who disobeyed. And... I'm baffled. You want to bring that side... out?”   >Tell ya what, spud. Bypassin' the fact that y'all were the one tuh' give her coffee in the first place, why not go split a buttered potato wit' Blueblood, yeah? Trust me, Ah' got this.   And with a confident nod, AJ resumed walking, crookedly levitating her mug of coffee.   PJ clutched at her chest, grimacing with a long forgotten fear.   "N-no... it's her I don't trust...."   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   OMAKE! >7 "???" ~~~~~   >OH MY GOD! This is amazing! I've never felt more powerful in my whole life! This is fantastic! This is astounding! This... what did you call it again?   "Steroids."   >STEROIDS ARE AWESOME!   "...I like to think of this as using my powers for good."   >What was that?   "NOTHING!"   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   NCOMAKE! >Sunset "Cadence" ~~~~~   >CADENCE! I have discovered your secret!   "ACK!"   >YES! I know how you are able to be in so many places at the same time!   "OH NO!"   >And I'm going to tell all the world!   "NOOOOOO!"   >Fuck you for hoarding the Time Turners!   "...The what."   >Don't you play that game with me! I know you have the mystical Time Turner on your side! I SHALL NOT LET IT PASS!   "..."   >SHARE!   "I don't have a time turner."   >DAMN! I've been foiled! But I will find your secret, I will! I WILLLLLLLlllll.....   "....Phew. Stupid bitch, everyone knows I have a Tardis, not some Harry Potter crap."   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   omakuh. >Chitania "Sweet Note" ~~~~~~   >So I notice you've been hanging around my kid a lot... what's up with that?   "Just wanna make sure she's okay with me and you!"   >Oh, yeah, that makes sense.............................................................................................................................................................................Wait.   "IT'S LEGAL NOW!"   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Non-Canon Pinkie Preview >Pinkie ~~~~~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMqJzWR-Vw >Folks are getting into the season of Heart's Warming and relations are getting patched. >Celestia and Luna get into a snowball fight. Twilight keeps rechecking her list before shopping with Rarity. Spike has to recover some stolen gifts before Heart's Warming is ruined for some orphans. Rainbow Dash gloats about her awesome gift while Fluttershy's gift goes wrong. I spread some cheer to the Changelings. Applejack promised to get a limited edition doll for Applebloom and has rush to find one when they're sold out. A Heart's Warming miracle happens as Cadence makes cookies. Find out what happens next time in thread 85: Jangle all the Way...and of course snowy fanservice!   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________