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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Twelve)

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Mr Zoat said:
"I…" She looks away. "Sort of… Fell out. With Princess Celestia." She hesitates again and then turns back to me. "The other side of the portal is a magic mirror. It.. showed me myself as an Alicorn. And, well, that seemed like the best goal for my research.. and Celestia wouldn't tell me anything about how you become an Alicorn. I guess I just thought the mirror could help me… Ascend." Another sigh. "And instead it turned me into a Monkey."

"Ape."

"What's so good about being an Alicorn?" Lynne shrugs. "If you could use magic anyway…"

"Alicorns don't age. If I became an Alicorn I'd have all the time in the universe to learn magic, the magics of all three tribes instead of just Unicorn magic. And having the magic of all three tribes makes their magic much stronger." This time it's a huff. "I'd know more if Celestia had actually helped me."

Lynne looks at me. "So… Like us?"

Miss Shimmer frowns. "Like us what?"

"Grayven can do a thing he calls 'Awakening' where he alters you so you can become much more powerful."

Miss Shimmer looks at me in astonishment. "You can do that?"

"I can do that to Humans. I've never done it to a Pony before. Your metaphysique is probably quite different."

"I'm a Human now."

"Yes, but I assume that you're going to want to go home at some point." Hmm. "Okay, here's what I think we should do. You need a place to stay, people who can understand your language, research materials and, um…" I nod at her right fist. "Physical therapy."

She looks at her right fist too. "Ye-eah."

"If you want to sign on with me, I can arrange that."

She looks a little suspicious. "You'll let me study you?"

"Hah. I am a fascinating subject. And I can probably find you a few other subjects as well. Iname?"

A puff of air and Miss Amane is sitting next to Miss Shimmer, who look around in shock. "Ah! How did you-! Teleportation? No, that wouldn't-."

Miss Amane smiles beatifically. "Master gave me the power to move at super speed."

Miss Shimmer starts to smile. "Oh, I'm going to study the hay out of this."
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This little divergence makes sense. Before she could get bitter about being stuck in an unfamiliar form without access to her magic, she encountered someone who told her that he can probably raise her to godhood and help her find a way to access the magic that she thought she lost.

At this point, she's basically a more pragmatic, better socially adapted version of Twilight Sparkle. With a tiny case of bitterness.
 
I'm not sure how I feel about the endpoint on this. On the one hand, if this "fools canon" and Ambushbug shenanigans ends and the crossover characters leave or outright disappear, I'll understand. On the other hand, a mega-crossover mishmash can be fun when done right.

And, as a Brony, I'm cool with Miss Shimmer, though I still have doubts about Misa.
Ragnar said:
Kill it with fire.
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Are you objecting to pony-crossover in general or horse-puns in particular?
 
Ah, the very reason I was OK with Sunset Shimmer being the Pony Cross Character, her penchant for SCIENCE!!!!! Plus, she has a focus on practical results over theory that will suit Grayven down the ground.

If this does end up a longer term part of canon she'll probably just be happy to chill out in the Renegade universe forever as a New God of Magic. She only has the one real connection back on Equestria, and she presently thinks she's burned that bridge pretty thoroughly. A whole new world where she can study strange new forms of magic and a completely different set of cosmological systems for all eternity with no fear of running out of time? Kinda awesome.
 
Mr Zoat said:
!PonyPonyPonyPonyPony!
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Have to admit, I laughed at this.
Mr Zoat said:
Lynne gives her an incredulous look. "Ponies who can fly? Ponies can't fly."
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If only she could see the Paragon Watchtower.
Mr Zoat said:
A puff of air and Miss Amane is sitting next to Miss Shimmer, who look around in shock. "Ah! How did you-! Teleportation? No, that wouldn't-."
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Who looks around
deadpan29 said:
Are you objecting to pony-crossover in general or horse-puns in particular?
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Personally, the former. I wrote an entire omake for the sole purpose of making a cat pun.
 
Coda said:
So having been thinking about it for a while... it just occurred to me.

I haven't seen a pod descending on Antarctica in ANY of my save files.

I thought maybe there was some sort of quest trigger that I'd never bothered going after before, but after reading this latest update, I kinda had to slap myself in the head: It's gotta be from a mod pack!

Now my question is... was Bereave just a purely cinematic asset in Zoat's mod pack, or has some dedicated gamer ACTUALLY spent the time to do a total conversion mod and that's an actual snip from another save file?
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It is not a mod. It is a locked Easter Egg. You unlock it by changing your Systems time to be identical to the in game time (accurate to within a minute, and including the year.) when a save file is opened. AND this synched time has to have an in game date switchover from March 31 to April 1st (April fools day.)

If when the in game date advances to April 1st the system also has the same time a flag is set, and the Pod Event will occur.
 
SCIENCE PONY IS BEST PONY!!!

I'd like to see Grayven introduce his various scientist friends to each other, a bit of social networking where different groups can play off each other rather and share research data.

And imagine Sunset Shimmer, Lex Luthor, Cranius, and Dubbilex mingling at Grayven's house warming party.

For Grayven's goal of uplifting humanity, he needs multiple groups coordinated with each or at the very least minimize redundancy. Someone can't do everything, but everyone can do something. The greatest progress is made not by a single group but by an organized academic/industrial community working for a common purpose.

Even if Grayven doesn't introduce his scientist friends to each other, Jean is part of the genomorph hive mind and will automatically share her observations of Sunset Shimmer and "pony magic" with Cadmus, as well as the pony-turned-human's study of how meta-physiques develop.

Grayven's science resources:
=Power ring database with snarky Sinestro AI.

=Cadmus and the genomorphs.

=The Light (Lex Luthor, the Brain, etc.).

=Cranius and UnCorp.

Grayven's magical resources:
=Zatarra

=Giovanna and the enslaved Nabu construct.

Cranius: "Guten tag, frauline."
Lynne: "Awww, he's so cute!"
[Lynne picks up Cranius and hugs him]
Cranius: :eek: "No! Put me down! Halp!"
Nikto: :eyeroll:
 
I normally have an extreme distaste for pony crossovers, but for some reason this is more amusing than off putting.

A good part of that is probably because of Grayven's(Paulven's?)... Enthusiasm.

That, and Lynn's lack of the same.

I also now know more about MLP lore than I ever really expected or wanted to know. I still don't know what an alicorn is or how Pegasii and unicorns qualify as ponies. They are horses damnit.
 
SeanC84 said:
I also now know more about MLP lore than I ever really expected or wanted to know. I still don't know what an alicorn is or how Pegasii and unicorns qualify as ponies. They are horses damnit.
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"Pony" Is the general, the class that the three or five races are a part of. So the tiny unicorns and the like are subsets.

Alicorn is the type that couldn't pick what kind of magic they wanted so they just took all of it. Sun god pony, and moon god pony are the first two that show up. They are not nearly as helpful as it sounds like they should be.

Alicorn was also the stuff unicorn horns are made of in mythology, with attendant odd properties.
 
rippleuser344 said:
You know if this was an rpg I would love to hear the conversations the players have outside the game.
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"Sorry about Susie; my mother is at work and my father's out of town, so I have to watch her."

"Hey, no worries mate. We were doing the Ambush Bug plotline regardless, so I can work this in."

Hmm. This could work, actually.

SeanC84 said:
I also now know more about MLP lore than I ever really expected or wanted to know. I still don't know what an alicorn is or how Pegasii and unicorns qualify as ponies. They are horses damnit.
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Apparently, "Pony," is a species of horse (I'd always thought it was just a young one. :oops:)

Graft a set of wings or a horn onto a pony, and you'd get...well, a pony in excruciating pain, I guess. But if you had a unicorn where the horse bits were those of a pony, it would qualify.
 
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Ugh. Ponies.

See, this is what happens when you start mixing crossovers in. First you're giving Little Miss Murder superpowers, next you're dealing with humanised ponies.

On the plus side, i'm like 90% sure this isn't actually canon now.
 
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