Thread 9: Stories 76-90

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"77"
'Little Strongheart'
-M. Bison-

The buffalo camp was a blur of shouts, crashes, and the sound of the M. Bison's gatling gun firing in any and all directions, 77 had jumped in a ditch with Strongheart and Cheese whilst the metallic bovine was wreaking havoc.

'I've never seen an assault so concentrated before!'

"It would appear this is part of this plot's mastermind's final assault!"

>What do we do?!

"I'm not sure!"

>What!?

"I said I'm not sure!"

>WHAT!?

"I SAID-"

>Dusty no need to shout, it stopped.

77 blinked then peeked over the ditch, the metal bison had indeed stopped firing and looked to be going through a reload process, leg joints locked into position, various mechanisms preparing to feed a new belt of bullets into the machine's main weapon.

"Hmm..."

'What are you thinking?'

"I need you to coordinate something with the other buffalo, I think I have a plan..."

77 told her and the small female nodded.

'Got it!'

"Relay that to your comrades and I'll prepare my end."

Strongheart nodded and sped off to tell the scattered enclaves of buffalo that had taken cover, 77 turned to Cheese as the gatling fire began once more.

"Mr. Sandwich, I would like to enquire about your abilities!"

>Liiiiike!?

"Would you happen to have access to fireworks!?"

>Oh sure! What do you want? Romane Candle? Bottle Rocket? I got a brand new Tsar Bomblette from Stalliongrad!

"Gimme the last one!"

Cheese passed the changeling a small innocuous bomb with quite a short fuse, various words were inscribed on it in Stalliongradian.

"The hell is all this?"

>I dunno, I don't speak the language, honestly The Workers Revolution Party was pretty boring as far as parties go!

77 rolled his eyes, waiting for the gatling gun to run out of ammo again. When the telltale lack of lead screaming through the air came again, 77 leapt from the ditch and shouted.

"Now!"

From all four sides buffalo charged out of their hiding places, heads lowered, and as one struck the massive metal bison in its leg joints, making the metallic monster fall to its four knees!

Seeing his chance, 77 secured his knife in one of his leg holes and grabbed the bomb in his mouth, charging forwards and leaping on the bison's back, dragging his blade along the metal surface, creating sparks.

As he neared the gatling gun, he lowered his head, catching the sparks on the fuse of the bomb and lighting it. He knew he only had one shot to take the beast out of commission, focusing as best he could, he threw the bomb and leaped off the robot.

As he landed a million worries about his aim, his force, his momentum came into play. One wrong twitch of the neck and the Bison would suffer only surface damage, one miscalculation and all was lost, one-

>Two points! Woohoo!

Nevermind.

The Bison rumbled as a muffled explosion tore apart its inner workings.

-ALERT! MASSIVE DAMAGE TO INTERNAL SYSTEMS, ENGAGING CRANIAL COMBAT DATA PRESERVATION MEASURES!-

The Bison's head popped off at that point, falling to the ground before righting itself, snout upwards towards the sky, it began to rumble as its body fell to the ground, a bombed out shell. A small batch of thrusters began to protrude from the bottom...

>Dusty look!

"We grab onto that thing it may just take us to their home base!"

>And I can give Flam his party!

"Quick, grab a horn!"

The two of them each grabbed a horn on the metallic bovine's head, it suddenly struck 77 that he had been neglecting something.

"Strongheart!"

The female looked up from where she and her tribe were celebrating their victory.

'Yeah?'

"Braeburn says he hasn't given up on yo-OOOOOOOOOOOH!"

The rocket propelled head took off at this point, taking the changeling and his traveling companion off towards the forbidden lands, to the Doom Cloud, to the End. Strongheart smiled, a tear welling up in her eye.

'Thank you.'
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'Various changelings'
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'We finally made it to Ponyville to assist with the battle!'

'Yeah! It's time to help out Equestria just as they helped the Empire!'

'That was mostly our queen you know...'

'...Shut up, the Wonderbolts still helped.'

'And now, it's time for the RAINBOLTS TO COME TO THE RESCUE! ...'

'Can.. .any of us fly decently?'

'...Fuck!'

'...Hang on, I know what we can do, guys! Transform!'

'Rainbolts, ROLL CALL!'

'Rainbolt RED, The Crimson Blast! HAH!'

'Rainbolt YELLOW, The Lightning Flash! HWAH!'

'Rainbolt GREEN! Earth Shaking Strike! WAH!'

'Rainbolt BLUE! The Ocean Splitter! YAH!'

'Rainbolt INDIGO! The Nights Warrior! RAH!'

'RAINBOLTS, TOKUSENTAI!'

'... So now what?'

'We play some music and wave our pompoms for ponies! Rainbolts are GO!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTp5ZsAi4_Y&feature=player_detailpage#t=14
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>Spike
"Flim"
'Flam'
{AJ42/AJ07}

Spike enters a room just before the bridge at the same time with 42.
>Hey, how's it been going on your end?

{Been trashing robots all the way here...you look messed up. What happened to your face?}

>It's a long story. Let's just go find Blueblood and-

"Hello!"

'Hello!'

"Welcome to the unveiling..."

'...of our newest creation'

"'SONGBIRD'"
Songbird rises up from the floor and screeches.

>So you guys must be the ones that made these robots.

"'Indeed we are and quite proud of them too.'"

Songbird tries to fly up but hits the ceiling and immediately crashes down.

"Oh...we didn't plan it..."

'...to fight indoors'
Spike shoots it 2 times with explosive shots and it dies.

"Wow that was..."

'...anti-climatic.'

"Looks like this is the end of the line, brother"

'Indeed it is brother.'

"'We surrender...'"
Spike points Charity at Flim *BANG*

'FLIM! You killed him you-' *BANG*
He opens the chamber and reloads Charity.

{Spike, they were surrendering.}

>They were traitors to the crown.

{Yeah but...that was a bit cold blooded.}

>...

{...That came out wrong.}

>Go find DT. I'll take care of Blueblood.

{No, we should-}

>I know what I'm doing. GO FIND DT!

{...}
An explosion can heard that rocks the entire ship.

>...Please

42 just nods and walks away.
Spike stands there for a moment and enters the bridge.
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>Chrysalis's mom
"Chrysalis"
-Changeling-
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>So you see, my little love parasite, even you too can one day find your prince, and he will fall in love with you and all kinds of amazing things will happen! You could be the greatest Queen who ever lived!

"Really, mommy!?"

>Yes, my daughter, really.

-Does that mean I can find a prince too?-

>NO! Only Queens get princes! You little peons get NOTHING! You get what we throw down to you and not one single bit more, UNDERSTAND!?

-...-

"HAH! I get a priiince and you get noooothing! HAH HAH HAH HAH HA HAAAAAAA!"

-...This sucks.-

>DEAL WITH IT!

MIGHT BE NON CANON
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>Twi's Mom
"Twi's Dad"
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>Robots! Because of course, ROBOTS!

"It's odd, isn't it? They're not coming near this part of Canterlot. They're sticking to everywhere except the northern end. Weird."

>Oh, I should probably write about this!

"Seriously, why do you still do that? We are so retired it's insane. We have two royals for children. We're pretty damn golden."

>I need something to take my mind off the fact MY BABIES ARE GOOOOONE! THEY'RE GOOOOOHOHOHOHOOOOON!

"Ah..."

>...

"...Want to go fight the robots? I'm sure that lovely little backside still has some swing to it."

>Oh, you charmer! I'll get my mace.

"And I'll grab my whips!"

>Darling! Save that for later.

"Vampire slaying whips, deary."

>Aaaah...

"...But I am so using the other one later."

>Oh, you tease!
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>AJ 18
"Various Guards"
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>Okay! So... uh... first off, everybody is okay. Prince, princess, other smaller and cuter princess, 42 and Chrysalis are all just fine. We are good there.

"..."

>...You guys all ready in case some robots come back?

"MA'AM YES MA'AM!"

>Great! Uh... whaaat is it you do, again?

"We are setting up defensive perimeters, with anti-aircraft weapony stationed at key siege points. We are also prepping the mine launcher to spread them should more invade on foot, and preparing our ground based weaponry should that prove not enough."

>Good! I think. Um... Yeah, this is, like 42's department, I'm mostly here because she took so many hits she thinks a concussion is tuesday.

"..."

>I don't get it either, I just had to get out of that room. But what I DO get is that you guys look like you know what you're doing! Sooo... Keep up the good work? Yay team Empire?

"..."

>So... good. I'll just go tell everyone you're doing alright. Stay strong, we're almost done!

A small cough stops her before she makes it through the door.

"Thank you, 18. We appreciate the kind words."

>C-Cadence! We have to keep pretending I'm Cadence. Or else...

"With all due respect, Ma'am. No. No we do not. We are glad you are here."

She would have said something if the lump in her throat didn't make that impossible.

They probably didn't see the tears in her eyes after she took off. Probably. Hopefully...

Maybe?
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>Applejack
"Rarity"
'Twilight'
-Apploosans-
[robots]
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-Cuz'! You okay?-

>Ah'm fine, thanks Braeburn...

-Lets get yer cow washed up an' send ya on yer way, this town ain' safe no more.-

"I am NOT a cow!"

>She has lost a lotta weight.

"Hmph!"

-Don' matter, anywho, you two best skidaddle back to Equestria, them robots are gonna make a mess o' things.-

>"Wait, robots?!"

-Yeah... Th- Actually they shoulda been 'ere by now-

The group rushes over to a hillside to find Twilight still taking down swarm after swarm of robots

Applejack leaps down and causes a small quake that sends them scattering to the wind and away from Twilight

Twilight smiles at Applejack
'I didn't need your help, I could have cleared the whole orchard myself.'

A handydog leaps up from behind the two and is blasted away by Rarity

"Of course you could, darling. But we need to help Spike. He's out of the worst troubles but we still took some nasty hits and I fear he plans something stupid."

'How do you know all this?'

>An' we can' jus' abandon Apploosa to these machines!

'I have an idea but I need you two to cover me!'

The next few minutes were frantic as Rarity made herself a turret while Applejack charged the ranks of machines, shrugging off fire from the robots and reducing hundreds to scrap which Twilight would hastily grab

'ERECTED A CRAPLOAD OF SENTRIES!'

[AW CRAP!]

A hail of gunfire and rockets flew as Twilight's newest creations whirled on their tripods and turned re-purposed guns of the robots back on them

'Whew, alright, now let's get to Spike, and Rarity, don't think I haven't forgotten about my question'

"And I will answer it when the time comes."

In a flash of magic, the trio of princesses were teleported back to the deck of the airship of the robots' origin, close to the Highwind itself. Meanwhile, Apploosa would remain safe, and Twilight's other new gun would be fully charged by the time even the first sentry was destroyed.
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>Celestia
"Luna"
-Guard-
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>...Fucking... robots.

"Sister! Language!"

>Luna? Stuff it.

-Majesty! We've managed to destroy those that made it through, all's quiet.-

>Bombs placed on the OTHER side of the mountain like I asked?

-Yes, Majesty!-

>Good, there should be no more ways they can get to us...

"..."

-...-

>...Awesome, the comedy effect test came out negative. At ease!

*THUMP!*

>...I didn't mean... ugh.

-Shall I drag her to rest, Majesty?-

>You do that.
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>Chrysalis
"Twilight"
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"Can I ask you something?"

>Is it "how many times have I nailed your brother?"

"Ew. No."

>It's still none, much to my disappointment (and his).

"Actually, it was about that tablet I got you to translate"

>The red plague one? That was a pain to find.

"There's a line that reads 'one drone spoke prophecies of doom'. I didn't think changelings could even perform those kind of spells, let alone a drone. Did they develop a magical mutation?"

>Mutation would be one way of putting it...

"They did?! Tell me about it!"

>First, I don't like talking about that hive - it's still creepy just thinking about it. Second, it wasn't a drone that wrote that.

"Was it the Queen?"

>No.

"The Princess?"

>No, and I'm not saying any more. There are secrets concerning changelings we will take to the grave to protect, and this is one of them.

"Just a little bit of information? Please?"

>If you really want to know, ask Celestia. She was the one who burnt the hive to the ground.
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>Spike
"Blueblood"
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"So the dog of the dirt princess is here."

>Winona? I think she's still in Ponyville.

"I'm talking about you, you buffoon."

>But I'm a dragon.

"Oh for...never mind let's just fight."
He levitates a mess of guns.

>Aw, but I only have one gun.

"You should have brought mo-"
Spike draws and shoots Blueblood's horn off making the guns clatter to the floor.

"AAAAARGH!!!!"

>That's for trying to kill Applejack...

He shoots Blueblood's right foreleg.
>That's for trying to attack Shining.

Shoots BB's left foreleg
>That's for trying to kidnap and replace ponies.

Shoots BB's hind leg
>That's for launching a Robot invasion

Shoots BB's other hind leg
>That's for Celestia's necklace because why not?

Spike squats down next to Blueblood.
>You went through a lot of trouble to bring Applejack down. What I want to know is...why?

"It was fine before that dirt princess came to power. The old ways weren't perfect, but it always worked out fine and it's been that way for the past 1000 years! Who does she think she is just changing things to whatever fits her whims. I couldn't stand idly by while she was destroying the Equestria I knew and corrupting Aunt Celestia. Look at me. I've been turned into a fugitive and banished from my home for simply doing what I thought was best for Equestria! This could have been all over if that mudpony had died. But she didn't. I never felt such a burning desire to see her dead. I watched as she gained more and more power. At that point only an army could stop her, so I made one. She was ruining everything! What choice did I have? She had to die!"

>...hm...heheheh HAHAHAHA!

"What's so funny?"

>...There's always a choice...you simply could have stopped.....you know what? ...Let's play a game. I have only 1 bullet left and it's an explosive bullet, so if you get shot you will definitely explode. The game is Russian Roulette. One bullet, six chambers, spin it, press it against your head, and pray to Celestia that you're lucky. I'll go first.
*CLICK*

>Your turn...

"Auntie Celestia, please help me!"
*CLICK*

>Aw, looks like we're both here. Let's up the ante. 2 shots each. Me first.
*SPIN* *CLICK CLICK*
>Your turn...

"Uuuugh Mumsy please save me!"
*CLICK CLICK*

>Oh ho, you got lucky again.
BB breaths a sigh of relief.

>Let's try 3 shots.

"You're crazy!"

>Spin spin spin...
*SPIN* *CLICK CLICK CLICK*
>...your turn.

"Oh no..."
*CLICK*
"no!"
*CLICK*
"I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

>...Celestia judges...I act.
*STOMP*

"URGH!!!"
Spike stomps on Blueblood's face over and over again.

>But for today...I just want to stop.
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>Spike
"Twilight"
'Applejack'
[Rarity]
-Rainbow Dash-
+Fluttershy+
%Discord%
(Pinkie)
#Blueblood#
=77=
_Cheese_
&42/07&
{DT}
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A wall explodes revealing Twilight, Applejack and Rarity with Pinkie following up behind.
"We're here"

Rainbow Dash crashes through the ceiling.
-I'm here-

Fluttershy and Discord suddenly appear.
+Why am I here?+

%For the grand finale FlutterShutters.%

"The heroes of Equestria are here. This is the end Blueblood! Today, you die!"

>No...

"What?!"

>I said no we're not going to kill Blueblood.

-Did something hit you in the head?-

>No...well technically yes, but- Okay look...There's been enough killing here today. I don't want to shed any more blood. I'm tired and for once I...I want to stop.

#Really? After everything I've done...you're going to spare me?#

>Yeah...let's take him and go home.

[If Spike doesn't want to kill, Blueblood, we should respect that decision.]

'Ah trust Spike, Ah'm sure he knows what he's doing, so Ah agree.'

"Like hell, he shot Spike!"

>Twilight, please, for me?

"Fine. We'll throw him in the dungeon and let Celestia deal with him."

>Thank you.

77 and Cheese crash through the windshield on M. Bison
=You won't believe what it took for me to get here=

>Oh you're actually okay.

_Hey Pinkie, I didn't expect you here._

(Oh hi Cheese! I wasn't expecting you here either!)

42 and DT enters
&I found DT!&

>Alright, the A-team is here and reunited!

{Uh I kind of went a little overboard with the rockets, grenades, and other explosives...the ship's on fire. I'm pretty sure we're losing altitude.}

(ABANDON SHIP! MARES AND FOALS FIRST!)

'Everyone who can't fly get to the Highwind!'
As everyone clamours to the exits. Spike carries Blueblood.

#...wait. Set the ship to autopilot. It might hit Apploosa.#

>...
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>Spike
"Discord"
'Fawntaine'
-Flash-
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While riding in the Highwind.
"I can't resist asking this, but...what's wrong with your face?"

>I got beaten up, okay?! Everyone gets it by now! Sheesh! Huh...weird. I feel like I forgot something important.

~In an office~
Flash drops off dozens of schematics.
-...-

'Ya've done very well. I'll give ya that.'

-...-

'For the sake of Equestria, leave.'

-...?-

'I said leave.'
Flash nods and leaves. Fawntaine turns his chair and looks out his broken window.
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>MM
"29"
'Big mac'
-Ocatavia-
~Vinyl~
[AJ 10]
{BBB}
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>We did it, everyone! All the robots are dead!

{ERROR! ROBOTS DO NOT HAVE THAT WHICH IS NORMALLY REFERRED TO AS LIFE! THEY CANNOT DIE!}

>...The robots are all destroyed!

"Yay."

'Ya'll didn't do anythin'!'

"What? I did so! No, seriously, there's no humorous addendum to that, I smashed a lot of robots with a pipe! I TOOK BULLETS FOR YOU ASSHOLES!"

-NOT! YOU!-

"...Oh."

~Speaking of bugmeisterino, gotta tell you, I'm envious of you being able to slip the pipe into the holes. Makes me want to get my hoof pierced.~

"...You do that."

>And concerning me, I delegated.

[Is that the word for 'hid in your room till everyone else did all the work'?]

"'As a teacher, I can clarify. Yes. Yes it is."'

[Oh. Cool, I learned something today! Yay!]

>By the way, Cheers? Where were the demons. I was expecting demons.

"'...You wanted me to let them out?"'

>...Retracted. But, again, good job everyone!

~WOOO! Rave orgy at my place! Who's coming?

>...
"..."
'...'
"'..."'
-...-
[...]
{...Error.}

~Oh, come on! Really, buggo? You don't want some of this?~

"Ew."

~Meant buggo two there.~

[I'm not Two, that's a completely different Changeling! Also, I'm a girl.]

~...And?~

[I need an adult.]

{ERROR! FEAR LEVELS RISING!}

>Alls well that ends well, right guys?

And, in synchronization, several buildings crumbled to the ground.

>...Yay!

"How the hell did you get elected?"
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>Poindexter
“Luna”
‘56’
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>I can’t take it anymore, it’s downright maddening and infuriating! There has to be a secret to your phenomenal plot-grabbing success, 56, and I aim to find out what it is.

Thanks to his required attendance for the weekly DnD adventures, Poindexter had been given a pass for both castles, as the games usually switched depending on who was GM’ing. And right now, Dex was making morally good use of his pass to hide around the corner as a very tired and yawning 56 sauntered out of Applejack’s room.

>W-what?! He… he sleeps with the apple princess one? That… I can’t believe it! Well, I guess that explains one of them then…

The jealously burning within Dex was quickly staunched with curiosity as he watched 56 stumble tiredly down the hall and lift a rainbow-colored thong in one hoof, fastening it crookedly over his head with a delirious snort.

>A… is that a thong? But… it’s rainbow-colored? Whose could that possibly b- oh you dirty dog! Even Rainbow Dash? Man, I would give my firstborn to be able to even touch one of her supple cyan cheeks. How did you even get her to-

A sudden moan of surprise snapped Dex out of his rambling and he looked to see 56 nuzzling affectionately against the rump of that one zebra lady. And the weird part was that she seemed completely okay with it! Dex could hardly believe it when she started up casual conversation in that rhyme-speak of hers, like some little Changeling face-deep in your rear was the norm.

>Get the fuck outta here….

The embrace ended when 56 gave her left cheek a light kiss and waved the zebra off with a cheerful smile. Dex was so stunned that even after Zecora came his way with a passing greeting, he couldn’t respond, his brain full of static.

>Okay… okay maybe that one was a fluke. Yeah, a fluke… gotta be. There’s no way he just walked up and… no. I just have to pay closer attention.

And so it went with Dex following 56 throughout nearly the entire castle, a journey that saw the little Changeling either grab, pinch, bite, or accidentally faceplant a number of plots and rear-ends. Dex was speechless as a good majority of those occurrences seemed to either be severe luck or random happening.

>I have no words for this… it defies all logic. I just can’t believe it.

“Believe what? Enlighten us.”

It might as well have been a voice dredged up from the grave for the way Poindexter shivered and fell out of his hiding spot, spinning around to see a very bemused Luna standing there with a cocked brow.

>L-L-Luna! I, uh, I was just-

‘Moons! Where ya been? I was looking all over for you!’

“Resting in our chambers after lowering the moon, 56, thou shouldst know this.”

‘Right, hahaha.’

“And then we decided to tail this strange stallion here whilst he was tailing thee.”

‘Really? What’s up, muh main nerd? Need something?’

>Nope. I found what I was searching for and, surprisingly, finding the answer only brought forth more questions, questions I now realize that mortal ponies such as I were not meant to be privy of. See ya at the next meeting, 56.

And with grim dignity, Poindexter departed down the hallway, saddened to know that 56’s special brand of luck could never be gained and used for his own profit but uplifted in the prospect of one day getting at least *one* plot for himself.

~~~Later~~~

“What was this meeting he spake of, 56?”

‘Oh, that! Once a week all us dudes get together and talk about plot!’

“...Well, that doesn’t surpri-”

‘Sometimes yours!’

“…”

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>Chrysalis
"SA"
~~~~

>Zzzzzz...mmm?....NO!

"Gah! WHAT!?"

>Don't fall asleep, what if I die or something!? You have to stay awake until Twilight's done with her hulabloo and can make sure I'm not going to croak!

"..."

>Also, that morphine bag is empty. This is an issue.

"You used it all."

>That cannot be medically sound!

"Let me rephrase that, you used it all to finger paint."

>...Isn't morphine clear?

"Yes it is. This did not matter to you."

>Well, why didn't you stop- Ah.

"Noticed the bite marks?"

>I did and have already started formulating plans to blame it on someone else.

"I was obviously there."

>All plans have their roadbumps, Shiny.

"Go back to sleep. I'll keep watching."

>Promise?

"...Promise."

>Ahhh, thank's Shiny. You're...*YAWN*!... You're the best...

"..."

>...zzzz....

"...I liked her better on the morphine."
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