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- >You rub your eyes, turning down the flame on the oil lantern.
- >You've spent the last few hours working tirelessly on your floor plan for Canterlot castle.
- >It's kind of irritating that you can't find your way around your own castle.
- >To this end, you're designing a new inside for your castle.
- >But now it's probably way past your bedtime.
- >You blow out the lamp and make your way to your bed.
- >You trip over one of your feet, and decide that the floor is fine too.
- >Mmmmmm. Carpet.
- >You fall asleep.
- >The moon sets, the sun rises.
- >An errant beam of sunlight smacks you in the eyes, and you awaken.
- >You pick yourself up off the floor, and head back to your plans.
- >After flicking through a couple pages, you decide that they're probably fine.
- >You sweep them up and tuck them under your arm.
- >Time to show the Princesses!
- >You walk through a nearby wall, and end up in Princess Celestia's room.
- >She's not there.
- >You exit the room into a corridor, and wander aimlessly until you bump into the door to the tea room.
- >You swing the door open.
- >The chairs and tables are still orbiting the central table, which is good to see.
- >Celestia and Luna are eating breakfast while they fly around the room.
- "Hello, Princesses!"
- >They speak in unison.
- >"Hello, Anonymous!"
- "I have something to show you."
- >They make their way down to you, taking their breakfast with them.
- >You hand over your plans for the castle, and they start looking through them.
- "I expect you'll put your best architects and builders and such on the job."
- >"Anon, just looking at this makes my head hurt."
- "Why?"
- >"I'm fairly sure that most of this can't work in regular space."
- >"Does that triangle have three 90 degree angles in it?"
- >This could be a problem.
- "Fine, I'll just have to do it myself."
- >You think for a bit.
- "Actually, I think I know somepony that could help! Stay right here!"
- >You stop being in the tea room
- >And start being in Sugarcube Corner.
- >Mr. and Mrs. Cake are at the counter.
- >They're slightly startled by your appearance, though they recover quickly.
- >Must come from working with Pinkie all the time.
- "Where's Pinkie?"
- >"She's off with her friends today. It's her day off."
- "Thank you, Mr. Cake."
- >You sprint through the door, and start looking for a pink fluffball.
- >The best vantage point would be...
- >The waterslide!
- >You skip and prance over to the library, and try to enter it.
- >The door is locked, but you remember someone told you locks only keep out honest people.
- "Fourteen times thirty seven equals four and a bit."
- >The door clicks open, and swings ajar.
- >You slip in, and head for the window the waterslide connects to.
- >You jump through, and slide down the waterslide.
- >All the while, you keep a lookout for Pinkie Pie.
- >Unfortunately, you haven't found her by the time the slide ends.
- "Well, that was a waste of time. What now?"
- >You consult your mental to-do list.
- >There's a single entry, labelled "Loot dilapidated castle in Everfree Forest"
- >Eh. May as well.
- >You climb a tree at the edge of the Everfree Forest, and start leaping from treetop to treetop.
- >Eventually, this brings you to a large clearing that is mostly occupied by a castle.
- >You drop down to the ground, and enter the castle.
- >It's a lot more lively than you would've expected.
- >Probably stems from the ponies inhabiting it right now.
- "Hello!"
- >Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Twilight look at you.
- >They look a little surprised to see you, but not very.
- >"Oh, hey Anon. We were about to take a break. Wanna come?"
- "Sure, why not?"
- >"We just have to find Spike."
- "Who?"
- >So you wander through the castle, getting told who Spike is and looking for him so he can join in.
- >You find him a minute later.
- >Apparently he managed to open some sort of white vortex thing, and got sucked in.
- >The other ponies try to drag him out, and get sucked in themselves.
- >Since you don't seem to be affected, you reach in before Pinkie can, and pull the ponies out.
- >You drag the line of ponies out of the room, along with Pinkie, and close the door. Firmly.
- >You step into the white vortex
- >And step out into a bleak city.
- >The sky is the color of an old television tuned to a dead channel, and there's a constant drizzle.
- >Reminds you of Earth, almost.
- >You also seem to be on top of a building.
- >You look over one of the edges, and a building at ground level explodes.
- >Ponies pour out, alongside some sort of creature with green tentacles.
- >No, wait, that's just a prehensile mane.
- >She starts cackling evilly. Probably a villain.
- >That simply wont do.
- >You leap off the building, wishing you had coattails or a cape or something that could flap in the air as you went down.
- >You land lightly on two feet and a hand, then straighten to your full height.
- >"Ahahahahaha! And who might you be?"
- >Damn! Need to come up with a name!
- "I'm Seeker! You've met your end, villain!"
- >Not sure where that came from, but whatever.
- >"Well then, how do you think you're going to stop me, 'Seeker'?"
- >You walk up to her, and grab hold of a lock of hair.
- >She looks at you, amused, and then you hold the hair still.
- >Very still.
- >Incredibly still.
- >The hair cools to absolute zero, and freezes solid.
- >The cold area spreads, getting closer to the villain.
- >"No! No!"
- >She tries to get away, but you're holding the hair still, so she can't.
- >Slowly, her face freezes into an expression of utmost shock and horror, and then the rest of her body freezes too.
- >Now you need a witty, ice related one-liner.
- "Thank you for working with Seeker Law Enforcement. Have an ice day."
- >You crush the hair in your hand, and pirouette.
- >The spin leads into an uppercut, which shatters the villain.
- >Another white vortex appears.
- >You step through the vortex again
- >And step out into the room you were in earlier.
- >The white vortex calms down into a normal comic book, which falls to the ground.
- >You open the door, and the ponies on the other side look relieved to see you safe.
- >They start asking questions about what happened, and how you stopped it. You ignore them.
- "So what was that about a break?"
- >So you're led to a little area, open to the sky while still surrounded by walls.
- >There's a little picnic cloth thing laid out in the middle, weighed down at the corners by picnic baskets.
- >So you sit down with the other ponies and have a break. Tea and biscuits are involved.
- >It's almost singular in how uneventful it is.
- >It's over soon enough, though.
- >You stop Pinkie as she and the others go to leave.
- "The king needs you in Canterlot. Your unique skills are required."
- >She gets a serious look on her face, stands up straight, faces you and salutes.
- >"As you wish, your highness!"
- "Good."
- >You grab Pinkie's shoulder, stop being in the Everfree Castle
- >And start being in the Canterlot Castle. The center of the tea room, to be specific.
- >You and Pinkie jump off the spinning table at the same time.
- >Then you both weave your ways through the whirlwind of furniture orbiting said center table.
- >You both reach the door at the same time, despite taking different paths.
- "Could you find Celestia for me?"
- >"Sure can!"
- >She zips away in a pink blur, and returns seconds later with the Princess atop her.
- >"Here you go!"
- >And Celestia gets tossed on the floor.
- "So where did you put my plans for the castle?"
- >"They're on your bed, Anon."
- >Wonderful!
- >You prance and skip your way around the castle, eventually arriving at your room.
- >Sure enough, the plans are on your bed.
- >You scoop them up and hand them over to Pinkie.
- "Do you think you can do it?"
- >She scrunches up her face.
- >"I don't know, Annie. You'd need to be able to do some pretty funky things to build this."
- "I'll teach you, then!"
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