Ashton

((The actual, original, thread does not exist anymore, and even if it did, it was like 325 pages @ 25 or 50 posts per page, many being a full page long, if you want to start your own new chapter of the story, take a look in the FFA OOC for the thread 'lay of the land' --- so technically this isnt a crossover, this is just dealing with time between chapters, and if there is no new chapter, this is just the fallout of actions of chapter 2 that only rad can tell you about)) Keith slides another drink to the girl "I'll give you three on the house if you can get Rad to leave, she's been here for like a week... and this wont be her only time...." he said, bringing a flask out of his vest and taking a quick drink, licking his lips. If Mckinzie's eyes were fast enough she might notice that the doberman had long fangs, which were tinted red from his drink before he licked them clean. Rad shorted "you think I don't feel that way? unless I find some creature from the reality I came from I have a 1-in-infinity chance of getting back, and I and my family are immortal, so I have eternity to get back... granted the world may end in the next... I dont know how long... it was 20 years from when I left but worlds move at their own pace, so one world I may spend an hour in and its a year back home, another I could spend a century and only seconds pass... but this is just a lay-over, I'll start jumping again soon, I just need a rest, I've been around for like... gawd... I think 49 years... doesnt mean I'm giving up, this is just a break" she sighed "also, you walk out those doors and your back where you were before you come in, so *you* have lost no progress... hell I dont know if I've lost any time since this is a universe outside itself"

I know the feeling, when I was still in school I had a relationship with somone in PST which was.... not fun... I'm lucky enough now that the last few shreds of my family are all EST and my friends are mostly EST (minus 3 members of my DND group in CST and 1 in PST, but since I'm not DM I dont have to worry about coordinating them XD) lol, I tried melatonin for a while, it helped but didnt solve it, I'm on RX Triazolam (sp?) but I cant use it but a couple times a week at most since it can be mildly addictive

Rad sighed "Not much I can do, not much you can do, not much he can do... I rip open portals to a random universe with my alchemy when I can find a convergence of no less than three dragon-lines" she explained "Unless I stumble on another creature from that universe I cant tune my portals... if your not familiar with my magic, I only have two prevue's, one being rearranging matter, the other being soul manipulation - so I can use a soul as a target for my portal but otherwise..." she sighed, shaking her head "and I have a 1-in-infinity chance of returning to that universe, unless somehow my weird frenemy-God finds me and pulls me back, which I'm not counting on at this point...." ((For the record, Rad cannot return to that universe on her own --- if you look at my OOC thread for "Lay of the Land", she was the former main-character for that thread, so unless someone joins that thread and finds the secret 'speedrun ending' that brings Rad back, she's at best going to return at the end of the thread if proper things fall into place, as a 'post final-battle cutscene' --- but feel free to try to help))

USA EST, GMT-5 iirc Depends on what my messed-up schedule does, there are days I sadly wake up at like 3am and cant get back to sleep and days I wake up as late as 7pm (though that's extra-rare)

Spike Nodded, his claw shaking her hoof "Will do! Have fun!" he said, waving as she left, sighing and lieing back down, setting his coffee down on the board next to him and lieing down, hoping to get another few moments of peace before Twilight burst in with some panic or other....

works for me, I'm technically free on sunday, but mornings I'm... incapacitated... *awkward laugh* Just for the record, my best character is Dash (as you might have guessed), second-best is Rarity, so if anyone else joins and questions who to pick, those are the preferences I have for the left-over characters So as of right now, planning to start Monday (though unless somone else takes Rainbow, the first leg of this will be boring for them because Twi has to find and thaw out the others.

Keith nodded as he went to serve another customer, not the least bit concerned or suprised by the ice magic - he had seen it all by now having dealt with everything from hedge wizards to gods. Rad on the hoof looked suprised "Alchemy...? no wrong color..." she muttered Rad Chuckled "Every world is worse than this one" she said "This world exists in and of itself, you walk out the door, or a window, or whatever, you go back to where you were, this place is practically heaven" she chuckled a little "been through about 50 myself, I was thrown from my home world, tried to get back there for so long" she chuckled a little "Turns out I was a fool there... I landed in this one world and, well, my life changed - I now have so many friends and family, not to mention a whole world that needs me more..." she sighs "all I want now is to find some way back to this new world" The former Pegasus looked a little confused by the last part but shrugged, realizing that her world must somehow be a book, movie, etc in this woman's world "Anything you can immagine, no matter how bizarre, it exists out there somewhere in the vast multiverse... Twilight had some complicated explanation involving quantum mechanics, but that's too much for me to understand, much less explain" she laughed a little awkwardly, while not *entirely* true, it was still above Rad's level of magic and science "Technically I am a Rainbow Dash, but at this point I hardly count myself among them... I opened the Gate of Truth and lost all my pegasus magic -though I gained the power of Alchemy-, I ripped a hole right through truth's realm a second time, thanks to a god and lost my wings too, so I'm somewhere between an earth pony and a unicorn more than a peagus anymore" she sighed "you have no idea how much I miss my wings... especially my dragon wings, those were more awesome than my original wings, honestly, and I'm finally mature enough to admit it..." she sighed and from her griffen-clawed-leg popped out of all things, a smartphone, though it looked far more advanced. She tapped it a few times and an image projected that showed her with MASSIVE light-blue dragon-wings that looked almost comical on her, though it was clear she no longer had them...

The Doberman whistled "rare and interesting choice!" he said as he pulled the bottle and a glass from behind the counter "Straight or on the rocks?" he asked, clearly more used to the vernacular used for alcohol since he asked about 'on the rocks' instead of simply asking if she wanted ice. If she looked, she would notice the Doberman's vest had the name 'Keith' embroidered above the left breast-pocket The rainbow pony looked up and shrugged "who knows, I've been to so many realities that I've lost count" she explained "Name's Rainbow Dash, I'm sure you've heard of me... well you've heard of one of me... I've already met to many of me that I cant keep us all straight, my sis calls me 'Rad' to differentiate; its short for 'Rainbow Alchemist Dash'" she explained, sighing "yes, I was a state alchemist; a dog of the military, yes I've done horrible things, but no, I try not to anymore..." she shook her head sadly "I used to have no one to care about, now I have a whole family... more like a whole clan... if I can ever just find my way back" she said sadly

So glad you chose those two - Twilight is the main character (so to speak), and Pinkie.... I can take over any other pony on that list, but I cannot easily NPC pinkie, she's just so..... I dont even have words to describe her... manic? But if you want we can start it right away, or give this another day or three to see if somone else is interested

((I have this horrible meme-y response in my head of spike going "you so want to replace the councilor. I think that can be arranged *pulls out 308* XD)) Spike laughed "Atleast you don't have to do all the wild and crazy things twilight did while she was at the school!" he said, though not elaborating on that point "You should talk to twilight, that will give you plenty insight into the 'crazy ponies' you'll have to deal with, from an early age Twi decided to collect psychoses like most ponies collect stamps" he chortled "but yeah, that's a great profession to go into and can really make a difference in a pony's life -really wish Twilight had had one of those- and hey, if your good enough I'm sure I can pull some strings to help you out when you graduate" he smirked, no doubt this was going to be a 'you scratch my back, I scratch yours' kind of deal, but it was also still some ways into the future so there was no worries about it now.

Spike rolled his eyes "pfft, this is downright relaxing, you should hear Twilight at the end of a long day, luckily she faces the window in bed so I just had to learn to sleep while she talks" he smiled jokingly... atleast hopefully he was joking... "eh, it can open doors, it can also be a waste, all depends on what you do, I know plenty of ponies that never went past normal school... I mean look at Rainbow, she's a wonderbolt and probably slept through all her school" he chortled, no doubt sounding a little mean with his comment, though from the look on his fact it was clearly meant as a joke "Any any time you feel lonely, just let me know and I'll let you spend an hour or more at night listening to Twilight, I could use a break" he smiled, though this time it was more clear that this WAS just a joke, though spike's sense of humor was... quirky... to say the least. "So, what're your plans for the future? I know some creatures that might be able to help you out" he smiled

Spike paused a moment "...I dont think putting marshmallows in carrot juice would be good" he commented, barely avoiding non-sequitur with his comment, though given his nature it may have been intended as such "honestly, nothing better than a gemstone smoothie in my opinion, but I'm told that's not very good for pony teeth... or next time you use the restroom..." he winced at a memory that was probably... honestly it was probably a lecture from twilight with nothing bad happening, but the timing likely still left plenty up to the imagination "wow, just realized we're having a completely normal conversation and nothing's blown up yet... I'm starting to get worried about Twilight, last time this happened... well, I'm not supposed to talk about why there's a guard who's a griffen..." he laughed awkwardly - no doubt a funny story there, but also one that was probably extremely embarrassing for twilight, based on his reaction "so, yeah... you like it here or in canterlot better?" he asked, quickly changing the subject

Spike let out another blast of flame, this time revealing a cup of hot coffee "I prefer them in my coffee" he smiled, trying to dance around the subject "Twilight also likes it when I put marshmallows in her morning coffee" he smiled as he took one from the bag and plopped it into his drink, tapping it a few times so it bobbed down below the surface and back up "Oh, would you like some too?" he asked, making one wonder not just why he had coffee in his pocket realm, but just how much was there.... though given twilight and her history of pulling all-night study sessions or just staying up all night way too often, however much he had was probably not enough...

Spike smiled "same!" he said, always happy to make new friends, he snorted indignantly "I know, right! There's no good lava 'round here for proper surfing!" he sighed "I'm just using it to lay in the water right now" he admitted, then seemed to realize she might not realize why he was doing that as another small gout of green flame and the amulet was gone an in its place a blank unrolled scroll, he stood up and carefully tossed it into the air, shaking side-to-side almost like a dog, and when the scroll made contact with his razor-sharp spines, it was reduced to confetti "Yeah, you can now see why I use my 'board instead of a blow-up lounger" he explained with a little bit of a blush

Spike blinked "Oh, I've probably seen you around then" he said as he let out a small green flame and from it fell a golden medallion, one side showing a pen and quill, while the other side showed the equestrian seal "I'm a royal messenger and Twilight's assistant" he explained "Just taking some time to enjoy myself while Twilight goes through town, looks around, then come back a wreck and needs to be comforted" despite the wording, the little dragon did NOT seem to be purposefully name-dropping that he 'worked for' the Princess, but rather this was how casual he was about his relationship with Twilight --- even more obvious since he referred to her by name without her title.

Spike raised his sunglasses "I see you staring, I'm afraid I'm taken" he quipped as he sat up, dangling his feet into the water "But seriously, haven't seen you around before, you new in town, or just here visiting friends and family?" he asked, not bothering to mention that even if she wasn't particularly new, he wouldn't know it since he spent most of his time in canterlot now.

Trixie's horn glowed as she closed her eyes, her cape flapping as her wings spread "Ashes to Ashes..." she muttered as her hat fell to the ground "Dust to... DUST!" a massive blast of energy shot out of her horn hitting the rosebushes as they turned to dust... along with all the grass and even a tree! Trixie coughed and slumped against the wagon "I have GOT to learn to control that power" she said as her cape fell down once more covering her wings as she panted, returning her hat to her head... ((as I said in the reply to the update, if you want another character of mine to show up, just pick one and I'll find a reason for it ))

"I TOLD YOU SO!" exclaimed Scootaloo indignantly Trixie's hoof went to her face "Its not not you even care, you can poof it away with your magic" snorted scootaloo as she threw the brush into the soapy water "Trixie doesn't specialize in that kind of magic..." she said with a snort the pegasus rolled her eyes "Pfft, your like Twilight, you can do anything - your an alic-" Trixie quickly shoved a scroll in scootaloo's mouth "Here you go kid, sorry for the mix-up, have a treasure map for free!" she said quickly Scootaloo blinked and put it in her bags with a roll of her eyes "Maybe it'll be something fun this time..." she said with a roll of her eyes as she headed off. The mare of magic turned to her guest "In Trixie's defense" she started, making sure scootaloo was far enough away not to hear her "Those three are a nuisance and this does feel like something they would do" she paused "as for you..." her eyes narrowed "Trixie is not amused!" she exclaimed picking up the brush scootaloo had with her magic and letting it fall in front of Sunblossom "But Trixie is working on being more forgiving and is willing to let it slide if you help clean it up" completely ignoring to reason for the mess on her wagon in the first place and making herself out to be the victim here... typical Trixie

Trixie blinked, not expecting visitors this early but after a quick shifting of her cape, regained her demeaner "The Great and Powerful Trixie is merely providing a lesson to the local foals" she explained "Some time last night these three - that is to say Scootaloo" she nodded at the pegasus "and her two friends apparently decided it would be a fun prank to make a mess of Trixie's wagon, so Trixie decided it would be a good lesson to make them clean it up, unfortunately Trixie has not been able to locate the other two accomplices so for now it is only Scootaloo who is cleaning up this... prank of poor taste" she explained "I keep telling her we didnt do it!" whined scootaloo Trixie frowned "Lieing will only make it worse, the only other pranksters in this town that might think this was not in poor taste..." she sighed "Honestly, kid, you think Rainbow or Pinkie would have the attention span for this?" she asked with a roll of her eyes Scootaloo had to let out a giggle at that, "your right about that... but it doesn't mean WE did it!" The pale blue mare sighed "Your parents are going to hear about this, as well as Applejack and Rarity" she said with a frown "maybe you wont feel the need to lie to them" Scootaloo sighed again, looking at the ground a moment when Trixie mentioned talking to the pegasus' parents, but even at a glance it was clear this wasnt worry or shame... this was a far deeper wound that trixie likely had no idea she was hitting as she spoke. Trixie turned to the other mare and sighed "Apologies" she said with a smile as she walked over "What can the Great and Powerful Trixie do for you today, ma'am?" she asked with a smile, sweeping her hat off dramatically as she spoke, just as quickly returning it to her head as she stood tall once again, confident in her assessment of the situation, once she was close enough she whispered "Don't worry, Trixie is not cruel and will not make the foal clean the entire wagon, it is merely a lesson... even if Trixie is... very unhappy with them..." she frowned "...this puts Trixie behind schedule by a full day at this rate..." she added, more to herself than to sunblossom

Scootaloo When the morning came, should sunblossom return to the wagon, she would likely be rather surprised - there was a section of the wagon that had gotten cleaned, but it wasn't Trixie doing it, instead a familiar orange filly was scrubbing it clean while Trixie glowered at her, berating the filly and her friends for this 'tasteless prank' Though not heartless, Trixie was indeed... well she wasnt doing her own part, but she did atleast enchant a scrub-brush and mop to help with the cleanup... "You know, if you just told me where your little friends are, this would go a lot faster with all three of you here" commented Trixie "I am not dragging them into this" said the pegasus "I already told you we didn't do it!" Trixie snorted "you three are the only ones who would pull a prank like this, not even Pinkie Pie would. I'm going to be having a long talk with your parents over this!" Scootaloo just sighed "yeah, good luck with that..." she muttered

You wake up with very hazy memories in a strange high-tech room - the kind of machines you only remember from Science fiction books... but something is wrong... the ship is badly damaged, almost out of power and supplies, and there seem to be some... other... creatures... on the ship... what happened? 1-3 players please. only choose from available cast (it will make more sense as the plot unfolds) Depending on how many players sign up, each player gets up to 3 characters. The story begins with Twilight waking up, from there she will awaken the rest of the cast as she finds them. (And as much as I hate spoilers in a mystery, if requested, I will post a plot synopsis) Cast: Twilight: Sunblossom Spike: Ashton Applejack: Ashton Rainbow Dash: ??? Rarity: ??? Fluttershy: ??? Pinkie Pie: Sunblossom So Who's ready for a romp through a dilapidated Starship somewhere far from home and filled with mysteries and challenges?

-updated with more info, pls delete this post-

Your not entirely sure how you got here... maybe you botched a teleportation spell, maybe your high-tech teleporter on your starship malfunctioned, Perhaps you earned the favor of a god (or the wrath of one with a sense of humor) maybe you died and this is your deity's idea of the afterlife (you poor sap), or maybe you just took a wrong turn on a dark street and found a door that wasn't there yesterday! Whatever the case, you find yourself inside a large two-story tavern, all manner of creatures are here ranging from familiar to creatures you could never dream of... to monsters that will forever haunt your darkest nightmares... The wooden floor creaks under your weight, overhead dim lamps keep the place illuminated enough for the poor-sighted navigate but not so bright to hurt the eyes of those who lived below the surface... there are tables all around, most are occupied, at the far end is the bar itself, the barkeep, a mysterious bipodal Doberman in a white shirt and black vest, spots you "Hey, stranger, what'll it be? I have _everything_ and first drink's on the house!" he said, motioned behind him to the near-infinite selection of beverages, mostly alcohol but an equal number not. Who knows how long you'll be here, or even where here is, you might as well take his offer and have a drink... Already sitting at the bar, nursing a drink is what appears to be a vert sleek and slender earth pony with a rainbow mane and tail, cerulean fur, and a red trench-coat sporting a familiar cloud and tri-color lightning bolt, despite expectations, this pony does not seem to have wings, and her front-right hoof is clenching the drink with a griffen-claw! ((Absolutely anyone and anything welcome! The only rule is 'No Fighting'! If you try to fight, your hit with a calming spell to force you to re-think your actions; if you keep trying to fight, you'll be kicked out by an invisible bouncer!)) ((If this sounds familiar, the trope your looking for is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InnBetweenTheWorlds ))

((Just to be clear, I left the third section as "elsewhere" for anyone who wanted to drop in someplace I didn't think of --- though if you want to interact with her, your welcome to place it anywhere you want, even somewhere in ponyville/everfree)) ((Also please no alicorns except Twilight and no Discord)) it was a quiet night, not a single cloud in the sky; luna's full moon was following the diamond-like stars that dotted the great black and blue 'cieling' of the world... But then there was an explosion, like a sonic boom, emanating from that very moon and centered around the everfree and its wild magics, as it expanded, the center filled the sky with storm clouds, rumbling with thunder loud enough to temporarily deafen anyone unfortunate enough to be close enough to see them, these clouds produced a vivid neon-blue lightning, arcing from one cloud to another, then a dozen bolts of this vibrant blue lightning struck the countryside, causing another round of deafening explosions... then the clouds began to collapse in on themselves as the shockwave imploded, eventually ending with one final quiet rumble... then all was silent again... ---------- Ponyville ---------- The lightning had struck the gazebo in the center of town, an explosion of black fire exploded outwards... once it subsided, the gazebo still had small black flames here and there which did not seem to be spreading, but most shockingly, there was now a figure sprawled out inside! moonlight fell on the form of a grey alicorn with a white 'skunk stripe' through her mane and tail, she wore a black bodysuit with matching black cape, her saddle bags bore a familiar mark of six stars orbiting a large central one, though this was superimposed on a crescent moon. The mare's lower lips were adorned with a pair of silver studs, while her ears had three small silver hoops on the outer edge and three silver studs on the inside edge. Despite being unconscious she muttered quietly "...Spike? did we make it back?" before falling silent once more... -------- Everfree -------- The explosion destroyed what had once been a grove of trees on the edge of the forest, dark blue flames danced around the area as a large dragon lay in the clearing with dark blue scales and a white underbelly, his horns and claws were of a similar silvery-white color... though if one looked closely, his front-left paw was lacking one of the claws... he slowly opened one sapphire-blue eye, trying to push himself up, but falling back to the ground and growling, his deep but almost melodic voice growled "My aching... everything... F*** this! you take over!" and with that his form turned to a silvery mist that turned orange and condensed down to an orange pony filly with a magenta mane and leathery wings, wearing old warn saddlebags with no noticeable markings on this, though she wore a thick leather armored vest with an odd bulge right atop her heart... on her flank was the mark of a sword in front of a heart. she opened one eye, purple, then the other, blue, and tried to stand but fell to the ground "F*** you too, jabber, I'm hurting just as bad..." she muttered, closing her eyes and shuddering, waiting for the pain to go away, glad the strange flames didn't seem to be spreading, but in too much pain to do anything even if they were... ---------- Elsewhere ---------- There was an explosion of green fire where the lightning struck, leaving a filly behind with a pink and purple mane and a white coat... but strangely this filly had not one, not two, but THREE horns, along with an oddly long, white-scaled tail that ended in a tuft of pink and purple, her hooves were cloven and on her flank was what appeared to be a brand with a series of three musical notes, with the outermost ones crumbling... she slowly opened her eyes, a sickly yellow that seemed to move like flames, the slitted pupil slowly focusing "...its cold..." she whimpered, despite the night being rather warm. She shivered "whys it always cold...." she struggled to her feet, stumbling as her horn glowed, as it did she was covered in a sickly green flame! Her tail began to shorten and the tip filling out, while her two rear-most horns began to shrink down until they vanished into ehr mane and her eyes lost the odd coloration while her cloven hooves solidified.. She panted hard, her tongue hanging out over rows of fangs; one of the only things besides her brand that did not change. she stumbled and fell to the ground, collapsing from the exhaustion