Love Hurts

by Super Trampoline

Rating: teen
Tags: Slice of Life, Romance, Comedy
Length: 875

Love hurts, but sometimes it's a good hurt, as Queen Chrysalis discovers when she wanders into the strange world of karaoke. Prompted by EQD flash fiction #5; inspired by the Incubus song of the same name.

A collaboration with Autumnschild.

Talk about humilation. Ex-queen Chrysalis has been stripped of her power and her dignity, having been captured by the very kingdom she tried to overthrow. But rather than have her executed, Princess Celestia orders a far crueler punishment: make some friends! Hoping to demonstrate to her ponies and to the young often self-doubting mare herself that the newly crowned princess Twilight Sparkle is as competent as the shiny thing upon her head suggests, Celestia sends a very spiteful Chrysalis to Ponyville for her most faithful student to reform.

Chrysalis doesn't plan on reforming.

Infact, she doesn't plan on doing much of anything, especially when three annoying brats start bugging her and dragging her around from place to place. But when through a comedic mishap they end up seeking sanctuary in a karaoke bar, Chrysalis's life is turned upside down. Here, she can let loose a thousand years of anger and venom, and belt out her rawest emotions. Has she finally found her true special talent? And dare she say, peace?

Prompted by EQD flash fiction #5; inspired by the Incubus song of the same name.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-12-22 20:05:44 UTC

However On Occassion It's a Positive Pain

In Addition I Have the Sensation of Living

"Oh, I know what that is!" Pinkie exclaimed. "It's a magic defuser. It's like a chastity belt but for your horn instead of your naughty bits!"

Seven ponies and a changeling stared at her with a look of hesitant quizzicality. Applejack stepped up and took one for the team.

"Sugar cube, Ah'm probably going to regret asking this, but how and why do you know this?"

Pinkie giggled. "Silly 'Jackie! That's practically the same question twice!"

Twilight was about to interject with an impromptu lecture on the difference between the two interrogative adverbs, but wisely held her tongue and instead made a note to include an article on the subject in her next grammar newsletter.

So Pinkie took a big breath, then continued: "Buuuuuuut to answer your question, this one time I threw a private party for Vinyl and Octavia to congratulate them on their three and a half year anniversary -a super-duper special invitation-only one just for them-, and well, they kind of had a lot of punch and started making out in my loft and I was like 'Ohmygosh you two are so so so great for each other but wouldn't you rather continue your activities in the privacy of your home?' and then Vinyl was like 'Duuuuude' and I was like 'Duuuude?' and Vinyl was like 'Duuuuuuuude!' and then Tavi was like 'Duuuuuude, you [HIC!] keep shaying "Duuuuude," dude' and then this went of for a reeeeaaallly long time like twenty seconds at least and I think the- HUUAUGHHH! -brownies they brought over were special or something which would explain why I ate so much but then again I always eat a lot so maybe we were just really drunk so anyway eventually Vinyl is like 'Duuuuuude! Afshter Parthty at my place. Yeeeaah! Threesome witth [BRAP!] Pinkie Pie! Yeeaah!' and I was like 'Shweet Shelestia I LOVE after partieses!' and I don't know why I remember this I guess maybe I just have an extra-y high alcohol tolerance or something so them we all stumbled over to- HUUAUGHHH! -Vinyl's loft which is like mine except it isn't above a bakery which is suuuuuper lame at least for me but I guess she probably doesn't care so anyway the two are staring at me with bedroom eyes but oh yeah I forgot to mention that first before that Tavi put this super chill chill-out record on which kinda surprised me but apparently is their favorite love making music not dubstep well sometimes dubstep but not tonight well I mean not tonight-tonight cause it isn't even nighttime right now so that would be a really silly and inaccurate thing to say but on the other hoof- HUUAUGHHH! -a perfectly reasonable thing to say in the chronological framework of a narrative where the action currently being described is happening at night except then wouldn't one say 'that night' since it is past tense except I don't know I guess verb tenses get all wibbly-wobbly grammary-wammery sometimes but that really isn't important because what really is important within the context of the question you asked me is that that that device looks familiar to me is due to the fact that shortly thereafter I found myself tied spread-eagle to their bed and apparently Octavia is the dominant partner in their relationship."

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"Awkward," said Chrysalis.

Romance Causes Pain

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nw2KCfNnFuYRRyMRkNs2ikJR1e0mQwJa342r__UgjJE/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nw2KCfNnFuYRRyMRkNs2ikJR1e0mQwJa342r\_\_UgjJE/edit

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nw2KCfNnFuYRRyMRkNs2ikJR1e0mQwJa342r__UgjJE/edit

That's the google doc.

Original brainstorm

Changeling story outline I just typed up on my phone:

Estimated word count: 3k to 12k

Love hurts

But sometimes it's a good hurt

And it feels like I'm alive

A power-stripped Chrysalis is tasked by princess Luna to make some friends and get a cutie mark. The cutie mark crusaders try to win her over, with limited success. Then she discovers her love of karaoke. And a brave stallion says "any pony who is a friend of karaoke is a friend of mine. They become friends, and she starts to find that camaraderie isn't so bad after all. But then she somehow scares and disgusts him away and... She actually feels hurt. And this is a weird hurt that she hasn't felt before. It's... Love? (The brotherly type. I figure why not have a story about love that isn't romantic or sexual?) but it makes her feel like she is alive. She seeks comfort at a Karaoke bar, and gives a passionate rendition of the title song by incubus to a stunned crowd. What she doesn't know is that the cutie mark crusaders have begged/dragged this other pony back to the bar, and he sees that chrysy isn't just trying to use him; she actually cares about him. He rushes up into the stage, and they finish the song as a duet to thunderous applause. Chrysalis gets her cutie mark: a broken heart sewn back together, symbolizing that while once she used love to destroy, she now has and understands its power to heal and unite. End credits roll over her singing an encore song about how she still doesn't quite understand this "crazy little thing called love." The end.

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