Tales from Bronyville

by InkyPye

Rating: everyone
Tags: Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Human, Main 6, Romance, Original Character, Spike, Comedy, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Crossover, Random, Discord
Length: 8039

I bet you've heard of the Brony Analysis community, but have you ever wanted to hear the weird and wild tales that these Analysists have gone through.Just go west from Ponyville. Uh, I meant East. Then go left. No. Your other left. Never m

I bet you've heard of the Brony Analysis community, but have you ever wanted to hear the weird and wild tales that these Analysists have gone through.

Just go west from Ponyville.

Uh, I meant East.

Then go left.

No. Your other left.

Never mind. Just trot far enough and you'll find it eventually.

(Taking requests, as long as they aren't clopping!)

Published 2015-07-07 01:20:04 UTC
Last updated 2015-09-20 03:47:04 UTC

Chapter 1: Too Many Inkies Part 1:

It was a normal day at the Rift Cafe, which was run by Voice of Reason. It was a place where ponies could learn about the Rift, chat with other reviewers, work on videos and voice work, and get some coffee. Eliyora walked in to grab a mocha and perhaps chat with ToonKritic, when she took a glance at Ink Rose. Ink Rose had dark purple bags beneath her eyes, bloodshot eyes, and was on her 17th coffee as she vigorously typed on her laptop.

"Uh, hon...Are you alright?" Eliyora asked, concerned for her friend.

"Never better...Now, if I make copies of the same art piece, I can also work on my head-canons!"

"What?"

"NO! I'm not alright! I have a bunch of art requests I promised to have done by tomorrow! And then I told Firebrand that we could see an episode, and then I promised to get a head-canon video out on the origins of Discord with KP, and then..." Ink Rose told her in a panic.

"I think you planned too much for a day. You should cancel at least one thing, at least for now, so you can have a good night's sleep. I mean the only way you could do this if there's more than one...Oh." Eliyora realized what she said, Ink Rose got a demented smile on her face. "Inky, this isn't going to work, remember every movie to feature clones ever? I mean-" Ink Rose only responded with a laugh as she stepped away from the chair and put on her saddlebag.

"I gotta go Eli!" Ink Rose said as she ran from the table after slamming two bits on it.

"Oh, what have I done..." Murmured Eliyora.

"Hey! You know that isn't enough to pay for all those lattes!" Voice yelled.

"That's what you're worried about." Eliyora dead-panned.

*Ink Rose's POV:*

I know what Eli's thinking She thought as she wandered to the EverFree Forest, the reviewers are still very connected to Equestria and town events, they just aren't the main focus. She's thinking this'll go over like "Too Many Pinkie Pies," but since I'll only need two, and they'll be moreso workaholics instead of fun seekers, there'll be less of a chance for chaos! And, if they get even more work done and help other reviewers, then that'll be even better for me!

"This can't go wrong, and besides! Considering Firebrand and I'll be reviewing the newest episode, Firebrand can just shoot them back to the mirror pond!" Ink whispered to herself.

"Now, what did the episode say..." Ink-Rose murmurs to herself as she looks around. "Oh! My character notes and head-canons! They should be in my notebook!" And pulls a notebook from her saddlebag.
"Where the brambles are thickest, there you will find a pond beyond the most twisted of vines!"

"Okay, these are some pretty large bbrraammbnllees!" Ink Rose yelled as she fell down the same hole that Pinkie did, in the same embarrassing yet funny way Pinkie did everything. "The mirror pool!" Ink Rose said, as her voice echoed through the cave. She grabbed her fallen book, and sat at the pool as she flipped through the pages.

"Hmmm...Considering that Pinkie's main focus was fun, I'm going to have to think about the two things these clones are going to have to do, I just have to focus on...

"And into her own reflection she stared, yearning for one whose reflection she shared, and solemnly sweared not to be scared at the prospect of being doubly mared!"

Oh no! I'm late for the episode review with Firebrand! No! Focus...Art.

Ink Rose saw another version of herself climb out of the pool.

"You know your place, right? I'm reviewing the episode with Firebrand, you're, uh...You're staying here. And I'm warning you, I have some unicorn friends that can and will vaporize you. Don't go back into the mirror pool." Said the first Ink Rose, defensively.

"Inky, Inky, Inky. I share all the same memories as you, do you really think I wouldn't cover all my bases if I did go?" Replied the second one, in a strangely seductive tone.

"Right. Hold on, I just have to create two more, and then I'll go." The second clone just sat there, checking her hooves, and watched as an artsy Ink Rose began sketching in the ground, and an analytical Ink Rose was busy taking notes on Discord in the dirt. "Okay, Arsty Inky? Back to the cafe! And Analytic Inky? To KP's house, can't miss it. Has a double-sided flag of John Delancie and Discord hanging from her house." The two clones nodded and went back up the hole and in different directions.

"And woe is me, woe is I, woe is, the defective Inky." The second Ink Rose satired.

"Listen. On second thought, I'm marching you back to my Cloudsdale flat. and you aren't leaving." Ink Rose was right. The second Ink Rose was placed in her house, and Ink Rose tied the other Inky's wings to her body, into a tough knot.

"I'll be back later to deal with you." And Ink Rose shot through the wall of her cloud house faster than a bullet.

"Big mistake."

"Ink Rose, where have you been? We've missed the new episode." Firebrand said as he greets her outside of the Discovery Family Theater.

"Sorry I'm late! There was an...issue I had to resolve. Maybe we can go through the theater archives and find an episode to watch. How 'bout...Pinkie Pride?"

"Sure." He replied, and they trotted into the theater.

"How did they get Weird Al though?!" Ink Rose said, as she walked out of the theater in peals of laughter.

"A member of the band ended up doing the music for a lot of My Little Pony music." Firebrand replied. "I'll see you next Saturday, hopefully we can make it to the next new episode." And he began to walk away.

"Wait! How about we, uh, go grab a latte and a hayseed cake over at the rift cafe?" Ink Rose called out. Firebrand looked at her suspiciously.

"...I didn't grab dinner before I came over..." Ink Rose said, sheepishly, with...Misleading bedroom eyes?

"...Sure...?" Firebrand said, feeling uneasy. Well, according to Eli, she's been a bit...Off her rocker lately? Not really eating or sleeping right, and, maybe I can talk to her about it at the cafe... "Okay. We'll go."

"Race you there!" Ink Rose said.

"Hey! No flying!"

Inky made it there first, and checked to make sure that the Analytical Ink Rose was out of the shop, before Firebrand entered.

"You know I hate when you do that." He deadpanned. She giggled.

"I know." And she gave him a kiss on the horn, before she stopped flying.

"Noise? Can you please bring out your finest hayseed cake and sunflower seed tea?"

She could still be sleep-deprived...Hard to tell with her sometimes. Yes. An interrogation will be for the best.

"So...Inky..." He started. Ink Rose gave him her full attention. Definitely something uneasy about this. "Eli told me that you've been working hard here, I mean, as in, not getting sleep for more than 4 days, and today hitting the coffee 18 times. You've been stressed about a bunch of projects, so my question is, why did you decide to stop working to go to the theater with me? I'd understand if you declined.

"Well, I've been working a lot lately, I decided I could use a break. So I cancelled all my commissions and review with AB."

There has to be something wrong here. Her tone, her little differences in behavior, the fact she's forgotten the names of colleagues she's worked with for at the most 5 years.

"I have to get going."

"WHAT!? Why?" She pleads.

"Wouldn't you normally be alright with this? I am a part of Equestria's militia." Firebrand stated, and turned around to the door.

"Uh, Um...Be alright with this!" Ink Rose yelled, as she clocked him over the head with the coffee table. He only turned around to see her clock him over the head with it, and had no chance to react. She then turned to Voice.

"You saw nothing." And then, threw the book at him too.

Author's Note

Reviewers Channels:
Ink Rose:
https:/

Voice:
https://www.youtube.com/user/henmo24

Eliyora:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Eliyora

Chapter 2: Too Many Inkies Part 2:

"Ugh..." Firebrand moaned. He decided to try to recollect what he could remember in bits of fragmented pieces. "Did my marefriend...Hit me with a table...In a coffee shop...Wait. Where am I?!" He opened his eyes wider to find he was in...A cloud meadow, he could only guess. Considering all there was behind him, in front of him, and below him was a bunch of clouds. And he was tied, to a cloud. How he did not plummet to his death was beyond him. He also noticed that the clouds were...Pink. Based on the rising sun, he could tell it was dawn.

Eh, could be worse. Like that time Sweetie Bloom attacked me with a sword. Or when Eliyora...

"Oh Firebrand...<3" Ink Rose's voice called out as her familiar silhouette was seen as she arrived. Her hair had white flowers in it, her wings were tipped with red glitter, and she was wearing a long white dress. "Your goddess has arrived..." And did a dramatic hair flip.

It got worse.

"Listen, Jokesy, and listen good bub." The-Not-Ink Rose said, flying close to his face, but then turning around. "I may be dedicated to your very existence for forever, but if you won't love me, then we'll die together! You see, I shoplifted a cloud-walking potion from a local store. While you were unconcious, it was forced down your throat and lasts only 12 hours, and your time is almost up-Hey! No telekinesis!"

"And that's why unicorns are the master race. Seriously? An evil monologue?"

"Doesn't matter. You'll face death anyhow. We just have to wait, and oh look, the cloud meadow is floating away, you have nowhere else to turn to."

It was only moments after that, that another Ink Rose woke up in her flat, tied up with rope, with an audio recorder next to her face.

Huh? Where am I? Wait, why am I tied up?! She thought, looking frantically around the room, until she saw the audio recorder, she scooted a little, and used her face to hit the play button.

"Hello Inky, I hope you are nice and comfortable..." She opened her eyes wide when she realized it was her voice.

"If you're awake now, it means your precious Firebrand has barely minutes to live. His cloud-walking potion will have worn off, he'll fall to his death, nobody will ever know. Seriously, have you ever met anyone in the fan base who wakes up early?! Anyway, Eliyora will know of your "suspicious" behavior, and will know that you have cloned yourself, and considering I have to be loving and caring of him, I'll be more upset than you will, and you'll be nothing more than a liar and a fraud. You'll be zapped back to the Mirror Pool, and I'll take your place. Sadly, my core behavior will never be satisfied, but the miserable foal was a nervous wreck, I mean sheesh, what is with your, I mean, my, I actually mean your, taste in stallions?" Ink Rose rolled her eyes at that, as she struggled to break free of the ropes, if she could extend her wings just a tiny bit more...

"You said it yourself, if I planned anything, I'd have to have all my bases covered. Oh! He's waking up! Bye Bye!" And the tape ended.
"Why am I such a freakin' good villain, ugh..." Ink Rose thought as she slammed her face into her cloud house, which was the equivalent of her slamming her face into her art desk. She looked desperately around her flat, trying to find something sharp.

"CURSE YOU CLOUD-STUFFS!" She yelled.

"Now if my timing is right, your time is-"

"CURSE YOU CLOUD-STUFFS!" Echoed in the distance. At that very moment, the cloud-walking potion faded, Firebrand fell, and began screaming.

"Wha-Inky! You! URGH!" She yelled.

You know, I expected to have a lot more to think about when I die-

"Got ya'!" Said two Inky's at the exact same time, there was now no way to tell the two apart, as the Not-Inky lost the dress and flowers for most likely the sake of this.

"No, I do." And thus started an aerial tug of war, as the two Ink Rose's pulled on Firebrand's arms.

"How about you put me down, safely. And I'll decide who's the real-"

"She's the clone!" They both yelled.

"Hit her with your magic, Scorcher!" The two kept flying haphazardly, tugging on his arms. He eventually crashed into a tree, but didn't notice his absence as the two were in a dogfight in the sky. Firebrand could only watch the battle in the sky as faces were punched, stomachs were kicked, and there was far too many disturbing cracking sounds.

"Please...Help."

"I CAN'T TELL WHO'S WHO! Give me a sign, tell me something only the real Ink Rose would know." Soon responses flooded in.

"Your brother is diabetic."

"You love the "Kingdom Hearts" franchise."

"You think I have a cute laugh."

"You're the medic in Dr.Wolf's version of Team Fortress 2."
"Criminy...Wait, I'm asking what the real Ink Rose would know, so how about something the real Ink Rose wouldn't know."

"What episode did we see at the theater?"

"...The newestepisode?"

"Oh, um, uh, uh...The episode with-"

ZAP! A pink ray shot out at the second Ink Rose. Firebrand then turned to Ink Rose.

"Did we go anywhere after we watched an episode?" Firebrand asked, now nervous.

"We went somewhere after the movie?!"

Firebrand just laughed.

"Good to have you back, Inky. Just, try not to handle so many ideas and projects next time, it'll probably keep you a lot less stressed out, along with everyone else."

"'Kay..." She said as she helped Firebrand out of the tree and onto the sidewalk. "Oh, and uh, Firebrand?"

"Yeah?"

"There are two more versions of me running around." Inky said, sheepishly. "...Firebrand?"

"...Should have been a Canterlot musician. Let's go." He said. And Ink Rose just hovered beside him as he walked into town.

Author's Note

Allow me to explain some things, many locations still exist, like Ponyville and Canterlot, as do the main characters. Their interactions are simply between episodes and never mentioned, like SilverQuill talking to Fluttershy, he may mention past experiences, but simply is never mentioned on adventures. And in Bronyville, the show exists, and is still a big point in entertainment. I'll elaborate more later.

Choose the Chapter #1.

Hey! I'm having trouble picking a chapter/short-story to write, should I write,

-Dr. Wolf's Double,

After Dr. Wolf leaves for vacation, ponies keep having problems, so until he gets back, other reviewers try to take his place, and let's just say it doesn't go very well...
Reviewers In Story: AnY, Silver Quill, KP, and Sweetie Bloom.

-Cutie Mark Chronicles: Chapter 2,

After venturing through uncharted land past Ponyville, the CMC find mysterious locals who seem to know who they are, and basically every adventure they've had, and after many half-baked excuses and lies to fool the three, the CMC decide to ask them how they got their cutie marks.
Reviewers in Story: KP, Silver Quill, Dusty Katt, Ink Rose, Key Frame, and Golden Fox.
These will be purely based off of head-canons and what the reviewers have said they mean, like KP's means animation.

-Lightning Bliss's OTHER Magic Lessons

Lightning Bliss, one of the only Alicorns of the Brony Analysis Community. She must have been pretty desperate to seek out ponies like Eliyora, Emerald Comic, and several other unicorns, as they deal with backfiring magic.
Reviewers in Story: Lightning Bliss, KeyFrame, Mage, literally any unicorn/alicorn.

-Friends Forever #10.5: Eliyora and Fluttershy

Eliyora decides to take a walk to Ponyville to calm her nerves after losing her temper, based on a suggestion of Dr.Wolf's. And after inconsiderate pony of inconsiderate pony, she bumps into Fluttershy, and after telling her of her personal troubles, Fluttershy makes it her mission to help Eliyora with her temper.
Reviewers in Story: ToonKriticY2K, Eliyora, Dr.Wolf.

This one has been brewing in my head for about a day, so it isn't exactly flawless, but I hope you like it anyway.

-Friends Forever #8.5: Golden Fox and The Flim-Flam Brothers

While visiting the town of AppleLoosa, Key-Frame and Golden Fox go their separate ways, meanwhile, Golden Fox runs into the Flim-Flam brothers and either these three events happen,
A. Trying to convince him to get him something special for his little lady, in order to get enough bits for the train out of town, after being run out by an angry mob, and both Golden Fox and Key Frame decide to help them escape, one way or the other

B. Both brothers compete to sell him the exact same product after an argument, which Golden Fox has to resolve. (Closer to the actual Friends Forever #10.)

C. The brothers fall for Key-Frame, and attempt to impress her as Golden Fox gets increasingly angry, but also tries to impress her as well. Until Key Frame loses her temper because she's being treated more as a trophy than a pony, and the brothers learn that Key Frame is nothing like any mare they've ever met (And then they meet Eliyora...)

Reviewers in Story: Key-Frame, Golden Fox, (AnY and Voice have a few lines as well.)

Comment down below your favorite idea, it'll help a lot, really, I'll check them tomorrow morning, then write the story!

7-9-15, I'm sorry, but as soon as I tried to write "Dr.Wolf's Double" I just couldn't write it. I got writer's block, so I added a few more ideas, so, if you could, comment down below your favorite idea.

Chapter 3: Friends Forever #9.5- Key-Frame and Golden Fox and The Flim-Flam Brothers Part 1:

"So, Goldie, a ride on the Exposition Express to the shores of Vanhoover?" Key frame mentioned as she fixed her giant sun-hat in the train-car window.

"Sounds fun. Swimming, relaxing, beach-combing, the occasional sea serpent-" Golden Fox agreed.

"Stop for Vanhoover Bay, last stop for Vanhoover Bay." The engineer called out as the two of them walked out of the train station to a sandy cove, with white sand and the purest of blue waterfalls. The two were in awe of the beach, and besides a few sun-bathing ponies, the beach was barren, and in a moment, a certain calypso music wafted in the air.

"What the heck is that?" Golden asked, Wait. Haven't I heard this tune before? But where...

"Let's go find out." Key replied.

Okay, maybe it isn't what I think it is...
"If churning and burning isn't what you'd like, you see,"

"Or if just a dash of color is just what you need,"
"You're pale and red, your skin is dead, and your life is lacking motion."

"You need the Flim-Flam Brother's AppleWood Tanning Lotion!"

Of course. Why not. He thought as a crowd of ponies gathered in to buy their scam, one brother went to manage the booth, while the other

"And what's your name, Miss?" A mustached brother asked, clearly trying to ignore the grimace of Golden Fox.

"Key-Frame!" She said chipperly as the stallion leads her away.

"Well aren't you a work of art..." He muttered as he lifted her hoof up, as if they were holding them.

"Heh, thanks, but...I have a colt-friend and, uh, we have-" Key-Frame said nervously as she tried to to back away, but he gripped her leg tight.

"Maybe my brother and I could show you two around, then? We have all day until our next show." The other brother then added, leaning in, eyes growing wide with hope.

"Uh..." Key-Frame said, pondering. "Sure! C'mon Goldie! Let's go to the other side of the boardwalk, they might have games set up!"

"Great." The trio said as they gave forced smiles all around.

"We'll make it short, and we'll make it snappy 'Goldie.' You have a lovely little lady, and let's say that she made her own choices between who she loves after this afternoon..." One brother said, as the other brother laughed and Golden puffed up his wings, not to mention Key-Frame leading the group to the board-walk somewhat obliviously, and then wandered over to a nearby shooter game.

"3 bits, hon." The stout unicorn carnie working the booth said as she used her magic to hold her weapon. "Remember, please don't shoot me and good luck!" He said as he started the game.

"And may the best stallion win." Flim replied under is breath as Flam chuckled.

Author's Note

I can guess this is not my best work, but I wanted to see what you guys thought, and also what other things they should do? Can you comment down below for other situation ideas?

Chapter #3.5: COMMERCIAL BREAK!

Have strange ponies you've heard of but never met somehow appear in your house?

And then have both on-purposely and accidentally mangled, murdered, and in all ways inconvenienced you?

Frankly you could just sue them, especially in SilverQuill's case, but you know what you could do?

Call The Voice of Reason's Rift-to-Reality services!

We have ponies like, Ink-Rose!

"Apprentice reporting for duty!" The red pegasus says as she smiles and winks at the audience.

Lightning Bliss!

"Oh, very funny ToonKritic!" Lightning yells as she walks out looking angry and exhausted, covered in sparkles and colorful bows held her hair in pigtails.

AnYPony

"Waitress Filly? Wait, we're filming? NOW?" AnY says, looking confused.

"YOU KNOW MY NAME, AnY!" Key-Frame yells from the distance.

And many other Rift-Members! So just call-

"Wait, does Equestria even have telephones? There isn't any phone-lines, and we've never seen anypony use them." AnY questions.

"That-Is a very good point. Voice?" Ink-Rose replies as she begins yelling at the ceiling for Voice, whose narrating this commercial.

Uh, just yell something like "Dang it, Silver!" I don't know.

*This Commercial was approved by the Royal Sisters, Luna and Celestia.
**The Rift to Reality Services cannot stop crossovers from happening, nor keep SilverQuill from doing the weird things SilverQuill does. Please don't try to expunge a pony and leave this to the professionals, based on the fact one is not allowed to use magic against another Equestrian citizen. Have a nice day and remember to tip your waitresses-

"DANG IT, AnY!"

Author's Note

Okay, I apologize for not writing lately, I'm trying to wrap my head around this "Friends Forever" chapter I'm writing, which seems to involve more of Key-Frame than I thought...So, enjoy this! Because what would MLP be without Commercialism?

Also, I have nothing against SilverQuill, he's one of my favorite reviewers in fact!

Chapter 4: Friends Forever #10.5: Eliyora and Fluttershy Part 1:

"Urgh. That stupid, lying, ergh..." Eliyora mumbled to herself as she wandered through the forest near Bronyville, she's been ticked off a lot lately, by everyone and everything, and nopony could figure out why. Though when a few stallions suggested it was "that time of the month" she made sure that she got the message across that she was not in the mood for their pranks. Eliyora wandered through the forest, occasionally setting fire to thistle and clearing herself a patch through the Poison Joke, not in the mood for what it had to offer either. Eventually, she walked clear out of the forest into what appeared to be a valley, and walked up the hill muttering, until she realized where she was.

Derpy flying by.

Lyra sitting on a bench like a person.

Berry Punch with a keg of Jack.

Somehow, Eliyora wandered in to Ponyville, and tried to act natural as she thought about how she could be where she was.

"Maybe this is kind of like "The Nightmare before Christmas," with the forest of holidays. But, wouldn't this raise questions on why other ponies haven't traveled through before? Then again, Key-Frame did mention the Flim-Flam brothers-"

"Hey! Watch it, mare!" Yelled a cab driver as it swerves to avoid her, and putting her back into her foul mood, and almost too angry to respond.

"Well, watch where the buck you're driving!"

Almost.
"Okay, Eli, just do this. Head into Sugar Cube Corner, buy a batch of cupcakes, and eat a batch of cupcakes angrily in the comfort of your own home, where you can set your bad drawings on fire if needed be." She thought, and made a beeline to Sugar Cube Corner. There was a line of about fifteen ponies when she made it into the shop, based on the fact that Apple-Jack was selling her famous apple pies in a limited quantity.

"Um, excuse me, Miss?" Said a pink mare with blonde hair covered in flowers and a squeaky voice as Eliyora turned around and the mare cut her.

"Hey! I was there!"

"Hmm...Really? Didn't see your name on that spot." And scoffed. That was the last straw. Eli's eyes went red, her horn became laced with red as a point of fire came from her horn and blew a hole in the ceiling of Sugar Cube Corner.
"GET. OUT. OF. MY. SPOT." And narrowed her eyes at the mare, who looked incredibly scared and nervous.

"Um, you can take my spot, but please don't hurt her." Said a soft voice in line, and her rage subsided. Barely. She was ready to snap again, but that could wait for another time, and logic and reason sunk in again."

"It can't be...Can it?"

"I'm F-Fluttershy." She said quietly,somewhat scared of Eliyora's wrath.

"T-Thank you."

"Of course. I'm sorry, but, what were you, uh, going to do to her?" Fluttershy asked as customers tried to continue their lives after what had happened, Eliyora's eyes dilated.

"Doesn't matter!" Eliyora replied, a little too loud.

"Um...You seem fairly upset about something, I mean, the last pony to throw that much of a fit about being cut in line was, uh, well, me."

"Yeah, I'm fine, real-"

"Move already!" Yelled a pony with a Manehatten accent, Eliyora was holding up the line while she was talking to Fluttershy.

"SORRY! Jeez'." Eliyora yelled as she walked forward and ordered some baked goods and left the place in a huff, Fluttershy flinched, but continued talking to her.

"Maybe you could talk about what's going on with me?" Fluttershy said, flying. "I know I haven't seen you before, but, you look like you need to let off some steam."
"Well, there goes my plan of stuffing my face with baked goods... Then again...Maybe I could talk to her, it isn't going to do anything, I'll still be able to go home in about half an hour and pretend none of this ever happened and that I didn't almost kill a flower pony."

"Sure." Eliyora replied, and the two mares began walking.

Friends Forever #9.5: Key-Frame and Golden-Fox The Flim-Flam Brothers Part 2:

The game was to protect a cardboard Cadence and Shining Armor from an attack of Changelings, whoever shot the most changelings won a prize, involving many Cadence and Shining Armor toys, along with at least one Chrysalis plushy.

"Well isn't that great, they turned what would've have been a parasitical tyranny and horror into commercialism, am I right, Goldie?" Key-Frame said as she shot changeling after changeling, but Golden Fox was too busy trying to concentrate. Key played a lot more shooter games than him, and was almost a sniper in Dr. Wolf's project...Which turned ugly pretty fast. The Flim-Flam brothers were decent shots, but only slightly better than Golden Fox, the round ended quickly with Golden Fox at a sum of 30, each brother with a 45, and Key with 75.

"Well Miss, you're the winner, pick anything you'd like." Said the carnie, still with a heavy Manehatten accent.

"Hmm...Queen Chrysalis, please!" Key replied, cheerily.

"Oh, sorry, Miss. Pick one of those." He said, pointing to some cheaply made Cadence toys. "You need 100 to get at that one."

"You literally just said I could have whatever one I wanted." The carnie just shrugged. The Flim-Flam brothers saw their chance, and took it.

"Watch and learn, lover-colt." Flam whispered to Golden as his wings puffed up.

"Flam did he say 'anything she'd like?'"

"That's what I heard, did you hear that, Flim? How about you Key? Goldie? Yup, we've got 4 solid witnesses here."

"So we'll make you a deal, 20 bits and you give the mare what she asked for." Flim said, pulling a coin-bag from seemingly nowhere (Key figured that he stole it from some pedestrian.)

"35 bits perhaps? We'll raise you for no more than 35 bits." Flam added, as he jingled a coin purse in front of the stallion, hearing the sweet sound, he complied.

"You guys don't really have to do-" Key began, but was cut off.

"Here's your prize, ma'am, now scram!" The carnie yelled, as Flim and Flam seemed to step closer to Key-Frame as she nuzzled the doll and carried it with her magic, leaving Golden in the dust.

"Well buddy, we're one to zero on the y'e olde merit system." Said Flim.

"Actually, it should be two considering the both of us impressed her, so, two to zero." Flam said in reply as the three walked and Key-Frame was far in front of the feud, not exactly oblivious.

"All you did was prove that you have a lot of money." Golden said in a grit-teeth expression.

"You know, you're right. Hey Key! Key!" Yelled Flim, as he ran towards her, he pointed to the ocean, and began talking as Key nodded. Golden couldn't hear, so he flew faster to catch up with em'. "-And this ocean is the only one in Equestria to have flying sea-ponies, based on the salty air." He told her, as 5 sea ponies flew from the water, to a salt-water taffy booth.

"Wow." She said, awestruck, as their tails were like ribbons in the air, shiny, wavy, and free.

"3 to 0, Goldie." Said Flam as Key-Frame's green eyes shimmered like stars. Golden looked around, desperate for something to turn the tides. They were annoying, but they were also thought on their hooves.

"Perhaps if you feel like it, maybe later we could visit one of the cove's many waterfalls?" Flam said, hinting at something. Key-Frame could sense it.

"...Sure? I mean, I suppose? I mean-"

"Too flustered to speak." The brothers whispered and bro-hoofed as Key-Frame turned around flustered and frustrated. Golden couldn't take it anymore! He was her friend, and those colts just pushed a date onto her!

"Key-Frame! Let's go to the Ferris Wheel!" Golden practically yelled as Key-Frame followed, passive-aggressively muttering. Key and Golden just ran to the Ferris Wheel. Flim and Flam just shared looks with each other.

"Oh thank goodness! Finally some time without the two of them. If I was going to spend one more minute with them I was going to blast their bloody corpses to Tartarus twice over." KeyFrame told Golden as the ride started slowly.

"Wait, you weren't enjoying-"

"Goldie. They weren't going to leave us alone. Did you really think I was that oblivious to everything going on around me? Really?"

"I guess I hoped you were somewhat oblivious." Golden muttered as the ride stopped a few feet away from the top. "Is it, jammed or-" and as soon as he could say that, the ride started again at a faster pace. And then it went faster. The faster pace was jarring, but didn't bother them too much, until it went faster.

"Should we be concerned?" Golden asked. Then from the Ferris wheel there was a sickening crack.

"Yes." Golden fluffed up his wings. "Yes we should." Key said as the Ferris Wheel was now going at an extremely fast pace, to the point where the two were trying frivolously hold on with hooves.

CLUNK.

At that moment, their seat flipped sideways. Golden zipped out a few feet above it as Key was holding on, there was a certain desperateness in Key's eyes, but at the same time, determination. Then, in the same moment it took for Key to realize what she had to do,

CLUNK.

"Key!" Golden yelled as he dived after the seat, that was then levitated in a green glow.

"Miss Frame, are you alright? We saw what happened and-" Flim began saying, when he realized the carriage was empty.

"And what?" Key's voice said from above, she was levitating above the two unicorns as Golden flew his way down."All I wanted to do was have a fun afternoon! But no! You two had to tag along! And you three spent a considerable amount of time treating me like I was some oblivious bimbo and didn't realize what was going on around me! If you two just wanted to tag along and hang around, that would've been fine, that would've been dandy." Key's face was growing red, a usual sign in her temper spike. "But NO. You three have been bickering behind my back to the point that somepony could have gotten injured or killed. Now, I'm going home. If anypony wants to follow me I'll-" She then teleported herself to the train station from what Golden could see in the distance.

"Eh, mares. It's Marian all over again." Flim mumbled.

"Mares. Dime a dozen!" Flam grumbled as they themselves ran to their show-booth, as Golden just stared at the train-station.

"Well that was almost as bad as the time 25 changelings decided to take the form of D." Key says to herself, as she pulls pieces of paint and a screw out of her hair with her magic and turns back to her sketchbook. A few moments after the trolley mare had stopped by to help Key drink her vacation from her memory, a voice perked up.

"Mind if I sit here?" Golden asked.

"Do I have a choice?" Key dead-panned.

"Key, I'm so sorry about what happened, it's just that-"

"I know, the only reason I invited them was because I knew they wouldn't take "no" for an answer. I wanted to just have fun, I wanted to play shooter games, go to the beach, try not to get eaten alive by Steven Magnet's third-cousin-twice-removed..." Key told him, as she snuggled the Chrysalis toy for a Chryssi. It seemed fitting.

"Maybe we just invite a few friends over for some horror movies and just have fun?" Golden said, treading carefully. Key just laughed.

"With less of a chance of dying? With our friends? No promises."

Author's Note

So yeah...This wasn't the best, but I hope you like it anyway!

Fun Fact: I've had this idea for a while, but instead of it being an anthology, it was originally going to be a comic with four reviewers trying to get in the fandom's analysis section, but also noticing the strange things that go on, such as Eli's temper, Silver's multiple offenses against ponies, etc.

Chapter #5. Confrontation

(Based on this song, with Lethal Aurora and Mage.)

It had been a few years since Mage let Lethal Aurora escape on that fated Halloween night, where she almost killed some of her best friends, for the simple reason that they didn't share the same opinions as her.

KP.

Ink Rose.

Antony C.

Sky Watch.

Only to name a few.

They claimed it was fine, that everything could go back to normal, and in many ways, it did. Nobody let Lethal Aurora escape again, even when Mage did slip up, and got incredibly angry. Still a part of her felt deprived, and in her home, she fell into remorse, and talked her struggles out, to nopony at all.

"It's over now, I know inside, nopony will ever know,"

"The sorry tale of Lethal Aurora, and all the horrors, nopony must ever know." She sang to herself as she walked to her bedroom mirror.

"They'd only see the tragedy, they'd not see my intent, the shadow of her evils, would forever kill the good, that I had meant." She hung her head low.

"Am I a good mare? Am I, a mad mare? It's such a fine line, between the good one, and a-"
"Do, you really think, that I would ever let you go? Do you think, I'd ever set you free? If you do, I'm sad to say, it simply isn't so, YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY FROM ME." Mage's reflection replied, which looked exactly like Lethal Aurora, almost on impulse, Mage levitated a sledge hammer

"All that you are is a face in the mirror! I close my eyes and you'll disappear!"
"I'm what you face when you face in the mirror, long as you live I'll still be here!"

"All that you are is the end of a nightmare, all that you are is a dying scream! After tonight, I shall end this demon dream!" Mage yelled as she struck the mirror with her sledge hammer, and turned around to leave her room.
"This is not a dream my friend, and it will never end! This one is the nightmare, that goes on! AURORA'S HERE, TO STAY NO MATTER WHAT YOU MAY PRETEND! And I'll flourish long after you're gone!" Lethal yelled as she stood tall and proudly, with a smirk on her face as she watched Mage's disbelief turn to anger.

"Soon you will die and my memory will hide you, you can not choose but to lose control!"
"You can't control me, I live deep inside you, each day you feel me DEVOUR YOUR SOUL!"

"I don't need you to survive like you NEED ME! I'll become whole as you DANCE WITH DEATH, and I'll rejoice as you breathe your final BREA-ATHE." As she said this, Lethal Aurora cackled.
"I LIVE INSIDE YOU FOREVER!"

"NO!"
"WITH DISCORD, HIMSELF BY MY SIDE!"

"NO!"
"AND I KNOW, THAT NOW AND FOREVER, THEY'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEPARATE MAGE FROM AURORA!" And with that, Lethal lunged at Mage, and the two became one.

"Can't you see it's, over now, time to die-"

"NO NOT I, ONLY YOU-"

"If I die, you die too."

"YOU DIE IN ME, AND I'LL BE YOU."

"Dang you Aurora, set me free!"

"CAN'T YOU SEE, YOU ARE ME!"

"NO! Deep inside-"

"I AM YOU, YOU ARE MINE!"

"CELESTIA DAMNS YOU, Aurora! TaKe AlL yOuR eViL dEeEdS, aNd RoT iN tArTaRuS!"

"i'Ll SeE yOu ThErE, mAgE!"

"NEVER!"

Author's Note

So...That was tense. In my head as soon as Mage stops yelling, she just kind of talks to Lethal and eats cheesecake and form a symbiotic relationship. Might be wishful thinking though.

Fun Fact: This originally would've been a web-comic, following four ponies as they tried to become successful reviewers and noticed the strange activities in town. The reason it isn't a web-comic? I couldn't draw three-fourths of the characters I wanted to use.

Chapter #5.5: How the World Works with KP

"So, because the author who does reviews isn't popular enough to do these herself without people skipping over it so she dragged me into this. This'll kind of explain how we can interact with characters from the show and stuff, and I guess you may get a tour through town? Eh, maybe." KP says as she straightens her tie and ties back her hair.

"Apparently her idea is that this place exists in the Ever-Free Forest and can be accessed by simply casually meandering for a very long time. Clearly this idea wasn't ripped off of something else at all. Totally." KP continued as she insulted the author as she wandered around town.

"I mean seriously, we're so easy to access and literally nobody comes here versus, like, travelling to YakYakistan or North Cowrea and MosCow." KP continues as she walks past Key-Frame.

"Was that your excuse to make a few bad puns? For all we know some of those places don't even exist-"

"YES! And it was entirely necessary." KP says as she walks past her, as Key-Frame looks into the camera like she's on "The Office."

"And this is why I'm managing prohibition for Cloud, AnY, Voice, and Silver." Key-Frame dead-panned as she walked on, away from KP and her shenanigans.

"Like I said, all you really have to do is wander through the Ever-Free forest long enough to find this place, just like the fact town was CONVENIENTLY found and actually had a train route. Sweetie will demonstrate this idea as I send an innocent analyst through one of the most dangerous locations in Equestria to the most dangerous yet generic locations in Equestria." KP said while holding a rolling tripod while Sweetie Bloom stood at the edge of the Ever-Free forest.

"And unfortunately for the good of the country, yada, yada, yada, I have to go with her too."

"Can't we just-fly over it? Or a unicorn could teleport? or an Earth Pony could just go-" Sweetie Bloom said, deducing logic in a world where there is none.

"Yeah, we could, but EverFree Network needs EverFree Forest footage and I need the dough for John DeLancie merch." Sweetie Bloom thought it over.

"Can I slay a dragon?" Sweetie Bloom asks before the camera turns off.

"This was a horrible idea!" The two say minutes later, covered in burn marks, running haphazardly through the forest.

"Okay, so let's recap, you can literally walk from Bronyville to Ponyville in fifteen minutes, and can spend the rest of your afternoon trying to slay Maleficent." KP yells at the glitching camera. "We're going home-Thanks for watching!"

Author's Note

So yeah, this is my idea on how to crunch the lore. Expect little shorts like these occasionally.

Chapter #7. Price Over His Head/The 50,000,000,000 Bit Bird

Chapter #7. Price Over His Head/The 50,000,000,000 Bit Bird

It was a normal day at the office for the resident psychiatrist of the town as he spoke to a troubled red stallion.

"FireBrand, your heart is in the right place, but-What is that?" Doctor Wolf said, switching subjects from the heart to heart he was having with the Fiery Joker, the two walked to the window as they watched a mob gather below.

"He made me offend our true lord, John DeLancie of Discordia! And I was denied a chance to show off my Discord Princess title!" KP wailed from the mob below.

"I thought that was Megan McCartney...And what?!" Toon said, scratching his head.

"We don't speak that name here...She made Discord forget his only friend's name." KP replied.

"I was denied the chocolate brown gooeyness of chocolate chip cookies!" Anthony C yelled as a few ponies who hadn't watched the first and only episode of "The Shipping Game" stared at him blankly.

"He's a weird, over-weight pigeon!" Yelled Mary-Sue, as Maddie cringed on the sideline.

"And chances of collaborating again is slipping away to null." Maddie muttered.

"What in the world are they so upset about?" Doctor Wolf pondered aloud.

"Silver." The commander deadpanned, getting up from the therapy couch. "It has to be Silver based on the way they're clamoring, plus, Discord princess, cookies, that weird pink alicorn who's obsessed with pigeons."
(Sorry, I'm doing most of this on mobile, so paragraphs will be clunky.)

"True, but Silver is accustomed to be disruptive and chaotic with his show-boating, why is everypony making such a big fuss about it now?" Just then, Dusty Katt came in through the door.

"Wow, plot convenience." Firebrand commented.

"Actually, I'm here to see Doctor Wolf, but I also know how to answer your question." Dusty Katt commented as Firebrand rolled his eyes at the author as Dusty turned on the TV.

"Thank you, Dusty Katt. Anyway, breaking news; Princess Cadence is offering a reward of fifty billion bits to anypony who can bring to her the only hippogriff in Equestria, Silver Quill. Who is charged with kidnapping, traumatizing other ponies, corrupting the youth, being overall annoying, shipping Big Mac with Pinkie Pie and being offended by burning ducks. In other news, Ink Rose is adorable and remember to tip your waitress fillies-"

"Oh dear..." Doctor Wolf muttered as the news was turned off. "How much do you believe the crowd knows about this."

"We should have about five minutes before the news bulletin begins trending and then the hunt is on." Dusty Katt commented.

"And mobs rarely make good decisions." Firebrand commented. "So...We're helping him? I mean, Silver can usually take a hit when it comes to this kind of thing."

"Yes, we are. There is a mob out there who wants his head and-" Doctor Wolf said as Silver Quill walked through the door covered in scratches.

"Medic."
"
Wrong game, but somewhat right place." Firebrand said in a sort of sarcastic, spiteful way as Doctor Wolf shot him a glare.

"We don't have much time, while Silver is able to take the heat most of the time, we have a very ticked off community we're dealing with, and we should reason with them after the heat has died down a bit." Doctor Wolf told the two conscious ponies as Silver got up, still weary.

"Uh, I agree. There is a pyromaniac, an overly tall unicorn, and a LOT of ponies down there that won't be happy to see me."

"Let's go to my channel." Firebrand relented. "It'll be the safest place for all of us considering I do the least amount of collabsand should be harder to find versus your office."

"But how will we get the only hippogriff through a sea of ponies looking for the exact same one?" Dusty Katt asked as the four began to think.

"When I said this, this is not what I meant." Dusty Katt dead-panned as the four were walking through the crowd, with Silver wearing a mustache resembling Dusty's.

"Hey? Isn't that Silver?" Sweetie Bloom asked KP while KP was lighting a torch.

"Pssh. No, Silver doesn't have a mustache. Hey Sweetie, hold this torch, and here's that sword you almost impaled the commander with." KP said, dismissing her suspicions.

"Then...Why is there an achievement thingy saying 'Disguise Success!'?" A triumphant trumpet tune played as soon as Sweetie said that, and it vanished.

"Let's walk faster."

Firebrand's channel, which also functions as his home, is a bright brick red, covered in burn and scorch marks on the sides of the walls with a few letters scattered around the yard, and the whole thing had a sleeping tatzel worm curled around it as Silver Quill looked at it cautiously as they walked past it and ran immediately into The Puppet, or as Xain and Josh call her, Marionette or Mari.

"So let me get this straight." She said, in an annoyed tone. "You almost got impaled by a mare named Sweetie, he's on the lam, and you two are assisting him until the heat dies down." Mari gave Firebrand a look and Firebrand mumbled about how her depth-perception, or lack of, made her even more terrifying-ish.

"We'll try to prevent any unneeded chaos and get the heat to die down until Silver can rest easy." Doctor Wolf mentioned as he looked at the oddly quiet Silver, who was pretty banged up, with a black eye, numerous scratches, and a sword going through his head as his mustache fell to pieces.

"SsOoUuNnDds GgOoOoDd..." Silver said, his voice wavering.

Then there was a banging on the channel door.

Author's Note

So, I'm back! *Gets smacked with a burning duck*

I haven't been updating lately due to school and lack of ideas that felt new and fresh, And this story came simply because of two things, a free BTAS comic called "Price on His Head" and the quote "And mobs rarely make good decisions."

This probably isn't my best...