Peter Trotter: Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Pony

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PANEL 1: Tiiiiny little title card panel. MJ and GEM'S cutie marks side by side. MJ's...a theater mask? GEM'S could be a bridge! Tee hee hee! Or whatever. But yeah. Artsy title card!

PANEL 2: PETER TROTTER, MJ and Gemsit at a table in some pony Starbucks place. Trotter seems a might peeved.

CAPTION:

Monday

PETER:

Diplomatic immunity? More like...JERK-o-matic...immunity.

MJ:

You'll have another shot at Dr. Gloom next week, Tiger.

GEM:

Sorry to hear you wasted a weekend though.

PANEL 2: A waiter brings Trotter an almost decadently large muffin. Peter salivates. MJ smirks.

PETER:

Oh trust me, it's the little things that get your week off to the right start.

MJ:

'Little'.

PETER:

I want it to be a big week.

PETER:

Speaking of. A lead in MacHoof and an invitation to a lecture at the School for Gifted Unicorns? How much bigger can you get?

PANEL 3: Peter opens his mouth wide enough to make his face 30% mouth, keeping one brotherly eye open and on his peeps. MJ looks proud, Gem abashed.

GEM:

It does sound like it's going to be a pretty good week...

PETER:

That's the plan!

PANEL 4: Same shot. All turn to look at a commotion outside.

KID:

(off panel)

Diamond Dogs!

PANEL 6: The pack of DIAMOND DOGS push past a KID with an ice cream cone. (I guess he's a unicorn so he can hold it telekinetically?) The trio can be seen observing this through the coffee shop window.

PETER:

Of course, the best laid plans of spiders and ponies...

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PANEL 1:The dogs flee around a corner leaving the Kid to stare mournfully at his smooshed ice cream.

SPIDEY:

(Off panel)

Heads up, True Believer!

PANEL 2: The Kid looks up in surprise, catching the tossed muffin.

SPIDEY:

(Off panel)

Consider this one on the house!

PANEL 3: SPIDEY swings by over head, saluting the Kid.

SPIDEY:

The house of ideas that is!

PANEL 4: Spidey sticks to an alley wall behind the Dogs, who cower from some terrible glow.

SPIDEY:

Don't you guys need to break for lunch too?

ROVER:

Oh cruel fate! Our diamond! It is in actuality a gateway to some horrible dungeon dimension!

SPIDEY:

(Small text)

Of course it is...

PANEL 5: Close up as SPIDEY scowls to himself.

SPIDEY:

(Small text)

Why does this always happen to me?

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PANEL 1: The Manehattan theater district, as seen through a pair of binoculars. Smoke and assorted super powers froth around the area.

CAPTION:

Tuesday.

FLATTOP:

OUTRAGEOUS! The Stampede Six vs the Injustice Herd! A gatecrashed box office premier in the heart of the theater district! The Falabella Four and that masked menace on the scene!

PANEL 2: FEROCIOUS FLAT TOP turns away from his binoculars to address his staff.

FLATTOP:

Is this outrageous?! Better believe it! Is it what I'm talking about?! No! I'm talking about how I have no news! No stories! No PICTURES!

PANEL 3: The staff run for it as Flattop rants on, unaware of Spidey and the GOAT GOBLIN hurtling through the air and seconds away from breaking through his office window.

FLATTOP:

It's out THERE while you're all in HERE! In my day we took the initiative! You didn't just write a story, you FOUND a st-

FLA TOP:

PAY ATTENTION TO ME WHEN I'M YELLING AT YOU, YOU INCOMPETENT--

PANEL 4: GEM and MJ'S apartment, some time later. A cranky Spidey lays on the couch, his costume-less hind quarters being meticulously covered in band aids by Gem.

SPIDEY:

"Cheer up, Peter. The week'll shape up, Peter. Hold still the removal spell is temperamental, Peter."

GEM:

I said I was sorry.

PANEL 5: MJ looks on from the side lines. Gem and Spidey exchange guilty looks.

MJ:

Hope that's all fixed up in time for the show, Tiger. That'll make ya feel better.

SPIDEY:

Yeah, about that...

PANEL 6: A newspaper front page. Photos of a demolished theater.

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PANEL 1: One big mutha. MULESTERIO, MASTER OF THE ARCANE ARTS, dawns an enchanted bubble helmet and grows into what's basically a thirty feet tall DISCORD IN A MYSTERIO COSTUME! Also reality is crumbling into a surreal netherworld.

CAPTION:

Wednesday

MULESTRIO:

And as MULESTRIO, MASTER OF THE ARCANE ARTS claims the power of the fishbowl of Discord, let the curtain rise on a new era...

GIANT MULESTRIO:

...AND THE STAGE BE SET...FOR ALL OF REALITY... TO BECOME...MULESTRIO'S OYSTER!

PANEL 2: Spidey leads as much of a charge as he can when four ponies hop, swing and fly from floating bric-a-brack. Backing him up are four other SPIDER-PONIES.

SPIDEY:

...and Gem doesn't think MJ should be bummed out, so she's staying in town. Which is bumming her out. Wanna come over and put on a show for them over coffee? I think we've got the makings of a great comedy troupe here.

SPIDER-PEGASUS 2099:

Wow, they've still got coffee in your era?

ULTIMATE SPIDER-ZEBRA:

Sure, as long as I'm back by curfew...

SPIDER-UNICORN NOIR:

Nyeh, see, wiseguys hates us some mixed metaphors, see? Nyeh!

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PANEL 1: It's DEADFOAL! Upside down for some reason!

CAPTION:

Thursday

DEADFOAL:

So how'd that go?

PANEL  2:A tired Spidey, mask rolled up, sips some coffee.

SPIDEY:

Don't think they'll need a replacement for Pinkie Pie anytime soon.

DEADFOAL:

(Off panel)

Sorry to hear that, bro. Wanna hug?

SPIDEY:

I'm not untying you.

PANEL 3: DEADFOAL frowns.

DEADFOAL:

Applesauce.

DEADFOAL:

Do ya think...they need a hug, maybe? Possibly hugs plural?

PANEL 4: Spidey pulls his mask back down.

SPIDEY:

...maybe they do. But they don't need me looking out for them. Which just makes me want to do something for them even more.

DEADFOAL:

(Off panel)

So...why ain'tcha doing somethin' for them now?

PANEL 5: Wider shot. Deadfoal is hogtied and suspended upside down from something by webbing. Spidey sits on a pile of rubble underneath him, gesturing to the street clogging carnage surrounding them. Rubble and fire everywhere. CAPTAIN EQUESTRIA and IRON MANE are arguing with each other in the background. A burning banner wafts in the breeze, the words "Deadfoal Appreciation Day" just visible through the flames.

DEADFOAL:

Oh.

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PANEL 1: MJ trots into the apartment.

CAPTION:

Friday

MJ:

Guys, I realized I should say sorry for being so mopey this week. It was just supposed to be special, y'know. But whatdya say we go to the park and-

PANEL 2: MJ stops dead. Gem looks at her sadly as Spidey hops out the window. The skies over head are on fire with lightning and Kirby Krackles.

MJ:

Oh.

GEM:

Doctor Gloom.

MJ:

Ohhhh.

PANEL 3: The two look glumly out the window together at the apocalyptic sky.

MJ:

He'll be okay.

GEM:

The Befrienders are there.

MJ:

Of course.

GEM:

The Elements of Harmony, even.

MJ:

Wow.

PANEL 4: Same shot. Spidey pokes his head into shot upside down.

SPIDEY:

Don't forget the Doc!

MJ:

Tiger?!

GEM:

But you just...?

SPIDEY:

I saw!

SPIDEY:

(Small text)

Man my flank looks huge. Maybe it's the muffins...

PANEL 5: SPIDEY drops off the ceiling. His costume is battle ravaged and he has a present webbed to his back.

GEM:

How?

SPIDEY:

More like Who.

MJ:

The Doctor.

SPIDEY:

Yep! I'm from about ten hours into the future. Spoiler alert: good guys win!

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PANEL 1: Spidey bashfully passes the webbed gift to Gem.

SPIDEY:

I'll have to go back soon so I can come back (however that works), but I asked the Doc about this and he said it would be okay, so...

PANEL 2: Gem unwraps the package with her magic (she's a unicorn in case I didn't mention it. MJ may be either a Pegasus or an Earth Pony but anyway). The two look at it curiously: it's what Jack Kirby might think an hour glass should look like.

GEM:

And this is...?

PANEL 3: Spidey indicates a button on the device.

SPIDEY:

My way of saying sorry this week's been less than perfect.

PANEL 4: Close up. MJ and Gem's awed faces bathed in the glow of the device.

SPIDEY:

(Off Panel)

It's a week's worth of time. It's not the perfect moment, but it can be if you want it.

PANEL 5: Same shot. Gem snaps out of it first. She looks grateful but curious.

GEM:

Peter...why?

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PANEL 1: Spidey shrugs.

SPIDEY:

You guys are always there to listen to me about how rough things are. I wanted to show that I'm listening too.

PANEL 2: The three share a hug, the device cradled between them. Dawwwww!

SPIDEY:

That's what friends do.

PANEL 3: Spidey waves as he bounces out the apartment door, vanishing into another glow.

SPIDEY:

Okay, going back so I can go forward and do this, so I'll swing by in maybe half an hour! Maybe we'll order out!

MJ:

Don't be a stranger Tiger!

PANEL 4: MJ shares a smile with Gem, still checking out the device.

MJ:

So Tigress, any plans this weekend?

PANEL 5: Stylized image. Spidey sits in a web, a photo of Trotter, Gem and MJ webbed to the foreground.

GEM CAPTION:

I'm sure we'll think of something.

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