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Pandemic: Picking up the Pieces

by Halira
After a quarter of the United States population is transformed into ponies it is now time for humans and ponies to start rebuilding their lives, but that's not something with a standard blueprint on how to do.

Part of The Pandemic Universe

In the aftermath of the ETS epidemic lives have been uprooted and changed forever. For the new citizens of Riverview, they are most often not even as the same species they were only a month before. Thousands of freshly transformed ponies and their human relatives must now start from scratch here and try to build new lives.

Every pony and human living in Riverview has their own personal struggles; from the human mother dealing with children who are now pony foals, a young earth pony thrust into a position where many humans and ponies depend on her, a scarred pony trying to make right on past mistakes, and many others. They must all now pick up the pieces of their lives and try to put them together

Story notes:

Chapters marked with ** are key Dreamwarden chapters for Pandemic readers trying to get information on Dreamwardens but don't want to read full story.

Art by Mr. Tech

Thanks to Pre-Readers past and present:

Cander
Shadows of Deity
Sandstorm94
Rhys
AATC Fanboy

Pandemic: What You are Meant to Be is a prequel that shares most of the same characters. It follows a character who only has two chapters from their perspective in this story though and is not required reading. For additional background on some characters you can read it, but most things from it you can pick up through context clues in this one.

The original story Pandemic by ASGeek2012 is highly recommended reading before reading this, but this can be understood without reading it.

Trigger warnings: a rape is mentioned but never shown, there is a few scenes near the end that can get violent, profanity is used at times, some LGBT characters, mind altering, PTSD, sex is sometimes heavily alluded to but never shown, non-sexual torture happens in some scenes. I try not too go into too many details with most of these things. There is a lot of arcs that tie to other stories that aren't resolved here as well, be aware that they exist in a larger framework of stories.

Special thanks to ASGeek2012 creating this subuniverse and for looking over selective sections for approval that have impact on the Pandemic universe and for exchanging some notes as we both work on our respective stories.

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81 Chapters:

  1. Chapter 1 2018-08-03 13:46:06 UTC
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  2. Chapter 2 2018-08-03 13:45:18 UTC
  3. Chapter 3 2018-08-10 13:54:55 UTC
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  4. Chapter 4 2018-08-10 13:55:03 UTC
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  5. Chapter 5 2018-08-17 13:31:48 UTC
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  6. Chapter 6 2018-08-17 13:32:01 UTC
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  7. Chapter 7 2018-08-23 13:08:07 UTC
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  8. Chapter 8 2018-08-24 12:26:33 UTC
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  9. Chapter 9** 2018-08-30 10:25:20 UTC
    4849
  10. Chapter 10 2018-08-31 10:01:57 UTC
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  11. Chapter 11 2018-09-01 04:47:57 UTC
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  12. Chapter 12** 2018-09-02 04:16:36 UTC
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  13. Chapter 13 2018-09-06 04:12:23 UTC
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  14. Chapter 14 2018-09-07 04:08:48 UTC
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  15. Chapter 15 2018-09-11 04:40:54 UTC
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  16. Chapter 16 2018-09-12 04:16:33 UTC
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  17. Chapter 17** 2018-09-13 04:09:07 UTC
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  18. Chapter 18 2018-09-14 04:06:52 UTC
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  19. Chapter 19 2018-09-20 04:01:59 UTC
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  20. Chapter 20 2018-09-21 04:04:32 UTC
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  21. Chapter 21 2018-09-27 04:09:32 UTC
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  22. Chapter 22** 2018-09-28 04:08:37 UTC
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  23. Chapter 23 2018-10-02 04:09:34 UTC
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  24. Chapter 24 2018-10-03 04:03:25 UTC
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  25. Chapter 25 2018-10-04 04:03:12 UTC
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  26. Chapter 26** 2018-10-05 04:03:31 UTC
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  27. Chapter 27 2018-10-11 04:02:42 UTC
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  28. Chapter 28** 2018-10-12 04:08:29 UTC
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  29. Chapter 29** 2018-10-18 04:02:37 UTC
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  30. Chapter 30 2018-10-19 04:02:16 UTC
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  31. Chapter 31** 2018-10-25 04:01:00 UTC
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  32. Chapter 32 2018-10-26 04:00:59 UTC
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  33. Chapter 33 2018-10-26 18:55:30 UTC
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  34. Chapter 34** 2018-10-31 19:38:07 UTC
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  35. Chapter 35** 2018-11-01 04:14:03 UTC
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  36. Chapter 36** 2018-11-02 02:40:27 UTC
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  37. Chapter 37 2018-11-02 17:11:30 UTC
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  38. Chapter 38 2018-11-03 18:47:25 UTC
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  39. Chapter 39** 2018-11-05 11:17:05 UTC
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  40. Chapter 40 2018-11-06 12:19:50 UTC
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  41. Chapter 41 2018-11-07 11:23:02 UTC
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  42. Chapter 42** 2018-11-08 17:21:15 UTC
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  43. Chapter 43 2018-11-09 16:00:56 UTC
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  44. Chapter 44** 2018-11-10 14:59:13 UTC
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  45. Chapter 45 2018-11-12 11:32:20 UTC
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  46. Chapter 46 2018-11-13 16:53:02 UTC
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  47. Chapter 47 2018-11-14 21:34:39 UTC
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  48. Chapter 48 2018-11-16 12:04:45 UTC
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  49. Chapter 49 2018-11-17 14:00:05 UTC
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  50. Chapter 50 2018-11-19 11:52:48 UTC
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  51. Chapter 51 2018-11-20 11:04:40 UTC
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  52. Chapter 52 2018-11-21 11:04:06 UTC
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  53. Chapter 53 2018-11-22 13:43:22 UTC
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  54. Chapter 54 2018-11-24 11:58:44 UTC
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  55. Chapter 55 2018-11-25 14:32:38 UTC
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  56. Chapter 56 2018-11-26 11:39:53 UTC
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  57. Chapter 57 2018-11-28 11:04:48 UTC
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  58. Chapter 58 2018-11-29 14:27:34 UTC
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  59. Chapter 59 2018-11-30 11:42:28 UTC
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  60. Chapter 60 2018-12-01 11:13:37 UTC
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  61. Chapter 61 2018-12-03 11:02:33 UTC
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  62. Chapter 62 2018-12-04 12:02:59 UTC
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  63. Chapter 63 2018-12-05 11:07:19 UTC
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  64. Chapter 64 2018-12-06 15:12:38 UTC
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  65. Chapter 65 2018-12-07 11:06:44 UTC
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  66. Chapter 66 2018-12-09 03:36:54 UTC
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  67. Chapter 67 2018-12-10 12:00:19 UTC
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  68. Chapter 68 2018-12-11 14:58:23 UTC
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  69. Chapter 69** 2018-12-15 09:59:43 UTC
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  70. Chapter 70** 2018-12-17 11:15:23 UTC
  71. Chapter 71 2018-12-19 12:54:17 UTC
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  72. Chapter 72 2018-12-21 13:52:20 UTC
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  73. Chapter 73 2018-12-22 15:07:41 UTC
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  74. Chapter 74** 2018-12-25 20:34:21 UTC
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  75. Chapter 75** 2018-12-29 22:01:50 UTC
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  76. Chapter 76** 2018-12-30 10:41:42 UTC
  77. Chapter 77** 2018-12-31 10:18:01 UTC
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  78. Chapter 78** 2019-01-02 14:19:05 UTC
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  79. Chapter 79** 2019-01-03 10:56:41 UTC
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  80. Chapter 80** 2019-01-04 17:26:11 UTC
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  81. Epilogue** 2019-01-09 01:08:56 UTC
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