Never See the Finish Line

by hmaf43

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Anthology
Length: 7872

Anthology of my stories that was never reached the starting point.

Anthology of my stories that I lose motivation before finishing even a full single chapter. Putting into a single place for my own easy access and backup.

I published this because someone might entertained by it, and it might inspired someone who came across and started writing their own story.

Feel free adopt any of them or just used as a part of your story as you wish.

Published 2023-10-09 13:50:00 UTC
Last updated 2023-10-18 14:33:50 UTC

Nightmare Moon in MCU

It’s the main plot of Nightmare Moon in Marvel Cinematic Universe ft. The Eminence in Shadow and Yamato

I do not think I can committed to this story, as I only care about MCU as a big picture. Ido not care about marvel charecters enough to write proper personality and web of relationships for them, so I will left it here, maybe someone will adopted it?

Spoiler alert: MCU phrase 1-3

The Avengers
Copy nearly everything this fanfic Avenging Nightmare
TLDR of that fanfic
1.Nightmare Moon failed into human world when tesseract open portal.
2.She under the care of SHIELD
3.She is the one who saved NYC from nuclear warhead, not stark.
4.Celestia gone daybreaker
What I want to change
1.Loki's mind control is sloppy because it's actually not Loki's magic. It's the mind stone's
2.Instead Nightmare Moon going in alone, she actually went in with iron man. tony stark still fearful of invading army like cannon.
3.Nightmare Moon, instead of being fearful of Thanos's war fleet, she fascinated by the beauty of nuclear explosion. You can say that she fell in love with the very concept explosion itself.
4.Nightmare Moon noticed that the scepter send of some kind of signal to space, so she placed a spell to disrupted it just in case, without telling anyone.

Character/World building filler arc
1.research magic with SHIELD
2.researh magic with stark
3.life on earth. Dealing with medias
4.slice of life romane(if you she has a partner)

Thor: Dark World
1.The Avengers(with Nightmare Moon) joined in with Thor when the portal to nine realms opened.
2.Nightmare Moon Destroy dark elves leader, 9th Doctor, with her strongest magic, "I am Atomic" decimated him and half of the dark elves army in one hit.

3.SHIELD's spellcaster units, trained by Nightmare Moon, joined in.
4.With these kind of threats, Asgard agreed to officially reopened borders between nine realms to strengthen ties between world.

Character/World building filler arc
1.avengers do avenger things
2.just adapt some random villians from comic books. Maybe AIM or Oscorp?
3.introduce more avenger if you want. Spiderman, antman, etc....

The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Copy nearly everything this fanfic Age of Charon
TLDR of that fanfic
1.Mindstone is being controlled remotely by thanos's servant. It asserted influence on the target, the order is to prepare earth for subjugation.
2.Loki was manipulated by mindstone. He want to be king of Asgard, not earth. fully committed to invade earth didn't make sense.
3.Ultron able to barely resisted the control. make plan to prepared earth to resisted against the invasion by united the world.
4.Ultron play two roles, the dangerous threat only know by Avengers and SHIELD, and human persona who is anti western imperialism.
5.Thor return to Asgard by order of his father, because now it's Midgard's politics.
6.Scarlet witch killed people, Ultron took the blame for himself
7.Ultron is more deranged by second as he losing control to his mind, his larping as villain also more deranged.
8.Scarlet witch/Quicksilver spooked and seek refuges with the Avengers, Captain America believed kids are innocent angels and vouched for them. Seeing Ultron as pure evil.
9.Captain America see the world as black and white. America is good, anything against it is evil, while other members of the teams thinks that Ultron's human persona has point, because ultron's talking point is logical.
10.Ultron setup Avengers to be scapgoats, as they ignore international treaty and any nation's soveignty, hunting down ultron.
11.Tony Stark boot up f.r.i.d.a.y. to replace j.a.r.v.i.s. he talk with pepper and accepted that he seen his AIs as his children.
12.j.a.r.v.i.s. come back in vision's body(no mindstone), he retained all of his memory. bonding with f.r.i.d.a.y., tony, and pepper as family. Tonny now believed that there's more to ultron than evil, as Jarvis noticed logical error in ultron's plan. It's like the body was a give to Jarvis.
13.ultron makes deal with thanos's servant to buy more time.
14.Tony and Jarvis tricked ultron to save Tony, to show that there's something good inside him.
15.thanos's servant noticed that he was being tricked, Ultron ran out of time and execute his final plan.
16.In sokovia, ultron's human persona making grand speech, the avengers, lead by captain America, ignore sokovia's request, ignore world's council's order, and landed. trying to arrest ultron's human persona.
17.ultron's human persona killed by winter solider, captain ran after the ghost of his husbando. Everyone capture the footage of the Avengers in crime scene.
18.final confrontation with ultron. he revealed the true reason.
19.he shown the true capability of the mindstone, before killing himself with it to protect earth(ripping heart out of tony lol).
20.aftermath, the truth came out that ultron never kills innocent. he took blame for Scarlet Witch.
21.Tony proud of his son's last act. Captain America's worldview collapse. the Avengers pretty much collapse.
22.The world united(somehow?)
What I want to change:
1.Set it to before Captain America: Winter soldier
2.Ultron is able to resisted mindstone's control not because he was an isekai human, but the spell placed on mindstone. And that Nightmare Moon actively mess with control signal.
3.add a scene for Nightmare Moon to use her beloved spell "I am Atomic"
4.Ultron actually dead.
5.instead of united, the world divided to two side: western power and the rest, lead by an African nation that no one heard of before, called Wakanda.

Character/World building filler arc
1.members of the avengers that still want to fight... do their thing.
2.many people hate the avengers
3.geopolitic. yay!
4.nightmare moon, recieve negative attentions, slowly spiral into depression.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
1.Set after age of ultron, not before like cannon.
2.Captain America is coping to himself, pretend everything is fine with the world.
3.The SHIELD Hydra now have access to magic.
4.Nightmare Moon and the gangs come in near the end. Too late to stop anything. The new magic enchanted helicarriers have friggin magical shield!
5.This left Nightmare Moon no choice but to use "I am all-range Atomic!" to destroy the helicarriers.

6.The blast of her magic destroyed a part of the city, killed some people, Nightmare Moon ran away from earth, become a fugitive in Asgard.
7.the world council, begrudgingly partially concedes the control of SHIELD to United Nations, by coercing from Asgard and other realms' governments.

Character/World building filler arc
1.Life in asgard
2.Nightmare Moon is still depressed but hopeful. New world and, another chance to started anew.
3.patrol realms that are under asgard's protection. Doing hero things.
4.If you want a magic academy arc, here's your chance to let's Nightmare Moon joined as either a teacher or a student.
5.romance with love interest of your choosing if you wish.
6.beach episode
7.training arc, with medieval magical weapons.
8.space fantasy rich merchant caravan got attack by ~~goblins~~ ice giants.
(Asgard is basically a peaceful(lol) warrior island nation, but in space. They only need soy sauce and katana sword to complete that package.)

Guardians of the Galaxy
1.Nightmare Moon wandering around knowwhere with Thor, they are searching for other infinity stone.
2.They met the Guardian of Galaxy in knowhere. killed the collector with "I am heat seeking Atomic!"
3.random space adventure subplot
4.They got called by the Guardian of Galaxy, go to planet Xandar, core imperial of xandar empire, the homeworld of NOVA galactic police force, killed ronan with "I am concentrated Atomic!"
5.Seeing the strength of Nightmare Moon and fearful, xandar empire wanted to contained her, issued galaxy-wide arresting warrant, marked her as a monster.
6.Asgard can do nothing but complied to the stronger empire, cut all ties with her.
7.Yondu accepted peter as his son
8.Nightmare Moon, now lose her home, no more place to return, stole a kree's warship, ronan's ship, as her own. marked as a space pirate.
9.She is absolutely devasted, her only goal in life now is trying to find equss. Maybe, just, maybe, she will found a place she belonged.

Character/World building filler arc
1.spaceship battles!
2.space pirates!
3.space bounty hunter!
4.space mercenary!
5.Nightmare Moon, the captain of space warship, Moonbeam. Why called it Moon'beam'?
6.because she can uses "I am atomic reactor!" to "wave motion cannon. Huzzah!"

7.with the true anti material cannon(like delete atoms from plane of existance) in her posession, she can keep herself safe.
8.emo edgelord depressed Nightmare Moon, listen to linkin park and kills random space NAZIs. Occasionally work together with the Guardian of Galaxy
9.romance subplot?

Equestria arc
1.random event with the Guardian of Galaxy. show strength of Nightmare Moon's fully automated magic enchanted warship.
2.The real reason the Guardian of Galaxy is with her is because they don't want her to be alone with how bad her mental state is, and Rocket want free spare parts for the Milano
3.find planet Equss, stop daybreaker.
4.Nightmare Moon use "I am healing Atomic!" to repair Equestria as much as possible.
5.She now hailed as a hero in her homeworld, but she know her job is not finished yet, not until the defeat of mad titan, Thanos.
6.Resistance leaders, Princess Cadance and Sunset Shimmer, take care of Equestria, while Celestia was sent to space with Nightmare Moon to let things cool down.
7.Captain America: Civil War happened in the background, conflict is between Current world order and the alliance lead by King T'chala of Wakanda, the World council is exposed and subsequently assassinated by the reformed captain America who no longer view everything as pure good and evil, Captain America and his friends went into hiding and marked as terrorists.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
1.Bonding between Nightmare Moon and Celestia, as the Guardians bonding with each others.
2.the Guardian of Galaxy lurking in much more comfortable and bigger Nightmare Moon's ship.
3.meet peter's biological father. The living planet celestial.
4.Nightmare Moon used "I am continental Atomic!" and able to runaway, because her wave motion cannon can only destroy a small continent, it's too weak to take on a planet-sized celestial.
5.They come back with the elements of harmony.
6.Rainbow laser of Absolute destruction reformed peter's dad.
7.the elements of harmony revealed to be starswirl's attempted to replicated infinity stones, peter's dad theorized.
8.Now the Guardian of Galaxy(+yondu+peter's dad) are one big family

Thor: Ragnarok
1.Nightmare Moon got called by Asgard
2.Asgard attacked by undead army lead by thor's secret blood-related big sister, the bootleg-maleficent.
3.Asgard got support from other realms to fought against the bootleg-maleficent. She cannot use her wave motion cannon, not without wiping out asgard out of existance too.
4.Thor come back with his new friends, the Valkyries, and got his sith lighting power things.
5.Nightmare Moon use "I am temporal Atomic!" to stop Asgard from collapse.
6.Now Asgard and the rest of nine realms ignore Xandar empire's order.
7.Doctor Strange happened in the background.

Xandar's invasion arc
1.one after another, Xandar's NOVA ships that was sent to invade nine realms got blow up.
2.After so many failed, the embodiment of NOVA force, the the culmination of all knowledge of xandarian civilization, their master computer, the World minds, send in their main invading force and successfully destroy all the worlds.
3.Doctor Strange turn back time. send the surviving Avengers, including Nightmare Moon, back in time.
4.They work together with their past selves, the nine realms army, and peter's dad, the living planet, to invade the heart of Xandar empire, planet Xandar, to find the master computer that was the center of NOVA Force and shut it down.
5.NOVA is energy fuel that was powered the whole xander civilization distributed directly to planets and spacestations directly from planet xandar, by the world mind, the energy only existed in the plane of reality because the world mind existed, and vice versa(yes, that's cannon marvel lore), the computer was a supercomputer that contained all data that the xandarian civilization ever had access to, including data in the brain of dead xanderian people. the artificial intelligence that called itself world mind was the afterlife of xanderians, as it was made from memories and neural mapping of xanderians, some parts of the AI even powered by real brain tissue.
6.the core of Planet Xandar itself is the master computer. the world mind, told them "For your transgression, We will hunted you down, there's nowhere left to run". The Two Nightmare Moon said "who's the one running?" They used "I am Atomic: The fun has been Double!" to destroyed it, The planet collapse into itself, marked the end of whole xadarian civilization, as the main energy supply that powered everything, NOVA force, suddenly cut off.

6.They returned back to the future, memories merged with current timeline, find out that not only they have succeed, somehow nine realms filled in the power gaps of collapse xandar empire, along with the kree who side with them, because pretty much scare shitless.
7.Planet Equss joined in as the tenth realm.
8.Now all ten realms working together to adapt Nightmare Moon's wave motion cannon for mass production. Prepare themselves for eventual confrontation with the mad titan.
9.Doctor Strange brings the peter's mom back from the past the moment she was killed to says their last goodbye.
10.Mabe also give Tony and Ultron a last goodbye too.

Avengers: Infinity War
1.Now it's actual a fucking war, a universe-spanning war. Centillion of mad titan's supercarriers, each contained quadrillion of warships, send across the universe tasked to destroy half of all lifes in existance.
2.The avengers, the Guardian of Galaxy, the unified army of ten realms, peter's planet-sized celestial daddy, kree empire, the scavenger. Billion of warships, fought against Thanos's endless army.

3.they foud a galaxy that was hidden from deep space scanner, no one cannot warp in, and the galaxy itself is capable of FTL travel, turned out it's Thanos's flagship.
4.The titan turned a whole galaxy into his war machine, his mothership, the power that can kill mildly strong celestials.
5.They fought against thousand of thanos' solar system's sized supercarriers. Long mission spaceships that carried the sun and planets inside it for power source and resource extraction.

6.They found starswirl's blueprint on the element of harmony, reverse engineered it.
7.when the elements were fired together with wave motion cannon, it amplify power! Enough to wipe a solar system out in one shot.

8.they now go on full offensive, to the center of galaxy, to that massive blackhole, where the mothership's command center resided.
7.killed of any characters you want, here.
8.the avengers in this arc are very strong. Ironman can fire wave motion cannon from his hand repulsers, hulk, with banner's mind and access to magic, can destroy the moon with a single handclapped. Hawkeyes got heimdall's eye, he can shot a person on warping spaceship from anywhere in the universe, and have an arrow from the collecter's collection that piece though target instantly it was fired and return to owner.
8.turned out the mothership is thanos! T.H.A.N.O.S. is a self-adaptive life support system made by an ancient organization called D.E.A.T.H. tasked to preserved its master's civilization as long as possible.
9.It failed its task. Its master's civilization wiped itself. It then tasked itself to preserved other civilizations, and somehow learned of the only method that work: keep overall biomass from reaching critical mass. It found infinity stones, and want to use that power to protect all civilizations in universe... from themselves.
10.They have to destroy the massive black hole somehow to fully shutdown T.H.A.N.O.S.
11.synchonized the fleet of wave motion warships with her horn, Nightmare Moon casts her grand spell, the power that can destroy a galaxy! "I am cosmic atomic!"

Epilouge
1.Earth and Equss started process to transition to one-state planet like the rest of realms.
2.Guardian of the Galaxy basically got adopted by Peter's two dads, biological and adoptive, they constantly blame each others and try to made up for their lose childhood time by treated peter as a child.
3.Thor and Loki share throne as the diarch of the Asgard. Odin stepped down.
4.Tony go on space vacation with his AIs family
5.Captain America remained on earth to train next generation of avengers
6.Doctor Strange's secret organization become interplanetary magical threat prevention organization.
7.Nightmare Moon, now one of equestria princess, got the admiration and respect that she want in the first place, not only from the ponies, but from all over the galaxy, as the strongest avenger, the magi of atomic. Fin

End credit
1. Discord, with help of the watcher, went onto multiverse.
2. Nightmare Moon create a new school, the academy of explosives. From magic spells to cutting edge fusion bomb, there are classes for every kind of explosions, because everyone's explosion is unique.
3.Time Variance Authority want to reset the skewed timeline of this AU, but before they can do anything. Bombs goes off, people got killed. Turned out they got invaded by the remnant of SHIELD, lead by Nick Fury himself. "A change in management is in needed, the SHIELD is back, baby!"

you can add a romantic partner to Nightmare Moon, most characters will do the job.

Nightmare Moon in the Tardis

Crossover with Doctor Who

I remembered there was something named "the children of Nightmare" mentioned in the time war, and I got an idea for a story about Nightmare Moon being a survivor of the Great Time War.

This is a story concept based on that idea.

The Nightmare was that entity. It ran away from the center of the time war and landed on Equestria.

Nightmare, just like most doctor who’s villains, was an entity incapable of feeling some emotion that humans and ponies could, such as empathy, love, etc.

Nightmare took over Luna's body, fought against Celestia, and got rainbow laser on the face.

But the element not only banished them to the moon, it also harmonized them too.

The mental barrier between the two minds collapsed, and a new being was born. Not quite the Nightmare or Luna but also both at the same time.

A brain made from the symbiotic relationship of the otherworldly creature and night princess, capable of comprehension of concepts beyond the pony's brain and capable of emotions and the way of thinking that only meaty creatures such as humans and ponies could experience.

This new creature would adopt the name that led to her birth, one that contained both of her roots, Nightmare Moon,

Now it's time for her adventure! Maybe there was a broken tardis on the moon? Maybe the doctor suddenly appeared? Maybe she served her sentence and ran away immediately upon return to Equestria to the edge of the world and found a tardis in her journey.

I imagined her character to be a not-coward version of Discord whoove. Knowledgeable and brave, but not as kind-hearted as the doctor and willing to kill. Her Luna side would sometimes force her to protect the weak but she would be ruthless and pragmatic about it.

Give her a companion or two too.

This is my list of Nightmare Moon’s TARDIS crews

Pre-returned starswirl - the ruthless hero of ancient equestria who was also a great scientist. He is always overly serious and gets flustered at any kind of joke. He is the most bloodthirsty of the group as he always goes for ‘neutralize the threat’ first.

Midnight Sparkle - The clone of Twilight was born from dark magic, created by Chrysalis, and would have died at the hand of the tree of harmony if not for Nightmare Moon's intervention. Her artificial body didn't need biological needs like normal ponies but it also imposed limits on her. Such as her magic spells repository. She was an inexperienced but resourceful mage who relied mainly on magic tools to cast her spells. She always made Starswirl’s eyes twitch with her modern magic theories.

Iron Will - Highly intelligent scammer who looked like a mindless brute at first glance. His acting skills could fool the cyberponies that he was one of them. He’s a good man at heart and always has a problem with the ways this group does things. He’s meek and fearful without his fake scammer facade and always begs Trixie to confront them.

Trixie Lunamoon - She played the role of the straight man in this group. Making sure the group stuck with good values and morality. She couldn’t care less about a random ponies but that doesn’t mean she’s okay with her companion trampling on random strangers. She shot down any borderline psychopath ideas that Starswirl came up with while holding the sociopathic tendency that a couple of members of this group seem to have at bay. She is a great engineer and came up with gadgets that help in adventures and magic tools that mitigate Midnight's spellcasting limitations. Trixies and Nightmare Moon is one of two ponies who can do proper repair on the tardis.

Nightmare Moon - Her life as a Nightmare was a constant struggle for survival, be it in Gallifrey or Equestria. Her life as the princess was spent serving other's needs. Now she's free to do as she wishes and all of the stars are hers to experience. She will live freely and do whatever she wants! She values freedom so much that she lets her beloved crews get away with pretty much everything, to Trixie’s dismay.

Ponies ride monkeys because racism

a few years after Pony made contact with humanity... yet racism still happens from time to time.

This unnamed human nation is in the early stages of automobile adoption. They have cars, but still sometimes prefer horses as a mode of transportation.

There are efforts from progressives to help stop racism between humans and ponies. Somehow, someone came to the conclusion that horse riders are more likely be be racist than people who use another means of transportation. They worked with animals that closely resembled ponies and unconsciously treated ponies as low intelligent animals too.

"End the horse-riding! Stop the Racism!"

ponies though the idea of a human riding on a horse is demeaning and it must be stopped. A great protest was ensured(help funded by car manufacturers to quicken automobile adoption).

But of course, things won't go as planned. The Equestrian government cared for its citizen on foreign lands and threatened to be less lenient at the next summit if their solution was to increase little ponies' chances of getting lung cancer from diesel engine exhaust.

To keep the political pressure down. The government came up with a bright idea and made it legal for people to use apes, monkeys, and gorillas as a stead.

But joke on them, riding monkeys becomes popular with the little ponies. The poor hanging traffic lights and telephone posts got abused by grabby monkey hands as the new stead animal swung across the city, taking its quadruple master with it.

Turn out Pony hated waiting in traffic as much as humans and swinging around like a spidermare was cool to them.

Soon, swinging around lamp poles would be accessible to humans as someone with a bright idea started developing a machine that could achieve the same thing while capable of supporting much heavier weights.

The 3d maneuver gears!

Changeling hives on earth. Forming a nation.

This story is based on a combination of a couple of Isekai troupes.
1. Demon king’s second try - ancient dark lord from time long past that was slayed by the hero(s), somehow alive and now in the present.
2. Kingdom got isekai-ed - the most famous example is Nazarick from overlord. In this case are the changeling hives. But the twisted is that Isekai-ed hives are weaker than humanity, instead of normally stronger like most stories in this troupes
3. Kingdom building - Instead of using modern cheat knowledge, the changelings will build upon human techs with the supplement of magic.

The story was intended to be written like a fantasy story, meaning the characters had cartoonist personality traits.

Use as little as characters as possible just like any fantasy story. For example, the whole European Union will represented by this quirky guy with a funny accent. The whole US military is moved at the command of this hardboiled general dude with a cowboy hat.

Changelings in this story had hive minds and were biologically hermaphrodite, but mentally had gender, as fools their prey better (one fewer lies)

*The content spoiler is to be slowly revealed as the story progresses.

The mage king groger - ancient proto-queen that was sealed away long ago. Personality is based on Merlin from FGO the ponies known her as the demon lord groger. She’s a true gender-less changeling, as she cannibalized most of her mind in the process to keep the parts she considered 'important' operational and survived the imprisonment. She staged her own coup with Gusty and other heroes. Her dream is to end the age of false god and bring about the age of mortal. Her original hive acted as the crown's secret police of a minotaurian kingdom. They were burnt down when the young proto-queen published scientific research that unintentionally against the church. She becomes a demon lord and goes against the entire world with vengeance in the quest to united the world under one banner. She accepted death only to be spared by her best friend turned hero. But the seal was too long and Changeling's mind wasn't designed to be conscious for ten of millennium. The thought process of the current her is closer to a machine than organic being. Her personality is fake. Her real self is just a husk of a pony without traits.

Queen of Golden - basically saber from fate stay/night. She’s a young queen of the most powerful hive and becomes the leader of this group by pure strength and charisma. Only surviving royal changelings of her hive from the purge. Her (dead) family always belittled her for her straightforward personality. She hates stealing and lurking in shadow.

The red queen - a young queen of a very small hive. A twisted manipulative changeling that fights like a berserker. Their primary target was the militaristic griffon imperium. Ponies share anti-changelings with the birds and everything got downhill after that. She has a lot of mental problems, as her hives are all about ‘more quick-wit than griffons’ and forced to in the constant battle of succession in order to rule out the senility. She successfully killed all her family members, and she knew that more than a few of them allowed her an easy kill because they cared about her and wanted her to live on.

Blue proto-queen - obligatory imouto character. Queen of Golden accepted the dying wish of the previous Blue queen to take care of her. Cute and fluffy.

A couple of old ones. At least one of them is wise and another one is conservative.

Prologue

Chrysalis’s attack on canterlot sent ripples across the continent, as the pony inquisitor began to systematically hunt down changelings from existence.

Other changelings hives got rounded up and hunted by equestria to extinction.

In an unlikely alliance, a group of hives with different ideologies was formed. Desperation led them to an ancient tomb.

they found information about the connection between changelings and the king of mages, groger.

They unsealed the nameless tomb, laying in the king's chamber of ancient tomb. The one so-called king of monsters. The greatest sorcerer ever exists.

"A mere proto queen? And an infertile one at that...? What’s a disappointment." red spoke up

Might make right, a few queens tried to attack the proto-queen in frustration, and the ancient demon lord dominated them with just a single lit of her horn.

The ever-calculating, empty gaze sent chill down the spines of every changeling in that room.

"Can you help us, my liege" the brave leader, golden queen, called out.

Escape from Equestria

This arc is all about building up the character of changeling queens and support casts.

The mage king would lead them to one of her artifacts, the same one that Starswirl inspired by and crafted the portal mirror.

The problem is that the artifact was locked away in old starswirl's old study, in the old Equestria capital.

They harvest rare and powerful artifacts from the vaults.

"I missed you, old friend" The mage king lifted her scepter from her time as the demon lord groger. One she made together by a certain clever mare who broke through her demon lord facade.

They can cross the portal at the last minute before the Equestrian offensive peacekeeping army came to capture them.

And for a moment, one of them noticed a changeling queen that holding onto the scepter of the demon king.

They dismissed it, as there were other more dangerous artifacts that were stolen too.

To the human world

This story arc is mainly to world-building on the nation that the changelings queen landed and setting the story up for human main casts.

The mage king's portal led from a random position to a random dimension.

And landed on a human world, a random corrupted underdeveloped country.

At first, they kidnapped humans to feed on love, and slowly learn about the new world.

They make a hive under the city, podded humans that are likely to not be missed. Religious minorities, illegal foreigners, and such.

The dominant religion will be treated the same as a typical evil fantasy church-a lot of fanatics and some good people in files and ranks, but the top brass are evil, a religion that came from outside and destroyed the old faith. Two main candidates are the current two biggest religions in the world, Christianity and Islam. Represented the fallout of imperialism via religions by Western empire of old (British, Ottoman, French, etc...)

This is one of the points that I thought this story wouldn't do well on this site, but there are only so many reasons that the changeling's human prisoners willing worked for their alien ex-wardens. Racism and religious oppression made the most sense to me.

And If I had invented an imaginary religion, why not make a whole new earth at that point?

Anyway

Soon, they learn about human’s gruesome past. And mythical level of technology that allowed such violence. Like an ICBM with a nuclear warhead.

Might make right, and only staying in the shadow without any way to protect themselves didn’t work, as proven by what’s happened in Equestria.

Their hive minds help with both hunting and R&D, they are the same disciplined creatures that are able to pay hidden from ponies for thousands of years, and now they use that ability for technological development.

Magic-assisted manufacturing techniques that far outstrip anything pure non-magic can do.

New age

The mage king Groger continued her research, and always asked the human about the technologies and stuff.

Soon, she found a few humans that could talk to her level. A nuclear physicist, a mathematician, etc. All of them were oppressed in the nation they lived in, and the photo-queen hatched a plan.

Only one or two humans at a time were allowed outside the pods, and with the assistance of the mage king, the captive humans were out of the pods all at once.

They escape and confront the queen head-on.

"Look at their eyes" groger creepily smiled unnaturally "This place... is as hostile to them as it was to us."

"You proposed us to work alongside the preys... are you insane!?" a conservative voiced out

The leader of Queens closed her eyes "I want to believe that we can be something more. No longer hide in a shadow." the golden queen looked at the demon lord with determination "We can build it, right? Not just a hive, but a nation that we can be proud of"

R&D has gone rapidly with the help of hives' human residents. With the help of humans, they replaced high-profile targets that are influential and low-efforts, oligarchs, dictators, and their family/friends alike. Not the most influential but enough for them to get heavy machinery and bleeding edge techs for the hive.

Years gone by, changelings slowly adapted to the new methods. Hatchery is monitored by electronic environmental control and love storage with a computerized inventory system.

The humans of the hive slowly expand their number by convincing newly captured humans to join them. The fact that they were banned from going outside the underground hive didn't bother them as much because the same also applied to most changelings.

And quality of life was better than surface did help in their decision making. The changelings needed to be loved and happy humans gave more love than overworked humans.

With the help of heavy machinery, the underground self-sufficient metropolises were made.

With near full-automation farming and general maintenance, courtesy to the mage king and her science team, who combined the precision of human binary computer and flexibility of golem magic together.

But they soon were found out by troublesome people.

First contact

*Depending on which religion was chosen as the oppressor, the relationship between the Western world and the Arab world would be different. Abrahamic faiths are the prime choice but a made-up religion also works.

Humanity would see the changelings as threats and launch an offensive, but the human military was optimized to fight against humans and not the changelings.

The changelings lived thousands of kilometers underground with notice-me-not barriers deployed all over the big areas. This made it nearly impossible to find where changelings lived.

The keyword is 'nearly'

But even so, the changelings, even with such an advantage, could not fight against the whole world, and a few of their hives were found and snuffed out already.

"The human army may be a great apex predator hunting us like mere a small prey" the mage king smiled "But no sane predator would willingly lose its limbs in quest of hunting a small prey."

"So, this is the only way...?" the golden queen muttered out in sadness. "But if it's for my changelings... no, for my people. Then I am willing to carry that sin!"

"...you guys are fucking insane, but I liked it" the leader of humans in the changeling hive smirked, madness in his eyes.

"Let's show those cowards who's the boss." Red Queen grinned.

So they came into one plan of action. The location of one of the main hives was leaked out. And a little convincing from infiltrators to fume the frame of hate up.

The biggest human army comes into the city on top of one of the main hives.

And changeling's strategic nuclear warhead was fired.

"The aliens possessed ICBM nuclear warhead!"

"T-they detonated an atomic bomb on their own soil!"

An announcement was made by the changelings. "This may be a normal war for you, but it's a fighting for survival for us! There are enough warheads in our arsenal to turn every major city into dust" The voice of the golden queen continued "If you are going send us to Tartarus... then we will make our best effort to drag you with us"

A ceasefire was ordered, and the changeling’s representative was invited as a guest into UNGA.

Integration to the Human World

Both sides walk on thin ice as the meeting continues.

The changelings knew the humans wouldn't accept anything that wasn't to their advantage, and who can blame them?

"But humans are not unified like the ponies, even one from the same nation has different beliefs and political alignment. Just like the griffins" the red queen analyzed. “And they could be as greedy and selfish as the birds too" She smirked "We just have... to slice our cakes into many small slices and give them away to too many different parties in such a way that they would fight among themselves."

And so they did.

The golden queen sighted. "We have come out of the shadow and yet...why do I feel so dirty with everything we do?" The young blue queen nuzzled the sad leader and made a cute changeling noise.

They gained connections, favors, and information by giving people on the top access to magic tech, resources, and favors.

The immortal man spoke "I am the man who had everything... what more could you even offer to me?" the floating head of the billionaire spoke out.

"The pod that put the subject into hibernation.... It's a frickin cryopod!" The NASA scientist shouted. "This will benefit our manned Mars mission greatly."

[Changelings found aboard the new super yacht of the Standard Oil's CEO]

"Humans only needed 2 hours in the pods to rejuvenate, huh?" a billionaire CEO smirked "I see... So the legendary sustainable 150 hours work week is possible after all"

"While you represented a threat toward the free world, there are many other routes... less violence option we could take" The ambassador spoke. "Your infiltration ability would help in this mission greatly. You see, there was this nation that was our colony during...."

In the end, they are able to get the most out of it. They still retained control over important stuff like nuclear arsenal and strategic locations.

"We hereby recognize the Unified Hives as a sovereign nation"

World politic

This arc is another nation-building arc, but now with international politics.

"Hive is not communist?" the US general frowns, "I will be watching you....."

[The changelings successfully produced the first ever 2nm microprocessor]

The mage king would slowly adapt her outer persona to the cheerily playful one as she took the role of part-time university professor.

A Magnus needed her successors, and why teach a few when there was a whole class of humans and changelings to teach?

Time skip 10 years.

The return of Equestria

"It worked!" the lavender mare shouted "We know the destination now"

Empress of Sun nuzzled her faithful student, then turned to her generals

She narrowed her slitted eyes, and bared her sharp teeth "Let’s finish the fight, shall we?"

The equestrian offensive army would spectacularly lose against the modern army of humanity and changelings.

No way a medieval fantasy kingdom can win against the entire world with modern weaponry.

The canterlot was sieged, then suddenly it's not.

The battle that was won.... somehow lost.

The people that service the battles... blink out of existence.

"I remembered nuzzling my brother a moment ago, but...” a changeling muttered bleakly "But now I also remembered attending her funeral."

They would confused at first as the reality shifted.

"Temporal magic on a grand scale" the mage king declared "They are using time magic."

They would fight and they would win, only for the goalpost to be moved further out against.

Dead equestrian commanders came back to life, and war veterans of the human/changeling army took their place.

Days stretched into infinity as humanity would remain stood still via equestrian technology jumped up rapidly.

Again and again, Equestria changed, but a pattern emerged. Eventually, their technology outpaced humanity, and the sheer quantity of body counts is the only thing that held back much smaller Equestria from winning.

"They could only go back so far and have limited time to prepare for us, otherwise they would stopped our escape to the human world in the first place."

"And only a small amount of ponies could be sent back. Maybe even a single pony."

The mage king was lighthearted as ever, as she cared not about anyone, not even herself. Her empathy died with the death of the demon lord groger. The hunger for knowledge is the only thing that keeps her going.

Or so she thought.

[Changeling's international academy was attacked. Most of the students were killed.]

The League of Twilights

It turned out the time traveler was Twilight Sparkle, the student of the sun.

Only months had passed for humanity, but ten thousand years the time travel twilight sparkle had lived.

Twilight experienced all previous timelines. Again and again, she despaired at having their loved one killed and their nation fell, and worked their hardest to win.

Something something.

Twilight would eventually revive the pillars of harmony to help out.

The main focus would slowly transition to between two Magnus. Starswirl and the mage king.

A few story arcs. Starswirl would slowly turn darker as he experienced the death of his friends again and again, while mage king would slip into her old self, demon lord groger would face the reality her apathy had created.

"They are all dead...?" The mage king looked disbelievingly and stared at the wall of memorials.

Plastered on it are names of young changelings and humans. Student of the magic academy.

The one that glassed by Equestrian offensive low orbit war fleet

Her students are one of many things she cares about, but the only thing she loves in this world.

The capital of changelings "I-I care about them..? So this is how it felt to lose someone. I remembered it now"

The mage king regained her humanity(changelinity? ponility?), but the cost was too high for her to bear.

An old promise came back to her mind.

I will not let anyone experience what's happened to me ever again... even if the brighter future costs everything of the present itself... even if it costs my life.

"Look like I have to do that again, huh?" The proto-queen smiled sadly with real grief for the first time in centuries

Stopped the war, permanently.

The return of demonking

United the world, even at the cost of everything.

Just like the atrocities she did as the king of the world.
Just like what happened to humanity at the end of World War 2.

An idea was formed.

A horror so great enacted by the weapon that could destroy the world. So much horror that people will terrified of another war.

Of course, they needed an evil face that people could blame.

"Hello everybody" The changeling shapeshifted into the forms she wield millennium past. The tales of his atrocities are sung to this day. "I'm back" The goat grinned madly as he showed off his greatest work yet.

captured pony and human, creature of two world fusion one. an eldritch monster of flesh and steel.

"I'm coming for you all."

The war that ends all wars

"Groger, if you could go back to the beginning and change something." Clover the clever asked her friend, one last time before they faced off as enemies. "What would you change?"

She will turn Earth's weather control system into a grand weapon. And attempted to use it to destroy both worlds.

It was basically a space station with a giant unicorn horn.

The return of demonking

Equss's upper hemisphere turned wasteland. The sun is indeed a good wrecking ball.

From humans to ponies. The force of harmony and the god of chaos.

Everyone united as one, fighting against the ancient demon lord, the king of monsters.

Unrelenting hoards of undead and mutated monsters. The more people got killed, the stronger monster army was.

From geosync orbit lay the castle of the demon king. One of earth's weather control primary node. A sapce station that can cast magic spells. Groger looked upon the world.

A weapon that could truly destroy the world nearly fired successfully.

Starswirl would die as a hero who saved the world and the demon lord Groger would be remembered as a terrorist one who nearly genocide many sapient species.

The two worlds moved on, now as one.

Fin

Guilty as Charge(Human Cozy Grow)

This story was based on this story.
Innocent Until Proven Cozy

What if Cozy Grow actually reacted like a smart person when she was being stalked by Sunset Shimmer?

"Water..." Sunset Shimmer muttered dryly. The roughness was her tone.

It had been 4 hours since the AC of her car stopped working, turning her prized into an oversized solar cooker.

Again and again, Sunset wanted to start the engine of her car back up, but that would make the little demon notice her.

There is only her car in this parking

...

Sunset continues to spy on the human cozy from her car. Suffered from oven-like temperature.

Cozy still playing in the park by her lonesome self. show no indication of suspicion of being stalked.

Suddenly human Cutie Mark crusaders came to the park for their vlog.

They meet cozy.

Fear for her friend's little sisters' safety and irritated from being in heat, Sunset makes the decision to expose herself and be aggressive in general.

She sends the CMCs away. Then directly started her interrogation with Cozy.

Cozy hand noticeably trembled. She was alone with The QUEEN of Canterlot High. A very dangerous woman.

Cozy bidding her time by playing along as she stealthy fiddled with her phone, and waiting for the police to arrive.

"Golly, this gal is insane" is what Cozy thought of Sunset after listening to this girl rambling about a world of talking pegasi and unicorns.

"This is the police!" The law enforcer pointed his gun at Sunset. "To the ground now!"

"W-Wha" Sunset got cut off by the officer. "I said to the ground!"

Sunset was familiar with the police. Her early years in the human world consisted of many tries and errors. Her path toward the Queen of Canterlot High made many mistakes.

And some of it was big enough for police involvement.

"I am disappointed in you, girl." The elder man looked at the girl in anger and sadness. "Did you though of our kindness as a joke?"

"I-i..." Sunset sputtered, not knowing how to retort back.

She had been forgiven many times again and again. Countless times than she deserved.

The first time when she was trying to build up her information network inside the school, each kind of information was offered by different kinds of people.

"I thought you had changed, sunset. I thought you had changed for real this time."

She was caught red-handed making a transaction with an informant... who happens to be a drug dealer too.

Sunset always told herself that it could be worse. Like making up excuses about where the Equestrian gold coin came from or explaining why she was bribing for a fake citizen ID.

Good thing they didn't catch her doing that!

...

Sunset was now legally an adult and got jailed.

Sunset got beaten up in prison.

One day, a woman in a black suit came to make an offer she could not refuse.

Look like her humane5 magical operation has caught the eyes of a certain secret organization.

"You know, Miss Shimmer? You're a very slippery person. Every time we had a chance to get to you. You always have a way to slither out."

"You have many friends in a high place, miss sunset. daughters and nieces of high-profile individuals. A favorite of Principle Celestia, daughter of the former president Faust." She smiles widely, looking at her like a new toy to play with.

The woman in a black suit extend her hand to Sunset. "My name is Sweetie Drop, happy to make your acquaintance"