Revolution!
This story takes place in the Discordian times, at looks at what may have happened if the Royal Sisters never overthrew Discord, and what the common ponies of Equestria do to end their terror under the watchful eye of Discord.
Maybe accepting OC’s later in story, maybe not. Rated T for now but rating may change. Enjoy :D
Chapter 1: Common Ponies
Lightning Tumble, a blue pegasus with a yellow and light blue mane with a yellow lightning bolt protruding from a deep blue cloud with grey swirls circling it, fresh out of Cloudsdale, trotted down the path that led to his house, the locksmith’s shop. He worked there with his friend, Chrome Knight. The sun was setting and its rays were warming his face as he walked. His humble house was coming clearly into view. Suddenly, the ground shook and he thought he could see giant, red balls rolling towards him. He squinted to gain a better view of the intriguing spheres headed his way. They got bigger and bigger as they gained momentum, and Lightning hovered above the ground. As they got closer, he realised that the spheres were apples! He groaned as he continued to fly toward his house at a casual pace. Things such as this happened often, and unfortunately many ponies were injured because of their so-called ‘ruler’s chaotic fun.
When he reached his house, he slid his key into the keyhole and turned it. When he walked into his house, he was greeted by Chrome Knight’s ungraceful leaping. It seemed like he was chasing something invisible.
“Chrome? What are you doing?” Lightning asked, bewildered at the unicorns unusual antics. Chrome had a light grey coat, green eyes, and a light blue mane with a white streak. “Can’t you see it? Damn thing has my hat!” he yelled, still leaping up and down in an attempt to grab his imaginary hat. Lightning looked up again and still saw nothing, or even a hat for that matter. He didn’t know if Chrome even had a hat. “Help me get it down would ya?” Chrome sighed exasperatedly. Lightning flew up and followed Chrome’s instructions to navigate the ceiling until he found the invisible captor of Chrome’s invisible hat.
Finally, after 10 minutes of Lightning fluttering around the room, Chrome finally exclaimed “Quick, grab it!”. Lightning lunged forwards at top speed only to collide with the wall. “Wait, what?” Chrome questioningly asked. “You just went right through the damn thing!” “Hang on,” Lightning said, annoyed that he couldn’t stop in time and hit the wall, hurting his snout. He kicked Chrome hard to the head with his back legs. His teenage summer job of bucking apples under the watchful eye of Big Macintosh gave him a mighty kick. When Chrome got up, he shook his head dizzily and looked up at the ceiling. “Hey, it’s gone! Thanks Lightnin’.” “Any time my friend. Seems like another of Discord’s mind tricks, aye?” Lightning said walking to the kitchen to make a daisy sandwich. “I’d assume so. Discord is such a pain in the ass to have as a ruler. In fact, he’s less of a ruler than a tyrant.” Chrome replied, sitting down on the couch and fiddling with a safe lock that a client had sent in to be fixed. “Yeah, I wonder what his damn problem is. I mean it’s not like we did anything to piss him off or anything. What did we ever do to him to make him do all these stupid things do us?” Lightning agreed. He sat beside Chrome and motioned him to pass the broken key lying on the coffee table next to the safe lock. The key was broken in several places, and to someone untrained in the Locksmith craft like he and Chrome were, it would seem unfixable. However, Lightning could see how he could repair the unfortunate little key.
After an hour of work, the two young stallions climbed the stairs and went to their respective bedrooms. Lightning instantly opened an old history book he had rented from the library across town. He opened it on the page he had marked with an old feather off of his wing, decorated with beads and tiny jewels. He was reading about the Revolution of the Dragons, a huge dragon revolution where the dragon King, Trundikus-Rexio IV, was overthrown by the majority of the dragon population. The other dragons that didn’t join the revolution were either A – his family, B – his guards or C – a select few dragons who felt his tyranny was a good thing, regarded by the Revolution as Rexions and by the king as loyalists. Both were overthrown in a slow 9 years. Reading of this rebellion and mutiny got something stirring within Lightning Tumble, the young stallion from Starry Night Rd. Cloudsdale, and an idea began to form as he got out of his bed to think more about his ideas.
The next morning, Chrome Knight woke up and slumped out of bed, rubbing his eyes with one hoof and trying his best to stay balanced in his tired state. He made his way downstairs to the kitchen where he found paper scattered around the floor, as well a multitude of propaganda posters promoting Discord’s leadership – or rather dictatorship. All had one word written on them in red paint. Splattered over the word ‘OBEY’ was the word:
REVOLUTION!
Shocked by this, Chrome called out to Lightning Tumble in search of an answer from his logical companion. “Lightning! Hey Lightning, where the hell are ya?”. There was no response from the deep blue pony. He called out several more times, until finally he heard an annoyed yell come from downstairs in the basement. Chrome galloped over to the door to find it was locked. It was no problem however, he simply used his magic to unlock and open the door. He rushed inside to see red liquid slathered everywhere. The occasional capital ‘R’ was spread on the wall, ceiling and the floor. Chrome feared the worst – that the red substance was blood. After all, what had stories told him about ponies being locked in basements and red liquid everywhere? Nothing good anyways.
He inched his way forward, afraid of what he might see. He gasped when he saw……..
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And that’s the first chapter! :D I hope you enjoyed and I’m sorry for the cliffhanger ;_;.
But dontcha worry none! Even if I have 3 people reading this, I will continue to write. Please review what you thought of this monstrosity, and thanks for reading. Next chapter as soon as I can. /)(\
This story takes place in the Discordian times, at looks at what may have happened if the Royal Sisters never overthrew Discord, and what the common ponies of Equestria do to end their terror under the watchful eye of Discord.
Maybe accepting OC’s later in story, maybe not. Rated T for now but rating may change. Enjoy :D
Chapter 2: Start of Something Big
He inched his way forward, afraid of what he might see. He gasped when he saw Lightning Tumble hunched over a table, stacks of propaganda posters scattered haphazardly around the room with several cans of red paint to his right and his history book (opened on the Dragon Revolution page) to his left, on the ground. Chrome sighed in relief when his panic had flushed out of his body. ‘What a relief,’ He thought.
“Lightning? What are you doing down here?” Chrome enquired. Lightning grunted and looked behind him. He smiled and turned around. “Hey Chrome. What’s up?” Lightning said. “Nothing much buddy.” Chrome replied. Lightning turned back to the table and shifted to his right, allowing Chrome some space to inspect his project. Chrome cautiously walked to the table and gasped when he saw what Lightning was planning. Countless balls of paper were thrown to one side while five pieces of paper with notes covering them were in the centre, while the propaganda posters were all either crossed out in red paint or had ‘Revolution!’ on the bottom or across the middle.
“Lightning, what is this?” Chrome asked. Lightning looked at him and chuckled. “Can’t you guess? No? Well let me explain to you my thoughts. Discord has been ruling us for the last, what, hundred years? Two hundred? Anyway, he has been ruling us for a long-ass time and all he’s been doing is wreaking havoc across Equestria. Nopony has even tried to overthrow him before, so not only will he be surprised at the theory that somepony might be plotting to, but he will be completely caught off-guard when I secretly rally up the ponies of Equestria to destroy his rule – excuse me, tyranny. Chrome looked sceptical. “Lightning, how are you going to rally up the ponies of Ponyville? And even if you manage it, how is one town going to overthrow an all-powerful spirit of Chaos?” Chrome asked, very much doubtful of Lightning’s proposition. Lightning chuckled once again. “My my, you are a doubting Tom.” Lightning said. “I’m going to rally up the whole of Equestria, no problem. But I’m going to need some help in doing so. Let’s say I got Ponyville on my side. Then I send out ponies from Ponyville to relay the message up to Cloudsdale, Appleloosa, Las Pegasus, Manehatten and finally Canterlot that the ponies of Equestria will destroy Discord and all of his followers!” Lightning ended with a yell. Chrome’s opinion seemed to be changed. He started to smile and within seconds of silence he too began to write notes on how they might do this.
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An hour and a half later, Chrome and Lightning were on the steps of the Town Hall, spreading the word that Discord must be overthrown, and were receiving a lot of reception from the residents of Ponyville. The ponies were becoming more and more pumped for Discord’s tyranny to end, and the crowd grew and grew to the point where almost all of the ponies were there. Chrome Knight managed to get all of the ponies to chant:
Discord your time is through!
No one wants to be ruled by you!
The mayor of Ponyville herself began to chant along with them. Suddenly, a lavender unicorn made her way up on stage. “Ponies of Ponyville! The time is now to overthrow Discord! We must strike him when he is unaware of our rebellious presence! We need 18 ponies from this crowd to pass the message to the other main towns and cities of Equestria! I shall personally travel to Canterlot; Rainbow Dash has volunteered to go to Cloudsdale; Pinkie Pie shall go to Manehatten; Applejack shall go to Appleloosa and Fluttershy will go to Las Pegasus – accompanied by Chrome Knight, for her safety. Who’s with me?” The unicorn yelled. The entire crowd shouted back in confirmation. “Then it’s settled – the ponies of Equestria will overthrow Discord!” Lightning continued. “This is a new age! Long live Lightning Tumble, future ruler of Equestria!” the pony pitched in, followed by the crowd copying the same words.
“Wait, me? Why? I’m no royalty!” Lightning protested. “Because, Lightning Tumble, who else is more capable of ruling Equestria than you? You clearly have the mind for it as well as the charisma to rally ponies up. You would make a perfect ruler; you are just and fair and you know what is right for your fellow ponies.” the unicorn explained. Lightning looked at her with determined eyes. “I’ll do it.” he said. “But you know, you still haven’t told me your name.” he went on to say. “Twilight Sparkle.” she answered. “Well than Twilight, I shall make you my main advisor during this revolution. And Chrome?” Lightning said, turning to his friend, who was looking rather downhearted that he would not be his friend’s advisor. “Yeah, Lightnin’?” he said gloomily. “You will be my right-hand stallion.” Chrome’s face then lit up, and he grinned from ear to ear.
“But we’re gonna have to really work on strategy here everypony!” Lightning shouted, turning his attention back to the crowd. “And we must have complete faith that we can do this!” the crowd cheered. “Long Live the Revolution! Long Live Lightning Tumble!” they chanted. Lightning got an unfamiliar feeling of pride over the ponies gathered.
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That night, as Lightning Tumble and Twilight Sparkle stood over a map of Equestria in the library, each with a glass of lemonade courtesy of Twilight’s assistant, Spike the dragon. ‘He may come in handy later,’ Lightning thought. “So Lightning, we have ponies on the way to three of the six main cities of Equestria, while I am to leave tomorrow morning. What is the plan here?” Twilight questioned. “Well, I’m going to get my friend to help make weapons suitable to overcome Discord and his guards. And I’m going to make more plans to attack the castle in Canterlot. I’m going to need your help with that one. If you can try to map the wall and any weak points we might be able to break down on the day of the Revolution. Speaking of which, once we have the other cities on our side, we need to have them all gather here, in Ponyville. After all, we do need to plan everything before we do anything major.” Lightning replied.
“That’s a good idea. And I’ll do my best for mapping the wall around the castle in Canterlot while I’m there.” Twilight said. She then yawned cutely, and Lightning cleared his throat. “Wow, I’m tired. I think I should hit the hay.” Twilight said sleepily. “Yeah, it’s quite late. I should head home. Good-night, Twilight.”
“Good-night, Lightning.” Twilight replied, heading up the stairs.
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The next morning, at 6 am, Lightning went over to Twilight’s house to wake her up, as was the agreement. They went through the game-plan once more with a checklist and finally they felt they were ready. “Well, everything checks out all right.” Twilight said cheerfully. “Twilight, why do you have to go? I’ll miss you.” Spike said with a frown. “Don’t worry Spike, I’ll be back before you know it. After all, you’re staying with Lightning, he’ll be like a big brother or something! It’ll be great. Won’t it Lightning?” Twilight replied, nudging Lightning painfully in the ribs. “Uh, yeah! It’ll be like a sleepover I guess!” Lightning said, rubbing his side.
“Fine,” Spike gave in. “But promise you’ll be back soon!” He added. “I promise.” Twilight said. “Well, I best be off.” She announced. “Goodbye guys!” “Goodbye Twilight. Be safe.” Lightning said, grabbing her front leg. “I will.” She said confidently. Lightning let go and watched her leave into the sunset.
“Bye Twilight! See you soon!” Spike called.
“Bye Twilight.” Lightning said.
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PHEW! That was a pain to write! All that writer’s block, yikes! Anyway, I WILL be accepting an OC, for Lightning’s other friend. A blacksmith. I hope I can find one because I did say I’d be getting one and I don’t want my story to have just 2 OC’s. Also did I hint a little bit of LightningxTwilight there? :3
Nah. Seeya next week!
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*EDIT: Sorry chapter 3 is taking so long, but I'm a lazy shit. So chapter 3 is in the making (thank Celestia) but it may be another week.
