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Pinkie Pie's 4th Wall Breaking Variety Show
Pony POV Series
"Non-Canon"
By Alex Warlorn
The Recursive Fanfic Theater

The lights in the studio flickered on, still with the giant holes from the giant robot chicken battle from last time. But the holes in the floor had been all patched to prevent the camera from falling through another time and space again.

Pinkie Pie was talking on a phone. "Of course I've paid rent on the studio! Of course we're still getting viewers! No! I am NOT Pinkie Promising that! We are not commeri-

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"I SAID NO!" The screen has a huge round cracked hole in it, turning to static as it fell forwards and shattered. Pinkie Pie huffed and puffed, holding a huge mallet in her hooves like a MLPTs character.

"I hope we don't lose power . . . then again the bicycle hooked up to a generator would be funny if I can get Rainbow Dash into it." Pinkie Pie opened the mail box to find it . . . empty. "Oh dang." Pinkie Pie sighed.

She looked at the camera, "Well, I still have you right camera?" Pinkie Pie looked around at the empty studio. "Where is everypony?! We had friends banging down the door when we started out . . . sigh. I guess I'm stuck with . . . ick."

Pinkie Pie cringed and turned on the What-If Machine.
-

"Let nothing stand in our way!" Archmage Sunrise Shimmer shouted. Her trophies, the white seaponies Sea Belle and her sister Reef Belle hugged each other cringing from their glorified fish bowl at the castle's peak, the stage of the final battle below. "Unicorns will put the dirt-ponies, feather-dusters, fishes, and insects back in their place! We'll not submit to animals!"

"Glory to Unicornia!" The stallion shouted leading the unicorn army, it was not Shining Armor.

"DESTROY THE MONSTER! We'll be nopony's slave anymore! We'll be the masters! Mother Earth belongs to us! Not these freaks of nature!" Shouted Marshall Applejack, but this was NOT the Applejack of the fifth line, the fifth line had never existed, having come from Applejack the first when she left Paradise Estate.

"Pegaopolis will finally be recognized as the true masters of the sky and the land!" Shouted General Spitfire.

"We have to stop this . . . they'll kill each other." Posey whispered.

"No, they won't." Galaxy said, "They'll kill everything."

"Can we stop them?" Twilight asked fearfully, the rainbow light around her neck. Their quest to try and bring sanity the world had already cost them so many of their friends.

"We have to. There is no one else." Firefly whispered. The six remaining paradise ponies. Firefly. Posy. Surprise. Mimic. Twilight. And Applejack, with Spike the dragon behind them, dove head long into the battle. Their only goal to try and keep the three sides from destroying one another.

Lyra, BonBon, Trixie, the Cakes, and the other members of the tiny reunification herd followed behind them.

"WHAT DID YOU DO DISCORD?!" Star-Catcher snarled at the draconequus spirit floating in front of her, shielded by the fallen buildings.

"That the beauty of it Celly . . ." He whispered in Star-Catcher's ear, "I didn't do a thing. YOU did! You altered your own past so you never asked Mom for help. Congrats on breaking my 'most laws of reality broken by anyone' record to do that. The Windigos never existed. Thus the three tribes never had to migrate to form Equestria. They never discovered the fires of friendship. So Mom never got a bloody nose, me and my siblings never got hurt along with Her. So Dad never got clopped off enough to agree with Mom and start a war. So me, you, Lulu, and Galaxia? Stayed in the spirit world! So bye-bye Cadence, Blueblood, and Galaxia's other descendants!

"Oh! And I wasn't there to knock those Paradise Ponies out of their comfort zone and start new families! So your precious student and her friends? Their bloodlines never existed! So bye-bye to them! BZZZZZZZZZZT!" Discord gave a razzberry.

"Me and your pets never buried their civilization under ice and chaos! So they kept advancing TECHNOLOGICALLY AND MAGICALLY! But there was no winter of death around to force them to embrace the Fires of Friendship! They're hate filled Racist to the core! Us and them! To the extreme baby! HA HA!"

"But...the tribes should've been able to still make peace...this shouldn't have happened..."

"How optimistic you are Celly. Been able to? Yes. Wanted to? Who can say? When you changed the past, Celly dear? You changed your past. You did something impossible! And the time paradox you created? Events needed a total rewrite just to keep history from falling apart, sound familiar? Well this world isn't about to contradict itself out of existence. I created a world of chaos? You? You've created Hell on earth."

"I just wanted to . . . make up for what my mistakes caused, what I did, all the ponies who died and suffered, because of me."

"Oh yes, and look what a wonderful job you did!...All those ponies who didn't die of Windigos had families, so who cares that the prejudice and wars just kept rising faster than the sun? Making their hate filled brains more detached from reality than some of my best work . . . maybe. The griffins and dragons FEAR THEM! And why? Because you broke the timeline like a rank amateur!"

"You kept the seaponies and the flutterponies being wiped out, congrats on that. Instead they became so isolationist and xenophobic that they'd zap first and ask questions later on anything that set hoof inside their boarders, seeing the monsters the other tribes have become.

"Oh, and Clover and her little pony tale? With no Clover the Clever from the future to give her hope? … Well, I'll leave that one to your imagination.

"Your paragons of love and friendship instead being the symbol of hate to every other thinking creature in the world! Unicornia, Pegaopolis, and 'Earth', ready to sacrifice everything to destroy the 'great evil' they see in others but not themselves. . . . And there's nothing you can do about it. NYA NYA! During this battle, all three tribes will destroy each other with their shiny new doomsday devices . . . but the seaponies get to survive underneath the ice. So good for them right?"

"NO!" A tendril of water engulfed Discord's head and smashed him through a wall.

"Reef Belle!?" Star-Catcher looked up to see a stray shot had shattered the globe holding the two seaponies . . . she . . she didn't see See Belle.

Reef Belle floated in the water animated by her hydrokensis. A gift from her unicorn mother. The seapony looked at the earth pony. "Star-Catcher . . . I've had a while to think and . . . all this death . . . just for us? . . . You say we live on, as other people right? Our music lives on right?"

" . . . The spirit of your music survived in the hearts of all no matter what."

"Then please . . . save this world . . . the only way you can . . . PLEASE . . . keep it from happening."

"But then-you-"

The seapony sat down. "We're all dead anyway." The two looked at the battlefield.

Spike was brought down by a swarm of pegasi lightning striking his wings from every possible direction, having already smashed their flying fortress. One by one, the Paradise ponies fell, until only Twilight was left. The unicorns fell upon her like a storm of countless magics. Discord had been wrong, it wouldn't be any weapon of the tribes, but the rainbow of light itself that would exterminate the three warring tribes, as Twilight was pushed to her limit, gave into deepest despair, and wished with all her heart to see them wiped from the map, without Empathy flowing through the Rainbow to tell it no.

"May this be nothing more than a night for the ponies who take our place. And may they do a better job than us." Reef Belle said, tossing her beautiful purple mane.

Star-Catcher kissed her on the forehead. "I promise I'll never forget you."

Star-Catcher let go of her doubt, and the Earth Pony became an Alicorn, and the Alicorn entered the river of time, flying faster than she ever had before, forcing herself to break laws that even gods shouldn't be able to break. Until she saw her previous self, racing towards her even earlier self, about to speak to Entropy.

"CELESTIA! STOP! YOU'LL KILL EVERYONE!" The wiser Alicorn shouted.

Her earlier self snarled, "NOT FALLING FOR IT, DISCORD! I'M GOING TO SAVE EVERYONE!"

"I-CAN'T-LET-YOU!" Celestia astral form became white light as it slammed into old self moment before they hit exit point in time.
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"Your Majesty!"

"WHA! Oh! Yes Arcane Spell?"

Celestia awoke in bed. She was an Alicorn. She looked around at her royal bedroom. She was the leader, ruler, goddess, protector, teacher and princess of Equestria

"Uh. You had standing order if you slept in. It's time to raise the sun."

"Yes . . . yes it is." Celestia stepped out to the Balcony, and looked upon Equestria. Two of its children missing, but three of them still here, and would always be here, if Celestia had anything to say about. She rose the run, ushering in a new day. "Reef Belle, I promise, I will always make this the best world I can for everypony."
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Pinkie Pie look at the screen, crying. "You dumb machine! How can you show me something like that!  . . . That's it! I need to do something! Something exciting! Something new!...Ah! I know! Everypony, we're going to have something different this time. We're gonna be looking at ALL the recursive works you readers and viewers have written for Pony POV Series over the years! Starting with our very earliest!

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And we'll start with!-"

"-Sorry we're late! Rainbow Dash insisted on getting ice-cream first!" Rarity declared. The Element of Generosity bringing with her several new and shinny replacement pieces of equipment and props.

"Hey! It's for Pinkie Pie too! I just got a cone for myself too!" Said the Element of Loyalty dragging behind a giant tub of ice cream. "Hey Pinkie Pie! We got your letters! I can't wait to show off to our audience again!"

"And this place could use some serious sprucing up . . . that pegasus version of you certainly did a number on things."

"Actually . . . actually it was the giant robot chicken."

"Oh . .  of course." Rarity blinked, "Pinkie Pie, have you been crying?"

"Just . . . just a little. Hey guys, wanna help me do some review summaries or outlines of some stories and art ponies have written about us? And those versions of us we met before from that world where Discord was in charge? And lots of other worlds? I think it might be a little fun."

"Heh. If you say it's gonna be a 'little fun' Pinkie then it means it's gonna rock!" Rainbow Dash pumped a hoof. "Bring it!" She hugged Pinkie Pie, and Rarity did the same.

"Now let's get this place ship shape!" Rarity declared lifting up several pieces of furniture and tools at once.

Pinkie Pie brought up a card that read,
Remember Da Rules: Nopony besides me can see through the fourth wall, the camera can’t leave the studio, the guest characters could be from any generation, toy or comic but it has to be from "My Little Pony" and most importantly everypony has to stay in character and you should have fun with everything. This episode is special, you can pick from ANY recursive fanart you can pick from ANY recursive fanart, or fanwork done for the Pony POV Series, EVER, and have us tell the readers about it, and have us share the three us, OUR thoughts on it. If someone else has already done the one you wanted to, you can have one of the others do it! Just keep us in characters and it'll be fun! Oh, and we'll be prolonging this into as many parts as need be, so GO WILD!

When the card fell away, it revealed three beautiful painted gold with red cushions couches, with a large black wood and white marble table with a large collection of snacks. All centered around the What-If Machine that now a pegasus-projector connected to it. And Rarity had added beautiful drabs a new paint job while she was at it.

Rarity was in a custom bathrobe while Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash were still naked.

Pinkie looked at the camera, "Okay, first up! We have the first up! Yes! The first recursive works of the Pony POV Series, and some odd reason are the only one listed for us under the 'Recursive Works' trope page though OTHERS fanfics have a lot more of theirs listed! What's up with that? Anypony! Our first up is Discord Ponies Hater Sketch!"   fav.me/d4d4xgw "By C8lin The Hedgie! Sadly she never wrote a reharmonization. This story is of an adult artist blank flank, who then gains her cutie mark by her friends telling her how much they love her art, then Discord has them throw AWAY her art to discord her turning her into a graffiti artist!"

"My word!" Rarity dismayed, "Just when I think Discord had run out of ways to make me ill at the thought of him, he proves us wrong, again."

"I don't care much for art, but geeze, I haven't heard a story about Discord's discording I haven't felt bad for yet! Jerk could have discorded Nightmare Moon and I bet he'd have made me feel sorry for her!"

"Having a discording story without a reharmonization does feel like having frosting without the cake . . . then again those are both delicious. But they aren't nearly as delicious as when together! But girls, this was the second to first recursive work EVER DONE for the Pony POV Series."

"The what now again?" RD asked.

"Oh just the chronicling of our lives the interviewers are doing."

"Oh. Right." Rainbow Dash smile and nodded and instantly accepted that answer.

"But ya can't have night without day … well, Nightmare Moon tried but it didn't work out so good, and here we go! THE VERY FIRST OF ALL RECURSIVE FANFICTION TO THE PONY POV SERIES! teyandee05.deviantart.com/gall… "LETTERS TO PONIES! There's a letter addressed to each of us from when we were Discorded"

Pinkie Pie handed out a copy of the respective letter to Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and read her own.

RD tilted her head, "Okay, okay on the short and simplistic side . . . on second thought I really prefer it that way. Wish a good night's sleep is all it would have taken, but yeah, I really should have told you guys from the start."

Rarity read hers over and over, "I shall say. She, I presume she is a she, truly cares about us. But this is dated from so long ago . . . must be a typo. It's an honor to see that . . . even ponies I haven't met can know and care about well enough to speak to my heart."

"So about yours Pinkie Pie?"

" . . . It sure talks with the head a lot, but I was really thinking with my heart at the time. I think I can appreciate this letter more now that I'm REALLY all better, she really did do nice work."

"So how many of this 'recursive pictures, music, and stories are there?" RD asked.

"You know that warehouse I'm renting?"

"Oh dear." Rarity sighed.

Pinkie Pie grinned. "So let's see what's next!"
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"Ooooh" Rainbow Dash noted, looking at the next thing in her hooves. This piece was much longer than the others, and split up into several different sections. "This thing's much longer than the letters to ponies. What's it called?"

Rarity looked at the title with Rainbow. It's called 'The POV Series Chaosverse: the redemption of discord and his chaotic daughter fluttercruel'. Hmmm, have we seen this before?"

"I'm not sure." Rainbow replied. "Let's read through it. It's probably a good read since it's so much longer than so many of the others." itsfrompeople.deviantart.com/g…

---30 minutes later---

"ooooooooohhhhhhh" Rarity and RD muttered together.

"We have seen this before."

"This was the discord and fluttercruel who visited us several shows ago. The one that's nice, and the one that had those mismatched limbs."

Rarity gave a rueful smile. "I must say, the way that we all died defending against nightmare phobia was actually rather touching. Seeing that other me literally disappear with a smile on her face was a rather sad moment."

"Not mine." Rainbow Dash noted with a smile. "My death with the other applejack was just awesome. I'm honored I could have gone out with such a bang. Racing against a nightmare and causing a volcano to erupt is about 20% cooler a death than I would have expected." Rainbow paused for a moment to think. "Remind me before I die to look for an 'evil doppelganger' when I get to heaven."

Rarity looked at Rainbow like she'd just asked rarity to comb her hair into a beehive. "I most certainly will not do something like that Rainbow Dash! We have our own goodbyes for that time to worry about."

Pinkie meanwhile looked...pensive as she pondered all this. "Mmmm, I'd almost say that I became like that other pinkie pie. Able to be more serious, think of ways to help others outside of parties." A tear splashed from her eye. "And....that death of the other me felt....beautiful."

RD and Rarity gave pinkie a hug in response.

Pinkie then had another thought. "Wait. So in this universe, Discord was Celestia and Luna's Brother? How does that even work biologically?" All sorts of disturbing non-kid friendly thoughts went through Pinkie's head before Rarity snapped her out of it.

"I'm sure since they were all children of the great creator, biology is irrelevant in this situation."

"Oh, ok." Pinkie acknowledged, before she heard a doorbell.
-
“Hey! Did you start the party without us?“ Fluttercruel said while walking in, balancing several snacks on both wings.

“We brought hay fries, potato fritters and lots of candy.” Fluttershy added with a smile.

“Applejack’s on her way, she just needs to collect the purple bookworm from the library first.”

“So… er… is this an origami party?” Fluttershy finished as they noticed all the papers around the others.

“Not quite my dear, we are reading stories nice ponies have written about us and others.” Rarity said looking for the next tale.

“It’s a miracle that Twilight of all ponies is late to a reading party…”

“Actually we can see them on this pegasus-projector as well.” Pinkie pointed at the contraption behind them.

“Now this is a bit more like my style.”

Fluttercruel grabbed a random story out of the pile and took a look.

“It’s about Cheerilee and Berry Punch, sounds like fun.”

Soon the projector was activated as Pinkie dimed the light of the studio.

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- about 15 minutes later the story was over and the light returned to normal -

“…”

“Cruel?” Fluttershy sounded genuinely worried.

“That giant jerk-face! There was no reason to do it like this. All that pointless cruelty’s just for that sick buck’s amusement! I bet he had already forgotten about Berry when she was dying because of his drink.” The face of the Pegasus had changed to a very colorful red.

“I didn’t even know these two were sisters.” Rainbow Dash tried to change subjects as fast as possible.

“The moment when Ruby still flinched when Cheerilee embraced her was truly heartbreaking.” Rarity tried to imagine what it would be like if Sweetie Belle gave her a similar reaction. She had come so close to hurt her beloved sister back then.

“I thought it was very touching how Berry tried to protect her daughter from her own weakness. She knew that she wouldn’t be able to resist if Ruby comes home with that poison still there.” Pinkie Pie said happy that unlike in the last story this time the pony who made the sacrifice did survive it.

The pink pony hugged Fluttercruel next to her.

“Feeling better Flutter’?”

“What, no 'Ruelly?” the pegasus retorted somewhat surprised but didn’t break the embrace.

“I thought you hated that nickname.”

“I do.” Fluttercruel said with a smile as she began to calm down again.

“Thank you. But no need get all mushy.” The pegasus looked around the room but nopony did make fun of her.

As the two ended their hug Fluttershy appeared for a brief moment. She didn’t say anything but her face was beaming with gratitude.

“Now who wants to choose the next story?” Pinkie Pie said towards the camera.
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Pinkie Pie looked over the next one. "Oh! This one has my little cousin in it!"

The other ponies blinked. "Wait...you have a cousin?" asked Rainbow, looking confused.

"Yeah! Peachy Pie! She grows peaches! Come on, let's read it!"

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-About 15 minutes worth of reading later...

Fluttercruel smashed a glass in her hoof. "...Can we please find a version of my Old Man that I could actually beat up! Because I REALLY want to right now!"

Fluttershy gave an angry look. "...He nearly killed a couple of fillies? That's...inexcusable!"

"Well, there is that version of him where we stripped him of his powers, but no one's mentioned that fic yet, so spoilers," Pinkie said. "Maybe if somepony does we could...Poor Peachy, but at least she'll be ok now and is friends again."

Rainbow nodded. "And she sure knows a lot about peaches...I wonder if old Discord new there was even cyanide in them..."

"Well, on the positive side," said Rarity, trying to divert attention before Fluttercruel went berserk. "The story is quite nice and you do get the feeling this is a little filly speaking. In fact, it makes the sparse spelling errors add to the narrative instead of subtract from it. Quite interesting...And Peachy does sound like a sweet little filly."

"Hey! There's two other stories!" Rainbow pointed out.

Pinkie got a smirk. "Actually, let's save those for later, I think Twilight will get a kick out of them..."
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"Alright everypony, let's take another one from the way way start of the series!" Pinkie Pie closed her eyes and pulled a story from the pile. "Ya know with all these stories we really should pick some fanart from the pile and . . ." She looked at the title. "We should do that right now I think."

"Hey! What gives Pinkie Pie!" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Maybe this isn't a story for you Dashie." Pinkie Pie then realized she had said the wrong thing.

"I'll be the judge of that!" She grabbed the story for herself and began to read. Not even putting it on the projector. Forcing the other to crowd around her.

"Ya know!" Pinkie Pie said quickly, "This story technically never bore the Pony POV Series label, so it's only inspired by Trixie's story and-"

"So it IS inspired by us," Rainbow Dash said.

"Okay, I Have GOT to see what the fuss is all about," Fluttercruel said.

"I worry what it could be," Rarity added.

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- Ten Minutes Later-

Fluttercruel wasn't ranting about how low her father could go this time, Fluttershy instead was sitting on the end of the couch crying.

"This doesn't quite match up with what Gilda told me about her life . . . did she lie?" Rainbow Dash whispered.

"Well this was written a LONG TIME AGO, before things for us really got started, it's possible the writer took some liberties." Pinkie Pie said.

"So we can't know if it's true or not." Rarity said.

"We can't." Pinkie Pie said.

"I must say however, Gilda certainly has the wrong idea about ponies … and cutie mark." Rarity observed looking at hers. She certainly had never thought of herself as 'better' than griffins or donkeys for having one.

"So . .  . so is Gilda really adopted?" Fluttershy asked.

"I don't know. This story sounds a little fishy to me." Rainbow Dash said, then whispered, " . . . Gilda . . . "

Pinkie Pie decided NOT to mention how Gilda had shown up at the studio from an earlier episode with heart felt letter in claw.

"It would explain why she at the Junior Speedsters camp with Rainbow. I mean, if she lived here in Equestria. It doesn't make sense she'd be all the way from the griffon kingdom for that." Fluttershy said.

" . . . Pinkie Pie, the last part of this story . . . that Gilda was an Element of Loyalty like Trixie was . . . does that mean there were four others that Discord tortured BEFORE us to test out his ways of hurting us?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Pinkie Pie shook her head, "I honestly don't know Dashie."

"Gilda as Loyalty though? She . . . she abandoned our friendship instead of swallow her pride and apologize." Rainbow Dash asked. "how could SHE be loyalty? If any of this story is true?"

"Since Twilight isn't here, I'll say it," Rarity spoke, "I think it's rather the same with Trixie. She was about as close to the OPPOSITE of the Element of Magic as she could get when we first met.  Having a destiny, isn't the same thing as living up to it."

"So . . ." Pinkie Pie said uncomfortably, "Do we look at another story, or check our some art of us and our friends?"
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From the corner, a too-familiar whirring noise started up.  Pinkie pulled out a bag of pears.  This time she was ready!  As soon as the Doctor's brown face popped out from behind the TARDIS doors, she lobbed the fruit at him.

"We appreciate your enthusiasm!  But you need to let somepony else have a chance to visit the studio!" Pinkie yelled.

"Gah - I'm just dropping something off!  That's it!" the Doctor cried, ducking to put the TARDIS between himself and the barrage of fruit, "Truce!"

Pinkie paused in her fruit-throwing, and the Doctor hurried trotted over with a very large bottle of something very sparkly.  He set it next to Rarity, who looked at it with puzzlement.

"Genuine rainbow diamond dust.  Worth enough to cover the dress, the tiara, and all the bits and bobs I stole to make that scepter," the Doctor said quickly.

Rarity lifted the bottle with her magic, still obviously confused but with suspicion building.

"You stole -"

"Oh, I'd love to chat but I can't stay!  Need to, err, iron my companion, you know how it is," the Doctor blurted, turning and running shamelessly for the TARDIS, "No need to show me the door Miss Pie, I have my own way out!"

And with that, the TARDIS whirred and vanished.

"...What just happened?" Rainbow Dash asked, scratching her head.
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"Um… let me chose the next one." Fluttershy looked over the various tales around her and eventually took a single one. It was a three-part story.

"Hey, it is the one about Star-Catch… Celestia!" Pinkie Pie said as she put this one on the pegasus projector and the lights dimed.

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- about 20 minutes later the story was over and the light returned to normal -

Fluttershy was hiding flawlessly behind Pinkie Pie.

"G…Gi…Giant dragon wi… with… fi… five heads… so many, many heads…"

"Give us a few minutes." Fluttercruel's voice could be heard.

"Seriously don't get so hang up on that one part." Rainbow said slightly annoyed. "It was a story about Celestia, not Ms. Five-Times-Awesome-Dragon-Queen."

"Then let us concentrate on the core of the tale, Dash. How Discord broke Celestia with the fear even her closest subjects and friends felt was truly saddening. It was almost like he broke Twilight. Discord could break neither Celestia nor Twilight directly but he used others to do it." Rarity said with a sombre tone. They would never forget how he turned every one of them against Twilight.

"But the interviewers were so nice to her, strange how much impact a few words can have, right Dashie?" the pink pony nudged her friend.

"I haven't forgotten that you were able to talk me down from becoming Nightmare I-Have-No-Idea-Some-Fancy-Name."

"We also used hugs!" Pinkie added with a beaming smile.

"My dears, let us not forget how the Princesses with the aid of their trusty army did defeat this dreadful giant nightmarish oversized creepy ruffian."

"Looks like Scoots was right, there are ponies who are dictionaries." Rainbow muttered to herself.

"It sounded really badflank, I really wish I could have seen it!" Fluttercruel complained, Fluttershy still hiding behind Pinkie Pie. The dragon phobia of her mother had caused them both to miss that scene and the part about the blood.

"The dragon is gone, Shy." Pinkie Pie said in a reassuring tone.

"Sorry, I just…" Fluttershy slowly walked out behind her pony cover. Then she took a deep breath to add her own opinion.

"But I did take a peak later and the part were Celestia does just have fun together with Twilight was really sweet. I felt like both really deserved it after everything they had been through." The pegasus said clearly without any stammering.  

"Now what will the next story be?" Pinkie Pie said towards the camera.
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"Hey! How about a change of pace and let's look at some pictures instead?" Pinkie took the two pictures near the bottom, "Here we go!" Pinkie Pie loaded them into the Pegasus projector, "By artist PsychoDemonFox who has been with the series from almost the beginning.  And their two cool pictures, 'Stay Away From My Muffin!' and 'Applejack vs the zombies!'"

"Zombies?!" The three other ponies said.

"Oh my." Fluttershy whispered.

"Cool!" Fluttercruel and Rainbow Dash grinned.

"My word." Rarity said.

"Oh just give a try." Pinkie Pie.

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"Pencils and crayons darling? Really?" Rarity tilted her head.

"WOW!" Look at AJ go! Ka-pow!"

"Get'em! Get'em!" Fluttercruel cheered. Then her pose changed and Fluttershy said, "Oh . . . did Applejack have to knock poor Starlet's head off  like that?"

"I'm pretty sure the idea behind this picture is What-if Applebloom got cursed and trapped in Sunnytown and Applejack was gonna tear the place to pieces to get her back." Pinkie Pie. Uh! I think!"

"How terrible!" Rarity whispered at the idea.

"Where IS Applejack and Twilight anyway?" Rainbow Dash asked.

Meanwhile...

'Ah feel positively golden and pretty! But could ya undo the spell before Ah start likin' this too much Twili?' AJ's mind thought telepathically to Twilight.

Twilight was going through her books with Spike's help. "That 'pony to gold' spell wasn't even SUPPOSED to work. Spike, keep turning the page for AJ. At least you're catching up your reading right Applejack?" Twilight said to the gold statue with the open book in front of it.

'Just find the counter-spell already Miss Full Pony Alchemist!'

And Back At the Studio...

"Pinkie Pie! Why'd you point the camera through the window with that telescope lens?" Rarity asked.

"Oh! No reason!"

"Well, I think that Starlet and the others have come a long way since this picture." Fluttershy said. "Mom get a clue, they're evil."

"Ladies please! Let us PLEASE focus on the art and pictures being presented and NOT ourselves, or I will have to ask both of you to please be quiet." Rarity admonished. "Now then! Let us see the second rendering of ourselves."

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"Derpy..." Rainbow Dash said sounding like somepony who had just had been visited by a cracked hoof.

"Derpy?" Fluttershy whispered.

"Derpy?!" Rarity looked confused.

"Derpy!" Pinkie Pie cheered. "HEY! This is from when Derpy was using a broom to fight off all those . . . little birds that . . . Fluttershy was using to . . .  and Dinky and Derpy . . . uh."

"Please, I'll just please look this way please. If you please." Fluttershy turned her head from the picture, reminding her of her great shame.

Yeah. Pinkie Pie realized she had screwed up with Fluttershy. Again. It was from EXPERIENCE that Pinkie Pie had gotten her 'do not prank Fluttershy' rule . . . and it was not something Pinkie Pie wanted to think about. That she had done it again.

Fluttershy covered her head with a pillow so she didn't have to hear the comments.

"Well, Derpy looks really brave and noble there . . . for Derpy of course." Rainbow Dash had NOT forgotten the bumps, bruises, and electric shocks she had been forced to endure whenever Derpy had 'helped' with the weather team.

Rarity looked at the picture, had clearly not been done by a pro, and the angle of things reminded her of Pony Piccaso. But, "I think the artist did a very good job of catching the determination in Derpy's eyes. Focused to protect her child."  Rarity gave Fluttershy a slight hug.

"Well I think it's bright and colorful! And gets the point across it's trying to get across!" Pinkie Pie praised. One mother against the horde! And you can tell the artist put a lot of heart into this!"

"Yes, I suppose she did." Rarity found herself agreeing. "Very much so."
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"Alright, this next one is actually a SONG by one of the voice actors for the audio drama...I think the one about those stories we read about Clover."

Suddenly, the door opened and Twilight came in, a still golden but animated Applejack behind her. "Long story," Twilight admitted. "I'm looking for a spell to fix it, but for now, I at least let her move."

"Alright...Well, this next one is a song...for Discord..."

Rainbow Dash shudder. "Ugh, let's get this over with."

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"Well...that wasn't that bad," said Rainbow, thinking about it. "They got his voice right at least and it's kind of catchy."

"And it definitely fits his ego," Rarity followed. "And...Twilight, what's wrong?"

Twilight, however, was shuddering. "Oh...well...that was a song that he sung while...n-never mind..." she said, thinking back to Celestia's story and how Discord had killed Galaxia. "It's pretty well sung and they got his personality right. Let's go to something else."
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"Okay, time for another story," Pinkie said as she put a new reel on the projector. "This one's about Mayor Mare!" Her friends settled down to watch as she flipped the switch. "Gosh, I hope that big meany-pants Discord took it easier on her than he did everypony else."

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After it ended, it took a few moments for the assembled ponies to speak. Dash finally broke the silence. "Well, guess he didn't. But at least she and her family are recovering like everypony else, so that's something, right?" She looked at her friends. Fluttershy looked hurt at being once again reminded of her reign as Princess Gaia; Twilight looked dismayed; and Rarity seemed shocked. Dash winced. AJ's golden face was unreadable (change of pace for the awful liar).

But somewhere deep down, Fluttershy was comforted a little that in spite of the ponies who had hated her guts or had turned her into an idol, she was reminded there HAD been some good caused by her plan, and had made ponies genuinely happy.

Twilight also silently wondered what the heck was up with Time Turner (or rather 'Doctor Whooves') and his apparent magically traveling blue shed that was much more than it appeared to be.

"The poor mare," Rarity shook her head, amethyst mane spilling. "I never knew... To have to go through life with such knowledge..."

"I know," Twilight said, giving her friend a nuzzle. "It's hard, really. I just thought I was being helpful around town, not like I was taking anything away from her."

"Oh, no," Rarity said. "I mean, a pink mane with brown coat? I can understand why she dyes; that is such a ghastly color combination!" The unicorn looked around at her friends. The scowls on their faces spoke volumes. "Oh for pity's sake, of course I noticed the rest of it, the indignities and transformation Discord subjected her too! But I thought she was relieved that we helped on occasion with some of her troubles."

"Maybe," Twilight said. "Celestia actually told me once that Ponyville has some of the best local administration in Equestria and it's due to her. I should tell her that." Twilight looked at her friends. "Maybe we just ought to take more notice of the ponies around us. If nothing else we can make sure they know how much we appreciate everything they do, and the fact that despite some of our, heh," she blushed, "less stable moments, they still treat us as kindly as they do."

Her friends were quietly subdued, as though thinking about the ponies they met every day and never thought twice about.

'Yeah,'  The animated golden statue of Applejack thought, 'After what Ah saw in the Pool of Truth, maybe its time Ah made sure that th' ponies Ah talked to are actually doin' better.'
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Pinkie Pie said, "Okay, time for something from the Shining Armor arc! This is the cutie mark of General Admiral Makarov, the big bad of the story."

Twilight grinned. "If I can decipher the meaning of his cutie mark, maybe I can figure out his special talent and let my BBBFF know about it!"

Pinkie Pie gave Twilight a look before saying, "Yeah, good luck with that."

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After carefully examining the cutie mark, Twilight got a blank look on her face as her brain crashed on her. Pinkie Pie said, "I had a feeling that this would happen. Twilight.exe has crashed and needs time to reboot."

Applejack said, "Great, at this rate Ah'm never gonna get turned back to normal."
-
Suddenly a Unicorn Guard Officer entered in a green uniform

"Right, stop that, it's silly!"

"...Huh?" Pinkie wondered as Guards wearing black overalls and red berets also entered.

"I'm Brigadier Audience of the Unified International Taskforce, and we've detected a considerable amount of uncontrolled silliness in this area."

"Silliness is kinda the point..." Rainbow Dash frowned.

"Yes, but there has been out of control silliness! Like characters arriving from nowhere!"

"Like you?" Fluttercruel smirked.

"Yes, precisely. Er, wait, no. I mean like that crazy white Pegasus and stuff like the giant pie that ended up on city hall last time."

Rainbow Dash whistled innocently.

"Anyway, we are here to fix some silliness and prevent future uncontrolled silliness!"

Pinkie gave a loud gasp.

"You mean you're taking over?! It's a military coup! Ooh, does this make me a war reporter?"

"Nope. We're just going to guard the area, won't even comment in future. And repair the building, this studio is civic property actually. Looks like you fought a giant robot chicken in here. Nice marble table though."

"Thank you, darling!"

"Oh. So, what do we do while you guys fix the place up?"

"Well, you can all check some nice cutie marks. Not the vomit stain from before again, though. Oh, yes, Blinkings? Statue of the gold there, five phoenix teardrops, rapid."

A Corporal went over to Applejack.

"...Yeah, good idea, Kendell2 wanted to do Seeds of Magic next, and we would've needed to restore her then anyway," said Pinkie.

"Finally! Thank ya kindly, Corporal," Applejack said.

"Let's get looking at those other cutie marks!" Pinkie cheered.

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"Ooh, there's Fluttercruel's! Still looking nice!"

"...I think a honey badger would have been cooler," 'Cruel sighed.

"Apple Pie... huh, apples and oranges?" Applejack spoke up.

"Well, I guess it's a sort of paradox," Twilight nodded.

"But the Apples and Oranges are relatives, doesn't that seem... Silly?" Dash grinned.

"Dash, they're Guards, they say they won't comment, they won't comment."

"Dang! Ah, well, next one... Oh, now that's more like it, a thunderbolt!"

"Nice minimalist design, one color on the main bolt. N-not that multiple colors are bad of course, it's just it's kind of... Oh, I've said something silly, the guard will arrest me!" Fluttershy squeaked.

"Stop being silly about being silly, everypony. Hey, is this one of Applejack's relatives?" Twilight kept things moving.

"Yup, Ellis from Savanneigh. Pity his cutie mark just shows he's good at fixin' stuff and don't warn ya never ta ask him ta use a 'little' dynamite ta take down a barn..."

"Yeah, some of the bits nearly hit my house... I had it half a mile up and three miles away!" Dash shuddered.

Pinke grinned nervously.

"Hehe, well, uh, nopony asked him to add a little more to, uh, make it a more... fun explosion or anything, nope! Next one, a crossbow over an abacus!"

"Ah, yeah, this one makes a lot of sense, archery needs decent math skills, and as a cutie mark you can see the stylised nature of items as depicted in the mark itself - After all, you'll notice even with our own cutie marks and marks in town, where an object is depicted it's not a strictly realistic interpretation..." Twilight promptly summoned a soapbox.

"That next one might come in hoofy to translate some of her longer lectures," 'Cruel sighed.

"It fits 'er point too though, see how it's a stylishised version 'o the globe?" Applejack nodded.

"Don't you start!"

"Last one, a... medic! From a rock farming background I bet. Hm, we should have a medic in our group too..."

"Uh, Pinkie, you know I'm actually a qualified first aider 'cos of my weather job?" Rainbow Dash noted.

"Er, Rainbow Dash, darling... you're the one of us that usually is most likely to need a medic," Rarity said nervously.

"...Well, that's about it, next recursive or fanart work!" Pinkie grinned, as the UNIT troopers began to leave the studio with repairs finished.
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"Alright, next one's about an alternate universe!" Pinkie Pie announced.


"You mean like that alternate you who was from that verse where Ah was Laughter?" asked Applejack, cocking her head.


"Yeah! But this is a different Applejack! Let's take a look!"

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Fifteen minutes of reading later…


"Wow...Ah...Ah remember that day…" Applejack said, looking a bit scared.


"It must've been when the universes diverged. In our universe, the branch didn't hit you, in theirs it did...from then on, uh...Abigal charted out a completely different life from you…"


"Ah already knew that much, tah tell yah the truth. But it's just a little scary tah remember that day, feel sorry for her that she actually got hit."


"That said, I must admit, the writer does a fabulous job of depicting her accent. Not quite yours, but not purely Manehattenite. Quite the impressive feat."


"And the way he described her finding out what was happening...ugh…"  Rainbow Dash replied. "Makes me sore just thinking about it...I can't imagine if it happened to my wing…"

"

But hey, it's not ALL bad!" Pinkie pointed out. "She didn't give up!"


"She's an Apple, we Apples never quit," said Applejack, giving a proud smile.


"Plus, I thought it was kind of funny how she managed to do what she did. And to see someone ELSE'S alternate universe self for a change!" Fluttercruel stated, smiling.


"Twilight, what did you...Twilight?"


"...An Earth Pony...she knew unicorn magic...she can do unicorn magic…"

Twilight said, twitching.


"Technically, it's just usin' Earth Pony magic in a way no one ever thought of doin' before…" Applejack defended.


"...Earth pony magic...copying unicorn magic…"

Pinkie smiled nervously. "Uh...we need to let Twilight reboot, if anyone else wants to do the next chapter of Seeds of Magic, feel free…"
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As Twilight's mind was left reeling, she remembered from their last get together in this studio.

Just as twilight was about to step outside and lock up the studio for a while, a bright flash of light manifested in the center of the room. Twilight turned, horn down, ready to defend against whatever was coming. The light gently subsided, and twilight suddenly gawked.

There, in the center of the stage, was her again. Only this time, Twilight quickly caught the fact that this other self was much bigger than her, and she had a pair of wings.

"What's going on? Why am I here instead of in the timestream?" The other twilight spoke confusedly.

Twilight walked up to her and said, "And what twilight in all the multiverses are you?"

The other twilight turned and looked at the reharmonized twilight. "Why Twilight, why would you say something like that?"

"I've been in this crazy studio enough times to know that most people who I don't know are from another universes. So, where are you from?"

The alicorn looked twilight square in the eye, and then without warning, smirked. "Why twilight. Don't you recognize me from the last time I visited?"

Twilight's eyes went wide. "Twilight the Unicorn?"

The alicorn stood tall and proud, looking like she was about to go into lecture mode. "Twilight the unicorn is no more. From now on, as I always was, I am AMICITIA ZORYA SPES EQUESTRIA."

Twilight looked as though she had 100 questions to ask this alicorn version of herself, but finally she settled on the obvious question. "What happened to your home world?"

Amicitia smiled warmly at twilight. "Well, after we went back, we won."

Twilight grinned at that. "How?"

Amicitia grinned like a cheshire cat, and immediately conjured up two soap boxes to tell the whole story.

--25 minutes later--

Twilight Sparkle was flabbergasted. But, like when her mind was in crazy state, she still found a way to talk. "So, you became an alicorn by answering important questions, fighting against Razarroo, and finally meeting with the mother of all creation which was after you summoned 6 sets of the elements of harmony from through time and merged with Nightmare Paradox?"

"Pretty much" was the reply.

"But, I don't understand."

"What?"

Twilight looked like she had a big question on her mind. One that would have deeply hurt her depending on the answer, but then she remembered she needed to lock up, and decided to wait on it.

"Look, I'm not totally sure how this studio works, but somehow people from across dimensions keep showing up here. I'm sure we'll meet up again sometime, but I need to finish locking up."

Amicitia looked confused. "Are you sure?"

Twilight looked torn still, but she eventually smiled, and hugged the big alicorn. "It doesn't matter right now. I just wanted to tell you how happy I am that your world is free, even if your work is never going to end. Thank you for never giving up on friendship."

Amicitia hugged back, and as amicitia disappeared from the studio, twilight's horn lit up, and the whole studio went dark. Waiting for the light that would come for it in no time.


"So darling, I was thinking, if I spent my nights sleeping as a diamond statue, I'd be extending my life span and my beauty years!" Twilight heard Rarity saying as she slowly came to.
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"Alright, now that Twilight's back on her hooves, let's continue with part two!" Pinkie Pie announced, smiling.

"Um, Pinkie, darling, do you think that's such a good idea?" asked Rarity, thoughtfully.

"Yeah, trust me, this one might help her a little!"

Twilight sighed. "Alright, do it..."

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15 minutes later.

"Ah...Ah stayed with Aunt and Uncle Orange there too?" asked Applejack, awestruck. "Dang! How many universes do Ah end up stayin' with 'em?!"

"Known universes? Four..." said Pinkie, looking at a checklist. "Two where you're Orangejack, her different husbands, this one, and one where you're Orangejack, but ended up being the permanent Element of Generosity..."

"...Thanks Pinkie..." said Applejack, remembering the pain of seeing her potential foals, only for them to be torn away.

Fluttercruel gave a laugh. "I liked how she showed that teacher a thing or two! Classic!"

Fluttershy nodded. "Yes, but he wasn't a bad person, he was just overwhelmed..."

Rainbow Dash smirked. "Still, her proving she could do it was cool...feel bad she got picked on though. I know what that's like, it ain't fun..." Fluttershy nodded in agreement.

Rarity smirked. "Well I for one am enjoying a slightly more refined version of Applejack in these stories."

Fluttercruel cut in before Applejack could voice her complaint. "You know what else I liked? How her Twilight handled it!"

Twilight blushed. "In my defense, it's much easier for a foal to accept something than an adult..."

Pinkie produced a picture of a young Twilight trying to wash the stripes off a zebra ambassador, causing the mare to blush more.

"...Point taken...but still, it would be easier to accept a fundamental difference in magic if I hadn't learned about it, and hearing some about how it works makes it easier to accept...In fact, I'd kind of like to study it a bit more!"

"Hang on Twilight, let's let another writer in on this! And maybe even read a different story real quick, don't want one Shadow to have all the fun!"
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The group went through the pile of stories, pictures and songs when Rarity did hold something up.

"My dears, I found something different this time."

Quickly they gathered around the Pegasus projector as Pinkie Pie put the picture on it.

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"Wow! This is pure badflank! She really ticked off the old man. Three Yays for her!" Fluttercruel cheered.

"All these injuries and she is still taking them like nothing, she must be protecting somepony..." Fluttershy added.

Twilight took a deep breath.

"It is Mimic’s final battle against Discord. She has protected... her two beloved foals and her friends from him but she will pay a high price for knocking out his tooth. But the wound she inflicted remained to this very day."

"I can see the pure determination in her eyes. Don’t tell mah she was..." Applejack hesitated.

Twilight nodded sadly.

"Way to ruin the mood, Rarity." Dash added dryly.

"Hey, she went out wounding Discord forever, I thought you would find that idea cool." The white unicorn said.

"Shows what you know about coolness, this isn’t cool, it is awesome. Totally different story."

"Heh, I guess we have another pony dictionary under us. But let us take a closer look at the picture: There is a really good contrast between her colorful mane and Discord’s grey head and neck. And that is not the only contrast, despite her many injuries she is the one smiling with determination while Discord just got one injury but he looks ready to snap completely. It is a really powerful picture." Rarity finished using her eye for details.
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"Let's take a look at another story." Pinkie said as took out some more pages.

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After some silence Rainbow Dash was the first to speak, "Wait, this didn't actually happen, did it?"

"Nope." said Pinkie, "It's just some humorous story that some shadow decided to write."

"So is this the same Darkseid and High Father from the Superstallion comics?" Twilight wondered.

Everypony stared at her. "What?" said Twilight, "There are comics at the library, you know. I was just going off of what I remember from those."

"I must say, it was interesting, to say the least, to get a look at Princess Celestia and Discord during their...uh... younger days." said Rarity.

"Your telling me? Reading a story where the old man is a baby is just plain weird." said Fluttercruel.

"Yeah, well it was kind of funny seeing baby Celestia dress up her High Father toy in a frilly pink dress." said Rainbow Dash.

Twilight thought for a second, "Wait a minute, Applejack, was this really one of the universes you saw in the Truth?"

"Ah think so, but the thing is ah saw so many different worlds that it's hard to keep track of all them in mah head." said Applejack.

"Well, whether it actually happened or not, I did like seeing what set the princess off to become the wonderful ruler she is today." said Twilight.

"But did Discord's mother really have to go and destroy his toy like that?" Fluttershy asked, "I know he was being mean, but it did seem a bit much."

Twilight spoke again, "From what Princess Celestia's told me, it does fit in with Entropy's personality for her to wipe someone from existence for implying that they control her. But at the same time, I can't imagine her wasting her power like that to what essentially is just a toy, albeit a sentient toy."

-Meanwhile-

Entropy was looking at the exact same story, "THIS IS JUST ABSURD. I WOULD NEVER WASTE MY POWER ON SOME INSIGNIFICANT TOY."

"Actually, Dear, Yes You Would." said Havoc, "I Even Have Proof." he said as he took out video taped evidence of Entropy destroying a Darkseid toy for saying that it controlled her."

"SHUT UP! YOU DO NOT EXIST!"

Havoc snapped himself back into existence, "I Really Wish You Would Stop Doing That. It Can Get Kind Of Annoying At Times."
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"All righty, time for another great picture from the pile! Ennie-minnie-moe! And here we go!" Pinkie Pie looked at the picture, "Wow, this is really well done . . . uh, Fluttershy, could you please look the other way and cover your ears?"

" . . . is it about . . . when I did wrong?"

"Uh, yes?"

"Then I'll watch it."

Rarity shook her head, "REALLY DARLING! There is no need in torturing yourself over it."

"I have to agree," Twilight said, "You don't have to relive bad memories over and over, it's not healthy."

" . . . but it wasn't all bad for everypony. And . . . Princess Celestia told I need to see what I did right AND wrong."

"When did she say that?" Twilight wondered.

"Just before coming over here." Fluttershy lied.

AJ narrowed her eyes, "Fine! Ya wanna see the truth? Fine. Show the picture Pinkie Pie."

"Actually AJ, you might want-"

"Don't start Pinkie, just show it."

Rainbow Dash put a wing around Fluttershy, Rarity put a hoof.

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Rarity spoke with maturity, "I must say . . .the um, expression are flawless. The body language is individualistic to each pony, the details are all true to life, and the colors are spot on, the mist adds to the ambiance without being intrusive, the background is to the point without feeling as if it was just glazed over, and you . . . really get a feeling of what each pony is . . . feeling."

"Pure absolute happiness," Fluttershy said, "Of living in a world where they have what they want."

"Erm, yes darling, and Applejack . . . she, she stands out perfectly, and . . . Applejack, I can tell what you feel."

"Ah figure, it's the same what Twili' felt, when Discord screwed us all in the head. All alone."


"We were ALL alone," Twilight said, "In our own personal fantasies."

"I gotta say, the eyes look a lot cooler and nicer than how they look when Discord brainwashes ponies." Pinkie Pie said.

"Thank you." Fluttershy said, "I just wanted everypony to be happy."

Pinkie Pie brought out a list, "So to recount.
Trixie's fantasy was to be Celestia's apprentice who saved Equestria with the power of friendship. A lot like that universe where we're all jerks and Celestia went Nightmare instead of Luna."

Twilight cringed.

"Archer was a super hero who protected ponies with her bow. Silver wanted to be friend with Diamond Tiara again in spite of saying she was done with her. Snip and Snails were Trixie's apprentices. Ruby wished her mom would stop drinking so much . . . I guess that one is coming true. Scootaloo wanted to fly and have Rainbow Dash adopted by her family, that last bit is a little weird."

"Yeah right." Rainbow Dash whispered.

"Oh and Rarity wanted Prince Blueblood to be her prince charming after all."

"PInkie Pie I believe that's enough." Rarity blushed red.

"These are all rather private Pinkie Pie." Twilight Sparkle pointed out.

"But none of this canon! So we don't need to worry about it! . . . But then it starts sounding like that fanfic series our Shadow-Who-Makes doesn't like that shall not be named."

"WHAT shadows darling?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah what shadows? You guys keep throwing that word around." Rainbow Dash added.

"NOTHING YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT!" Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Twilight Sparkle all said at the same time.

"Trust me darlin', yer better off NOT knowin'! Ah swear on mah ma and pa's graves!"

"And back on topic," Pinkie Pie said, "We don't have anything to be ashamed of Twilight. None of our fantasies were really BAD or mean! It shows that deep down we're all good ponies!" She pulled out a script book, reading through it, "You just wanted us to live with you in Canterlot and Spike never to grow up, so you didn't have to choose between all of us and your parents and Celestia. You love ALL of us! MY fantasy was to open an amusement park . . .  that one is kinda coming true I guess. Come Visit Miniature Ponyville when it opens! And Rainbow Dash . . ."

"Can we please please please not go into my fantasies!"

"Sure . . . we'd run out of space on the camera if we did that anyway."

Everypony giggled. Rainbow Dash blushed.

"Applejack," Fluttershy said.

"Yes darlin'?"

"Thank you for saving me. And I'm sorry for what I did."

"Yer welcome darlin, and no hard feelin's, and that's no lie." They hugged.
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"Oh! Looks like we're running out of power on the camera already!" Pinkie Pie said.

"So soon? We just got here!" AJ protested. "And I spent half of it as a statue . . ." AJ got a distant look in her eyes, "Which now thadda think about it . . . wasn't that bad . . . kinda relaxin' really." Twilight knocked her had. "OW! Thanks Twili'."

"I still want to give that spell a try myself please darling." Rarity said.

"girls, don't turn a short gag into a plot tumor." Pinkie Pie said.

"PINKIE PIE!" Rarity's face blushed right red, Fluttershy hide her head in the pillows, "What does that have to do with . . . our unmentionables! I'd wash your muzzle out with soup if you were a filly! . .  . And what's at tumor?"

"I've never heard of those either." Twilight Sparkle said, "What are they?"

"Nothing ponykind ever needs to know about!" Pinkie Pie said quickly, "So girls, just stay put! I just need to change the batteries, hey Twilight, can you give them a quick recharge?"

Twilight didn't like being treated like a recharge station but, "Alright Pinkie Pie if it'll help."

"Good, now just stay still like I hook up these jumper cables to your horn."

"PInkie Pie!" Twilight took some trots back, "Wait! WAIT!-"

*ZAP!*

The camera fizzled out.

A picture of Derpy wearing a buffaloo style head dress appeared on the screen, along with the message:
"WE ARE EXPERIENCE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES! STAY TUNED AND WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK!"

-TO BE CONTINUED
Hey Everypony! Something different this time around! This time us ponies are gonna be looking at all the different recursive works written for the Pony POV Series over the years! But the same rules apply as always and YOU lovely ponies you are the writers are still the writers of this cute little tale!

1. What you put in the comments appears in the story.
2. Nopony besides me can see beyond the fourth wall.
3. The camera can’t leave the studio.
4. The characters can be from any generation, toy or comic but they have to be from “My little Pony”
5. Everything that happens here is non-canon.
6. Have Fun

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Additions:
eric-emanwu (EDITED FOR CONTINUITY!)
ItsFromPeople
Kendell2
Alex Warlorn
OracleMask
ItsFromPeople
Alex Warlorn ("AJ beats up Sunnytown" and "Stay Away from my muffin(dinky)")
Kendell2 ("You're Only Second Rate")
ArDashir ("Civic Duty")
All at Once:
-jmcdavid (Makarov cutie mark)
-LZ091 (SA Arc cutie marks)
-Kendell2 (Seeds Of Magic)
-eric-emanwu (Dark World Good-bye tribute!)
Kendell2 (Seeds Of Magic Part 2)
-ItsFromPeople (Hurts Doesn't It?)
-sherlock-holmes18 ("Baby Discord meets Darksied")
- Alex Warlorn ("Festival Of Fools")
-Bridge To Next Part


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Hello? Is somepony… I mean someshadow there? Helloooooooooo? Echo? Cherrychanga? Chimicherry? Chimicherrychanga? Oh, there you are.

Sign. Did I really just say that out loud? But times were rough. The studio’s still wrecked after my first and last encounter with a deadly giant robot chicken. I was able to patch the holes in the floor back together but that kind of work’s not my talent. Then again cutie marks aren’t everything as my balloons don’t say anypony that I’m good at baking. I can’t bake us some studio repairs but at least we won’t have more time travel… for now. But we’re not selling out and will not put in advertisements.

BUY THE NEWEST CONMARE CROSSOVER WITH THE MOST SUCCESSFUL LOVE STORY OF THE LAST MONTHS WRITTEN BY THE GREAT STARLIGHT SPARKLE. STILL IN SPACE! NOW WITH VAMPIRES! EVEN OUR BELOVED PRINCESS CADENCE SAID “I HAVE NEVER READ ANYTHING LIKE TH-

Party Cannon FIRE!

I think we finally got it this time. Maybe we’d think about hooking up somepony to the bicycle next to the generator? I could also ask Gummy to calculate how much energy Rainbow Dash produces with one Sonic Rainboom. There’re no letters in the mail box either and I only have the camera and the What-If Machine with me… It almost feels like Party for One all over again. I know that one day this machine’ll completely surprise me and show me a perfectly happy world or just a happy scene. Today’s not that day.

Instead we get an alternate timeline where the seaponies still exist but the unicorns’re led by the racist archmage Sunrise Shimmer. That sounds a lot like… oh right, no spoilers… a lot like a certain somepony I’ve seen somewhere in my latest movie marathon. Now Sea Belle and Reef Belle’re struck in a giant fish bowl as the final battle between the tribes’s taking place. They even kept the name Unicornia while the earth ponies and the pegasi’ve made up their own names for this land. The other nations’re lead by Applejack (a different one however) and Spitfire. Why’d everybody put their own name into their term for the land? It is not even done in a clever way like Equestria. I guess racists have poor imagination.

But there’re some ponies that try to stop this madness: The six remaining paradise ponies (and Spike) are here with the Rainbow of Light to prevent the three tribes from destroying everything in an inferno of hatred. They do have a few allies with them like Lyra, BonBon, Tirxie and the Cakes. So clearly not ALL ponies became racist jerks. Discord’s here as well but FOR ONCE he didn’t do anything, instead he is here to mock Celly for the results of her efforts to prevent the disaster she once unleashed on the ponies. In the end it didn’t just change the world but even Celestia who’s still Star-Catcher.

She stopped herself from asking Entro… Discord’s mom and since the Windigos never started to freeze the world, the ponies never founded Equestria. On the other side the big war was prevented as well so the Alicorns and Discord stayed in the spirit world and never ruled the world or had descendants. The Paradise Ponies were safe in their Estate but it means that they never started families and Twilight, I or our friends don’t even exist. Seriously, three times something good led to something bad to happen! It just isn’t fair that good intentions are so often twisted like this…

These ponies could have stopped being jerks and racists and tried to live together in the world but instead they tried to take everything for themselves and now everybody loses. Sign. Yes, I said it again. It’s hard to blame Celly for their mass stupidity. She changed the past but she merely opened other paths for the ponies to walk upon. They did choose the path of hatred all by themselves. Even the griffins and dragons fear them now and the seaponies and flutterponies’re so horrified of them that they kill any member of the three tribes that comes into their domains. Now Discord just mocks poor Celly that the three tribes’ll destroy everything with their new weapons and only the seaponies will survive. But Reef Belle interrupts his gloating by smashing him through the next wall. Did anypony ever manage to gloat to the very end without being interrupted?

Reef Belle was able to escape but Sea Belle’s nowhere to be seen. From their names I guess they’d be relatives of Rarity’s bloodline if Rarity’d exist in this world. And the seapony begs Celly to stop all of this from ever happening, to let time continue like it’d have even if it means that she and her race’d stop existing. They’re willing to vanish to save the world, being happy that at least their music lives on. It’s G3 all over again. Spike and the Paradise Ponies fall one by one, leaving only Twilight behind. In her despair she unleashes the Rainbow of Light to obliterate the three tribes, seeing no hope for a better world with them. I think I need a hu- thank you.

So Celestia becomes a complete Alicorn and goes back in time to stop herself and restore the original timeline. She manages to restore everything to how it was and reawakens in the Equestria she helped for such a long time. Finally she promises the seaponies that she’ll honor their sacrifice and’ll try to make this a world they would be proud on.

Why must the machine be so obsessed with tragedy and sadness? But to do things different and cheer the audience back up again, I decided to look upon all the great stories, songs, pictures and awesome stuff we’ve gotten by shadows who really care about us. These’re presents that have made the multiverse of the Series much bigger then it was before. And our very first one’s… interrupted by Dashie and Rarity coming in to cheer me up again. They got everything from new props and stuff to letters and even ice cream. It’s still weird to say that this place was wrecked by a giant robot chicken and even AJ’d have to admit that it was the truth. And they love the idea of making this show different.

I wonder if Dashie would say that our friendship’s radical, cool or awesome. You think all three? No matter what the depression machine throws at me… they can really make me feel that I belong here. For now I outline da rules:

1. Nopony but me can see through the fourth wall.
2. The camera can’t leave the studio or have you seen legs on it?
3. We could have guest character from My Little Pony but everybody stays in character and most importantly you should have fun with it.
4. But the real stars of this show aren’t us but the recursive fanarts, songs or stories that we look upon. How’d we react to some of these stories? Use your imagination! Be creative! Make Pandora proud! Have fun! Say sentences with exclamation marks!

And while I stalled for time, my friends made this studio even better then before also with lots of snacks! Rarity even gave the What-If-Machine a makeover. I am warning you, the next time you show a depressing tale I’ll ask the twins to give the machine a special makeover with lots of smiley faces.

The first recursive fanstory we see is a story of a Discording. An adult blank flank finally gains her cutie mark in art, only for Discord making her throw it all away and then he turns her into a completely different kind of artist. We can sympathise but sadly there was never a reharmonization written for the poor pony.

But it wasn’t the very first. The very first recursive work’s a series of letters that was written to us when we were discorded. The idea did work out for Twilight and it’s great to see that somebody cared enough to write something to each of us personally. The question’s if these could have helped us back then. But knowing that there’s still somebody out there that cares for you can make the difference even in the bleakest of moments.

And already the first look at recursive works’s full but there’re still so many out there: So many pictures and stories. Maybe one of yours’ll make it as well? Yes, I mean you! You reading this here. Now we just need to rate this one. Let’s see: 17 additions to the story, 1 shadow who wrote the opening, 1 shadow who drew the preview image and 1 critique. So we get 20 stars! Using these fancy mathematics to muddle can be fun! Now it is your time to have some fun as well!