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Applejack needed a good reason to get Spitfire to stop watching Trixie and come back to the abandoned home they had purloined for sleeping in, and she figured that "a mirror image of one of my best friends wants to kill you" probably wasn't going to cut it. And there was an easy way to do that if Applejack didn’t mind playing with a vulnerable mare’s emotions. She wasn’t much of a liar, but for Apple Bloom she’d try anything. So once the interrogation was over she took Spitfire outside and propositioned her. Spitfire had been surprisingly receptive to her advances. Applejack had more trouble convincing the surpris

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Act III: The Grandfather Paradox Part 13: Eye and Tooth and Nail Rarity frowned at the arrangement of the fruit on the platter. Apples and walnuts were thrown together recklessly, their colors clashing without regard for presentation. And a week ago, such an effortless attempt would have bothered her. Such problems seemed trivial now. Who gave a damn how neat the plate looked? It wasn't like Pinkamena would care. Or even notice, in all likelihood. Her nihilism would have surprised her if she’d noticed it. An uncomfortable stillness had descended over the farm; nopony wanted to acknowledge it, but they all did, accidentally with

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Act III - The Grandfather Paradox Part 12: Those Who Would Deny Fate Nightmare Moon basked in the glow of her victory. And then she asked her next question. “Would you perform a Sonic Rainboom for me?” Rainbow was blindsided by the question, although she shouldn't have been. Of course Nightmare Moon still wanted her to perform a Sonic Rainboom. She was the only one alive who could. And since it had the power to create an easy passage from one world to the other, that made her powerful. And Nightmare Moon would do everything possible to squeeze that power from her. Loyalty is a finicky thing, Rainbow Dash. It asks us to m

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Act III - The Grandfather Paradox Part 11: Our Lives and Our Freedom Three sets of eyes settled on the alicorn. Nightmare Moon grinned cheekily as she eyed each one of them, giving them a solid examination while offering her most intimidating and bemusing smile. Rainbow Dash and Rarity exchanged a fearful glance, while Orange refused to look at anything, keeping her head hung low and her eyes shut tight. Nopony spoke. Nightmare Moon, bothered by the silence, growled softly between her clenched teeth to fill the void. “I know you're all thrilled to see me,” she told them mirthfully, “but please, don't everypony talk at

World Without Rainbows 28 Part 2 by FreedomAndChaos, literature

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World Without Rainbows 28 Part 2

Up in the air, Rarity was almost tempted to believe that things were finally back to normal. Granted, she had never ridden a pegasus before, but for the first time in weeks, she was no longer surrounded by reminders that she was in a strange and uncannily eerie land. "Where to now?" asked Rainbow Dash, reminding them of their situation. "We need to regroup." "The farm, then," said Rarity. "Seems as good a place as any. Applejack should be there." Rainbow snickered. "You think you're up for seeing Applejack?" she asked. "Of course!" proclaimed Rarity, confused and offended. "Why wouldn't I... oh." Her voice lowered, her cordiality b

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Nopony dared move. They were stuck, frozen in time, a still frame in a dead city. Without the sun to mark the passage of time, Applejack begin to wonder if this would last forever, and how she would know if it had. "Let's just make sure we're all understanding each other," said Trixie, desperately trying to come up with a plan. "If any of you make a move, Applejack loses her head. And I expect that if that happens, I will lose mine shortly afterward. In the common interest of keeping our lives, I trust you won't do anything stupid." "But apparently we can talk, right?" said Pinkie Pie.&

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Act III – The Grandfather Paradox Part 9: Entrapment Familiarity is in the details, Applejack realized as she waited at the door to the large library-tree. When she had visited Braeburn in Appleloosa to deliver Bloomberg, the taste of her family's signature apple pies had been enough to make her forget that she wasn't in Ponyville anymore. Even when she had moved to Manehattan, her aunt still had enough retained habits of their old life to give a semblance of home, at least enough to make it uncanny. Maybe that was why Feng-Shui worked, she wondered. It wasn't about the actual layout, but the pony that chose the layout feeling comf

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Act III – The Grandfather Paradox Part 8: Masquerade "Ooh, how's your scar doing?" asked Pinkie Pie. "Gilda really did a number on you when she attacked you in the library." The intent of the question was fairly obvious to her. Too obvious. "What are you talking about, Pinkie?" answered Trixie, trying to provide enough inflection to sound genuinely befuddled. "Gilda found us in the mountains, near other me's secret base. It was Silver Shield that was hiding in the library." She thanked Madame Orange's detailed spoilers for helping her to answer the question. Trixie had

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Act III – The Grandfather Paradox Part 7: All that Never Was Itchy nose. Weak hip. Burning stomachache. Pinkie stopped breathing and shuddered as the chill passed over her, the one symptom not caused by her Pinkie sense. Not directly, at least. The dread knotted inside of her as she began frantically scanning her surroundings for anything askew. She was in the lower bed of the spare bedroom she had been sharing with Rainbow Dash at the Buraq Flight Academy. The private school hadn't even been on the original list of locations to search for the other Rainbow Dash, but the more they had dug, the more

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Strange Reflections

I couldn't do it. Every time I opened my mouth to speak, a sudden wave of what-ifs, doubts, and alternative solutions bowled me over. So many things needed to be said, but none of them wanted to be first. They all depended on one another, tightly interwoven in a net of insecurities, a net that I had been forming for quite some time now and which, finally complete, was determined to squeeze the life out of me until there wasn't anything left. It shouldn't be this tough, I told myself. You're strong. A ferocious beast. A dragon. A real man. And then I remembered how none of that was true at all. I looked across the room, trying my absolute h

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I thought that remembering was a gift. The ability to see what nopony else can see, to feel that sense of wonder and hope that nopony else can feel, I always thought that ability would be my salvation, and the salvation of all of Equestria. How foalish I was. I now see what lies before me, the burden that has been placed on my shoulders, and my shoulders alone. And now I realize the true meaning of my talent, the cost that I must pay, and only I can pay. Nopony can help me in the quest. I must go into the darkness alone. --The Storyteller's Final Tale ===> From her seat on top of the

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The Great and Powerful Presto sat in the middle of Ponyville Park, watching the bustle of the other ponies as they began their day. A brown-coated mare wearing a bowtie passed just feet away, and she stopped, sniffing the air confused. "Just keep walking, lady," muttered Presto under his breath. "The Great and Powerful Presto does not have time to deal with no-name ponies like you." Eventually the mare gave up and continued on her way. Presto sighed in relief. He'd forgotten that the invisibility spell couldn't mask scent. If he'd been discovered, he would have had a difficult time explaining what he was still doing in Ponyville when,

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Act III - The Grandfather Paradox Part 6: Everything Changes Apples. Apples and cabbages and sweet potatoes and corn. The crate in Pumpkin Custard's shed was filled with food, but it wasn't the meager shriveled product of most of their farming. Instead, Rarity was staring at the cream of the literal crop, the small fraction of their food that grew to be virtually unblemished. "Why in Equestria is this in your shed?" she asked the stallion. "You better have a really good explanation for this." Custard didn't answer. He knew better than to lie; no fake excuse could possibly be plausible enough to

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Act III, Part 3 - Assignments For Applejack, the first few days were a blur. It sounded cliché, but that really was the only way to describe it. The memories, at least the ones she could recall with any sort of clarity, had no starting or ending points, simply fading into one another, occasionally separated by the calm darkness of sleep. Everything was hazy until she tried to focus her eyes, at which point the sudden sharpness of it nearly blinded her. Voices were stretched out and distorted, and she couldn't tell who was speaking to her, other than that the voice was uncannily familiar. Eventually, she began to feel good enough to

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Chapter 11: The Inner Sanctum, Defiled Written by: Uber (me) I'm going to let you in on a secret. There's no such thing as time. When you sit alone, how do you know that time passes? Maybe the clock moves. Maybe you get hungry or thirsty. Maybe the sun goes down and leaves you in the dark. That's how it worked in ancient days. People believed in time because they could see the sun go around the earth. But what if they couldn't? If you can't see change happening right in front of your eyes, you can't prove that time exists. Ironically, once you stop believing in time, you have loads of it to spare and nothing to do with it but think. And

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Steam - Part 10 by Me

Chapter 10: Catch Me, I'm Falling Written by: Uber Jasper Felklot and Amy Tang were two halves of a greater whole; their reflections in each other produced a peculiar symmetry. They had spent most of their lives together; they thought the same thoughts; they strove for the same ideals. This was what Jasper had always known to be true and what Amy now believed to be a lie that she herself had fabricated. For two years they were separated. They had been reunited with just enough time to die. How interesting, the Center mused. Together they lived. Together they had fallen. Together they died. The Center should have given those rings more cre

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Chapter 9: Life Written by: Sepik Jasper paused, unsure of how to respond, and instinctively took a step back. "Run for your life!" Candy joyfully shouted as she pushed Jasper out of the way of a stream of blue flame. The flame hit the cobblestone ground with a thud, and then bounced into a nearby wall, exploding into a gray fog. Candy grabbed Jasper by the hand, forcibly steadying him, and sprinted off. Jasper responded instantly, jerked his hand away, and ran by her side. "What the hell!" "Oh, just your government's military. Oh, no, don't be silly, I'm-!" Jasper lunged at Candy, trying to bring her down. Instead her body barely budge

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Chapter 8: The Spoken Word Written by: Uber (me) There was resounding thunder as the pair stormed down the narrow hallway, four bots striking the tiles strongly and repeatedly. At the door, Jasper let himself fall, bracing himself against the wall to keep from landing on the ground. "I think we lost them," he managed to wheeze in between his panted breaths. Next to him, Amy simultaneously choked and giggled. The end result was an awful lot of asphyxiation. "I'll admit it, Jasper," she said. "I don't think I've ever seen anybody run that fast." The air around them seemed thick and heavy, and both felt extremely light headed. Whether this re

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hapter 7: Tick-Tock Written by: Sepik Jasper nudged Tyler in the side, and dodged Amy's oncoming fist. Tyler sighed and pulled from beneath his uniform a silver chain, and held up the dangling ring. "Jasper lost the ring, and I found it. I've been keeping it for him since." There was a beat as both adolescents remembered the tense moment in the midst of battle, months after their first meeting, when Jasper realized that Tyler had the ring. And in that moment, when death was imminent, and only fleeting promises demanded survival, Jasper told Tyler to live long enough to return it to Amy, and then launched his glider on a suicide run. Upon

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Chapter 6: It's a Big Deal Written by: Le_Seigneur_d'Avocats He remembered when he hated this, not too long ago, as he floated gracefully through the sky that was filled with explosions of shrapnel. He nonchalantly stared at his target, the larger of the two opposing Zeppelins. Normally, a Zeppelin would flee from anything more than a one on one encounter, but most Zeppelins didn't have boarding parties like Jasper. And the captain took full advantage of him. He shot a quick glance at his watch before pulling the ignition. It just seemed to make things easier somehow. Scarcely fifteen minutes ago, he remembered being sleeping in his bunk.

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Chapter 5: The Road to Hell Written by: Uber (me) Jasper drew his sword and advanced on the target. As a single stroke separated the straw man's head from its body, Jasper spun, deftly flinging a dagger into the heart of the second target. He paused in front of the third, pretending to parry the strikes that never came. The young recruit closed his eyes, refusing to recognize the bundle as its true shape. It was the quivering form of an Aeolian, bent and broken. Jasper visualized his blade piercing the pale flesh. The third head rolled off. For a moment there was silence. The remainder of the troupe watched obediently, trying to decipher

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Chapter 4: The Abyss Stares Also Into You Written by: Giuseppe They were falling. Jasper wasn't looking at Tyler. He was far, far too concerned with the fact that these damn gliders were made for one person, not two. With a grunt of exertion, he pulled back on the bar, and the glider soared upwards, arcing around an incoming cannonball. Tyler's head was still wet, and he could feel the poor kid's shivering even through the intensity of his concentration. They'd been attacked out of nowhere. No one, not a single person, had seen the enemy zeppelin. It was those damn southerners and their magic. He was sure of it. A cloaking device

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Chapter 3: A Story Written by: Cinis To say that Eden was located at the center of the universe would have been close to the truth, but not entirely accurate. A learned estimate tempered with understanding might say that Eden was located not at the center of the universe, but ever so slightly off center. One day it might truly exist at that focal point of time and space, but only for the briefest of moments. The center of the universe was not static. There are very few sane beings who can confidently claim that the universe revolved around them. Most of those beings are uninformed. Naïve. But the Center of the Universe would forgive

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Chapter 2: Children of Eden Jasper had always admired the way the light reflected off the brass domes of the capitol. With its glistening paved roads and towering spires, the city of Eden was fully deserving of its title of "Paradise on Earth." Assuming, of course, that you didn't actually live there. To a tourist, the streets were the shining diamond in the crown of an already magnificent region. To Jasper, it was just noise. Even as the sun began its downward arc, the main streets were still crowded. The entire distance to the Great Hall was lined with stalls, each manned with a vendor trying to unload his own variety of good. A shirtles

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Aug 23, 2012

I was interviewed for a podcast! (And dates)

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I was recently interviewed for the Brony Bookclub podcast.  You can find the link here:  http://geekoutcentral.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-brony-bookclub-episode-6-adventure.html , where I discuss WWR and my opinions on adventure stories in general. Also, I want to make clear that the era of rapid updates has ended.  School has started up again, and I have other projects I have been neglecting.  WWR will continue, of course, but it will be closer to my older pace, with weeks between chapters.  Thank you for being such loyal fans.

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Aug 11, 2012

Whoops.

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So it turns out I accidentally cut the first couple paragraphs of the new chapter.  You can either find them in the chapter link, or you can just read them below: "Ooh, how's your scar doing?" asked Pinkie Pie.  "Gilda really did a number on you when she attacked you in the library." The intent of the question was fairly obvious to her.  Too obvious.  "What are you talking about, Pinkie?" answered Trixie, trying to provide enough inflection to sound genuinely befuddled.  "Gilda found us in the mountains, near other me's secret base.  It was Silver Shield that was hiding in the library." She thanked Madame Orange's detailed spoilers for hel

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Jun 13, 2012

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The truth is BTW is that I LIKE mental change. When it gives the impression of a clean slat, a new you, free to start over again, a purity and innocence that doesn't normally exist. And the fulfillment of finally being HAPPY with your lot in life.

But it's not meant to be a tool of slavery ironically for me.

KurseofKings

Dec 7, 2012

In terms of percentages (ex:10%) how soon until the next chapter is completed? In addition, how many chapters until act III is done?

FreedomAndChaos

Jan 8, 2013

Sorry for the delay. I've been checking deviantART less and less lately.

The next chapter is almost complete. I'm finishing it right now.

There will likely be three chapters left in Act III. Their titles will be:
-Our Lives and Our Freedom
-Eye and Tooth and Nail
-No Stranger Than Two

There will likely be 6 acts.

KurseofKings

Jan 9, 2013

Oh, it's no problem. I'm just glad you're still alive.

Psudopods

Dec 2, 2012

Hah, saw you at the comic shop. Mr. fear of breasts.