• Story: The Mean Streets

    [Sci-Fi]

    Author: TheDashingHero
    Description: After botching a teleportation spell, a cliche as old as time, Twilight Sparkle and Spike are sent to an alternative universe where the streets of Ponyville are dark and unforgiving. what happened to her friends? And why do they speak of an evil tyrant ruling Equestria?
    The Mean Streets

    Additional Tags: Noire, prohibition, alternate universe, spell misfire, long

    16 comments:

    1. Sci-Fi is the only tag? Odd, usually accompanied by Crossover or at the very least Dark. Sounds interesting, the alternate universe fics that I've read have been good, I'' give it a read.

      ReplyDelete
    2. *I'll
      Dumb keyboard!

      As said in the description though, cliche as old as time :P It does make for some good stories though.

      ReplyDelete
    3. I feel bad for any author going up today, with THAT episode in fresh memory? Damn. I would NOT want to follow it.

      ReplyDelete
    4. I'd have preferred a longer first chapter, but it did its job well enough. It'll be interesting to see where this goes from here.

      ReplyDelete
    5. Why are the Rainbow Dash breaks her wings fic banned now?

      ReplyDelete
    6. @Cody

      Because the episode pretty much implied wings aren't fragile when rainbow was demolishing the barn.

      Until another episode comes up that proves otherwise that is.

      ReplyDelete
    7. @Cody They're not, I think. Did you see the newest episode? Rainbow goes straight through AJ's farm multiple times, then she does a sonic rainboom into the ground and she's just fine. I already mentioned it in the second or first page of comments on the new episode page.

      ReplyDelete
    8. This comment has been removed by the author.

      ReplyDelete
    9. It may say that they're banned, bu that's likely just the blog ponies being humorous, I don't think they would ban a certain kind of fic just because of show inaccuracy, especially because all fan fics are what they are, fictional, as in, they don't affect the show in any way, nor must they adhere to the show's story. Lets see, if they were banned and we applied the same reasoning to the rest of the fics then mare + mare shipping, GrimDark, War, Sci-Fi, and Crossover would all be banned.

      ReplyDelete
    10. @Jelfes
      I'm not sure it was a sonic rainboom...more like a sonic rainbomb.

      Also, I'd have to rewatch the episode, but I'd imagine that you could easily reconcile it a broken-wing fic by claiming that RD retracted her wings when she hit the barn.

      ReplyDelete
    11. Time to re-rail the thread here guys. It wasn't a bad first chapter. Would have liked longer. And the tag is certainly odd. And it really couldn't have come at a worse time, everypony still high off that first new pony fix in two weeks. But I like it, one complaint.

      Twilight identified the gun AJ had as "more destructive" or something to that effect. How did she know they were weapons at first? How did she know AJ's was more dangerous?

      ReplyDelete
    12. Ooooh, lol. It didn't imply that it was a joke and I hadn't watched the episode yet. I had work this morning -.-

      ReplyDelete
    13. @Cody

      Because they were tasteless.

      ReplyDelete
    14. oh jesus, atomic rainboom o.o I like it :3, also they changed the way the story morals are supposed to go through, so does that mean the direction of the show itself may change? like be more adventurous as Lauren originally wanted when starting MLP FiM?

      ReplyDelete
    15. If u want to comment on the episode ponies go to that post, otherwise talk about the story.

      Now as for the story: seems interesting, ill have to read it. And a dozen other fics that ive been putting off.

      ReplyDelete