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3 hours ago, Cousin Mel said:
So, Nickelodeon is already done with this. Bunsen is a Beast is now currently airing new episodes on Nicktoons and it only lasted like 10 months on the main network. The main network didn't even ignore it for a long period of time before making the decision to give it to Nicktoons (which is usually a part of their usual principle), they just pulled a John Wilkes Booth on it and now it's on Nicktoons.
NICK IS WINNING THE BATTLE OF THE NETWORKS
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3 hours ago, President Squidward said:
You guys got a point. Sorry for acting like a jerk.
It's fine, we're open to hearing any defenses you might have for the network. Different opinions are welcome, they add something to the discussion.
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Wonderful pre-finale. An homage to Indiana Jones that shows what Indiana Jones would be like if you took away everything that made it good. I'm going to take them constantly falling down and having to fight off illusions as symbolic. They don't care how many things this show gets wrong at this point, they're just trying to get to the end as quick as possible without having to convince themselves that this show is good.
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48 minutes ago, President Squidward said:
I wish. I think people love that channel now for two shows. ?
I do agree that people tend to overrate Nick's "improvements", however, not only is that a different subject altogether, I do not see anyone voicing their grievances on Cartoon Network as doing anything wrong so long as they're cool about it. I know you've had bad experiences elsewhere on the internet, but here, this is just for fun.
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36 minutes ago, President Squidward said:
we're still complaining about CN?
Is this topic about Nickelodeon?
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Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour
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3 hours ago, Cousin Mel said:
Looks like Cartoon Network's "worst year ever" is going to end with a bang:
We're going to be feeling very yellow before all these 8 days are up.
Now that's a piss stain you don't want to clean up.
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On 12/15/2017 at 7:10 AM, Gunter said:Spoiler
Like Whobob, I actually liked that they killed Snoke off, they handled his death pretty well. They made it clear that they're not going to recycle how the original trilogy concluded with their offing of him.
Regarding the movie being divisive in feedback, I think that actually helped me enjoy it more. The only thing I honestly felt could've been better was the plot with the Rebellion on the ship. It still mystifies me how
SpoilerHoldo just does a complete 180 from being all about rules and sticking to the plan to wanting to sacrifice herself for the plan of a "troublemaker" to succeed,
but eh. Everything about the plots with Rey, Luke, and Kylo Ren, and Finn and Rose was great.
SpoilerOkay, Rose cockblocking Finn's attempt of heroism was kinda lame, but I guess it's worth it to have him alive for the last movie.
Oh yeah, and I loved DJ. He made for the perfect antihero, someone who is legitimately not on anyone's side, could not care less. He won my heart when he
Spoilergave Rose her medallion back...only to sell her, Finn, and the entire resistance out to the First Order.
"You're wrong!"
"Well...maybe."
best part of the movie 10/10
Okay, being serious, best part of the movie was Luke's sacrifice for sure. Way better than Han's death in The Force Awakens, at least they did what we all knew was going to happen in the best way possible this time.
This movie was, in my humble opinion, just as good if not better than The Force Awakens. Disney's already blown the prequel trilogy out of the water and I'm already sure that Episode IX is going to be stellar.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Honestly thought it was even better than The Force Awakens.
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Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
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*SNAPS FINGERS*
I finally got it! I finally got how this all ties in with a Scooby-Doo parody! You weren't just making fun of 4Kidz...you were also making fun of Hanna-Barbara! Yeah, their shameless selling out time and time again with Scooby-Doo. The same way you brought in Yu-Gi-Oh! at the last minute to tie it in with your biggest name at the time, The Brave and the Bold, was a subtle joke on the fact that Hanna-Barbara would always make pointless crossovers to keep Scooby-Doo "relevant", like Scooby-Doo Meets Batman! Of course!
I hope that's good enough for my regular trademark two cents comment. XD
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Just beat Pokemon White tonight.
Took me less than 25 hours with this team (swapped out a Lv. 47 Zebstrika nicknamed Magnus for Zekrom in the final battle)...
And that takes care of every game before Sun and Moon, that's every single one.
P.S. Oh yeah, and I'm getting Ultra Moon for Christmas.
P.S.S. I can't believe I actually got caught up with this franchise despite not playing a single game from it as a kid. Interesting year 2017 has been.
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Spiriting Fluttershy's Dark Sky
It's finally over. So before my new beginning, please look at the end, where all of my heart and soul went to.
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Episode 25: Transcending Light of Risen Souls
Fluttershy…
Spike said this one word in his mind as he floated through the dark sky, touching every star he came across, causing each star to shine more brilliantly.
Is this really what you want in the end?
Putting his hand away, Spike stopped drifting through the sky as he landed on a black cloud that began to elevate him upwards.
Great power is bestowed on you time after time, yet you always choose to end it this way, with an ending that shows that there really is no ending to our insane universe if you really think about it…
In the sky above where Spike was headed, a familiar spiral could be seen swirling in the air. It looked exactly like the spiral that had appeared over Nero and Spira's castle in the world of the heralds…
Heaven...hell...oblivion...endless nothingness...even reincarnation...they are all beliefs mortals are drawn to in search of a coping mechanism to deal with the harshest reality of all...eternity.
Reaching up to the spiral with both of his hands, Spike emitted a familiar dark mist from his palms that soon enveloped his entire body. The cloud he had rested upon enshrouded him as well as he was carried closer and closer to the spiral…
To deny it is foolishness, to accept it is the toughest challenge the mortal mind faces in a world that tells them again and again not to accept it, yet you must try again and again to accept it in order to find the truth...this is the truth you all worked so hard to learn...so tell me, my heroes...what will you do…
Illuminating brighter than ever was the dark sky as its ruler merged with the two great evils that made him a monster...the cloud and the mist that completed the dragon's primary trinity…
"To defeat me, the very one who gave all your souls the reason for your eternity?" Spike asked, genuinely curious of how the heroes would be able to fight him after knowing his true form…
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"Never give up our spirit."
This is the resolve our heroes who had become gods demonstrated to The Trinity.
"Unwavering determination is indeed the core defining trait of an unstoppable spirit." Twilight said. "However, you must then ask yourself what gives you that determination. And the answer is simple. Knowledge. Without your knowledge of your own truth, you would never have come this far. So now, in order to defeat The Reborn One, you must be able to comprehend our truth..."
"We want nothing more than to understand you." Myrick D. Miles answered. "Please enlighten us to everything. Why did you and The Reborn One do all this? What is the reason for all the suffering, pain, and confusion you have brought on the world in the way you have? We know that you have good intentions in what you are doing, that you are bringing darkness upon mortals so that they may fight it to find the light, but did it really have to be this way?"
"According to The Reborn One, yes." Fluttershy replied. "According to The Risen One, no. Both of them brought different kinds of darkness upon mortals. And us? We are just creations from mortals who follow his orders."
"Do you mean to say that you were originally humans?" Fadrian Willis asked for clarification. "Never once have I gotten the vibe that you were the real Twilight, Fluttershy, and Spike, or even magical creatures to begin with. I sense that your history is rooted in humanity…"
"Your sense is correct." Spike assured. "Not only us, but no one in this universe is the "real version" of the character they embody. They're all impostors, just clones made from human beings meant to replace the citizens of Equestria who died at the end of the first story of Fluttershy's Dark Sky…"
"So it's all just been one big fairy tale from the very beginning…" Spiro chimed in. "The real mastermind behind the creation of this story was never those ridiculous characters of Rarity and Discord. It was the "real Spike" the whole time. Now it's all making sense what his true motive behind all this is. He couldn't handle the fact that all his friends had left him, so he created us to cope with his solitude. But eventually, he also became unable to handle the fact that we weren't actually real, so he tapped into dark magic to turn his fiction into reality. That's why he used real humans as the base for recreating his pony friends...that's why he's involving the souls of everyone in the universe...he wants his fantasy to be completely intertwined with the real world!"
"And that's only the beginning…"
These were the words spoken by the one who had only ever spoken to congratulate the heroes...until now…
"Yes, it's me...how ironic that the one who congratulated the very first set of heroes to experience my very first story for knowing how to separate fantasy from reality is now trying to bring the two together. Marvelous how the times change even as time is endless. Not that my change of opinion made any difference. Paint the locomotive a different color, and it still goes to the same destination. You can't change its direction. That's one thing that makes mortals so amusing. They actually believe that their opinions make such a profound impact on their world. Half-truths that they act like they would die for before they discard them in favor of another belief more attuned to their current state without hesitation. Things that they loathe in secret but never actually confront. Countless dreams that they think about every day yet never actually pursue. They would resent me if they ever knew who I truly was...but why? All I want to do is take them away from their boring lives. I want to give them a chance to find the truth, to find true happiness so that they will no longer look for someone to hate and blame for their misery. When my world of fantasy becomes intertwined with reality, the spirits brought to this world will have a chance at making any dream of theirs come true. Now that you heroes, the ones who fought so hard for the truth, are now gods, do you understand me?"
"Yes." the heroes solemnly replied. "We completely understand you. In fact, we also share your vision and would like to join you."
"Do not mock me…" the "real Spike" said in bemusement as he materialized out of dark mist that magically appeared in front of the heroes, adjacent to the souls of The Trinity. "I sense it in your aura, I know you want to fight me."
"Absolutely." the heroes admitted. "But we want to understand you more too. We know you're just like Ninja Time God Rarity and Fantasy God Discord. We feel a piece of your soul poured inside of them, and in turn, we feel that the root behind all this wickedness you have done is not an evil demon, but a misguided child with an intention of innocence. We know that the two great evils that the true god spoke of, the ones that have made you a monster Spike, are the cloud and the mist…"
"That's right…" the dragon said as he emitted a cloud of light energy from his right palm and a veil of dark mist from his left palm. "I am the cloud dragon of the mist."
He covered not only himself with the cloud and the mist like he had done earlier, but also the souls of The Trinity, bringing them and himself into a spiral that magically appeared behind them, swirling clockwise…
"The spiral also represents fusion…" he said as a bright light illuminated the entire church and brought him and the heroes to another realm. They were all teleported to the first world of Fluttershy's Dark Sky, where the heroes found themselves floating in a starry night sky just as Spike was earlier. "Not just endlessness...but endless intertwinement…"
The heroes braced themselves as they saw the spiral in front of them appear as a spiral in space...and emerging from that spiral was a dragon with two arms and horns, skin on his back made out of mist, scales on his front made out of cloud, and a ghostly tail that was attached to the inside of the spiral.
"This is my true form…" he told them. "This is what I represent. Do you still wish to fight me, knowing full well that it would be a wasted effort? I'm not just the very reason why you are what you are now, nor am I just the reason why your universe is the way it is now...I am your universe. I merged myself with this world that I created. If you destroy me, you will destroy your universe. To fight me is to not only betray me, but to betray your universe. This is the truth...and I know that you can not bring yourselves to betray the truth."
"You're right…" they concurred. "That is a serious problem."
"And I can solve that problem if you simply surrender to me right now." the cloud dragon of the mist proposed. "We'll just end everything right this moment. Just allow the spiriting to happen...and I promise that you will be reborn in even better new bodies…"
"Keep dreaming." they retorted. "Not even if we were to lose to you. We will not make the same mistake as our predecessors, who trusted in The Risen One to solve all their problems for them and create a false utopia. We will solve the problem on our own, with the knowledge we'll gain from this battle with you."
"Ha ha ha ha ha." the cloud dragon of the mist laughed. "Ho ho ho ho ho. Even if I were to lose to you, there is no way to stop the spiriting. Even with me gone, the infinite stars of my world will carry on my will and continue to call mortal souls to this realm. Just accept it, fighting me is a futile cause. You will never destroy what I have built."
"Well, the joke's on you." the heroes taunted him. "Our goal isn't to destroy what you've built. Our goal is to make something better out of what you've built, to make it evolve. After all, aren't you yourself tired of doing the same thing over and over? Just as Discord and Rarity were?"
Only then did the cloud dragon of the mist feel a chill of fear surge throughout him…
"They know…" he thought, reflecting on how he poured some of his actual feelings on the story into Discord and Rarity.
"You think you're the only one who makes this story what it is?" the heroes continued. "No, you know that what really makes this story what it is are the characters you have created. You don't have the right to demean us just because you made us. You don't have the right to condescend to anyone you've dragged into this, because at least we're all changing...while you're still stuck playing the same kind of games. The way you have mocked all of us will be your downfall, for we will show you that the locomotive can change direction after it's painted a different color…"
It was then that the heroes brandished their weapons, with Myrick unsheathing her sword and katana, Fadrian putting up her dukes with knuckle dusters and potions filled with red liquid in her hands, and Spiro making a gun made of dark energy appear in his left hand and a gun resembling He Lives Forever, Myrick's secret weapon, appear in his right hand.
"...once we show you your final destination."
The cloud dragon of the mist just stared at the heroes solemnly, musing before he said…
"Such a valiant stance, I must commend you. However, you would succeed in killing me before succeeding in striking fear into me. I do not fear death or defeat…"
"Because you don't believe anything will change from your defeat…" the heroes replied, smirking. "...but you're wrong. Death is not defeat...death is change."
"You foolish children...you are wrong!" the cloud dragon of the mist exclaimed, growling and showing genuine anger for the first time. "You will not change me...YOU ARE THE ONES WHO MUST BE CHANGED!"
And with this battle cry, the fight commenced…the final duel of the universe of the Dark Sky would be between the heroes who became true gods and the lone survivor who turned out to be the true creator. One side was fighting for the dimension of worlds lost to the void to be found, the other side...had a motive known only to them...and to the soul of the Dark Sky inside of the cloud dragon of the mist…
"Sorry guys…" the soul apologized. "But there is no way we can let it end like that...not after we failed you and Spike. We'll be the ones to change the Dark Sky for you. After all, people don't change unless they're willing to change themselves…"
A glimmer of light could be seen inside the cloud dragon of the mist's mouth as it opened it to let loose a breath of chilling mist upon the heroes. All three of them jumped away, with Myrick leaping up and towards the dragon to slash at his head with her sword and katana. The mist merely split apart, but having expected this, Myrick used her newfound powers to instantly change the katana in her hand into a gauntlet. She smashed below, driving her fist into the dragon's now open throat.
"NOW FADRIAN!" Myrick exclaimed to signal to her comrade.
From below, Fadrian propelled herself into the air, spinning around to deliver a double uppercut to the dragon's lower body while Myrick drove down through its upper body from above. Eventually, their fists met after they had each completed plowing through their targets, with nothing left of the dragon but scattered mist and miniature clouds...until an explosion resulted from the intense energy of Myrick and Adrian's fists meeting, reducing all the surrounding mist and clouds to droplets of water.
"Hee hee hee hee hee…" the sound of Spike laughing could be heard from the spiral, as the form of his soul materialized at the ghostly tail. "So is this how you mean to change me? Acting as if you could actually destroy your immortal creator...you're the ones trapped in a bubble…"
"!" Myrick and Fadrian realized before they had a chance to react that the droplets of water were homing in on them from all sides, merging together around them to form a giant bubble, trapping them.
"And I'm going to be the one to burst it…" Spike said with a menacing smirk, about to snap his fingers and cause the bubble to compress and implode with what was inside like he had done when he was with Twilight and Maud Pie…
*click*
The sound of Spiro's light and dark guns being readied was heard as he suddenly appeared in front of Spike and put the guns to his head.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, "master"..." Spiro warned Spike. "You'll regret-"
*click*
The sound of Spike snapping his fingers to cause the bubble to implode could be heard.
"You were saying?" Spike taunted. "What are you going to do now?"
"I was trying to warn you that you were wasting your time…" Spiro taunted right back as he gestured behind him to Myrick and Fadrian, who were unharmed inside of a red bubble that Fadrian had created using her newfound power to instantly create any mixture from any potions to protect them from the compact of Spike's bubble. "But since you want to die so badly…"
*BAM* *WAPOW*
Spiro fired both guns at once. The dark energy and light energy fired from each mixed together to form a blast destructive enough to completely obliterate the form Spike was in.
"...I may as well accommodate you." Spiro gleefully finished his taunt. "On the subject, are you ready to admit that we're stronger and accommodate us in return?"
"...No." Spike answered solemnly after a pause. "Not until you face the full blunt of my wrath…"
*CRACKLE* *ZAP*
All of a sudden, lightning came out of the portal faster than the speed of sound, giving Spiro and his comrades no time to evade as they were all shocked by the lightning and held in place by it. All of them used their light and dark energy to absorb the electricity coursing through their bodies and turn it into energy, but they could not escape the continually shocking lightning prison itself. If only they could conjure lightning too…
"I'm sure you all know the story by now, of how lightning came down and Satan fell…" Spike called back to the origin Dante spoke of in the world of the heralds. "If you are no different from him or the three devil gods who dared to defy me, this will be the end…the last thing you will see of me is my final form..."
It was then that Spike's form began to regenerate, but what materialized from his ghostly tail was not another dragon, but...Fluttershy lying on a cloud...that transformed into Twilight Sparkle...cradling Spike in her forelegs...
"?!" the heroes were shocked and confused by this sight. "The...Trinity? That's your final form?"
"Don't be fooled…" Fluttershy, Twilight, and Spike replied as they mixed together to form the cloud dragon of the mist, who now looked just like he did at the beginning of the battle. "It is still I, the cloud dragon of the mist. However, this is also the work of my greatest power of all that I obtain through The Trinity. It is the power of unity, but not as you know it. No, you three are the combination of mere beings coming together. I am not just three beings in one...I am three trinities in one..."
"THREE TRINITIES?!" the heroes exclaimed. "THERE ARE THREE CLOUD DRAGONS OF THE MIST?! HOW CAN THAT BE?! HOW CAN THE STORY HAVE...three...authors..."
The heroes then looked at each other and realized the answer all at once. Watching this, the cloud dragon of the list got a maniacal smirk on his face before he said…
"Now the real question is...what happened to the fourth author?"
"NO!" the soul of the Dark Sky screamed. "DON'T YOU DARE! DON'T YOU DARE USE US AS LEVERAGE! WE'LL NEVER ALLOW THIS!"
The heroes gasped upon recognizing those voices…
"The Dark Sky members?!" they yelled. "How did they end up in your clutches?! What have you done to them?!"
The cloud dragon of the mist guffawed evilly as he held out his left hand, where the soul of the Dark Sky materialized as a ball of light surrounded by an aura of dark mist.
"Ho ho, leverage...what I did to them…" he mocked. "Your misunderstandings are laughable, like always. They voluntarily gave themselves up to me, and I am not holding them hostage with expectations of ransom for their safe return. What could I possibly do to them, and what could I possibly gain through using them as a negotiation tool? What leverage could I expect for offering you...a part of myself? The third and final cloud dragon of the mist...the holy dragon that set in motion the true ending that never ended...the ending the Spiriting world never got..."
"NO! NO! NO!" the heroes screamed.
"Yes, yes, yes." the cloud dragon of the mist taunted in a creepily calm tone of voice. "Your friends are also my friends. They chose to become permanently and eternally intertwined with me after they realized they had a responsibility in me becoming what I am now. A simple truth that they had long ignored. For me to die, they have to die too…"
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The heroes bellowed the loudest and longest cry that had ever been made in the history of the universe of Fluttershy's Dark Sky. This was the final dilemma they had to face, and it was by far the hardest decision they would ever have to make. If they killed the cloud dragon of the mist, they would also kill their friends. But if they submitted to the cloud dragon of the mist…
...they would repeat the same mistake the gods before them made in the Awakening world, a mistake that had turned their world into a false utopia, an endless spiral…
...what could they do?
"The answer is simple." the cloud dragon of the mist interjected as the soul of the Dark Sky was sucked into the hand he held it in. "Nothing. Just let me handle everything. After all, it is the purpose of my existence, as the Spiriting world's creator, to fix this broken world through the spiriting...not yours. Just remain where you are and satisfy the wrath of God…"
It was then that every star in the sky began to glow with an incredible radiance and the cloud dragon of the mist held his arms out to the sky, saying...
"...as the spiriting finally commences…"
With that, the cloud dragon of the mist let his arms down, signaling for every star that was actually a soul to go to the mortal world and find a body to inhabit.
"It is finished." the cloud dragon said, talking in a creepy tone as he looked over to the heroes with a frightening smirk on his face. "Finally, my fantasy of reviving the world of Equestria is reality. Not only are all of my friends alive again and knowing of the truth, they have also finally become real. And I must thank you for helping me achieve my goal. You truly are worthy of witnessing my full power…"
"!" Myrick quickly pulled out He Lives Forever and fired several fiery shots from it up above, sensing a threat coming from there. However, the bullets merely phased through the approaching threat, as it turned out to be the final cloud dragon of the mist's body. Limited in ways to react from still being trapped in the lightning, the trio was helpless to avoid being gobbled up by the apparently soulless beast that winked at them before it devoured them.
"Heh heh heh…" the other cloud dragon of the mist laughed evilly. "I didn't just take the soul of the Dark Sky from it to prove to you the futility of your endeavor. I also did it in preparation for my finishing move...destroying you along with my final form…"
He snapped the fingers in both of his hands to cause the cloud mist dragon's body to implode in on itself with the heroes inside. Lightning went through every part of the dragon's body of cloud and mist that was squelched into water, creating a thunderous explosion that resounded with the loudest crackling boom the universe of the Dark Sky had ever known. The cloud dragon of the mist smiled wider than he ever had, as the spectacle was even better than he had expected. He even saw lightning come down from above and a soul come from below just before the explosion had happened, and everything before him vanished with a pop. He laughed, knowing that with him giving everything he had into his final stand, this would all end on a perfect note…
...for all that was left for him to do was go to the new world he created and celebrate a job well done…
...but as we all know, the end can only bring about a new beginning…
"Come on, wake up Twilight!" Spike exclaimed to Twilight Sparkle, standing on her bed sheets, shaking her awake to get her up. "We're going to miss the party!"
"Party?" Twilight replied, abruptly turning her head to look at Spike with a concerned look on her face. "Oh no, we aren't late for Maud's party, are we?"
"Maud's party?" Spike answered in a confused tone of voice. "That was yesterday, Twilight. Today's the day of Fluttershy's party. It's Awakening Day, remember?"
"Awakening Day?!" Twilight exclaimed, bursting out of bed, knocking Spike to the ground. "That's even worse! We can't be late to celebrate the day of our awakening! As the princess of friendship, I'd have to hang my head in shame forever if I disgraced the day that united all of the world in harmony! I'd never forgive myself for doing that to you and Fluttershy!"
"Relax, Twilight…" Spike said to comfort her as he picked himself off the floor. "We'd get over it…"
"Well, I know you guys would forgive me since you're my friends," replied Twilight as she and Spike headed out the door. "But what about the unsung heroes? What would they think?"
"I'm sure they'd think alike, ha ha…" Spike said as he laughed ominously and winked.
As he and Twilight walked through the town, ponies wearing sincere smiles on their faces waved to them, greeting them, "Good morning!", and, "Happy Awakening Day!", with innocent intentions. Among some of the folk who warmly welcomed them as they passed by were familiar faces, such as Sky Wanderer, Water Rinse, the Four Souls, Octavia, Tree Hugger, Vinyl Scratch, and Ken Tucke, Jason Celestia, the Goddess of Death, Prince Luna, Noava Rising, Arc Falling, both the Maud Pie clones and the god from the original church, Shining Armor, the bat ponies from B.A.T. Tiffany's, and even the Mane 6 and their robot alicorn counterparts. However, the most surprising familiar face of all was…
...the police officer who dismissed the dispute between Water Rinse and Ghost Rainbow Dash at Jelly Rockets.
"Still don't care about dick." he remarked as Twilight and Spike passed by him with puzzled expressions on their faces.
The most surprising familiar face that was also a new face, however, was none other than a reformed Queen Chrysalis, appearing as a transformed Changeling beside a reformed King Sombra.
"This truly is my favorite holiday!" Chrysalis proclaimed. "Thank you, heroes, for the new life you have given us!"
"Um...thanks?" Twilight responded sheepishly, feeling bashful.
"Come on, don't be modest!" Sombra exclaimed. "You have more than every reason to be proud for what you did this day! You sacrificed yourselves so that we could be reborn!"
"It really wasn't any trouble…" Twilight said, blushing and grinning.
"Yeah…" Spike interjected, speaking forebodingly again. "Especially not for me…"
It was soon that the two approached Ponyville Cemetery, where the Helllights, Gordon, Ricard, Leo, and Vincent, and the Nightbringers, Trish, Vergil, and Dante, awaited them, standing alongside Priest Loki, the human form of Akame, and Terra. All of them were there to help reenact the final scene of the battle that reshaped the entire world and brought new life to all those who were dead inside, including the honored guest of the party, Fluttershy. Not the Fluttershy who was with the Mane 6, nor the Fluttershy who was with The Trinity...but the Fluttershy who cried at a gravestone in the first story of the Dark Sky…
There she was just like back then, weeping at the tombstone. Spike slowly approached her to begin reenacting what happened after the cloud dragon of the mist came to earth. At that time, he, in the form of Spike, had come over to Fluttershy to pull her away from the grave and tell her that everything was going to be alright. That he had completed his mission to resurrect her dark sky and all of her friends...only to be told that he was wrong. Fluttershy moved away from the tombstone to show whose name was written on it, and Spike gasped as he realized that the one friend he had failed to save's name was…
Spike
HERE LIES THE CLOUD DRAGON OF THE MIST, CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE
"It...it can't be!" the cloud dragon of the mist exclaimed in terror that night. "This is a lie! I can't be dead! Ah...ah..."
Feeling disoriented from the shock, he staggered backwards, only to be struck by a bolt of lightning from a dark cloud, one of the same dark clouds that had appeared around Fluttershy's house in the first story of the Dark Sky and in the world where Myra discovered the power of fusing Yin and Yang. As the lightning coursed through his body, he let out a shriek of agony, writhing in pain as he saw Rarity's ghost before his eyes.
"WHY…" Spike said as he also saw Prince Luna appear beside Rarity's ghost along with Fluttershy. "WHY HAVE YOU ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME?! I CREATED ALL THIS BEAUTY! I SAVED THE UNIVERSE FOR YOU! I OPENED EVERYONE'S EYES TO THE TRUTH!"
"Forgive me, but I must tell you otherwise." Luna retorted. "In the creation of your beauty, you also created a big mess. Those heroes are the ones who saved the universe, and Yata was the one responsible for spreading their truth throughout. They are the only reason anyone will ever know what the fuck you were trying to do."
"I'm sorry, Spikey-wikey…" Rarity's ghost sympathized with him. "But what you have created in your story is simply not very good. We understand that you're not a professional writer, but it's part of the truth that needs to be heard in order for you to be set free…"
"..."
Spike simply had the longest pause in silence the universe of the Dark Sky had known, as he had no clue how to respond to even the ones he looked up to going against what he believed…
"...Set free to what?" he finally asked.
"Free to meet the end you always wanted." Fluttershy told him, smiling sweetly. "It's also the end I'll never stop wanting...the true ending that never ends...because the end of something that has served its purpose only means that something new will take its place to fulfill a new purpose. So Spike, what is it that you want? To be trapped inside of a world that is simply an endless spiral, an endless end...or do you want to be part of a new beginning?"
"...I want to be part of a new beginning." Spike answered solemnly. "The heroes were right. I am tired of living the same story again and again. They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. I just keep pouring out more and more nonsense from my imagination, trying to rationalize it over and over, expecting to one day get that perfect truth that will make me and everyone in my world happy...but that was a pointless pursuit from the start. Not because it's something I could never do...but because it's something I don't need to do. The truth is far greater than I…"
With that, Spike felt his entire being transform into light energy along with the lightning that struck him. The cloud carried him up, absorbing him. As the cloud rose into the dark sky, Spike realized what had happened…
"...and so are those who stand for the truth." Spike finished as he realized that this was the work of the heroes, who had survived his final attack. The three fiery bullets Myrick shot in the sky had created a cumulonimbus cloud from the heat distorting the atmospheric stability. The lightning that struck them from above was from their own cloud absorbing them inside to avoid the attack, and the soul from below was the soul of the Dark Sky. Unbeknownst to him, they had put a piece of their soul in the final cloud dragon of the mist's body, sacrificing themselves so that he could be defeated…
"So that's why they turned against me…" Spike said tearfully, crying harder than he ever had. "That's why I'm dead...BECAUSE THE SOUL OF THE DARK SKY, MY OWN UNIVERSE IS DEAD!"
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Go down to rise up.
"Huh?" Spike went in response to hearing the heroes say that. "Did you just quote…"
"We promised you that we would change the direction of the locomotive." the heroes told him. "Now that we comprehend your truth and the truth of the Dark Sky along with our own, it's finally time to show you our final destination, a place we're all going to go to. And it won't be the Dark Sky as a collection of worlds lost to the Void...but as a collection of worlds that have been found by the light..."
What is life?
The heroes then put their hands together in a circle, pouring out all of the power, combining all of the light and dark energy inside of them to create a massive energy ball containing power that swirled inside of it to create a cyclone...spinning in a counterclockwise direction…
A journey that is meant to ultimately lead us to enlightenment and salvation…after we walk a road filled with many turns that allow us to discover the eternal truth we shall carry with us after death…
"We're not going to ever come up with a twist bigger than this…" the heroes made one more remark before the end. They shot the cyclone from their hands at the spiral Spike, the cloud dragon of the mist had created, as he said his final words before the end…
...the ultimate change…
As the cyclone collided with the spiral, an explosion like no other covered the entire universe. Light and darkness flooding all throughout, Spike's ghostly tail undoing the endless spiral that had once kept his imagination contained. Now, it was spread all throughout the universe, just like the truth Yata had spread. Everything ended in an explosion like no other…
...since the Big Bang, the explosion that started everything…
After the end, Spike, the cloud dragon of the mist's final words were this, as seen on his tombstone by all who were celebrating Awakening Day…
Congratulations, heroes. You brought the greatest of light to the darkest dark sky I could ever create. Through my death, I have left you this message as proof of what mortal life is…
Later, at the end of Awakening Day, Spike watched the stars alongside all of his friends...including the heroes who had saved him. They were now the final Trinity that completed him. Together, the new cloud dragon of the mist finished those final words with the heroes as they looked up in the sky and saw their favorite constellation…
"Our preparation for eternal life."
The constellation that was revealed to be the shape of the Dark Sky members, the stars that represented their souls, thought so too. Not just the five, Fluttershy was there with them, and with a smile on her face, she said her final words…
"Now the most important story can finally begin…because you never gave up the most important truth of all...the truth that creates unity...the essence of all worlds…
...our eternally unified, reborn soul..."
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What do you mean I can't actually do anything with my Facebook studies degree?
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River Below - Billy Talent
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I can't believe you made an Asian-style melody sound so good with bass. I'm going to think of this (and Muscle Man) first thing the next time I walk into a Chinese restaurant now. XD
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You read that right, the present hunt is back for moar.
Because Santa still can't get his stuff together, you're gonna have to pick up the slack and his sack. He lost Spongebob, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, and Gary's presents yet again, and you have to find them throughout the forum. But hey, at least the overweight holly jolly left you some clues...
Yup, just like last year, here's another present hunt.
SpongeBob's Present: Ho ho ho. I wanted to switch things up a bit and get him a game about a blue hedgehog. Oddly enough, another hedgehog running around thinks he can play this game on a piece of cheese Nintendo made. It wasn't the bunny who likes cream, though his name means "rabbit", ironically, and rhymes with Sony.
Patrick's Present: They say a star on top will complete all the scenery, but you have to go down south to the park if you want see the tree there in all its glory. Follow it all the way back to the start and you will see the 1.
Plankton's Present: I swear, he deserves an award for how many times I've had to give him coal...so that's exactly what I got him this year. Honestly, I originally planned this present for the naughtiest boy of all on this site, but his old prison no longer hosts him.
Sandy's Present: Oh golly, trying to find her present will be like trying to shoot fish out of a barrel. Yes, that was my attempt at country talk. I don't how else to say it, I'm not familiar with the memes you kids play around with these days.
Squidward's Present: His art is, simply put, a disaster. He wanted a painting from me this year, but I refused and decided to get him a movie starring a bad actor instead. I wonder if he'll get my metaphor...
Mr. Krabs' Present: This greedy crab has yet to watch A Christmas Carol, preferring that crappy special on Cartoon Network where I get put in jail for reckless driving. The villain from it stole his present though, so at least karma got to him.
Gary's Present: I wanted to get this little guy a painting instead, but he seemed spooked at the very prospect, even as I assured him it wouldn't end up in Squidward's art gallery. It was like he had just seen a ghost...or at least the portrait of one...
You can ask for up to three additional hints, like always, but that is all. No asking in the topic, just through PM. Also, it makes things more convenient to send the images all at once, so please only PM me all seven after you've completed the hunt. Good luck, you have until December 29th at 5:00pm EST to do this hunt.
Competing the hunt gives you:
-A point for your side
-500 Doubloons
-Holiday Gang collectable icon:
Finders (so far)
Cream (1st place, Time taken: Less than 1 day)
Fred (2nd place, Time taken: 1 day)
Negi (3rd place, Time taken: 1 day)
Homie (4th place, Time taken: 5 days)
SOF (5th place, Time taken: 6 days)
OWM (6th place, Time taken: 7 days)
Trophy (7th place, Time taken: 8 days)
Hayden (8th place, Time taken: 9 days)
Whobob (9th place, Time taken: 18 days)
sbl (10th place, Time taken: 19 days)
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17 hours ago, jjsthekid said:
The Monster's mouth cuts the screen off.
The Monster ate the cameraman.
On the subject of Down Under, I can see this show did a good job taking notes from it since Mr. N is basically Ginger. See how I'm the good guy with how I keep stabbing you in the back. I'll give him credit where credit is due, he's certainly more evil than N from Pokemon because at least he let others knew what he stood for. This Mr. N doesn't know who he is, making him that much more unintentionally terrifying.
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Favorite Song - Chance The Rapper (feat. Childish Gambino)
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Pokemon White.
Jjs, you were right. This is good shit. Enjoying this a lot more than X and Y. :3
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I Get Around - The Beach Boys
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How should I celebrate my first Pokemon avatar?
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My first Pokemon drawing of my all-time favorite Pokemon, of course.
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Bunsen is a Beast
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Oh, I know. I was being sarcastic, making fun of what Vail said.
yo-kai watch is da shit