Recap / Adopted Displaced The Trained Six

A recap for a portion of the Adopted Displaced series.

• Note: This page includes full recaps for the fics based on the six Element-Bearers (in order: Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie).

Batmare Beyond

• Arc 1: Early years (chapters 1-7)
  • Bruce Wayne returns from a mission, having been forced to take up a gun in self-defense to rescue a kidnapped child, and fully prepared to finally retire from crimefighting. However, he suddenly hears a noise deep in the cave, in the vault where he stores dangerous magical artifacts that he's captured. Entering the vault (whose artifacts are later found to be completely drained of magic), he finds an infant unicorn, and is intrigued by her, deciding to take care of the child.
  • As Rarity grows, Bruce teaches her everything he can. She quickly becomes attached to computers, and soon displays an incredible talent with the stock market. Her natural talent and innate grasp of economics and market forces convinces Bruce to take her to Wayne Enterprises, where she again demonstrates her skill, to the point of buying out over half of Powers Technology (a company whose owner Derek Powers has been trying for a merger with Wayne Enterprises), much to Bruce's amusement. This also strengthens his hypothesis that she's been age-regressed.
  • Figuring out his daughter's genius, Bruce prepares to train her in more physical arts. She is all too happy to do so when she discovers him practicing Tai Chi, and later begins learning other martial arts. After several months of training, Bruce finally explains how he came to study the martial arts, channeling the emotional turmoil from the loss of his parents and using martial arts to forge that turmoil into a weapon he could wield, rather than being wielded by it. Rarity's brilliant mind soon figures out that he'd fought crime, saving the city in his own way. Bruce tells her she's right: in order to save Gotham from its criminal element, he became Batman.
  • Inspired by Bruce's story, Rarity decides to follow in her grandparents' footsteps, dedicating herself to improving both Wayne Enterprises and Gotham City. During this time, she also keeps up her martial arts training and displays an interest in the McGinnis family, helping to avert some possible marital problems and also noticing that their son Terry has something in his scent that reminds her of Bruce.
  • Meanwhile, after eight years, Gotham is being polluted with crime again, and despite Rarity's magic helping with Bruce's heart, he's still in no shape to go out.
• Arc 2: Batmare Begins (chapters 8-13)
  • Ten years after coming to live with Bruce, Rarity has continued her life, fully acquiring Powers Technology and convincing the McGinnis parents to let Terry study martial arts with she and Bruce. During one such study session, alarms go off, and Bruce discovers Rarity has taken the Bat Suit. In her investigations of recent crimes, she's discovered the Powers Technology part of their company is supplying members of the Jokerz gang with high-power weapons as part of Derek Powers' plan to force Bruce out of his own company and take control of it himself. Rarity has vowed to personally stop him in order to keep Gotham safe, and has even disabled the remote control functions of the suit, allowing her to take on the Jokerz as Batmare.
  • As Bruce watches, Rarity uses a combination of mental, physical and magical abilities to defeat the Jokerz and arrange their confessions of all wrong-doing to the Gotham police. Reluctantly, Bruce agrees that Gotham once again needs its Dark Knight, and will support Rarity in that role.
  • Soon after this incident, Rarity is introduced to her other family: Dick Grayson, Bruce's adoptive son, who was also the first Robin and later Nightwing, whom he hasn't spoken to in years. When Bruce calls him, Dick comes to the mansion with his old teammates from the Teen Titans, and meets Rarity. He's quite happy to meet his new little sister, and with the other Titans, tests her abilities in combat, which are quite impressive.
  • As Rarity continues her work as both Batmare and Rarity Wayne, she continues to thwart Derek Powers' efforts to undermine Bruce, and reforms the villains Inque and Shriek.
• Arc 3: The Darkest Night Rises (chapters 14-17)
  • At the age of thirteen, while investigating the Cuvier Institute, which is allowing people to genetically alter themselves for fun, Rarity battles Dr. Cuvier himself. When he injects her with vampire bat DNA (giving her permanent bat wings in the process), she finds herself confronting an enemy from her past: Nightmare, the embodiment of the Nightmare Forces that possessed Luna and turned her into Nightmare Moon, and later took over Rarity herself. The two agree to work together, defeating Cuvier and later Solomon Grundy, who was under the control of another until he finally regains his intelligence and decides to heel-face-turn.
• Arc 4: A New Batman (chapters 18-21)
  • Almost five years later, after rescuing Warren McGinnis from a gang of crooks, Rarity finally solves the mystery of Terry McGinnis: he was born as part of Project Batman Beyond, a secret project initiated by Amanda Waller, former head of Project Cadmus (while not outright stated, Terry is Bruce's son, courtesy of Waller's tampering with Warren's system so any of his children would genetically be Bruce's). Terry has also figured out Batmare's identity, and after listening to his reasonings, Rarity agrees to make him her partner, and eventually replacement.
  • In his early days as Batman, Terry is able to stop another of Derek Powers' plans involving the dumping of radioactive waste (which results in Powers becoming the villain Blight). Later, when he and Rarity encounter both Blight and Mr. Freeze, Rarity and Nightmare are able to restrain Blight's powers permanently. Powers is fired from the company, while Freeze's soul is transferred into a new body, based on that of a Yuki-onna, and Rarity creates a new identity for him so he can work for Wayne Enterprises.
  • Some time later, a now eighteen-year-old Rarity is placed in charge of Wayne Enterprises. The night of the big announcement, a gang of Jokerz attack... led by the original Joker. The gang are quickly defeated by Inque and Freeze, and Joker's true identity is discovered to be the original's mind and DNA encoded onto a microchip that was attached to the body of Tim Drake, the second Robin. Bruce removes the chip, and stores it away in his vault, while the Justice League investigates the possibility of any further copies.
• Arc 5: Return to Equestria (chapters 22-25)
  • As time passes, Rarity has been spending less time as Batmare, focusing on her position as head of Wayne Enterprises, leaving Terry to handle the criminal element. Meanwhile, Nightmare works on reopening the portal that originally brought them to the Batcave. Ultimately, she succeeds, creating a bridge that leads between the Batcave and Equestria, emerging in the basement of Carousel Boutique, where Rarity's memories begin to return. Reunited with Sweetie Belle, and then with her friends, Rarity slowly readjusts to life in her native world.
  • Soon after returning, she and Nightmare expose Suri Polomare for a crook, and hires Coco Pommel to work for her. Later, after several more events (including the escape of Tirek and his death at Nightmare's hooves), the Diarchy summon Rarity to discuss recent developments and finally meet Nightmare, who explains that when she was supposedly purged from Rarity, she was actually just sealed away deep within the other mare's psyche, and eventually wished she could be free of that prison, a wish Discord granted, resulting in her arrival in the Batcave. The pair decide things are acceptable as is, but Celestia does leave to have words with Discord, while Luna goes through the portal to meet Bruce.
  • In the Batcave, Luna meets Bruce and finds him entertaining Sweetie Belle. The two discuss recent matters, decide to play chess, and are still at it when Terry returns from patrol, meeting Sweetie Belle and Luna for the first time. After one win each and sixty-four stalemates, Luna asks Bruce to come back to Equestria and help train her Night Guard, offering him the use of a spell that would make him a young stallion, about twice Rarity's age, which he agrees to, and is transformed into a batpony, much to Luna's amusement... especially as they both now find themselves very attracted to one another.
  • The end.

Dante's Little Apple Surprise

• Arc 1: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (chapters 1-14)
  • While heading for the tower of Tem-ni-gru to confront his twin brother Vergil and slaying a number of demons that attack him along the way, Dante hears an odd noise in a nearby building. Investigating, he discovers an infant Applejack, and quickly realizes she wants to come with him. Entering the tower, Dante encounters Cerberus and prepares to fight him, only for Applejack to trick the three-headed dog into chasing a ball around and knocking himself out by colliding with and knocking over every wall in the room. Defeated, Cerberus concedes his soul to the tiny pony in the form of a three-pronged nunchaku. Dante is then attacked by a woman on a motorcycle, but after unexpectedly finding Applejack hitching a ride on her, she breaks off the attack, returning the infant to Dante and continuing onward. Dante and Applejack also continue their journey up the tower, battling demons and earning more weapons along the way (including the duo of Agni and Rudra), and encountering Lady once again. Finally, reaching the top of the tower, they find Virgil. During the resulting battle, both Dante and Applejack are wounded, and some of Dante's blood drips into Applejack's wound, giving her some of his power. After she attacks Virgil (and takes some of his blood too), he flees with Dante's half of the amulet their mother gave them.
  • After both Dante and Applejack recover (Dante due to having awakened his Devil Trigger ability), the two set off in pursuit of Vergil, meeting Lady again in the process. Shortly afterward, they're joined by another Devil Arm, Nevan, and meet Lady for the fourth time, this time learning that she's the daughter of Jester, a man they've encountered in the tower before (and have just found the apparently dead body of, until he suddenly stirs and flees), and that she's out for revenge against him for killing her mother in his attempts to become a devil himself. After she goes her own way again, the group continues on and encounters a one-eyed beast (later identified as Beowulf) who recognizes them as relations of Sparda, and vows to kill them. After losing its remaining eye, it flees while vowing revenge. Soon after, the group encounters Geryon the Timesteed, an old ally of Sparda's, who recognizes Dante and Applejack as being Sparda's blood and willingly joins them. They also figure out he's the demonic reincarnation of Applejack's father, Gala.
  • The duo and their Devil Arms finally reach the control chamber in the bottom of the tower and find Virgil again, figuring out that the amulet he stole is one half of the key to the tower. Applejack interrupts their discussion, calling Virgil "Uncle" and informing him that Jester, also known as Arkham, is manipulating him. Lady also arrives, having overheard their conversation, and suggests that he's trying to turn them against one another for some reason. The group decide to work together and find out why. Soon after, Jester/Arkham arrives and finds them waiting for him. The results are not pretty, and Jester is completely overwhelmed.
  • Once Jester/Arkham is defeated, the group learns the seal for the door to the demon world is half-open, and will eventually unravel on its own. Virgil asks how they can complete the process, since he has his own reasons for entering that world. The group figure out that in order to prevent a worse disaster, they must fully open the seal and then restore it; the restoration will require blood from Dante on one side and Virgil on the other to reenergize the seal (the focus of which is Sparda's sword Force Edge). As the brothers (and Applejack) pass through the gate and battle their way to the seal, they're attacked by Arkham, who has revived and seeks to claim Sparda's power for his own. Coming into contact with the sword, he transforms into a demonic form, but is stopped when Applejack also comes in contact with the blade, channeling the power given to her by Dante and Virgil's blood and transforming her into her own demonic form. With the aid of the three Devil Arms, she defeats Arkham before collapsing and reverting; Dante and Virgil finish him off together before restoring the seal, sending Virgil deeper into Hell (though not before he hands over Beowulf's Devil Arm as a gift for Applejack, to remember her uncle by) and Dante and Applejack back to the world of the living.
  • Returning to the human world, Dante meets Lady outside the tower, and the two wipe out the surviving demons before going on the date she promised him, having dinner at a nearby pizza place (with Applejack and the Devil Arms also present). They form a friendship and the beginnings of a partnership in demon-slaying, with Lady suggesting a name for his shop: "Devil May Cry".
• Arc 2: Early years (chapters 15-17)
  • Over the next several years, Dante adjusts to life with his new daughter, including training her with her weapons and new abilities. During a mission when Applejack is five, Dante acquires and claims Force Edge, which the demons attacking the city were being drawn to.
• Arc 3: Devil May Cry (chapters 18-29)
  • Five years later, Applejack is attacked in the office by a mysterious woman named Trish, who is searching for Dante. When she learns Applejack is his daughter, she breaks off her attack and apologizes, explaining that she wants to hire Dante: Emperor Mundus, an old enemy of Sparda's, is trying to create a permanent gate between the Underworld and the living world on Mallet Island, so Trish wants Dante to stop him. The next morning, the group enter the castle on Mallet Island, battling their way through various chambers and acquiring Alastor, a new Devil Arm and Nevan's ex, in the process. Fortunately, Applejack is able to help them make up. Continuing on, the group eventually meets a demonic construct which Applejack recognizes as possessing the soul of Virgil. Guided by the spirits of Sparda and Geryon, she is able to restore Virgil to his human appearance and control of himself, allowing him to join them in their quest. During this time, Virgil reveals he has a son, Nero, and was in the process of enrolling him in a special academy when the boy and his mother were abducted; Virgil was trying to activate Tem-ni-gru so he could go to Hell and access Sparda's old library, which held special artifacts he could have used to find Nero.
  • As the group continues on, Virgil acquires Ifrit as a Devil Arm. Later, Applejack acquires the demonic bird Griffon as a familiar. After finding a coliseum with a path to the "Wheel of Destiny", Applejack catches Trish watching them from a distance and learns from Griffon that she's a demonic construct created by Mundus, made in the image of Sparda's wife in order to play on Dante's human weakness. Applejack reveals she's secretly been infusing some of Sparda's essence into the food she makes, and by absorbing that power, Trish is no longer reliant on Mundus' power to survive. Applejack tells her she has a choice now over which side she wants to be on, and moves onward. After several more battles and puzzles, the group finds Trish again, who chooses to side with them and reveals that Mundus can only be defeated with Sparda's sword at full power, and the only way to do that is to apply both halves of the amulet to Force Edge. The brothers, neither wanting to give up their half of the amulet, compromise by letting Applejack wield it, and enter the cathedral where Mundus waits. Together, they and their Devil Arms overwhelm the demon emperor and allow Applejack to end him, before all of them escape the collapsing castle on Griffon, blasting a final manifestation of Mundus on the way out.
  • Returning home, the group finds an annoyed Lady waiting for them. While Dante and Applejack sleep off their exhaustion, Nevan explains just what happened, and encourages Trish to stick around and date Virgil (in part because having all of their demonic power around allows the Devil Arms to fully manifest on a regular basis). Later, Dante and Virgil begin working on getting Applejack enrolled in school.
• Arc 4: The School Years (chapters 30-31)
  • A year after the battle with Mundus, it's shown that Applejack and Dante moved to Death City, where the Death Weapon Meister Academy is located, so that Applejack could attend the academy, leaving Virgil and Trish in charge of Dante's shop. At the end of her first year, Applejack and Dante return home, Applejack having graduated and learned how to assume a human form afterward.
  • With Applejack able to assume a human form, she's eligible to attend Youkai Academy, a Japanese-style school in a pocket dimension. She spends the next four years there, coming home for every summer. After four years, she returns home for the summer, having been expelled for accidentally blowing up the school while trying to kill "a sex crazed super zombie". Virgil reveals they've got a lead on Nero, and once that's taken care of, he'll see about getting her enrolled in another school: Kuoh Academy.
• Arc 5: Devil May Cry 4 (chapters 32-40)
  • Having discovered Nero's location, the trio of Dante, Virgil and Applejack head there: a church where the Order of the Sword (a religious group that worships Sparda) is having a gathering, led by Sanctus. The trio break in and, under Applejack's leadership, knock out the humans present while killing the demons, until Applejack makes her way to Nero and his girlfriend Kyrie and explains who she is, who Nero really is and what the Order's leader is up to (experimenting with turning people into demons with the goal of opening the gates of hell so he could use both Nero and Sparda's sword to awaken a giant statue of Sparda, which would be used to "save" everyone to make their faith stronger). Nero is finally overwhelmed and faints. When he revives (along with Kyrie, who'd also fainted), Applejack shows him proof of what she was talking about, and introduces him to his father and uncle. After more talking, Nero, Kyrie and Credo (Kyrie's brother, who'd also been knocked out and taken with them) decide to join the group in dealing with the Order.
  • The team continues their way to Castle Fortuna, battling demons along the way (and enabling Nero to activate his Devil Bringer arm) and encountering Berial, a demon revealed to be the son of Ifrit (one of Virgil's Devil Arms), who is convinced to face Applejack in battle; upon her victory, he becomes her newest Devil Arm (also called Lucifer). Inside the castle, they're joined by Trish (who'd gone undercover with the Order). The group continues on until Nero finds, claims and restores Yamato, Virgil's sword which had somehow wound up in the hands of the Order. Now fully accepting his origins, and fully unlocking his Devil Trigger, Nero is ready. In reaction to what they've learned, Credo formally swears allegiance to Sparda and his family.
  • While Nero is still recovering, Dante goes on ahead and defeats Echidna the She-Viper to earn the Gilgamesh Devil Arm, sealing her Hell Gate (the third on the island) in the process. With all three gates closed, the group flies to the Order's home base, where Sanctus is waiting. Once there, the group splits up: Applejack and Dante take down Agnus (the group's scientist, who conducts the actual experiments with demon power), Virgil and Nero confront Sanctus (with Virgil finally recognizing him as the one who stole Nero from him in the first place), and Credo, Kyrie and Trish (and their demonic allies) take on whoever's left (with Kyrie easily swaying them all to her side). After Virgil and Nero kill Sanctus, Kyrie sways the Order members into declaring Virgil their new leader, telling them that Sanctus (and by extension his teachings) had become warped in his quest to become more like Sparda; now Sparda's son and grandson have come to lead them on the true path. Virgil's dumbfounded. Dante thinks it's hilarious.
  • With matters settled, Virgil, Nero, Trish, Kyrie and Credo stay with the Order, while Dante and Applejack return home.
• Arc 6: The Great Spardan Tournament (chapters 41-43)
  • Applejack returns from school midway through the year after getting expelled again. Dante comforts her. Afterward, Applejack announces her intentions to not go back to school - instead, she'll open a restaurant for demons. She also plans to hold a tournament for demons once a year.
  • Sometime later, the tournament is being held... and Team Urameshi is sent to compete and investigate just who's holding it and why. When they find out the tournament holders want peace between the two realms and are holding it to give the demons a chance to work out their aggressions without killing anyone, they thoroughly approve.
• Arc 7: Devil May Cry 2 and finale (chapters 44-52)
  • Several years later, with Applejack's restaurant and yearly tournament doing well, Dante and Applejack learn of a minor demon incursion in a museum. There, they encounter a mysterious woman (later named as Lucia), who leaves a map to a new location behind when she leaves. Following the map the next day, the two find themselves in an abandoned, mostly ruined city. Fighting demons along the way, they eventually arrive at a church and find the woman from before, along with another woman, Matier. She explains she once fought alongside Sparda to defend the land they're now in, home of a culture called the Vie de Marli, and tells them what she knows about Applejack's origin: Geryon regretted he was unable to be there for his children, having died and been reborn as a demon. Unintentionally, he used his power to manipulate the timestream and call one of his blood to their world, allowing her to find her way to Dante... and through him, to Geryon himself. Through Dante, Geryon has been able to complete his unfinished business and will one day be able to rest in peace. However, even now, memories of Applejack's past are returning to her, preparing for her to return to her original world.
  • Matier also reveals that Arius, President of an international public corporation, has turned the island into a paradise for lesser demons, who don't obey the rules of the Spardan Tournament, allowing them to visit the human world. He plans to use the demon power he's gathered to bring another powerful demon to Earth in order to conquer the world. Dante and Applejack agree to help deal with him. Along the way, Dante promises Applejack that no matter what happens, he'll always be her "Pa"... and that if she has another world and another life to return to, he'll take her there and stay with her for as long as she needs him.
  • As the two continue on, they're joined by the wolves Freki and Geri, whom she met at her third school, and are there to help Applejack and Dante maintain the stability of the world by defeating Arius. After more challenges, they meet up with Lucia again, who does on ahead to deal with Arius on her own while the Spardans go to meet Matier, then head to save Lucia from Arius. Crashing through the gate, they land on Arius, killing him entirely by accident. While they're arguing, he somehow escapes, and the group has to track him down and finally eliminate him for good. They aren't fast enough to stop the portal from opening, and so dive through in order to face Argosax (the demon he's working with). After dealing with him, a glowing sphere shoots up from his remains. As they pursue it, Applejack's memories start coming back, even faster, and finally, they chase the sphere through a portal into another dimension: Applejack's homeworld.
  • Reappearing at Sweet Apple Acres, the two are happily reunited with Applejack's family, including Granny Smith, who identifies Dante as Gala. Meanwhile, it's revealed that the sphere they followed is actually a fragment of Discord. After he reabsorbs it, he speaks to the spirit of Sparda and informs him that they're even.
  • Sometime later, heading into town to meet her friends, Applejack soon encounters Tirek, who's been draining magic from ponies. Realizing he's a demon, Applejack battles and easily defeats him, with Tirek recognizing her as being tied to Sparda moments before she takes his head and continues on her way to meet Twilight.
  • The end.

Fortresshy: The Nine Fathers/Fortresshy 1.5: For(t) Pony

• 9.F, Arc 1: Early years (chapters 1-16)
  • While wandering through the fortress that RED team has recently taken over, having been assigned to protect it, Medic discovers a small paper bag surrounded by animals and is surprised when a tiny pegasus pokes its head out. Examining her and deciding to take her in, he takes her to the kitchen to feed her. Unfortunately, he takes Heavy’s “Sandvich” for her, which angers Heavy when he arrives… until he sees who exactly ate it and apologizes for scaring her, quickly bonding to the small filly. He comes up with the name “Fluttershy” for her, which she perks up at, and sings her to sleep.
  • The third to meet Fluttershy is Pyro. Initially believing her to be a hallucination from his delusions of a place called Rainbow Land, he realizes she’s very real from Medic and Heavy’s reactions, and decides his new, personal mission is to protect her. Soon after, the group pass Engineer’s room, where he’s playing his guitar, which Fluttershy likes. The four men decide to introduce her to the rest of their team, and continue on. Soldier is next, and upon learning where they found her, decides that protecting her qualifies as part of their assigned mission of protecting the fortress. He then tells Fluttershy that she needs to behave herself, and she responds by kissing him on the nose. While Soldier grouches at Heavy (who’s most amused by this), Fluttershy spots the sixth member: Spy, who’s camouflaged and leaning against the wall. When she sees through his cloaking ability and nuzzles him, he’s surprised, but is quite impressed by her.
  • Spy inadvertently also discovers Fluttershy can fly, and she zips off ahead of them, finding her way to Sniper, who initially thinks he’s seeing things until the others tell him that yes, there really is a tiny winged pony in his lap. The others decide to leave her with him for now, as she sits in his lap and lets him stroke her.
  • Later, a drunken Demoman wanders into the kitchen, and is surprised to find a tiny pony chewing on Heavy’s fingers as the others watch her. Suspecting he’s drunker than he thought, he learns she’s real. Finally, Scout wanders in, and meets Fluttershy, and decides to try and impress her by showing off his muscles… unaware that she can’t understand a word he’s saying, but just likes listening.
  • The team sends word to the company for some additional supplies to feed Fluttershy. It is at this point that the truth about the fortress was revealed: it was built to analyze unusual energy readings picked up by the company. Flutter shy is a mobile source of those readings. Meanwhile, TF Industries’ Administrator, Helen, is monitoring things and is, with the approval of Saxton Hale, president of their Mann Co. division (and her boss), secretly filming a reality show there, letting people at home watch Red Team’s antics and fully expecting the team to fall apart for their entertainment. However, the viewers have fallen in love with Fluttershy, and they’re making money hand over fist as a result of her arrival. Secretly, she also plans to exploit Fluttershy’s homeworld when more of her kind come to retrieve her.
  • Over the next long while, the group adjusts to Fluttershy, spending one-on-one time and family time with her. She bonds to each, spending time with Pyro as he cooks, Demoman as he mixes up his bombs (which leads to his cutting back on his drinking), Spy as he plays Hide and Seek with her (which she proves very good at - he finally finds her clinging to his back), Medic as he teaches her about anatomy, Heavy reading to her and playing ball with her, Soldier as he tries training her for the unexpected (such as a giant bread monster he’s made, which she gets attached to; Soldier soon figures out how to make him more durable by turning him into a pet Chain Chomp, named Chompy), trying out various animal costumes with Scout (with Spy joining in), bird watching and drawing in the lookout with Sniper, and snoozing as Medic contemplates what he’s discovered: she’s from the world where one of his TV shows takes place. (Yes, Medic is a Brony.)
  • Finally, on one of their family days, Fluttershy surprises all of them when she speaks for the first time: hugging Heavy, she exclaims “Dada!” As the others start to get jealous, she hops to six of them in turn and exclaims “Dada!” again for each. Until she gets to Scout… and instead calls him “Bee Budda!”, which the others translate as “big brother”. Finally, Pyro comes over, and gets a surprise when she exclaims “Mama!” at him. (Despite being male. Which Fluttershy is apparently aware of.) The team is most amused.
  • A few months later, the team realizes there’s a slight problem: whenever Fluttershy cries “Daddy!”, seven of them come running, though she usually only needs one, and decide on nicknames for themselves with her aid: Medic is “Daddiem”, Heavy is “Big Daddy”, Demoman is “Boom Daddy”, Spy is “Poof Daddy” (for his invisibility), Sniper is “Bang Daddy”, Engineer is “Dadenji”, and Soldier is “Daddy Sir”. Soldier is privately overjoyed by this.
• 9.F, Arc 2: BLUtiful Disaster (chapters 17-19)
  • Three years after Fluttershy’s arrival, Helen decides it’s time to spice things up to boost ratings: by sending in BLU team. Fortunately, her assistant Ms. Pauling secretly alerts the team before leaving the organization, and they prepare for the other team’s arrival. Their mission: protect Fluttershy from the invaders. However, RED team gets some unexpected aid from Fluttershy herself, who bashes BLU Spy upside the head. As the team takes the battle outside, Heavy is badly wounded… and Fluttershy gets mad, proceeding to accidentally wipe out the entire enemy team, who soon respawn and retreat. Saxton Hale, watching the event from his office, is astounded. After the invasion is over, the team celebrates both their victory and Fluttershy’s birthday, and present her with her own RED team uniform. That evening, as she sleeps off a sugar crash, the team decides to give her some proper training.
• 9.F, Arc 3: Training Days (chapters 20-22)
  • Fluttershy’s training begins with a demonstration of the Respawner, and an explanation of how it works. Afterward, one by one, they help her learn different fighting techniques. Some time later, the team heads out on shore leave (during which the team learns she can talk to animals), where Fluttershy helps Scout pick up some women.
• 9.F, Arc 4: A Merry Flutter Christmas (chapters 23-25)
  • As life goes on, Fluttershy celebrates her first Christmas with the team. Soldier reads his own version of ‘’The Night Before Christmas’’ to her, Saxton Hale sends Helen a message warning her not to interfere in RED Team’s holiday, and the fun goes off without a hitch, with the unexpected arrival of Ms. Pauling, who joins them in enjoying Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when everyone gives Fluttershy presents and gets some in return (special hats - she made them herself, including one that promotes Soldier to “General Daddy Sir”). Finally, just after midnight, Helen’s forces approach the fortress to try and kidnap Fluttershy… only for her minigun Angel (a present from Heavy) and turret set (from Engineer) to demolish them. Heavy, who watches this, is overjoyed at her progress.
• 9.F, Arc 5: Time Passes (chapters 26-27)
  • The next October, Fluttershy celebrates Halloween for the first time, with the entire team in costume. Some time later, as Fluttershy goes through puberty (and mood swings), her Cutie Mark appears, much to her shock: three butterflies with bee stingers.
• 9.F, Arc 6: Endgame (chapters 28-30)
  • Sixteen years after Fluttershy’s arrival, as Helen contemplates how to boost their ratings, she gets a surprise when seven more ponies (the other Bearers and the two senior princesses), a small dragon and an unusual creature she doesn’t recognize (Discord) suddenly appear outside the fortress: her friends from Equestria have come to retrieve her, thanks to Discord being able to find her. Helen contacts them and advises them on how to retrieve her, even supporting them with a portable respawner. The group approaches the fortress, unaware that Fluttershy has spotted them… and is ready for battle.
  • As the group tries to figure out what to do, Fluttershy begins shooting them. Rainbow Dash, trying to make a reconnaissance flight, is shot down; believing Fluttershy to be brainwashed, she goes in again to try and knock her out of it, but is shot down repeatedly. Finally, after several deaths and respawns, she decides to stay put and asks the others to go in too. Several more attempts to get in fail, until Pinkie comes up with an idea: surrender. Fluttershy, not sure what the white flag means, calls for her family, who explain it. When they learn the invaders are ponies, they head out to meet them.
  • As the group heads in and meets Fluttershy again, confusion results on both sides as the Equestrians try to explain how they know Fluttershy, yet she doesn’t remember them at all. Engineer finally figures it out, and it’s revealed that one of Twilight’s spells (a dimensional viewing spell, which she’d activated in her basement while Fluttershy was cleaning that same room) is responsible for Fluttershy’s disappearance, sending her back in time, to another dimension and reduced to a foal. When the Equestrians announce they plan to take Fluttershy back to their native dimension, Team RED reacts with hostility… until Luna hits on a solution: she appeals to their greed, hiring the team to come back to Equestria with Fluttershy and work for her. After some debate, they agree. Now Team RED MOON, they prepare to head back.
• 9.F, Arc 7: Epilogues (chapters 31-34)
  • Finally, the groups return to Equestria, Chompy included. Saxton Hale witnesses their departure through the cameras, and bids her a fond farewell… and briefly contemplates punching into her world to join her. Unfortunately, after testing it and spending time in a different world entirely, he forgets about his plan to head to Equestria. Until it’s plot convenient.
  • On the far side, Luna and Discord alter the memories of the other seven ponies and Spike so that while they’ll remember being awed and frightened by Fluttershy’s combat prowess, they won’t remember who she used it on, and helps Fluttershy recover her memories from Equestria by reliving them through dreams. Luna also studies Pyro a bit and discovers that without knowing it, he’s been gifted with magic since birth. The “Rainbow Land” he’s been hallucinating is Equestria, somewhat distorted due to his seeing it through the dimensional boundary. Now, finally there, he feels like he’s home at last.
  • After this, Fluttershy returns to her cottage with Chompy, and slowly readjusts to life in Equestria, albeit more assertive than she was before, but without being rude. Meanwhile, in the other world, Helen plots her eventual conquest and strip mining of the other world.
• 1.5, Arc 1: Return of Harm-ony (chapters 1-2)
  • Fluttershy awakens one morning to discover the plundervines wreaking havoc. Joining her team and her friends, Fluttershy and five human members of Team RED MOON head into the Everfree, while the others stay behind to protect the civilians. Finding their way to the cave of the Tree of Harmony, they rescue Luna and, after figuring out what to do, Medic blasts the tree with his Medi-gun (which is powered by Australium, or Mana Stone, a mineral containing concentrated magic) and restores it, wiping out the vines and freeing Celestia. Afterward, the team returns to Ponyville, where Twilight is analyzing Pryo’s fire magic.
• 1.5, Arc 2: Meet The Family (chapter 3)
  • As the team finishes building their new fortress, they get some unexpected visitors: Fluttershy’s birth parents, Wind Blossom and Quickhoof (an admiral in their military), both pegasi. The two groups quickly bond.
• 1.5, Arc 3: Days Passing (chapters 4-6)
  • Time passes. Team RED MOON adjusts to Equestria, and Equestria adjusts to them as about twelve episodes of season 4 are adapted. Suri Polomare gets arrested, Maud Pie falls in love with Scout (and he reciprocates her feelings), and Medic figures out a way to help Scootaloo fly.
• 1.5, Arc 4: Finale (chapter 7)
  • As Tirek wreaks havoc, Celestia sends Discord to deal with him… and Luna sends Fluttershy to accompany Discord and neutralize Tirek in whatever manner she feels is necessary. She decides to shoot him. With a bullet that expels all his stolen magic and returns it to the owners. And then she plans to feed the body to Chompy. Celestia reacts in the only way that makes sense to her: she asks Discord to buy her alcohol.
  • The end.

The Sparkle In His Eye

• Arc 01: Early years (chapters 1-5)
  • Only ten years old, a young Lombax boy named Ratchet rests on the planet Veldin and reflects on his life, how he was raised and eventually, for defending himself, exiled from the colony. This lasted until he protected it against some dangerous wildlife, which ultimately led to his membership in the Hunter’s Guild and, from there, a discovery for his talent in assembling technology in general. Now, rarely needing to act to protect the colony and wishing for some more excitement in his life, he gets it when a time anomaly deposits a basket containing a tiny lavender Alicorn, identified as Twilight Sparkle, on his bed. Deciding to take care of her, he feeds her and then reads her to sleep.
  • As time passes, Ratchet discovers Twilight’s magical talents, including her ability to copy his Omniwrench, and is very happy when she first calls him “Dada”. One day, while he’s out battling local wildlife, a now three-year-old Twilight discovers his upload to Gadgetron Corporation (a company that sells weapons and other devices), and manages to get in contact with one of the scientists working for them. In the resulting conversation, she solves a major problem with one of his in-development projects, and manages (once Ratchet signs the paperwork) to become an official Gadgetron independent technical consultant. Some time later, as Twilight begins to wonder where she comes from, Ratchet promises to help find her homeworld and take her there… but first, he has to build a spaceship to do so. Twilight also recalls a time when she caught him pretending to be the Tooth Fairy, when her first baby tooth disappeared and a ticking egg was left in its place.
• Arc 02: Ratchet and Clank (chapters 6-22); interlude (chapters 23-24)
  • A year after Ratchet’s promise and six after her arrival, the pair have almost finished their spaceship. They just need one more part, and after Ratchet makes a joking remark about one falling out of the sky, he gets his wish: a ship crashes. Soon enough, they find the robotic being inside it, who asks for their help in saving the solar system. The Infobot he carries reveals a message that Chairman Drek of the Blarg race is planning to take pieces of different planets across the Solana Galaxy and use them to create a new one for his species, and so Ratchet and Twilight agree to help the robot find Captain Qwark, a legendary hero (whose stories have been read to and by Twilight since she was little), and gain his assistance in stopping Drek. After Twilight names the robot Clank, the trio board their ship and head into space.
  • Crash-landing on the planet Novalis (which Drek is targeting), the trio split up, where Twilight finds help from a mysterious being, The Plumber. Reuniting with Ratchet and Clank, she boards their new ship, acquired for saving the planet’s chairman, and the trio head for the planet Kerwan. More adventures lead them to the planets Aridia, Eudora and finally Rilgar, where Twilight takes part in a hoverboarding race and, for winning, meets Captain Qwark in person. Qwark agrees to help them if they can clear his training course on planet Umbris.
  • After passing through the course, the trio learn Qwark is working for Drek, and apologizes for hurting them before vanishing and leaving a monster behind. An upset Twilight vaporizes it… meanwhile, in the Great Clock, the being known as Orvus, father of Clank, watches in regret: he is unhappy at Twilight’s own unhappiness, but knows Qwark’s actions here will lead to great things, including the awakening of something he refers to as the Four Stars.
  • After Clank talks some sense into Ratchet (who was prepared to abandon the quest), the trio head for the planet Batalia, under attack by Drek’s forces. After helping out, they head for the planet Gaspar, and then Orxon, Pokitaru (where Twilight is able to develop an anti-contamination unit, or “depolluter mech”, to clean their ocean, which is being polluted by the Blarg), back to Orxon, and then Hoven, which Drek plans to destroy in order to replace it with his own new world. Thwarting that plan, they head for the Gemlik Moonbase in orbit around planet Oltanis, where they find Qwark again and shoot down the ship he’s trying to escape in. Twilight and Clank then stay aboard their new ship while Ratchet explores the planet below and finds Qwark again. Talking things over with him, he gives the other man an idea, then returns to the ship and heads for planet Quartu to stop Drek from building a super robot. Succeeding in rendering it unusable by Drek, they head to Gadgetron headquarters on the planet Kalebo III.
  • On Kalebo III, Twilight meets her boss Eiken Fixxit, CEO of Gadgetron, face to face for the first time, and discusses her planetary depolluter mech with him. After acquiring needed equipment, they return to Quartu and learn Drek now plans to destroy Veldin and put his new planet in its place. Returning to Veldin, the trio are able to stop Drek, Twilight using a spell she’s been working on to turn him into a chicken (whom Clank, without noticing, flattens). They then use the laser to supercharge Twilight’s teleportation spell and send its pieces back to their original worlds and re-integrate with them, saving all of those worlds from destruction.
  • Interlude: Two months later, the trio get to rest and relax, which in Twilight’s case means working on more gadgets. Including, with the aid of Big Al (one of the people who helped them out during their three-week mission), a Wing Pack that gets installed into Clank and allows Ratchet to fly with his daughter. Some time later, the trio are interviewed on live TV.
• Arc 03: Going Commando (chapters 25-29); interlude (chapter 30)
  • After the trio (including a now seven-year-old Twilight) have another TV interview, they’re unexpectedly teleported into the ship of Abercrombie Fizzwidget, CEO of MegaCorp, the Bogon Galaxy’s counterpart to Gadgetron. Fizzwidget requests Ratchet’s aid in recovering a biological experiment that was stolen from their laboratory, and offers Clank and Twilight positions in other parts of their company (Clank as their head accountant, Twilight spending time in her own lab or playing with other kids there) in the meantime. Two weeks later, the trio arrive in the Bogon Galaxy and go their separate ways. However, Twilight instead finds herself stuck in quarantine and being studied by MegaCorp’s scientists.
  • Some time later, still there, she manages to send her astral form out and explore, and discovers the missing experiment has been returned. Interacting with it, she’s able to help it so it isn’t in pain and names it Mr. Fuzzy-Biter. Afterward, watching invisibly, she discovers Mr. Fizzwidget is forcing the creature to produce more of itself and packing up the copies. Figuring something’s up, she projects herself to find Ratchet and discovers that he and Clank are also suspicious of their inability to contact Twilight and are sure Fizzwidget is evil. Returning to her body, Twilight contacts Mr. Fuzzy-Biter, also known as the Protopet, and with his aid, gets his copies to help Ratchet and Clank.
  • Finally, the pair and a new ally, a woman named Angela (a Lombax like Ratchet, and the one who stole the Protopet from MegaCorp in the first place) arrive to rescue Twilight, and it comes out that Fizzwidget is actually a disguised Captain Qwark, using the Protopets to restore his reputation and seeking to turn Twilight to his side by making her think Ratchet and Clank turned against her, unaware that Twilight is watching them and can hear everything. She also observes him muttering to himself: he believes this is the only way he can bring her to his side so he won’t be alone anymore.
  • When Qwark starts to make his speech to the Bogon Galaxy that he’s the one who saved them from the Protopet by altering its brain chemistry (the very thing Twilight already did to help it), Twilight jumps in the way… and is struck by the beam, a dark copy of Twilight emerging. Dark Star attacks Ratchet, while Clank and Angela try to reverse the effect. Observing the fight, Qwark realizes that hurting Dark Star also hurts Twilight, and in a split second, leaps in the way of an attack meant for it, saving both it and Twilight. When Dark Star attacks both Ratchet and Qwark, the fight takes another startling turn as the Protopets get involved, and manage to hold it off long enough for Ratchet and Clank, Ratchet via his custom Power Gloves and Clank via throwing the repaired Helix-o-Morph (the device that zapped Twilight) into the mess, it re-fuses Twilight and Dark Star, while Ratchet’s glove is destroyed from an overload of power.
  • In the aftermath, Twilight awakens in the apartment the trio have been given (formerly used by Qwark while impersonating Mr. Fizzwidget - the real Fizzwidget was being held captive, but was freed during the final battle), and things are explained to her. Including Mr. Fuzzy-Biter staying with them and Ratchet now having magic because of the special gem she used in his Power Gauntlet. Meanwhile, Angela decides to stick around with the group as well.
  • Interlude: Some time later, Angela prepares to leave, and explains to Twilight that just being a Lombax is very dangerous. She also informs Ratchet that she’s leaving because she doesn’t think either of them are ready for a serious relationship at this point in their lives. Ratchet bids her farewell, the two agreeing to hopefully meet up again in about ten years… but secretly, Ratchet plans to identify and eliminate the threat to Lombaxes so they can reunite sooner. Meanwhile, Clank meets a TV producer who wants to make Clank a star. He agrees, but only if Ratchet and Twilight can join in too. It works, and the show is a hit.
• Arc 04: Up Your Arsenal (chapters 31-54); interlude (chapter 55)
  • While watching Secret Agent Clank in their apartment, the trio (including Twilight, now approaching age ten) discover Veldin is being invaded by Tyrrhanoids, backed by Dr. Nefarious, the nemesis of Captain Qwark, and immediately set out for home. Back on Veldin, the trio join the defense force and, after being contacted by President Phyronix, president of the Solana galaxy, head for the planet Florana to locate the only man ever to defeat Dr. Nefarious. Upon arriving, they realize they’re after Qwark, and Twilight contemplates matters, having realized that in spite of everything, she feels sorry for him. Eventually, they find him, along with his monkey companion, and discover Qwark has amnesia and believes himself to be a monkey as well.
  • Taking Qwark to the Phoenix, a nearby Galactic Fleet ship sent to help them (and captained by the president’s daughter Sasha), they rest up from their mission. Soon after, they learn a Tyrrhanoid force is attacking the presidential compound. They also receive a wide-band transmission from Dr. Nefarious, announcing that he plans to liberate his fellow robots and destroy all organic lifeforms. The group head for Marcadia, the galactic capital, to rescue the president.
  • After rescuing the president and clearing out the invasion force, the group also discover a means to restore Qwark’s memory. Recovered, he apologizes to Twilight for everything he’s done to her. She forgives him, and the group prepares to work together to save the galaxy. Their next mission is to win Annihilation Nation, a galactic combat competition in order to receive a Tyhrra-Guise, letting them disguise themselves as Tyrrhanoids. Twilight wins handily. Meanwhile, President Phyronix has put Qwark in charge of the war, and formed a team to stop Nefarious: the Q Force (including the trio), which heads for Nefarious’ base on Aquatos to acquire his data, a mission Twilight carries out.
  • The team next heads for Tyhrranosis, source of the Tyrrhanoids. After destroying the Tyrrhanoid Mother, the team is contacted by Nefarious, with the end result that they're able to track his location: Planet Daxx. While investigating his base there, they discover he's working with Courtney Gears, the pop star who runs Annihilation Nation. They also find out that Nefarious is building a device to wipe out organic lifeforms, and a likely location: the Obani Moons. Heading back to the space station where Annihilation Nation is filmed, Twilight tricks Courtney into accompanying them to their film studio. There, Courtney captures Clank and sends him to Nefarius' base, unaware that Twilight was prepared for this and, thanks to her preparations, now knows his whereabouts. The team, including a copy of Clank she had prepared, then sets out for the Obani Moons.
  • Battling their way through the three moons, the team discovers Nefarius' weapon, the Bio-bliterator, is designed to turn organics into robots. Nefarious, watching them, is awed and begins contemplating romancing Twilight when she's old enough, only for Clank to threaten him with a fate worse than death. The team also manipulates Courtney into changing sides. The team next heads for the Zeldrin Starport, where Nefarious' spaceship is located. Rejoining Qwark, they make it into the ship and acquire needed information, but Nefarious escapes again and self-destructs his ship. The team manages to escape... all except Qwark, as far as they can tell, and they mourn his loss.
  • After holding a funeral for their lost comrade, the Q Force heads for the planet of Metropolis, where Qwark once stopped Nefarious, believing the robotic scientist will seek to destroy it and thus prove himself to have truly beaten Qwark. They're right, and after wiping out most of the invasion force, the team heads through the city and eventually finds Nefarious. Although he escapes, the trio head for planet Zeldrin to investigate the remains of his ship, hoping to find a clue. What they find is evidence that Qwark has survived and escaped, and a datadisk he left behind. It leads them to his hideout in the Thran Asteroid belt, where they find him, having run away again so he wouldn't fail them, and so that his "death" would inspire them. Twilight gives him an inspirational talk before the trio leave.
  • The trio returns to their ship and learn Nefarious' forces are attacking Sasha's ship in order to recover the disk Qwark left them, which turns out to contain his full plans for conquering the galaxy. Returning to the Phoenix, the team fights back against the attacking forces and, after clearing the ship, heads for Koros, where the Bio-bliterator is charging in preparation for an attack on planet Veldin. Reaching Koros and fighting their way through the enemy forces, they destroy the Bio-bliterator, only to learn there's another on the planet Mylon, guarded by robots. Fortunately, Twilight has a plan... and is able to take out the majority of the robots. Unfortunately, they don't arrive in time to keep Nefarious from boarding the Bio-bliterator and taking off.
  • The final battle begins as the team, given a lift by Sasha, manage to board the Bio-bliterator... only for it to turn into a giant robot. The team finally manages to destroy it with the aid of another ship that turns up unexpectedly, though Nefarious escapes yet again. After the team returns to the Phoenix, the ally ship also docks and is revealed to be Qwark, in a goofy Twilight-themed outfit. Fortunately, Twilight talks him back into his old one, and the team celebrates their victory while scientists, using the data recovered, reverse the Bio-bliterator's affects on the planets it was used on.
  • Interlude: Some time later, as the group watches the news regarding the next election, Ratchet suggests Sasha run for president, and she and Ratchet flirt. Twilight thoroughly approves.
• Arc 05: Deadlocked (chapters 56-67); interlude (chapters 68-69)
  • Some time has passed since Nefarious' plot, and things have changed: Twilight is ten, Sasha is president of the galaxy, Qwark is her vice-president, Ratchet is now captain of her former ship, and the team is assigned to investigate Dreadzone, an illegal fighting competition run by media mogul Gleeman Vox, in a remote section of the Solana Galaxy known as the Shadow Sector. Moments after being alerted, the trio are captured by Vox's henchmen and forced to take part in the competition. To ensure their cooperation, Vox has added Deadlock collars to each of them... and if Twilight tries to remove hers via magic, the one on Ratchet will explode and kill him.
  • Separated, the trio are forced to fight for their lives in the Dreadzone arenas. Twilight's popularity among viewers brings about unexpected results when the arena's champion, Ace Hardlight, comes to help her out, bringing two robots to keep her company, one of whom she names Owloiscius. The other, a fembot, is given the new name Barb, but also turns out to be "Nana", the nursemaid bot who raised Ratchet. The trio form a mighty team, and defeat challenge after challenge. During this time, she also bonds with Ace.
  • After several tournaments, Twilight is called into Vox's office, where he informs her that Ratchet, Clank and Ace are all dead at the hands of a new champion. And he's also preparing to destroy the entire station and kill everyone. The only way to stop him is to go through one final tournament and meet him at the end. Twilight agrees, unaware that Vox is lying: Ace isn't dead, just defeated... by Ratchet. And his team is preparing to free everyone and end Vox's threat once and for all. Vox, however, is manipulating both sides, to pit them against Twilight and force her to kill Ratchet.
  • The final tournament begins, with Ratchet and Twilight making their way through the tournament. When the two meet, after a brutal battle, Twilight breaks his helmet and is horrified to learn she's been fighting her own father. When Twilight refuses to attack any more, Vox begins yelling at her and unwittingly reveals his plots to the audience - Ace hacked the broadcast systems, setting them to general. Having heard everything, Twilight flips out and manages to short-circuit every collar on the station.
  • As the station collapses, Qwark and the Phoenix arrive, and manage to evacuate the population, while Ratchet brings Twilight back to her senses. The two are attacked by Vox, but consequently saved by the combined efforts of Ace and Qwark, Qwark getting them to safety while Ace holds Vox back and triggers a massive explosion that kills both of them. As the station is destroyed, the Phoenix heads for the planet Pokitaru.
  • Interlude: The team recovers on Pokitaru, where Ratchet discovers Twilight's robot friend Barb is his long-lost Nana, resulting in a happy reunion. Meanwhile, Twilight starts undergoing psychiatric treatment to overcome the trauma from recent events.
• Arc 06: Size Matters (chapters 70-75); interlude (chapters 76-77)
  • The team's vacation on Pokitaru (which has apparently lasted a few years - Twilight is almost thirteen now) is interrupted when a little girl named Luna is abducted by a race of robots known as Technomites. The trio, joined by Qwark, go to investigate things, chasing the Technomites to the planet Ryllus. Ratchet and Clank head off in pursuit, while Twilight stays with Qwark, and the two uncover a likely trap aimed at Qwark that could possibly reunite him with his family. Ratchet and Clank soon return with coordinates for the planet Kalidon, where Qwark goes his own way and the other three pick up some equipment: a shrink ray. Finally, they manage to find Luna, only to discover they've walked into a trap.
  • Clank awakens elsewhere, discovers Ratchet and Twilight have been captured, and comes to their rescue. Fortunately, Ratchet is also breaking out on his own, and the two, having reunited, head in search of Twilight, whom the Technomites are trying to use in experiments, only to finally decide she's of no use and try to dispose of her. Ratchet and Clank manage to rescue her in time, and then head for the planet Challax, using the shrink ray to enter the Technomite facility. Demolishing their way through it, with Twilight listening in, they eventually emerge and reunite with her. Vastly cheered up, Twilight calls Clank "Mommy" for the first time, much to his confusion. But since it makes her happy, he doesn't mind. The trio then head for the Dayni Moon in pursuit of the Luna-bot.
  • On the Dayni Moon, the trio learn of another Technomite facility on the planet Quodrona, shrink down, and invade. Finally, after finding Otto, the Technomite Emperor, who reveals his plan (to clone them and use the clones to gather the geniuses of the galaxy, so he can absorb their intelligence for himself), the trio are joined by a normal-sized Qwark, whom the Technomite Emperor had lied to, claiming to be his father. Now aware of the truth, Qwark begins trying to demolish the Emperor. Finally, they defeat him, and Twilight, still haunted by what he'd done to her, nearly kills Otto until Clank stops her.
  • Interlude: After discovering the true fate of Qwark's parents, the group decides to make Qwark and his monkey companion Skrunch an official part of their family, since he already thinks of them as such, and they feel the same way. The team then heads for Veldin.
  • Interlude: After some time, the family (who've now legally taken "Sparkle" as their surname) decides to move into a new, larger home (namely, the house Qwark already owns in Metropolis), and Sasha comes over for dinner. And hires Qwark as the new head of the Planetary Defense Center, which is effectively a glorified press secretary.
• Arc 07: Future Trilogy #1: Tools of Destruction (chapters 78-96)
  • A few years have passed, and Twilight is now fourteen. Ratchet and Twilight are currently working on their latest project when they get a distress call from Qwark - the Planetary Defense Center is under attack. The trio head in and battle the invaders, only to discover Ratchet is their real target. Commanded by Emperor Percival Tachyon, crown prince of the Cragmites, their goal is to wipe out the Lombax species. The trio are not amused, and manage to take over his warship, only for it to put them all in cryosleep. When they awaken, they find they're on the planet Cobalia in the Polaris galaxy, and begin investigating.
  • Following a run-in with a couple of smugglers (whom Twilight names Red Shift and Blue Shift), the trio catch a ride with them to the planet Kortog. En route they discover that Tachyon owns the entire Polaris galaxy, and is the only surviving Cragmite: the Lombaxes wiped out the rest, and he wants to wipe them out in return. When their ship is targeted by enemy forces, Twilight teleports herself and her family out so the ship will be left alone. On Kortog, they encounter some tiny robots that Twilight recognizes from her childhood, leading them to the Hall of Knowledge. Disabling its defenses (as Tachyon has made learning illegal), Twilight manages to find information that leads them to the planet Fastoon, where the Lombax might be found.
  • Arriving on Fastoon, the trio explore and find a prototype ship, the Aphelion, with both an artificial intelligence and an artificial soul. They also identify the builder: Kaden Gyro, husband of Vashiir Gyro... and father of Ratchet. After finding most of the components necessary to finish the ship, Twilight and Clank go after the last one and meet the Zoni, Keepers of Time, but can't get any answers from them. With the last component, they reactivate Aphelion, and after decoding a message from Qwark (who has infiltrated Tachyon's organization), head for the planet Mukow.
  • Dealing with Captain Slag and his gang of pirates en-route (and winning them as allies after they turn out to be enemies of Tachyon), they head for Mukow, and sneak into Tachyon's gladiatorial arena, disguising themselves and competing against others. They also get a special video from Qwark that hints at something important: the Lombax Secret. The team then heads for the Nundac Asteroid Ring.
  • Exploring the area and gathering more equipment, the trio reach the Apogee Space Station in the middle, where they meet a new ally: Talwyn Apogee and her robots Cronk and Zephyr. And humor results when they discover Twilight and Talwyn sound almost identical. After the argument over who's copying who ends, it comes out that Ratchet is Kaden Gyro's son, astonishing Talwyn, who reveals that her father and Kaden were friends and worked together. She also reveals that pirates stole the only Lombax artifact there: the same pirates Twilight has made their allies. Contacting him, she easily talks him into returning it. This leads them to the planet Ardolis, where they acquire the artifact and gain coordinates to a facility on the planet Rykan V from it.
  • After racing Captain Slag again along the way, they explore Rykan V and run into the same smugglers from before, acquiring another piece of equipment from them: equipment that Kaden gave them, and which the smugglers gladly hand over once they find out Ratchet's his son. Finally, discovering the location the artifact led them to, they discover a holo-vid projector that reveals the Lombax Secret: the Dimensionator, an invention used by the Lombax to defeat the Cragmites. It also guides them to a testing facility for the Dimensionator on the planet Sargasso. The team heads there immediately.
  • On Sargasso, the group learns another tidbit of information, this time relating to Clank's father, from Blue Shift. After more exploration and acquiring of equipment, the team finds the facility and meets the Plumber again. In this encounter, Ratchet reveals what he learned from the projector: the Dimensionator didn't wipe out the Cragmites. It banished them, along with their planet, into another dimension without any other lifeforms. With this knowledge, Twilight figures out that the Lombaxes used it to also send themselves into a separate dimension, to protect themselves from Tachyon. It can also find anything they want it to, reminding Ratchet of his promise to Twilight when she was five.
  • Returning to Mukow and reuniting with Qwark, the trio competes in the arena again, and wins more disguised information. With it, they head for the Kreeli Comet, another base for Captain Slag and his men, which is where a super computer, IRIS, can be found. Twilight talks Slag into letting them access it, only to find IRIS is missing several parts. After restoring it, they learn where the last Dimensionator prototype is located, and head for Zordoom Prison on the planet Viceron to rescue Talwyn. They also discover Ace Hardlight is there, alive. Twilight rescues him, while Ratchet returns with news that Talwyn's been rescued and left on her own. The group then heads for Kerchu City on the planet Jasindu to recover the Dimensionator.
  • The trio arrives in the city, but finds the Dimensionator has been captured and sent away by Captain Slag (who entrusted it to Qwark) to keep it away from Tachyon, though he is fatally damaged in the process, and names Twilight as the new captain of his crew. Joining Slag's fleet, they prepare them for battle, only for Tachyon's fleet to attack. Twilight also discovers Qwark hasn't arrived, and learns he's crashed on the planet Reepor: homeworld of the Cragmites. And the transmission is also picked up by Tachyon's forces.
  • The two groups race to Reepor, and unfortunately, Tachyon gets there first and claims the Dimensionator. Activating it, he releases the Cragmites from their prison and sends Ratchet, Clank, Twilight and Qwark off in separate directions. Fortunately, they reunite quickly and head for the planet's capitol in order to meet Tachyon and recapture the Dimensionator. Unfortunately, he escapes before they can get there, and the group pursues him to Fastoon. In a final showdown (during which Aphelion calls Ratchet "brother" and Qwark promptly declares her his and Twilight's aunt), they battle Tachyon and blast the Dimensionator to keep Tachyon from using it again. In the process, they banish Tachyon and the Cragmites again, and fix the Dimensionator enough to return home, releasing them from the dimensional vortex they're caught in.
  • In the aftermath of the battle, the team recovers, and examine the Dimensionator, learning that it's apparently located Twilight's homeworld, but cannot take them there due to a quantum instability. It also tells them to contact Temporal Administrator Orvus for assistance. Moments later, the Zoni appear and take Clank away, much to Twilight's horror.
• Arc 08: Future Trilogy #2: Quest for Booty (chapter 97); interlude (chapter 98)
  • Time has passed. Twilight, leading the Pirate Fleet, leads them to the planet Merdegraw, in order to locate a treasure - the Fulcrum Star - that can activate the Obsidian Eye, a powerful telescope that will help them find the Zoni and find Clank. Though it takes some doing, they acquire the power source and activate the Obsidian Eye, locating coordinates for the Breegus Nebula, where Clank can be found. Unfortunately, they also learn Dr. Nefarious is controlling the Zoni and has Clank. Twilight assigns Qwark to contact the Solaris galaxy to report on them and prepare for backup, while Ace remains in charge of the pirates to make sure nobody tries to take over in Tachyon's place. Twilight and Ratchet head for the Breegus Nebula.
  • Interlude: Qwark returns to Kerwan and meets Sasha and, surprisingly, Angela Cross. Having learned Tachyon is gone, she's now willing to join the family. When she learns Ratchet's original surname, she recognizes it and reveals that Ratchet's mother and hers were best friends. Qwark then informs them of what happened to Clank.
• Arc 09: Future Trilogy #3: A Crack in Time (chapters 99-127)
  • Over a year after being captured, Clank manages to escape and learns he's in the Great Clock, something built by Clank's father Orvus and that could spell great evil if destroyed or misused, and that Dr. Nefarious took it over after Orvus vanished. After being joined by Orvus' assistant Sigmund and chasing Nefarious out, Clank takes back control of the Great Clock and begins working to fix it.
  • Meanwhile, now aware of Clank's whereabouts and that Dr. Nefarious has captured him, Ratchet and and a sixteen-year-old Twilight, aboard Aphelion, meet up with Qwark in order to rescue him. They also learn that Sasha, Angela and Talwyn have all met and are friends. Suddenly, a strange energy wave (which Twilight recognizes as Zoni magic) passes over the ship, which crashes. Setting out and exploring, the trio acquire information and equipment, and rescue the locals from a race known as the Zyphoids, who misidentify Ratchet as "Azimuth". With the natives' information, Twilight is able to free the Zoni from a temple, the Zoni then repairing and upgrading Aphelion, letting her turn from a ship into a giant robot. Unfortunately, while Twilight's in the temple, Qwark is kidnapped by Vorselon, a local tyrant.
  • Ratchet, Twilight and Aphelion rescue Qwark, then head for a planet called Torren IV in the Breegus system, where a Lombax named Alister Azimuth can be found. Meanwhile, Clank works on repairing the Clock, and learns Orvus is hidden in a secret partition in Clank's own memory banks. Accessing it, Clank learns the Orvus within him is merely a fragment of a neural imprint, but can help him learn how to better use his time manipulating powers, gained during the mission to save the Dimensionator. After reawakening, Clank sets out to try and find the original Orvus.
  • On Torren IV, the group locates Alister, and after a brief fight (Alister mistaking them for enemies), learn he's a dear friend of Ratchet's father Kaden. Twilight promptly declares him her great-uncle. Alister then tells them about Kaden and Vashiir. He also explains about the Great Clock, which the Zoni have taken Clank to. After some planning, Alister goes off on his own, and they agree to meet on the planet Terachnos.
  • Arriving on Terachnos, Twilight and Ratchet eventually meet up with Alister and acquire what they need: a list of Obsidian Eyes, so they can find the Great Clock. Getting it and demolishing an enemy mech in the process, they head for one such Eye on the planet Lumos. Meanwhile, Clank continues to explore the Clock, and learns it was built to contain a tear in time and space while keeping time moving normally throughout the rest of the universe. He also learns his purpose: to fix time anomalies and save the universe.
  • En route to Lumos, the group has to stop and rescue Qwark from the Agorian Battleplex, then continue on. As Ratchet, Twilight and Alister travel through the canyons of Lumos, Alister admits that he's responsible for Tachyon getting the technology he needed to take over the galaxy. For this, he was forbidden from joining the other Lombaxes in the dimension they fled to. He blames himself for all of it. However, Ratchet thanks him for his actions, which have led to his getting the family he has now. Meanwhile, Aphelion saves the locals from the Agorians, and they agree to lead them to the Obsidian Eye. With it, Ratchet and Twilight locate and contact Clank, and learn Orvus is in trouble. He sends them to battle Nefarious on the planet Zanifar, in order to save Orvus. They also assimilate the Obsidian Eye into Aphelion, so she can keep in contact with the Great Clock. The team then heads for Zanifar.
  • Arriving on Zanifar, Ratchet and Twilight go through the time gate Clank has prepared for them. Arriving in the past, they find Orvus, but are unable to recover him. Escaping back to the future, they find Vorselon has captured Alister, and use the energies of the open time gate to arrive right behind Vorselon's warship. Demolishing the ship, they rescue Alister, then head for the Bernilius sector in the Breegus system.
  • Back in the Great Clock, Clank enters his mindscape again and meets the Plumber, who reminds him that while Orvus has a purpose for him, Clank's choices are his own... and there's always a new path available. After emerging, he and Sigmund make their way to their goal: the Orvus Chamber, where Orvus watched over time. Unfortunately, while listening to a message from his father, Clank is shut down by one of Nefarious' men, who stayed behind.
  • Finally arriving in the system, the group picks up a distress signal from Clank on the planet Vapedia. Fighting their way through a group of Valkyries, the fight takes an unexpected turn when Ratchet and Twilight mention Helga, Qwark's trainer. The Valkyrie leader recognizes the name and, after confirming they're talking about the same person, takes her troops and leaves to join Helga... who's really her long-lost, believed deceased, mother. With no more obstacles, the trio make it into the citadel and free Clank from a stasis tube. Departing and heading into space, they're contacted by Qwark, and head for Nefarious' station to stop him for good.
  • Arriving at the station, the group splits up again: Ratchet, Clank and Twilight head into the station, while Azimuth stays outside to keep an eye on things. Tracking down Qwark, he joins them as they sneak in further, and finally manage to demolish the place. With Nefarious and his assistant escaping, the team heads for the Great Clock. While Azimuth wants to use it to fix what went wrong, Twilight talks him out of it because it would only make things worse. However, she has her own plan to save their loved ones.
  • Two months later, Twilight's ready to try her plan... and it works: she pulls Orvus forward in time from the moment he was meant to vanish, saving him from Nefarious in the process. During the conversation that follows, Twilight witnesses a Zoni passing through a time hole, and handing her her own baby tooth, which reacts with the ticking egg she's had since the night she caught Ratchet pretending to be the Tooth Fairy. Realizing what this means, Twilight has a moment of inspiration. Using two DNA samples from Kaden and Vashiir, and breaking open the egg, she releases time energy from it and creates two time gates, then sends the fur, transformed into clone dolls, through the gates and pulls the real Kaden and Vashiir back through them. She then releases the seal containing the time rift that the Great Clock is built around, and its energy is absorbed into her tooth, forging it into the Time Egg. The reduced rift is then finally sealed. With Twilight passing out, Orvus gives the egg to a Zoni and sends it back in time to deliver the egg to her younger self.
  • Some while later, Kaden and Vashiir awaken, meet their family, and are told about what happened to drag them twenty-seven years into the future. They also learn that until they adjust back into sync with present chronality, they can't leave the Clock or they'll age into dust.
  • Soon after, Aphelion is sent to find Angela, Sasha and Talwyn, and brings them back to the Great Clock to meet Kaden and Vashiir. During this meeting, Sasha presents them with startling news: in the last galactic election while they were away, someone started a massive write-in campaign... and also ones in Bogon and Polaris. Consequently, Qwark is now president of all three galaxies, with Twilight as his vice-president. Unbeknownst to them, this is a plot by Stuart Zugo, who wants to make a fool out of Qwark. However, since Qwark has told Twilight that he'll be consulting her before making any big decisions, Zurgo's plot is thwarted without anyone ever knowing.
• Arc 10: All 4 One (chapters 128-179); interlude (chapters 180-182)
  • Two years have passed since the Great Clock was saved from Nefarious, and Qwark and a now eighteen-year-old Twilight, in addition to their job of running the universe, are making plans to deal with him when he resurfaces. Which happens some time later, with Twilight, Qwark and Alister heading to Luminopolis on the planet Igliak so Qwark can receive an award. They also expect it to be a trap by Nefarious, and are right. Despite Twilight spotting him laying in wait, his and Qwark's mutual respect for one another causes them Nefarious to agree to just let them set it off, which will give them a chance to increase Qwark's popularity. It goes through, the trap gets set off, and a Light Eating Z'Grute is unleashed. But since he forgot to install the part that would let him control it, Nefarious winds up joining the trio in having to take it down. In the process, Nefarious lets them know of his intentions to romance Twilight.
  • After finally defeating the Z'Grute, the quartet fall under attack by a new enemy, which captured both them and the Z'Grute. Awakening to find themselves on the planet Magnus, they're freed by a small girl named Susie, and trick the automated systems into believing they're new trainees. Traveling around the base and exploring, they're soon found out, and manage to escape the base. (During this time, Twilight agrees to a date with Nefarious the next Friday.) Outside, they make contact with Ratchet and Clank, who can't make it to the planet's surface yet, but are able to stay in orbit and send occasional aid. Ratchet also learns Nefarious and Twilight have a date planned, and promises him pain if he breaks her heart. So does Clank, in a rather extreme manner.
  • The quartet keep moving, and while investigating a lab, encounter a recording by Dr. Frumpus Croid, who is preparing for a war against Nevos Collectus. Continuing on, they find the source of the gravitational disruptions and disable it. Further in, they find that Nevos Collectus is collecting unique specimens throughout the universe for some project. Finally, arriving at Susie's village and rescuing her from beings called Gravoids, they're given more of the story: the ship that kidnapped them from Igliak is called Ephemeris the Creature Collector, and has been bringing the galaxy's most dangerous planets to their planet for over a hundred years.
  • Continuing on to find Commander Spog (the being who captured Susie), the team defeats him. During the fight, they learn Spog's master fought the Cragmites in the past, but they couldn't destroy him. Finally, they get the information they want: a being known as the Architect can stop Ephimeris, and Spog points them in his direction.
  • The group sets out in search of the Architect (who's in a forest beyond a lighthouse), and finds a fragment of a personal log. It reveals that the log-maker and his colleague Nevo Binklemeyer have been studying the psychic link between pets and owners, and uncovered a strange energy within the animals. Twilight promptly suspects the energy is their real enemy and is manipulating the scientists. Continuing on, Qwark mentions to Nefarious that the one thing that bugs Twilight more than anything is being the only one of her kind in the known galaxies, and not knowing where she comes from. Nefarious is intrigued and begins contemplating how to solve this before their date.
  • Continuing on and learning more, they contemplate what exactly was so bad about their enemy that the Cragmites felt it had to be imprisoned. They also find further proof supporting their theory that the energy inside the animals is manipulating the scientists there, including a holo-log revealing the animal they were studying has been abducted. After some further travels, they shut down a device creating a powerful waterspout near where they are, they find another holo-log, which reveals Ephimeris was created to locate the missing animal, but has apparently gone rogue. Finally, fighting their way through one last monster, they reach the lighthouse and pass by into the Terawatt Forest. Within it is a Hall of Paradoxology where they can find Dr. Croid. En route, they find a fourth holo-log confirming their suspicions: Nevo managed to reprogram Emphemeris and take control of it.
  • Finally, the team makes it into the Hall of Paradoxology and discover the lab there is a decoy: the real lab is on the Phonica Moon. Taking control of a prototype orbital craft left behind, they head for the moon themselves, and begin exploring. Eventually, they find another source of information that leads them back to the planet and to Vilerog Plateau, where they can find the charging dock for Ephimeris. An unexpected encounter with that very ship makes them crash in the Polar Sea region, but they survive and head south. With the aid of Ratchet and a mobile vendor pod he sends down, they're able to make it to a rail station, with the Plumber waiting for them. He fixes the station so they can take the train all the way to Uzo City (where the plateau is located).
  • While on the train, the team receives communication from Aphelion, who fills them in on what she found in Croid's lab, which they put together with what they know to finally figure out what's going on here: their real enemies are the Loki, a race of energy beings that use other bodies for hosts. After the Cragmites learned of them and decided they were too dangerous to survive, they blew up their planet of Torranux. Now, the Loki are using the Ephemeris to capture powerful creatures to serve as hosts, and they want a device Croid created so they can reverse its effects and forcibly take over other creatures, rather than just having to convince it to let them take over.
  • Arriving in Uzo City, the team fights their way through the local troops. Finally making their way into Dr. Croid's lab, the team is awarded with new weapons, after which they continue on and make it to Vilerog Plateau. There, they find Susie and a small assault force (two of her friends) getting ready to go against Emphemiris, but Alister manages to talk them into just guarding the perimeter rather than taking part in the fighting. Entering Ephemeris, the quartet make it into the vessel's core and find Nevo and his cat-like pet, Mr. Dinkles (who is quickly confirmed to be possessed by a Loki), waiting for them. Nevo tries to get them to leave so the Loki can't possess Twilight, but they aren't willing to do so - they're here to stop the Loki for good.
  • "Mr. Dinkles" quickly figures out his Collector Minions are no match for the team, and jumps into the body of another creature, a Grivelnox, which he hopes to use to devour Twilight and absorb her powers for himself; he also begins to go after other creatures. When the Grivelnox tries to go after Twilight, Nefarious leaps in the way and lets it grab him, preparing to kill it from the inside. He is unexpectedly saved by Qwark, and together, with the others using the Protomorphic Energy Extractor, they manage to pull the Loki out of the Grivelnox. When it tries to take over Qwark, Nefarious leaps in the way and knocks it into the ground, causing it to dissolve. Twilight promptly glomps him happily.
  • With the Loki dealt with, the groups gather outside and relax. While Aphelion still can't get down to the planet without creating an energy field that will let more Loki escape and cause trouble, Nefarious is able to beam out, promising to meet Twilight for their date. While they now have no way of catching him, Twilight has an idea, which Qwark likes.
  • Sometime later, back on his ship, Nefarious plans for his romance with Twilight, and gets an unexpected message: he's being invited to compete in a multi-terrain racing competition (in which participants get to pick up weapons along the track and shoot other competitors to get the lead) that Saturday, which Qwark is also participating in... and if he doesn't do anything evil outside the contest until it ends, he'll be effectively pardoned for all past crimes during that time period and will be allowed to return to his base without trouble afterward. Nefarious likes the idea, since it means he can humiliate Qwark on intergalactic television and get away with it. Little does he suspect it's a set-up between his assistant and Twilight for "Operation Bowser".
  • Interlude: That Friday, Twilight and Nefarious have their date, and Nefarious reveals a surprise: since one thing that's always bothered Twilight is feeling as if she were the only one of her kind, he's modified himself to transform into an alicorn stallion-shaped form. Twilight is very happy about this. He then guides her to a carriage pulled by robotic pegasi (and controlled by his assistant Lawrence), which takes them to a castle he's built so they can go ballroom dancing. In the end, they're both so happy that they decide to keep up the relationship.
  • The next day, the first of the races is held, and Nefarious teases Qwark, making various innuendos about spending the night with Qwark's little sister. Twilight later conforms she was just upgrading his systems to give him male parts, but they didn't actually sleep together... though they will. Ratchet is horrified. Twilight is amused by his reaction.
  • A week after the Galactic Grand Prix's end, Twilight awakens and discovers that Nefarious, with her father's permission, has kidnapped her in order to bait Qwark into coming after him again. In reality, it's just their way of having another date with some... interesting roleplaying involved.
• Arc 11: Into the Nexus (chapters 183-198); interlude (chapters 199-200)
  • Following a time-skip, Twilight, Ratchet, Clank, Cronk and Zephyr have been at work for six months, transporting a woman named Vendra Prog to a maximum-security prison after they captured her. While Twilight goes to do other stuff, Ratchet goes to again question Vendra in her cell. Things turn hairy when Vendra's brother arrives and attacks the ship to rescue her. During the escape, Vendra has a chance to talk with Twilight. When Twilight has no choice but to use her magic to try and stop the other woman, her magic and Vendra's nether energy clash and have a cascading magic/anti-magic reaction. As the two energies react, Neftin and Vendra warp out, while Twilight is blasted into space. Fortunately, she manages to latch onto the ship and reach Ratchet, while also tapping the communications signals of their enemies. Listening in, she wonders why Vendra has specifically ordered her men not to kill. and finally manages to get back inside, meeting up with her parents. The ship soon makes it to the planet Yerek, where they discover that their crewmates Cronk and Zephyr, thought dead in the attack, have been resurrected by Darkwater's curse. Twilight's thrilled.
  • After the reunion, the group begins planning, setting out to find a place where they can signal Aphelion. Exploring, they run into some of Vendra's guards and an escaped prisoner, defeating the guards easily. Witnessing Zephyr and Cronk's new skills, Twilight squeals in delight, imagining what upgrades she could create by studying them. Once everyone's regained their composure (and been equipped with new gear thanks to a lab tech and Twilight), they set off after the tech's boss, and wind up clearing out a Thug Outpost in the process. As a result, Vendra broadcasts a message to them. Hearing it, Twilight's not sure if Vendra's flirting with or threatening Ratchet. He suspects it's both.
  • The team continues on, learning of another tournament being held nearby, and finally locate Pollyx, who agrees to install the system he's been working on - a transdimensional portal device, which he intended to try and find Twilight's home dimension - into Clank. It works, and now he can enter rifts into an alternate dimension known as the Netherverse, which Vendra and Neftin originate from. As they begin exploring more, they discover evidence about the twins' background: Vendra has been manipulated by a being known as Mr. Eye, who also originates from the Netherverse, and is the reason they're experimenting with the boundary between the two universes: the twins just want to go home. But since they've adapted to this world, they can't. So they're going to try and bring their people here instead, not caring what damage it will do after everything that's happened to them here. The group decides that to stop this, they need to save the twins, whether they like it or not.
  • Their mission now clear, the group continues on, finding another audio journal of Vendra's. Listening to it, Ratchet, Clank and Twilight do think that she's a lot like both Twilight and Ratchet, and really would fit into their little family. More journals reveal that Vendra knew of Twilight and once tried to contact her and ask for her help, but she was out of touch at the time (it was after the Dreadzone incident). After finding this journal, they hear Vendra and Neftin nearby, and find them working on their own Dimensionator, which they're trying to use to release Mr. Eye and the other Nethers, though it doesn't quite work. Unfortunately, Mr. Eye catches Twilight and the others spying on them, having heard reference to a "Planet Silox", and Vendra reluctantly orders her men to kill them. The team retreats, and are suddenly contacted by Qwark, who's come to investigate after being alerted. Their description of the Nethers reminds Qwark of the Loki, and his saying so helps Twilight figure out how to stop them. Qwark promises he and Aphelion will be there soon.
  • They do arrive not long after, and are filled in on the twins' plans. After confirming the original Dimensionator is safe (Nefarious made it so only Twilight can access it), there are two things they can do: the Thugs-4-Less Destructapalooza, with an upgrade for Clank (which may or may not be a trap), or Planet Silox, where the twins have also been experimenting. They go for the Destructapalooza so Ratchet can have more time to get through to Vendra. Aphelion is amused that Twilight is apparently still trying to set Ratchet up with more women even after getting a boyfriend of her own.
  • Heading to Planet Kragg and the Destructapalooza, the team easily clears a few events, then moves on to Planet Silox, where they find a recorded message from Vendra, offering them a final chance to join her. The team splits up, Qwark and Cronk staying with Aphelion, while the others (Twilight, Ratchet, Clank and Zephyr) head onward. Making their way through the ruins, they find another message from Vendra, but despite their efforts, they're unable to dissuade her from her plan. Ratchet promises Twilight they won't give up though. Continuing on, they battle their way through various enemies, making their way to the Relay Station to find Vendra and Neftin. Unfortunately, Vendra's already figured out what's going on and has set a trap for them. While the rest of the team handles the troops, Twilight and Clank hack their way into the station, despite Vendra's best efforts to distract them (in which Twilight offers her three choices, one which sends her back to jail, and two which redeem her and get her to join Ratchet's harem), and figure out where she is before destroying the station. Their next destination: the Sly Train Station.
  • Passing a couple of obstacles, the group reaches their destination, and find Neftin waiting, intending to stall them. Twilight agrees to give Vendra the time she needs to breach the boundary of worlds, but only if she can spend that time studying Neftin, which he agrees to. She's utterly fascinated by what she finds, and even Vendra, when she arrives, is surprised by Twilight's continued optimism that she'll wind up a part of their family, either as Ratchet's lover or Dr. Nefarious' adopted daughter (and by extension Twilight's).
  • Still rather confused by Twilight, Vendra winds up opening the portal, releasing the Nethers, including Mr. Eye, who promptly reveals he was just using them and throws Vendra back through the portal, taking the Dimensionator with her. Aphelion promptly arrives, knocks Mr. Eye away, and takes the group away, including Neftin, who advises them to set course for Planet Thram. They arrive soon, and Neftin explains that they need the original Dimensionator from the Museum of Intergalactic History so they can send the Nethers back where they came from and rescue Vendra. Twilight points out she and Qwark could just requisition it with no problem, and makes him agree to a deal: he and Vendra face whatever the law deems is justice for their crimes, and they'll get the Dimensionator. The team then splits into two: five of them will get the Dimensionator from Planet Igliak, and the rest will complete the Destructapalooza on Planet Kragg in order to get anything they might find useful. Then they'll all meet up on Igliak to carry out the rescue. After a few more details are figured out, the teams go their separate ways.
  • Twilight and her group quickly pick up things on Planet Igliak, but by the time they get the Dimensionator, they find the Nether army is invading. Getting the Dimensionator working again and aware that it only has two shots left in it, they send Clank into the Nether Rift, where he rescues Vendra and returns to the main universe. She and Twilight manage to combine their powers, crossing the streams to dispose of Mr. Eye and then open the rift that sends the Nethers away. With their enemies gone, all that's left is for Neftin and Vendra to face justice. And since they were being manipulated by an enemy superpower, the court will probably take it easy on them.
  • Twilight's prediction comes true, as the Court of Azimuth on Fastoon hears their case, with Azimuth himself as the court's Supreme Justice, Orvus as Arbiter (or Prosecutor) and Dr. Nefarious as Advocate/Defense. Azimuth clears them of all charges and sentences Vendra to undergo psychiatric evaluation and treatment until the damage done to her by Mr. Eye's manipulations is repaired. And Ratchet has volunteered to act as their parole officer, which she accepts, while Neftin is sentenced to community service for the duration of his sister's treatment (and to stay with her during that time), which he also accepts.
  • Interlude: After Vendra and Neftin's sentencing, Ratchet and his family return to the Great Clock with them, which utterly thrills the two. Upon arrival, Neftin learns that his "community service" will be repairing the systems in the Clock that he inadvertently damaged in his efforts to free the Nethers. They also meet Nefarious (who Pinkie Promised to never try to take control of or use the Great Clock again, beyond what Orvus approved), who is Vendra's court-appointed therapist. Furthermore, he's also offered to adopt the pair in order to give them more family. They're thrilled by the idea.
  • A few weeks later, everyone has settled into a routine, and are generally relaxing and enjoying themselves. Eventually though, as Vendra's therapy progresses, she's withdrawing into herself, admitting that it's coming up on a part of life that led to things getting ugly: namely, when she tried to contact Twilight for help but couldn't reach her. She talks with Ratchet about this, and he explains that Twilight's "vacation" then was actually a mental health retreat for her, letting her recover from the event with the Dreadzone. (Also, if he'd taken her to the Polaris Galaxy then, Tachyon would have found him that much sooner.) The explanation helps Vendra understand Twilight a great deal.
  • A few weeks after that discussion, Ratchet is called into a meeting with his lovers: the other three are ready to officially welcome Vendra into their group.
• Arc 12: Return to Equestria (chapters 201-203)
  • Some while later, the family is resting, the four Sparkle-Gyros in particular, until Orvus calls them and Aphelion. He finally explains that the four are going alone at the moment, but the others might join them later. Setting course for the Corrigé nebula, they lock onto a mobile etheric source... which turns out to be Equestria. Ratchet has kept his promise, and found her homeworld. However, there are complications preventing them from landing safely, forcing them to arrive on the moon instead, and cause a massive shadow to emerge and head for the planet below.
  • When Twilight eventually awakens, she realizes what's going on: she has not yet caught up to her past. That is, they just landed in her homeworld's own past, and by landing on the moon (and unwittingly freeing Nightmare Moon), they've set in motion the events that will lead to her other self being de-aged and sent to the past. Until the other Twilight goes back in time, they're stuck where they are, and Twilight will essentially follow her other self's life through dreams.
  • Weeks pass. Twilight continues following her life below through dreams, includes such revelations as figuring out where the pirates' curse came from, learning she has another big brother down below who just married her old foalsitter, and suddenly, when they need to get down there. Because as the unicorn Twilight is transforming into an alicorn, an accident occurs, sending her back in time, though Celestia doesn't realize it at the time, believing her accident had killed Twilight.
  • Her attempt to inform Twilight's friends of this is interrupted when Luna pops in and informs her that the Lombaxes have returned and are descending from the moon. As the star of light suddenly descends, it reveals itself, as Twilight, Ratchet, Clank and Qwark land (Qwark crashing into Town Hall, which collapses on top of him, though he's still okay). Celestia is relieved to see Twilight is back and an alicorn, but absolutely stunned that she has access to Lombax tech and Zoni magitech, and isn't quite sure how to react.
  • As Twilight reveals herself to her friends, they're all astounded... and Twilight herself is rather surprised when Celestia and Luna explain that she's now a Princess of Equestria. Meanwhile, Ratchet is also introduced to the group, and Pinkie is revealed as the Plumber's daughter. Qwark and Clank are also introduced, and Pinkie promptly runs off to prepare a party to celebrate her return, ascension, coronation and explanations. Spike shows up shortly and is very happy to see her.
  • Things get a little hectic when Discord suddenly turns up and safely warps Aphelion down to them as well, and she's introduced to the group. And then, as Celestia learns a few more things that Twilight's gotten up to, she asks Applejack for all the reserve cider on the farm, because she's going to need it.
• Arc 13: Equestria Adventures (chapters 204-223)
  • A day later, the group is now visiting the Crystal Empire, having heard the story of Twilight's adventures. Twilight, despite being a Princess now, has no interest in a coronation, but does want to go visit her brother and sister-in-law. While there, Sunset Shimmer emerges from the Crystal Mirror to steal the Element of Magic... but wasn't expecting Twilight to be there with an anti-tank sniper rifle. Running off in terror, she escapes back through the portal. The next morning, Twilight asks Celestia for details on Sunset and the portal.
  • Princess Celestia explains about Sunset and what she's done. Twilight immediately makes plans to go through the mirror and retrieve her crown, and to stop Sunset without harming her. Furthermore, in case she doesn't make it back in time, Ratchet can install the mirror in the Dimensionator, letting them reopen the portal again.
  • Crossing through the mirror with Spike, Twilight finds herself in a world of humans. While thrilled at her new appearance, she's annoyed when she finds the portal turned Spike into a dog, calling it specist. She also confirms Aphelion can still track her, and has a general location on her Element: it's in the high school ahead of her.
  • Entering the school, Twilight quickly finds Sunset and the human Fluttershy, and proceeds to intimidate her fellow Equestrian into finding a private place, making it look like they want to go make out. Sunset is both suitably cowed and turned on by this, and very impressed by Twilight's being so much tougher than most ponies. Their talk is interrupted when Nefarious calls, having heard about Twilight going into a world with no magic, but Twilight explains that she's perfectly safe and sends him photos of her human form. He's obviously interested. Once the call is done, Twilight and Sunset continue their discussion. Sunset explains her story, including what she planned for the Element (short version, she wanted to trigger an alicorn transformation). When Twilight informs her that her plan would probably have turned her into something more like Nightmare Moon, Sunset is grateful to Twilight for stopping her. Twilight them offers her two choices: either she's arrested and handed over to Celestia, or she becomes Twilight's student and stays at Canterlot High learning about friendship, magic and science, including making up for all the wrong she did to her classmates. Sunset agrees to the latter, before Twilight and Nefarious retrieve the crown (and make it look like Sunset got it back from them).
  • With her element retrieved, Twilight returns to Equestria, then questions Celestia about Sunset. Celestia confesses that she and her pet phoenix, Philomena, are Sunset's biological parents, and due to being half phoenix, Sunset's been effectively reincarnating every burning day since, with no memory of her past life. Twilight's main response to this: "Your daughter's hot."
  • Once Celestia calms down somewhat, Twilight explains everything that happened on the other side, then introduces Nefarious (who's just returned) to all of them as her boyfriend. Reactions vary, and Shining Armor tries to threaten him, but Nefarious tells him what Clank already threatened him with. He also tells how he and Twilight got together. Once he knows the full story, Shining Armor decides that anyone who went as far as Nefarious did to make Twilight happy is all right, and welcomes him to the family.
  • Meanwhile, Celestia is still somewhat freaking out, when the floor suddenly rips open and the Plundervines attack, dragging she and Luna away. Twilight asks Discord what he might know about this, and finally gets him to admit his involvement, as he explains the Plundervines. She's interested in the concept (especially growing versions without thorns), and after some planning, the six Element-bearers prepare to set out.
  • As they make their way through the forest, Twilight explains how Qwark became her brother. When they arrive at the Palace of the Pony Sisters and find the Tree of Harmony, Twilight calls Discord for information. Finally, after debating ways to handle future threats without the Elements (and one of Twilight's ideas is to create an alternate means to tap the Tree's power), they return the Elements to the Tree and save Celestia and Luna, prompting the tree to give them what Twilight describes as "a crystallized quintessence hypercube storage unit". Twilight's thrilled.
  • Meanwhile, Shining Armor has contacted his parents, and so Night Light and Twilight Velvet head straight to Ponyville to reunite with Twilight. While looking around, they find Neftin, who explains the time/space travel (which doesn't surprise them due to their careers), leads them to the library and introduces them to the other newcomers. While Velvet discusses Twilight's childhoods with her other parents, Night Light talks with Nefarious, and is satisfied with the answers. Their talk is suddenly interrupted when Velvet joins them and informs Nefarious that she wants grandfoals.
  • Some time later, Twilight and Spike travel through the Castle of the Pony Sisters, Twilight grumbling about Velvet's suggestions on how Twilight and Nefarious can have children together. Later that same day, Twilight's reading is interrupted by screams, and she finds four of her friends wandering around and terrified out of their wits. Twilight is able to get them calmed down, and they spend the rest of the day enjoying themselves in the castle's library.
  • Some time later, a celebration is interrupted when Rainbow Dash arrives, and her excitement over the release of the next Daring Do book leads to a handful of reveals: first, that the publishing date was pushed back another few months. Second, Velvet runs the publishing company that puts out the books. And third, thanks to Aphelion, they all find out that the series is actually an autobiography, released under an alias. While Rainbow Dash promptly demands that Twilight help Daring recover her artifact, Twilight's not willing to do so at first. She changes her mind when Nefarious pops in with a message from his future self that if they don't help, it'll leave the world an apocalyptic wasteland. Twilight finally sends Rainbow Dash off to help Daring. Some while later, Rainbow returns, and also has an advance copy of the book... which reveals, truthfully, that Rainbow is actually Daring Do's long-lost daughter, which Twilight was not expecting.
  • Over the next three weeks, Twilight helps Spike with his own problems while they sort the library in the Castle of the Two Sisters, and deals with a problem involving vampire fruit bats at Sweet Apple Acres by adjusting their migration cycle so they'll only stop in uninhabited areas. The next event is the qualifying rounds for the Equestria Games, and Twilight has to advise Rainbow Dash when she has to decide between flying with the Wonderbolts or staying with her Ponyville team.
  • More time passes, and Twilight reflects on recent events, including her visit with Cadance and Discord's "Blue Flu" incident. Meanwhile, Pinkie is feeling depressed over Rainbow Dash choosing another pony to throw her big birthaversary party, and Twilight advises her on the matter, leading to Pinkie and Cheese Sandwich talking and... more, as he explains how she helped him become the pony he is today. By the time he finally leaves town after the party, he's proposed.
  • The next set of events have Twilight becoming a teacher to the Cutie Mark Crusaders. It goes about as well as expected, with the trio somehow creating and riding around on a cyborg plant.
  • More time passes. Twilight learns about the Breezies from Fluttershy, and meets and spends time getting to know Pinkie's sister Maud, while Qwark helps Applejack out with Flim and Flam when they return. His efforts leave her very appreciative, and he winds up asking Twilight to turn him into a pony temporarily so he and Applejack can go on a date.
  • Twilight's next project: helping Rainbow Dash learn what she needs to pass the history exam she'll be taking to get into the Wonderbolts Reserve. Which, in her case, means showing her the events from the past. Later on, Twilight deals with matters at the Rainbow Falls Swap Meet, and helps Spike get over stage fright in time for the Equestria Games, letting him light its torch without any problems.
  • Some time later, Twilight is summoned to Canterlot, along with Spike, and when Celestia starts to tell her about Tirek and Scorpan, she quickly figures out Tirek has escaped Tartarus and has finally regained enough strength to start stealing pony magic again. And since Twilight's own experiments into the nature of Equestria's magical field are preventing Discord from sending the disruptions caused by this magic-stealing, they need a new solution. Fortunately, Twilight has one, which involves tweaking her RYNO weapons to run on Harmony Energy (which means opening the box from the Tree of Harmony). And on top of that, Nefarious will be kidnapping all of them shortly, and giving them a vacation at the Ponyville Day Spa so they can relax until Tirek shows up. Sighing, Celestia resigns herself to letting Twilight handle matters her way.
  • The mini-vacation goes well, but Tirek doesn't show up, leaving Twilight to work on her backup plan. During this time, she figures out how to open the box from the Tree of Harmony, and the other girls quickly add their own keys to it. The only one who hasn't is Twilight... until she notices the rainbow glow coming from the pendant Qwark gave her after officially becoming her big brother. However, she's unwilling to give it up, so they need something else, and Rarity has an idea. While Nefarious distracts Twilight, Rarity works with the others to create a new pendant with seven essence crystals, one for each of the other Bearers, Spike and Qwark. When she gives it to Twilight, it glows in rainbow colors, signaling that either it or the older pendant can be used for a key. Twilight decides to use the original Q pendant, placing it on the box... only for it to split into two spheres of energy, one merging with the pendant Rarity made and the other forming the key.
  • Nefarious suddenly detects a sudden surge in magic, which he figures out is Tirek, who's on a direct course for Ponyville. The others promptly hop into their Protosuits, turn the keys... and prepare for the final battle. Outside, as Tirek marches toward Ponyville and drains anypony in their way, he suddenly finds a human in his path: Qwark. Recognizing Qwark's power of imagination, Tirek reflects on two previous attacks he'd made on Equestria, including an event when, in his previous incarnation, the imagination of human children had created the Rainbow of Light, which defeated him time and time again until he finally died and reincarnated. While he now has a counter, he quickly figures out that Qwark's power is much more than what he's faced before, and surrenders, right before Twilight and the others show up in a massive robotic construct thrumming with the energies of the Rainbow of Light (which, to his knowledge, had been sealed away in the Tree of Harmony after the last time it was used against him). Its power quickly defeats him, returning the stolen magic to its original owners and sending Tirek back to Tartarus.
  • In the aftermath, the Protosuits return to the Box, which then transforms itself into a massive floating crystal castle, humming with magic and Zoni energy. Twilight immediately declares it hers.
• Arc 14: Epilogue (chapters 224-226)
  • As the seven observe the castle, they're suddenly beamed up, and begin looking around the inside. They find thrones for all of them, and as they sit, a strange table appears in front of them, displaying a map of Equestria... and opening a path to a certain village, at Spike's cue. They realize he can now open the doors and send them anywhere, or anywhen, which he's impressed by when he realizes the implications. Heading through the door, they find themselves in Our Town, and soon meet Starlight Glimmer... who, upon recognizing her, throws her forelegs around Twilight and calls her "Mommy". Everyone is dumbfounded.
  • As Twilight just stands there looking confused, another pony, Sunburst, arrives and sends her inside to play with their foal Sunstar, while he explains about the closed corrected quantum loop that led to Twilight traveling in time (or rather, sending a Mirror Pool copy of herself back in this timeline) to adopt Starlight as a filly and raise her. Twilight immediately sets out to do her part in this time loop.
  • After Twilight completes the time loop and recovers her memories of her other self, and Starlight disbands her "cult" (telling the members she only created it to fulfill the stable time loop), Twilight has to introduce her new daughter, son-in-law and grandson to her families. After this, Twilight takes a break from Equestria to spend some time with Sunset, who has apparently acquired both Adagio and the human Twilight as companions. Explanations and a continuation of her adventures will be made in another story. (Neither of which will be canon to My Little PWNY.)
  • The End

The Technological Technicolor Technomare

• Arc 1: Early years (chapters 1-6)
  • One morning, as he’s working on another of his Iron Man armors, Tony Stark is alerted by his A.I. JARVIS to a powerful, highly focused dimensional anomaly… right behind him. The rift deposits a tiny cyan pony in his arms, whom he quickly discovers has a rainbow mane and tail, and a pair of wings. And as Tony also discovers, she can talk. And has imprinted on him, calling him “Daddy”. After learning her name, Tony calls Thor and shows the infant to him, asking for his help in identifying her species (pegasus).
  • Soon after, as Tony tries to work out what she likes to eat, the Hulk shows up to investigate the “anomaly” that Dr. Banner (his other self) had detected, and helps himself to Rainbow Dash’s food. She tries to attack him, the two get into a little fight, and when Hulk throws her through the window, Rainbow Dash demonstrates her Sonic Rainboom. Which Hulk finds tasty, as he’s able to eat the energy contrail she left behind. JARVIS also reports the energies are similar to those given off by the ten rings of Tony’s enemy, the Mandarin. When Tony points this out (and the danger Rainbow Dash could be in if he shows up), Hulk decides to be her protector and, when Rainbow Dash likes the idea, her nanny. She also insists he look the part. Not long after, Pepper Potts shows up to find Hulk in a French maid’s outfit. Which Hulk says makes him feel pretty. Rainbow Dash thinks it’s hilarious. Pepper is dumbfounded.
  • About a week later, after Hulk (now wearing a Mrs. Doubtfire outfit) has captured a baby Zilla (which Rainbow Dash names Zuki) for the filly’s pet, Nick Fury drops in to ask about the situation, and Tony convinces him to get American citizenship for Rainbow Dash so he can legally adopt her. After Rainbow Dash herself shows up and gives him the puppy-dog eyes, Nick admits defeat (though he doesn’t let on that her cuteness played any part).
  • Some time later, Tony decides to get Rainbow Dash into kindergarten. It doesn’t work out as planned, and he settles on homeschooling her as he’d wanted all along. During their homeschooling, Rainbow Dash starts working on his armor, and in the process, discovers that she learns best when things are active in front of her and fun, which helps them a great deal.
  • More time passes and, after multiple discussions with Pepper, Hulk and Nick Fury, Rainbow Dash comes up with a plan… to make Pepper her official mom. While things don’t go quite as planned, Tony manages to propose to Pepper, making Rainbow Dash very happy.
• Arc 2: Armor Up (chapters 7-9)
  • After about a year of education, Tony discovers Rainbow Dash trying to build her own suit of armor, running on her own bioenergy rather than an arc reactor. However, there are still some complications, and Tony finally figures out a solution, including an arc battery to absorb her energy and modify the suit to run off that instead of her directly. Some time later, when the villain group AIM attacks the city, Rainbow Dash is on her own to stop another group, the Wrecking Crew. With the aid of Zuki, she defeats them, but is horrified at the damage she did to them in the process. Fortunately, Tony is able to help talk her down and convince her she’s not a monster, and she’s not a killer: she’s a warrior. He then offers her training, with help from Steve Rogers (Captain America), which she happily accepts.
• Arc 3: Training (chapters 10-13)
  • Time passes, and Rainbow Dash trains under Tony, Steve and Thor. Sometime later, now eleven, she goes out for another round of patrols, and discovers Ultron 19 in the city. After discovering his identity and purpose (to become perfect), she asks him what he'll do after he achieves his goal of becoming perfect - what if he doesn't like it? Her words, and some more that follow, result in his accepting her friendship and partitioning his mind so he can spend part of it analyzing the impact of what he’s learned from her, and part of it controlling his body and watching her live. She happily takes him home, which startles the others when they return… but they accept him.
  • About a year later, Tony and Pepper wake up to hear Hulk and Ultron arguing over who’s going to take her for her morning walk. Rainbow Dash is annoyed at being woken up early, and threatens to go with Steve instead. And he’ll even go out in a suitable outfit. When Tony and Pepper hear he’s really wearing something, they go in to find Ultron in a Nanny McPhee outfit, Hulk in his usual Mrs. Doubtfire outfit, and Steve as Mary Poppins. Over his usual costume. And then the couple discover that in their rush to get in there, they accidentally put on one another’s clothes. Thor shows up too and, seeing their outfits, joins them by switching to female armor from a Wagnerian opera. Rainbow Dash, thinking it’s hilarious, dons her formal pants suit, and the seven go out.
  • When they hit Broadway, things take a turn for the even wackier, as Hulk starts singing “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story. Ultron chooses to do his own version, followed by Steve, Tony (at Pepper’s cajoling) and Thor… and then a bunch of other people show up, all in the stereotypical clothing of the opposite gender, and start singing more songs from the same musical. And then they do other shows as well. Nick Fury, watching the security feeds, can’t quite believe his eyes. Elsewhere, Loki also watches and decides to stay away lest he fall under Rainbow’s spell as well. The next morning, the team discovers the headline in the newspapers: “Avengers Show Wholehearted Support of Rainbow Pride Day”. When Rainbow Dash comments on how she gave the people what they wanted (a chance to meet her), most everyone starts laughing hysterically, except for a confused Ultron.
  • More time passes, and Rainbow Dash celebrates her thirteenth birthday.
• Arc 4: The Invasion (chapters 14-18)
  • Even more time passes. Now sixteen, Rainbow Dash continues trying to improve her armor, but one morning, things take a turn for the ugly when she catches a Skrull impersonating Bruce Banner. The Avengers immediately set out to defend Earth from the Skrulls, with other heroes acting around the world to fight back the invasion. During the battle, Rainbow Dash decides to take the fight into space, which she can do thanks to the recent upgrades for her suit, which can now turn sunlight into magic and magic into oxygen. With the help of the Hulk, she enters orbit, and unleashes the power of the Sonic Rainboom from her arc batteries, demolishing the invasion force in orbit… but the rest of the team loses contact with her.
  • Three days pass. The team, believing Rainbow dead, mourns her loss. But on the third day, she manages to contact them from the moon. With no ships to get him there and back, Tony asks for Hulk’s help in getting into orbit to rescue her. Finally landing on the moon, he retrieves her and heads back to Earth… except the odds of surviving re-entry are almost none. Tony orders re-entry anyway, fully expecting to sacrifice himself so Rainbow Dash can survive… until unexpected aid shows up: Odin rescues the two and takes them back to New York, alive and well. Over the days that follow, the two recover, and Odin declares Earth an Asgardian Protectorate, allowing them to protect the planet from outside attacks and prevent such a disaster as the Skrull invasion from happening again. They also help in the repairs.
  • Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash talks matters over with Pepper, who helps her get past recent events, and reveals something that she’d learned shortly before the invasion: she’s pregnant. Rainbow Dash is going to be a big sister. And she’s very excited.
• Arc 5: Sisterhood (chapters 19-20)
  • About eight months later, Pepper gives birth (fortunately to a human baby and not to a pony who’d eat Rainbow’s head - that was only in a nightmare that Rainbow Dash had thanks to Clint), and Howard Awesome Stark is adored by all. (Pepper will never quite live down letting Rainbow chose her baby brother’s middle name.)
• Arc 6: Finale (chapters 21-24)
  • Some time later, the Mandarin finally shows up, using the draconic alien Fin Fang Foom as a distraction for the Avengers while seeking to capture Rainbow Dash. Needless to day, Rainbow Dash isn’t going to give in easily. While Zuki defeats Fin Fang Foom, Rainbow Dash swipes Mandarin’s rings and, trying to draw out their power with a Rainboom, unwittingly opens a portal to another world. Awakening on the other side, she discovers herself and Tony alive and well, but the Mandarin reduced to a skeleton. The pair are found by Scootaloo, and theorize together what happened to send Rainbow Dash to New York and, later, what brought her back. That’s when they notice the other Bearers, Spike and Tank watching them, and recovers some memories, recognizing her pet tortoise. Moments later, another rift opens, and Zuki crosses over, merging with Tank.
  • After some more thinking, Rainbow Dash uses the medallion Odin gave her after the Skrull invasion to summon the Bifrost, and Sleipnir emerges, greeting the others and revealing, in the process, that Princesses Luna and Celestia are his daughters… and Discord is his brother.
  • With Rainbow’s return to Equestria, things change… yet stay the same in some ways. The princesses reconnect with Asgard, Tony builds a permanent, stable portal between Earth and Equestria, and Rainbow Dash gets used to life in that land again while the events of season 4 pass (including Maud Pie coming to Ponyville and dating Ultron). Finally, when Tirek begins his attempt at taking all the magic in Equestria, Rainbow Dash finds a solution: she summons Hulk, in his Mrs. Doubtfire outfit, to help out. Hulk promptly spanks Tirek into submission, releasing the magic he stole… and Twilight, who arrives on the scene, can’t quite make sense of what she’s seeing.
  • The end.

You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter

• Arc 1: Ascension (chapters 1-2)
  • Moments after killing Orkos, Kratos discovers a crystal containing a tiny pink pony named Pinkie Pie, whom he frees from her prison. Together, the two set out to make amends for their past mistakes, with Kratos taking Pinkie as his daughter and training her in the ways of the Spartans.
• Arc 2: Chains of Olympus (chapters 3-13)
  • During his time of serving the gods to achieve redemption for his crimes, Kratos and Pinkie are defending the city of Attica from the invading Persian army, and witness the sun falling from the sky. Learning the sun god Helios has been abducted by the Titan Atlas, and that the god Morpheus is putting the other gods in an enchanted sleep, the pair set out to rescue Helios. Traveling to the Underworld, they meet the goddess Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, who reunites them with Kratos' deceased daughter Calliope. Along the way, Pinkie realizes that Morpheus and Atlas are both working for Persephone, and that she wants Atlas to use Helios' power to destroy Olympus and the world, thus freeing her from her unwanted marriage to the god Hades. With Pinkie's help, Calliope is freed from her place in the Underworld, taking up residence in a suit of animated armor, and Kratos goes off to confront Atlas and free Helios. While he's gone, Pinkie convinces Persephone to give up her plan and instead enter an enchanted sleep, which will last until either the world has changed enough that she can end her marriage legally, or Hades has changed to become a man she can love. When Kratos has chained up Atlas again and returns with Helios, the trio visit Persephone's husband so Pinkie can give him marriage advice. The three Spartans then leave the Underworld together.
• Arc 3: God of War (chapters 14-27)
  • Five years after their mission to the Underworld, Kratos and his daughters battle a hydra en route to Athens. After defeating it, they learn from Athena that the city is under attack by the god Ares, and are tasked with stopping him. This mission involves finding Pandora's Box, the only item which can grant a mortal the power to kill a god, and is hidden within the Temple of Pandora, itself mounted on the back of the Titan Kronos, who wanders through the Desert of Lost Souls. After the group acquires the Box, they are unexpectedly attacked by Ares' servants, who steal the Box and kill Kratos, leaving him impaled to the wall. Enraged, Pinkie and Calliope fly back to Athens to avenge their father, battling Ares and quickly proving a match for him. Meanwhile, a much-changed Hades rescues Kratos as he falls into the Underworld, and Zeus restores him to life and takes him back to Athens. Seeing their father alive, Pinkie and Calliope are overjoyed, and the trio perform a final attack that kills Ares.
  • With the god of war dead, Kratos is finally told that the true key to his redemption is for him to learn to forgive himself. With that achieved, Zeus comments that they need a new hiding place for Pandora's Box, prompting Pinkie to hide it away in her mane (an act which will cause a stable time loop that resulted in Pinkie's arrival in this world in the first place). Finally, Zeus informs Kratos of the reward he's earned for stopping Ares: ascension to Olympus as the new god of war. With the approval of his daughters, Kratos accepts. (And then Pinkie lets Zeus know she knows he's Kratos' father.)
  • After the family ascends to Olympus, Hades informs them that Persephone is awake again, as Hades has indeed become a man she can love. With his and Persephone's permission, Pinkie restores Calliope to a human body.
• Arc 4: Ghost of Sparta (chapter 28)
  • Some time later, still haunted by visions of his mortal past, Kratos gains permission from Zeus to use the Olympian Gates to visit his mother Callisto in Poseidon's Temple in Atlantis, where they learn that Zeus had ordered Kratos' brother Deimos to be imprisoned by Thanatos, the God of Death. In the process, Pinkie inadvertently reveals that she knows Zeus is Kratos' father. Angered, Kratos sets out for the Temple of Ares in Sparta, which will allow him to enter Thanatos' realm. En route, Zeus stops him and informs him of a prophecy stating that a marked warrior born of Sparta would bring about the downfall of Olympus, and that he'd ordered Deimos taken to Thanatos' realm in order to prevent the prophecy from coming to pass. When Ares learned the prophecy actually meant Kratos, he tried to use Kratos to overthrow Olympus for that reason. Realizing (with Pinkie's help) that taking Deimos is what caused Kratos to become the warrior of the prophecy, Zeus apologizes for the mistakes he's made in trying to protect Olympus, and asks Kratos to seek out Thanatos and rescue Deimos from him. The trio descend into Thanatos' realm, where Pinkie barters Deimos' release for two boxes of cupcakes (one for Thanatos and one for his daughter); trying one, Thanatos agrees to the deal, and Deimos is freed.
• Arc 5: God of War II (chapters 29-30)
  • Some time later, Greece and Olympus are at peace, with Deimos, Callisto and Calliope all living in Sparta, and Pinkie coming up with creative but harmless ways for the gods to settle disputes. She also finally settles the long dispute between the gods and Titans (via cupcakes), and afterward heads to the Temple of the Fates to kill the trio and end their hold over the lives of the Titans, gods and mortals. After Lakhesis and Atropos are killed, Pinkie shows Clotho, the last Fate, what the future holds if they die, and persuades her that this is the right way. Clotho allows Pinkie to end her, and dies still looking at that vision of the future.
• Arc 6: Finale (chapters 31-33)
  • With the Fates gone, the gods and Titans set out to find Pinkie's homeworld for her, so that she can return there and finally experience romance and reproduction (something they'd secretly prevented her from experiencing while in Greece via a series of enchantments). Tracking her thread on the loom of fate, they are able to backtrack to her original world and create a two-way portal in time and space so she can freely travel between Greece and Equestria. When she is told of this, she and Kratos travel to Equestria and arrive just in time to deal with the Plundervines. In the process, they discover that after Pinkie left Earth, the Titans had also all left Earth to forge new worlds, including the one they're now on. Returning to Ponyville, Pinkie happily reunites with the rest of her friends. Including Big Macintosh, whom Kratos thoroughly approves of after discovering the two in bed together and having a short talk with him about his intentions.
  • Months later, as Tirek carries out his rampage, Pinkie proves to be immune to his magic-draining abilities due to having the favor of the Titans who created their world, allowing her to utterly brutalize him, release all the magic he stole, and let an undead army finally kill him, taking his skull as her trophy. Afterward, Discord reveals that his betrayal of the group wasn't real: Kratos had asked him to pretend to switch sides and allow Tirek to get strong enough to be a real challenge for Pinkie Pie going all out… all as Kratos' birthday present to Pinkie, much to her delight and her friends' confusion.
  • The end.