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Post by Bio Plus on Jan 30, 2014 13:38:35 GMT -5
"Blankflank." Celestia said still keeping calm. "This isn't you, please tell me what's going on. I understand that you want to lash out, hurt somepony, I really do. But this isn't your decision, is it? What's going on?" The first blankflank took a step away from Celestia. The third Blankflank turned away from the Mayor and face Twilight with the second one. "Yes sadness is a choice." The third one told Twilight. "And I'm choosing sadness. For you." "I don't think it's you that should be alone Mayor." The second one said as a glass room started coming out of the ground around Twilight, surrounding her. "I think it's Twilight that should be alone. To see if she still remembers all the good memories of her friends long after she's consumed by sorrow." "Twilight!" Celestia called out when she saw what was happening. "You have a destiny, but you don't know what it is?" The fourth asked Cherry. "How laughable, maybe your the one that shouldn't have a cutie mark." As she said it Cherry's cutie mark disappeared. "Don't let her get to you Cherry." Incognito said from his spot next to her. "You have to concentrate. Remember how you revived that flower? Ripple is trapped inside Blankflank, you have to bring her out, revive her just like you did the flower. Use your magic."
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Jan 31, 2014 0:44:32 GMT -5
Cherry looked down at the ground. "I might not know what my destiny is yet..." then she looks up, "but there is something I do know!" Cherry's horn starts to glow, her wings as spread out, and her necklace starts to glow. "Is that the power of friendship is stronger than anything!" Cherry's cutie mark comes back and a bright beam shoots out of her horn and into the sky. The area around them starts to become brighter and cheerier. The 4th Blankflank starts to get covered in flowers.
Soon after the flowers have cover her whole body, the flowers disappeared and the 4th Blankflank was gone. Right after the same thing happened to the 2nd and 3rd Blankflank.
Soon the first Blankflank too started to get covered in flowers. Soon the flowers completely covered her and as the flowers slowly disappeared they started to reveal Ripple standing there. Then a bright flash of light emitted from Cherry's horn and she fell to the floor from exhaustion.
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Post by Bio Plus on Jan 31, 2014 3:09:19 GMT -5
ooc: I've put strikethroughs in the parts of your post that shouldn't be there. You can edit those out. Attacking Blankflank with your magic, having the flowers cover her and such, that's all fine, but having Blankflank speak or move is usually frowned upon in any kind of rp no matter the situation. The last part I striked out was you taking control of the story, which isn't really how to situation should end. I left the parts in about Blankflank disappearing and Ripple reappearing since that fits with what I have planned. I did want Cherry to solve the problem and you did a good job with that, but for story reasons Blankflank isn't going to act surprised like you depicted her.
The glass cage around Twilight shattered. "Great work Cherry." Incognito praised her. "You truly are a special pony." "Where am I?" Ripple asked standing where Blankflank was, looking around confused. "What's going on?" Celestia looked around wildly and searched for the Blankflanks that disappeared. "What happened? Cherry, what did you do?" Celestia asked, still calm, but there was edge of worry in her voice. Incognito jumped on the exhausted Cherry's back and smiled at Celestia. An evil, malicious smile. "You!" Celestia screamed angrily. "What did you have her do?" "I only had her free Ripple from Blankflank." The shadowy cat said. The world around them started to crack and parts of it disappeared. A laughter filled all around them and out of the ground Blankflank appeared again. "And in return she freed me from Ripple and her world." The world kept falling apart and as the last of it disappeared they found themselves standing in a field of grass outside of the real Alfalfa. But all the grass and trees around them were dead and worried ponies were running around in the town. "And since Ripple's prison is no more." Incognito said. "I've been set free as well." The cat put his paw on Cherry's head. "Look around you Cherry, isn't it wonderful." He said showing her the dead grass and trees. "You made all this possible and soon the whole Equestria will look like this and belong to you."
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Jan 31, 2014 9:58:45 GMT -5
"T-this isn't what I wanted at all..." Cherry said still kind of exhausted. She stood up and Incognito jump onto the ground. "So this is all your fault?!" she yelled at Incognito with her horn starting to glow again. You could see how upset and angry she was at him.
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Post by Bio Plus on Jan 31, 2014 16:26:19 GMT -5
"Not at all." Incognito told Cherry. "It was your magic that did this, you that used it. I only used you, put your magic to better use. You trusted me and I can't lie. I gave you a destiny and you accepted it. I couldn't have done this without you." "Don't listen to him Cherry!" Ripple called out to her. "You can't trust anything he says. And don't use your magic while you're near the necklace. That's the only way he can control your magic, the necklace steals it as long as it belongs to you."
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Jan 31, 2014 16:32:34 GMT -5
Twilight breathed a sigh of relief at being free though she tried to put on a brave face. The horror on her face at the sight of Alfalfa, however, couldn't be hidden. "What's happening here Princess?" She tried to hide behind Princess Celestia. "How do you know about the necklace?" Mayor Mare asked Ripple, "Confused at all the moving around they were doing.
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Post by Bio Plus on Jan 31, 2014 17:01:27 GMT -5
"Cherry has a special gift to care for plants." Celestia told Twilight. "But what she can give to plants, she can also take away." "And soon all of Equestria will look like this." Blankflank told Celestia. "I have waited too long to spread sorrow throughout these lands." "So you were working with Incognito all this time?" Clestia asked her. "Why would you? Why would you help the creature that hurt you so much?" "Because he made me see the truth." Blankflank told her. "That only with his help can I truly have revenge."
"Because he gave me that necklace once." Ripple told the Mayor with tears in her eyes. "Because that's how he used my power to kidnap all my friends when I was still a little filly."
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Jan 31, 2014 18:47:27 GMT -5
Cherry quickly took the necklace off and threw it on the ground. "All I have to do is not use my magic until we get rid of this thing and everything will be fine... right Celestia?"
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 1, 2014 6:53:55 GMT -5
"I'm afraid not Cherry." Celestia told her. "The shape shifter can still use the power that the necklace has absorb and you're the only one that can bring Ripple and Blankflank back together, but the use your magic now, while the necklace belongs to you, could be disastrous." Celestia walked up next to her. "But don't worry, we are all here to help." "Don't forget I also have Blankflank on my side." Incognito chipped in. "That's right." Blankflank laughed and the ponies in town that was starting to slowly approach the group when they saw the Princess, started to disappear one by one. "Stop it!" Ripple screamed. "You're doing the same thing he made us do last time! I'm not a filly anymore, I wont let you do it!" Ripple pounced towards Blankflank, but she disappeared in a flash. Ripple disappeared as well and the two reappeared behind the group with Ripple tackling Blankflank to the ground. "We have to break the connection the shape shifter has with the necklace." Celestia told them. "It's the only way to prevent him from ever using it again. I'm counting on you Cherry to keep it for now and not give him a chance to deceive more ponies. And we need to have Ripple let go of her sorrow for the loss of her friends. She has made lots of new friends, but as long as she blames herself for what happened to her friends in the past she'll always be in conflict with Blankflank." Celestia turned to Twilight. "Twilight, you're the only other pony here that can teleport, I'm counting on you to do what you can to help Ripple with Blankflank." She then turned to Incognito. "And we will stop you shape shifter, I promise you." "You've already taken everything away from me Princess." Incognito said mockingly. "I welcome you to try and take more." And as to make his point clear more trees started to fall over and rot.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Feb 1, 2014 9:31:16 GMT -5
Mayor Mare stood by the Princess, "I'll help in whatever way I can as well." She said resolutely. "Yes Princess. I'll do what I can." Twilight said and teleported to Ripples location behind the group. She didn't feel right attacking blank flank, even after all she had done, and frantically rethought her promise to do whatever she could. She wasn't sure how to help at all at the moment.
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Feb 1, 2014 16:10:47 GMT -5
Cherry picks up the necklace and puts it back on. "What do you want me to do Celestia?"
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 1, 2014 20:24:02 GMT -5
"Cherry, I know I'm asking a lot from you, but there is something I need you to do." Celestia told her. "This shape shifter wont leave your side or go very far because of the magic he wants from you. He also knows how the necklace works and how to destroy it. He can't tell any lies, but he can still deceive you. I want you to try and learn anything you can from him about the necklace, try to look through his deceit, but be careful." "A little game before you loose your kingdom Celestia?" Incognito asked. "What fun, but are you sure that Cherry may not join me of her own free will at the end of this game?" "I believe in her." Celestia told the shadowy cat. "You're the only one here that will loose." Celestia tuned to Mayor Mare. "Mayor, I want you to help both Twilight and Cherry, help Cherry to find the truth in the shape shifter's words and I want you to collect the memories of Ripple's old friends, you need to gather them and give them to Twilight, she knows a spell that can show Blankflank and Ripple those memories and maybe they'll finally be able to put the past behind them."
"You little foal!" Blankflank yelled at Ripple. "How dare you defy me?" She teleported out from under Ripple to behind her. Ripple followed by teleporting behind Blankflank. "How dare you try and control me!" She yelled. The two teleported again and Ripple again tried to hold Blankflank down.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Feb 3, 2014 20:33:44 GMT -5
OOC: I though it was something like that I'll clean up and post a new post. BIC: "Collect her memories? How am I to do that?" Mayor Mare asked confused at the concept. "She started slowly in the direction of Cherry and Incognito but kept an attentive eye and ear in Celestia's direction pending further instruction. OOC: Now... I'm still not sure how Twilight's suppose to be helping? What did you have in mind there?
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 4, 2014 17:43:22 GMT -5
ooc: @broly- I have no idea, but the cages that you made is an interesting idea and one I can work with, even if I should adjust Blankflank's power a bit. @cherry- This is really a character building moment for Cherry, she has to handle this situation her way as well as dealing with a character that betrayed her. I don't want to give too much input from my side and want you to handle this in your own way. Don't worry too much about the right answer though and try to concentrate on what Cherry would do.
"I will be sending her memories to you." Celestia told Mayor Mare. "I trust you to look after things out here while I'm in there." Celestia said. With a flash Celestia teleported in front of Blankflank and Ripple and touched her horn to Blankflank's horn. Celestia vanished in front of all the ponies. "Princess Celestia!" Ripple asked shocked. "What did you do to her!?" "I did nothing!" Blankflank answered, also confused about what happened.
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Feb 5, 2014 10:47:53 GMT -5
Cherry looks down at the necklace and then back up at Incognito. "Tell me how the necklace works." She told him, looking him in the eyes.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Feb 5, 2014 12:33:15 GMT -5
Mayor Mare was completely blown away. Given what she was talking about with the memories and such and then disappearing as she did Celestia must have gone into Blankflank's mind. "Twilight. I think Princess Celestia entered Blank Flanks mind. I'll leave you to watch things over here until I receive... the memories, from the Princess. Until then, I'm going to help Cherry." Mayor Mare called out to Twilight who seemed just as shocked as she was. Twilight snapped too and nodded at the Mayor before turning back to Ripple and Blankflank. Mayor Mare walked up to stand beside Cherry and aid in her questioning of Incognito as best she could. Twilight tried to figure out the best way to help and figured protecting Ripple and Blankflank, who held the Princess, would be best. Her horn glowed bright as she teleported the two mares to either side of her with plenty of room. The color of her magic then changed to an eerie black and green and her eyes gave off a green aura as she encapsulated the two in pink force fields which seemed charged with green static electricity which arced occasionally from it's sureface. The semi-spherical force fields were based on the crystal prison Somber created in the crystal kingdom and would undo any attempt to teleport outside of them.
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 5, 2014 17:20:23 GMT -5
"It works just like I told you." Incognito told Cherry. "It helps to focus your magic, helps to draw it out. It draws out as much magic as it can, more than you need." Incognito touched Cherry's chest and moved his shadowy paws to the necklace. "It stores the magic you don't use and when I will it, it uses you to cast the magic that it stored to do what I want with it. There's an easy way to break the link between you and the necklace, but I don't want you to get hurt Cherry."
"Twilight, what are you doing?" Ripple asked confused at being trapped by her. Blankflank tried to teleport, but with no success. "How dare you! You think you can match magic with me!" She yelled at Twilight. Her eyes glowed brighter than ever and Twilight was Teleported into the force field that held Ripple. "Do you think you could make this bigger?" Ripple asked as the two ponies were squeezed in the force field.
Celestia walked in the silent world that they were in previously. With Blankflank gone there was nothing here, not even light or dark. "Alright." Celestia said. "Show me. Show me your sorrow." Out of the nothingness a filly galloped and stopped short of Celestia. She had a black coat and pink and white mane. "Well, well. We don't always get fancy visitors around here." The filly said. "You are, Diana." Celestia said. "You know me?" Diana asked. "Well, I'm the daughter of the mayor of Alfalfa and as such I'm the most learned filly in the whole town." "I know you, and I know Ripple." Celestia told her. "Ripple?" The filly asked surprised. "Ripple saved me and my Mom and Dad." The filly grew older. "I wanted to save her too, I wanted to thank her. It wasn't right that I couldn't tell her all the things I wanted to tell her, she was my very first friend and I couldn't even tell her how much that meant to me."
ooc: Don't won't to make this too long so I'll finish Diana's memory in the next post.
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Feb 5, 2014 18:06:51 GMT -5
"Tell me how to break the link!" Cherry exclaimed at Incognito.
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 6, 2014 6:07:54 GMT -5
"Well, the easiest way for you to break the link is if you should die." Incognito said casually.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Feb 6, 2014 13:57:58 GMT -5
"I don't know. I just feel like everyone needs to stay together. I didn't want to risk You hurting Blankflank while Celestia was in her head or You getting too far away. I don't know the extent of your separation and didn't want you running off either." Twilight said honestly unsure what she was thinking. She must have made this move on a whim.
"Well, that's out of the question... So what's the hard way to break the connection?" Mayor Mare said figuring if there was an easy method there would also have to be a difficult one.
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 6, 2014 17:02:51 GMT -5
"I guess I kind of lost it." Ripple said. "Can you dispel the force field from inside here or are we trapped?" Blankflank laughed. "You may have me trapped in here, but I can still use my power."
"I'll have to die." Incognito said, again casually. "But thanks to Celestia that is almost impossible. Since I have no more form, I have no form to hurt. Even this." He pointed to himself. "Is merely a shadow of what I once was." This he said with real anger before retuning to his normal way of speaking. "But there are other ways. You could trap us both in a world where the power of the necklace is useless, just like Ripple, but I don't think you can do that. Or you could simply give the necklace to Mayor Mare and if she takes it the bond will go over to her and leave you. And she's an earth pony, right?" He said with a devious grin.
Celesta looked at Diana as she grew to an adult mare. "But you never forgot her." Celestia said. "You became a great mayor and even after you couldn't save her you still put up a statue to remind the ponies of Alfalfa who saved them. And you left a message on it to anypony that may be able to help Ripple where you couldn't. But like many things that was lost to time it soon become known merely as old mare tales." Celestia looked sad as she remembered her own past. Her horn glowed and Diana disappeared and the first memory was send to Mayor Mare.
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Feb 6, 2014 21:23:48 GMT -5
"Are there any other ways?" Cherry asked him.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Feb 7, 2014 20:04:15 GMT -5
"You say almost, does that mean..." Mayor Mare stopped short in her sentence and had a blank look on her face, "Who's Diana?" Sh asked to herself, "Cherry, I need to go to Twilight and the others. See what you can figure out while I'm gone." Mayor Mare said and didn't look back for a moment. She ran up to Twilight, "Ripple, who's Diana?" Mayor Mare asked hoping Ripple would know more then the memory presented to her. Twilight started channeling her magic again while Mayor Mare was talking, creating a larger field around both existing fields and then dispelling the smaller one. They would have more room now but she didn't want to let Blankflank go since she could teleport as well as Ripple.
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 8, 2014 1:33:28 GMT -5
"Yes there are other ways, but I don't know all of them." Incognito told Cherry. "I didn't know what Ripple did would stop the necklace from working. But your questions are getting boring, how about using a little magic so I could destroy the Everfree Forest faster?" He pointed towards the dark forest. The trees at the edges were already crumbling to dust. "Not a lot of ponies like it anyway."
"Diana?" Ripple asked surprised. "She was a friend from school. Before, you know, I came to Ponyville. She hated it when we didn't do what our teacher told us. We used to... I... I can't talk about it right now." She said looking sad with her ears drooped.
Out of the nothingness in front of Celestia stepped a autumn brown earth pony colt and a young griffon girl cub.
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Feb 8, 2014 11:42:47 GMT -5
"Never! I refuse to use magic while this necklace is still linked to me. I'm not giving you anymore of my power. I'm not going to let you destroy our world!" Cherry exclaimed.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Feb 9, 2014 3:35:57 GMT -5
"Did you know that Diana never gave up on trying to find you? That even after years of not finding you she erected a statue in your honor which lasted until your story became but an old mares tale? Even to her last days she never stopped searching for you." Mayor Mare explained to both Blankflank and Ripple. Twilight kept an eye on Blankflank, hoping she wouldn't try any more funny business.
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 9, 2014 16:51:43 GMT -5
"We don't have to destroy all of Equestria." Incognito told Cherry. "We only have punish Celestia and all of her ponies. And afterwards you can bring everything back, make a new Equestria, a better one. And then you'll have a destiny and a purpose. I will even promise that once Celestia has been taken care of I'll take back the necklace and your power will be yours alone again. And I can't lie so you know my promise is real."
"No, I didn't know that." Ripple said. "I never knew what happened to them after I disappear." "Lies!" Blankflank called out. "Diana was always to full of herself to care for others, she only ever cared about living up to her father's expectations, she didn't care about friends." "That's not true!" Ripple said. "She may not have always known how to show it, but she was always a good pony."
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Post by Cherry Blossom on Feb 9, 2014 23:19:54 GMT -5
"Never!" Cherry yelled. "I would never hurt my friends or cause any harm to Equestria! Also... I do have a destiny. It's to be true to my friends and never let them down!" With Cherry not knowing what else to do she charges at Incognito.
OOC: Well I'm running out of ideas. xD
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Post by Bio Plus on Feb 10, 2014 4:34:23 GMT -5
ooc: Alright, so I'm just going to help out a bit here. I was hoping Mayor will come to help out, but she seems to be a bit busy. Fist off you've let Cherry get sidetracked by Incognito, she has to question him to find a way to stop him, but he has made her angry and stopped her from digging out the truth. Also, there is no specific way to defeat Incognito that I have thought out, I'm leaving a lot open because I want you to think of an idea and then we'll go with that and it will be you that defeats him at the end. Obviously an idea that goes against what they already know, like just throwing the necklace away or trying to attack Incognito wont work. So I'm setting up the rules and try to lead you towards a place where you suddenly think of a good idea. It's not going to help to try and figure out what I have planned to end this story (I think a weakness of Broly ), because I keep adapting it to your actions, it's better to try and figure out a solution in the story itself. As an example, the way I let Ripple defeat him was to use her teleporting powers to trap him in a world where only she and he exists, I can't say what kind of powers your giving Cherry, but you could try to use them in a way to your advantage. Another example would be to let Incognito destroy the necklace himself, since he can do that, but getting him to do it is difficult. Another thing would be to seek out an answer in the Everfree Forest in how to destroy the necklace. Incognito got the necklace while he was trapped in there, it wasn't always his, which is why Celestia doesn't know about it. I always kept that bit of story should one of you stumble on an idea to head down that direction. Feel free to ask any questions if I haven't made something clear, I know I'm kinda bad with that. bic: Incognito faded into the ground and when Cherry charged by his shadow climbed up her leg and he appeared on her back. "Don't get angry Cherry, I'm just trying to help you." He said.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Feb 10, 2014 16:32:33 GMT -5
Twilight was taking in everything, even watching Cherry and Incognito who were too far for her to make out clearly but she could at least read Cherry's lips and see her anger, "You've got to calm down Cherry. Stay level headed and think through things." Twilight said quietly under her breath. "Princess Celestia is in your mind, Blankflank, so it must have been one of your memories she showed me. If you don't want to believe it then it's because you choose not to see the truth." Mayor Mare stated and looked back at Ripple for some sort of response. She didn't know what else to say until Celestia sent her the next memory. OOC: The only thing I think should be noted that Bio didn't cover is that you should get used to winging it. Threads don't need to be solved in a post. We've had three intense arcs involving only conversation before Broly got his head on straight and there's still one more at least if it takes a while to fix something then all the more time for character building.
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