A Brony Life
Chapter 101: The Final QotC
Previous ChapterYep, the final QotC. As you all probably noticed, the last chapter didn't have a QotC. That's because this one's a little more important.
This latest chapter's taken so long to come out. Sadly, it didn't take that long to make. It's been finished this entire time and sitting in my Google Drive box. The reason?...
I don't know. I haven't stopped writing. Far from it. I've actually been writing on another fanfiction website. Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't. It's called FIMfiction. I've been writing a few stories there.
The first one's about a teen from Florida turning into Button Mash. It's titled Character Unlocked: Button Mash! His name is Zeke—guess where that name came from—and he needs to get to New York with this care-free guy named Connor.
It's a side-story that multiple writers are writing together. It's a group effort called PEV (Pony Earth Verse). Each writer takes on a character of their own making that has been turned into a character from the show. Apparently Discord has taken control of this world, kinda, and every story can have them taking on the most random of situations.
Another story I'm working on is titled Equestria Legends Online: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. This is a combination of MLP and Sword Art Online. I know that a lot of people hate SAO and for good reason. It sucks in so many ways.
Although one thing that it gets perfect is the premise. The idea behind SAO is the best and probably only good thing about it. Which is probably why it's the only thing that is taken from that show. The rest is up to us.
The guy who came up with the idea was happy to have me write a side-story along his main story. So far I already have three chapters on that and it's my latest story. (Probably the most finely tuned of them all too.)
The third story is probably my favorite. It's titled Trophy Room and it's entirely original (As far as I'm aware at least). It begins with Twilight and Spike finished their move into the castle as the town's rebuilding. Sweetie and Applebloom come over and, along with Spike, investigate the basement level that came with the castle.
Soon enough they come across a wooden door in the basement that looks foreign from everything else. They go inside and see that the room is destroyed and filthy regardless of how new the castle is.
The story goes on with the three of them, along with some other characters along the way, figuring out more mysteries about the trophy room. Every time one of the three do something for a pony or a place, a trophy appears in the room.
For instance, say one of them help Button Mash from getting in trouble. He's sincerely grateful and they earn his trust. Then a trophy of him appears in the room. Or, say that they spend the day helping out Sugarcube Corner and make an impact. Then a trophy of Sugarcube Corner appears in the room.
Although they soon notice something else going on. Ponies and places start to disappear. The three haven't gotten trophies from them. Not only that, but nopony else seems to remember anything about them. It was as if they never existed to begin with.
As for the fourth story, it's more of something I'm doing for the fun of it. It's called Pieces of Discord. The idea is that now that Twilight has accepted being a Princess and that she's no longer Celestia's student, she wants to learn magic at her own pace. So she decides to take on learning one type of magic in particular. Chaos Magic.
She asks Discord to help teach her this so that she'll know how it works and, if need be, reverse it. This is done after the fight with Tirek and Discord accepts Twilight's plan in hopes that it'll help keep ponies quiet about his betrayal.
Except things go wrong rather quickly when Twilight ends up blasting Discord into pieces. Each piece of Discord goes off into different directions all over Equestria and start causing chaos individually.
Only Discord's eyes remain at the castle and Pinkie, in a stroke of genius, puts them on AJ's hat where it and the pair of eyes fuse together. Discord then explains that they only have around a week to gather up the rest of the pieces of him before they become sentient and each piece regenerates into several new Discords.
The Mane Six all scatter in different directions and see how each piece gives a single pony the ability of chaos magic similar to what Discord did to Twilight. The tail 'infects' Scootaloo, the beard 'infects' a certain Manehatten seamstress, and the tooth 'infects' a certain coal black pegasus.
Like I said, it's more for fun than much else.
And the final story is something I haven't posted just yet. You see, on fanfiction I have tried making several stories. One of which is a Pokemon story titled We All Live In A Pokemon World. It has potential, or at least I think so, and I don't want to give up on it. So instead, I'm going to alter it a bit and bring it with me to FIMfiction. It'll star Spike taking the place of the main character, but aside from that it'll be much of the same as it is now.
Which kind of leads me to the real reason I'm writing this. WHY am I writing this?
Let me stop one assumption right now. No, I'm not ending this story. In fact, I'm doing just the opposite. I'm remaking it on FIMfiction.
Allow me to explain: You see, I hate FanFiction. As in this website. I'll say it right now. It's horrible. Especially the Doc Manager. They've updated it worse than Google has with YouTube and now it's too much trouble to take my writing from Google Docs or Word and copy and paste it onto this website.
So instead, I'm moving my stories to FIMfiction. Primarily speaking, A BRONY LIFE
It's going to start a little bit differently. I'll be keeping what I have on this website here now. It won't be deleted. In fact I'll probably be referring to it plenty of times in the story I'll be writing on FIMfiction.
The story will start in Equestria with Joe, Morgue, Big Mike, and everyone back in Equestria. Sadly, none of them will remember anything. Only the straight basics of all that happened. The Mane Six will be deharmonized and trying to take down the three thieves, Blitz, and Spike.
Why are they doing that? How did they get like that? And what happened to make the thieves, Blitz, and Spike lose their memories?
That's what this story will be about. As the story goes on, more and more of the story behind them becomes clear. Of course, everyone who's read up to this point probably already knows...
Well, you all know a very little amount of it at least.
From what the story's told so far, you guys don't know much of anything about the three. You may know the obvious, but that's about it I'm afraid. I originally planned to have the S2 Finale take up three Acts and a prologue. We got through the prologue, but we weren't even done with the first act. Not even close actually.
That would've taken forever, and with how hard it's gotten to work with FanFiction, I can't manage that anymore. So instead I'll be rewriting the story on FIMfiction for us all to enjoy.
Once the story starts on FIMFiction, I'll be putting up one last chapter on here. I've put up The Final Chapter and this is The Final QotC. So the update after this will be titled The Final Announcement.
Although...I think there's still one thing left on this update to do. The QotC.
There are three.
1. What was your favorite part of the story? Whether it be a chapter, a scene, a line that one of the characters said, or even just an entire story arc, anything's fine.
2. Do you have any advice for me? It could be something about the way I write or something that could've made one of the chapter's better. Anything that you think could've helped to make this story and any other story after this one better? Just allow me to be straightly blunt about one thing:
DO NOT DARE TRY TO SAY THAT EVERYTHING WAS GREAT AND PERFECT. IF YOU DON'T HAVE ADVICE THEN DON'T ANSWER THE QUESTION. THE ONE THING I'VE ALWAYS HATED IS PEOPLE SAYING THAT THERE ISN'T A THING THAT CAN BE MADE BETTER. NOTHING IS PERFECT. DON'T LIE TO SOMEONE AND SAY THAT IT IS.
Sorry if I'm exaggerating, it's just that me and every writer I've ever met appreciates people liking a story, but we all hate it when people don't give any input other than "it's great".
3. Are you looking forward to the new story? Anyone who has questions about it can PM me. I'll be glad to answer any questions about it. No matter how small it may be. Just talking to someone about it is more than I can ask for.
That's the QotC. Questions of the Chapter. XD Before I go, I did want to say one more thing. Thank you for 100 chapters of dedication and reading. It's meant a lot to me all this time. If anything, you're all the reason that I found the joy in writing. Without you, I'd probably be where I was before I started writing. Sitting on a couch all day and watching the same TV shows over and over again without even trying to do anything in my life.
I...I wish I knew how to thank you all. I may be able to write stories that people enjoy, but that's about it. I've never been good at expressing gratitude all that much. Heck, I'm not that good at expressing any kind of emotions, really. This isn't the end. I'm going to finish this story and finish it right. It was my first story after all. I owe you all that much.
When I have a decent amount of this new story ready to be published, I'll put an update on this story. So if you don't want to miss that then you might want to follow the story now. No promises on how long it'll take. But it will come. One day, this story will pick right back up.
I promise. My word may not be worth much considering my past promises that I couldn't keep up with. But I'll sooner die than break this one.
So quote me on this as many times as you want: "I promise to finish A Brony Life! Nothing from Heaven, Earth, Mars, or the secret life of a man named Walter Mitty will stop me!"
I PROMISE
-Zeke Kent, 4/29/2015