I didn't know where I was, everything was dark, but I could sense everything around me. The place around me felt… oddly familiar but somehow it was vastly different. It didn't take long for me to start coming to my senses as I opened my eyes and light started filtering in. I moaned lightly and started to turn about. I could feel the cold scratching of grass on my back and the crisp sunlight beating down on my face. There was a cool breeze in the air that swept my hair to the side. When everything became clear through my eyes I could see trees, and there were spots of light shining through the treetops above us that lit the ground alight. I turned my head to the left and saw more trees suggesting that we're in some kind of forest. I turned my head again to see that to the right of me laid twilight and thunder. I moaned again and rubbed my head because it was killing me. I sat up and looked around more thoroughly. After a little bit of looking around I knew that we were in a forest… but it looks familiar. I think I know where we are.
"Twilight… thunder… wake up, c'mon." I said shaking the both of them awake. The both lazily moaned and started to get up. Twilight rose up and started rubbing her eyes as she looked around. Thunder got up and stretched his arms out as he let out a big yawn.
"WH-where are we?" asked twilight.
"Did we get through the portal alright?" asked thunder.
"I think so… but twilight." I said as she was now more fully focused and awake. "Doesn't this forest feel… familiar." I said.
"I suppose… but once you see one forest you've seen them all." Said twilight
"I didn't ask if it 'looked' familiar… does it feel familiar… use your senses." I said.
"Wait a second…" said thunder. "Isn't this…"
"Oh my god it's the everfree forest." Said twilight in shock… she figured it out. "but… how, what are we doing back here… we were just in stallasia, that portal was supposed to send us to a new dimension not send us back… it must not have worked… we failed." Said twilight hanging her head down low in defeat.
"Now hold on…" I said. "Don't go shooting down your hopes just yet…" I said helping to reassure her... "Something's not right. You might not be able to tell, but this place is vastly different from the real everfree forest, or even the neighboring ponyville. Something has changed, the portal might have worked after all… but we might be in some kind of alternate sub-universe."
"So… it worked… this wasn't all for nothing?" asked thunder.
"It's hard to tell… but I have a good feeling about it." I said.
"So if this is the everfree forest… then ponyville must be close by." Said twilight.
"Or at least an alternate version of ponyville." I said. "I should warn you twilight, that we might end up meeting…well… you, but the alternate version of you, so I can't say what will happen." I said.
"What about the alternate version of you?" she asked.
"Well…I'm not actually a part of the universe you are from… but there is a chance that we might end up running into ourselves… but whatever you do don't reveal who we really are… unless they figure it out." I said.
"I don't know about you two… but I'm excited." Said thunder.
"Yeah… I suppose it is a nice twist from the norm…" said twilight.
"So which way is ponyville" asked thunder. We all looked around and I used my senses to guide the way. I focused my energy and pinpointed a pool of multiple energies to the east. That must be where ponyville is.
"I'm sensing a large mass of energies this way… it must be ponyville… lets go." I said moving onward. Twilight and thunder started following me and it was easy to see that they were somewhat excited. To be honest I was excited too, it's not every day you go to an alternate universe of your home. We started making our way through the forest and around the shrubs and bushes. Soon enough we pushed through onto a small hoof beaten path. I think I know this path, it definitely seems familiar.
"Hey… this is the path that leads to flutter shy's cottage." Said twilight.
"Fluttershy… she's the yellow one with the pink hair right… likes animals." I said.
"Yes… crimson she's one of your best friends… why are you acting like you don't know her?" asked twilight.
"I was gone for one thousand years for training… remember… everything is a bit fuzzy." I said.
"Oh that's right…" said thunder.
"Sorry… I forgot, it's still a bit hard to believe." Said twilight.
"I suppose it is… but when we get to ponyville your going to have to give me directions… because I've honestly forgotten my way around." I said making twilight giggle a little bit.
"Sure thing." She said.
"Hey wait…" said thunder making us both stop. I looked back to him to see what was wrong; I didn't sense anything was wrong. Then again my senses are a bit dulled form this strange feeling I have in the air.
"What is it?" asked twilight.
"Crimson… what if we run into the alternate version of rainbow dash?" he asked. It was a rather good question that I had overlooked, what will happen. I'm not sure how different she will be in this universe, and she might not even recognize me. I guess it would be nice to see her face again, but… it would be like the universe is taunting me.
"I hope we don't…" I said. "Let's leave it at that." I said as I turned around and started moving back down the path. Twilight and thunder exchanged a concerned look for me but followed close behind me nonetheless, I think that they understand, I can imagine they would. I followed the path through the forest until up ahead I saw a light and a clearing, it must be the exit. I picked up the pace excitedly and soon the bright light of the opening grew even brighter until the sun was shining on us and blinding us. I covered my eyes for a second and looked back. As the white light faded I could begin to see the world around me. I looked around and just as twilight said the path lead right to flutter shy's cottage, from what I remember of it, it hasn't changed. Off in the distance I could see ponyville. Just looking at it flooded my head with memories of previous times.
"Its ponyville… we made it." said twilight.
"It doesn't seem any different." Said thunder.
"It doesn't look like flutter shy's home…" said twilight. "Maybe we should head into town?" she suggested.
"That sounds like a good idea." I said. "Besides, I think at some point we're going to need to see the princess, she might know where the next portal is that we need to travel through."
"That's true… alright let's go." Said thunder moving on ahead with twilight. I glanced back at flutter shy's cottage one last time before following close behind them. We started to follow the path away from flutter shy's cottage into the town and soon we came across the park. We started walking through and I started to notice a few ponies. I didn't recognize any of them so I didn't bother my time with them. Soon we walked out of the park and into the streets which were full of ponies. Some of them looked over to the three of us and smiled. I still had that strange feeling but from what I can see there's nothing wrong… it's just ponyville, it is starting to make me think that we did just end up getting sent back.
"Crimson you were right…" said twilight.
"About what?" I asked directing my attention back to twilight. I paced ahead and started walking next to her so we don't have to talk so loud and other can't hear us.
"Something… wrong." She said. "This feels like ponyville for sure… but the ponies, I don't recognize any of them… but they seem strangely familiar."
"Yeah… I feel the same way." I said looking to the side at some ponies feeling the same way as twilight. one easy way to tell who's who are the colors and the cutie marks, I've seen some familiar ones but the faces don't match. I ended up getting a bit too distracted and without thinking I accidentally walked right into something big and soft, I think I might have ran into another pony. I quickly shot over to see who I bumped into and was hit with a sudden feeling of nostalgia at the sight of the pony I bumped into. But like an instinctive reaction I blurted out. "Oh… sorry, my bad." I said.
"Oh… no worries sugar." Said the pony in front of me. She was a mare, a rather tall mare at that. I quickly looked her over and she was lean and curvy with red fur and long orange, blonde hair. She had big green eyes and a bright smile. To be honest she was extremely hot and attractive. "Say… y'all must be new in town…" she said. I looked over to twilight and thunder who looked at her, or more like, stared at her. I could see some kind of nostalgic shock in their eyes. I must be missing something. "Welcome to ponyville… my names red delicious." She said giving me a sexy wink and turning to walk away. As he turned I got a big glance at her cutie mark. It was a big green apple with a slice taken out of it. Suddenly a flash of a different pony ran through my head. a pony just like her, but a stallion, who was big and muscular with the same cutie mark… it was big Mac, applejacks brother…oh god… oh god no. "Y'all have a good time, and be sure to drop by sweet apple acres, we got the best apple in all of equestria." Said red delicious as she walked away with her tail swaying seductively behind her. I could see several other stallions on the road glance at her with dirty looks.
I looked over to twilight and thunder again who shared the same expression as me. Without thinking I focused my energy and teleported the three of us away from the streets. I didn't focus on where we went I just needed to get us out of there so we can think about what just happened. Once we reappeared we found ourselves in the park, which isn't so bad. I think I might have figured out why I'm getting strange feeling about this place. And I can assume that the others are like this too, even the princess… or maybe it's the prince now. We must have landed in a world where everypony has switched gender. Oh god… seeing big Mac, eh… red delicious… I don't know, seeing that made me unsure if I should be aroused or if I should throw up.
"I feel like I need to rethink my whole life." Said thunder lying down on the ground.
"I'm not sure about that… but it was definitely… erm… interesting." Said twilight.
"Does this mean I'm a chick in this world?" asked thunder.
"If you even are in this world." I said.
"I guess that means the ponies here are exact replicas of us… just… different genders" suggested twilight.
"I wouldn't say that." said thunder. "big Mac isn't that talkative."
"Yeah… but she acted just like him. I think it's safe to assume twilight is right to a degree."
"So that means the princess…"
"Its prince now…" I said.
"Oh god my head hurts…" said twilight clutching her head.
"Great… five minutes in and this place has already screwed up twilight." said thunder. "I hope you know that means there's no hope for us… we should go back, there must be another way." Said thunder getting back up.
"Alright… I get that it might be confusing… but we can do this." I said. "I mean… we've seen some pretty weird shit before right?" I said reassuring them.
"yeah but this one doesn't just take the cake… but it goes the extra mile to throw it back in your face." said thunder creating a clever metaphor.
"so then we'll just wipe the cake off our faces and beat the shit out of whatever threw it at us." I said playing along with the metaphor.
"what are you two even talking about?" asked twilight.
"I'm not sure… but I am sure that we need to get through this." I said.
"I hate to be the one to bring this up… but I think we might have to go and see alternate universe twilight." said thunder.
"He's right." I said.
"Also your wife's a dude… just saying." He quickly blurted out to spite me for fun. I smiled and looked back at him.
"Dude shut up…" I said trying hard not to laugh but I ended up laughing anyway; it was pretty funny to think about. Twilight started to giggle to.
"Ah see… now everypony's happy… we should press onward." I said.
"Nice move there jokester." I said shoving him lightly. "Now we should go… he's right, alternate universe twilight could be of use to us."
"Uhg… fine." She said getting up. "Why does it have to be me… why can't we go see alternate universe rarity, or pinkie pie?" she asked
"Because I don't think we can solve our problems with cakes and pretty dresses…" said thunder. I burst out laughing at the joke. Normally I don't laugh so hard at his jokes but they were definitely helping, so that's good. We started making our way out of the park using an exit that leads to twilight's house. We left the park and started making our way down the streets passing other ponies. Now that I knew what was wrong all the faces started to match up, but in all the wrong ways. I saw ponies I knew in different bodies now. Just ahead of us in the distance the treetop of twilights house was in view and we would reach it soon enough. I looked over to twilight who seemed very nervous and a bit shaken up. I tried to stay as calm and cool as I could on the outside as well but I was just as confused and disturbed as she was. And the same with thunder, he was doing and OK job of hiding it but I could still see it on him.
As we started inching closer and closer to twilight's house I could feel she was starting to get very nervous. I really started to feel her nervousness when the house was in direct view and it wouldn't be long until we got there. I looked down at her and she looked up at me. Her ears were laid down on the side of her head and she slumped slightly. I shot a reassuring smile at her and she smiled back timidly but it didn't help ease her as much as I had hoped. I glanced back at thunder who gave me a stern look. I looked back in front of us just in time to make the turn up to the cobblestone path leading to the door. We moved up on the path and soon we were standing right in front of the door twilight stood behind me somewhat hiding but she couldn't completely hide herself. I reached my hoof up and knocked on the door. We waited a few seconds before a voice echoed past us from inside.
"be right there…" said a stern male voice. It sounded strangely familiar. I could feel the hint of twilight in the stallions voice and knew it must be the alternate twilight… or whatever he goes by in this world. Soon enough I heard hoofsteps lead right up to the door and the top half of the door swung open revealing the upper body of the stallion who answered us. He definitely was twilight counterpart. He had the same colored fur and hair, but he had the wide face of a stallion with an odd amount of muscle mass for somepony who is supposed to be a bookworm. His mane was short but stripped just like twilight. He looked at us and smiled. "Hey there… I don't think I recognize you; you must be new in town. My names moonlight sparkle." He said reaching a hoof over so we could shake properly I grabbed his hoof and shook it politely.
"Uh… nice to meet you." I said. "My names crimson blast… do you mind if we come in?" I asked.
"Not at all… this is the public library anyway… come on in." he said fully opening the door now and gesturing us inside. I walked inside but the other two hesitated. I stopped so that moonlight still couldn't see twilight. "so what kind of book are you looking for?" he asked.
"The three of us are not looking for books." I said.
"Three?" he asked "I only saw you and that other stallion." He said. "oh well… what do you need then?"
"We need to speak with you… in private." I said.
"Is it important?" he asked.
"Very…" I replied.
"Uhm… alright then… what do you need?" he asked. I looked back over to twilight who was still very nervous but I gave her a confident smile that somewhat cheered her up. She knew there was no hiding from this. I walked in and thunder followed after me. Twilight still stayed behind but I gave her a worried look that begged her to come on in, but she didn't. "Say uhm… before you ask me anything or whatever it is you need… I've got a question for you?" he said.
"Uhm… yeah… what is it?" I asked.
"You wouldn't happen to have a sister… would you?" he asked, it was a very odd question and very out of place.
"No… why?" I asked. He went to open his mouth to speak but suddenly a voice sounded from up stairs.
"Moonlight… what's going on down there… who's with you?" asked a mare's voice form upstairs. The voice was very relaxing and soft. Soon the sound of hoofsteps started to sound through the house and a pair of hooves became visible on the stairs. Soon a mare walked down the stairs and walked over to moonlight. She looked at me and I looked at her… and my jaw dropped so hard that I can taste the ground. She had pure white fur along with a silky smooth mane and tail that brushed down her sides and her tail dragged along the floor. She had crystal blue eyes and a cutie mark in the shape of a cross… it was me, oh god no. she stared at me with the same expression.
"I…uh, I suppose now might be a bad time to introduce you to my friend twilight." I said using my magic to force twilight into the house. She seemed very surprised and shocked but when her eyes and moonlights net up with each other's they both stared at each other in horror. Moonlight and my counterpart stared back and forth between me and twilight. Me twilight and thunder all shared the same stupid nervous smile on our faces, like it was some kind of bad joke. We all stared at each other in awkward silence for a while. I and twilight stared in awkward silence completely aware of the situation, but our counterparts stared in disbelief as well as in shock and awe. They aren't even completely aware of the situation and they can't bring themselves to words.
"I… I don't believe this." Said moonlight breaking the silence. "This is… well it...it's… AMAZING!" he said blurting out in a spout of amazement and interest. It's not exactly the reaction I was anticipating, but it's better than what I was hoping for. "I mean… look at it, I'm you… and you're me." He said to twilight. "And she's him, and he's her… this is… you have to tell me everything." He said.
"Well, it's not a trick… I don't sense any kind of magical fields around them, so it's not an illusion, and they do share our cutie marks… so it's real… we're the same pony." Said my counterpart looking over at me. "I'm scarlet… scarlet striker." She said in a confident voice.
"And I'm crimson… crimson blast." I said. "Moonlight, this is my friend twilight sparkle." I said introducing twilight and moonlight.
"It's a pleasure twilight." he said sticking his hoof out to shake hers. Twilight awkwardly reached out and shook the stallions hoof.
"Nice to meet you too." She said awkwardly still.
"And this guy over here's thunder rush." I said gesturing over to thunder.
"Hmm… he looks a lot like shockwave." Said scarlet.
"Uh…hi." Said thunder.
"So tell me twilight and friends…" said moonlight interrupting everything with a wide smile on his face. He was using his horn to levitate a notebook and quill over in front of him to take notes. He has the same magical signature as twilight does… which is scaring me a little bit. It could be dangerous if I get the two of them confused. "Where did you come from? And what's it like there? Did you come from some kind of dimensional rift? How different are our world?" he asked bombarding us with questions. There was no denying it… he was just like twilight.
"Actually… we came through a portal to this world… I'm on an important quest and twilight and thunder are accompanying me… there were more of us… but they couldn't handle going the distance." I said.
"So it was a portal you came through… why?" asked scarlet taking over now.
"I told you… it's a quest." I said.
"And what is your quest?" She asked persistently.
"Somepony very dear to me, well… us, was taken by an evil deity… to get to him I have to travel through a series of portal to get to him. Each portal brought us to a different dimension… and this is one of those dimensions." I said. Moonlight was eagerly jotting down notes and such on the notepad he grabbed.
"And since we are so similar I can guess you came from a world of ponies such as this… but…" she said before I finished her sentence.
"But… the only difference between our two worlds is gender." I said. "And I'm not even going to say which one is the original one, because that's one fight I want to avoid." I said.
"Huh… sounds interesting." Said scarlet. "Do you happen to know where you need to be next?"
"Well…no." I said. "The trip was rather perilous… and we've lost a great deal of supplies…" I said. "In fact now that I've just realized it… I don't think our bags even made it through the portal… so we have nothing." I said. Saying this caused twilight and thunder to check around for the bags which weren't here. We all let out a deep sigh.
"Damnit… not again." Thunder said.
"say… do you happen to know anything about a changeling king… by any chances?" I asked.
"yes…" said scarlet getting somewhat furious. "that son of a bitch brainwashed me and forced me to kill king solar along with two of my friends… sure enough I cut his fucking head off." She said.
"And then you resurrected your friends and were dead for three months." I said. "Good… so I'm going to assume there isn't much of a time gap and from what I can tell its spring is it not?" I asked.
"Why yes… the flowers just started blooming a week ago." Said moonlight looking up from his notebook.
"Perfect… so there's no time gap?" I said.
"Hold on…" said twilight. "Something bothering me."
"What is it?" I asked. Me and scarlet both looked over at twilight.
"I think I've been wondering the same thing." Said thunder.
"yeah me too…" said moonlight.
"What?" both scarlet and I asked
"How can there be two of you…" asked twilight. Me and scarlet just looked at each other.
"What do you mean?" asked scarlet.
"I mean I get how there can be two of me, since I'm just like most ponies… but you crimson… you're a god… how does that work" she asked. Me and scarlet both looked at each other again.
"A god?" said scarlet which somewhat alarmed me. "What does she mean you're a god?" seeing the predicament in front of her twilight's confused face was washed over with a look of uncertainty, as was mine. It was awkward to say the least and I didn't know what to say really, but I had to think up something quickly. "Did you mean to say demigod?" asked scarlet which instantly started to relieve me and twilight both.
"oh yeah… sorry. That's what I meant, I thought demigods where more rare, so I just kinda figured." She said awkwardly.
"Well I don't know, but I don't question it. I guess it just works like that. I'm the demigod of this universe and he must be the demigod of some other one." Said scarlet.
"Anyway, enough of this boring talk." Said moonlight. "You three must be hungry, we should get some food."
"Alright, I'll cook." Said scarlet. "My… or I should say, OUR favorite." She said glancing over to me.
"Apple cabbage stew?" I asked inquisitively.
"absolutely." She said with a smile. I chuckled lightly to myself and followed her. "Come on in, and we'll set the table." She said leading us all into the kitchen. I helped set places on the table and scarlet began cooking for us. I am curious as to why she was here but I won't bother with it.
"Alright. I and scarlet will sit here. Here thunder you can have this seat. And crimson you and your wife twilight can sit here." He said.
"Great… hold up… what did you say?" I asked rethinking what he just said in my head.
"Twilight... You know... your wife." He said looking at me curiously.
"Wife?" said twilight looking with a confused look on her face. Everypony was now looking over and staring in awkward silence.
"wife?" said thunder.
"Oh… is she."
"She isn't my wife… we're friends." I said awkwardly. I could see twilight blushing out of the corner of my eye.
"Sorry, I just assumed." He said. I glared at moonlight with a stern look and then to scarlet who gave me a blank stare. Then it all pieced together in my head.
"Moonlight…" I said getting his attention. "You and scarlet are married couple aren't you?" I asked.
"Oh uhm…" he stammered.
"Yes… we are." Said scarlet. "I guess it's a bit shocking seeing how this part of our lives is different." She said. "But seeing as how males and females have different ways of processing and thinking I suppose there was bound to be some changes in our world."
"Yeah I guess so." I said. We all stood there in awkward silence. Scarlet looked behind her at the boiling pot and her expression changed.
"Oh… soups on everypony." She said with a smile while taking the large pot off the burner. She used her magic to gather a few bowls and started pouring everypony soup. She placed the bowls down on the table and we all took our spots. She passed out spoons and we all started to dig in. the food was amazing, in fact it's better than mine.
"Wow… this is a lot better than I make it." I said.
"That's because everypony knows girls cook better than guys." She said.
"I'm gonna let you get away with that one, only because I know from experience." I said. She smiled and took a sip of the stew. We all sat there and ate our food and made small conversation. We decided to talk about how different our two worlds are. There wasn't much different except for relationships and the whole gender thing. I told them I was married to rainbow dash that they identified to be their rainbow blitz. I didn't tell them what really happened to rainbow dash and they didn't bother to ask, so I'd rather leave it at that.
Not long after we had desert. It was some leftover apple pie that moonlight was keeping in the fridge. He said that it was made by Appleseed who's the best farmer in ponyville and a true friend. I figured that Appleseed is the equivalent to applejack. We had some of the pie and it was pretty good. Not long after though it started to get dark and we began growing rather drowsy. I could tell because the light in the windows was gone now and everypony was starting to yawn sleepily. I was feeling rather tired myself too, even though it wasn't that long since we woke up. We did wake up towards the end of the day however so it's not surprising that night came around quickly. Feeling tired now I too let out a deep yawn just as I finished my last bite of pie.
"Heh… I guess it's getting late isn't it?" said moonlight.
"Yeah… I'm getting tired as well." Replied scarlet.
"You three are more than welcome to stay here until you find other accommodations." Said moonlight.
"thanks." I said. "Hopefully we won't have to stay here long; I hope the portal we're looking for isn't all the way back in stallasia…"
"Oh god, I'd probably just kill myself." Said thunder. I chuckled lightly at his remark.
"Well I hope too for your sake it isn't." said scarlet.
"Why don't you three follow scarlet up to the guest room, there's only one bed, but I'm sure she can figure out a way to make things work." Said moonlight. "I'll stay down here and write a letter to the king."
"I think ivy is upstairs." Said scarlet…ivy?
"IVY!" yelled out moonlight. We waited a second and nothing happened. I could hear small hoofsteps from upstairs but I don't think the others could, they were very faint after all. "IVY!?" yelled moonlight one more time.
"I'M COMING!" a young female voice shouted out. "Gosh, calm down." She said now coming into view from on top of the stairs. And as I should have known ivy was a small purple dragon with green spikes and a stubby tail, just like spike… except a girl. "What do you want… who are these ponies?" asked ivy looking at us. "And why do they look just like you?"
"I'll explain this later, right now I need you to take a letter." Said moonlight.
"You three can come with me, I'll show you to the guest room." Said scarlet. We followed her and ivy walked all the way down the stairs. We passed each other and she glanced at me giving me a strange look which I returned. We walked up the stairs and made our way down the hall. And just like twilights house the guest room was just down the hall and to the right. Scarlet used her magic to open the door and we walked right in. moonlight was right when he said that there was only one bed, but if I know myself, and thus scarlet, I know what she's thinking.
"I don't think we can all squeeze into one small bed.
"I know… just wait." She said. She closed her eyes and when they opened they began to glow bright white. The bed soon surrounded itself in a white magical aura and the bed began stretching wider and wider. Soon it grew wide enough that it almost took up the length of the room, easily enough space for three ponies, probably even six or seven with space left over. Not exactly what I would have done, I would have duplicated the bed into three separate beds… but that works too. "there… now you three rest up, I'm sure that in the morning king solar is going to want to speak with the three of you.
"Thank you." I said as scarlet began leaving the room. Before she left she looked back and flashed me a friendly smile before closing the door behind her. I looked to the bed and twilight and thunder had already begun crawling into it. I decided to do the same and crawled into the bed as well. Thunder and I slept on either side of twilight who rested in the middle. I pulled the covers over myself and rested my head on the elongated pillow. I closed my eyes and began to drift away into sleep. It wasn't long until I was caught up in my own world of dreams now. And as I dreamt I couldn't help but think about this new world.
Only god knows what's in store for us next…
-Authors Note: alright guys, the new chapter is here... its friday and the winners for the top 5 OC contest are in. i thank each and every one of you who has submitted an OC for your creativity and dedication to the fandom as well as the chance to use new material, but i can only use so much. so i have the winners and they will be listed below along with briefer details. and i would also like to note that i broke a lot of my own rules and each of the winners are very unique in their own way... you'll see why. and i dont want to have you guys thinking that just because i broke my own rules means that i held others higher than the rest. everypony came into this equal but some people had better OC's you all did very well and i apologize if i did not pick your OC.
~WINNERS~
The first winner is Moonlight submitted by Moonlight Gamer. And no... its not the moonlight thats in the story now, AKA the male version of twilight, that's just a mere coincidence. this moonlight is special because he is half unicorn half dragon with very special abilities which makes him cool in my books. not only is he part dragon but he is accompanied by a pet Chimera, which is a lion, goat... snake...thing...yeah. so that's cool, anyway. thank you Moonlight Gamer for the submission of your OC and congratulations on winning. the rest be sure to check out his profile for cool stuff and a good read.
The second winner is Moonfire submitted by Aglitchinthematrix. this submission was absolutely not a glitch in the matrix and very intentional... I'm sorry i had to make the joke... anyway. moonfire goes by the joat mon (AKA jack of all trades) he is an alicorn that is emotionally unstable to a certain degree and is in a lot of trouble with certain other ponies. he is quick to pick up any talent or skill and can learn it and use those skills proficiently. thank you Aglitchinthematrix for sending me your OC and congratulations on winning. please check out his profile for more cool stuff.
the third winner is an exception to my rules because it includes two OC's which pair too well together for me to take only one. but seeing as they go so well together they might as well be only one OC. They are Dark Wing and Light Horn submitted by Legendary Brony. both are royal lieutenant guards under the direct command of guard captain shinning armor. they are both brothers and are very good at what they do, which is to protect and serve at all costs. thank you Legendary Brony for the submission of these OC's and congratulations on winning. make sure to check out his profile as well.
the next winner is Neon Abendroth submitted by NeonAndVolt. now this submission is a very special case because earlier NeonAndVolt asked me if he could borrow a character from my story and i let him. he worked that character into his story very well and it caused changes to his OC. that character... was Alba Rose, so it with my pleasure to say that along with Neon, Alba Rose will be returning to the story in the next installment along with the new OC's. Thank you NeonAndVolt for submitting your OC along with reintroducing Alba into the story later on. I'm sure many people are going to be excited about this. congratulations on winning and be sure to check out his profile and read his stories.
The final winner is...*pause for dramatic effect*... Broadsword submitted by Lord Curly. Broadsword is a sub-captain in the guard and a friend to guard captain shining armor. he carries around a rather large sword and has grown up as an orphan. because of his dark history he remains quiet and indifferent in front of ponies he doesn't know or doesn't care to know. so thank you Lord Curly for the submission of this OC and congratulations on winning. be sure to check out his channel as well.
and thank you all for submitting OC's i know i had a lot of OC's and it was starting to burn me out just keeping track of them all. but there is good news yet for the rest of you. this contest decided the fate of five OC's that are going to be in my story, but there will come a time when i reopen the use of new OC's in my story. and as a disclaimer to the winners: head my warnings. i do promise that your OC's will become important characters in the story, but they are now under my creative control. that measn anything can happen to them and i expect you all to understand this. the reason i say this is because there is a chance i might kill one or two off as time progresses, but they will not be killed in vain, do not worry.
to the winners i say... congratulations.
to the losers i say... thank you.
and to you all, i say... stay shady.