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This would be a battle won with preparation, and for that, she needed information.

Hey, look, it’s that good old theme again!

It took her a moment to adjust to the smaller keyboard.  She entered her passwords, and answered the personal questions that Dragon’s subsystem posed to her.  Why is your nephew named Gavin?

Maybe her sibling was a huge fan of Rooster Teeth.

Your favorite color?  Irritating- she didn’t even know her favorite color, but the algorithms had figured it out before she did.

Ahaha! That’s not how favorites work, Dragon!

All information divined from the countless pieces of data about her that were in official emails, photographs and surveillance footage from the PRT buildings.  It was with a moment of trepidation that she typed in For Gawain, knight of the round table.  Silver.

Well, that answers my unstated question earlier about what Public Image’s fur color should be. Now we just need a mane color and style (I’m thinking denim blue, short with big buns), and a cutie mark that looks something like 📺, and we’re set!

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“Wait.”

Kid, internally: “fuck fuck fuck fuck”

She could see his shoulders drop, slightly, in the same way a dog’s tail drooped when ashamed or expecting reprimand.  Emily Piggot wasn’t good with kids, or even young adults.  She knew it.  Outside of the time she had played with dolls as a small child, she’d never entertained the notion of being a mother.  She didn’t even like kids.

I never suspected she did, honestly.

It was the rare youth that she actually respected, now, and those few tended to be the ones who saw her firm leadership and respected her, first.  Now she was in charge of some of the most powerful children in the city.

I suppose that is a pretty motherlike role.

…

I can’t help but imagine Piggot trying to take care of this little demon:

This little baby filly, Flurry Heart, is one of the most powerful magic users in Equestria, which naturally leads to antics.

And Piggot – director Public Image – would definitely be an earth pony, so she wouldn’t even have magic or wings of her own to help her deal with Flurry. Codspeed, Public Image. Codspeed.

Snare 13.10

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krixwell-liveblogs:

Greetings, everyone, my name is Krixwell Jace, and tonight I’m going to be your reporter for the news.

So, the first topic today issss… oooooooaaaahhhhhhhhi shall begin with one hundred percent

percent

a day: percent

there’s no day: percent

tomorrow: percent

saturday: percent

at least one day

this is- this is not the script! where is the script?!

a day… sunday there’s no day, ah, i, it’s canceled so get ready for the giggles and laughs okay

greetings everyone my name is krixwell jace. today i shall present

*giggles* get it? like, i am so funny

so, the first portrait is– (krixwelleh jace, your reporter f)

ah, here’s the script

*ahem* excuse me

i don’t know how to reeeeeeead

…this was supposed to be a chapter intro where I just pretended to be a news anchor, but it semi-accidentally turned into a slightly edited transcript of this ridiculous video instead:

(seriously, watch it, a transcript doesn’t do it full justice)

Snare 13.10

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Greetings, everyone, my name is Krixwell Jace, and tonight I’m going to be your reporter for the news.

So, the first topic today issss… oooooooaaaahhhhhhhhi shall begin with one hundred percent

percent

a day: percent

there’s no day: percent

tomorrow: percent

saturday: percent

at least one day

this is- this is not the script! where is the script?!

a day… sunday there’s no day, ah, i, it’s canceled so get ready for the giggles and laughs okay

greetings everyone my name is krixwell jace. today i shall present

*giggles* get it? like, i am so funny

so, the first portrait is– (krixwelleh jace, your reporter f)

ah, here’s the script

*ahem* excuse me

i don’t know how to reeeeeeead

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Best to keep quiet for now.  Rebuild, re-establish myself as leader of my territory, then raise the topic.

Fair enough. Coil really knows how to keep people working for him.

Whatever happened, I needed his respect.

We turned our attention to our captive.  She had raised her hands above her head in a surrender position, despite the hole in her shoulder.

To the tune of Imagine Dragons’ “Believer”:

Hey
You teared me down and I became your captive
Never acted
Hey

Like a slave until the chains were active
That’s your tactic  
Heyyyy

Are you proud of what you gave?

 
I guess there wasn’t a better
WAY

You teared me down and I became your captive
Your captive

(source video, contains major spoilers for the MLP audio drama Remembrance and MLP:FiM itself)

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“Why the fuck should I listen to you?”

I dunno, maybe because of the walls of flame?

“Because if you say no, if you try to run or walk away, if you attack me, I’ll consider your test a fail.”

Making her eligible for elimination. I’m a bit unclear on whether she has to fail each individual tester’s test for that tester to kill her – though I would think so – but if she doesn’t, she’d lose her protection if this happened.

“So?”

“I’ll have no reason to hold back.  Your team dies, your dogs die, and you’ll wish you were dead.”

I wonder if that means she’d torture Bitch herself, or she’d give her over to Bonesaw.

“Fuck you,” Bitch retorted, but she glanced at Grue and I, and I could have sworn I saw doubt.  Was it indecision?  The way Burnscar had framed this, Bitch either had to admit she cared about us and fight for our sake, or Bitch could attack us to secure her safety and her dogs.

What will it be, Bitch? Will you join the Shadowbolts or fix the bridge?

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“Priority one is surviving until we think of one,” I replied.

Yes, exactly.

“Genesis will be back in action in a few minutes.”

That ought to be good. In this sense, her power is really good, since if she’s taken out, she can “respawn”, at least until she’s worn out from using her power.

“A few minutes is a long time.”

“I know,” I looked at Mannequin again.

But yeah, that’s true. It’s about how long several chapters worth of Parasite took.

He’d closed his mouth and was standing still.  I pointed.  “You go that way, I go this way.  Keep an eye on the sky.  If there’s trouble, we signal each other.”

I wonder if the mouth is completely cosmetic or if that’s how he releases the gas. I suppose it would make sense for him to have built this new ability into his new/repaired head.

He nodded once.

“Go!”

Here we goo.

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“Bastard, come!  Come on!”

The puppy ran back to us.  There was nothing we could do for Bentley.

😦

I hopped down and grabbed Bitch as Bastard came back to us.  He growled as I approached, but he didn’t protest as I took Bitch into my arms and dragged her back toward Grue and Sirius.

I suppose Mannequin wouldn’t want to actually kill Bitch before the deadline of his trial. Killing a candidate who hasn’t failed your test seems like a faux pas.

Grue didn’t dismount, but I doubted he would have managed well if he had, given his injured leg.  I tried to ignore Mannequin’s steady approach as I propped Bitch’s limp form up against Sirius’ side long enough to lift her arms up to Grue’s waiting hands.

Grue hasn’t said anything in this chapter yet. I suppose he hasn’t really needed to, but still.

Together, we hauled her up so she was lying astride Sirius’ shoulders, just in front of Grue.

“Gas,” I muttered.  “There’s a cloud of gas around him.”

Looks like it might be about to change, with Taylor talking to him.

“Fuck me,” Grue said.  “I’d hoped we could at least hit him.”

Yeeah. He’s protected himself against the only things you had that could damage him, with this.

I looked at Bastard.  Too small to ride.  He was the size of a pony, but he wasn’t built for riding in the same way, and the spikes and bony plates that covered him were too densely packed for me to find any sort of flat patch to sit on.

A pony, you say?

image

…by the way, in my surprisingly difficult search for a good size comparison between an actual pony and a human, I found this:

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Judging by a different image showing the difference between a horse and a pony, that dog actually looks like it’s an appropriate size for Bastard.

I reached for the chain that trailed from his muzzle.

Hmm, what are you going to do then?

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By the way, ChromaCurves’ pony Bonesaw design reminds me that just a couple weeks ago, MLP:FiM introduced a cutesy filly, Cozy Glow, who I honestly think could fit the part for Bonesaw in terms of appearance (though she’s not blonde). Not as well as Chroma’s design, of course, but still.

And hey, parts of the fandom seem to think she’s secretly evil, so that’s a thing. Though I suspect if she is, she’s more like Cherish or Tattletale than Bonesaw – after all, one of the reasons people think she might be evil is that her cutie mark, a chess rook, seems to be in playing others.