Read Starlight Over Detrot with me.

The story is about.

Monster attacks. Crime. Illegal hallucinogens made from electric fruit.

They say things didn't use to be like this. They say things were different, before Luna came back 60 years ago, but Detective Hard "Hardy" Boiled of the Detrot Police Department has never known any world other than that demarcated by the seedy streets of his beloved decaying metropolis; a world in which the coroners sing and dance, surveillance bugs have personality disorders, and the Chief of Police is a scarier entity than most of the eldritch things the city attracts.

The grey unicorn who turned up dead outside the posh High Step Hotel seemed like just another case, but her missing horn is the pointy tip of a very large and nasty iceberg. It's up to Hardy and his friends - a rejected monster hunter, a psychic cab driver, and an underground antiques heir - to find out what’s going on in an investigation that promises to stick more than a cupcake into the very eye of Detrot.

Especially if Hardy has anything to say about it.

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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Act One, Chapter 18: School Dance

Chapter 18: Published March 23rd 2013 was on a Saturday and was in week 12 of 2013

As of this writing it was 2945 days ago

No episodes ever aired on April 17


Shock and Awesome

Hello Rainbow Dash, I was wondering when you'd show up, so lets see, we have Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Twilight, Rainbow, pretty sure Stella's cave was Rarity, now we just need Applejack other than the Bloom reference... 

experience has taught me that when a being happily wears their oddity on their sleeves, no matter how freakish they might seem, they’re usually the ones I can trust when things get wild.

By that logic, I could not have wished for a more trustworthy cohort.

Ha

Then I realized my tummy was on something soft, that there was a heavy presence on my back and sides, and between my rear legs I had the oddest feeling that important parts were missing.

Swift continued looking about in all directions, so I took that to mean she couldn’t. That was entirely in keeping with the philosophy of the pony who’d constructed the ladybugs; do one thing extremely well and screw everything else. Ladybugs listen. That’s pretty much what they’re best at. Still, I suppose I should have doubted that ‘brain invasion’ was anywhere in the official documentation.

:D

... I really don't want to explain what happens to the unicorn that got found near the school, but its a strong example of just how fucked up this story goes.

I’d need a good hour long massage and a weekend at Taxi’s spa once this was all over. Pleasant thoughts, for another time.

....

I didn’t get to hear her insightful musings on the art of war, but I imagine that they were much along the same lines as mine when, as if choreographed by an unseen force, every single locker in the room burst open simultaneously with a resounding, choral clang.

Oh hey look, the chapter ended. Lets have a peek at the comments, 19

#19 · Feb 5th, 2020 ·  ·  ·

--The Scholar

AYYYYY HE’S BACK

Conversely, experience has taught me that when a being happily wears their oddity on their sleeves, no matter how freakish they might seem, they’re usually the ones I can trust when things get wild.

Say what you will about Pinkie, she WILL fight to the death for her friends if she has to.

We think we should tell you of something else, unrelated to-”

‘Save it for later.

Hardy, why are you being stupid?

“Amen.” Zeta intoned, adding several words in zebra. I took it for a blessing, though I swore I’d heard my driver use something similar when calling me a shit-head.

The problem with foreign languages. Or the bonus, depending on your PoV.

“Oh, horseappl—” I managed as a ballistic pencil launched itself towards my right eye.

THE CHILDREN ARE STILL HERE, BOYOS.

-GM, maser of pencils.

#14 · Jul 3rd, 2014 ·  ·  · Travolore

Chapter 18: "School Dance" - nothing specific here.

Also, I bet Hardy's apartment was burned down by Cosmo.

But more importantly! who really is the father of Rachel’s egg?!
We must know!
Pls! :raritydespair:

#15 · Mar 9th, 2015 ·  ·  ·

Boott It was...... SKYES! :pinkiegasp:
T


#13 · Apr 10th, 2014 ·  ·  ·

They appreciate the idea that, instead of simply murdering your foes until the remainder surrender, you scare the manure out of them.

The only problem though is that an enemy that will not stand and fight you directly does not necessarily mean a defeated enemy. Enter asymmetrical warfare. "Shock and Awesome" will certainly dissuade the enemy and make them think twice about confronting you, but it does not reduce the enemy's available headcount or materiel. Dead enemy combatants will not regroup and attack you again.

(Thus sayeth the armchair tactician) :derpytongue2:

And so much more

#6 · Mar 24th, 2013 ·  ·  · Chessie

Swift isn't malfunctioning, it's just someone got into her head and messed with it... My poor little Swifty, I just want to hug her now :fluttershysad:



#7 · Mar 25th, 2013 ·  ·  · meerkat8472

meerkat8472 She's very huggable. It kinda goes with the territory of being tiny and orange.

-Chessie


#9 · Mar 25th, 2013 ·  ·  · AleneShazam

Chessie hmm, like Scootaloo? Yeah I guess Scoots is pretty huggable too :twilightsmile:



1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon

(daguerreotype)

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