Kickoff [Video/Massive Audio later]

[like_a_dragon]

[A green pony with a matted down brown mop-top appears on the scroll. From the furrowed brows, flared nostrils and fierce grimace, she does not appear... pleased.]

WHAT THE TARTARUS IS GOING ON HERE!?

[Taking a step away from the scroll would probably be a good idea...]

I can't even begin to count all the things that is wrong here! I mean, at first I thought this was a dream but then when somepony actually pinched me -- WITH THEIR MOUTH NO LESS -- I knew that this was actually real. Talking ponies? And the ones with wings? EVEN ONES WITH MAGIC HORNS?? I even saw one that brought in a raincloud! IT WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF ME!!

[She takes a moment and her hoof comes up to scrub off her hair and her face.]

Alright... you know what... considering everything else I have seen before a world of talking ponies is actually not that out there. And, hey, at least my fur color is one that I'd like. Just, in this case, I hope my friends aren't here to have this happen to them.

Also, I have to ask just one question...

Why couldn't I have been one of those cool ones with the wings?

EDIT:

[A little bit later there is a shout. A glorious shout. A mighty shout. It rings to the heavens and may even be heard as far as way as The Crystal Kingdom.]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN PONIES DON'T EAT MEAT?!!!!

[Thanks, Teddie.]

EDIT: x2

[And a little bit after that there is another shout, though not quite as powerful, whatever is doing it definitely has a healthy set of lungs.]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE'S NO TV?!!

[Thanks, Rise.]

Comments

[linefacingforever]

About eight months ago; it's August now.

[...actually, he's sorry; Chie just arrived. Bestie snuggles were more important, especially when he could snuggle with Yukiko any time he wanted. He lifted his head, scooting over a little.]

[gigglesnortpriestess]

It's been that long? Surely doesn't feel like it. It would be a full year in October that we've been here...

[It's odd ok?]

So what was this competition back home?

[like_a_dragon]

Right right... okay... so settle down. It's going to be a long one.

[So Chie starts plainly. About how when Yu came back the Midnight Channel popped up again and how Teddie, Rise and Kanji disappeared and that nobody knew what was going on. Then that they checked on the Midnight Channel that night and saw a commercial for the P-1 Grand Prix.]

[Chie also mentions that the titles were seriously goofy, pausing a bit because her own title still smarted.]

[linefacingforever]

[Of course, when Chie paused like that, it only served to pique Yu's curiosity. He tilted his head, curious.]

What were they?

[like_a_dragon]

I... uh... forgot!

[This face ain't foolin' nobody.]

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Chie...

[Tell them or she's getting Thorax.]

[like_a_dragon]

...honest?

[/best liar not]

[linefacingforever]

Just tell us the truth.

[like_a_dragon]

Okay, okay!

Yu was called "The Sister Complex Kingpin of Steel" and Yukiko's was "The Unconquerable Snow-Black."

[Please don't ask her to tell more. I mean, she'd be happy to tell Kanji and Yosuke's, but don't have her repeate heeers.]

[linefacingforever]

...Sister Complex Kingpin of Steel?

[Yu's face scrunched up in thought, and...]

That's... not right. I'm not a kingpin; we all did our parts.

[...that was probably the wrong thing to object to.]

[gigglesnortpriestess]

...I don't get mine.


[No really. She doesn't get it.]

What was yours, Chie?

[like_a_dragon]

[Ooof course you don't, Yukiko. But that's okay. Chie knows full well what that means and why you got it.]

[But on the question of her title, Chie's face flatlines. No emotion there at all: complete stoneface.]

I don't want to talk about it.

[linefacingforever]

Probably something to do with meat.

[...oops? But to be fair, "carnivore" was one of the simple ways to describe her, and these titles seemed to take the easiest to see aspects of them and blow it out of proportion.]

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Like what?

[Yukiko sweetie...no.]

[like_a_dragon]

[Were it just Yu, she would have just been able to let it go with an awkward laugh and nod.]

[But Yukiko was there, so that changed things. Quietly, almost defeated, she just mentions in the quietest audible voice:]

The Carnivore that Discarded Womanhood

[Even though she knew it was meant to antagonize her, it still hurt just thinking about it.]

[linefacingforever]

[Chie, he knows he's awesome, but he doesn't have super hearing.]

...what about your womanhood?

[gigglesnortpriestess]

Wait what?

[like_a_dragon]

Carnivore that Discarded Womanhood

[Yeeah...]

[linefacingforever]

...oooooh.

[...yeah, that was really rude.]

[gigglesnortpriestess]

[Wow she heard that.]

That's rather rude of them.

[like_a_dragon]

I KNOW, RIGHT?

[She's relieved, in truth.]

[linefacingforever]

It sounds like the goal was to goad us into fighting.

[It sounds like it worked.]

[gigglesnortpriestess]

[Oh yeah, Chie fought.]

Did you ever find out what and why that thing was going on?

[like_a_dragon]

[So Chie tells the rest of the story: about the P-1 Grand Prix and the labyrinth. About General Teddie and how Rise was urging them on. How they went to what looked like Yasogami school and... the president.]

[She tells them everything in exacting detail. The truth behind The General and the school president. About Mitsuru and the Shadow Operatives. She doesn't offer much in terms of explanations when she can't guess them, but details about what happened? Yeah, she's pretty good at that.]

[In the end, she tells them of Yu and Yosuke's decision to continue the investigation team... and chase down the Malevolent Entity and his Mysterious Voice accomplice.]

[linefacingforever]

[That was a lot to take in, but he couldn't help but grin faintly. The thought that they weren't down for the count, even though their first investigation was done and over with, meant a lot to him.]

[Their bond really would keep going, hunh?]

Glad we made it out okay. Did the rest of Golden Week go well at least?