Saturday, October 29, 2011

Story: The Nightmare After Nightmare Night (Update Complete!)

[Crossover]

Author: Saddlesoap Opera
Description: It was some time ago, but not too long, you see?
In a place that perhaps you have seen on TV.

For this story spans places far from pedestrian,
Crossing spooky and dark with bright and Equestrian.

Now, you may be asking how that crossing was done.
If you are not, I'd say it's time you begun!
The Nightmare After Nightmare Night (New Chapter 3!)

Additional Tags: Halloween, Tim Burton, Where's Rarity?

59 comments:

Yours sincerely said...

First?!

Oh, and Saddlesoap. This promises to be good.

Topsy Kretts said...

Love the rhymes, shouldn't there be a bit more tags or does Crossover sound enough, meh.
anyway first?

Shadow Heart said...

@Discord

Where you at teech, HIDE ME

Trollestia is gonna get me if she finds me

Multiversity said...

OH MY GOD. This will be read!

Party Favors said...

So far, this is just plain hilarious. Looking forward to more in future.

Discord said...

@Shadow Heart

Hide on the moon... last place she will look

Timber said...

I haven't read this yet and already I love it!!!

Unknown said...

Nightmare Night meets Nightmare Before Christmas? I'm intrigued.
The characterizations in Ch1 were very good. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Shadow Heart said...

@Discord

BRILLIANT!!!

That's a great plan teech. You may want to go there too, cause she will be steaming mad when she sobers up.

Something tells me she won't banish us to the moon, but somewher hotter.

Pack some SPF 1,000,000 sunscreen and some very good shades.

Dashmaster said...

Yeah, I'm loving this so far :D
Sure gonna follow this!

SgtGarand said...

When reading the description, I read it in Zecora's voice. Also, after reading the last sentence I started to hear "This is Halloween"

Will add this one to my reading list

Michael C said...

A good start, and fun to read! I look forward to seeing more!

Multiversity said...

Heh. Yeah, I read this. Just now. More please!

Timber said...

And now I have read it and I want more!!

Harwick said...

Excellent... Rarity needed some Nightmare Night love! The first chapter was fun... Looking forward to more.

Xeddrief said...

I AM THROWING MY PUMPKINS AT THE SCREEN BUT NOTHING IS HAPPENING

mycutiemarkisagun said...

Its good, but I have a few minor suggestions/criticisms:

One, Rarity needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Rarity's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Rarity"? Three...

TheManWithTwoNames said...

The characters are portrayed incredibly well, and the entire thing's written like it was taken right out of the show. I'm looking forward to the rest of this!

Baron said...

Tim Burton + Ponies?!
Must read!

KTS said...

*looks at Addtional tags* where's Rarity ??? No they took Rarity.

Forderz said...

Critical hit to my reading eyes!

Forderz said...

Also, I just realized why saddlesoap sounds so familiar. Pony Psychology!

Spikely Whiplash said...

@Xeddrief

Plenty of stuff is happening. You just can't see it because your monitor is broken. Presumably from throwing your pumpkins at it.

Lightning Delight said...

Oh my god. This story is great. I need more of it, now. Great characterization, too.

MoreX25 said...

will this be based on the video game?

ToonNinja said...

Oh, yes. Very yes. Very, very yes.

Ardashir said...

Oh man this is gonna be good. Dare we hope that Lock, Shock, and Barrel get to meet the Cutie Mark Crusaders?

tectobot said...

Ah man, it takes place after the movie? So Oogie Boogie won't show up?

Sad face. Looks interesting, though.

joetraincool said...

This made my day. Seriously. Can't wait to see more.

Mojo said...

YES .

Finally a new fic that I actually want to read, A FIC THAT'S ACTUALLY LIKE THE GODDAMN SHOW!

THANK YOU SADDLESOAP!

Saddlesoap said...

Yay! Thanks for the kind words thusfar, all! :D

To answer some of the above comments:
Yes it takes place after the movie, and no, it will not be based on the video game(s), which I am afraid I have not played.

Crosshair said...

While this story is chaping up to be a frightful romp of comedic proportions, I have to ask: What are the other mystery doors supposed to represent? My guesses are Clifford, for the paw print, but I don't recognize the Blue white shield and guns (Captain America? Modern Warfare? Huh?) or the stern clockwork face (gears of war? No idea.)

Please note: This will be awesome. And now I have to dig out the old VHS...

Saddlesoap said...

@Crosshair

The key clue you are missing is here:

"...their roots reaching toward it like spokes around the hub of a giant wheel..."

Alondro said...

@Saddlesoap

Hee hee, I picked up on that. Sooooo... there are dimensional nexuses.. nexusi? Nexusesses?

Whatever.. Nightmare Before Christmas + Pony = The Most Awesome Holiday crossover ever.

Ponies make everything better.

TheManWithTwoNames said...

I've gotta say, this chapter took me for some loops I really did NOT see coming.

The song was very well reworded and made a nice touch, too.

Can't wait for the conclusion!

Ardashir said...

Okay, this chapter was indeed different. Rarity goes all Nightmare Rarity, Rainbow Dash becomes her loyal Shadowbolt, and the rest of the mane six are getting affected by the magic of Halloweentown?

And I love the musical number!

Unknown said...

Wow! Just, wow! Ch2 was even better than Ch1, and that song in the middle was *so awesome*!
I really liked the plot twist of making the Mane 6 act like their costumed counterparts. Very clever move, and I can honestly say I've got no idea where this is going to go. I eagerly await your next update!

psychicscubadiver said...

Not just a clever crossover, but you even worked a Firefly quote in there. Well done good sir/madam. Well done indeed.

Lightning Delight said...

Words cannot express how hard I squeed when the song started.

Saddlesoap said...

@psychicscubadiver

HA HA! YES! You're the first one to notice!

You win an Internet. :D

(also, for the record, it's 'sir')

Alondro said...

@Saddlesoap

That song... you have won the Internets in every cartoon dimension.

Doc Steedly said...

Ugh, I can't believe I am saying this.

I would really love if the authors would post google doc versions of these stories. FIMFICTION and FANFICTION are a pain in the fricken flank to download the stories from. I mean how hard is it to have a website download a .txt file in the original format so an app other than windows wordpad or works or anything like that to be able to read it properly. Try it, go to the story, or any story on FIMFICTION. Download the story via the download button and open it on any device that reads text documents. Even try the windows txt viewer or wordpad. In windows notepad and any other text device you will get no formatting whatsoever. It looks like a preschoolers wall o text. On any app higher than that it will open up somewhat formatted with a bunch or garbage and trash characters everywhere. And what did the fimfiction site mods tell me. We will look into it, a few months ago and yet I still saw no change. I have yet to download a single story from either of those two web sites as of late. I dont read them from the web site. I read them from my android phone. The only way I can get fics offa those sites formatted properly is to drag over and copy the text. Try it and see how agonizingly slow it is to do that. Make a new txt, file paste it in. Save it, rename the name so it will organize in a folder and do that for a 20 chapter story like Past Sins, Fallout Equestria, Antipodes. It's irritating to the say the least. I will deal with the clunky Google Docs over doing that any day.

Nyerguds said...

@Doc Steedly
It downloads it as txt. What do you expect? Plain text files HAVE NO formatting.

It's true though, would be nicer if you could download it as the same HTML that's shown on the page. I just save the bare html page and then edit it to cut out the actual story part myself.

Ardashir said...

I just read the third chapter again, and I like the bit with poor Fluttershy (Fluttertree?) getting hit on by the Halloween Tree.

But I wonder -- does that mean that the Halloween Tree has wood for Fluttertree? (Forgive me, my sister was watching her Beavis & Butt-head collection and the idiocy proved infectious...)

DPV111 said...

That last chapter was awesome.
2 Pinkies, lol.
Worth the month long wait.

heyal said...

fuck i'm righting one about this well sorta didnt read full thing but im like half done and its about luna dark decent to nightmare moon and what hapends to her...basicaly

bllb1 said...

@heyalum its bllb1 howdd it get heyal?

Ardashir said...

Oh, that ending! I love the duels between Twi and Rarity on one hoof, and Luna and Tia on the other. It's really a funny story, and it's oddly appropriate that the last chapter came a week before Christmas.

Alondro said...

@DPV111

Two Pinkies... a terror even worse than the Boogie Man.

:D

Echoed Wails said...

I don't know what's more awesome: The fact that this is a The Nightmare Before Christmas/MLP:FiM crossover or the hint of an idea that Snake Eyes and Celestia teamed up to curb stop COBRA.

Saddlesoap said...

@Echoed Wails

Oh man. Yes. There CAN'T be a way this didn't happen.

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