A magical curse causes Rarity to sleep for a thousand years. The Equestria she wakes to is no longer a happy and peaceful place. Rarity must make new friends to survive the challenges of this new world, all the while seeking to solve the mystery her old friends could not.
Millennium Wake is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic by Chaotic Dreams.
As of July 2013, Chaotic Dreams has stopped writing this story and passed it over to notMurphy, who is continuing it under the title Millennium Wake: Part II.
This Fan Fic contains examples of:
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The imprints of the Mane Six minus Rarity.
- Anti-Villain: Sapphire is a type IV. At first, he seems to be one of the most sadistic characters in the story, but he's just a really good actor.
- Cold Sleep, Cold Future: The world of the ULE is definitely not the generally happy and prosperous world Rarity left behind.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: Rarity obviously.
- Fetch Quest: The search for the video disks.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: The story of the Fillydelphia fire has been known to do this to ponies.
- I Will Wait for You: Spike's guardianship of Rarity's resting place.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Fluttershy's company makes these.
- My Greatest Failure: Megan's motivation for traveling outside the human enclave.
- Rip Van Winkle: Rarity's manner of time travel is a cursed magic apple which puts her to sleep for a thousand years.
- Sharing a Body: Firefly and the Rainbow Dash imprint.
- Take a Third Option: Or as Rarity puts it, make one.“There’s always a choice!” Rarity yelled right back. “If there’s no other way, then you just have to make another way!”
- Video Wills: The recording disks the rest of the Mane Six leave for Rarity.