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Daring Do and the Universal Cracks is the twenty-second book in the Daring Do Expanded Universe, written by Steeplechase Moffat and Muffin Parcels. Well-known and loved by the fanbase for being one of the funniest entries in the Expanded Universe, Parcels apparently got her start as a fanfiction author before being all but hunted down by Moffat and offered a collaboration, making her quite possibly the ultimate Promoted Fanfilly. The book is also notable for seemingly bringing an end to the Colt of the Smooze arc, as the story's originator Ember Roundup was then going through a Creator Breakdown and permitted Moffat to resolve it.

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When a crack appears in Daring's office wall, she believes that nothing more need be done than call the maintenance colt. However, when an impossible knocking is heard from the other side, Daring and Herpy are quickly swept into an adventure that threatens not only Equestria, but Reality itself.

Daring Do and the Universal Cracks contains examples of:

  • All-Loving Hero: Mareton of all ponies in the Mirror Universe, completely freaking out his main universe self.
  • Alternate Universe: Several, most notably one in which Daring died instead of Zapapple Tock and a Bizarro Universe that serves as the origin for the Leader of the Colt of Smooze.
  • Ascended Extra: Lemon Johnson.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Sweetie Bottle.
  • Fate Worse than Death The Colt Leader's death by My Skull Runneth Over, as her access to the Multiverse overloads her ability to control it, causing countless thousands of Alternate Realities to flow through her.
  • Mirror Universe
  • Mood Whiplash: Applesack restates her Undying Loyalty to Charity, then asks what's the problem they need to solve, using a rather sociopathic metaphor.
    Applesack: I told you, gravy train, I wasn't gonna let a little thing like death keep me from watching your back. Now, I doubt we'd be here if it weren't important, so where're the baby seals we need to club?
    Charity: What she means to say is, "what's the problem we're needed for?"
  • Noodle Incident: Ghoul comes across his alternate self in the Blank World, who is convinced that Normal!Ghoul is a hallucination like the other one. So, either Blank!Ghoul hallucinated the other one, or there was another group of our heroes going around.
  • Sickening Sweethearts: Daring and Ahuizotl in one universe.
  • Wham Line: When Herpy brings Daring's attention to the knocking on the other side of the Crack: "There's somepony on the other side of this wall... and they aren't in this building."

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