History FanFic / MyLittleMetro

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/446/My-Little-Metro My Little Metro]]'' is an incomplete {{fanfic}} on [[Website/FimfictionDotNet FiMFiction.net]] by [=RedSquirrel456=]. It is a crossover between the popular ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' animation series, and the videogames ''VideoGame/{{Metro 2033}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Metro: Last Light]]''. As such, it contains many tropes from both universes, although the story and setting are rather on the {{grimdark}} side, and include death, gore, language, and some sensuality. The story was last updated in mid-2014 and has since been marked "[[DeadFic On Hiatus]]."

* NightmareDreams: These haunt Lockbox very often, ramping up the intensity to undiluted {{Nightmare Fuel}} levels after he unintentionally enables the horrific assassination of [[spoiler: Sweet Dreams]]. May yet overlap with YourWorstNightmare, depending on how future events play out. The poor guy does get a break with at least two partial [[EroticDream erotic dreams]]. [[spoiler: Unfortunately the first is prematurely interrupted, and the second [[EyeScream goes horribly wrong.]] ]]

* EldritchLocation: Many places in the Metro, besides being filled with unworldly [[EldritchAbomination anomolies]] and [[NuclearNasty mutants]], have their own strange properties, such as a tunnel that extends much longer than the physical space between stations should allow.

''My Little Metro'' is an incomplete {{fanfic}} on [[FimfictionDotNet FiMFiction.net]] by [=RedSquirrel456=]. It is a crossover between the popular ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' animation series, and the videogames ''VideoGame/{{Metro 2033}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Metro: Last Light]]''. As such, it contains many tropes from both universes, although the story and setting are rather on the {{grimdark}} side, and include death, gore, language, and some sensuality. The story was last updated in mid-2014 and has since been marked "[[DeadFic On Hiatus]]."

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/446/My-Little-Metro Can be read here.]]

* NotAlwaysEvil: A [[TearJerker tearjerking example]] when [[spoiler: Bric-à-brac]], one of Ruby Red's bandit henchmen, nobly and voluntarily sacrifices himself for sake of [[EnemyMine helping Lockbox's mission.]]

-> It had become clear very soon after the bombs fell that Celestia and Luna weren’t going to swoop down and fix everything. No-pony knew where they were, or even if they were alive now. The few thousand ponies who huddled in the Metro after the attack had to deal with their entire world being shattered, then having the guts ripped out of their very faith. I wondered how they’d survived. How they hadn’t just torn each other to pieces in a panic. But that was the nature of faith, I supposed. Its incredible resilience in the face of impossible odds ensured its survival. Belief in the Princesses and in the virtues that made us good ponies was still strong in some parts of the Metro. I too had faith that Equestria might someday become green again. It wouldn’t be faith if there was always a clear cut reason to believe, would it?

* NotAlwaysEvil: A [[TearJerker tearjerking example]] when [[spoiler: Bric-à-brac]], one of Ruby Red's bandit henchmen, nobly and voluntarily sacrifices himself for sake of [[EnemyMine helping Lockbox's mission.]]

''My Little Metro'' is an incomplete {{fanfic}} on [[FimfictionDotNet FiMFiction.net]] by [=RedSquirrel456=]. It is a crossover between the popular ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' animation series, and the videogames ''{{Metro 2033}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Metro: Last Light]]''. As such, it contains many tropes from both universes, although the story and setting are rather on the {{grimdark}} side, and include death, gore, language, and some sensuality. The story was last updated in mid-2014 and has since been marked "[[DeadFic On Hiatus]]."

''My Little Metro'' is an ongoing {{fanfic}} on [[FimfictionDotNet FiMFiction.net]] by [=RedSquirrel456=]. It is a crossover between the popular ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' animation series, and the videogames ''{{Metro 2033}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Metro: Last Light]]''. As such, it contains many tropes from both universes, although the story and setting are rather on the {{grimdark}} side, and include death, gore, language, and some sensuality.

'''''My Little Metro''''' is an ongoing {{fanfic}} on [[FimfictionDotNet FiMFiction.net]] by [=RedSquirrel456=]. It is a crossover between the popular ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' animation series, and the videogames ''{{Metro 2033}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Metro: Last Light]]''. As such, it contains many tropes from both universes, although the story and setting are rather on the {{grimdark}} side, and include death, gore, language, and some sensuality.

''My Little Metro'' is an ongoing {{fanfic}} on [[FimfictionDotNet FiMFiction.net]] by [=RedSquirrel456=]. It is a crossover between the popular ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' animation series, and the videogames ''{{Metro 2033}}'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Metro: Last Light]]''. As such, it contains many tropes from both universes, although the story and setting are rather on the {{grimdark}} side, and include death, gore, language, and some sensuality.

!!''My Little Metro'' contains the following tropes:
* {{After The End}}: Set decades after a horrible war involving [[FantasticNuke magical nukes]] has destroyed and poisoned the surface of Equestria (and presumably the rest of the planet).
* {{A Nazi By Any Other Name}}: The Warden (a magical mind-altering {{expy}} of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler) and his {{mooks}}, and by extension likely the rest of the New Lunar Republic administration.
* {{Anti-Hero}}: Lockbox, who often [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the irony that he seems to keep murdering ponies for the sake of saving ponies.
* {{Curb Stomp Battle}}: Expected in-universe when Lockbox challenges Steel Crescent to single combat for the freedom of Sidewinder. [[spoiler: Averted when Lockbox actually ''wins'', to the shock of nearly everypony present.]]
* {{Eldritch Location}}: Many places in the Metro, besides being filled with unworldly [[EldritchAbomination anomolies]] and [[NuclearNasty mutants]], have their own strange properties, such as a tunnel that extends much longer than the physical space between stations should allow.
* {{Enemy Mine}}: Many alliances are forged in the name of mutual survival, notably [[spoiler: Ruby Red and Lockbox]] sliding back and forth between {{Teeth Clenched Teamwork}} and {{Friendly Enemy}}.
* {{Giant Spiders}}: Although the spiderbugs aren't necessarily "giant", they can still reach the size of a full-grown pony and clog entire metro tunnels in thick web.
* {{Grey and Gray Morality}}: While not quite on the far hopeless side of [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism Idealism vs Cynicism]], this trope is extremely prevalent. Nearly everypony in the Metro is willing to do anything it takes, up to and including murder, to stay one step ahead.
* {{Have We Met}}: When Lockbox helps kill a bandit patrol, their leader Ruby Red swears to find and kill him, but doesn't get a good look before he escapes. Later when he's captured in an unrelated event, she notes he seems familiar, but can't place why.
* {{Hearing Voices}}: Lockbox is particularly haunted by what seems to be the thoughts and voices of the Dark Ones.
* {{Made of Iron}}: Even with magical healing in effect, Lockbox and many of his companions should be dead multiple times over. Often [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by other ponies, noting that whatever Lockbox is trying to accomplish must be supernaturally important.
* {{Nightmare Dreams}} These haunt Lockbox very often, ramping up the intensity to undiluted {{Nightmare Fuel}} levels after he unintentionally enables the horrific assassination of [[spoiler: Sweet Dreams]]. May yet overlap with {{Your Worst Nightmare}}, depending on how future events play out.
** The poor guy does get a break with at least two partial [[EroticDream erotic dreams]]. [[spoiler: Unfortunately the first is prematurely interrupted, and the second [[EyeScream goes horribly wrong.]] ]]
* {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}: Employed many times by ponies all over the metro to enforce subservience. Ruby Red's methods are noteworthy for being particularly vicious.
* {{The Nondescript}}: Nopony, in addition to his black armor and omnipresent tinted gasmask, seems to have the ability to blend in and appear wherever he wants, with no questions asked or anyone wondering where he came from. His name of choice also makes talking about him difficult.
--> I groaned and shoved him away, wincing as my injuries twinged. “Nevermind, we need to find a way out of here and Nopony said the Diamond Dogs would help.”
--> “Who?” he asked.
--> “Nopony,” I said, only realizing how crazy I sounded when he looked at me like I’d grown a second head.
* {{Not Always Evil}}: A [[TearJerker tearjerking example]] when [[spoiler: Bric-à-brac]], one of Ruby Red's bandit henchmen, nobly and voluntarily sacrifices himself for sake of [[EnemyMine helping Lockbox's mission.]]
* {{Punch Clock Villain}}: While almost all have committed some horrible atrocity in the name of survival or power, most ponies aren't outright evil, but simply doing the bidding of more powerful ponies.
* {{Utopia Justifies The Means}}: The stance taken by the fanatical New Lunar Republic, which enslaves "undesirable" ponies for grunt work and mining gems, while regaling in the stronger more useful ponies with grand visions of a future {{Utopia}}. See also {{A Nazi By Any Other Name}}.
* {{You Look Like Youve Seen a Ghost}}: Used almost word for word by Sidewinder to Lockbox after a vision of the as-yet unknown [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicFluttershy pony]] haunting his dreams.

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** The poor guy does get a break with at least two partial {{Erotic Dreams}}. [[spoiler: Unfortunately the first is prematurely interrupted, and the second [[EyeScream goes horribly wrong.]] ]]