History FanFic / WeRentTheNight

After the fallout of the Alicorn Amulet incident, Trixie is arrested and is facing imprisonment. But given circumstance, Princess Luna takes pity on Trixie and offers her a way out, if she joins the Lunar Guard. Six months later, Private Trixie is the second lowest ranking out of half a dozen ponies stationed on the small and remote post of Camp Driftwood, on the small and remote island community of Wash Margin, where she miserably awaits the end of her tour, in another three and half years with nothing to do, but march from one side of the island to the other and occasionally take of the town drunk for the night.

On the bright though, a new recruit has just arrived, putting an end to her status as ‘’the new girl’’, while giving her a new and inexperience partner, to show around. Oh, and there is this little matter of evidence, that a cult worshipping a god of destruction, may have surfaced on the island. Well, it puts an end to her boredom.

* CaptainSmooth and SargentRough: LT. Mirror and SGT. Hasta respectively.

* CaptainSmoothandSargentRough: LT. Mirror and SGT. Hasta respectively.

* CaptainSmoothAndSargentRough: LT. Mirror and SGT. Hasta respectively.

* ScamReligion: [[spoiler:The cult turns out to be a sham, to draw in UnwittingPawns, for a smuggling operation.]]
* CaptainSmoothSargentRough: LT. Mirror and SGT. Hasta respectively.

* OC: Though cannon characters are mentioned, Trixie is the only one to appear in the story, while the rest of the cast is made up entirely of OriginalCharacters.

* VoluntaryShapeShifting: All Night Guards are given this ability with their amour, though only (Commander) actually uses it.

* BatManGambit: Trixie lures in their first suspect by daring him to come on stage, knowing he would not back down from her challenge. She also use one on Melon Rind, to show him how much he needs to learn. And later, [[spoiler: she uses an illusion spell to trick the cult leader into confessing.]]

* OhCrap: The BigBad has one of these, when the EvilGod come after. [[spoiler: It’s just an illusion created by Trixie.]]

* [[spoiler: ScamReligion: The cult turns out to be a sham, to draw in UnwittingPawns, for a smuggling operation.]]

* [[spoiler: ScoobyDooHoax: The cult worshiping the ''God of Distruction'', turns to just be an elaborate scam, used to recruit pawns in a smuggling operation.]]

* UnwittingPawn: The cult members turn out to be [[spoiler: innocent ponies, who have been brainwashed into being part of an illegal smuggling operation.]]

*YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Both Sergeant Hasta and Lt. Mirror give Trixie this, though she doesn’t listen at first.

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* DeadPannedSnarker: Trixie and her fellow Night Guard, sans Melon Rind.

* JourneyToFindOnesself: Down played, Trixie unknowingly ends up doing this, throughout the story, changing from a JerkAss, who just wants to get her tour over with, to a confident guard. Lt. Mirror even laminates this:

* [[spoiler: PhonyReligion: The cult turns out to be a sham, to draw in UnwittingPawns, for a smuggling operation.]]

‘’’Trixie: It’s not under any of them. You ‘’are’’ an imbecile because you let yourself get baited into an argument, let me pick the game, and forgot that a unicorn can cheat using magic.’’’

BatManGambit: How Trixie lures in their first suspect.

* BunnyEaredLawyer: Lt. Mirror is a very eccentric leader.

* HiddenDepth: Despite being the town drunk, Strawberry is surprisingly insightful.

* JourneyToFindOnesSelf: Down played, Trixie unknowingly ends up doing this, throughout the story, changing from a JerkAss, who just wants to get her tour over with, to a confident guard. Lt. Mirror even laminates this:

* RememberWhenWeBlewUpTheTown: Trixie taking an entire town hostage and personally banishing the Princess of Friendship is brought up repeatedly. Melon Rind is astonished when he first hers this, but the other guards are used to her and quickly brush it off.

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* AwesomeEgo: Trixie of course, though six months at remote outpost has really mellowed her out, the old show mare in her still shines through when she wants to.

* MagnificentBastard: Trixie demonstrates this trope on Melon to show her new partner, just how naïve he is and how he needs to wise up. [[spoiler: Trixie later fools the BigBad, into thinking her phony god of destruction was real and confessing to her crimes.]]

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We Rent the Night, is a Mystery/[[BuddyCopShow BuddyCop]] comedy My Little Pony Fanfic, written by TotallyNotABrony.

* {{Alcoholic}}: Strawberry Rhyme is the town drunk.

* JourneyToFindOneself: Down played, Trixie unknowingly ends up doing this, throughout the story, changing from a JerkAss, who just wants to get her tour over with, to a confident guard. Lt. Mirror even laminates this:

*YourAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Both Sergeant Hasta and Lt. Mirror give Trixie this, though she doesn’t listen at first.

We Rent the Night, is a Mystery/BuddyCop comedy My Little Pony Fanfic, written by TotallyNotABrony.

* BuddyCop: The bulk of the story, between Trixie and Melon Rind.