Line #66 Fanfic/DigitalHarmony


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:EXECUTE! Harmonic Evolution[[note]]From the left to right Espermon, Davis, XV-Mon[[/note]]]]
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5	''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/93440/digital-harmony Digital Harmony]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''/''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' crossover written by [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Zennistrad Zennistrad]].
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7	In the aftermath of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure her ascension to alicorn Princess]], Twilight Sparkle has begun work on ENEIGHAC, Equestria's first-ever computer. Upon showing it to her friends, an unexpected malfunction causes Fluttershy to witness the Digital World, [[UnreliableExposition a simulated world created by ENEIGHAC]]. Having been treated more of a doormat than usual lately, the pegasus embraces the idea of a simulated world where she can vent her anger on the creatures of the Digital World and later while Twilight is on a picnic with the rest of their friends, sneaks into the lab and enters the Digital World...
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9	It isn't long afterwards that the Digi-Destined become aware of a new threat to both worlds: a Digimon calling itself Vespimon, who seeks to finish what Ken started as the Digimon Emperor...
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11	Now a DeadFic as of October 2018.
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14	!!This Fanfic contains examples of:
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16	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: As soon as she invades the Digital World, Vespimon is easily able to conquer Gennai's base of operations, which was formerly Myotismon's castle in ''Digimon Adventure''.
17	* BigBad: Vespimon, [[DiscOneFinalBoss at least for the moment]].
18	* BigDamnHeroes:
19	** Almost immediately upon arriving in the Digital World, Twilight is surrounded by Dark Ring-wearing Gazimon, her magic having no effect on them at all. Cue Veemon dashing in and [[CurbStompBattle singlehandedly taking them out]].
20	** Vespimon had [[CurbStompBattle defeated Aquilamon and Stingmon]] and is about to finish them off when Rainbow Dash arrives to back her new friends up.
21	** Pegasusmon and Nefertimon, after destroying a distant control spire, manage to intervene during Flamedramon's fight with [=CaptainHookmon=] just long enough to even the odds.
22	* BroughtDownToNormal: Being in the Digital World has sapped away the effectiveness of Twilight's magic, reduced Rainbow Dash's flight abilities, and taken away Pinkie Pie's fourth wall-breaking abilities.
23	* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "[[Anime/DigimonFrontier EXECUTE! Harmonic Evolution!]]"
24	-->'''Twilight Sparkle''': "Espermon! The Spark of Magic!"\
25	'''Rarity''': "Kelpiemon! The Generous Guardian of the Lake!"\
26	'''Pinkie Pie''': "Shinobimon! The Bursting Laughter!"\
27	'''Applejack''': "[=TimberGarurumon=]! The Honorable Wolf!"\
28	'''Rainbow Dash''': "Irismon! The Angel of Loyalty!"\
29	'''Fluttershy''': [[spoiler:"EXECUTE! Discordant Evolution! Vespimon! The Sting of Cruelty!"]]
30	* TheCameo: [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW Nightmare Rarity]] and [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries Millenniummon]]]]
31	* CatapultNightmare: Ken has one in which he encounters a taunting Digimon Emperor who states that Vespimon is the part of their past Ken keeps denying and as long as he refuses to accept it, it's going to keep on happening. [[spoiler:It ends with [[VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries Millenniummon]] attacking and nearly devouring him.]]
32	* ChekhovsGun: While fighting [=CaptainHookmon=], Shinobimon's sword is embedded in the mast of [=CaptainHookmon=]'s ship. [[spoiler: This later causes the mast and sail to collapse onto [=CaptainHookmon=], stunning him long enough for Flamedramon to destroy his dark spiral.]]
33	* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Rainbow, focused more on rescuing Fluttershy than on helping destroy the Control Spire, abandons Yolei and Ken to search for her friends on her own. She ends up collapsing and dreaming about her MyGreatestFailure seen below, causing her to have a HeelRealization and fly back in search of them just in time to make her BigDamnHeroes moment above.
34	* ContinuityNod:
35	** Twilight and Davis encounter a [[OriginalCharacter fan-made Digimon]] by Zennistrad named Spikedramon, who resembles Spike in his [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess greed-growth state]].
36	** Rarity has the same grossed-out reaction to the Numemon that Mimi had in the original ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.
37	** Kari has the [[EyeScream same problem]] making Pinkie Promises that [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Twilight did]].
38	** Kari and Pinkie Pie encounter a Sorcermon whose [[ThirdPersonPerson personality]] [[ItsAllAboutMe under the influence]] of the Dark Spiral is similar to [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E6BoastBusters Trixie's]]. He even [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel magically removes Pinkie's mouth]] when her MotorMouth starts to irritate him.
39	** Applejack manages to Harmonic Evolve to [=TimberGarurumon=] for the first time by saving TK from drowning, just like how Matt first Digivolved Gabumon to Garurumon (and later on, how Joe first Digivolved Ikkakumon to Zudomon) by saving TK.
40	** Once the Dark Spiral is removed from him, [=MegaSeadramon's=] [[AmbiguouslyGay personality]] is reminiscent of [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony Steven Magnet's]].
41	** Yuuko Kamiya's infamous LethalChef combinations are no match for Pinkie Pie's BigEater appetite.
42	** The end of Chapter 43 has Vespimon discovering the remains of [[spoiler:Gotsumon]] from ''Adventure''.
43	* CurbStompBattle:
44	** Vespimon in her shadow form almost effortlessly takes out both Aquilamon and Stingmon.
45	** [=CaptainHookmon=] manages to handily outfight nearly every digimon that faces him in direct combat, despite [[CurbstompCushion some of them getting a few good hits in.]] Flamedramon manages to fare a bit better than the rest, but only ''just'' enough to make it through the encounter, and only with a [[BigDamnHeroes timely intervention]] by Pegasusmon and Nefertimon and [[spoiler: the mast of [=CaptainHookmon's ship collapsing on him.=].]]
46	* DreamingOfThingsToCome:
47	** Rarity and Ken both have had nightmares of [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW Nightmare Rarity]] and the Digimon Emperor taunting them of things that will happen should they fail to save the Digital World from Vespimon.
48	** Chapter 49 has Twilight dreaming about Sunset Shimmer sneaking into her library back in Equestria to try and steal Twilight's crown like in canon, [[spoiler:only to end up making a DealWithTheDevil with Daemon, who hints that he's planning on making a team of PsychoRangers to the Elements of Harmony]].
49	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Vespimon refuses to have any "real blood" shed during her rule. [[spoiler:Of course, since she believes the entire Digital World is just a simulation, this isn't saying much.]]
50	* FaceHeelTurn: In case it wasn't obvious, [[spoiler:Vespimon is Fluttershy]].
51	* GreenEyedMonster: Fluttershy is shown to be jealous of Twilight's ascension, feeling that she's more worthy of it due to her efforts in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn reforming Discord]]. [[spoiler:Of course, since the opening chapter established that she was infected with a Dark Spore, it's unclear how much of this is genuine feelings and how much is the Spore talking.]]
52	* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Dicovering the dying Gotsumon in the dungeons of Myotismon's palace after Myotismon [[{{Bowdlerise}} banished him and Pumpkinmon there]] causes Vespimon to realize that Digimon actually are real. Unfortunately, it ends up being an IgnoredEpiphany.]]
53	* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:Fluttershy, the Element of '''Kindness''', is being corrupted into conquering the Digital World, just like Ken, the Digi-Destined of '''Kindness''' was.]]
54	* IdenticalStranger: Dramatic example: Gatomon finds herself unable to battle Sorcermon due to his strong resemblance to Wizardmon.
55	* ItsPersonal: For Rainbow Dash, Vespimon is seemingly-responsible for the disappearance of her foalhood best friend. For Ken, she's singlehandedly recreating his [[MyGreatestFailure greatest failure]]. Needless to say, they're ''both'' taking this very personally.
56	* TheManBehindTheMan:
57	** According to [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW Nightmare Rarity]], Dragomon was behind the corruption of the moon's inhabitants into the Nightmare Forces, thereby making him responsible for the acts of Nightmare Moon and Nightmare Rarity.
58	** And then there's [[spoiler:Vespimon/Fluttershy, who's an UnwittingPawn to Daemon and Dragomon]].
59	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Upon arriving in the Digital World, Twilight is attacked and injured by a group of Dark Ring-wearing Gazimon and attempts to use a disintegration spell on them to no effect. Once Davis and Veemon explain the Digital World and Dark Rings to her, she has this reaction to the idea that if her spell had worked, she'd have killed innocent creatures whose only crime was being BrainwashedAndCrazy.
60	* MyGreatestFailure:
61	** Spiral Twister was a classmate of Rainbow Dash's in flight school who had feather rot, causing her to have to have her wings amputated. Rainbow was there when she suffered the attack that caused her to have to go to the hospital for the amputation, causing her to believe that, if she'd known about it, she'd have been able to prevent Spiral Twister from losing her wings.
62	** Ken, of course, has this attitude about his time as the Digimon Emperor.
63	* MythologyGag:
64	** The ponies use [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Spirit Evolution]] as their Digivolving process.
65	** Twilight's own Digimon form, Espermon is based off her ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'' appearance.
66	** Rainbow Dash's extreme loyalty to her friends is explained as [[spoiler:guilt over feeling like she'd abandoned someone in need (see MyGreatestFailure above) as a young filly.]] This makes her backstory nearly identical to [[spoiler: Taiki from ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' (Mikey in the dub). The chapter where this is revealed is even titled "Hottokenai", after Taiki's catchphrase in Japanese.]]
67	** Stingmon defeats [[spoiler:Petermon]] in nearly the exact same way that [[Anime/DigimonFusion Shoutmon X4 defeats Neptunemon]].
68	* NoodleIncident: Chapter 40 has Rarity visit a clothing store that Mimi and Palmon had previously gotten themselves banned from for unknown reasons.
69	* PaletteSwap: Vespimon is basically Stingmon in Fluttershy's colors.
70	* PaperThinDisguise: Davis and the rest of the Digi-Destined decide to pass the ponies off while on Earth by saying they're Digimon. It helps that Digimon are becoming more known to the human population in the wake of [=MaloMyotismon's=] attack on both worlds.
71	* RunningGag: When the rest of Digi-Destined receive Davis' message about Twilight and her friends, they think he's either lying for a practical joke or on drugs.
72	* ShoutOut:
73	** Rarity's Digimon form, Kelpiemon, has attacks based off [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite Keldeo]]'s Hydro Pump and Secret Sword.
74	** Following Pinkie Pie's Harmonic Evolution into Shinobimon, Kari says that she'd never thought Pinkie could turn into a Digimon. Pinkie's response:
75	--->'''Pinkie:''' Are you saying you didn't...''[[Manga/{{Naruto}} believe it]]''?
76	** Chapter 31 has the team encounter [[Franchise/PeterPan Petermon and his friend Tinkermon]]. [[spoiler:Like their ''Series/OnceUponATime'' counterparts, they turn out to be EvilAllAlong.]]
77	** During the fight with [=CaptainHookmon=], Pinkie Pie attempts to distract him by [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean invoking parley.]]
78	** Petermon quotes [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Flowey]] almost word-for-word after [[spoiler: killing [=CaptainHookmon=]]]. He does so again in the very next chapter, when explaining his personal philosophy.
79	--->'''Petermon:''' [[spoiler: In this world, it's delete or ''be'' deleted.]]
80	* TransformationTrinket: The Elements of Harmony have been transformed into the ponies' Digivices, the D-Harmony.
81	* UnreliableExpositor: Fluttershy is told that [[BlatantLies the Digital World was created by a program Twilight made to oversee ENEIGHAC's core functions, who then developed self-awareness and used ENEIGHAC's power to create a simulated world to observe the evolution of life.]] Said A.I. now wants Fluttershy to enter the Digital World because it desires a change of pace. The person telling her all this? [[spoiler:Dragomon]]
82	** Later on there's [[spoiler:Petermon]] as a more minor example.
83	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The final straw that pushes Fluttershy over the limit and causes her to decide to take her aggressions out on the Digital World? Getting pranked by Snips and Snails on April Foal's Day.
84	* WeakButSkilled:
85	** Veemon and his evolutions aren't shown to be especially powerful compared to others of the same level, but he makes up for it in fighting prowess. In-universe, he describes himself as a [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Combat_Species combat species]], making him this.
86	*** Thanks to his skill, Flamedramon lasts the longest of any champion-equivalent digimon against [=CaptainHookmon=], though it takes the brief intervention of Pegasusmon and Nefertimon as well as [[spoiler:[=CaptainHookmon's=] mast collapsing onto him]] to finally turn the tide in Flamedramon's favor.
87	*** Veemon later is able to put up an even fight against [[spoiler:Tinkermon]] (who previously incapacitated all of the other rookie-level digimon with relative ease) with nothing more than quick thinking and good reflexes.
88	* WhamLine: At the end of Chapter 43, when Vespimon comes to a major epiphany:
89	-->'''Vespimon:''' [[spoiler: They're real. Digimon are '''real.''']]
90	* YearInsideHourOutside: Vespimon has somehow managed to restore the time dilution effect of the Digital World that was reset following Apocalymon's defeat at the end of ''Adventure''.

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