Fanfic / The Disney Chronicles

The Disney Chronicles is a series of crossovers between the Disney Animated Canon and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria, Spike the Dragon finds a falling star that lands within the Castle of the Two Sisters. He then discovers a strange book and takes it home to show Twilight and her friends. Opening it, they learn that the book is the Book of Disney, an enchanted storybook containing numerous stories. But unlike most storybooks, this one can open portals to new worlds that these ponies can visit and interact with the tales as they unfold around them.

As of now, this series is ongoing, with many future installments planned.

The fanfics, in chronological order, are:

• The Disney Chronicles I: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• The Disney Chronicles II: Pinocchio
• The Disney Chronicles III: Fantasia

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The Disney Chronicles contains tropes of:

• Adaptation Expansion: Each story gets this treatment. For example:
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
    • A chapter in the story featured the deleted song Music in Your Soup.
    • When Prince Florian returns to the Evil Queen's castle looking for Snow White, he rescues the captive Starlight Glimmer. Starlight then joins him on his search for the princess.
  • Fantasia:
    • The entire premise. While the original film had no set story that connected the worlds for each segment, the fic adapts the premise of the Symphony of Sorcery, with the players' sheet music going missing and the ponies having to search each segment's world to find them.
• Adaptational Karma: In the original film, the Coachman was a Karma Houdini. In Disney Chronicles II, however, he meets his end when he falls off a cliff, much like how he did in the SNES game. Honest John and Gideon also receive karma by going to jail for their involvement in the Pleasure Island scheme.
• Big Bad: Each installment of the Disney Chronicles features an antagonist that the Mane Six and their allies have to overcome.
  • Snow White and The Seven Dwarves: The Evil Queen Grimhilde seeks to eliminate Snow White by becoming the fairest in the land.
  • Pinocchio: The most persistent antagonists that appear are the Dazzlings who seek to corrupt Pinocchio and get revenge on Twilight and her friends for their previous defeat in Rainbow Rocks. Honest John, Gideon, Stromboli, The Coachman and Monstro serve as additional antagonists the Mane Six and their allies must deal with.
  • Fantasia: The T. rex and Zeus serve as the starter antagonists whilst later on, Chernabog is revealed to have been responsible for stealing the sheet music from the concert and plans to corrupt all of the worlds into darkness where he will rule for eternity.
• Cosmic Keystone: The Book of Disney. In Disney Chronicles III, Yen Sid explains to the heroes that Walt Disney created the book to place many stories inside it. Since the worlds and all their characters are alive, if someone or something were to destroy the book, everything within it would vanish, with no chance of ever returning. Should someone evil gets their hands on the book, disaster will occur.
• For Want Of A Nail: The contact between the Disney worlds and Equestria hugely affects the outcome of the stories. Examples include:
  • Pinocchio:
    • When the ponies discover the truth about Pleasure Island, they rescue all the boys who were turned into donkeys and fight off the Coachman and his goons, with the former falling off a cliff to his Disney Villain Death. Then, after the Blue Fairy changes the boys back, the ponies return them to their parents in the village.
    • After fulfilling his duty as Pinocchio's conscience, Jiminy Cricket follows the ponies back through the portal to Equestria and joins them on their subsequent adventures.
  • Fantasia:
    • The ponies' presence in the Rite of Spring segment and their attachment to the dinosaurs there leads to them saving several baby dinosaurs from joining the rest of their kind in extinction.
    • Also, in the Intermission, Octavia's compliment with the Soundtrack lead to him seemingly falling in love with her.
    • In the Pastoral Symphony, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash get into a fight with Zeus. The outcome of this battle ends with the world's inhabitants hailing the ponies as heroes.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Each consecutive story features at least one or more of them other than the Mane 6 and Spike themselves. The following characters in the stories are:
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Starlight Glimmer
  • Pinocchio: Apple Bloom and Tender Taps
  • Fantasia: Octavia and DJ Pon-3
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • In the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs story, Fluttershy is at the dwarfs' cottage alongside Snow White when the disguised Grimhilde arrives to give Snow White the poisoned apple. Unfortunately, while Fluttershy quickly finds out the truth from the forest animals right as she's starting to reprimand them, the vultures in the area end up trying to attack and eat her before she had the chance to warn Snow White. Because of this, the princess still ends up taking a bite out of the apple.
  • While the ponies and Spike initially end up doing battle against the t. rex in the Rite of Spring segment and Fluttershy, in particular, ends up proving particularly desperate to keep trying to help the stegosaurus (whom they've formed a close friendship with here) even after the T. rex has beaten them all up badly enough to force them to retreat, the T. rex still successfully defeats and kills the poor stegosaurus. Similarly, despite the ponies, Spike, and Jiminy Cricket's best efforts, all but six live baby dinosaurs and a single unhatched abandoned egg end up still dying in the extinction sequence.
• Monster Is a Mommy: The T. rex from Fantasia is revealed in this continuity to be the mother of a single hatchling when said hatchling comes walking into view immediately after his mother has died in the drought near the end of the Rite of Spring segment. This revelation, combined with his desperate efforts at getting his mother to wake up and subsequent heartbroken chirping after realizing she's dead, are enough to convince the Equestrian visitors to take him with them and the other baby dinosaurs.
• Shout-Out: The Rite of Spring section in Fantasia has the borrowing of numerous lines from Walking with Dinosaurs and its sequels, usually in the form of Jiminy explaining facts to the ponies or the narrator just butting in.
• Suddenly Speaking: Unlike in the original movie, most of the major characters in each segment of Fantasia are all now able to talk as they interact with the ponies.
• Truer to the Text: In a sense. In The Mane Six goes Disney's take on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the dwarfs themselves were Adapted Out and had their role taken over by Spike and the Mane 6. In this series' adaptation of Snow White, the dwarfs are present, allowing them to interact with Snow White, Spike, and the Mane 6.
• Vile Vulture: While not directly affiliated with Grimhilde, the vultures from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ultimately prove hungry enough to attempt to attack and kill Fluttershy. It was not too long after she realized that the old crone was Grimhilde in disguise and trying to kill Snow White. As a result, Fluttershy couldn't prevent the queen from giving the princess the apple or hurrying over to warn her friends and the dwarfs before Snow White's forest animal friends do.