Celestia was a filly living on an isolated farm with her sister and harboring dreams of greatness. Chrysalis was a black goo poured out from a screaming wound in the walls of reality, with a weak grasp on the appropriate amount of fangs one should have. Friendship was inevitable.
Do we really need to say more?
''A Bug on a Stick'' is alternative universe My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction by Orbiting Kettle, telling the stoby about childhood of Celestia, Luna and Chrysalis in the Post-Unification Era long before the beginning of Royal Sisters.
A Bug on a Stick contains examples of:
- Alternate Universe: What if Chrysalis was an yonger sister of Celestia and Luna.
- Book Ends: Story begins when a filly Celestia armed with a stick find in the forest a strange black goo what in a near future becomes Chrysalis. Story ends when a human girl Celestia armed with a stick find in a forest a lost human girl named Chrysalis.
- Chosen One: White and dark foals, marked by the Sun and the Moon.
- Distant Finale: The events of Epilogue takes place on the moment of thermal death of universe before it reboots into new realm.
- Exact Words:
Sapphire Heart: Do you truly don't know your family?
Chrysalis:''' I don't know about any of them. I can't remember them, and I didn't even think I was a pony when I was found.
Chrysalis:''' I don't know about any of them. I can't remember them, and I didn't even think I was a pony when I was found.
- Happily Adopted: All three fillies was adopted in the Sottile family.
- Mystical Plague: Strange plague strike farm in Chapter 10. It takes magic of creature and leaves them sick. It's heavily implied that this is early experimments of Tirek.
- The Prophecy: Many characters refer to some prophecy of the rise of the Alicorns. But it interpretation depend on person.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Chryssie and Geno the gryphon. That's what Lulu tnink.