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This plot bunny is keeping me awake. It's a starting block for a sort of abominably convoluted, senseless hydra of a tale with multiple sub-plots. What it says in the title (Alien-in-Equestria and TMM&TFM). Not sure I have the skills (or guts) to flesh it out in full prose but I may in the future (or someone else might), so, I am posting it here first.
Overarching plot: After the obscure news of Pinkie Pie's Pegasus-less flight gradually spread through Equestria in the form of true rumors, non-winged ponies had been trying their hooves at it, as what had become a dangerous hobby and pastime. Many had failed and been injured, yet the successes of a few at approaching or replicating the pink earth pony's flight kept many optimistifemoral arteryil one day, Princess Celestia caught on to this new fad. She was amused by the non-winged ponies flying around in noisy, absurd contraptions powered by magic (or pony leg power), wanted to take part in this new phenomenon her earthbound subjects had manifested, and saw potential in developing this technology, if only to further the science underlying airflows when unassisted by Pegasus magic. So, she funds a flying competition: a non-stop air race from Canterlot to Manehatten. Many pegasi perceived the phenomenon and the Princess' sponsorship of the madness as silly and useless, but a select few radicals foresaw their jobs at stake, and plotted to sabotage the competition...
The Pinkie Pie plot intro (In-the-past things revealed mostly through "dialogue" and flashbacks) A non-corporeal (thought-being) alien named Rutahr had arrived in Equestria. This interloper was an engineer on its homeworld, exiled for laziness and lack of sufficient contribution to its society. It knew no laughter, believing (as taught to it) that the worth of a life is defined by its productivity and practical usefulness to other lives. Pinkie Pie, whose nervous system is a veritable psionic conduit (and this is what grants her the Pinkie Sense), had inextricably drawn the alien into her, becoming its unwilling host. In the symbiotic bond, Pinkie Pie had driven her extraterrestrial demon insane with her Pink mind. Rutahr had greatly desired escape. It disrespectfully disdained her career of confectionary / party hostess, thinking it impractical and frivolous, and wanted nothing to do with her. But in response to its bitterness, she had just laughed inwardly at it, further driving it mad.
It then had begun to insult her lifestyle and career. Pinkie, being awesomely tactful and understanding, wanted to cheer it up by giving it some way to apply itself and feel better. So, she then had challenged it to put up or shut up, by making something more useful to pony society than mirth-sharing and spirit-lifting through parties. Rutahr then shared with her, mind-to-mind, all its knowledge of fluid dynamics and the secrets of flight, and guided her through the construction of the Pinkie-Copter. Rutahr felt more at home doing something it was familiar with, and in this process, sharing in the fun, Rutahr and Pinkie Pie bonded and soon were on better terms with each other. However, Pinkie inexplicably held back her thoughts of the machine's impracticality, wanting Rutahr to simply enjoy the process. Rutahr, however, was dead serious - inspired, it had envisioned far greater machines piloted by single ponies lifting and moving goods (and passengers) - rather than occupying scores of pegasi for the same task.
The Cakes saw the creation and expressed their disapproval that she had taken three days off work for a contraption that was useless in lieu of Pegasi and hot air baloons providing all of the necessary air-lifting work of Equestria. Slightly dismayed, Pinkie Pie stowed the 'copter until the day Gilda would wreck it. Rutahr, being one of low self-esteem, finally caved into the inevitability of living inside the mind of a partyholic confectionary and fell silent for years, going along for the ride...until one day it saw through Pinkie Pie's eyes a flyer on the community bulletin board for a 100k-bit-first-place-prize non-pegasus air race competition to take place four months from that day, at the end of summer.
With the moral support of her friends and Rutahr, Pinkie Pie then builds a new flying machine, and arranges transportation of it and her to the plateau behind the mountains of Canterlot where aviators from around Equestria gather to compete in the preliminary fly-offs, and to prepare for the great race...
The Flim & Flam plot intro Flim & Flam, being no strangers to engineering, entered the competition in hopes of rebuilding their cider machine (which was wrecked in an unfortunate incident) and thus revive their failed cider business. However, they are total neophytes to the construction of flying machines, and with precious few bits buy a book by a loopy self-proclaimed aeronautical engineer (unicorn grad school dropout). Working a very tight schedule/budget and with materials conjured by magic or salvaged from scrapyards of towns they revisited, they attempt to follow the book's instructions to build a flying machine. Getting their dapper selves covered in grease becomes the least of their worries as nothing quite turns out as it's supposed to, tensions run high and they desperately try to get their infernal machine off the ground. Eventually, they find that going by the book isn't always the right way, and their combined brainpower eventually produces a flying machine that just might win them their business back. But they aren't leaving anything to chance; they have a few tricks up their sleeves for the other competitors. Little do they know that other ponies (the radicals) will beat them to the chase in sabotaging other contestants, and having a change of heart, they try to warn the others and convince everyone else that they had no part in the disasters that occur during prelim & practice flights.
The Great and Powerful Trixie plot intro After her humiliation in Ponyville, Trixie returned to the industrial/mining city of Coltwood, where she had grown up, to seek refuge with her parents and brother as she works in the mines to fund the rebuilding of her fold-out stage caravan of tricks (using the same construction smarts she had learned from her family of engineers growing up). Her brother had very much gotten into the flying fad, and (to the chagrin of his father, who thought it was ridiculous) had built a working aeroplane, and had a far better design in the making. However, the health of Trixie's brother had gradually decayed over the years, as his day job of geological engineer in the mines had exposed his lungs to unhealthy amounts of mineral dusts, and a few days after the announcement of the air race to be held, he dies of respiratory disease. In his honor, and to regain her independence, Trixie taps into her resolve and finishes a flying machine based on his notes. With a very successful airplane, she then flies herself to the plateau behind Canterlot for the preliminary competition...
Miscellaneous Plots/other contestants among many: - An Appleoosan pony aviator with a wandering eye who tries to woo Trixie, but is clumsy/unsuccessful in that Trixie is of too strong/independent a personality to fall for his wiles. - A wealthy entrepeneur from Neighpoli, who brings his entire (huge) family with him to the event - The nutty, self-proclaimed engineer who wrote the book that the Flim/Flam brothers tried to follow. - The radicals, who are secretly led by Gilda. Griffins have a belief of near-religious strength that flying machines are an abomination by allowing non-winged creatures to fly...
I'm thinking that, after all the setbacks, disasters etc., Pinkie Pie will end up winning but starting an aircraft R&D / manufacturing business, hiring the other contestants, and giving them all generous shares in the company's stock. It's the shenanigans in the middle I haven't come up with yet.
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