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Twilight Sparkle has learned a new trick; a spell that allows her and her friends to enter realistic dream worlds within the margin of their subconscious. But these dreams are as malleable as they are dangerous, and each additional trip they take into the mind to study this new magic threatens to cause them serious harm and skew Twilight's perception of reality.

Meanwhile, Spike is beginning to struggle with an old demon of his again. Only this time, his greed is more tempting, more malicious, and sentient: scheming to consume his every thought like a cancer until there is nothing left of him but avarice.

In danger of watching their friend become their new nemesis, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy must travel deep into Spike's subconscious and plant a thought in his mind that will forever make him contradict his dragon heart's innate inclination for greed. However, their mission will not be easy, their journey will not be safe, nor may their intentions even be justifiable in the face of their actions.

But sometimes, to save your friends, you must change them.

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Holy shit, I can't believe I forgot to post this a month ago. AGAIN.

Sometimes, it surprises even me how long our work can end up being. Not that this is one of the longer chapters, mind you; it doesn't even break twenty-four thousand words, but this is the fourth time that we've split one chapter up into separate smaller chapters. In fact, chapter seven, this chapter, and the chapter we're working on now were all part of an outline for one chapter.

So if we had just kept them all as one entry, it would be about 80,000 words long.

Not even the fandom's most notoriously verbose stories have sequestered walls of words that horrifically massive. Not Backgorund Pony, not Fallout: Equestria or Crisis: Equestria, both of which are about as long as Atlas Shrugged; not even Diaries of a Madman, which is longer than all three. COMBINED.

Regardless, I feel pretty good about this chapter. It's got all three ongoing conflicts, and manages to provide time and development for all three; Pinkie is sinking further into the deep end of her psychosis, Reason is struggling to impede Twilight's waning grip on reality, and the torments that Spike is suffering under the clandestine draconian rule of of Avarice is getting "ridiculously palpable."

And on that front, this is some of the deepest character development Avarice has gotten thus far, and the way he uses his philosophies to further besiege Spike worked out even better than I'd hoped it would. Not to give away anything, but if you like the characterizations and interactions between Spike and Avarice in this chapter, then you are going to love chapter nine.

Oh yeah, and there's also this little thing about WE GOT FEATURED ON EQD.

Life is good to us sometimes.

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Written by TheHarisayBrothers (Brian, Christian, and Joseph)

Edited by Vimbert the Unimpressive .
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DECEPTION:

FiM Fiction page

dA Links:

Prelude - What Doesn't Kill You... Will Only Come Back Later to Try and Kill You Again
Chapter One - What If...
Chapter Two - Chaos Lives in Everything
Chapter Three - The Beast Within
Chapter Four - Waiting For a Train on Mobil Avenue
Chapter Five - The Real World
Chapter Six - Radical Notion

Chapter Seven - A Leap of Faith
Chapter Eight: Maredrake
Chapter Nine: Coming soon*
Chapter Ten: Coming soon*
Chapter Eleven: Coming soon*
Chapter Twelve: Coming soon*
Chapter Thirteen: Coming soon*
Chapter Fourteen: Coming soon*
Chapter Fifteen: Coming soon*

DECEPTION Promotional images:

Twilight Sparkle: Dead Memories
Spike: Coming soon*
Pinkie Pie: Coming soon*
Rainbow Dash: Coming soon*
Applejack: Coming soon*
Rarity: Coming soon*
Fluttershy: Coming soon*
Luna (Yes, she plays a significant enough role in this story, too): Coming soon*
DECEPTION Cover Image: Coming soon*

Description
--

Twilight Sparkle has learned a new trick; a spell that allows her and her friends to enter realistic dream worlds within the margin of their subconscious. But these dreams are as malleable as they are dangerous, and each additional trip they take into the mind to study this new magic threatens to cause them serious harm and skew Twilight's perception of reality.

Meanwhile, Spike is beginning to struggle with an old demon of his again. Only this time, his greed is more tempting, more malicious, and sentient: scheming to consume his every thought like a cancer until there is nothing left of him but avarice.

In danger of watching their friend become their new nemesis, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy must travel deep into Spike's subconscious and plant a thought in his mind that will forever make him contradict his dragon heart's innate inclination for greed. However, their mission will not be easy, their journey will not be safe, nor may their intentions even be justifiable in the face of their actions.

But sometimes, to save your friends, you must change them.

--

Holy shit, I can't believe I forgot to post this a month ago. AGAIN.

Sometimes, it surprises even me how long our work can end up being. Not that this is one of the longer chapters, mind you; it doesn't even break twenty-four thousand words, but this is the fourth time that we've split one chapter up into separate smaller chapters. In fact, chapter seven, this chapter, and the chapter we're working on now were all part of an outline for one chapter.

So if we had just kept them all as one entry, it would be about 80,000 words long.

Not even the fandom's most notoriously verbose stories have sequestered walls of words that horrifically massive. Not Backgorund Pony, not Fallout: Equestria or Crisis: Equestria, both of which are about as long as Atlas Shrugged; not even Diaries of a Madman, which is longer than all three. COMBINED.

Regardless, I feel pretty good about this chapter. It's got all three ongoing conflicts, and manages to provide time and development for all three; Pinkie is sinking further into the deep end of her psychosis, Reason is struggling to impede Twilight's waning grip on reality, and the torments that Spike is suffering under the clandestine draconian rule of of Avarice is getting "ridiculously palpable."

And on that front, this is some of the deepest character development Avarice has gotten thus far, and the way he uses his philosophies to further besiege Spike worked out even better than I'd hoped it would. Not to give away anything, but if you like the characterizations and interactions between Spike and Avarice in this chapter, then you are going to love chapter nine.

Oh yeah, and there's also this little thing about WE GOT FEATURED ON EQD.

Life is good to us sometimes.

--

Written by TheHarisayBrothers (Brian, Christian, and Joseph)

Edited by Vimbert the Unimpressive .
--

DECEPTION:

FiM Fiction page

dA Links:

Prelude - What Doesn't Kill You... Will Only Come Back Later to Try and Kill You Again
Chapter One - What If...
Chapter Two - Chaos Lives in Everything
Chapter Three - The Beast Within
Chapter Four - Waiting For a Train on Mobil Avenue
Chapter Five - The Real World
Chapter Six - Radical Notion

Chapter Seven - A Leap of Faith
Chapter Eight: Maredrake
Chapter Nine: Coming soon*
Chapter Ten: Coming soon*
Chapter Eleven: Coming soon*
Chapter Twelve: Coming soon*
Chapter Thirteen: Coming soon*
Chapter Fourteen: Coming soon*
Chapter Fifteen: Coming soon*

DECEPTION Promotional images:

Twilight Sparkle: Dead Memories
Spike: Coming soon*
Pinkie Pie: Coming soon*
Rainbow Dash: Coming soon*
Applejack: Coming soon*
Rarity: Coming soon*
Fluttershy: Coming soon*
Luna (Yes, she plays a significant enough role in this story, too): Coming soon*
DECEPTION Cover Image: Coming soon*