Dreams are... Bizarre · 7:12pm Oct 7th, 2020
Alright, so for some reason, my brain decided to give me a lovely little dream about an alternate finale for Gen 4. A finale that, being a dream, raises more questions than it gives answers to, and addresses almost none of them. Here's how this nonsense went down:
There was a celebration going on, and a massive amount of main, secondary and tertiary characters were there. All of which were ponies, with the exception of Discord, to apparently all the other species are off for their own things? Regardless, I'm not sure what the party was about, but partway through it some Twilight lookalike- that heavily resembled Future Twilight from that It's About Time episode -appears "onscreen" in the shadows, taking pictures of the proceedings with an intimidatingly neutral look in her eye. There's some weird glyph on her green eyepatch that I can't remember, the patch itself being made of some firm, scraped up material. I couldn't tell if it was stone or some sort of leather, maybe a scale of some kind?
Anyways, Discord gets into some shenanigans, doing what he does and messing with the laws of reality, focusing his pranks on Shining armor primarily. He changes Shining's coat to a shaggy dark tan-ish color much like a goat's, takes away his magic with a giant Minecraft uno card, absolute nonsense like that. Shining builds a second Minecraft uno card in an attempt to get his magic back, but it doesn't quite work. Discord taunts him for a minute before being lectured by... someone, and deciding to undo his pranks begrudgingly. He snaps his fingers, only to find out his power doesn't work. He snaps, and snaps and snaps with an expression of panic on his face, the individuals nearby noticing his genuine horror and going quiet.
Suddenly some magic glowing orange orb appears in the sky, with white light swirling around it. It stays for a moment, floating and drawing the curiosity of anyone who noticed, only for it to start sucking anything and everything into it like a black hole on steroids. Ponies are screaming, running every which way before getting yoinked into the orange ball at random. Twilight just kind of stares at the orb for a minute, in shock as it absorbs everyone she knows into it. She turns to the closest of her friends, and hugs them close, telling them not to look as they both lift up, crying in fear as after them comes the world, leaving everything but the orb in total blackness.
Then a pair of eyes 3D animated eyes open up, asking what happened and where they are. Tails the Fox for some reason is there, 2D animated. He mutters something along the lines of "it worked" and seems really happy to have this 3D pony "back". He explains nothing, and most of the rest is kind of a blur, but apparently they were on a spaceship. There's some human I never fully saw on board the ship, and they seemed to be the one in charge. The 3D ponies that woke up seem saddened in spite of waking up after what was presumably months or years, and they start talking about their memories of watching the 2D world of Equestria and all the characters in it. They lament the lost world, eventually moving the Human and Tails to try and bring the simulated reality that was back. Then through some nonsense or another, Equestria finds out that they're part of a simulation, but they're just happy to exist again. They decide to give the crew of the spaceship a large portion of their apples and oranges so they can use that data as fuel instead (???) and some song or another plays. Some unseen commenters from outside the reality of the spaceship say something along the lines of "They sure are happy for creatures that found out they're an AI" and "that doesn't make their world any less real to them."
Out of left field, the Twilight clone comes back, out of the shadows and being incredibly obvious about her picture taking. Everyone goes silent as they notice her, even the crew seeming unnerved by her appearance. Then dramatic, threatening music plays as a random lion that looks like an Equestrian equivalent of Scar appears: big cape, large scars, some sort of a crown maybe? He stands there menacingly as the music plays, and every single character bows to him as if they know what or who he is. Even the people in the spaceship.
Then I woke up, very confused.
TL;DR? No more pizza and root beer before bedti-- oh who am I kidding, I can't make that promise.
Not as weird as the time I had a dream where a dog was brought back to life by just putting him inside of a washing machine that just so happened to be in my room.