//------------------------------// // (Short But Important) Chapter 5: Life In The Dark // Story: Ponies on Red Dwarf // by Sound Shard //------------------------------// LIFE IN THE DARK Ponyville Rarity was completing her daily menial tasks, when an unexpected knock on the door derailed her train of thought. "Miss?" Ivory Wisp's voice came from behind the door. Rarity brightened up and opened the door. "Ivory! You look wonderful! How are you?" greeted Rarity with a giant smile. "Come in!" Ivory's visits were all Rarity could look forward to. That and... "A new letter, miss. It's... Abiut that spell. She's sent it ti yiu. Are yiu sure you want ti gi thriugh with this?" she asked slowly, making sure her friend was ready, as she walked inside. Rarity nodded. Ivory shot her a glance. "I want to visit my friends. And I want you to come with me," Rarity said firmly. "Gi with yiu? Are yiu..." "Yes, I'm sure!" "Ikay, here's hiw it's suppised ti be dine..." -------------------------------------------------- Red Dwarf "So what's a 'TISViG' again?" "It's an unreleased Total Immersion game. TISViG stands for Total Immersion Simulation Video Game," explained Kryten. Pinkie made a face. "Jeez Louise! That took five minutes, author! This phone you type your chapters on is frustrating. Why did they put the square brackets in a section so inaccessable?" asked Pinkie. Jeez Louise is right. Friggin' Samsung... If I could afford a smartphone! "If you didn't have email on your phone, ya'd be screwed!" Talk about it! But please leave the fourth wall alone! It's as unstable as it is with Deadpool, you, and Plastic Man breaking it. That asshole Plastic Man? He only did it in the olden days. Gaah! Wade! Get out of my fic! You're needed in Awesomedude17's fics! Those are too good to miss out on! Are you getting paid to say that? No. I don't have a really big fanbase, either. Just Daniel, BronyArmedCorps, and monster cai. You could technically count Psaro, but he's only been here for this fic! Now you're just putting this in for space. Let's get back, Wade! Cuuullltuuurrreed diiiicc-- "SHUT UP!" yelled Pinkie. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Just a little goodbye kiss? "No way, touchy!" "What was that all about?" asked Lister. "Just being Pinkie Pie," sighed Twilight. "So... What's a video game?" "It's... Well... Lemme show you," stuttered Lister. She hooked her up to the machine, then himself and Pinkie. The world went black for a moment, then a world of lush green surrounded them. "What in the wide, wide world of Equestria...?" mumbled Twilight in pure awe. "It's... Been... Rebuilt! The rock farm!" shrieked Pinkie Pie. "The one I grew up in!" "You farmed rocks? Isn't that kind of... Pointless? Rocks don't grow..." said Lister. "It's more of mining. Rocks are an important Los Pegasus industry, you know!" Pinkie explained and pointed her hoof at him. "Mining... I think we got a game about that!" thought Lister. "Really?" asked Pinkie Pie, face overflowing with excitement. "Like this, but square-er-er," remembered Twilight. The room suddenly shifted to a library. The Canterlot Archives. "What the..." mumbled Lister, more out of frustration. "The Canterlot Archives! The place where I took the test to be attend Princess Celestia's School for Giftet Unicorns!" Twilight squealed and made a dog toy noise, a sort of "squee". "It's..." began Lister, but the room shifted. It now showed a pool hall. A still picture of frozen-in-place man pulling a box from underneath a pool hall table is now show. The side of the box reads "ourobouros". A baby lay inside. This is Lister. "It takes us back to our most important moments!" they all realized in syncronation. "But in still frame," continued Lister. "I wonder why," said Pinkie. The screen went black. The trio became paralyzed. A face appeared on screen. It was made of green mesh. "hElLo, My DeAr FrIeNdS. i TrUsT yOu WiLl SlEeP wElL. LeT's JuSt HoPe NoThInG hApPeNs In ThAt TiMe? HeHeHeHeHeHeEeEeEe!" it said. "Oh, AnD dOn'T yOu WoRrY yOuR pReTtY LiTtLe HeAd AbOuT rArItY! sHe WiLl Be DeAlT wItH." -------------------------------------------------- Ponyville A knock came at Ivory Wisp's bedroom door. Lazily, she turned on a light. "Whuizzet?" she mumbled. "He..." " .llo" "Are..." " .you" "Mrs. Wisp? If..." " .so" "We..." " .would like you to" "Step.." " .outside for a moment" "Yiu're scaring me..." she said. "Just step..." " .outside" "Yiu make it obviiuse there's twi if yiu." "There's a..." " .reason" "Just act as I say!" "Yiu siund like me," Ivory headed for the door. When she opened it, it revealed a creature that seemed to be made out of a pure, viscous, black, oozy liquid, next to a pony that was missing an eye and grotesquely bleeding out the other, and pieces of robot skind screwed in around her body. Her otherwise gray fur was blood-stained. Her hair was as red as fresh blood. Just like Ivory's. "I shiuld siund familliar!" the robot-one eyed Ivory said with a grin. The liquid lunged at her. " .Say .goodnight" it said. As the world went black, Ivory could hear maniacal laughter in the back of her mind. She was going insane, knowing that the cyclops robot zombie thing producing it... was somehow her.