//------------------------------// // Shattered Reality // Story: Getting Home // by leafz pegasus //------------------------------// “Justin! What art thou doing!” “Creating a New Equestria! Changing this pathetic land into a new, true Equestria!” “Thou art creating a land of fear and despair!” “If that is what it takes to create thine new world, THEN SO BE IT!” The magi with white flamed hair took aim at the sun goddess. “Absorbens tenebris et desperatio, perdam inimica mea!” She knew this attack, and it would be his last. “repellere tenebris, occurro percutite!” The wave of darkness was engulfed in light, shattering it into millions upon millions of pieces, before dissipating completely. “Thou cast this punishment upon thine self, Justin Desqeteres. Thou art the first magi, but we will not allow thou to corrupt the others.” The avatar of the sun raised her hands and chains of hard light wrapped around Justin’s wrists and ankles. “Thine art truly sorry, Justin. But until thou art able to atone for these atrocities, I cannot allow thou to stay. Justin Desqeteres, magi of justice and magic, thou. Art. BANISHED!” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Uhhhhhh… Hangover… Get up, idiot. Hey… Stop calling me that you… I’m too hung-over to think of a comeback. Then allow me to fix that. I felt the hangover start to ease, and before five minutes were over, my hang over was completely gone. I looked over to where Vinyl had crashed on the stage. “Can’t say the same about Vinyl though.” Said DJ was slumped against the turntables with her aviators nowhere in sight, and her hair was worse than usually. I walked over to Vinyl when I got the most devious plan ever in my head. But it would need some yellow paint, feathers, and a lot of time. Which is something I don’t have. Hmm… Oh my God I have a girlfriend and I’m doing this. Whatever you’re about to do, you’re either a player or an asshole. I’m not cheating, so yeah. I’m an asshole. I crouched next to Vinyl and whispered while breathing heavily. “Hey, Vinyl. Why don’t you and I go… backstage.” How the Hell. “Oh… yes… Disqe” Holy shit, this is too much. Let’s see how far we can push this. Usually I’m against this, but this is too good. I leaned down and bit down on Vinyl’s ear gently, eliciting a moan of pleasure from said person. “Ohhh… yes… “ Time to wrap this up, and laugh my ass off. Time to be the ass of a player I was years ago. I leaned in and kissed Vinyl, right on the lips. Vinyl stirred, but didn’t wake up, so I pushed a bit harder, and leaned more of my weight on Vinyl, almost to the point of straddling her. Then she did something I didn’t expect to happen. She starting kissing me back. Well. That backfired a bit. You don’t say? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In an alley near the club, an orange haired young woman calmly waited for her protectorate to appear out of the club. “How long could you spend in there! You have to come out sometime!” Lightning Dust sat down on the ground, her patience was wearing thin, but she had to hold out for the sake of her first mission. Granted, if she did fail in this mission, more than just her job would be on the line. Lightning shuddered at the thought of what her employer would do to her if she failed. Then, in the middle of her self-reflection, the double doors to the club swung open to show her target and the celebrity DJ Vinyl Scratch walk out of the building. “Yes! Alright Disqe and Vinyl, let’s see where you go.” A voice was heard behind Lightning Dust. “Hey lady!” She turned around to scold who ever said that. “What is it you wa-“ Lightning Dust never saw the bat coming. “Good night.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I quickly broke away from the kiss and half-stumbled, half-jumped away from Vinyl and swiftly and quietly ran to where I was when I woke up earlier. Then, I pretended I was still asleep. That never happened. Agreed. I lay as quietly as I could, until I heard Vinyl start yawning loudly and complaining about something like a hangover maybe. “Hey Disqe. Hey Disqe, wake up.” I took this as the clear to start appearing to be awake. “Huh? …Oh, hey Vinyl. What do we have planned today that would make you want to get up so early with a hangover?” Vinyl jumped to her feet. “Because! We have to go see the new themepark that just opened up last week! I haven’t been able to go since I’ve been busy, but I’m not now!” Themepark=roller coaters. What’s a, ‘rollercoaster? You have not lived. “Yes! Let’s go on as many roller coasters as we can and then eat all the cotton candy!” Vinyl pumped her hand into the air. “Drink all the alcohol!” She just came off a hangover and she still thinks about drinking. Sounds awfully familiar, huh, Disqe? I raised my own hand to meet Vinyl’s. “Yes!” As we walked out of the club, a weird piece of paper hit me in the face. “What is it and things on this planet wanting to kill me!” Vinyl just laughed at my predicament, and pulled the treacherous paper off my face. She started reading it to herself and her face blanched. “What does it say?” “Look.” Dear Vinyl Scratch and Odd Friend, I’ve decided to send you this friendly little letter to inform you of your friend’s imminent demise. If you refuse to pay the ransom of 500,000 bits to my associates and I at the park tonight at midnight… Well, I’m not sure yet, but it will not be pretty. There’ll be blood everywhere. Sincerely, Gang leader Fabio. “Hey, I’m not weird!” “Sure you aren’t but you sure are egotistical. Look, we have to do what they say, or they’ll hurt whomever they have hostage!” “Why don’t we just go over there and just beat them up? They can’t be that tough. Especially from what I’ve already seen here.” Vinyl bit her lip in anxiety. “That… might work. But we should still have money in case it doesn’t work out.” “Alright, you go get some money and I’ll go see what I can do to warm up for a really fun fight later!” Vinyl rolled her eyes. “You truly scare me sometimes, Disqe.” “I try my best, m’lady.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The next few hours we sort of a blur, and before I knew it; it was already 23:45. Fifteen minutes before I get to have some real fun. I sat on a bench on the outskirts of the park, and waited for Vinyl to arrive with the said amount of bits. I’m just going to assume this is money of some kind. I checked my watch. “23:55! Vinyl, hurry up!” “I’m here!” I looked off to my right and saw Vinyl running to me with a large briefcase. “I… got the… bits… Damn I’m tired.” “C’mon, Vinyl. We still have to get there.” Vinyl and I jogged to the center fountain of Ponyville Park. “01:02. damn it.” “I wouldn’t say that, varon puta. I was almost worried that you wouldn’t show.” “Give me back my friend you ass!” The gang leader feinted surprise. “What friend? Oh, you mean this one?” Two cronies came forward and threw a girl, around our age, on the ground in front of him. Vinyl made a step to her, but the cronies all pointed spells at her. “Ah, ah, ah. Not until I get the agreed upon payment.” I stepped forward. “Or, I could just beat all your Asses in, keep the money, and take back our friend.” Everyone in the group laughed, including the leader. Let me take control. NOW! Chill, dude. I got this. No, you don’t. Now unless you want to become fried by those spells, please let me help you! Like I said, I got this. The gang leader turned to me and stopped laughing suddenly. “Enough games. Men, kill the fool. I want the DJ alive.” They all charged and pointed spells. Directly at me. I felt around for my gun, and realized that it didn’t have any more rounds. It was a glorified beating stick. Want my help now? Yes please. Insanity took control, without the aviators on, my irises turned red, and my hair turned white and flowed with an invisible wind. In short, I looked badass. I opened my mouth, but it wasn’t my voice that came out. “Stand down or I will be forced to resort drastic measures!” The gang members seemed a bit apprehensive at my new appearance, but they quickly realized that nothing had truly changed, and all shot their spells at once at me. I opened my mouth again and said exactly what Insanity told me to. “Just as the sun casts light upon the land, allow the moon to light my path and repel the darkness! Light magic art: Light barrier!” I threw my left arm in front off me, palm facing my opponents, and my right arm holding it at the elbow. Runes of some ancient language appeared all over my arms, and a giant wall of pure moonlight appeared in front off me, dissipating the oncoming bolts. The barrier faded and Insanity told me to counter strike with a different… magic? Since when could I use magic? “Just as the unholy use their power for evil, allow me to call upon that same power! Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust! Dark magic art: Shadow bolt!” The runes along my arms glowed an ominous black light, and a rune appeared in front of my palm. The rune grew, and shot out bolts of absolute darkness in rapid succession. “Gah!” All the members fell to the ground at once; their bodies were already disintegrating into black ash and dust. The gang leader turned around to run from my display of… magic I think it was. And my body reacted without my command. “You will not escape justice, criminal!” “The enemies of the night I tear and rend, I call forth power to inflict judgment upon my enemies! RESTRICTION RELEASE! BLACK MAGIC ART: WAKING NIGHTMARE!”