Reality Hits
(***)
I slowly rose to my hooves. I heard the laughing of Pyromance as I steadied myself and looked around. I was standing in a huge sandy waste land. There appeared to be nothing around me for miles. Well nothing save for Lightning Strike and Vinyl who stood with me in the dust. “Where the hell is this?” I asked.
I noticed two small figures coming towards us, looking like some kind of bipedal creatures. They were dressed in excessive clothing from head to hoof, so I couldn’t tell what they looked like. They stopped walking and seemed to look at us.
I looked up, seeing Pyromance flying overhead. “Ha ha! Didn’t you listen? This is earth. Home to billions of creatures, none of them possessing magic.” A ring of fire surrounded us. “And as the followers of Gray descend upon this world, no one will be around to warn them. Hm… when Gray heard of my plan to come here, he thought we would need to negotiate with these creatures. Ha! They will serve us as slaves. I will burn you to a cinder here so no one will warn-“ several bolts of electricity barely grazed Pyromance, the flames around us disappearing.
Those bolts did NOT comes from Lightning Strike. I looked back at the creatures that I saw earlier. They had both thrown off the bulk of their clothes. Beside us were now two creatures that looked like what Lyra often described as “humans”. One looked like a young “boy”. He was dressed in blue pants of some kind, a red shirt and an open vest. The other human looked like a girl, herself dressed in a bright red shirt and bright green pants. Both of them had pale skin and raven black hair.
The girl pointed a small sword at the flying pony. “Okay, I’ve heard enough,” she shouted. “What the heck are you?”
“Your soon to be conqueror.” He flew down and landed in front of her. He then looked over at my group. “Watch as I dispatch these creatures with a power such as your feeble minds have never known.”
“Pyrokinesis?” the girl asked. She looked over her shoulder at her partner. “What do you say Kyle, been a good month since we last saw that?” the boy shrugged. “Give or take?” he nodded.
“Are you… mocking me?” Pyromance said.
“No,” she looked over at me. “I’m sorry but can you hold on for a minute? Just a minute I promise.”
“um…”
“Thanks,” she pointed at my mane. “Is that hair naturally that color?” I looked at her bewildered. “I’m sorry, I just have to know.”
“DO NOT IGNORE ME!” Pyromance shouted. Fire surrounded the entire group. “You and your friend will now die along with all of them for your ignorance-“ the girl balled up her hands and slammed them together, a massive amount of lightning and electric energy surrounding her and shooting into the air. The girl had dropped her sword, but electricity appeared to catch it in the air and a second was drawn out of a sheath on her left hip. The girl closed her eyes, both swords floating on either side of her head.
“Die,” said the girl. The swords flew forward, slamming into Pyromance and skewering him. He dropped down, his fires disappearing.
My jaw dropped. “Um… didn’t he say there was no magic in this world?” I asked.
“Magic?” asked the girl. She took her swords in her hands, her electric energy disappearing. “I mean- hang on, can you fly?” she asked. I flew into the air above the group. “Kyle… it’s a flying rainbow maned pony that talks- can I keep it?”
“Umm…” said the boy. “I’m still getting passed the idea of talking ponies here, Jessica.”
“They’re multicolored ponies that talk, what’s to explain?” Jessica asked. “The yellow one is really cute, I think she’s a baby.”
“I’m not a baby!” shouted Lightning Strike.
"That was-ADORABLE!" the girl shouted.
I shook my head. “I have no idea what you just did there, but it’s good to see this world isn’t without defenders. I suspect a lot more ponies like that guy will be coming here soon. They'll be coming to conquer you all.”
Jessica appeared to stifle a laugh. “Um… that thing was supposed to be a big deal?” she asked.
“Um… yea,” I said.
“How many?” asked the boy.
“Hundreds… maybe thousands I don’t know.” I said.
Jessica looked at her friend. “Was that guy important?” she asked, not even looking at us.
“Their leader now.” I looked over at the corpse. “Okay so maybe he was… by the way who are you? Champion warriors of this world or…” I waved a hoof for them to explain themselves.
“Um… Kyle and Jessica, we’re the Finders. We um… find lost kids.” I blinked at her. “We’re um… okay at it.”
“Are you even a big deal here?” I asked.
“To the kids we bring home I think we are,” Jessica answered. She scratched her head. “But to be honest, that thing wanted to invade THIS world with forces weaker than himself right?”
“Kinda the same powers I guess,” I said.
“That’s gonna be… probably the most hilariously anticlimactic invasion in history.”
“What are you?” I asked.
The girl smiled. “Ya know, maybe sometime in the future we’ll meet again and I can explain,” she looked up. “But that blue portal thing you came through is um… I think it’s closing. Unless you have a plan to open it again, I would just go.”
“You guys can handle this?”
“An army of a few hundred is gonna try to conquer a world of billions?” Jessica asked. She closed her eyes and shook her head, as if to say that was the stupidest thing she had ever heard. “Kid, just go. We got this. I would make an analogy about a bug meeting a windshield, but I’m not sure you would get it. Just go.”
I picked up Vinyl and flew back into the portal, Lightning following.
(***)
So yea, Gray died. He died by the hoof of a local musician and his armies were going to be defeated in a world where their powers wouldn’t even be considered important. (To tell the truth I was envisioning them going to that world Twilight visited a while ago, but I’m pretty sure that was a different “earth”. How many of those are there anyway? Mystery for another day I guess.)
There I stood with AJ on her farm, watching the Cutie Mark Crusaders scuffling in the reeds. I cheered for Scootaloo, whose injuries had started letting up a while ago, so she could keep up a little with her friends now.
A week had gone by. Twilight wasn’t completely out of the woods, but the doctors believed she would survive what happened to her. It would probably be a year before she was totally on her hooves again though. Most of my friends were physically on the mend by this point, all save for AJ, who we had all accepted was now how she would always be.
“So that’s all that happened on the other side?” asked AJ. “Not what ah would expect. But ah guess it’s a happy enough ending right?” I shrugged. “So what happened to Lightning’s cutie mark?” she asked.
“I… don’t know,” I replied. “I think it disappeared in that other world. I have no idea why though. Mine is still around so… hm… Well it doesn’t seem to really bother Lightning too much so maybe we shouldn’t worry about it.”
“Ah hope so. That filly’s been through enough ya know?” she asked.
“Haven’t we all?” I asked.
“Ya know, ah kinda doubt ALL of Gray forces are gonna follow that foolhardy plan of Pyro’s,” AJ pointed out.
“I kinda wonder if that was really Gray’s only plan in case of his death.” I nodded. “Really, doesn’t strike me as Gray’s kind of material. More like something that moron Pyromance thought up himself.”
“Ah wonder if Gray really is dead this time.” She shook her head. “So many questions. Think we’ll ever know the answers?”
“I think I’d like to try to just forget all of this even happened, like Celestia said.
“Ah will never ferget RD,” she said. I closed my eyes. “Don’t mean ah’m gonna stop you.”
“I said I would try…”
“What happened to Pip’s body?” AJ asked.
“Buried… by even more ponies who I’m sure want to forget this even happened… but I don’t think they’ll be able to either.”
I couldn’t stop myself. I broke down and cried, laying in the dirt. The crusaders stopped play fighting and surrounded me almost in a heartbeat. “Rainbow Dash?” asked Scootaloo. “You okay?” I hugged her quickly. She seemed confused at first, but soon hugged me back.
“I’ll be okay Scoots. I don’t know what’s coming. But I have you. I have what counts. I have you.”
Through teary eyes I watched Lightning flying overhead. A white unicorn walked up to our group. She smiled down at me. She didn’t have to say anything. I knew she understood.
We had what really mattered.
The end… at least… I hope so.
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7078005
Thanks.
I remember Twi taking charge a few times in the show, Especially the season 4 premier when Celestia and Luna went missing. Her friends are generally her weakness in this area, as they pretty much only follow her if her orders are in line with what they want to do anyway. She can sometimes reason with them, like with Rainbow's wonder bolt history test, but over time it becomes obvious she has no real control over any of them. Still, I think in an instant she's usually on top of things. Now, as a situation draws out and continues, that's when she gets... scary...
But hey, I can see what you mean, she doesn't take charge very often, all that being said.
So Gray died. Pyro died. Pip died (whoever he/she is).
Does this mean that Dusk died, or was it another illusion?
However I didn't expect the portal thing. And I enjoyed it a lot
Can't wait to see Vinyl's version of events!
7078912 it was an illusion go to the tumblr blog
7078912
Dusk is fine. Guess isn't not a huge reveal that the day is won in the end. But yes, the tumblr will continue the story.
Also, this is Pip: statici.behindthevoiceactors.com/behindthevoiceactors/_img/chars/char_56883.jpg
7078912
Um... yea... the whole, doing this series from multiple perspectives thing, completely fell through. The one from Scootaloo's POV felt very forced and the timeline kept going out of sync to explain what they were doing. Then Vinyl's perspective had a lot of stilted dialog. I COULD rework both over time, but the thing is... I've already got three on going stories here, plus I started a tumblr. I had a few ideas for the Vinyl's story, but both are now going to be written in other stories. One story about Lightning "reuniting" with her old care taker from the orphanage will be on the tumblr and I anticipate some controversy in both the story and from the fans. Another story about Vinyl time traveling, I eventually realized was better told as a stand alone episode type story, hence, it was WAAAAY better suited for Mentoring Is Awesome. Did I say time travel... yes, yes I did. To those not following that story, you're gonna miss out...
I guess there's then good news to the fans of my other stories. I'll be attempting to keep updating them at least by weekly. Which ones I'll let my imagination decide.
7080040 Ah... I understand now.
7082778 Time travel, you say? I guess we'll get to have a blast from the past
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You don't have to. Really if you want to know MORE about Lightning and Dusk read "Mentoring Is Awesome". However you should get to know the two a LOT better over the next few chapters. Especially Lightning.
Before I read this, what is the Dark tag for ?
And how bad does it get ?
8359778
Bodily harm comes to many of the characters and it's described to some detail, (not extreme, just enough to sink in that they did get hurt, no gore) there are a few scenes of horror as a few of the characters become paranoid, and the descriptions of the abuse of Lightning Strike in particular are disturbing. Nothing sexual and I don't do gore.