Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
As Rainbow Dash climbed, she realized she was falling. Or, perhaps, she was doing neither. Whatever the case, as she spiraled through the kaleidoscopic expanse of clouds and continents, the colors and shadows around her began to bend. An undulating motion filled the limitless expanse of Cider Space, and she heard a great rumbling from a distance.
Curious, the pegasus hovered to a stop, slowly twirling one thousand and eighty degrees. As Epcot twirled around her, she bent around and stared towards a rippling source of light. At first, she thought that maybe her eyes were crossing—until she reminded herself that she wasn't even using her real eyes. Entire shelves of the sky were cascading towards her, one atmosphere at a time, like giant translucent dominoes. Through the spaces between each shuffling slice of the universe, she spotted oceans of legs, hooves, feathers, and manes.
Then, the wave struck Rainbow Dash, and she curled up into a little ball, wincing. Her coat flickered in her peripheral, and she gasped, all the while flailing between the segmented skies. She looked down at her body. At one point, her skin was an ashen sheet of necrotic skin, covered in powdery snow. At another point, she saw that she was wearing the Loyalty pendant tightly around her neck. As soon as it all began, she was back to her normal self, and she hovered in mid-air, watching as the wave of distortion rolled off into the ether.
"What..." Rainbow gnashed her teeth. "...in the hay was that?"
In a flash of light, Epcot materialized back into the smiling, uniformed pony. "Starswirl's spell has been magnified by a race of alicorns for millennia!" She floated casually around Rainbow Dash. "That means tens of thousands of gods all magnifying the same schism in the dreamscape! Heehee! You can't do that much subconscious galloping without upsetting the neighbors!"
"The neighbors?" Rainbow Dash blinked.
Epcot grinned calmly. "Alternate dimensions! Parallel planes of existence!" She gestured while her mane glittered. "Think of them as... other Parks that you don't have a ticket to hop to."
"Is that really supposed to make me understand it better?"
Epcot blinked. "You mean it doesn't?"
Rainbow sighed, feeling around her neck for a weight that wasn't there. "So... what causes the wave?"
Epcot pouted. "I'm embarassed to answer."
"Try me."
"Neglect," the chaperone muttered. "I'm the only cast member that's been here after all."
"For real?" Rainbow squinted. "The alicorns only constructed one of you?"
"They only needed one." Epcot smiled faintly. "While they were still around, I was sufficient enough to help the dreamers around from Hub to Hub. But now... well..." She nevertheless sighed. "The dream became them." She pointed at another rippling wave of discordant atmospheres rolling their way. "And between the cracks, you—well—you see the other Parks. Heehee!"
Rainbow bore the brunt of another wave, shuddering. Through her left eye, she saw a bronze zeppelin gliding over a blighted landscape of snow and ash. Through her right eye, she spotted a crashed hunk of burning metal where a brown mare approached several dozen bipedal creatures.
"I think I much rather prefer the dream sims," Rainbow said.
"Really?" Epcot blinked, smiling. "I'm surprised!"
"Why's that?"
"Cuz, for a mortal, I smell the dust of broken dimensions on you! It almost makes me sneeze! Heehee!"
Rainbow simply stared at her. "You've been in here too long."
"I have?"
Rainbow sighed, diving down—or at least what she thought was down. "Let's just get away from these waves..."
Epcot morphed into a geodesic sphere—"YES"—and swiftly followed.
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Yaerfaerda, I presume?
You don't want a ticket to that park, Rainbow!
Edit: Wow! Dash saw what happened in Yaerfaerda before it actually happened! It's as if Just Essay had inside knowledge of what Imploding Colon was about to write.
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Definitely not. It's sorely lacking in a behatted orange thing.
The title of the next chapter will be I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights.
Or at least it was going to be, until just now.
5572407 I beseech thee to stop the jinxing.
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The End Of Ponies
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I thought that was a reference to something, but I haven't read The End of Ponies so I didn't recognize it.
I don't suppose it's referring to something that hasn't quite happened yet? Maybe Just Essay has inside knowledge that shortskirtsandexplosions is about to publish another chapter.
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Doubtful because one of those visions has actually been written about and the other is assumed and assured but that author never put it into words that I recall.
Actually....I don't know. I do not speak for any of these authors. I am just doubtful. It would be nice, but that is up to the author of that story.
Hmmm...indeed.
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I don't remember the story word for word, but I can think of at least two instances where it may have already happened. Although, one of them technically isn't written yet.
5572903 If you didn't get the joke, it's that Just Essay, Imploding Colon, and shortskirtsandexplosions are all the same person.
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Thank you for replying with that comment. I was hoping someone would point that out to me.
I know they are physically the same individual. However, they are not the same when writing these stories. Otherwise, the chapters of these stories that he is currently working on would be mixed and he wouldn't care. That would actually be a novel idea, but it would break investment of the story for the readers.
A good idea I would like to see(but probably won't) is to see the Rainbow Dashes from East and Appledashery to exchange places briefly to see what commotion it would cause. It would be difficult for the one in East because of the murdering chaos spirit in her and the fact she would run into Applejack(maybe) and it would be difficult for the other one because she would be surrounded by strangers and at a loss of what is going on(they both would, technically).
In fact, even the dead one can switch to force events in one of the current stories...
The physical author has to change mindsets to write completely different stories with the same subject in different existences at once. Therefore; I call them different authors. They are even identified with different pen names for ease to the author and some readers.
A multiverse where all Skirts stories take place?
Should I be excited or terrified?
Also, It occurred to me that there should have been a Background Pony reference. But then I realized that it probably slipped Rainbow's mind when she recounted all this to Scootaloo. And then I had a sad.
Mmmm'kay... again, I feel like we're waffling a bit. The last few chapters have felt a lot like an in-game tutorial. I feel like they could be truncated more so we could move onto things that I... am not completely lost with.
It could just be me. I've never handled "here -- have a random world where there are no rules" very well without a bit a build-up or some kind of explanation to ground me. (This is likely why I like writing Pinkie Pie the least.) Perhaps that's what you were trying to accomplish here, but since I was rooted in a story that had -- at least up to this point -- some kind of logical backbone (as logical as magical, Crayola-colored talking ponies can be), it's very hard for me to become too... invested with this portion of the story. If something makes sense up to a point, and then just suddenly stops making sense... I don't adapt to that kind of transition particularly well.
Don't get me wrong. It's imaginative, creative, and... I mean, Cider Space? Seriously, who would've thought of that but you... and perhaps Rainbow Dash on a night where she was particularly blitzed out of her skull?
It just doesn't flow well with the rest of the story to me. Parts of the earlier sections were a little silly and a little tongue-in-cheek too, but on a scale of one to ten, this arc just pushes it to "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs", and doesn't seem to be showing any signs of stopping. That wouldn't be as big a deal if it felt like we were making some tangible progress, but for the past few chapters, it hasn't felt like much has gone on but a lot of talking. We're really babbling a bunch of gobblety-gook with EPCOT, who comes across as a mechanized Pinkie clone that can transform into Wheatley on a whim.
My focus is starting to waver a bit.
Hopefully, this doesn't come across as harsh, while at the same time explains why I haven't had much to say the last several entries, because, frankly, "WTF?" seems like the only appropriate response right now. I honestly don't know where to begin.
Ooh, recent events, too? I guess time gets a little wibbly-wobbly when it comes to alternate dimensions. I wonder if we could get a preview of things to come. ...Actually, I'm not sure I want that. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't.
This chapter was depressing. Now I'm sad.
Now I must read End of Ponies and reread Austraeoh (for the hundredth time). I'm in for the long haul, it seems.
End of ponies yay
I suspected when I saw the last chapter title, but now I know...
Cracks in reality. Ciderspace is the world between world. The land of dreams the birthplace of all creativity. Heh. it's where all the writers draw their inspiration from. And sometimes there are cracks where things slip through from world one to another
I got the Austraeoh reference, but what is the necrotic skin thing about?
Hmmm... where are we in Yaerfaerda at this point? Jan 31st... oh wow, it's exactly that scene where Haman gets steamed!
I expected a few things when I started reading another Skirts epic. But I most definitely did not expect that Appledashery would be the Dark Tower / multiverse hub for all things marsupial.
All things serve the
beamcider space.