Dream #5: Time Reversion Power (Part 2)

Hey, everyone. So, a short while ago, I had a dream, which was fairly elaborate, sort of David Lynch-ian, if you know what I mean by that. If you want to know what I'm talking about, check out my previous blog post. In fact, I strongly recommend reading that dream before this one, because it ended on a cliffhanger, and a little while later, this dream actually picked up where the other left off. Very rarely has that ever happened to me, but made me find the dream even more interesting than before.

So, the first thing I remember about the dream was thanking the colt for explaining the situation to me, followed by me asking "But what happens now? Are you here to kill me or something?"

The colt opened his mouth to speak, but before he could get another word out, he gets impaled through the head, piercing his eye, with a long knife. I think it was a knife; it didn't look like a sword. It was more of a machete-style butcher's knife. But anyway, the colt has a shocked expression on his face (and his one remaining eye), then the knife is pulled back out of his head, and he falls over limp.

Once he fell, I could see who was standing behind him. It was an anthropomorphic filly holding the knife, about his age and identical in appearance; slicked-back blonde mane and tail, butler suit, basically the same, but female. It was as if she was the colt's twin sister. She had a grin on her face, but it wasn't really big; she was more smug than giddy, as if she was thinking "Oh yeah... finally killed this bastard!" She just seemed so satisfied, as if she was waiting to do it all her life.

Stunned at what just happened, I said "Uhhhhhh… who are you? What did you do that for? What's going on?"

And she tells me "Well, the rules say we aren't allowed to tell mortals about deals with cosmic entities. And he just told you, so I got to come here and kill him."

I said "Okay... but doesn't that mean you're breaking the rules right now?"

She shook her head. "No, you already know about cosmic entities, so I'm telling you something you already know about, so I haven't broken any rules by saying this."

Looking at the big knife in her hand, I said "Okay... so, are you going to kill me now?"

Again, she shook her head, responding "No. I have no interest in killing you. The cosmic entity is the only one who is allowed to do that. But... it seems he hasn't done it yet."

"Yeah," I said. "Thing is, I don't even know what kind of deal I entered into, or what else could happen to me. So... when will the cosmic entity show up?"

The filly shrugged. "I can't say; he really should've done it by now. If he hasn't shown up by now, it must mean he's distracted by something. So, I think you might have some extra time to do something about your situation."

"Alright," I said. "So... what do I do?"

She sighed. "Well... there's really no point in explaining it to you, if you can't survive the trip to [some realm that I forget the name of]. If you can't make it there, there's no way to get out of your situation."

So I say "Okay, as long as you get me somewhere I need to be, sure, I'll follow you."

Shrugging, she responds "Alright, follow me then..."

Then the filly opened up a portal, which we both step through... and then we end up in a place that's really hard to describe. It was four-dimensional (or whatever my mental interpretation of four-dimensional is) It was a big, empty, dark-blue expanse. The ground we walked on was sleek, and slightly lighter than the sky. And in this big expanse, there were these "cosmic beings" or "elder gods" or something, whatever they were.

These beings looked similar to the Amygdala from Bloodborne (surprising that I know that, since I never played the game). They were giant black insectoids, with hairy legs and tentacles and eyes and mouths and all other weird things. Just a cliché, Cthulhu-like "ancient being."

So, they all had spotlights coming out of their eyes, and what made this four-dimensional was that, in addition to my present-self, there were holographic representations of my past- and future-selves, such as where I was standing a moment ago, and where I was going to be standing in the next moment. It was the same with the anthro filly.

"Okay," I said. "Now what do we do?"

"Follow me..." the filly said, walking forward, "...if you can."

So, she began navigating through this four-dimensional plane, and I did the same. The part that made it difficult, however, was that there were these cosmic beings with spotlights representing their line of sight, and I had to navigate around them. She could be seen by the entities all she wanted, and they wouldn't care, but if they saw me here, they would kill me. But what made this tricky was that, in additional to avoiding being seen in the present, I also had to avoid letting the being see my past and future projections as well.

Of course, my rationalization was that "Hey, I'm good at video games, I can do this!" And after a good while of precariously navigating, I made it through without being seen by any of the cosmic entities, and we both made it to the end (but, what is the "end" of a big expanse? I don't know; we just got to where we had to be).

So, the filly remarked my stealth skills, saying "Nice! You did well!" when we made it. Then, she opened up another portal, and we step through, and then we end up in... what I would describe as a lounge, with stone-brick walls, a big fireplace, comfortable, high-quality leather furniture, a small bar with a bartender, and red, velvet curtains. Basically, it looked very similar to the Gryffindor common room at Hogwarts, from Harry Potter.

So, sitting in this lounge, I saw the colt, the butler colt who appeared first and disposed of the alternate-timeline Rainbow Dash. But he's wearing an eyepatch now, because he got stabbed through the eye, of course. So, he's sitting at a table alone, hunching over, and he looked really pissed off. He then looked up at me and the filly, and he's just staring daggers at us, like he's nonverbally saying "Oh... it's you two..." He doesn't get up or talk to us; he just remains at his table, pissed off, and moreso that we're now here.

Clapping my hands together, I say "Great, we're here! We made it! But... I don't even know where 'here' is, or why we had to come here. What are we supposed to do now?"

The filly said "Well, from here, I can open a portal to anywhere in the universe. I couldn't do it back in Equestria. So, now they we're here, I can get you to any place and time you need to be."

"So, what time do I need to be in?" I asked.

The filly then held up a finger. "Not so fast. So far, I'm helping you without any reason, whatsoever. If you want my help, you need to give me something in return."

And I say "Okay, name it. What do you want? I'll do anything."

She responded "I want all of your potential energy, from another timeline."

"Uhhh…" I utter, "...sure, I guess."

The filly stared blankly at me for a moment, before speaking: "...Do you even realize what I'm asking for?"

I shook my head.

"Okay, let me explain..." she said, "...in this universe, you have the potential to do things, but you're not doing those things you have the potential to be doing right now. But, in another timeline, you are using your maximum potential."

I nod in acknowledgement. "Okay, so... what do I have to do?"

The filly continued: "If you agree to give me all of the potential energy of this particular alternate-timeline you, I get all of it for my use."

Again, I nod, following along with her explanation, and then I say "...Sure, why not? Go ahead, take it."

The filly stared at me in amazement. "Are you really just going to fuck over another version of you, from another universe? This guy is gonna be fucked the moment I take all his potential energy, you got that?"

And I respond "I don't care, he's not me... I mean, technically he is me, but he's not me-me."

So, she's just in absolute disbelief that I just signed away all of someone else's potential energy. Then she claps her hands together, and says "Okay, it's done. I have it now."

"Really?" I asked. "You didn't have to open a portal or anything?"

And she said "No, I didn't need to. Anyway, it's basically my sustenance, it's what I feed on and what gives me my power. It's my life-energy. So, now that I have it, I'll be good for another millennium. Thanks."

But now, I'm starting to wonder exactly what I just did to another dude in an alternate universe.

The filly spoke up again, "Okay, so now that I have more power, I'll help you with your problem. So, the cosmic entity that came to you, made the deal with you, and gave you your power... he only did it because he was annoyed with something, so he decided to come to Equestria to pick on a mortal. You just happened to be the one he chose to bully.

"If we can undo the event that pissed him off, he will never come to you in the first place, and you'll never wind up in this situation.

I ask her what happened to piss him off, and she explains that he was playing a game with another cosmic entity, where each of them were controlling two alien factions that were waging an interplanetary war. The cosmic entity who made the deal with me lost the war prior to meeting me, so he got pissed off and sought out a mortal to take out his anger on. She then explained that if I want him to never bother me, I would need to go back in time, and help him win their game.

So, I asked "How am I gonna do that?"

"First," the filly said, "you will have to step through this portal..."

And she conjured another portal. I'm used to it at this point, so I step through the portal. Once I pass through it, I'm on an alien planet, but it looks like earth, with green grass, and a blue sky. It looked nearly identical to the scene in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, when there's a huge battle going on between the Trade Federation and the Gungans on Naboo.

It was just two armies charging at each other, just a cliché cinematic-style battle. Even though it was a futuristic, alien war, this was still the default battle strategy, apparently. At first, I'm thinking "Woah, alien combat! Wow, this is so kickass!" and just want to marvel at it, but then I turn to the filly, and say "Wait a sec, what can I even do here? There's two massive alien armies fighting! How do I do anything?"

She said "You don't have to go fight in the battle or anything like that. All you have to do is kill that guy..." And she points to an alien, about twenty feet away, manning an artillery cannon. If you're wondering what these aliens looked like, he looked, if I could describe it, like a Xindi-Reptilian, from Star Trek: Enterprise. Of course, he had sci-fi armor on, as opposed to what they wore in the actual show.

But anyway, this particular alien was about to deploy the artillery, and change the course of the battle, and by extension, the entire war, and I have to kill him quickly, or the war will end unfavorably for the cosmic entity. So, I run up to the Xindi-Reptilian alien dude, and then I realize "Shit! All I have for a weapon is my stiletto switchblade! I don't have a plan! What am I supposed to do?"

But then, the alien turned to look at me as he heard me coming, and I stop dead in my track. He screams, and then I scream, y'know, 'cause we're both looking at an alien, face-to-face, and both just freaking out. And immediately after this happens... everything just fades away.

Next, I find myself lying in my bed at my home (not awake yet). I sit up and look around, and everything seems fine. Confused, I said out loud "What...? What happened?"

Then, I hear a girl's voice saying "Oh yeah, you turned the tide of the battle."

I look over, and I see the blonde, butler-suited, anthro filly, sitting in my desk chair, and she's filing her nails, or something really casual like that.

"What happened?" I repeated. "I didn't kill the guy; I just walked up to him and surprised him."

And she said. "Yeah, and that was enough. It turned out I was wrong; you didn't need to kill him. You just had to distract him for a few moments, so he wouldn't fire the artillery. So, the other side never got massive casualties, and the cosmic entity won the war."

"So, does that mean he never visits me?" I asked.

"Yeah," the filly said. "So now, the timeline where he came to Equestria to find you never happened, and you are in the state you were in before the cosmic entity visited you."

To confirm it, I tried to use my save-state power to create a save-state, but it doesn't work. So I say "Yeah, you're right. My power is gone now."

And she responds "Good, that means the cosmic entity won't be coming for you."

Now... I'm extremely foggy on how the dream ended, because what I just described was basically the conclusion. Like, I don't recall if the filly opened up a portal, looked back at me, said a one-liner, then stepped into the portal and disappeared, or I don't recall if I asked her any other questions, or I don't remember if the cosmic entity appeared in the room with us.

All I remember is that, that moment, with me and her in the room together and she's telling me everything's back to normal and I've solved the problem, was basically the finale of the dream. But I suppose that's good enough a conclusion as any, right? It ties up all the loose ends, and brings everything together nicely from the previous dream.

Who knows? I might actually be able to make use of this material for a future story! Best way to come up with storylines... dream them up, am I right? Especially for me, where I rarely come up with cohesive dreams, let alone episodic dreams, so this was a treat for me. I'd love to hear what you all think!

Comments

[Bronycommander]

Sounds interesting. Reminds me, I hope the nightmare and coma dream I wrote for our one idea, are good enough for you but as I said, feel free to edit when we get to it.

Also, I had tonight an iron Harvest-related MLP dream. During the fight against the outskirts, the humans and Equestrian soldiers discovered an abandoned warehouse that stored artillery cannons, made with civil war steam technology but unique. A mech-like design that looked like an earth pony with a cannon mounted on the back and a machine gun fixed to the side for anti-infantry defense, able to attack directly or sit/kneel down for indirect fire, much like the polanian artillery. Thing was, both Celestia and Luna/Eternal Knights stated this kind of design was not familiar with their respective civil war technology.

[midnightwolfGX]

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Fair enough.

Huh... this is kinda starting to sound like the Temporal Cold War from Star Trek, where races from the past were able to get their hands on technology from the future by time-traveling entities.

[Bronycommander]

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Yeah.it's fascinating what the brain can come up in the dreams, isn't it?