-TERRARIA, CRIMSON BIOME, A FEW MINUTES BEFORE RAINBOW DASH’S DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.-
[SHLINK]
[CLINK]
[BAM]
[BOOM]
The sounds of various types of weaponry and even an explosion or two echoed across the fleshy landscape as Starlight Glimmer, Sai Sahan, and a large portion of their fellow adventurers waged war against the monsters of The Living Flesh. Gore flew up into the air on both sides as a couple of noticeable scenarios plays out:
One adventurer, a male terrarian wearing golden armor and wielding a golden broadsword, got too overconfident and strayed too far away from the group as he continues to cut down various foes of the flesh. He begins to mock his enemies referring to them as being weak and pathetic, his boastfulness would cost him dearly for a new foe had entered the fray. More accurately, a swarm of them. They swooped down from the skies and bit him clean in half, ending his life instantly, as they continued to devour every last piece of the former terrarian.
A trio of adventurer’s, which consisted of two male terrarians with melee weapons and a female terrarian wearing magic robes whilst wielding a Sapphire Staff, were being hoarded by a large number of the flesh abominations. They soon found themselves trapped atop of a large boulder upon which the fleshy hoard tries to reach them and as the two male terrarians fight them off, the female starts to gather all of her magic into her staff. The male terrarians looks back to their female ally and nods in understanding, this was their last ditch effort... Even if it will result in their deaths. Finally, the female’s staff begins to glow as she slams it into the large boulder beneath her and her allies as she cries out:
“For Terraria!”
[BOOM]
Starlight and Sai Sahan fought back to back as they were surrounded by a large force of the flesh abominations. Using Starfury, Starlight summoned the stars to rain down on her foes around them while using her magic to levitate her Sapphire Staff and Storm Spray upon which she uses to blast and wash away her foes in the process. Should any of her foes manages to get too close, the unicorn would swing Starfury and cleave them in half. As this goes on Sai duel wields his Silver Broadsword along with his recently acquired weapon from The Desert Scourge, Aquatic Discharge. Using his silver crafted broadsword he cleaved the heads off of multiple flesh monsters with a single swing, however, he was shocked when these monsters began to regenerate their missing body parts. Immediately, he decides to use Aquatic Discharge and to his utter delight, the moment he slayed another flesh monster with the blade a spark of electricity engulfed his enemies, killing them in addition. Starlight looks back to her ally and says:
“You hanging in there Sai?, don’t you go dying on me now, I need you to watch my back.”, As Starlight finishes her words the unicorn smirks which causes Sai to reply:
“Hah!, you kidding me?, I can do this all day. [SHLINK] Besides, we need to hold these abominations off so our allies can deal with The Eye Of Cthulhu. I never would’ve imagined that beast would be here, damnit all!”
[BOOM]
Suddenly, the duo along with nearby adventurer’s has their attention stolen by a large explosion. They look on with shock at first until they realize what has happened, The Eye Of Cthulhu has been injured greatly as it lets out a painful:
[rooROORGH]
“Looks like our allies has landed a devastating blow to the monster!”, Sai Sahan exclaims.
“Alright!. Judging by that blue blur I bet it has something to do with, Rainbow Dash.”, Starlight replies as she blasts away a few more flesh monsters with her staff and her horn.
“Wait, what’s it doing now?”, A nearby adventurer question’s as they witness a strange spectacle, The Eye Of Cthulhu seems to be spinning rapidly.
“Hah!, maybe it’s spasming out and dying!”, Another adventurer replies. Starlight was about to celebrate as well until she looks towards Sai and saw... Worry?.
“What’s wrong Sai?, wait... You’re not thinking...”
“Yes Starlight, it might be greatly damaged now... But, I fear this is far from over.”
As if on cue, Sai Sahan’s worries were manifested into physical form as The Eye Of Cthulhu stops spinning and reveals its new transformation: A mouthed monstrosity with razor sharp teeth. Everyone looks on as they say in unison:
“Well... Fuck...”
“Well... Buck...”
Twilight, Celestia, Rainbow Dash, and the rest of the adventurer’s who were nearby watch on with gritted teeth and narrowed expressions as Celestia shouts:
“Be ready everyone!, the monster is-”
[rooROORGH]
Celestia’s words were cut off as she and the two ponies were forced to dodge as the mouthed abomination rushes at them with speeds even greater than it had possessed before which causes Rainbow to say:
“What the hay?!, why is it even faster than before?!”
“I don’t know but we need to act fast!, it’s heading straight into the other adventurers!”, Twilight shouts in horror. However, her words were simply too late as the horrible event plays out before her.
”GRAUGH!”
“BLEUGH!”
In one swift motion, the mouthed spawn of Cthulhu scoops up and devours a fair number of adventurers in its maw. Twilight freezes as she happened to stare into the terrified eyes of a female Terrarian, who was currently locked between the monster’s jaws. The world slowed down for just a moment as the Alicorn stared into the woman’s eyes which practically pleaded for help, not wanting to depart from this world just yet. Then, the world returns back to normal as the female Terrarian disappears behind the closed jaws of The Eye Of Cthulhu as it phases through the fleshy earth once more.
“Twilight!”
“...”, Twilight remains speechless and frozen in place with widened eyes, the Alicorn was in such a shocked state mixed with fear, she couldn’t hear Celestia and Rainbow Dash calling out to her as the world around the Alicorn went silent.
“Twilight!”
“...”
“Twilight!, get it together!
“...”
Having enough of the lavender mare’s current state, Celestia flies over to the pony and with some hesitation, slaps Twilight across her muzzle.
[WHAM]
Rainbow Dash winces at this but does seem to understand Celestia’s intention. As this is going on the mouthed monstrosity can be observed in the background fighting the other adventurer’s as it re-emerges from the ground. Demon Eyes and various monsters of the flesh can also be seen trying to attack the adventurers as they try to fight back against The Eye Of Cthulhu. Rainbow Dash decides to let Celestia handle her best friend and joins the battle once more.
The sudden surge of pain from Celestia’s strike finally brings Twilight back to the real world although just barely.
“W-what?”, Twilight finally replies with a lowered tone but what shocks her is what she sees before her for a very brief moment. No longer was Celestia a bipedal Terrarian, what was floating in the air before her was a large equine figure which temporarily replaces the ‘Terraria born Celestia’. The equine Celestia says one final thing before she disappears and returns back to, what one could properly call, Terralestia.
“Focus Twilight!”
[GASP] Twilight sucks in a sudden breath of fresh air, which was ironic given the biome she was currently in, as she finally comes to. The sounds of battle and warfare returns to her as her ears flicker about and her eyes begins to look around in all directions, shooting back and forth in confusion.
“Twilight, look at me.”, Terralestia says in a motherly tone as she puts a hand onto Twilight’s left cheek to which the Alicorn’s gaze focuses on her. “I’m sorry that you have to see all of this, you ponies come from a world that’s so peaceful and filled to the brim with kindness and friendship. I wish our world wasn’t introduced to yours simply because of how completely different our worlds are, complete opposites to each other. But, you are in Terraria now... Death, pain, and loss is practically a constant for us terrarians but we still push on. When I look at you ponies and when I think of the world you come from do you know what I see?, what I feel?. The very thing I know we can achieve together.”
“What?”, Twilight replies with tears threatening to leave her eyes.
“Hope Twilight, you and your friends give me hope. You give us all hope that one day our world can be just like yours, to be purified of diseases like The Crimson and for all of us to come together in harmony. You told me something last night... [CHUCKLES] Before you got lost in that book Sai gave you that is.”, Terralestia then brings Twilight into a hug as she says: “Friendship Is Magic.”, Upon hearing those words Twilight tightens the hug for just a moment before she then sighs lightly and breaks it. The Alicorn then narrows her features in determination as she says:
“You’re right, as The Princess Of Friendship I always believe anything can be achieved if we work together.”, Terralestia nods as she and Twilight turns their gaze back to the battle taking place nearby as they observe Rainbow Dash unleashing her Minishark upon The Eye Of Cthulhu. The Flesh Monsters and the Demon Eyes numbers were noticeably beginning to dwindle thanks to the efforts of the terrarians and ponies. Twilight continues and says:
“This battle, will be no different!”
“Now you’re talking!”, Terralestia replies as the two make their way towards the battlefield. Twilight turns her head towards Terralestia as she says internally:
-Thank you, Celestia-
“Take this ugly!”, Rainbow Dash exclaims as she unloads the full might of the Minishark upon the spawn of Cthulhu. Suddenly, two magical blasts zooms past her which makes contact with the mouthed menace. The pegasus turns around to see both her Alicorn friend and Terralestia.
“You finally made it egghead!, now come on, let’s finish this!”, Rainbow Dash exclaims which causes both Twilight and Terralestia to nod.
[TWINKLE-BOOM] [TWINKLE-BOOM]
A series of stars and explosions goes off as a certain student of Twilight’s flies up to the group with her Rocket Boots and says:
“Sorry we’re late, had a bunch of fleshy monsters to fight. The Calvary has arrived!”
“Everyone!, focus all firepower on the The Eye!. Take it down!”, Sai Sahan proclaims as a series of attacks follows his declaration:
Magical energies were fired from multiple sources ranging from staves to magical books, including the horns of both Twilight Sparkle and Starlight Glimmer. Arrows and various forms of ammunition and ranged attacks met their mark as they all took aim towards the mouthed menace. Among them, Rainbow Dash decided to up her damage output and was currently duel wielding both The Minishark and her Musket, each held in either hoof. Starlight continued to rain down the stars with every swipe of her blade in addition to having duel wielded weapons of her own. With her horn alighted, she levitated both her Sapphire Staff and Storm Spray as she unleashed her fury onto the large entity. Twilight and Celestia did the same as they too duel wielded the very same staves as Starlight. Sai Sahan, along with other melee based fighters, bide their time and slice away at the monster as it tries to devour more adventures with every pass. Together, everyone continues to dodge and attack The Eye Of Cthulhu but to the monsters credit, it does manage to claim more lives in the process. Finally, despite both sides taking losses, the mouthed Eye Of Cthulhu finally surrenders to the onslaught of attacks as it lets out one final roar:
[rooROORGH]
[SPLAT]
The large eye begins to spasm chaotically until it finally explodes and sends gore flying in multiple directions, everyone stares on in shock until that slowly turns to amazement and happiness as they all cry out:
”Victory!”
“We did it!”, Rainbow Dash exclaims as she then turns to her fellow ponies and says: “You know what that means, right?!”, Twilight and Starlight nods their heads as the ponies shout in unison, which coincidently was unified with the terrarians as they too shout:
“Here comes the loot!”
“...”
“Wait... Why did we only get a bunch of rocks and these red seeds?!”, Rainbow asks disappointedly.
“Those aren’t just any rocks my rainbow maned friend. That, right there, is Crimtane Ore.
-EQUUS, OUTSKIRTS OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE-
The survivors of The Outposts, who were being lead by Dr. Whooves and Derpy Hooves, were nearing the empire with great haste. With them, Maud Pie along with Octavia, Vinyl Scratch, and a few other survivors were pulling a large cart filled with the newly discovered mineral they found in the Everfree Forest. In front of them, a unicorn was using their magic to support the weight of the cart to which Dr. Whooves says:
“We can’t thank you enough for giving us this cart, Prince Blueblood. You’ve saved us all by doing this!”
“It is no trouble at all, we must work together to fight back against The Corruption. I was out there looking for any more survivors, until I came across your pegasus friend there.”
Soon, the group manages to reach The Empire itself with batted breath and looked as if they’d just return from a sort of world war. They were very similar to how Shining Armor and the others appeared when they first returned from the battle in Ponyville. A trio of pegasus royal guards spots them as they immediately tend to the survivors, one of them steps forward and says:
“Hello everypony, my name is Flash Sentry. We are glad to see you all survived The Corruption, how can we-”
“Yes, yes, you can help us by allowing us to get this here cart into the castle. The contents within might just help us in our fight against The Corruption.”, Dr. Whooves interjects as Flash Sentry, along with the other guards, gasps in shock causing Flash to ask:
“Wait, you mean you all found something that can help us?!”
Maud Pie steps forward as she monotonously replies:
“I’ve been studying rock science for a very long time. To put it simply, this stuff is some type of ore. We can likely smelt them to create weapons and armor... I’d also like to keep one as a pet.”