//------------------------------// // Chapter 70 - When A Pie Is Sad. // Story: Terraria: Friendship Is Magic // by Pomp-Neigh //------------------------------// Twilight’s eyes were wide open as she gazes upon the new individual who, presumably, is here to aid them. Everyone else observes the scenario from within the barrier as Gorglock calls out: “Thirty seconds left of the barrier!” Tempest jumps into the air and throws her boomerang like weapon to which everyone present heard her call: Kylie. The boomerang flies right through the meteor born entities and shreds them apart. This gives those within the barrier an opportunity to leave its protective shell as they too join the battle. “Rarity! Gorglock! Start harvesting that meteorite while we deal with these things. Starlight! You go with them to provide cover should any of these damned things get by us!” Tanner exclaims to which the aforementioned beings nods understandably and makes their way towards the meteor. Twilight and Tanner make their way towards Tempest to which Twilight says: “Thank you for helping us, Tempest. How did you know about their weaknesses?” “I’ll reveal that later. For now, get your weapons ready. Actually, I want you to summon that blood rain again.” Heeding to her request, Twilight materializes her Blood Bath and calls forth another red cloud although this one was considerably smaller than the last. Blood starts to rain down upon their foes as a result while Tanner and Tempest start to pick off any that draws near. “Why is it smaller?” Twilight inquires. “The cloud you summoned earlier was the result of you and your friends combining your weapon’s effects together.” Tempest replies while in combat. The terrarian hops over a meteor monstrosity before throwing a sort of dagger like weapon which destroys the fiery foe upon impact. She then spins around in a flurry of blades and sends out twelve more daggers which fires off in multiple directions. “Wow… she’s just as good in close quarters as our own Tempest.” Twilight compliments. “Oogle at her skills later, incoming!” Tanner exclaims as he fires his bow and sends a barrage of arrows towards the meteor-like entities. Suddenly, the entities start to come together as they start to merge and meld into a giant form. “Dammit! They’re combining!” Tanner roars out as a much larger version of the meteor monsters now floats just above them all. “Well, thing’s got more interesting…” Tempest comments as she conjures a set of daggers in each of her hands and throws them at the entity. At first, they didn’t seem to affect the large creature at all as Twilight comments: “I don’t think puncture attacks will be enough to defeat that thing.” Tempest simply winks to Twilight in response as she lifts her right hand and extends three fingers as she gestures a three, two, one countdown. [BOOM] [BOOM] [BOOM] A series of explosions goes off which causes the entity to break apart all while Twilight’s blood rain dissolves the various rubble amongst the landscape. The lavender alicorn looks towards Tempest questionably to which The Bandit says: “Explosive daggers, beautiful for dealing with monsters like these.” Meanwhile, Starlight was fighting off a few of the meteorite entities as Gorglock and Rarity went to harvesting the meteorite with their pickaxes forged from The Crimson. “Come on!” Starlight roars out as she duel wields Starfury and Vein Burster via floating them in her telekinetic grips via her alighted horn. Two effects would transpire as she wielded her blades and swung at her foes: Pink stars would rain down thanks to Starfury while exploding balls of flesh would materialize themselves and be launched towards the meteor born foes; igniting on impact. As the metaphorical cherry on top, the unicorn would blast away some of her foes via a blast from her horn. Supporting Starlight was Rarity’s Snow Flinx who continued to freeze its foes solid as the unicorn would then shatter their frozen foes in response. In addition, those who were frozen in the air would fall down to the earth, shattering on impact. Positioned behind Starlight were the two beings she was currently protecting: Gorglock and Rarity. The two were mining as fast as they could to harvest the meteorite, per Tempest Shadows’s instructions. The battle continues to wage on as the near endless hoard of meteor monstrosities closes in on the ponies, goblin, and terrarians. -TERRARIA, HOME TOWN, CANDY CANE CORNER- Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie were currently sitting together on one of the tables in the establishment. Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy sat on one side while Rainbow Dash and Applejack sat on the other. They continue to converse amongst themselves as they discuss some recent events. “Wait a second, you mean we were zombies in your reality?” Rainbow Dash inquires. “That’s right, Rainbow. It was horrible… ah’ even saw Princess Celestia as one of those undead ponies... It just wasn’t right.” Applejack replies before she then takes on a happier expression. “Well... At least one good thing came out of it.” “What?” Fluttershy inquires. “Apple Bloom was very happy there. Ah’ mean, not happy about the whole undead apocalypse thing but with her special somepony.” “Ooooh, who was it?” Pinkie Pie questions. “Princess Luna.” Applejack responds. “What?!” The rest of the ponies exclaim in unison. “Y’all heard me right. Apple Bloom was around mah’ current age in that world and somewhere along the line, she and the Princess found love in each other. Spike was there too and let me tell ya’, he was huge! That there dragon must’ve been big enough to crush Twilight’s castle back home.” Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie simply stares on with shocked expressions. However, Rainbow Dash starts to get rather curious as she inquires nervously: “So, uh… A.J… what did you think about that?” “Ah’bout what?” “You know… the whole ‘Mare; Mare’ thing your sister and Princess Luna had going on. Is it something you… wouldn’t like?” Rainbow Dash inquires as she admittedly had another reason as to inquire about that. “That’s ah’ rather strange question, Rainbow.” Applejack replies before she puts a hoof to her chin in thought for a few moments before replying: “Well, ah’ personally wouldn’t exactly think wrong about anypony doing that. If two mares want to become each other’s special somepony then ah’ reckon, good fer’ them.” -Woah, wait… she’d be ok with that? M-maybe I could-- Rainbow Dash says internally before her words are cut off by what Applejack interjects next: “But ah’ don’t know if ah’d give it a go. Honestly... I haven’t really given this kind of stuff some thought but I guess I’d go with the normal way. Mare and a stallion.” Rainbow Dash felt as if her entire world came crashing down in her heart as she truly takes in the farm mare’s words. Incidentally, Fluttershy seemed to catch onto Rainbow’s true reason for asking her question as she herself says internally: -Oh Rainbow… don’t give up- “Why do you ask, Rainbow?” Pinkie inquires. “Oh, uh, no reason… really. Just curious is all.” “Well, what about you R.D?” Applejack questions. “Huh?” “What happened in yer’ reality?” Rainbow suddenly takes on a horrified expression as she recalls the events from that world. Taking notice of this, Applejack tries to help the cyan pegasus by saying: “Ah’m sorry, R.D. If it’s too much to talk about we can-” “No, no… it’s fine A.J.” The cyan pegasus replies as she takes a deep breath and says: “In the world I went to… that version of me was a bucking jerk. She… she killed pegasi who failed the flight test and threw them into some kind of twisted machine.” A sudden bursts of gasps erupts from the other ponies as they say in response: “What the hay?!” Applejack exclaims. “But why?! Oh, that’s just not right.” Fluttershy says sadly. “B-but, can’t they just get better and retake it again? Why kill them at all? That’s just being a big old meanie!” Pinkie Pie exclaims. “It’s so stupid! She killed those pegasi to extract the rainbow liquid we use to create rainbows: Spectra. She killed so many innocent ponies but the worst part of it is… that world’s version of me killed… Scootaloo.” “Oh my garsh, Rainbow… ah’m so sorry.” Applejack says sorrowfully as she grabs the pegasus with her forehooves and brings her into a hug. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, whose mane became deflated, looked on with saddened expressions. Then, the worst thing that Pinkie Pie could ever hear transpires as a certain cyan pegasus questions: “What about you, Pinkie? Was your world as bad as mine was? I haven’t seen you bake anything ever since we got back-” “No…” Pinkie Pie replies with a small pinch of anger. “What did you-” “I said no!” Pinkie Pie exclaims as she slams her left forehoof onto the table which shocks everyone else present. The party pony seemed to instantly regret her action as she stuttered: “I-I’m so s-sorry, R-Rainbow… I didn’t mean to…” “It’s ok, Pinkie. If you don’t want to talk about it we can just-” Suddenly, the party pony jumps out of her seat and starts to stampede her way upstairs, leaving behind a confused trio of ponies. “Did I say something wrong?!” Rainbow Dash questions in exclamation. “Ah’m sure she knows that you meant her no harm, R.D. Give er’ some time…” Applejack says in an attempt to cheer up the now worried cyan pegasus. Pinkie Pie runs into her room and slams the door behind her as she then hops onto her bed. The party pony covers her face with her forehooves while saying: “It wasn’t you... It wasn’t you... It wasn’t you... It wasn’t you…” Pinkie repeats over and over. “Pinkie Pie... You poor little thing,” A new male voice interjects which catches the party pony’s attention as she darts onto her flank and looks around the room. “W-who’s there?” Pinkie Pie questions. “I’m a friend, Pinkie Pie. I know a thing or two about depression. Luckily for you, I’m here to make it aaaaall better.” Suddenly, a portal opens up just in front of Pinkie Pie’s bed which causes her eyes to widen in response. A large bipedal entity steps out of the portal and now looks down upon her. “Hello there, my little party pony. I’ve been observing you and your friends for quite some time now.” “Y-you didn’t answer my question... W-who are you?” Pinkie Pie was now starting to feel incredibly nervous. Her ‘Pinkie Senses’ were practically screaming for her to run away, especially after this being revealed their name. “Oh golly, please accept my apologies. Call me: Yharim.”