//------------------------------// // Chapter 1- The Underwhere, and Other Places That Suck // Story: Dimentio's Spectacle // by Darkstar195 //------------------------------// Chapter 1- The Underwhere, and Other Places That Suck As Dimentio was exploding, he had time for one last word. “Ciao!” And as Dimentio fell into the void of unconsciousness, he felt satisfied that the power he had left behind would at least continue his work for him. Worlds would be destroyed and rebuilt, even without him guiding it. It was for the best, no matter what the mustache man's Pixl, the arm-flailer, and the ravishing princess might say. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> The light that was consciousness slowly funneled into the darkness currently consuming Dimentio. “Urrgh… Ah ha ha! Yes! Like a phoenix that died while having its eggs attacked, I, Dimentio, have come back to life to protect my work!” But something was wrong. A film covered Dimentio’s vision, making everything seem gray. Skeletal white arms waved in the nonexistent breeze, and he was in a line full of Shades. Realization suddenly dawned on Dimentio. He was in the Underwhere. “No... NO!” His outburst merely attracted some glares and mutters from the Shades around him, and a D-Man came over to tell him to be quiet and await judgement. Suddenly, an idea struck him! He had power over dimensions. Duh. Dimentio had pulled a Bowser on that one… Dimentio closed his eyes, and concentrated on the wonderful home awaiting him inside Dimension D, where he was 256 times more powerful, and could work on not being a Shade. Then, he snapped his fingers. Nothing happened. Dimentio cursed to himself. His dimension powers didn't work, he was a shade, he was dead, and all worlds were not destroyed, which was evident from the Underwhere existing. What could possibly go wro- No. Not that question. It was jinxed. He knew it, having done it himself, to spite down-on-their luck people. But if that question was jinxed to bring about something that was worse, maybe its opposite could do something about his situation… “What could possibly go right?” As soon as Dimentio had finished voicing the question, a light caught his eye. It was spilling from an opened, unguarded door. He knew that question would come through for him! Grinning as always, he snuck off toward the door, and made it inside. In the room were 26 more doors, all exactly the same, except that they were all marked with a different letter of the alphabet, in order. Dimentio appraised the doors. A- “Too brown…” B- “Too tall…” C- “Too C-ish…” Finally, he came to D. “Perfect!” he exclaimed, and opened the door. A bright light shone, restoring his normal appearance. “D always comes through for me… Hey, that rhymed! Now, to go through it..” Just then, the door exploded. Dimentio sighed, and turned around. Behind him were the D-Men, servants of Queen Jaydes who no doubt would drag him back into the line, who had fired the fireballs. He still wasn't sure if he had gotten his dimensional powers back along with his appearance, so fighting them was out of the question. That left… He quickly turned around and jumped inside the closest door to him- the door marked “E.” “Ciao!” “NO! Wait! Stop!” But it was too late. He had already gone. The D-Men didn’t dare to go inside the door. Not even Queen Jaydes knew what was inside those doors… None ever came back from them. At least Dimentio was finally gone. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Rainbow Dash was bored. She didn't really have anything to do that day, since the day was supposed to be clear, and she had done the clearing in ten seconds. She decided to go practice the Sonic Rainboom somewhere isolated, so that nobody could see her if she failed. An idea presented itself from the recesses of her mind. Why not the fields outside of town? Those were usually isolated, since they were so close to the Everfree, but Rainbow didn't have to worry about monsters. Two failed Rainbooms and three successes later, Rainbow decided to take a break. She flew down to the ground, and sat on her haunches. As she looked up at the sky tiredly, a pure black rectangle, like a void in space, opened, and spat out spat out a purple, yellow, and black... thing... onto the ground. All tiredness forgotten, she flew up to it, and tentatively poked it with a cyan hoof. It twitched, and she backed away, startled. "I'd better tell Twi about this right now!" she thought, and flew as fast as she could back to Ponyville. She had to get to Books and Branches before it woke up and started to attack the town! [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Dimentio awoke tied to a chair in what looked to him like a dungeon. A blue blur flew around him in a tornado, yelling "Talk, monster!" He struggled to follow it, and only succeeded in making himself dizzy. "What am I supposed to be talking about, cyan quadruped?" he asked. It stopped in front of him, with a fierce glare on its apparently equine face. "What are you? How did you get here? What was that thing you came out of?" Another equine, purple this time, with a horn on its hairy forehead instead of wings, came out of the room adjacent to the one he was in. "Rainbow Dash! Stop terrorizing it!" it yelled. Its horn glowed purple, and the blue one was enveloped in a purple aura and stopped moving. It kept glaring viciously at him. Ms. Purple Magic trotted up to him. "Sorry about my friend. Now- Hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle. Who and what are you?" Dimentio grinned. "I am master of dimensions... Pleaser of crowds... I... am... Dimentio! And what are you, purple horse?" Twilight frowned. "My name is Twilight Sparkle. And I am a pony. But you didn't really answer my question. What are you?" Dimentio ignored her, instead choosing to focus on the blue horse. She was still scowling, and was apparently doing her best to get out of the spell. "You are a disciple of magic as well, I see... Tell me, do you know anything of dimensional spells?" Twilight frowned and responded, "No. I don't even think that branch of magic exists." Dimentio was offended at this. How dare they not have even heard of dimensional magic? He had invented it! "It is the cake of the delicious multicourse feast that is magic!" Dimentio grinned, despite his annoyance. "But since you have not had the cake of this great feast, allow me to feed it to you!" Twilight blinked in confusion. "What?" But it was at that moment reality seemed to flip around her, Rainbow, and Dimentio. For a brief moment, she caught a glimpse of a void, and then reality seemed to turn green and pixelated. "Ah ha ha... I forgot to mention. The cake is cyanide flavor! Welcome to Dimension D, horn-head and cyan quadruped. Now, prepare for your games to be ended!"