//------------------------------// // Limbo // Story: Lost and Far From Home // by KyleAJ //------------------------------// Limbo “Where am I?” A single thought adrift in a void between times, flowing everywhere at once yet having no physical form at all. One could describe this place, or lack thereof, as a black void of space. In reality though, it was much less than that. It is difficult to comprehend nothingness when all your experiences are actually something. Whether it was touch, sound, or awareness, it was all something. The space between dimensions is comparable to space, the similarities are present but as are differences. Like space, no living thing can survive for very long in the void. There are planes of existence, like the planets in space, where life can live. However, while space is traversed easily enough by Giygas and his army of Starmen and Mooks, there has only been one vehicle ever to traverse the space between dimensions; the Phase Distorter III. It could only take relatively short and linear journeys. For example, the range of physical displacement, or teleportation, was limited to the planet that it was currently on. The temporal displacement, or time travel, was limited to 20-30 years. On the first and last journey, before it was lost ten years in the past, it only traveled the aforementioned 10 years before it was left behind. With all former knowledge currently being completely disregarded, Ness, currently an unprotected soul, was simply existing in a place that should have swallowed him up and spread him over its entirety even if he had a body, robot or otherwise, to protect him. For the first time in a while, Ness was truly scared. Yes, Giygas’ form was the most frightening thing he had ever seen, but it had felt that Giygas [him?]self had forced the fear into him. He was afraid that he would be lost here forever, never going home like he had hoped. He knew that Dr. Andonuts said this might happen but he had decided that it was his responsibility. He wanted to use his gift that he was given, he wanted adventure, and he wanted to be the hero that he could have been. Even though it ended this way, he wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. The friends, the adventure, even many fights he had gotten into with everything from snakes to space aliens. “No, not like this...” Ness thought. He took off, looking for a way out of this nightmare. He was running, no, he was thinking of running as moved through the nothing, looking for something, anything, to get him out of there. Finally, after an unknown amount of time that he had no memory of ever passing, he found a sort of “hole” in the darkness. With nowhere else to go, he entered. Ponyville, a town named after 99% of its population. It was a town that had no knowledge of the world beyond the stars, no knowledge of the dangers, the beauties, or the powers. Yes, there were legends of a great evil being imprisoned on the moon, however this lead to an almost common belief that there was a breathable atmosphere in space. It was night time, the perfect time for stargazing, and the perfect time to see the meteor shower that was occurring. Twilight Sparkle, being the overly-analytical unicorn that she was, was surprised by the sudden and very rare occurrence of the natural phenomenon. She had read through her books to try and identify it, but she couldn’t find anything on possible meteor showers that happened on that particular month, day, or year for that matter. She decided to invite her friends to the same spot they had been to last time to see the meteors. “Spike, are you ready to go?” Twilight asked as she packed a picnic blanket and a telescope on a tripod into a red wagon. “I dunno Twi, what should I can decide whether to take some rubies or sapphires for a snack.” Twilight let out a heavy sigh, “Just hurry up so we can get going, I don’t want to miss this.” “Fine, let’s go.” Spike said as he stuffed both kinds of gems into the wagon. Twilight sighed again as she exited the library with Spike in tow. “You better not eat all those gems Spike, you will get a tummy ache and won’t be able to sleep if you do” Twilight warned. “Don’t worry about me Twi, I’ll be fine.” Twilight just rolled her eyes this time. Spike and Twilight made their way to Sugarcube Corner to tell Pinkie Pie about their plans of a picnic. They knocked on the Pink door the bakery when Pinkie Pie, wearing a rainbow coloured umbrella hat, burst out of the door, tackling Twilight and Spike to the ground. “Twilight! Twilight! Have you seen it!? The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” The pink pony shouted at Twilight and Spike. “The sky isn’t falling Pinkie, it is just a meteor shower. In fact, I was just about to ask you if you wanted to come with us to watch it from the hills to the west of Ponyville.” “I don’t think so; my tail is twitch-a-twitching! The stars are falling Twilight.” said Pinkie as she held Twilight’s face to hers. Twilight thought for a moment on a way to get Pinkie to come see the meteor shower with her. “Well Pinkie, if you don’t want to come, that’s fine, but everypony else will be there. We might even have a little party wi-“ “A party!?” Pinkie shouted, cutting off Twilight. “Well if you put it that way, of course I’ll come!” “Well for starters, you could invite everypony else and then we’ll meet you on the hills.” “Alright, see ya later Twi.” Pinkie said happily, tossing off her umbrella hat and bouncing away. Twilight and Spike made their way to hills. It was not a far walk, but it took them a good 20 minutes to walk there. When they arrived they were thoroughly surprised, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, half the town, and enough food to feed everypony were there waiting for them. “How does she do that?” Spike and Twilight asked in unison. “Hey, slowpokes! Get over here!” Pinkie shouted at them. Twilight walked to the top of the highest hill to set up her telescope. She looked down at all of the food and ponies that Pinkie had brought and tried to think of a reasonable explanation. ‘Hmm, the only way that could have happened without breaking the laws of the universe is if she had use some form of telepathy and got everypony to bring enough food for themselves and sprinted all the way here.’ Twilight decided to stop thinking about it before her head started to hurt. She looked through her telescope while referencing her book to calculate the angle and trajectory of the shower. Once again, the shower was like no other shower that had happened before. Twilight suddenly began to feel more and more excited at the mere notion that she, and half the town, was the first to see this particular meteor shower ever. She started to hop around with glee and levitated Spike up to her face even though he was busy eating rubies like popcorn. “Spike, do you realize that we are the first ponies, no wait, first pony and dragon to discover this meteor shower?” “Huh, I guess we are, aren’t we?” “Yes, and you know what that means, don’t you?” “Um...” Spike thought for a moment. “No I don’t.” “It means that it is our duty to document and find out the schedule of this meteor shower!” “Should I go and buy some more quills and parchment?” “Of course, we have a lot of work to do.” “Just great, more work.” Spike said aside so Twilight couldn’t hear. “I better get on it then.” “We can buy the supplies in the morning, for now we should watch the show.” The shower went on for a half hour before some of the meteors started to fall into the atmosphere of the planet. To the ponies, it looked like an awesome show, but they soon became unnerved at how some of the meteors started to fall all the way to the ground below. From the highest hill, Twilight could see all the way to the ocean. When she turned her gaze to the coast she saw the biggest splash she had ever seen, right where one of the meteors landed. At the sound of the crashing water, everypony and dragon looked to the ocean as well. Those who missed the first landing witnessed the second, third, and fourth landings, all within a minute of the first. The fifth and final meteor, crashed with a mighty roar into the valley between the hills and the beach. The whole town was rocked to its foundations as that meteor landed. It wasn’t long before the rest of the population that didn’t show up during the initial storm arrived to see what had shaken them violently from their sleep. “Wow, that landing sure was something wasn’t it Twi?” Asked Spike between yawns. “Yes it was Spike. But I find it odd that the whole storm just stopped after that landing on the beach. The whole thing just seemed... off, somehow, almost like it was forced.” “Anyway, I’m just gonna...” Spike yawned heavily. “...go to sleep now. G’night” “Good night Spike. Remember, we have a lot of work to do tomorrow...” It was Twilights turn to yawn. “...so rest up, you need your sleep.” Spike merely grunted. ‘Huh, I’m usually able to stay up later than this.’ Thought Twilight. ‘I guess I could get up early tomorrow to start working.’ Twilight climbed into her bed and relaxed after the long day she had. She thought she heard a voice whisper something to her, something that might be important, but her sleep deprived mind blocked out full meaning, except the phrase “It feels g-o-o-d...” [Earlier] When he had first arrived in the cracks between existence, he was so overwhelmed by the nothingness he couldn’t feel anything. After some time, (or none at all, he had yet to figure that out) he started to feel things. There were big gobs of energy just floating all around him. Their presence just became so glaringly obvious to him, mostly because there was nothing else to distract him. He had to break out. He couldn’t take any more of this drifting; he had already forgotten, among other things, his name. He tried pushing, pulling, tugging, and anything he could think of against walls of darkness that were keeping him trapped between time and space. He had almost given up hope when, against all odds, he saw the image of a small pink pony flash past his consciousness. Normally he would steer clear of anything remotely girly, but it didn’t matter anymore. He was about to do whatever it took to escape. He tried to follow the path the pink pony had trod; this was easier than expected because the trail tasted like bubblegum. Or at least he thought it tasted like bubblegum, it was hard to differentiate between his thoughts and experiences in this place. He followed it until he hit another wall. “No!” He shouted, he wasn’t about to give up so easily this time. He focused his mind on the points of energy all around him, gathering them into balls. His mind started to hurt from the constant focus, but the feeling was familiar. “Pyro-, Psi-, Psycho! Psycho something...” he was trying to remember what the action he was doing was called. “Psycho Kinesis!” he shouted as he redoubled his efforts. The points of energy had doubled in size as well. Confident that his plan would work, or just out of options, the boy launched all of the energy balls at the wall in an artillery storm of light. It was beautiful to him, and it reminded him of shooting stars. He remembered that there was a name for this, and he wanted to shout its name aloud for all to hear, so he did. “PK STARSTORM!” [Well here it is, another chapter. Always ends up shorter than I would like. Anyways I hope you enjoy because if you didn't I wasted time, and probably yours too. Oh well, but if you did like it then we are both happy still haven't decided on Ness' favourite thing/food yet so there is still time. I think that's everything so good bye for now.Thanks -Kyle]