"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."
~Arnold Glasow
Discord was happy to be able to snap his paw once again. He was the first to exit the tank. With a magic snap, he teleported to the dry floor and with a second snap became dry himself. The others without magic had to crawl out of the tank from the top and wait to dry naturally.
Rarity was racing against time to restyle her mane before it dried in a bad style.
Sky's friends had time to recover, aside from Antvenom, they were able to slowly stand back up on their own. TrueMU and Deadlox helped Antvenom up as well and let him lean on his shoulders.
"That was my second worst experience with a talking squid EVER," Discord stated, breaking the awkward silence that had befallen the room.
"Second?" Twilight asked as she wrung the water out of her mane.
"I've been alive for a very long time," Discord replied.
"I feel like we're forgetting something," said Deadlox. "I feel like we should be doing something right now."
"You mean, like, finding a way to get home?" Asked Jason.
"Or the extensive damage to the city that we should definitely be addressing?" Asked Twilight.
"Or my obvious need for medical attention?" Antvenom struggled to ask.
Pinkie Pie added, "Or an explanation as to why that explosion at the end of the last chapter conveniently got rid of all of the squids without harming anything else, something that was never given any sort of explanation and would probably make the readers really super angry if there isn't one?"
"No, no, nothing like that," said Deadlox. "I was thinking about something more along the lines of Skylox."
Sky slowly panned over to Deadlox and locked eyes with him for a few drawn out seconds. "Ty... I hate you so much right now."
"Then let us make sweet hatred with each other," Ty replied without missing a beat.
Sky jumped at Deadlox and tackled him to the ground. As Sky viciously attacked his friend, Celestia leaned over to Twilight and asked her in a hushed whisper, "Who exactly are these... Interesting friends of yours?"
"I believe their names are Sky, Deadlox, TrueMU, Kuledud3, Antevenom and Bodil," Twilight answered. "I don't know where they came from, but I think they came here with the squids and they seem to be stuck here. They were with us when we were ambushed on our way to Canterlot."
"You are fortunate to find another group of companions whose friendship is strong enough to wield the elements. Though their friendship is expressed in a very different way," Celestia commented as she watched the two roll around on the floor and attempt to choke each other.
"Hey guys," Bodil interrupted. Sky and Ty briefly ceased fighting so they could listen to what he had to say. "I really don't want you guys to get mad at me for not mentioning this earlier but I've had fourteen pieces of obsidian in my inventory this whole time."
Kuledud3 said, "So your saying that..."
"I'm saying that we could have gone to the Minecraft dimension through the Nether the entire time," Bodil finished.
"The entire time?"
"The entire time, yes."
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Thus, with an awkwardly long and hug-filled goodbye from Kuledud3, the six cubical heroes used Minecraft logic to return to their own dimension. With a hollow portal frame five blocks high and four blocks wide and the flint and steel that Deadlox somehow acquired in a way that you don't need to ask questions about, they returned to a world made of three dimensional squares.
Princess Celestia insured that the natural balance between these worlds would remain intact by destroying the obsidian portal that connected the two realities, leaving memories as the only thing that the two worlds shared.
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A few, peaceful days later, Twilight lay down on her bed to take a much deserved break after a long day of studying. The sun was just barely still visible in the sky as the world changed from day to night. The natural light in her tree house was quickly fading.
"Are you gonna miss them?" Spike asked out of the blue as he picked up a stack of books.
"Miss who?" Twilight asked absently, without giving it much thought.
"Those guys you told me about a couple days ago. You know, the ones who saved Canterlot from squids and then left. Those guys."
Twilight snapped out of her absent state of mind as she quickly remembered those recent events. "Right..." She said half embarrassed by the fact that she had forgotten. "I remember them, of course! I suppose I miss them a little, but it's much better the way things worked out. I mean, I can't possibly imagine what would happen if there were a bunch of those guys running around Equestria!" She giggled at the thought, then turned to Spike.
Spike had apparently finished his chores. All of the books he had been picking up were neatly placed on their shelves. He was looking out of the low hanging window on the bottom floor. Without taking his eyes off it, he motioned for Twilight to come down and said, "Twilight, you may want to see this."
Twilight gently stepped off the side of her bed and trotted down the stairs with little haste. "What is it, Spike?" She asked.
"I'm not really sure what it is," Spike replied. He stepped to the side so that Twilight could stand in front of the window. What she saw left her speechless.
Two more cube shaped minecrafters that she had never seen before stood in the open street. Both wearing coats and manacles. "I say, what-oh chaps and chapettes, Game Chap and Bertie here!" Said one of them whose name was apparently Game Chap
"Yeah!" Bertie said with a slight jump.
Game Chap continued, "And today we're going to be testing the rather nifty interdimensional travel modification for Minecraft one point seven, you know!"
"Wh-why with this modification, you can send as many friends as you'd like to all sorts of places with the server plugin!" Bertie said in an excited voice.
A red-bearded minecrafter wielding a pixelated bone rushed past them, chasing a fruit bat. "Oh, you just wait until I catch up with you, you little demon bird!" He taunted angrily.
Five more minecrafters were on their right. One covered head to foot in brown hair, one that appeared to be made of watermelons, and one wearing a batman costume were standing on the roof to Daisy's house. Beneath them, one wearing a red and black jacket and one that looked like amphibian in a suit were trying to climb to the roof of the building by jumping onto the windowsill.
"Go Mitch!" The hairy one cheered. "Don't let the mudkip win!"
"You know, I don't really think this is a parkour map," said the one who looked like a watermelon.
The one with the batman outfit pulled out an iron axe and said, "Does Warden Freeman need to slice a melon?"
Twilight pulled down the shades to her window and stepped back a few steps into her dimly lit library.
"What do we do?" Spike asked.
"I'm not getting involved in this again!" Twilight said defiantly. "The last six were way too much of a problem for me to deal with! We're just gonna wait here with the doors locked and let them tire themselves out."
Another minecrafter stepped out into the candlelight from the dark corner of the library. He had a black beard, a small cake, and two blue eyes looking out in opposite directions. "Do you two want to know what I had to do to make this CAKE!?" He asked in a quivering voice.