Dimensional Circumstance

by Winter Rush


Chapter 5: Dimension after Dimension

After I had lifted Minuette onto my back, I went to the main control room, tied up the guards and unlocked the cells of every pony.
I went back to the cells and was warmly greeted by them. Through the crowd I spied Rainbow Dash. I shouted her. She turned around and saw me as I flew down between her and Twilight Sparkle.
"Hey Twi. Or should I call you Princess Twilight now?" I asked.
"Please, don't call me Princess. I don't like being called a Princess by my friends." Smiled Twilight. Her smile suddenly vanished. "Wait, who's that on your back?"
Everypony looked around. They all gasped. I told them about Minuette.

"Hey guys, do y'think we should, y'know go now, seein' as our friend here needs some medical attention?" Questioned Applejack.
"Where's the portal?" Somepony shouted.
"I don't exactly know. Rush, do you know?" Replied Twilight.
"Yeah, I know. Follow me everypony."

The portal creator was a small hoof-held device which could create a portal anywhere. On the side, the words "Dimensional Portal Gun E603" were embossed. I turned the handle on the side. A portal opened in front of us.
"How did you know how to get this to work?" Came a voice from the back of the crowd.
"Guess work." I said bleakly.

As we had begun to leave, I heard a siren. "WARNING. WARNING. CRITICAL POWER SAFETIES HAVE BEEN DISENGAGED, PLEASE VACATE THE IMMEDIATE AREA." A loudspeaker announced.
I had no idea what it was but it didn't sound good, so I hurried the rest of the ponies through the portal. I was the last to go through and discovered what the announcement meant. The world erupted behind me in a bright white flash. I only just made it through the portal.

"Ah. Back to Ponyvi..."
I opened my eyes. We weren't in Ponyville, or even Equestria for that matter. There were blocks everywhere. The world was practically made of cubes. And it was dark. We heard a hissing noise. Everypony screamed. A large green creature with four stumpy legs walked towards us with a very unhappy face.
I quickly opened up another portal to another dimension on the blocky floor.
We went through.
The world spun round me in a white, milky chaos.

"This still isn't right." I said, landing on the floor of a bluey-purple skyscraper. There was another human. He had a long face and a very long, pointy nose. Next to him was a teal, beaked creature wearing a fedora. They stared at us, we stared at them.
"Um. Hi?" I said awkwardly.
Silence.
Suddenly, there was a scream from the back. The green creature had followed us through.
Quickly, I fired up another portal and again jumped through, a large piece of machinery dropping though the portal behind us.
"Nooooooo!" Cried the man in a German accent. "Curse you Perry the Platypus!"
But the platypus had disappeared, leaving a distraught Dr. Doofenshmirtz on his hands and knees, watching his Reverse-inator tumble through the fabric of space-time.
As he looked up, the green creature looked at him angrily and swelled up with a hiss.
"Oh poop..." He began, as the explosion blasted him inside the building.

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The next portal brought us out in a dark, damp cave. I tried to move, but nothing happened. Suddenly, there was a strange sensation in my legs and we began to sink; we were being sucked into the ground by some invisible force.
"Everypony, grab on to each other!" I quickly shouted.
I wound up the device and a portal appeared in front of me. I heaved forwards and managed to pull the other ponies through into the swirly depths of the portal.