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// Interlude: Meanwhile, in the Multiverse... 
// Story: Music To Our Ears... 
// by Prorook363 
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	"Cheetor!"
"Huh, what?!"
The yellow cybernetic racer shifted in his seat as he was awoken by the sight of projectors and holograms around him buzzing ecstatically and an enraged Silverbolt shaking him.
"Is it me, or do you get the feeling that something somewhere, in another universe, a large mass of chaos so abundant, so vast, so frenetic, is threatening to pull apart the very fabric of time and space itself. Like the mere coalition of a single universe from entropic expansion resulting in the collision of a universe becomes a universe of itself that is colliding into yet another conjunct universe?" 
"...Uh, isn't that the whole point of Axium Nexus Silverbolt? Like...the very purpose of our existence?"
A heavy silence fell upon the entire communications office.
"Wow...now that you mention it..."
Cheetor turned to the holograms and began to stroke his faceplate quietly as Silverbolt began to examine his fingertips with intensive curiosity.
"...You've been hitting the cyberpipes once again, haven't you Silverbolt?" a stern tone ascended from behind the two, breaking Cheetor's chain of thought.
"It's all part of the great enlightenment Depth Charge. How are we to call ourselves an advanced technorganic transcendent race when we cannot even delve into the very center of what comprises our very elements?"
"Face it Bolt, you're a short-circuiter."
"That's what the Government wants you to believe..."
"Oh primus here we go..."
"Cheetor, are you getting a load of this?" 
"Cheetor agrees with me, he patrols the very streets and enacts in the code of conduct. He knows there are ties severed."
The three babbled for quite some time until Silverbolt's trip took a hold once more.
"...Do you all recall that time that strange brown four legged creature with a symbol of some sort attached to its behind that came in that strange blue box?"
"Just another bad trip Silverbolt..."
"Actually Depth Charge, he's correct. Even came with another grey creature with that funky looking stare."
Cheetor's servos shivered as he recalled the ditzy stare that haunted him for hours after the duos sudden dissapearence.
"Did they come up in the data base?"
"Nope, completely slipped by the system, only thing the left was a quantum stream that trailed back to various other locations within the databanks."
"...Well, that's just prime."
"I take it Commander Megatron had a feel day?"
Silverbolt let out a loud snort and shook his head.
"You are completely clueless Depth Charge"
"Huh?!"
"...AHAHAHAHA!"
"Cheetor?! What's so funny?"
"That explains it!"
"Explains what?"
"My hands" Silverbolt blurted, creating a quick silence in the room.
"Urgh, sorry..."
"It explains why it may have ever came in the records."
"Oh by Primus what happened?"
"Well..."

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During the incident

"Okay furry little creatures, by the orders of the high council you are to follow me, relinquishing all rights, properties, universal entitlements...Megatron, Commander Megatron, leader of the Deceptico-...Dr...who?...wait, that...interesting...By universal regulations you are to stand down...What do you mean the universe is in danger, there's always something in danger, do you have any idea where you are?...Hmm, okay maybe you do...You dare challenge my authority Have I not addressed who I am? Do I not make myself clear? I AM MEGATRON!...Don't you dare turn away from me...I will find you both, tear you limb from limb if I must...Hold still? Is such even a request?...Wait what are you...HAHAHA, are you threatening me with a mere stick, such technology proves uselAGGGHHHHHH...."


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"...That is the greatest thing...I have ever heard..." muttered Silverbolt before dropping to the floor in a spiraling fit of laughter.
"Megatron still shows his face after the incident?" Depth Charge asked in confusion.
Cheetor nodded his head. 
"The bot has an ego, suffers from an almighty God-Complex that not even Primus himself can master. He went through great lengths to erase the incident from existence. Not from me though. Much too quick."
"Well Commander Humiliation aside, what was the incident with foreigners?"
"Hmm...couldn't get much out of that. They seemed to be in a rush and the brown one kept sputtering on and on and on about random jargon. What I do remember however, is the discussion of space bridge traveling, something he had prior knowledge of. So that can only mean he has visited other cybertronian singularities."
"Dddddespite not being a cybertronian..." Depth charge added.
"Meaning..." Depth Charge chimed.
"...Our universe is not exactly the center of the universe, but could in fact be the center of our universe, meaning that our universe is in fact a universe spiraling around an even larger universe..."
"Wait...wait, wait, wait...wait...what?"
Silverbolt and Cheetor locked optics with one another, stared for nanoseconds, and then began to question their very own existence as they became lost in their servos.
Depth Charge watched on disappointedly, shaking his head the entire time.
"Morons."
It was just another day in the world of Axium Nexus.	


(-)


"Scratchy, you ever think that there our other versions of ourselves, out there in the galaxy?"
"Hmm. It is quite plausible, given how vast the miraculous universe is. Just thinking about it now fascinates me, how marvelous such things come to be, the very fascination of its meaning and purpose, the very state of-"
"Scratch, there's a reason I never finished college, and it was because of tings like that."	
"Octavia, must you be so blatant at times? Just imagine what it must feel to be out there amongst the stars."
"Mot definitely'll feel hot, I'll say that much."
Vinyl Scratch turned to Octavia who mocked her with a devious smile.
"C'mon scratchy, you only know I'm messing with yah."
"Yah Scratch, lighten up."
"Ohhhh, you stay out of this Sir Blaster?"
"Sir?!"
From  the ground level where the two lay on the blue grassed slope, a large grey and blue robot sat upright and cocked on eye towards Vinyl Scratch.
"I am far from a sir, since a sir couldn't pump a mix like I ever could!"
"Yeah, Blasty has it down!"
Silence fell upon the entire group as the bot with the purple autobot badge and the white mare with the blue satin bowtie gave her a perplex look that resembled confusion and...err, well...something else.
"Sometimes I don't think I need to question how you didn't make it past college..."
"Oh, shots fired!" Blaster announced as he transformed into his boombox form announcing "ROUND ONE: FIGHT"
The two mares stared at Blaster as he had at Octavia, causing the bot to cease the music.
"...I take it someone quit to the main menu?"
BUH DUM TSS
"...Octavia, I still question why you keep him around?"
The grey punk pony let out heavy shrug.
"Meh, he makes killer music, and does well at being a pretty rad equalizer."
"You both know I can hear you right? Especially you Bon Bon..."
"The name's, Vinyl Scratch" she muttered through clenched teeth.
"Ah, mhmm, Bun Bun."
"...Octavia, by the flank of the goddesses, can we throw him back to the portal from hence he came?!"
"Sure, as soon as the princesses become loving goddesses and King Sombra becomes the embodiment of evil."
After a long pause, Vinyl's face cracked a slow smile that slowly began to sputter fits of giggles before becoming a spirit of hysterical paroxysm. Not long after, Octavia fell into suit and crashed onto the floor as well.
Blaster watched on as the two mares rolled around in their own laughter, wandering what he was doing with these two. He then remembered how it totally beat filing papers and sending messages, especially when Octavia always wanted to loot something.
"Hahaha, so, Octavia, do you thin you are ready for the huge gig coming up?"
"Meh, no need. I already one by default."
"Won? By default...how...but...it was only a few days away..."
The white mares ears fell to the sides of her head as Blaster crossed his arms, gave a smirk, and waved his hand passively.
"You scared everyone out of the competition, didn't you?" she muttered with a straight face as her facial features became fixated to one expression: disappointment.
"You could say that," Octavia sighed.
"Um, you think we should tell her that driving into a river isn't exactly-"
"SHHHH!"
"WHAT?!"
Vinyl's eyes burned bright red as she stared grimly into Octavia's soul, which quickly abandoned all hope and floated away with the stars. 
"Hehehe, I can explain Scratchy..."
Vinyl was not hearing it though, and as she drew nearer, Octavia knew her life was done.
"Uh, Blaster, a little help?...uh, Blaster, now's a good time too-"
Turning her head, Octavia could see that Blaster had ran off, a trail of dust outlining the bumps on the hill as he shouted aloud "YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN...."
	"Hehe Vinyl let's just-"
"Talk?" Vinyl grinned darkly as her face was but mere inches away from Octavia. Ocvtavia took one large gulp, and accepted her fate.
'Well, at least I die good looking.'


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"Octavia, do you ever wonder if out there, somewhere, there may be alternate us? I mean, if there is alternate you and me?" I asked.
Octavia gave me a strange perplexed look, one that questioned my actions within River's home, but I gave her a baffled look that totally threw that out the window. Although, had she known what happened last night, I'm sure she would have been confused...maybe even would want to kill me...
"Hmm, it is possible given how vast and abundant the universe seems, although with Celestia in control of the Sun, and Luna with the moon, it is hard to make of that."
"Even with Soundwave as evidence otherwise?"
"Hmm, well you see..."
Octavia lifted a hoof to her mouth, as if to say something, but lowered her eyes and began to think.
And she thought for a long, very long while. Maybe for a couple of minutes or so.
"Umm, Octavia," I asked, "are you okay?"
"Uhh, yeah. I just...just need some time to think."
And it seemed she really needed to think because eventually she sat down on the patch of grass and looked up at the sky in silence, as if frozen.
...
IIIII may have screwed up a tad bit.
I think I threw her into one of those....man what is the word...man, Octavia's good with the big words...Existency Crisises? Eh, close enough.
...Actually, come to think of it, if there is another me, can I feel their pain if they get hurt? Wait, what if the other me...disappears, or goes poof? Does that mean I go...poof?
Does that mean...whoa...whoa...
Imma need to sit down and think this one through...


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"So you're telling me that the only way you were able to link with me and become a Cassette bot is because-"
"You have a transdimensional link to a higher source that allows omnipotent change and boundless capacity that is sustained by and from the creator!" The pink robopony flustered before giving me a wide flawless smile.
My optic twitched heavily as even I could not put such a thing into context. Was it something that she pressed?
"Pinkie," I said, "I need to know how you were able to change."
"Welllll it's not easy to explain. Twilight calls it plot armor but I don't know much about all that smarty stuff, so I can't really help."
"Plot...what? Like with...stories, tails, legends? The work of mythos? How does that entail into reality?"
"I guess. Speaking of stories, I have one for you that MAY be able to help you!"
If adds some clarity, I'd be all for it. But this is Pinkie. There's little clarity in such simplicity.


(=)


"Okay so first off, we must enter, the Pinkie Zone, wooooo...No, not cutting it?...okay then...well when you were resting I decided to take a sneak peek into your compartment...no that is not invasion of privacy...I wanted some cookies...wait so that's also not an oven? Well than...Anyways, something glowed inside you, something purple and blue, and it called to me, something about a flame, the future and all that?...okay maybe I was mking some stuff up, but something did glow, and when I touched it, I found myself surrounded by three of you....well kind of, they were a little more robot-y and had names like Silver Bullet, Deaf Charge, and Cheetos. They were in this huge room with lots and lots of screens that showed all this strange different places with numbers and colors and...hmmm, something about it being a transuniversal transit...yep, basically a whole lot of universes...anyways, I left and met a very mean green robot...he had a God Complex and I told him...Yes, that was his name! How did you know?...Oh...what a meanie....maybe in every universe they are the same...I tried to tell him who I was, but he began blasting holes everywhere with that big cannon of his. I think he hit a couple robots but I don't know. I ran away from him and kept running until I ran into GASP I ran into Dr. Whooves and Derpy and they looked so scared and shocked to see me as they went into that little blue box of theirs. I'll tell you though, it isn't that small from the inside, it's huge actually it's got...I'm getting what?...Oh, no this is important because they asked me how I got there and I told them everything I told you up until this point where I'm telling you everything I began to tell them from that point. They didn't believe me, but I told them about how they got there, and they told me that they wouldn't believe me, so it didn't make a lot of sense, so in the end they told me a very long story that would probably be too long, so to some it up shortly, they travel across dimensions too...yes, they are from this world. They don't live very far actually, Derpy is the mailmare and tends to come around every week....oh you will? Well be careful, Derpy can be very shy...BUT going back to my story, I went with the Dr. and Derpy and next thing I know, I find myself in an alternate world like ours where everything is opposites and Vinyl Scratch and Octavia are enemies...well it seemed like that. Derpy kept running after the two since Vinyl kept running after Octavia, saying she was gonna stick something up her...Oh too much? Okay. Well after that, we went to more universes, but pretty much the Dr. was saying that the universes were mushing together, which sounded cool, but then he said it was like mixing a lot of bad ingredients together which is a big NO NO! But at the end of the day we saved the dimensions...sort of!...Yes there's more...don't fall asleep again unless you want to hear the important part!...Okay, so finally we ended up somewhere dark with a bright blue light in someplace called HAZBRO. It was kind of scary, but I was able to talk to the giant blue thing while Derpy and the Dr. couldn't. The thing didn't say much except 'consume' a lot, but I'm sure it was nothing bad because the light felt peaceful...hmm, Uni-who?...nah, that's a big meanie. After that though, the Dr., Derpy, and I decided to head home and along the way discovered that the problem was caused by those who traveled to other dimensions, so I mentioned you...why are you giving me that look? Oh they weren't supposed to know? Don't worry, I told them you were nice...The point? Oh, right. Point is, as long as you are stuck here, along with the other robots that are coming here to get you, we could collide with another universe...wait, you didn't know about the other robots that came here? Oh, well now you do - surprise!"


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...
SCRAPSCRAPSCRAPSCRAPSCRAPSCRAPSCRAPSCRAPSCRAP....
This is...this is...too much to process in my servos...my...how...why...how could...too vast...complex...calculating...calculating..
"Oh, yeah, and one more thing," Pinkie said from behind the immense pounding behind my optics, "before EVERYTHING I SAID, I was like this. Ta-Da!"
...
Oh Primus...kill me now...