Chapter 9
“What’s going on?!” Rainbow Dash asked in a panic, “Just calm down Rainbow Dash, if it helps at all here’s a cupcake.” Pinkie was resting one arm on Rainbow’s back holding a cupcake to her face with the other and without saying anything, blinking, or changing the direction of her gaze Rainbow Dash leaned forward and ate the cupcake in one slow bite.
Behind Rainbow Dash a few meters a black vortex formed and from within it a dark green arm emerged, at the tips of its fingers were black claws that looked sharp enough to cut through even the hardest of materials effortlessly, and the forearm was entirely covered in small hooklike spikes. Another arm of the reverse laterality shot forth next to the first and they then turned outward and grasped the edges of the vortex and working together pulled out the rest of the body, a humanoid-reptilian creature roughly six feet tall with long, sharp dorsal spines covering its back, a long whip-like tail that ended in a trident-like spear, and its legs were somewhat catlike with five splayed out toes. After this creature exited the vortex entirely unnoticed, it swung its shoulders around a few times and went down on all fours and swiftly but quietly zeroed in on the ponies.
“Excuse me Miss.” the creature said as it tapped Rainbow Dash on the back, being careful as to not get her with those sharp claws, “AGH!” screamed the three ponies, Rainbow Dash the loudest due to being physically touched by the nightmarish creature before them, “I do get that reaction a lot.” it calmly answered to their shrieks of terror, “But please my breath isn’t that rancid is it?” he breathed into his palm and he sniffed and immediately his eyes widened, “UGH! Maybe it is...” he covered his mouth with one hand and held up the index finger of the other, “I’ll be right back...” he then performed what seemed to be a backwards swan dive into the ground.
“What... was that?” Rainbow Dash asked dumbfounded as she was pointing at the ground where Mynx just SWAN DIVED! Twilight approached her and answered, “I’m certain that was Mynx.”
“Who the hay’s Mynx?”
“I’m not exactly certain myself, but at first he told me that he was a freeform dimensional wanderer, and after Pinkie met him he said he was part of a race called... Spatial Renders?”
“You already lost her Twi...”
“Why is he here? And why does he act the way he... Oh boy.” RD cut herself off as she noticed a very large, dark blue serpentine creature slowly lowering itself behind Twilight and Pinkie, “Behind you!”.
Quickly the two mares about-faced and saw the creature for themselves and Twilight jumped back screaming, “S-snakes! I hate snakes!”.
“Relaxxx. It’sss jussst me.” it’s golden eyes flared, “Augh! I hate being sssnake-like creatures for thisss very ssspeech impediment.” calming down, Twilight realized it was Mynx, “Don’t do that! You nearly scared the life outta me!”.
“Pleassse, your life forccce isss ssstill very much ssso attached to your being.”
“Why are you tormenting us like this huh?” RD asked angrily asked, “Oh come on! Don’t tell me you haven’t heard of boredom before.” he gave her an answer, although it wasn’t exactly straightforward, “What do you mean by that?” Twilight asked, “Let me put it sssimply. I have been wandering through the inter dimensssional void and visssiting random worldsss for not even G... one moment.” two corruptors came up through the ground, one was holding a rolled up piece of paper, and together they opened it for Mynx to read, while doing so he said something about world lingos and when he found what he was looking for he exclaimed to himself, “Aha!” the corruptors vanished back into the ground and he continued, “...not even Cccelessstia knowsss how long! Wouldn’t you be bored out of your ssskull with a life like that?”.
“Okay. I see where you’re coming from. But seriously, could you at least try to be at least a little straightforward?” Rainbow Dash asked him, “I did try that onccce but... let’sss jussst sssay the resultsss were... not very fun.”.
“What do you mean?” Inquired Pinkie.
“NOT. VERY. FUN. That isss all you need to know.” his face was right in Pinkie’s, practically merged how close they were, he definitely moved like a snake. He pulled his face from Pinkie’s and now wore an expression of ponder, “I jussst realizzzed sssomething.” his mouth shifted to his signature sharp-toothed grin, “What would that be?” Rainbow Dash asked, “There are currently at leassst three poniesss count here.”.
“What does that have to with-” Twilight was beginning to question but she cut herself off with a gasp, “You don’t mean-?”
“Oh yesss. Welcome to my ssserviccce girlsss...” and before the mares their shadows extended before them and quick as lighting corruptors burst forth from them and grabbed their faces. That’s all they saw before everything went black.
Chapter 10
Darkness...
Darkness...
Darkness was everywhere...
“Where... am... I...?”
“What... is... that... sound?”
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“Rainbow Dash! Come on snap out of it!” Twilight implored of her friend, “Mynx, what happened to her?!”.
“Confound it! I’m a Spatial Render, not a doctor!” Mynx shouted back at Twilight in the form of an owl, “Actually one moment.” he reached behind his back and procured a white coat and then proceeded to equip it, “Now I’m a doctor.”.
“Come on Mynx! Please tell us what’s wrong with Dashie!” Pinkie was imploring of Mynx, “Please be patient! I have to take a look at her first!” he held his right wing out before himself and from between the feathers folded out some sort of optical enhancement device which he used to peer into Rainbow Dash’s face, most particularly the absolutely blank eyes. Mynx mumbled something to himself along the lines of, “Why do these dark fates always fall upon you?”.
Mynx had the two mares that were notably conscious wait while he continued to examine the evidently comatose pegasus. After what seemed to be about half an hour Mynx pocketed the device he was using and turned about-face to Twilight and Pinkie wearing a grim expression, “I’m sorry to say but... it seems your friend’s soul was destroyed...”.
“W-what do you mean?” asked Pinkie on the verge of tears, even though she already knew what he meant, “As I said it’s a very rare thing. Even I couldn’t predict that it would happen...”.
“So you’re telling us that one of our best friends is basically DEAD!?” Twilight asked with tears running down her cheeks.
“I regret to inform you that that is indeed the case...”
“And we’ll never see her again?” Pinkie was now crying like Twilight and her mane and tail hung straight down.
“Please, please don’t fret. Remember what I told you earlier?” Mynx’s face began perking up, “Y-you mean...?” Pinkie’s tears began to slow, “Yes. I can bring her back but...” Twilight butted in, “But what?” Mynx avoided their gaze, “But it’ll take some time...”.
“How much time?”
“At least two days in this world.”
“Two days!?”
“Yes. But so you can keep tabs on my progress, I’ll activate the messenger effects.” he held out one wing and it turned into an arm, he then snapped his fingers, the sound of which echoed loudly, seemingly throughout the entire world. Suddenly Twilight and Pinkie felt a strong burning sensation so strong that it brought them to their knees.
“Don’t worry. It’ll be over momentarily.” Mynx said as their vision began blurring heavily and after a few moments their sight finally gave out and they lost consciousness.
Chapter 11
“You two alright?” a feminine voice asked the two ponies.
“Ugh. I feel my head’s been hit with a brick.”
“I’m fine, no need to worry, although that did hurt some.”
“That’s normal.” the feminine voice again.
“Normal? That’s hard to come by these days.” Twilight was rubbing her eyes and then she opened her eyes to be greeted by the sight of what she assumed was Mynx, “W-what?” the assumed Mynx looked herself over and asked, “What?”.
“Is that you Mynx?”
“Who else would I be? A sixteen year-old schoolgirl named Hitome?” his appearance was very akin to a female by what Twilight knew. This form was humanoid and it had sharp, emerald green eyes, very long, dark brown hair with naturally white tips (strange hair), it’s chest extended outward below the neck about the size of two heads of lettuce, the figure was more slender than the previous humanoid forms, it wore a white T-shirt with red lining where the arms cut-off, a dark blue mini skirt, knee high white socks, and light brown slip-on shoes, and it was bending over looking Twilight right in the eyes, “Hey Mynx! What’s this white thing under this skirt?” immediately Mynx flung upright flustered and blushing, “Oi! That’s invasion of privacy and uncivil!” She snapped her fingers and the skirt grew to knee length, which her hair still managed to exceed in length, “Don’t do that Pinkie!” Pinkie answered with a confused look and a yellow question mark literally floating above her head, “What’s so bad about that?” she continued to be puzzled over what seemed like what should have been no major thing, “Among most female humans like this...” she motioned her hands over herself, “...it’s considered very rude and perverted for one to look under another’s skirt like that!”.
“So this is a... human?” Twilight inquired looking at Mynx’s body from multiple angles, “Watch the skirt.”.
“Fine, fine I can respect your privacy.” Said Twilight, “So all those forms like this were human as well?”.
“For the most part.”
“What’s that mean?”
“Remember that blonde pony-tailed one?”
“Yeah.”
“That one wasn’t human.”
“What do you mean.”
“It was a machine designed like a human, but that’s all it had in common with them, it’s name was Omega.”
“Mind telling us more?”
“That’s all I’m gonna say...” Mynx then looked off into the distance as if to some invisible third party, “... if you wanna find out more, play Megaman Zero 3 to the end.” Pinkie butted in, “But don’t forget, it’s a real doozy of a challenge!”, Mynx summoned a corrupter to push her aside, “Thanks Miss Pinkamena. Or you could do it the other, much less interesting way and look it up online.” Mynx then looked back to Twilight, “Uhh Mynx, what was that about?”.
“Nothing important, all you need to know is that you’d never understand.”
“Wait a second. Where’s Rainbow Dash!?” Twilight began looking about frantically for the missing pegasus, “No need to worry Mistress Twilight. I’ve got me working on it twenty-four-seven. However it will take longer than the projected two days to fix her up perfectly.”
“How much longer?” inquired Pinkie, “Ohh about three days longer.”.
“Oh you just take everything in stride don’t you?” Twilight asked sarcastically, “I do my best.”.
“Before this conversation gets too long and we get another chapter six on our hands, I’m gonna have to tell you ladies that I will have to make my leave for those said five days, but don’t worry now that you’re messengers you can contact me to communicate at anytime, no matter what.” Pinkie was fiddling with the question mark that was prior above her head and making a balloon animal out of it, “Chapter six, huh? That was a long chapter but now we’re getting short ones.” Twilight gave a confounded look towards Mynx and Pinkie, “Now you two I’d like you to look into this mirror when you head back inside.” she procured an image of Twilight’s bedroom from within her shirt and displayed it to the ponies, “See that tall mirror? That’s the one you should look into.” Twilight gave a confused look, “Why?” Mynx sighed and merely responded, “You’ll see if you look, just whatever you do, don’t freak out. I’m already reaching my negativity cap. Also if they ask you about Spectrum Burst, make something up.” Mynx then jumped into the air and twirled and went through the ground, “Wait Mynx. Why would we freak out?” no response, “Great. Alright Pinkie lets go inside.” Pinkie then stopped playing with the question mark-turned-balloon animal dog and threw it aside, “Sure thing Twilight!” time resumed it’s normal flow as they began towards Twilight’s front door.