Chapter 7: Danger: Solara!!
Michael J. Nelson has seen and done a lot of weird things over the times he was forced to watch movies on the Satellite of Love. There are smart ass robots, movies that are so confusing or bad, you would wanna pull your hair out, mole people, Torgo, white guys with brains in their salad bowls, a world of apes, people in togas, a weird smelly guy, all that stuff.
Mike recently is now dealing with ponies, a crazy woman who thought he stole the Satellite of Love who became insane and mostly useless, a chimera, monsters, etc. etc.
But this world here? Well, it beats them all. Some sort of dimension that one has never been to before and hopefully would never been to before.
"Okay, so how does one get through this place?" Joel ask as he and the others look around. "This is like the wormhole thing Gypsy told me about."
"Right, let's hope Mike doesn't turn into a cute robot again." Gypsy comments, causing Tom and Crow to laugh in amusement.
"Hey, hey, stop that, Gypsy! At least everything is in the right timeline here. That wormhole trip was insane." Mike said, recalling that trip and not with so fond memories.
"Hmmm." Twilight said, looking around. "Whoever stole the elements should be around here, waiting for us..."
"And how will we even find the elements?" Spike ask in concern. "This place is like one big maze."
"Oh, easy!" Pinkie exclaims as she pulls out a map.
"Where did 'yew get 'dat?" Applejack ask Pinkie, surprised that her friend has got a map from who knows where.
"Oh, I got it on the last minute. Squee!"
"Give me that!" Mike snaps at Pinkie as he took the map from her. "Okay, the nearest element is nearby here."
"Yeah, let's get to it before the real villain shows up." Rainbow remarks as the group moves to the closet element.
"Knowing certain major asshole villains, the main villain will most likely do so." Tricia remarks, having a feeling that whoever stole the elements will most likely show up at any given time.
The others quickly found themselves in the first area... a good old-fashioned 1920s place as the others looked around.
"What is this?" Crow asked.
"Well, Crow, this place is what we call a place that is in the 'Roaring 20s'." Joel said as the others looked around. "See, at the time, World War I had just ended, with America on top and everyone celebrating the lives of many."
"Cool..." Pinkie smiled. "So, we're in a world where everything was cheap back then!"
"Pretty much so." Joel said as everyone looked around to see a note that read 'To the MSTers and ponies' on it.
"Our mysterious villain?" Twilight said as Tricia took the note and read it.
"Dear MSTers and ponies...
Thank you for taking on the challenge. Your first element, the Element of Magic, is right inside. Just order a small drink and you're in. I personally prefer a good old Shirley Temple myself. But be wary... the Depression soon looms near.
Signed..."
"And it's that same S with horns and tail." Tricia blinked.
Applejack blinked as she said, "So... just go inside then?"
"Indeed." Rainbow nodded as the ponies and MSTers went inside.
Inside was a lone bartender as he was swirling his mustache. "What can I get you all?"
"Okay, let's go through this..." Twilight said. "The mysterious villain prefers a Shirley Temple... so, order a small Shirley Temple... and the Depression... what is the Depression..."
Joel snapped his fingers. "The Great Depression! Sir, what year is this?"
"October 29th, 1929, I do believe." The bartender smiled. "Why do you ask."
"No reason." Twilight said as she sat down. "One small Shirley Temple, please."
"Coming right up..." The bartender smiled as he started mixing up the Shirley Temple.
Everyone then turned towards the radio as they heard the news. "...as the battle of the Anti-Christ and the Second Coming of God rages on, let us now go to the stock market! It seems prices are going pretty... pretty... wait a minute... something's wrong! It's dropping, dropping! It's going down the charts, folks! I can't believe it! The stock market is going down so low! I have never seen it so low!"
The bartender, hearing this, gave the Shirley Temple to Twilight as she drank it. "Oh, this is terrible, folks! What's that? I'm getting word that all of a sudden, some animation studios are feeling wormholes surrounding the area... as if the worlds that are drawn on paper may be coming to li-!"
"This is bad..." The bartender sighed as he switched off the radio.
"How's that?" Rarity asked.
"This bar used to be the cheapest thing... but if it's true about the stock market... we may have to raise the price..." The bartender sighed as he looked at the small crown he was holding. "This lucky charm has proven not to be so lucky after all... if you need me, I'll be in the corner... moping..."
The bartender then threw the crown right at Twilight as Twilight smiled. "Okay... Element of Magic... got!"
The next portal then opened up as the others looked at each other... then nodded as they walked right inside...
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The next place they entered in seemed to be covered in blood and guts as everyone was grossed out.
"Eww..." Gypsy shuddered.
"What is this place?" Tom Servo shuddered.
"I shudder to think about what could cause this mess of blood..." Rarity gagged.
Tricia then noticed another note as she picked it up. "Another note..."
"Dear MSTers and ponies...
Your next Element, the Element of Loyalty, is inside one of these blood and guts of people that I personally murdered. I know, I know, I'm a very busy demon-girl. But good luck finding the one... personally, I think it might be one of the Ms of the Bible... not Matthew, but... oh, if only you know it!
Signed..."
"Of course, S with horns and tail." Tricia read.
"Dig through the blood and guts of what?" Rarity gagged. "That is repulsive!"
"Well... the Element of Loyalty is my element... I better... find whoever this M is..." Rainbow sighed. "What the heck is a Bible?"
"Oh, it must be related to a religion!" Mike smiled. "I took a little Sunday school... and I believe I know the four people of the Bible... Matthew, Mark, Luke and John!"
"So, I have to find a person named 'Mark'?" Rainbow gagged. "Or at least, his guts?"
"Pretty much..." Pinkie said as Applejack nodded.
Rainbow groaned as she dived in. "Okay, watch me do this in ten seconds..."
Rainbow quickly started swimming around in the blood, looking for her element... until she found what seemed to be something stuck in a gut. Rainbow started pushing it all the way out... as the Element of Loyalty popped out.
"Hmmm... ten seconds exactly. Not bad." Joel said, looking at the watch.
"Well, there's the next portal..." Applejack said as she pointed over to the next one. "Shall we go?"
The others nodded as they just started to walk right inside.
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Over at the next level, the bots, humans and ponies walked right in a small city as they looked around.
"What's this one?" Joel asked as Tricia found the next note.
"Dear MSTers and ponies...
You did pretty good thus far... but let's see you push your limits. Your next Element, the Element of Generosity, is located in this nice building... at least, as nice as I remember it... I can still remember my friend Marcie still living in that nice building... but what do I know?
Signed..."
"S with horns and tail." Tricia sighed.
"Okay, that's simple then." Rarity smiled as she walked right in, the others following. "Hello?"
The others blinked as they saw an old woman sighing as she looked out the window. Rarity blinked. "Hello?"
"Such a nice day, isn't it?" The old woman sighed.
"Uh... yeah." Rainbow said.
"I still remember those days... she used to be my good friend... but fate had her be the Anti-Christ of Earth..." the old woman sighed, "If only she were a little nicer... but alas, she is the devil's daughter... and nobody wants to be friends with her... I do quite feel sorry for her, in a way... I want to find peace... and yet, no matter where I go, or what people she torments, I have to find a way to stop her..."
The ponies, bots and humans looked at each other.
"Uh... cool story, sister!" Tom smiled nervously.
"Yeah..." Rarity said nervously as she took her element. "I'm just going to take this and we're going to go, okay?"
"Be cautious of her. You may think she's simple and trapped... but she can strike you at any time." the old woman sighed. "She's grown quite accustomed to the religion we made up... and so have I..."
"Bye, crazy lady!" Crow said as the others walked right to the next portal.
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The next portal was a room full of monitors as the bots, ponies and humans walked right in. Spike, who had been keeping silent the whole time, then asked, "Is it me, or does some of it make little to no sense?"
"Who knows anymore..." Tricia said as she reached the next note.
"Dear MSTers and ponies...
I can see you made some good relations with an... I suppose you might say an 'old friend' since childhood... if I ever did get out of nine years old. Seriously, fuck my immortality! Though, it does come with an upside of killing people, so don't fuck it. Anyway, your next elements, Honesty and Kindness... are standing right in front of you. Feel free to take them as you wish... but be sure to take time to turn on the monitors and check them out!
Signed..."
"I'm not going to bother, it's the same signature..." Tricia sighed as Applejack and Fluttershy took their elements off their hands.
"Should we go ahead?" Mike asked.
"I guess we might as well..." Twilight said as she switched on the monitors.
On every monitor lied every world ever created... be it show creators' works and fanfiction writers' dimensions all around.
"Whoa..." Mike said as everyone started to look around.
"Hey, guys, look over at that one screen! Isn't that us?" Crow asked as Mike, Joel, Tom, Gypsy and Cambot gathered around on one monitor.
Indeed, on the monitor was another Mike, Tom, Crow, Joel, Gypsy and Cambot talking with each other as they were touring what seemed to be a studio.
"Hey, are we in the Warner Bros. studios?" Tom asked as he watched the others just laughing. "Cool!"
"Hmmm..." Mike paused as he watched the versions of them in the monitor talking with four kids. "Aren't those cartoon kids from that one show... it was some sort of history parody show..."
"Histeria?" Crow asked.
"Yeah, that was it!" Mike snapped his fingers. "Man, I missed that show..."
"Cool..." Twilight said as she was looking at the monitor, seeing a version of herself talking with a brown pony with a Triforce mark symbol on his flank. "I wonder who that stallion is..."
"Eh, probably none too important..." Pinkie shrugged. "But what is this anyway?"
"These must be all links to other dimensions... and other worlds..." Tricia said, pointing out the names. "Some are made by the same guy, others are new and make their own dimensional variants of worlds... even daring to crossover at one point."
"This is heavy..." Applejack said.
"You said it..." Fluttershy sighed as the next portal opened.
"Well, we better get going... our last element should be inside..." Pinkie said seriously as the others nodded, leaving outside as the monitors shut down.
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The last room just had a chair and a big monitor... but obviously, someone was sitting inside that big chair as the ponies, bots and humans walked in.
"So, you have indeed made it this far. I would applaud you, but let's face it, I'd have to make some effort." A female voice was heard.
"Cut the crap!" Tricia muttered. "Who are you, anyway?"
"Well, in case you didn't get the hints... I'm obviously, how did my friend Marcie put it, the Anti-Christ?" The female voice explained.
"If you're the Anti-Christ... does that mean Rapture is among all of us?" Tom asked. "What'll happen to us?"
"Oh relax. Rapture's not going to happen, at least, as long as Marcie still lives. I mean, the world ending in 2012 hasn't happened, so why do you think that's going to be an issue?" The female voice frowned.
"Just... just why exactly did you take our Elements, the ones we need to save Equestria and the robots' world from fusing?" Twilight asked.
"Like I explained, it was merely to test you... to see how far you'd go... unfortunately, you all... aren't quite the people that either myself OR Marcie would be looking for... pity, really. I was hoping to add a little more of my... I guess you can say army..." The female voice explained.
"A devilish army? Forget it!" Rainbow frowned.
"Hey, just because I'm treated as the 'Evil One' doesn't necessarily mean I am all that... though I can be... in this case... I'm not... I'm just simply going to... give you the last Element..." The female voice explained as she turned her chair around and tossed the Element of Laughter right to Pinkie, who caught it in her mouth.
"Wait... you're a little kid..." Twilight blinked. "Why do you have an adult voice?"
"It's... it's complicated." The little kid just shrugged. "Look, you got your elements, you can all leave at any time..."
"Wait, that's it? No battle or nothing?" Rainbow frowned.
"No battle. Let's face it, I don't really have the effort or time to make a battle for each of you... besides, I have my own worries to worry about as it is. I merely did the Fusing in the first place to test it out... but I can see there were quite a few glitches..."
"So wait, the reason the Fusing happened is because... you glitched our worlds?" Twilight blinked.
"It would be a good devilish thing of me to do, but it was honestly an accident on my end. Look, I got my own problems as it is... you passed the test, you got your Elements back... now I'm going to request one thing to you... mosey back to Equestria... use the Elements... and world balance should be restored..." The little girl explained.
"And... you're not going to kill us?" Mike asked.
"Oh, I'll find a way to kill you... just not today." The girl sighed. "Just be wary... once you exit out of my dimension... there's no way back in... unless you talk with Marcie, and even then... there's no way she'd remember..."
"Uh... right..." Mike said as the others started to go. "Say... who are you, anyway?"
"People call me many things... but you may personally call me... Solara." The little girl sighed as the portal opened up. "Now come on, out you all go... your worlds may explode any minute now."
"Oh... okay, then." Twilight nodded as she turned. "Come on, everyone!"
"See you later, Solara!" Crow called. "Hope everything works out!"
"I'm sure it will... I'm sure it will." Solara chuckled a bit as the others started running out.
As Solara closed the portal behind them, she sighed as she turned back to the screen, as she noticed the old woman up on the monitor. "Hello, Marcie. Saw the whole thing, huh?"
"Indeed." Marcie nodded. "I'm surprised you decided to just let them off, like that."
"Eh." Solara shrugged. "I've got my own worries at the moment... but hopefully they can fix up that error I made... Marc, you want to check and make sure they do?"
Marcie looked at her watch and gave a warm smile. "I do believe they are about to do just that..."
"Good." Solara sighed as she took a deep breath. "Well... I better get back to watching some TV... I heard that 'Defiance' is getting pretty hot..."
"Hmmm... may as well check it out..." Marcie smiled as the phone hung up.
Solara then pulled out a soda as she started to slurp from it. "Good luck to all of you out there... every single one of you..."
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Discord, Celestia and Luna were waiting as the portal opened up and the ponies, Spike, humans and robots popped out.
"So, did you find the main villain behind it?" Luna asked.
"Yeah... turns out, she didn't mean for the Fusing to happen, it was a technical error on her end." Rainbow said. "She was still pretty creepy and still pretty evil, though."
"Well, it doesn't matter... the sooner we cure the Fusing, the sooner we can forget that girl and never mention her again." Twilight said.
"Okay, what do we do now?" Mike asked.
"Let's get to the highest point in the castle." Celestia said. "We can cure the Fusing from there!"
Everyone nodded as they started to go up to the top of the castle.
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The group reach the top of the castle. The whole city begins to shake rapidly like mad.
"The Fusing is close to an end." Luna said seriously. "We must hurry."
The group reaches the top, gasping in alarm, seeing a big red ring coming closer. Tricia spoke, "Okay, so what shall we do?"
"Girls, put the Elements on. Hopefully they will do the rest from there." Celestia said to the Mane Six. The girls nodded as they put the Elements on themselves. "Now concentrate."
"Wait, hang on. When the Fusing is over, how do we know we will remember all this when it's over?" Mike ask the ponies in concern.
"Mike got a point for once." Tom Servo said, getting concerned. "I want this over as the last robot but what if we ended up forgetting you guys, huh?"
"I don't wanna forget my new friends! You guys are sooooo cute!" Crow sobs a bit.
"I know, I know. But what if we don't do it?" Twilight ask her friends seriously. "The Fusing will destroy what's left of what we know."
"Yeah, even if we do forget, we still remember y'all in our hearts." Applejack said in agreement.
"Besides, I wouldn't wanna forget you lunkheads even if I wanna." Rainbow remarks with a mischievous smirk.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Mike ask Rainbow, suspicious by that.
"Never mind the details. Let's hurry, my little ponies." Celestia advises the Mane Six.
Soon the Elements glows as the girls begin to rise up, glowing a bit. Everyone else watches in awe.
"Awwwwww...." The others said with a smiles at this.
I said 'awe'. A-W-E.
"Ooooooooh." The others said, correcting themselves.
That's better. The girls begins to glow a bit as Twilight's eyes. The whole area begins to glow as a wave begins going against the fusing one.
"Is it working?" Gypsy ask, wondering if the whole thing is working.
"We will see in a moment." Tricia said with a nod.
Both waves are fighting, trying to outdo one another. For a moment, it looks like the Fusing one is about to win, about to overpower the rest of the world....
But as luck would have it, the friendship one begins to overpower the Fusing...until it evaporates!
"All right, yahoo!" The robots cheers on wildly as the Mane Six's wave begins to continue its way.
"Oh yeah, those are my girls!" Spike exclaims proudly.
"And here comes the boom!" Joel comments. It's true, the friendship continues flashing all over the world...
And all glow white...