Everything was gone. Nothing but darkness no matter where Frisk went. But what happened? What happened to all of her friends? The answer, as painful as it was, was simple: they were all killed. Frisk had set a happy ending for her and her friends… but she threw it all away by resetting everything. Now that she finished the other route… the genocide route, there was no way to go back. All she could do was wander in darkness… until suddenly, she heard a voice. A very familiar terrifying voice she wanted to get away from.
“Interesting.” The voice said. “You want to go back. You want to go back to the world you destroyed. It was you who pushed everything to its edge. It was you who led the world to its destruction. But you cannot accept it. You think you are above consequences?”
“N-no I’m not… it really was my fault…” Frisk stammered.
“Then what are you looking for?” the voice asked before a brief pause. “Perhaps we can reach a compromise. You still have something I want. Give it to me, and I will bring this world back.”
At first Frisk had no idea what the voice was talking about, but she just nodded and said “Alright.”
“Then it is agreed.” The voice responded again. “You will give me your SOUL.”
Hearing this just made her go into complete shock but at the same time she sighed in defeat. “If it’s the only way back… then……….” Just before Frisk reached an agreement however, a bright light shined in front of her. “Huh…?” The light kept getting brighter and brighter until finally the light died down and all that was seen was an open field. Nothing like the darkness she was trapped in. “What? How did I…?” Frisk asked herself looking around. She started walking around until she found a path that seemed to lead to a town. She decided to follow the path hoping there would be answers to what’s going on. As she got close to the nearby town, she noticed a sign before it. “Ponyville…?” Weird name. She got closer to the town and as soon as she was in sight of the other ponies, all Frisk would get would be confused or disturbed looks. “Literally a town full of ponies… well Snowdin was a town full of dogs.” Frisk then stopped and sighed. “Why did I have to reset everything? Everyone was happy… I had a mom who loved me…”
Suddenly as she was lost in thought, she was bumped into by a pink pony with balloons covering her face. “Oh! I’m so sorry!” The pink pony exclaimed. “I’ve got so many balloons in front of me, I’m practically blind!”
“Don’t worry, I shouldn’t have been standing there.” Frisk sighed.
…
Suddenly the pink pony peaked her head out of the balloons to see who she bumped into. “Uh… hello.” the pink pony just screamed and zoomed off in an unnatural speed away from the human. “Well that’s reassuring…” Frisk sighed again as she kept walking through town. most of the residents actually ran back in their homes after seeing the pink pony react like that. “Great… fantastic…”
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Elsewhere in a crystal-like castle nearby, there were six other ponies sitting in chairs around a big table. All of them doing their own thing. “What’s taking Pinkie Pie so long?” The rainbow maned pony asked the others. “All she was supposed to do was get a bunch of balloons for Starlight’s party.”
“Maybe she got held up.” The purple alicorn answered. “After all, a lot of things tend to happen with her.”
“She literally only had to go and get balloons from Sugarcube Corner! What could possibly happen!?”
Suddenly as if on cue, Pinkie Pie burst through the door running in. “GIRLS!!”
“Pinkie Pie? What happened?” Twilight asked.
“And where are the balloons??” Rainbow asked getting a shove from Applejack. “What?”
“Girls! I saw a weird thing through ponyville!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“What do you mean a weird thing?” Fluttershy asked tilting her head.
“Well… it kind of looked like those things Twilight told us about from that other world, but this thing looked a lot smaller than how Twilight told us!” Pinkie said.
“Did it look dangerous…?” Fluttershy asked.
“Not really. It kind of looked confused.” Pinkie shrugged.
“And you said it was smaller…” Twilight groaned holding her hoof to her face.
“Uh-huh.” Pinkie nodded.
“Pinkie!” Twilight exclaimed. “That could’ve been a little kid! The same age as a filly!”
“Oops…” Pinkie blushed. “Eheheh... My bad.”
“Do you think we should go find… it?” Fluttershy suggested not knowing the gender of the being yet.
“It would be best. After all it must be confusing being in a different world with an entirely different species that inhabit it.” Twilight said teleporting next to the door. “Come on Pinkie, you’re coming with me. I want you to show me where you found this being.” Pinkie nodded and hopped out the door leading the way.
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Frisk just groaned feeling ignored by everyone in town. Being this alone just reminded the human of the mistakes she did in the underground; causing everyone there to flee and hide from her. “I haven’t even been here for 10 minutes, and everyone is afraid of me.” Frisk said to herself continuing on. She was right however. Not a single pony showed their face or came out of their homes.
“Hello?” Said a voice from behind her. Frisk quickly looked behind her and tilted her head as the site of the purple alicorn standing before her. “Is this the one Pinkie?”
“Yup!” Pinkie nodded.
Twilight sighed stepping forward. “Hello, I’m sorry about the confusion earlier… it’s just that other than myself, nopony has ever seen a human.”
“You’re the pink pony that ran away from me earlier.” Frisk mused a bit.
“Uh…” Pinkie blushed. “Sorry?”
“It's fine I guess. Except everyone is afraid of me now before I even got to say a word to them.”
“Why don't you come back with us to the castle and explain everything that happened, okay?” Twilight asked beckoning Frisk to follow. Frisk nodded and walked behind Twilight while Pinkie Pie followed behind Frisk.
“I'm Pinkie Pie by the way… What's your name?” Pinkie asked trying to make up for earlier.
“My name’s Frisk.” Frisk answered.
“Frisk… That's a nice name!” Pinkie beamed. “Where are you from Frisk?” Frisk just stayed silent for that question. “Something wrong?”
“Pinkie!” Twilight spoke out. “Maybe it isn't the best time to be asking her these questions. For all we know, she probably has questions for us too.”
Pinkie Pie huffed. “Alright…”
After a long silent walk, the three soon made it to the door to the castle. “And we’re here.” Twilight smiled opening the doors. “Keep following me please.” As Frisk followed however, she stopped in place for a moment… She noticed something was off. “Something wrong Frisk?” Frisk however wasn't exactly sure herself. For she had noticed that her LOVE that was once at 20, was back down to 1. She wasn't sure if this was a good thing or a bad sign of something yet to come. “Frisk…?” Twilight asked again.
“Huh? Oh sorry!” Frisk said snapping out of it, following again.
“What was that about?” Twilight asked with a worried tone.
“Nothing… It's not important.”
“Are you sure?” Twilight asked again. Frisk just nodded in response. “Alright then… Let's keep going.” After another awkwardly silent walk, the three approached another door. Twilight being the one to open both doors with her magic. “We’re back everyone.”
Rainbow Dash was going to be the first to respond, however she stopped right after seeing the human being in between Pinkie and Twilight. “Is…. That what Pinkie saw?”
“Uh… Hi everyone.” Frisk answered staying behind Twilight.
The four other ponies in the room just looked dumbfounded at the human not really sure what to think. “Alright, I'm gonna be the first to say it: how in the hay did she get here in the first place?” Applejack asked bluntly.
Frisk sighed and told everyone about herself and her journey she was on. However she had only mentioned the journey before she reset everything, afraid of how they would react if they knew she was half responsible for everyone she originally met being dead. Yes she only mentioned the good route she chose. “After that, one day there was just this blinding light and I somehow ended up in an open field here.”
Everypony just looked at Frisk with shock and looked sorry for her. “To think that you were pulled away from all that… What reason could there possibly be?” Rarity asked.
“I have no idea…” Frisk lied looking down.
“Well whatever the reason is, maybe Princess Celestia can help us figure it out. We’ll all go and see her as soon as we can.”