Twilight sat up. She had cried herself to sleep not knowing what to do. She smiled at her friends, simply lit up just because they were near her. They were all asleep, which was probably a good thing. She didn’t want them to have to see her do this.
“Bill.” she said, but not so loud that she woke anypony.
He appeared before her, twirling his cane around. “That’s my name, don’t wear it out!” he said. Twilight tried to block out his constant jokes.
He’s just like Discord. She thought. Always making a joke out of everything……Discord. She wondered where he was at the moment.
“I, um, I have considered what you’re offering me, and I have accepted.” she said slowly.
Bill smiled. Or, he would have if he had a mouth. “Oh, man! It was about time, too.”
“On one condition. Before I leave I want to speak with Discord.” Twilight ordered.
Bill shrugged “Alright, I guess. But I’m coming with you so you don’t say anything that could possibly ruin my plans. Oh, and you’re staying in the bubble. It’s not that I don’t trust you…” Bill thought for a moment. “Actually, it is that I don’t trust you.”
In a flash they were in Discord’s house in Chaosville. Discord sat on his couch he made to look like the one at Fluttershy’s cottage. He was reading a book upside-down because he said that the normal way hurt his eyes. He looked up at Bill and growled. “What do you want?” he spat.
“Whoa, calm down. Mrs. Magic here wants to speak with you.” Bill said, putting his hands up in the surrendering position. Discord was confused. Bill actually let her come see him? Bill Cipher? The talking Dorito? Something was weird.
“Discord.” Twilight said nervously. “Bill has given me an offer. If I go with him to his own dimension, then he will leave Equestria. I want you to tell the princesses that I’m sorry, and it was the only way. And… take care of the girls for me, alright?”
Discord felt like a semi-truck (if they had had those in Equestria) had crashed down on him. Twilight was leaving? It was not like they were as close as him and Fluttershy, but they were at least friends. If Twilight left, who would be there to bother him and give out useless facts all the time? And he was supposed to take care of the other Elements? Even though he and Rainbow Dash, and also Rarity, had made up, it was still a basic recipe for disaster. He could only nod.
Twilight gave a sad little smile. “Thank you.” she said.
The magic portal
Dipper could barley tell what was what. He had jumped into the portal after Mabel, followed by Soos. He was spinning faster and faster. He didn’t know if he’d ever make it out of here. He hit hard ground and groaned in pain. He felt as though he may have sprained a bone. Something was in his mouth. With a shaking hoof he pulled it out. He grimaced at the sight of a pile of soaking dirt.
Wait, something was off. Maybe just a little. He looked down and instead of seeing a twelve year old wimpy body he saw the lower half of an orange stallion with a blue vest over a red T shirt. He looked behind him and saw a brown tail and a little picture of a tree on his flank.
He started to panic, before realizing that he couldn’t see Mabel anywhere. “Mabel!” he cried.
Suddenly Dipper was crushed by a large object. He wondered if it usually rained heavy things until he remembered Soos.
“Oh, sorry dude.” Came Soos’s voice from above. He stepped off of the crushed boy and looked at his new body.
Dipper stood up, glad to be able to breathe again. A light pink pony with long brown hair and a hot pink sweater ran towards him. “You guys made it!” Mabel said happily. She had a shooting star on her flank.
“I almost died, but yes.” Dipper said, annoyed.
He glanced at Soos, who had taken the form of a large stallion with grey skin and his usual hat and question mark shirt. He also had a question mark on his flank.
“Dipper, look!” Mabel said. “Hooves! And butt tattoos!”
Dipper looked around at the town. It was destroyed and had all kinds of crazy things around. “Whoa, what happened to this place? It’s, like, all destroyed and stuff.” Soos said.
“Only one person could have pulled this off.” Dipper said. “Mabel, we’ve found Bill Cipher’s hideout.”
He looked up at five large bubbles with a pony sitting in each one. There was a rainbow one who was yelling at the orange one and the white one. There was a pink one with a flat mane that looked crazy. And then there was a little yellow one with a soft pink mane.
“I think we have to get them out.” Dipper said, studying each pony.
“I’m so on it!” Mabel said, pulling a trampoline out from somewhere. She moved in so that it was right under the bubbles. She jumped and went so high that her head almost touched them. She pulled out a sewing needle and popped the bubbles.
Each of the ponies fell until two of them realized they could fly. They grabbed the orange and white one, but the pink pony fell and fell and landed on the trampoline. She started to bounce slightly.
Suddenly the sky turned blue again and the craziness left. It looked normal again, with lots of ponies in the streets scratching their heads in confusion.
Mabel gasped at the sight of them. “Unicorns!” she cried.
The five ponies looked at the three curiously. The pink one’s hair popped up and suddenly it was completely tangled. “What the heck?” the rainbow one asked. “What just happened?”
“Mabel,” Dipper said. “How did you do that?”
Mabel smiled. “Never underestimate silliness, Dipper. I am a Congressman for the eighth and a half President, remember?”
“I’m happy that everything’s back to normal, but where’s Twilight?” the orange mare asked her friends. The yellow one looked at the ground, but it was plain she knew something.
Dipper turned to his friends. “Guys, we did it! We defeated Bill!”
A cold laugh rang out from behind them. Dipper whipped around and looked up at Bill Cipher, who was floating next to a large bubble containing a purple mare. “Hardly! So maybe you freed the Elements of Harmony. Big deal. I have what I want, anyway.” The five glared angrily at him.
“Give her back!” the rainbow one shouted.
“Everypony.” the imprisoned mare said. “This was my choice. There was nothing else I could do. Discord will take care of you.”
“See?” Bill asked. “I didn’t make her come. She chose to. You have very weak minds, ponies. That includes Pine Tree and Shooting Star. Also the big one here. Not sure what that’s about. Now if you’ll excuse me, ponies, I’m returning to my own dimension.”
“No!” a few of the five yelled. “You’re not leaving with Twilight!” the rainbow one yelled at him.
“Stop yelling out all the clichés. You do realize there’s nothing that you can do, right?”
All the ponies looked at each other. “I guess so.” the pink one said. “But the author is really running out of ideas here, so can we move along to where you leave with Twilight?”
Nobody said anything.
“I mean, she doesn’t want this scene to drag on forever. I don’t understand why she won’t say it herself, because she’s done it before. I guess she’s just tired of doing it or something, but I really have no idea. I think it’s interesting that she chose me to tell you. Is it because I’m the most random one? Well, besides Bill, anyway. But Bill can’t be the one to say this. He’s supposed to be leaving with Twilight. And I think I might be the only one that can actually communicate with the author, which is cool…”
During this bit of Pinkie’s rambling, Bill decided just to leave while he had the chance. He snapped his fingers and a portal opened up next to him. He nonchalantly floated through it, seeing that the ponies weren’t paying attention.
“…and that is why I don’t like hazel nuts.” Pinkie finished.
“Excuse me?” Dipper asked. The five ponies turned to look at him. “Uh, hi. I’m Dipper; this is my sister Mabel and our friend Soos. We’re from another dimension.”
The rainbow Pegasus eyed him suspiciously. “Not the same dimension that Bill Cipher is from, right?”
“No.” Dipper said. “Unfortunately for us he does visit quite often. We were originally coming to check out what this place was like, but I think we might have been the reason Bill took your friend. We’re really sorry.”
The orange mare sighed. “I suppose Twilight was gonna give into Bill anyway. Ah’m Applejack, by the way. This here is Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. Our friend, Twilight sparkle, was taken by Bill. I don’t know what in the world he did to her, but he’ll pay. Be sure of that.”
Fluttershy quickly started to explain. “Bill didn’t do anything to Twilight. He offered to leave only if she left with him. She wanted to keep us safe. We have to move on now, girls.”
The five of them looked sad, until Rainbow Dash spoke up. “Wait, she told Fluttershy this and not me? Why not? I would have given Bill my karate moves.” She acted out kicks and punches in the air. “A hiya, and a whaboom or a shibbitydoom, and I’d kick him.”
They giggled. “That’s quite the lovely interpretation of what karate sounds like, Rainbow.” Applejack commented. “It was, like, perfect!” Mabel added. Dipper could tell she was trying to help keep the ponies happy. Of course, it was working. It was almost impossible not to be happy when Mabel was around. Even when she was annoying him, part of Dipper was still kind of having fun.
“Dipper,” Mabel said, turning to him. “We can stay for a while longer, right? I mean, we don’t have to leave yet, do we?”
“Gosh, Mabel. I don’t know if the ponies will even want us here. And besides,” he spoke to her in a low voice. “They just lost their best friend. I don’t think it’s the best time right now.”
“Of course you can stay.” said Pinkie Pie, who had somehow bounced over without either of the twins noticing. “I’ve never met anypony from a different dimension. Only Twilight has.” Pinkie scratched her chin. "Actually, there was that one time when I went into a different dimension to save Rainbow Dash from three little girls with superpowers. They were really clingy."
“Yes!” Mabel cried, pumping her hoof in the air. “I’m gonna go get pictures with all of the ponies so that I’ll always remember this day, even though there’s no way I could forget.”
Dipper gasped as a though occurred to him. “Mabel, where’s Soos? He’s not here. He must have wondered off. Now we will have to stay longer.”
Dipper dragged Mabel alongside him as he walked by. Pinkie had been showing her Gummy, who Mabel thought was adorable. “I’ll be back, Gummy!” Mabel said. “I want to say bye before I leave.”
“Come on, Mabel.” Dipper urged. “We need to find Soos.”
“Dudes!” cried a voice from above. “Up here!”
The twins looked up and saw Soos stuck in a very high tree, but the surprising thing was that there were no branches lower than eight feet above the ground.
“How did he get up there?” Mabel mumbled in awe.
“I really don’t want to know.” Dipper grumbled.
THE END