Welcome to our Universes

by The Maelstrom

Ch 2 - New Dimension, New Bodies, Old Stories

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11:30 AM
March 18, 2012

Well, that's it, I've finally snapped, you're seein' things Hael.

I mean really, a talking Unicorn? That's Purple? The Unicorn part you can believe, but....it, I think it's a She judging by it's vocal pitch, just looks so...cartoonish. Like something little kids would watch...But, if this is all a hallucination, I could be dreaming?

Yea, like tha' one movie with Leo DeStudino, tha' had to do with hallucinations, right? Or was it dreams?
Bah, I'll bet myself a pair of Epaulets that I'll wake up, and find Doc Over-Easy with a Dire Root or something he used to drug me tea last night...Might as well get up now before they start drawin' on me face

Hael woke up expecting to be under a couple piles of papers and eyes going wobbly, but all he saw were the sterile blank white walls of the Hospital

Must 'ave brought me to the Clinic for some darn reason I don't know because I was passed out for 'alf a day

He went to put a hand to his head to try and stop the wobbling feeling, but instead of feeling his normal hand he felt something smooth. Looking at his hand, he saw not a hand, but a hoof.

Wide eyed, Hael started a low moan, before it elevated into a full blown panic attack about how he was now a "Horse! I'm a blasted brown horse for God's sake!"

Finally the sole other being in the hospital room spoke up, "QUIET!" Twilight yelled at the top of her lungs.

Hael stopped abruptly as he balanced himself on the edge of the bed frame, wide eyed and feared for his life as he bored holes into Twilight.

"Lay back down and tell me what you were doing in my library. OK?" She said calmly as Hael listened and slowly went back and sat down onto the bed facing the lavender unicorn.

Hael looked around the room nervously as he thought of what to say, until he looked right at the mare and asked kindly,
"First, I'm gonna need ya to send somethin' for me."

Nexus Meeting Room, Nexus Tower
11:40 AM
March 18, 2012

"Perhaps we should go in after him?" The three remaining Faction Leaders stood before the portal that would lead them to who knows where. More then an hour ago they picked who would be the 'lucky' Minifig to go to the new dimension, and Hael was the one who picked the shortest drinking straw.

"You know how we set this up, we gotta wait until he sends us a note or something saying it's safe." Dr. Overbuild responded as he took another sip of coffee.

Duke was the last to respond, "Well, what if he's in trouble, then what do we do?"

Overbuild pondered the thought, he was just about to respond when a piece of paper came through the portal and lightly rested on the floor, "Told you!" Overbuild responded with the tiniest amount of mock

Dr. Overbuild looked over the paper, stationary was more like it, and read it out loud:

'Doc, you were right you conniving son of a gun'

He looked over the note again and saw that the note was written in script writing, way too formally for even Hael to even try. He, and the other leaders, were about to dismiss this as a trick, when a second note, in the same stationary, came through:

'I'm sorry your friend Hael Storm can't write your note, he is currently in the Hospital after a faint panic attack, he wishes to see all three of you and I'm sorry if it looks like I'm tricking you'

Pranceton Plainsboro Hospital, Ponyville
12:00 PM
March 18, 2012

"So,where are you from?"

"I told ye already, I can't tell ye until me friends get here. Now can ye back up a bit, I likes me personal space..."

"Are you from Cloudsdale? You look like the kinda Pegasus to come from there"

"No, I've never even heard of Cloudsdale, lass. Now can ye back up?"

"What about-"
For the past 20 minutes after Twilight left Hael to send his note, he has been bombarded by questions from the fastest mare in town, Rainbow Dash. Sadly it was slowly grating on his nerves and he would have to start worrying about a second hospital bed for the mare if the other Pegasus in the room hadn't spoken up. Even if it was in the most unnoticeable voice she could make.

"Rainbow, if Mr. Storm doesn't want to answer, that's his opinion." Fluttershy said from the red plush chair she was sitting in, "I'm sure Twilight will be back with...who were your friends again, Mr. Storm?" She asked with the most sincere smile toward Hael.

Hael chuckled a bit to himself, "Thank ye, lass. As I may have said before my friends are-"

"Here is his room, Ms. Sparkle" Hael was interrupted by the unknown voice from outside the room, before a slightly more familiar one was heard

"Over here, everypony! Hael's just in here" Twilight said to somepony all three of the Pegasi couldn't figure out, well, Hael had a slight suspicion

The door to the hallway outside opened with a purple glow around it and Twilight poked her heard through, "I got you're friends here, Hael." She said with a smile, for what Hael couldn't see in Twilight's magical grip was a notepad and quill for the bombardment of info the lavender Unicorn knew was coming.

"Allrigh' lass, send 'em in. Bu' one at a time, I wanna see if spendin' all that time wit em can make them stand out."

"Certainly" was her reply as she retracted her head into the open door frame.

A few moments passed before the first of the leaders came into the room. This was a Pegasus mare, with a crimson red coat that looked to have small white swirls in her coat around her torso and back legs. Her mane and tail were a dark black, with one streak of her side-spiked mane vibrant purple. Her eyes were a similar shade of purple, and on her forelegs were a pair of fabrics, a lighter shade then her coat, that were tied around them.What completed her mysterious ensemble was her cutie-mark: A three pointed red whirlpool with white streaks surrounding a black circle with a half opened slanted eye.

"Ha!" Said Hael after he got a good look, "That one be Vanda, Ninja." He said finishing the sentence in a mocking tone

"Pirate," She replied as she went over to where the two other Pegasi were standing in the room

The next to come in was a light sky blue coated Earth pony stallion; With a slight muscular build and a wavy blonde mane and tail. He had one piece of armor on and that was a grey breastplate on his torso. The only thing else of interest was his cutie mark: a blue, stylized eagle with spike-like feathers on top of a yellow pentagon.

" Dukey, glad to see your equine persona is simplistic as your normal self," Hael joked to himself as Duke had to restrain himself from laughing too.
"Ok Doc!" Hael called," You're the only one left so come on already!"

"Aw, you ruined the whole fun!" Dr. Overbuild complained from outside before trotting in, saying a little "Ta daa!" sheepishly

Dr. Overbuild was a Orange Unicorn, he still had the white labcoat that draped around his body and legs, his mane and tail were snow white and sleek. On top of his head, covering most of his mane, was a metallic cap with a pair of large light blue tinted goggles over his eyes. His cutie mark was an orange and white Penrose triangle, although it was mostly covered by his labcoat. Dr. Overbuilds most interesting feature was his backpack, or saddlebags really, at first glance they looked like normal run-of-the-mill saddlebags. Then you would look at them again and notice the two robotic arms coming from each saddlebag. Dr. Overbuild was clearly enjoyed that his backpack crossed over.

"Great job, Doc. Ever heard of 'Inconspicuous'?" Hael deadpanned as he noticed the odd size and look of Overbuilds Robotic Arms

"Simple solution, my dear Watson" Dr. Overbuild replied as a light blue aura forms around his Horn and the arms, before the Arms retracted into the saddlebags, making it look as if they never existed in the first place.

"Unicorn Magic, I've quickly discovered that a Telekinesis spell works moderately like how we use our Imaginations back home." Overbuild stated as the blue aura moved around the saddlebags and levitated them to an empty chair, "And sadly, I'm the only one capable of doing so here..." He said a bit nervously as Hael became surprised.

"What! That be ridiculous! Let me try." Hael said as he got out of the hospital bed and moved over to a lamp. Squinting his eyes and focusing on the lamp Hael tried as best he could to make the light move. But only strained himself, giving him a massive headache.

"He warned ya." Duke commented at Hael's attempt

As Hael tends to his pulsating head, Twilight went over to Dr. Overbuild who was testing out his new-found Magical ability with the lamp

"Ok, Doc. Now that I've brought you to the Hospital, can you pleeeeaase tell me where you four are from, now?" She pleaded to the Orange Unicorn

Overbuild paused, and almost lost his magical grip on the lamp, "Um, well...it, er..." He faltered

"What Doc be trying ta say is: It be a mite complicated and outlandish" Hael responded as he regained his thinking

"And why would that be? Not to brag or anything, but we've dealt with some pretty outlandish things ourselves" Rainbow said as she stared at one of her hoofs as she picked it up to look at it.

"Well we really should, erm, meet with, um, some one of, well, higher importance first, to get our bearings straight..." Doc said nervously

"What, like an audience with the Princess?" Twilight questioned as Duke's Eyes lit up at the sound of Royalty,

"Your world is under a Monarchy?" He asked with a slightly higher pitched voice then his normal, as he slowly got closer to Twilight

"Well, technically yes, but the Princesses Celestia and Luna have been in power for at least two thousand years..." She replied, slowly backing away from the exited Duke

"Immortal Princesses, interesting" Overbuild remarked, "How soon can we send for a request?"

"Well as soon as we can get back to the library, I can write up a letter" The lavender Unicorn replied

"Wellthenwemusntkeeproyaltywaiting,nowcanwe?" Duke said almost madman-ish as he pushed everypony out of the room, the hospital, and toward the library

Elemental Reads Library, Ponyville
12:15 PM
March 18, 2012

The Faction Leaders discussed how they were to tell the fine mares, and one Immortal and possibly very strict Princess (Added Duke), about their world, who they are, and why they've come here. Ultimately they decided on a play, as they thought it best represented their nature.

With all six of Twilight's Friends here, the short preparations were made: Twilight sent out a letter to the Princess stating that she has visitors and they request to meet her; Vanda went to Rarity, one of Twilight's Friends who she was told can help with costumes, to request a black Top hat, cape and some fake sideburns. Rarity, although confused at first, happily obliged as she got the costume; and Pinkie brought a cart fully of Popcorn for the show.

Within a few minutes, the show was set, everypony of Twilight's friends and Princess Celestia was in the Library as the four Minifigs-turned-Ponies stood infront of the seven of them, ready to begin

Makeshift Stage, Elemental Reads Library, Ponyville
12:21 PM
March 18, 2012

"I'm sure all of you are wondering who we are, where we come from, and why we are here" Dr. Overbuild started as he was responded with nods of 'Yes'. "Well, we'll tell you: We aren't from here. No, not from the Town of Ponyville or Equestria, or even your Planet. We hail from another Universe, quite different yet similar to this one."

His horn glowed a light blue as a similar glow appeared over many of the books on the shelves around the Library, Twilight cringed a bit as they were taken off as the Doctor continued, "I'll be the first to say, 'We come in Peace' and we do. We simply came to this Universe not by choice, that ominous dark cloud in the corner over there," He continued as he pointed a hoof toward the portal, "Is how we came here, I suspect that during a simultaneous magical impute from both Universes is what connect us together, leading to our explanation here this very moment."

Dr. Overbuild turned to the Princess before bowing slightly, "My name is Dr. Albert E. Overbuild, eccentric leader of the Assembly Faction of the Nexus Force," He got up before gesturing to the other Leaders, "My friends: The Pirate is Hael Storm, Leader of The Venture League Faction, The Knight is Duke Exeter, Leader of the Sentinel Faction, and the Ninja is Vanda Darkflame, Leader of the Paradox Faction."

The Pair of Curtains dropped magically as all of the blinds on the windows to the Library shut, "And now, we would like to entertain you by telling the Story of our Universe, a play in one Act." Dr. Overbuild stated as he retreated behind the darkened curtains as they started the story.

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Our Story starts years ago, when in our Universe, our use of our...Magical Ability to use our Imagination to build awe inspiring structures and beautiful Worlds, was limited beyond belief. We could only use Imaginations to think up vague ideas, but we had to build them by hand. But, we did know of the Creators of our Universe, the First Builders were able use their Imaginations much like what I just said, to create as well as to think.

A few years ago, a powerful tycoon know as Baron Typhonus wanted to find the last remnant of the First Builders, (As Vanda dressed in the Costume Rarity gave her walks on stage) The Imagination Nexus, the last of it's kind, capable of giving limitless Imaginative Power to any Minifig. Baron needed help though, so he went to locate his old colleague, Me. ( Vanda approaches Overbuild as they silently converse for a second before Dr. Overbuild turned back to the audience)

I knew quite a bit about the culture and knowledge the First Builders had. So naturally I knew the location of an ancient structure left by them that can lead to the the Imagination Nexus. Problem is, I only knew of the name of the planet, Gallant 5, not many Minifig's knew of the planets location. Although there was one Minifig we knew that knew of it's location: The Legendary Duke Exeter. Another problem, Duke was always on the move with his own chivalrous missions, we needed someone who knew of Duke's whereabouts and who had a ship. Now, My homeworld isn't really a big port of ships coming and going, so we were pretty lucky when the only ship docked was that of the famous Space Pirate, Hael Storm

After a bit of persuasion,( "I was promised a manor by the Baron!" Hael commented) Hael revealed to us Duke's location and the three of us rushed over to him in Hael's ship, The Venture Koi.

After a while of space travel, we finally reached Duke's location, and after hunting him down in fish suits("Don't ask, it's not a pleasant memory for any of us") And after more persuasion, we found ourselves at the legendary planet of Gallant 5. Now on that planet was a shrine to the First Builders and inside was something amazing, we nicknamed it: The Imagimeter, it's a wondrous device that was able to give us readings on the levels of Imagination in a certain sector.

So, now using this invaluable device, we set off to find the Imagination Nexus. We went to sector to sector, activating the device to find anything, Long story short: We didn't. In fact, after a while we didn't hear from the Baron at all, he just locked himself in his quarters and kept notes on our journey in a Radio Diary. We found out later that he was actually starting to go a little coo-coo about how Imagination would be 'ruled', deep stuff if you look into it.

Now, after weeks of searching, we finally decided on looking at one last area before we head back to our home planets. We managed to coax Baron out of his room to witness the last time we would use the Imagimeter, we put the three pieces together, activated it. It swerved a bit before doing something it hasn't done before: It pointed straight at a planet and a blue light shot out from it. We saw it must of bounced off of or activated something down on the planet it pointed at (" And might I add that planet was entirely cubed shape?), because a much larger blue light shot from the planets surface far into space.

Realization hit us us as we figured out that we found the last Imagination Nexus! On the fabled planet named Crux! Without hesitation, we boarded a small docking pod and glided down to the planets surface and found the small structure built by the First Builders to contain the Nexus. I managed to tell the other three that just by being near the Nexus would give you the power to imagine anything at all.

"So, what we did was just that! I thought up a magnificent Castle much better then my current in every way" Duke commented

"I imagined a Beautiful Queen of the Sea ship that was much more classy then any Pirate could 'ope fer!" Duke contributed

And I myself thought of something much different: what I thought up was a small puppy that reminded me of youthful times, and you know what happened? That very puppy jumped out of the Nexus, very much alive and well; giving us confirmation that Imagination is a very powerful force

However...Baron was still a bit crazy from the whole space travel thing and he thought of something too, albeit more chaotic in thought. What he imagined was a horrible spider creature to rule over his new rule of 'Limited Imagination' and he forced the Spider creature to come alive. Needless to say we were all terrified! It even destroyed my puppy with just a flick of one of those disgusting legs of its.

However, Baron never thought this through and thought he could control this new chaos. Yet he couldn't be more wrong: What happened was before the Spider was able to destroy Me, Duke, and Hael. It changed it's mind and went after Baron. Dragging him into the Nexus, which corrupted the whole thing! It transformed into a monstrous force that could destroy anything.

What ensued was a tiring battle of the three of us against this new threat for our lives. I managed to cap off the Nexus from the ground; But the mounting pressure from the force made the entire planet exploded into countless chunks of itself.

The three of us found ourselves on one particularly large chunk, we all thought our trip was in vain and all we did was doom our Universe. That is, until we found the small bricks and pieces of that adorable little Puppy, and we found it! Well to be precise, we found a small crystal with the pieces of the dog, and when I picked up the crystal, I couldn't help but think of that puppy and well, to all of our surprise, when I touched the Crystal, the Puppy was built back together again!

Surprised and knowing of what we must do, we used that crystal, the very last piece of the Imagination Nexus, to form a new one, pure and free of any chaos, we also started a force to help defend the Nexus and our Universe from this new threat, which we called The Maelstrom.

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"And there you have it, your Majesty." Dr. Overbuild finished the play as he bowed to the audience of seven .

Princess Celestia giggle a bit before responding, "While your presentation was enjoyable, you could of just sent me a screenplay"

Comments

[MrWhatnow]

nice ending
I'm liking where this is going but I think you should've shown more time with the nexus team talking to the mane 6.

[The Maelstrom]

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Oh don't worry, They'll be plenty of that in the future....

[Tri-PonyTrouble]

NEED MOAR NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Tri-PonyTrouble]

It's been awhile since this updated, when do you estimate the next chapter will be out?

[The Maelstrom]

2219553
I'll be honest, it's whenever this horrid ADHD/Writer's block decides to move out of my mind

[Tri-PonyTrouble]

2222841
Ah. I have that problem too, the only problem is it's so bad for me that I can't even write my research papers at school. Not good for my grade.