This story is a sequel to The Chase
Reading The Chase is helpful but not required! This is a stand alone adventure.
Four foals find themselves without adult supervision quite suddenly.
In fact, they are all alone in the world. No adults, no other foals, just themselves.
And stuffed animals that don't quite seem right...
Toodles, motherfucker.
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So... she's Paul in disguise visiting Equestria?
Paul, in disguise, visiting Silent Hill Ponyville.
LET THE STRANGEFUN TIMES BEGIN!
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Lightning in this case.
On one side, we have some manner of horrific demonic incursion or parallel dimension.
On the other, we have the Cake twins and two fillies raised by Bucky's tribe.
Yeah, those demons won't know what hit them. I look forward to more.
Cute as hell with a dark undertone
God what have you done to my emotions, I don't whether to be scared or die form the adorableness.
When that doll appeared, all I could think about was this scary thing.
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Well, that will replace the Richard Nixon with a Sybian in my nightmares.
5148595 Well it seems fitting since you are the one that made me think about those toys.
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I think I'm getting the fear.
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KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!
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I agree!
The tribes learning to work together in foal format. I like!
Pound and Pumpkin. Just Pound and Pumpkin.
5148622 Be careful with that fire. Those thing can multiply if they sustain too much damage in a short period of time. The best way to kill them is with cuteness, like this.
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Unfortunately, no earth pony foals.
I do feel bad about it, but one just wasn't convenient for story purposes.
5148605 There is only one known cure for that. The link I'm sending you contains the cure. CLICK HERE!
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Urk! **clutches chest**
5148664 That's a lot of cuteness you got yourself there.
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T'is the season to be scared shitless.
Ok, seriously. Stop making Harper so damn adorable.
How can you not contract diabetes from that?!
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Given Harper's knack for lightning, the word "zap" is no empty threat.
See, where most mothers and parents train their unicorn foals to hold back and magic train their foals (think potty training) Lyra and Bucky actively encourage regular zapping from little Harper, an insane parenting move by all accounts.
Come on Harper... make zap for daddy.
Mama...
Fine, make zap for mama.
Okay.... ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
I should have specified a target. Ouch.
5148720 Judging from that doll and the not kitty, I can tell zap isn't an empty threat. Next thing you know, she's gonna teach herself a chain lightning spell.
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The current spell she is using is called, amusingly enough, Zap. It is a basic lightning spell that any unicorn can cast, lightning attuned or not. Harper is lightning attuned. So her Zap spell is premium strength.
She won't physically be able to cast chain lightning for a while.
Later... she will get lessons from her mother and her Godmother. The Electric Death.
5148789 The Electric Death and the Tesla Toddler.
Wait. Pumpkin and Pound are like... maybe a year and a half old max? Who's been teaching them to call each other brutes and snobs?
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And Then Harper becomes a Goddess of Lightning Second only to Godmother Luna.
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Other foals. Like Peekaboo and Harper... or other foals on other playdates.
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The Cakes should be more careful about who they let their foals associate with. The Bitters foals are a bad influence.
5148789 as I recall Zap can only be learned if one begins the hero vocation and it's a plain in the flank to be able to try the vocation
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I wouldn't be correcting your stuff if I didn't like it, but you know that already.
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Well... shit. Time to burn Ponyville down then.
The sky is the color of a television tuned to a dead channel, and our heroes would be far too young to understand that reference even if they were on Earth.
In any case, you've woven an incredible sense of crushing terror and hopelessness... and yet these four stand defiant to the end. I eagerly look forward to the conclusion.
Is it kinda messed up that this is dark and I still find myself laughing?
Crossing into an alternate universe, seeing strange and bizzare things, and facing unknown odds?
Yep, it's official. Somepony's bucked.
Well, now that is out of the way. I like the concept here, and I like the story. It's a toss back to 'The Midnight Hour'. A horror story that is fairly safe for almost every age.
here's hoping to see more.
and then... she woke up.
Kinda curious how quickly foals grow in your ponyverse, Kudz.
Neat story! Looking forward to the finale!
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'It will have Harper Heartstrings, Peekaboo, and Pumpkin along with Pound Cake. Three of the foals are yearlings, give or take a bit. '
' Peekaboo is a yearling, and Harper is a half a year old'
5044552 - relevant too.
(of Peekaboo six months or so 'ago').
Ah. Peekaboo doesn't merely use an aversion spell, she slips along an axis perpendicular to the usual three. And when she translates too far...
I can't help but think that one day, she'll be coming back to the Other Other. And she'll be bringing Luna.
A fantastic bit of worldbuilding. Thank you for it.
Short, sweet, creepy, heartwarming... My feelings are all over the place.
Thank you for this experience.
Scorch is best Lord of Tartarus.
And she's only a foal now. Her power can only become stronger... That is going to be interesting.
Granted, she had a tool, the mirror.
Did she slip out of a dimension and the mirror acted as a portal? Or were her powers 'reflected' and doubled?
*scrolls through optics chapter in physics book*
Is the Other Other always bearing resemblance to the worlds it's connecting? Or does it form after the mind of the visitor, so that fear can be created more effensively?
I can't wait seeing Peekaboo and Auntie Disco going here again.
Someone gained the town's trust.
Equi(ne)vocalness, hello.
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Psst, certain Earth ponies sort of slip through this space as well, but only partially exist here as they pop through reality. They're never in danger, but they are aware of the ghosties and the grosslies, and to giggle at them if they follow them.
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Other Others exist between any two connecting realities. Like Discord explained, they are the walls between two rooms. They are always there and are the border where one reality ends and another begins. There are infinite Other Others, and countless other realities, and for example, if the Chase Verse was a four sided room, there would be four available walls making up the room, which means four accessable Other Others.
Earth ponies pop in out of the Other Other partially when they blink travel, like does, using a dash of chaos magic. Lots of things wind up here, like cockroaches and vermin nesting inside of walls. Only in the Other Other, there are horrible monsters and boogey creatures.
This is the cutest dark story I've seen here.
You said some earth ponies can step through it - is Peekaboo the first pegasus that can access the Other Other on her own?
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So, if they had gone further into the world, they would have gotten a taste of the other world that this other other was a connection hollowness to, too?
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The first solar pegasus. Occasionally, lunar pegasi wind up here by accident when shadow winking over long distances.
Peekaboo is actually a symptom of a wider problem, and it is the reason why Princess Celestia had to manifest an embodiment of magic.
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No. Because they belong in one dimension. They just got caught in the walls. Unless you have very powerful magic, slipping into the dimension next door is very difficult.
Sombra figured it out, Star Swirl managed to do it, Discord does it often, but these are the rare cases of it happening.
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Ah, ok. Everything clear now.
Thanks for your time.
Don't forget Alt-Bucky.
5156698 Holy snap and a half, that's Pinkie!
Also, what if the room is a circle or sphere? No sides to speak of, technically.
So...CMC2?
So... Peekaboo has the magic to transport multiple ponies to another dimension?...
This is canon right? Cool...
And discord, I thought he lost his magic... Wait, my memory got turned to poop again.
What exactly happened to discord?
And because this story is from the future, we're gonna get more uncle scorch!
I like him, yay!!