Chapter XLVI: Rift
"This is bucking boring, why can't I fly?" Rainbow whined, though this wasn't the first time.
"Cause I need you to be fully rested, in case you have to fly like crazy," I grumbled as I rubbed a hoof against my forehead, feeling a headache building up. After we left the room, we took a quick look at the dimensional portal that was forming to see that it hadn't established itself, yet. This gave us time to get on the chariots before we flew off with Luna and Celestia, at my suggestion to preserve their energy, in their own chariots as well.
While I was still seated next to Pinkie, Rainbow was situated next to me, due to my demands that she remained seated and rested as well for whatever can occur. This however led to Rainbow whining about wanting to fly, only for me to shoot it down every time. Sometimes though I had threatened to have Twilight or one of the princesses hold her with their magic, while I, myself, was tempted to keep her mouth shut with my own magic.
"Oh come on Aether, what can go wrong with the princesses with us?"
"Want me to give you a list that is longer than any Twilight has ever made?"
"Wow! That's a lot of things that can go wrong!" Pinkie said.
"Oh come on, you're just saying that," Rainbow countered.
I just stared at her for a moment, before blinking as I said, "No, I can really come up with a list longer than the ones Twilight comes up with. Though if you want the reasons now, I could always rattle them off till we arrive at the forest." This finally caused Rainbow to just grumble to herself, to the much needed relief for my head.
It wasn't long before we were right above the forest edge, as we were able to get a better view of the swirling vortex that could soon turn into a portal. At this point, Celestia positioned herself in the middle of the group as she declared, "Alright my little ponies, we will land here and await for the portal to form. Aether can give me any further information needed, but Luna and I wi—" before she was interrupted as a wave of energy pulsed out of the vortex. Everypony screamed as it sent the chariots flying. The Elements were able to hang onto the chariots, with the pegasi bearers able to reorient the carts. However, due to my unfamiliarity with them... I was sent flying from my chariot.
"Aether!" Pinkie screamed as I plummeted to my doom, before abruptly landing on something. Turning over, I saw that Celestia had caught me on her back, with the staff bearing the Maralus core in her magic.
"Aether, are you alright?" Celestia asked as she turned to look at me with concern on her face, while from afar I could hear Pinkie let out a sigh of relief.
"I'm fine Prin—" I started before my eyes drifted to the vortex to catch a sight that left me dumbstruck. Following my gaze, Celestia looked along with the other ponies to see that the portal had finished forming. However, instead of having a circular shape, the portal was deformed to where it looked like some misshapen blotch in the sky. To complicate things further, we all could feel a suction force, as well as see branches and a few small trees being sucked into the portal.
"Just bucking great, we got an unstable portal! It’s almost like a tear in the dimensional barrier! This is going to get messy! Princess Celestia, we need to get there and disrupt the portal now!" I yelled.
"After we get you back to the chariots whe—" Celestia said, interrupted by a monstrous roar, echoing out of the portal.
Eyes wide with horror, I grabbed Celestia's head, bringing her face right next to mine as I yelled, "No time! Just go before whatever made that roar comes through and kills us all!"
Seeing how shocked I was, Celestia replied, "Hang on," before she whipped her head around. I wrapped my forelegs around her neck as my hooves gripped onto her coat. With a mighty flap, Celestia sent us rocketing towards the portal. This surprised everypony else but Luna recovered quickly, barking an order to the rest of the ponies before flying to catch up with us.
We only crossed a short distance before the portal released another burst of energy; however this time, energy wasn't the only thing being sent out from the tear. For before our very eyes, not only the materials that were drawn into the portal were expelled, but various debris ranging from misshapen hunks of metal, to chunks of land, and even asteroids were sent crashing into Equestria’s surface. This stunned the princesses at first before they snapped back to reality as they weaved through the debris, occasionally blasting away a fast moving asteroid.
"Is this suppose to happen with a dimensional portal?" Celestia asked as she ducked underneath what looked to be part of some ancient building.
"No, this portal is unstable, so... expect anything!" I screamed as a tree flew over our heads. "Okay, I hate flying now!"
As we got closer to the portal, it released another burst of energy, knocking the princesses back as the tear deforms even more. This time the deformation caused the portal to develop some kind of gravitational pull as debris now orbited around the opening, creating new obstacles. Even the natural landscape was being ripped apart by the portal, where the broken pieces joined the debris in the sky.
"This portal is truly creating chaos that Discord would surely enjoy," Luna commented as she erected a barrier to avoid being pelted by a barrage of rocks.
"Just focus on closing the portal before something dangerous comes through! We're lucky that only debris have came through, so let's keep it that way!" I hollered to which Celestia responded with a short nod as she flew over some giant hunk of metal. We continued on our way, getting closer to the tear as more and more projectiles are released from within it and torn from the ground. Though the princess were doing an excellent job of dodging the hazards that came at us, it only delayed us as more and more debris entered the junk that is already revolving around the tear.
"Enough of this! We will create a path to the portal with our magic!" Luna yelled in frustration as she created some kind of magical barrier that shaped like a tunnel leading straight to the portal. However I knew better as I watched the barrier quickly deformed before breaking into pieces. "What trickery is this?"
"We're dealing with a deformed portal that has its own... pull. It's going to distort any large barrier you make! We just have to push on through, there is no other way!"
Grunting by the looks of it, Luna fired a beam of magic at an incoming boulder to vent out her frustration, reducing it to dust. Meanwhile Celestia had grabbed a sheet of metal with her own magic, using it as an improvised shield as she pushed through a shower of metallic shards. We soon reached the revolving barrier of junk, to which Luna charged some magic into her horn before firing off a burst. The burst exploded on contact with the debris field, creating a hole in the revolving junkyard.
"Oh... buck..." I whimpered as I saw that instead of releasing another wave of debris, the tear suffered a massive deformation before it released a massive asteroid. I was about to make some prayers to whatever being would hear them when I saw both Luna and Celestia fire a beam of magic onto the asteroid, causing it to shatter into pieces that flew past us.
"No need to be afraid my little pony," Celestia said in a tone that I knew was teasing.
"Yeah yeah, don't be scared when you're on a pony that can move the sun. But I have a proposal, instead of teasing the doubting pony... Disrupt that portal before something bigger comes out!" I yelled while resisting the temptation to smack the back of Celestia's head.
The shattering of the asteroid helped to break up the debris field to allow us in, at which we were finally close enough to the portal to act. As Celestia started to recreate the vibration that I showed her earlier, Luna used her magic to shield us from anything that came our way. Thankfully Celestia operated well under pressure, generating the right frequency and soon poured magic into the core till she produced a small rift.
"You haven't mention the next st—" Celestia started to say till I interrupted her.
"Just shove the bucking rift into the portal already!" I yelled as I felt like one of my veins about to burst. "Toss the staff into the portal, or something. Just end it already!" Heeding my word, Celestia started to move the staff towards the tear, but before the two distortions of space could touch a disfigured tentacle came out of the portal. "Buck! We need to sen—" I screamed before I saw an asteroid surrounded with a dark blue aura crashed into the monstrosity, sending it back into the tear as we heard a pained howl coming from the portal.
Turning my head to Luna, I saw her give me a smile that I returned with one of my own. Nodding to her sister, Celestia then returned her attention to the portal as she threw the staff at the tear with the rift headfirst. At the very moment the rift contacted the portal, a massive blinding explosion occurred, sending all of us flying. This included me flying straight off Celestia's back. The best part was I just didn't just fly off Celestia's back, I was blasted off with enough force that I was an equine version of a damn rocket.
So here I was, somehow not hitting any of the falling debris as I was plummeting towards the ground. Instead I was going to be a bloody smear on the fast approaching ground until I somehow stopped right before I painted the ground red. Looking around in confusion, I spotted Discord sitting on some odd chair.
"Good show little filly, good show," Discord said as he gave me a slow clap.
"...You decided to show up after the... issue is over‽" I screamed at him.
"Temper temper temper, you don't want your head blowing up, do you?" Discord said, waving a talon at me as the princesses and the rest of the group arrived.
"Aether, you're okay!" Pinkie said as she jumped towards me from her still airborne chariot.
"No no no no!" I wailed before Pinkie crashed into me, embracing me in another one of her choking hugs. With my vision obscured by her, I felt us spinning around until we crashed into the ground. Thankfully Pinkie cushioned the fall, though I still didn't appreciate it as I said, "Pinkie, I know you were worried about me, but couldn't you wait till we're both on the ground to hug me?"
"But I was so worried when you fell off the chariot! Though Celestia was like 'whoosh' and saved you, but then I got worried again when she took you to stop the portal," Pinkie explained as she nuzzled me.
"Oh... sorry about that, but when we heard that roar, I knew we had no time to spare. So I told the princesses just to go straight for the portal now instead of putting me down," I replied, as Pinkie set me down, only to gasp in surprise. Every other pony looked to see why Pinkie gasped, only to gasp in surprise as well after they saw what she saw. "What, can anypony tell me what's going on?"
Discord laughed at me as he snapped his fingers to cause a mirror to appear as he said, "And here I thought you were an observant pony," before he showed me a reflection of my flank.
Looking in the mirror, I saw on my hindquarters that it wasn't blank anymore, that I had got my Cutie Mark. Wow... I gotten my Cut— wait. Is that a curved shooting star, or a crescent moon with a star on its end?
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I knew she'd get her mark in something related to dimensional rifts! Anyways, good chapter.
What does it mean?
Your missing the words, "a lot"
Looks like Aether's talent is dimensional defense.
Wow, the princesses are smug in this chapter.
I kept waiting for the comeuppance when their entire country suffered for their hubris, so... well played dramatic tension I guess?
hell of a way to get your cutie mark
I hate you and your updates at 2 in the morning
I've got a bad feeling that the CMC will convince themselves that it was the being blasted into the air part that got Aether her mark...
Or the classic diagram of a comet, or a scythe blade cutting open spacetime, or given what happened just now, Team Rocket, Blasting Off Again.
I bet he is gonna scream about it in some way
You better watch out for th CMC Aether. Although now you can brag to Diamond Tiara you got your cutie mark riding Celestia to save the world.
I knew she' get her mark y doing something with the rifts, I just knew it.
Awesome job! And amazing work dude.
Keep it up!
I knew she' get her mark y doing something with the rifts, I just knew it.
Awesome job! And amazing work dude.
Keep it up!
6137129 Ooo I like the scythe blade one. Scythe are my favorite melee weapon.
I knew she' get her mark y doing something with the rifts, I just knew it.
Awesome job! And amazing work dude.
Keep it up!
Celestia your action nearly brought a Daedric lord of knowledge to your world from Tamerial! Which in hein Sight wouldn't be world destroying as what's his name isn't the one interested in destroying as so much as learning.
6137307 Hermaeus Mora, or Herma Mora to the Skaal.
I'm glad i started reading this story. I get much entertainment from it.
should be "got" not gotten.
They are not actually asteroids once they hit the atmosphere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid#Meteor
Nice work on the chapter by the way!
It would be probably rather funny, if she would stick to it, and would be not really interessted in her own Cutiemark. That would probably shock anyone, and i am not even sure if she could still do that what "her Cutie mark is supposed to be for".
I mean i don´t remember if there are still more, or if she managed to solve the whole problem, it would be interessting, if she would just ignore her so called destiny, and nothing bad would happen, what maybe would schock those Ponys again, like Aethers Dreams shocked Luna.
I still wait to see if Aether managed to hit every princess with something.
Not sure if the Ponys have a bad education, but they have to learn slower, or the school is only for three or four hours, i mean if they live longer in this story, and if Aether is probably nearly as intelligent as Twilight, and Celestia, there has to be something wrong with their lesson plan.
However i guess as much work Celestia always has to do in different storys, it would be like she even had not enough time for her student, and Twilight could only learn that much herself, and somehow because of that, Aether had an easy time to get more knowledge than them.
It is not the right time at the day, to think about it that much, but i had to try to make a spontaneous, maybe even weak theory,
Is NOONE going to mention the whole thing about shutting Dash's mouth with hers? Like that was the part of the chapter that threw me for the biggest loop!
Oh wow that was intense. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Glad discord stopped by to save Aether. I figured he wouldn't miss this.
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She said magic, not her own mouth...
6138177 Oh that makes more sense. Heh, my mind is firmly entrenched in the gutter I guess.
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He was probably watching the chaos unfold the entire time. Plus of course he would save Aether because Aether is the source of an ungodly amount of chaos and Discord loves that.
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this must happen
anyway great chapter Silvak can't wait for the next chapter 
Is there any reason we wouldn't meet other dimensional divertees, and wouldn't the invaders also be subject to ponification?
6136830 Crescent moon stars are actually made of white chocolate.
Aether is now a chocolate maker.
6137295 Scythe is a terrible and impractical weapon in real life...But, it is fucking awsome in fantasy...
I wonder which one it is.
-ThePortalPonies
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I'm guessing the rift opened on the other side in space which is why they're asteroids as they never went through the planets atmosphere in the first place!
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Also good for her to get an cutie mark though that's gotta be hard to figure out what it is so why not both the curved shooting star and the crescent moon with a star on its end!
Ohhh someone better call Trixie if that's what her special talent is.
eheh
It's a maralus core being thrown at a crescent shaped rift, duh.
Obviously Discord couldn't approach the portal because it was controlling all the chaos around it. That and he was scared.
So her talent is dimension al travel?
Alondro puts together some equations of what would happen if you opened what is essentially one interdimensional portal within the event horizon of an existing portal or rift or whatever... "Ooooooo... that actually wouldn't end well. We're talking wormhole weapon-level devastation here."
Something like this:
nerdlush.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/kmp-dvd18-59-20.jpg
See, all you're really doing is vastly amplifying the distortion and placing a hole in the fabric of the universe inside ANOTHER hole in the fabric of the universe... possibly exponentially compounding the problem instantaneously as the two portals could even potentially merge and then you'd have 3 dimensions bleeding into each other.
Now THAT could result in a multi-dimensional merger... resulting in the total annihilation of everything in those 3 dimensions as everything is reduced to a sub-quantum smear by the very laws of nature tearing apart.
Nasty business that.
6142762 If they had time to react, I'm guessing the asteroid wasn't going very fast in relative space when it passed through, else the portal was moving up behind the asteroid at the same relative velocity which then negated much of its momentum as the object passed through the portal into the Ponyverse which, so far as is concerned to the laws of motion, would also have an apparent relative velocity to the asteroid as the portal.
If the asteroid were travelling at typical orbital velocity (around 40,000 mph) for such a body and emerged near their atmosphere, it'd smack into the planet in a few seconds at most. There'd be too little time to react.
Not to mention the shockwave generated from such a mass at that velocity instantly striking the atmosphere... it might hit the flash point of the rock in an instant. It'd be like diving out of a plane without a parachute and belly-flopping into a swimming pool.
Rainbow, you have called her bluff every time, only to find out she isn't bluffing. You're worse than Applejack at this point.
You still haven't told her how, smartass
6412763 Good Farscape screengrab
It's not like they'd have much more to lose. And there is something of a potential technobabble that makes sense. The idea being used goes something like this:
A dimensional doorway is NOT a black hole, although it could have severe gravitational distortions. It's a doorway between Your location ("Y") in whatever dimension you're in and Another location ("A"). A-->Y
When you create another doorway, you're creating a path to a Third location ("T") elsewhere. Y-->T
By putting the door to "T" into the doorway to "A", you're forcing the doorway going to "A" to be redirected to "T" and you get rid of both portal entries at "Y". A-->(Y + Y)-->T ==> A-->T
You could be potentially fucking up the day for whoever lives at T. There's also the possibility you could be fucking up the day for whoever lives at A. Either way, it's an SEP.
Reminds me of a certain JEDI.