Kichi’s Comment
After having your molecules broken apart and reassembled while going faster than the speed of light, you emerge on the other side of the portal with a blinding flash of white.
“Whoa…that was trippy,” you say as you blink your eyes and try to get your vision back, seeing the warbling of this side’s portal next to you.
“Anyone get the number on that carriage?” you hear Iron Will ask.
“I’ve had my share of barrel rolls, but that was a whole new level,” Lightning Dust grumbles.
“We’ll probably have to make adjustments in the future,” Flim mutters.
“Or at least offer vomit bags to cross dimensional travelers,” Flam adds.
“Good call,” you say as you get your hooves under you. “But the important thing is that it worked and…wait a minute, hooves?”
As your vision clears you see that you are indeed still standing on your own four hooves. Looking about you see that your new companions are still ponies and a minotaur respectfully and your jaw drops.
“Hey, I thought we were supposed to turn into humans or something?” Lightning Dust asks.
“I thought we were,” you say in all sincerity.
“Maybe it’s because of our adjustments to the machine?” Flim suggests looking over his hat.
“That would be an added bonus if travelers could remain their original species,” Flam nods.
“I don’t think that’s the case,” Iron Will says, his gaze on your surroundings. Following his line of sight you realize that he is right.
“What the buck?” you asks taken aback.
You appear to be in a city square in Canterlot from the looks of the things, but there are some things that just don’t add up. Like the giant statues of your dad in his nobody cloak, the propaganda posters depicting him rooting out and enslaving ponies, and of course the many street lamps and wilted trees as it seems to be eternal night.
You look back at the portal you just came through and see that it is at the base of the pedestal of one of these giant statues with the words All Hail King Offender carved into it.
“…Well this is Orwellian,” Lightning Dust says after you’ve all had a chance to gawk. With that, you turn and scowl at the unicorn twins.
"You Dumb bucks! You got the wrong dimension!" you shout.
“Huh, I could have sworn we followed the instructions to the letter,” Flim says as he pulls out Twilight’s blue prints.
“We did indeed brother, we didn’t have time to add any of our distinguished branding to it,” Flam scratches his ear as he looks it over.
“Well clearly something went wrong, cause I don’t see any humans anywhere,” you harrumph.
“Yeah, this is too dark and depressing for a human land. Those tend to be all colorful and sickeningly happy,” Lightning Dust says and you all turn to her.
“How would you know?” asks Iron Will and her ears wilt and she looks to the side embarrassed.
“Look, I was a little filly, and My Little Human was always on after school, don’t judge me,” she mutters.
“Ah, OG MLH,” Will nods. “My wife used to watch that too. I still don’t get the fan base for the newest iteration of the show.”
“I know right? What’s with all those sweaty full grown stallions watching-“
“Oh will you put a cork in it?!” you growl “We gotta figure this out before Tyrant Daddy shows up and puts us in a gulag!”
All four of them flinch at that reprimand, but then they raise an eyebrow at you.
“What? You don’t think he’d have a gulag?”
“It’s not that little filly,” Flim says.
“It’s just that that shrapnel in your chest just glowed,” Flam finishes.
“Huh?” you say looking down at the Alicorn Amulet pieces, and sure enough, you see a faint glow to them before they go cold again. “Huh…guess crossing dimensions brought it back on line…which explains while I’m all moody.”
“Well whatever the case, she is right. This is certainly not our destination,” Will advises.
“Right, right,” you nod before looking at the twins and taking a deep breath to calm down. “Can you fix it?”
“We can try,” they both say as Flim pulls some sort of remote out from under his hat and presses a few buttons. The portal seems to shine brighter at that as symbols appear.
“Alright, let’s try this again,” you say to the rest.
“Okay, but don’t push me in again this time,” Lightning Dust snaps before she dives right in, followed soon after by the others. You take a second to look back at the gothic surroundings before you shudder and step through.
Once more, starlight fills your vision as you feel your body twisting and turning as you hurtle at immense speeds before exiting on the other side. This time your vision is only blinded a little bit, but you still fall as you feel unfamiliar limbs under you.
“Ack! Our bodies are different!” Flim and Flam shout.
“That’s a good thing! That means we made it to human land,” you say as you lift unfamiliar digits to your head…only they aren’t as unfamiliar as you would have thought. “Wait, are hands and fingers supposed to be scaly and sharp?”
“Not particularly,” Will says sounding disturbed.
“Yo, no way! We’re freaking Dragons!” Lightning Dust cheers out sounding like she just won the lottery. Looking at your new limbs more carefully, you see that they are covered in pitch black scales.
“Oh Come On!” you roar, a purplish blue flame escaping your jaws as you look at yourself and your companions.
You are short and squat, just like spike, but you can still feel wings behind you. Will is still taller than the rest of you with rippling muscle under his scales, and he has two pronounced horns similar to his originals back home. Lightning Dust is sleek like a teen dragon and is currently attempting to fly using featherless wings, and the Flim Flam bros are still identical, with Flam having a mustache like appendage that reminds you of a catfish whisker.
You have emerged from a statue of what you assume to be a dragon Celestia with the sun above her. You are once more in the middle of a public area, but this time it looks pretty familiar. You see names for shops that are right out of Ponyville, only the construction is more stone oriented and fireproof. And draconified versions of Ponyville citizens are everywhere. As if to hammer that point home, there is a sign that says Welcome To Dragonville not too far away.
“Dudes, is there anyway I could keep this form? This is pretty awesome!” Dust says as she finally starts to get the hang of hovering.
“...” Flim doesn’t answer as you he looks at his claws in disbelief.
“I’m not sure on that one Dust,” Flam says as he takes the remote out of Flim’s claws and starts frowning at it.
“Ah man…” she pouts and your eye starts twitching.
“I’m going to take a wild guess and say there are no humans here,” Will snarks.
“Gee you think?” you say pointing to 6 familiar colored dragons who are currently singing something about being True True Friends. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t wanna face down the Dragon Deadly 6.”
Lightning Dust narrows her eyes towards the rainbow scaled dragon down the street, before Will grabs her by the scruff of the neck.
“Don’t even think about it,” he chides.
“I wasn’t, I wasn’t” she lies and pouts.
“Alright, let’s give this another shot,” Flam says as he punches in some more buttons and symbols show up around this new portal.
“But seriously, can’t we stay just a bit longer? I wanna see how fast I can get with these wings,” Lightning Dust begs.
You don’t immediately answer as you spy a purple and green colt amongst the singing dragons
“N-No! We don’t have time!” you force yourself to grunt as you tear your eyes off the ponified Spike and push everyone into the portal with power from your amulet pieces. You briefly feel a moment of hunger looking at the crystalline pieces, before you shake your head and jump through. You are not eating debris out of yourself.
After traveling through this next wormhole, your eyes aren’t blinded at all, but you can tell you are not in human land. For one thing, you are all back in your old bodies (for the most part). For another, the landscape is all purple and techno-ey. There appears to even be a techno beat consistently playing in the background somewhere as you see ponies wearing Tron-esque clothing and visors.
“Oh for-Wrong again!” you growl, throwing you visor off of your face.
“I don’t know, I kind of dig the aesthetic,” Dust says, admiring her robot arm.
“Iron Will is not a fan!” Will says, his metallic arms whirring in anger as his laser eyes glow red.
“We seem to have made another mistake brother,” Flim’s robotic voice says.
“Confound this Magi-Tech!” Flam curses, his tank tracks digging a hole underneath him.
“Why aren’t you taking us to the right spot?!” you growl as your Alicorn Amulet pieces light up, accompanied by synthesizer sound effects.
“Well it’s not that easy since we have no point of reference,” Flim says.
“Huh?”
“Twilight Sparkle crossed when the portals were naturally connected, right now it’s a bit difficult to find it without any point of reference,” Flam answers.
“Oh for Buck’s sake!” you curse as the portal lights back up again, being on the side of a huge synthesizer. “Back into the portal then!”
Another World
You then emerge out of another portal, this time with the statue being of Mangle.
“What the-“ you start before you hear countless screams. Your group, in their normal bodies sees as many copies of Mangle swarm like locusts across Vanhoover, attacking ponies.
“That’s a big nope from me,” Lightning Dust says as she immediately goes back through.
“Yeah, nope,” you nod and jump through.
Another World
You then arrive in another Ponyville, only the Deadly 6 in strange colored suits calling in giant robots to fight a kaiju that is stomping around.
“Wrong!” you say as the bros punch in a few more numbers and you make a retreat.
Another World
You all then emerge in a nearly decrepit Canterlot, where Zombies like the ones from Sunnyville fill the street. The undead all turn to your group and immediately start moaning and shuffling their way over.
“New Place, New Place, New Place!” you shriek as you blast a group away and you all tumble backward through the portal.
Another World
And as you all tumble on the other side, you see a scene similar to the first wrong world you visited, only now it’s YOU on the propaganda posters and with the statues.
“Oh Come On! Why Am I The Villain?!” you shout and kick at the ground.
“There could be any number of reasons with multi-universal theory,” Flim says.
“One small decision that differs from how our world’s timeline went, and suddenly there are radical changes,” Flam nods.
“Some of these seem a bit extreme though,” Will says with a frown as a horde of changelings buzz overhead led by a Chrysalis with butterfly wings.
“Onward my soldiers! For all of Equestria!” she commands as they fly towards the castle and your jaw just drops.
“Wel…that’s a thing,” Lightning Dust shrugs.
“It’s Bullspit is what it is! I hate this universe! Can’t we just go to the human one already?!” you demand. “I mean, how many are even left?!”
"Billions" says Flim.
"Trillions," says Flam.
"Of infinite zero" they say together causing you to groan.
“That…doesn’t sound very promising,” Iron Will mutters.
“Yeah, I don’t think we have the time to see all of them,” Dust agrees.
“We most certainly don’t! Seriously, is there any way to narrow it down?!” you growl as your shards blip.
“We’re already narrowing it down each trip,” Flim says.
“But that’s still a lot of data to work with and-“ Flam starts but is interrupted.
“There she is!” several changelings shout as they begin to dive bomb you.
“Ugh, this sucks!” you grumble as the brothers punch in more coordinates and you all hop through, leaving the Heroic Changelings behind.
Nighstlayer’s Comment
Another World
With another cross dimensional jump which you’re starting to get used to, you all now find yourself in a different kind of setting. You emerge from some sort of Obelisk on a balcony overlooking a sandy desert.
“What in the-Nightshade, what are you doing up this late? And who are these folks with you?” your Dad’s voice asks.
“Wha-Dad? I’m…” you trail off as you turn around to see your Dad dressed in Saddle Arabian clothing, sitting on a chair made of polished sandstone, and around him are many mares in see through silk clothing. They include many of your Dad’s stalker gang, like Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Octavia, Vinyl, Aloe, and many more. “…The buck?”
“Oh my…” Iron Will shields his eyes while Flim and Flam blush and Lightning Dust just looks disturbed.
“I told you honey, night time is my time, so go back to your room immediately,” he orders as he takes a smoke from a hookah pipe. “The pegasus may stay, but the other ones shall be thrown to the lions.”
“We were just leaving actually,” Flam says nervously as he presses the buttons hurriedly and jumps through.
“Besides we’re too stringy to eat,” Flim adds as he follows.
“Iron Will has a family!” the minotaur shrieks as he jumps through.
“Sorry, changelings still ain’t attractive! Also, go to Tartarus Rainbow Dash!” Lightning shouts as she retreats.
“What did I do?” the scantily clad mare asks.
The alternate version of your dad raises an eyebrow at this before you chuckle nervously and back up.
“Sorry Aladdin Dad, this is all a dream~” you say spookily before you too disappear.
Before you are sucked in completely, you see him look at his hookah pipe suspiciously, but in the next instant, you are once again one among the stars.
Another World
After that, you find yourself in a field, the portal behind you glowing out of the side of a barn…and everything is hyper realistic. The grass, the barn, the sky, even the sun, all the colors are muted and just…wrong looking (realistic). There are even ponies out in the field…and they are nightmare inducing with long faces and creepy black eyes. You then find to your shock, the rest of you are just the same.
“Oh gods, what the buck?!” you screech as you see your companions in Ultra 4K HD.
“I don’t like this…I don’t like this!” Lightning Dust mutters, her face even more elongated (like a real horse) with wings that are far larger than her pair back home.
“I don’t appreciate my eyes being on the side of my head like this,” Flam says, his hat barely resting on his head.
“Also, I’m pretty sure my moustache is just a piece of a feed bag!” Flam mutters.
“Calm down ponies,” Iron Will orders, his bull nose moist and breathing audibly. “At least we’re not in danger.”
“My sanity is in danger! I’ll take anything over this!” you shout as you light up your horn and start pressing buttons on the remote, and you see that even your horn has become elongated, and seems more like a rhino horn. “AAAHHHH!!” you shriek as you hurry through.
Haoryu Changer’s Comment
The Other World
After arriving in the next world though, you realize your words were said in haste.
“Holy Crap…” you say as you and the rest look horrified by the desolate dead world around you. There are remnants of burnt buildings, and bodies everywhere, including husks of Daleks and space ships. Up in the sky, the Sun sits stationary on the horizon with a broken moon splayed out across the cosmos.
“…I take it back, this is much worse,” you say as you realize exactly which world this is.
“What in the hay happened here?” Flim sputters, his face white as sheet.
“The freaking world ended apparently,” Lightning Dust says with a disturbed look as she sees the skeleton of a giant centaur.
“But what could have cause such destruction?” Iron Will says as you all view the remnants of Canterlot.
“A Nightmare,” you say without elaboration as you spy a crater off in the distance. From what you gathered from Daddy, the changeling who killed the world is lying over there. The one who’s Inventory you now carry.
Shaking your head you turn to Flam.
“Go ahead and punch another sequence in, I don’t want to stay in this place,” you say.
“Uh…y-yeah, of course,” he nods, still horrified as he follows your orders.
You look back at the destruction as the portal is activated and you shake your head.
To think, I slept through all of this madness…
And with that you all step into the next world, thankful to leave the past in the past, even if it means randomly hopping between dimensions.
Puzzling Frost’s Comment
Ponygamer12’s Comment
Back at the Empire
POV Change: Sombra
“Oh, I’ve missed you so much! I was so worried!” Hope bawls as she buries her muzzle into your shoulder.
“How…how is this possible?” You ask with tears building up in your eyes. “I didn’t curse you, so how are you here?”
“I stayed with your mother in the prison waiting for the day you would return!” Hope cries pulling back, “time it moves slower in there, kind of like hibernation and…well, I’m here now.”
It seems too good to be true, but you can’t deny the evidence right before you. Her voice, her fur, her scent, it’s just as you remember.
“You…you waited for me…” you stutter, still overwhelmed by too many emotions at once. She smiles at that and sniffles.
“Of course I did, I had to. I just had to,” she says with pure conviction. “I abandoned you when you truly needed me the most, and I swore I wasn’t going to let that happen again.”
A bit of hurt strikes through your heart at that.
“Hope, you didn’t-“
“If I had stayed then perhaps things would have been different. I didn’t know what I know now and I left you all alone and-“ she rambles and you shush her by giving her another hug.
“I don’t blame you Hope.”
“Sombra?”
“I don’t blame you for running. I let the power and hatred overwhelm me and I didn’t try to explain and…” you can’t say anymore as you remember what you did afterwards, fueled by your heartbreak. “I was going to come back for you. Through time and space I was going to return…but it doesn’t matter now. You’re here. You’re actually here.”
“Yes Sombra, I’m here, and I’m never going to leave again,” she coos into your ear.
It’s been a long time since you could say you’ve been truly happy. Sure the euphoria of seeing all the humans was breath of fresh air, but this…this makes your heart sing.
Behind you, you can hear the Changelings watching intently, and you can hear them licking at the air, which you find annoying, but you ignore them for now.
“I’m…I’m…I’m glad you were able to find a way to find me again,” you say as the tears fully drop now. She chuckles at that and sniffles again.
“Oh it wasn’t easy. When the Empire returned I wanted to find you right away, but then we felt the Crystal Heart activate which set me back a year,” she explains before her tone starts to get hysterical. “And when I got out I learned what had happened, about how you’d been eaten by the Offender and I was so worried! I thought you’d been killed and-“
“I’m fine Hope, I’m right here, alive and well,” you reassure her as you pull back and look her in the eye with a smile, to which she returns. It’s then that you realize exactly what you just said means. “Hold on a moment, I am alive and well!”
“Huh?” she asks confused.
“I have a body again!” you say as you start feeling yourself up and down. “I kind of forgot that in the moment seeing you. How did this happen? The cockroach said we would take care of this once the meeting was over and…wait…the meeting!”
Your brainwaves start to become smoother and you remember the bright flash as that Jack fellow showed up. Hope gives a nervous chuckle at that and rubs the back of her neck.
“Oh yeah, about that…” she says sheepishly and you raise an eyebrow.
“Hope? What happened?” you ask wearily.
“Yes for the gods’ sake, tell him already! We’re freezing to death here!” Garble interrupts and everyone in the igloo turns to give him deadpan looks. “Oh shove off! You were all thinking it! I didn’t cause this mess by teaming up with Queen Death Bug to take over the Empire!”
“Take over the Empire? Queen Death Bug?” you repeat confused before you turn back to Hope who looks even more sheepish, with closed eyes and pursed lips. “Hope? What does the whelp mean by that?”
“Umm, you see,” Hope says letting you go. “I may have sort of….let Chrysalis take over the Empire in order to save you from your imprisonment inside of Bugze?” she blurts out with a guilty-looking face.
“…WHAT?!” you exclaim, causing your voice to echo inside the small enclosed area and Hope scrunches her face and avoids eye contact.
“Ahem, if I could kindly interject?” You turn to see a rather suave and handsome stallion stand up.
“You?! You’re that Time Traveler’s ally! The one who sent us to the Human world in the first place!” you accuse before narrowing your eyes. “You showed up at the end of the palaver with the royalty and-“
“That’s all correct, except for that last part I’m afraid Mr. tall dark and handsome,” he interrupts and you sneer at that. “Some upstart took my face for that last one, but yes, good job on accomplishing your mission by the way.”
You continue to glare at the stallion who is far more handsomer than you and you grit your teeth.
“Not like I had any choice in the matter,” you spit.
“You say as though you didn’t enjoy yourself over there,” Jack rolls his eyes. “But anyway, back to explanations. The short of it is, your marefriend here went nuts when she discovered what happened to you, concocted a convoluted plot to ‘save’ you and free the Umbrum from their imprisonment with a ragtag group of people who all had grudges with the Elements of Harmony.”
“Huh?” you gasp as Hope starts to whistle.
“Oh yes, she freed Chrysalis and her Hive from imprisonment, and then during the chaos of the Equestria Games, they took over the Empire. I myself was taken prisoner by them and my device stolen, which is what Chrysalis used on Bugze which gave you and Selena their own bodies.”
“So…that was the Changeling Queen that shot that bright light then?” you ask as you start to piece some things together.
“That’s correct. The last thing I would do is blast that thing off in such an enclosed area. But yes, after that everyone was taken prisoner, aside from Ms. Ditzy Do here,” he says pointing to the pegasus mare with crooked eyes. Said mare coughs into her hoof and gives him a knowing glare to which he winces and corrects himself. “Sorry, Ms. Ditzy Do-Turner here.”
“That’s better,” the mare says satisfied and the stallion rolls his eyes.
“But anyway, after it’s all said and done, Hope’s allies were in control of everything until a little while ago when Chrysalis betrayed them all. That insane lady is now letting the Empire freeze over in an attempt to flush out Nightshade and Selena who had avoided her clutches.”
“Which was my doing by the way,” Hope interjects, looking embarrassed. “I mean, I did do one thing right. I also helped hide Bugze when he woke up and somehow got out of his cell.”
“I still don’t know how he managed to do that, when I was sneaking around the place he’d had so many guards stationed in front of cell,” the wall eyed pegasus adds.
“Well however he did it, he’s trying to save my other associates and his Grandfather even as we speak,” Hope continues.
“Okay, but what of Nightshade and the shadow that calls herself her mother?” you ask looking to the returned mare. “You said you hid them from the Changeling Queen? What’s happened to them?”
“Oh, yeah, well when Chrysalis blasted Bugze with the device and gave you power, everyone in the room was weakened, including them,” she explains. “It’s how we were able to take over so easily, but with how she was speaking about them, I felt it necessary to hide them away till they were better. Nightshade recovered first, but Selena is still on the mend.”
“So…Nightshade is fine then?” you ask.
“Last I saw her she was, though she was helping Bugze get to his Grandfather,” Hope nods. “She is a very…unique little filly, I’ll give her that.”
You breathe out a sigh of relief at that. Though you’ve come to some sort of…kinship with the bug and the shadow, you would still rate them lower than Nightshade in your list of worries.
“She is indeed very unique, and strong, far stronger than anything else on this planet,” you say with confidence. But even if that’s the case, you still can’t help but feel a tinge of anger that the Changeling Queen is after her. Speaking of which, all of this information of what’s transpired finally starts to process.
“By the gods, how long was I out?” you ask in bewilderment as you put a hoof to the base of your new horn.
“Three days,” a tall changeling with an eye patch speaks up.
“Three Days?!” you shout again in alarm, and the changeling takes a step back, and he’s not the only one. Now that you have a chance to take stock of the creatures sharing this space, you can truly grasp just how injured some of the bugs are. Many of them even look at you warily, like prey eyeing a predator.
“Three days?” you ask in a calmer tone trying not to spook the bugs.
Huh, how ironic, the ‘master of fear’ trying to not be scary, you think briefly before focusing yourself.
“That’s correct Sombra,” Hope nods.
“And by my calculations, you all should have taken longer to recuperate, but I suppose the current location has helped speed that along, for you at least.” Jack explains. “The influx of magic is certainly boosting your recovery.”
“Not to mention my own magic I’ve been using on you,” Hope nods.
“I see…And if you say that the Changeling Queen is letting the Empire freeze then we really don’t have all that much time then,” you say with a sigh and try to stand up. You feel your knees buckle as you struggle to stand, and the sensation of ground beneath your hooves is nostalgic and almost alien in a way.
It’s been so long since I’ve had a true body…this will be a problem, you realize. Luckily though, there is someone there to help keep you steady.
“Easy there, don’t try to do too much at once,” Hope says as she allows you to lean on her, which you do so with gusto.
“Time is of the essence, so I have to…but thank you for the support,” you say to her with a grin, to which she returns. You then turn your gaze back to the Captain, “So I take it there’s some kind of plan?”
“Well, that depends on you, son.” A ghostly voice speaks out, and for the second time you feel your heart stop and body jolt. You turn and stare at the towering red crystal within the igloo. It pulses and glows ominously red, yet somehow it seemingly makes the area around it darker despite the light of the fire. Your ears perk up as you hear a dull hum of whispers just barely audible coming from the crystal, all of which become silence when your mother speaks once more. “It’s so good to see you, my child, despite the current circumstances.”
“Rabia, mother, it’s been so long,” you say staring directly toward the crystal as you take some wobbly steps toward it. Hope assists you so that you do not trip over your new legs, but other than her and you, no one else inside the igloo dares make a sound or move. All is quiet save for the flickering of the fire and raging wind of the blizzard outside.
“Indeed, over a thousand years. I never imagined it would’ve taken so long for our next meeting.” Rabia speaks, her distorted voice echoing through the igloo. You notice as some of the others get on edge when she speaks, especially the changelings, but you can’t blame them. They are hearing the power radiating voice of the Queen of the Umbrum after all. “Honestly child, were you trying to make your mother wait?” she speaks in a playful tone, though you catch and underling hint of annoyance as well.
“Things have been difficult, I never planned to be trapped in the body of a changeling with questionable sanity after returning with the Empire,” you remark truthfully with your own hint of annoyance, “But I am here now and I still intend to free you mother, and all of the Umbrum.”
“I know my child, however, I am worried that the cards are stacked against you.” The queen sighs. “From what Radiant Hope has told us, this Queen Chrysalis has taken over the Empire, and bested the mighty alicorns. She has purposely allowed the frozen north to nearly swallow up the city, and she wields the very weapon that can harm us.”
“The Crystal Heart,” You say with some venom, the memories of the pain it brought you flashing through your mind, as well as how powerful it was when you used it against Bugze.
“Indeed, and what’s more they’ve acquired some kind of magic dampener, and while I doubt it could completely lock away our powers, I would not risk trading one prison for another,” she informs. “It seems pertinent to retreat and gather strength would it not”
“Your majesty, we simply don’t have time for that,” Ditzy says stepping forward. “The longer we wait the longer the crystal ponies will suffer! They will be buried along with the Empire and Chrysalis wouldn’t care. All she is obsessed with is Bugze!”
“My dear pony, I must do what the best is for my people. I will not endanger them in order to save those who put us in this very prison, to begin with!” Rabia retorts, her calm demeanor replaced with anger for a moment. “I am being generous enough in humoring the possibility for you and these refugees into the safety of the prison. But my patience can only go so far!”
“Your majesty I can personally guarantee that if you help us the princesses and ponies will surely come to some sort of arrangement for freeing your people, we face a common enemy here,” Jack says, playing at diplomacy. “Would you not do the same if it were your people threatened instead?”
“And if this daring operation were to fail? I will not subject my people or my children to any possible danger! I’ve spent so long without my son only to have him return to me now and you ask to send him back into hostile territory that could threaten all of us?” the queen inquires with authority, shaking the igloo with the sound of her voice.
“Queen Rabia please!” Hope implores, stepping forward with you as all eyes turn to her. “Chrysalis is a clear and present threat to everyone, if she were to be ignored it would be a terrible mistake! Her madness and obsession over the changeling called Bugze makes her unpredictable and dangerous to everyone, even her own people.”
At that she points her hoof at the injured and dejected changelings to emphasize her point.
“If she is willing to do this to those who question her, what do you think will happen to those who pose a threat to her? And she has made it clear that I am one such threat, as well as anyone associated with me!” she declares, and you are in awe of her speech.
You used to not be able to hold a conversation with anyone aside from me…you’ve certainly grown Hope, you think with pride, before you scowl and look to the red crystal.
“Hope is right mother, and if it’s one thing I know for certain, it’s the unpredictability of changelings with cracked minds,” you assure. “With her in command of the heart, it would be devastating if she were turn her attention to our people. Please, for all our sakes, help us.”
Silence fills the small ice chamber as all eyes turn to the crystal and not even the ever present whispers make a sound as the suspenseful quiet continues. Eventually though, the crystal flashes red and a small portal opens up at it’s base.
“Very well,” Rabia proclaims. “Hope has been a true ally and friend to the Umbrum for many centuries and I trust my son’s judgment. If this is what you two believe is best, then I shall give assistance. I grant sanctuary to all those who would ally with you.”
You let out a sigh with relief as the mood changes to a more hopeful atmosphere.
“Thank you mother,” you say in gratitude.
“Yes, thank you Queen Rabia, you won’t regret this,” Hope says with beaming smile before turning to the injured changelings. “Alright everyone go forward one at a time, nice and slowly.”
And as she instructs the giant bugs on the proper etiquette and what have you for entering, you take a glance inside the glowing doorway. The portal leads to a strange underground fog-filled swamp, and a set of stairs leads further down into the cavern. From this angle, you can’t see too much more, but you do catch movement as a figure comes from out of the fog and toward the portal. It resembles a pony in shape, only much smaller, and it’s body appears to be made up of that same shadow and fog that permeates the swamp. Upon it’s back are white smoke-like butterfly wings, and it’s eyes bleed out a white mist similar to how your eyes produce purple smoke when using your magic.
“Welcome to the Prison of Shadows,” Rabia’s voice speaks from the creature, though still powerful enough to echo across the barrier.
“Mother…” you gasp in awe as your eyes start to blur with tears. You had only ever heard her voice, but this…this is what she looks like. What the Umbrum look like. What you would look like had you not been turned into a pony. The shock of it all is overwhelming, and you make a move towards her, but she quickly holds a hoof up in warning.
“I know my son, but not yet. The barrier still holds and I would not have you trapped in here as well,” she warns with sadness in her voice, before giving you a small smile. “But soon my child.” Before you can say or do anything else in response to that, another slightly smaller Umbrum excitedly flies next to her.
“Is this him? Is that Sombra!” The younger Umbrum asks with glee. “Are those his friends? Oh is that miss Hope mother? Is it time at last?!”
Wait did she just say- you begin to think before you are cut off as the smaller Umbrum flies toward the portal with great speed.
“Ira wait no!” Rabia shouts in alarm, but it’s too late as the young Umbrum collides with the barrier only to be shocked with magic and thrown back violently.
“GYAH!” the now named Ira cries out as she lands with a thud and forms into a cloud of smoke.
You and many of the others inside the igloo gasp as your mother runs over to the injured umbrum, who quickly reforms with bits of magical static flowing over her.
“Oww,” she groans in pain and the Queen frowns at her.
“Ira, have you not learned a thing? The barrier is still up girl, you could’ve seriously hurt yourself!” she chides while helping her to her hooves. Ira merely shakes her head to shrug off the residual magic and smiles sheepishly at the older umbrum.
“Sorry mother, I was just so excited to see Sombra and I…” she trails off as Rabia shakes her head.
“Is she alright?” Derpy asks in concern.
“Yes, this isn’t the first time she’s done this,” Hope sighs, “don’t worry she bounces back very quickly.”
“I...have a sister?” You finally say drawing attention back on you.
“Heh, seems I’ve ruined the surprise huh mother?” Ira says with a sheepish grin and your mother rolls her eyes. Rabia then motions the younger umbrum towards you and, carefully this time, she approaches the portal and stares right into your eyes.
“Hi, big brother.”
Kichi’s Comment
Another World
POV Change: Nightshade
“Achoo!” you sneeze which echoes down the hallway.
“Bless you,” Iron Will says.
“Thanks,” you nod and rub your nose on your hoof.
“You’re not getting sick from dimension hopping are you? Is it contagious?!” Lightning Dust asks with worry for herself.
“Nah, just had a tickle,” you hoofwave. “Almost as if something was trying to be added to my already complicated family tree…but whatever! This still isn’t the right place!”
Once more you’ve arrived in another world that isn’t the human one and your annoyance has only grown. You’ve been starting to lose track of how many worlds you’ve been through at this point, and the only silver lining that you can take out of the whole mess is that Time Works differently so you haven’t lost all that much time in the real world.
“Are we even close to making a dent?” you grumble as you look about at the hall of mirrors you find yourself in.
“A miniscule one, but yes,” Flim nods.
“Are we even gonna be able to find our way back home at this rate?” Lightning whines as she checks her many reflections.
“We do have ourselves as the subjects for our home dimension coordinates, so we’ll be fine in that regard,” Flam points out.
“At this point, Iron Will is just ready to go back home and just try again,” the minotaur grumbles.
“No, nuh-uh, not a chance if that means us having to start at the beginning again,” you shake your head. “Punch in the next coordinates and let’s get go-“
“Sorry Nightshade, but Spike is in another castle,” a bubbly voice interrupts causing you to flinch in surprise. Turning to the source, you spy a familiar white unicorn filly.
“Sweetie Belle?” you question as you see your friend standing in a doorway that leads to a room full of toys and a bed.
“Yup, that’s me, been awhile,” she smiles. “Now that you found me I said the line and I can go home again.”
“Huh?” you ask with raised brow. “What are you talking about?”
Your friend then frowns in confusion.
“Umm… You rescued me? Now I can go home while you continue to look for Spike and defeat all of the Offenders?” she explains as if it’s obvious.
“Offenders?” you say taken aback. “What the heck happened in this universe? And what happened to Spike?”
“Don’t you remember?” she asks confused. “The Hooded Offender used the mirror pool making an army and all the clones kidnapped everyone in Ponyville and put them each in a different castle. You’ve been defeating the clones and rescuing us and for some reason Spike is the one being held in the most secure area.”
You just stare, your mouth agape at that explanation before shaking your head and groaning.
“Sounds like your Dad’s ripping off Mareio Bros there,” Lightning Dust observes.
“I figured that!” you grunt before turning back to the alternate Sweetie. “Look Sweetie, I’m not the Nightshade you’re waiting for so…you’re gonna have to wait a little longer.”
“What?!” she exclaims. “But I want to go home already! Sure the Offender clone feeds me plenty and gives me toys and stuff, but I wanna go see my parents and Rarity again!”
“Yeah, well you’re gonna have to wait for YOUR Nightshade to do that, I got other fish to fry,” you shrug.
“There’s 108 castles! I have no idea which one I’m in!” she stomps her hoof. “I wanna go home!”
“Oh, in that case-LOOK! A DISTRACTION!” you shout pointing behind her.
“What?! Where?!” she asks as she turns around and you take the chance to push yourself and your colleagues into the portal. When Sweetie turns around, you are all gone.
“Oh you miserable hussy! I thought we were friends?! I swear to Celestia I will sabotage your love life you piece of-“
“Hey Sweetie, why are you shouting?” another version of you with a messier mane cut and a few scars asks as she drops in from the ceiling.
“What the…how’d you get up there?” Sweetie asks, her anger replaced by confusion.
“I just defeated another version of my Dad,” she explains with a sigh. “This one kept breakdancing and tripping me.”
“Oh…weren’t you with a minotaur and three adult ponies?” she asks and the other you raises a brow.
“Um…not that I recall?”
“…Huh,” Sweetie shrugs.
“But anyway, let’s get you home already, it’s been awhile,” the other you suggests.
“Right, right,” Sweetie nods before perking up. “Oh and the Offender clone said that when you rescued me to say “Sorry Nightshade, but Spike is in another castle.””
The other you sighs and facehooves.
“Of course he bucking is…”
Nightslayer’s Comment
Another World
“And now I’m a bucking dog!” you bark as you stomp your puppy Labrador paws onto the ground adorably.
“This is getting out of hand,” the St. Bernard Iron Will huffs.
“At least you guys are good breeds, why am I a Chihuahua?!” Lightning Dust yips angrily.
“Because you’re short tempered and irritable?” Beagle Flim says.
“Perhaps because it’s a reflection of your own insecurities and self worth?” Beagle Flam suggests.
“Oh screw you guys!” she yaps and begins spinning around in circles.
“Next!” you order.
Another World
“Nani the buck?!” you exclaim as a loud explosion erupts from a building and your Dad (who is seriously roided out and wearing some sort of yellow cloak) comes flying out while fighting a giant mech that looks like Celestia. Also, the world around you is in Anime Style, even you and your group with your eyes being even bigger, and the hairstyles being even more ridiculous.
“Muda muda muda!!!” your Dad cries out as he throws the mech against a building and then gives a dramatic pose. “Your efforts are utterly useless Deadly 6!”
“You’re wrong!” Twilight’s voice comes over the mech’s speakers. “With the power of Friendship, we will never lose!”
“That’s where you’re wrong meanies!” your own voice calls out…but it is sickenly sweet and annoying. Looking up you see as you, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara all come flying in wearing magical filly uniforms.
“Oh come the buck on!” you whimper as you see how your mane is done up in twin tails and you are wearing sickening shades of pink. The Magical Filly Group lands beside your jacked up Dad and blast the mech with hearts from wimpy looking wands with a cry of,
“Love Canon!!!”
The mech bursts dramatically with sparks before it explodes, and the Elements come jumping out of it…only each one has it’s own weird style.
Twilight has on a lab coat and a pair of glasses that reflect way too brightly, Rarity is done up in very sleazy clothing and her eyes sparkle WAY too much, Fluttershy has a horrifying smile on her face and is holding a blood soaked kitchen knife, Rainbow Dash has an eyepatch and a katana, Applejack has on some sort of ninja headband, and Pinkie Pie is dressed like an idol.
“Your evil ends now Offender! You corruption of the Crusaders was the final straw!”
“Well bring it then if you dare, for I have far more allies than them!” your dad says dramatically. As if on cue, Grandbuggy drops in behind him, only he has a beard, sunglasses, a tropical shirt and is wearing some sort of turtle shell on his back. Sombra drops down on his other side, with crystals sticking out of him and one of his eyes is horrifying and looks infected. Your mother then appears as a ghostly apparition above your Dad, and she too is jacked beyond realism.
The Elements, gritting their teeth then start walking towards the enemy group.
“Oh? You’re Approaching Me?” your Dad says smugly.
“Let’s leave this place,” you sigh as you push Flim toward the portal.
“Ah, I wanted to see how this ended,” Lightning Dust complains.
“Listen, I like anime just as much as the next filly, but this world is far too Weabish for my blood,” you snark. And as the portal gets activated, an epic fight that is only minutes long yet takes 50 episodes to complete commences.
Down With Chrysalis’s Comment
And Another World
In a black and white world with jazz music playing in the background, your Dad stands overlooking a balcony, wearing a fedora and trench coat and smoking a cigarette.
This city is a festering wound, longing for some TLC, but unfortunately, I don’t have medical training. The best I can do is bandage it up as best I can and try to ignore the rotten puss that leaks out…He says dramatically…without opening his mouth at all.
“Was that supposed to be an internal monologue?” Iron Will asks you.
“I have no freaking clue,” you huff and roll your eyes.
The chief’s gone and decided to give me another partner despite my wishes. I don’t need another partner, not after what happened to the old bug, he internally monologues for all to hear. She’s supposed to be a promising up and comer, but I’ve seen her picture, a mare that pretty is only asking to be chewed up by this city. She’d be better off modeling for swimsuit magazines.
“Wow, misogynist much?” Lightning Dust rolls her eyes.
Just then you see as your mother, full flesh and blood flies in from another rooftop towards him, and she is wearing a police uniform.
“Detective 9001?” she asks.
Speak of the devil, and she will appear…
“Maybe I am, who’s asking?” he says gruffly.
“Officer Moon sir, I was told to meet you here?” she says with a salute.
“Heh, cut that out, there’s no need to salute out here. That’s rule number one rookie, saluting just advertises you’re a cop, even more so than your uniform,” he chastises and she looks taken aback.
“Oh, s-sorry sir,” she apologizes and he rolls his eyes.
“And rule number 2, don’t apologize,” he says. “Now, if you even want to pretend to work with me Rook, we’re gonna need to get you some new digs. Out here, the less you look like a cop, the better.”
“Y-Yes Sir! I look forward to working with you!” she says nearly saluting.
“We’ll change that attitude soon enough,” he says with a smirk.
They all change their attitude in the end. All it takes is one day to-
“Oh for buck’s sake! Quit being so dramatic!” you shout, interrupting his monologue. They both turn to your group in confusion.
“Huh?” he asks.
“I said quit being dramatic! Have some fun for the gods’ sake! Jeeze!” you growl, your shards glowing as you pull everyone back into the portal.
Once you’re gone, the versions of your parents look to one another lost.
“Please tell me you saw that too right?” your Dad asks, his gruff tone now sounding like OG Bugze’s.
“I’m pretty sure I did…” your mom says hesitantly. “Though what that meant, I have no clue.”
“Okay…looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking,” he nods as he pulls out a flask.
Here’s Another World
You all exit from a portal embedded into what looks like a version of the horseshoe mirror…only it’s made of prop material. There are spotlights pointed in your direction and you realize that you are on a stage, the background of which looks like the Crystal Empire.
“See now Chrysalis! My daughter herself brings reinforcements!” you hear your dad’s voice say dramatically followed by a musical stinger. Looking over you see another version of your father, who appears to be tied up on a bed, with Queen Chrysalis hovering over him.
“Is that so?!” Chrysalis asks just as dramatically. “Well then, time to rid you of unnecessary attachments aside from myself!” She leaps gracefully between you and the bed and points at you. “Do you really think a pathetic filly like yourself can beat me alone?”
Everything is dead quiet, as you look about with shifty eyes, your companions doing the same.
“Umm…” you guess and you see Chrysalis’s face wince.
“D-Do you think a pathetic filly like yourself can beat me alone?” she implores looking at you with pleading eyes.
“Uh…”
You then see her mouthing something that you can’t quite make out aside from the word Alone.
“I, uh, sure I can! No problem?!” you guess more than say.
“CUT!” you hear a frustrated voice call out. Your Dad and Chrysalis groan in frustration as the lights behind the spot lights turn on and you see several creatures sitting in theatre seats. One such creature, a dog wearing sunglasses and holding a megaphone looks pissed.
“For all that is holy Nyx, the line is ‘Who the buck said I’m alone?!’ and then Selena drops in and we get the long overdue catfight! Gods! We might as well just cut this interaction while we’re at it!” he barks and throws a script down. Before you can ask who Nyx is, he begins pointing angrily at Iron Will, Lightning Dust and Flim and Flam. “And you four! You’re not supposed to enter with her! It robs the scene of it’s tension!”
“S-Sorry…” Iron Will apologizes.
“Yeah, uh, sorry,” you apologize as well, though you don’t know why.
“It’s alright, she was probably just thrown off because the others threw her off,” Chrysalis says to the dog in a placating manner.
“Yeah bro, don’t blow a gasket,” your Dad says as she gets off of the bed, and in a flash of green fire his hair is gone.
“Oh whatever! We’re almost done with this project and it’s gotta be perfect! And that means not missing cues!” he growls before looking up above you all. “Go ahead and come down Luna, we’re gonna take a break and then take it again from the top!”
Almost immediately, fluttering down from the rafters is your mother…only as she lands there is a flash of magic and she looks like Luna.
“I still don’t know why I have to keep the visual enchantment up even during rehearsals,” she harrumphs.
“Because it has to be locked in all of your brains so that no one screws up! Even the most miniscule difference can throw someone off, look what happened to Nyx!” the Brown Dog grunts and puts a paw to his forehead. He then sighs before looking at you, pulling his shades down, revealing baggy red eyes. “Look Nyx, I don’t mean to yell at ya. It’s just so antsy being this close to the end you know? I’m sorry for raising my voice.”
“I, uh…” you stutter at a loss for words.
“Wait, we’re taking a break?! I didn’t miss my cue did I?!” you hear…your own voice say. Turning around you see…yourself holding a coffee cup as she comes through the curtain. “Sorry I’m late the line at Starbux was…” She trails off as the two of you lock eyes and suddenly all the cast and crew for this strange meta play all go quiet.
She then rolls her eyes, “Oh hah hah $%#@,” she snarks using your Dad’s real name. “It’s even funnier the fiftieth time! Stop using my likeness or you’re totes gonna get sued you-“
“Um, I’m over here!” the alternate dad says waving and suddenly everyone else is confused again.
“…You all hired another changeling?” this other you asks sounding angry. “Are you trying to replace me?!”
“Who’s getting replaced?” another Iron Will asks as he walks onto stage before stopping and gawking at his doppelganger.
“No, no we didn’t…” the Brown Dog says curiously as he looks to you and the rest. “Who the buck are you people?”
“We’re just, uh, passing through,” you say nervously as you usher the twins to start punching in the codes, but they are way ahead of you.
“Well whatever the case you are using my likeness without my permission Missy!” the other you says haughtily. “So you better drop that disguise right now or.”
“Oh shut the buck up you drama queen!” you say to yourself…which kind of hurts your brain.
“GUUUUGGGGHHHH?!!!” she gasps in shock, dropping her coffee. “How dare you you-“
“Portal’s open,” Flim says hurriedly.
“Good! Go!” you order and the five of you disappear through dimensions again.
The stage performers are left speechless by this turn of events, before the exhausted director canine puts a paw to his lips.
“Not gonna lie, those special effects were pretty dope.”
Oh Look Another World
“So correct me if I’m wrong, but did that last universe imply that our reality was just a stage play?” Flim asks.
“Infinite universes with infinite possibilities brother,” Flam shrugs.
“I…I just can’t…that hurts my brain too much,” Lightning Dust groans and rubs her temple.
“Yeah it was weird, but I’m just mad I’m being played by some snobby primadonna! Who the heck does that Nyx think she is?” you growl remembering her brashness.
“Well, obviously someone that would give a dog director an aneurism,” Iron Will points out.
“Oh don’t get me started on THAT guy! Making me feel dumb when it wasn’t even my fault! Stupid Dog!” you say kicking at the ground.
“…So, are you like, gonna join in on the reinforcements or not?” you hear your Dad ask. He is currently wearing Captain Equestria’s costume, though the shield is broken and facing down a big ugly old goat and his army. All around you are other portals that have opened and several of your allies and enemies you’ve met emerge from them dressed in comic book character costumes. Next to your other dad is another you, dressed as the Falcon.
“Yeah other me, are ya?” she asks.
“No…no I don’t think we will,” you tell them plainly as you all turn around and leave them to their battle.
Kichi’s Comment
It’s Another World Alright
This time, instead of coming out on flat ground, the five of you fall out of a pillar 15 feet in the air.
“AHHHH-OOF!” you all grunt as you all strike the floor, with you crashing right down onto a stone table of some kind piled high with gems and bits.
“What the hay?” a familiar voice says.
“Sp-Spike?” you ask as you shake the dizziness off, and sure enough your favorite dragon is right in front of you…only he’s holding a clawful of cards and wearing sunglasses.
“That strange, creatures show up out of nowhere,” a diamond dog says to his left, also holding playing cards.
“They with you?” asks another diamond dog from behind you.
“Uh…sure, I guess,” the dragon shrugs. “Though I have no idea who they are.”
“What? Spike how could you say that?! Aren’t we friends in this universe?” you plead and he just raises an eyebrow.
“Friends with a pony? Unlikely!” he says with a cold demeanor and you gasp in shock.
“What?! Why not?!” you demand, but you are ignored as another Diamond Dog asks,
“So is the small pony added to the pot?”
“Huh?” you ask but are ignored again.
“I mean, she is on the pile,” another dog points out. Looking back at Spike you see as he considers it a moment before looking right back at you with a smirk and saying,
"Sure, why not?"
"Spike! How you dare!" you shout angrily and stand up, and it’s at this moment you notice that Spike has wings and is much larger than your Spike.
“Read it and weep Rover! A pair of Princesses and a pair of two’s!” he declares laying down his cards which show the images of Celestia and Luna, and 2 moons. “Come here pony, I could use a maid.”
But just as he starts to reach for you and the rest of the pile, the other dog coughs and smirks.
“So sorry dragon, but I’ve got a pair of Princesses and a Pair of Discords,” he says smugly as he lays down his cards, showing the images of Twilight, Cadence and Discord.
“Oh Gorramnit!” Spike curses and slams the table while all the other dogs laugh.
“Win some, lose some,” Rover taunts before looking to you. “So, ready to work in mines for the rest of your life pony?”
“Piss off!” you growl as your shards glow and you send forth a burst of energy which throws all those at the table out of their chairs and against the walls. You then lift Spike in your magic by the scruff of his neck and he gulps. “Listen, I know you’re not MY Spike, but that was still very hurtful you jerk!” And with that you unceremoniously toss him out a window where he comedically cries out before striking the ground outside. You then use your magic to pick up your still dazed allies as you fly back up to the portal. Once Flim and Flam are done with their calibrations, you fly yourselves through.
Yet Another World
You all emerge out of some futuristic console, wearing red uniforms of some kind. The room you enter is shiny, chrome and you can see stars hurtling buy from a nearby window.
"Stellar Diary #10881122: Captain Bugze here of the Enterquestriaprize,” your dad’s voice says and you all see him sitting in the center chair of this room and he appears to be balding. Sombra sits to his left with a glorious goatee and your mom sits to his right in a purple and grey uniform, and the Deadly 6 man the rest of the stations. “Yesterday Lt’s Selena, Fluttershy and Dr. Hope attempted to murder our guest Mary Sue again after she tried flirting with me, Sombra and Discord.”
“Gorram right we did,” Selena mutters.
“Not that it mattered,” Fluttershy grumbles while tapping on some buttons.
“Strangely enough, even after her head was removed and 90% of her body burned beyond recognition, she was perfectly fine an hour later and was found playing patty cake with Lt. Pinkie Pie.”
“Be sure to clarify that it was the children’s game, otherwise folks might get the wrong idea,” Pinkie Pie advises.
“Oh gods, we’re in that nerd show aren’t we?” Lightning Dust asks wearing a mechanical visor.
“I actually enjoy that show thank you very much,” Iron Will defends, his forehead now pushed out in what looks like a perma frown.
“It did inspire us as colts,” the twins say, both now having android skin with yellow eyes.
“Yeah well we’re wearing red shirts, so we better get out of here pronto,” you advise just as Captain Bugze looks over to you and continues speaking into his recorder.
“I now suspect that perhaps Mary Sue was never real and that either Discord is pulling a prank on us or Lt. Dash has spiked the coffee machine with hallucinogens again,” he says.
“That was TWO times, you guys need to let it go,” Rainbow Dash complains but he continues.
“Further evidence for the drugged theory is the presence of what appears to be a younger version of my daughter flanked by a Klingotaur, two androids and Ensign Lightning Dust who died three months ago to Captain Chrysalis’s Space Pirates.”
“Wait, I’m dead?!” she shrieks which causes everyone else to look at your group.
“Ah man, why did you have to come back to life?” Rainbow Dash complains and Lightning Dust grinds her teeth.
“Captain, I see them too, and you know not even Dash’s drugs can affect my system,” Sombra says and Bugze nods.
“Excellent point Number 1. Perhaps they are Romulings after all. Detain them immediately!”
“Time to go!” you order as you all jump back into the console.
You Guessed It, It’s Another World
From one sci-fi world to another, you now find yourselves in a chamber above a bride with a deep chasm of machinery beneath it. There is a teenage version of yourself, wearing grey clothing and swinging a blue lightsaber against a dark robotic figure who wields a red one.
“Seriously?” you sputter, knowing exactly what movie this is. Anyling with a brain stem could see what this world was.
Sure enough, your doppelganger gets her hoof cut off and she screams in pain and limps back from the figure.
"You are beaten! It is useless to resist Nightwalker, don't let yourself be destroyed as Twilight Sparkle did, you do not yet realize your importance,” the asthmatic robotic equine figure scolds. “You have only begun to understand your power, join me, and I will complete your training! Join the Dark Side Nightwalker, we have cookies."
“Never! The cookies are tempting, but you just cut off my bucking hoof Darth Offender! Oh, and also there’s the whole thing about KILLING MY FATHER!!!”
"No, I AM YOUR FATHER!" Darth Offender shouts.
“...Awhaaaaaa?!” Nightwalker’s eyes go wide in disbelief.
“This parody has been done to death,” Iron Will rolls his eyes.
“Yeah, they really need to do more with this franchise,” Lightning Dust mumbles.
“Well I heard that the Walt Whinny Corporation was looking to purchase the rights,” Flim says.
“They’d be the only ones who could afford it after all,” Flam nods.
“Eh, if they do make movies they can’t possibly be worse than the Prequels,” you say before your eyes focus on nothing and a sense of immense loss overtakes you.
“What’s wrong?” asks Will.
“I felt a great disturbance in the universe, as if millions of childhoods suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…” you whimper.
Why Yes Indeed, Tis Another World
"Nightshades! Today the Princesses will dine in Tartarus!" a version of you wearing a miniature set of your mom’s armor shouts to thousands of Nightshade clones.
“YYYEEEAAAHHH!!!” all your clones shout in unison as you all watch from a window of the Castle of the Two Sisters.
“And I’m leading another revolution, great,” you huff as the brothers start to punch in more coordinates.
“You all may have come from the Mirror Pool, but your hatred should be no less potent! You all feel that same loss that I have! That betrayal!” the other you shouts and you raise a brow at that. “They would not listen to us at the stadium! And even after Dad, Mom and Sombra came back and saved the day, they still turned them into stone!”
You wince at that, realizing that you yourself had been on a knife’s edge only three days ago. It seems you weren’t able to get through to them in this one.
“All those ponies understand is violence, so we will give it to them!” the leader you roars, her alicorn amulet shards glowing brightly as the clones cheer. “We will rise up this very night and tear down their kingdom of lies! We will save Daddy, Mommy and Sombra and give them the world they deserve!”
“Portal’s ready,” Flam says as the others start going through.
“Uh, yeah okay,” you nod absentmindedly as you look at the army with pity.
“They are rage, brutal, without mercy! But you…You will be worse! Rip and Tear until it is done!!!” she orders and all the clones pump their hooves in the air and shout,
“RIP AND TEAR!!!”
“I’ve really got some deep seated anger issues,” you realize before leaving.
There’s So Many of Them!
You are now all black silhouettes as similarly shaded ducks dance all about while some hairy stallion has the mightiest trip of his life.
“You know, I’m really starting to get annoyed here,” you complain.
“You’re not the only one,” Flim says as she shakes the remote.
“If only we had something from their universe to base the frequency upon…” Flam mutters.
“Well I had a robot from that side, but she’s running amok as we speak in the real world,” you huff, cursing yourself for sending her on now that it’s inconvenient.
“Can’t you just type in Human to help narrow it down?” Lightning Dust suggests.
“It doesn’t work like that Dust, these are all mathematical equations and star patterns that Twilight Sparkle-“ Flam rambles but Iron Will holds his hand out to stop him.
“Alright, a simple no would have sufficed.”
Sighing you look up as the old stallion starts flying through the air, which is a feat unto itself since he’s an earth pony and you rub at your horn.
Nightslayer’s Comment
Loganic’s Comment
Screw You, Have Another!
“It’s zombies again,” you sigh as you all come out on a dilapidated building. Down below are thousands of hungry undead, but in the midst of them you see an older Zebra stallion and a brown earth pony stallion with long hair, a baseball cap, and a big moustache.
“I’m telling you Lee, we just gotta get a boat and we’ll be home free,” the earth pony says as he hits a zombie in the head with a hammer.
“We gotta find Clementine first Kenny!” the zebra barks back as he slices a zombie’s head off with a cleaver.
“How many zombie worlds is that now?” Iron Will asks sounding bored.
“One too many, the markets being oversaturated with zombies!” Lightning Dust complains.
“At least they’re not the running ones,” Flim shudders.
“I still find it implausible that shambling zombies can end the world,” Flam mutters.
“Max Brooks would beg to differ,” an older female voice responds. Looking over in surprise, you see yourself…as a very, VERY old mare wearing a white lab coat. Behind her is a green portal and standing next to her is a young changeling with orange hair wearing a yellow shirt. “Slow zombies are *Burp* totally a threat.”
“What the buck?” you say but are ignored.
“Exactly Shade, so I don’t think we should be here,” the younger version of your dad says in a wimpy voice.
“Nah, don’t th-*burp* think like that Bugze. These worlds are always the best for getting necromantic fluid.”
“Hello? What the buck is this all about?” you try to demand, but they still don’t speak directly to you.
“And why do we need that again?” young Bugze asks.
“It’s part of the components to get Slendermane off my ass! That tentacle-backed bastard ain’t getting my 20 bits!”
“Oh not this again,” you facehoof.
“Oh, okay, but what’s with the younger you?” young Bugze asks.
“Just other bucking dimension hoppers, don’t interact with them or their brains will turn to *Burp* Smoothies.”
“Oh buck you other me! I hope you get bitten!” you huff and turn around to enter your own portal with your companions.”
“Sure, whatever, oh check this out, betcha anything the zebra dies first,” older rude you says as they look over the edge of the building.
“That’s speciest Shade!” young Bugze scolds, as you leave them to their bickering.
Second Verse, Same As The First!
You and the others observe as you are once more in a dead desolate world, and some orange unicorn mare with a red and yellow mane cries while on her knees overlooking all the destroyed buildings and destruction.
“I was gone too long! TOO LONG!!!” she shouts before laughing insanely.
“I have seen too many destroyed Tartarus-scapes today, I think I’m becoming desensitized to them,” Lightning Dust monotones and you continue to rub at the base of your horn where a huge headache is forming.
Kichi’s Comment
Down With Chrysalis’s Comment
Puzzling Frost’s Comment
Take a Wild Friggin Guess Where You Are!
You are currently banging your head against a wall as you are yet again, not in the human world. Instead you are outside the door of what appears to be a conference room where several creatures, including that dog with sunglasses again, are taking notes. There is a whiteboard with many sketches and ideas drawn on it and above it is a banner reading “Life of a Wanted Changeling: The Animation”
A strange, fluffy creature wearing shades and an orange hoodie points at a few scribbled notes under a tab that says “Running Gags.”
“Alright, so we got ‘Look, A Distraction’ on lockdown and ‘Curse You Lady Luck,’ any other suggestions?”
“I say we change it to ‘Buck You Lady Luck’ since we got a higher rating,” the Brown Dog suggests.
“Ooh, good point, I like it,” the furry creature nods and changes it.
“Then what’s the point of bleeding out the nose joke?” a tatzulwurm in a bowler hat asks. “We put that in there to get around the censors in the first place.”
“Well yeah, because it’s funny,” the Brown Dog rolls his eyes. “And I’d rather we be able to curse a bit more than make it more raunchy, this ain’t a teen party story.”
“Excellent point,” the fluffy creature nods. “We still wanna stay goofy after all. Let’s keep Nightshade’s groin attacks as well. Also let’s amp up the adorableness of her crush on Spike.”
And while they all laugh, you cover your face with your hooves and wings and groan in embarrassment while your companions give you questioning looks.
“I’m pretty sure all the classic story gags will still be able to transfer to animation,” a changeling pipes up. He is wearing a shirt with you standing in front of an exploding Canterlot with the words Just Like Daddy above it. “But we gotta move onto marketability here. This is a cash cow franchise just waiting to happen.”
“We’ve already got the shirts for promotional material, but we can worry about toys and the like later, we haven’t even started on the storyboards yet,” the fluffy thing says.
“Doesn’t mean we can’t make some new scenes to promote merchandising,” the changeling points out. “Let’s say we add a scene where Bugze gets a rubber chicken that just suddenly explodes, we could mass produce those cheap pieces of rubber and make a fortune.”
“One step at a time bud,” the dog says. “Gotta worry about adapting the existing scenes first, and above all else the character interactions.”
“Speaking of character interactions, have you seen my notes on my OC I wanna add?” asks a purple earth pony with green hair wearing a blue bandana and glasses. He holds up a sketch of a colt you immediately can identify as Frost.
“This character really should have been added during the Crimson Knights arc,” the tatzulworm sighs.
“Yeah, yeah, I know, but I’ve got a bunch of really good ideas for him that didn’t really get explored in the story in depth. Like, I think the viewers would appreciate a medically accurate examination of PTSD and depression and how constant trauma and failure can lead somepony with power to the darkest pits of despair and-“
“Dude, this is a freaking kid character for crying out loud,” the Brown Dog interrupts. “Look, I know what you’re going for, but you gotta ease up a little, we don’t want our audience to be crying in the dark while listening to Marilyn Manson.”
“Yeah, lighten up for cripes sake! That kid’s been through enough already!” you add in agreement.
“…Yeah, alright, I guess I can see that,” the purple pony nods and makes a note on the picture saying ‘Give Happy Ending.’ “Who said that by the way?” he asks looking up.
“I think it was whoever delivered that life sized doll of Nightshade in the doorway,” the changeling points right at you before looking back to the Brown Dog. “I’m assuming you approved this, and it’s fine craftsmanship. Was it expensive? I thought you said we were on a tight budget?”
“I didn’t approve any toys yet,” the dog says and suddenly all the creatures, including many that haven’t spoken up look to you and you freeze up.
“Oh, maybe it’s a fan made gift, I haven’t received any of those in a long time,” the fluffy creature says happily.
“I’m not a toy ya dingbats,” you huff and all their eyes go wide.
“And it can talk too? You sure you didn’t approve this Brown Dog?” asks the purple pony.
“You kidding? We’re still lucky Hasbro hasn’t locked us all down after all the crap we’ve pulled,” he shoots back.
“I’m real dang it! And stop laughing at my life and trying to add more running gags! It’s annoying!” you shout at them. They all are taken aback for a moment, before the strange furry creature jumps onto the table excitedly and points it’s paw right at you.
“Guys! This is really Nightshade! Do you know what this means?!” he shouts.
“That someone’s really into cosplay?” asks the tatzulworm.
“No, it means the multiverse is real! Our inane writings have come to life! We’re Gods! AHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!”
The others collectively look at one another in concern.
“You all need help is what you need,” you huff and walk out the door, jumping back through the portal.
And as all the writers watch this and the fluffy thing continues to laugh maniacally, they all collectively wonder if the coffee machine was spiked…again.
“Soooo…should I take this as a sign to mellow out on Frost’s trauma?” the purple pony asks and the Brown Dog pats him on the shoulder.
“Sure bud, if that’s the way you wanna see it,” he says while looking worriedly at the hysterical pokemon thing.
“I just wanted to make him an interesting character ya know?”
“He already is man, but you always gotta remember, it’s ultimately not his story,” the Brown Dog advises and he nods. “Which doesn’t mean side characters don’t get their moments. “I mean, why do you think we had some calm scenes with him and Garble?”
“Yeah alright,” he nods.
“That’s the spirit. Now, someone switch the pokemon’s coffee to decaf and let’s start making a lot of these references legally distinct before we get sued out the butt!”
In The Empire
POV CHANGE: Sombra
While your brain continues to try and reboot over this unexpected news of not only being reunited with Hope and your mother but also being a big brother, some of your companions have given you space to talk things out.
“So...that was a thing,” Garble says as he stands over on the far side of the igloo next to Frost who nods. “I can’t even imagine what’s going through that guy's head right now. I mean it was a shock to me when I found out I was gonna be a big brother, but at least I was able to grow up with my sister.”
“Yeah, talk about heavy stuff,” Frost says watching the king speak with his family. “And to boot I think his sister is an adult.”
“Wait, how can you tell?” Garble asks with a raised brow. “I mean they look so tiny, you’d think she’d be Nightshade’s age.”
“I mean they said time moves differently in their prison? And that...” Frost pauses for a moment before shaking his head, “Unicorn mare stayed with them for over a thousand years and doesn’t look a day older than twenty-three.”
“Why are so many creatures popping up from a thousand years ago?!” Garble groans, putting his face in his claws as he tries to process that. “All this time displacement crap is making my head hurt…Eh, no offense.”
“None taken.” Frost sighs at the apologetic tone. “I really don’t understand it either, and I’m the one who somehow preserved myself in ice for a thousand years.”
“So we got all different kinds of time shenanigans it seems,” Garble sighs before shaking his head and trying to change the subject. “But anyway, time stuff aside, can I ask you a question that’s been bugging me for like the last hour?”
“Uh, sure?” Frost says unsure.
“Why are you see-through?” he asks pointing to his body which is mostly transparent, his mane and tail flowing like in the wind.
“Oh, right, forgot that would seem weird to others,” Frost says with a chuckle.
“Are you like, turning into a ghost or something?”
“No no, this is because of the blizzard outside. Whenever I’m somewhere really cold and windy my windigo aspects come out more,” he says trying to come up with the right words. “I’m basically in my element out here honestly.”
“Wish I could say the same, give me a volcano any day of the week,” the dragon grumbles.
“Eh, I guess it’s not for everyone,” the colt shrugs. “Really though it’s helping me feel better. I mean I’m still tired and stuff, but at least I’m able to shape ice a little better than when we were in the center of the city.”
“…So what you’re saying is that when it’s all snowy out, you can do ice stuff better?”
“Yeah, that sounds about right,” he nods.
“Good for you….” Garble says with a strained voice, “Can you excuse me for a moment?” The small drake then walks toward another section of the wall and proceeded to bang his head against the ice.
“WHY *smack* DOES *smack* EVERY *smack* PONY *smack* I *smack* MEET *smack* HAVE *smack* SUPER *smack* POWERS?!” Garble growls, making a few cracks in the ice wall. With one last groan, he then walks back towards the colt passed some confused changelings.
“Are you okay?” Frost asks worriedly.
“Yeah, I just needed to get that out of my system,” Garble nods, rubbing his temple. “So were you born with those powers or?”
“More like cursed with them, I inherited them from my dad,” Frost answers.
“Ah right, dads. I inherited my looks and strength from my old man,” Garble said leaning back against the wall. “My sister Smolder on the other claw looks more like our mom, she also inherited her smarts too,” he responds with a smirk.
“I wish I knew my dad, he...mom never told me much about him. Only that he passed away before I was born, and that he loved us both,” the Windicolt says with a sigh and Garble gulps awkwardly.
“Right, Um...where did you learn to fight? You did pretty well in the stadium against that plant thing,” Garble says trying to cheer him up.
“Flag Burner and his lackeys trained me,” he answers, somewhat bitterly. "About the only good thing to come out of that experience."
"Well I wouldn't mind sparring with you if we get the chance, especially once I get back into my real body" Garble says with a smirk.
“Your real body?”
“Yeah, I may look like a kid, but I’m actually in my late teens. I got shrunk down by some stupid magical tree,” he explains and the windicolt looks confused yet intrigued.
“That’s, uh, that’s rough buddy,” he placates and Garble rolls his eyes.
“Yeah, tell me about it. I mean it’s hard enough being Nightshade’s rival when I was at full height, and this set back just made it even more lopsided.”
“Nightshade’s rival?” the colt asks.
“Yeah, I kind of swore a blood oath after she beat me up in Applewood that I would one day be strong enough to defeat her…it hasn’t worked out too well,” he sighs and the colt is again flabbergasted, but he does grin.
“I’ll say, she’s a bit outside of your league isn’t she? Heck, she’s outside of all of our leagues, even the princesses,” he says with a chuckle.
“Yeah, I figured that after I saw her nearly pull the moon down on us after the hippies got us high,” he grumbles.
“Wait, what?” the colt asks in surprise.
“Nothing…” Garble lies and looks away.
“Okay…well, I mean if you want a new rival, I could maybe help with that when this is all over?” Frost suggests, a bit nervous and hesitant.
“That’s not how blood oaths and rivalries work though…but I’ll consider it,” Garble says with a smirk.
“Ah, classic childhood summer friends vibe right there,” Double Vision says as she slurps at the air over the two. “Reminds me of my larvaehood.”
“…Please stop eating our emotions,” Garble sighs and Frost shudders.
“Hey, I needed something to balance out the sickening sweetness over there,” she says pointing back to Sombra as he talks to his sister.
Back in Another Another World. Having Fun Yet?
POV CHANGE: Nightshade
“Go my loyal brainwashed slaves! Defeat the Princess’s puny forces! Soon all of Equestria will be mine!” Sombra roars atop the crystal palace, followed by an evil maniacal laugh and you sigh.
This is like the third or fourth time you’ve found yourself in a world where Sombra has completely taken over the Crystal Empire, and quite frankly you’re bored of it. The only difference this world has is that he has a big moustache.
“Bucking reruns,” you curse as you use your magic to knock a lit candle off the wall and onto his tail while he addresses his creepy brainwashed armored minions.
“Soon their lands will burn, and…*sniff* *sniff* speaking of burning what’s that sme-Oh My Gods! AAAAHHH!!!” the dictator then starts spinning in circles, which only serves to catch his cloak on fire, and he does the only sensible thing by jumping off the spire and into the snow. The flames extinguish…but then he realizes he’s right in front of the Equestrian forces and Celestia herself.
"Ah Crap" he groans as you spit and start punching at some crystals.
“I’m sick and tired of this guys!” you complain as you shatter a crystal table. “It’s just failure after failure after failure!”
“Hey Nightshade, calm down a little,” Iron Will tries to soothe but you don’t listen.
“No Will! I’m tired of doing this and not being able to help my Daddy!” you shout and break a chandelier.
“To be fair, we are getting close. That world of anthropomorphic ponies proved that,” Flim tries to placate and you bellow.
“Oh don’t remind me of that bucking creepy place! Ponies are not supposed to be bipedal and have hands!”
“It was pretty creepy, not gonna lie. Like a bunch of minotaurs cross bred with all of Equestria,” Lightning Dust shudders.
“Yes, but they were somewhat human in shape,” Flam encourages. “The world before this one led us even closer.”
“How? They were just less fur covered anthro folk from the looks of it,” you complain and smash another chair.
“Still though, there is progress being made,” the brothers argue.
“You say that, but we still went into that world where I was the grown up and taking care of a kid Daddy and I was the most wanted creature in the world,” you throw your hooves up in despair. That world really hurt your brain to think about. “I mean seriously, how would that even work?!”
“I got the feeling it was a world where ponies weren’t exactly the good guys,” Iron Will says and you just roll your eyes and rub at your temple.
“This world hopping is really starting to piss me off,” you whine just as the brothers activate another portal.
“Alright, wormhole connected,” Flim says.
“Great, let’s see if trip number whatever is the charm,” you spit as you cross the dimensional barrier, which you are quite frankly getting sick of.
Surprise, surprise, it isn’t.
You are in some sort of large chamber with statues depicting a dark alicorn and you groan while grinding your teeth.
“Great, another bucking world where Mom is evil and took over!” you snarl.
“Who dares enter the room of Princess Nightshade?!” a gruff voice snarls, and looking past the statues you see candles and lit incense near a large bed where two large figures are silhouetted in darkness.
“Okay, I was wrong, it’s another world where I’m the bad guy and took over! Great!” you pout and kick the ground.
“Wait, hold on a second,” a second more feminine voice says as suddenly a lamp gets turned on revealing the two figures, a slender alicorn mare and a beefy purple dragon. You’ve seen this figure in countless worlds already, so you know you’ll look good when you grow up, but it’s still a weird thing to see. “…Well Well, Well, What do we have here?"
“Nothing to worry about, this is just a dream, big me,” you say with no real enthusiasm. “We’ll be going now and-“
“You’re trying to find the human world aren’t you?” the adult you asks and you suddenly freeze before whipping your head around.
“What?! How the buck did you know that?!” you demand.
"Crap, I owe you 20 bits" the dragon sighs dejectedly while the other you smirks at him.
“I told you things seemed familiar this morning Spikey,” she teases and looks back to you. “I knew the minute Twilight let us stay in this room that today would be the day the younger me would arrive.”
“The day I…Are we in the future?” you ask in surprise.
“Ehh, it’s…a little more complicated than that,” the other you says.
“Why? If you said you remembered me then this already happened yes?” you point out and she shakes her head.
“I remember meeting my adult self and Spike after all those pointless boring worlds, but like the Doctor always says, Time is like a big ball of Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Stuff,” she explains. “For me this was the ideal happy future and I got it, but that doesn’t mean the same thing is guaranteed for you.”
“Oh that’s bullspit!” you grunt. “And wait, happy ending? You’re not an evil ruler in this world?”
“Oh heck no, that statue was a gift from Auntie Luna,” she hoofwaves.
“So, Spike isn’t like your Dark Knight enforcer to enslave the populace?”
“Oh gods, I remember that world,” she shudders before smiling. “But no, he’s the Captain of My Guard.”
“And a darn good one at that,” the older dragon smirks and flexes causing your older self to kiss him on the cheek and giggle and you are transfixed for a moment.
“…Woof,” you say under your breath before blushing profusely.
Ohmygosh! Ohmygohs! Ohmygosh! Are they?! Are We?! Me and Spike Are-EEEEEE!!! Your mind does gymnastics as the older pair chuckle.
“I think you might have broken yourself there Shade,” Spike says to the other you.
“She’ll be fine, right Shade?” she asks you with a smirk.
“I-I’m fine! I’m,” you cough into your hoof and steel yourself. “I’m fine…So, uh, I see you don’t have the amulet in your chest? How’d you get it-“
“Yeah, I can’t exactly explain that,” she says regretfully. “Just know that it’s going to be very painful if it happens the same way.”
“Really? You can’t give me a hint?” you huff.
“Well my older self gave me the only hint I really need,” she says playfully. “You’re all bouncing around world to world all willy nilly because you don’t have a focus right?”
“That’s right,” the twins nod.
“Well be prepared to feel frustrated because you actually do have one,” she smirks.
“What?!” all five of you exclaim.
“Oh for, what is it?!” you demand and she grins.
“Mom got her body using the combined magic of a bunch of different artifacts remember?”
“Yeah, it’s all we’ve been focusing on all year,” you nod.
“Well, the Siren stones which were at the center of it, they held the emotions and even some magic from hundreds of different beings from another dimension,” she insinuates. It takes a moment but understanding finally comes over you as your eyes widen.
“OH MY GODS!” you exclaim as you reach into your inventory and gently pull your mother out.
REMOVED FROM THE INVENTORY
Selena (Sleeping/Recovering)
“What is she-you-her talking about?!” Lightning Dust demands.
“My Mommy is the source we need! There was human emotion and magic powering those Siren Stones so that means there’s some of it inside of her!” you exclaim and suddenly the Flim Flam Bros light up.
“Yes of course, the frequency of the living creatures we desire to get to!” Flim exclaims.
“We can definitely focus in on that with Twilight Sparkle’s little remote,” Flam nods as he wave the device over your mom. It suddenly beeps and flashes some images and both brothers smile.
“Success!”
“So all those other worlds were for nothing in the end?” Iron Will says with a frown.
“Pretty much yup,” the older you says. “Things would have been easier if I hadn’t sent Mangle out, but you’re on the right track now.”
“I am purposefully going to be super angry and smash stuff later, but now’s not the time for that. Thanks possible future me and future Spike,” you say gratefully as you lift your Mom up, not even bothering to put her in the bag and make your way to the portal.
“No problem possible past me,” the older you waves. “Have fun fighting Chrysalis.”
“We will,” you wave before you all jump through the portal once more. After you are gone, the older you sighs and Spike looks at her conflicted.
“You think we should have warned her about what’s going to happen to your Dad?” he asks nervously and she shakes her head.
“No…even if I did, it’s not going to change what happened,” she says with a heavy sigh. “That heartache is still coming for her…for everyone.”
Hopefully the Last One?
After once more going into the breach, you find yourself on the other side…and sure enough, this time you have hands and feet that aren’t covered in fur like that anthro dimension.
You feel at your face, noticing how squishy and flat it feels compared to normal and you beam with a smile using an unfamiliar jaw structure. Looking to your side, you see your mother, still sleeping has also been transformed. Now, you’ve seen the cartoony Humans before on TV…but in real life they don’t look nearly as bad as how your Dad described them. Sure she looks wrong, but your Mommy is just as beautiful as ever, and she also looks awesome with her punk rock attire (where did that even come from?)
And just to make sure you haven’t been duped, you look back at the portal entrance and see it is at the base of a giant horse statue that stands in front of what is clearly a school.
“Guys, we did it! We actually did it this ti-Whoa!” you tumble as you try to stand with strange jointed limbs.
Looking at the others, only the Minotaur seems in his element standing on two legs (unsurprisingly) or rather the transformed minotaur you should say.
Iron Will is still just as jacked as ever, but his horns are gone, as are his bottom hooves and no fur lines his hands. He is wearing track pants, but is still shirtless showing off a toned body covered in blueish skin.
Lightning Dust looks a little younger for a human, probably a teenager if you had to guess, and is wearing some sort of school uniform. Flim and Flam on the other hand look about the same age as they did in Equestria, though if possible they seem even more skinny.
“Okay, this is unsettling, I feel the wind on my bare skin! Where’s all my fur?!” Lightning Dust shrieks.
“Huh, this body is actually not all that different, though my knees are reversed,” Will says flexing.
“Perhaps we could build some sort of automotive chair for when visitors come to this side the first time,” Flim spitballs from the ground.
“Brilliant idea brother, they rent the chairs while they adjust to the new forms, increasing the revenue by at least 20%!” Flam nods.
“Worry about scamming people later,” you say as you force yourself to balance on your new feet. Looking over your body you are child sized, and you are wearing a pretty black and purple sun dress. “Huh, seems like something McStabFlank would make. But anyway, now that we’re here be on the lookout for a girl human with yellow and red hair and-”
“Hey are you alright?” a voice asks as you feel hands touch your shoulder, and it’s a weird sensation.
“ACK! Stranger Danger!” you cry out in shock and flail out with your unfamiliar new limb. Though it appears that even with different body parts, you still remember your signature move.
“EEEEEE!!!” someone cries out as your fist strikes their nards and they bowl over onto their back.
“Don’t freaking touch me you monkey alien-“
“Bugze are you alright?” another voice asks in concern and you freeze up. Now that you aren’t lashing out sporadically you see that your group is most assuredly not alone.
There are a group of 8 Humans standing near a parked tour bus which has the stylish words “The Wanted” written on it. 1 of the humans appears to be an adult with a big bald head and a stylized goatee and glasses, though he looks vaguely familiar, 7 of the humans are teenagers if you had to guess, and 6 of them are very familiarly colored from their skin to their hair. The other is indeed a girl with red and yellow hair.
The two closest to your group, including the one you just knocked in the pills, are also very, very familiar. The adult female human is dressed up in dark punk like clothing, and aside from a few shades of blue looks almost identical to your mother’s human form. And the guy on the ground, well if the orange spiked hair didn’t clue you in, his whining and groaning would have tipped you off.
“Oh sweet sugary Mrs. Buttersworth, I’m dying Nimmy. I’m dying…” the human version of your Dad moans.
“You’ve been hit harder than that before,” the dark blue woman grunts as she helps lift him up, eyeing you warily. “And who are you young lady to go hitting people like that?”
“I…uh…” you say at a loss for words as you look back and forth between them.
They look so weird up close! I mean they’re not ugly, but my parents are HUMANS! This is totally nuts! You think in exasperation. And I just kicked this world’s Daddy in the nards! Great introduction Shade!
“I thought it was Bugze, I mean original Bugze coming back after we saw that flash, but this is…” the girl with red and yellow hair says as she starts to walk over, followed by the rest of the Human Deadly 6, and the older dark skinned human. The girl pauses at the sight of your mother on the ground and opens her mouth in shock.
“Hey now, ain’t that Flim and Flam?” Applejack asks with a raised eyebrow as she looks to the twins.
“Who?” asks Pinkie.
“Couple of swindlers I briefly had a summer job with,” she spits.
“We’re not swindlers!” they both say.
“And isn’t that that motivational speaker that came around last semester?” Rarity asks pointing at Will and Fluttershy winces.
“Y-yeah that’s him.”
“Um, I think there’s a case of mistake-“ he starts but is interrupted.
Loganic’s Comment
“Wait a second, Lightning Dust? What the heck are you doing on this side of town?” Human Rainbow Dash demands and you companion clenches her new teeth.
“Oh screw you Dash!” she shouts and flounders towards the girl, swinging her new limb wildly. “You’re just as annoying in any dimen-*WHACK* Ow!”
Unlike you with your tried and true patented technique, Lightning Dust still hasn’t gotten used to her new limbs and has decked herself in the face, falling at the Rainbow Haired girl’s feet.
“Heh heh, stupid kids,” the bald human says in Sombra’s voice which really, really throws you off.
The buck did his hair go?
“Oookkkaaay, what’s going on here?” Human Twilight Sparkle asks, wearing glasses for some reason.
“They’re from Equestria…” the orange girl says and everyone looks to her.
“How can you tell?” asks Fluttershy and she points at your mother. It’s here that everyone, including the two adults nearest to you, really study your mother, and many side glances are thrown between her and the woman holding Human Dad up.
“She…she looks just like me…” Luna says in shock.
“Well, not EXACTLY, there’s still some slight differences,” Human Dad says looking her over. “But yeah she’s really dang close.”
“Yeah, there’s a reason for that,” you pipe up and the all turn back to you, but you look squarely at the orange girl. “Are you Sunset Shimmer?”
Her eyes widen in surprise at that, but she nods.
“Yes I am, who-“
“Listen, time is of the essence so I’ll get right down to it. My name is Nightshade. Help me Sunset Shimmer, you’re my only hope,” you plead and everyone looks wide eyed at that.
“Hold up, Nightshade?” Human Dad says nearly choking as he studies you harder.
“Isn’t that the name Bu-er, Equestrian Bugze kept-“ Luna starts and you interrupt her.
“Yes, I’m his daughter,” you interrupt before smirking at them. “In a way I guess you could say I’m YOUR daughter from another dimension.”
All these familiarly colored mystical humans go quiet after that, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Human Daddy and Mommy go a bit pale in the face as they register that information.
…Okay, maybe I shouldn’t have led with that little bombshell, you think worriedly. I know I’m in a hurry but that’s got to have fried their min-
“Oh My God! She’s So Cute!” human dad squees at the top of his lungs, before his eyes roll into the back of his head and he passes out.
“%$#@!” Luna grunts out his real name as she catches him, though even as she does, she still stares at you in complete awe, like you are a piece of art.
“Heh, talk about a hell of a start to our reunion tour,” Humbra chuckles and shakes his head. “Freaking magic aliens again.”
“Heh heh…sorry about that,” you say sheepishly. Behind you, Human Twilight whispers to Sunset.
“It’s only been a week, could Bugze really need our help already?” she asks.
“Time works differently and sporadically between the dimensions,” Sunset answers as she walks up to you. The unicorn turned girl has a look of determination on her face, and after giving a quick glance to your sleeping mom, she asks you, “What’s the situation?”
Puzzling Frost’s Comment
Back In The Empire
POV CHANGE: Sombra
After a small bit of time speaking to the younger sibling you never knew you had, you feel…giddy. Your penchant for all things small and adorable doesn’t help matters, but even if that wasn’t the case, she is just so adorable! Your wobbly knees have disappeared in your newfound excitement and just like with Nightshade before her, you feel the penchant to protect this child at all costs. She is energetic, and excitable and just so interested in everything that makes you…you. If it weren’t for the hurried state you find yourself all in, you would gladly chat with Ira for hours and hours.
Didn’t think I’d be adding more to my family this soon…but it is what it is, you think with a dopey grin on your face. Hope for her part has just been smiling at your own elation, giggling at your enthusiasm and acceptance of your sister. But alas, all good things must come to an end.
With the situation being what it is, you both promised to speak more once everyone had been freed. And in a bid to be useful, Ira has taken it upon herself to guide the injured Changelings once they reach the other side.
Unlike with the electrical charge that reacted to Ira trying to come through, the Changelings simply walk through the glowing portal as if they are just crossing into another room. One, a female with two different colored eyes even steps back and forth between it with no problems whatsoever, a fact that brings comfort to the ones crossing over. And as your little sister leads the changelings down the stairs, you turn to your mother’s visage.
“Mother, there is one more thing I must mention,” you say in all seriousness.
“Yes Sombra?” Rabia she asks, turning her attention from Ira aiding the shapeshifters. “What is it? Are there more refugees coming?”
“Well yes, I assume, but I meant something else, something more urgent and personal,” you inform. At the seriousness of your tone, she raises an eyebrow and gives you her full attention.
“What could be more urgent than an enemy army occupying the Empire?” she inquires.
“There is an ally of mine, a friend really, that requires aid,” you say plainly. Her eyes become really inquisitive at that, but she urges you to continue. “There is a young hybrid filly, part changeling and part alicorn, the daughter of the one I’d been trapped in. Her name is Nightshade.”
“I recall this name, you were speaking urgently about her with Hope moments ago,” she nods. “This filly is…important to you?”
“To more than just myself…but yes,” you nod with a sigh. “She is powerful, even though she is still a child, but she has been injured. The shattered remains of the Alicorn Amulet are embedded inside her chest.”
The moment you mention the Alicorn Amulet, Rabia’s face twists in anger and you see as her eyes flash red for a moment.
“The Alicorn Amulet?!” she hisses, which causes the igloo to rumble slightly. “That damnable abomination that Amore created from the bodies of our own kin?!”
You can’t help but scowl yourself at that, having learned that info not long after you’d already destroyed that lying hypocrite princess.
“Yes the very same,” you nod sternly.
“Wait…you said shattered remains,” she says as her eyes revert to white. “It’s been destroyed?”
“Not entirely,” you shake your head. “Nightshade used it’s power to battle a powerful foe where it broke, but it’s power is still potent even as it remains in her flesh. I believe that since it’s origin came from us, that we might be able to remove it from her. Is it possible?”
Rabia pauses for a moment lost in thought, before she starts muttering under her breath with an intense look of concentration.
“Mother? Can you help her?” you ask again and this brings her out of her pondering.
“Yes,” she says with surety. “Though I would loathe touching such a twisted weapon, I should be able to remove it from her.”
You sigh in relief at that and smile genuinely at her.
“Thank you mother, I owe Nightshade much,” You say thankfully, and she gives a nod.
“I will see to it child.”
“I’m not sure that’s safe little one,” your ears perk at the sound of Derpy’s voice. You turn to see the grey mare flanked by Jack and Hope speaking with Frost and Garble.
“I agree it’s better if you come in with us. Splitting the party even more is dangerous,” Jack says with concern.
“But I can be of more help out here than inside the prison,” the blue colt says defiantly. “I don’t get cold, and anypony else escaping is gonna need help getting through the snow to this place.”
“But there’s still Yetis and Polar Bears out there,” Derpy argues weakly.
“What’s the argument here?” you ask approaching the group.
“This colt wants to stay outside rather than come into the prison with the others,” Hope says, “I think he’s still a bit out of it from those cocoons.”
“My name is Frost, and I can take care of myself!” he huffs stomping his hoof.
“Ah, so you’re the one Nightshade told us about. The halfbreed windigo who gave her some trouble.” You say staring down the colt, noticing how wispy and transparent parts of him are.
“Yeah, well…I wasn’t exactly thinking with a clear mind at the time,” he admits with a pout.
“If anything he only inconvenienced her,” Garble snarks and the colt pouts again.
You remember the tales of old, of the Windigos that nearly froze the southern pony tribes due to their animosity.
How one of those bred with a pony is anyone’s guess, you think, feeling disturbed. But still, even with that lineage…
“Mastery over ice in the arctic is indeed a useful knack, but Hope and I don’t need any more tagalongs. She got you out to avoid this very scenario,” you point out.
“I’m not talking about coming back with you guys, I’m just saying I’m in my element out here in the snow!” he barks back. “I am still a bit fuzzy because of the cocoon, but being out here on the ice gives me the advantage to help with less effort. It’s what let me make the igloo after all.”
“That may be true, but it’d be smarter to recuperate more in shelt-“ the wall eyed mare tries to argue and he interupts.
“NO! I can help! I can do this! I need to do this!” he barks as his limbs become a little more translucent and the snow at his hooves hardens a bit. “I know what’s at stake here, I’m not like the other foals! If the Changeling Queen wins, then ponies will die and it will be my fault!”
“Your fault?” you question the child who starts hyperventilating a bit.
“Yes! I was a part of Flag Burner’s revolution, I even helped recover the plant monster a few months ago! The Changelings wouldn’t have taken over if I hadn’t helped and…and…” he trails off, holding back tears as Ditzy frowns and attempts to put her hoof out, but you stop her. The Colt clutches at a locket around his neck and tries to get his breathing under control.
“Kid, none of that was any of your fault,” Jack explains gently. “Flag Burner was going to carry out his plans with our without you.”
He sighs and nods at that, but doesn’t look up.
“That’s true…but I did still help, and that guilt won’t go away. I mean, I became the monster my village thought I was, but then Nightshade and Spike treated me with kindness despite everything, but everything’s freezing now and it will turn out just like my village did,” he says dejectedly before looking up with tears in his eyes. “And I don’t want that to happen to their friends and family, not while I can atone for it in some way.”
That look and sentiment, weren’t you yourself just spouting off such things not even three days ago? You think as you sympathize with his plight. Nightshade had given you a brief rundown on this child, but until you’ve spoken with him, you didn’t know he would be a kindred spirit.
Derpy winces and looks to Jack, you, and Hope, but you ignore her.
“What is it that you wish to do?” you ask him straightforward.
Surprised at first, he gathers himself and says,
“I just wanna do whatever I can to help, even if it’s something small,” he says with determination. “I may not be at my best, but when I am I could help block out the storm in a small area. Kind of make like a tunnel or something to help get others out to the train or here to the prison when you return.”
You nod at this and ask, “And you would not recover in the safety of the prison?”
“That would take too long, the ice is helping a lot,” he argues. “Plus I wouldn’t be able to see anypony coming from in there. So please, let me help in this way, if not for myself then for Nightshade, Spike and every other scared kid trapped in the Empire.”
Well, it’s hard to say no to that conviction, you reckon. And like the bugs, the cold won’t harm him.
Before the worrying motherly side of the cross eyed mare can flare again, the small red dragon steps up and claps the colt on the shoulder, which steams from the two vastly different heat signatures.
“You know he’s just gonna do it whether you agree or not right?” Garble snarks. “Don’t worry I’ll keep an eye on him.”
“Wait, you’re staying outside too?” Jack asks in surprise as even the colt looks at him questioningly.
“Yeah, the kid’s got spunk and won’t back down so neither will I,” he boasts.
“You’ve been complaining this whole time about the cold, what changed your mind?” Hope inquires.
“Oh, you know…conviction and morals and all that jazz,” he excuses with shifty eyes, which none of you buy.
“So be it then,” you say before any more arguments can be had. “But do not try to bite off more than you can chew you two, understand?”
The colt’s eyes light up before he nods and the red whelp gives a claw wave as if he’s relaxed, but you can tell he is anything but.
“Good, keep the shelter up, and keep an eye on the borders of the city,” you order before looking to Jack and Derpy. “Stay near the entrance if you’re worried about them, but get yourself to safety with my people.”
Jack takes a look at the colt and dragon before smirking and nodding.
“Yeah alright, sounds good to me, come on Ditzy,” he says tugging at the mare.
“But they-“
“They’ll be alright, we’re not gonna be far,” he reassures and the mare reluctantly relents.
As they walk away, you hear the colt whisper to the dragon,
“So what’s the real reason you’re not going into the prison?”
“Honestly? The last swamp I was in traumatized me, and I’d rather freeze my horns off than get all sweaty in there,” he admits in a whisper back and you smirk.
“You sure it’s a good idea Sombra? They’re still just kids,” Hope asks you.
“Better here than where we’re headed back to,” you shrug. “Besides, that colt wants to seek redemption, and I won’t deny him that. As another creature seeing the light at the other end of the tunnel, I sympathize.”
She looks at you for a moment in awe before she smiles that sweet grin again which melts your heart.
“Very well then,” she nods and walks back over to the portal just as Derpy and Jack enter. “Queen Rabia, Sombra and I will be heading back now. If we encounter our other allies we will send them here, but if not, we will push forth in freeing you…however we do that.”
“There is a door,” you speak up and she looks back at you.
“A door?” Rabia asks.
“Yes,” you nod. “I believe it to be the true entrance to your prison.”
Your mother’s eyes light up at that in excitement.
“Well I suppose that makes the search easier,” Hope shrugs, clearly not having expected that before a thought comes to her. “Wait, when did you find it?”
“In my secret study in the palace, I’d uncovered it thanks to Amore’s notes. I had begun research on it when the Princesses came for battle,” you explain and she suddenly looks sheepish again.
“Oh…oh okay,” she says awkwardly and you scratch the back of your own neck.
“It’s, uh, it’s fine,” you admit, not wanting bad memories to tarnish what you’ve gained back. “All I have to do is get to my study where I left Amore’s notes, and then I’ll be able to open it.”
“Freedom, blessed freedom,” Rabia says wantonly and Hope droops her ears again.
“I’m sorry that when we release you you’ll immediately have to be thrust into battle,” she apologizes but your mother just waves her hoof.
“Worry not about it Radiant Hope. Just ensure that those dampeners are down before you release us, just in case.”
“My magic has all but come back, so as long as the dampeners are not activated again, I will be able to perform the ritual,” you reassure.
“Well done my son, well done…” Rabia congratulates and you surge with pride.
“Yes, but still, be sure to stick to the shadows,” Jack warns. “You may have your power back, but the changelings outnumber you.”
You smirk at the immortal stallion and say,
“I am not the cockroach Captain, I am the king of fear and darkness. Getting into my own palace will be of no issue…”
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In Human Land
POV CHANGE: Nightshade
After the initial shock and awe had worn off, you wasted no time in explaining exactly what has transpired the last time they saw your Dad. You have not sugarcoated it all and all of them look extremely uneasy. And from what little you’ve gathered from their snippets of conversation, it’s been one week for them since the Rock Concert your Dad talked about. In that time they’ve all gone to camp, gained magical rocks, and were seeing off Human Dad, Luna and Sombra as they started their reunion tour as a band.
“And so, that’s why I decided to come here because you guys have magic that hasn’t been dampened, so will you please help me rescue my Dad and the pony versions of you from Chrysalis?” you finish. The girls all look to one another and start murmuring.
“Not all of us will have magic, my doppelganger was a regular pony right?” Applejack asks.
“And mine is a unicorn, but would I know how to use it?” Rarity asks.
“Would we be able to adapt efficiently in new bodies?” Fluttershy points out.
“I wouldn’t mind being able to fly,” Dash boasts.
“I might be tough, but we’ve definitely gotta help out, and also save Adagio, Aria and Sonata!” Pinkie Pie implores.
“And what do you mean you kids can’t do magic? Last week’s performance blows that theory out of the water,” Humbra chides.
“I don’t think these changeling things will allow them to just start singing Sombra,” Luna reprimands.
“Would the magic of the stones we got at Camp Everfree work on the other side?” Twilight muses.
“They should if they’re Equestrian in Origin, plus I’ll have my horn again,” Sunset answers. “And Princess Twilight and her friends need help as well…”
“So, is that a yes or a no?” you ask hurriedly. “Dad’s only got so much time and everything.”
“Well of course we’re going to help,” human Dad says with determination and everyone looks to his surety. “The freaking tour can wait, I mean come on, that crazy guy did everything for us, so why the hell wouldn’t we help him?”
You smile at that, as do the other humans.
“There’s no debating that,” Sunset nods. “But we gotta play it smart if we’re diving into an occupied territory.”
“Yeah, well I’m not one for smarts,” he argues and scowls. “And besides, another version of Chrysalis is trying to ruin Bugze’s life? Well I ain’t letting that happen twice!”
Luna frowns at that as well and balls her fists up.
“Right, that whore may still be in that god awful reality talent show, but this other version…”
“Hey, hey you two, calm down. This isn’t something we can be hasty about,” Sunset placates. “We’re all going to help, but we need time to-“
“I don’t know if we got time for that Sunny,” he says resting a hand on her shoulder. “That little girl needs her Daddy after all. You understand right?”
Sunset tenses up for a moment, before she lowers her head and sighs while patting at his hand gently…and you suddenly feel a twinge of jealousy. Because the way he said that and did that gesture was just how your Dad does to you.
Mom talked about wanting to adopt her…but that can’t happen! If I get more siblings then I’M the older one! You think irrationally as your shards blip under your dress which gets all of their attention.
“Whoa, what was that?” Twilight asks intrigued.
“A pain in the butt magical doo dad that I’ll be getting rid of soon, but that’s not important right now,” you hoof, er, handwave off. “Listen, you’re all partially right, there’s no time for anything in depth, we gotta move quick. You all don’t have to come with me if you don’t want, all I need is some magic to rescue my dad before the rest of our allies proceed with the plan.”
“Well we’re all coming along, that’s a given,” Rainbow Dash boasts.
“We are?” Humbra asks.
“Yeah, we’ll follow you to help your Dad,” Fluttershy nods. “And also I wouldn’t mind saving the Dazzlings and the other versions of us, I’m sure they could come in real handy.”
“Yeah, perhaps we could split into teams?” Rarity suggests. “Have one side go for our Siren friends and the others go for Bugze and then meet back up.”
“So we’ve all just decided this huh?” Humbra grumbles, but is again ignored.
“We’ve got walkie talkie functions on our phones!” Pinkie says enthusiastically, hold a piece of plastic up similar to the one your Dad showed those pictures on.
“Um, I’m going to assume that’s something useful from those weird futurey things,” you guess and several of the girls giggle.
“That proves she’s Bugze’s kid alright,” Human Twilight chuckles. “But yes, the Sirens would be a big help if we could get them in the fight.”
“They’d be groggy for awhile after coming out of the pod sacks though,” you explain. “Heck, my Grandbuggy is still asleep after being in one and he’s a full blood changeling.”
“Well, couldn’t we wake them up by giving them a magic boost or something?” Rainbow Dash asks grasping at straws and you pause.
“Hmm, perhaps there is some merit to that,” Human Twilight says while biting at her nails. “When I was…Midnight, I did have practice with ebb and flow of magic between myself and the monkeys.”
“So it is possible perhaps? Like giving someone an adrenaline shot?” Sunset suggests.
“In theory, yes, good idea Rainbow,” Twilight says.
“Wait really?” the girl sputters before coughing and trying to play it cool. “I mean, totally, no problem.”
And while Applejack and the others roll their eyes, you process that information as you look at your mother’s transformed body. Suddenly enlightenment comes over you.
“Whoa what’s with the expression Nightshade?” B2 asks noticing your demeanor.
“I’ve got an idea!” you exclaim as you look to Sunset. “You guys still got those magic rocks?”
“Um, yes?” she says. “They won’t be able to help the Dazzlings from this side though so we’ll have to be in person to-“
“Forget about the seahorses for now! I’ve got two other subjects for you!” you exclaim, and with that you reach into your Inventory turned purse and flop Grandbuggy onto the ground next to your mom.
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Grandbuggy
Just like you and the rest, he has been humanized, with dark colored skin, a shiny bald head, and his wrinkles are even more pronounced. As always though, he is wearing his bowler hat, along with clothes that you would normally find on a gambler in the Old West.
“Wha-Where-That is a statistical impossibility!” Twilight sputters as from her view you just pulled a grown man out of a tiny bag.
“It’s bigger on the inside,” you explain simply and the human girl puts a hand to her forehead.
“I never even attempted such experiments when I had the power, but this is…this…”
“Ah, there she goes again,” Applejack snarks and the others laugh. Everyone that is except for your dad’s double.
“What’s wrong man?” Humbra asks B2 as he stares in absolute shock at Grandbuggy on the ground.
“No way…Gr-Granddaddy?” B2 sputters in shock at the sight of the old man.
You look up at him at that, confused by his expression and tone. It’s not till you see human Luna put a hand on his shoulder and give him a sad shake of the head that you put the pieces together.
“Oh…um,” you say awkwardly as you didn’t even account for Grandbuggy’s counterpart not being alive in this world.
“…No, it’s uh, nevermind,” B2 says shaking his head and holding out a reassuring hand. “This is YOUR Granddad, or rather Great Grand Dad…not mine.”
“I’m…I’m sorry,” you say sheepishly but he handwaves the statement.
“It’s nothing, it’s been quite a few years. I was just surprised is all,” he tries to play it off, but you can hear that underlying sadness.
Ah geeze, now I feel inconsiderate and guilty, you think forlornly.
“Umm…why exactly did you bring this old man out again?” Sunset asks interrupting the depressing atmosphere.
“Oh, right!” you snap out of it and turn to her. “You’re all talking about magicing the Sirens back into fighting shape, but right here and now my Mommy and Grandbuggy could use a wake up call.”
Sunset quirks a brow at that, but then her eyes widen in understanding, followed shortly thereafter by Twilight.
“Do we have time though?” she asks and you steel your gaze.
“No we don’t, but let’s do it anyway,” you order. “Because Queen Chrysalis has my Daddy, and I know for a fact Mommy isn’t going to stand for that…”
Back in the Empire
POV CHANGE: Bugze
Your thoughts swirl in the inky blackness of the dreamscape. Memories mix with recent stimuli and form a non-cohesive narrative.
You stand in a trench, somewhere in Canterlot with many other changelings. How there is a trench dug into compacted stone, you have no clue, but it’s there. Your chest hurts immensely and your heartbeat feels funny as pony magic showers down around you.
“9001! I told you to move those podded ponies into the basement, not the Donut Shop!” Sergeant Pharynx, all 12 feet of him, yells at you as an explosion detonates, erasing several of your fellow changelings from existence.
“I’m sorry sir, I just got out of the infirmary,” you excuse but it falls on his giant deaf ears.
“Well you should have remained dead you worthless maggot! Because now the ponies have regrouped! It’s Game Over and it’s all your fault!” he scolds as laser beams strike at him, popping him like a balloon.
“No! It’s not my fault! It can’t be!” you exclaim as all the other changelings get shot, leaving only you. Surrounding you are the forms of many ponies in silhouette, not one of them can be clearly seen. “I was stationed in the caves! This isn’t my…fault?” you guess. It’s then that the strange inconsistencies of this situation come to you.
“Yeah, wait a minute, I was in the caves on the recon team!” you say to the surrounding shadowed ponies. “Chrysalis killed me after I gave Cadence food and water, and after she brought me back I was holed up in the caves until the invasion went sideways, and then the magic wave hit and...”
You shake your head and facehoof.
“I’m bucking dreaming aren’t I?” you say aloud, and as if that’s the magic words, the dream begins to crack all around you. “That’s right, I got choked out by Pharynx at the party and…I’m still asleep from that!”
“Wow, you’re so smart they should give you a diploma for figuring out the blatantly obvious!” a cruel, twisted voice says and your eyes widen. As the dream breaks all around you, you see in the sea of shadowed pony figures one who is now colored in. Your “Friend.”
“You?!” you accuse and he smiles, showing way too much teeth to be genuine.
“Guess you better wake up now before you forget how,” he taunts.
And as the dream collapses, you hear another distant voice ask,
"'It's been a while hasn't it?'" The voice then sighs and immediately says, "No..."
At first, you think you are dreaming again, and that that jerk calling himself your friend is back…but the soreness on your throat from being choked out is pretty definitive in convincing you otherwise.
"We meet again, my one and only worthy partner!" the feminine voice says again further pulling you from the hazy dreamscape. The voice is familiar, and disturbing…but you can’t quite figure out why. You hear them dismiss themselves again and say,
"'Ah! My one true lover! We have been brought together once more!' Yes! That's it!"
One true lover? What is going…on? Your thoughts trail off as you blink the haziness away and see exactly where you are, and then you remember exactly who owns that voice. Oh Buck!
You are currently bound by manacles on every limb and sitting on an ornate couch next to a large and lavish bed, and to make matters even more scary, your borrowed armor is no longer on, and there are round, metallic glove like things covering your hooves.
If that weren’t bad enough, fancy set up is currently dead center in the middle of Cadence and Shining’s throne room, or at least what’s left of it.
The thrones have been disgraced and graffitied, and hanging from the ceiling above the chairs are 11 pods. The Elements, Princesses, Shining, and Spike are all cocooned and set up like trophies, and strangely some of them have their heads free.
Oh buck, oh buck, oh buck, oh buck! You mentally scream as come to realize that you are smack dab in the middle of Chrysalis’s new throne. The last time you met her in a castle, you had been in control, you had had the power while she’d been weakened. Oh how the tables have turned.
“Hmm, perhaps I could come in with some refreshments? Social etiquette would force him to take one…” you hear your former larvaehood friend muttering just out of sight and a cold sweat breaks out over your chitin.
Stupid bucking Pharynx! Buck you Thorax! Your brother is still the same evil pain in flanks he always was! You think angrily, before trying to focus your thoughts. But I’ll yell at you later. Where the heck are Nightshade and Hope’s group? Did they get captured too?
Through the ground you hear a muffled crash and you hear the Changeling Queen sigh in frustration.
“Seriously, how hard is it to subdue one lousy machine?” she grumbles. “Perhaps the cold will damage it’s gears and that brat and slut will finally show up for it…”
Alright, so she seems distracted, you realize as you try to come up with a plan. I’m chained up again, and now my hooves are encased in metal…for some reason. I can either play dead or try to sneak out and-
“Psst! Bugze!” a whisper cuts through your thoughts.
What the-? You think as you look for the source.
“Up here!” the voice whispers again. Looking up, you see Cadence, one of the few with her head free from the cocoon, and she is looking at you urgently.
“Cadence?” you whisper back.
“Bugze! Use black magic on the throne and stairs will appear!” she urges you.
“Stairs?” You mouth at her before last year’s events come back to you. Oh right, that big hole in the ground that I followed Spike into that had the scary door.
You have to admit, as emergency escape routes go, you could do worse…but unfortunately.
“I can’t Cadence,” you say reluctantly and her eyes widen. “Selena and Sombra aren’t in my head anymore. I can’t use that kind of magic anymore.”
She looks at you for brief few seconds in surprise before her face falls,
“Buck!” she curses, and you feel for her. With Chrysalis’s mental facilities as they are the only reason she would have some of the captive’s heads free is to taunt them. Unable to move or use magic, it would be maddening after three days. “What about Nightshade?”
“I don’t know where she’s at!” you whisper back. “I got captured rescuing Grandbuggy, but hopefully they’ve gone for help and-“
“What about your Saddle Bag?” Twilight’s voice suddenly whispers. Looking over you see her too looking out of sorts, but her head is also free. “Don’t you have any black magic devices in there?”
“I don’t have that either!” you whisper shout in frustration. “And even if I did there’s nothing in there that…does…that…?”
You trail off as you see both alicorns looking mortified as they look just over your shoulder. Gulping, you slowly and reluctantly turn around on the couch…and your vision is filled by green eyes. Eyes drowning in madness, obsession, and twisted love that strikes fear into your very core as a sickeningly sweat voice echoes throughout the throne room,
"Why hello my Love Bug~!"
Faced with that, there is really only one logical reaction you could take.
“AAAHHHH!!! Would You Kindly Buzz Off?!” you shriek like a filly as you thrust your hoof out at Chrysalis’s unnerving smile and attempt to pump Electro Bolt into her.
Unfortunately…
“BBBBZZZZZTTTTGGHHHAGAGAGAEEEE!!!” you rattle off as not only does your hoof heat in immense pain, but the casings around your hooves reflect the lightning back into yourself, lighting up every nerve in your body.
After a few seconds, which seem to be an eternity of pain, the discharge stops and you fall back onto the couch, with some smock wafting off of your hair.
Chrysalis smirks at that as she waves away some of the smoke with her wings, and as she does you see the crystal heart fitted around her abdomen.
“Now now @#$%&, there’s no need for that foolishness right now,” she coos and runs a hoof down your cheek. “I mean if you wish to continue, you’ll only hurt yourself more, but that just means I can nurse you back to health even longer…”
The insinuation makes a chill run down your spine, and you realize that at this moment, you don’t even have your plasmids to fall back on.
“Buck…” you breathe out…but you realize that is exactly the wrong word you could have used as her eyes sparkle.
“Oh don’t worry, we will my lover. We most certainly will…” she says with lidded eyes and you squirm and sink back into the chair more.
“But you’ll have to be patient, there’s still some loose threads after all. How about we catch up and get into the mood a bit before we get onto the main event?” she insinuates and rubs her hoof through your mane.
Whimpering, you look up at Twilight and Cadence who both look grossed out and full of pity for you.
“I Need an Adult!” you screech.
“I Am an Adult,” she says back calmly with a snake like flicker of her tongue.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
I can reach the original artwork. What was it a picture of, anyway?
Keep up the electrocution until you go unconscious, it’s hard to romance a vegetable
Perhaps if the casings/shackles prevent projectiles, then perhaps Bugze can throw himself around with bucking bronco at an opportune moment.
I suspect they'll figure out how to wake Selena up but Granbuggy will ask for five more minutes until Nightshade screams for him to wake up because Slendermane is taking 20 more bits back as accrued interest.
Human Twilight can summon her army of monkeys as reinforcements because... science
Cadence and Twilight will be forced to perform the ladybug dance because Iron Will has to convince Chrysalis to distract her10893287
The source link is the same image, but with blue eyes. It was an art commissioned for the story iirc, but Bugze has orange eyes, and not blue eyes like in the picture. The actual image is still there but imgur is kind of messed up. You can still download it but browsers will complain.
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Gosh, it's been too long, but this has been utterly glorious. Thank you for the incredible ride so far
noticed a mistake here, unicorn twins not earth ponies
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With Nightshade
As the human team began to get ready for everything, Nightshade ask a question
"Any of you know someone called Discord?" Ask Nightshade to the human group, if she could take more reinforcement, the better, it was too bad she could not take Cadence, Celestia or Luna to help her but maybe he could take the powerful god of chaos.
"Profesor Discord was our science teacher in Crystal Prep but was suspended temporally after his lab exploded in the middle of a experiment, he told us he was going to use the time off and take a vacation in Mareami or visit a couple of friends and..." Say Human Twilight to Nightshade and stopped a moment
"And avoid a multi dimensional filly and her party of heroes and not be mixed with a fixed point in time or something" Added Human Twilight making Nightshade groan at the news
"While it may be a far shoot, does any of you know anyone named Chrysalis? Maybe we can recruit her from this universe and use her to defeat our Chrysalis" Ask Flim
"Never mention that b*tch in front of me" Say a angry B2 looking at Flim to the eyes and scaring him until Luna took him back holding him
"Duly Noted" Say Flim as he retreated a couple of steps, while looking at his brother that was talking with Human Twilight with a look that tell him that he found the golden egg chicken.
With Bugze
Bugze tried to calm himself, and try a idea, something very hard for him in that moment
'My head feels a little too empty without the voice of Selena and Sombra around... How long has it been since I could think by myself without having two voices answering to my thoughts? I feel a little to alone... Sigh... this is not the time for melancholy, we need a plan... for now maybe it could be better to let her win and wait for her to slip, is what happened with many enemies' Thought Bugze for himself as he tried to make his brain work for more ideas
"You are very silent honey, what are you thinking? Surely you are not thinking of escaping me, right?" Ask Chrysalis
"Err... Uhh... Of course not" Say Bugze as he looked to his hoofs and was tempted temporally to bite them like how he managed to see in some trapped animals in one of those Nature Documentaries
'As tempting as it could be, it could not work' Thought Bugze as he shocked the head
"It's... Uhh... I was thinking of you, of course" Said Bugze trying to sound in love while inside he wanted to puke, it was not that Chrysalis was not beautiful, in a changeling sense but she was an old crush and too many bad memories hanged with her.
"If you could kindly take the casings I could show you how much I love you..." Say Bugze
"Good try, my love, but I still have enough sense to know is a bad idea" Answer Chrysalis as she go around Bugze looking at her prize
Just as Bugze began to think that Chrysalis was going to do some horrible to him, someone knocked to the door.
"Who is it? Did I not say that I don't want to be interrupted?" Shout Chrysalis
"Filly Scouts!" Say a high pitched voice
"What the..." Chrysalis groan and began to mutter many things
"Did I not say explicitly to stop any filly scouts after the last time? We don't want more cookies... How did my soldiers let you pass?" Ask Chrysalis
"Ma’am, as we told you, we are the filly scouts, and neither snow, rain, tsunami or an army of enemy creatures can stop us from reaching our goals!” Say the filly
"We also have a 10% discount for royalty, we can be very convincing and this time we are not selling cookies but chocolate, we can even sell tiny ice boxes to maintain the chocolate for a year" Add the Filly scout
"Ice boxes... You know we are in the middle of snow, snow and more snow, right?" Ask Chrysalis
"Yes Ma'am" Say the filly
"Help! Search for help! Alert the Equestrian guard! The Power Ponies! Anyone! The Princesses are captured!" Shout Bugze
"Wait one moment..." Groan Chrysalis as he throw green goop around Bugze muzzle to maintain him in silence and open the door
"I'll take everything and a 30% extra if you forget what my stupid husband decided to shout, you can take the money from the Crystal Empire treasury" Say Chrysalis as she took the chocolate from the scouts and let them go, looking at the changeling guards at the sides of the door that were knocked out.
"Somehow I don't want to know how they did it..." Mutter Chrysalis as she wake the guards and leave the boxes of chocolate at the side, then approach Bugze and take the goop from his mouth
"Good try, darling... But it's not enough... Now, get ready for..." Began to say Chrysalis when she was interrupted again by someone knocking the door again.
"Who is this time?" Shout Chrysalis
"Colt scouts, we found the filly scouts on the way and they told us that we could sell cookies here" Say the high pitched voice of a colt
Chrysalis groaned, and did the same as with the filly scouts, and closed the door
"Okay, that should be it... Now, let's get to it Bugze, we are going to have fun..." Only to be interrupted again by someone knocking to the door
"Yes?" Ask Chrysalis
"Hello, we are Believers of Equalitarism, we want to know if you could want to join our group where all the ponies are equal under our supreme mistress Starlight" Shout the voice of a pony
"We are changelings and I am the queen, what make you think we could want your stupid cult?" Ask Chrysalis
"We are not a cult, and we welcome everyone, even non-ponies... All are equally under our supreme mistress Starlight" Say the pony voice
"No, I don't want to join your stupid cult... How did you pass the guards?" Ask Chrysalis
"They looked at us, told us something about 'not again' and 'Just don't hurt us' and let us pass" Say the pony voice
"Well, I don't want to join, go somewhere else like Ponyville" Shout Chrysalis
"Yes Ma'am" Say the Pony voice
As Chrysalis waited and breathed in and out to calm herself, she approached Bugze again
"Now that there are no more interruptions, in what part we stopped honey?" Ask Chrysalis approaching Bugze only for someone knocking again the door
'For one bucking time, Thank you Lady Luck' Thought Bugze
Bugze in his current states will scream like a little girl for God knows how long until chrysalis starts to kiss or hug him and being creepy around him and starts to tell him about what truly happened or at least her interpretation on what happened to the dance and how she truly is sorry and know she will be with him forever.
For sombra with his sister and hope they are sneaking around the castle and sombra reminisce about all the crimes that he is done while being a tyrant and as well the slap in the face when bugze and nightshade coming into his life as well thinking about a future with the umbra free and a life with hope thinking about their future.
Nightshade in the human world is waiting for grandbuggy and Selena to wake up and converse with his alternate parents and talks about their life and asking possibly on the where babies come from and bedroom question. And with a few scenarios and events later they both wake up confused at first where they are and Selena figuring out that she is in human world and grandbuggy not freaking out he has hands dut the fact with the doctor he got turned into a human onced and both are shocked to find alternate bugze and luna and they are filled in on the plan and grandbuggy starts to train the sirens and the rest in combat skills.
Sorry for last comment. I was not thinking well because I had 4% battery on my phone. Let's go for nostalgia.
with bugs
You raise your hoof up to your face and thinking about the yandere in front of you those crazy green eyes. 'Okay I think there's two options one escaped from her. the other one be her King rule over Equus. And have relationship and cons- nope bad bug. what am I thinking. I have nightshade.' You look at your chains that are 20 ft long you keep that in note.
As well when you were thinking she was saying this out loud. "It's been 5 years. of this fighting nonsense being a hero. You're not hero.
You look up at your chains was long and see them connected to a crystal bed *shutter*. They are made from ruby red. tough Crystal material. And strange glowing.Think #$#!# think." She said raising her Hooves up to her scalp. (It's that meme from invincible watch it it's good)
You looked around the room seeing a pillar. that has a chain going up to the ceiling to a chandelier. The chandelier was close to the cocoons of Rainbow Dash and Cadence. *Ding* bugs has an idea if he shakes the chandelier from the chain in hits them they can escape. And get help.
okay that's enough for me and my brain is starting to get a migraine. but bugs got the wrong ponies you can decide.'
Okay, I have some ideas in mind but I have to flash them out. But I want to drop this idea on you all before it forget it:
Creepy Chrysalis goes full creep mode, and I mean full creep mode. She starts going on this long, disturbing tangent full of madness of her desire for Bugze. How she spent all those months inside her prison thinking of nothing but him, and how it’s been her glorious purpose to escape it and be with him once more.
She even goes on how that love kept her alive long enough to make this day a reality….even if it meant some of her more loyal subjects could not.
Cue disgust and rage from Bugze, who informs the confused Twilight and Cadence that Chrysalis had been feeding on her own love, which is highly poisonous to a Changeling and can twist their mind to madness. While Cadence makes an offhand comment about how ‘now it all makes sense’ in a sarcastic way, but that’s not what infuriates him.
No, he growls out how, based on what Chrysalis said she likely extracted the love of other changelings, and since love is essentially the life force of Changelings….
Yeah, not a pretty picture there huh?
Gonna add more later, but if anyone wants to add on feel free. Go all out on the creepy!
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Maybe Chrysalis trying different wedding dresses in front of Bugze?
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It was then that somehow, someway Chrysalis began to dance and sing.
"This day is going to be perfect..." Began to sing Chrysalis only to be interrupted by Cadence
"Hey, that's my song!" Shout Cadence
"What? No! It's mine!" Shout Chrysalis
"No! It's mine!" Shout back Cadence
After a long quarrel that looked as if it was two fillies instead of grown up ponies or changelings Chrysalis use some goop to silence Cadence.
"As I was saying...
This day is going to be perfect...
The kind of day of which I dreamed since I was small ♬" Began to sing Chrysalis
"What? But it was she who rejected me" Muttered Bugze in low voice making Chrysalis look at him for a moment, before she continued the song
"Everypony will gather 'round
Say I look lovely in my gown
What they don't know is that I have fooled them all" Continued Chrysalis with the song
"Sure, they gather around because they can't escape... And seriously, Lovely? Fooled? Was she always that obtuse?" Asked Bugze to himself making Chrysalis stop for a moment and look at him again with a crazy smile
"I could care less about the dress
I won't partake in any cake
For I oh so love the groom
All my thoughts he does consume
Oh Bugze
we'll be there very soon" Sang Chrysalis making Bugze negate with the head
"There, where? The only place she will be with me willingly is at the other side of a cell... All that love seems to be messing with your memories" Comment Bugze as Chrysalis ignored him
"He will be mine, all mine... And that Nightmare Moon wannabe will not have him" Shouted Chrysalis
"You will not succeed, my daughter will help me, I'm sure at this moment she will be getting help" Shouted Bugze
"Your daughter will do nothing if she is intelligent enough, and soon she will call me mother, and I will educate her, and if she don't want to do it, then I will just need to convince her just like I did with Shining Armor" Say Chrysalis smiling with her horn glowing
"Good luck trying to marry me thot." Said bugs chuckling "you need a priest and good luck finding one of those." He laughs hard
"Those are Pony cultures. we are changelings we have different cultures of marriage." she said. "You know our rules. changeling marriage goes down are ancestral tree the praying mantis."
Bugs begin screaming like a filly. knowing what's going to happen at the end of the Rope of life. He began to flashback to all the good times.
"But for you. you will live." Said chrysalis walking towards the door. "Well you excuse me I'm going to find a wedding dress and I know this purple snogged has." She walked out but. "I want guards guarding this room. I'll be back soon bugs."
I took time thinking. Because crystal had no dad growing up.?
"You know, it could be more easy if we got a gun, we could use it and finish that Queen Cheeselegs easy by dinner time" Say Rainbow Dash only for the other human girls except Sunset, to look at her angry with B2 and Humbra not really caring
"What? Surely I'm not the only one thinking that" Excuse herself the human Rainbow Dash
"It may be so Sugarcube but even for a villain like that, I think it's too much" Say Applejack
"I don't understand, what is wrong with that 'gun'?" Ask Nightshade and she was not the only confused by the look of the other inter-dimensional beings
"Well..." Sunset approached them and whispered in their ear in the way that Nightshade could not listen, she only managed to hear words like 'Blood' 'Hole' 'explosion'
"What, what is it?" Ask Nightshade to her 'allies'
"You will know when you are a adult" Say Gilda as she hold her will to puke, just like the others, except Flim and Flam that seemed to think of something.
"Whatever..." Nightshade decided to check around the school and look around the human world.
As she walked behind the school, she found what she guessed where the human form of her friends Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle.
"We should not do it, the pony world could be too dangerous... Maybe we should re-think about it" Say Sweetie Belle almost crying to Scootaloo
"Nothing is too dangerous as long as I'm with you, Sweetie Belle" Say Scootaloo as she hug Sweetie Belle.
"Scootaloo, why could you do this? You know my sister could never accept this, she want to monopolize all the hugs" Ask Sweetie Belle
"It's obvious, because I like you, I like you Sweetie Belle, Human or Pony, I will always hug you" Say Scootaloo as Nightshade throw a gasp and the girls notice her.
"Uhh... Hi?" Ask Nightshade a little confused until a voice began to shout
"Okay, CUT! CUT!" Shout the voice of Apple Bloom as she appear from behind a tree with a camera
"Sigh, I told you we should had done this somewhere else instead of behind the school" Say Scootaloo
"Sorry for interrupt, whatever that was" Said Nightshade looking at the human Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo
As they looked at each other, Scootaloo still hugging Sweetie Belle, she stopped and go back a couple of steps as both of them turned red.
"Don't worry, we are the members of the Canterlot Movie Club" Say human Apple Bloom as a little 'yay' was added by Human Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle and walked behind the tree taking a box full of what looked to be posters, giving one to Nightshade who after looking put it in her inventory
Added 1 Poster to the inventory
"It's a movie we decided to create after Miss Sunset revealed that she was from Ponyland" Say Apple Bloom
"Is Equestria" Correct Sweetie Belle
"Whatever..." Say Apple Bloom taking importance
"'To hug a Sweetie Belle' A forbidden love story between a human and her friend who is discovered to be a pony" Add Apple Bloom
"We are still not sure about why is forbidden, we have only a script with only a couple of scenes and a poster of what we imagine ourselves in Ponyworld after talking with Sunset Shimmer" Say Scootaloo
"Well, the poster is very accurate" Comment Nightshade
"Wait, you are from there?" Ask Sweetie Belle as her eyes and the eyes of the other two CMC began to sparkle
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The image is not mine, I saved it a time ago, and recently found it, and decided to use for a post... If anyone can think about how could the 'forbidden romance' between Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, is free to use it for the movie
This is a joke
Pony Sombra
Sombra was trotting and jogging the wind of the breeze pushed back on his hair.
And he lost a piece of his hair and it flew back and hit radiant hope on the muzzle giving her a tiny mustache. Sombra begin to panic losing a tiny chunk of his hair.
"Curse you whatever deity. you are." Sombra scream to the heavens.
I did that Simba. bruh hehehe.
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My computer is giving me problems because I can't read the post
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Yeah is it like not showing anything? If so it’s doing that for me too on my phone also. I also don’t remember typing anything for hours ago weird
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Yeah I don’t know what that was about so I just deleted it going to check my account and see if anything weird it’s happening but it was probably a glitch
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Dude be careful the glitch gremlin might be around.
Just joking I hope you're okay. Mobile users need to stick together.
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Yeah seemed to been a glitch so all good
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If it happens again, you can always ask a Mod, maybe they find something bad
Something a little short that crossed my head
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Just then, a light appeared above Bugze
"Wait, we can't be married!" Shout Bugze
"Not again Darling, I know you have a little wet hoof and are scared but..." Began to say Chrysalis only to be interrupted
"No... I mean, you are married to Shining Armor, I can't marry you without marrying Cadence and Shining Armor" Say Bugze and prayed to all that it worked
"Wait, what?" Ask Chrysalis surprised as this was the first news and didn't know about that
"Well, he is the stallion in charge, and if we are going to marry we need the others to agree to enter the herd" Argue Bugze
"But..." Began to say Chrysalis but was interrupted by Bugze
"I err... Remember the rule of Queen Tutankabee and how she married many times stallions that had many wifes? She had to ask the other wives to accept her before she could marry him, and agree to maintain them after killing the husband" Say Bugze as he invented a story
"Surely, as the great Queen Chrysalis you remember the stories of past queens, right?" Ask Bugze
"B...But of course" Said Chrysalis even if she tried to remember about that Queen Tutankabee
"Then you will need to take them out of their pods... also, how is that you did not ask my parents for my hoof? Or I your parents? Should I not ask your parents for your hoof and you my Grandbuggy? Surely you remember the stories and how did it go to Queen Hatshepbettle when she tried to not honor the tradition" Said Bugze as he tried to stall for time
"I... Yes... Of course I remember the story of Hatshepbettle... I... Wait a second, how do you remember that if you always got a 0 in history?" Ask Chrysalis pointing her hoof to Bugze
"uuuhh, because I decided to study for my darling Chrysalis and be ready for our wedding?" Asked Bugze as he tried to find a good lie and not to puke
"This could be a good time for that damned Draconequs to help" Muttered Bugze
Meanwhile in Ponyville
A draconequs was resting while looking trough the window, trying to recover from the operation and to heal himself, while it was true that as long as chaos was in the world he could be okay and the higher the chaos around the better he was, he still needed bed rest and recover.
"My chaos sense is tingling" Say Discord, just as a pony with a green suit appeared
"Did someone call Tingle the Breezie? We can sell you a map of Ponyville for only 1.000.000 of bits" Said the strange green pony
"No, I was not talking of you" Said Discord
"No one talks about Tingle, but I as my Breezie cousins will leave using my magic powers... Tingle, Tingle! Kooloo-Limpah! ...These are the magic words that Tingle created himself. Don't steal them!" Shout as he throw glitter to Discord and leave.
"Maybe I should try to help Nightshade and Bugze, for one time... Before that I will do what I always do, consult the magical eight ball!" Shout Discord to himself as he take a ball the size of his head from some hammer space and begin to shock
"Oh, great magic ball, what should I do about the problems of Bugze and Nightshade?" Ask Discord as he shock the ball until a note appear 'nothing'
"Guess, that is all... But, while your wisdom is great, another opinion must be acquired. One greater than your own" Say Discord throwing the ball and taking a plastic conch shell of pale pinkish, maybe purplish, color.
"Oh, Magic Conch! What should I do about the problems of Bugze and Nightshade?" Discord pulled a string and placed it close to his ear
"Nothing" Said the conch
"THE CONCH HAS SPOKEN!!! AS ALWAYS I'LL DO NOTHING!!!" Shouted Discord only to add in low voice "But seriously, I hope they resolve it quickly because I'm getting bored"
Back with Bugze
"Any more revelations you'd like to blindside me with before the wedding? My tax consultant is actually a robot from the future in disguise? Dentists have been the world's superpowers all along?!" Ask Chrysalis to Bugze
"Your changelings threw out all the regular coffee months ago. You've been drinking decaf this whole time" Said Bugze
Chrysalis seemed to want to scream but maintained the calm.
"Anything else? How many secrets do you know? How many traitors I have? Did you tell any of those ponies any of the hive secrets? The numbers of our warriors? The infiltrators we have in every city? Our recipe for love-infused nectar?" Asked Chrysalis to Bugze as she seemed to be trying to maintain calm
"I didn't tell them that you sleep with a little stuffed plushie" Said Bugze in a moment of inspiration, even if he was not sure if that was true or not
"You should have never brought Mister Flufflebottoms into this" Said a angry Chrysalis as it seemed to want to do something to Bugze only to suddenly get still like a statue.
"I guess she could not mix the anger against me and her love induced... Now I need to find a way to get everyone free before she wake up" Muttered Bugze
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There's something missing here time for me to add my sprinkles to the mix I sense potential.
diamond and silver spoon walked out of the drama club.
The two were talking to each other. "Have you seen the director of the drama club he was pretty mad today." Said silver spoon to diamond tiara.
"mad. he's always mad when he doesn't get his way every single day." Diamond responded in disgust walking down the stairs. "He never responds to our ideas and everybody's. he just cares about how good are the actors and good writing and story." Diamond said anger and her tone. walking at the back of the school with silver.
"No he was yelling today about his camera." Said silver spoon "he got robbed. Somebody took his 2000 dollar camera. Said spoon shivering at the last words the director yelled "He said I'll stran-." heard words were cut off at her friend were raising her hands and pointing at the cmc and a strange kid next to them. they were talking about something.
Silver spoon and diamond tiara changed demeanor. They looked professional and they walked up to them. "Oh look it's the three losers and they made a little friend." Said diamonds in her bully voice.
"Oh not you again. Silver and tiara why won't you just leave us alone." said Scootaloo getting annoyed at Diamond interrupting their conversation with nightshade.
"I'm better at yo-" diamond was saying then getting interrupted.
"B#:#,_;# say what." Said Nightshade Bean quick afterwards
"What." Said diamond and silver spoon in confusion.
"Then you're a b#$#!." Shade said insulting the two girls in front of her protecting her friends.
"Yeah I agree with nightshade." said Apple Bloom raising her arm with a camera that looks expensive. that is still recording. "I got you on film."
"We got proof that you were annoying us haha." said Sweetie Belle feeling proud that Applebloom was still recording. "Well you excuses we're trying to make a movie."
"You can't make a movie all your ideas got turned down. we saw the director turn you down. What a terrible movie idea." Diamond chuckled with a tear of mockery. And with silver laughing as well
And they stopped laughing. Diamond tiara and silver spoon realized something. They looked at the camera shivering looking at it. "Where did you get that camera. I know that you can't afford a camera Apple Bloom."
Apple Bloom look around with Shifty eyes. "I bought it in a store." She said lying. where she got it from.
"That is a lie-." Diamond was about to say further.
"Look a distraction" said Apple Bloom sprinting away well Diamond and spoon would look the other way.
The rest of the CMC and nightshade confused but followed Apple bloom.
Silver spoon and diamond tiara looked back and see dust particles and body shapes "I think we found the missing camera of the Mad director."
With the flim and flam
They looked around the area for nightshade they walked like they were on booze.
"Yo flam I've been thinking why are we taking orders from a filly." Said flim not enjoying being a bodyguard for a filly half his own age. "Why can't we just ditch the others and a lot of bits ourselves." Walking down the east Northside side of the school.
"She is half our age but she's powerful like a raging dragon spirit." Said flam being careful where he walked as he was holding their way home.
'Screw this I'm going back to the portal.' flim thought walked away from his brother.
flam walking around this area there were a lot of dark spots area. but he has a strange feeling that he's being watched. "Hey Brother do you feel like some-." flam said watching his brother leave the area while he was still here. "Wait for me broth-." His words were cut off. He felt sleepy all of a sudden. But he couldn't move forward. because somebody was holding him in place.
"Don't you move flam." said a voice that sounds deep and Gruff. that has a lot of anger behind it. "you're going to tell me where you stole my money." flam turned to the male voice and he only saw bright purple eyes with anger looking at him. He and blacked out.
"time to carry you. Ronald McDonald rip off." As the stranger said being annoyed carrying his enemy. But he noticed a something on the ground. that has wires. He walked up to the thing and picked it up. "I'm going to in enjoy scrapping you later. after the suffering of flam and his stupid brother." He said baring his teeth at the names. He putting it in his jacket inter pocket. As he left the area in the shadows of the daylight. something slipped out of his pocket.
It was a business card and the name was Nightslayer director of the drama club. "Some people call him the dark Griffin of Destruction."
i can't believe I got sloppy. Sorry if you hate this. I'm trying so hard.
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This might be a little too forward but you can add in the other parts in the middle
"Uuuuuggggggghhhhhhh." flam groan waking up. "What happened I was just walking with my brother looking for nightshade." He thought opening his eyes and quickly closing them from the light above him. He was sitting in a chair.
"Stupid electricity why is your light so tantalizing." he muttered still in a stupor. He opened his eyes again and try to get a good look at the layout he was at.
It looked like a back room of an office. The back office room had no windows. The lights were bad. Almost all of them were cracked or none of them. There's only one working light and flam is under it. so there was a lot of Shadow to the room. Flam noticed that he can see through a bit in the room. He saw papers scattered around the room in a Rush motion and even a poster for a band called The crimson's Knights. He looked away from the poster.
"Thank Celestia The Crimson Knights are over." Flam muttered these words out loud. Flam trying to get up. but his body didn't want to move. He was tied up. "What's happening who did this." flam said
"Hush now your going to ruin my fun." A voice said at the very end of the room in the Shadows.
flam shivered at the Gruff voice looking at the location where the voice came from.
But what he saw was a TV. and next to it was a table with (weapons there was a crowbar and aluminum bat an crossbow. (They are all Props)
Flam saw a figure sitting in an office chair. right beside the table.
"We meet again flam it's been so long." Said The Gruff Voice. Flam saw the figure get up and from an office chair. "I'm betting that you're scared. you're in a new place without your brother." He said intimidatingly on the other side of the dark room.
"Who are you." flam sad in a scared voice. The figure grab something on the table.
The figure walk slowly to flam and stepped under a working light bulb. "Your worst nightmare."
Flam saw him. he was tall like the same size as vice principal Luna. He was wearing a black hoodie jacket with a red bandana with the emblem of the Crimson Knights and black sweatpants with sneakers and a ruby red golden ring on his right arm on his ring finger. The ring was glowing a bit. His hair was black and long and curly and it reach towards his shoulders. The hair hidden his ears. His skin was like Nightshades dark black. he looks about to be the same age as Sunset. His face was weird. he had a pointy jaw and a pointy nose. And white spiral circles around his eyes. but the Striking feature was his eyes. His eyes were bright purple staring at him with a hint of rage.
"flam tell me where is my money." He said walking towards flam slowly but surely.
Flam tried to move away from the person but he can't. "Money. what money. what is money." He said not knowing the word.
"Don't play dumb with me." The figure said. "you and your brother scammed me out of 1000 bucks in shoes." the figure said grabbing something out of his pocket. "Now tell me where's my money or else. I will make you suffer."
flam started to struggled In the rope of the chair. as the figure a pulled out. a tv remote. "You're going to tell me or else I will ruin your childhood."
flam laughed hard. "that's physically impossible. you can't ruin somebody else's childhood at my age."his chuckling died down as the figure tapped on the remote.
"I know that's physically impossible. but somebody else has done the impossible." The TV was on and a weird show was on. "Hey guys this is MeatCanyon and I'm here to ruin your childhood again. Let us start with SpongeBob."
Flam began to scream. "I was wrong. I was so wrong make it stop." Flam saw his childhood show. SpongeBob getting Eaton by Mr Krabs and Squidward.
"No can do." The figure said. "you forced my hand into this. now I have to go I have a play to start today. I'm going to blow away the crowd." He muttered grabbing the scattered paper and leaving the back office room.
this took a lot of days and I almost went off topic. I was so close to giving up writing this.
"Okay... Tell me again because if you were not Bugze daughter from another dimension I could not believe it" Said Principal Celestia in her office as she looked at Nightshade, the human seven, Humbra, B2, the CMC and the others.
"Well, I was visiting the cafeteria with my new friends, as they wanted me to eat a burger, when I slipped in a banana peel and crashed with them, throwing food around, some of it hit the janitor that was doing the monthly cleaning moping the floors and blinded him making him drop the water bucket that in turn hit a cable and as the light began to go flashing, then a tapestry began to get fire and everyone began to run" Said Nightshade repeating the same story
"Right, and that happened in the five minutes that you were alone with Miss Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo?" Asked Principal Celestia
"In my defense, I like my dad, blame Lady Luck that and somehow the strange curse that float around the pony version of the Crusaders" Said Nightshade
"Yeah... We already heard him blame Lady Luck but what about the curse and who are the crusaders?" Ask Principal Celestia
"Yeah... I think it's two curses... Grandbuggy told me that a ancestor did something to Lady Luck and we are cursed, but there is also that my version of Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, also known as Cutie Mark Crusaders, always end in problems with their adventures, and not always because they had stupid ideas, if it was not because I personally know the God of Chaos that turned from Chaotic Evil to Chaotic Neutral, I could think it's some training to become Princesses of Chaos something equal to demi-godesses or a avatar of chaos or something like that" Commented Nightshade as if it was not important
"Right... And I thought that when your dad had left things around here could be calm" Groaned Principal Celestia
"So... We are not grounded?" Ask Sweetie Belle pleading to her sister with sad eyes, at the same time that Apple Bloom joins doing the same with Applejack but before Scootaloo joins, Rainbow Dash put a hand blocking her
"I can't decide it, that is your aunties decision" Say Rainbow Dash
"And we are still deciding what to do" Say Applejack as Rarity nod the head
"May I suggest you four write a essay about the dangers of walking around and not looking where you step?" Suggest Vice-Principal Luna
"I think that is a good option" Add Principal Celestia
"Goddamn, motherfucking piss-cunt son of a syphilitic whore with crabs and the broken-down donkey in the stable out back she uses to pleasure herself between tricks" Began to mutter Nightshade in low voice as a little light began to glow in her neck but even so the others managed to listen
"NIGHTSHADE!!" Shouted everyone as they can't believe someone that young could say something like that
"What?" Ask Nightshade surprised as the light disappear
As everyone look at each other, Sunset decide to talk as the only Equestrian of the group
"Where did you learn to talk like that?" Ask Sunset as she looked at the young girl
"Grandbuggy, daddy, some villains, and also Garble and Ember" Said Nightshade without problem as everyone looked at Garble and Ember
"What? We are dragons, the first words half us learn as we grow are insults against ponies" Said Garble
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In the pony universe
with bugs
Bugs sneezes in the room 'why do I sense Nightshade is getting more grounded then ever." Bugs thought trying to grab his inventory. well Chrysalis was not in the room. bugs try to reach it with his front hoofs but it did not work. Bugs tried to use his back Hooves to reach the bag and it was working. 'Almost there one more inch.'
*pop*
"Sweet mother of #$#;\*_×$. oh I'm out of feel that in the morning." Said bugs in pain of hearing his bones pop. As his back left hoof grabbed the inventory. he slowly pushed his inventory towards him in total pain.
He grabbed his inventory with his front Hooves and quickly goes down and grabs a healing potion and downs it. He waits until is tense muscle is gone.
'There's tons of things that can help me in here. I need to think of a Escape Plan." Said bugs thinking. *Ding* 'why does this idea sound great in my head without Selena.'
Bugs Pulled out a disguise potion that has a little bit of liquid in it to disguise for a couple of hours.
This is going to work for me I can take the others in my inventory and take them into the City sewers system.
*shekel* *swish *shackle*
'But I got these chains on my hoofs.' Bugs thought looking at the chains that was holding him to the the pillar. "Wait a minute why does the chains have no key holes." There were no key holes in the chains. 'Wait a minute I think I seen this before.'
Flashback you and Selena and sombrero still in your head
"Okay dumb beetle. let's me tell you about the traps you'll face up a head." Said Sombra to you while you were in the Dreamscape in the human world. 'Once we leave this world and enter the Crystal Empire. I sense we will be captured by Crystal ponies.' Said Sombra pulling up a map of the Crystal Empire
'Why do you sense that we will get captured by crystal ponies. It can be any creature or any species.' said Selena looking at the map of the Crystal Empire.
'No it's obviously crystal ponies. besides let me tell you about the crystal Empires defenses. I left a lot of weaknesses. Said Sombra. Pulling up a lot of it image's of weapons and traps. 'Let me tell you about the first weakness of the Crystal Empire. I made special chains that are Voice password only. ' he said showing an image of chains that have no Key hole.
"I think it's really stupid." said bugs in his disgusting human form. "It doesn't make any sense you already got them and they fear you." Said bugs raising a Ritz cracker.
"No you idiot." said Sombra slapping the Ritz cracker away from Bugs. "To be a tyrant. you got to control them with fear and an ignorance. Or you always lock them up in the jail cells or lock them up in chains. You have to show them that you have no weaknesses or else. They push you down and beat the liver out of you. well you scream for them to stop. but it will never stop until you're dead."
Bugs and Selena look at Sombra with confused "okay let's get on to the other their topic of the Empire." Said Selena looking at the map.
Back to the present
"Oh dang." Bugs muttered looking at the chains in disgust. "I should have asked sombrero the password to the chains at the time." Bugs side and guess the password. As he put the disguise potion in the inventory for away or later.
"King magnificent." bugs said to the chains.
*Beep* "4 more tries or else you die." Said a female voice.*beep*
"Queen Amore is an awful Queen." Said bugs again to the chains.
*Beep* "still wrong try again three remaining."*beep*
Bugs thought about the other Universe about his counterpart talking to King Sombra in the mall. "King Crystal"
*Ring* "winner. And have a nice day slave and dig it." *klink*
You rub your hoofs together to get rid of the strain of the chains. "stupid Sombra and his technology. All right what was I thinking about. Oh yeah." Bugs Thought out loud.
Bugs spits out pod slime on his hoofs and does a Tobey Maguire on the wall. "Spider- stallion. he does whatever a spider can he wants because he's a Spider- stallion" bugs sings to himself giggling.
'Thank you my incestral spider instincts.' Bugs thought climbing on the ceiling.
Once bugs was on the ceiling seeing things upside down everything was dizzy for a second and he focused and almost fell. 'Whoa the Slime ain't holding up up here for long.' bugs thought. 'I have to be quick.
Bugs moved as fast as he can on the ceiling. He almost failed a few times. And he made it to Twinkie sprinkles.
"Okay Twilight. I'm going to take you and your friends to the Sewer but I'm going to cover you and more slime to protect you is that okay. you said she shook her head. and you put slime on her anyway. "Sorry you're not going to stealing my items when you're awake." Said bugs putting more slime on her. And you took the Potted Twilight in your inventory.
one pot Twilight Sparkle added to inventory.
'I know she's going to hate me.' Bugs thought taking others potted ponies randomly not knowing.
4 random pods added.
As bugs were about to grab the 6. you hear a muffled conversation at the front door of the Crystal Palace.
'Oh no.' Bugs thought. 'she can't be that back that quick.' Not grabbing the potted being. "Sorry I have to go I'll get you guys later." Whispered bugs to the others potted ponies.
Bugs look around the ceiling real quickly and noticed a skylight. "Hello Quick Escape." said bugs quickly moving towards it and opening it.
He climbed up and felt snow. And quickly close the skylight. 'Okay that would have been better but I try to getting everybody.' Thought bugs okay. 'I need to go back downstairs without meeting my crazy yandere.'
Bugs went through his inventory and grabbed the disguise potion. 'I hope my gram buggy doesn't hit on me.' Bugs drunk the disguise potion as his form started to change. Bugs Maine started to turn red. His jawline started to shrink like in to a mare muzzle. His eyes started to shrink a little bit. Is Broad muscles started to shrink a bit. His body was turning into a female Changeling.
Bugs went into her inventory. She took out a mirror and looked at herself. "Man I look like a 8/7 on the beauty scale. why do I look better in this form." She complained to herself. "I can't use bugs as a name in a female form. She thought looking at the sky *ding* "that's perfect. How about Carissa for my female changeling disguise." She said trotting on the side of the snowy banks of the roof top of the Crystal Empire.
I took my sweet time with this. (/\_/\) it sounds amazing in my head we never saw a female bugs now we're seeing her in the first time ever.
Everybody needs a gender-swapped once in awhile.
With Sombra
“This secret tunnel… Is it your doing, too, Sombra?”
“Surprisingly, yes.”
The passage is long, dark, and lonesome. Yet, spacious enough to fit at least three ponies wide. The clippity-cloppity of your hoofs echo in the dim, cold air, illuminated only by the magiclight casted by your horns.
You continue. “Even as they lived in fear of outside threats, thanks to the Crystal Heart, the idea of escaping to the cold, harsh world beyond their sphere of comfort had not once crossed their mind.”
You close your eyes. It is still fresh in your memory, the time when your ruled as the Crystal Empire’s one and only tyrant, where instead of running away the Crystal Ponies just hid in their homes as you took your time turning them into your brainless slaves one by one. You sigh.
“Ironic, really. The safest place they thought turned out to be a prison of their own making. This passage was built so such a mistake would never repeat.”
“Mhmm… And the Flugelhorn Storage room?”
You swear, you could feel her eyes flinging stars and glitter at your head, with a smile bright enough to outglow her horn. Awkwardly, you pretend to clear your throat and find a sudden interest in the opposite wall.
“That’s, uh… It’s practical, alright?”
Giggling, Hope started to trot a little bit closer, a certain spring in her hoofsteps. “And here I thought your only architectural love had been stairs.”
You balk at her. “What’s wrong with stairs?!”
Eventually, the passage opens up to a wide, spacious chamber. Old boxes and supplies laid seemingly abandoned from corner to corner, cobwebs and dust lining the edges. The air became easier to breathe, indicating the smart, if you may add, presence of ventilation. One of your underground safehouses: in the event of hostile occupation, you planned on using these as launch points for any counter-invasive operations—with or without your Umbrum kin—while serving the brainwashed Crystal Ponies as bait, preying on any of the Empire’s enemies as a shadowy bogey pony.
Originally meant to be used against interlopers such as the Royal Sisters and their army, it was left entirely unfinished. Now, after a thousand years, it’s finally going to serve its purpose.
But something’s not right.
“...Wait.”
You hold up a foreleg to stop Hope. Instantly, she raises her guard, eyes and magic scanning the dark. At first, nothing seems out of place, at least to your own knowledge, but then…you finally hear it: a dull, ominous noise; static. Artificial and out of place, even though it had always been there.
Hope gulps. “...Don’t suppose that’s by design?”
“No,” You whisper, a low growl in your throat as you prepare for a fight. “No, it is not.”
Back to back, your lights swam from corner to corner. Nothing here, nothing there… No matter how much you look, you could hear it but never see it anywhere. Unless...
You froze. A memory came up; not of the Empire, but of your time spent in a certain bug’s head. Some old video game and movie flick wisdom, one that made you realize that the noise...
...it is right above you. You face Hope, who looks back quizzically at first, but when you flicker your eyes up once, twice, the horror dawns on her as well. Slowly, raising your horns, you both look up.
“Skreonk.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH—!”
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“—Brown Dog!”
“Huh? Wah? What’s happenin’, where am I? Why’s it so dark?”
“It’s me, Kersey. Here to rescue you. Solarkness and Rutherford just blew up the generators a few levels below, and we’re in the Anger Management Hanger.”
“Anger Management?” His brows furrowed under his sunglasses. “I don’t remember being angry…”
“Exactly. What were you thinking, Brown Dog? Sharing weed with the daleks of all aliens?! You’re lucky they just brought your sorry flank here for ‘rehab’ instead of shooting you on sight, since they never found out who smuggled it in. Now half of the gorramn fleet is in here for suspected substance abuse, ready to go through some creepy BDSM ritual to prove their undying hatred. You’re welcome by the way.”
“It worked, didn’t it? Got them distracted and everything.” A pause. “...You guys DID get the self-destruct codes, right?”
“Yeah, Grey Rebl’s bringing it up there to the brig disguised as their exalted captain or whatever, playing up all that fire and brimstone OCD janitor talk they know and love,” Kersey said. “Ugh, do you have any idea how hard it was to find you? Usually I’d follow the weed, but it’s everywhere. All these look-alike dalek shells just makes it so hard to figure out who’s who among us.”
“Heheh… Amogus.”
Clack, clack—clang~!
"Arrrgh! Stupid space wrench!"
“Oh, yeah. By the way, the thingie majig has been beeping red like crazy for a while now.”
“Yeah, it’s how I found you in fact. Mine’s beeping, too.”
“Think it’s an emergency?”
“It’s Torchwood. There’s ALWAYS an emergency. Doesn’t matter, we’ve got our own problems to worry about.”
“Eeeeh, you’re right. We've got time travel, some plot armor, and it’s not like there’s some silly creature poking holes in reality across hundreds of alternate dimensions or anything, right? We’ve got aaall the tiiiime in the woooorld~!”
Click, click. Clack!
“Woohoo! Free at last! Never knew how stuffy it is to be inside a dalek’s cramped chassis. Nice to see your fat face again, Kersey!”
“Buck you. Never stuff my flank inside a giant peppershaker ever again. Now come on, mister leader. Help me find your druggie buddy Snap Drake before Grey Rebl, that clean freak, either gets sus’d out or presses the ‘cleanse the world’ button—on purpose.”
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Eventually, once her mad ramblings had come to an end, the crazed queen of the changelings had unhooked you from your original bindings and had fastened you to the makeshift throne the mad queen had made. As she cuffed your front forelegs to the thrones arms there had been plenty of...unwanted touching in areas you did not appreciate being touched. You made your disapproval known often, but the sick queen heard nothing.
"Get your filthy hooves off me ya mad nutjob!" You shouted as you once again shook your body in an attempt to get the changeling queens hooves off you. Sadly the queen just chuckled in a twistedly sweet way at your words as she 'lovingly' stork your cheek.
"Oh you and your funny way with words. I do adore that way you talk, my love bug!"
You could hear Cadence gagging above, the mad 'love' flowing off the crazed queen no doubt causing the princess of love to be nauseated at the mere exposure to it. You were doing no better, as while you ability to sense emotions were dulled given your brithright, even you could taste the nauseating poison in the air. Something the queen seems to notice as she scowls at the contained princess above you.
"Quiet you insolent welp! Our love is just as pure and wonderful as yours with your pathetic husband, you should be honored to bear witness to it!"
Cadence could only gag at the insane words coming out from the changeling queens mouth as she glared at the nutbag of a queen.
"Your 'love' is appalling and goes against everything I stand for! Its tainted and just...wrong!" Cadence growled out, her tone taking on a more pleading one as she said, "Chrysalis, please, end this madness before its too late. You-you need help!"
In response to her words Chrysalis growled almost like a rabid animal as she flew up to the captured princess and slapped her across the face, causing both you and Twilight to shout in alarm as Chrysalis growled into Cadence's face.
"Watch your mouth you whore! My love is pure, and not some sort of disgusting mess as you claim it to be! If I didn't need you for the ceremony I would have starved you like I did all those years ago, remember your place!"
While Cadence only glared defiantly at the mad bug queen, Twilight whispered out in confusion,
"What ceremony?"
At her words Chrysalis face quickly shifted to one of sickening glee as she flew back to your side to once again touch you 'lovingly' all over as she spoke.
"Why I'm glad you asked Twilight! I do so enjoy explaining to lesser beings the glory that is changeling culture!"
She gained a haughty tone as she rambled on about some long ago done tradition that a queen to marry a new king, there must be a witness of love and knowledge to make it official. In the past these positions where filled in by the Queens closest advisors, but...
"Sadly my advisor of knowledge has....lost his usefulness in our times imprisoned so he had to be let go. As for me advisor of love...." Chrysalis's tone took a dangerous edge as she growled out, "That traitorous pupa left with the other deserters when my darling Bugze broke the Hive Mind. But who needs her! I've had the true appreciation of love all this time, and now that I know its depths I can now properly explore these....feelings with you my love bug!"
Chrysalis leaned in and forcibly connected your muzzle with hers, her tongue forcing its what into your mouth against your will. Unlike the times it happened during the Love Apocalypse, you took no enjoyment in this forced kiss. All you wanted was to breath, to get this crazed queens tongue out of your mouth, but nothing you could do to stop it worked.
Eventually, after what felt like an eternity but was really only for a few long seconds, does the queen release your mouth from hers. She licks her mouth in her attempt to appear 'sexy,' but really it only enforced her crazed persona.
You could hear Cadence once again gaging above you, while Twilight seems to be similarly disgusted by what just occurred.
"Now how was that, my love bug?" The crazed queen purred out.
You, in response, only spit in her face while growling out,
"I've tasted mud that was better then that you psycho!"
At that Chrysalis's face went blank, no emotion betraying her thoughts for a full minute. Eventually she begins to lightly chuckle, before full on laughing with a crazed tone into your face. You share an uncomfortable glance with the trapped princess above you as Chrysalis's laughter comes to an end. She begins gently stroking your cheek once more, the crazed look in her eyes only seemingly increasing as time went on.
"Oh my sweet sweet love bug, I don't mind a bit of dirty play but that was rather out of no where wasn't it?" She began, her hoof slowly trailing down your trapped body as she spoke sending shivers of dread up your spine.
"Spitting on your queen is a rather unsightly thing to do in front of an audience after all, not to mention mocking my kiss. Tsk tsk, now that just won't do my precious."
Her hoof stops at your scar from the Other World, the exact spot Mira's sword pierced your flesh all those years ago.
"I do believe that with such unneeded conduct," her hoof pulls back from your scar, "Requires the proper punishment!"
And suddenly she thrust her hoof back at your scar, with some sort of unnatural strength allowing her to dig into your flesh where the sword had once done. You could only stare wide eyed as your tried to comprehend what had just happened, until eventually your brain catches up with the rest of your body.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Your bone chilling scream echoes throughout the chamber, drowning out the cries of concern and shock from the captured princesses above you. Chrysalis meanwhile just stares at toy blankly, seemingly waiting for you to finish screaming like it was some trivial action.
Eventually no more air could escape your lungs and all is silent, the only sound coming from your chest as it squishes around from Chrysalis's hoof still imbedded in it.
"Now my bug, apologize to your queen and all that pain will go away?"
In response you just glare at the queen, to which she only sighs before twisting her hoof in your chest digging into your wound and causing you further pain.
"Now don't make me do this my bug, you think I like hurting you like this?" The mad queen somberly says, tears seemingly escaping her eyes as she spoke, "I hate hurting you like this, but you make me do this by disrespecting me. Please, please just apologize so I don't have to hurt you anymore. Your pain is nothing compared to the pain I feel when I do this to you!"
This ruse goes on for quiet some time, your will allowing you to refuse giving into the demented Queen's pleas. Eventually she takes her hoof out of your chest before quickly covering it in bandages to stop the bleeding. She soon starts charging a magical blast and aims it at one of the nearby cocoon ponies. She threatens to destroy them if you don't apologize, and at this you give in despite the terrible taste it leaves in your mouth.
"Now, was that so hard my love bug?" Chrysalis gently says, with a smile that would have appeared angelic if it wasn't her her face.
What feels like hours but was really only a half hour pass as you regain your strength from the mad queens assault. For some reason, likely Selena's and Sombra's absence, your healing factor is not working as strong as it use to. Your reopened wound, poorly patched by the mad queen in a show of her 'love,' had taken far longer then normal to heal to the point of the bleeding stopping. Even then your breath was shallow, and you felt far weaker then you thought you should be. There was a dull, aching pain in your chest that never seemed to go away, likely from Chrysalis's 'tough love' as she called it.
Through why it was further up your chest from where she struck you is beyond you, and you can't focus well enough to think more on it.
Chrysalis had left earlier in order to 'cook her beloved a meal worthy of our love' and that had thankfully left you a moment of respite. Cadence and Twilight had tried to comfort you, but your dulled sense made their attempts mute, literally. You did hear all the curses Cadence was spewing about the changeling queen however, and thankfully Twilight could handle the blushing for the both of you. Apparently the princess of love had quiet the potty mouth when she needed it.
Sadly your moment of piece comes to an end when the mad queen returns, a tray full of freshly baked cookies floating magically besides her. She grins maddingly as usual as she goes off on another rant about her love for you as she levitates one of the cookies into your mouth, cuing about how wonderful that he can finally taste her home cooking.
Much to your surprise it didn't taste to bad, but for some reason it had a strange taste to it....of course thats when the queen of the hive started to pant rather heavily and exclaimed loudly with a tone dripping in madness,
"Yes! Yes! My cookies...have been infused with my LOVE NECTUR!!!!!"
It took a few moments for you to figure out what exactly she meant, and when you did....
You really wish you hadn't.
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I had a funny idea that was boiling around in my head. here it goes
the queen stared at bugs evilly.
Bugs thought. 'I wish somebody can save me from this crazy Queen.' Bugs Wish for a savior.
Bugs heard the front door get a magic blast and looked. even chrysalis and Twilight and Cadence looked as well.
Then the door got blasted again and there was a dent print.
*sprunk* *crash* *sprunk*
There was an Ape figure that was dressed in blue and purple garbs and with a skull mask. And with Two Royal Guards right beside him. and a female diamond dog that's dressed like Beast Man. And Trixie Lulamoon dressed as evil Lyn.
"Skeletor" everybody said at the same time.
"You're here to save us praise be." said Twilight to their saviors
"Nyeh Nyeh." said Skeletor raising the Havoc staff to chrysalis. "Nyeh Nyeh" said Skeletor to chrysalis.
"Never Skeletor. you'll never beat me. I have He-Man to protect me." Chrysalis said as she pulled a rope down.
To show. a buff figure. That's roughly the same size as Skeletor. but different he had blond hair. Abs that can break a boulder with one flick. he had a giant sword with him. And he was wearing awful clothing. He-Man opened his mouth and started to sing. "Hehehyayhehyayhehyay"
"Nyeh Nyeh." Skeletor said to He-Man raising his Havoc staff and shot a magic blast at He-Man
He-Man responded by raising his sword defending him from the blast.
He-Man didn't react in time and get hit and fell on the floor.
"Nyeh Nyeh." Skeletor said in cheered. defeat He-Man.
"Noooooooo." chrysalis said to the defeated He-Man. "you were supposed to win. Against Skeletor. I lost." she said. as Skeletor blast Chrysalis with the Havoc staff killing her.
Everybody even bugs chanted. "Skeletor. Skeletor. he's our hero. Skeletor. Skeletor."
"$#$#$/ are you there I think you're daydreaming again." Chrysalis slapped you into a normal state.
"Skeletor." bugs muttered still in a stupor. 'Was that my imagination acting up again.' Thought bugs focusing on the present.
"So... Are those loyal to you in the plan of destroying the world?" Asked Bugze only for Chrysalis to turn the head confused.
"Surely you know that without Celestia and Luna moving the sun and the moon, then eternal night could freeze the world or eternal day burn it" Say Bugze as Chrysalis is still confused.
"What about the ponies? They did it time ago" Ask Chrysalis
"Sure, thousands of years ago and costed them many ponies, who knows if there is a record of how to move it, is not like just moving a pebble from one side of the cave to the other, and with all the powerful alicorns here, one of them Bookworm Sparkle, who knows when could they find it" Said Bugze
"Bah, it's not important if a couple of ponies die" Say Chrysalis
"More like a genocide, after is too hot for many to live, I could think the only who could survive could be dragons, but without herbivores they could end cannibals eating each other until they also die, but I guess changelings could die first... Surely they know that, right?" Asked Bugze as Chrysalis was looking blank faced
"What are you talking about?" Ask Chrysalis confused making Bugze groan
"Of course, she is too crazy to notice anything" Muttered to himself as he give up on making Chrysalis see that she was going to destroy everything.
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"—wait a bucking minute, why am I having this conversation again?! I've already went through this with Flag Burner, and you were there in the background when we had that spiel! You can't seriously ignore the fact that you've been trying to destroy the world!"
"...Destroy?" A quizzical stare. But as Chrysalis holds her gaze, something feels off. The ever-present mad glint in her eyes shines another color, one sicklier than the last. Then, she giggles. Giggles and giggles and giggles, covering her mouth with a hoof that did nothing to stifle the poisonous sound as it bleeds through the changeling holes. "I have drained the powers of all the ponies in this room—and I assure you that I much prefer your taste than theirs—so moving the celestial bodies above shall be a trivial matter. And don't you know? The one who controls the sun and the moon controls the world! Oh, my little love bug..." Her hoof falls aways from her face, and your eyes widen when you see razor-sharp teeth fill her face-splitting grin. "I am going to give you EVERYTHING."
"W-what...?" This...this is different, you thought. "But how?! It's the sun and the moon for buck's sake, and it's not like there's any other way besides the princesses who—!"
"There's a way." Chrysalis leans in, her muzzle so close you could feel her breath on yours. "That...contraption used to set your body free... An interesting thing, made up of trinkets and artifacts that could flip the fate of the very world. It was Hope, who brought those twin brothers, who told me its specifications. It has...various applications."
Okay a quick comment because life has been busy lately.
Sombra goes all Batman/scarecrow like on various changeling soldiers, taking them out from the shadows, making them hallucinate and attack their allies, really just showing off why he’s called the king of fear. He and radiant hope send ponies and deserting changelings to frost and garble who guide them to the red crystal. Also many of the escapees mistake garble for spike (he is just a red and winged version of spike at this point lol) or as his sibling. They also confuse frost for a ghost and that one pony from a few chapters back claims he’s a white walker. He tries to attack yelling ‘for the north’ only to slip on ice.
"I will conquer Equestria, I will copy those overpowered weapons I know you have and force you to tell me how to use them and your strange powers" Say Chrysalis as she make a mad laugh
"Never! Also, you'll never have my most overpowered weapon that I managed to hide... ups... Forget the last part" Say Bugze as he feign that he revealed too much
"Tell me Bugze, where is that weapon!" Ordered Chrysalis
"I'll never tell you, I'll never tell you that I managed to hide it in Las Pegasus, and to find it you need to search under the throne of Luna in the castle inside the Everfree, in there you will find instruction about how to translate the code inside a notepad hidden in the Dragon Lord wardrobe with a key that open a box that I decided to bury in the Griffon Lands that contain the magical Bowling hat Stup'd b'nt created thousand of years before the Princesses, a helmet that let the user create a army of Nintendoids" Say Bugze
"Nintendoids?" Asked Chrysalis
"They are small, rectangular and have the ability to throw cartridges to their enemies" Say Bugzee trying to make a bigger lie
"Aha! With that power I will conquer Equestria easy and no one will be able to stop me!" Shout Chrysalis with a mad laugh while Bugze still could not believe that Chrysalis managed to believe all that crap
"There is also the all powerful shield that protect from everything that I left in New Zebrand, in the village of 'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu'" Commented Bugze
It was not much latter that after Chrysalis called two groups of changelings
"You, go to the castle of the two sister" Said Chrysalis to the Leader of the first group and then looked at the other
"And you, go to New Zebrand and search in Taumatawhawa..." Began to say Chrysalis only to be interrupted by Bugze
"Taumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" Said Bugze correcting Chrysalis
"Yeah, Traumawhateverkangaroo..." Said Chrysalis only to be corrected by Bugze again
"Taumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" Said Bugze correcting Chrysalis again
"However is named, go there and search for the object" Shouted Chrysalis
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"Ummm... Chrysalis, I think I need to go to the toilet" Say Bugze
"Do you really believe that I'm going to believe that?" Asked Chrysalis
"Well, it's a little far, out the main doors, a right, a left, straight past three intersections, another right, and another left, if I don't misremember" Say Bugze
"No, no... That was three expansions of our hive, many changelings complained and now is just in front of the throne room" Say Chrysalis
"So... Could you let me go to the toilet?" Ask Bugze
"No" Said Chrysalis
"Please" Ask Bugze
"No" Said Chrysalis again
"Please with a little cherry on top?" Ask Bugze again
"No" Say Chrysalis again
"Crap, you are evil" Mutter a sad Bugze
"I know" Say Chrysalis with a smile
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“Bugze, would you like to know a little story?” Chrysalis held Bugze body in a magical grip once more and made her way to him.
“No” Answered Bugze
“Too bad. Once upon a time there was a queen, she was beautiful and powerful-” Began Chrysalis, only to be interrupted
“Didn't know you were into fantasy.” Said Bugze
“SILENCE!” Shouted Chrysalis
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"You will never win, my daughter will save me..." Say Bugze
"I have plans for your daughter" Say Chrysalis with a creepy smile
"Are you going to brainwash her and make her strange things?" Ask Bugze
"What? No! Who do you think I am? Kichi? I'm only going to put her in a pod and feed of her or throw her to the crocodile pit" Say Chrysalis offended
"Crocodile pit? There was never a crocodile pit in the Crystal Empire or the hive" Say Bugze confused
"You can be surprised what you can find around here" Answered Chrysalis
Meanwhile in the Human World
Twilight was interrogating Nightshade in the middle of the hall
"So... You are a alicorn, a combination of the three species, and at the same time you are part changeling and the daughter of the dark side of the Pony version of Vice-Principal Luna who control the stars and the moon" Say Twilight as she began to write in a notebook
"Yes... Didn't Sunset or Daddy told you about that?" Ask Nightshade
"Your daddy was busy, leaving aside his life story he did not said too much to the others about the species and those living in Equestria, not to say I reformed recently and Sunset don't like to talk about Equestria, she said there are bad memories" Said Twilight as Nightshade nodded the head
"What else, can you tell me? You are with a dragon, and from what I heard Spike is also a dragon in the other side of the mirror, what other mythical beings exist? Fairies? Manticores? Honest Politicians?" Ask Twilight as she began to describe different beasts
"Manticores are considered a sub-specie like cows and Diamond Dogs, leaving aside Discord, they seem to live in the Everfree Forest, is very creepy and not many want to enter there as it's dangerous, we don't have fairies but we have Breezies, strange tiny beings that can't do anything by themselves and need help to go back home... And Honest politicians, sadly that don't exist even on our side" Say Nightshade
"Do you have any magical item?" Ask Twilight
"I have my inventory, and there is also a magical ocarina" Say Nightshade
"Wait, magical Ocarina, like the legend of..." Began to say Twilight before being interrupted
"Exactly, daddy got it from some video game mafia or something like that and give it to me... I only know how to make it rain for now" Say Nightshade as she took out the Ocarina from her Inventory and made a melody.
Soon after that, clouds began to appear above them and all the hallway was dark as it began to rain.
"Great, now we need to explain Principal Celestia why the hallway is wet and the classes need to be suspended" Muttered Twilight as she see everyone in the hallway leave running.
"Surely is not hat bad, right?" Asked Nightshade
"You don't know even half... Because this is a magical accident made by a non-student, Principal Celestia, Sunset and the rest of us will need to fulfill the permit E-38, then go half a hour to the bureaucracy building, in there we will need to search for the Desk 2 and exchange it for the Blue Form, then go to Desk 12 in Staircase F to get the Brown Form..." Human Twilight began to narrate the long hours searching and completing Forms and Permits
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"Maybe should I try different songs?" Ask Nightshade as they try to dry under the sun as Human Twilight took a rectangular lavender thing that began to shine [Yes, I know there are video game machines in Equestria, but not sure about smartphones]
"Let's see... Should we try any of the warp songs?" Ask Human Twilight as Nightshade began to remember about 'The Legend of Celestia' game or how it was named 'The Legend of Zelda' in the human dimension
"I somehow don't want to end in Hyrule or in another parallel world..." Answered Nightshade as she was not sure if she could even return to her world or Sunset Shimmer world if she used it, and did not want to go traveling again trough different dimensions
"And we should also forget the Sun Song, I don't even want to know what could happen if we begin to play with the sun and the moon around here... Zelda Lullaby is useless around here, I somehow also don't want to know if Epona can be summoned here... We should also forget about the song of time and we don't want to talk with a Kokiri or whatever is Saria in your dimension or discover that it can connect with the Saria of this dimension or another dimension... If we change to 'Majora's Mask', I'm not sure we need the song of healing, with Oath to Order is also a bad idea, we don't have any owl statue around for the Song of Soaring, that leave only one song unless we want everyone to fall asleep..." Commented Twilight as she checked the songs one by one in the strange glowing screen of her device and Nightshade looked at the sheets of the songs from the game 'Majora's Mask' that was the human version of 'Nightmare Moon Mask', until they stopped in one called 'Elegy of Emptiness'
As Nightshade put the Ocarina in her mouth, she began to play the melody not without mistakes as she learned to use her fingers instead of hooves and suddenly a light began to glow around her, she soon began to feel uncomfortable and retreated a couple of steps as she managed to see a strange creepy statue of her as a human just where she was a moment ago, but as she examined it she noticed it was different, the statue looked creepy and without life and give a strange sensation as she looked at it, giving her shivers the more she looked at it, as if it should be something that should not exist.
"Maybe it was not a very good idea to try this song, it feels weird just looking at it" Said Twilight as she looked at the scary statue of Nightshade
"You are right... Too good that I only have a ocarina, could you imagine what could happen if I had also the harp or the other instruments? Nothing could be left of Canterlot" Muttered Nightshade as she decided to put the statue in her inventory
Added 1 Creepy Statue of Nightshade to Inventory
"Somehow I feel as if a spirit could take the statue and haunt everyone, trying to drown them and put them while a strange song sound around and the strange mask seller repeat again and again the same phrase" Said Nightshade in a low voice as she shivered
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If no one got it, the last part was a reference to the Creepypasta 'Ben Drowned'
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For real Creepypastas I haven't heard about Ben drowning in like a long while.
I think ben drowning is not the most scariest Creepypasta. I think the real scary one was that Squidward's Suicide. for real I had nightmares. when I was a young age. those dull red eyes staring at me with a death stare that will make any buddy pee their pants.
I'm still scared thinking about it.
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True, but Squidward Suicide, I don't know it and not know how to fit it in the story.
I know a couple of MLP Creepypasta that almost everyone knows because they had been repeated many times and a couple more here and there but that is all.