VIII - In Which Most Everything Goes Back to Normal
Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Applejack all sat in their respective thrones, staring blankly at Fluttershy and the Mask.
“...It’s a little rude to stare,” Fluttershy said. “We haven’t figured out how to remove the Mask without making her go dormant, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, remember?”
“Oh, dear, we understand that,” Rarity said. “It’s just…”
“Why in Celestia’s name are you red?” Rainbow asked.
“Oh.” Fluttershy examined her recently-dyed coat. “I just decided I liked the color.” She pulled a dress out of her mane and slipped it on. “Do you think it works?”
Pinkie giggled. “That’s amazing Fluttershy! You’re really getting the hang of it!”
“Thank you!”
“Thank me!” the Mask interjected.
“Shush,” Fluttershy booped herself on the nose. “You agreed to give us some privacy?”
“Bu-”
“Hmmm?”
“Fine,” the Mask muttered, letting Fluttershy do what she wanted.
“Thank you.” She ruffled her feathers. “So… I think we all know what we’re here for today. Time to tell you exactly what they did with your bodies…”
~~~
“...And then the Mask and I were sent back alone while Discord took the slow boat home with his own magic. Starswirl will be finding rubber ducks in random creepy places for the next year for forgetting about bringing you back, Twilight.”
Her five friends stared at her with a glorious mixture of expressions. Applejack looked disgusted, Pinkie was holding back giggles, Rarity was confused, Rainbow couldn’t decide if she wanted to shout ‘so cool’ or ‘that’s messed up’, and Twilight…
“...I was in space and I didn’t even get to see it…” Twilight whined.
“At least you weren’t some perverse varmint,” Applejack shuddered. “He didn’t… do anything, did he?”
“Not as far as we know,” Fluttershy said.
“That’s… pleasant.”
“I don’t know if I should feel insulted that Bill just abandoned me for ‘better’ puppets…” Rarity mused.
“Chara had soooo many problems!” Pinkie giggled. “You got her sooooo mad! Hilarious!”
“Should I go, like, check to see if I still have a criminal empire or something?” Rainbow asked.
“Celestia took care of them,” Fluttershy said. “They… won’t be a problem anymore.”
“...Kay.”
“You and the Mask are so amazing!” Pinkie said. “We can have so much fun together! Ooooh! I can finally play hide and seek and not have to pretend I can’t find ponies!”
“You were just pretending!?” Rarity screeched.
“Uh…”
“I waited in that cupboard six hours, Pinkie!”
Pinkie smiled nervously. “Eheheh… sorry?”
“You can find anypony?” Rainbow huffed. “We’ll be testing this later.”
“Okay. But first? I think I need to go play a game with Discord.” Pinkie turned to Fluttershy. “You coming?”
Fluttershy nodded. “Yes. Both of us are. You girls don’t mind, right?”
The four of them shook their heads. With a hop, skip, and a jump. Pinkie and Fluttershy were gone.
Rarity let out a breath. “Well. I do hope she gets that Mask off her face, eventually.”
“Starswirl will figure something out,” Twilight assured her. “He always does.”
“Hmm…” Rarity sat back in her chair. “Well, did anypony have a good vacation? I was a rock the entire time.”
“Sat in a room,” Applejack said. “Got so bored Ah fell asleep.”
“I went on an amazing adventure with this guy called Batman!” Rainbow said, slamming her hooves on the table. “We fought crime, plotted Joker’s downfall, and kicked some serious flank! He was awesome.”
Twilight looked into the distance. “I tried to re-engineer a galaxy plagued by war…”
~~~
“...FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC?” the God-Emperor of Mankind said through his text-to-speech device.
“Yes!” Twilight said - having taken the form of her alicorn self since Tzeentch could appear as anything. “It works really well in my universe, you could stand to try it out.”
“THERE IS NOTHING BUT ENDLESS WAR, DEATH, AND FUCKING IDIOTS RUNNING AROUND HERE.”
“Friendship would go a long way toward fixing that! Fixing your magic field too, the entire thing’s terrible.”
“I WILL TAKE THIS UNDER ADVISEMENT.”
“Which is to say you’re sticking with your original plan and putting this at, oh, plan R or S or something.”
“PRECISELY.”
Twilight shrugged. “I tried! Guess I'll go back to giving all Tzeentch sorcerers dreams of peace...”
“THIS WILL CERTAINLY HAVE AMUSING SIDE EFFECTS.”
“No doubt.”
~~~
“No! Gumdrop ants! You march one by one!” Pinkie whined, yelling at her pink ants. “Not in a sine wave! Bad ants!”
In the distance, Discord and Fluttershy watched her, their own brown and yellow ants moving around the two of them in circles.
“...I really didn’t need to go hunting,” Discord mused. “I had all the friends I needed right here. Could have just been patient.”
Twilight smiled knowingly at him. “Discord, admitting he was wrong humbly? What is the world coming to?”
“Not chaos, both fortunately and otherwise.”
Fluttershy giggled, leaning in to him. “At least you got two new chaos friends.”
“...Two?”
Fluttershy smirked, pulling a fishing pole out of her mane without any prompting, grabbing hold of Pinkie’s tail. Pinkie yelled in surprise as she was yanked to Fluttershy and her poofy tail was given a little rabbit hood.
“Two,” Fluttershy giggled. “I just needed the right push, I guess.” She flew into the air and threw firecracker sparks around.
Pinkie gasped. “Oh, so all you have to do to understand chaos is to get your mind half taken over by a Mask? SWEET! I’m doubly chaotic now, right?”
The Mask popped out of Pinkie’s face, giggling. “WE ARE ALL THE SUGAR!”
“Yeah!”
Pinkie and Fluttershy each pulled a cymbal out of their manes and clashed them together in time. They quickly devolved into giggles and hugs.
Discord grinned. He supposed he had made plenty of chaotic friends.
~~~
Chara opened her eyes, expecting to see the darkness of her home universe greet her.
She did not see that. Instead, she saw a carnival where absolute emptiness should have been. A very Pink carnival spread all around her.
“No…” she said, standing up. “No…”
“Hi, welcome to Partyland!” Pinkie said, walking up to her. “We’re here to turn that frown upside-down!”
Chara drove her knife into Pinkie and completely obliterated her. There was no blood, there was no dust, just… a lot of candy. Like a pinata.
“...What?”
“Oh, well, Pinkie-one knew you had a lot of power in your home universe!” another Pinkie said.
“So she made us unkillable!” another Pinkie declared, whooping.
“We’re all pinatas and stuffed animals! Nothing fleshy here!”
“So we can give you a party from now until the end of your days!”
“Which won’t be for a long time since you don’t seem to age!”
“Might as well be a Pinkie Party for eternity!”
“No… no, I destroyed this world! I turned it to dust! I killed them all!”
The Pinkies grabbed her. “Yep! And this is your reward!”
“No! Stop! How is this possible? I couldn’t Save over there, you can’t pull stuff out of nowhere here! You couldn’t have made this! How!?”
The Pinkies giggled.
“Because it’s funny that we were able to, duh.”
“You should have tried making it funny to kill someone. That would have actually worked!”
“It would have had to be more funny than failing to kill at all opportunities…”
“Oooh, yeah, would have been a hard one. But it could be done!”
“You just didn’t try hard enough.”
Chara let out a shout of rage, Reloading reality to when she first woke up.
The Pinkies were already there.
“You might be able to reset us…”
“...But we’ll always remember!”
“ALWAYS.”
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a well-written story, but i feel that more could be done with this idea.
A chaotic fñuttershy Is something new, and having the mask around brings new opportunities for the other girls to do, if they wear mask, if anything, mask is a good ally, sadly they won't get to be in MU, they would have made a great addition, anyway, this was a good story, sadly short, but one entertaining nonetheless :D
That is epic. More in a sequel with this universe please!
Wow. That might be the absolute worst thing one could ever tell Chara. Well played.
And comedic death can work, but going by the McCormick Principle, it's funniest when the death doesn't stick. I suppose the question is whether that would further infuriate Chara or introduce her to the delights of EXP farming.
In any case, a bit of a twist out of nowhere at the end, but I suppose that's necessary to catch the God of Plots off-guard. Quite the fun romp overall. Thank you for it.
And Pinkie gets the last laugh, trapping an avatar of slaughter in a world full of beings that she cannot kill or even harm.
Thank you so much for the Lego Movie reference. I really appreciated that.
AND YOU DIDN'T INTRODUCE TWILIGHT TO MAGNUS!?!? WHAT THE HE'LL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!?
And now I am left wondering what the amusing side effects will result from Twilight's actions and what Tzeentch's reactions to it will be.
Enjoyable. Even if I don't know who Chara is / where she's from.
You forgot someone ... Also from the undertale universe.
Special character.
He will help Chara, it will be an experiment. Why not create a sequel?
Because there is a character ...
W.D.Gaster...?
Point. How did Twilight get past all the defences, physical and psychic in the Imperial Palace to get to the Emperor?
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You can talk to him through the Warp. She WAS Tzeentch at the time.
-GM, master of Warp.
Brilliant story all around I quite enjoyed it.
I don't think Chara deserved what she got. I think you should have tried to fix her like she had mentioned she was tortured by the player to kill her own loved ones over and over till she went insane. Even if she was all reluctant like Vegeta it would be fine. But torturing someone who went mad from torture all just to make them suffer even more just feels wrong you know? At least put them in an asylum. I think it would suit the Undertale feel to SAVE her too. Instead of the infinite loop of LOADing over and over in suffering when she was driven insane from that in the first place. Minus killing everyone she loved since this is just not being able to kill to cope. But still...
Don't worry Chara, soon or later 'The Player' will put a patch or something
Man this popped up again and what a treat it is to see again. It's still a great read.
In light of the finale this is so much darker than it proberbly was when it was written. I know some will say they deserved it, but still...
Sorry Chara, you just aren't funny enough.
The irony is that, if we're talking about comedic killings (as opposed to making murder funny), I can think of several people who might've technically meet those qualifications, including at least one of her teammates. Luck of the draw and all that.
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That raises some interesting questions about how (if she could make it funny), which would be objectively more horrific, death or a endless torture? It would've been interesting to see Celestia using Chara to break/punish villains, and it's the kind of work she might eventually learn to enjoy doing.
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I mean their are definitely things I felt could've been differently; while it proberbly was a joke on how Applejack is a background character with no special talents, that whole portrayal didn't really land home for me. Not helping was the fact that Beetlejuice was vastly different from his portrayal in the movie. In the story he's a dull, unintelligent, and bland character, a far cry from the fast talking, manipulative, quirky, and comedic deal maker he was portrayed as in the film.
And while Chara's punishment was funny and inventive (while being a little depressing), it would've been cathartic to see some of the villains receive consequences for their actions; a loss of face for characters like Joker and Tzeentch, or having Applejack sleep through Beetlejuice's appointment, forcing him to wait a additional however long length of time, would've been a pretty great comedic comeuppance.
Still this is a great premise, and for the most part a pretty well executed one, as well as the fact that most of the other characters (as far as they have a personality) are pretty much in character and (aside from Beetlejuice's arc), the plot was entertaining, well thought out, and thoroughly engaging.
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She's definitely abused in a sense, but that's nothing new, for the fandom or the show. It's not even new (sadly enough) for the actual character of Pinkie Pie, though such instances are thankfully few and far between. Their was a great rewrite to this scene that shows Pinkie Pie actually trying to help Chara get her life back, as opposed to simply torturing her after the fact. It's a bit 'happy endings come really easy', but it's still pretty heartwarming in a sense. I forget the title, as well as who its by, but if I happen across it again and remember this conversation, I'll shoot you the link.
Will you ever make a sequel?
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Most likely not.
-GM, master of ø
That ending. Was the best thing ever. Thank you. So. Much. I am one very happy reader.
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Darn, but thanks for this story anyways.
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Hmmm... makes me wonder. How would Chara feel about ending up in Vahalla, or its equivalent, especially if Ragnarok never came? Endless killing, but very little suffering, and never extinction because everyone comes back.
Could be Heaven or Hell for her, or just a much faster paced version of what she already had (Not very familiar with Undertale, but if she is alone except when causing Genocide and then that gets reset...).
This brought a smile to my face
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!