Firecracker looked up at the stallion, but could not muster the strength to get up again. They felt like they were suffering from a high fever, and their vision was starting to wane from side to side.
The stallion lowered his head, so he could talk to the pegasus more easily. "You're not supposed to be here. You were never supposed to be here. I'm sure that if you haven't tried to get too close to the Behemoth, you've at least heard stories about those who have. You know how it goes." The stallion sat down at that point. "The nausea, the aches, everything else. The few that make it past that pass out before they get far. If you've ever felt that almost imperceptible unease that for some comes from being near a scale, that's a drop of water compared to the river you're in now."
Panting heavily, Firecracker struggled to open their mouth, first spreading their lips as droplets of spit fell off their gums. Their tongue and throat felt dry, yet they expected their nose to start pouring any second, and an acid aftertaste lingered in the back of their mouth. Finally they managed to force their teeth to open, and were almost surprised blood didn't start to pour out. "Why now?" they asked, their tone raspy.
The Charioteer nodded. "You're a smart pony, like I've said before. If you'd just appeared here, this is what you would have felt like from the beginning. But that's not quite how it went." He looked around for a moment, an amused expression on his face, then focused back on the pegasus. "You weren't really here, per say. Not fully. It turns out a bit of you was still outside, slowly getting back to you. Oh, you'll be fine, don't worry about it, nothing broke down inside you. But it did mean you took a bit to reappear fully. Tell your friend that when she asks how things went, I'm sure she'll appreciate the information."
Firecracker had to force their eyes to stay open at that point. The sound inside their head was only growing louder, and there didn't seem to be a muscle in their body that didn't hurt when they tried to use it. They looked at the stallion's hooves, still holding the reins, then managed to push their neck high enough to look at their face again. They leaned forward as far as they could manage to, and with one last push put a wing forward and pressed it against the other's face.
A directionless burst of electricity fired off from the inner side of the pegasus' wing, a dozen of different arches of miniature lightning shooting off of it and coursing through the air, all hitting the stallion's head in the span of less than half a second.
"That was actually kind of adorable," said the pony. While Firecracker's vision clouded further, he picked up the pegasus with a hoof on their back, and casually tossed them far enough to a side.
Firecracker didn't land back on the Behemoth, and instead began to fall at its side towards the ground far down below, still only half conscious.
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Ah. Not entirely in phase with the local spacetime, thus providing a level of insulation... for a time. Alas, this isn't the sort of situation that can be solved with desperate heroics. You don't end up in the driver's seat if one good Palpatine Special is all it takes to take you out.
Considering where this dude's been sitting for the past zog-only-knows-how-long, you're going to need something a bit more exotic than regular old electricity to damage him.
I didn't see this coming. Having the Behemoth either not be a natural phenomenon or to be a natural phenomenon being used as a weapon by someone changes everything about how they should investigate and approach it. The question is how strong whoever is behind this is, they could be even harder to deal with than the Behemoth, or they could have found a secret to controlling it and be relatively weak themselves, though I doubt it, especially given what the Charioteer said about him and the Behemoth(?) being far from the worst of it. Either way, that only matters if Twilight and the others' can even find them, which given how many universes we're dealing with so far would be a tough call unless they can use the scales to track the Behemoth's path back to it's source or somesuch.
Still, the Charioteer said that he was prepared to wait there for decades, which implies that he was in no hurry to move things along, so unless Firecracker and Derpy just ratcheted up the schedule drastically they'll hopefully have at least a few years to either find a way to stop the Behemoth altogether, stop it from causing too many problems, or maybe escape to another habitable world. Even if Nightmare Moon's world is a no go or is targeted by the Behemoth as well there has to be other worlds. Maybe they could terraform one of the worlds where life was already wiped out, if they don't think that the Behemoth would follow them if they did. Of course, that implies that whoever is behind the Behemoth wouldn't come after them themselves sooner or later if they did, which given that they sent the Behemoth in the first place seems unlikely if they knew which world they escaped to, and since they'd be traveling via Behemoth scales unless they mass immigrated to the EQG world I'd assume it'd be easy for them to track any travel they did, and given that the EQG seems to be being affected as well that might be out. Come to think of it, would they have to evacuate the EQG world as well in that case? That might be...difficult.
Of course, the Charioteer did say that he wasn't certain that anyone was there to be displeased and that if they stopped him things might just stop before things got too dangerous, but that'd be a big risk to take. Hopefully Twilight can use Derpy's power to visit him and get more information out of him.