Chapter 169: Cute-Ceañera
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Sweetie Void and Rarity Void appeared just in front of Sugarcube Corner, where Shadow Speedster and Black Apple's cute-ceañera was being held.
"Ugh, I think I'll never be a fan of teleportation," Rarity Void said while shaking her head.
"Eh, it isn't that bad. It’s really convenient! I should make it more of a habit to use it often both outside and in fights," Sweetie Void said as she and her sister entered the building.
Inside, both could see not only the multiple variants of their friends from Equestria and their families, but also there were some of those from other dimensions. There was music, decorations, an entire buffet where already she could see a familiar pink puffball gobbling up and the frantic trio of Pinkie Pies bringing more food non-stop. There was a a long 'Happy Cute Ceañera, Shadow Speedster and Black Apple!' banner hanging in the Cieiling.
Not too soon after she arrived, Dream Warper teleported in front of her.
"Sweetie, good to see you! Umm, could you do us a little favor?" she asked.
Sweetie Void shrugged. "What is it?"
Dream Warper then guided Sweetie Void towards what appeared to be yet another set of Mane 6, since these didn't have anything to distinguish them from the Rest. Not to mention the other three sets that were just besides them.
There was something odd, though: for once, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy had their wings flopped at their sides instead of having them folded like a pegasi normally had them. Twilight too was using glasses and had her Hair made into a Bun, and they all looked like they had problems with just standing, their legs goobly.
All except for an orange unicorn mare with a red and yellow mane, aquamarine eyes, and a sun-like Cutie Mark.
"Huh, who are they?" Sweetie Void asked.
"Remember the Mirror Portal?" Dream Warper asked and then it clicked to Sweetie Void.
"Ohh, the Human World which is parallel to this one," she said as she looked back at them.
"Hello! Name's Sweetie Void!" she introduced herself.
“Hi, nice to meet you. I am Sunset Shimmer," the orange mare now identified as Sunset Shimmer said.
"Hi! I'm-"
"Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, my sister Rarity from the other world-don't worry, I know you all. We gotta come up with nicknames or things will get confusing with addressing you in presence of other variants of yourselves, but your actual names will have to do for now," Sweetie Void easily responded.
"Huh, you sure seem used to this," the new Twilight said while repeatedly trying to adjust her glasses with her hoof, and meeting little success in return.
"...I'm guessing y'all would rather have human forms…?" Sweetie asked tentatively
"Oh yes please darling! No offense, but I haven’t faced this much trouble with just merely standing around since my first days with heels!" the new Rarity said.
Sweetie Void looked at them, noticing the unnatural space-time alterations their bodies had gone through and getting a vision of what they all should look like.
"... You don't seem to have been altered, Miss Sunset," Sweetie asserted.
"Yeah, I'm actually from Equestria but for…certain reasons I now live in the Human World. Also now that I'm visiting back I would rather stay pony for some time still," she said.
"Noted," Sweetie Void said as her horn flared with magic and in a flash of light that brought everyone's attention turned them all to what they all looked like back in their world.
The six now teenagers who were awkwardly in a crawling position were quick to stand up and awkwardly clean their clothes with a slight blush.
"T-t-thanks," a blushing human Fluttershy thanked her.
"You’re welcome!" Sweetie Void smiled back.
"Aight, now that leaves our sisters! GIRLS, TIME TO TURN BACK!" human Applejack shouted over to the three fillies that were currently flying thanks to Ness using his powers.
At once, the three groaned as Ness left them in front of Sweetie Void.
Sweetie looked at who she assumed must be the human Cutie Mark Crusaders turned ponies.
"But Applejack, being a pony is actually a lot of fun!" Apple Bloom complained.
"Yeah!" Scootaloo agreed
"Girls, you can barely even walk without tripping. You can't just ask the boy with powers to drag you everywhere," Applejack talked some sense into them.
Groaning again, the three nodded.
Sweetie Void giggled before turning them back to human form.
Immediately through she suddenly had a hand messing with her mane.
"Aww, you’re so- I mean, I look so adorable! I guess!" the human Sweetie Belle, now looking at her better, couldn’t help but coo while she petted her.
"Yeah yeah…" Sweetie Void said as she let herself pamper her. She was soon joined by her friends.
"Alright that's quite enough girls, you can go ask other ponies politely to let you pet them but this Sweetie Belle here hasn't even properly arrived!" Sunset Shimmer said, gently ushering them away.
"Can we pet you?" they immediately asked.
Sunset rolled her eyes but smiled. "Yeah, sure."
As the human CMC now went with Sunset, Sweetie Void turned to Dream Warper.
"Thanks again Sweetie Void! Go now and enjoy the party," Dream Warper said as she guided the Rainbooms around Sugarcube Corner, with human Pinkie Pie jumping (quite literally) into the kitchen to help her fellow Pinkies in supplying the buffet and a voracious pink puffball constantly emptying it.
There were Ness, Jeff and Poo present as well as the NESP they befriended a while back who seemed to now be a new addition to their group.
Ness and NESP seemed to be entertaining various fillies and colts around by showing off their psychic powers, Poo seemed content with just looking and there was Jeff talking with Shadow Speedster about something. There were the Pokémon too, of course. Lulla and Volta were flying around with Psychic Powers. Remi and Ivy were running around, and Dart and Hurricane were flying too. Many more Pokemon were around too.
Sweetie Void spotted Mario and Luigi as well as Princess Peach sitting at a large table talking with… themselves? It looked like they were counterparts of them but they seemed flat and… made of paper she thought. There was Apple Death and… Paper Bowser? She guessed?
Curious, she approached their table. Apple Death noticed her coming and waved at her.
"Hey Sweetie Void! Good to see ya!" she greeted.
"Hey guys! Umm, mind telling me about…?" She tried to discreetly point towards the paper counterparts of the inhabitants of the Mushroom Kingdom.
Paper Peach giggled, "Oh no need to be shy dear, your reaction is a fair one considering how the dimensions of our aspects must look to you, on top of that we haven't been introduced yet! Have a seat."
Nodding, Sweetie Void took a seat between Apple Death and Paper Peach. They then told Sweetie Void the recollections of Apple Death's adventure in the Paper World.
"I see, sorry for not being able to do anything for you guys," Sweetie apologized.
"Bah, ain’t no use lamenting. What's done is done. Sides, ya just weren't there," Paper Bowser said.
"Yeah, you’re right… Anyways, I'm surprised to see you here. Don't you want to, like, kidnap Peach or something?"
"Oh! Actually, Bowser here has decided to join alongside us into your Alliance!" Paper Peach positively beamed.
"Wow, for real!? Ehm, nice. Welcome aboard then," Sweetie Void said somewhat awkwardly. Having any version of Bowser joining willingly was something she didn't honestly expect.
"This is so great! Now that we are working on the same side for the foreseeable future, we were discussing plans and ideas of how to use our kingdom's strengths as well as the Alliance's assistance to usher in a Golden Age of development the likes our world hasn't seen in ages! I fantasized about such a scenario for so long…"
Through the entirety of Paper Peach's talk, Peach kept drinking tea and not-so-subtly looking with… something hidden her gaze.
"I see, good for you then. Say, Apple Death, have you seen Phantom?" Sweetie Void asked.
Apple Death shook her head. "She has yet ta arrive here," she answered.
"Ok then. I'll look around some at the party if you guys excuse me," Sweetie Void said.
"Sure," Apple Death said.
With that, Sweetie Void stood up and wandered off. On her way she saw that not far from their table was Paper Bowser Jr. with Button Mash, the latter showing the former his hoof-held console. Bowser Jr. had sparks in his eyes.
She saw Captain Falcon who was entertaining fillies and colts with tales about his adventures and doing heroic poses. He even had multiple of them hanging from him.
She also saw Present Sonic and his friends hanging out. Sonic eating the chili dogs he managed to save from Kirby's onslaught on the buffet. Tails too was now talking with both Shadow Speedster and Jeff.
There was also Link hanging out once again with Meta Knight and Dark Meta Knight, although this time they seemed to be civil so there was no need to intervene. The two Zeldas, curiously enough, seemed to be talking with human Fluttershy and Rarity.
Marx was… on a stool, looking at the wall. He seemed grumpy.
"... Is he on time out…?" Sweetie Void asked, confused.
She saw Dedede approach from the side. "Yep. Fella's prank scared some kids, so now there he is," he responded to Sweetie Void's question.
"Oh c'mon, it wasn't THAT bad…" Marx protested.
"Jumping out of shadows isn't really the type of stunt to pull out on kids," Dedede argued back.
Sweetie Void shook her head. "That's mean, Marx."
Marx just kept pouting on the stool and kept looking at the wall.
Sweetie walked off.
The cute-ceañera went on for a bit more until she heard the bell of Sugarcube Corner ringing, signaling someone new had just arrived, so she went to see who it was.
It turned out to be none other than Phantom, accompanied by Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong.
Sweetie Void approached them. "Hey Phantom, good to see you!"
Phantom nodded and smiled. "Good to see you too. Did Apple Death arrive already?"
"Yup!" Sweetie Void nods and says.
"Good. How about we talk about how we each did on our own? I got some things you guys want to know."
Sweetie Void raised an eyebrow, "You sure you don't want to relax first before talking about work? You just arrived."
Phantom shrugged. "I can just do that later."
Not finding issue with her logic, Sweetie Void and Phantom went to the table where Apple Death was hanging out with Mario and company, and asked her to come with them. They all sat down at a separate table to talk.
Phantom started. "Alright, so here's the deal: I was on a task Magolor asked me to do on Donkey Kong Island. Namely, oversee a team of engineers in the making of a portal there when we got attacked by the Subspace Army."
Sweetie Void and Apple Death were surprised at this.
"But there was supposed to be a one month truce! Why sneak on us like that!?" Sweetie Void asked.
"Beats me. They could have simply lied to get a drop on us," Phantom suggested, "They wanted to blow up Donkey Kong Island whole."
"Wait, that’s all? I mean fair, that would have been bad but…why just Donkey Kong Island? Didn't they attack anywhere else?"
The three looked at each other for a moment.
"No one reported any more attacks at that moment, and if those here at this party suggest anything it’s likely the events on Donkey Kong Island were an isolated case," Phantom said.
"Then it doesn't make sense honestly. With this surprise factor they could have planned a grand-scale simultaneous attack to leave us bad, yet they just attack one universe-stranger yet, only one specific place of said universe? Why?" Apple Death argued.
"Honestly, we aren't getting anywhere guessing. We just keep our eyes open for now and report this later. Anything else happened there, Phantom?" Sweetie Void asked.
"Oh! Now that you mention it, before Phantom and I separated to do our individual adventures, Bowser assaulted Peach's Castle and kidnapped her."
"Again?" Sweetie Void deadpanned.
"Yeah but that's not the interesting part. Thing is this time he transformed into this powerful beast that, and kid you not, would have genuinely killed Mario and Luigi had it not been for Phantom and I. They stood no chance."
Sweetie Void whistled at that. "Mario and Luigi aren't no slouches. I doubt he was able to get that much power on his own."
"Think he is part of the Subspace army too now?" Phantom asked.
"It could be. Right now Master Hand is the only one that comes to mind who could have given him that much power, or it could be someone else we have yet to meet," Sweetie Void said.
“Bowser mentioned some feller named Crazy Hand, maybe he’s connected?” Apple Death said, more in thought than anything.
“Another hand? Wait… Kirby mentioned that he encountered and fought another hand alongside Master Hand. Maybe that’s him?” Sweetie Void wondered.
"... Anyways, that’s all I had to say." Phantom said.
"Alright. So Apple Death, what did you do? I guess it has to do with the Paper variants of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser and Jr.," Sweetie Void said.
"Oh well. It's a bit of a long story but here it goes…" Apple Death said as she started telling them all about the Paper World. Of Ai and the Felinoids, their story, Pazall and how it all culminated in the paper variants being present in the party.
"Tsk, seriously Apple Death? You saw some girl being a runaway of some authority and think she is completely trust-worthy off the bat?" Phantom questioned her.
"Hey c'mon now, cut me some slack. They did look up to no good and she looked positively scared!" she argued.
"And look where it led in the end. Look, you tried to do the right thing, I get it. But you know, being more skeptical and asking a lot more questions would have gone a long way to preventing a great lot of all that tragedy. You realize that, don't you?" Phantom said.
Apple Death looked at her before sighing and looking down, "Yeah, yeah. Yer right. I should take these adventures more seriously and trust less on first impressions." Apple Death admitted.
"Good. Anyways it’s now your turn Sweetie Void. Tell us what you did," Phantom said.
"Mmm well, there was Samus waiting for me beside her spaceship…" Sweetie Void then told them all that happened in her previous adventure.
"Pfff, and he just ran away?" Apple Death said, holding her laugh.
"Damn Sweets, and you call me bad? At least I finish them quickly. You let'em live in fear." Phantom snickered.
"Heh, what can I say?" Sweetie Void responded.
"Just what did you do to him last time?" Apple Death asked.
"Mmm…" Sweetie Void remembered for a bit her 'fight' with Ridley.
"....dunno, I just played around a bit. It wasn't that bad… I think."
“If you call traumatizing a being who calls himself the Cunning God of Death “not that bad” for you, I don’t want to see what you think is bad,” the three heard from a familiar voice, with Samus walking up to them with the baby Metroid floating beside her. “Speaking of bad, there’s… someone that wants to talk with you three outside.”
Sweetie Void, Apple Death and Phantom looked at each other with a bit of concern before going outside to meet whoever it was that wanted to meet with them.
Sweetie Void’s hair suddenly burst into flames as the three of them were met with the sight of Master Hand before them… carrying a crown?
Dropping it without ceremony, Master Hand said simply and with clearly restrained frustration in his voice, “My apologies for the actions of our newest recruit. He was uninformed of our truce, and has been dealt with appropriately.”
Sweetie Void looked at the crown for a moment, then at Master Hand.
"Is that so? Well. Thanks for letting us know we don't have to worry about more surprise attacks."
"It was the least I could do. Do be ready however, for times still flies by. I'll see you next time."
With that, Master Hand vanished.
"... He totally murked that crocodile." Phantom bluntly let out.
"Phantom! Villains or not, respect the deaths a bit! But…yeah. Ah think the message was clear enough," Apple Death said while looking at King K. Rool's former crown.
Sweetie Void stepped forward and picked the crown with her magic. She then opened a mini-portal and stored it in a pocket dimension.
"Well, that’s one big worry off our shoulders. We should tell everyone else of this so there’s no confusion. We still got the rest of the month, best we use it to its fullest," she said and turned around.
"Now, how about we go back in? There’s still a cute-ceañera going on!" Sweetie Void said with a smile.
Phantom and Apple Death nodded, then went back inside Sugarcube Corner.
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*grammar digression because Twilight would care, but I don't so I'm omitting it
You've been on the other end of the latter often enough to know how effective it is.
But only a slight blush, because Sweetie Void remembered to give clothes. Even though she probably doesn't entirely understand the point:
It's worth remembering that pony Pinkie Pie defaults to pronking (which is a word that sounds exactly like something that Pinkie Pie would do all the time
).
I'm with Marx on this one, that's a lot tamer than what I expected from him.
As Star Fox could tell you, half the point of being a mercenary instead of a soldier is that there's less external pressure when you aren't on a mission.
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At this point, Sweetie Void knows humans enough to know that they always wear clothes. She gave herself clothes when she turned human at the beginning of the story.
Yep, Paper Bowser Jr. appears in Paper Jam. You fight him alongside his 3d counterpart.
Replaced handheld by hoofheld. Thanks for pointing it out.
Dedede has developed a daddyde mode after raising Sweetie for over a year.
Sure, but I can't pass up a chance to use that video.