How long... how long had he been drifting through the emptiness around him? How long had he been here, suspended in darkness and silence? How long had he been waiting for the void to finally swallow him?
It felt like he had been here forever, yet the memories of what had transpired still felt as alive as on that fateful day. He remembered... the endless city ablaze with the fire of their hopes and desires, how it fallen to pieces before his very eyes and how the void had come to claim it at his command.
He remembered Celestia.
He felt a strange emotion run through him. With all that had happened, all the things he had done and forced upon himself and his kind... was this how it had always supposed to be? Could he have done more or should he have done nothing at all? It was strange... somehow, he felt... incomplete.
The purveyor stared into the impenetrable darkness around him, why was he still here? Why would the void not let him pass on? Had his connection to the void really become so deep, or was there something he had failed to understand? Was there something he had missed? He had been ready to fade into nothing just like his kind, yet here he was... still alive.
Alive... that word served to make anger swell inside his heart like a storm... Why couldn't he find peace? He listened, he searched... sending out his mind through the endless darkness, trying to find an answer for a question he did not understand... But there was nothing here except him and his thoughts... and the void.
He could feel its presence like an omniscient being... watching him, unmoving, waiting for him to... The purveyor frowned, his tired mind churning the question over and over again, what was the void waiting for? It had not hesitated to take the others, so why did it not come for him? Why did it hold onto his existence with such perseverance?
His memories came back to life before his eyes... The demise of their old home, their step into the void... all the faces of humans he had once known, or at least thought he had known... his decision to become... more. So much had changed since then, yet he had always remained the same. His pain, his devotion... and his loss.
His loss... The purveyor felt an old pain overcome him. With all his knowledge, all his power and in spite of his efforts he had not been able to save her... and he had never forgiven himself for that.
The purveyor shut his eyes with a tired sigh. He had nothing but pain and old memories of his failure left now... he felt... old. But this had been his decision, or had it not? So he would wait, in darkness and listening to the presence of the void... until he would finally disappear himself.
Then... movement. His thoughts came to a halt, was his mind playing a cruel joke on him? No... there it was, a soft and slow movement within the endless expanses of nothing. What was it? What else could there be, hidden in darkness besides him? He had seen everything of his old world swallowed and vanish, nothing could be here! Yet there it was, like a small stone lying at the bottom of a lake... unseen by the rest of existence like himself, waiting to be found and brought to the surface.
Awakening from what seemed like eons of dormancy, the purveyor reached out slowly, letting his mind close the distance to the object and drawing it towards him. Moving through the void, forming and bending it to his will... he had not done it for so long, yet it came at his command like it had always done... unchanged, just like himself.
He felt the object draw near and opened his eyes, his sharp gaze passing through the void unhindered and coming to rest upon... he froze.
It should have been impossible, yet there it was... breaking all the rules of logic and floating before him untouched like it belonged here. Impossible... and still, here it was.
Slowly, he reached out with his hand, fearing it would fade from existence the moment he touched it. His fingers made contact, and he grasped it, pulling it up to his face to inspect it from all sides.
It puzzled him beyond belief how this could have come here, especially considering where it must have come from. Had it simply sprung into existence just now, or had it been here longer? Why had the void not swallowed it the moment it had appeared here?
He read the symbols written on it, letting the word sink into his mind. Slowly, as he continued to stare at the object in disbelief, he felt something rise within him he had almost forgotten.
It began with the tiniest of chuckles, almost unrecognizable to himself, but then it grew in force and vigor, growing louder and clearer, echoing through the void around him until his sides hurt and tears started to form in his eyes.
For the first time since the fall of his old home and in countless years, the purveyor laughed with his whole heart.
Held in his hand as he continued to laugh, there was a little, pink cupcake... 'Smile' written onto the sugarcoating with happy letters.
Pinkie Pie. The only explanation needed.
Oh, Pinkie, you awesome devil.
awww pinkie you so awesome
Good chapter.
Even if i rather wanted the other story to be updated.
that is all
Very nice.
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PINKIE. STAHP.
Okay, that's it. I call HAX on Pinkie!
why am i not surprised?... okay i'm a little surprised
Okay, normally I could just say "it's Pinkie", and that would be an acceptable answer. However, the Purveyor has been in the void for approximately 300 years, and Princess Celestia, in the sequel, said that all of the main six, not including Twilight, are dead, and have been for many years. So, I'll call it 200 years after Pinkie Pie died, she STILL manages to get a cupcake into the void without the Purveyor noticing. This is extra-impossible for many reasons, including that Pinkie's dead, she has no way to enter the void (unless the barrier between the void and Equestria is called "the fourth wall"), and even if Pinkie could manage to get into the void, the Purveyor would have known immediately. Then there is the fact that the cupcake existed in the first place. As soon as it entered the void, it should have started being swallowed by the void, like the humans, the endless city, and everything else except the Purveyor, who at this point is practically one with the void itself.
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Perhaps she somehow sent it there before, back when Twilight was trying to break into the void herself? It's entirely possible that the cupcake was a stowaway from that failed spell, or perhaps any of the other times that he went from Equestria to the void. Who knows, maybe Equestrian cupcakes are what actually break the walls of reality, and Pinkie's rapid consumption of them give her her 'powers'.
Again, Pinkie?
Ahh pinkie you little cheater
Pinkie, really, just no, the only one of the main six I want to kill, god damn it
Hahah I didn't see that coming, this was a genius chapter.
LOVED the ending, Pinkie you crazy mare, you rock!!
Nice. Although this should have been posted before the sequel....
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Pinkie has been known to not only break the fourth wall, but physics itself. There is also no mention of how long Zaeres has been waiting at this time, so it's possible that she was still alive when this happened, or Pinkie actually sent the cupcake when she was alive, but due to the nature of the void, took such a long time to reach him.
Only the pony with an opening to the fourth dimension in her stomach could achieve this.
Why would you wonder the question of life? Its 42
Definitely worth this bonus chapter.
2603277 Mine's 24.
You go Pinkie Pie way to make him happy!
Pinkie Pie can actually be explained in four words: magic, and cartoon physics.
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Oh pinky and your 4th wa... I mean 11th dimension ripping powers .
The ultimate "D'aww" moment.
Dammit PINKI STOP BREAKING THE FORTH WALL!!!
So... Is pinkie...god?
3429367 Pinkie is beyond the very idea of a god.
3579777 She is beyond Our mere comprehension, She is, to be putting it very, very, VERY, Lightly, The God of all gods.
2877203 GOD DAMMIT PIIINNKIIEEEEEEEEE!
Pinkie can you explain this?
*pinkie puts on a batman mask*
Pinkie: it because I'm PINKIE!
You know, this is really not that surprising. Even the void covers before the ponk.