Chapter One: Monster, Or Savior?

Chapter One: Monster, Or Savior?

{Applebloom's POV}

"C'mon girls!" I yelled as I raced ahead.

"We're coming!" Scootaloo shouted back. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle caught up to me and we started walking through the Everfree forest. We were going to visit Zecora, we hadn't done that in a while.

"I wonder what she's been doing lately?" Sweetie Belle said.

"Yeah!" I said. "Hey, do ya think that she'll teach us how to make potions?"

"That would AWESOME!" Scootaloo said.

"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS POTION MAKERS YEAH!" We all said together. We all started laughing, until we heard the growling. We all froze up, and slowly turned around. We saw green eyes coming from the shade of a nearby bush. The growling rose in volume and it started to sound, not like and angry growl, but a hungry one. Then, a timberwolf leaped out of the bushes, and landed right in front of us. It stared at us, with hunger in it's eyes. We were all frozen in fear. It started walking towards us. For some reason, I couldn't move. No matter how hard I tried, my legs wouldn't move an inch. It got closer, and closer, then took a swipe at us.

Suddenly, I was able to move, and so were Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. We ducked and ran, the timberwolf chasing behind us. It was staring to gain on us, and we had no choice but to start turning corners, trying to lose it. However, that wasn't working. It was like it knew were we would go, and would be able to follow us easily. It leaped at us again, and swiped in mid air. It got Sweetie by the back of the legs, but it also flew into a tree.

"AHH!" Sweetie Belle cried.

"SWEETIE!" Scootaloo and I cried.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"N-No," Sweetie said.

"Come on we've got to get out of here!" Scootaloo said. "That things is starting to get up!" I looked and, the timberwolf was indeed getting up. We hauled Sweetie onto our backs and kept running. The timberwolf got back up, and started chasing us again. It was much easier for it to catch up to us. We turned a corner, only to see a giant rock blocking our path. We were trapped. I turned my head, and saw the timberwolf. It was slowly creeping up on us. It then leaped, and I closed my eyes. I heard a crunch, and waited for the pain. I waited, and waited, but nothing happened. I opened my eyes. What I saw, shocked me. The timberwolf, was suspened in mid air, by a tendril of darkness, stabbing right through it's side. The tentacle like shadow then lifted up, and tossed the timberwolf away. The timberwolf got back up and fled, whining the entire time. The tendril of darkness retreated to my right. I followed it with my eyes, and saw the creature it belonged to. It was a tall, slender figure, that stood on two legs. It looked like it was wearing a short black dress, as well as a red tie. It had long black hair that was flicked to the left, and in it's hair it had a pin that had a crossed out circle on it. It also had no face. The head was there, but that was it. Something told me it was a girl. It turned and walked towards us. It then crouched down.

"Well well," it said. It's voice sounded like a girl's so I was right to assume she was one. She also sounded calm and kind. "What are three little fillies doing in my forest?"

"W-Well, we w-were heading to our friend Zecora's w-when that timberwolf came out of nowhere," I said.

"It chased us and our friend got hurt," Scootaloo said. The strange woman looked at Sweetie.

"Well that's no good now is it?" she said. She picked up Sweetie, stood up, and cradled her in her arms. She then pointed a finger at Sweetie's injured leg. A black substance came out of her finger. It wrapped around the cut, and then slipped off and returned to the woman's finger.

"Hey, what'd you do to her?" Scootaloo asked. She crouched and showed us.

"I just healed her cut, see?" she said. "Now come on, I think you've all had enough excitement for one day." I suddenly started to feel really sleepy. I fell, and blacked out. Just before I did though, I heard the strange woman say something.

"Good night little ones."

{Lisa's POV}

As the three little fillies fell asleep, I picked them all up into my arms.

"Good night little ones," I said. I then began walking towards Sweet Apple Acres. I can't believe a timberwolf would attack three little fillies. I mean, I know they're animals but still. At least I was able to find them. Had I not well, I don't wanna think about what have might happened.

After a little while, I made it to the edge of the Everfree, and Sweet Apple Acres was dead ahead. Ah, it's been so long since I was last here. I still remember when little Applejack was born. She was so cute back then! I can still remember playing with her every time she went to the edge of the forest, and appearing in her room to comfort her when she had nightmares and her parents weren't there. I had to come there a lot when her parents died. Man if only I had been faster, I think I could have saved them. Well, no use to dwell on the past. At least I was able to save Applebloom.

I set the three fillies down. I then look up. Applejack was working. She turned her head, and saw me. I gestured to the three fillies. I then waited, and when she blinked, teleported, just out of site. I watched as she ran up to the three fillies. She started to check them over, see if they were okay. After she confirmed they were fine, she started shacking Applebloom.

"Applebloom, APPLEBLOOM!" she cried. Applebloom then woke up.

"Huh, wha-?" she said.

"Applebloom are you okay?" Applejack asked. "What happened? I thought ya'll were visiting Zecora. Why are ya'll all the way out here?"

"Ung," Applebloom said. "We were, heading there but then, a timberwolf attacked."

"Oh mah Celestia are you okay?" Apple Jack asked.

"Yeah we're fine," Apple bloom said a bit more awake. "I mean, while we were runnin from it, the timberwolf scratched Sweetie's legs, so me and Scoots had to carry her. We kept running but the timberwolf cornered us. It leaped at us and I thought it was all over, but then we were saved by this weird lady that stood on two legs. She was wearing a short dress, and a red tie. She also black hair, and she had these black tentacles coming out of her back. She scared the timberwolf away, and healed Sweetie's leg. Then, for some reason, we all feel asleep, and then you woke me up." I giggled at Applejack's reaction. I don't think she could quite believe her sister, but she could also tell she wasn't lying. I wonder, does she still remember me? Ah well, I figure that out later. Time to head home.

I made my way into the forest. Eventually, I came up to my home. It was a little log cabin that was in a clearing that was deep in the forest. It had taken me several years to make it but I got it done. Having tendrils of darkness to do all of the heavy lifting certainly helped. I headed inside my little home.

Inside the house I had a living room that had a couch, a coffee table, and a T.V. It didn't have cable, but I did have a little cubord next to it that could give me every movie that was ever made back on earth. It even supplied me with new ones! That was courtesy of a friend of mine. The one that brought me here in the first place. I'll tell you all about him later. The rest of my house consisted of a kitchen, a dining area, a bed room, a closet, and an office were I could read. The shelves in there worked like my movie supplier. I asked for a book, it brought me the book. I went to my bedroom and flopped onto my bed, which is king size by the way, and fell asleep. It had been a long day, so I went out like a light.

I woke up an hour or so later to the sound of hoof steps. I also heard voices. I listened closely to hear who was outside.

"Who's house do you think this is?" said a rough voice. Rainbow?

"I think it's the house of that monster Applebloom told Apple Jack about," said another, smoother voice. Okay, that was Twilight. Also, ow. I'm not a monster.

"Only one way to find out!" said another, happier, voice. Definitely Pinkie. I then heard a knock on my door. I got out of bed, and walked to the door. Thankfully my hair doesn't get messy. I don't want to keep my guests waiting. I finished my walk to the door, and then opened it. The first person I saw, or rather, first pony, was Applejack.

"JACKY!" I cried with glee and scooped Applejack in my arms, hugging her. "It's so good to see you!" I then held her out. "What has it been, fifteen years? Look how big you've grown! Oh I still remember when you were just a baby! You were so cute back then! But now look at you! You've become a big strong mare!" I then put her down. "This is such a surprise! Oh, and are these some of your friends? Oh who am I kidding, of course they are! Who else would follow you this deep into the Everfree? Anyways, what brings you all here?"

"Um, I think you may have me confused with someone else cuz I have no idea who you are." Applejack said. I gasped.

"Applejack, that hurt," I said. " I mean I know the last I saw you, you were five, but how could you forget me? Don't you remember? I'm the one who used to play with you when you went to the edge of the forest. I used to come to your room to comfort you when you had nightmares and your parents weren't there. I was there every night for five weeks straight when your parents died. Don't you remember? It's me, Slendy." I could see some gears turning in her head. Come on Applejack come on!

"Slendy?" Applejack asked. I nodded.

"Yep, you used to call me that, even though I told you many times my name was Lisa." I said.

"LISA!" she cried and hugged me. I hugged her back.

"Um, Applejack you know her?" Rainbow asked.

"Yep," Applejack said. "When I was little, I always used to go to the edge of the Everfree forest and she'd be there. We used to play games all the time." She then turned to me. "But, I thought you were just an imaginary friend." I shook my head.

"Nope," I said. "I always told you I wasn't an image."

"So, wait, your the one who saved both of our sisters?" Rarity asked. I nodded.

"Just in time too, that timberwolf almost had them," I said.

"Well, thank you for saving the girls," Twilight said. Huh, she's an Alicorn now? Well, I guess I missed that. "Forgive me for asking but, what are you?" I crouched down in front of her, getting my face level with hers.

"Well, if you really want to know, I'm a savior that looks like a monster," I replied. "I'm the nightmare that keeps other nightmares away, and guides the good dreams to you." Twilight nodded, but Rainbow looked confused. "I'm a good guy that looks like a bad guy." Rainbow then nodded.

"Well I suppose we should all introduce ourselves," Twilight said.

"Oh, no need," I said standing up. "I can read minds." I can actually read minds, but I didn't need to for them. I'm a pegasister. "But none of you can so I need to introduce myself. My name is Lisa, the boss of the Everfree."

"How are you the boss of the Everfree forest?" Rainbow asks.

"Well, I'm the toughest thing out here and every other monster here is scared of me so...." I said.

"Oh," Rainbow said. I then turned to Fluttershy. I walked to her and crouched down again.

"Well you haven't said much," I said.

"Oh, well, it's just that, um, I'm, uh, very shy" she replied. I giggled

"It's okay Fluttershy," I said. "You're you, and if that means being shy, then so be it." She smiled at me.

"Thanks," she said. "No one's really said something like that to me before." I nodded.

"Well thank you girls for stopping by, but I'm kind of tired. I had a long day and I need some sleep," I said.

"We should head back too, it's getting dark," Twilight said. I looked up at the sky. The sun was already almost completely down and I could see the moon coming up. They all started to leave.

"Wait!" I said. They all turned to me. "You girls should stay the night here, I don't want any of you going in there after dark."

"Don't worry, we'll be fine," Rainbow said. I shook my head.

"No," I said. "Something in there has recently woken up from a long sleep. If it sees you, it will attack you, and even I can barely fend it off. I don't want any of you getting hurt."

"That's very kind of you darling." Rarity said.

"If there is something out there, then you're right, maybe staying wouldn't be so bad." Twilight said. I nodded.

"Come on I'll show you all around the house," I said.

"SLEEPOVER!" Pinkie said. We all walked into the house, and got everyone set up. Luckily I had some extra blankets just in case I had guests. I got them all set up in the living room. We all said our good nights, and then I went to my room. I collapsed onto my bed, and fell asleep.

Chapter Two: Savior, Definitely

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Chapter Two: Savior, Definitely

{Lisa's POV}

I wake up the next morning to a clear sky with a bright sun. It looked like it was going to be a beautiful day! Perfect. I could lead the mane-6 through the Everfree and not have to worry about that, thing. For some reason it didn't like sunny days. Of course, it could still attack but, I think it learned it's lesson to not screw with me those fourteen years ago. I'm still surprised I knocked it out for that long. Guess I don't know my own strength. Anyways, I walk into the living room to see everypony still sleeping. I smiled, well, I would have if I had a mouth. Strange thing is, even though I don't have facial features, people can tell what they are. It's like this, feeling that they get. They can tell when I'm smiling, where I'm looking, stuff like that. I was still a little groggy so I went to make coffee. Good thing my friend gave me a coffee machine. As I started to make it, Twilight woke up. She walked into the kitchen.

"Oh morning," Twilight said.

"Morning," I replied. "How do you like your coffee?"

"I like it with a little bit of cream and sugar added," she said.

"I like mine straight black," I said. I finished making our coffee, and we sat down at the table.

"I think I'll make some pancakes once everypony's up," I said, sipping my coffee afterwards.

"Um, how do you drink that when you don't have a mouth?" Twilight asked.

"That is one of the many questions I ask myself everyday," I said, then I continued to sip my coffee. Suddenly, A portal to the void opened, and a newspaper from Ponyville came out. I looked up to the portal.

"Thanks!" I shouted.

"No problem!" a slightly insane demonic, but not deep, voice replied. The portal then closed.

"Um, what?" Twilight said.

"I have powerful friends," I replied as I took my reading glasses from the center of the table and began to read.

"But, what kind of, creature, could do that?" Twilight asked.

"Like I said, REALLY powerful friends," I replied. I read the front page news. Apparently the mane-6 not returning home last night spelled some trouble. They were last seen heading into the Everfree forest, but hadn't been seen since. Man, ponies were panicky. I then read then next story. This one slightly pissed me off. It was titled, "New Monster In The Everfree Linked to Element's Disappearance?" Really, I mean, really? It said that the CMC had told news reporters about how they met me, and how their sisters and their sisters' friends had went out to search for me. They had conveniently left out how I saved them from a timberrwolf, and the princess had been notified. Great, just great. I sighed.

"What is it?" Twilight asked. I showed her the article. "Oh."

"No offence, but you ponies are panicky," I said.

"Non taken," Twilight said. "After all that is slightly true." I nodded. Suddenly there was random green fire mist coming through my window. It turned into fire, then into a letter. Twilight began to read the letter.

"What is it?" I asked, as if I didn't already know.

"It's a letter from Spike," Twilight said. "He's my-"

"I already know who he is," I said. "I can read minds remember?"

"Right," Twilight said sheepishly. "Anyways, it says that he had told Celestia that I was missing, and that she was coming to look for me, along with a huge amount of guards."

"Really?" I said. Twilight nodded.

"Hey, this is the perfect opportunity to introduce you two!" Twilight said.

"Yeah maybe, I would love to mee-" I started to say, but I was cut off by the BOOM of thunder. I froze, then ran up to a nearby window. The sky had become covered with gray clouds. Oh no. How did I miss that? I ran over to Rainbow Dash and shook her awake.

"Rainbow!" I yelled.

"Huh, wha-?" she said. "Okay I'm up I'm up geez."

"Is there supposed to be a thunder storm today?" I asked in a panic.

"Uh, yeah I think so, why?" she said. I ran to the door.

"None of you leave until it becomes a sunny day okay?" I said. "Don't leave the house, no matter what you see or hear. My friend will keep you all fed, and will keep that thing away."

"Wait, what?" Twilight asked as everypony else started waking up. "Why? Where are you going?"

"I'm going to find Celestia," I said.

"Why?" Twilight asked.

"Because that thing likes cloudy weather," I said, then ran out of the house and into the forest.

I had been searching for half an hour but I still couldn't find Celestia or her guards. One thing I did know was that it was here, and it was following something. I could only hope it was some wild animal or something, but I knew it was most likely Celestia. After all, that thing only goes after ponies. I ran through the forest, gaining on it. I don't think it's noticed me yet. Either that, or it doesn't care that I'm following it. Probably the second option. I then heard voices.

"All clear over here!" said one voice.

"All clear over here too!" said another. They were coming from that thing's direction. I needed to move! I was not going to let another life be lost at the hands of that thing! I then found the group. I hid behind a tree and waited. That thing was straight across from me, in front of them. I couldn't jump it just yet. If I did, Celestia would catch me, and that thing would escape. And so I waited.

{Celestia's POV}

I sighed. We still had found no trace of Twilight and her friends. We were getting deep into the Everfree forest. We had to find that creature and punish it for what it's done. Suddenly, I heard a growl. It was coming from a bush that was in front of us. At first, I thought it was a timberwolf, that was until its leg came out of the bush. It was long and skinny, and you could see the creature's bones up against the skin. It then fully stepped out. It was a hunched over bipedal creature. It was completely gray, and it had black holes for eyes and a mouth. Its fingers were long and ended in claws. It was incredibly skinny. The poor thing must have been starving. I had never seen anything like it before, but it didn't match the description of the monster that those three fillies provided.

"S-So hungry, s-so cold," it said. I smiled and took out some food.

"Here, do you want some?" I asked.

"So hungry, so cold," it said again not moving.

"Well here," I said offering the food once more.

"So hungry, so cold," it repeated. It said that over and over again. I started to feel worried. Then, it's tune of repetition stopped.

"I will no longer be hungry! I will no longer be cold!" it shouted. It then leaped at me. I panicked and was about to fire a spell, when a tendril of darkness knocked it out of the air. I looked to my left to see were it had come from, and then I saw it. The monster that matched the description. It looked to me.

"Celestia!" it cried. "You need to get out of here, NOW!"

"What?" I said. "Who are you, and what is that thing, and where are Twilight and her friends?"

"They're fine!" it yelled back. "They're at my house, safe and sound. If you want to see them, follow that bunny, it'll take you to my house! I'll explain the rest later, NOW GO!" I was about to retort when I heard that thing get back up. I looked to it, and it seemed pretty pissed off. I roared in anger. I looked to the new monster, and nodded. The guards and I followed the bunny the strange creature had pointed to earlier. It lead us through the forest, and we eventually made it to a clearing. In the middle of it was a little log cabin. The door opened, and Twilight came running out.

"Princess Celestia!" she cried. "Are you okay?"

"Yes I'm fine, but what about you?" I asked. "Are you hurt? What did that thing do to you?"

"She didn't do anything," Twilight said. "After she saved the CMC from some timberwolves, we went out to find her. We went in pretty deep and found this house. It was her house, and she and Applejack apparently knew each other. I'll tell you about that later. Anyways, we found out that she's actually really nice and we were about to leave when she told us to stay with her for the night. Apparently there's something out there that only comes out at night or cloudy days and it's supposed to be scary and aggressive. So we stayed the night. The next morning, Spike sent me a letter that told me you were coming to search for me. Then it started it get cloudy and she ran out to look for you so that thing wouldn't get to you." Celestia just listened. If what Twilight said was true, then this monster wouldn't actually be all that bad.

"By the way, were's Lisa?" Twilight asked.

"Who?" I asked back.

"Lisa, the girl who let us stay here," Twilight said.

"Well," I said "whatever thing that she told you about was, it ran into us. It was going to attack, but then she stopped it. I think she's still fighting it." Twilight gasped.

"Well then we have to go out there and find her!" Twilight said.

"No need," said a familiar voice. I turned around, and saw her. Lisa. She was cut up and bloody all over her body, especially her right arm, which I think was broken. There was blood leaking out of her cuts, and she looked like she was in a lot of pain. She was limping towards us.

"Oh my Celestia!" Twilight cried rushing up to Lisa. "Lisa what happened?" Lisa coughed.

"A... rake... happened..." she said before fainting. Twilight held her up in her magic. She turned to me.

"We have to help her!" Twilight cried. I nodded. We got her into the log cabin. Twilight's friends then noticed what was going on. They had questions but we told them we'd answer them later. We went to Lisa's bedroom and laid her down on the bed. Twilight and I were about to use our magic to heal her, but then her body started to rapidly heal. Soon, all of the cuts were gone, and Lisa looked like she was in a peaceful sleep.

"Huh," I said.

"Certainly wasn't expecting that," Twilight said.

"Come on," I said. "Let us leave her to her sleep." Twilight nodded. We then left the room, and let Lisa rest.

Chapter Three: Monster Definitely

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Chapter Three: Monster, Definitely

{Twilight's POV}

I was sitting in Lisa's living room. Even though it appeared that Lisa had healed, she still hadn't waken up. My friends and I were really worried about her. It seemed that whatever allowed her to heal could heal her skin fast, but that was just to stop the bleeding. Her innards were a different story. Although her organs were healing too, it seemed that it would take a lot longer. To top it off, she was in some sort of, hibernation state, and nothing would wake her up until she was fully healed. I couldn't tell if that was a natural reaction that her body had, or if she had been in that much pain. We tried to speed up her healing, but her body would just devour the magic like it was food, and it just kept her from getting hungry. So, to keep her fed, we just kept giving her healing magic. It had been a couple days since Lisa had fought the rake. She seemed to be getting better, so I wasn't too worried. Of course, for the first two days I had constant panic attacks but, that was normal for any person, right? Right?

"Twilight?"

"EEK!" I screamed.

"Oh sorry," I heard Celestia say. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine," I replied with a sheepish smile. "You just surprised me. I was deep in thought." Celestia smiled.

"Well I just wanted to tell you some good news," Celestia said. "Lisa is recovering nicely. She might even be able to wake up today."

"That's great!" I yelled in excitement. Celestia nodded.

"By the way, where's Applejack and Rainbow Dash?" Celestia asked.

"Huh? Oh, they went back to Ponyvile to get some food," I said.

"Hmm, I hope that monster Lisa fought doesn't come after them." Celestia says with worry.

"Don't worry," I said. "Lisa said that for some reason, that monster doesn't like daylight, and it's a beautiful day out. They should be fine." Celestia nodded.

"I certainly hope so. Well this has been fun but I believe I have to leave now," she said as she walked away. I nodded.

"Bye Celestia!" I said. She waved goodbye, got on her chariot, and left. I decided to check up on Lisa. When I got into her room, she was still sleeping peacefully. I can't belive that just a few days ago, she looked like she had seen the worst. She had been all cut up and damaged, but now she looked like she was fine, from the outside at least. Inside, I knew she was still beat up pretty bad. But, the doctors said that she'd make a full recovery, and she might even wake up today! I hope she will. No one had gotten the chance to thank her for saving Celestia. Pinkie would probably throw her the biggest "Welcome-to-Ponyville-and-thank-you-for-saving-Celestia-party" ever. I can only hope Lisa likes parties. I then heard the door open.

"Hello?" It was Applejack. I went to the living room.

"Hey girls," I said happily.

"Hey Twi," Rainbow said. They both had saddle bags full of food.

"How's Lisa doing?" Applejack asked.

"A lot better," I answered. "In fact, she might actually wake up today!"

"That's great!" Applejack said.

"I know right?" I said.

"Hey where's everypony else?" Rainbow asked

"Well, Rarity went to chew out those newspaper guys for what they said about Lisa, Pinkie went to prepare Lisa's party in advance for when she'd be able to come to Ponyvile, Fluttershy went to check on her animals, and Celestia had to head back to Canterlot."

"Oh," Rainbow replied. They brought the food to the kitchen. Lisa's friend stopped teleporting us food. How do I know? Well, the last batch of food he sent us came with a note. It said that the rake wouldn't bother us for a while, and he had other important things he needed to take care of. Something about sending a dragon and a robot to another dimension. Anyways, now that the rake was gone, we could get our own food. It seemed kind of rude to do that, but I'm sure that other business he had was just as important. After putting all of the food away, we all sat in the living room and started to watch a movie. I had only seen movies in the human world, so I was really excited when Lisa showed us that she had movies. We were watching a movie called Pitch Perfect. Lisa said it was one of her favorites, so we tried it out. It was actually pretty good. The music was good, and the jokes were really funny. Though, some of them I didn't get. By the time the movie was done, the sun had started to dip into the horizon.

"I wonder where Rarity is." Rainbow Dash said.

"She said she was going to come back," I said with worry.

"Ah'm sure she's fine," Applejack said. Then we all heard a scream. It sounded like Rarity!

"Oh yeah, she sure sounds fine," Rainbow said as we all ran out the door. The sun had gone down by this point, and the moon was high in the sky. It had officially become night. I could only hope that nothing we couldn't handle was chasing Rarity. We were about to make it to the edge of the forest, when Rarity ran out. She was being chased by, no, it couldn't be. It was the rake. But how? Lisa's friend had said that the rake wouldn't be bothering us for a while! Then, a second one came out. Followed by a third, and a fourth. So Lisa's friend ment that specific rake. Well ponyfeathers. Rarity came running into the clearing, the rakes chasing after her. However, once they got in, some sort of barrier stopped them from getting in any further. More and more came, and they started to punch and claw at the barrier, voicing their maddened roars of protest. Rarity ran up to us.

"Rarity are you okay?" I asked.

"Yes I'm fine," she replied, fear evident in her voice. "But those things almost got me!"

"Don't worry, that barrier should hold them," Rainbow Dash said. Then we heard a crack. I looked to the closest rake. I could see a crack in the barrier. It was getting weaker.

"What?" Rarity said. "How are they breaking the barrier?" I thought about it for a second. That barrier was super strong, and was completely made of magic, so how were they damaging it? Unless, I took another look at that rake. Unlike the others, he was biting the barrier, not scratching it. That was it! Like Lisa, these things could eat raw magic. And the whole barrier was made of raw magic! The others took notice of what that on rake was doing, and they started to do the same. The cracks on the barrier were getting bigger and bigger. Eventually, part of it broke. After that, eating the barrier became easy. More and more of the barrier was getting devoured. soon, there was a large enough hole for some of the rakes to fit through. As they started to walk in, we ran to the house. Then more spots where the rakes could walk in started to appear around the whole cabin, and one ran in. It cut us off, and we had to stop. One by one, they all flooded in. We were surrounded.

"Twilight, what do we do?" Applejack asked in fear.

"I... I don't know." I looked at the rake in front of me. It lifted up it's hand, and swung. I closed my eyes, ready for the pain. It never came. I opened my eyes, and saw the rake was frozen in place. All of them had stopped. The rake that had just tried to attack me, had a tendril of darkness, right through it's chest. The dark tentacle threw the rake into the air, grabbed it's body, then ripped it in half, and threw the pieces into the crowed of rake's. I looked behind me, and saw Lisa. But, something didn't feel right. When I looked at her, I felt like I was looking at a monster, not my newest friend.

"GET. AWAY. FROM. MY. FRIENDS!" She said each word slowly, and shouted the last one. Her tandrils of darkness dived out and spun, knocking away all of the rakes. She then looked down at us.

"You four, inside, now." she said.

"Lisa?" I asked.

"I said NOW!" she yelled. I flinched, but nodded. The girls and I ran past the rake that were still getting up. As I ran, I heard Lisa say something.

"Okay you pathetic excuse for monsters," she said. A cut suddenly appeared on her face. The cut then opened up to make a blood filled mouth. "Let's have some fun!" The rakes all roared at her and charged. She roared back and leaped into the air. She dived into the back of monsters, and started ripping them apart. She was merciless. Crushing their heads, legs, arms, ripping them in half or ripping off body parts. She was laughing in insane glee, and roaring like the rakes. At least whenever she killed one, they didn't have blood in them. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure I would have thrown up five times at least. I came to one conclusion. This was not Lisa. This was some, monster that shared her body, but that was not her. She had killed half of them in about two minuets. She wouldn't stop killing them. She didn't even leave the ones that were trying to leave alive. After four minutes, she had killed them all. She was just, standing there. She then looked to the sky and let out a terrifying roar. Then, the cut that made her blood filled mouth disappeared, and she fell to the ground. We ran outside to her.

"LISA!" We all cried.

"Are you okay?" I asked once we got to her. She sat up and shook her head.

"Yeah yeah I'm fine," she said. She then noticed the bodies around her. "Whoa, what happened here?"

"Um, you did," I answered.

"What?" she asked. "What do you mean by that?"

"Well, all of these rakes got in, and they tried to attack us," I began. "Then suddenly, you were here, and you attacked them. You had this cut that acted like a mouth, and you fought like you were a puppet that was being controlled by something else."

"A cut?" She said. "And I fought like a puppet? Hmm." She sat there and thought for a minute. Then realization hit her face. "Oh, oh no, oh no no no. S-She didn't hurt any of you did she?"

"No s- wait, she?" I asked. Lisa sighed.

"Look, remember when I said that I was a nightmare that kept other nightmares away?"

"Yeah,"

"Well, there's a reason for that. You see, for as long as I've been here, there's always been something else."

"Like what?"

"Well, you see all of those other monsters right?" We all nodded. "Well, I'm supposed to be like them."

"What do you mean?"

"Those monsters were born like that. But I wasn't born here, I wasn't always like this."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm not ready to tell you yet. Let's just say I used to be, something else. Anyways, when I first got here, I heard this voice in my head, telling me to be like those other monsters. To just kill for no reason. I eventually tuned it out, and it stopped bugging me. But every once in a while, my inner monster comes out, usually in a fit of rage or want to protect something. When that happens, I lose control, and she goes on a rampage."

"Who's she?" Rainbow asks.

"Her name is Slender Woman, and she is my inner monster." We all gasp.

"That's terrible," Rarity says.

"It's not so bad," Lisa replies sadly. "At least she stopped fighting for control a long time ago. And she only comes when it's really bad. Otherwise, she keeps to herself."

"Are you going to be okay?" I asked.

"Y-Yeah I.. I'll, be f-fine," she said. She sounded like she was about to cry. "It's just that, the last time this happened, I hurt.. no, I killed someone who was close to me." She started to cry. The girls and I hugged her as she cried. We took her inside, and sat her down on her couch. We made her some soup, and brought it o her.

"T-Thanks girls," Lisa said. "Sorry for breaking down, I just, never wanted to remember what happened all those years ago."

"It's okay dear," Rarity said. "If I was in your position, I would be acting the same way if not worse."

"Yeah," Applejack said. "You're handling this a whole lot better than Ah ever would." She nodded and ate her soup. We spent the night at her house again so we could be there for her. After all, for something like that, no one should be alone for it.

Chapter Four: The Past

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Chapter Four: The Past

{Lisa’s POV}

I woke up the next morning to a beautiful day. Maybe this time it would stay that way. I walked into the living room to see Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash sleeping on and around the couch. I walked into the kitchen, and I thought about making some coffee, but decided to make some pancakes instead. I turned on the stove and grabbed some batter from my cabinet. I stopped and looked into my pantry; there was a lot more food in there now then there was before I was knocked out. I guess the girls went out shopping. Huh, that was nice of them. I took out a pan, put it on the stove, put the batter on it, and started to make some pancakes. I’m glad my Mom taught me how to cook before I came here. That’s one skill that’s helped me over the years. As I flipped the pancakes, I heard somepony walk in.

“Is that pancakes Ah smell?” I turned and saw Applejack.

“Morning Jackie,” I said.

“Need any help?”

“No, I’m fine.” Applejack walked up to me.

“Hey, are you okay?”

“Yeah I’m fine. A lot of old memories came up last night, that’s all.” Applejack nodded. Suddenly, a portal opened up above me and from it, a newspaper fell, right onto my head. I looked up.

“Could you at least wait till I’m sitting down Marx?”

“Nope!”

I rolled my eyes and the portal closed. I picked the newspaper up from the ground and set it on the table, then I went back to my pancakes.

“Um, who was that?”

“Huh? Oh, just an old friend of mine.”

“An old friend of yours? How did ya meet somepony like him?”

“It’s a long story. I guess I could tell you once the others get up.” Applejack nodded and started to clear off the table. Once she was done, I brought my pancakes (not to brag but I think I made them perfectly) to the table and got everyone some plates. I set the plates down, and laid out the pancakes as Applejack went to get the other girls up. I walked up to the fridge and looked at the drinks that I had. I had apple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice, and… cider?

“Since when did I have cider?” I thought about it for a moment. There was only one pony that could have done this. “Rainbow Dash.” Great. What am I supposed to do with this? Eh, maybe I’ll give it to Marx. He’ll probably give it to some other displaced. I took out all of the juice and set it on the counter. I took out some cups, and set them all down. I turned and saw everypony walking in.

“Good morning girls.”

“Morning Lisa,” Twilight replied with a nod.

“Morning darling.” Rarity said with grace.

“‘Sup,” Rainbow said.

“I made pancakes!” I led them to the table, and we all began to eat. “By the way, why’d you buy me cider, Rainbow?”

“Um, because cider is AWESOME!”

“Yeah well, I don’t drink.”

“Oh, well I guess I’ll just take it with me.” How much you wanna bet she planned this from the beginning? I used my mind reading powers.

‘YES! I knew she didn’t look like the drinking type. Now I’ve got cider that Applejack bought!’ Yep, I knew it. Whoever said she didn’t now owes me five bucks! A sudden portal opened up and five bits fell out.

“Ha! I knew it!”

“Whatever...” Marx grunted with frustration. The portal then closed.

“Um… what?”

“Don’t worry Twi, me and Marx make bets all the time.”

“Who’s Marx?”

“He’s my friend that sends me a copy of the newspaper.”

“Oh, who is he anyway?”

“Well, it’s a long story but, I suppose that since I have no plans today, I could tell you all.”

“Oooo! Back story time!” I looked up and saw Pinkie on my head.

“AAAHHH!” everypony else screamed.

“Pinkie when did you get here?” Rainbow asked.

“WellaftergettingthingsreadybackatponyvileIdecidedtocomebackheretoseewhatyouallweredoingandwhenIheardLisasayshewasgoingtotellalongstoryIknewitwouldbeabackstorysoIdecidedtojoin!”

“Is that a fact?” I said amused.

“Wait, you understood that?” Twilight asked.

“Yes, all it takes is learning to listen to different segments of a sentence, and then you’ll get the general idea.”

“Yeah!”

“Okay then. So anyways you were going to tell us about Marx?”

“Right, so the story starts a long time ago, back before I came here.”

I was just a little girl when I first meet him. You see, I had a very lonely childhood. Not really any friends. The only real friend I had was Marx, my imaginary, or who I thought was imaginary, friend. He would always be with me. We’d play games, tell jokes, and just have fun. But that wasn’t the only thing that made him awesome. When he would come with me to school, he didn’t just hang out with me during recess, but he would also help me with class work. It would actually work too. With his help, not only was my classwork and homework mostly correct, but if I didn’t know an answer on a test, he would somehow know the answer. Life was great with him around. But, one day, I just stopped seeing him. At first I just assumed that I had outgrown my imaginary friend, but I would one day learn that I was very wrong about that. It was a friday night. My parents and I were staying at my uncle’s house over christmas break. After that, I would have head home, but I would never get the chance.

You see, it had been rumored in my family that my uncle made drugs in his basement. I thought those rumors weren’t true. Oh, how wrong I was. A sudden boom shook me and parents awake. There smoke coming from the basement, and I heard a fire roaring underneath us. We ran downstairs, only to see the fire had spread here from the basement to the first floor.

“The window upstairs! We can get out from there!” my dad yelled. My mom and I nodded. We ran upstairs and try to get out the window. First my mom goes. I can see the fire starting to spread up to here.

“Your turn sweetie,” My dad says.

“No, you’re going first.” My dad is about to object, but I push him out the window. I was about to follow, but then I hear a crack. I look down. The fire has spread up here completely now. The wooden floor below me was cracked. The crack begins to grow. The floor below me collapses, and I fall. I hit the first floor, it breaks from my momentum and I fall to the basement. There’s fire all around me, and everything was collapsing. I, was going, to die. A portal suddenly appears in front of me, and something walks out.

It was a skeleton, with a black cape tied around it’s neck with a red gem holding it there. It had a staff that had a mini Tirek skull on the top, and a spear tip on the bottom. It was Marx!

“M-Marx?”

“Hello Lisa.” I couldn’t believe it. Was I hallucinating him because I was about to die?

“You’re not going to die Lisa, I’m not going to let that happen.” Huh, how?

“What do you mean? You're just a being from my imagination, right?”

“Look, do you remember how I would be able to tell you things you yourself didn’t know?”

“Yeah?”

“How would I be able to do that unless I was a separate being entirely?”

“Um, I don’t know.” The fire was still roaring. I was losing air. Marx must have noticed this.

“Listen, I would explain more but we don’t have the time. I can save you, but you must agree to it. Do you want to live?”

“Y-Yes.”

“Then I can save you, but in order to do that, I have to send you away. You wont ever be able to come back home, and you will never look the same again. Is that okay?” I thought for a moment.

“Y-Yeah, that’s fine, just make sure my parents will be okay.” Marx nodded. A portal opened up beneath me, and I fall. As I begin to fall, my body begins to change. My skin gets paler, and I grow tendrils of darkness out of my back. My black hair doesn’t change, and neither do my clothes or body shape. I continue to fall, till another portal opens up below me. I fall through, and land in a field. I get up and look around. The field was surrounded by a really creepy, but strangely familiar forest. I then hear Marx speakin my head.

“Ah, seems as though I put you in a place you recognize.”

“Where exactly did you put me?”

“I’ll give you a hint, Everfree.”

Everfree? What? Wait a second.

“You’re kidding me right?”

“What? I thought you’d like it!”

“Yeah I’m fine with it. I just never thought you’d send me here.”

“Well, you’re welcome!” Marx stops talking to me. I look around. This little field could make a nice little home. I mean, I’ve got plenty of wood around me, and there’s bound to be some food around here. But first, what did Marx turn me into? I looked down at my body. I was Slender Woman. Huh, weird. I looked around again. Better start figuring out how I should make a house.

“And that’s how I met Marx, and how I got here.” The girls were in awe.

“That’s amazing!” Twilight said. “Well, except for the fire part, that’s not so amazing.”

“I agree darling.” Rarity said sadly.

“Well, what about after that?” Rainbow asked. “How’d you meet Applejack, and how’d you get this house?”

“That’s a tale for another time.” They girls all awed in sadness. “Hey cheer up. It’s a beautiful day! How about we go to Ponyvile for that party Pinkie planned for?”

“Hey, how’d you know about that?”

“Ah’m guess, mind reading?”

“No way. I dare not tread into the mind of Pinkie.” We all laughed at that. I then, with the girl’s help, washed the dishes and we all left for Ponyvile.

Chapter Five: Two Slenders

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Chapter Five: Two Slenders

I was walking along the outskirts of the Everfree forest, pacing back and forth as the intangible pull it had on me grew in intensity. It had been a few months since Pinkie and I had started dating, and things were going great. Yet... the longer I stayed, the more this forest attracted my attention. I was also hearing the voices that tortured me back when I was transformed. They whispered at first, so faint I couldn’t even make out what they were saying, but as time went on, they grew louder and louder, until every time they spoke I would get a splitting migraine. They demanded that I kill innocent ponies, ponies that I KNEW wouldn’t ever hurt the good… I have been steadfast in my resistance… but I don’t know how much longer I could last…

I looked to my watch (a gift from Pinkie that she even resized to my wrist) and gasped, it was almost time for our date today! I slenderwalked to the restaurant where we had agreed to meet: a modest pizza place with really good fried zucchini. I saw Pinkie come skipping down the road and I could not resist smiling, but was careful not to show my teeth. She sat down in a booth and I sat next to Pinkie and smiled, happy to be out on a date with her. We've been spending increasing amounts of time together and I had even gotten a job as security at the bakery, mostly dealing with kids trying to steal candy and helping keep the place safe to bake in, keeping burglars and recipe thieves out, really helps that I don't need sleep. I looked to Pinkie, the twinkle in her eyes mesmerizing me

"So... um... Pinkie..."

Pinkie smiled and kissed me on the cheek "Yeah Jerry-Cherry?"

I smiled, once again happy I learned to hide my teeth as I nervously fidgeted with my tie "What was the reason you said yes to going out with me?"

Pinkie smiled "Well, I like how nice you are, and you are really cute when you aren't wearing that mask, and-"

I looked to Pinkie doubtfully "You... like my natural look?"

Pinkie nodded "Yeah! It's super cool and strong! And besides," She whispered sensually into my ear "I like my stallions tall..."

I blushed and kissed Pinkie on the cheek, right before the voices slammed into my skull full force

“THE FOREST! GO TO THE FOREST! KILL ALL WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY!”

I slumped in pain as I clutched my head, Pinkie looking worriedly to me “Jerry! Are you okay!?”

I nodded “I… I think I need to go….” The urge to kill was growing, I didn’t want to hurt anypony, I had to get out of here!

I quickly slenderwalked to a random location, finding myself in a clearing in the Everfree, about fifteen miles from Ponyville's border with the forest, I found a large scythe in it’s center, stuck in a dead tree, it was an odd scythe as it had not one, but four blades, each forming a ninety degree angle with the next, and seemed to be made entirely of a pitch black metal, with a red light reflecting off of it, I looked to the ground and saw a giant Slenderman mark as well, along with runes in a language I did not recognize, these runes also running along the length of the blade… I walked to the scythe and grabbed it, screaming in pain as the voices grew to unbearable levels as my suit changed, my tie becoming an ascot and my business suit becoming a duster, and my slendrils became harder, almost chitinous. I began speaking, or more accurately, the voices spoke through me… calling to what I could feel was another displaced. I could also feel my resistance to the voices commands weakening, my vision blurring as a rift opened in front of me, and out fell a female Slendy.

Third POV

Lisa was walking with Twilight and the others back to Ponyville so that not only could she get introduced to the town but also so she could have her party. Fate however, had other plans for her. A portal to the void suddenly opened underneath her, and she fell in.

"SHIT!" Twilight and her friends looked at the portal as it closed.

"LISA!" Applejack dove at the portal just as it closed. She hit the ground in frustration.

"Don't worry Applejack! She's just going to meet a new friend!"

"And how do ya gather that Pinkie?"

"My Pinkie sense!" Pinkie then bounced away like nothing happened. The others just watched the spot, where Lisa disappeared.

Meanwhile, Lisa was falling through the void.

'Wonder who summoned me?' She didn’t have to wait long as another portal opened up and she fell through. When she fell out, she saw who summoned her. It was slenderman.

"Oh hello! Now who might you be?"

[1st person POV, Jeremy]

I staggered a little, my eyesight still blurry as I looked to her, a black mist rising from my body. “I...I’m Jeremy…” I felt the voices recede in their killing mantra “Why aren’t the voices telling me to kill you? I don’t want to hurt anyone, tell me how to get these voices to shut up!” I grabbed my head in pain with my left hand, my right still holding the scythe “Th-they won’t shut up! They tell me to kill good ponies! I DON’T WANT TO HURT INNOCENTS!”

“Oh, so the voices have already started for you now huh?” I nodded.

“Yes, have they for you?” The Slender Woman nodded.

“Yeah, a long time ago. I eventually found a way to get them to stop.”

“How?”

“Self solitude. I sealed myself in a cave for a hundred years, building up resistance to the voices and mastering my abilities.”

“Self solitude? For a hundred years?”

“Yep although, I’m guessing you don’t have that kind of time do you?” I shook my head. “Thought so. Hmm, well there is one other way.”

“What? Tell me! I’ll do anything.”

“I need you to get mad.”

“WHAT?! WHY?!”

“So I can beat your inner Slendy into submission.”

I sighed before focusing on my memories from before I became slendy, the things I had lost, the people and loved ones I would never see again. My mouth appeared, and so did my dark Slendrils. Now, I could only watch as my body moved on it’s own. My body charged and threw a punch. The new slendy just dodged the punch by moving her head to the left before leaping to the right to avoid my scythe/spear, I think I’ll call it a meta scythe

“By the way-” my body threw another punch, which she dodged by moving her head to the right, “my name’s Lisa.” My body roared in anger and started to use my Slendrils to attack. She just dodged the attacks effortlessly. Her movement was lightning fast. I couldn’t even see her move as she dodged. My body swung my scythe again, and one of her Slendrils caught it.

“Planning to attack me with your little farmer’s toy? HA, cute.” My body just got angrier as it slammed my scythe on the ground. Upon doing so, black cracks formed in the ground, and spread out to the forest. I could suddenly feel the connections of three different beings, and they rushed to help my crazed body. When they came out of the bushes, I saw that they were timberwolves. My body barked an order through the new connection, which worked like a hive mind. The wolves then leaped at Lisa, and I thought she was about to eat it but she just backflipped into the air. Using her tendrils of darkness, she shot them out at the ground, allowing her to not only impale the three timberwolves, but also to balance herself in mid air. She positioned herself so she was looking at the ground, but she also looked like she was standing on air.

“Aw, trying to attack me with your little wolf proxies. That’s so adorable!”

My body roared as giant arms made of slendril material grew from the ground, swiping at Lisa and grabbing her by the limbs as I began to change further, my bodies rage growing further as I fought for control, while my body was fighting Lisa I was wrestling with my inner Slendy in my mindscape I began to overpower him as I screamed in rage “I WILL NOT LOSE MY BODY TO YOU!”

Lisa started to notice her opponent was slowing down.

“Hey, if you’re fighting your inner Slendy right now you need to stop! It’s not beaten into submission yet! Besides, I’m having fun!”

I stopped. She was having fun? I watched as my body brought her to the ground, but she slenderwalked just before she hit the ground. My body stopped, confused.

“Boo.” Suddenly, one of Lisa’s Slendrils burst through my stomach. My body’s head slowly turned to look at her. Even though she had no facial features, I could swear I saw a creepy smile on her. “Had enough yet? I mean, look at you. You tried your hardest but I beat you senseless without even trying. Now, this is just your body Slendy. I hate to see what the person that’s in control could do to your mind if you kept at this. And if you’re not afraid of that, then think of what I could do should he let me in.” I could feel my inner Slendy retreat into my head, and give me control. Lisa pulled out her Slendril, and I fell to my knees, gasping for air.

I looked to her as the voices became silenced and my wound sealed itself “I can’t thank you enough…” I then stood up and looked to my claw scythe, wondering who left it there… I then looked to it quizzically, wondering how the hell I was supposed to waltz into town with this bloody death dealer in tow, but right as I began to wonder that, it disappeared! It was as if it was a keyblade from kingdom hearts! I then willed it back, and it just reappeared out of thin air!

“No problem. I had fun kicking your inner Slendy’s ass anyways.”She then noticed me making my claw scythe appear and disappear at will “Huh, interesting weapon.”

I looked to Lisa “Umm… mind if I go with you? I’d like to learn how to use my slendy powers better…” I looked towards ponyville regretfully “I don’t think I should go back yet… I almost hurt Pinkie…”

Lisa nodded. “Yeah that’s fine. Your inner Slendy should stop bothering you from now on. If it does, hold this up.” Lisa held out her hand. In it, was a black marble, with a circle that was crossed out on it. I took it, and held it up to my face. Upon doing so, a message played.

Hi! My name’s Lisa, and I’m the Slenderwoman! If you ever need someone to help take out your enemies, or just a cool girl to hang out with, just throw the marble at the ground and I’ll arrive shortly.

I smiled “If you ever need my help, take this and call my name: Jeremy Farkness.” I let the crimson material flow from my hands again, forming a crimson red medallion in the shape of the slenderman’s mark. I handed it to her and it’s message played:

“ Greetings, child, press my symbol into the ground, and I will come to thy aid, but beware, if wickedness lie in thy heart, I shall strike thee down…”

“Ooo, went for a Luna style huh? Nice.” Lisa tossed the item behind her, and a portal opened and swallowed it up. I looked at her quizzically. “What? Oh, I have a friend that can control portals. Whenever I get a token, I just toss it and a portal puts it into storage for me.”

I nodded and waited for a bit, trying to think of what to say “Ummm…. you wanna go meet my world’s Pinkie? She’s really cute.”

“Sure, I could always go for meeting a new Pinkie.” We began to walk to Ponyville. As they did, I spoke up.

“So how in Arawn’s name did you dodge me so fast?” Yeah, I worship Celtic gods, deal with it.

“Huh? Oh that. It’s a trick I developed called Slender Dodging. Basically, I’m not actually moving that fast. I’m just slenderwalking a short distance. Small enough so it’s instant. That, combined with me changing positions to look like I’m dodging, makes it seem to my opponents that I’m a lot faster than I really am.”

I nodded before I realised something and facepalmed “We could of just slenderwalked to the restaurant in front of sugarcube corner… God I’m dumb.”

“Eh don’t worry about it. I barely use my slenderwalking unless I have to. I prefer to actually walk everywhere. Gives me a good exercise.”

I nodded as we reached the restaurant, only to find that Pinkie was not there, I looked around to find Applejack running towards me. I waved to her only for her to run up and try to punch me. Lisa however, caught the punch.

“And why is Applejack attacking?”

I shrugged “Maybe she thinks I’m a tree?”

AppleJack whinnied in rage “I don’t think y’all are a tree! Y’all are a two timing Varmint who went n’ made Pinkie cry just so y’all could get with this whore!” Lisa took offence to that.

“Okay one, I’m not a whore. That’s just rude. And two, had he not left he could have killed Pinkie.”

I looked away in shame as AJ looked blankly to me “Wha? Wh...why?”

I teared up, black liquid dripping from where my eyes were supposed to be “It was my inner Slenderman. I… I ran away so I wouldn’t hurt her…” Lisa put an arm on my shoulder.

“Yeah, had he not left, a lot of ponies would have died. He called me up so I could beat his inner Slendy into submission. Now it’s under control.”

AJ looked to me in shame “I’m sorry I nearly decked ya.” Lisa giggled.

“Yeah, that looked like it would have hurt. Luckily his big sister Lisa was here to protect him.”

I paused a moment, thinking of how we basically were related, both by our new bodies AND by our fast growing friendship. I then smiled and nodded “Thanks, nee-chan, let’s go see Pinkie… hey, mind helping me practice something for Pinkie, Lisa?”

I leaned in and whispered into her ear “I want to go steady with her…”

“Aw,” she cooed, “my little baby brother wants to get intimate with his crushy-wushy!”

I blushed and gently slugged her “Jerk, just tell me if this ring looks good….” I was about to take out the ring, but Lisa stopped me.

“Wait! Pinkie is looking our way so don’t pull out the ring! I don’t want her to think you’re proposing to me.”

I stiffened up and looked around until I saw Pinkie, sitting at the steps to Sugarcube Corner, her hair flat and her eyes dripping with tears, I slenderwalked to her, “Pinkie, I’m so sorry! It’s not what you think!”

Lisa walked to us. “Yeah, I’m not dating him. He had to leave to protect you.”

Pinkie sniffled cutely “R-really?”

Lisa nodded. “Yeah, if he hadn’t left, you might have gotten seriously hurt by his inner monster. But don’t worry, I beat it into submission. Now you two don’t have to worry about it!” Lisa gestured for me to kneel down.

I nodded then kneeled and took out a ring box, unveiling a ruby ring with Onyx and Marble overlay, bringing to mind my personage. “Pinkamena Diane Pie, for as long as I’ve known you, you’ve made me happy. You were the first one to accept my true form, and you liked me for who I was. We’ve spent only a few months together, yet I already need to know the answer to the most important question in my life. Will you do me the honor of becoming Pinkamena Diane Farkness?”

Pinkie began to tear up all over again, this time from joy I hope “Y-Yes! Yes I will marry you!” Lisa began to cry too, but she had actual tears.

“Oh my god my little bro is getting married!” Pinkie jumped into my arms and hugged me. I hugged her back, and Lisa just added to the group hug.

“I know I’m supposed to let you two have this moment, but I just can’t believe my little baby bro is getting married already!” We all separated and laughed. Lisa started to panic.

“OOOOH! I have so much to do! I need to find you two a place to get married, then make invitations, then invite people, then get the ceremony ready, then get the after party ready, find someone to do the marriage, get gifts, plan a bachelorette party, get a location for your honeymoon. I have so much to do in so little time!” Lisa ran off, probably to Twilight’s house, and Pinkie and I just laughed at her antics. There was a bright future ahead. One, that involved Pinkie.

It was then that I realised MY predicament, Pinkie looked to me happily as I smiled to her ‘Damn…. Lisa is doing all the work… I feel like an ass…’ I then brightened up “I know! I can hire entertainment for the wedding!” I looked to Pinkie and beamed “Who would you like to play for our wedding?”

Pinkie thought a moment, rubbing her chin “Well… I do like DJ pon-3, but Twitch and Living Tombstone are great too… Grr! I am terrible at choices like this!”

I nodded, it seems the brony communities ponysonas exist in this world, to an extent, maybe just the famous ones? I decided to ask a risky question “Well, how about we hire Ken Ashcorp? He has a voice like an angel.”

Pinkie nodded excitedly “Yeah! I love his singing!”

I set her down reluctantly, having enjoyed the feel of her against me, I then decided to check something I have been dreading for a VERY long time “Pinkie, I’ll be right back… I gotta..erm… check myself…” I slenderwalked to the Everfree and took down my pants while pulling up my duster, seeing that I did indeed still have a dick! “YES! WOOOHOOO” I then pulled up my pants and let my duster down and slenderwalked to Ken Ashcorp’s house, which was in Manehattan, next to Donut Joes place. I knocked on the door and waited, Kenny eventually answering the door with soda in hand, doing a spit take when he saw me. He looked like his ponysona from the 20% cooler music video, but wore a dj’s outfit, an unzipped hoodie with headphones hanging off the neck over a black T-shirt and jeans with holes at the knees. I smiled warmly, careful again not to show my teeth “Hi, I was wondering if you would be interested in singing at my wedding? I am prepared to pay in bits.”

Chapter Six: The Wedding

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Chapter Six: The Wedding

I staggered as I heard what Kenny had to say “Y-you are refusing because I’m not a pony?!”

Ken Shook his head “Nah, dude, I am saying I’m not doing it because you look like something out of H.P. Lovehooves deepest nightmares, and the last time I sang at a wedding, the husband tried to slug me because the wife flung herself at me, I’m sorry, but you trying to slug me would probably end with me having a busted skull. Good luck with getting someone though, I recommend you try Mic the Mic or The Piano stallions.” He then closed his door in my face and I could hear him walking away, I paused a moment “The piano guys ponified!? DEAR GOD I GOTTA GET TO THEM!” I slenderwalked to where the Piano guys rehearsed, an old meadow off the side of Ponyville, surprisingly enough. I walked to them slowly with my hands raised in surrender as they were both unicorns and could blast me with magic, and I did not feel like using my aura “I was wondering if you would like to play at my wedding?

"Um sorry dude. I'm sure that we'd love to play at your wedding, but we've already got one to play at."

I looked to them in disappointment... before I decided to take one extra chance "Who is the gig for?" I begged to the Tuatha De Danaan that they would say it was for Pinkie...

"It's for some pony named Pinkie and Slendy. Some weird looking girl, she looked a lot like you actually, rushed up and asked. We were going to refuse, then she told us if we ever wanted to see the light of day again, we would play at their wedding."

I cheered "I am Slendy! Woohoo!" I picked the pianist up and hugged him "I could freaking kiss you right now!"

The pianist paled "Please don't..."

I set him down and began to dance with joy "YEAH!" I finished my little jig pointed to them happily "I'll pay you tomorrow!" I slenderwalked to Pinkie, finding her in Golden Oaks Library with the rest of the mane six. I swept her up in my arms and kissed her, unaware of the rift opening up behind me, depositing a small jack in the box, with a note attached to it 'Paradox in a box, WIND ME UP!'

Twilight noticed the box and walked up to it before picking it up and began to inspect it, mumbling about 'conducting experiments.'

Suddenly, Lisa burst into the library. "OKAY! So I got the wedding to be held in Canterlot, Celestia to do the marriage, made the invitations, invited Pinkie's family and friends, got the honeymoon ready, and everything else!" She slumped onto a nearby chair. "Ugh, I need a break."

I smiled warmly and walked to Lisa, giving her a spine cracking bear hug and tousling her hair "Man... I wish Jason was here. Even though he had problems, he's like a brother to me."

Pinkie nodded excitedly "Yeah! I'd love to have him at the wedding! He's great at charades!" Lisa then stood up.

"MARX!" A portal opened up above them. A skeleton stuck his head out.

"Yes?"

"Can you grab Jason for me? Please?"

"Yeah sure." Marx snapped his fingers and a portal opened. From the portal came Jason. "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to prepare a little sub dimension."

"Why?"

"Oh you know, reasons." Marx then left, and the portal closed.

I slenderwalked to Jason and hugged him "Hey! Long time no see buddy! Guess what? Me and Pinks are getting married!"

Jason had a man struggling in his palms. He then snapped his victim's neck to the point where the victim could literally see behind his back turned to the voice. He pulled out a sign that read

WTF?! CARE TO REPEAT THAT?

I smiled "I'm getting married to Pinkie pie! I'm going to spend the rest of my days with her!"

Jason shook his head at the wrongness of the last part of that statement and pulled out another sign.

OKAY. THAT'S GREAT AND ALL BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ME EXACTLY?! WHY CALL ME HERE? UNLESS THERE'S SOMEONE YOU WANT DEAD.

I smiled and patted him on the back "I want you to be the best man!"

Pinkie nodded "Me too! You were a super great friend when we met last, and Jerry-Cherry here thinks of you like a brother!"

I blushed and nudged Pinkie "TMI, Pinkie, TMI."

Jason stood stock still and thought on it, for years he hated and fought his own brother, and wasn't exactly keen on the idea of having another but on the other hand he didn't exactly want to hurt this guy's feelings plus he looked like he could stand to have someone looking out for him. Maybe just this once.

FINE I'LL BE YOUR "BEST MAN" AND YOUR "BROTHER" BUT ONLY ON THE CONDITION THAT I'M THE ELDEST.

I smiled "I was 13 when I was displaced, given that I have no Idea how long I was trapped with the voices, I'll just say it was a few moments. And sure, you can be my older bro!"

I JUST HOPE WE DON'T BECOME THE NEXT CAIN AND ABLE.

I shrugged "I doubt it, I'm not even Christian, I'm Celtic."

I MEANT THAT I END UP BECOMING SICK OF YOU AND KILL YOU.

I nodded "I know, just trying to lighten the mood! Besides, I'm not even sure either of us CAN really die, unless we get flung into the sun or something." I smiled and gestured for Jason to follow me "Lisa, I want to show Jason here what I found in the forest, mind keeping the girls entertained?"

"Yeah sure. Now would be the perfect time for the bachelorette party! C'mon girls!" Lisa grabbed Pinkie's hand and dragged her along as the other girls followed, talking about what they would do for the party.

I slenderwalked Jason to the Royal Pony Sisters’ castle and smiled "You are going to love this!" I willed my meta-scythe into existence and then paused a moment, letting it fall into my hand as I let it split into four separate hand scythes like from Darksiders 2 and grabbing the other two hand scythes with a pair of Slendrils that I morphed into hands "Pretty cool, eh?"

Jason nodded in appreciation of the weapons his friend wielded

WHEN DID YOU GET THOSE?

I smiled "Found them in the woods a bit before I met Lisa. I think it amplifies my powers, because now I can make slendril arms and shadow arms come out of the ground." I then laughed "I can also apparently make Timberwolf Proxies, now all I need is to figure out how to slenderwalk through time."

UH-HUH. AND WHY EXACTLY WOULD YOU WANT TO TRAVEL THROUGH TIME?

I paused "Well, I want to prevent Cadence from being replaced by the bug bitch, and I'd LOVE to make a slendified copy of the tree of Harmony. I mean really, a tree that powerful bound to my power? I'd have my own admirals to fight alongside me! I'd make a Masky, Hoody, Ben drowned, etc. except without the evilness."

NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! PREVENTING THE WHOLE KIDNAPPING OF CADENCE WOULD BE WRONG AND CAUSE A WHOLE LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE TIMESTREAM OF YOUR UNIVERSE. SAME THING FOR THE TREE OF HARMONY! DO YOU WANT TO DESTROY PINKIE AND EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND CARE ABOUT? BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN!!

I shook my head quickly "While you got me on the Cadence wedding, I meant I want to know the origins of the tree of harmony, then get a SECOND origin point, be it a seed, a crystal, or even a magical artifact, if someone can make one of something, they can sure as hell make another." I then looked in the tree's direction "I want to be capable of doing Pinkie's job for her... I don't want her in the constant danger like she was in the show..."

JEREMY, LISTEN TO ME. DO NOT MESS WITH THE TREE OF HARMONY IN ANYWAY. THAT INCLUDES CREATING A SECOND ONE BASED ON YOUR POWER. YOU DO, THEN BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN. AND AS FOR PINKIE, IF YOU DO THAT SHE WILL ONLY GROW TO HATE YOU. SHE NEEDS TO STAND UP ON HER OWN HOOVES. BESIDES DANGER IS A PART OF LIFE, TAKE THE DANGER AWAY AND YOU MIGHT AS WELL KILL HER OR TURN HER INTO STONE.

I sighed "Well, can you help me think of a way to protect Pinkie without sacrificing her autonomy?"

IT'S SIMPLE: BE THERE FOR HER. SUPPORT HER IN ANY WAY YOU CAN. THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON YOU ARE MARRYING HER. WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING IS THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU WANT.

Just then, a loud roar was heard outside, I slenderwalked outside with Jason following in his lake mist to find a massive gorilla-like creature with blue, red and purple dragon scales with gold trim instead of Fur, and a long tail ending in quills dripping with green liquid. "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?! IT'S THE SIZE OF A FREAKING MONSTER TRUCK!" it then turned to us and roared angrily before pounding on its chest "Ummm... shit... this is going to suck, isn't it?"

MAYBE FOR YOU IT WILL. BUT NOT FOR ME!

With that Jason charged straight toward the creature, I sighed and slenderwalked above it, landing on its back and stabbing it with two of my scythes, digging myself into its back and slashing at it repeatedly with the other two, the beast roared in rage and tried to swat me off, luckily he could not reach me, some of it's blood sprayed into my nonexistent face and I felt a surge of information into my mind, comprised solely of its weaknesses "HEY! JASON! Slash at the wrists and he'll lose his balance!" I then leapt off and summoned my scythes, hitting it between the scales at an upward angle, planting them firmly between the scales and twisting my weapon to remove some of them, which almost instantly began to grow back. "Aim up! Hitting it between the scales is key! The scales are tougher than dragonhide!" I slenderdodged a quill and watched it hit a tree, making it wither and die before melting into mush on the floor. "HOLY SHIT!" I laughed as I dodged a few more quills "Maybe I should make this thing a proxy? That would kick ass!" I then noticed a mark over its chest, a glowing red rune with smoke of the same color coming off of its surface "Wait... I think this thing is already bound to someone! Someone powerful, at that!" I smiled and slenderwalked to the left wrist and slashed at it, severing the tendons and making it fall to the left as I slenderwalked again to get out of the way. "Jason! You got the other arm? I'll distract this ugly bastard!" I slenderwalked into the air and smacked it in the face before slenderwalking over to a tree, slicing off a branch and throwing it at him "Bet ya can't hit me ya little pansy!"

DON'T TELL ME HOW TO FIGHT!!

I read the sign that Jason threw at my head. It came with a picture of an angry face. I realized I was taking charge, and thus being an asshat.

I dodged a quill and leapt off the now melting tree "Sorry, brother! Just trying to help!" I then ran at the things ankles and slashed at them, cutting the tendons there as well and making it roar in agony as the diamond hard scales were easily bypassed by my curved blades.

Jason pulled out his machete and slashed three times at its chest, followed by four punches. He followed it up by grabbing the beast's neck and quickly stabbing it three times then a fourth stab that Jason pushed in slowly and deliberately, finishing it off with a back-breaker that snapped it's spine like a twig and a boot to the stomach that sent it flying.

I smiled as the creature let out it's death groans as it collided with a mountain wall and looked to Jason in shock as it began to shrink, becoming a small toy monkey with little cymbals. I picked it up and looked at it, seeing red stitching on it's chest that glowed with power. "I think we should take this with us, don't want someone who can't even fight the thing to find it and wake it up again or something..." I then thought a moment before shaking my head "Nah, I shouldn't give it to Gilda... even though she deserves to be this things lunch."

WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT GILDA?

I looked to him and simply said "No one freaking makes Flutters cry. NO ONE."

Jason turned around and walked slowly up to his "brother" making sure he was standing in the shadow of his height.

LISTEN YOU. I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH FANS LIKE YOU MAKING GILDA INTO A PARIAH SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE ROARED AT FLUTTERSHY. ARE YOU SERIOUSLY GONNA HOLD THAT AGAINST HER AND FORGIVE TRIXIE WHO NEED I REMIND YOU ENSLAVED THE WHOLE TOWN OF PONYVILLE?

I paused a moment "Well.... I guess I could forgive her if she apologized..." I sighed " Also, don't even bring up Trixie, that bitch just ignored Pinkie completely the first appearance... and THEN SHE FREAKING DELETED HER LIPS!" I began letting lose a minor slendy aura, making the grass around me die before I calmed myself down "If she deletes Pinkies lips, I can't freaking kiss my wife!"

FIRST OF ALL THIS COMING FROM A BEING WHO HAS NO FACE AT ALL. NEED I REMIND YOU THAT YOU CAN'T KISS HER WITHOUT THAT MASK. SECONDLY DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT WITHOUT LIPS THE TWO OF YOU WILL STOP LOVING EACH OTHER? THIRD MUCH LIKE CADANCE'S WEDDING IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. FOURTH IT WAS A JOKE! SHE WASN'T HARMED IN THE SLIGHTEST! AND FIFTH MY POINT STILL STANDS!

I sighed and nodded "You are right, you know, for Jason Voorhees, you are really wise..."

THIS MAY BE JASON VOORHEE'S BODY BUT THE MIND AND HEART IS STILL MINE. THOUGH HIS SPIRIT IS STILL HERE.

I nodded "I had the same problem, had to get my inner slendy beaten into submission by Lisa."

I NEVER BEAT JASON INTO SUBMISSION, WE JUST CAME TO TERMS. LIKE A COMBINATION OF MARVEL'S VENOM AND CARNAGE.

I laughed a moment "So you are like Krieg from Borderlands, but the murderous psychopath is on the inside?"

I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THAT IS OR WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

"Just a video game I played."

I then looked towards Ponyville "Think we should head on back? Maybe Big Mac will join us and we can have a bachelor party." I then stopped a moment as a strange thought entered my head "I wonder... do normal ponies have strippers? If so... what the hell do they strip?"

BEATS ME. MAYBE REGULAR THINGS LIKE SOCKS, PANTIES, SADDLES, BRIDLES, SWIMWEAR, ETC. YOU KNOW, THE USUAL THEORIES.

I sighed contentedly before dismissing my scythe and summoning it in its combined form and used it as a walking stick as I walked in Ponyville's direction "I think this could count as a good bachelor party, don't you?"

Jason shrugged.

IF YOU WANT TO.

I then realized something "Wait, don't married couples usually do... that... on their honeymoon? Holy shit I'm going to lose my virginity to PINKIE PIE!"

WOAH, SLOW DOWN THERE. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU HAVE THOSE NECESSARY PARTS?

I blushed "I kind of... checked?" I rubbed the back of my head awkwardly "Let's not go into detail on that..."

THEY MAY BE THERE BUT DO THEY WORK? I DOUBT TARAKUDO INCLUDED THAT INTO HIS DEAL.

I shook my head "No... I checked me WITHOUT my mask... I gots da nuts and screw." I coughed uncomfortably "Turns out all slendy is missing is a face and skin pigmentation... he's actually pretty set in genitalia..."

IF I WERE YOU I WOULDN'T RISK IT, WHO KNOWS WHAT DOING THAT COULD DO TO HER.

I then blushed "D-does that mean I have to talk to Tarakudo about editing my mask?" I then sighed "Fuck my life..."

WELL YOU DON'T HAVE TO. ONLY IF YOU WANT TO BE ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU DON'T GIVE PINKIE IRREVERSIBLE POISONING, MADNESS, OR ANY NUMBER OF CONDITIONS THAT MAKE CANCER LOOK LIKE THE COMMON COLD. AND THAT'S JUST WITH PINKIE, WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN TO POTENTIAL CHILDREN.

"I know that... I just mean... talking to him or Sunset Shimmer about getting junk that works will be... awkward..."

BEATS THE ALTERNATIVE. FOR THIS TYPE OF SPECIFICATION YOU'LL NEED TO TALK TO TARAKUDO DIRECTLY BUT THEN AGAIN THE TWO ARE RARELY FAR FROM EACH OTHER.

I nodded "I heard that Sunset is going to become Queen? Does that mean they are getting married?"

POSSIBLY. BUT THEN AGAIN SHE COULD SIMPLY BE QUEEN IN NAME ONLY, AND LET IT REFERENCE THE FACT THAT SHE IS FEMALE AND A CO-RULER LIKE THE PONY SISTERS.

I nodded and took out the card, preparing to summon Tarakudo and Sunset Shimmer "Hey, you think they'd like to be invited to the wedding? You know them better than me."

Jason shrugged.

MAYBE. THEY HAVE BEEN QUITE BUSY LAST TIME I CHECKED. PERHAPS THEY COULD USE A BREAK.

I nodded and put on my mask before holding out the card, turning into my anthro pony self before I began to speak."I summon Tarakudo! King of all Shadowkhan and Lord of all Oni!"

I looked on as a rift opened in mid air and out walked Sunset Shimmer.

"Hello again, Slenderman, Jason. What can I do for you?"

I blushed and mumbled out "I want genitalia for my pony form...a-and I was wondering if you and Tarakudo would like to be in attendance for Pinkie and MY wedding..."

"I'm sorry but could you repeat that?"

I blushed further "I want functioning genitalia... I don't want to have to be celibate in my marriage to Pinkie..." I looked to the Monkey in my right hand "W-would this pay for it? It's a sealed form of a gorilla monster we fought earlier..." The only thing running through Jeremy’s head was 'FML FML FML FML FML FML!'

There was silence for a few moments that seemed to last an eternity Sunset burst into laughter. After laughing at my expense for about ten minutes Sunset managed to compose herself. "So you are actually going to marry the Pink menace? Unbelievable. Unfortunately such detail is beyond my power at the moment. If you want it you will have to ask Tarakudo directly."

I looked to her beseechingly "What do I have to do? I'll walk right up to him in a teenagers prom dress if need be!"

"That won't be necessary I already have a court jester." said a voice that seemed to echo all around them.

A red Oni head suddenly materialized right above Sunset Shimmer's shoulder.

"So I hear someone wishes to ask a favor of me?"

I nodded and bowed respectfully "I wish to have my mask modified so that I may mate with my soon to be bride, and I was wondering if you would like to attend the wedding?"

Much like Sunset, Tarakudo burst into laughter but unlike Sunset the laugh held no humor.

"You may rise. What you ask for is possible but you do realize I will have to alter our original agreement, correct?"

I nodded "I understand this, I was wondering if maybe this sealed monster may be of use? Mayhaps you could duplicate it and use it for war mounts? It is quite the powerful monster."

"Maybe but that won't even cover 2 percent of your debt. Sunset be a dear and take it from him, please." Tarakudo answered and Sunset obeyed.

I looked to Tarakudo cautiously "as long as I am not forced to hurt an innocent, I will pay any price, but be warned, if you tell me to harm an innocent I WILL refuse."

There was moment of silence before Sunset, Tarakudo and Jason (with the help of his signs) all burst into laughter.

After they calmed down, Tarakudo grinned wickedly "My dear boy, innocence is only relative to one's perspective. Besides you don't have a choice in the matter. The last time you did was before my beautiful Sunset left your world. Once she did, it was out of your hands, hooves, slendrils, whatever. But don't worry I'm a considerate king and not completely heartless. I will take your feelings into consideration every time I decide to use you."

I smiled trollishly "So you think Sunset Shimmer is beautiful? I had a feeling, since you were going to make her queen, and I thank you for your consideration, my invitation still stands, if you are so inclined."

"I don't think she is. I know she is. But back to our deal. Originally, I had planned seven years of service to me and Sunset as payment for the mask and as an additional fee for your bad timing but for this...I think a lifetime's worth of service should do adequately. After all, a life for a life, as the saying goes."

I nodded "So... we talking sea turtle lifetimes, fruit fly, human, pony, Dragon? cause I wanna be sure I can still live happily with my wife, maybe I work 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM?"

"Displaced lifetime. As in you work for Tarakudo forever and your life and your loyalty belongs to him ." Sunset added. "But don't worry we're not going to have you move to our world to serve us. Just for now on when we want you, you'll be transported to our world until the task is done, then sent back, no questions asked. In other words we say 'jump', you say how high?"

I nodded, then smiled jokingly "Though I'll probably just slenderwalk how high you tell me to, as I'm a lazy bastard."

"Well then looks like we're in agreement. By the way, I should warn you refusal to work and giving less than your absolute best will not be tolerated. You do, and bad things will happen. As in worse than 'the Plagues of Egypt' bad." Tarakudo continued.

I nodded "Understood, as long as I do a good job, that doesn't happen."

"It also means your definition of good and innocence has no meaning unless I give them meaning."

I shrugged "I just mean that if you tell me to kill a baby in its crib, I'll want a reason why."

"Don't worry I doubt that will happen but if it does I'll be sure to give you one. Now hold still, this will hurt. A lot."

Tarakudo lifted Slendy into the air using his telekinesis and began to slowly and painfully cut his brand into not only his new servant's flesh but his very soul. He then used shadowfire to cauterize the wounds.

I screamed as he branded me "HOLY CRAP CRACKERS! THAT BLOODY HURT!"I then looked to my suit, which had a new marking on it, which was blood red, "Welp, I look even more badass than Cabadath now."

"There now. That brand marks you as one of my newest additions to my army. You'll need it if you don't want my Shadowkhan or Oni generals to end your existence. It also serves a link to your mind so Sunset, my generals or I can give you your orders."

I nodded uncomfortably "Good to know... My privacy is now dead."

"Cheer up. It's all in the name of love, right? Besides it's not like we'll be peeking when you and your waifu do the deed." Sunset added cheerfully

I nodded gruffly "Yeah, else I'll take off my mask and show you all the horror that is Slendy naked.

A rift then opened and a familiar wind up box appeared, this time winding itself up and a cartoony clown hand coming out, holding a note saying "GIVE ME BACK MY LURKER!- Raphael"

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?

I shrugged at Jason, myself unsure "Beats me. maybe some clown demon?"

I HOPE NOT, I HATE CLOWNS.

I nodded "Me too, decked one in the groin when I was five." The cartoonish hand then opened it's hand, as if it wanted something. The note then changed 'Give me the freaking monkey, NOW!-Raphael's friend' the box was beginning to shake as a terrifying level of power emanating from it and it stretched and groaned.

WELL WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH IT?

I shrugged "Maybe give it the monkey?" I looked to Tarakudo questioningly "Would that be ok?"

"Meh, I don't care. But if he wants it then he can come here and get it himself." Tarakudo answered offhandedly.

The note changed "So be it. -Raphael's friend" The box ejected a giant clown that looked similar to a medieval jester, with a giant hammer and big, burly build. "Behold! I am The jack of chaos! Fear my power!"

A tumbleweed blows in between the group and the clown sighed, hitting Jason with his hammer and knocking him halfway to Ponyville, crashing through several hundred trees "Just give me the damn monkey, my boss is pissed and I just want to go home."

A machete flew straight from where Jason was sent and sliced off one of it's arms. A second later Jason reappeared from out of his lake mist.

DUDE! THAT WAS WAY RUDE. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU WORK FOR BUT WHATEVER THE REASON, AN EYE-FOR-AN-EYE.

The clown sighed "I knew this job was going to suck..." He grunted as he snapped his other arms fingers, making the severed arm reappear on his body, good as new "Now can you please give me the bloody monkey so I can go home? I just want to get back home and prove the Spades wrong."

AFTER THAT UNWARRANTED ATTACK? WHY DON'T YOU TAKE A RUSTY SHOVEL, SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS WITH NO LUBE, AND FUCK YOURSELF WITH IT UNTIL YOU SPLIT IN HALF! Jason who was quite obviously pissed off then proceeded to bludgeon the clown with the very sign that he just had him read.

The clown grabbed the sign and it began to smoke and smolder as a red energy coursed through his arms and into the sign "I am getting impatient, I'm sorry for attacking you, I just figured showing I wasn't some pansy was needed, and you seemed to be the most durable and likely to survive. Also," He pointed to Shimmer "I don't hit girls unless if my master demands I do it, or I am protecting myself." He then pointed to Tarakudo "And I don't think I'd survive pissing him off for long." He then noticed the brand on me, and groaned "Aaww man! I was supposed to convince you to work for Raphael! SHIT!"

FINE WHATEVER. TAKE THE MONKEY AND GO BEFORE I REALLY GET MAD!

Sunset looked to Tarakudo who nodded. "We'll give you your creature back for a price."

The clown sighed "What's the price? Raphael's pretty creative... "

"Pfft. Are you serious? Master Tarakudo doesn't negotiate with weaklings, servants and those who attack his allies. He is a king and deserves respect! Raphael must come and negotiate with Master Tarakudo face to face." Sunset snarled.

The clown looked very uncomfortable "Okay... I'll open a rift channel..." He took out a dagger and sliced it in mid-air, cutting through space itself, creating a small screen from which a voice could be heard "Jackie, did you get my Lurker, Oswald? I do miss him so..."

The clown laughed uneasily "Yeah... about that... Tarakudo has him..."

The screen ws silent for a moment before a loud laughter was heard "You mean the floating head guy with ZERO imagination, for all the power he has? I mean, make a creature or two, at least! Hell, with his level of power I'm surprised he didn't try his hand at being a god!"

The clown looked to the screen even more uneasily "He's right here..."

Raphael's screen turned blood red "AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!? NOW I LOOK LIKE A BLOODY GIT!"

The screen turned to Tarakudo and extended a gloved hand with which it gestured toward his Lurker "So, what do you want for my creature?"

"Well I was going to sell him to you cheap but after what was said about me I think I'll just keep him and your clown."

At that moment the clown's shadow was slowly disappearing and he collapsed unto his knees "Wh-why?! Master, SAVE ME! It hurts, master!"

The screen paused a moment "I really don't care about the Jack, as this was supposed to be the mission that ended his debt to me. I would have had to replace him anyway, too inept at his job." I then felt a tug at my collar and flew towards the screen "I do so wish I was able to lay claim on you, but don't worry, I'll still be keeping an eye on you, as you interest me, and that hasn't happened in millenia." Raphael then laughed "Oh, and I left a little parting gift in the Jack, in case if anyone else tried to claim him, cheerio!" The clown then was enveloped in a red light and exploded in a shower of confetti and blood as the screen winked out of existence, I then finally fell to the ground, getting the feeling back in my legs.

"I really hate that guy." Sunset and Tarakudo said in unison.

The screen came back for a second before a smile face was seen "Oh, and Tarry? You should tell Sunset your feelings for her, Ta!" the screen then disappeared again, leaving a cluster of red crystals, which I curiously touched, feeling a rush of energy that made me feel anything was possible to me. I snatched my hand away and looked at it carefully, realizing that this was some seriously powerful stuff, I grabbed it again and quickly placed it on the bottom of my scythe, feeling my power boosted by the crystals as my hands turned blood red.

"Well that happened. Ok we'll stay for your wedding if only to keep an eye on things." Sunset said.

I nodded "Yeah, that was weird... " I put on my mask and saw that my coat had changed, I was now blood red with blue mane and a cutie mark of a laughing mask, I was also buffer, about Big Macs size, with a very attractive, masculine build "Hmmm... guess Raphael's power rubbed off on me more than I thought..." I then looked to Jason "You ready to go?"

YEAH. AFTER THAT I'M ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS THING.

I slenderwalked back to Ponyville with Jason and my new employers following me, I then looked to Tarakudo, who was still just a head "Umm... is there any way you could grow a body, sir? I don't want to freak ponies out any more than necessary." I then gasped "Am I going to have to quit my job at sugar cube corner?"

Tarakudo and Sunset both glared at me before answering, "That's none of your business and no."

I raised my hands in surrender "Hey, just making sure that you aren't attacked by Celestia or something." I then laughed "But now that I think about it, you could probably snuff her out like a candle."

"Indeed but worry not." Tarakudo disappeared and Sunset pulled down a mask that looked like Tarakudo only his eyes were replaced by Sunset's eyes and at the same time Sunset transformed into her pony self but her usual fur color turned to a dark blue-green shade, the color of the Shadowkhan's skin. Her hair however remained the same.

I laughed again "It's like Wolf Link, but cuter!"

"Say that again and I'll show you just how cute I can be." said Sunset but this time her voice sounded both like her's and Tarakudo's at the same time and very demonic.

I waved my arms "In case if you are pissed, I'll stop." I then saw Pinkie and Lisa walking towards me along with Twilight and Fluttershy, Whom I assume were bridesmaids. "Hey, honey! Hi sis! you ready to go?" They nodded.

"Yeah, the bachelorette party was pretty fun!"

I laughed "You know, I just had an interesting and slightly mortifying Bachelor party myself, took care of some business, let's just say that the honeymoon will be a blast!" I gave a thumbs up and I could sense everyone who knows me across the multiverse have a facepalm moment.

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU JUST SAID THAT. I SHOULD STAB YOU FOR THAT PUN.

I nodded with a small blush as I realized how bad my pun was "Sorry..." I then looked to Ponyville station and smiled as the train came into the station "Let's get going, shall we?" Pinkie and the girls nodded and we got on, riding straight for Canterlot and talking with each other animatedly.

We arrived at the Canterlot Castle. About an hour after arriving at Canterlot Proper, I walked with My friends and... Taraset shimmerkudo? I don't know what to call them... my employers, I'll just call them that. I entered the wedding chamber and waited as Pinkie got ready, I then saw Maud coming towards me. I nodded respectfully to her as she reached me "So your Jeremy, huh? Well, I hope you and Pinkie are happy together. Cause if you hurt her, I will hunt you down and crush you like a dirt clod."

I laughed uncomfortably and watched her walk to her position as bridesmaid, I then saw Pinkie coming down the aisle and was awestruck, she looked so... beautiful.... she had her mane done up like it was from the crystal empire episode, and wore a dress of the purest white, with several bangles and other accessories added on.

"Don't you know it's bad luck to see the bride early?" Sunset asked appearing from out of nowhere.

I smiled "She's coming down the aisle and is wearing a veil, we are observing all of the traditions, besides, I think I've met my bad luck quota for the year, meeting that clown freak and the … Lurker thingy..."

"Famous last words." Sunset said mysteriously before vanishing into the shadows.

Pinkie then came down the aisle to me as Spike and the CMC came behind her. Spike acting as the ring bearer and the CMC acting as flower girls. Celestia proceeded to say the readings and the vows.

Once she was done, Celestia looked to me "Jeremy Farkness, do you take Pinkie Pie, to be your lawful wife, to have and to hold from this day onward, for better, or for worse, for richer, or poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do you part?"

I nodded, my suit feeling warmer than usual, as if there was an energy filling the air. "I do."

Celestia then looked to Pinkie and smiled "Pinkie Pie, do you take Jeremy Farkness to be your lawful husband, to have and to hold from this day onward, for better, or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do you part?"

Pinkie nodded tearfully, I could tell as they were falling from behind her veil "I do!"

"Then by the power bestowed in me, I declare you Eldritch Abomination and Mare! You may now kiss the bride!" I leaned in and kissed Pinkie on the lips. Everyone started cheering. Then, I heard Twilight mumbling, I turned to her curiously.

Sunset who had a seat all to herself in the front row in direct view of Celestia suddenly felt a familiar shivering sensation. 'Something is about to happen. Prepare yourself and stay on your guard. I'll alert Jason.' Tarakudo's voice echoed in Sunset 's mind.

"Seems like a good time as any." She took out the box from earlier and started to wind it. Once it was done winding, a portal opened.

A short man in a red business suit with a matching tie and fedora walked through the portal. He had messy red hair and eyes that reminded me of fire. He had a cane in hand, which was cut from redwood and polished to a brilliant sheen, it also had a golden handle in the shape of a dragons skull, and in its mouth was a floating uncut ruby, with several smaller uncut rubies orbiting around it.

"Hello, mortals! I am Raphael, Lord of all chaos and inventor of the party and fun times!" He looked to me and pointed his cane at me "You! You found my pet lurker Oswald, I owe you a party for that!" He snapped his fingers and party cannons appeared everywhere They all went off at the same time, causing chaos to ensure. Some of them just fired off confetti, but others fired crocodiles, or rockets, or balls of fire. Everyone started to panic, running around in the sudden calamity. Raphael Just laughed "Dumb ponies, panicking at a little illusion, it's not even bloody there!" he then touched the fire and his smile dissipated "Oh..." I then noticed the only one that wasn't panicking was Lisa. In fact, a red aura started to surround her. She was shaking with anger. She slowly turned to Raphael.

"I had spent, all day, planning this. I had to make and send invitations, had to plan the reception, had to ask Celestia to do the marriage, as well as a whole slew of other things! It was all going well, everything was just, fine. Then, you come along. You just barge in, and just, started, causing, chaos, ruining everything." The red aura started getting bigger, and turning black.

Raphael laughed "That's my job! keep things changing! I really have to thank the merchant, he made my job so much easier, all I've really had to do was save that poor sap he tried to turn into Slendy. Idiot thought he could make a second ascendant being! I had to cram Slendy into his soul and imbue him with chaos so his soul wouldn't shatter! Ha! Such a wonderful vacation."

"So, you saved my little brother? Well, for that, I may just let you live!" The aura became completely black, a cut appeared on her face creating a blood filled mouth. She gained claws, and her slendrils came out.

"GRAAAAHHHH!" Lisa roared in fury. A portal then opened up, and she fell through.

"OOH! Are we playing hide and seek? I do love that game, such fun." Raphael jested before he was shoved in after her by Marx.

"Welp, we're probably going to have one less displacer after this." I looked at him questionably. "Lisa is currently in Mad Mode Three. Her full fury is unleashed in this form."

I looked to him curiously as I pondered on what Raphael was doing, I really didn't hold the 'wrecked' wedding against him, if someone hurt my dog max back home, I'd try to kick their ass no matter where I found them."Yes but how would that equal to one less displacer? and how do I calm her down? I owe that guy big time, he saved my life!"

"When Lisa Mad Mode Three last came out, I sealed her in a sub dimension. She proceeded to destroy it." My eyes widened. Suddenly another portal opened with Raphael hanging on to the edge of it. He was bloody and beaten up.

"I do think I would like to leave now, would ya be a dear and let me out?"

"ET BACK HERE! I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!" A slendril wrapped around Raphael's neck and he was dragged back in. The portal closed.

Marx gestured to the portals former location "See what I mean?" I nodded. Lisa was pretty scary when she was like this.

"Should we help? I really don't think he should die, the multiverse needs chaos to function..."

"Dude, I messed with Lisa Mad Mode Three once, it did not end well. She threw three universes into a rip in time and space which she made by ripping a hole in part of the void. We have, no chance to save him. We can only hope that she calms down enough to let him live." Suddenly, another portal opened up and Lisa, still in Mad Mode Three, walked out dragging a bloody and unconscious Raphael behind her. She let him flop on the ground, and turned to Marx.

"Marx?" Marx gulped in fear.

"Y-Yes?"

"Can you put everything back to the way it was?" It was a question, that sounded more like an order, with an "I'LL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T!" tone to it. Marx nodded, snapped his fingers, and everything went back to normal. The fires were put out, the walls were repaired, and everybody was put back into their seats.

"Thank you." Lisa had finally calmed down. I gulped and poked Raphael, my crystal flashing as he healed completely and began snoring, mumbling about sexy slender women. Lisa turned to him, apparently hearing what he had mumbled, and glared at him. She picked him up, and dropped kicked him out the window.

"AND STAY OUT!" Lisa turned back to us. "Now, where were we?" Everyone just cheered and things continued as if none of that had ever happened.

Pinkie looked out the window and then to me "I think Lisa needs a party..."

I nodded and kissed my wife before looking to Lisa as Raphael reappeared, standing in front of me "I think your sister is highly attractive, cheerio!" He then disappeared and left a rose with a letter by it. Lisa opened the letter and read it. She groaned and rubbed her temples.

"Ugh why me?" I took the letter from her and read it aloud.

To Lisa,

I must say, you are quite the feisty woman. Your body is amazing, and best of all, you know how to fight! And I've never lost in a battle, yet you beat me like it was nothing! And now, you have earned my heart. I know, you should feel honored, but do not fret. I will except your love when you are ready to give it.

Love, Raphael Zmatoc.

I laughed "Looks like you have an admirer, sis!" Lisa groaned again. Pinkie walked up to her and wrapped an arm around her.

"You know what you need? A party! Come on, let's go to that great reception you planned!" Lisa nodded.

"Yeah a party sounds good right now."

I nodded and laughed as I walked into the reception, watching Pinkie and the girls celebrate as I felt around my new body, seeing that my mask form was indeed HIGHLY endowed with procreational organs.

As I finished checking myself out, a paradox in the box appeared, winding itself up and depositing an anthro fox that was about 4 foot 5 onto the ballroom floor, he had the same outfit and cane as Raphael, but... he seemed MUCH less powerful... Lisa however, didn't seem to notice the difference.

"GOD DAMN IT!" She ran up to him and grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt. "WHY DID YOU COME BACK?! DO YOU WANT ME TO KILL YOU?!"

The little fox man looked to her in horror "Wh-what?! I'm just a guy from Idaho! What the hell are you talking about!?" He then saw Pinkie Pie and screamed like a little girl "AH! PINKAMENA DIANE PIE! DON'T LET HER BAKE ME INTO A CUPCAKE!"

Pinkie looked queasy at the thought of what he was implying, and I grabbed him and began to shake him roughly "DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY WIFE LIKE THAT YOU BASTARD!"

A large hand settled on my shoulder and pried me away from the poor fox person. I was then immediately hit on the head with an iron sign.

ENOUGH JEREMY! CONTROL YOURSELF! USE THAT TINY HEAD OF YOURS AND THINK! WHY WOULD ANYONE BE SCARED OF PINKY OR ACCUSE HER OF BAKING SOMEONE INTO CUPCAKES? OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS SOMEONE LIKE "US". PLUS ON TOP OF THAT JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE INSULTS YOUR WIFE-PONY DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO ATTACK THEM!

I paused a moment before nodding "You are right..." I offered my hand to the fox man and smiled, unaware of the horror in his eyes.

He then proceeded to scream even more "OH MY GOD IT IS SLENDY DON'T KILL ME PLEASE!" Wait, WHAT?! HE CAN SEE THROUGH MY MASK?!

Sunset took this moment to add her two cents. "The mask only hides you from Mlp beings not Displaced."

There was a burst of energy and I was knocked back by something large and heavy, I looked where I was to see a massive humanoid creature made of stone had a serious underbite appeared, it wore a red top hat and blue tuxedo, with white gloves and black dress shoes. "I am Griswell Stone heart! I am the high priest of the spawns, and I shall smite thee!" the stone ogre sounded like Tyrael from Diablo 3, and was wielding a large pickaxe/hammer combo.

The fox man looked to Griswell in shock "G-Griswell?! B-but... I made you up!"

Griswell chuckled "I shall explain later, planewalker, now is the time for battle, is it not?"

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? Sunset read the sign Jason produced and agreed wholeheartedly.

GREAT. ANOTHER ONE. WHAT DO YOU WANT "GRISWELL"?

Griswell smiled "I exist to protect the innocent, young Barry. As was my purpose since birth, the Stone Ogres are stout and stern in both spirit and mind, never wavering in their purpose." He laughed heartily "And now that I take a good look at thy souls, I see my creator is in no danger. Well, not as long as your inner beasts are contained." He then turned to the fox man "Now Carl, I must ask that you return me to your mind, I must return to Zinu's aid."

I then picked myself up out of the wall and looked angrily to Griswell "Why the bloody hell did you attack me then?!"

Griswell rubbed the back of his head "I saw the monster within you and Barry, young Jeremy, and, as a priest of the concepts, it had put me on edge."

"SILENCE!"Sunset commanded. "Begone from here worm. Or face our wrath!"

Griswell smiled "I see you, Tarakudo, why don't you come out? I would like to meet the one I wish my creator to serve."

Sunset gave a beastial growl before Tarakudo materialized. "Make no mistake Mr. Griswell. I'm only deigning you with my presence simply because of what you said intrigues me. Speak now or never again."

Griswell smiled warmly "I am a creation of Carl's here, that Raphael made a reality to. I am from the book Carl was working on, and Raphael was amused by it, and there is no need to call me mister, I am actually quite young for a Stone Ogre, only 5,000 years, give or take. Carl here was displaced as Raphael, and while quite cowardly, he has a heart of gold and loyalty unmatched. He can summon one of us at a time, be us good or evil, and we will serve his will."

"Uh-huh. Getting bored here. What makes you think he'll be useful to Master Tarakudo?" Sunset interjected.

Griswell thought a moment "Well, there is the fact that his powers shall grow over time, eventually becoming capable of summoning entire armies, all bound to his will, I'd rather he be bound to me, than either an enemy, or a free agent. and may I mention he imagined the Lurkers that Raphael is so fond of as siege engines?" He then laughed "Besides if you destroy me, he can just make me again."

Carl was hiding behind a table until this point, to which he slowly came out with his cane in hand "Umm... does the cane work like I think it does?"

Griswell looked to Carl by turning to him, as he had no neck and had a massive hunch and nodded "It is exactly like Raphael's cane, except weaker. Now, back to business."

Tarakudo examined the boy for moment, "Hmph. I suppose I'll take him if for no other reason than to see that his power doesn't simply waste away. But I'm not impressed, not by a long shot."

Griswell shrugged "I know, I could see the lack of interest in your soul."

I then looked to him curiously "His soul?"

Griswell nodded "I am technically blind, all I can see is from the light of souls and life force." He then shrugged "Not much of a loss, as all living things have life force, even germs and insects, so I can see pretty well. Only downside is that I can't forge my own weapons like most Stone Ogres, I had mine made by king Dravidium Forgefire himself, the greatest of the Stone Ogre smithies, so great that he leads the Stone Ogres because of it."

THUNK. THUNK. THUNK.

Everyone turned to see Lisa banging her head against a nearby wooden post, with Rarity rubbing her back for comfort.

"Why? Of all the god damn times why does this crap have to happen now?"

"It'll be alright darling."

"BUT I WORKED SO HARD!" Lisa started to break down crying and Rarity hugged her. Everyone turned to me for an explanation.

"Ummm... she's had a rough day."

NO KIDDING. BUT SHE SHOULD BE USED TO IT BY NOW. I MEAN CONSIDERING THE WORLD WE OCCUPY, THIS TYPE OF THING IS NORMAL.

I nodded "Yeah, I agree, so..." I looked to Tarakudo "Am I going to have to keep an eye on him?"

"What do you think?" Tarakudo said simply.

"I think that you don't understand shit Jason!" Everyone looked at Lisa, who had apparently noticed the sign, as she walked up to Jason. "Do you have any idea what happens to me when I get as mad as I did before?"

JUDGING BY YOUR "FACIAL EXPRESSION", YOUR REACTION, BODY LANGUAGE, AND YOUR VOICE, YES I CAN.

A portal opened up and Marx came out. "Actually, I bet you that you can't."

If one looked real closely one could see Jason rolling his eyes but his mask hid his expression.

BELIEVE WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE. I DON'T CARE.

I raised my hand "Trust me Jason, I felt what it's like going into mad mode ONE, it felt like I was being dunked in acid while being forced to watch generation three and High school musical having babies... It was hell...I don't EVEN want to know what mad mode three is like..."

WHATEVER. STILL DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT SHE SHOULD BE USED TO THIS.

I shrugged and nodded as we went on with the matter at hand "So, Tarakudo, my master, wants me to keep an eye on you, Carl."

Carl nodded "W-well... okay..." He then looked around until he saw Fluttershy hiding under a table, signified by her bounteous booty and pink tail, if one were to have kept an eye on her, she had run there ever since Marx had teleported them back to their seats "A-are you okay, Miss?"

Fluttershy peeked out behind her before seeing Carl and jumping out, cuddling him to her bosom inadvertently "Oh you are so cute and fluffy! What's your name?"

Carl stammered "I-I'm Carl... f-from I-Idaho..."

Fluttershy gasped and held him out "Y-you can talk?! That is so wonderful!"

Carl looked down to see he was in the air and began to get queasy "P-p-please let me down..."

I laughed as Fluttershy gently set him down "Seems Carl has made a friend!"

"Indeed. I haven't seen this much love in one room since Narcissus discovered himself." Tarakudo replied dryly.

I looked to Pinkie, who was smiling and laughing as she talked with the cakes, who had not yet had their foals "Think they'll start dating, Pinkie?"

Fluttershy and Carl blushed deeply until Carl dismissed Griswell and ran under the table that Fluttershy was hiding under mere moments ago "I-I'm sorry! I'll leave you alone now!"

Fluttershy looked curiously to the table "What's wrong?"

Carl looked to Fluttershy as if she asked why the sky was blue "I... I'm not a pony... isn't it weird for ponies to date non-ponies?"

I laughed "Really? I'm not even from this dimension, and I'm MARRYING a pony."

COMPARED TO EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S HAPPENED IN OUR LIVES UP TO THIS POINT I'D SAY IT'S PRETTY NORMAL.

Carl then looked to Fluttershy and blushed "Th-then... could we go out sometime?"

Fluttershy nodded warmly, a blush coloring her cheeks "I'd... like that very much."

I then smiled as one of the piano stallions whispered in my ear "Well, ladies and gents! I am going to sing a song with the piano stallions in place of a speech, hope you all like it, especially you Pinks!"

{Author here, play these both together!}

https://youtu.be/QgaTQ5-XfMM

https://youtu.be/Oep86ZNIi3o

Pinkie pie teared up and hugged me when I finished, and everyone started to applaud in whatever way they could, I looked to Jason and my masters, along with Carl and Lisa "So, how was I?"

The group looked at each other before presenting their judgements.

Jason held up a sign that had a picture of a thumb pointing to the side, Tarakudo held up a sign that had a 7 and Sunset held up a sign that had 01 on it, she realized that she was holding the sign upside down and corrected it to say 10 then held up another sign that said Meh.
Carl smiled and held up his cane before tapping it on the ground, summoning a sign that said 10 before tapping it again and the sign disappeared

I smiled "Thanks for your input! Now..." Pinkie and I looked to each other for a moment before speaking in unison "LET'S PARTY!" Marx floated into the air and opened another portal.

"FREE OTHERWORLDLY CANDY FOR EVERYONE!" Candy proceeded to pour out from the portal causing everyone to laugh. I picked up a piece of candy to see where it was from. It was a pack of skittles. I looked around and saw other candy from earth. I looked up at Marx.

"Where did you?"

"NO IDEA!" He then flew around and enjoyed the rest of the party. I turned and saw Lisa. She was dancing around and having fun with everypony else. I even noticed some other stallions going googly eyed at her, which made me laugh. I walked up to her.

"Looks like you've got more than just a displacer for an admirer." Lisa looked at all the other stallions, who quickly turned away, and shrugged.

"Of course I do." I just laughed.

"So, having fun?"

"Totally! This party just seems to take away the stress from the wedding and my Mad Mode Three freak out." I nodded.

"I'm still surprised that you can take on a displacer when you're like that."

"Yeah well, it helps when I can't feel pain in that mode, and I have Deadpool healing on steroids." I laughed.

"Really?"

"Yep. It's a shame that I only get it when I go Mad Mode Two or Three."

"Yea well, thanks for helping out with everything."

"You're welcome."

I smiled and looked to see Jason was talking with Tarakudo and Sunset Shimmer, along with Griswell, who had not yet been dismissed. "So are we agreed that Stone Ogres would be useful in forges, what with our metal bones, rubber muscles, and stone skin?" Griswell chuckled "Remind me to tell you of the time my brother Groswell chose his weapon. Oh, the parents went into hysterics." He sighed in fond remembrance before he looked to Jason regretfully "I apologize profusely if I unsettled you with my knowledge of your name, I should have had the decency to at least ask it first."

WHATEVER. WHAT'S DONE IS DONE. JUST DON'T GO SPREADING THAT INFO AROUND. OTHERWISE, I'LL BE COMING AFTER YOU.

Griswell smiled "I would never, Jason. " He then looked to Tarakudo "Would you like me to requisition an armament for young sunset shimmer, My lord? Stone Ogres make the best mystical focuses, honestly, we are unmatched in the making of armor as well, if it comes to making something, we can't be beat!" He then looked to Sunset, or, more accurately, her arms "It seems that the smithy in question would need to use lightweight metals, as Sunset is not of the same... girth, as the Faeterran peoples."

"Are you calling me fat?" Sunset asked in a dangerous tone.

Griswell shook his head "No, I am saying you most likely could not lift a Stone Ogre or Bjorn weapon, as they weigh at least 58 lbs. on average. even if you could lift it, swinging it around would grow exhausting."

"So. You're calling me weak then?" Sunset said acidly. Sunset began stepping toward the ogre until she was only inches from his face.

Griswell shook his head "No, I am quite certain that for someone who is not fifteen feet tall and has muscles made of super tough rubber, you are quite strong. But my hammer is half your size, I am simply saying it would not be practical for you to have a weapon that big."

DUDE. YOU SHOULD STOP NOW. Jason warned with a VERY bloody sign

Sunset growled, grabbed Griswell by the leg and lifted him up as easily as she would a pebble. She then began to spin around and around with the ogre spinning with her, before Sunset let go and flung him out the door. Tarakudo merely shook his head, before saying "She's cute when she's mad"

Griswell then calmly walked back in, not even a scratch on his surface, whatever he was made out of, it was TOUGH. "I assume you want a Stone Ogre sized weapon then? Do you want a pick hammer, an enchanted rivet gun, or a combat bell?" He then saw me staring at him slack jawed "Oh, are you wondering why I am unharmed? It is just due to my stone Ogre heritage, we have very sturdy bodies," He then laughed "I'm actually fragile compared to the warrior Stone Ogres, though. I believe you would call me a mage, or, more accurately, a priest, it is my job to protect the people of Faeterra from what goes bump in the night, along with my paladin brother Groswell."

"Plus don't forget I only threw you. I doubt a simple throw would hurt you." Sunset added.

Griswell nodded before thinking a moment "You know, what with the magical and physical power you have, a Paladins Combat Bell would fit you well. Would you like it if I had my brother come to demonstrate the combat bell?" He then waved over Carl, who was eating nearby with Fluttershy.

Sunset shrugged, "Meh. I suppose there's no harm in a demonstration."

Griswell nodded to Carl, whom tapped his cane on the ground and Griswell was replaced by a slightly taller Stone Ogre in full body armor, with a massive spiked bell chained to his wrist, made from luminescent white metal "I hear that you would like a demonstration of my skill? What would you like to see first, my physical combat, or my magical?" He then heard an eep and looked behind him to see Fluttershy "Worry not, young one, I shall not harm thee."

Carl nodded "Yeah, Groswell would never attack someone without a good reason..."

"Surprise me."

Groswell nodded and led us to the courtyard, so as to prevent collateral damage. He pulled his bell out and punched it hard enough to make a loud gong, summoning about twenty golems made from dirt and grass. "Okay, whelps, time for practice!"

He began masterfully swinging his spiked bell around, crushing three before flipping and slamming the bell on the ground, creating a shockwave that dazed the rest of them, he then did a leg sweep with the chain and then jumping into the air while holding the bell, which grew as he landed and trapped the golems inside, he then banged the bell once and the bottom sealed as it began to shrink, the sound of breaking stones and crushing dirt clods could be heard from inside, he then emptied out his bell and smiled "My bell can summon golems from the earth to assist me in battle, I can also heal my allies and change the size of the bell at will."

He then threw his bell upwards, the metal object stopping mid flight as he focused on it "The bell is also tied to my will, so I can control the chain and bell with my mind." He then brought down the bell and rested it neatly in his hand before aiming it at the sole surviving golem

"I can also use the bell to channel my mana and cast powerful spells, for example." He banged the bell and a white and blue fireball barrelled into the golem, reducing it to ash "That was a mid-level smite spell, especially useful against demons and undead."

He then looked to Tarakudo, and then to Sunset Shimmer "But I have a feeling you would do better with the darker side of magic, what with your employer, and before you say it, no, I am not calling either of you evil, I am just saying your elements would be on the darker side, and trying to cast a light based spell would result in harming thyself, I actually know a good number of dark element inclined creatures that are perfectly noble, instead of smite, a combination of light and fire, you'd most likely be better off casting a damnation spell, which is darkness and fire, and thus less likely to hurt thee and thy master."

"Please, the things that can hurt me are very few. And besides, even if I cannot wield it, my dear Sunset can handle it." Tarakudo said dismissively.

Groswell shrugged "I'm just saying to be careful, my lord, these spells are made from your own mana, and thus scaled to your own power, if one was to cast a spell that was of an opposing element to them, there would be a serious backlash, and while I doubt anything could kill you, it would definitely be unpleasant."

"Well either way, it is best to observe some caution." Tarakudo admitted.

Groswell nodded "So, young Sunset, Would you like to try your hand at the combat bell and get a feel for it?"

"I'm still not impressed but very well. One can never have enough weapons." Sunset smiled maliciously as she said this.

Groswell nodded before he banged his bell, drawing ore from the ground and refining it into a bell shape before he attached it to a chain "This is just for training until Carl can get near a real forge and have a Blacksmith make you something to match the Paladins. I'd give you mine, but, well... it has sentimental value to me." He then handed the Iron battle bell to Sunset "Now be careful, last thing we need is you putting too much force into the mana and accidentally blow the whole mountain up."

French Accent: 1 Hour Later

KAABOOOOM!!!!!

Groswell sighed as we picked ourselves up from the floor, our bodies covered in ash and Sunset in hysterics. "Well... at least the blast was limited to the garden..."

Groswell laughed as well "Heh, you should’ve seen my first go with a bell, damn near had to re- stone all of my body."

Carl nodded "I forgot to mention, Stone Ogres can heal by absorbing minerals..."

I nodded as I looked to the now ruined garden "Umm... I think we should leave before Celly gets here..."

"WHAT IN THE NAME OF FAUST'S SMELLY FLETLOCKS IS GOING ON HERE?"

Carl winced "Too late..."

Celestia was PISSED, busting out the Royal Equestrian Voice. "It looks like you all had an orgy with a dragon that had a bad case of whooping cough! What the hell happened?!" Lisa came up to me.

"Okay I know this seems like a bad time but I need to go."

"What? How come?"

"Eh, stuff in my world that I need to do, potential danger there as well as needing meet another displaced or two, for some reason. Anyways I really need to go."

"Oh, well alright then, later nee-chan!"

"Bye little bro! Later everyone!" Everyone waved their goodbyes and a portal opened with Marx stepping out.

"You ready to go?"

"I suppose." She and Marx then stepped through the portal and it closed behind her.

"Well now that that's out of the way, CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!"

Chapter Seven: The Monster, The Demon, And The Machine

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Chapter Seven: The Monster, The Demon, And The Machine

{Symbol’s POV}

I was finally heading home after this whole thing with Epidemic and getting my sister back. Once I got back, I would ask Twilight and Octavia if they had their answers yet. But that could wait until the actual Gala. I was with Zero, Wasp, and Zanny as we all put on our suits. Mine was a dark blue with a black shirt underneath, cuffs and designer magic black leather shoes. Zeros was the same except anything blue was green.

"Rarity really outdid herself on this one, how'd she get my measurements anyway?" Zero asked me in curiosity.

"We're identical twins, remember? Our bodies are exactly the same." He nodded and made his way out of the room.

I looked back to my disguised changeling roommates who had their tuxes on. Due to time restraints they had to settle for normal black tuxedos, it's a miracle black goes with blue and red.

"Alright you two, go on and have some fun while I do some things, I'll see you at the Gala." They nodded and left me to do my business. I looked myself over in the mirror before sighing. "I'm really doing this, I didn't think it was possible for me to actually find love in my life." A vision of one of my past murders flashed in my mind. "I was and still am a demon, how in the name of Griffith did I get so lucky?"

Just then a portal appeared behind me and a familiar skeleton in a black cloak walked through it.

“Hey Marx, what is it?"

“Symbol, you need to come with me."

“And why’s that?”

“Because that displaced I need you to help is finally back.”

“Oh, well then what’re you waiting for?”

“Oh I was going to grab Gale so the two of you could go together.”

“I can take care of things myself.”

“That’s not the reason why I’m sending him. She hasn’t meet Alduin or Gale yet, so I’m sending him in so she finally does.”

“Ah, right.” Suddenly, a portal opened right beside me and Gale came out.

“Huh? Oh what the fuck Marx! I was in the middle of a Sonic Adventure 2 Battle race with Sonic!”

“Sorry, but the other displaced from before has returned.”

“And yet you couldn’t let me finish my game?”

“Nope!” Gale rolled his eyes (eye?) and looked to me.

“Oh hey Symbol, didn’t see you there. Nice suit by the way."

“Hey and thanks."

“So Marx, who’s this displaced you’re sending us to?”

“Her name’s Lisa, and she’s the Slenderwoman.”

That sparked my interest a little. I knew that there had to be a Slenderman displaced somewhere in the multiverse, I didn't however expect a Slenderwoman.

“So, you think there’s a Nightmare Fuel there?”

“I’m certain of it. I need you two to go there and kill it before she does.”

“Wait what? Why would we do that? More importantly how, it can only be completely destroyed by me.”

“Because I’m afraid that it’ll piss her off and send her into one of her Mad Modes. If that happens, she’ll kill it slowly, painfully, basically enough to make it beg someone or something to kill it so the torture stops.” Gale and I shuddered. Nightmare Fuels were souless monsters, that would kill anything and everything. They also couldn’t really feel pain. If this Lisa could go to the point where it would beg us to kill it, I shudder to think of what she might actually do.

“So wait, she’s a psycho killer?” Marx shook his head.

“Only when she goes into her Mad Modes, and she’d only do as I described if it was Mad Mode Three. Otherwise she would end it quickly, and is actually quite friendly.” We nodded. So this girl was kind and friendly, but when it came down to it she could become a monster. That certainly reminds me of both me and Epidemic, well, at least the monster part.

"Alright, let me get out of this suit then we can go."

After returning to my usual wear, a portal soon opened and we fell through.

{Lisa’s POV}

“Ah, time to relax.” It had been a couple hours since I returned from my new little bro’s wedding. I had been introduced to Ponyville, and was received rather well actually. Might have been the fact that I had saved two of their princesses but you never know. Anyways I was back home, sitting outside in a lounging chair, sunbathing. I know I can’t get a tan or anything like that, but I still love sitting in the sun. Suddenly, I heard a growl.

“Oh why this now?” I turn to my right to look out into the forest. I expected to see a Rake, but instead I saw a creature made of some purple substance. It had yellow, emotionless, circles for eyes, and had tendrils coming from its back. It looked up at me, and roared.

“The hell are you supposed to be?” It didn’t give me an answer, instead it just charged at me. I teleported out of its way as it knocked away my lounge chair.

“Hey! I was using that!” The beast just ran at me again. I teleported again, and glared at it. “Okay I don’t know what the hell you are, but I’m not letting you get away with trashing my stuff.”

It sent out its tendrils to attack me. I countered with my own, able to match it blow for blow. I then used my tendrils to grab its own, and pulled it towards me. As it came flying at me, I lifted up my leg and kicked, getting it square on in the chest. I followed this up by grabbing it with my tendrils, and slamming it into the ground left and right of me a few times before tossing it at a tree.

“Puny beast.” I giggled at my own joke. This new thing however, didn’t seem to like me mocking it. It ran at me and leaped. I teleported just above it and impaled it, sending it into the ground. I picked it up and slammed it into another tree, and then proceeded to drag it around the outside edge of my little field, hitting every tree on the border. After two laps around, I threw it into the air, impaled it with two tendrils this time, and slammed it into the ground. “See? Told you that you wouldn’t get away with breaking my stuff.”

I then heard the familiar sound of a portal opening, and looked up to see two beings fall from it. One was Mecha Sonic, which I assumed was a displaced and the other was, oddly enough, a regular human. They landed on the ground, and took battle stances. Mecha Sonic sent out laser blades from his wrists and stood ready to fight, and the other just looked around with a watchful eye, but his eyes...they were the eyes of someone who had seen some serious shit.

“Alright where is it?” Mecha Sonic sounded like he was on a mission. He had a serious expression on his face, or, he would have if he had the parts of the face to make that so. I kinda just got the vibe from it, like how people get that vibe from me.

“Where’s the Nightmare Fuel?” The second guy sounded much more serious though. I got a really depressing feeling from him, but I shook it off.

“Um, I think it’s over there.” I pointed to the monster that attacked me, which was now dissipating into a purple orb. They both turned, surprised, to see it finish dissipating. “Were you looking for it? Sorry I kind of, killed it. But in my defence it attacked me first!” The human walked up to the orb and picked it up. He then proceeded to crush it. Mecha Sonic just looked at me in shock.

“Whoa whoa wait, you killed it?”

“Yep. It destroyed my favorite lounge chair too.”

“MARX!” Suddenly another portal opened up and Marx hoped out. “Can you please explain to me why I’m here if I wasn’t needed?”

“Well that’s-”

“Wait a second. You know Marx?”

“Huh, oh yeah forgot to introduce you all. Lisa, this is Gale, one of my other displaced. That over there is Symbol, he’s a friend/family member. It’s complicated.”

“Uh, nice to meet you Lisa.” Gale held out his hand.

“You too.” I took his hand and shook it. I started to think. ’You know, even for a robot he’s kind of cute.’ I shook away that thought. What was I thinking? He’s a robot, not like he’s a living thing. Besides, I wouldn't date him unless I knew him. Symbol walked back over.

“Alright it’s dead. Now can I go home?” I looked at his eyes again, inside them I saw something, something that shouldn't exist in the soul of someone his age.

“Not exactly. That’s not the Nightmare Fuel I brought you two here for.”

“Wait there’s another one of these things? It better not destroy my house.”

“Don’t worry, it’s not around here.”

“So where is it?”

“Don’t know.”

“What? How could you not know?”

“Hey I don’t know everything okay? I’ll be searching for it while you two remain here until I find it. Once I do, you guys can go after it and kill it.” Marx disappeared into a portal afterwards, leaving me with two guests to entertain.

“So… why are you two here again?”

“We’re here to kill something called a Nightmare Fuel, a monster of the multiverse. It’s completely evil, and will kill anything and everything it sees. The one you just fought was one of the weaker ones.” Symbol looked to one of the shards of the former Nightmare orb and stepped on it.

“Really? Well if that’s the case then I guess if I meet a really strong one I’ll call you guys. Otherwise I think I can kill them myself.”

Gale shook his head. “Now hold on there’s a catch to these things. We may be able to attack them and destroy their bodies, but then they’ll turn into those purple orbs that only Symbol here can destroy. After a while, they’ll just come back to life and attack again.”

“Oh I get it.”

Symbol scratched his chin in thought. “You know, I’m surprised it didn’t take on any of her abilities.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, last time I fought one I was with someone named Epidemic. When we fought it, it took on some of his abilities. I wonder why this one didn’t seem to take on any of yours.”

“Probably because it already had most of her abilities. They both could move fast, and both had tendrils. Not a lot for it to gain.”

“Hmm, I guess so.”

I looked at the two in confusion. “Well what do you two want to do in the meantime?”

“I don’t know, hang around I guess. What do you think Symbol?”

He just shrugged. “Hanging around is fine.”

“Cool! Well then how about we go to Ponyville and have some fun there?”

“Sounds good.”

“Alright then come on!”

{Gale’s POV}

So Symbol and I followed Lisa back to Ponyville. As we did, I started thinking.

’You know, for a monster she’s kind of hot.’ I then shook my head. What was I thinking? She’s a monster, I’m a robot. How the hell would that work? We continued our trek back to Ponyville, and eventually made it to the edge of the Everfree forest. She lead us out and to the edge of Ponyville.

“Okay, here we are. Now, what do you two wanna do while you’re here?”

Symbol just closed his eyes and frowned. "Now why would he be here?" He asked to no one in particular.

"What was that?" Lisa and I both asked as we looked at him.

Opening his eyes he shook his head. "Nothing...just, nevermind."

Symbol just started walking ahead with a small purple glow around him.

"What's with him?" I looked over to Lisa as she just stared at Symbol.

"Gale, you know Symbol right?"

"I met him for a short while earlier, why?"

She turned to me with an uneasy expression, well, as much of an expression she could give.

"There's something about him, it just makes me feel...I dunno, afraid." We both looked on as Symbol slowly walked down the path. Author told me that the kind of magic Symbol uses isn't to be on the opposite end of, and the kind of persona that Symbol had only made him all the more terrifying. The look of bloodlust in his eyes, the look of sorrow, the look of a madman. Symbol was afraid, afraid of himself and what he could do if he chose the wrong path.

Sighing, I began to walk after him and Lisa followed. "I know something we could do."

Lisa looked at me, a little happier that the topic was changed. "And what would that be?"

"I know another displaced, Metal Sonic, in his home he has a few portals to the levels in the Sonic games, we could give one of those a try."

“Sure, sounds like fun.” Her expression then turned cold. “You better not send us to a Sonic 06 level.” I chuckled.

“No way, that game sucked ass. The only thing I kind of liked about it was the story. It had potential. Then they had to ruin it with Eliese making out with Sonic and crap like that.” Lisa sighed in relief.

“Okay good, I really don’t want to revisit that place, ever again.” I nodded. I turned to Lisa and looked her in the eyes, or where her eyes should be, a smiled. At first I thought I saw her shudder, but I just shook it off.

{Lisa’s POV}

As Gale called Marx so we could go to the zones, I started to think. When he looked me in the eyes, I saw something. It was like a flash that I sometimes get from people about their past, a brief moment of reflection from them that I sometimes pick up on. It doesn’t happen too often, but when it does I usually see some shit. This flash was weird though, I saw a silhouette of a huge, metallic monster, with flames in the background. I heard screams of fear and pain for a moment, but then it was over. Usually that moment of reflection is for something that the person did, so why did I see a beast in his. Eh, I’ll ask him later. Gale rushed up to me, holding a purple orb.

“Alright I got it, hope he knows how to get back without this.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well…”

Flashback

{Gale’s POV}

“Hey Marx!” a portal opened up and Marx hoped out.

“What is it?”

“Can you open up a portal to Metal Sonic for me please?”

“Yeah sure.” He opened it up and I looked through. When I did, I saw Metal racing through city escape with Rainbow Dash.

“Huh, thought he was with Luna. Ah well, to each their own.”

“So are you gonna ask for it or?”

“Nah I’ll grab it without disrupting them, just get the portal closer.” Marx nodded and the portal got closer. I reached out, and tried to grab the purple orb that sent us to the zones. I reached for it, and grabbed at it. I missed once, twice, three times.

“Huh?” Marx swerved the portal out of the way as Metal looked behind him, causing me to almost fall out. He grabbed one of my metal quills and pulled me back in. He brought the portal close again, and I reached for the purple orb once more. I grabbed at it, and got a hold on it! I brought it back to me, and on the other side of the portal.

“HA! I got it!”

“Huh?” Marx hurriedly closed the portal before Metal saw us.

“Phew, that was a close one.”

“Yeah, thanks for saving my ass from falling out.” Marx nodded, opened another portal, and left. I walked back to Lisa.

Flashback End

“Oh, huh.” I nodded.

“Yep, it was a really close call.”

“So, what zone are we going to?” I put my hand to my chin and thought. Where should we go? Hmm. I snapped my fingers.

“I’ve got it!”

“Where?”

“Chemical Plant Zone.”

“Chemical Plant Zone? Never heard of it”

“Well then you’re about to found out what it looks like.” I took her hand and held out the orb. It expanded and sent both of us to the Chemical Plant Zone. Lisa looked around.

“So this is the Chemical Plant Zone huh?” I nodded.

“Yep. Cool huh?” Lisa nodded.

“Very cool. Hey wait what’s that city over there?” I shrugged.

“Don’t know, I don’t think we can go over there.”

“I bet you fifty bits that we can.”

“Alright I’ll take you on that bet, another time. For now, let’s beat this zone!” I was about to run off when.

“Hey wait, I’m not as fast as you.”

“Oh yeah huh?”

“So, what do we do?”

“This!” I picked her up bridal style, causing her to blush. “Hold on tight!”

She hugged her arms around me and nodded, telling me she was ready. I nodded and took off, racing away at high speeds. I destroyed every enemy we came across, and ran for the most part. It was kind of funny when I ran the loop-de-loops and Lisa yelped and held on to me tighter. She really freaked out when I went down a path that had multiple loops in a row. At the end I landed on the capsule, and let the little animals be free. I let Lisa down and she stumbled a little. I caught her before she fell.

“Whoa, you okay?”

“Yeah I’m fine. Just never went so fast before without being in a plane or something like that.”

“You get used to it.”

“You’re a robot, you don’t feel the G-force from your speed.”

“That may be true, but I did feel every wall I slammed into when I was first adjusting to my speed.” That caused Lisa to laugh.

“You slammed into walls?”

“Yep! If memory serves I’ve slammed into 433 walls by accident from running.” That just made Lisa laugh harder.

“433? That’s hilarious!”

“I’m surprised you didn’t ask how I remember them all.” Lisa started to calm down.

“You’re a robot. I kind of put two and two together.” I nodded. “So, what now?”

“I don’t know. Want to see if Marx found that Nightmare Fuel yet?”

“Yeah sure.” Using the orb I brought us back to Ponyville.

Symbol’s POV

I walked through the Whitetail Woods along the gravel path. The sunlight only piercing through the amber leaves in small rays as I strolled through. I placed a hand to my forehead and sighed.

"What am I gonna do? If they find out about the Nightmare in me they'll most likely be scared of me." Shaking my head I looked around, taking in the beauty of the woods. "I should take them to this place back on my world some time, could make a good first date for us, if they agree that is."

Stopping, I looked behind me to find the two others missing. I sighed and pressed on, at least one of us had to be out looking for those two.

‘Hey! Don’t you mean two?’ Marx said in my head.

"Sorry...wait a minute how are you in my mindscape? I thought I had that locked."

'Doesn't matter, Gale and Lisa are...shall we say bonding.' I facepalmed and sighed.

"While there is a soulless demon and an evil clone of me here? Typical." Shaking my head I felt something stir in my body. "Hmm, seems like she's almost done developing."

‘And when she is Epidemic will have another little sibling to look out for. When you can’t that is.’

"Yeah… when I can't..." Remembering what I saw in the notebook Cipher had given me I collapsed to my knees as I felt a sharp pain in my head.

‘Symbol, what the fuck is that thing?’

"What thing?" I asked in a pained voice as I clutched the side of my head as the headache only grew.

‘The big scary faded thing that looks like you in here. It’s getting bigger and your mindscape is freezing up.’

I screamed in pain as I felt dark thoughts make their way into my mind. I grabbed my necklace and it glowed, suppressing the pain. "I... I have no idea Marx... Get Vivi, she should know."

‘Wait, you grabbing your necklace stopped… OH NO YOU DON’T! GET THE FUCK BACK HERE! I’M NOT LETTING YOU GO THIS TIME MOTHER FUCKER!’ The pain returned worse than ever, but then suddenly stopped. ‘THERE! I GOT IT!’

"Gah, BUCK!!! What exactly did you get?!"

‘Huh? Oh, well, you know that Nightmare Fuel inside of you?’

"Yeah... What about it, Posit already broke its hold on me?"

‘Yeah well, he didn’t break his sentries. This thing always comes in when Forge is around, and it warns him so he can either one, get away from you or two, prepare to fight you. I just got it and sent it to the Black Plain!’

Rising to my feet I grasped my chest. "Gotta... cut down on the energy usage... Too much to do here."

‘Yep. But hey good news! Forge doesn’t know you’re here. But I do have a question, why is Forge here? He would only come here if there was something he wanted.’

"I don't know, he was supposed to still be in that floating island."

‘Yeah well, with the way Forge works the only thing that could imprison him is if I sent him to the Black Plain, and I’m not too keen on doing that.’

I took a moment to remember something Forge had said in the past. "Reality Stars...what are those?"

'Wait! Did you just say Reality Stars?!'

"Yeah, why?"

'I know what Forge is up to… he's trying to become a displacer!'

"What?!"

‘Symbol, you can’t let him get those Reality Stars. If he gets enough of them, he’ll become a displacer, then the entire multiverse will be consumed by the Nightmares.’

Great, now I have to deal with the fate of every single universe.

{Gale’s Pov}

Lisa and I walked around, looking for Symbol. Suddenly, a portal opened and out popped Marx.

“GALE!”

“Hmm? What is it Marx?”

“Okay I found the Nightmare Fuel but it’s not alone.”

“Who’s with it?”

“Someone very dangerous. Someone dangerous enough that I may need you to bring out the beast.” I stopped.

“No.”

“What?”

“I said no. I’m not becoming that… thing again. I became it once when Moonglow corrupted me, but I won’t become it again.”

“Gale if you don’t then-”

“I don’t care! That thing is way more dangerous than any ally of the Nightmare Fuels could ever be! Hell, if it gets out it could kill Symbol!”

"No it couldn’t! Symbol has been through way worse shit than that thing ever did!"

“Yeah? Well you know that it never even used a fraction of its power! If it couldn’t kill Symbol, it could certainly injure him pretty badly, and it would kill Lisa!” Marx stopped and thought for a second.

"You really shouldn't compare that beast to Symbol, when he's at his full power he could wipe out entire solar systems with a snap of his fingers. You don't even want to know what went into the creation of his soul, he's the result of trillions of years of study and experimentation. His soul has a part of each of the multiverse’s greatest warriors and Gods all put into one child! The only reason he doesn't show that power is because he cares too damn much about everyone that has ever showed him kindness! Auldin’s suffering can't even compare to Symbols!"

“I’m not comparing it’s power to Symbol’s, I’m comparing it to the Nightmare Fuel inside of him.”

“Why would that be a problem?”

“You know as well as I do that when that thing is around, dark beings like the Nightmare Fuel in him gain power, and in return that monster gains more power. Symbol could beat it no sweat, but that Nightmare Fuel in him is heavily restricted. When the beast comes out, he’ll come out, and in his weakened state the beast will kill him, in turn killing Symbol.”

“What the hell are you two talking about?!?!”

Marx's eyes narrowed. 'It's no use reasoning with him, he’ll do anything to not turn into that thing again. I’m pretty sure he knows none of that can happen, in fact I know he does, but he’s desperate not to become the beast again.’

“You’re just saying this so you won’t have to become it again, aren’t you?” I lowered my head.

“Please Marx, don’t make me become that thing again. I killed way too many last time, I don’t want it to happen again.”

Marx then walked up to me and placed a hand on my shoulder. "You killed many, yes. But that wasn't you that killed them, this time you'll be in control."

"How?"

Marx placed a hand to my chest and it glowed. "A gift from my friend Roden on the council." I looked up at Marx.

“You’re sure it’ll stop me from losing control?”

“Absolutely.” He then mumbled. "Even if it doesn't I'll just get Nathan from his Equestria to knock you out of it..."

“Alright then… I guess I’ll try. But I’m only going to use as a last resort.” Marx nodds.

“Thank you. Now let’s go! Symbol is already on their trail!” Lisa and I nodded, and ran alongside Marx to the Whitetail Woods.

“Okay now that we’re running towards the Nightmare Fuel, would any of you care to tell me what the hell you two were talking about?!” Marx looked at Lisa, then me.

“You wanna explain?” I nodded.

“A long time ago, I fought this stallion called Moonglow Glimmer. He was very powerful, stronger than Sombra even. One day, he corrupted me and sent me out of Equestria so he wouldn’t have to deal with me. I then became a monster, and for a whole year I destroyed everything, and everyone outside of Equestria. I killed Billions of ponies, griffons, zebras, nothing escaped my wrath.”

“Oh, I guess I can see why you’re reluctant to become him again.” I nodded.

“I just hope I don’t have to when we fight, whoever we’re fighting.” We ran for a while more and eventually came across Symbol.

“You find them yet?”

Symbol turned to us with a extremely serious look on his face. "You two! Go stall them while I find these bucking stars!" With that he shot off in a random direction.

“Um, what?”

“I sent him to look for a Reality Star, it’s something you won’t understand.” I swear I saw Lisa’s eyes widen for a second, but then she returned to normal. Of course, she doesn’t have eyes but I got that vibe from her I guess. We turned to look out at the nearby field. When we did, I could see two figures. One was what I assumed was a Nightmare Fuel, while the other looked exactly like Symbol except he was all pitch black with a read aura outlining him.

“Marx, who are they?”

“The one on the left is the Nightmare Fuel. The one on the right is Forge.”

“Forge huh? Wierd name. OKay I’ll take Forge, Lisa you take the Nightmare Fuel okay?”

“Right.” I nodded and stepped out of the brush. The two took notice of me.

“Hmm? And who might you be?”

“Name’s Meta, what’s your’s?”

“That is something you won’t live long enough to have use for.” Forge swiped his hand in front of him and the Nightmare Fuel ran at me. It leaped, and then got impaled by a tendril. Lisa stepped out, then threw it into the forest.

“I’ve got this one.” I nodded and turned my attention back to Forge. He just starred back at me.

“Now will you tell me? I much rather know the name of my opponent before I battle him.”

“Hmm, very well. My name is Forge, and I will be your ticket to the afterlife.” He charged at me, and I him. We clashed our fists and glared at one another.

“You can’t hope to defeat me.”

“Who knows, I may surprise you.” We leaped back from each other and he fired some blasts of magic at me. I promptly dodged and fired back some of my own blasts. They hit him dead on, but when the smoke cleared he seemed unfazed.

“Is that the best you’ve got?”

“Nope! Just the best I think you deserve!” Forge grunted and threw another magic blast at me, which nailed me in the chest. I was thrown into a tree, which collapsed on top of me.

“Fool, thinking you could be a match for me.” I smirked. This was only the beginning. I charged up a lot of energy, and went super. The tree flew off of me, and I rose into the air.

“How about now?”

“You think that changing forms will make a difference?” I teleported behind him and kneed him in the back, then blasted him with a huge laser, sending him into the ground.

“A slight difference yes.” Forge got up and looked at me.

“Huh, that actually hurt a little.” He rose into the air. “Perhaps this will be more interesting than I thought.”

“You bet your ass it will.”

{Lisa’s POV}

I threw the Nightmare Fuel into another tree.

“Come on. Marx said you were going to be tougher than the last one.” It got up and roared, then charged at me. I teleported out of it’s way and grabbed it by the back of it’s legs. I lifted it up, then threw it down into the ground. I then picked it up and slammed it against a tree, then proceeded to do what I did last time, slam it into every tree around me. After that I tossed it into the air, impaled it with two tendrils, and slammed it into the ground once again. I turned into that purple orb thing, and I thought about how to get rid of it. Suddenly Marx appeared and took the orb.

“I’ll make sure it gets to Symbol so he can destroy it.” I nodded.

“Hey wait Marx?”

“Yeah?”

“Why is Symbol looking for the Reality Star?”

“Because he- wait, you know what that is?”

“I might.”

“And you didn’t tell me this why?!?!”

“Because I can’t remember where it is! Besides, I know what enough of those things can do, so I’m not trusting anyone with the information that I know what they are.” Marx just pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Look, how do you even know what those are?”

“Because found it once and it had immense power. I can only assume that the Reality Star that you’re looking for is that thing.” Marx sighed.

“Alright fine, I get it, you don’t trust anyone with the info you have on it. Not even me. Alright we’ll find it anyways just go help Gale!” I nodded.

“Right!”

{Gale’s POV}

I got slammed into another tree, but I recovered quickly. I flew at Forge and threw a punch at his face. He dodged and threw a punch at mine. I quickly dodged and threw another. We kept doing this, attacking and dodging, attack and dodging. Pretty soon we separated and glared at each other.

“I must admit, I did not expect you to last this long.”

“Thanks!”

“But I am looking for something important, and this battle is getting in the way of that. Let’s end this shall we?” He started charging up a huge attack that I was getting ready to dodge. He finished charging and was about to fire the attack when.

“Gale! I got the Nightmare Fuel!” I looked to see Lisa coming out of the Whitetail Woods. I looked at Forge. He smirked and fired the attack at Lisa instead of me.

“NO!” I teleported right in front of Lisa and spread my arms out. Taking the full force of the attack, I was blasted back, badly hurt.

“GALE!” I saw the blurry image of Lisa running up to me and lean down next to me.

WARNING: ALL SYSTEMS ARE HEAVILY DAMAGED. POWER NOW AT 25%. WILL SHUT DOWN IN ONE MINUTE.

“Gale are you okay?”

“N-No I… My systems are badly… d-damaged.”

“Oh god Gale I’m so sorry. This is my fault.”

“N-No it’s n-not.” While Lisa was distracted Forge snuck up behind her. Before I could warn her Forge’s hand had pierced through her chest.

“I’m sorry to interrupt this sad moment, but I can’t just let my targets live can I?” He threw her across the field and walked to her. Lisa got up and tried to attack with her tendrils but Forge just dodged them. He got to her and grabbed her by the throat, and started to choke her.

“Hm hm hm. This was fun while it lasted, but now it’s about time I killed you both.” I was furious. I could feel the beast inside, raging within me. I got up and glared at Forge.

“Get, your hands off of her, you sick BASTARD!” A dark aura surrounded me and I changed. My plating went from blue to black, my eyes (eye?) went completely black, and I grew in power. Forge just looked at me.

“Another form? You think that will stop me?” I teleported right in front of him, took Lisa out of his grasp, and impaled him with a red laser blade.

“Yes, I think it will.” I took the blade out and kicked him across the field, slamming him into a tree. He fell off, then got up.

“What the hell? How are you suddenly this strong?” I lifted my laser blade and stroked it with a finger.

“Giving into the darkness in your heart makes you that much stronger, don’t you think?”

Forge just started laughing. "Oh that is hilarious, look at you, so sure that you can beat me with the very same power I was born with." That last part came out in a dark serious voice as his expression became stern.

“Oh I don’t think it’ll beat you. In fact I very much doubt it. But, I do know it can hold you off till the one that can kill you comes.”

“The hell do you mean by that?”

“Did you honestly think I came alone Forge? No, I came with the one person that you fear, fear that he will break you, that he destroy everything that you have worked for, fear that he will end you.” I teleported in front of him again. “But for now, all you’ve got is me.”

I grabbed him by the face, and threw him into the air, then came up and kneed him in the stomach. I grabbed him, threw him down into the ground, and blasted him with a huge laser. I then curled up into a ball and spin dashed him even further into the ground. He kicked me off and flew into the air. He punched me in the face and sent me even higher in the air. He rushed up and nailed me with a few more kicks before sending me into the ground. He charged up a huge laser glared at me.

“Say goodbye to your existence.” The laser hit me head on, causing serious damage.

I landed beside Lisa and she looked at me with worry. She shakily placed her hand in mine as we watched Forge slowly walking towards us.

"It was fun, but now you two need to die!" As he raised his hand in the air he froze in place, a look of horror on his face. We looked around and saw dark purple mist seeping into the area, surrounding us three and blocking out the sun. "No..." Just then something shot out of the trees and hit Forge, they tumbled around for a second before Forge through whatever it was hit him off.

Just then something was leaning over us. I looked up to see Symbol there with a extremely enraged glare. Although his presence made me feel more frightened than safe. His skin was dark grey, his hair was now spiked and jet black. His shirt had became dark purple and his fingers were claws. His teeth were razor sharp and his eyes were a dead black, with only glowing red dots as pupils, blood had seeped from his eyes creating a led line from the eyes to his chin. He also had four dark tendrils growing out of his back.

"You...will not...touch them!" He was on all fours, shielding us like a predator would protect its young while breathing heavily.

The look of fear that was plastered on Forges face was enough to tell me that Symbol was indeed a force to not be reckoned with. "You...y-you...why are you here?!"

"What's wrong Forge, you were talking all that good shit a minute ago! What's the matter?! Scared of your brother?!"[/ color]

Forge shot a beam at Symbol but was deflected by a tendril. Symbol got to his feet and took a fighting stance. He shot his tendrils towards Forge but they were dodged, expecting this, Symbol flung himself forward and the tips of his claws glowed dark purple. When he swiped at Forge he created a few slash marks in the air. Everything in the path of the blow, including Forge, was cut deeply.

As Forge lay on the ground trying to recover from the wound, Symbol stamped his foot on his back. He then shot all four tendrils into Forges back, causing him to scream in pain.

"No one...and I mean NO ONE hurts my friends!"

Forge screamed in pain as Symbol repeatedly stabbed him with his tendrils. Suddenly, a Nightmare Fuel came out of nowhere and tackled Symbol. Symbol pushed it off of him and killed it instantly, but that had given Forge enough time to get up and prepare an attack.

“I won’t go down, unless I take you with me!” Forge fired the blast, which Symbol didn’t have time to dodge. It hit him straight on, and he was sent flying into a tree. Symbol quickly got up, only to get nailed by another blast of magic. Forge rushed up to him and grabbed him by the neck, slammed him into the ground, and started to stomp on his back relentlessly.

“DON’T LIKE IT WHEN THE TABLES ARE TURNED DO YOU?! THIS TIME, I WILL KILL YOU!” I couldn’t let this happen. I slowly got up.

“G-Gale… no.” Lisa sounded weak, which just made me angrier. I stood up, and limped forward. Froge looked at me.

“Oh? You’re still standing?! Well then, let’s finish you off shall we?”

"GALE, DON'T DO IT, I CAN TAKE HIM!!!"

“No one, hurts my friends like this. NO ONE!” A rush of power went into me and I started to turn into the beast. My body grew, and my head changed appearance. It changed into the head of Metal Overlord, but that’s not what I was becoming. My body was becoming huge, and I was growing spikes out of my back, as well as wings. I grew a long tail that ended with spikes, and my legs bent backwards. My feet grew talons, and my arms grew longer, with my hand gaining five long claws, one for each finger. My transformation complete, I roared into the air. But then, something wrestled the control of my body away from me, and I blacked out.

{Symbol’s POV}

I watched as Gale grew into a huge monster. Once it was done, he roared into the air, and smirked.

“Ah, to be free again at last.” I looked at Gale. Something was wrong, he had a lot more power than he should have.

“W-What? H-How, are you h-here?” Gale just looked at Forge.

“Ah Forge, one of those that could actually be a threat to me. Oh and Symbols here too. Now I can eliminate two of some of my most dangerous threats.”

"What the hell? What's going on?" Gale looked at me.

“Oh? I presume you never told about me were you Symbol? Well then allow me to introduce myself. I am not Gale, that is the body I am merely possessing. My name, is Xram, and I am here to kill you all.” Suddenly he was gone, and then he appeared right behind Forge. He impaled him with a claw, flung him into the air, and blasted him with a massive laser from his mouth. Forge fell to the ground, unconscious.

“Hm hm hm. Well, that takes care of him for now. Time to eliminate the more prominent threat.” Gale- er, Xram turned to me and smirked. “Say goodbye to all you hold dear Symbol, for once I throw you into hell, your world will soon follow.” He swiped me with his claw and I was sent flying into a tree. I got up and charged at him, and attacked with my tendrils. All four hit him, but he acted as if they were nothing. He rushed me at blinding speeds and spun, getting me with his tail. I was sent into the air and he followed, grabbing me in mid air with his teeth and throwing me back into the ground.

I got to my feet and stared at my opponent. I then rushed over to Lisa and opened a portal to my world.

"Symbol...what are you-?"

"At least one of us is making it out of here." Once the portal opened Zero was standing there with a confused look.

"Symbol?"

"Take care of her and our friends brother." I tossed Lisa through the portal and closed it, Lisa yelling in protest. Once I made sure the way to my world was sealed I glared at my opponent.

"Sacrificing yourself to make sure your friend is safe? A good choice of your last act in your existence."

"If I die here at least Lisa can form a plan to take you down."

Suddenly, a portal opened up and Marx hoped out.

“I can’t believe this.”

”Marx?”

“I’m here to fight with you. Xram was never supposed to escape his imprisonment.”

”What is he?”

“If we survive this, I’ll tell you.”

“Ah Marx, come to die as well my weaker counterpart?”

“If I was weaker than you, then how did I imprison you? Moreover, how did you escape?!”

“Did you really believe that you could keep me from becoming free forever? All I needed was a suitable vessel, and this one was perfect. He was filled with such unbridled rage that I couldn't help but be drawn to it. Though there is one problem, this body can’t even begin to unleash my power. But that will change once I get my true body back.”

“My body was never yours.”

“Foolish Marx. Your body was always mine.”

I looked to Marx and to my necklace. I took the symbiote pony out of my body and threw it into Marx, along with my necklace. "Symbol, what a-"

”Marx I'm sorry." A portal appeared behind him and I pushed him through it, making sure to seal his access to this world, before the portal closed I threw the yellow crystal through it as well. "No more interruptions, we fight now."

Xram grinned and we both charged each other.

My name is Symbol Shattered, and this is the day I died, defending my loved ones.

{Xram’s POV}

That foolish mortal thought that he stood a chance. But, he was already dead. When the battle started, I had attacked with my claws, which I energized, and sliced clean through him. He still stood and fought me after that, but he died in the end. I looked upon the universe I had just left, and snapped my fingers. In moments, it was gone, sucked away into a rip in time and space, never to be seen again.

“Hm hm hm. Now, where did that Lisa girl go?” I looked around and saw Symbol’s universe. Bingo. I flew towards it. “Get ready Symbol, you’re about to watch me destroy everything you know and love from your front row seat in hell.”

I flew into Symbol’s world, with his body as my trophy.

{Lisa’s POV}

I woke up in a bed, surrounded by strangers.

“She’s awake.”

“Is she okay?”

“I don’t know.”

“Where, am I?” I asked as I looked around.

“Miss you’re in another universe. Can you tell me what you last remember?” A boy that looked exactly like Symbol asked me.

“Um… I was in my universe with someone named Gale, and another named Symbol. We were fighting this guy named Forge, until he started winning. He, counterattacked Symbol after Symbol beat him for a while, then Gale, who had been badly hurt like I had, stood up and became this monster. It claimed to be something called Xram, and it attacked Symbol and Forge. Symbol tried to fight it, but he stood no chance. Then he sent me to his world, and that’s the last thing I remember.”

“Well at least she doesn’t have amnesia.” The Symbol look-a-like glared at the person next to him.

“Yes, but what about Symbol? You heard her she said he had no chance!”

A little unicorn filly jumped onto the bed and glared at them. "You're wrong, Symbol can handle anything!" A portal opened and Marx fell out. He got up and tried to rush into it but closed before he could.

“SYMBOL NO! DAMMIT!” Marx banged his fist on the ground in anger.

“Um, who the hell are you? And what happened with Symbol?”

“My name is Marx, and Symbol… is dead.”

The group all gasped, I looked over to see this worlds versions of Twilight and Octavia break down into tears. I guessed that they were his partners or soon to be partners. The Symbol lookalike just shook his head in disbelief.

"No...no I can't lose him too..." Suddenly there was a loud boom outside and everyone rushed up to a nearby window. Then, I heard his voice.

“MORTALS OF THIS WORLD! YOUR ONLY HOPE IS DEAD! PREPARE TO SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR EXISTENCE!”

“What the hell is that thing?!”

“Look it’s got Symbol!”

“He… he’s limp and… lifeless.” Now Xram was here? Why? Why was this happening? First there’s a Nightmare Fuel in my world. Then Gale and I get badly hurt fighting Forge. Then Gale gets possessed, and then Symbol gets killed. Why? Why was this happening?

To be continued…

Chapter Eight: The End

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Chapter Eight: The End

A long long time ago, there was a council. This council was created by Displacers, with the head of them all being a powerful displacer named Author. They were created to fight off the Nightmare Fuels that plagued the multiverse, and fight them they did. For countless centuries they fought, doing whatever they could to keep the multiverse safe. However, they never could have prepared for what came next. From the realm of nightmares, the Black Plain, a being of absolute power arose. His name, was Xram. He took control of one of the council members, the only one that could open a portal to this realm, and escaped the empty void of nightmares that he called home. When he escaped, the entire multiverse was doomed. The council tried to fight him, but they could not even compare to his power. Then, one day, the council members found the Reality Stars. With these, they were able to seal Xram away, and get their old council member back. However, Author knew one day he would break out again, so the only thing he could do was prepare. Prepare by creating a warrior that would fight off the Nightmares, and Xram.

{Lisa’s POV}

Why? Why was this happening? What did we do to deserve this shit? First, I find someone that I, kind of like. Gale was nice, he was funny, and he sacrificed himself to save me. Now he’s possessed by something that is trying to kill us all. And then there’s Symbol. He had a future, he had friends and family that miss him, and now they’re all going to die because Symbol and Gale came to my world which now I’m pretty sure is gone. Marx can’t open a portal to it, and Xram wants to destroy every universe. Why would he spare mine?

“Lisa?”

I can’t even begin to understand what’s happening. Now, I’m afraid. I’ve been afraid of many things, now mostly I’m afraid to die. To die here, and to die now.

“Lisa?”

There’s nothing we can do either, is there? Symbol, the most powerful of us got killed easily by Xram, what chance do we have?

“LISA!” Marx jolts me awake.

“Huh? What?”

“Come on we’ve gotta go!” Marx helps me up and we rush out of the building which I now realize, is collapsing. We rush outside to see the chaos and carnage that has been unleashed.

There was pillars of fire everywhere, the sky had turned blood red and the clouds black. Cities and Villages burned, screams of dying ponies could be heard throughout the land. Celestia looked out in horror.

"Why...why is this happening?" We then heard Xram give out a bloodcurdling evil laugh.

We all looked up to see him floating above us with a ball of light floating beside him.

"Enjoying the view mortals? I know a certain spirit of chaos that would absolutely love all this chaos!" The Symbol look-alike stepped forward.

“Why? Why are you doing this? What did we ever do to you?! What did Symbol ever do to you?!”

“Well for starters Symbol is the only one that has a chance to stop me. As for the rest of you, nothing. But that’s what makes this enjoyable.” He tossed us Symbol’s dead body.

“Here. I suppose during your last moments I’ll let you grieve.” As he fell, the Symbol look-alike caught him, and kneeled with him in his arms. Everyone was either crying their eyes out, or gritting their teeth in anger. So this was all really happening. It was the end of the multiverse. All life as we know it, will cease to exist. This was all my fault. I broke down into tears. Marx walked up to me and hugged me.

“I-It’s my fault. This is all my fault.”

“What do you mean?”

“If they never came to my world, then Gale wouldn’t be possessed and Symbol would still be alive.” Marx just hugged me tighter, as did some of the others. Marx got out of the group hug and looked at Xram in fury. A portal opened and another person stepped out.

”So he’s back now is he?”

“Yes, he is. And our only hope, your son, was killed by him.”

He’s too strong for any of us, isn’t he?”

“Way too strong. None of us even come close. Not even with our power combined.”

”So then what should we do?” Marx grimmanced.

“Even if it means we are just killing ourselves, I say we go and avenge those that have died by his hands.”

”I couldn’t agree more.”

Author looked around until he spotted Symbol in the other boy's arms. He walked over and placed a hand on Symbols head. "You did good son, you did good."

{Marx’s POV}

Author and I stood, facing the monster that was Xram. He was destroying everything. Then, once he was done with this place, he would send it into a rip in time and space. The only one that could possibly defeat him, was dead. We could only hope that we could hold him off long enough to let everyone else escape.

“XRAM!” He turned to us.

“Ah Marx, oh and Author's here too. Excellent. Now I’ve already killed my most dangerous opponents, but getting my revenge on the same day? Now that’s a bonus.” Author and I glared at him. Then, we took to the skies and charged. Xram grinned and charged at us. He threw a claw at us but we dodged. I charged up a magic blast and hit him in the back of the head, while Author did the same to his chest. Xram grunted in annoyance, turned in mid air, and smacked us both down with his tail. We recovered and flew around him, firing magic blasts all the while. Xram just smirked, and held out his hands. Suddenly, we were stopped by his magic, and he levitated slammed us together in front of him. Then, he charged up a huge amount of magic, and fired it at us, point blank. We were sent flying back to everyone.

“Oh god Marx!” I just grunted in pain, and held out my hand. A portal opened up, and out popped Alduin and the Twins, all of them were back to being normal dragons.

“Marx? What’s happening?”

“A very... powerful being has… possessed Gale. It...killed Symbol. Now it’s… destroying everything.” Alduin looked at his brother in horror. “Please, get everyone out of here. Your universe is far enough away that you’ll all be able to live for a few years before he gets to you.”

Alduin looked to the group of people and ponies gathered in front him. He studied them, before his face turned furious. The Twins fused together to make Epidemic, and he walked up to Alduin.

“Are we?”

“Yes, I think we will.” Epidemic nodded before becoming all black, and fusing with Alduin. They started to grow to a massive size, as big as Xram was. They grew three heads, three tails, and massive wings. They had even grew fore legs, and their wings moved to their back. Their scales turned red, and their eyes, were like Venom’s. They finished fusing, and roared in fury. They took to the skies and flew at Xram. Xram turned, and then got slammed by the new being. He was slammed into the ground before he was grabbed and tossed into the mountainside. Xram got himself out once the dust cleared, and glared at Alduin and Epidemic’s combined form.

“Alright, I must admit I’m impressed, that actually hurt. This world may have actual challenge to it.”

“BE PREPARED XRAM. THIS IS THE DAY YOU DIE!” Xram just chuckled.

“Very well, you want to kill me? Fine! Go ahead and try! But before this battle starts, I must know your name.”

“WE ARE THE COMBINATION OF ALDUIN AND EPIDEMIC. WE ARE THE ONE THAT WILL SPELL YOUR END. WE ARE APOCALYPSE, AND WE WILL BE YOUR EXIT FROM THIS WORLD! YOU KILLED SYMBOL, WE WILL AVENGE HIM!”

“Hm, you truly believe that? Very well then, let this battle commence!” They flew at each other and clashed, trying to overpower one another. Xram lifted his right arm back and tried to punch one of Apocalypse's heads, but he swerved his heads away. He then clamped one onto Xram’s neck and bit down.

“AHH!” Xram grabbed Apocalypse and tore him off, then punched him in the chest, sending him back down to the ground. He recovered, and roared in anger. He flew at Xram and blasted him with blood red fire. Xram grimaced from the fire, but charged through it and tackled Apocalypse. As they went down, Apocalypse bit Xram with all three of his heads, hard. They slammed into the ground, but then Xram was kicked off of Apocalypse and into the air, where he was blasted by a huge amount of fire. Xram crossed his arms in front of him and took the flames. The flames stopped, and Apocalypse quickly rose into the air and tackled Xram, biting him on the way down. They slammed into the ground, and Apocalypse stood back up.

“Wait did… did they kill him?”

“They.. they did! We’re saved!” Everyone started cheering. At first I too thought it was over, but then a giant red energy blade rose up and impaled Apocalypse through the chest. Xram got up, and slammed Apocalypse into the ground. He took to the skies and started charging up a huge amount of power.

“YOU THINK YOU CAN STOP ME?! ME AND MY MISSION TO MAKE THE MULTIVERSE IN MY IMAGE?! NOT A CHANCE!!” He continued to charge up the blast till it was at full power. He was about to fire it when...

“STOP!”

{Lisa’s POV}

Apocalypse stood triumphant over Xram. I thought it was over, I thought we won, then Apocalypse got impaled by one of Xram’s blades. He threw Apocalypse down, and started to charge up an attack. I didn’t know what happened next. I was just gone. I teleported in on top of Apocalypse and shouted at the top of my lungs.

“STOP!” Xram stopped and looked at me.

“Ah, well if it isn’t little Lisa. Come to die with this fool that thinks he can stop me.”

“GALE! I KNOW YOU’RE IN THERE! I NEED YOU TO FIGHT IT! FIGHT XRAM! GET YOUR BODY BACK!”

“You’re calling out to Gale? But my dear, he’s already gone.”

“COME ON! WHERE’S THE GUY THAT TOOK ME TO THE CHEMICAL PLANT ZONE?WHERE HE MADE A BET WITH ME ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE COULD GO TO THAT CITY IN THE BACKGROUND!? WHERE’S THE GUY THAT MADE ME LAUGH WHEN HE TOLD ME HOW MANY TIMES HE RAN INTO WALLS WHEN HE WAS ADJUSTING TO HIS SPEED?! WHERE’S THE GUY THAT RISKED HIS LIFE TO SAVE MINE?!”

Just then a portal appeared beside Xram and a blue blur shot out. Upon further inspection I found that it was the Metal Sonic displaced that Gale had mentioned. He shot towards Xram and landed several hits before landing beside me.

"NOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU GALE, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR CONTROL! DON'T LEAVE ME WITHOUT A RIVAL YOU ASSHOLE! WAKE UP!” Apocalypse diffused back into Alduin and Epidemic. Alduin stepped forward.

“COME ON GALE! WE KNOW YOU CAN DO IT! WHERE”S THE BROTHER THAT CAME TO MY WORLD?! THAT HELPED ME REMEMBER MY HUMAN LIFE?! THAT WENT TO THE SOUL CAIRN TO GET MY SOUL BACK?!” Epidemic stepped forward as well.

“GALE! WE NEED YOU TO FIGHT IT! WE KNOW YOU CAN BEAT XRAM OUT OF YOUR MIND! COME ONE! WHERE’S THE UNCLE THAT CAME WITH US TO THE HUMAN WORLD?! THE ONE THAT MADE THAT GEM THAT PROTECTS US FROM HARMFUL SOUND?! THE ONE THAT WAS THERE WHEN DAD DIED?! COME ON GALE! YOU CAN DO IT!

{Third POV}

Xram looked out as everyone kept shouting for Gale.

‘Hmph, what fools. Thinking that just by calling out to Gale that he’ll come back.’ Unbenounced to him, Gale was stirring.

‘Huh… wha? Dan? Epidemic? Metal? Lisa?’ Gale saw all of his friends calling out to him, begging him to come back.

“MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA! You think that by calling for Gale, that he’ll just come back? What a joke!” Xram was about to fire off his attack when…

“N-No.” Xram froze in the mindscape, and turned around, to see Gale.

“You’re not… gonna… lay a finger on them.”

“What? How are you awake? I subdued you, I destroyed your mind!”

“Yeah well, I die hard.” Gale now sounded stronger, and stood taller.

“Grr, no matter! I’ll just do it now!” Xram charged at Gale, prepared to kill him. He charged up an attack in his fist and threw it out, nailing Gale in the face. He smirked.

“You know something?” Xram’s faces gained a look of horror. “In my mindscape, it’s kind of hard to kill me. Also...Metal hits harder than you ever could." Xram backed away as Gale turned to him with a glare. “In my mindscape, you’re nothing but a puny insect that has been bugging me for far too long.” He started to walk towards Xram, with that same look. He started getting bigger, and was changing into the beast. “In my mindscape, I AM THE GOD! IN HERE, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PUNY MORTAL TO ME! IN HERE, YOUR POWER MEANS NOTHING! THIS IS MY MIND! AND I WILL HAVE IT BACK!”

“AHH!” Xram yelled in pain as he was ejected from Gale’s mind.once he was, the beast started to fall. It turned back into Gale, and fell to the ground. Lisa jumped up and caught him, and landed in the middle of the little group that had gathered. Marx teleported everyone to the spot, and they all watched as Gale woke up in Lisa’s arms.

“Huh.. wha? What the hell happened?”

“GALE!” Lisa hugged Gale tight to her body as she cried tears of joy. Gale was shocked for a moment, but then he returned the hug. Then, Alduin, Epidemic, Metal, and Marx joined the group hug. After a few moments they separated, but Gale had Lisa in his arms now, as she continued to cry tears of joy.

“Hey, it’s okay.”

“I was just… so scared. There was chaos, everypony kept dying, and you were being possessed by a monster. I… I just couldn’t…”

“Hey now, I’m back aren’t I? Xram is gone now. Everything is back to normal.”

“Not exactly.” Gale looked at Marx.

“What do you mean?”

”Xram destroyed Lisa’s universe. Although we might be able to bring it back, it will take a long time. She’s got nowhere to go now.”

“Not only that, but Symbol is dead. Now what will we do about the Nightmare Fuels?”

”I don’t know, we’ll think of something. For now, we should celebrate that we all survived. And that Xram is gone.”

"Not exactly.” Everyone turned to see a skeleton that looked very similar to Marx floating in the air. But, there were some differences. For one his bones were black, his cape was white, and the gem on his neck was blue. His staff was blue as well, but the mini-Tirek skull was black.

“I-Is that?” Marx nodded.

“Yes, that’s Xram.”

“Well isn’t it nice to see the heroes together again at last. It’s such a shame too, now I have to kill you all. And once I do, I’ll get my body, and my true power back.” Everyone cringed in fear. Then, out of the the corner of her eye, Lisa saw Symbol twitch. She looked at him and he twitched again. Xram started to charged up a huge attack.

“SO LONG FOOLS!” He fired it and everyone braced themselves.

After a moment of tension, the group felt no pain. They all looked up to see that the blast was no longer there. Just then a pillar of purple fire shot out of the ground, sending a huge gust of wind across the area. A silhouette could be seen in the fire. Xram started shaking in fear at the sight of the figure before him.

A being made entirely of purple fire floated out and stared him down.

"HOW?!?! HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!?!"

The figure didn't answer. All it did was hold out its hand and close its eyes. Time slowed down as a huge invisible force blew across the battlefield. Just then the surrounding area was set ablaze. The fire floated upwards and started to converge at the figures hand. A huge ball of purple fire was now being aimed at Xram, who was frozen in fear.

The being opened it's glowing yellow eyes and drew his hands back. "Xram, I will give you one chance to return to the Black Plain, or I will end you!"

"N-N-NEVEEEEEEEEERRR!!!" Xram charged towards the being.

"That's what I wanted to hear!" The being threw its arms forward and the huge ball of fire was flung towards Xram. It hit him head on and slowly started to break him.

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!" The last piece of him melted away and the ball of flames burst into a large bubble of light that spread across Equestria, restoring everything to its former glory, including the ponies and other creatures in the land. The sky returned to normal and the ball of light that we knew as the sun shone brightly over the restored world.

The being of fire slowly started to disappear with a satisfied look on its face. It looked down at the group before vanishing.

Lisa's POV

I stared at where the strange being once was. "Was that...Symbol?"

"That was the last reminiscent of his soul, in a last desperate act he gave up his chance to enter the afterlife to save us all."

I looked over to Symbols lifeless body. "Symbol..."

"GUYS!!!" We all looked around to see this worlds version of Vinyl Scratch rushing towards us with something on her back. "SOMEPONY HELP! TAVI ISN'T BREATHING!" She came to a screeching halt and lay an unconscious Octavia in front of us.

Author looked around and closed his eyes. He then rushed over to Marx and took a necklace from him, the medallion on the necklace being the symbol of the sun with blue gems. He placed the necklace on Octavia's body which then began to glow. A small orb of purple energy floated out of the medallion and entered Octavia's body.

She slowly started to stir and opened her eyes. "Wha...what happened?"

Author stood up and looked at the necklace. "Symbol must have known that he was going to die and placed a small amount of his life force in this medallion. Just in case something like this happened, I have never been so proud to call someone like him my son."

We all gathered around Symbols body and hung our heads. Just then a woman appeared, she was completely light blue and had a ponytail. She walked over to Symbols body and hugged it. Author knelt down and patted her on the back.

"He wasn't supposed to die this way, there is too much left for him to do. Looks like I'll have to start all over again." Suddenly his eyes shot open and he looked at Octavia. "Oh you clever boy." Octavia looked at him confused.

"What?" Author shook his head and placed the necklace around her neck.

"Hey, how about we all celebrate this victory with a party?!" Yelled Marx as he tried to lighten the mood. "Also to remember Symbol of course." Everyone smiled and nodded.

They all began to walk towards the castle, I stayed behind with Gale as we looked at Symbols body.

“So, what now?” Gale looked to me.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean what do we do now? What do I do now? My home’s gone, so I have nowhere to go. I lost some many ponies that were important to me, and now I’ve got no one.” Gale put his arm around me.

“Hey now, don’t be sad. I mean, you’ve got me.” I looked at him.

“Thanks.” I leaned into him and he picked up Symbol’s body.

“So, does this mean we’re dating now?” I put a finger to my chin in thought.

“You know, after something like this I’d say that’s fair game. But don’t get any ideas buddy boy, I want to take this slow.” He looked at me and kissed me on the cheek. Well, as close to a kiss that it could be.

“Wouldn’t have it any other way.” I smiled and we walked towards the castle together.

Three days later

We all sat down outside of Ponyville's graveyard, all of us wearing some form of black wear. I looked to my right to see Symbols friends all sitting with sad expressions. To my left sat Gale, Alduin, Metal, Epidemic and a displaced Bill Cipher, who probably knew Symbol from an adventure in the past. The entire displacers council had shown up, apart from one member that they called 'Roden.'

In front of the rows of chairs sat a stage with a coffin and a large photo of Symbol. Celestia was the first to speak on the stage.

"I was the first pony Symbol ever met in this world. He was always honest to me and everypony around him. He fought with bravery, determination and a burning desire to protect those dear to him. We would on occasion come to disagreements and on a few occasions to blows, but we had a deep respect for each other. He protected my ponies when I could not, and for that I thank him." She walked up to the coffin and placed her hoof on it. "Rest in peace dear friend, knowing that we are all safe thanks to your bravery."

She stepped down from the stage and Bill Cipher was next.

"I only ever met Symbol once, but what he taught me in the few hours we were together I will never forget. When he had made a mistake in my world and lost my trust, he did everything in his power, even risking his own life, to making sure that I could complete my mission. He showed me that even though I had these dark thoughts and memories, that they were never my own, and he freed me from my curse." He placed his hand on the coffin. "Farewell Neo, my old friend."

Bill floated back to his seat and closed his eye. Twilight was next to speak.

"Symbol was more than just a friend to me, so much more. He helped me with my research, showed me there was more to life than just books and making friends, there is also adventure, a drive to reach new heights. We would go on quests together to find artifacts and new information, a lot of those times he would have to save me from a crumbling temple or whatever. With all of that, I found something I never thought I would find, somepony to give my heart to." She placed her hoof on the coffin. "Goodbye Symbol, I love you, even though you'll never hear me say it."

Octavia walked up. "A lot of those things that Twilight has said can also be used for me. Symbol showed me more to life than just getting better at my talent, but also looking out for those I hold dear. I too found somepony I could trust with my life, for I loved him too." She placed her hoof on the coffin. "No one can ever replace you, rest in peace Symbol."

A few more ponies said a few words before Gale and I walked up together.

"What's to say other than what's already been said? We may not have known Symbol for that long, but what he did in that small time frame affected us both in more way than we could imagine."

Gale then took over. "He protected us when we were defenceless, he gave his own life to make sure Lisa and Marx survived. He brought Lisa and I together, and that is the greatest gift he could have ever given."

"We are eternally grateful to him, he saved us all and gave us a second chance at life. None of us will ever forget him."

"Let the multiverse cheer his name, for he was the one that saved them all! Praise the spirit of all that is pure, praise Symbol Shattered!" The crowd cheered and threw their hats into the air, cheering Symbols name. We both looked to each other and placed our hands on the coffin.

"Rest in peace, Symbol." We both said in unison.

Zero's POV

I stood at the top of the hill overlooking the funeral. Beside me was the grave that Symbol and I had made for our sister, Abigail. Shaking my head I fought back the tears.

"Damnit Symbol...why did you have to leave me all alone?"

Turning away from the grave I looked down at the funeral.

"Farewell, Neo Rayleigh, my dearest brother."

Third person POV

Everyone had returned to their own worlds. Lisa and Gale walked hand in hand as they walked through a portal back to Gales world. "Hey Gale?"

"Yes Lisa?"

"I was just thinking about all of this, all that's been happening I mean, and one thing just came to my mind."

"What's that?"

"Symbols soul is now completely gone, he doesn't even get to go to heaven or hell. He's just...not there. Did he really deserve that kind of fate?"

Gale remained silent as he held Lisa's hand tighter. "I don't know...all we can do now is remember who he was, what he did for us and move on."

She nodded and looked up at the sky. 'If any of your soul managed to survive Symbol, I hope we meet again someday, so I can thank you for saving me, and everyone else in the multiverse.'

"GAAAALLLEE!!!" Gale didn't have time to react as he was tackled by Metal Sonic. "YOU TRAPPED ME AND RAINBOW IN CITY ESCAPE YOU JERK!!!"

Lisa watched as Metal chased Gale around, giggling as the two fought.

Meanwhile in Symbols world. Celestia stared out of her balcony at the large floating island that would remain there, waiting for its purpose to be fulfilled one day.

"Oh Symbol..." She wiped a tear from her eye and went back to signing her paperwork.

In the void of the multiverse, a tiny purple flame floated in place. A light appeared beside it and out walked a strange figure with a green tracksuit with a metal sash over his torso. He also had a scarf that covered his mouth. His hair was comprised of large spikes, much like Vegeta's from Dragon Ball Z. The figure reached into his pockets and pulled out five black gemstones, each of them being in the shape of four pointed stars.

The gems floated around the flame and glowed.

"We're not done with you yet young one, there is still much to do."

The small flame expanded and formed a humanoid figure.

"Here we go."

Three weeks later

The mane six and side five all sat together in the middle of Ponyville at a small cafe, along with Zero, Wasp and Zanny.

Everyone had noticed that Octavia's eating habits had become...odd. She was currently stuffing her face with cotton candy and chocolate milk.

"Uh, Tavi? You wanna cut down on the sugar? You're gonna have a heart attack if you keep this up."

Octavia stopped momentarily and placed her food down. "Sorry...I've been having a very strange craving for sweets lately and a bit of a...of a..." She grabbed a bucket and emptied her stomach into it.

"That's it, we are taking you to a doctor." Twilight stated in an authoritative tone. Over the past three weeks Twilight and Octavia had kept the herd alive and were growing to have genuine feelings for each other.

An hour later, Octavia lay in a hospital bed with Twilight sitting beside her. A pony with a brown coat and black straight mane walked in with a clipboard in his magic.

"What's wrong with me doctor?"

The stallion stuttered for a bit before taking in a breath. "Congratulations Miss Melody, you're pregnant!"

"WHAT!?!?"

A Displaced Monster

by Prince_Zodiac

Chapter One: Monster, Or Savior?

Chapter Two: Savior, Definitely

Chapter Three: Monster Definitely

Chapter Four: The Past

Chapter Five: Two Slenders

Chapter Six: The Wedding

Chapter Seven: The Monster, The Demon, And The Machine

Chapter Eight: The End

Sequel Is Out!