> Fates hand > by PixelSprite > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Stage set,: prologue > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'sigh' "another new day another chance to get displaced and get off of this miserable planet." I sighed to myself as I got dressed into my suit and packing away many of my props. "Hmm, the most disappearances occur in this area, and there is only one convention even remotely close to this area, might as well get going." I spoke to myself as I got everything I needed and got into my car going to the convention. It took a few hours of driving and a stop at the gas station but I finally got to the convention, when I got there I immediately set out to look for shady booths while also trying to look like I'm just walking around sight seeing. 'sigh' "where could that creature of void be?.." After a few hours of searching I found a dark and run down stall. "Just what I was looking for." I whispered to myself with a smirk. "Now, let me see the options." I spoke as I looked apon the table before me and saw several prop making kits, as well as a yin-yang mask with purple eyes and some already made props, I'll just get the kits and the mask, I don't really trust pre made props. "May I see what intrigues you?" A voice from Infront of me in which I can only presume came from the void dweller. "The prop kits and the mask if you would please." I answered looking up at him. "Interesting choice, that will be $135 total." The void dweller answered my request and smirked as I handed him the money and picked up the kits and put the mask on my face. "Have a safe trip..." The voidling sinisterly spoke, I just smiled under the masked and responded with. "I will...void dweller." I answered getting a shocked look from the merchant just before the world around me became dark. Equestria, everfree forrest "Hmm, I spear to be in the everfree, now which way to the town of ponies." I spoke to myself as I left the portal that sent me here. As I looked around I spotted a pink cloud, notifying me on where I am in the series, guess I should start on my first prop, I'll need somewhere safe to work on it, in the distance I can see the path to the castle of the two sisters, I'll make my way there as a temporary base. As I walk down the path I spot what appears to be a bag of bits, lucky me I guess, I soon make it to the castle and quickly set up my tool kits and start on my first props, as I was looking through my kits I found a small book labelled "a Stage Master's guide" so I took a look and was slightly shocked at what I found. A stage master's guide [Power set] Inanimate animation ( you can bring your props to life, personality and all if you wish) prop fusing (you can fuse with your props) Expression notification (you can easily read people's facial expression) Stealthy (you are very good at hiding and are almost invisible in the night) Magic absorption (you can absorb magic of all kinds) Dream walker (you can enter the dream scape to get a read on your enemies, just don't interfere with the dreams themselves else you will have to deal with the princess of the night) Hard worker (you don't get tired from making props) Diet immunity (you can eat anything without any bad effects, unless it is a potion) Puppeteer (you can control summoned heroes, anti-heroes and villains) Puppet (you are a puppet and can be taken apart and put back together, it still hurts, so don't get hit by an attack) These are all the powers you have for now, please return to the Stage Master's guide at a later date to see if you have gained any new abilities. a few hours later Just as I finished my first few props and made my way to Ponyville to get a scope on what I'll be up against I saw a rainbow flash in the distance, guess they already felt with discord. As I continued my trek to the town I ready my props. Spiderman gloves for long range apprehension and long distance movement. An Aku sculpture to summon a copy of Aku to handle many different means of attacks. A miniature GLaDOS core to control and summon different kinds of technology, as well as to control and see through the eyes of tiny airborne cameras. And finally, a teleporter from the animated series, Glitchtale, to teleport me out of any given situation. I finally made it to the town and saw six ponies talking to two larger ponies about discords statue. "I am very proud of you, all of you, we will need to host a celebration for the defeat of discord." Celestia praised her student. "Tch, of course they would use the elements before asking why he was doing this." I muttered to my self in anger as I had always paid more attention to the villains of stories as I saw they often had gone through many... Tragedies to become the villains they are today, I always saw them as more 'human' than the hero's as they often showed more emotion and motive, I'll follow the ponies for now, I need to get to the library anyhow. "Hm, it's been a few minutes and they haven't moved." 'sigh' "I'll just find my way to the library myself, I guess." I sighed to myself as I merged with the Aku sculpture, turning myself into a sentient shadow and made my way through out Ponyville, it took a few minutes but I finally found the golden oaks library. 'lets see what is in here, but first, is the little lizard here?' I thought to myself as I looked up stairs to find the lizard sleeping, I then took some books and left, making sure to make it difficult to notice the missing books, don't want to librarian to notice me too soon now do I?.. As I made it back to the castle I decided to make a one time use prop for a dramatic entrance. I also decided to make my token, it is a miniature tool kit within a spherical yin-yang, I haven't sent it to the void yet as I want to make my entrance and base first. a few hours later...again When I finished with my one time prop and my token, I had left the everfree and saw the main six enter a train, I quickly used Aku to get on top of their cart and listened in on their conversation. "I can't believe we are getting a public celebration in Canterlot!?" The fashionesta exclaimed with glee. "I know right! And the princess celestia is hosting it, it's just..so...awesome!?!" the rainbow bird pony exclaimed in excitement. "I-i don't k-know i-it s-s-seems scary to m-me..." The shy one stutters. "I just think it'll be fun!?" The pink one exclaimed with laughter. "I'm just glad we were able to defeat discord" the librarian spoke with a relieved tone. "Couldn't agree with you more sugar cube! That varmint darn tooten made us the opposite of ourselves just for his game!" The farmer agreed with a frustrated tone. "Hmm, reasonable anger but no understanding.. I guess that will be the first lesson, to understand your enemy on a more emotional level." I muttered to myself and hid as we neared Canterlot. When we got to Canterlot I hid in the lizards shadows they entered the backstage for this celebration. "Hello my faithful student and elements of harmony, you to spike." The princess of the sun welcomed the group as she and the princess of the moon walked up to them and began speaking on when they were starting the celebration, I then tuned out their conversation and when I regained my focus I headed the end of the sun princess's sentence and knew it was the time for my entrance. "-nd that is why we are here today to celebrate the defeat of discord, these six have returned him to stone and returned everything back to normal!" The princess shouted so the audience could hear her. I stealthily threw the one time use Ender pearl to teleport to the upper portions of the stage. "I wouldn't be so sure of that celestia~" I spoke in a mysterious manner as I dropped down onto the stage, as I landed almost all present rose their guard, good to see the guards are at least somewhat competent here. "Who are you and why are you here!" The rainbow one asked as she hovered just over my head. "Oh me? I'm just a simple puppeteer, but you can call me the Stage master, as for why I'm here oh rainbow dash~ why I'm here to tell stories and teach lessons~" I spoke with a slight echo thanks to Aku. "I- how do you know my name!?" The rainbow pegasus yelled at me as she got even closer. "That's for me to know and for you to find out, now tata~" I taunted as I activated the teleporter and left to collect my things by turning them into shadows with Aku and find a proper base of operation, preferably somewhere I have a good view of Canterlot and Ponyville where they wouldn't think to look. "but where?..... Aha! I got it! They wouldn't suspect my base to be in the peak of Canterlot mountain itself!" I exclaimed as I gave a short cackle as I headed not for Canterlot mountain but instead an old dragons horse to collect some loot, then head to the top of Canterlot mountain to start my base. "I'll have to be careful, they are without a doubt looking for me." I mutter to myself as I make my way around to the back side of Canterlot mountain, when I get there I have GLaDOS carve a whole into the side of the maintain making an elevator to the top whilst having Aku carry me to the top of the mountain. > Base of operations and making a token > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When I get to the top of Canterlot mountain I immediately set up shop, metaphorically speaking, and start to work on a few more props for future summons. "But what should I make?" I question my self finding difficulty choosing between the many idea's, I'll eventually need something to gather DNA, for Nightmare moon, but there are so many options, like, venom? No, to violent, Deadpool? To random, dr Eggman? No, he would make his presence known, shadow? No, he would hate it here, and most likely attack me on site, murder drones characters? No, to gory for my tastes, Dr Heinz Doofenshmirtz? Now thats one I can work with, with the doctors skills at hiding in plain sight and his genius, as well as his backstory, he will make a perfect summon, hmm but I should make a hero as well... That will be simple, I'll just make Perry the platypus to counter Dr Heinz. a few hours later "Okay... Just gotta put this in and...Done!" I exclaimed as I finished a miniature copy of Dr Heinz laboratory and perry's hat. "Now for my token.." I spoke to myself as I grabbed my token object and poured my soul and energy into it, giving my message. "if you need help of any matter, call apon stage master, it doesn't matter if you are villain or hero, I will make sure your efforts are never zero." I spoke my message then threw my token into the air, a vortex of darkness and light consumed my token and then simply vanished, after this I summoned my newest companions. "Huh? Where am I?" The mad scientist questioned before looking at Perry. "A platypus?" Perry then put on his hat causing the doctor to gasp "PERRY THE PLATYPUS!?" Doofenshmirtz exclaimed as Perry got in a defensive position. "Now, now you two, there is no need to fight right now." I spoke giving the two a slight shock, I do wonder... How much of the originals are in them? "Who are you!?" The doctor exclaimed in suprise. "I am the Stage Master, I have summoned you two to help me with a very important mission, you see, I am neither hero nor villain, I play the role of the villain to play out lessons for the heroes of this world, but, before I can do that, I will need information on the heroes of this land, that is where you will come into this, Perry." I explained to the door, I release a sigh of relief as they relax and look at me with curiosity and confusion. "Wait... What about me?" Doofenshmirtz questions with a very well hidden look of expectant neglect. I give a small smile, the smile being reflected on my mask as a small purple glow, before responding. "Why, you will be the brains with your brilliant inventions my dear friend... And to make Perry a translator... To better understand our, so far, small team." I explained inwardly chuckling at Doofenshmirtz look of pure glee at my words, I then continue my reasoning of bringing them here. "And.. you might very well be the first of many lessons taught to the populace of this strange land." I exclaimed gently as I saw their attention snap to me with a returning look of confusion. "How so Stage Master?" Doofenshmirtz asks looking at me perplexed. "Why, your past makes you the perfect example of a villain made through tragedy, and Perry makes a great example of the struggles of a hero trying to keep his identity a secret from his loved ones, quite frankly, I find you two to be great contrasts to each other, you make for an excellent story my friends." I explain as the their eyes widen in shock, honestly I couldn't ask for a better duo. "Now while another member of our little team is digging out the area for our base, let's start on recon, and before you ask Dr Heinz, this dimension has many strange properties, such as me being able to give you a 'hammer space's, a sort of pocket dimension that only you can access, you will find all the parts you could need to start building many of your brilliant machines, why don't you start with a miniature camera for Perry and translator ear peices for us to understand our platypus friend." I exclaimed as I saw the eyes of the two wided and the smile on Doofenshmirtz face grow exponentially. "Now, just before you get to work Dr, I want to explain to the two of you how this world works, what species are in charge, the main energy flowing through the air, and overall all the crazy-ness this world has to offer." I exclaim as I started my explanation while Doofenshmirtz started to work on the machines while listening to my explanation. a few hours later "That... That is hard to believe... I mean I wouldn't believe it if you haven't given us photo and video evidence..." Doofenshmirtz spoke out loud after giving me a translator and giving Perry the camera. "Me neither, doc." Perry spoke, me and the doctor able to understand him because of the translator. "Indeed, now then, let's talk about who you will be assigned to watch, Perry." I spoke, getting the duo's attention. I pull up an image of six ponies before I speak. "These six are the bearers of the elements of harmony, the most powerful artifacts in this world, the purple one in the middle is called Twilight sparkle, she has a great affinity for all kinds of magic, hence why she is the element of magic, to her left, the rainbow mained one is called Rainbow dash, she is fast enough to break the sound barrier, she does have a bit of an ego, but, she is also very loyal to those she cares about, she is the element of loyalty, the pink one is called pinkie pie, she has a very bubbly personality and will do everything in her power to make your day batter, she also has innate ability to predict danger and curtain future events through an ability she calls her 'pinkie sense', she doesn't get a clear image on what will happen as she gets her predictions from involuntary twitches in her body, she also has a nack of breaking the laws of physics, hence why she is the element of laughter, next we have rarity, she is a very skilled fashionista, she has a nack for tracking spells, mainly used for finding gems to use for her designs in her shop, she is also very generous, willing to put aside anything to help her friends, hence why she is the element of generosity, now on the other side, the orange one is Applejack, she works in Sweet Apple Acres, she is also very strong, strong enough to send a boulder four times her size into orbit, she also is terrible at telling a lie, she can also see straight through a lie, hence why she is the element of honesty, now onto the one I want you to watch out for, the yellow one is Fluttershy, she can understand all animals, so, be careful what you say when around her, she also has an ability called the stare, she can stare into a creatures soul and bring them under control, or just stop a conflict, she is also the kindest individual you could meet, hence why she is the element of kindness, that is all, do you have any questions? No? Ok, now I will have Aku here take you down to the village the six live at, it would be best is you were without your disguise, now, go out and let me know what you find, Agent P." I spoke as I had Aku take Perry down to Ponyville. > Recon, props and changelings > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perry's POV While I'm being carried down to the town I should make a plan for the most effective route for this recon mission, first I should trick the yellow one to let me follow them, then I'll subtly cause a little mischief to see how well they will handle it, after that I will find where they each live and learn of their daily routines. a few minutes later After being brought to the small town by the dark creature labelled as Aku, I found myself Infront of honesty's farm, if memory serves me right, the farm is called Sweet Apple Acres, I should be able to find her morning routine, as well as her flaws and strengths, valuable information for if I'm going to be helping them, as I walk up to the farm, I make sure to stay out of sight, when I make it to the actual farm, I suprisingly see all six of the elements of harmony, let's see how well they get along, and how well they work together. 'hm, they appear to be...talking...! Oh dear! The yellow Pegasus noticed me! Just blend in..you are a normal platypus.' I thought as the element of kindness approached me. "Hello there little one, what are you doing here away from the water?" She spoke with a sweet tone that felt like a mother caring for her children. "Just walking around miss Fluttershy, I must say, you sound even more caring then the others have said you are" I bluffed, getting a small blush from her, seems she doesn't take appraisement very well, the others are approaching us, I must act fast. "Miss Fluttershy, if I may ask, may I follow you and your friends today? You seem like an interesting bunch, I can see myself having fun watching you lot interact with each other." I inquired, getting a small nod from Fluttershy, she put me on her back as the other ponies got to us, plan part one success, now onto part two, but what should I do? meanwhile at stage master's base of operation stage master's POV It's been a few hours after I had sent Agent P down into the town and GLaDOS arrived having Finnished the elevator, being careful as to not interact with the crystal caves that cadence would be trapped in soon enough, I had GLaDOS make a screen for me to pull up different characters I wanted to make, I do know that they aren't as powerful as the originals and only have as much personality as I choose, I will only decrease their personality if I have no choice, if I'm going to complete my plan I'll need both villains and heroes to summon, perhaps even some fan characters from this fandom, I'll just start with a counter measure for discord and chrysalis, and maybe even recruit some of her drones. "Hmm, so, doctor, who do you think will be the best choice out of the characters you have seen thus far?" I ask Doofenshmirtz as I pull up many different characters. So far the doctor has only seen sans the skeleton from undertale, infinite the jackal from sonic forces, bendy the dancing demon from batim, mega-man from mega-man, Frisk from undertale, Jevil from deltarune, spamton from deltarune, albedo from Ben 10, and Spiderman from marvel. "Hm, I would say the skeleton and the...weird jackal, maybe the spider as well, we would need the skeleton to find these...changelings, and the jackal to deal with the chaos guy, and we could always use some extra muscle and defences against sneak attacks." Doofenshmirtz replies to my earlier question with an intelligent response as always. I then spent the rest of the day working on the props to summon the three chosen by the doctor, Infinite was definately the most difficult to create as I, being the naive prop artist that I am, decided that it was a good idea to use real gemstones for the phantom ruby, in hindsight, it was not a great idea, however, this led me to meeting with someone I had not planned to meet for at least a month. "So, Chrysalis, what do I owe the honour of meeting you in these Chrystal caves?" I asked the queen of the changelings, who seemed to be surprised to hear my voice. "Who goes there!?" Chrysalis yelled at me, she did not see me as I had hidden myself in the shadows. "My my~ no need for such hostility my Queen, I go by the alias of Stage master, but you can call me Stage for convenience, anyways, now that I've answered your question how about you answer mine? It would only be fair to do so." I answered as I walked out of the shadows and bowed to the changeling queen, I did not want to make her mad as I am not strong enough to battle her yet. "...what ARE you? I've never seen anything like you before?, And what makes you think you deserve to know why I am here?" She retorted with a question and a sneer. "I am-was known as a human, not quite sure what I am now as I've gone through quite the metamorphosis since I've gotten to this beautiful land of equestria... And I believe I should know because your plan with the princess of love won't work if you underestimate the ponies, now, toodaloo~." I answered and warned the queen of shapeshifters as I faded into the shadows after I got the crystals I needed, later reappearing within my workshop atop Mount Canterlot. While I had been traveling the shadows, I stared into the void, and had an idea, I'm going to need all the help I can get, so I might as well sommon a character that can act as a medium for any creatures, people, ponies, aliens, monsters and more who may eather be reading, listening or watching my personal story, and see what they think I should do, so, I got some extra materials and started making my new props. sundown, Mount Canterlot "Aaaannd finished." I exclaimed as I put the finishing touches on the props, I then summoned the characters from their respective props one at a time. First was sans. Then was Spider-Man. Then Infinite. And finally Core!Frisk. When I had summoned them and explained who I am, what I am doing, and the world I am in, admittedly I should have expected Infinite to be upset about this, anyway, after a while, they had calmed down and had rooms made for themselves, that was when Perry walked in with some pony I did not expect. > tragedy of a youth > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Scootaloo!? What happened?!? Get her to a table so I can patch her up. Now!!" I exclaimed in shock at seeing Agent P bring in a heavily injured Scootaloo, as Perry put her onto a table and I started to clean and stitch up some of her more major injuries, he started to explain what happened before he got here. 'sigh' "I had just finished watching and documenting each elements morning routine when I heard some loud banging and some shouts." Perry started to explain as I continued to patch up the young Pegasus. earlier in the day Perry's pov "Hmm, so the element of magic lives in a library with a baby dragon capable of speech, fascinating..." I had surmised as I turned around and started on my way back out of the rain and to base away from the edge of town when-!! BANG!! CRASH!! KABANG!! The sounds of commotion could be heard further away from the town, as I headed to the location of the sounds I found a blood boiling sight. "AND STAY OUT YOU USELESS DAREDEVIL!!" an older pony shouted as he bucked a smaller and much younger pony out of the house, leaving the poor pony to bleed out in the rain, as I got closer I could see that the poor pony was just a child, I could see a. Bleeding. CHILD. Infront of me, it took every ounce of mental strength to resist attacking the monster responsible for her state as I picked her up and started my way back to base to have S.m patch her up. present time Stage's pov "-and then I arrived at the rondeau point and had the shadow creature lift me and the filly back to the base and you can guess the rest" Perry retold as I finished patching up the small pony and sat her on a mattress I had made with the phantom ruby prop. 'sigh' "ok, she's stable, now all we have to do is wait for her to wake up, hopefully she won't freak out to much, I don't want her to hurt herself even more, and with that idea in mind, I'm making another prop, this time a healer, and I already know who I'm going to choose, although, she will need a few friends with her if she is going to help." I speak relieved that Scootaloo is in a stable state and at very low risk of injuring herself as I walk back to my work bench to work on some props. Scootaloo's room Doofenshmirtz pov "So, Perry, while I was doing my research on this world I found this game called Ogre's and Oubliettes, it's very similar to a game back home, it's like a roleplaying tabletop RPG where one player makes the world, they are called the Dungeon Master, or DM for short, and the other players explores that world and defeats the evil villain of the story by rolling dice to do different actions and collecting items to better their stats, I was even able to replicate a first edition of the game, sooooo.......you want to play a round with me?" I asked my arch enemy now in a truce with me until we meet the ponies as our villain and hero selves in hopes of passing the time. 'sigh' "sure doc, it'll be a nice distraction from what happened earlier, so, how do we start?" Perry agreed to play, we then spent the next few hours playing the DnD equivalent after I helped Perry make a character, needless to say, Perry is suprisingly good at roleplaying and I couldn't be happier, anyway, when we finished our first campaign, we heard a groan from the bed next to us. "Ugh...w-what happened and where a-" the filly groaned before freezing at the sight of us. "Uhhh, hi?" I said in a slightly panicked tone as I didn't know what to say. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?" "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?" Stage Master's workbench Stage master's POV "And done!" 'sigh' "I just hope you will be able to help her" I sighed as I summoned my newest companions. "H-huh!? W-where am I?!" The first one panicked as she looked around. 'sigh' "why can't I ever get any sleep..." The second one sighed as he got into a battle stance, neither having noticed each other yet. "Hey! Please calm down, I mean you no harm, I have merely summoned you here as I needed some help with a friend of mine." I explained bringing their attention to me. "And why should I believe you?" The second one questioned, getting the attention of the first. "Mr.Aizawa?" The first questioned in confusion and relief. "Eri!?" The second one now known as Aizawa exclaimed with shock and suprise giving the first name, that being Eri. "Ok, good so now you both know that you are both here, let me show you why I needed the two of you" I say as I started to lead them to the medical bay only to hear panicked screaming. "What the!?" I exclaimed as I ran to the medical bay with the company of the pro hero and curs-no-blessed child. As we got to the medical bay we see.... Dr Heinz being chased by Scootaloo and Perry just watching while eating popcorn-how did he?- nevermind I've got to settle this. "Ahem!, Kid, please calm down, I brought you here to heal, so please don't move too much, and you, Perry, why were you just watching this!?' I exasperated with a sigh as Perry just shrugged his shoulders as he walked Doofenshmirtz out of the room to another medical bay so he can lay down. "And why should I trust you!?" The young Pegasus exclaimed in panicked anger. "Kid, one of my agent's saw you get kicked out of your house, bleeding out in the rain and brought you to me, I then stitched up the injury put onto your hind legs, I also just got a friend to help heal you better than I could, you can come out now." I explain as I stepped out of the doorway, allowing Aizawa and Eri to enter the room, when Eri saw Scootaloo, she ruched over to her in excitement, completely forgetting her fear. 'gasp!' "Look! Look! Mr.Aizawa! A pony!" Eri exclaimed as she hugged Scootaloo...who seemed uncomfortable. "Now Eri, be careful with her, she was recently hurt, witch is one of the reasons I bought you here, with your blessing I believe, with Aizawa's help, you could heal her." I explain gently as she put Scootaloo down and ran over to Aizawa. "Blessing? What do you mean?" Scootaloo asked, tilting her head in confusion. "Well, you see kid, Eri here has a power called 'Rewind' and with her power she can rewind the state of anything and anyo-er-anypony she touches, and if she trained her power enough she could be the greatest healer of all time, but she doesn't have the greatest control at the moment, that's why Aizawa is here, as with his ability, he can stop anything bad from happening while Eri heals you." I explained with a smile as I saw sparkles appear in her eyes. "So Cool!!" She shouted with excitement. "Right it is, however, if I'm going to care for you, I'm not going to keep any secrets." I explained to the young pony as she looked at me in confusion along side the two I recently summoned. "Secrets?" Aizawa asked as he looked at me suspiciously. 'sigh' "let us talk about this in the living room so we may have a seat." I enquired as I led the small group to the living quarters of my base, when we get there, we all take a seat on different lounges. "So, Stage master, what is this 'secret' of yours?" Aizawa asked as he looked at me with an extensive stare. 'sigh' "I'm not going to sugarcoat it, I am a villain who uses villainy to help train the heroes both physically and mentally." I explained as I pulled out special made cuffs and put them on my hands and toss Aizawa the key. "But...if you're a villain, why did you save me?" Scootaloo asked as she had a confused look on her face, Eri giving a ferm nod of agreement to Scootaloo's question. "Just because I am a villain does not mean I am heartless, when I see someone who has fallen to tragedy, I will lend them my hand and pull them up from the pain and begin the process of healing, and besides, I draw the line at children." I explained my reasoning to the two children, the two make an 'Oohing sound in response. "Even if that is the case, what to you hope to gain in revealing your villainy to us?" Aizawa asked as he looked at me suspiciously. "Help, for the ponies, not me, you see, I don't work like most villains, I don't wish to take over or destroy everything, I merely wish to...enlighten the heroes of this world, to help them see the difference between a true hero and villain from a false hero and poor soul brought to villainy through tragedy, not unlike what you have just, and possibly have been, experiencing Scootaloo." As I explained I could see the three finally relax, and Aizawa suprisingly released my from my cuffs. "Well, it's getting late, we better get to sleep, hey GLaDOS, are their rooms ready yet?" I asked the hyper intelligent robot. "noooo~ how would I ever make three rooms in one night~" GLaDOS responded with sass. 'sigh' "just, just follow me, we should all have a good sleep, it's almost midnight." I spoke as I led the group to the dorm area of my base I really need a name for that... anyway, we all went to sleep after Eri and Aizawa helped to heal Scootaloo. a week later It's been a about a week now, Scootaloo has excepted my base as a home, thankfully, and from the sounds of my latest report with Perry, I've found that I am in the middle of the events of episode 8, 'The Mysterious Mare-Do-Well', so, I've decided that now would be the best time to have the first of many conversations with Celestia, I'll just need a character and a proper means for offence and defence, and I have just the character and tool in mind. an hour and 27 minutes later "And, done!, Now to go and have that 'talk'" I speak as I finish making my props, which were, a ring of Kurogiri's neck brace and the Abundant Glove from the marvel comics, I first fused with Kurogiri, coating my left arm and the left side of my face in purple smoke, also giving me Kurogiri's left eye, I then put on the Abundant glove and make a portal to Celestia's throne room. Canterlot castle throne room As I exited the portal, I activated the Abundant glove, making the throne room inaccessible and soundproof. "Hello, Celestia." I spoke as I gave a dramatic mock bow as she gives me a stoic stare. "Stagemaster." Celestia simply spoke as she looked into my eyes, trying to read what I am thinking no doubt. "Princess, I would like to have a little 'chat'" I spoke as I coated the entire room in a gentle bluish green colouration, blocking all sound and magic from eather being used or from escaping the room "What is it you wish to speak about?" Celestia questioned me as she raises her eyebrow, giving an uninterested look. "Well princess, I would like to announce that I will be unofficially adopting a filly who has been kicked from her home, I won't be announcing who they are though as I wish for them to have a normal-ish life." I announced to the princess of the sun, holding Back a laugh at the surprised expression she gave me. "Ba-bye~ sunbut!, Kehehe!!~" I exclaimed as used Kurogiri's warp gate to leave back to my base now dubbed 'The Shadow Retreat' by Scootaloo. > Preparation and a question > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's almost been a week since I spoke to Celestia, as I was thinking on what the first lesson I was sc-startled by Core!Frisk appearing into my perspective. "What do you need C!Frisk?" I asked the monotone child. "While I dislike the nickname, I know it can get worse, so I won't complain, anyway, you have gotten your first question, even if it is more of a suggestion." She..he?, they enlightened me on the first contact through the void. "Alright then, let's here it." I spoke as C!Frisk reached into their eye and brought out a... Phone? DingoAte Asked: To Stagemaster: it's cool you have found a way for us to communicate with you, and for my question, have you heard of Inscryption? And if you have, you should make Leshy's camera, it functions like a weird form of imprisonment, and Leshy himself, he is a man who, much like yourself, is a storyteller, he mainly tells his stories while he plays his card game, but gets a little bit upset when things don't go his way, perhaps after you summon him he could be an entertainer in your base with his games and storytelling? I don't know, and thank you for listening to my question. "Hm, so they communicate with me like it's an ask blog? Fascinating, I'll have to make this camera and meet this Leshy, thankfully there is a picture of the camera for me to get the details just right." I thought out loud as I figured out what the first lesson shall be, unfortunately it will have to wait, as I'll need to steal the elements of harmony for this to work, I wonder how the main six will handle a Mario style adventure?, although I'll also need Discords magic for this to work, but first, I've got a Bowser shell prop and camera to make. 2 days later It's been about a day since I've Finnished the camera and prop, I've even put in props for Mario, Luigi, Kamek, and Starlow, and now I'm making a custom prop to give me a pony form so I can get some books from magic's library, as well as give me a better feel for pony magic to make trials that they won't be able to just skip, the main issue is getting Discords magic, so I made a prop to summon doctor Ivo Robotnik, Aka dr.Eggman, to help in finding a way to do so. 'Sigh' "So, any luck so far doctors?" I asked the two mad doctor's. "I believe so." Dr.Eggman spoke, gaining my attention. "Oh?" I enquired as I stopped working on the pony mask and turning to the egg shaped doctor. "If you were to make a Chaos emerald prop out of similar gems as you did with the Phantom ruby, I could use it to syphon his chaos magic into an container, it could be anything but we haven't decided on what yet, we were hoping you could make something to be the container, perhaps a powerful prop perhaps?" Eggman explained and enquired as I thought of the perfect artifact prop to use. "I believe I can do something that will work, but I'll need alot of materials for it, do you think you could make a metal-sonic unit while I'm of to Ponyville? I'll get a list ready for metal to follow, and by the time I return we will have everything necessary for operation: Egg-Koopa empire to work." I explained as I Finnished my mask, before I put it on I saw Eggman nod and demand GLaDOS to get him the components he needed for a metal-sonic unit. As I put on the pony mask I felt myself change from a biped to a quadruped, I felt my clothing disappear in a puff of smoke as fur grew all around my body, I gained a horn and saw my coat become a bright grey colour as my mane and tail became black with neon purple streaks, when I looked into a mirror I saw that I had deep azure eyes, and had a pony puppet Infront of a blacksmiths hammer for a Cutie-mark. "Hm, what do you all think I should call this form?" I asked the group around me consisting of Eggman, Doofenshmirtz, Perry and Scootaloo. "Personally, I don't care what you call that equine form." Eggman spoke as he didn't even lift his head from working on the metal-sonic unit. "Hm, I don't know, what do you think Perry?" Doofenshmirtz asked the spy platypus, who just shrugged, not knowing a name for my new form either. "How about Puppet Mender? It works with your personality and Cutie-mark." Scootaloo suggested with an excellent name. "Puppet Mender... I like it! Great job kiddo!" I congratulated Scootaloo. "Hehe, thanks... Dad." Scoots thanked me as I realised the time. "Oh!, Scootaloo, you've got to get to school, are you ready?" I asked Scootaloo as I called Kurogiri to make us a portal to my Ponyville base, located at the edge of the everfree forrest, neer Scootaloo's old home with the entrance being in a fake tree. "Yep! All set!" Scootaloo spoke as she walked through the portal, being sent to the 'sigh' Scoota cave, I should have never given her my batman comic collection. After a few minutes to set up the list, I gave the list to Eggman and made my way through Kurogiri's warp gate to the Ponyville train station. "Alright, now to the golden oaks library." I spoke as I walked out of the station and into Ponyville. Along the way I walked past the school Scootaloo goes to and as I saw the library I bumped into somepony I should have expected to see. 'GASP!' "Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie! who are you? do you like cake? what's your favourite colour? Do you like parties? What's your favourite drink? What's your favourite snack?!." Pinkie asked within a single breath. "Well, to answer your questions in order miss pie, my name is Puppet Mender, but I prefer to be called just Mender, yes I do like cake, purple is my favourite colour, I do enjoy a good party every now and then, raspberry pop is my favourite drink and for my favourite snack? Hm, I would say....caramel cookies." I answered all of Pinkies questions, to witch she smiled, nodded and then bounced away, I then resumed my walk to the library. When I got to the library I knocked to be polite. "It's open!" I hear a male voice from the other side, the voice obviously being Spike the dragon, I opened the door to see Spike helping Derpy with a few books, when they got the books she needed, she thanked Spike and left. "So, what can I do for you...?" Spike asked, not knowing my pony name. "Puppet Mender, but please call me Mender." I introduced myself to the young dragon. "Right, what can I do for you mr.Mender?" Spike asked as he wrote my name into the libraries logbook. "Well, I was hoping on finding books on gem finding and metal working spells." I answered the question honestly, I'll need those spells to make the star rod later on. "Ok, just follow me and I'll see if we have any books in that subject." Spike spoke as he led me to the G and M sections of the library, after a few minutes of searching, we found the books I needed, I payed for the books using a few of the bits I got from looting the dragons den from the episode 'Dragonshy', after I bought the books, I put them in a saddle bag I made and walked my way over to sugar cube corner, where, without a doubt pinkie is setting up a party for me, I'll pretend to be surprised to be nice, when I get there I open the door seeing nothing but darkness and then! "SUPRISE!!" A whole lot of ponies shouted from behind the counter, I jumped a bit to fain suprise, I then chuckle a little bit to show I was pleasantly surprised. "What's this?" I asked even though I already knew the answer. "It's tour welcome to ponyville party silly!" Pinkie answered with glee as she led me over to her friends to introduce them to me. "You already know me but these are my closest friends in the whole world! First we have Rainbow!" Pinkie pointed to the rainbow mained Pegasus, who waved with a, "Yo". "Then Applejack!" Pinkie then pointed at Applejack, who tilted her hat and said "Howdy pardner.". "And Rarity!" Pinkie pointed at rarity, who responded with "Hello Darling.". "Then Fluttershy" pinkie waved over to Fluttershy, she hid behind her mane with an "Eep!". "And finally Twilight!" Pinkie pointed over to Twilight, who responded with "It's nice to meet you.". "Nice to meet you all, my name is Puppet Mender but please, call me Mender." I introduced myself to the element bearer's. after the party The party lasted for an hour and a half, overall it was a great party, had some great caramel cookies and spoke to many ponies, after the party ended I said my goodbyes to the element bearer's and made my way back to the train station, when I got there, Kurogiri picked me up and warped me back to the Shadow Retreat, when I walked over to the doctors laboratory, I saw a pile of materials next to a finished Metal-sonic unit. "So, metal got everything needed?" I asked Eggman. "Indeed he did, it shouldn't suprise you with how fast he can get, the green crystals even radiate a tiny amount of chaos magic themselves." Eggman answered as I grabbed some of the green crystals from the pile and, using my new magic from my unicorn form used telekinesis to mold the crystals into the shape of a chaos emerald and, using the book I got from the library, condensed them into a single crystal chaos emerald. "Here, the chaos emerald you needed, you got the chaos siphon ready?" I asked the scientists as I got the books out and further studied the spells I would need to properly craft the wand i needed. "Just about finished, we just need a sample of the statue Discord became, to get a reading on his exact chaos energy so we can syphon it without syphoning any of the elements of harmony's magic." Eggman explained as Kurogiri's warp gate opened beside him and Doofenshmirtz walked out with a piece of stone in his hand. "Did you get the piece?" Eggman asked Dr.Doof, who, placed the shard if stone on a panel, witch, lit up and started to analyse the stone. "That I did, it was a little difficult, with it being the middle of the day, thankfully I wasn't spotted." Doofenshmirtz replied as he, and Eggman looked through the readings of the stone shard. As I read through these books I find more and more fascinating detail's in the magic that the ponies of this world utilise and it's history, such as, the earth ponies used to bend pure metal and stone into bridge's for transport and fun, there are also some interesting notes on some artifacts, such as, the shifter stone, from the description shown, it appears to give a creature a changelings shapeshifting magic but it feeds on the creatures life force, as such, it was locked away in a secure location and possibly have been the cause of the changelings curse to feed on love, the more I read the more I find, after a few hours of reading, I now know what I need to do to bend and merge the metals and crystals together to create a perfect replica of the Star Rod from Super Paper Mario. "I finally finished the Star Rod, have you finished your analysis of Discords statue?" I asked the doctors on their progress with their part of our preparation. "We have, yes, however there is something you should know." Doofenshmirtz started gaining more of my attention. "Hm?" I enquired them to continue. "While we were working on the chaos syphon, this fell out of a tiny portal." Eggman finished and pulled out what looked to be... Silver the hedgehog's glove? "Hm, could I hold it for a second? I want to test something." I asked the doctors, who nod and give me the glove, the moment I touch the glove, I hear a voice in my head. "My name is Silver, Silver the hedgehog, j fight to protect the good of my world, if you want to take over and harm innocents then It's no use to try and recruit me to your side, also the glove gives you a weaker version of Psychokinesis." I heard the voice of silver the hedgehog, so it is a displaced's token. After I explained what the glove was and did, I gave the glove to Eggman for him to use and we all went to sleep to get ready for the day to come. > Draining magic, making wishes and asking for help > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we woke up from our night's sleep, we all collected our tools needed for part 1 of our plan, we had Kurogiri open a warp gate to take us to Discords statue, we made sure to wake up just a little before the sun rose from the sky to ensue that we would not be interupted, I also brought the phantom ruby incase anything went wrong. When we got to the statue, after I gave the doctors the Star Rod, the doctors immediately got started with the chaos syphon, draining Discords magic into the rod at a steady pace, we also made sure that we were hidden behind the statue where nopony would see us, I then used the Phantom ruby to mask myself from perspective, essentially turning myself invisible and intangible, after a while of searching I heard two voices speaking together. "So, cadence, what do you want to do for our date?" One voice spoke to the other. "I don't know shiney, how about we have a nice stroll through the garden's and just enjoy the views" the second one answered the first's question. "That sounds great Cady, it will be nice and relaxing." Shining armour responded to Cadence's answer as they made their way to the garden's. As they walked further into the garden's, they were blissfully unaware that they were being watched, and not just by me, it appeared that some changelings are following them as well, I must be getting close to the season finale, I guess project: Egg-Koopa empire will be launched sooner than expected, hm, I'll perhaps even...Employ... Thorax as a way of helping him break away from Chrysalis's hive as well as a way to help Thorax to share love instead of stealing it. Just as I were about to follow the couple, I got a message from the doctors telling me that they were successful in draining Discords magic into the Star Rod and are now awaiting for me to return to base to test it out, I decided it would be in my best interest to place a tracker on Cadence so I could have a way of knowing when she is sent into the crystal caves, marking when the season finale would take place. I then use the phantom ruby to get close to the princess of love without her noticing me and place a tracker on her, I then use the Phantom ruby to teleport back to base, when I got back to base, I walked over to dr.Eggman. "Hey, I'm back, how did the process go?" I asked the doctor as he turned around holding the Star Rod, the rod appeared to be attached to the computer by some chip, giving the good doctor alot of data about the Star Rod's power. "It went splendidly, there were no problems what so ever! And the Star Rod is even more powerful than we thought, here, try it out." Dr.Eggman told be as he detached the chip and gave me the Star Rod, when I grabbed the Star Rod, it glowed with a powerful yellow aura, as I looked into the Star at the top, I felt the powers of withed and chaos at the palm of my hand. "Hm, I wish I could not be harmed, and I wish that only creatures will only be able to touch the star rod with my permission, I also wish that as long as I hold this wand, it will not be able to be taken from me.... Did it work?" I asked the doctor, to witch he shrugged and tried to take the Star Rod from me, only to get shocked. "I-it s-s-seems to h-have worked...." Eggman spoke with his face charcoal black, he then let out a puff of smoke as he collapsed. "O-oh, uh... Are you ok?" I asked him to witch Eggman just gives me a thumbs up and goes to his sleeping quarters, I shortly follow his lead and go to sleep to train with the Star Rod tomorrow. the next day As a new day arrived, I decided that if I'm going to get used to this chaos magic, I'll need a chaos expert, however, I do not have any ideas for who that could help me, so I decided that, if anybody would know of a good candidate to teach me how to properly and effectively use my new magic, it would be the voidlings, so after having breakfast with Scootaloo, and sending her of to school, I called over Core!Frisk. "Hey! C!Frisk!, Can you come over here for a bit?" I asked for the child of void, who, after I blinked, appeared sitting on my desk. "GAH!? DONT DO THAT!?!" I shouted in fear as I jumped and fell to the floor, after Core laughed for a couple minutes, they calmed down and wondered what was wrong. "So, what did you need me for?, We don't have any questions at the moment." Core asked in wonder as she tilted her head in confusion. "Well, C, I was wondering, do you know if you can send requests to the voidlings? If so, then could you ask them to help me choose a chaos expert to help me with my new chaos magic? I am having a difficult time figuring out a character that could train me with it." I asked the monotone child. "I... Could, however it could be a while until we get a response, what do you want so send? I'll record what you say to make it simple." Core explained to me. Hm, alright then start recording, I've got what I want to say in mind." I tell Core who nods and presses record on their phone "Hello voidlings, or however you wish to be called, my name is stage master, and I need your help, I do not know of a character that could help me train my new chaos magic, so, if you know of a chaos expert, pleas, let me know." I spoke my message, giving core a sign to stop recording. "And now we wait." Core spoke, to which I just simply nod as we wait for a response. > Getting a response, and training chaos > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As me and C!Frisk waited for a response, I decided that I, using the phantom ruby, would do some snooping around to see if I could figure out when the wedding between princess Cadence and Shining Armour, after hours of searching, I over heard Cadence talking with Celestia about the wedding, throughout their conversation I heard that the wedding would be month away, as I got back to the Shadow Retreat, I found Core sitting with Eggman talking about the multiverse. "Hey C!Frisk! Do we have a response yet?" I asked core, who looked in my direction and teleported in front of me. "We do, I have just been conversing with the doctor while I waited for your return." They answered whilst pulling the phone out of their void eye. Anomimo asked: If you are looking for characters to train the chaos magic, some suggestions are Wanda/Scarlet Witch, Klarion that chaos lord appeared in the Young Justice cartoon, Bill Chypher from Gravity Falls and that secret boss from the first Deltarune Jevil, hope that helped, also, what do you plan on doing when Chrysalis invades the wedding? "Hm, such great options! I don't think it would be such a great idea to use bill, he would probably try to bring the nightmare realm here, and that would bring the attention of princess luna, Jevil would be a good choice, if it wasn't for his whole 'freedom' motif, Scarlett witch? She is a nexus being, she wouldn't help me, I guess that just leaves Klarion, I do like the complexity of his spells... As for the other question? You'll just have to wait and see." I thought it over for quite a while before deciding on making a prop to summon Klarion to teach me how to properly utilise the magic I now have at my disposal. half an hour later I am currently walking throughout the market streat of Ponyville in my Puppet Mender persona as I do not have what is necessary to make the prop needed to summon Klarion, a plush of his familiar, who knew making a plush would be harder than making a magical wand that defies the laws of physics? As I walked down the street I saw a familiar pony who could help me out with finding the fabrics I would need. "Ah, hello miss Rarity, it's nice to see you again, now, do you by any chance know where one like me could buy fabric? I appear to be having a difficult time finding the fabric store here." I spoke getting her attention as she looked over to me with a smile. "But of course darling, they are just around that corner over there, please do let me or my friends know if you need help finding anything else you might need." Rarity pointed to a corner and as I walked over to it, we waved bye as we walked out separate ways, as I walked around the corner, I found many different coloured fabric's, sewing machines and much, much more. I spent a few minutes getting everything I needed, with a little extra to make sure I have everything needed, with my new equipment at hand, I decided to head back to base and get started on making the plush of Teekl, however, when I got to the base, Scootaloo wanted to talk with me. "What did you want to talk about Scoots?" I asked my adopted pegasus daughter. "Well... Tomorrow there's going to be a bring your parent to school day, everypony thinks I'm an orphan... Could you come to school with me tomorrow?" Scootaloo answered me with her own question to which I responded. "Of course, I wouldn't be your adoptive dad if I just left ya hanging there now would I?" I spoke as I hugged my daughter, who squealed with joy. "Thanks dad!" Scootaloo shouted as she ran to her room to get ready for tomorrow. "Now to get started on my new prop, or should I say plush?" I asked myself as I got started on making the plush. 3 hours later ... Making a plushy is a pain.... Anyway, in finished the Teekl plush, now all I need to do is summon Klarion, I'll use a little chaos magic from the star Rod to do so. "Star Rod. I wish to summon the chaos lord Klarion to this mortal plane." I wished apon the star Rod as the plush began to glow with chaos magic, when the glow stopped, Klarion and Teekl stood where the plush once sat. "Huh? Where am I? Teekl, do you know?" Klarion asked his familiar, who meowed to him. "No! I didn't teleport us here! I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE WE ARE!?" Klarion yelled at the cat in annoyance. "If I may, oh lord of chaos." I spoke getting their attention. "Huh? Who are you?" The chaos lord asked me, I simply answered with. "You may call me Stagemaster Milord, I was the one who summoned you here in hopes to be taught in the ways of the mystic arts" I spoke as I bowed down to Klarion and his familiar. "You summoned me? And to teach you the mystic arts no less, I only have one question for you... Why me specifically? If you rere able to summon me, you must be able to summon another who would be able to teach you magic, so, why me?" Klarion asked with curiosity. "Well, I would only want to be taught by the best of the best after all, so, why not ask the Lord of chaos himself? Afterall, why settle for a mere sorcerer when you can have someone much, Much better." I explained with a grand smile. "Aaand I enjoy the fact that you have a familiar, and a cat no less, they were always my favourite animal." I added as a little bit of humour. "Hm, and what type of magic do you wish to learn? Depending on what it is I might just indulge your request." Klarion asked of me. "Why, nothing other than chaos magic of course." I answered with a smirk at Klarion's surprised face. "You want me, to teach you, how to use chaos magic?, My.. aren't you the adventurous one, hm...I may have fun with this... Alright, I'll teach you the ways of chaos magic, but first you must master the art of backwards spelling, here is a simple one, try to speak the word, enlighten, backwards." Klarion accepted, explained and requested of me all in one sentence. "I'll sure try... neltghilne." I spoke, butchering the word, however getting a slight smirk from the chaos lord. "Hehehe~ that was a great effort, you did exceptional, for your first try, you did better than most would in a month, I'm highly impressed, at this rate, you will master that art of backwards spelling in just a week, hehe~." Klarion chuckled in amusement. > A month later, plan start. Part 1. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have spent the past month training my magic and fighting skills, and am about to talk over my plan with Celestia, after the wedding invasion of course, thankfully, with the Star Rod I was able to protect my base from the effects of shining armour's shield, I am going to be secretly joining Twilight throughout the day and try to, as Dimentio would say, plant a little seed of doubt within the little unicorn, and perhaps creat a variety of Mr.L with Twilight. I am currently using the Aku sculpture I originally made to hide in twilight's shadow, and, from what I can hear? Well, let's just say, I genuinely feel bad for the element of magic, she knows something is wrong, and her 'so called friends', instead of listening to her and try to calm her down, just dismiss her worries like they don't matter! Like, I get there is a wedding going on right now, but you don't just do something like that! Frankly, while I am happy that spike is with Twilight every step of the way, but, the way the others treat her? It pisses me off, screw planting a seed of doubt, I'm recruiting theis poor soul and protecting her with my life. several hours later Twilight was just abandoned by everyone except for spike, after Chrysalis sends them to the Chrystal mines, I'll talk to them and help them out of the mines, hopefully recruit Twilight and have her work as a secret agent, maybe even give her a symbiote as a contingency plan, as well as a costume for when she works for me, and once they get out I'll hide back in her shadow and wait until they encounter the changelings guarding the elements, I re-focus on what Twilight is saying right now. "Maybe I was being overprotective. I could've gained a sister. But instead... I just lost a brother.He was my big brother, best friend Forever...And now, we'll never do anything Together..." She lamented as spike hugged her and 'cadence' smashed open the door. "I- i-im so s-sorry" Twilight sobbed as spike tightened his hug, whilst 'cadence' gained a wicked grin. "You will be" she spoke as she fired a spell from her horn as green fire erupted around Twilight and spike, taking me with them. After a few seconds had passed, we had arrived within the crystal mines, this is when I decided to make myself known. "Please don't be too upset, magic" I speak with a soft voice as I emerged from her shadow a d give her a gentle hug, which she struggled to get out of. "Stage master?! What in the hay are you doing here!?" Twilight shouted in fright as spike stood Infront of her, trying to protect her onder sister. "D-dont get a-any closer! I c-can breathe fire a-and I won't hesitate to do so!" Spike shouted at me as he shook in fear, the both of them getting confused as I sat down. 'sigh' "I apologise for not arriving sooner, you see, a fellow villain has taken one of my allies, her name is Chrysalis, she is a changeling, bug like ponies that can shapeshift into many things, however, they mostly change into someone you care for to drain your love for them to make themselves stronger." I do not lie as, for some strange reason, Chrysalis has taken Doofenshmirtz hostage, I do not know where he is but, I have a feeling that when we find the real cadence, we will find him. "I do not wish to fight you, magic, I instead wish to help you, unlike those 'so called friends' of yours, I had arrived just soon enough to hear what they said to you, and personally? I find the way they treated you unacceptable! They just pushed you aside like you were nothing! It's infuriating for Luna's sake!?." I shout as I shake my head, Twilight looked as if she were about to cry again. "Now, now, no need to cry, I... Know you don't want to betray celestia but, would you be willing to work with me? If only to teach them a small lesson on trust." I enquire the saddened pony, who surprisingly, hesitated with her answer, this must have hit her harder than I thought, she looks emotionally broken... It's heartbreaking to see her like this... "...why.....why should i trust you?" Twilight asked, not out of distrust, but out of...hope?... Oh...Twilight.... 'sigh' "because, I have brought with me a magic lasso that will force whoever is caught within them to tell the truth, and only the truth, and I know you won't trust if I just used it on myself, so, if spike would agree, I will use it on him first, then give it to you to use on me." I explained as I pulled out my newest prop, the lasso of truth as I looked over to spike, who after a moment of hesitation, nods his head, I then gently rap the lasso around his claw and arm as I looked over to Twilight and spoke. "What do you wish to know?" I asked the element of magic. "...what do you think of being my assistant?" Twilight asked the dragon, who instantly responded. "Well, I'm your number one assistant!, Of course I would love it!, Although, I does get difficult sometimes, and, most of the time when you and our friends go on an adventure, I feel like I'm just left behind, or forgotten." Spike responded under the lasso of truth's power. "Oh....spike......." Twilight spoke as she hugged her dragon brother. "Now, here, use the lasso on me and ask what you need to know." I spoke as I gave Twilight the lasso, she nodded before rapping it around my arm and spoke. "Why...why are you helping me?" Twilight asked, and I responded with the truth. "Because, I am a... Complicated villain, I... Provide a challenge to the heroes around me to help them get stronger, smarter, faster, learn lessons, but most importantly, I protect and provide a safe haven to those that has befallen tragedy, much like yourself, I believe it would help you trust me if you asked what my plan is." I spoke with nothing but the truth, only hesitating when I couldn't find the words to answer. "...alright,... What is your plan?" Twilight asked, and just like before, I spoke with truth. "My plan is to save the real cadence, have you and her interrupt the wedding, have you pretend you have forgiven the others whilst I deal with the changelings on the street, while this is going on, I shall collect the elements of harmony, I shall not use or drain them, instead, I shall use them to have you and the other element bearer's to embark on an adventure unlike any you've seen before, to do this, I shall first, commune with Celestia, let her know what I am doing and have her send a letter to you through spike, telling you to collect your 'friends and head to Canterlot immediately, when you get to the throne room, I shall re-introduce myself and...alter, Equestria just a little bit to give your adventure more of a challenge, I'll have you as my spy, giving you an alias known as Ms.Magic, if you are found out, we can claim it to be me using the element of magic mind control you, I'll have you lot take spike with you so, not only will he be I big help in this adventure, but he can also provide letters between you and celestia, I'll be providing subtle hints to her and, have her send letters telling you and the others where the elements are, I'll also give you additional help in the form of a magically drained discord, I have placed his magic in a wand I have made with a little help from an associate of mine, I will also give you a symbiote to help you as Ms.Magic, her name is Agony, she will be able to communicate with you telepathically, she will also adapt to your personality, as well as enhance your body and magic, allowing you to contend with an earth ponies strength with your own, you will be able to perform multiple spells at the same time, for movement, Agony will give you wings, you won't be an alicorn, but, you will be close to one in strength, your goal as Ms.Magic will be to..... Miss direct the group, by having Ms.Magic 'kidnap' you and have them solve a puzzle to get you back, if you aren't found by the time you all return to Canterlot, I will reveal Ms.Magiv by 'calling my puppet', having Agony overtake your body, preventing the group from using the elements of harmony on me, after this, I will congratulate all of you on what I hope you will all learn from this adventure, free you from my 'control' and leave, my end goal for this it to show you all that you don't need the elements to solve every problem for you, and show you that villains are not born, they're made, often through tragedy." I spoke my entire plan to the unicorn and dragon, who surprisingly, look like they are... Contemplating whether to join me, or tell celestia my plan, I thought they were going to run away for a moment before... "Ok, I'll join you in this plan." Twilight spoke as spike gave a surprised look to her. "Twilight?!" Spike exclaimed with shock. "I.. I'm sorry spike, but I just can't go back to how it was, not after what they did to me, I was planing on just running away before stage master spoke to us, I probably wouldn't even respond to any of princess Celestia's letters, let alone even talk to them, I'm just so...angry with them, I just, cant, forgive them for this, they knew that I had known cadence the longest, and would have known her the best, and yet, they just throw me away like trash that they didn't even want to begin with, did I even matter to them? Whether I did or not doesn't matter know, for this is the origin of Ms.T, I understand if you don't want to come with me, but this is something I have to do." Twilight spoke, getting sad looks from the both of us as spike hugged her, surprising the unicorn. "Don't worry Twilight, anywhere you go, I go." > Wedding crashers, plan start. Part 2. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't worry Twilight, wherever you go, I go." Spike told his older sister as he hugged her, surprising the poor unicorn as tears threatened to fall down her eyes. "Oh.. spike. Thank you." Twilight thanked her little brother, it is here that I spoke, gaining their attention. "Indeed it is, however, I must tell you something important, the location of my base of operations." I spoke getting a sparkle from the eyes of the two Infront of me. "We won't be going there as of right now, so, after this is all over, meet me by Discords statue in the gardens ok?" I asked of them and they nodded. "Alright, well Twilight, I believe I should give you this." I spoke as I pulled out a glass container containing within, a purple slime like substance. "This, is Agony, the symbiote that will be with you during your time working for me, and for you spike, I give you this." I spoke, giving Twilight the symbiote and pulling out a small blue and grey watch. "Uhh, not that I don't appreciate the watch, but, what does it do?" Spike asked with understandable confusion as he looked at the watch. "That is no regular watch my draconic friend, that I'd the Mega-adapter, when you press the button on the top, it brings out blue and grey armory all around your body, and brining out a dial on your left arm, in this dial are several different customisations to choose from, each customisation comes with its own strengths and weaknesses, such as the energy form, it grants you control over electricity whilst rapidly draining your energy, you can always stay with the base armour if you so choose, you will be put back into your base armour when the time limit for your elemental form is reached, the time limit is around 10 minutes, you can change back to your base form at anytime before the time limit is reached as well, the longer you are in a form, the longer that form will need to recharge, in your base form, you can turn your right arm into a Mega-blaster that shoots small low damage energy bullets and a stronger, bigger one should you charge the blaster up, cool right?" I spoke as I placed the Mega-adapter onto his wrist, I made the Mega-adapter by combining elements of three different characters, for the armour and blaster, I used Mega-man, for the elemental forms, I used Kirby, and for the ability to change between the forms at will, I used the omnitrix from Ben 10. "Ah, before I forget, your Mega-adapter comes with an AI, or Artificial intelligence if you wish, they will help you with mastering your new capabilities." I spoke as Spike and Twilight were left speechless. "But, regardless of your new abilities, you two will need to start moving, whilst we were talking, a friend of mine had us within a little time-space bubble, don't ask how it works, even I donk know how, anyways, I'll hide back into your shadow, when we return to time, pretend that you were just sent down here, act as if you never spoke to me, and, if I'm right about her, she will try to taunt you, let her, it will likely lead you to the real cadence, she will probably think you will attack the real cadence thinking she were the fake, recruit her and get out of these caves ok?" I spoke getting a nod from both of them as spike hugged Twilight and Twilight made herself look as if she were crying, I hid within twilight's shadow as sans returned us into the timeline at the moment we left, and when we returned we heard Chrysalis speak with cadences voice. From here on out events played like cannon, Twilight found cadence, and consequently, Doofenshmirtz, I had Kurogiri, then the two ponies escaped the caves and I just sat back and watched from within the shadows, however, I did have spidey fight the changelings in the streets, getting a hero name for himself, when I got to the point where the main six lost to the changelings, I, still in my shadow form, left twilight's shadow and slid under the door containing the elements of harmony, still in my shadow form, I entered the chest and absorbed the elements into my shadow body, I then used the shadows to place the elements of harmony within my base as I went over to the throne room to watch Chrysalis get beaten by the very emotion that she absorbs, ironic, isn't it. After everything was said and done, Twilight told celestia that she was going to have a calm walk around the garden to have a look at Luna's night sky, celestia for her part, was a little suspicious, but let her go assuming that Twilight wanted to clear her head after everything that had happened, and in a way she was right, just not in the way she thought. When Twilight and spike got to a private section of the garden's, I emerged from her shadows and sat down with them, when I looked at Twilight, I was surprised to see her looking at a picture of her 'friends' with anger and sadness. "If I may ask, what is causing such an emotional mask?" I asked in rhyme to try and get Twilight to laugh, and it worked. "Are you trying to imitate Zecora or something? Hehe" Twilight laughed at her rhetorical joke, after a few seconds she stopped and looked at me before speaking with a tone of rage and sorrow. 'sigh' " they... They didn't even apologise, they acted like they did nothing wrong, even after Chrysalis was defeated, they didn't apologise, it, really hurt, their supposed to bey friends, my mentor! For cele- Luna's sake, I can't even say her name with our feeling anger bubbling up inside me, I struggled to keep my calm long enough to ask to come to the garden's to meet with you, she doesn't know I'm meeting with you of course, I also told her that I would be returning to Ponyville by myself after tonight, and after what they did? All my hesitation on joining you has left me, I was willing to give them a chance, but, it seems that I really am nothing to them, spike does agree with me, but, as you can see, he is asleep, so, I'm ready to head to your base now." Twilight spoke with a tone of a broken mare, they are so going to get what's coming to them. "Alright, Kurogiri! Open the warp gate!" I shouted softly as a purple portal opened Infront of us, I picked up spike and motioned for Twilight to enter the portal, as we walked through, we entered the shadows resort. > Ms.Magic and Mega-Drake, plan start. Part 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- When we walked out of the portal we were greeted by Doofenshmirtz and sans. "Ah, your back I was wondering if you were found, but, I guess not, and speaking of guesses, we seem to have guests! How nice. Please make yourself at home, we could always use a magic expert on our team, no offence sans." Doofenshmirtz welcomed us. "Eh, non taken doc, and it would be neighbourly of us to welcome her into our ranks, besides, she is quite the magical companion, considering she's the only one of us that wasn't summoned or built." Sans punned like he usually does. 'sigh' "alright, HEY! EVERYONE! WE HAVE NEW MEMBERS OF THE TEAM! TO THE MEETING ROOM, NOW!!!" I called out to the team as we heard a multitude of footsteps coming our way, however before any of them could arrive. "Hello Stage." Core Frisk spoke as they appeared between me and Twilight, startling us both. "Gah?! C! How many times have I said not to do that?!" I exclaimed with fright as I almost dropped the baby dragon. After a few minutes, the rest of the team came out to the meeting room, other then Scootaloo and Eri, it's past their bedtimes, I also woke spike up and explained what was going on. "Hello everyone, thank you all for coming on such short notice, as you can see, I have the hero of magic with me, as well as her younger brother, they are the newest members of the team, why don't you introduce yourself and what you can do, oh, and please, use your other forms, the shadows resort is a place where everyone is equal, everyone knows each other's strengths and weaknesses, this is a way for us to put our trust each other, so, the stage is yours my newest allies, oh you'll also need these." I told twilight and spike as I handed them translators and stepped back, letting them introduce themselves, Twilight began speaking first, having Agony to overtake the left half of her body. "Most of you may know me as Twilight sparkle, user of the element of magic, I will be instead, be using a different alias for while I will be working with you all, you may call me Ms.Magic, as you can see, I am now bonded with a member of the Klyntar race, her name is Agony, she strengthens my magic, strength, agility, intelligence, allows me to fly, shoot a web like substance from the underside of my hooves to either, set a trap, use as an alternative means of travel and capture an enemy, however, she does have two major weaknesses, fire, any sound frequency between 4Khz to 6Khz, she can also take control of my body should I be knocked out, that is all of our capabilities that I know is thuss far, you can go now spike." Twilight explained as she looked around the room, locking eyes with Spiderman before stepping back to allow spike to speak. "Well, as you heard Twi-Ms.Magic, my name is spike, in order to explain my villain name, I'll have to explain my powers first, I'll start with how I use the powers, this right here is the Mega-adapter." Spike spoke as he pulled out the watch and put it on his wrist. "With it I can do a multitude of things, firstly is the armour mode, I activated it by pressing the button on the right, like this." The drake spoke as he activated the armour, he looked like a blue and grey Mega-man with a dark star on the front with the dial on the top of his Mega buster arm. "While within this armour, I can scan my allies and enemies and copy their powers using this dial, I can also use base elements such as; water, fire, magic, earth, wind.... Metal? Huh, neat, anyway, the downside of my suit is, I can only use one form at a time, and the longer I use a form the longer it takes for the form to recharge, the maximum amount of time that I can stay within a form is around ten minutes, luckily, in my base form, I can use the regular energy pellets as well as a charged shot, as well as, being a dragon, I am naturally fire and lava proof, I can also spit fire out of my mouth, the flames aren't that big yet, but I am still learning Afterall, oh, right! You can call me, Mega-Drake: the metal menace!" Spike explained and exclaimed with a chuckle as I walked back to the forefront to introduce the rest of the team. "Now that you are done with your introductions, I shall introduce you to the rest of the team, minus two as it is past their bedtimes, first of, we have the brains of our team, Doofenshmirtz, GLaDOS and Robotnik, next we have our infiltration team, agent.P, Aku, Kurogiri, Aizawa and infinite, here we have our battle team, Bowser, Sans, Spiderman, Mario and Luigi, there are a few more but, they couldn't make it here tonight as they are currently looking for appropriate locations to hide the elements of harmony, I will still give you their names though, they are our speed team, Sonic and Metal-Sonic, and while we are within this meeting room, Ms.Magic, I have your first assignment ready, I need you to get a clip of hair from you and the other element bearer's, Dr.Robotnic will need the DNA for a project of his to work, think you can do it?" I spoke, introducing (almost) everyone and gave Twilight her first assignment. "I'll get to it as soon as I can, sir." Twilight spoke as she gave a nod. "There is no need for such formalities Twilight, we are family here, like I said, everyone is equal here, now please, have a good sleep, it is getting late." I spoke as I lead Twilight and spike to their section of the shadows resort and then made my way over to Eggman. "Do you think it will work?" I asked the mad doctor as he went over a few dozen blueprints. "Oohohoh~ you underestimate my genius my dear leader, but, yes, soon, soon we will have our Metal-Six! Oohohohohoh!!!" > Week later, crystal Empire. Part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has been a week since Ms.Magic and Mega-Drake joined my team, during her second stay at the shadows resort, she got the strands of hair from the others, Eggman hasn't finished the Metal-Six yet, he says it will take about another week to finish, and when he does, we can begin step 2 of plan Egg-Koopa empire, I had gotten word of the crystal empire returning thanks to core Frisk, I am now headed to princess Celestia's throne room to speak with her before the element bearer's arrive. When I arrived I saw celestia send a letter to Twilight, guess it's time to say hello. "Hello, princess of the sun, princess of the moon." I spoke as I walked out from behind a pillar. "What do you want Stagemaster, we have no time for your games." Celestia spoke annoyed as Luna looked confused as she had not met me yet. "Now is that any way to speak to someone who wants to help?" I spoke as they both gave me a suspicious look. 'sigh' "alright, look." I spoke, dropping my usual happy go lucky attitude. "I know about the crystal empire....and sombra, I may be a villain but I'm no monster, what he has done is unforgivable and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit out and watch as your little element bearer's walk into his domain, I know how strong he is, and I also know that they won't win without someone distracting him, I, being the insanity that I am, will be that distraction, you will not try to convince me otherwise, u n d e r s t o o d." I explained with a very serious look in my glowing purple eyes as my voice distorts with the power of the void, the sisters looking at me with a fearful yet, concerned look? a stage master's guide: New power unlocked. 'sigh' "sorry about that, I... Just really HATE sombra, he, like many that has driven me here, believe himself above consequences, I will show him that karma waits for no one, whether that means working with the heroes or not." I spoke as I balled my fists in anger at the tyrant. "I promise you on my soul that while the six are in the empire, I will protect them with my life." I spoke as I looked celestia in the eyes, celestia and luna looked back at me with a hardened look. "...very well, I will have to inform Twilight, if you would be willing to wait untill she arrives?" Celestia spoke as she softened her gaze. "If it is to defeat that tyrant? I will be willing to do anything." I spoke as I leaned on a pillar as I waited for Twilight to arrive. We waited a few minutes for Twilight to arrive, when she did, she was surprised to see me as I give a slight motion for her to pretend to be on guard. "Stagemaster!? What are you doing here?!" She shouted, feigning defensiveness as if she were ready for a fight. "I believe you would understand better if your princesses told you, after all, why would you trust me?" I lied to protect the secret of ms.Magic. "R-right, You wanted to see me? To give me a test? I brought my own quills and plenty of paper to show my work. Sorry, sorry!" Twilight spoke nervously. "This is a different kind of test my most faithful student, the crystal empire has returned." Celestia spoke as Twilight gave a worried and confused expression. "The Crystal Empire? I'm sorry, I-I thought I'd studied. Ooh. I don't think there's anything in any of my books th–" I interupted Twilight before she could spiral into a panic attack. "There wouldn't be, the crystal empire was wiped of the face of the planet by the spell of a mad tyrant, he placed himself and the entire empire into limbo, consequently removing the crystal empire from historical records all together." I spoke getting a surprised look from the three ponies with me. "How dost thou know this master of the stages?" Luna spoke as she looked at me with a suspicious gaze. "Quite simple fair maiden of the night, I used a potion to see the past, I've got to say, you and your sister were great fighters, Sombra only won through sheer luck and by placing that curse on the crystal empire." I spoke as I pulled out the same potion Twilight used later in the series to see into the past and find the tree of harmony. "But, regardless, you should continue with your explanation Celestia." I spoke as I leaned on a pillar so celestia can continue with her explanation like in canon. When celestia finished her explanation, I followed Twilight out to meet the rest of the main six and spike, they didn't even notice me until they finished their little song about how twilight's test went. "Oh, I thought I was prepared for anything but I wasn't anywhere prepared for....this?!" Twilight spoke as she finished the song as the others looked at her confused. "Uh, prepared for what exactly?" Spike asked in confusion. "Twilight! Uh, did ya pass?" Apple jack asked with concern and confusion. "Are we gonna celebrate your awesomeness with Princess Celestia?" Pinkie pie asked with enthusiasm. While they talked, I went through a portal and received the sans jacket prop so that I could have something warm to wear and also so I can have a way to fight sombra if I need to, as I returned, the main six have finished talking and are now headed to the train station, guess this is where I re-introduce myself to them. "Well now, you couldn't possibly be leaving without me, right?" I spoke as I used sans shortcut ability to appear Infront of them. Rainbow dash immediately went for the attack so I held her in place with Sans's blue magic. "Now, now, is that any way to treat someone who wants to help you?" I spoke as rainbow, applejack and rarity looked at me suspiciously. "An why would ya want to help us?" Applejack spoke as rainbow dash and rarity gave a nod, also wanting to know why I want to help them. "Because I made a promise on my soul, I don't make promises often, know that we'll, honesty, know that we'll." I spoke as I placed rainbow back over with her friends. "Now, let's get going why don't we? We wouldn't want to keep the crystal empire waiting right?, Besides, you wouldn't want me on that train unsupervised now would you?" I spoke as I turned around and began to walk towards the train station. > Train rides and conversations, crystal empire part 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I stepped onto the train, everypony looked at me and froze, I just inwardly chuckled as I showed my tickets for the train ride. "No need to be so worked up you guys really, just here to ride the train." I spoke as I rolled my eyes and gave a nonchalant shrug. I then walk past the mentally frozen ponies as I walk into a private section of the train. . . . . "...what's taking them so long?" Seriously, I would have thought either rainbow dash or pinkie would have popp- oh there they are! "So, what took ya so long? The train almost left without you all." I asked the six ponies with genuine curiosity. "Why are you acting so buddy buddy with us? I mean, aren't you a villain? Why would you want to help us?" Rainbow avoided my question with another. "....if I answer this, will you answer the question I already asked if you?" I inquired the rainbow pony to which she groaned before nodding. "Alright then, I'm helping you because, the crystal empire is important to the balance to this world, yea, I'm a villain, but I don't want the world to end now do I?" I gave a half lie, the crystal empire may not be needed for Equestria to properly have its balance, but it is definitely a big help balancing out evil and good, and it will a safe haven for when I begin the next faze of operation Egg-Koopa empire, heh, taking out an empire just to build my own, ....meh, at least I'm not mind control ING others to do my bidding. "Besides, if any villain is going to take you lot out, it's going to be me, my main focus will be the safety of the crystal empire, getting rid of villainous competition is just an added bonus." I gave another half lie, I have no interest in defeating the main six, at least not permanently, just need to give them some character development, I wonder what the voidlings think would be a good way to give character development? The six looked at me in surprise before surprisingly Fluttershy walked up to me, as she opens her mouth to speak, I interrupt her. "Y'know, I'm not surprised that you would be the first to calmly speak to me, Kindness, well, I guess I could have expected Laughter to speak to me first, anyways, please, ask away." I spoke as a means of letting Fluttershy stall to gather herself before speaking without making myself suspicious. "O-oh, um, I just wanted to um, know if you could, um, tell us about yourself?" Fluttershy asked with surprisingly little amounts of shyness, I guess I shouldn't be surprised, I am not a pony after all. The other ponies look at Fluttershy in surprise before rainbow starts to speak. "I don't think he's going to te-" "Sure!" I interupted rainbow as she and the others looked at me in surprise, wow, there is alot of surprise going around right now, huh?....wait..I'm breaking the fourth wall right now aren't I?...meh, probably due to Sans's jacket, I'll just focus on the story, as I look back at the ponies, it seems pinkie is the only one to notice the slight pause on the story as I give her a subtle signal that I would explain later as she nods to me. "What?" Rainbow, along side her friends spoke at the same time as they seemed confused by my response to Fluttershy's question. "I said 'sure' meaning that I'm going to tell you a bit about me, so, who wants to ask the first question?" I asked as I saw pinkie immediately put her hoof in the air, yup, should have expected that. "Alright, Laughter, what is your question, also make sure to speak with normal speed so I can actually understand the question, and before you waste your question wondering how I knew you would do that, I have a mic I placed in your mane yesterday, no you wouldn't have noticed me placing it there as I used a portal, anyway, what was your question?" I asked all in one breath, huh, guess I don't need to breath, neat. "Huh, welp, thanks for the warning Stagy! I'll keep that in mind, as for my question, do you have any friends? And if so, when will we meet them?" Pinkie asked with her usually energy, only speaking with a normal-ish speed because of I told her before hand. "Huh, I honestly expected you to ask what my preferences for a party would have been, anyway, yes, I do have some friends, but not in the way you think, here it's better if I just show you." I spoke as I began taking my sans jacket off before tossing it into the air and spoke. "C'mon out, Comedian!" I spoke as the jacket began to glow a patience blue and standing where the jacket once was, there is now a relatively short skeleton wearing the jacket as well as black shorts and pink slippers as he looked around the train booth before looking at me "Is it just my train of thoughts, or are you letting out some skeletons from the closet." Sans punned as the six ponies looked at him in surprise sans looked at them and gave his trademark smile. "Heya, don't you know how to greet a new pal? Come here and shake my hand." Sans spoke as pinkie nodded and reached outfit Sans's out stretched hand before.... "PFFFFFHHHTT!!!" the sound of a whoopie cushion came from Sans's hand as he lifted it to reveal a whoopie cushion in his hand. "Ah, the old whoopie cushion in the hand trick, its always funny, the names sans, sans the skeleton, nice to meet ya." Sans spoke as pinkie rolled on the ground with laughter as rainbow tried to hold back a chuckle due to conflicting emotions, how do I know that?... Oh, right, the whole facial expression ability, I really should have another read on the guide. > New abilities and props. Crystal empire part 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- While sans conversed with the ponies, I decided to have another look at the 'stage master's guidebook', I used a small warp gate to get the guidebook and some prop materials so that I can make the last props I need to allow me to distract sombra long enough for the main charac- I mean, the ponies to save the day and all of that hero crap, yes I swear, deal with it, I'm a villain, what did you expect? When I pulled out the guide, I gave it a quick look over and was a little surprised with what I found. A stage master's guide [Power set] Inanimate animation ( you can bring your props to life, personality and all if you wish) prop fusing (you can fuse with your props) Expression notification (you can easily read people's facial expression) Stealthy (you are very good at hiding and are almost invisible in the night) Magic absorption (you can absorb magic of all kinds) Dream walker (you can enter the dream scape to get a read on your enemies, just don't interfere with the dreams themselves else you will have to deal with the princess of the night) Hard worker (you don't get tired from making props) Diet immunity (you can eat anything without any bad effects, unless it is a potion) Puppeteer (you can control summoned heroes, anti-heroes and villains) Puppet (you are a puppet and can be taken apart and put back together, it still hurts, so don't get hit by an attack) Void speech (you can empower your voice with the power of void, allowing you to use several effects that come with the void, the most common effect is 'terror' the more you p.m. deem someone as an enemy, the more fear your voice can give them, other abilities with 'void speech' are as of yet unknown) Strings of fate (you can use strings that function similar to the strings utilised by the entity Error!Sans, the only difference is that your strings are much weaker than the destroyers strings so don't count on the strings on capturing powerful opponents) These are all the powers you have for now, please return to the Stage Master's guide at a later date to see if you have gained any new abilities. "Two new abilities eh? Not bad." I accidentally spoke aloud as the ponies looked at me as sans face palmed with an amused chuckle. "........I said that out loud, didn't I?" I deadpanned as sans burst out laughing at my unfortunate reveal of my guide book. "Sans......" I sighed before I unsummoned sans as he turned back into the jacket, I then put on the sans jacket as I looked at the group of ponies, I then saw twilight's expression......... I am now genuinely terrified of that mare's thirst for knowledge. . . . . Anyways, now that I am able to break the wall of fourth(AKA speak to you guys) let us continue the story. "Magic...no, this book isn't yours to read, besides, I don't even have it anymore." I spoke as the ponies, and dragon (man the author really forgot about spike huh?) Blinked and saw that the Stagemasters guide is no longer in my hand as I sent it back to base. "Anyways, back to the questions, who wants to ask the next question?" I asked the group as rarity asked the next question. "Why do you call yourself 'The Stagemaster'? I mean it couldn't possibly be your real name, right darling?" I just blinked at Rarity's question before speaking. "I... I just thought my real name would have been too boring for a villain, I mean, have you ever heard of a villain named John? I severely doubt it." I spoke answering both questions in a slightly joking manner as I found my reasoning for my title funny. We kept our little qna going for quite a while, so long in fact that the train arrived at the crystal empire by the time we finished, during the train ride, I also made an undyne helmet and the soul of fear so I can use more types of magic to keep sombra distracted while also giving sombra a taste of his own medicine, Aka Rhabdophobia. "Huh, welp, time to annoy a mad tyrant, you lot just go meet magic's brother ok?" I spoke as I stepped out of the train as they nodded and began to walk towards where they were told shining armour would be before rainbow suddenly stopped. "Wait... How do you know twilight's brother?" Rainbow asked me in suspicion. I just rolled my eyes and spoke. "Blame the bug queen, now shoo, the others are waiting for you." I waved rainbow off as I began to walk into the blizzard and watched the ponies from a distance as I know sombra will attack them on their way to the empire. And low and behold, the darkness that is king sombra has arrived, although, his magic feels different than I expected it to, I would have thought his magic would feel more powerful than it does, ah well, no need to worry, it just makes my job easier. I interupted Sombra's attempt to render shinings magic useless by blocking the attack with a gaster blaster. "So, I've got a question for you my 'king'. Why, why did you feel the need to conquer the crystal empire? Was it out of a need for control? A want for power, or, was it out of fear? I don't know, why don't you tell me." I mocked the shadow and was surprised when he calmly spoke. "You are filled with dream matter... Just like that pink nuisance, no matter, once I defeat you, I will reclaim my throne and will finally get rid of those infernal positive emotions." Sombra spoke almost acting like a.....dark...matter.. well, crap. "So, from what I'm getting from your little speech there, you are a dark matter." I spoke getting a surprise from the king. "The only question is, what kind of dark matter? Are you Zero? Dark mind? Zero two? Or are you just one of the dark matter soldiers? Let's find out shall we?" I spoke as I readied my magic to attack. > Boss fight and painful memories, crystal empire part 4 part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "whoa! Watch where you swing that thing bud! Some one could get hurt!" I joked, infuriating sombra as he continued to try to hit me, good, now just have to last for a few hours......I hope. Sombra then screamed as he slammed his shadowy hooves into the ground creating a.... Shadow version of me......ow, the memories, no, I will not be saying anything else on this sub-Pllkkkcchhhh . . . . . . . . "H-huh? What happened?.... I was fighting sombra and recounting.... Them and then...! Oh, oh no.... Ohhhh I got stabbed, I... Think my body is in the crystal empire now? I can feel it's magic... But.. where am I? And why am I feeling a sense of dread?." I 'spoke' as I had the suspicion that I am not currently awake. a few minutes of nothingness later "Wait... I think I see something... Is... Is that my old....... Home?"..... I spoke as I looked at the silhouette of a run down orphanage....... Why did it have to be here of all places... > Ponies perspective, crystal empire part 4 part 2, warning, Dark. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- twilight's POV Me and the girls had just gotten into the crystal empire when we heard stagemaster begin to fight sombra, we were taken to princess cadence by shining armour, we were told how my brother's shield spell would do nothing to prevent king sombra from getting to the empire so cadence had to use her love magic to protect the empire for several days and nights, she looks to be completely exhausted. Me and the girls were then tasked with asking the crystal ponies on anything that could help us defeated king sombra, we didn't have much luck in funding anything that could help, and as we reunited at the centre of the empire under the main castle, we heard a deafening boom,when we looked to where the sound came from, we saw a large explosion happen outside the empire and some creature being sent through the shield, that had to have been stage master. "We should check that out and see if everypony is ok." I told the girls and spike, we then ran over to where stage master had landed and we were all horrified at the sight. Stage master was missing his left arm and appeared to be trapped in a terrible nightmare as no matter what we did, he never woke up, I looked to spike and told him to take a letter. in Canterlot "I wonder how Twilight and the others are doing....." I spoke to myself as I contemplated on sending some guards to help them in this mission, my train of thought was interupted when I got a letter from Twilight....with the urgent seal..... I immediately opened the letter and read it aloud. Dear princess celestia. I am writing this letter because stage master has befallen a Terrible injury, he has lost his arm and appears to be trapped within a terrible nightmare, we are safe for now, however it would be in our best interest to free Stagemaster from his nightmare, I would suggest having princess luna enter his dream to see what could be keeping him within this nightmare. From, your faithful student, Twilight sparkle. ..... I called for some guards to bring the letter to my sister. a few minutes later in Luna's sleeping quarters.[ hr] "Oh, I do hope princess Luna won't be too angry at being woken up." The guard gulped before knocking on Luna's door and waited. . . . . "What dosth thou need, guard of Canterlot." Princess Luna spoke after she opened her door. "A-ah, princess, we w-where ordered my princess celestia t-to give you t-this letter." The guard stuttered before giving the princess of the moon the letter. "Very well, you may go, we will read this letter our sister hath given us." Luna spoke as she closed the door with her magic and began to read the letter given to her. As luna read the letter, her eyes widened and she quickly hoped back into her bed and used her magic to enter the dream realm to try and find Stagemasters dream/nightmare as she remembers this situation all too well. in the dream realm "Come on, where art thou! Reveal yourself you vile dream!" Luna yelled as she flew down the corridors of dream doors before she found a strange door that had the design of a burning building on it, Luna knew this was the door she was looking for as she felt Sombra's nightmare magic infecting this dream. "Here you are, prepare yourself foul nightmare for you will soon face the wrath of the moon guardian of dreams!" Luna shouted before she charged into the dream. When luna entered the dream, she was surprised to hear the screams of children as she was within a burning building collapsing in on itself, luna then began to quickly explore the burning building, using her back to protect her from the flames. After a while of searching, luna found what appeared to be a younger version of Stagemasters species, she slowly walked over to them and began to speak. "...young one, what is going on here, why art this building falling to the flames of Tartarus." Luna asked in a concerned tone. "...I did this.....I killed them.....burnt to a Krisp.....no longer alive.....only corpses left." The child spoke in what appeared to be Stagemasters voice. "W-what doth thou m-mean, young one?" Luna asked feeling a little unsettled. "Burn....blaze.......explode......flame....all caused by me.....they deserve it......they deserved to die at my hands...." The child spoke again standing still as a statue. "..what?" Luna hesitantly spoke as her eyes widened in surprise. "They all deserve to die....every last one of them.....they will not survive....no survivors........ ..non at all...." The child spoke in a monotone voice. "W-what about those thou love, what about those whom loves thee?" Luna asked in worry as the child suddenly turned to look at her and tilted it's head. ".....love?......what is love......no love......only pain......no family........no friends.....only scars......only pain and torment....." The child spoke with a tone of anger, confusion and regret. "W-wh-i-i" Luna was left speechless at what she had just heard, the child didn't even know what love was? Just what did they go through for them to think like this? "....don't you have someone to find?.....I would hurry if I were you....they will burn today.....just like me........." The child spoke causing luna to snap out of her speechless ness, she nodded to the child and returned on her way to find stage master and save him from this nightmare. Unbeknownst to princess luna, as she returned to looking for Stagemaster and flew past the child, a black liquid formed a black mask with red accents making it look like a corrupted comedy mask, the corrupted child then looked in Luna's direction and gave a spine chilling laugh of pure insanity as he opened a portal Infront of himself, he then began to speak before entering the dark glowing blood red and black portal. "dear oh luna, you have no idea what you are about to release." > Nightmares. Crystal empire part 5. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Princess luna flew through room after torched room trying to find where Stagemaster is within this nightmarish dream. "MASTER OF THE STAGES!! WHERE ART THOU!!" Luna shouted using her royal Canterlot voice blowing out some fires, only for them to reignite seconds later. As luna flew throughout the building, the more she realised what kind of building she was in as she saw several items throughout it; a name book, several beds, children's toys, reception desk, adoption papers, it was with the last item she found that she knew with one hundred percent certainty, she was in an orphanage. But it didn't make sense to the lunar princess, she had so many questions like; Why would that child burn down an orphanage? Why can't she change the dream? Why is there nothing outside the orphanage? Why was there a figure outside the orphanage in that void? Why was the orphanage in a void? ..... Wait.... Figure in the void? That had to be Stagemaster! Stagemasters POV It had been a few minutes now that I have been placed here, and I am quickly reaching a panic attack, why did it have to be here? Why did I have to-"MASTER OF THE STAGES!! WHERE ART THOU!!" Princess Luna? How is she- oh no, she's going to see everything?! I...i-i can't let her see that!? I-i have to g-get her out here! But how?! I can't even move?! WHAT CAN I- CRACK!! What was that? I thought as I looked towards the sound and saw...princess luna flying out of a window? What? It took about fifteen seconds for luna to reach me.... Why do I feel so calm around her? She feels almost like...mom..... "...princess luna?" Why.....why does she have to remind me of her so much... "Stagemas-" "John....call me John, it's my...birth name.." I interupted luna by telling her my true name. "O...K?" She asked with a confused tone. "I....I don't want to be called Stagemaster right now....this is a memory of my past... So I will be referred to by my old name..." Why am I telling her this? And....why do I want to tell her more? "Of course... John." Luna spoke gently before gaining a serious gaze. "John, doth thou know what is going on within thy nightmare?" Luna asked, should I tell her? 'sigh' why not, not like I can do anything else. "It's.... not a nightmare..." I spoke bearly above a whisper hoping she wouldn't hear me. "Hm? What doth thou mean sir John?" Luna asked in confusion, 'sigh' right, ponies have great hearing. ".... It's a memory.." I sighed as I began to explain my past. 'sigh' "if you are going to understand this memory, you are going to need to understand my past." I spoke gaining more of Luna's attention. "What doth thou mean?" Luna asked, I can't believe I'm telling her this... I hope he doesn't come back. 'sigh' "I'll, I'll start at the beginning, at a young age of three, my parents were killed, I don't know much about them but, I can distinctly remember the feeling of anger towards them." I started my explanation strong with the mention of my so called parents death, seeing Luna's shocked expression, I continued. "After they were killed, I was sent to several corrupt orphanages, they would often burn me, electrocute me, break my bones, starve me, and a whole lot more, quite frankly it's a miracle I'm even alive today." I spoke as I looked at my hands, they were shaking slightly with a familiar rage, a rage I didn't like, I continued my explanation. "There was only one who cared for me, she would often treat my wounds and feed me when they would try to starve me to death, I endured that torture for about six years, on my ninth birthday, that was when I finally snapped." I seethed as tears began to form... I miss you..mum...I.. I should continue. "On....on that dammed day, they killed her, they killed the only person who ever cared about me, so I snapped, I locked down the orphanage and burnt it to the ground, I was ready to die that day, but I survived, I had little to no sanity at the time, but then I found a curtain show-moving pictures to tell a story-, that show gave me hope, it gave me an anchor to regain my sanity, well most of it anyways." I finished my explanation now fully crying as I waved my hand towards the burning orphanage Infront of me. "I...-" "so sentimental, aren't we, brother." no... it can't be.... "Null?!" H-how?! I...he's supposed to be gone!? "that's right John, or should I say, Stagemaster?" I spoke to my lesser half hey! I'm narrati- shut up already! "But...how...?" I asked my darker half. "What is this sir John?" Luna asked...shit, she has to get out of here! "brother, as you know, you are locked in a sleep, unable to wake up, by now sombra is most likely to break through into the empire, you may not be able to break through his locks, but I am in affected by them, you know what to do." what does he?..wait.... oh.. oh no. "You would be a fool if you think I'm going to let you out Null!" I shouted at my dark reflection. "we don't have a choice brother, it's either, you let me out temporarily, or sombra wins, and you know why we can't have that, don't you?".... I hate it when he's right... "Fine, but you better protect the ponies, you here me...brother." I spoke getting a surprised look from Null when I called him my brother, I reached out my hand to let him free. "indeed, nopony shall be harmed, Afterall, how can we be the villains if there are no heroes left? It wouldn't be any fun." Null laughed as he shook my hand and took temporary control over our body... I hope I didn't just make a huge mistake right now... > Dark matter vs Abyssal moth. Crystal empire part 6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~A few minutes ago, in the real world~ "This isn't good, cadence's barrier is about to break, Stagemaster still hasn't woken up and we still haven't found anything useful to defeat sombra, what are we going to do?!" Twilight shouted to her 'friends' as they stood around Stagemasters body now lying on a medical bed. "Ah don know Twi, there ain't nothing we can really do... but there has to be something we hadn't tried yet." Applejack spoke as she looked around the room. As the girls were talking about what they could do, most of them didn't notice Stagemasters body begin to darken, gaining a fully pitch black body with red accents. "um, girls?" "Well I say we go out there and kick his flank ourselves!" Rainbow shouted. "That is far too dangerous darling." Rarity argued. "girls.." "Why don't we throw a festival, the empire was protected by positive emotions right? So we just gotta make everypony happy!" Pinkie enthusiastically shouted. "Girls!" Fluttershy shouted, finally gaining her friends attaintion. "Yea Fluttershy, what do ya need to say?" Applejack asked, Fluttershy just pointed to Stagemasters body. "Woah Nelly! what in the hay happened to him?" Applejack asked. "what happened, honesty, is that I've gotten a little upgrade." I spoke as I opened my eyes causing the ponies to jump back slightly. "S-stagemaster?" Twilight asked, to bad I'm not Stagemaster. "not quite, you may refer to me as, the Abyss, or Null as dear old brother calls me." I spoke looking around the room, such power at our fingertips, and brother hardly knows how to use it, such a waste. "now, I couldn't help but over hear your issues with finding a way to deal with sombra, I can give you a hint, it won't be a clear one as I've only gotten a glimpse into Sombra's mind after he hit my brother with that scythe of his, when he did hit brother, I saw a crystal heart, he hid the heart as it could harm him if the citizens of the empire empowered it with positive emotions, now, here is your hint, to find the crystal of love, you must look above the king's domaine, now go, and hurry before I deal with the tyrant king myself." I spoke as the ponies nodded and ran out the room before I out streached my hand and opened a warp gate to retrieve the star rod and made a wish. "I wish for the butterfly miraculous!" I shouted as a dark energy formed before me creating a replica of the butterfly miraculous, perfect, I'll gain the just the right powers from this. I grabbed the butterfly miraculous after returning the star rod to brother's base, when I put the miraculous on, I saw Nooroo appear before me. "H-huh? Where am I?" Nooroo asked in confusion before looking at me. "W-who are you?!" "I am Null, and I, alongside my other half, Stagemaster, are your new master's, now, Nooroo, dark wings rise!" I shouted as Nooroo was pulled into the moth miraculous transforming me into; Voidmoth, the Puppeteer. I then opened a warp gate to summon a butterfly for me to turn into an Akuma to 'evilise' myself. "Go my little Akuma and evilise me!" I shouted as I held out the Kurogiri ring brother had made as the Akuma flew into it and akumatizing me turning me into the Abyssal moth "COME AND GET ME SOMBRA!!" I shouted as I jumped out of the window and slid down the wall of the crystal castle, as I slid down the wall, I saw miss mi amor's shield shatter, I then used the power I've given myself to open mouth shaped worm wholes to warp myself Infront of sombra, another great thing about this unique transformation is that my staff can now turn into my very own battle axe, neat right? "So....you return....this new.....form.....won't.....help.....you..." sombra spoke confidently, actually... I wonder.... hey! Brother! You hear me? yea, I can, what do you need, I am still in here with luna, I've gained more control over the dream now, and if I focus enough I can see through our eyes. you wanna narrate and warn me of Sombra's attacks? It would let me Morely focus on attacking and dodging rather than describing what is going on.....sure, I'll do it, just let me convince luna to return to her own mind so I don't accidentally tell her something she isn't supposed to know......................ok I'm back, she left and now I can easily see out of our eyes, all we need to do is keep sombra away from the centre of the empire, but a little bit of fun is always welcome right? wait..... does that mean I can break his bones? 'sigh' yes, yes you can brother, you can break his bones YES!!! 'sigh' I forgot how childish you can get......where did sombra go? what do you mean? He's right.....here.......oh... how could we loose him li-oh there he is, to our left..... wait,... that's towards the empire?! After him! Roger that brother! alright, I'll narrate now. "get back here you coward!" Null yelled as he ran towards king sombra, using his mothgates, he was able to get ahead of sombra before the king could get very far into the empire, Null gave quite the entrance as he kicked sombra right across the face. "GAH!? you'll pay for crossing the king of matter most dark!" Sombra yelled giving us a hint of who he really is. "hey sombra! Have a taste of karma!" Null yelled as he summoned a gaster-blaster and fired at sombra. Sombra retaliated with a swing of his scythe, breaking the blaster. "Ha! Just like all other means of attacks, meaningless to the matter most dark!" Sombra gloated with an ego that could match discords care free nature. "hm, very well then, if blasters won't work, then I'll be forced to bring out the big ones, Unique skill; character copy! Kirby!" Null shouted before becoming......... AN EXACT COPY OF KIRBY?! HOW?! AND BETTER YET! WHY?!...... why is sombra backing away? "so, what do you think of my new form? I bet it brings back some memories, eh Zero?"..... sombra is Zero? i-look out!? I mentally shouted as Null dodged a swing of.... dark matter spawn? What? "what is taking those ponies so long?!" Null shouted as he dodged another attack from sombra, while he was still in mud air, he was.....hit by a spell..... Null?! Are you ok?!!? Oh shit, shit, shit!! Ok, ok, I'll, I'll take control of our body for now, ok? ow.... yea.. go ahead.... I'll narrate. right, now it's time to switch!! > John void, the Stagemaster. Crystal empire final part. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Alright you dark matter abomination. You hurt my brother, and for that. You. Will. PAY!" John yelled in pure rage as he blitzed towards sombra and slammed the tyrants head into the ground knocking the false king out of his shadow form. "Zero. You WILL leave this vessel and fight me one on one, and before you can think of anything? Well, to quote a demon judge, since when were you the one in control." ... John then used his strings and..... reaches into Sombra's soul.... why didn't I think of that? "KEHEHEHEHEHEHE ZERO~ TODAY YOU DIE!!!"..... and we thought I was the crazy one, John used the strings to physically pull Zero out of Sombra's body.... as he did, Sombra's body lost its dark colour as he now looked like an average crystal pony, albeit alot older and with a blue curved horn. When Zero was removed from his host, the crystal ponies immediately saw the horror show that is Zero, also, I can now confirm Zero is Zero Two, I mean it makes sense, Kirby obviously beat him, anyways, I'm getting off track, John jumped at the abomination of the matter most dark and...... punched it in the bloody eye.... of course he did.... might as well help a little. With those thoughts given by me, I used a form of telepathy to communicate with Twilight sparkle. "Oh, where is it?! He said to look above the king's domain, and WHAT IS THAT THING?!?!?" Twilight yelled in shock. 'to look up, you must look down, basically use dark magic on the throne, this isn't technically the king's domain now is it? And, for that monstrosity, me and stage will deal with it, just worry about the crystal heart ok sweet heart?' "Wh- how are you talking to me, and how do you know what to do?" Twilight spoke now a little more calm. 'For the first question? Telepathy. For the second? I used logical thinking, sombra is a smart pony, he wouldn't just give a strait path to the one thing that can defeat him, also, extra info, that thing out there, is Zero, he is the leader of a species known as dark matter, they posses other creatures to spread their evil and dark influence, now go! We don't have all day!' "R-right, going now." Twilight spoke as she used her magic on the throne and opening the stairway like in canon, I'd better warn her about the door, I can just tell her I can feel the dark magic in it. 'hey, there's a door down there, it's infected with dark magic, I have a feeling the door will try to stop you by showing your greatest fear, don't ask how I know, let's just say I have experience with this sort of thing.' "Right, thanks for warning me, I'll fix the door then get the heart." Twilight spoke. 'don't forget to bring spike with you, it isn't really safe out here right now, seriously, I'm surprised stage hasn't been hit yet, then again he is pretty pissed off at the damned thing.' "Huh? Why is he mad? And thanks for the warning. SPIKE!!" Twilight asked, yelled, and answered all in the same sentence. A few seconds later and the little dragon runs in and the two start on their way down the staircase, I do believe I've helped enough, back to John I guess. When I set my 'sights' back to what John sees, I can honestly say that I'm not surprised to find us back into the snow storm outside the empire as John.....relentlessly rips apart Zero's flesh getting coated in dark matter blood..... "KEHEHEHEHAHAHA~ RUN RUN RUN YOU DAMNED FREAK, SOON YOUR DOOM YOU WILL MEET!!"...... ok, John, first of all, calm the f#ck down, second of all, we only got a few minutes left, you can lead him to the empire now. "....ok... ok, I'm calm now, thanks for letting me know. HEY ZERO! CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!!"John yelled getting the attention of zero as he ran away towards the empire while taunting the dark matter monstrosity. "Hehe, who knew running from an Eldredge eyeball could be this much fu-WOAH!!" John shouted as he dodged a blood bomb and entered the empire with zero just behind him, right after they entered the empire, me and John noticed spike falling from the top of the empire with the crystal heart in hand... brother, you distract Zero and narrate while I inform the locals of the hearts return. huh? Oh, alright, I got it. As I felt Null focus his mental presence to the entire empire, I turned around and summoned a mini blaster on my back to blitz towards zero and grab him by the tail before slamming him to the ground before summoning an undyne spear and turning his soul green so he can't run away. "So, what will you do now? You can't run, the crystal heart is about to be put back into its place, and your about to be destroyed. It's not lookin' good for you." I spoke with a smug grin, my grin quickly left when I heard what he said. "Fool.....galeem....will end.....all....I.....still...win..." Galeem? Sh!t... well, now I really do have a reason to train them.... I thought as I heard cadence's speech and saw the ground glow in positivity, already damaging zero. "If Kirby and his friends could defeat galeem once, then I'm sure I can with some major help, that being said.... goodbye you waste of space." I spoke as the light of the love of the crystal ponies got absorbed by the crystal heart and sent out the positivity pulse/forcefield destroying Zero but not before he could give one last message. "All.....will.......end.....in......a..... year's......time..." Zero spoke just before getting obliterated by the positive energy of the crystal heart.... oh hey, I look like I'm made of crystal now, I should head over to the main six. I thought about what zero said as I walked towards the crystal castle, I'm going to need to teach the ponies how to fight.... I guess project EggKoopa empire will be more than a test... good, I'll also need to talk to celestia about this, and I do hope she doesn't even consider using the elements, they won't work on galeem, I mean, why would light hurt light? "Stage?" A voice brought me out of my train of thought, when I looked to where the voice came from, I saw Fluttershy come over to me. "Yes, Kindness? What do you need?" I asked out of curiosity. "Are you ok? I saw you fighting that scary thing, what even was it?" Fluttershy asked as her friends walked over and asked similar questions with varying levels of concern for my well being. "Its name is Zero, he is the leader of a species called the Dark matters, they are a species composed of pure darkness and negativity, basically the physical embodiments of evil, they often use another creatures body to hide in and use as a puppet, I defeated sombra and, well you saw what happened, apparently sombra was Zero all along." I spoke getting a shocked look from the ponies before pinkie put her hoof under her chin. "Wait. How would you know who or what Zero was?" Pinkie asked with a silly yet thoughtful expression. "The internet." I simply answered getting a nod and a gasp from pinkie as the others just looked at us with confusion. "Don't ask, I just answered with the honest truth, the internet is something from my world, basically a book but digital, like the arcades you ponies sometimes have around here." I spoke as they gave a slow nod of acceptance. "....this was very anticlimactic, right?" I asked as the ponies looked at me with an expression of 'are you serious?' "Oh, fine, welp, I've done everything that is needed of me here so.... bye!" I shouted before using a warp gate to get back to base where I dropped my care free expression. "Galeem huh? I wonder how we will beat him..." > Preparations. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm going to need to talk to celestia about this...." I muttered to myself as I opened a warp gate to Canterlot castle. When I walked through the warp gate, the Canterlot guards were already aiming their spears at me. "Halt! State your business here, intruder!" The, what I'm assuming, chief of this unit spoke with authority. "I need to speak to celestia, now." I spoke with an urgent tone. "The princess is in the middle of a meeting, whatever it is you need to speak with her majesty can wait." The guard pony spoke with an authoritative tone. ".....very well, take me to the dungeons, I shall wait there." I spoke as I looked into the ponies eyes. "...follow me." The guard spoke with caution as he lead me to the dungeon. "So, how long do you think the meeting will take?" I asked out of curiosity. "Two to three hours." The guard simply answered, it is a good thing I had Eggman make me a phone. After a few minutes of walking, we come across a stairway going down, when we get to the bottom of the stairway, we see several different cells, most of them look surprisingly comfy to be contained in. "Hm, I see celestia even cares about the criminals in her land, she has gained some more of my respect from this." I spoke as the guard pony stops at a cell that looks like it was made for a story teller, oh celestia, you know me so well~. "I'm going to guess this is my waiting cell?" I asked to which the pony just nodded before ushering me inside. "You will wait here until the princess will speak with you." The guard spoke before walking away. I just shrugged my shoulders and took out my phone and some headphones, I then played several songs to pass the time, endless possibilities, my reality, ballistic with lyrics, never gonna give you up, that one was an accident, sans-stronger than you, crystal jems, other friends, and more, and before I knew it, I heard the cell door open, I turned off my phone and turned towards the door. "Hello celestia." I spoke with a rare respect. "Stagemaster, to what do I owe the....pleasure of your appearance within my dungeons?" Celestia spoke trying to be polite. 'sigh' "have you ever heard of an entity called Galeem?" I spoke with a serious expression. "...where.....where did you here this name?" Celestia spoke with a slight tremble in her voice. "Doesn't matter, but what I do know is, Galeem is coming, I have been informed that he will arrive in a year's time, we are going to need to train some powerful ponies, I have a way to escape should Galeem try to rewrite reality, but I'll only be able to bring three ponies and maybe a small creature with me, from what I have learned of Galeem, he can control others if he has defeated them in battle and the only way to free them from its control is by defeating the controlled in battle, I've also heard that he can make copies of those he has control over, they aren't as powerful as the originals but they are still strong overall." I spoke the honest truth as I kept my gaze on celestia. "I know alot of spells from other worlds, considering twilight's special talent is magic, it should be easy for her to learn and master these spells, I could also sent one of my associates to help train the other element bearer's in close quarters and long range combat, pinkie should already be pretty good at both with her unique and chaotic fighting style, rainbow would be great with close combat applejack too now that I think about it, I could also send over a few other friends of mine to train Fluttershy to be quite the efficient healer, rarity would be a great long range fighter with her keen eyesight, I could also have a friend of mine make everypony some armour, although, I believe the training would be most efficient if the element bearer's are unaware that they are being trained." I spoke peaking Celestia's interest. "Those are all very good points but, how would we train them without them knowing?" Celestia asked with curiosity. "By staging a takeover, of course, we will keep this away from the public, I recently found an artifact that lets me open a portal to a copy of a curtain universe of my choice, I chose one that has several chaotic yet surprisingly safe obstacles and traps along the way, we could convince them to go along with it by having me 'kidnap' you and jump through my portal, while they are being trained in my world, I'll give you a window to see their progress, I'll also look around the kingdom for ponies and other creatures that could help them, I've already got one pony in mind, but I'll figure out that later, I'll also drop you back into your throne room after the elements follow me into the portal, I also have the physical elements of harmony in my possession, I can't really use them in any way, but it will also be an incentive to have them go to the different areas of the world I chose instead of making their way directly to me, it'll also be a good chance to see how they handle an adventure that takes more than one day." I explained my entire plan to celestia, she got a bit surprised when I mentioned I had the elements of harmony in my possession. "What? Since when?!" Celestia quietly shouted in surprise. "During the changeling invasion, anyways, are you up for this? I will start the plan next week, on the day, we can have you send a letter to Twilight and her friends telling them to go to Canterlot ASAP." I spoke as celestia nodded and left the cell as I opened a warp gate to my base and began working on several props for this Tweek in project: EggKoopa empire. I'll also have to hold a meeting with everyone about this Tweek in the plan. > Stitching Displaced. Part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last time on displaced mobian sisters two mysterious figures known as Neo and Omelet had awoken from their stasis pods after being asleep for 1000 years and after discovering how long they been asleep they tried searching for the phantom ruby their third member used but soon discovered there were were two phantom ruby on separate location. After discovering both phantom rubies the two individuals sent robots to retrieve the rubies and one of those locations happened to be Ponyville where Lillian and Sapphire lived and when the robots attacked the two sisters were able to deal them while in Canterlot the second location the robots attacked Celestia and Luna had managed to barely defeat them. After the attack Celestia was worried about the return of some old foes she and Luna faced 1000 years ago and revealed that she had her sister watch over Lillian and Sapphire worried they were with her old foes but after finding no connection Celestia decided to reveal the truth to the two mobian sisters. On the train leading to Canterlot Lillian and Sapphire sat in a train cart along with Twilight and the rest of their friends. After the attack at Ponyville Twilight recieved a letter from Princess Celestia telling them that Canterlot was attacked too but they were able to defeat the robots but they wanted Twilight and her friends too come to Canterlot to talk about the attacks. During the train ride Lillian and Sapphire were in deep thought about something. "Girls, hello you there?" Twilight asks breaking Lillian and Sapphire train of thought. "Huh oh yeah sorry Twilight Lillian and I were just thinking about something." Sapphire says apologizing. Yeah sorry Twi but what is it?" Lillian asks. "It's okay but we're getting close to Canterlot so you two should get ready." "Oh okay thanks Twilight." Sapphire says thanking Twilight as she heads over to the rest if their friends. Once Twilight was out of war shot Lillian let out a sigh. "I can't help but wondering why these badniks attack both Ponyville and Canterlot?" "Yeah and when we got to town not only were they attacking but it also looked like they were looking for something but what?" Sapphire added. While the two sisters were lost in thought Lillian's Phantom Ruby started to pulsate with energy which caught the sisters attention. "Huh, what's going on with the Phantom Ruby?" Lillian asks when she noticed the Phantom Ruby pulsing with energy. "Not sure we've never seen this happen before?" Sapphire added. Before the two sisters can react, the Phantom Ruby lets out a burst of energy causing a portal to the displaced void to appear. "What they hell!?" Both sisters says shocked at what just happened. While the sisters stare at the portal in shock, they see what appears to be a small puppet fall out of the portal before it closes as if the portal was never there to begin with. "What the hell just happened?" Lillian asked before picking up the puppet. "Not sure?" Sapphire added as she looked at the puppet Lillian was holding. As Lillian picked up the puppet, the two sisters heard a voice speak a short message within their minds. "If you need help of any matter, call upon the Stagemaster." "Oh, it's another token Lillian." "Yeah but I don't think we know of a character called the Stagemaster but maybe they can help us gain new powers to help protect equestria from these attacks." Lillian says to her sister. "Yeah so let's call him." Sapphire agreed. Lillian nodded before raising the puppet. "Stagemaster, we call on you!" As Lillian spoke these words, they saw another portal open up In Front of them, however, this portal took a blue tint, before the sisters had a chance to question the coloring of the portal, they heard a panicked yelling coming from the portal, strangely, they heard two voices coming from the portal. "Lillian you hear that?" Sapphire asked her sister. "Yeah, maybe whoever this Stagemaster is, they sound like they're in trouble. I think we should try going through the portal to help." Before the two could attempt to enter the blue portal, they saw two figures fly out of the portal and land on the ground. In Front of them, one of these figures was very familiar to them. What was Twilight doing here? a few minutes earlier It was only a few weeks after sombra had been defeated and the stage master had already gotten himself a new arm, he, and his team were currently in a meeting. "So, as we know, with the defeat of Sombra, comes a small window for us to enact project: EggKoopa empire, what do you purpose we do in the meantime Ms.Magic?" Stagemaster asked of the element of magic in her villain suit, as well as her symbiote. "Hm, it wouldn't be wise to attack in this time period, the guards would be to weary, and if you are only trying to test the other element bearer's, it would be best to not have them think of you as 'just another Sombra', it would be smarter to wait until after heartwarming to begin the project." Twil-Ms.Magic spoke while a blue portal opened behind her and Stagemaster. "Uh, boss?" Sans spoke, gaining Stagemasters' attention. "Yes? What is the problem?" Stagemaster asked, still not noticing the portal behind him. "Portal, behind ya." Sans spoke as he pointed behind Stagemaster and Ms.Magic. As Stagemaster looked behind him and saw the portal, he sighed and de-summoned sans, undyne, Eggman, metal-sonic, and infinite to take their props with him before he stood up. "Meetings ov-WOAH!?" Stagemaster shouted as he and Ms.Magic were suddenly pulled into the portal as they screamed in panic. In the present "Ugh, did not expect my first time being summoned would end up with my face in the ground." The humanoid figure groaned as he pushed himself off of the ground. "Actually your face landed on the train floor." A feminine voice corrected him. "H-huh, what do you- oh my mobian!" The humanoid shouted as he bounced back onto his feet. "Well now, it is nice to meet you, the names Stagemaster, I'm guessing you two are the ones who summoned me, right?" The humanoid figure, now known as Stagemaster, spoke as he held out a hand. "Yes, we were, my name is Lillian." The hawk Mobian greeted. "And my name is Sapphire." The cat Mobian says greeting them as well. "And the both of us are sisters." The two Mobian says together. "Ugh, Stagemaster, what happened?" A feminine voice spoke from behind Stagemaster, when the two sisters looked behind him, they were surprised to see who was laying on the ground of the train rubbing her head. "Twilight?!" The sisters says surprised when they saw her. "Hm? Oh, hey magic, it seems you got pulled into this world with me." Stagemaster spoke calmly as the sisters saw twilight's head snap towards Stagemaster. "I'm sorry, WHAT?!" Twilight yelled, surprised to find herself in another world as she turned and saw the mobian sisters and looked at them confused. "Who are they? They look like infinite, and maybe an organic version of metal." Twilight spoke, gaining a surprised look from the two sisters. "Wait did you say infinite and metal sonic were in your world?" Lillian says surprised. "Well they are from another version of equestria so I guess it would make sense sis." Sapphire says. "Hehe, you would be half right, yes we do have a metal sonic and infinite, but they are not in our world right now, you see this metal sonic medal?" Stagemaster spoke as he pulled out a metal sonic medal. The two sisters looked at the medal with interest. "What's the medal for?" Lillian asks. "Well, it's something I made due to what I was displaced as, and before you ask, no, I was not turned into a pre-existing character, I was turned into a prop maker with the ability to bring life to his props, such as this." Stage master spoke as he flicked the medal into the air, the medal then gave off a bright light temporarily blinding the sisters, when they could see again, they could see metal sonic standing next to Stagemaster. "Wait, you can make fake versions of existing characters?" Sapphire asks seeing the metal sonic Stagemaster summoned. "With personality and all, of course, they aren't as powerful as the originals, but, they definitely have the originals soul and personality, the main difference between them, is that for the more, 'evil' characters, they are less willing to needlessly harm innocent creatures, heck, the version of Eggman in my world helped save a filly from blood loss, surprising right?" Stagemaster spoke using air quotes when he spoke the word 'evil'. "What that's horrible, for the filly I mean." Sapphire says surprised after hearing that. "Yeah but I almost forgot, speaking of old eggster we might have an Eggman problem here because of, well this." Lillian says using her Phantom ruby to open up a small null void pocket dimension causing badniks to fall out from it. "Badniks huh?Say, if you can get me some prop materials, I could probably make something to summon a version of sonic to help you guys." Stage master spoke, surprising the sisters as they did not expect that request. "Woah really you would do that for us?" Lillian asks. "That sounds cool, okay what do you need?" Sapphire asks. "Mainly, yellow fabric and blue string, maybe also a metal stripe, I think I'll make a ring to summon sonic, also, metal, I know how much you dislike the blue blur, but when I summon him, do not attack, ok? Good." Stagemaster explained as the two sisters nodded as they knew what they would set out to find once they got off of the train. While the train continued on its way to Canterlot, the two mobian sisters decided to ask Stagemaster what his world is like. "Hey Stagemaster, what's your Equestria like?" Sapphire asks as she took a seat in the train cart they're in. "Well, for one, I'm classified as a villain, and that is my goal for my world, not to rule it, or destroy it, I am mainly a villain who challenges and tests the heroes, you know what I mean?" Stagemaster spoke, surprising the sisters yet again. "Yeah I know what you mean, I think I read some stories back home that actually have villains doing just that too." Lillian nodded, understanding what the Stagemaster was saying. "Secondly, Ms.Magic here isn't really friends with the other element bearer's." Stage master spoke as he patted Twilight's head. "What why?" Sapphire asks, surprised. "Let's just say, trust is difficult to regain once it's lost." Stagemaster spoke with a gentle shake of his head. "Oh trust issues I understand that all too well, once you start losing trust in those close to you it'll be hard to regain said trust." Lillian says. "Hm, indeed, and it doesn't help that after the fact, they didn't even try to apologize to her, it led to some Agony in her soul." Stagemaster spoke as Twilight face hoofed and grumbled about 'stupid puns'. "I don't get it?" Sapphire says confused. "Oh right, you don't know about the parasite." Stage master punned yet again as he is suddenly smacked across the back of his head by a dark purple tendril coming from twilight's body. The two sisters got a familiar shiver going down their back when they saw this. "This feels like Grima all over again." Lillian says when she saw the tendril come out of twilight. "Grima? Who is that? Also, what you just saw was the symbiote named Agony, she helps Ms.Magic here when she needs to either fight or get out of a situation." Stagemaster asked and informed the sisters. "Wow really also Grima was another displaced person we summoned long before we summoned you they're well I guess fused within their twilight who is their sister and they gave us both the ability to use fire emblem spells." Sapphire informed Stagemaster. "Yeah and they kind of act like a venom sort of situation from what we saw." Lillian added. "Hm, well then, do you, by any chance, want to meet my version of Eggman? Or maybe want to see another thing I can do with my props?" Stagemaster asked the two sisters. Before the sisters can answer, they felt the whole train shake. "What the hell?!" Lillian says surprised. ".... i'm guessing that wasn't normal, if I had to guess what happened, I would say we have unwanted guests, let's meet them on the roof, shall we?" Stagemaster spoke as he shook off his surprise of the train shaking. "Yeah, let's." The sisters says with a nod. Stagemaster then pulled out a Phantom ruby of his own as he began to glow red, when the red glow stopped, the sisters were surprised to see a fusion of Stagemaster and Infinite. "Woah, that's cool." "You can admire his new look later, Sapphire, we need to get to the roof of the train." Lillian says opening up the train roof hatch. "Let us see what these buckets of bolts can do." Stagemaster spoke with a slightly deeper voice as he used his Phantom ruby to float to the roof. "Just so you girls know, when he fuses with a prop, he gains some of the personality traits of the character the prop represents." Twilight spoke as she coated her body with the Agony symbiote and used webs to pull herself to the roof. "That sounds cool." Sapphire says intrigued before her and Lillian jumped through the roof hatch and landed on the trains roof to see many badniks they knew of and ones they've never seen before like dragon like badniks and some manticore like badniks. "Okay those are new." Lillian says surprised. "Hmp, let us see how these bots do against the ultimate Puppeteer." Stagemaster spoke before using the phantom ruby to form Infinite's sword and began to attack the badniks. "Multiple Phantom Ruby signatures detected, destroy holders of the Rubies and retrieve rubies." One of the dragon badniks announced before firing a blast of energy at the group. "Tch, so they are after the rubies, very well, Switch!" Stagemaster yelled before being enveloped in a blue and yellow glow before reappearing and looking like a skeleton wearing a blue jacket as he looked at the badniks "ready to have a bad time?" Lillian and Sapphire smirks before pulling out their lightning and burst wispons before spindashing while activating their wispons as they were both covered in electricity and fire. "Fire and lightning dash!" Lillian and Sapphire yelled out charging at the badniks and tearing through some of them. "Alright you weird robots, we are hungry!" Twilight and Agony yelled as they jumped from badniks to badniks and bit them apart, even eating parts of the metal from the badniks they destroyed. The badniks fought back, firing blasts of energy at the group, almost hitting the sisters and the Stagemaster. "Ha! Nope." Stagemaster dodged an attack. "Nada!" And another. "Are you even trying?" And yet another. "C'mon, I can do way better than that!" Stagemaster taunted before getting hit in the arm. ".... Alright then, let's Put some pedal to the metal!" Stagemaster shouted before being encased in a dark light glow before being revealed as a fusion of tails doll and metal sonic. "Can you feel the sunshine?" "Igniting fusion protocol!" One of the badniks announced. "...wut." Stagemaster spoke with a raspy, robotic voice filled with confusion. Out of nowhere all of the remaining badniks starts turning into liquid metal before joining together and forming a very familiar robot dragon. "Oh dear god, its metal madness all over again!?" Stagemaster shouted in alarm. "Oh you gotta be kidding me, is this what I think it is?!" Sapphire shouted out in shock. "Oh if only I had brought the star rod, I could really use some chaos right now." Stagemaster spoke in annoyance. The metal madness dragon roared out before firing a beam of energy at the group. "NOPE!" Stagemaster shouted as he used metal sonic's speed to get everyone out of the way of the beam of energy, while constantly yelling nope over and over again. "We have to get this thing away from her before it destroys the train and everyone in it!" Sapphire yells out in concern. "I could try to use sans's shortcut ability to get it out of here, unless you two have anything that could give us the advantage in this fight." Stagemaster suggested. "Lillian, why don't we use your warp rings to teleport this thing somewhere far away?" Sapphire asks. "I think that might work, what do you think, Stagemaster you want to try it?" "Sure, it's our current best bet on defeating this thing." Stagemaster agreed with a nod. Lillian nods before pulling out a warp ring and throwing it behind the metal madness dragon as it opened up a portal as big as the robot. "Alright lets get it through the other side and fight it there!" Shouted Lillian. "Agreed." Stagemaster nodded before using his Phantom ruby to take on a massive size and attempt to tackle the silver metal madness copy through the warp ring. The metal madness copy tried pushing Stagemaster away with as much strength as it could muster but it was eventually pushed through the warp ring and into the everfree forest on the other side. When Stagemaster and the metal madness copy entered the warp ring, stage master used his Phantom giant form to rip a chunk of metal off of the copy. "Ha! Take that you scrap metal" Stagemaster gloated before getting slapped like a fly, sending him flying to the ground and losing his Phantom giant form. "That got to hurt." Lillian says after witnessing Stagemaster get slapped like a fly. Lillian, Sapphire, Miss Magic who grabbed Stagemaster jumped through the warp ring meeting the metal madness copy on the other side. "Hey Lillian, do you think the power of your magical mic can stun that thing or at least take it down?" Sapphire asked. "Maybe? I don't know I barely got this, remember so I haven't had time to practice with it but I can try." Lillian spoke as she readied her mic. The metal madness copy then set its sights on the sisters and began to charge at the mobians in hopes to crush them into the ground but was stopped by a beam of solar light forming a shield that prevented the metal madness copy from getting too close. (Celestia P.O.V.) I was waiting in the throne room waiting for the arrival of Twilight, her friends and the two Mobians sisters that arrived during the summer sun celebration; however, as I waited for their arrival I received a message from Twilight and when I read it I was shocked when I saw that those remaining members of Team Phantom had sent robots again to attack the train they're on. After reading the letter there was a sudden loud roar and after hearing such a loud roar I ran outside and flew up to see what could've caused it and what I saw made my blood go cold in the distance was the monstrous form of that robot from Team Phantom but this beast looked different. The monster that I'm seeing looked more silver then blue and what shocked me even more ways that huge portal appeared behind the mechanical monster and another enormous being appeared before it trying to push the monster through the portal and once they were through I saw they were now somehow in the everfree forest but the figure fighting the mechanical beast was taken down after being slapped. After seeing the figure being taken down the mechanical monster prepared itself to attack someone who also seem to be fighting the beast and not wanting to see whoever is fighting get hurt I decided to intervene so I lit up my horn reading my teleportation before teleporting to the everfree forest and just in time too as I formed a shield blocking the metal beasts attack. "I won't let you harm these warriors!" (Stagemaster P.O.V) After I had been brutally slapped aside by, what I'm going to call Mimic Madness, I saw celestia fly in and intercept Mimic with a shield, I know I will need to pull out all of the stops to defeat this thing so I pulled out all of the props I had on me, just as I were about to try and fuse with the props, I am interrupted by Ms.Magic as she grabbed me with her magic. "Stage, you know that's dangerous." She warned me but then released me from her magical grip. "I know, Magic, I know, but we also know you won't be able to convince me otherwise, so, see you in a bit if it works." I spoke as I fused with every prop I had, turning me into essentially a Discord of characters, I had metal sonic's left arm, sanses right arm, eggman's glasses, and bold head, I had the phantom ruby on my chest, and I was wearing Undyne's armor, the chest plate, the leggings, the helmet, the gauntlets, heck, I even had a cape! I think I'll call this form; "Fate's Hands!" The spirit of creativity. "Cool look Stagemaster but do you think you can hold that thing while I prepare a song because I'm about to put on a concert." Lillian says, holding out her magical mic. "Alright then, come and get me, you Neo Mimic!" I shouted as I summoned a gaster blaster and fired at the metal mimic. The mimic tried to dodge the blasters Lazer so I used my phantom ruby to bent the Laser back around to hit it in the back of its head to get the mimic dragon to turn around to see what hit it. "Miss Lillian, Miss Sapphire when this is done I want you to tell me who are your two companions and explain everything that happened." Celestia tells the Mobian sisters as she too attacks the copy of Metal Madness. "We'll try princess." Sapphire says before calling out her frenzied wisp and had it merge with her before attacking the giant robot. Lillian nods in agreement before taking a deep breath and started singing. After singing the Metal Madness copy started to struggle to move. Immediately after Lillian started singing, Ms.Magic sprouted her symbiote wings and flew up to the metal dragon and flew inside of it to rip it apart from the inside out. The giant robot roared in pain as it struggled to move and once 10 minutes had passed it was able to move again but it was too late as it had collapsed onto the ground before exploding. "Yes we did it!" Lillian and Sapphire say cheerfully after the defeat of the metal madness copy. "Right, we have definitely sated our- oh… hello celestia." Ms.Magic spoke with an unnoticed venom towards celestia as she climbed out of the wreckage of the metal mimic, she also saw from the corner of her eye Stagemaster changing back to normal as he walked over to celestia and the sisters. "Ah, it's nice to see a version of you I can work with, princess." I spoke as I gave the kind of bow a performer would to their audience. "Lillian, Sapphire, mind telling me who are your two companions?" Celestia asks the Mobian sisters aftering seeing me and miss magic unaware she's another version of twilight. "Oh um these two are Stagemaster and miss magic and they're uh friends we summoned from another dimension." Lillian answered. "Yeah we summoned them to help us fight those badniks that attacked the train before the remaining ones turned into this monster." Sapphire explains while pointing the destroyed Metal Madness copy behind them. Celestia looked between the sisters and the new visitors. "I see I believe I understand thank you the four of you if it wasn't for you four everyone on the train including Twilight and her friends would've been hurt so thank you for saving everyone." Ms.Magic visibly clenched her jaw, biting back a groan at the mention of the element bearer's. "Allow me to properly introduce ourselves princess, I am Stagemaster, the hero tester, and here is my magic general, Ms.Magic, otherwise known as Twilight Sparkle." I spoke with an overdramatic bow as Ms.Magic rolled her eyes as she removed her symbiote suit, surprising princess celestia. "Twilight but how I thought you were on the train with the others?" Celestia says surprised when she sees my world Twilight. "She may look like Twilight, Princess but she's not our Twilight, she's from another dimension like we mentioned before." Sapphire informs Celestia. "Oh I see alright well it's nice to meet you Stagemaster was it?" "You would be correct, princess. I am known as Stagemaster, the hero tester, it's a pleasure to meet you." I spoke as celestia became intrigued at the mention of the title 'hero tester'. "You'll have to tell me more about this being a hero tester at the castle after all I have something to tell these two about these attacks as it may involve beings from their world." Celestia informs pointing to the two Mobian sisters. "I would believe so, how else would badniks end up in this world, although, Lillian, Saphire, could we speak in private for a moment?" I spoke towards the princess and sisters. "Sure please give us a moment princess." Lillian says to Celestia. "Of course take your time." Celestia tells Lillian as she and Sapphire walked over to me. "Okay, what is it Stagemaster?" Sapphire asks me. "Does Celestia know about the displaced? I'm willing to bet that this… Eggman is also a displaced person like us, the original Eggman would never make a copy of Madness, so I would have reason to believe there is another displaced person in your world playing the role of the villain." I spoke as I pulled out the Eggman logo pin from my pocket. "No she doesn't and if we do have an Eggman displaced here when did he arrive? Me and Sapphire arrived here when Princess Luna was a being called Nightmare Moon." Lillian answered and hearing the way Lillian said it makes me believe she and her sister must not know about equestria being from a show. "Hm, I might be able to help with that but I'll need to summon my version of Eggman here, he could use the scraps from the metal mimic to build a machine using our special signatures to figure out our temporal arrangements to give us a good look at the times displaced have interacted with this world, it won't be able to look too far into the future but it could look thousands of years into the past, although, keep in mind that some aspects of your characters world definitely will enter this world be it the chaos emeralds, the master emerald, light Gaia or any of the villains or artifacts, most displaced aren't lucky enough to have the heroes of their characters worlds enter the world you were displaced as, that is mostly controlled by the one who displaced you, the void dwellers, more commonly known as the merchants." I gave a rather long explanation after I summoned my version of Eggman so he would know what to do. After seeing me summon Eggman, the Mobian sisters and Their world's Celestia were a bit cautious but Celestia looked more cautious. "So, eggy, you know what to do?" I spoke in a tone mixing how sonic would speak to Eggman to annoy him. "Yeah yeah, I got it, make something to scan you three to figure out when the other me got to this world, but, you know you could just ask celestia, right?" Eggman spoke as he rolled his eyes and walked towards the scrap pile. "He does have a point since she did say she wanted to speak to us about someone who might be from our world." Lillian says, agreeing with my Eggman. "True but I guess having a bit more info ahead of time won't hurt." Sapphire tells her sister. "So, what do you really know about Equestria so far? Like, the world, not the kingdom, I want to compare it to my version of equestria." I half lied to the sisters as I really did want to know more about their world but I also wanted to know if they were aware that they were in a world from a kids show. "Not that much really, we know that there's others kingdoms besides equestria and that's about it." Sapphire answered. "And that this world seems to also have a chao garden/ colony." Lillian added. "Hm, ok, that just confirmed two of my theories. First, our world's are definitely different, and second, you don't know the origin of our world's, or more accurately, the connection these Equestrias have with our home worlds. Another thing I'd like to mention, I am a little further into the timeline than you, I can't give much of a hint, but, just expect your future to be quite chaotic." I spoke as I placed a hand upon my chin in thought. The two sisters looked at each other confused before turning their attention back to me. "What do you mean this world is connected to our old world?" Before I could answer their question Eggy came in and interrupted our conversation. "The device is done and I got to say the materials I found seem more advanced for this world and more advanced than what I could make but we'll save that topic for another time and for now all I need to do is scan you three and then I'll be able to find traces of any other displaced here and when they arrived." "Alright Eggy." I say annoying to my world Eggman again as he grained at the name. "Scan away." "Alright hold still this won't take long at all." Eggy says before turning on his device as it covered me and the sisters in a bright green light before it disappeared. "Alright it's done and according to these readings there's traces of others displaced here there of them to exact and they're all female and according to what I'm reading they've been here since 1000 years ago." "Hm, so it's not so much an Eggman but an eggwoman." I spoke with interest. "And her being here a thousand years ago could also explain why the tech is so advanced, she had several years of practice." I continued with a thoughtful expression. "Are you three ready to go because I'm sure that Twilight well my Twilight and her friends are waiting for us back in canterlot." Celestia asks, breaking my train of thought. "Right, yeah, I think we should be good to go, but first, eggy, come here for a sec!" I shouted to my Eggman as he walked over to me. "Are you going now or something?" Eggman asked me with sarcasm, I nodded and de-summoned Eggman before looking back to celestia. "Ok, now we are ready, I do wonder how your Twilight will react upon meeting mine." I spoke as we all approached celestia so she could teleport us to Canterlot. > Bonus: the filly and the lifeform. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It had been a few minutes since dad and miss Twilight had been sent through that weird portal, mr eraser is keeping an eye on me and Eri, it was about time to go to bed when. a star shaped portal appeared. Before I had the chance to react, a strange creature fell out of the portal causing the portal to close. "Ughhh......w-where am I?..." the creature asked itself as it began to float. "....hello?" I asked the creature as they turned around.......their gaze....it felt like they were staring into my very soul... "W-who are you?" I asked in hopes to understand who and what this creature is. "I'm Elfilin.... I hope I'm in the right world... do you by chance know of the entity called Galeem?" The crea-Elfilin answered as they looked around the room. "Yea, I do, apparently it's planning on attacking my world.... but I'm not going to worry, I know dad will be able to kick it's flank." I confidently spoke as Elfilin just solemnly shook their head. "It's going to take much more than one creature to take down Galeem, but that is why I am here, to lend my powers to a creature who thinks outside the box, and, looking at you, you appear to be just the creature I'm looking for." Elfilin spoke......they want to give me their powers? Cook!........wait.... "What do you get out of this though, I don't think you would just give me your powers for nothing?" I asked the blue alien in confusion. "You are right, I am giving you my powers to fulfill a promise I made to a friend, as well as giving you all a better chance at defeating Galeem, he has already defeated the heroes of my world and many others, one worlds heroes isn't going to be enough, so, I entrust my powers to you to form a team of heroes and villains alike from throughout the multiverse, can I trust you on this?" Elfilin asked me....this could be a great help.... "Alright, I accept........how do I get your powers again?" I accepted the offer, if it's to help dad defeat Galeem, then I'm willing to do this, plus, cool powers! I could be a SUPERHERO! 'gasp!' What if I get my cutie mark?! "I will simply transfer my powers to your soul, but if I may ask.....what is a cutie mark?" Elfilin explained and asked....wait.... "I- how did you-" how? Did they read my mind? "Yes I did, and when I give you my powers, you will be able to read others minds as well, just don't abuse that one ok? Some things are very personal, so, it's probably best to only read surface thoughts.".......oh....I guess that explains it, cool! Mind reading! Oh, and yea, I'll be careful Mr Elfilin! "And for the cutie mark thing, it's a mark that appears on a ponies flank when they discover their special talent or destiny as some ponies call it." I explained what cutie marks were to Elfilin as he nodded and floated towards me as he spoke. "I do believe it is time for you to gain my powers, and before I give you them, I'll explain a few things about my powers first, firstly, there is my control and creation of dream and heart matter, dream matter is just that, the matter that comes from dreams, you can do alot with it, and heart matter is emotional energy, there is also my dimensional portal's letting me traverse the multiverse, and I believe lastly for the basics is my natural levitation." Elfilin explained and I've gotta say, coolest powers ever! "Now, for the more complicated stuff, dream matter can take on most any form, if you can dream it, you can make it, just be careful, the stronger the creation, the more tiring it is to make, you also recover your dream matter by sleeping, it can be any form of sleeping as well, be it, sleeping in your bed, daydreaming, fantasizing or just getting lost in thought, and if you add heart matter into your creations, you can give them a sort of life, they won't have a soul so they won't really be able to feel, but they will be able to think and will follow any command you give them, you understand so far?" Elfilin asked, I just nodded and motioned for Elfilin to continue. "You will also be able to teleport, shapeshifts, dream walk, mind control, open localized portals, levitate yourself and objects or creatures around you, or just shoot beams of pure energy, use telepathy to speak in other creatures minds, and empower others, however, unlike how I am going to give you my powers, empowering others won't give them access to my, and soon to be, your, powers, but instead, will boost their natural abilities and maybe give them a new ability based apon the creatures personality, I believe that is all I can tell you." Elfilin finished his explanation, I was just left speechless at how much power was being given to me, it's like I where to be given the powers of a final boss! "Well, you wouldn't be completely wrong there." I ho- oh, right...mind reading...wait. "Before you ask, yes, I technically was a final boss in an adventure." Elfilin confirmed, so cool!! "Alright, now to transfer my powers to you, also, keep in mind, it might hurt a tiny bit, it should be expected with the amount of power being transfered." Elfilin warned and I nodded, ready to be given his power's, Elfilin then floated to me and placed a paw on my forehead, just above my eyes, the next few moments were numbed by a mild pain in my wings and a headache, but after a while, I could tell that I had received Elfilin's power's, and because of them, I could feel that Elfilin had already left my world, probably to help other worlds like he did for mine by giving me his power's. "I so have to tell dad about this." I spoke as I opened a orange star shaped portal while thinking about dad and jumped through. > Stitching displaced part 2. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Lillian P.O.V.) After being teleported we found ourselves in a throne room with twilight and the others waiting for us but when they saw both Stagemaster and this Twilight they all had a look of shock, mostly Twilight when she saw her double. "Um hey girls sorry to keep you all waiting." "Well hello there, elements of harmony, my name is Stagemaster, stage for short, and this is the Twilight sparkle from my world, just call her magic." Stagemaster spoke with a cheeky grin holding back a laugh at their shocked expressions. "Now that everyone is here it's about time I explain what's been going on please follow me." Celestia says as she starts leaving the throne room a we call followed while the girls talking amongst themselves most likely talking about Stagemaster and this Twilight especially with our Twilight constantly looking at his. "Psst Lillian, Sapphire, mind telling us where this friend of yours came from and how there's two Twilights?" Rainbow asks me and Sapphire in a whispered tone. "Oh um well like he mentioned before, his name is Stagemaster and well him and the Twilight next to him are from another version of Equestria." Sapphire answered. "Yeah and well we summoned them here in hopes they might help us with what's been going on recently." I added while looking at our Twilight asks Magic a lot of questions. "Yea, they summoned us while I was having a particularly boring meeting with My team, so, yea, and if we are dealing with what I believe we are, then I'll be able to help you lot, even after I go back to my world with Magic." Stagemaster spoke startling them as they didn't notice him walk up behind them. "Hm? Oh, you want to talk to them? Ok, but make sure to tone down the crazy, ok? Ok." Stagemaster spoke to himself before his entire body became pitch black with red accents. "Nice to meet ya, the name's Null, I guess you can say I'm the dark side to stage's moon, heh, unintentional pun." Sta-Null spoke to the ponies as he pulled out a bar of chocolate from behind his back and began to eat the chocolate, he also gave some of the chocolate to pinkie pie. The other ponies just looked at Null blinking a few times before rainbow dash speaks. ".....what…are you?" Rainbow asked in a surprised bluntness. "A living puppet." Null answered nonchalantly. "I know there's others displaced with different abilities and personality than us but I didn't think Stagemaster would have a split personality?" Sapphire whispered to me. "Yeah but hey like you said Sapph other displaced people might be different from us." I whispered back before noticing Celestia stopping in front of what looked like what I think was called a mural window before noticing we're standing in a hallway with many other windows with images on them. "Now I'm sure you all are wondering what's been going on and why Equestria is being attacked by robots, am I right?" Celestia asks getting everyone attention. "Yes Princess these robots just came out of nowhere and started attacking ponyville and from what we saw when we came to canterlot they seem to attack here and us on the train." Twilight says walking up Celestia. "Yeah princess what's going on and where did those things come from?" Rainbow asks. "These attacks are caused by a group of individuals Luna and I defeated a 1000 years ago they called themselves team phantom." Celestia says looking up the window she stopped at and when Sapphire and I looked up at it we were surprised to see three beings standing over a burning equestria but the three beings are what surprised as it showed what looked to be a female Infinite, a female Neo Metal Sonic and the fan character Omelette. "Lillian aren't those…?" Sapphire asks before I interrupted her with my answer. "Yes, a female Infinite, Neo Metal and Omelette." I saw in a whisper. "Who are they?" Rarity asks. "The robotic hedgehog is known as Metal Sonica, the young girl is known as Omelette while the last one is their leader who called herself Infinity." Celestia says telling us their names. "Hm, so his theory was half correct." Null spoke with an amused chuckle as Celestia turned around and saw Null for the first time. "Stagemaster, what happened to you?" Celestia asks in shock when she finally noticed Stagemaster as Null. "it is nice to meet you, Celestia, but I'm not my brother, you may call me Null, and no, I'm not evil per say, even though I do look the part if I do say so myself." Null spoke as he bowed dramatically. Celestia looked at Null skeptical until Sapphire interrupted. "Uh sorry princess Stagemaster kind of has a split personality." "Yeah it's true." I added so Celestia doesn't attack Null. "Indeed, however, we should refocus on these three and how we will plan your counter plans for them." Null spoke as he pointed back at the mural window. "Right, as I was saying those three who called themselves Team Phantom, they tried conquering Equestria many moons ago, they wielded the power of 8 unique gems one of which I believe you hold Lillian." Celestia spoke, getting a surprised look from the main six. "You mean the Phantom Ruby?" I say holding out my Phantom Ruby. "Yes, that is what they called that gem, however, there's more." Celestia says. "The chaos emeralds right?" Stagemaster spoke, getting a surprised look from Celestia. "Yes, I'm surprised you knew about them." Celestia says. "But anyways as I was saying they used these gems to subjugate and conquer Equestria and sadly my sister and I were no match for them since the Phantom Ruby their leader wields warped our reality so we had to ask help from someone, an old friend of ours and with their help we were able to defeat the three of them, however, two of them got away as their leader stayed behind as me, Luna and our friend used our combined powers to seal their leader in stone and after that day the remaining members hadn't made a single move until today." "Hm, they probably used cryogenic freezing technology to keep, at least, Omelette's body and mind alive for all this time, they probably did this to wait out the time it would take for their leader to…..escape..oh.." Stagemaster spoke of a possibility for Team Phantom's lack of attacks. "Ahm sorry Cryo what now?" Applejack asked. "Yeah and what do you mean wait for their leader to escape?" Rainbow added. "Cryogenic freeze, they freeze their body in a small container like tube, the tube keeps the body alive for much longer than it should be able to due to the freezing of the body, and when something is sealed away, it usually only lasts for a thousand years, or moons as you call them." Stagemaster spoke as he paced back and forth. Everyone looked confused while the Twilight's looked interested. "I see, well back to the topic of the Phantom Ruby, after we sealed the leader of Team Phantom, we took their Phantom Ruby and kept it sealed away ever since, that was until the day you and your sister arrived when Nightmare moon returned Lillian." Celestia says surprising me and Sapphire. "Wait, is she saying what I think she's saying." I thought to myself. "When I saw you wielding your Phantom Ruby, I had thought you were with Team Phantom so I had Luna watch over you two in your dreams to find any trace of them in you two but she saw nothing and when I went to see if the Phantom Ruby I kept hidden was taken, I saw it was still in my possession." Celestia explained shocking Sapphire and I. "Hm, well, I do have a few plans in mind that might help you fight the remaining members of Team Phantom, one of which I had already talked to Lillian and Sapphire about, you see, my main ability is to make props that represent a curtain creature and use the prop to summon a copy of them, I'm planning on making a prop to summon the creature Metal Sonica was based on, and no, they don't work with the bad guys, they actually are quite the powerful hero, not to mention their title as the fastest thing alive." Stagemaster spoke, mentioning the hero's title to mess with Rainbow. Sapphire and I just facepalm since Stagemaster is going to give us the summoning item. It means Rainbow will constantly ask us to bring them out for a race. "Thanks, Stagemaster." I said, a bit annoyed now. "And not to mention, they have great control over the chaos emeralds, their name is Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog, he is a mobian like Lillian and Sapphire, and just so you know, don't expect him to stay in one place for very long, he is a free spirit who goes wherever the wind takes him, once he is summoned, I don't think there will be a need not chance to un-summon him." Stagemaster spoke, surprising the group except for me and Sapphire. "He sounds like someone I could get along with." Rainbow says excitedly. Just then, a note appeared before Stagemaster as it says. Dear displaced, I'm here to inform you that the Sonic you will make in this world will actually be turned into Sonica as this world involves gender swapped characters, the sisters may not have met some of this world's gender swapped characters yet so I advise you keep what I said to yourself. From Michel the merchant. ".....you can communicate with the merchant?" Stagemaster spoke in complete shock as he hid the note in his jacket. "Merchant?" Celestia asks, confused. "Ah it's nothing, he's just joking." Sapphire and I say with a nervous chuckle. "... right, inside joke, you wouldn't understand." Stagemaster added with a look towards me and my sister as if to tell us 'please, explain later.'. "Yeah, anyways, princess, if this is all you have to tell us, do you think we can step out for a while to get the things, Stagemaster needs?" I asked. "Oh um of course you may leave. I also have rooms prepared for all of you to stay in." Celestia says as we call nodded before heading off. As I, Sapphire and Stagemaster walked out, we could see the still shocked look on his face as he spoke quietly so only we could hear him. "Do you know how rare it is for a merchant to actually interact with those they displace?!" Stagemaster whispered in lingering shock. "No, how Rare?" I asked. "About a one in a million chance…" Stagemaster spoke, still processing the information he learnt from the letter, as well as the fact the letter even arrived in the first place. "We had no idea we just thought it was common since we really don't know that much about the displaced universe. Also, not only do we interact with him but we buy stuff from him through our phones." Sapphire says pulling out her phone and showing him the merchant shopping app Michel gave us when he returned our phones. "..." stagemaster didn't verbally respond but when we looked at him, we could see him comically holding back the urge to yell a 'WHAT?!' as we were in public right now. Seeing his face, Sapphire and I just chuckled as we got to the first shop with one of the items we need for the prop. "...is this how Rarity feels when her coat gets messy?" Stagemaster joked to calm himself down. "Sorry if our world is different from yours Stagemaster." I said apologetically as we entered the shop. "No, no, it's fine, I guess I just forgot how endless possibilities in different worlds can get." Stagemaster spoke, accidentally making a pun with a song name. "Besides, I have to find a way to deal with Galeem in my world." Stagemaster spoke. "Who's Galeem?" Sapphire asked. "Do you two know what super smash Brothers is?" Stagemaster asked the two of us. "Yeah but we never really played the game that much so we don't really know that much about it." I answered. "Galeem, he is the main villain of the newest smash game, he wiped out the entirety of the smash bros universe, except for Kirby because of his warp star getting him out of the universe just before it was destroyed and rewritten.." Stagemaster explained, shocking the two of us. "Woah, that's horrible." I say in shock while Sapphire went and bought the first item we needed. "That's not even the end, quite the opposite really, that happened at the start of the story mode, Galeem captured all of the fighters and used them to make clones to fight for him, he even used the souls of those unlucky enough to lose their bodies to Galeem's attack." Stagemaster spoke, surprising us even more. "Wow really, also, here's one of the items you wanted." Sapphire says handing over the first item Stagemaster needs to make the prop. "Ah, thank you sapphire, and to be honest? I'm genuinely terrified of Galeem, not because of his power, but because he looks like a biblically accurate angle, just without the eyes; those things always gave me nightmares as a kid." Stagemaster visibly shivered at the thought of Galeem's appearance. "Really you were scared of a video game character as a kid?" I say chuckling a little after hearing that part. "Lillian, don't be rude." Sapphire says, scolding me. "Trust me, you do not know the horrors that are biblically accurate angels, their appearance alone scares Lucifer, y'know the devil, fear itself, actually…how old are you two? It's hard to tell with mobian's, I'm 28." Stagemaster started very serious but ended up curious. "Oh I'm 21." I answered. "Same and we may not look it because of how we look now but we're actually twins." Sapphire added as we get to the next shop with the second item we needed. "Right then, shall we head on to the next item? I wonder, what do you think our pony friends are doing?" Stagemaster asked. (Twilight-SM P.O.V) 'Why do I have to spend time with them?' I thought in annoyance as Stagemaster had left me with this world's element bearer's. "So um Twilight or should we just call you Ms. Magic since this is a little awkward for me seeing how there's like two of me now." My other worldly counterpart says, sounding a bit nervous. "How about we call you Twilight and me Sparkle? It's simple enough." I suggest the names to my other worldly reflection. "Oh um alright well Sparkle what's your Equestria like is it more advance then our Equestria are there more advanced spells that can be learned there than here or is everything the same?" Twilight Asked me. "...mostly the same, although, I think my timeline is further along than yours, and before you ask, no, I'm not going to tell you anything about the future, it would mess with your timeline, although, I can tell you a bit about Stagemaster and his role in my world." I answered Twilight's question ...I never thought that would be a sentence I would think. "I understand and yes please do, I want to learn all that I can, like when would you ever get another chance to learn about alternate universes from an alternate version of yourself am I right?" Twilight says excitedly. "Heh, right. Well, to start, Stage is playing the role of the villain to secretly train me and the others from my world, so far only me and my version of celestia knows about it, oh, he also adopted my version of Scootaloo." I spoke as the room suddenly went quiet…why do I have the feeling that I said something I shouldn't have? "He what?!" Twilight shouted. "....he adopted my version of Scootaloo? If you think that is shocking, well, he's planning on giving nightmare moon a second chance at life, y'know, without the evil, separate from luna as well." I spoke as I held back a laugh at their shocked expressions. "I'm sorry but this is kind of a lot to process." Twilight says, taking a seat next to me as she tries processing everything she heard. "It's fine, I had a similar reaction….say, you wanna see something else different between us because of Stagemaster?" I asked Twilight and waited for her to respond ... .only to be interrupted when the other element bearer's walk into the room. "Hey Twilight and um Twilight?" Pinkie says a little confused still not used to seeing two of me in her world. "....Just call me Sparkle.. What did you need, Pinkie?" I spoke in a well contained annoyance, none of them even noticed, good. "Oh we just wanted to see if you know where Lillian, Sapphire and Stagemaster went also because the Narrators had us interrupt your conversation." Pinkie says, making me and everyone confused about the last part she said. "(Hey pinkie no fourth wall breaking I may find it funny when you do on other stories but not now.-Narrator)" "(What, you can't have me in a story without me breaking them fourth wall every now and then silly.-Pinkie)" "(Fine but might want to stop talking to me Sparkle and the others are looking at you.)-Narrator" "(Oh okay bye Narrators.-Pinkie)" ".....I'm not going to question it, I already have to deal with the illogical stuff Stagemaster does, talking with creatures he calls 'viewers' through a device called a 'phone', mentioning something called the fourth wall, don't know what that is and frankly I don't care, also, for your question, stage and the two mobians are getting materials for stage to make a prop to do another thing that would probably have Twilight here have a mental breakdown." I answered with a slight rant, I already learnt my lesson with her, I'm not having another piano fall on my head, I've just gotta accept that pinkie is illogical to the universe, logic has nothing on that mare. …..why is pinkie looking at me like that?..... Should I be worried?....Why is she getting closer?.....what do I do here?!...why is she smiling now? Wait…remember what stage said, 'it's pinkie pie, don't question it.' "Stagemaster can break the fourth wall too? Awesome so he knows about the people beyond our world." Pinkie says excitedly while everyone just shakes their heads thinking that she's just being her random self and I don't blame them. "I-wait…..that's what you've been doing?! I.. I mean, it certainly explains a few things, but I wouldn't have expected you to be able to communicate with the 'viewers' as Stagemaster calls them, without a special device…huh.. i… that is actually refreshing to know." I spoke my thoughts while writing them down before looking up and seeing the expressions on the others' faces. Pinkie was trying not to laugh, Rainbow looked bored, Applejack looked confused, Rarity looked surprisingly intrigued, Fluttershy looked shy as always and Twilight was looking at my notes while writing her own. (Sapphire P.O.V.) It was intriguing hearing how Stagemaster's world was different from our own and hearing everything he went through in his Equestria and how interesting it is to know more about the displaced multiverse from him. "Hm, so far we have gotten two out of the five items I need to make the prop to summon the blue blur, while we walk, what else do you want to know about my world?" Stagemaster asked the two of us. "Well since you make props to basically summon clones of characters from shows and games, who else do you have besides metal and Eggman?" I asked. "Hm, well I've made many props, let me see, there's sans, undyne, Spiderman, infinite, GLaDOS, Doofenshmirtz, parry, Aizawa, Eri, agony, Mario, Luigi, peach, Bowser, Yoshi, Vivian, Betty noire; the soul of fear, maybe chaos, I do have some props that I haven't tried to summon characters for, I believe….oh, I have one here with me right now, I guess I forgot to take it off." Stagemaster spoke as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small pin that looked like a moth mixed with a butterfly. "Wait, is that a miraculous?" Lillian asked. "Yup, wanna meet Nooroo?" Stagemaster confirmed Lillian's question and asked if we wanted to meet the Kwami of the miraculous. "Hell yeah!" Lillian says excitedly as I rolled my eyes as she and Stagemaster stopped walking. "You two can continue that chat. I'm going to get the last three items you need Stagemaster." I called out looking at the list of the items Stage master needed. "Alright, have fun Sapphire, and for you Lillian, you can come out now Nooroo." Stagemaster spoke as I walked away to get the other items. (Lillian P.O.V.) I watched the Kwami appear with excitement as I wasn't just a sonic fan but I was also a bit of a ladybug fan too. "So cute!" "Indeed she is." Stagemaster spoke as Nooroo blushed in embarrassment trying to hide her face, but her hands were too small. "Oh this is the female Nooroo from the Ladybug movie instead of the male one from the show?" I asked whispering to Stagemaster. "It's technically both, she has the memories of both of the Nooroo's, but she prefers to go by the feminine pronouns." Stagemaster whispered back. "She is also much more shy than the originals." Stagemaster continued as Nooroo floated to him. "S-stage? W-where are w-we?" Nooroo asked, sounding a lot like Fluttershy would. "So cute and hey there you're in another dimension different from the one you came from." I say finding this version of Nooroo adorable. "I-what?" Nooroo asked, not expecting that answer. "We're in another world Roo, I was summoned by this mobian here called Lillian, she, alongside her sister Sapphire, are currently dealing with a few other displaced, so I'm making a prop to summon someone to help them, we were talking whilst we walked and Lillian here asked me what kind of characters I have made summoner props for as of now, I told her about them and remembered about your summoner prop and summoned you and now here we are." Stagemaster recounted most of what happened after he was summoned to our world, leaving out the details of fighting the badniks and that metal copy. "Hey guys I'm back and I got everything." Sapphire called out holding a few bags. "Cool, I guess we should head back to the others now, right?" Stagemaster asked as me and Sapphire nodded before I quickly took Nooroo into my hands and showed her to Sapphire. (Twilight's (D.M.S) P.O.V) As I talk with other me and my friends, I can't help but notice that the other me seems to give very short explanations or answers to my friends questions when I know for a fact we both could have answered the questions with 200% more detail…it's almost like she doesn't want to talk to them at all. "Hey um Sparkle can I ask you something?" I asked my other self. "Sure, what do you want to ask?" My other self responded. "Why is it that you gave short explanations to everyone and look hesitant around them?" I asked, the others listening besides me. "....I'll just say I don't have the…..best, relationship with the girls from my world, I can clearly tell you all are different here, it's just… difficult considering you look exactly like the girls from my world, that's all." Sparkle answered as we all looked at her in surprise, but before we could respond, we heard the doors to the room opening, when we looked at the doors, we saw Stagemaster, Sapphire and Lillian enter. "Hey guys we're back!" Lillian yelled out as she entered the room. "And we got everything I need to make the prop, I'll go and do that now, you all just talk together for now." Stagemaster spoke as he walked into another room with a few bags in his hands. After Stagemaster left the room, a orange, star-shaped portal appeared where he last stood, and from the portal, a familiar filly appeared. "Ugh, this isn't where I wanted to be, I wanted to be next to dad, stupid portals…" the filly grumbled before looking around the room. "Hm? Oh, hi ms.magic!" The filly spoke before waving towards Sparkle. "Scootaloo!?" Rainbow says surprised to see Scootaloo. "Hi rainbow dash that isn't from my world!" Scootaloo waved towards the rainbow Pegasus, revealing that she is most likely from Stagemaster's world. "Scootaloo….how did you get here?" Sparkle asked Scootaloo in confusion. "Well, after you and dad were taken to…well here, a blue star shaped portal opened up in my room and a creature named Elfilin came out of it and explained that they were going to give me their powers because I'm apparently more creative than them? Anyway, after they gave me their powers, I opened a portal and came here, but I don't really see dad…where is he?" Scootaloo explained, surprising everypony, and mobian in the room. "Um he just left to the next room kid." Lillian answered. "Yeah he's going to make us something to help us with our world problem." Sapphire answered. "Oh, I guess it's another prop, welp, guess I'll just talk with you all for now, when dad gets into making a prop, he solely focuses on it." Scootaloo spoke with a shrug as she walked over to Sparkle. "So tell us Scoots how did you get here again and why are you um looking for your dad?" Sapphire asked Scootaloo. "Well, after dad and ms.magic were taken here, a small star shaped portal opened in my room and a blue, weirdly heart shaped alien fell out of it, they said their name was Elfilin, they gave me their powers, which, is a lot, anyway, after Elfilin gave me their powers, I just opened a portal while thinking of dad, and now I'm here." Scootaloo explained as she created a small, star shaped platform under her and began to float before closing her eyes and focusing on something? ("Scootaloo: hi narrator's!") ("Pinkie:Wait, you can break the fourth wall too?!") ('Scootaloo:after I got Elfilin's powers, yea.") ("Oh come on, again. Sighs. What is it Scoots?) (Scootaloo:just letting you and the audience know I can break the fourth wall, I'm going to stop breaking it after this line of text, ok bye!) "What were you doing?" Sapphire asked Scootaloo. "Uh, just thinking about what I could do with these new power's to get my cutie mark?" Scootaloo answered with a nervous shrug. Just before anything else could be said, the doors to the room opened again and Stagemaster walked in with princess celestia and princess luna, Stagemaster was holding a box with what appeared to be a blue creature's head stitched into what would be the 'screen' of the box itself. "-and that's when I jumped down making my entrance, and, just so you know, he isn't irredeemable, it'll take some work but, he'll come around, all it takes is a little bit of kindness." Stagemaster spoke to the princesses as they walked into the room. "Yo Stage your kid here." Lillian called out to what I guess is Stagemaster new nickname. "I-what?" Stagemaster blinked in confusion before he saw Scootaloo floating on the star-shaped platform. "...ok then, anyways, I just finished the prop, I made it look like an extra life box with a base of green hills grass, do you want me to summon them now or?" Stagemaster asked as he held out the box to Lillian and Sapphire. "No, we're good, we'll summon them when the time is right. We also decided to get you something before we send you and your companions back home." "Yeah we decided to let you have some of the badniks we defeated since they're advanced I'm sure you and your Eggman can use them to stop that villain in your world you know make something strong enough to fight against them." Sapphire added. "Ah, that makes sense, and thanks, you do know how to send a displaced back to their world right?" Stagemaster asked as he gave Lillian and Sapphire the extra life prop. "You're welcome and yeah I believe it was 'our meeting is complete' right?" Sapphire asked. "Just about right, there are also some other ways to say it, you just replace the word meeting with words that have similar meanings." Stagemaster explained. "Oh yeah, well before we send you off, mind opening a small null void pocket dimension so I can dump some of the badniks we destroyed into it, you do know how to make a null void pocket dimension right?" Lillian asked. "Yea, it'll be the first time making one for me but, it should be fine, it's pretty easy for me to copy abilities I've seen and I've watched some of my 'recruits' training with the phantom ruby's summoned character." Stagemaster spoke before he pulled out his Phantom ruby. "Alright open it up and I'll drop the parts in it" Lillian says, pulling out her Ruby as well. Stagemaster nodded before he held up his Phantom Ruby and focused on opening a Null Void pocket dimension, and slowly but surely a portal opened. Lillian smiled before opening up her own pocket dimension as many destroyed robots fall out from her pocket dimension and into Stagemaster's before closing her portal up. "Alright, there you go, now you guys ready to go back home?" "We should….oh right, I forgot to tell you how to summon them, just hold the prop in your hands and use a small charge from any energy source to activate its magic and the prop will do the rest." Stage master explained. "Oh thanks, we'll make sure to remember that." Sapphire says happily. "Alright let's do this." Lillian told Sapphire as she nodded before yelling out. "Our contract is complete!" They both yelled out before a portal appeared behind Stagemaster. "Heh, see you all soon and good luck against team Phantom!" Stagemaster yelled out before jumping into the portal. "You too kick that so-called God's ass." Lillian called back to him. "Indeed, it was very…educational meeting you all, I wish you the best of luck." Sparkle spoke as she walked through the portal as it closed before a puppet landed in front Lillian and Sapphire as they picked it up. "So, is that what dad's token looks like? Cool." Scootaloo spoke, making everypony realize she was still in the room. "I'm sorry, token?" I asked, confused. "Do you want me to explain? Cause I can explain it." Scootaloo asked the mobian sisters. "No no, it's all too complicated. Why don't you portal back to your father scoots." Sapphire says trying to rush Scootaloo back to her world. "Oh, okay, well, bye, and make sure to kick the bad guys' flanks!" Scootaloo shouted as she opened a star shaped portal and jumped in. back in Stagemaster's dimention Stagemaster and ms.magic had just emerged from the portal to see Aizawa and Doofenshmirtz running around the shadows resort in a panic before a star shaped portal appeared besides Stagemaster. "....I probably should have told them about this before you." Scootaloo eventually spoke. "To quote your friends older brother Scoots, Eeyup." Stagemaster spoke, making Scootaloo burst out laughing. "But there is something I want to know Scoots." Stagemaster asked his daughter. "Yea dad?" Scootaloo responded. "How did you get these powers?" Stagemaster asked. "Well, after you left with ms Twilight, a creature named Elfilin-" Scootaloo started to speak, only to be interrupted. "Ah, right, Elfilin, ok, that gives me an idea, scoots, these powers can prove to be a great help, I've heard of another Equestria where another you, alongside the other members of the CMC from other worlds had great powers like these and formed a multiverse alliance to stop powerful villains, and with Elfilin's powers, you can do the same, can I trust you to do this?" Stagemaster explained this great task to his daughter. "HECK YEA!!" > A heartwarming conversation. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After I had calmed down the pro hero and the doctor, I de-summoned everyone I had taken with me, I did have to quickly send Scootaloo back to Lillian's world as the narrator's for those two chapters forgot I had brought and summoned metal in their world, anyway, after that, I told Scootaloo that she could bring the CMC here next weekend if she wanted to as a way to let them know why she might just disappear every now and then with her new responsibility with her new powers, speaking of her new powers, Scootaloo decided to head out to her first world to find heroes to help us against Galeem. And right now, I'm preparing to talk to celestia and Luna about Galeem and what I'm going to be doing during the holidays, or rather what I'm not going to do during those special days. "Let's hope this goes well." I mutter to myself as I open a warp gate and step through, to immediately have spears pointed at my neck, at least the guards are getting better at their jobs. "Hello Celestia, Luna, I have come here to inform you of the times you will not need to worry about any...'evil' from me or my team." I spoke calmly despite the plethora of spears pointed at me, and that's only the ones I can see. "What do you mean Stagemaster?" Celestia asked, it appears that I've peaked her interest. "Well, princess, it means that I will not be planning on either, attacking, antagonizing and or anything else that would purposely harm your subjects either physically or emotionally." I answered the princesses question with a respectful bow. "With that being said, you, alongside the element bearer's will still be briefly be seeing me this heartwarming, I may not look it, but I do enjoy the simple pleasures of giving heartwarming gifts, it was quite the tradition in my land, and I am looking forward to continuing the tradition here as well, have a gracious day, and a beautiful night, I bid you adu." I continued my speech before ending with a bow as I left the throne room via warp gate. "Now, what gifts could I give everypony without it being obvious that it's to help them fight me...meh, even if they do find out and question me, I can just tell them it's to add some action into the story, they do seem to be my theme even though I haven't actually done anything as of yet, it's really just been alot, and I do mean alot of planning and preparing for everything." I spoke to myself as I threw around some ideas for the gifts, I still have a while away until heartwarming, but, as any Christmas expert, I've gotta be prepared extra early, as the saying goes, the earlybird gets the worm. Now, I've just got to figure out what to get each of them, let's start with the main character of this show, Twilight Sparkle. "Hm, I could always give her a grimoire, that way she could have a safer way of developing her own spells, as well as enhancing the strength of the spells she already knows, it is also one of the more obvious gifts I could give her, I mean, she literally lives in a library, yea, a grimoire it is." I spoke to myself as I brought out a note book and wrote my first gift to give. Next we have, Spike, what can I get for the little drake? "Hm, a very difficult question me, let's see, a Pokemon? Nah, Magic would be furious with me, jumping boots? Nope, the kids already got quite the strong legs, hm, maybe something protective....shield projecting gloves...yes, yes that's perfect!" Another gift ready to be made. Then there's Pinkie. "Hm, what do I give the toon force pony? Portable party cannons? Maybe even a party hammer? Oh, that's a good one, party hammer it is." I wonder how many parties will be hammered in with his gift. Next should be applejack. "Ok, this one is simple, I even have it already made, the lasso of truth." I mean, duh, element of honesty? Lasso of truth? Obviously the perfect gift. Now we should be at, Rainbow Dash. "Hm, let's see, she likes to fly fast, but when she gets to top speed, or there is something obstructing her vision, she can't get as fast or precise as she wants... Aha! Thermal goggles, I could probably also give it a function to show the environment as well when in a smoke screen, or if she I blinded, yea, perfect for this speedy Pegasus." Speedy gift for the speedy mare. Next we should have... Rarity. "This gift needs to be refined....but how? Power crystals maybe? No.... might accidentally use them in a dress, hm, maybe some accessories with their own abilities unique to the piece, like some boots that will let her jump higher and a saddle pach that will let her hover while she scans out an area, and maybe even a hat and glasses for detective work, and I could also make them extra portable as well, yes, that could work." Fashionable and functional, perfect for a lady so rare don't you agree? And last but not least from the elements, Fluttershy. "Definitely something to support her friends, a brewing kit maybe? And a refilling bag of ingredients, that could actually work, maybe I should get something for Angel as well, maybe a carrot plush? Or maybe something to keep him safe while Fluttershy is on an adventure... maybe something like a mini helper bot, oh, I know, how about a less annoying Omochao, it's perfect for the two of them." Heh, two gifts with one paragraph. Next we have the princesses of the sun and moon. "Hm, maybe some armour, I could also have it be solar powered as well, maybe give it some chaos Jem's to make it less affected by physics to make it easier to move around in....I probably could also make some matching armour for luna, I'll just have to make it lunar powered instead, and I'll have to make it so the princesses themselves can power the armour with their magic as well, maybe also give them a unique function? Maybe duplication spells for Celestia and shadow walking for Luna...yea, yea that'll work." Armour for the princesses? Simple enough, duplication and shadow walking? May need some chaos. And finally, Scootaloo, and maybe her friends as well. "I'll get Scoots an upgraded scooter, maybe I could get applebloom some tools, materials, any maybe also some blue prints for some upgrades to the CMC clubhouse, and maybe some new bow? Yea a new bow could be nice, and for Sweetie, a plush if Kirby? Yea, that would be cute as all hell, welp, I've got everything I need to get ready." Heh, I can totally feel the CMC going, 'Cutie mark gift givers! YAY!!!' Heh, those three will never stop being cute. Welp, time to make some heartwarming gifts. ...... maybe I should make her as well. > Stellar Entropy. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's been about two days since I've made the gifts for everypony, I had already decided on gifts for everyone else ever since I had summoned them, but I'll get to that another day, right now, it'll be Heartswarming in a weeks time, and I guess I could give Scoots an early birthday present. It is for that reason that I am currently walking into the castle of the two sisters, I've been debating on whether or not to do this for a while now, but, thanks to my new magic, knowing about Galeem, and just recently meeting displaced sisters, I have decided to finally bring back Nightmare moon, with a twist. I've just about gotten to the room nightmare was defeated and....yup, there it is, nightmares old armour, and it still has her magic in it, let's hope this works... "YB eht cigam fo ecnalab dna redrosid, I nommus eht eram fo ssenkrad!!" I spoke backwards, also, heres the translation; BY the magic of balance and disorder, I summon the mare of darkness!!:. When I spoke those incantations, I threw many chaos Jem's onto the armour and used the star rod as a conduit for my magic to form the body I wanted for this new entity, when I finished, I could feel that I had succeeded, I had brought her back, but she was very different, her main and tail was a swirl of pink and purple galaxies, her coat was a dark purple, her eyes were spirals of pink and purple and her cutie mark was a black whole surrounded by galaxies of cotton candy. And what really proved that she was a different mare was when she spoke. "W-where am I? A-a-and who are y-you?!" The young mare shouted in panic. "Please, remain calm, tell me, what do you remember?" I asked so I could know where I should begin my explanation. "W-well, I remember being....angry, upset and strangely, insane in the way I thought.... as if the only things I could think we're.... darkness and chaos...." she spoke as she sat down on the ground and looked at her hooves, so she remembers parts of nightmares and discords thought patterns and nothing else eey? Well that will make it easier to explain then. "You would be half right there little one, you see, you were once a being known as nightmare moon, she was an evil and misunderstood mare who wanted to bring an eternal night, I had revived you with the magic of a creature known as Discord, the spirit of chaos, and now, you are given a second chance as the child reborn from both, you are the night sky given life through change, I have a name for you if you would like to hear it?." I asked the filly as she looked at me with a genuinely surprised look on her face. "I uh... y-yea, sure..." she answered as she gave a slow nod, trying to process the information I had just given her. "The name I thought of you is... Stellar Entropy, what do you think?" I asked as she looked at me with the same confusion as before, but now, there are stars sparkling in her eyes as well as the spirals of confusion. "I...I love it! So, I'm Stellar Entropy... thank you... thank you for giving me a chance at life..." Stellar thanked me, even though she didn't have to, heh, it felt nice to be thanked. "Let's go to my base ok? You can meet my daughter, and maybe your sister if you would allow me to be your father?" I asked as I opened a warp gate for us. "R-really? You would do that for me? I, I don't know how to thank you for all this...." the thanked me again as I just smiled and led her into the shadows resort. "You don't have to, just live your life and you'll be thanking me more than enough, now, let's go introduce you to everyone, ok?" I spoke as we walked down a hallway and met with Aizawa and Eri. "Oh, hey there eraser, can you bring everyone to the cafeteria for me? Thanks!" I called out as I ran into the cafeteria with Stellar Entropy. It was a few minutes before everyone got here but, non the less. "Ok everyone, I want to introduce to you the newest member of the family, Stellar Entropy!" I shouted as I picked up Stellar and held her in the air. "From today onwards, she will be living with us, she is here as she has lived a life of tragedy, she used to be the entity known as Nightmare Moon, and she has been revived through chaos magic making her quite powerful, she will be a great ally and family member, why don't you all get to know each other while I go fix some things ok?" I tell everyone as I stand up and leave the room, only to quickly enter my room and watching the scenario through the cameras of the base. "So, uhh, what are your names?" Stellar asked everyone. "The names Eggman, but if you want, you can call me Ivo, it's nice to meet you kid." Eggman spoke as he pat her head. "heya, the names sans, sans the skeleton, and I've gotta say, your cutie mark really is outta this world! hehehe." Sans punned, making everyone either groan, chuckle, face palm, or laugh. "My name is Heinze Doofenshmirtz, but you can just call me Doof, it's easier to say and remember, and this right here is Parry, he's a platypus spy, and technically my nemesis, but we have become great friends while we've been here." Doof introduced himself and Parry. "Hmp, you may call me Infinite." Infinite introduced himself as he crossed his arms making himself look edgy. "Hi there! I'm Peter Parker, but I also go by Spider-Man, I basically have the powers of a spider." Peter introduced himself and his abilities. "I-im Nooroo, i-it's nice to meet you..." Roo introduced herself in a shy tone. After everyone introduced themselves, it had gotten pretty late so we all went to sleep, I let Stellar sleep with me until we can get her a proper room for herself, after reading a bedtime story to Stellar, we both feel asleep and rested for the day ahead of us. > Hearts warming truce. Part 1. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's finally hearts warming day and Scootaloo had just returned through her star portals, I wonder if she has a name for them yet. Anyway, I started of the day by introducing her to Stellar, and needless to say, this might just be one of Scootaloo's favourite days ever, her reaction when she realised that she now has a sister was just wholesome, she squealed, hugged the life out of Stellar and then went off to give her gifts to everyone here, I had already left my gifts for everyone in their rooms so now I've just got to go and deliver my gifts to the princesses and the element bearer's, so, I opened a warp gate. "Happy hearts warming princess, I hope your morning has been going well?" I inquired as I used the warp gates to pull in two large boxes wrapped in a sun and moon theme. "Do you think you could call your sister? I kinda want to see her reaction to what I got the two of you for this special occasion." I asked as Celestia just face hoofed and sent a guard to get her sister. And a few minutes later... "Where is it?!" The princess of the moon shouted excitedly as she burst into the room like a child entering a candy store. "Sister please... we have a guest here..." Celestia spoke as she face hoofed a second time. "Right, right, calm, thank you, sister." Luna spoke as she barely contained her excitement. "Hehe, alright then, here you two go, open them." I said this as I gave them the gift boxes with their corresponding wrappings. And as they opened the boxes, their faces were priceless when they saw my gifts. "Sister! Sister! Look! They match!" Luna shouted excitedly as she picked up her armour using her magic. "Indeed they do, sister." Celestia spoke with a soft smile as she looked at her sister's joy at the armour. "Yea, the dusk and dawn armours do match greatly, don't they?" I spoke, gaining the attention of the princesses. "Dusk armour?" Celestia asked as she looked at her armour. "Dawn armour?" Luna asked as she looked at her armour. "Indeed, the armours also let you, celestia to duplicate yourself up to a maximum of four times and for you luna, your armour allows you to travel through the shadows allowing you to have an almost perfect stealthy approach." I explained the abilities of the armours and saw the bewildered expressions on their faces. "Before you ask, I used crystals infused with chaos magic to add these abilities in your armour, and the armours are powered by the sun and moon respectively, they can also be charged by your own magic if need be." I explained before the timer on my phone went off. "Ah, I guess that is my que to leave, have a great hearts warming you two." I say as I enter another hearts warming and enter Twilight's library to give the next two gifts.....the only thing I did not expect, even though I should have, was all of the element bearer's being in the library at this moment... "Oh, this works out greatly, hello elements of harmony and great hearts warming to you all." I say with a wide smile as I accidentally spook them...oops. "Stagemaster? What are you doing here?" Surprisingly Fluttershy asked me this, I just smiled at her before answering. "Why, I'm here to give you all my hearts warming gifts of course, here is your one Magic." I say as I hand the wrapped grimoire to the library pony. "And why would we trust you?" Rainbow asked me is suspicion. "Because I've already given princess celestia and princess Luna the gifts I've made for them, and before you accuse anything, their not in any danger, you can even send a letter to confirm." I explained as the six ponies looked at each other before they sent a letter to Celestia and, predictably, they are surprised that I am telling the truth. "I- buh...why?!" Rainbow asked in confusion. "I don't know? I just don't feel like being a villain on holidays, anyways, why don't you open your gift so I can give the others theirs, Magic." I answered as I turned to look at twilight, who shrugged and opened her gift, before gasping in glee and looking at it from every angle. "What, you got her a book?" Rainbow asked, wow, she really is asking alot of questions today huh? "It's not just any book Loyalty, it's called a grimoire, it's a spell book that will allow Magic to both strengthen the spells she already knows and create her own, unique spells." I explained as rainbow looked board. "Here, why don't you open yours next." I spoke as I handed rainbow her gift. Rainbow predictably looked at the gift suspiciously before slowly opening it. "Goggles? I already have heaps of goggles." Rainbow spoke in a confused manner. "Just like the grimoire loyalty, those goggles are not just normal goggles, they will allow you to see in the dark, in a smokescreen, it even warns you of incoming danger, pinkies pinkie sense inspired that part, it also allows you to see much further than you normally would be able to, I call them the spectrum goggles." I explained the spectrum goggles to the Pegasus, as I explained the goggles, rainbow seemed to be getting a wider and wider smile. "Heh, by the looks of it, you just got a gift much better than you thought, am I right?" I spoke with a grin as I opened a warp gate to get the next gift. "Ah, and next we have kindness, here you go." I spoke as I handed the box to the motherly Pegasus. Fluttershy slowly opened the box, as if afraid whatever was inside would leap out and eat her, however, when she did. "A brewing kit? And a satchel?" Fluttershy asked in a soft tone. "In the satchel there is a bunch of ingredients and an instruction Manuel for different options with different effects you can make, for example, two Lilly of the valleys and a powdered mana crystal can make a slow falling potion, so if you fall, you won't get hurt, another example could be two mana crystals and 3 Raspberries make a potion of regeneration, those potions will heal whoever drinks it, and if you add a little bit of glowstone dust into the potion, you can increase the duration of the effect, all you need to know is on the Manuel." I spoke, leaving out the feature to wrap the brewing kit around her hoof, I want that to be a surprise. "And next should be....you, honesty." I say as I bring out another box and hand it to the earth pony. "...Ah still don't trust ya y'know." Applejack spoke as she opened the box. "A lasso? Ah already have plenty of those." Applejack spoke with confusion. "The golden lasso of truth, whoever is bound by it is compelled to tell the truth, it's also extremely sturdy, won't break even if used on an ursa minor, neat huh?" I spoke as applejack looked at the lasso. "And now we have laughter, enjoy." I spoke as I gave pinkie a rather small box, about twice the size of her hoof." As pinkie opened the box and reached in.....her hoof went all the way down further than the box should allow, she then pulled out the comically large party hammer out. 'GASP!' "A PARTY HAMMER?!" Pinkie squealed before hugging the hammer and introducing it to her party cannon. "Yup, also got a compartment for extra candy." I spoke as I showed pinkie the compartment on the bottom of the hammer handle. "And then we have rarity, had to do a lot of thinking for this one, heh." I joked as I handed rarity a flat, large box. When rarity opened the flat box, her eyes sparkled as she pulled out the clothing and accessories I had made. "Oh my, aren't these just marvelous!" Rarity complimented my gift, wow, did not expect that to be honest. "And here we have the 'Rarity kit' and it's not just named that due to your name, each piece of clothing is enchanted with their own unique functions, the hat has temperature resistance spells as well as a few spells that will help with detective work if you so wish, just added that one in cause I saw it in one of my books, anyway, the boots will let you jump higher, and have stronger kicks, mainly because of the enchantment actively acting like a magical spring, the satchels have pocket dimention spells on them, they aren't very big but they will help carry essentials, and the cape scarf will allow you to slowly float to the ground, as well as making the rest of your accessories almost weightless, there is also a note in the box, the note has some images of fictional characters from my world who have quite the unique clothing, thought you would be interested in looking at them." I explained the entirety of the 'Rarity kit'. "And last but not least, spike." I spoke as I brought out the last box for today. "Oh, cool!" Spike spoke with excitement as he opened the box. "...gloves? Well, from what I've seen you give the girls I'm going to guess these do something special?" Spike asked, being the first one here not to be instantly disappointed before explanation, except for pinkie as I didn't even need to explain her gift. "Ah, yes they do spike, these are the 'Spyro scale' gloves, they project magical shields using your innate dragon breath magic, so basically, green fire shields, you can even throw them, they won't actually burn anything or anypony you don't want them to so don't worry, the shields are also quite strong." I explained as spike immediately put the gloves on and made a shield, it was a bright green and it radiated a comforting warm heat. "Well, I do believe it's time for me to go." I say as I ope-"WAIT!" I am interupted by Fluttershy, what ever could she want? "Yes, kindness?" I asked politely. "Could you join us for this hearts warming?" > Hearts warming truce. Part 2. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To say I was surprised by Fluttershy's request would be a small understatement, I guess it couldn't hurt, it could also be a good opportunity for Stellar to meet other ponies, Scootaloo is busy with the crusaders, everyone else already lives with me everyday and this is also a good opportunity for them to get to know each other, I won't be needed at the base....guess I'm accepting the offer. "Of cou- unfortunately, we won't be able to, we are, unfortunately, very busy, we wish for you to have a great day but we will have to return to our base, see you all soon~" Null?! What the heck?! Why did you do that?! firstly, you and I both know we have no idea what do do on holidays, secondly, i just do not want to sit through the embarrassment of watching you stumble around like a fool trying to understand this holiday, got it, brother?....I still hate it when your right... "O-oh....alright then, h-have a n-nice h-hearts warming, i-i mean, if you want to..." Fluttershy softly spoke, are you going to give back control now? no, now shut up, I got to answer her....wow, rude, fine. "you too, kindness, now, without further adu, I will be going." Null spoke in my voice before opening a warp gate to..... The mushroom kingdom pocket dimension? Why? to set things up, duh. I already brought the props to the first castle while you slept, you just gotta summon the characters and tell them what they are supposed to do, I'll give you control now, don't waste time. "Gee, wasn't that ominous?" I sarcastically retorted as I walked towards the first castle of my pocket dimension puppet kingdom what? the pocket dimensions name huh, makes sense. I soon began my walk into the first castle of the puppet kingdom and found several props, there was Bowser, Mario, princess peach, the koopalings, king boo, Luigi and a few more I won't reveal to the audience, instead, why don't we switch to..... The main six's perspective while I set things up. Twilight's POV After Stagemaster had left, we all had began to talk about what had happened. "That was weird, right?" Rainbow Dash spoke first. "Darn tooting it was! Ah don't know about all of y'all but, ah am confused." Applejack responded in her usual accented tone. "I've got to say darling, I don't really mind, I mean, look at this costume, it's so fabulous!" Rarity spoke as she stared at the costume with intricate detail. "What I want to know is, why would he give us presents that would help us against him?" I questioned in an act of confusion, though, I really don't know why he gave us the presents, I do know he is testing us....what for? I don't know, guess I'll find out tomorrow. As we convened with each other, Stagemaster's warp gate opened again and he poked through, I wonder why?. "Hey uh, I was wondering if you all could look after my daughter for today, she really likes all of you so I thought my hearts warming gift to her could have her hang with you all and a few other ponies for today, she hasn't really talked to any other ponies yet." Stagemaster asked, he wants us to look after Stellar? Hopefully he told her not to reveal my secret in working with him. "YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER?!" we all yelled in shock, minus Fluttershy and me, because I faked my shock and Fluttershy because she didn't yell. "Yes, I do, could you all please have her here in Ponyville today? It would make her extremely happy." Stagemaster calmly answered the question asked. "If the others are fine with it, I don't see why not?" I answered, adding a slight tone of monotone in my voice to portray 'shock' in my tone. "I-i wouldn't m-mind it Twilight." Fluttershy agreed to watch over Stellar. "Ooh! What's she like!" Pinkie excitedly asked. "Well, she loves the night sky, she can be a little chaotic at times, loud to, but she is also a little shy when meeting new ponies, that mainly why I want you all looking after her, I may have told her some stories on what you have done with the elements, defeating nightmare moon and discord, saving the crystal empire, those kind of things, you know? She sees all of you as heroes." Stagemaster answered, the way he chose his wording tells me that he answered both for pinkies curiosity, and to convince rainbow by manipulating her ego, smart. "Heroes eh? Well, why not? If the kid wants to meet her heroes then I say let her!" Rainbow boasted, though I guess it's fair considering all we have done. "Thank you all, you have no idea how much this will mean to her, Stellar! You can come through now!" Stagemaster thanked us before calling out to Stellar from the warp gate. As she did, the first thing we could see was her dark purple coat and galaxy like main, when she fully exited the warp gate, Stagemaster told her to have fun before leaving and closing the warp gate. "Um... H-hello?" Stellar shyly spoke as she looked towards the ground in shyness. I leaned over to Fluttershy and whispered. "You should probably go and talk to her first, you are the most gentle out of us and would probably be able to get her to warm up to us easier than anypony else." I whispered before Fluttershy nodded and began to talk to Stellar. I turned back towards the others and smiled as I could tell that this was going to be a fun and interesting day, between Stellar's chaos, pinkies randomness, rainbows recklessness this is going to be quite the long day, I hope what ever Stagemaster is doing is important, and I hope he finishes his plan before today is over or else we will have to waste more time before Galeem arrives, until then? I'll just keep living in the moment with my 'friends'. I walk towards Stellar and introduce her to everypony before we leave my home and have a great Hearts warming day. > EggKoopa Empire: part 1. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yesterday had been one of the happier days since...... The incident at the wedding, Stellar got along great with pinkie and Fluttershy, she got to see all of Ponyville, and was very interested in the books in my library, it took her a little bit longer for her to get used to the others but she was event- "TWILIGHT!!" Spike?! Why is he yelling, it must be urgent! "COMING SPIKE!" I yelled out as I ran down the stairs to see spike holding a letter. "It's time, Ms.Magic." Spike, or should I say, MegaDrake, spoke with determination and anticipation in his voice. "Right, tear up the letter just a little to make it seem like there was a battle, I'll get Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rainbow, you get Applejack and Rarity." I spoke as Spike nodded and ripped the letter before running out the door. "Make sure to meet back here!!" I called out to spike as he kept running towards Sweet Apple Acres, he did give me a thumbs up though. I turned and began to run towards Fluttershy's cottage in a hurry, we do need to get to Canterlot as soon as possible, stage wouldn't like to delay the plan any longer. As I ran, I eventually found Fluttershy walking a group of ducklings across the street. "Fluttershy!" I called out, making Fluttershy jump in surprise and slight fear, predictable. "Oh, sorry Fluttershy, but, I gotta go, meet me back at the library when you finish helping the ducks, ok?" I spoke more gently, conveying comfort. "A-alright Twilight, i-ill see you T-there?" Fluttershy asked in confusion as I began to run back towards Ponyville. Ok, Fluttershy will be at the library soon, I'll head to sugar cube corner next, if anypony is going to find rainbow in record time, it's going to be pinkie. As I run back to Ponyville, I run past several ponies, some of which are, Lyra, the CMC, Spike and Rarity going to Sweet Apple Acres, Carrot Top, Ditzy Hooves, Doctor Hooves, I could even spot Agent P spying and lurking in the shadows, I spot Vinal scratch and Octavia, I wonder what they are going to play? Ugh, don't get distracted Twilight, stick to the plan, sugar cube corner, get pinkie, get her to find rainbow and bring her to the library, get on the train to Canterlot, and find stage kidnap Celestia. When I had finally arrived at Sugar cube corner, I could see pinkie already out front waving at me, saves me some time I guess. "HI TWILIGHT!!" Pinkie shouted as I stopped right Infront of her. "Hi pinkie, no time to explain, get rainbow and meet me at the library, ok?" I spoke, sounding urgent. "Okie dokie Loki! See you later!!" Pinkie shouted before....doing what she does. Anyway, with that, everypony should be at the library soon, I got to get there now, a simple teleport should do it. I charge up my horn and in a !POP! and a flash of light, I am in the middle of the library with spike, rarity, applejack and Fluttershy. "Hey girls, rainbow and pinkie should be here in a-" "WERE HERE!" I am interupted as pinkie and rainbow crash through the window. "....right, anyway, now that we are all here, I got an urgent letter from the princess, we need to get to Canterlot, ASAP." I spoke, faking nervousness and anticipation. "What was on the letter darling?" Rarity asked with curiosity in the tones of her voice. "Well, it was very short but-" "IT WAS RIPPED!" spike interupted me by shouting and showing the letter. "O-oh no, d-do you think T-the princess i-is alright?" Fluttershy asked in worry. "Don't worry! The princess is strong, she can handle herself but eh, we should get going, right?" Rainbow spoke in excitement and impatience. "Yes, we should, get whatever you think will be useful, and rarity?" I spoke before looking towards rarity. "Yes dear?" She replied with great attention. "Five sets max." I spoke, referring to how rarity would often overpack for an adventure. "Why don't we all get what stagy got us on heartwarming, they could be useful, I mean, I doubt he made the just to help us against bad guys but, they are all very useful when you think about, like with yu-" pinkie began to ramble on about our gifts, I mentally thank you pinkie for suggesting that. "My thoughts exactly pinkie, let's all get what we need and meet at the station, ok?" I spoke, stopping pinkies rambling as everypony nodded and galloped/flew out of the library, leaving me and spike alone. "So, you gonna wake up Agony?" Spike asked. "That, and get my grimoire, you gonna get the Spiro scales and mega adaptor?" I replied with another question. "Yup, their in the basement, I'll meet you at the station, sis." Spike spoke before he ran down the stairs to the basement. I turned towards the stairs up to my room and walked up them, once I got to my room, I looked around, seeing my bed, a few books I'm in the middle of reading, and smarty pants, I head over to the back most wall and hold my hoof over the DNA scanned that dr Eggman had made for me and Agony, time to wake up an old friend. "Agony, it's time." I spoke as I held out my hoof to my symbiote sister, yes, we consider each other sisters. As Agony woke up,, she began to bond with me again, as she does so, she looks into my memories so I don't have to explain. "I've just got to get my grimoire before we go, ok Agony?" I asked my of my violet sister figure. it's finally time... We've waited so long for this moment, haven't we? "That we have, we shouldn't keep the others waiting, let's head out to the train station." I spoke as I began to walk out of the library. you can just teleport you know. ...right. after I teleported to the train station upon Agony's suggestion, thanks for that by the way! I found pinkie and rarity to be the first here, soon followed by rainbow dash who had gone to help Fluttershy with her equipment. "Hi girls, spike will be here soon, I hope... Where's applejack?" I asked with confusion and intrigue. "Not here yet. She said she was also getting some boots she had rarity make." Rainbow rolled her eyes as she answered before looking at me with more focus. "Are you ok? I would have thought you would be panicking a lot more than this right now." Shit! She's onto me! Gotta think of something! C'mon c'mon c'mon! Oh, I can work with that. "Oh, I'm panicking alright. I'm just panicking on the inside. I got to focus if I'm going to be able to help the princess......and spike helped me with my stress after...ahem...'lesson zero..." I looked to the side as I responded to Rainbow's question......still not proud of that day... "Ahm here everypony! Ah got mah lasso an spike with me!" Applejack shouted as she ran into the train station. "Great!...... Now we just got to wait for the train itself..." We all groaned at that fact. [Location: Puppet kingdom, final zone] Stagemasters POV. "And finished! Now all we need to do is go to celestia and wait for the element bearer's to arrive so I can 'kidnap' celestia....or would it be foalnap?" I asked my- change of plans. what? you won't be the one to kidnap the princess, infact, you won't be part of this at all..... Brother?....Null? What do yo- Shut. Up, I have no use for you now, you may reside in the mindscape for now, I have a princess to kidnap... After some fun that is....what do you me- Goodbye, John. "And hello, Void Master." > EggKoopa Empire: part 2. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- so, where oh where to begin, I could...remodel a few landscapes...no, I believe that would be too much.....for now. Ah, I know, why don't I.... play with the alicorn of sol, see how the fair princess fares in an actual fight, oh how I'll enjoy.... dismantling the princesses pride and confidence. "Oh Celestia~ soon, you will witness all you have ever known crumble to dust at your very hooves!" I then cackle as I open my warp gate to Celestia's solar palace.... Surprising the princess, hm, but why?... Ah, now I get it, we have never actually met, I've only met her in those... Mobians world..... 'sigh' those two had such high potential, it's a shame they had to be heroes. "Stagemaster?! What has become of you?!" the fool of a princess yelled in shock... And fright oh, celestia, how you flatter me so. "Stagemaster is no more, only I, void Master, end of all stories, and, yours is about to end as well." [Location: Canterlot, Solar palace] Celestia's POV. The...creature threatens before charging at me, dark energy forming around his right claw, I teleport out of the way just in time to avoid a devastating impact... my throne did not get such luxury. "What have you done to Stagemaster you foul creature!" I shout as I charge up magic in my horn to prepare an attack, the creature just chuckled....I do not enjoy the feeling that gives me. "what have I done? Why, I've just followed in the hoofsteps of your sister, or rather, nightmare moon, you won't be seeing John any time soon." No... He couldn't have.... No, NO! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT! "RELEASE HIM NOW!" I demanded as I took to the skies and charged at h- ACK!! "Disappointing, I thought you would be lasted much longer than this, it seems as if you've gotten rusty after all these years, oh and, you can expect this little training plan you and John made for the elements to no longer be 'training', it's the real deal now, princess." ngh...h-how.... Did h-he...? "now then, let's see how much I can play with you before they get here." w-what does he....oh...oh no.... "W-Wai-" AAAAAAAAA- "sleep sleep little princess, your feeble heroes will be here soon enough." [location: Shadows resort, sleeping quarters] Stellar Entropy's POV. something's wrong. That was the first thought I had when papa went to start his plan with uncle Eggman and uncle Bowser, call it a gut feeling but... I think something is wrong with papa and uncle Null, that... Darkness and hatred in their magic..... It felt just like.....she did...... I might have to check Papa's dream's....I'll do that now. "Ok... You can do this.... it's not like it's my first time entering dreams or anything, I mean, I used to be part of Ms Luna so, this should be easy." .... I hope. I tucked myself into a comfy sleeping position on my bed before focusing on my magic and reaching into the realm of imagination. . . . . [location: mindscape, Stagemaster's dream] Stellar's POV. It worked! I'm in Papa's drea- wait . . . "Why would papa be dreaming now of all times...?" I asked myself out loud as I am the onl- "While that is an important question, what we would like to know is how you got in this dream young one." PRINCESS LUNA?! uh... Ehem, I bravely turned around, using a jump to increase the speed of my rotation.... I didn't get scared..... you did.... "Have no fear little one, we mean you no harm, you said the master of stages was your father?" Princess Luna asked after calming me down... "R-right, um... To answer both questions, yea, he is my papa and, I can dream walk, like you! Papa made me with a bit of... Well, here, and chaos magic, he used the dream world for my main magic and the chaos for my body, I can also use chaos magic but dream magic is what I'm really good at." I answered truthfully, not wanting to anger the mare half of me used to posses. "Hm, than thee may be of aid to us, would you be willing to delve deeper into this mind with us?" Luna asked, wanting me to follow her deeper into Papa's dream. "Y-yeah.....I wanna help Papa..." I spoke truthfully, worried for my papa. "Then let us be off to find the source of thee worries!" Luna excitedly exclaimed, lowering a wing for me to hop onto her back. I then thanked princess luna as I climbed onto her back as we then flew further into the dream. . . . What. In. The. Actual. Elements of Harmony is THIS?! w-why is it s-so...so.. fractured.... It looks like it was ripped apart and stitched back together with a different mindscape... "Do you.... Know what this is ms luna?" I nervously asked princess luna as I looked onwards to the fractured mindscape of fluctuating fictionality before us. "Nay, this a first for us, even discords dreams weren't this unstable... Tis most troubling, let us explore furthermore." Luna doesn't know either.... That is very worrying, let's just hope we can find papa soon... Twilight sparkles POV Ok, the train should stop soon, then we can get to the palace and finally st- Twilight? Yes agony? something's wrong. wrong how? my connection to master has been severed, I cannot feel Stagemaster .... That is very worrying, what can you feel? ... Corruption... Nightmares...... And dark matter... I don't like this. right, any ideas on what we should do? continue with the plan for now? ... Right, just follow the p- "TWILIGHT!!" GAH?! what was? Oh, pinkie. "Yes pinkie?" I asked the physics defying pony. "The train stopped! We're just waiting on you to go!" Oh, huh, guess I got lost in thought. "Well, I guess we shouldn't keep the others waiting, especially dash." I chuckle, knowing how impatient dash can be.... Soon we will begin the plan, I have waited so long for this day. ......so why does that fill me with dread? > Bonus chapter: temporal puppet; time loops? part 1 [NOT CANON].....for now. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Temporal Puppet; Time Loops? I awoke to a reading from the main computer of the shadows resort, apparently a nearby Equestria has been in a time loop for a while now, and upon discovering this temporal anomaly, I decided that I would personally investigate, if anything, to spend some time in the loop to learn more about twili-Ms.Magic's friends, though, I am not afraid to admit it is a stupid idea to go into enter a time loop unprepared so I began making a few props. The first prop being a green time stone, which would allow me to essentially ignore the rules of the time loop, y'know, getting erased from existence when the loop restarts as I am not part of the main loop. The second being a bone ear clip that would allow me to use Sans's shortcut ability, as well as the check ability to see different creatures LV and EXP, as well as a brief explanation on who and what said creature is, I'll use this ability to help me find who has and hasn't been keeping their memories through the loops. The third and final main prop being the ultimatrix core and a mechanical right arm to attach it to, I'll also attach the time stone to it so it is less likely to be dropped, as it will essentially be attached to my body... Once I replace my right arm with the eventual cybernetic one... Hopefully Eggman can help me with that one. [half an hour later] "And your sure you want to replace your right arm with this one?" The good doctor questioned, needing to know if I am 100% sure this is what I want before doing anything. "Yes, I'm sure eggie, I'm sure." I answered eggman's question before holding out my arm. "Very well then, just like down here so I can get to work." I followed Ivo's instructions and lied down on the bed, awaiting for the process to begin. -a few hours later- Now that I have the cybernetic arm attached to my body, courtesy of doctor Ivo robotnik, all I need to do now is double check this alternative Equestria so I can enter at the beginning of the loop. "Thank you for this Ivo, this cybernetic arm will be most useful, with its unique design, I'll be safe from the loops and have some power to boot, and I have to say I'm impressed that you figured out how to add a pocket dimention generator into the arm, I especially enjoy that you gave the pocket dimention an interface that looks like the inventory from Minecraft." I thanked the evilly good doctor before heading to the main sector of the shadow's resort and double checking the looping Equestria to see if a new loop has started or not. [A few moments later] "Hm, good. A new loop is about to start, now all I got to do is open a warp gate into that Equestria." I say before calling kurogiri to me and un-sumoning him and placing the neck brace ring onto my left ring finger, fusing with the power of the prop causing a dark purple smog to envelop my left arm and the left side of my face, yellow smog appearing where my eye would have been. "Alright, now to open a gateway." I mutter before holding out both of my arms, tapping into the time stone's power while I opened the warp gate, the time stone's power flowing into the warp, allowing it to punch through the void and into the looping Equestria, which I should now just call Timequestria. "But first, a new name for myself, afterall, new world, new me." But what. Ah I know! Comedy! Yes, my new name shall be Comedy, now it's time to enter the portal. [Narrative shift; 3rd person] "Hm, I appear to be in the everfree... Almost exactly where I appeared in my original Equestria." Comedy spoke as he took a glance around his surroundings, noticing a Timberwolf pup looking at him in confusion. "Hey there little guy, I won't hurt ya, just gotta figure out how to get out of this forest... Can you help me?" The fabric man asked the wooden wolf, knowing it could understand him thanks to the universal translator built into his cybernetic arm due to the ultimatrix core. The timber pup barked before pointing their small wooden head north, apparently also giving their name, Gloom. "Thank you Gloom, here, let me give you my thanks." Comedy spoke before lifting his cybernetic arm and activating the ultimatrix core, the core popping up and showing holograms of different aliens, Comedy twisted the core a few times, stopping when he found the alien he was looking for and pressing down, transforming in a flash of green and purple light. "SWAMPFIRE!!!" Swampfire exclaimed before kneeling down and placing his palm onto the ground, as he did so, a small bush with blue spherical berries about the size of a small apple growing out of it grew out of the ground. "Here, these Barrie's should give you great nutrients, and they taste quite great as well." Swampfire spoke before touching the hourglass symbol on his chest and returning to his normal form and began walking to where Gloom had directed him. "Thanks again for the directions!" Comedy spoke with a wave of his hand. [A few minutes later] "Hm, I wonder what aliens I currently have unlocked, I forgot to check before I transformed into Swampfire, let's see here..." Comedy spoke as he brought up his cybernetic arm and activated the ultimatrix core, scrolling through all of his available alien transformations. "Hm, it seems I have swampfire, Rath, xlr8, ghostfreak, upgrade, grey matter, fourarms, chromastone, cannonbolt, diamond head, feedback, spider monkey and heatblast, interesting playlist for sure.... And then there's the ultimate feature as well." Comedy muttered to himself as he neared the edge of the everfree forest, arriving at what seems to be the entrance to an apple tree farm. "Huh, so I'm currently at honesty's place, better blend in with the area, better go nanomech." Comedy spoke before activating the ultimatrix and transforming into the microscopic alien. "Now let's see here, where in the timeline am I?" Nabomech asked himself as he looked up at the sky. "Ah, so I'm before nightmare moon's return, and it seems like she will return in about a week, hm, if I don't interfere with the timeline for now, I can get used to my aliens and timestone abilities." Nanomech spoke to himself as he flew towards Canterlot castle, right to where the timestone told him the looper was.