Darkfire: Pegasus
Cutie Mark: Swords and Shield
Synch Ronize: Unicorn
Cutie Mark: Amplifier
Darkfire walked down the road on the way to Twilight’s library, humming a little tune. He sighted Vinyl Scratch and her colt friend Synch Ronize walking down the street. “What’s up, Synch?”
“Not much. Just hanging out with my marefriend, ya know?” Synch replied with a grin on his muzzle. Synch seemed to be an exact color swap of his marefriend. His coat was an electric blue, and his hair was white and silver. His cutie mark was an amplifier, and he wore the same magenta-tinted glasses as Vinyl.
“Yeah...” Darkfire replied gloomily. A year ago, his human girlfriend sacrificed herself to save him and his foster child, Aqua Dancer. Even thinking about her made him feel depressed. Darkfire shook his head and put on a fake smile. “What are you two doing today?”
Vinyl shrugged. “We were going to hang out at the park, then we have a concert tonight. Wanna come with us?” she asked the single hero.
Darkfire shrugged. “Sure. I don’t have anything better to do.” The trio began to make their way towards the park. However, as they neared their destination, a faint aroma of fudge could be smelled. “Guys, do you-” was all Darkfire was able to say, before there was a ‘pop’ and both him and Synch disappeared.
Steel Soul : Earth Pony
Cutie Mark: Sword over Shield
Silver Sky: Pegasus
Cutie Mark: Paintbrush and Satchel
“Steel! Steel, where are you?!?
A silver furred Pegasus made her way through the city of Ponyville. She had been looking for the pony Twilight had wanted for over an hour. Her normally straight mane slowly began to become a little more frazzled. “Gha! How come he’s never around when you want him?”
With a sigh, she took to the air to soar high to see if she could see from a better position, only to be air tackled by an bright pink blur.
She yelped with surprise as she tumbled to the ground in a tumble of limbs and fur. The Pegasus groaned as she stared into the bright blue eyes of a certain party pony.
“Darn it Pinkie!”
“Hey Silver hows it going. Its going fine for me thanks. I was just on my way to Twilights house. How bout you? What are you up to? I bet you’re looking for somepony. Oh! Oh! Let me guess! Is it Lyra? Bon Bon? Celestia? Luna? Crabby? Beyond? Shadow? Ky?”
A hoof covered the pink ponies maw. “Pinkie. Enough.”
Pinkie looked at the girl for a second before nodding happily. The party pony removed herself from on top of the silver pony. She bounced every which way after doing so.
Siver was getting slightly annoyed. “Pinkie do you need something?”
The pink pony stopped her bouncing before looking back towards her friend. “Hmm…there was something…now let me think…” Pinkie pulled a chair out of nowhere and sat down with her hoof in her chin.
Sliver’s eye twitched every so often as she waited for as long as she could, which was about thirty seconds. “Listen Pinkie, I have to get going. I need to find Steel and-“
Silver yelped as the pink pony zoomed in front of her. “OH! OH! That’s it! Steel is waiting for you at Twilight’s. Been there for quite some time.”
“What!? But I just left there like…quite some time ago! That…stupid…”
She stormed off towards the library with Pinkie waving goodbye to her happily.
~
“Hey Sil. Where have you been?”
The gray pegasus deadpanned as she looked at the brown stallion.
“What?
A lavender unicorn made her way in front of them. “Well anyhoof, now that were all here how about we get started eh?”
“So what are we working on anyway Twi?” The stallion asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Its a new transporting spell.” She said gleefully. “But I need more than one pony to transport or I run the risk of turning them inside out.”
“WHAT!” Sliver tired to fly away but was stopped by the brown stallion. “Darnit Steel! Let go.”
“Well you don't honestly expect me to get changed inside out do you?”
“Just use somepony else!”
Twilight looked away sheepishly. “I would but i needed two ponies that equaled to an even number in weight.”
The pegasus struggled to no avail. before she could say anything else in her defense, Twilight's horn lit up a glow encompassed both Silver and Steel.
“Let go!”
“I DON’T WANNA DIE!”
the light completely encircled the pair and in a flash they both disappeared.
“Ok. So far so good. Now they should appear over…” She looked to her left and waited...for twenty-five minutes.
“Well...that’s not good…”
The Godfather: Spacelord
Cutie Mark (When in pony-form): Clock with the 4 elements in each corner.
Twilight Sparkle: Alicorn
Cutie Mark: Six Point Star
The Godfather was a tall man, rounding in at about six-foot eight. He had fiery red hair and bright, glowing, light blue eyes. Twilight was a alicorn Princess and had a lavender coat and purple mane with a pink streak down the middle. They always traveled the multiverse, saving lives and all the other stuff that goes with it.Today though, they were walking through the outskirts of Ponyville, the two in a common argument of theirs about how the “Magic of Friendship” could be a power source. The Godfather, as always, saying no, while Twilight was saying it is a possibility. Of course the argument ended with the both of them agreeing that it was over and would start it up later.
“So, Twilight. Do you know what day it is?”
“Wednesday?”
“No, its...” He paused with a smirk on his face, then said, “HUMP, DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!”
“.....What? Is that a reference from a universe I’ve never been to?”
“Well, technically you have been there. You just never saw it.” He responded. He then looked around him before saying, “I also just now remembered why I never said that before.”
They were next to the park where about 10 ponies were all staring at him. He simply waved and kept walking as if it never happened.
“So, Godfather. What crazy plan do you have today. Hurl ourselves into the sun, turn me into a human and go to Disney World while doing Scottish accents?”
“I don’t have a plan. Not today at least.” He said calmly.
“What? Godfather, are you serious. I have never seen you not have a plan, and we’re married.”
“And if you remember, I’m almost fifty-three thousand years old. I just want to have a calm peaceful day to relax so I don’t snap on anyone and yell at them. I regret all the times I’ve snapped because it was thousand upon thousands of years of hate, anger, and sorrow all spewing out of a mad man’s angry mouth. It makes gods cry in fear when I do. I don’t want to hurt my loved ones. So, let’s just relax for today, and then we’ll go to Disney World.” He said calmly.
“Alright, I can live with that. Just, relax.”
The two walked over to a bench by a lake on the outskirts of Ponyville and the Whitetail Woods. As the two sat there. The Godfather started noticing something. Moonflower petals started flying in from behind them. Its started with only few every so often. Then more and more came. Soon, hundreds of Moonflower petals all floated softly around the two.
“Twilight,” The Godfather started,”Please tell me you’re doing this.”
“No, I thought you were…” She replied, fear showing in her voice.
“Of course, I just can’t have a relaxing day can I?” The Godfather sighed.
He stood from the bench and started to reach into his inner coat pocket to grab something. The petals started to push up against his chest and pushed him down. He struggled to stand again but got similar results each time.
“Twilight, I don’t like this.” He said, his voice cracking with fear.
“Do you think I do?”
The petals then started closing in and spun faster and faster. Soon they were millimeters away from the two and spinning faster than a tornado. Suddenly there was a shock wave and the petals dispersed and the two were gone.
Chris-Cross/Christian: Earth pony/Human
Cutie Mark: Crossbow
Supernova: Unicorn
Cutie Mark: Black Hole/Galaxy
“Confound it!” Supernova shouted as he fumbled around inside the portal gate. The blasted thing got broken after Dash crashed into the circuit breaker during a practice flight. Supernova had spent the last few hours trying to fix it. Christian walked up behind him sipping on an iced tea.
“It fixed yet Nova?” He asked nonchalantly. Supernova poked his head out and glared at him. “That a no?” Supernova rolled his eyes.
“Doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out Christian.” A spark is heard from inside. “OW!” Christian giggled.
“But it does to fix that thing!” He shouted. Supernova stuck his head out again, now blackened with soot. He coughed out a black smoke cloud and sighed.
“I could use another pair of hooves. Do you mind?” Christian groaned loudly and put his iced tea down.
“Fine, gimme a sec.” He reached back behind his neck and undid his necklace. It dropped down to the glass next to him as his body changed into his tan pony form. Chris-Cross went behind the portal and knelt down underneath the silver gate. He peeked down to see the black unicorn messing with a few wires. He crawled into the tiny space, which started crushing Supernova by accident.
“Careful! You’re squishing me!”
“OW! Watch the horn!”
“I can’t control it!”
“Then move it!”
“No, you move!” Chris-Cross tries to push his way back out of the cramped space. Suddenly, he hears a crunch sound beneath his left forehoof. Supernova quickly cocks his head to see a crushed instrument under CC’s hoof.
“Oh no! You crushed the portal’s stabilizer!”
“I crushed the what?!” The instrument underneath the tan pony’s hoof started to spark and spaz out wildly. Christian eyes grew the size of oranges. “What’s going to happen?!” He shouts as the broken metal object starts making a inaudible shrieking sound.
“Without that, the portal’s stabilizing molecules would start breaking down to the point of…” Supernova never got to finish his sentence, as a huge explosion of light engulfed to two of them, along with the broken portal gate. Twilight, who was relaxing with a book in her library, was suddenly blinded by the huge expanse of light outside. As quickly as she could, she ran outside to see the rest of her friends, along with half of the town, surrounding a huge crater where the portal gate used to be. She pushed through the crowd and tumbled down into the crater. Her friends quickly ran to the edge. Twilight’s hoof emerged with a somewhat tarnished golden pick necklace. She placed on the ground and started weeping a little. Her friends showed no emotion but grief as they put the pieces together on what just happened. Chris-Cross and Supernova were gone.
Maximus Omega: Unicorn
Cutie Mark: Gunsword
Dark Twilight: Alicorn
Cutie Mark: Six Point Star
A shadowy figure flicked the magic screen. "Why won't this thing work?"
Another figure stepped forward. "Your Highness, something is stopping our signal."
The first pony's horn stopped glowing, and the screen faded away. "Keep trying, and get me when you have connected."
"Very well, Your Highness." The other pony trotted off down a corridor.
The first one sighed. "Maximus, my old friend. Why can't I find you?" she said.
Naomhán (NEV-awn) McKnight: Human
Cutie Mark: N/A
Nathaniel (Nate) McKnight: Human
Cutie Mark: N/A
Naomhán was sitting in his pub, cleaning the glasses after another successful night in Vice City. Thankfully Joker and his cronies hadn’t decided to try and kill him again, a rare occasion since it happened basically everyday. So he just stood there cleaning the glasses, while enjoying the peace and quiet for once.
Jack, his friend and employee, walked into the room with a printing calculator. Ending the nice silence.
“Hey, Boss.” Jack said as he walked in. “Quiet day it’s been, hasn’t it?”
“Yes it has, Jack. Yes it has.” Naomhán answered in his Irish accent, annoyed by the break the silence, but still trying to salvage the peace and quiet. “No else looks to be coming today, Jack. If you want you can head home early.”
“Are you sure, Boss?”
“Ya, you’ve been working hard all day. I don’t see how it could hurt.”
“Thanks Boss. See you tomorrow then.”
“See you tomorrow.” Naomhán replied waving goodbye to his friend as he left.
After Jack left Naomhán switched the sign on the door to closed, and continued to clean the pub and it glasses. He was just about to finish when he heard a car door slam from outside the pub.
Well. It sure as fuck took them long enough. He thought to himself, knowing that the only people that would come this late are Joker’s minions, or Carmen. The fact that Carmen was doing a hit at this point only made it obvious who it was. Knowing that he reached under the counter, withdrew his two silenced Beretta’s, and slid down behind the counter so he wouldn’t be seen when the door was broke open.
As he sat behind the counter he heard the sound of a window breaking, followed by the sound of glass hitting the ground, and less than a second later the distinctive ting of metal hitting tile came from his left. He didn’t even have enough time to say “Shit” before the grenade went off, and when the smoke cleared there was nothing left.
It was turning out to be an average day for Nathaniel and the rest of the group. They had left Edmonton three days ago and arrived at Calgary earlier today. But that’s what happens when you have to walk that far with six people that still aren’t entirely used to having only two legs. So after arriving in Calgary the first thing they did was try and find food and shelter.
While Jorg and Ray had taken the rest of the six to find shelter, Nate had commandeered Rainbow Dash for looking for food. His reasons being she could walk and run the best, she was the fastest in the group, and she needed to be taught a little humility. Which brings us to the point that we are at now.
Nate and Rainbow had been out for two hours now looking for anything that could mean food, and had come up with nothing. The excessive amount of nothing to do grating on RD’s nerves. Sure Nate and her had been running around, and sure that could be fun, but they weren’t doing it for fun, they were doing it for work, which made it boring.
Walking towards where Nate was she noticed something on shining on the top floor of a ruined building about two blocks down the road. Figuring that something might be up over there, she decided to say something about it.
“Hey Nate.” She called trying to gain his attention. Seeing that it wasn’t working she called louder, “HEY NATE!”
Hearing RD’s yell Nate quickly turned around, and rushed towards her. “What is it RD?” He asked panickedly, thinking she might have been in trouble due to the yelling.
Turning to the building she had seen the shine come from she pointed to the building, and asked, “Do you think something could be in there?”
Looking up to the building that she was pointing at Nate saw the small shine coming from the top floor. Taking a second to think about what it could be, he decided that they just might have to take the chance.
“There could be, but going up there would be unneededly dangerous. I mean look at the thing: half of a wall is missing, looking through the holes in the walls you can tell that the floor is fucked, and if that’s all like that what the fuck happened to the structure. That thing is probably a goddamn death trap.” Nate said, more of a statement than a declaration of not going there.
“Ya, but it’s the only lead we’ve had today. That could be the only place with food we find.” Rainbow reasoned back, “or are you just too chicken to go up there?”
At the end of her statement Nate facepalmed hard enough to leave a red mark on his forehead. Taking his hand off of his head he thought for a second, then figured out his plan. Turning to face Rainbow he asked her a question. “Hey RD, how about a race? First one to the top floor wins.”
Rainbow, surprised by this turned to look at him, a perplexed look on her face. “Since when do you wanna act reckless?”
“I don’t want to.”
“Then why the challenge?”
“It’s not as much of a challenge, as it is a bet.” Nate explained, “if I win you have to stay quiet and not brag about anything for the rest of the time that you are here. If you win I will do whatever you want until you leave.”
“Deal,” Rainbow quickly agreed. “Prepare for slave work Nate, I am the fastest mare in Equestria.”
“Just remember, you are no longer a mare, and this ain’t Equestria.”
The two of them lined up, getting ready for the race that would determine what the two of them would be doing for the rest of the time they were near each other.
“Ready?” Nate asked.
“Ready.” Rainbow answered.
“... GO!”
The two of them shot off like bullets from a gun, and within the first block Rainbow Dash had a considerable lead. By the time she had reached the building she was leading by almost half a block. Once reaching the building Rainbow entered and quickly left Nate’s sight. Nate smiled knowing that this was where he would gain the advantage.
While running to the building he was looking for a way to scale up the building to the hole on the top floor, and found it just before he got there. Once reaching the building he ran up to the wall, and wall ran up it to give him the boost that he needed to grab a crack in the wall. Using the cracks and crevices in the wall he scaled the building and made it to the top floor several seconds before Rainbow did.
Rainbow charged into the room, a triumphant smile on her face, and her eyes closed. “HA! I told him I would win. No one can beat me in a race.” She bragged breathlessly.
“Really? ‘Cause I was gonna ask what took you so long?” Nate said looking through the room.
Rainbow opened her eyes at the sound of his voice, and saw him standing over a bag that looked to contain canned foods and a couple rifles.
“But you were… I saw… HOW DID YOU GET HERE BEFORE ME!” RD yelled in a frustrated tone.
“You climbed the stairs, I climbed the wall. Now we should probably get go-” He was interrupted by the sound of concrete breaking and the floor starting to shake. Seeing that Rainbow was standing on top of an indent in the floor he looked at her, the fear in her face evident. Just as the floor started to fall from beneath them Nate threw the bag at Rainbow, causing her to fall backwards and into the top flat portion of the stairwell. He was not so lucky unfortunately, as the ground fell from beneath him. The last thing he remembered was falling and a bright light, and then darkness.
Spark Plug: Unicorn
Cutie Mark: Wrench and hammer
Tempest: Pegasus
Cutie Mark: Thunder cloud
Two ponies stood on the outskirts of Ponyville, huddled together in a large hut. From the silhouettes appearing in the distance, it looked as if one pony was striking something with a hammer, the other observing him closely as he did his work. Nopony truly knew what these two did in their spare time. They were the town hermits, living by themselves, rarely coming to visit any of their fellow ponies. But they didn’t need to. They likely wouldn’t even have been welcome, as their strange tendencies prevented them from connecting with other ponies.
“Spark! What are you doing? What’s that thing? Oooooh, that looks cool!” A cream white mare reached out her hoof, poking the machine that the stallion was working on next to her.
“Tempest…” the stallion growled. “Stop touching things. How many times have I told you not to touch things, especially when you have no idea what they do. Now let me work in peace please. Just… Go look at something over there or something. I don’t know. Just don’t bother me right now!” With that, he turned back to the large, strange looking machine that he had been working on.
“Geez… You and your inventiveness. What is that thing anyway? Is it some sort of automatic laundry machine? Oh, I know, is it a huge industrial oven? No… that’s not right. It must be-”
“Please, shut up! First off, ‘inventiveness’ is not a word, okay? How many times have I told you that I hate it when you make words up? Secondly, it’s none of those things. I’m working on Equestria’s first interdimensional transporter. With this, we could discover whole new worlds! We could find out if there really is life out there somewhere! We could do anything!” He now stood on his hind legs, holding his hammer towards the sky in a heroic pose.
“Right Mr. Nerd. You’re going to save the world with this fancy little machine here or whatever. I mean, you can’t even get it to work! How long have you been working on this thing? Three months? Maybe more?” She stuck her tongue out at him, and scrunched her face.
“It’s only been [in]two months okay?! I’ll get it working eventually, just go away for now.” He tried to push her away, but instead she reached over his shoulder and grabbed the wrench from behind him. Before he could even react, she was on the machine, hammering things and tightening screws. Tempest, however, had noticed something; on the front of the machine, hidden behind various contraptions, was a loose bolt.
“I think I found your problem right here! Lemme just…” She began to tighten the bolt as Spark Plug stared dumbfounded. He began trying to wrestle control of the wrench away from her after she had tightened the bolt. The two tossed and turned on the ground, yelling insults at each other ranging from ‘your face looks like a tomato’ to ‘you’re so fat, you’re crushing my windpipe!’ Not particularly good or hurtful insults, but insults nonetheless. As they quarrelled, however, Tempest’s elbow nudged a large glowing pad on the front of the machine, causing it to whir.
“Uh… Spark…? That bolt that I tightened? What was that for?”
Spark Plug stared in amazement as the machine came to life. “You did it! You made it work! Two months of hard work and-” His eyes suddenly shrunk to the size of pin pricks as he turned his head slowly to look at Tempest. “Tempest. That was the control module.”
Tempest simply shook her head and sighed. “Well sh-”
With that, the two ponies disappeared in a brilliant flash of light, leaving the outskirts of Ponyville barren of life.
Chapter 1:
Darkfire awoke in a bunk, his head pounding. He looked around the room to see he was on the top bunk of a bunk bed and that there were many others around him also in bunks. A closer look revealed to him that they were all asleep. He turned and saw two bright teal eyes staring at him and he jumped in surprise.
“Hello!” The Owner of the teal eyes exclaimed.
“Who are you?” Darkfire asked the strange humanoid.
“Well that depends on what you are looking for. Who I am could be asking what kind of a person I am and all that, but using context clues, I’m gonna assume you mean my name. That, is a simple answer, much simpler than the other one. I’m the Godfather.” The Godfather responded cheerily.
Darkfire nodded in understanding. “Name’s Darkfire. You’re a real chatterbox, kinda like the Doc. Nice ta meetcha!”
He got up and walked over to the bunk his friend Synch was currently lying on . Instead of a normal shaking to wake him up, he shoved Synch off the bunk and to the floor.
“Get up, idiot! Synch, this is Godfather, Godfather, this is my friend- if you can call us friends- Synch.”
“Why’d you have to shove me?” Synch responded warily from spot on the floor..
“Well then, pleasure to meet you, Synch. Oh and Darkfire, you said my name as ‘Godfather.’ You sound silly when you say it like that. Say it like ‘THE Godfather.’ Sounds better to me in all honesty.” He started. “By the way, what did you mean ‘The Doc’? Sounds short for ‘The Doctor’. I've met him in a couple of universes.”
“Well-” Darkfire started.
“The Doctor is our friend. I travel with him sometimes across the multiverse.” Synch interrupted. “You’re also an interdimensional traveler?”
“That I am. By the way, would your Doctor by any chance carry a pocket watch with a hourglass and two crossed swords engraved on it would he?” The Godfather inquired.
“Yeah… You’ve met him? He mainly travels with Roseluck and Derpy. Sometimes Colgate as well.” Darkfire questioned.
The Godfather paused for a moment, deep in thought. After a moment he took a deep breath before replying. “Yes, I have met him. Nice guy in 57 universes where I met him. The other 12, I killed him.”
“He’s a hero in ours. Member of our group of heroes, the Guardians of Equestria. Even went public, revealing himself as formerly humanoid and a time traveler.” Darkfire reassured.
“Godfather, Dark, you seen my V-Rifle?” Synch asked.
“No, unless you've seen my Katana. Don’t know why I had it on a walk. Sometimes I think I've gone mad. Then I remember that I basically am. Living for as long as I have does that to you.” The Godfather stated.
“Have you been split into fragments, and each fragment lived a different life, and you remember each life? I have.” Darkfire said bitterly. “Anyways, There’s a katana over by Twilight’s bed. Speaking of that, where are we? And why are so many ponies lying here unconscious?”
“Oh, well its fine there.” The Godfather said casually. “Oh and, that little remark about the fragments, yes. I have done that about 3 times and got tortured to death in each one. I’ve also died more times than there are cells in your body. Doesn’t contribute to keeping me sane, but each time it was for a good cause.”
“At least you’re a hero. We had to work with a version of Rainbow Factory Dash and Pinkamena! And they still live in our world! Okay, they're reformed now, but still!” Synch exclaimed.
“Ah, I’ve had to deal with them, not very fun. Most of the ones I met are dead…” The Godfather said guiltily. “Some MAY have been my doing… Not important though. Looks like some of the others are waking up.”
A tan earth pony colt with a green mane stirred from his slumber and sat up. He rubbed his eyes with a hoof, not paying attention to his surroundings.
“Hi, you! What's your name? You alright?” Darkfire greeted in a concerned manner.
The earth pony colt jumped up in a sudden panic. He quickly spotted Darkfire and aimed a crossbow on his foreleg at him.
“Tell me who you and all of these ponies are right now! I don’t take kindly to being a captive!” The colt demanded.
“I am Darkfire Shadows, that's the Godfather, and that idiot over there is Synch. I don't know who the others are.”
“I find it quite offensive you would call me a pony. I’m not a pony right now obviously.” The Godfather added with mock hurt in his voice. “Oh and she,” He pointed to the unconscious lavender alicorn. “is my wife Twilight Sparkle.”
“Wait a sec, Twitty is your wife?! Color me surprised! I thought no stallion or...whatever you are Father, would pay attention to her in a five mile radius! But um, why the buck does she have wings? The Twilight I know doesn't fly.” The colt said, surprise evident on his face.
“Well, considering we are all from different universes, this is not the…” The Godfather paused for a moment. “Twitty? Really?... Anyway, not the “Twitty” you would know. By the way, if I’ve ever met you before, speak up. It is considerably hard to sift through over 53,000 years of memories.”
"Whoa! 53,000 years?!” The colt stopped and thought for a moment. “Do you know a time spirit by the name of Paradox by chance? Cause if you do, we’re gonna have some issues…”
”Kid, you’re gonna have to be a bit more descriptive than that. I’ve met millions of spirits by that name, each one completely different.” The Godfather said tiredly. “I’ve killed some of the one’s I met while some of them killed me. So yes, I know a few Time Spirits by the name of Paradox.”
“Alright, a few things: One; Don’t ever call me kid again. The name’s Chris-Cross or CC, whichever you prefer really. Two; The Paradox I’m referring to is humanoid, black aura surrounding him, giant staff with a stopwatch on it. Ring any bells?” The colt now known as Chris-Cross explained.
“I’ve met him. In about 567 different scenarios. I’ve killed him in about 237 of those scenarios, as he has killed me in about 4. The others, we never made more than a polite ‘Hello.’”
“Oh! You hate him? Whew! Good! For second there, things might have gotten a bit tense between us.” Chris-Cross said with relief. The Godfather was about to retort, when he noticed another being in the room awakening. A humanoid figure sat up from his place in a bunk, hold his head all the while. The humanoid spoke as it sat up fully.
“Holy shit. That is the last time I ever try to race someone. Why does it always end in me getting hurt?” The figure muttered.
“Oh, maybe dumb luck, nature hating you, or you’re just a huge klutz. Take your pick.” The Godfather remarked. The others turn from their conversation to look at the newly conscious being.
“Well… Did you all drag me off or something, cause I was falling to my death last I checked.” The being asked.
“I honestly have no idea. All I can remember is a huge explosion of light in the portal gate. Then me and Supernova…” Chris trailed off and started rapidly looking for Supernova. “Oh shoot! He’s still out!”
Chris ran over to the black unicorn and rapidly shook him to wake him up.
“Nova! Buddy! Get up!”
Supernova awoke quickly, his head still smarting from the blast that brought him here.
“Chris-Cross, relax! I’m fine! I’ve just been listening to the entire conversation!” Nova reassured Chris.
“Oh, good. Supernova can you hand me my necklace back? I’d like to be human again.” Chris asked.
“Didn’t you leave it outside the gate next to your drink?” Nova responded.
“...BUCK!” Chris exclaimed.
Nathaniel stood, watching the scene unfold before he started looking around. He then turned to Chris-Cross and Supernova.
“HEY, YOU TWO. Have either of you seen a duffle bag, a bow, and a quiver by any chance?” He questioned they two.
Chris looked over at him and answered the man’s question.
“You mean besides my wrist-mounted crossbow? No, I haven’t.”
“SHUT UP! I must think!” Nova exploded.
“HOW ‘BOUT NOOOO!” The man said before flicking up his middle fingers at the two. Nova looked more confused than anything else, whilst Chris looked infuriated. Off to side next to the Godfather and Synch, Darkfire snickered.
“...Chris-Cross, what is he doing?” Nova asked his friend.
“He’s about to take that back or else!” Chris said, his face that of pure anger.
The human, using his thumb to hit the lock on the inside of his bracer, let his combat knife fall into his hand. His eyes went from playful and mischievous to calm and calculating, watching his newly found opponent's every step.
“Try me boy, watch where it gets ya.” He said, his voice dripping with malice.
“How about you try me!”
The two charged at each other, weapons drawn. The Godfather stood up for the first time, and then clotheslined the two of them. The tall man held them far apart with his long arms. The look on his face was similar to that of a gym coach finding two boys fighting in the field, angry and full of disappointment.
“Hey, ya’ll two are gonna quit this right now or I’ll throw both of your sorry asses into the sun. Do you hear me?” He shouted at the two. When all he got was two death glares, he repeated himself. Just much louder and he spaced out each word.
“Do, you, hear, me?!”
This time, the two responded with a nod of their heads. He unceremoniously dropped the two to the ground and walked back over to his bunk and sat down.
“As much as I love fighting, the Godfather is right. Also, we need to find out who the hell brought us here.” Darkfire exclaimed.
“We need to leave one or two ponies behind. I nominate myself.” Synch said.
“I guess that means I can’t, considering I’m not a pony and all.” The man said before whispering, “Ya fuckin’ racist.”
The Godfather laughed a bit to the side at the man’s remark. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his wife waking up from her slumber.
“Ugh...Godfather, what happened?” Twilight asked.
“Hey, Twitty’s up! Doubt she’ll be of any use though.” Chris remarked, though no one paid him any attention.
“Godfather, do you know her?” Darkfire questioned.
“As I said earlier, she’s my wife.” The Godfather responded
“Hello. I’m Twilight Sparkle.”
“Hey there. I’m Darkfire, this is Synch, that’s Chris-Cross and Supernova, and we never got that guy’s name.” He said pointing to the each of them respectively.
“My names Nathaniel. Nice to meet ya.”
“I hate you with a passion.” Chris said while Nathaniel give him the finger.
“Hi, Twilight. Can’t talk, thinking.” Nova said quickly whilst he was pacing in the back of the group.
The Godfather stared awkwardly at Nova before asking Chris, “Does, he do this often? I mean, I do the same thing, but I at least walk around and do the crazy man’s mumbling act.”
“Nah, he’s just processing everything right now. He’ll be fine in a minute or so.” Chris answered.
“...Other universes...Portal’s stabilizer…God-like beings…” Nova muttered. Chris blinked a few times in Nova’s direction.
“Yeah, I’m sure he’ll be fine.” He repeated.
Another humanoid creature awoke at this time. This time, everyone noticed his awakening.
“What the feck ‘appened?” The new humanoid spoke with a heavy Irish accent.
“No clue what happened to you, but I fell to my death, then ended up here.” Nathaniel said before adding, “Though it is good to see another human.”
“Another ‘uman?” The man asked, confusion evident.
“Another human besides myself.”
“Oh… Wait what?” The Irishman asked.
“Hey! Technically i’m human! You know, in a weird magic curse, DNA camouflage blending kind of way.” Chris added.
Darkfire raised his hoof. "Um, I was human too before landing in Equestria," he said, but Nathaniel, the Irishman, and Chris ignored him.
“Are you human now? No? I thought so. Now please, go away and let the adults talk.” Nathaniel retorted.
“Adults?! Buddy I may be seventeen, but I’m the ambassador to a planet! I figure i’m just as much an adult as you are!”
“SHUT UP!” Nova shouted. Everyone stopped their bickering and turned towards the speaker.
“If all of you can stop acting like a bunch of fillies, I finally figured out what happened and why we’re all here.” Nova started. “Right now, all of us are in a sort of crossroad in the space-time continuum. For reasons that i’m still working out, somehow all of us managed to fall into an open gap in space; a wormhole, in each of our respective universes, and wound up here.”
“Indeed, I came to the same conclusion myself.” The Godfather said approvingly.
“I didn’t understand a word of that.” Chris stated.
“You wouldn’t.” Nate commented.
“Quiet you!”
“Wait a sec, how is it that only our universes collided?” Synch asked confused.
“That’s the only thing I don’t understand. Maybe certain astronomical paths just so happened to be linked to our universes perhaps? I can’t think of an honest and logical answer.” Nova answered.
“I blame Twitlight.” Chris remarked. The Godfather looked at him, more than a little annoyed.
“Kid, that doesn’t even make sense. How would my wife be able to direct enough magic to portal to other universes without me knowing? I was with her the whole afternoon!” He exclaimed angrily.
“Oh no, it’s not that. I just blame her for everything.”
“I don’t think we’re gonna get along well, kid. And yes, I will call you that until you stop calling my wife Twitlight.” He turned back to the rest of the group. “Anyway, I agree with Nova here. I’ve never seen this happen before. It is quite odd to have multiple universes collide without destruction to space and time, or combine into a single universe.”
“That’s just it though, it’s not whole universes. It’s just us. No one else knows about this, everyone else from our perspective universes probably think that we’re all dead!”
“If there were multiple universes, that would mean that there are multiple versions of each of us, or beings similar, correct?” Nate asked.
“Correct, there are an infinite amount of universes where you are a you, and there are an infinite number more where you are a twelve year old girl who enjoys singing and wearing dresses.” He paused for a moment. “That was a weird week…”
“HA! You’re a girl in an infinite number of universes!” Chris taunted.
“That means you are too, ya idjit. The only difference is, in all truth, I don’t care and would love to meet a female me.” Nate replied.
“Whatever. But wouldn’t that mean there are other Godfathers too?” Chris questioned.
“No, actually.” The Godfather replied.
“Huh...How?”
“I am the only one of my kind. If you ever see me, it’s me. Not anyone else. Only one of me can, and will ever exist. There is only one fifty-three thousand year old Spacelord running around the multiverse, and thats me. “ He replied, sadness edging its way into his voice.
“Impossible, we all exist in other universes at one point or another. There can’t only be one of you all throughout reality.” Nova replied.
“I’m many things, if not impossible. Get used to it. My wife can vouch for that.”
“This is the man that survived an entire universe collapsing when all he had to deal with was a bugatti. Which, in comparison, wasn’t anything. He is definitely impossible.” Twilight answered.
“Thank you.”
“Huh, guess you are a god then.” Nova stated.
“Not a god, per say, just, a very powerful being.”
“So what you're saying Twitty, is that Godfather…” Chris put on his sunglasses. “WOKE UP IN A NEW BUGATTI!”
Every single conscious being in the room had their palm/hoof to their face at that moment.
“Couldn’t resist, could ya?” Darkfire asked.
“Buck no! I HAD to do it!” Chris stated.
“Would you kindly stop acting the maggot?” The Irishman said as he slapped Chris.
“I really don’t like you, kid. I would slap you, but this gentleman has done it for me. Lucky you. Now if you wouldn’t mind, I think we should wake the others and hear their stories and get moving on trying to get home.” The Godfather said.
“I agree. CC, quit acting like a colt and focus on the objective here!” Nova scolded.
Chris grumbled in pain and anger as he rubbed his head.
“I’m sorry about him. He’s…a bit crazy when he meets new people...or ponies...or god-like beings. But I assure you, you will warm up to him.” Nova reassured.
“Oh, really?” The Godfather asked doubtfully.
“Not really, no. But he should calm down a bit once he gets a hold of himself.” Nova said bluntly.
“I expected as much...”
Chapter 2: Exploration
“Right, let me get this straight. The kid didn’t have a cutie mark when he got there?” The Godfather inquired.
“Yeah! After I saw Christian as a pony the first time, I couldn’t help but laugh a little behind his back.” Supernova started. “He eventually did get one though, through trial and error I might add.”
“I now have something I can make fun of the the kid with.” The Godfather said with a chuckle. “It’s still not as bad in comparison to when I accidently blew up half a continent. Which, by the way, I did fix! ‘Cause you see, I had these explosives…”
As the Godfather began his story, the others in their group started up their own conversations.
“So Christian, you were human before? I was too. What were you like before first coming to Equestria?”
“Before Equestria? Man, that was a time where I hated everything about MLP. If uh...you don’t mind, I really don’t like talking about it that much. Brings up bad memories.”
“Fuckin’ puss. It can’t be that bad.” Nate remarks.
Darkfire glared over at Nate. Nate just looked away and acted as if he was adjusting his knife sheath.
“I went to Earth and saw that show on more than a couple occasions. I mostly was amused by the censorship than creeped out that it was my life, just taken as fictional.” Twilight said with a laugh.
“I always knew it was real. Multiverse theory and all that shit.” Darkfire said casually.
Synch was standing next to a door at the end of the room impatiently. He saw the break in the conversations and spoke up.
“Are we going to get started, or not?”
“Was that door always there?” Nova questioned.
“Physics basically don’t exist here. Trust me, I already checked.” The Godfather answered.
“Oh, alright.” Nova responded.
“At this point I WOULD make a ‘Door Number One’ joke, but I don’t know if I will get slapped again or not.” Chris remarked.
“I’d say that’s a good call, bro.” Synch agreed.
“Well… No use just standing around. Are we going to see what’s on the other side or not?” Nate said impatiently.
“If ya’ want to check it out be my guest.” Naomhán offers.
Nate turned toward Naomhán, disappointment evident on his face.
“Aw come on. It can’t be that bad, can it… Did I really just say that?”
Naomhán slapped the back of Nate’s head before responding.
“Yes, now shut up ‘fore ya’ make things worse… Feck I need a drink.”
“There ain’t any beer here. I looked.” The Godfather remarked as he was studying the door.
“I could use some Scrumpy. Too bad I left my stash at the Library.” Darkfire thought aloud.
“You humans and your alcoholic drinks.” Synch started. “You know, in Darkfire’s and my world, the only alcoholic drink-other than wine, but that doesn't count in my opinion- is the Apple Family Hard Cider.”
“Thats fine and all, I’ve had it, I just feel like its one of those days where I need to wake up on the roof with a hangover and a pineapple, or make Molotov Cocktails. Those would probably be helpful...” The Godfather muttered the last sentence.
“You know, I never could get into drinking. Messes with the progress of science. Plus, not many places to drink in Chris-Cross’s and my universe.”
“And as a human, i’m still too young.”
Naomhán searched his person for his flask, not finding it anywhere.
“YOUR FECKIN’ WITH ME!!! Come on, where are ya’... Feck.”
“What, um... Naomhan, right? You know what, is it ok if I call you Han? It’ll be easier to say.”
Naomhán turned to the speaker to see it is none other than Darkfire.
“If my name’s that fecked fer ya, jus’ call me Evan instead.”
The Godfather, overhearing this, introduced himself properly.
“Hello Evan, it’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m the Godfather and that’s my wife over there, Twilight Sparkle.”
“‘Ello.” Naomhán, now Evan, responded.
“Well alright guys, let’s get a move on! I’ll take point.” Nate spoke up.
“Great! That means if you get attacked by some other worldly creature, we have time to run! Except for Godfather, who will probably blow it’s brains across the multiverse.” Chris responded sarcastically.
“Let's rock. I'm going after Sir Asshole here.” Darkfire said while gesturing to Nate.
“Yeah. The sooner we get done, the sooner I can see Vi again.” Synch agreed.
Nate, pulled out his knife and went into a cautious position as he walked towards the door.
“Let’s get this over with.” He said.
Nate and Darkfire crossed the threshold before Synch stopped everyone.
“Wait! I know this trick! I used it during our fight against Sombra! It’s a vanishing door; they teleport you to a set location. However, that’s some really dark magic shit right there, so only masters of dark magic like Sombra or Nightmare Moon can do this spell…”
“Well, technically, Luna is Nightmare Moon. So it could be her.” The Godfather started.
“Well, yeah…”
“Let's get going! We can't just stop because of a vanishing door!” Darkfire said as he popped his head through the other side of the door.
“I like the way this guy thinks! Come on Twilight!” The Godfather said before running into the doorway.
“That man has gotten himself killed more times than I can count doing this, he just never learns.” Twilight sighed, then followed him through.
“Come on! We can't let them go too far away, or we'll be split up!” Synch shouted.
“Well you heard the ponies! Let’s go!” Chris agreed.
“Of course.” Nova followed.
Evan rubbed his forehead in exasperation.
“Now I really need a drink.” He said before following them through.
“So, Evan, what did you do back home?” The Godfather asked.
They were in what looked to be a small sitting room. It had a couple of armchairs, and the back wall had book shelves lining it. There was a fireplace with a landscape painting above it. To the right of the Godfather there was a large window overlooking a large circular hole carved into the mountain. The roof of said hole was glass and far above them, letting in plenty of sunlight.
“I used to be a bartender. Until I got to Vice City, then everything sort of went out of control.”
“Out of control, how?” Twilight questioned.
“It started when I first arrived. I had been going along, looking for a place to found a new bar, when out of no where a bunch of gangsters popped out of a alley. At the time I had no idea what was happening, so me being the self righteous fool I was at the time decided to follow.”
“It didn’t take me long to find out where there were going to. Or more WHO they were going to meet. No one knows the man's real name, but not long after I found out he went by The Joker. Well, not long after arriving at the hideout I was spotted and had to run the hell out of there.”
“It was then that I spotted what they were doing. The fuck had started a drug ring and was selling some of the most addictive drugs known to man. Heroin, crystal meth, crack cocaine, you name it, he had it. Not to mention the fact that he had nearly every politician in the state in his pocket. Be it by bribery, blackmail, hell I even saw a few hostages in the place. And that pissed me off, it pissed me off a lot. So I decided to do something about it. Now I may have forgot to mention this, but I’m former IRA. Do you know what that is?”
“Yes, but refresh my memory.” The Godfather said.
“Alright. The IRA, which stands for the Irish Republic Army, is a group of Southern Irishman, who ever since the British decided to take northern Ireland from Ireland, metaphorically of course, have been fighting the British to both get Northern Ireland back, and keep them from taking any more of Ireland at the same time. The reasons that they are fighting are good ones, but they way they go about the fight I sometimes can’t agree with. But I digress, me being former IRA had a few contacts around the state, and it just turned out that one of them was in Vice City. I got in contact with him and he was able to supply me with anything I needed to fight Joker’s gang.”
“Not long after I found out about the other gang’s of the city; The Vercetti, Stalliones, and Los Cabrones just to name a few, and I started fighting back in my own way. I would figure out where their drug shipments where coming from, find out when the next shipment is, and head it off once it got there. After I was done I would get rid of the drugs, which would slowly cost all the gangs millions, and soon enough they would be gone.”
“Then Joker found out I was the one doing it. The prick tried to have me killed, but that didn’t work. I nearly killed the assassin he sent after me instead. After that it’s all really a blur, but I got here via explosion by a grenade thrown by one of Joker’s goons.”
“Well then.” The Godfather deadpanned.
“We got here a bit more gracefully than a grenade. We were walking around Ponyville and around the time it got dark, we sat down on a park bench. After a while we were surrounded by Moonflower petals and then poof, we were here.” Twilight said.
“Lucky bastards.” Evan said with a chuckle.
“It was a peaceful way to start the hellstorm that is no doubt gonna come soon.” The Godfather said solemnly.
“Enough about me though, what was your old lot in life?” Evan questioned.
“Before or after I met him?” Twilight asked.
“Let’s go with from the start, before you met him.”
“Well, I was a young unicorn in Ponyville who sent friendship reports to Princess Celestia weekly. I had, well technically still do, five of the bestest friends I could ask for. There’s Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy. We were also known as the ‘Elements of Harmony’ since we each represented one of them. AJ is Honesty, Rarity is Generosity, Pinkie is Laughter, Rainbow is Loyalty, Fluttershy is Kindness. We fought Nightmare Moon, Discord, Changelings, so on and so forth.”
“Well one day I met him,” She nodded to the Godfather. “and I went traveling with him. We travel to alternate universes like one where all of Equestria was gender-swapped, one where Nightmare Moon won, one where I was Celestia’s daughter, you name it. Then one day, he dropped me off and said he was going to go meet an old friend and didn’t come back for a year.”
“Hey! You know very well why I did that!” The Godfather said defensively.
“Well you could have still told me! ...Anyway, I lived my life some more and became an Alicorn and traveled to another alternate universe where everyone in Equestria was humanoid in figure, though their skin-tone still mostly matched their fur color. That’s where I met him again, actually. He was the Junior ROTC teacher at the high-school there.’
“They’re not called teachers, their called Generals. At least they are there. Either way, thats pretty much what happened. After a while though, I saved her life a couple of times, she saved mine, since she went all Alicorn-y and stuff and became immortal with me, I realized I loved her and married her. Simple as that.”
“Good on ya. I knew a couple o’ guys that never took the time to find their love. And they all later lived to regret it.”
“I know that feelin’.” The Godfather agreed.
Evan looked around the room and saw no sign that anyone else had been there.
“Where the hell did the rest of them get off to?”
“I don’t know. We all walked into the same doorway, right?” Twilight asked.
“We should have.” Evan said uncertainly.
“So where are they…?" The Godfather asked.
“So, Nate, CC, since we got separated from the others, we should get to learn about each other. I'll start.” Darkfire said.
“Before I found my way to Equestria and got this form, I was a superhuman with shadow powers, which I still have by the way. After my friends died, my assistant and I, Will, created a time portal, which malfunctioned and sent me to Equestria. I made a deal with Sunbutt and Princess Luna that if I helped the Elements of Harmony in the fight against Discord, they would resurrect my friends.”
“My friends Mimic, Gunslinger, and Rocker were brought back from the dead, and I became the Bearer of the Lost Element of Support and Princess Luna's personal protege. I then fought a villain named Paradox, not the one you know, CC, mine was an interdimensional conqueror, and sadly, both Rocker and Mimic sacrificed themselves to defeat him.”
“Afterwards, I met the Doctor, Roseluck, Colgate, Derpy, Lord Virus Bloodbath, and Speed Jumper. We all worked together to take down Slendermane and his masked assistants. About half a year ago, I met DJ-PON3, Synch Ronize, Neon Lights, and Octavia Melody while facing down the Elements of Evil, as well as adopting a young girl-turned-filly with Fluttershy, since there was nopony else to take care of her while 'Shy was out of town. Anyways, Synch, Vinyl, and I were on a walk when I smelled the slight scent of fudge and ended up here!”
“...So, that’s a thing.” Chris deadpanned.
“What about you, Christian?”
“Again, hate talking about my past. But...I guess it wouldn’t hurt. I originally was the biggest anti-brony on the east coast. I was the self-proclaimed leader of anti’s in my school, uploading videos of MLP memorabilia getting destroyed, bullying bronies; but that all changed when I was kidnapped by changelings, who looked like The Six.”
“I was then turned into a pony thanks to a curse, had to work with the fraud ponies, found out it was all Chrysalis’s plan to use my hatred as power to take over Equestria AND Earth. So I saved The Elements of Harmony, Celestia, Luna, got the U.S. Government involved, there was a bomb, blah, blah, blah. Long story short, I save everypony, become ambassador for two planets, an FBI special agent, and turned against the anti’s. Oh, and I can somewhat reverse the stupid curse on me IF I HAD MY NECKLACE!”
“Anyway, my friend Supernova and I got here while we were trying to fix the main portal in Ponyville, when I accidentally stepped on the portal’s stabilizer thing and broke it. Then there was a huge explosion with bright light, and here we are!”
“Dang… Maybe whoever took us, if they’re good and just need our help, can find a way to get your necklace back. What about you, Nate?” Darkfire said.
Nate said nothing, and just looked around with his knife in his hand.
“Hey Nate, I thought you were an archer. What’s with the knife?” Chris asked.
“In all truth, I am an average archer. Ten times out of ten I hit the target at 150 metres, five times out of ten I kill them in one shot. I specialize in knife and CQC fighting though. It’s what is needed most when trying to sneak up on things. If you can’t kill it, and kill it quietly, before it knows that you’re there, then it’ll alert everything to the fact that you’re there. I’m more of a Ranger at the end of it all.”
“Not bad for an average archer. As for myself though, I’m like Robin Hood combined with William Tell...times ten.” Chris gloated.
“Good on ya.” Nate said, uninterested.
“You seem to be distracted by something, you ok?” Chris asked.
“Yes and no. I’m feeling okay right now, but I can’t help but get the feeling that we’re being watched.”
“I know what you mean. I have the same feeling, I just have been ignoring it. You’re right though, something is watching us.”
“How is that possible? We’re in the middle of nowhere!”
“Funny things happen in the middle of nowhere.”
He turned toward Nate to speak to him, only to see a pair of blue eyes come darting at him.
“DUCK” He shouted. He tackled Nate to the ground as a black figure flew over their heads and stopped in front of Darkfire. Then the shadow bolted into the darkness before they knew what happened.
“THE HELL WAS THAT?!” Darkfire shouted.
“Son of a mare!” Chris cursed.
He shot three darts randomly into the darkness whilst getting to his hooves. The creature’s blue eyes showed it coming around for another fly by, but it instead fell flat on its face in front of them with three tranquilizer darts in its face.
“A changeling, I knew it.”
“I take it you’ve fought these before CC?” Nate said as he got up.
“Fought them? They turned me into this.
He picked up the changeling and pinned it against a nearby wall.
“Start talking you miserable wasp, or i’ll make sure Nate uses that knife on you and then Darkfire will do...whatever he does. Why are you here? How are you here?”
“That should really scare you, ‘cause I’m incredibly creative when it comes to torture, and I can keep you alive and awake for all of it.” Nate said to the changeling.
“And I can do things to you that will scar you for life. So, what is your ploy?” Darkfire added.
A quadrupedal figure trotted through the door on the side of the dark ballroom.
“Oh, you’ve arrived! I need to-” His eyes widened upon seeing the bug like creature. “Is that a changeling!?”
“Flash? You’re here too? That’s great! And yes, it is. It tried to attack us.” Darkfire greeted.
“We need to go see General Luna now. If changelings have infiltrated, we’re at greater risk than we thought.”
Nate ignored Flash and turns to Chris and Darkfire all the while he kept on watch for the slightest sound.
“Gonna ask your opinions on this, what do you two think is more valuable when fighting against a changeling. Power and protection, or speed and mobility?”
“Well, let’s see… it depends on how you fight really. I would say speed and mobility, but someone who wields heavy weaponry might choose the opposite.” Darkfire explained.
“Normally I try to move around when using my crossbow; making myself a harder target yet using that movement to make my target easier to hit.” Chris added.
“Are you all even listening to me?!” Flash shouted.
“Nope, not really.” Darkfire answered.
“Not even a little bit, now then,” Chris pressed the changeling harder against the wall. “You have one minute to explain yourself insect, or Nate’s gonna start cutting off extremities.”
“Ssssssstupid pony, threatening me will not get you anywhere!” The Changeling spat back.
“Three things, firstly you really doubt my creativity don’t you.” Nate threatened.
“Not really, I just don’t know how you tick. Continue.” Chris interrupted.
“Secondly, I’m NOT a pony. And thirdly, that wasn’t a threat, because a threat implies that I won’t follow through. Tell me when to start CC, I’d rather not resort to torture but…”
“Actually I think the insect was referring to me, Nate.” Chris said.
“I wassssss talking to the pony, you sssssstupid human.”
“Shouldn’t have done that dude.” Chris said.
“Why? What’ssssss he going to…”
Nate suddenly punched the wall next to the changelings head. His arm rested in front of it’s face, causing an indent in the shape of his cestus-covered fist and a large crack to form.
“If I were you I’d stop with the insults and just start telling us what we want to know. It would be far better for your health.” He said with voice filled with malice.
“All right! All right! I’ll sssssspeak! We don’t know how we got here, we all just ssssssuddenly appeared here. Ussssss gruntssssss were told by The Queen to invesssssstigate the area for anything ssssssusssssspicioussssss.”
“Queen?! Buck, she’s here too.” Chris cursed.
“Speed and Mobility it is I guess.”
Nate proceeded to take off his vambraces, and greaves. Then he began to take off his shirt as to remove the vest underneath.
“Nate! Slow down there! We don’t even know where Chrysalis is in this void!” Darkfire shouted.
Nate, removed his vest, which showed the multitude of scars on his chest and arms, before putting his shirt back on.
“Doesn’t matter, I’m faster without these…” He stopped suddenly and sighed. “CC, Darkfire, do changelings have a hive mind like other insects.”
Chris had one of those blank smiles on his face that you get when you are utterly confused.
“I...don’t know what that is.”
“Hive mind is a connection between the minds of individuals. If you’ve ever seen the show Star Trek, the Borg are a perfect example.”
“I don’t think so. ‘Cause if that was true, I would have never saved Celestia and the others on my first ‘visit’ to Equestria.”
“That is good to know, because at least now we know that the Queen doesn’t know that we’re here.” Nate said as he wrapped his armor in a cloth bag.
“Did it ever occur to you idiotssssss that I could jusssssst ssssssignal her with a sssssspell?”
“Yes.” Nate said as he smashed the changeling in the head with the armor bundle, and crushed its skull.
“Uhh...Nate, Changelings are insects. Do you know what happens when you kill an insect?” Chris said with a face-hoof.
“It would only enrage the others if they are connected?” Nate said.
“No. A dead insect releases a special pheromone that tells other insects in the area to stay away. But since these are changelings, it’s like shouting: “WE’RE OVER HERE!” To the rest of the swarm.”
“… I would suggest leaving the area immediately. I will go off on my own way, considering the fact that I was the closest and probably got hit by the majority of the pheromone, to draw them off.”
“Don’t bother, she’ll go after me anyway.” Chris turned to Darkfire, “Got a plan Dark?”
“What? No, I’m playing cards with Flash.” He turned back to Flash. “Got any threes?”
“Queenie doesn’t know that you’re here right now. So she’ll probably go after the one who killed her ‘subject’.” Nate said.
“Good point. Then this could work!” Chris exclaimed.
“So the plan is I’m not supposed to know that you’re here, Christian?” A voice said.
Nate slowly slipped his knife out.
“Yeah Chrysalis, you’re not suppo…” Chris trailed off as he turned to be muzzle to muzzle to the changeling queen.
“Hello Christian.” Chrysalis said.
“Buck me.”
Nate threw his knife as Chrysalis before shouting to Chris. “Run, I’ll keep her busy.”
“...K, thanks bye! Let’s move Dark!” The two ran off before Chris shouted back at Nate. “Hang on! Nate! Make sure Flash is used as a distraction or something.” A green bolt of magic nearly missed Chris. “Gotta go, bye!”
Nate looked back at Chris weirdly, before turning to Chrysalis. “Okay then… Hello there. How are you this fine day.” Nate said in a ready stance.
Chrysalis raised her brow before speaking. “I do not believe you are in a place to be using formalities.” She turned toward a swarm of changelings around her. “Go after Christian and his friend.”
“I’m faster than you think.”
He ran at a wall, and up it a few steps before jumping into the air between the route and the changelings. He then began to jump through the swarm, using Changelings as single use platforms. He slashed left and right at the changelings he wasn’t trampling with his steel-toed boots. As he made it to the end of the line of changelings, he jumped down and rolled to negate his momentum to a survivable level. When it was all said and done, a total five out of one hundred and fifty made it past him.
“Next wave incoming, right?”
“Hmm...You are a bigger problem than I thought. I must say I am impressed.”
“I’d say I aim to please, but considering the company.” He said while shrugging slightly.
Chrysalis laughed. “You forget...Uh, what’s your name again?”
“I’d give it to you, but does a dead man, or is it deadling? Have the need to know a name that will only last them a few minutes?”
“Oh, whatever. You forget I have an unlimited amount of changelings at my disposal in this...place. And I also know that every human has a breaking point. So…”
She raised her forelegs up, causing circles of green flame to appear behind her. They opened up to pitch black darkness that was penetrated only by a single ball of yellow energy. A large portion of the energy was ripped from the sphere and upwards into the room, creating hundreds of thousands of changelings. She then ripped the last of the energy to create even more. In total she had what seemed to be millions of changelings.
“Let’s just see what yours is.”
“It’s been a long time since I got to let loose. Are you sure that you want me to decimate your hive the way you’re suggesting. Because I will assure you, I am nothing like any of the humans you’ve fought before.”
“Hmm, cute.” She turned towards her hive. “I want you ten million to focus on that human there. Me and another twenty million are going after Christian. I expect a full report and a captive if you survive. If you don’t, you’ve served me well.”
“Yessssss my Queen.” The Changelings responded.
“Good. I’ll be seeing you human. Very soon.”
She laughed before vanishing with a large group of her minions.
“She really must not care about you all does she?” Nate asked.
“We live to only ssssserve the Queen. Why do you assssssk ssssssuch a ssssssupid quesssssstion?”
“Because, how being a leader is supposed to be, is guiding their flock for the good of their flock. Not throwing their lives away for the sake of petty revenge.” Nate tried to reason.
“Sssssssilence! Now die!” A changeling in the front said. The rest of the horde charged with him.
“I’m sorry it came to this.” Nate said, sighing sadly. He pulled out his weapons and began to charge the horde.
“CC, we have to go help Nate! He may not be our friend, but he is our ally!” Darkfire shouted as he summoned the Sword of Shadows. He turned to go run towards where Nate was being surrounded.
“Nate can take care of himself, now come on, we have to go!” Chris shouted.
“Awwwwww, why must you leave so soon?” Chrysalis asked.
Chris and Darkfire turned to see Chrysalis and her changeling army right behind them.
“I have faced godlike beings and inter dimensional conquerors. Sure, I had the Elements of Harmony at my back then, but these guys seem to be strong enough.” Darkfire said with a yawn.
“What is it you are saying?” Chrysalis asked.
“I'm saying I could defeat you easily. Bring it on!”
Darkfire charged forward, his sword clashing against Chrysalis' horn. Meanwhile Flash walked up to Chris.
“Uh, shouldn’t we go help them?” He asked.
“Oh Celestia, why did he have to follow us?” Chris whined.
“What’s your problem?”
“Let’s see: You copied my fur color, you’re from a terrible movie, and you are the worst ‘love interest’ for Twilight ever! My friend Supernova could be better, and he’s not the biggest fan of Twitty!”
“Now you listen here you son of a…”
He couldn’t finish his sentence due to him being covered in a green substance rendering him immobile and inaudible.
“He was getting rather annoying, like your friend over there.” Chrysalis taunted.
Worried, Chris looked over to his right to see piles of dead, defeated changelings. One thing stuck out from the puddles of green substance and dead changelings. There in the center of the piles, Darkfire was rendered immobile and inaudible.
“Okay first off, thanks for handling Flash, Chrissy.” Chris said offhandedly.
“It was my pleasure.” Chrysalis spat.
“Secondly, YOU AND YOUR CHANGELINGS ARE GOING TO PAY FOR TRAPPING DARK!”
“It’s DarkFIRE! “ Came the muffled voice of Darkfire.
“Whatever!” Chris flicked his hoof showing his crossbow. “Bring it on Chrissy!
“Well, your friend did take out at least half of the swarm. Though I will love to see how you handle ten million changelings...and me.”
“Hmm, this could be a problem.”
“Yes, very.” She turned to the swarm. “Get him.”
“Buck me.”
He shot at any and all of insectoid creatures he could see, each dart hitting its mark on their foreheads. He kept up the fight, turning to shoot that one, dodging that one, duck as the dead one nearly hits him in the face. Not for very long however. There was a click as the darts stopped firing.
“Out of darts? Not now!” He looked up to see the remaining changelings start to crowd around him, preparing to strike. “I’m so dead!”
“CC!” Came the muffled voice of Darkfire. Chris turned to see the free hind hoof of Darkfire stomp down on some sort of machine. Seconds later, a vortex opened and dozens of darts fly out and roll in front of Chris’s hooves. Chris nodded to Darkfire and tossed up a dart to load into the crossbow. Just as a he clicked it in, a changeling swooped down with a mouth full of fangs. Chris shot it in the face before continuing to dodge and blast through the rest of the swarm.
“See Chrissy?... Easy…” Chris said panting.
“Yes well, you did do a fairly decent job against my changelings.” She congratulated.
“Thanks, I guess.”
“But can you handle…” She flew in front of Chris and slammed him to the ground, pinning him beneath her hoof. “Me?”
Chris was unable to do anything as he struggled to lift up his bow, but Chrysalis tied down his forehooves to the floor with magic ropes.
“You’re mine now Christian! Now it’s time for me to pay you back for foiling my plans to rule!”
Before she was able to fire her spell, a dark blur kicked her in the side of the head. The force of the blow knocked her a good twenty feet away. Chris opened his eyes to see Darkfire standing over him.
“Thanks, but how did you…” Chris started.
“Sword of Shadows, kicked it into my hooves and used it to get rid of that gunk.” Darkfire interrupted.
“Right.” They both looked over to where Chrysalis was rising to her hooves.
“Cheeky little pony! But that doesn’t matter! Your friend will provide what we need!” She taunted.
Chris and Darkfire looked at each other, confused, before asking in unison. “Nate?”
“No you idiots!” She motioned behind her to Flash Sentry who was encased in a green shell and surrounded by the remaining changelings.
“He’s not our friend.” Chris said.
“Well, he’s my friend.” Darkfire argued.
“Oh whatever! He is still perfect for the plan!” Chrysalis shouted in exasperation.
“Plan?! What plan?!” Chris and Darkfire questioned.
“Oh, you shall see.” She motioned to the horde around her. “Let’s go!”
“Yessssss my Queen.” The all flew into a large rectangular formation as Chrysalis summoned more of the energy that regenerated back. A large circular portal opened and grew large enough for their formation to get through.
“This is a problem.” Darkfire stated.
“Why, I’m happy!” Chris shouted.
“Flash kinda knows all about the other dimensions and the others.”
“When did he learn that?!” Chris shouted in a mild panic.
“I don’t know. Found out he knew while we were playing Go Fish.” Darkfire said.
“Perfect.” Chris facepalmed as Nate ran up, covered a green blood-like substance.
“Where is she?” Nate said calmly.
“Gone. She fled upon seeing I freed myself from the gunk.” Darkfire said with a shake of his head. “However, she took Flash, who somehow knows about all of you. He did say one thing that interests me, though, and I don’t know if you caught this. He said that we needed to go see ‘General Luna’. So that means there’s something bigger going on than him just being here.”
“So now what?”
“Isn't it obvious? We find General Luna.” Darkfire said with a grin.
“Dude, I think we're lost.” Synch deadpanned.
“That’s impossible! This void must have an ever changing layout!” Supernova shouted in defense.
“Sure, Supernova.” He glanced over to his side and did a double take at what he thought he saw. He ran towards a door that was slightly ajar.
“Where are you going?”
Synch busted through a partly open door to reveal a bow, a high tech sword and matching shotgun, a gold guitar pick on a small, black chain necklace, a .44 Magnum, a whip, a couple silenced Ruger LCP with their holsters, a scoped Lee Enfield with shoulder strap, two kukri knives, a flask of whiskey, two beretta's with silencer’s, and several spears, swords, and crossbows.
“Yes! My V-Blaster and V-Blade!” He said holding two high-tech weapons.
“And that's Chris-Cross's necklace! Wait...How in Tartarus did THAT get here?! CC left it back in our dimension!“
“We need to find the others! Let me store these in Hammerspace.”
He picked up the .44 Magnum and reached behind his back. When he pulled his hoof back up, however, it was gone. He repeated this process until all the weapons were gone. “There we go!”
“...Ok, that doesn’t answer my question...And it also leaves more…”
“Well, it's obvious whoever brought us here also brought important possessions of ours. And can ponies in your world not access Hammerspace? Pretty much everypony can in mine and Darkfire's.”
“Hammerspace? You mean that dumb cartoon gag? That’s preposter...Actually, maybe Pinkie can access it. Either that, or she has a teleporter to get her cannon. I should run more tests on her…”
“Right, well, we need to find the others ,and, Twitlight.” He said with a snicker.
“You're right about that, but I don’t think CC would be happy about stealing his nickname for Twilight.”
“Why’s that? I bet he wouldn’t mind!”
“Trust me. Back in my universe, CC would get very defensive if someone else called her that. Even Twilight would get up in arms!”
“Ah, well. I guess I won't call her that around him. Hey, what's that?” Synch walked over to a map pinned on the wall. “Check out these names!Universe 63, TIGVerse, Non-BronyVerse, PonyEarthVerse…”
“It appears to be a map of the Multiverse. But all of them are crossed off except for a few.” Nova thought aloud.
“Hey!” He pointed to one of the non-crossed off ones. “That's mine and Darkfire's!”
“How can you tell?” Synch questioned.
“It's the 'GuardiansVerse'. In our universe, Darkfire, Vinyl, and I are part of a group of heroic ponies known as the Guardians of Equestria. In fact, all 3 of us are co-founders of it, as well as Darkfire's friends and marefriend, who sadly are not with us anymore. The group's grown a lot.”
“Intriguing. Hmm, I guess this one must be mine and CC’s universe.” Nova said whilst pointing to one of the squares on the grid.
“How can you tell?”
“It’s called the ‘IcarusVerse’.”
“And?” Synch deadpanned.
“That's CC's middle name. Odd though, you would think it would be called something like: CCVerse or ChristianVerse number fifteen. It makes sense with the infinite number of universes. Like here, this one is called ChristianVerse eighty eight or this one named GuardiansVerse two.”
“GuardiansVerse two? I kinda wanna see that place!” Synch said with a chuckle.
“I don’t think you should. Says here you end up enslaving everyone and killing your best friends, Synch. Oh, and Celestia’s your wife apparently.”
“Oh. The worst part is my wife is, as Darkfire puts it, Sunbutt. But I suppose it's not cool of me to enslave everypony and kill Darkfire, Will, Virus, and Vinyl... Anyways,” He walked up to the map and pulled it off the wall. “We should take this with us. You can look over it later, see if you can figure out something with that big brain of yours. Now, let's find the others.”
