Guardians Of The Multiverse

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.”