Slipknot, The Mane Six and the Doors of Eternity

Chapter by ScottTrek

(In The Equestrian Dimension.)

Somehow Twilight knew it was going to be one of those days when she rolled out of bed.

“Spike!” she called down the stairs of her library/treehouse, “Do I have anything in the official planner today?”

“Nothing, oh my great Princess!” The baby dragon called back sarcastically.

“Please, don’t call me that.” Twilight groaned inspecting herself in the mirror. The lavender alicorns horn began to glow with a purple aura and several brushed floated into the air. Since being transformed from a unicorn to an Alicorn Princess her morning routine had become a lot more complex what with addition of Pegasus wings.

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Meanwhile on the outskirts of town a big black cloud lurked ominously. If anyone had looked up at it they would have probably remarked that it was strange for a storm cloud to be around by itself. This was Equestria after all; the weather was almost entirely controlled by the Pegasi so storm clouds were somewhat rare.

Another thing anyone who had been looking at the cloud at that moment would have noticed was that for half a second there was a usually well-defined image of the face of a colt.

It was a face that would have looked eerily familiar to some…….

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There was a knock at the door. Twilight came down as Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Applejack came in.

“Hi girls!” Twilight Smiled bounding down the stairs. “Rarity, you have my clothes? Wow that was fast!”

“Yes my dear!” the unicorn fashonista said, happy at the praise. She levitated the bundles of clothing off the two Earth Ponies and over to Twilight. “I’ve enlarged everything by a few centimeters to fit your slightly larger frame and added natural looking openings for your wings.”

“Perfect!”

“Well what are friends for?”

“Well…..” Applejack started, sitting down at the breakfast table, “That and the fact you can brag to all them hoity-toity fashion ponies in Canterlot you that you are the Personal Tailor of the new royal princess.”

“Well; pot, kettle and black, my dear.” Rarity laughed with mock indignation, “Did or did I not see you bragging to the Flim-Flam brothers the other day?”

“Those muffin-heads deserve it though!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed suddenly popping up next to Twilight, making her jump.

“Though speaking of muffins I’ve come up with several new recipes lately, and I was thinking it would be super-duper-great to have you try them first ‘cause there kinda unusual and it would be totally awesome if I could have ‘princess approved’ the shop and….”

“Woah, woah.” Twilight said, jabbing a hoof in the pink hyperactive pony’s mouth to halt the verbal onslaught, “I don’t think Celestia and Luna would be very happy if I start endorsing products, even if they are my friends. However I would love to try your new recipe ideas.”

“Okie dokie lokie!” Pinkie said rummaging around in her saddle bag.

Twilight noticed that Rarity and Applejack were standing as far back as they could and were both sniggering. As Twilight looked at them with a quizzical eyebrow; Pinkie started to explain the first new concoction.

“Well you this one here is like a regular chocolate muffin, but the twist being that every-pony is so busy now a day and wants fast food. So instead of eating it normally I’ll fire it a ponies mouths using the Party Cannon.”

Twilight whipped round to look back at Pinkie, “You can’t be……”

SPLAT

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Outside Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were inspecting the mysterious black cloud. It had drifted over town and staring to garner complaints from the populace to weather control.

“So I was practicing a few tricks for my appeared with the Wonderbolts, a few corkscrew triple-loop-de-loops, nothing fancy” Rainbow Dash explained, blowing a few strands of her multi coloured hair out of her eyes as Fluttershy nervously poked at the black mass.

“Anyway, I’ve been trying to poof it away for about 15 minutes but nothing happened. Then I heard some kid on the ground saying it looked alive….and angry. I really hope I haven’t been kicking an insect swarm or something.” Dash said laughing, poking Fluttershy in the side.

“W-W-Well…” Fluttershy stuttered looking at Rainbow Dash, “I feel that th-there is  st-strong possibility that the cloud is in fact alive in some manner.”

“Oh.” Dash’s face drooped, “Bugger.”

At that point the cloud swirled around and reformed itself into a towering apparition. “And I am very, very angry.” It boomed. The top half swirled to form King Sombra, the dark tyrant of the Crystal Empire. “You foals should have really checked I was dead last time.”

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(>Meanwhile in the nexus of all realities<)

“What’ you looking at?”

“Slipknot in dimension Kappa-31-32-104 are trying to summon a daemon lord to assist them in their struggle.”

“Oh! Sounds interesting! How are they doing?”

“Well the rituals spot on, but their dimension’s subspace harmonics have been badly disrupted by their apocalypse. That ritual of theirs can’t lock onto anything and the portal is oscillating wildly all over the D-axis.”

“Better keep an eye on that then. There’s some interesting stuff going down in Equs-12-67-01 I'm going to observe”

(>Back in Equestira<)

Black fire rained down across Ponyville, the air filled with screams and the maniacal laughter of Sombra. Pinkie Pie was bouncing around the streets like a frizzy pink rubber ball, chasing after the Sombra spectre as he rained carnage upon the town.

It was scary to say the least, but for the Mane Six it was deeply distrubing as well. When they had last met Sombra had been blown to smithereens by the combined willpower of the Crystal Ponies. If he hand't died from that he should of at least been scattered so deep into the aether as to never return. but not only was he back but his powers were drastically different. The smoke spectre form was nothing new the fire-balls and black lighting were.

Upon high Sombra howled in savage pleasure he didn't normally go in for mass murder but these worthless plebs had dared to challenge him. HIM! He had not spent 1000 years encased in the icy northern wasted to have his Crystal slaves whipped out from underneath by a bunch of upstarts, the reincarnation of the Crystal Princess he'd killed long ago and a fucking baby dragon!

He had new power now. Secret of the Deep Darkness fueled his veins. After he'd burned this off the map the whole world would feel his wrath. And why stop there? There were new concepts he had been shown. New places he could travel. And many many more new people he could enslave.

“Hey King Sombrero!” Pinkie called, trying to keep his attention off the fleeing populace, “Can’t hit he! Can’t hit me!”

The Sombra spectre watched the springing pink pony, tracking her movement and let loose a arc of lightning whilst she was mid-air. But Pinkie, defying all laws of momentum, stooped dead, mid-air, as the lightning struck in front of her.

The giant smoke apparition rushed down to grab Pinkie but was suddenly engulfed in a tornado. Rainbow dash grimaced as she spun round and around keeping the gale force winds confined. Somewhere behind Dash came a scream as Sombra lashed out and caught Fluttershy between his teeth. Fluttershy squirmed round in his jaws an let loose the full power of her physic stare at Sombra. The giant's form juddered for a second but his mind was beyond anything Fluttershy had encountered before. Sombra laughed, swatting Rainbow Dash away, and began to bite down.

Before he could bite down a massive column of energy swatted him out the sky. He wheeled to the ground, body shrinking to form his natural appearance... just before he hit the ground  with a painful thud. he graoned as every paricle in hos ody vibrated from the impact. The now painfully solid Sombra looked up just in time to see Rarity and Applejack heft an anvil onto his head.

“Thanks for keeping him still girls.” Twilight breathed heavily, intense magical residue cracking over her body. “That kind of powerful magic is tricky even for me.”

“Powerful magic?” a disembodied voice whisper, the ponies braced themselves as Sombra’s body reappeared down the road, bruised but alive, “YOU DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD!”

Blood red runes spiraled out from Sombra as he began to furiously chant in a strange language. The ponies tires to move but found their hooves tangles in fleshy tendrils that sprouted from the ground.  The air behind Sombra rippled and tore as something big began to force its way through the fabric of reality.

“SOMBRA ARE YOU CRAZY!” Twilight yelled, furiously flapping her wings to try and pull free, she could feel the tendrils rapidly draining the magic from her body. “Whatever your pulling through is going to raze the planet! You can’t control that kind of force! No-one can!”

Sombra paid no heed and with a final bellow the eldritch monster stepped onto the ground.

Except it didn’t. For at that moment there was a sharp cracking sound and heavy metal music began to pour out of the rift. Sombra looked round bewilderedly as the line “I PUSH MY FINGERS IN MY EYES” came howling through. The rift suddenly jumped forward and enveloped them all, the portal aperture snapping shut behind them.

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(>Meanwhile in Slipknots reality<)

Rainbow coloured light spilled out of the summoning area. The group looked around in confusion as very un-daemon like images whipped past. Rainbows, sunshine and bouncy music.

“What the Hell is going on?”

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(>Meanwhile in the nexus of all realities<)

“Oh wow, I did not see that coming.”

“Should we do something about this?”

“What can we do? They’re already past the event horizon. I’ll just stabilize the transfer and hope they sought it out by themselves.”

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The ponies were tossed around as they descended through howling void. Around them the funnel of storm clouds crackled with the energies of a billion stars. It was taking all that the winged members had to steer the bundle of bodies clear of the sides. Sombra and his monster had hit the sides of the maelstrom  about a mile back and been turned to ashes.

"At least he definitely gone this time."

The ever present metal music had been growing steadily louder, much to the distress of Fluttershy who looked pale at the bizarre lyrics and had thrown up once already. Suddenly there was a blinding light at the end of the tunnel.

With the sensation of every atom of their bodies being simultaneously pulled apart and put together the group was ejected from the portal and landed in a heap. Things where very quiet, for what seemed like an eternity nobody moved. Eventually Applejack looked up at their surroundings.

“Hey, ahh don’t wish to alarm anyone but there seem to be several humans in the weirdest masks I have ever seen over there staring at us. You might want to keep your head down Flutters.”

“AHHHHH…..too late.”