Nightmarification Jubilee
Pinkie Pie's fourth Episode of The fourth Wall Breaking Variety Show
Non-Canon
By Alex Warlorn
Fanfiction: My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
*Stamps OMAKE on title screen*
Pinkie Pie leaps in front of the camera's view inside the empty TV studio, with the words 'fourth Wall Breaking Variety Show' Flashing on a neon sign behind her as fireworks go off around her.
"HELLLO EVERYPONY! For those of you don't read the story description at the bottom or are new here, let me guest me my introduction, ahem:
"'Welcome The fourth Episode Of Pinkie Pie's (that's me!) fourth Wall Breaking Variety Show! I wonder if that would cause a paradox? Naw! Okay! The idea is that you write in the comments what happens next, and I mean really write what happens next like you write 'Pinkie Pie then jumped up and down' instead of 'have Pinkie Pie jump up and down.' Got that right? Right! Cool!
"2. Nopony besides me can see beyond the fourth wall.
"3. The camera can't leave the studio.
"4. The characters can be from any generation, toy or comic but they have "to be from 'My little Pony'
"5. Everything that happens here is non-canon.
"Anywho, I just know we're going to have lots of fun and-" There was a knocking sound off stage. "Oh? Who could that be?"
Pinkie trotted off stage and came back with a gift box with a pretty bow. "Oooooh! I know I haven't forgotten my own birthday again, so let's see what's inside!" Pinkie Pie opens the box, and is blown away by a small explosion of confetti and balloons. Pinkie Pie is wrapped up in a bunch of red ribbons like a present herself.
Another Pinkie Pie bows to the camera. This one is shaped like an Alicorn, is wearing her Grand Galloping Gala dress, and has a horn and wings that look like crayon drawings and her mane and tail are looking like floating crayon drawings themselves almost. She kicks the original Pinkie Pie off stage with a rubber 'squeak' sound effect.
"Don't worry! She's okay! She landed on lots of soft cuddly pillows! Don't worry! Don't fear! Nightmare Granfalloon is here! Now now! Don't go screaming and running towards the exits or adjust your TV! The whole 'monster clown' thing was before I was given proper characterization! I'm not the Jester from Batmare! Anywho! It's wonderful to be here! Smile smile smile!
"Now since this is the fourth episode, let's spice things up a little with-!" Her horn glows.
The title changes to:
Nightmare Granfalloon's Nightmarification Party Jamboree!
"There we go! Okay! All the rules are the same! Except now, since it's non-canon, you get to transform any of your favorite ponies into their Nightmare selves! Isn't that cool!? Come on! I know you want to deep down! ... Except for Rarity, for some reason it's not working on her. I know, Nightmare Banneret has tried. Basically pick ANY pony from the show, and come up and describe their nightmare self and their personality appearance and powers! Let's see how many Nightmares we can make until we run out of room!"
Pinkie Pie, still gift wrapped, hops on stage, but is being snuggled by a giant teddy bear that really likes her. She tries to say something through the wrapping.
"Oh don't worry Incomplete Me! This is all non-canon! So you don't need to worry about anypony actually becoming a 'End of The World Pony' think of it like an Early Nightmare Night Party with everypony becoming something freaky just for one evening! Once the show is over, everypony, but me, turns back to a non-Nightmare Pony, cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye! It's just a game, like that Gloom 64 game that Rainbow Dash won't let Scootaloo play."
Pinkie Pie thinks about it, shrugs and nods.
Pinkie looked to Granfalloon. *Translated from muffled squeaks* "Uh, aren't you afraid...you know, you might scare the Shadows Who Watch away? They're kind of really REALLY scared of you."
"Oh! Don't worry! Multiverses and all that! I'm not QUITE as crazy as that me!"
"So you're still crazy?"
"Well...yes, but not THAT crazy! Okay! So let's see whose the first Pony to step in for (non-canon) Nightmarification!"
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"Ooh! Ooh! Pick me! Pick me!" yelled Patch excitedly running onto the stage.
"Patch? Why would you want to be a Nightmare?" asked Pinkie.
"It's because I've always wanted to try being evil" explained Patch, "and besides, none of this actually real anyway, right?"
"Well, it's not canon with the main series, if that's what you mean." said Pinkie.
"Yeah, I really am not sure what you're talking about, but I'm assuming it means none of this is real. In fact, I'm not even sure how I got here." Patch said.
Patch then turned towards Nightmare Granfalloon, "I'm ready to become a Nightmare."
"Excellent! Just let me power up the Nightmarification Ray." Nightmare Granfalloon said, gesturing towards a gigantic machine she had set up. She then trotted towards the machine and began to turn it on.
"Alright, the Ray's powered up. Now, it's time to see what kind of Nightmare you'll become." said Granfalloon.
"As long as I don't become a monster clown like you, then I'm cool."
"I'm not a monster clown!" yelled Granfalloon, temporarily becoming enraged. She then quickly regained her smile, "Sorry, I lost the happy but the happy's back!"
"Hang on a second, Patch, didn't you want to be a clown when you were younger?" asked Pinkie.
"Yeah, a circus clown. Those are a lot different than monster clowns." said Patch.
"She's right. You know, I'm really disappointed in you, my incomplete self. I thought for sure you would be able to tell the different types of clowns." said Granfalloon.
"Hey! I can tell the different clown types just fine! I just misunderstood what Patch meant. Also, how was it you were able to have a brief moment of rage? As my Nightmare self, aren't you supposed to be nothing but happiness?" Asked Pinkie.
"Uh, this is non canon, remember?" said Granfalloon.
"No one is supposed to be out of character, remember?" Pinkie mocked her.
"Fine." Granfalloon looked at the camera, "If any of you have a problem with that scene then just ignore it, because you know that I don't want to see any of you be anything other than happy." She turned towards her machine again, "Now to activate the Nightmarification Ray!"
"Wait, this isn't going to hurt, is it?" Patch asked nervously.
"Let's find out!" said Granfalloon as she cheerfully slammed down on a big red button.
The ray shot out a beam of light that hit Patch and began to change her. "Arghh! The excruciating pain!" she screamed, "Megan, Danny, Molly! One of you guys save me! Moochick, you owe me!"
The ray finished and out stepped an alicorn about the size of Princess Cadence. Her body was a complete patchwork of different pony body parts.
"Greetings, fellow new Nightmare!" said Granfalloon, "Might I ask what you're name is?"
"I am Nightmare Questant, the endless wanderer!" she proudly exclaimed, "And I will find the pieces of the Rainbow of Light and use them to recreate the spell that Starlight intended them to be used for. Only this time I'll completely remove any free will, because that has caused ponies nothing but grief."
She then gave out an evil laughter and Granfalloon joined in. Pinkie Pie shrugged her shoulders and decided to join in as well because none of this is canon anyway.
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Pinkie Pie asked, "You're not going to have to use that painful ray gun for ALL the Nightmarifications are you?"
Nightmare Granfalloon shook her head, "Naw. Not if the next bunch of writer comes with something more fun."
"Bunch of what now?" Nightmare Questant asked.
"Nothing," Pinkie Pie and her Flanderized To Point Of Horror From Beyond Self said at the same time.
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Suddenly the room quadruples in size and a giant stage appears in the center of the empty and now very oversized TV studio. Countless spotlights shine on it as fireworks of all colors erupts from the stage.
"Now welcome the GREATEST AND MOST POWERFUL NIGHTMARE, right here for your entertainment: Nightmare Mountebank, the Shining Magic."
All fireworks combine together and form the glowing form of an Alicorn in a dramatic pose at the top of the stage. Her coat is still light blue, while her wings have a darker blue and both her mane and tail shine with bright light.
"Ah Trixie, good to see that you had time to visit us this time! Now let me just look up on ponypedia what Mountebank actually means... a card game, a swindler, a confidence game and a sleight of hand artist..."
Within one second Trixie's Nightmare is right next to Granfalloon, glaring her into the eyes.
"Now, you got that ALL wrong. That is just a PURE coincidence. Here take a look, it is another term for The Magician, showing Trixie's awakening to the true might of magic."
"Hey, who minds as long as you are happy? I like my name a lot, it rhythms with balloon. So what is your favourite kind of magic now?"
Another illusion transforms the top of the room into what looks like the night sky with countless constellations moving all by their own.
"Still stage music of course! Trixie loves illusions and the power they give her over others. Everypony who is drawn into her magic, everypony who admires the true beauty of her magic shares a bit of their powers with her." the Nightmare says darkly before her face returns to a happy smile.
"Remember no 'End of The World Pony' today! I Pinkie Promised."
"Don't worry, Trixie just wants to have some fun and a bit of the spotlight today. She sure hopes you can invite some Nightmare stallions as well. We have more then enough space for a nice Nightmare dance party once we have enough of us."
"Hey, why do you appear already completely ready why I had to be hit by this painful Nightmarification Ray?"
"It is magic, Trixie doesn't have to explain it."
Now Nightmare Granfalloon looks with puppy eyes at the corrupted wielder of magic.
"FINE! Trixie was trying to replicate the spell Twilight used on her back when she was discorded to learn more about herself and the magic within her. Trixie might have stayed too long inside her own head afterwards and formed a slightly too powerful bound with magic. The magic calls out for more and Trixie will give it more. So you have nothing to worry about."
Nightmare Granfalloon smiled and nodded, "Alright, but let's try and keep most of the Nightmarifications inside the studio! Since that's half the fun!"
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"Alrighty, who's next!" asked Granfalloon.
Suddenly, a portal opened filled with hellfire and the screaming of tortured souls. A fat pegasus waddled out. "Let me give it a try!" he said in a high and mighty voice
Questant snarled. "You!"
The pegasus blinked. "Who...who are you?"
"I stole your shard and threw you to your karmic death."
The pegasus' eyes went wide. "Ahh! Don't kill me again!"
"Don't worry, you're already dead so she can't rekill you!" announced Granfalloon in a cheery voice.
Questant snarled. "But I can make you WISH I did."
"C-can we just continue with the Nightmare thing?" asked the pegasus, trying to be composed.
"Why do you want to be one?" asked Pinkie, blinking.
"Can't be worse than Hell, now can it?"
Pinkie looked uneasy. "Depends who you ask."
"Well just do it-AHHH! I was wrong! This is worse!"
Questant smirked at the Nightmareification ray control panel.
Film Critique started laughing. "Mine! All mine! I'll have everything! I'll consume everything!" he yelled.
A fat nightmare emerged and promptly started eating all the snacks Pinkie Pie had gotten (it was a Nightmare Party after all)...and the table they were on. His body seemed to stained with food and he was wearing sparkling gold armor and jewelry befitting a king.
"So what's your name?" asked Granfalloon.
"Nightmare...*chew* Nimiety," said the Nightmare, not stopping from his constant eating, even once he'd eaten all the snacks, the table, the chairs, and started on the set.
"Hey! Stop that! We need a set to do th-" Pinkie called, before Nightmare Nimiety snarled and lept at her, mouth opening wide to reveal huge razorsharp teeth ready to bite her head of. The Nightmarification beam hit Nimiety again and turned him back to an over engorged Film Critique. "Thanks, I was afraid that was going to be a Puella Magi Madoka Magica shout out I didn't want to be a part of!"
"No problem, we couldn't have him eating the set, could we?" Granfalloon asked happily.
"Alright, Film Critique, Your Break's Over! Time To Get Back To Pulling The Chariot!" announced a voice from the portal as Film Critique screamed and was pulled back into Hell.
"Alright, who's next?" asked Granfalloon.
"Oh!" Pinkie announced. "One more thing. Everypony, the Writer is feeling a little under the weather! be sure to tell him you hope he gets well soon!" she called, waving.
"Weren't all the Nightmares supposed to be turned back when the show was over?" Nightmare Mountebank asked.
"He was a special case."
"Oh."
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"Nopony appreciates my music! classical is too boring they say, maybe I should just pack up my cello and quit, NO! I will make them love my music, the show must go on! my symphony shall be eternal! I am Nightmare Requiem: The Grand Maestro of Death."
Suddenly a gray alicorn with a long flowing mane that resembles sheet music and levitating a giant cello appears amidst a swirling vortex of treble clefs.
"Succumb to my dark aria!"
Sweet melodies began to fill the air as the treble clefs shot out in all directions burning into the flesh and branding everypony they touch, the room is filled by a flash of gray light when room dims back to acceptable levels everypony is wearing powdered wigs, petticoats, and speaking in germane. "
und ich dachte, granfalloon war dumm, was ist los mit dir? können wir wenden Sie sich bitte einige Untertiteln hier so unsere nicht Germane Leser verstehen, was los ist?" (and i thought granfalloon was silly, what is up with you!?! can we please get some subtitles here so our non germane readers can understand what is going on?) Pinkie pie shouted fending off a swarm of parasprites that had been enchanted by Requiem's song.
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Without any warning, a blue box vworped into existence in the corner of the studio (blanketing the whole place in a convenient translation bubble) and Doctor Whooves trotted out. As soon as the smouldering spot on the ground in front of the Nightmarification Ray was free, he planted himself there.
"What's up, Doc?" Granfalloon giggled.
"Not much," the Doctor cheerfully replied, "I just came to take my turn with this transforming laser of yours. Seems safe enough, and I can't say I'm not curious about what I'd turn into."
"Okie-Dokie! Here we go!" Granfalloon hit the switch.
"Besides, it can't be any worse than regeneration - BY RASSILON IT IS WORSE HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!?"
The brown earth pony's shape contorted, expanded, and turned distinctly yellowish. When it was done, where the Doctor had once stood there was a alicorn stallion the size of Princess Celestia. He had a yellow-brown coat, and a long, spiked mane and tail consisting of black hair and...bananas?
Yes, he had bananas sticking out of his mane and tail. His wings and horn were made out of millions of jelly babies mashed together.
"HA HA HA HA! Behold! I am Nightmare Folly, the Snack Food Victorious! Everypony shall eat bananas, for bananas are good! Candy and custard and celery are also good! But all apples and pears will be EXTERMINATED!"
Soaring into the air with a flap of his candy-wings, Nightmare Folly started transforming the remains of Nightmare Nimiety's rampage into bananas and celery stalks, including the furniture.
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Nightmare Granfalloon looked off to the side with a musical laugh that somehow managed to be ineffably evil -- in a comical way. "Oh-hohoho! It looks like we have our next vict -- I mean volunteers!"
From offstage Cheerilee appeared, dragging her somewhat bleary-eyed sister Berry Punch along with her. Berry looked about in confusion. Her eyes widened slightly when they locked on the assembled Nightmares.
"Wow, sis," she slurred out, "I didn't know I was THAT drunk."
"You promised you wouldn't get drunk again, period!" Cheerilee snapped at her in a very angry tone before she turned and said to the clownish Nightmare, "This is the place where ponies can go through 'Nightmarification', is that right?"
"No, this is the tryouts for the Trottingham Hoofball team," Nightmare Mountebank snapped. She looked ready to say more, but a bright blue ribbon materialized out of nowhere and wrapped around her muzzle, gagging her. She glared at Granfalloon.
"Now, now, play nice!... For now." Granfalloon turned to Cheerilee and Berry and grinned. "Sure is! So, what do you want? To make your sister into a Nightmare?" She looked at Berry, who seemed half convinced that everything was some cider-induced dream.
"Ummm-arrgh!" Mountebank tore the gag from her muzzle and gave Berry a wary look. "Mounteback wishes to know if transforming a drunken pony into a Nightmare is perhaps not especially wise."
"Oh, no, not her!" Cheerilee went and stood before the Nightmarification Ray, right on the smoking spot it'd left on the floor. "It's for me! I've gotten sick of cleaning up after her, and watching poor Ruby when her mother is running around. I want, no, I DEMAND the power to make her clean up her act!" She gave her drunken sister a furious glare.
Berry blinked. "Gee sis, I didn't know it was bugging you that much..."
"Okey-dokey, teach!" Granfalloon whinnied as she flipped the switch on her ray. Lights flashed, Jacob's ladders sparked with electricity, and a coruscating ray all the colors of the rainbow lashed out to bathe Cheerilee in its light.
The earth pony teacher shrieked as the light washed over her. Her legs grew longer with cracking noises; great black swan wings ripped out through her back; her eyes gained the slit pupils of a dragon. A curving horn exploded out from her brow as her coat darkened to a shade of purple that was almost black, as did her mane and tail, save only for pink streaks in the latter and a raw crimson patch against her chest.
"Ah-hahaha!"
"Big sis!" Berry ran to Cheerilee's side, only to stop with a panicked neigh as a dark purple glow surrounded her, lifting her into the air.
"I am no longer your sister, you wretch," the mare hissed. "I am Nightmare Bonsai! I shall bring all the lost and unloved little fillies and colts unto me; and then I will prune and shape their minds and souls so that they will never become what their wretched and undeserving parents did! They will learn to love me for the merciful pain I bring them!" She stopped and looked off into the darkness offstage. "Oh, sorry, my Princess, but somepony has to take up the slack now that you're no longer able."
"Oh, that's alright," a familiar soft voice said. Another nightmare trotted out, her chest torn and ripped in a fashion oddly similar to Nightmare Bonsai's. "I really don't mind the help."
Nightmare Bonsai smiled in relief before she turned her angry gaze on a now fully sober Berry Punch.
"So, little sister," she sneered, "Can you guess which little pony will be the first one I save?" She loomed over the smaller mare. "I won't let you hurt Ruby any more! I'll take her away from you --- forever!"
"Oh, okay." A sly look began to replace the terror on Berry's face. "That means you'll clean her when she's sick, right? Hold her when she cries in the middle of the night from a nightm --" she looked at the creatures surrounding her, who were suddenly looking at her very intently, "ahem, I mean from night terrors, regardless of how tired you are, read her the same story book every day even though you got sick to death of it years ago..."
"Oh." Nightmare Bonsai's ears were lowered and she suddenly looked uneasy. "Well, ahem..."
Berry went on blithely, "...Guide her to finding her cutie mark and be patient with every single accident, spend the time on her that you might with a stallion you could love, cook and clean and make her the center of your world? Her and all the MILLIONS and MILLIONS of other unhappy fillies and colts out there?" As she'd spoken, Nightmare Bonsai sank back down on her haunches, her eyes shrunken to pinpoints as the impact of her new form and goals fully sank in.
"I guess I have no choice. Good luck with doing all the things you don''t think I can do, big sis." Berry lowered her head and hid the smile on her muzzle as she muttered, "I read those stories about Solomane the Wise, too."
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Wordlessly Big Mac walked into the TV studio and focused on Berry Punch while ignoring all other Nightmares and walking up to Berry who sat next to her transformed and still depressed sister. But even Nightmare Whisper couldn't cheer her up in her current state. Wordlessly the stallion handed the untransformed sister a piece of paper.
"Is that for me?"
"Eeyup."
"It smells like muffins, you got it from Derpy?"
"Eeyup."
"Let's see... it is from the Alcohorse's Anonymous who said that I made good progress and they want to know if I might want to work for them and eventually lead my own group there... That is..."
Happily the earth pony hugged her transformed sister, which did seem to cheer up Nightmare Bonsai a bit.
"Now they all ignore you, how does this feel?" Nightmare Questant nudged Nightmare Nightmare Mountebank.
"It might surprise you but Trixie can live with that, Mountebank follows her magic calling out to others and for the effect to reach its full potential they have to do it willingly. And overall she believes that she is one of the..."
Both looked briefly at Nightmare Granfalloon juggling Diamond Dogs who in turn are juggling Parasprites.
"... saner Nightmares. I desire a worldwide web of friendship with me in the center, is that so wrong?"
With a sudden burst of speed Granfalloon stood next to the corrupted wielder of magic.
"How about I blast Mr. Says-A-Lot with my patented Nightmarification Ray for a good Nightmare Stallion?"
"Does it always have to be the same ray? It is about to become a Running Gag."
"NO! Not that stallion! He is the anti-happy... I... give me a second... I know another way! I will show BM 'The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000' episode without the happy ending, that might do the trick."
Out of nowhere Granfalloon pulled a tape and whispered something into Mountebank's ears.
Much to Berry's shock now Big Mac was enveloped in a cloud and was trapped within the illusion. There was no escape and as the quiet stallion had to see how his dear family lost everything they had worked so hard for to the greed of the FlimFlam Brothers he began to feel something inside himself. His own strength was not enough but this new power could save his family.
The cloud exploded and now there stood a male Alicorn the size of Princess Celestia but with a very muscular body. His coat was dark red, the color of his wings resembled what his coat originally looked like and a green jaded horn grew from his head. His yoke now looked like it was made out of solid stone and weighted a ton.
"Ah am Nightmare Lineage, Ah will punish every slacking, lazy and greedy pony on this world until they realise that hard work for your own family is the ONLY way to live."
Nightmare Requiem created fitting background music as the new Nightmare looked around the room. Granfalloon looked at Pinkie Pie who mimed "NO End of The World Pony!" and signed.
"How about we have a nice workout in this TV studio today? You know some races, some dances and I doubt we can get Granfalloon to stand still if we wanted to. I have also endured quite a few travel experiences in my life." Nightmare Questant said to the new Nightmare. It seemed to calm the Nightmare stallion down for now.
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As the ensemble of benevolent Nightmares grew word spread and more and more ponies flocked to the studio. Among them was the stallion to know in Canterlot, FancyPants. He looked at the gathered crowd and the contraption.
"That seems to be quite the experience, I'm not sure if its one I'd like though," he confessed.
"Aw, lighten up, It'll only sting like the fires of Pony Hell and having your entire being frozen by Windigos for an instant," Nightmare Granfalloon assured him. The rest of the ponies gasped and Granfalloon started laughing.
"I'm only messing with you, I don't know how it feels." The ponies assembled breathed a collective sigh of relief.
"In that case," FancyPants smiled as he walked up to the Nightmarification ray. Granfalloon gave it a whack it the machine whirred to life. After a short flash FancyPants looked at himself. He was still white but he now stood as tall as Celestia but his frame and build did not look unnatural. His blue mane was draped around him like a kings robe and a large crown the same as the ones on his cutie mark rested on his head.
"I AM NIGHTMARE DIRIGEANT!" He roared.
"So what do you think?" Nightmare Requiem asked.
"It's certainly a change of pace," Dirigeant admitted. Murmurs erupted in the crowd as they began agreeing with him.
"I'm not boasting but I think that I look the best out of all the assembled Nightmare's," Dirigeant smiled. The crowd nodded their heads and shouted in approval.
"In your dreams Dirigeant," Granfalloon shouted.
"Is it just me or is Nightmare Granfalloon a little bit on the crazy side?" Dirigeant asked again.
More murmurs of agreement came from assembled crowd. Nightmare Granfalloon had her mouth wide open in protest.
"I've had my fun, Nightmare Granfalloon is an incredibly nice and welcoming pony and being a Nightmare is a wonderful experience and I'd recommend it to absolutely anypony," Nightmare Dirigeant said before he stepped down.
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Granfalloon spoke up, "All right, now that we have all these new Nightmares, let's get this party started!" Everypony cheered.
"Wait, hold on a second!" shouted a man in a business suit.
Granfalloon looked confused, "I'm sorry sir, but only My Little Pony characters are allowed in here."
The man seemed confused by Grafalloon's wording, "Um, but I've encountered you ponies before."
"You have?" said Granfalloon, looking even more confused.
"I know the original cartoon had a human characters" said Pinkie, "But I don't remember this guy from any of the episodes."
"I tricked the Rainbow Ponies into coming to a fake party that was supposedly for them, and shaved off their manes in order to make wigs." the man explained.
"Ohhhhh" Pinkie and Granfalloon said in unison.
"Now, I remember." said Pinkie, "You were the bad guy in that audio tape that came with that Ember toy all those years ago."
"Talk about an obscure reference." said Granfalloon, "So, I'm assuming you're here because you want to become a Nightmare?"
"Yes."
"Wait, can a human become a Nightmare?" asked Pinkie.
"Well, Spike has a Nightmare self and he's a dragon. So, I see no reason why it couldn't work on a human." said Granfalloon as she turned on the ray.
The ray hit the man and caused him to experience intense pain. When it was finished he had crimson red skin, two horns coming out of his head, bat wings coming out of his back, and two large scissors for arms."
The man gave out an evil laugh, "I am Nightmare Wigmaker, shearer of manes!"
"You don't seem that threatening." said Questant.
"You won't be thinking that once I've cut off your mane!"
"Yeah, I'm going to be staying away from you weirdo." With that Questant trotted off to hang with the other Nightmares.
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"Wait, why are we suddenly speaking Equestrian again? I thought that Nightmare Requiem cursed us all to speak in Germane?" Nightmare Mountebank asked Nightmare Granfalloon. In the corner, Berry Punch and Nightmare Bonsai were speaking together rather more calmly than before as Berry showed her sister the note from AA.
"Oh, that!" Granfalloon said. "I figured that might get a little problematic for anypony or Shadow reading this whose Germane wasn't very good, so I asked my very best friend to lift it!"
"Your best friend?" Mountebank asked nervously. "And just who is that?" Granfalloon grinned and just pointed behind her. Mountebank suddenly found herself afraid to look.
"No need to see," a strangely familiar rage-filled voice said, sending breath scented of both blood and sulfur down the back of her neck. "I've seen the world where this happened to you, Trixie."
Mountebank gulped and turned to see a purple-and-black Nightmare there, her mane and tail blazing like hellfire. Nightmare Eclipse stepped up alongside Mountebank and smiled at Granfalloon before gifting Mountebank with a sneer. "Hello, new-and-improved Pinkie. Oh, hi, Trixie. Still running second best to me?"
"Trixie, I mean Nightmare Mountebank, plays second to NO other Nightmare!" The blue nightmare shoved her forehead against Eclipse's. "And aside from lifting some second-rate curse, what have you done to brag about?"
Eclipse smirked at her. "Oh, aside from delivering Discord to the endless parade of degrading deaths he deserved..."
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And in another world, after being forced to watch a 798-hour long marathon of Asylum movies, Discord's brain simply dissolved as Eclipse's recorded voice cackled, "Now here we go again with this world for the 1765,349th time!"
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"...I decided I needed a few extra nightmares to help me find and create my perfect world." Eclipse's horn glowed as she brought a struggling form from offstage. "In fact, I decided I needed THE Nightmare." She turned to her prisoner and said cheerily, "Hello, Princess Luna!"
"Twilight Sparkle! Pinkie Pie! Trixie Lulamoon!" Luna struggled helplessly against the dark magic holding her prisoner. "You know not what you seek to unleash! Let me go now and I will fetch my sister and Cadence that we might heal you of this madness, and..."
"Blah blah blah," Granfalloon said as she adjusted the Nightmarification Ray. "First of all, we killed Cadence; well, a Cadence anyway," Luna gasped in horror at her words, "And secondly, you'll be as crazy as us in another second!" And with that she flipped the lever and the Nightmarification Ray, making a few unsettling buzzing and grinding noises as its overstressed circuits threatened to give out, covered the hapless Luna in its eldritch glow.
There came the usual shrieks of agony and sounds of warping flesh and bone, ending in mad laughter. And when it cleared, Nightmare Moon stood before the assembled Nightmares, head thrown back as her cry filled the room.
"At last! I am returned!" She laughed wildly. "Now my night will last forever, as with my army of loyal flunky nightmares..."
"Flunky?!?" Moon broke off with a scowl as Mountebank stomped up to her. "Nightmare Mountebank is no mare's flunky! And she will NOT be bringing about 'eternal night' or any such nonsense! So get in line," She sniffed as she switched her tail. "It begins behind Mountebank." She began to stride past Moon, still switching her tail, and bringing it up to slap the transformed Luna across the face.
"Insolent nag!" Mountebank shrieked as Moon bit into her tail and yanked a mouthful out by the roots. "Display the proper submission to royalty."
She began to walk past Mountebank, headed for center stage, only to stop with a shriek as Mountebank pounced on her, lashing out with her hooves and teeth. The two arrogant Nightmares vanished into a dustball of violence, rolling off stage, filling the air with their shrieks and insults.
"Hack showpony! Go back to performing at filly's birthday parties!" Moon spat the words out along with some of Mountebank mane, one eye already swelling shut.
"Dirty fighter!" Mountebank shrieked. She was starting to show some bald spots. "What kind of a princess bites other ponies?" And as soon as the words left her mouth she sank her teeth into Moon's ear, eliciting a howl from the other Nightmare. Both went rolling offstage.
"No! No! Mountebank! Nightmare Moon!" Eclipse went racing after them. "Let's be adult egotistical Nightmares about all this!"
"Heh-heh," Granfalloon said as she looked after them, before looking out at her audience of Shadows. "Umm, oops?"
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Having finished restoring the snacks and snack table (now full of bananas, more bananas, and the table currently made of a mix of bananas and celery stalks), Nightmare Folly was making up a batch of banana smoothies and serving them to the guests.
This would have suited him just fine if a rolling pile of Nightmares hadn't slammed into his makeshift bar, smashing the bananas and sending his smoothies flying.
"Oi! Take this, banana-smashers!" Folly yelled.
Taking to the air, he conjured a simply enormous blob of banana custard and dropped it on top of Mountebank and Moon, providing a quick and messy end to their cat - err, Nightmare-fight. This might have turned out fine for Folly if Eclipse hadn't been right behind them: instead, the Nightmare of Vengence was now covered in gooey, sticky, and in her case BURNING custard.
"...And away I go!" Folly declared, turning tail and running shamelessly away before Eclipse could set him on fire.
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"You know what is funny, incomplete me?" Granfalloon nudged Pinkie Pie.
"That the silliest Nightmare in the room is not only perfectly able to annoy but also to constantly avoid Nightmare Eclipse herself?"
As Nightmare Folly fled past Nightmare Lineage, Wigmaker and Dirigeant racing (and outran each and every one of them) Nightmare Eclipse seemed to be on the verge of just giving up and letting her frustration out on Discord again.
One of Eclipse's fire blasts was reflected from a wall and ended up flying right at Berry Punch. Without even hesitating Nightmare Bonsai pulled her sister out of the line of fire.
Nightmare Whisper was finally able to free Mountebank and Moon from their banany imprisonment. Both Nightmares glared at each other but decided to call it a truce to avoid any further embarrassment.
"No... well yeah that is pretty funny but I meant that ponies come willingly to embrace their Nightmare selves. My advertisements might have helped."
The Ring Master of the Endless Circus pulled out a scroll that read:
"Do you want to make all of your dreams come true? Are you just bored and want to experience something different? Do you want free snacks (we have a lot of bananas) and drinks? Do you want to change your name? Do you want to meet some incredible stallions and beautiful mares? Then come to Nightmare Granfalloon's Nightmarification Party Jamboree!"
"You know that these words are kinda placed to form a hypnotic spiral..." the pink pony said now wearing her Watson hat.
"That is elementary my dear friend." Granfalloon now had a deerstalker cap and bubble pipe.
"No I am pretty sure that is cheating."
"From a Nightmare? I am so shocked!" Nightmare Requiem added sarcastically while searching for a snack that wasn't a banana.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS NIGHTMARE CHAMPIONS!
Suddenly the three Cutie Mark Crusaders stood before the Nightmarification Ray and Sweetie began to work on the controls. Both Pinkie Pie and Nightmare Granfalloon rushed forward at the same time but the filly managed to fire a shot. It landed nowhere near the other two Crusaders and instead it almost hit Nightmare Moon.
"What were you two thinking?" both Pinkie Pie and Granfalloon screamed at the same time.
"We wanted to get our own cutie marks! So far every Nightmare had one so we were sure that..."
"If you really want to, I will turn the ray to a painless setting first." Granfalloon said with a surprising stern sounding voice.
"Wait, why did you not tell anypony so far?" Pinkie Pie whispered.
"Nopony asked! Here goes nothing!"
The child-friendly version of the blast hit the three fillies and their bodies began to change. Wings and horns appeared but their size remained the same. As the glowing effect of the blast vanished three Nightmare fillies stood before the group. Their coats still have the same colors and the new wings and horns match their coat respectively.
"Nightmare Cantata, Fairest of Songs!"
"Nightmare Instrumentum, Creator of All Items!"
"Nightmare Velocitas, Rainbow Dash Fan Number One!"
"That is not a title for a Nightmare." Cantata complained.
"Who cares, Rainbow Dash is AWESOME!"
Simultaneously all three little Nightmare looked at their rumps and discovered that they still had blank flanks.
"THAT IS CHEATING!!!"
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Pinkie Pie looked at the three newest Nightmares as they ran over to Bonsai, who looked delighted to see them. "Okay, this is getting out of hoof. We need someone here who can help keep everything under control, somepony who's handled more monsters than even my friends and me."
"Oh, really?" Nightmare Moon snorted from behind her. The original Nightmare shook her nebulous mane, sending the last few globs of pulverized banana flying. "And just who did you have in mind? If Celestia showed up, she'd be defeated in moments by our assembled might!"
"Umm, yeah," Pinkie looked around the room to see the equine Nightstallions pummeling Nightmare Wigmaker after he'd tried shearing them; Bonsai trying to keep the Nightfilly Crusaders from making their own Nightmarification Ray with minimal luck; and Requiem and a worse-for-wear Mountebank arguing over just which of them had brought in the bigger audiences. Questant alone seemed interested in what was happening in their corner of the room. "No offense, Black Snooty, but I think I've seen better organized Diamond Dog packs. Anyway!" She hurriedly added as Nightmare Moon's eyes began to blaze, "I think I can see why the writers don't have more than one Nightmare around at a time. But we still need some help here." And with those words Pinkie grabbed the doorknob on a door that hadn't existed until that moment, yanked it open, and pulled through what she found. "Megan, you gotta help us!"
"Wait, what? Pinkie again?" The young blond woman shook her head. She wore a fine dress, and said, "This isn't a good time. I was on my first date in years. He seems like a decent guy, and..." She looked around the room, her eyes widening as she saw the assembled Nightmares. They in turn took little notice of her, save for Moon and Questant.
"Megan? The Champion from the days of Paradise Estate?" Questant nuzzled her. "Don't you recognize me? I'm Patch! We met. Er, in some timeline or other."
"Megan? Who defeated Tirek, who thought himself worthy of ME?" Moon stalked forward, head outthrust. Megan looked ready to either fight or run. Nightmare Moon said, "My deepest thanks for that. Tirek was most persistent in his unwanted courtship, and what he did to the image of My Night..." Moon shook her head before smiling at the confused human woman. "Why I feel as though we were sisters! In fact, we are sisters in at least one world I know of. We simply must talk."
"Oh, I have to be going," Megan swiftly said. "Besides, this looks like it's Nightmares only."
"The latter is easily dealt with!" Dark magic looking like a lightless nebula lashed out from Nightmare Moon to envelop Megan. She shrieked in pain as it consumed her. A shriek that turned into a pained whinny as it cleared to reveal a golden-coated and fiery-maned Nightmare sporting tourmaline-set black barding that looked like a cooling crust atop lava. As she staggered around, getting used to four legs, Nightmare Moon laughed and said, "Welcome to the herd, sister!"
"I..." Megan began to say before her blue eyes lit from within, their pupils becoming slits, "I am Nightmare Omega. I will end the later corrupted version of the pure world I saved so many times -- and then I will rule it to protect my pony friends, forever!" She stopped and swallowed. "Wait, did that come out of me?"
"You'll get used to it," Questant said. She walked up alongside the newest Nightmare and set a wing across her withers. "Now, I want to know all about the Rainbow of Light."
"And I," Nightmare Moon said, walking up on Omega's other side and setting her wing over her withers from that side, "Wish to hear, in detail, how you defeated Tirek and liberated a shard of my power from that pestilential knave."
Omega looked from one to the other and sighed. "Okay, but first?" She flew back to the open door and stuck her head and neck through. Through the panic-stricken shrieks that echoed from beyond the portal, she said, "Dan? I'm afraid the date is off. I'll call you tomorrow night, okay?"
She stepped away and back to Questant and Moon as the sound of a body hitting the floor came from behind her. They once again enfolded her with their wings in a sisterly embrace as she began speaking with them.
"Ooops," Pinkie said where she stood off to the side. She looked at her audience and smiled weakly. "Heh-heh, maybe this is just Equestria Girls in reverse?"
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"I have to admit" said Pinkie, "You Nightmares sure know how to party."
"It's just one of many benefits of being a Nightmare. Which is why I think everybody should be a Nightmare!" explained Granfalloon.
"Can I get in on this action too?" said a voice behind them.
"Sure."said Granfalloon as she turned to see who it was. She and Pinkie both gasped. It was another Pinkie, except this one had a creepy grin that was even more creepy than Granfalloon's. She also wore a dress made from ponies' cutie marks and pegasi wings, and a necklace made from unicorn horns. Pinkie and Granfalloon looked at each other and nodded in agreement, and Granfalloon used her telekinesis to launch the other Pinkie into orbit.
"Good riddance, you psychotic, murdering caricature of myself!" shouted Pinkie.
"I don't understand" said Omega, "Why didn't you turn her into a Nightmare like the rest of us?"
"Trust us, you do not want to see that pony become a Nightmare." explained Granfalloon.
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Meanwhile in space the pinkie that was sent thier can be heard screaming "SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!" while she was floating in space she also started blabering about other randome things about space, space itself, and even something about some space cops.
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As Pinkie Pie looked around she noticed that at least some of the Nightmares seemed to get well along with each other. Whisper and Bonsai now both looked after the Nightfilly Crusaders and seemed to be able to keep them in check for now. The pink pony still gave them about one hour before the little Nightmares would have built a Nightmare Ray that would turn ALL of Ponyville into Nightmares in one blast, likely with the machine exploding at the same time. Even before they got this power, the CMC were nearly unstoppable once they had a goal. Not that they reached the goal they had in mind but on their way there they were unstoppable.
Also Nightmare Omega, Moon and Questant were calmly talking to each other about the Rainbow of Light and the power of darkness. That could also turn nasty very quickly.
Nightmare Folly had stopped running away and Nightmare Eclipse was nowhere to be seen, which didn't calm Pinkie down at all. She preferred to know where that Nightmare was until this non-canon event was over. By now Nightmare Manacle and Nightmare Mirror had also joined the party.
Scootaloo's Nightmare took one look at the Nightmare of her idol before concentrating back on the other two fillies.
"Naw, the Rainbow Dash I knew was 20% cooler."
The All-Consuming Loyalty seemed to be hurt by this reaction from her greatest fan and her chains rose into the air for one second until Nightmare Whisper stared at her fellow Nightmare.
Meanwhile both Nightmare Mirror and Lineage began to talk to each other while taking a snack break near the table Pinkie Pie was close to.
"Now the close family is almost completely enlightened."
"Yes, by now only Granny Smith is missing."
"Ehm, Miss Cruelest of Truths?" Pinkie Pie approached the two Nightmares carefully.
"Seriously, just call me Nightmare Mirror, like my friends do."
"Okay, Nightmare Mirror, I was just wondering... we have a multiverse, sometimes with very different incarnations of the same ponies... so what does this mean for Nightmares, could the same pony have more then one possible Nightmare?"
"Hah! That is an easy question! Yes, of course. Take a look at... Mountebank there. Trixie was able to evolve into her after being able to create an extremely close connection with her Element of Magic but if she would have been consumed by her own Loneliness instead we could have gotten Nightmare Solitary who just wants to be left alone and moves herself to more and more seclude places to reach this goal."
"Let me guess, you invited her but she didn't come."
"Exactly, she just wants to be left alone. It still broke the hearts of her family." the Nightmare stated in a calm and collected manner.
"So we could have just as well gotten a Nightmare of Applejack that is obse... concentrated on another Element of Harmony or something completely different like apple bucking, country music or hey the multiverse is big so she could just as well spread knowledge, control animals or try to become the fastest thing alive."
Now Nightmare Mirror looked anything but collected.
"Well... You see... Ah mean..."
Eventually the realisation that different Applejacks had become Nightmares but different ones with entirely different goals that didn't involve Honesty or Truth at all made Nightmare Mirror quietly move into a corner and think about herself.
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"Ok," said Pinkie. "Who is next?" she asked.
"Uh, Auntie Pinkie Pie?" asked a voice.
Pinkie blinked, looking over to see Apple Pie emerge from a time vortex. "Apple Pie?"
"Ah'd kind of like to try."
Pinkie gasped. "W-why?! You're FIGHTING Nightmares right now!"
"Well, technically, but this ain't canon and...well, Ah'm kind of curious what mah Nightmare would look like," said the filly.
"Well...true..."
"Plus, no chance the one we're fightin' has got a Nightmare meh hidden in her somewhere, she don't think Ah should exist."
"Eclipse is gonna be clopped off..." muttered Manacle.
"All the more reason to do it," Questant replied, manning the Nightmarification ray set to painless. She may have been a Nightmare, but she still didn't like Eclipse that much.
Apple Pie was engulfed by the beam and started laughing as she emerged from the beam. Like the Crusaders, she was still a filly, but now she had a horn and wings, her armor and coat being both completely garish and beautiful at the same time. "Ah am Nightmare Paradox! The Ever Contrary!"
"Oh bucking no!" yelled Eclipse, running up. "That's my name!"
"But yah didn't want it when Ah gave it to yah! Now yah do!" Paradox laughed like a hyena. "And you're on fire but its not burnin' yah!"
Eclipse's eye twitched and she got a headache. "You...you..."
"Oh no! You might be the Big Bad of the current story arc, but you don't get to go berserk here," said Pinkie.
"And why not?!"
"Because if you do, I'll have the Shadow Who Makes kick you out of the party."
Eclipse grumbled as Whisper convinced the Nightmarified Apple Pie to change her name to Nightmare Contrary, the Ever Paradoxical to calm Eclipse.
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Mirror and Lineage looked at the latest Nightmare to join the party.
"Now thet's just strange," Lineage said. Mirror nodded her agreement.
"Ah, I mean, I do agree," she said, covering her slip in accent. "Something seems odd about letting fillies become Nightmares. Accepting perfect enlightenment should be a choice made by an adult."
"Hey!" A voice from down around their fetlocks called out. "Ah'm just as much a nightmare as either o' y'all! And Ah bet she'll be even better!" Nightfilly Instrumentum pointed behind them as she spoke. Lineage turned and looked. Mirror simply focused the attention of some of her dozens of eyes on the newcomer.
"Granny Smith?"
"'Bout time ya noticed me, especially with them eyes o' yours." The elderly mare grumbled as she walked up to them slowly. "Ah thought ma own grandfoals could pay attention better than that! Now where's thet Nightmare-makin' doohickey? If this is the way the whole family is goin', then Ah might 's well get it over an' done with." She stretched one hind leg and winced. "'Sides, this hip is killin' me."
"Ha-ha! Yes!" Nightmare Mirror turned to Granny and smiled as she lifted her into the air with her magic. "Let me help you, dearest grandmother. Soon, our entire family will be united once again!" She began taking the elderly mare over to a spot in front of the Nightmarification Ray, adding, "Eclipse tried to get her brother and parents to join her, but they just kept running away."
Ignoring an angry snort from Eclipse, Mirror set her grandmother down before the ray. She all but danced away as Instrumentum switched it on, sending the energies flowing over Granny Smith. The old mare cried out in pain, her voice growing younger and stronger.
"Yes! Yes!" Mirror said, rubbing her hooves together. "When ma -- I mean my, whole family is once more one, WE'LL be the strongest Nightmares of all!"
"You sure this is a good idea, Mirror?" Manacle said as she flew over. "Your grandma's petty old and decrepit, and..."
"Who're you calling 'old and decrepit', wings?" With those words a trimly muscled Nightmare trotted over to them both. Her mane and tail showed snow-white against a poisonous green coat. Batlike wings stretched out to either side as she said, "Ah am reborn! Ah have my youth back agin, an' now..."
"Now we'll force everypony to confront the truth!" Mirror cheered, rearing as she did.
"An' naow ah'll finally be able ta become a dancer, like ah always wanted!" Ignoring her granddaughter's horrified gaze, the Nightmare rose up on her hind hooves and spun gracefully in place. "Nightmare Waltz, that's me! An' the dance will last forever!"
A delighted Requiem began to play her music. Manacle fell down and rolled laughing as Mirror stared in horror.
"But, but Granny! Don't ya want ta help conquer Equestria, or, somethin' like that?"
"Heck, no!" The Nightmare snorted. Folly came over and took her outstretched hoof and began dancing gracefully with her as she said, "Didn't ya never notice all them dancin' books I keep around the farm? Ah DID have some dreams o' my own once. An naow that ah'm young agin," she batted her eyes at Folly, "Ah mean ta enjoy 'em!"
And the dance went on even as Nightmare Mirror collapsed to the floor with a groan, hooves over her face.
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Nightmare Granfalloon's and Pinkie Pie's pagers both went off. The two ponies looked at them. "This episode sure filled up fast." Pinkie Pie said looking at the 'closing time' message that came across. She looked at her Corrupted Self. "Ya know, I wasn't so keen on this idea at first, but for a non-canon comedy, this was kinda cool."
"I was lying, this is canon, and now us army of Nightmares are gonna to conquer the universe. KIDDING! You should have seen the look on your face! HA HA HA! Come on, I Pinkie Promised, and even meanie Angry Pie kept her Pinkie Promises."
Pinkie Pie stopped having a heart attack at her Nightmare prank. "Remember, you promised to fix them all when the show ended."
"I Pinkie Promised to." Nightmare Granfalloon nodded. "But first a moment to reflect and take a good look at them interact before we close up shop. It's . . . it's not-happy to see it end. Stupid Deviantart, why'd they have to put in that stupid text limit?"
Lamented Nightmare Granfalloon Ring Master of the Endless Circus.
"Come on come on! Nightmarify already!" Nightmare Banneret cursed meanwhile firing the Nightmareification Ray out the window to Rarity's bedroom through her open window, Rarity remaining very much NON-Nightmare Pony, but wondering what the green flashes of light were all about. The green flashes of light also had no effect on her pet cat or any random animal that crossed it's path.
"And that's how Ah came to a complete reconciliation with the absolute truth that others AJs in other realities that didn't embrace the beauty of absolute truth." Nightmare Mirror said.
"Weren't ya hidin' yer accent before?" Nightmare contrary tilted her head.
"Only a little. Ah'm not like the Nightmare Liarjack was talkin' about, Ah don't hide from any truth, Ah don't use half-truths, or partial truths. Ah know what Ah am and Ah accept it. For instance, Ah admit Ah do have an accent. Without havin' to use the Old-Alicorn-Mind-Trick."
Nightstallion Lineage nodded, "Now all our close family is part of the new Nightmare herd. All ponies will be united into one big family, and will never turn their backs on each other!"
Nightfilly Instrumentum, Creator of All Items, asked Nightfilly Contrary, the Ever Paradoxical, "So yer really from the future?"
"Ah think so, maybe, the more Ah try ta think about, the more mah head gets all fuzzy."
"Ah'm gonna invent another time machine, Then Ah'll know for sure! And a space machine, and a reality machine, and television., and a breathin' machine, and an eatin' machine. Ah'll create an endless buncha tools to make ponies lives easier! Until Ah invent a thinkin' machine and ponykind, will no longer have to think!"
"So you're really from another universe, and came all that way just to steal manes to make wigs?" Nightstallion Dirigeant asked.
"Yes, but the wigs had such a powerful magical quality to them I made a fortune off of them in New York City, sadly the girls family made sure I could never get close to the rainbow bridge again."
"Very good!" Said Nightstallion Dirigeant smiling, "Your hard work paid off and made a good profit from your determination." After all, the Nightstallion didn't care if the methods were cruel or kind, only that the person engaged in hard work and that it paid off.
"Nice to see a pony who can see eye to eye." Nightstallion Wigmaker nodded in return.
"And that's how Nightmare Eclipse worked out how Nightmare Mirror and I can both have what we want in the new perfect universe, it was so simply I can't believe I didn't think of it." Nightmare Whisper Kindest Of Lies said to Nightmare Bonsai, Mother Of All Forsaken Foals.
"That really is brilliant. Also, thank you for your tips on how I can use my new vast amount of magic to care for and provide a future for countless and countless foals across the world who need a better mother."
"It was my pleasure."
A pair of living tree constructs colored and shaped much like Nightmare Bonsai meanwhile were playing with Nightfilly Cantata, Fairest of Songs and Nightfilly Velocitas, Rainbow Dash Fan Number One.
Nightfilly Cantata had chosen to provide singing to Nightmare Requiem: The Grand Maestro of Death's music. The result was chilling divine, any normal mortal pony who'd hear it would be left willing to listen to it until they starved to death, and any other music would have sounded like nails on a chalk board and would have fallen into life draining depression at being deprived of the unspeakably beautiful combination.
Nightfilly Velocitas, Rainbow Dash Fan Number One was zapping ponies outside the studio through a window, turning them into species, gender and age equivalent clones of Rainbow Dash.
"What a beautiful day DashDash." Said the recolored Lyra outside the studio.
"Indeed RainbowStrings." The recolored Bonbon nodded.
"Rainbow Dash is the greatest." Said Nightfilly Velocitas.
"YES!!!" The repeated at once.
As Nightmare Requiem and Nightfilly Cantata provided the sound, Nightmare Waltz and Nightstallion Folly provided the visuals, her face was capturing.
"The dance. Beautiful dance. Dance eternal." Said Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon together in the same tone and inflection, tutus having appeared on them when they had peaked inside the studio and had begun to dance along, living for the dance like it was like breathing, and Nightmare Waltz' magic sustaining them easily. Their hearts and minds only caring for the dance.
As for Nightstallion Folly, the Snack Food Victorious . . . he mostly annoyed Pinkie Pie with him turning her cakes all into celery.
"And that is why Trixie you'll always be a loser no matter the universe or what choices you make. You couldn't amount to anything worthwhile if you tried. You're a nothing pretending that it can actually add substance to the world." Nightmare Eclipse said straight to Nightmare Mountebank, the Shining Magic's face.
Nightmare Mountebank's response was not printable.
The resulting battle would have resulted in the two Nightmares fusing together from the magical blast, the result being effectively their child, but Nightmare Manacle pushed them apart.
Nightmares Moon The Endless Night, Nightmare Questant, the endless wanderer, and Nightmare Omega continue to causally chit-chat about the good old days gone by and how the new stuff could use some serious changes.
"ALRIGHT! Reverse Nightmarification Ray!" Pinkie Pie pushed the button. Nothing happened. "I said reverse!" She it hard, and it exploded into rainbows.
Luna was the first recover, "I NEVER WANT TO EXPERIENCE THAT AGAIN!" She then looked around at the former Nightmares around her.
"How am I supposed to say 'mortals rule, gods drool' now?!" The Doctor lamented.
"Cutie Mark Crusaders goddesses! Yea!" The CMC cheered.
"Hey! Still no cutie mark? Lame!" Scootaloo moaned.
"I think we're the patron goddesses of hope and potential, and creativity." Sweetie Belle said to herself, Scootaloo, and Applebloom respectively.
"Where's ex-Nightmare Wigmaker?" Asked Apple Pie.
Luna pointed at a Alicorn looking innocently at the world in diapers.
"How cute!" Cheerilee, The patron Alicorn of Teachers, Mentors, and Parenthood nuzzled him.
"There's already a patron goddess of music, does that mean I'm an incarnation or aspect of Cadence now?" Octavia asked.
"Quite the contradiction ain't it?" Apple Pie said.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon ran for the hills now that they were themselves again, mostly because they had deep down LIKED it, and brought back way too many painful memories for Diamond Tiara.
"Goddess of Dancing, dangit now Ah'll never with mah kin in the hereafter." The now young and immortal Anne Smith Apple lamented.
"Where's Trixie?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"I think she already left." Luna noted. "Looks like the Minor Arcana is going to be have a lot of its seats filled in this universe."
"At least Ah'm not a princess." The now even more magnificent and drop dead handsome Big Mac sad, "Ah still need ta figure what Ah'm supposed to be Alicorn OF."
"We can figure it out together, this should rough things up in Canterlot." Fancy Pants said.
"This many new Alicorns all at once?" Luna lamented with a giant headace, "This is going to extremely unpleasant."
"I just hope there are still challenges for me, it's not much an adventure you're already level 99 with the invincibility cheat on." Patch said.
"You know..." The large blond and blue eyed Alicorn in the room said, "This feels... right... I feel... whole... I can shape shift to a human still right?"
"I can teach you how Megan." Luna nodded, at least there was one Alicorn she knew was completely right for the job.
"I wish we had time to pick out new names for everypony but we're already down to the last few minutes." Pinkie Pie noted, taking the fact that all the Nightmares were now true Alicorns in surprising good stride since she didn't want the show to end suddenly. Well, most of the Nightmares.
"And this is why I always look out for my friends." Said Nightmare Eclipse, a barrier around herself and her five fellow Nightmare Of Harmony having shielded them from the blast. "See us curb stomp you in canon." They vanished in the time vortex.
Pinkie Pie and her Nightmare shared a wave goodbye.
She then waved at the camera. "Thanks for coming everypony! See ya next time!"
"I wish you all love and happiness for all time my little ponies, and may the world be kind." The Alicorn Megan spoke.
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Pinkie put on glasses and read a letter. "Ahem. Due to worries by a concerned Shadow, but this episode has been declared an Omake, meaning it is the same level of noncanon as Baby Discord Meets Unicron. Which is probably for the best considering having this many Alicorns hanging around would kind of be a storybreaker."
