Thor: The Dark Realm

' Oh, no, you're not missing this one! ' Darsea thought. She had grown tired of Lyra constantly rejecting the stallions her intern was trying to hook her up with. After all, she couldn't just hope, that he would return.

Darsea sighed. The colt from another world. He had stolen Lyra's heart and they didn't hear anything of him. Until 2 years ago....

Some kind of brilliant scientist smartypants, that Sellwig now never stopped jammering about, emmerged from a cryo-chamber and threatened to .... make everypony immortal. This didn't sound bad at all, at least to Darsea, but obviously the two Princesses took this for a danger. However, this event was planned to air exactly when a kind of insidious storm, carying the wrath of the nature, was going to strike upon Equestria. Because the Princesses were delayed by some rusty robots, who eventually got their flanks beaten by Discord, the mad scientist had suceeded and somehow absorbed the power of the storm and gained control of the elements. Despite their failure the two Princesses brought him out of the Everfree forest with the intention to imprison him ( forever, if possible ) . The pony had no such intentions and his new powers triggered a portal to an alternate dimension, called New Equestria (  great imagination, New Equestrians. But why does it sound familliar? ) .

There the beloved Mane 6, together with the Princesses, should of fought the science pony's evil forms, actually him, wielding every one of his newfound Elements of Chaos. On the way by they picked up some heroes, the so- called Avengers, and some of the Mane 6 even became part of them. One of the Avengers was the Thunder God, Lyra's only object of love, Thor.

The two lovebirds first met 4 years ago, when, according to thunder colt, his father exiled him to " Midgard " ( it took Darsea a week to learn how to pronounce these scandynavian words the right way ) , stripped from his power of a god, his immortality and his " Mjolmy " .

Meanwhile Lyra was gathering some info for her science project. Back than nopony cared about science ( and now, after the so- called Hase was declared ruler of the Moon all of his fanmares were trying to assemble their own robot ) and Lyra had it hard. Luckily for her project, her coltfriend from outer space appeared to prove everypony else wrong and to prove, that other worlds (  or " realms " as blondie with the hammer called them ) exist.

However, his vengeful brother Loky  didn't want Thor to become worthy for Mjolnir again, because he had the strange plan of trying to kill Odin (  who turned out to be only his stepfather ) with the help of his real ice giant pony dad, Laufey, only to betray him in the last second, prove himself worthy of the throne in front of his stepfather and destroying Jotunheim, the home of the frost giant ponies, who Thor earlier would kill by himself.

So, as a gift to his older brother, he sent the Destroyer to eliminate Thor. It nearly destroyed the little town of Puente Antiguo, to the south of Appleoosa. Even though the back-up of lady Sif and the Warrior's Three ( quite a merry gathering ) , it even almost killed Thor. But with this sacrofice he proved worthy for his hammer, came back to life a second before he truly died and turned the Destroyer to shreds. Than he went off to Horsegard with his fellow warriors, promising to return.

Apparently his quest for Loky led him to New Equestria, where he met the group, seeking for the scientist, and his brother with them. But a lot later, he found out, that it was just one of Loky's illusions. Actually, he was hiding somewhere in the realms and planning his vengeance.

A pony would guess, that the thunderer would at least write a letter once he returns, but the problem was, that he was trapped, together with all of the Avengers and the Lords of Chaos, in the science pony's head, as his alternate " forms " . Those " forms " weren't released until a year passed and that science pony had to fight some school friends. So Thorse only had a week in his own body until Sif of Horsegard summonned all of the Avengers to the Citadel of the Gods.

And that's the point Darsea had reached. She had only read the half of the book, after all.

The reason why such book existed were the doubting ponies. After a meeting with his father the science pony suffered a dramatic change in appearance. He was now a pegasus with the size of the Royal Sisters with a long, waving as if there is wind, but no gravity, dark blue mane and extreme magical knowledge.

This was suspicious and some ponies thought, that it's a trick of one of the villains, that Celestia had earlier forgiven, or, Celestia forbid, Nightmare Moon. This led the pegasus to the decision to describe his adventures in a book, called " The Chronicles of the Unseeing " , because according to him, before the events in the book took place, he was blind. Each and every copy of the book came with the Royal Seal of Legitimacy, assuring the citizen in it's trustworthyness. This caused the ponies to stop doubting the new ruler of the Moon and it also became a bestseller for a week.

But the point was, that after this ceremony there had been no sign of Thor and Darsea was trying to cheer Lyra Heartstrings, her science mentor, with a selection of prime Canterlot fine gentlecolts. However, Darsea had just received a letter from the latest one. It said, that Lyra had been staring in her menu... for 2 hours. And the menu only contained three meals.

Darsea would usually ignore that, but she was worried about Lyra. She was looking for ways through the dimensions. And Darsea knew, that it wasn't for science. She was becoming possessed by her work. But she wasn't working for herself. She was working her way to Thor.

The earth pony mare broke into the restaurant and pulled a chair without waiting for a waiter's approval. She put it next to the special table next to the window she had chosen personally. The stallion, that Lyra was supposed to speak with, was making strange signs to the intern. Darsea now glanced upon Lyra.

Most ponies found Lyra with her mint green coat and mane quite attractive, so Darsea didn't have such a big problem picking out her dates. Obviously, there was only one thing that deserved her attention. And it was Thorse.

" Hi, Darsea. " Lyra spoke, without even bothering to look to the pony she was greeting.

" Hey, do you actually know this is a date? " Darsea asked the unicorn

" Yes, I've just had some trouble picking out my dinner. " the mint-green mare replied.

" I would leave you two alone. " the stallion got off the table and walked to the door. He turned around,threw a cross look at the earth pony and slammed the door behind him.

' Guess I would be paying tonight. ' Darsea thought.

" Your coltfriend just left! " she told Lyra.

" I disagree, I prefer Number 3. " Lyra's answer didn't match the question at all. The earth pony sighed. She got to get Lyra out of her trance the hard way.

" For Horsegard! " she imitated Thor's voice. It was something she had become quite good at ( she had a lot of practice).

Lyra's horn suddenly stopped levitating the menu list and it fell down. The startled unicorn jumped from her seat.

" Tho.... " before the mintgreen mare could finish her word, she noticed the grin on her intern's muzzle.

" Darsea Lumis! " the unicorn walked back to her chair

" It isn't funny! "

" But it gets you every time, ja? " the earth pony pronounced the last words with a Scandynavian accent, but her mentor just sniffed. Darsea realized it woud be another boring night ( and she ment completely boring ).

Luckily, she was rescued by the most unexpected pony.

" Darsea! " Ion entered through the door, but forgot to catch it on the way back. The loud thud make some ponies of the highest class sip some of their soup on the floor. They threw angry glances at the newcomer, but the climsy pegasus ignored them and headed for his teacher.

Yes, Darsea concidered, that she now knew enough to be able to train her own intern. And besides she needed it. Their friend, Berry Sellwig ( quite a strange name for quite a strange pony ) had been a little wacky nowadays. Royal Guard complained of him, running around like crazy and murmuring science mambo- jumbo on importrant events.  They had to pay his fine several times already, so Darsea decided Ion is the perfect sidekick. His cutie mark was a model of a ion, a clear sign he was interested in science, and Lyra also approved him being darsea's intern.

However, his entrance was the last thing needed. The waiter threw the three of them out, complaining about the colts and fillies of today and how irresponsible and crude they were, as if raised in a barn.

" I think that was pure racism! " Darsea, an earth pony herself, yelled at him, angry with his comment.

" Ah, Darsea... "

" What, Ion! " the earth pony mare wasn't less angrier at her intern. It was his climsiness that caused the waiter to throw them out.

" There had been several space anomalies in the western part of town... "

Lyra's eyes shone and Darsea already knew what awaited them. A night in the cold. And it even started raining. The unicorn wouldn't just skip this news. She would investigate to the end.

" Lead, Ion. " . Many of the misfortunes in Darsea's life had begun with this phrase, but this was the greatest one so far. Her intern had lead them to a poor neighbourhood of Canterlot. Poor according to Canterlot standards, which meant normal according to, for an example, Ponyville standards. This was the part of the town were pegasi and earth ponies lived. None of the high class lived here. The eastern part of the town was entirely theirs.

Personally, Darsea kind of disliked the arrogance and the pride of East Canterlot. West canterlot felt more... living. Warmer.

Here the ponies had good hearts and didn't threat the others as underponies, as some of the high class did.

But even she disliked the fact that it rained today. Sometimes the earth pony mare just wished there was a fifth Princess, controlling the weather and delivering rain only where it was needed - like the fields. But the rain just made West Canterlot a sad place.

Eventually, Ion lead them to an abandoned hospital. At least it was dry in there. But it was also spooky. This day clouds covered the whole sky and inside of the hospital it was even darker than outside. And just to spook her even more, hoofsteps could be heard. The earth pony wondered how can there be such abandoned places in the capital.

Luckily, it only turned out to be some foals: two pegasus colts and a unicorn filly.

" Do you... know what's happening here? " Lyra asked. The filly nodded in responce.

" It's pretty funny, but it freaked us out the first time we saw it. " one of the colts smiled.

" Come. We'll show you. " the unicorn filly led them.

The 6 ponies soon reached what once used to be the emergency. The filly pushed the gates aside and walked to the operation table. It untied some ropes, that connectedit to the ground, and pushed it. Instead of rolling on it's wheels, it raised in the air and spun. Lyra gasped in amazement.

" It's really strange. " one of the colts now le them elsewhere. While walking in the corridor, Darsea noticed, that some of the garbage, that rolled on the floor, was actually levitating.

The pegasus colt led them to the garden. The small pony pushed one of the statues and it also levitated in the air, spinning. Lyra moved it around with her magic for a minute, supported with multiple gasps. Ion was amazed and so was Darsea, but the wonders weren't over.

Once again the unicorn filly led them, this time up the stairs. When they reached the third floor, the filly dropped her ball in the gap, that formed between the staircase, that was stuck to the wall. After 2 seconds Darsea expected to see it bounce of the ground, but near the level of the first floor it simply dissapeared. The earth pony mare was just thinking where did it go, when the ball suddenly passed the third floor and fell down again. Astonished, the intern gazed upwards. Somewhere near the fifth floor the ball appeared and fell down, untill the filly caught it with her magic. Ion obviously wanted to try it out, so he threw his hat. Expectedly, it dissapeared and 4 seconds later fell again, again caught by the filly and tossed back to Ion. Excited, the pegasus dropped the only umbrella they were carrying and waited for it to fall again. 4...10... 20 seconds.... and it didn't fall.

" Sometimes they don't return. " the filly smiled tenderly.

" Ion, that was our only umbrella!!!! " Darsea was mad at her intern.

But something more interesting had caught Lyra's attention. though the windows weren't broken, wind was moving the leaves, that strolled around the corridor, that led to the second floor of the hospital. Intersted, the unicorn followed the leaves around the corner. The wind blew the leaves into a wall. Strange, there wasn't a pile of leaves, as the mint-green mare had expected. In fact, there were even less leaves than anywhere else...

Suddenly Lyra felt something move her towards the wall. She tried to hold for the corner, but her hooves slipped. Than she pressed them harder against the ground, but it wouldn't work either. She closed her eys as she expected to be slammed against the walls.

After a good 20 seconds had passed, Lyra decided it would be safe to open her eyes. The place where she was totally wasn't the abandoned hospital. She, together with a pile of leaves, was standing on a dark platform, swimming in a sea of darkness. The unicorn didn't know if there was any floor and she didn't want to test that. The sea of darkness looked like if it had no end, both in front of her and behind her. Columns with big figures of warrior ponies with swords and axes held the ceiling, forming a long corridor.

' Interesting. Horsegardian architecture. ' Lyra thought, as her gaze fell upon something really strange.

A big square rock about 2 feet tall. There was also another square bif rock, that hung from the ceiling and ended 2 inches before it would meet the other one. Lyra came closer, wondering of the purpose of such structure. As she neared, she saw a red glow from inside of the fissure. The unicorn pressed her eye against the fissure and observed.

In the exact center there was a strange, moving, substance. It was coloured in red and black and it looked like it wanted to escape the prison. It showed interest to Lyra and some of it extended towards her. The unicorn was so fascinated with what she saw, that she didn't notice it. But than the whole liquid moved towards her and Lyra realized she was in serious trouble. It moved towards her, escaping it's prison and levitated to her. The mintgreen mare went to the edge and turned around. There was no escaping. The substance surrounded her and the mare closed her eyes for a second.

When she opened them again a second later, she was in the hospital, but now it was pitch dark. It was still 4 pm so Lyra got confused. Than she saw a light approaching from behind the corner.

A royal guard, holding a lantern in his mouth, appeared. He seemed surprised from her being there, but he helped her get on her hooves and led her to the exit.

" Lyra! "  Darsea ran to her, excited

" Where have you been? "

" What do you mean, I was gone for only a minute! " now Lyra's confusion grew. But than she saw the guards sealing the entrance to the building with a restricting ribbon.

" You called the Royal Guard? Now we would never able to complete our reserch! " Lyra told darsea.

" Yes, because you were gone for two hours! " her earth pony intern complained. What she was talking about? Anyway, Lyra would certainly not leave now. She gallopped towards the entrance.

" Ma'am. Please step aside! " she heard a voice behind her. However, she didn't stop her rush. She was desperate. This place had led her to a place, connected to Horsegard. With some research it could of been the key to a portal, not created by alicorn magic!

She heard the sound of a pegasus landing and felt a hoof on her shoulder. Lyra was just about to turn around and tell him, that she was going to inspect this place no matter what, when she noticed, that a part of the building had collapsed and all of the guards were pushed 20 feet away.

What Darsea saw probably had no scientifical explanation. It was pure magic. As the guard touched Lyra, there was a massive surge of energy from her, magic, that pushed everything in it's reach away and even broke the nearby wall. The earth pony was sure it wasn't her mentor, since the mint- green mare's magic had green colour and this was a huge wave of energy, coloured in black and red.

And as if things couldn't get more wacky, the clouds on the sky coloured in yellow, as a huge yellow beam of energy struck the ground, leaving a strange Horsegardian magical mark and - who would know - the god of thunder.

" Thor! " Lyra ran to him and literally fell in his gaps.

" Lyra! " the thunder god wasn't less excited " Heimdall had lost you of his sight for a moment! "

" Hey, you keep up the good look! " Darsea approached Thor and noticed, that he now had longer mane and his armour design was different.

" By the way, who's Haintal? "

" Heimdall is the vigilant and guardian of Horsegard. Nothing in the nine realms escapes his gaze. Except Lyra, for a moment. " Thor explained.

Shivvers went down Darsea's spine. That Heimdall guy saw anything he wished. She didn't wish to wonder how many of her secrets he already knew. And with Lyra acting as a beacon... the earth pony shook her head to banish that thought from her mind.

" Excuse me, but I need to get in there, so if you don't mind... " Lyra got out of her hug and rushed to the entrance. Knowing that the building isn't safe to enter, the guards tried to stop her, but the result was same as before- the guards were thrown away.

Judging by Thor's look, even he was scared by Lyra's new powers, Darsea thought.

" Lyra! " he flew to her and spoke, worried " How did you do this? "

" Well, I...  kind of appeared in another world for a second. There was this flowing red - black liquid... "

When Thor heard the last words, his face became pale white. He held Lyra's hoof and led her to the strange mark, that the Bifröst formed.

" Hold on tight. " the thunderer instructed her and caught her with his forehooves, hovering in the air.

" Wait, what? " Lyra was kind of confused, but Darsea knew exactly what would happen.

" Lyra! " she ran to the two ponies, but it was late. The Bifröst was unleashed once again, and when the Rainbow Bridge dissapeared, Lyra and Thor were gone, leaving Darsea, Ion and the Royal Guards riddled.