Who, What, When, Where, and Why?
Meanwhile, in the Starting Over universe...
Spectra tapped a patient hoof inside his cloud house, looking towards the front door expectantly.
"Where in Tartarus are those two?"
Rainbow Dash merely shrugged as she walked past and into the kitchen.
"I don't know. Maybe Tenebra went to visit Vinyl."
Spectra laughed and looked back at the clock, then to the door again.
"Maybe. Although, he better be coming home right no-"
Spectra couldn't finish his sentence due to the fact that a flash of light filled the room. When the light dimmed, Spectra found himself standing on a platform of sorts. It looked to be hexagonal with a metallic look. Surrounding him appeared to be-
"Space?!"
Spectra's jaw hit the platform as he fell flat on his rump with an amazed look in his eyes.
"I'm in space?!"
Spectra was surrounded by all kinds of stars for millions of miles. He reached over and looked beneath him. More stars littered his vision. He sat back up and looked around.
"I'm in space..."
"Dad? Is that you?"
Spectra looked behind himself to address the voice. A few metres away he saw his children, Rose and Tenebra, floating on platforms similar to his own. The platforms seemed to be immobile for the time being. Spectra stood to his full height and waved a hoof to his children with shock all over his face.
"Rose? Tenebra? How did you get here?"
Rose shrugged while Tenebra looked around at the landscape.
"We figured you teleported us or something."
Spectra barked a laugh and shook his head with a worried look.
"Hell no! I had nothing to do with this."
Tenebra sighed and sat on his flanks, a look of defeat evident on his face.
"What now, dad?"
Spectra merely sighed and looked down at his own platform, removing his eye patch to reveal his reddened eye.
"I don't know, son."
**Meanwhile, outside the city of Manehatten**
"OUCH! Loki! Don't pull my tail!"
"HeheheHAHAHAHA! Sorry, Edge."
"Ouch! Charger, was that you?!"
"BRAIN, WHY DID YOU SAY WE SHOULD MOVE AT NIGHT?! WE CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!"
"Sorry, Spetsnaz! I thought the night would give us cover from-"
"FROM WHO, BRAIN?! OUR TARGET IS IN THE CITY, NOT AROUND IT!"
"EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
The Blood Hunters jumped slightly at the exclamation from Dead Shot, who tore the hat from his head and shook his orange mane and faced his team mates.
"Now, I say we make camp here. I do NOT care if our target gets away, I refuse to fight in this condition."
Everybody groaned and slumped down in exhaustion. Dead sighed and was about to sit back on the ground before the area around him was covered in a flash of light, revealing him and his team mates to be floating in the stars on top of some platforms. Dead heard somepony call out to him, unfortunately he was too tired and couldn't give a shit as he flopped back and instantly fell asleep.
**Meanwhile, inside Twilight Sparkles library**
Nitro Pressure was lying on his stomach, upon a cushion within the tree library of Twilight Sparkle. Her assistant, Spike, walked over and placed a mug of hot chocolate that Nitro had requested earlier next to his form on the floor. Nitro nodded in thanks, but refused to remove his eyes from the text he was reading. As Spike walked away and upstairs to his bed, a bright flash of light behind him startled the drake and he chose to investigate.
"Nitro? What was that jus- Huh?"
Nitro was nowhere to be seen. He was instead sitting upon a hexagonal shape in the stars while continually refusing to check his surroundings and realize where he was, and instead focusing on his book.
"Oh my, Lilly. Prince Reginald won't be happy with that."
And apparently Nitro likes reading romance stories.
**Meanwhile, in the Everfree Forest**
Shadow and Aeb worked together to drag a large corpse of what was once a manticore on top of a large square of metal sheeting, which was being heated by the fire roaring beneath it. As the successfully placed their latest meal onto the metal, Shadow clopped his hooves together and cheered. He stood to his hind legs and let out a bellow.
"DINNER FOR A YEEEAAAARRRR!!!!"
Aeb chuckled at his friends antics. Shadow landed on his fours and scratched his neck in embarrassment.
"Well, this was our best catch of the year."
Aeb smiled and nodded. He was right, after all. The beast of a manticore was an elder. Massive and deadly. But nothing a Changeling and a demonic unicorn couldn't handle. Aeb smelled the air with vigour, eyeing the manticore hungrily.
"Can't wait. How long until it's ready?"
Shadow hummed in thought and poked the flesh of the beast.
"Give it an hour, maybe more. Pretty soon we will have ourselves a feast to remember!"
Aeb and Shadow stood upon their hind legs and High-Oned each other. ((Geddit? Like a High Five, but they only hav- Oh shut up.))
But as the duo revelled in their victory, a flash of light took them away from their tasty meal and aboard a single platform, large enough to hold them. They both kept their pose, but looked around in complete shock at where they were.
"Shadow? Aeb? Is that you?"
Still frozen in their pose, Shadow and Aeb looked over to the voice and saw their friend Spectra Speed looking at them with confusion.
"Why are you- Anyway, doesn't matter. Rose and Tenebra are here, along with the Blood Hunters. However the ever-alert hunters seem to be sleeping."
Spectra voiced the last sentence with sarcasm.
"Oh, and Nitro is over there. But he ain't listening. He keeps mumbling about a royal family or something. You two know anything?"
Shadow and Aeb merely stared around in shock at where they were. Their jaws were dropped and their pupils were pin pricks.
Meanwhile, in the Crystal universe...
Crystal was dancing in front of his girlfriend in happiness. He was just banished to Earth and has now returned. He leaned down on his knees and opened his arms wide as Roseluck ran into his embrace...
...Only to be teleported in a flash of light to outer fucking space. Crystal stood up with his mouth wide open in disbelief. He sank to his knees and threw his fist up in anger.
"WHY DOES THIS KEEP FUCKING HAPPENING?!?!"
Meanwhile, in the Equestrian Adventure universe...
"What Equestrian Adventure universe? You took down the story."
Yeah, because apparently a Fourth Wall breaking comedy isn't serious enough for this site.
"IT WAS A FUCKING COMEDY. WHY DOES IT NEED TO BE SERIOUS."
Look, apparently when people read it the main complaint was that it didn't have a decent storyline or something.
"IT'S A COMEDY ABOUT A FUCKING TEENAGER WHO CAN BASICALLY BE DEAD POOL IN EQUESTRIA. WHY DO THEY EXPECT A DECENT STORYLINE."
I have no fucking clue. Look, do you want the flashing light or just appear there?
"Ooh. Flashing light, please."
As you wish.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo........."
......
"......."
How long have you been wanting to use that reference?
"....several hours...."
And a Borderlands 2 reference to go with it?
"Eeyup."
**Back with Spectra**
Spectra was the only one amongst the cluster fuck of people who was actively thinking. Besides the ponies he knew joining him, there were three others here he didn't know. First, there were two near identical humanoids. One of them was...crying apparently, while the other was talking to another humanoid with a short black mane. The black maned one wore a dead pan look as the other continued talking to the black maned one and....the sky? Apparently the other was furious with somepony up there. Spectra had no clue as to why.
Unable to take all the mystery, Spectra cleared his throat to address everybody.
"'scuse me? Hello?"
Everypo- Everyone looked over to Spectra.
"Does anyone know what the heck is going one?"
The one furious with the sky wobbled a bit before adopting a goofy smile.
"NNNNNnnnnnnnope! Not a fuckin' clue!"
The black maned one rolled his eyes.
"Actually, he knows exactly what's going on. He can talk to the author."
He looked over to see that his friend was holding his mouth shut with his hands.
"No I can't. I have no power here."
His friend looked completely and utterly shocked.
"Seriously?!"
The other merely nodded and sank down to a seated position.
"....this is weird."
The other followed suite and seated himself with his back leaning against the others.
"You're telling me."
Spectra sighed and looked over to the other humanoid, who was looking at Spectra with a frustrated expression.
"Can you at least tell me your names?"
The being sighed and raised himself to full height.
"Sure. I'm Crystal."
The other beings waved a ho- cla- whatever. They waved a something at Spectra.
"I'm Declan, he's Gus."
Spectra nodded, finally getting somewhere.
"Nice to meet you and all, but where the fuck are we?"
Crystal shrugged and slumped down onto his back.
"Dunno."
Spectra sighed and rested on his stomach, unsure of how to proceed. He peeked over the edge to see endless space surrounding them. He heard a cry of anger and looked to Declan, who was now standing.
"Fuck this. GERONIMO!"
He starting leaping over the edge of his platform, making a dive straight downwards. Spectra watched in horror as he dove straight downwards, out of sight.
Gus sighed and leaned back.
"Well, fuck."
"HEY GUYS!"
Spectra and Gus both jumped as Declan flew past them, coming from above. Gus stared at Spectra in shock.
"What the fuck."
"HEY GUYS!"
He did it again, this time it looked like he was dancing. Spectra and Gus laughed and jumped over the edge themselves. They passed the floating platforms with Spectra's friend aboard, all of which are either knocked out or reading "The Sparkle Saga" romance book.
Spectra and Gus eventually met up with Declan, who was leaning back in the air like he was in a chair.
"Bout time ya got here!"
Spectra and Gus laughed and floated around the body of Declan, who laughed in return.
Spectra was havin' a blast. He hasn't had fun since he met Rainbow, which was a long time ago. He was laughing along with his human friends before his vision flashed and he sat bolt right in his bed.
He was wearing a massive grin on his face as Rainbow looked up to his form in the darkness of their bedroom.
"Spectra? It's the middle of the night. C'mon sweetie. Go back to sleep."
Spectra's grin disappeared as he looked around. Disappointed that his fun was over, but happy to be back in his house.
And anyway, who said that his adventures were finished? They've only just begun!
