The Dungeon Master of Equestria

        That party.

        Just, that party.

        It took up about five hours before it finally ended…. and we only had nine people there! I mean, I’m not going to just question Pinkie Pie’s abilities, but HOW THE HELL DID SHE MANAGE TO DO THAT?!

        In the end, I was so full of sugar and crap made of sugar, that I looked like I was that one can of soda that had taken a few too many shakes and was about to explode. And, honestly, I was probably about to. Luckily for me, I had always been that one hyper kid, ADHD and everything. No joke!

        Unluckily for me, I had another ‘knock at the door’, so to speak.

        Someone was trying to summon me.

        “My name is Asphyxious and I would like to, talk with someone like myself if you are free I hope that we can meet”

        “Hold up, Asphyxious?” I said. “Okay, I’m coming over.”

Once I got to the other side it was clear I was underground. Not only that but I could hear the sound of an iron works going on around me. I didn’t have to think about this when I heard something hiss behind me.

I turned around, only to see a GIANT FUCKING METAL SNAKE! What the hell?! I could only imagine the look of pure terror on my face. Was it this…. this THING that summoned me?! What the hell is going on?!

“A….A-a-asphyxious?” I stuttered out through my fear. “I-is…. Is that y-you?”

I then heard a deep laugh off to my left side as a deep voice said, “Now, Now Cankerworm, there’s no need to frighten our new friend. Come here and let the poor boy get his breath back”

At that, the giant metal serpent slithered away from me and over to who I assume is its owner: a large being made of metal and spouting some kind of blue mist. He was about two feet taller than me, making him eight feet tall.

What. The. Crap.

“Who the hell,” I said. “Are you Asphyxious?”

I got a somewhat tired laugh from that, but he then said this after petting his snake thing on the head. “I am Asphyxious the iron lich. I guess you could say I had a run in with a dragon spawns who wanted to kill my friends.”

After he said that I start to notice there were canines all around. What were they called again? Diamond Dogs….. Wait, why the hell was he hanging around Diamond Dogs? In another universe, they were at war with the ponies, in mine, I have no clue… Here, they’re friendly?

“Dude, what’s up with all the Diamond Dogs?” I asked.

“Let me guess their not as friendly in your world are they?” I saw him sigh and rub his….. skull? Huh, guess I didn’t notice he had no skin…

“Well,” I started, “It wasn’t my world, but in a world I visited, they were at war with the ponies. I’m pretty sure if one of these dogs were to sniff me, they’d smell the scent of Diamond Dog blood. The guy in that universe is nice, but kinda roped me into a war…. Still one of the better universes I’ve been to, though.”

I noticed there what looked like ponies hiding in the tunnels, but parts of their bodies were glowing green or blue. They also looked like they had metal limbs or parts over there body’s. I even saw some who looked like they haven’t eaten in days.

“Hey, what’s up with those ponies?” I asked, pointing at the ponies in question. “They look like they’ve seen Hell and come back.”

I heard a hiss from his Worm but Asphyxious put his clawed hand on it head and sighed. “They are… who we rescued from a group we don’t know much about. My only guess is they’re trying to make an undead army. As you can see, they are what’s left from their work…” With a wave of his hand, the ponies who glowed blue were guiding the green ones away somewhere deeper into the tunnels.

“Where are they going?” I asked. “And why is your Equestria so messed up?”

“They are going to there new domes inside the den, until we can change the necrotite within their bodies they could poison the others just by being near them. Come. We can talk more in my room if you like” I saw him float off into one of the near by tunnels with that thing following close behind him.

I didn’t follow him, immediately, however. Instead, I decided to check out the one straggler that had stayed behind and watched. It was interesting to watch the pony as it stared back at me. The poor guy was glowing blue, just like Asphyxious, and had a metal right front leg. I almost touched the guy, and would have too, if not for Asphyxious coming back and pulling me before I made contact. I heard him grumble as pulled me along the floor, “Don’t touch that one, there something wrong with him. Not even moon dancer can figure it out”

Alright then.

When we finally entered his ‘room’, Asphyxious tossed me into a chair and started talking.

“Okay so when I got to this world I had no clue what happened to me. So I spent most of my time learning how to move and use magic. I ended up using some necromancy that I thought was a healing spell and I got found out by old Cleaster and you can guess what happens from there”

“Not really,” I said. “What, were you trapped in stone or something?”

“A gem then she thought it was a good idea to bury me under ground for nine hundred years. I say a hundred but I think she intended for me to be down there longer. That is before the dogs found me”

“Oh,” I said. “I didn’t realize some of the Displaced had it like that. Eh, still better than my Celestia. She didn’t even try that. No, she tried to obliterate me. Now she’s okay, but I mean, why? Bigger question is why she’s done this complete 180 on me, and how she’s managing that.”

Asphyxious sighed as he sat in his chair and started playing with…. Wait. Is that a token?!

“What the,” I said. “Is that someone else’s token?”

He looked at me then back at the coin in his hand.

“Is that what these are? They were one of the first things to drop on me when I took over the den. Not only that but after ringing Dante’s bell… I wasn’t up for getting my ass kicked again”

“Okay,” I said. “Wait a second, that’s Auric Fulcrum’s token. I heard about it from another displaced. I also heard he was a good guy. I’ve honestly been keeping an eye out for token’s like his. Hey, you met a guy by the name of Gilgamesh yet? I’ve been looking for his token under a suggestion. Heard he could train me a bit.”

The Iron Lich, as he called himself, was still staring at the coin when he said, “Never heard of him but sound interesting… he could be what I need to take out Lord Toruk…”

“Lord Toruk?” I asked. “Who the hell is that?”He then looks at me and said this.

“Lord Toruk is a dragon, more than that he is known as the dragon father. He is the one when made the cryxien army. He is also the one who turned me before I got here…” I watched as he dug his clawed fingers into the wooden table as if it was something to stop himself from something. I didn’t want to know what it was.

“Well, I could try and help you,” I said. “I don’t know how much help I’ll be, but I could help.” Asphyxious just shakes his head at me.

“Thank you, but I don’t think that’s a good idea. I’ve already found out that one of his kin is here, Everblight. He is weaker than Toruk, besides I don’t want you or anyone else to be blighted by them. Who knows what that will do to you”

“Just about nothing!” said a booming voice.

Odd, I could have sworn that was the DM, but he can’t leave his realm unless….. Wait, he’d have to possess someone, normally that’d be me… but…

I looked around to find a Diamond Dog standing at the entrance. His eyes looked to be glazed over and glowing red. Wow, that’s kind of creepy.

“Okay… that was not somibr trapped in my staff…”

“Big guy?” I said to the possessed Diamond Dog. “Is that you possessing that guy?”

“Who else would it be?” the DM said through the Diamond Dog.

“And why are you here?” I asked him.

“To teach this buffoon something about D&D!” he yelled, pointing at Asphyxious.

Asphyxious then chuckled to himself. “Dungeons and Dragons… Let me ask this have you heard of the Iron Kingdoms?…” He then seemed to glare at the dog. “I have seen things that will make you look like nothing more than a toy compared to them”

“You say that, and yet you haven’t seen me yet.” the DM stated. “How about I show you who I REALLYam.”

And with that, we were gone.

We both reappeared in the sector of the void that I was used to. The DM had a projection of his huge-ass self there with us.

He seemed to go back to speaking directly into our minds.

Thisis who I am. I am the Dungeon Master. The controller of realities and creator of the champion that I have chosen and set before you. Your puny disease is nothing more than a debuff for him. With just one move, he can remove it from himself if he were to become afflicted.

“Wow,” I said. “Thanks for making me seem like a bigger deal than I am, big guy.”

I looked to Aspyhxious to see if he was going to attack me or something all he did was cross his arms and say this. “Faust is scarier than you”

I have no intentions of being scary. I am an astral being that must reside in either his own realm or the void. The only reason why I’m in the void right now is because if I were to take you to my realm, you would cease to exist within .0324 nanoseconds. And if I were to enter your realm, all of reality would cease to exist in this sector of the multiverse. Frankly, I would rather not have the admins of this sector mad at me. They’re already pissed that I talk to Dox.

“Wait, admins?” I asked. “Is there someone more powerful than you?”

No, I’d just rather not piss them off. Trust me, a ton of admins coming at you is NOT something you want to see. And, honestly, if they were to work together, they could seal me away to a different sector.

“Well damn,” I said. I then heard a powerful voice that felt like my head was going to split open.

WHO DARE’S TO ENTER MY REALM!?!, ASPYHXIOUS YOU DARE COME BACK AFTER STEALING FROM ME!!!.

“You have got to be fucking KIDDING ME!, we’re in Lord Toruk’s Realm!?!” He screamed out.

“He lives in the void?!” I screamed. “Why does he live in the void?”

“He’s trapped here. He want me or someone to set him free so he can kill every living thing in my Equestria”

“Yeah, not going to happen,” I said. “Big guy, I’m pretty sure this is a private conversation. Can you do something?”

With pleasure.

And with that, the DM’s projection moved it’s hand and shoved Toruk away from us.

“That’s it?” I said. “What, no teleporting him, or anything like that?”

I  am not allowed to interfere that much. He just so happened to be interrupting a private conversation.

I DO NOT KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BUT THIS IS MY REALM! MY MIND!!!

A large storm took shape in both black smoke and green fires as it got bigger. Then two glowing green eyes looked at us all in hate.

Big talk, little game. the DM said before shoving off Toruk… again. Now, before he becomes more of an annoyance, I’m sending you two back.

And with that, we popped out of the void.

We reappeared back in Asphyxious’ room.

“So yeah, that’s my boss,” I said.

“Okay, that was what I’m trying to not to let enter this world… So I guess you can call him my x-boss” He said as he looked around the room and what looked like a passed out dog in the doorway.

“Okay then,” I said. “So, any way I can help?”

“Urr sure?, I guess anything that can keep that dragon away from me and keep it trapped in the void is good in my book”

“Well, I’m not sure I can do that,” I said. “But I’m pretty sure I can give you something better to call me with. Hey, big guy!”

What? I looked at Asphyxious for a second to see if he heard him. He did not.

“I’m gonna need a standard champion’s token,” I said. “Think you can do that?”

With pleasure.

I didn’t even need to take out the dice. No, they just floated out of my pocket and started swirling around in the air. A small bit later, they stopped, leaving a bass guitar in the center of where they were floating. Then they floated back into my pocket.

The bass was nothing special. It looked like a Fender Bass, but I don’t know what type, and it had a small groove missing in it. Looked like it was big enough for my token.

“Hey, you have my token?” I asked Asphyxious.

“Ya one tick” He looks around then pulls out a dice.

“Okay, lemme see that,” I said, taking it from him. I put it in the slot on the bass and it instantly flashed a bright white light. When I was able to see after the blinding flash, I noticed the strings were now glowing the same color as the die. They even now had that same galaxy motif to them. I then held out the bass to Asphyxious. “Here ya go. One standard champion’s token. Just hit the invincible thing on something and I’ll be summoned temporarily for a quick attack. Trust me, it’s cool. You smack someone, I come flying in, and I slash them with a charging attack from my sword. Then, poof! I’m gone. Of course, if you want me around to actually talk to and hang with, or need me for extended combat, just call out again, and I’ll come running.”

“Thanks dude this will be a lot of help” He say after taking it then looks at me. “So… how do I send you back home then?” He asks.

“Well,” I said. “All you need to say is ‘Dox, our contract is complete’. It’s the standard way to send people back. Although, sometimes they just go back. It’s kind of random.

“Okay here it goes. Dox, our contract is complete. And if that big guy sends us in to the void again I will slap you with a wet fish”

“Understood,” I said as the portal opened up behind me. As I climbed in, I called out, “Don’t be a stranger!” And then I was gone.

I reappeared back in the castle. But, something seemed off.

Now there was no noise. No sounds of laughter, or worry, and no welcome back from Pinkie. She had been extremely consistent about that….. Okay, that worries me.

“Hello?” I called out as I started to wander the halls of the castle. “Girls? Anyone?”

I couldn’t find anyone. Where was everyone?

I found my answer when I entered the library.

All around the central area of the library were statues, statues of ponies. But not just that, they were statues of the ponies that had been with me at the party, the ones I had made friends with quite recently….. And standing in the middle of them….. Was Celestia.

She stood there, horn lit and tears flowing down her cheeks.

“You,” she spoke. “You’re the reason why this had to happen. You’re the reason my sister and my student had to be trapped in stone. You’re the reason why my subjects in Ponyville are questioning me and my rule!”

“What?” I questioned. “What do I have to do with it? I didn’t do this! I didn’t make them question your rule!”

“But your existance did,” she said. “I turned them to stone. They are corrupted. They aren’t following the prophecy. And now you must be turned to stone as well.”

“But why?!” I asked. “I didn’t do anything!”

“Oh yes you did,” she said. “You and your illusions corrupted my student, and the only family I have left. It’s your fault she’s in stone now! Your fault!”

With that, she started firing bolts of energy at me. Based on what she had said, it was obvious that she was trying to turn me to stone, and I’m pretty sure a saving roll can’t fix that. So I ran. I ran until she cornered me in one of the isles of books.

“Now, you must face judgement,” she said.

“No! You must face Judgement!” I screamed, trying to charge her.

I was instantly smacked to the ground. The dice fell out of my pocket when I impacted the ground. They were glowing, but before I could reach them, I as shot with a spell and petrified instantly. How I hoped this wasn’t how I was going to end. At least I could still hear things, and see things…. Wait, what’s she doing? IS THAT HER HAMMER?! NO NO NO NO NO!

I felt nothing as my statue was smashed.

Elsewhere:

“Ugh,” I said. “My head….. Where am I?”