Dreamscape

Chapter 3

The evening stretched on to night when Twilight said her goodbyes to Mickey. The day ended on a good note, despite Mickey’s excitable nature he was patient and focused. When she started her lesson, he quietly listened, when she demonstrated her ability, he had an enthusiastic fan colt moment before he tried it himself and when they both did the spell using a slumbering spike as a guinea pig, he got it right on the first try. Afterwards he finished his study on spike gathering as much data as he could before the dragon’s bedtime arrived, in the end he left with not only his information but a brand new spell. Twilight looks over at the now sleeping baby dragon in the arm chair of the study with a smile; he didn’t quite get that much information about his dragon roots from Mickey but at least the stallion will be back to divulge some more. She lifted the dragon onto her back and the two went to bed.

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“Good Evening Princess Twilight Sparkle”, said Starswirl the bearded while walking towards her through the Canterlot archives. This was always her favorite dream, the one where she was close personal friends with her historical idol. They would spend the entire time either learning new spells in the archives or going on exciting adventures through Equestria as a crime fighting magical duo.

“Good Evening, Starswirl,” said Twlight greeting him with a hoof shake, “what are we in for today?”

“Make haste, my Quaint dear, tis villainy afoot,” said Starswirl walking past her and into the hallway, “Diamond Dogs seek to take this castle, neigh thy very home of Canterlot. Wilst thou take arms and fight by my side?”

Twilight was absolutely giddy; this is exactly how she imagined Starswirl would sound like. The old worldly feel of every moment with him was always a treat, “Starswirl, I’d be honored to fight by your side”.  She was interrupted by the sound of foot steps running down the hall and up to the library door.

Suddenly the entire room grew quiet, starswirl was on edge, “what trickery is this? It is quiet”.

“Yes”, said Twilight, “a little too quiet”. She turned to her idol and noticed an enemy quickly shimmying into the room through the window and making his way to starswirl, “LOOK OUT”, she screamed.

Starswirl turned just in time to deliver a power blast from his horn. The diamond dog was hit hard and catapulted through the wall of the library. Starswirl looks back at the purple alicorn, “beware m’lady here they come”. The double doors breaks open from the full force of the battering ram their enemies were using. What flew through the door was a jet black alicorn with a crooked horn and see through insect like wings. She cackled evilly as she glared at the two through her stringy black mane and stepped towards them with her swiss cheese like hooves.

Twilight looks at her with confusion, “Chrysalis?”

“Yes, it is I queen of the changelings”, said Crysalis, “and I have commanded an army of diamond dogs to do my bidding. Soon we will do away with starswirl the bearded and take over this library. With these books I will assault the princesses and take over all of equestria, MWAHAHAHAHAHA”.

“Oh…..um”, Twilight said even more confused, “sooooo, your big master plan is to basically kill us then steal every book in this library. Then ……throw the books at the princesses…….. Which you think will help you take over Equestria”.

“I know, quiver at how ingenious my plan is”, said Crysalis with pride.

“That doesn’t make any sense at all”, said Twilight, “what’s going on here? I’m usually good with villainous motives and plot threads”.

“HAVE AT YOU EVIL BITCH”, Starswirl shouted before body slamming Crysalis.

“Wait”, said Twilight about to flip out, “since when did you curse?” A diamond dog ran towards her with a wooden club and swung for her head. She ducks momentarily and delivers an upper cut to his stomach. She leaps over him and rushes over to starswirl who was having a laser duel with Crysalis. His powerful beam fought for dominance over her own, and he seemed to be winning. 10 more diamond dogs began to surround Starswirl, Twilight didn’t miss a beat. She shot a laser beam at 3 of them and levitated 3 others throwing them into the nearest book shelves. She then swiftly blasted the rest of them. But soon her victory turned to worry as she looked over at starswirl struggling to fend off Crysalis.

She didn’t want him to get owned like princess Celestia did back at her brother’s wedding. She rushed over to help starswirl but the older pony raised a hoof halting her, “d….don’t” said starswirl, “I’ve got this”. He increases the power of the beam enough to match evenly with Crysalis. Suddenly he ducks underneath the beam, jolts forward and blasted another one directly in her face blinding her. In another swift motion he leaps upward and spin kicks her in the face launching her back out the door and against the nearby wall, “BOOOYYYYAAAA, THAT’S RIGHT, HOOF TO YO FACE”.

Crysalis cries literally like an infant foal and hovers to her feet, “RETREAT, RETREAT, WE ARE NO MATCH FOR HIS MAD KICKING SKILLS AND FEATS OF SUPREME AWSOMENESS. EVERYONE RETREAT!!!!!” The diamond dogs and chrysalis retreat down the hallway and out the windows, disappearing into the night air.

Starswirl laughs triumphantly and pulls Twilight into his arms, “chrysalis is defeated and Equestria is safe once more.” He turned his head fully towards her, pressing his nose against hers and speaking to her in a seductive tone, “Come my fair mare; let us enjoy the spoils of our victory. Ready your soft, supple body for TONIGHT WE SHALL FORNICATE ON THE FLOOR OF THIS VERY LIBRARY”.

“Ewww, stop, STOP”, shouted Twilight pushing him away, he suddenly disappeared leaving the mare alone in the library. She become angered and storms toward the doors to the hallway, “spike, SPIKE, IF YOU’RE DOING THIS IT’S NOT FUNNY”. She then stopped herself and thought about it for a moment, why would spike be responsible? He wouldn’t know how to manipulate a dream even if he tried. It then came to her who else would be responsible. She frowned as the answer to her internal question came to her, “Mickey”. She growled in frustration as she made her way further down the hallway. She wasn’t surprised to see a random door on the other side; this was a dream after all. She opened the door to walk through; “when I get my hooves on him, I’m going to…..” she stops in her tracks noticing she had just walked right into a wide gray void filled with bubbles.

The huge bubbles float aimlessly all around her and above her and the sounds of classical music played in the background. She realized that she may have entered someone else’s dream by accident and decides to back track. She turned around but noticed the double doors were gone, “oh no” she said trying not to panic for now; if she was able to get in surely there was a way out. She walks further through the void passing by one large bubble after another.

She looked around and noticed something else, or more like somepony else. There floating in the distance, inside of one of the bubbles was a gray pegasus with a blond mane. She laid there inside of her bubble, relaxed, serene, and with a wide smile on her face. Her bubble sanctuary floated over to where Twilight was standing and slowly above her head. Her eyes were half lidded and she was curled up in a ball with her blond tail draped over her like a blanket.  Twilight quirked an eyebrow at the scene, “Ditzy Doo?” her hoof flew to her mouth and she quieted herself, just because her dream was ruined didn’t mean that she should ruin ditzy’s. She continues to walk ahead until she came across yet another giant bubble. As she examined it, she was interrupted with the loud sound of something landing a good distance behind her. She froze and slowly turned her head noticing all of the bubbles starting to pop. She looked back at where the offending sound came from…….her sight was met with a strange looking blue box.

Ditzy gasped and shot up into a sitting position inside of her bubble, “what’s …..going on?”

A light brown stallion wearing a green tie bursts out of the box, “NO TIME TO EXPLAIN, WE HAVE TO GO NO……..” he stopped himself as he noticed Twilight gawking at him, he smiles nervously, “I mean, nothing is wrong, everything is perfectly normal, nothing to worry about, come along ditzy. I need help with pony things in this normal dream scape, where everything is normal and……uh….pony related”.

Ditzy yawns and glares at him, “but I was having such a nice, WHOA”, she shouted in slight surprise as the brown stallion pops the bubble she was in and catches her in his arms.

“Yes, yes, very interesting, we’ll discuss this after we save the world”, he whispered speedily carrying Ditzy into the blue box.

“Wait a minute” Twilight said confused, “what did you just…..”

The nervous brown stallion immediately interrupts her and briefly glances her way, “good day to you, strange purple pony who I have absolutely never met before”. He rushes into the blue box and it made a very strange sound, as if it were revving up to do something. It slowly fades away leaving Twilight alone in the gray empty void.

Twilight stared at the spot where the blue box once was and shook her head, “I guess the less I know the better”. With that she turned around to the bubble testing it with her hoof, she pushes it through and slowly sticks her head in. She slowly walks right through the giant bubble.

She suddenly finds herself falling into a field of flowers. The moment came and went so fast she didn’t even have time to scream. She slowly sits up on her haunches and stretches out her wings trying to ease the small aching pain.  In the distance she could hear the light strumming of a guitar accompanied by the sound of someone singing. She got on her hooves and moved towards the sound; the singing was slightly off key and child like; she recognized it immediately. She walked until she met the culprit of this romantic music and smiled, “Spike?”

The dragon in question was seated between the front legs of his crush, Rarity, as the two stare at her surprised. Spike suddenly frowns, “Twilight, what are you doing? You can’t invade this dream, its private”.

“I’m sorry Spike,” Twilight apologized, “I’m actually just passing through, I think Mickey just interfered with my dream, so I’m……..oops”.

Spike looks at her confused, “oops? What do you mean, oops?” He looks back in the direction she was looking and notices Rarity is gone. His eyes widened and he looks back at her, “TWILIGHT!!!!”

The alicorn looks back at him a bit guilt ridden, “I’m so, so sorry spike, I didn’t mean to break your concentration”.

“Great, just great, just a while longer and I would have actually gotten a kiss”, Spike complained.

“Sorry”, said Twilight, she looked ahead of her and noticed something odd. What she thought was the landscape in the distance now appeared to be a canvas painting of one. She walks towards it and touched it, as she pressed her hoof against it she could feel it slightly tearing like thin parchment. She got the idea and tore away at the painting like she was tearing through wrapping paper. She then looked back at her number one assistant, “well, if you want you can join me. I could use the help, if we don’t catch Mickey soon he might end up running into Luna”.

Spike looked at her worried, “I see what you mean, but are you sure it’s him”.

Twilight nods, “who else would it be besides me and Luna? If he interferes with anyone else’s dream, she’ll find him for sure, and then we’ll all be in trouble”.

“Well I have no reason to stick around here”, said Spike following her, “I might as well”.