Chapters Chapter 1
A nice summer day in Ponyville, nothing out of the ordinary. The sun’s out, birds are chirping, the grass is green and well watered, and all the ponies are out enjoying themselves. All ponies but one.
“ Come on, Twilight!” Spike, Twilight’s ever faithful assistant, shouted from the front door of the library, “ Let’s go! Everypony else is out there having fun! We should go and join them!” at this point he was wearing sunglasses and standing outside the door, “ Not now Spike, I’m busy writing this report to the Princess! And after that I’ve got to catch up on some studying I missed last week!” Twilight responded with a notable tone of annoyance in her voice. “ Whatever you say.” Spike said as he left with a disappointed wave and tone.
“ Finally!” Twilight exclaimed, “ Now I can actually start the letter. “ Dear princess Celes...ti...a?” Twilight slowly cut herself off in confusion as she looked out her window, “ Is that a... black... hole!?” sure enough outside her window in plain sight was what appeared to be a black hole growing rapidly over Ponyville. However, by the time she was able to comprehend this, everything was black and dead. Beforehand she heard screams everywhere.
Chapter 2
“ Take this mispleasing do I.” An unknown entity quietly states to itself, “ Unappealed this world’s fate has done as to me. Mayin accord by I be me to peer account of witness the end to of exist wherein be this world.” it pondered to itself as how to prevent this foreseen end of a world it itself found practically perfect. “ Out I figure must be he who is me. May haps in of this I think a solution found has it. I need not instigate to be of cause in panic, in the case of happenstance me of three be shall use one of I corrupters.” and so with its usual grin it sent three corrupters to gather those suited to be its messengers from Equestria. “ He he he he he... Three be me.”.
Out on the town was a light purple unicorn who goes by Twilight Sparkle. She had just left her home in the town library to do some grocery shopping, blissfully unaware the black, hand-like form reaching for her from her shadow... “ Hi Twilight!” a pink pony had unexplainably shown up from nowhere at best explanation, “ Whatcha doing?” the hand was already gone, “ WOAH!” Twilight shouted in surprise, her mane also getting messed up, “ Oh, hey Pinkie Pie. I was just out to get a loaf of bread and such. Spike was up late last night doing some snacking I told him NOT to do.” She explained while still fixing her mane, “ So what are you doing? Pinkie! Piiinnnkie? Heeellloooo?” Twilight asked waving her hoof in front of Pinkie’s face who at the time was fixated on Twilight’s shadow. “ Sharper then let on be she of name Pinkie Pie.” thought the unknown entity to itself, “Messenger two of my possess found is now.”.
“ You know what Pinkie? I’m just gonna go this way now.” Twilight somewhat nervously states while slowly starting to walk away from Pinkie Pie, “ Wait Twilight!” Pinkie suddenly burst out, thrusting a hoof in Twilight’s direction to signify that she should stop where she is, “ There’s something... weird about your shadow.” She points out to Twilight, “ It looks normal to me.” Twilight questioningly responds, “ Here! Let me show you!” Pinkie pie offers and immediately peels her shadow off the ground and slaps it over Twilight’s, “ See?” one shadow over the other it was easy to see that Twilight’s shadow was much darker than others, “ Pinkie, how did you...? How is it...? Uh, never mind!” Twilight loudly blurts, dumbstruck. “ But I do see your point Pinkie.” Twilight admits, giving a good look at her own shadow with Pinkie’s on top, “ Okay I’m gonna need that back now.” Pinkie Pie as-a-matter-of-factly demands, “ Then take it!” Twilight readily agrees. In the same method as before she peels her shadow off of Twilight’s and rolls it back out next to herself, “ Aw great! Now mine’s all dark and weird!” Pinkie exclaims, very much annoyed, “ Do you know how much it costs to clean these?” Demands the pink pony, “ Uhhh... no.” a very much so confused Twilight admits, “ Well I have to go now and get this thing cleaned up! I mean seriously, it’s so unsanitary now!” Pinkie Pie shouts as she runs off. “Well that was strange.” Twilight mumbled to herself as she watched her friend run off, “ Now what was I doing again? Oh yeah!” and on that thought Twilight started off again to her shopping trip. However, as soon as she rounded the corner she felt something grab her leg and pull her down. Right through her own shadow.
Chapter 3
“ Awaken in time that is now, delay of amounting pointlessness no longer how.” a voice called Twilight that she didn’t recognize, “ Eyes open now you may achieve. No harm of form physical may be attained.” the voice almost seemed to float into her mind, “ W-who are you?” she asked, her eyes still shut, “ Ocular atunement is request by he who be me. compliance be asked morlific, and mine a face you perceive.” there was no aggression in the voice, so she decided to humor it, “ What is this place?!” she shouted in amazement, everything around her was pitch black as far as she could see, yet there seemed to be a solid plane that acted as ground as she wasn’t just floating there, “ Be my realm in form of consciousness.” it answered, “ May as you be amazed, below gaze should one who is you.” it suggested, and as if peering down through a glass floor twenty stories up she cautiously looked down to her feet to be greeted by the “face” of the voice whispering to her this whole time, and at least a little frightened she asked, “ I-i-is th-that you?” and the only answer she got in return from the “face” which was nothing more than a single glaring eye with a deep red, jagged line crossing it, presumably a scar, was “ In current of now be it moso.” immediately the eye closed and disappeared, “ For the reference into future time convenient be for you, The titular perceptive of by me he Mynx.” it cryptically stated, “ Do you mean your name is Mynx?” Twilight asked, still shaken by this erie display, which was answered with loud maniacal laughter followed by, “ Answered right done now have you! Spelling from the world be you from... M... y... n... x. Would rather you I spell it language not yours? Rucsyeu... anmina... akusyeu... laomina. May form of italia... bad my be I ramble now do so. Habit old from extend chronic lack company of me.” Mynx sounded a little apologetic and Twilight picked up on it, “ Hey it’s alright. I can’t blame you if you’re lonely. But loneliness is no excuse to kidnap somepony!” immediately after those words left her mouth, a large, sharp toothed grin materialized right in front of her face accompanied by the statement, “ Ha he ke! Think you now that bring you here me for kinship? Bother less could mine self! Laugh make me one who is you if possible being that become!” he sounded pretty annoyed at the thought of making friends.
After a few moments the “jaw” of the disembodied grin opened wide and disappeared, behind it a good distance was a humanoid figure with his back turned to Twilight clad in a light gray business suit, white gloves, black leather shoes, and jet black hair of medium length. “ Why hello Twilight.” the man nonchalantly said as he turned around to reveal the face of someone in their twenties, with eyes as dark as night with crimson irises, the left one scarred deeply, “ What? Don’t you recognize me?” he asked calmly, “ Forgive me but uh... no. Who are you?” She replied, “ Why Twilight. I’m soooo huurrt.” the mysterious man began to slowly approach Twilight, hunched forward and arms out to the side, “ It’s me, your GOOD FRIEND Mynx!” he loudly declares to her now madly grinning, “ You’re Mynx?” Twilight questioned in response, “ How can that be? I was just talking to Mynx, and what I saw of his face was nothing like what I see now.” she adds, and in response his eyes and grin became even wider, “ Oh I’m so sorry that I forgot to mention...” his face now right up against hers, he then snapped his fingers to make her blink. When she opened her eyes an instant later, they were both standing on the side of an enormous tree, Twilight looking up, the man claiming to be Mynx was sitting on a chair looking down, a gentle breeze was sweeping by, and the entire place was surrounded by a view of an endless sky in every direction, even looking down there was no visible ground. The man now continued, “ ... that I am a dimensionally wandering, freeform being! But I know what you’re going to ask next...” he snapped his fingers with a grin and a swarm of leaves began surrounding him and when they dissipated, he looked exactly like Twilight, and in her voice he asked, “ How can something like you exist?” and returning his previous voice, he approached her answering, “ I just do. If this confuses you I’m surprised. Haven’t you had any experiences with time travel or chaos energy?” he was walking past her now, “ According to the aura of this world, incidents related to both of those have happened in this world.” after a moment he added, “ Your world. Not this place.” he said pointing to her then tapping the tree, he then gave a look in her direction as she was staring at him slack jawed, “What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?” Twilight then shook her head a few times and asked, “ Why are you here?” and in response he stomped the tree and generated a bright flash showing the event he foresaw earlier... the end of this world. “ Now do you understand? I can foresee the fate of a world and when it’ll happen.” they were now back in the pitch black room, “ So does that mean you’re here to help?” Twilight inquired, and Mynx no longer in the guise of a man or pony but rather a wraith formed of shadows, answered, “ Be case may that so, assistance need he who is me of three pony at least that count.” Twilight looked on in disbelief, “ I don’t know. How can I trust you?” and with a casual grin he states, “ You don’t. Need of I have for is now messengers. Until you and accounted of others equals three minimum. When accept willing are be you who are thee, returned to world your’s shall is be case. When accept are you in state of, come here I be in.” and with those words the darkness began melting away unveiling Ponyville behind it, “ Your books entry keys to other worlds are they be. Find mine when you want to save the world.”.
With that cryptic message he vanished, and Twilight found herself lying in the same spot she got dragged in from... but there’s no way that something like that just happened, it’s nearly the same time as before and it felt like she was in there for hours. Shrugging it off Twilight continued her trip to the store.
Chapter 4
When Twilight got home with her groceries and stationary kit, Spike was waiting in the main room, a confused look on his face, “ Hey Twilight. You know how Celestia’s the only one who can send us letters through me?” he asked her, “ Yes I do Spike. Why wouldn’t I?” she quickly answered putting her things down, “ Why bring it up?”.
Somewhat hesitantly he revealed what he was hiding behind his back, a letter. “ See?” he asked hastily holding his free hand out towards the letter in a “look at this!” fashion, “ See what?” asked Twilight unimpressed, “ Read it!” he demanded, and with a sigh she took it out of his hands and began reading it, and with a somewhat belittling tone said, “ Let’s see what’s SO special about this letter that you had to freak out over it!” and immediately she knew why. The first words in it were, “ Greeted you I be so.” and with a gasp she lifted her face from the message and looked to Spike who requested her to keep reading, “ Cut my message you me from off in surprise no? Just know to let remind be ye, I real be me.” and with a blank expression she looked away from the letter and to Spike who with a worried expression told her, “ Keep going, it gets weirder.” so with a mixture of curiosity and anxiety she continued reading the letter, “ Last look letter away mine that be was. Distractions inexistent be they. Know you be she Twilight Sparkle that I he me be held not grudge you against. My book in find library your’s should want see me once addendum. Book mine be located world saved shall beginning.
“ Not this one... not this one... not this one... nope... nope... no...” Twilight rambled to herself as she looked through her books, “ Spike! Find anything yet?” she shouted over to him, “ Nothing strange over here.” he shouted back, “ Wait a second.” he added, looking across the room, “ Twilight! Over there!” he shouted pointing at what had caught his eye, “What?” Twilight reflexively answered, simultaneously dropping all the books on the floor, “ Where Spike? Where?” she asked still looking among the books on the floor, “ I don’t see it!” at that point it occurred to her to actually LOOK at Spike to see where he was pointing, and doing so realized that he was pointing across the room at a strange black book that was still on the shelf, “ Oh. Thanks Spike.” she said, mentally face hoofing herself, “ It’s what I do Twi.” he stated giving himself a triumphant thumb to the chest, “Good job Spike. Now all we have to do is open this book and...” she said trying to use her magic to pick up the book, which even though her horn was glowing had no effect on the book, and after many failed attempts she angrily asked, “ Why can’t I pick it up?” to which Spike quickly responded with, “ I got it Twilight!” but Spike, forgetting he was on a ladder in his haste, face planted on the floor with an audible thud, but he recovered with an, “ I’m okay.” and quickly ran over to grab the book.
When he got over there he got a boost on Twilight’s back and grabbed the book and opened it for Twilight to read, and the book had surprisingly few words despite it’s size as the only words in it were, “ Instructions mine followed by you be they. To darkness your’s look upon should you one be, show how darkness personal large how smile wide have ye.” in confusion all Twilight and Spike could do was stare at the book with these strange instructions, “ What do you think it means?” Spike wondered aloud, “ All I can get out of this Mynx guy is that he seems to be a complete quack.” he finished, “ No Spike.” she spoke in a defensive manner, “ When I talked to him most everything he said sounded like it was deliberately spoken.” she was thinking very hard now, “ Well the book mentions smiling.” Spike brought up and then continued, “ If it involves smiling I think I know the perfect pony for the job...” before he could actually finish the sentence a pink blur fell from above and flattened to the floor and bounced back up a few feet like it was made of rubber and landed back on the floor in the form of, “Pinkie?” Twilight asked, still trying to figure out where she came from, “ Oh hi Twilight! I was hanging my shadow out to dry since I just finished washing it and then all of a sudden I had this amazing urge to go visit you and see how your shadow was doing so I thought that I might drop in and say hi and tell you all about this and on the way here I thought of some new treats to sell at Sugar cube corner including “Baby cakes” bite-sized cake treats for babies, “Sweet Hearts” chocolate hearts with a strawberry cut vertically down the middle just for Hearts and Hooves day how romantic, and the “Sweetie Mark” little cookies shaped and decorated to look like the customer’s cutie mark amazing idea isn’t it? But as you can see right now I have no shadow because like I said earlier I hung it out to dry see?” she lifted one hoof and looked where her shadow would be to show her shadow was indeed absent and then continued, “ But enough about that, more about y-!” Twilight put her hoof over Pinkie’s mouth to cut her off and get her attention, “ Listen Pinkie.” Twilight asked slowly and seriously, “ We need you to concentrate and help us. Just nod if you’re up for it.” unblinking Pinkie Pie gives an “Ok” nod, “Alright. And you can do it without talking our ears off?” another affirmative nod, “ Ok, I’m going to move my hoof.” and slowly she moved her hoof from Pinkie’s face and waited, watching her face before continuing to make sure she wouldn’t interrupt her, “ Alright, Pinkie. This book here...” Twilight motions to the mysterious book left by Mynx, “...mentions something about smiling and knowing you we thought you would be a good pony to ask for advice.” Pinkie glanced at the book and adopted a confident pose and merely looked at the words on the page for a few seconds before shooting a look in Twilight’s direction that demanded she be allowed to speak, which Twilight allowed, “ It’s quite simple really.” the pink one clarified, “ Twilight. See your shadow over there?” she pointed to the wall behind Twilight, whose shadow now mysteriously covered most of, “ What this book is telling you to do is walk over to it, go on.” she urged Twilight to approach her shadow, which she complied with, a little perplexed and Pinkie walked alongside her, “ Now what you need to do is... SMILE as big you can! Right at your shadow!” she bursted back into her normal energy filled behavior, “ Here! I’ll smile with you to make it that much less awkward!” with that statement Pinkie began throwing out a plethora of smiles, “ Alright Pinkie, if you say so.” she agreed nervously and began giving a wide but awkward smile alongside her pink companion.
With that Twilight’s shadow sent out a wave of white light along the walls which spread out and circumnavigated around the room back to the shadow and on contact with it caused it to solidify and darken to a pure black, which in turn seemed to create a suction into the shadow, notable by the fact that Twilight and Pinkie Pie’s manes and tails were flowing towards it accompanied by a gusting sound, and this seemed to put Twilight in a trance, almost entirely fading the color from her eyes and forcing her to walk towards and enter the shadow-portal, “ Wait for me Twilight!” Pinkie shouted who then jumped up in a cannonball position and flew through the portal, making it ripple, shouting “ CANNONBALL!”. Spike this whole time was too awestruck to say anything and just stood there slack jawed until he snapped back to reality when Pinkie cannonballed through the portal. He tried to follow them, but was stopped by the wall behind the shadow, so in a desperate fit of panic and unable to see either one he began shouting into the shadow, “ Twilight! Twilight?! TWIIIILIIIGHT!!!”.
Chapter 5
Twilight was still in a trance as she and Pinkie wandered through a mysterious rocky snowfield. Pinkie Pie, with her usual hopping stride, was merely following alongside Twilight and respectfully remaining quiet, as Twilight seemed to be getting pulled along by some invisible puppet strings through this blizzard-ridden, never ending, grey sky blanketed, snow covered wasteland.
After what seemed like hours of aimlessly wandering, they came across an old man wearing a large, wide-brimmed straw hat, a red cloth vest, tan fishing shorts, simple flip-flops, and despite his age his muscle tone was notably distinct, and he was sitting by what seemed to be the only river anywhere, and he was fishing. As the girls approached him, he turned his head in their direction, revealing his face to be that of a man in his late seventies, with calm, wise, blue eyes, a small nose, deep set wrinkles, and a large, grey mustache, and when he looked directly at Twilight she instantly snapped out of the trance she was in. “ Ahhhh...” He said calmingly, and in a slow and relaxing tone continued, " Anata wa koko de yattoda. Watashi wa, anata ga shitte iru matte imashita." (“You're finally here. I've been waiting you know.”) he added, " Watashi wa chōdo watashi no jikan no tsuri o watashite kimashita. Sugu soko ni matte, watashi wa sugu ni modorimasu." (“I’ve just been passing my time fishing. Wait right there, I’ll be right back.”) and after that statement he stood up and performed a very high jump into the river which caused a surprisingly small splash.
Ever since the strange old man jumped into the river what felt like at least ten minutes ago, the lavender unicorn and the pink pony were curiously and patiently watching the river where the old man had entered, and as they were about to make their leave of the area the water began to boil and bubble violently, and from it emerged the old man, albeit he wasn’t so old anymore, rather he looked like a teenager now, no longer were his blue eyes wise and calm but rather they were ambitious and energetic, his mustache now gone, his face wrinkle free, and he no longer wore a hat and in it’s place was long, dark, flowing hair, and as he climbed the slope alongside the river he loudly declares motioning to himself and then the ponies, " Watashi wa modottekita! Anata wa watashi o minogashimashita ka?" (“I’m back! Did you miss me?”) and when he finally reached the two ponies he stopped in front of Twilight, gently placed his left index finger on the tip of her horn, knelt down in front of her without moving his finger from the tip of her horn, looked deep into her eyes and said, " Yami no watashi no ryōiki ni modo~tsu yōkoso towairaitosupākuru." (“Welcome back to my realm of darkness, Twilight Sparkle.”) after this strange display he looked over at Pinkie, who was watching intently, gave a grin, and stood up saying, " Watashi wa anata o oboete imasu. Pinkīpai." (“ I remember you. Pinkie Pie.”) he walked slowly towards the unflinching pink party animal while a concerned Twilight could only stand where she was and watch, due to a combination of the cold and the gaze she just received from the strange man.
The man was now looking Pinkie directly in the eyes from a mere inches away and yet she still didn’t show any sign of concern. With a laugh and a tone of general friendliness that caught Twilight off guard he said, “ Watashi wa mada anata ga towairaito no kage to shite no watashi no yosōi o koete miru koto ga dekita to kanshin shite imasu!" (" I'm still impressed that you were able to see past my guise as Twilight's Shadow! ") to which Pinkie replied while laughing with him, “ I know! It just looked so strange that I just couldn’t help but notice!” then immediately he stopped laughing and was down on one knee next to Pinkie resting one arm on her back saying, "Shikashi, kage toieba, watashi wa tasukeru koto ga, genzai anata ga ketsuraku shite iru koto ni kidzuku koto wa dekimasen. Kokoro ga setsumei suru?" (" But speaking of shadows, I can't help but notice that currently yours is missing. Mind to explain?") which made the pink pony cease laughter as well and look over to her lavender companion and say, “ Twilight, you might wanna come over here. You’ll be familiar with this story.” to which Twilight readily complied with since Pinkie was the one asking, “ So Pinkie, you can understand what he’s saying?” Twilight asked the evidently multilingual pony, “ Well duh!” she answered, “ I grabbed a book on japanese before we came here silly!” she said waving around the book she evidently had hidden in her tail, “ I thought that you being you, you had read it already and henceforth I thought you also understood him.” she stated motioning to the now perplexed man, "-Machi ni matte machimasu. Anata wa kono zentai no jikan wa anata ga kore made ni watashi ga itta subete o rikai dekiru koto o itte iru?" (" Wait wait wait. You're saying that this whole time you could understand everything I've said so far?") he asked very much so perplexed, “ Well yeah!” Pinkie answered with a large smile, " Wareware wa koko ni topikku o ofu ni shutoku shite iru, no wa chōdo kono chīsana pinku no jibun no fusoku shite iru kage no hanashi ni modorimashou." (" We're getting off topic here, let's just get back to the story about this little pink one's missing shadow.") the man demanded, “ Okie dokie lokie!” Pinkie agreed, and with that Pinkie Pie recounted the tale of how she met Twilight on her shopping trip, how she left to wash her shadow, how she left her shadow out to dry, how she went to Twilight’s house and how on the way there she thought up new sweets, and how she helped Spike and Twilight figure out Mynx’s puzzle and how they got here.
“ Ah, that does clarify things for me.” the man admitted now speaking english, “ Wait a second. You can speak english?” Twilight asked surprised, “ Well of course I can. I thought it would be fun at the time to speak in a language neither one of you could understand. But that was quickly shot out of the air by this one.” he stated pointing with his thumb over his shoulder to the happily grinning Pinkie, “ Yeah! I guess I got you there!” Pinkie happily praised herself, “ Don’t pat yourself on the back yet.” he reflexively interrupted the pink pony who was in the process of literally patting herself on the back, positioning her front left leg at a seemingly impossible angle, “I have ways to crack one’s mind to the brink of insanity if not at least confusion!” he furiously continued, and with that he jumped back and away from the two ponies at least ten feet, and raised his right hand into the air. A white light pulsed over his body and in it’s wake his appearance changed, he was still humanoid but he now had a very long, blonde, ponytail, so long that it almost touched the ground, he still wore a vest but this one was a much darker red, much like the helmet he now wore with the exception of the two white horns protruding out and back on the sides and the black in between the “horns” and the red of the helmet, he also donned knee high boots of the same shade of red, on his forearms he had bracers that went from his wrists to his elbows which were also dark red, his face was young but the most striking feature was the evil red eyes, over the rest of his body he wore what looked like a black, skin tight, rubber body suit. “ AGHHH!!!” he violently screamed as prepared to smash his fist into ground, and as he did said act he shouted, " Yami no mon ga hiraku!" ("Gate of Darkness open!") and with that act an explosion of snow flew high into the air, obscuring him from sight.
When the snow dissipated, the man was standing there with a smug look on his face, standing over a black rift in the ground that was absorbing the entirety of this world, not affecting the three creatures within it, “ What’s happening?” Twilight asked in terror, to which the man answered, “ Ware wa meshia nari!” (“ I am the messiah!”) and as the world was being sucked into the rift, he arrogantly asked, “ How do you expect to save this world without my help?” he then disappeared in a manner akin to crumbling away in the wind.
Chapter 6
The void which Twilight and Pinkie found themselves trapped in seemed to be composed entirely of madness and insanity, movement also seemed to be impossible in this realm as walking seemed to only move each other in their views. Neither one could speak as it seemed that their voices were literally stolen from them, as they gaze in awe at the distant and large images that were animating themselves, surrounding the two from every direction, behind these images was an endless vortex of white, red, and black chaos. Among the images was nothing either pony could recognize, including a blue creature wearing red shoes, and white gloves, and spikes on the back of its head, running at speeds Rainbow Dash would bat an eye at. Another image showed a boy in a black suit wielding a weapon that resembled a key fighting off a massive swarm of creatures that reminded Twilight of Mynx. Whilst Twilight and Pinkie were distracted by these images a prominent and ominous voice that Twilight recognized burst in from what sounded like above the two ponies, “ Memories. Precious be they to many most no?” it declared, “ But help it sometimes cause for one to know that another.” it continued, and this statement caused Twilight to somehow regain her voice and then shout, “ Mynx! I know that’s you! Come out and show yourself!” and after that demand was made, a splash of shadow appeared before Twilight’s face and then began reforming on itself to form a large eye gazing right at Twilight all of which happened in a matter of moments, “ Think who be you now to demand anything me of?” questioned Mynx, the eye then split into two with one eye going to Pinkie Pie, “ What’s matter be now so, Miss Pinkamena? Have now finally I mind blown your’s be case?” he asks the speechless pink pony, “ A ha ha ha, ahhh now that feel better do I me...” he adds as the world of memories begins to fade and shift into the pitch black room, “ I believe do me now that you two of count wonder why here me bring you, yes?” he inquired in the guise of a surprisingly friendly and cartoonish in appearance cat-like creature complete with a smile rather than a grin, although his teeth were still showing, and like most of his forms it possessed a deep red scar over its left eye, “ Actually yes Mynx. Yes we would, considering you haven’t told me or Pinkie why you brought us here or why you wanted me to come back here in the first place.” Twilight confirmed slightly annoyed, “ Ah yes, apologies mine be they.” Mynx calmly apologized, his face no longer donning a smile, “ But being outdone at game ability own mine horfolo cause being he me lose cool.” he finished, “ For that I apologize!” A voice called out which of course belonged to Pinkie, “ I didn’t mean to anger you like that.” she continued to apologize, “ But you gotta admit, learning japanese did come in handy, eh?” she asked whilst nudging the now bird-like black entity, “ When that way put you do, making sense being do thee.” a smile almost cracked on his face, “ Appreciative be me for unconditional your’s hospitality Miss Pinkamena Diane Pie, but explanation Twilight’s given be for so now.” he explained, “ If you say so Mynx!” agreed the pink pony as she turned around and walked a few steps before abruptly facing Mynx again and asked in confusion, “ Wait a second, how do you know my old name?” and Mynx without skipping a beat, swiftly replied, “ Tell you later will I.” to that answer Pinkie could do nothing but shrug and sit down to listen, and Mynx looking back to Twilight began, “ Now know I that know you so do that my existence is that of a freeform, dimensional wanderer yes?” he half asked and half stated, “ Yeah. You made that quite clear last time.” answered the lavender unicorn, “ Good, good. Wait moment of equals one. I’ll easier make shall do matters.” he responded with a pleased look and tone.
He then looked skyward, then to his left wing which began to slightly spasm and then morphed into a slender but large arm which he swung into the air and snapped his fingers, which in turn made the pitch black room become an illusion of Ponyville. After a few moments a black void generated itself beneath Pinkie Pie, from which a corruptor simultaneously emerged and hoisted the pink one just off the ground, the suddenness of which had caused her to begin flailing her legs around in surprise and in an attempt to escape it’s grasp which only lasted for a few seconds, and after the few said seconds the corruptor began to vibrate minutely, which tickled Pinkie, and then it shattered like glass and vanished, dropping the pink one on the ground, who now had a shadow, “ Now that shadow returned be her’s, one still thing be remain I to do.” he declared, “ But be was what it so...?” he asked himself, tapping his chin with the index finger of the wing-turned-arm he now possessed, “ Ah yes.” he declared to himself adopting a “Eureka!” pose. After he remembered what he was going to do he reached his arm past and slightly above his right hand side and gripped what should have been thin air, but instead where he gripped distorted like he was grabbing cloth. He held this position for a brief moment before pulling his arm back and spinning counter-clockwise in a tandem action, which caused reality to tear like paper around him and entirely obscure him from view behind a void similar to the one that encased the realm of memories. “ Ah yes, in this form communications between us should be that much easier.” a new voice declared from within the void, as this voice continued, a vague shadow began forming within the said void, “ Now as to why you’re here again.” it continued as the shadow became clearer, it seemed to resemble a pony, “ The biggest reason is that you’re the only one in this world whose met me before and knows of my existence.” the shadow’s form was definitely pony, “More important though is why I’m here.” the shadowy figure was approaching now, “ Your world, the world of Equestria, is soon to end unnaturally. Well on a technical scale it is natural.” the voice finished as the shadow stepped out of the void revealing itself to an above average size stallion of jet black coloration with red eyes and a cutie mark resembling Mynx’s sinister grin and a pair of erie red eyes, “ I observed this world for a short amount of time.” the Mynx-pony admitted, “ And within that short timeframe I felt a sense of tranquility and... perfection that I have felt within very few worlds.” he continued whilst slowly circling around Twilight and intently looking up and down her body as if searching for some unknown item or sign, “ So in exchange for your world pleasing me, I shall do my best to prevent it’s unfortunate end.” he said directly to Twilight’s face, with a sinister grin, “However... there’s one problem.” he finished while he and his grin disappeared.
When Mynx fully faded from view Twilight and Pinkie found themselves suddenly floating above the ground and flying rapidly without control to their own homes, which to their shock and terror, were on fire like an endless blaze with everyone they knew and cared about inside, trapped and unable to now avoid their dark fate, when suddenly it seemed like time screeched to a halt and Mynx’s voice cut in albeit very erratically as the pitch, speed, tone, volume, and syllables being pronounced were all being chaotically changed, “TeeEErrRererERoroRerOROROOOrrrRReR. TERROR!” Mynx’s grin appeared very prominent and large in the sky as the world around the the two ponies began to darken as if the sun was being eclipsed, then Mynx’s voice seemed to encase the entire world as he hysterically screamed, “ The energy is mine!” and with that statement tendrils made of shadow came from everywhere directly targeting the ponies and as it reached the point where it seemed that the tendrils would impale the two, the tips of the tendrils split and began encompassing the two ponies in a cocoon of absolute darkness which then began to contract to the point of pain and then some. When it seemed the two would be crushed to death the cocoons disappeared and the ponies found themselves standing in the pitch black room with pony Mynx standing there as well but with a strange air of elegance about him, “ You two should thank me for being alive right now.” he strangely declared, “ Why should we thank you Mynx? You just tried to kill us!” both ponies furiously and simultaneously shouted at the black stallion, which in response he merely looked at them, closed his eyes and in a somewhat poetic manner stated, “ Come from darkness I may, but spare ones life I usually don’t.” he then followed up with, “ Please remain silent, I just wanted to tell you through example what would happen if I didn’t have messengers to help me. You see I instinctively act like that around strong negativity like fear, hate, rage, evil, and maleficence and such things like that. However since I was giving an example I was actually in complete control during that, but if that were the real thing... let’s just say you wouldn’t be here right now.” as he was explaining this, he was slowly sinking into the floor, and when he was gone from sight the two ponies began conversing between themselves as to what they should do, “ What do you think of Mynx, Pinkie?” Twilight asked her friend, “ I don’t know Twilight, but he kinda reminds me of Discord.” she replied, “ Same here. But do you think he’s trustworthy?” inquired the lavender unicorn, “ Do we really have a choice? I mean we’re kinda trapped here and he’s been saying he wants our world to NOT be destroyed.” she answered in an upbeat tone, “ Yeah Twilight! You should listen to your friends.” Mynx cut in, now looking like a small dragon, “ I mean have I done anything to imply ill will?” he asked with his arms to the side, “ Well there was that display not that long ago.” Twilight answered aggravated, “ Okay, okay I admit that was a little out of line, but didn’t that leave a much stronger impression than just telling what would happen?” he asked with a surprisingly happy tone, “ But you know what? Since I’m going to pretend to like you two, I’m going to tell you what it is that’s going to end your world if you can’t help me help you.” and with that he grabbed his jaws and pried them open and from within his mouth an image of a dragon-like creature clad in strange blue armor which had what looked like ethereal energy leaking out of the openings in it was being shown, “ This here is a Time Eater.” came Mynx’s voice from another head that was floating behind his current one, “ These beings are a rival race of my own, so you can imagine we don’t like each other very much. You see these things are capable of manipulating and destroying time on a direct scale unlike my species, the Spacial Renders, which like the name implies, are capable of controlling and erasing space on a direct scale.” he told them, “ And no Twilight, you will not ever find a book containing information on either race.” he stated as if he was reading Twilight’s mind, “Now you’re probably wondering why I can’t just cut the Time Eater off on it’s way here right?” he asked the two ponies who only nodded, “ Well you see both races travel in a, I repeat, A inter dimensional void. Each race belongs to a different void, the Time Eaters live in the void known as “The Phase” and my race dwells within a void known as “The Slip” and neither race can enter the others void due to the dimensional make up of each would quickly destroy a non-native race.” he added with a sarcastic shudder, “ Well Mynx that does answer why you’ve been hanging around and why you’ve been going on and on about messengers.” Twilight admitted, “ Yeah Mynx! If you need messengers I’ll be one!” Pinkie shouted enthusiastically, “ Woah woah woah, let’s not get ahead of ourselves, you don’t know everything necessary yet.” Mynx quickly shot down her offer, “ There’s still more for you to know. Now a major difference between Time Eaters and my race is the way we travel and how our treatment of worlds tends to differ.” Mynx continued, “ Time Eaters haven’t mastered traveling in the inter dimensional void, instead they just aimlessly drift about mindlessly consuming worlds they make contact with, while my race has mastered the ability to travel within the void and we never consume worlds. However we have destroyed, created, and manipulated worlds we’ve come in contact with.” he stated with a slight tone of pride, “ Wait a second. You’re saying you’ve destroyed entire realms of existence?” Twilight asked shocked, “ Well at first it was regularly scheduled demolitions, but I quickly found myself eradicating worlds I was pretty fond of. With that and other things I went rogue started only destroying worlds that seriously irked me or were full of negativity.” he clarified for Twilight, “ So don’t take me as a bad person because it’s my race’s job to regulate dimensions!” he defended himself, “ I’m with Mynx on this Twilight. You shouldn’t brand anypony like that!” Pinkie Pie also defended Mynx, “ But Pinkie! He just flat out admitted to destroying who knows how many planes of existence!” Twilight shouted out enraged, “ Actually, planes of existence are different than worlds.” Mynx somewhat quietly corrected Twilight, “ My kind refers to those as “alternate versions” or “alternate worlds”.” he finished, “ See Twilight? He’s not such a bad guy when you get to know him. Besides he said it himself, he only erases worlds that he doesn’t like.” the pink one continued to defend Mynx, “ And our world still exists. So obviously he doesn’t dislike our world!” she declared with finality, “ Alright Pinkie I’ll take your word for it.” Twilight disdainfully submitted, “ Ah finally you see that I’m not always such a bad guy.” Mynx cheerfully praised the lavender unicorn, “ Now about that black hole from my vision that I showed you Twilight...” Mynx started as he shifted his appearance into that of a large reptilian creature, “... you may have already figured out that it wasn’t a black hole at all, but rather it was a roaming Time Eater yes?” he asked Twilight, “ I guess.” she answered with a “I kinda did” tone of voice, “Ah gooood. Then I don’t have to tell you that it was a roaming Time Eater consuming your world.” he sarcastically eased himself, “ Well either way I still need at least three messengers to lessen the panic when both the Time Eater and I make an appearance. And I’m pretty certain you know what would happen if there was a mass panic.” he clarified for the ponies and on the last sentence he began to drool, “ If that’s all it means to be your messengers why didn’t you let Pinkie be one when she offered?” Twilight demanded to know from Mynx while motioning to her sad faced friend, “ Nothing personal I assure you. It’s the tradeoff for becoming one I’m concerned about.” Mynx answered her while his body was turning upside down, the only part that didn’t rotate with it was his face, which remained at the same orientation, and he was now walking around on an invisible ceiling-floor only he had access to, “ You see becoming a messenger for me has some risks...” he was walking past Pinkie Pie while looking at her, “ ... the most notable of which is that it is guaranteed to alter your essence-based appearance, although this is pretty minor as only the only ones who can see this change are what you would call the “spiritually honed” and beings like me. Another affect is that it can end up subtly or extremely altering your personality, and third...” he was standing on his hind legs now, “ ...it could possibly destroy your soul, but this extremely rare, the chances of that are about one half for every eight-hundred-quadrillion-ninety-seven, but that’s just a rough estimate.” he doled out those chances like they were nothing special, he then high-five’d another one of himself who appeared out of nowhere, “ And again this isn’t a big problem. I’ll just recreate your soul from a back-up copy.” the other Mynx was standing on the ground explaining this to Pinkie and Twilight, then the first Mynx punched the other causing him explode and shifted himself to the ground before he continued, “ Remember I said I’m capable of creation? But that aside who wants to be a messenger now? Oh don’t worry, the effects disappear as soon as I relieve you of duty.” the ponies were speechless, “ Aw jeez, did I blow their blow minds again? Just great now I have to wait for them to recover.” with that impatient statement he morphed into another humanoid form with black, slick backed hair, a pale red open-front trench coat, dark brown heavy-looking pants and a plain green shirt, “ Alright let’s speed this up.” he raised his right hand into the air and snapped his fingers, which caused “time” in this realm to speed up and allowed him to see through their eyes as he waited, which in the top-right of each of their views was a fast-forward icon, the actions he performed in fast-forward during this time included pacing back and forth, looking at a wristwatch he didn’t have, and splitting into two entities and playing ping-pong with himself.
“ Alright that’s good enough!” he declared while snapping his fingers in front of their eyes, returning “time” to normal, “ Soooo what’s your answer?” he inquired of the two mares, “ Mynx, what just happened?” Twilight asked Mynx in a daze, “ I thought you said your race couldn’t control time.” she continued to wonder, “ I never said any such thing Twillie my dear.” he denied in a Sherlock Holmes fashion, “ I merely said we can control space on a direct scale, you see time and space are intertwined with one another. Without one the other cannot exist.” he was somewhat lecturing Twilight while examining a stopwatch he procured from his coat pocket, “Since that is the case, I do have somewhat limited control over time, but you don’t need time control to alter the speed of things, all I did was accelerate space, simple concept no?” he finished his lecture on temporal-spatial laws, “Uhh what?” Twilight asked completely lost, “ I think he said he made us... faster?” Pinkie was scratching her head, “ See? This is why characters like her are so useful. They're practically impossible to confuse.” Mynx praised Pinkie while leaning towards her with his arms extended in her direction, but he then withdrew this pose, “ But that’s also why they tend to bug me.” he said notably annoyed while swatting a large insect off his shoulder, “ So Miss Pinkamena, you wanted to know how I knew your old name, correct?” he was now talking directly to Pinkie Pie but he now looked like her albeit for him the mane and tail were straight and hung down and his pupils were shrunken and asymmetrical and he wore an insane smile and he continued in her voice, “ Well if you’d be so kind as to remember that room of memories that I oh so conveniently used to blow your mind...” he told her, “... you’d realize it’s name says a lot about it, Self describing even. Well while you two were in there I was able to look through your memories to find effective means to scramble your sense of reality and thus, blow your minds!” he finished while morphing his face to a more beastial one that had a larger snout and jaw with teeth that looked like they could bite through just about anything, and it had very hungry-looking black eyes, to this display Pinkie merely looked in his eyes and joyfully shouted, “ Nice trick! Seriously even I couldn’t do that!” to this Mynx just sighed, slapped himself in the face and rested his hand there asking, “ Why do I even bother?” he then fell backwards and when his back hit the ground he sunk through it as if the floor there was a flippable panel and he immediately came back looking like a large griffon and then declared in mental defeat, “ Alright, alright I give. Instead of dragging ponies here I’m gonna come with you two to your world.” he was shaking his head in his hand, “ So that means we can leave?” Twilight gleefully asked and jumped with joy but upon landing she fell shouting, “ OWW!” she was on the ground holding her back-left leg, and Mynx was scratching the back of his with a somewhat guilty look on his face,” Sssss yeeeaaah, about that. I may have slightly fractured a few bones with that squeeze I gave two earlier so, um, yeeeaah.” and Twilight began furiously shouting at him, “ Why didn’t you tell us?!” and Mynx in response could only give a wry smile and say, “ I was hoping we’d be out of here by then since that would’ve healed up instantly once you two left.” Twilight was screaming at him at the top of her lungs, “ Then get us out of here!” she was rolling on the ground, “ Fine, be that way.” Mynx snapped his fingers and a white light formed beneath them and like that they were in Equestria. Location: Twilight’s house.
Chapter 7
Everyone in the room screamed (except Fluttershy, she passed out in terror) as Twilight and Pinkie suddenly came flying through a just as suddenly appearing rift in the wall that closed behind them. When the two stood up, Twilight and Pinkie looked around and saw their friends were all there in Twilight’s house, but they also noticed that a certain somepony was missing, “Where is he?” Twilight asked no specific pony but rather everyone in the room, “Where’s who, sugar cube?” asked a concerned Applejack who was placing her right arm on Twilight’s shoulder in a comforting manner, “Mynx. Where did you go?” Twilight asked herself questioning her own sanity, “Who’s this Mynx character Twi?” AJ inquired of Twilight, and Twilight now realizing Apple Jack was there snapped back to reality and answered her, “You see AJ, I really don’t know much about him myself, but what I do know is...” at that moment the front door flew open loudly as it hit the wall behind it and a black unicorn stallion came in with a concerned look on his face, “What’s going on in here? I just heard some really loud screaming.” he loudly asked with with a concerned tone.
After a few moments Twilight and Pinkie noticed a distinguishing feature on his face, a deep red scar over his left eye, “It’s Mynx!” they both thought to themselves, “What happened to ya lassies?” he asked, “And what’s wrong with the little missy there?” he continued while looking at the unconscious Fluttershy, “Excuse me sir...” Rarity began saying to the somewhat mare-built stallion, “Draighean.” he gave to her his name, “... Draighean, but who exactly are you?” she asked him, “I could never withstand the cries of a maiden in distress.” he answered holding her chin up with his right hand hoof which she quickly brushed away, “But if there’s no problem here I guess I’m not needed.” he finished while beginning to walk out the door, “Wait!” Twilight and Pinkie yelled simultaneously to him and immediately he turned around with a highly noticeable expression of happiness on his face, “Oh thank you at least one who takes heed of my mental conditioning!” he shouted skyward, “Yeah, glad to help.” said a somewhat skeptical Pinkie Pie, “Could we talk to you in private?” asked Twilight, “Oh what fair maidens be you two!” he was beginning to sound like a maniac and Rainbow Dash butted in, “Are you sure you want to talk to this loony alone?” and Spike agreed with that statement, “Yeah seriously, I mean look at him.” the strange stallion was on one hoof twirling around and around continuously and he didn’t seem to get dizzy, “Yeah he’s a weirdo alright, but I think Pinkie and I can handle him.” she replied while motioning to the grinning Pinkie, “Mister Draighean! Could you come with us please?” Twilight shouted to the stallion that seemed to be on the verge of hysterics, “Oh yes, anything for fine young maidens such as yourselves!” he yelled practically singing as he followed Twilight and Pinkie to the upstairs area and when they entered the the said household area Twilight conjured up a soundproof magical barrier that was also impossible to see through.
“Alright Draighean. Or a more accurate name would be Mynx!” Twilight shouted accusingly at the unfazed stallion who merely quit his obnoxious behavior and replied, “Oh I’m so sorry to say my fair mares that I’ve cut all connections to that unruly fellow.” he said waving his hoof in the air in front of his face to show he was metaphorically swatting the question aside, “And believe you me, I want nothing more to do with “being he be”.” he continued in a mocking tone of the character they were talking about, “Yeah cause you would flat out admit what you were planning if you were Mynx.” Twilight sarcastically admitted, “I don’t care much for sarcasm lassie.” he was beginning to sound rude, “And what are you supposed ta be miss? A walking cupcake?” he very rudely asked Pinkie, “You know what? If you two let me leave right now I’ll forget we ever had this conversation an’ I suggest you the saaa...” he slowly went speechless as his face turned to one of pure terror, and the mares before him shouted in surprise as they found themselves hoisted in the air, dangling by their tails, “Well well well Draighean! I believe do so now me that arrogance is the downfall many a mortal.” Mynx’s corruptors were the cause of Pinkie and Twilight’s dangling situation, “What’s the matter be you with?” he continued as black electricity began surging between the two corruptors, and within a few moments the electricity formed a ring and from within said ring a large, muscular arm emerged and grabbed the terrified black stallion and as it lifted him off the floor it tightened it’s grip just for the sake of causing him pain and the electric ring shot two sparks vertically on either side of it which both stopped in midair and each formed the shape of a sharp, glaring, black-colored eye, the left one of which shot out four beams of red electricity at a skewed angle to straight vertical and each pair of beams traveled a jagged path as they tapered towards themselves to make the form of a red scar over the left eye, “Draighean. I am very so disappointed by he who is you.” Mynx sounded infuriated at Draighean. The eyes looked towards the two mares he was holding and he explained what was going on as he tightened his grip on Draighean further, “Ahhhhhh Mistress Twilight and Miss Pinkamena, such good fortune that it was count of two in quantity you to corner this scum of detestable status...” the eyes refocused on Draighean as he made his grip even tighter, at this point his bones could be heard cracking from the extreme stress they were receiving, “You know that appreciative betrayal I don’t RIGHT!” Mynx furiously shouted at the black stallion as his grip became even tighter and Draighean could hardly breath the force was so great, “I apologize beforehand to you two for what perceive you may.” Mynx calmly said to the two ponies hanging next to his eyes, “You know him Mynx?” Pinkie asked him dumbfounded, “I of course do so.” Mynx clarified, “He be the piece of I gave life to and sent here for information retrieval!” Mynx tightened his grip on Draighean even further, but Mynx wanting to cause as much pain as possible to him, loosened one finger's grip to allow his continual respiration, “But instead designated task he instead began flirting around and goofing off. That willing to let go I was, but then he sent me a message saying he was no longer affiliated with me!” and one last time Mynx tightened his grip causing Draighean to shatter as his scream of agony filled the magic bubble, “Never exist again will you.” Mynx stoically stated as he loosened his grip entirely and dropped what looked like a fragment of a tooth on the floor.
Placing the two mares on the floor gently Mynx softly said, “Now if excuse will you me.” the corruptors receded into floor through the shadows of Pinkie and Twilight, but the ring still remained although it lacked the eyes now and the arm had withdrawn through it and it was leaking what looked like shadows onto the floor although Twilight and Pinkie didn’t acknowledge this because momentarily the tooth fragment began shaking on the floor as the leaked shadows were gathering on it, then it began expanding into the form of Draighean once again, “Ah that is much better!” the new Draighean declared, “Wait a minute. Didn’t Mynx just crush you?” a confused Pinkie demanded an answer, “Oh no I didn’t crush myself, I destroyed Draighean for deliberately turning against me. I’m just inhabiting his body for simplicity’s sake. Although the wavy grey mane and tail just don’t suit me.” Mynx stated while looking his body up and down, “So you’re Mynx, right?” Twilight asked wavering due to being wrong on her previous accusation, “Why of course. Who else would I be?” he answered assuringly, “So why did you choose now to show yourself?” inquired the pink one, “It was due to the presence of your friends.” he replied standing on his hind legs brushing himself off before he continued, “How about I get a proper introduction to them?” he asked whilst tapping on the magic bubble. Twilight understanding what Mynx meant, lowered the magic barrier.
Chapter 8
“Looks like Twi and Pinkie finished their little talk with king weirdo.” Spike announced to the others as the barrier dissolved, “Well finally!” Rainbow Dash impatiently exclaimed, “I wonder why their chat went for such a duration?” wondered Rarity, “Ah’m sure that it was nothin’ major.” Apple Jack assured her.
Twilight, Pinkie, and Draighean-Mynx were now coming down the stairs to give proper introductions, “Well it’s good to see that we were able to talk past this little misunderstanding.” D-Mynx said as he dismounted the final step, “Yeah, Good thing!” Pinkie excitedly agreed. Apple Jack approached Twilight and asked, “So just what did y’all say to him to make him well... not so him?” she was motioning to D-Mynx who was nudging at the still unconscious Fluttershy, “Well not much really.” Twilight admitted, “He just needed some space to calm down.” she finished putting slight emphasis on space, “If you say so.” AJ saw no need to continue pressing for an answer as long as Draighean didn’t begin acting all loopy again, “Yes I must say I’m quite impressed with the results you and Pinkie produced.” Rarity praised the two, “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!” a sudden and deafening scream pierced the air forcing everyone to practically jump out of their skins and cover their ears to block out the noise and when they all uncovered their ears Rarity found a terrified Fluttershy hiding behind her, “What’s wrong Fluttershy?” Rarity asked her with a worried look and tone, “H-h-h-h-h-h-him!” she answered shaking and pointing to D-Mynx, “H-h-h-his f-f-face was n-nothing sh-short o-o-o-of terrifying.” she continued while covering her eyes, “The t-teeth in his smile were sh-sharper than a dragon’s and his eyes p-pierced right into m-m-m-my v-v-very being and the sound of children s-s-screaming was the w-w-worst part.” she almost began crying, “Draighean! What did you do?!” Twilight furiously shouted at Mynx while Rarity and Apple Jack tried to comfort Fluttershy, “Don’t look at me like that ladies, all I tried to do was ask her how she was doing as she woke up. My educated opinion is that she probably had a nightmare.” he defended himself, “Then why is she so afraid of you specifically?” Rainbow Dash continued to press him, “Maybe because I was the thing she saw upon waking up.” he answered while giving Rainbow Dash a light swat to the nose and she shook her head in recovery and angrily shouted back, “Why I ought to...!” as she was about to charge and tackle Mynx, Twilight used her magic to take ahold of her tail, “Please Rainbow Dash, we don’t need to start a fight.” since she was dangling there by her tail she had no choice but to comply, but she figured that if she physically couldn’t do anything she might as do something to get back at him, so she turned her head towards Draighean with the intent of making a face at him but as her eyes met his she saw brief afterimage of a draconic face staring her down, this in turn caused her withdraw her decision and instead stare at him wide-eyed until Twilight dropped her on the ground after a few seconds.
“Now Fluttershy, are you sure that it was M- er, Draighean here that you saw?” Twilight asked the slightly less scared Fluttershy comfortingly and the yellow pegasus looking at her previously alleged cause of fright answered, “Now that I look at him, his face doesn’t look anything like what I thought I saw.” she began standing up as she admitted this, “As a matter of fact he’s pretty calming to look at.” she finished. Mynx approached Fluttershy who remained unflinching and surprisingly seemed to welcome the approach he was making and when he reached her (after gently pushing Rarity aside) he respectfully moved her mane from in front of her face and asked her, “What is your name Miss?” in response Fluttershy averted her gaze and blushed while meekly answering, “O-oh m-my name is F-fluttershy.” Mynx to this display gently brushed her cheek soothingly and asked, “Fluttershy huh? How befitting of one of your demeanor. Would you mind if I called you Gentle Heart?” her blush darkened, “O-oh you can call me whatever you want.” she replied, “I thank your kindness Gentle Heart.” he turned from her and approached Twilight, “Mistress Twilight, I need to talk to you, Miss Pinkamena...” he then motioned to Rainbow Dash, “...and Spectrum Burst outside.” Rainbow Dash overheard what he called her and already annoyed from being swatted in the nose earlier blurted out, “The name’s Rainbow Dash!” and Twilight gave her a glare that shouted “NO fighting!” and knowing what Twilight could do if she didn’t comply sighed and said, “Fine. But I don’t have to like it!” so with her arms crossed and face in a scowl she followed Twilight and co. out front. After they exited the house Mynx kicked the door shut, “So Draighean, what was so important that you had to drag us out here?” Rainbow Dash asked annoyed, “Oh nothing special, just THIS!” he shouted as he bucked the air behind him which shattered like glass revealing a large and transparent clock face which failed to tick at all and with it’s lack of activity time followed in it’s example, stopping to a complete halt, “So how about we get down to business?” he demanded as he melted into the ground. Rainbow Dash stared in awe while Twilight and Pinkie managed to keep straight faces for they had some idea of what was to come of this.
Chapter 9
“What’s going on?!” Rainbow Dash asked in a panic, “Just calm down Rainbow Dash, if it helps at all here’s a cupcake.” Pinkie was resting one arm on Rainbow’s back holding a cupcake to her face with the other and without saying anything, blinking, or changing the direction of her gaze Rainbow Dash leaned forward and ate the cupcake in one slow bite.
Behind Rainbow Dash a few meters a black vortex formed and from within it a dark green arm emerged, at the tips of its fingers were black claws that looked sharp enough to cut through even the hardest of materials effortlessly, and the forearm was entirely covered in small hooklike spikes. Another arm of the reverse laterality shot forth next to the first and they then turned outward and grasped the edges of the vortex and working together pulled out the rest of the body, a humanoid-reptilian creature roughly six feet tall with long, sharp dorsal spines covering its back, a long whip-like tail that ended in a trident-like spear, and its legs were somewhat catlike with five splayed out toes. After this creature exited the vortex entirely unnoticed, it swung its shoulders around a few times and went down on all fours and swiftly but quietly zeroed in on the ponies.
“Excuse me Miss.” the creature said as it tapped Rainbow Dash on the back, being careful as to not get her with those sharp claws, “AGH!” screamed the three ponies, Rainbow Dash the loudest due to being physically touched by the nightmarish creature before them, “I do get that reaction a lot.” it calmly answered to their shrieks of terror, “But please my breath isn’t that rancid is it?” he breathed into his palm and he sniffed and immediately his eyes widened, “UGH! Maybe it is...” he covered his mouth with one hand and held up the index finger of the other, “I’ll be right back...” he then performed what seemed to be a backwards swan dive into the ground.
“What... was that?” Rainbow Dash asked dumbfounded as she was pointing at the ground where Mynx just SWAN DIVED! Twilight approached her and answered, “I’m certain that was Mynx.”
“Who the hay’s Mynx?”
“I’m not exactly certain myself, but at first he told me that he was a freeform dimensional wanderer, and after Pinkie met him he said he was part of a race called... Spatial Renders?”
“You already lost her Twi...”
“Why is he here? And why does he act the way he... Oh boy.” RD cut herself off as she noticed a very large, dark blue serpentine creature slowly lowering itself behind Twilight and Pinkie, “Behind you!”.
Quickly the two mares about-faced and saw the creature for themselves and Twilight jumped back screaming, “S-snakes! I hate snakes!”.
“Relaxxx. It’sss jussst me.” it’s golden eyes flared, “Augh! I hate being sssnake-like creatures for thisss very ssspeech impediment.” calming down, Twilight realized it was Mynx, “Don’t do that! You nearly scared the life outta me!”.
“Pleassse, your life forccce isss ssstill very much ssso attached to your being.”
“Why are you tormenting us like this huh?” RD asked angrily asked, “Oh come on! Don’t tell me you haven’t heard of boredom before.” he gave her an answer, although it wasn’t exactly straightforward, “What do you mean by that?” Twilight asked, “Let me put it sssimply. I have been wandering through the inter dimensssional void and visssiting random worldsss for not even G... one moment.” two corruptors came up through the ground, one was holding a rolled up piece of paper, and together they opened it for Mynx to read, while doing so he said something about world lingos and when he found what he was looking for he exclaimed to himself, “Aha!” the corruptors vanished back into the ground and he continued, “...not even Cccelessstia knowsss how long! Wouldn’t you be bored out of your ssskull with a life like that?”.
“Okay. I see where you’re coming from. But seriously, could you at least try to be at least a little straightforward?” Rainbow Dash asked him, “I did try that onccce but... let’sss jussst sssay the resultsss were... not very fun.”.
“What do you mean?” Inquired Pinkie.
“NOT. VERY. FUN. That isss all you need to know.” his face was right in Pinkie’s, practically merged how close they were, he definitely moved like a snake. He pulled his face from Pinkie’s and now wore an expression of ponder, “I jussst realizzzed sssomething.” his mouth shifted to his signature sharp-toothed grin, “What would that be?” Rainbow Dash asked, “There are currently at leassst three poniesss count here.”.
“What does that have to with-” Twilight was beginning to question but she cut herself off with a gasp, “You don’t mean-?”
“Oh yesss. Welcome to my ssserviccce girlsss...” and before the mares their shadows extended before them and quick as lighting corruptors burst forth from them and grabbed their faces. That’s all they saw before everything went black.
Chapter 10
Darkness...
Darkness...
Darkness was everywhere...
“Where... am... I...?”
“What... is... that... sound?”
“Rainbow Dash! Come on snap out of it!” Twilight implored of her friend, “Mynx, what happened to her?!”.
“Confound it! I’m a Spatial Render, not a doctor!” Mynx shouted back at Twilight in the form of an owl, “Actually one moment.” he reached behind his back and procured a white coat and then proceeded to equip it, “Now I’m a doctor.”.
“Come on Mynx! Please tell us what’s wrong with Dashie!” Pinkie was imploring of Mynx, “Please be patient! I have to take a look at her first!” he held his right wing out before himself and from between the feathers folded out some sort of optical enhancement device which he used to peer into Rainbow Dash’s face, most particularly the absolutely blank eyes. Mynx mumbled something to himself along the lines of, “Why do these dark fates always fall upon you?”.
Mynx had the two mares that were notably conscious wait while he continued to examine the evidently comatose pegasus. After what seemed to be about half an hour Mynx pocketed the device he was using and turned about-face to Twilight and Pinkie wearing a grim expression, “I’m sorry to say but... it seems your friend’s soul was destroyed...”.
“W-what do you mean?” asked Pinkie on the verge of tears, even though she already knew what he meant, “As I said it’s a very rare thing. Even I couldn’t predict that it would happen...”.
“So you’re telling us that one of our best friends is basically DEAD!?” Twilight asked with tears running down her cheeks.
“I regret to inform you that that is indeed the case...”
“And we’ll never see her again?” Pinkie was now crying like Twilight and her mane and tail hung straight down.
“Please, please don’t fret. Remember what I told you earlier?” Mynx’s face began perking up, “Y-you mean...?” Pinkie’s tears began to slow, “Yes. I can bring her back but...” Twilight butted in, “But what?” Mynx avoided their gaze, “But it’ll take some time...”.
“How much time?”
“At least two days in this world.”
“Two days!?”
“Yes. But so you can keep tabs on my progress, I’ll activate the messenger effects.” he held out one wing and it turned into an arm, he then snapped his fingers, the sound of which echoed loudly, seemingly throughout the entire world. Suddenly Twilight and Pinkie felt a strong burning sensation so strong that it brought them to their knees.
“Don’t worry. It’ll be over momentarily.” Mynx said as their vision began blurring heavily and after a few moments their sight finally gave out and they lost consciousness.
Chapter 11
“You two alright?” a feminine voice asked the two ponies.
“Ugh. I feel my head’s been hit with a brick.”
“I’m fine, no need to worry, although that did hurt some.”
“That’s normal.” the feminine voice again.
“Normal? That’s hard to come by these days.” Twilight was rubbing her eyes and then she opened her eyes to be greeted by the sight of what she assumed was Mynx, “W-what?” the assumed Mynx looked herself over and asked, “What?”.
“Is that you Mynx?”
“Who else would I be? A sixteen year-old schoolgirl named Hitome?” his appearance was very akin to a female by what Twilight knew. This form was humanoid and it had sharp, emerald green eyes, very long, dark brown hair with naturally white tips (strange hair), it’s chest extended outward below the neck about the size of two heads of lettuce, the figure was more slender than the previous humanoid forms, it wore a white T-shirt with red lining where the arms cut-off, a dark blue mini skirt, knee high white socks, and light brown slip-on shoes, and it was bending over looking Twilight right in the eyes, “Hey Mynx! What’s this white thing under this skirt?” immediately Mynx flung upright flustered and blushing, “Oi! That’s invasion of privacy and uncivil!” She snapped her fingers and the skirt grew to knee length, which her hair still managed to exceed in length, “Don’t do that Pinkie!” Pinkie answered with a confused look and a yellow question mark literally floating above her head, “What’s so bad about that?” she continued to be puzzled over what seemed like what should have been no major thing, “Among most female humans like this...” she motioned her hands over herself, “...it’s considered very rude and perverted for one to look under another’s skirt like that!”.
“So this is a... human?” Twilight inquired looking at Mynx’s body from multiple angles, “Watch the skirt.”.
“Fine, fine I can respect your privacy.” Said Twilight, “So all those forms like this were human as well?”.
“For the most part.”
“What’s that mean?”
“Remember that blonde pony-tailed one?”
“Yeah.”
“That one wasn’t human.”
“What do you mean.”
“It was a machine designed like a human, but that’s all it had in common with them, it’s name was Omega.”
“Mind telling us more?”
“That’s all I’m gonna say...” Mynx then looked off into the distance as if to some invisible third party, “... if you wanna find out more, play Megaman Zero 3 to the end.” Pinkie butted in, “But don’t forget, it’s a real doozy of a challenge!”, Mynx summoned a corrupter to push her aside, “Thanks Miss Pinkamena. Or you could do it the other, much less interesting way and look it up online.” Mynx then looked back to Twilight, “Uhh Mynx, what was that about?”.
“Nothing important, all you need to know is that you’d never understand.”
“Wait a second. Where’s Rainbow Dash!?” Twilight began looking about frantically for the missing pegasus, “No need to worry Mistress Twilight. I’ve got me working on it twenty-four-seven. However it will take longer than the projected two days to fix her up perfectly.”
“How much longer?” inquired Pinkie, “Ohh about three days longer.”.
“Oh you just take everything in stride don’t you?” Twilight asked sarcastically, “I do my best.”.
“Before this conversation gets too long and we get another chapter six on our hands, I’m gonna have to tell you ladies that I will have to make my leave for those said five days, but don’t worry now that you’re messengers you can contact me to communicate at anytime, no matter what.” Pinkie was fiddling with the question mark that was prior above her head and making a balloon animal out of it, “Chapter six, huh? That was a long chapter but now we’re getting short ones.” Twilight gave a confounded look towards Mynx and Pinkie, “Now you two I’d like you to look into this mirror when you head back inside.” she procured an image of Twilight’s bedroom from within her shirt and displayed it to the ponies, “See that tall mirror? That’s the one you should look into.” Twilight gave a confused look, “Why?” Mynx sighed and merely responded, “You’ll see if you look, just whatever you do, don’t freak out. I’m already reaching my negativity cap. Also if they ask you about Spectrum Burst, make something up.” Mynx then jumped into the air and twirled and went through the ground, “Wait Mynx. Why would we freak out?” no response, “Great. Alright Pinkie lets go inside.” Pinkie then stopped playing with the question mark-turned-balloon animal dog and threw it aside, “Sure thing Twilight!” time resumed it’s normal flow as they began towards Twilight’s front door.
